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; y'-V -... ; : ... -h - s - V 4 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY n - ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN WATAUGA COUNTY ESTABLISHED IN 1888 VOLUME XXXIII BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY JULY 6, 1922 NUMBER 86 J" ' ' ,,,.,, - . , . - , - - - C-S?T j -j M IL CIG BILL IS APPROVED REPORTED FAVORABLY TO THE SENATE BY 'VOTE OP UOgT TO IX. BILL HAS PASSED THE HOUSE i Vesture Provides Penalties by is Federal Government For Vio lence by Mobs, Washington. Tho Dyer satl-lynch- lug bill providing penalties by the I federal government for mob action, was reported favorably with amend- e. .... , . their stronghold in the center of Dub bents by the senate Judiciary com- Btme. E. S. Mlllsaps, farm nn Kour AB ultimatum r mlttee, by a vote of S to 1 fent, for tn,e pldmont district, has .surrender of the Insurgents was . Senators Ashurat, democrat. Art- ,ssued. a ,ca" toJ, a conference of the lgnore(1 and at expiration of a ona. and Norrls, republican Nebraa- ?ent ,,f h,s dfiB,trlc,t to be elfA ! brie nlt Free State troops la ka, did not vote. The vote ended a long committee fight over the bill, which was passed last January by the house and which has been urged by negro and other organisations. Opponents of the measure have declared It an unconsti- tutlonal lntarfaranea with atau ria-hta v "'. i wmparauveiy tew cnanges wart mad in the original house bill and these were said to be designed to meet the constitutional objections a subcommittee of the senate com mittee recently recommended defeat ot the bill on the ground that It vio lated the constitution. Some senators voting for a favoasbla report were said to hold doubts regarding Its constitu. tlonallty but thought the bill should be enacted and put up to the supreme court, The bill declares that If states faU, neglect or refuse to maintain protec tion of lite, they shall be deemed to have denied the constitutional guaran tees and the federal authorities will have power to act by indictment ot state officers or members of a mob and trial in the federal courts. The measure requires "reasonable' effort by state officers to maintain or der and protect prisoners and their failure would subject them to im prlsonment for five years and a fine of $5,000. Members of mobs which a prisoner Is put to death would be sub ject to conviction for conspiracy with Imprisonment' for five years to lite provided. Counties in which fatal mob disor ders occur would be liable to the family ot the victim under a forfeit of $10,000, Amendments adopted by the senate committee require that failure to the state officers to protect mob victims must be charged in the federal indict ment and proven to the satisfaction ot tfie federal trial court uuuuU7 uaui . 1Bu .1 T commm iKW . .,, r u . tu. UUu. ir ug m me juaiciary committee wunoui action fjr several months, Senator ,u, ...uu.n, "i- .oau... auu nun .vyuuuvaum .wu in. fflT.ni wr BHsn wB. iy w. . . - . wB. . m17L . : ft'PU0"c ,u, nnnnwTni nnwsiwaF w n air n car lonaia aawwwvw tvmwvmw vaww consiaerauon couia do securea ai wis . . - a . . a a. a I Bight republicans, Chairman Nelson, Minnesota; Dillingham, Vermont; Brandegeo, Connecticut: Cummlngs, wwa; uoit, naoae lsiano; sterling, i South Dakota; Ernest, Kentucky, and Ihortridge, California, voted in favor of tha bill. One republican, Senatoi Borah, Idaho, and fire democrats, Cul berson, Texas; Overman, North Caro lina; Reed, Missouri; Shields, Ten- nessee, ana waisn, Montana, were rec oraea u opposition. S. A .L Divided Into Two Districts, Norfolk. Va. Tha Seaboard Air Lin railway will bo divided lato two gen- leral districts known as the northern land southern general districts under orders Issued by 31. H. Cahlll, vice- president and general manager. a. V. Peyton, former sunerintendent U a. W.tia AM.ir.n .in ha ran. leral superintendent, nertharn district -with headquarters at Norfolk. Tho Virginia, North Carolina and nsi iirwiniai. iw iirm jbiuiiuss amaaisi .. ' .in h. wh.. rft.triM .hti. fwh nam. iia. i.. r.,iia. ai.hm. and rior. una, aui vareuiw, auunu. .u nvi- . - . . . v, I . . . . . . i " , - Ida Olslons will be the southern dls-l ly nurt when a truck owned by tne port.d to ibe proceeding by train to ernor Cameron Morrison and a reso 'a.J' I Waat Construction company, laden Mexico City. According to the mea- iniion onnoslna- a constitutional I .a-. .fc--a.i v. 1 Vi!in Z2 12a kVS. .iTa S formerly used by tho Seaboard, but 'abandoned In recent yean when all i divisions have been under ono head, I To succeed Mr. Payton as luperin- ttendent of the Virginia division. C. D. it-. Thornton was 9KaT?LM : .71:. now assistant superintendent lupenmenueni oi iraua - !.-fh..rihJ erm ot cno01' wWcn tor the Invention ot wireless teleg- More than 100 new members were U number acting as the advance scout portation assistant on tne staff ot tnsi ..-i,... , I ... ,v . i.,... ins nartv. - Tlot pmlisst. il gtuersj manager.-' CONDENSED NEWS FROU THE OLD NORTH STATE HORT NOTES OP INTEREST TO CAROLINIANS. Wilmington. . Figures available at the custom house here show that re ceipts at Wilmington during , the month of May were more than half a million dollars, with the prospects for the entire year exceeding four mil- lion. Durham. Amendment of the league rule In regard to clubs employing In eligible players to read: "The man ager shall be fined flOO and the In eligible player employed shall bo fined 100," was the most Important action of Piedmont league directors in session here. SITI. V" ? . 1 ' ' 1 KIT "l. llTV.i" . " i Ml. Wilmington. Although the ship- ping season Is not yet over the amount ot frult tnd vegetables shipped north . Tim 1 vi ...... in uvui nuuiuitiuu uui mvu wxji amount, in cash returns to shippers, to more than 12,000,000, agents of the Fruit Growers' Express announced here. Elisabeth City. The new 10,000 organ of the First Methodist church of this city is now completely Installed and will first be used in the dedlca- tion service at the new church, which will be held as soon as all out- standing indebtedness against it is paid. High Point Following a splendid address by Dr. T. H. Lewis, of Wash- ingtott,TITJ.;"p resident of the general r conference ot Methodist Protestant church, the summer conference operations and it Is known that the ir- ministers of that denomination in North Carolina closed at the Child- ren's Home here. Mount Olive. Notwithstanding un- favorable weather conditions, ship- ments of potatoes and cucumbers from this point this year have been unusually heavy. The potato crop nor the cucumber crop have been har- vested vat so final figures are not available. Greensboro. R. L. Barnhardt, lo- cat chiropodist, has the option of 12 the scene of the fighting business pro months on the county roads or leaving ceeded normally and though in the the city for good. The roads or ban- afternoon there was some slackening lshment sentence was imposed in the municipal court fololwlng his trial on a charge of having narcotics in his possession. He has until July 10 to wind up his affairs and hit the grit tfi,,..,,,, Amateur' ar.tentlsts here lf( delighted with numerous finds of toiIle comlng out of a new municipal ..Mi,n watt t Miilppfiat. Thev are wu of petrlned wool( 8nark8' teeth t nd other things. Nothing has turned al .v.. -.,, k- claBSinea. W V .fj m persons versed in fossils say all the M far 8re only duplicates of things found in this region before. i ; Rockingim. Declaring that he I SsSiValUP W WltWtlVI. Bwa mm ' . ni -iya the devil high blood pres- Sttr. "cyclone" McLendon opened a tottr WMka revival at Rockingham be- .org u audience of 4,600 people. Lumberton. Close observers de clare that crops generally In Robeson county un the poorest seen In several rears. Hhe Continued wet weatner is tha causa. The tobacco crop, wnicn ai w9 um9 WM Tery promising, naa Deen damaswd seriously by the heavy rams, thousands of acres being practically ruined. 1 Charlottes-Herman Massey, wane, son of Noah Massey, was killed by be- Ing crusher by an elevator. He and another boy were playing near the ele- vator. The Massey ooy went unuer the elevator wane tne ouor w ing it up. It fell, crusning tne ooy 10 aeu- Klnaton. James RIU, age iz, was . . I killed and his grandmother, Mrs. juna Bni an elderly woman, was perhaps fatally injured and three otners oaa- witknegrd. laborers, left the road near DP run, 10 miles from here. I ' TaTloravtlle. The contract tor Tay lorsvllle's new high school was awaro- ed to the Mooresvllle Furniture corn- nanr. their bid being $37,920.00. Work will commence on the new structure Ihv the first of July. The building i . . ... . .n in tim. will oe comyiuieu uuv " - opens in September, 111 COURTS SCENE Nil COlill i OF IU WARFARE HIS FAVORABLE . i GREAT BUILDING STILL HELD BY IRREGULARS DESPITE BY BOMBARDMENT. GREAT BRITAIN IS NOT IN IT 8mall Artillery Trench Mortars and Machine Guns Were Employed ' By Attacking Force. Dublin. Michael Collins, head of tne Irlgn FrM State government, took sctive measures against the republican Insurgents under Rory O'Connor In rmQre1 and orri be- an a t against the Insurg- ems wnicn was met witn an immediate IfuMll.rin fmm tha hnlMlna- w ......... UB. . From dawn until night there were heavy exchanges, although at Inter vals the firing ceased. Small artillery trench motors and machine guns . i .v. -..... ware auipiuvu vi uio siioCaluM forces, but the lrregulars confined themselves largely to machine gun and rifle 'fire. No attempt was made to carry Four Courts by assault but nno nf thai walla nt Ota tinllAlncr nraa breached at varlouf places. The casualties are tew In proper tion to the nature ot the fighting, and they consist for the most part of civil ians caught hi the line of fire. So far as Is known seven were killed and a score more less seriously wounded This does not Include any casualties that may have been suffered by the ir- regulars, these being Impossible to as- certain. Less -than one thousand Free Stat troops are engaged in the present op- regulars number several hundred The Irish labor party Is reported to disapprove of the action of the pro visional government In attacking the building, but the provisional govern- ment, once it decided to suppress the revolt of the irregulars, acted imme- dlately and took efficiently all the us ual war measures. It 1b handling the situation entirely alone, without any assistance from British troops who are still in garrison in uuDim. A feature of the operations was that even within a short distance or of the traffic in the streets, a visitor might have noticed nothing unusual beyond the sound of artillery ami tne rattle of rifle lire at intervals, often in unexpected places. rt- Will. ,4 In ArrlH.nt San Antonio, Texas - Three avla- tion cadets were killed and their bod u. wa,i Bn .irni.na in whirh they had Just taken off at Brooks fleid, fell from a height of 200 feet. Tho licaA p awaa, waw Waidron R. Farrell, 24, Philadelphia, pilot, killed instantly. William C. McCoy, 22. Nashville. I iouu, I frl- 0eorge c. Thompson, West Phlladel lUUICI. X tS, p.rrell and McCoy are said to have 0ne from their station In Kelly field t0 Brooks Held, where Thompson had arrived from Carlstrom field, Florida, on his way to Kelly field. Goal Is 600,000 Converts. Nashville, Tenn. A goal of 600,- 000 converts during the present con- Tflnt tonal vear was fixed as the evange- ilgtlc pr0gram ot Southern Baptists at . meetinK here of the conservation commission ot the Seventy-Million campaign and of other leaders oi tne church from all sections oi tne soutn. gtate and churcn organisations aiso were called upon to set up again their oriKinal machinery tor carrying the campaign to a successful conclusion. Bruce Bielaskl Released. Maxlco City, r- A. Bruce Bielaskl, the American who was captured sev- eral days ago by bandits In the state ot Morelos. was delivered by his captors - t0 Irlendg at chietla, following pay ment of a ran8om 0f $10,000 In gold Mr B1eia8kl with his party was re information reaching the capital, release ot Mr.' Bielaskl was with- out untoward Incident Marconi Awarded Medal. New York. The John Frits medal, one ol the highest dletlnctions bestow- ei by the engineering profession In thl. country, has been awarded for I .... . -,..ui. u.....i iisa 10 oenmur uuguoiuiw .whiiui iHua . -I., - ..i t BENEFITED MATERIALLY BY THE WEATHER CONDITIONS IN COTTON BELT. PERCENTAGE PLACED AT 12.4 Cropxf 11,224,000 Balsa Is Estimated on Basis bf Government Formula.- New York. A detailed analvaia of reports received from approximately; 1,600 reliable correspondents of the' Journal of Commerce lends to tha bn. lief that cotton has benefited material- ly by the Improvement in weather con lltlons noted throughout the greater part of the cotton belt the past two weeks or more. These returns, gath-j ired under an average date of June' 24 place the eatlmate of percentage condition at 72.4 per cent, an increase of 6 per cent over last month, and the highest June condition figure since 1918 when It was estimated at 82.1 per cent. It is, however, not the largest In crease in recent years, since In June, 19.20 a gain of S.5 per cent was indl ated and In 1918 of 1.9 per cent. Last i June there was a decline of 5 per cent and in 1919 no less than 7.1 per cent Percentage condition a year, igo was only 68.S per cent, but 71.5 In 1920 and 71.4 per cent the year be-! ore that. Although considerable late cotton bas been planted during June, cor respondent's have not changed their; stlmate of acreage Increase for the whole belt, and the total Is placed by, . . ' . AJ AAA AAA I uie j auvermueai m oi,0j?,uvu acrea. ProM this, with a condition of 72.4 per cent, according to the government formula " "Crop -or 11,224,000 'bales night be raised, which compares with i in actual production last year of 7, 153,641 bales, 13,439,603 baleB In 1920, md 16,134,930 bales in the banner year f 1916. Lynching Denouncsd at Atlanta. Atlanta ,Oa. Denunciation ot lynching, laxity in law enforcement ind ot "maudlin sympathy" which it was asserted encourages the lawless iras voiced here at a conference of the league for enforcement ot law through constituted authority, a newly irganised Georgia institution. Jess Mercer, secretary ot the league and former federal prohibition officer in this state, declared that nany sheriffs In this state caro not button tor the law." He charged; ;hat the Hall county courthouse doors it Gainesville are propped open with tombstones broken from the "sod of i negro graveyard and the negroes, nave been told they have no right to lave stones over the graves ot their lead." Failure to punish a murderer in Bar tow county, damaee done around Fltz- eerald since the strike on the Atlanta.! Birmlnahara and Atlantic railway, dy- aamitlng of cattle dipping vats in jouthern Georgia, extensive bootleg ging operations, attempted intimida tion of the chairman of the board of :ounty commissioners at Columbus ind other overt acts were charged by Mr. Mercer. W. Woods White, Atlanta, was elect- id president. Government May Buy Canal. Washington. Purchase by the fed eral government of the Cape Cod and Dismal Swamp canals, now privately iwned and operated, is authorized un der senate amendment to the rivers and harbors development bill adopted by the senate commerce committee. With the acceptance by the committee of the two Important amendments, the bill was made complete and Its fav orable report to the senate was or- jered. under the terms of the amendments lne government agrees to pay $5,000,- 000 cash and to assume bonds aggre gating 16,000,000 face value for the Cape Cod waterway. Tho Dismal Swamp canal, which runs from tho Chesapeake bay to Beaufort, N. C, woum be purchased tor 1500,000 under ha amendment, - Morrison Speaks at Meeting. Wilmington. An address by Gov- change giving superior court Judges a. to express opinions to Juries I during trials, featured a session ot the North Carolina Bar association at Wrightsvllle Beach. Governor Morrison urged the law- ver. 0 he state to loin heart and aoui the program tor the develop- mHnt nd expansion of the natural re- .. .... sources oi us siate. irabWTVU uiw tun tMavviawwu i STOAWAY ADMITS PLOT KNOWLEDGE Hoboken, N. J. Max Petersen, a Btowaway, said by officers ot the Steamer President Taft to have ad mitted membership of the Eher hardt brigade and to have said he "knew all about the plot," that led to the recent assassination of Dr. Walter Rathenau. German minister ot foreign affairs, was re moved from the ship by Justice Department agents when she dock ed at Hoboken. FORTY SEIZED IN MEXICO TAKEN AS SECURITY FOR RAN SOM OF 15,000 PESOS, SAYS THE REPORT. ,noldenl at Tamplco Follows Seizure of Bruce Bielaskl Who Still is Captive. Washington. Soizure of 40 Ameri- can employes of the Cortese Oil com pany at Tamplco, Mexico, reported to the state department, as security for a ransom of 15,000 pesos, created a stir in official circles in Washington, Lacking further information as to What has happened behind what is ap parently rigid censorship at Tam plco, however, there was little to In dicate whether the Incident would lead to any change of attitude here toward the Obregon government In Mexico In tuct, at the White House, it was said that relations between the United States and Mexico were not likely to be affected in any way by the ban alt outbreak and the recent . kidnap ping for ransom near Cuernavaco, tome 60 miles from Mexico City, of Bruce Bielaskl, formerly chief ot the bureau of investigation ot the depart ment of justice and more recently identified with American oil Interests who have property in Mexico, Until It is known that the incidents ire not a matter of domestic politics In Mexico, conceived by enemios of the Obregon government to embar rass Its relations with the United States, or until that government has been proved unequal to accord such protection to Americans and their property as the occasion demands, there appears to be no disposition here to move In any other than a diplo matic way. Beyond a briof report Btatlng that In addition to the two score Ameri can employes, a quarter of a million dollars' worth of destructible property of the Cortese Oil company was be ing held as security for the payment demanded no other word has reached the state dcpartrnitnt concerning the bandit action in Tamplco The new situation in rho oil region overshadowed for the moment the seizure of Bruce Bielaski. No word has come from the embassy to show progress of the efforts of the Mexican federal authorities to obtain the re lease of the captive. The delay caused little surprise here, however, H the region is mountainous and it was recognized that the Mexican gov ernment muBt move cautiously dealing with reckless outlaws in or der that the life of the prisoner might not be jeopardized. Objects to Duty on Meat Products, Washington. Duties on fresh meats and meat produces proposed in th pending tariff bill, if effective, would Increase the nation's meat bill $379 500,000; Senator Walsh, democrat, Massachusetts, doulured in the senate, He was discussing tho agricultural schedule and announced that from time to time hi would "submit figures staggering In their size, showing what an unhearublo burden these duties on agricultural products would be to the consumers. ' Twenty-one Killed in Two Weeks. Caloxico, Calif. Tweuty-ouo men have been killed in ind around Mexi call, Lower California, in the last two weeks, according to official reports i Calexjco, Just across the international line. This compilation was made fol lowing the discovery ot eight dead Mexicans, two and a half miles earn ot Calexlco, one of the bodies being in an irrigation ditch on the American side of th cboundary. Captain Hamilton Killed in Crash. Gettysburg, Pa. Capt. George D. Hamilton, distinguished service cross man and known as ono ot the most intrepid officers of the marine corps. was Instantly killed here when his air plane crashed to earth in a nose dive near the big monument. Sergt. O. A. Martin of lluffulo. his machaniclan. was fatally Injured and died soon after he was admitted to the local hospital, pni.i liamiitnn'. ninna ona ni vmimu 1.u...vVU. r STATE WILL LEAD III INTERNAL REVENUE COLLEC TIONS SLIGHTLY UNDER j LAST YEAR'S FIGURES. TEH PEI CHI KIKE ) Other Southern States Have Boon Reported as Having Decreases aa High as 60 Per Cent j i Raleigh, j "The state of North Carolina will. In all probability, show a smaller re duction In the amount of taxes col lected during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, over the preceding year than any district In the United States, declared Gilliam Grissom, United States collector ot internal revenue. With a full week for the receipt of belated returns, which always pile up during the last days of the year, the state is now only $5,800,000 or four and one-half per cent behind the total of $124,000,000 collected du ring the past fiscal year. ' Owing to the Increase In exemption under the present law, which raised the exemption for a married man from $2,000 to $2,500 and for each child from $200 to $400, the Income taxes have fallen off sharply, there having been collected to date only $23,124, 120.72 from this source as against $38, 533,871.14 for the previous year, or decrease of practically 10 per cent, However, other southern states havo been reported as having decreases aa high as 60per cent, according to In formation reaching Collector Oris sora. What North Carolina has lost la income taxes has been almost entire ly made up In increases from taxes on tobacco and on estates, ot which! scores have shown a marked Increase during the past rear. By the time the final collections are made for the fis cal year Colector Grissom estimates that the amount collected will be more than $3,000,000 less than the phenomenal total of $124,000,000 col lected last year when North Carolina led tho South, ranking close to the top among all the atafaes In the amount contributed to the support of the fed. eral government. ' ,, j ! ' V , , Federal Court Takes Recess. After handling 310 cases in 2f days, 'the May criminal term ot the Raleigh division of the United States District court recessed until September 24th, and United States Marshal R. W, Ward left for Atlanta with 16 of th 17 prisoners sentenced to the peniten. tlary during the term, i Only 135 new cases, ot which 44 were felonies and 91 were misdemean ors were placed on the docket and j substantial progress was made In free ,lng the docket ot congestion. j District Attorney Irvin B. Tucker ,who was holding his first regular term 'of court here secured 83 convictions as against 12 acquittals In the 100 ca set actually tried. O fthose convicted 17 were sentenced to prison In Atlanta for torms ranging from one to flv years, six were sent to Jail and flne were Imposed totalling $3,815. Nine white men and seven negroes made up the party which Marshal R. W .Ward, assisted by one deputy and eight guards, escorted to Atlanta. Seven were convicted ot robbing the malls or postofflces; three for viola tion of the motor theft act; two foi second offences ot illicit manufacture Ing of whiskey; one for forging an en dorsement on a government check; ono for robbing interstate commerce one for white slavery, and one for vlo latlng the anti-narcotic act. ! The automobile theft cases consti tuted the biggest prosecution brought before the court during the term, Of twelve defendants originally Indict ed for traffic in stolen automobiles over several states, three have con fessed, five have been convicted and sentenced to prison and four remain to be tried. C. J. Kelly of Sanford, the alleged leader of the conspiracy, was sentenced to five years last De cember, while fouf others were sen tenced at the present term of court I The batch of prisoners Included three of the automobile defendants, Eddie Brendle and J. R. Prince, ot Norfolk, ' who received two years, and H. O. Loe of Detroit, who has one year to serve, !n. C. Kelly ot Santord was also con victed and sentenced for two years at the present term, but on account ol the condition ot his family was gloa until September to begin hia sen tence. x : The special week ot court to be held In September will be heM tor tne purpose ot disposing of tho remalndee ot the automobile cases, the moat to; portant defendant being George Scott, formerly a member ol the auto 4 squad of the New Torhv etty neUo . SOUTH Ml! I
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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