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I -FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH - $1X0 a Year, In Advance VOL. XXIV. PLYMOUTH. N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1913. NO. 1. TO MAKE END TO TRAFFIC IN 0 TO TAKE LAST STEP TO CRUSH WORLD TRADE IN OPIUM. TWELVE POWERS AGREE Other Habit-Forming Drugs Also to Be Barred by The Hague Conference. Washington. With the purpose of taking the last step necessary to crush out the International traffic in smok ing opium, cocaine and other noxious and habit-forming drugs, representa tives of nearly all the nations of the world will gather at The Hague to con tinue the" international conference which adjourned Jn that capital Jan uary 23, 1912. The purpose of the present gather ing is to ascertain whether a sufficient number of powers will join in ratify ing the international convention look ing to the suppression of the opium traffic, drafted by that conference, to insure 'its successful operation. Opium has long been a cause of seri ous international conflict, China and Great Britain having gone to war on the subject in 1840, when the "opium war" finally resulted In the cession of Hong Kong to Great Britain. The re cent movement for the suppression of the trade in tiabit-forming drugs is American in origin. Beginning in 1906 a- systematic effort to secure this re sult by international action the state department succeeded in the creation of the international commission which met in Shanghai in 1909 and paved the way for the more official gathering of delegates at The Hague in Decem ber, 1911. This conference, after two months' hard work, agreed upon the form of a general convention, which, broadly speaking, was calculated to put an end to international dealing in harmful drugs. There were twelve powers party to thi3 agreement ? America, China, France, Germany, Greit Britain, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Rus sia, Siam and Persia. , m It was pointed out that it would be useless for these countries, the largest producers and users to agree to radical measures for the international control of habit drugs, so long as it was open to the citizens of states not represent ed at the conference to continue or take up the production and traffic. TO TAX COTTON FUTURES Amendment to Tariff Bill Designed to Prevent Gambling. Washington. Postponement of the date on which the new sugar tariff 'shall go into effect upntil March 1, 1914, and a change of date when the income tax shall be operative from January 1, ,1913, to March 1, 1913, were agreed upon by majority mem bers of the senate finance committee. The committee also adopted an amendment which would put a stamp tax on all cotton sold for future de livery; declined to reconsider its ac tion in repealing the act of 1890, which released sweet wine manufacturers from payment ot the full internal rev enue duty on brandies used in fortify ing wines, and adjusting several rates on articles referred back by the Demo cratic caucus. - Extension of time on the sugar schedule, Chairman Simmons announc ed, was agreed to in order that su gars purchased under the Payne-Ald-rich rates can be disposed of without the handicap of the effect of reduced tariff rates. The date upon which the income tax can be computed for the first year was changed to March 1 for the reason that the date in the bill, January 1, 1913, would make the sec tion unconstitutional. J Hail Stones Last Five Days. Thomasville, Ga. Wonderful tales J come from Grady county of hail which - fell in certain sections and lasted with out melting five days, and that with the mercury playing around the hun dred mark, too. Some of the hail was gathered up and carried to the homes, where ice cream was frozen with it. Crops in the immediate section where this hail fell are reported as having been badly damaged. Chickens were killed and window glasses broken. Thousands of Veterans in Gettysburg. Gettysburg, Pa. Gettysburg stepped fifty years backward into the halo of history and looked again upon an army of blue and an army of gray, meeting at her doorstep to join in the semi centennial celebration of the greatest battle of the Civil war and to show the world that scars are not so deep as the feeling of American brother hood. Veterans in blue and gray trooped into the little town which, has slept a3 peacefully among its hills eincc Lee and Meade turned their le gions southward so long ago. FRED E. LEWIS V t v I ft ' I Fred E. Lewis is the new Republican congressman from Allentown, Pa. FRFE SUGAR COMES IN 1916 PRESIDENT WILSON'S TARIFF POLICY IS OVERWHELMING LY APPROVED. Approval of Schedules Comes After a Debate in Caucus by . Democrats. Washington. Free sugar in 1916 and free raw wool are now establish ed in the tariff revision bill, having been approved by the Democratic cau cus of the senate. The sugar sched ule as reported by the majority mem bers of the finance committee and practically as it passed the house was approved by a vote of 40 to 6. Free raw wool as submitted by the ma jority and just as it passed the house swept thesenate caucus by a vote of 41 to 6. This- ratification of President Wil bon's tariff policy, he having insisted upon the wool and sugar propositions before the ways and means committee in the beginning, came after a long series of developments since the tariff bill passed the house in which the president had an active participation. When the fight of the anti-free su gar and anti-free wool Democrats was getting hot the president issued a public statement declaring that any suggestion of compromise on the wool and sugar schedule ideas was 'abso lutely out of the question and later he stirred all administration leaders to action when he made his charge about the existence in Washington of an "insidious lobby" investigation, of which has brought results regarded as favorable to the tariff bill. The six Democratic senators who voted against free sugar on the final vote approving the schedule were Hitchcock, Nebraska; Newlands, Ne vada; Ransdell and Thornton, Louis iana; Shafroth, Colorado; Walsh, Mon tana. The six who opposed free raw wool to the end were Chamberlain of Ore gon; Newlands, Nevada; Ransdell and Thornton, Louisiana; Chafroth and Walsh. ' BUDGET PLAN IS DEFEATED Hardwick Leads Fight Against Re form in Senate Caucus. Washington. House Democrats, in caucus, agreed upon the abolition of the commerce court as a party policy and, turning deaf ears to pleas from their leaders, rejected a plan for the creation of a budget committee to control all appropriations. Representaltve Broussard of Lou isiana, champion of the commerce court, precipitated caucus action on the mooted question by offering" a res olution to authorize hearings on the Sims bill to abolish the court. Speak er Clark denounced the tribunal as useless and expensive and Representa tive Adamson of Georgia, chairman of the interstate commerce committee, offered a resolution declaring it to be the sense of the caucus that the court be abolished during the present ses sion, due care being taken to protect and provide for jurisdiction over pending and future litigation. Pigeon Flies From Brazil 4,200 Miles. Jeannette, Pa. The record flight of a homing pigeon from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, is reported by Stephen Krupa, a local fancier. Last April he ship ped "Sunny Jim" and two other rac ing pigeons to a Rio Janeiro fancier, who liberated them on May 8. "Sunny Jim" put in an appearance after forty eight days' flight. Krupa declares that a pigeon never before "homed" from a point below the equator. The air line distance from Rio Janeiro to this city ia about 4,200 miles, nearly half of the distance being over water. 200 TONS OF OIL EXPLODE ON IIP EXPLOSION HEARD FOR MANY MILES SCORES WERE BLOWN OVERBOARD. STEAMER MOHAWK WRECKED Five Killed and Six Injured When Tank Steamer . Blew Up in New York Bay. New York. Two hundred tons of fuel oil on board the steel tank steam er Mnhawlr. owned hv the Standard Oil company, exploded with a terrific roaV and a burst of flame while the vessel was at anchor off Tompkins- ville, Staten Island, in New York bay, killing five persons and injuring six others. A dozen more 'are unaccount ed for, but are believed to have been rescued. Two bodies were seen float ing in the hold while the fire boats were still pouring streams of water into the wrecked steamer. Carelessness of a machinist's helper was reported to have caused the ex plosion. Fiften men, including the crew and twenty machinists, who were making repairs preparatory to the Mo hawk's departure for Tuxpan, Mexico, were on board. A helper was declar ed to have dropped a washer into the hold below the fire room. Seeking to recover it, he is believed to have car ried a lighted candle, which caused combustion among gases generated in the hold. The explosion was heard for many miles. A 200-foot flash of flame, a col umn of smoke, the detonation, a vol cano of debris and the Mohawk settled aft while fire boats, wrecking tugs and other harbor craft hurried .to the scene from all directions. A score of men who were blown overboard were rescued unhurt. Others clung to "the stanchions and rails or huddled in the bow, whence they were dragged in safety on boats. The fire was later controlled and the crew return on board and began pumping the vessel out. The stern was completely under water, but it is believed the steamer can be got into dry dock for repairs. STABS AND BARS TO WAVE Gettysburg Gaily Decorated With Blue and Gray for Reunion of Veterans. Gettysburg, Pa That the stars and bars as well as the stars and stripes will appear at the big camp of veter ans during the anniversary celebra tion was indicated by announcements from the office of the anniversary com mission that "there is nothing to pre vent the wearers of the gray from bringing along their batUeflags." At the same time, it was said that the Confederate flag would not be used in official decorations over which the commission has control. Residents of Gettysburg and Union veterans are extending a royal welcome to arriving Confederate veterans. The town itself never has been so gaily decorated. Every business block is gay with the national colors and practically every home displays at least one flag. The stars and bars appear in a number of places, while the use of both the blue and the gray is a favorite method of decoration at many buildings. Large pictures of both Union and Confederate generals are much in evi dence. The town is gay with martial music. Many of the veterans have brought their fifes, drums and bugles and the calls of war times are sound ed in tho streets, in some instances by the very men who did the same thing during the exciting days of the Gettysburg campaign half a century ago. Finishing touches were put on the camp. Equipment was distributed to the 5.000 tents, all of which are now up and everything is in readiness for the fifty thousand old soldiers to at tend the celebration. Sixty Lamas Burned. St. Petersburg, Russia. Sixty Mon golian lamas were burned to death in a pagoda at Kwei Hwacheng, in the Chinese province of Shanso, on the border of Mongolia, according to a dispatch received here. They had bar ricaded themselves in the building against a number of Chinese pursuers. Blalock's Nomination Confirmed. Washington. A. O. Blalock of Fay ette was nominated by President Wil son as collector of internal revenue of Georgia. The nomination was la ter confirmed by the senate. The po sition of collector will be more im portant and profitable under the new tariff law than it has ever been he fore, even before Georgia became a dry state, for the collection of income iitm will also devolve upon the col lectors of internal revnue. It will be a highly complicated and difficult task to inaugurate the new system. SEN0RA CHAM0RR0 Senora Chamorro, wife of the new Nicaraguan minister, has come to Washington with her husband. DEMAND COTTON REFORMS BETTER METHODS FOR BALING AND PACKING OF COTTON FOR SHIPMENT WANTED. Subject Is Taken Up by House Com mittee on Interstate Committee. Georgian Is Chairman. Washington. Legislation looking to better methods of bailing and of packing cotton for shipment in inter state commerce, to prohibit wasteful methods of sampling, and unfair de ductions for cotton tare, as well as regulations for .deductions for "coun try damage,', was taken up by ' the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce. Representative Adams of Georgia, chairman of the committee, declared that congress undoubtedly has power to regulate this subject where the cot ton is to be shipped' outside of the state. Innumerable complaints have been made by farmers that the arbi trary 6 per cent, tare deduction is un just. This is denied by the cotton mer chants and exporters, who say that thirty pounds of bagging and ties is the average. Reference was made to the practice of the Southeastern railroads in ac cepting for shipment unginned cotton and ginning and baling it en route. Even if the railroads can only carry 25,000 pounds of unginned cotton in a car, whereas they can carry six 500-pound bales in the same car, they are enabled to make a difference in the transportation receipts through controlling the gins at certain points. A bill to require uniform tare was introduced at the last session of con gress by Representative Burleson of Texas, now postmaster general. FOUR KILLED BY EXPLOSION By Puffing of Dust Death and De struction Are Dealt. Buffalo, N. Y. Four men are known to be dead,' sixty were injured, some fatally, and four are u naccounted for, as the result of an explosion in the elevator and grain storehouse of the Husted Milling company. Sixty were taken to hospitals, some in a serious condition, from burns and broken legs and arms. That many of the injured cannot survive and that the ultimate' death list may number fifteen is an estimate reached by a canvass of the hospitals. The explosion was caused by the puffing of dust accumulated in the feed house, and was of frightful force, tearing out one wall of the wooden structure and breaking windows for a quarter of a mile around. John Con roy, engineer, of a switch engine, was blown from his cab and received in ternal injuries, which caused hi3 death. The body of Henry Vetter was blown 50 feet and was found under a box car nearby badly burned. A bey, wh,ile running to the fire, was run down by an automobile and killed. No Torn Battle Flags Wanted. Philadelphia. Word has gone out to veterans of both armies all over the country not to bring their tattered battle flags to Gettysburg for the cele bration of the fiftieth anniversary of the battle, for they canont be flown to the breeze in the encampment. Ev ery precaution will be taken to pre vent the stirring up of of animosities and feeling on the part of the old sol diers, and this is one of the precau tions considered necessary. The only flag which will be allowed in the en campment is the stars and stripes. MULHALL CHARGES CAU8EJREAT STIR LOBBY COMMITTEE TO PROCEED VT ONCE TO INVESTIGATE RECENT DISCLOSURES. WANT SEPARATE HEARING House to Be Heard. President Wil son Had No Idea That Investiga tion Would Take Such Wide Scope When He Started It. Washington. Investigation of lob byists and lobbies by the Senate will be reopened with a number of promin ent Wall -Street men as witnesses. Chairman Overland of the Lobby Com mittee decided after a talk with Pres ident Wilson and informal conferences with his committee assistants, to re new activity at once instead of wait ing until July 8 as he had planned! Claims of Marin M. Mulhall of Bal timore, that as lobbyist for the Nat ional Association of Manufacturers he had for years maintained close rela tions with members of Congress and financed their campaigns for reelect ion have so Intensified the feeling in congressional circles pat the Lobby U-omtmuee nas oeierminea co yraceeu at once and to Interrogate all persons connected with any of the recent lob by disclosures. Witnesses include Paul Cravath and Lewis Cass Ledyard, prominent New York attorneys, and David Lamar, a Wall Street financier. The investiga tion will center about the change made recently by Robert S. Lovett of the Union Pacific Railroad, that many New York financiers and lawyers had been approached over the telephone by lobbyists and persons- represents ing themselves to be members of Con gress. Until this branch of the inquiry Is disposed of, the committee probably will not take up the more recent dis closures of Mr. Mtilhall which have thus far appeared only in newspaper reproduction of his personal state ment and facsimiles of letters he claims to have received, containing references to the efforts to control and influence members of Congress. Mulhall is under subpoena to appear July 8. Steps already have been taken by the committee to get possession of the letters and pipers Mr. Mulhall preserved, bearing upon all alleged operations as a lobbyist. More Trouble With Suffragettes. London. Four men arrested while participating in the militant suffra gette's raid on the official residences in (Downing street of Premier Aaquith and Chancellor of ; the " Exchequer Lloyd IGeorge were brought up at the police court and fined $10 each with the alternative of fourteen days imprisonment. Bulgarians And Greeks Battle. Sifla, Bulgaria. More Fighting oc curred between the Greek and Bul garian troop some distance east of Saloniki. According to the Bulgarian account the Greek soldiers tried to cut the Bulgarian communications along the railroad from Zeres to Drama but were driven off by Bul garians. Appropriation For Red River. Washington. The war department recommended to the house an appro priation of $6,000,000 for the improve ment of the Red River from its mouth to Fulton, Ark., conditioned upon the state raising $4,500,000 ad ditional. Chief Engineer Bixby report ed that the. Red river could be made a great, waterway at little cost of maintenance. HurriesTariff Discussion. Washington. Finishing touches to the schedules' of the tariff bill -were considered by the senate Democratic caucus which is endeavoring to finish its work that the ' revised measure may go to the entire finance commit tee and be reported to the senate within the next few days. To Increase Pay In Navy Yards. Washington. Increase in wages of employes of navy yards on the Atlan tic coast are likely to be recommend ed within a short time by Secretary Daniels, in a conference with the na val committees of senate and house the secretary announced his purpose of giving the laboring men in the navy yards adequate representation on the boards which fix the wage scales and indicated to the congres sional committee that appropriation would be asked tor next year to pro vile wage increases. NEVt'S OF NORTH CAROLINA Short Paragraphs of State New That Has Beerr Condensed For Busy People of State. Wilson. 3eorge Parker, the idiotic colored boy, who was run over by a southbound freight train on the Atlan tic Coast Line, near this city, died at the Wilson Sanatorium. Washington Messrs. Davis and Da vis, Washington patent attorneysre port the grant to Henry J. Palmer, of Greensboro, of a patent for a strap lock. Raleigh. State Treasurer Lacy re ceived orders for $11,000 state bonds of the issue of July 1." This makes just $236,000 bonds sold of the $1,143, 500 issue authorized by the recent leg islature. Henderson. The stables of Mr. W. A. Hunt, at the back of his residence on Charles street, caught fire recently anad burned down. I;is horse, one of the handsomest in Henderson, was burned up and other tilings destroy ed. Causa of fire is not known. GoMsboco.An early morning fire in the southern part of the city de stroyed three dwelling houses be longing to Mrs. E. S. Sherman. A fourth house, adjoining those burned was also badly damaged. The loss will be between $5,000 and $6,00 ful ly covered hy insurance. Wadesboro. Ground has been, bro ken by the contractors, J. W. Stout & Co., of Sanford, for the Anson .county sanitarium and the contract calls for the completion of the building by No vember 15. The structure is to be of red-pressed hrick, fitted with all mod ern conveniences and will cost In round numbers $16,DO0. Raleigh. Dr. W. M. Allen, state food chemist, has returned from Mo bile, Ala., where he attended the an nual convention of the National Asso ciation of State Food Chemists,, of which he is secretary. He has been re-elected to serve a fifth term. The new president is Dr. James H. Wal lace of Idaho. ' - v Durham. The health officer is mak ing a special effort to get the dairies of the county to observe the health regulation in regard to selling adul terated milk. The laws have been on the statute books or a number of years, but for the most part they have not been enforced except in re gard to the selling of milk that came from diseased cows. Wilmington. After two days of un interrupted possession of the City of Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach the members of Oasis Temple of the Ancient. Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (brought their summer pilgrimage to a close with an elabor ate 'banquet served on the beach at the point of the island north of the Oceanic Hotel Raleigh Chief Justice Clark an nounces that thereu in hand now sufficient funds in money and pledges for the erection of the statue of Chief Justice Thomas Ruffln In Capital Square and W. F. Ruckstuhl. who has made a number of fine busts for the state, hag been selected as the artist to model the statue, which will be of bronze. ; . New Bern. New Bern will n&v; the greatest Fburth pd July celebn tion that has been.'attempted in h section of -the .state-for a number ,. years. The rajfrsads are offering sr cial rates forVthis occasion and th sands will avail themselves of t opportunity of "witnessing some of t greatest speed events ever advertis . to take place in. North Carolina. Statesvllle. Commissioner of Agi culture Graham; blr. C. B. Parker, d. rector of farmers institutes; Dr. B. W. Kilgore, director of state farms, and seven members of the state board of agriculture visited th Iredell Test Farm recently. The farm was in spected and "work for the coming year discussed. The ! experiments being made are developing valuable infor mation for the agriculturists. (Raleigh. Charters are iasue4? for the Smathers Dentists (Incorporated) Ashevllle, capital $2,000, subscribed by Wexler Smathers, B. C Smathers and C. N. Malone for dental work and a dental supply depot Another char ter is for the Standard Storage Ware house, Henderson, capital $50,000 au thorized, and $3,000 subscribed by J. H. Parham, Jt. C. Gary and others for general storage warehouse business. Raleigh. Governor Craig ordered the release of L. H. Smith at Rocking ham became of the tardine&s of the South Carolina authorities in -sending a requisition to take him to Chester field county where he is wanted on a charge of embezzlement. Kinston. Plans are forming in this city to send- a delegation to More head City to appear hefore the legisla tice constitutional commission and protest against the sale of the state'r stock in the Atlantic & North Carolina railroad to E. C. Duncan, who made ? praposltlon to tha lait general assembly.