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V o 'ir ' ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY V : ' ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN WATAUGA COUNTY " ( ESTABLISHED IN 1888 I I aMMai'MiiMMHMaMaiBnMHMHIMBMaaaMaaa,aaaiBHBiaaaiHiai,ainaMaBaBBaaBH,iiaan,MBaaBMMi ' ' " " . VOLUME XXXIII . . BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTHCAROLINA, THURSDAY MAY 4, 1922 ' .NUMBE27 : ' ; 1 i. f: 0 to M OKIE TO : IttPOBlEO IN UPPER OHIO - VALLEY AND ! UPPER APPALACHIAN MOUN ; TAIN REGIONS. COTTON AOVJINGES IN SEGTIQNS Apparently Not Much Injury Wu Don In th North Carolina PoaeJi Producing Bait - Wuhlnfton. ". Muci damage vai iou to fruit In the upper Ohio Tal ler and central and -northern Appa lachian mountain localities by the recent lerere frost and treating tenv yeratiurea, the weather bureau said ;tn ita weekly weather and crop re (Tlev. - - ' "The full extent of damage cannot e definitely itated at thii time" the rau laid in the reTiew the first offleial estimate issued since the cold ware. "Reports at hand, howeretv to jlleate that it was greatest in the Mountain sections of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylranla. ;The destruction was not so nearly leomplete, nor so extensive geograph ically, as was caused by the freese of last year, which occurred the latter !part of March. It Is noted that this year's fruit bloom ws unusually Ifceavy and a large proportion could be destroyed on the heavily laden trees with sufficient remaining to pro duce a fair yield of better quality. "The greater part of the fruit a 'years to have been killed over a few extreme northwestern counties in Vir ginia, with progressively less damage southward In the state, but extending well into the central counties. ; "Apparently not much injury was idene' In the heavy peach producing belt of North Carolina, but some fruit jwas frosted in the northern and west ern portions of the state. , i Moisture conditions, however, the review said, were favorable in most of the southern states for planting cotton, although the soli was too wet 'for satisfactory progress in a few localities, especially in the northern portions of Georgia and Alabama, iWork. was interrupted In the north- '.western portion of the belt by the gen- ;erel rains the latter part of the week. I' Planting of cotton vmade excellent progress In Texas and extended to the extreme northwestern portion of the cotton growing area. 'The nights .were too cool, however, for rapid ger mination in most sections of the belt, although the- early planted cotton that la up made fairly good progress In eastern districts the cron has ad vanced to the stage where it is ready to chop out in sections of the coastal plains of South Carolina, while chop - ftat progressed favorably la the more southeastern districts. Late planted eotton Is germinating slowly In Flor ' Ida. 1 Anastase and Bride In Trouble. New Tork. Anastase .Andrevitch Tonslatskoy-VonsiaUky, 28- year -old worker employed by the Baldwin Lo teuotive Works, and -his 47-yearold Vide, formerly the wealthy Mrs. Ma rlon B. Ream-Stephens, of Chicago, were la New Torkrto consult their at torney, Clarence Blair ' Mitchell, re garding a sequel to their marriage, which created quite a stir in social circles when It was performed last Fdbruary at the Russian cathedral in this oUy. The sequel, which broke in npon the Vonsiatakoy-Vonalatsky's privacy af ter they: had taken up their residence la Ridley Park, near Philadelphia, de veloped from-Paris. Cable dispatches quoted a woman claiming to have wed Vonsaipkoy-Vonslatsky In the Rus alaa'cathedrel at Yalta in the Crimea In 1920although the claim has been made that It was illegal because the bride never had been baptised. She was alleged to have asked the Rus sian Catholic metropolitan in America to investigate, the ceremony performed here. Efforts to reach ' the metropolitan hare proved fruitless. The bride groom declined to talk. 6' Order Arrest of All Adult Persons. Manchester, Ky. The -arrest of ev ' try perie over 12 years of age la the MO! Creek neighborhood of Clay -eomnty has been ordered by Circuit " Jsdge ttram J. Johnson in an effort to break mj lawlessness which enfant natei ut week in the awbashtng of eooaty rfoers who went Into the die- Met to arrest " moonshiners. Two hendred warrants were issued by ladge Jnsoa and orders were liven ;'.-'-.ls t: alt high-powered rises get C FORuER PRESIDENT DF FRANCE DEAD DIE8 OF PNEUMONIA FOLLOW ING ILLNE8S OF LESS THAN A WEEK. : . " PREMIER POME CULLS Wss Forced to Resign the Presidency Owing to a Sudden Breakdown. ' . Paris. Paul Deschanel, former President of France, died after an ill ness of less than a week. The passing of M. Deschanel, who for many years had been prominent in the j political life of Trance, caused widespread sorrow. His friends had hoped for his recovery, when the phy sicians in attendance announced that he could not survive. Mme. Des chanel was at the bedside when her husband died. The former President's eagerness to be up and doing, notwithstanding his long weakened condition, played an Important part in the hastening ,of his death. He Insisted last week on leaving his residence before he had completely recovered from a cold. There was a relapse and 'double pneu monia developed. Premier Poincare was among the first persons to" call at the Deschanel residence after the death of the states man to express the sympathy of the French government. . Paul Eugene Louis Deschanel,, the tenth President of France, enured upon a seven-year term In that office on February 19, 1920, after having been chosen by the national assembly the preceding January by the biggest majority since the election of Thiers, the first President of the present re public. Statesman and author and 'one of the most brilliant public speak ers in France, M. Deschanel's politi cal triumph marked the. retirement from public life of former Premier Oeorges Clemenceau. The campaign had been most sensa tional and bitter, M. Clemenceau, then .at tl9 height of his power as the j French war premier and one of the negotiations of the treaty with Ger many, was up until a few days before the election, believed to be the only candidate who had a chance for the office. Catholic and Socialist votes in the French Parliament, however, combined with those of the political enemies of the "Tiger" and elected Deschanel. A few months later, when Deschanel had been forced by illness to resign, "The Tiger" was asked II he again would permit his name to be used as a candidate for the presi dency. "I was too old to be elected last January,? he, replied Ironically, "and I feel too young to accept now, in case I was chosen. I am going Into India's Jungles to hunt tigers, which is much less dangerous than French politics.1 Lord and Lady Astor In Washington. Washington. -Lord and Lady.Astoi came to Washington, wre guests at a luncheon at the capitol, spoke at the National Press club and later in the day attended a reception given by Mtd. Chrrles B. Hurhes at the Pan-American building for the Pan American conference of women. They attended a meeting at Continental memorial hall for the Pan-American women's conference, at which the speakers were Secretary Hughes and members of the diplomatic corps. From the time of her arrival Lady Astor was the center of admiring groups. After the luncheon at the capitol she was the guest of Senator Swanson of Virginia. Three Officers Slain. BeardBtown, 111. Sheriff Ed Lash brook, of Rushvllle, and two deputies were killed in a light with Greek sec tion hands near here. Thirty-eight of the maintenance of way workers were arrested as they entered Beardstown on a ; train and efforts Immediately were started to have them bound over to the grand Jury on murder charges because of the high feeling over the officer's death. Patterson Heada Publishers' Body. New York. Paul Patterson, of the .Baltimore Sun was elected president of the American Newspaper Publish ers' association, at -the. final session of its convention. - Other officers elected were: Vice President, 8. B. Tnomason, Chicago Tribune, secretary, John . S. Bryant, ' Richmond News-Leader; treasurer, Howard Davis, New York Tribune, now 'directors, T. R. Williams, Pitts burg Press; Harry Chandler, Los An-j gales Times; Charles H.. Taylor, Bos-1 LIGHT INCREASE IN EXPORTS OP. COTTON v Washington. Cotton exports In creased slightly, during Mrck as compered with the same month last year, according to foreign trade reports Issued here by the commerce department Cotton exports for the month ag gregated, 461,000 bales valued at $43,000,000 compared with -767,000 bales worth 127,000,000 In March a year 'ago, while for the nine months ended with March .cotton exports totaled 6,000,000 bales val ued at 1442,000,000 as against 4. 000,000 ibales worth $518,000,000 during jthe corresponding nine months of 1921. FLOOD STRIKES FORT ViORTH ) r ' ' SEVENTEEN PROBABLY DEAD ANp PROPERTY DAMAGE ES TIMATED AT MILLION. Soorea of Residences and 8mall Build . Inpa Are Swept Away; Streets . Inundated. Fort Worth, Texas John J. McCain, Fort Worth city engineer, issued a statement in which he declared the levees around the rivers, which broke L here and flooded lowlands of this city, were "dynamited by unknown parties.1 and that an investigation by a grand Jury would be demanded immediately. . Seventeen probably dead and prop erty damage estimated at approxl mately one million dollars is the toll of a flood which swept Fort Worth, carrying before it scores of residences and small buildings, overflowing hun dreds of acres of land and inundating several city streets. The estimate of possibly 17 dead was made by Major L. O. White, in charge of Red Cross relief. The flood was confined chiefly to the lowlands adjoining the tributaries of the Trinity river. Marine, Sycamore, Clearforks and the Trinity river were swollen, overflowing the bottoms near by- The flood Is the most severe in the city, according to old-time rseldents, Coming on the heels of rain, the heaviest in the history of Fort Worth, and a wind and electrical, storm, the flood took scores of people by sur prise. Tho lowlands adjoining Syca more creek were the first to suffer, and at one time water was standing level with the roofs of residences Word reaching here from points to the north of Fort Worth Indicate that a further rise of the water Is expected, Rescue workers are laboring tireless ly in bringing relief to flood sufferers, With boiler rooms of the city power and light plant flooded, residential Fort Worth is spending a night In darkness With the city facing a night of dark ness, 500' members of the American Legion were patrolling the streets, augmenting the police force. Many highways were covered with water, cutting off traffic. "It Is our opinion that the levee did not break of Its own accord, but was dynamited, and as soon as the situa tion is relieved, we are going to place ! the facta before the grand Jury and ! demand an investigation," McCain de clared. Aeronautical Problems 'Being Solved. j Washington- Aeronautical prob- I lems which have baffled the best minds of the scientific world are be- , Ing solved with marked ' success I through experiments in the laborato ries at Langley Field, Virginia, under the direction of the national advisory committee for aeronautics, Joseph A. Ames, chairman of of the executive committee, declared In an address at the concluding session of the National Academy of Sciences. There are three outstanding prob lems In aeronautics, Dr. Ames said, those Involving the discovery of a sub stitute for the gasoline engine, deter- minatlon of the shape and section of i wing , which will Improve the per ' tormance of aa airplane and the re- placement; of th i ordinary experiment ' on models of airplanes or their parts by a method giving complete informa tion concerning full sfsed machines. .'. To Pay Acceptances. New York. The Cuban Cane Sugar corporation announced that $7,000,000 of acceptances maturing May 1, will be paid. Tho original amount of $18,- 000,000 wu, reduced last October to $18,500,00' and la January another payment w $1,100,000 was made. ; Officials of the Cuban Cane corpora tion would not disease industrial con ditions In the Antilles, but the recent tread of the raw aad refined sugar markets point to, marked rocaperaUoa Coar aut -ftssrf severe dspresdoa. 20 1 IH IKE MID SOUS CHARGED WITH HAVING USED .THE MAILS TO DEFRAUD INVESTORS. I16 THROUGH MAILS William A. Baiter, Former Attorney General of 8outh Carolina, Among the Accused. New York. Charles W. Morse, New York financier, and his three sons and twenty others, some prominent in shipping, legal and brokerage circles, were accused in a federal indictment with having ved the malls to defraud investors in the stocks of various steamship companies. The aggregate authorised capital of the sundry corporations ran into scores of millions of dollars, and in cluded the United States Steamship company and Its subsidiaries, United States Transport company, Inc., and the holding organization known as the United States Shipping corpora tion. The "principal defendants," charg ed- with conspiring since May, 1919, to defraud investors and put their alleged swindling scheme into effect by use of advertising matter, sent through the mails, included: Charles W.Morse and his sons, Erwln A., Benjamin W. and Harry F Morse. Martin J. Olllen, formerly assistant to the chairman of the United States shipping board. William A. Barber, former attorney general of South Carolina. Mark L. Gilbert, former president of Shipping, Construction and Trading company, Stonington, Conn. George M. Burdett, attorney for the Morse enterprises. Richard O. White, of New York, former president of the United States Transport company. . Stuart G. Glbboney, lawyer. Glenhard S. Foster, Orange N. J. former head of G. S. Foster & Co., curb brokers. v- These men, the Indictment alleged, have since May, 1919, conspired to defraud investors with a view to their own profit by divers schemes and ar tifices. Among these were alleged misrep resentation In advertising that the United States . Steamship company, with an authorized capital of $25,000,- 000, and its underlying companies such as the Croton Iron Works, Vir ginia Shipbuilding company and the Hudson Navigation company, were going concerns with- large contracts both governmental and private, for building and repairing ships and carrying freight, and that they were paying bona Aide dividends and were backed by valuable assets, and that therefore, to buy stocks in these or ganizations would prove profitable to Investors both in speculations and div idends. The contracts were not as represent ed, "the grand Jurors alleged; nor were, the assets, and the companies were not paying dividends. The in dictment charged that the defendants knew the Investors had been preclud ed some profiting by their own mis management. The "principal defendants" knew when they sent 1,000 letters through the mail, the, indictment alleged, that the assets, aad prospects of the com pahies were not as valuable as rep resented, 800 Miles on Gallon of Fuel. Syracuse, N. Y. Three hundred miles by an automobile on a gallon of fuel costing five and one-half cents is the. claim H. H. Elmer, treasurer and special manager of the Globe Malleable Iron and Steel company, of this city, makes for an engine design ed by himself, revealed to the director ate of the company at Its anual meet ing here. Internationally known enginerlng experts, including Arthur West, the chief engineer of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, have Inspected Mr, Elmer's engine and are said to have pronounced it hundreds of years ahead of time. Use Clover to End Dust Cloud. Mexico City. After years of experi menting in an effort to stop the dense clouds of dust which sweep down on Mexico City at certain regular pe riods, the Department of Agriculture has decided to plant clover and al falfa in the bed of Lake Texcoco, a lake bed near the capital which has been dry for several years. Agricultural experts believe well cultivated verdure will invite moisture la greater quantities and will prevent the dost from rising in the dry est seasons. . . 1 CONDENSED NEWS FROU THE OLD NORTH STATE SHORT NOTES OP INTEREST TO CAROLINIANS. KinBton. Moody Stroud, 22, was fatally burned in a forest fire near Pink Hill. Stroud was sleeping in the woods by a camp fire which ignit ed the surrounding timber. Winston-Salem. Two Winston-Sa lem ladles will represent the women voters of Forsyth j county aa 'regis trars for the November election, these being Mesdames J. D. Rodwell and Joe Rogers. They will serve in the first and second wards. Scotland Neck. Hon. Claude Kltch In, representative In congress from this district, and his family; who have been making their winter home in Washington, have returned to Scot land, Neck for the summer. Oxford. Former Sheriff S. Craw ford Hobgood, of Granville county, died at his home here, following a lin gering Illness. Mr. Hobgood was a member of one of the most prominent families of Granville county, and his death has caused profound sorrow in thlB section. Goldsboro. A. C. L. train No. 48 has been followed every day. for the past week by a special express train composed of from eight to 1 twelve cars filled with strawberries, and the largest shipment of strawberries' for many years Is being made by growers of Rose Hill and other places between Goldsboro and ' Wilmington. Scotland Neck. Scotland Neck has Just enjoyed its second "Ye Old Tyme Fiddlers' Convention," and the Dixie theater here, where the conven tion was held, was packed to the doors. Many notable fiddlers, banjo ists and harpists, as well as clog and buck-and-wing dancers from all over North Carolina were participants and the program was one of the longest that has ever been held in eastern North Carolina. Gastonla. Announcement is made that A. A. Armstrong -has sold his in terest In the Gastonla Hotel company, and that J. A. Griffith has assumed the management of the hotel. Salisbury. Clay Holshouser, young man, of Faith, had a leg amputated at a local hospital as a result of injuries sustained when his motorcycle was struck by a large automobOe near Salisbury. ! Newton. The remains of David H. Miller, whose body was found on the Southern railway tracks, near Angus ta, Ga., on April 24, were brought to Newton, hia former home, end infer red in the city cemetery. Monroe. Mrs. Mack Ford had an arm and three ribs broken in an auto mobile accident when the Ford car in which she and her husband were' rid Ing turned turtle on the Morgan Mill road two miles north of town, Gastonla. The case of Arthur Ben der, young white man who vsi; ar raigned for trial In superior court on a charge of burglary, was concluded when Judge T. B. Flnley pronounoed the Judgment of the court that the de fendant should be confined In the state prison for 20 years at hard labor, Wilmington. The controlling inter est in common stock of the .Tidewater Power company, a public utilities con cern, owned by Hugh MacJlae, finan cier, of this city, has bee purchased by A. B. Fltkln ft Co., of New York Mr. McRae announced. The amount Involved was not announced. New Bern. Stonewall Jackson., ma yor of the thriving little Craven down of Vanceboro, Included another feature among the duties of hia , office w)hen he slipped away long enough 'to 'cap ture a whiskey still some thoee imle! this side of Vanceboro. As a deputy of Sheriff J. D. Williams, MainW Jack son has found a variation off law En forcement Jobs for his spctlofi of the county but that little stunt was al ready given him the title oti "raiding mayor." Raeford. Edward A. McNeill, an aged farmer who lived near Raeford shot his heaff off with a ahotgun this week. He had been ill for seevral weeks, and symptoms leaned danger ously towards insanity.. V AtlV Greensboro. The ' pool room! fight will be decided here on May 8,' when the city counsel, meeting ia the coun ty courthouse to take care of the big crowd ct interested people, will hear the "ford" and "agatnats" giving ev erybody a chatitw . to spealr j their minds, v 7. ..L.'.xV'i;-: -; 1 NORTH CAROLINA TRAFFIC AS- 86CIATION PREPARES FOR HEARING. ' PLEDGE $3,000 FOB RfiHl Interstate Comemrce Commission Will Meet In Atlanta May 27th to In ' vestlgate Freight Rates. Raleigh, Meeting in the state capitol, the North Carolina Traffic . association took definite action to combat any rats increases which might result from the interstate commerce commission hear ing in Atlanta the 27th of May on the investigation of freight rates for the southern states. "Investigation means discrimination In the farm of higher rates," said M. R, Bearoan, secretary of the assocbv tion, "we shall do everything in out power to prevent an investigation ol North Carolina rates." In less than three minutes the gathering pledged upward of three thousand dollars to carry on the fight. The chief speaker was James 8. Griffin, attorney for the association. who outlined the achievements and aims of the association and scored those Individuals and organisations which had attempted to block ita work. Mr. C. H. Ireland, of Greensboro, the president of the association, open edthe meeting at 2 o'clock In 'the house of representatives in the capitol He spoke briefly on the achievements of the traffic association, 'and aald, "There is not a Jobber in North Caro lina today who does not command the trade of his neighborhood solely from the benefits he derives from the actlvh ties of the North Carolina Traffic as sociation. e He told how the battle for lower classification rates had been won, but how the. fight for lower commodity rate is tbJe thing with which every Job ber is particularly concerned," he said, i "To put off a reduction of the commo dity rate in North Carolina for two years would cost the state two million dollars." Organisation and co-oepration was stressed by Mr.' Ireland. "It Is all matter of whether we are willing t strive shoulder to shoulder, no con cluded. Patterson Warns Tobacco Growers. Warning of the danger of an over DraAuction X tobacco. Richard R. Pat terson, generaf manager of the leaf de partment of the Tobacco Growers' Co oneratlve aasociafton. pointed out some errors to avoided by the 70,000 orgnnlxe-1 growers of Virginia1 and North Carolina. "The fundamental meatis of eaccoss as indl vidua! i and an a&oclatlo at present is to make good tofsaccd," said Mr. Paterson. j "This is especially important with the. present small demand for low grades and the continued world de mand for medium and higher grade to baccos suitable for cigarette purposes. "The world consumption of bright Hue-cured ' tobaccos la aproxlmately fOO.000,000 'pounds a year. Yon can retodily see that It' is to the advantage of the association to avoid as far aa possible an overproduction, which would mean that we might have to carry, over the surplus. "Tbsere was produced in 1920 around 600,0000 pounds of bright flue-cured tobacco in Georgia, South Carolina, North Caf olina and Virginia. The 1921 crop, which we have Just finished sell ing, in ljonnd figures, was 426,000.009 pounds, -which brought an average price of $21.40. "EasterVi Carolina produced 156.000, 000 pound's and the Virginia-Carolina oil belt, 19600,000 pounds. "There was a great quantity of tho old belt types which sold at a very low figure, due to the fact that there was no market for it. "If we have favorable seasons and the proper care taken of the growing crops, we will not be placed In the po sition of having to dispose of a large percentage of low-grade types for which there is scarcely any demeaeV Hlllsboro Loses In Highway Fight Oxford (Special ) Hlllsboro lost Its fight against the state highway com mission here when Judge John B Kerr declined to grant the towa r temportry Injunction, restraining Ux commission from building the Central highway along Churtoa street tastaat of King street - In the decision of Judge Kerr t Mrhwiv commission won a victor that Chairman Page declared severe months ago meat determine, wtegr the commission or tho coarta tl1 build the roads In Nc?t Cc'-V RATE INCREASES i -A .V ( "If
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