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VOL. XXVII. ' YADKINVILLE, YADKIN CO., N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 26, !921 ' U "• NO. 20
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t.SHOWS BECIJNE :
^ IN SHIPBUILDING
Lloyd's Register Reports Total
of 7,086,766 Ship Tons
in Yards of World.
BI6 DROP IN U. S, IN YEAR
fTotal Building Here, 1,102,000 Tone,
is Only About 40 Per Cent of
Record Year Ago—Japan
Shows Small Gain.
[' New York.—More than 7,000,000
jgross ton’s of merchant vessels are re
ported as being in the shipyards of the
world, says a statement by Lloyd’s
Register Compared with the total on
January 1, the 7,086,766 tons, to be
exact, represents a decline of less than
100,000 tons, nearly 1% per cent.
The actual decjigwr in shipbuilding
activity has been much sharper in the
past three months than appears on the
surface, says the statement. The total
reported for Great Britain, 3,798,593
gross tons, is a gain of 89,000 tons
•yer the January 1 record, but there
has been marked reduction in the vol
•me of tonnage on which work is
actually proceeding, Lloyd’s Register
finds.
Work Suspended.
“Included In the total In the hands
of British shipyards are 497,000- gross
tons of vessels on which work has
keen suspended, and an additional 850,
DQO tons, the'completion of which ^as
been postponed, chiefly owing to/ the
'Strike of the shipjoiners, which has
interfered with the fitting out of a
number of large liners and other ves
fcels,” the report continues. “Taking
this total of 847,000 tons into consid
eration, therefore, the total of new
•hips on which work is proceeding in
British shipyards is 2,951,593 tons, or
•bout 20 per cent less than the total
at the beginning cf the year.
“Additional indications of the condi
tions in the British shipbuilding are
furnished by the returns of launch
ings and new work begun during the
first quarter of this year. New keels
represented only 391,000 gross tons, in
comparison with 503,000 for the* last
quarter of 1920, and 701,000 for the
quarter ended April 1, 1920. Launch
ings during the quarter just ended
represented 431,000 tons, as against
576.000 tons for the last three months
pf 1920. Even with the delays due to
Strikes and other causes, therefore,
work is being completed more rapidly
than new work is coming on.”
Decline in America.
Returns from American shipyards
■how that the decline which has been
Sn effect more than a year continues,
Lloyd's says. The total construction
reported under way on April 1 is
1.102.000 tons, only slighty more than
4D per cent of the American total a
year ago. The aggregate for all other
jeountries except the United States,
Creat Britain and Germany (for the
last-named no official returns are avail
able) shows a gain of about 25,000 tons
orer the January total, Lloyd’s esti
mates.
“The apparent world decrease ip.
bhipbu'Y ^ ;i Ay during the (
EBarter, therefore, has been not far
rom a million tons, a decline of about
2% per cent,” the statement says,
i “In some directions, however, gains
jfcre shown -in the volume of construc
tion under way. These are most
toarked in the case of France, which
Show stands next to the United King
mom and the United States as a ship
building nation, having displaced Hol
jland during the last quarter. A year
■ fcgo France, with only 240,000 tons un
ifier way, was led by Japan, Italy and
SJolland, and was constructing only
8,000 tons more than the British do
minions. Today, with 427,000 tons
building, she has nearly tw o and a half
times the total for the British domin
ions, and leads Japan and Italy by
133,000 tons and 75,000 tons, respect
ively.
| “Japan shows a small gain in the
total under construction, as compared
With the previous quarter, and Italy,
A Holland and the British dominions
A flight' decreases.”
> Cemetery for Speeders.
, " Middletown, N. Y.—On either side
Otterkill bridge, on the state road
iP* i between Goshen and Chester, the
board of trade of Goshen has erected
large signs bearing the foUowing in
scription : “Private cemetery across
the bridge for reckless drivers.” The
Sign is in black and white, decorated
with skull and crossbones. As a re
sult of reckless driving by autolsts,
many accidents have occurred about
the spot
\ Broke In on the Blessing.
| Weston, W. Va.—Prohibition officers
Interrupted Dave Able as he was say
tug grass; over his noonday meal and
arrested him on a charge of operating
j* moonshine stilt
GAINS FOR AMERICAN TRADE
Low-Priced Automobiles Have Effected
a Conquest—So Has American
Chewing Gum—Patent Food
Products Also Popular.
Cairo.—Business men in Egypt, es
pecially foreigners, pay very little at
tention to the political situation. They
admit, of course, that the unsettled
conditions of a year ago, as well as
the general lack of knowledge of what
the future holds for Egypt, is a deter
rent to free commercial intercourse.
The chief cause for business worry
at this writing is the decline in cot
ton prices plus the general. interna
tional slump in trade. The two events
coming at the same time work more
than ordinary hardship to the business
life of Egypt.
One business man remarked that
people in Egypt realized that the
trade of the world was in a bad state;
that prices were falling the whole
world over, and that there was a gen
eral stagnation in buying. But, he
continued, “other countries have
usually more than one industry upon
which to exist. Here in Egypt we
must live or die at the whim of King
\Cotton. This whim is not left in our
power to control. We grow the cot
ton, and Lancashire and Manchester,
as well as your big tire fabric centers
at home, manipulate the buying price.
Of course, every one in Egypt with
a grain of common sense, realizes
that the law of supply and demand
rules; but, depending as it does upon
one industry, the business life of the
community is more or less left open
to unusual perils when that one in
dustry fails.’'
Bulk of Business Life.
This business man was engaged in
the wholesale supply of sundries and
novelties. His point of view may be
accepted as that of such traders in
general—those who buy in Europe,
America or Japan and import the
goods to Egypt for local consumption.
This work constitutes the bulk of the
business life of the community. It is
not the greatest in point of wealth,
however, when one figures the im
mense amounts involved in the col
lecting, ginning and exportation of
raw cotton. Egypt’s normal cotton
crop is handled by about a dozen
Jarge British and Levantine firms,
with headquarters in Alexandria
These latter have been the biggesf
sufferers, but only from lack of some
tiling to do. They rarely invest their
money; in cotton before the filing sea
son opens, when the goods come from
the field.
As the drop in cotton prices began
almost at the beginning of tliis sea
011, the big brokers were thus not
•aught with a greatyamount of stock
on hand. The merchandise dealers,
on the contrary, continued their buy
ing right up to November and are
even now being loaded up with stock,
if paid for before shipment, or with
obligations if shipped against docu
ments. This is spelling ruin for some
of the laVgest houses. Many serious
failures have occurred, and in Cairo
alone three department stores have
gone into bankruptcy. It is the gen
eral opinion that the worst period has
passed. Those who have gone through
the crisis, either honorably or dishon
orably, will, It Is believed, live to see
another period of fair business
v. or.f hp>r.
it is common talk here that in busi
ness morality Egypt does not compare
very favorably with any other big
colonial market. Apologists for the
country point to the large number of
races engaged in commerce. Syrians
and Armenians, Jews from Spain, Rus
sia, Germany7, Greece, Smyrna and
Palestine; Arabs, Greeks, British,
Americans, French and Italians all go
to make up the commercial life of
the place. It is a five-language coun
try in business. First and most im
portant, of course, is Arabic; then
come French, Italian, Greek and Eng
lish.
Growth of American Trade.
American trade with Egypt has
made wonderful progress, considering
the fact that before the war this mar
ket rarely knew American goods. The
bulk of the shipments arriving from
home, however, in 1920 consisted of
coal from Newport News and flour
from the North. American automo
biles have captured the market, but
no high-priced American cars are in
evidence. It is explained that the
cheaper to middle-priced American car
is a more attractive purchase to the
Egyptian and Levantine than similar
ly priced cars made in England or on
the continent. Prompt deliveries, of
course, were largely responsible for
the American conquest of this field.
When vessels from New York or Bos
ton were arriving weekly with con
signments of automobiles, only one or
two tars a month were coming in from
Europe.
American sundries and patent food
products have made marked progress.
On every hand one sees America's
favorite breakfast dishes advertised
and displayed. American _ chewing
gum has become the erase of the oa
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STRICT CONTROL IN ITALY'
Thieves at Naples Get High Prices
for American Passports—Keen •
Competition for Foreign Ships
—Maintain Close Inspection.
Naples.—The number of immigrants
to the United States this year will
only bes limited by the capacity of the
steamships, according to Unit'd States
Consul Homer W. Boyington, who has
been here for 15 years and has a good
knowledge of the situation. The Ital
ian companies lost a good many
steamships during the "war and have
not yet been able to replace them,
while the foreign vessels calling at
Naples and Genoa for immigrama
have dwindled since the war to an al
most negligible number.
The consul said that the Italian gov- i
eminent had consented" to permit sur
geons in the United States public (
health service to be present at the in
spection of the immigrants before em- (
barkation, so that they will be able
to sign the bills of health and stop
the detention of the steamships on
their arrival at the quarantine station
In New York. There have only been
two cases of typhus in this port arid
they were Greeks from Piraeus. In
consequence of this the government
has put a tight ring around Italy and
no alien immigrants are permitted to
pass the frontier. The steamships
leaving Italian ports for the United
States now only carry Italians, and
Poles, Czechs, Croats, Greeks, Ukran
ians, Roumanians and other nationali
ties will have to sail from some oth
er ports like Danzig, Bremen or Ham
burg.
The staff at the consulate consists
of 25 clerks^ stenographers and intar*
prefers, etc., who are chiefly employed
in handling the hundreds of immi
grants who throng the bureau on the
Via Santa Lucia all day long. Wom
en with babies in their arms hare
precedence over all other applicants
by orders of the consul. Under noi>
mal conditions the immigrants get
away within three months of the date
of their vises on the passports, but
on account of the holding up of the
liners iD New York through the typhus
scare, they are now fully six months
behind, according to the officials.
Passports Closely Scrutinized.
The greatest care is exercised at
the consulate to see that no more get
by with false passports or counter
feit vises. The immigration authori
ties are also notified at New York to
look out for the private marks on the
passports, which will be changed from
time to time in case they get known
to the Italian crooks who are making
a fat living by fabricating passports
and vises for immigrants who may
have some charges against their char
acter which would prevent their ob
taining a vise on their passports at
the American consulate.
Two ^Americans who arrived from
New York by the Canopic had their
passports stolen and had to proceed
to Rome to obtain emergency papers
&t the United States legation after
rting identification cwcilieates at
consulate here. These stolen pass
ports, the officials say, are sent to An
cona or to Cosenza, which is near
Hajfies, and the seals and vises are
taken off and used for other passports.
A well-executed false passport is
worth 1,400 lire, about $50 to 900
ynited States currency, according to
the rate of exchange. with•’ es
daily. At the consulate it -..as a»aid
that these two stolen passports would
net the pickpockets who took them
about 1,000 lire. Passengers are
warned on landing ia the custom
house to be careful of their pocket
books and passporTs. as t he Neapolitan
purse snatchers art' famous in police
circles all over Europe for the dex
terity of their fingers. The police
were notified of the loss of the pass
ports belonging to the two Americans,
but they were not recovered.
All intending immigrants seeking
American risks have to produce their
permits to leave the country, military
papers (if they are males), vaccina
tion certificate and the dossier from
the chief of police of their district to
show whether any erin^nat charge*
have ever been preferred against
them. The American authorities have
not interfer'd with the inspection, m
the dock hot ore embarkariny, as ‘key
left that to the oTtekvs of the stc. m
ship com"a?, es. The Navigation <">it
erate, th she Ktr.r and other !;n*s
sailing Lo... 'talimt prats h-:vP o-. .ra
ized tl'-ir o • ■ rv "'am ■ '•■*
the inrrd-r.::-.-. - ere put three- ' >«
! horom • • 4-a! ’ m : ' \ :
permit;- ' to on * u :t
The ms; • ''d*—<- ' v sc !'- " y
doctors tr-ert -s-. ore-hips air;
doctor <’<' ’ *••• 7
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Ti»e -ii •; -'in" ’ fi.*:::r-rt»-sir *•■•■
to d» is to a hath ami if ners
sary to hr e n vhnv* oml a hair t
Whir 'rrs and beards are 'I.nrrod ■ ^
do- this ruling and only a ninstar-bo i
\V] Up tiu*v an* nr«U*r«roir:: f* •
process the rtofbpv «>? ?•!•
is fiw»*M-rtei| *>»;»! ■
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Everybody Now doms in
| Standing on The Road Map
| The road meeting held in
Yadkinville Thursday Iwas a
very harmonous one after the
crowd assembled here and the
dissenters from the scheduled
map decided to fall in line and
help " the general schedule
through, and it was the unani
mous decision of the road com
mission that the roads as map
ped out, running from Winston
Salem to Yadkinville, Brooks
Cross Roads and Wilkesboro,
and from Statesville to Brooks
Cross Roads and Elkin should
be built, and they were urged to
build this road as the next one in
this road district.
Three members of the State
Highway Commission were
present, these being Hon. R. A.
Doughton of this district, Hon.
J. El wood Cox of High Point,
and Mr. Wilkinson of Charlotte,
all very agreeable gentlemen
and seemingly wanted to do
something' for the mud bound
i
“lost provinces” of the west.
The meeting was presided over
by Attorney D. M, Reece, and
talks were made by Attorney J.
Lindsey Patterson, Mr. Hairy
Froeber, Mr. E. T. Mickey, Mr.
0. B. Eaton and others of Win
ston; Hon. R. N. Hackett, Hon.
C. H. Cowles and others from
Wilkesboro. Attorney Wade
Reavis made the principal ad
dress presenting Yadkin’s claims
The lone dissenter in the
meeting was Mr. Will Swaim of
jonesville, and he did not dis
sen1 long for the house was not
in any mood to entertain a dis
senter.
Everything went off nicely
and everybody went home hap
py. When the road will be
built we cannot say, but it will
undoubtedly come straight
through Yadkin.
Chief Justice White .
Died Last Thursday
Edward Douglas White, vet
eran chief justice of the United
States Supreme court, died in
Washington Thursday morning.
The chief justice was 76 years
old and
health until recently when his
health failed him.
Chief Justice White was ap
pointed to the Supreme court
bench by President Cleveland in
1894, He was a native of Louis
ana and a Catholic in religious
faith.
Funeral and burial were at
Washington Saturday.
State News Items
High Point is to get the Meth
odist Protestant college. There
were several other cities in the
race for the college but the
furniture city won.
Theodore Hayworth, aged 15,
was str uck .and killed by a train
in High Point Monday. He was
rlii: ug a bicycle aloe g the track.
Tiiu North Carolina Merch
ants A^sociaton will hold its
19tli annual convention in city
«:l Greensboro June 21, 22 and
23.
Sam Hooker, of near Madison
was she? and killed by his son,
jor-i .* : looker, a few days ago.
Uiic son c'aims self-defense.
..Eire i.i ihe plant of theSteiffel
Company in Winston
i v w-v aid considerable dam
- h body of John Hill, of
l, \ was found in the
r'.nu-.in liver a few days ago
is ihou-ihi he committed sui
ui.
Am . : . oh Shutt, of the At
o.ai i of Forsyth; county,
; i a uiac-c eagle recently
>•' » sared 6 fe..;t and 1 inch
from At* tip.
A et Stewart of Ca
t e<' committed suicide
Sat a .... drowning herself in
ttie a iui liver. She was 80
ye0as(iid ... id mentally anial
anced
The ’.ay Day parade was
called oil in Durham because no
brass bumi cutia be secured to
i yAiU .the
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Poindexter - Monague - White
Co., of Winston, have secured
the charter of a fast mail steam
er between Constantinople and
New York. The name of the
ship is S. S. Gul Djemai (what
ever that is) and has a capacity
of 1,000 passengers and 19,0o0
tons.
Six men were seriously L.
the past week when the railrotcl
motor car upon which they were
riding struck an obstruction and
overturned.
W. Tom Dost, the well known
newspaper correspondent, filled
the pulpit for Rev. Tom P. Jimi
son at Grace Methodist church
in Winston Sunday. The papers
say that Tom preached two
splendid seimons.
Last Tuesday was designated
as “Divorce Day” in Forsyth
Superior court. Forty-three di
vorce cases were slated for a
hearing on that day.
J. Frank Sink, of Winston, a
telephone lineman, was serious
ly and probably, fatally injured
the past when he fell from the
top of ,a te ephone pole near
King, Stokes county.
Druggists who have been
profiteering in whiskey sold for
medical purposes are to receive
attention from Uncle Sam in the
near future. In many instances
ii is alleged, whiskey was dilut
ed with water, prune juice, etc.,
and sold for the price of pure
whiskey.
A news dispatch from Clinton
says that court was suspended
there one day the past week on
account of Judge W. M. Bond,
who was presiding, being on a
drunk.
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! American Flyers Given |
t 40-Acre Polish Farms t
1 —
• Warsaw. — Nine American ;
| members of the Koseiuszko air ?
? squadron, all soldiers of fortune, |
| recently were awarded 40 acres f
| of land each near the Polish- i
i Russian frontier, as outlined by j
• the Riga peace treaty.
1 All officers and soldiers of the ?
| Polish forces are being provided f
f with tracts along Poland’s east- |
\ ern boundary, under a system f
I worked out by the government, |
provided they take up cultiva- *
tion of the land upon leaving the |
military service. By this plan |
Poland hopes to have trained i
men settled permanently where j
t they would be handy for service ♦
* in case the country is ever at- . i
| tacked again from the east T '
'Em Had Dig Fire
Last Wednesday
The plant of the Elkin Furni
ture Company, together with all
machinery, a large stock of fin
ished furniture and much rough
lumber was destroyed in a fire
which occurred in the plant last
Wednesday night. The loss is
estimated at about $100,000. The
fire was discovered in the base
ment of the company’s plant
about 1:0:30 and by midnight ev
erything was in a&Ms. Just
how the fire started X i^yttot
known.
It is stated that about $25,000
insurance was carried on the
building and contents.
Federal prohibition agents in
the country at large have been
reduced from 1,200 to 500 for 40
days—until July 1st, when more
funds will be available to pay
salaries with. In North Caro
lina every federal prohibition en
forcement officer is laid off for
40 days and nights.
W. N. Mebane, of Burlington,
bled to death after having some
teeth extracted.
Notice
North Carolina
Yadkin County
S. G. Miller and
T. F. Miller
vs
M. H.Branon
In Superior
Court -
Service by
Publication
The defend? nt above named
-will take notice that an action
entitled as above has been com
menced in the Superior court of
Yadkin county, arising upon a
promisory note, dated October
lf>th, 1919, for ivyu Hundred snd
fifty dollars, given by the de
fendant to the plaintiffs, and
that the plaintiffs have taken
out a warrant of attachment
against the property oi the de
fendant; and the said defendant
will further take notice that he
is required to appear before the
Clerk of the Superior Court of
Yadkin county, at his office in
Yadkiuville on Tuesday, the 7th
dav of June, 1921, at 2 o’clock p.
m. and answer or demur to the
complaint, or the plaintiffs will
apply to the court for the \elief
demanded in said complaint.
This the 3rd day of May, 1921.
J. L. CRATER,
Clerk of Superior Court.
NOTICE
North Carolina | lu Superioi
Yadkin Couutv f Court
P. H. Norman ) Service of
vs y Publication
M. H. Branon )
rIlie defendant above named
will take notice that an action en
titled as above has been com
menced in the Superior Court of
Yadkin county, arising upon a
promisory note dated on the Hist
day of March, 1920, for two hun
dred and ninety-six and 52-100
dollars, given by the defendant to
W. B. Sizemore, and that the
plaintiff has taken out a warrant
of attachment against the prop
erty of the defendant; and the
said defendant will further taxe
notice that he is required to ap
pear before the Clerk of the Su
perior Court of Yadkiu county at
his office in YadkinvilJe, on Tues
day, the 7th day of June, 1921, at
2 o’clock p. m. and answer or de
mur to the complaint or the
plaiutiff will apply to the court
for the relief demanded in said
complaint.
This the 2nd day of May. 1921.
J. L. CRATER,
Clerk Superior Court.
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