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if - R ' v - : DO J w Western Carolina To Fittingly Celebrate Independence Day VARIOUS TOWNS IN READINESS FOR SPECIAJJVENTS Biltmore Forest Club to Formally Open With Day's Observance. RECKLESS FOURTH IS THING OF PAST Picnics, Parties, Dances . Have Big Portion of Folks Interested. Time was once when the Fourth o July rolled around. hospitals cleared their leeks (or action and dragged in extra cots; when doc tor don tied operating gowns, pjl.ed out surgical casea in readi ness, ar.d nurse steeled themselves to handle mangled limbs and gore stained features. Today no special stir greets you at the lospltal;' doctors make ready to j.lle the family into the machine for a picnic spin; while nurses, fortunate enough to be off duty, trade the medical white for .. the filmy gown of beau-wlnnlnc ' pattern, ready for a jaunt in As 'rm Park, or mayhap a dip where once fair Susanna taught her mer maids to cleave the crystal pool With form divine Here and there, to be sure, the spit and pop. and patter of giant caps and embryonic whlxbangs sound .dizzy dissonance, reveal ing days when titanic fury relgne.l unchecked upon the Fourth, and when a gun-shy pup had as much chance to esse his nerves as the rl-. h man tf Hades had in getting I jiarus to treat him to one small . Or.nk. 'TIs bift an aquatleatom in the p.xll today compared with thnje t'eath - dealing accident defying. iilj.J-low-ura from which many of the ii,,ol'jer g iteration have somehow . (merged with limbs largely intact. Hither and yon, to be sure, the . orators of yesteryear" atill hold sway with the same verbal bombs, roetotica! giyrotechnlcs, and de clamatory dynamite not yet . pro hibited by the SafV and Sane edict of modern manufacture. l-,ra Hai New Typo of --Celebration Fiend A new typeof celebration fiend. too, is making his appearance. Rules o; the road he heeds not sj he opens wide the throttle of his siietd devflon, hurling up behln him great clouds of" gritty dust. Hashing headlong into tight places . whe:e -certainly angels would hesl C, tit to tr.ead. hogging the highway with . honking horn and declaring his absolute Independence with a type of blatant bombast of whiclr the quill-wielding forefatheia never dreamed when they eigne) ', tlis famous document In the days vt '76. - In spite of him, however, the masses manage to And some choice spot wlter black ants abound w,here ch'ggers the biting kind, irrespective of whether you spell 1t chlrgers. jiggers or chigoes. wait to welcome the unwary; where cows have trodden in the spring, and Don't Trespass signs ! underscore me oniy avaiiauie ihade. .'..' ; Western - North : Carolina will celebrate the dT" In a variety of ways. Asheville and the imme flate community looks forward t no organized method of announc . ng the nnlnversary of our inde pendence.' Yet picnics,- parties, (lances, motoring trips And other holiday pleasures will find the greater cart of the population get ti.ig away from- the workaday world. The most elaborate fea , (CmNsm m Ttn T) m CALL OR FORTUNE .MOST APPEAL PJG WITH VOTE OFFER Time This Week to Enter Citiaen's Drive and ; . Win Automobile. 7 Heralding wonderful oppor tunity to improve one's chances of winning-the big Cadillac or any of the other beautiful touring cars to be given away shortly in the- orcu i ..- rffti-a the new offer of 170.- 000 extra votes upon each IJ4.00J worth of subscriptions wis h.. taken the "field" of drive -membere-by storm. That th en thusiastic member of th drive ar overjoyed 1 indicated by the .expressions of approval that are beard. Vnt nnlv did the announcement 4t th big extra vote offer bring. overwhelming" response rrom tnne already In th race, but.lt also brought quit numb.- of new members. As on of thee new ones stated when ha handed In his nomination yesterday: "Her I've been thinking how foolish I was not to hav entered th drlv when It began, but now I can get extra votes by tens of thousand" How ever, "I will make op for the lost time without bit of trouble." Nothing truer wa ever spoken, as ICmthiipl m r Tmi j ... . nn 2.S i't ,; ,7, i't ; . .7, ig-:j4t t.Ll ut . ' " -..,., .;. ............ r, .,...v .......... mXTTTI ESTABLISHED 1868. Maximilian Harden Wounded as Attempt Made on His Life One Of The Most Noted Of European Publicists Wounded In Head , BERlLINfi July 3. (By the As sociated Pressi Two men at baked iMaximlllan Harden, edi tor and politics:! writer, near his home In the Ur'unewald, a suburb of Berlin, today. He was taken unconscious into the house where he was found to be suffering- from five wounds in the head. The as sailants were arrested. The. attempt on the life of Max imilian Harden, one of the most noted European publicists, comes Just a little more than a week after the assassination of Walter Rathenau, the German foreign Secretary, whtcji took place in the Gruneawald. Herr Harden in the course of the war published many striking srtlcles In his news paper Die Zukunft, mostly de nouncing the policy of the German government. He frequently aroused the ire of the Imperial authorities bv his statements, and in July 1917 his publication was suppressed for the remainder of the war. In one of his articles that at tracted .much attention he eulog lbed President Wilson.: in another he appealer for German democ racy. OPEN BIDS JULY 20 Newton Is Last Building Authorized Under City's Big Bond Issue. ' Bids for the construction of the school building on the site fornr erly used by the Newton Academy on Biltmore Avenue will be opened by the City School Board on Thursday, July JO. , Architect William J. East yes terday presented revieed plans and specifications for the structure and the body placed thereon their final stamp of approval. Accord Ing to the plans, the new building 111 be constructed of brick with stone or cement trimmings. In working : over his specifications Mr. East reduced the size of th interior walls and it' is probable they will be constructed of steel and .'hollow tile Instead of brick. The board authorized the con nection of the fire alarms system of the lour new school buildings with the central fire station.. ine architects have specified that the alarms be Installed, but no pro vision had heretofore been made ffor the connecting 6f the alarms with headquarters. Chief Duckett appeared before the board and explained th matter, stating that th Cost would be about $60 for each school. 1 Mr. Duckett asserted 'a switch l ean be Installed, whereby - th rlarms can be sounded within the uulldlngs for fir drills without In terfearing with the centra! appa ratus. He added that If the switch is on and the boxes are pulled within any of the alx points in the building, all the alarms would sound and continue to ring until th firemen arrived and shut them off With the calling for bids for the Newton School, th last structure to accommodat th over-crowded school system of Asheville, au thorlxed erected by the big ,bond issue voted more than a year ago. will be in the process of erection In view of the fact several of the schedules of the bidders on th school hardware were Incomplete, th matter ws left in hands of the special committee for the next few days. The board decided tp re ceive bids nnlv nn hardware man ufactured by Tal and Towne, Corbin Company and Russel and Krwln con nany, Next me' Ung of ths board will be held Thursday afternoon for th purpose of opening bids for the additions and Improvements to several .school buildings. utrr. XfVT CAI.Tj TROOPS W1THOI.T PRESSING XKED CHICAGO July I. Governor Hyde, of Missouri, said tonight he w.iuld refuse to call ationi Guard troops for .active service un til! ther was an lmmeaiat an-j rresaing necessity. replying to the ioqueet made by the Karawa city Chamber of Commerce, whlh telegraphed th Governor that the presence of troops In Kansas City during the strike was necessary for the protection of life and prop, rrty. ' i .. APPHOrK S TiOAN FOR AGr.lCTWCRAti PURPOSES WASHINGTON, July $. Ap proval of 32 advance for agricul tural and live stock purpose ag gregating $878,000, wa announced today by th War Finance Corpor- won. .... Distribution of th loans Includ ed: Georgia, $9,000; North Car-. I. n. I7S.000, and South Carolina $20,000; and Tennessee, $8,000. ON CONSTRUCTION nrrmiDTU cnunm ur ruun i ii juiiuul ii - ..i .- .7. .7. .7 .7, 7, .7, .7, c ,7, 7 ,7, ,7 7, ,7. .. ... .t 1.S i.t ?.t i, lla' uVif-i iatia. A O TTTll TTT T "DEDICATED TO THE ASHEVILLE, STRIKE CASES TO BE ARGUED RERE Corporation Officials and Union Heads to Be in Circuit Court. SCHEDULE 35 CASES FOR THIS SESSION Formally Open Term at Noon and Adjourn for Legal Holiday. The scene of litigation growing out of the strike of coal miners In West Virginia will be switched to Asheville during the month of July and the eyes of both mine owners and miners will he on the Inlted States Circuit Court of Ad- fpealg, which opens in Asheville to day for the July term- Five rases involving appeal rrom injunctions issued by th United States District Court Southern West Virginia are sche uled to be heard during the session nere. These cases are appeals of ornciais of miner's unions versus various companies, the former be ing defendants in the lniunctions issued by the District Court. In a similar case, C. F. Keeney, Fred Mooney, C. H. Workman. Lawrence Dwyer, Scott Reese, B. A. Scott. Andy Porter, R. p. Tflnav rtanl.l r t'm ft. i. I James Cerbett and Nick Alell, ap- peliants, versus. Borderland Coal Corporation and others, appellees, the Circuit Court of Appeals. Martin A. Knapp, Senior Circuit Judge: C. A. Woods. Circuit Judge and Edmund Waddlll, Jr., Circuit Judge .the following order was Is sued. "And it appearing to the court that ' the question at issue, oom oi ract and law, are of such character and Importance, that they cannot properly be determ- inea on inese appeals irom orders granting temporary injunctions, but should await a. trial on the merits, and. Injunctive Relief Ftr The Plaintiffs "It further appearing .that pending such trial plaintiffs slfould have the Injunctive relief herein ordered, which is deemed sufficient for the protection meanwhile of their- property rights and interests. On consideration whereof, it Is now ordered, adjudged and de creed by thi court that the In junction orers of the said District Court appealed from in this cause, be, and they are hereby modified so that the same will resit am fnl- lows: "That the said defendants and each of-them be restrained from ln terfearing with the employees of the plaintiffs or with men seeking employment at their mines by menaces threats, violence np in. jjUry to them, their persons, fami- lies, or property, or abusing them, or their families or by doing them violence in any way or manner whatsoever, or by doing any other act or thing that would Interfere with the right of such employees and those seeking employment to - Ctntimni s rM Twt ALL INJUNCTIONS UP-BUILDING OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA' N. C, TUESDAY MORNING, COUNTERFEIT RESERVE NOTE IN CIRCULATION Jacksonville Banks Require Endorsement of Every $100 Reserve Note .JACKSONfILi.E, July S. Jack sonville banks arc requiring an en dorsement from the holder (if every 1100 federal reserve bank note presented either for deposit or change, it became known todny. as a result of the discovery recent ly of counterfeit notes of that de nomination of the New York and Cleveland Ninks, WASHI-NGTON. July t. No tices have been sent to banks throughhout the country to be on their guard against a new counter felt 1200 federal reserve note. It was said today at the treasury, but it has not been though necessary to to caution bank against accepting 1200 federal reserve notes be cause of the new counterfeit. BIG TO ill. S. PUBLIC DEBT UUflljJE TEAR Gross Debt of Govern ment on June 30 Given as $22,963,000,000. WASHINGTON. July 3. A re duction of ; 11,014.000.000 in the public debt during the fiscal jrear ended June SO, and a reduction of J175.000.000 In the debt during the month of June was' announced to day by the Treasury. announced that the "final figures of government receipts and ex penditures for the .past fiscal year revealed a surplus of $314,000,000. The total ordinary receipts of the government for the fiscal year 1822 amounted to $4,100,000,00 compared with $5,(25,000,000 the previous year,, while the total ex penditures chargeable against the ordinary receipts amounted to $3,.- 795,000,000 as against ,15,538,- 000,000 during 1021. "When the budget was submit ted -last December." the Treasury stated, "the estimate Indicated a deficit for 1922 amounting to $24,- 463.703 and the better showing which has been made results from a combination of several factors. Aggregate receipts .for the year were about $140,000,000 greater than originally estimated. Customs receipts proved to be larger than for any previous fiscal year in the history of the government and amounted to $36 .443,387.18 as compared with the estimate of 276.000,00i Internal Revenue re ceipts amounted to $3,213,253, 256.79 or almost exactly the esti mated IJ, 214,600, 000. Miscellane ous revenues, Including Panama Canal tolls, amounted to $539,407, 606.97 as compared with an esti mated $487,963,668, the difference being due chiefly to increased realization on property and secur ity of the. sale .of about , $44. 000,- CMitfM en JP9 TVritf IT NEEDS IS A START By BILLY BGRNE . i ... ... ... lLLtJ W isJ tt Uf iJ. T7 nTmTr7T711VT JULY 4, 1922. Eastman Intimates North Carolinians Trying To Go Too Fast. TRAFFIC MEN ARE CHECKING ON RATES Southern Executive Says Rates Can Go Before People Soon. wmeiKaTON qiain TSS AftSSVtl.t.S OITIXSS rsr H. . C. BRYANT ) WASHINGTON, July 3. John K. Eastman, Interstate Commerce Commissioner, In a letter to Sena tor Simmons today Intimated that the North Carolinians were trying to go too fast" in the commodity rate revision, He said It requires time to make such importartt changes. He said that Vice-President Lincoln Green, of the South- em Railway, had been going over tnis matter with him. and he ex pects satisfactory results in the near future. "The re-adjustment of these commodity rstes Is not a simple matter, said he. "On the con trary, it Involves an enormous amount of detail dork. If I felt that the Carriers were not roceed- mg seriously with this work, should recommend that Nos. 10,600 and 10.616 be re-opened for the taking of further evidence with re apect to commodity rates. In order that we might hav th necessary basts tor a specific order. But thli would not be an expeditious way of securing relief, and I am not per suaded that th attitude of the carriers renders It necessary. Mr. Green has been in. .th South. shall confer with him personally at this prnrVkext week (now) and impress uporfOilm such fores as I am able to corhVtand the vital lm porta nee, as thlifv com mission sees It, of permitting Hfithlng to delay the re-adjustment nc these com modify rates." KrroneoiM Impression Out, Says KastniMn. Mr. Eastman told Mr. Simmon mat an erroneous - impression re latlng to the order in the North Carolina rase had goTte abroad. He asked permission to correct It "You speak of the necessity for enforcement without delay of our order In that case. ' said he. "The order dealt with class rates and in compliance with It, rates have been tiled and are now In effect." "As I explained I'h a letter to Senator Overman of May 1. In our first report In the North Carolina case, 2 I.. C. C, 623, w said, on page 537, with reference to com modity rates to snd from Southern points: 'The record Is not suffici ently complete to ensble ua to pre scribe a commodity rate adjust-' ment, but'. In general, the.com' modity rates from or to the North Carolina points should be lower than the commodity rates from or to Norfolk or Richmond by mini mum differentials, which are live same percentage of the differen tials found reasonable between the class under which the c.-ommodlty dlk 4tk atffk J'lkJl ST COMMODITY RATE REV SI N U. S. REQUIRES TIME ...imilM ....i.,.i..r...iiiiii.iii.ii.il.i.i.i.m.isiii.i.l. -.i. Jls ) ' - J O j i m. .i . f j .i . J 7 u l O h., i.i . t . . j i Sit i.i.lla ) -1 .l Li ftt .' .Jal Ui Ut yt.lsal. i J 11 la1.Lia.L,t 13 . . rr.iCE FIVE Labor Board Seeks To Prevent Spread ' Of Railroad Strike defer Any Strike of Maintenance of Way Workers Again Await Outcome of New Con ference to be Held In Chicago Tvday OKTROIT, July 3. (By thn As sociated Press.) The itiri'Htened slrlke of maintenance of way workers ngaln wns deferred Uilsy when the executive bnird of the I'nlted Brotherhood of Mainten ance of Way Employes an.l Kalt way Shop Iji borers, announced after an all day session that no action would be taken until after ronferenee with the United .States Railroad Ibor Board In Chicago tomorrow. The board which Wss rallo.l to canvass the slrlke votd .if the or ganisation's 280,000 members and 120.000 non union worke.-s whose wishes also were consulted, was In session from early this forenoon until 5 o'clock, and indications h.td been that a division would he forthcoming at the conclusion of the conference. A statement given out by the committee said: "The executive committee has I'Sen tabulatlrg the strike an.l per fecting the strike machinery. They have been Invited to confer with the United States Railroad Labor Board and have accepted the In vitation. The meeting will take place tomorrow In Chicago." ABERNETHY LEAOS ALLEN BY 1,500 IN THIRD DISTRICT Wake Experiences Its Cleanest Fight and Its Foulest Also. GOLDPBORO N. C. July 8. On th basts of returns available now, Charles I Abernethy, of New Corn, lj leading his opponent, Mut H. Allen, of Qoldsboro, for tin. Demr.eratlo nomination for Congress from th Third Nortn Carolina district by 1,600 votes. Abernethy has carried Craven, Carteret. Jones and Famllc C luntles, whll Allen has carriej Wayne, Sampson, Onslow and Pender. i Mstt Allen, of GnMshnrn - to.1 night conceded the victory to his opponent, Charles I Abernethy of New Bern, In th contest for the democratic nomination for con gress In the Third congression dis trict or North Carolina. On the basis of returns received, Abernethy has carried four of the nine counties of the district W l. 500 votes. . BAIIiRV TO COXTIW'K HIS ATTACKS OF A. I. WATTS OITKBM NIW BCIS4U TAlsnineas snrsi, (It MOCK tARKltfl KAMi.GH July l.-Wikt County, In sober retrospection after S'jiiie four weeks of political In toxication, spent today contemplat ing evtnt associated with the "d.'rtiest contest In Its history," re vealing same Interesting side lights tend Ing towards political dis couragement. The county named Ita first wo man to office. In one of the clean est fights It has ever witnessed. It also contributed to the nomina tion of a new solicitor for the Seventh THstrlftt In the bitterest aid foulest political contest on rec ord, It pttc a hand Into stats politics through the smart and shrewd hand of J. W. Bailey and for mally set the fires of. factionalism ablui-e In preparation for the 1924 gubernatorial contest. It produced a 'Wholesale variety of campaign plunder that has been filed and nvidb ready for the next big statu wide contest. Two weeks ago It was Mr. Bailey every cne was talkking about. Mr. F.al!y and his famous courthouse speech. In whleh he arranged H i n n m. Commissioner A. D Witts nnj some others of lessor prominence, as anti-Bailey men. g ive the Seventh District solicitor ship contest its claim to state at tentlon Today Mr. Bailey Is oc cupylnr the second row and wo- niaii maiden voyage In the set of active dnd Indlserimlnattng poli tics is th chief topic of discus- non. - r With a woman In the running. the contest for County Treasurer was one nf'the cleanest In political annals. With the women partici pating In a ronteat between two men, t e sollcltorship race was Just the oppoe.te. The ncmen, or at least the,wo mon'e representatives 1 n 't 11 e Evans-Hinsdale fight, disappolntel and disgusted even the most ar dent suffragist. Thev went into polities borne two years ago "to clear it tip." but in their first par ticipation In a real hot fight they ronna tnemsetves doing the dirti est part of the work. X& Women To Do the) Kstmnr Kprrading They were doing th rumor spieadlng. The case of rumors they were spreading would not pass th cen sr. And they did not do It as sim rien have dared, whispering tl.eli poisonous reports about un der the cognomen of "they say." but the rumors th women lead in lcHm4 m he rl CENTS. BOARD ' THOSE S NOW ONJTRIKE Hope Conference Will Avert Walkout of Main tenance Men. SHOPMEN CLAIMING 100 PER CENT STRIKE Eastern Roads Say Strik ers Lose Briorlty and Right to Pensions. ' CHIcfoO, July 3. -i- (By Th Associated Press) With striking; shopmen branded by th United States Railroad Labor Board as "outlaws," the board tonight di rected Its efforts toward th pre. ventlon of an extension of th wskout to some 400,0000. mainten ance of way men, . jrotiowlng a meeting of th y ecutlve council of th Unltd Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way employes and railway shoo labor ers n Detroit today to canvass a, strike vote. It was announced that . the threatened walkout would e held up pending a conference with labor . members, and Ben W. Hooper. Chairman of the labor board, tomorrow . morning. Th conference was arranged at - th suggestion of (Mr, McMenlmen." Member of the board expressed strong hopes tonight that the con ference would avert a walkout. They declared that th only ques tion at Issue was one of wages and that the way already had been opened for a reconsideration of wage reductions which went-Into effect on July 1. At 4 V, t flma Ham TC rtfiuiM chairman of Ui boai$& announced that government report Indicated an Increase In th cost of living . sine th board rendered Its wag reduction deolalons and that this . could be mad th basis of an Im mediate appeal to th board by , the employee for wag Increase. Union leader were quoted todav j as demanding only board hold up ' Its wags cuts pending th appeal. The difference was slight. It wa declared, and th belief was ex- .' pressed that th gap would, be bridged without a strlk. ,, , i No Figure on . Number StrlklTUT Meanwhile conflicting ' clsllm continued regarding th number of men Involved In th walkout of th shopmen. Neither th union lead ers or the railway manager would . give any figures, but B. M. Jewell, reiterated previous statmentsHitat . the strlk was virtually 100 per cent effective. The railway ex ecutives, on the other hand--de clared that traffic was being eon tlnued practically without Inter ruption and repeated their asser tions that the efficiency of th roads would not b sericusly im paired by th walkout for several weeks and perhaps months. New workers ar being recruited to . take the places of the strlgers and the opinion of th rait heads was unanimous that ther would be no Interruption of transportation. Th "outlaw" order Issued br the labor board today followed a, statement by Mr. Hooper last week that "blood would be upon Mr. Jewell's head" In Ignoring th Board's order to appear before It ' and Justify his strike order. Th . order said In part: "It If be assumed that th em ployes who leave th service of the rsrrlers because of their dis satisfaction with any decision of . the Labor Board are within their Arrlvlng yesterday for th July term of the United State Circuit Court of Appeal. Claude M. Dean, of Rlchmbnd, Clerk of th Court, expressed surprise at th progress made in Asheville since ha visited this city In July 1921. Dr. Dean Is a "booster" of Asheville and states thlt he look forward to th July term with eager interest. The popular r.terk, for every at torney to handle a oas In th Cir cuit Court of Appeals In Asheville, has praised the work of Mr. Dean, has Just passed by a few days, over th mark of 2T years service with the court and declares that each Asheville term mean another year ' to . his record, but give a few week In which to breath health giving osone. Mr. Dean has a record that 1 believed to be unequaled In Fed eral Court circle in filing his an-, nual reports on tlm and keeps th matter of his office in such -efficient shape that his report for th period ending June 10 wu filed with the Department of Justice on thst afternoon. ' Numerous attorneys attending . the sessions of the court in Ashe ville hav praised th manner in UTLAWS OPMEN Claude M. Dean aS g kwhlch Mr. Dean has kept them no- titled of th arrangement of their cases on the docket, giving them more time at home and saving un necessary delay. I r u AmsJU- :;'!