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VOL. 35 PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1923. NO. 18 fEN KILLED IN JIH FIGHTING SITUATION NEAR TAMPICO, MEX ICO IS REPORTED TRAN QUIL. FEDERAL TROOPS IN PORSOIT Rumor That Tukpam Has Gone Over to Rebels Is Denied; No New Developments. Jaurez, Mex.—Ten men were killed Sunday in engagements in the vicin ity of Guadalupe, between insurrec tionists and federal troops, according to unconfirmed reports received here. Two irregulars were reported killed, Includii^t Lieutenant Pimen,tal, at GuadahfWo through which 50 cavalry men, uriHer command of the lieuten ant, passed Saturday night, en route to Jaurez from El Porvenir, where they had been stationed. The cavalry men camped a short distance outside the village, according to the reports, and rode into the town Sunday morn ing, shouting “vive Villa,” vive de la Huerta.” . The men were slain in a brief engagement with fiscal gen darmes. The insurrectionists split into three groups, some retreating toward Jau rez, another party riding towards the hills and others moving toward San Ignacio. At the latter place a second battle was reported, in which eight men, including fiscal guards tfhd sol diers, were killed. Tampico, Mex.—The situation here and in this vicinity is tranquil. A rumor was in circulation here ,that Tuxpam had gone over to the rebels, but it was said this was untrue. A telegram received from the command er of the garrison at Tuxpam said there had been no new developments in the situation; that the entire oil region was under control of federal troopjjfeyal to. President Obregon. This fnbipatch added that; the drilling of oijowas continuing actively. Federal troops are continuing their pursuit of Cesar Lopez de Lara, for mer governor of the state of Tamau ' lipas, who several days ago joined the rdbel movement. The rebels entered the town of Jiminez, in the state of Tamaulipas, about 125 miles north west of Tampico, Pursuit of them is \ being hampered by lack of communi cation in that region. Crop Value is $8,322,695,000. Washington.—Value of the country’s principal farm crops this year wa9 placed at $8,322,695,000 by the depart ment of agriculture in its final esti mates of the year. Revised figures of last year’s crops, placed their value a(t $7,449,804,000 and the 1921 crops at $5,629,248,000. The acreage of the important crops this year is placed at 350,698,100 acres, compared with 359,094,470 in 1922 and 348,431,500 in 1921. Production figures, revised on the basis of the latest and fullest infor mation available and the value, based on December 1 farm prices, for the I principal crops follow: ■Qnm production 3,054,395,000 bush eisland value $2,222,013,000; winter wh«tt, 572,340,000 and $543,825,000; gflHhg wheat, 213,401,000 and $181, 676,000; all wheat, 785,741,000 and $725,501,000; oats, 1,299,823,000 $539,253,000; barley, 198,185,000 $106,955,000; rye, 63,023,000 and 804,000; buckwheat, 12,920,000 $12,894,000; flax seed, 17,429,000 and and $4o; ,and and $36,686,000; potatoes, 412,392,000 and $339,322,000; sweet potatoes, 97,177, 000 and $95,091,000; hay (tame) 89, 098,000 tons and $1,253,364,000; hay (wild) 17,528,000 tons and $137,603,000; all hay 106,626,000 and $1,390,967,000; tobacco 1,474,786,000 pounds and $298, 936,000; cotton, 19,081,000 bales and $1,563,347,000; cotton seed, 4,476,000 tons and $205,538,000; clover seed, 1, 233.000 bushels and $15,027,000; sugar beets, 6,893,000 tons and $49,890,000; beet sugar, 884,000 tans, (value not given); cane sugar (Louisiana) 169,000 tons (value >not given); maple sugar and syrup, 33,533,000 pounds and ?<, 780 00p; sorghum syrup, )330,001,000 gallons and $27,595,000; peanuts, 636, 462.000 pounds and $43,078,000; beans, 15 740,000 bushels and $57,480,000; grain surghums 105,619,000 bushels and $99,358,000; broomcorn, 69.300, 000 tons and $11,130,000; onions, 16, 318.000 bushels and $22,011,000; cab bage, 740.000 tons and $17,183,000; hops, 17,770,000 pounds and $3,329,000 cranberries, 610,000 barrels and $4, . 423 000; apples, (total) 196,770,000 ■■Lighels and $201,110,000; apples, (com H&rcial) 24,403,000 barrels and $95, 979,000; peaches, 45,702,000 bushels and $64,043,000; pears, IS,390,000 bush els‘and $21,053,000; oranges, 34,800,009 boxe| and $64,080,000. „ DEATHS AND INJURY WHEN TRAIN HITS CAR Toledo.—Two persons were kill ed and a third sustained a broken back when the automobile in which the trio was riding was hit by a New York Central passenger train at Millbury, eight miles east of here. The dead are Mrs. Dennis D. Downing, 55, and John Reith, 65, residents of Millbury. Dennis Downing, 63, husband of the wo man and driver of the automobile: is in a hospital with a broken back. FIND SIX FROZEN TO DEATH WORST BLIZZARD IN THIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN NEW MEXICO REPORTED. Body of Mexican Found Standing By Brush With Match in Hand; Snow in Tennessee. El Paso, Texas.—Searching parties in New Mexico, following the worst blizzard in 35 years, have found the bodies of six persons who were frozen to death during the heavy snow storm of the last few days, according to word received here. The body of a Mexican was found between Corona and Vaughn, in Guada lupeco, standing beside a pile of brush, a match clutched in his hand. Four other members of his family and a sheep herder had frozen to death a few yards away. The bodies of six members of an other family, Mrs. Auton Montoya, her son, Juan, and his wife, and her three children, who were frozen to death, were taken to Capitan. Anton Montoya, 60, was the only member of the r family to survive. They were traveling by wagon. San Francisco, Calif.—Northern and central California had the first gen eral heavy rainfall of the season with the prospects of continued showers that may even" extend ipjttl southern California, according, to tl* weather bureau here. ’ * The precipitation wa* 'heavier on the coast than in the interior. San Francisco received more than three fourths of an inch of rain in the 24 hours. The storm warnings which were sent out from Point Reyas, north to the Canadian border were extended southward to San Francisco. Marin ers were prepared for gales. Washington and Oregon received rain during the past 24 hours with heavy precipitations in the eastern sectors of those states. Nevada and Idaho also were in the moisture belt, the weather bureau reported. Briston, Tenn.-Va[—Snow began fall ing in this section about 10 o’clock and a drop in temperature was record ed throughout this section of south west Virginia. It is reported the snow has reached a depth of 'three inches in nearby mountains. Girl Jumps Six Stories and Lives. New York.—After celebrating her resignation from Women’s Wear, in order to travel, Anita Sutcliffe, 23 years old, of Brooklyn, left 26 girl companions whom she was entertain ing at luncheon at the Hotel Brevoort, in Greenwich village, ascended to the sixth floor of the hostely and leaped to the street, crashing through the roof of a sedan parked outside. She was taken to St. Vincent’s hispital, where surgeons said she would live. Three Killed in Auto Crash. Charleston, S. C.—George B. Hilton, who was injured in an automobile ac cident near Charleston, when his brother, Hamilton H. Hilton, and Thomas Smith were instantly killed, died at a local hospital. Dr. Charles I. Goodwin, of Holly Hill, driver of the machine that ran into the three men who were walking (along the road, is in custody of the coroner. Dr. Goodwin is quoted as saying that he was blinded by glaring lights of two approaching automobiles at the time and did not see the pedes trains until too late, although he ap plied his brakes at once, upon realiz ing that they would be struck. ( Cement Manufacturers’ Dissolve. New York.—Federal Judge Knox signed a decree dissolving the Cement Manufacturers’ Protective association. On October 2’3, Judge Knox ordered disolutlon of the association on the ground that it operated in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. His de cision was reached after exterfded liti gation by the government. In his or der, the judge extended the dissolu tion to include all the corporate and individual members of the association. He also ordered the association to discontinue the practice of interchang ing statistics regarding production and granted all other decrees sought by the government. $800,000 FIRE IN CHARLOTTE SMITH-WADSWORTH STORE, H. €. LONG, EFIRD ANNEX AND BELK’S GARAGE BURNS STARTS IN HARDWARE STORE Fire Under Control After Hard Work By Firemen, Aided By Trucks and Men From' Gastonia. Charlotte.—Fire which was discov ered a few minutes before 8 o’clock Sunday night in the rear of the Smith-Wadsworth Hardware company, on East Trade street, swept through the harware building, the building oc cupied by the H. C. Long company, (the La Mode, Eifird’s annex, on East Trade street, and through Belk Broth ers’ garage, Warren Barber shop, and George A. Newman’s Tire shop on College street, admaging property and stocks to the amount of $500,005 tb $800,000, it was estimated, before be ing put under Control at about 11 o’clock. The flames were first seen when they burst through the elevator shaft near the center of the Smith-Wads worth building, breaking through the roof and illuminating the sky. It is beleived, however, by fire department officials, that the fire originated in the rear of the Smith-Wadsworth building, and worked its way to the elevator shaft before being discovered, Immediattely after the discovery of the fire a general alarm WhS turned in and at 8:25 p. m., all street lighijg, and street car power lines were sh.u|' off, completely paralyzing trBHeH transportation throughout the, , city until 11:40. Me.yor J. O. Walker, fe^s-iag tPej spread of the flames to r fkdioin&tP buildings, and realizing that the city meanwhile was without fire protec tion in other sections, placed" tele phone requests with the Are depart ments of Concord, Statesville, Mon roe, Gastonia and Mooresville. Gas tonia, Monroe and Mooresville fire apparatus responded promptly. The truck from Monroe made the trip of 25 miles to Charlotte in 40 min utes, with seven men under the charge of Chief G. B. Caldwell. Gas tonia’s truck came with eight men in 40 minutes, and the Mooresville truck arrived in 30 minutes with 15 men. Statesville’s truck with eight men ar rived in 35 minutes. Estimaes of Loss. The loss sustained by the Smith Wadsworth Hardware company will amount to $250,000 but is fully cover ed by insurance. The four-story structure occupied by the wholesale department of the hard-’ ware company on North College street is owned by Belk Brothers, damage 'to which will be between $50,000 and $75,000. sosniK ana oosmit, a vv iiisLuii-oaieiu firm, were proprietors of the H. C. Long and La Mode store, 33 East Trade street. They purchased the H. C. Long business about six months ago. Value of their stock is estimat ed at |25,000. The three-story structure was own ed by Mrs. W. I. Henderson, whose loss was estimated by S. T. Hender son, her son, at $25,000, the loss be ing fully covered by insurance. Damage of about $100,000 was caus ed by the total destruction of the Belk garage and warehouse above. Columbia Offers Aid. The aid of the Columbia, S. C., fire department was - offered to Charlotte by Mayor W. A. Coleirian in the emer gency. The offer of help from Colum bia was conveyed by the Associated Press to Mayor Walker of Charlotte. Thousands of persons,' attracted by the fire, thronged the streets within two blocks of Independenc square in the steadily falling rain. Police had great difficulty in keeping the crowds back from the fire zone, especially on the College street side of the block. Find Charred Bodies of Women. Jefferson, Ga.—Discovery of the charred and almost completely burned bodies of two women in the smoulder ing ashes of an abandoned farm house a half mile from Clarksboro in Jack son county, and the disappearance of Mrs. Mag Simmons, 36, and her daugh ter, Lizie, 15, led to the organization of a posse to search the surrounding country for clues in the belief that the women were slain. The body of the older of the two women was be lieved by the husband of Mrs. Sim mons to be that of his wife. He said 3he had left Jefferson for, Athens in response to a note from there asking her to come to AtLcns -v.-. I. .. it TWENTY-TWO PROBABLE LOST IN WRECK OF STEAMER. Norfolk, Va.—Hope of finding alive any of the sixteen missing members of the crew of the Nor wegian steamer, Runa, off Frying P= Shoals on the North Carolina coast, was abandoned by qoast guard officers here upon receipt of a message from the cutter Modoc that the second ot two lifeboats launched from the Runa ahd been found with afi. of its occupants dead. The first lifeboat, picked up by the American iapker W. W. Mills Sathrday morning In the vicinity of Frying Pan gas bnoy, contained font survivors. Later the tanker picked up another survivor clinging to a floating door, and the five are now thought to be the only ones saved. The Second lifeboat, reported by the Modoc, is thought to have con tained six bodies, although the message did not state how many had been recovered. Early mes sages said that the boat was adrift in the storm with six men aboard. Tlfls boat was the one found. While officials have not been ad vised definitely, they are of the opining that the crew of the Runa numbered twenty-seven men, twen ty-two of which met death. Govern /;,AT 10,081,000 Gales. WCe of 31 Cents It 08,613; Fourth Most Valuable. ijf.-jgTotal production pi g$iw23-24 season was plac department of ‘agriculture equivalent 500 pound final cotton report of the t quantity is ld7,000 bales IN* 1,020.000 SNOW PLAGES ES WaBht cotton: ed by tl] at 10,0lj Sales seasc M The crop amounts to 4,321 pounds exclusive of linters, and at the December 1 average farm price of 31 cents per pound, is worth $1,494,613. 230, making it the fourth most valu able crop ever grown. It is the sixth crop that has been worth a billion dollars or more. The estimated production by states, in 300 pound green bales, follows: Virginia, 50,000 bales; North Caro lina, 1,020,000; South Carolina, 795, 000; Georgia, 580,000; Florida, 12,000; Alabama, 800,000; Mississippi, 617, 000; Louisiana, 385,000; Texas, 4,290, 000; Arkansas, 620,000; Tennessee, 220,000; Missouri, 115,000; Oklahoma, 620,000; California, Arizona, 83,000; all other states, 87,000. About 85,000 bales additional to Cali fornia are being grown in Lower Cali fornia, Old Mexico. Wilmington Exports Cotton. Walmington.—Since July 1, the be ginning of the present fiscal year, there has been exported to foreign countries from the port of Wilmington 53,841 bales of cotton, according to custom house figures. That is approx imately the same amount that was shipped during the same period of 1922, and has an approximately value of $8,000,000. During the past week the cotton receipts at the port of - Wilmington were 6,380 bales, for the same we last year 2,204 bales, a difference in favor of this year of 4,175 bales. The total receipts at this port since August 1, 1923, have been 88,541 bales; for the same time last year 66,558 bales, a difference of approximately 20,000 bales. Government Pays Seaboard $750,000. New York.—S... Davies Warfield, president of the Seaboard Air Line Railway company, said that the road had received $750,000 cash in final settlement with the government for the peorid of public operation during the war. Announcement was made in Washington recently that negotia tions between the company and the government had been concluded. “The settlement,” Mr. Warfield said, “was based on the annual rental value to the government of $5,800,000 as compared with the so-called certi fied standard return of approximately $6,500,000. Makes Big Offer For Hornsby. Chicago.—Prompted, doubtless by the St. Louis National’s price of $250, 000 for Rogers Hornsby’s contract. President Charles Ebhetts of the Brooklyn Nationals mode the astound ing offer of $275,000 for the St Louis star Baseball magnates and report ers co’lapsed into their chairs at the of the offer. President Sam Breadon of St. Louis made no renlv. WEATHER AND PROHIBITION AGENTS COMBINE IN WARFARE. WOMAN HEADS SMUGGLERS Threaten to Send Glimmering Bottle Boats’ Hope of Disposing of Cargoes. Highlands, N. J.—Icy gales kicked up such seas along the Jersey coast that all but seven of the Christmas rum squadron of 20 vessels weighed , anchor and withdrew to the^pen sea to ride out the storm. ^ The weather and the Jjjgavily re inforced federal, state and county staffs of prohibition agents ,at sea and ashore, threatened to send glim mering the rum runners’ last hope of smuggling through to the big cities the thousands of crises of whis key and wine the rum fleet carries. Not a bottle fisherman venteured out. to the fleet. Their jpeedy craft, including those newly jaunched in the last few days in the' hope of gar nering some of the Chrjstmas trade harvest, rode safely at anchor in the camouflaged liquor landing havens that abound in this and nearby coast towns. *t Even the super-rum craft Louise, reputed flagship of a fleet of fast bot tle-runners, said by revenue officers to be operated by a woman known to them as "Luck Lady,” remained in her little land-locked basin at .Key Port. Prohibition officers ashore^ however, were warned by revenue cntt'er sailors that “Lucky Lady,” whom they re cently rescued from drowning when one of her bottle boats sank with a cargo on the way in from the rum fleet at night, had recovered .and was • actively directing the fleet of pity gping- liqudrJ tmeks and touring cars - 'Which she Is ytetmted to operate • ashore. * ..... . “Lucky Lady” ts a prepossessing brunette of 30 and the head of a syndi cate of whiskey smugglers that oper ates both water and land craft, the authorities say. She accompanied her own ships out to rum row, they say, bargained with the skippers there for supplies Of imported liquor and di rected the unloading and reloading into cars at the beach. She usually rode the “Louise’’ which, federal rum hunters whose mospuito fleet has tried to capture her, say is one of the fast est bottle-leggers on the coast. Three Killed, Eight Wounded. Drew, Miss.—Three men were shot to death and eight were wounded— two of them seriously—in a man hunt which began when Joe Pullen, negro tenant farmer run amuck with a pis tol and shotgun after fatally wounding W. T. Sanders, a planter, and battled with posses which drove him through a can break for several miles and into a drainage ditch east of Drew. A posse of approximately 1,000 men had joined in the pursuit and plans Were under way to pump 500 gallons of gasoline into the ditch where Pul len is believed to have taken refuge and set fire to it in aw effort to drive him from his place of concealment. Immigration Conference Divided. New York.—A clash between liberal and conservative views of immigra tion policy marked the closing session of the national immigration confer ence, which ended its two-day meet ing without adopting resolutions or taking a formal vote on phauges in the present quota law. The last day's session also was enlivened when Mrs. Mary Ware Den nett, director of the Voluntary Parent hood league, started to read a paper on birth control as a means of solving immigration problems. She was stopped, despite her protest, by Peter J. Brady, conference chairman. Among speakers adhering to a “liberal” immigration policy was Dr. Percy Ssickney Grant, rector of the Church of the Ascension, who as serted the United States has no right to be particular about an in dividual who is needed Industrially, when his condition can be changed and improved here.” “Since our natice stock seems so shy of perpetuating itself,” he added, “people should be brought here who keep close to nature. The country needs muscle and perseverance to build it up.” Advocating further restriction :of immigration, Judge W. W. Tillett, of San Francisco, asfegrted that before the United States aYto\v'otJ more aliens to come in it sliquld find «rt}t whether foreigners here wem. Anjericans or still loval to their native! taida. SHIP HOLLY FROM SOUTHPORT New Industry For Brunswick County May Become Profitable to Help Out Farmers. Southport.—The shipment of holly to the north in practically over for this year, in this county, as the time is not long-enough to reach the mar kets where the hotly is retail^!. The shipments are comparaitavlye small, some five or six cars, though‘this is, compared with no shipments last year, as there were no berries then, the amount of berries adding to the holly value. While the holly itself grows back quickly after being cut out for the holiday trade, annually, the fruit age is not regular, so that there may be only one year in three when the trees are filled with the berry, and so become a fine marketable and profit able product, to help out the farmer. The fish oil shipments from here by-ewil^his season, are estimated at about two-thirds in number of gdjlcrhll, as compared with last year for the same period. Shipments of oil;from here are convenient for both the up river factories, and those belovV this city, and also from the factory at Shallotte, tweflUSt miles down ther the car on track1 the oil transfer is easily made. From estimates now on^ hand there will be, 400,000 gallons of this fish oil shipped to northern In the matter of furnishing fuel oil for oil-burning steamers, the W. B. and S. railroad is prepared , to do so, provided that notice is given it> advance. The railroad does not run a supply stitiori, but it is equipped to enter into contracts. It supplies the government oil-burning dredge Comstock, with its fuel oil, the Com stock operating in dredging mostly on the Cape Fear bar. Word froin Columbus county tells the interesting story, that thb boll weevil has been foun^i in the Cockle bur, evidently taking his winter , quar ters in this apparently safe retreat, so as to be early on hand for the cotton of the next crop. coast From barge into points. Heavy Tobacco Sales in Wilson, i - Wilson.-i->The official figures of Jljes on the Wilson tobacco market appear ing in the report for the week ending December 6, made by H. B. Johnson, supervisor of sales, kre as follows: Sales this week,-|2,439,602 pounds. Amount sold for $726,929.26. Average, $22.41. i Sales last week, 3.154,934 pounds. Amout sold for $726,929.26. Average, $23.04. / Decrease, 715,332 founds. Decrease, $180,073.48. Decrease, .63. Sales to datdi, $4,234,778 pounds. Amount sold for-$12',404,829.03. Two School Buildings For Pender. Wilmington.—Walter Clark, local contractor, has been awarded the con tract to erect in Pender county two modern school l buildings which will cost when completed approximately $100,000. Work on the structures la to begin immediately after the first of the new j^ear, it was announced by Mr. Clark. One building is "to be located at Long Creek and theilother at Atkinson. They are to be of'|the same general type of construction. -n Man Shot and Robbed. Elizabeth City.—O. C. Bray, 44 years old, a local. Insurance man, is in the Communit)& Hospital and is not ex pected to l|yje as a result of a bullet wound in 3tfP and abdomen received as Mr. Brgae turned to run when a negro beliPrett” to be Leroy White, ■*/ attempted to hold Up the white man in the factory district of this city. The negro fired as his victim turn ed in flight and while the white man’s body was bent forward. The bullet entered the right hip but was deflect ed upward into the abdomen, where it punctured the small^ intestines in tour places. Hunting Good in Catawba. Hickory.—While rabbit hunters re port a plentiful crop of cotton tails rnd duck shooters have no complaint over the scarcity of waterfowl, bird hunters report the supply of quail short in this |ection this year. In the late summer good reports were re ceived, due to a favorable hatching ind raising season, but the opening of the hunting season found a greater scarcity of quail than in many years. Birds are to be found in comparative ly few places, it is said, and many hunters have put up gun and given up. Probably the largest kill of ducks reported in this section in two days was scored by James C. Shuford and Dan Chatham, two local shots, who spent two days at Bridgewater the latter part of November. They brought back 4S wild ducks, and dis tributed them among a number of friends. Mr. Shuford uses wild ducks, now domesticated, as decoys Several years ago he ordered a pair from the northwest, and has raised from them.
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