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U.J THE Y ' SOUTHERNER THE WEATHER THE BEST ADVERTIS. ING MfblUjPt IN EAST. ' ERN NORTH CAROLINA FAIR TOMORROW 't jar DAIL i i rr riMl VOL. 40 NO. 166. V, ALL THE LOCAL NEWS TARBORO, N. C, LINER BRINGS TEN MILLIONS LARGEST SHIPMENT ON RECORD ABOARD FRENCH SHIP LAFAYETTE. i IS STRONGLY GUARDED New York, Sept. 22. With gold bars to the value of $10,000,000 in her strong room and 100 members of the returning Knights of Columbus among her cabin passengers, the La Fayette, of. the French Line, arrived at New York from Havre.' . . 'The shipment of gold, which is-iri . ingots in 245 heavily made boxes, is . by far the largest shipment ever made across the ocean, the nearest large amount being $4,000,000 worth that came in some weeks ago. The gold is shipped by the Banque de France . fo? account of the payment of the ' Anglo-French loan a"nd ia consigned to J. P. Morgan & Co. The time of unloading the gold, because of the disturbance caused by the recent explosion in Wall street, will be kept a secret and a strong guard will be on hand when the trans fer is made. Meanwhile the officials of the French Line have taken all precautions on board the ship, and Captain L. Roch, commander, has given orders that no one not known to the officials of the French Line pier be allowed to board the ship. WEDNESDA ji&PT. 22, 1920 ASSOCIATED PRESS FARMERS' PALMS ITCHES TO GET RICH QUICK :" -V': ' . . NOW THEY FIND ONLY WORTH LESS PAPER TO MATCH THEIR NOTES IN BANK WHICH CALL FOR IMMEDIATE PAYMENTS; POLITICAL OUTLOOK IS BEST ' EVER. Flogging For Profiteer. Budapest, Sept. 22. Flogging as a punishment for convicted profiteers has proved so satisfactory to the pub lic that the Minister of Justice is considering its infliction for other of fences. BUDDHIST WORSHIPERS WASH HANDS AT TEMPLE ENTRANCE Worshipers at Buddhist temples in Japan invariably wash their hands jn a fountain at the entrance before making their supplications. Formerly the priests hung towels there. Now "the merchants of Tokio and other cities furnish the temples with free paper towels, reserving the privilege of printing their advertisements on them. CUMBERLAND FARMERS HOLDING THEIR COTTON Fayetteville, . Sept: 22. Several hundred Cumberland farmers, meet, jng here today, resolved to hold their cotton until the price will yield the cost of production plus a reasonable profit and buyers pledged their sup port and urges the growers to hold their cotton. The bankers promised advances on warehouse certificates. The plan adopted was to hold ginned cotton, withhold staple from the gin, and hold cottonseed. ' The meeting reorganized the Cum berland Cotton Association, a branch of the state and American Cotton As sociation. A. L. McCaskill was elect ed president. A resolution asked the; whole of the ginning fee fund to be made available for building bonded warehouses and that the law be ex tended two years. The farmers exhibited no bitter ness, but manifested a quiet determination. (By LLEWXAM.) Raleigh, Sept. 22. Instances in which Wake county farmers have been duped into the paying, out of good real cash for 'alleged stock in develoDment companies of various kinds, oil production well to the fore are multiplying vthis week as an in vestigation turns up the horny hand ed sons who had an itching for get ting rich quick. It is' now estimated that a half million in stocks were so Invested. The term stocks is used more as a form of speech than any thing else, since it is declared that most of them are not worth the value Igp the high-priced paper upTJiKWhich the securities are printed. More accurate figures will be se cured when the state banks that hold the mortgages given to the sharpers report on the call of the corporation commission Jo call in the loans which are due to mature within six months, The banks are said to approve the call. - AH this action on the part of suckers within the shadow of the dome of the capitol of the state in the face of repeated warnings made public by the insurance department, blue sky fraud agents and by other sources. It is astonishing, and it is well calculated to make others be lieve that more than one sucker is born every minute in Wake county. There is a desire and it is hoped a purpose to get some of the sharks that swindled these country people into handing" over so much valuable paper, now in the state banks, while the money secured on it has gone into the coffers of the wildcat concerns. Commissioner Young has received news of the arrest of one W. R. Mc Donald in Richmond, wanted in this state on the charge of selling wildcat oil stocks in the California-Texas Oil Company, which has never been li censed in North Carolina, and which has never applied for a license. He will be brought to this state for trial. Agents of the insurance department hope to get a number of them, and other sources are being utiized to the same end. Governor Morrison is now starting out on a western speaking tour ar ranged for him by Chairman Warren, beginning Sept. 24, and Lieut.-Gov. Gardner is shelling the woods for the democratic state ticket, with former congressman and late candidate for the gubernatorial nomination, R. N. Page, mounting the stump with en ergy and hearty determination for Morrison. It is no wonder that State Chairman Warren is now wearing a smile that shows a decided tendency -to broaden almost daily. CHINESE POISON ENTIRE FAMILIES Honolulu, Sept. 22. Tokio advice to a. Japanese newt, paper here state that the Chi nese are poisoning entire fa milies in the Shantung prov ince to avoid slow death from starvation. ' New York, Sept. 22. Car penters are unable to build enough coffins for the cholera victims in west China, declare a letter received by the Am erican Baptist Foreign Mission secretary from Dr. Joseph Taylor its representative in Chengtu. PALESTIN E TO GET MANY CONCESSIONS Jerusalem, Sept. 22. British ad ministration has been extended to a considerable part of trans-Jordan ter ritory, of which Es Salt, a town of about 12,000 inhabitants, situated some 20 miles east of the Dead Sea, is the chief center. Sir Herbert Samuel, British High Commissioner for Palestine, has just returned from a journey to the new territory, where 600 representative Beduin sheiks and notables received with enthusiasm Ihe High Commis sioner's assurances that "Great Bri tain did not propose to bring their country within the present system of administration of Palestine, but would establish a separate admin istration, that would assist the peo ple to govern themselves." There would be, he promised, com plete freedom of trade with Palestine and the people across the Jordan would be supplied with petroleum, rice, sugar and other commodities on the same footing as the peoples of Palestine. Moreover, facilities would be given them for the marketing of the produce they might wish to sell, A bank would be established to assist commerce, and postal communication would be opened. T ROPICAL 01 ST VEERING TO WEST PASSED INLAND TODAY, WEST ; OF MISSISSIPPI " S:" STATE .'. ' s PRICE i 5 CENTS STRONG WIND DAMAGES Washington, Sept. 22. Every observer on thm Gulfi coast has bean instructed to,snd in re ports of the slightest? variations in wind and temperature. Officials of the weather bureau are very anxious about the storm that is due to break in northern Louisiana, where already high winds have done considerable damage. Mobile, Ala., Sept. 22. The observer here, after receiving the morning reports, said that he believed the tropical hurri cane will strike inland west of Mobile. ' ' Wind had attained a velocity of forty-eight miles an hour at New Orleans during the night, and forty miles an hour here. There were two sudden shifts of wind during the night from the course toward the Texas coast. Considerable damage has al ready been done to plate glass and railroad property in the New Orleans region. Washington, Sept. 22. The tropical storm passed inland, west of the Mississippi, and is now, says the weather bureau, expanding its force in northern Louisiana. COMMITTEE RESUME THE PARTY FUND INQUIRY ftlftl.. SCOLDED. ENDS HER LIFE Camden, N. J., Sept. 22. Objecting to a scolding, be cause she had stayed out late with a young man to whom her mother objected, pretty 16-year-old Reba Hughes to day committed suicide by fir ing a bullet thru the temple. When reprimanded, the girl secured her father's revolver and shouting to her mother, "If I can't have him, Itl kill myself," ended her life. CHAIRMAN KENYON, REPUBLI CAN, WILL IGNORE COX'S $30, 000,000 CHARGES i TRY TO EVADE ISSUE BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS INQUIRY. SEER PREDICTS Q CTrnii r vrime U UILIIILL ILnllJ MERCURY, RULING PLANET, TO BLAME FOR WHAT'S EATING HOUSE GOUGERS INDICTED MILK BOTTLE LOSS 1 SEROUS POLES COMMENCE THEIR OFFENSIVE ON GRODNO London, Sept. 22. A Moscow dis patch by wireless received here says that the oles have commenced an offensive in the grodno region, on the northeast front. Fierce fighting is proceeding, but no details are available. BRITISH WOMEN FRANCE WILL PAY LOAN OF TWO HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION Paris, Sept. 22.- France will pay every dollar of the two hundred and fifty million dollar loan due in New York on October 15, the Minister of Finance announced today. : TWENTY THOUSAND CASES OF CHOLERA IN KOREA Tokir Sept. 22. Fifteen hundred new cases of choleja have been .dis covered in Korea, making twenty thousand casts and nine thousand deaths. Jury Probing Players' Gambling Chicago, Sept 22 The grand jury investigation into gambling by base ball pfiyers at the last world series was Begun here today. PT7 . FOR CABINET JODS London, Sept. 22. If Great Brit ain were now to have a government by women, who would the Ministers be? This question now has a some. what formal status in the fact that it was the subject of discussion at a rather "heavy" dinner party given by Lord . Wimborne. Some of the guests were : Freddy Guest, Lord D. Abernon, Massingham, the deitor; Lady Gwendoline, Jack Churchill, Miss Phyllis Body, Mrs. Moatagu and Lady Dicna Manners. The nomina tions at the party were: Prime Minister: Lady Desborough. Foreign Secretary: Lady Essex. Chancellor of the Exchequer: Mrs. George Keppel. Vice-Reine if India: Lady Diana Manne.e. - . Chief Secretary for Ireland: Lady Casron. Leader of the Opposition: Mrs. Herbert Asquith. Washington, "Sept. 22. Replacing lost milk bottles adds to the price of milk paid by city consumers, an in vestigation by. the Department of Agriculture has disclosed, altho no attempt was made to fix the amount added to consumers' bills for this reason. In at least 27 cities junk dealer were found to carry on a regular traffic in milk bottles. The report .says milk dealers "are compelled to purchase 1.2 tattles every, month for each bottle they have filled daily during that period," and continues: "The loss among small dealers is less than that sustained by the barge enterprises. The small dealers have greater breakage than the large dis tributers, but they are better able to check up on- the return of their bot tles and therefore do not lose so many in that manner. "Breaking bottles, losing or using them for other purposes, selling to junk dealers, or giving the bottles belonging to one dealer to another adds materially to the consumer's bill and is an economic error which each and' every consumer can help to re duce by returning every bottle in good condition." 4 NO REFERENCE TO NOURISHMENT MADE London, Sept. 22. Lord Mayor MacSwiney, of Cork, now going thru his fortieth day of hunger strike, has suf fered a setback, according to the Irish Self-determination League. No reference has been made as. to the prisoner's either ac cepting or refusing 'nourish ment. IMN MILLERAND WINS THE PRESIDENCY OF FRANCE .Paris, Sept. 22. Premier Miller and was the chosen candidate for the presidency of France to succeed Dea chanel If a joint caucus of the mem bers of the chamber of deputies and the senate. - . Boston's- Mayor Threatened. Boston, Sept. 22. The entrance to the city ball was guarded today after the receipt of second threat ening communication by Mayor Peters. SINN FEIN JUDGE IS KILLED IN HOTEL Dublin, Sept 22. County Coun cillor Lynch, prominent Sinn Felner and said to be a Sinn Fein judge, was killed in a hotel here by uni formed men, said to be "black and tan" pob'ce. No others were disturbed. . IS 1 POISON VICTIM New York, Sept. 22. A pretty young woman, bruised and about 27 years old, is in a critical condition in Bellevue hospital, where she was tak en from the Hotel Seville suffering from poison. The name she gave at the hotel was Elizabeth Anderson, of Chicago, 111. She registered there on last Thursday. The management became suspic ious of a sign posted on theyoung woman's door, reading, "Do not dis turb." Receiving no answer to re peated raps on the door the room was broken into. The young woman was found lying in bed in a stupor. On the floor was an empty bottle, which had contained a sleeping lotion. Two physicians were summoned and when their ef forts failed to revive her, an ambu lance was summoned from Bellevue and she was taken to that institution.' There it is said she probably will re cover. No one at the hotel knows anything of the young woman, as it was the first time she had stopped there, but it is believed she is wealthy. Nothing in her effects, which are of very good quality, could be found to serve as a means of identification. Syracuse, Sept. 22. First indict ments as the result of the investiga tion of alleged profiteering in eating houses, now being made by a squad from the Albany office of the Depart ment of Justice, will be sought as the result of the agents' discoveries in this city, it is announced. Indictment of leading Syracuse tea room on charges of profiteering will bp asked of the Federal grand jury at Auburn next month. One of the largest hotels in the city also will be a subject for grand jury investigation, officials said, al tho this concern has asked for a final conference. Capt. Gerry O. Holdridge, who is in charge of the Department of Jus tice squad of investigators in this city, has been summoned here to as sume charge of the promised grand jury procedure. Conferences between Capt. Holdridge, Government agents and Special Assistant Attorney Gen eral Frank J. Gregg are scheduled to be held today. 10 WILL E AMERICAN LEGION Metal Workers Won't Vacate. Rome, Sept 22. Italian metal workers who occupied the factories are refusing to vacate in accordance with the settlement agreement, ac cording to dispatches to the Giornale D'ltalia. Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 22. Who is to head the American Legion the coming year, is receiving attention in anticipation of the second annual convention of the Legion opening in Cleveland September 27. Among those mentioned here for the office of commander are Milton J. Foreman, of Illinois, Bmmett O' Neill, of Kentucky, Hanford Mac- Nider, of Iowa and F. W. Galbraith, of Ohio. Foreman was a colonel and sfatu commander. When he took charge of the Illinois department it was 21st in legian membership. Now it is first. Foreman, who is more than 0 years old, served also in the Spanish-American war. Kentucky is boosting O'Neill; for the leadership because of his activity i nlegion affairs, especially as an or ganizer and leader. MacNider is said to have more dec orations than any other American, with the exception of General Persh ing. Nine of them for valor. He is a bank president in Mason City, Iowa, and vice commander of the depart ment of Iowa. Galbraith was a colonel and state commander like Foreman. He was commander of the Ohio department until the' Ohio convention at Youngs- town elected his successor last month. I Colonel C. C. Chambers, Cleveland,' SI convention executive chairman, pre dicts that the convention will surpass in numbers any ever held in the coun try, not excepting the great gathering of the Grand Army of the Republic. FREIGHT TRAIN PLUNCED INTO THE ROYAL-GORGE Pueblo, Colo., Sept 22. Denver and Rio Grand railroad officials re ceived a report today that a freight train bad plunged into the Royal Gorge. No other particulars are forthcoming. Washington, Sept. 22. Chairman Gerard, of the Democratic Finance Committee, when, called by the Sen. ate campaign fund investigating com mittee, said that the democrats had not limited the size of contributions from individuals but that two million dollars would be sufficed for the de mocratic campaign. He further stated that a fifteen million dollar campaign fund would shock the public conscience. Admitting that he had raised one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars, Gerard was not very much disturbed about the finances of his party. Washington, Sept. 22. The Sen ate campaign investigating commit tee reconvened today to gather up the loose ends ahd to ascertain if the liquor interests were 'active in the present campaign, presumably for the democratic side. This is a move of the republicans to offset Cox's charges andjsChairman Kenyon does not hesitate to identify himself with the new move. Washington, Sept. 22. The Sen ate committee investigating campaign funds will examine mahy democratic officeholders alleged to have received demands for contributions from the Democratic National Committee, as it meets here today. Announcement of this fact is made by Senator Kenyon, chairman of the committee. Incidentally, the Iowa senator expressed belief that the country should prepare itself for a republican landslide in , November that would outdo all the political landslides in past history. He bases his prediction, he said, upon observa-' tions in Missouri, Maine, Illinois, Io wa and WestTirginla. "We will clean up the fag ends of the Chicago investigation before we turn to other lines of inquiry," said the senator. "Will the committee Uko cogniz ance of Gov. Cox's raisin? the ante from 115,000,000 to $30,000,000 in his talk about the republican cam paign funds?" he was asked. "I do not think so," laughed Sen ator Kenyon. "We will hear two wit nesses, William Boyce Thompson, of New York city, and William Barnes, Jr., of Albany, who cond not get to Chicago. Then we will go after the officeholders." Among the witnesses subpoenaed aside from Fpderal officeholders, are George T. Carroll, president of the National Liquor Dealers' Association, said to have advocated a Cox fund among the wets; Charles McDonald, democratic state chairman of New Jersey; E. C. Stokes, republican state chairman of New Jersey; James W. Gerard, democratic finance chairman, and Herbert S. Houston, treasurer of the League to Enforce Peace. Is the subpoena for Mr. Houston is seen a possible move to uncover the source of funds used for League cf Nations propaganda. The charge has been made that British gold was util ized in behalf of the Cox candidacy thru such methods. COMING. TAKE 3 YEARS TO SETTLE Binghamton, N. Y., Sept. 22. Three sterile years are predicted to day by Reuben H. MacDonald, of this city, who claims to be the wearer of the mantle of his father, the late Dr. Jeremiah MacDonald, whose fame thru his annual forecasts was inter national. According to the seer, the entire country, after enjoying unprecedent ed fertility of the soil this year and it is due, he says, to the fact that Venus reigns supreme must now undergo a three-year famine. Mer cury, which will be the ruling planet in 1921, is to blame for what's com ing to the United States. Mihr MacDonald's predictions fol low: "All kinds of manufactured arti cles will gradually decrease in price. Capital and labor will have many dis. putes and many people will strike, or will be laid ofT from employment in all parts of the country. "The higher cost of living will con tinue, as there will be little or no change until 1921. It will require two or three years for those who have left the farms to plunge into town andi city life, to realize that there is more real life and more money in raising crops than in manufacturing luxuries. "In 1921 the governmental officials will issue many fraud orders against firms that think more of selling stocks -than of making good. ""The year 1921 will be very dip agreeable from a weather viewpoin'., January and February will be chanr able. The spring will be dry, cold id unseasonable. The summer i bu wet. Hay and grain wlil v ', i'he Lfall will ba wet with earl-; ' .A. The winter will have plen. oi snow and , ice. Fruit Will vnv . In certain lo calities some kinds will be abundant and others a failure. "Hopi and grapes will be poor. Mice will Lo very numerous; worms scarce. Fish will be scarce and poor in quality. Diseases of all kinds will cure but slowly. "There will be many contagious diseases. An epidemic will prevail in cattle, sheep and hogs. This will be a sterile year for everything." OFFER TO HIRE WIFE IN LIEU OF ALIMONY POLICE STOPPED JAPANESE WAR SPEECH Tokio, Sept 22. The Japanese government will vigorously pursue negotiations concealing American nti-Japaneie legislation and posh the question of racial equality at the League of Nations conference, the Hochi Shimbu says, and further de clare that the speech of Representa tive Kodama in which bo referred to an American-Japanese was war stop ped by the police. HUGHES CONDEMNS SOCIALIST OUSTING New York, Sept. 22. Charles E. Hughes issued a statement condemn ing the action of the New York State Assembly in ousting the socialist members last night He said it was a flagrant disregard for the fundamental principles of American institutions and was "an essence of sovietism." , TWO JAPANESE GET TEN YEARS FOR TREACHLRY Tokio, Sept. 22. Two Japanese were sentenced to ten years' impris onment on conviction as traitors for attempted selling of documents stol en from the Yokosuka naval station to the Americans, newspapers say. Wilson Speaks Only Few Time. New York, Sept. 22. Democratic Chairman White stated that President Wilson's participation in the cam paign will be a few speeches from the! White House and the Issuance of statements from time to time. New York, Sept. 21. James Do- lan, whose wife, Sarah, in a suit for a separation and alimony, alleges he makes a large income from a down town drug store owned by him, pre sented to Justice Gay a novel mode of paying alimony. Had the distin. guished jurist looked with favor on the scheme, thousands of married men who are defendants in. similar actions thruout the country would have taken a lively interest in it. While he admitted that the gross receipts of his business are about $750 a week, Dolan declared that he could not possibly aJTord to pay Mrs. Dolan the $150 a week she asked for herself and f 1,600 for her attorney. "I'll tell you what I'll do, though, Judge," he said; "I'll agree to biro my wife in my store and pay her $22 a week. She has already held such employment in the place, so it will not be any hardship to her." Justice Gay, however, thought Do lan might better pay his spouse a little cash without any strings at tached to it, so be directed him to give' her $30 a week alimony and a counsel fee of $200. Mrs. Dolan charges her husband with cruel treatment, which she at tributes to his alleged overfondnesa for intoxicants. ' . Once, she said, he struck her over the bead with a beer bottle and an other time kicked her in-the side ao bard that he fractured a rib. Gilmer Smith left for Chapel HOI to enter the University.
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