North Carolina Newspapers

Jhi Review Covers 'Rockingham Like The Morning Dew And Surrounding Counties Like Sunshine On A Clear Day LEIGH MEW VOL. XXXIII. NO. 47. REID3VILLE, N. C TUESDAY, AUGU8T 17TH, 1920... IMUCO TUESDAY AND PRISA? : Ml .1 iiJliLf 1 1 It f f ) 1 Js 7 ' J X A 4 1 1 4 THE CAPTURE OF WARSAW BY 1 THE RUSSIANS HOURLY EPECTED POLAND SAYS SHE WILL NOT AGREE TO OKI An Associated Press, dispatch from Warsaw says: Poland earnest ly delres peace but could not ac cept armistice terms Involving dis armament In any form. Prince Ku- itached a Doint less than jo miles from the capital. Military opinion in Paris does not visualize howl any counter clfcnsive operations are possible in the Warsaw region now, except i-.i the event, which is considered most improbable, of the Poles hav ing been able, next-withstanding the advance of the red cavalry to ward Thorn, to keep or to send Northward fqrees capable of ma revering on the right flank pf the red column which is operating Southward along! (the Narew river. In the region east of Cholm, 40 miles east of Lublin, the Poles lnAe through ithe enemy, line at IgnatowV and pursued the bolsheviki to the right bank of the Bug, according to an official statement on the fighting Just issued. The - Poles occupied Dorohusk and Swiee-Rubie5zewl ,'...'': . . . ' , Polish cavalry, strengthened by infantry detachments, is fight ing in the r.egion of Radzichowl and Chatojow, west of the Styr river, with General Budenny s bolshevik cavalry, which outnumbers the Poles, the statement says. The Polish front command for the purpose of shortening the lic of defense, fcis ordered a retreat to the Bug river and in so do Itig the Poles have again evacuated Brody on the Southern wing, the statement declares, all attaclcs along the btnpa were repulsed by the Poles. - - . j s.i ':. c'- :, '.- ; Saturday was one of the most strenuous days in Warsaw's his to-. - ' ,; ' ..".. ' V v ' " j i : .The government, besides completing preparations for the capi tal s defense, had the task of getting the Polish peace delegates, who will meet representatives of the Bolsheviki, started for Minsk, where I the conference will be held. : 1 ' ' , f It also continued removal of valuable records. Soon after midnight artillery firing to the North was distinctly j heard in the city and military observers' said it was in the regiqn of Radzymin., -V' : vy:f ' - r, . Wounded from the irprit now are being brought to Praga, the sectioa of Warsaw lying .on the left bank of Vistula, in carts and automobiles.1 , ; ' ' At Praga, the wounded are transferred to street cars with twto or three trailers which haul thenrthrough Waay onj the way to hospitals in' the real. i ; ,'. . c,f-:;jS'..' 'X -:'.''.... Representatives jpf . the American missions at a meeting . last might decided to remain ia Warsaw until the government gives the Word to evacuate. V - - , . . , - Meanwhile all the preparations arejbebff made to leave the city ' at a moments notice.', ' -, - ; - - .... Warsaw is still holding out as far as is known, but the battle iimW the- walls of the citv is increasing in violence. From - 0 1 .. . lt-i 1 A I "inanieni in may luriu, rruica au- the vague and scant news reaching here the Poles are making a gooa gen6 gapa, the minister of for. fifrht but seeminfflv all thev can nope ior is 10 uciay uic muu cin ui, i mo rorrnr of the city's fall. , The reds are continuing to advance, and have . Trt coint to capitulate," said the foreign minister. We will fight to the last man rather than that. There la no question of dis armament. If we are disarmed with the sorlet troops 40 miles , from Warsaw It would be like throwing up our hands." . Terms Are Severe. A plebiscite to determine, the fu ture of - Russian Poland is . one of the peace term drawn upby the bol sheviki. coincident with the first proposal of an armistice by the" Polish goyecftment. The right of rnu restricted propaganda tn this terri tory during the year which would in tervene before the plebiscite also would be demanded. These and other terms of peace which are bettered to hare been formulated for submission , at the first meeting between the soviet and Polish emissaries, were received at Washington In official clicles: While not regarded as final, because of the events favorable to the bolshevik cause since their formulation, . the terms are accepted in Washington a tlluatratiya of -the. Intention of the tnradenti to impose peace conditions of a drantic nature. ' i : The other terms, as received " al Washington, include the right of the eoriet government to unrestrictr ed transmission of all code toe I sages across Poland .between Ru of all ealt and coal mines In Poland for operation by the aoriet govern ment, and the right of unrestricted trarel for an soviet nationals across the Polish frontiers without jtbe Polish vise on passports. - , DBA 0 QRICAII Ii ! MAY PAY THE BIG I WORK OF THE NORTH TURE CAROLINA LE6ISLA FREIiCH 0 ERE E;?msei;;yoLrawiiTED AL'D KEGHO Oil MADE PUBLIC AT LEXIIISTOII Suit for $100,000 damages has been filed in Superior court at Lex .' lngton against R. Baxter HcRaryv a mulatto with large holdings there and elsewhere, who for years . has posed as a moral uplifter of his race and who has been for a num ber of years grand master of the negro Masonic grand lodge. - The ground of complaint is that McRary deliberately sought to and succeeded in wrecking the domestic life of H. B. Varner, the plaintiff, by Invadln" Mr.- Varner's home during his ab sence. Attachment has been run against all tangible and intangible holdings of the negro that can be 'discovered. While Mr. Varner was In JJev York Monday night as one of a com mittee of nine representing the mo tion picture exhibitors of the nation In an Important conference with large motion picture 'producers, Mc Rary was taken from underneath the floor of the Varner home be tween 12:30 and 1 o'clock Tuesday morning. Being Informed that McRary had 'entered his home by stealth on pre-j vlous occasions while the hueband was away, a number of citizens set a watch and saw McRary near the premises about 10 o'clock. Guards were placed around the lot and a search made of the house, with no body being found. Some of the clti sens remained and continued the search, a spotlight locating McRary, who had evidently entered the base ment upon hearing the -first alarm, crawled out of the basement and made bis way under the floor to , ward the front of the house. The miscreant was taken from his aiding place and gladly took advan tage of an opportunity to spend the night in Jail. Most of those who knew of the original search had gone home and but a few were pre sent when McRary was found. Early Tuesday morning prominent citlsens held a hurried conference , and delegated Mayor J. T. Hedrick to bear the mulatto the message that If he valued his personal safety he had better leave town without de lay, and further that If he ever re turned It would be at his peni Where be has gone is not definitely "known, but H is believed he is now a long distance from Lexington. Mr. Varner was requested to re in rm immediately from New York and upon arrival was acquainted b- nls friends with the situation of which he was wholly unaware. Up on arrival he went to a hotel n1 conducted a searching investigation. I)llowlnr this he remained at the hotel until after his wife had left "Thursday evening to Join her moth er. Suit for absolute divorce has been "brnn bv Mr. Varner. It will be al leged In the complaint that on the oocaslons -while Mr. Varner.' was away from home at nights his wife's companion wai a negro woman ser vant about 65 years old and rather hard of hearing. It will also be al- leged that this servant's room was upstairs and that she was accustom ed to retire early and usually slept soundly. Nothing that has occurred in Lex ington and Davidson county has so stirred the people as this. Crushed by the deplorable occurrrence that has suddenly torn his home of about 20 years asunder, he has stated to friends that he will continued to de vote his time to his newspaper and business interests at Lexington as well as to bis duties as chairman ot the State prison board and in va rious official capacities in connec tion with the motion picture exhib iting Industry. VILLA HAD PLANNED TO FIGHT PERSHING NEWS IN BRIEF FORM " 3INCE OUR LAST ISSUE The Wildcat veterans will gather" In reunion at -Columbia, S. C, Sep tember 22V '''rrkri vi; v The Tennessee Senate, by a vote of 25 to 4, adopted the resolution providing for ratifii-attM Mbe ma amendment . The real fight will -be in, the Housev :.r-'.-,;.!..;.:'. v, ,t,Nlna pen were tue .,wa jwo seriously JuJured SYiday, when aTpre mature .. powder blast occurred at the Pounding Mill limestone crush' er, 'near Tazewell, ya ' " Rev. Dr. J.E. Hicks lias resign en the pastorate of the Frst Baptut church at Danville to .accept the call extended him by the First Bap tist church at Baltimore. Authority to , increase express rates 12 1-2 per cent has been granted the American Railway Ex press Co. by the Interstate Lorn merce Commission. The annual in crease in income will be about 135, 500,000. Oakey Nelson Young, 18: Floyd Adams, 13, and Jap Sigman, 12, were killed by lightning in front of barn a mile and a half South An from says: hif his safe the into Associated Press dispatch San Pedro, Cohoula, Mexico, Francisco Villa, surrendered bandit of Northern Mexico, was in a talkative mood today. Choosing the veranda of the ranch house of Madero El Cuatro, near here, at the conclusion of a dinner where he and his more prominen bandit aids were the conspicuous guests, the ex-chieftain occupied more than an hour in which he elaborated on the policies he. now deems expedient for himself and associates to pursue, and held hearers intent with tales of maneuvers which kept him from capture at the hands ot Pershing punitive expedition Mexico in 1918. He took occasion also during t day to further reaffirm his concern of Mexico first by refusing Inter views with American news pan correspondents and poses for American motion picture photogra phers, declaring that he knew much "money would be made from the in terviews and films' and preferred that his countrymen of such pur suits might be the first to take ad vantage of his latest notoriety, the profits realized thereby remaining in my country." Villa once more confirmed reports that he was wounded when pursued by the expedition headed by General Pershing. He declared, however, that his wound came during a fight with Carranzlfitas within five days after the Pershing expedition enter ed Mexico and that his leg also was broken in three places. Ilia wound and sufferings cm to him tn the midst of Ms effort to organize a great band of followers v aKack the Americans. of Danville Sunday afteTOoa. The .bovs had taken shelter undor a shed Three others who went into tne barn were severely shocked by the urn bolt. One of the latter trio recovered sufficiently to crawl to neighboring dwelling and report the tragedy, Croo reports Indicate somewhat lower prices for foodstuffs, accord inr to the monthly bulletin of the United States Chamber of Com merce committee on statistics and standards. Just made public. Slack "ss in textiles, seme leather ducts and metal lines, however, are classed as indications of "more waiting and readjustment period in a moderate way than the prelude to any marked change. Less than 1 per cent of more than 24.000.000 men who registered un der the selective service act during the war have been found chargeable with wilful desertion, according to an announcement Just made by the war department. The actual figure is 173,911, against whom desertion charges have been recorded, and this represents, the statement says, "a tremendous improvement over the draft record of the Civil War. The deserters' names are soon to be nublished. Twenty-five human skeletons have been found 14 miles South or uor em Chri8tl. Tex., by two local con tractors. Indications point to the fact that they had been covered by earth for many years and it is thought that the storm of September last brought them to view. Tne teeth of all Indicated men of about 30 years of age, and old timers re call the sinking of a Spanish treas ure ship in the early forties near the place and suggest that this is the crew. No articles of identifica tion have been found. 'New Counterfeit Industry. A new counterfeiting "industry'' has followed In the wake of prohibi tion. Chief Moran, of the Treasury Secret Service, says: "This Industry is the counterfeiting of the trip la bel revenue stamp ' that goes over the corks of .whiskey bottled In the corks of whiske bottled In bond Those engaged In the manu facture of whiskey are prepared to use these stamps." Three gangs bare already been arrested for ma king the stamps! f - (New York World.) ; There were reports in Wall 'Street yesterday that arrange ments have been practically completed in France by which the French portion of the Anglo-French loan will be paid at Maturity and that a substantial part of the funds to meet this obligation will be supplied by American tobacco interests. 1 Thomas F. Ryan . sailed for Paris last month to conduct ne gotiations for purchase of the French tobacco concessions, and a tew days after his arrival in -France he cabled to George J. Whelan, his associate In the ; Ryan-Duke-Whelan syndicate, to 'Join him at once. Mr. Wbelan has been in France . for two J weeks, and the story was abroad in Wall Street yester t day that the tobacco monopoly t has been leased, or sold, to the American syndicate. This arn idicate will form a French com ' . pany, which will be nominally "ander French management, al though the capital will be sup . -? plied, by American banks. "' -; 1 . '" fONZI SURRENDERS VXQ FEDE2AL.0FFIC2R3 Some ' 40,000 Investors ""entrusted a total variously estimated at from 115,000,000 to $20,000,000. to Charles Ponsi' In a motteymaklng scheme which ipostal officials declared to be absolutey impossible of fulfillment. A special from Boston says: ft Pons! surrendered to the federal apthoTltles this afternoon, explain ing that he was unable to meet his Obligations because of the closing ybsterday of the Hanover Trust Co., where the bulk of bis .funds were deposited. He was arrested charged with bving used the malls to de fraud, arraigned and held in bond of 125,000 for a hearing August 19th. Morris Rudnlck, a real estate dealer Of the Roxbury district, furnished tjie sureties, Meantime a warrant dharging the Italian with ' larceny lad been obtained by the State -ponce in the municipal court and upon leaving the federal! 'building Pons! was rearrested and held by the city fpurt in $10,000 ball 4or appearance August 21. Rudnlck asam went ea Pond's -bon$ and the latter "wan released.- ; ". ;.-.v 's''' Developments followed thick and fast today: As Ponxl was being ar raigned before. U. '8. Commissioner Hayes. Edwin L. Pride, who is ex amining the books of the Securities Company for the federal authorities, announced that it had already been shown that Ponzi owed $7,000,000. State Attorney General Allen, who is conducting a separate investiga. tlon. made known his opinion that Ponzi's liabilities would run into the millions, State Bank Examiner Allen issue 1 a statement declaring that the cap ital of the Hanover Trust Company, of which Ponil was until yesterday a director, was seriously impaired and probably wiped out. Ponzi's field appears to have in cluded New England and New Jer sey. . add ponzi A later special from Boston says: Four men who have accepted mil lions Of dollars from Ney England investors in the last few months on promises of payment of fabulous interests were behind the bars to night. Charles Ponzi, whose speo tacular,sensatlonal financial dealings made known his name the count over, was surrendered today by the man who furnished $35,000 bonds for his release after his arrest by the federal authorities yesterday. Una ble to find another bondsman Ponzi was taken to the county jail at East Cambridge. Three officers of the Old Colony Foreign Exchange Company were arrested, taken into the municipal court and held in $50,000 bonds. DRAPER MAN IS suur FOR FALSE ARREST John Plasters, of Draper, has filed Dan- Five of the legislators who slimd ' th V . .. . ... . . uuum, MiBirucuons leiung in me United Stale court at I An nana baa Iiaw a A i 1 j a. " . uumut uuugn- vme a suit ror dam-izes against ir., rth. CaroUn- t0 b8h. re the Bank of Stuart. Joseph Joyce, fK UP - l.h! 8trlctest compact its cashier, Edward V. Mfty. sheriff with the suffragists to vote for the, of Patrick county, and Flem Roas. suffrage amendment when It comes the town sergeant. The sum ot 8P' k se..C?uld .b8 as,,y 20'000 asked for fabe arrest, mented by a Httle missionary work. The declaration sets forth a .trance Nobody knows what the suffrage, tale In which it is alleged that u. - . " I na Joyce tuned Flusters at Favorable Report On Ratlflostlori. , his home in Draper and. without a Twenty minites after Governor warrant, took charge of him and rs Bickett had appeared before the moved him by force to the Virginia Joint session and laid ratification line where he vai reno'cd to Stuart heavily on the General Assembly's and was placed ip Jail there. Plas heart, the Senate committee report-i ters was indicted and after aivin mo owi renyiuuun ot. raunca-1 oono, ne was presented with a ticket tlon by 7 to 1 In favor of going over , to his home by the Virginia authorl- me top, as - tncaeu expressed it, and there was something in both houses over which to fight The personal appearance of Gov ernor Bickett brought to the floor3 and galleries one of the greatest crowds of recent years. 8uffraglsts and the antls were there in force. The . Bickett speech was manifest ly no child of conviction. He did not pretend, that he likes petticoated politics or she-Senators. He ad mitted that he did not - care for either. But. Bickett invited the an tie to come and see him swallow the disagreeable medicine. - The message was the current topic of conversation by legislators and other public men and women follow ing its delivery. There were both complimentary and uncomplimentary preference to it. Friends of rati 11 ca tion thought It was a strong message and that the Executive's present tlon of reasons why it should not be put over as well as those why it should added to Its force, while an tis claimed for this reason It was a weak - message. Suffrage leaders claim it made votes, antls bold an adverse opinion. Revaluation ; and Tax Amendments Are passed By the House. Revaluation and the tax amend ments growing out of the process went half the legislative Journey when the House without debate put through on third reading the -whole program of the majority, 78 merabeiM voting for the bill and 24. against. The action of the majority in fighting adoption of the bill, while resented by - the majority, with whom the minority worJted tn per fect agreement a year and a half ago, was not wholly displeasing , at ithato. The .minority j threw Cand nate John J. Parker down ht his proposal to repeal the revaluation act. ' ties. The story as related by Plaster to one of bis attorneys, James M. Sharp, of Reidsvflle, is a very strange one. He charges' that the Virginia officer, accompanied by the cashier of the Stuart bank, came to hi 8 home at Draper, and without the semblance of a warrant, although he denied bis guilt and demanded one to be shown; was taken by force' and carried to the Virginia" line where be was turned over to Sheriff Mays and forced to go to Stuart, where he was placed in Jail and spent four- days. During, the tim he was In Jail the party who it is alleged was guilty of forgfo the check on the hank, was arrest ed and Indicted. Plasters, aeeordinsj to his story, was then given a! re lease and a ticket bnrk home. Upon arrival at Draper. Plasters secured counsel and prosecuted Oflre Da vis and Flannigan. of Draper. who) were parties to the arrest and had placed blm in the Virginia officer' bands r nd they wen lined - Ml tha recorder's court. THE CONSUMER: AilD 1 INCREASED RATES SOME FLAVORS OF TAR, PITCH, TURPENTINE E. C. Duncan, of Raleigh, Is criti cally III at Beaufort. The primary system Is being at tacked severely but It will probably stand. The new census gives Oxford a population of 3,606, a gain over 1910 ef 688. Eugene Holton, of Winston-Salem, denies that he is to retire rom the race for United States Senator on the Republican t'eket. The Southern railway system has prepared a table showing the pre sent and new rates on coal shipped to points this way. The increased rate to Greensboro is only 75 cenU a ton. ' The new census gives Rings Mountain a population of 2,860 ; Shelby, ,609; Bessemer City, 2,176; Cherryville, 1,884.- LowelL 1451; McAdamsville. 1,182; Mount Holly, 1,160; Dunn, 2,805. The census bureau announces the population of the following North Carolina counties: Madison. 20,083 compared with 20,132 in 191fc Gas ton. 51,242, compared with 27$63 1ft years ago: Cleveland, 34,272, com pared with 27,494 10 years ao; Harnett. 28.313. against 22.174 tn 1910;.. Granville. 26,346, against 25,- 102 in 1910. Just what the - increased freight rates which will go Into effect by the first of September mean to the average consumer In the- way of contributing the cost of necessary artlces of clothing and standard food products is shown In some in teresting illustrations made . bv the freight traffic department of the Southern Railway system; The rate on shoes from -Boston to Atlanta in now $1.64 per 100 pounds, making the transportation charge of a pair of shoes which rwith Its shr- of the sacking weighs three pounds approximate Ave. cents. The new rate will be fl!.18 1-2 per 100 pounds, making the transportation charge of the same pair of eboes approximately 6 2-3 cents. Every one knows that the pair of shoes which formerly sold for $7.00 is now, selling around $15.00. Shirts' are shipped from New York to New Orleans by freight for $1.54 per 100 pounds, making the trans portatlon charge on a five ounce shirt about half a cent. The new rate will be $2.05 1-2 .per hundred ponnds. making the charge on the same five ounce shirt about two thirds of one cent The old $1.50 shirt is selling for $3.00 and up. Clothing manufactured .in Chicago can now be shipped to Jacksonville for 11.83 per hundred pounds or less than 11 cents for a suit which with Its share of the packing weighs six pounds. The new rate will be 82.38 1-2 per hundred pounds or about 14 cents on the six pound ready-made which formerly was of fered for $30.00 but now an not be taken home for less than $60.00. Coming to articles of food, the rate on fresh beef from Chicago to Blrmlnrham Is now 82 cents per hundred nounds, less than one cent ner pound. The new rate wfll be si.OA 1-2 per hundred pounds or slightly more than a cent per pound. Beef that formerly sold for twenty cents per pound has been bringing 3. rents. Sugar can now be shipped from New Orleans to Greensboro for 55 cents per 100 pounds or Just about half a cent per pound. The new rate will be 69 cents per hundred pounds, etill less than three-fourth of a cent per pound. And sugar which form erly sold for five cents per poundJ inr bt pew poiw has been selling above thirty centsfyn "higher-upe." r per pound. These illustrations which are of articles and commodities, taken at random, may be considered . as fairly representative of the addition to the transportation cost of articles used in the South which will result from the Increase in rates. Similar illustrations could be made on al most every article used In the house hold, except coal which, being ship ped and sold by the ton. will show a relatively higher transportation coat in proportion to Its value. SMJU21QE hWB SIJO The State Council Jr. O. TJ. A. M, will convsna at New Bern Tuesday night in a publio session.. It will, ba . R. i;eld, of . this county, aad Conn cllor Reld will render an account ot bis year's work. It will be gratify. , ing tc all Juniors, to know the pro gross f the order under bis afiimnjt tag. ;r Last .year' under the ev.a,ftt : administration of Councilor ' KeUum the- order reduced tha Initiation -fee -to $2jD0, and under the impetus ot tne war sentiment- ana wmespreaa -patriotism, ,tfce fraternity -gained 11,000 members'. This year the re action followed, as was propaeeled by many, the patriotic wave died away io a great extern ana me ter rible , Influenza epidemic . prevailed and many councils did not meet for weeks-r-and nearly 400 deaths oc curred in Junior membership during ' the year. ' Notwithstanding all of these above mentioned drawbacks and discouragement the councilor reports that the membership- only . lacks 724 of being what It was when the order adjourned last August at Gastonia. Tn other words, the great gain ot 11.000 has been' beld, lacking 724. notwithstanding withdrawals, deaths and transfers and removals from the State. Councilor Reld also reports that he has traveled thousands of miles. attended numerous councils' meet tags, flag-raisings, picnics, school house dedications, banquets, and district Junior meetings, and all in all, the year in Junior circles has Been a busy year. For the next year Mr. Reld will become Junior Part State Councilor, and Vice Coun cilor D. W. Oobb, of Goldsboro. live, energetic fraternity man, will succeed him. It Is freely predicted that D. Mendenhall, of Greensboro, will be elected "vice-councilor at the comlnf session. The reports disclose that there are 51.485 Juniors - In North Caro lina, and the order Is rapidly in creasing Its membership. It Is al ready the largest secret fraternity M this State. NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS ARE ACTIVE The most determined effort to brenk up moonshlninr In Patrick and FranVl'" ounts. Virginia, ! now In progress. For about two weeks officers from North Carol!' have ben stationed in Patrick' working In siuaHi of i H they have been Joined by 38 Virginia offi cers. S. R. Brrr. 'Wef rvenn ftrmtt, savs that the time has come for a "show-down" and that tha officers will remain where they are Just as long as is necessary. . Mr. Pram is at the same time launch- of reaching for men who deal ia miif, yeast. -sl boos, and cooper tubin v the plan being to selie thee supplier hen they are found bQled to small rural precincts in quantities nufflclent to excite suspicion. In tb'i wav It Is hoped to establish a block ad on the two counties. The removal of North Carolina of ficers Into Patrick county Is done, it Ik said. In order that the blockaders can not charge prejudice or retalia tion or retaliation for the arrest and tlon for the arrest and Jailing ot the four officers now set free.