North Carolina Newspapers

CLAIM FOR A BILLION DOLLARS k U. S. PimmU Hot Bill to Gorman? for War Damagci Waahington, May SO.—America'* bill of war rlalma againat Germany, amount* to |1,4?9,064>S1S.91 It hai boon prvae'ntrd to th« mixed claima rommiaaion, for a«ttlement. * Tho Unitod State* government, It •olf la tho Wgeat rlaimant. aaking for MM,111,000. whilo tho amalloot of tho 12,416 claima filled with tho commloaion ka for 11. Heading the llat of claima by in dividual* arc thoao growing out of tho ainkinr of tho Lualtania by ■ Gorman lubmarino. Thoy total $22, •06,000 and may bo diapoeed of firat by tbo rommiaaion. Germany having already admitted liability, but no definite amount The atupondoua total involved in the proceeding ia revealed for tho firat time In a report to the elate de partment by Robert C. Iforria. agent for the United Statee before the com miaaion. Work on determining the amount* Germany muat pay already baa been begun by tho rommiaaion. which organized laat October and which eonalata of Edwin Parker, of Tasaa, American commlaaionar, and vi. w niwun awiHiMcn, utnntn commissioner, with former Justice Day of the Supreme court u umpire. How toon the commission can com plete its work cannot be estimsted, bat it is *o be expedited through class ification by Mr. Morris of most of the claims into test esses, by which i one decision of the commission will determine the law and prin ciples to be applied to claims of simi lar character. The American claims are to be dis . posed of without regard to the allied reparations claims, the report of Mr. Morris disclosing that the commission has entered a farms I ordar that "the machinery pmUai by the Versailles treaty and the rules and methods of procedure thereunder governing the disposition of claims, including repa ration claims; so called neutrality claims; claims growing out of excep tional war mesures to be dealt with by mixed arbitral tribunals shall have no application to, and are not bind ing on. this commission." Neither is the door shut agaiipt the United States or its citixens to increase the amount* of the claims presented Mr. Morris having stipulat ed, on behalf of the American govern ment, and Germany having accepted a proviso permitting the claims to be changed in amount later if circum stances and the facts disclosed should require. The report of Mr. Morris also dis closed the machinery and rules set up for disposal of the American rlaims by the commission. Details of the commission's organisation, with ad dresses by the Amerfcan and German representatives indicating a friendly spirit and desire for accord also were made public. The largest claim lilted in the repoprt is the American gov ernment's of !2t>f>.M4,810.63 for costs of the army of occupation in Ger many, now under negotiations with the allies in Paris by Assistant Sec retary Wads worth of the treasury. It is underxtood, however, this claim will not be pressed in the event the Paris negotiations result in an agree ment Other government claims are ior »oi,z«x>,o£!i.£o ior general aam ajffn growing out of German subma rine warfare; 137,982,000 by the vet eran* bureau for war risk premium*; $5,380,000 by the railroad admini* t ration and $40,076 for war risk pre mium* of the (hipping board. The $1 claim i* presented by Emory Robert* for Ion* of property while a German prisoner of war. There are a few other *mall claim* 1^. of $1.60 and $2 for loaa of parrel port ' property by shipper*, but most of the claim* run up into hundred* of thouaand* and million*. Every class of American shipping, manufacturing and business concerns, is found among the large list of- claims, all of wboae name* are diacloeed in the report* w hat their addresses are withheld. * The largest individual claim* are $100,000,000 by Roger B. McMulWn for alleged patent infringement* and one by Willi** i. Quillon for $#«, 000,000 from German submarine war far*. Other large individual claim* include. Karl Schiller, $I1.M2.000 en ttttled "eonaeqoence of war. and Ar tel) and Dooglaa. $*.660,000. co+e qoeoce of war. Tfce largeet l.usiUnis claim U $6,000.000 for Use death of fnd 8 Peareon. plus $*00,000 (or the deati ^J| at Ward Pearson Other larg« Luaitania claim* include those o hair* of HtllM of the following: Charln Klein, Now York theatri cal producer, ll.76S.000. Juatua Mllea, foreman, $100,000 Chariot Frohman, another formal Now York theater magnate, 1260,000 A If rod Q. Vanderhilt, 9250,000. Samurl and Solomon Freledman $.142,000 Moat of the I.ualtama claim* raru-i from $10,000,000 U. $100,000. UrummI Reacuea Told of Terrible Diaater Camden, 8. C. May IS. Aa thii | community today overrame it* horroi 'a* the.result of the Cleveland school houae fire, atoriaa of heroiam, unpaual rescue* and inciderit* of varioua kind* during tha time the building wii burning, bagan to come to light. At flrat all war* too atunned to talk. Rev. J. J. Johnaon, paator of a Cam Jen Baptiat church, saved his two lit tle daughter*, but waa unable to aava his 10-year-old aon. Rev. Mr. John aon waa the apeaker of the evening at the commencement eierriaee of th« little achool. When the audience be gan leaving the second floor auditor ium he took his two daughters in his arma. He lead hia aon by the hand. Nearing the door the minister lost ma Kiip "ii wir uwy. nc njaiiwu uar* several times in an effort t» regain hi* hold on the little fellow. "This U me daddy. This is me," the child cried out. Then hi* voice was (moth ered in the niah of the crowd to get out and he was, apparently trampled under foot. He never waa seen alive again by any one who eacapad and his body had not been identified to night. One man whose name could not be learned placed a flag pole against the side of the burning building. Fifteen persona slid down to safety. One of those who escaped by this method was a woman 70 years old. Who is the outstanding hero de veloped by the firs, may U AjrJZ* tion of dispute but to many one of the outstanding heroes of the occa sion will be a boy who waa not even at the fire. He Is Thompson Davis, 17. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Davis, and two sisters were burned to death in the fire. Today he stood in the Beulah church yard surrounded by sheeted and charred figures. Asked what he knew about the fire he saicfc "Don't know very much. I wasn't there. But I lost my mother and fa ther and two oldest sisters, Lena and Ida May. They were 14 and 12. At home there's a little brother about nine months and three more little sisters. They are two, five and six. They and me are all that's left. But I guess I ran help some. I guess I ran do it." Almost iirUntly a dozen hands were thrusts into pockets and men who had heard his assertion thrust bills into his hands. The boy hesi tated but finally was prevailed upon by an elderly man to take the money. "You've got a big load fco carry," son," the man told him. Ill do my best sir, I'll do my best," the boy re plied. A tall young man pinned helpleaa to the wall by the bodies around him and with his clothes biasing, according to a man who said he saw the incident when he was trying to save his own daughter, shouted out above the tu mult, "Look everybody! I*t'a all smile! Watch me and see how a man ran die!" Only a few seconds the wall against which he stood gave way and he fell into the hungry flames. Another father plunged back into the fiery entrance and tried to extri cate his son from th mass of the dead and dying. The boy's head was caught under the body of another i victim, but when his father grasped . his hand and tried to pull him out, 1 the boy recognising the touch of his parent's hand, cried out: "Is it you, daddy? You mustn't die, too. Leave j me and help the others." ■ 960 Blue-eyed Btfciw Offered For Adoption /Glasgow, Ky, May 1«.—When Mn Alan Farquhar, a childless Canadian woman wrote to t'onimiaa loner Henry Lamb that the wiahad to adopt I blue-eyed baby ihr opened up ait un expected drove of 8f< ttish childhood When her wiah bttinr known Uh commissioner received MO offer* el babies for adoption. One mother mil with her letter the pedigree of tlx child ahe was willing to give away The p»*gTM nui back lo tflOO years L^v HOME AGENTS WERE BUSY LAST MONT* Not in Surry But in Oth«r Wide-awake Count iae Thr following report* hava beer •aaued by Ml** Pauline Smith, dt* trlct aupervisor, of the demonatratior work dona In Hartford and Berti« count if* during lha month of April. Hertford Count; Mi** Swindell of Hartford rount) I* concentrating bar efforts on cloth Ing with lha woman; *port hat* foi girl* and mail planning With tha girl* Twenty dmi form* have been order ad thi* month, and in on* *chool twan ty-nne sport hats hava been made Tha negro garden campaign ha* bear waged in all (action* of the county. . The meeting* wen arranged by tha negro *uperviaor, and MUa Swindell explained the campaign and gave out the folder* giving the gardening in *t ruction*. Field daya fl, office daya 4, clubi vtatted IB, attendance 184, schooli < vialtad 12, attendance IMS, confer encea 78, articlea tor publication B, home* viiited I, letters aent IK, bul letin* SM, mile* auto B44, demonitra tiona 16. Bertie ('Mat; Mia* Harry of Bertie county closed her bread campaign the 28th. The Windsor paper »ay« of it: "Grand Bread campaign and rally day a great ■uccea*. County bays and girl* in vade the city! Forty-four school* rep 1 resented. Saturday, April the 29th marked the Closing of Bertie Coun ty'* fint 'campaign for better bread.' And it wan a aucceaa from every view point, from attendance, from the ex hibition of bread; and from the en thuaiaam manifested by every one. Everybody seemed to understand that better bread mean* better health, less indigestion and happier hotaee. There were five hundrad biscuits en exhi bition; and after everybody who eoald had inspected them and resisted the temptation of 'sampling,' they were carried to thr inmates and prisoners. -Prior to the "Rally Day, Mis* Harry, the efficient and energetic Home Demonstration Airent. had con ducted a contest in every one of the forty-four white achool* in the rounty. The winner* in each of these ochools wer» announced last week. This con test decided the best biscuit makers in the respective school*. Then theae 'winners' in the variou* Schools were pitted againat one another in a cor. te*t to decide the beat biscuit maker* in the whole county. And *o this end about five hundred biacuita. baking powder bincuitx und aoda biscuits were brought to Windsor right fresh from the oven, and the Home Demonstra tion Agent* from Washington and Edgecombe counties judged the beqt. The judging was no easy matter; for any biacuit among them would have been fit for the table of kings. How ever, the decision was made and we give below the successful contestants and the winners of the prites." Before the name* of the successful one* were announced, a very intereat ing program was rendered. Min* Wallace, Assistant State Agent made a most excellent addreaa and Mr. Mabee, of the Entomology De ; partment, and Judge Winston made j speeches. From all reports the oc casion was most *uccessful in spite of a steady downpour of rain. Field day* 22, office day* 2, club* visited 21, attendance 471, school* viiited 54, attendance 1537, total meetings held and attended 1243, con ference* 407, number of article* for publication 10, home* visited 6, letter* »ent 144, circular letter* 181, bulle tin* 60, miles auto 996. demonstra tions 12. i nc jixv or um JW The si*e of the flower, the plant, the tree, does not depend on the *i*e of the teed. The term in the aeed, the soil ami the cultivation are prime factor*. The great bwines* house* of the next feneration art the (mail shop* of today, perhaps on the aid* street and not so wall and generally known. Among the prime factors in the growth from these small beginnings to (rest buainesa houses is publicity consistent, efficient advertising from the vary beginning. The Review expects to see some o< 1 iU present moderate advertieers oc cupying the prominent comers in 1 years to come— l "Tall treee from little aconw grow.* Laarn to advertise and than edvar | Ueel—KsidavHle Review BIG SCHOOL DISASTER IN I SOUTH CAROLINA 62 Victim* of Fir* Buri««l h On* Graft Camden, I. C.. May 18-Bathed li the flory of a letting South Carofin ■un. <12 bbdira, that leaa than 34 hour before had been fun-loving men, wo men and children, late tonight wer placed on one big crave in Beulal Methodiat church yard. Thiae thousand South Carolinian led by Governor Thomaa G. McLeo<l rathe red from all parta of the atat to pay a I ait tribute to thoaa who hai periahed in the buring flame* of th achoolhouae, through the brief, aim pie funeral aervice. The bodiea were thoae out of th at leaat 79 dead which could not tx identified. They ware buried witkii • few hundred yarda of the apo where on laat night they gather* for the commencement exerciaea o: the community achool and where ai oil lamp, daahad from ita hanger oi the ceiling over the auditorium atagc had turned the little country achoo into • funeral pyre. Laat night waa to have been tki laat uae of the atructur* aa a achoo building. There were report! toda] that it had been condemned, bu County Superintendent of Educatioi Murrkiaon said the building waa be ing abandoned becauae of conaolida tion of three ichoola and that it hat not been declared unaafe. The achoo to have held ita annual picnic to day. Sheriff Welch of Kenhaw count] late today announced that owing U the fact that there were so many ey witnesses and that the cause ef th« death* was established •arithout doubt there would be no inquest. "Sometime with toarless eye* weT ue and sometime well understand," Um choir compeeed ef the beat vote* tim the iliuiitw In Clmden and oth er parti of the eoanty sang. Tear* stood in the eyea of many i .Strong men wept, many holding ir their arm* little tot* orphaned by th< fire, come of them deeping. Banked high with flower* the fresh ly made grave. 40 by 12 feet in the quiet peace of those who but a *cant 20 hours before were planning with joyous anticipation the visit to the little school house to see the comedy playlet, 'Miss Topsy Turvy," present ed as part of the commencement exer cises of the Cleveland graded school. Governor McLeod in a brief talk and in a voice touched with emotion, said: "I wish something I could say, something that would assuage the grief within your hearts or that I could relieve my own heart and as s servant whom you have honored, 1 bring to you the loving sympathy of our state from the mountains to the sea. And not only thes ympathy ol the state but of all the nation. All over thi* land tonight, mother* and father* will breathe a prayer for you in your bereavement." The undertaker and thoae in charge of the bodie* say that there possibly are bodies of one or two person* bur ied in the grave with the unidentified dead who were not Known to hav« | been in the auditorium last nifht. The condition of the bodies wai such that it was impossible to mak< ! an accurate check. Fourteen of tlx | dead were identified and funeral ser vices will be held for them tomorrow in Camden, at Beulah church and a< I Antioch. Auto* Furnish Bulk of CroMing Victimi Atlanta, lia., May 19.—Automobile? figured in 81 percent of the accident! which occurred at crossing* of pub lie highway* with track* of the South ern Railway System during 1922. Out of 474 crossing accidents, StW were in connection with autoncbiles Sixty-seven occupants of automob;lei were killed and 194 injured out of < total of 86 persona killed and 274 injured in such accidents There were M accident* involvir.i other vehicle* and street cars it which four persons were killed and Gf injured, and 26 accidents to pedes triana, of whom IS were killed anc It injured. These figures are contained in i statement issued by the Safety De parUnent of the Southern, calling at tention to the a taming increase oi crossing accidents since the aotomo Mle has coara into general use, I mil eating that driven of motor ears d< not take the sane precautions al i reelings that are taken by driven I of other vehicle* and by pirtsslriani ! CAPTIVES FACE DEATH B1 CHINESE —— i For.irB.rt Will B* KHUH Un Um ChiMM Government AcU Quickly. Poking. May It.—Fl/tMB foreigner ■Ui of them A mrrx ana unu of then 111, all of them unary, bniiaed am footsore, poorly fed, and worse clad twiifhl are looking death In the faci In the Paotiuku hllli of Shantuni province aa they approach the en« I of their second week aa cap'i vet o' the bandit* who raided the Shanghia Peking exprea* near Sue how, May 8 If the foreign and Chineae govern menta are unable to aatiafy the bri randa by Tueaday and their lermi foi the release of the priaoner* will not tx met, and the robbera' chieftain makei good hla threat, two of the Amerieani and two Brltiaher* have little mon than 48 hours to live. They will be shot aa a warning thai the marauder* mean to force cow plianea with their demands undei their chiefi ultimatum lent oat Sun day. "We are pleading for our Uvea ami unleaa Peking, Waahington and Lon don realize that the bandita are lead) to aaeriflc their own livea and thoet of all their captive* in their fight for re-inatatement in the Chines* government, immune fnun puniahmenl we are surely doomed,' is the state ment made by Leon Friednum on« of the Americana speaking for all. Friedman's meaaage, aent to hia brother in Shanghia, has stirred th» foreign commui Ities of China. Ii Shanghia tomorrow a mass meeting ( will be held to pass resolution* de manding that American and Britiall government* rua'.intr* the promise of the Chirete government to Ike VI k«VH imprisoned national*. The shadow of death hat descend ed mvmi time# this srtek on the ban hills. Two of the Chinese prisorers wen* thrown from the cliffs because thep romised ransoms had not been paid and five others were shot in cold blood for failure to obey orders. One man. Marcel 0. Be rube, a Frenchman, of Shanghia, yesterdaj was given his freedom with instruc tions from Wang, the bespectacled, scholarly young bandit leader, to gs to Peking snd lay before ine Chines* government and the foreign diplo matic corps, the desperate plight ol the 15 others. Two factors apparently have clog ged negotiations o.for the release of the captives. One is the dickering between Chinese officials at Tsao schwang, who have poured in there by carload to treat for the prisoners' release, the other is the bandits' de mand, repeated again and again, that because they cannot trust the prom ises of the Chinese government, guarantee that their terms will be met must be given from responsible source. Opposed to this latter posi tion is the stand of the foreign diplo mats that the Chinese government is held responsible for the safety of the prisoners and it must obtain their freedom. And Friedman says, and Be rube says, that unless the captives are released soon they are doomed. ' Advices from Tsoachwang state that mutiny is jfeared among the , troops policing the bandit tone. They ' have not been paid for 18 month* and ! are reported to be fraternising with , the bandits even to the extent of sell ing the brigands the government.am ' monition they *arry. i Some of the soldiers, however, still »re said to be encircling the brigand fortress, despite repeated assertions ' from Chinese official quarters that they had been withdrawn to insure the safety of the foreign prisoners, in response to the outlaws' ultimatum. Fifteen HeM; Six Americana Kiftteen foreign captives, including six Americans, still are in the hand* of the bandits, according to a list compiled at Shanghia for the~"Aaao ciated Press from all available sources The list is as follows: Americana: Maj. Roland W. Pinger, U. 8. A., ordinance department, Ma nila; home Berkely, Cal. Maj. Robert A. Allen. G. S. A., medi cal eorpa. Manila; home Tacoma, Wart Leon Friedman. Chicago, owner of China Motor* corporation. Shanghia. Jerome A. Henley, Commodore ho trtl. New York, employed by Fearon Daniel compaay, Shanghia. John I. Powell. Hannibal. Ma., own er and pahl letter Weekly Review, ChKS£9 ii*.., ' L - ghia **»nt of thai Block compaoy, Man f ranclaro. British: Kr»d Ellas, broker, Shang ■ hla. Edward Ellas, hit brother, broker. Khan ghia. I Theodore Faphiere, broker, Hhang hat. I Reginald H. Rowlatt, Birmingham, England, manam*r kerns and company Tientsin. W .Smith, Manchester. Knglar*J French- Emits Gensbunrer, broker, 1 Shanghai. Italian: G. D. Musao, tome, .Shang hai lawyer, millionaire and advieer ' to the t times* government Mexican: Manuel A. Verea, rnanu , facturer, Guadalajara, Mrxiaa, and Henora Vrrea, hia wife. Bright Tobacco Boats Turkish Kins ton. May It.—'Turkish tobacco is not superior to the eastern Caro lina bright leaf product. It is loaiag oat as the favorite of European smok ers. Its fame is largoly artificial. Prices for boot grades of American tobacco nest fall will be high. Those are'the impressions of Leslie Worthington, president of the tobacco board of trads here, after a five week's stay in England and visits to Holland, Franco and Belgium. "The British is the most discrim inating smoker In the world, "Worth ington declared. "That is the reason bis best cigarettes are bandm^ie yet. ( looked over the big London estab lishment in which 3,600 girls daily make millions of the moat popular English brand. The cigarettes were rolled in stripe snd cut with scissors. They won more perfectly rolled than the American machine-made cigaret tes." tobacco, causing it to fetch tha high est prices in tha world, effacta tha grower aa wall aa all others connect ed with tha industry, Worthingtoa said. "The tobacco cornea in tiny leaves. carefully nixed and atrang through the xtema. The product is haled and not (hipped in hoff*heads aa is our product. Tha stems of • pile of laavea sewn together are ia variahly of the same length. Turkish tobaceo is packed with aa much pre cision in Smyrna figs, even greater. In that factory where I saw good English cigarettes being made, how ever, the tobacco came from Wilson. Kinaton, Greenville and Rocky Mount, U. S. A." ———• Mail Order Men Watch Weeklies Discus*ing the growth of the mail order business, the Wall Street Jour nal has this to say: "How profitable an investment for a long pull may be in a well managed company with an expanding busineas is exemplified by a purchase of Seara, Roebuck A Co. stock some years ago. An investor w'to had faith in the fu ture of the mail order business and ms-vi.rer.ient of this company bought 600 shore., in 1908 when selling around $40 per share, the <00 costing a little less than *25,000 In 1911 a stock dividend of S3 1-3 per cent waa paid, increalng his holdings to 800 shares. ■ Another stock dividend of 50 per cent ' was paid in 1916, which added 400 shares, more, making his ownership 1,200 shares. Capital waa again In creased early this year by a 25 per cent stock dividend, making his pres ent holdings 1,600 shares, on which cash dividends of 98 annually are ba ing paid. The investor is therefor* receiving 112,000 a year from hi* original inveatment of about $26,000, quoted around f 180 a share, the pres ent market value of his stock la 1240, OO0 giving him a profit of $216,000, at market prices In addition to eaah dividends received during nine yea re." It will interest local merchants to know that the large mSil order houses have a force of girls whose sole doty : is to examine county newspapers and report on the local advertiaing they carry In towns srtierr local merchants are poor advertisers the Mail order man concentrates his firs. Ha avoids the town when the local msrehaata are sufficiently aatute to keep trade at Ma* be serious If tha 1ml merchant ia alive la his opportunity. Not long ago ia the on* enterprising sserr ha lit mail order difficulty articles from a Ml MM to his store j [£, articles he " tad. and he sun ptwved to the that Uwy saved i apetitkx^never n«sd *