North Carolina Newspapers

$1.00 a Year, In Advance. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Single Copy, 5 Cents. VOL. XXIV. PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1914. NO. 39. TO REDUCE THE iT OF LIVING FARM PRODUCTS TO BE CARRIED DIRECT TO DOOR OF THE CONSUMER. TEN CITIES ARE SELECTED By Parcel Post Postmaster General Burelson Will Cut the Cost of Living. Washington. Preliminary steps were taken by the posfofflce- depart ment to perfect its ptan for reducing the cost of living by having the par cel post -tarry farm products direct to the door of consumer. Ten cities vwere selected to begin the work of establishing direct connection between producer and consumer, Postmaster deneral Burleson having issued an or der permitting the use of crates and boxes for butter, eggs, poultry, vegeta bles and fruit shipped by parcel post. Orders went to the postmaster at Boston, Atlanta, St. Louis, San Fran cisco, Baltimore, Detroit, LaCrosse, Wis.; Lynn, Mass.; Rock Island, 111., and Washington, directing them "to receive the names of persons who are willing to supply farm produce in re tail quantities by parcel post." Print ed lists of these names will be dis tributed among town and city patrons. "By the use of the lists," said First Assistant Postmaster General Roper, "the city consumer can get in touch with a farmer who will fill his weekly orders for farm produce. The consum er will receive the product fresh from the country, and the personal relation ship established no doubt will tend to improve the quality. The farmer will be relieved of carrying his pro duce to market, as the rural carrier -will make daily collections at the farm er's own door of the retail shipments to city consumers. . "The point has been raised that dif ficulty will be experienced in the re turn of hampers and other containers This problem does not appear to me to be difficult, as the farmer may use inexpensive hampers whose value would not warrant their return, or he may use the higher grade hampers lor which he may include an additional charge to be credited to the consumer on the return of the hamper by par eel post." EUROPE CONTROLS RADIUM Claimed Americans Fail to Recognize Importance of Radium. Washington. lHow the American people failed to recognize the import ance of radium as a cancer cure until European countries had obtained vir tually all of the present available sup ply, is graphically told in the annual report of Joseph A. Holmes, director of the federal bureau of mines, made public. The report tells in detail of the bureau's unsuccessful efforts to obtain a quantity of radium sufficient to supply the twenty or more hospi tals of the public health service and "serve in part to -meet the needs of the various cancer hospitals of the country." Director Holmes estimates that "in the United States 75,000 persons die each year from cancer. Explaining that radium is considered the most promising cure for certain types of cancer, the director says the most serious barrier to progress in demon strating this is the scarcity of radium. "There probably is not more than thirty grams of radium now available for use in such treatment in all coun tries," the report says. "Of this amount there probably is not more than two grams of radium bromide in the Unit ed States, in the hands of a few sur geons. Probably fifteen grams of ra dium bromide was produced during 1912, and of the fifteen grams nearly 11.5 grams were extracted in various European countries from ores shipped to thein from the United States, main ly from Colorado and Utah. , Man's Slays Four Persons. Oak Park, Ga. J. A. Eubanks, a farmer of this place, killed his wife aad two young daughters as they . slept, and after setting fire to his home, barn and several tenants hous es, fired a. bullet through his own fore head, killing himself. Two Badly Hurt on Trestle. Atlanta. Edward L. Huie, senior at Tech, and Miss Mabel Bixbie, a milli ner, were seriously injured when the Seaboard, Express No. 5 from New York City to New Orleans ran them down as they were walking over a trestle near this, city. As the fast train wept ardund the curve, thirty minutes late, the engineer saw the couple " crossing the steel structure. Too late, he blew a warning blast The couple attempted to escape, but before they ' mn ten feet the nilot of the engine had tossed them Into a dry gulley. GUSTAV BAUCH if " o -?J w t : , j -i-7Z i 1 v -N . H f'jh;n .jp ti Gusav Bauch is an American rail road man who disappeared In Mexico and Is believed to have been killed by the constitutionalists. Carranza has ordered an inquiry Into his 'death, but Villa, says he was slain by fed erals. DOG SAVES FORTY LIVES GUESTS OF WINDSOR HOTEL, IN MILWAUKEE, SCURRY DOWN FIRE ESCAPE. Yelping of Vagabond Pup Awakens Hotel Proprietor, Who Rouses Guests in Time. Milwaukee, Wis. Guests of . the Windsor hotel, ' numbering , nearly two score, were compelled to flee for their lives when a fire, which destroy ed the hotel and the Western News paper Union plant, in. the southern portion of the building, and burned out the four-story structure. The barking of a dog sounded the alarm in time for escape. Charles Sandberg, lessee of the ho tel, declared that every guest of the hotel got out safely. The property damage is $200,000. The barking of a vagabond dog aroused Mr. Sandberg, the hotel keep er, and he and policemen went through the halls smashing in doors where the guests failed to answer knocks. Guests were soon scurrying for safety clad in night attire. . Patrolman Wilke was the last to emerge from the mission of awakening the guests. He said the guests had all been awakened and managed to get out. BANDIT MAKES RICH HAUL bandit Robs Express Messenger on Santa Fe Railway. Beaumont, Texas. After bundling the messenger, "Reb" Martin, in a gunnysack, a masked man robbed the express car attached ' to northbound Gulf. Colorado and Santa Fe passen ger train No. 202 of several packaged of currency, estimated to aggregate about $14,000, and escaped from the train at the village of Helbig, 12 miles north of Beaumont. Posses, which went to Helbig from this city in auto mobiles, have not found trace of the bandit, who is believed to be hiding in the dense forest about the village. G. A. Taft, general superintendent of the Wells-Fargo Express company, es timated the amount stolen at $14,000. The money was part of a shipment made by a Houston lumber concern to be used in paying their employes at camps along the road. Tuscaloosa Swept by Fire. ' ' Tuscaloosa, Ala. Fire in", the -busi ness section of Tuscaloosa early did damage estimated at a quarter of a million dollars. Three business hous es and their stocks were destroyed. The cause of the fire has npt been de termined, i Rosenau company, depart ment store owners, were the heaviest losers, their building and its contents being valued at $150,000. Wants $2,000,000 for Atlanta P. O. Washington. Among the things rec ommended by the efficiency commis sion in its report on the Atlanta post office is the erection of a new build ing to accommodate the increasing volume of business handled by the At lanta postof fice. In lieu of this, Con gressman W. S. Howard has introduc ed, a bill recommending a . $2,000,000 appropriation to erect a public build ing for the postal department. Mr. Howard says that in the event a re gional bank is located in Atlanta the present postoffice can be us.ed for it. BUREAU REPORT , OH COTTON CROP CROP IS ONE OF THE LARGEST EVER GROWN IN THE UNIT ED STATES. NEW METHOD IN REP0RTINC Over Thirteen Million Running Bales Produced by Southern Farmers, Is the Report. Washington. One of, the largest cotton crops ever grown, amounting to 14,127,356 equivalent 500-pound baled of linters, was produced by the farmers of the United States during 1913, the census bureau announced in its preliminaray report of cotton gin ned as reported by ginners and de- linters to February 28. These figures compare with 13.703,' 421 equivalent 500-pound bales of lint and 609,594 bales of linters last year, and 15,692,701 bales of lint and 567, 575 bales of lint'erest in 1911. The department of agriculture's es timate, announced December ,12, plac ed the 1913 crop at 13,677,000 equiva lent 500-pound bales. The total value of the .crop, includ ing the value of cotton seed, is unoffi cially estimated roundly at more than $1,000,000,000, compared with last year's $920,000,000, and $963,000, 000 for the previous most valuable crop, that of 1910. With this report the bureau of cen sus departed from its previous method of reporting the cotton crop by not including the quantity of linters in the total production. Director William J. Harris announced this was done be cause with the installation of modern machinery closer delinting of seed had increased the quantity of linters and at the same time lowered the aver age quality of the fiber so that now only a small part, if any, was used as a substitute for lint . cotton. The number of running bale of lint, cotton, counting round as halfbales. was 13,964,981, and of linter cotton, 629,019 running bales, compared with 13,488,539 running bales of lint and 602,324 running bales of linters last year, and 15,553,073 runnigg bales of linters in 1911. Included in the production for 1913 are 29,267 bales, which ginners esti mated would be turned out after the time of the March canvass. Round bales included numbered 99,- 916 compared with 81,528 last year and 101.554 in 1911. Sea Island bales included 77,490 com pared with 73,777 last year and 119,293 in 1911. The average gross weight of bales for the crop, counting round as half bales and excluding1-linters, was 505.8 pounds, compared with 508.0 last year and 504.5 in 1911. VILLA REACHES T0RRE0N Federal Stronghold Shelters 9,000 Troops Under General Velasco. Constitutionalist Headquarters, Yer- mo, Durango, Mexico. General Villa and his army of 12,000 rebels invested the federal stronghold of Torreon. The khaki-clad columns occupied the environs of the city without opposi tion, and in wheeling and dragging field pieces into place 'to shell the federal trenches, dug at every point where the federal commander, Gen. Refugio Velasco,, expects attack. Velasco's army is estimated to num ber 9,000 men. South and southwest of this city his 'position is regarded as almost impregnable by reason of the mountains, through which only three passes run, and these have been rendered almost impassable by fortifi cations and barbed-wire entangle ments. In other directions the city is reached through the desert and high hills. Lansing Named to Succeed Moore. Washington.' President Wilson nominated Robert Lansing of Water town, N. Y., o be counselor for the department of state, succeeding John Bassett Moore, and Cone Johnson of Texas to be solicitor for the depart ment, succeeding Joseph W. Folk. Mr. Lansing is an associate editor of the American Journal of International Law and the author of several works on international subjects., Identifies Train Robber. Atlanta, Ga. Harry B. Mellville, the postal clerk on the Queen and Cres cent sotuhbound train No. 1, running from Cincinnati to New Orleans, which was robbed near Birmingham of $40, 000 on the night of February 19, ar rived in Atlanta and identified A. O. Perry, one of the three alleged yegg men, who were arrested at No. 89 Brookline street, as the train bandit who stabbed him in the back with a knife when he refused to tc"1 the gang of robbers where all the money in the small car was hidden. - MARGARET ALLEN TRIMBLE 3 xc s y-s v j. A Miss Trimble is the pretty, daughter of South Trimble, former 'congress man from Kentucky and now clerk of the house of representatives. Miss Trimble is popular with the younger set In Washington. " ,'. MANY BURIED UNDER WALLS BUILDING FALLS IN HIGH WIND, CAUSING DEATH .AND DESTRUCTION. Tragedy In St. Lois Due to Collapse of a Wall of - Burned Building. St. Louis, Mo. At feast two persons were killed, fifteen buried under de bris and ten injured- wiien the west wall of the Missouri v Athletic club buIldingT which was destroyea- by fire, in which thirty persons lost their lives a week ago, collapsed "under a high wind here, and , crashed through a four-story building occupied by the St. Louis Seed company: The wall of the Missouri Athletic club building, which stood seven sto ries high, crumbled when a 35-mile wind veered to the northwest. A few minutes before the collapse, Building Commissioner McKelvey, who was di recting 170 men in the work of ex ploring the ruins of the Missouri Ath letic club, feared the wall would fall and ordered his men out of the de bris. This action probably prevent ed a heavy loss of life. The four-story building occupied by the St. Louis Seed company had weak ened, apparently during the burning of the Missouri Athletic club building, which adjoined it on the east, and when the brick wall crashed on the roof of the four-story building, the walls of the latter gave way and all above tne second floor crumbled. COTTON EXCHANGE REFORMS New York Organization Adopts the Nire-Grade System. New York. Submission to the nine- type system of cotton grading favor ed by the United States government was acknowledged by the board of managers of the New York cotton ex change in the adoption of a resolution making the government standard types of cotton the basis for trading on and after April 1, 1915. The resolution reads: "Resolved, That the government standard types of the fololwing grades of cotton, i. e., middling fair, strict good middling, good middling, strict middling,, middling, strict low mid dling, low middling, strict good ordi nary and good ordinary shall be the basis for determining the grade of all cotton for delivery upon contracts ma turing on and after April 1, 1915." . The nine-grade system has been ap plied by the New Orleans exchange for years, and is said to simplify the marketing of the product Concilia tory action was taken last fall by the New York exchange, but the conces sion did not completely appease dis satisfaction in the South, which hag insisted on a complete surrender, it it said, i x Girls Flee for Their L'ves. Wellesley, Mass. Perfect discipline, coolness and bravery on the part of students and faculty members pre vented loss of . life or injury, When college hall, oldest of the Wellesley college buildings, was burned here. Two hundred and fifty young women students, fifty instructors and fifty maids, were in bed when the fire was discovered. Every one was saved, and not one pf the scores who marched in an orderly procession through the smoke-filled hallways, suffered so much as a scratch. SECT HELL 01 INHERITANCE TAX PAYS THE VANDERBILT ESTATE WOULD PAY STATE $500,000 UNDER N. Y. LAW. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple Gathered Around the State Capitol. Raleigh. Secretary A. J. Maxwell, of the cos poratlon commission, calls attention '..o the fact that had the North Caro lina estate of the late George W. Van derbyet been subject to inheritance taxation under the New York instead of the North Carolina inheritance tax 'aw it would have paid into the state treasury not less tlAin a half million dollars instead of tha $100,000 in tax that- it is estimated that the North Carolina ' stat 9 treasury will receive from the estate as inheritance tax. Under the New York inheritance tax law the Vanderbilt estate in that state will pay four per cent under the in heritance act into the state treasury while in North Carolina it will only pay one per-cent ito state treasury. Mr. Maxwell explains that the North Carolina inheritance tax act provides a flat one per cent tax on all inheritances above exemptions ex cept to collateral relatives, making the North Carolina rate as high as the New York rate on small estates, but the New York act has graduate increase in rate for the larger estates. He says this graduated system that New York has is approved by nearly all states and by the national associ ation on state and local taxation, which is endeavoring to promote uni formity of rich taxation methods. He points out that had the North Caro lina inheritance law been the same as the New York act State Treasu rer Lacywould haye at least a half million dollars more from the Vander bilt estate alone. And this would have taken care of the present deficit in state finances and been felt by no one. Mr. Maxwell does not call atten tion to this in any criticism, of the legislature, which really provided the state at the last session with de cidedly the best revenue act the state has ever had and the best Inher itance tax", law the state has yet had, and that about half the inheritance tax the Vanderbilt estate will pay will be . due to Improvements which the last legislature made in that statute. Still Mr. Maxwell believes that there is room for Improvement in this inheritance tax act in getting it in line with the New York and most of the other state statutes so that the state will fare better in "the future. He insists that the principle of graduated inheritance tax is too well recognized by the other stat3 to be longer neg lected by North Carolina. He believes that- if the graduated principle in taxation is justifiable anywhere it is, in his opinion and the opinion of the Mme3, justifiable inheritance taxes on the large estates. Bryan and Daniels Will Attend. A letter received recently by Editor Clarence Foe of The Progressive Far mer, who with Collector J. W. Bailey and President Alexander of the Far mers' Union is leading the movement within the party for a progressive Democratic convention to be called to meet here soon, from Josephus Dan iels, Secretary of the Navy, states that he and Secretary of State Bryan will be here for the convention on what ever date is agread upon. Governor .Grants Requisition. A requisition from the governor of Florida was honored by Governor Craig recently for William L. Wig gins, who is now la Wlaston-Salem under arrest awaiting the arrival of the Florida officer to take him back. He is charged with the embezzlement of $100 from the Lyric Moving Pic ture Show in Orange county, Fla. He was a partner In the management of the theater. Raleigh Entertains Road Scout Party. Raleigh entertained the scout party of the United States Office of Public Roads and the American Highway As sociation for a brief time, the party stopping long enough to address a Soodly crowd of good road enhuslasts in the chamber of commerce rooms before resuming their run to Smith field and Pinehurst In their tour of In spection from Richmond to Atlanta over ihe Capital-to-Capital Highway, They report great improvement in the condition of the roads from Rich mond to Raleigh tla Petersburg. Ten Judges -to Nominate. When the State. Democratic Conven tion meets here nett June it will have to nominate only one state officer, a candidate for Corporation Commis sioner, and confirm the nominations of 10 candidates for Superior Court judgeships. There is no doubt about the nomination of H. L. Travis as Corporation Commissioner. lie is the present chairman of the Commission and will have no' opposition ior tha nomination to succeed bJmself. So far as is known all. the Superior Court judges whose terras expire with this election Will stand for renoml nation and as yet no accountments, are made in any of tha districts of candidates in opposition. The candi dates for judge are seleoted in the several judicial district conventions and these nominations are confirmed by the state con7ntion. and included in the regular state ticket. The dis tricts in which there are to be nomi nations for the coming election follow: First District Judge W. M. Bond. Fifth District Judge H. W. Whid bee. Sixth District Juige C. C. Lyon. . Tenth District Judge W. A. Devin. Thirteenth .District Judge W. J. Adams. Fourteenth .District Judge W. Ti Harding. ,.. . Sixteenth' District Judge J. I Webb. Eighteenth District Judge M. H. Justice. ,: : Twentieth . District Judge ; G. S. Ferguson. , There .are to be no" nominations for Supreme Court judgeships for four years yet Hamlet Has Best Kept Groceries. State Food Chemist Allen says there has been considerable decrease in the number of violations of the state pure food laws during the past year and th'at the 'most irouble that his Inspectors find now is the sale In bulk by North Carolina dealers - of substitutes for the t pure articles in a number of lines of groceries, especially lard, vinegar and syrups. These are shipped Into the state, labeled ac cording to the law as substitutes with ingredients specified, but are sold by some unscrupulous merchants as the real articles of the-retail trade, and there Is no law to reach these viola tions effectivelyv Mr. Allen says there Js much im provement in numbers pf the impor tant towns of the state in the cleanli ness of the grocery scores, but that in his judgment Raleigh has the most poorly kept grocery stores of any town he knows. He says Hamlet "has about the best kept frocery stores to be found in the state. Postmasters Recently Appointed. Shoals, Surry county,- John A. Mar tin, Floral College, Robeson county, Alexander H. White; Dunlap, Iredell county, Mrs. Belle M. Howard; Okisko, Pasquotank county, John L. Ludford; Dystersville, McDowell county, Addie J. Satterfield; Sunburst, Haywood county, John H. Peebles; Hanners ville, Davidson county, Lacy E. Help er; Rex, Robeson county, Joseph F. Pittjnan; Brummett, Mitchell county, Mrs. Bessie Tipton; Onvil, Montgom ery county, Mrs. Diza A. McAuley; Vander, Cumberland county, Daniel N. Carter; Eunice, Allegneny county, Monroe Jordan; Round Peak, Surry county, Benjamin F. Jarrell; McLeod, Richmond county, Ernest L. Pegram Supreme Court Decisions. The Supreme Court delivered opin ions in only seven appeals this week ly delivery day. The list follows: White vs. American Peanut Com pany, Bertie County, reversed; Holton vs. Norfolk Southern Railway, Craven, new trial; Pate vs. Lumber Company, Sampson, affirmed; Tyler vs. Hilton Lumber Company, Duplin, affirmed; Brock vs. Wells, Duplin, affirmed; Taylor vs. Brown, Duplin, affirmed; Massie and Pierce vs". Hainey, Samp son, error. Hall of History Open Sundays. An arrangement has been made whereby the new Hall of History will be open to the public ea6h Sunday af ternoon during hours that will not conflict with church services. An other new departure, now that the Hall of History .Is .opened up in the splendid new quarters in the state building will be evening lectures from time to time, the purpose being to make the fine collection of historic ex hibits of the most value possible t the general public. ' Government Watchman Dies. William E... Cooper, who was strlck-, en with paralysis recently while on duty as night watchman at the tem porary poatoffice and government building, died a terr days ago. He was 45 years old and had been in the gov ernment service several years, as ele vator man , intfie, Void .government building now being remodeled, a po sition that he was to fill again when t$e remodeled building is occupied again by the local departments of the government. Mr. Cooper was a widower and leaves two children.