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" flje JMtotmt jkxt$ ffeto& ESTABLISHED 1880 MOUNT AIKT, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20th, 1921 8 1.50 PSR YEAR IN ADVANCE. NATION-WIDE strike on RAILROADS IS ORDERED Hall Million Employ*** Will Walk Out Oct. 30 A»d Many Other* La tar Chicago, Oct. 14.—If or* than half • million American railroad man wan today nrHred to inttlat* • atrik* Oe toh*r SO, while otl ar union* whoa* membership bring* tha total to about • wo million*. announced unofficially >hat they tonight *r« preparing to fol low ault and mni a the walkout genar al, on the umr data. Undtr thU pro Tram the tla-up would be complete, ncordlm to onion prediction*. by November 2. The hour waa fixed for i A. M., October #i. except for on* Texaa Una, who*e trainmen were autl riled to go aut October 22. The railroad* Hated in th* flrat group on which the itrike i> >o be eomc effective, touch 42 of th* 40 atate* with a track aire of 73,(MX) mile* aut of the total United State* track aire of approximately 200,000. The New England atate* comprise the group that i* virtually untouched la the firat walkout. The atrike order* were i**ued to the big five brotherhood*, oldeat and mo*t powerful of the railway union*, and they upecifically includ ed mail traina in the walkout. Their proviaion* in*truct*d striker* to keep •way from railroad property with * warning that "violence of any nature will not he tolerated by the organiza tion*." The strike wan announced following an overwhelming vote, uM to be up warda of >0 per cent, favoring a strike because of a 12 per cent on wage re-! Auction authorized by the United States railroad labor board of July 1, and after it waa declared by the as sociation of railway executive* to aea aion her* yesterday that a further re duction would be sought by the rail roads. It was said that the strike dp-1 cision was made before the announce-' ment of this further intended cut. Printed instructions as to conduct of the strike, issued in Chicago, were dated yesterday, October 14 "I fear it will lie one of the most aeriou* strikes in American trans portation history," said W. G. Lee, president of the railroad trainmen, who during the recent weeks has sent circulars to his men warning them of the critical nature of the steps they contemplated. The country wah divided into four groups, in which the men were au thorized to walk out progressively, one group every 24 hour*. The names of the groups were not made public, but unofficially the identity of roads in the first group to go was learned, •abject to changes, which union offi-' eials said would be few. This first I group included some of the country's greatest rail systems, from coast to coast and from Canada to the Gulf. NEW YORK BEGINS PLANS FOR STRIKE 67,000 Motor Truck* to Be Mobilized to Bring City lU Daily Food New York, Oct. 17.—A fleet of 67, 000 motor trucks, or as many of them as are found necessary," will be mobil ised in the event of a protracted; general railroad strike to briny New York ita daily (apply of 1,600 car loads of .foodstuffs, Health Commis-I aioner Copeland announced today. There are adequate supplies in storage, he said, to ration the city thru a rail tie-up of three weeks, but importation of milk by the trucks' would Kara to begin at one*. The coal situation, he said, waa somewhat leas favorable, owing to the, fact that coal companies have scant! storage space to which to build op • reserve. Efforts are being made to induce large consumers to fill their bins at once so that dealers msy stock ap again for small consumers bafora the data sat for the strike. Paris' "Hundred Kilo Club," a club composed of men tipping the scalee at <90 pounds, ia coming to life again. During the war many members lost out when the food restrictions and hard work of military sarvice lowered their weight Since the armistice Many have gone into "training" at the Httle cafe where the club convenes, sating fattening foods. WINSTON BANK ROBBED , BY A BANDIT Fore** Auiilul Ctihicr to Op*n Bub Vault. Ea c«p«. With $0,028 Win*ton-Salem. Oct. IS-—A tall masked man. with a pistol in aach hand, entemd the Southalde hrsnch of the Ksmier*' Hank and Truat company about B o'clock this morning and fote ed Aaalatant Cashier W. R. Snow, who had gone in the hank parly to do aont work on tha hooka, into the vault and mad* him rat down on the flour. Tha Intruder than (frabhed the money in aight, dosed the door to tha vault and took hi* departure. It waa perhapa tha boldest robbery ever committed in this section. Snow says that whila he wax being fhrred into the vault he beard a voice at the rear door, from which the maaked man entered, call to hi* a«*i*tant, "Hurry up." The hank official* report that their loss is ISMV-'fi though it is covered by bur glar insurance. The police and sheriff were notified of the robbery a* »oon aa Aaaistant Cashier Snow could get out of the vault. The robber* were tracked to '■ Southbound railroad and it is be lieved that they went down a deep i mbankment am. followed the railroad tracka, at leaat for some distance. There waa no evidence that they de parted in any kind »f conveyance. In hi* atory about the hold-up. Snow ■Ufa (kat ti/ki.n lU* him with two piatola, he loat no time in tolling him to open the vault door. The a**i*tant rushter played for time by failing to catch the combination in two attempta. "If you fail next time I will blow your brain* out," the maaked man *aid. ThU declaration added to the hank man'i fright and he managed to find the combination. Aa noon a* the door iiwung open, the viaitor axked: "Where la your gold?" We have none here," replied Snow, who picked up a aack of ailver and handed it to the viaitor, who dropped the bag and the ailver acattered over the floor. Pointing to another aack, the robber aaked: "What'a In that?") Being told it w«a currency, ha grabbed | It and ruahed out the door, puihfng It iihot ax he departed. Mexsgea were sent to all of tha nearby town* and citie* requeating the officer* to be on the lookout for auxpt ciou* looking pemon*. Up to tonight local officer* have no rlue regarding the ruilty pnrtie*. Speculation wai rife here today a* to whether the rob bera were profe**ional* or lociil par lie*. Sentiment aeemed to be divided. Axxixtnnt Cathier Snow ii not abla to give a detailed dcacription of the man who held him up a* the marked miin kept Snow in front and told him not to look back Person* in store* and garage* near the bank knew nothing of the roMbery until after the men had departed and Snow came out and gave the alarm. Electric Light* May Wink Cor rect Time A dimming of electric light* each night at 8 o'clock as a national time signal is bring urged a* a measure that will distribute the correct time regularly to all who are within sight, of an electric light. In the umr way that the time hall' is dropped down the staff at noon and clocks are regulated by telegraph ic or radio signals from the Naval Observatory in Washington, it ia suggested that power plants regular ly flash the correct time daily overl ♦heir electrical system. This idea is actually workit\g in Uruguay, according to James H. Col lins, who explains the idea in a jew eller's circular issued recently. In that country the lights are dimmed for about one second at 8 P. M "Electrical engineers say that the idea might be applied immediately in many small communities where the amount of electrical current will not call for great lowering of voltage to communicate the flash." declares Mr.; Collins. "In the* larger cities, where immense power loads are also earned on circuit* that furnish lighting cur-t rent the technical difficulties may be; great" A national electrical time signal would call attention to the Inaccura cies of the clock* and watches in the average community, which vary fire minutes at the leaat, it 1* declared. Buried treasure, believed to be a part of the loot of Jean Lafitte, the pirate, has been found in the vicinity of Jefferson Island, the home of the late Jeaeph Jefferson. According to! legend, large sum* of money ware' buried In that neighborhood by Lafltte wh<> operated in the eighteenth cen tury. PLANS COMPLETED FOR BIG REUNION Clutluoof* Leaving Notk«| Undone to Prepare far Cotnfort of Veteran* Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 14.--The Confederate reunion committee baa about completed >11 of ita nrraage menta to entertain the veteran* and their frienda when they arrive hrr> tor their Slat annual meeting. fVtob er 38 to 27, indue)**. C»ta anil blank eta have been wcur«vl to be u»--d if the home* of Chattanooga prove inade quate to hooae all of the vetrean*. Theae mil will be placed in itria heafeil bu'ldinga for the moat part to guard againat a poaaible low tempera lure or a cold wave; but the weather record* of Chattanooga ahow that trooH weather usually prevail* in thia territory the laat of October and the fir*t of N'>vrml>er, eo but little fear la entertained on that eeore. The firecaat now ie for clear, frosty mom inga all three day* of the reunion, hut warm daya fi>r the time of year The ninion prorram ha a been rem Meted and given lo the printer*. No material change has hern made in the original draft which ha* been explain i"«l already in thia corre*pondencc. One feature of the program at leant ia far better than wan at firat anticipated, and thie ia muaic. The muaic commit tee, of which Mm John I.amar Meek > chairman, haa succeeded in orranis irg a reunion choral claa* of 500 voicea to supply the vocal muaic for the reunion occaaion. Thia large claaa will he aupplemented by the well known Confederate choir of Virginia. The reunion committee haa definitely nrranired for the Virginia choir to be at the reunion. No former reunion ever had auch vocal muaic aa will be heard in Chattanooga. All neceaaary mount* have been se cured for the various paradea from the army pout at Fort Oglethorpe, and all of the horaea are well trained for parade occasion*. Each of the various parade* will be among the beat eewn at former reunion*, and will prove a delightful feature of tha event. The- reOlrton committee e**ect* a large crowd at the reunion. There ia intenae interest in the meeting all over the South and instanced by the large demand for identification certi ficate* from the many commander*, adjutant* and all other clause* of peo ple authorised to enjoy the low rate of ■ine cent a mill'. But few people be lieve that the reunios attendance will he under 50,000 to 10,000. Chat tanooga i* prepared to accommodate an attendance of that diie. AUTO OWNERS MAY LOOK OUT ^Utc Man to Round Up Hm LicAie Tag* Delinquents The failure of repeated warnings to bring response fmm automobiliata who have failed to procure new State license tap* may cauae Secretary of State J. Bryan Crimea to aend a man ■nto various sections of the Stat* to run down theae cars. Colonel Crimes expresses the opin ion that the shortage of ir>,000 appli cations for license taps, as compared with the number issued last year, la not because automobiles have been put to rent in the garage or atorage ' uildinir, but because of a half-doxen schemes which many are using to "l>eat the law." For years paift there haa been a substantial annual increaae in the number of automobile license tag« is sued. The State expected this to continue and was prepared for an in crease. Instead of the in< reaae, how ever, came the ahortag of 16.000 appli cations. Numerous report* from cities and towns over the State have (riven information concerning methods of using old tags or driving without any platea at all and thereby saving the motorist from paying the $10, $12.60 or higher tax for the operation of his machine.—Danbury Reporter. County Teachers Association. A very profitable and enthusiastic mwting of the Surry County Teach er* inorMtion *t> held in Dobson, the county sest of 8urryt last Satur day. Oct. 16th, one hundred two mem ber* being present. Th main purpose of the meeting was to plan for the State Assembly in Raleigh, Thanksgiving. This associa tion is working for 100 per cent mem bership for the State Assembly and the prospects are bright for achiev ing their aim. Dinner was served by the hotel at the expense of the County Board of Education. L. K. Kpps, president. Miss Bess Morrltt secty CONFEDERATE VETS TO BE PAID DECEMBER II Ur|«r Tim Ymt; $1,000, OCX to be Paid Out Raleigh, Oct. 17.—TVik first pay merit of pension tMngr to Confedor at* Veterana and widow* of veterans with the inrrraar authorised by th« ' ! i>t l-inalatura, will be nutd<- l)eeem tier 16, and State Auditor Baxter Our j tiairi has fi|rur«d > aeh pensioner wil m»lw approximately 10 par can' mora money than the last payment IVnaionrri of the firat class, wh< have bwn rweiving $110 annually will get 1160 for the ne,xt year. Th< increase to second rlaaa pensioner* u from VIOO to I19S; third claaa $8< I to (120, and fourth class (70 to 1104 The total amount to ba (aid out ii pensions for th« next year wilt ba f 1, (>00,000 as against $<1*6,000 for thii year. Pension money is paid »<mi annually In advance. The payment U V- mad* in December will rover th< i tit six month* of 1 and in Jum pension money for the last si) months will he sent out. ■Th«' number of Confederate veter ans and widows of veterans to shari I in the pensiotf fund now is 10.1*7, am the million dollars has been propor j tionately divided among these bj Auditor Durham. Of the total nura her of pensioners, 4,988 are widows ; virtually all of these coming in thi I fourth class. Pensioners of the first rlass an those wholly incompetent as the re iult of wounds, and blind widows ! Those of the second claaa myst havi | lost during the civil war a leg abovi j the knee or an arm above the elbow I Veterans who have lost a leg belos the knee or an arm rendered uselesi by raaaona of wounds are placed ii the third class. Those who have los an eye, and soldiers and widows un able to perform msnoal labor <°«Mi tute the fourth class, which ia wi< largest. SENATOR KNOX VICTIM PARALYSIS —— Had Purchased Tickets foi Theater Shortly Before Stricken. Dead in 15 Min ute*. Washington. Oct. 12. Philandai 'hase Kmix. senator fr»nn Petuisyl vania and secretary of state undei ('resident Taft, died suddenly at 6:3(1 I'clock thin evening st his home here •Ic was stricken with paralysis aftel descending the stairway on his wav to the dining mom for Jinn>r nr I (j.issed ana) 1ft m nutc. la'.cr v. i'.huul regaining consciousness. Mm. Knox and the senator'* «ecre •ary, W. F. Martin, were near the sen ator and hurried to his aid. Dr. Sam url Adams was summoned immediate ly, but he found Mr. nKox beyond medical aid. Senator Knox returned to Washing ton only last Monday night from a trip to Europe with Mrs. Knox and h« attended the sessions of the senaU yesterday and today. Leaving the rhamher about ft o'clock this after noon, the senator took an automobile ride through Potomac park and stop ped on his way home to purchase tickets for a theater performance to night. Reaching home, the senator went to his library where he remained until summoned to dinner. President Harding, Chief Justice Taft, Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts the Republican leader. Senator Pen rose, of Pennsylvania, and other friends and close associates of Mr. Knox wen- soon notified of the sena tor's death. The news came as a shock to all official Washington, for the senator, through his services first as attorney general under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, and later as secretary of state under President Taft, had a wide circle of friends in all walks of public life, congressional diplomatic and legal. Senator Knox was 88 years old and was serving in the senste for the sec ond time, having first been appointed in 1904 to succeed the late Senator Matthew Stanley Quay. He was elect ed to succeed himself in 1906, bat re signed four years later to become secretary of state. A mountain disintegrating ao fait that the action it discernible day by day is a remarkable phenomenon of the'Aussee region of Austria. Great cone* and pinnacles of rock crash and tumble and fore^s lie flat or more slowly and steadily downward, piling into the valleys. It is believed that water in the chalky limestone core of the mountain caoees the ecilspee at caverns and the slipping of strata. FEWER LAWYERS MORE FARMERS BAILEY'S ADVICE DKltm If State Will Kmmp Lawyer* Out of Legislature Expenses B« L«u Ksleigh. Oct. 10.—Fill tit* North ' '•rutins ifrrwrml aaaembly with fun era and thereby giva representation U this great group at Tar Heels whe have for k>, these many years. been discriminated agsinst in the legtaia tlve branch of the a tat* irovernment Thia la tba advice Josiah W. Bail*) L'mted States collector of internal re venue is going to five North Caro linian* whenever and where*-*. ways and everywhere the - ; |>ort«nitj present* Itself between now and th« Heat election time tolls around. North Carolina is made up largely of fanners, he argues, and rommor decency, if for no other reason, d* mands that the state's greatest pro ducers be properly represented in th« legislative branch. There ia no gain sayings in any quarter that in lh« present legialatiure these producer* are not on un equal footing witli other professions. A glance at th< list of representatives which sat to gether In the 1931 session will con vince anyone that the lawyers were I* the majority. These lawyers will b< back here again in December when tin special a ess ion meets. Mr. Bailey thinks that the staU will be saved from diaaater which re valuationista, lawyers, city folks am ( politicians have started the common wraith toward. The farmers ars con servative men and Mr. Bailey sug | gests thst as Iswmakers they will noi 1 spend the state's money as freely at , others since the fanners hava nevei been in the habit of "wasting" then own money, because they havs noi had it to waste. With the state's taxation system U be salvsged from the wreck of revalu ation, a farmer-legislature, to Mr Bailey'* mind, will do a much bettei job than any othsr. So he is going t« urge that lawyers be replaced witfc ^grrtfenTppnrtunlty presents itself. Strike Would Cripple The Packing Industry Chicago, Oct. 10.—A railroad strike would have little effect on the average law industry of the middle west but Would result in closing down all of the packing plants within three week* and undoubtedly would force many »mall factories to close, repre sentatives of some of the chief indus 'rtes of this region said tonight. Tentative plans were being drawn up through which it was said Chicago ind the larger cities could be kept supplied with most food commodities, although it was believed that meat supplies would run short quickly, the packers asserting that their stocks <m hand are smalled than In many ! y»rs. - An official of one packing concern *aid that the meat packer* had been operating at only 36 per cent normal strength for more than a year and that as they were entirely dependent on the transportation systems, they could not operate during an effective , railroad strike. Approximately 76, 000 men would be thrown out of work through closing of the big five pack ing plants, officials said, although in normal times the number would have t>een much larger. George R. Meyercord, president of the Illinois Manufacturer's associa tion, said reports he had received in dicated thai the larger industries would have no trouble in operating in spite-of a railroad strike. "There would be no general tie-up of induatry." Stoke* Man Hat Pocket Picked Winston-Salem, Oct. 13.—T. A. Bennett, a farmer from 8tcke« county, reported to the police department yes terday afternoon that hia pocket was 1 picked while he wat trading in Gil mer'* *tore yesterday afternoon and the turn of eighty eight dollar* in rash waa taken. Mr. Bennett *tat*d to the police that a colored girl waa atanding near him just before his money was miss ed snd he is of the opinion that two colored girls committed the robbery I of which they wen inspected. He irave a very accurate description of the parties he *uapieioaed, but no trace of the guilty parties had beea found last night. This is the second robbery to take place In a store within the past few i day* and in both instances the pmkst picking was attributed to two eoloivd girl* The police are on the alert for ; the offenden and it tfcoegfct that tltey I will be ap»nh aid mm. ONLY REPUBLICANS la THE POST OFFICE Democrat* AUtf* Tkal OM Merit SjritMB is IMb| AW» doited Under Rulk| Fw» ling Choice From Eligiblea Washington. D. C. Oct. 1—Pve» Vusts over an alleged return to • "Te rm of political pressure in tha matter of poet office appointment* are being heard in the IVrnocril i* ranks and furnishing smmunltiati in tha attacks recently i itched hp them against th% Administration. The ipirit of competitive axamlnatMjoa. it i« A < 1.4 ed, la being viola' I la 'he recently adopted method of appointing Republican postmasters from amoof | the " three highest eligihlsa" <>n tha old civil service lists, rather than from the new lists. This policy, adopted some ei'ithe »gi> at the order of Will H llajrs, l'"«tma»ter-<>eneral, after conference with the President, is declared to be In the interest of efficiency and the naving "f time hy the crowded Civil Service Cummi.vtion It results, ar ■ riling to Democratic charges, in tha ■ ppninting of Republican! from old eligible lists, to posts which rightly belong to thoae ttanding highest on »he new lints, whether Democrat or Republican. This is the policy* of portioning out post office appoint ment* as "political plums" it la as serted. against which so much criti cism was formerly leveled. The putting of such positions into ci«il service ia merely a blind, aceotd j ing to Democratic critics of tha Ad I ministration, as long as the final ap pointment from the three highest names on the list rests with Adminis tration officials and depends on party sffillatioaa. A protest against the alleged aboaea of this system has bees filed with the Senate Committee on Post Offices hy Kurmfold M Simmons (D.), Senator from North Carolina, in the form sf a demand for an investigation of a case in North Carolina, ia which, it is al . iecad, partisan politics raselud in hmHM&t In appointing a ,amt ' master. Thin is only one of thousand! of such cases, according to Senator I Sommona. who hoDcs investigation a' thi» cast will result in a return to ap pointment* on a Hani* purely of merit. Diphtheria The diphtheria "bug*" continue to he more active in North Carolina. They have caused more children to he nick in September of this year than September of Mil). If there n the usual increase in number of case* •luring October, there will I* about 1500 rases of thin disease scattered .over the State. The reason there are so many cases of this disease is because the rhildrwa who an- not protected by nature hart not taken toxin-antitoxin, which en ables one to resist diphtheria as the typhoid treatment protects thsas .-■gainst typhoid fever. I wish to remind those who have taken the toxin-antitoxin treatment , that it takes six to eight weeks for the treatment to produce enough an 1 titoxin in one's blood to enable him te resist the disease. The protection, however, lasts in about 90 per cent of the cases for several years, possibly for life. The North Carolina State Board of Health will send enough toxin-anti toxin to your doctor to protect your child for ten cents. However, each person must pay the physician for his professional services. You should not deny yourself of the opportunity te keep your baby out of the giave. The Health Department will give the toxin-antitoxin free to any child in the county. L. L. Williams, Health Officer. y \ 7 Birthday Celebration ^ Laat Sunday a large crowd of rela tive*. friend* and neighbor* gathered at the home of A. 8. Cockerham Mar' Kappa Mill, for the purpoae of cele brating hi* lixty-aecond birthday, which waa a complete aurpriae to him. Hia oldeet brother, J. K. Cockeriiam'a, birthday ta also on the mum day and he waa prearat. He la aeventy-abi. He ia oae *mong the few Confedwate aokliera that now aurrire. Baaketa of food eat* had been prtparad aad a lone table in the yard waa literally loaded with the rery beat Ike aeaaea and country could afford, llada Joe Cockerham implored divine blaaeiag on Ike dinner. After which o»»f body proceeded to aatiafy the waata uf Ike laser man. After feeding the crowd many freeman ta ware left orer, the tabiee wen cleared aad the
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