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■TARUHHRD 1S90 MOUNT AIRY. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. APRIL 2ttth, 1920 fi.M PER YBAR IN ADVANCI. •
A. K. HOLTON ENTERS
3ENATOMAL CONTEST
Lmwjmr mm
I April tS.—A. K. H niton.
Wlneton-ftalem, firmer l.'nited
diatriat attorney for the wee
diatrict of Worth r»mlina, ht
if entered the rare for the l'nit«H
wnitr on tha Republican
, according to advicea received in
Gtaaaaborn yeaterday. William Orl»
mmm, m*ratary of tha State Repuhll
cm nantlra rommitli* with head
i|—I la i i hara. who alao entered hia
nana Hatiirrtsy. aftar being adviaed
that A. A. Whitener. of Hickory. tha
candidate of tha party, had
to Hand notice of Ma antry to
stated laat night that while
ha had not bean adviaad of Mr. Hol
tan'a action, ha waa not aurpriaad to
haar ha had antarad tha race, because
Mr. Bolton had told him ha would ran
kl eaaa Mr. Whitanar atayad out Mr.
aaid ha entartaina no idaa if
BIT tha nana tonal honor himaalf.
tat that ha mailad notice of hia antry,
with tha entrance faa, Saturday, tha
laat day of filing, according to a rul
ing by tha atata elections board, mere
ly to aave a plaea on tha official ballot
for a Republican candidate for tha
Nr. Griaaom Mid that aftar ha had
hia notiea to Raiaigh Saturday
ha talked with Mr. Hol'on
r long diatanca telephone and that
Winaton-Salera man told hint ha
formally gat in tha
and that if ha haa done ao he
(Griaaom ) azpacta to withdraw, aa ha
explained to tha elar^ona board aeera
Jkary hi filing hia notiea of antry that
ha? would withdraw and aak for re
tarn of hia antry faa m eaaa any other
antarad tha race before tha
day sight baeanaa ha took tha |
that tha law doaa not require formal
antry at thia early data.
Narrowly E—p— Awful Dm*
Rcirisville. April 27.—A. S. Hoover.
■ lineman for the .Southern Public Uti
littee Company. narrowly escaped el
ectrocution here Friday afternoon
■tout 6:90 o'clock. He waa at work on
the electric light wire* on taf at the
pole at Sharp'i barber shop comer.
Scalas and Morehead streets, and one
mi kia feet slipped and raoie in contact
with a charged wire. A circuit waa
formed through hi* clothing- and he
*M immediately enveloped in flnmea.
Tkoee who law him were horror
ctrieken at the spectacle but power
leaa to render prompt aid. Fortunately
the young man turned loose his hold
M the pole and fell to the pavement.
The fall was a severe one aai jar
red him considerably, but broke no
In falling, it ia said, hi* body
turned a number of somersaults and
reasp hlol a pin wheel afire. Several
person« who saw the falling body
thou t that a suit of clothes on fire
had been thrown from the window of
praaeing club upstair* in the Overman
MMfaig.
Younar Hoover was carried to Dr.
McCehce n office and given medical
attention. It was found that he had
auataimvi only flesh bruises by the
fall and that burns from the electric
current were not severe. It seems that
the flames played mostly on his cloth
ing and reached hi* body only in a few
■mall *pots.
Hoover was carried to a hospital in
B- <}reen»!.oro. and is now getting along
very nicely.
Amundsen Party I* Icebound
In Siberia.
Washington. April 2fi.—The Amund
Mn polar exploration party in the
•tsamer Maud is Icebound at the
mouth of Kolyma rive*. Siberia, and
\ . awaiting an opportunity to sail nouth
1 ward, it> wax indicated in radio dis
pk'.che* made public today at the nary
rtment. Amundsen. who diacctv
the south pole, apparently aban
hi* attempt to raach the north
The expedition left Dixon inland In
the Whit* sea early in September,
ltli, and had aot since been heard
from until the navy radio «tat ion at
K Gordov*. Alaska, satabliahed com
Phpaiiiration with the party recently.
A dispatch received today in an
te a message to the Cordova Sta
SWINDLE KU f.rjEXt TO BE
WIDESPREAD
North Carolina Indictment. To
Bm Followed 3y OUwn In
Other Parte Of Country
N'-w York. April 27,— Federal in
dictment* similar to thorn* which have
Imwi ivtumnl in Waihinftm, N. C.,i
charging '2* Syrian mrrrhanta with
pon»pimry to defraud, nra wilt he
m otrht in many other part* of the
roantry. it wan announced here imtav
hy the National Association of Credit
Mrn which ha* h*»n rn-operating with
federal agent* in an eight month*' in
vestigation Hui to involve the loaa of
million* of Hollar*
Charles D. Writ, m*..«ger of the
a**oeiation's inve*tigation and proa
ecution lepartment. declared that a
ion* of mora than a million dollar* to
wholeealers in northarn marketa prob
ably wn* involved in the North Caro
lina indictment*. The*e indictmenta
returned in sixteen separate rases,
named Syria merrhanta in fcaleigh,
Goldaboro, r villa, Henley, Wake
Forest, Benson, Princeton. Smithfield
and LaGrange.
West declared that the association
diacoverad trace* of a nation-wide
plan, engineered by educated Syrians,
to -lefraud cMMng and textile Jobbers
and wholesaler*. He Jerlared that the
-eutfi arr! nu: !?i'»e*t had suffered
the moat heavily, but that New York
and every big jobbing and wholesale
■■enter in the country also had lost.
He said that the genera] scheme
was to set up certain Syrian mer
rhanta in business, «how them how to
operate small stores, and to boild up
credit. When this was done, according
to West, the "high-ups" instructed
the snail merchants to buy an credit
large amounts of fine silks, laces and
other textiles which can be handled
easily by traveling peddlers. West al
upa" obtained the merchandise and
diapoeed of it.
He declared that the "higher-ups"
were very braien. shr-wd. young and
highly educated, some of them in
Engliah and French universitiea. He
declared that a number of them were
worth 1250,000 each.
According to West, New York mer
rhanta loat I2RO.OOO tlone in the last
*ix months, whl'e other centers affect- j
ed were St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati,
Detroit, Cleveland, St. Paul, Milwau
kee. Boston. Philadelphia, Buffalo,
Rochester, Seattle, Portland, Ore.,
San Francisco, Loo Angelea, New Or
leans and Atlanta.
Syrian Merchants Are Named
In Indictment.
Raleigh, April 26.—Investigation*
which have been conduct**) by peat
office inspectors since November, 1718,
have culminated in • blanket indict
ment being returned by the federal
irrand Jury at Waahington. If. C.,
againat 28 Syrian merchanta who
have been operating store* in RaJeigh,
Goldsboro and other citiee and town*
in eastern North Carolina, charging
theAi with conspiracy to defraud and
obtain goods and money under false
n re ten sea, with an alleged probable
ln*« of upwards of a million dollars
by wholesalers of northern markets.
The indictments against the Syriana
were based on evidence secured by
Postoffice Inspectors L. T. Yarbor
ough. of Rocky Mount, who has been
in active charge of the investigation
| since it was started nearly three years
ngo: C. H. Keelor and C. I). West, of
the prosecution department of the Na
tional Association of Credit Men. and
Frederick R. A. Steifel, manager of
tbe prosecution bureau of New York
Credit Men's association.
Many Foraat Fire* in Weiteni
North Carolina.
Ashevllle, April tt.— Report* of
forest Area in many *ection* of we»
Imi North Carolina. especially In the
famous Pink Bed* of the Piaffah Na
tional forest, have hwn received in the
city.
i The national foreat flraa, followed
the destructive fires of last weak on
Little Rushee, near Skyland, when
I about 160 acres of land was burned
over, destroying much valuable tim
ber.
In the Pink Beds the Area are said
to, have been started from sparks
from the engines of trains on the Car*
1.umber company's railway and on
Friday and Saturday swept over a boat
2ft© acres of land, although no report*
were received Sunday as to the spread
of the flra. It la believed here, hew
ever. that the resident* of that see
do* have bean abia to fat Um ftra
lilT Tin i ' mmi
CASWELL SCHOOL BOY
HAS RIDE ON HANDCAR
Tom Millar Creates Sown E»
citemawt at' Kinaton and
Damafat a Track.
Hintium, .iprii in.- UI Uir
•nrM from a handcar, Thomaa Millar.
<i < hmrgm of thr state at the Cm«*II |
training *chool here, journeyed two
milm anil a half, drove hia "ohaerva
tlwi car" into a motor truck and
Anally, after a marathon up Queen
street. gave up to a pursuing police
man. Tom watched hia chance while
track workara repaired the railroad in
front at the school, When the time
w»« propitious he hoarded the hand
car and headed eastward. He disre
garded the ordinanca requiring the
flatriring of croeainga. Hia luaty throat i
wan a warning wren. Everybody up
and down the track gave him the
right of way. When hia speeding train
arrived opeeite the Norfolk Southern
freight station at McLewean and
Blount atraata Tom "blew hia whistle"
as a signal to the driver of a whole
saler's truck to give him gangway,
nnd to show that he waa serious about
it opened the throttle a little widar.
The track driver paid no attention.
"I ct him take the conaequancaa," said
Engineer Miller, half aloud. With a
horrifying crash, as they say in the
stories, the ipeeding locomotive dash
•<d it to the truck, which stood across
the 'rack at a fore and aft angle.
W;th a sickening thud the handcar;
piled into the rear tires of the truck,1
and the tires promptly "kicked" the
handcar 20 or 30 feet. Miller did
an involuntary balloon ascension. Re
landed unhurt, brushed the dust from
hia clothea. spied a cop and took to hia
heels. He led in the race for several
blocks, hut the cop had better wind
and tvartook him. It waa a thrilling;
half hour, Tom admitted on the way
back to the ached,
5a#ir»r*«*» H«p« to Land Pfortfc
Washington, April 25.—Prediction
that the suffrage amendment would be
ratified by the North Carolina legis
lature at ita aperitl session in July
wan made here tonight by the national
woman's party after a ranvaaa of the'
memben of the letrialature. Thirty
right of 00 legislators who replied to
a questionnaire pledged tfcamaalves
for ratification. while 11 were definite
ly opposed, the statement
North Carolina might not herome
the Mth state to ratify the statement
continued, as the Delaware legislature
reconvene* May t and the Louisiana
legislature will meet in regular ses
sion May 10, and action in C onnectient
and Vermont alao ia not an impoeei
bility. The party ia continuing ita
campaign in all these states.
CONGRESS TO INQUIRE
INTO PAPER SHORTAGE
Subcommittee From Senate
Will Start Investigation.
Washington. April M.—Congress
ional investigation of the print paper
shortage will be started next Wednes
liajr hy the subcommittee of the sen
ate committee on manufacturers head
erf by Senator Read. Democrat, Mis
souri. The committee's plans include
incjuiry into supplies, distribution and
prevailing prices.
Pending congressional action, the
assistance of the state -lepartment was
invoked in connection with efforts to
secure removal of restrictions upon
export from Canada of raw materials
used in paper manufacture. Chairman
Porter of the house foreign affairs
committee, accompanied by represen
tatives of the paper industry, confer
red with Secretary Colby sn-1 received
assurances that the subject of diplo
matic correspondence would be given
careful consideration
Publishers of leading papers will be
invited to appear before the investi
gation committee. Senator Reed said.
New York publishers will be heard on
Wednesday, and on Viceeeding days
those of Boston, Philadelphia and Pro
vidence. Before the committee con
cludes its investigation it expects to
give publishers of all classes of news
papers an opportunity to express their
views.
t amoral of Canadian etnhanroea on
pulp wood *m uryed by Senator Un
derwood, Democrat, Alabama, bafora
I he hiww fortifn affair- rnmmlttM
earlier In the day. Retaliatory 1 emu
lation rhoald ho enacted, ha *ald. If
friendly effort* toward thin end were
iinwM' caaful.
"Strim injury will ba >uff«rad by
■ •or newepe^wn in a few daya tf
THE KAISER 19 TOO CLOSE
TO HOME
Pram..r Gwi* P«aU Out
Dm%mr To Pm«« O# Europa
With Him m NwtWUmds
The H>fw, April 27.—Responsi
bility for the ronti'iued residence in
Holland »f former Emperor William
of Germany wa» placed nquarely and
exclusively upon the Netherlands gov
ernment 19 a not* »*nt by Premier
I.lovd George of Great Britain on
Mnii-h 2d rod publinhed today for the
first time in the Orange Book contain
ing .lurumeats relating to the ilemand
ed extradition of Count Kohenzoilem.
Mr. r.lofd Geirge's note >ar>:
"The Hilled government* have learn
ed of the royal darraa assigning the
former emperor a definite place of In
terment in Euttacht, thin .lecree be
ing accomplished by an undertaking
by the Natherlands government to
assume 'omplete reiponaibility for the
custody of the former emperor and
control of hit correspondence and ra-1
lations with the outaide world." The
note pointed out that "WUlian also
would remain a serious danger while
within 40 kilometers of the German
frontier and is a potential renter of
reactionary propaganda and a cons
tant menace to the peace of Europe."
Morrison Makes Attack Ob
Sanford, April 24.—Cameron Mor
rison addressed an audience bar* to
right that filled to capacity the Lea
■ounty courthouse. Ha made an at
tack on the candidacy of Pag* and,
Gardner, who ha declared have boon
posing aa business men while charg
ing him with being a machine politi
cian. "If there's a Gardner or a Page
on earth who's not a politician she'a
a lady," he declared.
New York, April 26.—The Ameri
can Sugar Refln'ng Com pun 7 an
nounced today it had advanced tlie
price for bulk r arv.lated su~*r from
17H ceuta pw pound to 18 cent*
wholesale. Prices for sugar now vary
from 17H to 23H cents a pound
ar.icng tho leading refiners, basnd 00
var.ous quotations far raw suc»r ar.d
inability to get cinble amounts in any
quarter.
Since Uut December the price of
Cuban raw sugar haa advanced from
10 cents cost and freight, to 1SH
cer.ts, altho the rise haa been chocked
from time to time only by the fire
casts of the arrival of some 200.000
tons of sugar frcm the Far East, at
tracted to this market by the high
quotations here. This importation haa
not reached her*.
THE LYCEUM SINCEt.
EvrryNxly like* to hnr n ti»Nl male
fuartefte There in n fiwInatlM about
fbrlr attmln* ibnt i« found In no vrther
orjanizn• ion. We don't know what
that: "anmethlnir" In. hnt we moot all
mlmlt that It doe* exlat
In plcnnlnc rhe ••nomination at tlv> 1
Lyceum Slnrm rwu thliiK* were kept
in mind Firm, to arrure four Km to
-allotn. arrlata of npcrlmn- who mold
THE LYCEUM SINGERS
tlktf »i.*rih>r. Dink Its rfelr epatuiMa
nnmhrm ■ tval fratai*. K*rond. to
imllil a pruvram 'hat iroul<l ba anrn
itail) <>f a Ly»*um <harartcr. That
'a. It muat ha** quality, aod • imwl
maa»ur> of vartaljr an aa ta make It
appeal to all rlaaaoa that maka up tb»
nrrrnfa Ljihuib awHcm-a.
T*» wral part of the prngrma la
phaMuxt. with th» iDatmmrntal fra
turni In pinna. and ium-4 fa flta
Tartrty anil notallj. though tha am
har* of thr ■pinrtHl# ncW Id iMr la
atnnm-ntal wnrfc.
Ttwr.- will ha Iota of artton, phatT of
t«n aiwf «M<uyfe varloty to »«tt tha
watt- if thr tau-uallj »darata4
CHAMP CLARK WOULD
ACCEPT NOMINATION
Follewi AmummmI By Ifcw
York Woman That Ho Hod
P««i<»d to Run.
Mew York. April W. Himp Clark,'
fon«« «peakrr of th» houee of ra^,
e»»ntative*. baa dwiiM to become a,
amlidate for Democratic Praaxiantl*!
nomination, it «u <ieciared Kara to
lay by Mm. Julia Sander*. an o#kw
nf the Hwaatika dub, a woman'* po
litical organization.
Mm. Sander* *aid Mr. Clark had
made known hi* doeiaioa to har war
the telephone from Washington, ex
plaining ha daairad to make the an
nouncement through • wmn'i or
ganisation "In appreciation of the
iharwtng compliment tke auomi
voter* of the country hare paid hun"
hy rapporting him daring hi* public
raner.
"I would bo glad to *orv* the poo
pie aa I have earead them for 23
yean," aid Mr. Clark. 1 am nat go
ing into any *tate to wago a flght for'
del«ft— to the Democratic national
ronvaaition A* a poor man I cannot
buy political patronage."
White krWi at Durham
H«t. Gone Oat on Strife*.
Durham, April 2*.—A white bar
hern' atrike la on hi Durham, effective
.Saturday ni*ht, which embiatad 22
white barheea. who left their chain,
and include five riiopa. The conten
tion, and cauaa of thia walkout, iaam«
to be, from tha proprieter*e »>ewpeliit
ia that tha harbeia wanted tham te
raiaa all work a nickla on tha pnaint
pricaa, and rive tham tha benefit of a
raiaa of two and a half par cant. The
preaent pricaa prevailing are 20 centa
for ■hare and 4i centa for hair cot.
Peach Traaa Killed '
' Atlanta, April 1&—Tfcojaanda of
peach traaa in Georgia, especially tha
vounf onea. ware killed outfight by
the cold wave of March that followed
f. warm wet weather. W. V. Reed, aa
matant state entomologist, said hare
today on returning from a trip
througr Talbot and Upaon countiaa.
In orchard* near Woodlawn and Thom
son, ha aaid, fully 30,000 out of tra
40,000 treea were killed.
New York AhmbUt Acta
Favorably Oa Boor Bill
A rhanjr, N. Y, April 24.—The N«w
York legialature today acted favora
bly on a 2.75 par cant, beer bill, paaa
ad in the senate early this morning atl
the cloaa of an all-niikt aeaaion. Th«
bill waa acted favorably upon In the
assembly thin afternoon. The vote in
the lower houae waa 86 to 67.
The bill ia intended to provide that
the 2.76 beverage may be aold to be
drunk only in raetauranta. cluba and
hotel* in Tint and aecond claaa cities.
The bill ia drawn M u to prevent the
-eturn of the aaloon. Senator Jamae
J. Walker, ita sponsor, *aid.
SCIENTISTS EXCHANGE
THEORIES ON UNIVERSE
Whether There Ia On* Great
Universe Or Million Small
Onea Ia Piacuaaed.
Washington. April M.—Whether
there ia one (Teat universe, perhapa
ten times aa large as commonly be
lieved. or a million "islands" universea
similar to that of which the earth is •
part, was discussed at tonight's ses
sion of the annual meeting of the Na
tional Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Heber D. Curtis, of Lick obaer
vatory, California, defended the old
idea that the Milky Way contained
practically all the star*. the planetary
and diffused nebulae and the star clus
ters- Dr. Curtia *aid such a universe
waa "relatively small." being lesa than
.10,000 light year* in diameter and not
more than 3.000 light veara irr thick
ness. Ha reminded his hearers, how
ever. that light trarela 1M.00 miles a
recond.
Dr. Harlow Shapley, of the Mount
Wilson solar observatory, advanced
the theory of a galaxy of stara tan or
mora times larger than the milky way.
Beyond this gala xy. he declared, there
undoubtedly are Innumerable other
univeraea. the only tracea of which
appear aa dim star cluatera through
the Uleanfe.
Another diacuaaion concerned twins
in the human family. Dr. Charles B.
Davenport of the Carnegie institution,
presented a atudy showing that about
1.1 per eeat of human birth* were
INTERESTING WORK
AMONG BEES
Biggoat Traathr Of laaa Fro
Gum To Stanford Hiwoa
Greenville 8 >und. wtlaainrteo,
April 24.— The M«reat .rvWrtekin*
in ihe way at the transfer at howey
baaa tram oM gam Mraa to the new
-tandard hivea with Laiifitrnth fraaa
m ever rttempted in thin atat* haa
jual baan iwceeaafaily xrompttdlrd hi
Lhe Caintuck section of tha \/tmm
Cipe Fear region. it being tha noM
D. G. Kelly baa yard na*r Caintwk
[juidinr, SI mifea above Wilmington.
v yimry purchased laat fall fro* ifc
kally by W. J. Martin, who in eatofc
liihing a rhain apiarie* in tha toa
ar Cape Pear rr^ion.
This Kelly heayard ia a boat tha
lartraat a,id moat pirtareaqae of oM
trim-hive variety to bo found in tha
■tota ami a picture of It haa for wwr
al yaora baan a «pa-ial feature ia •
poop at pfatuiaa exhibited ia tha
agricultural diviaion of tho United
State* dapartaient of agriculture at
Waehinrtoa.
cum
the
the put ink
tion of C. L
bai
operative extension service of
state and federal department! at i
culture, and attracted ranch
end great interest on the part of boa
keeper* of this Cain tuck section aka*
snira hivea all tkaaa year* have ban
used almost ezcluaively and giaallj
handicapped the develop—at of baa
keeping and the conaerration of the
honey producing reeomcee at the eaa
tion, almoat without an equal in the
•tate If improved method* are applied.
It ia believed that the transformation
of thia noted old beayard into a right
up-to-date apiary win as quicken tike
interest of the old gum-Mve hee Vwg
en in "thia neck of the woods" that
the curae of the gum hive will be rap
idly eliminated ana the introduction
of the more approved method* will
greatly multiply the production of
choice honey.
Camp hi Bee Tari
Mr. and Mr*. .Saraa, F. R. Jordan,
well known bee-keeper of thia count/,
and Sir. and Mr*. W. J. Martin ramp
ed for several days at the bee yard,
where with the aaaiatancr of a num
ber of the beekeepars of the locality
the work of transferring the beee WW
pushed along quite successfully. The
old gum hivea were turned upeMe
down and the bees "drummed" oat fat
to the empty a act tone of gum of tha
same sue. The new improved hrvee
were placed on the old stand and the
drivea beea dumped therein, rhe old
gima ware taken te a bee-proof teat
where honey and brood comb
cut out and frames at brood and \
given to the transferred bee*
with enough framri with foil
foundation to fill out the
hires. Other choice honey waa packed
in containers for home use. that in old
dark combs barreled for later f ■ ailing
back to the beea aa occasion may re
quire and the leaving* of brood ctaah
scrape and infilled honeycombe went
into a huge pile to be later rended inte
beeswax. The old gums many of them
over two feet in diameter, were piled
out to one side and furnished a pie- '
tureaque feature for the transformed
apiary with its long lines of im
proved hives, cach painted white,
numbered and finished in thorough
manner.
mr. nams us neen rnrirw >n inn
b<* culture extension service in this
state for several yearn now and if wall
pleased with the improvement in
method* of h*rkr«|Mnr that he finds
in nearly everjr part of th« state. Of
four* there are many beekeeper* and
whole neighborhoods still "wedded" to
the old rum and box hives along with
many other* who hesitate at the ex
pense of putting their baas in Stand
ard hives, hot the realisation of tfc*
great advantages sad greater profits
»»*ured by the modern methods in
spreading and there is steady Im
provement say* Mr. flam, who has
gone this week lata the northeasts**
section of the state to make demon
'(rations in this am work of traaa
ferring bees in co-operation with a
number of county agents.
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