In the columns of this paper you
will find the advertisements of alert,
progressive merchants and manu
facturcrs who are telling you some
thing they believe you oncht tn
iMlJlfi 111 WE HER :
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vMimm LEAGUES f REV1VAL ATz
AUiUl nUllUUlTIEiH e'er at. Is conducting a
David L. Fultz Says "We Aren't
Uoing to Lose Just Because
Majors Made Bad Bargain
(By Associated Press)
New York. Aug. 3. Demanding
that the major baseball leagues live
up to the agreement entered Into
with tho minors at the conference
tn thta t 1 i t
v10 tllJ, lasl January David L.
Fultz. president of the International
Mgue and spokesman for the m:nor
associations, stated today "We are
not going, to lost the fruits of the ar
rangement made last winter simply
"ov"u o ino majors now find that
mey maae a bad bargain."
Fultz in a specially prepared state
ment outlined the case of the minoi
baseball leagues. in part, as follows
Altho the Minor Leagues of Pro
fessional Dase Ball have, since their
organization, been the great develop
ers of playing talent, they have never
received tho financial reward
their important position in the base-
hall tifA.M
wouia justify. On the con
trarv. Tint a rar h J
j ca, yuuaes mat one or
more or the clubs even in the AA
ciassincation docs not have to seek
jiuanciai assistance.
"TM- . .. .
uonuuion was unqucstion
aiy brought about to a large extent
y arm rule which permitted the
-jur leagues to arbitrarily take
om eacn Minor League Club at th
Grid nf '
Bcasun one or more of
layers ae stated prices for ecah
Viucaiioii. From each AA club
iur insiance one player could be
ui-xiea at a price of only $2,500 and
this in spite of the fact that the
Player's services, if 80ld in the open
market, would bring not less than
17,500 and possibly as high as J15,-
revival at Sawyer's Creek this week
THE "WORLD" AND THE NEGRO
1UXD CONCERT TONIGHT
Tho band will give a concert to-
NOT INTERFERE
WITH HUNGARY
ZlT:z?J,7TLb!. CALMEST NIGHT
uio mai ir.e r'n-itcl In K., ' '
Premier Clemens ia. tu
- wvnua llliO numcu IU KUO
ian Military Mission at Budapest
, (By Associated Press)
Copenhagen, Aug. 4. Premier
Clemenceau. President of the Peace Qlt0riai Ln
Conference. rniin . ....... I edltor,al dealfnS
of the colored laity and clerirv for
this particular edition of the WnrM
It was all on account of a certain
with the race con-
a wireless flPt ln Wuo.i .. . ..
, ... "u.ii6iuu, me nign lights
Conference, replying to
message irom tbe Italian Military .
Mission at Budapest, declared that .'7-.
the Supreme Council of the Peace 1 .
Conference does not tntn 1 "clcrr,ng to conditions
fnrn with .. . 1 " aecia
vc luvciuauuuai DOI1CV Of 1.1 1.
Ik. it. . " uioca
V . UUIltlK,
in the following ex-
in the
In an endeavor to lessen tbe bur
den of this unfair rule, the majors
leaeue. hniri in m. v
1 urn uy, on
me iota day of January, 1919, re
iuesiea a revision upward of the
orart prices placing that for an AA
nayer at ?7,500. This request Mr
Herrmann, acting for the major
-issues, at once denied, and stated
mat under no consideration would
the Major Leagues or National Com
mission consent to any change in the
National Agreement, i He said, how
ever, that if the Minor League Clubs
wished to do so they bad the consent
of the Major Leagues to withdraw
from the -National Agreement and
operate alone. This offer tho Minor
League at once accepted.
"The National Association on th
following day drew up a tentative
rorm of agreement embodying the
rrangements made at the Joint
meeting and appointed a committee
of six with Mr. A. R. Tearney. of
cnicago, President of the Western
o-", uu me 1. i. 1. league as
chairman, to complete negotiations
on behalf of the Minors.
"The tentative agreement was sub
mitted to tbe Commission hut was
never signed by them. Since the
meeting. Mr. Tearney has, on behalf
3 our committee, made every possi
MHe effort to arrange a conference
" pth the commission for the purpose
9 jlf perfecting the formal agreement
l JUt thn rnmmliiilnii i i
y ""miui( uas 1101 ueen
cce88ible.
s "On the 30th day of March, 1919,
the Minor League Committee met in
Chicago and passed a resolution ex
pressing its willingness to meet the !
man is to condemn h.'m to tnr.
RUMANIANS ENTER BUDAPEST i.u atB' and reseitment on
Paris. Aug. 4. Rumanian troops V C eia t0 Just,fy
entered the suburbs of Budapest yes- '-TT comPlaccntly dig-
"men nace Kiot Cases will
Be Tried
(By Associated Press)
Chicago, Aug. 4. After tile calm-
jest night in the Black Belt for
Oft I tr Mho! .
"v'"vl",s i grana jury before which
win come the cases of white men and
ut-erues who are accused of partlcl-
lift Finn n tk. . . -
r . 1.. mo rm-e riots wnich caused
me death of thirteen whites and
twenty negroes and injury to nun
dreds.
fin Ti.lv octu t
vmj iiim, 1 ransnpifoH . ... iu-
assisted by his singer. II. R. R,,nM Ington for a codv of ti,n v . UrS Dy negro robbe operating by niBllt at the Pasquotank Bathing Ro-
l?Td- -ch W !' Jly."rd, but found n'o Z8t 2"". f 1
v .ou aua 8M& n. m.. and thn :pi. nnany in the filn nt fK ,u . "vv"'tuiei ana two or
nKii. 1- ' . morn mnrHn . ...
'"""c 18 coraiany invited. mry or congress. The news man
me union Station told me that
demands of the
quickly exhausted
nosrro hnvin , .
. o "uuurea ex- n-io L . . .
tra copies. A negro nre.irhp, . a". sl lnal looh3 at all hopeful ,. .
told him he was ,!,. " lirom tne P"ce point of view .mri I orK "egun loday of Select
U. " . 0 U3D 11 aa one of the f.ivrti u , ... nix C. 1 1...... ,
I ms Sunday morning ser- a i , omciaiiy 1 0 jury oerorc
mon, and wanted to kn .u. tne extenuation of noli
T I . .... . I . uuuui IIIO i,nnrvt.,..
"epiy to Wireless From Ital- c nances of supplying the resulting 1 "'sau.sed negro crime
demands of his congregation , Protection. At last
It may interest the readers of thi, I, ? Waa a con'ParativeIy mild out-
paper to learn the re.-isnn tr.r fi, u
,miUaieiy, and straieht-
way the neero mnh 0 " "'" 'or more
armed band. , ZT " "y ! "?n . .a week' the k n of
-h.uuj Dc:i:eu auto-
mobiles and ripped and snort,..i
ahot and killed through the streets
of Washington, while the raping and
the robbing went merrily on and
B0U' or the New York WnrM
e fiiio ik j.,, . . .. "
res that "to accuse s' 7 gnt ttiat " '"owise
u""eu "y ny thought of pity f.r
white women outraged and beaten
mm insensibility by negro brutes, of
peaceful merchants robbed ami killed
v..cl. ViaKva ot Dusiiioss, of a whole
city terrorized by roving bands of
armed negro criminals.
And the negro preachers will
preach the World editorial, the i.egro
terdav. aecorrtin,, . ,",ucu us rce wars.
o umuaicu r- .r, ..
ceived here from Vienna. "epioraoie as all this lawlessness
SOVIET NEWSPAI'ERS J response of the
SUPPRESSED L man t0 th0 whl,e "an was
Snvit nwCn . . !Dound to come sometime
ul tJUUanest v . . . nriEoi, ..in 1 ...
have been suppressed, according to ' Z a.? taking part ,n th ' e J.n :P"'"'oa.I
a dispatch from the Hungarian can ' , 11 are assaulted or;" " as the gos-
ital. S "unamu caP- .shot, they are assaulting and shoot- 1 C a new racial or'- and negro
The city is reported calm ing " return- , crIn""aI bent here, there
BELA KUN GRANTED RFFI PP "Wh ,9 fool,sh eno&h to assume a"d ev"y where will bo inflamed to
Vienna. An, 4 111 " Sf!1 that wit" 239,000 colored men l rb. a"d re 'rdor.
his assistants have been granted an iU,n,frm frm U, So,Uhern K L ! 1 'I AmlcA ,Uat negroes
asylum by Austria to avoid distur- ' m 370,000 Wh'te n,en 4n the s '.ih , Cr"e' W,'ng
bancee and bloodshed at Budapest. h, "ack whose "ooa and Pa-Couh; pvSo0rUthh-nobody but a '00I
.triotism wore thus recoenizod nnrt i ould ever havo supposed that the
PRESIDENT BACK
FROM POTl'C TRIP
TROOPS QUELL
RIOTING MOBS
Cruiser Valiant And Two De
stroyers Moved Into River to
Protect Docks at Liverpool
(By Associated Praul
Liverpool. Aug. 4. Pioting crowds
were driven from the streets this
morning by troops charging with
itxed bayonets. ,,
The rioters filled thn
, - - -i.ouia uur-
'ng the night and it WAS nnl ntll
daybreak that the soldiers wera rt,.
orders to charge.
The cruiser, Valiant .and two de
stroyers moved into the river to pro
tect tho ocks.
STRIKE ENTERS
FOURTH DAY
Invol
(By Associated Press)
Washington, Aug. 4. Present
rn
1 cm men to Warhlngton tliia
inoining from a weekend trip down
the Potomac on the Mayflower. .
It is understood that the rresl.lpnt
Is devoting his attention to the h!Hi
cost of living problems.
ves Two Hundred An4
Fifty Thousand Railway men
And Will Spread Over The
Country It Is Declared '
National Agreement, but "stating that ,0reVCr t0 be neA- d.Ju8tonl8 couId be completely
these leagues would respec ,er bUrDed at tho Btake or ef" f Wlthout s,lfh- "at millions
vations, contracts and territory of 1 d ,nt concealment whenever Afrans could be translated from
.. . u lerruory or ,r011oc,!0 j a condition nf oio... . .
the Majors and fulfill all agreements lCauCas!an deBPeradoes are moved to
made at the New York mt.n ,cneage in these infamous pastimes?
copy of this resolution was sent to the 1 W gr'eVe Ver the liardshiPa of
. . many subject neoDles a ion? mtqv r.rr
u.v.mucia ul iub commission . .j , 0 '
and to every Major League Club , uU81n manifest something
owner. illke '"dignation, but ln all the world
a condition of slavery to full civic
equality with
COBLENZTOBE
HEADQUARTERS
(By Ankoc luted Prom)
Chicago, Aug. 4. The ntHi,- l
Federatod Railway Shonmen nt
Us fourth day today and had alrnnV
involved approximately 250,000 men
It will soon spread to evcrv r.ocrlnn
i'f the couutry local officials of th
union declare, unless the demands are
speedily met.
the dominant men
without friction hurtful to both sides
but when the World says that "ln
all the world there is hardly a popu
lation so God-forsaken and law-for-
"Mr. Tearney has received a letter th6re hard,y a PPulatl God- 8aken 38 our own b" it states knwn todfly whpn General Per8hing transmitted to Congress by Secretary
from President Heydler stating that lew-forsaken as our . , ,a "'"""rousiy raise and what!"' , cu Bn nnal tour of battle- IaKHr ly-
at a meeting of the National Leaeue " Whether it is agreeable , uu Piausioie grounds for be-"""- I '"ouon hy seniority would be
. . Hanuum league n . IllOV tn hn r,.o 1. . Antwern In t K .1... , . . hhnllulu.l . MO
- ... u ,,, e,vt.s currency 1 r " " ";se port or "ar uving shown the sys-
(By Associated Pre)
Coblenz. Aug. 4. Coblenz will be
come headquarters of the American
forces in Europe when the American
grand headquarters at Paris are
Closer) Ihniil A on.. .. .
nusu,i ijin, u oecanie
PLANS SUBMITTED
FOR PEACE ARMY
(By Associated Press) 1
Washington. Aug. 4. Plans for a
permanent peace time army of HO'
000 officers and men and a, system '.
of universal military ininin. . .
, . ---......,B ncio
Whether it is agreeable
Club owners "It was unanlmonslv . ' tllereroro- h Washington
resolved not to enter Into nv tn,. "ulule'1K a warning to all Ameri
mai agreement
Leagues, unless
with the Minor
the right of the
Major Leagues to draft players was 1
cans that their race wars hereafter
are going to be race wars."
From first to last there runs thru
included x x x." r article a note of intense exulta
nt, therefore, annonr. , .u. tlon over lhe fact that the negroes
f -rrv"'u l u a 1, ma ,
National League, at least, has gone ir T C Vltor8 ,n tne BattI of
on record as statin that h I "-" mai mey naa inflicted
ment made with the Minors in Janu-' , r fUr tlmes as many casual-
ties as they had suffered.
, 4 yapei, uuu mere is 1 , . 1
a clear Intimation that the Majors ' that we may the better
eipect to again draft Minor League v uu iae 8,sn,ncance of the
Players. If this is the case, we feel I .or,d rt,cle' ,et ug et the setting
that the cards had lut ..11 k- 01 tUa bttle which, though its cas-
" w w 1.
laid on the table and a frank state- not large tlkiM wrltw
ment be made of our position. as marKing tbe begianlng
"In asklnir for coneiAn. t... lof a new ora 'n the relationshins of
.BU- . .
uary. the Minor Leagues asked only,:" ue "na co,oreJ 'ace ln the
tn n 1 In it
..o wim-n, in association with
other evil Implications of th r.i,i
in Question is pregnant of Illimitable
mischief.
the American contingent which i.i to.,em to bo defective
remain on the Rhine Indefinitely.
General Pershing intend to sail
from Brest about September 1st.
BUYING MILLINERY
NOT WAGE WAR
ON TOBACCO
Missc
lor something which would permit
them to live. Their number had
dwindled from 41 to in 114 to 8,
showing that the margin of profit
was so small that after a few years
of poor business four-fifths of them
United States.
Lincoln's Proclamation of fcmanci-
pation was fully effective in Wash-
ington from the date of its promnlga-
non, and it is known of all men that
from that dav now mnvo
ZtZ1 tl e?tenCe- t nUmb6r f yea" 60ne' t0 the Prc8et outbreak
clubs in the Leagues then existing the laree an r..nM,.,- 1.
were without h.lnr, a . . 7 . . ""S
. ... " " ui V U I U III-
the others were heavily in debt. The bia ha. enlov . f .
point had been reached where It was civic rights with the white race-lno
no longer possible to interest capital theoretical only; but in HterarTact
and some real change had to be 'tup hn. hon" LJ . " .
brought about, or the Minor League segregatio abu
willingness to meet the ! organization would be a thing of the right and Drivllee h. hoJT,.
Commission at any time and place past. and privilege has been frankly
to conclude the arrangement. This
resolution was sent to the members
of the Commission and the various
Major League Club owners. This
action on the part of our Committee
was as ineffective to bring about a
meeting as had been all previous ef
forts. Mr. Tearney then made num
erous calls in person at Mr. John
son's office in Chicago but always
found Mm r,if ' t i . '
recognized and Hrnrnuoli, n j
I "For sentimental reasons many of For exactly tbree-founhr o the 5S
tn w 1 iaVOr ai880lv,n8.yoar period tho Republican party
the National Agreement but preferred the polltlcal guardIa flnd
an equitable change instead. Hdw-'the colored race hag
ever, our plan as already mentioned tlve control of the government
1 .SJSS- ere has been no alfegatZra't tne
uT7 .1 u ulSBU,UUUtt' Ovil rights of Washington
As a rulo, tho negroes of the South
aro prosperous, contented and sin
cerely attached to their white neigh
borsnot one in a hundred has bvop
had tho thought of being wronged.
To poison these relationships, to
arm negro agitators in and
the pulpit with propaganda of hate w .B A,,mcaUa p)
and strife, to Incite negroes to appeal Lh , B ' AUg" 4 Wflyne B
to arms for the redress of their I ler' counseI fr the Anti-Saloon
wrongs, real or fancied all which !or,An,or,ca' took Issue today with the
this World editorial does Is to in- fu T ' "U Ro0t' W,11,am D-
cur moral resnonslhiiitr .ana wiinam L. Marburr.
riot and bloodshed world without T6' fr the Un,ted 8t4t" Brtw-1
ena. . mai tne oroDOsed well Memorial mi.. .
no friend of the negro race rnsTu!lonrf0rCement " M' l?" meet t0nlght ,a tha nn ' the
tters lt wlth cunnJng 8UWgt. 0.-BtituUonal church, al, member, are rented to
nonors and benefits to h '. . . "' """sue iorces ,uc present.
es Almeda Carr and ,.!.
Spence left Sunday for northern
markets to buy millinery for the L
P. Gilbert Millinery Company.
1-
AT NORTHERN MARKETS
Mrs. Jennie Prlchard is buying
millinery in the northern markets for
Prlchard Millinery Company.
MEETS TONIGHT
The Euzelian Circle of the Black-
in race war. Thn WnM ...
better advise the negroes to co-on- "mpa,n-
waie wnn tbeir white neighbors In 1
to start an anti-tobacco
I
stamping out negro crimes aealn.t fWP AD f A I17T 171.
white womanhood, the chief cause of
racial conflict; but trifles of that sort
seem never to have Interested the
World.
The Negro cannot promise himself
GRASSHOPPERS AFTER krtV
1 RICA h
MAY RECOVER
permanent gain through armed con- "usly Burned Yes terdav in
flict with tho stronger race. When-' fre FoIIowine Bomb F.nl.
Avr.M . . 1 . r
., .yiiiv,uiauiy 10 vvoria suggest
ion, it becomes a matter of race
policy for negroes to kill white mon
in defense of negro raptlsts, the negro
race will be in serious danger of ex
termination. '
ion That Wrecked Home
(By Associated Prcg)
The soy bean crop of this county
is reported hard hit by grasshoppers.
PAINFULLY INJURED
Capt. J. H. Gard was nainfiill in
jured Saturday morning at two
o'clock when the steering wheel
flipped out and struck him across
the wrist.
are
was agreed to.
"The lifting of tho draft moans an
Los Angeles, Aug. 4. Oscar Law- I
1... ..... !
It is a rankly new Hn,H,( . ' " 'urmer a8fiant United States '
3 working out here in America Z V" 0enera1' wh
weenena with Mm t t
which Wynn. . ' "
LIVE LOCALS
Mrs. Sara'i Cooper and grandch'l-
America.the Zl Wb0 wa8 ""'ously dren, Mary and Bmh
lit ' Ulll IIHII VUD mm n tr 1m IL. a m . uvuuuau
which thpv thomeoivo ,,.0.f . . " roes living together on the H.-im an . . .u iue nre iouow- spent thA l. .
j .uuu.uv..uu "ltvnsu HIltTArori linfa rl.,i I ..... ui
- . . icioiduu
found him "out." it thnn k..- . , Washington as the "Negro Heaven"
Perfectly apparent that the Commis-, possibly $100,000 to each one of the ?Ji as a nilro ir Si"
slon had no Intention of meetinr class AA ten erne Ttnrlnr tha old nr. ...... uouuvbb
, 0 . . " nimaoir
or Wilson, two nttoriv iD.lmii. . . ,nB the bomb exnloslon
It has been customary to speak of .by law eaual civil n.ht. rC!". . wrccked hls h a chance of
----- n u a'iiCiiii- .
Since about thn mMHio Ar t
which would Washington has suffered more from
than
with us, nor of. formally embodying rangement there isn't a club with the
in writing tbe oral arr.i.igement , International Leaeue
made at the meeting in N'eur Vnrir nni i. k.. j j . .
" -"- " - " - w . ... hv IVOV VS UDBL UlQtri H 11 II II 1 1 II Ml- . i . ...
'In fact, Mr. Herrmann had alreadr fh nth., a a io-..n- .u. ueBro c"m,na"ty than any other
written Mr. Tearney. that the National same nosition. That we are not going Z BlZ lZ7TtZ
Commission wa. not authorized by to lose the fruits of the rnngL-
the Major Leagues to act In this made last winter, simply because the dozeraPe" t-
capacity. ' Maior. now tin . "1UJUCU vea Bome 01 "em accom-
Majors. now find the made a bad ni Juh V v ,. v . 0m"
bargain, roe. witho J .Av,. Th. pan,ed wUh- Wyable brutality;
ship, peace between tho races. Is an Z"V,!0rdlng l physiclan8 th!3 ! Miss Ora BuTge" of Baltlmc
Indispensable condition of the success V 8061,18 certaI" that daughter of George Bnr.
ore.
success f ..,. z.u . " uK'er oi ueorge Burgess, who ...
experiment. Hostility and l-' wa" a180 burnod- wil1 formerly of this cltv. but i, . 'Z!
strife can only lead to tho ultimate ,eral manager of the Baltimore Bar.
of the
destruction of one race or the other
Lr. mept. .the characteristic
race wouia go down.
gain House, Is in the cltv vUt.inir
Mrs. C. C. Thnmnann nn on..i..-
mallfnllv of tho xrniA . .
v. ...v, . . ui iii avtiniiA
Innirit II.. ..Hi . .. I """"3.
Frankly. I susnect an ,,i,Cr. r""" ",ulB feoP,e 01 lna Buth. ,
tlve for the World's outbreak of ho-. ...fu ! !!" C.aBe " may rla- Duke" Cronsev. Oor n..
tllltv aealnst th fi v." " iUO I'alIU, "covery that after Km.. . ...
( uu jonnnio uuiiklns
"Mr. Tnarnav t)ian -
ing of our Committee In Chicago, for STtUtId'Sl i" 'UfflCe t0 check theso "
the loth day of July, l.lf, at which Uuancr In .ajing that Tn read 'D the 'ame pftpeP of
meetlnr a reiolnfion ... no nOTliancJr a "ring that In iplte murder of noiici a
. . - w v eauu uiinrniHn
rlngth. Minor Leagues, T virtu. X of -till more cruel wrong"
la. arrangement already made la t0 M ont ,: ,nnA taTtr" , " 10 woman, all at the hands
Hw York, no longer bound by the hwt" : e0B" 4fwio on the same day.
: ' . : . ' 9 . , -. . - Nop wm rapeh. Inly crime. Hold-
tillty against the Southern white.
The World holds the South
66 years of equal rights and equal
,u noia, me south respon.1- pr,TlleMs fullv realised ,h7Z "V?.' "penl th weekend at the Albemarle
oi ior national prohibition, and in found with hi. ...iZ I. 6 "Cottage at Nags Head
found with his passion of rape un
it, passion for the liberty f mv ,7 . w"u 1,18
is a. ready to hit . w.th "Z " "Tea ana ft new "Pt of belli.
It 1.
Marlon Seyffert returned Sunday,
weapon i. -a .u.
... - .1 - iu itai u iuo wnira mia
- iuuuer. antecedent, would i- i . " " ""iucu ounaay.
indicate that It 1. rather more .oiimt. I., " v- ..." 1 am "P0ed to a two week's atay at Nags Head.
bu. forth, drinklnt: nrlv Z, L?"7 "V"". 01 Washington
Northern whites than for the ranlna ZZ. . . " m lW 1wora
rf.n.M o !. J.V.. . Pnient of one right and ona anil
r..,...). vt Bvuuisru piuu. foi h tn ii ' ""ia reiurnea
Miss Once Esnderlin returned