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"Today's News Today." THE FREE PRESS HOME PAPER THE DAILY FREE PRESS "Read It First In" VOL. 254 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1921 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS GERMANY MUST CUT OFF TWO- THIRDS OF HER ARMED FORCES Council of Allies If Supreme Carries Out Expected Decision WON'T HEED WASHINGTON Allies Agree to Recognize Latvia and Esthonia and May Accord Similar Treatment to Lithuania and Georgian Republic (By the United Press) Jan. a result of Paris, discussions by the Altoday's Council the Gerlied Supreme are expected to be ordered mans to disband two-thirds of their armed forces within the next month. Marshal Foch, General Wilson and other military advisers of the council, are to report their findings.

The reparations question is still undecided. Recognition for Four New Nations. Washington, Jan. action the Allied Supreme Council in recof Latvia and Esthonia, on the ognizing Baltic, was against the United States' policy toward Russia, the State Department declared today. The council is reported to be considering recognition of Lithuania and Georgia as well at Latvia and Esthonia, all four of which have been refused recognition by the United States.

Officials said they feared the Allies' action may have sinister results in Siberia. "Soldier Disaster" Follows the Famine in Stricken Districts of China. Hankow, China, Jan. the horrors of famine which have! smitten the people of North China, comes the news of a new plague, known colloquially as the "Soldier Disaster." Briefly, it means that outlaw bands in the uniforms of the various conflieting armies of the North are "living on the country." "They have descended on us like a swarm of locusts," one Chinese missionary said in description of prevailing conditions. Pay has been an unknown quantity among the Northein armies for many months.

Their only revenue has been exacted from the countryside. They have established tax systems of their own and have enforced collections by hangings and torture. The people of the famine districts, reduced to a diet of grass and herbs, are panic stricken under. the military menace. Recently a band of soldiers looted the city of Ichang, destroying Japanese property and intimidating the Chinese.

WOULD DIE AN AMERICAN, SAYS NEW CITIZEN OF 82. New York, Jan. that, though she had not long to live, her one wish was to die an American citizen, Mrs. Matilda Malkin, an elderly Jewish widow and an inmate of the Home for the Feeble and Aged, New York City, was recently brought before Justice Leydon of the Supreme Court, in whose presence took the oath of allegiance to the United States and became a fullfledged Ameican citizen. Mrs.

Malkin is 82 years of age and says she has no sympathy with Bolshevism. Kills His Wife and Self. Plant City, Jan. Drawdy, well-known here, yesterday shot and killed his wife and then himself. The shooting followed a quarrel.

KILLING OF LANGDON HELD UNWARRANTED (By the United Press) Washington, Jan. The Navy Department has been advised by Admiral Gleaves from Vladivostok that the killing of Lieutenant Langdon of the American navy by a Japanese sentry there was unwarranted. ised Japanese government has promThe a thorough investigation of the The killing is reported to affair. been debated in the diet at Tokhave yo yesterday. Courtmartial Report Awaited.

of the Tokyo, Jan. 27. -The punishment Lieutenant Japanese sentry who killed United W. H. Langdon of the Dadisvostok States cruiser Aalabany at diet is to be announced by in his case as soon as the coutrmartial today.

reports, it was announced TWO COURSES OPEN TO DEMOCRATS IN THE TARIFF FIGHT Can Let the Measure Go Through and Then Make Political Capital of It or Join With Harrison in His Filibuster (By the United Press) Washington, Jan. Senate fight on the emergency tariff bill was out in the open today and had become a question of strategy with its Democratic opponents, while Penrose and other Republicans were pushing for a vote. The Democrats have two courses open; they can adopt Harrison's filibuster, now on its eleventh day, or aid the Republicans in getting a vote and then place on them the responsibility for the measure, which all agree will raise prices. Because of the disadvantage to the Republicans from latter the Democrats may favor the bill. WILSON AND GOV'R COX STILL AT ONE (By the United Press) Washington, Jan.

at one" was the way friends of Wilson and Cox today described the position of the two Democratic leaders on the League of Nations. The phrase was made famous following Cox's projected trip to Europe. The couple apparently believe the United States will sooner or later join the league. It is believed they are also agreed on a policy regarding revivification of the party. JESS WILLARD IN NEW YORK TO BEGIN TRAINING.

New York, Jan. Willard, former heavyweight champion, spent today making preliminary arrangements for his return bout with Jack Dempsey, scheduled to be fought here March 17. Willard, who is accompained by his manager, Ray Archer, stated that one of the first details to be settled is that regarding the site of his training camp and the engagement of a retinue of sparring partners. MONTANA'S RIGHT TO NAME PASSENGER RATE IS DENIED. Washington, Jan.

passenger fares in Montana were yesterday ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission to be raised to the same level as those prevailing in interstate commerce. The commission said rates now in effect discriminated against interstate business. MARKETS New York, Jan. continued to hold the spotlight on the stock market yesterday. Mexican Petroleum, Texas Pacific and Studebaker were among the strong issues of the day.

The bond market was not as active as the stock market. Chicago, Jan. were few beef cattle sales on the local market yesterday. The general trade was steady to 25 cents lower. Top 10.00.

Hogs, lights lower, others steady. Top 10.10 for 150-pound averages. Tariff Benefits Are Sought by Governors of Southern States. Atlanta, Jan. leaders -industrial, state and political gathered here today for the second Southern Tariff Congress.

Tariff schedules as they affect southern industry will be discussed, and recommendations for changes with a view of improving conditions will be formulated. Among those scheduled to participate in the convention are Vice-President-Elect Calvin Coolidge and governors from 17 southern states. Coolidge is expected to address the congress. "If we are going to have a tariff, want some beneficial results to accrue to our people of the south," said former Governor Sidney J. Catts, of Florida.

"Therefore, I am strongly in favor of a tariff on southern produets and manufactured goods." Cotton Futures quotations Thursday were: 12:00 2:40 March 14.62 14.68 May 14.82 14.85 July 15.07 15.18 October 15.25 15.38 December 15.2' 15.37 RAILROADS WILL BE OVERTAXED WHEN CONDITIONS NORMAL Calder Says Housing Materials Will Not Be Readily Moved -Recommends Remedies to National Chamber Commerce (By the United Press) Washington, Jan. shortage of transportation resulting from further congestion was predicted by Senator Calder of New York, speaking at the national housing conference of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States today. He urged immediate -steps to meet the situation. The railroads, already heavily burdened with traffic, will be unable to handle it when business returns to normal, he predicted, involving sections in coal shortages, etc. This also will delay shipments of building materials.

Calder recommended remedies, ineluding investigation of monopolies and combinations of employers and employes. This will soon be done by the congressional committee of which Calder is chairman, he said. Dental Infirmaries Favored by Private Practitioners at Chicago. (By the United Press) Chicago, Jan. for the creation of dental infirmaries in all large cities of the country were laid together here today at the annual meeting of the Chicago Dental Society.

Upwards of one thousand tooth extractors from all parts of the compass were in hand. A nation-wide movement of mouth hygiene was. to be launched looking' toward improvement of mouth conditions 'in children by means of instruction in schools. PEKING GOVERNMENT HAS ULTIMATUM FROM SOUTH. Peking, government here has received a note from Dr Sun Yat-sen, head of the new "extraordinary government" at Canton.

making three demands upon the administration. He asks dismissal of all militarists here, cancellation of the mandate announcing the union of the two great factions in the country and a pledge not to negotiate further foreign loans. BULLETINS (By the United Press) TRAINS COLLIDE ON NORFOLK SOUTHERN. Washington, N. Jan.

Two Norfolk Southern passenger trains collided at Bishop's Cross yesterday. One engine was capsized. The other engine was derailed. Engineer Green was injured but will recover. were badly shaken up.

The road was blocked for hours. Canadian Apples Shipped From the Dominion to Moth- er Country. Halifax, N. Jan. ship leaving the' eastern ports of Canada for the Bitish Isles is freighted with from 200 to 10,000 barrels of Canadian apples.

The eastern provinces produced a bumper apple crop. The yield of Ontario, the banner apple province, which includes the rich Niagara fruit. belt, was heavier than in 1919. Quebec and New Brunswick also set a higher mark. Nova Scotia's output of 900,000 barrels was the largest ever hervested.

British Columbia, at the opposite side of the continent, has become one of the important fruit growing regions of North America. Dr. Masaryk to Visit U. S. New York, Jan.

Alice Masaryk, daughter of the president of Czechoslovakia, and herself president of the Czechoslovak Red Cross, is planning to revisit America in March. NEGRO BURNED AT STAKE IN ARKANSAS (By the United Press) Nodena, Jan. Lowry, a negro, was burned at the stake here late yesterday by a mob which went more than a hundred miles to take him from officers. Lowry was charged with slaying O. T.

Craig, planter, and his daughter and wounding two other persons. BASEBALL FANS TO MEET AT CHAMBER COMMERCE Other Towns Want Kinston in League -As Season for Sport Nears Eastern Carolina Bugs Get Busy for Ball With the first signs of spring our fancy lightly turns to baseball bats and leathern mits. Lovers of baseball congregate to talk it over, anxious to see a good ball team here, anxious to join hands with neighboring places to get better acquainted with their ball nines, anxious to show their skill or enthusiasm for the best sport on earth. Our newspapers are clamoring for a ball team, and much valuable space has been given to stimulate interest in a really fine baseball team for Kinston. It is needed to advertise Kinston.

It is needed to afford us clean and splendid sport and wholesome entertainment, and it is needed to bring back to our cheeks the ruddy glow of youth. Already several inquiries have come to the Chamber of Commerce, insinuating that Kinston, the best and most progressive town in North Carolina, ought to be in a league with our neighboring towns, so that good healthy sport can be provided for the homefolks of all our sur rounding towns, and suggesting that Kinston is missing her chance. Kington to be sure can get a plethora of advertising by reason of also being one of the best baseball towns in the State. Enough enthusiasts are here to make up. a first class team; the time is ripe to form baseball club.

Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock there will be a rally meeting of all ball fans at the Chamber of Commerce rooms in the Hunter Building, brought there for a general discussion on the subject of baseball. Everybody interested in clean sport is courteously invited to be on hand. Similar meetings, are being held in other towns, and Kinston can no longer afford to lag behind. Good Home Talent Puts Over Big Success in Shrine Club's Minstrel. In spite of the worst muss handed out by the weather man here in years, a large audience saw the presentation of the Shrine Club's minstrel at the Grand Theatre Wednesday night.

The majority opinion was that the offering "very good" for home talent. It was far from a dull evening's entertainment handed out by Clifford Green and his cohorts. Popular demand will probably compel its early repetition. It was difficult to choose best numbers on the program. Some good voices were heard in popular songs.

The fun was much of it original, all of it bright. Some of the vaudeville skits were clever. the performers were ex- professionals. Green, who directed the rehearsals and performance and was mostly responsible for the teamwork and pep, is an oldtimer of the stage. The printed programs urged that the audience encourage the 'actors by generous applause, but the plaudits were not rendered for charity sake.

The stage settings were good, the music excellent and the whole performance more than could be expected of home talent. The professional musicians of the Grand orchestra helped the attraction immensely. Miss Gaynelle Heath was the musical director. Mrs, Eva Cummings was interlocutress. Lee Davis, Earl Brewer, Green himself, Julian Hassel, 0.

L. Shackelford and George Haskitt were the end men. Song "birds" and "birdies" were Misses Ella Haskitt, Marguerite Moore, Julia Moore, Louise Cummings, Ruth Harris, Ella Johnson, Blanche Lancaster, Florence White, Emma Roberson, Margaret Lane, Helen Harrell and Helen Parsong the Kinston City Schools scoring tremendously; Mesdames I. M. Lee, C.

L. Shackelford, Kola Farabow and Spencer, and J. Lewis Nunn, Ely Perry, J. G. Poole, Wiley Smith, Liston Mallard, Heber Gray, Mr.

Gardner, Edwin Oettinger, Mr. Williams, Richard Rhodes and others. The specialties included numbers by Mrs. Lloyd Wooten, Liston Mallard, Miss Johnson, Calkins Richardson, Shackleford Davis, Smith and Miss Louise Cummings, Green, little Miss Catherine Gray Rucker and also very small Miss Baker, Masters Vick and Stadiem and others. VESSEL OF SHIP'NG BOARD IN DISTRESS New York, Jan.

freighter Polar Bear, of the Shipping Board, is reported to be in distress miles off Ambrose Light. The steamer Argus is standing by, a radio message reported. HARDING WILL HAVE LIMITED PATIENCE WITH OUR NEIGHBOR Obregon Getting Last Opportunity to Make Mexico Behave Fletcher and Fall and President-Elect Laying Plans (By the United Press) Palm Beach, Jan. will be given "one more chance" to be good by the Harding administration, according to well-informed A general policy based upon this principle is expected to result from conferences aboard the houseboat Victoria among Harding, Senator Fall and ex-Ambassador Fletcher. If Obregon fails to pacify Mexico the United States' patience will be near the end and intervention will probably be the next step, it is said.

Sup't Indicted On Charge Whipping Convict -Case is Continued. A case in which Frank Rhem, superintendent of the Lenoir County roads, is charged with "mistreatment" has been continued to a spring term of Superior Court for trial. Rhem is alleged to have administered corporal punishment to John Lee Hadley, a negro convict. A grand jury investigation followcd the making of an affidavit late in 1920 by a man named Sparrow that Rhem had inflicted a vigorous beating upon Hadley. It developed that Sparraw had a relative on the county roads, and it was stated that the latter had been tied certain privileges at the stockade.

Several eye witnesses said the punishment was not severe. One grand jury failed to pass finally upon the matter. A second jury brought a true bill. Hadley, who suffered the alleged mistreatment, has served a number of terms. The whipping followed his rearrest after a delivery in which, it was charged, Hadley endeavored to free other prisoners.

Corporal punishment, specifically authorized by the county commissioners. has been the cause of several actions in the courts. Superintendent Rhem has denied that excessive punishment was imposed. He summoned a number of persons to witness it. It was the only effective means of disciplining the negro at his disposal, he said.

Reclaiming Farms Belgian Government Aiding Destititute Agriculturalists. By R. H. SHEFFIELD (United Press Correspondent) Brussels, Jan. but surely, the battle-worn farms of Flanders are coming into their own again.

Government is offering special favorable terms for the leasing of land for agricultural purposes, with a view to helping in this branch of national reconstruction. Belgian farmers are all "little" men; there is not a really big allotment in the kingdom. While it is true that there are spots, round about the Yser and elsewhere, that will not be available for cultivation for years, scattered up and down Flanders, are numerous farmlets which a couple of years ago, were little else than shell-ploughed wastes and eeries of the carrion crow. Quietly but effectively, the Belgian smallholder is coming back to his farm; and the Department of Agriculture is affording as much help as red tape and bureaucracy will admit. There were no leased farms in Belgium before the Every small holder owned his la.

Under the revived system of leasehold farms, the government has instituted special facilities to enable ruined farmers to rent land. These impoverished people could never after their heavy war losses, hope to buy their allotment. Mrs. Vanderbilt to Wed. New York, Jan.

Cathleen Neilson Vanderbilt, divorced from Reggie Vanderbilt in 1919, will be married to Sidney Colford, it was announced last night. EXONERATION FOR C. M. SCHWAB ANN'CED: (By the United Press) Washington, Jan. -The House committee investigating the Shipping Board has reached the conclusion that charges that Charles Schwab got $260,000 of government money for personal services during the war were "not proven and not true." The patriotic work of the steel man was highly praised by members of the committee.

RED CROSS OFFICER TELLS OF CAPTURE BY RUSSIAN REDS Bolsheviki Under Budenny Treated Him Fairly Well. Radicals Think America Starving--Met Bola Kun in Russia By Capt. Emmett Kilpatrick, of the American Red Cross. (Written for the United Press) We left Thedosia on October 24 in a box car assigned to the American Red Cross for relief work. I had received a letter from General Koutepoff, inviting me to come north to his headquarters and make an examination of conditions among the civilian population there.

After a two days' journey northward we arrived at Rickavo, where we left the box car and went by auto to the village of Sicragousy and thence to Rogacheck We had spent two days in our working of inspection of health conditions when we were notified that military conditions had tightened and it would be impossible for the military authorities to guarantee our safety. We were therefore ordered to retire and a drosky was furnished to take us back to Rickova. After thirty-four hours of travel we reached Rickova and rejoined our box-car, which was attached to a train going southward. Shortly before five o'clock in the evening we reached Novo-Alexevka. There was a wait in the station and we were just starting to pull out when there came the sound of guns.

I saw that the train was surrounded by a nondescript group of cavalrymen, evidently members of the Budenny Scouts. One of the Russian Red Cross orderlies, who constituted the crew of our relief car, turned pale and whis pered hoarsely, "We are surrounded by Bolshevists." I told him not to worry; that I was an American and that our car was protected by the American Red Cross insignia. Claimed Rights. One of the cavalrymen came to the door of the car and ordered us all to line up outside. A group, of guards, armed with swords and revolvers, surrounded us.

I explained to the group. that we were Red Cross workers, and i claimed for them all the rights and privileges of their humanitarian mission. "But you are helping the White Army," interrupted one of the soldiers. I told him that we would help a wounded man, no matter what his political or religious or military creed. There was a short discussion among the soldiers and it was finally decided to bundle us off along with everybody else aboard the train, which consisted largely of military cars.

Some of the soldiers went through my pockets and my baggage, taking whatever pleased their fancy. The first searcher took my watch and (money, -about a million roubles in Russian paper money. Finally two soldiers came along and ordered me to take off all my clothing, which was in better condition than theirs. I stripped down to my underwear, and they took away my shoes, leaving me barefoot. I.

was permitted, however, to keep a bathrobe. Continually new groups of soldiers came along and looked us over. Finally, a soldier directed us to follow him to the commanding officer 01. the detachment. The commander was engaged when we reached him, and told our guide that he didn't wish to be bothered with us.

So our subcommisar took us over to a peasant's cottage where there was a number of women and children from the train. We were treated, very kindly here. After about two hours, a great outcry arose outside. There was an alarm that a trainload of Wrangel troops were approaching, and our raiders prepared to evacuate hastily. It was midnight when we reached a small village.

We were put in a small room under guard, myself, Miss Kniajevitch and my two orderlies. The chief of the intelligence staff ques tioned me for an hour. He talked mainly about conditions in America and about the motives of the American Red Cross, which he praised highly. I talked with him frankly, particularly on conditions in America, but he insisted that all the working classes in America were starving and that the whole country was on the verge of revolution. There were about "sixty prisoners in the house with us.

Many of them were taken out during the night in) groups of eight or ten, probably eith-4 er for release or for enrollment in the cavalry. Some of them may have been executed, but I have no definite knowledge. In the morning, Miss Kniajovitch and I were sent back to Novo-Alexevka by the intelligence officer. Miss Kniajovitch was pressed into service as a nurse and I was asked to assist also in the care of the sick and wounded. I was very glad to do this.

gathered up some nondeseript clothing and makeshift shoes. A few days (Continued on page three.) ULSTER GETS READY WASH ITS HANDS OF REST OF IRELAND Hopes Be Separate Division by Christmas, McCann Discovers SINN FEIN PRECAUTIONS Plan to Elect Men to Proposed Belfast Parliament and Then Have Them Withdrawn to Render Body Inoperative BY CHARLES McCANN (United Press Staff Correspondent) Belfast, Jan. is preparto cut loose from the rest of Ireland and become sell-governing by Christmas. The Sinn Feiners are busy planning a campaign to prevent this and throw Northern Ireland into turmoil. This was the situation in Ulster as I found it today upon my arrival here to ascertain what steps are being taken to set up an independent parliament for the northern counties, as provided for by the recently passed home rule bill.

'The Sinn Fein is planning to elect men to the Ulster parliament and then order them not to sit, hoping that the organization will be rendered inoperative. Mean Business Moseley Hall "Irreconcilables" Much Prefer Wayne, Said. If left to a vote of the people the movement in Moseley Hall Township to secede from Lenoir. County and join the township to Wayne County would succeed, according to LaGrange men here today. They asserted that a large majority" of the residents: of LaGrange and the surrounding country would support the change at the polls.

In addition to the recent disappointment over the distribution of road moneys, past dissatisfactions over the personnel of the Board of County Commissioners and other reasons given for the discontent, Moseley Hall people are adding the 1920 tax assessments to their grievances, looking to Kinston as the source of this trouble also. Moseley Hall, one of the richest farming sections in the eastern part of the State, is almost a unit for the change, according to some accounts. The agitation for a change of counties is opposed by D. W. Wood, a former member of the Board of Commissioners from the township.

In Superior Court Results of the Grinding of Justice's Mill. The following cases have been called up in Superior Court: Blanche Rhodes, Rosa Rhodes, Jesse Teach and Dempsey Teach, perjury, mistrial. Jesse Wiggins, larceny, not guilty. Will Davis, larceny, guilty. Will Allen, carrying a concealed weapon, 60 days.

Eb. Humphrey, violation of prohibition laws, two cases, $25 and costs and prayer for judgment continued. J. B. Cummings, intoxication, two cases, $10 and costs, capias to issue if defendant, absent from city, returns and misbehaves within 18 months.

Felix Pittman, assault with a deadly weapon, carrying a weapon, continued. Frank Rhem, mistreatment, capias and continued. STORE SHEDS DOWN FROM WEIGHT SNOW Two or three hundred feet of corrugated iron and frame sheds are down in various parts of the city, (having collapsed under the weight of tons of snow piled up during the fifteen-hour precipitation Wednesday. Approximately 100 gave way at Queen and Shine streets. Pedestrians had narrow escapes when a heavy metal shed fell at Queen and North.

Other sheds before stores in Southleast Kinston and elsewhere collapsed. The streets are a foot deep in water at places, the sewerage system incapable of carrying off the floating ice and thawing snow. The street department cannot handle the situation, and a warmer temperature and more rapid thawing of the snow are hoped for. The snow is a foot deep in drifts. Rain is helping to melt it, while the temperature ranges a little below freezing with the wind fluctuluting between north and east..