r - .. .. . (. . u t t POLK COUNTY NEWS, TBYOIT, NORTH CAROLINA s m It 'at! 1 J -r 5 1 : f -1' m 1 & i SI ' i 1 J' .11 U; .a IMPORTANT NEIVS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIO AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN r TIIE HEWS 0FTHE SOUTH What U Taking Pjace In The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Domestic Calls for labor continue to pour in on the war department bureau which Is finding jobs for the discharged sol diers. A naval clemency board Is now en gaged in reviewing courtmartial sen tences imposed during the war. Many punishments involving prison terms or fines are being investigated. Many cases which well deserved punishment in time of war, may be regarded as too severely dealt with now that hos tilities have ceased. Secretary of the Navy Daniels an nounces that not a mari was execut ed as the result of naval courtmartial during the "war. Mrs. Rena Mooney, wife of Thom as J. Mooney, who is serving a life Sentence after his conviction in con- nection with preparedness day bomb explosion in San Francisco,' called at the white house in Washington and conferred with Secretary Tumulty. She jflesired to see the president, but sec jtary Tumulty explained to her that the 'president had done" everything possible in the case of her husband. President Wilson has signed the res jolntion repealing the act under which the telephone, telegraph and' cable ' companies were taken over during the President Wilson spends many hours each day working on the business ac 'cumulated in his office while he was abroad. T Secretary Baker, appearing before the special house investigating com mittee, says that southern sites gen erally were favored by the war de partment because of favorable weather (conditions. He admitted that he made a mistake in proceeding with work n Camp Benning, near Columbus, Ga., following the action of the senate mil itary committee. More than one hundred criminal xjomplaints, alleging the crime of kid naping in the Bisbee, Arizona, depor tations of July .12, 1917, were placed in the hands of Justice of the Peace Jacks, who has issued warrants of arrest for , the persons named in the complaints. Many of the most prom inent men in the state of Arizona are named in the complaints. ; Completing its investigation of the lynchinf of Frank Foukal in' the Bald - win county Alabama, jail, June 28, a grand jury convened in special ses sion and returned indictments against nine men for murder in the first de gree, against four for second degree murder and fourteen ' indictments charging unlawful conspiracy. t Vashington Presideni. Wilson has accepted the resignation of Edward N. Hurley as chairman of the shipping board, effec tive August 1. It is understood that Hurley will be succeeded by John Bar A Weimar dispatch, via Coblenz, jsays.the resolution ratifying the peace treaty was adopted by the German Na tional assembly by a vote of 208 to 115. , Ninety-nine deputies abstained , irom voting on the resolution. Advices from New Orleans show -.that the twar department has fourteen million pounds of sugar stored away In that city. Investigation has shown that the principal shortage of sugar at present - Js in states east of the Mississippi. Offers of 10 cents per pound have been made for the entire surplus of sugar held by the war department, but the prospective buyers wanted to. ex v port this sugar, and the secretary of war declined the offer. He stated that the American people come first in ev erything produced in America. The war department's holding of thousands of tons of food supplies un til six months after the armistice was signed before making an effort to sell them to' the public has been a "most Important factor in maintaining the nigh cost of living," Chairman Reavis jof the special house subcommittee of the national congress to investigate - quartermaster supplies, declared af ter the testimony of C. Willing Hare, director of war department sales, be- lore that committee- ' It is stated that the war department made an agreement T7ith the whole ale canners of. the country to hold off the market fully5 one hundred " thousand dollars ' worth of canned vegetables,' so as ' to not disturb the ; market during the coming season. Peas, corn and squash were added to the army ration to protect the can ners rather than because soldiers , needed these articles. - President Wilson in his first sneAr.h': in New York, since his arrival from abroad declares that the peace just concluded at Paris is a, just peace He stated, in referring to his oppon ents, some people, having no vision . are looking too much upon the ground Sale of twenty-one 'million pounds of surplus sugar now held by the war department has been authorized . it is announced, at a minimum nripn to be; fixed by the United States, su gar equalization" board to cover the cost to the government. Thp nn ft nn. . " dition of thesale will be that none of kla - a.. - 1 ", uo exDorted. A demand that all .the "iWtiohs t6t the.T world be made eligible to the league of nations' was expressed in a resolution unanimously I adopted ' in New York at the first annual congress o the Pan-American Federation of La bor by delegates from ten countries, including the United ; States. " President Wilson submitted to the senate only the treaty containing the covenant of tha lergue of nations. The proposed supplementary treaty under which the United States would agree to go to the aid of France in case of an unprovoked assault on that coun try by Germany will b,e presented sep arately at a later date. The war cost the United States $30, 177,000,000 up to June 29, 1919. . This estimate is made by Secretary Glass. He arrived . at the estimate by sub tracting the average peace time ex penses for the same length of time, at the rate of one billion dollars an nually, from the total, expenditures, $32,427,000,000, during the war. . ten Payne of Chicago. Aided by a westerly wind that some times reached a velocity of nearly for ty miles an hour, the British dirigi ble R-34 is well over the Atlantic on the return trip to East Fortune Scot land, after a stay of eighty-six hours in America. , President Wilson, in. presenting the peace treaty ith Germany to 'the sen ate, declared that a "league of I free na tions had become a practical ' necessi ty," to which the f ramers of the treat felt obliged to turn "as an indispensa ble instrumentality for the mainte nance of the new order it has been their purpose to set up in the world." Ratification of the treaty of peace by the German national assembly at Weimar may be held not to be suf ficient, say 3 a Paris dispatch. The new German Constitution provides that in case where territory is ceded ratification of treaties by states losing territory is . necessary, in addition to approval by the central government. . Marshal Foch and representatives of Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia were before the supreme council . of peace in Paris for a discussion of the movement of partisans, of Bela Kun, Hungarian Communist foreign minis ter, against Czecho-Slovakia and Aus tria, and the advisability, of combined military action agains them. Secretary Daniels announces that he will not accompany the new Pa cific fleet to the west coast. The sec retary "will, however, join the fleet at San Diego, California, about August 10. The. date of the fleet's sailing from Hampton Roads has changed to July 22. If Switzerland does not adhere to the . league of nations within two months, the aeat of the league will not be maintained at Geneva, says a Paris dispatch. , Foreign - .. v. The Hungarian Soviet8 government has demandec -'that : the campaign against the Hungarian legation at Vi enna be stopped., Official notification of the ratifica tion -'of the peace treaty by the Ger man national assembly was given the peace conference at Versailles. The notification was presented by Baron Kurt von :Lersnex, head of the Ger man peace mission. President Ebert signed the bill rati fying the peace treaty and the docu ment was. then dispatched to Ver sailles. High-tension between the Austrian and Hungarian governments is indi cated in dispatches received in Paris from Budapest. T The Austrian foreign minister has demanded the recall from Vienna of the Hungarian minister, Czobel. Switzerland has declared officially that if Germany is not admitted to the league of nations, Switzerland will have no part therein. The allies have replied to this declaration, but the re ply has not been made public. . Three allied warship, one each from the American, British and French na vies, have been ordered to proceed to Fiume, where . there have been dis orders recntly between Italian ' trooDs and other elements in the force of oc cupation. The situation at Fiume is reported to be quiet. . ' The council of five has decided to raise the blockade against Germany. So far as the action of the council concerns Frence,the measure will be eiiective only after publication in the Journal Ofliciel of a decree annulling the preceding decrees regarding the blockade. ' A general strike has been declared in Naples, Italy, against the high cost of living. ; . Field Marshal von Hindenburg, for mer chief of the German staff, has written Marshal Foch appealing for his support in Hindenburg's efforts to prevent the extradition of the for mer German emperor. Von Hinden burg offers to assume full responsibil ity and to place his own person "ab solutely at the disposal of the allied powers." An anarchist plot to attack the cen tral part of ; Rome, Italy, by means of ... ' hand grenades and .ther explosives has been exposed by the arrest of six teen of the conspirators, four hours before the time fixed for carrying out the plans. . r - i A commission composed of four generals.-- representing France. Italv England and the United States, has been appointed to investigate the re cent incidents m Fiume. The supreme council of the peace conference has decided to appoint a committee of four members to inquire into Norway's claims to Spitzbergen. The allies have not yet. made any of ficial representation to the Dutch gov ernment regarding the extradition- of the former German emperor, but nec essary steps are; being taken in the matter, it is declared in the British J house, of , commons. . . , .r CtMATflU QiMAMsnN ULimiuii uvvniiuun ARGUES 01 CRISIS VIRGINIAN -AfSERTS . THAT NO SAC R I ICE OF SOVEREIGNTY BY US IS INVOLVED. ' PATHWAY OF DUTY IS PLAIN Paramount Obligation to Prevent the - . . .."" . . World From Return to Rule of Bar . Barism and Brute Force. Washington. Praising the league of nations covenant as "one of the world's greatest documents," Senator fiwanson, of Virginia, a democratic member of the foreign relations com mittee, told the' senate that if the United States rejected the league it would mean that she skulk in the greatest world crisis that ever oc curred." The speaker defended the league against the objections that it would sacrifice sovereignty and American traditions and asserted: that on the contrary it would result in Immense material gain in protecting American integrity and preventing war. He de clared it would not create a super government, involve objectionable ob ligations, nor "invalidate the Monroe doctrine. . 'The pathway of our duty Is plain," said Senator Swanson. "Let us not be frightened by our own prodigious shadow as it projects itself into world affairs. Let us not be deterred from our manifest duty and destiny by a craven fear of becoming great in giv ing service and direction to a world in a direst hour of its needs and distress. Pointing out that1 the war has sha ken the social order to its foundation, the Virginia senator said It was the Daramount obligation" of responsible statesmen to prevent another such conflagration, which would return the world "to the rule of brute force and barbarism of the dark ages;" DAYLIGHT SAVING LAW IS TO CONTINUE FOR THE PRESENT. Washington. The daylight saving nlan. under which the clocks of the country are turned forward an hour in March and moved back in October, will be continued Indefinitely. This was assured when, following President Wilson's veto of the $33, 000.000 aericultural - appropriation bill because of its .rider repealing the day light saving act,, the house refused Dy vole of 247 to 135 to pass the meas ure over the President's veto. Strength mustered by the repeal advocates was eight votes less than the' necessary two thirds of the members present. Party lines were disregarded in the voting, members from agricultural dis tricts the source of most of the op positionfavoring passage of the bill as originally enacted. WHITE HOUSE OF THE CONFEDERACY TO STAND. Montgomery, Ala. The first white house of the Confederacy located in Montgomery, will not be destroyed. This announcement was made by Mrs. Belle Allen Ross, secretary of the White House association, after she had returned from, LaGrange, where she closed a deal for the purchase of the house from the Danby estate. AMERICAN SOLDIERS ABROAD NOW 337,000. Washington. American overseas forces aggregated 337,339 officers and man on July 8, according to an offi cial announcement . On the same date 100,000 troops were at sea enroute to the United States and 389,000 were in this country. COLONEL ANSELL OF NORTH CAROLINA WILL SOON RETIRE Washington. Lieut' Col. Samuel T. Ansell, the North Carolinian around whom the fight over military justice of the army has. been centered for several months past,- will resign, from the army within the next few days. 3,000 GALICIAN JEWS ARE ARESTED IN BUDAPEST. Vienna. Three v thousand Galician Jews have been arrested. in the streets of Budapest, according to advices. Bela Kun, head of the Hungarian soviet government, replying to a, Pol ish protest against the arrests, de clared: '' ""-i'': Pogroms i are bound to come here tut we do not want Hungarian Jews to suffer for the acts of the Galician Jewish speculators wno ' infest this country." :;fV!W " " . '-v'.: LICENSES ISSUED FOR V TRADING WITH GERMANY Washington. General licenses . cov ering' import and export .trading with Germany were issued by the war trade division of the state department with the approval : 'of x Acting Secretary Paly. Except in certain limited . cases provided under the treaty of peace, traaing Detween tne united States and Germany may be commenced - at once.'"' y.'-, .p" "v; ;"" ": The war trade division's action was in line-with the order of th council. RALEIGH SECURES FIRST WAREHOUSE THE ORIGINAL UNIT -OF THIS ENTERPRISE WILL PERHAP8 . HOLD 20,000 BALES. TO BUILD IN EARLY FALL Corporation Doing Annual Business of $300,000,000 Insures the Success of This Great Enterprise. , V Raleigh. Ruf us . H. Wilson, president of the Union Cotton Warehouse Association, brought word to Raleigh that workv on the big . 80,000-bale warehouse here will be 'started in early fall. The first units of the warehouse to be constructed will accommodate from 10,000 to 20,000 bales of cotton, and they will be built to allow enlargement as the business grows. The site has not yet been announced. This Raleigh warehouse will be the first of a chain of warehouses, one or more in each state, ' to be built throughout the South. The corpora tion behind the warehouses does 8 $30,000,000 business annually. . . New National Forest Washington. (Special) Having in view protection from the overflow of 'Yadkin and Catawba rivers, which has done such great .damage in- the past, Senator Simmons has taken up with the United States Forestry Ser vice the proposition of establishing a new national forest . in Wilkes, Alle ghany, Ashe and Wautauga counties. He has urged upon the department the importance of preserving the for-; ests in these regions. One of the prin cipal reasons is the necessity of pre venting to as great extent as is possi ble, a recurrence of the disastrous floods from these two rivers, which wrought such ruin and devastation in their whole courses in North Carolina three years ago. North Carolina is to have the zone system for collecting taxes. The an nouncement issued from the office of Commisioner of Internal Revenue 'Dan iel C. Roper, states the case thorough ly. Safety First School houses. Under the provisions of the act of the. last legislature that all plans for school buildings to. be erected or ma terially altered must be approved by the state insurance department, there are coming In large numbers of plans indicating that there is great activity, in the erection ol school buildings throughout the state. Commissioner Young says "e school authorities are very generally and heartily endorsing the Safety fea tures of school building plans that the department is requiring. More N. 5. Casualties. Washington. The following casual ties from North Carolina are reported Ly the commanding! 'general of the American expeditionary forces : Y Wounded severely: Parker . Poindexter, R. Ft D. No. 2, Hurdle Mills. Wounded slightly: Fred F. Miller, R. F5W No. 3, Can. ton. ' .Y" - Cletus H. Parker, Lowell. Royal J. Smith, 115 New Bern ave nue, Raleigh. Frank Vines, Falkland. Returned to duty, previously re ported missing in action : ' Albert Shepard, R. F. D. No. 1, Boardman. Some New Corporations. Corporation charters were granted by the secretary of state as follows: . 3Hayes Supply Company, Inc., Rose mary; general-merchandise.' Author ized capital, $100,000; subscribed $50, 000 ; duration, unlimited. George L. Hayes, Jr.; W. L. Long, C. A. Wyche, all of Roanok Rapids, and others, in corporators. ' ' Changes" in the powers and' objects, of formation of the North Carolina Home Insurance Company, Raleigh, were' made by a lengthy amendment accepted; for filing. Damage by Cloudburst ' A cloudburst in v the vicinity of Buckhorn Falls, ' on - the Cape Fear river destroyed part of the canal bank of the Buckhorn power plant, of the Carolina Power and . Light Company and also a number of bridges across the Cape Fear in that section. ; ' -. The break of the canal bank" did not interfere with the electric power and the 38 : communities "served . by the Carolina. Power .and Light Company last - night did not know of the dan age to the Buckhorn plant The dam age is -not great. ; ' : Col. Cox Not to Run. :'.V.:iJ? , Col. Albert L. Cox will not be a can didate fqr governor, in tthe 192A prir maries. All signs. now point .to his candidacy In the primaries of' 1924. i The definite annmincemBnt' nt vi 1 Colonel,, following; closely upon : the announcement. - or. Governor . Doughton that he would not enter the primaries for the- same office,; leaves the field now. to Morrison, Gardner 'and Page. State politicians who are prophetically inclined believe that the entries are closed, and that one of the three will succeed Governor Bickett , Schools Buying Pictures. "Many public schools' -toi the State are taking advantage of the opportu nity' offered them by the ' State ' De partment of Agriculture to purchase beautiful pictures- for the school room. Superintendent R. - W. Isley of SampsbWv county . has just placed an order for fourteen of the public schools of his 1 county, and several others report that they have on hand their share of the money necessary to buy. some of these pictures under the co-operative plan outlined in the April, 1919, bulletin by Dr. Clarence Poe of .the State Board of Agricul ture. '.-V The gist of the , matter is that a one-teacher school' raising $5 or nlore I for buying pictures from the officially, approved list, may get $5 more- from the department, while, for two-teacher schools, the department duplicates amounts up to $10, and for three teacher schools up to $15. : Reproductions of some of the. great masterpieces of art recommended for , purchase by schools appear in the April bulletin, "Great, Pictures and Good Books and Bulletins: How, to Get Them for Country Schools and Homes." - - A free copy of this handsomely il lustrated 48-.page bulletin will be' sent to any North, Carolinian sending a re quest to the Agricultural Editor, State Department of, Agriculture; Ra leigh, N. C. c North Carolina Casualties. Washington. North Carolinians; in the latest casualty list of ' the Amer ican expeditionary forces are: nc1 rf niaoaap Porn TT PTirv Thorpe, Rocky Mount; Private Sulvais Taylor, Tabor. , , Wounded, degree undetermined Private James F. Wilson,. . Belew Creek. j . . ' ' . Slightly Wounded Privates E. L. Stout Graham; E. S, McGowan, Jack sonville; John R. Murphy, Snow Hill ; John D. McNeil, Sanford; . Corporal William ,L. Lewis, Newland. Defends League of Nations. Defending the league of nations in an address at state College Summer - ' School, Attorney General James S. Manning declared that the United States senators are " attacking the league in the same manner carping critics attacked the constitution of the United States when it was first framed. "Why, I can close ray, eyes," Judge Manning said, "and listen to the reading of the proceedings of that convention of the people Jn. Philadel phia and be persuaded that I amMis tening to " a 1 modern debate rin ;thl United States' senate." - ' ': ' The address of the attorney general, of pronounced patriotic trend, was the principal feature of the Independence Day program at the College. Revenue Tax Collections. . The Internal Revenue collection for the month of June In the Eastern District of North Carolina amounted to $5,431,044.13, according to figures given out from . Collector Bailey's of flee. For the fiscal year ended. June 30, 1919, the total collections from all sources amounted to $27,706,695.56.: This was an increase of $7,932,869.43 over the preceding fiscal year when the collections totaled $19,773,826.13, or a gain of over 40 per cent. Last year all income taxes were due by June 15.. This year, however, only one-half of income and 'excess profits" taxes were due by June 15, the other quarterly installments being payable 6n September 15 and December 15, But for this change In time of pay ments, several millions more would have been w added to the ; collections fr .the - fiscal year Just ended. , The internal revenue collections in the Western District of North Caro lina for the year ending June 30, ex ceed those of , the Eastern- District The grand total of $73,409,098.05 is announced from the office of Collec tor Watts at Statesville. , 540 Summons Issued. 1 .C " ; Summons has ( been placed . in the hands of, United States Marshall Geo. H. Bellamy for service upon 540 prqip erty owners of Wake, Cumberland, Hoke, - Robeson, Harnett, , Durham', Pitt, Wayne and Nash counties in Federal, proceedings ' started recently for - the condemnation of - land for Camp Bragg, near Fayetteville. " To Build New Grand Stand. v f Temporary bleacher seats Will be erected soon inside the ? state fair ground to take the place of the grand stand -destroyed by flames July 4th. The advisory4 board of the North Car olina Agricultural- Society determined upon that course at a meeting recent ly. -'": ' :';4y:.;-.".v A new fire-proof grand-stand; - of much larger seating capacity, will be built of concrete and steel before the fair of 1920.: The plan, is J to build with all modern accommodations. ' Last Bankhead' Road Link. : 7 SH: - The pathfindinrr commission nf rhl Bankhead c Highway. Association was cauea 10 meet July 15-at, Washington to, report on the" tour from m Pa on in San Diego; according ,to information icceivea irom.j, a. Rouridtree, of Bir mingham,, secretary; of - i the associa tionA The western ' nart ni fhVa t,ik! way will be tentatively routed during this mpofintr " " ! The route1 from Atlanta 'Wash ington, was determined upon' at ' a meeting of .the association executives and . others about a year agoV . .... c T n ri n 1 n nr. .S puuiui ui- la EX-SHERIFF SHQHl CHAIRMAN OF VANCE BOARD OF comu,.. RD OF COW MAKE PUBLIC -""Mas mi,. report. SHORTAGE APPARENTU After Tending His ReiSgnat. Than a Week Aan ! .at'n Not Since Been Seen Henderson. An nm.-. age of $45,757.83 in 'the former Sheriff J. e. C Bell 1 ed to Chairman George ?V the Vance county haarA sioners, by the firm of S(0tt Ch and ComDanv. rprtif..., 'Uani!i ants, for several u-00 lc acc ' " VAO, The report was raade Publif - O V UUctlU 01 COirim' ersand created quite a sensati Sheriff Bell, soon after tended and has not been seen here since. tit, Stone Memorial Arch. Kinston. Patrintir- rccu to duplicate in stone a memorial,,! .built of wood. The architecture? oeen mucn admired. Its white to can be seen a mile away. The al coat of arms adorns each mainj? lar. The names of war dead are don in gilt Inscriptions are "Victon tor of the First Baptist Church'hert . j i i -i i naa periormea me ceremony ati marriage of Miss Bertha Wetheria. ton and Wardie D. Wetherington v was called immediately to. another part of the city to officiate at a i similar affair. "Miss Bertha WetW ins tuu una niiuiu luc uuur uecorae 1 1 bride," he said when handed uccuse. ix was eipiameu maiUpjl Ti. 1 : j il.i .. another Miss Bertha Wetherington b was called upon to hestow upon i waiting bridge-groom. The kids were alike in one other respect than name, the minister said: "both wen charming young women." Land for Stock Farm. Wilmington. The purchase of fie JDrr Goodman tract of 1,500 acre& ot land In Brunswick county by KJl Johnson , and J. Beale Johnson, bermen of Cardenas and of Raleigh, brings - their total investment i Brunswick," near this city, to aromi $100,000. Their object Is to market timber, put the land in cultivation ail create a big stock farm. Their pis chases have all been made in recent months. ' - ' ' Sensation for Raleigh. Raleigh. Looping, diving, tall-spifr ning and doing the immelman tun with trimmings above Fayettevili street, Lieutenant Augustus Leaiarfc the' "Black Cat" plane from Langlif Field; gave Raleigh a new sensatioi in aerial acrobatics. Others na done stunts here, but it remained for Lieutenant Leazar, a North Can boy from Mooresville, and a former student of the State College of Api culture and Engineering, to showtw latest flying stunts with convintra coolness. : Mil! Changes Hands. qiv ThA Tlmihle Shoals rr ilia ' 1 rrf f o!r miles DO"11 Shelby and controlled by Elias Fred Morgan, have been sum 'company of Shelby citizens, who re-chartered under the name nvu cTinais Manufacturing JU'UUUXC KJiivtikj , non witii tmnnnn naid in. Tne was . ,,tl i 1fiQ9 hv Mr. JW'6"" associates and is now vow Ms coarse yarn. Disinterestea p- taking stock of 'the merchano - the store, tne suppu - : Tio An uo"" the gOOaS in prucca v,. n Max ing. ner, A. W. McMurray. i ger, 7 T Thnmnson. V- - MAm , George A. Hoyie, &. Shelby, and Mr. Dalton, of cnar -i- ': Buy Beaufort Bonnv 'Charlotte: Beaufort county American Trust fire per srican irusi v. 1- . . rriA nfn OI BC lotte, k an icsilfi OI aw-vv flccorou cent cent "gooa roaus uocine' announcement by the purchf 8 pahy. The bonds were rfi (I petitive bidding. Wll0 Company aisu uuo-- . Jo New: Hanover county, n .,0 DUO - UL io.uwa ai?u . of refunding w.- a nounced need. These bids by the bond department oi of which r. v. - ' rUf U company, ager, Inspectors, Meet ax - A5r Raleigh.-There will gau Yille July 17 and n tf Artrnent and electrical i 'frntn P.verv rart of the . .np.cial institute that & der lire uii cw"" for mini. .ri .tin. missioner jauie s tudy of buildings ana wu--- . t,te lUUUlUgs .hp der th building lawa." f " of the . municipalities. iourth' annual instil Toung has held.