North Carolina Newspapers

KING3 MOUNTAIN HZ2ALD, KII7C3 KOUNTAIN. II. 0 x reserve mm more signs of Spring THE STATE HIGH SCHOOL DEBATERS ES0FU.& f ISSUES STATEMENT COMMITTEE OVERWHELMS DIS TO MEET EXPENSES INCREA8ED CUSTOMS HAVE PRO DUCED MORE REVENUE THAN EXPECTED. $270,000,000 FOR THE YEAR Statement by Treasury Department Showing Operation of the New Tariff Law. GRUNTLED CITIES WITH AVA J LANCHE OF FIGURES. REPLY MADE TO CRITICISMS Atlanta Wai tha Favorite of the Ma Jority of the Banks Asking for Membership. 1 1 1 I) Washington Replying for the first time to thg criticism vented upon them by the disappointed cities of New Or leans, Washington and Baltimore, the federal reserve bank organization com mittee gave out a formal statement. Quoting from the official records Id the comptroller's office the committee showed that the Atlanta member banks, which were mainly national banks, had more capital and surplus, more loans and discounts and more individual depositors than either Dal las or New Orleans. More significant even than this su perior showing for last month was the tremendous advance shown to have been made by the Atlanta banks in ten years. The national banks of Atlanta, increased their capital and surplus between September, 1904, and March, 1914, 256 per cent.; Dallas, 120 per cent.', and New Orleans only 8 per cent. Particular attention was given to the committee's reasons for choosing At- : lanta, Oa., and Dallas, Texas, in pref erence to New Orleans; for selecting Richmond, Va., Instead of Baltimore,' and for naming Kansas City instead of Denver, Colo., Omaha or Lincoln, Neb. : The committee called attention to the fact that since thirty-seven cities were applicants and only twelve named, twenty-five had to be disappointed. "With so many conflicting claims," said the statement, "somebody had to judge. Congress constituted the com mittee a court and gave the federal re serve board the power to review. Dis appointed competitors should seek a remedy through the ordinary process the law prescribes. ARREST AMERICAN MARINES Apology Demanded for Insult to Amer ican Flan at Tamolca. Mexico. Mexico City. A launch from the . United States gunboat Dolphin, carry ing, the paymaster and a small detach ment of marines, put In at Iturblde ' bridge at Tamplco. The Americans were after a supply of gasoline. They were lit uniform, but unarmed. The launch flew the American flag. Colonel Hlnojosa, commanding a de tachment of Mexican federals, placed the paymaster and his men under ar rest. Tney were paraaea uiruugu me streets and held for a time under de tention. Admiral Mayo made a vigorous rep resentation to the authorities and the men were released. Gen. Ignacio Zar agoza expressed to Admiral Mayo hie : regret. Praefiiant TTnortA In An nrflHul fltata- ment to American Charge O'Shaugh nessy apologized tor the unusual seal ousness of the Mexican commander at Tamplco. TREATY EFFECTS TOLL FIGHT .i.i.a Asm,4 ea I Iba m Panama wviwfnuiH wi "ii-.u , v. Canal for Warships. Washington. Free use of the Pana ma canal by Colombian warships, troop ships and navy supply vessels is pro posed In the new treaty between the United States and Colombia signed at Bogota to seal the breacn Between the .two countries over the separation of Panama. Secretary Bryan announc ed with the explanation that the clause In the convention was identical with one in the Colombian treaty negotiat ed by Secretary Root In 1909, with the approval of Great Britain and ratified by the United States senate though never acpepted by Colombia. Woman Sentenced to Hang. Pensacola, Fla. For the first time In the history of Florida, a white wom an, "Sis" Hopkins of Calhoun county, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to hang. Governor Trammel! will set the date in ihit n-romitinn Florida Citrsu Crop Reported Injured Ocala, Fla. Hall and wind storms accompanied by as harp drop in tem perature did many thousand dollars' damage to vegetable and citrus fruit crops in central ; Florida. Orange groves and melon and tomato fields suffered most severely. Southern Flor ida, however", where the bulk of the peninsula's citrus fruits are produced, experienced only a cool rain.' Frost in the slate was confined to the north western section, where crops were not sufficiently matured to suffer. "Gunmen" Get New Lease on Life. New ork. Supreme Court Justice Goff signed an order making It manda tory for District Attorney Whitman to show cause why the four Junmen now in Sing Sing awaiting d4ath tor the part they played in the S murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, should not be granted a new trial. The order Is returnable before Justice Goff, who presided at the trial of the gunmen, and was obtained -,on the ground of newly discovered evidence. HI fir the nomination to the United fates senate. Owing to the com plexity and length of the ballots com plete returns were slow in coming in, The protracted struggle for the nom ination between the two distinguished candidates terminated with a record breaking vote by Alabama Democrats. Interest in the contest for the short term in the United States senate, the nomination of ten congressmen, a gov ernor and other state and county offi cers also brought thousands to the polls. Mr. Underwood made the following statement: . "I am thoroughly satisfied with the primary election. The splendid ma jority given me In the state 1 attrib ute to the magnificent work that my friends have done for me in my ab sence. . The result I feel Is a personal vindication and a distinct approval of my remaining In Washington and at tending to my official duties. But af ter all Is said, the final conclusion must be that it is more of a victory for fundamental Democratic principles than for myself." Underwood Visits III Father.ln-Law. , Orlando, Fla. Congressman Oscar Underwood, Democratic house lead er and nominee for senator from Ala bama, arrived here and hastened to the bedside of his father-in-law, J. W. Woodward, who 'for two weeks has been at the point of death at bis win ter home here. Mr. Woodward, a Bir mingham, Ala., capitalist, relapsed. Mrs. Underwood has been with her father for the past ten -days. The Democratic leader said the length of his stay depended upon the condition of his father-in-law, but he hoped to be able to go to Washington and re sume his duties with! na few days. Mr. Underwood came here directly af ter the primary in Alabama, where he had gone to direct the closing of his campaign against Congressman Rich niond Pearson Hobson and to receive turns. Would Serve "Mother's Sentence. Boston. When Mrs. Anna C. Deitch as sentenced in the municipal court for shoplifting, her son, a college stu dent, asked to be permitted to go to jAil in his mother's stead, declaring he Was better able to undergo the hard ship. The court informed him it was impossible. Mrs, Deitch, who was sen tonced to three months' imprisonment, appealed and furnished ball. Aviation Fatal to 38 In Three Months. Washington. Death levied a heavy toll on aviators for the flrst three months of this year. Between January 1 and April 1 thirty-eight men lost their lives through the uncertainty of air currents or the failure of their fly ing machines. The United States, with five killed, stands fourth on the list, which France heads with ten dead. France has more aviators than any nation in the world. Germany lost eight. Great Britain seven. ' Turkey lost three and Chile, Spain, Argentine, Switzerland, and Italy one each. - Wilson's Views on Justice. Washington. President Wilson an nounced the principle that is guiding him in the selection of public serv ants. He said he did not believe in choosing men who would decide ques tions in a certain way, but would se lect those whom he knew to be just and fair. ,-The president remarked that to him it seemed justice was the hard est thing in the world to obtain and that It : required more courage than any other one thing. Mr. Wilson was discussing his appointment of Prof Winthrop M. Daniels. - - LOMBIANJREATY SIGNED ITED 8TATES AND COLOMBIA DIPLOMATS 8IGN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT AT BOGOTA. ,000,000 Paid South American Coun try for its Interest In Panama Canal Zone. liogota, Colombia. The treaty be en the United States and ' Colom- settling the Panama controversy. i signed at the state department of rbmbla I Vddeus . Aes of en tie cere lOmbla by the , American minister, A. Thomson, and represen- the Colombian government ceremony of signing the treaty was an Impressive one. The American minister was accompanied by the sec retary of the legation, Leland Harri son. The Colombian signatories were the Colombian minister of foreign af fairs, Francisco Jose - Urrutla, and members of the advisory committee. Marco Fidel Suarez, first vice president of the republic; Nicholas Esguerra, former minister of state I Senator Jose Maria Valencia, Senator Rafael Urlbe and Antonio Jose Urlbe, president of the house of representatives. The signing of this treaty is looked on here as a momentous event in the history of the foreign relations of Co lombia and marks a new era tor her future. It is pointed out by those sup porting the treaty that the friendship of the government and the people of the United States is c" Incalculable value. Washington. Signing of the treaty of Bogota was the outcome of nego tiations that had been In progress since soon after President Wilson took office. Details of the agreement have not been made public in Washington. ILLINOIS WOMEN VOTE "DRV More Than One Thousand Saloons Closed by Women of Illinois. One Thousand Saloons Voted Out of Existence, Chicago. Conservative esti mates based on actual reports from townships show that more than one thousand saloons were . voted out of existence in the state of Illinois outside of Chi cago. Chicago. Illinois women swarmed to the polls in nearly three hundred townships and as a result of their activity at least twelve counties have been added to the thirty whlcbnow bar saloons.. ; The country districts saw the great est gains in anti-saloon territory. Of the larger cities the following voted from wet to dry: Bloomington, Decatur, . Belvidere, Canton, Freeport, ' Galesburg, Joliet, Monmouth, Kewanee, Lockport, Elgin, and East Galena. Rockford and Gal va, which were dry, remain in the dry column. . : New York "Gunmen" Must Die. Albany, N. Y. Governor Glynn re fused to either commute the death sentence of the four gunmen convict ed ot slaying Herman Rosenthal or to grant them a reprieve until after the second trial ot former Police Lieuten ant Charles Becker. They must dlr by electrocution in Sing Sing priso- some time next week. It would have been a miscarriage of justice to have granted a commutation and ah improp er exercise of executive power to have granted a reprieve, the governor said in a statement. . , Llquor'Ads Legal In Mississippi. Jackson, Miss. Newspaper advertis ing is not soliciting and therefore the Mississippi newspapers are not prohib ited from printing liquor advertise ments by the May-Lott-Lewls anti-li quor law which went into effect ac cording to an-opinion rendered from the- office of Ross Collln.s attorney general of Mississippi.. The May-Lott-Lewia law stipulates that "no person, firm or corporation, by letter, circular or otherwise, shal solicit or take or ders for an intoxicating liquors." The law applies to the entire state. - Washington. Figures were made public in a treasury department state ment showing that customs revenue during the fiscal year which ends on June 30, 1914, almost certainly will meet and probably will exceed the estimates made when congress passed the new tariff law. The statement, prepared by Assist ant Secretary Malburn, in charge of customs, said: "It was estimated that the receipts from customs for the fiscal year 1914, which included three months under the tariff act of 1909 and nine months un der the present tariff act, approved October 8, 1913, would amount to $270, 000,00, resulting In a los sot (49,000,000 from the customs receipts of the pre vious years. "The total customs collections for the nine months just ended amounted to $226,600,000, showing a loss for the nine months' period of $ 24,750,000 con. pared with the collections tor the same period during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1913. As this loss is only one-half of the estimated loss for the whole year, It Is probable that the re ceipts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, will exceed the estimate. "It Is to be noted that the loss in revenue during the months of Janu ary and February, 1914, amounted In round numbers to $6,000,000 and $10, 000,000 respectively. This was caused by the falling off of the duties paid upon sugar, as that commodity was re tained In bonded warehouses pending the reduction of sugar duties on March 1, 1914. The customs receipts for these two months amounted to $23, 500,000 and $17,600,000 respectively. The customs receipts for the month of March just closed were nearly $28,- 000,000, as against $27,500,000 for the corresponding month of 1913, showing a loss ot but $1,500,000 and a recov ery of receipts as compared with Feb ruary of this year of over $8,000,000. 'In view of the above figures It now appears that a monthly average of less than $15,000,000 for April, May and June, the remaining three months of the present fiscal year, would bring the total of customs receipts up to $270,000,000, the original estimate for this fiscal year. It is probable that receipts for the three remaining months will exceed this average of $15,000,000 and that the total receipts for the fiscal year will run over the estimate of $270,000,000." ,: WILSON FOR LOCAL OPTION President Doesn't Believe Prohibition 8hould Be Part of Politics. Washington. President Wilson Is for local option on the liquor question and does not! believe prohibition should be made a part of a party pro gram. Since the order ot Secretary Daniels was issued prohibiting the ubb of liquor by officers in the navy, persons in a position to obtain the president's views have learned that he will stand by his letter written 'in May, 1911, while governor of New Jersey, to the Rev. Thomas B. Shan non of Newark, N. J, in which ho said: . ' - "I' am in favor of local option. I am a thorough believer in local self government, and believe that every self-governing community which con stitutes a social unit should have the right to control the matter oAhe regu lation or the withholding of licenses. But the questions Involved are social and moral and are not susceptible of being made parts of a party program." Secretary Daniels told friends the purpose of his order was in, no way to give a political aspect to the sub ject of prohibition or to commit the national administration, but only . to promote efficiency in the navy. The president looks on the order as a de partmental matter. Secretary Daniels having acted on his own initiative. Empress Eugenie's Maid Dead. Tampa, Fla. Miss Philippine Pan ger, who was a lady In waiting to ex Empress Eugenie when Napoleon III ruled France, died at the home of Gustavus Ward here. She was 89 years old and had been In the Ward family more than forty years. Fol lowing the overthrow of the empire, Miss Panger came to America and be. came maid to Mr. Ward's mother at Nashville, Tenn. ' She was German, and letters in her possession show that she was related to families of the nobility of that country. -, Republicans Victorious. ' Albaqusrque, N. M. Returns from the municipal elections showed that Republicans led over Democratic and Fusion candidates U nearly all cltlies, including Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Las Vegas. . Labor Candidates Win. v - Denver, Colo. Elections were ccs tested on local Issues.. In the six coal mining camps where union labor wat an issue the labor candidates were successful in five . . . t - if 6 r: Clifton Eaton and Charles Riddle k of Winston-Salem, 15-year-old win ners of State High School Debate bel d at Chapel Hill recently. Michael H. Kernodle and Miss Flonnle Cooper o t Graham, team which lost to Eaton , and Rlddlck. OFFICERS RE-ELECTED 8UPER INTENDENT'8 REPORT 8HOW8 MORE ROOM IS NEEDED. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress. of North Carolina Peo ple Gathered Around the State Capitol. ': ;:. Raleigh. The regular annual meeting of the board of directors of State Hospital for the Insane has just been eld in Morganton. For the first time in sev eral years every member of the board was present, namely: I. I, Da' vis, Morganton; J. P. Sawyer, Ashe- vllle; Charles P. Matheson, Taylors. ville; A. A. Shutord, Hickory; F. Alspaugh, Forsyth county; A. E. Tate, High Point; Dri J. B. S. Davidson, Charlotte; Dr. L. M. Glenn, Gastonla R. B. Clark, Statesvllle. It being the regular time for the election ot offi cer, Mr. Davis of Morganton, was re elected president ot the board and Mr. Clark secretary. Messrs. Davis, Clark and Tate were continued as the executive committee. F. M. Scroogs was re-elected stew ard of the hospital and his salary was Increased from $1,500 to $1,800, and Miss Cilia Summers was elected ma- ron to succeed Mrs. C. A. Marsh, Mrs. Marsh, who has been matron since the Institution opened, has been In' feeble health for some years and recently her mind has failed. She Is now a patient In the hospital she has so faithfully served. Miss Summers has for years been housekeeper of the institution, and she will now be both matron and housekeeper. The report of Superintendent Mc- Campbell for the four months ending witn juarcn si showed that there are 1.302 natlents nn tha rnlla nnHn, ine tour months 66 were admitted, two discharged and 17 died; and for the same period 54 applicants had to be denied admission to the hospital tor kick of room. Several New Charters Granted. - Tne southern Dyestuffs & Chemi cal Co., of Charlotte, capital $1,000, oy routs K. Green and others. The Sladeville Transportation Co.. or tuadeviue, capital $2,500 by J. A. Lupton and others for maintaining boat lines for passengers and freight xne swan quarter Supply Co.. of Swan Quarter, capital $100,000 auth orized and $10,000 subscribed by looiy uutmi and others for general mercantile supply, business. The Farmers and Merchants' Bank of Hlllsobo, capital $100,000 author ised and $10,000 subscribed by J, F. Johnston and A. J, Forest and others for general savings banking business. Charters Orthopeadlo Hospital, Tne orthopeadic Hospital (Inc.! of Oastonla, received a state charter a rew days ago for the purpose of rounding at Gaetonla a home for dis eased and crippled indigent children, especially dependent orphans- The In suiuuon is co also have power to maintain a department for training nurses. The directors for the Institu tion include such well known men ss Senators . Simmons and Overman; State Superintendent of Public In struction J; Y. Joyner, C. R. Hoey, E. N. Duke, J. Elwood Cox and others. I Crosa-Examlnes Comptroller Plant Attorney Blckett resumed, the cross examination of Comptroller. Plant of the Southern Railway a tew days ago with a view to showing that If the Southern Railway's own figures be ap plied to the interstate movement ,of freight of North Carolina local trains the showing of overcharge against in trastate freight would be over $12,000 and that the whole statement filed by the Southern using April, 1913, for de monstration, is tamvi on a false per centage' as between state and intra state business on local trains. Canno Enforce 8egrgeatlon Law. In a list of 12 opinions delivered, recently by the Supreme Court one of special note was that of the state against Darnell from Winston-Salem involving the right of the aldermen of that city to prescribe certain blocks for colored or white occupancy for residence. The Court, Chief Justice Clark writing the opinion, declared that there Is nothing in the charter of Winston-Salem to empower the alder men to enact and enforce an ordin ance such as that Involved, but does not pass upon the question ot wheth er or not the Legislature would have power under the Constitution to enact statutes that would convey power to prescribe such "race segregation." The Hat of opinions follows: Parrot -vs. Norfold Southern Rail way Company, from Lenoir, new trial as to whether the continuance of a flag station would Interfere with the" defendants, duties to the public In the carriage of freight and passengers; Slocomb va. R. C. & 8. Railway, Cum berland, no error; Hodges vs. Wilson, Cumberland, no error; Bank vs. Mc Arthur and Bank vs. Newton,' from Wake and from Cumberland, affirmed In both cases; Dallege vs. Coast Line, Pender, no error; Blumenthal and Bickart vs. Kennedy, New Hanover, no error; Thompson vs. Seaboard Air Line, Bladen, error; State vs. Darnell, Forsyth, action dismissed; State vs. Shouse, Poreyth, no error; State vs. Atwood, Forsyth, no error; Tate vs. ' Mirror Company, Forsyth, no error; Rangley Vs. Harris, Surry, no error. , 8tate Banks Make Report Members of the North Carolina Cor poration Commission gratified at the showing made by the banks in their reports of conditions as of March 4 Just 'made public: The summary -shows 416; Including 17 branch banks, compared with 400 banks, including 16 branch banks for the summary op April 4, 1913. Total resources show an Increase of $6,701,111, and deposits ' an increase of fully $5,400,000, and an Increase of nearly $70,000 in cash on hand. At the same time there is s decrease of $71,835 In overdrafts and of nearly $500,000 in notes and bills rediscounted and bills payable. Revenue Records Show Increase. The records at Statesvllle in Col lector Watts' office show revenue col lections for last month as follows: Lists, $3,075.82, special tax, $125.25, tobacco and snuff, $660,469.87, cigars and cigarettes, $25,498.29, a total of $589,169.03, which is considerably above the monthly average. The monthly collections, however, nearlv always reach the half million mark. Governor Names Delegates. governor Craig commission! 7 leading cttlsens from various parts of " J uena me National Drain age Congress In Savannah, Oa, April a-a. -ine list Includes: A. H. Eller Of Winston Salem; Dr. J. R. Alexan der, of Charlotte; P. B. Beard, of Sal isbury; J. 3. Myers, of Charlotte; R. Richardson, of Reldsvllle: fieoro-o Stevens, of Charlotte; Dave White, of Mebane. : Governor Pardons Don Emerson. Governor Craig granted a pardon recently for Don Emerson of Oullford county, who has served four months of a six-months' sentence for carry ing a concealed weapon.- He is a youth and is just recovering from an operation for mastoiditis ot both ears and the county physician says to re- : commit him to jail might jeopardise' his life and that he certamly -cannot be sent back to the convict cam Th : judge of the municipal court whoNen- ; .in, locuuiineuus tne pargsr Instruct North Carolina lnfantry Official notification from the war department to Adju tant General Young, of the North Car- olina Guard, , that Captain Bernard Sharp,, retired officer of the United ' States army, is assigned to rvin in North Carolina to assist Capt R. C. '' Langdon in the instruction of the North , Carolina infant?. He will make his headquarters In Tr,, w ' C, with the consent of the govern- ment this being his home town. Capt Langdon will continue tn mv. .11 t, : official inspections of companies. v : t .