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- . - "... ' ' 'p ' .'W - v, V ..(;.' ri' ' - '-.'r V.''.' ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED. IN WATAUGA COUNTY ESTABLISHED IN 1883 1 v ? ' .-, VOLUME XXXIII BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MX&CH 2, 1922 NUMBER 18, ! j - v': - :7.ir" 1 TIIElte'SEVEIlTS . ;,. v;: - ' , . IMPORTANT NEWS OF STATl, NA ION AND TMI WORLD 1 WIFLYTOLD, - j nouiai abouTthe world A OendeneM Reoord Of Happening y Of Interest From All Point Of The World - r Foreign ; " A London dispatch says &at Amer . loa Joined In tie praises -of A. J. Bal ,', tour, head of the British mission at r- the Washington conference In his wel , come to the homeland, when the Amer ican ambassador, Oeorge Harrey, ad , dressed the Pilgrims' Society dinner . at which three hundred persons were present . The duke .of York represent. - ed the royal family and the-others : Included ministers of the cabinet, clyll and military leaders and official and unofficial" represenatlvts of the Ameri can community. It was a "personal welcome" for a great pilgrim, accord ing to Lord Cunon, in contract to the official welcome accorded Mr. Balfour by the gorernment luncheon recently. - Chinese shipping companlesriacking gorernmest production from 'pirates who hare been seizing and looting ocean-going Teasels in buccaneer taple, hare taken to arming their ships v and placing details of guafds aboard. ' The Standard Oil company has def lnltely supded all work at its re ftoeris. fcevTampico, and workmen Numbering upward of a thousand will M discharged immediately, according Ito adrlces from Tampico which say or ders to this effect have been received from New York. Only the pump work ers will be retained, it was added. The British. military, evacuation of Ireland is expected to.be resumed it was declared by Michael Collins, head of the provisional Irish government, on his return from London, where he Interviewed, Winston Spencer Church UL secretary for colonies. General MacReady, British military comand er in Ireland, visited Mr. Collins, and . their conversation, it was assumed, . was in connection with the withdrawal of the troops. ' Up until recently the troop movement had not been resum ed but preparations were under way lor the immediate shipment of hun dreds of ton of army stores. . I The flpt person who can prove that supernatural causes are not respon sible for uncanny -happenings at Ales jMacDonald's farm m Caledonia Mills, near Halifax, N. S., will receive flOO If n offer made by Detective Carroll bf the provincial police and Harold Whtdden, a Halifax reporter, holds good. ' firing in the Stanhope street area, when the disorders broke out anew recently, after a lull of several hours, became so Intense that police, hurried to the eeene, were forced to use their arms to subdue the snipers. Protecting his innocence, the Rev. Adelard ., Delorme, Catholic priest, charged with the murder of his hair ' brother, Raoul, an Ottawa university student, pleaded to be tried as soon aa possible. The resignation of Czechoslovakia as "guardian'' of Austria is declared in diplomatic circles for discussion be tween Dr. EduUrd Benes, the Czecha premier, and foreign minister and th British government during' the visit in London of Dr. Benes. ; . ': . The permanent court of internatlon al Justice was opened recently at Th Hague with fitting ceremonies. Sev eral oj the royal families were in at tendance., Wathlngton Barton' B. Sweet,' Republican mem- fber of the house from the third Iowa district, announces he will enter the JteimbUcan primaries In June as a icandidato to success Senator Kenyon, who will .become a federal circuit - (Judge. . The Kenyow bill to aid idlemen jot the country has been recommitted, . ,and it Is believed that the return ol the measure to the committee means its "deatKH Decrease of "more than 200,000 lorn in the World's production of coal In jl921 compared with the output in 1920, iwas noted in a recent statement on mining activities Issued' by the gee jloglcal survey. , , Preeldell Harding has Informed th . ;senate that he cannot comply with its request tor records of the four-powet jPnclltc treaty negotiations, because na ' ,such records ever existed and because fhe considered It incompatible with the public Interest to reveal "Informal and confidential conversations." I Despite the pressure of both Rspub tacan and: Democratic senate leaden (for prompt action; controvertes are d Veloplng within the foreign relation committee which may lead to a long discussion of the; arms, conference tregMee before, any of them is brputhj to the senate floor for ratification! " The war department has ordered a further reduction of officers and men in the American forces In Germany There remains a total of 189 officers an1 2,217 men. - - " , . ' Proposals were made before the In terstate commerce commission at tht hearing by S. Davie Warfleld, presil dent of the National Association ol Owners of Railroad Securities,, prelim inary to a report by the board of eco nomics and engineering appointed, bj the association -advocating methods for the economical handling of rail road equipment. Administration leaders in the sen ate cleared away many of the obstac les in the pathway of the four-power Pacific treaty by indicating that they would accept without a fight a blank' et reservation drafted to cover the ob jections of those who oppose unre served ratification." ' ' J Differences between the Republicans of the senate finance committee and the house ways and means committee over tariff valuation principles were recently aired at a three hours' secret conference without any tangible con crete result A demand for an Immediate Investi gation of reports that the "fertilizer, industry" is maintaining an expensive lobby not to defeat Henry Ford's of fer for, the Muscle Shoals nitrate proj ect was made in the senate by Senator McKellar, Tennessee. Congress was torn recently between pasBlng a sales tax to pay a soldier bonus and dropping altogether the cash bonus, stipulating therefor paid up insurance or land grants. This was the situation in the wake of President Harding's letter suggesting the sales tax for abandonment as the alterna tives for the bonus. ( Domestic The Roma, r largest semi-rigid air craft in the world, made a careening swoop down from the clouds.' She shuddered as her huge' bag came into contact with ' high-voltage electrlo wires 200 feet from the earth. Then there was a deafening roar and a tow ering sheet of flame. The giant turn ed turle and, keel in the air, crashed to earth at Norfolk, Va. Thirty-four of her human cargo army officers and a .few civilians were thrown in to or about the biasing wreck and perished. Eleven others, some of them - terribly Injured, survived. Of the survivors three were not hurt Such is the story of thegreatest dis aster in the tilftory of The American army air service. As in the case of the fatal explosion djf the ZR-2 over- Hull englan, last August,, the airship was one purchased from a foreign govern ment by the United States. The ZR-2 was purchased by the navy from Great Britain. The Roma was sold to the army by Italy. Milton Drury, former cotton mil worker, of Winona, Miss., a son of Mrs. Ada Drury Converse, whose pars tlally burned body was found near Hazlehurst, about ten days ago, is being sought by Sheriff H. E. Ramsey, of Copiah county, for questioning in connection with the crime. ' Harmonious action developed in the recent conference at Chicago of representatives of farmer and labor blocs, railroad and miners' unions, so cialists, farmer-labor party leaders and others dissatisfied with America's present "political leadership and re sulted in the appointment of a nation al committee to meet in New York December 11, to organize what is ex pected to be a new political party. "With the arrival of four companies of Rhode iBland coast artillery at Paw tucket, following the most serious riot ing of the New England cotton mill strike,, the city was very quiet Chief of Police Talbert arrested a man at Concord, N. ., suspected of being Edward Sands, who Is want ed in connection with the willing oj -William Desmond Taylor, the movie director, in California. , Judge Morris, in the United States district court Wilmington, Dei., recent ly granted a dismissal of the com plaint, with costs to the petitioners, for a receiver for the Columbia Graph ophone Manufacturing company. The wife of Rev. Thomas N. Denny, Jr., aged 33, dean of New Orleans Col lege,. Delaware, Ohio, has preferred charges against him for non-support He disappeared last July, and she thought he had suicided. When she found he was alive, she filed charges of non-support against him. . . : The Nebraska board of education has decided that instructors in any of the Nebraska normal colleges here after Will be refused leaves of absence to-study or attend the. Universities of Columbia, Chicago and Northwestern, "because It has been shown that stu dents at these institutions smoke ciga rettes, especially the women." . Supreme Court Justice Mullan ol New York denied application of Edith Kelly Gould tor an order vacating the divorce decree obtained in Paris some time since by Frank J. Gould. The court set forth that the action had not been brought in good faith by the ac trjns and thaj he. limit of her hope V1 4 . MANLY B. BLACKBURN ' ' (From an old photograph) Died in Baltimore February 17. 63 years old. "He loved his fellow man." is to coerce the "defendant" ... . . . u. Positive idenUfication of the muti. Uted and charred remains of a woman found in a ravine at Hazlehurst, Miss- recently, as that of Mrs. Ada Drury converse, formerly oi wicnita Fans, and Warsaw, Texas, but more recently of Selma, Ala., was made by her 21 year old son. Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landls will end his seventeen years' service on the federal bench March 1 to devote his entire time to his duties ts national commissioner of, baseball, ne recently announce ana nas ror warded his resignation to President naming. ' District Attorney Banton of New York says that he believes that not 10 per cent of the fraud victims of bucket shops have reported their losses, not withstanding the docket is crowded so that it will take months to clear it Chicago churches are making spe- cial plans to care for the spiritual welfare of church members addicted to- playing golf on Sunday mornings. It it planned to Install wireless recelv under construction. It is said the la ing stations as Boon as the links are .borers have been secured from South operiac in the spring, and mombers may "enjoy" a sermon while smoking a cigarette on the verandah. EDUCATIONAL DAY IN ALAMANCE Big Event Will Be Held In Graham , Early In April, According to the Program. . r Burlington.The program for the annual educational day in Alamance countv hat heen announced bv the c.nntri nnmmittoo thnt wan .nnnint. ed several weeks ago to make the r,rnmtir,n fnr th annua rvcaaion The big event will be held at, Graham on Friday, April 7. The program for the day includes a parade at 10:30 a. m., to be participated in by all rural and city schools of the county, fol lowed by the address of the day, which will be delivered by Miss Eliza beth Kelly, of Raleigh, who is affili ated with the state department of edu cation, and vice-president of the North Carolina Teachers' assembly. In the"afternoon various contests will be held and prizes awarded to the winners. These annual - gatherings are participated in by. practically all rural and city schools in the county, and the attendance is usually large, the occasion bringing together not . . , , , only pupils of the various schools in . . . . . , . ,. . m , , m , ,,. . , - ' . Col. Lamb Dies In Rocky Mount Raleigh. Col. Wilson Gray Lamb, Sr., chairman of the state board of elections, thrice a delegate to na tional democratic conventions, and president of the North Carolina soci ety of the Cincinnati, died at Park view hospital, in Rocky Mount He had been ill for a month, and his con dition had been serious tor the last ten days. Members of his family were at his bedside when the end camel Colonel Lamb was 82 years of age and had long been a prominent figure in the public life of the state.' .Be tides his interest in public affairs and his connections 'with the Society of the Cincinnati, he was active in Ma sonic .affairs, a . leading member of the Episcopal church and prominent ampjtg.- Confederate vefoanff, ivi.- -, - ' Surviving him are John C. Lamb, Wilson G. UmbT Jr., Luke Lamb, Mrs. Fred P Bullock( Mlss Mtyo Lamb, wra p w r Mm. ,, miu. Annta statton Lamb. Railway Development Goes Forward. Ashevllle. Construction of a scenic highway from Black Mountain to the top of Mt. Mitchell, highest peak east 0f the Mississippi, will go forward without further delay, it was an- noiinced, following the receipt of news that the supreme court had upheld judge Brock's decision In dissolving the injunction of the Mountain Retreat association. Mine Ballast for Highways. Spencer. Contractors have erected tents to accommodate 500 laborers on the Davidson side of the Yadkin river near Spencer, the men to be used in mining ballast for the construction of a stretch of the National highway be tween Spencer and Lexington. The ten mile section of the road la now Carolina at (1.50 per day and that it will take perhaps a year to dig the ballast and build the road. I Engstrum Plan With Weeks. I Washington. Consideration was given by both the war department and the house military committee. on , the question of disposing of the gov- ernment's power and nitrate projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala. At the war department, Secretary Weeks revealed the final draft of the offer """le by Frederick E. Engstrum, of Wilmington, N. C, tor completion of the Wilson dam and operatien of the nitrate plants for the fixation of nitro Kn trom the air and production of fertilisers under a proposed 50-year lease. Would Investigate Eligibility. Washington, Investigation by the senate Judiciary committee Into the eligibility of. Senator Smoot, Republv can, Utah, and Representative Burton, Republican, dhlo, to serve on the al lied debt commission, was proposed in a resolution introduced by Senator Walsh, democrat Montana. Action on the resolution went over. Soldiers Run German Trains. Coblenz. Branch lines of German government railways within the occu pied area are being operated by sev erad American engineer battalions as 1 part of a course of Instruction of the v ?,. u, ,.,,,, .,, army railway school established some time ago by officers of the American forces in Germany. The train crews are made up entire- ly of American soldiers and even the train dispatching on the short lines Is done by members of the organisation who are taking courses in railroad telegraphy. New Types of Tomato Perfected. State College, Pa. Professor C. En ory Myers, of Penn State College Ag ricultural school, announced the per fection of three new types of tomatoes which are expected to add. to tomato production for market purposes. Two are new varieties resulting from cross breeding and the other Is a selection, All' have been , tested to yield from eight to- ten tons an acre more than the general Pennsylvania average, it was jOoum:ed. The average yield of tomatoes in this , stale is between five and six toar an atre. 34 PEN U AIRSHIP EXPLODES AIRSHIP ROMA PLUNGES 1,000 FEET, HIT81 HIGHTENSfON WIRE AND BURNS UP," FHIE- BORNEO FIVE HOURS Most of 45 Men Aboard Giant Airship nn wauum in neanng rurnaco of Burning Hydrogen. Norfolk, Va. Flung earthward, pre sumably by a broken rudder, the giant .airship Roma plunged a thousand feet or more to strike ground at the Hamp ton Roads army base, capsize across a high tension electric line and burst Into a roaring furnace of blazing' hy drogen gas in which at least 34 of her army crew and passengers perished. The 34 dead includes officers of the army air service. Her contact with the high voltage wires which she tore asunder started her gas bag afire, and the explosion followed as the nose of the craft struck a pile of car material a few feet beyond. " The explosion sent flames 800 feet in the air, as eight of her survivors 1 leaped from the "deck' of the ship. Three others were dragged from the mass of wreckage and flames. Only those in the forward part of the operating compartment of the ship had a chance for their lives. Several were Injured severely by jumping, but three came out practically unhurt and were discharged from the hospital within a few hours after-the disaster. Lieutenant Burt, who with Captain Reed was the principal pilot. of the Roma, was one of these. He Jumped when the ship was only a few yards from the ground. At nightfall, many hours after her fall, the ship was still a mass of flames from one end to the other of her 410 foot mass. The fire was feeding on the million cubic feet of gaB that had distended the great bag tor the flight. Barely a dozen or more than two score men aboard had been picked up alive. One died en route to a hos pital. All of those who survived the fire escaped by jumping as the ship struck. The . others, pinned in the hull beneath the fallen bag, were burned to death. Heat of the fire fought back res cuers for hours. Three fire departments fought the flames with chemicals and by 7 p. m, It was out. Derricks began picking up the wreckage -as the flames were driven back. There was scarcely' more than the aluminum frame work and six Liberty motors to move. Within the wreckage lay the bodies, many of them charred beyond direct recognition. Thirty-one bodies had been taken out at 7 o'clock. Three or four more were thought to be still In the charred mass that alone remained of what had been the largest ship of her type in the world.. Eye witnesses who watched the smash agreed that the huge kite-like structure of the stern rudder, Itself as large as a bombing plane, had slip ped to one side as the Roma drove along a thousand feet above the army base. So swift was the flare of the gas flame that rescuers were driven back before Its terrific heat. They watched helplessly as the great bag shriveled in the fierce blaze of the liberated gas. The Roma was a wall of flames a city block long and until the thou sands of gallons of chemicals and wa ter had checked the holocaust, It was impossible to reach the comrades mangled and dead in that fiery fur nace. - The ship left no passenger list be hind her when she set out for a brief trial run trom Langley. She is known to have carried many officers and men as passengers, however, in addi tion to her operating crews. As she roBe from the field, her commander leaned out to signal that he had 44 persons on board. It is believed he did not include one civil lan on the ship and that she actually carried 45. Of the forty-five men who left the Langley Field air station this after noon, eleven found their way, alive, to the United States publio health Bervice. Those men.'some more dead than alive, lay on . their cots, with burned and broken limbs swathed in. bandages. Some had their faces smeared with cream to relieve them of their intense suffering, while oth ers lay asleep or unconscious with only their closed eyes visible. All who were able to talk were suffering fijpm shock. Several of the victims, It is believed, werejnatantly, killed. III OF SEI ICE TO MEET III CHAHLOTTE STATE CONVENTION OF DISABLED ; VETERANS WILL BE HELD , IN MARCH. . ,..1 - i MANY EXPECTED 10 ATTEKO To Discuss Hospitalization, Compensa tion, Vocational Training end the . Welfare ef Disabled Men. Charlotte. One of the biggest con ventions "that Charlotte will be called upon to entertain this year will be in ' session here on March 24 and 25 when a large per cent of the 4,000 men la the 'state who received wounds of ma jor or minor natures in the World War will come here , to perfect the North Carolina division of the Dis abled American Veterans of the World War. It is expected that there will be between 1,600 and 2,000 men here. An nouncement of the forthcoming con vention is made by E. J. Tillman, com mander, and W. B. Williamson, sec retary, of the Charlotte chapter of the Disabled American Veterans. , The Charlotte chapler is the pioneer of the state, and Charlotte is, there fore, selected by disabled veterans of the state as the logical place to have the convention. Another reason is . thatvmany veterans are here to take " treatment in hospitals at government expense and to receive vocational training. . t A Charlotte man, Zebulon B. Thorn burg, a first lieutenant In the 30th di vision during the war and connected with the redoubtable 118th infantry of that division, will call the convention to order here as state executive chair man. He wears the Military Cross of Honor, the American Distinguished Service Medal, the French Croix de Guerre, is a wearer of two gold chev rons as tfie result of two severe. wounds' and has to his credit one of the most conspicuous records of any officer of the 30th (Old Hickory) pivlsion. He served gallantly In the fighting which the 30th division went through at Voor mozelie, Belgium; Bellicourt and Bus any, France, and at other places. He Is endorsed by disabled veteran here and in many parts of the state as the proper man for state commander of the perfected disabled veterans' or ganization. In addition to the visitors here from all parts of the state, there will be several national officers here for the convention. Ralph A. Horr, of Seattle, Washington, vice commander of the national organization of disabled vet erans, will be one of them. Col. C. R. Forbes, head of the veterans' bureav at Washington, will be another distin guished visitor, and M. Bogan, director of the Fifth district for veterans, re lief headquarters In Atlanta, will be another. At the convention the subjects to be discussed principally will be hospital ization, compensation, vocational raln ing and the welfare of disabled men. The election of officers for the per fected state organization will ItSke olace here and delegates select attend the national convention of ibled veterans at San Francisco A e 26-30. The sessions of the convention win be held in the City Auditorium. Ar rangements are being made to hold a dance on the last night of the conven tion and to have as guests at jhtt time the membership of the Hornets Nest Post of the American Legion, i Wilmington. An index to economic conditions are shown dally when an In creasingly large number of reputable business men are haled before court tor failure to pay their license and spe cial privilege taxes. Acordlng to the' court officials never In the history of the city have so many been In trouble over the matter of city licenses. Few Judgmeuts are being rendered, hew ever, it being the policy of the court to allow the defendants to settle and. not pros the charges. .Klnston Man Burned to Death. kinston.r-Charles F. Stewart, aged 46, machine room superintendent of the local plant of the Imperial Tobacco company, was overcome by smoke and burned to death when fire partially e -strayed his home at Sll West Leaorr avenue. His body was found It the room against a door, after the fire had been brought under control by the Bre' men. . ."'?v J'. A lamp left brnntng in the hath stent as a measure tor preventing trtue water pipes is believed to Have ev i sn msr V. eV 'y ""'"J
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