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' VOL. 34
PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 25,1923.
NO. 41
MORE THAN 11,003 FARM? HAVE
BEEN ABANDONED SINCE
LAST JANUARY.
FIGURES BY COUNTY USENTS
Moat of Those Who Have Deserted
the Farms Have Left the
State.
Athens, Ga.—One hundred thousand
person have left farms In Georgia
sjpce W}st January 1, acoording to
figures compiled by county agents
throughout Georgia, grouped at the
state college of agriculture and made
public by Dr. Andrew M. Sould, pres*
ldent of the institution. The figures
Include both while and colored farm
ers, who according to the figures, have
abandoned more than 11,000 farms.
Most of those who have deserted
the farms have left the state, it was
said. Placing the average value of
products of the abandoned farms at
less than 1200 each, it was pointed
out, the estimated loss in production
in less than five months has been ap
proximately $6,000,000. The (actual
number of negroes whg have left
Georgia within the five months is
estimated to be 68,960, and attribut
ing to each of these the ability to
make on dollar a day, thp productive
value of the population that has left
Georgig in five months would in the
course of a year amount to more than
$25,000,000, Dr. Soule stated.
In obtaining the figures made pub
lic, Dr. Soule stated that agents in
60 counties made actual surveys, and
with Iftese as a basis the complete
esti® - is for the entire 160 counties
in tm» state were' obtained. In the 60
counties it was found that 25,893 ne
groes and 6,871 white persons had
left the farms, and that 4,410 farms
had been deserted.
Revokes Ruling Exempting income.
Washington.—The Treasury revok
ed its decision of two weeks ago. de
claring exempt from income taxation
corporation dividends distributed out
of profits or earning's, accrced prior to
March 1, 1913 The ruling, officials
said, would have resulted in the re
funding of many millions of dbllars in
eaxes.
No reason was given for rescinding
in the previous action, although at the
office of Solicitor Hartson, of the
revenue bureau, it was indicated that
some explanation might be made
later.
There were reports that the orig
Inal decision amending the revenue
regulations had resulted from a rul
ing on one particular case and that
a review of that case had convinced
revenue officials that no general ap
plication of the determination should
have been made.
£ amended regulation, now re
, would have made it possible
any large corporations to pre
sent claims for tax refunds which
they have been forced to pay since
the income tax law became effective.
It would have applied largely to cor
porations which drew income accured
by their subsidiaries prior to March
1, 1913, and whjch they in turn had
distributed to stockholders of the pa
rent corporation.
Increase Shown in Grain Exporta
Washington.—Grain exports from
the United States last week was 6,516,
000 bushels as compared to 6,120,000
for the week previous.
The totals of grain exports for the
week as compared with the week pre
vious were made public by the com
merce department as follows:
Barley 10.000 bushels against 468,
000; corn 924,000 against 1,769.000;
oats 189,000 against 410,000; rye 633,
000 against 876,000;. wheat 4,760,000
against 2,597,000; flour 181,500 barrels
against 269,300 barrels.
French Chief to Attend U. S. Meet
Paris._“I want to see the place
vhere your wonderful soldiers were
ired,” said General Couraud in an
louncing his acceptance of the invi
atlon of the Forty-second division to
ittend its annual reunion in Indiina
in July. He expects to sail for
JErica about the end of June.
Ip talking of his fourthcoming visit,
„ ’exhibited the enthusiasm of a
chool boy preparing for a holiday.
«I have heard and read how much
f America; and now I am going to
00 he declared, “Ah, it will be
eilghtful.”
THREE ARE LOST
IN CLOUD BURST.
Sayre, Oklahoma.—Three per
sons are missing after a cloudburst
which participitated six inches of
rain in 45 minutes. Short Creek
left its bank3 and spread into a
stream five blocks wide through
the middle of the city.
Nearly 300 farm laborers, oil
field workers and their families
were rescued from tops of their
tents, houses and trees.
The water began receding at
midnight after causing damage
here estimated at $60,000. The
railway station at. Doxey. four miles
east of Sayre, stood in water seven
feet deep.
Hail stones larger than walnuts
fell immediately preceding the
rain and added to the confusion.
73 PERSONS KILLED IN EIRE
RAGING FLAMES AND RUSH FOR
NARROW STAIRS DESCRIBED
BY INJURED.
Cleveland School House, Eight Miles
From Camden Burned, During
School Entertainment
Denmark, S. C.—The death list in
the Cleveland, S. C., school house fire
was placed at 73, in a report receiv
ed here. A telephone message, quot
ing a policeman who said he was at
the scene, said the school building
was completely destroyed and that not
less than' sixty men, women and child- -
ren were burned or crushed to death
in the panic.
Camden, S. C.—According to a report
received here 73 lost their lives in a
fire that destroyed the Cleveland
school house while an entertainment
was in progress. Cleveland Is only
eight miles from Camden, but owing
to apparent confusion in the former
town efforts to obtain accurate infor
mation* as to the reported disaster
were fruitless.
The telephone operator confirmed
the report of a heavy loss of life but
could give few details. She informed
questioners she was “exhausted from
putting up calls.”
Tne Cleveland operator previously
had said the disaster had resulted from
the overturning of an oil lamp on the
stage. The flames spread quickly and
in a few minutes the interior of the
frame building was a scene of horror.
The narrow stairway leading to the
second floor where the entertainment
was being held was quickly jammed,
the operator said, and scores jcmped
from the windows. This accounts for
many of the injured.
The phone operator said calls for
doctors and nurses had been sent to
Columbia and other places.
It is reported from the hospital here
where several of the victims have
been taken that the loss of life will
not be less than thirty.
According to Dr. West, at the hos
pital here, only five injured have been
brought here but it is certain that
among the dead are S. J. West, 38,
Mrs. W. B. Rhoden, 32, and Mrs. C. M.
Humphries, Miller McLeod, and two
members of his family.
Jess Pierce, Thelma and Rebecca
West, daughters of L. M. West, and
Jack Rush. S. J. West and Mrs. W. B. 1
Rhoden, reported killed, are brother i
and sister of Dr. West, who gave the 1
information. i
Columbia, S. C.—According to re
ports received here seventy-three 1
persons were either burned to death
or killed in jumping from the second 1
story of the Cleveland school house,
eight miles south of Camden. The Are (
is reported to have started from the (
overturning of a lamp on the stage ,
of the school house where an enter- (
tainment was being held. 1
Camden is 32 miles northeast of Co- j
lumbia and the Cleveland school house t
is in a rather out-of-the-way section, <
about eight miles from Camden. Nath- i
ing was known here of any entertain- t
meat or commencement exercises ]
planned at the school and no definite t
verification of the number killed has t
yet been known. Newspaper men
from Columbia have just left by auto
mobile for the scene.
Big Furniture Plant Burned.
High Point.—Fire of undetermined
origin destroyed the plant of the Giant
Furniture company, one of High Point's
largest furniture manufacturing estab
lishments.
J. E. Kirkman, president of the com
pany, declined to make an estimate
of the loss before an investigation, but
persons acquainted with the circum
stances estimated iti at $150,000.
BUSINESS GOOD
DURING WEEK
SPECULATIVE MARKETS ARE DIS
' PLAYING MUCH FIRMER
TONE.
COPPER MARKET BRACES UP
Production Maintained a( Level
Which Approximated Beet Rate
of Year.
New York.—A steadier sentiment
leas apparent in financial and busi
i3ss quarters during tbe past week.
For ane thing H was evident that the
principal speculative markets were 1
lisplaying a firmer tone, liquidation
>f a pressing character having ceased
tnd short selling having considerably
improved technical conditionp. Al
though extreme quietness prevailed
luring the greater part of the week, ,
;otal sales on the New York stock
sxchange amounting to only about j
lalf a million shares Friday, this con- ■
lition was considered a natural re- (
mlt of recent weakness and some
signs of a rallying tendency were
loted.
For example tfie copper market,
vhich has been (juiet for some time, ,
ind has been Bagging in sympathy ;
with prices at London, stopped in its :
lecline and strengthened appreciably, j
Some quarters maintained this mar- i
icet is now in good position to re- ,
ipond to a resumption of buying as
>ld contracts run out. According to
:his view, the general reaction in ,
prices is an entirely normal reflec
:ion of a halt between buying move- '
nents. Such observers expect com- .
nodity prices again to stiffen as pre
parations are made for the fall trade,
[n general, ^however, the feeling is
that 'it Is stHfrr toe-eariyio judge '
whether the rdeent has quite run its
jourse.
That the effect on the general level
)f the falling prices which have been i
lolding the attention of the business
jommunlty will be less than might
Je expected is areued on the basis
)f the behavior of the index puolish- .
3d by the department or labor. The
lepartment’s Index tor all commodi
;ie8 during April is unchanged as com
pared with March. Aside from a re
iction in coal prices and those of
’arm pdoucts, all of the individual
jroups of the index were higher. It
was pointed out that the increases
lave taken place in those commo
lities in which labor costs play a large
part and it was assumed on this
lasts that recent wage advances will
ie a sustaining factor.
Chinese Troops Killed in Battle.
Tientsin—-One officer and five Chi
lese troops of the regular army were
silled in a batitle between the 301
iters and the bandits who are hold
ng 14 men of fonsign countries cap
;lve in the Paotsuku hills of Shan
;ung, according to official reports is
med by the Chinese military authori
ses here.
The casualties among the bandits
s not known.
The military sovernor of Shan
ung province has ordered 1,500 addt
ional soldiers toward the hills where
he bandits are holding the captives
lotwithstanding the declaration of
he bandits that it is necessary to
vthdraw the troops f the safety of
heir captives is to be insured.
The bandits have m. de the fol
owing demands on the Ting mission:
First: Immediate withdrawal of
he troops toward Tsinfu and Yen
how; .second, food, clothing, arms
ind ammunition to be sent daily to
he bandits; third, recognition of the
tandits as a separate and independent
.rmy, to be garrisoned in three dis
ricts south of Shantung; fourth,
Suen Mie-Yao, the bandit chief, to be
.ppointed commander of this army;
Ifth, Kuo Chet-Sai, another bandit
eader to be made chief of staff, sixth,
hat they must be signed by the con
rtes.
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Baptists Name Atlanta Next. a
Kansas City, Mo.—The Southern s
Japtist convention here selected At- (
ahte, Ga., as the place for the con
•ention next year, endorsed the
istablishment of a seminary for ne
Toes in Nashville, Tenn.. and approv- {
id plans for the erection of a $2,000,- (
00 hospital in New Orleans, La. (
Marathon dances were character- ]
zed as disgusting exhibitions; mob t
ilonce, whether by persons masked s
>r unmasked, was declared to “arm-.(
►Is In the dust every human right." \i
TWENTY-FOUR RELIGIOUS
FANATICS ARE KILLED.
Manila.—Twenty-four Moro re
ligious fanatics on the Island of
Pata, near Jolo (Sulu) were killed
by a detachment of insular con
stabliary, according to a dispatch
received at the office of Governor
I General Yeonard Wood. The dis
patch said that Akabara who styles
himself a prophet, and his follow
ers, attacked a constabulary de
tachment under Lieutenant Ange
! les at the village of Kiput.
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DIE SOUTH IS TAKING LEAD
rEXTILE MANU F ACT U E R I N G
^ROWS IN SOUTH WHILE NEW
ENGLAND IS LOSING.
iouthern Plant For Construoton o1
Machinery and Repiar Parts
Needed.
Richmond, Va.—The south is fast
.siting the lead in textile manufactur
ng while New England is losing ^iei
>osition as the textile center of the
ration, according to views expressed
>y leading cotton manufacturers at
ending the twenty-seventh annual
invention of the American Cottou
Manufacturers association in session
lere.
Asserting that probably fourflfths
>f the textile machinery now being
narmfactured in the United States is
tttended for Installation in southern
Sants, C. E. Hutchison, president ol
e association, Mount Holly, N. C.
leclared that one of the greatest
leeds of the industry at the present
;ime is southern plants for the con
itruction of machinery and repair
>arts. Mr. Hutchison said it had beer
sstimated that replacement demands
>f southern mills soon would require
nore than a million spindles annually
In an address before the conven
Ion during a thematic discussion ol
State’s tn/ty sto Its Industries,’
lovernor Thomas G. McLeod, of Soutl
Carolina, urged the perfection of a
lystem of financing consistent witi
he economic changes which he said
vere being made in this country.
“Unless in the great economic
ihanges that are going on In this
lountry,” Governor McLeod said
1 a rvm avatam ia norfoptorT and nmTV
srly effected by the financial interests
>f the country consistent with that
lystem, the country at large is going
o pay the price, not only in the crip
ding of industries but in the losa of
ts oral stamnia and in the future of
ts government. There is something
voefully wrong, there Is something
hat demands your careful study as
;reat economists, in any system that
:an multiply in exchange any crop
>r any necessity to the extent that
he New York and New Orleans cot
on exchanges have multiplied the
ales of cotton."
Urging the manufacturers to seek
:loser co-operation with the cotton
armer, who he termed “a partner in
he business,” Governor McLeod de
lared the interests of producer and
nanufacturer “are indissolubly con
lected . . . and the future of your
nterprise and industry depends up
in the degree of prosperity which he
otertains.”
Gov. Cameron Morrison, of North
larolina, who also addressed- the con
ention, described the two great
weaknesses of the country" as what
ie termed an "efTort at class domi
ation through the establishment of
lass syill over common will" and ‘‘the
adifference of the successful Ameri
an to the discharge of his simple
uties as a citizen.” _
Asserting his belief in th% principle
t collective bargaining, Govrenor
forrison said:
‘‘I believe in according to labor,
ndividually or collectively, every
ight which is enjoyed of American
tovernment, ft American constitu-j
ional government, respecting every
ight, but whenever labor loses its
ead and mistakes class for country,
listakes ambition for principle and
rants to transform the right and
iberty of his employer, I believe in
government as swift as the light
ing, exercising all the organized
ower of civilization to prevent it."
Governor Morrison discussed at
ome length the individual rights of
tates and the operation of state gov
rnments.
One Killed, Many Hurt.
Lima, Ohio.—One an was killed and
iossibly a score of persons injured at
lakland, Ohio, half way between
loldWater and Fort Recovery, when
^ake Erie and Western passenger
raiff number 2, collided head-on with
, freight train. The dead man is
ieorge J. Bassler, 61, of Lima, engl
ieer, on the pasenger, train.
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M'LEOD ISSUES
CALLS UPON ALL SOUTH CARO
LIANS TO HELP THE SUR
VIVORS.
GOVERNOR 60ES TO SCENE
Says Money Will Be Needed Despite
Fact That Offers of Aid >lave
Been Declined.
Columbia, S. - C.—A proclamation
calling upon the people of South Car
olina to contribute to the aid of the
sufferers from the Cleveland school
Are was issued by Governor Thomas
M. McLeod.
The governor Issued his proclama
tion after he had talked by telephone!
to people in Camden and had been
told that despite' the fact that all
efforts-of aid had been declined dur
ing bhe day, money would be needed.
His proclamation follows:
“Whereas, the terrible disaster
caused by the burning of the Cleve
land school house in Kershaw county
last night is one of the greatest trag
edies our state has ever known, and
"Whereas, the cry of sorrow and
distress of the relatives and friends
of t)he men, women and children wb*o
lost their lives has reached the fur
thermost corners of the state, and,
"Whereas, in many cases these
people are suffering not only from
the unparalleled anguish of such be
reavement but they have been depriv
ed of financial support by the loss of
the head of their families, and are in
need of assistance bo give them the
necessities of life;
“Now, therefore, I, Thomas Q. Mc
Leod, as governor of the state, do
call upon the people of South Caro
lina to do everythin within their
power to abate as much as possible
the anguish of our fellow citizens.
In the name of humanity, let those of
us who are able send generous con
tributions of funds to supply physical
sustenance to those who need it. Let
us al^o unite in nraving to the Divine
Healer to sooth their broken spirits
with His love and in assuring them
of the love of the people throughout
the state who sorrow with them."
Governor McLeod went to the funer
al of the 73 victims of the Cleveland
school fire, near Camden, after hav- |
ing sent his secretary, E. A. McDow- j
ell, to' do what could be done to aid !
the suffering citizens of Kershaw |
county, and after having dispatched a
message expressing his grief and
sympathy for the stricken community.
Addressed to Allen B. Mufchison,
Kershay county superintendent of
education. Governor McLeod’s letter
was as follows:
•‘I am writing to express to you
and the people of Kersaw county my
sincerest sympathy in the loss of
life in the terrible tragedy of last
evening.
"Many of these are friends whom
I have known for life and appreciate
as valuable citizens of our stat*
Words are inadequate to express iihd
sorrow in such a calamity. Please
tender to your people my services
for anything that I may be able to do.
‘‘With deepest sympathy, I am
“Slncelerly yours,
(Signed “THOS. A. McLEOD,”
“Governor.'’
Increase Shown in Seed Crushed.
Washington.—Cotton seed crushed
during the nine month period, August
1 do April 30. totalled 3,132.666 tons,
compared with 2,922,230 tons for the
same period a year ago, and cotton
seed on hand at mills April 30 totall
ed 64,752 tons, compared with 46,140
j tons a year ago, the Census Bureau
announced.
Products manufactured in the per
iod and on hand April 30 include:
Refined oil produced 835.584,067
pounds, compared with 790,768,610,
and on hand 236,001.125 pounds, com
pared with 302,079,057.
Cake and meal produced 1,437,229
tons, compared with 1,320,318, and on
hand 141,578 tons, compared with
133 810.
Linters produced 580,982 bales,
compared with 386,366, and on hand
57,516 bales, compared with 123,927.
Exports of linters for the nine
months totaled 30,288 bales, compar
ed with 98,188.
More Captives Taken.
j Shanhai.—Chinese bandits attack,
j ed Tawenkow, a town 90 miles north
j of Lincheng, and seized a number of
captives, according to a report re
ceived here.
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