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TOE DAIL PRE PRESS THE HOME PAPER -Today'e Nw" Today." "Head It First In" THE FREE, PRESS 3 VOL. 23. No. 197 FIRST EDITION KINSTON, N. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1920 SIX PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS GERMANY GOES NOT American Commissioner In-ternational Chamber Of Commerce NINE KILLED WHEN REPUBLICAN AIM IS TO RAISE BILLION A YEAR BY TARIFF HARDING GETS INTO TROPICAL WATERS; A PLEASANT VOYAGE REPRESENTS LUXEMRURY IN UNITED STATES.

BUTLER ENDORSEM'T HAS THEM STIRRED UP AT THE CAPITAL HELP HER CAUSE BY TENEMENT HOUSE THREAT TO LEAGUE I a Assembly Discusses Berlin's And Reduce Governmental Nearing Central America Other Bodies May Be in Kuins Sleepers Trapped by Flames Blaze May Have Started in Parked Perambulators Democrats Who Approve Him for National Cabinet Apt to Lose Out in Future Primaries, According to Gossip i J. -V mH. Expenditures by Fourth-Hoover is Capital Favor ite for Labor Secretary in Caninet (By the United Prees.) Washington, Nov. 20. A billion dollar tariff is to be the aim of publicans in the new Congress, Senator Republican whip, says.

lhis would be an increase of 000 from present duties. Curtis also hopes to reduce annual governmental expenditures to three billion instead of the four billion dol lars said to be necessary by Secretary Houston. Hoover Cabinet Favorite. Washington, Nov. 20.

Herbert Hoover is now being talked -of hen-more than any other person for fee rotary of labor in. Harding's cabinet. BULLETINS (By the United Press) PREMIERS TQ MEET. Paris, Nov. 20.

Official announcement was made today that Lloyd-George ant) Premier Ley-guoH will meet at London next week to discuss international problems, affecting their coun-- tries. FIRE ON RIVER FRONT. New Orleans, Nov. 20. Damage placed by the police and insurance' men at two million dollars was suffered by the Cuya-mel Fruit Steamship Company today when fire, said to have started from sparks, swept through the company's shed on the river front.

CRITICIZES COUNCIL. Geneva, Nov. 20. Delegate Rowel of Canada' today criticized the U-aRue 'council, declaring it wasted time on secondary problems, and immediate settlement of the Polish-Lithuanian territorial dispute. GREEK FOREIGN POLICY.

Athens, Nov. '20. The new Greek cabinet Is reported to be preparing a note declaring the foreign policy of the new Statement it will Disregard Treaty Clause NEW TROUBLE IN EAST Reports Say. Lithuanians and Bolsheviki Plotting a N'3v Attack on Poland-Defiance of Germany Resented (By the United Press) Geneva, Nov. 20.

The hour for universal disarmament has not arrived. La Fontaine of Belgium Bald today in. addressing the assembly of the League of Nations. He Insisted that the economic situation Bs the most important confronting the declaring the league should rest upon the strength national arm Its rather than on the strength of no one. He demand- cd formation of an international general staff and immediate employment of international forces under the league in behalf of Armenia.

His remarks were greeted with tremendous ap- plause. -r Geneva, Nov. 20. How i to meet Germany's threat to disregard the clause of the treaty involving allocation of her colonies under, various mandates was the man question before the league assembly today. The German defiance is believed have increased opposition to her admission to the league.

Red Concentration. Berlin, Nov. 20. A wireless state- ment from Moscow today announced tint the Russian government had encompeuew (o carry vu w' to the Polish neutral zone. owing to Balakovitch'8 attacks.

According to dispatches from. Warsaw 15 Red dl Visions have been 7 concentrated on the Polish front. Poland in Danger Again. Paris, Nov. Lithuanian representatives in Moscow are negotiating with the Bolshevists for a military of- fensive against Poland, advices from the Soviet capital say.

Kaiserin Better Crown Prince Returns Weiringen. to Home at (Bv the United Press) Doom, Holland, Nov. 20. The former German kaiserln's condition has so improved that the former crown prince has returned to Weiringen, it is learned. It is.

however, that she is still seriously 111 as a result of a heart attack. MARKET TO BE CLOSED HALF OF COMING WEEK. The local tobacco market will be open only half ot next week, according to announcement by" the Board of Trade. Sales will' be held the first three days. Business will be suspended Wednesday night for Thanksgiving, and will remain suspended through Friday, ordinarily the last Mies day of the week.

Seize Breweries Than Legal Amount of Alcohol in Products. (By the United Press) Cincinnati, 20; Seizure of he Jackson end Herancourt brewer-is to be. consummated today on receipt of authority from Washington Tire seizure will result from an lamination of samples of beer at the breweries alleged to contain more than the legal amount of alcohol. I Spends Most of Time on Deck Record Trip for Liner Carrying the Pres ident-Elect (By the United Preas) Aboard the Parismma, by Wireless to New Oilcans, Nov. 20.

The liner FarisminacajTying Harding to the Canal Zone on his vacation trip, is making record time entering the Carribean Sea. Harding has spent most of his time on deck since tbe start of the trip, strolling about, smoking his pipe and chatting with passengers. The -weather is modeiate, raputiy becoming tropical, and the sea Is calm. Harding is due at Cristobal shortly." Child's Needs Discussed by Dr. Ahxher nnd MiMK Sihwarberg at Welfare Meeting, The monthly meeting of the Child Welfare Department of the Kinston Community Club was held in tho Sunday school rooms of the First Baptist Church Thursday afternoon.

There was a good attendance and a splendid program was rendered. Dr. D. C. Abeher, county health of ficer, spoke on tbe physical needs of the child be tween the ages or a and and Miss Schwarbere.

principal of the Caswell Training School, read a most interest ing and beneficial paper on the help a mother can give a rapidly developing child between 2 and 6. Her remarks touched on both the moral and intel lectual needs of the child. Some appropriate musical selections were given. A duet by Misses Uay- nelle Heath and Natalie and a solo by Miss Heath were thoroughly enjoyed. Mrs.

T. Meley was ac companist, hosts for the social part of the program were Mewlumes Ira M. Hardy, D. T. Edwards-andrioe Temple.

Refreshments were served. TO HAVE CHRISTMAS IN WEST KINSTON. A Christmas tree will be had by the Caswell -Mill workers this year. It will probably be set upvin the new community house near the mill A good sum for the tree was realized nt a box party a few evenings ago. The Interstate Commerce Commission reports that during the first seven months of 1920 the number of net tons of freight carried one mile which is the real measure of "railroad efficiency was 248,900,000,000 or 32, 293,000,000 -more than for the corresponding period of 1919.

It was more than for 1918. So that thftj'oJume of freight traffic carried byvthe railroads 4nr the first seven months of 1920, despite the switchmen's strike, exceeds the net service during the period of federal cohtrolT Official statistics show also that the average mileage per freight ear per day increased from 24.2 in Au- gust, 1919, to 27.4 in August, 1920, and that the average tonnage per car increased from 28 tons in August, 1919, to 29.8 tbhiln-August, 1920. This shows that the railroads are not only giving batter service through moving unprecedented traffic' but are giving more efficient service-by increasing the tonnage per car and the distance each car is moved, getting more service out of iitiil inadequate number of cars. Federal Ficures. At the end of federal control the' average number of miles per car per duy was 22.3 and the average tonnage of each car was 28.3.

The figures for last August show that the gain in car movement was 23 per cent, and this was topped by a gain of more than 5 per cent, in tons per car. As there are in Use in the United States at present 2,350,000 freight cars, such a growth in efficiency has added the equivalent of at least 500,000 cars to the service of the inner of the country, All car loading records have also been broken, thus still further increasing efficiency. During the 12 weeks from August 1 to October 23, inclusive, cars loaded with revenue freight totaled 11,654,567, which is without parallel in American railroad history. During the same period this year 2,513,138 cars were loaded with commercial coal as compared with cars for the same weeks last year, or an increase of 100,889 cars. Since September the railroads are operating on their own resources under the new rates but without any government guarantee.

The cost of operating the railroads Is now paid by the users of railroad service passengers and shippers and not in any part by the taxpayers of the country. RAILROADS OF COUNTRY MAKING MORE MONEY; SERVICER IS BETTER (By the UnKad Preas) New York, Nov. 20. Nine were killed in a tenement house fire in Harlem today. The ruins are being searched: for more bodies.

The remains of three children were the first removed from the The fire drove 100 tenants from their beds at 5 o'clock this morning and spread so rapidly that many were trapped in their rooms. Many terrified people were carried lown ladders by firemen. It is be lieved the fire started among wicker baby carriages in the lower hall. For a Million Enough Lettuce for That Number From Single Farm. (By the United Prees.) Pueblo, Nov.

20. Georsre J. Ton believes he has just claim to the title of head lettuce king. During the last season, which opened July 12 and has just closed, Ton shipped 23,000 crates of his product to eastern mar- Keis. mat many crates are equal to 75,000 dozen! or approximately 900,000 heads of lettuce.

This was grown on 120 acres in small plots at the foot of the mountains in the San Isabel forest reservation. Plans for next year's crop include the sowing of several thousand acres in head lettuce. AH Back to Greece Royal Family Invited to Return by Premier. Paiis, Nov. 29.

An Athens dispatch today "said' Premier Rhallis had invited all the Greek royal family, including Constantine, to return to Athens. BAD WEATHER KEEPS FISHING CRAFT HOME Beaufort, N. Nov. 20. Bad weather recently caused many fishing boats to remain in harbors along the coast.

Strong northeast winds kept the ocean in a turmoil a part of the week. Every vessel that could find safe anchorage lost no time in getting to it. The Coast Guard with its sea plane force was unusually vigilant during the week. One menhaden ves sol from this port was caught by a gqle off Hatteras and tied up in Oregon Inlet for days. TURKEY SHORTAGE IS APPARENT IN CITY.

Five days before the decapitation of the Thanksgiving turkey in the aver age back yard is due to come off many local families are facing a turkcyless Thanksgiving and Aunt Chloe is calt culating she will escape the "clean ing" for the once. The turkeys haven't "turned up." In some deal ers coops here the festive gobbler hasn't put in an appearance yet, nor his sister. Merchants recall similar hortages in recent years which chang ed into glutted markets when poultry breeders, wailing for a high Christ mas market, brought too many birds into tho city at a time. Due Nobel Prize Will Probably Be Awarded President Wilson. Stockholm, Nov 20.

A local newspaper today declared- President Wilson will probably be awarded the Nobel peace prize. MEN CAUGHT IN RAID AT LIBERTY UNDER BOND. Willie Lee and Ed. Smith, who were arrested Friday when Norwood Evans, federal agent, and Patrolman Henry P. Hart raided a North Kinston barbe cue stand, have been released in bail to await trial in the United States court.

Several Quarts of whiskey were found when the officers searched the place, a part of the contraband masquerading as "soft" beverages in about 20 "pop" bottles. One of the men is a second offender, according to. authorities. Crimson Favored Odds 10 to 3 Against Yale in New Haven Betting. (By the United Preei) New Haven, Nov.

20. Seven thou sand fans are here foe the annual football classic between Harvard and Yale. The betting is 10 to three in favor of Harvard. (By MAX ABERNETIIY) Raleigh, Nov. 20.

Democratic office holders who are booming Marion Republican leader, for secretary of agriculture in the Harding cabinet are going to have the time of their lives in staving off defeat when election years roll around: because Pemocratic voters are going to see to it that the endorsers of "Mary Ann" are sidetracked In the primaries. lhis is tho threat that is beinir onen. ly made at the capital today by Democrats Who are jealous of their re cord and the party. From a personal viewpoint they are not getting mad with their colleagues for sun Mr. Butler but the line is dk-iwn In political circles, and those Democrats who have not and will never endorse the former United States senator love their party more than they do folks who, they say, have "gone out the Democratic path to make asses of.

themselves." Plain talking is the rage with them. W. F. McCulloch, who is an annointee of Governor. Bickett as cashier of th State prison and who will not be ousted by Governor Morrison, speaks for publication gladly.

Democrat who endorses Marion Butler will not receive my support for anything, Mr. McCulloch declares. But he will do his fighting in the primaries. Mr. McCulloch- is not a stranger in the Democratic fold, for he has been working long and hard for the party and is a power in the Cape Fear section.

Then there are scores of Democrats who are not afraid to say that they dislike the Butler endorsement by Democrats. vM, Shipman, commissioner )f labor and printing? Insurance Commis8ionerrEloct Stacy Wade, Col. Jas. R. Young and about ali other prominent Democrats Can be ponded upon.

For years there has been an agitation amongst the Democrats to "clean the capitoL This i of course, that Major W. A. Graham. J. Bryan Grimes and Ben R.

Lacy, commissioner of agriculture, secretary of state and State, treasurer; should be retired to private life, and the long tenure of these three, may be brought to an end four years hence because each and every one appear to have signed tho endorsement of Mr. Bugler. Commissioner Graham may expect to be pestered with opposition, for he not only endorsed Mr. Butler but is sending to his friends a signed letter urging the appointment. The commissioner says that he dislikes Butler, the politician, hut finda no fault with Butler, the farmer.

This only makes the madder Democrats who are not on the list of signers. ,1 Passenger Kates, Testifying before Examiner Thos. P. Healey, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, here yesterday H. F.

Cary, general passenger agent of the Southern, said that the railroads are losing, six-tenths of a cent ner mil on all intrastate passemrer busineaa in North Carolina as well as losing a con- omc-iuuiB amount oi money by reason of interstate passengers buying passage to the State line at three cents and then buying tickets for the re- niainder of their trip. The hearing was held so that t)i -railways could be given an opportunity to establish the existence of discrimination against interstate rates Dy intrastate lares in North Carolina. While all of the carriers operating in North Carolina were represented at the hearing by their officials or attorneys Mr. Cary was the principal witness. All of the states in the Southern group, he said, had nut int effect the 3.6-cent passenger fares with the exception of North and South Carolina and Louisiana, the result be ing that the other states are discriminated against because of the lower fares charged passengers of these three states.

Such a condition was represented as discriminatory and as causing financial losses to the carriers and demoralizing the entire passenger rate structure. The evidence will be presented to the Interstate Comma. Commission at Washington and a ruU ing maae later. A nardon haa granted by Governor Bickett to Jack Smith, Northampton County convicted at the August, 1916 term of Superior Court and sentenced to seven years in the State's prison for uauomugnier. ine prisoner has made a model prisoner and the judge, solicitor and county officials nf w.iiw County petitioned for the pardon.

luemoersmp in the State Teachers' Assembly today passed the 8 000 mark, according to an announcement here by A. T. Allen, of the executive committee. This number more than 50 per oent. of tho ers in Noith Carolina.

(0YlttOHT.CI.INtOINT. WMMiNftTU Frederick P. former dean Qt Columbia OolleK and now dlicct-or pf foreign operation ot tho American Red Cross, who has been chose ft by the Chamber ot Commerce ot the United Stales to be the American Administrative Commissioner at tho headquarters of the newly formed International Chamber of Commerce at Paris. Each ot tho principal countries having1 membership in the international chamber will be entitled to maintain a commissioner and a staff In Paris. Thousands Die Cholera Rages in the Richest Chinese Province.

(By the United Prcsi) Chengtu, Szeehuen Provincial Capital, China. (By Mail.) Hundreds of bodies strewn on the streets, with carrying coolies falling dead while they attempt to bear caskets to the grave mounds, are some of the gruesome sights to be seen in Chengtu today. Cholera has stricken this, the richest province in all China, and its widespread disaster is directly chargeable to the militaristic bickerings which have sent this ancient nation to the iv verge of disaster. With eight militaty factions engaged in outlawry, aze chuen province is in dire straits. Ci ties have been violated, residents out raged and the country districts thrown into fuch a state of panic that the farmers are afraid to bring their pro duce to the markets because of the menace of the roving bands of sol.

dieny. Foreign Doctors. Foreign medical men took up the fight against cholera when it became epidemic and had made fair headway towards controlling the disease. Then the Southern army invaded the pro vince and the Szechuenese army di vided into many groups of warring factions The populace became so frightened that the health regulations imposed "By the" foreigners were ignored and soon the death list here alone mount ed as high as 1,000 persons Need Big Sum. In tho meantime a political move ment of grave portent is on Lu Chao, head of the military organization known as the Fifth Division, has taken charge of the capital city as military governor.

In the meantime, Hsuing Keh-wu, who was driven from that post by Lu in July, has gone southward to join forces with Liu Tsen-hou, who he drove out of the office two years ago by force of arms Now the pair of former enemies are uniting in a common cause against Lu Chao. Estimates have been made that at S200.000.000 must be raised to relieve the present famine situation. White House Turk Is Handsome Pounds- Bird Weighing -From Texas. 30 (By the United Press) Washington, Nov. 20.

Wilson's tur-Upv. 30-counder from the Cureo, chamber, of 'commerce, today. arrived merce, members say, does not intend ta wait for another war to give the to delay construc tion of an adequate station another three or four years, The body is planning a membership drive and a "community smoker" for December. Best boosters in town will be. drafted to "shake 'em up.

are Van Jlervie, the secretary, will direct the "go-an-get-'em" squads. fi. the Chamber of torn- merce will be interested in next year Baron Raymond da Wahn, Secretary of AKrtcaltui In the Luxemburg cabinet, who liaa yOome to Washington ai the Charprt d'Aflfalfl of Iuxomburir, and Is Its first representative here. Huron do Waha takes soma pride In the fact that he In the son ot a former Civil War veteran. His father JIathias de Waha fought through the Civil War and was wounded at Petersburg In 1S64.

John L. Tull Native of Lenoir County Passes Away at Sanford. John Tull, a native of this coun ty, died at his home in Sanford Saturday moining at 4:30 o'clock after an illness of some duration. Burial will be given in Maplewood Cemetery here Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Pas tor B.

P. Smithy of Gordon Streot Christian Church will conduct the fun eral service. Mr. Tull was a half brother of Dr. Honry Tull of Kinston and Mrs.

Geo Grimsley of Greensboro. He was a brothm. -of Mrsi E. J. Bocton, Mrs.

G. W. Tull and Ike and Ed Tull. IW. sides these relatives his wife survives him.

remains will reach Kins t.in Saturday night at 11:20 and will bi carried to' the residence of Bee- ton, on North Queen Street. Mr. Tull was 50 years of age. He ft Kinston and went to Montana when a young- man. He was a railroad constructor and has resided at San ford for sometime.

1 HORSELESS PROGRAM FOR THANKSGIVING DAY, Old Dobbin will (be ruled off the track when speed fiends of a numbej- of towns assemble- here next Thursday for the races. The auto will have the course to itself, Horsemen who a few weeks ago proposed a program of trots and paces cave abandoned the idesj and will not seek to "get mixed up 1 With" the cars, The, track has been tested out with speedy machines; and declared safe. The numbeV of entrants will bo large and every precaution will be taken against accidents. Cars have been entered so far from Richmond, Norfolk, Raleigh, Washington, N. C.r Kinston and several other places.

EVANGELIST HAD OWN' WAY OF GETTING COIN. Washington, N. Nov. 20. According to a story going the-rounds here a famous evangelist in a neighboring town made the announcement from the pulpit a night or two ago that a certain resident of the place ought to be exposed for his sins, buti that, if ho contributed $10 to the night's collection he would be spared the embarrassment of having his name called out and his shortcomings enumerated.

The. story has it that when the collection was taken there were 85 $10 notes in the plates, together with five notes asking the preacher to "keep quiet for God's sake," the five notes being from men short of change who promised to remit next day. CANNING FACTORY TALK REVIVED BY PROGRESSIVES. Chamber of Commerce officials are considering a canning factory for this city. It is believed outside capital will locate the plant here if farmers will cooperate.

The plant would be the first of the kind for Kinston. Chamber of Commerce members Say it would encourage the production of truck and improve local market conditions. Many farmers would be willing to grow beans, tomatoes and other crops under contract, they believe. 'Plane Turns Up Santa Maria Reaches Port With Her 9 Passengers. Jacksonville, Nov.

19. The passenger hydroplane Santa Maria, carrying nine persons, reported to be lost between Key West and Havana last night, has arrived safely, according to wireless dispatches received here. Bv W. S. MANN (Copyright, 1920) Washington, Nov, 20.

Members of Congress who are being besieged by proponents of the Glenn Plumb plan for operation of the railroads and for broader government ownership legislation are receiving from official sources reports and statistics showing that the railroads under restored private ownership and operation are increasing their earnings and giving far better service. 1 This latter consideration is of prime importance in the opinion of members I of Congress who have lost, all inter-1 est in the Plumb plan. From confi- dential sources also it is learned that Glenn E. Plumb himself is discouraged and is ready to quit the fitlht. Nothing startling, sensational or drastic 'is to be expected from Congress in the way of railroad legislation.

The members of the commerce committees of both House and Senate and the members of Congress generally are well satisfied with the record made by the railroads since they have gone back to private During the first six months of re stored private ownership the railroads ate into the government guarantee fund to the extent of the guarantee being a standard return equal to the average earning of the roads during a "test period" prior to government control and was 4.85 per cent, on the valuation of the railroads by the Interstate Commerce Commission. This draft upon the. govern ment guarantee, however, was to four causes for which the private ownership was not responsible: (1) The roads were returned March I without having their rates readjust ed to the existing higher levels of wages, increased prices of coal and other materials and higher taxes. 2) Shortly after (July 20) the Labor Board raised wages again for a total of about $625,000,000 a year and made the increase retractive to May 1. This alone added to the de ficit approximately $208,000,000.

(3) That the adjustment in railroad rates necessary to meet these costs could not be determined for six months and could not be made retroactive. (4) The roads were returned with maintenance of equipment so much behind that extraordinary expenditures were inevitable to handle the un precedented traffic demands. WILL MAKE COMING YEAR BEST CHAMBER COMMERCE HAS KNOWN Getting a new hustle on and prom- ismg to wake tm tho oi nn in I i DUSinpKS feom the namber of Commerce has decreed 1920 shall be the "biggest development year" Kinston has ever Known. It will make a few protests "gainst certain conditions during the next few weeks. It has gone on re-7rd Eainst further telephone increases and will start interrogating the gam as to when, if ever, wey intend to build a union station in the One of the will include besides the union roads put a few patches of new plas- erection of an eight- or 0-atory ho-tero the stucco-effect exterior of Its tel.

better railroad facilities water thon this was taken as a transportation, new omen. The union station here has establishments, mtprove-nent of Planned and has existed on the conditions, better housmg conditions "re postcards the last seven or more buildings and the improvement years. The Chamber of Com- of the school system..