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VOL- XIV. NUMBER 42.
FOUE O'CLOCK EDITION
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1921.
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EFFORT TO FREE
PRISONERS
(Bv Associated Press.)
THE AMERICAN LEGION TO
START REHEARSING FOR
BIG MINSTREL
Monday Night, December 5th, the
! American Lecrion will stnrt rMionrcinn-
for the Minstrel to be staged around
the middle of this month. "Deep C"
The
O
uovernmeir
rders Arrest o'
Ghas. W.
M
R!kLH,liw WILL ATTEID THE
IV1L I MUUld I IVlllllG 1 LH
HAS AR1E0
orse
WASHINGTON
Wt of releasing the prisoners, was
,.iUp.1 hv the police, two of the lat-
ii ui
i being
' lOl'eeil. SI mi mil nrn.l
Relfast. Ireland, Dec. 2. lhe attaew j s nee nave been instructed bv the
VearS PXllPnPllPP. will criiidp tha clinic l
the Londonderry jail, with the ob- r - '' trench ministry to arrest Charles W.
j.u.uo-, iimtin-au iiip-uuiiaer ana n-
(By Associated Press.)
Paris, France, Dee. The Havre po-
RAN
red and r.inetv-sixth home talent en-
.tertainment, theatre patrons here mav ; , t,;
killed. Several of the at- " liner Fans.
i. n ii i j i t -- i 1
, ,ri ussureu mm me region linsirei
i nkers were captured. j
win oe ngnt up to tne minute in every
naneier, as soon as he lands from the
Lower Rates
Ordered
respect.
sand
in
to
on
in
('Rv Maxwell Gormanl
Raleigh. Dec. 2. In an order of the winds
luiporation Commission railroads
yvith Carolina were instructed
j.l.Mt- by a Uniterm freight rate
, rushed stone, gravel and
North Carolina.
The order was drawn in the ease of j
a number of granite, sand and gravel i
companies against the Atlantic Coast
Line, Carolina and Northwestern,
Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohioo, Norfolk
WLA.THE& REPORT
For North Carolina: Rain this af
ternoon followed by generally fair and
colder tonight and Saturday, strong
south shifting to west and north west j
Havre, Dec. 2. Charles W. Morse
was detained on the liner Paris when
she docked here. Morse said to be
unaware that he was wanted in Amer
ica until informed last night, and plan
ned going to Paris for a kidney opera
tion, but intended returning to the
United States shortlv. Said that he
was willing to return to United
States hv the next steamer.
E ADOPTS
NEW RAILROAD LAW
KERENSKY SEEKING RE
TURN TO GOVERNMENT
CIRCLES
SWEDEN TROUBLED WITH
GERMAN
RUM
RUNNERS
(By Associated Press.)
Stockholm, Nov. 3(3,. Bum-running
Paris, Dec. 2. France, in its new
railroad control law, makes the rail
roads a present of advances, past,
present and to come in the next five
years, of an amount estimated at 10,
000,000,000 francs. These advances,
however, are in large part due to the
former agreement with the railroads
wherebv they had to transport mil
lions of troops and millions of tons of
supplies during the war at a rate bas- j
ed on pre-war conditions. The sponge j
ispassed over all these transactions. j
The new law, to which the railroads
have informally agreed, needs ormal
acceptance by the corporations buti it
is expected to become effective early
next year.
The ovemment then will have gen-
Rev. E. L. Hillman, who has just
arrived to assume the pastorate of the
i Methodist Episcopal Church, comes to
this conference from- the Westeru
North Carolina Conference.
Mr. Hillman is a comparitively
young man full of vigor and enthus
iasm; is a graduate of Millsap Col
lege. Mississippi; he is also a graduate
of Emorv Universitvi in the Theologi
cat and Collegiate departments, and
ttended Edinborough University, m
Scotland.
Tha Commonwealth extends t!i3
heartiest welcome to Rev. Hillman,
and assures him of its cordial ,xIut'
, (port in his work.
CONFERENCE
'By Associated Press.)
London, Dec. 2 Premier Lloyd
George is planning to leave December
twelfth for the Washington Conference
it is learned here.
EARLY SETTLEMENT OF
DISPUTE IS HOPED FOR
GREEKS TERRI-
TORY AfiER SIX HUNDRED
YEARS LOSS
(By Ass&clated Press)
Washington, D. C, Dec. 2. The hopo
for an early settlement of the dispute
arising from Japan's request for an
increase of seventy percent in capital
ships' tonnage, allotted her under
American limitation plan, centered in
an effort to bring Japanese views in
to harmony with the United States.
Brusa, Asiatic Turkey, Dee. 2. Af
ter 600 years of Turkish occupation,
Brusa is again under the dominion of
itsaneient owners, the Greek's. With-;
in sight of the tombs of the first six
(Bv Associated Pt-sjs
Riga, Latvia, Dec. 2. Despite de- iuto Swpden from Germany has devel-;eral supervision of the roads through
niola fnrn. T-, I T." OPed into SO TT1 et 1) 1 T1 CT "MlrA -n--nnMi onor,. 'an executive board that will control
i ,st.n,, NorfoA southern, Seaboard -J operation and order improvements.
Southbound, 'in tM. -T " j-en of the coast Hue and . J of the OSnanH dvnastv.i
Utdsion the railroads were ordered to I
rjut into effect on and after Decern- j
l.er 15, "the scale of rates for single
and joint application between points in
this state located on defendant car
riers' lines as set forth in appendix
.irfular No. 224, attached."
DATA ON TWENTY LEAD
ING CROPS ISSUED BY
T
GOV
ERNMEN
circles that feelers have been put out,th thousands of small islands dotting freiSbt thars 80 that certain indus- jthouganda o Grek tr00DS .
recently by Bolshevik representatives I the sea approaches are all in favor of tries ma' be favored if desirable. iered and the qU Qf Bythinia Washington, D. C, Dec. 2. The Do-
The companies will have reinforced j has every appearance of a great mod- Partment of Commerce, through th
Bureau of the Census, announces the
land agents of the Russian Social Rev
olutionary party to sound out the pos
sibility of reaching an agreement for
smuggling enterprise.
The craft engaged in this trade are
generally
credit and during five years the gov-
entrance of some of Kerensky's par- ' eaptaine
y small, fast-sailing schooners eminent will pay the interest 6,000,000
.'d as a rule by ex-officers of noo francs of securities the roads will
ENGLISH G0NI1TTEE RE
PORTS ON
IN EGYPT
CONDITIONS
issue to improve the lines.
ty into the Moscow government. the imperial German navy. Many
That these negotiations, so far, have of the skippers bear names well known
'.u ti - . i -u j.- -x A cooperative pool of profits is in-i
met with little or no success is also in the records of submarine aetivitv. 1 r 1 ;
generally believed.
Their daring and experience makes la
M. Tchernoff, one of the leaders of tery '"difficult - for Swedish " coast-
Kerensky's party, who is now at Re- guds to stop them.
I t
(val, is said to have discussed the mat- From Reval, Rostock, Stettin, Lu-
Iter with Maxim Litvinoff, chief of beck aUl1 other German ports tliese
jthe Soviet diplomatic missions vessels pr.t to sea, their cargoo always j
abroad, who .was at Reval on an un- j consigned, according to the ship's pa- j
jstituted by the law. Railroad earn
jfags above, a. jeertain return to stock
jholders and above interest charges will
em military base".
Trade is flourishing. The hotels jollowinS data from the 1920 census
are crowded with business men. Liv-j aSncMuve for the United States,
ing is cheap. The Greek occupation' The 2U 3,'a'lij! of the United
has brought about a distinct revival StateS in 1910' :,ri;,Sl i' order of
of local commerce.
The Turkish merchants find
! Greek soldiers good customers,
value, were corn, hay and forage, cot
the whcat 0:1 ts potatoes, tobacco, ap-
'j pies, barley, sweet potatoes, rye, rough
an
!be paid into a eomomon' fund to be j
used to meet anv deficit bv other i
they are waxing rich on them. They "ce' Rral,es Iai-he kafir and milo,
have also found the Greek govern
oranges, sugar beets, peanuts, dry
, explained errand.
,pers, to some Finnish
po
the
(By Associated Press.)
London, Dec. 2. A report on
present situation in Egypt has
l.'t-n issued by five members of par- Russia, including some in prison, are .after nightfall on the rocks,
lines. A company, however, that
shows greater than normal efficiency
iin handling traffic or otherwise, may
it. Once
ment good buyers. Some of them
edible beans, and sugar
cane.
total value of these 20
vooin o ri c H'in o 1 nrnftei. flAtPTini nPrl
Many of the more important Social 'among the rocky archipelago of eastern J r J !
. ' , . , 'c, -. . , , . , by a sliding scale
The
have closed large contracts for the " w,,ut 01 Ultse -u croPs was
feeding and equipment of King Con- 1:'54,290,926, which represents more
stantine's Anatolian army. Others than uitenths of the total value of
crops shown by the Fourteenth Census.
from
may be glad to see the Greeks go, Im
not Brusa 'a trndesneOTv TI.pv- hnv, v " ,:r",,s llu usl wlTn yaiue or
r- i . ' -
There also is provision for labor enioved no such orosoeritv in vears. ;-"'7971 on almost $1,000?000
liameiit -Major Harry Barnes, William known to have sent word last summer i which it is later removed by accom- participation in the various controll- Brusa lies on the slopoes of verdant "iwre lliuu hay and forage, which
Lunn, J. Lawson, J. E. Mills and John to their comrades in exile at Prague, jplices ashore who have a widely ram-ing boards and opportunities for prof- Mount Olympus, 50 miles southeast of stamls second on the list with a value
K. Swan, who visited the country in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere abroad ified organization for the island distri- Jit-sharing.
N'jiteinber and October, as represen- advising a cessation of counterrevolu- Ibution of the goods.
t.itives of the Egypt
ViMirnittee.
Parliamentary tionary work and an attempt at re-j This illicit traffic is said by Swed
ish paper to be enormous. The papers
conciliation.
In our opinion, the future i-onsti-, ccording to one report, the Social are full of stirring stories about
tution of Kgypt,'' they say in their Revolutionaries proposed rhat M. Ker- ' smugglers and their doings. They re-
Jv!ort, --is a matter for the Egvptians enskv should be admitted to the Bol- 'main outside the territorial waters,
!
1- lecid, and neither for us nor our shevik cabinet in the capacity of For- cruising about until their frienfls
U"'-tiiiitM-nt to dictate." j cign Minister. They also demanded 1 seize their chance to rush out in fast
The solution of the Egyptian ques- the calling ofo a constitutent assembly, motor boats, often in a heavy gale,
tiou depends, the report states, on the j Mr. Kerensky, however, in an inter- .tranship the liquor and disappear in
!' '.! d .plication of the following ' view published at Prague where fie the dangerous labyrinth of the arcln-
Hotel Rates
Reduced
vBy Maxwell Gorman.
Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 2. At a meet
ing in Raleigh of many traveling-
Constantinople. It is considered the of $2,52:1,050,224. Cotton ranked
I most beautiful as well as the most tlurd Wlth a value (deluding cotton
healthful city in the Turkish Empire. seed of $2,355,169,365, and wheat
King Constantine of Greece selected ranked f'ourth' with a value of $2,-074-it
as his home during his recent visit 07S'801- Tl,oso fo,;r "P9 combined
to Asia Minor. It is noted for its ro'',reseuted u Vllliu amounting to $10.
mineraHbaths and its silk products. 60,095,492, or 70.9 per cent of the to
I According to popular belief, it has a tn v"luo of n" ovo harvested n -9.
mosque and a promenade foro every The next four crops in order were
;day in the year, so that one need pray.oats with a value of $855,255,468; po
or walk in the same place onlv once tatoes (white), with a value of $639,-
,440,521; tobacco, with a value of $444,-
a veai.
'niciph-: was staging, issued a general denial pelagb.
' That the Kgyptian people have Df the negotiations, saying: "I must ; Lately the police has started
riglit to self-determination and emphatically deny all rumors about cheme to beat the rum-runner
salesmen in connection with Post E. of , , .x , . , 047,481: and apples, the leading fruit
i - ine ciTV s population, wine 11 num- - 1 1 "
a Raleigh, T. P. A. Burrell II. Marsh, .g a bewiderTng crop, with a value of $241,573,577.
of Winston-Salem, national hotel chair- . A . . ,. , . ,
7 mivtnrp of Asmtie n nd Luronean nat-
co'iipletc independence and that any alleged' negotiations between the So- their ow:i game. The other day a po
tic: ty slu.ulrl. while providing neces- cial Revolutionary jarty and the Bol- lice boat, camouflaged as a smuggling
s;! !-y silt".-guards for any reasonable sheviks for finding means of a com- craft; boarded a German schooner and
man, was present and made an address .
Irilih
other foreign
interests, promise. Such action would not only loaded up to the gunwale from the
on hotel conditions in North Carolina
n! the proposed two-and-a-half-eent
mileage bill now beore Congress.
ionalities. One sees in the public
square and the narrow cobbled stree3
groups of commercial travelers, tour
ists, holy men, scholars, dervishes,
i't in any way prejudice that right. )e foolish, but criminal. The fate of .schooners hold, unconsious of the fact; ne reported reductions in the rates janissaries, eunuchs, veiled women,
"That tin- delegates to negotiate Bolshevism is more or less clear al-!that the schooner was just outside the 0f a iarge number of hotels in the princes and paupers, millionaires and
tli. tr-a!- on behalf of Egypt ought ready, for absolute breakdown is in- territorial limit. When the policemen state and urged his hearers to give mendicants, soldiers and spies.
Tn j,e s.-dected by the elected represen- evitable. Russia s already cured of '' ried to leave the schooner without him more co-operation in his efforts The market-place is a Gentile and
t-
TWO EPISCOPAL BISHOPS
ELEVATED
( By Associated Press)
New York, Nov. 30. Rt. Rev. Ar
thur Selden Llovd. bishon since nlne-
f- -f the Egyptian people. the ideology of Bolshevism, and we paying, the smugglers threatened to get further concessions from the Jew, Moslem and Greek, Levantine teeiwiine was instaue(j as fPfSt suf.
That for the securing of the free mav say that today Russia is only in throw them overboard and there was hotels. and European rub elbows and speak
should forthwith be abolish- such, does not exist. "
f-h'-tion of such representatives, mar- the hands of a Bolshevik government nothing for them but to pay for the
tin! la vc ;ind any other repressive apparatus but that Bolshevism, as liquor.
j In another case, the corresponodent
jwas told, a gale blew up soon after
i'the coast guards had boarded a ship
j which happened to be within the three
mile limit and, owing to the dangerous
coast, the ship had to put out to sea,
members recommend that the
' ': 'eminent advise the present
if Minister of E'jrvpt that an elec-
"' l " fofthwitli held in that conn-
V- !
" f drift is disaster," says the re-,'
MEXICO TO ADJUST
CLAIMS OF FOREIGNERS
taking the Swedish guards away
1 1
Mexic oCity. Dec. 2. Spain, France, Germany.
to
1 ,;. ' la the interests of our countr Holland, Great Britain and Italy nave ; in Sweden and in Finland many of
wouol stronsrly advise the govern- accepted Mexico's recent invitation to the coast population get their living
),;' ;i t (-ider at once upon the course appoint members of a mixed claims j)T smuggling and refuse to go fishing
i Mr. Marsh in discussing the propos
ed 2-een trailroad mileage book bill
called attention to the fact that if the
railroads could afford to haul theatri
cal people all over the country at a
2-cent rate, it certainly seemed that
some concession could be made to the
traveling men who created the business
for the railroads to handle. He also
said that the railroads gave . special
rates to tourists from New York to
Southern Pines and other resorts in
this and other states, and they could
fragan Bishop of New York, and Tit.
Rev. Herbert Shipman was consecrated
as Second Suffragan Bishoop at ser
vices in the Episcopal Cathedral of
St. John The Divine. Bishop Man
ning, of New York, officiated.
COTTON MARKET
each other's languages. They care
little whether the Greek army or the
Turkish army occupies the town; they
want to be left in peace and allowed
to pursue their wonted callings.
The port of Brusa is Mudauia, on
the Sea cf Marmora, an hour's ride bv
narrow-gauge railroad from Brusa.
Mudania is an important military YESTERDAY" 'S MARKET
base for the Greeks. Scores of army December 17.21
transports with men, munitions and January 17.17
supplies arrive weekly for the Anatol- March . 17.14
ian front. During the recent opera- May 16.93
'"sarv to nut itself into necrnt'ntion commission to assess damages suffer- and carrv on their legitimate trades. ...... . tions near Angora, Muaama was tne Uly 16.49
. not lustitv the exorbitant rates tne
v.'lti. .. ....... , m . .. . . -1 t 1 : il... ..Ia.I. rf 1- -n" 1 JJ -r.ViV.i ifiii virJn ortorr rf ounnlv fur tlio firPfMr ; THP A V T K TWT
1 j reseiii a ti ve rcvptian opinion ea DV loreigners nunuK uu; iichuus vi jn riuiiuui, wnt-n unax pumuin n , ...!.. urrv A j iiixiinvu a
K- 1 1 J frnvelino' men were reauirea to pav.
troops. December
;i l'e;
jint of goodwill.
We earnestly revolution in Mexico, according to E1 prevails, . conditions are even worse
17.2
,hl ti,:,i our visit may help to bring Democrata. The newspaper asserts tiian in Sweden. Fishing there has j Letters from senators and Repre- Thousands of Greek and Armenian January 17.12
"hont a settlement in the form of an that the frst delegations will arrive entirelv ceased, it is said, because rum- sentative Pou expressing sympathy refugees, fearing Turkish Nationalist March 17.11
f)!li fitnhle bnsi- with the, traveliner men in their efforts reprisals, have sought shelter within Mnv . . 16.88
.r-vn niU litre ailU lllUCp 111 HICMIU k,1,v Jii aviviuuvi i unuiug xir icu i" - " o j '
'?"'!'.'nt j..'oples. " start deliberations. iness. for lower railroad rates' were read. the city of Brusa.
July 16.40
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