North Carolina Newspapers

IMPORTANT NEl'JS THE WORLD OVER ' :......-..-.. IMPORTANT- HAPPENINGS OP THIS AND OTHER NATI0N8 FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE IIEYS OF THE SOUTH What It Taking Place In The Soirttv land Will Be Found In 1 Brief Paragraphs Domestic- Former service men may reinstate their war risk insurance at any time before July 1, 1920, under a new. rul ing of the bureau of war risk insur ance. . Former service men will i have their war risk insurance reinstated regard less of how long they have been dis charged provided they pay two month ly premiums and are in as good health as when discharged. Three prominent cattlement of Polk county, Florida, were killed and fourth injured by deputy sheriffs. It is claimed they were in the act of cut ting the wire fence surrounding the tract of phosphate land enclosed by the American Agricultural Chemical 1 company; ' y ' Gordon Fawcett Hamby, murderer, bank robber and train bandit, whose crime record reached from coast to coast and culminated in the murder of ' two Brooklyn bank 1 employees in December, 1918, was electrocuted in Sing Sing prison. He maintained to the last the iron composure which marked his demeanor from the hour of his arrest. He -refused the offer of the Portestant and Roman Catho lic chaplains to accompany him to the chair. The South Carolina house of repre sentatives killed the anti-smoking- bill without a dissenting vote. The one-gallon "kitchen still" is x the newest anti-prohibition contrivance to make its appearance in New York, ac cording to J. J. Shevlin, prohibition enforcement officer of New York. -1 A Charleston, W. Va., dispatch says that congress will be asked to take criminal action against those respon sible for waste of materials. and mon ey in connection with the construc tion of the government powder plant at Nitro, W. Va., near that place. A COnstjfrapv tn ripfraiiri the srvpm merit i existed, it is charged, and "somebody 1", t0J compulsory military ought to be indicted." training for boys between 18 and 21 A West Palm Beach, Fla.. dispatch ! yffrs' inclusive' and ordered a favor says: Rodman Wannamaker II of able report upon the army reorganiza- Phfladelphia and the other five mem- tlon bm- , . bers of his party arrived at Palm - " " Beach after having spent twenty-four Foreign .hours during a storm at sea in a The capture of Odessa by Ukrainian ;six-passenger seaplane piloted by; forces commanded by General Paw- Ycuu Mcuuiiocn, a nkember of the NC-3 crew during her ! transatlantic flight Lack of food and water was the most severe hard ship, aside from fears that engine trouble, which forced the plane to light on sea, might not be repaired for seme time. Washington Delegates in attendance at the con gressional hearing of the St Marys- St Marks canal, together with inter-; ested business men met and organized the Atlantic-to-Mississippi Canal Asso ciation. The purpose of the Atlantic-to-Mississippi Canal association is to carry on a campaign of publicity and infor mation concerning the project, as well as to crystallize sentiment in lavor of the proposed canal. The United States treasury does!alonS tne western shores of the Cas- not look with favor upon certain fea tures of the proposed .international conference recently called by the co . terie of nationally known financiers and commercial leaders in an effort to lead the world out of the financial and commercial chaos into which, it rwas dragged by the war. Secretary Glass declares that such a conference would serve to "cause confusion and revive hopes, doomed to disappoint ment, of further government loans." The nomination of David Franklin Houston, who has been . secretary of agriculture since the beginning of the .Wilson administration, has been sent lo the senate for the treasury port folio. . Edwin L. Meredith of Des Moines, Jowa, has been named to succeed Sec retary Wilson in the department of -agriculture. A third resignation in the Wilson cabinet is expected soon, but who it will be has not been made public. Dr. Hugh S. Cummings of Hampton, ,'Va., has been nominated surgeon gen eral ot the public health service by President Wilson. He succeeds Dr. Rupert Blue, whose term expired on January 15. Doctor Cummings for a ."number of years was quarantine Offi- .er at Hampton Roads and is at pres ent in Europe studying typhus condi tions there. Henry P. Fletcher has resigned as "United States ambassador to Mexico, to take effect in the course , of the BMl iew weeits. Those who know the reason for Mr. Fletcher's decision ay mat ne was convinced that a con (Unuation of the efforts he has made t during the four years in which he has neia uiis important' post to brine th Carranza government into accord with me united states government on the Muuxj irniaung issues which have arisen, inTolvmg the protection of American lives and property riehu. would be futile, Coercive methods nave not been used by the federal reserve board or federal reserve' banks" to compel non- member state banks to join the federal reserve system- or submit to the board's regulations, the senate was in formed by Governor W. P. G. Harding in response to a senate resolution. . A dispatch from McAilen, Texas, says two army aviators, Lieuts.E. F. Davis and G.' E. Grimes, carrying a military message from Fort Brown, Texas, to Nogales, Ariz., were forced to make a landing in Mexico, thirty miles south of Zapata, Texas, and are being held by Mexicans. According to a message from the aviators they have been promised their freedom. ' Decentralization of the country's banking resources and widespread dis tribution of wealth, indicated, by an in crease in banking resources of 1,000 or more in sixteen states since 1899, Is shown by a comparison of present bank resources with conditions twenty years ago. Action on bids for thirty of the former German liners seized in the United States has been deferred by the shipping board as a result of a pro- test from secretary Baker against tne sale of such of these vessels as have been included by the war department in its army transport reserve. President Wilson has asked Secre tary Glass to make another appeal to congress for authority to lend one hun dred and fifty million .dollars to Po- land Austria and Armenia to relieve their desperate food situation. The senate, by a vote of 36 to 14, passed the Americanization bill which Would require all residents of the United States of 16 to 21 years of age, not mentally or physically disqualified, and all alien residents between the ages of 16 and 45, who cannot speak, read or write English, to attend school not less than 200 hours a year. . The United States, after all, will get fully one-half of the Cuban sugar crop of approximately four million tons. It isx. authoritatively predicted in Wash ington that sugar will be slightly low er in February and -muoh lower in March. Secretary Daniels has made public a letter to Chairman Hale of the sen ate subcommittee investigating naval war decorations transmitting a list of awards made to enlisted men of the service by the secretary, without reference to the Knight medal award board. It consists of twelve awards of distinguished service medals and 144 navy cross awards. By a vote of 9 to 5 the senate mili tary committee approved provisions' ianVo is announced. A committee of Ukrainian. Russian and Jewish citi- zens succeeded in restoring order, and in improving the provisioning of the city. - Difficulties of supply have probably stopped the advance of the Bolshevik troops along the trans-Siberian rail road west of Irkutsk, according to a dispatch to the British war office. All resistance seems to have disappeared. Latest reports seem to show that relations between the Czecho-Slovaks ana me new anti-uoisneviK govern ment, which succeeded that of Admi ral Kolchak, have become worse and that Bolshevism appears to be gain ing ground as a result of the arrival of red agents working in front of the Bolshevik army. On the eastern half of the Russian front the threatening red advance pian sea has been checked and thrown back. In the center General Deni kine's units have falen back. The Powhattan has been towed into Halifax, N. S harbor. Captain Ran dall reported that with the exception of three men slightly ill, all was well on board. Under the settlement plan as - set forth in the allied ultimatum to Jugo Slavia, now reported accepted", the city of Fiume is to be independent un der o league of nations guarantee. The port and the railroad terminals, the ultimatum provided, are to be con trolled by the league of nations. The dispatch of Japanese reinforce ments to Siberia was unavoidably nec essary to assist the Czechs, and guard the extensive railways, Premier Hara declared in replying to interpellation in the lower house of the Japanese diet It was also necessary as a means of assuring the safety of the , Japan ese garrison. German preparations for the evac uation of Danzig, which is to- become a free city under the terms of the treaty of Versailles, had as one feature a final parade of the German troops. A Danzig message says the parade was held amidst an enthusiastic pop ular demonstration with the German colors on the flagstaff s of . various buildings at half mast :. Fifteen persons are dead and a large number injured a3 the result of a collision between; two sections of the Canadian -Pacific express for Vancou ver, which occurred about eleven miles east of North Bay,, Ontario, Canada. The rear sleeper of the first section, which was stalled, was telescoped by the locomotive ot the second section, snd elghr passengers were killed out right, seven dying later from their in juries. x T 'V ' ' V' '"' '..- v- The P,olish cabinet has signed a xnb- I bilixation order, . because of the Bc 1 shevik advance. POLK OOUKTY HEWS, TRON. ITORTH 0 ABOUT A AT LAREDO TEXAS FINALLY RELEASED BY ORDER OF MILITARY AUTHORITIES'; AT NUEVO, MEXICO. . WERE NOT SENT TO MONTEREY The Airplane Used by Grimes and Davis Reclaimed and Brought Back By Lieut Stoner. San Anonio, Tex. Lieutenants E. F. Davis and. G. EJ Grimes, United States aviators who have been held' by Mexican authorities, were released at Neuva Laredo and crossed the Rio Grande, to Laredo, Texas, Colonel Fechet, southern department air ser- vice officer announced. ' The aviators were released by order of General Reynaldo Garza, comman der of the garrison at Neuvo Laredo, after a conference with Major Julian F.-Saenz, commander at Matamoros, who accompanied the aviators to Nuevo Laredo. ' Lieutenant Stoner, an aviator with station at Laredo, was sent to San Rafael Las Tortillas, 30 miles west of Guerrero, and returned , with the airplane of Lieutenants Davis and Grimes, Colonel Fecht announced. ROOSEVELT TAKES PLACE ON WOOD CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. Chicago.Theodore Roosevelt has accepted a place on the Leonard Wood national campaign committee, it was announced at Wood headquarters. LAST OP MORMON PIONEtfRS GATHERED TO HIS FATHERS Rah T.nltp PitVL- -William A. Smoot, last of the band of pioneers which reached the valley of Salt Lake July 24, 1847, with Brigham Young, died here at I the age of 92. EXCOMMUNICATION OF BOHEMIAN IS FATE REFORMISTS. riome. The -holy see has decided to ex-communicate the Bohemian reform ist priests who are separating from the Vatican and forming a Czecho slovak national church. INFLUENZA PROVES FATAL IN MANY CHICAGO CASES. Chicago. Deaths from . influenza and Pneumonia since the outbreak oi the epidemic January 15 totalled 1, 6&8. During the same period 26,888 cases of the disease were reported. CONTROL OF RAILROADS COST GOVERNMENT $700,000,000. Washington. Operation of the rail roads. Pullman lines, express corn panies ana waterways, uninea unaer federal control has cost the nation ap- proximately $700,000,000, according to official calculation since they were taken over two years ago. DENIES THAT BRITAIN . SEEKS FURTHER LOANS . Washington. Positive assertion that the British government does not plan to seek further loans in the United States but on the contrary is desirous of reducing the obligations it already has incurred here is includ ed in a statement from London trans mitted to Secretary Glass through R C. Lindsay, British charge d'affairs. DEPOSITORIES OF PUBLIC MONEY ARE TO BE REDUCED Washington. Drastic reduction in the number of national banks desig nated as government depositories is being made by the treasury depart- snent with the result that less than 400 of the 1,331 such institutions hold- ing federal funds on June 30. 1918, are expected to survive the pruning knife: BIG BILL HAYWOOD UNDER INDICTMENT BY GRAND JURY " Chicago. 'Indictments ' against thirty-seven members of the I. W. W. wer Te turned by the special grand Jury in Testigating radical activities. - Chief among those indicted were William D. (Big Bill) Haywood, form er secretary of the organization, now at liberty from Leavenworth prison under bond, and Thomas Whitehead, wuo Bucceeaea Jtiaywooa as secretary. k The indictments complete the work of i the "red" grand jury. HITCHCOCK MAKES PLANS TO TAKE UP TREATY IN SENATE Washington The sudden breaking op. of -the bi-partisan conference with out accomplishing results has prompt ed Democratic leaders to seek a new avenue for reaching a compromise on' Veservations to the peace treaty. Senator Hitchcock, Democrat ol Nebraska .announced he would serve notice on the senate that a motion wtll be made on February 10 to take n pthe treaty for ratification. $67,452.47 FOR f VOGATIONAL USE VCATIONAL TRAINING BUAu S ANNOUNCES ALLOTMENT TO y. i NORTH CAROLINA. .1 f IDED INTO THREE ITEMS Srce of Workers is Strengthened by fhe Addition of Better Qualified feachers and Higher Salaries Raleigh, schools will IfJorth Carolina state receive a total of $67,452,47 for the filial year ending June 30, 1920, to cary out the co-operative vocational pgram in this state, according to Statement of amounts for various states in "The Vocational Summary, monthly publication of the federal bonrd of vocational training. he amount is divided into three itlvns: the divisions and amounts be- in? as follows: fr agriculture, $38,- 25&42; for trade, industry and home ec&omdcs. $7,530.30: for teacher tr?tning, $21,667.73. South Carolina, according to tafne, will receive $46,350.67, the of wljfch $26,151.92 will be for agricul- tui; $5,316.14 for trade, industry an-f home economics, and $14,882.61 foo teacher training. t- the same publication, under the "Nws Notes' heading, the following iter as appears: iiiorth Carolina has strengthened heq force of vocational workers in agfcjculture by the addition of better qualified teachers and by paying high er Salaries. This is alreadv exertinc - - - a jselpful influence in the develop ment of agriculture of the state along sait and profitable lines. MLetf By-Gones be By-Gones. J$ny man, serving a sentence for a mijr offense, escaping from prison anf enlisting in the army, making a goci soldier and then coming home anj leading a decent life, is entitled to continued freedom, says Governor T- y- Bickett in granting a parden to Roe Pender, of Polk county. The ruin in such cases will be to let by- gorjjjs be by-gones the Governor de elates. Nafonal Guard Progressing. 'Siisfactory progress is being made by fie score of National Guard units in teh e State toward securing their ful$ uotas of enlisted men necessary ifi : bee they will be recognized by the Government according to a letter .sent by Adjutant General B. S. Koyjter xo tne commanding officers of fie designated companies. Two cor45anies in the State have already passed Federal inspection. Postmasters Confirmed. "Vv&shington, (Sfyecial)- The senate ouim iuuuunm6 ioi masters: Eugene T. Hooker, Aurora; Delam- in. bertjP. Stowe, Belmont; John L. Mil ler, Concord; Edger S. Wbodley, Creiwell; Myron L. Moore, Granite Samuel W. Finch, Lexington; Wil- lianMC. Pope, Marshall; William O. Conker, Marsh Hill; John H. Sau- derail Middlesex; Robert F. Crooks, Murphy; Harvey E. Garrison, North Chajfotte; George It Unchurch, Nor- woo; George N. Taylor, Roanoke Rapls; Cyril L. Walker, Roper; Hifr G. Early, Rose Hill; William Watson, swan Quarter; William C. Gramim, Tabor; Jacob B. Brown Vanf eboro; Nannie M. Moore, War- rental ; Lula E. Parker-, West Ra- lelgfcj Millard F. Baumgardner, Wilkjsboro. il 19193brop 787,722 Bales. Tha preliminary report of Director SamU Rogers, of the loreau of cen- sus.vpinows that a total of 787,722 balesiiof cotton were ginned in North Carogna in 1919, of the crop that year ana &913, as compared with 768,946 oaie ginned in 1918, showing a gain or 174 Dales for 1919. M - 4 ;. At H't of Resources. - Tti university has, I must report m a; iranjtness, reached In every direcon the limit of its present fe- sources," President H. W. Chase of the T$iiversity of North Carolina said in hjf annual report to the board. waning is more evident than that, i jt we are to care for even our - - . i r ' 5reSlv?t uumbers, we must enter upon ""ui"6 viugmm. wun dormories,. dinning hall, class rooms, laboratories, chapel, adminstrative imate-jthe need for relief is plain." . - - Grad ate Nurses Reoraanlze. Th Raleigh Graduate Nurses As eociagen became non-existent and is now jaieign uistrict Number 6- of it -Er Jf-fc mm . . . tne Korth Carolina Nurse's Associa uon. jspDis was the decision of a bust - Hess Meeting of the Raleieh Graduate 'urs&' Assocation which followed lunchf jn of the Raleigh organization ai inu yvomen-s ciuto. District num Der 14 comprises Wake, Johnson, FranIn, Vance and Warren. I "Mrf T. W. Bickett and Bland e Stafford were ' the Miss honor suestf at the luncheon. : i -i Automobile Death Toll. i )t? n hundred ud six people ..were. - f - - ' - - - ' , m m killed In automobile accident u North Carolina last year. More than two people' died every week in the state as a result of accidents max might hare been prevented. In 1918 there were 105. deaths as a result oi automobile accidents. Forsyth county led the state in tht inumber killed, with a total of twelve. Mecklenburg county takes second place with a count of ten, and Wake third, with , seven deaths from; auto mobile accidents. Buncombe county had six deaths and Guilford five. The figures are taken from the records of the state department of health. No records are available of the num ber of people injured in automobile accidents, but the figures would prob- ably run into several thousand. There are reports almost daily of people who are seriously injured in-wrecks that are in the most part due to careles? operation of motor vehicles. Good Roads Delegates. The following delegates were nam- ed Dy Governor T. W. Bickett to at tend the meeting , of the Appalachian (j.00(j Roads association, which con venes in Asheville February 26-28:. A. P. Lindsey, Gastonia; William Brad ford, Huntersville; Eugene Branson, Sparta; Bennehan Cameron, Stag Tille; Bion Hutler, Southern Pines; J. M. Boyette, Albemarle; B. E.-Mills. Statesville; A. S. Patterson, Bryson City; E. T. Lindsay, Tryon; R. G. Menzies, Hickory; It L. Ballou, Jeffer son; J. W. Ragland, Newiana Hoover Invited to Speak. Washington. (Special). Greens boro comes forward with the first in vitatlon to Herbert Hoover to make ft speech in the south since the World launched his boom for president, and leaves the date entirely to the choos ing of the former food administrator. The invitation, originating with the Greensboro division of the North Car olina Federation of Women's clubs, was forwarded to MrJ Hoover by Sen ator Lee S. Overman with the assur ance from the junior senator that Mr, Hoover would find no more hospitable people anywhere than fn Greensboro. Friends May Serve Together. Men from the same section who wish to enter the army and who de sire to be associated together may do so, according to a recent ruling of the war department, Sergeant Bra ley local recruiting officer, said. He Laid that every regiment in the regu lir army had been assigned to a state or a group of states so that the au thorized strength of these regiments may be completed from the states to which , they were assigned. In the recent order the following regiments and companies were assign ed to North Carolina:. 28th Infantry, Camp Taylor, Ky.; 6th field artillery, Camp Taylor, Ky. ; heavy mobile ar- ijU.uiJ A a) iui , r.y , uoai j uiuuuc a.. tillery, Camp Jackson, S. C; 1st en gmeers. Camp Taylor, Ky.; 5th caval ry now stationed at various posts in : Texas. - . This order to fill up these regi ments with North Carolinians as far as possible will hold good until Marcn 15th, it was explained at the recruit ing station. ' Government Officials Coming. Washington.. (Special). Through. Raleigh and otheV North Carolina towns on the Bankhead National high way is promised a cararan of good roads pilgrims and high government officials on April 17. : Colonel Bene han Cameron, of Stagville, Raleigh and Richmond and a party of direc tors, including several women of the United States Good Roads association completed the plans for the tour over the highways of a dozen states. An Appeal for Nurses. Dr. F. M. Register, head of the bu reau of epidemiology, state board of health sounded the call to volunteers to be ready in case the scattering and ever increasing cases of influenza , In North Carolina combine and grow into an epidemic. He is not alarmed at present, but declared that every community should hold" itself in read iness to respond to the call for help. The situation at Graham called for some volunteer nurses, i He had & list of 50. Fourteen were ! apnealed to. None would go, and it waa necessary to import two nurses from Atlanta. Ga, Daniels Knows Coming President Philadelphia, (Special) .Secretary of the Navy. Daniels started consider- able speculation here tonight as to whom he meant when he said in . a speech that he could tell who would be the next president of the' United States, but that he did not know to which party the man belonged. The secretary was addressing the graduating class vof the Pierce school uu iue wont oi - vine navy ana on Americanism, He declined to name the porticular candidate he had mind. To 8urvey French Broad. Washington. (Special). Repre- eutaue w eaver nas sec urea a nro- I - w vision In the house river and harbor - bill for a survey of the French Broad 1 river from Asheville to Brevard. This survev is to hn m with a view to removing certain wing dams constructed in the seventies when It - was thought practicable to make the river navigable to Brevard. These dams now Interfere with the flow of the river and affect the entire country round about Their removal win help condition!. ERTIE-IS U TIE : BY FQRELO! TO HAVE. DUO-CENTENNIAL ' COUNTY ON SECOND DAY Of OCTOBER, 1922. LORD BERTIE IS TO 5F Judge Winston-is Engaged in Writ, History of County for Publication by County Commissioner. Windsor. Bertie county is not o- o - - - -i.tuu;ai i the county on the second day oi o. ber, iyzz. A grand pageant will be given til bracing the entire historv 0f w county and Sir. Cecil Bertie, secj Lord of the Admiralty of England K accepted an invitation to be pres?? ana aeiiTcr me mam aaareas. 11 county of Bertie is named after JaaJ Bertie, who was one of the lords eJ prletors "by a succession and Trho J an(ancester of Sir Cecil Bertie. Judge Winston Is now engaged writing a history of his county and the day of this great celebration i, proposes to hand over the manuscnt to the county commissioners for ptfJ lication under the act covering thou matters. unarioue, in wiai amount i m x x A. a taxable property in ; Meckleburg coa ty for the year 1919, including real aii personal property, corporation excess and railroads, is $46,522,583, according to the figures complied by F. M. Gr? ham, county auditor. Raleigh. Dr. A. B. Hawkins, one ot if not, Raleigh's oldest citizen, $; years old, celebrated the event by entertaining his friends. Dr. HawVlu is today hale and hearty. He is tit oldest living alumnus of the TTniren sity of North Carolina. Lexington. Esquire H. H. Hartley, one of the most prominent and wealth iest citizerns of Davidson county d:ei at his home at Tryo at the age of V years. - Shelby, Thomas J. Ashley, of Cleveland county, convicted in March, 1918, of manslaughter, and sentesced ;o a term of four years in the State's prison was pardoned by Gorerur Bickett trpon recommendation of solicitor, the Judge who tried the cue. and . a large number of representatin citizerns of Cleveland county. Golds boro, The capital case of ti three young white men of this county. Jasper Farmer, Sylvester Mathis asJ George Hopewell, charged with crim inal assault upon Miss Martha Out law, a 15 year, old white girl, also ol this county, ended here vrhen.-afte? deliberating upon the case for onlr i few minuits, the Jury filled Into th courtroom and rendered a verdict of not guilty. . In commenting on the verdict presldering judge was very severe li his strictures on the Jury which passed on the case. Asheville, With all the theaters and schools closed and public gather lngs of all kinds banned by the city commissioners, and with 232 ne cases of influenza reported here the situation in Asheville has becoao acute. High Point. Startling facts reparf In the school system of High PoW were revealed at a mass meeting 01 citizens here when it was asserts by C. F. Tomlinson, chairman of the school board, that unless immediate steps were taken to improve the fec Ilitles the system would collapse W September, 1921. . At the present time, Mr. Tomlinson said, there were 350 more pupils ea rolled in the schools of the city than there are seats for children. Some Big Taxpayers. Durham, Four corporations one citizern, pay more than half of the taxes on real estate and person! property in the city of Durham. The Liggett and Myers Tobbacco comp11 ranks as the largest In 1919 this company. paid $100,457.25 to the city alone. The American Tobacco com pany is the next largest, paying 992.72. George W. Watts, who is saia to be the largest tax payer in Xortl Carolina, came third in tax payments with $40,398.94. in Increase in Capita! Stock. Lumberton, It was decided to i3 crease the capital stock of the Roe ton County Fair association from 000 to $10,000 at a recent meeting the stockholders and directors. It u also decided to allow the colored J0" pie of the county to "put on" a flr the week following the one put on W ie white people next fall. A build3 committee was appointed to prepa plans tor the erection of an exhlhi tion building on the 10 acre lot recec ly purchased just north of Lumbertt t7 the fair association. 0 III