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r hi &5 L. XIII. NUMBER t. FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION SCOTLAND NECK, n. 0 TUESDAY, JUNE 21st, 1921. TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE 5c ER COPY TUT m mm m m i N JLVli 0. . - : -r- IIIIL15 OF DQLtAflS TO OTHER COUNTRIES BE CAUBE OF AMERICA'S IGNORANCE-' INVESTieATIOII OF RESERVE BOARD DISCOUNT RATE (By Associated Press) Lativa, June 21. Millions of 4ul ;u.- in ready cash are going to Eu i;s!l. C.Minan "and Dutch firms from tin Baltic states because of the al m0t unbelievable unfamiliarity- of ,ncn the largest American firms with t'oieiau trading conditions, and even c Oi.ua phy, sav Americans here. .Dozens of big orders for which was actually in the banks in New Vi-j'k. l:ve been lost to America be ..lUst. of what American representa tives in the Baltic states term abso lute stupidity. It is time, " said one of these Americans in Riga who has had to ,,:u-e nianv orders in Germany and in England when- America could have ha,i them," that the heads of Amer i,:rn firms realize what the subordi nates in charge of their foreign trad iim apartments are doing to them. Most of them, brought up on so ,..r,e,1 American efficiencv systems that may work well at home but are ..Kinliitflv honeless abroad, trv to do Juisiness in Europe according to 'form it' or 'form 24' or whatever form they would apply to similar deals m America. "To illustrate, not long ago I had an urgent cash order for $10,000 suits if under dothinsr for a Baltic state. I telegraphed to a big American firm. - What your price 40,000 suits heavy underwear cash against documents New York.' 'Two or three 'da vs later. wMn some bright young credit man had Jiieil to digest this telegram, I recetv t. a cable saying: 'Wire your credit rating and references." "Now. I suppose his 'form 22 r re quired 1dm to do that, but I- wired back. "My credit references ar ash in New York bank. What are vuur prices. ' ' Some days later I received a tele gram saying: 'Price dollar twenty r something like that. More valuable time was lost in an .( -hange of telegrams asking what they meant, per garment or per suit. The result as that I wired an Eng- !imi tint). Mv answer from it was complete, just what I wanted. The r -!egram gave the price per suit, weight of shipment, probable date or delivery and everything that I want ! to know. The English firm got ti - order and took the .cash in the' New York bank. "'When I write American firms for ' ;i ab.ues, I get catalogues without i'ii-es. I suppose they think it is un dignified to priiif'them. Then I write for piieelists and get price lists with- ei!, catalogues. "'MMitian or British firms print com V'ete catalogues, giving just what one w.-uits to know. .They save valuable weeks of mail correspondence. and get 'he. orders.'' Another American in trade in Riga - owed the correspondent a cablegram ' i '!n one of the biggest oil companies '" Amer'u-;i, in reply to his telegram !':.ch s.-,id: "Quote me price refin-!- ' ,al oil - delivered Riga." xno 1 'wer ivjiil: "Crude oil has gone up cents l,Mrlol." (By Associated Press) Washington, June 21. Senator omun, or couth Carolina, urged, an investigation of the Federal Reserve Board's regulation of the . " rediscount rate. "The people of the eountrv are going bankrupt and are starving," he said. SOLUlERSBOfJUS SJiSJL if WORLD WIDE SEARCH FDR MISSING CREW REPORTED Washington, June 21. The senate finance committee voted today to make a favorable report to the senate on the veterans' adjusted compensation" bill, formerly known as the soldiers' bonus bill. The measure will be reported with the five-fold benefit plan as passed by the house in the last session of con gress. - r Sweep CNit To Sea (By Associated Press) Old Point Comfort, Va., June 21 Like a swarm of mosquitoes bearing j death dealing stings, scores of air craft swept by here out to sea to sees and bomb former German submarines, in the first of a series of tests to prove or disprove the claims of the air service experts that the develop ment of military aircraft has spelled the doom of surface warcraf. (By Associated Press) Washington, June 21. The State Department has started a worldwide search for the missing crew of the schooner, Carroll A. Deering, which piled up on the North Carolina beach last January with all sails set, but no living soul abroad. The departments of Justice and Commerce are also in vestigating the disappearance of 'the Deering and the freighter Hewitt, which disappeared about the same time. - Water Power Conference of Manufacturers WEATHEB REPORT For North Carolina: Fair tonight and Wednesday. Not much change ri temperature. Moderate east winds. C o p per Smelting And Refining Washington, June 21. The Super dreadnaught Maryland, said to be the most powerful fighting machine afloat put to sea from Newport News, to De gin a series of tests preliminary to being turned over to Navy" department. (By Associated Press) . s ..' New York, June 21. Manufactuters interested in the subject of water power, from the standpoint of the con sumer, assembled - here today for a conference called by the Water Pow er League of Ameriea to discuss the questions of power, power shortage, cost of fuel and amendments to oe asked to the Federal Power Act. The League hopes to induce private capi tal to invest in the enterprises of wa ter-power. development to relieve pow- er shortage and reduce the cost C of power to the consumer. i The Water Power League assails the workings of the Federal Power Act as "detrimental to water-power development and asserts that the ;aet has made it practically impossibly private enterprises to engage, in these undertakings. " The League also as se'rts that the Federal act has taken from the several states all their rights to intrastate streams within their borders and places them in charge of 1 . . .. (By U. S. Press) I the Federal Power Commission, which Washington, June 21. A preliminary 1 is composed of the Secretary of War Washington, June 21. The former German submarine was sunk off Cape j Charles by the first squadron of Naval , seaplanes which bombed it, according to reports received at the Navy de-1 partment. PULLMAN COMPANY LOSES OPENSHOP FIGHT (By Associated Press) Chicago, JU.rf June 21. The Pull man Company has lost the open shop fight before the Railroad Labor Board when. the Board upheld the contention of the Labor Union leaders that the Company had not obeyed "the letter and spirit" of the transportation act when it conferred with employees in u mass meeting. The Board threw out the Company's petition for a cut m wages of its employees and instruct ed the company to go back and meet the only elected representatives of the employees. . . , - Newport News, Va., June 21. One member of crew of ten was injured, when the naval seaplane N C 7, carry ing bombs, was wrecked and burned in Hampton Roads. Radio operator was injured by burning was on the water. The other nine escaped un scratched. The airmen released f ne bombs when they found a forced land ing was necessary . when machine caught fire. What ARmt The Woman Member CHILD BADLY INJURED FROM EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE CAP Early this morning Irma, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Price, living about five miles in the country, was seriously injured by the explosion of what was supposedly a dynamite cap. It seems that the child was play ing with the cartridge, picking it wita a pin, when a loud explosion occurred, the child sereamed and her mother ran out . of the house and found ner bleeeding from the face, arms and both hands. Upon examinaton it was found that the thumb and two .fingers of the left hand were torn off at the first joint, and numerous cuts on the arms and face. She was .put into a car and rushed, to office of Dr. O. F. Smith, who -ediately operated upon her hand and dressed the other wounds. Though there were sears close around the eyes her eyesight was apparently unaffect ed. Mrs. Price was prostrated over the accident and the suffering of the child. News From statement of the 1920 census of manu factures with respect to tne copper smelting and refining industry during the year 1919 has been prepared by the Bureau of the Census. The figures are based on returns from 33 establlsn ments with products valued at $632, 897,000. At the census of 1914 there were 37 establishments with products valued at $444,022,000, an increase o $188,875,000 or 42.5 per cent. Arizona is the leading state in cop per smelting, with products valued ai $94,184,000 compared with $53,438,000 in 1914, an increase of 7o. per cent; and New Jersey in copper refjnlng, with products amounting to $244,269, 000, compared with $159,199,000 in 1914, an increase "of 53.4 per cent. as chairman, the Secretary of the In terior, and the Secretary of Agricufture Also it is asserted that the act takes from Congress the powers it has ex ercised tand also takes from the War Department the authority vested in it by the Constitution and relegates these powers to the commission. Officials of the Water Power lea gue assert that there are on file at Washington today more than 200 ap plications for permits and licenses to develop water-powers. The total horsepower of these projects is estima ted at more than 20,000,000 and if they were carried to completion it would require several billion dollars to finance them. League officials (By Maxwell Gorman) Washington, Raleigh 21. Since the legislature adjourned last March the one woman member," Miss Clements, of Buncombe, has married and chang ed her name. The question arises as 1 to how this fact will affect the rep resentative from Buncombe county. Legally, there is no such person as Miss Clements, and what we want to know is what Alex Lassiter, principal elerk of the House, is going to (to about it when he makes up, the roll. He can't really expect an eye response if he calls "Miss Clements," an by what authority is . he to become able to call her Mrs. Nawname (whieh es capes us for the moment) and be sure of the validity of he "act?" But Clerk Lassiter is a gentleman of resources and has been serving m one capacity and another in the House since Horace Greeley ran for presi dent. If the female representative from Buncombe attends the extra ses- Sentenced' Three Times to: be Shot State Capitol (By Maxwell Gormon) Raleigh, June 21. Before returning to' Raleigh this week Governor Mor rison spent two days in company with the highway "committee and others on a tour of inspection of mountain high ways. Leaving Charlotte Monday morning Governor Morrison and W. A. Hart, of Tarboro, State Highway Commissioner for the first district, Heriot Clarkson, one of the most en-j sum, Colonel Lassiter can probably be thusiastic and hardest workers of the depended on to get her legal cogno-hard-surface hisrhwav advocates. Wade 1 men adjusted so as to appear on the say, that without exception, all these I 1 1 1 1 j ,1 1 rtM --v - m 1 -W 9 Quantity of cower produced at projects nave Deen nantju uy ,ing mock lurnpiKe irom jenoir smelters, as compiled by the Geolog Harris of the Charlotte Observer, Fran cis O. Clarkson of Charlotte, and some others, went to Lenoir, where the par ty was joined by Chaiman Page of the Highway Commission, and commis sioners for the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth highway " districts, Messrs. Wilkinson, Cox, Doughton and McBee. The party then inspected the Blow- to (By iLssoclated Press) Warsaw, June 21. Three different times Captain Merion Cooper, of Jack sonville, Fla., while in a Bolshevik prisoners' camp in Russia for nine months, was notified that he was to be shot at sunrise. Then, for hours preceding the time set for the supposed execution, Cooper was grilled by So viet authorities who pretended to be lieve that he was a representative of the American government. When the hour of execution came round no Bol- sheviki appeared but Cooper was never notified otherwise, being left In suspense day after day until he escaped s House roll of members, but de facro de jure. ical Survey, aggregated 1,310,972,580 pounds in 1919, compared with 1,150, 137,192 in 1914. Arizona leads with 536,515,368 pounds, or over 40 per cent of the total, followed in order of rank, by Michigan, Montana, Uta!, New Mexico, Alaska, California, Ten nessee, Colorado, Idaho, and Oregon. Primary copper of domestic origin produced at regineries was 1,4441,640, 000 -pounds in 1919, compared with 210,423,000 in 1914; 'while total refin ed copper, primary and secondary, of both domestic' and foreign origin, is reported at 1,863,580,000 pounds for X"v." said this American dealer, j 1919, compared with 1,565,708,000 for li'ln't want to know about crude oil 1 1914, a 5-year increase of 297,872,000 I haven't time to figure out wliat pmm,iSj or 19 per cent. ;-t ; rise in its price would have t ., . . - il oil that was badlv wanted by stage stamps, causing indignant pros pective, buyers to dig down in their pockets to pay postage due in rubles or marks of whatever the unit hap- and regulations promulgated by tho J Blowing Rock, thence to Spruce Pine, Power Commission which passed out Yonalessee highway being followed. of existence March 4 with the change of administration. The League declares that " Ameri can financiers refuse to consider the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in projects which are made Along the route the committee of in spection was met by delegations of citizens. This ' committee of commis sioners have been appointed by tne State commission to , inspect western toll roads with the view of making ap- POLISH GOVERNMENT NEGOTIATES THE JEWS PEGIAL SESSION OF LEGISLATURE WITH ''liver. In many of siu-h ridiculous cases .v.- telegraphed directly to the uncertain by the vagaries of a bodyipraisai 0f values, in order that the , . . . . 1 1. : . i. ! . . . . nf men sub ject to tne cnanges wmcu : state Highway commission may oe ,j , . occur in American politics eveTy four vears. " It is to discuss these fea tures that the Water-power has called the conference. guided thereby in taking over the roads in making them public thorougn- League fares an parts of the great I hard-surfaced highways system. (By Associated Press) Warsaw, Ju-ne 21. Negotiations be tween the Polish government and a commission of representative Jew3 in the new republic were broken off recently, it was announced, alter a : series of meetings Lad been held at Since the negotiations began, ac- (By Maxwell Gorman) Raleigh, June 21. The chances aro that the Governor will call an extra session of the legislature. It may ne announced within the next few days. Convening the lawnmakers in extra session, especially at this time of the year, will be much against the wishes of the Governor, personally as well a3 against the desire of the legislators. But the representatives of the State Association of Municipalities have pre sented such a strong case on the part of a number of cities to function their financial management in no othel way, that the Governor is understood to have come around to their wav of A statement from the League urges j Congress to "pass the Power Act. to j create a body which would be able to j grant licenses to prospective poerjuly . developers and relieve them of the! October COTTON MARKET m 10.89 . 11.72 1 12.25 ' of firms in America explaining pens to be. situation and have received prompt Some of them bear fantastic addre3- tedious delays incident to getting a : December .'- biH through Congress for each propos- january : 12.35 t 1L Stat1 ! cording- to Jewish members of the com mission, conditions generally so far as the Jewish population is concern ed, have become Avorse with little prospect of improvement. The Jews contended that further meetings with the Polish committee were useless at that time. The government committee included Prince Sapieha, then Minister of For-j thinking. Of course, the chief purpose of th5 session will be to validate the muni cpal act, which has been declared in valid, by the Supreme Court, because of the failure of the Senate" journal clerk to-pioperly record its passage on the Senate . Journal, but once assem bled the Legislature will not confine itself Jto that duty. T It'll UH V..1VP JIW, -" " m. , , - , . 1 1 -ll fe ' -. " ' ftrv" of last August, it will go cabinet The chances are that, like the ry: Ex-tho ts dotermin- ! . , A ilKTi Uliicm " - 1 , I -.-lie !- 1 Z1 nt.ion to make an effort to break fi-'Burton, for years chairman ot tne ;xer or inaiu-t, anU . un.r limit of twenty davs session before it wnterWer development Rivers and Harbors Committee of Con- members. The Jews wefe represented j date 'for assembling IV nil 1" -- - 1 , - , v -r . J the legislators in extra session is 'x- in this eountrv and bring about an .gress, n the Water-power League 4 -hfi of the advisory- couu-.by several of the best-known Jewish members cf the Diet and others prom-. are.inent in looking after the Jewish In- August. . . . r . -. 1 -1 1 Atm n n T Tl fa.-tion Uuf t wnn't. tw tw such as "Riga, Kussia., via Tne , immediate an .geneia. . . ,. L. ' ' j l,. t ronnr-st Li. .i,.irt,At ptmt ounce of The officers of the League i c all of them.- So the Uermans racitic. une leiit-r iu --h " " i. - 1. , , tt .af. - . L - - . . i ,r,Tr Ti,ori' it T,itrPrnTl resident: - Char-, , terests of the state English get the orders." . to ship for cash" a big. consignment or , hvdro-elecTri.c energy m . V - -, . . - - , v- coi,!'. n,t wnniner fuel supplies les T. jxoot,. urst-.- vic.iucuv, iciiTallv, perhaps halt ot tno goods irom xsew .unv j1"1" v"' . .1 . " -, ,1 A1. A aao nnft nf wkm ; nrnroxima- if som , , , ,. . j. . , tt Allen second vice-president; and . about -0,00U,00U ot whom, approxinid. it .som ipected to be sometime during July or Tr-VS SPl.t -hxr im;o.. firm a fn f fir-m woo ROrrV bUt had HO. Sill Pinnu ,niav OP COUH'iyni. -I !':'- states bear only two cent pos- facilities on the Pacific. United States Senator Theodore E. j Frederick L. Long, Secretary. Poland has a total population of! The governor would defer it till fall e of the cities were not crying; out that -they can not wait till then. ftelv 4,000,000 are Jews.
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