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TRUTH, PROSPERITY AKD DEfcTCC&lCY Vol. XXXIV Wnchincsn, Deauf crt County, N. C, Thursday, -April; 7th, :r 1921 . V HE GOAL STRIKE IfJ GREAT B 1,200.000 wrr ers idle as a re- 8 LILT CONTROVERSY OVER WAGE SCALE, ALMOST COMPLETE STOPPAGE T Danger Thrttspns That Mines May be Flooded and Thit lany May fee Irretrievably Ruined. Tendon. All work ceased In the seal mines of the United Kingdom at midnight with the exception of very few districts and approximately 1, 200,000 miners were idle as a result of the controversy oyer the wage is sue. In only two collieries in York shire, one in Northumberland, one In Scotland and one in. North Wales the wen have promised to continue at their posts without prejudice, tat any terms that may be agreed upon, but all other pit workers, including me chanics, pump men, rentilating men and pony .men, came out -with the Miners. j Danger that the "'iainers may be flooded threatens and many may be irretrievably ruined from the inrush ty water. Strenuous efforts are being ade to enroll volunteers. Yorkshire pump men hare decided to remain at work. - .-,, . ' f" A nRrch pn Lns im fait that t.ti hlm tlonal Union of Railway Men and the transport workers' union, partners with the miners in the labor dispute, may be tempted to strike in sympa thy with the coal diggers. In such an event, the nation would be. confronted by a crisis of- unprecedented gravity. Hum Suggested Release, j Berlin The pardoning; of ib.Carl - Neuf and, htnltXjmjaer, ; the Ameri cans,, under confinement in Baden, for their attempt io' arrest Grover . Cleve lancT Bergdollr the, American draft evador, who were released at Mos bach, was suggested to thf Baden au thorities by the German government -as a voluntary attempt to smooth out unpleasant situation. Germany. Dumps, en Belgium. Brussels. an a formal note ad dressed to the Belgian government, the Belgian Federation of Contractors charges Germany with perfecting s Kijrantic system of dumping. This is declared to be so formidable that n .industry outside of Germany can figh against it unless determined and rapj id action are taken at once. j Death of "Uncrowned King." Berlin. Wilhelm Sylt. known as "the uncrowned King of the i Berlin proletariat," died as a result of a bulr ,let wound received after he struck a policeman who arrested him on susP 'picion that he was planning a general strike. I 1 .Want Chinease Treaty Revised. Mexico City. Declaring- that Ch nees axe monooolizine the labor lob ta the northern district of Lower Call ,fornia, a delegation of citizens of that 'territory has arrived here to ask thSjt me treaty; witn Cnina, negotiated six years ago be abrogated or revised Legion Asks Controbuitions. Indianapolis, Ind. A call i for a Members of the American Legion to contribute ten cents to a Memorial Day fund for, the decoration of Ameri can graves overseas was sent out m a bulletin from national headquarters of the legion here. ! One 'Woman Blinds Another. Jerome, Ariz. Mrs. Clarence Hopkins, wife of a mining engineer, was rushed to the Prescott county jail to avoid violence against, her j follow ing the throwing of acid into the fate of Lucille Gallagher, a school teacher. Fighting. Has Spread.! Athens, i . Fighting between. tie .Greeks and Tur:i?h .nationalists h : spread along; the line in , Asia T'lin ttintil the northern end of the acti lone is within 30 miles of Isniid. Or e Beer Drinking Fails Off. Washington Beer drinking in many has fallen off by more than 750, . 000,000 gallons a year as compared with pre-war consumption, j Consul General Coffin, at Berlin reported I Engage Russian Militia : Tokio The anti-bolshevik troops -formerly commanded by the late, GfP ral Kappel, armed with ! machine (guns, opened an engagement with the Russian militia in Vladivostok, salys a dispatch from that city to newspa pers here. RITA : Ira OF WALLACE i HIGHER PRICES NDULUM OF PRICE READJUST MENT SWUNG TOO FAR AND TOO VIOLENTLY. DOLLARS MUST BE EQU.1LIZED Farmers Must Be Paid an Approxl- niate Increase of . 70 Per Cent fer the Product of Their Toll. : Washington. Food nricea must rise i again and rise soon before the com ing of real prosperity. All the farmer raises is sold for too little; he is re ceiving fifty to sixty cent dollars for what he sells and paying 100-ceot dol lars for what he buys. The 'pendu lum of price readjustment has swung too violently and too far in his direc tion;; ' . .. j , One of two things must happen. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace be lieves, before the country can be truly prosperous. As he sees the dilemma, the horns are described thusj j 1. j .Farm products and this means all foodstuffs must rise approximate ly 70 per cent in wholesale prices ta 1.; The retail price of everything else must drop still further until the buyer's dollar and the farmer's dol lar are worth exactly the same amount. ' ;' Present prospects are that both movements will be noticeable within a short time. Increased prices I of food stuffs will be brought about to some exjeiit7ls believed, by the enact mentof a" tariff sufficiently jhlgh to prevent the -dumping into .American markets of - farm products raised abroad. these products at present be ing' sold at prices lower than the cost Ufc-H?roaut3ns;$ Harding Dines Newtpapeij Men. Washington. President Harding fulfilled one of his campaign; pledges when hV gave a White House&inner to i newspaper correspondents who were assigned to him during jhis race for the presidency. These -reporters, who organized themselves into the order of the ele nhant.? rave a dinner' for j Harding S w last September: ! Want Amnesty for Prisoners. Atlanta, Ga. Samuel M. Castleton, personal counsel in Atlanta; for Eu gene V. Debs, socialist leader now, serving a ten-year sentence in the federal penitentiary here for violation of the espionage act, will appear be- fore President Harding April io present a plea for general to I pol jtical prisoners. amnesty ! Cure Found for Seasickness. Brussels. Dr. Nolf, a professor at the University of ' Liege, announces that he has discovered an j absolute cure for seasickness by the use of belladonna and atropine.. Seasickness according to the doctor, has ts origin in a nerve in the interior ear which causes dizziness. --j,VLj Elks Take Ty Cobb In. ; Detroit. Life membership in the Elks has been voted Ty Cobb, man ager of.the Detroit American League team, by Detroit Lodge No. 34. A gold membership card will be presented the Tiger manager before the open ing game of the season here April 13. Heaviest Holders of Bonds. Washington. National banks are heaviest holders of government bonds. Their total investments in Liberty bonds and Victory notes amount to $2,269,575,000. The banks have in all nrts of securities, both foreign ana domestic, $4,186,465,000. Housing-Shortage to Continue. . Washington. Hopes for relief from Mie housing shortage were shattered vr j-v.n H. Don! in, president of the I r -.e-is no relief in sight or any in- rlf cation of a 'reyjjral -of building j ac tivity, Denlin declared. ; "... :. ! ;. Husband Only to Recommend. ' Washington Recommendations on appeals of immigrants barrpd from entering this country will, be made directly by 'Commissioner General of Immigration Husband. Jewell and Harding to Confer. Washington. President r Harding has invited Bert M. Jewell, .head of the railroad organizations affiliated with the American Federation of La bor to confer with him nere m ui was general ix- learned in labor circles here. !0 00 i J . f ' I . PE III i RIEIGH-RICHtlOlA J BRIDGE IS OPE CONSUMMATION OF TWO YEARS OF EFFORT WAS ACHIEVED ON FEBRUARY 23. riOST DIRECT TOURIST ROUTE Road Gangs Along hlt Line, Also In Georgia and South Carolina Very Busy Grading . and Filling. Raleigh. Consummation of the thoughts and Ideas of the several communities 4a terested as to the desiribility-of a bet ter method of communication with the world. North and 'South, was achieved, when on February 23 the South Hill Henderson Bridge was opened to trar el and traffic : .' . The new bridge shortens the 'dis tance from Richmond to Raleigh be tween Norti and South, twenty miles, and from South Hill to Durham, the route is over the South Hill-Henderson bridge and j through Henderson and Oxford, ..' In a recent communication from oneS of the officials of the American Auto mobile Association, the following ref erence was made to the new route: -"We are going right ahead with preparing new detailed strip maps showing the main route down through Richmond, South Hill, Henderson Ra leigh and Pinehurst so that by next tall the procession of motor cars car rying tourists from the North to the Southland may ! be directed over the best and most .direct route. On our inspection trip through to Florida, we found that all through South Carolina and Georgia the road gangs are very busy grading and filling along the main lines of travel, especially along; the route, or course whieh we expect over durintr.the commg season:' Thetate mgW Commissioner!! advise ur that mndl- Commissioners advise us that condl tfons - will be better than ever before down through the Carolinas and Geor gia so tkl the usual djifficulties will not be experlencedin getting through. Of course .the Virginia section has been well taken care of, and Commis sioner Coleman is making a real high way throughout the State." . Insurance Company is Warned. Insurance ! Commissioner Stacy Wade served notice on the Belt An to moible Indemnity association of El Paso., 111., that it cannot do further business in North Carolina or get its unapproved v contracts -t approved un less there is quick and radical " im provement in the business methods of the company. "Ths stand is taken, said Mr. Wade, "Not because of . any flagrant violation of tie insurance laws Governor Morrison to Speak. Governor Morrison ha.s accepted the invitation of the North Carolina - Tr - chants association to deliver an ad dress to that body when it meets in Greensboro ! on April7. The governor spoke here to a group meeting of bankers enjoining the financiers to do the patrotic turn: by the state now, just as niujh as they dd-y the na tion when it went to war. Prohibition Agents Active. Chief Federal Prohibition Agent Gulley and Agents Ranes, Richardson and Brady last! week arrested twenty men on charges of violating the pro hibition laws, j captured eight stills, confiscated a large amount of whis key. '.-i '." ; ' Sustains Lower Court Verdict. The supreme court upheld a verdict for $3,500 damages given in Bruns wick superior court to J. H. Cotton," a well, known "white man of the count, because .of a slander made against him by officials of the Fisheries Prod ucts company of New Hanover. "Baptist Bishop' is Dead. Rev. J.-D. Hufham, D. D., one of the best known and most highly esteemed Baptist preachers in the state and re ferred to by many as "the .Baptist bishop of North Carolina," died after a brief illness J , ; s Commissioner Shipman Returns. 1' Washington, : (Special). Commis sioner, of Labor and Printing, M. L. Shipman, whohas spent two days on matters connected with the national and state employment service for North Carolina left for his home. Mr. Shipman . had quite a lengthy conferv ence with the new Secretary of Labor James O. Davis, who is much in terested . in the employment service. - Mr. Shipman gets the impression that the present arrangements With relation to the work In North Carolma will be continued. Htl);; sirn:j 5 MRS. EDWIN DENBY. New protograph of Mrs. Edwin Den fcy, wife of the secretary of the navy. j She was born Thurper, the daughter of Cleveland's private secretary, and ot her first schooling in the White House klndercarten. COST OF LB 60O OOlVil The Pennsylvania Railroad System in February was Operated at a "Lose of More Than $8,500,000. ! - Pittsburgh. If has become Impos sible to operate the Pennsylvania railr road successfully and continue to pay the "abnormally high' wages fixed by the Railroad Labor Board, a S. Krick general manager of the eastern region declared in opening a series of confer ences between officials of the com pany and ''representatives of its em ployes, to discuss proposed reductions in salaries and wages. ;j . ; vl-f- Mr. . Krlcx caaintalned that the sea- normal and that Wince the middlerof normal and that since 'the middle of last year, the cost of living has been steadily going down. , j V "At preseat,' he declared "nearly 79 per cent out jof every dollar-the Pennsyleinia railroad reeeivea from operation is paid but in wages.. The remaining 30 cents is hot sufficient to buy fuel and other materials and pay our taxes and other obligations. "Without taking dividends into con sideration, the Pennsylvania . system was operated in February at a loss of more than $8,50fli000. I v : Hold up List of Evaders. Washington. Publication by . the War Department! of ; the list of war time draft evaders has been post poned until Attorney General Daugh erty can prepare an opinion on the question of the legal liability of the government in the event names of in nocent men should by accident ap pear on the lists made public. s Archbishop Gibbons at Rest. Baltimore. With allj the splendor of a ceremoney centuries old, the Ro man Catholic church laid to rest one of its oldest and most faithful ser vantsJames Cardinal jGibbons, Arch bishop of Baltimore, and the second American to he Jelevated to the car- dinalate. f U S. Exports Much Morphine, ' Tokio.- Morphine brbught from the United States every yedr to JaRan for re-yxport to China amounts roughly to 65,000 pounds,; - Baron Fujimura, raising the-question of the opium traf fic m China, asserted at a session of the budget committee of the Kottse of . . .... Peers. - 30,000 Jugo-Slavs Ready. r Vienna. The Weinef Journal 1 an nounces that thirty ; thousand Jugo slav troops fhwe been massed in Var asdin in Croatia, with; the-intantion of marching on Stelnamanger ' and preventing a restoration of, the Haps burgs by all means. Asks Provisional Reduction. Chicago. Provisional reduction of the wages of approximately 26,000 un skilled workmen on the New York Central Railroad; to be effective April 1, was asked of the Railroad Labor Board. . j'' ! i ' :. . Roosevelt and Hoover Invited. Washington.: Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover may attend the good roads meeting in i Greensboro, N. C, April 18 to 23. Fought Fire Among the Clouds. New York. Firemen fougnl ameng the clouds for more than an hour be fpre subduingaf dangerous blaze on. the 31st floor of f the towering Equita ble Building in the heart of the down town skyscraperj district. It was one of ; the highest fires the firemen have ever been calledi.uponjto fight ' v. CONDENSED IIEY7S FROU TIDE OLD. MTU STATE Rutherfordton, John H. v Wood, C3, one of Rutherford ton's wealthiest and best known citizens was buried at the loral Methodist church. V ' Oreenville, Edward Weartbering- ton died at the age of 51. Death -was due to apoplexy. Mr. Weatherington ( bad large farming interests In Pitt Vvuu I.J . Durham.' Vhe city manager form of government as adopted by th cit.i zens of Durham in an election. Offi- l cial tabulations gave tlie managerial form a majority of S05 votes but of mil . :" - Spencer. ' Mrs-. William Keister, Wife 'of one of' Franklin township's weir known citizens has been In b pre carious condition for several ' days as the result of an attack by a hog. ' Kinston.4-John Pully is the Repub- lioan-fayorate for postmaster, at La- j Grange, ; second plum in ' importance ' to be awarded to a Lenoir county man by the new administration at Wash injrton. ;Pily has-: been . connected .with the office several years. ; ; fitalesvillc-Bruce , Fesperman, - age If years son of Mr, and Mrs. J. E. Fesperman ef States ville, was ' drown ed, in- the .Southern. Powers company's pond, about 12 miles, from States ville on the Catawba river. :-' Durhain.--Durhamt citizens voted la the managerial form' of government for this city by an overwhelming ma jority. ! The official; ppynt. has, not been made, hut members. of the cam paign committee predict that the pe charter was carried by a 3 "to 1 ivpte. Greensboro. A peanut lodged in the windpipe of C, W. lluf fines; Jr., C .W. Huf fifteso "thl City, caused the child's fleam at a local hospital following an operation. Greensboro. An effort will be made to get Calvin Coolidge, vice president of the (United States, here for the conventions of the United States Good Roads association and the Bankhead National Highway association, the week of, April 18 to 23. i Salisbury. R. A. Kohloss of this city, who is slated for the position of 'kprohibitjon director for North and South Carolina, will continue Salis bury as headquarters of his department..-. - Charlotte. Establishment of an employment bureau with state and federal laid may be effected in Char lotte according, tp T. T. Allison, busi ness manager of the chamber of com merce, jj; ' Stateiyille. A 50 gallon liquor bar rel, buried near -the home of Flake Hollandi in Union Grove township, ia the latest discovery of Sheriff. M. P. AlexarfU'er and Deputies "Trivett, Tom Iln and Policeman Gilbert. : Lincolnton. Mrs. Hosea, Carpentef died at her home at ElmXirove from the effects of burns received more than tWp weeks ago. At the time ol the accident Mrs. Carpenter was nurs ing her baby before an open ifire. Concorde Mark Teeter, 18 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs." Logan Teeter of Mecklenburg county committed sui cide at the home of , C. A Smith, near Irvin's crossing, byvdrinking a quanti ty of carbolic acid, j Hamlet. T. P. Moffit recently elect ed secretary of the Hamlet, chamber of Commerce, has, arrived in Hamlet and is on the job. Mr. Moffit comes to Hamlet from Henderson where he was for the past years secretary o the Henderson chamber. Wilson. While returning to their their homes, S. H. Vick, ex-postmaster of Wilson, and, Albert Robbinson, retired railway mail clerk, both lead ing colored men of this city, were help up and "robbed of their watches by two masked highwaymen. v Ashevilte. Damage to fruit in west ern North Carolina by reason of the freeze will not exceed one-tenth of the total crop, according to, the estimate of James F. Gray, district agricul .tural agent. Faye'tteville. One of the greates victories -for education in the history of Fayetteville was wonwhen a quar ter of a million dollars bond issue for improved public facilities was carried by a vote of 1,160 out of a registra tion of 1,349, only three votes being .cast against the bonds. Gevernor Calls a Conference. ' Governor Cameron Morrison has ealld a meeting of the heads of tLo TariouastatSi iaatitutions which Lro ' building programs , uncompleted at the time the office of bulldis ccrs missionand state architect were abcl ished, for. the pirrs of discussisr ways, and-meaa of carrying this wcrU forward - to completion. At this con ference, which win fc held duris- tha fprat week in.. April, -according ta At present plans, the governor end tha j and means of carrying forward' work the. building' commission had t dor way when its official head -w&s cut off by the legislature. For .the present, Engineer, T" rJnderwood, who was the chfr neer of the building commissi : ) been placed in charge of the o.A . the building commission for the pur pose of handling matters pending the development of a new plan. Mr " derwood, it is understood, has bec ferod the general supervision of building program of some of tht- stitutions after be is released the work of the old building con.... ftion. The ' Instiutlons will have to I have some one not only to complete the work undar way on March 1, but also some one to take general super- 1 program which will be started dorisn the coming summed Warned by Secretary of A. C. A. r Unless farmers reduce their cotton acreage for the next season at least 40 per cent it. will continue to sell far below the production cost,-'declared Winston D, Adams, secretary of the American , Cotton association, in a jstament on the condition of the tex tile ihdustryfind a review of its status for; the last 12 nionttfr" v . Cotton manufacturers are' heartily b. sympathy with the. movement tor reduced - cotton f acreage, llr. Af"-3 said. The iprperityr of the furrier depends upon .the prosperity cf tlo cotton manufacturer, and vicever-- Telephone Hearing Comes Next. . The .state corporation comia 1e. cleared its calendar of gas rates cS" and began preparations ' for he r,... the peUUon of the Southern Ec! I Tcla jc!tone company and subsidiary c ' panlLs wuh txcLl;,es ia xicr k..- lina. 1! -'i-- : ' ' , The telephone siege begins with the prospect that another, week will be consumed in hearings. Every, city in the state, Including Charlotte, Ashe ville, Raleigh, Wilmington, Greens boro! Winston-Salem and Durham will oppose the increases the com panies are asking, of the commission. Rivers and Harbors Allotment. ' Chief. of Engineers Beach, of the war department, has made the follow ing allotments for North Carolina rivers and harbors work from the last appropriations by congress;. Mantel JShallowbag) bay $4,,.: Pamlico . ind Tar rivers, $8,500; Nei fiver, $15,500; Swift creek, $800; GH tentenea creek; $1,500; Trent rtZ'f. $1,000; waterway connecting Core sound and , Beaufort' harbor, $2,5C9; Northeast Cape Fear $3,000, ; State S. S. Convention. Raleigh Sunday school workers are getting ready for the State Sunday Convention to be held here April 12, 13 and J14. The general sessions cf the convention will - be held at the Tabernacle Baptist church. 1'The 'mayor of Raleigh, Mr. T. XX. E!dridge,-who is a Bible class teacher in the Edenton Street Methodist Sua day school, is chairman oflhe' enter tainment committee. This committee is busy securing lodging for the on! of-town delegates in the private homes of Raleigh at the rate of $1.C3 per night. "Mr. J. M. Broughton, superintend ent of the Tabernacle Baptist Sunday school, is chairman of the finance committee which will raise funds to pay the expenses of the state convc: tion. v I " ' I Fer Inter-Racial Amity. i Expansion of the work, of the State Inter-Racial Relations com mitt' every county in the state for th. motion of better feeling betwec groes and white people was dis ' generally at a meeting held Yarborough hotel. Sub-comnrt; named will develop plans for the ex tension of the work throughout the .state, reporting to a later meetlag. Fifteen Competitors Pasted. Dr.E. C Brooks, state superlntea dent of edocatipn, recently stated that he 'believed the next federal e4scrj tlonal, statement .wo? Id show nnrfh Oarnlina had tumoed 15 In the maUer of rThe Car Heel state rfas"Deen fourth frorntV last among the states from an oe. tlonal standpoint, according to rc ords from Washington, punished to date. But there will now be 19 low it if Dr. Brooka' eorrecL . ' .1 .
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