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oL. XXXII.
BOOiNE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N.C. THURSDAY OCTOBER 6, 1921
NO 50
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DECLARED ELECTED
WAS CLEARED OF CORRUPTION
AND ALL OTHER CHARGES
BY SENATE COMMITTEE.
.
CASE IS NOW UP TO SENATE
On But Two of Major Issues Were the
Republicans and Democrats In
Harmony in Reports Filed.
Washington. Opinions conflicting
along party lines were presented by
majority and minority members of the
senate privileges and elections com
mittee on the Ford-Newberry 191S
senatorial election contest from Michi
gan. The majority report cleared Senator
Truman H. Newborry, the republican
candidate, of corruption and all other
charges and recommended that he be
legally seated. The democratic mem
bers asserted that Senator Newberry
was nominated by "corrupt and illegal
methods and practices" and recom
mended that his seat be declared va
cant. With the films of the reports, the
case now goes to the senate for final
decision, which probably will rot be
made for several weeks. Meanwhile,
It Is understood, Senator Newberry
will not attend the senate sioni.
O nonly two major Issues were the
republicans and democrats in har
mony in the reports filed. They
agreed that Henry Ford, the demo
cratic contestant, bad not been elect
ed to the seat from Michigan. They
also agreed that too much money had
been spent In the Michigan primary.
Bottlers Endorse Sales Tax.
Raleigh, N. C Adoption of a reso
lution protesting against the proposed
excise tax on manufacturers of soft
drinks In the new revenue act and fav
oring a manufacturers' sales tax on
all industries featured the eighth an
nual convention of the North Caro
lina Bottlers Association lure.
Emergency Measure Proposed..
Washington. Possible emergency
measures by municipalities to cut
down the number of the country's In
voluntary idle were taken up at the
public hearing before the public
works committee of the national con
ference on unemployment.
State Manufacturers Meet
Chicago. Taxes, transportation and
new transportation legislation are
among the matters scheduled for dis
cussion at the essions of the national
conference of Plate Manufacturers' As
sociations, which opened here.
Former Soldier Under Arrest.
Denver. Dr. Gilbert L. Lininger,
Fueblo dentist and former nrmy of
ficer, was arrested at Pupb!o on a
charge of theft of army dental sup
plies during August, 1019, while sta
tioned at Camp Jackson.
' Reply to De Valera.
' London. The Sinn Fein leaders
were Invited by Prime Minister Lloyd
George to a conference in London, Oc
tober 11. on an Irish peace adjust
ment. The invitation was extended in
Lloyd George's reply to Eamonn do
Valara.
i International Justice Court.
I Geneva. Professors of international
law constitute a majority of the mem
bers of the new court of international
justico as just elected by the League
of Nations.
Trucks Ruining Railroad.
Athens, Ga. Automobile truck com
petition may force the Gainesville
Midland railroad into the scrap pile,
according to a letter from W. B. Veas
ey, receiver for the road.
Grippe Attacks Babe Ruth,
New York. Babe Ruth Is confined
to bed at his hotel here with an at
tack of grippe which prevented him
from playing with the New York team
against the Athletics at Philadelphia.
I Ku Kltix Klan Condemned.
, Indianapolis. Preceding the parade
the G. A. R. delegates met in a busi
ness session and passed a resolution
condemning the Ku Klux Klan. The
v gons of Veterans, passed a similar res-
? olutlon.
Test of Charleston Harbor.
' .' Charleston, S. C The heaviest
draft ship to enter this port in several
J months was the tanker Bradford, with
a cargo of 60,000 barrels of crude oil
from Port Labos, Mexico, for the re
finery. -
SOUTHERN SEEKS REDUCTION
Action Begun in United States Court'
for Western District to Have its
1921 Assessments Set Aside.
Grensboro. Alleging that the tax
assessments of their property in North
Carolina are excessive and discrimina
tory and that under the statutes they
have no right of appeal to the State
Board of Equalization or to any other
state board or court, the Southern
Railway company began action in the
United States court for the Western
district of North Carolina to have its
1921 assessments set aside,
The Southern states in its bill that
It has no desire to emoarrass thp coun
ties, municipalities or school districts
and expresses willingness to pay,
when due, whatever taxes It may owe
based on a proper valuation, leaving
to be fought over only the taxes on
that part of the assessment which il
claims is excessive.
The Southern alleges that the as
sessment of its property in North Car
olina at above $96,000,000 is more
than $30,000,000 in excess of its true
value. It states further that, should
this assessment stand, its taxes in
North Carolina will be increased num
than $180,000 over last year as the n
suit of the action of the counties in
reducing the assessments on real ea
tate and increasing the tax rates.
Kinslon. The establishment of the
first commercail rabbitry in this sec
tion at LaGrange may mean the begin
ning of a considerable industry in tin
territory, acording to federal animal
husbandry men. W. J. Brothers is re
sponsible for the innovation. Broth
ers will breed Quinea pig.T and white
mice as well as hares and rabbits.
Greenville. Some two hundred odd
farmers from every section of the
country attended a mass meeting o
cotton and tobacco growers held at
the court house here relative to plan.
for canvassing the county in the in
terost of the co-operative marketing
association.
Concrossman Ilallet R. Ward, ol
Washington, delivered a stirring ar
peai in behalf of the organization.
Asheboro. The water situation In
Aulirtinrn tins liPCOIllO SO acute that
the mayor is urging the people tr
avoid any waste of water in any pub
lie Places, and that housekeepers soi
to it that no water is w.isted in the
homes. A very deep well used by on
of the factories has been tapped anc
will supplement the town's supply fo
the present.
Favetteville When ,T. M. Llles, If
rnl nhotoirranhor. went to his room a'
his boarding house on Maiden Lar.
the picture that greeted him was tha
of a big 10-pound 'possum lyinu com
fortnWy in the middle of his bed. Bil
ly was yawning sleepily as Mr. Lilct
enttercd the room. The captive i-
timv h.inc fattened for an old-timf
possum supper.
Tarhoro. The Tarboro high srhoo'
has organized four literary soeictir
for the comin-; year, for the irainmi-
of pupils in -debating. n"ci:inuni".
o-itin. etc. Two of the organization'
;,! for (he einhth grad one for thf
bovs and one for girls. The other tw
are for the ninth, tenth and elcventl'
grade hoys and girl"..
Sanford.-Mayor W. IT. Pitts tend
Pre.l the Carolina Power and Light
companv 2S.000 gallons of water daily
so long as available in order to enablf
the company to operate its Raleigh
steam plant, thus furnishing power
with which to operate the numerous
enterprise dependent upon 1t.
Charlotte. The opening of foreign
port so that Southern textile good"
mav go into all parts of the world
wlli he the hobby of Congressman A.
L Bulwinkle while he is in the House
of Representatives, he told Charlotte
Clvitans in addressing them at their
luncheon in the chamber of commerce
assembly room.
Rockingham.-The boll weevil Is
now to be found In every part or
Richmond county, and has been and
is still doing serious damage to the
crop This with the drought will
cause this counv's 1921 crop to be
Bi-aveelv 9.000 bales, and is In strik
ing contrast to the 23.G7G bale crop
of 1920.
To Wind Uo Affairs" and Quit.
Tarboro. Realizing that the large
canital and surplus of the First Na
innnl Bank and Farmers Bankinp
and Trust company give the public
ample banking facilities; and the fact
that the Pamlico Savings and Trust
company under present condition
cannot make money; the board of di
rectors have authorized the liquidation
of the hank, according to announce
ment. On and after Tuesday, Sep
tember 27th the bank will not receive
deposits, but will be kept open foi
tlie purpose of paying checks.
id
COMMISSIONER GRAHAM CALLS
ATTENTION TO A RECENT
ACT OF LEGISLATURE.
THE TAX MUST BE COLLECTED
The Law Imposes a Fine of Five Dol
lars Per Day on Every Glnner who
Operates Without a License.
Raleigh.
As there are a number of cotton
pinners who have not complied with
the law requiring them to take out
license to operate, Major W. A. Gra
ham, Commissioner of Agriculture,
has issued notice warning delinquent
ginners.
Major Graham's notice of warning
follows:
"There are a number of cotton gin
ners in the state who have not yet
npplicd for license to operate a cot
ton gin during this season. Their at
tention is called to the fact that the
last season of the legislature passed
a law requiring that all ginners make
implication for license to the Commis
sioner of Agriculture and that sucli
ginners collect for the next two
years a tax of twenty-live cents per
bale on all cotton ginned, remitting
this monthly to the Department of
Revenue.
"The law imposes a fine of gve dol
lars per day on all ginners who op
erate without securing state licenses.
Therefore, It is directed that gin
ncrs who have not yet secured their
license to operate write the Commi?
sioner of Agriculture requesting i
form of application for license which
should be filled out and forwarded
Immediately.
Denies State's Jurisdiction.
Denying that il is a citizen of the
state, and pitching its fight on prac
tically the same basis ndontod by the
Southern railway, with the omisslo'
of ti'.e nttaik on the validity of ''
franrhise tax, the Atlantic Coast Line
railroad entered the Federal Court
for the Eastern District of North
Carolina seeking an injunction to pre
vent the colloc'ion of taxes levied up
nn it In the thirty counties in which
Its lines are operated.
Portmarters Commissioned.
Washincton. (S-vciith. rosttr.f1
ter have been commissioned as fol
lows :
Meece, Artenas S. Bush: Ringwood
Jesse A. Harris.
Postoffiee inspectors are making
investigations with a view to ap
pninMni postmasters at Bushnell and
Pinehall.
Metts Marshal at State Fair.
Col. John Vm K Metis, adjutant
cenera! of Nor.h Carolina, has been
appointed chief marshal of the six
tietb state fair by Mrs. George W,
Vnnderliilt. president of the North
Carolina agricultural society, accord
ing to an announcement by Col. Jos
E. Pogjje, secretary.
Reduction for Cannon Mills.
Reduction of nine per cent from
the values placed upon the Cannon
chain of mills in Cabarrus county by
the local authorities was granted fcy
the State Board of Penalization. Ar
proximately $12,000,000, less the 2
npr rent horizontal reduction the
county commissioners ordered on all
property In April.
Road Contracts a-e. Awarded.
Contracts awarded by tha State
TTi,.tuv:iv Commission for the i on
stnution of 40. 43 miles of road In th
Vlnth Construction district indicat
still further decline in the coat
of
road building.
The total of the four contracts
warded was $04.2 -IS.
State Notes Sell Readily.
Five millions of North Carolina
notes were sold in New York by State
Treasurer Lacy, according to advices
received here, and the paper was
handled for 5.r3.
Man With Many Wives.
One hundred deserted women are
claiming to be the widows of K. L.
Carson, h of seen aliases, who died
nt (he Montrose Sanitarium in Wea
vervllle, September 4.
.1. Scroop Styles, attorney for Dr. J.
M. Crawford who was appointed ad
ministrator for the deceased, needs
another clerk to attend to his mail,
since the news of the demise of the
' man of mystery" became public.
Women from Maine to California
have written their claims to widow
hood. - -
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II. S, CONFEREES
111 HiiED
HUGHES, LODGE, UNDERWOOD
AND ROOT SELECTED BY
PRESIDENT HARDING.
NO GOUGING OF THE VISITORS
Steps Already Taken to Prevent
Profiteering In the Capital Far
Eaet Questions Likely to Precede
Armament Discussion.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.
Washington. It bus been announced
by President Harding that the Ameri
can members of the forthcoming con
ference on limitation of annnmvnts
and Far Fast problems will be
Charles Evans Hughes, secretary of
state, Republican; Henry Cubot Lodge,
United States senator from Massa
chusetts anil chairman of the senate
onimlttee on foreign relations, Re
publican; F.llhu Root, former secretary
of state and one time senator from
New York. Republican, and Oscnr V.
Underwood, senior United States
senator from Alabama, Democrat.
Recently Is wus declared that the
Washington officials felt the confer
ence would not be so long drawn out
as at first it was believed must be the
case. In fact, one or two of the
ollieials have said that they believe
agreements well can be reached with
in n limit of three months. There
has been a change In this feeling
within n few days. It Is now thought
to he certain that the conference will
go well into the spring and that per
haps early summer still may see the
conferees at work.
President Hard'ng and Secretary of
-.!'e Hughes have found It necessary
call attention to a matter which
already, has been discussed by the
presentj writer. The necessity of
brevity1 in newspaper hendlines has
caused the coming conference fre
quency to be called a dlsnrmainen. con-fereiHMtr-The
President and the secre
tary of state desire particularly that
the country should know that It Is
nothing of the kind, but Is a confer
ence ciilied to d,t",us and to agree
on "limitation of armaments."
Visitors Not to Be Gouged.
Washington has been much upset
by the stories which have gone abroad
of the Intended gouging by local land-
lords und local merchants of the
foreign visitors and the vast throng
of American visitors who will be here
(hiring the conference. The real
estate beard lias ta!;en up tlie matter
and the u.irious commercial bodies
lero also nave rnKon ir up. it i now
ileclared that there will bo no profit
eering In Washington while the
visitors are here, and that any attempt
at it properly will be checked and
that If any one succeeds in tlie actual
act of gouging, and it can he proved,
he will be promptly and properly pun
ished. It took oi'y me known Instance to
start the crusade against profiteer
ing In the capital. The representa
tives of one foreign embassy found n
house whTcVtKey Slew wduTd" be
suited to the purposes of their con
ference delegation. They asked the
owner of the house what rent he would
ask for it for a period of six months.
He promptly said that he would give
it over for $3,000 a month. This
meant that the rentul would be $18,000
for the six months.
The house actually Is worth only
.flTi.OOO. So It can be seen that tlm
renters In six months would huve paid
about $M,(HK) more than the value of
the property. This nrntter was
brought to the attention of the State
department, and the owner of the
property In question will continue to
occupy It himself. This proved In
stance of attempted profiteering has
been of service, for it has forced a
campaign here which will stop like
things In the future.
The questions of limiting armaments
and of solving Far East problems
first will be taken up In the confer
ence, because until they nre settled
It will be almost impossible to take
any action along lines of armament
limitation
Far East Problems.
There are conditions In the Far
East which might make for war.
China looms lnrge as a perplexing sub
ject; so does Siberia, and so do some
of the Islands of the sens. What are
called spheres of Inlluence must be
considered; mandates under the
League of Nations must be considered,
and many other things must come In
the category of necessary considera
tion.
When all these things nre fixed, and
the conferees agree, the matter of
navies probably will be taken up. The
countries chietly interested todny in
navy limitations are the Uulted
States, Great Bitaln and Japan, al
though of course Italy and France are
to some extent interested.
As the country already knows,
probably pretty definitely, the question
of how big an army each nation may
keep for defensive purposes will form
one of the chief matters of discus
sion. It Is a pretty fair prediction
that when the conference is ovr It
will be found that France will be al
lowed to retain n larger force of sol
diers than Is any other country.
France fears future aggression from
the East
On ,ut of every twenty-five farms
In the United States Is operated by a
woman.
Work for Unskilled Problem.
Increased activity In textile and
lumherine Industries has brought con-
tinued improvement in the unemploy-
ment situation in North Carolina ac-
cording to M. L. Shipman, State Dlrec-
tor 0( tj,e Employment service Place,
mpnt8 through the five offlcr-s mairj-
ta(ne4 in Btate totaled 252 during
tlie paPt woo1t Tobacco factories are
nls0 npPranR(r nearer to normal, and
omnlovinar more men and women.
Mo:t J the trained workers have
got Jobs; the problem Is finding work
for thw mass of unskilled workers.
Shrincrs' Hospital Sites.
Atlanta. Locations of six of nin
free hospitals for crippled children
which the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
are to establish in various parts of
North A.nerica at a cost of $2,000,000
have been decidod upon by the trustees.
Taste is a matter of
tobacco quality
We state It as our honest belief
that the tobaccos used in Chester
field are of finer quality (and
hence of better taste) than in any
other cigarette at the price.
Licgett & Myers Tobacco Co.
Chesterfield
CIGARETTES
of Turkish and Domestic tobaccos blended
E
1 HALF liLI,
FARM OWNERS OF LENOIR AL
ADJACENT COUNTIES ARE
APPLYING FOR LOANS. J
NO DIFFICULTY IS EXPECTED
The List of Applicants to tht Locai
Farms Loan Aaaoclation for Loans
la Steadily Increasing.
Klnston. Farm owners In ahe
townships In Lenoir and
counties have applied for uou.
000 in government joans to u
estimated by officers of the I
loan association. The list ..
cants is Increasing. It Is
that no difficulty will be l
curing the entire sum.
The majority of the membe.
association are residents ot
county, and the bulk ot the n.u..
ed will be expended within tti. u..
ty.
While tobacco In the c:wix W.t
is bringing an average price n k:
than 25 cents a pound, h .1 r
market reports tell of buj ; r 1":
selling for sums ranging from 4 J t "
to nearly Jl, indicating that -1921
crop fully up to tho '
which the region is capable. .
age would be considerably u .:
.1
Greensboro. The election of C A.
Reynolds of Winstoa-Salem, chair
man, was the only happening ot any.
note at the call meeting ot the exe
cutive committee of the republican
party in North Carolina, which was
hf.'d here.
Woman's place In the committee
and the party was gone into, but noth
ing of a definite nature was don,
the committee deciding it best to wait
the state convention next year.
Charlotte. An unusual case, per
haps the first of Its kind ever tried in
Mecklenburg county, mvoKiu iue
prosecution of a minister or justice ot
the peace for neglecting to file a mar
riage license with the reglrfr of
deeds vrtthln the prescribed time, oc
curred. Kev. C. M. Graham, a well known
negro minister of Charlotte, was tried
on this charge before Magistrate F.
B. Alexander, convicted and fined $200
and costs.
Charlotte. Pledges and cash total
ing $30,000 were received in a cam
paign to raise funds for the construc
tion of the proposed Dilworth Metho
dist church.
The total amount In sight is now
$100,000. This is composed of a gift
of $50,000 made by J. B. Duke, the
$30,000 raised Sunday and about $30,
000 to be realized from the sale ot the
church property. The new church will
cost about $300,000.
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