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I 1 I ' . I ' " . ' ' 1 ' ' Vol. XXXIV Washmton, Deatifort, CetxitTItei jTursda -Aril 14j 1921. SLDOIVIEirOF TRADE SITUATION THE BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMIICTIC RELATIONS HAS ISSUED STATEMENT. DISAPFE HAHCE OF OPTILliSM Commerc'rl Agent Dnnls the E.. .ness Depression Says That in Great Britain Has Largely I ncreased. Washington. Financially and eco nomically the situation throughout the world improved but little during the aonth of March, With few signs of better conditions to come, according t -abled summaries for the month: received by the Bureau of Foreign: and Domestic Commerce from its trade commissioners and" commercial attaches in foreign countries. In Europe tight money, unemploy lueit and unsatisfactory industrial and shipping conditions were in evi dence while some declines in prices and slight revival of building activi ki were noted. In the eaet the sit uation was described as somewhat easier, while in South America condi- j tiuns were reported as practically un- thanged from the previous month, j j Commercial Attache Dennis report- j ed that the business depression in j Great Britain had increased owing to the perspective failure of an early set tlement with Germany on ;the repara tions question. Optimism that pre vailed in the cotton textile industry has been dissipated, he declared, both 1 by the increase In customs tarin oi j British India and a further decline in i the price of silver. , i American 'imports into France, con- tinue to show marked . reductions. Commercial i Attache I Huntington at Paris informed, the bureau. Teeth Behind Eye. Paris. One of the most! remarkable freaks ever reported has been discov ered here in the case of a woman pos sessing a complete set of teeth be hind her right eyeball. The woman complained j of a pain in her right eye, and the X-ray disclosed ! the teeth. Death of Judge Pritv.hard. Asheville, N. C. Federai Judge Je ter Conley Pfitchard, of the United States circuit court for the fourth dis trict, died here following 'an illness of veral months. Death of the famous jurist was due directly to pneumonia. Caruso Plays Safe. New York. Denial of reports that Enrico Caruso had given! his voice !a trial to find whether; it had been af fected by his recent illness was made by Bruno Zirato, his secretary. Caruso will not risk any strain on his vocal chords for some time, Zirito dded. Express Robbers Convicted. Macon, Ga. Thirty-six! of the 45 men tried during the last four weeks In Federal court here on charges of i conspiracy to rob the American Rail-j, ay company of goods, valued at morejj than $1,000,000 were found guilty and ihe" other nine were acquitted. Burlington to Sell Cotton. Austin, Texas. Albert H. Burleson. 'former postmaster general, will leave s on for Europe to sell unsold Texasf f otton, N. A. Wroe, president of the National Bank of Austin, said. To Be No Obstruction. "Washington. National Chairman neorg;e White pledged the democratic party to refrain from ''obstructing and f'arrassing" the Harding ad:ninistra tion. Capacity of Canal, is 16,550 Ships. San Francisco. Under normal ..con ditions the annual maximum capacity' i of the Panama canal is 16,5-50 ships. 21 Persons Were KiKcrJ. Rio De Janeiro. Twenty-one nr ons were killed nnrv h "":" in a rcl- usion on the (Vnt;-!i l;;::! railway; A score were injured. Heavy Snows in Virginia. Cumberland. Md Five inches oi Enow at Rowlesburg, W. Va., with tem perature of 28. Snow has been fly ing all day. Other points in Virginia and West Virgilia xalso report falls of rteet and snow. i Fewer Divorces In New York, j New York. In Chicago there were 500 divorce decrees granted in Jan nary and 1,000 in February. New York had only 178 in January ancl 207 in February. St. Louis had 372 decrees In January and 338. ' in eFhruary. h REASE 1H RATE T JUSTIFIED SCHEDULES UNDER SUSPENSION ' 3 ARE ORDERED CANCELLED BY THE COM MISSION. 1 COUNCIL OF BUSINESS Members of Nat. Automobile Charxv ber Commerce and American Dyes Institute Met With i Hoover. Washington. Proposed increaser of twenty cents a ton i in the joint rates on col from mines on the Cum berlana railroad to points on tkc Liouisr He & NashTille , and connec- tions iii Tennessee, Virginia, the Caro- linas, fcreorgia, Florida and Alabama were: found by the Interstate Com- 1 i Comnrission to be not justified. njerce The proposed schedules now suspension were ordered cance 1 Secretary Hoorer continued undei led. the 8e- 'ries or conferences with representa tives of leading-industries looking to ward the j formation of an advisory council to the Department of Com merce j composed of business men: ' Members of the National Automo bile i Chamber of Commerce and latei r presentatives from the Americas) Dyers Institute met with the secretary nd discussed the personnel of com. mfttees to represent their industries on he council. Recommends $680,000 Assessment i Re-no , Va. A recommendation of thd board of education, read hy the ! Rev. H. S. .Sherman. Front Royal, Va,, that 1680,000 be assumed as the con Terence's quota of the church's 13, 000,000 education fund was adopted conference of the Method-st hi opaj i Opposed to 44-Hour Week. , Chicago. The executive council oi the Typothetae of America in a state- j ment denied that it had ever agreed roduction of the 44-hour week. 1 to in ij The statement was issued to correct reports 3 what were termed erroneous t that the organization had approved the 4-hour week. ! Complete Re-Organization. Columbus, Ohio. Complete - re-or- :ganizatfon of the state government in Ohio j will become effective July 1 as a result of the enactment by the state senate of the administration code. Price of Flour Reduced. Minneapolis, Minn Flour prices in Minri ea polls have dropped 50; cents a barrel the last week, bringing the price of standard patents at the mills down to $8.15 to $S.40 a barrel. Another Old Confederate Dead. Chicago. Colonel Kpliraimj Lillard, former warden of the state prison of Ken ucky and a vctcun of the Con fede ate forces in the Civil war, died e home here of his daughter. at t Prices of Bricks Reduced. Chicago. A 25 per cent induction fn It le price of bricks was announced by! t le Illinois Brick company!. Bricks that ( formerly cost $16 a thousand will be reduced to $12 a thousand. obless are Put Upon Honor. Mbskegon, Mich. Muskegon has in- fugtirated the "honor system" and is ni aking unsecured loans to its job less citizens. More than $10,000 has alrehdy ,-heen loaned to those tempor- arily out of employment and in need. "o Build New Mexican Railway. Mexico City. A new rai way line territory state of between La Quenade, in the of epic, and San Marcos sinAlea, is to be constructed, aecorc ing to an announcement. Ritter Gets Post. r.f-Vn'nston. Anpomtmen: or wii- n.imttcr of Sal. Lake City as as ;rr- attorney general was announc- ed ht tho White House. r.nneirfer Currency Reform. anagua, . Nicaragua. Njcaraguan, Cota Rican and United States gov ern ment officials j are exchanging vie vs relative to currency reform in Cer tral America.. The Costa Rican National assembly nas aiso oegua.wu- sidtring of the subject. i Want Coal Shipments Stopped. Montreal The American -Federation of Labor is asked to urge the United Mine Workers of America to ref tse to mine coal for export to Great Britain, or for English ships. G IS NO r -. :, .: T iSHARP fi ARE MUST vBE OBSERVED TO AVOID ANOTHER GLUTTED t MARKET NEXT FALL- TALK AT COnOlt 00I1FEREI1GE Director Angus W. MCLean Will Th Year Reduce ProdvcVon to the" Ej I : tnt of 8. Acres to 'the Mute. ' . fv . "1 j- Raleigh. . , Washington, (Special). Address- ing the cotton conference Angus w.. McLean, the Tar Heel director of the; war finance corporation;" asserted a 60 per cent reduction in cotton acre-! age was imperative unless the market, Is to be glutted. ; ' Director Mcleaj said he had ordered such a reductions on his North Carolina -plantations. '. ' Mr, McLean also raised the ques-H tJon whether Southern bankers hav been i sufficiently "courageous" . in asy, sisting agriculturej -Some of the bank ers, Mr. McLean said, seemed to him to be too timid in their financing of agriculture. ! -j t : . i - That - he had sustained an "operat? Ing loss of $20,000" on his cotton farm last year was declared by Mr. Me-j lean, who- said he discovered this when making out his income tax. ThisJ loss, ne saia, was exclusive ox interest on investment. " This yeafj he added,' he would reduce production to the ex tent of eight acres Xo- the mule,! in stead of 15 acres and $10 fertilizer pel acre, instead of 25. " Appointments by Congressmen. 4 i Wa shington, (Special ). Represen tative Homer Lyon has msd Sjo ap pointments for the n.irral a casern y these going to Daniel C. Britt,? of ; T timberton, ' and i Phillip McNatt, of iijijxmenjLj2 given their mental examination,, on April 20. There! are now four, va cancies to be filled from North Caro lina one each for Senator Overman. Representative Stedman, ir:"-.:er and Bulwlnkle. At the military academy at'WesfPoint there ara two vacancies from North Carcina. one each for ap pointment by Re.'ve?f rtntive Kitchin and Representative JB:Iwin kle. Reduction In Tpx Valuations. i Sweeping red ions in; "property valuations made v boards jof commis sioners through t ho. state will make little difference in th state's new tax ation policy, accbrding to j legislative experts who came to Raleigh. Thp present state tax commission, composed of Chairman Tom Lee and Commissioners Pell and Maxwell ! are out of the city and the new taxation commissioner for the state. Col , Als Watts, was reluctant in the action of the several commissioners. I discussing boards of Ward Is First on the Ground. Washington, (Special). The first of the North Carolina Congressmen to arrive in the city is Hon. Hallett S. Ward, of Washington. jMr. Ward went early in thei diy to the Navy De partment and nam-?d for he vacancy from the first North Carolina district at Annapolis, . Grice McMullen, of Elizabeth City, j j I Hefner Pardoned by Governor, j Governor Morrison pardoned Cecil Hefner, charged with the murder of Glenn Lippard and under sentence of 15 years for the crime.. j j Solicitor Huffman's letter brought the freedom, new evidence tending to show Hefner's ; complete innocence having been found. The prisoner was convicted a few! months ago. i . ,!; . . J j -,! Explosives Must be Removed. ' Half a million pounds of high ex plosives stored too near Raleigh for safety will be moved in part, accord ing to Insurance Commissioner Wade,, who is informed hy the national in spectors that the combination TNT, dynamite and black powder is not safeguarded as it should be. All have been located within the danger I zone and. must be changed. Governor goes to New York. Governor Camern Morrison ! and State Treasurer B. R. Lacy will leave later ir the week for Nev York and other financial centers to investigate the feasibility . of a present issue of bonds or the sale of short term note? to provide for road construction, and institutional expansion authorized by the! 1921 session; of tha general as sembly. ." ; ! . - ''' This mission was determined upon after the Governor hid discussed "with the 5 Council . of i State the general fi nancial situation. OFACREifflGEBM I ! 1 i - ' sir " a - v r . -,4AM E8 A. STILLMAN James A. Stlllman, president cfthe Nattonal City Bank of New York, it aulnn hjs wfe';fof ,,4ivArpe in one of "the- most senWtioa suite ;of ; th e day. An Indian guide is .named 4n the pro-; deed(ngs Jind , -the J paternity of Guy titlrnan, twenty-etght months o4d, is questioned. : . -. '',Jt TIIE LAW IS TO BE ENFORCED The Department of 'Justice Will Ask for More Aid From Outside Than it has Received Heretofore. -.Washington. A general warning to "business that, the Department' of Jus tice: will countenance no violations of ihe law was sounded by Attorney Gen ral Daugherty. 1 The country, - Mr! r)augherty said, should take. notice (of a new day and a new way" and those who had been guilty of illegal, practices should not clOBe their e.yes." ! His- itatement, he added, was. a. "modest, but emphatic warning" to those fpr whom it wasin tended and could be; regarded as an op portunity for any of those who should mend their ways tcf do so. De- partment .of Justice did -notMntend to harrass business in; any way,' but that it did intend to enforce the law. j He pointed out tkat, while j tb profiteer ing seetwms.of the Lever ! act had been declared unconstitutional, the depart ment' still could, proceed under ;the Sherman anti-truBtl law.j Mrliaugherty ws discussing speci fically "the situation in (the building materials industry, which be declared reports to the department showed to be "intolerable." He said the depart ment of justice wbuld ask for more aid from the outside than it: had re ceived heretofore, j Tt Victory for Peanut Growers. Suffolk, Va. -Th pearfut growers of Virginia and North Carolina now see victory in sight for- their organization. Now that they hae about 4,000 sign ers they are bendihg all efforts to get ting i the additional thousand signers which will be neciessary to complete their organization. i Try Prohibition Fifty Years.; Chicago. The" country should give the prohibition amendment a trial for about fifty years "io se whether it is the best thing fori us cir not,' is the opinion of Judge it. M.jLandis. Mexican Mines Closed. Mexico City Bcausb of the large amount of copper on hand and inabil ity to market it at! satisfactory prices the mines in thej Stajte of Sonora, especially those near Cananea, j con tinue to be paralyzed.;! John C Washington. .Noel Appointed. -Jr.jhn a Noel, of Pen- nington Gap, Va, was' appointed by President Harding as Collector of In ternal Revenue for theistrict of Vir ginia, Mr. Noel 4s a former 'state sen ator. - . i - I' All-Amerlcan Day Celebrated. Philadelphia. j Philjadelphia cele brated ali-American da with General Pershing, Admirals Benson, Sims and Coontz. and - Governor .Sproul among the ; guests-of-honor. Ex-Kaiser's Yacht" for Sale. London. The yacht .Meteor V., for merly the property of the ex-Kaiser, vns been offered ffor sale to certain Dutch interests. I Found Guilty of Mayhem. Nell Goodman nuauia, ua. f . . - " " " Rnlander was found EUilty by a jury in superior court 'here of the charge of mayhem, growing out of her ac- tion in tnrowmg acia mio ,me i?ce . Mrs. Giacys iresnen 18 Per Cent Wage Reduction. Pittsburg. Thej manaers' commit tee of the Pennsylvania Railroad pre sented a plan for proposed wage, re ductions of approximately 18 per cent to i representatives of j the telegraph department employes. ; t CONDENSED jiYS FROM THE OLD NORTH STATE GOUT NOTES OF tNTEItECT TO ; CAHOL1N1ANS. Shelby. Nine divorces were grant ed at the spring term of superior court and eight" men wer given road sen- tences; ;j i - Lumbertonj Provision for a com-rl-le revaluation if real estate in Uobeson county for taxation . was niadj by tho jbaurd of county commis ..ivyiiers at their regular monthly meet ing here, j I . Charlotte.? Mecklenburg county :roierty values were reduced 25 per eut as the ret-ult of a meeting of the board of appraisers art!' review and the Mecklenburg county commis sioners. , j . . Wadesbor'd. Mrs. James Coppedge, the oldest resident -of this city, and one of the finest Christian women in Anson county, is critically ill at her home; here, j j She is 95 years of age. Morgan t ton. A. C. Avery was elect ed mayor of Morganton by a majority of 255 over his opponent, John M. Pearson, the vote being 516 to 261.' i : Norwood,- Rev. J. W. Patton. D. D of Greensboro, deputy grand lecturer of the grand lodge A. F. and A. M., of North Carolina, is spending two w'cek3 here drilling Pee Dee lodse No. 150. - . i . - j . Lenoir. rJ.' Wilburn Suddreth died nt his home about three miles west of: Lenoir, being 83 rears of age. Mr. Suddreth was an ex-soldier of the Confederacy, and was a member of the 5Sth! N. C. regimenL High Point. According to a story members of his family told High Point newspaper men Elder Samuel MfeMil-j Ion, a primitive Baptist minister ot this' city -was robbed of $105 while a passenger! on a Charlotte trolley car. . i . Winston-Salem. Daniel C. Roper, of .-Washington', former United States. commiFioner cf internal revenue, has acepted H'n invitation to deliver the address at the "sixth luncheon of tho members ! council of the chamber of commerc!here at noon on April 22. Asheville. Conditions in the cotton mills of this section are reported far better than were experienced at the f rr.t of the year, yet not so promising as enjoy ejd six weeks ago. Recording to a summary of the work under way and orders on! hand, say mill officials. Burlington. News has been receiv ed here of the suicide of James Story, at his home near the village of Glen coei a few miles from this city. Monroe. William Gerald, a me chanic at Iceman Knitting company, was instantly killed when a long sec tion of pipe which he was carrying came in contact with a live wire. A jury in Wake county superior ! court awarded J. v. Kimbrougn, ox Boylan leights, $15,000 as damages for injuries inflicted by a train of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad in 1919. Wllsoni J. C. Lassiter, .30, vice president of the R. G. Lassiter Con tracting; company, of Norfolk, Va., with branches in a number of South ern cities, died from a bullet wound, believed to have been accidently self inflicted,1 Belmont. In the triangle composed of ; the debating teams from the high schools !of Bessemer, Mt. Holly and Belmont,; none of the teams were suc cessful n winning but one debate, and thereforp this series of towns will not have any representatation at Chapel Hill. Durham. The Charlotte high school wen a .junanimous decision over the Raleigh Ihigh school in this city In this end of the annual triangular debate. Durham. Lora Ashburn, 13 years old. daughter of Mrs. Mary Ashburn. of this city, was burned, perhaps fatal ly,! when her clothing became ignited from flames which burst from a stove which she was lighting with kerosena oil. The fire practically destroyed the Long home on Walnut street. ' Wilson The arrest ot two couples here on; the charge of violation of the Mann White slavery law resulted in one marriage, but the Bellamy law irevented the other proposed nuptial event, j Wilson Sheriff Howard and 'lis force of; deputies are continuing their warfare!? on illicit distilling in Wilson county.j j Within the past several days two large stflls, one of 75-gaIlon capa city and the other a CO-gallon outfit, have bisen captured. Five gallons of "corn juice" were confiscated. , Crops Pv-oduoed in State, North Carolina, achieved the posi tion of the greatest producer of tobac co in 19?0, when the honor as snatch ed frojn Kentu.ky, through five year of consistent gain ix productions Frank Parker, Agricultural' Statist!-' cian, in the March Farm Forecaster Isued by the Co-operative Crop Report ing Service here, shows that sales re ported to March 1 totalled 395.00O.OO? pounds of the golden wed. with pros pects that the final toUl'.will be 420, '.'OO.vOO pounds. The :rop averaged; about 21.5 cents a pornd. These fig ures represent a large .ncrease in pro duction and a decrfa9 of almost fifty per cent in - pricrt com red witl the previous season. Mr. Parker shows on March. 1. fifty three per cent of North Carolina's 1920) corn crop was on the farms, the stock: being forty per cent greater than aw year ago. The estimated stock one hand Marclrl is 33,937,000 bushels as compared with 23,940,000 bushels on March 1 a ysar ago. Four per cent of the crop was shipped out of the coun ties in which .it was grown and J yar cent was of merchantable quality The stock of wheat on farms in fh state is twice as much as it was a year' ago there being 32 per cenU of th crop, or 2,711 900 bushels. "This comr pares with 1,213,000 bushels twelv months before. Doughton Groomed for Covernor. The word has reached Raleigh vix Washington in the past twenty-four hours that in the event of his unseat ing at the hands of a republican Con gress "Farmer Bob" Doughton will take a long shot at the governor's job four years from now. The story. is borne to the capital by one of the best inflamed politicians o the state' and in the limited circulation, it had here craated the most InlenS interest. Most of those who heard; it were familiar with Congressman Doughton's aspirations a year or so ago and are not the least suprised that he should be preparing to make 1st 1924 the race he wanted to make la 1920. t - Colonel Watts Appointed. ; Col. Alston - D. Watts,-"who registers himself on the hotelcooks as a cittf zen of Irdell county, -is jGovernor Mor rison's choice for revenue commis sioner of North Carolina, over Corpor ation Commissioner Allen J. Maxwell. The new job to which the Iredelt man has been appointed is the biggest single creation of any general assem bly within the memory of active peo ple. Colonel Watts will take office on the first day of next May. t i 4 Want to Hear Hoover. The officers of the North Carolina Merchants Association, through their se.retary J. Paul Leonard, ot States-; ville has extended an invitation to Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com merce, to address the twentieth an nual convention of the association to be held at the O'HenTy hotel in Greensboro June 21, S2' and" 23. Mr. Hoover wili be asked to discuss the government's relation to business and America's commercial outlook. Revenue Agent Resigns. John F. Lifsey, chief revenue agent for North Carolina has resigned and will return to his home in Norlina. Mr. Lifsey, who began his duties with Collector J. W. Bailey, as deputy collector with special duties in run ning down blockaders became chief revenue agent for North Carolina when the prohibition zones were es tablished. Barrett is Named Director. Governor Morrision announced the appointment of James F. Barrett of Asheville and Dr. Jennis Morrill, of Pitt county, as directors of the Stat School for the Deaf at Morganton in place of Archibald Johnson of Thom asville, and J. O. Atkinson of Elo College, whose terms have expired. New Commissioner on Hand. The state's new revenue commis sioner, Col. Aus Watts, Iredell county arrived in Raleigh, and will have a conferen.e with Governor Morrison Colonel Watts was accompanied to Raleigh by Speaker Harry Grier, L.. C. Caldwell, Sheriff J. M. Deaton, G. L. Crowell and James A. Hartness, all Iredell citizens. , Drainage Convention April 12-13. The acceptance of Mr. Mark W. Pot ter, of New York, a member of th Interstate Commerce Commission address the drainage erention wmcu wccib ot cjiiauc City April 12 and 13 was anno fcy the geo retary, Joseph Mr Pot. ter is the ower of a large body o claimed in Beaufort county. Ka will Vfiake dairy farming and cattle rrjrsing on the reclaimend lr-'f eastern North Carolina thV sitbjec cl hU talk.
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