North Carolina Newspapers

IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAY8 GIVEN HIE NEWS 0FTHE SOUTH What U Taking Place In The SoutSw land Will Bt Found I Brief Paragraphe Government owned ships built dur ing the war., should be. and can be. sold to private operators for prices covering the cost, overhead and. total investment; says C. W. Morse. . ' - The campaign against food profit eers and hoarders has netted a total of 896 arrests, the department of jus tice announces. While only a small number of these cases have been brought to trial, these prosecutions so far resulted in 28 convictions, offi cials say. Definite plans for the first nation wide aggressive political campaign by organized labor to control congress and elect friendly national and state officials have been made by . a, com mittee of the American Federation of Labor and, it is stated, will be an nounced soon. Pending a decision by the Supreme court of the United States on the con- SERIOUS TROUBLE STARTED IN KOREA JAPANESE POST OF 700 MEN ATTACKED ATTNIGHT AND 300 ARE KILLED. Foreign- Fire destroyed the principal build ings of the American Agricultural and 6tUutionality of the farm loans act, Chemical company and their contents an future applications for loans from at Regia, near Havana, Cuba, with a federal farm loan banks will be held loss estimated at ten million dollars, j m abeyance, Farm Loan Commission Numerous explosions during the fire er Morris announces. Another revolution has occurred in Vldaivostok, the Siberian port 'through which the American expeditionary M 1 i . 1 lorces are Deme reiumcu juwe. victu als charged with war crimes to be tried erai Graves said the crowds in the by a neutral tribunal, if the entente city were orderiy and that the allied will agree. The Swiss government has ' forces were patrolling the streets to declared its readiness to arrange sucn , protect innocent neonle and to Dre- HAND OF BQLSHEV1K1 SHOWN Officials Have Known for Some Time That Ma.iy Thousands of Koreans Meditated Hostile Action. spread panic among the inhabitants of the village. The German government probably will be willing to surender its nation- a tribuanl. Baron Kurt von Lersners refusal to vent looting. The revolution is re ported to have announced that no one accept the allied note regarding the t would be molested unless he had extradition of accused Germans was ' committed an offense or crime, in not in accordance with instructions he had received from Berlin. The Ger man government had requested him to receive it, but he asked by telegraph for permission to retire, and his res ignation was immediately accepted. , The council of ambasasdors, after its meeting, in Paris, issued a statement saying that the decision of the allies with regard to Germans whose extra dition is demanded for war crimes be communicated direct to Berlin. A which case he would be tried by the civil court. The uprising Is in no way connected with the Bolshevik! Marketing of cotton seed for plant ing purposes should be made a most highly specialized industry, and the term, "planting cotton seed," should be made to represent a produce of in finitely greater intrinsic and potential value than ordinary cotton seed, or the average planting cotton seed of today, the department of agriculture dispatch from Berlin announces the has concluded, after a thorough inves- receipt there of the list of persons tigation of the subject. the demand for the surrender of whom had been made by the allies. A wireless dispatch from Odessa re ports a great victory for the Russian volunteer army over the Bolsheviki forces, which have been driven back over the Don river. Details concerning the landing at Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico, of two Unit ed States aviators, have been request ed by the foreign office for the pur pose of framing and forwarding an en ergetic protest to the United States government. She draft of the note to be sent to Germany with the list of persons whose extradition is to "be demanded The United States treasury does not look with favor upon certain fea tures of the proposed international conference recently called by tha 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 was 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.1 Washington. Official dispatches re ceived here said a force of 2,000 Ko- J . ..In reans, armea principally wun equip ment furnished by the bolsheviki, crossed into northern Korea from Kirin, Manchuria, and attacked a Japanese post of 700 men at night, killed 300 of them and routed the re mainder. . According to these dispatches, the attack! was the initiation of an active rebellion in Korea. It was described as "the beginning of a tremendous affair." Several other clashes have occurred between the insurgents, greatly rein forced by recruits from the natives of the districts, and troops forming Japanese frontier posts, the dispatch said. In nearly every case the Japan ese were outnumbered heavily and were forced to withdraw after suf fering heavy losses. According to official information. bolshevik authorities are in close touch with the korean leaders and are mating every enort to provide their troops with adequate equipment. Officials here have known for some time that many thousands of Koreans who, fled into Manchuria were medita ting hostile action against Japanese. While there is no real bolshevik feel ing among these people, according to the authorities, they are so stirred by hostility to the Japanese that they probably are willing to join with any other elements in attacking them. LITTLE CHANGE IN LISTING l!l GOMES RECIPIENT OF AN INCOME OF ANY KIND EXCEPT FROM PROPERTY 18 LIABLE. CHANGES TO CALENDAR YEAR The Exemption Is $1,000 for Unmarried Persons and $1,500 for Married Persons and Some Widows. BRIEF H1ST0 THE B01 TENTH ANNIVERSARY uoatRVED IN chah-. U FEBRUARY g iq s Raleigh. The state tax commission has is sued a statement, in which it is hroueht out that there has been no changes in listing Incomes under the re-valuation act, except as to the aate for listing. All incomes except, from property, must be listed. The commission au thorises the publication of . the following. "The only change in listing incomes under the re-valuation act is that in come will be listed for the calendar year, 1919, instead of the year ending May 1, as formerly. "The income required by state law to listed Is income from salaries, fees, trade and professions and prop erty not taxed." "This -covers income of all persons, of either sex, who work for wages or salary, and all persons who receive compensation for personal services in any capacity. "The exemptions are $1,000 for un married persons and $1,500 for mar ried persons, or for widows and wid owers having minor child or children. "The state income tax rate is one per cent of Income above exemption and up to $2,500; the next $2,500 and one and one-half per cent; the next $5,000, two per cent; above $10,000 two and one-half per cent." Ma,jr Ntw Enterprise. During the month of January new enterprises were chartered in North Carolina by the Secretary of state with an authorized capital stock "of approximately 23 millions of dollars, tnd of this amount the initial amount subscribed and, paid in by the incor porators was, in round figures, three million "dollars. " .' These figures represent the outlay cf. altogether new concerns aumo- rized to begin business in the state. Ihe amount involved in established businesses increasing their orginal capital stock, paying in aaaiuonai money, is not avaldable but will ap proximate hundreds of thousands or dollars additional for the 30 flay period. North Carolina capital invested in new cotton mills alone during Janu ary was $8,800,000, which went into IS new textile manufacturing plants. The majority of these mills are to be located in Gaston county which, even prior to January 1, was the leading textile center of the South, having at that time more tnan pianis. I scout troops in Charlotte' t I Including in the list, of new Indus- Executive J. E. Steers! i"M i,uoii.dicu " i uduonai neia commissi) lag institutions, scatterea preuy wcu over the state. 'A ftVENTY-THREE TRODPi The Movement w. A m. M. ' Charlotte. Plans for tv. of scout week, Februart I s.ve, marking the loth aaa j the beginning of the moYe-J United RtatM v.. ; ' 1C &k "oner, Building and Loan Operations. Reports of last year's Building and Loan operations being received by the North Carolina Insurence Com missioner make a fine impression re- 'sardine their value. One association ; alone during the past year built 232 country in June, 1916, asd; dwellings besides making stock loans iwura m aii reM to members. On stocks they loaned aucauonai agencies ia tij, on the preparation. In his resume nf cu... w OVWUT J Steere said that the orgaiv now active in 52 county worm, wnue aunng tne y ; America, 1,200,000 boys hani iraming, over 500,000 being J ine movement was recog; federal bill of incorpora PRESIDENT OPPOSES MAKING MILITARY TRAINING ISSUE. Domestic District Attorney Charles F. Clyc brought suit in the circuit court of i Dy tne allies was approved by the coun- appeals at Chicago to have Victor Ber- cn oi ambassadors in Paris. The note, ger, convicted Socialist congressman, ana tne list will be handed at once sentt to Leavenworth penitentiary to to tne uerman representatives in Far- serve out his ten-year sentence. The is. It was decided by the council that suit is based on new evidence alleged neither the note nor the list should to have been procured. Ito J ...1.1!. I v uiauc puum,. . Virtually the entire detective force The total number of names on the ; of New York is searching for some extradition list the allies have pre--clue which may lead to the arrest of sented to Germany is in the neighbor-, the murderer of Miss R. Constance hood of eight hundred, and is divided xHoxie, the talented 17-year-old music wasnington. .president Wilson op poses the plan to have the democratic members of the house at their caucus make an issue of universal military training. Follow no "Jack O'Lanterns." Disavowing any sensation in the situation now confronting the Inter nal Revenue system in North Caro lina, and declaring that the question of the duties of Col. A. D. Watts suc cessor as Supervisor Is merely one of departmental policy, Mr. J. W. Bailey, j ings of juvenile C0Tirt since they $15,000 and on mortgages $330,000. "During its entire existence this as sociation has never lost one cent," said Commissioner Young. - "And from all the reports on file in this de partment there can be no question but that these Building & Loan As sociations &re doing a great business, and they are adding materially to the industrial progress seen on every hand." A recent report shows one as sociation last year made net profits of $14,002.87, and paid off two series. Work of Juvenile Courts. Commissioner, of Public Welfare Roland P. Beasley, in a statement re garding the ' work of the juvenile courts of North Carolina, says that more than three thousand cases have been handled since the law was en acted a year ago. This is the first authentic statement made by Mr. Beasley with reference to the work- Several universities 1Q liclude training for scout! in their curricula. In Charlotte the movem?; about five years ago. At present there are 22 Charlotte, with over 400 scout; officials, connected v:t rious j religious and edactt-jj tutions of the city. The sex U composed of 45 of the It ness men of tbe city, and hi executive In charge and headquarters at 298 Latta Applications are now in fo ganization of five new troopi RoCky Mount. Miss Alice cf Burgaw, who was a teachrl Bunn school of Nash countj i burnsat an early hour from r died"-six hours later. r CLAIM MADE THAT JAPANESE EVACUATED NORTHERN KOREA X J t i . m mmmm m mio . eignt sections. Tne Iirst is a common list, and the second includes names like Bethmann-Hollweg, Hin denburg, Ludendorf f , Mackensen, the crown princes and other notables. Washington Completion of the record of casual ties of the American Expeditionary forced in the world war is announced by Adjutant General Harris with the issuance of a final revised list of the "old casualties." The total was 293, 070. Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, ad ministration spokesman in the senate, has made it clear that the president is not "going to make it unanimous." He refers to the peace treaty as it relates to the league of nations. The . decennial census, now being taken, will reveal that the center of population of the United States has moved eastward and not toward the west or the soulh, as had been com monly predicted. Additional anti-sedition legislation, simple in character and guarding the guarantees of the bill of rights, but covering "hiatus in present statutory laws," is urged by Attorney General Palmer before the house judiciary com mittee. Upholding the right of free speech, and constructive criticism, the attorney general protested against any thing which is too drastic and far reaching that they overreach and nul lify their purposes. Agreement on the railroad legisla tion is announced by Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa, and the bill, as amended by the conference committee of the senate and house, will be pre sented to both bodies for final action in about five days. A bill of sweeping nation-wide mili . tary importance has been introduced by Senator Harris of Georgia. In a word it provides for doubling the stu dent personnel at the West Point Mil itary acadssay, thereby doubling the output .of young officers. : -: j Favorable report on the bill repealing' me war-time measure under which the government controls wheat prices was ordered by the senate agriculture com mittee..' ' '. Elimination of-useless employees in non-productive business, the speeding np of all lin of industry , commen surate with the present activity of the larmers and determination of retailers and jobbers to exact only a reasonable profit, are recommended as a solution for the high' cost of living problem by Edwin T. Meredith, who took oath ol office as secretary of agriculture, Feb riary z. student, who was brutally slain with a hammer in her home in West 88th street. The police are in doubt as to whether the girl was killed by an ao quaintance or by a man who called to rent a room. ' Two trainmen are known to have been killed and fifteen to twenty five negroes are believed dead in the wreck of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern passenger train, which plunged through an open drawbridge over the Tensas river, in Louisiana. Six children two sets of triplets within fifteen months, is the birth rec ord in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Po sey Livingstone of Albany, Ala. The second trio of children was born Feb ruary 2, and all are well. Damages running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars at St. Augus tine, Fla., have resulted from a tre mendous downpour of rainfall, which amounted to 14.55 incites in forty hours. The potato section around St. Au gustine, Fla., is under water, and the loss to that crop is estimated at sev eral hundred thousand dollars. Announcement by the prosecution at Tombstone, Ariz., that dismissal of the charges against three defendants because of absence of witnesses was being considered, was followed by ab rupt adjournment of court in the trial of 210 men charged with kidnaping in connection with the deporting of 1,186 striking copper miners and their sym pathizers at Bisbee, Ariz., in 1917. - Robert P. Hamilton, Jr., University of Virginia graduate, Charlottesville, Va.; Paul Robinson Norton, Princeton University graduate, Princeton, N. Jn and Theodore S. Wilder, Oberlin Col lege graduate, 1875 East Twenty- fourth street, Cleveland, Ohio, have been selected as the three Rhodes scholars at large allotted to the United States by the Rhodes trustees because of the unprecedented competition foi the sixty-four scholarships filled, last November. An outline of what the government expects to prove against Truman H. Newberry, United States senator, and his 123 associates, charged with con spiracy in connection with the 1918 senatorial campaign, was started in the federal district court at Grand RaDida. Mich., by Frank D. Dailey, special ast sistant attorney general.'. Drastic reduction in the number ol national hank depositaries is being made by the treasury department, with tne result tnat less than 400 of the 1,331 such Institutions holding federal funds on June 30, 1919. are expected to survive tne Droning knife. London. Northern Korea has been evacuated by the Japanese, it is claimed in a wireless dispatch from Moscow, quoting an umsK message. The population rose to aid Korean forces from Chinese territory, it is declared. TROOPS IN PROTECTING A PRISONER SHOOT TO KILL. Lexington, Ky. four persons were killed and several injured here when a mob, intent upon lynching William Lockett, a negro, who confessed to the murder of 10-year-old Geneva Hardman, charged the courthouse during Lockett's trial and was fired on by police and state troops. Collector of Internal Revenue in North Carolina, issued a statement with the-avowed purpose of prevent ing confusion. "There is something new in the pa pers every day about tne internal Revenue system in North Carolina, and in no statement that I have seen has there been evidence of an ac curate' understanding of the system or the present situation," says Mr. Baoiley. I respect, of course, the opin ions of the .newspaper reporters as such; but opinions, rumers, and gues ses make on headway against the facts. When a reporter begins "it seems" or " it is rumored" or "they . say" quit your reacting unless you like to follow Jack o'lanterns into the iwannp. FOCH TO CONFER WITH POLES ON THE BOLSHEVIKI MENACE Warsaw. Definite decision has been reached that Marshal Foch, command er-in-chief of the allied armies, shall come to Warsaw to confer with Pol ish military authorities regarding the bolshevik menace, it is announced by the Journal de Pologne, a French lan- guagenewspaper here. Value of State Crops. The value of North Carolina crops last year was $683,000,000 compared with the fire years average, iai3-1917, of $258,000,000. South Carolina's crop production last year exceeded in value by $45,000,000 the total of Cali fornia's and the value of North Caro lina's crop exceeded by $208,000,000 the "value of California's. The three Pacific coast states, Washington, Ore gon and Callfornia1 had aggregate values for crops last year of $810.- 000.000, which was $226,000,000 less than the crop values of Texas. FARM ORGANIZATIONS NOT TO JOIN AMERICAN FEDERATION Washington. Farm organizations will not join the American Federation of Labor in its non-partisan campaign to elect this year only friends of the union movement, according to T. C. Atkeson, reperesentative of the Na tional Grange, which has 700,000 members. Blckett Boosting Hoover. Governor T. W. Blckett came out in a statement advocating Herbert Hook er for the presidency, declaring that he represents the real democratic spirit. ' were created by - legislature enact ment He says that "the appeal in be half of , a neglected child has gone deep in tie hearts of North Carolina's people. Washington. (Special). Bragg was given a sound the Senate when it approja: 173,000 for various purposes t It a first-class outfit. The senate accepted tie kZ prupriation for the camp. Alumni Conference Called. Presidents and secretaries of 55 local alumni -associations of the Uni-. versity of North Carolina within the State and of seven associations in New York, Boston, Washington, Rich mond, Norfolk, Atlanta, and Birming ham have been invited to assemble at Chapel Hill February 26th, for the alumni conference. Greensboro. With a nuibcd Influenza cases reported today Stafford stated that the city q sioners would adopt an ordiar lag 4the city schools, theater a quiring removal of chairs tr. pool room. Projected Road Mileaet 255. Washington, (Special) The North Carolina road projects which will re ceive federal aid have a total milage of 2i5. a total estimated cost of $1,- 71,100. The Influenza Situration. An abatement of influenza in North Carolina, with the situration in Ashe ville and Catawba county, storm cent ers, under control, was indicated in reports to the State Board of Health from various counties of the State. Decided improvement was reported to the State Board of Health for con ditions in Asheville andtwo mill, com munities in Catawba .county, but press reports from Asheville were to the effect that this decline was ac companied with an increase in pueu monia cases. Because ofthe early closing hours of the County Health Department, re ports were not available for Raleigh and Wake county. Meredith College, Peace Institute and St Mary's with out a case of influenza in any of them, established quarantines. This, it was pointed out, is purely a precautionary measure. At the Methodist Orphanage the crest of the epidemic, it is thought. has been reached, and while no new cases were reported, some of the two hundred or more children are quite sick. Three or four pneumonia eases have 'developed. Winston-Salem. ReT. Gil: Rowe, pastor of Centenary church, is at the bedside of hist Dr. J. C. Rowe. for -many jr." of the leading members of ern North Carolina conference critically ill in Salisbury. Lumberton. Robeson fara furnish at least 3,000 bales : 300,000 bales of low grade colts ei by President J. S. Wannax the American Cotton associate shipped to European spinners. Elizabeth City. Pasqnotai Gates counties will makejoJ teation to the State Highly sion at its next meeting I federal aid for a road aero1' rrvfll .Qwnmn 1 in Vine" the 1"' tion of Newland township. tank county, , with Acorn Hu county. GREAT RAILWAY STRIKE IS ORDERED FOR FEBRUARY 17 Detroit A strike of 300,00 members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Ways Employes and Railway Shop La borers was called for Tuesday, Feb ruary 17, at a meeting of the general chairmen of the brotherhod here. mtT ' m . m i am loatne to call a strike," Mr. Barker said, "but there is nothing else we can do.. Or huands have been forc ed. I am tired of the treatment we have received from government offi cials." War Records Association. A war record association in every county in North Carolina, charged with gathering and keeping the ser vice record of every soldier of each county who served the Nation in the late war, was urged at a meeting of collectors from eastern Carolina here. The commission plans to go farther than the customary gathering of bare facts of a man's service, and the cus tomary , memorials, but to collect and maintain a record of each man that will be a living story of his services to his county. NEW PARTY IS FORMED TO BE KNOWN AS "THE LABOR PARTY' Washington Organized labor three million strong, has thrown , its hat into the political ring. vf . . . . vigorously denouncing Congress, which "has failed to do Its duty," the A m origin THA m . uiwiwu r cueittuuu oi Laoor an nounced the appointment of a national non-partisan political t campaign com mittee which will mobilize trade union- ists and "all lovers of freedom" in an effort to defeat candidates indifferent or hostile to labor. $7,000,000 Personal Property. One citizen of. North Carolina, list ing his personal property for taxation tinder the Revaluation act, places a value of $7,000,000' on his personal be longings in the State, according to a preliminary report that has come in to the Revaluation Commission.: His return represents an amount greater than all the personal property return ed in any cine county under the old system of listing, and memibers of the commission see in It an indication 'of the enormous Increase in listed values in tha 3ta!. Yadklnville. Yadkin county man came nine miles throv wathr trt Vadkinville on w ami . a .- tnr IttimiAi "TTncle Bill" Rel " will be 93 years oTa next Sep Hickory Vi viriToirlo line who is 93 years old. Camp Bragg Taken Care of. Washington, (Special) Appropria tions totaling $1,173,000 were made by the Senate for Camp Bragg, N. C, in special army appropriation bill which has already passed the House. The section affecting Camp Bragg in the bill passing the Senate had only amendments of verbiage, which will -be speedily accepted by the conferees. The army 'bill was called' up and immediately consideration began. Sen ator Overman explained the necessity for action on the Camp Bragg Item. Alleged Blockader Shot . Gordon Lowery. alleged block ad er, was shot in the left leg about . noon St a still near the Falls of Neuse. Lowery was surprised at the plant, it Is said by revenue officers. He re ceived his wound during an exchange of shots. None of the officers-receiv ed wounds. Lowery was brought to Rex Hospital: for treatment . His case is not serious. The-raiders were Deputy v Marshalls Earnest ; , Raines. Eugene Richardson and Jack Gordon The officers did not reveal who shot Lowery. . Woman Held as "Gun P'kf Salisbury. Mrs. R. M. So young white woman, of Cae3te" Is being held in the local ' m : m nictol. cuaxge oi carry iu a r-- With Mrs. Summey is her old hiA nrt a woman comP1 refuses to leave her in her i- Ttl-m C3. foil ntt'Wi h"S and when he saw her la 1 room of the Soutnem uf tempted to get her to return j iiim she ran him out of u nyith a plstoL No Water Develop J Hickory. A rumor nas ; Here for several oay - , j rflHic" dismantling the two fcought at Rhodhiss, TER 1 aomeE shelve jdth t his hi : "Fo: ribing jders, ir to J F I Kly-fo nunc Iier o youm fght t 5 cam !retti place recko 'e yoi i hoi e cle J brig andei ptty jogra I silv ?ce hret chi f pa ?' ior is 'i ipon fortl rmii jma: d oi not ha i go vait t Ft of t w rytl par iser to Ink! 1 c t sai Is ,et sol iin hei Jut 3ng tly i V E JS. lat w w! St I" idi !to bu ,I1S jve re i! li oi; af ra e. y ire Tl iPn' b- (u, nt in "p. er ai th i U i f 1 1 D erecvl plants and installing in chinery for the mUls &a tf lag the Catawba river wita ' Investigation, however. P f the power company has J v Intention of a new though eventually w txoM at lUiodaltt.