COUNTY AGENTS AT WORK Yn, Everywhere Bui m Surry And Surry is Too Poor I Have One. Raleigh. May ?.- Every waak a •he year, thai overworked, sometime haraaaed, Individual knpwn as tjv ■ounty agent of the Agricultural Kx t«iuwn S"rvice perform* sum* uac 'ul duty for the farmers In hi* coun ty, says C. K Hudaon, State A iron for the Farm Demonstration Divlaioii Tha farm agent baa many varied du tiea and It subject to avary conealv ible demand for hit tima and know lad**. A a an axample .Mr. Hudaoi givea juat a faw of tha activltiaa ra nortad by agenta laat week. Soma o haaa ha belicvaa will ha of interea •o tha farmers of tha 8tat« aa tha] •how of tha waya In whlc^ tha agan -nay maka himaalf uaaful. Zano Moora of Edgecombe County states that his exhibiting fine a peel -nana of homa- frown Burr and Swae Clover on tha atraata attracted mucl attention and made a strong impret •ion on fanners who casta to towi to buy hay. U. A. Millar, of A launder County ►tates that fanner* are getting tha spirit of co-operation aiowly but lure ly. Ha haa aaaiated aeven communltlei to pooling their fertiiiaar require Hants and buying 10 car loada to aether at a aaving of from 60c tc $120 on each bag. He haa had ar mutual demand for terrace huildini lemonatrationt during the prManl -eaaon. He hat held three meeting! to ppromote garden work among nag roea. O.O. Dukea. Roberaon, haa Jusl -hipped out 2 car loada of hogs.H« expects to have another car ready foi shipment in fAuguat. Farmers art • till planting paatures both for cattla ii nd awina. I.. W. Anderson of Herkuitnana bounty, writes that a movement it on t« rid the county of tickt thit year. A erew of men it now at work in tuilding vats in each townahip. Ha made a talk to the negro teachers of the county on (iardaft Work last weak. The teachers promised to prompts tha matter in their respective communi ties. N. K. Howell, of Chowan, haa Juat 1-ought HO bushels of Cleveland Big boll Cotton aeed fur planting in the county. During the Rat Extermina tion Campaign in which he satiated the work waa carried on in 11 schoola of the county, fourteen hundred and thirty-four rata were reported killed, one achooi—that at Warda--destroy ing 450. The pupil leading the work waa Willie May Overton, who report ed 185 R. B Reeve*, the new agent in Green county in co-operation with Dr. C. C. Hunt, haa juat cloaed a 2 weeka campaign on Hog Cholera con trol. During thia time they treated tfS9 hogs for 66 farmers. At the end of that period the farmer* gave a big barbecue. One community that apecialisea in a high-bred big-boll va riety of cotton haa juat pooled and aold co-operatively 3,339 buaheia of reed at SI.50 per buahel. R. B. Reeve>, the new Agent in Titt county, assisted in telling a car load of hoga at Greenville and in ship ping another car load to Richmond where good prices were obtained. L. L. McLendon. of Duplin county hat had a splendid demonstration of the value of pure-bred livestock. Two scrub pig* fed in competition with pure-bred shows that while the profit in tha pure-hreda waa not very large the scrubt did not pay for their feed, Clu.t Dollar Bill* Those bright new dolla^ bill* th< bank* have l>een accustomed to pant •out for several years past, have be n thin mumini and parked for Wil 1 ey Perry, giant negro, whoa® 10 mm utw leaae on lift may have been , cheered by thla uncommon interest In t hit welfare. Parry wait waiting to • be electrocuted and wu served in ' | hia turn. 'I The appearance of two dead wag ' | on* wu explained a* a nnaunder 1 standing rather than by the fierce ' | competitkin of modrm business life. { The explanation did not reach Perry i '| who wan Ijhen wrestling with the, spirit aa a preliminary of stepping off.! The murderer of Roy Aiken, world war | soldier who lost hit life in a mo > mentary tenure ai especially deputix ed officer to aaaiat the miademaanant, > apparently unconcerr»d about everything including himself. The muscular biack, aahened by confinement, waa led dumb into death chamber at 10:26. Big aa Jack John son and apparently as powerful, the fellow waa a lamb at the slaughter Beyond a glance at Soldier Aiken's two brothers, two uncles, and other Granville witnesses. Perry betrayed no mora interest in his own supreme ly important momenta than a pig takes in his Awn impending butchery. The black just drop; e 1 into the chair, waa buckled into it. was f >ur times shocked, waa called dead and then carried out fo- burial. Of course it looked to be a hor | rible waste of muscular energy ami l potential service to the state to fry , and bake, and blister and twist Per ly'a huge body, but tHI state is the I doctor and that is the medicine that it prescribed. The fellow had killed » fine soldier who was doing nothing | to htm except to help catch him for a misdemeanor. In the mix-up Perry was shot but escaped and waa later , taken. He waa brought here for safe . keeping before trial and after convic tion he j-ame to death room without nn appeal. There waa nothing to tr : aaid for him. I Five Car Loads Auto Plates North Carolina's new automobile fplates htve arrived and the numbers vhich will be sold will reach 200,000. Then' are five carloads in the state's warehouse ready for the new marking which begina in June. Thia will be about 20,(>00 more than the, state has ever used and that may not tag all of the machines which will be in use before the year ends. The licenses and other taxes grow ing out of the automobile buaineas will run beyond the Jti.nOO.OOO for the year, ."(-cording to Secretary W. N. Kverett, of the department of atate. The increase of 2 cents on gaaoline and the natural growth of the ma chine business will almost double last year's $3,200,000 in the judgement of Mr. Everett. All this will go into the fund and will help to pay off from j the very start bonds which are issued for the new $16,000,000 construction, j Governor Morrison this year gets plate No. 1. That is settled and there ; will be no scrambling over that fig ure. The plate has been aeen and is now on exhibition. The lieutenant governor takes tag No. 2, the speaker of the house No. 8 and the secretary j of atate No. 4. The state is following the example of other commonwealths in marking the automobiles for'officialdom Hith-1 ■ erto there has been no distinction.: ; The departmental owners' will this year get the first and the change j is contemplated with entire satisfac : tion. Siler City Newtpaper Quit* Siler City, M*y 11.—For the first' time in the pant It year* Siler City | is without a newspaper. This condition .-omen throyph an announcement in today'a issue of the Weekly Herald by Editor Colin 0.1 Shaw, who says "lack of business force* ui to suspend the paper for the time being at least, and no on*1 will regret the neceaaity for it more ■ than the publiaher himaelf. We have, made every effort to print a rood paper for Hilar City and there are a' . few that have stood loyally by us.j ■ but sufficient interest has not been manifested fey nil the businesa men to enable us to continue the publication. I The paper will be consolidated with< I the Chatham Record at Pittsbora and r a little latar m contemplate making of it a serai-weekly." FIVE AMERICANS STILL HELD BY CHINESE BANDITS Two Boy*, R«Uii«d by Bri gands, Say it Wat Great Fun To B« Captured. Peking. May 12. While 15 men. in cluding five American*, and two wo Men still an held by the Hot how ban dit*. il seemed probable tonight thai I He raptivr« would be released hefore tomorrow night. Thin hope wan foa trn-d hy the announcement that the hundita. dropping their d»mnn«l for ransom*. now ask only that they U> granted freedom from punishment with liberty of movement and with drawal of the Che troop*. The five American* atill held are Allen Pinger, Friedman, Soloman, and Powell, J. A. Henly. San Rran riaro hanker i« reported to have u raped hut thi* has not been confirm ed. Senora Verea. wife of the million aire paper manufacturer of Guada lajara, Memo* and another woman, whose identity ha* net yet been estab lished. are the only women prisoner* atill with the party. Senora Vrrea refused to leave h«r husband, who la ill. They are on their honeymoon. All the other member* of the party were reported well. While diplomats, soldiers and mis sionarie* are spending sleepless nights over the bandit situation, the two Roland Pinger and Robert Allen, are telling the world that bei»«rr captured by bandits is the greatest fun ever. "Tom Sawyer never had anything dii us," said young Pinger, who is 12, when the hoy* arrived here today, rhey were wearing blue coolie troua rrs and coarse coolie shoes, and they were full of their adventure, which falls to few ;-ida in millions. Aside from sunburn end stone bruises the tioys were well "We had nothing but eggs," said Pinger. "I'm aick ot them. All we got while we were with the bandit* wai hard boiled eggs tome kind of dough cakes snd tea. But they were good to us. They did I't harm us at all. "We told the chief that we could ( 'pay any money for we did not' have any, and we wanted to go to! iiur mother. The chief, he was a | houng fellow, about 20, I >oked at us i »ml said in Knglish, "Oh. .-II right," j tnd then he let us. He *«id he liked >ur yellow hair, and said it was so funny he couldn't help from laugh nig. He was not a had man. He Uave us a Chink who could speak Knglish to bring u* up here. There; were two chief*. One of them served in Prance during the war and spoke Knglish and Krench." Dispatches from Shanghai tell ot the heroism of the Krench maid of Miss I.ucy Aldrich as the outstand nit feature of the bandit attack. The maid. Mile Schlomron. an or phan. when the bandit's camj was under fire of the Che troops and the ives of the captives were endangered iy the firing, volunteered to carry i white flag down a mountain to stop :he firing "The Che chief have me a suit of i men'* B. V. D's. on a stick for a| nag.' she said. "I climbed down ] imong the rocks and waved the flag rhe soldiers were firing steadily but I was not hit. Once a bullet whined :>y my fare and passed through the hroat of a bandit behind me. it kill ed him. I was almost unconscious from fatigue when a soldier found me ind led me to the commander. I de livered him the message from the bandit chief. He sent me in a cart io the railroad." Coffee The May health bulletin has an irticle calling attention to the harm lone by drinking poorly made coffee, ind suggesting that children and young people under 21 year* of age thould not drink coffee at all. The Following instruction* are copied from the bulletin: 1. Purchase only the beat grade nf pure coffee that can be had. 2. Spend at least >4.00 in getting s combination coffee pot in which the coffee (solid particlea) is held in a sieve near the top of the pot, and in whirh the boiling water ii poured over the coffee, the top tightly cloaed and the product after steaming ia (loured off from bottom. No egg set. ting is necessary and no "grounds" can eicape into the cup. S. Never boil coffee under any cir cumstances if it ia to he fit to drink. Roiling extracts the |annic acid and thus makes it a most injurious drink as wall as destroys the aroma. 4. Never uae "ever" by adding a portion of fresh coffee to "old" sedi ment or "grounds". LABOR SHORTAGE HURTS INDUSTRY Southern Farm* Bwn| Aban doned for Lack of Workars Washington, May 12.—The labor shortage in the mirth and west, caus ed by abutting off foreign Immi ' grant*, threatens a backset for buai I ness. | Wage* haw mounted ao high that I |>eople who Intended to Irt contract* for conatnu lion work arr giving up 1 >>»ir plana Many auch instances arc i reported her*. The irtkin of J. B. , I hike, in announcing that he would jiimrnl*, ia typical of what it go ; mg on in th* aouth. There ia danger of lahor killing ; the hen tJiat laid the golden egg tf I the present building boom ahould col I lapae the farmer could get all the hand* he need*. Administration leader* are worried | about the outlook The new* of th« steady at ream of negroes from the south to the north it not any more plaaaing to the northerner than it la lo the aouthemer. A prominent Southern railroad of ficial, who came here a few day* ago, ■aid that he waa in th« market for coal rare, and that the price ia prac tically double that of laat year for th* aame equipment. Senator Simmons had a Washing ton tailor make him a suit of clothes. He e*k*d him how much extra It would coat to skeleton line the coat with silk instead of the regular mi lerial. The answer was lit. That wan 110 more than it used to be, $6 more than during the war. The tariff and the high coat of labor has advanced prices on everything that one has to buy. Administration leaders are mani festing interest ir this labor short age, The aptxa'. from the south ia not any strong*!- ' Han the one fn m the weat will be Inside of four or five weeks. Demands from indus trial center* with the inducement of higher wages ha* stripped thousands of faraaa of able-bodiad MM. Secretary Wallace, of the depart ment of agriculture, ha* been inform ed by his representatives in the south that in some communities all that u left of the labor supply are sged rnd decrepit negro men ami women and children. Cotton manufacturers are alarmed lest the inability of cotton producers to get help meded in the planting season will result in a tre mendous boost in the prio of their raw material. Oovernment officials ee.nnct stem the tide from the farm to the city. The negro move nents fr .ir. th* v>u»h i* not only from the rural district but from the farm to the industrial plant. Thousands of negroes who have known nothing but field «vork are now quitting that for the bustling factory. Northern and w-stern rail roads. coal mines and .feel mills are getting large number* of southern negroes. In nearby Virginia and Maryland farm after farm is being deserted this year. In many instance* renters, un able to get labor, have notified their landlords that ther would have to cancel their contracts because of a lack of workmen. tii postpone water power de Situation U Serious With South Carolinians Columbia. S. C.. M*y 12.—The labor situation in Sou''< Carolina it the ■»o«t serious -n m ,ny years. if not in •he history of the state, according to a statement made her* today by W. T. Willingham. in charir* of the United State* employment bureau here. La bor is short for all kinds of work, he said. Mr. Willingham said that labor agents from northern sections have been working throughout the. state in ducing negroes to. leave for other states. They are receiving from $6 to (7.60 each for every laborer they induce to go to industrial plants out side the state. The federal employment bureau head said that he had never heard of reported offers of $4.00 to $10 00 a day being made by agents for labor to stay in the south "It is a wild rumor, in my opinion." he said. The labor shoraage in thes tate ex tends not only to the fanning dis tricts, but is also acute along the manufacturing industry, he said, with the possible exception of cotton mills. Lumbermen from the eastern section •< the state are pleading daily for help and in the Piedmont section man ufacturers are asking for labor. Domestic help also is short and what can be had Is Inferior, hljald. BANKER GOES TO JAIL High Point Cubwr B«gin* J Year Sentence Gr*MMl«irii. May IHh.- Basil H. Iledgacock. furmrr cuhitr of the , Horn* Hanking company, under iwn tence of thn» yrarm in the at at* pri •on for making false entry m the bonk* of that institution anil denied a rehearing uf the ram- by the state •upreme court to day* ago. at noon today began serving his sentence. Hedgecock, out on Ilio.OOO hall *ign i'd hy a number of pniminent High Poll. ;em since a day or ao after an examination by *tate bank officials disclosed the affair* of the Home hanking company to be hoptloaly in volved, appeared at the oouuty court houae at noon today and *urren«l»red himaelf to Kheriff Stafford He «ai accompanied to the city from High Aint by a brother In law. The former raahiar »|i nmrtcted of falae entry in auperior court her* laat December and Iterteneed by Judge W f. Harding to aarve three yean in the atata prison Attorney* repre* eating the defendant excepted and earned the raae to the statr court, where the lower court waa upheld The specific charge against Hedge cock waa that he had made falae en try of $10,000 in the account of M. J. Wrenn. an official of the hank, in an effort to prevent examiner* finding a shortage of that amount. Time ipent in the Guilford county jail will be deducted from the term impotted in the atate prison, inasmuch a* the former caahier will be held here awaiting trial under other charg es growing out of the Home Hanking company's difficulties He and Wil liam Switser. former High Point mer chant, now of New York, and Arnold R. Huff, High Point theater man, were indicted laat fall by the grand Jury for alleged conapiraey to da-; fraud the bank, while another charge) against Hedgecock is embezzlement It is probable all these hank cases will be heard during a special term of I court requested from Governor Mor rison, for June 4. Until that term ial either held or denied, Hedgecock wilt remain in the Guilford jail. niiniriaen uei ouiy in Rockingham Fi«ld Danville. Vs., May 12 Whul is be lieved to be the first instance of "night-riding" in thin #wtiw was re-1 I orte.1 today from a |oint a few miles ; south of Danville on Dan river where S. K Alcorn found that all of his to bacco beds had been uprooted during the nisht, a rote written on an enve- , lope warning h>m that he would not make a crop of tobacco unless" he, joined the Cooperative Marketing Association. The note read a* follovs: "We helped you get a good price. for your tobacco this year. Now join 1 the co-ops and help put it over Sign up and do your part or you will not i make a crop of tobacco." Alcorn today applied 'or punitive measures to the police of Rocking- j ham county at I.eaksv(lle, offering to pay a reward of 1100 to the per-1 »on convicted of tearing up his tobac-' eo beds. With the prevalent scarci ty of plants this destruction is a seri ous thing for the tobacco grower be cause of the lateness of the season and the virtual impossibility of re planting a bed so as to make a crop of tobacco within reasonable time. Alcorn told the autonties that in1 his belief the work was done by some- , one connected with the co-operative marketing association. He has how ever no proof of this. Members of the orgahiiation who heard of the outrage today expressed it as their, opinion that the "co-ops" were not responsible for the b««i*' destruction, declaring that the membership in Rockingham county ia composed of the "best citisens" who would not. stoop to do such a thing In their | opinion it was a prank dAne by mis chievous boys. Others issue with the1 supposition in view of the context of the note which they said, suggested work by adults. Franch Impose Heavy Sentence* on Krupp Chief* A dispatch from Werden, Germany, says: Dr. Krupp Von Bohlen. head of the ftnihn, Oesterlen and Hartwig, heard their sentences in the Werden jail to night The penalties totalled impris onment aggi egating 66 years, the French court martial having convict ed them of responsibility for th* con flict* between the Krupp workmen and a French squad of soMiera yardi 11, last which resulted in the death of 14 werkers. Kentucky D.ath FiMd. (MmU »•"«. Kjr.. May 7_ Th. fla.h gunfire. with iu inevitable aftem.tfc tr"«Jr <•■">«. awaep. tha Kentuck, foothill, today with « rrffularit« onlv uplicatad In th* popular vain at tit *-— ■f'tsrtjrtr*: r^-antly w„hin «* * ,n,> "f ba'tlaa. Tha d-.l *"T *•" ^«'k*r. .Ball county depu Mm sV tt:I8tr—• wS. J. k! hu wif'- *w»«! «■>, < ooalabla ALittle ■•naubl. Claud* Short, both L.onaara of tha hill,. ,nd Rrn«*at Gilliam, . l-"ur of tha a*v*«,. Including Mra Strung w»n» ,|.|B in . firn.. ,"**** th* Strong homa between '""ily and a poaaa of fadaral and officer, Th* poaaa wai raid In* In ae.reh of . .till and had our roundad tha houae bafora catling oa th* family to iurrmd«r, Mra. Strung, a powerfully built wo man. op*n*d tha front door and bias ad away with a rtfla. Har firat ahot Shanff Walker. a member of tha Hi. body later waa faJJ homl^ W th *h°1' fT°nt 01 th* rrI!ZSn.""nn* t>n 0t °* ««•" craahed time and again through th* "•um until all ai^n, of llf* bad caaa For . Ion, while, tho.-gh tha rung, maintaiflkd a .onrtant count er-attack on th* poaaa. but whan ai rT ***** thr Pc«emen hrok* Into th* houa* to f,„d strong hi. wif* and brother lif*|*aa on th* Moor. littla children of th* fairly war* found huddled under th* hod l7f l ^ tprr,f"<1- »< tha ifalwa Mm .f thair f.thar and mo ' Th' Po«* took th* children away U> p|,CP tlM,m Utrlr ^ ^ institution. S*arrh of th* dwelling ai.„ WTf.,. 'd rn°nat*r .till,, 600 gallon, of "teah and 75 gallon* of whiak*y Three peraon, w*r* killed in th* 7m A"* A tri° c-cm. r i "V n P 8horl' Al" LiM* «»a M. Gilliam participatad in it. at •he U.wn of Kitta, ne.r h*r*. The quarrel w.a ..id to have ,Urt*d over nothing . when th* mountain .pirit auddenly fl.red At .,,, rst» tlw* "pulled th*ir gun,, and when he fir* en<|*d Littl* wa, dead in hi, track., and Short fatally wounded '•ilnam ew,p*d unacathed. but hi. Voung ,on Frnest, been ..truck by . d 7 I"" Th< >ou,h Short tlied within an hour kTh* |hmi battle wa, between "dead ot«. arid the two gunmen who participated were h„th badly wound -;l. hut prohahly will recover. Georga Belcher »nd J*,,.. p,0f hy ' th' mou"taln,ide for their straight 'hooting me, ,„d qu.^,,., B<>1<.h(ir /in" »nd P*<-a fell drilled *tr**I'!l rh"',t Liin» on th* " ,|M> Pa lately wounded Pace drew hl» gun and hlar*d away. Fiv, tim„ ''•<« •< Belcher and when tha latter fell the fiv* ,hota wer. mm t* h.v* ,truck within . circle of g inchea. Both men were nuhed ■"* h""P'Ul "nd o|»rtt*d on imm*d '■ «""* hop* they may Calm obnervers declared all three tattle* were c«uwd by the "mountain spirit," horn in the day* of feuds, when lives were held in contempt and only the "honor of the family" fount I'd. Even with modern school* in vading every nook of the backwood* thi* npirit of sudden warfare, with roiourme to rifle* and (run*, i* not Mtpected to die. It ia an integral part of the mountain life. Putin Resistance To Be Strengthened Essen, Germany May 13.— The measures of a paaaive resistance of [he Germans are to be strengthened under a decree announced by the riech authorities which prohibits Ger mans in the Ruhr from riding on mili ary seised trains operated by the French and Belgiums and otherwise lends to reduce the already limited »mmunirstion between the Germans ■ nd the occupation authorities. "Under no circumstances will Ger man* be permitted to travel en French or Belgium trains," says the decree. "All persons violating Own in«'ru<-tion* will be heavily punished " No penalties are specified h the dscrss. i- The first application ef the measure ta reported from Frankfort where Germans riding on Freeeh oon trolled trains for Miyiwi were ar rested by Gstaw* authorities