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VOL. XXXVIII.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, FEBRUARY 23, 1916.
NO. 29.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWSJJFJHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place in the South
land Will Be Found in
Brief Paragraphs.
Foreisri
The allied powers met at Havre,
France and renewed the agreement
to fight until Belgian independence
had been completely established and
the nation is properly indemnified.
Six prisoners under death sentences
were marched through the streets of
Juarez, Mexico, for half an hour, es
corted by three drum corps and a reg
iment of soldiers, prior to the execu
tion of three of the accused. The exe
cution was public.
Carranza officials in Vera Cruz,
Mexico, have informed the United
States state department at Washing
ton, D. C, that they have heard a
report of a plot to blow up the battle
ship Kentucky in Vera Cruz harbor,
The object being to force intervention
by the United States government.
The English government has no in
tension of yielding to the agitation in
favor of creating an aviation ministry
charged with the defense of the coun
try against air attacks, but, in lieu
thereof, will institute a great air de
fense department with headquarters
at Whitehall under Field Marshal
French, who will be solely responsible
for air defense.
European War
Before the capture of Erzerum, it
is asserted that the Kurds merciless
ly massacred thousands of Armenians.
The exact number of Turkish troops
captured at Erzerum is not known,
but the greater part of the garrison
got away, as the fortress was not in
vested, but carried by assault.
Erzerum, Turkey's chief city in Ar
menia, is in the hands of the Rus
sians. Heavy assaults by thft Rus
sians against the long line of detach
ed forts protecting the city, lasting
over a period of five days. Unofficial
reports say that German Field Mar
shal von der Golt, with 80,000 men,
surrendered.
The capture of Erzerum is consid
ered one of the biggest feats of the
war, and Grand Duke -Nicholas is
now being lauded to the skies in the
capitals of the allied nations. Erze
rum fortifications extend in a straight
line for 24 miles. The city is sixty
milese west of the Russian border,
and has belong to Turkey for four
centuries.
Switching their offensive from the
Artois and Champagne regions in
France to the Belgian sector around
Ypres, held by the British, the Ger
mans have smashed their way by an
artillery bombardment and infantry
attacks into a British front line trench
over a distance of between 600 and
S00 yards.
In the Artois region between Lens
and Bethune the crater of a mine
blown up by the Germans was occu
pied by them, while the French guns
have, been busy shelling German or
ganizations in the neighborhood of the
road to Lille.
The French exploded a mine and oc
cupied a crater in the Argonne dis
trict. The Bulgarians have occupied El
bassan in Albania.
The Russians in the Caucasus have
occupied one of the Erzerum forts and
have taken large numbers of pris
oners. Several Turkish batteries on the
Trebizond coast have been silenced by
Russian warships.
The French cruiser Admiral Char
ner has been sunk off the Syrian' coast
by a German submarine, with the loss
of 374 men. The vessel went down in
two minutes, and the loss was 374
men. .
The whole western fighting front is
the scene of heavy engagements. At
some points the big guns have been
roaring incessantly for days; the in
fantry have been engaged in hand-to-hand
struggles; grenade fighting
and mining operations have played a
prominent part in the battles, while
airmen have fought each other above
the lines and have been cannonaded
from below by the anti-aircraft guns.
The Germans have followed up their
successes in the Champagne district,
but their movements have been an
swered in kind by the French in the
neighborhood of Massiges and Na
varin. The New York City commission for
the relief of sufferers in Belgium an
nounces that since the beginning of
its winter campaign it had sent 296,
000 pairs of shoes to the destitute
iii Belgium and northern France.
The British cruiser Arethusa has
been wrecked by a mine in the North
sea, and will be a total loss. The
loss of life is not given.
It is confirmed in entente circles
that Bulgaria has made overtures for
a separate peace to the entente pow
ers. Austrian aeroplanes raided Ravenna
and the neighboring towns of Codid
goro and Bottrighe, Italy, near the
Adriatic. Fifteen persons were killed
and a number injured. Several wom
en and children were among the in
jured. A hospital and church were
damaged.
Domestic
Hans Schmidt, the ex-priest, who
murdered Anna Aumuller in Brooklyn,
September 2, 1913, was electrocuted,
at Sing Sing prison, N. Y. He asked
forgiveness of all he had scandalized
before being strapped to the chair.
Eight parishes in eastern Louisiana
are flooded to a greater or less extent
by overflows, backwater or breaks in
levees in the Mississippi, Arkansas,
Ttchafalaya and the Red and Black riv
ers. There have been but three drown
ings reported,
Joseph Grohol, a youth just out of
high school in Ansonia, Conn., who
speaks seven languages, holds the bal
ance of power in the strike situation
there, and is chairman of the commit
tee that will present the grievances of
the strikers to the company officials.
Another alleged plot to smuggle rub
ber from the United States into Ger
many has been revealed in New York
City.
Tumultuous scenes, occurred in the
Oklahoma house of . representatives
while the vote on the election law de
signed to take the place of the "grand
father law" declared unconstitutional
by the United States Supreme court
because it disfranchised the negroes,
was being taken. The members threw
ink bottles and paper weights at each
other, and the "lie" was frequently
hurled from one to the other.
Two thousand negroes are reported
to be marooned near Newellton, La.,
as a result of the break in the levee.
At Mexia, Texas, nine persons were
killed and several were seriously in
jured in the collapse of a theater build
ing shortly before the doors were to
have been opened to admit several
hundred persons to view an art ex
hibit arranged by school children.
Fire which broke out at a pier in
Brooklyn destroyed three ships and
forty barges loaded with war muni
tions for Europe. An immense amount
of goods on the pier was also de
sroyed. It was one of the most spec
tacular fires ever seen in the city,
and the loss is estimated at about
five million dollars.
A relief train of twenty-five coaches
bearing refugees from the flooded dis
tricts in Louisiana, was taken to Vi
dalia, across the river from Natchez,
Miss., and a refugee camp established.
The majority of the refugees are ne
groes. The Red Cross is attending 'to
their wants.
Quick work by sailors on the bat
tleship North Dakota at the Philadel
phia navy yard saved the ship from
serious damage by fire. They put out
the fire in three minutes. The fire
was started by the blow-out of a fuse
in a dynamo.
One man was shot and seriously
wounded and several others suffered
minor injuries when a squad of police,
escorting 200 laborers on their way
to work were attacked in New York
City. Two policemen were injured
when an automobile overturned in the
icy street.
Washington
David R, Francis of St. Louis, Mo.,
secretary of the interior in Cleve
land's cabinet and former governor of
Missouri, has been offered the post of
ambassador to Russia to succeed
George T. Marye, resigned.
The senate by a vote of 55 to 18
has ratified the long pending and per
sistently opposed Nicaraguan treaty,
whereby the United States would ac
quire a 99-year option on the Nica
raguan canal route and a naval base
in the Gulf of Fonseca for $3,000,000.
During the long debate on the Nic
araguan treaty, declarations were
made in the senate that Germany had
offered Nicaragua more than had the
United States for the canal route ac
tion, and this is said to have been
used as an argument for ratification.
Great Britain is using three times
as much American products as any
other foreign country and is absorb
ing more than one-third of all United
States exports. Export trade figures
just made public by the department
of commerce show that British pur
chases of all kinds in the United
States last year wnounted to $1,191,
000,000. The largest number of applicants
that has ever sought at one time to
enter the naval academy at Annapo
lis probably will take entrance exami
nations April 18 next.
The submarine controversy with
Germany cannot be closed until the
United States has fully considered
the possible effect of the declared in
tention of the Teutonic powers to sink
all armed merchant ships of their ene
mies without warning after February
29. This announcement comes from
Secretary Lapsing.
Cablegrams from Berlin state that
Germany's reply to the United States
government's latest representations
regarding sinking the steamer Lusi
tania have been forwarded to Wash
ington. The reply, it is stated, sug
gests one of the two changes suggest
ed by Secretary' of State Lansing be
accepted, but proposes a new wording
for the other.
The United States, it is said by
high authority at the state depart
ment, concedes that the. entente allies
are within their rights in arming all
merchant ships for defensive pur
poses. Investigation of the adequacy of
railroad legislation and government
ownership of public utilities, as com
pared with federal regulation, by a
congressional committee, was provid
ed by the senate by a vote of 45 to
13.
More than; five hundred lepers are
said to be at large in the United States
and the health authorities in Wash
ington say that -this constitutes a se
rious menace to the country unless
proper steps are taken immediately
for the segregation of these afflicted
people. The matter is now tefore the
senate health committer
RUSSIAN PRESS
PURSUIT OF TURKS
CAPTURE REMAINDER OF DIVIS
ION AND LARGE QUANTITIES
OF SUPPLIES.
LITTLE FIGHTING IN WEST
Some Important Troop Movements.
Austrians Bring Down One Italian
Machine During Air Raid.
London. The latest official state
ment by the Russian War Office re
ports 1 the capture of the towns ' of
Mush, in Asiatic Turkey, lying 83
miles southeast of Erzerum, and Ahlat.
The pursuit of the Turkish forces who
retreated from Erzerum is being con
tinued and the Russians have taken
prisoner what remained of the thirty
fourth Turkish division, with a large
quantity of war supplies.
An air raid by a squadron of Ital
lian machines against Laibach, Capi
tal of Carniola, Austria-Hungary, is
officially reported from Rome. Bombs
were dropped on the town, and they
are thought to have done consider
able damage. -Austrian aeroplanes
ascended for the purpose of driving
off the raiders, and six of them sur
rounded one of the Italians and
brought him to earth.
Asia and Africa figure more prom
inently than Europe .in the current
war news. The Russians are follow
ing up with vigor their recent suc
cess in Turkish Armenia? Constanti
nople reports a reverse for the Brit
ish in Mesopotamia,, while London
announces the completion of the con
ques of the Kamerun, the important
German colony in western equatorial
Africa. The immense forces massed
in the European war " areas are just
now comparatively inactive.
The Russians meanwhile are active
along the Black . Sea coast and have
recently reported a landing on the
Armenian littoral, . 15 miles east of
Trebizond, which" city is. considered
one of the next objectives of Russian
land forces by a march of about one
hundred miles northwest from Er-
zerum.
Along the Black Sea coast, Rus
sian warships are pounding at the
Aurkish batteries and harassing the
retreating troops. The northern wing
of the Russian army has captured
the town of Widje and is driving the
Turks back in the direction of Gumish
Khaneh, which is on the road to Treb
izond, while large Russian forces are
moving westward from Erzerum with
the object of cutting off these Turkish
troops before the yean reach a new
line of defense.
DANIELS ASKS FOR MONEY.
Emergency Appropriation of $2,757,000
For Needed Repairs.
Washington, A$2,757,000 emergen
cy appropriation for repairs of machin
ery in battleships, torpedo destroyers
and submarines, to increase the sup
ply of mines and, for the first time, to
equip battleships with anti-aircraft
guns was asked of Congress by Secre
tary Daniels.
"Many of our destroyers have
reached an age where renewals of ex
tensive portions of their machinery
equipment is necessary," Secretary
Daniels said. "The same is true of
submarines, both classes of vessels
making a big drain on this year's ap
propriation." The boilers of the battleships Geor
gia and Virginia, both of which have
been in almost constant service for
ten years, have shown such weakness,
Mr. Daniels said, as to require that
these vessels be withdrawn from ac
tive service to have their boilers re
placed. In addition, the Virginia has
recently broken an important part of
her machinery, which must be re
newed, and the long stay of the fleet
in Mexican waters last year also caus
ed an unusualy repair bill.
Capt. William Lauder Dead."
Norfolk, Va. Capt. William Lauder,
one of the best known marine men
along the Atlantic Coast, died at his
home here. He was the marine under
writers agent here.
Belgian Relief Plan Fails.
London. The plan of aiding Bel
gium to feed herself by rehabilitating
the industries bf the country, under
control of the American Commission
for Relief in Belgium has failed, ac
cording to a letter written by Sir Ed
ward Grey, the British foreign secre
tary to M. Hymans, the Belgium min
ister here, because the Germans thu3
far have failed to reply to the request
for guarantees that raw materials and
manufactured goods will not be seiz
ed by the occupying armies.
Lieut. Berg Not Hospitable..
Newport News, Va. Two deputy
United States marshals were in dis
tress aboard the prize ship Appam
when Marshal John G. Saunders ar
rived from Norfolk to see how things
had been going since his men theoreti-.
cally dispossessed the German prize
Tew yesterday. The deputies "had
spent last night on deck, with no
where to sleep and nothing to eat and
had utterly failed to Impress Lieuten
ant Berg, the German commander,
with the fact that this ship was sub
Ject to their orders.
NICARAGUAN TREATY
RATIFIED BY SENATE
FIVE DEMOCRATS OPPOSE AND 15
REPUBLICANS VOTE FOR
RATIFICATION.
OPTION ON CANAL ROUTE
Also Naval Base in Guf of Fonseca
and Pays Nicarauga Government
$3,000,000.
Washington. The senate by a vote
of 55to 18 ratified the long-pending
and persistently opposed Nicaraguan
treaty, whereby the United States
would acquire a 99-year option on the
Nicaraguan Canal route and a naval
base in the Gulf of Fonseca for $3,
000,000. Included in the ratification resolu
tion was a provision declaring that
the United States in obtaining the
naval base does not intend to vio
late any existing rights in the Fon
seca Gulf of Costa Rico, Honduras
and Salvador, which had protested
against the proposed acquirement.
Five Democratic senators voted
against the treaty. They were Cham
berlain, Martine, Clarke .of Arkansas,
Thomas and Vardaman. Fifteen Re
publican senators joined the adminis
tration forces in support of the treaty.
Immediately after the senate had
acted. Senator Chammorro, the Nic
araguan Minister, said he would at
once communicate with his govern
ment and that he expected ratifica
tion of the convention by his gov
ernment would soon follow and ex
changes made to put the treaty in
force.
Senator Clarke of, Arkansas led the
Democratic opposition to the treaty,
while the Republican opposition was
headed by Senator Borah and Smith
of Michigan.
During the long debate declarations
were made in the senate that Ger
many had offered Nicaragua more than
had the United States for the canal
route option, and this is said to have
been used as an argument for ratifica
tion. Senator Stone, chairman of the
Foreign Relations Committee, will
call up the Haitien financial portec
torate treaty next, this to be followed
by the amended Colombian treaty.
Regarding the Colombian treaty there
is grave doubt whether it can receive
the necessary two-thirds vote for rati
fication. LEGISLATORS IN FIGHT.
Oklahoma Solons Throw Ipk Bottles
and Paper Weights.
Oklahoma City, Okla. Tumultuous
scenes occurred in the Oklahoma
House of Representatives while the
members were voting on a section of
an election law designed to take the
place of the famous "grandfather law"
which recently was declared unconsti
tutional by the United States Supreme
Court because in effect it disenfranch
ised the negro population of the state.
Partisan feeling over the new meas
ure culminated in a near riot precipi
tated by charges of corruption and
the passing of the lie between mem
bers, during which ink bottles and
paper-weights were used as weapons.
Arthur H. Geissler, chairman of the
Republican State Central Committee,
was knocked down and rendered un
conscious by Representative Lorris E.
Bryant of Big Heart, Osage county.
The proposed law, the product . of
a Democratic caucus, has passed the
senate and was up for final passage
in the house, with Republican and So
cialist members offering vigorous op
position. Geissier was on the floor
through the courtesy of a visitor's per
mit issued him as Republican State
chairman.
Thousand of Armenians Dead.
London. While full details of the
capture of Ezerum, Aurkish Armenia,
are still lacking, semi-official advices
from Petrograd are to the effect that
most of the Turkish garrison made
their escape. Thousands of Armenians
are declared to have been massacred
by Kurds before the evacuation.
Francis Named Ambassador. .
Washington. David R. Francis of
St. Louis, secretary of the interior in
Cleveland's Cabinet and former Gov
ernor of Missouri, has been offered the
post of Ambasador to Russia to suc
ceed George T Marye. Mr. Francis
has not replied, but President Wilson
js understood to have, urged him to
accept. Mr. Marye has advised the
state department that his resignation
has been mailed from Petrograd. It is
informally stated that his health
would not permit him to remain in the
Russian climate.
Merchant Ships Have Right to Arm.
Washington. All American diplo
matic and consular officials abroad
have been notified by the state de
partment that the position of the Unit
ed States is that merchant ships have
a right to carry defensive armanment.
This is the first formal announcement
that the United States does not accept
as legal the announced intention of
Germany and Austria to sink armed
merchant ships without warning after
February 29 as coming within interna
tional law.
HS TO KNOW
AROUT NEW OROERS
ANOTHER HITCH IN SUBMARINE
CONTROVERSY WITH GER
MANIC POWERS.
WILL MEAN MORE NOTES
Must Not Alter Previous Assurances
of Safety to Neutrals and Non
Contraband. -
Washington. The submarine con
troversy with Germany cannot be
closed until the United States has
fully considered the posible effect of
the declared intention of the Ger
manic Powers to sink all armed mer
chant ships of their enemies without
warning after February 29. This an
nouncement was made, by Secretary
Lansing instead of the long expected
announcement of a satisfactory settle
ment of the Lusitania negotiations.
Perfected by months of patient and
at times perilious negotiation, the
Lusitania agreement was presented
by Count von Bernstorff, the German
Ambassador in a form which would
have been acceptable to the United
States had not the Germanic Powers
had not the Germanic Powers an
nounced their determination to re
gard armed merchant ships of their
enemies as warships. The Lusitania
agreement will not be accepted as
finally satisfactory to the United
States until President Wilson and
Secretary Lansing have decided
whether any of its terms would be
nullified by the principles of the new
submarine campaign.
It is practically certain that the
United States will ask to be specifi
cally informed that the assurances
previously given for the safety of
neutrals and non-combatants at sea
have not been and will not be altered
by the latest declarations of the Ber
lin and Vienna admiralties.
American officials fear that tfee
United States and Germany may find
themselves at the same point they
stood in the fifst days of the subma
rine crisis with the United States con
tending unreservedly for the princi
ples of law and humanity In ' naval
warfare and confronted with a long
series of diplomatic exchanges, the
result of which they cannot foresee.
Count von Bernstorff, told Secre
tary Lansing it was his personal opin
ion, that, in the new submarine cam
paign, his Government intended to
abide by its promise not to sink un
resisting "liners" without warning,
given in the Arabic case and referred
to in the Lusitania agreement. Mr.
Lansing informed the Ambassador
that such a declaration from his gov
ernment would be highly desirable.
RUSSIANS CAPTURE EZERUM.
Chief Turkish City In Armenia Taken
By Czar's Troops.
London. Ezerum, Turkey's chief
city in Armenia, is In the hands of the
Russians. Heavy assaults by the Rus
sains agaisst the long line of detach
ed forts protecting the city, lasting
over a period of five days and describ:
ed by Grand Duke, Nicholas, the Rus
sian commander-in-chief as "unprece
dented," having resulted in the cap
ture of the fortress.
Unofficial reports early in the pres
ent month said the German Field Mar
shal von Der Goltz with 80,000 men,
was besieged in the city with provi
sions for only a fortnight.
The capture of Ezerum is consider
ed of great strategic importance.
From it radiate roads leading in all di
rections. Over those to the Southeast
and South it will be possible for the
Russians now to fight their way to
ward their compatriots operating
against the Persians and Turks in
Northwest and West Persia, or pro
ceed south toward Bagdad.
The immediate effect of the Russian
victory on the situation in Persia
and Mesopotamia is problematical,
however, for despite the - roads the
country is mountainous and there ' is
still something over 200 miles to be
covered before the Lake Urumiah dis
trict of Persia is reached.
Shoes May Cost More.
Washington. According to informa
tion made public the foreign demand
for shoes and boots gives prospect of
a rise in the cost. The production of
hides in this country are said to be
insufficient to meet the demands that
are being received both from abroad
and from the domestic markets. It
stated that 6,000,000 mre pairs of
men's shoes were exported in 1915
than in 1914. In the shipment of
shoes abroad as well, as in shipping
cotton, there is found a difficulty in
securing the bottoms necessary.
Two Steamers Burned.
New York. The steamships Bolton
Castle and Pacific, and a 900-foot pier
belonging to the New York Dock Com
pany, at the foot of Pioneer street,
Brooklyn, were destroyed by the most
disastrous fire on the Brooklyn front
in years. Another steamer, the Pal
lazla, was damaged, about 25 scows
and lighters were partly or wholly
burned and several cooMes from the
Bolton Castle and Paci&c were miss
ing after the fire; TheToss is estima
ted at considerably more than $1,000,
000. The origin of the fire is unknown.
PRIME MINISTER
REVIEWS AFFAIRS
APPEALS FOR NATIONAL ECON
OMY INORDER TO HUSBAND
RESOURCES.
HIS SPEECH WAS GRAVE.
Expected That Heavy Taxation Will
Se Imposed at Early Date. Vote
of Cabinet.
London. There was little that was
spectacular or sensational about the
opening day of the new session of the
Bitish Parliament. The Parliament
started on its business with a sober
air, benefitting the serious business
which it is lo accomplish in the next
few weeks.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Asquitb, in
the House of Commons, and the Secre
tary for War, Earl Kitchener, in the
House of Lords, reviewed the present
status of the nation's affairs. Mr.
Asquith appealed for national econ
omy; Earl Kitchener closed with an
expression of the hope that the new
system of army enlistment would
yield the required number of men to
carry war to a decisive conclusion.
The speech of the Prime Minister,
grave fn tone, but confident in char
acter, created a deep impression on
the House of Lords. His closing al
lusion to the economic strain of the
war was accepted as an intimation
that at an early date further taxa
tion of a far-reaching character will
be imposed, as well as a compre
hensive scheme for the restrictions of
imports. The latter was initiated a
few hours later by the publication of
a royal proclamation, putting into ef
fect on March 1 the' prohibition of the
import of paper, paper pulp, periodic
als, tobacco, furniture woods and
stone.
Earl Kitchener's speech in the
House of Lords was a review of the
war operations from the point where
his last previous speech to the Lords
left off. He paid tribute to the work
of the various Allies, emphasizing
particularly that of the Italians. His
description of the attempt of the Al
lies to go lo the relief of Serbia in
cluded the statement:
"We sent troops to Salonika, on in
vitation of the Greek Premier, to en
able Greece to assist her Ally under
the convention which existed."
Touching on the Gallipoli with,
drawal, Lord Kitchener declared:
"Although when 1 was on the spot
I formed the opinion that the with'
drawal ought to be acomplished with
less loss than was originally antici
pated, the actual execution of the plan
exceeded my most sanguine expecta
tions." COTTON IS KEPT DOWN.
Objects to Foreign Buying Clause of
Futures Act.
Washington. B. G. Thompson of
Goldsboro, N. C, in writing to Rep
resentative George Hood relative to
the proposed discussion by7 Southern
members of cotton exchange conspir
acy believes that the present law is
responsible for cotton being kept
around 11 and 12 cents in the past
90 days.
In speaking of this matter, the
writer urges the importance of
Southern representatives advising
their constituents to cut the acreage
this season down to last year or be
low', cut the use of fertilizers to 50
per cent 61 last year and hold on to
every bale of" cotton on hand.
It is understood that Chairman
Lever of the House Committee of
Agriculture is planning to offer an
amendment to section eleven of his
cotton futures bill, which is the sec
tion complained of. This section has
been objected to by cotton exporters
in several places because they have
experienced considerable embarrass
ment under the present law, which
imposes a prohibitive tax on hedg
ing on foreign cotton exchanges.
The proposed - amendment would
permit parties selling cotton at Liver
pool to protect themselves by buying
futures there to cover the amount
sold.
Postpone Suffrage Report.
Washington. With the support of
suffrage sympathizers who thought
the time inopportune for a vote in
the house on the pending suffrage con
stitutional amendment, a motion to
postpone a report on the measure
until the next session of congress was
adopted 9 to 7 by the Judiciary com
mittee. At the same time the com
mittee rejected on a tie vote a similar
motion to postpone until next session
a repor ton the prohibition amend
ment. Suffragists immediately launch
ed fight for reconsideration of action.
Brandeis Hearing Continues.
Washington. Two witnesses charg
ed Louis D. Brendeis with unprofes
sional 'conduct before the Judiciary
Sub-Committee' of the Senate which
is investigating . his fitness for con
firmation as a justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States. They
were Henry W. W. Winslow, presi
dent of the United Shoe Machinery
Company and HolJis R. Bailey, a Bos
ton lawyer. The latter gave it as his
opinion that the bar of Massachusetts
regarded Mr. Brandeis as an "able
lawyer but not entirely trustworthy."
n
III FILING BRIEF
FIFTEEN ATTORNEYS GENERAL
REPRESENTS STATES IN
LIQUOR CASE.
FIGHT FOR THE QUART LAW
Brief .. Covers Sixty-Three Pinted
Pages and Is Dedicated to Two
Principle Propositions.
Raleigh. Attorney General T. W.
Bickett has joined with the Attorneys
General of the state of Arizona, Geor
gia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi,
North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia,
Washington and Alabama, in filing a
brief Jbefore the Supreme Court of
the United States in the celebrated
case of Clark Distilling Company,
which case brings before the Supreme
Court the constitutionality of the
Webb-Kenyon act, and involves also
the , validity of the North Carolina
quart law.
The brief covers 63 printed pages
and is dedicated to two propositions:
1 That the ' Webb-Kenyon act is a
valid exercise of the power of Con
gress to regulate commerce between
the states.
2 That a state in the excercise of
its reserve police power may prohibit
or regulate the receipt and possession
of intoxicating liquys within its bor
ders and that since the enactment of
the Webb-Kenyon act such legislation
is not in violation of the commerce
clause of the Federal Constitution.
One of the authorities emphasized
in the brief is Glenn vs Southern Ex
press Company decided at the Fall
term, 1915, in which Associate Jus
tice Allen, speaking for a unanimous
court, ably reviews the law of the
subject .and sustains both the Webb
Kenyon act and the North Carolina
quart law.
The granting of a writ' of error by
the State Supreme Court in the Glenn
case going up from Wake is interest
ing as showing the desire of the North
Carolina Supreme Court to have the
case settled as soon as possible.
George M. Glenn was a Raleigh
policeman until the Summer of 1914.
That does not account for his thirst.
If he had one, but he tested the Grier
act last year and the Southern Ex
press Company refused to forget that
he had received his legislative allot
ment earlier in the month. The com
pany wanted the collection, but fear
ed to take the chances and declined to
deliver the goods.
Change Plans at Bad in.
Charlotte. Rivaling in interest the
recent anouncement that a portion of
the Badin or Yadkin Narrows develop
ment would be put in operation this
summer is that which now comes from
Albemarle to the effect that the entire
hydro-electric outlay and plan has
been radically changed, that the pow
er house is to be placed on the
Montgomery side of the river, that
the two big "wells" in the dam for
the handling of the surplus water
have been filled in, that a spillway 13
being built to take their place and
that the complete equipment of elec
trical machinery has been altered and
that instead of using direct current as
originally contemplated that alternat
ing current would be generated in
stead. L
Paper Mill Proposed.
Southport. There is a prospect that
northern capital will build a paper
mill at Southport. A representative
of the capital has been here the past
several days making Inquiries as to
site, etc. It is said that the mill, if
built, would be to eastern Carolina
what the Champion Fiber Company at
Canton is to the western part of the
state. The representative is quoted as
saying that 1,000 men would be em
ployed. Begin Operation Soon.
Concord. Concord's new cotton
mill, the Norcott, will begin opera
tions either the 'last of April or the
first of May.
Asheville Woman Lawyer Qualifies.
Asheville. Miss Lillian Exum . Clem
ent, Asheville's first and only woman
attorney, appeared in Superior Court
recently and, in the presence of almost
the entire membership of the Ashe
ville bar, and a large number, of
friends, took the oath necessary to
finally qualify her as an attorney.
After administering the oath, Judge,
W. F. Harding delivered a short ad
dress .welcoming Miss Clement Into
the ranks of the legal lights, and of
fering her a little friendly advice.
"Pa'y-Up-Week" at Statesville.
Statesville.. - Statesville's business
men have entered heartily into the
"National , Pay-Up Week" movement
and the public generally Is showing
considerable Interest in the campaign
which is being waged by the business
men. Mayor Caldwell has issued the
formal proclamation designing a week
as pay-up week for Statesville. "Let
Everybody Pass Prosperity Around."
-I Will Pay My Bills so You Can Pay
Yours," and similar phrases In bold
type may be seen everywhere.