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WIFE HIDES FROM HIM
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PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, AND
SISTER OF TOM DIXON, THE
AUTHOR AND PLAYWRIGHT,
TO J"OPEN UP" AT HER OLD
HOME IN CLEVELAND.
(By LLEWXAM.)
Raleigh, Sept. 23. People and po-
New York, Sept. 23 "Major J. E.
Hastings-Seymour," who came to
New York Sept. 10, representing him- liticians especially here are on. the
self as the friend and executor of quiviva over the announcement that
"the late 'Lord Barrington'," the no- Raleigh is to furnish the first woman
torious international criminal; has tump' speaker of the campaign this
been positively identified as the aud- year.
acious "'Lord" himself. Doctor Delia Dixon Carroll, prac-
Photographa of "Barrington," or, ticing physician of Raleigh for the
to use his real name, George Freder- last twenty years, especially among
ick Barton, taken when he was serv- the students at the female colleges
ing a life' sentence for murder in the here, and an ardent advocate of
Jefferson City (Mo.) penitentiary, equal suffrage for years,. woman of I
ESCAPE WITH $10,000
FRO MSTANLEY BANK
Gastonia, N. C, Sept. 23.
Robbers blew open the safe
and Tault of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank of Stanley,
N. C, today and escaped by
automobile with ten thousand
dollars in cash and Liberty
bonds.
,
CANS OF OIL AND ACID WERE
' PACKED WITH THE
EXPLOSIVE.
USED TO BURN BUILDINGS
WAR CHIEFS ATTEND
LEGION GONV
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TO
New .York, Sept. 23. Besides be
ing jacketed with heavy icon slugs,
the bomb which exploded with such
disastrous results in Wall street last
Thursday was packed ia about twenty
gallons of highly Inflammable oils and
acids, according to three experts of
the American Tin Corporation, who
examined the fragments of the infei
nal machine at Police headquarters
This confirms, in a measure, the
.
DYNAMITE WITH FUSE
BURNING ON STATION
Cleveland, Sept. 23. The Ameri- Pinion of some investigators that
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nan T.oo-inn r-nnvpntinn hero Sent UIB uuirage in
were sent by the priso nauthonties strong personality and considerable 27 28 and 29 la to be an intern8.
for the purpose of confirming the be- ability, has been assigned to make a tionai ajjajr
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nei oi duplicity tne "majors" actions i l" p . Coblen, the CanaI Zone.
and stories had created. tally at Shelby, Cleveland county, her Phi,irmine IslflnHs anA
Suspicion; that "Major - Hastings- old home, next Saturday. The county Lj. where American soldiera are
Seymour", and "Lord Barrington" chairman of the Shelby democrats stationed are to be represented in
were one and the same began when has issued a call to assemble the new- thg de which wM . con
tended the blast should be followed
by a conflagration.
It has been the contention of com
petent experts all along that the
bomb was inflammable as well as
highly explosive. This theory and
it was nothing more until now was
the prison authorities denied the ma. My enfranchised women voters at vention and in the' sessiong where based on the declaration of eye-wit-
jor's statement that Barton was dead. Shelby for the purpose of hearing Dr. the future p.6,icy of kg.on and
It developed that Barton was paroled Dixon-Carroll, and the prospects are tions which confront it are
in 1918 providing he leave the United that the Cleveland women democrats L bg ought out
states. xne parole terminated uanu- v """a ........ijr " Although Marshal Foch, who was
ary 1, 1920. occasion, invited as an honor guest with Ad,
"Major Hastings-Seymour" came x nere are two doctors uarron nere, i.ral commander of the al
to xsew iorK irom ungiana xms w.c ui lied navies at the close of the war.
month. He carried an apparently au- tnoise who care to know, the other wilj nofc bfi able to attend he wilj Justice agents, seeking clues in con
thentic passport, letters of introduc- being the husband of Dr. Delia. He hayo flg reprea6ntatjVe here' General nection with the Wal1 8treet exPo
tion and a card he claimed was mem- is a dentist, however, and son of the pavone sion, speeded their inquiry after dis
nesses that the flames from the ex
plosion leaped a. good seven stories
high and the revelation that some of
the pedestrians whose clothing was
burned from their backs were stand
ing at least fifty feet away,
. Chicago, Sept. 23. Department of
bership certificate of the Old Colony tate O. J. Carroll, for some time U,
Club. He wa- ouartered at. the Clar- S. Marshal for the eastern district of
idge hotel under his newly acquired North Carolina, and a most excellen
military name and title, but visited gentleman. There are no children
iirooKiyn to searcn xor .iain anza- - - - guished visitors' committee of the le.
beth Barton, "the daughter of that ayettevuie streets, with connecting
very unfortunate young man who offices, and each actively prosecutes
chose to call himself 'Lord Barring- hia or her profession and both do it
ton' and who died thirteen months successfully,
ago,
"Mr. Barton left an estate without HOOVER CONFERS WITH
a will," he said, "and naturally it THE RELIEF BODIES
goes to Miss Barton, who was the New : York Sept. 23.-!onf erences dent dea Seneschal of the Comrad
daughter of Celestine Elizabeth Mill- are progressing nere .between Her- des Combat8 both to
-er-Barton, a Brooklyn girl and-onei oernioover and, tne omciais oineipar.
of Barton's several wives. Red Cross Jewish Joint Distribution
"If vou would help a young worn- Committee, Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A.,
an to receive some reparation for the and various church bodies, with a
troubles her father caused her," he vlew iolnt cooperative action tow.
said when he visited a local newspa- ards meeting the needs of the two
per office seeking information of the and a half million destitute European
d.,i.. n,;n , nonk nn children this winter. I
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publicity. Publicity will not help my
Admiral Grant, of the British covering that one hundred and fifty
grand fleet, will be the personal rep. Pounas 01 "5rn8ra,M naa Deen SC0len
resentative of.Admiral Beattv. Bas- from the Aetna Explosive Company
com Little, chairman of the djstin- warehouse at Lambert, Illinois, on
September 5.
gion, was informed in a communica
tion from England,
Officials of various associations of
veterans of the world war from other
countries . will ( attend, among these
being Vice President Isaac of the
Union Des Combattants, and Presi-
es
come from
s.
GEOLOGJCA
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OF UNITED STATES
search and it will do th girl harm." AUSTRO-HUNGARY
Dreading the return of her hus- FUSION PROPOSED
band. Mrs. Rartnn. wlin ia still alive. Vienna, feept. 16. lhe Arblter-
remained in hiding durine the "ma- Zeitung published a sensational re-
stay here, and he left town Port wlch it states is authentic,
before being informed that the snowing mat .Hungarian delegations
daughter died five years aeo. are spending large sums on a propa
ganda for the down-fall of the social-
FORMER OFFICERS MAY lst government witn tne object or a
WEAR THEIR UNIFORMS fusion of Austria and Hungary.
Vienna, Sept. 23. A former offi
cer of the Austrian army was walk- OLIVE THOMAS'
lined to take the place for Federal
taxation.
ZULUS HUNTING
ing through a poor quarter of the
city in full uniform when a work.
men's councillor ordered him to re
move his clanking spurs. An alter
cation ensued leading to a suit by the
officer for defamation. The court
gave him damages to the amount of
1,000 crowns and told him he could
"wear the splendor of his former es
tate when and where he would. The
-workmen s councillor pleaded that he
and his neighbors objected to such a
reminder of the old time authority
of the military class.
Since the ratification of the treaty
officers in the full uniform of the-old
army with breastloads of medals and
decorations have heroine -rerv mil eh
v in evidence on the promenades. Many
of them say their uniforms are the
only decent clothes they have.
JOHNSON ON WHIRLWIND
TOUR FOR HARDING
New York, Sept. 22. Senator Hi
ram Johnson will make a whirlwind
tour for Harding, it was -announced,
and will invade the Alabama seventh
district, North Carolina and western
Maryland in October.
WILSON CONFINES
V HIMSELF TO LEAGUE
Washington, Sept 23. A White
House announcement is made that
President Wilson would participate
actively in the democratic campaign
'when the proper time comes. '
It is probable that the president
will confine himself to statements on
the' issues, particularly the League of
Nations. , -
FRIEND A SUICIDE
New York, Sept. 23. It vu
, the death of her closest friend,
Olive Thomas, which provided
the motive for the suicide of Miss
Anna Daly, 25 years old, who
took veronal at.the Hotel Seville,
the police declared after an in.
vestigation proved the young
woman's true identity and the
fact that she and beautiful Olive
Thomas had been friends since
childhood.
At the Seville, where she reg
istered, she had given her name
as Elizabeth Anderson.
Anna Daly is the second New
York woman friend of Mi3S Olive
Thomas to take her life since the
noted film actress died in Paris.
Both drank poison.
Just before Olive Thomas died
Miss Daly had a quarrel with her
sweetheart, who is in Chicago,
according to Miss Martin, and
this coupled with the death of
her friend, Miss Martin relieves,
proved too much for her mind.
ATI
ASSAGAIS
AUSTRIA IS PLANNING
CITY OWNED MOVIES
Vienna, Sept 23 Muniknpally
owned movies are contemplated in
negotiations now proceeding between
the city authorities and a German
producing concern. The company is
proposing to establish cinemas all
over Vienna without paying licenses.
When 4 certain portion of the invest,
ment in recovered the city would be
come part owner and finally be per.
mitted to buy out the entire concern.
Washington, Sept. 23. The farth-
est cast, west, north and south points
on the United States mainland have
WOULD SUBSTITUTE been determined by the UniteiStates
GROSS SALES TAX Geological Survey which announces
that the easternmost point is west
Maplewood, N. H,., Sept. 23. The Quoddy Head, near Eastport, Maine;
present system ot Federal taxation me westernmost point, ,uape Alva,
is declared to have created "an un- Washington; the farthest north, a
tolerable situation" and to be respon- small detached land area of northern
sible for the continued high price of Minnesota ending in latitude 49 de
many articles, it was stated at the grees, 23 minutes, and longitude 95
opening session of the National As- degrees, 9 minutes, the southermost
sociation of Cotton Manufacturers. point, Cape Sable, Florida while the
Gross sales tax and an employers' Florida keys extend farther south.
privilege tax were the substitutes out-' Data determined and compiled by
the Geological Survey contains some
interesting facts not generally known
and some of these are:
The gross area of the United States
is 3,026,789 square miles.
The land area is 2,973,774 square
miles.
The water area, exclusive of the
Great Lakes, the Atlantic, the Pacific
and the Gulf of Mexico, within the
three-mile limit, is 53,015 square
miles.
From the easternmost point, West
Quoddy Head, due west to the Pacific
ocean the distance is 2,807 miles.
The rhortest distance from Atlan
tic to Pacific, between points near
Charleston, S. C, and San Diego,
Calif., is 2,152 miles.
The Canadian boundary is 3,898
miles long.
The Mexican boundary is 1,744
miles long.
The Atlantic coast line is 5,560
miles long.
The Pacific coast line is 2,730 ,
miles long. :
The Gulf of Mexico coast line is
3,640 miles long.
Cuba, if transposed directly north,
would extend from New York City
to Indiana with Havana farthest west
than Cleveland.
The Panama Canal is due south of
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Nome, Alaska, is farther west than
Hawaii.
Johannesburg, South Africa, Sept.
23. A great game drive is in prog
ress in Zululand, with the object of
stopping the ravages of the tsetse fly,
which is fatal to equines and bovines.
Whole tribes of Zulus, attracted
by the prospect of unlimited meat,
are taking part in the drive. They
are mostly armed with assagais, the
native spears. '
It is thought, however, that the size
of the drive is defeating its own ob
ject. The wild creatures have be
come panic stricken and the ludicrous
situation now exists of the hunters
having become the hunted.
The treat cordon of white men and
Zulus has been broken in several
places by charging herds of frantic
zebra and other animals, and hunters
have been compelled to split up into
small parties for their own safety.
New York, Sept. 23. Th
police this morning found
soma dynamita with the fuse
burning on the platform of the
Reed Avenue elevated station
in Brooklyn.
The fuse was stamped out
and the package taken to the
Bureau of Combustibles.
Efforts are being made to
connect the crime with one of
those who had recently passed
the turnstile.
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10 SOLVE PHOBL
REOPENING OF N. C. FREIGHT
RATE CASE REFUSED, AS TO
NEW EVIDENCE, BUT ARGU
MENTS HEARD SEUT. 30 MEAN
MILLIONS TO N. C.
AM
SMUGGLING
OIEE IN AUSTRIA
Vienna, ,Sept. 23. Gun-running
arid arms smuggling has become a
bigger trade in Austria than it was
on the Mexican frontier" in Villa's
palmiest days.
The country in full of military ma
terial while Hungary, Poland and
Jugo-Slavia are munitions hungry
and the result is to make a market
so tempting that the risks are disre
garded. If the Socialist organs are
to be credited, however, at least
some of the trade is done under the
auspices of certain entente govern
ments as well as the conservative ele
ment of the Austrian government.
Within the last few days the police
made known that they hud discovered
an organization for running military
material into Hungary and made" two
arrests. One of the men was an em
ploye of the Wollersdorf munitions
factory, a government plant. Work
men's councillors have a good organi
zation arid" are constantly on watch
for railway shipments of arms and
cartridges, but in one government
office it was admitted that for every
carload detected and stopped nine
got away over 4he frontiers.
Frederick Adler, the Socialist lead
er, has declared that great quantities
of arms were being smuggled from
the country and it was the duty of
thV; workmen to find a way to stop it.
NS
cnmGZE
OLYMPC
AWARDS
RADICALS SEIZE A
RUMAN CHURCH
London, Sept. 23. A Rome dis
patch says that persons unable to ob
tain dwellings have started a move
ment to seize unoccupied homes and
other buildings. ' .
The Observatore Romano says that
this movement gave a cue to the so
cialist element who at once attempt.
edto invade a church but postponed
action saying they would first attempt
to occupy the Lateran Palaco at once
with hopes of eventually taking the
residence mnA njinnanu
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Copenhagen, Sept. 22. Danish pa
pers have been outspoken in their
criticism of alleged partiality in the
udging of the Olympic games at
Antwerp. They complain that the
awards were given on the principle of
"Let the best man win if he is an
ally."
The National Ticjende's special cor
respondent at Antwerp charges that
all games were umpired with a bias
in favor of the allies. Typical in
this respect, the correspondent says,
was the sword combat between Den
mark and Italy. All experts were
agreed, he states, that Denmark was
superior; nevertheless, the umpires
gave the victory to Italy.
MASKED BANDIT ROBBED
PASSENGERS OF TRAIN
Denver, Sept 23. Passengers on
the Sante Fe railroad train were rob
bed by a masked bandit near Las An
imas, but later; the robber was cap
tured, the passengers being returned
their valuables and the bandit turned
over to the La Junta police.
EX-CLERGYMAN SELLS
HIS EAR FOR $10,000
Washington, Sept. 23. E. II.
Donner, of Charlotte, N. C, hav
ing heard the call of $ 10,000, Is
perfectly willing to part wjth one
of his ears in exchange for that
sum. Donner announced that he
would sell his left ear to Frank
J. Quesada, wealthy Cuban plan
ter who is now in New York ad
vertising for an ear to replace,
with the aid of surgery, one lost
years ago by an injury.
Donner formerly was a clergy
man, but abandoned the minis,
try for manual labor. "I can
use $10,000 better than I can
two ears," he said. "I tried to
earn living as an ordained min
ister, but learned that these are
the days when brain work, unless
it is an exceptional brain, does
not command a living wage."
(By LLEWXAM.)
Raleigh, Sept. 23. There is much
satisfaction felt here by the state cor
poration commission, and by shippers
all over the state, in the news just
sent here from Washington that this
state won in the skirmish with the
Virginians and railroad authorities in
the effort to reopen the old freight
rate discrimination case which the
Interstate Commerce Commission de
cided in favor of North Carolina re
cently.
Under this ruling of the I. C. C,
there will be no hearing of new evi
dence p.nd what is done at the hear
ing will bo confined to argument of
counsel, the Virginians claiming the
decision of the commission was "too
drastic." This hearing has been set
for September 30.
It is estimated that this decision
means millions of dollars annually to
shippers and receivers of freight in
North Carolina, and a delay of six or
eight months would mean a consider
able loss to the state us u whole and
the North Carolina Traffic Associa
tion through its attorneys and offi
cers have resisted this effort consist
ently having filed various replies to
the briefs of the railroads and Vir
ginia authorities.
Col. Albert L. Cox, attorney for
the traffic association, stated upon
receipt of information of the action
of the I. C. C, that he firmly belicv-
ed the association would be able to
retain the full decision of the I. C. C.
previously rendered and might gain
a little more concession in view of
the fact the increase granted recently
produced a situation that in his opin
ion might cause the commission to
grant a little more than 30 cents to
the North Carolina cities.
The original decision of tiie I. C.
C. granted relief to North Carolina
cities from severe discriminations in
favor of Virginia and ordered the dis
criminations to ceare and the new
rates to become effective Sept. 10,
1920. A few weeks prior to the es
tablishment of the new rates the rail
roads and the Virginia Corporation
Commission petitioned the I. C. C. to
give them a further opportunity for
argument as they felt the decision of
the commission too drastic, claiming
at the same time that North Carolina
had not been discriminated against,
and that they had additional evidence
to prove their contention. In answer
to the railroads and Virginia, the I.
C. C. temporarily suspended its orig
inal order and set Sept. 30 as the
date for argument by the railroads
and Virginia authorities at the same
time granting the North Carolina
Traffic Association, Chambers of
Commerce and North Carolina Corp
oration Commission the privilege of
offering an answering argument.
Within the past ten days the rail
roads and Virginia Corporation Com
mission again petitioned the Wash
ington authorities not only to reopen
the case for argument but for the
purpose of taking additional testi
mony, which stated briefly meant the
abrogation of the North Carolina vic
tory entirely and starting anew. The
Corporation Commission of Virginia
and the railroads requested the I. C.
! C. to postpone any further action
until December 15, 1920, which nec
essarily meant an ultimate decision
could not possibly be rendered until
some time in thi coming year.
LAW SUIT FOLLOWS PASSAGE
OF ANTI-JAPANESE
BILL.
VIOLATES TREATY RIGHTS
Tokio, Sept. 23. The United
States will be asked to appoint
a commission to solve the Jap
ancsa.American problems.
If the California anti-Japanese
bill passes the legislature it
is announced that Japan will nr
ranB for a law suit against the
California legislature on ground
lhat the bill is unconstitutional
and violates treaty rights, the
leading newspapers hero an
nounce. NEGROES POISON TWENTY
FOUR HOTEL GUESTS
Greenville, Ala., Sept. 23. Five
negroes are being held on suspicion
for responsibility of poisoning twen-ly-four
guests at the hotel here, who
all became ill after the evening meal.
FRENCH UJGIENE
B! PUNCH - JUDY
New York, Sept. 23. A method of
teaching simple fundamentals of hy
giene to children in France is describ
ed by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Through attending an amusing Punch
and Judy show, called a "Guignol"
in France, 07,000 young citizens of
the republic took their first lessons
in the science durig 1919.
The American anti-Tuberculosi:
Commission built a little Punch ai
Judy, copied from those in Cham.
Klysees, writes George E. Viiv
president of the Foundation. 1 .,
de Gressigny has written a or
the wooden nclors and hi- ..oiks
the puppets and make' ' .nversa
lion for the heroes ms little dra
ma. Tlu piece It:; .i-en played in 30
departments. Thousands and thous
ands of children have heard it.
The i...: ;s simple. A little boy
on his way to scho 1 meets a little
girl in the street. The boy starts to
talk of hygiene.
"Do you know what n microbe is?"
he asks.
"Yes," replies the little girl. "It is
a big animal."
Then the boy explains how mi
crobes are spread and how to avoid
them. A soldier appears who tells
how to keep the house clean and how
to air it. While he is speaking a
drunken man reels in, shocking the
children. The soldier scolds the man.
"You mustn't drink alcohol," he ad
monishes. The drunkard falls down.
"See what becomes of a man who
drinks," cries the little girl with
scorn. "We must not imitate him. We
must take care of ourselves for we
are necessary to France."
SOCIALIZATION OF
GERMAN MINES
Berlin, Sept 23. The preparation
of a bill for the socialization of all
the mines in Germany has been decid
ed upon by the cabinet '
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BOOSTING
PROBE FINANCING
OF JOURNAL'S BOOKS
Washington, Sept. 23. A com
plete investigation of the financing
of the book "Republicanism of 1920"
published by the Albany, N. Y., Jour
nal, has been ordered by the Senate
Investigating Committee.
William Barnes, jr., son of the re
publican boss of Mew York state, is
publisher of the Journal and has been
ordered to produce the subscription
lists for the book.
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ViennaSepu 23. The partial de
control of grain has sent prices up to
300 per cent above the official price.
Bands of traders are walking through
the rural districts making contracts
for wheat at 3,000 crowns for 100
lilos (220 pounds) while the gov
ernment price for the requisitioned
grain is 1,000 crowns the 100 kilos.
As the wheat is not yet threshed the
trades take the form of options.
DEMOCRATS ASKED TO
MATCH THE PRESIDENT
New York, Sept. 23. Democratic
Chairman White announced that the
nntional committee would raise five
hundred" thousand dollars additional
to "match the president" in subscrib
ing to the campaign fund. "
One thousand friends of the Lea
gue of Nations, he said, would be
asked to follow the president's ex
ample in giving five hundred dollars
apiece. " ; '
COAL DEALERS ARE
SEEKING RELIEF"
Greenville, S. C-, Sept. 23. Fuel
dealers met with the state and muni
cipal representatives today with the
view to securing relief from the acute
coa Ishortage.
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