FOREST CITY COURIER
Lell— NO. 48
HPHTOI
I GTH IS PROCLAIMED A
FO R THE TAKING OF
,£NTIVE MEASURES.
II LIVES ARE GIVEN
n $250,000,000 in Buildings,
ffs and Other Created Re
es Destroyed Annually.
;ton —President Wilson in
ation urged state governors
irt Saturday, October 9, as
ition day and to request a
uervance by the public.
J for bringing "before the
P serious and unhappy ef
je present unnecessary fire
e need of their individual
live effort in conserving
il and created resources of
was said by the President
iclamation to be especially
the following reasons:
itruction by fire in the Unit
involves an annual loss of
)00 men. women and child
er $250,000,000 in buildings,
and other created re
»d of the civilized world for
products to replace the
the great war is especially
Sis time.
esent serious shortage of
; business structures makes
destruction of buildings by
pecially serious matter.
» percentage of the fires
ie annual American fire
r be easily prevented by in
are and vigilance on the
t citizens."
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Jrasp of Car Shortage J
la, Ky.—Southern states,
AlaLania, Mississippi. Lou
anessee. and Kentucky, are
?p of a very acute car'short
a statement Issued heYe by
a commefcfi service ,head
of the Southern Railway
Dit of Paper Clothing
[ton —Paper clothing and
lies made from paoer in Au
tories were placed on exhi
the department of com
pter the exhibit will be of
lothing and other manufac
' examination.
Can Use Mayflower
rion. The presidential
Slower will be placed at the
if the British delegation
"ected to arrive September
e part in the tercentenary
3 of the landing of the Pil
t of Late- Czar Dead
txille. France. Grand
ladimir of Russia, aunt of
zar Nicholas, is dead here,
to announcement. She was
Duchess Marie of Mecklen
est Transportation Act
?ton. —Validity of transpor
provisions giving the Inter
imerce Commission instead
authorities supervision over
ire of railroad securities is
M in the courts. \
Expel King Constantine
-Official request for the
of former King Constan
ts as yet been received from
mt the Swiss Government,
to information received
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'ora Captive Escapes
City.—w. A. Gardiner, a cit
* United States, who was
'y Pedro Zamora, the Jalis
on August 20. at Cuale, has
Wording to official advices.
in Tuscany
Wv marked earthquake
reported from points lr.
Casualties had resulted,
'stated, and the authorities
lid. ,
'jured in Collision
falls.—Seven persons were
seriously, in a collision
of trolley cars in the
ir Be. Scores of other pav
1 the rear trailers of one
l 'iemselves by jumping.
Shale Slide
—Two women and a
Pushed to death and two
when a slide of shale
a bridge leading to one of,
in the Cave of Winds
hr * Falls.
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JOSEPH DEVLIN.
Joseph Devlin, nationalist member
of the house of commons from Belfast,
who was suspended and ordered from
the house after a stormy session dur
ing the discussion of the government's
bill for restoration of order in Ireland.
iFIBHT WONIfME ROUNDS
Dempsey Knocks Out Miske in Third
Round by Administering Last of
Three Terrific Smashes.
Benton Harbor, Mich. — Jack Demp
sey, heavyweight champion of the
world, demonstrated that LIE still re
tains the terrific punch that won him
the title. He knocked out Billy Miske,
of St. Paul, a fighter as big and game
J as himself, in the third round of their
ten-rouict mfrtch. Three hard smashes
. were sufficient to win hirii between
$50,000 and SIOO,OOO, his fifty per cent
share of the gate receipts. *
At the start of the fight, his first in
■I 14 months. Dempsey paeled off the
same worn and patched red sweater.
He danced about the ring with old
time light footedness and finished up
by taking the fight in the third round,
just as he did at Toledo. The third
round went one minute and thirteen
. seconds.
Miske went down three times in the
•ess than two and one-half rounds of
fighting. In the fatal third, driven to
his corner under a rain of lefts and
rights to the stomach and chin, the
challenger took the count of nine, and
i had just regained his feet, when
Dempsey, carefully measuring his dis
tance, finished the bout with a left to
stomach.
Ctfnfusion in Maine
Boston. — The enfranchisement rf
women "has caused extreme confu
sion" in Maine where state officers
will be elected on September 13. ac
cording to Franklin D. Roosevelt, dem
ocratic candiate for vice-president,
•who passed through this city on his
I way to New York city after campaign
ing in Maine.
"On my return from three days in
'Maine," Mr. Roosevelt said in a state
ment, "I find it impossible to make
any estimate of the situation. The
passage of the nineteenth amendment
giving women the vote has caused ex
treme confusion not only in the coun- (
try districts but also in the cities in
Maine. No one has any idea as to
the size of the woman's registration
there let alone the size of the actual
woman vote on September 13.
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Aim of Italian Socialists.
London. — Seizure of Italian factor
ies by metal workers as the starting
point of a general taking over of in
dustry is advocated by Italian extrem
ists at the meeting of the heads of
the General Federation of Labor and
the metal workers' union and repre
sentatives of the Italian socialist par
ty at Milan, says a dispatch from that
city. %
Political Refugees in /ienna
Vienna. — The police announceed
that 100,000 political refugees were
living in Vienna. The majority of
them are Ukraians and Russians with
many Italians and Hungarians.
Norway to Protest
Christiana. Norway, — The Norwegian ■
foreign M ! nister announces that his
G O ----,-TIE -.t is preparing a protest
araiirt tie Jones navigation act,
ndoi'ed LAP 1 June by the United
S.aias ( cn' ress.
Capture of Nrfa*
Constantinople. The capture of
Urfa in Asiatic Turkey 75 miles south
west of Diafgekir, by French forces *s
announced here. A strong French
column was recently reported march
j ing on Urfa.
GREATER FOREST CITY'S OWN HOME NEWSPAPER
FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1920
IIZAMORA THREATENS
I TO ILL GAPIEd
AMERICAN AND ENGLISHMAN IN
CRAVE DANGER IF NOT AL
READY EXECUTED
DESERTERS BRING THE NESS
Government is Exerting Every Effort
to Secure Release of The Two Men
Without Paying Ransom
j Mexico City.—Pedro Zamora, the
j Jalisco bandit, has threatened to exe
cute W. A. (Sandy) Gardiner, the
j America ncitizen, and W. B. Johnson,
I a British subject, who were kidnap
| ped by Zamora's band at Cuale on
| August 20. This information has been
i given government authorities by de
| serting members of Zamora forces,
•: who say that the threat to kill tho
, two captives may be put into execu
j tion if the men are not ransomed im
.l mediately, according to dispatches
; received from military headquarters
at Guadalajara.
It is reported Zamora has refused to
answer communications from the gov
; eminent, presumably relative to the
release of the two prisoners, and it is
said he has increased the amount of
ransom required.
The Esperanza Mining Company
which employed Gardiner at Cuale, is
holding the ransom money ready, up
on advice of the United States consul
i here but it is declared it has not been
t
able to communicate with the outlaw
The government is exerting everv
i effort to secure the release of the two
men without paying ransom, which,
i officials say, might encourage everv
potential bandit chief to enter the
: business of capturing and holding
foreigners until paid large amounts.
Federal troops aie said to be close ba
hind Zamora, who is reported to have
sought refuge near t,he El Panal mouir
j tains in western Jalisco.
Up to Other Nations
Washington.—Resposibility for the
i termination of the commercial trea
ties between the United States and
'more thap a score of foreign nations
iin jccnformity with requirements of
the shipping act probably will be
placed squarely upon the ether par
ties to the treaties by the state de
| partment.
In other words, it will be left to
the other government to say whether
it is content to accept the terms.
Death to All Mutineers
Peking.—Death for all of the 1,500
! troops who participated in the recent
' mutiny at Tingehow is favored by
' General Chang Tsohxling, inspector
general. He told the Associated Press
correspondent he was restrained
from carrying this punishment into ef
i feet only by a disagreement with the
president who he said favored sho )t
--ing only the ring-leaders.
Wifes' Wish is Gratified
i Muncie, Ind.-—Surrounded by con
soling friends, dressed for the funeral
of her husband, which was to have
been held in the village church thirtv
minutes later, and just after she had
! expressed regret that her wish to die
with him had not come true, Mrs.
Rebecca of Roverton, sat
, back in her chair and died before aia
•could be" summoned.
HIIRO'S Anarchists Arrested
Springfield, Ille. —Leaders of a
l-midaMe band of anarchists, whose ac
t'v'trs long have baffled federal and
police authorities in many cities, are
in jail here .the police announced as a
result of a raid in which department
of justice agents arrested 19 men.
Deschanel's Health Normal
Paris. —President Deschanels diplo
matic receptions, occprring at Ram
bouillet, his country home, are re
ceiving considerable attention from
Uhe press, this being the first time
such ceremonies have been held since
the accident which befell the president
on his railway journey last May. The
fact that the receptions were arrang
ed for is taken as a sign of the presi
dent's wish to show that his health
ihas again become normal.
Strike of Building Trades
j New York. —Extension of the strike
of building trades employes embrac
ing a total of 75,000—was predicted
by F. G. Beldenkapp, national organiz
er of the Amalgamated Metal Work
ers' Union.
Cotton Mu3t Bring Forty Cents
Montgomery, Ala. —The Alabama
division of the American Cotton As- j
relation at its convention voted to
fix 4o cents, middling basis, as the
price for the present crop. It was
adopted after ft spirited discussion.
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MIRZA ASSADULLAH FAZEL.
1 Mirzn Assadullah Fazel, distinguish-
I ed Persian, who is visiting America.
■ Mirza Fazel is one of the most noted
• scholars in his country.
;!WANT k HIGHER WAGE SCALE
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» Communication Drawn up for Presen
tation Either to The President,
or To Secretary Wilson
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Scranton, Pa. — Representatives of
the United Mine Workers of America
' who accepted and signed a new two
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II year contract with the coal operators
L based on the award of the anthracite
coal commission giving hard coal dig
gers increases ranging from 17 to 25
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47-8 per cent met to formulate a plan
for re-cpening the wage agreement
and asking Tor further inc/eases. The
' -unfen leaders declare the contract
just signed is unsatisfactory in that
jit gave the workers little more than
fhe offer of the operators which was
.rejected last spring.
The full scale committee represent
ing the three anthracite districts met
to draw up a communication to be ad
dressed either to President Wilson NR
1 Secretary of Labor W. B. Wilson. Tt .
will set forth the resolutions award '
F hey pledged to accept is not satisfac- !
tory. It will be along the lines of the [
•statement made to the operators.
The mine owners declined to re
.ceive new wage demands, asserting
'that they had no power to do so and
vwere authorized to sign the contract
•based on the award of the commis
sion.
In asking the president or the sec
retary of labor to re-open the nego
'titations the anthracite men are fol
lowing the procedure used- in the soft
• coal fields after the bituminous com-
made its award.
Refuses Hylan's Request
Lcerne. — Premier Lloyd George of
Great Britain, has replied in the neg.l
-tive to the message of Mayor Hylan ;
of New York urging the premier to 1
release Lord Mayor MacSwiney of
'Cork from prison.
Recruiting Record Broken
Washington. — Army recruiting again j
broke all peace time records during j
August, according to a statement by j
Adjutant General Harris showing en
lisements for the month to have reach
ed 19,242.
Delacroix Visits Paris
Paris. — Premier Delacroix of Bel
: gium. who is in this city, took lunch
eon with Premier Millerand. It is un
derstood he came to Paris to arrange
the final details for the ratification of
the military accord between France
and Belgium already signed by Mar
shall Foch for France and General
Maglinse, the Belgian chief of staff.
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Sugar Prices Go Lower
New York. — Announcements were
I made bringing prices for refined sugar
to about the same basis at which sec
ond hand" or speculators' stocks re
cently have been selling.
The Federal Sugar Refining Com
pany announced a new reduction of a
cent a pound, making its price for
fine granulated "15 cents a pound less
2 per cent."
German Coal Deliveries
Paris. —British, French. Italian and
German delegates have arrived at
•Stressa, Italy, for a conference at
•which to arrange the conditions of
pavmentts and advances to be made
Ito Germany for delivery of coal to
tallies.
No Invasion of Lithuania
Berlin. —Lithuania will defend her
self with all means at her disposal
against invasion by Polish troops and
will prevent any further violations of
her territory, says a Kovono dispatch.
EARTHQUAKE SHQoK
SHOCKS ALL ITALY
NINE PROVINCES IN HUNGARY
PRINCIPALLY, EXPERIENCED
THE HEAVIEST LOSGES.
M HUNDREDS WERE KILLED
There Are Yet Many Bodies Under the
Ruins as Well as Wounded Who
Have Not Been Rescued.
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Rome.—ltaly is again suffering from
an earthquake disaster, the extent of
j which has not yet been measured. It
is known, however, that hundreds of
people have been killed and thousands
injuied. Many small towns and vil
lages have been wrecked, and although
assistance is being hurried from all
parts of the* country to the afflicted
area, there is much suffering for Want
of food, medicines and shelter for the
people.
It is not yet possible to calculate
how marry hundreds are dead —the list
showing close to 400" already reported.
There are many bodies under the
ruins who have not yet been reported
by the rescuers.
"It seemed like the end of the
wjrld," terrified peasants say.
The great towers of medieval cas
tles wore shaken, partially destroyed,
or seem tottering to a fall. The ducal
palace at Massa Carrara, which was
the summer residence of Napoleon's
sister, was seriously damaged.
Observers noted that the world-fa
mous Leaning Tower of Pisa was
very perceptibly shaken.
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Wood Alcohol Victims
Baltimore..—The list of fatalities I
among civilian employes of Edgewood
arsenal resulting from drinking soai*? |
form of poisoned alcohol was in j
creased to seven by the deaths of Ne'-'
con Lucius, of Rochester, N. Y., and j
James Davis, of Salisbury, Md.
AfU-r an incur.it held over the threo j
who were dead at that time', the corn
er's jury rendered a verdict that the I
j aen had died either from wood or
j denoaured alcohol poison.
Improvement in Corn Crop
Washington.—Corn prospects im j
proved during August and promised j
on September Ist, a crop of 3.131,000,- !
TOO bushels, the Department of Agri- j
culture announced. This was 128,000.-;
more then indicated August 1, six I
million bushels above the largest pre-1
vinus crop of record in 1912, more |
than 200,000,000 above last year and i
almost 400,000,000 above the five-year j
average.
Cotton Ginners Report
Washington.—Cotton ginned prioT :
to .September 1 amounted to 367.241
running bales, including 21,143 round j
bales.
Ginnings to September 1 last year ,
amounted to 142.625 running bales, in- j
I eluding I.IIS round bales and 26 bales
! of sea island.
Army Officer Surrenders
Buffffalo, N. Y. —Major j
j Green, marine corps pay officer at i
! Quantico, Va., who disappeared after i
I reporting that $12,000 of post ex
change funds had been stolen from
him, was taken back to Washington
under guard, it was said at the ma- j
rine recruiting station here.
Reds Recapture Omsk
Harbin. Manchuria. —Russian soviet
forces, aided by German and Hungar-1
ian war prisoners, have re-captured i
Omsk, where, as in other towns of;
western Siberia, the peasants recent- j
ly overthrew the Soviets.
King Visits Victims
Pisa. Italy.—King Victor Emmanuel,
with his suite, who came to this city
immediately after he received news of j
the earthquake in this vicinity, wen"
to visit districts in Tuscany, which
were affected by the shock.
Several Hundred Killed
Rome. —Several hundred persons
lost their lives in the earthquake at 1
Fivizzano, and many more were in
jured, according to a dispatch to The
Tribuna from Massa.
No Trace of Slides
San Diega. Calif.—All traces of re- «
cent slides in the Panama canal hav? i
been removed and the channel of Cule 1
bra cut is being widened and deepen- .
ed, according to word brought here. i
Mail Planes are Off
Mineola. N. Y. — Trans-continental
air mail service to San Francisco 'was
officially inaugurated when R. G. .
Page, piloting an airplane specially
equipped to carry 400 pounds of mail
started his westward flight at 6:30 1
o'clock.
$1.50 a Year, in Advance
| POTATGES BUMPED IN RIVER
Consignment for Cuba, is Taken on at
Norfolk, Rotting on New Bern
Dock Valued at $23,900
New Bern. —Twenty-three thousand
dollars worth of Irish potatoes are rot
ting down at the foot of Craven street
and are to betaken down Neuse river
and thrown overboard. At the same
time local desidents are paying all
the way from five to eight dollars a
barrel for potatoes of this variety.
The potatoes are loaded on two
barges of a fleet of three which came
into port a week ago. The cargo was
taken on board at Norfolk and con
signed to Havana, Cub.*, where they
were to be sold at a prHfc- of s3l per
barrel. Oft' Beaufort the oats were
ordered by wireless to seek port and
went into that harbor, later coming
on to New Bern.
Burlington—The opening of the Bur
lington tobacco market will occur on
Tuesday, Sept. 21, according to an an
nouncement made public here. The
Burlington market will be better pre
pared this year to handle the weed
than it was last year. New price
houses have been built during the
summer.
Lexington.—Five new precincts
have been decreed by the Davidson
county board of elections on account
of the large number of voters expect
.ed after the women have registered.
Three of the new precincts created
are in Lexington townships, while
two are in Thomasville township.
Hamlet. —Hamlet is experiencing
the joys of back tme checks which are
being paid to the employees of the
Seaboard. The back time paid out by
the Seaboard paymaster at Hamlet
! the past few days amount to a litte
: over one hundred thousand dollars.
! All employees of the Seaboard are
sharing in the payment.
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Sanford, —Under the direction of
Miss Getrude Littte, Home Demonstra
tion Agent of Lee County, four com
munity fair associations have recent
ly been organized in the county,
; which will hold their fairs as follows:
Bread way, October 26; Harnett Hill,
October 27; Tramway, Octoer 28;
Morris Ch'aple.October 29.
Farmville. —The construction of
the big $250,000 school building in this
i city, which was suspended some
weeks ago, wifl soon be resumed. The
suspension was caused by the money
i shortage at that time, which made it
1 difficult to seel the oonds.
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Raleigh.—Preparations for the big
Sir Walter Raleigh community page
ant to be given during fair week un
der the auspices of the Raleigh Wom
an's Club, together with the other
; civic organizations, began in earnest
! with the arrival in Raleigh of Miss
Elizabeth B. Grimball of New York
City, under whose direction the page
angt is to be produced.
Charlotte. —A woodpile with a firce
looking bull dog sitting on top was
no barrier to. two gallons of liquor
which police officers were searching
for at the home of Lizzie Richradson.
In addition to corraling the two gal
lons from underneath the woodpile
with its bull dog guardian, officers re
port finding two more gallons in the
woman's house.
Greensboro. —Resignations of Rev.
L. S. Massey, and Rev. Hugh M. Blair,
editor and business manager, respec
tively, of the North Carolina Chris
tian Advocate, which were recently
•tendered to the Methodist Board of
Publication. Inc., were unanimously
accepted, according to Thomas C.
Hoyle, secretary of the board. They
are leaving the newspaper work of
the church in order to go back to the
active ministry.
Gastonia. —With her jugular
severed on the broken glass o* the i
windshield of the automobile in mh f
she was ridding, Mias Carrie Hornady.f
of Burlington, died here a few minutes*
tefter a car driven by J. B Robertso *.
of Concord, with whom she was ridd
ing, and one driven by Ed. Coffey, lot
Gastonia, were in collision. A deaid
car standing in the middle of the ro«.d
kwas the cause of the accident, prevent
ing the drivers of the two approach-'
'ing cars from seeing each other. J
First Woman Magistrate
Monroe. —Union county claims .the
.distinction of having the fi~st woman
(magistrate in North Carolina. M'rs.
-Julian Griffin having been (ommis
.sioned by Clerk of Court R. W. Lem
imond. Mrs. Griffin has already quali
fied and has equal jurisdiction with
the other magistrates of Monroe town
ship.
Mrs. Griffin was for several years
.deputy sheriff.looking after the office
work of the sheriff's office. Following
'his she served for several years as
deputy clerk of court.