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FATHER REPORT for North Carolina-Probably showers tonight and Saturday; No change in temperature; Fresh north winds on the coast. TUT! NWEA mi- ESTABLISHED SINCE 1882 AFTERNOON DAILY ALL THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL'' Volume XI. No. 10. Four O'Clock Edition Scotland Neck, N. C, Friday, August 27, 1920 Telegraph Service Price Five Cents COMMo 1 BIG DROP PRICES IN PRICE OF COAL rpartment of Justice Plans Sweeping Cam paign Against Alleged Profiteers PUBLIC IS SIMPLY O Washington- D. C. Aug. 27. Forecast of a tumble in coal prices was made by Department of Jus tice officials today coincident ; with the announcement of "re-j newed activity" in the campaign1 against coal profiteers. With pro- j duction on the increase, predic-; tion was made that the coal mar ket would follow sugar prices in GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS a break in the near future. j OF THE WORLD Trices have already dropped in j f" Baltimore where the Federal ag-! cuts started yesterday to gather evidence against an alleged com bination of dealers who were de clared to t Iff through rep lar attack' o, , ; .-.ers has been ordered at Hampton Roads oneamendment. Governor Smith greet of the largest bunkering stations ed Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt at on the Eastern seaboard. Com- .the station then the suffrage del plaints have come frequently from egation from Tennessee arrived. there and from 'Baltimore- it was ', said. , .. 1 Warsaw, Aug. 27. The tRus- Although interior points have re 2ians wno took refuge in East ported exhorbitaht coal prices .in Russia, fighting the Poles along many instances, it was stated that the frontier an official statement the ' flagranti, violations uof the saystjiat - two soviet batteries Lever law were crtMefclrgelv opened fire from; German soil, but to the Atlantic coast. The depart- mPTit will' nrP it i-nvpstitratinns at all points, however, as a part of the program outlined Monday when the Attorney General in structed all United States attor neys to dol vp into thpv basis nf-itt- r t'i.- i-, . f formation that pyramiding of . prices had been accomplished through intertrade sales. The department's hands are tied at Philadelphia by a court order restraining the United States At torney from prosecuting profit- eers under the Lever law, which was held to be unconstutional by "ftie Court there. But the Court will not stay the gathering of evi dence, according to H. S. Mitchell special assistant to the Attorney General, who is directing the cam paign. Mr. Mitchell . believed public sentiment, had begun to react ag- fvinst coal profiteers to the extent that it would force a lowering of prices. The break in quotations at t Baltimore, together with expected reductions at other points, was ex- pected to mean a real benefit to the consumer. HAS ElEHT MONTHS EH SUPPLY Paris, Aug. -The Armenian republic now have sufficient grain supplies for eight months, accord- mg to a telegram to the United States Grain Corporation execu- lives here from Colonel William Haskell, Allied High Commis- sioner to Armenia, who left that country to come to Paris with his snff of American officers. The; tele gram savs that thp wrnin sun. ARMENIA Plies will come largely from the of rainfall rom three o'clock to- clarations of a' "conspiracy to to puff, no corn to flake, no oatsj there is nothing advertised except out in an automobile with her 1'arvest, there being a small am- day flooded-the streams in upper buy the presidency". It was in-to roll. ' jthe products which come from the sister driving and the auto was ount remaining of 40,000 tons of S. C, and the Catawba river was dkated that he would make fur-i Magazines carry a great deal of farm. E. T. Meredith, Secretary struck by the train. Her sister es flur sent from America. showing seven feet rise. Small ther " exposes " within a week, copy ..and a lot of pretty pictures of Agriculture. caped injury. .. . . t M BEING ROBBED ATEST TELEGRAPH ATCH JP UNTIL FOUR O'CLOCK P. M. New York, Aug. 27. -Prominent Jf'ir a gists assembled in New kyiifk today to celebrate the for mal ratification of the nineteenth .Lue ies were cautioned not to fire into Prussia'. A lull in the fighting on various sectors, al though the Poles report advances in several places. Marion, Aug. 27. Several im portant conferences this after . noon an automobile trip to ad dress railway employes at Galion, illili i DESP ES and a night reception in celebra- a phony list which I never heard to the use of alcohol have become ;are the backbone of the most gi-'Denison, Grand Island, Neb. tion of suffrage on Harding's 0f before. y candy eaters since the advent of gantic whiskey conspiracy since Hillschvle, Mich.; Kaiamazoo,, crowded dsk today. j ' jPrfohibition is based entirely upon prohibition became effective," -Mich. McMinnville Ore Ottawa London, Aug. 27.mMayor Mac- S Sweeney of Cork began his 15th day of a hunger strike. He was conscious and able to speak and it was said misdit live a week if ton- ge was good I SStrassburg, Aug. 27. Dr.. Mar-! Constantinople, Aug. 27. Sul cel Knecht denied on behalf of tan Modammad must personally Marshall Foch, that Foch plans to vjsit the United States in April as was published in some news- nanprs papers. Mexico City, Aug. Mexican consul, Laredo here i j seeking to arrange for the emigTa- tion of ten thousand Mexicans to i tlie southern cotton fields. - i Mexico City, Aug. 27. Villa lias writtpn Ppdrn Zamora, the bandit who carried off American subjects advising him to surrender and "sacrifice his pride". Chicago, Aug. 27. Confessions 0 shooting Charles Comisky and robbing the American League ball park box on September 16, when Babe Ruth expected to draw a capacity crowd made here by 3 Doy bandits who were captured n an attempt at robbery of Wil- son and Co. of a $40,000 payroll. CTi nrlntp Atkt 97 Sit itip.1ia.q THIRD CENTURY TOMBS FORI In Them Were Golden Objects, Urns, Glass Work Etc. IN DUTCH LIMBURG Rotterdam, Aug. 27. Four Ro- Washington, D. C, August 27. man tombs, built in the third cen TI; theory that men addicted tury and containing golden ob- the use of alcohol have be jects, urns, glass work, pottery come candy eaters .since the ad and bones -have been found in a : vent of prohibition is not based gravel pit near Heerlen in Dutch ! on facts, said Walter C. Hughes, Limberg. Many of the things are of great scientific value and fur ther excavations are being made. TROTSKY COMMANDS THE RUSSIAN TROOPS Warsaw, Aug. 27. General Tu chatscheaski known as the soviet Napoleon has been relieved as the ". Commander-in-Chief of the Bol shevik army on the Polish front n v,. , laumcu piuic vvarsaw, according to newspapers i 7 l - and Leon Trotsky has perosnally taken command. The Bolshevik prisoners gave out the reports. streams in the Aragon Mill settle ment at Rock Hill entered resi dences to such an extent that oc cupants moved into boats. The rain continues. New York. ug. 27.-Republican aarmaHayaidjCpx prove tne cnarges because they were false. He said Gov. Cox had such an intimate knowledge of the wasting of millions in aircraft pro duction during the war that he dreamed in millions. Chicago, Aug. 27. The repub lican treasurer Upham said that no schedule quotas in 51 cities is wasnington, Aug. zi. ine u.hg wrong premises and is not has requested Serbia to ap- point representat ives to the Al- lied commission to investigate the 1 conflict in Albania and Jugo SHavia Ronnoot tviqIo oimiiifatio - uvo, cxv. vimuLxvu.xxx, ;Ously to Britian, France and Italy. lead the Turkish troops against the nationalist the cabinet has de- cided, to prevent the dissolution of th ppmm'rp. Thp allips nnnar- ently are willing to permit the or 27. The ganization of a Turkish forced j Washington, Aug. 27. Nine million eight hundred' and nine- teen thousand were killed in the Ton the war and the potential loss of population over 35,320,000, the so- ciety for studying the social conse - queaices of war announced thru jthe Red Cross today. Aboard Cox Special, Aug. 27. Cox today carried the democratic offensive centered for " president on the republican finances into the east. A repetition iria part of the evidence presented at Pitts- burg was planned at New Haven today and at tNew York tomor- row- Gov. Cox and advisers ex - pressed satisfaction with inf or- mniinn crivpn tn bap.Tr nn thp rip- T 1 TURNED TO CANDY Prohibition Has Promoted Many Industries Very Perceptibly CONFECTIONARY 5tH Secretary of the National Con fectioners' Association. The statement is made in a let ter to Thomas Quinn Beesley, Assistant to the American Execu tive Committee of the 15th Inter national Congress Against Alco holism. The Congress is a scien tific body and Mr. Hughes' state- ment is in reply to a request for advance miormation to present present i m) liik srrpss iinrm"- tmp nn ii. r j : . Mention on September 21-26 '. -- While 1 believe that Prohibi- . , , , . - , tion has been a benefit to tne Con- T , . T , ' , fectionery Industry, I do not be- r 1 . l - . . . , lieve that the industry has been i . J v ' i i. - luuic xjLlo.il a uuiuucr uj. muusines have been benefited. I "In point of benefits the indus- try has received, we believe Con- t . ' , . , fectionery ranks about fifth. The industries who have received greater benefits than our industry ALCOHOLICS HAVE NO tK6 last. Ohio elec - following-: 1st Savings Banks. 2nd - -Soft Drink Industry. 3rd - -Ice Cream Industry. 4th - Moving Picture Theatres. 5th - -Confectionery Industry. "I think it is an unanswerable argument that some industres haveheen benefited, but the the- ory advanced that men addicted' , locyieal. Morp p.andv is bpino- poti- sumed because the people have more money to spend, not alone for candy but for everything else 'ii . .-. . ,, . . ( cney want tnax adds to tneir com- for, or pleasure. BEHIND TTHE ADS. ARE MANY FARMS I do not believe it would be an overstatement of the fact to say that the products of the farm, raw or manufactured, make a larger contribution to advertising space than all other industries and insti tutions. I am perfectly well aware that this is far from the popular,1" ut?. Lne lawjer-pontician concention of farm advertising When most people think of what the farm contributes to advertis- ,ing, they make a mental picture of a man with a few buchels of ap-; ,;. ,Ior tne loss ot both legs last Feb ples to sell, or a load of hay, or a of streaked bacon superior break ruary at Weldon, 'when one of cow and calf, a ndthey see, as the result of it, a five-line local in some little weekly paper, Take the one item, of cereals j breakfast foods and the like. Rolled oats, puffed wheat, corn flakes, puffed rice, macaroni, and fifty others I cannnot remember just now, but which furnish copy for advertising men every day in the year. If it were not for agri- ' p.nltnTP tTiPTP would hp no wha.t 51 1 j ORTHERN BAPTISTS ET PART OF SI $159,440 Have Paid Out $30,000,000 of The $100,000,000 Go to Colleges and Schools SECOND PAYMENT BEFORE LONG -o mum ",cY nm pi run nm ULLVLLHI1U jto cover a five year extention pro- Lawyer-Politican to Head!gram' Dr- Fra,,k w- Padeiford, Greatest Rum-Running Conspiracy Since Pro hibition Ever Dawned QQ Qf $10,000 OF. ' j Cleveland, Aug. C -.A $25,000, - nnn wi.w ;pt. . ,. ' tions extending from Kentucky, ' . . , . ' Pennsylvania and Ohia to New . lork and other Atlantic coast ,A. . . o.itips ins iPPTi imonvop ,v ,eral officers here. The government i acthorities promise to expose a 'great blockade-running combine, lTIVllvinni' OOt7aiol rvnn i ,--. 4- f . . 1 moans, ; j The names of these men, inclu- ding that of a candidate for a ; Tions, are to be made public when a special Grand Jury is called! next month. The case is to centre about a Cleveland lawyer-politi- cian declared to have offered a $10,000 bribe to an enforcement oicert for permission to ship whiskey through Cleveland to HT w - - ew York and other coast cities. "Cleveland money and brains 'J.ohn H. Person, special internal revenue insnector. declared. It is estimated by government Iowa, William Jewell, Liberty, of ficials that since January 16, Mo. hen the 18 amendment ent into j Junior Colleges : Broaddus, effect, more than $25,000,000 Clarksburg, W. Va. ; Cedar Val worth of whiskey has been taken ley, Osage, Iowa. ; Colorado Wom from bonded karehouses in Ken- en's College, Denver, Colo. ; Fran tccky, Pennsylvania and elsewhere cis Shinier, Mt. Carroll, 111. - Har- jby means of fake permits and by theft. Much of this has been dis- posed of through the Cleveland clique. Blockade-runners and their backers in Pittsburgh and other cities are involved. The most important, link in the Government's chain of evidence !against the iskey ring is repor-' 4- 1 4- x-v 1 1 I. ted to be thp U11J 1S &diU LO uave orierea rro- Ui"lllun iil counts iu,uuu otr - "luaiuuies Ui,1Mmv company in wnicn Mrs. .wniskev through his district fast bacons from almost as many plants as are engaged in the meat-;ner packing business. And there are and then by pulling back over her, sugar-eurexl hams, chipped beef,:a verdict of $45,000 was rendered, sausages, and all sorts of meat-This is the largest personal in products. There are pickles and jury verdict ever rendered in the preserves, jellies and jams and state. Attys. Walter Daniel, Ed baked beans, catsups and sauces, Travis and Ashby Dunn appeared oranges, cotton and wool clothing, for Mrs. Parker, leather, sugar, candies. What's At the time of the accident, the use to go further would . leave vou with the imDression that SCHOOLS HI i New York, Aug ?". Fifty-one Baptist schools and solleges of the Northern Baptist - Convention have reneived a portion of the ($100,000,000 fund being collected j executive secretary of the denom- ination's Board of Education, an nounced here todav. 1 j Money thes far paid out, ! amounting to $159,440, represents ; first payments which will bo fol- lowed others until approxima- u innnnm ,tely $30,000,000 has been distribu- 1 ted for educational purposes. Dr Padelford said that second nay- 'mpnts Avrml1 lm moi if,,. ,ments ouLd be made before tue emi at v-f,:nn novinfl fm. e dCatl0n penod, tur- nishin the beneficiary institn- oeneiiciarj nistitu- tions with fmirle fnr inimoriitA , nous it ii luiuis tor immediate employment. First payments, in amounts ranging in size from $500 to $10,000 have been made to the following institutions : Theological Seminaries: Berk- 'eley, Cal; Chicago; Crozer Ches- iter, Pa.- Kansas City Newton j Mass: ; , Norther,,, Jhicao III. Rochester, N. Y. Training Schools : Chicago, : Philadelphia, Norwegian Baptist Divinity House, Chicago, 111.- Bethel Academy, St. Paul, Minn.; Union College of Iowa Des Moines Iowa. Colleges: Bates Me.- Brown R. I. ; Biieknell, Pa.; Carleton, Minn. : Col bv Me CobrtP xT v Kan. : Dedlands Cal Shnrtloff ;T11 SInv Vail ti . n,t, at,.: din, Mexico, Miss.; Keuka, Keuka Park, N. Y. ; Rio Grand, Rio Grande, O. ; Stephens, Columbia, Mo. MRS. JENNIE PARKER GETS ; VERDICT OF $45,000 I In the court at Halifax this week Tl yi -r . dudge u u. Lyon, presiding in the tase ot Mrs. Jennie Parker, of jNew Jersey, against the S. A. L. rarker Avas sueing tor $50,000 j the Seaboard trains cut off both legs, tirst by backing on her Mrs. Parfcfcr was visiting her sis- ter at Roanoke and they were 0010 FOi
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