. Max Donnoke Dencon
VOL. 34
PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 31,1923.
NO. 42
SLACKING OF
BUSINESS
SLOWING UP IS SHOWN IN RE
PORTS FOR APRIL AND
MAY.
OFFICIALS STUDY SITUATION
Trad* and LProductlon Continue In
Large Volume, Says Reserve
Board.
Washington.—Government officials
w’. *'ie departments are concerned with
the Iponomic situation throughout the
counfry are giving more than cursory
attention It was made known to the
trend of general business as indicated
by conditions which developed late in
April and have continued into May.
While trade and production continu
ed in large volume, reports to the fed
eral reserve board show that there
was slackening of business activity,
although in comparison with the situ
ation prevailing a year ago, general
conditions are regarded as far better.
The reserve board in a summary made
public attributed part of the slowing
in business to “seasonal influences”
but these it was declared in other
quarters, could not be wholly respon
Bible.
The reserve board noted decreasei
in the production of lumber, anthra
cite and mill consumption of cotton
On the other hand, there were in
creases reported in such basic lines
'As the output of pig iron and petro
leum.
While car loadings were much lar
ger for the period covered than for
corresponding weeks in 1922 the short
age of freight cars evident a few
{W'lkths ago has almost entirely dlsap
■ #ed. This was constructed by the
Vr»erve board to mean more than a
seasonal decrease in shipping. The
heavy volume of traffic appeared to
be constituted mainly of manufactur
ed goods.
The weather was charged by the
reserve board with responsibility for
some of the reduction reported in de
partment and retail store sales. Eas
ter purchases, made in March, aug
mented that month’s total sales, but
"unseasonable” weather held down
April purchases.
Ac6ompanying the decline in sales
which although not substantial in all
lines was evident everywhere were
cuts In prices of certain basic commo
dities such as fuel and farm products.
Clothing, metals and bundling mater
ials however, were slightly higher in
price at the beginning of May than
a month previously.
Mail Robbary Nets $50,000.
Staunton, Ills.—Five bandits escap
ed with two mail pouches containing
$50,000 after holding up and kidnap
ping Postmaster George A. Roberts
and Harry Kennan his assistant.
The robbers, driving a large tour
ing car, crowded a smaller machine
■^carrying Roberts, Kennan and the
Mpouches to the curb. They frifrced the
postal officials to enter the bandit
auto and tossed the mail sacks in af
ter them.
Roberts and Kennan were carried
15 miles from Staunton and thrown
from the machine. ,
The mail sacks contained the pay
roll of the Mount Olive and Staunton
Coal Company.
Posses are scouring the suburbs.
Although the postmaster was armed
with a shot gun, he got mo chance to
use it. The robbers drove into town
and fired a salvo to terrorise pedes
trians. Then they forced the post
master's car to the curb and boarded
It. After getting the pouches and rid
ding themselves of their two captives
the outlaws drove toward St. Louis,
whence them presumably came.
The money came here on a Wabash
train. The robbers are believed to
have followed it from St. Louis.
Trace of them was reported at a late
hour tonight near Edwardsville. Illi
nois, across the river from St. Louis.
Bryan Will Preside at Conference.
Washington. — William Jennings
Bryan will preside at the International
Economic conference at Gothenburg,
July 12 and IS, It was announced by
the Southern Commercial Congress,
which is organising the meeting.
^ Mr. Bryan, a director pf the con
jures*, will act as president of the
W commercial commission to Scandina
via, comprised of 48 delegates com
missioned by state governors, which
will sail June 30 for the conference
with Sweden, Norway, Denmark and
other European Nations. After the
commission will continue its survey
of conditions in Germany, France and
England.
AIR SPEED KING WILL
SEEK TO MAKE NEW MARK.
Washington.—As dawn breaks in
New York some day next month
an Army airplane will shoot into
the clouds, and as the street lamps
begin to glow that evening In San
Francisco, it will come to reat at
the Golden Gate.
With “High Speed” Maughan at
its wheel, the plane will be sent
after another record for the Army
Air Service, which recently added
to lta long list of triumphs the
Kelly McReady non-stop coast to
coast flight, and which, later this
summer will send one of its fra
gile craft skimming clear around
the globe.
The War Department has an
nounced that the attempt to fly
from coast-to-coast between dawn
and dark will be made some time
between June 15 and 25.
A Curtis pursuit plane will be
used, and Lieutenant Russell L.
Maughan, “speed king” of the Air
Service and holder of the world’s
record for one, 100, 200 and 250
kilometers will be the pilot.
BELT IS HURT BY COLD RAIN
WEEK WAS DECIDEDLY UNFA
VORABLE FOR COTTON SAY8
REPORT.
Boms Signs of Improvement In the
Carollnas; Replanting Is Under
way.
Washington.—The weekly weather
and crop bulletin, issued by the de
partment of agriculture for the week
ending May 22 covers the southern
fleld as follows:
The first half of the week was
generally cool in the cotton growing
states, but the latter half was some
what warmer: the temperature for
the week as a whole averaged two
or three below normal except in
much of Texas, where the weekly
means were normal or slightly above.
Rainfall was frequently in nearly all
sections of the belt, except in most
of Texas, and amounts were heavy
in many localities.
The week was decidedly unfavor
able for cotton because of wet weath
er and cool nights, except that fairly
favorable conditions prevailed in
most of Texas, and in the Carollnas.
Fields were clean in Texas and chop
r\lno> rr r»o a a nrAwraaaoH ffl Vnfnhlv WI till
the condition and stands mostly fair;
weevils were appearing in the lower
Rio Grande valley, where cotton was
blooming. It was too cool and wet in
Oklahoma and cotton made poor prog
ress. while heavy rains caused much
washing of fields. Cotton needed cul
tivation badly in Arkansas and very
poor growth was reported from that
state, with plants dying in some lo
calities and much replanting being
lone.
Growth was slow in Louisiana and
Mississippi especially on the low
lands and fields were becoming grassy
in Tennessee. Cotton plants showed
fairly good growth in Alabama but
much of the week was rainy and field
work needed, especially in the south.
Deficient sunshine, cool nights and
heavy rains were decidedly unfavor
able in Georgia where weevil were re
ported as appearing generally. The
crop showed some improvement in
North Carolina, while progress and
condition were fair in South Carolina,
the latter part of the week being more
favorable in these states.
North Carolina: Moderate temper
ature and rain with sunshine about
as needed for most crops. Favorable
for planting, cultivation and growth.
Cotton 10 days late. That recently
planted coming to good stand, but
early irregular; much replanting.
Condition of crop very poor to poor,
but improving; chopping in progress.
South Carolina: Intermittent show
ers and nights too cool early in week,
sut all crops improved. Progress and
condition of cotton fair except back
ward on account of wet soil in Pied
nont where chopping and replanting
continue.
Fourteen Die in Fire at Mexicali.
Mexicali, Lower California.—Four
:een persons are known to have been
tilled and more than three blocks of
buildings were destroyed by a fire
which started in the operating room
>t a moving picture theater here. The
property loss was placed at from $1,
>00,000 to (5.000,000, the higher figure
»eing credited to agents of compan
es which had Insured the buildings.
3ne thousand persons were made
lomeless.
While only fourtea bodies have
>een recovered, local officials say at
east twenty were killed and unoffi
cial estimates put the number of
leaths at a much higher figure. - »
SENATOR LEE S. OVERMAN AD
DRESSES KIWANI3 CLUB AT
CONCORD.
6HIL0 LABOR REGULATIONS
---r-t
Sound Warning Against Attempt of
American Bolehevlki to Control the
Congress.
Concord.—Declaring the "efforts of
'certain men and organizations to cen
tralize power in Congress," is the
greatest menace this country faces to
day, Senator Lee 9. Overman, in an
i address here before the Concord
Kiwanis club, made ah urgent plea
tor conservation of otflr constitution,
“the foundation of our country and
the power of our liberty.”
Senator Overman was especially
severe in his criticism of those peo
ple who would “amend our constitu
tion until we have none left. He
pointed out that there are 71 bills to
amend the constitution pending in
Constitution pending in Congress now,
and warned that some Of them were
very dangerous, especially those which
would direct the teaching of birth
control and would take away certain
powers of our courts.
Senator Overman was also em
phatic in his denounciation of the
amendment relative to regulating
child labor in the United States. “If
we pass an amendment stating that
no children can work until they are
18 and such an amendment has been
offered, we will raise a nation of
idlers and loafers.” Each state
should be allowed to make its own
laws relative to the working of chil
dren, the senator declared, and as an
example of the efficiency of this plan,
he pointed out that in a senate com
mittee last year it was admitted that
North Carolina’s child labor law is
the finest to be found in this country.
Senator Overman said that he fa
vored one of the 71 amendments off
ered to Congress. “That is the Wads
worth amendment,” he explained.
“This amendment would put all future
amendments up to the people, and
that is who should decide them. You
can’t force any law created by a
cnange m ine uuusiuuuuu wubu me
majority of the people do not favor
the change.”
Senator Overman issued a warning
against bolsheviki, declaring they are
attempting to gain control of Con
gress. “They will take the powers
from our courts, once they get con
trol,” he warned, “and put everything
in the hands of Congress. Power
centralized in Congress is the great
est menace facing this country today.”
Rights of states to regulate affairs
within them Is a divine right the
senator said, and he plead with his
hearers to fight against any movement
that tends to further break down the
constitution and weaken the rights of
the states to "look after their own
folks under local conditions.”
Rhine Army Cost Pact Is Complete.
Paris.—The agreement far payment
of the cost of the American army in
the Rhineland is ready for the sign
ing, which is expected to take place
at once. The document now is minus
! the clause to which the United States
objected, allowing the allies to can
cel the agreement in oise the United
States proceeded to collect war dam
ages direct from Germany.
Sir John Bradbury, having received
instructions from Prime Minister
Baldwin in London to withdraw his
opposition to the elimination of this
clause, the allies agreed to go ahead
at once with the signing. The point
which the British representative
thought to cover through this clause
is regarded by the other allies as suf
ficiently covered by the treaty of Ver
| sallies.
Censor’s Rules For Film Shows.
London.—American film producers
who wonder why some of their motion
pictures have been ruled off the
British screen many find their expla
nation in the remarkaof T. P., O’Con
nor, oldest member of the House of
Commons and chief censor of the ci
nema In England.
Mr. O’Connor, who with his ass.j
ciates passes judgment on mbount 25
miles of film every week, mentions
67 elements, any one of which will
cause a film ' to be forbidden. The
board will not permit materialisation
of the figure of Christ, cruelty to child
ren and to animals, disparagement of
pcblic characters and officials, pro
longed death-bed scenes, too much
revolver shooting, or a picture which
holds up as laudable the sacrifice of
a woman’s virtue.
THREE ARE LOST
IN CLOUD BURST.
Sayre, Oklahoma.—Three per
sons are missing after a cloudburst
which participltated six Inches of
rain in 45 minutes. Short Creek
left its banks 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 360.000. The
railway station at. Doxey, four miles
east of Sayre, stood in water seven
teat deep.
tHail stones larger than walnuts
fall Immediately preceding tha
rain and added to the confusion.
BUSTS SHE PLACED IN HSU
ELABORATE CEREMONIES WERE
HELD AT NEW YORK
K UNIVERSITY.
Representatives of Famllas Famom
In American History Were
Present.
New York.—Busts of Abraham Lin
coin, R^lph Waldo Emerson, He nr:
Ward Beecher, Alexander Hamilton
Ulysses Grant, Robert E. Lee anc
Frances Elisabeth Willard, were un
veiled in the hall of tame of New Yorl
university, bringing the total numbe:
of busts in the hall to 3.
Elaborate ceremonies culminating ii
a'procession to the lia.ll of Fame wen
held at the university and were parti
cipated in by representatives of man:
families famous in American hlstor;
and of scientific, literary, artistic am
patriotic societies.
Jules Jesserand., French ambasss
dor to the United States, who unveil
ad J^he Lincoln bust^ declared that th
United Slates had learned from th
example of the martyred Presiden
the value of disinterested courage am
generosity.
Emerso, declared Dr. Henry Vai
Dyke, speaking at the unveiling of th
philosopher’s bust, illustrated tin
noblest achievement of democracy ti
produce a spiritual aristocracy. Hi
was an awakener, a liberator, a teache
ui uuui ago wuu pjuucm,c.
"The question of today,’’ Dr. Vai
Dyke asserted, "is whether the nev
generation of Americans will follov
such native teachings as those o
Emerson, or turn to idolatry of strangi
gods, like Freud, the renegade Jew
Nietzsche, the insane German, and H
G. (Wells, who thinks that he had in
vented the only true religion whicl
is communism. To turn from the writ
ings of these men to the poems am
essays of Emerson is like coming ou
from a cabaret into the fresh air.”
Martin W. Littleton, president o
the Southern 8ociety of New York
speaking at the unveiling of the statu*
of Lee from the chisel of George T
Brewster, declared that the Confed
erate general was the embodiment o:
a cause which was lost, but the rep
resentative of a principle which wil
never die.
“The cause,” he said, “was th«
right of a state to withdraw froir
the Union; the principal was the rlghi
of state to withdraw from the Union;
the principle was primary and pa
triotlc loyalty to the sovereignty whicl
he acknowledged. It meant, perhaps
more happiness to mankind that the
cause be lost, but it meant perpetultj
to civilization that the principle should
survive.”
Five Killed at Crossing,
j Franklin, Ohio.—Five members oi
the household of Bert Williams mel
instant death and another man was
probably fatally injured at Carlisle
two miles west of here when Balti
more and Ohio passenger train No. 61
crashed into a truck which was mov
ing the Williams family from Franklir
to a new home in Germantown. An
other man escaped serious injury.
The two women and three childrer
killed were seated on a sofa on th<
rear of the track which was loaded
with furniture.
A freight train had Just passed ovei
the crossing on the main street oi
Carlisle, and Gross drove on to th<
tracks, unaware of the approaching
train, view of which was obstructed
by the freight train. The bell at th»
crossing was still ringing when Grosi
drove on to the tracks, it was said.
Bert Williams, who was following
his family in a motor bus arrived a
the scene shortly after the crash, un
aware that the truck had been wreck
ed. With other curious he edged hii
way through the crowds until he look
ed on the face of his dead wife, he:
arms still holding his dead fou:
months old grand son'. He fainted
iitcdt is
CHINESE GOVERNMENT STARTS
TO RELEASE CAPTIVES BY
FORCE.
BRIGANDS ARE DISCOURAGED
Messengers Traveling to and From £hs
Outlaw Hill Retreat Have Bean
Stopped.
Shanghai.—Panic seized the bandit*
of Paotzuku as Chinese government
troops launched a determined advance
against the outlaws in an effort to
break up their communication and
force an issue in the international
problem revolving about the kidnap
ping of the foreigners from the Shang
hai-Peking express, May 6.
The Peking governments plan to re
lease the captives by force apparently
i is to be put into operation at once.
The cordon of troops about the
Paotzuku stronghold was tightened in
all directions. Messengers traveling
to and from the outlaw hill retreat
' have been stopped. Troops are en
gaged in breaking up all the bandits'
’ lines of communications in an effort
1 to isolate the band that is holding the
‘ foreigners.
Chiefs of the brigands are said to
‘ be greatly discouraged at the refusal
of the diplomatic corps at Peking to
‘ deal with them and are reported to
> be anxious to come to some sort oi
- terms before it is too late to save
' their own lives.
' Fresh parleys are expected to b«
I opened Immediately with the Chinees
government representatives.
A bandit envoy, accompanied by
- one of the captives as mediator, it
s said to have left Paotzuku to re-opez
> negotiations, bbt so far they have
t not arrived at Tsao-Chwang.
I The outlaws who are declared tc
have been pinning their hopes tc
Chang Tsaollln, dictator of Manchuria,
and head of the Fengtlen party thal
was in control at Peking prior to its
defeat at the hands of the Chihli party
last summer, has been discouraged
. in inai uirecuuu as wen. nau
expected aid from Tsao-Lin's lieuten
( ant, the notorious Chang-Ching Cao,
r former military governor of Hunan
, province, but the leaders of the gentry
f in all the surrounding villages have
( discounted this hope and have urged
the outlaws to settle with the Peking
government as quickly as possible.
i Four Persons Burn to Death.
Mountain Lake Park, Md.—Fate in
1 tervened in summer vacation plans of
; Mrs. Mary O’Connor, aged 94, and her
three grown daughters, and as a re
; suit the four are dead.
The four met death when burning
I leaves ignited accumulated gas in the
cottage occupied by Mrs. O’Connor.
The three daughters were some dis
■ tance from the cottage when the ex
plosion occurred. When they reach
ed the building it was a mass of
flames. Disregarding their own safe
ty the daughters rushed into the cot
tage in an attempt to rescue their
mother. They never came out.
The dead beside Mrs. O’Connor,
who lived at Clarksburg, W. Va„ are:
Miss Kate O’Connor, Clarkeburg; Mrs.
Jett Qrannon, Fairmont, W. Va.; Mrs.
Mary E. Rooney, Clarksburg.
When the rescuers removed the
four bodies from the debris late in
the d»y $2,000 in gold was found hid
den in a chimney. It was turned
over to the authorities.
Several other cottages near the one
occupied by the victims also were de
stroyed.
Finds Way to Avoid Dry Conflict.
Washington.—Indications were giv
en at the Treasury that Secretary Mel
lon had found a way for reconciling
the supreme court’s recent prohibi
tion decision with foreign laws re
quiring ships of their nationals to
carry liquor as crew rations.
The belief was expressed that the
regulations necessary to carry out the
high court decision barring liquor
within the territorial waters of the
United States would be actually pro
mulgated within a few days. Officials
refused to disclose the course which
the Treasury appeared to have adopt
ed in dealing with the situation de
veloped by the court's ruling.
The belief gained ground that the
regulations would provide flatly tor
the barring of all crew rations as
such at the three mile limit but that
1 the ships would I s permitted to place
such liquor as was required by their
home laws under the jurisdiction ot
the ship doctor as for medicinal pur;
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