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.jj,--.' v , -.".--ri',V,-"i - i.-. ... : : 1 W g ! - L 1 1 D L ft s a vv y r0 h a ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY VOLUME XXXIII 1ft DUYTli 4 ' DISPATCH Ctt OF IMPORTANT HA PININQS GATHERED FROM - OVER THE WORLD. c r FOS THE BUSY READER TM OeowiTMeM Of 8tvn Dayt 01v In An EjrttomlMd Frm For QuIokRaadlng if . iToreign Notwithstanding wild rumors ol tin pending troubia In Pat foot Pol.).. O..M " uaikci cull' day not a single casualty ha3 been vtiviiau. An unusuauy urge number of holdups, carried out by armed 'men. occurred EaBter evening, but no big amounts were secured by the highway men. , The allied and Russian delegates to the Genoa economic conference have reached a complete agreement on the liquidation of Russia's old debts. The Soviet delegates agreed to recognize as valid all of Russia's debts contract .ed previous to the war. This Is an other .victory for Lloyd George, the shoemaker premier of England. Michael Collins, head of the Irish pro visional government was fired on as he was returning from mass in Dublin Easter Sunday. CoUina was uninjured and one of the assailants was cap tured.' Are destroyed .the older portloi of Our Great Spring Invitation Sale Begins Friday and Will Last for Ten Days For weeks we have been preparing for this mam moth sale. Now we are ready to offer you the most wonderful selection of bargains we or . any one else ever offered around here. Here are a a few of those bargains: A very high grade of 17 inches smooked Elk boots, $12.00 value, only. ps.es The famous Dayton Boots, the strongest shoe made. $10 value, only 04.95 A big variety of men's and ladies' sample dress shoes and oxfords, of the finest grade of calf, kid and glazed kid, val ' Ues up to $12.00 will goat only 2.983.08 A reduction on our eri tire line of Buster Brown and Star Brands solid leather shoes. A big; variety all kinds of children's cotton and silk' lisle stocking socks 34 sock, and rolled top stockings, in all shades and colors, per pair Wc.SOc. Dress Gingham 10 to 25c 94'peperel sheeting 45c RAILROAD FARE REFUNDED OR 6ASCLIIE FREE WITH $10.00 OR , HORE PURCHASE Davidson Depa the famous Imperial hotel at Toklo, Ja pan, and damaged the ...annex to the ,nowi. one person was killedr The staff of the prince of Wales, visiting Japan, suffered the partial destruction of, their effects. 1 A dispatch to the press association jfrom Carick-on-Shannon says Arthur .Griffith, guarded by armored cars and (Free State troops addressed a crowd :ia Sllgo, Ireland, without interruption. ; Soldiers are reported to havo enter ed a church at Jalapa, Mexico and shot several persons dead, including the mayor. The dash is attributed to difficulties between the civic and mill tary authorities. , Announcement was made recently of the appointment of Ch6w Tbu Chi prominent Chinese financier and form er minister of finance, as noting nr. mler In the absence of Liang Shill Yi, wh) has been, on "leave of absence" for several weeks. The miners in the province of BIs caya have gone on strike. Blscaya, the northwestern of the Basque provinces, borders on the Bay of Biscay. It I? rich in Iron ore. The correspondent of the Dally Her ald (labor organ) at the Genoa confer ence Bays that according to a state ment made privately by Premier Facta recently recognition of soviet Russia now is an accomplished fact. Pre mler Facta, says the correspondent admitted that a common understand ing was reached among the allies that meeting with the Russians on the basis of the' Cannes conditions implied mu tual recognition by the convening pow ers and the powers convened. Extra heavy men's kha . ki pants, $2 value only Q8c. Extra good men's over alls, only . Q1.25 . e Men's blue denim over alls, 240 weight, only 9585c, Ladies' .Gauze Vests, only 10c. - The best men's Work Shirts, 79c. The best ladies' Glove Silk Hose, $4.50 value, only u s 02.es Men's dress shirts from 4ec.Q5 Men's " all wool serge ; pants Q3.es Men's dress Hats,' at. . 98c to $5.00 ; Men's hose . . 9c to 1.50. Ladies hose 10c to 3.50 YALUARLE PREMIUMS WITH EACH . $10 PURCHASE rtinent Stores North Carolina. ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN WATAUGA COUNTY -BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NQRTH Washington-" Senatorial etiquette, aa It relates to a noted stage beauty, Lilttart Russell, plunged the senate Into a heated de bate in which counter charges were hurled that bdth sides had slighted her. The debate preceded the passage of the Colt bill extending the S per cent Immigration law for two years. Almost 2,000,000 ' fewer cotton spindles were operated during March than in February, the monthly cotton report of the census bureau, ' issued recently, disclosed. The 1922 naval budget ran through hostile waters in the house. As the weary end of aolid hours of debate was reached, with less than a corporal's guard on the floor, the air was filled with claims by leaders opposed to the bill's provision for an enlisted force of 65,000, that votes enough had been pledged to beat it The question whether the name of Christ was "censored'' out of the open ing prayer of the arms conference was raised again in the senate. Making the, question- and answering it himself in the affirmative, Senator Caraway, democrat, Arkansas, produced what he said was a copy of a letter written by the Rev. W. P. r. Abernathy, who delivered the prayer, saying he had been "reminded" there would be Bud hlsta and Confucianists present, and "told that It was the feeling that .a simple recognition of the DIety wouid fill the requirements." Charges of human "butchery" were made by Senator Borah, Idaho, against General Gregorle Semenoff, Russian aoti-Bolshevik leader, were testified to before the senate labor committee by two leaders of the American ex peditionary forces in Siberia, Brig. Gen. Graves, commander, and LienL Col. Charles H. Morrow, his chief aide, who gave Instances after Instances of murder, rape and banditry which oc curred during the period of American occupation of the region. By a teller vote of 177 to 129 the "big navy" appropriation bill Increas ing the personnel from 67,000 enlisted men and 2.000 apprentices to tho 80, 000 enlisted men and 6,000 apprentices Insisted on as the minimum by Presi dent Harding, has passed the house. Trade associations throughout the country were asked by Secretary Hoover - to furnish voluntarily to the commerce department statistical in formation concerning Industries to be published by the government for the benefit of business and the public gen erally. . - The United States has officially rec ognized the new government In Guate mala, it is announced at the state de portment. II is announced that the Joint om mlt&Ion of agricultural inquiry vill commend a sharp reduction In freight rates aa ippi'od to g; icultura'. piod ucts Determined to "smoke out" the ad ministration's Russian policy, and to open up, if possible, the whole secret chapter of this government's relation i with that country since the downfall of the czarist government. Senator Bo rah issued a subpoena for the appear ance of General Semenoff before tho senate committee on education and labor. . Bitumlonus coal production at the end of the second week of the coal strike shows an increase over ch9 first week. - Chairman Kelley of the sub-commit-tee on appropriations anounces that a record vote will be demanded a the house on the amendment to the naval bill increasing the enlisted Strang, h from 67,000 to 86,000. V The war department lias sold to the Surplus Trading , company of New York city, Camp Pike, Ark., with a considerable quantity of accumulated stores. '. Declaring "outrageous profiteering still continues" in the coal business. Representative Beck, republican, Wis consin, asked the house labor commit tee to secure internal revenue bureau flgurei regarding profits of coal cor pora Ions for the last three years, as revealed by their tax returns. He said if the committee did not act on his request be would take the f!jht to the floor of the house. Domestic. With hundreds of families already homeless and flood waters in Illinois and Indiana threatening to rise to even greater heights, relief agtnsles are re porting to be working energetically to aid the harasssed "refugees and pre vent further breaks in the levees.. Enraged because her husband of three months had followed her on a I horse after she left home in a buggy, Mrs. Lula Walker of Memphis, Tenst, ehot her husband, but he will recover. There Is no foundation for the re port that Mary Garden wilt be dis charged as director of the Chicago I Grand Opera company, according to the president of that company. The first Arbuckle picture shown af ter his release drew a crowd so large the police had to be called-out to pre serve arder at Rock Hm, g Cjk3a CAROLINA, THURSDAY APRIL 27, 1922 Bandits In SULouIs, Mo., are report ed to be doing a booming business. Daily holdups are reported, and everv time the highwaymen have gotten away so far. Mobile, Ala., Is having a Jury com mission scandal, and the grand Jury has asked for impeachment of two members of the Jury commission, on the ground that they had engendered personal spite when they dropped two names from a Jury list. ' The Gusy orphanage, a Jewish Insti tution of Pittsburg. Pa., was destroyed by fire, recently, but the children got out, by using the "fire drill" without any Injury -whatever. Capt. G. S. Little and Set. James L. Johnson were killed at San Antonio when an airplane in which they were riding went into a nose dive at a height of 100 feet and fell. - Two persons were killed and two others badly injured one probably mortally when a Pennslyvania rail road excursion train struck their auto bile near Asbury Park, N. J. J. Hill, white foreman for the Co lumbia Salvage corporation, was blown to bits by an explosion of 20,000 pounds of black powder in an ammu nition salvage magazine near the or dinance depot, North Charleston, S. C. More than 50 boxcars were dam aged and trackage wrecked. It has not been determined what caused the blast , Returns from the 37th New York congresional district indicate the elec tion of Lewis Henry, Republican, by a majority of 2,500. George Zabrlskie, member of the com mittee on the revision of the Book of Common Prayer of the Protestant Episcopal Church, says that women in the United States are, in nearly all re spects, equal of men, and, therefore, the promises and vows of the man and woman and marriage should be recipro cal. Hanford MacNIder, national com mander of the American Legion, asks all newspapers to appeal to ex-service men to return to their native heaths and seek employment, where thej are better known and most likely to se cure Jobs. 1 v ' Charles H. Fletcher, whose name appears on, billboards the country over advertising Castorla, died recently at his home in Orange, N. J. Capt. Roald Amundsen, Arctic explo rer, and tour flying companions, nar rowly escaped death at Mlola. Pa.. when the monoplane In which they were going from New York to Cleve land, the first lap of a continental Journey, turned over when It was forc ed down in a field. 'Because he couldn't give a sufflcent ly detailed description of hell, Charles O McKenzle, graduate of Union Theo logical seminary, was refused the right to preach by the Jersey City presbytery. Atlanta's annual grand opera sea son opens Monday, April 24, and runs through the week, the final perform ance being on Saturday night. De spite the general business depression the seat sale to date is well up to that of previous years, and there is ever; indication that the season will be a successful one. Beaufort. A surveying party arriv ed to commence work on the state highway survey from Beaufort to th Craven county line. They say It will take about two months to complete the work. The survey of the More head City link to the Craven line was made two year's aro. It Is understood that construction -work on the high way will start this summer. Fayetteville. Work, on the surfac ing or resurfacing of approximately 72,000 square yards of street paving will begin In tills olty av once. Con tracts for this' wofk have been let by the municipal boa,d of aldermen and the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, the ICtter corporation laving in charge the paving of Russell street under the old franchise granted the Cape Fear and Tadkln Valle railroad. Henderson. Henry Harris, accused of the killing of a negro woman said by some of the officers to have been his common-law Ife, was given a hearing before Recorder R. J. South erland and sent to Jail without privi lege of bond. Concord. At a recent meeting of the Board of Aldermen of Concord, the city was authorised to secure the ser vices of a food and milk inspector, and at its last meeting the board se lected Dr. T. N. Spencer, local veteri narian, for the place. Reldsville. 'Some thirsty party or parties had on a genuine thirst' and west to the extreme of breaking Into Shed? Sands office and stealing sev? eral gallons of supposed moonshine. Some of the stuff was later recovered Reidsrllle. Paul Coltrane, 18, of High Point, while attempting to board a freight train, slipped and fell to the ground and was nit on the hesd and received injuries about the body. . A physlcl4 dressed the injury and 'the koung van waa carried U his tome la EXPLOSION KILLS SEVERAL n FOUR HUNDRED CARLOALS OF AMMUNITION EXPLODE AT MONA3TIR, SERBIA. THOUSANDS ARE INJURED One-half of City's Population Rendered Homeless Victims Mostly Chil dren and Soldiered Belgrade. Four hundred carloads of ammunition and high explosives stor ed near the railroad station at Mon astic southern Serbia, exploded, kill ing several hundred persons, wounding thousands and virtually destroying the hiart of the city. One-halt of the city's population was rendered home less. The victims were mostly children nd soldiers. A church In which chil dren were worshipping collapsed un der the detonation, while the barracks In which 1,800 soldiers were having lunch was destroyed. Immediately after the explosion fire broke out in various parts of the city. The panic-stricken Inhabitants fled to the nearby woods and mountains from which they watched their homes burn. All telegraphic and telephonic com munication from Monastlr with the outside world was cut off. Tme first news of the disaster reached Belgrade from refugees. Pistol Battle In Birmingham. Birmingham, Ala. Folowing a gun 'battle police, led by Chief Fred Mc Duff, captured two of the three men who are believed to have shot Police man S. S. Crabtree. The thlrdman es caped. . " Claude Wilson, of Atlanta, one of the captured men, was shot once through the breast. - He was taken to a hospital in a serious condition. The other man taken prisoner is Charles Wilkes who, officers say. broke Jail In Roanoke, Va., June 27. 1921, where he was sentenced to' 35 years In the penitentiary for burg lary and having burglar tools In his possession, ire is in the city Jail on a charge of assault with Intent to mur der. " Policeman A. L. Appling vrtio was working with Officer Crabtree at the time he was arrested, positively Iden tified Wilson as one of the three men whom he and his partner attempted to arrest. Additional Tax Levy Necessary. Washington. Levying of additional taxes probably will be necessary to meet the deficit of r"; $350,000, 000 forecast for the fiscal year of 1923 by Secretary Mellon, It was said at the treasury. High officials of the treasury, dis cussing the expected deficit, Bald that no consideration had yet been given to means of meeting of the lack of funds but that It was apparent that the deficit would probably have to be raised by taxation, aa the government "did not have anything to sell." Whether the deficit would run as high as half a billion dollars, as esti mated by some treasury officials, could not be accurately determined at this time, it was said, as the various contingent items of revenue and ex penditures taken into consideration in figuring the finances for the coming fiscal year made an aoiirate determi nation of the expected deficit Impos sible. Officials asserted, however, a considerable deficit was certain. Committee Favors Loan to Liberia. Washington. By a vote of 13 to 9, the house ways and means committee favorably reported the Fordney reso lution authorizing a loan of $5,000,000 to the republic of Liberia. The credit was first authorized In 1918 after Liberia entered the war on the side of the Allies, but' was never put through. Secretary Hughes, ap pearing beforo the committee, urged that the resolution be adopted by Con gress "as a matter of national honor" and denied that the legislation had been advocated by American banking interests, who, he said, held only 'a fraction of outstanding Llberlan bonds. Radio Commission Favored. 1 Washington. Legislation creating an adjunct commission of ten to ad vise the commerce department in the control of radio communication will be recommended to Secretary Hoover In a report being prepared by the ra dio conference. The full conference has adjourned) subject to the call of. the chair and' will continue to function 1n an ad visory capacity until the special com-', mission is created. The commission would consist of five government mem-4 ESTABLISHED IN 18f '. . X 7 ' NUMBER 3 TOTAL IS (476,452 IN 8TATE COM. PARED WITH ,$718,169 8AM I j 4JONTH OF 1821. - DAILY HRE LOSS $15,882 More Than Half' the Entire Lose Fer March Resulted From One Fire, a Tobacco Warehouse. 1 I Raleigh. , According to the official reports of fires made to Insurance Commissioner Wade, the North Carolina Are loss for March amounted to $476,462 aa com. pared with $718,155 for March. 192L On the other hand, the fire loss of the United States and Canada tor March was $39,910,750, it being an In crease, states the commissioner, of nearly 40 per cent over March 1921. North Carolina also makes a good comparative showing with the country at large for the first quarter of the year, the aggregate for January, Feb iruary and March being $1,904,097 as against $1,767,156 for the same period of 1921, whereas the United States and ; Canada fire lost is $107,878,050 aa against $89,789,900 for the first quar ter of 1921. j There were 166 damage Area during 'March, against 132 in February; of these 15 fires at 14 points occasioned a loss of $5,000 and over, totaling $335,000, leaving for the other 161 Area ,$141,452 or an average of lesa than ,$1,000 each against an average lots 'tor this group of 9535 In February and $1,456 in January. i The average loss of the 16 Area In the $5,000 group was $22,500 against $28,960 In February and $36, 363 in January. The average dally Are loss was $15,882 for March, $11,. 829 tor February and $35,000 for Jan nary. More than half of the entire lost for March resulted from only one Are, a tobacco warehouse and stored cotton at ftaldnhnrn. with 1241 KOO Inaa iThree Million For Education. , The state of North Carolina will apend this year tor educational pur '.poses the sum of $3,267,200, not in- eluding any money raised by the coun ties of the state for school purpose nor any bond money. The turn of 93,267,200, as well at a further mm of 9345,000 Which is appropriated to inch Institutions as the Caswell Training school, the Stonewall Jackson Train ing school and others not 100 per cent educational in thrir nature, making a grand total ' of $3,612,200, comet from lhe general state fund secured through state levies : upon Incomes, corpora tiyns, railroads' etc. - Practically every other state In the uaflon levies a state-wide ad valorem tax . for schools, and there are very few .states where the state rate it less than 75 cents on the $100 worth of property; and this is in addition to the local county taxes which run the total ' assessment for school purposes up to $1.25 to $1.50 per $100 valua tion. Included in the total of $3,612,200 is not ohjy the cost of administration forv.the state department of education and all appropriations for training ex tension work, the medical examination of children and the support of all state (institutions, but also $832,254 which 'goes to supplement the county funds , of 37 counties ofXthe state la order toassure a Blx-moniht term for every school In every county. . Each county before participating ta the equalization fund la required, is der an act of the recent legislature. to levy a county tax of not lest than 39 cents. If the tax thus levied la not sufficient to provide a six montha term for ;epch school, then the defi ciency is made up by the state board of education. It is Interesting in this connection t note tat, accrdlng to figures secured from the commissioner of internal rev enue, there are seven countiee In the state whose levy for school purposes la 30 cents or under. There were 24 counties whose leVy was 39 centt or lest. Nine counties have a rate of It cents or more and 27 counties nave a, rate of 50 cents ormore. Investigation of Coal Fields. ! The North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey hat recently obtain ed, through co-operation with the Unit ed States Bureau of Mlnea. the service of Mr. J. J. Farbes, coal mining engi neer of the bureau, to make a atndy of the methods of mining and prep aration for market of the coal of the Deep River coal basis of Lee. Kaon! and Chatham counties: alto w the gases and dust la the. mine ta or der to recommend methodrwatcB Ht reduce to a ntinimom the aasaris c ...... ... . w1" SIB0E6K V.-.-H i',-') HlaAJtw; befa and five civilian!. coal ntess. v.f ' .it :' I' (
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