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s ESTABLISHED I87i LINCOLNTON. N. C, MON PAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 21. 192J. 5 Cents Per Copy, $2.00 Per Tear. PREPARED TO GO ON HARDING SAYS Readjustment Over And Nation Ready To More Ahead. Gastonia, Feb. 17. Conservative optimism was the theme of the ad dress of Governor W. P. G. Harding of the Federal Reserve board here this afternoon to an audience of mill men and bankers from Gastonia, Charlotte, Kings Mountain, Clover, Belmont, Cherryville Lincolnton and other adjacent towns. "The crisis has passed, said Gov ernor Harding. "The postwar re adjustment is over and the most try ing period has been safely weath ered. We are prepared now to go ahead at a slower rate but en a safer and sounder basis. A year ago we were uneasy. We were sailing on an uncharted sea, but the Federal Reserve system has demonstrated its ability to cope with the situation. However, there will be problems alonf with progress. Hard work, not soft money is what we must all expect. Hard work is the cure for the evils that are to beset us in the future. We must be as keen to go out and get business in the new buying market as we were two years ago in the boom times. With renewed courage and returned con fidence we must meet the problems that arise. There is no room for the pessimist.'' Governor Harding arrived m Gas tonia this morning and was enter tained at luncheon by the banks of Gastonia and the chamber of corn nurrt nndar whose auspices Mr. Hnrdino- came to Gastonia. A rather imimip turn was given to the lunch eon when President A. G. Meyers of the Citizens bank announced to the mimta that "Harding and Cox are nr guests todav." This was ex plained by the presence w'th Gover nor Hardine of J. Elwood Cox, banker and financier, of High Point, who fame down on the train with Mr. Harding. Governor Harding's address was heard bv an intensely interested au dience. He reviewed the conditions industrial and financial, existing in the United States prior to and dur ing the war and the effect the en try of- the United States into ths conflict had upon the world financial situation. He trace's the history and organization of the Federal Reserve hanking svstem. showing how carc- fnllv its working had conserved the the most trying period in its his tory. "That such a drastic reaction and readjustment process were met with out a serious panic is a tribute to the Federal Reserve system," said Gov ernor Harding. Speaking to the farmers Governor Harding said "that his first interests should be to see that the smokehouse and cwrn crib were first well filled and then turn his attention to cotton as a surplus crop. Governor Harding left oh an evening train for Spartanburg. REPUBLICAN SENATOR FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE SAYB MEA SURE IS DESIGNED TO FOOL THE FARMER. Washington, Feb. 16. Loaded down with more than a score of amend ments, the Fordney emergency tariff bill tonight passed the Senate. The vote was 43 to 30 and the measure was immediately sent to conference. Action on the bill, designed and rushed through the House as an aleg ed aid to the farmer, came after a pro tracted session during which four Re publican Senators broke away from their party alignment and two of them Flce. of New Jersev and Moses , of New Hampshire, bitterly assailed the measure and its Republican support ers. Likewise, solidarity of the Demo cratic ranks could not be maintained, nine of the minority members being recorded in favor of the bill. The broadside bv Mr. Moses tempo rarily unsettled the Republican pro gram, so much that three amend ments offered by Senator Lodge, the majority leader, were killed. From the time the vote was called on the Lodge amendments all of which had to do with protection for manufactured pro ducts of wool, the- Senate rode rough shod over all changes proffered. The speech by Senator Moses against the emergency bill was filled with a series of caustic shots at his Republican colleages. He declared that every Senator knew that the bill, if it should become a law would avail noth ing and he challenged denial by any Senator that it was "unscientific and designed to fool the farmers rather than aid him." The New Hampshire Senator also assaulted supporters of the bill for having offered no defense for its provisions and declared that only two speeches had been made in favor of the bill in the fifty-six days it has been in the Senator's possession, "Nobodv can defend it for it is in defensible," asserted Senator Moses. "The Republican narty cannot go be fore the country with such a measure. It can only give to President Wilson, who was so thoroughly repudiated in November an opportunity to excoriate'"1 the methods of distributing fed the Republican party and believe me, he will do, it when this thing gets to him. "Why, this bill is lopsided, it's blind and it's deaf and it has the rickets. ' It's a combination between the rice paddies, the cane brakes, the cattle ranges, the sheep runs and the wheat fields and how I can support it, even though I am for protection through and through, I know-not." In announcing tnat ne wouia oppose Ka Kill Senator Moses offered as a substitute the Payne- Aldrich tariff of 1909 He declared it far better than W .n.nii mpatmrp hi if a roll-full t-aa nni fi nnr of Dip niih- stituto and another Senator as favor- lng it. IN BURKE Baxter Hllderbrand Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter in Killing Of Lippard Morganton, Feb. 16. A continua tion of the sensational Lippard murder case which occupied the greater part of the December term of Burke court came today when Baxter Hilderbrand, who was one of the principal witness es for the defense at that time, plead ed guilty to the charge of manslaught er for the part he took in the tragedy. Much of the main evidence thought this time to be the true facts in the case was recounted and that Judge Lane might be governed acordingly in passing sentence which will be pro nounced, he stated, on Friday, Feb ruary 25. - In presenting the State's case 'Little Dock'' Hefner, who was convicted of murder in connection with the affair, was placed on the stand after Chief Lentz of Hickory and Deputy L. A. Ward had told the story of the finding of Lippard's bodyHe took Glen Lip pjrd, he said, up the Rhodhiss road the night of the killing to meet Baxter Hilderbrand, who was to let Lippard have fifty gallone of liquor which they were to take to Charlotte that night, Lippard having hired Dock to drive him there. From there on his story was practically the same as thp.t made just after the trial in his "confession," the blame foT the shooting, according to him, being placed on Lone Young. Lone Young followed Dock on the stand. He went to the scene of the tragedy, he said, with Baxter Hilde brand. Just after they arrived at the place where Hilderbrand told him he hed agreed previously to meet Lip pard "Little Dock and Lippard drove up in Dock's Ford. The story of the dice game on the running board of Hildebrand's car and the dispute that followed was rehashed in all the de tails that Young had given the Solici tor just after the other trial. When Lippard started to run away Dock Hefner shot him twice, Young testi fied, and he and Hildebrand left im mediately for Hickory, riding around until 2:30 the next morning. After Young's appearance on the stand, the State rested and the de fense nut up Baxter Hildebrand to testify in his own behalf. His teher sal of thi story was practically the same as that of Lone Young. On cross-examination Solicitor Huffman got him to admit that he had been sell ing liquor; that he had furnished it to Glenn Lippard at least twice, one time as much as forty gallons, and that he was, to meet Lipard that night to go after a load of liauor for Lippard to take to Charlotte. He said that be- he made no effort to stop him when he leveled his pistol to shoot at Lip pard. Lou Lynn, the "oung white woman who was a star witness in the former trial, appeared as the next witness for the defense. She did not vary much in her original story, but said that she heard Baxter Hildebrand, but that he was not there while she was present. It will be recalled by those who fol lowed the first trial that she ran away before the shooting took place. She still contended that Cecil Hefner was present. . One of the surprises of the day's development in connection with the affair was the arrest of Dan Sipe and" vernor uatone ol Hiekorv, who will bo tried next week with Carroll Echard, Cecil and Dock Hefner on chargesof the larceny of at least $900 from the dead body of Glenn Lippard. In con nection with the perjury cases that were expected to develop the grand jury did not find true bills. Joe "Speck" Mull was today sent enced to six vears in the oenitentiarv having been found guilty yesterday of me uurning oi nis nome LACK OF TWO-THIRDS VOTE KILLS THE GOOD ROADS BILL IN SENATE Washington, Feb. 18. While the North Carolina legislature is puttin through a $50,900,000 bond issue for good roads, the senate of the United States killed, so far as this session is concerned, the house hill to authorize a federal contrilution of $100,000,000 toward the construction of highways during the next fiscal year. Advocates of the good roads legisla tion in the senate had-a majority, but not the two-thirds majority required to suspendVhe rules and make the $100,000,000 item in order in the post offlce appropriation bill. Senator Swanson, of Virginia, who offered the bill, will try again during tlv ses sion to get the measure up separate ly but the prospect of success is re mote. North Carolina's- great roads pro gram was again called to the atten tion ofthe senate today by Senator F. M. Simmons. Under the Swanson amendment he said his state would receive a maximum of not more than $4,000,000 out of the general federal fund, while North Carolina wai will ing to bond itself for 12 times that amount to promote highways. The debate also produced n sharp colloquy between Senator Mos-s, of New Hampshire and Senator .Sim- mone. The atter took exceptions to fth sectional issue raised by Senator Moses, who complained that the fed eral funds wculd go largely to the west and routh. The senate's action does not per manently kill federal aid. It. indi cates, however, there will be change eral funds among the states. Had a two-thirds vote, not been re quired the senate would have adopt ed the good roads rider today. The vote in favor was 42 to 33. Practically all states wre interest 's d in today's action in that federal appropriations except in isolated in- . "a""5? ,wl" e, exhausted by June ? ..This leaves' the co-operative road ""'"""k piugioui m un-uu, aim I the situation is one of serious but .temporary embarrassment to states wun partiaiiy compietea projects 1 " The traveling man's hotel rate and tipping bill is killed by a legislative ANOTHER CHAPTER TRAGEDY i committee. FIFTY MILLION ROAD BILL PASSES FINAL READING IN HOUSE Only 14 Vote Against Measure While There are 102 Supporting It Miss Exum Clement Presides While Roll Call Is Taken (By W. T. Bost, in Greensboro News) Raleigh, Feb. 17. Doughton-Con-nor-Bowie road advocates ran their strength of 102 and the opposition shrank theirs to 14 today as the $50, 000,000 bond issue for roads in North Carolina, like the soul of John Brown, went marching on. To make the passage something grand rather than the spectacular anti climax that it was destined after last night to be Speaker Grier abdicated the throne and called Miss Exum Clement, of Buncombe, to the chair. Twice the assembly as an over-night Bryan army sprang to its feet. The little woman, with "Grand Old Man" Rufe Doughton and nice young man John McVee escorting her, came to the speaker s desk, ordered the clerk to call the roll and presided through the half-hour that the careful roll call and the protracted explanation required. Most prominent among the bitter enders who came round were Mathewj of Bertie; Smith, of Burnswick; Foun tain, of Edgecombe; King, of Frank lin; Lee, of Davidson, and Coleman, of Warren. Not all of them had anything against tne Mil; many of the oppo nents felt themselves under pledge to add nothing, not a penny's expense, to tne people of their counties. Some of them heard overnight from their con stituencies; others accepted the cov enant of the state that for the present it will levy no ad valorem tax. More still were charmed with the genero sity of the great counties, all of which tendered their hard construction to the state and waived tfteir equality in the millions of dollars now invested in hard roads. Wright, of Guilford; Pharr and Mathews, of Mecklenburg; YoBng of Buncombe .and Cooke, of Pasquo tank, declared their counties would not ask to put their roads up for sale and count them in the bill that they must aid In paying. It was this concession written into the bill that gave Matthews, of Ber tie, his cue for lumping on the band wagon. He came on gracefully. Quick el, of Lincoln, died hard and Ion, es pecially long. He voted "no" finally and regretfully. Williams, of Cabarrus with the finest noise for peccadillos in the house, cast his negative happily. He saw no good in the bill and it had suspicious looks to him. The most impressive indorsement rame form Representative Linnel, of Alexander. Little Aleck was just a little strip of No Man's Land. Wher ever a highway runs it is sure to pass by Little Alex. No matter where ic goes, it must "split Burke wide open.1' the Alexander man said. "Now don't snv nnvr.hino- nhonl. mp in nawa. nailers. T Am n litilp spriQitivp " nn ooi.l in a perfect bedlan in the house. "Un- less you say something good. I alwavs was a petted child, I have been that wav since I was a baby. And I have had political ambitions all my life. I am fixed now to sav good-bye to them forever. I am nutting myself out for all time. I can feel my ears burning now. (Great laughter). But I am a believer in good roads and always have been. I was for them when it meant standing alone. And so, not withstanding what happens to Alex ander, I vote "ave" Linnel got the biggest hand of them all. Matthews, of Bertie, said that he knew when he was beaten. He has yet a chance of victory, he thought. There is. the highway commission and his fight hereafter will be with that. The amendments offered greatly strength ened the hill, he felt, but there are serious objections yet. But he desired roads, he had his chance before that body, so he voted "Bye". Quickel did not admit that he ever had any hostility toward the bill. Ail that he had clamored for was some thing of assurance to the little coun ties. He sees in the bill and he ex pects a protracted misapplication of the democratic principle in that the rlfch counties will have given to them that have and they shall have an abundance, while the little counties may lose their little. Anyway, he was not going to turn on his convictions when everybody was deserting the ship. DR. CAMPBELL ATTACKS RIGHT M.N TO CAST BALLOTS Statesville, Feb. 16. The third dav of the Campbell-Doughtcn contest was largely consumed with the exam ination of registrars These were put on the stand by Di Campbell and testified that on all th days required by law, they were at the place of registration and treated all comers alike, regardless of their poll tics; that on other days, when they were not required to be at the place of registration, thev registered Demo crats and Republicans alike when re quested to do so. The evidence tended to show that on these off days the reg istrars sometimes went from place to place for the purpose of registering voters; that as a rule they did not seek out Republicans for the purpose of registering them, but went to the homes of Republicans when especially requested to do so. The net result of the evidence is that the registrars were more zealous in hunting up Democrats to register than they were Republicans. All the evidence, however, shows that there was a full Republican registration and that every Republican who wanted to register had a full oportunity to do so. The surprise of the day came when Dr. Caiipbelfoffered evidence tending to sKow that a soldier had voted with out payment of poll tax. Ex-Governor Bickett called the at tention of J. J. Britt, chief counsel,' fqr Dr. Campbell, to the fact that the Doara oi commissioners or iredea county had made an order exempt ing all soldiers and sailors of the world war from the oavment of noil tax for the year 1919, and desired to I Among the new bills in the House know whether or not, in the faoe of of the Legislature introduced WedneB such an order, Mr. Britt and his client day was: H. B. 696 by Quickel: Re would insist upon the disfranchise-1 lative to new courthouse in Lincoln ment of these soldiers. Mr. Britt rc- county. plied that the constitution of North Recommendations of the State Tax Carolina and the laws required the Commission and the governor are In payment of poll tax as a condition to ins considered by the finance commit voting, that the county commissioners j tees in mapping out the tax legisla- had no right to make any such order and that he and his client proposed to stand by the laws and the constitution. Ex-Governor Bickett replied that neither the law nor the constitution re quired Mr. Britt or his clients to chal lenge the vote of any soldier for non payment of poll tax, and that if they did so it would not be because they were compelled to do so by law, but of their own free will and choice. To the amazement of the bystanders Mr Britt and his client still insisted that sol diers who did not pay their poll tax shouki be disfranchised and, vould be challenged throughout the district. Testimony regarding the circulation of last minute pre-election literature with the purpose of influencing the voters, occupied the grader part of the morning session. Governor Bickett offered vigorous objection, but to no purpose, as lawyer Britt insisted that it should go in, even though there was nothing to show that the Democrats had been responsible for its circula tion. last Election called the fairest held in iredell Statesville, Feb. 18 The Campbell Doughton congressional contest has reached the end of the fifth day with nonew or sensational developments from the registrars and witnesses ex amined today. It was shown conclusively . that the last election was one of the fairest evpr held, leading Republicans hav ing congratulated the election omcers upon the fairness oi tne election in Trprlpll countv. It was also proven by Dr. Ike Campbell's own witness that a larger percentage of the Republicans had cast their ballots in the election than HiH the Democrats and no illegal vol es were shown to have been cast, un less it was those challenged on ac count of failure to pay poll tax. N. C. HIGH SCHOOL DEBATING AND ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES Chapel Hill, N. C.r Feb. 18.-Wide-sweeping plans concerning debating and athletic activities in hundreds of North Carolina high schools have been announced at the University oltNortn Carolina. , . . Secretary E. R. Rankin, of the high school debating union, announced that the time for the triangular debates had been decided on April 1, and that the futhcr eliminating contests at Chanel Hil for the championship ot the state and the Aycock Memorial Cup would take place two weeks later, April 14 and 15. The number of high schools entered in the debating contest this year has mounted io 238 covering 90 of the 100 counties. Buncombe, Gaston, Guilford, and Pitt counties have 8 schools each, Moore and Robeson counties nave i i cVinnla pnch entered: Wayne and Johnston have 6 each; and Alamance Duplin, Mecklenburg, Rockingham, and Wake have 5 each. ... These 238 schools, each with af firmative and negative teams, will fight out among themselves the ques tion of collective bargaining, and those schools winning both sides of the contest will send their teams to Chapel Hill for the futher elimination contests Mr. Rankin has announced also that 39 high schools have entered teams in the seven'h annual basketball cham pionship series, 19 teams from the eastern part of the state and 20 from the West. The eastern teams are Elizabeth City, Greenville, Fremont, Wilson, Durham, Benson, Cary, Clay ton, Belhaven, Wilmington, New Bern, Chapel Hill, Philadelphus, Red Oaks, Raleigh, Stem, Roxboro, and Mason's Cross. From the west the teams are Bur lington, Statesville. Jamestown, Siler City, Matthews, Moresville, Candler, AshevHle, Leaksville, Dixie, Charlotte, Badin, Concord, Belmont, Greensboro, Reidsville, Winston-Salem, Startown, and Biltmore. Managers from the 19 ee.stern teams met in Raleigh, Feb. 14. to ar range dates for elimination games to decide the eastern championship. De tails of the western championship were decided at a meeting of the wes tern managers in Greensboro, Feb. 15. At the same time that the high school championship is being decided in Chapel Hill, the week of April 11 16, the ninth annual interscholastic track meet will be held and the fifth annual interscholastic tennis tourna ment. The week will be given over almost entirely to high school activi ties and many other events are being planned in celebration of the event. Last year the debating champion ship was won bv Asheville, the basket ball championship by Wilmington, the tennis tournament by Wilson in both singles and doubles, it being the sec ond sucessive vear that Wilson won, and the track meet was won by Friendship, which has stood at the top for the past seven years. FUTRELLE SENTENCED TO SERVE FOUR YEARS Wilson, Feb. 18. H. B. Futrelle, found guiltv ta Wilson countv super lor court Wednesday of leading a mob which stormed the Wayne county courthouse at Goldsboro on the night of December 8, in an effort to get possession of three negroes charged with the murder of Herman Jones, a grocer, this afternoon was sentenced by Judge Calvert to serve four years in the state prison. Futrelle appealed to the Supreme court and his bond fixed at $4,000. Four other alleged members of the mob had their cases continued until the next term of Wilson county crimi- nal court. . Lloyd George declares he stands bv. his pledge that Germany must pav to the limit of her capacity, but. not the whole cost of the war. , THE LEGISLATURE tioi,. There wll be some reduction in the valuation of property, but it does not appear what this ngure will be. Gov. Rufe Dojghton is authority for the statement, however that the com mittee will recommend that the 1919 .vi'iuations be lowered. Having spent virtually all week on the Doughton-Connor-Bowie good roads bill the Houes todav finds itself far behind with its local calendar and faster work or night sessions will be required to get back to normalcy. Senate Passes Tick Bill By a vote of 34 to 9 the senata Fri day morning passed on third reading the statewide tick eradication bill, without amendments, and it now irops to the house for final consideration. The senate voted without discussing me proposition Bt ail, lor it had been so thoroughly discussed prior to today that little discussion was considered necessary, and none of the opponents had an idea of being able to defeat the measure. The upper house discussed at some length the Sams bill to eliminate judg es of the Superior and Supreme court from participation in the primary, and passed this bill on its second reading by a vote of 21 to 14. A bill passed by Mendenhall For the protection of Guilford county farmers, liy allowing officers $5 for going to the country to make an ar rest. BURKE COURT OCCUPIED WITH A MURDER TRIAL Morganton, Feb. When Burke county court adjourned this afternoon the taking of evidence in the case of Mary and Dick Williams, charged with the murder last month of their neigh bor, Pink Brittain, all residents of the section just at the foot of the South mountains, had been almost completed The selection of the jury, for which a special venire of 75 had been sum moned, occupied several hours this morning but a good part of the state's evidence was in before noon. Officers who vjsited the scene of the tragedy the night that Brittain was killed were the first to take the stand. Deputies Ward and Scott told of be ing notined ot the killing, ot going to the Williams home where they found in front of the door the body of Pink Brittain, of seeing the light in the house burning but the occupants gone, At the home of Mike Branch, a broth er-in-law of Williams, they found Dick and Mary, whom they arrested and brought to jail. When the state rested this afternoon the motion of nonsuit as to Mary Wii liams was sustained by Judge Lane, as was also the motion for overruling tho count of first degree murder against Dick Williams, who was the first to take the stand in his own defense. On the testimony of Ed Brittain, son of the dead man, the state relied for its leading points. On their way home from cutting wood with Dug Mitchell he and his father stopped at the Wil liams home, he said, to get liquor. He knocked on the door, told his business, heard the Williams within and was turning to leave when a bullet crash ed through the wall and his father who was standing in the yard, fell exclaiming "Ed I'm shot." Mary Williams following, her hus band on the stand when the defense had opened its case, told a story that coincided in its principal details with that told by the defendant. They Hid not know that Pink Brittain, who they maintained was their friend, was n the party, having heard only Ed Brit tain and Dug Mitchell. Both said that Ed Brittain threatened to force an entrance and since they knew that Dug Mitchell was their enemy Dick shot through the wall to scare them away. Their contention is that they feared personal violence and that Dick was defending himself and h's home when he soot. Several cases for retailing are on the present docket against Williams. DICK WILLIAMS CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER IN BURKE Morganton, Feb. 18. The jury in the case of Dick Williams, who has been on trial here since yesterday morning on the charge of killing Pink Brittain, returned a verdict late this afternoon of manslaughter. It is un derstood that sentance will not be passed until next Tuesday. FARM NOTES. Week of Feb. 7-12th. Kaleigh Feb. 18. For the past week light to heavy rains prevailed witn a downward trend in tempera ture and snow in the western counties The general condition of wheat has been reported as only fair. Durham and rasquotank report good pros pects. The corn crop is gathered in most counties. Beaufort still has some to be harvested. Western cron selling poorly. A good crop in Anson. cotton is selling slowly. Most all counties report some left in fields. Reports show hay being bought tnrougnout the States. Less cotton and tobacco with more feed stuff seems to be the slogan for 1921. More rye and oats are being sown. Livestock are not at their best, due to perhaps too insufficient amount of ruffage. Swine good, market show mg advance in Catawba. Car lots be ing shipped from Pasquotank to pack , ert. Farm organizations are being affect ed in most counties. The boys' agri cultural clubs have ' been increased eight to ten in Catawba. Buncombe I Farm Federation is growing. Beau- I fort has a Product Exchange. Dur- ham is to have a Cooperative' Mar keting Association. Bladen has re- eently formed a County Board of Ag ncuitura with a membership of 45. WEEKLY MARKETGRAM (U. S. Bureau of Markets.) Washington, D. C, For the week ended February 17, 1921. Fruits and Vegetables. Sack round white potatoes down 5c per 100 lbs. f. o. b. northern shiping stations at 80 to 90c. Chicago carlot market off 10 to 15c, reaching $1.05 to $1.10 sack ed. Round white held around $1 at western New York shipping points. New York market lost 10 to 15c reach in $1.40 to $1.50 bulk. Cold stroage Baldwin apples firmat western New York f. o. b. stations around $4.25 per bbl. Baldwins firm in citv wholesale markets at $4.50 to $5; York Imperials $3.75 to $4.50. Northwestern Extra Fancv Winesaps firm in New York $3.50 to' $4.50. Yellow onions slightly weaker at 75c per 100 lbs. f. o. b. western New York points; mostly 75e to $1.10 in consuming markets. Hay and Feed. Hay receipts light in eastern markets; heavy in west. Trend of market downward. Prices declined during the week but a few have reacted'from the low point. Cin cinnati still congested. Good demand for best hay noted at Minneapolis and Omaha. Quoted February 16, No. 1 timothy New York $30, Philadelphia $24, Cincinnati $23, Chicago $23.50, Minneapolis $20, Memphis $29, Kan sas City $18.50. No. 1 alfalfa Kansas City $19.50, Memphis $27, Omaha $19. No. 1 prairie Minneapolis $15, Kan sas City $13, Omaha $10. Wheatfeed market slightly improved- linseed and cotton meal remain dull and in light demand. Alfalfa meal and beet pulp quiet. Hominy feed and oat feed quoted higher. Gluten feed unchanged. Weather conditions re stricted demand. Stock in all sections reported as normal or larger than nor mal, cotton stocks at mills about 7, 000 tons larger on January 31 than last year, insuring sufficient produc tion from now on to. equal that of last year. Feed prices in general barly holding steady. Quoted bran $20.50, Middling $20. flour middlings $24, Minneapolis; linsead meal $36 Minn eapolis, $42 Cincinnati; 36 per cent, cottonseed meal $26.50 Memphis, $33 Chicago, $35 50 northeastern markets; white hominv feed $22 St. Louis, $26 Cincinnati, $30 Atlanta; No. 1 alfalfa meal $19.50 Kansas Citv, $21 St. Louis gluten feed $35 Chicago $38 Cincin nati; beet pulp $33 New York. Cotton. The average price of Mid dling in the 10 designated markets de clined about 3 points during the week closing around 13,15c per pound. New York March futures dawn 20 points, elosin at 13, 32c. Live Stock and Meats. With the exception of sheen and lambs Chicago lise stock prices showed advance com pared with a week ago. Hogs advanc es compared with a week ago. Hogs advanced 25c to 50c, beef steers 65c to 85c, feeder steers 25c to $1 per 100 lbs. Common cows and heifers un changed but better grades were 50c to 75c higher. Fat lambs declined 60c to $1; feeding lambs 50e to 75c. Year- mgs 25c to 50c lower; fat ewes stead v to 25c higher. February 17 Chicago prices: Hogs, bulk of sales, $9 to $9.75 medium and good beef steers $8.40 to $10.15; butcher cows and heifers $4 to $9.25 ;feeder steers $7 to $8.75; light and medium weight veal calves $9.50 to $12.25; fat lambs $6 to $9.30; ieeoing iambs SH.zo to X7.5I : vesr- lings $5.50 to $7.25; fat ewes $3.50 to $5.25. Eastern wholesale fresh markets. Compared with a week ago beef rang ed steady to $1 higher per 100 lbs. Mutton up$l to $2 higher: veal uu $1 at some markets, $lklower at others. Lamb and pork loins practically steady. February 17 prices good grade meats; Beef $13 to $15; veal $18 to $20; lamb $17 to $20- mutton $10 to $13; light port loins SI!) to $"l heavy loins $14 to $17.50. i Grain. The week's grain trading had a poor start, prices dropped about 2c on account of evening up for the double holiday. On the 14th and 15th prices rose 10c as result of renorts of green bugs in Southwest. Later, an' overDrougnt conditions was disclosed and a part of the advance was lo.it despite more serious reports regard ing green Dugs. Larger movement, small demand and entire lack of ex port business are now dominating market sentiment. Milling demand slow. On the 17th five Iowa banks re ported closed. In Chicago cash mar ket No. 2 red winter wheat 26 to 31c over cnicago March; No. 2 hard 4 to 7c over; No. 3 mixed corn 4 l-2c under May: Yellow 3 1-2 to 4c undev Minn. eapolis reports flour demand dull; wheat milling demand fair. For the week t nicago March wheat advanced lc at $1.68 3-8; May corn 2c at 69 7-8c. Minneapolis March wheat up lc at $1.57; Kansas City March down 3-4c at $1.68 1-2. Chicago May wheat $1.59 l-OC Dairy Products. Butter markets gain strength during week prices of higher grades advances l-2c to lc almost daily. The hand to mouth buy ing by jobbers and retailers has giv en way to more conndence and more active trading. ' About 900,000 pounds Danish butter have arrived at New York with present market at 45c to 46c for it. Prices 92 score domestic: New York, Boston and Chicago 47c, Philadelphia 48c. Cheese market is rather weak and quiet; prices in distributing markets have changed but little during week. With lower prices at Wisconsin mar kets trading has become more activ and majority sales price most atyles iresn cneese is zo i-ic. HAD SIX-MONTHS-OLD BABY IN SUITCASE Montreal, Feb. 18. Mewling which came from a suit case being carried along St. James street by a wcil dress ed young man attracted the attention of the police, who found in the bag gage a six-months-old baby which immediately supplementer its cries with kicks. Investigation showed that the man had appropriated his landla dy's son and heir. He was taken to a hospital where sycholigists cen tered their attention on his brain cells. Those who have few things to at tend to are great babblers: for the leaa men think, the more they talk Montesquieu. SHORT ITEMS Wilson, Feb. 16. The trial of H. B. Futrelle, alleged leader of the mob which stormed the court house at Goldsboro on the night of December 3, went to the jury at 3 o'clock this afternoon and in two hours to the minute a verdict of "guilty with prayer for mercy,'' was returned. With reports in from all except a few towns the North Carolina Tuber culosis Association announces a dona tion for tuberculosis work, through the sale Christmas Seals of $35,848.79 with approximately $2,500.00 more in sight. The census shows that the center of population continues to move west But the railroads and the highways are evidence that in winter time at least a whaling big lot of the popula tion moves south. The past several days with their bright sunshine and balmy southwest breezes reminn us that spring is near at hand with all of its bright pros pects, buzzing bees, apple blossoms, and spring millinery. "The outlook, is for much colder weather generally east of the Rocky Mountains during the next several days, according to the weather bureau. It seems probably that the coldest weather of the winter may be ex-, pected over much of the country dur ing the coming week. "The cold wea ther will extend southward over the Gulf and South Atlantic States to the coasts, the first of this week." Executive committee of the North Carolian farm bureau opposes any change in the interest rate in the state. N. C. LEGISLATURE RECOM MENDS NEAR EAST RELIEF Raleigh ,Feb 18. Heartily com mending the Near East Relief to the people of North Carolina and urging them to rally to the support of the suffering Armenians, the North Car olina General Assembly has just adopted joint resolutions endorsing the relief work now being carried on by the Near East Relief, These reso lutions are adopted to aid in the cam paign which started February 14 for the support of 3,334 Armenian and Syrian orphaned children placed in the care of this State. . ' The resolutions were introduced in the House of Representatives by Re. presentative B. G. Crisp, who ;s chairman of the Near East in Dare county. They are as follows: "Joint Resolution Relating to The Near East Relief: "Whereas, the people living in Armenia, Syria, Persia, Mesopotamia, Russia, Caucassas, and the Armenian population of Palestine, have suffer ed and still suffering as a result of the World War, great distress and famine, and "Whereas, the Near East Relief, an organization chartered by special act of Congress, has secured and distri buted more than fiftv million dollars worth of food among these distress ed and suffering people during the past three years, and is again calling upon the people of this country to assist in this great work, therefore, be it "Resolved by the House of Repre sentatives, the Senate concurring: "Section 1. That this General As sembly endorse the work now being carried on by the Near Eest Relief. " Sec. 2. That we heartily com mend the said organization to tho people of North Carolina and urge them to rally to its support. "Sec. 3. That we hereby express the confidence of this body in the State Committee of said organization and in the many men and women working throughout the State in behalf of the cause championed by said organiza tion. "Sec. 4. That copies of this resolu tion be sent by the Secretary of State to the State and National Headquar ters of said organization. Sec. 5. This resolution shall be in force from and after its ratification. "In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th dav of February. 1921. W. B. Cooper, President of Senate. H. P. Grier, Speaker of House of Re presentatives." MASKED BANDITS KILL TWO AT CARD TABLE Atlanta Contractor and New York Business Man Killed In Jacksonville Hotel Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 16. George Alexander Goodrich, 57, contractor of Atlanta, Ga., was shot to death here tonight and Walter H. Burden, 60, wealthy retired business man of New York State, mortally wounded by two masked men who attempted to rob them as they sat around a card table in the parlor of a small family hotel. Mr. Burden died late tonight. Mrs. Burden and her daughter, Miss Florrie Burden, 19, were the other members of the narty. The bandits made their escape in an automobile, left narked conveniently in front of the hotel. The night was warm and the door leading into the yard was oen. Suddenly two masked men stepped auieth' into the room and covered the party with revolver, tell ing them to make no outcry and to hand over their valuables. Goodrich and Burden thought the affair a joke perpetrated by fellow guests and began to jest with the two men. Snddeniy one reached over and made a grab for a handsome diamond pin Burden wore in his scarf. Burden and Goodrich then realizing that it was no joke, and both leaped to their feet. The bandits fired with the first move. Goodrich being hit three times, one of the shots penetrating his heart. He died instantly. Burden sustained two bullet wounds in the abdomen. After the shooting the bandits faded out of the doorway, jumped into their car, the engine of which was left running, and made a clean get-away before the other guests ever saw them. The hotel where the tragedy was en acted is just a block from police head-, quarters.