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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 21, 1921. 10 - - ; . r ' I . . .- WASHINGTON IS GAMBLING MAD Professionals Say That No . City Has Betting Fever So Bad. ' wnshlneton. June 21 Expectant eyes turned towards a big blackboard, a throns filled Pennsylvania . avenue, overflowing across the street car tracks, impending automobile traffic, refusing to heed the admonitions of three policemen All eyes focused upon the blackboard, where presently a youth with a piece of chalk inscribed three names followed by cabalistic numbers. - A buzz of conversation swept the crowd. There was a mingling of sat isfaction and grumbling, with plenty of cunrses under the breath. Shrill voices of women were heard, and their presence was further . marked by the gavest dresses and hats. it was the regular afternoon gath ering of a few of the race bettors of -the national capital. Inside the news paper office operators were ceaseless ly ansyering the query "Who won?"- Why Pay 10, 15, 25, 50-Cents MORE When You Can Get Your SHOES REPAIRED At the Following Prices: Men's Half Soles, sewed $1.15 Men's Rubber Heels . . . 50c Ladies' Half Soles, sewed 90c Ladies' Half Soles, nailed 85c Ladies' Rubber Heels .... 45c Best Quality Leather Used We do this work by Goodyear v Welt Machine system. You Get These Prices at AO Katzen's Shoe Store 245 West Trade St. Charlotte, N. C. Parcel Post Return Charges Paid condTSonby C 0H U II and the inevitable sequel. "What did it pay?" , - Washington is gamming maa. inu city in the country, so the knowing professional gambelrs say, has a worse case of betting fever. Government em ployes by the thousands wager every afternoon a sum that in the aggregate looks like an item from an appropria tion bill before congress. There are their aerents In all the government buildings. When George Carter tOOK omce recenuy as ruuuu Printer, he found horse race gambling among employes or tne uovernmeni Printing office so widespread that he -ac tnrrpfi tei susDend some employes and to threaten general dismissal to stop it. Women as wen as men were "plunging" and, according to Carter's investigation, devoting more time to a study of "form charts" and "dope sheets" on the horses than to their duties. There's the case of a young man who not so long ago was a secretary to somebody of importance. He was thinking about getting married, he said, so he saved his money. It amounted to $3,000 when he started betting, with visions of a big pile of easy money. He's a taxicab driver taday, and he isn't thinking about anything much ex-ort- p-ottine- three meala and a bed. There's a telegraph operator with a good job, who ronows a regular routine, saving religiously until he has $300, then spending it all on the ponies. When it's gone he starts in to save another $300. He has a "system." A young woman who came here as a war worker and lost her position with the" signing of the armistice is reputed among her friends to have won $12, 000 on the races since then. She ex- nects to lose it all some of these days. I "Then," she said, "I'm going back I fn Minnesota, where the onlv horses j I'll know anything about will be the kind you hitch to a plow or a wagon." URGES HAWAIIANS TO QUIT BEING SO WEAK Honolulu, T. H., June 21. Hawaiians, generally regarded as members of a fast dvng race, may foil the efforts of the grim reapar to wipe them from the face of the earth and make of them selves a strong power in future his tory if they strive for sturdy mental, physical and spiritual development, uc cordirg to Dr. H. E. Gregory, director of the Bishop museum here and an authority on the Polynesian peoples. Dr. Gregory, who made this state ment before a gathering of the Daugh ters of Hawaii, declared that the death or life of the race is up to the Hawaiians themselves." He pointed to - the Navajo population of S0.000. Dr. Gregory added: "Other Polynesian peoples are in creasing in numbers and civilization, and there is no reason why the Ha waiians should not. do the same if they can be brought to believe in themselves." PARIS BEAUTIES ARE GOING STOCKINGLESS Paris, June 21. Not all the knocks in . the world have killed the stocking less fad. Warm weather saw dozens of Parisian beauties at the races minus their stockings, white limbs contrast ing sharply with the black gowns, the prevailing mode. A number of the bare-legged girls wore ankle bracelets. Le Petit Bleu fears the fashion is about to have a rebirth. "If ankles t are perfect they lose nothing by being shown by light and transpart silk," says the Paris news paper. "If they are imperfect they lose much by revealing the naked truth, Ladies, keep your stockings on." Some Facts Regarding The Coal Situation Warning of Impending Coal Shortage Sounded "It is earnestly hoped that coal dealers and consumers hare not forgotten the lessons taught -by the coal shortages , of recent years, partclularly the one of 1920," says President C. H. Markham, of the Illinois Central Railway, in a statement he issued recently. "Uiese shortages were produced largely by dealers and consumers them selves in not beginning to buy and store coal in adequate volume until late in the year. It is clear that unless coal dealers and consumers profit by the lessons of the past and begin at once to lay in necessary fall and winter supplies another coal shortage will be brought about." "It would be most unfortunate," he adds, "if the Interstate Commerce Commission again this year should be forced to divert open top railway cars from the hauling of building materials, as such materials are vitally needed for business, home and highway construction. The housing and other construc tion, which depend largely upon the use of the open-top cars, are too impera tive to be delayed by a congestion of coal traffic and can be avoided by the immediate movement of coal on a large scale. "The' coal carrying equipment of the railways is sufficient to handle a large evenly balanced coal tonnage, but it is inadequate to handle the coal movement when the bulk of it is thrown upon the railways in a comparatively short ne riod after midsummer. y "Delay in purchasing and storing coal at points of consumption makes for higher, prices during the time of heavy movement. There is now practically no surplus of bituminous coal above ground anywhere in the United States Coal mine operators are now In position to produce, and the railways are in position to move a large volume of coal. . "r' dealers and consumers fail to take advantage of present day oppor tunity to lay in fall and winter supplies, and another coal shortage eventual, the public hi fairness certainly will not attach blame to the J I operators ' "THE SITUATION, AS WE VISUALIZE IT IS THAT titf rnTTVTDv IS HEADED FOR A SERIOUS COAL HORTAGE UNLESS rnvSKSTr?.! IMMEDIATELY START A MOVEMENT F COAL IN LARGF vmM?S? WE ARE EMERGING FROM BUSINESS DEPRESSION VVTHIV A V MONTHS THE RAILWAYS MAY BE TAXED TO THFIR r APl rrrvv HANDLING TRAFFIC OTHER THAN COAL " THEIR CAPACITY IN f0Urth f a SCrieS f inforraative articles on THE CHARLOTTE COAL No. 5 VVill Be Printed Thursday. r Fads and Fancies Of Official Family THE SECRETARY OF WAR. In John W. Weeks, secretary of war, the army has at its head a navy man. Weeks, - former senator from Massa chusetts,- graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1881. His studies for the navv have not dulled his enthusiasm for the army, for Weeks has been known to labor m his omce from 8 a. m. to 7 p, m. with but short periods for lunch and dinner. The new secretary or war is striving fn triva the TTnlted States a small but highly efficient army organization. To back' stop this comparatively small regular army, Weeks is encouraging extension of -the otricers" training camps. TVeeVn rHsliVes to be bothered with petty details. He expressed . his views as follows: - "Every time an officer gets a stom ach ache he has to run to the secre tary of war about it." This outburst followed a trying morn ing when he was nearly inundated with a flood of petty details. Weeks is big. good-natured, with wide political experience and knows how to "play the game" with the senators and congressmen who can help or hinder him in the task or reorganizing uie army to an effective peace basis. WASHINGTON HOME NOW A MEMORIAL London, June 21. Sulgrave Manor. Northampshire, the home for centuries of George AVashington's ancestors, was dedicated today after its restora tion. Henceforth the manor will be rrrain tained as a memorial. Its reconstruc tion was completed recently at a cost of $160,000. raised by the Sulgrave In stitution of America. The Manor, a survival of Tudor davs, with Jacobite additions, has been re stored to its original state, along with the meadows that surround it. In connection with today's ceremony, a bust of Washington was unveiled at the Manor. ITCHING ECZEMA In Pieces On Face. Very Disfiguring. ConidNotResL "I had been bothered with eczema far about two years. The appearance of the breaking out was little pim ples, and when I robbed tbetn a watery substance ran out. I could not rest at night, the burning and itching were so great, and at times I would have to fan my face. It spread all over my face and was very dis figuring. " I began using Cnticnra Soap and Ointment, which gave me almost in stant nlief, and when I had used two cakes of Soap and nearly two boxes of Otatmeat I wa healed." (Signed) Mrs. Andrew Ingram, Alston, N. C. Use Cntietzra for all toilet purpose. Hi rUTffeylfan. Atttrasc : "0timrJV yMP &MiHw-. Km." 8oMer7- Saayate. Oiotax!st5anl&0c Tmiraai &c coal producing and distributing DEALERS CUBA PIS RAMA CITIZENS TO ARGUE CASE They Arrange to Bring Up School Question Before Judge McEIroy. Judge J. E. McEIroy, who is presid ing over superior court, will hear argu ment June 25 brought by incorporators of the Rama Rural Community in an effort to restrain the board of education of Mecklenburg county from carrying out its intention to consolidate Sardis Carmel and Oak Grove school districts in Sharon township in accordance with boundary lines determined upon. The Rama citizens were in consulta tion with their lawyers here Monday af ternoon and arranged with Judge Mc EIroy to have the hearing Satu.-lay. Their contention that when the board of education marked out the boundary lines of the Sardis-Carmel Oak Grove district, it included territory ihat right fully belongs to the newly incorooraLed Rama district and school commu.-iity. The Rama citizens, objected from the first to the consolidation of the tarv. school districts. It formerly was a tart of the Sardis district. Several legal steps hav already been resorted to bv the Rf-.ma citizens to prevent the school boavd from carrying out its plans for consolidation and the members of the board have oeen -m-nortuned with enuil insistence by the residents of the proposed consolidated uistnuL iu piuveea wii.ii iuuoum.u."'. plans. Members of the board have visit- ed the consolidated district ana noia to the view that the bounds marked out for the new district are the proper ones and do not discriminate against the Rama district. The Rama citizens intimate they will carry the fight to the Supreme Court before they are through with It. TAKE PRECAUTIONS FOR ROYAL COUPLE Belfast, June 21. As an additional precaution for the safety of King George and Queen Mary during their visit for the opening of the Ulster i.ar liament, the sewer system ,will be thoroughly inspected tomorrow to be sure that no explosives have been hid den there. . . . . Signalling apparatus have bem set up in the dome of the city ha for communication with the royal yacht and the fleet accompanying it. It is understood that several leading Catholics have been offered knight hoods, but that they have declined to accept. HUNDRED MEN ARE PRESENT FORBANQUET One hundred men were present at a banquet of the Business Men's club of Tryon Street Methodist church, the oc casion being the initial meeting of the club. The women of the church served the banquet. President Guy A. Myers was toastmaster. Talks by Rev. H. G. Hardin, the pastor, and Rev. H. K. Boyer, presid ing elder, and a report of the executive committee by R. K. Blair featured the nmo-ram Presiiipnt a. A. Eichelbereer of the Trinity church club, was a guest and made a short talk. ' The entertainment feature of the meeting was the singing of John Ver non Ward, seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ward. He was attired in full evening dress and carried cane. RATE INCREASE (Continued From Face One.) revisions they have already mada in the southeast, and are now proposing for Carolina territory, the rates irom the west to all of these water points are belns raised to the full level of the in terior points, and the rates to interior points are being raised to an extent that competing carriers generally, over circuitous routes, may compete at com petitive points without having to reduce rates to the intermediate points to meet the requirements of the long and short haul principle. A readjustment worked out along this line has already been put into effect in the Mississippi valley and ic now proposed for the carriers for the balance of the southeastern territory. INCREASES PIEDMONT RATES ALSO . Other than the better rates enjoyed by port cities the particular point of controversy raised by this proposed re vision as related to the state is that it changes the whole basis on which the western rates are constructed- It shifts from the theory, which has al ways obtained in the past, that the rates to Carolina territory were made over, and with relation to the low rate basis over trunk lines to the Virginia cities. It shifts to the theory that these rates should now ve made over the Asheville route of the Southern rail road and with relation to Atlanta. In the proposed readjustment the . rates to Piedmont, and Eastern North Caro lina, that are nearest to the low trunk lines in Vriginia, will be made higher than the rates to intermediate points on the , Southern railway, through Ashe ville, and as high or higher than to any intermediate points over other com petitive but circuitious routes through Atlanta. . "To further strengthen and build up this erroneous theory, it is proposed to also increase the local rates from Vir ginia cities to North Carolina points, and incidentally to remove the reduc tions in rates from Roanoke to Winston-Salem and from Lynchburg to Durham over the Norfolk and Western railway, which were reduced by order the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1911 .and suit brought by the cor poration commission. INCREASES LARGE "Increases are . proposed to all North Carolina points ' in western rates from Cincinnati and Louisville. The advance proposed to Asheville is eight cents first class to $1.55, and it is proposed to advance these rates to all points in the zone from Winston-Salem to ' Dur ham to $1.75, and east of Durham to $1.85, which is 47 to 57 cents over the present rates. The proposed advance to Wilmington is 67 cents; to New Bern, 63 cents and to Washintbn 64 1-2 cents. A still greater increase than is indicat- j ea ior tne nrst class rates is proposed by the carriers in their suggestion that the percentage 'relation in effect in tne Mississippi valley be put into effect in the Carolinas. "While North Carolina has always been at a distinct commercial, disad vantage with relation to the trunk line rates in Vriginia, its clase proximity to trunk line territory has always been given some consideration by the car riers," declaes the commission, "and rates to what has always been known in freight rates parlance as the Caro lina territory, have been made through and in relation to trunk lines rates in Virginia. "The plain purpose of this proposal is to deny to Nort:i Carolina any of the benefits of its proximity to trunk line teritory, with w:iich it is now in close and unequal competition- To raise the whole level of our rates to and from the wesi to .. the level of Georgia and other Southern states, four and five hun dred miles removed from trunk .line territory is unfair and will impose still further freight rate burdens on busi ness and industry in North-- Carolina." "Jack Frost" Salt is pure. Always ask- fer1 it.- - - - - ... v ARKANSAS NEGROES WILL BE EXECUTED Little Rock, Ark.. June 21. A writ of prohibition dissolving an injunction issued by the Chancery court here against ; the execution of six Elaine, Ark., negroes, was issued by the state supreme court. Monday. The petition alleged the negroes' trial on charges of murder growing out of the Elaine , riots in October, 1919, was unfair and dominated by mob spirit. Today's writ held that no state court of equity -has jurisdiction over criminal cases and that the sentence of death stands. . MELLjON'S estimate bight. Washington, June 1. Early reports on collections of the June 15 install ment of income and profits taxes in dicate that the final result will bear out Secretary Mellon's estimate of five hundred and seventy-five million dol lars, treasury officials announce. With the outlying districts to be heard from, it was said, the total already ac counted for is in .he neighborhood of five hundred million dollars. IDLE CARS REDUCED. Washington, June 21. Idle, or sur plus freight cars were reduced 82,000 within the past month, according to reports -received by the car service di vision of the American Railway Asso ciation. On June 8 the . total number of cars in ' excess of cuyent freight requirements was 389,526 as against 471,922 on May 8, it was announced today. 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