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,-f'iK'. L'i.". .i' THE' DAILY, SOUTHER ME THE WEATHER ,f)te .BEST iADVERTIS-H INC MEDIUM IN EAST. $R&)KQRTH tAROLINA RAIN TONIGHT VOL. 40 NO. 168. BIG BOSTON! BANK COSMOPOLITAN TRUST, WITH ; MANY FOREIGN BRANCHES, IS FAILURE. HAD $20,000,000 RESOURCE Boston, Sept. 25. The. Cosmopoli tan Trust Company", with savings and banking - departments and "agencies abroad, was closed today by the state bank commissioner. ,' This is the fifth bank in the city to be closed by the commissioner in the last few weeks.. . The first of these was the Hanover Trust Company, which went to the wall with the collapse of the get-rich, scheme of Charles Ponzi. No reason has been given for the closing of . the Cosmopolitan, .which advertised resources of twenty mil lion dollars.' .',;".'." STARS AMD STRIPES COMMITTEE PROBE r Washington, "Sept. 25. The ab- r 8enceof witnesses today halted the inquiry into an 'Implied charge esat Governor Cox in 1918 received a on- -cealed campaign contribution of Jive thousand dollars from the Dayton Metal Products Company, and the Senate Campaign Investigating Com mittee today turned its attention to .the financing of the Stars and Stripes, a soldier publication. , . Mrs. EM. Parks, assistant diree- 'tor of finance, for the national com mittee, who underwrote the controll ing interest in the publication, de nied on the stand that the Democratic National Committee or any members thereof contributed, or lent her fcny money for the, purchase-.of stock. DELEGATES VISIT , MOUNT VERNGii Washington.'. Sent. 25. After a morning session, which mvoiuyed a discussion of the progress made of prohibition in... 'Mexico, Central and South A merica, the delegates of the International Congress Against Al coholism made a pilgrimage to Mt. Vernon, the home of George Wash ington. .. ' - v .The final session will be held to morrow, which Richmond Pearson Hobson will address the congress. ". ' $100,000 FIRE TODAY AT INSANE ASYLUM Raleigh, Sept. 25 A fire early this morning destroyed the laundry build ing of the' state insane asylum, caus ing a Joss estimated at one hundred thousand dollars. v None of the inmates were injured. ; "' " '"v. . OLIVE THOMAS' " BODY ARRIVES ,' New York, Sept. 25. The body of Olive Thomas, the moving picture actress, who died recently in Paris ; of mercurial poisoning, arrived on I the steamship Mauretania today j The funeral services will be held 1 next Tuesday, and it is -expected it will be the largest attended funeral i of recent times, a3 the whole theat- rical profession will be present. RISKS OWN LIFE TA SAVE GIRL To r,je the life of a j neighbor's little daughter who was standing di rectly in her path, Miss Mollie Kooch 1 of Big Springs, Idafio7 drove her car over the side of a bridge spanning ' Snake river; at the imminent peril ' ot her own life. 'The car was com pletely wrecked, but the heroic lady ! fortunately escaped without serious i Injury. REAR PLATFORM ADDRESS OF COX Greeley, Colorado, ..Sept. : 25. A rear platform address here early this morning concluded the Colorado cam paign of Governor Cox, who later - i crossed into Wyoming, where two speeches are set for this afternoon nd tonight. -The League of Nations, progressiv- sm and agriculture were the chief opics of his speech. DRDEHED COSED ALL THE LOCAL NEWS LABOR WILL NEW IMMIGRATION LAWS STARTING DRIVE .TO V ELECT CONGRESSMEN WHO TAKE A POSITIVE STAND FOR AMEND. MENT TO ELIMINATE ENTRY OF OFFSCOURINGS 'OF EU ROPE. (By LLEWXAM) Raleigh, Sept. 2S. The cause of Labor is starting a drive for election of congressmen all over the country who will take positive and active! stand for the amendment of the na tion's immigration laws, whereby im. migration to America from the Old World shall be restricted to the point of eliminating the , off-scourings of Europe and the. shutting out of the anarchistic element that is already a standing menace to the -security of American institutions and free gov ernment. ' The Union Herald,, of . Raleigh, which has taken a conspicuous part in the primary and campaign jthis year, a conservative, influential and Well-edited newspaper, in. its issue of this week prints the following inter esting editorial statements on 'the subject. The Herald, while non-par tisan, is pro-democratic because it, as well as the heads of the Federa tion of Labor in the state and nation, find its best, friends in, the democratic candidates this year. The Herald re cognizes the 100 percent tested atti tude of Senator Oyerman in the mat ter of better immigration laws, and that Senator Simmons' record along the same line is all right.. But it calls on voters- in the congressional dis tricts to "get a line" on the attitude, of candidates for ' congress all over thecountry, and vote accordingly, as a sympathetic Congress is necessary to reform the immigration law. The Union Herald says: "From many quarters .come pro tests and warnings over the continu ed increase of late in the tide of for eign immigration -to the United States, - - 'Zf " '" "Dispatches from Washington con tain the prediction of government of-, ficials that all high records, both be fore nd since the war, will be brok en during the present year. It is stated that the rush is so great in New York that immigration officials are swamped. As is usual the arriv als are seeking the eastern industrial centers. ' Less than 25 per cent of the August arrivals went far from the Atlantic coast. This condition is increasing housing perplexities in New York, Philadelphia and other east coast cities. . : "It can be stated positively that a large percentage of , the immigrants now being admitted to our' shores constitute the most undesirable of the offscourings of the old world.. Many of , these are anarchists and sympa thizers. with the so-called" "Reds," whose mere presence in this country is a menace to free government and" American institutions. ' i "The readers of the Union Herald know that this paper is no alarmist. It believes the proper presentation of truths and arguments can accomplish more in the right direction than all the expletives designed to abuse some body or some thing; that facts and reason are more effective, if not so pyrotechnic, than the red fire of a wordy bunch of adjectives, although we d not dispute that there arise occasions when one's system finds re lief in the discharge of a volley of near cusswords. . ..' "We, therefore! do not hesitate to join early in. the coming country-wide ceinand, already cropping out, for a radical change in the laws regulat ing immigration that shall operate to very materially restrict the comirfg into this country of peoples from other countries and climes. We be lieve with all our heart in "America first for Americans,' with the quali fication of course that we do not ad vocate the shutting of gates against all others, for there have been and will always be some new comers needed and some who are of a char acter that will and ought to be wel comed. Bjit always for the country's good first, rather than for the sec ondary consideration of any advant age to be gained by the importation of cheaper 'labor cheaper for a while at the expense of the standard of living of native and naturalized American workmen." - NO JOKES ON WOMEN. In Albania the women are treated with the utmost consideration. To such an extent, indeed, is the respect for women carried out by the Alba nians thtt it is contrary to their sense of propriety ever to make women the subject of jokes or humorous atones. TARBORO, N. C, DEMAND BANKS REPORTING URGE RESOURCES It is worthy to" remark upon the recent statements of the . eight banks of Edgecombe coun ty, excepting the two-in Rocky Mount, which 'although in this county, always report through the Na&h county papers. - The combined resources of the eight banks ' Edgecombe county are reported as over five r ill t ! of dollars. They rank as follows : First National, $1,829,514.72. Farmers Banking and Trust Co., ' $1,722,319.43 Pinetops Banking (Co., $465, Bank of Whitaker, $414,988.55. 553.28. ; '" Merchants and Farmers Bank of Macclesfield, $228,428.57. Planters Bank of Pinetops, $189,464.24. " " Famlico Savings and Trust Co., $141,829.55. - .... Bank of Conetoe, $131,953.60. Total resources, $5,124,051.94. OF DALY SUICIDE Chicago,, Sept. 24. Same old tri angle had something to do with the suicide of Anna Daly, model and ac tress, life-long friend of Olive Thom as, who was found dead in a New York hotel. This was revea4cd .by Betty Martin of the chorus and the screen, when she arrived in Chicago to bring some letters to Irving. Aaronson, piano player. They were letters he had written to Miss Daly. ' Betty Martin also has something to say to, Aaronson. In her chum's last letter was written: "Irving treated me rotten today, and my heart is broken. He's been rotten to me ever since he's been mixed up with Hilderbrartd. I really think he hates me." . "Hilderbrand" is another girl of the stage. Miss Martin said Miss Daly was convinced that Olive Thomas had kill ed herself, and that it seemed' to point the way to the final tragedy in her own life. Aaronson sat in Randolph hotel and denied that his love caused the girl to kill herself. "I met her three years ago at At lantic City," he said. "I was playing there and she was on hervacation. We became very good friends. She was a model then. She wrote letters when we were not in the same city. Lately I noticed that Lhsy had be come despondent Her mother had been ill. I think that is why she was sad. ... ' "Then when Olive Thomas killed herself she became more despondent. Olive was an old friend of hers. Last Thursday we were walking on Broad way. SheAras blue. Suddenly she Mid she. wouldn't talk with me. I made her. come along with me any way. I tried to cheer her up. She mentioned Olive then." , . "She loved Aaronson," said Betty Martin.. "I had to watch her day and night because she was despondent, and I feared she would kill herself." SEAPLANE TO Washington, Sept 25. A daily seaplane mail service between Key West and Havana, to be started on October fifteenth is expected to pro vide through service, and has been contracted for by the Postoffice De partment with the Florida and West Indies Airway, Incorporated. . False teeth of ivory, on plates of the same material, and held in place by hold wires, were in use in the year 1000 F. C. JEALOUSY NT MA HAVANA cnni JUU SATURDAY, TOBACCO MARKET The sales yesterday were : quite improved as to . price, and soma better grades came on the market. Tarboro still i ' '' - '''''' 'flM ' leads, we are told.' E F DESIRE THAT PRESIDENT WIL .' SON NAME THE COM. MISSION. TO DISCUSS THE PROBLEM Tokio, Sept. 28. The suggestion that a joint high commission be ap pointed to find a solution to the Call fornia problem appears to be favored by, many of the responsible citizens here. The idea ia the outgrowth of meeting: of prominent Americans and Japanese who favor having President Wilson name tbe commission. "I AM JINXED," SAYS JOCKEY O'NEILt Deauville, Sept. 25. -French track followers have been criticizing the riding of Frank O'Neill, of ,St. Louis, lately. , O'Neill, with the Vanderbilt horses, was leading the jockeys of the French turf by a. wide margin the middle of July, having practically double the number of winning mount of Belihouse, his closest opponent. Lately O'Neill seems to have had an unlucky spell and winners have been few in his column. Some days ago O'Neill told a close friend: "I don't know what has hap pened to me since W. K. (Vander bilt) died. I ride harder than I ever did in my life but I am jinxod. It seems that my luck passed away with W. K. He was .more a father to me f - than a boss. ' I feel all broken up about it." ; - CROWDED PRISONS E A SCANDAL Vienna, Sept. 24. Ten thousand criminal ''cases were recorded in Vi enna during the year 1919 against 1,674 in 1910. The prisons are so crowded "that it has become a scan dal arid the dockets so extended as to lead the public prosecutor to rec ommend that all cases in which' con viction would involve not more than five years imprisonment be quashed. It is said that many of the cases can not be reached for years. , The judicial machinery of the state is wholly inadequate to cope with the situation. Burglaries alone are stated to average 2,200 monthly. TWELVE BALLOONS Birmingham, Sept. 25. A steady breeze from the south favored the twelve ' balloons which were inflated and ready to start from here late to day in the national balloon race. The course mapped out lies due north, but shifts of winds may scat ter the entries. AMERICAN CANNING, ART IS TAUGHT IN FRANCE Washington, Sept 25. The Amer ican art of home canning and drying of fruits and vegetables is , being taught in France. All classes of French life have been reached by the four American experts lent to the French government by the Agricul ture Department to give canning de monstrations. , ' " -r' '-- v'-' During June, July and August, the Americans moved ' from place to place in France, carrying their work into practically every , part of that country. At the first (femonstration held in s chateau near Versailles, products canned by the French last year were, exhibited. . Several com mercial canners competed with the housewives, but the latter carried off the first prizes. ' In China a boy is allowed a birth day, feast once in every ten years. INY JAPANES COMMISSION EC! STARTED RACE SEPT. 2S, 1920 WORLD SERIES PLAYERS v NOW FACE INDICTMENTS T SPOKEN. AT MEET Geneva, Sept. 24. Great progress toward Christian unity among the de nominations of the world as a means to a "better world" is said to have been made by the World Conference on Faith and Order held here. Rob ert H. Gardiner, of Gardiner, Maine, secretary of the American Episcopal church, spoke of it as "the most im portant' gathering of Christians held since the schism between the eastern and western churches a thousand years ago." The delegates to the conference included leaders of prominence from many lands. . Some of them spoke tongues strange to, nearly all of the delegates and at times there was dif ficulty in finding interpreters. 7-Hour Day For Servants. Vienna, Sept. 24.- The cabinet council has approved the seven-hour day fi.r civil snivants. T ON TOBACCO MEET The tobacco farmers of North Car olina met in Raleigh Sept. 22 to form a tobacco growers' association, ' ;h There were large delegations from each county. Twenty-four counties were represented. Around seven or eight hundred people filling the rep resentative room in the capital were compelled to adjourn to the city au ditorium. -. , Judge J. C. Burgaw, of Washing ton, -presided over the meeting. Dr. Y. Joyner, Dr. White of Granville, L. iS. Tomlinson of Wilson, Jas. A. Groom of Guilford, J. G. Hicks of Durham, Jude Austin of Washing ton, and J. ' Grimes were named on the res ' committee. , of Kentucky, was a g .leeting as a represen tative i.oni "Old Kentucky," and he stated that the Kentuckians were4 anxious for the Carolinians to organ ize and advised the tobacco growers throughout the tobacco belt that were unorganized to do so at once, pledg ing the support of the Kentucky or ganization to support them. Mr. Hill is a gifted speaker and thoroughly familiar with the tobacco situation and the growers thoroughly enjoyed (Continued on page 4) EXPORTS AND IMPORTS DROP DURING AUGUST Washington, Sept. 25. A consid erable drop in exports and somewhat smaller imports in August as com pared with previous months are shown by official figures given out by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce. Exports in August were valued at $584,000,000, a drop of $07,000,000 from $651,000,000 in July of this year and $62,000,000 less than the exports of $646,000,000 in August, 1919. Exports for the eight months ended with August were valued at $5,483,000,000, an increase of $211, 000,000 over the exports of $5,272, 000000 in the first eight months of 1919. ;V' :,; . ' . ' Imports in August were valued at $519,000,000, a decrease of $15, 000,000 from the amount of $537, 000,000 in July, but $212,000,000 more than the imports of $307,000, 000 fn Xuguts, 1919. During the eight months ending with August of this year imports amounted to four billion dollars, an increase of 77 per cent, or $1,738,000,000 over the Im ports of .$2,262,000,000 in the same period cf 1919. ST 0IU6UES FARMERS REPOR 90TH DIVISION REUNION. Oklahoma City, Sept 25 The sec ond annual reunion of the Ninetieth Division, comprising Texas and Ok lahoma troops that served in the world war, will open in this city this morning. . . ASSOCIATED PRESS HENRY BRIGHAM, GRAND JURY FOREMAN, SAYS BENTON'S EVIDENCE .IS SUFFICIENT TO BASE CHARGES OF CONSPIR ACY TO DEFRAUD GREATEST SCANDAL IN SPORT. Chicago, Sept. 28. Indictments, based on the charges of conspiracy, to defraud may resultifrom the grand jury investigation into the baseball scandal involving alleged crooked ness of players in the 1919 wor,d se ries games, it was indicated today by Henry Brigham, the jury foreman. Brigham declared that there seems sufficient evidence to support such charges. Jacob C. ("Rube") Benton, New York Giant pitcher, who told the grand jury yesterday of being offered a bribe to lose a game, naming Buck Herzog, Hal Chase and Heinie Zim merman in connection with the al leged offer, in a statement published by him today, named four White Sox players as having been named to him by an alleged member of a baseball gambling 'ring in a discussion of al leged "fixing" of the 1919 series. These players, Benton declared, were Eddie Cicotte, pitcher of the first game; Claude Williams, pitcher in the second; Chick Gandil, first baseman, and Hap Felsoh, center fielder. Ac cording to Benton's statement, these players were mentioned by a Cincin nati "betting commissioner" named Hahn. 1 Benton said that Hahn told him five White Sox players demanded $100,- 000 for throwing the series, and that this was paid to them by a group of: Pittsburgh gamblers. Benton said he was sure Cicotte could name the Pittsburgh gamblers and would be glad to give the infor mation to the grand jury. Benton, in his story of the alleged "fixing" of the world's serius last fall, said: 'Last fall, after the series, a man named Hahn, who hails from Cincin nati, and is known as a bettnig com missioner, visited me at my home in Clinton, N. C. "One morning while we were out hunting, I asked him about the world scries. He said the scries was not on the square. "He said that the deal to fix play ers to throw the series to Cincinnati had beenv engineered by a syndicate of gamblers from Pittsburgh from whom he worked in Cincinnati as bet ing commissioner. Vile said certain players on the White Sox team had visited Pitts burgh before the series was played and made arrangement to throw the gam for a price. He said that the players demanded $100,000 to 'lay down' so that the "Sox would lose, and this was paid them. "We discussed various players on the team. Buck Weaver's name was not mentioned, nor wero the names of Jackson, Eddie Collins, John Col lins, or Ray Schalk. Five players were mentioned by Hahn in course of the conversation. Four are: Eddie Cicotte, pitcher of the first game of the scries; Claude Williams, pitcher of the second game; Chick Gandil, first baseman; and Hap Felsch, center fielder. Comiskey held up their pay checks, calling for the players' share of the world series money, for some time. I do not recall the name of the fifth man." Chicago, Sept 25. Railroad and postoffice officials are attempting to determine the value of the registered mail taken from the New Orleans Limited, the Illinois Central train, last night, when two masked bandits held it up near Tucker, Illinois. The value may be only a few thou sand dollars or it may run into hun dreds of thousands of dollars. . The bandits are believed to be the accomplices of Horace Walton, who was killed by the police after h-' Had robbed the same train last May of nearly one hundred thousand dottars. MASKED BANDITS OLD TRAIN J PRICEt 5 CENTS PAT BRINGS THOUSANDS OF HONEST TO GOODNESS TAR HEELS r" TOGETHER, - OPENS ON OCTOBER 18TH RALEIGH FAIR '(By LLEWXAM) '' Raleigh, Sept., 25 There are thou sands of people all over eastern Car olina who regularly attend the great annual Btate reunion, which is only another name. for the State Fair, only it is possibly more appropriate. There is no event occurring within the state from year to year that brings togeth er so many real honest-to-goodness natives of Tar Heel soil as this annu al state fair at Raleigh on the third week of October each year. Thous ands renew their acquaintances at no other time or occasion. - Thousands come as much or more for that pleas urable indulgence as to see the great State Fair. . And, brothers and sisters, if you will only make it a point one time to look out for this "feature" you will find it more wonderful than this de scription can possibly depict. I am therefore writing "these few lines" to the Edgecombe and other readers of The Southerner to tell thorn that Secretary Pogue says that there are going to be more regular visitors at the coming fair, which be gins three weeks from now, Oct. 18, than ever before, and that the fair will be the biggest thing of the kind ever pulled dff here. Gen. Julian S. Carr; president this year, backs up the statement, as does Treasurer Dcnson, all of whom are now up to their elbows in State Fair endeavor work. The premiums exceed all pre vious fairs, and the exhibits will bt better and greater. The races will-1 o especially strong, and there will ! a midway, without dust or mud . iii year, newly paved, that will live commendable attractions rpI - 'Jh, yes, the band and bands w - and there has been made nn.,.j provision for the parking of mothing like a million or more ct all sorts of auto mobiles and near-autos. More and more people, especially country peor pie, coi e in their own machines every year, some from the uttermost parts of the earth. IS Peking, Sept. 25. Prince Kouda cheff, Russian minister, announced today that he was leaving China as a result of the decision of the foreign . office to terminate official relations with the Russian legation. All treaties between Russia and China are in the meantime to be held, in abeyance. TESTS OF WHEAT" " FOR COAST GROWTH Washington, Sept. 25. Tests of wheat best adapted to conditions on the Pacific coast, made by the Agri cultural Department, show that the federation group, consisting of three varieties of wheat, is best suited for the western region, according to the expert's report. Hard federation produced the larger yields in Oregon, and white federation did the better in California. Milling experiments" indicated that hard federation was equal or superior for milling and bread-making purposes to the leading, commercial varieties now grown on the Pacific coast and also superior in this respect to federation and white federation. r The federation varieties were com pared in yicUI with the leading com. .mercial wheats, including bluestem, Australian varieties, Pacific, white Australian, and early baart, and pro duce higher yields, the department reported. ' . ' FRANCE PRESENTS FOCH WITH HOME Paris, Sept 25. The government has solved for Marshal Foch the prob lem of finding lodgings in Paris which has given the Marshal a great deal of ' trouble. The Hotel de Sensy 138 rue de Crenelle,, has been placed at his disposal as a residence. This Is one block away from the French War Office. . RUSSIAN MINISTER LEAVING CHINA
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