ROANOKE RAI'IDS HERALD. ROANOKE RAPIDS. N. C.
mi
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DVI 1IVEN
THE NEWS "oT fKE SOUTH
What U Taklnj Piio4 n "The South,
land Will pt Found In
r't Prgraphi
Foreign
. inn. u H.iiMM'! in ucpiiuen re-
cpntly gave Premier Poincare a vote i
of confidence. 47:' to li7.
Influenza, nccordrig to dispatches
from Paris. Is becoming an epidemic
all ovir France Recently twenty
four deaths were reiwted In one day
in Paris.
PrpiniiT Magnusson of Irplnml. who
has been on a visit to London, has Rone
hack home to got warm. He says
that it is ton degrees warmer in Reik
javik than In London.
Knver Pasha, former Turkish minis
ter of war, who fled from Turkey very
shortly after the close of the war. has
been captured In the Caucasus and
has been handed over to the Turkish
Nationalist government at Angora.
Chile has accepted an Invitation from
the United States government to des
ignate a plenipotentiary at Washington
to study the form of execution of the
treaty of Ancon under which the Tac-na-Amlca
dispute between Peru and
Chile arofe.
Premier Lenine will represent Soviet
Russia at the coming Genoa economic
conference on the condition that the
Russian secret service he permitted
to organize a system to guard him
safely during his absence from the
Soviet capital.
The liritish cabinet is said to be def
initely opposed to any alterations in
the draft of the proposed Anglo-French
alliance. The cabinet is particularly
unfavorable to the French suggestion
that the treaty should contain specific
provisions regarding the extent of
Great Britain's cooperation in the
fvent of aggression.
Washington
Statistics showing t e actual bale
weight of cotton ginned during the
last season have been transmitted to
the senate by Secretary Hoover in' re
sponse to a resolution by Senator
Smith (Hem.) of South Carolina.
Figures showing the growth in fed
eral bonded warehouses for storing of
agricultural products have been com
piled by the department of agriculture
for the information of delegates to the
national agricultural conference, which
meets here soon.
Senate Republicans, in party confer
ence, recently approved the allied debt
refunding bill, with the addition of a
provision that the interest rate on the
refunded bonds should not be less than
that fixed in the Liberty loan acts au
thorizing the loans to the allied na
tions. George Washington Yarbrough, n
high-school teacher of Roanoke, Ala.,
and rated an the welterweight cham
pion of the American expeditionary
forces, told a senate investigating com
mittee that he had witnessed the shoot
ing of an American soldier by a firing
squad near the Chateau Thierry region
in July, 191 S.
Tl Invitation for the United States
to participate in the economic and fi
nancial conference at Genoa was re
ceived at the state department recent
ly from Ambassador Ricci, of Italy.
A provisional agreement was reach
ed by railway executives and heads
of the four railway brothcrhooils,
meeting at the instance of Secretary
Hoover, to submit wage and working
questions affecting train service em
ployees to regional conferences for
adjustment if possible, without con
tests before the railway labor board.
After presentation of testimony by
way of denial, war department records,
submitted to the senate committee in
vestigating charges that American sol
diers had been hanged without trial in
France, showed that on the bodies of
two men dug up in the little cemetery
at Bazollles, the ropes and black caps
in which they were put to death on
the gallows had not been removed
prior to burial.
Secretary Hughes, as head of the
American delegation to the Washing
ton conference, defined at a meeting
of the Far Eastern committee the
American policy concerning the open
door in China, his statement, it was
said being based on a note he sent
as secretary of stateto Alfred Sze, the
Chinese minister.
The German government has noti-
fled the American government that
Alanson B. Houghton, now member of
the house from New York, will he ac
cepted as ambassador and the name of
Mr. Houghton will be sent to the sen
ate soon.
Senate Republicans have voted in
party conference to press the allied
debt refunding bill and a soldiers'
liuliUH bill, iti thai order. There was
a disagreement as to details of the
two measures, and the conference ad
journed to continue its discussions at
a later date.
Retention by the war department of
nine main training centers, one In
each corps area, and of a number of
other special camps, has been recom
mended by Generul Pershing, chief of
staff, at a hearing before the house
military committee.
The Birmingham and Northwestern
railroad has applied to the Interstate
commerce commission for permission
to issue $S00,000 in bonds, which will
be used to refund existing issue of se
curities. An agreement has been reached by
the Chinese and Japanese delegates
whereby the coal and Iron mines in
the Kino-Chow leasehold in Shantung
shall be operated by a company to be
formed under a special charter by the
Chinese government. The Japanese
will be permitted to Invest" capital in
the enterprise not exceeding the to
tal amount of Chinese capital.
Ml cf 11. CM' P. Fle-i h-
tr o; st ite. to I a III-
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j confirm
'It with t'vt o
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ef W-i-t Virginia, to be
r. -r to P;,r.n:ii;,., .
A i ' :t:i., nation of Fr nth. J.i; alios,-,
iH.l, fti.aily. liritish opposition to ar
tiile Mar of the Hughe "open do r"
lioitrir.' for China, has resulted in the
quiet d.-a:h of that article.
Th" five-power treaty for limitation
of naval armaments has umh rcone fur
ther olianu-es in the course of a fin.il
overhauling by experts, and it now is
complete except for the article estab
lishing a fortifications status quo in
the Pacific.
Japan's right to the former German
cables in the Kia-Chow leasehold, the
Chefoo-Tsin Otao and the Tsingtao
Shanghal lines were renounced by the
Japanese delegates to the Washington
conference recently at a meeting with
the Chinese delegation on the question
of Shantung.
Warning of an impending general
strike in the country's coal industry
was given by Secretary Hoover, who
declared that the public should know
what to expect when the national
agreements covering the wages and
working conditions of, miners expire
April 1.
With a total of $HK.297.59rt In ex
cess of the appropriations for the same
offices for the current fiscal year, the
annual independent offices appropria
tion bill earning $l9l.30i.23S was re
ported by the house appropriations
committee. The amount recommended
In the bill, however, is $9,529,475 less
than the amount requested in budget
bureau estimates.
Domestic
I Will H. Hays will become directing
head of the new National Asoclatton
i of Motion Picture Producers and Dis
I tributors "immediately after March 4."
i it was announced recently at a dinner
at which the postmaster general was
the guest of a group of motion picture
officials in New York. Mr. Havs' for-
mal resignation from President Hur
j ding's cabinet will be presented soon,
j it was said.
I After an all-day investigation, fed
eral officials at Mobile, Ala., probing
, into liquor smuggling on the Gulf
j coast, announce that the probe will
, continue several days. Nine arrests
have been made, six on the Gulf coast
and three in .Mobile. The investiga
tion of liquor smuggling will extend
I from Miami to Mobile.
lieautiful, temperamental Geraldira
: Farrar has put it up to New York to
i guess why she has suddenly announced
hnr abdici tion of the queen privileges
and prerogatives which she enjoyed
throughout the fifteen years of her
stardom with the Metropolitan Opera
company. Next year Miss Farrar will,
in the patter of the vaudevillian, "hit
the grif as a lone trouper, in a con
cert tour which may earn her a quar
ter of a million dollars.
President Harding, It Is learned in
Newark, N. J., has commuted the pris
on term Imposed upon Frank H. Nohho,
one of the group of men sentenced by
a federal judge In New York for vio
lation of the Sherman anti trust act.
A good, warm cell in a penitentiary
Is preferable to liberty these zero days
In Utah, according to Jim Wilson, alias
Martin, an escaped convict from the
south. Martjn walked Into the office
of Chief of Police Rurhridge at Salt
Lake City, Utah., ami asked to he tak
en back to the North Carolina statu
prison.
The jury trying Arthur C. Bureh, at
Los Angeles, Cal., for the murder of
J. Helton Kennedy reported itself un
able to agree on a verdict recently and
was discharged.
Severe earthshocks were felt in
many sections of Los Angeles, Cal.,
recently, shattering window glass in
some quarters and shaking frame
buildings.
Lillian Russell sailed on the steam
ship George Washington, from New
York recently, determined to get at
the heart of the American immigra
tion question.
Unable to reach an agreement on
the railroad wage question, the man
agement of the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis railway and the Order
of Railway Telegraphers will submit
jointly their proposals to the railway
labor board for final action, it was an
nounced recently by W. P. Bruce, gen
eral manager of the road at Nashville,
Tenn.
Reports that a large store In Chi
cago had opened a window display in
which living and unclad reproductions
of Helen of Troy Venus and Cleo
patra were the chief points of interest,
attracted such crowds that traffic was
blocked, and a police sergeant and five
aides rushed forward. "Come on, men
it's all right," he mumbled to his aides,
who still were staring in the window.
"Those are just wax figures, but way
back in the rear of the window that
way, they sure did look real."
Daniel G. Buntin, 47, of Nashville,
Tenn., real estate operator, at Nash
ville and in Chicago, shot and killed
himself recently at his home in West
End, the act being attributed to ill
health. This year of 1922 will be "a good
year for remembering, above all, busi
ness is business and not speculation,"
Herbert P. Howell, vice president of
the National Bank of Commerce, re
cently told delegates to the convention
of "the National Wholesale Dry Goods
association, at Now York.
Rev. W. E. Robh, sheriff of Polk
county, Des Moines, la., has resigned
his pastorate at the Urbandale Fed
erated church, because, .he said, he
does not wish the church to be sub
jected to criticism when he hangs two
murderers this spring.
Donation of $100 by C.ordell Hull, of
Tennessee, chairman of the Democrat
ic national committee, to the Wilson
foundation fund was received at Nash
ville, Tenn., by the foundation's chair
man In this state.
A proposal by Mayor Alnslle of
Richmond, Va., that the controversy
between the Virginia Railway and
Power company and its employees be
arbitrated, has been rejected by T. S.
Wheelwright, president of the compa
ny, upon the grounds that the plan
"does not include a definite assur
ance that the company's revenue will
be considered by the arbitrators."
The
l-i:di- iirolled boat eM.il.ited
Granite State, pride of the navy In the
('lning of I.iinmr, first prize winner in
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Washington Conference Goes
Far Toward Establishing Real
Open Door in China.
AGREEMENT BLOW TO JAPAN
Foreign Policy of New French Gov
. rnment Stated by Premier Poin
care Irish Free State Formally
Installed Postmaster General
Hays Announces Coming
Resignation.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
STRONGLY backed by the British
unit Itillimi (lelel'nt ioll to tit..
Washington conference. Secretary
Hughes and his American colleagues
last week pushed far toward comple
tion of their plans for the establish
ment and maintenance of a real "open
door" in China. In effect. It was a big
week for China and a rather unpleas
ant one for Japan,
Mr. Hughes submitted to the Fnr
Kiistem committee a set of resolutions
by which the powers in the conference,
other than China, agree:
"(a) Not to seek or to support their
nationals in seeking any arrangement
which might purport to establish in
favor of their Interests any general
superiority of rights with respect fo
commercial or economic development
In any. designated region of China;
"(b) Not to seek or to support their
nutlomtls In seeking any such monop
oly or preference as would deprive
other nationals of the right of under
taking liny legitimate trade or industry
In China or of participating with the
Chinese government, or with any pro
vincial government, in any category of
public enterprise, or which by reason
of Its scope, duration, or geographical
extent Is calculated to frustrate tbp
practical application of the principle of
equal opporl unity."
China, for its part, declares its "In
tention of being guided by Ihe same
principles in dealing with applications
for economic rights and privileges
from governments ami nationals of all
foreign countries whether parties to
that agreement or not.
Provision Is made for the establish
ing of an international board to which
Tjuestlons of compliance with the open
door principle may be referred for in
vestigation and report. As lirst draft
ed, the resolutions made this applica
ble to existing concessions. France ob
jected to this and the Japanese,
though accepting the plan "in princi
ple," were plainly nervous and wor
ried and asked for time to study the
text. In the Interest of speedy action
the objectionable clause was with
drawn, and thereupon the plan was
given unanimous approval by the
committee. The Americans did not
look on this as a defeat, for, iinifcr
their construction of the resolutions,
it will still be possible to bring before
the international commission any open
door question Involving existing con
cessions, including the privileges
which Japan-Miy her notorious 21 de
mands forced China to concede In Kilo.
The Japanese maintain they got noth
ing through those demands that vio
lates the open door principle. Ambas
sador Shidehiira dos not believe the
hoard of reference plan Is practicable,
but filially accepted it.
It really looks as though the com
mercial open door in the Far Fast Is
about to become, In the words of Mr.
Hughes, a fact Instead of a motto.
In the hitler part of the week the
col Iltee was considering the matter
of the reformation of China's rulhvay
ystcii. The British proposed that the
powers undertake t" abolish nil trans
portation discrimination In China, and
the Americans suggested that China
unify her riiilwas under her own con
trol "with such foreign financial and
technical co-operation as may prove
necessu ry."
Some dispute, unknown to the public
at this writing, held up limit comple
tion of the naval treaty. Apparently It
Involved the question of fortifications,
and members of the British and Jap
CANADIANS WANT OWN CANAL
Ottawa and Georgian Bay Waterway
li Proving to Have Many Friends
In the Dominion.
Ottawa. While the project to pro
vide a great International chan
nel for ocean-going ships by Improving
the St. Lawrence river to the Great
Lakes Is being studied by the govern
ments of the United States and Canada,
proponents of the proposed Ottawa and
Georgian bay canal, are seeking to en
in lirst American Hoys' exposition in i asiuimloii. 2- Hd ..akeu tribute
middle of the last century, being junked in North river at New York. 3
iinimnl show of Pekingese Club of America.
anese delegations blamed each other
for the delay. It was said the British
wanted lo limit the fort ideal ions sta
ins quo to the parts of the Pacific
where Japan and the United Slates
have neighboring possessions, ami that
they insisted that in any eent it could
not affect Singapore, which is their
most important naval base In the Far
Fast.
A '.THOUGH Poincare and Lloyd
George exchanged honey-worded
notes of esteem and assurance of cor
dial desire to resume examination of
the questions at issue between their
governments, the new French premier
took a linn stand in his ministerial
declaration made to the chamber of
deputies Wednesday. He said the
government was determined to base its
foreign policy on the Versailles treaty,
and was anxious to maintain and con
solidate Its alliances. Germany, be
insisted, must make up its mind to ful
lill the obligations it undertook at Ver
sailles. Before agreeing to take part
in the Genoa confen ncc, he said,
France must have guarantees from the
soviet government of Russia. In talk
ing to correspondents, M. Polneare
said he would not go to Genoa; that
French business men might meet Gor
man and Russian business men there,
but that France desired that the Genoa
conference should not be the means of
Bolshevik propaganda in Kurope.
The Russians are very enthusiastic
over the Genoa meet and already have
announced the list of their delegates.
It is headed by Premier Lenin, whose
place will be taken by Foreign Minis
ter Tchltcherin if the chief cannot go;
the other members are all prominent in
the soviet government. Leon Trotzky.
however, does not think the confer
ence can be a success unless the Unit
ed States participates ami takes the
lead. He adds that Russia favors gen
eral disiinnainent, hut it is skeptical
of France.
TUP; soviet government Is not yet
at war with Finland over the
Karelian revolt, but hostilities seem
not far off unless the Finns yield com
pletely. They offered lo have the af
fair arbitrated, but Ibis the Russians
refused. Tchltcherin now demands
the internment, disarming and surren
der to soviet Russia of all Karelian in
surgents on Finnish soil, the surrender
to Russia of their arms, and an Indem
nity from Finland for ail damages
done to Russia through the Karelian
revolt.
IN ACCORDANCE with the decision
of the reparations commission, Ger
many Is paying .fT.olKI.OOO gold every
ten days until further arrangements
are made. The first payment was made
on Wednesday.
TIIK Frencl
a resolu
h were much aroused by
United States senate by Medlll Mc
Cortnick of Illinois. It calls on the
State department for full information
concerning the financial condition, the
budgets and the amounts spent on mil
itary establishments by Kuropenn
countries that owe money to America.
There Is u belief in France that the
resolution was aimed at that chantry
alone because of Its stand concerning
its land forces and on the subject of
submarines. There was no indication
that the resolution hud the approval of
the American administration, anil it
may he that In stirring tip something
of a row It bus done all Mr. McCormlck
ever expected It would do.
LORD F1TZALAN. British viceroy
of Ireland, on Tuesday formally
turned over Dublin castle to the pro
visional government of the Irish Free
State, the official designation of which
Is Malta Sealuheach Nil llelreann.
The government for the present con
sists of Michael Collins mid seven as
sociates. Griffith, who Is president of
the Dull F.iicann, believed that body
should he kept separate from the new
slate organization and so declined to
bend the provisional government. As
rapidly as Is pruct-lcnhlc the British
troops are being removed from the
Island, mid us they ietie there are
many outbreaks by the Irreconcilable
republicans. Collins anil his col
leagues are planning to send a commis
sion to Camilla to sillily the I 'onilni, in's
form of government mid draft a con
stitution along Canadian lines. The
Bank of Ireland bus agreed to lend the
new government a million pounds.
list support for their "All-Canadian"
waterway.
Advantages claimed for this rome
over the St. Lawrence ship canal In
clude Its position entirely within
Canadian territory, its Immunity from
the storm hazards of the lakes and the
saving It offers In mileage.
Canadian government engineers have
made tin exhaustive study of the proj
ect nnd say the scheme Is practicable.
As surveyed, the canal would follow
the St. Lawrence from Montreal to the
Junction of th Ottawa and St. Law
NV died rather
tedly morning aftei
a brief illness which suddenly de
veloped into pneumonia. Until al
most the last his physicians insist
ed that the attack was not seri
ous, anil the passing of his holiness
surprised as well as shocked the en
tire world. Benedict was born in 1So4
and was elected pope in I'.H-t. He
won general esteem by bis w ise courses
and counsels as bead of the Roman
Catholic church and by his earnest and
continuous efforts to restore peace and
amity among the nations after the out
break of the World war. Because a
fatal outcome to his illness had not
been looked for there has been no dis
cussion yet as to his probable suc
cessor. PoST.MASTF.il GFXF.RAL HAYS
low Mtito.toi.'e.i l,i ,-..( ; ,-..,,,.,, r..,i
the cabinet about March A for the pur
pose of becoming (he directing head o
the new National Association of Mo
tion Picture Producers and Distrihut
ers. President Harding, in regretfully
accepting his resgination. expressed,
t lie opinion that Mr. Hays was about
lo take up a work of great public bene
fit. It is believed Hubert Work ol
Colorado, now first assistant, will suo
coed Mr. Hays as postmaster general.,
with the understanding that he will re
tire in the fall to make way for Sena
tor New of Indiana In case the senator
is defeated for renotninatioti or re-election.
Mr. New's opponent In the Re
publican primaries will be former Sen
ator Albert Beveridge.
J N A report transmitted to the sen-
ale the federal trade commission
charged that three of the lnrgest to
bacco nuinul'iicturlng concerns in the
country the American, the P. Loril
lard and the Liggett & Meyers compa
nies have engaged in conspiracies
with many jobbers' usociutions to keep
up jobbers' prices. The commission
promises prosecutions where the evi
dence discloses violations of the law.
The report says the jobbers' agreement
became effective last September when
it was learned that the commission's
investigation was under way. The
three companies named were formerly
parts of the tobacco trust which was.
dissolved by the Supremo court.
X T 7 ITIIOUT waiting to be asked,
" the American government has
Intervened In the dispute between
Chile ami Peru over the Tacna-Arica
territory and the treaty of Ancon, and
has invited both countries to send
delegates to Washington for a confer
ence. The invitations, sent In the
name of President Harding, say the
American government has observed
with pleasure that the negotiations be
tween the two South American repub
lics "seemed fo forecast a settlement
In conference of the difficulty involv
ing final sovereignty of the provinces
of Tucmi and Arica." Recent dis
patches indicate this Is a rather optim
istic view of the situation, hut It may
be Justified,
THROUGH Ambassador Richard
Washburn Child and General Al
len, at the head of a composite bat
talion from the army of ociupatlon,
America on Wednesday paid tribute to
the memory of Italy's "unknown sol
dier," who Is buried In Rome. King
Victor Fmmanuel anil all high govern
ment olbcials. as well as the entire
diplomatic corps, attended the Impress
ive ceremony, which was witnessed hy
an Immense throng. Ambassador Child
delivered the oration and bestowed on
the Italian warrior the Congressional
Medal of Honor, and Premier Bonoml
responded for his country.
AN KNCOURAG1NG start bus been
made in the collection of the million-dollar
fund which the Woodrow
Wilson foundation will administer by
making annual awards to persons who
distinguish themselves hy their serv
ice to humxnitv. All over the country
the pledges came In thick ami fast,
One of the most slgnilicant contribu
tions was that of !UlM hy the rail
road shop crafts unions. The resolu
tions accompanying it said the con
tribution was "a testimonial to Wooil
row Wilson for his unselfish Ideals ill
behalf of not only the people of the
United Stales but of the entire world
who loved liberty and happiness, and
for his fairness in dealing with facts
that mi vilally affected the welfare of
the American people."
rence rivers; thence the Ottawa would
be followed to Maltawa, anil Lake
Nlpissing and the French river would
I rovlde outlet from the Ottawa river
to Luke Huron.
The length of the canal would he 440
miles, with twenty seven locks totaling
7oS feet. Twenty-two feet would he
the minimum depth on the entire
length. This waterway would cons'st
of twenty-eight miles of canal proper,
sixty-six miles of Improved river
navigation ttnd 340 miles of river and
lake.
Popf. bi:m:iiI("
unexi tedlv
ARE LOSS GROWS
lU NORTH Cife
INCREASE IN STATE FOR 1S21 WAS
MORE THAN A MILLION AC
CORDING TO REPORTS.
flIE IS lilOCH OiSUPPOINlEQ
Outside of Five Towns. There Was No
Single Fires in All Others That
Reached a Damage of $5,000.
Raleigh.
The annual fire loss grows despite
efforts of experts and fire prevention
oiticials, says Stacy W. Wade, in
surance commissioner, making public
the annual Ijss by tire in Nurtii
Carolina for V)2l totaling tT.4:l.2oT
against a loss of $4.u:tJ.utiO in Vt-O.
The tire loss for the United States and
Canada was $:t:HI,S53.625 in lit-'U and
$'!;l:i.6ri4 .95u in l'.ll.
In this connection. Commissioner
Wade cites a curious instance of the
law of averages. The losd for the
first six months in North Carolina
tor 1021 was $.!,T14.112 and for the
United States and Canada $163,926.
.'Sua. For the last six months, the
loss in North Carolina was $'?,649,n'.i3
and in the United States and Can
ada JIGS. "28. Cud. The per capita loss
in North Carolina for 1921 was 2.9U.".
and in the United States and Canada
was the same, $2,905.
While Commissioner Wade does not
dissemble his disappointment at the
big total of last month's fire record,
he serenely chuckles over the fact,
that for the state at large, tike
showing is splendid. He says the of
ficial reports from all towns and coun
ties show fewer casualties by fire
or fireworks to persons or property
than was ever reported before for a
Christmas month.
And outside of five towns, there
was no single fire in all the towns
and cities of the state where the fire
loss reached $r.iHiO and in a large
number there was not a fire during
the entire month. The bulk of the
loss was occasioned by nine fires
aggregating a loss of $Sj7.2S5 as
against only $261,607 for the entire
balance of the state.
To Let More Roads Next Month.
Bids for the construction of 72.52
miles of roads of various types, and
three bridges, one of them of major
size, will be opened in the offices of
the State Highway Commission on
Tuesday. February 7. First, Third,
Fifth, Sixth and Seventh district,
will figure in the letting. More than
100 contractors have asked for speci
fications of the roads, and the indi
cations are that the bidding will be
sharp.
Pitt county gets the largest single
piece of construction, with its pro
jected road from Greenville to the
Bcauford county line, reaching with
in a short distance of the county
sent at Washington. The road lis
14. S5 miles long, and will be hard
surfaced. Another bridge will be
5H0 feet long, and span the Rocky
river between Anson and Stanley
counties.
Projects advertised for letting fol
lows: Pitt Project 1S.1-B. Rridges and
culverts on Greenville - Bethel road.
Pitt Project 1S5. Greenville to
Beaufort county line, 14.35 miles hard
surface, Washington.-Project 195. Martin
county line to Pleasant Grove, 15.18
miles gravel.
Pasquotank-Camden Project 174.
Buff Landing to South Mills, 2.4 miles
gravel.
Onslow Project 364-A. Dixon to
Pender county line, 10 miles gravel.
Brunswick Project 314. South
port to Supply, 16 miles gravel.
Brunswick Project 313. Leland
to end of Wilmington causeway, 3.5
miles hard surface.
Orange Jroject 453. Bridge over
the Kno river near Hillsboro.
Davidson Project 526. Thomas
ville to Guilford county line, 3.77
miles hard surface.
Anson-Stanly--Project 606. Bridge
over Rocky river, near junction with
Pee Dee.
Paroles Two and Declines Another.
Governor Morrison paroled Henry
Gruhh, 73-year-old prisoner of Ran
dolph county, upon condition that he
crry out his expressed intention of
moving to Kansas; and William Poe,
Lee county prisoner. Both paroles
were recommended on account of the
prisoners' physical condition.
At the same time the governor de
clined to interfere with the sentence
of Kd Proctor of Transylvania county,
sentenced in August, 1921, to 20 years
In the state prison for murder in the
second degree.
Weevil to be Subject Treated.
On Tuesday. January 24, the farm
ers and county agricultural ngents
of the cotton growing sections of the
state will meet at the State college
to discuss plans for controlling the
boll weevil damage. It is announced
that n splendid program has been pre
pared to cover the most Important
means of reducing the damage from
this distructive little pest. There will
by present growers who have exper
ienced heavy damage this season and
others who have not yet seen its de
struction. Postmasters Appointed.
Washington (Special) During 1921
North Carolina produced 73 ounces of
gold valued at $1,500. and 12 ounces
of silver, valued at $12.
Postmasters appointed in North
Carolina in the fourth class were an
nounced as follows:
Mrs. Edna Boyd, at Armstrong, Mc
Dowell county, a new office; James A.
Taylor, at Baldplateau, McDowell
county, a now office; Mrs. Bertha
Hamrick, at Boiling Springs, Cleve
land county, vice Sidney Lee, n-noved.
St.'tc Fwjrjn ; Leading C.(o,j.
;,er;h C.sruri st.ndi wi.h the 1m3
ers agrt "ihiir.nly. ; h a rank of
f l. it i iu t'.io z2 lead ng crops, and
the value of a!! t ips, anor.l
mur:i.::t. -a lr-u th Co-optr-
afie Crop Report. ng Sclvics of thd
S.ate and Federal 1), pmmeats of Ag
r:. ulture. whu-a has subs-UntiaU-4 th
November estimate tnad) by Frank
Parker, stati.-tii io for .sortii Caro
lina. With a tot.il value of over $22$.
Si'O.U'iu for the field crops; com. wiicat.
oils. rye. buckwheat. Irish potatoes,
sweet potatoes, all hay, tobacco, lint
cotton i not seed I, edible beans, clover
seed, peanuts and apples, North Caro
lina has only Texas. Illinois and Iowa
surpassing her, while, for the aggre
tate value of ail crops, we surpass.
Iowa, tiut let California and New York
co ahead. The fruit crops are respon
sible for these two states getting up
front,'' says Frank Parker.
"1.000 Miles in 1922," it Slogan.
The North Carolina Highway Com
mission put under contract last year
tv.e construe tion of more than 700
itiiles of highways and the 1922 slogan,
is to add l.lmu miles to this five-year
total.
"The sky s the limit'' now, so to
speak. In currying forward the stale's
road building campaign and the road
builders are going after the big Job to
dear it up abend of time. They have
tiken Governor Morrison and tha
council of state at their word, in their
promise to provide the money, and
"1.000 miles 1922'' was decided upon as
the goal at last week's meeting of the
highway commission.
The commissioners appointed by
Governor Morrison during the early
months of his administration, got ta
work with Chairman Frank Page last
April. With $50.C00.000 assured, a
thorough highway organization, and
the entire state in a receptive mood
for road-building activities, the com
mission opened the throttle and sarted
to work. And work has been going on.
to an excessive degree throughout tha
months, with the result that the or
ganization has some figures which talk
in concrete, asphalt and sand-clay
language.
These figures shw that $12,941.F9
in highways are unt'er contract, and
that $S.S77.829 have been cou
trncted for to lie paid within two
years. The total mileage is placed at
752, nearly 600 of which have been
added since last May.
8ee Keepers Close Meeting.
The sixth annual conference of tha
North Carolina State Ben-Keepers as
sociation closed at State College with,
the election of officers.
The new officers are: Ulton Warner,
Asheville, president; D. W. Monroe,
C'hadbourn, vice-president; J. E. Eck
hart, Raleigh, secretary-treasurer.
These officers with V. L. Johnson of
Mount Airy and W. II. Pridgen of
Cre-tk, will compose the exeeutiva
committee.
Three matters of general interest
to bee keepers w-ere discussed and act
ed upon favorably hy the association
during the conference. Arrangement!
were completed for the co-operative
j buying of supplies whereby all mjm
bets of the association will he al
lowed a discount of IS per cent oa
orders amounting to $10 or more.
Plans for enlarging the honey ethibits
at the Statu Fair were considered, tha
details being left in the hands of the
executive committee. The association
also decided to hold a two day short
course in beekeeping at the college on1
the :10th and 31st of next August, these
dates coining during the annual Farm
ers' itnd Farm Women s Convention.
City Listing Blanks.
Tho blanks on which the reports of
the bonded debt of the cities, towns,
counties or any other local taxing dis
tricts will have to list their bend is
sues in accordance with the Sams hill
passed at the special session of the.
legislature in December, are being
printed, and will, in all probability, ba
sent out by the state auditor. Tha
Sams bill specifically requires that tha
government authorities responsible
for the issuance of the bonds and the
collection of the taxes shall see that
all bond issues are listed with the au
ditor to get the blanks to every one
of these local units of government
which now has the right to Issue
bonds does not relieve the governing
authorities from the responsibility of.
listing them.
Power Company Seeks Increase.
A full day of testimony before the
State Corporation commission was In
sufficient to complete the hearing of
the North State Power company's pe
tition for an increase in power and
lighting rates of approximately 30 per
cent. When Jie commission adjourn
ed for the day, the petitioning power
company had not completed its testi
mony and representatives of users in
nine or ten small towns in Wake, Har
nett and Johnston countieaj had a
mass of testimony they wanted to sub
mit. The hearing was continued.
Quarters Selected for Meeting.
E S. Butler, president of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, has ten
dered to Governor Cameron Morrison,
the use of the directors' room of tha
exchange for the holding of the ses
sions of the Cotton States Conference
which Governor Morrison hail called1
for February 23 25. Governor Morri
son accepted the invitation. Mr. But
ler Is is a member of the Ixuiislana
commission, which 1s to study tha
cotton problem In that State and then,
attend as delegates the conference at
New Orleans. .
Governor Paroles Two.
Governor Cameron Morrison parol
ed two Chatham county road prisoners
'who were serving terms for violation
of the prohibition laws. Both men
were convicted of aiding and abetting
in the manufacture of whiskey. O. W.
Campbell, serving 18 months, was one
and L. M. Petty, serving 18 months,
was the other. The first was upon tha
recommendation of the solicitor, Wal
ter D. Slier and the latter upon rec
ommendation of the Judge presiding,
C. C. Lyon. ,