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to HE , in f3 1 1511 tut VOL. XVI NUMBER 38. W VOTE IS EO IH THE (By Associated Press) Kif-hmond, Va., Aug. i. Fair 1,.,, trH nv is expected to i,r hi" out a neavv unc m the race tor the selection of a democratic uujuiucc ij Senator in which Senator Swan Ion is opposed by former Gover nor ns t mo rla net uavis m FXPFGT ass - HI PRI MARIES jj FIRST CAR LOAD OF HOGS . EVER SHIPPED FROM THIS STAT1 LOADED TODAY The first full car load of hogs ever slipped from the local rail road station was loaded today, and is composed of hogs raised by J. H. Alexander, Jr., all Du-roc-Jerseys, twenty three in num ber and a composite lot raised by Baker and Everett and G. E. Pen dleton. The twenty three load ed by Mr. Alexander will weigh on an average of two hundred pounds and are as pretty a lot of hogs as are offered on . any market. The present shipment marks an important turn in farming meth ods in this community, and it is freely predicted that at least fif ty ear loads will be shipped from this point within the next twelve months. The farmers of this section have evidently determined, from reports of the local aicldUiral ugent, to get away from any one or two crop svstemand embark the raising of livestock, the raising of poultry and other things to re- j " i place a large part ot the cotton r acreage. ! rcUOHDON MAY BECOME diversifv in its lull meaning anai. "beat the boll-weevil to it." WS COTTON ( Associated Press) Washington, Aug. year's cotton crop is i.-n-UHK) bal es in the second '1uch is . given as 70.8 per cent normal v York, Auir. l.-Cotton ' liD", i -i , .in,,;,,, nuyUf ,r,i OTiri i,o f, ahni: V. . lllr, r.f i i - . iniinei natp v attpr t ip t-psiI. lit n government's condi- tl(,n report OTTON MARKET TODAY'S MARKET October . 22.30 December 22.26 January 221Q -u a roll - ii. ... in 1 T . . tdj.J l uj . . oi no yesterdIymarket Setober 21.22 Zr,Vep 21.20 21.04 C 20.97 20.85 IP ESTIMATED AT 11 MILLION it) HUNDRED MD FORTY-NINE THOUSAND BALES a. s ot the season announced d because the old-fashioned. , T?nr.na n : fmnrntiVp tn rvp thP hniMino. earned out m in theDepartment of Ag-Lg nf rhsr-lavmcr new ma-; T...1 - ,.n j native eutute, basing the estimate on tft.;ftla in building of a coyest-' J?"1' 4V US. 1 ,inn nnn ; v; marked by v.j " 7 , 4. FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION Wage miners -1 3 if T o Be Held Next Monday 100 PERSONS TWO DEATHS OCCURRED FROM PIE EATEN IN RESTAURANT (By Associated Press) New York, Aug. 1. Two girl steographers died today and nearly a hundred persons! enn ployed in the garment house sec tion of Broadway are ill of poison believed to have been taken in ' pie eaten in a restaurant at Broadway and 26th Streets ves terday. An investigation of the restaurant is being: made. ASTLE OF ROMANCE OFFERED FOR SALE London, Aug. 1. Tantallon Castle in North Berwick, for centuries the stronghold of the Douglases, is to be sold this sum mer. In Sir Waiter Scott's "Mar-J mion" the battlements of the! Tantallon are the meeting place! or Clare and her lover. I Around its wTalls many fierce j battles have been fought. At j one time the castle wras besieged by King James V., who failed to I make a breach in its 12 feet! waTls iDairtarvl son. Later it was the scene of onslaughts by Cromwell and the Covenanters A CITY WITHOUT SL (By Associated Press) laoimon, Aug i.-iJie u County Council has made some concessions to the demand of West End business firms that they be allowed to erect loftier and more commodious stores, I but these concessions fall far, hort of roermittinsr the construe- tion in London of buildings mod- eled after American sky-scrapers ' t llC UUfJ-liC3AWJ.X CtO IIF , asked fcr was 120 feet maximum; on favorable sites," explained the - secretary of the Retail Distribu- m 4- l ' 1 Z T. X. t V. rntn I xors association wmcu iiau uccu the prime movers in the matter POISR NED BY PIE We have been autnonzea xo ; poiuieu oui, ine ueai ioiks reinng put up buildings that are 80 feet it on their fingers, that Florida high to the ceilings of the top- j appropriates $150 or each" pupil most floor, and on favorable sites and North Carolina mutes insist the municipality may , . permit; that North Carolina can do bet hnilrimcra to be erected that are.ter. Governor Morrison, in TOO or even 140 feet high u uiiA " "The London County Council; lias conceded sreater space f or 1. This ( departments." The old regula-; "o!118 C-C capacyi onn nnn foot TVii was I IU iJW.VW j-vxji.. d nature mcureased the risk ot fire- . "The concession of a ra-nacitv of 500,000 feet which .nw been made, or a- limit ; r. . pi , h in nnn ormoT-n fopt floor snace yj.vjyjyj . JUX all.j 1 Qr nnA ri pra rrmeni. vvii enable us to secure nuui . , , -PI cnann squalt othat of any of the magm-.. Rev R c Fortune ficent stores m America, with . defeated jn a close contest Carl one or two exceptions. p of Weldon? for treasurer, How far London is from M'-, c Vegtfll nf Raleih was made ing attained the sky-scraper sta-e ; financial secretarv-in a spirited will be realized whe mt is under- defeating je N. Carroll of stood that frbllld2?iTnrkev, Sampson -county. T.nrinn i Wbttehall Court, the : f home of the National Liberal; The deaf association, with more; oia waters is now Demg servea as.snence an, sontuae, an exces Club which is 110 feet high.! than iqo delegates, spent four filling for "fish hot flogs," sold; -sire excitability, and utter la,k The highest building in the days in convention. Thev came i to industrial workers in the larg-i of reserve. country is in Liverpool, and is in and went but with no repor-j er cities of the Eastern United , "There are no specific ground? 4 0 feet high to the top of the forial quarrels, no protests that State, notably New York, Chica-jfor divorces,"- continues the re tower but the actual main ' they had been mistrated, mis- go an dPhiladelphia. jport. "The mere disinclination building is only -10 feet high. I quoted, made the butt of jokes As a result of the popularity , of one of the parties to continue The next highest is a steamship .'or the cause f any journalistic 1 of the new delicacy, the British; the. union being sufficient to comnanv nmilding, also in Liver-! f unnyisms. - The newspaper f el- Columbia mild cure pack this warrant its, being dissolved. Pool and is 140 feet high. lows tumbleld mightily to them, year will 'double the 1921 output, j Moral laxness is not unprevalent 111 liWHU"" .. SCOTLAND NECK, N O , Conference Of and Operators PtJRPOSE OF CONFERENCE IS TO NEGOTIATE AGREE MENT WHICH WILL TER MINATE STRIKE. GENERAL POLICY COMMIT TEE OF UNITED MINE WORKERS ALSO TO MEET AT SAME TIME. (By Associated Press) Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. I. A joint wrage conference of opera tors and miners of the central competative bituminous fields will be hefd at Cleveland next Monday for the purpose of nego tiating an agreement designed to terminate the coal strike. The conference was called by John L. Lewis, head of the mine work ers. Lewis also announced that the general policy committee of thej United Mine Workers would meet at Cleveland at the same time for the purpose of actinr promptly on developments as they occur in the joint wage con ference. All men will remain on strike until an agreement or definite understanding is reach ed. Better For Conditions Mutes (By Maxwell Gorman) , . , T , ' . ' aei2h Jul 26. One of the uni(lue t. an? , , 1?teie?tl.n? tnmtM mloigii ecen.ar was that - of the North -xuuim eai Associauon, wne j days session in the hall of the - House in the Capitol building, followed by a picnic at Pullen 'Park here. The Governor waV among those who addressed the eonventon, and Mr. Tillinerbast interpreted the speech of His Ex- vKZLLviiz as ue pruueeueu wuii such faithfulness and aptness that those not f amilar with the teand that he repeated with out h3aring the Governor repeat the words Some of us tried jt wjtk me effect. . The mutes adjourned to meet in AsheviUe next year. They elected officers and passed reso- lutions, the most interesting of 1 . . u which was a request to the Gen- J " X priationj 'jof public moneys for the purpose of aiding students who may wist-to complete their i in 1 nnp o -f Vi r no'nnal n i-vll nrA j xl, uouuu0l ucSc,- .Gallaudet, in Washington. It . . speakmg to them at the openinsr!Cathedfai the f s Valhalla or the association, pledged hiro- self to aid m getting the proper treatment of these silent citizens J. M. Robertson-of Raleigh, Episoopal rectoi whQ is the 'sign - language preached to the members of the Rev. S.S. Bost I mn J lir'tt-'Zi ii warm cuiucsi, mis. ruimuc , . . , n cieieatmff AL. 1. Johnson ol riur- J. M. Vestal of Burlington " - v0.0i0aii 0Mtnr o . . TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1922. PERSOMElR.fi. EX KILLE01NR.R Ky Associated Press) Paris, Aug. 1. Forty persons were killed and fifty others in jured in a collision between two trains of pilgrims to the Grotto of Lourdes, one of the world's most famous shrines, early to day. The collision occurred near Vellecomual. . ' (By Associated Press) Washington, Aug. 1. The Tennessee, Alabamia and Georgia railroad has asked the Interstate Commere Commission today for permission to issue two arid one half millions of first mortgage bonds, the funds to be used to better the road bed, strengthen the brides, and reconstruct sec tions of the line on the Norfolk-1 Southern road. It also asked; permission to sell three hundred j and seventy-five thousand ini equipment notes." RUSSIAN FAMINE BROKEN RELIEF T (By Associated Press) Moscow, Aug. 1. A brief in- j spection trip in Nizhni, Samara, ? Tsaritzrn and RptHptis linrfortnlr. en by a grup of American Relief . Aaminisiraiion oinciais nas con- firmed the existing - imnrpssinn that the Russian famine had been broken. Famine deaths have practically ceased; the crops look good, and the people in the regions SO. R. I ASKS rnn nrnnninninm LI U ULUL IUUIII I UN I LIllvllUJIUN I Tn IRSIIF RflllQi I U IUUUL UUIIUU; I 0 El RErOR mentioned are expecting a good' Upon the report of these A. R.ilMfQT flFRIP.IlfJ A. members to Secretarv Hoover II Lu I III IIIUlill will be based the decision as to) whether it will be necessary for h A R A remain . -a after September or October of this year. . rJllOUS OU ralll S In Need of Repair (By Associated Press') f , Triti, TCmrS nnrl G. nv,aJ e j Wren architect is subiect to the ravages of 'tie. Certain re - the bill. ' " , 'ummm l irn n H l nnnrTITm V HI II. U! m M IIIIIIkIIIUIIII 111 I L I I I hiih-hiwhi. S (By Associated Press) Victoria, B. C, Aug. 1. Spring salmon caught in British Colum - DDRBLETHE ANAO AN ALMON TPOT TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE ECUTVES M 1T0II PRESIDENT'S PROPOSALS FOR SETTLEMENT OF STRIKE MADE KNOWN (By Associated Press) New York, Aug. 1. The stand mg committee of the American Association of Railway. Execu- tives Avent into session today to prepare to reply to President) Harding's proposal f or the set tlement of the strike, the answer to be submitted later in the day to the hundred and forty-eight railroad presidents meeting here for ratification or rejection. Washington, Aug. 1. The President's proposal for ending the rail strike provides that all employees now on strike be re turned to work to. their former positions with seniority and all ether rights unimpaired and "that both sides agrtV to recog nize the validity of the decisions of the Labor Board and that all suits growing out of the strike md the Labor Board's decis ions be withdrawn and disputes arrowing out of the walkout be left with the Labor Board for settlement. HOME RULE IS INDIA'S E, SAYS MRS. BESANT (By Associated Press) Fremantle, Australia, Aug. 1. Home rule for India, with Do minion status, is the objective of f the Indian people, according to Mrs, Annie Besant, the well- known Theosophist leader, , who j j In the course of an interview Mrs. Besanit said everything would be well in India, she thought, if Britain only would grant the country home rule. The people, since Gandhi's imprisonment, were beginning to appreciate that he was not the divine being, able to work mir acles, which they had believed him to be. She anticipated that ! ajritation along constitutional lines wotdd " replace revolution ary tactics and would bring peace to India within a reason able time. NOT OP TO STANDARD (By Associated Press) London, Aug. 1. The natives! cf Togoland areaace of liars, i says an official report on that British mandated sphere in Af i rica which wras taken over from Germany. The report has just ! been issued as a "White Paper." Togoland wa,s at one time a Ger man Colonial possession in West Africa, and has a population of 900 000. Thd natives have no letters. arts or science," says the report 1 4 Concealment of design is the if1 el?m of safety, and as this axiom lias been consistently for generations the character is strongly duplicity. Even in ' matters of little moment it is rave for them to speak the truth. They are unstable, of pur- I pose, dominated by impulse, un- j able to realize he future and i restrain present desire, callously in'JffPTviTit tn anffprintr in nth - ers. but nrofuse in protestation of affection and good intention, j afterwards woefullv believed by actions. resistibly b ynoise and unroar- j ious gaiety; he loves musitf. rythmic sound and motion, and I has a pronounced aversion to . . HO 5 CENTS PER COPY TREET RAIL 1PL0YEES GO (By Associated Press) Chicago, 111., Aug. 1. Twenty thousand employees of surface and elevated lines went on strike at tour o'clock this morning and a greater part of the working portion of the ctiy's population was forced to seek improvised transportation. No statement was made as to when efforts will be' made to re sume traffic STRIKE ARE SL ASSEMBLING FORMEETING (By Associated Press) Chicago, 111., Aug. 1. The la bor leaders scheduled to attend two meetings here today to con sider the Hardinar nronosals for j the settlement of the rail strike were slow in assembling, only two or three men being in the room five minutes after the hour set for the meetimr. (By -Associated Press) Philadelphia, July V.llow the State of Pennsylvania has helped the victims of industrial accidents to -fit themselves to earn a living despite the handi caps of blindness, paralysis and artificial limbs will be shown in an exhibit of lantern slides which the state is preparing for the International Centennial Exposi tion at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in SexHember. The slides, made lirom photo graphs of persons in training lor employment under direction of the State Bureau of Rehabili tation, are beinsr arranged bv j the Federal Board of Vocational Education. They will form an portant part of the govern- meiit exnibit at the exposition in celebration of the 100th anni versary of the independence of Brazil. , Most. of the slides depict stor ies of specific cases handled by the rehabilitation bureau. For instance, there is the case of an le-year-oia boy who alter losing a leg in an industrial accident was placed in employment train ing with a baking company and is now a regularly qualified and salaried employe at a t skilled task. Other slides show the progress of two young women who lost their right hands while operating presses in industrial establishments and have been ! trained ior clerical work' so thai today they have more cono-eniai "nd- remunerative employment , than before they were hurt. 1 American exhibits at the ex- position will be yarded by 1 detachment of the Marine Corps joU strong. These men coma from a number of camps, and many are members of the famous Marine organization which fought at Belleau Woods, in Ju ly, 191S. Others are vounsters in the service. The selection for duty in Brazil comes as a re ward for good conduct and gen eral merit. WEATHER REPORT For North Carolina : Fair to night and Wednesday, except proba-bly local thundershowers on the coast. Gentle westerly1, winds. WAY ADFp: nrMMPVI WAHIH n r ii n n alwIUmllln .at nil!) EXHIBIT TO RIO DE JANEIRO 1
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