North Carolina Newspapers

1 I DAILY iSOWMmMEGI S I;' ifilik 4 --"AV' (PAT FAIR : WARMER . .kiiiHH i tfvu umiri! m 21 1-2 CENTS. VOL. 40 NO. 176" ALL-THE LOCAL NEWS TARBORO, N. C. MONDAY, OCTOfiE47W20 COX-ROOSEVELT CAMPAiC WOMEN CHIEF SUFFERERS WAR IN EVERY AGE. OF SHOULD .SUPPORT LEAGUE Mr. J. M. Broughton, of Raleigh . chairman of the finance committee , for North Carolina, has called upon t The Southerner t invite1 subscrip . tions to the Cox-Roosevelt campaign fund.' ' The Southerner has also received the endorsement from the Edgecombe County Executive Committee to act officially in gathering in and trans : mitting such sum as may be con'trib- uted to the cause of 'democracy, Therefore,' we urge upon all faith ful democrats to send to The South erner such sums tuat they can spare, whether it be one dollar, or five dol lars or more. ' . 1 The fight is on and it devolves up :: on every true democrat to do his or her duty. . -' , f- ' r Governor Cox is fighting Strenu ous battle against the power of mon ey and Roosevelt is carrying all be fore, him ip the states where he has spoken. Present indications point to - ' democratic victory if; the people pan themselves be depended upon, to do their part that of - finding i the wherewith to wage the battle. ; - I.JIhet following contributions, have already been received: . , Don Gilliam, $5 ; Henry C. Bourne; IS,'- BORAH WON'T SUPPORT THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE IDAHO : SENATOR, AN IRRECON CILABLE, DEMANDS HARD ING'S .ANNOUNCED OPPOSI TION TO LEAGUE; NOMINEE AGAIN DENIES. BREAK IN THE PARTY RANKS. r EUGENE DEBS PREDICTS, , .". A ' ' , GAINS FOR SOCIALISTS mii Atlanta, iOct. 4 Great gains for the socialist party in the November election is predicted by ' Eugene ' V. .' Debs, the party, nominee, after con ference in prison here with members ?. of the committee who came" to dis cuss thecampaignwith ,himnk w Debs is serving a ten year term in Federal prison ior violation of the espionage act. HARDING MOTORED . 70 MILES t TO FREMONT Marion, Ohio, Oct. -4. Senator Harding motored seventy miles to Fremont today for an address at the dedication of a memorial tablet for -soldiers who lost their, lives 'in the world war. ' ' " " '," F He did not touch on political issues, reports state. a COTTON GINNED PRIOR TO ' SEPT.. 25, 2,243,030 BALES Washington, Oct. 4. Cotton gin ned. prior to September 25 amounted to two million two hundred forty- three thousand and thirty running "bales, according to the- Census Bu twa today. ' , " " - This is , reduction of six hundred and sixty thousand bales, as forecast AND ROBBED OF $5,000 ew xorK, uct.. 4.-Bix masked - bandits stood forty-five patrons of a Lenox avenue cafe agai.ist the wall early this morning and robbed them of five thousand dollars in cash, and Washington, Oct. 4. Considerable alarm was expressed in republican circles; when ifc- became definitely known that Senator William E. Bo rah,- irreconcilable opponent of the temporarily at least, his active sup port of Senator Harding, republican presidential nominee, . v . The Idaho senator has notified the republican .national committee that he will make no more speeches in the presidential campaign. He will, how ever, continue in the Senatorial cam paign where the fate of irreconcilable senators is in doubt. --j It has been reported that Senator Hiram - Johnson, another irreconcH able, will follow Borah's lead. This, however, could not be verified, f Senator "viiarding s .. recent pro nouncement for an "Association of Nations"'': with. court of interna tional justice as its foundation is un derstood to account for the breach between the candidate and the irre concilable leaders. Belief that former Senator Eiihu Root, who framed the international tribunal umler the League of Na tions, .will use' his influence to have the 'United States enter the league in one form or another is understood to be a contributing factor. ' ? Marion, Oct.. 4. Before , leaving this morning for Fremont, Senator Harding again denied there was any break intlie party ranks over the treaty issue, declaring there was - no lack of harmony between his own and the irreconciiables' yews. 5 "I approve of wh'at Senator Borah has 'said in his publio addresses," said the nominee, "ariHie ill continue to make speeches for the republican ticket, and I am sure ,1 shall approve also what he gays to the voters in the future." Washington, Oct. 4. It is stated that Borah's' action has left the nomi nee for the republican party in a bad fix. . If he yields to Borah and John son : and comes out as an irreconcil able, promising to scrap the peace treaty when elected Harding will go with a minority of his own party. If he doesnt so declare himself the loud and effective minority may kick up such a row as to jeopardize republi can success. c ms HERS DRAW .J FIFTEEN MILLIONS by HANDLED PONZ ANNUAL- VET. REUNION V t e : WILL OPEN TOMORROW . Houston, Texas, Oct. 4.r Thous ands of gray clad veterans began ar riving here- today for the annual re union which opens tomorrow and last until Friday, v ; . ; : ' The. city is. gaily decorated, the Stars and Stripes mingling with the Stars and Bars everywhere. BOMB WRECKS HOME. c CIifton,-N. J., Oct 4. The home of , Salyator Taibi, a laborer, : Was wrecked by a bomb todav. but all th inmates escaped. Taibi recently re ceived black-hand letters demanding money, to which he refused to com ply, he told authorities here. Boston, Oct. - 4. Charles Ponzi handled $14,872,327 , of ' other peo ple's money in his foreign exchange scheme. Of this $1,000,000 was paid out in commissions 'to his agents. These were the official figures tes tified to at the Ponzi hearing by C. E. Rittenhouse, experff accountant. While handling these vast sums, according to the : accountant, and promising investors 60 per cent on their money r in ninety days, Ponzi was not engaged in any business bringing in a cent. Joseph Daniels testified Ponzi told him that Ponzi's mother was his European agent. . The County Commissioners had a small and comparatively unimportant meeting this morning; . general busi ness and the -drawing of the jury for the two weeks' November civil term being the matters transacted. The commissioners present were: W G.' Clark, chairman; Messrs. W. W. Eagles, Theo Fountain and M. P, Edwards. Mr. Brake of Rocky Mount was absent. Sheriff Hyatt presented his receipts for all taxes collected in 1919 and the auditor was authorized to turn over to the sheriff the. books for the 1920 taxes when ready. :' Dr. Outland submitted his monthly report and budget on behalf of the health board, though the. proportion- ment and division between the coun ty commissioners and School board that each should pay had not been made up. , ' ; ' The jury list for the two weeks' civil court m November was then drawn, as follows : First week: G. R. Fly, J. L. Batch elor, Geo. L. Edwards, J. J. Will iams, Onslow Curry, Clayton Harrell, W. L. Bell, R. D. Harris, J. R. Fowlk, P. McClean, L. M. Elinor, C; W Pollard, R. B. Josey. L. L. White- hurst. D. D. Taylor. Willie Everett. P. Elliott, W. L. Conyers, 0. L. Jackson, W. L. Wadsworth, Missis sippi Briley, John Fraley, G. G. Brown and W. II. Bone. Second week: C. G. Church, John M. Barnes, J. C. Harper, A. W. Haw ley, W.W. Moore, H. L. Pip-pin, Mark Webb, .T. B. Jacocks, W. W. Lewis, L. H. Hollingsworth, J. H. Daugh tridge, Harry. Beech, C. H. Hearne, R. T. Ellington, W. R. Whitehead, C. B. Bradley 0. 6. Boykin, j.- C. Norville, E. L. Freeman, F. Y. War ren, J. H Jenkins, James L. Law rence, R. T. Pittman, L. A. Gay and J. G. Habourne. .. i Al 'S KIN DIES J OR DAUGHTER OF GERMAN PRINC rr ESS PASSES AWAY. FORFEITED HIS TITLE Syracuse, Oct. 4. Mrs. Elsie Kuss- maul, nee Elsie Monsee, daughter of Princess Regina Henerey, a relative of Emperor Frederick of Germany, and herself grandniece of that em peror, is dead at her home at North Bay, N. Y. V Her mother married Antone Mon see German lawyer, and "thereby forfeited her title. Three daughters were horn, Elsie being the youngest. Monsee met with reverses and the family moved to England. Elsie went to Paris as a teacher of German and French in an English family, and while there- became friends with Em press Eugenia. Here she met the family of Dr, Francis Wharton, of Boston, and travelled with them for several years through the Orient as an interpreter. She came to America with the Whartons and later became a gov erness in the home of Judge Benja min Tappen, of Fordham, N. Y. On a vacation to Oneida Lake she met Miss Marie Kussmaul, a classmate at Heidelberg, and became acquainted with Otto Kussmaul, her brother, whom she Hater married. Kussmaul died a few years ago. She is sur vived by one daughter, Mrs. Charles Estey, of North Bay. - .ASSOCIATED PRESS ;v--.;.,.:-s.it REPUBLICANS ATTEMPTTO BUY THE MILL OPERATIVES ADDRESSES ID VISITORS Dayton, Ohio, Oct.. 4. -Although supposed to be resting for two days after his eleven thousand mile west - ... ' . ern trip, uovernor (Jox today con tinued1 his plea for the League of Nations fn an address to a body of women. - Governor Cox gave many reasons why women-should support the league as he declared that they were the ehief sufferers of any war. He riiiferated that, the league will stop -wars, and not encourage them, as his republican opponents have charged. PUGH DENIES $50,000 SLUSHj PRICE CENTS MARCH 1ST TAKEN IITH 'DKNAiTE FUND FOR THIS PURPOSE, BUT WINDED TO DO BETTER ioB COLONEL MEEKINS IS READY 1'tO. . ... JB V inc. LAS I ONE." TO BACK HIS ASSERTION AND hi BRING WITNESSES. i WEATHER FORECAST FROM OCT. 4 TO OCT. 9 Washington, Oct. 4. The Weath er Bureau issues a weeklv weather forecast for the South Atlantic and East Gulf States, as follows: Generally fair, except local show ers probable Wednesday and Thurs day; rising temperature first half of week, normal thereafter. There are no indications at this time of a dis turbance in the West Indies. BRIDE DESERTED CAROLINA HISTORY PACIFIC HON EI00N AMERICA FIRST' AROUSES Pi-Um Distributor Mwt Mr. J. B. Pennington is inj Cleve landOhio, where lie was called by telegram to meet with alt the Peer less distributors. On his way back, Mr Pennington will shoot in Balti more for a day at the big annual shoot. "IN. THE AY"S NEWS" George F. SWain, 'Whose co-opera tion has been enlisted by the Federal commission which is at work on com prehensive plans for the development of the water power resources of the United States, ig professor of civil engineering at Harvard University and, president of" the Waterpower League of America. OIL MEN TO CELEBRATE. . Tulsa, Oklahoma; Oct, 4. The oil men of the Mid-continent fields are to hold a celebration here today in memory of Edwin L. Drake, .who drilled the first oil well in, the world, near. Titusville, Pa., in 189. The 21st international shoe and leather fair is to open in London to day. ; , ;:;V,i'FrnT -i- . i a.-J 1.1 IH i M New York, Oct. 4. The slogan "America First" is unpopular among Europeans, who deem it an expres sion of selfishness, according to the Rev. Charles S. Macfarland, general secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, who has just returned from a series of religious conferences in Switzer land and a speaking tour of western European cities. j "For an American to be in Europe at this time is humiliating and some times almost disheartening," said Dr Macfarland. "I tfound the people there confused. They do rot know what to . make of America's present aloofness: it seems to them such a sharp contrast to our attitude during the war. v I found the people of Eu rope industriously working at the problems-of reconstruction. While their economic needs are great, oqe of their greatest needs at the present time is that of moral support. "The American nation and AmerU can people, on the whole, have not as yet suffered irretrievably in the esti mation of Europeans," continued Dr. Macfarland. "They still believe in us and look' to us for help. But thought ful Europeans are disturbed about one phrase which frequently reaches across the sea 'America First.' To them it Bounds like the words that used to come from across the Rhine 'Peutschland uber alles' not with the same aggressiveness, but with something of the same selfishness." New York, Qjfct." 4.CIaiming that she was left alone on her honeymoon for tw6 days; that the only allowance she received during her month of married life was a counterfeit fifty cent piece,and that she was ordered to go to work by her husband and mother-in-law, pretty 17-year-old Gertrude Mueller, has started pro ceedings for an annulment of her marriage. , ' (She eloped with Edward Mueller last August. They were married at the Roman Catholic cburph, which is directly across the street from the girl's home. "Edward took me to the Catskills over Labor Day," Mrs. Mueller said. "Hie was with me for three days. He then left for NewYork. I waited for him for two days, but when he did not come back I went to his home He wanted me to live with his folks, but I wanted to have a home of our own. He finally helped me get a fur nished room, but would not live in it. I had to pay the rent there, too. "He know I had some money in the bank and asked me to transfer it to his name. Both he and his mother told me to go to work last week. That convinced me that we were not suit ed to one another and I returned home last Monday.'' T PRESIDENT RECEIVES U. S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICES Washington, Oct . 4. President Wilson today received justices of the United States Supreme Court, who called to. pay lheir respects. Court convened at noon and immediately adjourned until tomorrow in order to Visit the White House ceremony, which was omitted last year owing to the Clness of the president. WORLD SERIES GAME TOMORROW . Now York, Oct. 4. Prep' ratioqi aro al 'complatad for the opening of the world aerie baieball game tomorrow be- ' tween the Brooklyn National and the Cleveland American. The Dodger bad a work- .' out today, but the Indian will not arrive until early tomor- row. All the game on the Brook Ijrn ground will itart at two o'clock, New York time, or one o'clock standard aaetern time.' Chapel Hill, Oct. 4. It is a long way from North Carolina to the Pa cific Coast, but Prof. Collier Cobb, head of. tho department of geology at the University of North Carolina, who as a Kenan research professor is studying shore line processes !ln re-' lation to harbor development on both sides of the Pacific ocean, has work ed out a remarkably close relation ship between North Carolinians and far westerners, built around the part Tar Heels j)Jayed in early western history p In an address before the Rainier Club, in Seattle recently Prof. Cobb, who has just finished his study of the shore lines from Alaska down to Ta cohia, told the Seattle people more about their early history than they themselves knew. "Your own Klnir county was named. after Vice Presi dent William R; King, a native of North Carolina and a graduate' of the university," Prof. Cobb said. "Many of th.e islands,- points and bays in this section were named by Capt, Charles Wflkes, the same man who removed the Confederate com missioners, Mason and Slidell, from the British ship Trent and almost in volved the United States in war with England. Wilkes was a North Caro linian nnd many of his family live there now. some of them in Char lotte, He entered Pugett Sound in 184 1, nnd left many names here that he took largely from officers of his ship.'' Prof. Cobb also related that Capt. John Blakely, commander of the fa- mous wasp in the war of 1813,-Jiad at least two points in Pugett Sound named after him. Blakely was an alumnus of the University. . (By LLEWXAM) Raleigh, Oct. 4. There has been a good deal thought and much of it said about Politician Pugh of Eliza beth City, John Morehead's "vice, chairman," et cetera, since he re sponded to the call of the cUmpaighj boodle investigation committee at' Washington a few days ago. f Pugh denied before the committee having made use of language in"ai speech before the Pasquotank Repub lican county convention imputed to him and printed in the papers' sev eral months ago. It was necessary that he should do so. ' But Col. I. M, Meekins, one of the leading fepubli-. cans of Elizabeth City for a" genera tion, anJ a man with reputation for veracity, does mot believe Pugh told the committee' the truth. Col. Meek ins, who passed through, Raleigh, re cently, and who is now in West Vir ginia, speaking for Harding, snys he and seven other men have signed an affidavit that Pugh said that he had arranged with Chairman Hays of the republican national committee for a fifty thousand dollar slush fund to be used in "organizing" the white cotton mill operatives', and other factory workers, "and the negroes,' to vote the republican ticket on November second. Mr. Meekins i said to have deposited a goodly sum of money in a bank and" to have told Pugh to go ahead and institute suit against him and the seven other men who de ciare tliey heard Pugh make the statement "and get the money waiting for him in the bank, "if he can. win it in a suit. a But Pugh has not yet made, any at tempt to go into, court where Meek ins would; hav the chance to prove his charges. But something else is happening, The white cotton mill operatives and other factory workmen are learning of the alleged attempt of the "vice chairman" and other republicans to "buy them," alongside with "the ne gro vote," whether the ?50,000 fund for that purpose has been raised or not, and they will show the men who assumed thnt they could be voted through a corruption fund along with purchasable negroes that they know how to resent such an aspersion on their character and honor. ' SWTCASE ... ... OF DYNAMITE - tNewi York,' Oct. 4. Investigation of the; recent "Wall street explosion was renewed With vigor today fol lowing, the. arrest in; Pittsburgh of Fioreen.Zlenaka, of this city. ''leriaka was arrested in a hotel room with. aVsititcase full of dyna mite after he ?s-alleged to have told a man that ."h intended to do a bet ter" job than wrisdone the last time." Investigation, here, shows that he lef't'.hls-irbSm-rfn hour before the ex plosion to,okj)UftB in Wall street. . . The rodm-waV also found to con tain a lot of jjwlical literature. -Pittsburgh, P., X)ct. 4. Accord inff . IPf PrjnaiiQn ebtained by the ,police; from Floretert Zelenaka, arrest ed here with, -dynamite in his posses sion, the solution of .the Wall street explosion may be obtained. The nature. t the information ex tracted, from. Zelenaka has not been divulged buttlwiaecused is quoted as telling the police that the Wall street explosion was only a-start. LIOR AnRES T- STIRS SOCIETY IIA. DOCTORS LIVABLE FEES ONE YEAR AGO TODAY. : Cardinal Mercier was welcomes in Boston. Belgian King sea-planed over New York city. WANTED I Good boy to carry paper. Good propoitio for the right , boy. Can carry them ef tor chooL Apply The Southerner. 9 2 e e e Berlin, "pet 4.-The medical pro fession of Vienna has announced a general strike, beginning at once, for "livable fees." . All of the physicians attached to the Krankenhaase or State Sick Re lief Fund, by which they are com pelled to attend patients for nominal fees, voted to strike, declaring that their fees under the system' amount to 24 to 65 kronen (approximately 35 to 75 cents) per day. They want 48 to 110 kronen a day. According to the strike edict, medical attention is not to be refused to patients who pay the regular fees usually assessed to private patients. s v usiungion, uct. 4. umcial so ciety circles here were stirred to the depths by the arrest at the Willard hotel of Robert Stockwell Reynolds Hitt, former United States minister to Panama and Guatemala, and a well known woman, who gave .her name as Miss Helen Miller. They ' were charged with drinking liquor in a public place. The arrests -were mado 'bv Mrs. Mina C. Vanwinkle, head of the wo man's bureau of the police depart ment, who happened to be dining at the Willard., Mrs. Vanwinkle saw the pair drinking from a silver flask and walked over and nla'ced them under arrett, but permitted Ihem to finish theif drink. V " The policewoman complained aft erward, naively, that only the "tiniest bit" remained in the flask.' . FIFTY-THHRD'DAY- OF MAYOR'S HUNGER STRIKE ; London, -Oct. vftof d Mayor Ter ence MacSw-i! was ""reported not so well on Sunday? said-the prison doc tors, but today is- better', after some sleep lust-night. ' '' This- is tho- fiftyJthrrtl day of his hunger strike. ! COTTON PRODUCTION , FORECAST 12,123,000 BALES . Washington, Oct. ev-s-The cotto 1 production, forecast is-given today as 12,123,000 bales. . The condition Is Bhown at "-3 a September 26V?" 1 POLES. CAPTURE rsNY ' THOUSAND PRISONERS Warsaw, Oct. 4. Further reports of the disorderly "flight of Bolshevik troops on the northern front and the capture of many thousands of pris oners by the Poles is brought here TOBACCO PRICES " v ON TODAY'S MARKET Stalling and Beatty, 65c Stalling and Beatty, 64c. Stalling and Beatty, 50a. Beatty and Knight, 64c. . .Beatty and Knight, 63c. Beatty and Knight, 60c , . Beatty and Knight, BOe. " George Thorpe, 55c. :' " Robert WaUton, 55c ' . L. R. Causeway, 49c Luke Harrell, 46c L. A. Savage, 45c POPULATION OF, NEW ; '. YORK STATE IS 10,384,144 Washington, Oct. 4-The popnla- tion of New York state has bcon an- nounced at ten million three hundred eighty-four thousand and one hun dred forty.-foury not quite half of which is embraced in the city of New York, , . . ,,; v , w - i .. i - ' .'' J I r ,,M .., RECORDER'S COURT. State vs. John Byrdwsaultimr of ficer, remanded to mayor of Conetoe. State vs. Lv B. 'Byrd, "obstructing officer while ih performance of his duties, not guilty.- State: vs.- Ed 'Byrd, drivine auto while intoxicated;; $1 00 and costs. , State ' vs.' William Barnei,' driving auto wTiiile intoxicated, -100, costs. State vsv Robert punand Fred Dunn, larceny of Ford c wheel, $25 each and costs. , r State '.vs. Charley . Mack,, violating prohibition law, not guHty. i . State - v. Matilda Body, violating quarantine Jaws, judgment1 suspend- ed on payment of costs, v : Stato vs. George Bellamy, disturb- ing- religious ' congregation, f 25 and , costs.." -' . -t ' i " State vs. Joe' Wheless," 'disturbing religious congVegation, $10 and costs. State vs. Marvin Tansomj disturb ing religious congregation, $2.5 and costsr ; v .. t t LOCAL JOTS. Mrs. W. A. Hart has returned from a trip' to New York and. Baltimore. . ... i. :.;' s Mrs. . Henry Bryan .and- Miss Sarah Fletcher Bryan left this, morning for Virginia Beach and 'visit to rela tives. In Wilmington, Del.,- and Kirk- wood, Pa. v .'' . ... v- -' . ;" Mrs: Douglas Taylor returned to day to her home In" Wilmington. Mr. Mabrey Bass has returned from Maxtonj . Mrs. W. P. McCraw is attending! the Willianuton fair. .