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POLK COUNTY NEWS, TRYON NORTH CAROLINA 1 ? H Ii I ?' i a . U ; HI Hi It M ' "I 'i I I 3 i IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THI0 AND OTHER' NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN f HE HEWS 0T THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The Souti land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Foreign H. M. S. Hood, the greatest fighting ship in the world, has just been launch ed by the British government, and the. old question . of the usefulness of great surface men of war pops up its head again. Dr. Sannes, Socialist member of the Dutch parliament, raises the question as to the stay of the former kaiser in Holland. He has changed his mind on the question, because he is convinced that the ex-kaiser caused the war, and believes that it is dangerous for Hol land to longer permit the ex-emperor jto remain in her confines. Dispatches from Geneva report that there have been clashes at Fiume be tween the French and d'Annunzio's soldiers. It is stated that the d'An- punzio troops pillaged French depots at Fiume. London hears that d'Annunzio is at Jast willing to come to terms provided Fiume is retained by Italy and the surrender of. all claims to Dalmatia. Germany's delegation at Versailles is considering what is looked upon as the last word of the supreme -coun cil of the peace treaty relative to the signing of the protocol of the treas !ty of peace. The status of the United States in relation to the treaty, Ger many is told, does not alter the ef lectiveness of the pact, and German objections are in vain. The allies have " consented to mod lfy some of the terms of the proto col putting the peace treaty into ef fect to which Germany has made ob jection. The clause providing for the indemnity for the destruction of the German fleet at Scapa Flow has been modified so as to refer to the league tribunal the question whether the de livery of the tonnage demanded will cripple Germany. Gustay Noske, German minister of defense, is determined not to sign the .peace protocol handsd Germany by the entente, and is resolved to recom mend that the government adopt his attitue, come what may, according to an interview with Noske. Eight persons are dead and forty- two others are known to have been wounded as result of the wild rioting at Mantua, Italy, where mobs terror ized the city. The rioters attacked the small garrison, cut telegraph and tele phone communications, stopped rail way traffic, raided arms shops, burned prisons, freeing all sorts of criminals and held the police and soldiers at bay for a long time. Henry Clay Frick, pioneer ironmas ter and ' one of the foremost art col lectors in the United States, died sud denly at his Fifth avenue home, New York, in his 70th year. Washington, Omissions in submitted estimates for the coming fiscal year bring expen ditures of the government up to $5, 249,470,031 instead of $4,865,400,000, Representative Good of Icwa told the house recently. There can be no4 permanent indus trial peace that is. not basedon jus tice, Secretary Wilson declares in his annual report. Humrn wisdom, he says, has sold practically every other problem of living, and it can solve the relationship that should exist be tween employee and employer if it wants to. Recommendations of the navy gen eral, board for the building program for 1921 include two battleships, one battle cruiser, ten scout cruisers, five destroyer "flotilla leaders" and six sub marines. The board says that Ameri can sea power should be made second to none by 1925. One thousand people were homeless and train service on six railroads was indefinitely, suspended at Meridian, Miss., because of a flood from swollen streams at the south of that city. One person is reported to have lost his life. The damage is estimated in hun dreds of thousands of dollars. A peace time regular army of 300, 000 men and 18,000 officers has been decided on by the house military sub committee. The number of combat troops was fixed at 250,000. Viewing with alarm the steadily dwindling bituminous coal supply, due to the miners' strike. Fuel Adminis trator Garfield by an order has re stored for Ithe entire nation most of the drastic restrictions on lighting and heating, which were' in effect during me coal snortage of 1917. iMorman ; Hapgood, United States minister to Denmark, is returning to vvasnmgton leave to report on condi tions political, military and economic in Russia, it is learned from the state department Mexico naa 24 war-type airplanes mobilized at Chihuahua City alone, and is abtaining additional planes ", from Germany, - according to war depart . ment information. -The department of justice is con fronted with "increasing 'dangerous radical activities," Attorney General Palmer says in? his annual report sub- xaltted to congress. The director of operations of. the . shipping board 'recommends construe: Hon of seventy high-class cargo lin ers and ten small passenger vessels, and: leave to private companies the building of large first class passen ger i ships. Director General HineS of the rail road administration, has taken under advisement proposals designed to di vert some export traffic from eastern to southern ports. .They include ex tension of barge lines on the Missis sippi and. pf the territory for the in terchange of rates between rail and water. - i ; " ' ." The "speculation, spoliation and plunder" rampant in the United States were held by Senator Arthur Capper (Rep.) of Kansas in an attack jupon profiteering to be of such as to make "train robbery or burglary a poor trade by comparison." . The Lyceum Theater, known before the Civil war as the Washington As sembly Hall, and one of the most his toric buildings in the capital, in which five presidents held inaugural balls. was burned to the ground recently. Fourteen vessels, wrecked, missing or making a port in a cripled condi tion were recorded by marine authori ties as victims of storm3 which swept the North Atlantic coast during the last few days. , Extension of the airplane mail ser vice to Atlanta Is planned within the next year, Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Prager told the house ppstoffice committee. Fuel Administrator Garfield's resig nation is in the hands of President Wilson, given because he disagrees on principle with the coal strike set tlement proposal arranged by the gov ernment and the Mine Workers' Union. "May I not express lo you, and, through you, to the other officers of your organization, my appreciation of the patriotic action which you took at Indianapolis. Now we must all work together to see to it that a settlement just and fair to every one is reached without delay." This is the message President Wilson sent John L. Lewis, acting president of the miners, after it had been decided to accept the pres ident's plan of settlement. Lewis re plied in most affable terms. With less than one hundred members on the floor, the house of representa tives decided that Camp Gordon, Ga., near Atlanta, should be dismantled and sold. Camp Benning at Columbus, Ga., will be retained as a permanent military training camp. News has reached Washington that Admiral Kolchak has resigned as su preme head of his section of the Rus sian government and has nominated General Denikine as his successor. Messages by way of Eagle Pass, Texas, state that Villa and his follow ers sacked the town of Muzquiz, in the state of Coahuila, in an effort to avenge the execution of General An geles by the Carranza government. Complete blame for the killing of James Wallace, an American citizen, by a Mexican soldier, two weeks ago, near Tampico, Mexico,' is placed upon Wallace himself in a note" from the Mexican government received at the state department. Senator Lodge and Senator Lenroot, Republicans, say the peace treaty is dead until it is again submitted to the senate by the president, and place all the blame for its failure of adoption at the special session on the Democrat ic members. Y Domestic President Wilson says the cure for social unrest in this country is fuller knowledge of American institu tions." x - Orders have I been issued by the Southern regional coal committee sus pending all fuel regulations of No vember 29, with subsequent additions ! and modifications. At the same time instructions were sent to all federal managers in the Southern region to re store all curtailed passenger schedules in the Southern region. TJEs suspension of coal restrictions pes not apply to families, federal managers having been instructed to retain the one-ton limit for homes, apartment houses, etc. A Florida committee, under the aus pices of the Fernandina chamber of commerce, has been instructed to press before congress the necessity of digging at the earliest possible mo ment a canal connecting the St. Ma rys and Sewanee rivers with the Gulf of Mexico. The idea is further to eventually make an inland water route to the mouth of the Mississippi river. Instructions have been issued to fed eral managers, i railroad officials and fuel representatives to permit deliver ies of coal to consignees in the first five classes on the preferment list, which will make it, possible for all in dustries to resume operation on full time. Federal Judge Mayer dismissed writs of habeas; corpus obtained bj Alexander Berkman and Emma Gold man to prevent their deportation to Russia and refused to permit them bail. It is announced that the court plans to deport the two anarchists in two weeks. The government was requested, either by legislation or by an execu tive order of the post-office v depart ment to forbid the issuance by news papers of comic supplements and mag azine sections as a means of conserv ing print paper in resolutions adopted by publishers from Kansas' and Mis souri. Senora Felipe Angeles, wife of tha Mexican revolutionary leader, recent ly executed by Carranza troops, dijd m New York City without having been informed ol her husband's arrest ; aeatn. BOARD ERR DISPUTED BY WOOD WICE. QUESTION RAISED OVER RECENT APPOINTMENT OF MISS MARTHA HAYWOOD. MAY CAUSE EMBARRESSMENT No Doubt Exists in Mind of Governor That Appointment of Successor to . Colonel Boyden Will Stand. Raleigh. If the position of State Auditor Wood stands, Miss Martha Haywood, duly appointed a member of the Sol diers Howe board by Governor Bick- ett, upon request of Gen. Julian Carr of Durham, and of Col. Armistead Jones of Raleigh, member of the board to succeed Col. A. H. Boyden of Salis bury, resigned, is not a member after all Colonel Wood, asked concerning his position in the matter, said that Col onel Boyden's resignation, while , it had been turned in, had not been ac cepted and that he was sure Colonel Boyden would reconsider. On ttie other hand, Governor Bick- ett made the appointment at the re quest of the chairman of the board, it being represented to . him that Colo nel Boyden had resigned. There was no doubt in the governor's mind as to the propriety of appointing Colonel Boyden's successor. The situation is one that will cause embarrassment if Colonel Wood's po sition stands. Calvert Leaves for Guadaloupe. It was announced in Raleigh that John S. Calvert of this city, also an alumnus of Horner at Oxford and the University of North Carolina, sailed December 10 with his wife for Guada loupe, where Mr. Calvert will assume the duties of consul. He was formerly consul at Nieuvitas. Three New Postmasters. Washington. Timothy H. Howell has been named postmaster at Drum- hill; Alvin W. Brissen, Dublin; Alton B. Collier, Linden; Mack Gardner has been appointed R. P. D. carrier at An gier. Profits on Clothing Fixed. A margin of profits on men's and women's clothing was announced by State Food Administrator Henry A Page, with the warning that violators would be prosecuted after December 15. A margin of 50 per cent of invoice cost is allowed for men's clothing and shoes while 60 per cent margin is al lowed on women's wearing apparel. Argue Car Fare Ruling. Exceptions to the ruling of the state Corporation Commission grant ing the Asheville "Light and Power company authority to increase rail way fares from five td six cents were argued before the colnmission here with the result that the commission agreed to certify the records of the case in order to allow a superior court judge to pass upon the validity of an appeal from the commission's ruling Small Is Honored. Washington. (Special.) Repre sentative John B. Small was elected by acclamation president of the na tional rivers and harbors congress. This was a recognition of Mr. Small's tireless efforts throughout his public career for better water transportation facilities in the United States. He was chairman of the house committee on rivers and harbors during the last two years the democrats were in con trol of Congress. In the house. Representative Robin son urged prompt passage of the bill giving relief to farmers who owned land in the Camp Bragg area. ' Mr. Robinson has introduced bills for postoffice buildings as follows: Rockingham, $75,000; Wadesboro, $75, 000; Laurinburg, $75,000. Postoffice sites, Hamlet and Sanford, $10,000 each. On American Library Commission. Miss Mary R. Palmer, formerly of Charlotte and Atlanta, now with the North Carolina library commission, has been called to New York to rep resent the South in a conference of representatives from the league of li brary commissions, relative to the dis tribution " of 300,000 volumes in the warehouse of the American library commission. " ' These books will be equitably dis tributed, and North Carolina will re ceive a share, which5 will be added to the traveling library system. Four New Charters. - The North Carolina Society of Pub lic Accounts with ' headquarters : at Charlotte, was chartered by George O. Scott and others. , . !; ' The Deep River. Lumber company,' of Chatham county; was chartered with an authorized capital 6f $50,000. ,The Young Men's Shop, of Gastonia, is chartered "with an authorized capi tal of $30,000. The American Cotton Mills, Inc., of Bessemer City, has been chartered with an authorized capital of $250,000 paid,' In, $155,000. ' LI I U ' Because of 'the special Election be ll I r I ing held in the ninth congressional district it nas oeeu ucuuou w b pone the organization -meeting of the American Cotton association from De cember 16 to - Wednesday, December 17, thereby giving the people of the cotton counties of that district the op portunity to be at home on election day and attend the meeting of the cot ton association the following day. Cleveland, Mecklenburg, Catawba and other "cotton counties are in this district, and it is especially desirable that they be represented. Many Graduate Nurses. - At the recent examination given in Greensboro by the Board of Examiners of Trained Nurses fifty-three passed and were given certificates of registra tion to nurse profesionally in North Carolina. Nineteen were given certifi cates through reciprocity or recogni tion. Appeals for Adoption. In response to the cry tor help from destitute women and homeless orphans of Armenia and Syria in the Near East, North Carolina has been asked to adopt 3,334 orphaned girls and boys who are to be housed, cloth ed and fed during the severe winter months and until the countries can again get on an industrial footing. Modern Apartment House. The professional and Business Wo men of Raleigh, an organization that is fast coming into prominence, with Miss Minnie Bagwell, of the secretary of state's office at its head, in plan ning, when the question of finances can be arranged, to erect a modern apartment house in this city for the convenience of its members and oth ers coming into the city. Life Termer Parloned. Governor Bickett announced the full pardoning of Bill McDaniel, of Buncombe county, who was convicted of first degree murder at the april term of court, 1915, and sentenced to life Imprisonment; also of John Gar vin. Cumberland county, who was sen tenced to 15 years for burglary, at the November term, 1915. Protests From South. Washington. (Special.) Many pro tests are coming from the south about the restrictions on the use of coal and wood in factories and stores. Senator Overman was told by the fuel administration that stores could keep open as long as they liked if they do not use fuel. Senator Simmons is working to have the order prohibiting the use of wood rescinded. Recruits for Army. Eleven men have been accepted for army service at the army recruiting station here last week. They were Harry A. Moore and Frank Campbell, Charlotte; Robert Butler, ' Hamlet; William O. Harrison, Ashland, Ga.; Joe Runion, Lancaster, S. C; Joseph Tidwell, Camden, S. C; John Powell, Lexington; Zeb V. Sanders, Whitney; Herman W. Brown, Gastonia; James R. Carroll, Gastonia; William W. Horn, Gastonia. Fortune for Confeds. From the office of the state auditor the sum of approximately $325,000 will be paid on December 15 to Confeder ate pensioners, who draw from $30 to $50 semi-annually. Everett Baker, of the auditor's office said that in 1905 there were around 5, 000 Confederate pensioners in North Carolina. The nunfber then grew to 17,000 but has dwindled down now to 12,000. In a few more years there will be no more of them. Houston Talks to Elks. "Harry R. Houston of Hampton, speaker of the Virginia house of dele gates, delivered the annual Elks me morial day address here before a large audience at the Academy of Music' His subject was "The Songs of the Elks," referring to "Auld Lang Syne" from which the members of the order derive their memories of past asso ciations with their departed brethren; "The Star Spangled Banner," by which they are taught patriotism, and "Nearer My" God to Thee," which teaches that true religion lies in the worship of the one and only God. Convention of Fair Secretaries. Col. Joseph E. Pogue, secretary of the State Fair, has just returned from Chicago, where he attended a meeting of-the American Association of Fairs and Expositions. The convention was attended by about seventy-five secre taries of American and Canadian fairs. This is the first year the North Caro lina Fair has been lined up with the general association. While in Chicago Colonel Pogue' visited his son, Joseph E. Pogue, Jr., who is technical adviser to the Sinclair Oil Refining Company. Few People Idle. , - So far as Industrial strife is con cerned North Carolina has the clean est record of any state In the union, according to James F. Barrett, noted labor leader. - There are now fewer than 100 peo ple in the state idle on account of labor disputes, Mr. Barrett said, A- Mr. Barrett declared further that It was the Intention of the State Federa tion of Labor to maintain this record and reduce Industrial disputes throurh. out Nortlr Carolina to a mint num. SUIT TO RECOVER T-1 - ALLEGATION MADE THAT CITY OWES SCHOOL BOARD THE SUM OF $10,000.00. WILL GREATLY AID SCHOOLS City and County 8chools Would Share Equally Should Decision of Case Be in Favor of the Plaintiffs. Charlotte. Alleging that $10,000 In recorder's, court fines and forfeitures, collected by the city through its agent, Harvey M. Alexander, former police captain, and others, has not been turn ed over to the county school board,, the board filed papers in a suit against the city to collect the money. Plnmmer Stewart and John A. Mc Rae represent the board of education. The city itself will share equally in the proceedings of the $10,000, if a decision is rendered for the plaintiffs, as the fines and forfeitures are divid ed between city and county each Jan uary on the basis of a school census of .city and county taken during the summer holiday period. The plaintiff prays judgment against hte city for the amount due, as set forth in three causes of action, and that an audit of the books be made in order .to determine said sums; and that the city be taxed with the costs in the action. Kinston. Lenoir county will lead the state in the value per acre of farm lands with the completion of the tax revaluation, Will D. Hood, county su pervisor, predicts. . Rutherfordton. M. L. Justice has been selected mayor by the town coun cil to fill the unexpired term of Mayor R. R. Simmons. Salisbury. The new military com pany authorized for Salisbury has been organized by the election of of ficers, Captain Charles Shaver being elected captain. Dr. John G. Black, former president of the state medical board and one of the state's most prominent physicians, died at his home as a result of appo plexy. ' Ashevllle. Buncombe county school will observe Aycock day with North Carolina day and Arbor day on No vember 19, at which time a collection will be taken up among the pupils toward the Ayeock memorial. Concord. The ministers of the cen tral district of the North Carolina classes of the Reformed church met In Concord and effected a ministerial organization which is to meet bi monthly. Morganton. When the supply of coal ran out, A. M. Kistler, owner of the big tannery here, called each of his employes Into his office and in formed him that he would be kept on the payroll during the time the plant was closed down. - Chapel Hill. President Chase, of the University of North Carolina, an nounced that the United States bu reau of education has established a research station at the university, with Dr. , L. A. Williams, of the school of education, as director. Rocky Mount. Announcement is made that the Rocky Mount Clearing House Association, of which all local banks are' members, will discontinue Christmas savings . clubs. The 'asso ciation has reached 'the conclusion that the regular savings departments of the banks offer better advantages te savers than the Christmas clubs. Raleigh. Commissioner of Public Works Ed R. Page, is critically ill at the Mary Elizabeth hospital and his life was saved by a transfusion op eration, in which his son furnished 250 CC of blood. No Cut In Train Service. -Ashevllle. Announcement was made here that it is not probable that any of the passenger trains on. the Ashe ville, Salisbury or Knoxville division will be taken off soon, and that the ruling of the United States railway administration curtailing passenger train service In the south will not ef fect any of the trains arriving and leaving Ashevllle, at least' for the present time. ' ':-: .-'K-- ,.:- It was learned also that the order will not effect sleeping-car service out of Ashevllle. Scottish Rite Lodge of Sorrow. Charlotte. -Clyde R. Hoey was the principal speaker at the reunion ser vice of Phalanx lodge, A. F. & a! M., held at the Scottish Rite cathedral In honor of the service : men from the The roll call of the, 76 members of the lodge who had been : in the ser vice showed only one who did not re turn. This was Cyrus de Armon. Taps sounded and the , scenic effects : pro duced were very impressive. : Mr. .Hoey spoke on America before and since the war.. NO THOUGHTS OF C0Mb THE PRESIDENT'S LAYS BLIE ON REPUBLICANS Democratic Leader,, Endor,. of White House, stm Have m ' of Reachigreeme "It was learned trom the . . authority at the y, the hopei0t the repuU.can the senate that the Pr.Qo;j.. presently make some move Zlm relieve the situation wkS A treaty is entirely wLthJ. tion; he has no oJZlT rou cession of any kind in mind, bt tends so far n i ; ' uul & the republican leaders of thTd M shall continue to bear the tiadS responsibility for the fate of "the tl ty and. the present condition 0fT world in consequence of that fatP The White House statement a ently had no effect in changiJT treaty situation. g tt . u10, tuiaoremg tt iTesident's view, declared that it J not preclude a senate compromise ay that compromise efforts would ceed. Republican leaders reiterated that the President was respc for the present status and must make the first move toward a solution. Sen fttors hoping to kill the treaty ai0ne expressed satisfaction. D'AlNNUNZIO REPORT IS NOT YET CONFIRMED. Trieste. Gabriele D'Annunzio is still in Fiume, and tnere has been no confirmation of the unofficial an nouncement that an agreement had been reached between him and the Italian government as the re6ult ol which he would leave Fiume immed iately with his troops, who would b placed by Italian regulars. The report of this agreement, it Is learned, originated with members of the British mission in this city. At the government palace here it was stated that no information had been received regarding the Fiume situa tion, but that it was known that D'Annunzio was still in Fiume. $50,000 ABERDEEN ANGUS .BULL BURNED TO DEA1 H. Knoxvllle, Tenn. Idolmere, winner of the Aberdeen-Angus grand cham-" pibnship at the recent international livestock exposition died in a veteri nary hospital here from burns reced ed When the car in which the bull wa being shipped from Chicago was burn ed. Idolmere, owned by Dr. J. E. Hug gins, of Dandridge, Tenn., was valued at $50,000. EMMA GOLDMAN CANNOT BEAR SEPARATION FROM BERKMAN. New York. Rather than be separat ' ed from Alexander Berkman, her com panion for years, Emma Goldman an nounoed through her attorneys that slie had abandoned her legal fight in the supreme court to prevent her.dfr portation to soviet Russia with Berk man and some 80 -rthei radicals. FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE BY HIRAM JOHNSON Washington. Siator Hiram Wj Johnson, of California, announce formally that he would e a cancn deJte for the Republican nomination for the presidency. WHISKEY EXPORTS BARRED . -AFTER JANUARY SIXTEENTH Washington Exportation of intox eating liquors for bevez-afe purposw will not be permitted a-ttei f' When the prohibition sirnjndment De comes effective, accord tai; to the rean of internal revenu. BRITISH TREASURY PREPARES AGAINST SILVER HOARDING London. - The Brit! A treasury wateh operates thiough the Ban England, has preyed for d silver hoarding "Hort ing a large numb r of nve- notes. . hnj The steady rise In silver ban M made British token -noney wona than Its face valeu. Although it legal, to melt dp. tho V.- known that such priotic, coupled hoarding of silver noney is Sin& MOVIE ACTORS AND F cTORM : APPARENTLY UT IN STOR .. !:prs and Miami, FlaSunam- t airplanes are seartMng for xne j r ... i.u t,Aro for Grey Duck, whion ieu - . sauTwJth David W. Griifth, note M. tion picture prodveer, ana of 36 motion picture s men and others. , . jjer According to a ices rei they. have.not yet isach 1 ttf Island capital. The 3M n, wew known to 1