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K-. · gj I...— V0£. 35 «■ PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1924. NO. 20 WILL MICH FOR ARMS SMUGGLING SHIPMENT OF ARMS TO MEXt ^ Can rebels is under EMBARGO. TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR FINE ” . C ■ Government Had No Indication of In. tended Rebel Exportation Except From Inquiry. Washington. — President Coolldge took further steps to aid thS^Obregon government In Mexico,- signing a pro clamation which' Imposed an Imme diate embargo on any shipments of war munitions to that country except with the specific approval of the gov ernment A fine of' $10,00(K or two rears’ imprisonment or .botl'' mar be Imposed upon oonvlcted vftilators of the embargo. Actldfi was taken br the President on recommendation of Secretary Hughes. No format statement accom panied the text of the proclamation when it was made public at the state department So far as known, how ever, the Washington government has no exact information as to”.Intended sales of arms lh the United States to Mexican; rebel factions beyond the In quiry through the department of Jus tice received from the De la Huerta agent In tipi Orleans concerning pur chase and asaembly In New- Orleans for shipment to the rebel-forces of arms and ammunition. Border patrols against liquor, drugs, aliens and other forms of smuggling probably will be ihstructed Jo watch tor arms smuggling expeditions. Sec retary Weeks said, howevtjk, that while army commanders on tm border would be advised of the lssijance of the proclamation he would construe it at present as addressed primarily to the civil officers along the interna tional line and would not direct the army to begin patrolling against arms smugglers. The war secretary mad’ It plain,‘however, that In the (event. 61 any ext<£b|J.ve gun-running, aVmy for oes Including cavalry and aircraft stationed‘on the border would be used to break up tbe traffic. • Contract For Ford Plant.Ilet. Charlotte, N. C.—MacDevit-Fleming company, of Chattanooga, Tenn., con tractors and builders, were awarded the general contract for the erection of the Ford Motor company’s assem bly planChere after bids submitted by eight contracting firms had been ex amined tor several days by Ford engi neers and C. E. Ball, the Fftrd com pany's architect’s superintendent. The approximate cost of the three build ings to be efected by the M*acDevit Flemlng company will be around $750, 000, it is stated. Work Will Be begun on the building at once. The total cost of the new Ford as - Spmbly plant here Is estfmated&t well \*over a million dollars, when thVstruc > - tural steel, architectural contract, / and mechanical trades contracts are considered. The plant will be jocated L , , on a tract of land recently ‘acquired t ( i between the Derlta and Statesville [ 1 \ roads frotn the Hutchison estate for $76,000. The aasembly plant when . complet ed will he the largest.In the south and one of the largest In the country. have originated In a sm*;! fikfr'market on the ocean front talk herervtrtually wiped out the entire Oceans Park amusement sone and caused damage officially estimated at $750,000 to $1, 000.000, ofr Which approximately $100, 000 was covered by Insurance/ ’ Most of the loss was sustained in the destruction of the Pickering mil lion dollar.'pier, the Fraser Amusement pfer and Uck’s pier. Works of South to Bo Exhlwtsd. Washington.—Resources an$ pro duct# of the South will be exhibited in the Grand Central Palace, New* York, the last two weeks in January, 1925, at a monster Southern exposition, un der plans announced here by F. Ooher I Miller, business manager of the Macon /(Oe.) chamber of commerce. The |Southern Exposition association, com /prising commercial, industrial and ag / ricultural itnerests south of the Poto i mac . and Ohio rivers, is sponsor foi M the prograjn. The object of the proposed exposi J® tion, Mr. Miller said, is to acquatnl the rest of the Uiiited States with what the South is doing. Mr: Millei | Is at present in Washington conferring ! with Southern leaders before formu Sating final plans. FOUR DEATHS ATTRI BUTED TO COLD WAVE. Pittsburgh.—Four deaths attri buted to the cold wave were report ed to the coroner’s office during the day. Two persons were frozen to death during the night and two others, a child and an aged man, were fatally burned while dressing in front of open fires. The “open Are” victims were Martha Redenbaugh, two and Aug ust Foerschke, 75. The child died later in a hospital, but the aged man was so badly burned that he lived but a few minutes after the Are was smothered from his blaz ing bath robe. The body of Gilbert M. Davis was found in an alley near his home. Officials believe he was rendered unconscious by a fall and became a victim of the biting cold. Neighbors found the frozen body of Alice Watters, an aged negress, in the home where she lived alone. FIRE HDDS TO DEATH TOLL HEAT BEATS BACK RESCUE WORKERS IN DISASTER AT ILLINOIS FACTORY. Half of the 250 Worker# in Corn Pro ducts Plant Killed or Mang led. Peoria, Ills.—Between 25 and 35 persons are believed to have been killed and more than a hundred oth ers injured in a terrific dust explo sion at the starch plant of the Corn Products Company at Pekin, Ills. Fire broke out after the explosion Rescuers could see the bodies of ap proximately between 25 and 35 vic tims lying in the ruins, but the flames prevented attempts to reach the bodies. It was estimated it would be sev eral hours before the ruins could be penetrated and the bodies removed. Eighty injured, many of them badly mangled, had been removed from the wreckage and taken to hospitals In Pekin and Peoria. Two hundred and fifty men were working in the plant at the time of the explosion. The Corn Products plant was the principal industry Of Pekin. It was built 24 years ago by the Illinois Sugar Refining Company, but about eighteen years ago was sold to the Corn Products Company and since has been enlarged many times. The plant was said to be equipped with all the known safety appliances and the explosion is the first serious acci dent since it was built. At 9 o'clock, with the estimates of doctors on the number of dead run ning as high as 35, six of the dead had been identified. Fire kept res cuers from removing which could be seen and it is feared many bodies will be entirely consumed. Of the hundred or more injured, physicians said a score of them prob ably will die. The victims were hor ribly burned. Cries of nine men entombed in two telescoped box cars shattered by the explosion, had ceased this forenoon and persons working frantically to clear away the debris were of the opinion the men had perished. Favors Harsh Action to Bar Rum. Washington.—Drastic action to put a atop to alleged liquor drinking by members of Congress and other high Government officials and to prevent leakage of “diplomatic” liquors into bootleg channels, was demanded by Representative Upshaw, Democrat, of Georgia. His demand was embodied in a resolution and a speech prepar ed in support of it. Mr. Upshaw said Congress should “clean around it sown door by pass ing a.- resolution declaring persona non grata to the floor of the House any member found under the influ ence of liquor in the Capitol or House office building, or known to have liquor illegally acquired in his office.” He also suggested that all Federal appointees, including qabinet officials Army and flavy officers and diplomat ic and consular representatives abroad be required to take a pledge of total abstinence. The “executive guillo tine,” he added, should be used by President Coolidge on all Government officials known to drink liquor. Stamps to Aid Poor. Berlin.—Charity stamps are being issued by the Ministry of Post to help finance the feeding of the poor. Th^se stamps will be sold at twice their alue and will be issued in denomi nations of five, ten, twenty and fifty gold ptenigs. "Duetsche Nothilfe," (German relief) will be printed across ‘he face of the stamps. PLAN 1469 10 GEIBOK AWARD PEACE PLAN ENTAILS ENTRY OF AMERICA INTO WORLD COURT. AUTHOR IS YET UNANNOUNCED May Hold Plebiscite Next A(|onth to See if America Wants to “Out law War.” New York.—The American peace award announced that plan number 1469 had' been adjudged the best of 22.165 entered In competition for the $100,000 offered by Edward W. Bok, Philadelphia publicist, for the- beqjt practical plan by whiclT? tfi«f United States might co-oepra^ '"wtih’ otfrer nations to prevent war.* ^ j In It essence this plant proposes, first, that the United State* immed iately should enter ij|he?^e?mai|ent court of international jWtice.vendora ed by the late President Harding,1 and, second. Without becoming7 a member of the league of natlbcfs,- as at present constituted, should Offer tb co-operate with the league,- undei" certain con ditions, as a body ;-of ntutual coutrsei. T|ie identity of ?the author “is Un known to the jury of a&ard and polled /committee, except one delegated mem ber. ! . ' The authoriship will not be disclos ed until a“ nation-wide referendum has been taken to determine vft^tfier the plan meets w|j|h^1fe dlspport of Ameri cans. ’/'his probably will not be until early next month. Fifty thousand dollars is awarded the winner immediately. The rest oi 'the prize goes to him if the country gives the plan its support. Announcement of his $100,000 prise was made by Mr. Bok July 1, 1923 The flood of peace plans immediately began. Conditions of the award were made public July 22. The seven judges were named September 16. On November 15 the contest closed with 22.166 plans from 22 countries before the jury. The day before Christmas Mr. Root indicated the winning plan Mr. Bok’s award, was followed by the action last week of Edward A Filene, Boston merchant, in offering $50,000 for a European competition for the besjt plan for restoring proper ity to the war stricken continent. Mr. Filene frankly credited his action to inspiration received from the Bok award. Fire Drives 125 Into the Snow. Cleveland.—Close to 125 persons, many of them women and children, were driven into snow sovered streets with the thermometer hovering near zero, when fire destroyed a home and damaged/two apartment houses. Six adults and five children driven from their beds by fire resulting from an explosion in a coal furnace, shivered in their night clothing and barefooted in four inches of snow with the thermometer eight degrees below zero while neighbors rescued them from the porch of thei rhome in Woburn avenue. This was the lowest temperature here since 1918, when twelve below zero was registered. Two Burned to Death. Macon, Ga.—One negro was frozen to death, a white girl and a negrees were burned to death while trying to keep warm as a result of the low- tem perature. The mininmum tempera ture was eight degrees above zero, reached at 8 o’clock. Dorothy She, 11-year-old daughter of County Engineer S. R. Shi, died from burns received early in the day when she was hovering too close to an open grate, trying to keep warm. The girl’s father - and her grand mother also were badly burned in try ing to beat out the flames that com pletely enveloped the girl. At Forsyth, Ga., Fannie Jordan. 90 year-old negress, was burned to death when her clothing caught fire from a grate. Woman Lead* Robbera in Hold-Up. New York.—A well-clad young wo man and a man confederate held up the manager and five clerks of a Brooklyn grocery store near closing time and got away with $«80, the da^s receipts. The >. woman, her face partly muf fled In her fur coat, entered the store alone and asked for a box of eggs As the manager turned to fill the or der, a man walked In, pistol in hand. He aimed It at the manager and the woman whipped a pistol from her coat and cohered the five clerks, forcing them'tft hand o''or the money. THREE MEMBERS OF CREW SUCCUMBS TO EXPOSURE. New Orleans.—Three member* of the crew of the towboat Annie, bound from Mobile for New Or leans, with a bhrge, died of ex posure in Lake Borgne while the remaining two including William Harvey, 61, of Mobile, captain of the vessel, and Howard Clement, 25, also of Mobile, are in Charity hospital here in a serious condi tion. The dead are: Charles W. Aikman, 46, and Ous ter K. Huff, 36, New Orleans, and F. E. Dubarry, age unknown, of Demopolis, Ala. MRS. METZEfi IS- RESCUED AND HIS EIGHT %k -‘f' ' CauM of Fire. 'j dll City, Pa,—Nine persona were killed Jin a fire that destroyed & farm house at Tylersburg, near Shippen vllle, Clarion county. - The victims were James Metxer and his eight grandchildren, seven of them - b'elrigchildren of Claude Emminger at ' Ghosts home the tragic fire occurred. ’#he- other victim was Michael Mc Manigleo, 14, who was visiting at the Emminger home. , The flrei was discovered by Mrs, Emminger,’ who had been ill. She was a^akenedt by the furtieS of smoke and groped her way to the stairway, summoning her husband. Emminger Succeeded in rescuing Mrs. Metzer from thp second floor and attempted several times to re turn for the children and their grand father,, hut/each time vMfi ‘ driven back by tie flames and smoke. He was badly burned about the face and bands. Joseph G. MacMillan, 'of Shippen ville, coroner, conducted an investi gation and deckled that an inquest was unnecessary. The high wind accompanying the cold wave was believed to hav.e been the indirect cause of the fire. The Emminger family had been using gas from their own well until recently when they began to burn coal. A soot fire in a defective flue was be lieved to have been fanned to such a heat that it set fire to the house. The ruins were searched after the fire had burned itself out and the charred bones of the. nine victims were placed in a small box and taken to the Tylersburg Methodist church where funeral services were held. Six Persons Killed in Explosion. Franklin, Pa.—Six persons, one of them a woman, were killed in a pre ! mature explosion of nitro-glycerine at ! the “shooting" of an oil well on the farm of John A. Stone, five miles from here. Two others, men near the scene, escaped injury. The dead are. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stone, Herbert Whitman and John Whitman^*broth ers; Eugene H. Nell and Robert Kin ner. Stone who was a son of the owner of the oil lease, and his wife, went to witness the “shooting” of the well. The others were assisting in the op eration. All lived on nearby farms with the exception of Neil, whose i home was in Franklin. Larger Cotton Crop In Sight. New Orleans.—The report by Col. Henry C. Hester, secretary of the New Orleans Cotton exchange, on the movement of the crop for the five months ending December 31, 1923, shows a total of 8,258,325 bales brought into sight as compared with 8,128,248 during the same period last year, 7,107,101 the year before and 6,315,937 in 1920. The movement for December was 1,706,793 bales an increase of 164,000 over the same month last year, 176,955 over the same month last year, 179,955 year before last and 22,043 in 1920. The movement since August 1 shows at all United States ports 4, 840,053 against 4,150,767 last year, 2,141,12* year before last and 3,527, 686 same.* time in 1920; overland across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to northern mills and Canada 530,701 against 828,120 last year, 929.536 year before last and 505,337 same time in 1920. Southern mill takings, exclusive of consumption at southern out ports 2,232,000 against 2,420,000 last year. 2,229,000 year be fore last and 1,584,002 same time in 1920; and inner stock in excess ol those held at the close of the com mercial year 650,571 against 729,361 last year, 307,437 year before last ant! 698.909 same time in 1920. 5,000 RIFLES ARE SOLD 70 MEXICO ALSO FIVE MILLION ROUNDS Of AMMUNITION, AND EIGHT AIR PLANES. **■ *.vf* DELIVERIES NUDE NT ONCE i*.i Policy of Government Merely That af j^ldlng Neighboring Nation to ,^,-4 Maintain Order. Washington.—Sale of 5,000 Enfield rifles with 5,000,000 rounds, of ammu nition for the guns, and height DH-4 surplus airplanes to the Mexican gov ernment was announced % Secretary Weeks. The transaction was completed dur ing the day when word caine by wire to Mexican agents that the govern ment had transferred funds necessary to make one-half of the payment in cash, the balance to be paid within 30 days. The terms Aged by Secre tary Weeks were equivalent to a cash transaction and were accepted by the Mexican government, paving the way for immediate' delivery of the war munitions at the army depot where they are stored. Under the terms' of the sale the war department will turn over the rifles and ammunition at* Fort Sam Houston and Fort' Bliss while the airplanes will be .delivered from the deport at Fairfield, Ohio. The Mex ican government will make its own arrangements for shipment to the border. Orders Were Issued at once j for delivery of the military supplies to designated Mexican agents. Although the statement* issued by Secretary Weeks did not (^lsclose the total amount ef money involved ha the sale, on the basis of• prevailing prices it would appear to be less than 1400,000, as Enfield ‘rifles sell at about 435 each and surplus ammu nition at about $18 ‘ per thousand rounds while the airplanes’ would be valued at about $12,000 each. While there were no developments in connection with opposition in Con gress. to the sale of arms to Mexico, an authorized statement of the admin istration attitude became available at the white house which made it plain that the purpose of the Wash ington government "in the" present transaction was wholly one of aiding a neighbor state in! the maintainance of order and governmental stability within its own borders. Reduced Amount Public Debt. Washington.—The treasury accom plished a net reduction of almost $400,000,000 in the public debt in 1923, according to official figures made pub lic. Oustanding obligations of the na tion totalled $21,589,160,346 whrfn the books were closed. ( Treasury officials expressed satis faction that the mass of obligations, the bulk of which were incurred dur ing the World War, now were In “manageable shape” and said the re funding operations of the last two years had left the treasury In a posi tion to care for all maturities of the future without impairment of the pro gram for gradual retirement of the debt. Success of the retirement pro gram, however, they added, depended upon the continuation of the policy of economy. Government to Abandon Caewell. ■Wilmington.—That it is, the inten tion of the government to completely abandon Port Caswell, at the mouth of the Cape Fe*r river, is borne out by the fact that within the past few days there has been shipped from the coast defense two harge loads of guns and projectiles which were, transport ed to Charleston, S. C. Although it cannot be positively learned, it is un derstood the ordnance material now being shipped from Fort Caswell la destined for Fort Bragg, at Fayette I vllle. ' -* May Buy Ships From Shipping Board. Washington. — President Coolidge has requested Director Lord of the budget bureau to confer with ship ping board and navay department of ficials with a view to purchase of ves sels under-control of those two agen cies for use In combatting rum smug glers off the American coast. Such purchase of ships for use by the coast guard, if possible, would, in the opinion of the President, be more ■ economical than the building of new ! boats at a cost of from 10 to 15 mil lion dollars such as was recommended ! recently in the executive's budget mes sage to Congress. The parchaee also would malce the vessels available j more quickly than they would be 11 I thev had to be constructed FURNITURE CU. TU REBUILD W,ork of Cleaning Away ^Debris From Recent Distarious Mebane Fire to Start At Once. Mebane.—The work of clearing away the debris of the Are which de stroyed the building of the White .Furniture company on December 21, will begin at once, preparatory to the erection of one of the most modern furniture factories in the south Arch itects are now busy drawing plana and bids received form conractors for the eretcion of this modern plant. According to Mr. W. E. White, presi dent of the White Furniture company, the building will be in such shape and machinery installed that they will be shipping their finished product by June 1, this year and the heir build ing will be considerably larger which is necessary to take care of their in creased business. More workmen will be employed when this factory is finished than ever before, according to Mr. White, and all the Old employes who were thrown out of work that desire are now given employment. Severe! car loads of machinery which was burn ed has been purchased by junk deal ers who will move it as early as pos sible. The Whtie Furniture company, as a token of their appreciation to the Durham, Burlington, Graham and Me bane fire departments, presented each with a check ranging from $300 down to $100, together with a letter of ap preciation. ^ ' . i Plan Largest Overall Factory. Greensboro.—Flans. for expansion of the Blup. Bell Overall Company here make It the largest exclusive overall manufacturing contain In the world. An addition to a building will be erected, work to start soon, .which wil ltake care of the expansionist the - company. * ' * C. C. Hudson, president of the con cern, has sold realty, which he has held individually, to the ocncera and a charter for the Blue Bell Overall Company, Inc., has been applied for. The capital stock will be $375,000, all paid in. Incorporators are C. C. Hud son, president; Mrs. Daisy Hudson, vice-president, and Miss Pearl Bow man, secretary. Chatham Woman Fatally Burned. Burlington.—Mrs. G. G. Thomas, wife of the late George G. Thomas, 10 miles south of Siler City, Chatham county, was accidentally burned to death while sitting with her back to 'the open fire place at the home of her brother, Mr. Ernest Dowd, where she was spending the day and assisting in quilting a quilt placed in front of the fire place. It is thought the sash,of the dress wore by Mrs. Thomas first caught, the flames rapidly : preading to her other clothing and the unfinish ed quilt. Mrs. Thomas ran out into the yard and as the wind fanned the flames she was fatally burned before help could come to her. Burlington Reports Small Fire Lou. Burlington.—Burlington’s fire loss for 1923 amounted to $82,850 accord ing to records of the fire department, although $60,000 of this amount went up in the fire of the Thompson-Sexton * Manufacturing Company, outside thw corporate limits, with water connec tions unavailable. This must be counted in the city's losses. Leaving out this fire the loss is $22,850 as compared with $25,280 for the year 1922, a reduction of $2,430. This small loss for a town of this size speaks well for the fire company and the care of the citizens. Let Contracts For Reformatory. The contract was let Friday by the trustees for the first group of build ings of the Morrison Training School, the negro reformatory for boys to be erelcted by the state. The Pickler L*mpley Co., of Aberdeen, was the lowest of four bidders for the general contract while the Raleigh Iron Works will put in the heating, the cost in cluding the heating to be $26,000. Llnthicum and Linthicum, of Raleigh, are the architects. A tractor has been purchased and the 400 acre site near Rockingham is being cleared under the direction of the •business manager, J. S. Bras well, termer chief of poice of Hamlet. A committee composed of Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, Commissioner of Public Welfare, and J. J. Blair, who super vises plans for school buildings in the state, will go to Richmond county with the architects to decide where the first buildings are to be placed. New Waterworks Few Laurinburg. Laurinburg.—The total cost of L*ur inburg's new waterworks system. In cluding pumping station at the creek, 3 3-4 miles of 12-inch cast iron piping, filtering plant, 500,000 gallon reser vior, auxiliary station, etc., will ba $145,661.84. This is the total of the several items included in the program. 4
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