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ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. DECEMBER 5,' 1918
VOL. XL NO. 18.
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IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS JFTHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The 8outhv
land Will Be Found In
Brlaf Paragraphs
Domestic
The upper South Carolina confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, in annual session at
Chester, S. C voted, 93 to 28, for
the extension of laity rights to the
women of the conference.
The United States senate finance
committee has completed revision of
the war revenue bill, designed to raise
six billions of dollars in taxes in 1919
and about four billions in 1920.
On July 1, 1919, 2-cent postage will
be restored on letters; one cent on
postcards.
Liberty fuel, vastly cheaper than
gasoline and possessing many advan
tages over the product, has been In
vented by officers of the -war depart
ment and is now being produced in
large quantities.
The sixteen so-called tent camps
originally constructed as training cen
ters for national guard divisions will
be abandoned as soon as practicable,
tt is announced by the war depart
ment. J
Five armed bandits held up and
robbed a dozen men in a poolroom In
the center of Philadelphia of cash and
jewelry amounting to $5,000.
The sentence of Thomas J. Mooney
sentenced to be hanged on Decem
ber 13 for the death of ten persons
killed by a bomb explosion In San
Francisco during a preparedness pa
rade in July, 1916, was commuted by
Governor W. D. Stephens to imprison
ment for life.
Wholesale thefts of liquor in trans
portation from the North to "wet"
sections in the South has been re
vealed in Chattanooga, Tenn., by the
arrest of a former politician named
Sam Jones and others. The South
ern road had been called upon to pay
$8,000 for missing liquor, but it has
not yet been determined how the li
quor was taken from -the cars.
G. K. Schinn of Uvalde, Texas, re
cently sent Speaker Champ Clark a
sweet potato weighing fourteen and a
half pounds.
The United States government has
refused to approve the proposed trans
fer to a British syndicate of the ves
sels now under British registry own
ed by the International Mercantile
Marine Corporation.
Washington
The entente allies have decided to
demand that Holland surrender the
former emperor of Germany to justice,
according to the London Daily Ex
press. A Reuter correspondent who visited
"U-boat Avenue" off Harwich, where
the surrendered submarines are lying,
states that the "avenue" is over a mile
long.
General March, chief of staff, an
nounces that the Cunard liner, Maure
tania, sailing from Liverpool for New
York November 25, has aboard 165 of
ficers and 3,834 men of the American
army, including 116 sick and wounded.
An intensive campaign to bring
home to the American people the need
for food conservation so that three
hundred million hungry people in Eu
rope and the near East, may be fed,
will be conducted by the food admin
istration. In the coming year, it is announced,
we must send twenty million tons of
food to Europe practically the limit
of loading capacity at our ports.
At a dinner given in Paris by the
American aviators in honor of their
French comrades in the air service,
it was announced by the under-secre-tary
of aviation that of 240 American
pilots in the Lafayette squadron, 60
lost their lives.
It is officially announced that during
the war the forces of Great Britain
actually lost nearly one million men,
killed or dead, through various causes.
There was no formal celebration of
Thanksgiving Day in "Washington,
but hundreds of soldiers and sailors,
many wearing the golden V for serv
ice overseas, were dinner guests In
private homes.
Indications anent the peace confer
ence are that the "League of Nations"
"will be ,taken up early in the delib
erations. A Lima dispatch says that it is of
ficially announced that Peru has with
drawn her consuls from Chile as a re
sult of the renewal of anti-Peruvian
rioting in Iquique and Antofagasta.
The possibilities of hostilities be
tween Peru and Chile are the topic
of discussion in diplomatic circles.
The controversy about the boundary
line has approached a critical stage.
The Twenty-seventh division, to
taling 484 officers and 12,681 men, and
the thirtieth division, totaling 488 of
ficers and 12,099 men, both of which
operated on the British front, have
been withdrawn from the Lemans
area, and probably will embark in a
f pw days.
Although President Wilson sail for
France next week, no details have
been given out. The president plans
to complete the trip within six weeks.
Soldiers reaching Berlin report that
the great bulk of the German army
vrill resist all efforts of the, Bolshe
vik! to control the new Germany.
On Thanksgiving daj special serv.
ices were held in most churches over
the country. -President Wilson and
Mrs. Wilson attended the Central Pres
byterian church, where simple services
were conducted by the pastor, the
Rev. Dr. James Taylor, who read the
president's proclamation before he de
livered his sermon.
It is stated by way of London that
the new Austrian government will de
mand the trial of Kaiser Wilhelm of
Germany and Emperor Charles of Aus
tria. The representatives at the peace
conference of the United States will
be President Wilson. Robert Lansing,
secretary of state; Henry White, ior
mer ambassador to France and Italy;
E. M. House, and Gen. Tasker H. Bliss,
representative of the American army
with the. supreme war council at Ver
sailles. This is the announcement
made directly from the white house.
It is announced in a dispatch from
Munich that Bavaria has broken with
the Berlin government. The message
says that this action is taken "owing
to efforts of the Berlin government to
deceive the people' by withholding the
truth about conditions."
Viscount Kato, former minister of
foreign affairs, will head the Japan
ese delegation to the peace confer
ence at Versailles, according to un
official advices reaching Washington
from "Japan.
Difficulties between Peru and Chile,
which resulted in recall of consular'
representatives by each nation from
the principal cities of its neighbor,
have been overcome by an apology
on the part of the Peruvian govern
ment, Carlos Castro Ruiz, consul gen
eral of Chile, is announced in New
York City.
It is understood that the question of
the extradition of the former German
emperor is being considered by Brit
ish law officers of the crown, who are J
working in close co-operation with the t
French authorities. Action in the '
premises was taken immediately af
ter the flight of the former emperor
to Holland.
Reports from Germany of tests of
strength between the conservative ele
ments and the independent and Bol
shevik Socialists in various places con
tinue to indicate that, as far as mere
numbers go, the extremists are almost
negligible.
George W. Wickersham, attorney
general in the Taft administration, in
an address in New York City before
more than a hundred educators, law
yers, bankers and merchants engag
ed in international trade who are
members of the Council of Foreign Re
lations, advanced the opinion that the
constitution makes it mandatory upon
Vice President Marshall to assume the
office of president if Mr. Wilson leaves
the United States to attend the peace
conference. The former attorney gen
eral quoted section one of article two
European
Count Wilhelm Hohenzollern will
soon leave Amerongen, Holland, ac
cording to news from Amsterdam. It
is stated that he will go to a sanita
rium near Arghem, where he will un
dergo treatment for shattered nerves.
The former kaiser is reported to be
subject to frequent fits of violent
weeping.
Austria-Hungary lost four million
killed and wounded during the war,
according to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Copenhagen. Eight hun
dred thousand men were killed, in
cluding seventeen thousand officers.
The German losses in the war are
placed at 6,330.000 by the Socialist
Vorwaerts of Berlin.
The celebration of victory over Ger
many opened at Pekin with a review
of the Chinese and allied troops by
President Hsu Shih Chang.
Eleven hundred Jews were killed
during the recent massacre in Lem
berg. Hundreds of Jews are said to
have barricaded themselves in a syn
agogue which was set afire. Those
who attempted to escape from this
refuge were shot.
Germany must pay the cost of the
war to the limit of her capacity, Pre
mier Lloyd-George declared in a
speech at Newcastle, England.
Lloyd-George says: "We have got
so to act that men in the future who
feel tempted to follow the example of
the rulers who plunged the world into
war will know what is waiting for
them at the end."
General Allenby, who commanded
the victorious allied troops in Pales
tine and Syria, in their operation
against the Turks, has returned to
Egypt from the battlefront.
Marshal Foch, the allied commander-in-chief,
has established head
quarters at Luxemburg.
Nowadays when you go to a police
station in Berlin the desk sergeant will
say: "You are not required to register
any longer." They do not even look
at your passport.
A striking feature of the "new free
dom" in Germany is that the private
soldier no longer salutes his superior
officer. The soldier calls his officer
"Comrade."
Advices received in London say that
dogs and men are battling in Petro
grad for the flesh of horses which drop
dead in the streets.
Winter has begun in earnest over
the whole northern Russian front. All
the rivers are ice-bound.
The Bolshevists have mounted big
guns along the front south of the al
lied armies operating near Archangel,
Russia. The Bolshevists are receiving
reinforcements.
The Augsberg Evening Gazette ad
vises the Bavarian provisional govern
ment to take a positive stand-against
the Berlin radicals and to threaten the
north German terrorists with the se
cession of Bavaria and other south
German states unless they adopt a dif
ferent policy.
THE CONGRESS IS
II
PRESIDENT GIVES FORMAL NO
TICE OF HIS INTENTION TO
GO ABROAD
RECEPTION MESSAGE MIXED
Wlison Reviews Accomplishments of
" War, and Pays Tribute to Army
and Loyal Workers at Home.
Washington. Congress In joint ses
ssion heard President Wilson an
nounce formally his purpose to attend
the peace conference and give' his
veiws on the part the government
should play, in "dealing with reconstruc
tion problems.
Democrats of the house received the
announcement wtih cheers in which
some senators joined; the Republi
cans were silent almost throughput
the address, except when the presi
dent referred to the valor or efficiency
of American soldiers and mentioned
the names of Pershing and Sims.
Threatened interruptions by members
who disapprove of the trip and of the
president's failure to include a senar
totr among the peace delegates, how
ever, did not materialize.
During the first hour of the new
session, Senator Cummins, of Iowa,
Republican, introduced a resolution to
send a committee of eight senators to
Paris to keep the senate advised of
the progress of the peace conference,
and in the house, Representative Ro
denburg, of Illinois, Republican, had
offered a resolution proposing that
the vice president take over the func
tions upon the departure of Mr. Wil
son from the country. Senator Sher
man, of Illinois, Republican, announc
ed later that he would submit a reso
lution similar to that of Representa
tive Rodenburg, except that it would
declare the office of president vacant.
The president's annual address was
read before a crowd that filled the
house chamber. He reviewed at length
the country's accomplishments in the
war, paying tribute to the armed
forces and to loyal workers at home.
He disclosed that he thinks the prob
lems of readjustment is taking care
of itself without government aid.
Of the railroad question, Mr. Wil
son said that he had no solution to
offer.
Recommendations included a re
newed appeal 'for woman suffrage in
recognition of- woman's work in the
war; a request for early and favor
able action on the unratified Colom
bian treaty, and a suggestion that
authority should be given the war
trade board or some other body to
continue control for a time over ex
ports. The president concluded with the
announcement of his forthcoming trip
overseas. He said since the associat
ed governments had accepted princi
ples enunciated by him as the basis
for peace, he regarded it as his para
mount duty to go.
REGULAR ARMY OF HALF
MILLION MEN PROVIDED FOR
Washington. A regular army of
approximately half a million men Is
provided for specifically in estimates
submitted to congress for the fiscal
year 1920, beginning next July 1. De
tailed items on the pay of the army
show that in the total of $1,920,000,000
asked for, exclusive of the fortifica
tion estimates, provision is made for
the payment of only 21,259 officers and
382,667 men of the line and approxi
mately 130,000 non-combatant troops
with the requisite staff officers.
The inclusion in the estimates, how
ever, of five items of pay with a nom
nal appropriation of $100 each asked,
shows that the whole question of the
strength of the army after the con
clusion of peace has been deferred
and that supplemental estimates are
to be expected tinder these headings
when it is possible to present a com
pleted proiect. The items thus held
in suspension are thoe providing for
the pay of reserve and national guard
officers and men.
UNITED STATFS DIVISIONS
EXTEND MARCH INTO GERMANY
American Army of Occupation.
Three or four days will be required,
it was estimated, for the four first
line divisions to complete their cross
ing into German territory, althoueh
4he start was made soon after day
lierht. Clouds threatened rain, but later
the un. broke through the haze, but
hardly long enough to relieve the dis
mal atmosphere of the German vil
lages through which the Americans
passed.
FAMOUS SIXTH REGIMENT
IS WITH ADVANCING ARMY
With the American Army of Occu
pation, Treves. When the American
army entered Germany flags were fly
ing and banns playing along the route,
the same as was taken by the armies
of the French republic in 1792.
One division had passed one side
of the ancient city of Treves when the
Sixth regiment, famous in American
history since the days of the revolu
tionary war, made its entry.
AGAIN IN SESSION
IM0HEIIZ0LLE1
MUSI 9E PISHED
CHIEF CRIMINAL IS FORMER
KAISER IN THAT HE IS MOST
HIGHLY GUILTY.
U, CONTEMPTIBLE FIGURE
Respect for International Law Cannot
" Be Maintained if thV Chief Crim
inal Is Declared Immune.
London. Discussing plans for
bringing to justice former ' Emperor
William, of Germany, The Times as
serts that "if we had to single one
culprit for punihsment, he would be
the person."
The paper adds that the argument
that he cannot be punished because
there are others who also are guilty
cannot be admitted.
"By that argument," The Times
continues, "a felon caught in the act
would escape punishment because
there are other felons who have not
yet been brought to judgment, and
neither law nor common sense would
listen to such a plea.
"Besides, it is proposed to punish
the kaiesr alone. There are others,
too, who will.be placed on trial, but
he is the chief because most highly
criminal.
"The one argument against doing
what we can to bring this arch crim
inal to justice is that at present he is
a mean and contemptible figure, hid
ing his head from the ruin he brought
on his country, and that if we prose
cute him we may somewhat impart
dignity to him.
"On the other hand, how can re
spect for international law in the fu
ture be based on the immunity of the
principal offender against its provi
sions in the past?"
AMERICAN ARMY IN PRUSSIA;
CITY OF TREVES OCCUPIED
With the American Army of Occu
pation. American troops crossed the
frontier into Prussia at daylight be
hind the German rear guards. Treves
is the most important city thus far oc
cupied. General Pershing is in the imme
diate vicinity to observe the opera
tions. His advance headquarters will
be established "at Treves, where Gen
eral Preston Brown will be military
governor and General Harry A. Smith
in charge of civil affairs.
Treves is situated on the right bank
of the Moselle river, 57 miles south
west of Coblenz. It is perhaps the
oldest town in Germany and is rich in
Roman relics.
UNITED STATES PAYS HONOR
TO DISTINGUISHED GENERALS
Washington. General Pershing has
been directed by President Wilson to
confer the distinguished service medal
on General Bliss, Lieutenant Generals
Liggett and Bullard and Major Gen
erals Dickman, Mc Andrews and Har
bourd. 100,000 CASES OF INFLUENZA
IN ISLAND OF PORTO RICA
San Juan, P. R. Governor Yager
has ordered all schools, churches and
theaters closed and placed a ban on
public "gatherings ' because of the in
fluenza epidemic. It is estimated
there are 100,000 cases of influenza in
the island.
The labor federation has requested
add and has asked that the United
States public health service be placed
in charge of it.
BERNARD BARUCH RESIGNS;
TO TAKE EFFECT ON JAN. 1
Washington. 'Bernard M. Baruch,
chairman of the war industries board,
has forwarded his resignation to Pres
ident Wilson to take effect January 1.
Mr.. Baruch's decision to resign is in
line with his known belief that the
affairs of the - board can be closed by
the first of the year.
GERMAN GOVERNMENT IS TO
INVESTIGATE OWN CRIMES
London. The German government
Is stairting an investigation into the
German crimes in Belgium.
Among those held responsible, ac
cording to an Amsterdam dispatch,
are General von Sauberzwegi, the
former military governor of Brussels;
General Baron Kurt con Manteuffel,
military commander at Louvain, and
Baron von der-Yancken, civil governor
of Brussels at the time of Miss Cav
ell's execution -
TRANSPORT READY TO SAIL
WITH WILSON AND PARTY
New York The American transport
George Washngton, sielected by Pres
ident Wilson c convey to Europe
himself an other members of the
American delegation to the peace con
ference, will be convoyed by the bat
tleship Pennsylvania and a fleet of
five fast destroyers. The George
Washington is lying at her pier in
Hoboken ready to sail on her history
making trip at a moment's notice.
6ERMANYMUST PAY
IN STERLING
GOODS
THE PRICE OF VICTORY NOT
VENGEANCE, RETRIBUTION,
BUT PREVENTION.
THE LAW PLAINLY LAI3 DOWN
Intimation Given That the Man, or
Men Who Cauesd the War Must
Meet Merited Punishment.
London. David Lloyd George, the
British prime minister, in a speech at
New Castle, said the victory of the
entente allies had been due to the
ceaseless valor of their men and that
it would be a lesson to anybody who
in the future thought that they, as the
Prussian war lords hoped, "could over
look this little island in their reckon
ing." '
"We are now approaching the peace
conference," the premier continued.
"The price of victory is not vengeance
or retribution. It is prevention. First
of all what about those people whom
we have received without question for
years to our shores; to whom we give
equal rights with our own sons and
daughters, and who abused that hos
pitality to betray the land.w -
The second question was the ques
tion of indemnities, the premier add
ed. In every court of justice through
out the world the party which lost has
had to bear the cost of the litigation.
When Germany defeated France she
established the principle.
"But I must use one word of warn
ing," said Mr. Lloyd George. Ger
many is not to be allowed to pay the
Indemnity by . dumping cheap goods
upon us. That is the 6nly limit in
principle we are laying down. She
must not be alowed to pay for her
wanton damage and devastation by
dumping cheap goods and wrecking
our industries.
"There is a third and last point. Is
no one to be made responsible for
the war? Somebody has been respon
sible for a war that has taken the
lives of millions of the best young
men f Europe. Is not anyone to be
made responsible for that? If not, all
I can say is that if that is the case,
there is" one justice for the poor
wretched criminal and another for
kings and emperors."
A NUMBER OF TENT CAMPS
SAFE FOR SEVERAL MONTHS
Washington. The 16 so-called tent
camps originally constructed as train
ing centers for national guard divi
sions will be abandoned as soon as
practicable. General March, chief of
staff, announced in a war department
circular.
The only exception will be the. base
hospitals at the camps, which the cir
cular directs to be maintained.
The camps are Camp Greene, Char
lotte, N. C; Wadsworth, Spartanburg,
S. C; Hancock, Augusta, Ga.; Mc
Clellan, Anniston, Ala.; Sevier, Green
ville, S. C.; Wheeler, Macon, Ga.;
MacATthur, Waco, Texas; Logan,
Houston, Texas; Cody, Deming, N.
M.; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Bowie, Ft.
Worth, Texas; Sheridan, Montgomery,
Ala.; Shelby. Hattiesburg, Miss. ;
Beauregard, Alexandria, La.; Kearny,
Linda Vista, Cal.; Fremont, Paio Al
to, CaL
EX-SECRETARIES BRYAN AND
M'ADOO MEET AT ASHEVILLE
Asheville. Despite the fact that
William Jennings Bryan does not
smoke, he was wearing a smoking
jacket when Secretary W. G. McAdoo,
of the United States treasury, called
on him.
Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Bryan felici
tated each other, and Mr. Bryon jok
ingly remarked, that in spite of their
former titles,, each has one now that
no one can take from them, that of
"ex-secretary."
Mr. McAdoo stopped over to inspect
this city, with a viewvto spending his
vacation here when he gets free from
his political job.
ULTIMATE FUTURE OF CAMP
GREENE DEPENDS UPON EVENTS
" Washington. Camp Greene is to
be used for many months for the de
mobilization of army forces. Its fu
ture depends on future plans. This
was stated by government officials.
Secretary Baker announced as a
"policy that all teat camps will be
abandoned as soon as practicable. No
more tents nor supplies will be sent
to these camps, ncr will any further
improvements be made other than
those necessary for care of garrisons.
CHARLESTON, S. O, TO BE A
PORT OlT DEBARKATION
Washington. Boston, New York,
Newport News, Va., and Charleston,
S. C, are the ports the war depart
ment now plans to use for the return
of the army. Even wtih this wide dis
tribution of the strain on port facili
ties and transportatlonand with Ger
man ships now idle employed on the
task, careful estimates show that the
last of the army oild not possibly
reach the United States in less thaa
eight months.
VICE PRESIDENT
TO REPRESENT
ABSENCE FROM THE COUNTRY
MAKES AUTOMATIC VACANCY
IN PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE.
; WICKERSHAM POINTS TO UW
PrMent Must Be on Hand to Givt
Congress Information and Advise
it as to Necessary Legislation.
New. York. Geo. W. Wickersham,
formerly attorney general, in an ad
dress here before educators, law
yers, bankers, and merchants engage:!
in International trade, who are mem
bers of the council on foreign rela
tions, advanced the opinion that the
constitution makes it mandatory upon
Vice President Marshall to assume
the office of President if Mr. Wilson
leaves the United States to attend the
peace conference. -
The former attorney general quoted
section one of article two of the
United States constitution, which, he
said, prescribed the mode of proced
ure In event of the President's "re
moval from office, his death, resigna
tion or inability to discharge the du
ties of said office." He maintained
that absence of the President from
the seat of government and the coun
try "constitutes an inability to dis
charge the powers and duties of his
office," within the meaning of the
law.
According to Mr. Wickersham, the
most important functions the Presi
dent has to perform in connection with
a session of Congress, at which time,
he held, "it is the President's duty to
be at the seat of government," are:
"First, from time to time, 'to give
Congress information of the state of
the Union and recommend to their
consideration such measures as he
shall judge necessary and expedient;"
and, second, 'to consider bills which
shall have passed the house of repre
sentatives and the senate, and, if he
approve, to sign them, and, if he dis
approve, to veto them.' "
CAROLINA TROOPS EXPECTED
TO EMBARK IN A FEW DAYS
American Army Headquarters in
France. The 76th division of the
American army, reduced by replace
ment drafts to 61 officers and 1,000
men, has arrived at the port of St.
Nazaire, and is embarking for home.
The 27th division (New York troops)
totalling 484 officers and 12,681 men,
have been withdrawn from the Lem
ans area and probably will embark in
a few days.
The 27th division Is the New York
National Guard division commanded
by Major General John F. O'Ryan, the
only National Guard officer to have
served through the war with that high
rank.
The 30th division was composed of
the North Carolina and Tennessee Na
tional Guard.
Both these organizations saw heavy
actions with the British and were
highly commended by British officers
for their desperate fighting when
Marshal Haig's armies were smashing
the Hindenburg line in northern
France. Their losses undoubtedly
have been heavy, but it is not re
garded as probable that half their
original strength figured on the cas
ualty lists.
Secretary Baker said that none of
thedivisional rogai izations would ar
rive home before Christmas.
FAMISHED AND HALF NAKED
PRISONERS ARE RELEASED
. New York. Fanished ' and half
naked, 2,000 prisoners of war freed
by the Germans have come stumbling
into Nancy, Baccarat and Luneville in
the past few days, and have been car
ed for by the Y. M. C. A. workers on
the Lorraine front, according to a ca
blegram from Par.s, given out here
by the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation. BRITISH TRANSPORTS TO
BRING 400,000 AMERICANS
New York. Although the Brtiish
government may be compelled to use
virtually all its available transports
for the return of its own colonial
troops, arrangements for the early
transportation home of approximately
400,000 American iroops on British
ships have been eflected, it was learn
ed in authoritative British quarters.
This . includes 12,000 who have been
training in England and who have
already embarked. ,
THE SPIRIT OF VIENNA IS
NOT BLIGHTED BY SHADOWS
VIennaJ The shadows of defeat,
hunger and financial ruin have not yet
blighted the spirit of what once was
the gayest and most beautiful of the
European capitals. Hundreds of Ameri
cans wh ohave lived here during the
war speak highly of the courage, for
titude and kindliness of citizens of
Vienna who did not molest or intern
them after the United States entered
the war and in many Instances aided
them with loans of money.
BRIGHT PROSPECTS
OE FURNITURE IN
REPORTS SHOW INVESTMENT
OF $3,536,273 WITH ANNUAL
HAY ROLL OF $3,771,915.
HORSE POWER USED, 10,694
Empl oyes Number 6,933 and Report!
Show a Steadily Increasing Sum
in Wages Paid
Raleigh North Carolina's furniture
manufacturing industry, as summariz
ed In a forthcoming report by Com
missioner of Labor and Printing M. .
L. Shipman, makes a most gratifying
showing, with 89 factories reporting,
comparing with 96 for 916, this in
spite of very adverse conditions for
this line of industry during the war. -The
commissioner says there Is every
indication that the industry will
speedily quicken activities with relief
from war time restrictions and re
newals of supplies and labor. - - -
The report shows $3,586,273 capital,
an increase of $282,930; $4,052,000 to--tal
value of plants, an increase of .
$363,000 ; $17,760,442, total value of
plants, an increase of 54,340,000 : anil
$3,771,915 total payroll, an increase
of $1,349,570. The factories use 10,64 ,
horsepower.' Employes number 6,0(75 '
men, 603 women and 325. children. Re
ports show general increase in wage?. .
Poultry Show May be Free. . .
Charlotte If Mecklenburg Poultry
Club can obtain Auditorium witn-'
out rental charges no entrance fee will
be charged for the annual poultry
show to be held January 6-9 and which
is expected to be the largest show
ever held in Charlotte, between 1,200
and 1,500 birds being anticipated.
Final arrangements for holding. the
show were made at a meeting of the
club at the Mecklenburg Hotel.
Many special prizes will be offered,
at the January show, the prizes pos-'.
sibly exceeding in number those of-,
Xered at any previous show here. Cash
prizes will range from $2 to $10. '
When th epremium list has been-pub-'-lished,
the special prizes and the cash. ,
prizes listed are expected to be
means of persuading many fanciers to
exhibit their birds here, aside from
the likelihood that competition will
be such that will satisfy the desire
of poultrymen who contend that they
have the best in their breed.
Held on Charge of Murder.
Winston-Salem. Ernest Cromer, a
young married man, was held without
bond for the grand Jury of the supe
rior court after a preliminary hearing
in the city court on the charge of the
murder of Robert Young in this city
during the disorder on November 17.
Young was killed by a shot from a
pistol, fired while he was operating
a firehose nozzle from which water
was thrown in an effort to disperse a
mob which had gathered to attack the
municipal building with rocks and
guns.
Several witnesses were examined
and Cromer was identified as the man
seen firing his pistol toward Young.
It was shown that five shots wera
fired and that it was the third one
that killed Young. Theevidence was
too clearly against the- prisoner to
admit of any question as to the of
fense being bailable or not.
Many Injured In Wreck.
Fayetteville. Fifty-five persons
were injured, none fatally, when a
broken rail 1 wrecked the Atlantic
Coast Line passenger train, 'Charles
ton to Fayettevflle, at Latta. Practi
cally every passenger and member of
the crew received injuries, the ma
the more seriously Injured, were
the , more serously njured, were
brought here.
Two of the passenger cars left the
track when the accident occurred.
The exact cause of the derailment, is
not known at this hour, but it is un
derstood to have been a broken rail.
Solicitor Shaw Commended.
Kins ton. Resolutions commenda
tory of Col. Henry E. Shaw, about to
retire as solicitor of the sixth judicial
district, were passed at a recent
meeting of the Duplin county bar at
Kenansville. A number of addresses
were made by attorneys and others.
Colonel Shaw will give up the solicl
torship shortly to his nephew, James
A. Powers. Colonel Shaw resides at
Liberty Hill, near this city. He-is a
native of Duplin county. Lenoir, Dup
lin, Onslow and Sampson counties
comprise the district
Delegation Goes to Washington. -
Charlotte. A delegation of Char
lotte men, together with delegations
from Wilmington and points on the
route of the proposed Charlotte-to-Wilmington
highway, will go to Wash
ington to attend the hearing before a
committee of the senate and house,
Friday, December 13, on the Chamberlain-Dent
bill which will carry , an
appropriation of $100,000,000 for the
reconstruction and rehabilitation of
national and state highways and for
the buildiirg of new highways.