ROANOKE RAPIDS HERALD. ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THit
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
fHE NEWS TTHE SOUTH
What I Taking Place In The tout.
land Will B Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Domestic
The New Year received a w idely and
varied welcome In New York City on
New Year's Eve night. In the big
hotels of the White Light district the
newcomer was welcomed by the pri
vate stock-holding class with all ex
uberance ol days when prohibition was
still a reformer's dream and a jest.
The exuberance of the private
stockless citizens was, however, decid
5dly restrained. The customary crowds
thronged Broadway, but the cowbells
and horns which on previous New
Year's nights threatened the ear
drums of everyone within hearing,
were much modulated in tone and
there was little of the riotous horse
play that previous years had known.
Frizes aggregating more than two
million dollars will be divided among
aviators In competitions being arrang
ed throughout the world in 1920 un
der the direction of the International
Aeronautic Federation; according to
announcement at New York City. All
American competitors will be selected
by the Aero Club of America.
A survey of the medical centers of
Virginia and other southern states has
begun to arrange for an allotment of
the one hundred million dollar Rocke
feller fund.
Major Gen. Leonard Wood filed a
formal announcement of his candidacy
for the Republican presidential nom
ination with the South Dakota secre
tary of state at Pierre.
Four unmasked rubbers, shortly be
fore noon, entered the Farmers and
Merchants National bank of Benson,
a suburb of Omaha, Neb., lined six
employes and five customers of the
bank against the wall and robbed the
vault of one hundred and fifteen thou
sand dollars, most of which was in ne
gotiable paper and Liberty Bonds.
An experiment in psychology was
tried at the county jail in Chicago in
the grizzly dim hour of dawn recent
ly, when two hundred prisoners were
forced to witness the hanging of a
convicted murderer. The most har
dened criminals were selected to wit
ness the execution.
Continuation of government nitrate
plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala., to man
ufacture fertilizer products during
peace time, is urged by Secretary Ba
ker upon a special house committee
investigating war expenditures. He
says only twelve million dollars Is
necessary to be appropriated to make
the venture a success.
Two blocks In the wholesale district
were destroyed bv fire on the water
front, entailing a loss which early es
timates placed at between $350 000 and
1500,000, and plunging the business
section of the city of Tampa, Fla., In
to darkness by cutting off the electric
light and power before the flames were
checked.
Washington
The government deficit from rail
road operation during November will
be approximately $64,500,000, a low
record for the year, according to sta
tistics compiled by the bureau of rail
way economics.
Proposals for the purchase of the
former German passenger ships seiz
ed when the United States entered the
war the Leviathan, the largest ves
sel afloat; the Agamemnon, the
George Washington and others will
be received by the shipping board up
to January 20. Only American buyers'
bids will be considered.
The greatest round-up of radicals
in the nation's history was conducted
by the department of justive agents
, in thirty-three cities the larger cit
ies being New York, Baltimore, Bos
tou. Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Den
ver, DesMoines, Detroit, Grand Rap
ids, Hartford, Indianapolis, Jackson
t ville, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Lou
isville, Milwaukee, Newark, Omaha,
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Portland
(Maine), Portland (Oregon), Provi
dence, San Francisco, Scranton, Spo
kane, St. Louis, SL Paul, Springfield
(Massachusetts), Syracuse, Toledo
and Trenton stretching from coast
to coast. Over fifteen hundred rad
' icals are reported to have been taken
in custody.
New Year's greetings from the heads
of a number of foreign governments
were received by President Wilson
Messaees came from England, Bel
Luxemburg. Sweden. Italy and
several other European countries and
from most of the South American re
publics. Evidence gathered by the depart
ment of Justice relative to ihe alleged
leak in decisions ot the L'nlted States
fiuDretne court will be submitted to a
federal grand jury in January, it is
announced at the department of jus-
tic.
Legislation subjecting the manufac
ture and sale of wood alcohol to the
name restrictions as grain alcohol will
be recommended to congress as a re
sult of the many fatalities from the
use of wood alcohol as beverage.
Commissioner Roper of the bureau of
internal revenue in Washington bag
' announced.
That representatives of the Mexi
can government in this country evolv
ed the scheme to have William O. Jen
kins, consular agent at Puebla," Mex
ico, released on bail by an American
in orSer to , embarrass the' United
States government, is the charge made
In Washington by Senator Albert H.
Fall of New Mexico,, ' .: . ,
Preliminary arrangements for the
investigation ot wages and orlces in
the bituminous coal Industry, as pro
vided in the coal strike settlement,
were made at initial meetings of the
commission of three appointed by the
president- ;
Elihu Root, former secretary of
state, at Washfngton, will be called
upon to give his assistance and ad
Vice to the launching of the great in
ternational supreme court provided
under the league of nations.
Of the instrumentalities which are
to be set in motion almost imme
diately upon the proclamation of peace,
the international court of justice is
regarded by the supreme council as
of ranking importance. Consequently,
that body, through its secretariat In
London, already had gone so far as
possible in advance of the aotual dec
laration of peace toward the creation
of the court.
An array of 85,000 enumerators are
at work counting the men, women
and children of the United States and
of collecting certain information about
resources of the country. The taking
of this census, the fourteenth in the
history of the nation, is expected to
require only about two weeks, but fig
ures showing the total population
probably will not be available until the
end of April.
President Wilson has signed the Mc
Nary bill continuing the United StaUs
sugar equalization board through
1920. It was announced at the White
House that his signature had been at
tached before midnight. Jan. 1, 1920.
Because the successful solution of
the economic and financial" problems
of the coming year demands the con
centrated effort of every American cit
izen, the savings division of the treas
ury department urged that each adopt
and live up to an individual financial
creed and course of conduct.
Celebration of January 18, the first
Sunday after constitutional prohibi
tion, as Law and Order Sunday was
indorsed by Daniel C. Roper, commis
sioner of internal revenue, at Washing
ton, in a statement appealing for an
"aroused public conscience" with re
gard to law enforcement and promis
ing that prohibition would be enforc
ed strictly by his bureau.
Cost plus contracts fostered fraud
and inefficiency, Col. Clarence O. Sher-
rill, technical expert in the army en
gineer corps, testified before a house
sub-committee investigating war ex
penditures.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, in a
New Year statement, pledged Amer
ica's workers to do their full share
in working out the country's prob
lems in 1920.
Continued industrial activity is pre
dicted by the committee on statistics
of the chamber of commerce of the
United States in its annual end-of-the-year
review of business and crop con
ditions. Manufacturers, the report
said, have orders in excess of their ca
pacity, and in the retail trade there
is a feeling of confidence of the con
tinuation until another harvest at
least.
Foreign
Germany's armed forces are esti
mated by the British war office at Lon
don to total close to one million men.
These are divided into the regular
army of four hundred thousand, the
land forces of the regular navy, twelve
thousand; the armed constabulary, for
ty thousand to fifty thousand; the
temporary volunteers, or regular army
reserves, one hundred and fifty thou
sand to two hundred thousand, and
the civic guards, three hundred thou
sand to four hundred thousand, which
is a formidable force.
The first step toward peace between
Esthonia and Soviet Russia was taker,
by the signing of a preliminary ar
mistice at Dorpat, Esthonia, stipulat
ing an immediate cessation of hostili
ties, and covering questions concern
ing Esthonian and military guarantees
with regard to the frontiers. '
Bolshevik Russia is willing to makt
great concessions to the big power
in the interests of peace, but wil
not hold out the olive branch to Gen
eral Denikine, according to M. Klish
ke, secretary of the Soviety delegation
conferring with Esthonian delegates
at Dorpat. "A jear ago we woulc
have considered peace with Genera:
Denikine, but now it is a fight to tht
finish," Klishke said.
M. Tchitchenkin, Bolshevik foreigr
minister, has proposed to Italy a re
sumption of relations between thai
country and Soviet Russia, holding out
that the imminent capture of tht
Black sea coast by the Soviets will
open the Black sea route to Italy, if
the news received in London froir
Moscow.
Bolshevists have occupied the im
portatant stations of Yusovo and Do
lia, and are marching towards the sea
port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov.
A quantity of guns and booty were
captured, as was also the entire Mark
hotf division, one ot Denikine's fin
est corps.
Until the Germans complete the
sweeping of the mine fields they laid
in the North sea there will be consid
erubie Uttugei to shipping IB water:
adjacent to the British Isles. Even
after that work is ended, some time
next summer, there will be some dan
ger, it is predicted, but will gradually
diminish.
Tbree exhausted and halt-frozen
men, sole survivors of the crew ol
twenty-nine of the Belgian steamei
Anton Van Driel, were taken to St
Johns, Newfoundland on the steamei
Ingrabam. For two days and twe
nights the three men had clung tc
the wreck of their steamer as it lay
on the jagged rocks that barred tht
entrance to St Mary's bay.
The avalanches which recently oc
curred at the mountain resort of Da
vis, near Geneva, caused terror among
residents and visitors and resulted
in a number ot deaths In the village
itself.
Trouble has broken out in the Su
dan between the British and the Egyp
tians. Majs. C. T. Eligand of the West
Kent regiment and R. R. White of th
Essex regiment and more than a scori
of fxldiers have been killed.
Exchange ot ratifications of th
treaty otVersailles will take place ot
January 6, ft is announced in Paris dis
patches. Tb Germans will sign th
protocol, and, at the same time, tht
allies will handV letter to them agree
ing to reduce their demand? to 300.001
tons it the total available tonnage hot
been over-estimateH. or Germany ii
gravely menaced ecJfcomicallv. j
HERALD'S REVIEW of NORTH CAROLINA
A Record Of Important Events At The Capitol And
Throughout The State, Reported For Herald Readers
'OBJECT! RAISED
10 ilG OFFICE
MARSHAL BELLAMY IS BLAMED
FOR REMOVAL BY PEOPLE
OF THE CAPITAL CITY.
COGENT REASONS ARE GIVEN
Telegrams of Compsint Are Sent to
the Two Senators and to Mr. Pou,
Representative From District,
Raleigh.
Announcement here that the office
j of the United States marshal will be
removed to Wilmington waa coupled
i with the explanation that It was done
at the request ot Marshal George H.
i Bellamy. The marshal's home is in
Brunswick county, near Wilmington.
Telegrams were sent to Attorney
General Palmer, to Senators Overman
and Simmons and to Edward W. Pou,
representative in Washington for the
fourth congressional dlstlct, asking
why the change. There seemed no
more reason why this office should be
moved than the revenue office. Mayor
T. B. Eldrtdge will also take the mat
ter up and there may be a move to
get the chamber of commerce to pro
test against the change.
Mr. Pou, responding to the telegram
sent him, said:
"Marshal Bellamy filed request to
be allowed to remove office to Wil
mington. Among reasons assigned
were lack of space and congestion of
activities of internal revenue service
at Raleigh. I hear the attorney gen
eral has permitted removal for a six
month period, There Is a rumor
which I have not been able to con
firm from anv official source that the
removal to Wilmington was permitted
in view of contemplated removal to
Raleigh ot other revenue officials.
Will advise further if obtain definite
information."
Closes Unsanitary Hotel.
Summary action by the state board
of health was tak--n against the At
lantic hotel at Williamston when it
was ordered closed until steps were
taken to comply with the sanitary reg
ulations of the board. The manager,
Mr. C. W. Keith, was notified by Spe
cial Agent John F. Gordo that the
hotel would remain closed until con
ditions complained ot have been rec
tified. State's Large Library.
A total of more than 100.000 volumes
Is now In the library of the University
of North Carolina, according to Dr.
Louis R. Wilson, librarian. This makes
the university library one of the three
largest libraries In the south, the oth
er two ot vlrt'wlly the same size be
ing those at the Universities of Texas
and Virginia.
Teachers Must Get Certificates.
Indifference on the part of hundreds
of teachers in every county In the
state in the matter ot securing ade
quate and proper certification to teach
In public schools has resulted in con
siderable confusion and the depart
ment of education Is deluged with ap
peals from everywhere to grant tem
porary certificates that will allow
teachers- bow at work to continue
throughout the term, i
Future of Fruit Growing. .
Washington. (Special). Boll,
climatic and other conditions are so
favorable in the fruit belt of North
Carolina, in the opinion of government
and other scientific experts, that It
has a big future before It. Records of
enormous yields of fruit In Florida,
California and the Pacific northwest
are rivaled by the case ot one man at
Hamlet K. C, who made $24,000 this
year off of 35 acres of dewberries, sell
ing hli crop on the ground at between
$0 and SS cents a quart at a profit of
$2,003 a day during the "", end
by the fact that the strawberry crop
In the great trucking district of Chad
born, K. C, has been so heavy at
times that It has been Impossible to
get freight ears enough to ship It In.
Some Now Corporations.
The following corporations filed
charters with the secretary ot state:
Hygrade Picture Corporation ot
Charlotte, to deal in, distribute and
exhibit motion pictures, lease and op
erate theaters, etc. Authorized capi
tal $20,000. subscribed $12,000.
forld War Publishing Company,
Charlotte, to publish books, maps, etc.
Authorized capital $10,000.
Anderson-Brooks-Hargrove, Inc., Tar
boro, general merchandise. Author
ized capital $50,000, subscribed $9,000.
Will Push Investigation.
The investigation into the lynching
of Howell Green near Franklinton will
not be dropped. It will be pressed and
in addition to Attorney Tarborough, of
Loulsburg. appointed by the governor
to aid Solicitor N. E. Norrls, there
will be other attorneys employed.
The governor declined to make any
further statements regarding the
lynching, but intimated that , the
state would leave no stone unturned
Ij apprehend, if possible, tat guilty
person er persons.
Governor Is Much Incensed.
The whole power of the state will
be extended to apprehend the lynch
ers of Powell Green, in Franklinton,
declared Governor T. W. Bickett. The
lynching took place in Governor
Bickett's home county and Is the sec
ond within the year In that county.
"Such deeds put to open shame our
boasted white civilization and make
the name of southern chivalry a by
word and a reproach. It is true that
the crime committed was an atrocious
one, for he shot down without provo
cation one of the best citizens of
Franklinton. This naturally aroused
great indignation but it affords no
semblance of excuse for a mob tak
ing the law into its own hands.
"The members ot that mob crucified
the elementary principles of justice
for which white men have fought and
bled and died through a thousand
years. They have assaulted the very
citadel of our civilization and all the
power of the state will be exerted to
apprehend them and make them suf
fer the full penalty of the law."
Funeral of General Cox.
Richmond, Va. (Special). Funeral
services for Gen. William Ruff In Cox.
distinguished Confederate veteran and
former North Carolina statesman, who
died here was conducted In Christ
Episcopal church, Raleigh, N. C, and
the burial waa In Oakwood cemetery
in that city.
Court Opinion on Car Fares.
The North Carolina supreme court
filed its opinion in the Charlotte
Street railway case affirming the
Judgment of the lower court both as
to the appeal of the Southern Public
Utilities company and the appeal of
the city ot Charlotte. This lets stand
the order of the lower court naming
a referee to take evidence and Inves
tigate the reasonableness of the 7
rents street car fare asked by the
Southern Public Utilities company.
After Eleven Dry Years.
While Governor Thomas W. Bickett
was telling the New York Evening
World that In the eleven years of
prohibition In North Carolina the
wealth of the state has Increased more
than In the fifty years preceding, for
mer Governor Robert B. Glenn, who
swept over North Carolina In the cam
paign that drove it dry, was appealing
for the destruction of the blockade li
quor business, root and branch.
The governor's message to the New
York World was In a.iswer to a query
from it asking how the nation is to
get along without the revenue from
whiskey.
"North Carolina has for eleven years
gotten along without any revenues
from liquor," Governor Bickett said.
"During these years the wealth ot the
state has increased more than in the
fifty years before. We have found out
that it pays to look to the strength of
the people for the revenue and not to
their weaknesses."
Former Governor Glenn made his ap
peal for a clean-up of the Ijtockade
business In a letter to Mr. C. H.
Mebane, of Greensboro, director of
the world prohibition movement In
North Carolina.
Demonstration for Hoey.
Washington. (Special). When
Congress reassembles it Is expected
that North Carolina will again be rep
resented by Its full delegation in the
house and the Democratic members
probably will stage quite a welcoming
demonstration in honor ot Clyde R.
Hoey.
It is understood here that Mr. Hoey,
recently elected in the ninth to suc
ceed Judge Webb, will arrive in Wash
lagton by the opening date and take
the oath ot office soon after the house
meets.
"Tender Points" for Cotton.
Washington. (Special). George
Livingston, acting chief of the Bureau
of Markets of the Department of Ag
riculture, has given to Senator Sim
mons the views of the department
with reference to the deslgnatloa of
certain concentration points in the
South as "tender points" for delivery
of cotton on New York future com-
tracts.
i The Mualor requested this Irforw
tlon from the department on the
i strength of a letter embodying such a
J suggestion from Henry B. Parker, of
tnarioue.
Morehoad's Electien Expenses.
Washington. (Special). It cost
John Morehead $4,130 to make the
race for Congress against Congressman-elect
Clyde Hoey, according to
his sworn statement filed with Tyler
Page, clerk ot the house of represen
tatives. Mr. Morehead, in his statement, ac
knowledges the receipt of $575. most
ot which appears to have come from
members of the Republican State Ex
ecutive Committee. Ot this sum, $200
was donated by B. Frank Mebane and
the rest by ether Republicans of note
To Resume Lectures.
Announcement has keen made at
the University 6f North Carolina that
the southern exchange lectureship es
tablished by the Universities ot North
Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and
Vanderbilt university, which was in
terrupted by the war, will be resumed
this spring.
By the terms of the agreement be
tween these universities each Institu
tion tends ens member of its faculty
annually to deliver lectures at another
institution in the group and in torn
receives a visiting professor
i
UNUSUAL DECISION
BY YOUNG PASTOR
HAD CALL TO LARGER CHARGE
BUT DECIDED TO CONTINUE
WITH PRESENT FLOCK.
FINE OPPORTUNITY REJECTED
'But with All of This," Said Pastor
Craig, "I have an Unfinished Work
to Do Among My Own People.
Klnston. The determination ot Rev.
W. Marshall Craig, pastor ot the First
Baptist church here, to remain with
hla "little flock" in the face ot a call
from one ot the strongest congrega
tions in the region of Richmond, is
regarded as Klnston's principal cause
for congratulation. "The entire com
munity is pleased," a statement not in
the least far-fetched.
"It is a fine opportunity that is pre
sented," Mr. Craig told his congrega
tion. "I have been tendered a charge
with a church enrollment of 1,100 or
more, and a Sunday school with more
than 1,000 members." He had been in
formed by a leading divine of his fel
lowship that it was the "finest open
ing in the south today." Mr. Craig's
opening remarks gave his hearers lit
tle hope. There were many . tears.
"But with all of this," said Pastor
Craig, "I have an unfinished work to
among my own people. I have chosen
to remain."
Applause broke out and the young
preacher was given an ovation that
made the walls ot the First chmih
ring.
Greenyllle.-Little Gladys Cherry,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Cherry, Pitt county, li In a hospital at
Washington. She was accidentally
shot In the ler bv her couein. The
ll'tle fellow picked up a shotgun, which
was accidentally discharged, with the
above result.
Charlotte. Horner's Military school
will be lost to Charlotte after the com
pletion of the present term, it was an
nounced. The SO acres of land and
three buildings which comprise the
plant, reported to be valued at $30,000,
will be taken over by the Stephens
company.
Ashevllle. S. Glenn Toting, depart
ment of justice agent, accompanied by
an assistant and bis Belgian police
dog, Is operating out of this city in a
search for deserters. The officer ex
pects to be here a week or 10 days and
has already begun his trips to the
mountains.
Wilmington. Stirred to action by
recent deaths from the alleged reck
less driving of automobiles, city and
county authorities have declared war
on the speeders ot New Hanover, and
Recorder George Harries announces
that henceforth persons brought be
fore him aid found guilty of speeding
or recklessly driving their automo
biles will have to do time on the pub
lic works.
Huntersvllle. The Bank of Hunters
ville, of which Troy Peters, formerly
o Charlotte, is cashier, has earned
more than 43 per cent profit during
the past year according to announce
ment made following the meeting of
the directors. An annual dividend of
S per cent was declared.
Albemarle. It was announced here
that Albemarle Is to have a new man
ufacturing Industry In the shape ot a
$200,000 flour and feed mill.
Winston-Salem. Mrs. Howard, of
Davie county, and four children, who
were arrested recently for larceny at
merchandise from local stores, while
doing Christmas shopping, came to
the city to stand trial. The children
wars examined by Ji MrKauahan
In the Juvenile court and were assign
ed, on probation, to Superintendent of
Public Welfare Sefrled, of Davie coun
ty Held for Looting rill.
Oastonia. Jarvls Qulnn, a young
boy of Gaston la is lodged in jail here
as he result of the theft of a sum of
money from one ef the patrons of a
local moving picture abow.
The youth was convicted tome
weeks ago before the county proba
tion officer for stealing a rhirt He
was released on promise of good be
havior. Soon after this he waa arrest
ed for indulging in an affray at the
Loray Mill where be used a knife on
an old man, severely Injuring him.
Twe Men Shot In Abdomen.
Goldsboro. J. W. Lucas, of La
grange, son of the chief of police of
that town, and J. E. Measley, of Golds
boro, are patients at the Splcer sana
torium, in this city where they were;
taken after being shot by an unknown
white boy, said to be about 15 years
of age, on the public road between
Goldsboro aad fnount Olive.
Both men were shot In the abdomen,
and while their wounds are considered
serious, it Is not believed they will
prove fatal, provided ne complication
do not develop,
THE CONGRESS HAS
MUCH WORK AHEAD
ONLY EXPECT RECESSES WHEN
PARTY CONVENTIONS ARE
IN FALL SESSIONS.
HOPE TO CLOSE UP TREATY
General Tarolff of Internal Revenue
Tax Revision Legislation Is Not
EXpected at Present Session.
Washington. Congress reconvenes
after a fortnight's holiday with months
ot hard work in sight and adjourn
ment expfcted by few leaders before
the presidential campaign.
The only recess looked for is a brief
one in summer when the national par
ty conventions are In session.
Innumerable, domestic and indus
trial problems await the attention ot
Congress, with partisan politics ot the
coming presidential election promi
nently to the fore. Political speeches
of presidential candidates and mem
bers of Congress up for reelection are
expected to flood the record.
The senate returns in the hope of
disposing of the German peace trtraty
this month, but without substantial
results from compromise negotiations
during the holiday recess.
Many investigations will be pros
ecuted by both senate and house. Be
sides the house war expeditures in
quiry, senate committee will continue
the Mexican investigation, here and
on the board.
General tariff of Internal revenue
tax revision legislation is not planned
during the present session of Con
gress, although minor house bills af
fecting Individual tariff schedules will
reach the senate.
MANY LIVES ARE LOST IN
EARTHQUAKES IN MEXICO.
Mexico CIt. Scores of persons
have been killed In a violent earth
quake which occurred in many parts
of Mexico. The center of the disturb
ance Is believed to have been near the
volcano of Orizaba.
ITALIAN PREMIER TO
MEET ALLIED STATESMEN.
Rome. Premier Nittl left for Paris
where he has been Invited to meet
Premier Lloyd George and Premier
Clemenceau, and possibly an Ameri
can representative. It is understood
an effort will be made to settle the
Flume question.
AN UNRELENTING SEARCH FOR
REDS AND RADICALS GOES ON.
New York. Armed with more than
S00 warrants, federal agents and po
lice detectives continued tbelr search
for radicals accused fit plotting to
overthrow the government, who es
caped the government's dragnet which
has netted 700 prisoners in the oast
24 hours in Greater New York.
SECRET TURKISH CIRCULAR
FINDS WAY TO WASHINGTON.
Washington. A copy of a secret
Turkish circular, dated November 28
addressed to the provincial authori
ties and bearing the seal of the min
ister of the Interior, reached Wash
ington, ordering the forcible conver
sion to Islam of a few non-deported
Armenians and those who have es
caped massacres and death by priva
tions and sickness.
INTERNATIONAL MARKET FOR
INTERNATIONAL SECURITIES.
New York. Establishment of an In
ternational securities market as the
most normal and expeditious means of
providing the war-stricken countries
of Europe with long term credits, was
recommended by Eugene Meyer, Jr.,
managing director of the war finance
coporation. In .an address before the
Association of Foreign Press Corres
pondents. $760,000 FIRE IN
DANVILLE, JVIIRGINIA
Danville, Va. Fire originating In
the dhhrdl usrdlu hshrdlu uu ouou uo
the department store of Z. B. John
son. In the heart of the city here, at
9:30 o'clock destroyed the department
store and eight or ten other buildings
in the block from Market to Union
streets and is still raging. The dam
age la estimated at $750,000. Five
comapnies of the local fire depart
ment are endeavoring to prevent the
blaze from spreading.
RADICALS HOPE BY LEAVING
TO ESCAPE DRAGNET OF LAW
New York Characterizing the lat
est government raid on 'reds" as an
"Idiotic and cruel' method of "perse
cuting and suppressing people," Chas.
Recht, an attorney retained by many
ot the radicals sent to Ellis Island, is
sued a statement In which he declared
many of the alien radicals will leave
the country as soon as possible to es
cape the government's dragnet. This
may, or may not be winked At by gov
ernment officials.
RUMORED THAT BRYAN HOPES
FOR A FOURTH NOMINATION
Washington. William Jennings
Bryan has sidled in during the past
week to share the political limelight
with Gen. Leonard Wood. Mr. Bryan's
reappearance in the role ot Demo
cratic leader has been accepted as in
dicating that the man who made three
unsuccessful campaigns for the presi
dency Is bent on a fourth attempt
This is evidenced by the talk ot mem
bers of congress returning from brlei
holidays visits borne.
FEW INDUSTRIAL
DISPUTES EXIST
LABOR AND CAPITAL ARE NOW
IN CLOSER HARMONY THAN
AT ANY TIME IN YEARS.
ONLY 21 THREATEN TROUBLE
Director of Conciliation, Department
of Labor Says Industrial Disturb,
.ancee in South, Insignificant.
Washington. The I'nlted States en
tered the new year with fewer pend
ing industrial disputes than at any
time during the past three years, as
serted Hugh L. Kerwln, director ot
conciliation of the department of la
bor, after reviewing reports from the
department's conciliators In the 8&
great industrial centers.
With the exception of the steet
strike, the actual strikes throughout
the country are few and ot minor Im
portance, Mr. Kerwln declared. There)
now are, he said, 101 industrial dis
putes before the department tor ad
justment, only 21 of which have reach
ed the strike stage.
Industrial disturbances in the south
are few and Insignificant, according;
to Kerwin's reports. In Atlanta less
than 60 men are involved in three
lockouts. Only a few cases of minor
importance remained unsettled in SL
Louis, it was reported.
"COMBINATION SALES" OF
SUGAR DECLARED ILLEGAL.
Philadelphia. Sales of sugar an!
other food staples only with other mer
chandise In "combination sales" was
declared illegal by United States Dis
trict Attorney Kaney.
DEATH OF NOTED INVENTOR
AT HIS EAST ORANGE HOME.
East Oranpe, N. J. John Herbert
Snelllng. president ot the Marine Man
ufacturing and Supply Company of
New York City, Is dead at his home
here, aged 70. He Is credited with
having designed many devices which
were used effectively during the war
against German submarines.
THE TAKING OF FOURTEENTH
DECENNIAL CENSUS BEGINS.
Washington. The fourteenth de
cennial census began with 85,000
enumerators engaged In counting the
men, women and children of the Unit
ed States and collecting data on that
resources of the nation.
CLEMENCEAU LOATH TO AGAIN
START ON FORMIDABLE TASK.
Dragulgnan, France. Premier Clem
enceau declared he could not continue
to represent the department of war
In the chamber of deputies, adding;
that "after the effort of the last year
I would be loath to start again on
task with a fear that my strength fait
me before it could be completed.''
AN EFFORT TO STANARDIZE
THE COTTON 8TORAGE SYSEM
Washington. It is announced here
that plans are practically complete for
the formation of a large corporation to
combine and standardize most of the
cotton compressing and warehousVnr
facilities of the cotton growing states:
and warehouses in the cotton belt.
BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA WILL NOT ..
MAKE PEACE WITH DENIKINE"
Dorpat. Bolshevik Russia ,1s willing?
to make great concessions to the big
powers In the Interests of peace, but
will not hold out the olive branch to
General Denikine, according to M..
Klishke, secretary of the soviet dele
gation conferring with Esthonian dele
gates here.
"A year ago we would have consid
ered peace with General Denikine,'' he
said, "but now It Is a fight to the
finish." NEW YORK GARMENT WORKERS
THREATEN TO GO ON STRIKE-
New York. The cloak and suit in
dustry of New York, employing 45,000
persons, faces strikes for higher wager
which are certain to mean exorbitant,
prices for the public unless checked,
the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufactu
rers' Association announced. Worker,
in 42 Individual shops already are out
on a strike, the association says. In
a violation of a three-year agreement
made with the International Ladles'
Garment Makers' Union.
BRITISH FEAR FAILURE OF
THEIR SUPPLY OF COTTONi
Washington. The constantly grow
ing demand of the cotton manufactur
ing Industry in the United States for
raw cotton Is looked upon by Engllsb
cotton enetitrss
cotton Interests as threatening the
permanent stability of the British In
dustry which operates one-third ot
world's total' cotton spindles. Amer
ican consumption, abut St per cent of
the American crop in 1S90, has in
creased to 68 per cent of the crop.
RELIEF KITCHENS IN VIENNA ,
ARE VERY CLOSELY GUARDED
New York. -Famine conditions int
Vienna are to acnte that children's
relief kitchens fcave to Be guarded!
closely. Rlgorow rules have been
made against taking food" away from
kitchens where children are brou-ht
by their mothers to be fed.
The newspapers says H6,000lld
ren in Vienna are fed' daily in kitch
ens established by the American relief
administration's European, children'
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