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- K ? & K i t - V i j 9 VOL. XII. NUMBER 65. FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1921. TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE 5c PER COPY : " SlflOf IS! -""tP--" Sail .--.-? n imni in LjyiH Ji iK I .mi 1 1 1 1 ei i si a i Mil isi r Bini.r JSHeii- i ii..- e imu -a a n fl V HI I HI 1.3 S H a . ?J U E fid B M HJI SB n H f N B B I I I I 1 I B H S B - 9 I S H 9 a a - " " " - w i y Efl 1 I fl U V -N- "ieJB 3 1 B IJ j t MALES I EMi SIXTEEN CIVILIANS BUILD BARRICADES OF SAINT) BAGS IN STREETS, AND FIRS CONTINUALLY AGAINST POLICE AND MILITARY. ONE LABORED WAS SEO DOWN iXTyREPoeiEiiEiiis (By Associated Press.) Vfat, Ireland, August 30. Street fighting -which has been in progress since yesterday, became violent after oVU.-k today, the dinner hour at the factories. One laborer was shot .; ,v, :i and several wounded. Civilians i placed sand bags in the middle ot the streets a-nd are firing contin- v,:Vx against the police and military, who have been forced to abandon the -.t.t:. TV.o tvittpr nf VmTlp-'i lil.-p . (By Associated Press.) ii.ili 1U il --VX-Ul. . Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 30. Alleg- lk it'ast, Aug. 30. Rioting has con-J ing a fear of being kidnapped because of her willingness to testify against are reported dead; one a five rear old 'her father wh'o iis charged with the unurder of Father Jas. E. Coyle, Mrs. Ruth Stephenson Gussman petitions jthe court for "relief" alleging that 1 since her appearance against her (father, Rev. Edwin R. Stephenson, ''threats have been made against her. (By Associated Press.) Berlin, Aug. 30. Germany is under resterietions closely approaching mar tial law as a result of President Ebert's decree banning demonstrations of any ""kind as a consequence of the, assassination of Erzberger. Berlin, Aug.CO. Two men have been arrested suspected of complicity in the murder of Mathias Erzberger, form er Vice-Cliaiieellor. GOVERNOR MAKES SECOND REQUEST FOR FEDERAL TROO-FS HIS REQUEST BACKED BY BUSINESS MEN. DISQUIETING REPORTS CONTINUE TO COME IN. o-irl; and forty eight wounded. A Greedy Little ailroad J. St In Produce (By Associated Press.) Chieago, 111., Aug. 30. A federal investigation of the Ku Klux Klan has been started as a result of complaints that the Klan was opposed to public policy, makes profit on regalia and 1 on account of acts of lawlesness as c-ribed to alleged members. ill INSTALL SYSTEM OF KIND" 'TAX IN PREDICTS LOSSES III RAILROAD BILL - U. S. Press) An., 30. -A minority Washington, Aug. 27 The Inter state Co.nmeree Commission has issued an order permitting the Atlanta andSt. Andrews Bay Railroad Company to discontinue its service from Panama Citv, Florida, to St. Andrews, about; two miles distant, "'for a period of . three months. The Commission na j. before it a petition of the railroad report on xnST railroad funding to pe'rnia neatly abandoned the branch signed by Senator LaFollette, line, but in making it3 order for a' Wisconsin; Senator Stanley of Ken three months period, expresses the be- tueky and Senator Pittman, of Neva Kef that "we are of the opinion that, da, saidf "This measure if enacted, the effect of the proposed abandon- j will put the Government of the United ment. can best be determined bv lis-rotates ui the business of dealing in continuance of operation for an exper'-' railroad 'seritiesTt "uir"-' 'the" War Finance Corporation in control of an enormous mass of railroad se- bill of Riga, Latvia, Aug. 27. The prob lems of substituting: piss for sheeD and then figuring what the difference if any, amounts to in cheese or buck wheat, have been worked out in de tail by the Russian Soviet government jin connection with the system of "tax in kind" imposed on the peasant. The tax collectors, instead of re quiring pocket-books -wherein to carry money, are to be equipped with scales, baskets, pig-pens, stock cars and other I paraphernalia to weigh or transport the tax payments. Generally, the amount of grain tax is fixed for every separate farm and PUBLIC UTILITIES D REMSTIGW - (By U. F. Press) ae m IIUL or sak nsm (n a rm m n mm m rm i (By Associated Press") r I Charleston, W. Va.,' Aug.' 30. Dis- i quieting reports continue to eminate Jiiufeu v.uat ieuis. uovernor Morgan is said to have requested Fed- Pr'l 1 i i'imi nrvn!n -T , 1 1 r . 1 . livwo iini. lunuwiiig manning advices that all males between four teen and sixty years Avere under arms ready for the clash, and that a mag istrate and four other men were being held prisoners. (Bv TT. R. "Proas . T, Washington,, August 30. Governor Burrington Commbe, Somerset, Eng.! j Morgan's second? request for Federal Aug. 30. The rock visualized bv Au-1 I troops to sup.1' -The nlleppd lfiwlpR. igustus Topladv when he was inspired! -,v' iness in tV fields is beforn Pros- jio compose tne nymn, "Jtock. of Washington, Aug. 30. In the recent-' . . , . . ... : .Ages," stands just outside this vil- Iv rmhlishpd rpnnrt nf Stol . llage and a great demonstration to per-J mittee on Reconstruction and Produc-! . . , , , n x, - tion" of the United States Senate, re-! , . , , , , ,. , ' '4S&, the August bank holidav. X Xr suits of a searching inquiry into the ; : ' red with the President .... , . I Toiiladv is said to have taken ref-1 I'll ' 1 An n n , 1 4- . -. r-. I..-.. . I ' ciiiuua tuuuinuus uearing upon me ; -. ..... . , , . ;uge at the rock from a severe storm public utility industry are given at-. , .. 1V , , ! which was sweeping over the gorge on tention. The outline is given as f ol-. . . tl-r. , - .. . , , the edge of which the rock stands lows: "It has been estimated by the: - " T i ' I "i. n ij ana, wniie waiting ior it to pass over, identi and the War Secretary. .1011 of business men are hero harleston to support the Gov- .. 11 or s trnnn rpniip!f nnl lin viT nnnfAr. $r . c xlmeriean Electric Railway Association j I the American Gas Association, the j Nation Electric Light Association, and by th American Telephone and Tele graph Company, that it will require approximately $700,000,000 to provide imental period." v The railroad in question is owned . , , , Icurities, larger probably than the hold- he was led to compose the hymn. The great pilgrimage to thte rock was organized under the auspices of jthe church of England but a Salvation Army band also took part. The 10,- 000 people present, som of whom were I - . or the gorge, took partem the singing Sof the hymn. It was also decided adopted by street railway companies, ! that a memorial to Toplady should be and electric light and power companies j public utility service for an addition-' al million habitations. "Prior to "the war the general rule Washington, Aug. 30. President Harding has declined to agree to the request of John L. Lewis for a con ference of miners and operators to thresh out their differences in We-st Virginia coal troubles. placed on the rock. Keith, the "Banana King," and some of his associates. The evidence be fore the 'ommission showed that the Keith real estate and lumbering inter ests are centered in Panama City and j Millville, and that the abandonment ings of any private interest. Far from putting the Government out of business, it will inevitably involve it in the most speculative business in the world the marketing of corporate securities. is computed according to the areawas to have an extra capacity of at cutivated. The tax per acre is fixed; lesst 25 Per cent so as to protect ser- according to the average crop yield vice from delays incident to temporary! expected. J,i1.t.!i 1 "a08 but upon the outbrakj of the war this rule had to be aba'n-j doned. No additional facilites could j be provided owng to embargoes j against expenditures for construction ( and owing to finance improvements. Washington, Aug. 30. Troops may yet be dispatched to theMingo Coal fields as a result of the conference of President Harding and the West Vir giania delegation today. It has been attempted to arrange a scheme that would permit the occu pants of a farm to feed themselves will, a certain portion of the surplus going to the government. The worst complications occur in collecting live stock tax. Scarcely j ever exists a Russian peasant who ha so many cattle or sheep or pigs that would be required to turn over SAYS MOVIE PRODUCERS! anr-m nni iTinn J Htlt in ruuiibi Petroleum Production (By U. S. Press) Washington, Aug. 30. Investiga- (The plants were taxed to their eapa-itlon of th? "political activities" of, o St. Andrews is for! "Under the terms of this bill, the wJiole animal to the government. A amount, and the purchasing power 4. 'Government will almost certainly lose j t. . .. , Ji, ,1rtn. AnnA mi ..,! 01 I plan has been devised permitting the, the dollar decreased. The resulting in- i I f erior service is directly, traceable to the fact that the business of public utilities has outgrown the plants. government When the other peasants butcher, they will pay back the peasant whose pig the government took. of train service t the purpose of squeezing that town out 'Government will almost certainly i t -i n n ' n -in il. I of thp running i v. .. Hundreds or millions or aoiiars m me . , or tne running, in order to promote j peasants to agree among themselves the property o fthe two former towns, ,l)roPofeed transactions." i oyer a at the expense of the latter. Keith) The the01T of the signers of tIie whole animal to the runs his 82 mile railroad into the St.iminorit rePort is that the Govern" Andrews Bay country from Dothan, I ment wil1 lose because Jt wil1 be re" Alabama, and uses it principally f or ! Ied to accept the railroad securities the lumbering interests that he scoop-'011 a six Ier ceut Lasis "wMIe th ed up during the war, when a German ' present market for fTie best secured owned ronc-em was scuttled, and pick- railroad Donas is now upon a beven yvi than the extract weiglx ' was about $,500,000,000 proportioned ed les's. The exact values of all manu- as follows: electric railways, $250,- factured articles, such as shoes, mat- 000,000; gas companies, $125,000,000; ) . . .it (By U. S. Press) Washington, Aug. 30. The increase in production of petroleum since Jan uary, in spite of falling prices, which - - . ' 1 1 n T J city to provide wartime facilities, jthe motion picture industry is propos- was cnciteu in uuul, gave way uur "The public utilities emerged fromjed in a resolution introduced in the ig July to a reduction of almost 50 the war with practically no reserve 'Senate by Senator Myers (Democrat, thousand barrels a day, according to a' capacity, with revenue limited in I Montana, who charges that that indus- the United States Geological Survey, try has begun a political campaign the daily average production for the barresl. Im- to defeat all candidates not pledged .month being 1,297,677 to repeal motion, picture censorship .ports of Mexican petroleum during and control laws. If the pig turned over by this group 'light and power companies for exten of peasants should happen to weigh sionsj betterments and lmprovments . I i j Ai- r r. r r r r rr 2. ' n "Prior to the war it is estimated that , the normal annual requirements j Il.LJ of electric railway, gas, and electric: Jr-rotiuc'tiOxi ed up bv him from the. bargain coun- cent ba3is, Wltn lienor oonas yieiu- o t ter. Like most "Spoilers" the Keith (mg eiSnt Per cent or more concern is stripping the St. Andrews B-iy country of its natural resouroes, ' and replacing .these riches with noth ing that is substantial. Their railroad is a relic fit for the museums, anjd its principal activity seems to be in show ing accountants' statements of deficits tliat wring out Government aid. The tragedy of the whole situation is that NICABOO DISSENTS DN R. R. FUNDING PLAN July, amounting to 8,046,861 barrels, decreased" more than 2 million barrels. Consumption of dome lie and import ed crude oil, amounted to a daily average of 1,340,968 barrels, continu ing the downward coir-se -which with minor checks it has followed since November. Stocks, therefore, show a net increase of more than 6 million (By U. S. Press) . Washington, Aug. 30. Senator Stan- he I. C. C. should permit itself to be dey presented in the Senate a letter used as the agency to carry out the written to him by William G. McAdoo, I'l.iiis of the greedv little railroad in 'in whfth the former director general it p'inishing a rival town. But if the ' of railroads expressed his disapproval Commission will utilize this same three of the Administration railroad fund months in which there is to be a sus-'ing bill and set forth his reasons. He V'Mtsion service into St. -Andrew in says President Harding is misinform Tiuhing a thorough investigation of- ed regarding the measure. He writes: Hie railroad's claims for money and "Stripped of confusing non-essentials, )"jte money, for its deficits there is what is now proposed is that the Gov littJe question but that the Commission eminent shall wait ten years for $763, will be able to accomplish a fine piece 000,000 the railroads owe it for bet 'f work for the Florida people who are ferments and improvements and pay hcing h,M under the heel of a ruth- immediately $500,000,000 to the rail hss oppres-sor. The Florida Railroad roads on account of claims for alleg Commission savs there should be no ed under-maintenance, etc." (By U. S. Press) Washington, Aug. 30. For the first barrels during the month and at tho imp in two mnntlis flip nrniTuctinn nf i .c t..l- n-,-.A tnnli'-C'iTm companies, " L,L. jsoft coal has turned definitely upward, stocks plus stocks of Mexican petro- ;The output during: the second week ot i,llvl 1ipii ?n the United States bv oats, wheat, milk, eggs, etc., as no The committee Has Deen mrormed ft I August is estimated at 7,726,000 net ;mT)oTtpn attained the new high re money payment sof anv kind are to that for four years not over 40 per cent j fe ' ' importers attained tne new g : , , 4. i lQ jtons, according to a report from the 0 d of more than 1G7 million barrels, be permitted in the collection of this of such betterments has been made, ' 1 CU1U u 1 ! . ueoloencal Survev. JNot onlv was this ,,,,f;fcr cuffJr.lnnt tr. mot. rnnsnmn- leaving an accumulation of about - i" 'J"v jan increase or ooi,uuu tons over me tion at ie current rate for 14,7 days, 'output of the week preceding, but thei a. ches, ploue-hs and axle grease, have ( electric light and power been worked out in terms of pork, beef ( $125,000,000. no The committee has been informed tax. In previous years of the Bolshevik j,$l,200,000,000. If to this sum is" ad regime, there was no tax in kind, the j ded the $700,000,000 required alone for government merely permitting the pea sant to keep a small share of his crop service to the new residential buildings held in abeyance, a total of approx- largest attained since June 11. calculated on the basis of the number ! imately $2,000,000,000 seems necessary, . I -1 "I Am1l " 4-1-l n ' of mouths he had to feed and seizing j tor puoue utility program in the rest.- The natural tax scheme is i immediate future. Lenine 's substitute for seizure. Thousands of Communists have been "The question of placing these bus iness on a sound financial basis in or- IThe German THE PORTLAND CEMENT! Treaty PRODUCTION LARGER (By U. S. Press) Washington, Aug. 30. Secretary of (By U. S. Press) . , . OA ' , , - ! State Hughes was in session with the Washington,- Aug. 30. The Geologi-, & and it i3 to be hoped that the Federal ( 'ommission will give as careful atten tion to making an investigation as the Florida authorities. If this is done the interests of St. Andrews may be 'tved, and the greedy little railroad get part of "what's coming to it." COTTON MARKET October . 16.61 December 16.87 January 16.92 March . 17.00 May 17.18 mobilized to collect the tax, by. which j der that credit may flow to them is the oovrnment hopes to secure enough .the same question which confronts nj.t. t foofl. tu workmen in the i steam railroads and housing, but in.l , fa tuf ti,0 nTnin.tinn '. f u11 membership of the Foreign Rela cities, soldiers and government em-jthe case of publie utilities the 8itua-of Portland Cement for the first seven jtions Committee of the Senate on the ployes. It is not to be collected in j tion is more difficult because there onths o 1921 is more than 97 per Congress declared its recess, and the famine districts. (is no central body as now provided cent of the quantity manufactured In,ie explained the terms of the treaty Lenine recently made a number of in the case of the steam railroads which eorresponding mohths of 1920 and,of Peaee with German7- Satisfaction trips to explain the natural tax to theWht adjust rates in proper relation j than 52 cent of the total with its terms of the treaty of peace farmers. On his return to Moscow Mo operating costs and capital invest-jproduction in 192o; the shipments are with Germany. Satisfaction with its he wrote in the Izvestia that the shrewd .rnent. The utilities likewise suffer in ifeiore than 96 rv cent of those for the terms was expressed by several Demo- peasant nearly always got the better, their effort to seeure new capital for 'of any city workmen coming to trade , necessary extensions of service by the I with him manufactured goods for food, almost insurmountable diticlty 01 year 1920. having to compete for such capital with cratic members and no concerted op- correspondins: period of 1920 and more , . - - ,v,i position was manifested, although It is than 52 per cent of those for the whole A v ' j believed Senators ourah and Jonnson, Republicans, are not in harmony with VTEATHER REPORT municipal, State and similar tax-ex- faulty service and for the failure to the policy of ' the Administration. For North Carolina: Generally fair empt securities. Until these problems provide the additional facilities urgent-President Harding has discussed the - - 0 Wight and Wednesday. Little change are solved, the publie should recognize ly demanded to meet community treaty with leading Kepuuucan oena- in temperature. Moderate west winds, this underlying reason for much of th needs." r torJ. 'St
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