., SUJNUAY MOKNING, SETYISMBBB 18, l2t mxTT niTAm httr KWS: IH AKLUTTE. N. C xl Ej -nmvjjvxxju " - By C. L PAYNE REVERSE ENGLISH ON HIS RETICENCE CHINA MAY NOT SEND DELEGATES Reported to be Displeased Over Attitude of the United States. 4 ?,y DUKE N. PARRV. International News Staff Correspondent Toklo. Sept. 17. Dispatches from OairiT, i-nniatcxi hrrfi today claim mat China, will refuse to send delegates i omnmt pnnfprpnc'e called by President Harding in Washington. No vember 11. The dispatches declare J China is displeased with the attitude o. th United States toward the dispute between japan and China over t X, .. . . SCATTER POP? , , . -7. - ' -" II p ' : . ,vjEH I CAME-'n 'BeJ VA j WMSBSnv'T' -Ti'e. A TATTLE'.) I ME TfeACtl'eM IFFE"RenT TOM. VoU ET t vui6oAE. Ull)NT IvAMLLlP vjftBMV00a AU LT T WTOT J -J el A & J VILHE., N ANoTBR( NEVE'R j f H INTO ? r 3 (T SoW. NoW J SY t.( r.qirino from Pekm say It IS understood that China has instructed her Minister at .Washington to brlns the question of China's attitude to the attention of officials of the United States Government. - Official ' circles at Pekin are said to be concerned over reports that Presi dent Harding intended limiting Chma 5 place at the conference, but govern . ment officers denied that China had any intention of withdrawing. CHILDREN'S ARK SAFE IN RUSSIA Eight Hundred" Little Rus sians Returned to Their Families. V Jf Vil V (CoPyrlxM Ifcl. by The Boll Syndicate InO . I . ,Hr'"A l ' v v-- 1 I I I . I I ' I . ' ' By WILLIAM C. CAYCE International News Service Staff Correspondent San Francisco. Sept. 17. Ninety per .-vf ti-o Sfin T?ussian boys and girls of the Petrograd Children's Colony, -vht were taken practically around the world in an effort to reach home by th-2 Am- erican Kea cross. nae men turned to their parents. The remaining few whose relatives could not be located are beir-K cared for bv the Society of Towns oi 1 etro srad in a good boarding school, iccord ing to Dr. Herbert M. Coulter, who had charge of the "ark" which took the children from Vladivostok to Riga and vho arrived here recently. Dr Coulter brought an interesting account with the reunion of some of the youngsters with their parents, in scl eral cases parents did not recognize their own children. The trip from Vladivostok to Alga and Petrograd was accomplished in three months, with stops made at San. Francisco, New York and Brest, where supplies were taken on- "Wher in Brest, said Dr. coulter, "we took on enough supplies for six did not know where c-q ooincr to land next. From Brest we headed for the Baltic Sea via the Kiel Canal. The Baltic Free States iw fripndlv to us. but did not want so many Russians to land on their shores. A , "Ui.on our arrival in Petrograd we secured the use of the Halla Saniarium. ivn huilt bv the Czar shortly iwr.,-.. tho vnv for treatment ot tuber- UC Hi' - j " T 4. ,.,i!m.. mtiV-nts but was never used vvitn this as a headquarters we- were able r. .iitrii,ntr the children in an orderly m.niinpr nnil in jrroups of one hundred at a time until all were disposed of," yaid Dr. Coulter, RAILWAY UNIONS COUNT BALLOTS General Strike of R. R. Em ployes Threatens Country; Stone Hopes for Peace. New Yodrk. Sept. 17. Four hun dred delegates of the five big railway workers organizations, representing the Eastern district, will meet Sunday af ternoon in Hoboken to watch the count ing to 500,000 ballots on whether the railway employe shall go -on strike or accept the 12 per cent wage slash and submit to revised working conditions, it was learned tonight. ThP rleleerates. who represent work ers on all railway lines between New York and Chicago ana in Eng land and the Atlantic states are said to be more concerned over further threatened wage cuts by railways and over loss of advantages as to hours and working conditions than over the orig inal 12 pe rcent wage decrease. The 12 per cent wage siasn is 10 go into effect this month. Delegates who will attend tne jnooo-1 nas not been ram enougn CROP SITUATION GENERALLY GOOD Good Weather Has Helped All But the Cotton Crop; South Needs Rain. BY DAVID j. BLl TMEXFIEL.D, International News Staff Correspondent. VTashinston, Sept. 17. A plentitude of sunshine and generally good weat-i-er have contributed to the crop situa tion the . Department of Agriculture stated toniaht. Corn, wheat and oat producing dis tricts show genera' progress. The cot ton crop, however, will not be helped materially, due to the staggering blow dealt by drought and storm. Threshing of wheat is rapidly Hear ing completion, plowing and seedi ig has generally made good progress; de lavs only occuring in Missouri due to excessive rain and in Nebraska an.l the middle Atlantic states, wneie mmc DOPE TRAFFIC UNDERATTACK Drive Will Be Made to Wipe Out Dope Selling in Num ber Countries. In Montana t-pn mpetinsr renresent the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and. Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors, urotner- hood of Railway Trainmen, ana tne Switchmen's Union of orth America. The meeting will be addressed ry Timothy Shea, vice president ot tne Brotherhood of Firemen and Engine men. John II. McNamee, editor of the magazine "Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen," Jones McBride, cniet or ganizer. T. E. Ryan, cnairman ot tne New York state legislative board of the "Big Five," and others. STONE HOPES FOR PEACE. New York, Sept. 17. "The last thing any sensioie man wains is a 011., said Warren G. Stone, grand cnier or the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers, here tonight, discussing tne cri tical situation in the railroad field. 'Members of the 'Big Four orotner- hoods will not count their ballots un til October 10 in Chicago. It the vote favors a strike, then the next question an attempt to he decided is whether Mow some of those grateful parents ,vjii he made to settle with roads sep uvnmpri their 'lone lost' children was aratelv or whether we shall deal with certainly more than Touching.' said the them as a whole. I hope for peace. I am doctor. "In many cases wenere x ue-4making no predictions livered the children m Keval to tneir ra rents in person they did not even rec- nsrnire them. This is easily explained for the half-starved children of two years ajro were quite a contrast to the well fed and two years older children vMnrned to them. In many cases moth ers and fathers had given their children nn as lost or dead. a they did not know they had fallen into the hands, of the Red Cross MOTHER SWOONS AT REUNION "Onp ca.se I hall never forget was MINERS INDICTED (Continued From Page One.) the mine wars, as that county is par tiallv unionized. At present is it under a form of State martial law, with the ronstahularv in charee. It was protest against this form ot martial law. and to compel unionization of the Mingo county mines that the miners' army started its march troni that nf a mother who refused to taKe L111"1 cDvontPpn.vp.'ir-cld son hacK 'intn shn had been fully convinced that ne y.fv rpfi 1 flesh and blood. "Aqnother touching casa was that of a mother who fainted when she saw her daughter. It was two licurs n for the mother was revived to sign the papers for the return of her daugh ifr." Dr. Coulter said. Rpcauae American were not assured of eettine out of Russia' once they nut foot on Russian soil, the children were taken to the middle of the bridge at Petroerad and there turned over to the Society of Union Towns, who saw to it that 'they were properly delivered to their homes. The greater percentage of the chil dren who were abroad the CANT READ from the better families of the pro fessional clas, and there were also one or two titled members in the party, according to the doctor. Federal troops intervened After visiting some of the towns near Williamson, the next logical place for the Senators would be the Logan dis trict. After this it was believed the sub committee would motor along the 70 mile route traversed by the miners in the march from Marmet southwest ward to Blair, the center of hardest fighting along the recent firing line in Logan county. Other centers if investigation would be Charleston, St. Albans and possibly Huntington. Observers, who have been in touch with West Virginia conditions for years, agree that hhe mine guard sys tem is the prlnciptl root ot evu tnere. and that the sub-committee must con centrate on this phase of the situation in an effort to determine the merits and demerits of the system and the possibility or providing a substitute. about 20 per cent 01 tne spring v-iu.j remains to be harvested. Moisture is needed in the Southern States to facilitate fall seeding of oats, but oat crop threshing for the whole countrv is practically completed. Threshing returns show a marked in feriority to last year's crop statistics, officials announced. A good yield of potatoes is generally Tate Irish potatoes have im- thp Northern States. A I good crop is expected in Montana de spite severe frosts. The early potato crop is already harvested and the gath ering of the late crop is already in progress, the report declared. Sweet potato crops will come on favorably with a little more rain. The fruit crop generally shows im provement and is encouraging. Winter and late Fall apples are increasing in size since the rains, but the total yield is forecasted as being low. Oregon s crop has deteriorated owing to drought. Reports that grapes were dropping owing to the excessive heat caused a small panic in western New York and erane nickinsr has been rushed accord ingly in that district. Massachusetts and New Jersey reported good cran berry outputs. Livestock conditions are favorable ex cept in a few isolated localities where reports are current of hog disease. Hay and pastures are generally good. Meadows are reported in excellent con dition except in some sections of the Eastern Atlantic States, where rain is badly needed. The general outlook for Winter feed is favorable, officials declared. MINERS DECLARE STATE CORRUPT BY SAUL. HAAS. International Sews Staff Correspondent. .New York, Sept. 17 Plans for an in ternational drive on . the dope traffic of the world, which has for its object the j wiping of illicit dope selling in America, Canada, England and France, were an nounced here today by Dr. Carleton Si mon, chairman of the narcotics bureau of the national police conference, who is at the head of the drive. ..-Already every large city in America has sent to headquarters of the drive, located in New York, pictures of every known drug addict and seller. The New York office, under Dr. Simon is a clearing house from which these pic tures, as well as finger prints are dis tributed to every city taking part in the drive. The mere appearance in any city of any person listed by the inter national clearing house is to oe ioiiow ed by arrest. .Accordinar to Dr. Simon, headquart ers of the gigantic dope smuggling ring are located in Germany and japan. "Almost every ship which touches nnv shnrps brinsrs some narcoitcs," Dr. Simon said. -Into Vancouver. Seattle, San Fran MRS. OYSTER BEGINS FIGHT TO BREAK WILL Washington, Sept. 17. Attorneys for Mrs- Cecil Ready Oyster, of Syracuse, N. Y., the 26-year-old widow ot tne former millionaire Washington dairy man. Oeorere M. Ovster. today began proceedings in probate court to contest the validity of Oyster's will, under the provisions of which the widow would receive only $25,000. The aged Washington dairyman died last Spring in Atlantic City, only a few months after he had married Miss Ready. Shortly before his death, ne executed a codicil to his will granting his vouna: widow, who, at that time, was not with her husband, $25,000 in lieu of her dower rights. In the action begun today, the widow alleges that, if the codicil was actually drawn by her husband, it was done un der duress and because of undue in fluence. HARDING PARTY RETURNING. Norfolk, Va., Sept. 17. The yacht Mayflower, with President and Sirs. Harding and party aboard, left Hamp ton Roads at 9 o'clock tonight bound for Washington. The yacht will dock at the navy yard in Washington about noon Sunday, winding up the .fresi dential vacation of nine days. . DR. POE PLEADS (Continued from Pag-e One.) J. 1 itv county, or state. A large per cent of ihe growers of any one product must sien legally binding agreement to mar keTalfthat they produce through the marketing association, which they iranizecommercial ,y, and not just f raternal ly or sent! mentally, it is auei fraternal organizations, to develop the fraternal spirit, provide social iub-. -the sick, bury the dead, etc., but . ir in fret better prices xui y products we must have an organiza- tlOll sueciiiuaiiijf uv.v.--, particular job. . 3 vvp must orKtiiiiD i- ly, not temporarily. We shall never be successful and we shall never 00 sur-fpss until we me and willing to stick to one another in a compact business organization thick and thin, for better or worse, till success is won. Tne con;rtui five years. . . "4 We must organize legallj , not loosely. We have no place for slackers. No organization can succeed unless every member is legally bound up through an iron-clad legal contract to do his part in making the plan a success. NO DECREASE IN (Continued From Ptvo On.) oi and San Pedro come the drugs f,.nm janan. Tnto New York. Boston estate in order to support our fam and Baltimore comes a large portion of ilies and to stay in the business of the German dope." making teed, tobacco and cotton 101 "New York and Seattle are the cen-j other people. We are exactly in the ovs nf thp t.raffio for America. In 1919 . plight of a merchant who finds his the Government estimated that there were in this country over a million dope addicts. The number has increased tre mendously since. 'When all the dope peddlers are in jail, the dope traffic will be ended. It is our object to accomplish this pur pose. "One hundred and eighty-seven cities in the United States and Canada are participating in the drive in addition to the larger cities of Europe and Fcmipo Frnm France alone we have already obtained the complete records of 800 persons engaged in dope smug gling and selling. Dr. Simon pointed out that the oper ations which have their center in Ja pan come about as the result of the law which, while it places restrictions on the sale of narcotics in this country, does not regulate exports of drugs. Th lptritimatelv shipped out or this country after having been bought from honest firms here. It is then smuggled back into the United States, through Canada, Mexico, or some Amer ican Pacific port. The source of supply which origi nates in Germany is said by Dr. Simon to, come from German chemists who had stored tremendous quantities of narcotics before and during the war. inventory showing him woth $100, 000 in January this year, $90,000 on January 1, next year, and $85,000 the following January. Such a man would be paying for the privilege of selling food and clothing. We have been pay ing for the privilege of producing food and clothing for other people. "But; granting that the farmer has not been living on his annual income, but has been sacrificing a part of his capital that is to say, his land year after year, in order to continue in business, what has been the trou ble? And what is the remedy? "Here are some of the ountstand ing answers. "1. We must organize by commod ity1 and not by locality. That is to say we must organize to market a specific product scientifically, not just organize a miscellaneous lot of farmers who hap pen to be living in a certain commun- $5 a barrel on 2.75 beer when the bill goes to the Senate. TVvo cftmmittep adopted an amena ment providing for a tax of 10 per cent on hotel rooms in excess of $5 a day tor $R a dav for two per- sons. Chairman Penrose declared that this tax will be paid ty noteis anu hul Susts- .... A nmiristyflTlV'fi TeaiUrCS llltiuuc. both a whole- sale and retail business are permitted to compute the tax on retail saies v, hQcic nf wholesale selling prices; net losses , may be deducted from the net incomes of tax payers tor next wa year; Commissioner of Internal Reve nue, with the approval 01 tne oic tary of the Treasurer and consent of tax payer may make final settlement of tax cases. VALERA SOFTENS (Continued from Pagre One.) ceive your delegates upon this status would constitute official recognition of Ireland's severance from the King's domains. It would entitle you if you saw fit to do so to make a treaty with the King's government, and it woul-1 equally entitle you to make no treaty at all, but on the contrary to break nff the conference with us. At rhe same time it would give you tne ligiit a richt we had already reccr:::,.-. - Viol,,.-..-.,. r . negotiate an amaic " r- e;and and any' foreign power. It m-o-:M en title you, if you insisted upor ,;lother appeal to force, to eii" "u .1 iore. powers the rights of lawfu' -eiligv. ents against mo .m0. u iU:tl you as a sovereign and n;f pendent state we should have no right t0 com plain of others following our exampi,. "These would be th conseraen, es ,y. receiving your delegates as .ne rep-v. sentatives of an independent Hate, are prepared as you were inform in the note of September 7 to dis with you how the association of i,. land with the community of na-.;,. known as the British Empirt ar, be reconciled with the national ac tions of the Irish. But we car not abandonment, however formaj of the principal of l:..h giance to the King. The whose OI ltl ( stitution within it are based upon & . principle. ... It is tatai iu iiiai. puiinij.'. n delegates in tne propose i:-uiw, should be there as representatives ,; an independent sovereign state: wh.t vmi insist upon claiming that a r.11 ference between us is impossible' NO CABINET MEETING. On account of the Premier s physia condition it is unlikely that the ish Cabinet will be assemble at Gau'.o-h for several days. The Premier is 5t;: suffering from intermittent rhills w. in addition, a septic absorption has suited in an abscess on the face. Hi? physician has told him that absolve rest is essential for a few clays. The view was held in well intorrr.1 circles that De Valera will have t abandon his claims that the Irish cr eates enter the proposed commence ,.; representatives of a free state. It ! lenown that the Sinn Feiners chen: the hope that the Sinn Jem LHp; will discover a formula which wH.Wr. able an early meeting on terms wh will "save the faces of De alera a" nniiea-iips." Delay will also g.. time for moderate opinion in Irekr.' to assert itself. The Premier's letter today was :r reply to De Valera's note of Fiw De Valera in his note explained c attitude of the Sinn Fein Cabinet ar;. again insisted that, as Ireland had J clared- her independence, that the s.:r Fein envoys should enter the comm ence "free and untrammelled. The armistice is stjll in effe, ? South Ireland, but the situation.: Belfast has again become danger as the result of clashes between s Feiners and Unionists. whother Ireland is to have peas- war should be determined before " lapse of another week. I 1 t ATrT? TT?rkTTr"FTnxr to RAILROAD ORDERED xTTrAnorr TTVPtfTni? a TSJTQ TO REINSTATE MEN 1 UiTlUHilV- llTllTJ.XVJXVrti XWJ I r,ViirnT Sprit. 17. The. Tlnit.pd Washington, Sept. 17 How the new gtates Ranroad Labor Board tonight 3 per cent immigration iw its ivceyuis ordered the Butler Railroad Company out the hordes of would-be immigrants to reinstate two foremen, who had been was revealed tonight in ngures issued discharged because they belonged to by the bureau of immigration of the te same union as workmen under Department o laoor- tn June, tne them. first month of the operation of the new Tne company was ordered to J take law, there were 46,093 immigrants, ad- tne men back and to pay . them differ- mitted, while in May, the last month in ence ln money they would have earned which immigrants could be admitted un- ana what they made since their dis- restricted, was 69,64. I he average charge in December.- 1920. The road monthly admission of immigrants dur- wag ordered to restore tliekr seniority ing the first five montns oi tne yeari rights also. before the three per cent, law became operative was 03,338. Vigor Of Youth In A New Discovery Kelrnre Produces a Vitnliacr Superior to Fnmou Gland Treatment Masic Power oi a Baric irom Aincu. The Jise was laid before the board by a petition of United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes. FOUR VACANCIES AT WEST POINT ACADEMY Have you lost your youth, vigor and "en"? Does lie seem dull and work a tz-rind? Don't worry. Science has dig covered a new vitalizer superior even In the much discussed "goat gland" and "monkey gland' treatment. ThA nrinciDal ingredient is an T i i O BY PARKER ANDERSON, Staff Correspondent ot The New, Washington. Sept. 17. Four vacan cies exist in North Carolina for admis sion to the Military Academy at West Point next July, the War Department announced today. The vacancies are in the third, sixth, ninth and tenth districts. Florence Cain has been appointed acting postmaster at Elizabethtown. t-rart from tne Dark OI an Aincau J- lie i uoiuuitc jjcimiucui oiaics liiil tree, it is said to bo the most amaz- J the applicants for the postmastershjp ing invigorator ever discovered, um- at Winston-Salem who. took the exam bined witn it are otner tonic anu vi- j nation on Aucust 9 are Joseph E. talizing elements or proved merit, in most caseSs, the compound produces marked improvement in a day or two, and in a short time the vitality is raised, the circulation improved and the glow of health is ielt in every p8The new vitalizr contains expensive or.Tnif;als but manufacturing in euor-1 mous quantities has brought the .cost within the reach of all. Furthermore, Fry, Charles Hamilton, Sam F. Vance, John T. Benbow, John R. Walker, Nix on L. Cranford and Levi W. Ferguson. MARINES WILL FIGHT BATTLE WILDERNESS the laboratories producing this new vi talizer. which is Washington, Sept. 17. President talizer, which is caueu ite-xvu-Taos, i naraing, vice iresiaeni ooiidge, sec are so confident of its power that Iheylretary of the Navy Denby and a dis oer it on the basis of no results, tinguised party of official Washington nAvy"reader of this paper may test wA1Le witnesses of the battle of the tha new discovery without risk. Send Wilderness," to be staged by marines no money, dui juu yuur name liiuiiiuui viudiuiuo on tne oia vivii war address, to iue n:u ournione, pattieneids in Virginia the latter part IfJS aWfuyil treatrnVn?"" " eSS of September, it was announced today, fes wfllbe fanedDeposYt ?2 and The maneuvers will be staged by f. not delighted by the results at the ling the marine forces at the Quantico end oi a ween., ""vy uw iuraiunea base. They will occupy several days, 1 yoJI ?n,i n,rteWd'5 Uurtngr. the phases of the histori- this test otter, as it is iuiiy-guaran' i "V111 w mmei uwuera icde. AAV - I conditions with the newest weapons. Issue Broadside of Charges Against Government of West Virginia. BY MILDRED MORRIS, International 'ews'Staff Correspondent. Williamson, W. Va., Sept. 17. Wide spread political corruption of public officials of West Virginia by the non union operators is charged in a brief to be submitted to the Senate inves tigating committee by miners officials. Among" the charges made in the brief, it was learned tonight, is that Governor Morgan was elected in a cam paign largely financed by non-union operators. The brief also declares that a rec?nt Governor of the State is now president of one of the large coal companies op erating in the non-union fields of Lo gan county; that several judges are heavy stockholders m coal companies; that one resigned to become one of tne special prosecutors of the miners in dicted for murder in connection wic'i the slaying of seven Baldwin-Felts da tectives in the battle of Mateawan an J that the present prosecuting attorney of Mingo county is a coal operator. It is also charged that many mayors and other munition and county officials are coal company employes. This al leged control of public officials through j "VmsiriPfi rnnnpptinns." nrivate emn'ov- , ment, or bribery, the brief charges, is equally responsible with the employ ment of mine guards from "the notor ious ' Baldwin-Felts detective agency for the war that has torn the State and stained its hills with blood. Only the authority of the Federal gov ernment can bring about a speedy set tlement "with peaceful means", the brief declares. Miners officials will press tipoi the committee their demand that Judge E, H. Geary, chairman of the board of directors of the United States Steel Corporation, be summoned as a witness before the committee, it was learned, j They declare they have evidence to j support their claim that the " steel cor- i poration directly or indirectly, controls the most important of the coal fields of West Virginia and directed the in dustrial policy "which brought about civil war in the state." One of the exhibits to be turned over to the Senate committee during its stay in the State will be a heavy bomb which it is declared, was dropped by the State police from an airplane . on the town of Blair. The bomb is non-explosive, but is heavy enough to kill with its impact. It landed between the wives of two miners, who were hanging out their family washing, according to wit nesses. The committee may be invited to visit Stringtown, on the Kentucky side of the Tug River, where, it is claimed, the miners have established an armed camp which has laid siege to Merrimac, non-union stronghold? on the West Vir ginia side for nearly a year. It was this camp which, according to State officials, began the firing responsibile for the battle of Tug River, fought for three days and three nights on a nine-mile front. TODAY VALU in Medium Price Class is best expressed in BRISCOE OQpo'price, ?1085 Another New Queen Anne In Walnut and Brown Mahogany Just Opened Up Typewriters of all makes sold, rent ed, exchanged or repaired. Pound & Moore Co. Phone 4542. ' 2?.rf J.H.HAM Distributer 306 N. Tryon St. Phone 352 $400 down and ten monthly notes of $80 will buy you a Bris coe, F. O. B. Charlotte, interest and insurance included. 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