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JL H 5 V THE TRY6N NSWS, TRYON, N.- O. STRESS ON -BOUN LETTER SENT TO NASHVILLE Klndhearted Farmers. , v . . .. - - , - - - . - : ' : & . LAYS DARIES ! . IS SELF-STYLED SOVIET AMBASSA DOR'S CONNECTION WITH SMUGGLING PROVED. LOOTED FROM ROYAL FAMILY Enclosed About the Jewels Captured From Swede Sailor Wat Qunatity of Communist Literature. Washington. Traffic by bolshevist agents in precious stones, supposed .to have formed part of the famous Jewels of the Russian royal family, !has been unearthed by federal auth orities. Jhe 131. diamonds found on Neils Jacobsen, a Swedish sailor, by cus toms officials in New York July 23, it became, known were enclosed in a package addressed to "Comrade Mar tens." Using this as a lead, federal officials began an investigation which they declare has definitely connected Ludwig C. A. K. -Marens, self-styled oviet ambassador .to the United States, with the traffic. Disclosure of the fact that the package was intend ed for soviet agents in this country was withheld by customs authorities when Jacobsen was arrested. a Enclosed about the diamonds taken from the possession of the Swedish sailor, Jacobsen, whom officials ex onerate from any complicity in the il legal proceedings, was a Quantity of communistliterature. . Suffragists Apparently Undisturbed as They Look For Pressure to 3e Put on By National Leaders. Raleigh, N. C. Sixty-threi of the 120 members of the lower house of the North Carolina legislature 'sent a telegram to the Tennessee legislature assuring that body .that North Caro lina will "not" ratify the federal suf frage amendment and asking that the measure be noi rorced upon the people of .North Carolina by Tennes see. - . ' :. If the 63 signers of the telegram in the house vote in accordance with their expressed views, the , amend ment will be defeated in the. house by six votes. Harry P. GrJer and Lindsey War ren, anti-leaders in the house and senate respectively, claimed four ad ditional votes in the lower house against ratification, all of whom are are expected to arrive in Raleigh be fore the fight begins. The suffragists appear to be undis turbed, looking for pressure from na tional leaders to overcome the appar ent lead of the antis and declare, they expect the amendment to be ratified. SEEK A SOLUTION OF PROBLEif OF REVIGORATING FAST WAN-4 ING POLISH SPIRIT. ASK PERMISSION TO RECRUIT Ooinion is Held By Some That th'lJ President Has Power to Suspend , the Anti-Enlistment Law Government Recoils' crom Action That Maj Result in Recognition of Russian Bolshevik! Regime. .Washington. The -American gov ernment declared for the maintainance of the political independence and ter ritorial integrity of Poland and against any dismemberment of Russia. In a note addressed to the Italian ambassador, Secretary Colby, speak ing with the approval and eonsent of President Wilson, said the United States took "no exception" to the ef forts to arrange ail armistice Between Poland and Russia and would "regard with satisfaction" a declaration by Six Hundred. Deaths Have Resulted From a Cholera Epidemic in Korea. Seoul, Korea. Six hundred deaths have resulted; from.- the epidemic of cholera in Korea, and 3,125 cases have been reported. - w -t - ; Only Ten Per Cent of Our Songs Are FitFor British Drawing-Rooms A Newly Invented Aeroplane is to Have Wings Like That of Sea Gull. London. "Only 10 per cent of American songs are fit to be sung in decent British drawing-rooms," a cor respondent writes to the News. London The Creator was right, after all, . is the conclusion of the Blackburn Aeroplane Company.' which lias just produced a flying machine 'which has wings shaped like those of seagull. . . . t Ouija Board Is Causing Insanity In Europe as Well as In America. New York. The . ouija board Is - causing as much insanity in Europe as bare, according to Dr. J. Rudolph Patz, of Amsterdam, Holland, who ar rived recently on the Holland-American line steamship Npordam. Trial of Savage Cotton Company For Fraudulent Shipments is On. Anniston, Ala. Trial of principals In the Savage Cotton Company of Tal ladega, charged with fraudulent cot ton shipments to North and South Carolina textile plants,, involving $500,000, has begun. The Pope Slips orr Marble Floor of Bedroom and Injures His Knee. a Rome. Pope Bendict met with alight accident, slipping on the polish ed marble floor while going from his bedroom to his private library. Hessaggero tsates. American Steamer Washed Ashore and Was Abandoned by Her Crew. Halifax, N. S. The American steam er Montara went ashore five miles east of Louisburg and was abandoned by her crew, who landed safely. Polish Army Successfully Opposes Russian Reds on Southern Front Warsaw. Polish successes on the southern front, where the Russians bave been pushing for Lemberg, are reported.- The Polish cavalry and in lantry have ousted the bolsheviki from Radziechoff, Lopatyn, Stanysta- ezky and Toporoff . Ancient' Mosaic Law is Invoked Against Lightweight Ice Dealers. $7,000,000 Bond Proposition For Toledo is Defeated Three to One. To'edo, , Ohio. The proposal to bond the city for seven million dollars for the purchase and operation of city street -cars was defeated in the 'elec- tion here 3 to 1. Washington. After successive con ferences 'between the Polish ministe and Secretary Colby, the state departi ment took up the problem of finding means bf reihvigorating the fast-ebbjj ing. strength of the Polish-state and; thereby of fulfilling the assurance q support to the-Poles " contained in the recent American note to the Italian ambassador. . s Polish' officials have explained thatj in addition ta the desire' for war matf the allied and associated powers that the "territorial integrity and true boundaries" of Russia- would be re spected. The government flatly stated how ever, that it would not, "at least' for the present,'! participate in ny plan for the expansion of the armistice negotiations into a general European conference because it would in all probability involve two results from which the United States "strongly re coils": , "The recognition of the Bolshevist regime. , . J . "A settlement of Russian problems ?olesj Almost inevitably upon the basis of ttjfa dismemberment of Russia." The note was in response to an terials .they were most anxious to obiJ tain authorization of the United States to.perjnit recruiting by Poles in America for the Polish army was said that not only had many of4 fers of enlistment .been received by((ft(rrMWfl nratinn from the Ital the legation from Polish citizens, res-Jan ambassador that hIa government ident in the United States, but manygwould welcome a statement of the offers, had come from former Ameri-yIews o tne American government on can veterans of the world war. tne PolIgn situation. While a statute forbids enlistment - - - , for armed expeditions in .the Unitedf- ' - ' , ,. States for employment against friend-fDWed Shoulder and I Broken.Rlbs ly power, some officials claimed thefc Cau8ed Womans' Mighty Sneeze. President had authority to suspend! operation of the law under his war-i Gridley, Cal. A dislocated shoulder time powers. Agreement of Armistice Entered Into Between Russia and Finland. Nation-Wide Campaign Has Begun to Arrest Evaders and Deserters. Helsingfors. Russia and Finland agreed upon armistice conditions at Dorpat. Suffrage Fight Has Begun in the 1 - General Assembly of Tennessee. Fate of Poland Appears to. Hang on Battles on RussoPolish Front. Roanoke, Va. The local police de partment announced that the war de partment has started an intensive na tion-wide campaign to round-up lTt, 911' persons listed as draft evaders and deserters. A Democratic World Responsible Should Poland's Cause Be Lost. Washington. Poland, in an official proclamation issued at Warsaw, has solemnly warned the world that, if she is overthrown by the Russian bol sheviki, her fall will be due not only to "overbearing might"; but "to the indifference of a world which calls it self democratic." General Connor Succeeds Hlnes as. Chief of Waterway Service. Washington. Appointment of Brigadier General W. D. Connor as chief of, transportation and chief of the inland and coastwise waterways service to succeed Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, who has " resigned, was announced by Secretary Baker. Paris.' A great battlejs in progress on the Russo-Polish front upon which hangs the fate of Warsaw. 1,000,000 Pounds Sugar Sweetens Waters of East River, New York. New York. The East; river was sweetened with 1,000,000 . pounds of sugar when a 13-car float carrying a western consignment went Jxx. the jbot torn. ; - : United States Transport Brings Home the Body of General Gorgas. and three broken ribs were sustained by Margaret Noyes, 17, recently, when she sneezed violently. Nashville, Tenn. A joint resolution providing for ratification of the federal woman sun rage amendment was intro duced, in both houses of the Tennessee legislature. 'be Coal Miners of Belgium Have About Reached Pre-War Production. Brussels. Belgian coal miners have Jflmost reached pre-war production. he output of the Belgian mines for Hie month of May, 1920, reached 90.9 a M .1 . s Lit m i . r etui oi lue production lor iviay, 913. ussian Reds Have Cut the Warsaw Danzig Railway is Latest Report- New York, The body of THaJor Gen- i eral William C. Gorgas,, former sur geon genearl of the United States army, arrived on the United, States transport Pocahontas. It will later be shipped to Washington, "where burial will be in Arlington cemetery. I Parish The Russians have captured e town of Ciechanow, thus cutting tve Warsaw-Danzig railway, according t reports from the French military ftfission to Warsaw. .f . ': . Union Printers May Work In Open Shops Without Endangering Cards, Of Eght Hundred Militiamen at Frankfort, Four Hundred Have Left. West Frankfort, Ills. Illinois mili tiamen, who were sent here following anti-Italian demonstrations, started withdrawing and approximately 400 were scheduled to leave. , Almost the same number will remain on the ground until disorders have en)&ed. Hostilities Break Out Between Two Great Provinces in China. Maiden, Mass. An unusual punish - ment of the ancient Mosaic law, was Inflicted on short weight ice dealers fcy Judge Riley, in the Maiden court, -when he ordered them to make their usual visits to two Medford residents and leave ice without charge for the term of one month. Amoy, China. Hostilities have broken out between the provinces of .Fukien and Krantung, the former sup porting the militaristic Anfu group and the latter being lay al. to the new Peking government. Sever fighting has occurred in eastern Kwantung and Fukien troops are reported to have ad-, vanced 28 miles, capturing Taipuhsien, 50 miles west of Chang -Chowful. Other provinces may become involved. Women Should Decide Between Rule of Right, or, of Blood and Iron. Raleigh. Declaring that women -should have "the first right to speak when the issue is whether or not the -world' shall henceforth be ruled' by - -reason and righteousness or by blood nd Iron," Governor Bickett, in a spe cial message warned his democratic friends that the most they would be able to do by defeating the ratifica tion resolution would be to delay "fpr months a movement you are powerless to defeat." .American Views on Russo-Polish Situation Pleasing to France. Sensation After Sensation in the Case of Now Notorious Ponzl. Boston. Sensation followed sensa tion in the Ponzi case. Ponzl. who recently jumped into notoriety as a spectacular financier, admitted that he was the Charles Ponsi who served terms of imprisonment in Montreal and Atlanta some years ago. ' 4 At the moment that he was making a formal confession of his past, the Hanover Trust Company, In which Ponzi was a director, was closed by Bank Commissioner Joseph C. Allen. Governor Cox Has Begun Long and Tiresome Swing Around the Circle. Albany, N. Y-Following V a debate, the International Typographi cal Union, In annual convention here voted 171 to 79, against a proposition to revoke the card of any member who should obtain employment in an open shop. " HiNew York. Several million dollars sbn will be advanced to the Maxwell Jkotof Company by New York banks, if-was learned when it was announced tat a committee had been appointed t$'iake over management of the con- sharp . i : Automobile and Liquors Seized to Value of Million and a Half. New: Haven, Conn. Automobiles and liquors confiscated ' . by prohibi tion enforcement officers as the re sult of seizures on. Connecticut state highways-this summer have a value of a million and a half dollars. A Formerly Widely Known American Sportsman Dies, on London Track. London. Walter - Winans, . widely known American resident of London, collapsed and died while driving his horse,, Henrietta Gay, in a race at Parlsoes Park. . Mr. Winans called out for his horse to be stopped, but before this could be done he fell off the sulky. . France Has' Recognized the South Russian Government of Wrangel. London. Great Britain has been of ficially nbified of the recognition, by France of the government of General Baron Wrangel as the de facto . gov ernment of South Russia and the question is being discussed between the two governments. , ' . . Something akin to consternation is evinced by the evening newspapers over the French action, which is char acterized as contrary to British Ideas and a menace to entente relations. Committee to Take Over Manage- it German Communists Sympathizers Rejoice Over Bolsheviki Successes. S. - '' JbhannIsbur, East Prussia. Ger rqan communists on the East Prussian frontier and sympathizers with the Russian bolsheviki are elated by re- prts from Polish sources of continued bolshevik victories along the entire tirthern front. They have assumed atf; aggressive attitude toward the se curity -police. RiiSSi tlan Hpenty-flve Miles From Warsaw. Soviet Forces Are Now ' Varsaw. Russian soviet ' forces wpich are, attacking" the Folisli lines nq-theast and east of this city 'have reached a point 25 miles from Warsaw. A state of siege has been declared ph'e determination of the bolsheviki toress onward to Warsaw showed it sejf at various points along the battle lirft there being hand-to-hand fiignting in anany Instances. The Poles savage- ly Hefended their positions. x V and when she saw the windmill lly'Oh, see how good the farmers "the pigs; they have electric neD them cool." ' Daily Thought" UNPLEASANT f wasted affection; affec ITINERARY Of wasted.-'-Lcngfellow. 'NOMINEE ANen's Clubs. ; there are more ibs. ENTI R E PARTY WAS AH its Paris. The French government is ending a note to the United States xpressing pleasure that the French nd American views on the Russo- roilsh situation are "in complete: ac- cora, it was learned here. The note is 800 words long signed by Premier Millerand, adds that Prance "never varied in its determina tion to support the principles so clear ly formulated by the government of 4he United States." . Dayton, O. Departure or Governor Cox from JDayton marked: the opening of campaign "swings" , scheduled to take him from coast to coast and into almost every state before November 1. The first of ten addresses arranged during this month was made by the democratic presidential candidate at Camp perry, O., in presenting the governor's cup as a trophy at the na tional rifle shoot. Permission is Asked by American Express Company to Raise Rates,. Washington. Permission to' in crease express- rates to absorb the awaru oi tne, railroad labor board at Chicago estimated at ?43, 800,805, was asked from the Interstate Commerce Commission by the Ameri can Railway Express Company. : The express company also asked au thority to increase by 20 per cent its rates on milk and cream to meet the increases granted the railroad on. the same commodities. - v v. . ' ; - Bot of Lightning Kills Two Min sters and Dangerously Burns One. ;.fy:r. . v.- i : .. aporte, Ind. "If lightning should slr.ke this tent tonight, ho w many wania De ready ror it?", the Rev.- John Timber, evangelist, asked a congrega tio; of Free Methodists crowding a ten"); at Springfield, near here. Out sid. a storm was threatening, 'few-moments later, a bolt of light nli$ entered the canvas top, killed two minsters on the platform, burned the Rew. Mr. -Timber dangerously and Knf.iced down many worshippers -? : . , ' '. , y, . . . Aribishop Man nix of Australia I Reacne London" From Penzance. Ipndon. ArchbishiD Daniel J. Min. I ne of -Australia, who was landed at renance by a British destroyer which uau? idneu nun irom on. board the w n?te star liner Baltic off . the Irish - n coast, nas arrived here. There were onif'a few reporters and a handful of priests .present to greet the arr.h blslrjop, but a-hevy police guard was maintained about the . station. There werji no untoward Incidents attendinr; arrival - . . ' r - . Governor Orders Cars to Proceed and Informed Motor Cops They Could Find Him at Any Time. Columbus. O. An unsuccessful at tempt to arrest Governor Cox on a charge of automobile speeding and harmless accident to one of the cars of newspaper men accompanying him furnished excitement In the motor trip of the democratic presidential candi date returning from Wheeling, W. Va. The attempt was declared by Roy E. Leyton,'. adjutant general of Ohio, to have been planned to embarrasi the democratic -nominee.' At Jacksonville, O., about 32 miles east of Columbus, the ogvernor and his party rode slowly through, disre carding outstretched arms" of a shirt sleeved man, and also a large group of persons gathered there. Within a few minutes . two motorcycle officers stopped the governor and press cor respondents, declaring all under ar rest and demanding their return to Jackstontown. Governor Cox identi fied himself, but the officers said they had orders from Jacksontown authori ties to arrest all . four , automobiles of the party "no matter who they con tained" on charges of speeding. "You can reach me at the execu tive office at Columbus any time," Governor Cox replied, ordering all the cars to proceed and leaving the i offi cers busy taking down car numbers on the fly. v New United States Minister to Poland Leaves For His Post. New York. Hugh Gibson, United States minister to Poland, sailed for his post in Europe. Mail Is Sent to Berlin by Alr- plane From Incoming Steamers. Berlin. A contract for carrying mails by airplanes from incoming steamers to Berlin has been closed with the German-Lloyd air line by the ministry of posts. Preliminary Treaty Is Concluded Between Russians and Armenians. London. A preliminary peace treaty has been concluded between the Russian soviet government and Armenia says a wireless dispatch re ceived here from Mosocw. Over 400 German Emmigrants Have Left Hamburg For Brazil. Berlin. Four huildred and twenty eight German emigrants sailed from Hamburg on board the steamer Cuy aba for Brazil. This is the first con tingent of a total of 2,500 German set tlers who will go to Brazil at the ex pense of that government. Criminals to Go Under Knife For Removal of "Criminal Instincts" Detroit. Allen Kellar and Joseph Lara, who -have spent a great part of their thirty-five years of life behind prison bars, will probably go under the surgeon's knife for treatment to cure their alleged "criminal instincts. They have been ordered by the court to a hospital for treatment. Harding to Deliver Labor Day Address From His Front Porch. Marion, O Labor; the league of na tions, agricultural Issues, and the tariff are to be made headliners of Senator Harding's campaign during early Sep tember under a program revealed here in connection with announcement oi definite plans for the republican nom inee's first speech outside of Ohio. The labor address will be delivered on Labor Day, Monday, September . 6, probably from the front porch. ; Prime Minister of Poland Says the Country Will Not Capitulate. Warsaw.- Poland earnestly desires peace but could not accept armistice terms involving disarmament in any form, Prince Eugene Sapieha, the min ister of foreign affairsdeclared. "Poland is not going to capitulate, said the foreign' minister.: "We will fight to the last man rather than that There is no question of disarmament If we are disarmed with .the soviet troops forty miles from Warsay , It would be like throwing up our hands." Austrian People Reprieved From Awful Hardships of Last Winter. Vienna. Bountiful crops of earlv fruit and vegetables and promise of an abundance of hardier later yields from field and orchard, with the: big Ameri can flour credit still available Tor the ration of. daily bread have ; given Aus tria a reprieve" from the terrible hard ships of last winter. 5 . . . Fats are as scarce as ever, however. but , in this . gracious weathar their need is not so keenly fejt. Meat, too is scanty and high. pe crib of h to worWT Promised MesI 'sj on .with T apeare the i comedies ' HarsieiH Greenshnr dates are expected if? J tie big eerem sj dad temnle. u fcr !A Knights f K,- that the cour SSL. oe one of the beTn 4i The rains havo lafcajJ tar the crop' h 6 damaged. Salisbury. George H t of New Vo,.v Bnj5 H. Hays, chairman of t"V M national committor " til tference with R. A.' Ko'iM Of thft rpnnKHr. .'Jj North Caroliia UUDs 1 Washington.-Sergeant Wr, of Durham is a member of ft. graduating class of the mJ, Huauutu, v a. The r were along practical lints. Forest City. J. .v.. . under construction two newli uu..uU6Bf uciug located near ft, per end of the old hotel site. Mr ai-- 1 to have these buildings coa5J aiAty uays, Dom naving alreadr- rA ' ' A CUVCU. Kinston. A. H. StenhP.c sheriff of Pamlico county, 'tj here several days ago in wcirJ witn tne seizure of four J whiskey on a boat from the tidtl ?ecnon, nas been discharged byt commissioner Henry Sutton. 1 HunteTsville. Gathering at tit. Blythe homestead at Gilead. ia' ey township, 75 or more meabd the family and their friends at; tne annual Blythe reunion. For' eral years the reunion has bee; pily looked forward to as a coming" day. Henderson. County Superkta E. M. , Rollins reports that he cured (teachers for practically r; vacancy in the county, with fit ceptionr Of principals for tiree tf. larger high schools. Winston-Salem. George Leti Stokes county farmer residing is Germantown, was knocked denrac run over by a motor truck on Tri street receiving serious injuries. Goldsboro Dr. P. P. Claxton.1 commissioned of education, spe: day i nthe city i nthe inteersiof Schools. At the request of the !d of education he made a thoroufiR systematic survey of the school Won. 1 Durham. Willis Bowles, theii man who struck Umpire Lohr, .Piedmont League several weeks i was fined $25 and the costs for tense and made to pay the uzF hospital expenses. Asheville. Seven hundred de:'1 from all parts of the south andceH "West and missionaries from mM?-' elgn countries are attendicg & c nual . missionary conference j Methodist Episcopal Church IS"- at Lake Junaluska. Wadesboro. The army wonn struck Anson county. Its of-;; so far have been confined to i- grass andj young corn, but is s02H stances cotton has been attaciei worm' made its appearance witha - past few days, but has workeo -startling rapidly. . Belmont-A Bible school is Jj conducted at the Belmcnt Lut-rJ 1 T 1 -r-. t-i TT VrMri TiaSt H cuurcn Dy itev. tu. n. ivu t i V. Y1 a -U HnllT Cfc, This will continue to August H of Asheville. formerly of the infantry, in the Eighty first, or cat division, arrived here from ington In a De Haviland 4 to his daughter's eleventh birt3. niversary. Asheville. Rural letter car'yj Buncombe - county voted not the Federation of Rural Lette rlers, an organization - .x $ the American Federation their regular monthly business Ing. " .- x fir hundred drawn from the ranks of j. leading industries, have gl Blue Ridge, North Carolina. the club girls council of t Woman's Christian associate JAlbemarle. F. J. M ..a in thiS CP"" saiu bv uaic vuuic lUOUlUUUUtlUS WAS il" ' -tff of county court and requ.re Into a bond of U.O00 for P" f w V -.my 0i after.having been found gu.'1- ufacturing whiskey in tae his. home. i1 ' w s- .-.;.. :. v (' '. .': i -. . .
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