North Carolina Newspapers

1 ? Francis Scott Bradford, wounded veteran who was in "Pershing's own" regiment, wno has won the $3,000 Prix do Koine. *2 ? New lletch Hetchy dam of the Tuolumne in California where 12-mile lake has been created for San Francisco's water supply. 3 ? Alsatians celebrating the recovery of the province in the Place de la Concorde, Paris. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS % Bulgarian Revolution Alarms All the Other Nations in the Balkans. CIVIL WAR NOW IS RAGING Chancellor Cuno Working on Compro mise Proposition to France ? Presi dent of China Is Ousted ? Ford's Alleged Plan to Throw Elec tion Into the House. By EDWARD W. PICKARD tJ - i ? ? TTOW would you like to see the presidential election a l next year thrown into the house 1 B of representatives? This may ? ? result if Henry Ford carries out his reported plan of running, a ? not as head of a third party, but i as an independent with a ticket I j ? of electors in each state. ONCE more the Balkans, the hot- j bed of European wars, are ablaze, i Bulgaria is in the throes of a?civil war; Jugoslavia, Greece and Rumania have rushed troops to the Bulgarian, borders, and Hungary has called three classes to the colors so as to seize whatever advantage may be offered. The conflict may be confined within the limits of Bulgaria, or it may spread over much of central Europe and ulti mately involve some the great powers. Reserve officers of the Bulgarian army, with the assistance of the active nrmv, carried out a coup d'etat by whk'h Premier Stamboulisky and his agrarian government were ousted and a new ministry installed headed by I'rof. Alexander Zankoff. Some of the ex-ministers were arrested, but Stam boulisky fled and at once began arm ing and organizing the peasants for the purpose of Recapturing Sofia and overthrowing the "usurping" eovern-. merit. There were rumors that he had been taken prisoner, but at this writ ing the most authoritative reports say he has succeeded in raising a peasant army of more than GO.CMH) and is mov ing on .'it he capital, where alone the revolutionists retain control. There was fighting In various localities, and a good many casualties. Stamboulisky had angered the old war ? party ? mostly pro-German ? by his persecution of Macedonian au tonomists, his attitude at the Lausanne conference, his concessions to Jugo slavia and his failure to obtain a cor ridor to the sea. The new adminis tration says the actual crisis was brought on by his recent demand on King Boris that he be appointed dic tator. After his flight, it is said, huge sums of money were found in his villa. The king Is believed" to have been privy to the plot by Which the government was overthrown. Though Premier Zankoff's first act was to visit the Jugoslav embassy and give assurance that he would respect the old government's treaties, the Serbs are suspicious that he will en courage and aid the Macedonians in their demands on Jugoslavia, and this probably would bring on hostilities. The Serbian foreign minister is re ported to have said that Serbia was willing to force the new Bulgarian government 10 observe the treaty of Neuilly and t^ie stipulation of the Nish conference, which obligated Stam boulisky to oppose the Macedonian movement. Part of Macedonia is held i by Greece, and both Greece and Ru mania, as members of the little en tente, would be bound to .stand with Jugoslavia. THERE Is not a great deal to be said concerning the Franco-German sit uation. To date Belgium has been un abJe to bring the I tench and the Brit ish so into accord that a joint allied note couU be sent to Chancellor Cuno. Poincrre will not recede an inch from his d^mind that German passive resist ance In the Ruhr must first be officially ended. Curzon and a minority of the | British cabinet sympathize with him, but Premier Baldwin and most of his ministers are determined that Great Britain shall not be put in the posi tion of appearing to approve of the ' French adventure in the Ruhr. German Foreign lUtnlster von Rosen berg is said to be trying to work out a compromise proposition. His govern ment would express its willingness to drop passive resistance during the opening of negotiations wfrth France if assured the French would evacuate the Ruhr when satisfactory terms were reached and if amnesty were granted political offenders imprisoned or ex pelled by the French. Under the plan the German railway men in the Ruhr would resume their duties and the workers in the Rhineland would do their work under supervision of the French engineers. It is admitted in Berlin that the passive resistance is weakening because living conditions in the occupied region are becoming Im possible. Meanwhile, stimulated by the nationalist societies, the Germans In the Ruhr are renewing their cam paign of sabotage and violence. With in a week they have killed three French soldiers and wrecked several trains. The natural result is the sterner appli cation of restrictive measures by the French. Eleven Germans have been killed for disobeying orders; some of them disregarded the curfew hour es tablished in various towns where there was disorder. A MERICANS Interested In the Ches ?"ter concessions have learned with some dismay of a combination designed to control trade with Turkey, signed ot Lausanne by Rustem Bey, repre senting Leslie Urquhart and a group of British brinks, and Sherif Bey, repre senting a new Turkish syndicate. The combination, which Is capitalized l'or $10,000,000, will begin operations as soon as peace is signed, j:nd its Turk ish charter is so broad it can embark in any business. The Urquhart group embraces most of the big London banks, which have bought control of the Anatolia railway from the German Swiss interests, and most of the Brit ish corporations engaged in business in Turkey before the war. The financial backing of the group is almost un limited. TX7ITII Impressive cefemony the * * world court established by the League of -Nations opened on Friday at The Hague, in the Carnegie peace palace. It publicly proclaimed its in dependence of the leugue, but for the present its clerical work Is being done by men and women sent from the league's headquarters in Geneva. Three cases were on the agenda for the ses sion. The first is the dispute between Finland and Russia concerning the autonomy of East Carelia, but Russia lias denied fcie court's competence, say ing the affair is an. internal matter. The second, concerning the expulsion of German nationals from Poland, probably will not be contested by the Berlin government. The third case in volves Germany's right to bar from the Kiel canal, in March, 1921, a Brit ish ship which was carrying French war munitions to Poland at the time of the Russian attack on Warsaw. TT WOULD take more than a Phila delphia lawyer to figure out the situation in China and make clear its complexities. After his cabinet quit him, President Li Yuan-hung fled to. Tientsin, where soldiers held him pris oner in Jus train until /ie formally re signed. The functions) of the govern ment at Peking were undertaken after a fashion by representatives of five ministries who requested Premier Chang to return and resume his office. Li was virtually driven from Peking by Feng Yu-IIsiang, the "Christian general." All the foreign * captives of the Chinese bandits have been released and are again with their friends. By the compromise agreement with the outlaws 2,000 of them are to be en rolled in the army and they were paid $85,000. N . "C^OREIGX ships coming to America now enter our ports with only enough liquor for medicinal purposes, in accordance with the decision of the Supreme coqrt and the regulations of tin? Treasury department. But there Is so much dissatisfaction that the government at Washington Is trying to 1 find a way out. Already It lias been informally suggested that treaties be made with each foreign nation \ "by which the United States would be given the right of search within twelve miles of its coast in return for modifi cation of the dry ship rule. What would be the attitude of other govern ments toward such a proposition Is not known, but the comment of the British press Is decidedly unfavorable. Any how, It Is admitted In Washington that this plan does not offer an early solu tion of the problem, for senate ratifica tion of the treaties would be necessary and the senate does not convene until December. TWTIl. LASKER, retiring chairman of the shipping board, received th? 0. Iv. of President Harding for the trial trip of the Leviathan with its GOO invited guests, and the Republicans who decried the affair as a useless and expensive Junket have fallen silent. Not so the Democrats, however. Their national committee already has ful minated against the trip, and probably it will be kept alive as campaign ma terial. There, if anywhere, lies its inadvisabllity. TX li IS final report to the President, Mr. Lasker recommends the crea tion of eighteen subsidiary corpora tions, each to control one of the con solidated ship routes, as the basis of government . operation of the federal merchant marine In case the efforts to transfer the ships to private operation finally fail. The government must as sume complete control, Mr. Lasker de clares, the system of operation* ageuts having proved In his opinion a "vicious one," resulting in the placing of Its "terminal facilities and the good will of Its lines" in outside hands. He ex presses the opinion, however, that gov ernment operation should always be with a view to ultimate sale to private owners. The chairman numbered among the material results of his administra tion: Settlement of claims aggregat ing $200,000,000 for "12 cents oq the dollar" and, reduction of current def icit from $16,000,000 to $4,000,000 a month. At the end of the fifceal year, he says, the board will have $125,000, 000 on deposit in the treasury against $4,000,000 when he took office. This sum is believed to be sufficient for the board construction financing, the report says. HENRY FORD, it Is now reported, is going to make the race for the presidency all by himself instead of as the head of a third party ticket. He is quoted as saying : "There will be four tickets in the 7.924 election: 'The Republican ticket, the Democratic ticket, a third pai ty ticket and the Henry Ford Independent ticket. No candidate Is likely to get a majority of the electoral vote and the election probably will be thrown into the house of representatives." - There are 531 vo'ies in the electoral coilege, and If the two old parties are fairly evenly matched in the 1924 elec tion and the third or the Ford ticket won one large stale or two or three smaller* ones no candidate would have a majority and the election would be thrown into the he use of representa tives of the Sixty-eighth congress. In this case the Constitution provides that the house shall eh Dose the President from the candidates, not exceeding three, receiving the highest number of electoral votes. In naking this choice, however, the house is required to vote by states, each state delegation hav ing one vote, determined by a majority of the members of the delegation. A quorum shall be one or more members from each of two-thirds of the states, and "a majority of all states shall be necessary to a choice." Thus at least 25 votes would be required to elect. It happens that in the next house there are only 23 state delegations whose majority is Republican and 20 state delegations whose majority is Democratic, while Ave delegations evenly divided be ween Republicans and Democrats woild not be able to cast a vote. To eifect an election it would be necessary for members in pivotal state delegations to repudiate party affiliations or absent themselves from the balloting. If there were a deadlock, and Ford were one of thp three highest in the electoral college vote, he might conceivably be choseo by the house sub a compromise. NEW SAFETY LAW EFFECTIVE JIILT WILL BE REQUIRED TO BRING ALL AUTOMOBILES TO STANDSTILL. v 50 FEET FROM RAIL TRACK w ' * Signs Placed on Right Hand Side of Road Will Bear the Lettering "N. C. Law. Stop."-|T * Efaleigh. pplied to in North ''Stop! Look! Listen!" as a| automobiles becomes a law i Carolina on July first, according to ; the terms of a law passed by the last general assembly which becomes af 1 fective on that date, i A ninterpretation of the new law made public here by the attorney gen eral's office says that every person 1 operating a motffr vehicle on a public 1 road shall be required, "to stop his ' vehicle at a distance not exceeding 50 feet from the .nearest rail" of all train tracks at crossings except where such crossings is one where "there is a gate or watchman." Neither does the law apply to "an electric railway track in a city, town, or village." j The railroads are required to place a sign board not less than 10 feet from the ground on the right side of the road and 100 feet from the cross ing under the terms of the law. These signs will bear the lettering "N. C. | Law. Stop." Violations of the law, according to the attorney general's interpretation, will be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than 10 days im prisonment or $10 or both, in the dis cretion of the court. Such cases wlil come under the jurisdiction of the su perior court and not that of justices of the peace. Wade Issues Fire Loss Report. Charlotte led the list of cities in the number of fir.es during. May, but High Point suffered the heaviest monetary loss. Nineteen fires occurred in , Charlotte while only one took place in High Point, that one causing a loss of $195,368, according to the fire loss report of Insurance Commissioner Wade which issued. Losses in both the state and nation increased over those of April, accord ing to the report. Of the 141 fires in North Carolina during May, 125 caused a loss of $208,134, while the remaining 10 caused a loss of $434,000. The total fire loss was $642,002, value of prop erty risked ^11,850,471, and insurance involved $9,754,780. ; Single fires of 5,000 and over, says the report, were as follows: High Point, furniture * factory and contents, 195,368; Beaufort, a foreign yacht, 50,000; Salisbury, factory and dwellings, 36,000; Greenville, colored school building, 16,500;. Greensboro, bottling plant and garage, 22,000; Spring Hope tobacco warehouse, $14, - 500; Kinston, warehouse and storage, $14,000;' Winston-Salem, dwelling $14, ?000; Onslo wcounty, dry kiln, $11,000; Rocky Mount, store and contents, $10, 400; Rocky Mount, dwelling, $8,200; Rocky Mount, bakery, $6,980; Halifax, business block, $10,000; Clarkton, dwelling, $10,000; Fayetteville, laun dry, $8,000; Moore county, theater and store, $6,600. Losses by cities and number of fires are shown in the report as follows: Charlotte, 19 fires, loss $4,805; Goldsboro, five fires, loss $2,002; Wil mington, six fires, $3,009; Wilson, six t fires, loss $3,220; Fayetteville, nine fires, loss $8,372;' Asheville, eight fires, loss $5,125; Raleigh, eight fires, loss $1,422; Winston-Salem, 14 fires, loss , $15,325; Elizabeth City, two fires, loss $400; Durham, one fire, $1,450; New i Bern, four fires, $2,110; Henderson, ! one fire, loss $1,000, and Monroe, one fire, loss $10. One fire each was the record of High Point, Greensboro, and Salisbury, while Rocky Mount had five. During | the month there were 87 dwelling I fires, with loss of $77,041, value $277, 110, and insurance $122,000. The en tire rural and suburban loss was $51, 220, valued at $52,550 and insurance of $29,800. Towns placed on the department's honor roll for the month are States ville, Huntersville, Morganton, Clinton, Zebulon, Randieman, Lexington, Pine hurst and Wake Forest. Henrietta Mills Increase Stock. A million, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars increase in the capi | tad stock of the Henrietta mills, of ! Rutherfordton county, was authorized j by Secretary of State W. N. Everett in I an amendment to the corporation's ' ' chartej. A New Corporations. ^The Secretary of State chartered the following corporations to do busi ness in North Carolina: High Point Terminal Company, of High Point, with $15,000 authorized capital and $1,500 subscribed by F. J. Howard, W. E. Price and R. P. Royer, all of High Point. Richie Caldwell Company, of Con cord, with $50,000 authorized capital and $14,000 subscribed by H. W. Cald well, B. H. Marsh, and M. F. Richie, of Concord, and B. H. Marsh of Win lton-Salem . ? Compare North Carolina Crops. North Carolina crops last yaar averaged $48 per acre, while those of Illinois brought $20; Iowa, $21; Min nesota ,$16; and Nebraska, $14, ac cording to a report made by the crop reporting service of the department of agriculture. , The report, comparing North Caro lina's crop values with ttyose of the mid-western states was made at the request of mid-western interests, fol lowing a speech made during the spring at the bankers' meeting in the ? mid-west by -Angus W. McLean. Mr. McLean painted the picture of North Carolina in glowing terms, but there were some who dobuted the accuracy of his figures so the department was asked to issue a report on the sub ject. : * "Considering both crop and live stock values," the report said, "per improved acre of farm land including pasture, North Carolina had practi cally $61.00 as an average, Illinois $733.50, Iowa 641.00, Nebraska $26.50, and Minnesota $28.00." Taking up the subject of diversifi cation the report declare^ that, "Illi nois and Iowa are mqre of one crop states" than North Carolina. -The largest acreage added the report, was devoted to corn in North Carolina, this being 38 per cent. Wheat crops took up 16 per cent of the acreage, hay over 12 per oent, oats 3 per cent, cotton 24 per cent, and togacco 8 per cent.' While "these figures should be of considerable interest and gratifica tion," says the report, "it is undoubt ed that in some sections we devote too much acreage to tobacco and cot ton which results in such communi ties buying the food and feeds they should raise on an economic basis." Mid-western farmers have the ad vantage over those of North Carolina, according to the report, . brought about by the- use of "hand labor and commercial fertilizers" in the latter state and "the apparent profits per acre over the middle western farm ers" Is offset. The contrast between the shapely fields of the western far mers and the "patches" which are cultivated in this section is pointed out in the report which attributes this to the necessity in North Caro lina for using terraces which inter fere with the best methods of im provement of land and the lack of organic matter in the soil which com pels the North Carolina farmer to use turf grasses to improve pastures/ "The big prolem in the south,'' con | eludes the report, "is one of an eco nomic nature of which our farm la bor should be more carefully* distrib uted throughout the year, and more livestock should be used to convert essential crops as raw products into meats as finished product. Our soil will never become really fertile until this course is followed." Weevil Investigation Causing Worry. Liye boll weevils have been receiv ed by Franklin Sherman, chief of the division olj entomology for the state college and department of agricul ture, from counties as far west and north m the state as Cleveland, Mecklengurg, Cabarrus, Lee, Harnett, Lenoir and Beaufort, it has been an nounced. -/ No weevils have been sent in from counties north of these, S)ut specimens should soon arrive, it was stated. UA number of cowpea pod weevils on young cotton are causing much concern among farmers who suspect this weevil of being the cotton pest," Mr. Sherman stated. "However, the cotton boll weevil should soon be ap pearing in all parts of the cotton growing area, and with its appear ance will come the old questions: 'What shall I do?' "Shall I poison?* What method of poison shall I use and when?' "The general problem of boll wee vil control is given ?in extension cir cular 124. The dust poison method is fully described in extension circu lar 137, just issued to North Carolina farmers. Both of these circulars may be had from county agents, or by writing to the editor, extension service, Raleigh." Mr. Sherman said he believes the dust poison method is the best for actual use in killing the weevil. "We 'consider the dust-poison method as the standard and only poisoning method which we are justi fied in advising yet for our farmer! to depend upon and its limitations and difficulties are plainly discussed in the circular," he continued. "This is in line with resolutions of south ern agricultural workers at Memphii in February, and with news items of United States department of agricul ture in March. In accordance with these pronouncements other poison ing methods, including theN adapta tion of the Florida method, are being tested and studied in this and other states. "The question of wfien ' to ? begin dusting is so discussed in our circu- 1 iar as to allow latitude of judgment acording to abundance of early i weevils. Railroads Pay Income Taxes. Railroad income taxes in North Carolina for 1922 were more than double what they were in 1921 and thanks to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States making the taxes for both years payable thif year, the inome tax receipts of the state now bid to exceed the Budget Commission estimate of $3,500,000 which appeared at one time to be excessive." During the past few days the two largest railroads operating in the state hftVA nail) (hair {nanma iowtv For Women Y/C table C( _ Greenville, Pa , cine through the'o^J W Lydia E. Pinkham'g \*, 1 pound I feel younger ^ years ago, and my ! 1 look younger. andlJJ Vegetable Compound. 1 4, ; work for a family of j glad to answer any ^ me in regard to myca^ Myers, 65 Union St,(^ Many letters simila^S published testifying to? Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vh9 'pound. They are from women who descry 1 can their feelingsbtforeiifl ' this well -known medicintl | Many times they state ; J their willingness to ans^l j write them. 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