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THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance (Cltttittitiu THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion - $1.00 One Square, two insertions - $1.50 One Square, one month - - $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. VOL. XXXIX. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, JANUARY 24, 1917. NO. 25. t IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Happenings of This and Other Nations For Seven Days Are Given. THE NEWS JH THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place in the South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs. Washington In agricultural products the year 1916 was the greatest in the nation's existence, the value of which is report ed by the department of agriculture to have been $13,449,000,000. The state department has borrowed the cruiser Des Moines from the navy department to bring more than one thousand American refugees out of Syria and Palestine. The refugees will be taken to Barcelona, Spain for trans shipment to the United States. The entente allies, in a note ad dressed by Arthur Balfour, British for eign minister, to Ambassador Spring Rice, and delivered to the state de partment, amplify their reply to Pres ident Wilson's peace note by explain ing in detail why they believe it im possible at present to attain a peace which will assure them such guaran tees as they consider essential. Petrograd (Russia) correspondents ay it is reported in the Russian cap ital that Sergius Sazonoff, former for eign minister, has been appointed Rus sian ambassador to Great Britain. The post of Russian ambassador to Great Britain was made vacant recently by the death of Count Beckendorff. Admiral Dewey, the nation's Spanish American war hero, who cut the cable and captured Manila and presented the Philippines as a Fourth of July offering, is dead in Washington. He was the ranking naval officer of the world, eighty years old and had seen sixty-two years of active service in the navy. Sovereignty over the Danish West Indies, after half a century of nego tiations, will pass to the United States, with the exchange of ratifications of the purchase treaty by Secretary Lan sing and Danish Minister Brun. Spreading a dragnet over the finan cial district of New York, the house rules committee extended the peace note leak investigation to a general in quiry into the stock market. At an executive meeting the committee con sidered the advisability of employing expert counsel familiar with financial affairs to conduct the examination of witnesses. It is also planned to ask congress to make an extension of time to report. Thomas W. Lawson, haled before the house rules committee to tell what he knew or had heard about a stock mar ket leak on President Wilson's peace note or be punished, named the chair man of the committee, Representative Henry. Then before the hearers had time to recover from the shock Lawson sprang one sensation after the other by declaring the cabinet officer refer red to was Secretary McAdoo, that the banker was H. Pliny Fisk of New' York and that he knew the senator only by the initial "O." To complete the explosion, Lawson went on to charge that Paul M. Warburg of the federal reserve board had knowledge of the leak machinery, and repeated a rumor that Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, had made two millions in the stock market, and to mention a list of well-know men he thought should be questioneu. Domestic Crops alone in 1916 were worth more than crops and animal products combined in any years in the history of the United States prior to 1912. A Wellton, Ariz., dispatch announces that Lieut. Col. Harry G. Bishop and Lieut. W. A. Robertson, missing army aviators, exhausted from walking four days in the wilds of Sonora, Mex., without food or water, were found more than thirty-two miles to me south of the border by a civilian searching party from Wellton. A posse of ten men which left Ok mulgee, Okla., in search of alleged bank robbers, returned with the dead bodies of Oscar Poe. Will Hart and Ham- Hart. The men killed were en gaged in a battle with the posse eigh teen miles souhtwest of Okmuleee The chief of police of Okmulgee was (ne only member of the posse to re ceive an injury, and he was but slight ly wounded in the hand. Crop production for the year 1916 was comparatively low and did not reach anything like record figures, ex cept in a few minor instances, but the nigh prices sent the total values up. Texas reports a record-breaking snowstorm in the northern and cen tral portions of the slate. Seven inch es is reported at Dallas and as far south as Waco a fall of an inch and a half is reported. The faintest sound becomes so pro nounced by the aid of an improvement 0Ii the sound amplifier perfected by B. Abbott, instructor of physics at the University of California, that the fall of a feather makes a noise like a wrestler striking the mat. A La Mesa, N. M., dispatch announc es that Gen. Bejamm J. Viljoen, who took a prominent part in the Boer war, was at one time a member of the Boer parliament, took part in the Madero revolution in Mexico and whose son is now with Pershing's col umn in Mexico, is dead, having sue cumbed to pneumoni Bills reinforcing Tennessee' nrohU bition laws by prohibiting lockers and making it unlawful for any nerson. to have intoxicating liquor for sale in his possession were sent to Governor Rye by the legislature, and will be come effective just as soon as the governor affixes his signature. Employers in all parts of the state of West Vireinia when it became known that Senator H. V. Godbey (Rep.) had introduced measure in the legislature Providine for an eight-hour day in all branches of industry and business except farm ing, with the privilege given the em ployed to work three hours overtime at time and one-half. Mexican The news received in El Paso, Tex as, is to the effect that actual with drawal operations are under way at El Valle, the southern outpost of the punitive expedition in Mexico. Predictions are that the entire puni tive expedition will arrive in Colum bus, N. M., shortly. All supplies billed to Americans in the Casas Grandes-Colonia Dublano district and sent to Juarez for trans portation over the Mexico Northwest ern railroad have been ordered held at Juarez. It is stated in" El Paso that no fur ther shipments of supplies will be made to the punitive expedition in Mexico. It is apparent at Colonia Dublan, field headquarters for General Per shing's column, that a withdrawal movement is under way. The Mexican-American joint com mission whieh failed to effect an ad justment of the questions at issue be tween Mexico and the United States after a series of conferences that be gan four months ago, has been for mally dissolved. The Mexicans have little doubt that full diplomatic relations between the United States and Mexico will soon be re-established. The latest move is that the United States will withdraw Pershing's ex pedition and send an ambassador to the de facto government in Mexico. European War The Russians announce the follow ing captures during 1916: Officers 8,- 770; men, 420,000; guns, 525; machine guns, 1,661; trench mortars and mine throwers, 421. This shows a total of 428,000 officers and men. A Berlin dispatch announces that a British steamer, the Yarrowdale, was taken into a harbor (name of the harbor not given) on December 31 as a prize by a prize crew of sixteen men. The Yarrowdale carried 469 prisoners, the crews of steamers cap tured by a German auxiliary cruiser in the Atlantic. The Germens announce that the tak ing of the Yarrowdale into a harbor December 31 has been kept secret for military reasons purely, and is only made public because of the statement made by the British admiralty on Jan uary 17. The cargoes of the captured ves sels December 31 by the Germans consisted of foodstuffs, including 6,000 tons of wheat, 2,000 tons of flour and 1,900 horses. The Germans made a rich haul in the latest capture of vessels in the Atlantic. The Yarrowdale had on board 117 motor lorries, one motor car, 6,300 cases or rifle cartridges, 30,000 rolls of barbed wire and 3,330 tons of steel bars, besides a quantity of bacon and sausage. "Great Britain's reply to President Wilson's peace note includes this sen tence: "So long as Germany remains the Germany which without a shadow of justification overran and barbarous ly ill-treated a country it was pledged to defend, no state can regard its rights as secure if they have no bet ter protection than a solmen treaty." The allies say that international law as it is now interpreted can never prevent war, and that some form of international sanction must be devis ed which does not now exist which would give any pause to aggressors. The British troops in France have hit the German line hard at two places and have succeeded in making slight gains. Northeast of Cite Calonen the Cana dians carried out a brilliant raid on the German trenches on a front of seven hundred yards and penetrated the German position to a depth of five hundred yards, reaching the second line. London admits that a German sea rover has sunk, captured or destroy ed eight British merchant vessels and two French vessels between December 12, 1916, and January 12, this year. These are the ships that the en tentes admit have been sunk, captured or destroyed by the Germans in the recent past: British Dramatist, Rad norshire, Minieh, Netherbyhall, Mount Temple, King George, Georgic, Vol taire; French Nantes and Asmieres. At any rate the whereabouts of these vessels is unknown, and .it is con ceded that they are lost. Aside from Roumania, there has been quiet in an .the war theaters for many hours. General Nivelle and Field Marshal Haig visited London and conferred with the British war council anent the alleged big blow which the al lies plan to precipitate in the near future. Hard fighting continues in the re gion of Vadeni, southwest of Galatz, in the Roumanian theater. The Russians on both sides of Fun deni suffered heavy casualties in two attacks against the German line. The Russians and Teutons are still locking horns between the Kasjno and Suchitza valleys, with nothing definite havine developed for several days. . 25,243 OF NATIONAL GUARD SENT HOME MAJOR GENERAL FUNSTON DES IGNATES COMPANIES WHICH ARE ORDERED HOME. NOW AWAITING FACILITIES As Soon as Railroad Provides These, Movement Will Begin, About. 50, 000 Will be Left on Border Patrol Duty. Washington. More than 25,000 Na tional Guardsmen, now on the Mexican border, have been designated by Ma jor General Funston for return home and muster out of the Federal service, under the order issued by the War De partment. All these organizations will be start ed homeward as soon as transportation facilities can be provided. Their de parture will leave between 45,000 and 50,000 men of the guard still in the Federal service doing border patrol. War Department officials continue to withhold comment on reports that the movement of General Pershing's regulars out of Mexico soon will be under way, and the statement an nouncing the guardsmen designated for relief does not connect these or ders with the withdrawal plans in any way. The understanding has been, however, that with the return of the expedition in Mexico, and re adjustment of the border patrol, all of the state troops gradually wound be sent home. The department's statement said: "General Funston has selected these organizations chiefly in accordance with the rule of returning first those troops longest in service on the bor der. To some extent, however, this rule could not be followed without unequal weakening of the border guard, and the departures from it are so explained. The total strength of the organizations selected is 25,243." The guardsmen designated for re turn and muster out include: North Carolina First Infantry. South Carolina Troop A, cavalry; company A, engineers; field hospital i company. Tennessee Ambulance company, I No. 1; field hospital, No. L Virginia Second Infantry. CONGRESS MAKES EFFORT TO SPEED UP LEGISLATION. j "Leak" Probe Transferred. Try to Avoid Extra Session. Washington. With the peace note "leak" investigation transferred to I New York, Administration leaders in j Congress believe the attention of ; members generally now can be con I centrated upon the clogged legislative ! program. House and senate leaders are just as anxious as President Wilson over the press of important business re maining, on the calendar. No secret is made of the fact that all of them earnestly desire to avoid an extra ses sion, if it possibly can be done. Responding to the President's per sonal appeal for action on important legislation, the steering committee will meet and endeavor to arrange a program for the remainder of the ses sion and for longer day and possible night sesions. A caucus of Democratic senators will be called during the week to ratify the suggestions. SWITZERLAND STIRRED BY GERMAN ORDER. " Berne, Switzerland. The German measure prohibiting all importations, hews of which was received here un expectedly, caused considerable com ment throughout Switzerland. The government will make remonstrances to Berlin as the entire economic sit uation of the country is affected by .this species of blockade. MACKINSEN CAPTURES BRIDGEHEAD POSITION. ' Berlin,, via Sayville. The entire bridgehead position at Nanesti, on the Sereth Line in northern Rumania, fell into Field Marshall von ' Mackensen's ands with the town. COFPLICATED QUESTION IS LIKELY TO BE RAISED. Washington. The German Admir alty statement that neutral subjects in the crews of vessels captured by the Gernuin raider in the South Atlantic J"have been removed as prisoners ol 'W&r,H will raise a complicated ques tion if any Americans are among ''them: It was said that if American officials abroad did not clear up rwhethef Americans were among the jprisopers, an inquiry would be ad dressed to the Berlin Government. MTNY ARE KILED WHEN - CHEMICAL PLANT EXPLODES. London.- A portion of the area of London was shaken severely when a chemical plant in which munitions were manufactured, was the center of a series of explositons, scattering de scruction over a considerable section of the district in which the works were located. There is no evidence that - the explosion was other than the result of a fire, such as that to which any factory is subject- Forty bodies have been recovered. ALL NATION HONORS HERO OF MANILA BAY PUBLIC HONORS FOR ADMIRAL DEWEY SELDOM EQUALLED IN AMERICAN HISTORY. ALL FLAGS AT HALF-MAST U. S. Warships All Over World Fire Farewell Salutes. Bluejackets Bear Body to Last Resting Place in Arlington CemeteryT Washington. Admiral George Dew ey, the hero of, Manilla Bay, was buri ed at Arlington with public honors seldom equalled in the nation's his tory. After the services in the rounda of the Capitol, the body was followed down Pennsylvania avenue and across the Potomac to its resting place in Arlington by a cortage including all the high officials of the Federal Gov ernment, the diplomatic corps, rank ing officers of the Army and Navy, many military and naval units in uni form, committees of the senate and house, and representatires of many patriotic societies and other organi zations. Flags on American public buildings, forts and naval vessels throughout the world were at half mast, and at noon, while the last rites were being said at Arlington, senior warships of the American Navy everywhere fired a "arewell salute of nineteen minute guns. During the services at the Capitol, which were attended by President Wilson and many other officials aud distinguished men and women, the body rested on the same catafalque and at the same spot in the rotunda where Lincoln, Garfield ani McKinley lay in state. Chaplain Frazier, Dew ey's and the Olympic's chaplain at Manilla, officiated. Escort of Cadets. A brief ceremony at the Dewey residence, attended by near relatives, by the President and Mrs. Wilson, and by a few close friends, preceded the Capitol funeral, and in conformity to the Admiral's expressed desire, the Annapolis midshipmen were the only military escort when the body was ttken from the home. The private service began at 10 o'clock and that j at the Capitol an hour later. It was decided to select no honorary pall-bearers. At the home, at the Cap itol, and later at the cemetery, the body was borne by blue jackets, and and in the cortage it reposed on a flag- draped caisson. Accompanying it on foot was an escort of marines, blue jackets, soldiers and midshipmen. The larger military escort followed including the entire corps of midship men, the bluejackets of the battleship New Hampshire, marines from Nor folk and Philadelphia, artillerymen from Fort Monroe and other posts along the Potomac, and many other units.' Accompanied by their officers on foot, they marched in the inverse order of their rank, in special full dress uniform. MISSING AVIATORS FOUND AFTER WANDERING IN MEXICAN DESERT Only Water They Had Was From Radiator of Airplanes. Wellton, Ariz. Lieut. Col. Harry G. Bishop and Lieut. W. A. Robertson, missing Army aviators, , exhausted from walking four days in the wilds of Sonora, Mexico, without food or water, were found trirty-two miles south of the border by a civilian searching party from Wellton. Lieutenant Robertson was brought back here by the searchers. Lieuten ant Colonel Bishop, too weak to walk, was left in charge of four searchers in the Rosario Mountains, where he was found. Two sandwiches and two oranges' each was all the food the men had tasted since they left the north is land aviation base at San Diego Jan uary 10 on their flight, Robertson told the searchers. The ohly water they had had was taken from -the radiator of the air plane, Robertson said, and it was ex hausted four days ago. Robertson was found and was fol lowing the tracks of the automobile of the searching party. He was trailing the base of the Gila Mountains, 200 miles south of the border. He direct ed the searching party to the Rosario Mountains, 30 miles farther south where he said he left Bishop the day before, Bishop had become' exhaust ed and was unable to walk. Leaving Robertson in charge of two of the searchers, other members of the party pressed southward and found Bishop lying on the ground in a mountain pass. He was unable to talk recognize the searchers. Robertson said the members of the searching party were the first humans he had seen since he landed. ..He was unable to give definite information as to the district wherein they landed but thought it was 250 miles or more south of the Arizona border. FIFTEEN CRUISERS ON HUNT FOR GERMAN. Bneuos Aires. Fifteen cruisers and armed ships now are searching the Southern Atlantic for the German raider, according to reports received here. DEMOB LIZAT ON OF ADMINISTRATION IS ALSO PLAN NING FOR EARLY WITHDRAW AL OF PERSHING'S TROOPS. NO DEFINITE DATE IS SE1 Likely That Guardsmen Will Be Or dered Home Within a Few Days Unless Something Unexpected De velops. Washington. Although Villa's op erations have injected confusing fac tors into the situation in northern Mexico and along the border, there is every indication that the Administra tion is going forward with its plans for early withdrawal of Pershing's ex pedition and demobilization of the Na tional Guard. Officials here have insisted that it was impossible to set a definite date for the troop movements because of the uncertainty of transportation fa cilities and because the situation at the border and beyond constantly is changing. It has been indicated clearly, however, that unless there was some unexpected development, Pershing's withdrawal and the return of the guardsmen would be ordered within a few days. The reports on Villa's new cam paign apparently have not disturbed this determination, but they have somewhat bewildered officials here as to the real situation and in the end may operate to hold up the orders until a more thorough investigation has been made. Army officers contend that the Pershing force would be in a better military position if with drawn and regrouped, but they are anxious to locate the Villa forces more definitely before there is any American movement. Border dispatches tranmitting ru mors that the guardsmen would be ordered home with in five days were heard by War Department officials without comment. General Funston has exercised a wide discretion re garding details of troop disposition, and it is assumed generally that the exact date will depend largely on his assessment of conditions along the border and in the territory where Villa is operating. GERMAN RAIDER BELIEVED TO BE MOEWE, CAPTOR OF APPAM. Sailed Under Danish Flag and Car ried Hay on Bridge to Conceal Armament. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. It is consider ed certain here that the German raider which has been creating havoc among Entente shipping in the south Atlantic is the Moewe, the German acmed raider which captured the Ap pam and sunk numerous Entente ships in Atlantic waters a year ago. The American Consul at Pernam buco has cabled the Embassy here confirming the landing of several Americans from vessels which fell victim to the raider. He added that no American ships had been sunk by the German craft, and that all the American sailors landed were men from the crews of foriegn vessels. According to reports from an au thoritative source the Meowe is un derstood to have sailed from Kiel under the Danish flag carrying a car go of hay on the bridge in order to conceal her armament. When last seen, the Moewe was painted black, with white markings. Her armament included four torpedo tubes in service and several tubes in reserve. She is believed to have carried a mine laying apparatus. The raider also carried a large number of auxiliary plates which would permit her commander to change the rppearance of the bridge at will. In addition she had collap sible funnels. The vessel now believed to be the Moewe was repainted several times, and under the last coat of paint were observed traces of the Danish flag which had been painted on the hull. S- L. WHIPPLE OF BOSTON, SELECTED TO ACT AS COUNSEL Washingtoh. Sherman L. Whipple, of Boston, a Democrat and a noted trial lawyer, was invited by the Rules Committee of the House to act as counsel in the peace note leak inves tigation which it now appears will ex tend deeply into Wall Street stock manipulations. Representative Henry, chairman of the committee, and Rep resentative Campbell, the ranking Re publican member, that it was hoped Whipple would accept. V, BRIEF VISIT TO CAPITOL PAID BY PRESIDENT. Washington. Speeding up of con cideration of the legislative program generally was urged by President Wil son during a brief visit to the Capitol. While he devoted his conference with Senators and representatives chiefly to discussing the general dam bill now in conference, he mentioned other measures in which he is interested, including those Introduced as a re sult of the railroad strike threatened last year. N GUARD COMMERCE A SINKS MANY SHIPS AT LEAST THIRTEEN VESSELS OF ENTL NTE VICTIMS OF GER MAN RAIDER. RAIDER IS STILL AT LARGE Ten English Ships and Two French Destroyed Near Azores Islands and South American Coast. British Gain in East. Londo . A German commerce raia 3r has been working havoc in the At lantic ocean on Entente Allied ship pin:;. Between the Azoro Islands iJ the South American coast during the period from December 12 to Janu ary 10 at least 13 vessels 10 British steamers, a Japanese steamer and two French sailing craft were captured by the raider and it is presumed that most of them wre sunk. The Briitsh Admiralty assumes that eight of the British steamers and the two French sailing vessels, all of them long overdue and some of them known to have been loaded with arms, ammunition, horses and other war supplies for the Entente Allies, have been sunk by the raider. The Japanese steamer wasreleased by the raider off the coast of Brazil and permitted to land at Pernambuco 237 men of crews of vessels destroyed. One (Of the British steamers is said to have been sent away by the raider with 400 additional men to be landed, but up to the present no advices of her having reached port have been received. The whereabouts of the raider is not known. The British troops in France have hiti' the German line hard at two places for good gains, according to the latest British communication. Northeast of Cite Galonne, the Cana dians carried out a brilliant raid of German trenches on a' front of 700 yards and penetrated the position to a depth of 500 yards to the German second line. The German dug-outs were completely wrecked and 100 men were made prisoner." ARTHUR BALFOUR SENDS NOTE TO AMPLIFY ENTENTE REPLY. Why Peace is Impossible at Present is Explained. Washington. The Entente Allies, in a note addressed by Arthur Bal four, British Foreign Minister, to Am bassador Spring-Rice, and delivered to the State Department, amplify their reply to President Wilson's peace note, by explaining in detail why they believe it impossible at present to at tain a peace which will assure them such guarantees as they consider es sential. The note also explains why the Allies demand the expulsion of Turkey from Europe, restoration of Alsace-Lorraine to France, of Italia Irredenta to Italy, and the other ter ritorial changes set forth. Those who think the future of the world may be insured by international treaties and international laws, the note says, have ill-learned the lessons taught by recent history. After charging that German influence in Turkey had re sulted in conditions as barbarous and more aggressive than were known under Sultan Abdul Hamid, and that it had been shown Germany cannot be expected to respect treaty obliga tions, Mr. Balfour says: "So long as Germany remains the Germany which, without a shadow of justification, overran and barbarously ill-treated a count -y if was pledged to defend, no state can regard its rights as secure if they have no better protection than a solemn treaty.' SPECIAL COMMITTEE ADVISES RETENTION OF ALL NAVY YARDS. Washington. Retention of all ex isting navy yards, establishment of submarine bases' on the Atlantic, Gulf "and Pacific coasts, and a thor ough aeronautical survey of the coast of the United States and in posses sions were recommended to Congress in a preliminary report by a special commission of naval officers appoint ed by President Wilson. The commission consisted of Rear Admiral J. M. Helms, Chief Construc tor W. L. Capps; Civil Engineer H. H. Rousseau, Capt. G. W. McElroy and Commander C. L. Hussey. It spent several months making inspections along the coasts, and announced ihaf. further investigation will be necet' sary. On the abolishment of navy yards, the report recommends that "it is un necessary, undesirable and inadevis able to aoolish at this time existing navy yards or naval station within the continental limits of the United States."- FIND NO TRACE OF MISSING AVIATORS. Calexico, Cal. Army officers pilot ing three airplanes failed to find any trace of the tss o Army officers, Lieut Col. H. G. Bishop and Lieut. W. A. Robertson, Jr., who have been lost since January 10. Several hours were spent in fruitless search over the de sert and mountain region of Lower California. The officers also search ed the Mesa country and finally land' ed on the desert of Sonora, where the missing men were last sighted. PRID6EN IS NAMED NEW GRAND MASTER GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CARO LINA MASONS ELECT WIL MINGTON MAN. HOLD SESSION AT RALEIGH Memorial Exercises to Late Grand . Secretary John C. Drewry, is Feat ure of Annual Meeting. Raleigh. Dr. Claude L. Pridgen, oi Wilmington, was elected Grand Mat ter of the Grand Lodge of North Caro lina! Masons at session devoted in part to memorial exercises in honor of the memory of the late Grand Secretary John C. Drewry, an address by Grand Master James W. Witton, of the Dis trict of Columbia, and routine busi ness. Other officers elected prior to the adjournment of the Grand Lodge were: Deputy Grand Master, George 8. Norfleet, Winston-Salem. Senior Grand Warden, Henry A. Grady, Clinton. Junior Grand Warden, Dr. J. C. Braswell, Whitakers. Grand Treasurer, Leo D. Hartt, Ral eigh. Grand Secretary, W. W. Wilson, Ral eigh. John W. Cotton of Tarboro was elected a director of the Oxford Or phanage to succeed himself for a term of five years, A. B. Andrews of Ral eigh to- fill the unexpired term of G. Rosenthal on the board of directors of the Oxford Orphanage, J. E. Lath am of Greensboro director of the Ma sonic and Eastern Star Home for a term of five years to succeed himself, It. N. Hackett, Wilkesboro, represent ative to George Washington Museum, Alexandria, Va., for a term of three years; A. B. Andrews and C. B. Crab tree, directors on the part of the Grand Lodge of the John C. Drewry fund. Past Grand Master Frank P. Hop good was complimented highly in the address of Grand Master James W. Witton of Washington, D. C. when he said "I have been associated with Col. Frank P. Hopgood of North Car olina in San Francisco in oil land case for the Department of Justice for some time, and I. have grown to love and admire him. If all North Caro lina Masons are as lovable as he is, there must be a lot of love tn this Grand Lodge." lusurance Revenue Increases. Raleigh. The report and recom mendations of Commissioner of Insur ance James R. Young to Governor Bickett to be transmitted to the leg islature was filed with the governor. The report shows a steady increase in the revenue of the department, the increase averaging about $15,000 per annum. The receipts this fiscal year will be about $365,000. The commissioner reports the build ing inspection laws, fire marshal reg ulations, fire escape statutes and oth er regulations for public safety work ing well. He recommends that an allowance be made for vigorous pros ecutions of violators of the statute as to investment and promotion com panies as a protection to the people of the state. The commissioner recommends a number of minor changes in the state's standard fire insurance policy which he says will become the stand ard policy for most if not all the states of the union. He would have the law as to changes in capital stock and charities subject to approval by the Insurance Department made to apply to foreign companies where the ' home state does not maintain a like regulation. There is recommendation that "whole family" insurance be al lowed for . fraternal insurance He recommends the enactment of a workman's compensation law proper ly safeguarded. As to building and loan associa tions, he recommends a more clear statutory expression as to their an nual licensing, with nominal fees charged to be used in the expenses of the examinations. He would have an additional deputy clerk to examine the building and loan associations. He reports the insurance value of state property to be about $7,000,000, and that the allowance made for premiums on this insurance permits only about 30 per cent insurance on this property. There should be an in crease of $5,000 or $10,000. During the past year the state paid out for insurance on state property $20,000 and received from the companies for fire losses $27,000. Name Commencement Officers. Chapel Hill. Commencement mar shals were chosen by the junior class at their meeting last week. Fred Farthing, of Boone, was elected chief marshal, and the number of assistant marshals this year was Increased to eight. These are as follows: C. H. Herty, Jr., Chapel Hill; R. C. deRos set, Jr., Wilmington; a R. Wrenn, Mount Airy; W. G. Burgess, Shelby; Victor S. Bryant, Jr., Durham; C. R. Williams, Graham; J. B. Linker, Salis buhy. and W. H. Stephenson, Raleigh.
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