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! . : - '..' J i . . ' ....... - . J ; ; i jT?cater: Forecast : 7 'S7 Market Quotations ,V North Carolina Local thuh-' dershowers Friday and probably Saturday. , ' Quotations rrom all stock and cotton exchanges by The Asso ciated Press are carried inv The SUN-JOURNAL daily. v , - 'Mil Volume 25; Number 15. iCKIilIEIlESTIIi imOSPECTIVE VISIT OF Citizens and Editors Have Join ed in Petition to Speak in i . Tarheelia WILL BE GUEST OF ROADS ASSOCIATION II : e Abandoned of ; Securing N:cessary Legislation at Com - ; ing Special Session (By Max D. Abe'rnethy) . RALEIGH, Julv 16:- No informa- as to whether Governor Cox, of,Ohlo, democratic presidential nominee will visit. Raleigh next month at the citizens' convention in 1 the., interest of good roads, to be held in the city auditorium here pn August 10. The invitation has been made to the Ohio governor hv ths enod roads enthus iasts of the state, a score or more of 1. .. jrs, and within the past day or l j, editors or the state newspapers have been asked to Join by telegraph they urge that, the invitation be ac cepted. . . . N .. Ktate Much Interested More than passing interest, o! course, is manifested in the expected visit of Governor Cox to North Car olina at this time and there are hun dreds of Tar Heels who wouM insist that be accept if given the oppor tunity of petition. Particularly are the champions of the suffrage cause in North Carolina anxious that the invitation be accepted,' because they believe that once the presidential nominee sets foots on Tarheelia's sod the chances for, ratification of the Lsan B. Anthony federal suffrage amendment will be bettered. : : v Governor Cox, an ardent believer in- equal suffrage, has, since his nom ination, endeavored to impress upon the Louisiana : legislature the im portance of ratifying, ' although lit tle consideration was given to his re quest. He will make a similar re cuest of the .special session of the iNfoith Caroliss 'i legislature when it meets next month. ' Tta call for the citizens' confer ence in the interests of good xoads here is made by Col. T.-L. Kirkpat rick,; chairman of the committee on arrarements. Formal notice of the meeting has already been made, it being -announced that there will be; on tter program - speakers of both ;.te and national reputation, and Cameron .Morrison and John J. Parker, gubernatorial nominees of the democratic and republican par ties respectively.-- ' AbuadoB'.Thelr Plans ; It is learned' today that the good roads advocates of the state have about abandoned the idea of prevail-! jug upon the solons At the special session of .the legislature to-authorize the , issuance of, a fifty, million dollar bond issue .-at this time, but that-1 Ley- intend to have a commis sion made up of members of the legislature appointed for the purpose of making a stuy of the state's road needs..- With this commission named from both vbouses . it is the plan to have a rerort made at the next reg ular session in January, 1921, at which time an effort .will-be made to put over the bond issue program. The convention is being ealled in or der to arouee enthusiasm for a state wide ' system pf hard surface high way. . ; V.-yV' . RQ'AN WHEAT ECLIPSES GRAIN OF GOLDEN WEST HICKORY, Jaly 1 6. Eubert Ly e'ly business man and Shriner, just back from the golden west,5 brings a story lto- Hickory from Cleveland, Rowan county, that makes the pros pectus of. western .wheat lands look tame in comparison. , Mr. Lyerly, who has business ; at Cleveland every few days, reports that W. W. Roseman, one of Rowan's leading farmers, threshed 4,000 bushels of wheat" and sold his. crop at $2.80 . a bushel. ' - - ' . ' Farmers raised from 25 to 45 k,.i,i nt wheat to - an acre, - and they are up to their ears in the fin est-crops,' cowm nuu wua, icrown in this bbcuuu. vuyci b ii. omn in the Cleveland sec tion and beef cattle are . raised on the 'side The whole of central and western North Carolina can brag on thia summers but Mr. Lyerly thinks that when the returns-come in the Cleveland secuun wm.uo uo clared winner. ' ;f , ) NEGRO IS CHARGED WITH A VERY SERIOUS CRIME (BT Associated Pe) RICHMOND.' Va.. July 16. Wil liam -Turner, negro, under indict liam a turner, f t. Morgan Mooret'oSld"" expert, of Alexan- f flt' 'I Pearl C ark private secre tS to Wessman Britten, of Illi nois waf Placed on trial today In ?th states: district court here. Se otfense 111 claim elf-defense ine ve1"?.. h that Moore on tte aiieB 6 "-. r: fired the first shot.. , ArtilPPERS AMBUSH TWO ' J.rr WFtADICATORS IN PITT pb'fitNVILLE, July 6. tate yesSy Dr' Henry and L. A. Ennis, enVaeed in tick eradication work In K8 were shot from ambush by -anti-dinDers They had finished spraying tor the day when' flred upon from J?La. arby f . Twenty-six No. 4 hurt .The shooting occurred in' the northern section el thexounty wher. feyeral rats hare been blown up. GOVER OR COX EIGHT PAGES TODAY Soldierettes To Learn To Drill In Silk Hosiery Army of Women From AH Sec tions of Country Busy at Asheville Learning Things ' (By Associated Prna) ; -i ASHEVILLE, July 16. Two hun dred women from all parts of the country are here attending the sec ond United States army training camp for women. When taps was sounded last night a tired . yet happy ; army of women rolled into the "bunks" which they themselves had set- up as part of their first day's drill in a regular army camp. . ' - Today's routine - calls for cales- thenics and for drill in the army salute. As only a few uniforms have arrived the soldierettes' wearing ap parel varies from khaki to silk and from leggins to lingerie. - BOY BOUND TO TRACK RESCUED BY BROTHER GREENSfcURG, Pa., July 16- tate police and county detectives are searching for six boys ranging in age from 15 to 17 years, who bound .to a rail of the Pennsylvania . railroad here, William Webb,, 15 years old, because he had no tobacco for them to smoke. - , Webb's young brother, Charles, uttings, his bonds with a knife an aour arter the six boys had gone, saved his brother's life, for a few minutes later a train was . pushed qnto the siding from which -he had iust been released. : f- '' Webb is recovering from'the shock of his experience. He has described to the police the six boys, who bound him to the rail, whom he knows by face but not by name. So far, how ever, the authorities' search '.-for them -has been fruitless. 4 SNAKE INVADES HOME AND BITES AN INFANT MOUNT AIRY,, July " 16. While the children of, Roy Venable, a far-! mer living In- the Little , mountain section were, playing on the kitchen floor yesterday, a large and venomous make entered the house, frightened the children and twice biting the 14-inonths-old baby boy on the hand, fhe parents at the time were it woe in the adjacent gafden, and the screams of their children brought them immediately to the rescue but not -before- the snake h&d burled its poisonous fangs deep into the child's hand. ' The injured boy was hurried to the hospital here,1, where small hopes are held but to the distracted parents of saving the child b life. RAILROAD BROTHERHOODS V CONFER ON WAGE SCALE Byv Aasoelated PremO CHICAGO, July 16. E. H. Fltzr ?erald, grand president of , the Broth erhood of Railway " Clerks,; arrived jere today for a conference 'with ex ecutives of the ' sixteen v Recognized i-ajlroad organizations. '-' On Monday iie will confer with two hundred general v chairmen of the clerks' orottierhoods. - At , a mass -. meeting vionday night plans will be perfected jor the Immediate calling of a strike f the ; awards of the United States labor board, now in session here, are not satisfactory, yit was said. GIRL, FORCED TO MARRY BY BROTHER, IS FREED WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., July 16. Sophie Holobut of Ardsley, has been granted an annulment of her mar riage to John Holobut of New York, by Supreme Court Justice Morschau ser:: ''.,; : v';. ' .- -:'"-' Mrs. Holobut testified -she was com pelled to marry Holobut in August, 1919, by her brother, Joseph, . who threatened to kill her unless she complied. She never lived with her husband. ' The Hplobuts are . . Ukrainians. Holobut slid that his wife left him five weeks after their 'marriage. KILLED AGED WOMAN ; AND THEN ROBBED HER (By Associated Press) COLUMBUS, Ga., July 16 Search continued today for John Heath, charged with the murder of Mrs. Mattie Wells, fifty years : old, who was killed yesterday by being beaten on the head with a rock. Robbery is the motive assigned for the crime, the woman's stockings being found pulled down when the killing was discovered. She was known to carry a large sum of money in her hose. Heath was a cotton mill employe. AGREE IN PRINCIPLE WITH TERMS SUBMITTED .. ; (By Aswwlated Press) j SPA, July 16. German delegates at the conference here have agreed in principle with the terms submit ted to them by the allies as to Ger many's deliveries of coal, but will ask for the explanation of certain articles in the allied note. They made this announcement just before entering into conference with the al lied ministers this afternoon. MEXICAN BANDIT LEADER v WILL BE PLACED ON TRIAI ly Associated Press) MEXICO CITY, July 16. General Pablo Gonzalez, former candidate for the presidency and alleged leader of the abortive, revolution in Neuvo, Leoh, whose capture was reported to days will be placed on trial immed iately, according1 , to an official an nouncement. - NEW BERN, NORTH- CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY RUSSIAN EMPRESS AN DHER CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH Royal Family Driven Into Rag ing Flames at Point of Bayonet AVENUES OF ESCAPE BARRED BY SOLDIERS Mother i and .Son .Walked To gether Into Wall of Smoke ; and . Disappeared (By Aaaoclated Preu) PARIS, July 16, The Russian empress and her children were burn ed alive after the execution" of Em peror Nicholas at Ekaterinburg, it is alleged in a statement attributed to Alexis Dolrovitz', formerly courier to the empress, published here today Dolrovitz said he made vain attempts to save his mistress and her chil dren. - -V - -- , ' - The empress and the children, Dolrovitz declared, were taken to a wood near Ekaterinburg.. Brush wood ' was" gathered and a huge fire made, into which the royal victims were forced. Every time they sought to get ' out of the flames, Dolrovitz said, they were driven back ' at the point oi the bayonet. . Tatiani, the . empress' second daughter, fled from the pyre three times, and eventualy fell, pierced through by a bayonet. The empress and Prince Alexis eiasped In close embrace, walked together into the flames and disappeared in the-wall of smoke, according to Dolrovitz. WINSTON-SALEM YOUTHS FACE A MURDER CHARGE t WINSTON-SALEM, July : ' 16. When the : case against . .- Lonnie Grubbs, Dewey Fafrcloth and Horace Lewis, charging them" with turning in false 'fire alarm, was called in the municipal court this morning Solici tor Watson announced that he had decided to ask for a warrant for mur der against the trio. ' The murder charge comes as a re sult of the death of Fireman D. L. Reavis, which occurred following an an accident to the truck on Tuesday night ar? 11:45 .o'clock. The. acci dent occurred: when truck No. 1 re sponding to the faltfe "alarm alleged to have been turned in by the three boys. - - -( r - -. KILLED IN DUEL E Posey Thomas Found Dead With Sixty Gallons of Perfectly s" ' Good Liquor By Associated Prei), DANVILLS, VA. July 10. - Warrants charging murder, were Issued today against, federal of ficers' J. D. Wood and R.- H. Urummond, JrM and county offi cers J. H. Pngh and J. H. Wil- , marth, for the killing of Posey Thomas, of Franklin county, an alleged blockade runner, in a pistol duel early yesterday morn- -Jng between this city and Mar- ' ' tinsville. - The officers say they were fired upon and returned seven shots. No other shots followed, and the officers drove , to this' city in an automobile, which -they said had been abandoned by the blockade runner. DANVILLE, Va., July. 16i Posey Thomas, from Franklin county, wasj shot and killed by revenue or county officers, it has not been determined which, 'late last night, near Leather- wood creek in Henry county, ' wh6n the officers say Thomas fired one shot i first at them. WITH REVENU - IN OLD VIRGINIA 1 6. N. Wood and R. H. Drummond, l iNOlue- ue,V' , "nt government officers and J. H. Pugh! night, because of a broken axle, got and R. H. Wilmarth, county police,t away this afternoon. Erie, Pa-. Is were the officers involved. Wood on .the first objective point The other his return this evening from another I three planes on the trip landed there raiding expedition, heard for the first nasi nigui. time of a mah's death. His version) : is that Thomas was waylaid near EDUCATION AVAILABLE Leathewood creek and that he leaped i FOR AMERICAN SOLDIERS on the running board of the machine and tried to stop him ; Thomas, he said, tore himself loose as the car stopped, and leaping ou.t on the opposite side plunged down a. bank and fired. Wood mita shdoting himself and says Pugh j christian Association, in North Car also fired and that about seven shots iolma Tne funQ for conege scholar were fired, no answering fire being returned. They took charge of the car and drove it to Danville, where 60 gal lons of liquor were discovered. The officers told U. S. Commissioner Flynn that the driver of the car es caped and said nothing of the shoot ing. When word came by telephone that Thomas' body had been found in' a corn field near the scene of the shooting. Wood when questioned by a reporter, admitted shots were pass ed but not before Thomas, whom he called "king of the moonshiners- of Franklin," shot him. AVrlgJit Granted a Divorce I tl AKMOt-interi Press) ' PUTNAM, Arizona, July 16. Harold Bell Wright, the writer, has been granted a divorce here from Mrs, , Frances . L. Wright, on the ground. 'cf desertion. Earth Quavers . Frighten People fin West Coast Telephone 1 Operators Desert Switchboards and Demoralize Service in Los Angeles (Oy ABM!lfitfd ,1'resa) LOS ANGELES, July16. A se vere earthquake at 10: 10 o'clock this morning, apparently centered in Los Angeles City, caused slight damage to some of the older buildings, broke a number of plate glass windows and frightened the citizens generally. No extensive damage was reported. . A quick survey showed no damage, but the survey was hampered by tlfe apparent "demoralization of the ele phone service through frightened telephone operators deserting their switchboards. The quake was more severe than any felt here recently except that of the night of June 21, when consider able damage was done at Inglewood and in southwestern part of Lot Angeles. - ROOSEVELT RETURNSTO HIS WASHINGTON OFFICE (By AMocIated' Press) WASHINGTON, July 16. Frank lin D.' Rooseve.lt," assistant secretary of the navy and democratic vice- presidential nominee, , arrived in Washington today from, his home in New York. He went direct to his office at the navy department and im mediately set to work to, clear his desk of the mass of letters and de tails that had .accumulated during his absence at the San Francisco con vention. SHAMROCK SUSTAINED SERIOUS DAMAGE ALSO . - , v.. : r.. ; .. -vv -. - . ,- (By Associated Press) ' SAND YHOOK, N. J., July 16. Shamrock IV sustained an accident to her bowsprit shortly before the finish of the first America's cup race yesterday, which, - had it occurred earlier in the contest with Resolute, would have left the challenger in as helpless a condition as the American defender, which had to withdraw be cause of broken' halyards, which, al lowed her main sail to sag. , CENSUS FIGURES FOR N. CAROLINA COUNTIES WASHINGTON,'July 16. The fol lowing census figures for North Car olina counties were given out today by the census bureau: - Camden '5,382, decrease 258, or 4.60 per cent; Chowan, 10,649,' de crease 654, or 5,8 per cent; Lincoln, 17,862, increase 730, or 4.3 per cent; Pasquotank, .17,670,. increase 977, or 5.9 per cent; Davie, 13, 578i increase 184, or 1.4 per cent. - i . RAILROADS OF COUNTRY GIVEN DUE WARNING .(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, July 16. The rail roads of the country were warned today by the interstate commerce commission to refrain from confiscat ing coal consigned to government de partments and to common carriers and to other public utilities, i No in dication of what action would be taken to put an end to the practice was given by the commission. DENIAL IS MADE THAT AMERICAN OFFICER DEAD (By Associated Press') WASHINGTON, July 16. Reports from Trieste that an American naval officer had been killed in the recent street fighting at Spalato between Italian sailors and civilians of the town were denied today in a tele gram frem Rear Admiral Andrews commanding the American paval force in the Adriatic. The message said order had-been restored at spalato. - - ' ' '. DAUNTLESS AVIATOR CONTINUES HIS FLIGHT SCRANTON, Pa., July 16. Cap tain St. Clair Street, who was forced i 1 J A 171 m Vt ii Tit- n An . ' Vl Apn VPC- auu """"' Feru.ay. "V1U . " . T " , " .V. V, RALEIGH, July 16. For the aid of ex-service men in obtaining an education there is still available ap- nroximatcly $20,000 through the ad-!WQ, rrminHl of the Vnune Men's nhips is virtually exhausted at this time, but there is still a surplus for commercial and technical scholar ships. The fund is at the disposal of all ex-service men who are not re ceiving compensation from the government. MAKING CAMPAIGN FOR SPEAKERSHIP OF HOUSE RALEIGH, July 16. Prospective members of the lower house of the General Assembly from Wake county 1 nominated at the recent democratic primary, have received letters from II. P. Grier, of Iredell county, ask ing their support in his candidacy for speaker. Edgar W. Pharr, of Charlotte, and W. N. Everett, of Rockingham, are also considered candidates for the speakership after a fashion. . 16, 1920 ONE TO DEFEAT "DRYS" Tacit Agreement is Charged to Maintain Saloons in New - Jersey NO CONSCIOUS EFFORT TO ENFORCE "DRY" ACT Desire of Politicians to Secure Big Campaign Funds is , ' Alleged NEW YORK, July 16. Samuel Wilson, Assistant Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of New Jer sey, in- a-' statement forwarded to day to State attorney General Mc Cran, State Supreme Court Justice Swayze, County judges and prose cutors; charged that a "tacit agree ment existed . between county at torneys and saloon and race track men to keep New Jersey wet." Mr.Wilson asserted that the Vols tead act was "openly violated in Es sex, Passaic, Union, ' Atlantic and Hudson counties, where he declared "there is a 'conspiracy to foster the liquor traffic." : He feaid he had furni shed federal authorities with the name3 of cafes nd saloon keepers from whom he had obtained liquor. "There is no conscious effort be ing made o enforce the Volstead Act," he added," due to" the desire of politicians to- obtain big cam paign funds . from liquor and gam bling interests." MINERS ARE WARNED TO CEASE LAWLESSNESS , : (By Associated Press) v WILLIAMSON, W. Va., July 16. Mingo county officers, today were notified by -Governor Cornwall that lawlessness in ,the Mingo county coal field must cease,and with this end in view a detachment of fifty mount ed men of the state police had been ordered into the district,' where a strike of miners has been in prog ress for several weeks. , , . , Mother and Girls Wed - f .. (By Associated Preaa'-, : VALPARAISO, Ind.July 10.- A triple - -Ivedding in 7 which a mother and, her twin daughters took part, was solemnized here- late last night. All will make their homes in -Valparaiso, it is said, y- Governor Hobby Has Placed the City Under Martial Law Account of Strike : ' (By Associated Press) GALVESTON, Tev., July 16. GaU veston's municipal officialdom today found itself superceded by members of the Texas militia with the carry ing into execution by Brigadier Gen eral J. F. Wolters of orders issued yesterday by Governor Hobby that the city authorities would bo sus pended and - restrained from inter fering with enforcement of the state's penal laws. t ' 1 The governor's orders marked an other chapter in the dock workers' strike here, which broughtv-about martial law in this city a month ago. General Wolters has issued an ap peal to county authorities and citi zens of Galveston to aid in bringing conditions at this point back to nor mal. City Attorney Anderson in a statement threatened to appeal to the' federal courts if "just one more step" is taken by the militia officers. The city commissioners were in session early today when a state ment was issued of Governor Hobby's charges of alleged neglect of duty in connection with the strike. Bolsheviki Succsfiil. LONDON, July 16. Continued successes by the bolsheviki in their operations against the Poles along the northern sector of' the" front is announced in Thursday's official state ment from Moscow received by wire less today. WHAT GOOD SALOON LEAGUERS CHARGE CONSPIRACY GALVESTON IN ' TROUBLE WITH STATE MILITIA It's largely up to you. It depends on how you spend it on the value to you of what you get for it on your ability to find where that value is to be had. Of course, it's all right to shop around a bit if you like, but -why not let the other fel low make it easier for you by doing a little shopping after your dollar by showing you what you want and where you can get most of it- for your money? ' It's a great idea, once you get the hang of it, and here's how! Right in this paper you'll find dozens of advertisements offering you merchandise. Some things you'll need today; some tomorrow; some next week or Read the Advertisements and Increase The Value oYour Dollar! SECTION TODAY Woman Stabbt d To Death By a Jealous Italian Girl Was Twenty Years Old and a Widow and Jealousy is Ascribed as Motive (By Associated Press) HIGH POINT, July 16. Mrs. Martha Lathan was stabbed to death early today in the home of her fath er, Valter Hagley, and Frank Peter, an Italian who has been a guest in the Hagley home for about a week, was arrested three hours later at Jamestown, near here, by the deputv sheriff. According - to the sheriff Peter, who speaks little English, confessed to the crime. The policy believe jealousy was the cause of the killing. The woman, who was twen-.j ty years old, was married and has one child, but had been separated from her husband. STOLEN KISS COSTS MAN $50; "Y? 'Ju iv ir: Trar. PITTSBURG, ,Pa.. July 16. Tran ky Talemento, a dapper Spaniard, was fined $50 by Magistrate Fugassi, after he had confessed to a charge of stealing a kiss from Miss Helen niau- rice, who declared she had no ac-1 quaiptance with the prisoner. a Miss Maurice had refused to flirt with JTalemento while passing down the street. Not discofited, Talemen to took matters into his pwn hands, and as the pretty young "woman en tered a candy store, he placed his arm around her shoulder and kissed her full on the lips. : f ' .When asked why he acted in such an ungallamt manner, the Spaniard said: "It was well worth the price. I will buy many more at the same price, if the young lady is willing." She was not. .- . COX WILL FIGHT FOR SUFFRAGE FOR WOMEN -, (By Associated Press) - , COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 1 6. Gov ernor James M. Cox today promised a delegation of the national women's party , that he will give all his possi ble time, influence and strength to ward procuring ratification of the suffrage amendment by Tennessee. He also advised them ' to appoint a committee to confer with him; on a plan .of action. - , . Seven Major Generals ( By AsaocLited 'Press) WASHINGTON,-. - July . 16. Ap pointment by the president of seven major generals and twenty-two brigadiers under the . new army re organization1 bill, was announced to day by Uie war department. - SOCIALIST PARTY SEEKING PUBLICITY El . : ' ; m Will Conduct Campagin From 'Front" Cell in Atlanta Federal Prison i (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, July 1 6. A "front cell"v campaign is planned by the socialist party 'for Eugene V. Debs, its presidential nominee, according to William M. Feigenbaum, director' of publicity for the national cam paign. Mr, Feigenbaum said the party intends to send , some promi nent socialist to Debs' prison at At lanta every month. What Debs has to say will then be distributed by the campaign committee. The usual touring will be taken care of by Seymour Stedman, of Chicago, the vice-presidential nomi nee. He is to start the middle of this month for Texas and Oklahoma, finishing this trip the latter part of August, and on the first of Septem ber plans to begin a trans-continental tour ending In x Chicago? two months later. Two of the socfalists expelled from the New York state -assembly, Mr. Feigenbaum said, are now out speak ing for the national office in the cam paign. Louis Waldman and August Claessens are the men so engaged. The campaign publicity chief said that twelve speakers in all were now out campaigning. Socialist strength, he added, now appears greatest in Oklahoma, Wis consin, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, California and Idaho. IS A DOLLAR? next year but the point is that these merchants are com ing to you, looking for your dollar and offering the best they have to get it. You'll find that by reading the advertisements consistently today and every day, you can increase the value to your self of every dollar you have to spend. The things you see advertised are almost invaria bly as represented. The adver tisers' statements are usually safer to trust than youf own judgment. Advertised misrep resentation is business suicide. G N DEBS Single Copy: Five Cents 750 DEFENDANTS IN PROCEEDINGS AT CAMP BRAGG Government Brings Action To Take Over 120,451 Acres of Land ' " - HEARD BEFORE JUDGE " CONNOR'S RALEIGH COURT Three ' Commissions Named To Set Valuation on Property-! ' Desired by Government 4 , RALEIGH.. Jirty 16. Seven nan .!red and fiftj, defendants Were na-;sd-.li-,rT J heard, before United - Connor, in fed- jo." 0ilrt yesterday in condemnation 1 proceedings tcyacqulre possession, of '120,461 acresof land in Cumberland and Hoke counties . for the site of Camp'Bragg the artillery training' center of - thb United States army. : Three commissions were named by ' the court t? evaluate the land In question. f - . : -.' . s ' , -.,-"") "u , " The vastacreage of land was pre- f emptod by the government in 1918,' when tho war department' determin- -ed to locate Camp Bragg in tbe,satnd hills 9 miles west of Fayettevilla, on ' a site (approximately eight'' milds wide and 25 miles long, extending northwest across the county Una well -Into Hoke county. Immediate poa- r session was taken of more than 8000 -acres' of, land, under notice of Con demnation procedure, and the re mainder left to await the more' da liberate processes of law. ; ". ,'." ; - Some Land Purchased -- A commission-composed of .Dr. 'J. . Vance McGougan, now senator eleflt Hon, John G. Shaw, and Peter McK. Williams, of Fayetteville, undertook the work, of purchasing these, 204 ' square miles of country for the fd- eral government,' and - have succeed ed in buying outright a considerable section , of t country - without . th bother ment of litigation. . Maay . landowners have demurred from tho finding of. this commission, and the sweeping .condemnation proceedings . were begun in federal court yeater -day. , - - . , ' V Three commissions, two represent ing Hoke, county, -and a third from. Cumberland county, were named yes terday to expedite th6-fixing of pro-' per valueC oil' the land, and are call ed to hold their first meeting Au gust 9th, at a noint to be agreed upon within tho region over which -they , will have jurisdiction. They will proceed to fix a value upon th lands reporting to the court what they coa- sider a fair price to both the. 'gov-, ' ernment and the owner. Both par- i ties have the. right of taking excen-: tion to the findings 'of the commit- ' sion, in which case the court will , pass upon it.x - ; . Breaks Court Record . -X . -- Probably no legal proceedings in North Carolina has ever had more ' . defendants than are named, in .the action heard here yesterday,: And. none with more ramifications to per plex lawyers and judges concerned, ' Many ef tho tracts are entangled in mortages, some are entailed, others aro'in the hands of executor 1 for m'nor children, and there are others : in the hands of contrary mindd owners who don't want to get' out, ." even though threatened ' with "'the-J prospect of having high powered artillery laying down barrages around them " . f .-.k Representing the Federal authoriJ tics yestorday was Thomas D. WaV-' ren, cf New Bern, W. H. McDonald, j head of the real estate service of tho War Department,-, and Capt. J." J King, Jr., chief of staff to the artil- '. lery branch of the service, of which. Colonel Snow is head. The defend - dants wero represented by . Charles G. Rose,, of Fayetteville, Q.' K. .Ni- mecks, Jr., and R." R. King,' "of" Greensboro. v' ,.. , -v v .- . . Commissioners Named v f "j. -" The commissions named in ' tho' ' action to fix values are as follows: . Cumberland county John - B: -Elliott, Duncan B. Curria and John ." M.Owen. 1 Hoko county No.-1 J A; Keith,- -J. A. Patterson and J. - B McCor-tt mack. ''- - Hoko county ' N. 2 A A'. Mc- . Keithan, Neill Ai McKay and Frank Buchan.- ; - - - The coming of -Camp Bragg to--" Hoke and Cumberland counties has H come to be regarded as a mixed - blessing, the inhabitants round about the site welcoming it with open arma'' andtho 1,000 or bo farmers who have had to move, or who will be moved under the condemnation pro ceedings, looking upon it with feel- -ings not unmixed with disfavor. Moving a population the size of that, " of the camp area Is not a small task, i particularly in this time of inflated land values. Many of those who ob- ' ject to moving are prompted by the " - fact that they will be unable to- bur- ' I other lands nearby at anything like ! the figure at which they are selling . . , their present holdings, and are' I loathe to give up their homes until ' jthsy have found something " that ' t.uits them just as well. . - - y ! The matter of county revenue al--i so lifts Its head, to worry the county ! authorities. While not the richest Isoction of either of the two counties, 1 209' square miles cut ' out of the v u.wAu o um( nuu UUIU tUUUllta are feelipg; the effects of 1L ' The I quetlon.has already been raised' as' ' to thei probable liability of the Gov, ernment -for. - at least part of . tha bonded indebtedness, . of . tha two counties before the camp became a ' realitr .