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dlmbmm UFAIHR Cloudy tonight warmer. wemnm ' FOR RESULTS.1' :' Use the POST Penay Coluwn, ' VOL. . NO. 139. SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. JUNE 19, 1913. PRICE TWC CENTS I CURRENCY REFORM BILL T CHANCE FOR SALISBURY AT BE HERE IN TWO WEEKS TO GET NICE SOUVENIR 1 10 GO OVER ROUTE 10 NEW WHITNEY COMMISSIONS lMMMMHMMMriaaaaaHBaakMaaaaMM ' NUMBER OF SALISBURY PEO m r rrr usvts nvrn tvtaark ROUTES FROM HERE. WANT THE ROAD BUILT The Industrial Club Will Urge the Building of the Road Without a Moment More of Delay Than is Absolutely Necessary Motor Par ty to Drive Through to the Site of the Big Plant and Look Oat the Best Route for Road to be Built Trip to be Made at Very Early Date. The building of a good dirt road to Whitney from Salisbury is being given a good deal . of atention just now. Those who are urging the building of this road feel that the time has come for something to be done. In addition to the committee named some time ago to have this matter in hand another list of names ha.i been added td a committee nam ed the other evening by President Rouzer of the Industrial Club, and these gentlemen are planning for a vigorous campaign in the interest of this important highway. A trip is now being planned for next week, it being the desire of Sec retary Warburton to have a dozen or more citizens interested in this road to make a acout trip to Whitney one day next week and go carefully over the two proposed routes and visit the other end of the line and try and work out a plan for the building of this important highway, connecting Salisbury with the big plant, being built down the Yadkin. The plan is for these citizens to go to Whitney in motor car and go over the sev eral routes, confer with citizens along the route and at the other end of the proposed road and try and figure out definite plan for immediate action. The protfracaM .aafT courteous jrao-'f tlemea who have charge of this big construction works are in sympathy with this plan to build a road through Salisbury and will lend whatever aid they can to the project. ; ' Things are being done at Whitney. A large force of hands are at work and many more will be going in from time to time. Machinery and sup plies are now going in for the con tractors and by September the Sou thern Aluminum Co., will be receiv ' ing large shipments. The already large colony will grow every day "from now on until the big plant is completed and there will be a large town and big interest there. Salisbury is close by, a railroad center and the town that ought to be closely and conveniently linked up with Whitney. The Southern has im proved its schedule and train service and now it is important that a good dirt road be built through from Salis bury. This road will be of great ser vice and benefit to' the people o fthis 4ty, alomg the route and to those who fere to liya at the lower end. -, Tb'e' Industrial Club has been urg ing this matter for 'several months, and the "purpose of ! the scout trip iiextjwfcekrjs to, get all possible infor mation : Th'e trip will be made with idea of getting- first: hand, information m to -route and fcls6 encouraging the Sentiment -'demanding the-road. Just what' day .tlHs tirip will' be made is . jnbt definitely' known, bpt. it'll likely . that ,fhe party : will.. leav Salisbury Cuesday -or Wednesday: ' U :j;-T ' ' ' SENATOR MARTINE i . ' i Mine Operators Seriously Object to iHisAUtt0de. ' Charleston, W, VaV June 18. A se rious controversy over the attitude of Senator Martine of New Jersey, a member of the Senate Mine Probe ." Committee, is regarded certain when the hearing are resumed in Wash i ington. v The attorneys for the Senators to--V day urged the placing in the record the published statement written , by t Senator Martine criticizing the opera tors and also other, articles. ' vThis was the "result of a near fist r fight between Martine-. and witness "... Quinn Morton yesterday. Committee members, persuaded, attorneys to defer a'xfon until the Washington hearings. '( , The work of the hearing ended here today ; The' sub-committee may re- ' turn later. ' The operators i of Paint and Cabin .Creeks presented their side - of the . strike situation today. .: " Private Secretary Kerr Issued Com missioM to New Judges and So licitors. Raleigh, June 19. Col. J. P. Kerr, private secretary to Gov. Craiir. issued ' the first of the batch of new com-! missions to the newly appointed judges and solicitors yesterday when I the official certificate was forwarded to Thomas M. Newland, of Lenoir. The issuing of commissoins to the other newly appointed judges and solicitors has given cause for a halt and Atttomey General T. W. Bickett has been consulted as to whether the ' judges named by Gov. Craig should receive commissions designating such and such a district to officially serve, when as a matter of fact the re-districting of judgeships will effect changes. The man who thinks he knows it all ought to stack up against a small boy just old enough to begin to ask questions. All But Men on Watch Were Asleep When the Sagamore Strikes in Fog Piercing it Abreast of the Maia Mast. Boston, June 18. Captain John Andrew Doggett, of Portland, Maine, and five members of the crew of the Gloucester fishing schooner Olympic went down with their crift when she was rammed off Sable Island in a dense fog early today by the War ren Line steamer Sagamore. The Sagamore arrived at Quarantine from Liverpool tonight with eight survivors of the schooner. . The Sagamore was groping her way at slow speed through the fog when he ident occurred. The Olympic, .aboard which 11 but the prance fitch were asliep in their bunks. was pierced abreast of the mainmast and foundered within a few minutes. There was barely time for the eight men to climb forerigging and thus gain safety on the deck of the steam er. The other members of the crew. including Captain .Doggett, who was holding sternly to the code of the sea that the captain shall be the last to leave his ship, were awaiting their turn to scale the ropes when the schooner went under. The survivors said tonight that the crash came with scarcely three min utes warning. The four members of the watch had only time to rouse tehir sleeping mates, and no attempt could be made to launch the dories. One of Captain Doggett's soas, Frank, was among the eight saved. His other son, John, went to his death with his fathet. rl- K- - ' ' WILL ENTER SUIT . ' ' AGAINST SOUTHERN Richmond, Va., June 19. -Assistant United States District Attorney Hiram Smith has received from' Dis trict Attorney Lawrence Groner pa pers in a suit against the Southern Railway for $13,000 for violations' of the railway -federal hours of . service statute, which will be filed in the Dis trict court today:, ; , ,. .. , There are fwentysix counts in the indictment1 which charge ' that em? ployes.of the Southern Railway were required to workmore than sixteen hour continuously.' The alleged vio lations, occurred for the most part be tween, Monroe, Virginia and the Po tomac yards of the Southern. , t The papers ; were prepared ; by JMjr. Groner, -who completed hit, task yes terday and forwarded them to Mr, Smith here yesterday. . DROWNED WHILE BATHING. William Lane, Son of Goldsboro Met' chant, Got Beyond Depth. . - Goldsboro, June 18. This after noon while a party of young bora were bathing in Little River at a point known as the "Old Shad Hole," William Lane, unable to swim, went beyond , his depth and was drowned. Four other, lads narrowly escaped drowning when, they went to the res cue. .Young Lane was the ion of J W. Lane, a local merchant The ru mor, spread throughout the city, that four people had been drowned at a baptising going on near the above scene was false. . Wise men do as' they please their wive. " Every Effort Made to Avoid Any Move That Would Break Harmony Bill is Practically Complete. Washington, June 19. The cur- ncy reform plan will be presented j to the house in an administration bill j by Reprnentative Glass, of Virginia. ! chairman of the house banking and' currency committee, on Friday. The bill is now practially complete. Pres ident Wilson's message is to be pre sented to the house Friday and the delay in the introduction of the bill is to permit precedence to the massage. The house met today with Demo cratic Leader Underwood absent for the first time in many months, but he will be back in time to handle the ! situation Friday. Meantime those opposed to currency legislation at this session are con- j ferring over the course to pursue, I their particular desire being to avoid any move that would tend to break party harmony. Representative Hen ry ,of Texas, and Representative Nee ly, of Kansas, are urging upon their colleagues appointment 5 of another special committee to enquire into the workings of the so-called money trust. " BODY IS IDENTIFIED. Man Found Dead at Norwood Several Week Ago Was From South Car olina. r' . : The Carolina Watchman of this week has the following: In a letter received from P. J. Honey cutt, coroner from Stanly county, he says: 'In reply to your note of the 10th instance, will say that we have found the man' wife. She describe? his clothing to perfection. She also des cribes his ring. The body will . car ried to South Carolina soon to his mother's. The man wasn't over 6 feet and 3 inches high. THE "ATLANTA ROBBERY Thought at First That a Dainty One Had Robbed Red Cross, But Later Investigation Showed That Rough Neck Had Chloroformed and Robbed Recovery ing Conscious ness Mis Skelton Tells of Her As sault. Atlanta, June 10. The picturesque theory that it was a mysterious wo man Raffles, with dainty bare feet, who chloroformed . the head nurse and robbed the Red Cross Sanatarium yesterday, has been exploded by further investigation of the police. It was a man burglar, and a rough neck at that. It seems that he chok ed Miss Skelton into insensibility and then chloroformed her. Miss Conrad another nurse- at the institution, caught a glimpse of the burglar, and she is positive it was a man. Miss Skelton, who has recovered consciousness was seized from behind and was scarcely able to tell any thing about her assailant, but she al so is of the opinion that it must have been a man. . The thing which, led to the first startling theory that it was a woman burglary was the finding of tiny foot prints, made by 'aj Well formed bare foot on the floor of a porch which opened into- Miss Skelton's room. It j. ! i-s-L j .1' j. r, . now cxpuunea mat tneae loot print were made by an employe of the hoapital. I; ; --.?' , Th police declare' that the rob bery was committed by a man .thor oughly "familiar ;with the Ipremtees, and they expect t omaVe an arrest within thj next few' hours." !v ' " f. vl 1 . NEGRO BOYS DROWNED IN SWANNANOA RIVER. A Report Not Credited by Officer Wa to Effect That Waite Boy - Caused the Drowning. . Ashcville, June 18. Two', imall boys, Clifton - Brown and Raymond Dobbins, lost their lives in the Swan ranoa river this afternoon , shortly after i o'clock while in swimming with several other boys. One report reached the officer to the effect that some whit boy "rocked" the two negro boys into the water until they were drowned, but this report could not be verified, and the officers at tach little credence to the story, It wa stated that a rock (truck one of the drowning' boy on the neck, but no bruise or mark of any description was found. V i i - I MHMMwamaaBMaMMMHRMmi "Senator Francia G. Newland, of Nevada, and Thomas J. Walsh, of, Montana, two Western senators h$ are fighting for a tariff on wool They represent a wool growing folk and are favorable to a protected wool in dustry. ' QUICK STOP MADE1 BY MILE-A-MINUTE TRAIN New Haven, Conn.j June 19. The inquiry into last weak' wreck on the New Haven railroad disclosed a new phase yesterday, which wa said by railroad men to be quite unusual. ' The second section of the express which ran into the rear of the first section last Thursday was made up again with the same engine and equip ment and sent from' New Haven it Stamford to reproduce a nearly as possible the conditions which existed when the wreck occurred.' . A on the day of the wreck, two service applications of the brake were followed by a nemcrgency application. The stop wa made in thirty-eight sec onds when the train waa running 62 mile an hour and was made within 2,100 feet Air brake .experts said the stop was a very good one. ; PROTECT WAR SECRETS OF UNITED STATES Government Wil Seek to Prevent Pri vate Contractor from Selling Tor pedo' Abroad Tet of Secrecy. Washington," June 18-To protect war secret of the United State in volved in naval ordnance manufac tured under private contract, the United States government will vigor ously prosecute the - injunction ' suit recently instituted at Brooklyn to re strain the E. W. Bliss company from exhibiting or selling to foreign coun tries -'torpedoes similar to those manufactured under contracts for the United States navy.. ' .' V Government officials regard the suit as an extremely important test of the strength of secrecy which the United States military establishment may ex- act from private contractor. i. ' f SLAIN 'IN BATTLE,. i! t ;: .) .-;. ' 'r y. Fourteen- 'American 'Soldier Killed k During' Fight With Moras. ; 4 Washington, June f 18. Fourteen American soldier were killed in the recent four days'; fighting on Jolo , Island, the Philippines, when Gen eral Pershing command finally sub dued and disarmed the 4 rebeliou Moros, according to a report today to the War Department, ' On the list of the dead were Cap tain Taylor A, Nichols, of the Philip pine Scouts, 11 Scouts and two pri vates of the regular army. Captain Nichols, who was 34 years old, was a son of John Nichols, of Durham, California. The two regu lars, both of whom '-were killed in the first day's action last Wednesday, were Oliver Villiard, Company H, Eighth Infantry,, whose -sister lives in Rhode Island, and Luther Gerhart, of the same company, whose father lives in. Pennsylvania, Governor Craig Ha Accepted an In- j The Florida .Variety Ha About IX vitation to be Present and Deliver' appeared Home Grown Melon Address on Occasion ef the Picnic j Will Be en Market In Sli Week. - Benefit of the Oxford urpltan. j A few Florida watermelon remain Albemarle, June 18. The Tenth , on the local market from th last Annual Maaonie picnic to be given '! ahipment a few day agd,'but there for the benefit of Oxford Orphanage j w" be no mor shipment of the by the Masonic Lodge here will be ' Florida variety. In about two week held this year on July 81st. From 1 Georgia melon will make their ap all appearances thia will be the larg-1 Paranc. They will hold the fort t nirnic ever held of this kind here. ! 'or "Out "ont, Wn om although last year wa. a record trawn variety will come in.' June for breaker - ; i ?'oria tnalona, July for Georgia mel- : R, E.Austin, Esq.. chairman of the I on Au and Stpttmber. for MM.iih.-i... w .ithebig juicy homegrown variety. It ceived-a letter from Gov. Craig ae-,ls i...u . ju.. .J addre. of the day. The .inglng cla-i " v. uoin ino uAiuru urpnanage win oc present and will give a concert in the afternoon and at night. The arrange ment committee ha perfected plan with the Southern and Southbound Railway companies whereby excur sions will be run into Albemarle for the occasion. Two of these excur sion wi'l be run by the Winston-Sa- i lem Southbound, one from Winston- Salem and the other from Wades boro. The Southern Railway Co., will operate a special from Spencer and Salisbury. These annual picnic have become quite large affair a the Orphanage realized 'nearly six hundred dollar net a a result of last year' big day and it look like the coming one will eclipse any one here tofore held. LARGE NUMBER OF AUTOMOBILES IN N. C Raleigh, June 17.--The Secretary of State today stated that 7,600 auto-' mobiles had been registered to date. At the present rate he said he ex pects a thousand more by August i. If the average cost is one thousand dollars, which is a low estimate, Car olinian will have put 1860,000 in au tomobiles. . GOVERNOR AT LUNCHEOfl Mr. Craig Was Guest at a Luncheon ,;' at Ashevllle Driven Further Into the Water by a Fusillade of Rocks , Two , Negro Boys Were Drowned In Swannanoa River. Asheville, June 19. Governor Craig who is spending some weeks her as a guest of the, city, was the guest of honor yesterday at an enjoyable luncheon given him by Mr. Marcus Erwin. The affair was largely at tended and much enjoyed. Seeking to escape a fuBilade of rocks from a crowd of white boys, Clifton Brow and Raymond Dobbins, J two little negro boys, went beyond their depth in the Swannanoa River, just above Biltmore, this afternoon and were drowned. - . The little negro boys, with some companions, had gone in swimming and, according to the story told by some companions to officers who went to the ; scene, were atttacked by a crowd of whit boys, who rocked them. Seeking to escape the rocks they went beyond their depth and were drowned." . The bodies were recovered late this afternoon and Coroner E. R. Morris is investigating the death of the two boys. ,- 7 30 MILLION WORTH I 1 OF SKYSCRAPERS. New York, June 18. Breaking ground for $30,000,000 worth of new skyscraper, structure, busy builders have today repprted activities during the coming summer that exceed any eves ' undertaken here, v: foundations for over 800 big build ings are to be laid at once about Man hattan Island where the pressing de mand for home and office room seems to demand a more buldging line. A million dollar banking house and two half -million-dollar places of amuse ments are announced in the new structural crop, while scores of tow ering skyscrapers are to be erected at costs running from hundreds of thousands into millions. : ijt ' Segregation Ordinance Signed. - ' Atlanta Ga, '. June 18 Mayor James G. Woodward today signed the Ashley - segregation ordinance, de signed to debar negroes from residing in sections of the city, where a ma jority of the white residents objects to their presence, and the measure is now a law. The ordinance is not re tractive. 100 Wnf cP there will be but unleaa a long pfU ta ik ! ulU that thia year' crop will be up to the year crop will be up average. Increased prices in the last few year especially at the first and last part of the melon season ha been an impetus . to ' melon grower and there ia much , rivalry1, a to who bring In the, first melon. ' Home grown cantaloupes come in about the same time. SOUTHERN'S DINERS MAY GET NEW MAte'ENT Reported That E. H. Roeecrans, ef Atlanta, May Succeed George L. ,Beat, of - Charlotte, Resigned, A Head of Dining Car Service. . ' Acording to report, the board of directors of the Southern Railroad, which meets in New York Wednesday, is going to cause a shakeup in the dining car service of the road. George L. Best, of Charlotte, for eight years superintendent of the ser vice, has resigned. It is said that hit place ma$ go to E. H. Rosecrans, oi Atlanta, but at the same time thert ia a rumor that the separate depart ment handling the dining ear aerviei may be abolished, and the work mer ged with that of the- passangej; depart ment. " . ATLANTA EAGLES1 FINEST IN JACKSONVILLE PARADE Their Zouave Uniforms Wla for The : First Prise for Best Appearance. Jacksonville, Fla., June 18 Th Atlanta bunch of Eagles won first prize in teh parade here for the best appearing 'contingent The new Zou av uniforms of the Atlantians tool all eyes and the vote was unanimous The prize was $25. Along in the winning of the prizet came Savannah with .the . "largest number of men in line," 876; Macon for the second largest number, ant Atlanta for the best appearing team, $25. The prize for the most original costume went to : George Rath, of Jacksonville. Prizes for the section most original costumes were won by Misses Evelyn and Rayborn Stone, daughters of C. A. Stone, of Macon. : The two pa raded with their father, clad in the regulation uniform of the . central city ' contingent. Besides the small prizes of $2.50. each of ' the - Misses Stone were among the most popular young women of the Macon visitors. CANCER OF STOMACH IS CURABLE, ASSERTS DR. MAYO Minneapolis, June 19. That cancer of the stomach is curable was the dec laration of Dr. Wm. D. Mayo, of Ro chester, Minnesota. "Favloarble diagnosis can be estab lished by simple methods," Dr. Mayo asserted. "A history of gastric dis turbance precedes cancer in a large number, if not majority,' of cases. Operations for cancer should begin as an exploration. Moderate Involve ment of the pancreas does not neces sarily preclude an operation. . Pallia tive operations have a field of useful ness.".;-' --J,;' - ('.'St' Dr. Mayo gave a review in his ad dress before the American Medical Association Convention of statistics and symptoms observed in one thous and! who underwent . operations for concer of the stomach. . 1 Dr. Henry Greene, of Massachu setts, told the convention six thous and needless cases of blindness oc cur in the United States each year through lack ef attention to sore eyes among babies. , ' i MoroXthan 1,000,000 persons are employed in the textile mills of Great Britain.- Vt:?-"''':- f: Pure milk win cling to a. needle dipped, in it and withdrawn, while watered milk will not , ' Uncle Sam Now Ready te Distribute TableU From U. 8. S. Maiae Cost About Five Dollars. i Washington', June 19. The- navy : department has sent out by mail to . all senators and member .of con gress a notice that it is now ready to begin distribution of Maine Memorial tablets to municipalities, mlitary and naval associations or societies, of the Mane or their heirs or represents-, tlces. x , ' '.These tablets are made from metal, ; brass, bronze , or copper recovered ' from the Maine, are thirteen by eigh- ;, teen Inches in size and weigh about ', fifteen pounds. . Those applying fori the tablets are required to pay the actual cost of casting which is about 15.00 and the freight '' to distination . which is very moderate. - J . ',. ' A number of the congressmen have notified the mayors of the cities in , their communities and quite a num ber of requests for the tablets have been received. The' applications should be made, direct to-the secre tary of the navy, first obtaining a printed blank for that purpose. After the application , haa been approved notice will be sent to the applicants Relative to the matter. The tablets represent Columbia with the head bowed, bearing the United States shield, to the right, and on the left i the Maine' sinking into the waters.- a - STEDMAN ASKS TROOPS FOR FOURTH CELEBRATION. Washington, June 18. Congrg- man Stedman today asked Secretary of War Garrison to detail a detatch ment of troops to participate in the Fourth of July celebration on the bat- , tie ground of Guilford court house near Greensboro. k -v: '- ; The secretary said he thought he would be able to comply with th re quest' by sending a military .detach tnsnfr from- Fort CasweW-iStedman would have Governor Craig make the . request to show that it waa a stats affalf. BUDGET SYSTEM DISCUSSED. Board of Aldermen Held Meeting of Great Importance Last Night.' ' The board of aldermen held an im portant call meeting last night for the special purpose of discussing, go ing over and putting into operation . the budget system recently adopted. Amounts were assigned to the dif ferent departments of . the city for' Operating the respective departments but as these are not definite tbey are not ready for public ' announcement However at the next meeting the rev-: enue bill will be closely gone over and ' the exact amount, as fa as possi ble, of the city's income will be as certained and this may require some change in the amount allotted some of the departments. j . . Mr. J. D. Norwood, chairman of the finance committee, states that just as soon as the budget Is definitely com pleted the amounts allotted each de partment together .with the approxi mate amount, of income will be fur nished the press. - SHAM BATTLE A FEATURE. Militsry Display to be 1 Put on for ' - Fourth Celebration. . As plans mature for the Fourth of July celebration in Salisbury spe cial features for the entertainment of the people are taking definite shape and probably the chief of these wilt be the military display and frtifrery drill, the climax of which will be reached with an exciting sham battle, participated in by two companies of eoldiers. The military features will be under direction of CoL Max L. Barker. ' r",: : Woodmen Choose Saa Francisco. : . Jacksonville, Fla June 18. Sart Francisco will be th meeting . place for the Sovereign Camp, Woodmen of the World, in 1915, the Pacific Coast city winning out over St Paul, Minn., by a vote of 126 to S3. New York, Chicago, Omaha, LcuisvOle and other cities, were In the building. j -'iThe Charles Fore Csse. V; . Th case against Chas. Fore," the Colored restaurant keeper, ' charged wth larceny from person, was nol prossed in 'th Rowan county court this morning. Other parties may be tried later on a similar charge in the same case. ;