BRIEF HEWS NOTES WHAT HAS OCCURRED OURINQ WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN TRY AND ABROAD ? !? EVENTS OFJMPORTANGE MinrMl Fr?m All PirU Of Tht OlotM And Told In Short Paragraphs Foreign ? Great Britain dramatically dropped a naval bomb Into the Geneva confer ence, and the new ' Anglo-French en tente was appraised by many as ap proaching the character of an out-and out alliance, when Sir Cecil Hurst, erinent Jurist and British delegate, declared Great Britain's readiness to a compulsory arbitration, provided she would not be brought into court because of some act of her navy per formed in attempting to maintain or restore peace. Fighting has broken out in Ecuador between government troops and revo lutionists who are attempting to de pose President Cordoba, according to dispatches reaching Bogota, Colombia, from the Ecuadorean border. The auxiliary .schooner, Bowdoin, of the MacMlllan arctic expedition, which left Wiscasset, Maine, on June 23. 1923, arrived recently at Battle Harbor, Labrador. All members of the explorer's party were reported well. Telegraph operators employed by the Canadian Press will cease work at a set hour, If the news organiza tion has not withdrawn its recent pro posal to decrease telegraphers' wages, according to an ultimatum served by the operators'/ general committee at Toronto. { Bishop Fan S. Noli, premier of Al bania, delivered before the assembly of the league of nations an ironical address on world political conditions, which evoked a great deal of laughter and some mild demonstrations of dis approval. The participation of French banks in the first loan *f 800,000,000 gold marks to Germany under the Dawes reparation plan still remains in doubt, it was learned in banking circles, de spite the publication by Le Matin of a story to the effect that French bank ers would take up 6 per cent of the loan. An eight-hour day throughout in Europe is in prospect. Ratification of the Washington labor convention by Great Britain, France, Belgium and Germany in the near future is ex tremely likely in consequence of a con ference of the labor ministers of the four countries Just concluded at Berne, according to Albert Thomas, director of the international labor bureau. Receipts in the Ruhr for the IS months, ending in June of this year, amounted to 3,619,000,000 French francs, including cash, merchandise and accounts collectible, according to an official statement made by the ministry of finance. r Two-thirds of this amount was collected during the 1924 semester. Insistent but unconfirmed reports say that Baron Matsui, ex-foreign minis ter in the Japanese cabinet, Is the leading candidate to succeed M. Hanl hara as Japanese ambassador to the United States. q The Duchess of Westminster, who has figured prominently in the gaities connected with the entertainment of the Prince of Wales on Long Island, has petitioned for the dissolution of her marriage, the papers having been served on the duke August 18. It was revealed at London. Washington ? Sentaor LaFollette, Independent candidate for president, was recently told by a delegation representing the Steuben society that he could count on the support of 6,000,000 voters of Ger i man descent. Confidence that the presidential elec tion will be decided in favor of John W. Davis in the electoral college, and will not be thrown into congress, was recently expressed in a statement is sued by Clem L. Shaver, chairman of the Democratic national committee. Saturday half holidays for employes of the postoffices of the country, as far as practicable, have been ordered by Postmaster General New to con tinue beyond September 13, the usual date of termination for the summer. The United States board of tax ap peals has decided it has no Jurisdic tion in cases "involving only the re fund to the tax payer of tax paid prior to passage of the revenue act of 1924." By the ruling, which was handed down in dismissing the appeal of the Averett knitting mills, the board is regarded as eliminating from further considera tion one entire class of cases that it had been exuected heretofore would be submitted to it for adjudication. Fiscal operations of the government are continuing to shrink, according to plans for September financing an nounced by Secretary Mellons, and the treasury expectB to go through the next three months with new borrow ings of only $360,000,000^, Expecting that Ejtvis will be elected, Rev. Thomas W. Cooke, rector of the Church of the Ascension, has offered a pew In his church to the Democratic candidate and Mrs. Davis. He said that although Davis is a Presbyterian, he often attends the Episcopal church, of which Mrs. Davis is a communicant. ? J A landtQg force of 100 sailors from the light cruiser Rochester was pot ashore at Celba. Honduras and the ship is proceeding to Tela to act t a* a guard for the American consulate there. \ . .... . A dispatch from Honolulu, Hawaii, says that four policemen and eleven Filipinos strikers were killed In a re cent fight at the town of Hanepepe, on the island of Kauai. A depu y sher iff is among the number seriously in tared. - The fight ensued when two pSicemen attempted to rescue two Filipinos who continued at work when a strike occurred, they having been kidnaped by the strikers. Domestic ? After two years of steadfastness in her ambition to become a motion pic ture actress, Mrs. John Harrison, for merly the ward of Howard Chandler Christy, has obtained the consent of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Oliver Harrl man, to take up a screen career, it was learned. Directors of the Union Bag and Paper corporation, of New '\ork, omit ted the quarterly dividend of $1.50 a share due at this time. Alexandria Pope, noted painter of .animals and still life, died suddenly at the wheel of his automobile while driving near Hingham, Mass. He was 75 years of age. . On learning of the third postpone ment of the first of the international polo games, the Prince of Wales set tled down to the life of a country gentleman, made his first Inspection of Long Island cattle, and prepared to remain in the James A. Burden home for another week or ten days if nec essary to see the deciding game be tween the American and British polo teams. ,,, (> 1 . The "Garden Isle" of Kauai, Hawaii, is quieter after a fight between police and Filipinos strikers, resulting in 19 deaths and injuries to many other strikers. Pleas of guilty to mall fraud charges were entered by seven in dividuals and one-corporation as de fendants in the Cordon Ingalls oil case indictment In federal court at Texarkana. Ark. They will be sen tenced soon. While Louis Splichal vainly tried to find a way through a wall of flames to save them, six of his daughters, ranging in age from 3 to 14 years, were burned to death in the Splichal farmhouse near Dickinson, N. D. Thomas E. Cooper, president of the defunct Liberty Savings bank, Wil mington. N. C., which failed at the time the Commercial National bank of Wilmington wa6 closed, and Joseph C. Rourk. cashier, pleaded guilty in superior court to two charges in con nection with the bank's failure. . The resolutions committee of the state Democratic convention at Little Rock, Ark., side-tracked the Ku Klux Klan question when it tabled a resolu tion condemning the order by name. "Store door delivery," in which the railroads, through the use of motor trucks, would deliver goods from the shipper directly to the consignees' door was indorsed by the Atlantic states regional advisory board of ship pers at New York. Sentence of life, imprisonment for the murder of fourteen-year-old Rob ert Franks and of ninety-nine years imprisonment for kidnaping the boy, were meted ;out to Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb by Judge John R. Caverly. The youth of the defend ants. eighteen and nineteen years, was all that saved them from the nooBe. Ernest W. Gibson. Of Brattlesboro, Vt., representative in congress from the second Vermont district, was re nominated by the Republicans. Apparently Cole L. Blease, former governor of South Carolina, has receiv ed the nomination for the junior sena torship from that state. The latest results show that Blease has 97,462 votes; Byrnes, 95,245, and It is con ceded by the opponents of Blease, that returns from the remaining precincts will not materially change the result. Julius Loomis, 19, was almost in stantly killed when a Southern railway struck a motor truck he was driving near Sweetwater, Tenn. A compan ion of the dead youth leaped to safety before the engine rammed the truck. Senator Joseph E. Ransdell was run ning away from Lee Thomas, mayor of Shreveport, in their contest for the Louisiana senatorial nomination in the primary on the fact of early returns. Bernard A. Marron, 22-year-old bank robber, diamond thief and convict, re cently was sentenced in New York City to serve a three year term in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. He pleaded guilty to, having robbed a lower Manhattan branch of the Capi tal National bank of $15,000. As a result of ill-feeling of several years' standing and the recent heat ed political campaign, four men are dead and two others, innocent bystand ers, not expected to live. They en gaged in a gun battle at Plaquemine Point pooling booth in St Landry parish, Louisiana. William Allen White, Emporia (Kans.) editor, sent out independent nominating petitions to place his name and that of State Senator Carr W. Taylor on the November ballot as candidates for governor and lieuten ant governor of Kansas, respectively. John A. Stewart, president of the Republican League of clubs bf the state of New York, recommended to the executive committee of that organi zation the other day that voting citi zens be rewarded with medals and that chronic non-voters be barred from tho Dolls. CAUSES HURT 111 I ILL GOOD TDBAGCfl BAD WEATHER CAUSES REDUC TION TO MANY TOBACCO ( f- i ? FARMS. . . ,v Cy ? Raleigh? Seventeen warehouses operating in North Carolina in the month of August on eight markets in the counties of Bladen, Columbus and Robeson, sold 8,561,576 pounds of producers tobacco compared with 11,408,915 pounds dur ing August of last year, when there were fifty-eight warehouse open. The average prise was $17.44 per hundred compared with $22.52 last August. r , Tobacco, along with crops gener ally, was damaged this season by weathern conditions, according to an analysis of the crops out look by Frank Parker, agricultural statistician. "The long wet weather period, fol lowed by dry conditions, resulted in a tobacco weed of thin texture and good color. The eastren counties, having the greatest damage to the general crops from wet conditions, also had poor tobacco. The greatest damage ;t was in that area nearest to the coast i and in the South Carolina belt. The inner part of the New Belt and most of the Old Belt has comparatively good crops but much below last year. The condition of 72 per cent is re ported for North Carolina, indicating an average yield of 590 pounds per acre. Last year's average was 700 pounds. The present prospects of 294,000,000 pounds is about 24 per cent below last year's crop. Part of this I is due to the 10 per cent decrease la acreage. "The national tobacco outlook shows a 20 per cent decrease from last year and a considerable decrease from the usual production. The yield per acre af 702 pounds is over 10 per cent less than the five year average. The con dition averages 70.6 per cent af a full crop as compared with 86.6 a year ago. The national acreage was reduced al most 8 per cent this year. "The market sales to date in North Carolina shows a slightly less average in price from last year i>ut slightly more than two years ago. The pro duction sales to date show lesB pounds in this state as compared with last year but much more than two years o Governor Appoints Dates. A series of speaking engagements for Governor Morrison in the cam paign for the authorisation of an eight and a half million dollar bond issue for the development of port terminals and the operation of ships was an nounced by the campaign headquart ers Saturday. The appointments, be ginning Monday, continue through Sep tember 26. After speaking Monday, in Wade* boro, at the Anson County Courthouse at 8 o'clock in the evening, Governor Morrison will afterwards meet the fol lowing engagements: Sanford Town Hall, at 7:30 o'clock p. m., September 16; Fayetteville, in Cumberlond County Courthouset at 8 p. m., September 17; Kinston, in Lo* noir County Courthouse, at 8 p. m., September 19; Charlotte, in Mecklen burg County Courthouse, at 8 p. m., September 22; Salisbury, in Rowan County Courthouse, at 8 p. m., Sep tember 23; Statesville, in Iredell Coun ty Courthouse, at 8 p. m., September 24; North Wilkesboro, September 26; Wilson County Courthouse, at 8 p. m., September 26. Ruling by Attorney Manning. Under a ruling requested by the North Carolina Insurance Department, Attorney General Manning expressed the opinion that the operations of the Carolina Syndicate a concern now engaged in marketing land around Havelock in the Eastern part of the State under the assertion that oil wells will be sunk there, come within the range of the Blue Sky Law. Under the Attorney General's rul ing, S. F. Campbell, chief deputy o! the Insurance department, has suggest ed to the syndicate that it recall any advertisements or salesmen who have been employed until steps have been taken to qualify the law or until the Commissioner has had an opportunity to pass upon ths matter In the light of all the facts and purposes relevant to the situation. Frank Dempsey, leading promoter of the Carolina Syndicate chartered under the laws of Delaware, who with his associates has established offices in the Lawyers Building, has made it clear thkt his concern is not selling stock, that it is interested in selling land. Tobacco Grower* Claim Fast Start. Members of the Tobacco Growers Go-operative Association in Eastern North Carolina are making a fast start in delivering the crop of 1924 to the co-operative floors according to a statement from the headquarters here. A total close to a million and a half pounds having already been received by the thirty-live association ware houses. The highest average yet reported for a single load delivered was received by Ira Blound of Kerr. N. C. i ?* ' . ... m m ii DOINGS IN TIE jj : TAR HEEL STATE :; | [ NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA I * TOLD IN SHORT PARA J | GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE Chapel Hill.? Charles MacRae, of Fayette ville, Is back from a free-of charge pilgrimage that took him to the Middle West and the Far West He rode freights and sometimes pas senger trains. Sometimes he sat on the rods underneath, but at others he rested luxuriously on bumpers at the ends of cars. He dispensed with the formaility of purchasing tickets. Winston-Salem. ? The Forsyth Coun ty tax rate was fixed at 55 cents on the $100 valuation, the taxable prop erty in the county aggregates $165, 000,000 for the current year/ Kinston. ? Members of the family of Walter J. Smith, promident Pink Hill planter, narrowly escaped with their lives when their home was burned. Charlotte.? M. O. Efird, general manager of the Atlanta branch of the has resigned his position to become manage rof the Atlanta branch of the Southern Bakeries Corporation. He was Southern district manager of the American Sugar Refinery Company and later Southern manager of the Na tional Biscuit Company. He has been with the Efird chain since the World War. Goldsboro.? Luther Sullivan and Fitzhugh Lane, young Goldsboro men connected with the "Alice Rose" case which played so prominent a part in the last term of the Wayne Superior court, have been given their liberty, having taken their appeal to the su preme court. 1 Burlington.? Bob Norton's Circus, re puted to be one of the highest type entertainers of its kind in the coun try, which was to open a week's engage ment here aB the Shrine Circus, took down their tent, erected at great cost, cancelled their engagement and left for their next stop. Elizabeth City.? The community of Kewland, in this county, is arranging for a community fair. There will be numerous amusements and games. The community will take its choices farm products to form a community exhibit at the Ten County Fair to be held here. Rocky Mount? In a raid staged In the Temperance Hall section of Edge combe county, three negroes, 300 gal lons of beer, a small quantity of whis key and a still of approximately 40 gallons capacity fell into the hands of local officers. Burlington.-^? National Defense Day was observed fittingly here by people from all over Alamance county. Col. Don E. Scott, of Graham, was in charge of the program and was ably assisted by a committee of people from Burling ton and Graham. Mount Airy.? A public meeting was held in ' the study hall of the local high school in the interest of the Great Lakes to Florida highway when the members of the Charlotte to Bluefield "good will tour" were present and ad dresses were made by many of the prominent visitors. f / Mount Airy.? The Mount Airy Ki wanis Club was host at a Mount ATry to Winston-Salem banquet at the Blue Ridge hotel here, honoring the Win ston-Salem chamber of commerce, Ro tarians, Lions, Clvltans and Kiwan lans. y Ooldsboro.? The Goldsboro Grocery Company, of this city, suffered a loss of $50,000 by Are when its building on James street was visited by a conflag ration which kept the local fire fight ers busy for an hour or more. AahoviUe. ? A barn on the farm of J. A. Baker, local packing plant owner, was completely destroyed by fire, causing an estimated damage close to $25,000. The barh contained six large automobile trucks belonging to the Baker Packing Company, more than 100 tons of hay and five horses. Rocky Mount. ? According to meagre information available here, a negro woman, whose name could not be learned, was killed in an automobile accident near Spring Hope. Tarboro. ? There will be a special meeting of the Merchants' Association to take steps to advertise the advan tages of the Tarboro tobacco market throughout the Eastern section. At this meeting other matters of impor tance will be considered. Winston-Salem. ? It wiis definitely decided to opfen the auction sales warehouse here. The local market sold over 43 million pounds of tobacco last year and warehousemen predict the sales this season will exceed that ? mount. Wilmington. ? Wilmington paid its .'inal tribute of love and respect to Mayor James H. Cowan, when all retail and wholesale business suspended for one hour during the funeral service held from St. James Episcopal church. Charlotte. ? Prof. Alexander Graham vho celebrated his 80th birthday was endered a banquet by the teachers of he schools, who also presented him wit ha handsome gold watch. Profes sor Graham came frctui Fayetteville ,o' Charlotte- in the middle 80s to be superintendent of the graded school iiere. In recent years he has been as sistant superintendent MAKING GOOD IN A SMALL TOWN Real Stories About Real Girls By MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN titftftlll iltil'H IM I 1 1 IH (?. 1924, Western Newspaper Union.) "KIDNAPING" WITH A CAMERA * .* UmO THE 'Main Street girl' who 1 wants to make money selling pic tures of lier own taking, lier camera is Just as constantly Indispensable as is his eternal notebook to a Journalist." My Informant was an athletic-look ing girl, who, following her own ad vice, was carrying her camera and stopping at Intervals to decide If that were just the view she wanted. "She would never be without It; for if she makes an exception to the rule sometimes when she goes for a stroll in the woods or a drive along thes country roads, she Is sure to see just the picture she would like to have," the girl went on. "You see. I can sell any artistic scenes I can get to the city newspapers and to maga zines. The publications' devoted to outdoor sports, gardening, farming, scicnce and physical culture are the best markets. The more unusual the scenes ore, the more money they bring. I can always sell freak pictures to newspapers ? a giant squash, or a po tato that has 'the President's face' on it." Iler market is at home as well as abroad. The farmer who owns a fine horse or cow, or who has built a new home may be a customer; he may like a view of the field hands harvesting a bumper crop. Or perhaps the local real estate man wants a photograph taken on some farm 'lie handles; some times railroad companies use her farm views. Selling the home town views to for mer residents Is one of the best meth ods by which the camera-girl may sell her pictures. The boy away at col lege would like a view of the old high school building, or of the baseball dia mond or the football field. The girl at "finishing school" might like a view of tiie high school building, too. Other absent townspeople will be interested in the scenes which have the most sentimental appeal to them. A bird's eye view of the tov:n will interest them. The camera-girl would have to do most of this type of lier business by mail, though at home-coming celebra tions and at the holiday seasons she could see some of her out-of-town cus tomers. ( > Special orders, such as for picture* of stock for advertised sales may be another chance for !he camera-girl. She should have her eye "peeled" for every picture with a gripping hu man interest. The saucy little screw tailed pigs, the bird nest full of wide open little bills, should not escape her camera. She should be what is known as a "kidnaper" In snnpshotdom ? she should "shoot" any j?nd every Inter esting subject which she can get in front of the camera. RUNNING A RENTAL LI BRARY TWr ANAGING a rer tal library "on her own" is one job that's open exclusively to the g'rl whose homo town numbers not m?-re than a few hundred inhabitants? too few to sup port a public library. The girl in the city cai^'t have this Job; neither can the one in the mediut? sized town. "And when makirg pood means making money." says the girl whom all her friends call the "browser," there's no better way. It's a paying proposi tion, as well as a ploasing one." An intense love of books gave her the impetus to stutt her business. When her family nwived away from the city, she could no longer haunt the big book stores, with their well filled shelves of late books. So, with the few popular hooks she happened to own, and others which she rented from a circulating library in the city, she started her library. "You see," she explained, "I wanted 'to read them m.vself! Hut apparently there were other book lovers who felt as I did, for the litrle venture was a success from the first." The-girl-who-Ilkes-hooks. and who decides to start a library in the town that hasn't any. may <*tart out as "the browser" did ? with the library In a nearby city. Later, site may. at in tervals. add more boo :s, which she buys outright. She will, by browsing about a bit. when in the city, find Ut ile second-hand book stalls, where she may pick up hooks at bargain prices. Her first purchases should be stand* and fiction works. In about seventy five-cent editions. She must remember the people who like non-fiction, ton, ami get for them books on such subjects as domestic science, gardening, nnd poultry rais ing. Above all, she njjst have plenty of hooks for that most voracious class of readers ? the child -on. The girl-librarian may decide to subscribe to a few of the popular magazines, and she cor. Id. i).v clubbing several, get special rates. She should sew them into heavy covers, alwgys filing away carefully the old num bers for future reference. She wlli need to use d card system, or some other method of recoid keeping. She may decide to requir?- each patron a jdollar deposit to Insi.re her against loss, or mutilation of books. The girl who choo -es this line of .work will have the p.easure of asso ciation with the be*t hooks of the day. In addition to whate rer financial re ward Bhe can make I* pay her. ?'v. /, The Woman Who KB Columbia, S. C? "I t u ^ that it was impossible for n, 50 ? . , f m? to Urn my C,!! ,ny b?k mS; ,,;T 2rl<1 H^tui-btd sleep. I t. "C ,\ 1 ; St"i d ?l b,,?ie cf .fj| nV! Mcd'cf 1):^COVfTV' ;1 ^ pP 7^ p^.'^vorj improved so mucK r*aS?JP,i?n',l the first two boit.es that tinued the treatment V0?. , 1 . very sorry. I But fluttered >!) J""r >J Sir?"; ??? // Hiir in .. Thousands Have Kidnf Trouble and Neva Suspect It Applicants for Insurance Sk* | Use Swamp-Root Judging from reports from who are constantly in direct toar'nJ the public, there is one preparatwj has been very successful in overt* these conditions. The mild and k-J influence of Dr. Kilmer's SwampR^^ soon realized. It stands the higbai its remarkable record of success. 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