North Carolina Newspapers

A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF McDOWELL COUNTY. ESTABLISHED 1896, VOL! XXVI NO. 5 1 MARION, N. C THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1922 it r 1 THOUSAND ARE Itl ST011 tVERAL STEAMERS WRECKED ftY TYPHOON; PROPERTY " DAMAGE 18 LARGE. V IJUCH LOOTING IS REPORTED Destruction of Chinese City Js Almost Cfnp4ete--Corpee' Fleat i to Sea. '" - ! Bong Kong. Casualties in the ty Soon and tidal wave which swept tb3t port of Swatow, 250 miles ' north of liereV are now estimated at 10,000. Another British steamer, in addition to the two previously reported ashore, "was bound from Hons Kong to Shang hai, when it met the fury of the ty phoan and was wrecked, but her pas tengers were saved. Desolation hovers over the ruined city, and horror haunts its streets. In the native quarters hundreds of corpses and the carcasses of animals are minded with the debris. It is es timated that more than 78 per cent of the city's buildings were destroyed. The American consulate was slightly damaged. A Swatow newspaper reports that lawless elements raided houses of ty phoon victims and held up passersby for plunder, but prompt action by the -police prevented wholesale looting. The police frustrated an attempt to loot the offices of the Banque In dustrial of China, arresting two men. The destruction was almost com plete with the exception of the Chi- (ILLED -4 MX . ... .. . 4 Tk.T V... J1 Jt .1 udoi iwawuitc. A vj uuuuuig esHiyeu lahage. "V all appearances Swatow is. the flne p a war-ravaaed town one Ijeap o4 iis.. The tidal , wavewhicb. swept the Bund, or harbor road, at the lielght of the typoon, inflicted consid erable damage to the water front "buildings. The British in Hong Kong have re mitted $10,000 to the British consul at Swatow and are shipping rice for dis tribution among the homeless and des titute. 4 The captain of a steamer arriving from Swatow, told the Associated Press correspondent that his vessel, fifteen miles before reaching Swatow and carcasses floating on the ebb tide. jf Swatow's foreiam communitv. not -& single house was intact. . Inside Swatow harbor boats that took refuge there were a mass of wreckage. Refugees had been caught like rats in traps and corpses floated in a promiscuous heap. Commission to Protect Exhibitors ! Washington. Through a complaint issued against the -Fox Film corpora tion ef Ne-- York City i the federal trade coma, Aon inaugurated a cam paign which members said were de signed to prevent motion picture ex hibitors and the public being imposed upon by film brokers and producers through the marketing of old films iradfcr new titles, or films bearing ti- tfea of noted books or lays when the aubject matter had little or no con nection with the name. The commission's policy was deter mined, It became known, following the visits of its members in a body to two local theaters- . exhibiting films bearing the same title and ostensibly purporting to portray the characters and the atmosphere of a world-famous k- novel. One of the films was found to accurately interpret the character of the novel, It was said, while the other bore no resemblance whatsoever to the beok and, in the opinion of the ' commission, th.es. title was employed solely In a deceptive sense." lit such instances, the commission holds,, the theater owner, is imposed upon, and 'the public, which is at tracted by the title and expects to witness a show identicaly slinrflar to' the play or novel . bearing the same name, 'is Imposed upon. i Agree on Germany's Need of Aid. ; London, The leading representa tives of the: Entente Allies gathered around the conference table once more 'to discus war reparations, XJermany'a hikIi1 oAndftfon and related issues. The meeting, the thirteenth time j wtt in . ! than ;three years.: was " greeted by .the newspapers without enthusiasm," and in some-cases with al most despairing skepticism. Prior , to the meetingof Prime min isters M. Poincare and his finance min ister, M. De LasteyrieC conferred with Premier Theunis, of Belgium, and they m&T9 reported to hare reached a comr tnoa ; understand J asj toth" neces sary m easures respecting Germany ? NEWS ITEMS FROM OVER THE STATE Items Concerning Events of In terest and Importance Throughout the State. Lenoir. Mr. HugbTb'Anna sustained two broken ribs, Mrs. D'Anna waja painfully bruised and Mr . Bill Shu ford suffered a dislocated shoulder as a result of an automobile accident, which occurred several miles west of Lenoir. Oxford. The house shortage in Ox- ford is still very acute as there is a great demand every day for residences : and rooms to let. Building is very active and yet the demand cannot be met Fairmont. The Fairmont tobacco market opened with a full corps ol . - - comnenies and a larsre number of lnae- iiiivfira i ruin hii liih iai k r: iu uchisi' Dendent buvers. The Fairmont To- v . Tn. Bacco Board of Trade announces that two warehouses will be run indepen dently: Rocky Mount. Suffering from a dis located neck, received when he dived into a swimming hole near the city, S. A. Parker, well known fruit mer chant of the city, lies in a serious .... . a m condition at a local nospitai wnere he was rushed immediately after ths accident occurred. wr ! Favettaville.' Mr. and Mrs. J Strickland, of this city, are the happy V parents of three girl babies, born a few days ago. Mr. and Mrs. Strlck- inuu iDBiuo uu ouuwi Buooi. birth of the triplets brings the num- ber of their children to 11, the oldest of wnom is zi. Mrs. ncmna i$5 years 01 age. er numuu Oxford. Two young boys of 0ford, Freeland Bragg and Sam Walters, cap hkh atni fn the suburbs of Oxford The boiler was a six-gallon can with tonia are on a visit to their sister, a capacity of one quart per hour. The Mrs. Don Grant. boys discovered it while prowling 1 Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Miller and around in, the woods and thereby children and Mr. and Mrs. Perry Hol-"gainfed-ihe t20 reward r - s.; -deft ef Snow Hillr have returned to their homes after an extended visit Durham. Lyman L. Davis, of Wen- to Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Robinson, dell, lies unconscious as a result oi; Geo Allison, who was taken to the Injuries received when a road- Biltmore hospital last week, has re ster In which he, together with Mr. . , , tt a,a n and Mrs. Daniel Wade, of Floyd, Va., was riding, on the way to Floyd coun ty, Virginia, from Wendell, turned turtle qn the Durham-Raleigh road. Durham. T. B. Johnson, formerly a member of the local police force, was Mount, and Rev. Mr. Daily of Free tried on three charges in recorder's mont, spent Monday night at the court of giving worthless checks and home of G; B. Strickland on their on a charge of being drunk. He was way home, having spent several days given a sentence aggregating 90 days at Tv junaiuska. on the roads. He appealed and wasj Bryan R on, head of the Ma required to give bond of $50 for each Insurance department, Washing-cjlarge- ton, D. C, Mrs. B. K. Ogden and lit- Mount Airy-The contract has been tle son B- K- Jr- arrived in Old Fort let for a new church to be erected at last Sunday to spend some time with a cost of $25,000 by the members of Mrs. Ogden's sister, Mrs. G. B. the Second Baptist church. The lo Strickland. cation of the new edifice will be on Burrus Miller is making consider- Rockford street, and the name of th new church win De naymore memo- riaL 1 Si f GW dfivs Hillsboro. Prohibition Officer C. G. i ' , u u u , . , J Mrs. Geo. E. Marshall, who has Roseman, after an absence of several' . ' weeks in Wake and Franklin coun-;been real slck 18 very much imProv" ties, is now operating in Orange. Dur- ed the delight of her many friends. ing the past week he has seised sev-j Mrs. Allanack, Miss Mary G. Bur- ersJ distilleries and destroyed large gin and Little Miss Margaret John- quantities of material used in the manufacture of liquor. Sanatorium. The Executive Com mittfte of the North Carolina Tuber culosls association met at Sanatorium to make preliminary arrangements tor the annual North Carolina Con-, fuMnratnn Tuberculosis, which will! b held early In October. An invi- tation from the Chamber of Com-iH. merce Of vrOlaSDOro to noia me ses- sions in that accepted. city was unanimously - Charlotte. James F. Paxton, for 10 or 1Z years a member of the police de- j partment of this city, and rural police man, was killed and his cousin, Joe Paxton, seriously injured m by the breaking of both of his legs? in a mo torcycle accident on the Chatham Estates. the Plaza at Jim Paxton ' was a regular member of the police ' force for some years, later rural poj liceman. Joe Paxton is a motorcy els . offieer. Asherille. Henry Tate, 1. of Fair- view, was drowned n a pond near tnjw , , M sndlin. oM rock (raarrr at RiTerside Farlc, near Ashevllle the body being In the water about SO minutes before efforts to recover it were successful. No inquest . was held. Oreensboro. Maurice Neeley, the seven-lear-old son af Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Neeley,' of Gastonla, was very se riously injured here -when ; a truck backed into an automobile on the run aing board of wkii be was sUnd items of interest from over Mcdowell county Brief Mention of Some of the Happenings Through out the County Items About Home People ;., OLD FORT Old Fort, Aug. 9. Alfred Gibson of Asheville was a visitor in Old Fort Sunday and Monday, Miss Florence Murray of Saint Pauls, N. C, music teacher in the Old Fort High School, returned to Old, Fort last Friday to begin her music class. Miss Lillie Oakley, of Charlotte, f jftn crrade teacher in Old Fort v i m . . n -. , graaea scnooi, arrived in uid rort a . aays ago. Mrs. W. F. Merrill and daughter, Miss Margaret Patterson, of States- ville, are spending some time at Mrs. S. M. Hoffman's. Mrs. Marley and daughter, Miss Margaret, of China Grove, have re turned to their home after a visit to Mra Marley's daughter, Mrs. I. L. Caolan. Miss Lois Thorp of StatesviUe is visiting Miss Margaret Patterson at Mrs. Hoffman's, Franz Strickland is at Junaluska Lake for three weeks at the Boy's camp Miss Addie Prevette and Miss Er-!lie TTin ivoiiRiu i uaaiuiua aie spciiumg : some time at the home of Mrs. S. F. Mauney. Harry Burgin, Clifford Nesbitt, Kimball Miller and Homer Walker hiked to Chimney Kock last baturday and returned Monday. Miss Pearl Cox and brother of Gas vuaiiu in v uiu iiv v uavc oil operation. Mrs. Horace Early hasr returned home from Biltmore hospital very much improved. Rev. N. B. Strickland of Rocky able improvement in the telephone , system. He hopes to be able to give;about four week, though she had better service to his patrons within son spent Monday in Asheville. The Old Fort Pottery Works will soon new be ready for operation. The I enterprise will manufacture jugs, crocks, vaces, etc. The con cern will be under the direction of J. L. Lowry and others. D. H. Gosorn has purchased the in- terest of Mr. Epley in the firm of D. Gosorn & Co., and will continue me Dusuiess at uue same piato Mrs. Jack Crawford is completing a nice residence in the heart of town at the cost- of several thousand dol- iars Dr. D. M. Mcintosh and family spent last Thursday on Mt. Mitchell. Mr. and Mrs. Hart Taylor, Mrs. P. H. Mashburn, Mrs. J. C. Sandlin, Mrs. 1 -nw iv i -a ar -m r j y-t . vv. oanaim, ana miss mauae raw- ford attended the music festival m Asheville Monday night., Harry Ditmore left Saturday , for Brysoii City - where he will go on a camping trip. Misses Willie and Mary Johnson of Hicko SDent week their grandmother, Mrs. George Sandlin. Mrs. Patterson and daughter, Mar garet are spending a few days in Asheville. Patt Riley and family wrll leave Thursday for St. Louis, Mo., where the f ormer, has accepted a position. T. J. Epley has bought out Tate Bros, at Greenlee - and has taken charge of the business. Grady Nichols was in Asheville Tuesday. . CROOKED CREEK Old Fort, Rt. 2, Aug. 7 J. Lee ! Lavender returned ffrom Wake For est Saturday, where he has been at tending Summer school. Mr. and Mrs. Dayton Avers of Marion were visitors at Smith Mel ton's Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn Epley of Old Fort spent Sunday with the lat- Iter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Deb. Walker. School is progressing: nicely at Belfont with Isiah Watson as teach- er Miss Blanche Extine, who under- went an operation Friday, is getting n inn o- vprv well Miss Stella Gunter of Old Fort spent the week-end with Miss Pernie Ross. Mrs. Sam Pyatt and little datierh- ter, Margaret, of Greenville, S. C, are visitinc relatives here. r? r r o o been visiting relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. James Lavender spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Al- Lavender. iviiss Irene Lriinam ol ijastonia is i spending the summer with relatives jhere. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lavender, a son. Miss Ethel Blankenship of Hot Springs has been visiting friends here for the past wieek. Raymond Padgett of Marion visit ed friends here Sunday. Miss Ada Lavender visited rela- iwT V. i With the. tQtaLffeneral Jgvy fixed Misses Carmel-and-Fanme Meltofff 90 '0 cier homrikT week"e"d th;ty valuation and the poI1 at ome o s. I dollars, the general tax rate for Mc Mrs. J. S. Lavender spent last; n .n . week visiting relatives in Old Fort. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Parker of Ma rion are visiting relatives on thet creek. J Thermal, the small son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ross, has been very ill for,, .0 . ... , x, , , , , 1 . , , . , . tlevy rate, 43 cents will go to the pub-i several days but is reported to be im proving. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Lavender, who have been visiting A. H. Lavender for some time, left Saturday for Chester,. S. C. Mr. and Mrs. James Lavender visit ed Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Lytle near Greenlee last Wednesday, and Thurs day. DYSARTSVILLE Dysartsville, Aug. 8. Mrs. C. A. Jaquins passed away Saturday morn- ing August 5, after an illness of been in bad health for some time. She was in her fifty-eighth year. She had been a member of the Meth odist church since her youth, was a Christian woman and will be missed in the community. Interment was made at Trinity cemetery Saturday afternoon. The services were con ducted by Doctor Clark. Mrs.' Ja- quins is survived by one son and sev- eral brothers and sisters. P. C. Daves motored with friends to Chimney Rock, Black Mountain and other points last week. Bruce Laughridge spent the first of the week with relatives in Marion. Miss Blanche Patterson of Ashe ville is visiting relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Taylor were in Marion Monday. Frank Allen and family of Hick ory were here Saturday and Sunday. W. H. Taylor attended the Mason ic picnic at Thermal City-last week. Key Landis was in Marion Sunday. Jake Walker and family of 'South; vjoluuua "CAC ; .lBawiaf "Halph Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Carson Jarrett. ahdf ' sister, Miss Willie Jarrett, were in Marion, Sunday. A revival meeting will begin at the Methodist chprch the second Sunday in August. Rev. J. P. Hipps of Ma rion will assist the pastor, Rev. P. H. Brittain. CHAPEL HILL Chapel Hill, Aug. 7. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kaylor of Marion spent the week-end with relatives here. W. G. Denny spent the week-end with homefolks at Sunshine. ' Mr. .and Mrs. C. E. Poteet spent Sunday with the tatter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C D. Holland. W V: ; The graded school at this place is progressing nicely under the leader ship of W. G. Denny of Sunshine and Miss Ada Henley of Glenwood. A very successful revival meeting: has just closed at this place. A good ly number have been added to the church and much good accomplished, we trust,' Mr. and Mrs. Will Huffman of Ma rion were guests of the formers pa rents here Sunday. NEBO. Nebo, Aug.. 7. Mrs. J. A. Mason is on the sick list. Miss Elizabeth Parks is visiting her grandfather near Bridgewater. Otis Silvers of Marion wa a visit or at W. J. Snipes last Saturday night Tom Stacy, who is teaching school at Greenlee, spent the week-end at home. Miss Lonnie Snipes, who has been visiting her cousin at Dysartsville, re turned home last Friday. J. C. Mason made a business trip to Marion last Saturday. Miss Pearl Snipes, who has been worlcintr in Witi crn J5olom i a jhome for ft few weeks. J. A. Mason and Marion Hemphill was in Marion one day last week on business. .t CARLYLE riNebo, Rt2,.Aug7. Rev. P. J. ! Shell and Rev. ,B. A,.- Siisk closed a Grove last Sunday night. Seventeen converts were received in the church at the baptizing Monday morning. W. A. Murphy of Hendersonville J, is visiting relatives here. Ben and Cain Childers returned home Sunday from a week's visit to Rock Creek. , Commodore Schook is home from South Carolina. We are looking for the wheat threshers in our community this week TAX RATE FOR COUNTY 90 CENTS JURY LIST thirteen cents more than last year. The levy was made by the commis sioners Monday. According to the distribution of tVo Q H onfc rT Vi a flFonoml rrii-rTr 1 lie schools, and 32 cents for roads and' interest on bonds. , The return from the poll tax are to be divided as follows: Three-, fourths to public schools, and one- fourth to the support of the poor of the county. The complete distribution of the general county levy is as follows: j General county $ .15 Road purposes .04 ' Road bonds , .15 j Interests on bonds ; .07; School purposes .43 r Court house bonds .06 Total rate $ .90 Various townships and districts have, special taxes to pay, mostly for special school and road budgets which Ithe taxpayers of the respective dis- . . , i i incis nave voiea. Besides transacting considerable routine business, jurors were drawn at the meeting of commissioners in session Monday for the fall term of court as follows: First week T. B. Nanney, John Jordan, R. M. Denney, J. E. English, S. G. Freeman, Fred Wilborn, J. W. England, W. C. Morgan, T. Y. Epley, M. F. Hensley, L.0. Lawing, iU. B. VWoody, S. E. Early, C. A. Laugh ridge, J. H. Buckley, J. W. Nesbitt, 3. P. Bird, A. C. Mashburn. Second week M. L. Good, Clyde Smalley, Theo. Conley, J. S. White ner, J. A- Good, G. W. Simpson, W. S. Pyatt, G. H. Pendergrass, J. P. Morrow, T, R. Hall, L. C. Parks, J. S. Cowan. G. C. Freeman, Greene Chap man, J. H. Bird, J. B. Hicks, J. H. til NORTH COVE PROPERTY : '4 : r s VALUATION $661,407 North Cove, township has a total property valuation this year of $661, 407, according to returns of the tax assessor filed with the ; 'Agister of. deeds. Last year the total was $676,030. ' Net solvent credits are given . this year as $34,120. Last year -net sol vent credits wre listed at $29,803. The 79 horses this year are given a value of $6345. Last year 70 hors es were valued at $5,640. - Mules numbering 188, have a value of $13 3 9 SC In the previouV year there were 165 xnules worth $14,345. URGE ACCEPTANCE OF FORD'S OFfE rn FOR PURCHASE; AND LEASE GOVERN ME NT'S PROJECTS AT MUSCLE HOALS; : :!. "? REPORT PRESENTED BY ML Is Estimated That Country Has ez $30,000,000 nyj Failure to Start Operatloiv r Washington.- Acceptance of Henry Ford's offer for purchase " and lease of the government's vast nitrate and water power projects at Muscle Shoals Ala., was . urged by; "republican and democratic senators -.. comprising a minority of the ' senate agricultural committee" In a report submitted to' the senate. Strong protest ; was en tered by the senators against the ac ceptance of the government ' owner ship and operation plan proposed by Senator Norris of Nebraska, the com mittee chairman. " -. ;- The report was presented by Sen ator Ladd, republican, 'North Dakota, and. was signed by Senator Capper, Mississippi ; Carr&way, .Arkansas ; RansdelL Louisiana; : Smith, . Soutli 0Tnlln A and TTfl in Alanama." pmfw crats. It . is estimated .that the gov-, ernment had lost $3,000,000 at Muscle Shoals sihee- the : armistice,; by fail ure to developed and operate the pro ject, and declared the, quickest! way to stop these losses is to accept the Ford offer for the purchase and lease of the government's - Muscle Shoals property." '" "Pertain fSlArHrn tni fits. TnH nf. fer. seems annarpnt " th mrvnrt "but we insist: without; fear; of 'suc cessful contradiction, that none of the objections to, the Ford offer can. remedied'" or solved' by. government ownership and operation,-by the gov ernment going into the power busi ness and entering the uncharted and hazardous Held of operating nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals-in the pro- -duction of nitrogenous and other com mercial fertilizers using electro-cheta-ical processes, the commercial - suc cess of which is as yet controversiaL "For congress to "admi' such a pol icy when Henry Ford's, offer makes it . unnecessary for - the : government -I to do so," it continued, ."would subject congress to the Just condemnation and reproach of all sober-minded people . The belief was expressed that everyi member of the senate -would agree with the committee'minority with ref erence to the acceptance of Mr Ford's proposal when they consider the 4Mpres ent fuel and transportation - emergen cies" in the light of,"developmenf of such great hydro-eleceric power as is found at Muscle Shoals, adding that it is the only 'certain" and permanent relief in the future Xfrbm the present paralysis of American industry." v : The report called attention to charg es that the acceptance -of Mr. Ford's tender would give him &' government; snbBidv In the rfflvplnnmpnt nf -nnwo. and the manufacture of fertilizer, and said: - .. ., .. . , " : . v "It has been claimed that th PnM offer eoBstitutes aTsubsidy to Mr. Ford. T 1 im m anKeMv 4 I. . V t- sidy as is proposed by the adminis- tratfnn In the shin nnhaMv Mil - Thousands Battle Forest Fires. V Spokane. Wash.From the Rxycv Mountains In Montana .to the." Colum-: bla river in Washington and up to 10 J miles from the Canadian border, thou sands of men are fighting forest fires with them, have,' according to Theo dore Goodyear, assistant state fores- ier,- renaerea Washington virtuallv helpless before thexn. ; .-- J Calls for help are roine unheeded In many instances, he. said, with the fire wardens fighting the worst fires and leaving the others to burn them- selves out. One tire fighter r on JFoehll creek, Idaho, was killed when a burn ing tree fell on him. - Many hundred acres of sronran o- or private stands of timber have tcckl burned over or are on fire. New 8peed ?4ark for PIsne. Detroit.- The create st f T Jti. J corded by aircraft Im tfcw , veloped In the national airplane racc- M.B W VtWUCr( ln 0p3I ion of Brigadier General Winian auioieu, muhuh cmei of tie .r " 3ust completed an Insnection of SelfH.'o. w.u .. - . .-o icivi, near Mount Clemens.' This belief n--i' juuuicu buo, wwcassa cn lis fa" that several new typg planes, powc ea dy M.n enureir npw would.be entered in ths Pulltrsr tro-! phy race, one of t!:a ciief evert 3 c Z the -meet , v: MP .."-:Ti".-.v;,.