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TARBORO, N. C FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1922.
ALL THE LOCAL NEWS
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5v : tf ..: -i.-
eyenty Warehouses
Leased
j The list of all warehoues secured
to" date by-thV Tobacco (Jro.wejM Co-
" operative Association in North, fcaro
lfn was given oat this week by T. C.
. Watjtins, Jr., director of , warehouses
for the association. ; : '
- Mr.' Watkina has been in confer-
ente at Raleigh during the past week
with the warehousemen of the state
who have tendered their properties
; to the association. True to their word
the' officials of the association have
taken' over both warehouses and the
warehousemen wherever possible and
'According to Mr. Watkins the associa
tion lis in excellent position to care
for'- its tobacco growing members
thruout the state. , -
the strength of the Cooperative
Association with over 70 warehouses
vnly distributed' thruoyt North
Carolina is. revealed by the recent
announcement ', of the Greenbille
Board of Trade that only 27 auction
warehouses had reported that they
woid handle the leaf in reply to a
questionnaire sent out from Green-
The refusal of Wilson and Winston
Salem warehousemen' to discuss the
terms with ' the association hitherto
hB given its officials no anxiety, ac
cording to Director -Watkins, who let
it be known that sufficient warehouse
buildings to take care . of a majority
of this year's crop have 'been secur
ed., , Negotiations with still other
warehouses will' be closed in a few
diyV,.sccording to Mr. Watkins. " ;
Ove; fifty, warehouses in' South;
Carolina "and forty-two warehouses in
Viritini'a have signed up with the Co
operative Marketing Association. . .;'
'The campaign of the Marketing
Association' for new members is de
veloping great strength accgrdhig to
larte5t.v.rpa.r.ts .from .. Raleigh ...heid
Wgrters where more than a thousand
contracts have been received during
the 'past two weeks. A new factor
FUstvehgth is the campaign of the
: growers in the leadership of experi
enced warehousemen in gaining sign-
Ars-to the contract. i
With -the signing up of one thou-1
fgnd acres of tobacco in a tingle day
in Person county last week and the
recent successful meetings at Dob
son, - Roxboro, Robersonville, and
Washington, there is every indication
that the organised growers will at
tain'' seventy percent sign-up in
North -' Carolina kef ore the markets
open,1-' according to M.' O. Wilson, the
secretary of the Carolines. ; "; .
IT AT
Ofi PEKIN RAILWAY
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SHANGHAI, China, May 5 (By
Associated Press.) Peking dispatch
to the Chinese newspaper Shun-Poa
says' that -the American, British 'and
Japanese ' ministers have instructed
the'-riaval commanders of fheir coun-
trieV jo prevent attacks by warcraf t
supporting Wu Pei-fu upori'the Pe-
' king-Mukden railrpad.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N. C, May 5.
(By Associated Press.) John Und
efWood, former mayor of Fayette
ville, was killed, and three others in
jured in an automobile accident near.
. Westend, in Moore county, today.
WILL PREACH HERE.
' Elder L. H. Hardy, the Lord will
ing, will preach in tha Primitive
Baptist church in this place Saturday
and Sunday, May the 6th and 7th.
' Hope all lovers of truth will come
oot t bear him. . . .
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TACK
EX MAYOR KILLED
iM AUTO COLLISIQFi
In This State
MALE I. B. DEATHS
EXCEED FEMALES
BVTWOTO ONE
WASHINGTON, May 5. Tuber
culosis kills almost twice as many
men as women in New York City, Go
dias J. Drolet told members of the
National Tuberculosis Association in
their meeting here yesterday. Mr.
Drolet is statistician of the New York
Tuberculosis Association.
He said that in the 12 years since
1910 tuberculosis bad taken in. New
York 72,271 male victims as against
41,037 females. The death rates of
the two sexes in 1921 were respect
ively. 1?3 and 83 per 100,000. The
reason for this difference in tubercu
losis mortality was found, eskj Mr.
Drolet, in the conditions under which
they work which break down resist
ance and cause the 'development of
adult tuberculosis.
Mr. Drolet described a movement
in New York to extend tuberculosis
dispensary work into industry. This
has been undertaken by the Gouver-(
ineu'r Tuberculosis Clinic of Bellevue
and. Allied Hospitals at the sugges
tion of the New York Tuberculosis
Association. An industrial health
survey of workers employed in the
district covered by that institution is
being made.
Beginning in February, 1922, Mr.
Drolet said, an industrial nurse made
a preliminary survey to ascertain the
possibility, of. going into local facto
rk for the actual examination of
worker's. Several managers, welcom
ed the idea and agreed to utilize the
health service offered which consist
ed of "educational talks to the em
ployes and an annual examination of
all persons ten percent underweight
or who complained of suspicious
symptome. Until work proves too
heavy, however, all who wish are be
ing examined.
Cases found suffering from tuber
culosis are referred to their physi
cians or to other clinics if they can
not pay for treatment.
CERTIFICATES-SOLD
: "More money was invested in the
new offering of Treasury Savings
Certificates in the Fifth Federal- Re
serve District in March than in either
January or February, as a result of
the nation-wide' campaign on the part
of the post office and treasury de
partments to protect the savings of
the American people from unsafe in
vestments," says postmaster W, D.
.Leggett of the Tarboro post office.
' A letter to the. postmaster from
Howard T. Cree, government direc
tor of savings in this district, states
that the recent advance in the prices
of Liberty bonds is making govern
ment securities more popular and the
decline in interest afea generally it
making treasury savings certificates
particularly attractive. The demand j
for government securities has result
ed In larger Bales of these certificates
than at any time since they were
placed on the market. Treasury sav
ings certificates to the amount of
(566,219, maturity value, were pur
chased in this district in March, very
largely thru the efforts of tha post
masters.'
' The local postmaster expects in
creased sales here, since a number of
letters have been distributed to .the
patrons of this office, making known
to theib the desirable, features of the
treasury savings certificates. '
TREASURY SAVINGS
CONDEMNS
LEASING
OF POST OFFICE
WASHINGTON, May 4. (By As
sociated Press.) Every post office
building in the country should be
owned by the government and the
old system of leasing buildings now
should be scrapped, declared First
Assistant Postmaster General Bart
lett today in voicing disapproval of
a system wnicn made it necessary
for the postoffice department recent
ly to lease at an annual rental of
more than a million dollars a large
structure for mail purposes in New
York City. Mr. Bartlett said tpat the
government could save millions if a
common sense business problem can
be laid before congress with a fair
chance of inducing that body to ap
propriate a sufficient sum each year
for purchase instead of leasing such
buildings.
The post office department has
sufficient funds to lease any building
to be necessary to the proper conduct
of the postal system, it was explain
ed, but no appropriation is available
for the' purchase of a structure.
Plans recently were completed
providing that the department should
lease a building in New York city for
twenty years at a rental of $25,000,
000. Had the department been per
mitted by congress to purchase land
and erect its own building, the whole
transaction could have been handled
for about $8,000,000, Mr. Bartlett
explained, adding that at the end of
the twenty-year period the govern
ment would have possessed the build
ing, whereas under the lease the gov
ernment will be out $25,000,000 and
have nothing to show for it at the
expiration of the lease.
"The whole system is radically
wrong and should be changed at
once," the assistant postmaster gen
eral said. "Each year congress should
set aside a certain sum to be used in
the construction of buildings and
gradually as leases expire all over
the country the department would
find itself the possessor of a system
of splendid structures. This method
would result in the saving of millions
of dollars to the public. In many in
stances the government is made to
pay exorbitant rent. For instance the
department will lease a building in
a small community for ten years and
because of the postoffice site pro
perty in its vicinity will increase in
value, the population of the town
may increase tenfold, and when the
lease expires, the owner of the pro
perty very frequently demands 3 or
4 times the original rental, and we
re obliged to pay it or look for some
other property."
TEN LIVES LOST II
TEXAS T
AUSTIN, Texas, May 5. (By As
societed Press.) -The death list in
the tornado which late yesterday af
ternoon struck West Austin and Oak
hill, was brought to ten today, and
property loss estimated at $400,000.
About forty persons are known to
be fnjured.
GENERAL 1 PEIFU
L PE!
; PEKING, May 5. (By Associated
Press.) General Wu Pel -Fu was in
control of Peking today, and General
Chang Tsao-lin, roiAed yesterday in
the flrece battle south of the capital,
is reported . fleeting in disorder to
Mukden. .
. Observers believe Chang's sudden
collapse has ended hostilities.
BUILDINGS
0 DO
CONTRO
(IN
CYCLONE PASSES
THROUGH
COON
NEAR SPARTA
Yesterday afternoon about 4
o'clock a cyclone about forty
yardt wide pasted thru the low
er part of Edgecombe county, in
the neighborhood of Old Sparta,
carrying destruction wherever it
truck.
Mr. Harvey Beatty was near
Sparta, and seeing it coming,
drove out of it path and watch
ed it go by
The cyclone took a negro
church up in the air above the '
treetops and whirled it around
and landed near the spot where
it was located. This building
was a total wreck.
This same cyclone, when it
hit Mr, Phes Shelton's farm,
played havoc. From the reports
gathered by the Southerner, the
cyclone practically stripped Mr.
Shelton's farm with the excep
tion of his dwelling house, and
this received such a shock as to
render it unsafe for occupancy.
On the Shelton farm was a
packhouse and under this house
was a colored man in a. buggy.
The house was wrecked, but the
man was found fcj be without a
scar, but it was 'said he was
scared man.''''""-'
The stable nearby- was blown away
and a bull in otld' bf the -stableswas
Sheriff Lcggett, who was in the
country on official business, while
on the county road near the farm of
Mr. W. E. Felton, heard an awful
roaring and looking up saw the cy
clone coming toward him.
It struck a tenant house and tore
from it the shed, which was blown
into the air and completely demol
ished. Mr. Leggett says that when it
struck the woods nearhy it made a
passage through these woods like a
clearing for the right-of-way for a
railroad. The trees were blown down
and shivered like toothpicks.
, No lives have been reported as be
ing lost so far. Both Mr. Leggett and
Mr. Beatty say that no one can im
agine the intensity of this cyclone
unless they had seen it with their
own eyes.
Mr. Beatty states that the neigh
borhood thru which the cyclone pass
ed was about as badly frightened as
he ever 6aw. While the cyclone did
not move forward very rapidly, yet
the twisting motion must have ap
proximated a hundred miles a minute
so- powerful was this wind.
The cyclone struck Mr. John- R.
Pender's Jenkins farm and damaged
him, S3 he stated, about $150.
A large packhouse was taken off
the pillars and moved a few feet. It
tore Off one-half side of a large pine
tree and as it passed by a heavy
wooden fence it removed .one panel.
With this exception, Mr.; Pender suf
fered no other damage. . - . i v.
LEVEE BREAK F
SEA 100 MILES LONG
NATCHEZ, Miss., May 5. (By
Associated Press.) A sea about one
hundred miles long and from thirty
to sixty miles wide is being formed
from the break in the levee at Wee
cama and the water in five Louisiana
parishes, which has already inundat
ed the section, rising about 2 inches
a day. Residents of Jonesville, the
highest point in the district, fear the
flooding of that town.
Congratulates Winners.
Supt. Moseley, after a short talk
to the pupils this morning, congrat
ulated them on being "winners" and
presented the following members of
the girls' basketball team with gold
monograms containing the letters
"T. H. S.": Margaret Battle, Elma
Brown, Raymond Cosby, Eliza Bar
din,' Martha Jenkins, Marion Foun
tain, Rose Meredith,
The -monograms were donated to
the members of the team by their
coach, Miss Janie Chandler, who has
worked faithfully and enthusiastical
ly with them for two seasons,
COTTON MARKET.
Yesterday's Today's
Close. Open. Close.
May rJ-?--July
-.1.
Oct; ...
Deet
Jan.
19.50 19.66
19.55
18.79
18.90
"18.94
18.79
18.91
18.96
18.87
18.95
19.00,
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PRIZES AND RESULT
ATHLETIC EVENTS
S
High School Boys.
100-yard dash: First Brown,
Tar-
boro.
Second Crane, Tarboro.
Third Turner, Battleboro.
Fourth Corbett, Leggetts.
440-yard dash: First Calhoun
Rocky Mount.
Second Denson, Tarboro.
Third Fisher, Battleboro.
Fourth Calhoun, E., Dixie.
J.,
880-yard run: First Phillips,
Bat-
tleboro.
Second Spiers, Rocky Mount.
Third Tait, Tarboro.
Fourth Wadsworth, Leggetts.
Standing high jump: First Corbett,
Leggetts.
Second Calhoun, Rocky Mount.
Third Meredith, Tarboro.
Fourth Brake, Dixie.
Standing broad jump: First Turner,
Battleboro.
Second Dunn, Rocky Mount.
Third Corbett, Leggetts.
Fourth Cummings, Dixie.
Running high jump: First Benson,
Battleboro.
Second Dunn, Rocky Mount.
Third McNair, Tarboro.
v Fourth Corbett, Leggtts.
Running broad jump: First Benson,
Battleboro.
Second Crane, Tarboro.
Third Calhoun, Rocky Mount.
Fourth Crisp, Crisp School.
Potato race: First Crisp, Crisp
School;
Sscond Cummings, Dixie.
Third Gay, Battleboro.
Fourth Brown, Pinetops.
Sack race: First Meredith, Tarboro.
Second Spiers, Rocky Mount.
Third Davenport, Battleboro.
Fourth Cummings, Dixie.
Throwing baseball: First Nichols,
Rocky Mount.
Second McNair, Tarboro.
" Third Brown, Pinetops.
Fourth Fisher, Battleboro.
High School Girls.
50-yard dash:
First Virginia Turner, Battleboro
Second Martha Jenkins, Tarboro
Third Zilpha Eagles, Crisp
Fourth Elizabeth Holland, Con
etoe. 100-yard dash:
First Lucille Word, Battleboro.
Second Martha Jenkins, Tarboro
Third Emma Hazelwood, Leggett
Fourth Sarah Mercer, Crisp
Standing broad jump:
First Virginia Turner, Battleboro
Second Pauline Anderson, Leg
getts Third Mary Eva Webb, Pinetops
Fourth Anne Johnson, Tarboro
Running high jump: ' I
First Adelia Edwards, Dixie j
Second Virginia Turner, Battle
boro. ,
Third Emma Hazelwood. Leggett
Fourth Anne Johnson, Tarboro
Running broad jump:
First Virginia Turner, Battleboro
Second Hettie Gardner, Crisp
Third Anne Johnson, Tarboro
Fourth Mabel Calhoun, Dixie
Potato race:
First Marion Jenkins, Tarboro
Second Sarah Mercer, Crisp
Third Mabel Calhoun, Dixie
Fourth Virginia Turner, Battle
boro.
Grammar Grade Boys.
50-yard dash:
First Roy Sessoms, Leggett
Second Peoples, Tarboro. N
Third Creekmore, Battleboro
Fourth Pitt, Powels
100-yard dash:
First Roy Sessoms, : Leggett
Second Langley, Tarboro.
Third Barnes, Battleboro
Fourth Savage, Rocky Mount
Running high jump:
First Langley, Tarboro.
Second Benson, Battleboro.
Third Roy Sessoms, Leggett
Fourth Travelle, Rocky Mount
Potato race:
First Peoples, Tarboro -Second
Worsley, Dixie
Third Winders, Juvenile
Fourth Stirewalt, Busy Workers
Sack race: .
First Mercer, Crisp
Second Combs, Leggett
Third Bradley, Pleasant Hill
Fourth Qummings, Conetoe
Throwing baseball:
' Firet Briley, Rocky Mount
Second Peoples, Tarboro 4
Third Felton, Conetoe
Fourth Benson, Battleboro
Grammar Grade Girls.
60-yard dash: ' 1
First Mary Anderson, Mayo
Second Alice Gurganns, Tarboro
Third Bonnie Pittman, Leggett
Fourth Ora Webb, Crisp
Potato, race: "t " "
- Firt Msdaline Langston, Speed
BY SCHOOL PUPIL
Long Drawn Debate
On New Tariff Bill
FRENCH STILL FREE
TO DEAL ON RUSS
PARIS, May 5. (By Associated
Press.) Vice Premier Barthou re
turned today to Genoa, instructed by
Premier Poincare to make an effort
to reach an agreement with the allies
on a memorandum to Russia that
would satisfy Belgium and not sacri
fice the principle that private prop
erty of foreigners in Russia must be
respected.
Foreign office officials said today
that France has entered into no
agreement concerning recognition of
the Soviets and is free to deal with
the question according to their own
view.
ATHLETIC EVENTS
FOR MAY 13TH
On account of the rain yesterday
afternoon it was impossible to carry ,
out the full day's program with the
athletic events. So it has been de
cided to .conclude these events on
Saturday, April 13.
The following events will be pulled
off that day.
High school girls: Standing high J
jump, throwing baseball.
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Grammar grade boys: Three-legged
race, running broad jump.
Grammar grade girls: Thec-lcgged
race, running nign jump,
broad jump, obstacle race.
Tug-of-war championship.
running
Second Belle Melton, Battleboro
Third Lucy Phillips, Pinetops
Fourth Nora Mae Parker, Crisp
High School Boys.
Pinetops ; 8
Leggetts 13
Tarboro 28
Crisp 6
Dixie - 7
Battleboro 31
Rocky Mount i' 28
High School Girls.
Pinetops , 2
Leggetts 7
Tarboro ... 15
Crisp 9
Dixie . 8
Conetoe 1
Battleboro - - 24
Grammar Grade Boys.
Leggetts 15
Tarboro 19
Crisp " ------ 5
Conetoe 3
Battleboro 8
Rocky Mount .- 7
Powells . . 1
Juvenile 2
Busy Workers r'-- k
Pleasant Hill 2
Grammar Grade Girls.
Pinetops ----- 2
Leggetts -. ..-------- 2
Tarboro 3
Speed 5
Crisp 2
Battleboro ----- - -- 3
Mayo 5
Totals Including All Events.
Pinetops ... 12
Leggetts -.--------- 37
Tarboro ; 65
Speed T 5
Crisp a, 22
Dixie - 18
Conetoe . 4
"Battleboro 66
Rocky Mount 35
Powells - 1
Juvenile 2
Busy Workers - . 1 .
Pleasant Hill 4
Mayo .-: ----i - 5.
Prises by Schools.
Pinetops 1
Leggetts - 3
Tarboro , 5
Speed,. .1
Crisp 1- 2
Dixie . 1
Battleboro ... 8 k
Reeky Mount - , 3
Mayo , 1
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SITUATION
By Richard Linthicum.
WASHINGTON, May 5. The tar
iff bill with its 2,057 amendment
made by the senate will probably be
debated more thoroly in all Its details
than y tariff bill in many years.
The debate may extend well into
the late summer and interfere with
the campaign plans of senators and
congressmen who are candidates for
re-elect jon.
That this is realized by many is
shown by the fact that it is difficult
to get a quorum in the senate with
out an appeal to the sergcant-at-arms
and an unusually large number of
republican congressmen are absent
from the city looking after their dis
tricts many of them panic-stricken
by the defeat in the primaries of Ira
D. Copley of Illinois, one of the ad
ministration and reactionary leaders.
This panicky condition among re
publican representatives may also '
have an important bearing on the tar
iff bill when it goes to conference
and cause further delay or even a
postponement of the subject.
Altho the minority report of the
democratic senators has not been pre
sented at this writing, the manner in
which the minority members are do
ing their work indicates that the re
port will be a thoro analysis of the
defects of the pending measure. Sen
ator Simmons, the ranking minority
member of the finance committee and
formerly its chairman, in his recent
speech opening the debate on the
democratic side, made "14 points"
against the bill, which have been giv
en wide publicity, and the leading
republican papers are attacking the
measure principally for the same rea
sons alleged by Senator- Slimming
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, mg, destroying what is left of the
I foreicrnl market and add' to unein-
, . , .... . ' ,
ployment by curtailing local produc-
tion. Also that the bill is unscientifi
cally framed, the theory of principle
of protection, adopted by the repub-
5 licans after their defeat resulting
from the Payne-Aldrich tariff, hav
ing been abandoned and the present
rates based upon unstable' and con
stantly fl.'.r '-fir values.
Senator Jones of New Mexico, who
has a comprehensive knowledge of
many phases of tariff making, has
also joined in the debate against the
bill, attacking the provision of the
bill empowering the president to shift ,
to the American valuation plan and
has scored against his opponents by
forcing one of the leaders, Senator
Smoot, Rep. Utah, to admit that un- ;
der this plan duties could' be levied
as high as 900 percent. .
Two other democratic senators,
who are masters of the tariff subject,
Senator Pomerene, dhio, and Sena
tor Underwood, Alabama, will also
present the democratic side of the
case. -
The republicans, on the other hand
are lacking in leaders, who under
stand either economic principles or
facts, and it is expected that the
burden of upholding this bill, already
known, as the Calamity Tariff bill,
and drafted, as the New York World
says, by "economic morons," will rest
upon the shoulders of Senator Smoot .
who, whatever his failings, does not
lack ability or fairness or frankness,
ber g one of the few men on that ;
side willing to admit a fact when
compelled to face it. f
DEMPSEW TO MEET
PARIS, May 5. (By Associated
Prs.) Jack Dempsey told the As
sociated Press today it was almost
certain he would meet Carpentier in.'
London or Paris late this year, 'if
Georges defeats Ted Lewis in Lon
don oa May 11 and the pprse ia aat-
isfactory, ' . '
CAHPENTIER
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