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Vohme Number 39. sgi CENTS nJS MpfUisMm mm 'pmBmy ff TROOP LEFT DIX fieui Specs. Four Educational Institutions in City Are Expected to Postponejtheir Opening Because of the Im-f pending Famine MeredithCollege Not to Open i UK rlllNI WllnllrUII Klllllhvl According to Figure Given Out by the State High Until September 14 There is Little Change in way Commission Which Represents TotaHVW- eage of 641.38, Costing Approxhnately $9, the Situation -Help from the Skies the Only So- r-lution. Nineteen Army Airplanes Leav Roanoke for Scne is Being CaUed Upon to Raise His Office Early to Act $100,000 As a Memorial tothis State's Soldiers Who Were Killed In fko I T- ur i i I Secretary of War at Definitely if Occasion holt Perfecting Plans uic tt txr vvona. i they Arrive Women and Children Fleeing from Region Occupied -Camp Dix, N.

Sept. 2. he to the West Virginia eoal fields left Charleston, West Spt. 2. plans to distribute the troops when front is cut off.

Tht airplanes have Stallbans, West Sept 2. in great numDers irom ine region bands of miners and traffic on the are out Madison. West Sept, 2. A armed forces around Blair have been en route to Whitesville bearing a car this Arises General Band- to Distribute Troops as by Armed Bands. 1 first of the three trains carrying troops mornmgat 9:45 o'clock.

(JeneraL Bandholtz is naw perfecting they arrive. Communication to the arrived. Women and children have arrievd here wmcn is oemg occupieu oy uie prmea Chesapeake and Ohio halted. All fires Chesapeake and Ohio train. which the using passed through Madison today filled ith bodies of Whitesville men army airplanes 'hopped off" for the troops have been, ordered to the West; 3 Kaleigh, bept.

2. North Carolina is being called upon to raise $100,000 a memorial to this State's soldiers whr were Killed during the late worl 1 war, perfection ol an organiza lion i or tij.s purpose navine been started br Jos. M. Prevette, with headqnarters in Raleigh. The movement has the backing of me American taucational Society which is attempt' ng to create similar memorials every State in the Union.

Mr. Prevette is this week conferring with State Superintendent E. 1. ttrooks regarding the North Caro lina memorial. Superintendent Brooks has been authorized to name Tl' members who are to act as an advisory board for the $100,000 lhese appointments will be announced by Superintendent Brooks at an nearly date.

It is the purpose of the backers of the memorial to create a permanent fun. of $100,000 to be loaned to boys and girls in North Carolina who are desirous of securing a college edueat'on. Money fcrom this fund loaned to boys and girls to pav their expenses through college, must be repaid duP'ng a period -of severalon who were killed in the fighting on Blair mountain reports say. Roanoke, Va Sept. 2.

Ninetteen West Virginia strike zone today. Washington. Sept. 2. Federal showed the two -sold" no Virginia coalffields but martial law has not as yet been, declared.

Men at Camp Dix, New Jersey and Camp Sherman, Ohio, are now entraining. The Secretary of War was at his office early this mornings ready to act definitely Upon the receipt of word that the arrival of troops had, disturbed the area. 40 Logan, West Sept. 2. It is unofficially announced that there is heavy firing in Blair Mountain region.

One reported killed Five men were seen to fall while the couriers report a continual roar along the entire line. The aiplanes say that the line is twenty mijs longand that the men are fresh and amply supplied with ammunition. Washington, Cept. 2. Federal troops to the number of four thousand are now en route to the coal fields of West Virginia.

Secretary of, War hopes for no conflict on thteir arrival. The martial law proclamation is still be-ingwith held. Here's tb latest firing for those who. watch the pontes run. lens of the small field classes are adjusted to the eye Jn the sanie way ordinary field lasses Your hand doesn't tire holding these, ffTRINSTl Prominent -Lumber Man and Founder of Hines Bros.

Lum ber Co. Once Lived Here- Kinston, Sept. 2. Lovitt Hines, agetj pioneer lumber man of this section of the state and well known thnuighout the lumber circles of the nation, died at his home here at 116 East Caswell street' yesterday -ven- me at 5.50 following a serious ill- neS3 of seVeral months and the ex- istence of life throughout the1 past two weeks merely through his sturdy and determined fight. The death of Kin- ston's bieeest lumber man and the pany, organizer and public citizen, came as a shock to the entire city and section and will be a blow to his many friends throughout North Caro- 1 na.

and the nation. A man, the friena of all. rich and poor, giver to charity of the most worthy kind, un- airected by puDiicity-ana snunning dearly loved by this community throughout his Kfe, and one of the biggest men of th section 01 the state and instrumental in the upbuild-ine of the life of Kinston and East ern Carolina. Mr. Hines put up a fight for life that surprised the phy sicians attending him ior tiie- past wpeks (Mr Wnps hforA settliner in Kin ston was a resident of Greenville andl LOW HINES DIES ON HOI Vladiston Darocha, amlner, was killed his brothers said.

The union heads have Raleigh, Sept. 2. The four, educational 'institutions here are expected to postpone their opening dates because ofthe impending water fa-y mine which" has relegated matters of State politics to the scrap heap fofc the ten days. Announcement has already been made that Meredith College will not open its dkrors until September 14. as one week later than the date originally decided Other institutions State College, St.

Mary's school and Peace. Insti- tute are expected to make some announcement There is Httle change in the water situation The city's supply, Is, grad, uafly and surely Help from the skies offers the only solu- tion, it Is declared in municipal cir- clee, although former State superin- -tendent, Jim Collie advances the the-" ory that may save the- capital from a genuine water panici 7 Mr. Collie suggests that the city mams be connected wth the three- deep artesian wells drilled atCamp Polk by the government during the-, war. This would replenish the supply, Mr. Collie argues although his suggestions have not been i favorably received by the city commissioners.

Mayor Eldridge, who is at Blowing Rock enjoying the mountain air, made ho announcement as to wheh he will return to 'his post. Neither of the local papers, has yet jailed- upon the Mayor ta "Come Home and? Take the It may be because there ia not water enough to "float the blamed old ship. Promoters of the co-operative mar-ketmg movement for cotton and tobacco have thenr "victory state- ment" from the capital which indicates that the movement is. bound to win in North Carolina." It 'is signed by J. Y.

Joyner, B. W. Kll-gpre. A. W.

Swain and Clarence Poe. for the committee. "Four months ahead of time," says the statement, "you have reached and passed the goal you set for January 1, 1921 in the matter of co-opeative marketing for cotton. Setting out to get 200,000 bales signed up over bales have been signed up before September 1, with every indication that 400,000 bales rather than two hundred thousand may be the New Year figure. "In the tobacco sign-up you nave tnasle dually gratifying, progress and while you decided on a much larger nercent of the State's' tobacco crop Vw -o rnnired for cotton there is, indcation that the goal Will also he reached weeKs oeiore the date named in contract." S.

S. ST. LI FLOATING EXHIBIT Will Visit Fifty Foreign Coun-tries with Sample American Manufacturers Soon New York, Sept. 2. The American steamship St.

Louis, 1 fitted out as a floating exhibition hall with samples of the products of three hundred lead-; ing manufacturers, wfll leave NewYork next January on an American 'Sales promotion trip -to 50 foreign ports. The slogan. of the enterprise "I'll TeU the will fly from the forepeak. The trip will take a "year. The.exhibition epace: ls equal jm that of Madison Square Garden.

T. Although there tre few-, misgiv- ings about the present; being auepicf- ous" for uch a J. Herbert And-; -v. son, the promoter, says it should remembered that business "conditions parts-'. of South America are gotd arid- will be improved in 1922.

ajjurf China, India, 'Australia, Nor- -waCand Sweden Jiayetibeen to a de- gree free from much of financial followdd ithe' world war, he1 sa vs-' and the Balkan Jitatea should be -fertile field for the exchange of contmodities Altthose, countries will' fe included in the- itinerary "the -'r. sO ltiils- claimed 4 thattmTiy i "of the smaller "countries' hayevconsiderablo''1, wealth that the American manufactuterswill lose out uf those fields in with Europeans unless they get busy; In- terpretersandfcredit'men will b'car-ried on the trip toasistthemanu- aetufercjpresentatives; on present- 1SSA AL iNGOOD' ') 17 4i a. Bl II, Al Jolson is not Slnbad lnr lnbad hereV He says he's in good at Atlan tic City' whdre, the fsad. sea waves of-ferrelief from the heat. You know i i jA.

oi course ine comeaian. rsm bad" is one of his most famous parts." GOVERNOR REF Declares" He Vill Take Ac tion in Concord Affair Until Sometime During the Day. Charlotte, Sept. 2. Governor Cameron Morrison refused yesterday to heed the Macedonian cry of fourteen Concord business men to send troops into their town and declared that he nuuiu Ltn.c uj ctiuii uiilii wuiunuw.

The Governor roundly excoriated the law enforcement officers of. the town and county and openly advocated turning out the sbJeriff and the chief of police, when the delegation from Concord called ion him at the Manufacturers' Club this afternoon. He dispatched Adjutant General Metts to Concord to keep tab on the strike situation while awaiting action of the executive committee of the textile unions in the strike area tomorrow on the suggestion of Conciliator Robert M. McWade of the TJnited States Department of Labor, who has been in the section for several days, that the strike calld off, as-he considers I 1 1 1 1 1 ll. 1 ic nopeiessiy lost Dy tne woriters ROOT DECLINES.

New York, Sept. 2. Elihu Root has decKned the nomination as a mem ber of the international court of justice under the league of nations because of his advanced age. Walter Sheppard, of Farmville, is here today. State' vs.

Letha Avery, Roy Jones and Marcellus Wilson. Manufacturing liquor forSaie. Wilson and? Jones not guilty. A very guilty, and, sen tenced to two years on the roads. State vs.

Tom Johnsonrand Oscar Ma v. Affray. tb the roads for a term of one yeareach. i State vs. Moses Peyton.

WJ Not guilty. y- State vs. Julius Knight. C. C.

W. Not guilty. Jy ill State vs. Moses' Little CC. Sentenced to' the roads for six months.

State vs. Fined $50 and costs State vs. O. H. Smithy P.

,1 Judgment suspended State vs. Moses Little. Resisting officer. Sixty Mays oft the roads. State vs.

W. H. Harrineton. -t Bur- 10 SEND TROOPS COURT r' FEELING AGAINST KEEPING UP LIST trust managed to evade taxes State 7 7 r. iCUCiai supervision and 22rl Instead of HE EIIM.K in MA rftmnon 1 uciienciai interests "The dennrfmonfo i vTO i me concern was oreaniz -T" -j- -l jrwrnons, now a lugu.

ve irom who became the company president, assisted by F. S.i lhe department oecured indictments againit i lw ana storm and Jensen. t-ereins nea the State and has not oeen taicen. Westbrook is imrlar oond and was to. have been An tried along with Storm and Jpnspn ouc nis case was continued by Judge Rav upon motion of hts coun sel Storm and Jensen entered Dleas of i note contendere and Judge Ray im posed fines of $100 neach and re-1 quired each tdj pay the departments cost of prosecution, making a total of apprdximately $200 each no including court costs, which they, alsd -paid "btorm juw JensCT were both able their connection with the Southern frading Company.

The investisra tock. but were the office men' and that when thpr. berame ronviuced' that the concern was bad they get out of reason Judee Rav "aerreed to. accept 'their pleas and let them off witn-vtne nne anstead oi road sen teneea." aThis concern. Commissioner Wade "TZ.T vnarjotte anu iictxcu many pcuc There are now 73 road projects un der construction, six.

under contract nd 49 completed as of July 1, ac- wording to figures given out by the State Highway Commissi cm. This represents a total mileage under construction" of 641.38 costing ap- pVoximately "under con tract" 65.52 miles to cost 764.33. Completed projects loiai oao.oo miles at a cost 01 George W. Sessonsa native 01 diers Home Tuesday, the bunal tak ing place, yesterday at Conway, Comrade Sessohs entered the Confederate army April 15, 1862. He had been at.

the home here since July. 1920. and was his S4tn year. SNOW FOR SALE Where the Barons Wrested from King John the Magm Charta in 1215-n ThamesHiver. London, Sept.

2 Runnymede. a meadow on the "bank of the Thames river, in Surrey, site of the historic battl where the barons wrestled from KipJohn the Magna Charta in 1215, is far sale, iL the government in the debate on the Corn Production Acts Repeal bill. Lord L'ncolnshije the House of 'Lords declared the present ministry was preparing to sell the crown lands and.said nothing remain-ad but "to pawn the' crown jewels. Lord Lincolnshire referred to a atalogue of crown lands offered for sale and continued: "Runnymede is lot 8 in the catalogue. There peera were encamped for the signing of the 'Maspa Charta iu 1215.

Your 1y lords, on that historic fieli savedthe liberties of England: Now we 'are face to face with the- fact thatthls historic field put up for sala and will be knocked down under the hammer. i The -second agreed to without a division'. atTLEBRUIN SAYS FAMOUS JHEADOW I Charleston, West Sept, 2. because he refused to join the union not been at their offices for the past There is Now a Movement London Looking Towards this End. London, Sept.

2. There is a movement on foot to establish a World Labor International." The British Labor Party has sum- proposed to prepare machinery for the creation of a Labor International on ldies sufficiently broad admit not onlyHhe Moscow or Red International but -the brotherhoods affiliated to the American Federation of Labor. A Social committee appointed at has already agreed to send a representative to the conference. The modern girl wants fame, position, and material things not love. Francis X.

Bushman, film star. NTERNATIONAL- FOR WORLD LABOR is pleasantly reniembered by the older4moned a conference to be held Lon- xiio with don early in October at which it is His death was learneu witn probably five years in small i. The fund is not to" be loaned for any other purpose whatoever and.lt will always be maintained as a memi rial to the soldiers who servl in the world war from North Carolina. Mr. Prevette is State director ofthej Society ami has established offices here.

He is from Wilkes "county, served in the legislature during the Bick-ett and was a member of the State Building Commission which was abolished rather unceremoniously at the 1921 session of the Gener.il Assembly. Insnrance Commissioner Stacey W. Wade makes the following comment on the prosecution of Bayard H. Storm nnd H. M.

Jenson, secretary and treasurer of the Southern Traid-ing Company, a Charlotte concern: "This concern claimed to be a 'business organized under the common iaw. ainl as such was not amenable to the North Carolina Blue Sky Law. The promoters claimed for it many other pleasuing features, through which the so-called trust manage. to evade taxes. State "su pervision through which the so-called I STRY FALLS UPONDEAD DAYS Pearling Was Formerly One of the Principal Industries of the South Seas, Said.

vlner. New South Sept. 1. formerly one ofAhe principal industries of the- South Seas, has fallen upon dead days because of the unsettled conditions throughout 'he worl, James Clark, of Brisbane. h' known as the "Australian Pf rl King," told a Koyal Commission yivesigating the pearling industry here recently.

All pearling boats at Thursday are laid up and at Broome. West- f'n Australia, onlv about" 100 boats "itca(l of 40o are worklnz. Clark A contributing.cause of the dim 'Hut 'in nf aptivifi ia ffio fntliTT Germany and Russia, to purchase 8 amount of the pearl-shell, a noy did prior to the war, he said. "At present there is about 3.000 P'ind, worth of shell in the London JTkK." he said. "This cost between 'Pi an.i 2,0 pounds a ton to produce arifi it probahlv conld be purchased for half that price.

Another handi-'P is the use by the Japanese of trouchns shell in manufactupmcr but tons. Tmuchus can be produced 'moreff "Kv than pearl. Another IS tho facf that Americans are getting similar results from shells. by fresh-water mussels in tn' Mississippi "and other riven." Un suggested' that the Australn should take control and the nearling industry, point- out that four-fifths of the world's H'Ppiv 0f premier ahell comes from commonwealth' the "pinion that the government would ahe to markfr- th nhll-. tnnrh JJrp advantageously thin private in- foinHW- WW.

of Raleigh, is tM? 2 the dy tfae city on busi- lill several days. In Scandinavian Circles France's Stand as to Black List is Meeting with Censure. Copenhagen, Sept. 2 In Scandinavian circles there is a growing feeling against the keeping up by France of her Black Lists, established by law of Feb. 15, 1917.

These lists keep Scandinavian firms from doing legitimate business w'lth their 'old customers, not only German citJtomers. but firms in Scandinavia, firms of high repute and standing. Finanpial and commercial Circles in Stockholm and Copenhagen are now "attempting to put pressure pn the Swedish and Danish governments to move Sin this matter and demand of France the repeal of this war act. Ed Matthews, of Washington, is a business visitor. The following cases have been dis Lposed of in the Superior Court since yesterday report.

State vs. Roosevelt Moore. A. D. Fined $50 and costs.

State vs. Richard Barrett. Attempted larceny. Sentenced to four months on rbads. State vs.

W. J. Bryant. X3. C.

W. fiined $50 and costs. State vs. James Brown and David Brown. A.

D. W. Sentenced -to 14 months on roads. v. State vs.

John' Stanley Smith. A. D. W. and C.

W. Not guilty. vs. Zeno Grey. Driving auto without license and A.

D. W. Judgment suspended upon payment of cost. State vs. George Lay.

Larceny Judgment continued upon payment of State vs. Russell Turner. Larceny. Not guilty, State vs. Ltfreeny.

Not guilty. JUDflE HORTON PROVING TERROR TO EVIL DOERS THIS TERM citizens. sorrow here. Ed.) NEAR 5,000 PERSONS Of the Disciples of Christ Con vention at Winona Lake, Ind Dr. Shamhart Attending fRv DR.

W. P. SHAMHART.) The convention of the Disciples of Christ opened with a great evangelistic conference. This is attended by evangelists from all states and Canada. It is International iii scope and will xrover 11 evangelistic activities of the chdfch.

Dr. George A. Miller pastor JNfinth Street Christian Church, Washington, D. C. and president of the International Convention, presided.

The various departmentsof the church activities will have their day durmg the convention. The. geu-eraf boards of. the United Christian Missionary Society made their reports todav. AH departments showed large ga ci both in (Offerings and in results of work.

Today-fifty-one missionaries are on theJr way to stations in various foreign -nations. The convention- address was delivered by Dr. Miller the president. The greats tabernacle seating ten" people was well filled throughout the sessions of the day. In part Dr, Miller made telling points "Fellowship all' Christian Wbrk-'New.

Age needs'" no new Gospel fit-operation in He sakl tnis "New Age" needs no hew Gospel fitted to it- but the'age needs to be fitted to the ATTHEOPE NNG HAS INVENTED A LAYING EGG BOX Naking, Sept. 2. Prof. C. L.

Thjen of the College of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Nanking has invented a new egg laying box for the silk moth which it is believed may supplant existing methods of testing for Pebrine' disease in the silk-worm. There have been two methods heretofore of making this test, one Japan ese dnd the other know as the European method and it Is saM that serious, drawbacks of both of these have een overcome by Professor Thien's invention, glary and Sentenced tp the, irig'their goods( to foreign buyers and state prison forNthree years. 'establishing Sound fmancial! relations. State vs. Richard Barrett, Larceny.

The: Louts is at present bejng con-Sentenced to rods for four" incnths verted into an burner, Continued" wannykan6Vgier11I'-f air weather tonight and Saturday. Qen-tle variable winda -r ,1., VIZ). 1 i.