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rrn (Hm:a FTH ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 3878. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. AUGUST 7, 1919 VOL. XL NO. 1. MAM IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Domestic The Alabama legislature took note of the race rioting in Chicago and Washington, and by resolution called attention to the peace and amity ex isting between the races in the South. Pale postage stamps, which came into use along with meatless Tuesdays and heatless Mondays, soon will go into the discard, . because the bureau of engraving now that it does not have to engrave plates to make so much money, will have opportunity to devote some time to engraving post age stamps. worm War Hero Sergeant Alvin York announces that he and his wife will devote their lives to the educa tion of young men and women in the rural communities, and he is going on the lecture platform ta get the money to found "York University.' congress is considering plans to modify the war revenue act, and soft drinks may soon be purchased for 5 ceii is. The Nebraska legislature has rt i- fied the woman suffrage, amendment. Alabama will issue $25,000,000 worth of bonds for good roads. Hunter Raine, who has already serv ed a term in the pen for his banking peculations, must serve from one to ten years more in prison. The state department at Washing ton is advised that Japanese compa nies are trying to. acquire properties in the oil fields of Mexico. Fearing an ict shortage in Atlanta, Ga., Mayor James L. Key has ordered a councilmanic and aldermanic inves tigation of the ice situation. Wilson has asked congress not to recess but to stay in session to con sider the creation of a commission to determine all questions of railways workers' wages. The house has voted to comply. Oscar Hammerstein, producer of grand opera, died of complications at his home in New York after an ill ness of several days. Following resolutions adopted in At lanta, July 15, 16 and 17, to secure an increase in wages to meet the pres ent high cost of living, the union shop employees went on strike the first day of August. One hundred thousand union rail way workmen are on strike in the Chi cago district. The strike is chiefly effective in the middle west and in the southeast. Five persons were killed by the ex plosion of one thousand pounds of dynamite near Landing, N. J. The explosion was in the Atlas Powder company packing house. A contract has been awarded for the construction of battleship No. 54 to be named the Massachusetts, of 43,200 toni displacement. Several hours before authorities were to remove them to the Athens i county home, seven children, ranging in age from six weeks to ten years, were found with their mother, Mrs. Toney Stravisar, burned to death or asphyxiated, in their home at Kimber ly, a small mining town, near Nelson ville, Ohio. The children were tied to their beds and coal oil had been sprinkled over the room. A roll call of a certain Solomon fam ily in New York, if held in the Atlanta federal prison, would result in seven brothers answering "Here!" All seven have reported at the prison to begin sentences of two years each for using the mails to defraud, being tried together in New York tinker Joint charges, and -will serve terms to gether at the prison. After nearly two hours' debate snd whilo the tenipe. aiure in the cham ber was hovering around the 100 mark, the national house voted to repeal the 10 per cent war tax on soda water and ice cream Washington An attempt was made in the for eign relations committee to reduce the sum payable to Colombia from $25,- 000,000 to $15,000,000, but was defeat ed by 11 to 2. The century-old senate custom of considering treaties in secret session was broken when the long pending Co lombian treaty was taken up. This de cision was reached by unanimous con sent of the senate membership. The special defensive treaty with France, which Republican senators have declared President Wilson is holding from the senate in violation of its own terms, will be submitted for ratification. German cotton mills with tan mil lion spindles estimated as still suita ble for operation can consume about one million bales of American cot ton during the next year, if mean.; are found to finance the movement of the commodity from the United States, says a report from Erwin W. Thomp son, commercial attache of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, just made public. Cotton experts are agreed that the cotton in public store in the United States is nearly all of grades below those desirod by American cotton mills. It is stated that warehouse and ex change faculties in Rotterdam, Hol land, are now available for handling the cotton trade. The Pacific fleet under the com mand of Admiral Rodman is floating in the Pacific waterway. Six dreadnaughts of the Pacific fleet led by the flagship New Mexico suc cessfully negotiated the Panama canal the largest ships that have ever yet passed through this waterway. The average time of passage for each war ship froin Colon to Balboa was ten hours, eliminating anchorage time in Oatua lr.ke. The senate received a rennrt from President Wilson showing that 217 citizens of the United States have been killed in Mexico since the re gime of Porfirio Diaz. Government control of teleeranh and telephone properties is at an end. Orders for their return to private own ers have been issued by Postmaster ieneral Burleson as required by a resolution adopted by congress and signed by the president. The permit system devised bv the railroad administration and the grain corporation for controlling the ship ment of this year's record grain crop was put into effect August 1. The importance of dealing with the high cost of living has almost usurped the pre-eminence of the league of na tions' fight in Washington officialdom. It has gone forth from the white house that the president realizes the importance of dealing summarily with the high cost of living and may even use his war powers to end the situa tion. More than a thousand Americans are threatened with a loss of millions of dollars in investments by a new agrarian law enacted by the congress of Sonora, Mexico, at the direct in structions of Governor Calles. Several American companies have already filed complaints with the state department and other complaints are in prepara tion. General Pershing has started on his "valedictory 'tour of the occupied ter ritory of Germany. He will first visit the American troops remaining in oc cupied area, and then the French and British zones. He will next take an automobile trip over the battle fields of the western front. The agreement for open sessions re garded possibly as forecasting public consideration of the peace treaty, the Franco-American agreement and sub sequent treaties, followed unanimous approval of the foreign relations com mittee of the Colombia convention call ing for payment to that nation of $25,000,000 as claims growing out of the partition of Panama. Before ap proving the treaty, however, the com mittee struck out the original clause expressing the "regret" of the United States to Colombia for action in the canal proceedings. After an all day wrangle the house cf representatives adopted a resolution. reported out by the war investigating committee, requesting Secretary Baker to place on sale without delay surplus food products held by the war depart ment, and valued at $120,000,000. America is bound by its debt to France to ratify the treaty pledging military aid to that nation in event of unprovoked German attack. Presi dent Wilson told the senate, in sub mitting the French-American defen sive agreement for ratification. Acting upen the advice of the Mex ican go 'ernment, John West Thomp son, an American ranchman livin; near Mexico City, has paid the ,500 pecos ransom demanded by bandits for the release of his 14-year-old son, the state dep. - tme z has been aiivtead. The Mexican authorities, it is stated, fear ed the boy would be murdered lefore he could j rescued and advised pay ing the money. Foreign General Denekine, the Russian com mander has gained an important vic tory over the Bolshevikl and captur ed the town of Kamishin on the Volga. Five thousand Bolshevists, nine gun3 and large quantities of materials wero taken. Turks and Tartars are moving upon the Armenians from three sides. They have cut off. the American relief sup plies and threaten all the remaining Armenians with extermination unless additional military protection is af forded. The police strike in London and the English provinces called suddenly in protest against pending legislation af fecting police organization, has gone into effect and sixty-five thousand po licemen and prison officials have re sponded to the calL By vote of 245 to 41 the Polish par liament ratified the German treaty and also the treaty for the protection of minorities. President Carranza says that Mexi co will hold open the door to nation als of all countries who can show they possess wholesome ideas of citizen ship and will not prove a disturbing element in the nation. Serious anti-Japanese riots have broken out in Shantung, and the prov ince is under martial law. French labor troubles are assuming a serious aspect. Dispatches from Paris state that political and profes sional elements are as much a disturb ing cause in the labor world as the fight between labor and capital. The first real session of the Inter nationale Trades Union Congress open ed at Amsterdam, Holland. The state ment that "the capitalistic systems of all countries were responsible for the war"' was vigorously protested by the American delegate, Tobin. A strike has been declared by the Bulgarian transport and railway work ers. Dr. Otto Bauer, Austrian foreign minister, says: "For thirty years we will be the slaves of the allies econom ically." Austria loses her economic in dependence. Austria must cover 70 per cent of the sixty-eight billion crowns war debt. This shameful peace can be destroyed only through the vic tory of international solidarity " The German premier has issued a warning to the country against hasty revolution. He admittod that the great masses of the people bad Just ground for discontent, and said it was the gov ernment's task to alleviate th'ilr suf ferings. A Bolshevik uprising in Bulgaria is reported in a dispatch from Mosoow. The outbreak is declared to hv oc curred in a garrison .town. th garri son joining the revolutionist. A strong arraignment of th pres ent Hungarian government is contain ed in the allied statement ia which it was made known to ho Hungarian people that thoy cocM obtain a re moval of the blocko-ie sod receive food supplies if they ousted IVOa Kun and set i: o truly repreeentalir gov. ornmont. The ten or we iaies-i was given out by eiomsmoean GRAVE QUESTION BEFORE CONGRESS RAILROAD EMPLOYES DEMAND RETIREMENT OF PRIVATE CAPITAL FROM ROADS. TRIPARTITE CONTROL INSTEAD Generally Recognized as Most Serious and Far-reaching Proposition Ever Presented to the Public. Washington. Organized labor came out with the unequivocal formal de mand that private capital be retired from the railroads. A tri-partite control composed of the public, the ooeratlne manage ment and the employes is demanded instead. Addressed to the American public and signed by the engineers, the fire men, the conductors and the Ameri can Federation of Labor, a formal statement was issued announcing this proposal. "It marks," says the statement, "the step by which organized labor passes from demands for wage increases to demands that the system of profits in industry be overhauled." This sentence sums up in a few words the proposal of which there have been hints and indications, but which is now laid before the country for the first time. Everywhere in of ficial Washington it is recognized as the most serious and far-reaching proposition the country will be called on to face. Characterizing the proposal as "la bor's bill," it is put forth as a remedy for the high cost of living, because, the railroads are the key industry of the nation. It demands the "genuine co-operation and partnership bused on a real community interest and partici pation in control," of which President Wilson spoke to Congress, and which the statement Bays has been ignored by labor and the private owners of the railroads. INTENTIONS OF JAPAN ARE SOON TO BE ANNOUNCED. Wshington. Japan's intentions in the Chinese province of Shangtung, where she is given control by the Ver sailles treaty, soon are to be set forth in a formal declaration from the Tokio government, according to information received in official circles here. Although the exact nature of the declaration was not forecast, it was assumed it would follow the lines of the repeated statements of Japanese statesmen that the province eventually is to be leturned to China. In some quarters it was believed Japan might even set a date for the restoration and acknowledge publicly the secret un derstanding she is said to have with China on that subject. NO DEATHS RESULT FROM EXPLOSION AT RAR1TAN. Raritan, N. J. Six hundred soldiers and civilians at the government ar senal here fought desperately for sev eral hours amid bursting shrapnel shells to prevent fire from reaching a magazine of six inch high explo sive shells and a nearby mine of T. N. T. The fire followed a series of four explosions in a box ear and ammuni tion magazines. It was first reported that a dozen men had been killed and a score or more injured seriously by the explosions, but the casualty list had been reduced to two slightly in jured, both civilian employes at the arsenal. MACON SHOPMEN VOTE TO RETURN TO WORK TODAY. Macon, Ga. Three hundred Georgia Southern & Florida railroad shopmen, who struck because of a personal grievance against the foreman of the .hnn irntMl to return to work, pend ing an immediate hearing of their charges. These men have not as yei taken a stand on the wage increase, for which 1,300 other shopmen in Ma con have struck. THE HINES PROPOSITION OPPOSED BY RAILROAD MEN - Washington. B. M. Jewell, acting president of the railway division of Federation of Labor said that all railroad employees were op- A 11. posed to the proposal maae 10 me president by Director General HInes that congress constitute a cuiuuuuot to pass on questions of wage increases for the men. He said this process would be too slow and because of the rising cost of living speedy relief was neccessary. INVESTIGATION EXPECTED OF CHICAGO BIG FIVE PACKERS Washington. Attorney General Palmer has summoned District At ctrney Clyne, of Chicago.to report on ibe progress of investigations which have been under way there. Mr. dyne's visit was regarded as signifi cant also, because an early decision, is expected by the attorney general as to whether information submitted by the federal trade commission war rants prosecutions against the "big five" packing companies. PATRICK DENIES ANY WANTON DESTRUCTION OF AEROPLANES Washington. 'Denial that any air -r v. .A V. V wan wantonlv de- uiaib & t-iiv. . - stroyed was made by Mason M. Pat rick, former cnier or tne air aerviue abroad. "That any planes were burned need lessly or wastefully is incorrect," de dared Patrick, now a colonel of engi neers who, when chief of the A. E. P. air service ranked as major gen eral. "None that It would be eoonomi eal to keep were destroyed." STRENUOUS EFFORT AT COST LOWE PROPOSED FIVE WEEK RECES8 BY HOUSE IS DEFERRED BY REQUEST OF PRESIDENT RAILWAY CONDUCTORS CONFER Interstate Commerce Committee Di rects Federal Trade Commission to Insert Probe in Shoe Prices Washineton. Developments in ine efforts of the government to reduce the high cost of living were: The house at the request of Fneri dent Wilson agreed to defer its plan ned five weeks' recess and consider demands of railroad employees for in creased wages. The senate again discussed increas ed living costs but postponed action on the Myers resolution proposing re duction in currency circulation. The committee of three, appointed to consider means of reducing living expenses and report to the President and cabinet began work. The national offieeis of the Brother hood of Railway Conductors conferred with President Wilson "regarding in creased wages and the cost of living. The houce interstate commerce committoe reported favorably a reso lution directing the federal trade com mission to investigate the Increased price of shoes. Resolutions and bills designed to al leviate conditions of living were intro duced in both houses of Congress. Of the half-dozen important devel opments, however, the request of President Wilson that the house forego its recess at least temporarily to con sider wage requests of the railroad workers of the country and to study economic conditions, was by far the most unexpected. FAVORABLY IMPRESSED BY WILSON'S REQUEST. Chicago. Officers of the Chicago district council of the Federated Shopmen's union, which called a nation-wide strike of railway shop work ers, were favorably impressed by President Wilson's request that Con gress create a commission to consider wage increases for railway employes. When reports were received that the President had suggested that any wage increase be made retroactive to Au gust 1, 1919, the union leaders here said they would remain firm for re troaction to January 1, 1919. The strike, ccording to reports, was chiefly effective In the middle west and southeast. GERMANS APPEAR TO HAVE ABANDONED HOPE, Warsaw. Under pressure from the entente the Germans appear to have abandoned the lingering hope of get ting the Polish harvest in Suwalki for themselves and are withdrawing their troops. The withdrawal removes the danger of conflict between the Poles and Germans for the volunteer regiments from Sawalki were burning to cross the line of demarcation and turn the Germans out of their homes." The danger of conflict between the Poles and Lithuanians is less now German influence on the latter is being re moved. PRESS ASSOCIATION INDORSES THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS Wilmington. After an hour and a half of heated discussion the Press association adopted a resolution com mending the covenant of the league of nations by'a vote of 33 to 3. The debate was led principally by R. F. Beasley and W. C. Dowd, the latter of Charlotte, who spoke for the resolution. And Parker R. Anderson, who strenuously fought the proposal. Following the vote on the resolu tion. Mr. Anderson moved that the resolution be given unanimous appro val and this was done and will be wired to the President. BANKING LAW IS AMENDED TO ASSIST IN, COTTON CARRYING Washington. The house of repre sentatives passed a bill amending the banking laws in two particulars so as facilitate the carrying of cotton and other perishable marketable sta pies to a more liberal extent than has heretofore prevailed Representative) Stevenson, of South Carolina, intro duced bills looking to this end, in con sequence of requests from the South Carolina Cotton Association WORLD CONFERENCE OF LABOR IS TO MEET IN WASHINGTON Washington. So that the first meet lngs of the international labor con ference created by the Versailles treaty may be held in Washington next October regardless of whether the treaty is ratified, the senate unan imously adopted a Joint resolution authorizing the president to call such a meeting but giving no authority for America's representation "unless and until" the treaty's ratification has has been accomplished. DAYLIGHT SAVING AGAIN TO RUN THE GAUNTLET Washington The senate decided to have the proposal for repeal of the daylight saving law again run the gauntlet of President Wilson s veto. By a vote of 41 to 12, the senate pass ed and sent to the president the sepa rate house bill repealing the daylight saving measure. During brief discussion of the house bill, several senators predicted that the measure, like the daylight repeal rider would tot vetoed jr the president. i ' ; : : ' SHIPS SHAKEN BT E DREADNAUGHTS OF OUR NAVY HAVE A NOVEL EXPERIENCE OFF COAST OF MEXICO. COLLISION QUARTERS SOUNDED New Mexico Trembled From Bow to Stern As If She Had Struck a Reef; No Damage Done. On Board U. S. S. New Mexico. Six dreadnaughts of the Pacific fleet were shaken severely by a double earthquake shock 20 miles off the coast of the state of Colima, Mexico. None-of" the -warships reported any damage. The New Mexico trembled from bow to stern as if she had struck an un charted reef and the navigating offi cer sounded "collision quarters" on the flagship's siren. Sailors in the foretop said the basket masts of the Warships swayed like poplar trees in a gale. Officers on the quarterdeck hurried to their posts and the, crew and ma rines took their places. Meanwhile all water-tight compartments on the New Mexico were closed and inspec tion parties were sent into the holds to see if there had been any damage to the hull. CRUELTY TO AMERICANS IN MEXICO DESCRIBED. Washington. A 3tory of cruelty to Americans in Mexico, involving the death from starvation of an aged American woman, reached Washing ton through unofficial channels. The cruelties, including an attack by ban dits some of whom are alleged to have been Carranzistas, indignities and ' later confiscation of property, were perpetrated, it is said, upon Dr. and Mrs. Charles T. Sturgis, of Wash ington, and the latter's mother, Mrs. W. H. Keenright, also of Washington. Mrs. Keenright died of starvation while held a prisoner by the bandits. HENRY APPEALS FOR KAISER IN LETTER TO HIS COUSIN. Copenhagen. The former Prince Henry of Prussia, in a letter to King George, says the truth about the war may be had from the allied statesmen and he suggests that of the former German emperor is placed on trial the statesmen also appear. The letter asks King George, "in the name of justice and his own in terests," to desist from demanding ex tradition and trial of the former Ger man ruler. The letter which is sign ed "Your Humble Cousin, Henry," charges that England plotted Ger many's commercial downfall. SUPREME COUNCIL ORDERS UMANIAN ARMY TO STOP. Paris. The supremo inter-allied council sent a message to the Ru manian army, along the Theiss river to cease its advance upon Budapest immediately. The council held no for mal meeting but its members eagerly awaited further communication from th- new Hungarian government in Budapest. The note, which the supreme coun cil communicated to the new Hun garian government through the Ital ian mission in Budapest was temper ate in tone, showing that the disposi tion on the part of the peace confer ence to assist the Hungarian people in an effort to create a stable government under the direction of the new pre mier, Jules Peidell. BICKETT REPLIES TO CHICAGO PAPER'S WIRE Raleigh. Governor T. W. Bickett, answering a query of a Chicago news paper says that North Carolina can absorb 25,000 negroes who want to return from Illinois to the South un less they have become tainted or in toxicated with dreams of social equal ity or political dominion. COMPLETE TIE-UP OF ALL RAIROAD8 Chicago. A complete tie-up of the railroads of the country is very prob able, in the opinion of M. L. Havver, president of the Chicago district coun cil of the Federate Railway Shop men's Union. He declared the strike is spreading rapidly and that the un rest among railway workers is so gen era! that the movement has over whelmed the international officers of the various unions involved. FIVE PERSONS KILLED BY EXPLOSION, IN ITALY Taranto, Italy. High power explos ives, said by the police to have been placed by radicals in order to terror ize people during the proposed gen eral strike on July 21, suddenly ex ploded near Chiatona. Five persons were killed. Parts of their bodies were thrown several hundred feet in the air. No damage was done to the rail way lines. The police are investigating the incident, MACHINE GUNS USED TO QUELL STRIKE RIOTERS Geneva. Troops sent by the govern ment to quell strike riots at Basle and Zurich were forced to use machine guns mounted on automobiles during the disorders. The strikers at Basle ripped up the pavements and bom barded the troops, injuring many. A number of strikers were killed and wounded and many were arrested. At Basle the outbreak was said to bo of ft boliaOTik cJ-sraoter. EARTHQUAK SHOCK PRESS ASSOCIATION MEETING Editors of North Carolina Held the Greatest Meeting in Their History at Wrightsville Beach. Wilmington,. July . 31: The .first day's session of the annual convention of the North Carolina Press Associa tion for 1919 was made memorable by reason of the fact that in honor of the annual assembling of the editors the first concrete ship from a govern ment owned shipyard was launched here. Another event which made the day one of exceptional ' interest was the presence of the secretary of the Navy, Hoii. Josephus Daniels, who paid his respects to his fellow brethren of the press in an address at the Victoria Theater, witnessed with them the launching of the ship Cape Fear, spoke to the two thousand operatives of the Carolina Shipbuilding Corporation, which is building 12 steel ships of large tonnage here, lunched with the editors"and theirwives at -the - mesgt hall of the Carolina' Shipbuilding Cor poration, and left, returning to Wash ington. The program of the Press Associa tion was so badly disarranged by the arrival an hour late of Secretary Dan iels' train that contemplated sessions at the Oceanic hotel were practically abandoned save for the night session and the day given over to the exer cises incident to the ship launching and the visit to the plant, where the steel ships are building. There were, however, formal open ing exercises at the Oceanic, the ad dress of welcome being delivered by Mayor P. Q. Moore, after the conven tion was called to order by President Z. W. Whitehead. President Z. W. Whitehead deliver ed the President's annual address at the .night session of the North Caro lina Association following a cordial welcome to the editors by Mayor Thos. H. Wright, of Wrightsville Beach. A" cordial response in behalf of the news paper men was made by Editor J. F. Hurley, of . Salisbury, and Editor J. J. Fariss, of High Point. Mr. H. R. Dwire, editor of the Win- ston-Salem Sentinel, delivered the an nual oration. August 1. After a year of patient if not watchful waiting, Editor J. (A. Sharpe of the Lumberton Robesor.ian, came into his own and was elected president of the North Carolina Press Association, which had a busy day's session. Mrs. Carolina Land, man aging editor of the Albemarle News, succeeded in making her point that women have a place in newspaper work so clear and definite that the editors were ready at the conclusion of her very interesting talk to elect Miss Beatrice Cobb, of Morganton, as orator for next year's meeting. "Sscttona of th rport of the com mittee on resolutions committing the North Carolina Press Association to endorsement of the peace treaty with out reservations provoked the most prolonged discussion of the conven tion. The resolution was finally adopt ed by a vote of 32 to 3 and was then made unanimous. Various matters of interest were discussed as the question of exchanges, the cash m advance plan of subscrip tion, political advertising, etc. The cash in advance plan for subscription, it was almost unanimously agreed. was the business-like way of hand ling the question. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, J. A. Sharpe, Lumberton Robesonian: first vice-president, R. T, Wade, Morehead City Coaster; second vice-president, J. F .Hurley, Salisbury Post ; third vice-president, Parker An derson, Wilmington Dispatch; secre tary-treasurer, John B. Sherrill. Con cord Tribune; historian. M. L. Ship- man. French Broad Hustler; orator, Miss Beatrice Sobb, Morganton News Herald; poet, D. L. St. Clair, San- ford Express ; executive committee, W. C. Hammer, E .B. Jeffress, I. S. Lon don, Santf ord Marltn and H. B. Varner. This is the twenty-third consecu tive year that Mr. Sherrill has held the office of secretary-treasurer and in that time he has missed but two meetings. Aug. 2. The matter which next to the endorsement of the League of na tions exercised the newspaper men most was the proposition of a group of renresentatives. headed by J. L. Home, of Rocky Mount Telegm to form three departments within the as soclatlon, one for the dailies, one for the weeklies and semi-weeklies and on for the trade papers. R. y. Beasley, commissioner of public welfare, presented some re marks on the task of the press In re construction. The association decided to hold a midwinter meeting in Greensboro early in the coming year. At 1:30 o'clock the Association aajournea School Ends. Chapel Hill. With the final exami T,t5nn the 1919 session of the Uni versity of North Carolina Summer School comes to an end. mere na been an increase in attendance this year of almost 50 per cent over last and in every way It has been the most successful session of the sum mer school In recent years. Most or attendants have remained for tne entire term of six weeks, thus making fnr the instructors to car ry on a much more comprehensive plan of work. Ice Shortage at Asheville. Asheville. With every drug store either out of ice or down to the last few pounds and the factories prophe sying a lack of ice for the next fifteen days, Asheville is facing a serious ice nhortare. The ice men of the city re port that there ia no prospect of more Druggist stands will lose large quan Mas nf ice cream during the night. The Carolina Creamery, makers of Ice cream, report that they have not enough sugar to max oream cor an ether dsr. EFFECT OF PUBLIC IS GOVERNMENT MACHINERY WILL INVESTIGATE THE CAUoE OF CONTINUED HIGH PRICES. DANGER IN SOCIAL UNREST Resolution to Sell Wheat Crop at Mar- Ket Prices, Government to Make Up Difference in Guarantee. Washington. cheery was set in motion in response to demands from the public that some omciai action be taken to relieve the high cost of livini Pria affect the average citizen, assumed nrsi ptaeeun interest at the capital. At the White House President Wil son was said to be giving "deep and rery thoughtful consideration" to problems presented to him and the railioad administration bv members of the railroad brotherhoods, who rep resented that prices would have to come down or wages go up if social unrest was not to develon into nn- heaval. In the senate and house, the situa tion gave rise to several resolutions to investigate the cause of existing price levels, another to reduce the volume of currency in circulation as a means of deflating prices, one to re quest tne attorney general to stop speculation in foods on exchanges, and another to sell this year's wheat crop at market prices instead of at the government guarantee, the differ ence to be made up by the govern ment Attorney General Palmer met elaht high government officials whom he had summoned to his office for a dis cussion of high costs and the best methods to pursue to effect a reduc tion. After a general talk, lasting nearly three hours, the conference disband ed to meet again, probably next week, for further counsel. ' WESTERN UNION NOT TO REDUCE RATES JUST YET. New York. When control of the telegraph systems of the country ia formally relinquished by the govern ment at midnight a reduction of 20 per cent in rates will be made immediate ly on the lines of the Postal Company, but the Western Union will retain the schedule put into effect after Postmas ter General Burleson took control on April 1. Clarence H. Mackay, president of the Postal, announced in a statement that the rate reduction would be made "in acordance with its promises to the public." He qualified the announce ment, however, by saying that if ex penses continued to mount, charges might have to go with them. RACE RIOTS IN CHICAGO HAVE SOMEWHAT ABATED Chicaeo. Race war terror and bloodshed had abated after four days and nights of rioting but violence con tinued to occur spordically, notwith standing a force of 6,500 state troops anil thousands of policemen who were on active duty in the southside negro quarters. Three died of bullet wounds, mak ing the official corrected death list 32, of whom 18 were negroes. STRIKE OF 450.000 SHOPMEN IS BELIEVED TO BE AVERTED rxray in o-tnn Officials of the Six rail .1 ouiiieKw". road shop employees unions and of the railroad administration expressed confidence that the strike of 450,000 t thfl country had Siiupiiicu H v0--s - been. averted by telegrams sent out calling off tne striKe. BRITISH ROYAL ASSENT GIVEN TO TWO TREATIES London. Royal assent was given to the German peace treaty and to the Anglo-French treaty, which tnus De comes law. nNE HUNDRED SHIPS BUILT ON GREAT LAKES ARE SOLD TifoVinotnn One hundred steam ships built on the Great Lakes -during the war have been sold by the ship n ttt Anderson Overseas Ji ill 6 uu'u Corporation of New York for approx imately $80,000,000. This probably is the largest ship sale on record, the board said in announcing the deal. and the vessels will evemuany tt., an Ttallan ownership. HILU ri", " Delivery of the ships will commence August 10. . . r, mCBMAN HAS NOT CHANGED SUFFRAGE VIEWS . Sanatnr Overman wasningiuu. fcta views on woman nas noi wiae- - oivnr aiin on mm suffrage. ----- , . and asked him if he would nd a magazine story; iae ... -him he would not. but the writer dis regarded his answer and printed his yarn, saying me so""' Thave not changt-d." said Senator Overman. "The wmen should get the ballot througn ue- Ape BEING MADE ATTtm TO U8T EVERY SOLDIER Washington. ine - is trying to index evry soldier of the ate war properly so that his record m secured and held for future SLnce. Much of the confusion iu rererencB. ,-n-ed by incor- the bureau u rect records of name- and places. The Bublic is asked to help. ; m a letter to Senator " Mtnr R. O. Choimer,ul"!'" " i "Potion U i At DEMAND SOWN OVER THE LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE SHOnT NOTES Or INTEREST TO CAROLINIANS. Richmond, Va. Benjamin Loven- stein, lormer Durham attorney, was in th nnlicA .win?- v freed of co impounding a misdemeanor with liquor case. Gastonia. At the regular bi-month- y meeting of the city council W. J. Alexander, of St Augustine, Fla., was unanimously elected city man fcger. Wilmington. Two barrels of spir its, totaline 120 gallons, discovered on the beach south of Wrightsville Beach, by a trio ef revenue officers who had hot trip were poured into the ocean. Newton. The North Carolina eon. ference of the Reformed church open ed at Catawba college with a large representation from ' the various churches. Thomasville. R: W. Boling. of Wake county, has accepted the posi tion as principal of the city ichoaL Mr. Boling is s recent graduate ef the university and comes well recom- mended. Lexington. The people of David son county are taking renewed inter, est in the vaccinations against typhoid fever, which Dr. E. F. Long, county neaitn officer, is offering free of charge. Durham. At the nresent it seems that Durham is the center of onera. tions for an organized gang of burg lars from the fact that in the nast bee nreported. - Burlington. Plans are under way for the immediate organization for a municipal band. Already twenty ex perienced musicians have expressed their willingness to join and it is ex pected to greatly increase this num ber. Charlotte. Mecklenburg County Demonstration Agent Charles E. Miller will be one of the principal speakers at the farmers' and farm women's institutes to be held in Gas ton county August 8 and 14. Thomasville. According to a recent decision of the city council, Thomas ville is to have some hard surfaced streets before the arrival of another freeze. The plan is to lay in hard surface the main business center for the present and later proceed further. China Grove. Two unknown men, In soldiers' uniform, were found dead besides the railroad tracks between Landis and China Grove. - Fayetteville. Officers of this coun ty are searching for an unidentified negro who shot and killed Mack Me Lean, colored worker at Camp Bragg, and wounded a negro woman named Atwater when he fired through a crack in the log wall of the woman's house. Both the men were discharg ed negro soldiers. Hickory. When fire destroyed the residence occupied by Mr. and Mrs. William Reed, three miles east of Hiekory, it also consumed $930 in cur rency, about $5,000 in jewelry, besides the household and kitchen furniture. Raleigh. Discovery of an epidemic of whooping cough at Pilot Mills, in the northern part of the city, has been made by Dr. George S. Bote of the city-county health board. There are 26 cases in the vicinity there. High Point Reeoe Williams, a bleacher employed at the local plant of the Durham Hosiery Mills com pany, is in a dangerous condition at his home, as a result of reoelvlng a nine-inch stream of chlorine gs un der 90 pounds pressure full in the face. Fayetteville. Colonel George R. Green, brigade commander of the fifth field artillery brigade, has assum ed command of Camp Bragg, succeed ing Colonel Mexwell Murray. Lenoir Patterson school which Is located on the property in Yadkin valley, bequeathed by the late Samuel L. Patterson, former commissioner of agriculture, is to have a new dormi tory for boys known as the Card me morial hall. Of great interest in Greensboro is the announcement of the incorporation of the Atlantic Banking and Trust Company, with an authorized capital ef $2,000,000 of which $1,000,000 is to be paid in and a surplus of $250,000 provided. Charlotte. The American Trust Company, with assets of $9,000,000, announced the decision of the board of directors to increase its capital by 100 per cent to $1,050,000. Hickory. The farmers and wom en's institutes will be held in Catawba, county next month under the auspices of the state department of agriculture, the experiment station and the local extension service, the dates being August 11 and 12, and the places Hopewell community and Witherspoo community clubs. , New Bern. The local tobacco mar ket will open on August 20, it has been announced by warehousemen. Accommodation for handling the weed produced in this section of the State have been greatly increased since last year. Kinston- The predicted 1919 locust "scorge" has been a shabby failure locally so far. A few of the insects are reported to have been seen dunnr past weeks, but nowhere do thsy ssem to have appeared in the customary iwarma, 1 - ' ": 1 - V V -(
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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