i Weather To-day Home Edition LOCAL SHOWERS TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY Mtnbtrt mf The 'asocfaf eaf Prat VOL. 15. NO. 88. SALISBURY, N. C TUESDAY, NOV. 9, 1920 PRICE 2 CENTS .; r M'SCLOIIG SWING DM, MIIIIEIS MEET Big: Rochester Wholesaler Cuts 33 1-3 Offered Cheaper at Chicago Convention. (Br Tbt AitbalaOd frri) Rochester, N. Y., Nov. . A re duction of 331-3 per cent in the wholesale price of clothing ii an nounced by one of Rochester's largest clothing manufacturing concerns. The reduction is effective from November 1 and applies to all suits and overcoats. It is said, the re duction which is in addition to the usual cash discount of 7 per cent represents a cut of from (33, the opening of the fall wholesale prices, to approximately $20. .Men's Clothing Cheaper Chicago, Nov. 9. Men's clothing for immediate delivery was offered buyers today at prices from 10 to 50 per cent below the present prices. The prcie for which the goods were shown were approxi mately 10 to "33 1-3 per cent under those of a year ago, and men's shirts and similar articles were shown at greatly reduced prices at the opening of the 13th semi-annual buying convention of the Untied Clothiers. The convention is be ing attended by retail clothing dele gates from 17 Middle Western and Western states, and takes the form of a huge display of made up gar ments. "The public is not buying; manu facturers and dealers are over stocked," said W. L. Mohr, treas urer and general manager of the association today. "The price must come down, we have passed the peak in the high price of wearing feppared. Men's clothing will be considerable cheaper from now on; the retailer can afford to sell for less for costs are becoming lower." SOVIET AGENTS MAY COME HERE Precautionary Measures Taken By ' State Department to Block Influx of Russian "Missionaries' i ' Washington, Nov., . 9-Prfeau. tlonsry measures' Hive been 'rake by the state department to block what American diplomatic' agents in Europe characterize as a deter mined effort on the .part of Russian soviet agents to send "mission aries" and agitators to the United States. Consuls at European ports it is said at the state department today have been instructed to vise the passports only of persons about whose intentions there exists no shadow of doubt. . State department officials said that while reports reaching Wash ington that certain Russians were making persistent effort to enter the United States conclusive proof was lacking that a concerted move ment had been undertaken by the Soviet regime to flood . America with propaganda. wPILL UP SECOND DIVISION Orders Sent Out By War Depart- ment to Recruit Second Division to Full Strength. (By The AnoeiaUd Pkm) Washington, Nov. 9 Telegra phic orders were sent today to army recruiting stations to recrurt the second division to full strength , immediately. It was explained at the war de partment that under the provisions of the natiional defense act one di vision of the army must be kept at full strength and the second had been selected by the general staff as the unit to be maintained at full strength. RECORD COAL OUTPUT. H -New Maximum of 12,338,000 Tons. CTBru VWI X I uuui.ilvu mucmfli ' Washington, Nov. 9. Soft coal production for the week of Octo ber 80 was 1238,000 tons, a new maximum for this year, figures made public today by the United States Geological Survey show. For four consecutive weeks the daily output has averaged better than 2,000,000 tons, the longest period on record of sustained out put at that rate except during the summer of 1918. V Anthracite production during the dame week was 1.698,000 tons, an increase of 219,000 tons from the preceding week. This was due, it was said to observance of the Mit chell day holiday, October 29, com memorating the settlement of the. great anthracite strike of 1902. MAY CUT! REPRESENTATION National Association for Advance- ; ment. of Colored People Would Reduce South's Congressmen. . Bv Tha AmocIbImI Fhm) ' New . York, Nov. 0. Charging . "open and flagrant disfranchise ment of negro voters in a number of States in the presidential elec tion of 1920" the directors of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People today ' telegraphed to Representative Isaac Seigel, chairman ox the house com mittee on census, urging the en foreement of the 14th amendment and "consequent reduction of repre sentation In the Southern States in which egro voters are disfranchls- ears SUGAR TAKES A TUMBLE TODAY ALONG WITH OTHER COMMODITIES NEW YORK, Nov. 9. Sugar dropped to 61-4 cents a pound, a new low ground for the season, in the sugar market h,ere today. The price reflected a heavy slack iu the demand and is a loss of more than 17 cents from the highest of the sea son's quotations last May. Trade was dull. Wheat Under $10, First Time in Four Years MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 9. For the first time in four years flour sold under the $10 a barrel mark at the mills here today. Quotations on family patent broke 35 to 75 cents today, making today's ranges of prices $9.65, asked $10 a barrel. Yesterday 'b sharp decline in wheat was given as the cause. Milk Sells for 16 Cents a Quart in St. Louis ST. LOUIS. Nov. 9 Reduction of 1 per cent in the price of milk was announced in St. Louis today by local dairies. The price dropped from 17 cents to Grand Chancellor R. S. McCoin of Henderson Guest of Honor Large Class Take Degree. Grand Chancellor R. S. McCoin of Henderson Guest of Honor Large Class Take Initial Degree. There was a bis meeting of tin- members of Rowan Lodge No. 100, Knights of Pythias, in their castle hall last night at which Grand Chancellor R. S. McCoin of Hender son was the guest of honor. Other grand lodge officers present were W. M. Lyles of Charlotte, grand keeper of records and seals, and dis trict deputy J. A. Blackwelder, ot ConcoraV. Tha grand chancellor U not only an enthusiastic Pythian but is one oi he owners of t:ie Henderson Dispatch ad a member of the newly elected State senate. - At last night's meeting, which was also attended by many mem bers of Salisbury Lodge No. 24 thir ty six new members were given the rang of Page, the initial degree of Pythianism, and anotner big class is on the list for initiation at a later meeting. Grand Chancellor McCoin made a splendid talk to the followers ot Damon and Pythias and was beard with considerable pleasure by all present. The other visitors also made talks and at the e lose of the busbies aeision . ad the addresses the members of the local loCge were host to all present and a splendid repast was served. It was one of the most enfoyaole Pythian occasions held in Salisbury in a long time. U. S. GOVERNMENT STUDYING PLAN Triparite Agreement Between Great Britan, France and Italy is Receiving Attention of America. (By Ths AmocimcA Prn) Washinsrton. Nov. 9-The Amer ican government, it was said today at the state department, was giving careful study to the tripartite agreement between Great Britain, France and Italy in which those countries undertake to support each other in maintaining their "spheres of influence" in Turkey. Whether there is ground for a formal protest by the United States has not yet been determin ed, official said. The treaty between the three countries which was signed at Fevres last August 10th was offi cially referred to as a "secret" one and it was stated a copy oi it naa not "officially" 'been transmitted to the American governemnt. FATAL CONFLICTS OCCUR IN MEXICO Clashes Between Socialists and Li berate Result in Numerous Deaths in Yucatan Districts. (By Tht AnorUtcd Pnw Mexico Citv. Nov. 9.rFreauent armed conflicts resulting in numer ous deaths are occurring between Socialists and Liberals in the Yu catan district and a dispatch from Merida declares a serious situation which has developed in the last week continues. After receiving a detailed report of the disorders from Gen. Mange, commander of federal troops in Yucatan, Minister of War Calles ordered that "all necessary meas ures be taken to giv security to all the inhabitants of the disturbed area. Holland Guards German Frontier. (By Tha Aaaoeiatad Pnm) Rotterdam, Nov. 9.olland has established a great cordon along the German frontier to prevent the influx of a large number of Russian Bolsheviki agents from Germany. Colby to Go to South Ameriea. (By Tha Attoclatcd Pran) W..1hifiAlAn Mnv ft XiwretarffOI Daniels and Colby conferred today regarding jar. uoroy s coniempias- A twtrt ft finntli Amarwa Tha na. val secretary formally tendered the secretary oi state tne use ox a war ship for the trip;, Mrs. Nellie B. Van Slingerland, of New York, president of the Dauhters of Michigan, advocates a movement for a political party to nut the United States under "matriarchal" form ef government with a woman tor President and women at the head of all important LOCALPYIIKS A N .C. SOLDIER HAVE BIG NIGHT SIGHALLYHONORED departments. 16 cents a quart Edgar Hallyburton of Taylorsville Wins D. S. M. for Work Performed While Prisoner. (Hy Tha AwwcUUd Pim) Washington, Nov. 9. Edgar N. Hallyburton, of Taylorsville, N. C, who during the world war was a sergeant in Co. F, 16th infantry enjoys the unique distinction of having the distinguished service medal awarded him for service per formed while a prisoner in Ger many. Sergt. Hallyburton's cita tion, made public today by the war department, says: "Sergeant Hallyburton while a prisoner in the hands of the Ger man government from November, 1917 to 1918 voluntarily took com mand of . different camps in which he was located and under difficult conditions established administra tive and personal headquarters, or ganized the men into units, billited them systematically, established sanitary regulations and made equitable distribution of supplies and establishe dan intelligence service preventing our men from giving information to the enemy and prevented the enemy from in troducing propaganda." GERMAN OFFICERS imUNEMPLOyEDi Berlin, Oct. 21,-Many of the 50,000 former German officers dis charged since the signing of the armistice have joined the great army of unemployed in Germany, a few have gone to work at hard labor and others are trying to make small pensions pay for the expensive necessaries of mere ex istence. Officers belonging to old, aristo cratic, once wealthy families are in no better situation than their comrades who relied for a living upon their army pay. They have long since disposed of most of their personal property and it is not un common to see one of them, sup pressing his pride, and offering to some foreigner a family neirloom for enough money to pay a grocery bill. Those who are doing hard labor must work half a day for the price oi a pound of meat and all day for a pound of butter, a number or them have been unable to buy civi lian clothes and are working in uni forms thin and frayed by much wear. The wives and sisters of some of these men have gone into the shops where they earn 350 marks a month a sum which a guest at any one of the international hotels frequently pays for a single meal. The widow of a colonel who was killed at the front is supporting four children on a pension of less than 700 marka a month. Former soldiers, and particularly the wounded whose pensions are in adequate to supply them with food, have been hardhit. Day and night they may be seen standing on tie streets with cap in hand, begging, or selling- matches. They still wear their uniforms, or parts of uniforms and some of them, to incite pity, ex hibit their wounds. A party of Americans walking down Unted den Linden one night saw a former soldier stagger and fall to the pavement, unconscious. City physicians who examined him said he had fainted from hunger. Later it Wus learned that, too nroud to ask alms, he had gone for days without food. When a purse of a few marks was collected for him he acepted tt and thanked the donors. GUARDING N.Y. FINANCIAL DIST. Large Force of Extra Men On Duty to Protect Financiers and Also Financial Headquarters. (B Th Anoafatcd Praia! New York. Nov. 9. Twenty-five additional oatrolmen, personally selected ' by Chief Inspector Lahey after a conference with- Police Commissioner Enright, today, were distributed . throughout the financial district to guard flnan tiers and financial institutions. While official announcement was lackig at police headquarters it is understood the action was taken because of threats alleged to have been made at recent secret meet ings of radicals. - At the same time the detective force in Wall Street district were greatly increased. S.C. MURDERER CAUGHT HERE WILL PLEA SELF DEFENSE Three Greenville, S. C. Of ficers Come for Young Ex-Soldier Charged With Murder. Deputy Sheriffs C. R. Bramlett. J. C. Beck and Jones Pa i kins, all of Greenville. S. C, came to Salis bury yesterday afternoon, arriv ing here about 5 o'clock by auto mobile and left shortly afterward with Waiter Salmon the young tx soldier who on Sunday night gave himself up to Chief of Police Ros ier, he being wanted at Greenville on a charge of having murdered another white man by the name of Asa Fllckenshelt, a half mile out side of Greenville. Shortly before the officers came for Salmon his wife, who was for merly a Miss Drury, of Morgan ton, a niece of Mrs. J. W. Kesler, wife of Salisbury's chief, and who has been visiting in 'Salisbury and Rowan, went to the jail to see her husband. She was accompanied by Chief Kesler and on this visit Sal mon gave his side of the affair. He said he had gone to the home of Flickenshelt the night before the killing and bought some liquor; that he got with a woman the next day and they drove back to the Flickenshelt home last Friday af ternoon to buy more hquor; that he went into the house and got the whiskey and paid for it. He then recognized the man as one who had shot him whule he was in tne training camp at Greenville and the man also recognized him and said: "Didn't I shoot you one time J" When told that that he had Salmon says Flickenshelt re marked: "Yes. and I'm going to shoot you again," and grabbed a snot gun and nred twice at mm but missed him and that then it was that he shot his assailant five times with a pistol. Officers who came lor baimon said his victim was a man of un savory character, and had a repu tation as a bootlegger. They said the wife of Flickenshelt testifies that Salmon killed her husband for the purpose of robbery and that it was a brutai murder. The woman that' was with Salmon at the, time, i kain,r-liejd4ii .Green ville and ahe says, eo the omcers say, that two gunshots were fired at Salmon just before he shot but she could not say for certaiA whether they were fired by Flick enshelt or a negro whd was there. However. Salmon's defense will be that he shot and killed his victim in self defense. An Evening Post representative called at the jail yesterday after noon to see Salmon but at tnai .time the South Carolina officers were awaiting in the jail lobby be low for him to be brought from his cell, and he had nothing to say, awaiting the employment or coun sel when he gets bacK to ureen- ville. The three deputy sheriffs with their chauffeur and prisoner left shortly after 5 o'clock on the re turn trip to Greenville and ex pected to arrive there aooui u o'clock. Salmon's wife will go to Greenville within a few days to see him again. OLDEST MAN IN WORLD IS ILL Constantinople, Nov.x 9. Turk ey's 146-year-old man,xZora Meh med reputed to be the oldest man in the world, is ill with indigestion. This is the first time Zora has ever been ill. He complains that it is because of a set of false teeth. Zora has always been a hamal that is a carrier of heavy weights, ranging from 200 to 1,000 pounds. When he was 45 years of age, that is during the Napoleonic wars, he tried to lift, on a bet, 500 pounds with his teeth and ruined them. He went along until about 1850 without any teeth and then he ob tained a set which has worn out. About 20 years ago, he got another set. He claims these teeth have given him indigestion which has finally landed him in the hospital. "When J get a new set of teeth, I shall be all right again for an other half a century," he said. Until his present illness, Zora was employed, as a hamal, at Vie Turkish naval base. He was born at Bitlis, in Turkish Armenia in the year 1774. just before the American revolution but does not remember that event. Zora has a son aged 90 and a young daughter aged 60. His heart and eyes are still good and he looks like a man of 70. He offers his passport as proof of his age, as well as the birth records of the mosque at Bit lis. To Serve 25 Cent Meal. (By Tbt Anociated Prn) New York, Nov. 9v jHotel pro prietors attending the fifth national hotel men's exposition here -will partake of a 25 cent meal on Ellis Island this week on invitation of Frederick A. Wallia, immigration commissioner. Skepticism on the part of the hotel men that the is land chief could concoct e meal for that sum and still claim a profit is said to have prompted the invita tion and also its acceptance. PRIVATE CONTROL OF R. R. FOREVER ENDEO CLARK SAYS May Not Go To Govern ment Ownership and Operations, But State Will Always Regulate. (By Th AMeclaUd Tmi) Washington, Nov. 9. America never again will have private con trol and operation of railroads un accompanied by state and fnierat regulation chifrman Clark of the Interstate Commerce Comimsslon declared today in an address to the opening session of the 32nd annual convention of the national asso ciation of railway and public utili ties commissioners. "Even if we shall not come to government ownership and opera tions" added Mr. Clark, "the neces sity for a separate tribunal with jurisdiction to determine questions of the reasonableness of charges and alleged discriminations will be present. Referring to federal control of the railroads, the chairman said: "When the final balance sheet shall have been completed, it will be found that the American peo ple paid handsomely for the use and operations of the railroads dur ing the war but as such use and operation was essential as a war measure, we must, then in fairness, consider it as part of the necessary expenditures of the war." Chairman Clark declared that the right of the states to regulate their internal affairs was recognized thruout the transportation act and he urged co-operation between the ataes and 'federal commission as authorized by the law. REPORT OF INCREASE IS ALL ERRONEOUS Vice President of the Southern Says That No Increase Ratea Will Be Asked by Roads as Ru mored. (Rpcclal to Tlx Evening Pott) Washington, :Nov) 9 -Statements alleging that the Railroaus of the United States are planning to ask a further increase in freight and . passenger rates are" entirely without authority, aecordiig to Mr. Ltncoln, Green vice president of jbe Southern Railway system, irf charge of traffic. "There is not the slightest foun dation for the surmise that the Railroads are going to ask further increase," said Mr. Green today, "They intend to work out therr salvation if they can under the in creases already, granted by the In terstate commerce commission, tna it is believed that no further gen eral advances in ratea will be neces sary." j AMERICANS CALLED UPON TO FED POLES London, Oct. 23. One of the aft ermaths of the Polish-Soviet war is that Americans will be' called upon to feed and cWthe more than 1,250,000 Polish children this win ter thru the American Relief Ad ministration. (Up to. the time of the latest outbreak of hostilities destitution had been so reduced that the Relief Administration offi cials believed that Poland, with the organization the Americans had perfected, would be able to carry on the work after this autumn. That is considered impossible now and preparations are under way for caring for aa many children as during the dark days of last win ter. This decision came after receipt in London of reports of a complete survey of the country began imme diately after the blosheviki were driven back. Trained observers re- Sort that the Poles themselves ave not painted the picture black eitough. After two armies had fought over the ground there was little left for the children, they re port, and each requested immediate shipment of food and clothing. As far as possible, distributing agents of the administration are comply ing with these requests. The organization by which about 119,000,000 worth of food and cloth ing was distributed in Poland in 16 months at a cost of approxi mately 180,000, is virtually intact. It includes between 15,000 and 18, 000 Poles whose services are paid for by Poland but who worked un der direction ' of a few American administrative officers. The Poles also pay for transportation from the ships, warehousing and distri bution. In addition they supply all flour received by them thru a izoo.- 000 credit granted by the Grain Corporation. Altho the distributing organza tion was considerably disarranged during the recent fighting, officials here say they can get into work ing order again very quickly after rauroaa repairs navo peen com' pleted. COW KILLS A BOY An Eight Year Old Boy Gored to Death By Suppcaedly Harmleas Cow Jugular Vein Severed. ' fB Th Aaaoalmted Frail Eastman, Ga, Nov. 9. -An eight year old grandson oz Burton Den nis, a prosperous farmer near here, wae gored to death by a supposedly harmless milk cow yesterday after noon. The boy's jugular vein was severed and he wae dead when found ' ' MANY GERMANS REPATRIATED FROM RUSSIA SENT TO INSANE ASLYUM Stettin, Germany, Nov. 9. Ev ery contingent of German war prisoners arriving here from Rua sia contains a number of ragged, unshaven, haggard men who have been made insane by suffering during many months in Russian prison camps. In three weeks the German gov ernment sent 200 of these men to Insane asylums and sanitariums for treatment. A few who have spells of violence, and during these nerkkds. must be kept under guard, I but the majority present a listless, woa-begone aspect. 1 hey look about with dull, unseeing eyes, or sit quietly weeping, unconscious of the fact they arv home again. The famlies and friends of the insane soldiers are . allowed to gieet thorn and to give them food and clothes before the yare sent away for treatment. Nearly all the prisoners exhibit the moat Intense bitterness only toward Russia but toward the German government as well. One of them, who had lost a leg and an arm and who, it was learned, had been taken prisoner early in the war and has been confined in many Russia prison camps, shook his fist at a German flag when he arrived and cursed hie .country, his people, and all other countries and peo ples. "To with Germany!" he shouted. "That is not my flap and Will Lay True State of Affairs Before the Gov ernor, County Delega tion Declares. (By Th Aiioc ltd Prww) Asheville, Nov. 9. Declaring their determination to present Governor Bickett with the true state of affairs in Jackson county where the board of election can vassers were interrupted in their work last week, the delegation which yesterday came to Asheville to see Governor ' Bickett today awiated the governor' arrival. Chairman J. J. Mason Has not announced what action he will take on the governor's suggestion that ths board be movea o anotner city for the canvas of the vote. It is claimed that the discord which stopped the board late Thursday has been greatly over rated and that it is not necessary to send troops to protect , the : canvasser. , The governor is expected tms afternoon. ANOTHER ASPECT JACKSON CO. CASE Are Illiterate Indian Squaws to be (Allowed to Vote Never. 'Been Decided. (SpwinI t Tht Evtnlns Post) Raleinrh. Nov. 9 Still another aspect of the Jackson county elec tion board trouble is brought to the capital by tenth district lawyers who say that tne oimcuuy arises over the quesion as o whether votes cast by illiterates and Indian squaws, who can not speak the Eng lish language, are to oe couniea. Democrats ara or tne opinion that under the existing law these people should not have been per mitted to participate in the elec tion last week. An opinion hand ed down years ago is pointed to by Democrats that made it plain that. the Indians in the western part ot h ata vera urni-Ha rather than citizens and were not eligible to vote. Altho the case has never been carried to the supreme -court the lower court's decision holds good and it the reports with reference to the Indian vote in Jackson coun ty are correct an interesting situa tion is presented. TIMES ARE HARD HINDENBURG SAYS Hanover, Germany, Oct. 21. Field Marshal von Hindenburg. speaking at a demonstration of students on the occasion of his 73rd birthday, said: "The timea are hard. We cannot get away from that. But it is a man's business to look danger in the eye and discount it. God has not yet forsaken the German peo ple. Much has been taken from us, but God will give it back to us our fatherland. To that fatherland we shall cling without respect for .party divisions. I make this ap peal to the German youths." ABERICAN NAVAL CRUISER STRANDED (Br Tha AAetata4 Pra Washington, Nov. 9.--The pro tective cruiser Cleveland, attached to the newly formed squadron on duty in Latin American waters is aground in the harbor at Cartago na, Colombia, the navy department wan advised today. .. ' t The message said the ship' was tandantaged but ' all attempts to haul her off the bar have been un kracessful and that part 'of h.er equipment is being removed in or der to lighten her. Meanwhile, the commandant ox the Mare island (San Francisco) navy yards has bees asked to send tugs to the scene. JACKSON AFFAIR MISS ESSIE BEATTY AWAITS BICKETT TELLS SAME STORY Germany is not my fatherland." He then turned to the other prisoners and pointing to his wounds said: "This is what Germany has done to me. This is what a kindly fatherland has permitted. Why didn't they exchange me? Re cause I have only one leg and one arm? I lost them fighting for Germany and all the thank I've had for it were the rotten years in a Russian prison." The prisoners generally agreed they had been unable to procure S roper medical treatment in the ;uian camps, and that ther food had been very bad. At the close tif the war there were 250,000 war and civil prison ers in Rusnia, and 2T0,006 Rus sians in Germany. The German government estimates that not more than 5,000 Germans will re main in Russian camps this win ter. Before the Russo-Polts h hostili ties began the Russians were be ing returned rapidly but it is now estimated at least 200,000 Russians ere still in German camps, 60,000 of whom are the troop interned when they crossed the East Prus sian frontier during the Polish of fensive. The German government has ex pended 30,000,000 marks for transportation of Russians home, and 90,000,000 maxka to bring 'German prisoner out oi Kuswa. German prisoner out oi Kuswa. Gastonia Girl, in Critical Condition, Coroborates Effie G'rice and Ransom Killian. (Br The Awoelstad PrM) tion of Essie Beetty, one of the victims ox the alleged numerous unit ti twin an automobile mrtv three miles from here Sunday night, was said oy pnysioans mis morning to be practically .un changed. ' Although struggling between life and death Miss Baatty told a f ragmentory story of the crime this morning and which was ub Btantially the same wi that f jjen the coroner Jury by'Ransoflr XiT lian and Effie Grlce, the other two nt tu nartv of four which was attacked, John Ford, of Lincolnton, the fourth member of the party which, according to the survivor,' was held, up, and fired on by two negroes, was kill ed. ' ' '.' Coroner Davis reconvened hit jury at 10 o'clock . this, morning without having any witnesses from which the Jury expected to get materially new, evidence. D.A.R.OPEN 27TH CONVENTION TODAY (Br Th AmrUMl Tr) : Asheville,' Nov. 9-With promi nent members from many parts of the United States present, the 27th nnual reneral convention of the United Daughters of the Confed v hnorina hora inniirht with ad dresses of welcome and response. iM ttia mroaantntlnn of rjast and present officers of the confederacy, opening the rosmm. Governor Bickett, Mayor Robert and a number of other prominent men and women are scheduled to rfneak. Delegates are expected from thlrtv six states in which there chapters, probably 5,000 in all. - Admiral A. O. Wriirht, naval hero of the south, dded interest tc thf convention by his presence. TO BREED SKUNKS TO HELP MARKET Washington, Nov. 8, Breeding of skunks as a means of stabilizing Via "ifonreaaari fur market" is the latest suggestion of the department oi agriculture. Despite all the harsh things that Kaon uniii ahmit this lowlv an imal, the department describes him as "the best wild animal inena the farmer has." Thesshimk the innniiMmOTt aava. ran be used for destroying mice,, grasshoppers, crickets, and white gruos, at me same time furnishing the farmer from 50 to 100 worth of fur a year. .a aeal H AJl that is repuired or tne iarm er, 'the circular says, is that he "respect the animal's dens, keep tiia noirltnr In akunktiroof iVards. kill an old horse for them every fall and be tactful when ne meets them in the evening." TENN, SPLITS 50-50 Five Democrats and Five Repub lican; Congressmen Elected in That State Last Week (Br Tha Aawetota rroa) Msmnhla. Nov. 9 jfTnmtiletition of the early official canvass jn the 8th congressional district ; gives London A. scon, Kepuoucan, a ma jority of 638 in .victory over his T)ainnmafA nnnnfiATit . ' Gordon Browning, and fixed the political alignment of the Tennessee delega tion vi the house ox representatives aw tha. far nf tha retnrna aa five Republicans and Ave Democrats,, a net Republican gam oz three mem bers. ' ADVOCATES OF STATE PUT LAWTO BATTLE Will Call on Governor elect to Defend System Which Gave Ilim a Large Majority. (Br MAX ABEHNTETHT) Raleigh, Nov. 9-Govsmor-elect , Cameron Morison rs going to be railed on by advocates of the State wide primary to give battle for t!ie system when it is attacked hi Jan uary at the regular session of Ci4 North Carolina general assembly And those jho iuvor the primary" plan of selecting candidates will find in the next goveiror a staunch supporter of the system by which he won the nomination for the gov ernorship. Soon after the second primary Mr. Morrison, in an inter view with this correspondent at Charlotte, said that he was an ad vocate of the system and altho . there were Home things about it that he did not like it was, in his opinion, much betier than the con vention plan. Governor Morrison will be found supporting the pri mary when it is attacked. - Already efforts are beiiur made to create sentiment against the system and its advocates will take steps o offset what has and is being done. With many new faces in tte legislature next year at this time it is difficult to analyse the situa tion. Friends of then resent sys tem are. however, confident that iW repeal is going to be one ef 'the hardest Jobs ever attempted.. ;. In advance of his entrance lm the legislative halls for a second time reports are reaching the capi tal that Walter "Pete" Murphy, of Salisbury, representative-elect from Kowan, can be depended upon to lead the fight for the repealists. Having seen the Sallsavry eentle- tnan in action before when he rep resented jus county In the upper house of the legislature it Is con ceded that a more formidable op ponent could not nave been chosen to pit againts the advocates of the primary law. Nobody who favors the law will admit that it la going to be wiped : from - the statute books. - v . - Since the women have been given the ballot a number, who originallv opposed the primary are now wlll ine to let it stand. TheV believe that under it with all of the people iarticipating, the will of the ma ority will be more nearly express ed than in a convention. : Friends of the law today brought forward the following f romGawrnor ,Locke support: v;::'i':;iv;.!:" "The -primary election Is already a recognized institution in our "poli tics. It is a logical evolution! of our democracy. We have it in its best possible form. Let us provide for it tat law and let us protect it bylaw." vvA'1 ' Kate Hearing. . ' Pates for hearings of petition a for increases in rates by the State's public utilities tare announced a& follows by the ' State Corporation Commission: -"... -;? - Asheville telephone company; for increase In rates, November 23. Southern Bell telephone company, for increase in rates In North Caro lina, set for 10 a. m. November 23. Citizens Power and Light Com pany. Lenoir, for increase in elec tric light rates in Lenoir and Lenoir juiecinc company lut upcasc .-.i teiepnone rates, qm set jor Nov ember 25. .J:V'';V-'""' Citizens , of Snencer and East , Spencer against Southern Railway for undernass or 4 overpass on streets in East Spencer, November 26. v,v"---;-'' 'V;:A'v, : The Mooresville Telephone com pany wants higher rates and will prevent Its case December GOLF ANP FISUINQ HARDING'S DAY (By Tha Aanelatat TnmS 4yi ,1 Point Isabel, Texas, Nov. S-As. a care free and happy member of this:- little community, of fishermen who are his negibbors here president-elect Harding began today a vacation in which he hopes to make up in f uD f$r his loss of rest and, recration durihg the campaign. A Ashing expedition and a game. day of the outing, before, noon the president elect is set for 'a test of skill with the rod and reel and this afternoon he is scheduled ' for a game of golf . at the Brownsville Country club, 20 miles away. HUNGER STRIKERS ENTER ON 91ST DAY Cork, Nov. 9 Reports from the Cork jail today described the con dition of the nine remaining Irish Vi.w.iatiitraa thara a nramriniii). Altho this was the lst day of theirijtrike'the emaciated prison ers were declared to foe still deter mined to refuse fpooV . .; There were brlginally 11. of XI Cork hunger- strikers,-' but one e them, Michael Fitzgerald, died Oc tober 17, and another, Joseph !' - phy on October 25, within a : hours of the death of Lord I MacSwiney. . of Cork in E prison, o nthe 73rd day of h.i I. gtt strike. ' . , ' -

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