North Carolina Newspapers

POLK COUNTY NEWS, TRYONJI ITOETH CAROLINA IMPORTANT NEIVS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS aVid OTHER NATIONS FOR 8EVEN DAYS GIVEN THE MEWS OF THE SOUTH i . What Is Taking Piacs In Tht South. ') land Will Be Found In i Brief Paragraph Domestic ' Worry over a deal in-real estate ia believed to rhave caused William Splindler, aged 70, to kill his son, his eon's wife and their three children and end his own-life at the Splindler home in Harlan, Ind. An organized band of fraudulent "revenue agents" who are alleged to have worked under direction of a few dishonest agents of the revenue de partment, and which has victimized more than one hundred New" York sa loon keepers, has been uncovered and the ring leaders identified in New York City. Northbound Seaboard Air Line vestibule train struck an auto truck at the oil mill crossing at Comer, Ga., killing outright two of the four occu pants of the vehicle. John M. Parker, who cut quite a swath in the Progressive party a few years ago, has been nominated by the Democrats for governor of Louisiana. , The New York police department now has 100 men in its air service corps . and more than two hundred others have volunteered to give their cervices free. Five thousand nine hundred dollars and fifty-four cents in war savings stamps and postage stamps was taken from the vaults of the Bank of Rex, Ga., on' the, night of January 18, when yeggmen succeeded in blasting . their way through the vault door, where the certificates were stored. t An entire Philadelphia family of five was wiped out by gas in their home. ' . The army transport Powhattan with five hundred passengers aboard, sent word by radio that she was In dis tress about five hundred miles east of New York. The boiler room w'as said to be flooded, with water running and gaining and help .from the pumps very uncertain. " Death by starvation on an unpre cedented scale in the near east this winter is predicted by Major General Harbord unless United States relief is continued. General Harbord head ed the American military mission that recently investigated the conditions in Armenia and other sections of the near east. Securities and other'loot valued at more than one hundred thousand dol lars, taken from a mail car of a South ern Pacific train by a lone bandit, have been recovered by railroad detec tives near Berkeley, Calif. i Washington Congress held its "thrift week" nio. bration, a wave of economy sweeping' Dotn the senate and the house. The net result was the chopping of many millions from bills carrying large ap propriations. , Coincident with the celebration of the one hundred and thirteenth birth day anniversary of General Robert Ed mund Lee and the annual meeting of the board of trustees it was announc ed that a total of $460,000 had been contributed to the fund for the en largement of the university. , Telegraphic reports of the landing of Emma Goldman and associates at Terijoki, Finnish-Russian Border, re port Emma as having said: "This is the greatest moment of my life. Af ter thirty-five years of absence I am returning to Russia with a feeling of awe. I am glad to leave America, but I love he America ople and ex pect to return to tiiem some day." The surgeon-general of the army says that while influenza has become epidemic in some parts of the country, .there, is nothing in the situation to' cause alarm. The Supreme court has decided to pass upon the validity of both the federal prohibition amendment and the act of congress prescribing the ; manner of its enforcement. The court's decision will be rendered on proceedings which are to be instituted by the state of Rhojie Island, which has been given permission to bring An original suit. Solicitor General King, for the gov ernment, announces he will imme diately prepare and file a motion ask ing for the dismissal of the Rhode Island case anent the validity of the prohibition act-on the ground that the court lacked jurisdiction. No time has been fixed for hearing arguments. Without debate the senate has ipassed a house bill amending existing acts so as to enable military decora tions to be awarded upon the rec ommendations of officers lower than ,the grade of general. This bill will en able conferring of decorations on sol diers who served in France with a rank lower than that of general. Influenza has become epidemic in several army camps, patricularly in the Middle West, Surgeon General Ireland of the army announce and it . has made appearance among the United StUes troops 4n Germany. "No foreigners need apply" hat fee come the watchword of American fi nance. It refers both to United States treasury loan- and to private banking credits. The past week has witnessed the proclamation to all the world that the doors of Uncle Sam's supposedly bottomless money : Vaults are 'barred, bolted' and slammed tight shut. 1 Increase of approximately one-third in the base pay of all enlisted men in the navy and the coast guard, ex cept recruits, is provided for in a bill passed by the house and sent to the senate..: i ,v;:V' - y :-;v- The full senate committee on mili tary affairs agreed in its report on the Anthony house bill providing emerg ency funds for certain camps and can tonments and for the salvaging of others, to strike the proviso for the salvaging of Camp Gordon, Ga., and two other national army cantonments, and to substitute therefor a provision that these camps be retained by tha government until July 1, 1921 . Twenty-two articles of food reached record prices in December, according to a report issued by the bureau of labor statistics." The prices were 2.6 per cent higher, than in November, 5 per cent higher than in the preceding December and 89 per cent higher than in December, 1913. Two American soldiers were killed and one severely wounded in the clash with a Russian detachment of General Semenoff's forces on January 10, near 'Posolsakaya, while five Russians were killed, one wounded and fifty-five cap tured, including one general and six officers, who still are held. Washington has received official ad vices from the Japanese government that Japan will follow the example of the United States in withdrawing its military forces from Siberia. Rapid progress is being made in the fourteenth decennial census. Com pleted returns from 1,145 districts in the larger cities have been received. The fate of nearly three thousand alian radicals, mostly Russians, is up to Secretary William B. Wilson. Just what he will do is entirely unknown at this time. " John M. Barnes, a noted political figure in Georgia politics for many years, killed himself in Augusta, Ga. He had been sentenced to a nineteen year ter min the Georgia penitentiary for killing his brother-in-law. He was postmaster at Thomson. Recommendations of the joint com mission of the Methodist Episcopal chtfrch, north and south, that the two branchy again be reunited were unan imously adopted by the convention at Louisville, Ky., of the one hundred or more bishops, pastors and laymen of both church. The merger plan pro vides that the unified churches be named "The Methodist Church." Morris Hillquit, chief counsel for the five suspended Socialist assem blymen of New York, declared at the opening of their trial in Albany if the assembly permanently ousted the defendants the act will "loosen the violent revolution which we Socialists have always endeavored and are en deavoring to stem." He explained that he meant by this assertion not "a "threat," but "made a sort of love of fer that we Socialists are ready to see the thing through in a constitu tional manner and by peaceful methods." Foreign The demand of the entente powers that Holland deliver up to them for mer Emperor -William of Germany, that he may be tried for a supreme of fense against international morality and the sanctity of treaties, has been refused by Holland. Officers of "the United States ma rine corps, who have charge of the penitentiary at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, have had to issue special orders to' keep the natives from breaking into their model jail, where they could get three square meals a day and a com fortable bed to sleep in. Martial law has been proclaimed in the principal cities of Italy as a re sult of the rail road strike. The prince of Wales in an address ut a large and enthusiastic dinner 'to the Pilgrims, reaffirmed his intention to revisit the United States. The din ner was held in London. General Semenoff, commander-hv chief of the al-Russian armies, has is sued a proclamation declaring that ha sSeriSUmed the SUPreme rulershiP in Pri?anlSeCt in agreeinS t0 co-opera e with the United States in sup Porting Czecho-Slovak troops in Si beria has been attained and the with drawal of Japanese troops from Si beria wlU ollow as Japjm ntorial ambitions in Siberia.. News reached London recently of a heavy engagement, on the northwest era frontier , of India in which the British suffered heavily. The Brit ish suffered 385 casualties. The Mah suds lost 130 killed and wounded and more than two hundred in wounded. The Jugo-Slavs have submitted to the supreme council their "supreme effort" in the way of concessions to effect an agreement with Italy. The Jugo-Slavs accept internationalization under the league of nations for Fiume and Zara, concede to Italy the islands of Lussin and Pelagoza, and agree to demilitarization of the Adriatic islands with the condition that the island of Lissa remain Jugo-Slav. No definite arrangements by the su preme council anent the Turkish ques tion, which is a most complicated one, have been made. ACT FOR MILITARY TRAINING PASSED BILL DIFFERS FROM THAT OF REORGANIZATION THAT WAS i PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED. FOUR MONTHS OF TRAINING Provision is Made for Citizen Army Composed of 2QO,000 Enlisted Men, Officers and a National Guard. Washington. By a vote of nine to five, the senate military committee ap proved provisions providing for com pulsory military training for boys be tween 18 and 21 years, and ordered favorable report upon the army reg istration bill. The compulsory military training provision, fixes the training period at four months. . , ' ' As finally agreed-upon, the bil is virtually the same as reported by the sub-committee but is radically differ ent from the reorganization bill sub mitted by the war department to Con gress. In addition to establishing compulsory military training, the bill provides for one army to be divided into a citizen army composed of 200, 000 enlisted men and 18,000 officers, and a national guard. Specific provision, is made in the bill that the citizen army cannot be called to colors except in the case of a declaration of war. To accommo date the reserve force built up under the system of -military training, pro vision is made in the bill for an an nual reduction of five per cent in the enlisted strength of the regular army. HOOVER THINKS INDEPENDENT IS WANTED BY THE PEOPLE. Washington. How. does HerbeTt Hoover stand on thf campaign being waged by his frieiras to make him a candidate for President? Does he wish to ffun is he a can didate? If so, doejl he wish to run as a democrat, as a republican or as an independent? As a candidate, will Hoover sub scribe to and run xn whatever plat form the organization leaders of the party nominating him bring out of convention? Hoover is not actively a candidate, but will stan4 for election on a pro gressive, human platform if such is brought forward by any party and Hoover's leadership demanded. AIRPLANE IS BEING BUILT TO CARRY 100 PASSENGERS. New York, A giant Caproni plane which is being constructed near Milan to carry 100 passengers described by Augustus A. Post before the state aviation commission in session here. Mr. Post recently returned from Eu rope where he was sent by the Aero Club of America to study the advance of aviation. AMERICAN RED CROSS WORKERS LEAVE SIBERIA Vladivostok. All American women and many Red Cross workers are to be evacuated from Siberia on the first available transport, it is announced by. Red Cross headquarters here. WILHEMSTRASSE IS BARRICADED, UNDER GUARD Berlin. Wilhemstrasse tonight is barricaded and under the ruard of numerous troops. A oatrol of 18 arm- ed automobiles and half a dozen huge motor trucks, loaded with armed troops, arrived early in the evening and immediately took up their posi tions in wf ront of the government building and shut off all traffic from the thoroughfares. The precautions taken by Minister of Defense Noske were stimulated by rumors that the monarchists would at tempt an insurrectipn on the eve of the former emperor's Ibirthday . AMERICANIZATION BILL IS PASSED BY THE SENATE Washington.- The senate by a vote of 3-6 to. 14 passed the enyon Ameri canization bill, which would require all residents of the United States of 1 to 21 years of age, not mentally or physically disqualified, and all alien .residents between the ages of 16 and i 45 who cannot speak, read or write English, to attend school not Ifess ?han 200 hours a year. The measure had been before the senate for ahout a week. UNION OF AUSTRIA AND GERMANY IS DEMANDED Vienna, Sunday Under the rally.' ing can of "starvation or fusion,' a great mass-meeting insupport of a union of Austria with Germany was held in the city hall with overflow meetings on the terraces: The meeting was under the aus Pices of the Pan-American party and President Dinghof er, of the national assem-bly. The. speeches were gener ally temperate in ton A ennnitlni. 1 , note of despair over Austria's future. 1 GREAT CONVENTION TAI HEEL MASONS 133RD tICOMMUNICATION GRAND LODNE OF MASONS CALLED LOpfrE TcflOfl RDER AT RALEIGH. COWPS BELIEVES IN LEAGUE & ''All AreSt Common Origin and Should' be Ta(ht to Clasp Hands Across Season Common Brotherhood." - $ ' - ' Raleigh. ' The 12frd annual communication of the Norifi Carolina grand lodge of Masons as called to order in the Ma sonic temple here by Grand Master Henry a Grady, of Clinton. There Were aboiit ' 750 nresent. .of whom Kl it jrere delegates, representing every part oi rje state. Duringthe evening the grand lodge heard wijh deep interest the report of Grand Mfster Grady, who outlined his administration.. The grand orator was Senator if eorge V. Cowper, of Kins ton. - . t Senatofj Cowper declared that he be lieved tht some sort of league of na tions should be effected; that it should be a league that teaches men they are all one common origin and that they should extend their hands across the seas andjlasp those of their brethren on the oty.er side. Masonry, he said, has alajis stood for just this sort of thing. j There Bust be a, systematic under standing gf each other, he declared, before tb world can ;be brought to a point whfre good will and peace will clasp hars and make of this world the placerod intended it should be, a place wheje the teachings of the Mas ter are pft into operation. Free Ma sonry, he declared, is facing the great est opportunity it has ever known, the opportunity to apply the principles of brotherly Jove as a cure for current unrest M Reidsvlle Ipostmaster Resigns. Washington. (Special). E. F. Aydlett wUs nominated district attor- Robert Montgomery resigned as postmastest Reidsville and four can didates, "vi R. Anderson, republican, and R. L. Jllington, C. H. Fetzer and L. H. Hardy, Jr., democrats, are in the race to suleed him. James J-tRoprers has been appointed postmasteqat Ivy. ftepreeeMative Small will introduce a substitute for the republican rivers and harbo bill. It will provide for an anproTjftion of $19,000,000 instead of $12,000,00. - Two Prisoitrs Pardoned. Two pnpners, serving six months terms eachjSfor manufacturing liquor, were pard&ned by Governor Bickett upon condition of good behavior. The men were glilliard Oliver, of Hender son county convicted in September, 1919, and 1 C. Jackson, of Caldweu county, cottjricted in November, 1919. The judgfeand solicitors jn each case recommendftconditional pardons. 1 Many Chilcfen Are Discovered. Child ' wejjare workers in the state, charged wi-$i the enforcement of the compuIsory4schocl atendance law en acted at th; last session of the Gen eral Assembly, have discovered more children inthe state than the census takers had jjny knowledge of, declares Dr. E. C Bpoks, state superintendent or pudiic instruction, and In many counties th&j actual daily atendance in rublic schools exceeds the school census No Room fr the Turk. Declaringthere should be no room for the Turfon the map of the world, Dr. George a. Hyde, of the Palestine commissionspeaking at the State Ar menian andjiSyrlan Relief Conference here, stateajf that America ought to provide protection- for the stricken a menfans froyi the ravages of the bru tal and "fiendish" Turkey before this country slgt s the peace treaty. Meet of Sa Officials.' A meeUngfor the. purpose of organ izing the public safety officials of North Carolina wil be held in Raleigh in the nearfjuture. It will be caller' by. H. A. oneyham, commissioner of public safety. Commissioner Mooneyham expects to invite evMry public safety official of the stat to the conference. It will mater r$t whether they are iden tified with he commission or any other form j-f- municipal government.' Chiefs of pfice will be included in the officials o be invited.' Attract! PL-lzes for Essays. ..The war department has authorized Colonel A. g P. Anderson, recruiting officer for N(gth Carolina, to announce that -a prize jressay contest, known as the "United $tates Army School Con test," has bep opened to the students of all schoolsj except colleges and uni versities, whether public, private, sec tarian or no-sectarian. Prizes will be awarded gtdr the, best esays on the subject: U '. "What areffthe benefits ot an e SfJf e?vn 6 'U S- Aray,' regard less of the . tx, creed or color. News Items from Washington. - Washington. (Special). -Editor R. R. Clark, , of the Landmark, will be appointed postmaster at Statesville. He stood at the head of a jist of five, before the civil service commis sion and will get the job. I . These postmasters were appointed: Millard W. Baumgardner, Wilkesboro; John H. Griffin, Wilson ; Edgar: S. Woolley, Creswell; George W. Taylor, Roanoke Rapids ; Henry E.i Early, Rose Hill; William C. Pope, 1 Mashville; Robert T. Wade, Morehead City, CyriU Walker, Roper; . William Wat son, Swan Quarter; Eugene T. Hooker. Aurora; Myron L. Moore, Granite Falls; Wm. C. Newbern, Grifton; Wm. C. Conner, Marshville; John H. San ders, Middlesex; Jacob B. Brown, Vanceboro; D. P. Stowe,; Belmont; John L. Miller, Concord; I Sam W. Finch. Lexington; Robert P. Crookes, Murphy; Harvey E. Garrison, North Charlotte; George R. Upchurch, Nor wood; William C. Taber, Tabor; Nan nie M. I. Moore, Warrenton; and Lula P. Parker, West Raleigh, '( v Lillian C. Darbin was nominated for Stantonsburg, but for somejreason the appointment was withheld, j Representative Hoey has appointed William G. Bell, of Pineville, princi pal to West Point, and Joel A. Yar borough, of Charlotte, alternate. Smallpox Widely Prevalent. Smallpox is widely I prevalent throughout the State, more than 500 cases having been reported to the State Board of Health since the first of November, according to a statement issued by State Epidemiologist Dr. F. M. Register. His statement follows: "Since November 1st; 1919 up to January 15th, 1920 there have been reported to the Board of Epidemiology 584 cases of smallpox, distributed among the following counties: Ala mance, Chowan, Cleveland, Edge combe, Forsyth, Gaston, Gates, Gran ville, Guilford, Haywood, Iredell, John ston, Martin, McDowell, Perquimans, Pitt, Rockingham, Rutherford, Surry, Bertie, Brunswick, Columbus, Frank lin, Henderson, Hertford, ; Jackson, Madison, New Hanover, Pasquotank, Polk, Scotland, Vance, Washington, Wayne, Wilson, Anson, Beaufort, Bun combe, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Cherokee, Cumberland, Lenoir, Nash, j Pender, Person, Robeson. ! "Get busy and have your family vac cinated at once. Free vaccine is fur nished by the State Laboratory of Hy giene. - ; To Bring Back Soldier Dead. Washington. (Special)jri-Senator Overman received a letter from Charles C. Pierce, chief of the graves registration service, saying that it is the government's policy to bring back the soldier dead as rapidly as possi ble to those whose nearest kin make request for their return. j Secretary Baker explains that there are International problems that must be removed before bodies i can be orought from France. Chemical Plants in State. One hundred and 46 chemical plants are now operating in North Carolina. exclusive of the cotton mills which do their own dyeing, and furniture fac tories, according to I. W. Smithey of Wilkesboro, who In the December is sue of The Carolina Chemist, pub lished by the chemistry department of the University of North Carolina, out lines the chemical industries of North Carolina. Hiram Wants Information. Senator Hiram W. Johnson of Cal ifornia telegraphed Secretary of State J. Bryan Grimes, asking for the time limit for filing notice of candidacy for presidential nominations in this state and requesting full information re garding primary laws. Some New Corporations. Williams , Private Sanitarium, Greensboro, to conduct a, private hos pital for the treatment of various dis eases, with an authorized capitaliza tion of $3,000. Edjrerton Bros. Co., Princeton, to do a general merchandise business, with $15,000 paid in and the privilege of In creasing the paid in capital to $100,- American Southern Motors Co., Greensboro, Is Incorporated to do a general automobile business with an authorized, capital stock of $1,262,500 - .) State's Share of Books. North Carolina will receive 4.500 books from the American Library as sociation, states Miss Mary Palmer secretary of the North Carolina Libra ry commision.' The books are ! those collected for the war service ! libra ries, - which were taken over by tJje government November 1, 1919. r North Carolina's share is to be dis tributed by the state library commis sion, according to suggestions sent out from the, headquarters of the American Library association,' of Washington, D. C. To Spend Ten Million Annually.! Five thousand miles of hard surfaced roads, connecting every county seat in the state is the goal determined upon by the executive committee of the North Carolina Good Roads asso elation at a recent session. IvT16 xecutITe committee decided that in view of the urgent need of more constructive legislation that it would not be amiss to have the acting secretary communicate with the gov ernor to ascertain If any, road legisla Hon would be sanctioned at the spe cial session of the general assembly ROAD CONTRACTS HN CGUIIjj ETIC9CT Dn A n ia w FROM MONROE VIA WAXHAW TO JACKSON BIRTHPLACE. TERMS OF CONTRACT UNUSUAL Road Law Adopted by the Last Legij. lature Is Said to Be Proving the Best the County Ever Saw. Monroe. The Union countv roai commission announces that it has let tne contract lor me construction of half a million dollars worth of roadj m union county, me nrst road to bi built will be: the Jackson highway from Monroe through Waxhaw to the Andrew Jackson birthplace, where it connects with the Charlotte-Savannah highway. The terms of the contract are un. usual, being the 'cost plus" system with interpretations and reservations The actual cost of the work is figurej out by the county road superintend ent and the contract let on this basis plus 10 per cent. If the actual cost proves higher than the estimate, the contractor. and the county share tha Increase 50-50; if It proves less than the estimate, they divide the gala equally. The road law under which th county is working was adopted by the last legislature and is declared to be proving the most practicable of anj law the county has had. Charlotte Charlotte's splendid ne high school building, said to be ono of the finest in the state and a model well worthy of emulation by other cities, will in all probability be ready for classes by February 15, Superin tendent of Schools Harding stated. Marion. There are In McDowe3 county something lika 1,300 dogs.Th value on the tax books of these ca nines Is a neat sum. The paxes paid on them Is about $1,500. The number ber of sheep in the county is less than 300 and . the value is less than $1,000. The tax amounts to less than $20.. Warrenton The Dublic-SDirited TVPrV pie of the county are being mobilized into a law enforcement bodv bv Prnf John Graham and his committee in an effort to locate and destroy the whis key outfits in Warren. Mt. Airy. 5. Glen Young created considerable excitement here when he appeared on the streets with two de serters and an alleged blockader, whom he had forced to carry his own copper still, cap, worm and other par aphernalia, and landed his trio of cap tives in Jail here. Asheville. Announcement is mad by the Southern railway that the new bridge, Just completed over the Ten nessee river, between Chattanooga and Harriman Junction, has been open ed and put in use. The bridge wa condemned about six months ago br the government inspectors and order ed closed. Goldsboro. Definite arrangements were made by the local chamber of commerce to have the annual conven tion of the Eastern North Carolina county farm agents and home demon strators meet in Goldsboro February 11 to 13. - It is said that delegates from 3-2 counties will be present at this convention. Raleigh.. - United States Marshal George H. Bellamy will transfer his office from Raleigh to Wilmington oa March land he must have almost a new force. LIncolnton. Troop Acavalry. First North Carolina national guard, is now assured. 'Major H. P. Perrine, of tha 46th infantry, United States amy. stationed at Camp Jackson, spent a day in the city Inspecting the appli cants for the new troop and mustering into service the LIncolnton platoon.' Gardner on Ignorance. Sanford. "The greatest menace North Carolina has today is ignor ance," declared Lieutenant Governor O.' Max Gardner, to the Lee Post No. 18 of the American legion. 'North, Carolina can not compete with her sister states so long as she Is held back by the handicap of ignor ance," the speaker continued. "One seventh of North Carolina's popula tion sit in Intellectual darkness to night, v Fifty thousand white men of draft afge in this state can neither read nor write their names." Veteran Firemen Quit. Asheville Immediately following the discharge of Fireman Ernest Da is by Commissioner Fitzpatrick and the subsequent resignation of Chief Wood, 25 volunteer firemen of the city fire department, called an indignation meeting, and proffered-their resigna tions. An . . v J VWU Ul tilt? VUlUiAtt men, who Vere not present, of the 2rfc" company followed the action oi the chief. Among those resigned are many veterans of fOg. fires and participant state tournaments for 18 years.