North Carolina Newspapers

4 -v POLK HOTTNTY NEWS. TRYON. NORTH CAROLINA 7& IMPORTANT HEWS 1 THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIft AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS QIVEN THE IIEVS JJFJHE SOUTH What It Taking Plaos In The tout, land Will Dt Pound In J OrUf Paragraphs V Foreign Turkey is stripped of virtually all her territory in Europe, but retains the sacred places by the treaty now being completed by the conference of foreign ministers and ambassadors in London. v Manuel Gonzales, leader of the Mex ican band which shot and killed Au gustus Morrill, formerly consul at Manzanillo, on February1 26, has been killed by pursuing government troops, according to semi-official statements issued at Mexico City. A bomb exploded under the porch of the American consulate a Zturich, seriously damaging the building, but injuring no one. Police authorities are believed to have secured clues as to the guilty persons." j The London Evening Standard states that the allied supreme coun cil has decided to allow , Germany to launch an international loan, because it is recognized that Germany ruined would mean a weak and dangerous spot in Europe. The loan, the news paper says, would take precedence over any indemnity payments Germa ny is called upon to make W. O. Jenkins, former United States consular agent at Puebla, whose per mission to act in that capacity was recently revoked, is to be expelled from Mexico in consequence of his u5cu ucaiiuga nuu icucis, clCCUiu- ing to insistent reports in Mexico City. The United States embassy has hand ed a new note to the Mexican foreign office i relative to charges preferred in an interview with Julio Mitchell, prosecutor of the state of Puebla, which involve procedure followed by the embassy during the progress of the Jenkins case. Serious riots at Munich and Straub- Both Republican and Democratic senators who favor V a compromise again have combined in an effort to save the peace treaty from heading into a deadlock over the Article X reservation. A move was on foot for a slight modification of the original reservation around which most of the tumult ver the pact has been centered. Leaders of both parties in the house have determined at this session of con gress, despite demands by organiza tions of service men" for bonuses, vo cational education, farm and home loans. The position of these leaders is that the value of the large amount of Liberty bonds outstanding would be jeopardized by the issuance of ad ditional bonds necessary to finance any of the soldier aid programs which call for financial Outlays ranging from two billion to sixteen billion dol lars. An immediate billion dollars reduc tion in federal taxes was suggested in a . statement issued in Washington by William G. McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury. He says the present tax burden istoo great and is having an injurious effort on business in gen eral. He proposed that collection of a tax to establish a sinking fund for the retirement of the war debt which was recommended by former Secreta ry Glass to begin with the fiscal year 120, be postponed for two years, and that the deferred payments of Euro pean interest be funded until Europe is in position to pay its interest charges. ; Rpnator Ransooi: of Louisiana to gether with Sesaior Hoke Prcith of Georgia and otl"-r senators are pre liaring to make a strong fight Jbef ore the senate committee on agriculture to secure liberal appropriation for the eradication oi ibe pink worm. Peter W. Summers, an American cit izen, has been kidnapped by Mexican rebels at Saline C ruz, Mexico, accord ing to a dispatcl to the state depart ment from that citT. 4, Lester H. Woolsey, solicitor of the state department under Robert Lan sing, nas resigned 10 late eiieci ou April 1 or earlier. The American Legion will soon be gin an aggressive campaign to secure a universal military training law, leaders' in Washington staet. The, senate voted in response to the president's demand for a modification of the Lodge reservation withholding the Monroe doctrine from jurisdiction of the league of nations and . setting LIFE INSURANCE BREAKS RECORDS $236,000,000 IS PLACED IN STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA DUR ING THE YEAR 1919. INCREASE OF 290 PER CENT 8plendid Organization Combined with Improved Saving and Investment ' Spirit Is Responsible. Raleigh. Life insurance business not only in the United States, but especially ia North Carolina, last year, according to statistics compiled from informa tion at the state insurance commis sioner's office, broke all records. It is estimated by the commissioner that the total' increase over that of 1918 will reach the enormous aggregate of ten billion dollars, a 66 per cent in crease. Of this, North Carolina, he says, placed on the books $236,176,000, , an increase of 290 per cent. Speaking of this huge increase in North Caro lina, Commissioner Young declares it does not at all indicate over-Insurance, for the reason that the per capita in surance of the state has lagged in comparison with many others, but it does denote a splendid organisation personnel of life insurance companies, combined with an improved saving and Investment spirit of the great army of new insurers. Meeting for Women A Woman's Conference, to which will be invited the women from all denominations, ifl the State, will be held In Charlotte on March 8. 9, and 10, in connection with the pastor's conference which is scheduled under the auspices of the Interchurch World Movement. At the annual meeting of the Coun cil of Women held in New York city in January the tremendous import ance of the Interchurch Movement was so evident that it was decided , to ask the movement to call a national conference of church women in order that the aims and objects of the move ment might be placed before the women of the church. In response to this ' suggestion the conference was held in Washington on January 7-9 and it was at this meeting that plans were perfected for putting on the se ries f women's, conference in the forty-eight states in connection or at least parallel to the conference of the Protestant pastors. The North Carolina cenference for pasters will meet in the Second Pres byterian church and the ladies will use the Tryon Street Methodist. NO DISPUTING THE FIGURES If All our Dollars Were Piled one on the Other, by Standing on Highest One Could Tickle Angel's Feet. Highway Contracts Signed. State Highway Commissioner Prank Page has returned from Asheville and Greensboro, where, on Monday and Tuesday he let contracts for road construction in four western counties totalling more than $400,000. Bun combe, Transylvania, Catawba and Surry counties were included in the number. liner fJom,.,, !cin t ,1- J iuI yuoin.o itnuo Bl vv.muu, ".WOAfa UClUttUUO , ; . 1 .V, N for complete freedom in the distribu tion of foodstuffs are reported. A Dublin dispatch to an English pa per says the Irish situation is chang ing remarkably. It is stated that at least two hundred thousand men are prepared to commit murder at any hour of the day or night. N The Greek legation in Paris has made public a telegram announcing the slaughter of a large number of Greeks and Armenians hy the; Turks in Rodosto, eixty miles northeast of Gallipoli on the sea of Marmora. De tails are lacking. that long-established policy. The vote was 58 to 22 for re-adoption of the reservation without change. Domestic- Lieut. Raymond F. Pearson, a Unit ed States army aviator, was killed at Marsh field, near Riverside, Cal., when his airplane went7 into a tail spin too near the ground to recover. Yeggmen secured $2,000 in silver and bonds from the Bank of Reform at Baker Sends Regrets. Washington, (Special) Secre tary Baker will be unable to go to a get-together dinner in Elizabeth City March 17. He informed Senator Sim mons and Representative Brlnson of his inability to make the trip. Joseph G. Penny has been appointed postmaster at Garner, Wake county, instead of J. F. Broughton, resigned. Governor Reviews Cadets. Governor Bickett, his staff and oth er prominent North Carolinians re viewed the State College cadets In front of the Governor's Mansion. The cadets, headed by the band. made a striking impression as they marched up Hlllsboro street, to the ! Monteomerv. Ala., but failed in their efforts to hlow the. vault nf tho Ranlr I Capitol. As the reelment oassed the The Chinese premier has resigned, ! of snmter at Livingston, Ala., accord- municipal building, it was reviewed ana a uew caDiaei wm De iormea tn annnnr,. y.v (ni bv Mavor Eldridsre and th oitv lfl Qreat'Need for Roads Internal conditions in the United States have become such in recent years that the construction of a per manent system of highways in each state has developed into a problem involving the very basis of the nation al progress and prosperity, it was de clared in a statement by Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick, president of the Char-lotte-Asheville-Wilmington highway association and one ef the leaders in the movement for a state bond issue of $50,000,000 for permanent road con In this state are about 112,000 au tomobiles, on which more than $1, 200,000 is paid annually in direct taxes to the state government. The bond issue ef $50,000,009 proposed for the financing of the plan of develop ing the state's highways during a five year period would cost in interest af four per cent $2,000,000 year. That cum of interest is lsss than blf of the estimated cost of feeding the statt's 250,000 stray dogs, it was pointed out when turnin?? to a new series of estlmats, and these dogs cost the state an additional $20,090 000 annually in their depredations. Wilson, At a banquet tendered re cently by Messers, Consolve and Un termeyer to their Eastern Carolina friends, the toastmaster, W. A. Edger ton, paid the following tribute to the big tobacco town and her folks: "Gentlemen, you are in the largest tobacco market In the world, located in the finest farming section on earth. If the tobacco sold on the Wilson mar ket in 1919 was made into one ciga rette it would belt the earth twice; it packed into the usual package there would be sufficient to give each man In the United States five packages; if the money paid. for this tobacco was in silver dollars there would be suf flcent to make two trains of thirty-five car loads each; if these dollars were laid edge to edge it would reach 539 miles; if piled into one pile you might stand on the high dollar and tickle the feet of the angels. . , . "You must not think, however, that this is all, for which we are noted, for we have a citizenship unexcelled. Our women are a combination of incarnat ed star twinkles and pasteurized sun beams. Our men are the essence of patriostlsm, actuated by , honesty and impelled with civic pride." mm WE J .7 THE PRESIDENT OPPOSPn COVENANT ' VERY HEART 15 i No Escaping the Morale Which Are Expr.J ( , Terms in Artici, Washington.-pres5(1 seated lor democratic t opposition to anv r,f. o,tijus wnicn would force of article io or rially impair the re' 'aft ol n c r it . o -v icimii L Without saying SD. qualification hp UUiU or accept, he wrote a iM. Hitchcock, the admiaist that almrvtt on r,r .v 1 ui uie ri uiu ueara suggested wr vntuiti uunincations" o( tiJ ncies io wnica they ap- "I hear cf rpsprvot).: j. v ! .. . -""wan uoncora, me aeiegaie w mo rv reservationists " th lu l rrn ViHrQ-n oto t rnnvnTi f nn from 7a. ' T onnnf ,1 .. , . ' 4 v-wv. v, u'i'insuna tiie rl iween a nuilifier and a, tir iu v.T 4 V. TV : j a. . 4 iio ricsmeui wrote that no escaping the mcral m mis article," thoueh be no obieotinn into . . . . , oas Dy wnicn such an oV.:rt t A ..... " ' nave to De ruihlled. Th?v of the covenant, he reites oe unpenned by weakeia 10. 1st ur to b ni X mm 4.. mi 1 1 Vlfllllfl fMlflf All This was definitely determined at the county convention. Lexington, Engineer N. S. Mulli can has been busy making surveys on the Yadkin river for the purpose of determining the besf place to build the proposed new' double track bridge. Durham, Prof. E. D. Pusey, super intendent of the city schools, has re turned - to Durham after a ten-days absence, in Cleteland.Ohlo, and visit ing other citie. At Cleveland he at tended the National Superintendent's Association of the United States. Hoey Will Not Run Washington, (Special) Disclaiming that his action has any bearing on the gubernatorial race between Cameron Morrison, Robert N. - Page and his brother-in-law Max Gardner, Repre sentative Clyde R. Hoey, North Caro lina's youngest Congressman, made public a statement in which he an nounces that he is not a candidate for the Democratic nomination to succeed himself in Comgress. Mebane, A new million dollar spin ning mill will be erected here soon by Mr. A. H. Carr, of the Durham Hos iery Mills, who was in the. city last week and purchased 125 lots from the Mebane. Land and Improvement Com pany for its erection. QUICK HEADS WINDING RED CROSS COM J . It 3 0' A under Gen. vChin Yun Pong, former j banking department. Htiiig premier. cials. The cost of the principal articles of food in England rose in January to 136 per cent above the pre-war level. All allied countries will be called upon to develop to the utmost their productive forces and advised that laws improving the conditions of all workers must be applied to that end, in a manifesto prepared by the eco nomic section of the supreme allied council at Paris. There is fear in Spain that Cath olic parish priests will strike, and the Madison Wells, city pudge of Nash ville, Tenn., whose indictment on the charge of oppression was recently the occasion of a clash between the Da vidson county grand jury and the dis trict attorney general, was indicted again by the grand jury on the charge of drunkenness. C. B. Pierce, young postal clerk re siding in Columbus, Ga., has been plac ed under arrest on a charge of rifling a registered mail pouch from Macon, Ga., said to have contained a package in which $4,000 had been consigned Mobtie Schools Called Off. The eleven Mobile schools, which were planned to be held' simultaneous ly, March 8-12, In Hertford, Scotland Neck, Wilmington, Maxton, Hender son, Burlington, North Wilkesboro.. Newton, Mooresville, ' Marshall and Sylvia, have been called off for the time being, on account of the contin ued 'prevalence of influenza through out the state, according to a statement ent out by Dr. W. R. Cullom, direc tor of the Mobile schools. Influenza Decreasing Although cumulative reports of new cases developed during the past week ran the totals for the day to more than 1,000 authorities at the State Board of Health are inclined to the belief that the 1920 epidemic is rapid ly passing out of history and that by : Charlotte, L. S. Tomlinsott, of Wil son, president of North Carolina Branch of American Cotton Associa tion, addressed mass meeting of Mecklenburg county farmers at Char lotte in Interest of campaign to in augurate a series of warehouses in Mecklenburg county and to enlarge membership of American Cotton As sociation in county. Washington. Herbert West Virginia, former nseib Farm Loan Board, w the commission of Cross artivities in Siberia. ier nsei!4 ' windiiM RUSSIAN SOVIET GOVERN MUST NOT BOLSHEVV Tokio. The peace otet A t slan soviet government to hrl reported to include as o:eo!b a stipulation to forego bo'.r; paganda in the Japanese ecj? Wadesboro, At a meeting of the county board of health it was decided to let 'the quarantine remain In force for the present. A petition signed hy many citizens asking a suspension ol some of the restrictions on business ADHERENCE TO LEAGUE IS CONFIRMED BY THE C., Pi A TTo mi a Th a ret rV;- -, the Dutch porliament vote! I for the .adherence of Hallai League of Nations. The secxi ber cast an affirmative vote i ruary 19. 1 hv tho TiVmFtVi WatifMial Via -n V cf TVTo. cfivernmpnt ia n rtroH Kit tv. v;nVin. 1 . rr:7T " : e con to the Reynolds Banking company of Reynolds. When the package was to adopt conciliatory methods and also incraese stipends for the aged and in fir mclergy. Former Premier Asquith has return ed to active service in the British par liament as the result of his recent election to represent the Paisley 'con stituency. Charles Garvice, one of the fore most British novelists, whose books were read by the entire English-speaking worldris dead. He was a prolific writer and devoted his abilities to depicting affairs of the heart. The Leyland line steamer, Bohemian, bound for Liverpool from Boston, with 184 passengers on board, went on the rocks forty miles east of . Sambro, N. S. Tugs rescued the passengers and carried them to port. . Washington ' It was learned at the white house recently that there is no present plan lor theresldent to leave Washington. His physicians believe that he will be more benefited by remaining at home than he would be by a sea voy age or a trip to some resort, as he can best follow put his desire to keep in intimate touch with official busi ness with the least expenditure of en ergy. - It is expected that tho necessary mil itary orders for transferring the head quarters of the Southeastern depart ment to Atlanta from Charleston will be issued shortly according to Sena tor Harris. Washington awaits with new expec tancy a word from the white house ua me ireajy or Versailles. Once more the center of interest in the great conflict has shifted from the capitol to the executive mansion. The xaie ol the treaty rests not with the senate, it it ever did. but with Presi jdeat Wilson. delivered at Reynolds it was found it had been broken open and $200 ex tracted. Capt. R. C. M. Page, pilot, and two passengers were burned to death near Investigating Election in Ninth. Washington. (Special) Agents of the republican congressional cam paign committee have begun an. In vestigation of the recent special elec tion in the ninth North Carolina con gressional district. Representative T-m n 1 v .a as Mm 1 tl" 4mm ma rm x A- - a iuvergiaaes, ia., m tne iaii oi a sea- r C30 UUIUi commiiiee cnairman, an- plane which caught fire. All three of aounced that it was not planned to con i the victims were residents of Fort My- tes G election of Representative : ers, Fla., the passengers being G. Hoey, democrat, over his republican Hunter Bryant, tax assessor of Lee opponent, John Morehead, but to dis county, and Thomas H. Colcord, mem- cls acts, which, he said,, were com ber of the city council here. Captain Plained of by republican workers in Page, who was 25 years old, had a ine aistrict. Although declining to houses and thoaters was presented, the end of this week daily reports will r but the board declined to Interfere. have been dispensed with. Several counties sending in their report cover ing the entire week is responsible, It is said for the larger total.' There are yet several counties In the State that are. suffering severely. 2,067 Tar Heel Deserters Washington, (Special) The war department authorizes publication of the following report concerning de sertions under the selective draft ia North Carolina: Total registration, 482,468; total re ported1, 6,113; accounted for as not de serters, 293; net reported desertions, 5,821; apprehended or cases disposed of, 3,754, and outstanding desertions, 2,067. - ' Goldsboro. At a largely attended meeting held in the Chamber of Com merce rooms a committee recently ap pointed to make a canvass among the business men of the city in the inter est of establishing another dally news paper in Goldsboro, submitted their report and announced that they had met with flattering success. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 4 ASKED TO REDUCE PAPt distinguished overseas record. .' Lieute. G. L. Usher and L. M. Wolf, American aviators who landed at Nac ozario, Sonora, Mexico, February 2, face courtsmartial. They are . under arrest at Douglas, Ariz., pending in vestigation. - Approximately $12,000,000 worth oi securities were stolen from 800 brok-H crage houses in New York and oth er cities last yur. - The Middle Georgia Oil and Gaa company let the drill drop the first time in search for oil March 1 with several hundred present in Sanders- outline specific charges. Mr. Fess is uh- derstood to have complaints of illegal voting and alleged intimidation of voters by election boards. Farm Demonstrators Gather. Two score farm demonstrators and home demonstration agents from the central district gathered here for the opening session of a three day confer ence with State Agent, C. R. Hudson, and Mrs. Jane McKImmon. A joint session ef the men and women agents opened the conference in the Hall of Piedmont League has Qualified Auburn, N. T., Secretary Jihn H. Farrell of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, an nounced that the Piedmont league, In cluding the cities of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Durham, Raleigh and High Point, N. C. and Danville, Va., has qualified, for membership in Class D. Representatives, and later the farm ville, Ga,, to witness the interesting ! eents went with Mr. Hudson to the senate chamber. The opening, day was devoted to general diseussion of plans to be fol- eyent. mis is the iirst break oi earth in eearch of oil ever made in that section of Georgia. The house of representatives of the ' lored during the comine var West Virginia legislature ratified the! - , federal suffrage amendment by a vote ' $7,000,000 Spent en Education. of 45 to 42, but the senate killed the Washington. (Special) Nortk measure by a vote of 47 to 40. Carolln n.,t tto I Replying to the manifesto issued by 0 oa educatlon te forty alleged raicals held at Youngs- ' and $7,000,000 last year, P. O. town, Ohio, demanding action on their Claxt0n United States commissioner cases, J. A. Fluckey, . federal officex of ucatlon, told the .members of the at Cleveland, advised them that they " sutnern SocJologlcal congress at a would be deported soon. j dinner, the last feature of the organ!- F. D. Underwood, president of the tIo, annual meeting. Increased Erie railroad, declares that he believet xPaItures, he asserted, was lndica passenger fares should be reduced U Wt ' e growth of educational work two cents a mile; except on certain i trottslMut the outh, adding that la lines serving a limited territory. - W North CaroUna would spend $1,- COO.000 on school woik. ' , , Church Heads Cemmlttee. Governor Bickett announced the ap pointment of Morton L. Church, "of Charlotte, active chairman of the North Carolina state, committee for "America's Gift to France" the Mac Monnles statue to commemmorate the battle of the Marne. ;. During, the week of March 22 a collection in the form of a free-will offering wilL be taken thrdughout the country to raise the $250,000 necessary fer the memorial.' The national com mittee is headed by Thomas W. La mont, ' i Presbyterians , Reach QeaS : One million dollars has been -raised for thie benefit of the Presbyterian coir leges of North Carolina. Announcement that the million mark had been reached was made at noon the last day. Charlotte was the center of activity the last week, with citizens here being called upon to subscribe tfce last $100,000. Money obtained through the drive; will be distributed among ' the Presby terian colleges, with Davidson Col lege, Peace Institute and Queens Col lege getting the larger shares. Salisbury. A negro employed at the Ricks Tire company's place, on' Main street, was arrested on a charge of the taking ways he is alleged to have, had and when searched the officers say they found on him a key to the Washington. Chairman St:1 of the house postoffice comsu' written newspaper publishers attention to the committee's that they reduce consumptioa print paper ten per cent became acute paper shortage. "BONUS" QUESTION MIGHT, WORRIES HEADS OFlR rt Louisville. Ky. Franklin - national commander cf the A? legion, announced here that i H erence of legionnaires of would be held in Wasbmgw i "-V vuoj .isuuu wu uuu m acj w UIO , .v. aV money vault The negro claims that ! 22 for reconsideration of tne he can send to SoutJh Carolina and get a good recommendation from Mr. Cole Blease. Hickory. Mayor J. D. Elliott was in doubt whether to resign as head of this city or ask the board of aldermen to release the Elliott Building com pany from Us contract to erect the municipal building at a saving of $10, 800 under the next lowest bid. The question was not raised on the night the contract was awarded. Rutherford Eager to Help. Rutherfordton. An enthusiastic mass meeting was held in the court house, attended by representative cltisens of the five townships through which the, Charlotte-Asheville high way runs. The meeting was called by the cotm ty commissioners to get an expression of public oplnionin regard to the coun ty furnishing its part, or one-fourth of the money necessary to top soil the highway in this county. Attorney M. I. Edwards presided over the meet- V . Flu Bad In Wadesboro.. Wadesboro. There were six deaths from influenza-pneumonia in this coun ty within twenty-four hours; two at Marvin; three at Peachland, and one in Wadesboro. It is reported that an emergency hospital will be establish ed at Peachland, and also one for n6--groes at Deep Creek. ' where aa epl 'demic. Is raging ,among members cf that race. ' - . " " . James Johnson, a prominent and pop ular citizen ef Marvin, died at his home there of lafluenxa-pnetXBjeala. tie was III bnt short tint. bonus" question. DIVIDENDS ON STOCK MAY NOT BE TAXED AS IV tnrV divider not be taxed as income, the court held in declaring uuw- al the provisions of tbe 191 tax act taxing as income dends declared by corporation earnings and profits accrue March L 1913. MAN DEVELOPING SlNlSJ, FEMINISM SAYS CAB- "Rostnn flrowinr weakne part of:the men of the cow-- veloping a sinister femin18, nal 0Connell told a gathen p at the cathedral of the HA- Man is the head of the h- J and should assert his ity in the home. r aiiure 10 ao uu- false bed serted. leads to a which, unless it Is curt will have disastrous results- NOT PROFTEERINu 1 y p0l SELLING AT 5b r J Washington, D. C.A fortj5i intensely sweet and valued A pound, has been discovered on fir trees in the Provi. Colomhfa. tvocoTdlnZ to 8 .Vi . V . CnVPS-'J t ment by the American r- or zlne. An article prep or 'J " - --rt magazine sajs the ciscw of the greatest value to ij and scientific experta en doubts the value of tne stance in the manufacture . J