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IMPORTANT NEWS • THE WORLD OVER! j _— IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THI6 AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS (pIVEN THE NEWS _OF_THE SOUTH Yt'hat Is Taking Place In The 6outl»> 'land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Foreign— Mexican independence day is being celebrated with great military display. The celebration opened September 15 end will continue several days, as is i the usual Spanish custom. Removal of the prohibition against the union of Austria and Germany will be requested of the council of the league of nations at the meeting of that body, which will be held in Paris in November, Dr. Carl Renner, chan cellor of the Austrian republic an nounces. Consent has been granted by the constitution committee of Austria for Vienna to become a separate province. This reverses a form'er decision. Preparations for shipping to the United States of American soldiers' bodies who fell on the battlefield or died on French soil are going forward at Cherbourg, France. There have been various press in terpretations according to a dispatch from Tokio, of Viscount Uchida's re marks in answering a question rela tive to Japanese children in Hawaii studying the Japanese language and possible objection on the part of the United States. j Reports from Fiume that troops un der command of Capt. Gabriele d'An nunzio have occupied the Islands of Cherzoz, Velia and Arbe, in the Gulf of Quarnero, are without foundation. The poet-soldier is still in Fiume. Dr. T. Bailie Smith, health officer at Abertillery, according to a Lon don dispatch, advocates shorter hours for wives. He declares that the women at the head of households should obtain more rest and believes that men should help in household duties in order that this may be brought about. Premier Milerand will meet Pre mier Lloyd George of Great Britain at Biarritz during the next fortnight, according to a dispatch to the Excel sion from Aix-les-Bains, where M. Mil lerand conferred with Premier Gilotti of Italy. Imagining that he was leading a Sinn Fein army, MacSwiney, lord mayor of Cork, now in Brixton prison, talked wildly, and shouted commands, recently, his sister says. Realizing that he bight betray Sinn Fein se crets while raving. MacSwiney ask ed his relatives to forcibly gag him if he became delirious while prison doc tors were present. With rgorganization of their ar mies complete, following general mo bilization. the Bolsheviki are about to start a general offensive against Po land, according to unofficial advices received from London. Many Koreans and Japanese police have been killed in attacks by Kore ans on the police, according to press dispatches received at Tokio. Rebel forces headed by Gen. Felipe Pineda have seized the town of San Cristobal, in the state of Chiapas, Mex ico. The Mexican secretary of war says the movement will soon be put down. Washington A committee has been apopinted at the Washington Anti-Saloon league quarters to draft a resolution warning federal judges that unless they "sa credly perform their sacred duties" in enforcing prohibition laws, the league will seek their impeachment. President Wilson and Premiers Lloyd-Cieorge and Millerand have been asked by the Albanian government to take steps to compel Serbia to with draw its troops from Albanian terri tory. The Albanians have repulsed these invaders, but, being exhausted and weak in numbers, are unable to re sist indefinitely the millions of Jugo slavs. Regardless of Tennessee throwing the suffrage matter into the Supreme court, Connecticut's ratification of the suffrage amendment removes all doubt as to the avilidity of the amendment, aod there is no question of the wom en voting from now on:* Suffragists had announced that they would try for ratification, but they were as much surprised as any others at the rapidity with which that state acted once it got started. John V. Jordan, of Asheville, N. C., American vice council at Brest, France, is returning home no leave. At the state department at Washington it was stated that his return was in no way connected with the trouble which developed at a dance given by him in a Brest hotel on August 5, in which a number of men wearing the uniforms of French naval officers and several members of the American army add navy graves registration services fir jirnl ° A Joint report by the mint and ge ological survey fixes the total Amer ican production of gold during the cal endar year 1919 at 2,918.628 fine ounces, valued at $60,333..400; silver, 56,682,445 fine ounces, valued at $63,- 535,652 taken at the average New York price of $1.12087 per ounce. Department of justice officials ad mit they they have ordered a - suit filed against Bernard M. Baruch. a friend of President Wilson and for mer head of the war industries board, on charge of violating the migratory bird act. The alleged offense is said to have been perpetrated in South Carolina. American dollars are being drawn to the far ends of the earth by foreign governments and municipalities, which i re dumping their high interest securi ties into the United States af the rate cf millions per month. Roy H. Kuehling, held by the po lice for investigation in connection with the drowning of his wife has be£n released. The grand jury voted not to turn in an indictment against him. Contracts for three air Mail routes at a total cost of $685,000 a year have been awarded by the postoffice de partment to the Lawson Airline com pany of Chicago. One contract calls for airplane mail service between New York and Atlanta, via Washington, Raleigh and Columbia j' a cost of $300,000. Paper suits imported from Germa ny by the department of commerce will make an exhibition tour of the coun try. Representatives of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce at Washington and in the principal cit ies of the country are to show the suits which cost from 15 cents to $2.65 to manufacturers and clothing firms. It is announced that the price of white paper stocks has increased more than 400 per cent in the last five years. A reduction of 25 per cent in the navy yard fqrces will be necessary un less the machinists accept the five per cent wage increase awarded naval em ployees, Secretary Daniels announces. A lack of funds, he says, will make this course imDerative. Domestic— The buying public has "rebelled against ever-mounting prices and has forced a period of readjustment of ■values," Vice Governor Piatt of the federal reserve board, declared in a speech at Charleston before the an nual convention of the West Virs ginia Bankers' association. A mysterious explosion, disastrous in its effect, occurred in Wall street, New York, killing more than a score of persons and injuring hundreds. Of fice workers were just hurrying into the street for their noonday meal when a jet of black smoke and flame rose from the center of the world's great street of finance. Then came the blast. A moment later scores of men, women and children were lying, blood-covered, on the pavements. L. M. Adler, general manager of the Corona Coal coni'pany, was shot from ambush while riding in an automobile between Uatton and Patton Junction, Ala. Deputy Sheriff Earl Edgel and Deputy Sheriff Brown, who were in the car with Adler, were also shot to death.' Governor Kilby has sent troops to Corona to help preserve order and to aid in the solution of the diffi culty! The Wholesale and Retail Grocers* Association of Birmingham, Ala., an nounce the appointment of commit tees to protest against sales of meat and groceries by the city government. Abolition of summer school vaca tions for all children between eight and sixteen years of age because the vacation period "induced habits -of idleness and criminality among boys," is advocated by Will C. Wood, state superintendent of California schools. Peanut growers of Alabama will not wait for congressional aid in prohib iting the importation of foreign oils and marketing matters, but will have a meeting in Enterrpise, Ala., Sep tember 25, to discuss the subject. John D. Martin, president of the Southern League, an attotrney in Memphis, Tenn., has been appointed to the federal bench. It is not yet known whether he will continue as president of the baseball league. Eradication of radicalism was advo cated at St. Louis at the opening of the twenty-second encampment of tha United Spanish War Veterans of America. The commander-in-chief de clared the government should sparo no expense in "wiping out these doc trines that are designed to disrupt tho very things upon which this govern ment was founded." United States Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman of Springfield, 111., is facing the alternative of a year's eompleto rest from work or blindness. Spe cialists have decided there is no other help for him, as he has almost worn his eyes out by overwork. Investigation to ascertain whether there was foul play has been ordered as the result of the death of J. Has kell Roe, Jr., of Tigerville, S. C., whose body was found on the Southern railway tracks at Greenville, S. C. The theory is advanced that he was drug ged, robbed and placed on the railroad tracks in order to cover up the crime. A 1 Alvarez, twenty-two, who was knocked unconscious in a boxing bout with Frank Quigley at the Loa Ange les (Cal.) Y. M. C. A., died in a ho* pltal in thai city as a result. THE COURIER, FOREST CITY, N. C. JO-OPERATION IS ASKED BY DEALERS POLICY OF FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD IT IS FEARED IS LEADING TO DkSAS/TER. JHAHBE OF PROPAGANDA MADE auectionnaires Have Been Submitted to the Textile Men of the South west and Answers Show Concern. Chattanooga, Tenn. —Blaming the present unbalanced conditions of the commodity markets, the southwestern division of the National Asociation of Hosiery and Underwear Manufactur ers which closed its convention here sent a communication to the South em Drygoods association warning it to take immediate action in order to prevent the "very institution that was established to prevent ruin and disas* ter fron taking the leadership in a policy that can have no other end." Qoestionnaires which had been submitted to the textile men of the poothwest, and which were answered, showed that a vast fnajority of the f.extile manufacturers are receiving no new orders at satisfactory prices; that practically all old- orders have been filled; that less than 12 per cent of the output of the knitting industry is being sold, and that there is an overproduction in most lines of ho siery. ■ The textile manufacturers charge that these conditions have been brought about the federal reserve board's attitude in forcing liquida tion and deflation by a systematic program of propaganda. Red Journalist Arrested. New York.—Alexander J. Brailov sky, a Russian journalist, who was taken into custody after the police had reecived an anonymous letter that he was seen in the financial district a short time after the Wall street ex plosion, was formally placed under ar rest on a charge of being an undesir able alien. He will be turned over to department of justice agents, the police said, while a check is being made of his movements. Brailovsky was seized in a small stationery store on East Seventh street in the rear of which is a print ing shop where The Russky Goles (Russian Voice), described by the au thorities as a radical Russian maga zine, is published. Vets Not to Camp Out. Houston, Texas. Veterans who come to the Confederate reunion in Houston October 5 to 8 will not be quartered in camp, instead, the plan used successfully at Tulsa in 1918 and at Memphis in 1919 will be fol lowed and the old soldiers housed in schools and public builmngs. Refusal by the quartermaster gen eral of the army to lend any equip ment except tents to the U. C. V. caused the change of plan. A' reso lution passed by Congress in July pro vides for the loan of tents to veter ans' organizations 'but does not men tion other equipment. Millerand Won't Accept. Paris.—Premier Millerand informed the cabinet that he would not accept the post left vacant by the resignation of President Desc.hanel. He later told Raoul Peret, president of the chamber of deputies, a.id Charles C. A. Jonnart, extraordinary ambassador to the Vat ican, that they are the only possible candidates the newspaper adding that he suggested to the men that they set tie the controversy between them selves. They later told the premier by letter that he is the only possible candidate to be considered. Employees Walk Out. Newport News, Va. —Three hundred employes of the Chesapeake & Ohio Terminals here walked out in protest against the failure of the company to pay all of the "back wages" allowed by the railroad labor board in July. The men include members of the car men's union, carpenters, electricians and those working on the coal piers. Government Expenditures Lo>*«er. Washington.—Governmental expen ditures in August were $450,000,000 lower than in July. Ordinary dis bursements for the month amountet to $447,571,062 against $306,501,839 in July. Would Reject Packer's Plan. Washington.—Rejection by the De partment of Justice o£ the plan of the "big five" packers for the disposition of their ownership in stockyards was recommended by the Federal Trade Commission in a special report. Polish Delegation Arrives* London. —The Polish peace commis sion, headed by M. Dombski. arrived at Riga preparatory to Its conference with Russian delegates, according to dispatches from Riga. Red* Held In Genoa. Genoa. —Eighteen "Rieds" arrested )n connection with a bomb explosion fn the stock exchange Friday were held here. Investigators suspected '•Reds" when it was learned the bomb was scienliflially conilrucLed and set off by a tini« fuse. REGISTRANTS MUST PERSON WRITTEN REQUEST ON MATTER IS SUBJECT OF LETTER TO GENERAL MANNING HTHEY GENERAL'S RUB The Absent Voters Law Does Not Ap ply to. Registration, but Only to The Casting of The Ballot Raleigh. In response to an inquiry from Miss Minnie Bagwell, chairman of the re search committee of the League of Women Voters, Attorney General James S. Manning ruled that a voter cannot be registered in any election unless he or she present himself or herself in person to the precinct reg istrar in person in order to be en rolled. Miss Bagwell had learned, she said that in several instances, men had registered their wives for the coming school bond election in the ward in which she lives. She held that such registration was illegal, and forward ed inquiry to the attorney general. Her letter was as follows: "I will thank you to give me your written opinion as to whether or not, under the laws of our State, any per son has a legal right to register for another for a general or special elec tion." The attorney general replied as fol lows : "Your favor is received. You ask whether or not one person may regis ter for another in a general or special election. Such registration would be void under our Constitution, Art, 6, sec. 4. That section requires a pro posed voter, offering to register to present himself for registration. That of course, means that it is a right which cannot be delegated in aay way. The absent voters law does not ap ply to registration, indeed, could not, but only to the casting of the ballot." Report of Census Bureau Washington.—The Census Bureau, announced the population of four sforth Carolina counties as follows: Johnston county, 48,998, increase 7,- 599 or 18.3 per cent. Incorporated places, Bensen, 1.123; Cloyton. 1.423; Pour Oaks, 583; Kenly, 827; Micro, 183; Piqelevel 373; Princton 403; Sel ma, 1.601; Smithfield, 1,895. Warren county, 21,487; increase 1,221 or 6.0 per cent. Incorporated places: Little ton, 760; Macon, 149; Norlina, 567; Vaughan, 273; Warrenton, 927. For syth county, 77,263, increase 20,958 or 63.3 per cent. Incorporated places: Kernsville, 1,219; Winston-Salem, 48,- 395. Pamlico county, 9,060; decrease 906 or 9.1 per cent. Incorporated places; Bayboro, 439; Cash Corner, 107; Oriental, 607; Stonewall, 218; Vandemore, 308. Sampson county, 35,902; increase, 5,920 or 19.7 per cent. Incorporated places, Autryville, 351; Clinton, 2.110; Garland, 301; Newton Grove. 125: Parkersburg, 76; Roseboro, 749; Sal emburg, 215; Turkey, 146. Hyde County, 8,386; decrease, 454 or 5.1 per cent. Incorporated places, Swan Quarter, 184. Other Places in North Carolina Plymouth 1,847; Roper 1,043; Frank linton 1,058; Louisburg 1,954.; Enfield 1,648; Roanoke Rapids 3,369, increase 1,699, or 101 per cent; Weldon 1,861; Slier Oitv 1,253; East Lumberton 1,- 011; Fairmont 1,000. Fire Losses in August The North Carolina fire loss for Au gust makes the best showing for the year, there having been but one in the SIO,OOO class and that was a freight targe loaded with fertilizer at Wil mington, entailing a damage of $40,000. Elizabeth City and„ several other smaller towns report not a single fire or a'false fire alarm during the entire month. The biggest town in the state, Winston-Salem, had but one fire, with damage of only $lO, accoordlng to the official report at the State Insurance Department. .Promise of Shake-up Washington, (Special).—There is promise of a shake-up in the bureau of internal revenue that will affect North Carolina. Commissioner Wil liams is determined to have better enforcement of the prohibition law. He announced, that it would be his •policy to transfer men occasionally for the good of the service. His first move was to send Frank L. Boyd, who has served various periods in North Carolina, to New York to take charge of the prohibition work there. Combined Juvenile Courts The special session of the Legisla ture passed an act permitting the towns of over 25,000 population to combine with the county in *a juvenile court for town and county fcvith a judge unconnected with any other court. Figures for the first year's work ••have not been obtainable with perfect .accuracy, but there are enough to rhow that 4,404 children received the protection or discipline of the juvenile courts and the county superintendents of public welfare up to Julv 1. 1920. To Open Enrollment Books Registration books in the 1,564 rot ing precincts in North Carolina will be opened for the enrollment of vo ters in the coming State and National elections on September 30, and will close three weeks later, on October 20, according to an announcement by tiie State Board of Elections. It is esti mated that upwards of 100,000 new voters will be enrolled this year, tak ing together the newly enfranchised women voters and the normal in crease of male voters for the four year period. A larger number of new registra tion books will be required for the en listment' of the new voters, and with in a few days circular letters will be sent out by the board to the registers of deeds in the several counties, call ing their attention to the fact that poll books can be secured from the Secretary of State without cost when the books are to be used for the reg istration of voters in regular elec tions. The same books can be had at cost from the Secretary of State for special registrations in local elections. It was brought to the attention of the board that in accordance with a custom of long standing registration bocks have been purchased from the State Department by private concerns and retailed to loca! election officials. In some instances, it is stated by the Secretary of the board, W. F. Beasley, the books have been sold at a profit. A Valuable Acquisition # Among recent valuable acquisitions of the North Carolina Historical com mission is the History of the One Hun dred and Thirteenth Field Artillery, by the Historical Committee of that regiment, a beautifully printed and il lustrated vplume of two hundred and sixty-twfljjftla ges. The volume pre sents the history proper and several appendices, giving a facsimile of The Tar Baby, sketches of each company and battery, an appreciation of the regiment by their French advisor, Lieutenant Jacques J. L. Poppelin, Carryings On About Carrying On, by George Graham, and interesting per sonal and statistical information. The Roster of the 113 th F. A. by states, counties and foreign countiries is of particular historical value. Report of Population Washington..—The Census Bureau announced the population of the fol lowing North Carolina counties and towns: Onslow county, 14.703, increase 578 or 4.1 per cent. Incorporated places, Jacksonville, 656; Richlands, 548; Sansboro, 420. Perquimins county: 11,137, increase 85 or 0.8 per cent. Incorporated places Hartford. 1,704; Winfall, 238. Pender county: 14,788; decrease 683 or 4.4 per cent. Incorporated places; Atkinson, 296; Burgaw, 1,040; Watha, 181. Cherokee county: 15,242, increase 1,106 or 7.8 per cent. Incorporated places: Andrews, 1,634; Culberson, 190; Barblo 166; Murphy, 1,314. Walker Gone to Washington Washington. —lt was announced here by the national association op posed to woman suffrage that Seth M. Walker, speaker of the Tennessee house of reresentatives, who vigorous ly opposed the ratification of the 19th amendment, left Nashville for Wash ington to urge Secretary of State Col by to withdraw the suffrage proclama tion. This action of Mr. Walker is based on the contention of himself and other members of the Tennessee legislature that the amendment has not been legally ratified, and great confusion and many contests may .follow the November election. Program for Conference E. L. Middelton, Sunday school sec retary of the Baptist State Conven tion, announces a program for the conference of superintendents of Bap tist Sunday schools to be held in Hic kory September 13, 14, and 15. Every superintnedent in the State is invited and entertainment will be on the Har vard plan—lodging and breakfast free and other meals at the visitors' ex pense. Strength of National Guard Washington. —The strength of the national guard in North Carolina at this time is 19 officers and 363 men. Her authorized strength of enlisted men is 2,721. South Carolina has 1\ officers and 475 enlisted men. with an authorized strength of 1,85*. >State College Registration The registration at College lhad reached 802 with the enrollment of students and is still under way. Papers have been received, and the applications of admission passed upon, *from 160 additional men. These men are enrolling from day to day and it is expected that the total registration fcvill be between 950 and 1,000. The college laboratories, class rooms and shops are not overcrowd ed. President Riddick announce? 'that thousand students can be acco modated in the collge plant. Contract Let for Road Contracts were let by Highway Commissioner Frank Pfge for the longest single stretch of hard sur faced roads that has been authorized since the formation of the Highway Commission. Fourteen miles of water bound macadam road will be built across the mountains in Avery, a part of the Boone trail, at a cost of $214,- 098. The contractor Is the Southern Dray Co., Asheville. No type oiber than hard surface has proved satisfactory in Avery countv fes&i @a tk (fek k Caste Y«a lu £. B. BLANTCH Attorney Forest Gity, N. C. OAe* is Bank Buiid&g PAlflL w. GAY Attor&ey-At-L&w Forest City, N. C. jtkm Orw Postoffies J. B. LONG Justice of the Pears ftnd Notary PtfbMe Forest City, N. C. At Laag Drug Co. f&SBST GFFY LOAN * INSURANCE CO. Xaairaoce of «S Klarfs Sttk IMSAnc W&BmU* Pru OJOtANDES NEWTON Dentist Mb* Upstairs Bsztk BefHHofc Forest Ctty. Cagle-Wiikie Plumbing Co. Plumbing, Heating, Tinning Sswer, Construction A Specialty Show Room and Office Nsxt Door to Mayor's office Forest City. N. C. M. L. Edwards Attorney-At-Law Rutherfordton, N* C. HfioM in Carpenter Building ov«l Oarpeater's Variety Store. Will practice in all courts, State and Fw* Nil. Frank R. Wilkins DENTIST Offtea next to Poßtoffioe over Moss Reinhardt Furniture Store FOREST CITY, N. C. ETAOINETAGfNE>TAOIN*^ *» w* • Dr. J. J. Geitys BEKYIST Fores* C&jr, 5L C mm km Iks Jtetr* MMtatf ML J. 8. 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