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HTABU8HBD !••• MOUNT AST, NOBTI CABOLDfA. ROAD CONTRACTS LIT FOB HALT Or BOND i of md « North CmoHm, and .all of which will be completed in the near fntur* fH the work has ham under way far So far the highway commiaaion baa •pant fSJSCTJM.lS an tha roada that hare baan completed. Tha work now vmim contract will coat tha State «ix taaa and a half million dollara, aa that H win ha aaan tlwt tha StaU coat about twice aa meh aa the work ' amitiactad baa baan paid for tha SUM will have uetd nearly or qutta half a# tha WMM hand laaoe It tt Tha i niailaatnn baa conatructad «U> milaa of hud aurface roada, and 4*8.99 milaa of giatal or otbei typa raada. In tha work adir con I can tract there art of hard aorfaea and 740 milil of (rare! and ithir typa roads. Tha t n—ilaeinn la putting tha hard anrfhea on tha ante Unaa of tmrel hi tha State, whara tha trarel la aa haary that tha gravel or aaM roada will not stand op and whara It will ha aconcaa leal on new tint of tha haary np heap of tha aoft roada. In thoaa aacttom whara tha traffic It not hoary, and uonditlona art aoch that tha tep aoil or gravel roada can be < q at all aeaaona of tha year maintenance ayatrra that adapted by the highway While about four tiaaea an many milaa of top aoil roada hare baan con etrncted aa hard anrfare ronda, tha ■oat of each haa baan about tha urn *jp to the preaent time. .The bridgea that h*ve baan com pleted hare coat M,lSt,817, while the hridgea let to i on tract and not yet completed will coat MSS.OOO w Mountain Fuad Steps Distilling ai Liquet Hickory, March SO.—Hickory law yer* who attended the recent term ol Burke Superior court comment on tlx fact that there were fewer blockade stilt caees at thia term than in a num ber of years, deepite the fact that the famous South Mountain is hsedqusr ters for moonshine in these parta Theae lawyers say there is a reason. . They also expreee the belief thai naoonshining has Increased a bit tr parta of Catawba county and that tr the section known as the three county comer there is a irreat deal of liquoi made. It seems that the blockade ni in the South Mountains have a feud among themselves and this means that they will turn each other up, to use an ex ' prcasion in police circles, and until they heal the breach they will ha ah) on the wet goods. Then- is som< liquor made in this section of Burke -county, of course, hat those whe claim to know declare that the quanti ty is much less than a few monthi ago. Hard Job Raecuiac Woman From Troo Top Wash., Mar. 28.—Construction of a substantial seaffold-platfona undei the tree in which she took rsfiift yesterday afternoon was neceaaary before the authorities of 8t Eliaabetl Hospital for the Inaane were able to day to rescue a woman patient ftm her parch on the topanost branch. Thi tree way so situated that it overlooked a deoy ravine hi the hospital croondi and for ntneteea hours the weasat kept the guards at hay by threats ta throw herself oa the rocks below if aay attempt was mads to brine hei down by fores. Mattressss and a Ufa net won plaaed at the foot of the tree to paw vent Injury If she fell and then ear pewters built a scaffold open which i ladder was srsatsd. A hospital at «f la to tha. Gr nictation wm •tatementa autd* by than to • xnUthn of the An the heedqoartrrm of the i in Raleigh Saturday ujrtni meeting ia to ba bald in and ooa in Kaleigh on April «tb to wbich warahouaemen ha»t been in vited that they may confer with offi cial* of tha Co-operative Marketing Aaaoeiation r*(trdi«f final terma far tba leasing or sai* of warehouse fa cilitiea aa agreed upon by tha direct ora of tha aaaoeiation. moua in their declaration that they would not attend the meeting to con nider laaaa or *al* of their plant*. They called attention to the i eently taken by Tobacco Board of Trade relative to plana for handling the next aeaaoe'a tobacco crop. Heretofore throe fbrat aalea hare bean conducted here dally. Nest fall four firat aalae will be een j ducted and one aeeend aala. Thia ar will tncraeae tha efficiency of the local winhMMB thirty-three and ana third per cent and will aM rvaa Move to the convenience of the grower* who bring their tobawe to thia aaikat tar aale. I* the opinion of local tobacco authoritiea a very large tobacco crop will be raiaad thia year, and tha To bacco Board of Trade ia planning to handle it a* efficiently aa | 800,000 CmI Ifaan Quit Par Indianapolis, Muck 31.—Coal pro duetto* wil stopped tonight by tha union aalneri. who quit their day'* work in the minea of 20 atataa with the a roared policy of i1 wining kit* indefinitely in an effort to force the operator* to accept the miner'* triau for new wage contract*. Official* of the headquarter* here of the United Mine Worker* of Amer ica declared tbr aaapenaion would not only include a half million worker*, but alao at laaat 100,000 noa-union men would Jain in tha -aralkout. No laat minute instructions were iaaaed from headquarter* and the only aig nificant conference held during .the day by Praaidant John L. Lewia was with Lonnie Jackson, praaidant of tha Kentucky union district, where 6,000 union men will continue to work be cause their contract with operators has another year to nut. During the day Mr. Lewia declared the suspension of work by Kanaaa union miners would not be averted by the action of tha Kan*** industrial court ordering that wag* acalea of the M day*. In a formal «t*t*ment tonight the union chief declared the nation wide walkout would affect "hundred* of thouaanda of citiaens" not directly engaged in the coal industry, and he reiterated hi* charge* that the opera tor* had forced "the strike upon the miner*." y In addition to the Kentucky mine*, union men in Nova Scotia will remain j at work, but thoae in the western Canadian province* were rxpeeted to Join the suspension. The conference over the Kentucky ait tuition was Mid by it* participant* to have been a gen eral review of the lituation there, with 1 President Lewi* taking the position that the union must obey its contract I with the operator* Numerou* report* from the coal ; field* of the country also reached headquarter*, which, Mr. Lewi* de I clared, indicated a complete tie-up of all union field*. Thee* report* alao ' (bowed that 18.0M union men would be left in the minea to protect the pro perty from damage, and the only trouble between operatera and miner* in thi* connection was reported from ' Washington, where operators wera •aid to be objecting to paying wagaa provided for in the contracts that as pired at midnight. indigretien sad Constipation "Prior to ueing Chamberlain'* Tab let*, I suffered dreadfully fn.m indi geatkm. Nothing I *t» *«reed with me and I lost flesh *nd ran down in hrRlth ( h.mi^riataVTableU helped my digests* and cured me of ra. Oeorg* St roup, Opinion ip*nn to kt«i crystal lued in that di net ion ao rapidly stove we iaspeetod the uncompleted Wlleon Dam," aaid SimIw Morris, chairman of tka Senate committee, "that we1 haw not had time to think of details. One thing is sue, however, the dam will be built if this committee can brine * about and 1 want to see the government get in the river during low water this spring." Senator Morris declared that pros pective purchasers or looses would lone nothlhg by the government going shred in the work of completing Ike pro Jejet." "There will be ae much deteriora tion if wa delay that I am fully con vincjd that we must get back on this job quickly, since it is determined that nobody wants to tea it ■crapped.'* man expressed himself to favor of the government spending its own money and doing its own mark to com pleting tka one unit Representative Hall, ef tka House committee, gave bis opinion that tka government should start work tkla now before tke committee is found to be acceptable." "In any event there should be no delay." said Mr. Hull. "Wmne at least this wit of power on tka Tew ire no reason for datay. If there is ao bid before us we can aw apt. we HB ?* factory and profitable way to diapoae of tke whole plant" A majority of tka House committee men to tka party «»mid to share the opinion that bids before tke committee should be dlapaaad of before tka gov ernment. undertook to start work tt Representative Junes. Republican, Michigan, expressed himself as • Muscle Shoals convert, declaring that he had always voted against appro priation* for the project, hot since he | had studies it on the ground he would vote to complete the Wilson Dam, giv ing first consideration to bids before the coasmittee. j While ssajority and minority mem bers of the two committees war* ap parently united on the question of re divergent expressions of opinion aa to whether a private corporation or the government should finish the Job. There ware Democratic members who frankly expressed a desire to leaae or sell the property to on* of the bidders and then ask for an appropriation in conformity with such contract. Among majority members of both committees there was advanced the opinion that none of the bids before CongTeas would he reported out with >ut modification* _ Ask Pardon For Aliens \ ^Richmond, Vs., March Si.—A pcti-< tion for the pardon of Sidna and FrW | Allen and W**ley and 8idna Edwards, surviving members of* the notorious "Allen clan," known throughout the country /or their part in the "shoot ing up" the court at Hillsville, Car-, roll county, Virginia, March 14, 1918, is being prepared and will be present ed to Governor E. Lee Trinkl* within' the next few days, it was learned to day. |fc*ad of Orphan*** Caught Running Still Fall Blast Anderson, 8. C. Mar. It.—Rev. 8. O. Whitman, superintendent of the Oconee orphanage at Old Pickens, in 1 Oconee county, was captured by Sher iff Alexander, Monday night while his j distillery was in full operation, a cording to a report from J. M. Moss, a newspaper oorreapondent at Wal halla Th* distillery waa in tail I blast when the officers approached and though his two companions * caped. Whitman was captured ai taken to the Peons* county Jail at! j Walhalla. JMs outfit, a AO-gallon | j distillery, waa located near t! I Oconee orphanage, which is It mil ' from Walhalla. Wbltaaaa waa formerly a Holiness I t _ I I — — —J M A L. i _ i oi0Q ii ■ nvipiuu nvn ttny win onds by the death of h#,r lister Phy ucian* bad declared sarly in tlM night that in Um event of Um hitl of mm of Um sisters Um oUMr would dte quickly as their brother, Prank Baask. had refused to pwatt>M operation which would sever UMir bodies. Ths twins had boos In Um hospital ton days. Josofa was 111 with yellow Jaundlcs and that was followed by pneumonia. Shortly boforc her doath Koaa waa afflicted with brsnchltla. Preparations had boon made for tha covering operation and tha physi cians win ready to make every ef fort to save the life of at least oae of the women. Hope of saving Um Ufa of Joaafa was abandoned at midnight, accord ing to Dr. B. H. Breakstone, chief of I the lurgical staff at tha hospital. "I triad to gst tha consent of the' brother to operate to save the life of, Boaa. bat he refused to give his per mission,* added tha physician. Dr. Breakstone explained that a de licate operation would have been nec essary. Before their death he had expeaaaed the opinioa that tha psy chological affinity of tha twins was sa vital that if one should die tha other might enccumb before tha band af flaah and boas that jotee them could be saeaiad. Although the twins passed separata respiratory and caridac systems. Dr. Breakstone declared (hat they bad only one sat of secondary digestive end procreative organs. The opera tioe. ha said, would have necessitated the building of a part af tha digeetire and other essoatial organs to save the being Boaa Blaaek Dvorak. She to survived by a normal 11 year old bay. Her husband wss a captain ia tha German army and was killed in action in 1*17. She was ssarried 16 years ego. Joeefs never ssarried. Til# littl* mb. ffBBi Hah mt the b>t)4i of His Mother, who. until within the last few hour* «>■ lese critically ill than Josefs Tit* twin* were the second off spring of ■ normal parentage in Cse cho Slovakia forty-two yean ago. There were four other children, ail normal and all still living. The fath er i* also said to he alivejtia age being 86 years. The mother died a year ago at the age of sixty-five yean. During a tour of the world the twins acquired considerable wealth. Tfahy died without making a will, al though their attorney, J. L. Triska, has base at the hospital several days ia the hope that they would ha in condition to dictate the document. As the women grew weaker last night physicians pleaded with the brother to permit aa'operation, hoe pital attendants state. Re eras the only adult relative capable under the Illinois law of giving his consent. "No," the brother eras quoted as hav ing said. "No. not even if Rosa live* for hours after Joaefa's death. Thar* shall he no operation." 1 Dr. J. Otragovec. personal physi-1 \n of the twtaa, appsalsd to the| brother without success. Their at-; tomey was asked to intervene but he i declined to assume responsibility. Two hours past midnight Dr. Break-1 ■tone said there was no need of pro-1 longing the argument with the { brother. "It ia useless." he said. "The con-1 Sit ion of each is noem^he same—the condition that forecasts certain death, an operation now would be no good. Medical records recalled by physi cians who have been interested in the case disclose a number of so-called Siamese twins. The originar Siamese■ twins, Chang and Eng. lived to the age of M. They marrlsd sisters and Chang had sis children and Rag five, all of them normal Eng died first end a surfbon separated them. Chang died soon after. They lived ia North Carolina, and have ifrsrindents in the state. Twins that have .attracted world wide fame Include the Hindu sisters, who ware joined faee to face,-the con nection being at thecheet; the Newport twins, so—what similar to tils Hindu twins; the Orisea sisters, Baddies aad Doddlca, J*toed sids to sidsj the H shaaMsr wM^srilMas^ ''A- it ^«4^ttr/.s- 1 . . •« ■A 1' ' Jukrtjt* /I* Raleigh. Mar SO—Frank D Wil liam. of Richmond, Va^ whuee skill Hi handling the Sua Ctni Pool of Virginia, brought the first snaceee to elected manager of the Dark Leaf Department of the Tobac co Grower*" Aaaoeiatien with head quarter* in Virginia. Mr. WIlUaoM la an ex-preaident of the Richmond Chamber of a Director of the First National of Richmond and a loaf dealer experience covering many year* in which ha wM eminently lucceaaful. Mr. WUUama will bo called apon to handle not only all problems relating to the Bark Leaf in the marketing A>»ociatioa, bat Ms wide experience in the Tobacco World will prove in valuable in helping to guide the policies of the organised grower* in the Carolina* and Virginia. Recog nised by the trade throughout Vir ginia. the CaraMaas and Kentucky as a man of exceptional ability, an queationed integrity and fair i Mr. Williaaui initial aucceea m pioneer and ieadar la profitable operative market hn fideace hi the thawad , gtowers who are maaabar* af the| Marketing Association in three i Oliver J. Sanda in night, denied over loag distance tale- i turned down an offer of 980/ salary to manage the leaf end of the' Co-operative Marketing Aaaociation in Eastern North Carolina. Accord ing to the report, whan it was learned that it wa* the purpoee af each ware houae to aell the waad as heretofore by auction, Mr. Clark declined the offer. Mr. Sanda (toted that while thecr had bean tmi info nasi ingutiaticmi with Mr. Clark, they had not reached the salary atage. e Cincinnati Cwwirn to Giw* SB-Hour W<th With N»Wm*Lmi Cincinnati, Ohio, Mar 27—One Null Company. dotMnf Mmtic turer*. will to imM a It-tour work week before tto and of tto pro* aat year without a reduction to aragaa, Arthur W. Naah, preeident of tto company uaowri today. Thi* ac tion ia entirely voluntary on tto part of Mr. Naah. Hia motive ia to give hi* woman work era a chance to paaa mora time at homi looking after their houaehold duties and their child ren. Tto arrangement to haa decided upon ia to eetahliah a working week conaiating of five day* of aeven hour* each. Since Jan 1 the *000 employee* of tto Naah company have been operating on a 40-hour walk, divided into five days of eight hour* each. RoH Coat Mount Airy Firat grade: Myrtle Blissard, Rath Short, Elisabeth CbUie, Stella Elisabeth Webb, Virginia UcHe Timmon*. Mary Do Blanche McHone, Maude Da Minnie Eaton, lolar Hodge, Butcher, Earl Tolbert, Harvey Qwya, Tillman Colllaa, Lamar Collin*. Wil liam Johaaon, Harrey Baaghn, Jr., Roy Bennett, Robert Bliaaard, Hendrtck. Herbert Hall. maa. Mho Mlgtort. Third grade: Mary Nail Short Fourth grade: M Jeaee McEeller. Marvin Dalton, gie Owya, Lata Hedge. Elteor Hartal.| Adrian Dal ton. Pad Griffith, ONLY THE PILOT OP AJKPLAME SAVKp • hospital hm tonight and nlm< • eoheiuat story of the (I— hitlM charged that he alighted on tha water ao eloaa to a fishing veaaat . that ha could rati tha mm en H and ha knew the captoto but that tt MM to heed Ma frantic signals and idM and passed on by. . Moore rotated a straight forward story, apparently fully rational, hi which he confirmed practically all tha details aa given by Ma while ahaavd tha • team ship William Grease during hia more tocid momenta. Ha said that tha Miss Mi—a was just l minute off Wminia whan a paw pallor broke. Leaking about for % boat he sighted the flatting vaeael and volplaned down near it. PrantkaBy tha six persona aboard it cried and signalled, but the party aboard ap peared to ha ha King toe gay a Mm to stop, he said, and never for a oaoasent tarried. "1 aak only ewe thing," he aaM "That is that Gad allows aM to Hwe and hunt the captain of that boat," Nursed by a woman whom ha fen> Iwvee to he hia m«th«r and whom fen refused to perma to leave Ms sMs, Robert Moors, pilot of tha ill-fntod Miss Miasm which sailed out of Miama. PUk, last Wefeeeday with Mi persons aboard her never to retnen, Hm hi • hoepital tonight in a state at delirium, mere Mad than alive. Moore was takan off the tankm William Greene early thia morning m she paaaad here by a snb rhaaee. All during last night he was isaisclj tared lor by Mis. J. Williams, wife at an official* the Pan Amertw passsng.r on the sMp This m££~ big when the relief boat pulled along side the big ibip, Moore refused to go without her. When reaeaared that (ha would bo taken he finally par mitted himself to he transferred to tha smaller craft and brought to * Knaniul Kere* whorv smother Man hi* wandering nind Piece by piece daring: the night and (toy, Moor* ha* »ml«d th* traffic (lory of hia awful experience*. cling ing two day* and two aight* to tika wreckage of the lut flying host. No trace Ha* bean found tonight «t the bodiee of Mr. and Mrs. Augaat Hull* aad Mr. and Mrs Lawrence K. Smith of Kanaaa City and Mr*, i. 8. Dickaon of Memphia, Tans., who «M by one gn*e up their lire* aa the "ruffle became to much for them. the {anker were retold by the captain. Chart** Wackamuth. "I waa about 41 mile* off the East Indian Inlet," said Captain Wack amuth, "when. Juat about duak, I lighted, a mile to port, whdt appeared to bo a human figure feebly wavtag hi* arm* a mile off the itarboard bow. We drew cloae until we could diacera a man. who appeared to bo laahed to a •par. Wa hove to, launched * boat, and rowed out to the noetic. A hoary
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