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aid KATClllALZL n yeot spr. Bens' rtntwil Ave 4ive Ufor eirirstloa 1 order I avoid ui.no tag la oer. Iferta Carolina fair Teeada Ml WeeaessUrt Oolr Ta- 7- I ill N0. 96. Hard Sledding Ahead For Pro ; posed Loan of Half Billion j ,. Dollars By Government . OTHER TROUBLESOME , QUESTIONS IN THE WAY JWlole Railway Quel tion Indud" inf Maximum Dividend! and Other Tronblesoms .Mttterl May Come tfp Whea Kefbnd in; Measure Cornea Up For Consideration In Senate The Newt and Observer Bureau, l 603 District National Bank Building. By EDWARD E. BRITTON I (By Special Leased Wire) Washington, Oct. 8. With the out ieide appearance that President Hard in hm In mind urging upon the Re publican leaden in the Senate that Ithejr get bnsr and shove through the railroad refunding; bill before the ex tra session eomet to close there it every prospect df one of the bitter and moit hotly contested fights that con grese has aeen. That President Hard inf wanti the bill passed every one knows, the only question it aa to whether or not he will risk the rumpus thai will be kicked in the Senate if there is an endeavor to have thnT, measure which would turn over fTiOO, 000.000 jammed through aa a rush measure. With the revenue bill fight now hat In the boards, with the ratification of the peace treaties to follow next, with the approach or the lime ror a vote on the Panama canal tolls bill of Senator Borah, with the anti beer bill advocates fighting to get a rote, on that measure, and even with some Repub lican wanting the tariff bill brought to the front, it would seem an invita tion to a fight to put the' railroad re funding bill up to the Senate at this time. Will Have Strong Opposition There will be a right on the bill not alone by Pemoernts, but by some of the Republicans, for it is recognized by Senators who come up for election next year that there is dynamite in the bill, that there ia a feeling in the country that the refunding of the $500, 000,000 means really a new loan to the railroads, nnd in the face of a call for in the government, with peo. pie hard put to it to meet the tax bills, it will be a ainerent mancr w to the folks "back home" exactly why the railroads have to be potted and handed money. , The railroads are calling for the pas Sage of the bill on the ground that the jnoney ia needed for current expenses, and that with this in hand they can go head and begin work that will give employment to many at this time when the government has the unemployment difficulties to meet. It is known the gtieultural "bloc" will fight the meas ure, that the railroad brotherhoods are dead against it, and that they arc hav ing their views presented to Senators, both Republican and Democrat. It is the opinion of these opponents of the iill that railroads ought with tho pros pects of larger business be able to dis pose of their securities without call ing upon the government to finance them. Other Troublesome Questions And another thing may hold- back any fight to got the bill passed now U that, there is a feeling that if it .gets te the floor of the Senate that the i whole railway question will bob up; that there will have to be considera tion given to the maximum dividend (matter, te the matter of wages, to the 5-per cent earnings for the roads, to the elimination of tho railnay wage 'board, and other collateral matters that are bound to arise when the question ,rf voting the $500,000,000 refunding bill gets to the fore, nnd it may be counted on as certain that if President Hard ing does ask for the passage of the bill there will be' such an amount of debate on it that there will be no pos aibility of passing the measure at tho extra session. It is understood that there is great pressure being brought to bear upon both the President and the Republican leaders by the railroads and the friends of the proposition to rote them a half billion dollars to bring forth the bill. The question is: Will they have the nerve to do itf Tar Heel Political Gossip Hardly has one administration taken over the reigna in North Carolina be fore there is talk and gossip concern- in the candidates four years ahead and there has been eome of this heard in Washington ia the last few days concerning men who may be in tne line-up at the Democratic primary in 1924f. For the-gubernatorial nomina, tion the two names being discussed are those of A. W. McLean, of Lumborton, now a member of the War Pinance Corboration. and Judge John H. Xerr nf Warrenton. Thus far there has been heard here but the name of one man for the nomination for lieutenant governor, and that it A. C. Avsiry, Jr., of Morganton, an able lawyer, aud eon of the late Associate Justice of the 8upreme Court of North Carolina, Judge A. C. Avery. The reporta nere are that hit friends are grooming him for that position, that they tay he is a strong friendi of A. W. McLean, that ha would have a big support through out the State, making a strong running mat for Mr. McLean if the Robinson man was nominated, that "McLean and Avery" would make a ticket that would roll whale of a vote, and that it "the Warren toa in aa woa that "Kerr and Avery' would tound all right. v, .There J ether talk of eandidatet for ' the 1954 primary, and in the eonrst of thia it it mid that Alfred M. Me Lean, of It lington, secretary to Sena ,tor Overman, might get into the run ning to succeed Colonel J. Uryan I yoLcxiv, NYArrr HARDING TO SHOVE RAILROAD , REfUl THROUGH Grimet at Secretary of State,' that Mr.! "erage number of wage earners, 137, McLean would hare outside of hit own 7n; "P'tal invested, 69,H4,60O; eost I of materials rc'rtfi.OOO; Talut of pro- (Contlnaed en jag Two.) duett, tM308,0O0, r SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY, Freakish Weather Causes " Erratic Outputs In Crops .World's Bread Crops Come to Abundant Fruition in Spite of Drought and HcatT While Fruits on Other Hand Met Havoc in Cold in a Season That Set New Records Every where for Solar Heat " ' .Washington, Oct. 3. Phenomenal beat accumulation which has marked weather condition! all over the north era hemisphere thia year has produced qually remarkable and erratic outpete Of agricultural crops, according to sum aiaries of American and foreign pro duction, compiled for and by the Agri cultural Department. The world'a bread crops, curiously enough came to abundant fruition in apite of drought and heat which persisted all during the growing aeason. The world in 1921, up to September 30, it waa indicated would have a total wheat crop 157,000,000 bushels greater than in 1920. By another freak, fruit crept, almost in a worldwide eensc, met havoc from cold in a season which has set new rec ords everywhere for solar heat. Thia paradox was occasioned by the fact that last February the sun got at its work of bringing spring weckt in advance of normal, and treea and shrube re sponded by budding eut and, finally coming into flower and bloom by March in nearly all areas where fruit is grown. Prosta could not be averted on all the nights, however, and thia year the Uni ted States will produce about KlO.OOO, 000 bushels of apples, against 244.000. 000 bushels in 1920. Only the erchards of Pacific Coast, Northern New England and Northern New York escaped. Cot ton, however, suffered greatly, the de partment experts assigning the weather aa the principal cause of 50 per rent in ITE Records In Southern Power Company Appeals Certified To Clerk v' '' " Cleveland county was yesterday named by the Corporation Commission s the county in which the appetl of the Southern Power Company, and of tha allied respondent cotton mills against the schedule of rates for elec tric power will be heard, and. the rec ords in tho case, covering 1,327 type written pages have been certified to the Clerk of the Superior Court in that county. Notice of appeal from the judgment of the Commission was filed both by the petitioning power company and by tho respondent cotton mills several weeks ago, and upon the failure of the iitigauta to agree upon the county in which action should be begun, tlje Commission was called upon to name the county. Cleveland was chosen be cause neither of the litigants has ma terial interests there. The next term of ciiil court in Clove- land county will begin on Monday, Oc tober 31. a mixed term or court ror the trial of both civil and criminal uses, with Judge T. A. Bryson presid ing. Jt is thought unuaeiy mat eiuier of the litigants will he ready for trial at that time, and the Commission as yet has not effected plant or the defence of its order. As the record of 1,327 pages indicates, the case is one of the longest and most complicated ever to be started in a court in North Carolina. The original petition was filed about a year ago by the power company, asking the Com mission to fix the rates that are to be charged for electric current. The final order of the Commission pleased neither the petitioner nor the respond ent users of power, and both are now in court. Tho original hearing before the Com mission occupied more than a week, fol lowed bv a lull in which the respondent mills undertook to secore legislative intervention in the suit. Argument of the case, and the submission of addi tional briefs, closed the,, rase in April. The decision was handed down in July, exceptions tied, and over-ruled by the Commission. Notice of appeal was then filed, and the records in the case were certified yesterday. The petition filed originally by the power company asked for an lncrens of approximately .41 per cent over the existing contract rates, lhe users qe nied the right of tho Commission to in' terfere with a rate that was al readv fixed bv contract. Thit positron as over ruled, and the final order gave the power company about half the in crease they had asked lor. JUDGE WEBB REFUSES TO HAVE TRIAL MOVED Greensboro, Oct. S.-Juflgs J. I Webb, of Shelby, presiding over Ouil- ford Superior Court for the trial of criminal cases, this afternoon overrule! a motion offered by attorneys for iouis Edwards, charged with the mur der of Policeman W. T. McCuiston here on the night of May 3, that the case be changed to another county for trial and also overruled a following motion that the jury be drawn from another countv. Judge Webb then ordered a special venire of 150 men summoned to appear at the courthouse on Thursday morn ing, when the case is tcheduled to be gin. Judge Webb declared that lie feels that th accused can get a fair trial in Guilford, as he thinks that there are many people in the large population of the county who have never heard of the case, or if they have, have no feeling in the case. CENSUS ANNOUNCES FIGURES ON TAR HEEL MANUFACTURERS Washington, Or 3, In the summary of manufacture in the United States in 1919 the Census Bureau gives the fig ures for North Carolina: Number of establishments. 5599: CLEVELAND DRAWS POWER RATE CASE RALEIGH. N. C, piodnction. Later drought and tun coa apired te tut down productioa ef the fibre. European fruit and subsidiary crept were- aharply reduced, the department finds, although tha bread grains sur vived. Their success, it waa amid, wat due to the fact that they were ehietly fall-town crops which grew well ia the mild winter. The tpring-aowa grains, reott tnd forages, including oats and barley wheat, in the United States as elsewhere, lived through but yield little. Aa to the eauaea of the heat accu mulations, the weather bureau suggests that the usual eeasonal interchange of air between the polar and tropical re gions wat thit year badly disarranged by atmospheric pressure distribution, although any certainty on the subject ia hardly possible. The barometer in ''semi permanent high pressure regions" over the Atlantie aad Tacifio oceans was found to have maintained a higher degree than normal, which might have had aa effect in diverting rainstorms to the north all throngh the season. Then the decreased snowfall of 1921, and the thinness of ice on streams and laket allowed solar heat, normally ex pended in melting and evaporation, to be stored up, the bureau aays, in heat ing the toil and atmosphere. Observers are convinced that these two conditions played some part in the result. Hearing Today On Petition For Rebate of $15,000 In Rookingham The American Tobacco Company will make its tecond appearance before the State Board of Equalixatiftn in quest of rebates on last year's taxet this ftamiwn at 3 o'clock, seeking this time to have Rockingham county pay back approximately tl5,nO0 in taxes raid for Btate and county purposes last year. The basis of the claim is an allpffed excess valuation of their nroperty. Today's performance ia a continuation oa a smaller scale of the action before the Board in August when the Amer ican, with Liggett and Myere Tobacco Company were awarded a gift or. auu, 000 in tax money assessed against them in Durham county, on practically the same grounds that are being, pleaded today. Both cases are predicated upon the opinion of Attorney Ueneral Wan ning that they have a rjht to have their case re-opened, although it was finally closed by the Btate Tai Com mission. Durham county made no fight against the powerful interests represented by the tobacco companies, and accepted the dictum of Revenue Commissioner Watts without protest. Kockingham county, with ery much less at stake. is prepared to make a bitter fight against the tobacco company today, and will seek by every available means to induce the Board to let last year s taxes remain as they are. , Coanty Will Fight. The county, Oirough its attorneys, R. A. Doughton, who drew the revenue act, Murray Allen, of the Raleigh bar, and John A. 8harpc, of Rcidsville, will attack the petition of the tobacco company on the grounds that the Attorney General is in error in his opinion of the petitioner to have luet years taxes further reviewed. Mr. Doughton and Mr. Sharpe arrived in the city last night. Motion to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the Board has no jurisdic tion will be the first step of the county today when the ease is reached in hearing. The motion will be based upon the ground that the Attorney General's opinion is not eoasistent with the letter or the spirit of the law governing the case. Por its sec ondary defense, the county is pre pared to show that the valuation com plained of was the true value in money of the petitioner's property, and that h is entitled to no further considera tion. The petitioner will be represented by Jones Puller, and other Durham attorneys who appeared in the initial hearing when the two Durham tobacco companies were granted a rebate of $110,000 on their taxes for last rear in Durham. The case has attracted wide attention throughout the State, and the outcome of today's hearing has been the subject of wide specu lation. LONGSHOREMEN'S STRIKE REMAINS UNSETTLED New York, Oct. 3. A decision to deal only with recognized local unions and officials of the international Longshore men's association with reference to wages and working conditions, was reached today at a meeting of emplny ing stevedores nd steamship agents. The meeting, which was aatnded by T. V. O'Connor, commissioner of the United States Shipping board, followed efforts of officials of the Iongshoremens association and of the Shipping Board to persuade the men who struck Satur day to return to work. The strikers, members of nine local Unions, which declined to ratify the recent wage agreement, refused. Strike leaders claimed they were gaining recruits at all of , the Xew .Xork Citjr and Ken Jersey piers. Thit claim was denied by the steamship owners. Anthony J. Chlope& who succeeded Mr. 0 Connor at President of the Long shoremen' association when the latter wae appointed a member of the ship ping board will meet with ttrike lead er tomorrow. AMERICAN AFTER MORE TAX GIFTS TUESDAY MORNING, CXTTOBER 4, 1921. - HARDING APPEALS FOR MACHINERY TO HELP UNEMPLOYED Addresses Statement To Gov ernors and Mayors To Start , Organized Effort CENTRAL AGENCY WILL CO-ORDINATE EFFORTS Pniidsnt Declares That It Is Zssentisi To Hive Oo-Oper-ttion of JU1 Section! of the Country to ' Provide Work For Idle and Thus Prevent Suffering During Winter Washington, Oct. S. Governort tnd mayort throughout the country were aked by President Harding in a public statement today to organize in each community machinery for the correc tion of economic conditions along lines worked out by the unemployment con forence here. The eouference, the President declared, had demonstrated that conditions could not be met prop erly without such local co-operation. He announced that a central agency would le maintained here under bus picet of the conference to give national co-ordination to the rehabilitation ef fort. The President's ttatement follows: "The conference which I recently summoned to Washington to advise as to the unemployment situation has demonstrated that an unusual volume of unemployment exists and that pend ing the recuperation of trade the sU uation cannot bt met, in due regard to our obligations and necessities, with out a much more than usual organiza tion throughout those States and muni oipalitiet where unemployment has reached considerable proportions. "The conference has recommended plan of organization which has tho sup port of commercial, manufacturing professional and labor representatives of the country. It is highly necessarv that more accurate knowledge should be had, through such organization, of the volume nnd necessities of the un employed. It is essential that the co operation of all sections of each coin ninnity should he brought into action behind such organization to provido work and assistance that we may pass through the coming wintor without great tuffering and distress. It is of National importance that every com munity ehould at ones undertake such organization in order that the nation might be protected as a whole. More over, the thorough commitment to aneh a task ia sure to start a thousand activi ties which will add to our common welfare. "I, therefore, appeal to the gorernorsJ and mayort of the nation that they should take the ttcpa recommended by the conference. "In order that there -may be a unity of aition by all the forces which may lie broug it to bear, whether govern mental or private, the unemployment conference ia establishing au agency in Washington through which appro pnate cooperation can be promoted aud though which reports oh progress and suggestions may be given general circulation and co operation. 1 trust ihis agency will be supported in this ndeavor.' i PROPOSE TO START ROAD BUILDING TO HELP IDLE Washington, Sept. 3. Possibility of reducing the number of the nation's unemployed through use of unskilled workmen iu the construction of the new highways anp in the maintenance of roada already1 built was discussed at a meeting here today of the executive committee of the National Association of State Highway Officials. To aid in this effort it was prpoled to seek from the n ar Department road building ma chinery of which the Department has a surplus. A resolution was adopted pet.tionina. fresident Harding and members of Congress to support the Phipps bill now pending in the Senate, which would distribute to the States for use in road building ,")l)0 five ton caterpillar trac tors out of the War Department sur plus or vw such tractors, it was stated that the tnxpayers of the country already had paid for the tractors in their purchase of Liberty bonds and that the tractnrs were no longer needed by the dopnrtmcnt. The meeting was the first of a series of conferences the executive commit tee has arranged. WANT TO PRESERVE THE MIDDLE MAN IN INDUSTRY. Chicago, Oct. 3. Preservation of the middleman in the grain industry is to be one of the principal topics for con sideration at the three-day convention of tho National lirain Dealers' Associa tion which convened her today, accord ing to Charles Quinn, secretary. Hearing For Dr. Harllcv. Richmond, Va., Oct.3. Following a preliminary hearing which was con ducted in his cell yesterday afternoon tle case of Dr. Wilmarth Amos Hadley, rlfarged with wifo murder, was sent on to the grand jury by -Magistrate T. J. Puryear, it was learned today at the Henrico county jail, where the alleged slayer is incarcerated. SAMPSON STEPS TO FRONT WITH ITS CHERRY BLOSSOMS Clinton, Oct. J. Bertie may boast of ita yellow Jessamine blooms and Wake ef Ita apple blossoms, but old Samptoa begs te step to the front with cherry blooms In October, which It sorely something new an. der the tan. C. J. Lewie, who own a fertn. ta tfee p?ef -edge af . the coanty, reporta cherry blossom and Is even thinking ef having ripe rherrlee before Christ mis. The Old Reliable" a a chronicler of 8tate newa should keep Itt eye toward Sampson, when looking for new aad atrange thing. MINERS, REQUEST LEGION TO PLACE Convention Refuses To Con demn Legion Because of Al leged Strike-Breaking SIDESTEP PROHIBITION BY TABLING RESOLUTION Movement To Secure Endorse ment of Light Wines and Beer Meets With Failure; Resolutions Regarded By Delegates As Radical Reject ed By Convention Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. .1-Although refusing to .condemn the American IiOgion because of tllcped ttrike breaking activities of tome of its mem bers, the convention of the United Mine Workers of America today adopt ed a resolution committee veport eal ling on Legion officials to "put their house in order. The action came after several delegates had" appealed ve hemently for the convention to go on record in unqualified condemnation of the legion. The committee report was among those made on more than one hundred resolutions cnt to the convention for eortiderntion tiy local unions through out tho country and which had been before the conimittoe for consideration since the opening of the convention. Most of the resolutions went into the discard, and debate waa permitted on only a few, with most of the com ment being exacted by the Legion reso lution. To Continue Organiser. Aside from the work on resolution, the convention voted overwhelmingly not to change the union's present sys torn ef apiMiinting organizers. Sup porters of an election plan complained that hta appointive system permitted officers to build up a political machine, but no evidence to support this charge was found by a committee appointed at tho 1!U!) convention which hold election of orgauizert was impracti cable. Among the resolutions adopted were those favoring immediate nationaliza tion of coal mines and railroads, the repeal of the espionage laws and am jiesty for all "political prisoners" and self-determinntion for Ireland. SldmUp Prohibition Isaoe. The convention sidestepped taking t tUd on prohibition when the issue was brought up, by resolutions favor ing light winct and beer. No action was taken on these resolutions, the com initteo advising each a course with a statement that the prohibition ques tion "is purely a social question," on which each citizen has his own views. Hesolutions, regarded by delegates at manifesting radical tendencies, were re jected outright. Tho idea of "one big union" of workers, the affiliation of the mine worker with the international council of trade and industrial unions to develop working class solidurity, and tho calling of n convention by American trade unions to form one organization lining as its object the abolition of capital and the establishment of a work ers industrial republio in the United States were lost overwhelmingly without ilisrussion. The committee report dealing with the American legion cited the Legion's con atitution as proof that the World War veterans organization "shall be a force of law nnd order," adding that acta of irdividual members had justly broucht condemnation on tho iiegion, and that the "tyranny prncliced by Legion men--. I era through force is in direct viola nun, ot me federal tonsiitution as well as that of their order. Want Effective Punishment. We, therefore, cull upon the proper officials of tho American Ijcgi-jn," said the report, 't. put their household in rder by adoimiig smue uroper and f tective minul'incnt U ita members win viujate the constitution and wetrken the force of the Iogion and tend to bring it into disgrace. Tho American Legion is organized fcr a go'.-d purpose, but his been used for bad practice and being an infant organization which we feel it unwise at this timo to condemn or eulogize tho American legion as an organization until they .can have the opportunity to put their house in order." John Wilkinson, Muskogee, Okln., president of the .Miners' Union in that district, in urging fuvorable action ftii the report declared that the miners could not put Uie Legion "out of busi ness" by condemning it and he added: 'If you want to see them put their house in order, get in there and help them put it right." llis statement cuine after some delegates, who said they were ex service men, said that tin v would not join the Legion bacause they knew of its members acting aira-inst Btrik.-n. COOLER WEATHER EAST ' 0F MISSISSIPPI T0DAY Washington, Oct. J. Cooler weather over practically all por tions eat of the Mississippi river during the next 24 hours was fore, cast today by the weather bureau with generally fair weather tonight and Tuesday cicept continuation of rain toniM In the- north Atlantic states and probably showers in Florida. Fronts were said to be prohahic tonight in the upper lake region and wes'ern Ohio. Prosta were re. ported early today at scattered points In the upper Mississippi and Missouri vtllejs and the plains states. A disturbance yesterday over Oklahoma moved rapidly northeast to the lower lake region, with in crease intensity and has been at- tended by rain generally in all ttatee cast of the Mlasisaippl river except New Enrland and the Flori. da penlsula. HOUSE IN ORDER SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. REPORT INDICATES FURTHER DECLINE IN COTTON YIELD RAPID CHANGES IN PRICES OF COIN After Early Rise of Unusual Proportions, Violent Breaks Occur On Exchanges New York, Oct. 8. One of the most rapid and exciting movemente of the spectacular aessions on the cotton ex change occurred today ir connection with the publication of the govern ment's crop report. After au early rise of unusual proportions prices broke violently, until within ten minutes, a reaction of 125 to 19," points had been recorded. Before publication of the report there was a good deal of buying in the ex pertation that the figures would show condition of 40 or under. When the actual figures of 42.2 were flashed on the broker'a wiret and nens tickers, the market was over whelmed with sell ing orders. December contracts, which rose approximately from 6.5U "to 11.05, a new high record for the season on the aharp early upturn, slumped to 20.00 and active months generally were marked down lor net losses of 30 to 05 points. Almost as quickly as it r.ime, the rush of liquidation subsided, and the market becamo steadier on trade buy ing with recoveries in the Inter trading. In brokerage hoifses crowds of traders were lined up in front of the cotton boards. The government report, point ing to a erop or rvw,(KKJ titles, was only slightly above the average of the private report recently issued, and tho selling which followed publication of the figures was attributed to liquida tion of speculative accounts. NET CAINS OP QUARTER CENT AT NEW ORLEANS New Orleans, La., Oct. 3 - (iaina of a quarter - cent a pound oa contracts f,or delivery this yen were retained by cotton in the New Orleans market at the close today, after one ot the most exciting days in the history of the local eichange. The outside publie looked upon the government crop condition report of ginning aa bullish, and a certain fore shadowing of a cotton famine before the year is out. The iiublie buying supported the market and gave it a good rally after it had dipped approximately two cents a pound immediately after the read ing of the crop report, which did not show aa heavy deterioration us had been expected. Spot cotton prices here were quoted unchanged with middling at 20.30 cents. December contracts at close brought 20 1 15 cents after having risen R 21 7-8 cents snd having dipped to 19.!t5 cents. OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION TO BE MADE OF SHOOTING Held In Abeyance Pending Out come of Injuries of T"n In jured Men In Waco Waco, Tex, Oct. 3. Official invest i gation of the wounding of ten men at Lorena Saturday night when Sheriff Bob Buchanan of McLennan "ourity made a futile attempt to stop a Ku Klux Kla parade was held in abeyance today pending the outcome of iniirie received by these more seriously wound ed in tho fight. Governor Pat M. Neff, in an official statement today, expressed "great regret that such a thing should occur ftnywhere in the State." A delegation of Iirrii:i eiti.ens a iieared before cniihtv Attorney K. H. Tiery and declared their belief that i serious offense had been committed an. I asked that justice be doev This .-o-to.n followed the drawing off of a rrsolu tion yesterday in who h 'hrriff Kochan1 nn n'n l his men wero blamed for the disturbance it being stated that th" pnraders intended no iolation of t!o law. Governor Neff stated that soon after he heard of the oeeurrence yesterday he tendered his official services and the aid of the State to ofticinls of McLrn nan county to help them in every wav possible in searching out the truth in upholding the law in every way. The Governor's offer "a ilccljned by County Attorney K. Yi. Tiery ho "t.itel that local authorities could handle the si'untion. further developments in the nrTnir now await action, of the fifty fourth district grand jury which Mr. Tiery nn 1 District Judue 11. 1. Munrie, Mth dis trict court, reiterated toiiav -.m'.1! t: railed at t!,e earliit possi! ir ilatn to inquire ini he cnne. A verbal statement today 1-y I,u.s Crow, who received v'lngf -re1, knife wounds, tint he kne-y h:s rn:iilartt, 1 .11 causd a stir of interest mong the an tliorit ies. -MEI) CHAIRMAN OF INTER STATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Washington. Oct. 3. . Charles ''- Mc Chord, of Kent-ickv, was selfv,., today be cl :i rn-nn of the I-itcrs' ite Com merce 1 (mmisvnn lor a term emling Iter. 21, ) !'J2. Commissioner McChorU, who is eve of the oldest members of the mw.'sion will complet the term of lirar K. Clark, ho resigned both as ,-. n-.n and as commissioner some eks ago. ' To Finish Labor Invcstication Washington, 'Oct. 3. The ' ' seriate lahor committee is to conclude it in vestigations of disorders in the Mingo, West Virginia coal fields with a week s hearings here beginning nAt Monday. Clii.irman Kenynn announced today that plas for another visit to West Virgii.la had Ijccn abandoned. . PRICE: FIVE CENTS Government Monthly Forecast -.of Condition Slumps Off An other Half Million From i Previous Estimate ..j LATEST FORECAST OF " CONDITION LOWEST OF ANY PREVIOUS RECORD Grovyinf Season This Tear Worst On Record, Crop Showing Loss of -One aud Two-third Million In Pros pective Production During August and September; Rec ord Extreme of Heat and Dryness Force Unprecedent ed Maturity of Crop and De ficiency of Fertilizer Short ens Fiber and Lessens Yield; Boll Weevil Does Further Damage Washington, Oct. 3. Kurt her deelino in the condition ef cotton during Bep tember resiiiicd in a reduction of 5)0. W0 bales in the forecast of production issued totl.iy by the Oepartment of Agri culture which places th total crop at fi,VI7,nOn equivalent 500) pound ba&-s. The condition ef the crop was reported as being 42.2. Tho growing season this year has been the most disastrous r,n record, the erop showing a loss of 1,6W,0X bales in pros pective production during the months of August nnd September. The end of August found the crop in the worst eon ditjon ever recorded while the end ef September as disclosed in today's report shows unfavoralje weather during the month-- rendered the condition worse than at tho end of August. Record ex treme of heat and dryness have forced unprecedented maturity of the crop and deficiency of fertilizer has shortened the fiber and lessened the yield. Ilrlow Worst Previous Record. Today 'e condition report shows the crop to be, 12.2 points below the worst previous record. Over most of tha belt there wns but little middle crop and practically no top crop. Tho ewarming plague of boll weevils has advanced almost to the limit ef the belt, being throngh the lower third of North, Carolina Is eleven eon n ties of Tennessoe aad over most of Arkansas snd Oklahoma. Practically everywhere the weevil is ia such numbers and doing such damage as has not been experi enced since the period of its initial invasion. Tho army sad other worms have been preseut in damaging numbers in most of the territory from Mississippi westward, stripping the leaves from the plants over large areas. Picking Began Early Comment is general that the erop may bo picked out by early November in much of the Central and Western territory if tho favorable picking weathor continues. The fair and dry September has permitted uninterrupted picking, and with labor plentiful and relatively cheap a larger proportion of the erop has probably been picked nut than ever before. In Texas the Hoods ami weevils havo been more or leSs of an offset to the beneficial rains in the northwestern part of that Btate. In sonm sections picking is com pleted nnd ill much (,f the e.it gulf territory the present picking Bill get most or all of it. Farmers plan to clear off the crop and plow early to diminish weevil dan.- agn next year. Iiry weather has fav, orcd tho iiiality of picked cotton and also allseed punctured bolls to mature uninjured. Forcrist by States. The forecast of production, in enuiva lent fii pound hales, and the condition of the erop on S.-pfember 2j, in per centage of normal, by states follows: Virgil, a -Forecast, JlilijO and con ditioii .'.i. North Carol ina-4ty.rHV) and Smith Carn!ina-641.iSKl and 4i. Georgia -TL'J.'M) and ,'!3. Florida ir,,iit an,l 5,1 Alobama 4iin,rflfl and 41. Mississippi filfi.Olh) and 4. Imisiana-.-tS.nuO snd 41. Texas -l,:i,in.Kt and 3. Arkansas (I77.h0 nd .',.1 Tenne.ojseo 'JI7.I'0 and 01. Misso-trri -4 ,0flil and 70. Oklahoma 4l5,i"i0 and ,8. California tW.oi.nj an, 73. Arizona t.l.omj and M. All other states 7Xki and 83. Forecast of lower California's pro duetion was placed at 31,000 bales, In cluded in California's total, but ex cluded from I'nited States total. A production of 7,'i.17.ilH0 eonirslint C'.i pound l.iks was forecast last (Continued on page Two.) NEARLY THREE MILLION BALES ALREADY GINNED Washington. Oct. 3. Coton ginned prior to -September 23 amounted to J."o7,9.' running bales, including fin, '!!! bnles, rnunted as half bales, S. L'71 bales of Ameriean-Kgyptian, and '."JO bales of sea island, the census an nounced toih.v. To September 2.1 last year ginning nere CJ210.r(i bales, including 75.. O'.'C round bales, .Vlfiri bales of Ameri can-Egyptian and 37 bales of Sea Is land. inning bv States this vesr to Ber- tember "H foil"" , Alabanta, .?:X'l Arizona, l.9"ft; Arkansas. 152,0.111: California. ' 1,W2;"' Florida, .'(..W; Georgia. 391,756; Louis iana, '0i,H.il: Mississippi, 251,001; Missouri. 14,1'fi; North Carolina, 141, 7.17; Oklahoma, 1.19.405; South Carolina. 215,290; Tennessee,- 42.130; Teas. 1520,281; Virginia, 1,051. All other States, 354. tt-1 'ii '.
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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