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rvr - 4 - V0L XV. NUMBER 73. FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, FRIDAY, MAy 12, 1922. TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE COMMISSION HILL CONSIDER RUSSIAN REPLY TOMORROW (Br Associate! Presal C-wui, May 12. The Economic r,ut;-(Mi)iii;issioii on Russian af V. ;,N postponed consideration of Russia reply to the Allied i inmrandnm until tomorrow. ' ) i American Corn! To Be Sofwn ! ! In Russia Goal Mime Blowim , . Up By 5 CENTS PERTJOP5F Dyimamite SEY WILL AGAIN MEET ( By Associated Press) PITTSBURGH. PA., May 12. The Peterman mine in Penn township has been Mown up 'with dynamite damaging farm houses a quarter of mile away. A force of deputies have left for the mine where the coal strike sympathizers are collecting. AMERICAN TROOPS ARE ENGAGED CHINESE DSDRDERS Sa;u. ira. May ..mil win oh a4 rfsiilt. rf A Peking, May 12. A hundred ; American troops have been dis patched to Tongshan, near Tient- 7o a i r: to maintain communications 12. American . . m, men-;. i ht i . iiu'jj" viem-iai vv u, vviio were 50,000 Flood Sufferers Now Being Helped (By Associated Press.) A.r "l 1 r urn- iew urieans, ua., iviay z.- (By Associated Press) London. May 12. An mcnt between Georges agree- The rationing of flood victims r. , - eores parpen- must continue for six weeks ortf1", JaVk empsey to meet longer, Louisiana and Mississippi ft f Pans before next v ec- - i x - j. j xr . l-AJay was reached with Jack cJiel officials stated. Nearlv 0 X . YT tittv thousand arft now hpinrr o.;" J .ilttUMUa. amy. - - " - ed for "by the Red Cross State Relief commissions. KFTTIS tnlrf i hr A ccAninfn T ajQ j-- . -v t v iiciouiaicu x less. SUBSTITUTE BIOS RILL CALLS FOR HALF CASH PAYMENTS News From State Capitol FALLING METEOR OF MAKES HOLE 500 SQUARE FT. Politics unte rs The Methodist Conf erence (By Associated Press) Hot Springs, Ark., May 12. Politics moved into the fore ground at the Conference of the Methodist Church South when taking up the question of the number of bishops to be elected a; this session. ,5,n participation m Russian fain-jdefeated b the Manchurian for nvu is to be sown this. of General Chan Tso-Lii lruig ior me urst time m manyj.,st. weejc . parts of the Volga valley, is hail-;'t TfTlfrJ' ' i t . . i j -i hi oy soviet agricultural propa- im musts s the giant destined to save the valley from ; jiirthcr fears of famine. j 'Kokukruzha,'' as the Rus- -tans call ndian corn, is lauded! oetii- lLv in full-page illustra- j hl newspaper appeals to the j asants to sow it. Method oil i liltiviiHon are explained and the , papers picture fields of maize ) liiuher than a man's head, like- lv to ho secured from corn even y a period when drought would : lvill whcrit and rye. ; Lin are now entrenched at longsnan. Lhansr has head- ouarters at Lwanchow. with for- giam j -f ive thousand troops. BALLET MOVING PICTURES CAPTURE LONDON ,1 J! f and Saturday. Little '""r ana iiery manner ot in temTeratnre. Mnriptr-! . . cm iunuu Norris Out Of The Race For Congress (By Maxwell Gorman) Raleigh, May 12. The lurid find somewhat spectacular .Wiley M. Person, of Franklin County, (who is "running" (if at a slow Washington, May 12. A sub- pace) against Congressman Pou stitute bonus bill under which j3n the Raleigh district while veterans would receive fifty perjlarely regarded as a joke, is ex cent cash payments was intro- J wcisini himself to the superlative duced by Senator Bursum, Re- 1 degree to attract public attention publican, of Mexico. - j and is succeeding beautifully. I When Wiley was in the state WEATHER REPORT ! senate a few ydars ago he fur- jnished daily amusement for his For North Carolina: Partly ;eolleague a.lld tne galleries (not cloudv and sonifiwhat nnapttlpH i tn sPeakj of the lobbies) by his tonight change ate northwest and North wind. jiug ismerous speeches on all , sorts oi matters mat came up bringing them up when they woman come. He has this week grabbed an ;old political skyrocket that has Lendisearged several times be fore with more or less f unh and jhere is the way he would have 'us newspaper fellows refer to. his bomb, in a double-tax wrapper:' .ne oiiiion dolJars would he rddjed to the total assessed val Riga, Latvia, May 9. Repa- uation of the property on the triation of the hundreds of tfeou-jtux books j North Carolina if sands of officers and soldiers1 the courts sustained the suit captured by the Russians during brought by him against the State the world war has nearly been Revenue Commission, seeking a completed. Thousands of Ger- peremptory mandamus to com mans, Austrians, Hungarians and . pel the listing of all stocks, capi soldiers of various other nation- Ital, common and preferred, held work of he Russian composer alities, whom the Russians took j by individual stockholders. Stravinski. prisoner have married and decid- j Summons was issued against I The dancers exaggerated ed to remain indefinitelv in the the revenue commission in Frank- WILL NOT AGREE TO COMMISSION TO STUDY THE RUSSIAN AFFAIR (By Associated Press) NORFOLK, VA , May 12. A meteor, which created great excitement throughout southside Virginia last nignt, si ruck twelve miles north west of Blackstone, Notto way County, Virginia. It fell in a grove of oak trees making a hole of five hundred square feet. STATE POLITICAL POLICE ARREST RELIEF XER5 Samara, Russia, May 12. American Relief Administration work in Samara province was xiujiipi i t.-u . - consiaeraoie ex Itent ji"' J-'cite winter by the ar Jis cveral of its Russian em-xtX-s at Samara and elsewhere w. Lino uiaii.iv:i uv iiiK irjiate iro- Vy-V' 'Utical Police. Genoa, May 12. France This successor to the Cheka Avill includes in Samara nrovinca never agree to a mixed commis- most of the old organization and, sion, sitting indefinitely while i while its povers have been great conference is proceeding, to Jy curtailed, searches of houses isUitifr Russian affairs, according and sudden arrests for unexplain- io tne French delegates. r1! reasons still continue m tins province. e The American Relief Adminis tration here, as elsewhere in Russia, has to employ a number or nuss ans in clerical worK at Genoa, 4 May 12. Great Brit ain has proposed a truce in Eas tern Europe, on a basis of the dc facto frontiers, pending the conclusions of a commission of is The meter of the Russia poems; Lolld May 12. London '.T wau, :.tl,upMdentexl 1 . coinoination ot moving, pictures iun iiuiian song. a uh j - i PruATPIATinMflCDIICCIflW iiiLiniiiiniiunui NUddiHii t oi Jiiaiau corn nn uccu i.... i , -, , ,,nera m some parts of the uk-,.. Gard the "Home of mine and even m a small area of lfJrand 0pera, tne lga valley tor a number of j mat J critics years, so lt ls not totally unknown 1he d dation of the historic t Ijc Russian peasant. The , t , . , , , . 1 , -, itueater is completed by the m- Tarirtv of the gram imported ror ; . , ' ' - x, V i n elusion m the program of a new sow-ins m the olga valley may;, , , , " burlesque on modern ball-room f piaiived as iaxe as jiay io nuu. . - . . . , , . 11 j. , n 1, .,.4- i'kuh ihi; cuu uuu lias; UIHC. will mjitur1 m time for a harvest . . . , .. , , i -ii- us variously characterized MTore r ne ast Killing irosb. u 4 i . ; out jazzing jazz and outrag ing ragtime.,, The ballet is the SOLDIER PRISONERS IS LETED NEARLY MUCH REC0NSTRUCTI1 i NECESSARY IN RUSSIA It as 1 1 -.7 HiJ- 111 V it L IV-CIl t W 4 vl i inquiry to be appointed, it was l1hft ieadoiiartfr. in rim rlisti-ib jannounted today. lltin committees and for other - jwork. While the Cheka and ts successor nave .not actively ham pered the Americans themselves, the Russians employed by the .'American Relief Administration I have been closely watched. A number of arrests, estimated jat from 100 to 300, were recently I made among the intelligentsia of Samara province, supposedly for 1 , . i ,i 4 . i j i? , - . - i." u uicr- l c v tn mini r v muiiiul:. amount ot reconstruction necess- ' , .', ' ,n i,x' t? i -mong these were eight employ- iary betore Russia can resume her i ,r., . , . v 1 J , i Ices of the American Relief. ipiace as a producing nation is T, hit j o if i i i It is generallv believed in Sa- lull lit if uiLU'ii iirrkB- m -i.-t 11 " i i uuibu ui uut.ia, nncic nunc jthan 60 big factories are round- ing out their second year idleness. ODESSA, May 8 The vast appear f 7 I movements to the orchestra's ex aggerated syncopation is recom- I mended dv critics as a sure cure C I ff:l ! virus. those ' 3 infected with ifoxtrot Ualeigh, May 12. .Solicitor iicrbtri K. Norris, who announ f i his intention of retirement i i Dia the solicitorship in order 1 run for congress against Con-jiL-esMiian E. W. Pou, has with- Speed Up Policy Adopte d SoAiet country. Jlin County, and the case will' be j. i i heard in chambers in Raleigh be f Ainong a detacdiment of torm-fore Jud Thomas H Calvert er Hungarian officers passing fwo weeks hence The defend. through Riga recently enroute !f nts are directed to appear and home was Count Valentine i ahow eause why a peremptory Szechenvi whose cousin married mandamus snouid not lie Miss Gladys anderbilt, of New.' inst it and all such pi.0perties York, the (Tnimt bemc aftfinmnan- 'i t-i i i . i 7 0 r nnniPdiMTP v Tiiac.pn on Tne ,i i i ,.,:p . t : it-u uv uis. wire, U young xvussian 'books for taxation woman, Princess Mary GaliW J The compiaint quotes from tha Tiie story of the '-marriage of constitution, from more recently the count and the Princess, 'enacted laws, and is finished off W ' wtl-i rkrttr nlaoo Q vaov o rv wua With fiPVPrAl TiaraOfrflTlllS Ctf 1T1- t 1 B BP L k -I I L. tlUli ViUV V U- VUi U W , T UK? ' ' M v ' v - J' f ' ui,nu irom tne congressional j jjj g jj g nice, so that Wiley M. Person, oj i'Vankiiu, will be the only oppon- j nt m ihe tield against the con-, Stockholm, May. 12. A speed-' guard, long enough for the wed-oppress the holder of lands and .rostuun tj-oin 1he Fourth Dis-! i . n i ? -i w.w, . tmn,-,j,. tt. tric;vio wooili Tt wn 3 IJU 111- - v . . .. . 7 i -. published in America at that vective that make charges ot .time. The Count was permitted fraud, camouflage and . unconsti- ! to leae a Soviet prison, under. tutional legislation designed to tnct. In rciiring the ; up policy in all business idustrial activities under its con- aiterwara ne was return ea to filled in Lrouisburg late Satur- OT solicitor inti- ;roi j;as t)een adorjted bv the Andronyevsky prison, near Mos- day, and is brought by Mr. Per- -yo nun ue nas not given UP Swedish government, which is cow, where there was a weddimr json "tor nimseit, tor tne taxpav- .oiiouions to go to congress ;ileaded by premie Branting, So- breakfast of black bread, tea andjers ot PranRlm bounty ana irom this district. He tells the aJist leader. In keeping with .coffee made of toasted grain, a j the state of North Carolina.' oiks, through his letter, that he this policy, a special committee substitute used extensively in ; Kt'.'P rue place in mind wnen :of experts, assigned to report on - Germany and other countries cut i )'; will iiave more time to make,iJest methods of exploiting the j off from the outside world dur- j i I While the Communists :to be eominir to their senses. i ... - , las one observer expressed it, the j bitter economic lesson of the four years has left its imprint on the industrial Russia of old. Here are to be seen many power jful examples of how easy it is to i destroy and how difficult it will be to build up. I Odessa once boasted two huge feuar refineries. Together they employed nearly 10,000 persons, lb at today they are idle and al most in ruins. Another 2,000 jmen were employed in the big irope manufacturing plant on the outskirts of the city. The fac tory will have to be practically rebuilt before it can open again. jThe brick making industry had :20 factories in and near here in . pre-war days, but all of them are) : falling to pieces. i There were once thret mara that most of those arrested it'll! Vo alonnr1 cVi rT"l tr Vint p-f- forts on the part of the American i Relief authorities to learn the icharges against their employes have so far failed. Historic Tea Shop Still Stands London, May 10. In Grace church Lane, an obscure byway just uotside one of London's bus-: iest commercial centers, American tourists may see over a grocer's store the "Sign of the Crown and Three Gilt Sugar Loaves" that marks the location of the shop whence the tea was shipped in 1 73 that ultimately went over- j hoard in Boston Harbor during shin- the world's famous tea party. building plants, the largest em-! Only the sign, which was but ploying 8,000 men and :' ttiKugn. that is, when his national forest reserves, now urg wudidacy will not be hampered te& the government to expand its ' v.1!1'- lu,('sity of performing 'forestry enterprises, erect paper I'tiicifil ihities which will prevent pulp mills, establish saw inilU ls lHa k !!1 ail pffnftivn P.Tlinaiurn. rn ufafo fi pocf r1rm nine onrT cm ing the war. . The Count and jCountess, trav- j eling under auspices of the In- j ternational - Red Cross with 300 j m l SHOWED GREAT DECREASE IN THE 1EMPL0YMEIIT i-.v Associated Press) , Vrasiunofor, Ma i2.April ,!ash-'wit the greatest gain in nnninTrnnnn nnn ii am mil u mm mmr mmr m m mur m v mmwm UHiMu iLnnuiiiuivi unn nrrni nrniT nun N U-H out vessels of 3,000 uoore. The Soviet turning recently restored and which bears ton and i big gold numerals lboO, the I. government .Vcar the (By Associated Press "J Chicago, 111., May 12 Police oio i ! iinr ii .. . i i it s- ' ,i 1,1 ll"'ugout tne coun-ith0 government A A'i iZ aarv lllonth -since .the first ed to 28,400,000 I ;,,v u' TrJlccordm to secre- lent to about $7j385, I . lli'mi rreshipnt. f I I K ') ether prisoners of war, were tak- int.n hussinpfis nn a mnrp acrorrps- U.n from Riara to Budapest.- Lat- i sive scale with increased effi- er they planned to go to Con-f ciency and closer economy. I stantinople possibly to make,their j j The committee proposes ' that j heme. . 'r j ;the government erect a paper Count Szechenvi and5the other j ;pulp mill and take over tTiree Hungarians, many of whom were t saw mills in northern Sweden : officers taken prisoner in 1915, axm that the State Domains were exchanged by the Soviets! Board, having control o govern for an equal number of Commun- ,'fnd civic organizajtions saw In rr.cntal business enterprises, be ists who had been in jail in Hun- the indictment . , of eight labor authorized to build new saw 'gary. : leaders and the State's attor- ! mills in different parts of the . The Count learned to speak ney's threat to use against them I country -where the government .perfect Russian during his seven a law invoked thirty-six years ! owns forest lands. years' imprisonment, and before ;ag6 to obtain execution of Hay Last year the gross revenus of his discharge had become' a first- Market rioters, a smashing blow domains amount- class elect rician,v having charge at what they termed gang ter- kronor (equiva- of the person lighting system, roism. The indictments are f ore- 000). The Countess Szechenyi speaks splen- runners of others, offjcials said. the fvni'firnment is anxious to in- did:English, learned as a child, Few of thcr four hundred arrest- firm was established is !now operates it, at one eighth ca- ,suggestive ot remote times, ine ipacity. Three chemical factories 'grocer's shop, condusted by des- have not been operated since 1917, and a French factory for making soil phosphates shares the jsame fate. It once required j fight big plants to can the fish 'caught in the Black Sea. The j fish are still there . but the f ac jtories long ago ceased. to function, j Two jewelry factories have ibeen closed for several years, as have three plants for making j vegetable oils, and two others where matches were made in more prosperous days. The makr. ing of sugar and grain bags was a' bfg industry here, employing thousands of persons. Odessa also had factories for the making dants of the firm s founders. over which the sign hangs, is now placed in a modern brick building. Inside nothing distin guishes the place from thousands ' of similar places of business. COTTON MARKET TODAY'S HABKET 2Irv July October .. December : - 19.53 Januarv . . . 19.43 March . 19 A5 19.87 19.51 15.54 YESTEBDAY'S MARKET rtlrttli rrnrln'ts nails, eement. machinery, glass, shoes,4" paints May .. , -and 'varnish," cork, linoleum and July . . carpets, but gaunt, 'iice on Unemployment. crease these revenues. 19.57 decaying October Kn.iinrrc oy ail that is lpft to December w.w and plans to "visit America. ed. were rleased. recall that time. January . - ' :. - - 1.43
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