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« Max Duangke Denk-m 7 VOL. 35 PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1923. NO. 2 COOLIDGE IllllS BUSINESS IN UNITED STATES CHAMBER OP COMMERCE REVIEWS INTER NATIONAL QUESTIONS. BARNS HEADS DELEGATION Assures the President Country Wants to Help Europe Officially or Un officially. Washington.—Views of the chamber of commerce of the United States on various international questions were placed before President Coolidge by a delation headed by Julius H. Barnes, president of the organization. Discussion at the conference touch ed on the reparations problem, the world court proposal, and such issues as transportation, the merchant ma rine, taxation, immigration, soldiers' bonus and the tariff, the delegation taking occasion to reaffirm the cham ber’s position on each question. The delegation, which Mr. Coolidge was - assured was representative of Jk&eflcan business, in a summary is sue after the conference, said it had Informed him that the business ele ment of the country would welcome the opportunity for the United States either officially or unofficially, to be helpful in the solution of European problems, and with the least possible delay. * Reaffirming the chamber’s endorse ment of the Harding world court pro posal ,the delegation said it had ex pressed "gratification’* in the measures taken by the American government to that end. In reference to railroad transporta tion, Mr. Coolidge’s callers said they fscored “private owenrship and pri vate operation, under fair and just regulation, based upon recognition of the obligation of the railroads toward the public and likewise of the obliga tlons of the public toward 'the rail roads.” "The chamber of commerce,” the President was informed, “is mak ing a comprehensive study of the transportation problem with the view to presenting recommendations to Con grass and the executive branch of the govenHBhfit.” Calling attention to the chamber’s opposition to the government engag ing in commercail business, the dele gation contended that “further efforts should be made to evolve a plan of operation by private citizens, before entering upon direct government oper ation of government-owned ships.” Tax reforms advocated by the delega tion included recommendations for the repeal of remaining war excise taxes readjustment of income surtaxes, establishment of a court of tax ap peals and decentralization of the ad ministration of federal income taxes. Mr. Coolidge was reminded of the chamber’s opposition to the soldiers’ bonus and its advocacy of a more flexible immigration law and a tariff adjustment board. Two Killed In Airplane Clash. - Fayetteville.—Alfred B. DeMesquita, publisher of The Fayetteville Observer and The Durham Sun, and Sergeant Edward A. Reece, of New York city, were instantly killed in the fall of a privately owned plane at Pope Field, Fort Bragg. The accident occurred while Sergeant Reece was piloting the plane outside of duty hours with Mr. DeMesquita as a passenger. So far as known there were no eye witnesses to the fall of the ship. V The plane burst into flames as it crashed to the ground, and both oc cupants were dead when taken from the wreckage. The plane in which they were making the flight was the property of Herbert Lutterloh, of this city. It Is known that Mr. DeMes quita contemplated the purchase of an airplane and it is supposed that he was making a trial flight with this end in view. Sergeant Reece,"'while stationed in Texas, took a pilot’s course, but It was stated at Pope Field headquarters that he did not finish the course. He had frequently piloted commercial planes outside of duty hours. The plane, which was said to have been privately owned, was being utiliz ed for the purpose of giving DeMes quite lessons in flying. It was not known at the field which of the men was driving the plane when the acci dent occurred. It went into a nose dive soon after leaving the ground, i Mr. DeMesquita was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. DeMesquita, of 600 West 113th street, New York city. He came to Fayetteville early In the pres ent year. EIGHT PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH AT TORONTO. Toronto.—Eight persona were burn ed to death in the Wawa hotel, on Lake of Bays, Onatrio, according to information received by ofTicial3 of the Canadian Railway News com pany, owners of the property. The information here is that the hotel, which contained 153 rooms, was fairly well filled with summer guests from the United States and Canada, most of whom lost all their baggage and clothing. Clothing was rushed In from Huntsville, Ont., by steamer and narrow-gauge railway and the fire sufferers were then brought out to the railway, station where the relief train await ed them. BURTLETTE MAKES SURVEY WBEVIL AND DROUGHT PLAYED HAVOC WITH SOUTHERN CROPS. Says Unless Weevil Damage is Check ed, American Cotton Supremacy is Threatened. New York.—Southern cotton plant ers have suffered this season a loss, approximately at present cotton prices 1750.000. 0<)0 through the ravages of the boll weevil and drought, President E. E. Bartlett, Jr„ of the New York cotton exchange, declared in a state ment urging the use of more funds to light the weevH. Unless the damage done by the weevil Is effectively checked within the next few years, America’s supre macy as the world’s leading cotton grower Is seriously threatened, Mr. Bartlett declared. “Never since the weevil made its appearance in the cotton belt, about 1922, has such alarm been felt as ex ists today among the cotton planters.’’ Mr. Bartlette said. “After years of procrastination the national govern ment, the- state governments, and the leading cooton associations are at last beginning to realise the direct need for drastic action In every sec tion of the cotton belt to reduce the weevil menace to a minimum. “In view of the huge loss which annually confronts the nation,” Mr. Bartlette said, the “amount devoted to fighting the weevil "seems inflnl tesmally small.’ “It would be real economy,” he de clared, “and a great benefit to the nation and world to devote millions of dollars to exterminating this en emy of the cotton plant.” President Bartlette said the New York cotton exchange this year con tributed $100,000 to fight the pest and that the state of Georgia, the secqnd largest cotton growing state, has con tracted for 50,000 tons of calcium arsenate, considered the most effect ive known instrument for combatting the weevil, to be delivered over a period of five years. The United States Steel corporation, through Chairman Gary, has notified the Amer ican Cotton association It wauld con tribute $25,000 annually for the next three years to the boll weevil cam paign,” Mr. Bartlette said. “The far reaching blight of the weevil,” he said, “touches even the steel corporation. There are eight steel ties on each bale of cotton, and the crop loss this year, due chiefly to the weevil, is estimated at about 6.000. 000 bales. This means that cot ton growers will require 48,000,000 fewer steel ties to bale the crop.” “The boli weevil,” Mr. Bartlette as serted, “is the most dangerous of pests because it so thoroughly forti fies itself aaginst extermination. Un fortunately,” he said, “there is a great shortage of calcium arsenate and if other states were to follow the ex ample of Georgia in ordering the pro duct, there would not be enough pro duced in the world to cover the in fected parts of the cotton belt. Powerful “Bootleg Ring” Caught. Washington.—Department of justice officials declared that the leaders in the largest and most powerful "boot leg” ring in the United States have been taken Into custody in the whole sale arrests made at Savannah. Ga„ under direction of Federal agents. Additional arrest* are anticipated and it was stated that the case might lead to some state and Federal officers. William Haaf, a one-time grocery clerk, is described as the principal leader of a ring which officials here claim operated a flotila of craft, had its own cement lined storehouse in the swarmps along the Georgia and Florida coasts, and supplied enor mous quantities of liquor along the Atlantic seaboard as far east as New Jersey, over the south, and as far west as St. Louis, Chicago, and Cleve land. BANDITS BOB II IN DETROIT W ESCAPE IN AN AUTOMOBILE AF TER KILLING MOTORCYCLE . POLICEMAN. u__ p MANY OF WOMEN SWOON Robbers All Heavily Armed Shot Into Ceiling at Intervals to Intimidate Victims. Detroit—Seven gunmen held up the Allendale Inn at Warren and Snyder streets, lined up about 170 persons at the inn, and obtained money and Jew elry valued at several thousand dol lars. Four persons, including one woman, were shot and seriously injur ed. One ot the injured persons was George D. Wilson, vice president of the Wilson Boyd company. The gunmen escaped in an auto mobile. A short time later an auto mobile containing seven men, believ ed to be the same ones who held up the inn, was seen in Monroe, about 40 miles southwest of here. The night policemen in Monroe approached the automobile and one of the persons in the machine shot and Instantly killed him. Two of the gunmen stayed outside of the roadhouse while three entered from the front door and two from the back. As soon as the men were in side the door they all began firing through the crowded dance hall. Wo men screamed and fainted. One bandit guarded the front door, while another guarded the rear. All of the men inside the roadhouse were heavily armed and those on guard showed two guns. They stripped jew elry from the women and money from the pockets of the men. In their haste the gunmen searching the guests tore diamonds from rings , and atickpipa with their teeth. The identified injured guests at the roadhouse are: George D. Wilson, prominent club man and vice president Of the C. R. Wilson Body company, of Pontiac, Mich., shot in the right shoulder. Joseph L. Weber, Detroit, shot in right knee. Miss Lucille Leroy, Detroit, shot in the right arm. Two other men suffered injuries, but were removed before police officers arrived. The policemen killed at Monroe was Oscar Reinhardt, 30, a world war vet eran. 3,000 Miners Lost Lives Since 1900. Chicago.—More than 3,000 miners have lost their lives in 19 mine disas ters in the United States since 1900 in which only those taking a toll of more than 100 lives are included, ac cording to records available here. They were the following: Birmingham, Ala., May 5, 1910, 175 dead. Brlceville, Tenn., December 9, 1911, 100 dead. Butte, Mont., June 9, 1917, 156 dead. Cherry, Ills., November 13, 1909, 2S9 dead. Cheswick, Pa., January 25, 1904, 1S2 dead. Coal Creek, Tenn., May 19, 1902, 227 dead. Dawson, N. M„ October 22, 1913, 261 dead. Eccles, W. Va„ April 28, 1914, 181 dead. Ennis, W. Va„ December 30, 1908, 100 dead. Finleyville, Pa., April 23, 1912, 115 dead. Hanna, Wyo., June 30, 1903, 235 dead. Jacob’s Creek, Pa., December 19, 1907, 230 dead. Johnstown, Pn„ July 10, 1902, 113 dead. Littleton, Ala, April 8, 1911, 128 dead. Marianna, Pa, November 28, 1908, 154 dead. Monogah, W. Va, December 6, 1907, 360 dead. Telluride, Colo, November 20, 1921, 100 dead. « Virginia City, ' Ala, February 20, 1921, 100 dead. Virginia City, Ala, February 20, 1905, 160 dead. Dawson, N. M, February 8, 1923, 120 dead. Typhoon Drowns 100 at Honk Kong. Hong Kong.—More than 100 persons were drowned and about 100 persons killed and injured ashore, and about 50 junks and sampans capsized during a typhoon at Macao. Many persons were entombed when houses collopsed. FIVE PEOPLE KILLED WHEN PLANE CRASHES. when a coi ed by Albe; Petersburg, Rosa sound' Pensacola^ $Ta.—Four men and one womanj were killed instantly ercial seaplane pllot J. Whitted of St. Hi., crashed Into Santa ear Camp Walton, 40 miles from -pbnsacola. The dead? Mrs. Hubert H. Har per, about $5, wife of a Birming ham, Ala., newspaper man; Albert J. Whitted, ,30, former naval avia tor, St. Petlrsburg, Fla.; Frazer Patterson, ffi, son of a prominent pensacola lumberman; Hugh D. Brown, Sylacauga, Ala.; S. D. Cas tleman, 35, traveling salesman, Sylacauga, Ala. Flying at an altitude of about 200 feet, the propeller suddenly be came loosened, cutting oft the en tire rear portion of the fuselage. The wrecked machine dropped into 12 feet of water, all five of the oc cupants being killed by the crash. One piece of the broken propeller flew across the sound, about 200 yards, into the woods on the main land, the other across into the gulf. CASE OF MUCH IMPORTANCE DECISION MADE BY FEDERAL JUDGE WOODROUGH AT BROOKLYN. One of Moat Farreachlng Pronounce ments in Enforcement of Prohibition. New York.—Seiaure of .alien rum running vessels that hover outside the three mile limit was held legal by Federal Judge Woodrough. The de cision was handed down In the case of the British ship Marlon Mosher, seized while transferring a liquor car go to the American owned motorboat J. H. B., eight miles off the coast near Fire Island, July 27, 1222. Bonds of the Detroit Fidelity and Sufwty cbmpaHyT'glven after the seiz ure of the craft as a guarantee that it would proceed to Its supposed desti nation, St. Johns, New Brunswick, were declared forfeited, it being con tended that although the vessel ar rived at the Canadian port, she dM not have her cargo, thereby violating her agreement. The Marlon Mosher case brought about a special session of President Harding’s cabinet and an exchange of conversations with Great Britain. The American government held that the Mosher and other foreign vessels seiz ed as rum runners should be released provided they proceeded Immediately to their avowed destinations. The United States attorney, in his argument before Judge Woodrough said: “It is clear that, irrespective of the cabinet’s determination as a matter of diplomatic policy, to release for eign ships having cargoes of liquor when apprehended outside the three mile limit, there was ample legal au thority for the seizure and forfeiture of the Marion Mosher and her cargo of liquor.”, Judge Woodrough held that seizure of foreign ships engaged in smuggling liquor into this country was justifiable even though they were on the high 3eas. “When f ship hovers around the American coast,” he said, “although three miles from shore, with intent to violate the laws and is caught in the attempt t0 smuggle intoxicating liquors, and it is shown that it is in contact wit|i the shore, its seizure, thought it be of foreign registry and outside the three mile limit, is justi fiable." Ten De4d in Utah Flood. Salt Lake City, Utah.—Ruin and desolation mark the path of the floods which swept over thousands of acres of land in the fertile valleys of North ern Utah when the flood gates of the Altitudinal Wasathc range loosed great torrents upon the farm settle ments and communities nestling along the border of the mountains. Ten persons were known to -have perished and the towns of Farming ton and Willard were badly damaged, the total property damage exceeding $1,500,000, Recording to estimates. Search ffr nearly a score of per sons reported missing since the flood struck wa$ continued by national guardsmen, ordered to duty in the stricken area. At Willard, the guards men started digging into great heaps of debris, believing that more dead might be found. The rescue workers encountered muck nearly 30 feet deep, while along jthe north and south of the little town lay strewn for miles the wreckage of ! hundreds of farm buildings. . _ tL-.* RETAIL MERCHANTS HEAR DR. DANIEL MEMBER OF CLEMSON COLLEGE FACULTY DELIVERS ADDRESS AT CONVENTION. ELECT WARRINER PRESIDENT Final Day of Convention Devoted Chiefly to Election of Officer* and Address on Adevrtielnfl. Richmond, Va.—Establishment of lo cal association* throughout the South was urged In resolutions adopted at the final session here of the seventh annual convention of the Southern Re tail Merchants’ association, which waa attended by more than 400 retailers. The final day of the convention waa devoted chiefly to the election of offi cer* and addresses on advertising and the valve of the human element In business. T. E. Warriner of Lawrence ville, Va., was elected president to succeed A. L. M. Wiggins of Harta vllle, S. C., R. 8. Bristow of Urban, Va.. and K. M. Biggs of Lumberton, N. G., were elected vice presidents and W. T. Dabney of Richmond was chos en secretary. Or. D. W. Daniel, Clemson College, 8. C., David Ovens, Charlotte, N. G.; Ernest B. Lawton, Richmond, and Mr. Warriner were among the speakers. Mr. Dahlel delivered an Inspirational talk on “The Golden Rule in Trade,* urging the adoption of the principle as the best method of advertising. Declaring that time clocks were “in tended to check convicts in their cells and ‘not to keep tab on boys and girls in a store,’ ” Mr. Ovens urged retail merchants to employ the “honor sys tem” of handling their employees. Stressing the value of the “personal touch” In business Mr. Ovens said stores should develop their own sales forces by taking yoogfc men and wo men from good homes and training them for business. “Don’t make the mistake,” he said, “of putting cheap and Inexpensive help In any branch of your store organisation.” 10,000 Persona at Bridge Meet. Charlotte, N. C.—August 17, 19JS, will be recalled for many years as one of the most remarkable days ot Mecklenburg and York counties, link ed together since March 1 by a noble steel and concrete structure across the Catawba river on the new road connecting Charlotte and York, be* cause on that date the citizenry of the two counties fraternized at an all day picnic at the bridge and were hosts to hundreds of visitors from other counties, near and far. A gathering estimated at 10,000 per sons attended the outing, a stream of automobiles bearing them by highways and side roads from early morning to noon so that a veritable migration seemed in process. Distinguished men of the two Carolinas addressed the crowds morniTg and afternoon, boun* tiful picnic dinners being spread at 1 o’clock by family and friend groups. Governor Cameron Morrison, of North Carolina; Governor Thomas G. McLeod, of South Carolina: Senator N. B. Dial, of South Carolina; Con gressman W. F. Stevens, of South Carolina; Dr. J. B. Johnson, mayor of Rock Hill, S. C., and Heriot Clarkson, associate Justice of the supreme court of North Carolina, were the chief speakers, addressing the thousands as they sat and stood on the hillsides of a natural amphitheater on the land of W. M. Boyd at the Mecklenburg coun ty end of the bridge. Mr*. Harding Leave* White House. Washington.—Quietly and almost unnoticed, Mrs. Florence Kling Hard ing left the White House, never to re turn except possibly as a guest. None of the crowds, none of the cheers, none of the excitement and none of the pleasurable anticipation that marked her arrival at the execu tive mansion on March 4, 1921, attend ed the departure in the gloom of * rainy night. The contrast was so noticeable that those who accompan ied her away were plainly moved, but Mrs. Harding, herself, whatever may have been her Inner emotions, walked out of the door, across the portico and into the waiting automobile as calmly as she has passed through all the succession of trying hours that have been her lot in the last 15 days. □okies to Meet Next in Providence. Portland, Ore.—Providence, R. I., was chosen for the next biennial con vention, in 192,5, of the Imperial Pal ace, Dramatic Order of Knights of Khorasaan, at the closing session her* of the sixteenth ^pji^fiatlon. W. J. JACKSON & SON (Established 1195) Plymouth, N. C. UNDERTAKERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS Will Arrange for Embalming Upas Raquoat Motor Hoars* Sorvloa D. B. MIZELLB DENTAL 8URQEON In Plymouth avary TuwetMy and Wednooday prepared bo da all klwdg of MODERN DENTAL WORK. MUSIC SHOP MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS PIANOS Baldwin, Hamilton, Howard SHEET MUSIC Duality Lina Throughout DR. W. L. 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