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10 PAGES TODAY HP! pmrrnn E NEW NIGHT EDITION a AND EVENING CHRONICLE "GREATER CHARLOTTE'S HOME NEWSPAPER" 1HK KVilUfG CHUONlCLB-E. ' S' "AO- CHARLOTTE, N. C, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1921. THE CHARLOTTE NEWS THE EVENING CHRONICLE .,dSrt PRICE FIVE CENTl NEW HOSTESS President Causes Stir In Congress By His Selections Naming of Lodge and Underwood for Disarmament Conference Brings on Talk; Underwood Selection Embarrassing to Democrats Who Need Him. TO DIPLOMATS CHAKLO -ia i FEWER MACHINES STATE THIS YEAR tiff of m nSof VALERAS NOTI IMPARTS MORI Shortage in Automobiles of 14,000, Compared With Last Year. EVASION OF THE LAW. State Department Thinks There Are Many Viola tions of the Law. BY JULE B. WAREN. Staff Correspondent of The Nevs. Raleigh. Sept. 17. With fourteen thousand less automobiles registered in North Carolina this year than were reg istered at the end of the license year. June 30. 1921. the. Secretary of Sta"te is Fending: a letter to all judges and solic itors of the State asking them to aid In prosecuting violations of the license law. Incense Clerk Joe E. Sawyer ex pect? there will be some possible de crease in the growth of the number of - ... . . . - ; 1 1, : ... aiiMMan-'iica una ytar as cumpai eu wun years, bfct the difference this year is too great even when considera- t'.on is given tne iact that nossib v larger number of junked cars have not been replaced by new ones this year. Ordinarily by this time of the year the total of the previous year has been passed and gains are being made. But this year the new license numbers are etill 14.000 short of reaching the total cf the old ones issued at the exniration of the license year. The department is constantly gettmg evidence of viola tions of the automobile license law. but it has no police power and has to denend on the citv and countv police forces of the State for the enforcement of the law. T'n. ltror r V10. iiuIctpq nalra tVtnt attention be called to the violations of this law in the charges to the grand jury, and ten ways in which the law is beinsr violated are called to the atten- letter to the solicitors carries copies of the letters to the judges and asks their assistance in seeing that the law is car ried out. Secretary Grimes asks the solicitors to 'notify the active justices of tne peace in tneir districts anu awn them to aid in prosecuting the viola tors. Col. Grimes letter to the judges fol lows: LETTTR TO JUDGES. "It appears from the number of re ports and complaints reachhing this office that quite a number of motor vehicle owners in the State are operat ing without proper licenses. "Under Section 30, Chapter 2, Pub lic Laws of 1921, this is now a misde meanor, punishable by a fin? or impris onment in the discretion of the Court. "I am writing to ask your assistance in getting this matter before the grand juries of the State, and will appreciate it very much if you will also briefly outline in your charges to them, when convenient, the duties of the county of ficers in enforcing the law. "For your information I am setting out briefly a few forms of violation with which we have become familiar: "1. Operating without license. "2. Operating under expired license number. "3. Operating with 'License Applied For' or 'In Transit' markers, neither of which is provided for by law. "4. Painting over and otherwise al tering an expired number plate to make it correspond as nearly as possible with the number plate of the current yeat. "5. Operating under a number is FUfd to another person. Licenses are r.-'t transferable from one person to an other. "fi. Operating under Dealer's num bers. A dealer is issued i lk:?ris3 num ber for $25.00, and five plates are furn ished him, for use only on c-irs which he may have on hand for sale. Many persons, firms and corporations who are not bone-fide dealers are registering as such in order to secure numbers at this price, which they immediately put on ther privately operated cars and trucks. There is probably more loss of i-r-venu" to the roads of the State on account of this method of evasion ' of the payment of license fees than from any other source. "7. Operating several cars under one number. A -party who owns two or three cars will secure license for only one of them, and shift the number from onn to the other. "S. Securing license for a car or truck of low horsepower, or capacity, and using it on a car or truck of great er horsepower or capacity. :. Borrowing tags from others, nr Vlul.bintr in' with others and securing a tag fur neighborhood use. "10. Disposing of cars without, re niovincr license tags, which in a good many cases has prevented action being taken against a violator of the law by r. ason of the original owner's being un able to furnish the identity of the per-t-..n to whom his car was sold. "For the year ending June 30, 1921, there were registered more than 147, Ooo cars and trucks in the State. Ad of these which were being operated on .lulv 1, 1921, should have secured new license for the current year, except the State County and Municipally owned cars, which were exempted from regis- V... U OrK.ninl Session Of 1SU. "Tho fart that we have registered im (ia.i onr? trucks to date for Hill j XoO.VVV 3.i -3 ia. 1 1 v. v-. the current vear, would indicate that f-veral thousand owners are without v..,.,,.,. aro usinp- every enort to see that these people who are evad ing the law are apprehended. " "Thanking you for your co-operation t (Continued on Tagro Four.) FAIR Charlotte and Vicinity: Generally fair toiiiaht and Sunday; little change in temperature. Gentle winds. mosii North and South Carolina: uenerauy fair tonight and Sunday, no change in temperature. r Monday Is Soeth Carolina Day . ' ' SiIP ..if'1; . - V "'"",'' ' r'1''" M '' "- " "' 'i Mra. John Jacob Rogers. Representative Porter of Penn sylvania, chairman of the house committee on foreign affairs, has recently been bereaved of his wife. Through this, Mrsl John Jacob Rog ers of Massachusetts, who is the wife of the next ranking member, occupies the role of official hostess of that wing of Congress which has special obligations toward the for eign diplomatic corps. SIX ARE INDICTED IN GEORGIA CASE True Bills for Murder Re turned; One Conviction for Interference. Fitzgerald, Ga., Sept. 17. Indictment for murder rested today again s; six former employes of the Atlanta, Bir mingham & Atlantic Railroad, who were named in a "true bill" returned by the Ben Hill connty grand jury af ter an investigation ol the shooting of Engineer W. T. P.ecd here, while on duty on his locomotive on the n ght of July 5. Three of the indicted men, Harvey Booker, Perry B Jr., and T m Hendricks, were arested yesterday, while the othe three, G. Myrick, J. W. Hornsby and O. C. Fairfield, had pre viously been taken into custo ly on murder charges preferred by Roed's widow. Three othtr also neld on charges by the widow, A. K. Ha.'.l, AIT Smith and A. T. Lisle, were not named in the indictment and have been re leased Irom jail, i Trial of the six men has been set for the second week in October. Shortly after the indictments were returned, the jury in the trial of Fair field, one of the indicted men. on charges of "interferring with the em ployes" of the A. B. & A., reached a verdict of guilty and he was sentenced to three months in jail and 12 months on the State farm. Fairfield was iirst to be tried of the 26 persons indicted on that charge. The other counts in the indictment for which the jury held that Fairfield was not guilty, related to an alleged conspiracy wun others to interiere witn the employes. It was announced late last nig.it that the trial of the six accused m:n wid be held the second week in October. Representatives of the organizations 'o which the men belong assert that they will fight the case and predicted that it will cost Ben Hill county $00,000 a try the accused men. Unless the de fense objects Solicitor General J. B. Wall said that they would be tried jointly. The six men arrested on the indict ment last night denied that they w.re doing picket duty on the night that Engineer Reed was shot and indicated that they would endeavor to establish an alibi when the cases are called for trial. The shooting of Engineer Reed can e as a climax to a fourth of July cele bration and barbecue held inside the A. B. & A. shop-grounds. There wre a number of prominent local peopla, including clergymen, in attendance -tt that event. Late in the afternoon of the celebra tion obnoxious signs were said to have been erected at picket posts. Thes-j signs were fired upon, it is alleged, by a crew that passed the line that night, but it was the following night, when a different crew was on board a locomotive that- the fatal shooting of Engineer Reed occurred. The engineer died in an Atlanta hospital several weeks later. Several instances of alleged attempts to dynamite trains and alleged tamper ing of 'switches, occurring aoout tn same time, caused such strained rela tions in Fitzgerald that Governor '.0, W. Hardwick ordered Colonel H. D Russell and a battalion of Georgia na tional guardsmen to take charge cf the situation. Martial law was m force for three days, when the troois were withdrawn at the suggestion or the rnmmandiner officer. since then Engineer Joe T. Morris was killed in a wreck of his locomotive near Atlanta, alleged to nave ds causer! hv hicrh exnlosives. It is not probable that the remainder of the 26 men indicted, including Mayor J. L. Pittman, on charges of "interfer- ring with employes oi me a. x. x v. Rniirnarl" and those indicted by the grand jury this week m a charge of murder, in connection with the killing of W. T. Reed, engineer, will be tried :,t the October term. The court today iiraa trvin? civil cases. tv, a P-rand iurv is still engaged in investigating the alleged murder of En gineer Reed today and will probably finish its Jaoors mis aiteiiiuuii. Dr. Clarence Poe is Chief Speaker to Be Heard' Saturday. THOUSANDSON HAND Friday Night Crowds Touched High Tide in In terest and Size. With Dr. Clarence Poe, editor of The Progressive Farmer, as chief speaker of the day, the Made-in-Carolinas Ex position Saturday is turned over to the agricultural interests of the coun ty and the State. Thousands of farm ers not only from Mecklenburg out from adjoining counties are expected to pass through the turnstiles during the day and to assemble in the open arena at 3 o'clock in the afternoon to hear Dr. Poe. The latter is a favorite in this part o the State and while i e has not often visited this particular section, local agricultural leaders ac credit him as the outstanding' agricul tural figure in the State and one of the most pre-eminent experts in the whole country. Dr. Poe will advise the farm ers who hear him of the plans and purposes of the co-operative marketing proposition which is just now one of the biggest moveYnents engaging the interest and attention of farmers -f North Carolina and he will also dis cuss generally, the cotton situation from a world-angle. The Exposition touched its high tide so far in point of interest and in point of attendance on Friday when thou sands surged through the gates and enjoyed the program of sight-seeing, the brilliant musical program and ad dresses scheduled. The speaker of the day was Dr. P. P. Claxton, fornr United States commissionerf of educa tion whose coming was timed with the appearance of thousands of school children and others interested in the educational wellbeing of the city and State. The city schools turned out shortly after 12 o'clack and the pupils were chaperoned to the exposition grounds where the afternoon was spent. The scenes were vivacious as eager children romped hither and thither, admiring the variegated exhibits and busying themselves receiving gifts from booth after booth. In addition to the presence of these thousands of youngsters, in the after noon, the attendance at night was swelled by the presence of several hun dred textile superintendents, overseers and mill officials of other capacities who are here attending the semi-an nual meeting of the Southern Textile Association. These, delegates had also made their plans, to bring their conven tion to Charlotte at a time when they could kill two birds at one shot and see the textile offerings at the exposi tion which are outstanding among the exhibits. THE THRONG AT NIGHT The throng last night eclipsed any night attendance of the week. From the time the sun went down until after nine o'clock, hundreds kept pouring into the building. The airdrome Where the musical program was again render ed was fringed with hundreds who were unable to find seats and the ar tists seemed to be unusually inspired bv the greatness of their audience and by the interest and enthusiasm shown in their efforts. The management of the exposition announced today that the Friday night crowd was the largest on record and that it is being encouraged daily in the belief that before the exposition end.?, its ideal of 100.000 visitors within the gates of the hall will have been attain rapidly with each night "opening and it is anticipated that Saturday's throng wil lmake, another new high record in point of size. SERVICE HELD FOR AIR HEROES L Memorial Conducted at Brooklyn Navy Yard, Public Participating. New York, Sept. 17. Memorial serv ices for the 15 men of the American navy who lost their lives in the ZR-2 disaster, will be held today at the navy yard in Brooklyn. The bodies of Commander Loui? H. Maxfield and his companions in death, reached here yesterday on the British oruiser Dauntless, and under a guard of honor of bluejackets and marines are awaiting in a temporary chapel the final honors which a sorrowing nation bestows upon its heroes. Navy officers of Great Britain. France and Argentina, high government officials and representatives of the State and of many cities will be in attendance. For the . first time since the war :3ie gates of the navy yard .will be thrown open and the general public invited to share in the memorial services. Rituals for the dead will be read by Catholic and Protestant -.ha plains- The Secretary of the Navy w d deliver an address, then taps, and a volley ..f rifle fire will close the ceremonies. Three of the bodies will m taken to Arlington National Cemetery for inter ment. The body of Commander Tmory Coil will be placed on an American ship, taken to sea and deposited to its final rest beneath the Atlantic. The others will be turned over to relatives JESSE JOHNSON FREED Millen. Ga., Sept. 17. Jesse John son, charged with the murder of B L Lane. May 27, last, was found not guilty by a jury this morning at 8:30. Both men were farmers- The case went to the jury late yesterday afternoon. Two brothers of Johnson are also under arrest, but will be freed, too, as the soli citor general has stated that he will nolle prcsse the charges against them. They are charged with murder and as sault. Distinguished Editor is Leader in State for Co operative Marketing. MOVEMENT GROWING. North Carolina is Already Far Ahead of Quota Originally Assigned It. The co-operative marketing move ment, which has been; engaging the attention of cotton, tobacco, peanut and fruit growers of the South for some time and which Aaron Sapiro, California organizing genius for the iruit growers of that state preached here last sprding in a notable address, is sweeping over the South irresistibly, noted editor of The Progressive Farm er, who is the guest of honor and principal speaker at the Made-in-Carolinas exposition today, "Farmers' Day" at the exposition. Dr. Poe arrived in Charlotte this morning and was met by a special committee composed of President J. L. Dabbs of the exposition company and Mi Dabbs, . Mr. and Mrs. Walter Clark, jr.,. Francis O. Clarkson, Mrs. irfiua ochirf.ton. Mrs. Mayme Moore- Siiiorc. and J. P. Lucas. Dr. Poe was - luncheon gue-st of exposition officers and newspaper representatives at the Selwyn hotel at 1 o'clock and will de- iver tr-e aciuress. ot the day at, tne .vposillon grounds at 1 o'clock. fKLLS OF GROWTH As evidence of the way the co-oper ative marketing u:ea is sweeping: over the South, Dr. Poo said the Texas .i&cneies foaming the co-operative marketing system of that state have employed some of the keenest men in the cotton trade of the southeast to help secure the pledges of cotton grow ers to sen tneir cotton through the agencies that wilj be employed bv the co-operative associations. Texas cotton growers to date have 'pledged more than 600.000 bales, Dr. Poe said, and Oklahoma cotton growers have pledg ed more than 400,000 bales, while the long staple cotton-growers of Missis sippi hace pledged more than a quarter of a million bales. The co-operative agencies formed in these three States, Texas, Oklahoma and Mississippi, are credited by the best cotton experts at New Orleans with having been largely instrumental in helping the price of cotton in its recent upward spurt, but, morj impor tant still, in obtaining advances in cotton to the aggregate of more thin $25,000,000 for the farmers in the th.-ee States where tht cotton was grown and pledged for sals by the co-operative sys tem. IN NORTH CAROLINA. Coming closer home, Dr. Poe stated that at the beginning of the campaign in North Carolina to obtain pledges for cotton to be sold co-operatively, th ? minimum figure required of North Car olina cotton growers was 200,000 Uales by January 1, 1922 More than 240.000 bales were actually signed up before September 1. The States of Arkansas, South Caro lina and Georgia are also organizing and are reported to be making good progress. Dr. Poe said. In addition to the work of organis ing along co-operative lines in the cot ton belt, the peanut growers and the tobacco glowers of the Carolinas and Virginia are both organizing along the same lines. Dr. Poe asserted. The pea nut growers of North Carolina and Vir- inia are more than 50 per cent organ ized, Dr. Poe declares, &.nd 17,000 out of 30,000 tobacco growers in Virginia have pledged to see their products only through the co-operative system. Fifty per cent of the tobacco growers of North Carolina are also organized, which is more than two-thirds of the quota to be obtained before the State will be considered well-organized for co operative marketing. IDEA OF MOVEMENT. The whole idea of co-operative mar keting, according to the distinguished editor, is that by co-operative methods contemplated farm products may be put on, the market intelligently, collec tively, in large quantities, with proper grading, with modern scientific financ ing, and by selling through the most expert selling agents. In contrast with this idea is the old way of selling which Dr. Poe recently ran displayed in parallel columns in The Progressive Farmer, the old method being opposed to the proposed new one in that farm products through it are sold, ignorant ly, by individual effort, helplessly, in picayunish quantities, without scientific financing, through inexpert sellers, and resulting in the dumping procoss which the buyers themselves may brins about. "Of course, I don't believe farmers are expecting any 'supermen' to man age their co-operative organizations for them. I don't believe they are going to expect their organizations to 'fix' prices regardless of supply and demand. I don't believe they expect co-operative marketing to bring in any sort cf financial millemum. "I know I donlt expect any of these things, and I have never intended to encourage other cotton growers to ex pect them. But without anticipating any of the impossibilities which some people seem to think farmers are ex pecting, I do expect enough benefits from co-operative marketing to abun dantly justify farmers in going into ;t. I do expect better business methods to vastly increase the farmers profits even under identical conditions of sup ply and demand." WHAT IS LOOKED FOR. "To put it briefly, we don't expect to put the big business of selling lint cotton and leaf tobacco in a way any nearer absolute perfection than the selling of manufactured cotton and manufactured tobaco but we do expect to put the selling of raw coton and raw tobacco on the same general business-like basis on which these manufactured products are sold. Cotton manufacturers and tobacco manufacturers do not expect their selling- agents to make no mis takes. They do not expect to fix prices (Continued on Page Nine.) By DAVID LAWRENCE. Staff Correspondent of The ws. Copyright, 1921, by Jfewi Publishing Co. Washington, Sept. 17 President Harding's selection of Senators Lodge and Underwood as American commis sioners to the armament conference in November has stirred up more ferment inside both the Democratic and Republican parties than anything else since inauguration day. For it I means a complete reorganization of both parties in congress. It is being called the shrewdest political move in years. With one fell swoop, Mr. Harding has embarrassed the Demo crats and delighted certain Republi cans. Several Democrats are still hoping Senator Underwood will decline to ac cept. They feel that nobody in con gress is better qualified than Oscar Underwood to lead the fight against the tariff and tax bills framed by the Republicans. By training and expe rience, Mr. Underwood is fitted to conduct the minority fight. Nobody 1 knows what went on in Mr. Harding's mind when he subtracted Oscar Under wood from the Democratic strength in congress by picking him for the arma ment conference commission. The Democratic politicians say he must have known he would be weakening his opponents. They admit he has a right to .do that. On the other hand, President Harding and Senator Under wood are old friends. They were inti mate in the senate. Mr. Harding re spects and admires the Alabama sena tor and entirely aside from fitness for the post, Mr. Harding would feel more like bestowing the honor and prestige of an American commissioner to such ar. important conference on Oscar Un derwood than any other Democrat. It is unlikely that Mr- Harding wanted to embarrass the Democrats, though, to be sure, that is the effect of his action. WILL PROBABLY ACCEPT. In all likelihood Senator Underwood will accept the place. He has already ueen quoted as saying tne .Democratic nd Republican party lines should dis appear on international questions. It is an index of his desire to "play ball" with the Republicans on foreign policy. .Having- the personal confidence ard trust of the President and Secretary of State, Mr. Underwood will not be a minority commissioner. He will know all that his colleagues know. FOOD PRICES ON UPWARD TREND Increase of 4.3 Per Cent in Retail Prices During the Month of August. Washington. Sept. 17. Retail food prices increased an average of 4.3 per cent in August, as compared with July prices, according to figures made public today by the Department of Labor. The statistics were compiled from reports from 51 cities. Potatoes increased 24 per cent dur ing the month; eggs 13 per cent; pork chops, cheese and cabbage, 11 per cent; butter, 10 per cent; lard, 3 per cent; sugar, 6 per cent; canned toinatoes, 5 per cent; ham and oranges, 4 per cent; nut margarine, 3 per cent; plate beef, fresh milk, oleomargine and corn meal, 2 per cent, and bacon. rolled oats, rice, canned corn, canned peas and prunes, 1 per cent. The prices of chuck roast, hens, wheat cereals and macaroni increased less than one-half of one per cent. The prices of bananas dropped 5 per cent during the month. Other de creases included leg of lamb, 3 per cent; canned salmon, flour, onions and raisins, 2 per cent; sirloin steak, round steak, and rib roast, 1 per cent. Tea decreased less than one-half of one per cent. Prices remained unchanged for evaporated milk, bread, corn flakes, navy beans, baked beans and coffee. Food prices in Atlanta, Charleston, S- C, Jacksonville, Louisville, Mobile Richmond and Savannah increased 4 per cent: Birmingham, 3 per cent, and in Memphis, 1 per cent. MURDER CHARGE WILL BE PUSHED Arbuckle Arraigned Today on Manslaughter Charge, as Mere Formality. San Francisco, Sept. 17. Comedian Roscoe Arbuckle was cast today for a new court scene in the tragedy of Vir ginia Rappe, motion picture actress, who died, according to accusers of Ar buckle, following a drinking orgy in the actor's apartment in a San Fran cisco hotel and as a result of mistreat ment by her host.' Today Arbuckle was to be arrainged in superior court upon an indictment charging manslaughter, returned by the county grand jury. But this arraign ment is mere formality, it was said, and District Attorney Matthew Brady was scheduled to ask a continuance of the manslaughter case until action has been taken on the charges of first degree mur der pending against Arbuckle in con nection with Miss Rappe's death. The district attorney had announced the murder charge will be pushed and it will be left -up to a jury to decide whether Arbuckle shall be convicted of first degree murder, second degree mur der, manslaughter or turned fre-3 oy acquittal. There' .was also one other alternative which was that if the police court at the preliminary examination of Arbuckle failed to hold the come dian to answer to the superior court on charges of murder, the State then would be forced to go to trial with, the manslaughter indictment. Acquital or conviction on the murder charge would mean automatic dismissal of the man slaughter charge for the law holds a njan may not be twice placed in jeo pardy for one cause. At Carolinas9 Exposition As for the situation in the senate, the fight against republican tax and tariff measures will have to be led by Senators Hitchcock of Nebraska Sim mons of North Carolina and Harrison of Mississippi. REPUBLICANS ALSO IN TROUBLE. But if the Democrats are in trouble, it is not a circumstance to what is being said inside the Republican party. ine statement is macle by some sena tors that the President is really "get ting rid" of Lodge. It is insisted that Republican leadership in the sen ate has been far from satisfactory to the White House and that a graceful opportunity to reorganize the Republi can leadership was welcomed. Again nobody will ever know what actuated Mr. Harding to appoint Mr. Lodge to the armament commission instead of Senator Knox, for instance, who was a former Secretary of State and acta ally dealt with foreign governments before. Mr. Knox, too, paid particular attention to Far Eastern questions when he was Secretary of State. It is pointed out that if the President had felt entire confidence in the Lodge- leadership, he would have chosen Senator Knox to represent the Re publican party in the senate th man who has been the guiding force in Republican councils on foreign affairs for the last two years, and Mr. Hard ing could then have announced that owing to the importance of retaining Senator Lodge in his place as ma jority leader, it was necessary to choose somebody else and that Senator KnOx was eminently qualified for the position. The logic of the situation pointed to Knox rather than Lodge That's why the gossip about the lead ership question has acquired good deal of momentum While Mr. Lodge is absorbed in the duties of commissioner "to the arma ment conference, Senator James Wat son of Indiana will try his hand at the leadership game. But there is no certainty that he will be permanently at the head of the Republican party forces. If he makes good he will run things for the president. If he fails the Administration will be compelled to shfit about again. The expectation is that Senator Lodge will be concentrat ing on the work cf the armament conterence whicn may last three to six months. That will be a Ion enough interval for. Republican leader ship to find itself STARVATION AT DOOR IN RUSSIA Food Immediately Necessa ry m Some Districts; Starvation Soon. Tsaritsin, Russia, Sept. 5, (By Tour ler to Moscow.) (By the Associated Press). Hunger is tightening its grip on the lower valley of the Volga. Of ficers of the Near East relief who reach ed this city today after making a sur vey of ten provinces in famine wasted sun-scorched southeastern Russia, said conditions indicated wholesale starvation by January if outside help cn a large scale did not arrive immediately. The situation at Samara was found to be grave, but further south it became worse. There the soil is poorer, and starvation is already at the door. The relief workers suggest the pur chase of grain in Bulgaria and Constan tinople and vigorous steps to get it t the famine districts before the Russian winter comes and binds fast the Don and Volga rivers- There are in normal times 100.000 workmen employed in the province of Saaratov, but only 4,000 are now en gaged in the factories. During the past three months have been 600 cases of cholera in this city, and forty per cent of them have been fatal. During the same period 1,250 cases of this dread disease have been reported from Sara tov province. Two hundred deaths from starvation have been reported official! in the last fortnight. Black bread, made largely from acorns is selling at the equivalent of one cent an ounce. The relief officials visited the provin ces of Kazan, Samara, Simbirsk, Penza Tambov. Astrakan, Don, Kuban and Stavaprol, and previously had inspect ed conditions in the Georgian republic At Filonovo refugees from Sarato climbed the Near East relief car at tempting to escape to districts wher food might be obtained. There ar 1,000 of these homeless ones in Tsarit sin at present. They have no place to go, and the population is already on short rations, and is unable to feed the emigrants. The Tkaritsin soviet feeding 20,000 chilren at orphanages giving them seven ounces of bread an sixteen grams of sugar daily. They re ceive soup three times, a week who meat can be secured- This work, how ever, cannot be carried on later than January. TWO MEN KILLED IN ROAD WORK AT ELKIN Winston-Salem, N. C, Sept. 17. Troy Collins, aged 40, and his 18-year-old son, were crushed to death; E. D. Mir phy, sustained a broken leg, a mule was killed and a wagon demolished near Elkin, yesterday afternoon, by a cave-in of a large embankment of dirt and rock in the Elkin valley which a force of men were excavating for good road building. GENERALLY FAIR IS FORECAST FOR WEEK Washington, Sept. 17. Weather pre dictions for the week beginning Mon day are: South Atlantic and East Gulf States: Generally fair -weather except for wide ly scattered local thundershowers. Nor mal temperature. There are no indi cations at this time of a disturbance in the West Indies. Believed Crisis is Postpone' for the Present at i Least. i REPLY IS EXPECTEP Prime Minister Will Atf swer Note Before Con-? suiting the Cabinet. London, Sept. 17. (By the Associate Press). Prime Minister Lloyd-Georg replying today to the communicatic qf Eamonn de Valera, says that to r ceive the Sinn Fein delegates to th. proposed conference as representative or an independent and sovereign stati would "constitute formal and officii recognition of Ireland's severance froi the king's domains." ' J Mr. Lloyd-George says that so lorn as Mr. de Valera insists that the Iris delegates should confer as the repr sentatives of an independent and soy ereign state a conference is impossible Gairloch, Scotland, Sept. 17. (Bv th Associated Press) The receint b Prime Minister Lloyd-George of E: monn de Valera's telegram of yeste day, in which the .Iris;! leader expres6 ed the view that the peace negoti; tors should meet untrammelled by an' conditions "except those imposed b. the tacts as they know them," is co' sidered to have brought about a chang in the situation. It has opened up the possibility tlw the Prime Minister may reply to th: communication before consulting h' cabinet colleagues as he had announce his intention of doing before takint any further steps in connection wit Irish affairs. t Mr. Lloyd-George passed a goo: night at his vacation home here, an! was very much better this morning the dentist called to Gairloch havin . lanced the abscess which caused hi indisposition. The date of his retur.- to London, however, has not yet bee hxed, and the next meeting of the cab inet, whether it meets in London or i Inverness, depends upon the rate -j 1110 iJivijitoa. j RIOT AT BELFAST. J Belfast, Sept. 17. Two boys wer, wounded during serious disorders in th , Vere atreet district of this city las,, night. Troops were rushed to th scene and a man who interfered wit!, them received a bayonet wound. Sev eral arrests were made in the Nort , Queen street area, near Vere street1 There were bursts of firing at inter vals and the troubled district was in .j ferment until 10:30 o'clock. Rain f t during the latter .hours, and tended t( drive the rioters indoors. COMMENT HOPEFUL. London, Sept. 17. Sinn Fein accept, ance of membership in the British com,, monwealth as the basis of negotiation with Prime Minister Lloyd-George i" seen as the only way out are the preSj ent Irish situation and deadlock b London newspapers, although the pros! pects regarding the conference ar. . considered improved by Eamonn dJ Valera's latest note to the Prime Min ister. The Daily Chronicle today saie such action by the Irish republican? would mean that peace was in sight the newspaper adding that "until thc Sinn Fein does accept, peace is unat. tainable." The Irish situation assumes a mor: hopeful appearance since Mr. de Valei'E in his telegram yesterday seemed t place a different construction on hit own words, in the opinion of the Lon don Times. This newspaper said paf tience and good will should solve th( . immediate principle and it believed Mr Lloyd-George might well accept Mr de Valera's contention for a conference' without conditions, and name the ear best possible day for it. . DOG SAVES MISTRESS FROM BURNING DEATH Dunn, N. C, Sept. 17. Joe, a griz zled shepherd dog, has proved himsell a hero by saving his mistress froir'. probable death when her dress caught fire. When Mrs. Martha Wood, who lives on the outskirts of Dunn, attempted to start a fire, from a liquid she sup posed to be kerosene, but which was gasoline, an explosion occurred, getting lire to her clothing. She ran screaming to the beck porch, under which Joe was snoozing. The dog leaped to the aid of his mistress, tearing off theB burning clothing. -; GEORGIA INDUSTRY ' SHOWS BIG INCREASE Washington, Sept. 17. Georgia's; manufactures showed an increase of 173.8 per cent in the value of their products in 1919, compared with 1914: : the Census Bureau announced today. Their value was $693,556,000 compared.; with $253,271,000, five years previous-; ly. Wages and salaries paid showed' an increase of 155.4 per cent in the five; years, mounting from $258,326,000 to $448,932,000. These products were the output of 4,803 factories, an increase of 164, engaging '141,080 persons, an increase of 22,515 persons, or 19 per; cent, in the fixe years. BOWLEY ASSIGNED TO DUTY AT CAMP BftAGG Washington, Sept. 17. The War De-r partment formally announced today? assignment of Brigadier General A. 3.y Bowley to command the 13th field ar-1 tillery brigade, Camp Bragg, North Carolina. He is now on duty at Campt Jackson, South Carolina, in connection, with the salvaging of that post. CLEARING HOUSE. New York, Sept. 17. The actual con- : dition of clearing house banks andj trust companies for, the week show.i;' that they hold -$54,625,240 reserve in j excess of legal requirements. This is an increase of $38,256,310 from last! week. J
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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