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tVEATHKR BEPOKT For North Carolina-Pro,aUy sWvc. tollight and Wednesday somewhat wanner toigIlt fresh ca an, south winds. EALT II II II VJ 1 II 1 A X A. IX Hk r S 11 ESTABLISHED SINCE 1882 ; AFTERNOON DAILY "ALL THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL." TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1920. tfCUR O'CLOCK EDITION SCOTLAND NECK N, C. VOLUME X. NUMBER 9. TELEGRAPH SERVICE PRICE TWO CENTS Ini 1 R R HFR Ffl VFRFMlinS TO SAVE FROM ywww mmm nmw ...-- ......... w niinilimn GAR N ZA PLANS TO WTH RAILROAD LABOR BOAR WRECK This Gives the Strike Fever a set back to let the Wage Increase be Settled in Washington FREIGHT TRAFFIC o - Speakers Advocate Laws Guaranteering Industry MR ONOA AT ST. LOUIS CON. IMPROVING Chicago, April 20. The strike fever has received a setback when eiirht thousand freight handlers find thirty thousand railway clerks decided to leave the hear ing of the demands of wage In crease to the railroad labor board in Washington. Freight traffic continues improving. I. B. LLOYD IS PAID WICKER WEAVi MACHINE PLAN WALK OUT OF 10010 R. A. MEN Wicker Weaving same up to this as the mother of Moses Wove St, Louis, April 20. The enact ment of Federal legislation guar anteeing industry against strikes and aggressive foreign trade po- Plans To Send 65,000 troops against the State BOTH SIDES PREPARE Auga Prieta, Sonora, April 20. Carranza plans to send sixty five thousand soldiers against bonora according to Jaurez re- licy were advocated by speakers I ports Botn' sides continu'e pre. at tne opening ot tne session oijparation for the clash the Mississippi valley association convention. RESIDENT CONSTRUCTION IS MUCH LESS THAN PUBLIC II S Dwellings Per Usually Represent Cent Of Con- tracts Thirty IT IS RUNNING 14 TO 29 PER CENT -0 30 TIMES FASTER Detroit, April 20. The walk nf 'i.,,nrirMi ti,m,T,H m?n. Menominee, Mich., April 20.- tenance of wav railroad em- (Special) A small news story on plovees is threatened in Chicago inventions has brought $1,500,000 for April the twenty eighth un- to Marshall" Burns Lloyd, an in less demands for temporary wage) " increases of a dollar a day' is1 Several months aS Mr- Llovcl granted. This walkout will not evented a new method for pro receive sanction of the brother- dllcmS babv carriages, woven 1iood president R. E. Grable an. furniture and baskets. It was nonneed. - - - - - - tblLie ; weaving wickers since Jochebed, I mother of Moses, wove a basket jiu which Pharoah 's daughter found him on the River Nile Soon after Mr. Lloyd invented a, loom which weaves wickers into any shape and does so thirty SIBERIANS DYING Of TYPHOID STREET PAVING SOON TO BE A BEAUTY T MBER WORKERS TO STRIKE MAY f"l,n I New York, April 20. Delay in . ! relieving the housing shortage all over the country is greater than iin any other form of building const ruction nppnmliiirr i n Victoria, B. C. April 20. Ty phus has killed thousands of Si- About ten days ago our honor able mayor and commissioners received an estimate from the jvv of contracts issued today by viie'P. W. Dodge company. Pub- 1 1 i 3 -J.'-1 1 Ml!. vvutkn, muusinai uuuuings an Demand len Hours Pay ,publlc utllltes are being ' t- -!. ite mucn faster than residences For Eight Hours .and are less affected by high berians and thousands are still !civil engineers who had-been se- nonrnWr, .oa.o r,. ,'lected to do the work an estimate A. K. Higgs head of the Ameri-! of the cost of Pa.vinS three blocks can Red Cross said onreturning 01 mam OT wmcn are xweive .hundred feet longr and seventy feet wide. It is estimated tne cost of the three blocks will be Work PAPER SUPPLY HURT home. SANERANGSCD IS READY FOR CONVEN. sixty five thousand dollars. Now this is to be only the beginning many thousand timber workers of the good work. prices, iigh wages and shortage of material. Contracts awarded for resf- slc)iiikl I'hiiil vi ire li-k -fit) firvf . -three months thisvyear vary from ,14 to 29 percent of total building Menominee, Mich., April 20. jcolltracts in different sections, of (Special) Paper mills, lumber jthe (.ountrv. Normally residen mills and all other wood working jces aecount for about 30 percent manufacturing plants of the na- Lf the t.ontractSi and in view of tion will suffer on May 4 when j existjnfr needs. the review says, residences should represent about 40 percent of the total construc- Paved streets; of all kinds throughout the up- MARCH SHOWS BIG 0 NESS GROWTH Tne unirea urates so tnax wnen of tho ycar presented residen tne striKe oreaKs tne paper siior - itial buildings tage as well as all other products jous M)iicern, depending upon wood will be greatly augmenter. Employer ''a matter of ser says the review, iare of as much importance as per peninsula of Michigan go nntj()11 ' (well as credit to a town as good strife for eight hours work and jn New York state and nortii- -Ghieago,- Apinl.v-20The- ...aiureds are tp the country,'and no ten hours pay. This is the ?reaf"ern New Jersev 14 percent of rangements committee has com-, country or town need tigure on jest timner proaucing section m tlle contracts in the first iuartep pleted final plans for democratic j amounting to any real modern convention in San Francisco. j progress without these real ne- '. ' 'cessities. If there was ever a though born in St. Paul, Minn j town that needed modern streets He was a hotel waiter, street and sidewalks it is Scotland Neck hawker of soaps and cheap Jew- lit is almost as level as a table and times taster and better than the ; elry, mail carrier by dog train the streets in a shape not to shed Washington, April 20. The j fastest hand weavers. and small manufacturer. Dur-, the water. Then it is black land improved industrial conditions j The stories of these inventors jing his idle moments he tinkered with a clay subsoil just enough I fight by shipping out more luni-jQhio residential construction was and a revival of business activi- j was printed in patent journals j away at inventions but never had elav to make a s'tiekv mud. We I be'r than has ever been known. 19 percent of the total, in New ties following the cancellation of and copied by a trade paper in 1 money enough with which to pror have heard it said as well as j here. Great lumber piles whicb j England 23 percent, in the dis .government : 'contracts during the Milwaukee known as 'Packages', jduce bi 'things until he sold a know by experience that it 'sjhave not been depleted for fifty trict of Philadelphia, Baltimore year are responsible for the in-! A Ncav York representative of, wire weaving devise for bed the worst of mud or the most try- years today standnearly empty. ar,d Washington 28 percent; in creased vol mime of employment Lusty and Sons, London, Eng-1 springs, door and table mats ing dus't, ' jthe Pittsburgh district 19 per- in March, as compared with last bind manufacturers, read the j This was followed by a new me- . When the paving begins on fl nrnflftTm nmn cent, in the central west 18 per- ear tne department ot labor an- story, investigated and reported j thod and machinery for making Main street it is only the begin- i nil KhHIIHIHI lib fill cent and in the northwest 29 ner- assert that they will close down permanently rather than meet the demands. They are showiinr . Alissouri river and north of the. "as it is probable that the housing-shortage is more acute in this territory than anywhere else." Tn the territory east of the COTTON MARKET. nounced. jto his clients. They came here I last week and left with Mr. Llovd $1, 500,000 richer. . This huge sum enti'tlles them to extensive .March 41.75 British, Empire rights. Permits Hay ! 39.82 have been sold by the inventor -Inly 36.65 hi Canada, New Zealand and Aus October 35.65 tralia. December 34.75, Mr. Lloyd began life as a fish -January !- 33.95 peddler in Meaford, Canada, al- steel tubing. He was dismissed ning of this much needed work j as. an "insane inventor" when he as people on a number of streets tried to sell his patents to the" have voted for their streets and! steel corporation. Later inde- sidewalks to be paved. : pendent firms which, have since BY TORNADO IN MISS. I r ; building construction as nigh as been absorbed by the steel cor poration paid Mr. Lloyd enough I Aberdeen, Miss. April 20 Se 30 percent. In Washington they are telling ,veral persons are reported killed; A local Solomon asserts that a the country it must economize money for American rights sojor go busted Good scheme, that he could develop his wicker-provided the reformation begins weaving ideas. iin Washington. and fifty injured and property philosopher learns to take things damaged to the amount of two 'as they come. Possibly so, but hundred thousand dollars as the the wise man goes out and get result of a Tornado here. , them. ME A MOPE MM JEOSE JAME Some of the letters of coin-ja popular restaurant; peanut oil, New York. April 20. A. W.J nuev. c net or The h vnio- Smui. umf ir0.n .,....,..4,-.. dnnr" of the Department of Jus- pathetic. All, however, showed tiee. whose campaign so far ias the seriousness of the present are resulted in the conviction of 107 'of high - prices." One indignant profiteers with fines ranging citizen wrote : " You ought to from -50 to .2,500 and imprison-, investigate 's fish market Client from one day to two years, in Brooklyn. He's a modern Jesse has uncovered a number, of sur- James. What do you thmk of prismg 'commodities tor which 90 cents a pound for salmon andiof coffee that retailed for sold as " olive oil," $4 a quart; anthracite coal - $15 instead of $9.50 a ton in Nyack, N. Y., be cause the miners were granted a wage increase of 50 cents a ton. Consumers complain to Mr. Ri ley that they have to pay 50 cents a pound for the same brands 21 cents a pound before the war and that wholesalers paid 11 cents a pound for some of these coffees three yeai-s ago and are now paying 15 t:ents, Milk they charge costs TO cents a glass in restau- dealers are said to be asking ex-;6() 'cents for sea bass?" orbitant prices. Complaints of; The chief of the "Flying Squa- allegecl "gouging" in almost dron" has received complaints of I'verythiiijr from pickles to rouge such examples of alleged profi- inl from lemonade to whiskey teering as follows: are being reported to Mr. Riley Drug store whiskey a't $5 a pint by iew York consumers. One and $2 more for doctor's pre-'rants which buy it for 12 eents a "'an who had paid $1.15 to a res- scription, canary birds $20 tojquart; that they have to pay 35 i;miant tuer for a tiny steak and $25 to $18 for a cage; lemonade, 'cents for linen collars costing at ix small pieces of French fried served at a hotel dance and said wholesale $2.40 a dozen; pickles potatoes, didn't stop to eat. them to have been. "week" $1 a glass: cost 6 cents each: cabbage 40 I'tit glancing at his check, took a rouge $1 to $3 a box for "impor- cents a head; 75 centsa bunch '"'Wspapc,. he had been reading, ted" brands; that fish during for asparagus and 35 cents a head " nipped up his "meal!' and Lent rose-from 20 cents to $1 a for lettuce. brought, it to the Federal prosecu- pound in some New York mark-j A young woman protested af tvr ets; prunes, three for 10 cents In ter haying paid $3 for a bag at a department store 'bargain sale' which, she discovered later, cost 75 cents to manufacture. She said that many big business houses were not satisfied with 100 percent profit but were making, in some cases, 150 to 200 percent. She suggested a "remedy" as follows: "Do not buy anything in the first store you visit. Ask flic price and. if it seems at all ex cessive, say you will not pay it and walk out. Then go next door and vou may buy it for less. At any rate these profiteers need to know that the public is wise to them. A tremendous volume of refusals to buy would make such merchants realize they must stop overcharging if they would not precipitate a general business boycott." Obviously the "Flying Squa dron" is Working with the ut most secrecy and names of com plainants are withheld. Several big New ' York corporations. J which have been accused of mak jing unjustifiable profits on food stuffs and clothing,- are now re ported under investigation. Ac cording to Mr. Riley, one convic ted profiteer blamed the public for much of the high prices. "It's so easy to get what you ask for," the merchant confided to the chief investigator, "that few businessmen can resist, the temptation to raise prices. If I put two garments in my store i window of exactly the same cut and materials but with a $50 tag on'one and a $55 tag on the other most persons would buy the high er-nriced one. It's a strange i 1 -freak of human nature. People 'nowadays don't seem to concern ! themselves anv more about what 1 v ;a thing costs.' ' Protests against profiteering are reported pouring into the ! Federal building here from all it ver- the country. When a com-. J 'plaint is received it is ihdexed land forwarded to Federal prose cutors and "flying ,quadrons" operating in the United States judicial territory where the vic tim presides. Investigation fol lows and. it' the facts warrant, arrests are made. The campaign initiated by Attorney General Palmer, will go on according to , H. L. Van Sickler, in charge of the New York office for Mr. Riley "until prices of food, clothing, fuel and feed for livestock are brought to more normal levels." A nut once -sad that a man could get rich by attending I strictly to his own business. His own business, we presume, would consist of annexing the other fel-i low's business. v
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