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THE DUNN Volume VII. i Dunn, North Carolina, JARVIS RED CROSS HELPS STARVING OF OTHER NATIONS Will Contribute Large Sura For The Relief Of Destitute Reserve For Local Expenses Action Taken at Request of Manager of Southern Divis ion of Organisation And Is Sanctioned Bjr National Headquarters—Letter From McMillian. Jarvis Chapter of the American Red Cross aril) make a large eontrl button to ths fund being raised for the relief of the starving people of i China, central Europe and other ■ countries of the world. Practically all of the chapter’s funds except these actually needed for local purpose* arill he given to the refief associa tion, It was announced yesturduy l> 1 Georgs K. Grantham, of the local chapter. This action follows the request of J. L. McMUlion, manager of the Southern division of the Red Cross made in a letter to Ur. Grantham a few days ago. Tho letter reads: Aa you no doubt arc aware the American Red Crons has joined for ces with seven other organisations. American Friend's Service Commit- < tee, American Relief Adasinixtrar on, F.daee I f'lsaaneil tines ('VuiPtSms rtf Christ la America, Jewish 'Joint Die- , tribotion Committee, Knights at Co lombo*, Y. M. C. A. anil (be Y. W. C. A., to face the task of feeding and caring for *,500,000 children in Ccn rial and Eastern Europe, who will ‘ starve this winter unleos they receive [ American aid. Appropriate* **000,000 The American Red Cross, that is,1 the central organization in Washing- i ton. has appropriated *5,000,000 or I half of its total reserve fund to thl.i run Thee* who are familiar with 1 condition I in Europe are so Impress 1 sd with the unprecedented need that practically all of the European ecu- : vitics of the American Red Cross have been turned toward this problem which, of couns, includes the pnib lam of the medical care of tfei-ee children. Of the total sum of the 1*3,- 1 000,000, the American Red Cross hat tits naked to administer $10,000,000 there is a surplus over and above the uspnnalsntlw of the chapter of its btil kamssiunity. While all of the Rod CrcM chapter* recognise that the ' .iut* of the chapter la to the | in whldr it U located, in; such a* this considers* ! had of the obligation upon the Red Cross Chap- j and American individuals to do 1 _that they can to prevent the on-' alterable tragedy of the death of thaaa children through starvation and neglect Aetiee is Approved We beilove that you will agree that if you have such funds in your t re us ury it would be highly proper and fitting that your lurplu, over and above the ntadi of your chaptST for the currrnt year, and a reasonable fund for tmsrgencios and disaster re lief, should be appropriated to this cauee. Such action he* the ap proval of Division and National Head Eleven Persons Bum To Death in Hoboken Tin. Other. Badly Burovd Wlwn the Hotel Colonial Wo. Daatroyed ; By Five Early Sunday Hoboken, K. J., Jan. 30.—Eleven persona were burned .to death early today In a fire which destroyed the Hotel Colonial hare. Four others were badly burned and taken to a hospital where It was reported tonight that thay probably would not recover. A stream of person# was at the morgues today trying to Identify ths bodies of the victims. They met with Only partial saceeaa, however, al though police sold Jewelry and otbar articles an the charred bodies would probably loud to discovery by rsla Uvm of all those burned. The register waa burned to a crisp and there waa no means of learning the names of the victims until they ars identified by friends., One woman in the hospital had not beau identified tonight, but the two men thvrs wero found to be Joeia Rider, of Jersey City, and Richard Dterkaen, a dishwasher, who lived at the hotel. Dierksvn It was said at the hospital, had lom his reason. transders or real estate Hi# following trmnafera of real aa Ute hava been reeordcd in iho olSeo of Raglfter af Pood* Kaueette daring the part week. J. N. Creel to Mayme A. HarrU, lot In Dnno. $10 and other. Clinton McNeill to Oreen Johaaon, lot hi Neilla Crcok. $100. H. L. Godwin to H. W. Prince. It him In Aeoraaboro, l»,»00. T. H. Gardner te d. H. Hoekaday SO acre* In Blark Rlvir, $1,000 Oct. McNeill to M. 0. Thome., 11 acre* in Upper Little RW«r, $*1$.#0 C. H. Upchurch to W. H. and P K. Stewart. 8 tract* about 8 acre* li Upper LKtJe River, $!,«O0. Loey A. Be phene to Marvin Tro love. 1ST acre* hi Boohhorn town **1'. V.*8trirarVto W. L. Sutton, lo toma.ivrv«.u u w 1S.S8 aeroa In Orova tewaehlp. fo I1.MI. i. B SAMPSON CHALLENGES B V STATE IN BIG PORKERS * B Clinton, Jan. 30.—Again H B Sampson challenge* the State B B to beat ita big hog. Mr. Chat. B B R. Beatnan i* the champion. B B Year after year, for sovrral B B years, ho haaVilladLa monster B B porker, but that af this year B B probably beats hia bast roe- B B ord, as wall as set one for the B B whole State. The monster B B porker, killed this week, net- B B netted 1,148 pounds, and this B B did not include the liver and B B other loose parts, as is the B B tie* in weighing tons big B B hogs. Several others weighing B B over 700 have been killed in B B the county, the ncxl\ lrageet B B being an 846 pounder, which B B belonged to Mr. Alvin Royall. B B Mr. L. T. Alderman reports B B the slaughter of a 720 pound- B B er by hie brother. Hr. D. B. B B Alderman. Sampson ha* plea- B B ty of hog and hominy to sap- B B pljr the co usttjr needs. B RIDDICK’S FRIENDS COME TO SUPPORT W. Cold, Socrwtnry of Board of Trust©**, Ha* Hoard at No Patitioa to Rnnort State College alumni, friends of 3r. W. C. Riddick and his adminia ration of th* affair* of the cottage :ame stoutly 10 his support yesterday 'ollowlng news stories in the Nows ind Observer and other State paper* a the effect that a moeaeneat ia an 'oat among the students and others o retire Dr. Riddick and prevail upon lieutenant Governor U. Joax Gajdner u accept the presidency. Lieutenant Governor Gardner has >1 ready slated that ha replied to oear ures made to kum with respect to tha iIBce with an emphatic no. C. W. sold, of Graenshoru, secretary of Chs loard and member of the executive lommitlee, declared by long distanca s-kpbon* yesterday afternoon that 10 petition for the removal of Presi laot Riddick waa praaentad at the 'cccnt meeting of the beard of trua ces in Raleigh, or even hinted at. H that maatuig, Thursday, whea tha ivard considered the naiads of th* nxtitution for tha next yaar aad pre isred a budget for presentatioe to b* legislature there was not avaa in intimation of disaffsetion. Ur. Gold slated that ha had ‘bean Mxrbardad with talepboa* calls eon ‘cmtng tha ate Iter all day aad ah rd to find any source for the reports, tie waa inclined to characterise tha sports as "fabrications out of tha wnote doth.” It was stated last night by one who a in close touch with student activi uea nl the State Collage that po rtions for the removal of Dr. Riddick ind the appointment of Lieutenant Jovernor Guidncr, at least os* of which was ia evidence at th* Yarbor J ugh hotel Saturday night, were in fact a collcctiua of signatures signed JO * petition involving student griav inrss Ium> vaari ■ irn ■ —... ■ . I Oppose Increase In Telephone Rates ’ BailaMa Man Stad Delagadoa Ta , RaMfk MmUdi—Aaatkar la Roads Hsarinf ~““ Armtd with resolutions condemn- , iag tbc effort of telephone companies ] to increase rates in North Carolina, t committee appointed last night by the Chamber ol Commerce end bead ed by Mayor Lloyd Wade Ols morn- , me went to Baltigb to join force* with tbc state committee whose mem ber* will hold a preliminary meeting preparatory to opening the big Made in tbc matter that is to be beard be feiw the State Corporation Commis sion tomorrow. Tbs chamber is inslteTsbly opposed to tbs granting of increased rates for any public scrvica at this time when tbc price of everything North Carolina produces has hit the tobog gan, according to Ellis Goldstein, president of the organisation. Another committee of twenty-five members, beaded by Marion C. But ler, chief of the good roads bureau of the chamber, was appointed by tbc body to appear with other good roads enthusiasts before the joint sua sion of Senate and House eommitteoe considering the bit! through which the State may take over the building and maintenance of the main high way* of Mona Carolina, ran com mittee will champion the cause of them who have declared for hard eurfaeed road* aad the »&C,0#0,000 bond ieeme. Chairman of the permanent com mitteej of the chamber were alee ap pointed laet night. They are: B. L. Godwin, civic; V. L. Stephens, indus trial; Marvin Wade, commercial; J. W. Purdi*. transports ties; J. W. Draughon, agricultural; M. C. But ler, roadi; Dr. J. B. Butler, public health: J. Lloyd Wade, pablte ntllt tlre; A. L. Newberry, onmaiution; MeD. Holliday, pnblkity; Ellis Gold stein, executive. R. L. Wilson, E. P. Davie, Nathan Johneen and G. M. Tilghenaa were named ether members of the committee. FIFTY MILLION POUNDS TOBACCO WILL BE SOLD Wlaiton-Salem, Jan. IS.—Local warehousemen are new predicting that the market aril! cell ever fifty million pound* ef tobeeee this season. Today’* report thews that 4S.9SO.OO* t pounds have already keen Mid at ac average ef til per hundred. Meet , then two and a quarter mitliee r pennde were sold this week deapite in dement weather. » Chr-'— ^ Asks Pull Chamber of Commerce la Its effort to place road ceastroctioo and main tenance in the hands of the State government and to its bill now before the legislature authorising the state to issue $50,000,090 Is bonds to de fray tho cost of such construction and maintenance. Resolutions to this effect were a dopted in a recent meeting of the Chamber. The resolutions read: WHEREAS, Adequate systems of State and county highways era ab solutely necessary to tho agricuRural and commercial development of our Ruts and of the several counties; and WHEREAS, the entire cost of con structing and maintaining all the main highways, as well as tin secon dary county roads, U too grsat a bur den for the individual county and is, Iheforc, being greatly neglected at the promnt time by the counties; THEREFORE, B* it resolved, that The Dunn Chamber of Commerce of Dun. Harnett county. North Caro lina. individually sad collectively, en dorse the program of the North Caro line Good Roads Association for a State system of highways and urgent ly ask our representative and sena tors in the General Assembly of 1921 te support sod aggressively work for tho bill providing for the State's tak ing over the construction, maintain ance, and protection of the main highways constituting the proposed State highway. OFFICER KILLED BY EX-SOUHER Another Deputy Wounded end Former Camp Brace Man Perhaps Fatally Hurt Fayetteville, Jan- IS.—Deputy Sheriff M N. Bine wad (hot and kill ed hy TIimbu R. Clayton of Now York, formerly a soldier at Camp Bragg. Clayton waa perhaps fatally wouadod by Bias, and Deputy W. O. Patrick was shot through the thigh hero early this afternoon whoa the officers attempted to arrest the ex soldier, on a warrant sworn out by A. A. Lindsey, into whoa# boast Clay ton la mid to ha vs to the attentions 1 warrant charging i ly weapon was aworn ing by Lindsay, who pointed out the farmer soldier to the officers Just as CRytoa wsj leaving hia daughter at the corner of Burgess and Ola streets. While Deputy Blue was reading the war rent Clayton drew aa automatic pistol from his coat pocket and start ed shooting. Bluo foil shot twice through the stomach hut raised him self on hia dhow and shot Clayton through tha lung after the desperate man had wounded Deputy Patrick. The latter officer's life was nrohablv md by Blue's courageous action. 1 til three men were carried to the Tumberland General Hospital nearby rhera Bine died this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Clayton Is seriously wounded and t is thought that bo may die. Lindsey declared today that he had oceatly received a threatening letter 'rnm Clayton after patting a stop to orroepondeoce between the man and Us daughter. The en-soldter Wednesday night re urn cd to Fayottaville from New fork, where he had been working as i lineman sines his discharge from ho army. He went to Lindsey's hones in Hayraoont last night and on bo ng refased entrance by the girl's fa ther, drew a pistol and thrsatoned Lindsey's life. Clayton was stationed at Bragg for shout a year after the return of his regiment from overseas. He had a bad record bora. FISHERIES PRODUCTS CO. STARTS ITS BUSINESS People in this section who sub scribed to slock in tbs Fisheries Pro ducts Co., of Wilmington will bo interested in reading Uts following, taken from the Wilmington Dispatch of Tuesday, January tSlh: Last August the Fisheries Prod nets Co. of thio city booght the Hil ton Compress property from W. B. Cooper, and nt once started work to convert it into a modern fertiliser plant. |IMinV I* IUCRIIJ IVVRVCQ WU UH Cape Fear R tvcr, with a depth of 27 feet of water, to that thair boate loaded with raw Material can cone up the river and unload at the fac tory. Oa either aide of the factory ia a railroad track, one cf the Sea board and the other the Atlantic Cooat Una, each with a capacity af 20 care, to that the fertiliser can be merhanlcally loaded oat of the fac tory U either railroad or both at once, firing a loading capacity of 40 cure at one that the heavlcat capacity of oay fertiliser pleat la this section, it ia said. The factory Is equipped with Bu rkina ry which expresses the laet word in fertiliser manufacturing. Electric Motors art need througheot The Flaberies Products Co., at their own expense, pat a cable under the Capr Feeo' river, countering their plant with the plant ef the Tidewater Pew er Co., from which they draw theh current This arrangement eared tin expenditure of oa enormoue ram ol money for producing power, and ha therefore eat down overhead expend to the minimum, enabling the piaa to operate entirely by electricity, fo loading and unload re, aa wall a manufacturing, and this now plan • ta kM to bo tha boat aqulppad to tba Mtttiy. Tha factory baa atartad with a •mall, forea af $0 man. Thia foroa ' will gradually ba lacrtaaad, oatU > within a abort tlma, It la oneetad 400 k man w01 ba ampUyad. » taNINDUfelES* f tm RESK FULL MONTH Uiwberry Brotffi.nd Cowell I To V-rt Wjolino. %o \Open»BMarch 1 Botaira Mon H^BOptimUtic And CoofidtflL Normalcy U Duo To ^iIiij Hero All Dana manufaNEriug enterpria " will h»»o rcnimcMpl tJ»« opera tion* by the end ^fthi* month It w»* indicate^ todaj®bjr iaduatrial men who are prepo^b to call their icattcred oper*l!«>iKk La the ra rioaa mill*. y ! Newberry Brea. ^fcowell, furni ture manufacturer* Wpioylng about 100 akilled men, w^Snsumt opera tion* next Munday^boming when the pilot wilt begin Si aaanufacture of cfeacially dejign^Bjedroora auita for which large onldAuvo juet been received. Tbla plantK* been cioaad aiae* laat October, The Seminole Hmkih Cam piny s fertiliser l al mouth*, will begi giving employment Tfci. plant'* capeci led since laat year equipment is goUm ning order an add be employed. The General L’til ufactors >* of I this week, and the tho Turaagn-Jones lumber man their output I .umber Cam bar will be r to 100 men M. Tilgfamar Ibis enterprl Arkan.ua, wi to begin CT: lion. The Dana Knitting Mills oa a half tint an n fall tin next fear days ploying bo erativse, l* of tba mom tity of machinery hers. Other indualrie* about town that have been working on curtailed sche dules arc preparing to make thing* hum In tho near future. Everywhere among business nen there U notice able a greater spirit of optimism and confidence and it ia not doubted that “normalcy'' will reach the communi ty before the comistg ef Spring. Resumption of n full working sche dule at tho Erwin mills In Duke is aiding the buaincm district consider koiy. Don’t Take A Mule In Payment of Bill >«D. Holliday Has Expensive Experi SSM Threefk Cast smart Heessty It Isn’t often that a asrrhani sal lent through tbs honertj of caxtom -rs, bat that the soineUmcs do was shown by McD. Holliday’s experience n at least one instance this year. Mack ha* a little old lady cos to st ir whoso fortune* wort wrecked by .he catastrophe which befall so assay larmt-rs last ysar. She teas a tenant and her landlord appropriated every thing she had except a male whose running order was about equal to that of a "Shev-ro-let” la its sixth tee sen. She owod Mack a bill and the! mule wa sthe only thing she had with which to meet the obligation, so down lo the store the stale was driven. Mack didn’t want the animal; ha was perfectly willing that the good woman let her account run until an other harvest was due. But she had promised to par that account, sad pay it the untold. There eras nothing left for Mack to do but take that mole. Mike, the ebony factotum who la ^sle* O- Ike U ell led.. eeioaia eSeklaa imd harbor to the Holliday residence J lawn, took chore* of the mala that I afternoon and far* him free rang* i around the place. Tha first afternoon 1 ha gnawrd all the bricks from two i pillar* under th*'Holliday horn*. On succeeding day* ha aaanagod to 41- : g**t the bark from moat of Mock's pot ahados trees, ben d«t making a dewert from the contents of oa* doth** lino in th* hoak yard. On th* third dey Mike caught him In th* set of chewing th* h«t*s from th* family ax*. Than ha locked him In a box ■tall, where, be ridel taking on a do*. «n tan of corn and six bandies of fodder each day, k* dovoored two handred fsot of Ik* stall* timbers. All thing* com* to on and, howev er: the mol* was Mid at a net ion lad Saturday and bronght 91S.S0. Ray Cromartl* and f rod Baggett ar* frill koay trying to Aggro bow much the Bara a i A Holliday Company owe* It* president far th* muio’i mamtenaaos, over and abort the pole* ho bronght. Moral—for tim merchants: If your tenant farmer caatomer can’t pay yoa, lot him keep kit mol*. Five Negroes Arrested On Charge of Stealing Lwft.Quatitj of Kntlmt Am Army Stars. Stole* Frm »»mg Fayetteville, Jan. 28.—MaWin Ba, her, Uu fifth negro anWted in eon noction with the theft af a largi quantity of army pistoU and ammu nitio» from a box ear here, wai brought bttk1 to tbla city Sutured) from Savannah, G«v by two United Statoa deputy marshal#. Baker wae taken late custody in the Georgia city Friday and brought direct to Fayetteville A hearing will probably be gfvaa Baker and the four other negroes under arrest Monday morn ing before United 8tates Commission er W. 8. Cook. The first of the arrests were made bv Atlantic Coast Line Detective J. H. Beaton when ha secreted himself under n freight ear ot. the A. C. L. yards here to watch for a negro who had lost jumped from the ear, and found two othar negro** hiding there. Polio* Oflteora McQotga and Camp bell lha following day picked up elixa that led to the discovery of one of the biggest hauls in local police an nals. A wide variety of goods stolon from freight cars, Including 75 celt army pistols, arts found hidden in an unused servants' house on the prem ises of Mrs. W. L Holt on Haymount whsre they had been secretly stored. The other articles included shoes, men’s clothing and women’ wearing aaparcl. Th* army pistole found in tke house were consigned to the Fifth Field Artillery at Camp Bragg. The pistols aloac were worth two or thro* thousand dollars. A quantity of am munition was also found. Each of the negroes arrested carried one of the revolvers, it Is nllogod. BROTHERHOODS TO FIGHT REDUCTIONS "Will Not Peacefully SmbmxH” To PropoMtb o# Raifarwado, Soy Oftmri ClmtUnd, O., Jon. 29.—Hoods of three hi* railroad brotherhood* tn formal (tauaenU her* tonight aaid Um railroad mao of the country “will not peacefully submit" to tho wage reductions, which Ohjcag^ dispatches my tho will task from tho Board y Conductors, | n in formal state A similar declaration was mads by Warren & Stone, grand chief of tho Brotherhood of Locomo tive Engineers. All of the brutherinod represents trees declare that reports of decreas es in the cost of living arc not borne out by actual conditions, but nro the result of propegands, that the wages of railway ten ploys* did not increase as rapidly os did the cost of living nr an mitrh motel thet wathmaw man wPa lot now receiving u high a standard rt wagaa as ara paid in many other industries. Hr. Us asserted that, in his opin ion, “some, if not the greater portion of th ebusiness depression hat boon brought about solely for the purpose of influencing the public in the inter est of a reduction in wakes general ly.” Mr. Carter declared that “not with standing ail the wage increases made cither by the railroad administration or the labor board, it can be shown that because of the grant ineraaae in the efficiency of railroad employes there has bean no practical increase In wag* costs compared with prod uct.” Mr. Sheppard asserted that “to ad mit that In this country af eun it is neerssary to make an onslaught an labor at this time, after all the coun try haa dona to rthv railroads, is ab solutely un-American.” LISTEN LESTER COMING TO FAYETTEVILLE The musk af "Listen Lester” which comas to tba La Fayette theatre, Fay etteville. February Ills baa become nationally known. Its songs have bean published and played in hotels and restaurants from coast to coast; ana phonograph company has cxclustva ritfhti to mnnV ftf ltd ■)#!ml. but he (mall tor whom verdict abutted py hi* whinu* foracaate tha ncccn if tha aonga of n mutieal comedy, onir ago proclaimed a victory for thr pong* of '‘Liaton Leater." 'Two i« Company” ia a captivating «ng by Mary Dodge and Jack Orif ’on, bar awovthaart, and into which William Penn, Jr., the hotel dork ntrndea mock to tha diaplaaser* of Dm other*. **A Very Cood Baby In iha Daytime, bat a Bad Bad Baby at Bight” la a childlike coafeaaion from me Arbutua Qnilty, tha pretty vft latneae who cornea to Florida to track her former an Hot “l‘d Love to” la a a other aong eung by Arbutoa Qnil ty, who la aeeompanlad by the hotel elcrlt who agree* with her artthant rveorve. ‘‘See Her Fiiii" la a hit of rage advice gtven by eaid doth who in Ike year* ament at a bathing beach ha* heeoaee "wiaa" to tho iltuiioni eart hy layer* of garment*. Ha would pam a law advocating bathing autU for women a* a national uniform. Altogotkar "l.Uten letter," whirl ia mndcr the management of Johi Coil aad tho work of Harry L. Cort Georg* 1. Stoddard, and Harold Or lob. La a vibrant collection of daneo woman, aad aong which wUJ long b( cberiahed. Plant a pormaaoat paaturo ho don't export it to trow on wont out aonr worthlem land. Soa yoor count farm aguwL r***. ¥ TMI TIMS TO BUT M ¥ ¥ ¥ I ¥ WOW ¥ Grmroaboro Daily Mm ¥ ¥ Hit. you tnr Im flit ¥ ¥ Do you nawbir how me* ¥ ¥ plcaeoro th.ro wai la brikiac ¥ ¥ about your lickaoas law «7- ¥ * Uryao wort recovurodT ¥ ¥ That l* what U wrong whh ¥ ¥ huoinoao today. It'* been rick. ¥ ¥ A ocTcro caoc of iadigoetion ¥ ¥ foiiowod a heavy thro# year ¥ ¥ feasting. A gnat inflation ¥ ¥ can. on tap of tha rich food ¥ ¥ we've had theee recant times. ¥ ¥ But, today, that defUriea ¥ ¥ U ended. It'e no longer a com ¥ ¥ for tho doctor. It'e bow time ¥ ¥ for sanehiac aad cheer. ¥ ¥ It W the right timo for the ¥ ¥ patient to forget ho wao id— ¥ ¥ to stop talking about tha op- ¥ ¥ oration—to get hack to haoi- ¥ ¥ naea with "fall opood ahead." ¥ ¥ It'e time to bay now. ¥ ¥ « WILSON PREPARES FOR WRITING BOOK Washington, Jam »«.— President Wilson U having collected aad ar raaged hr ready reference eO pap ers and documents tn his pesesssien relating to the work of the Peris peats conference with a view to the preparation ef a beak on tha peace nefwtlilfMU. The President la making these pre parations, it was learned today, has accepted the volants* rod services ef Bag Sian nerd Baker, who wa aUaeh mf to Use American peace eoenmisnen. Mr. Baker daring this peel two weeks am spent MTwnl hours rurh day at the Whit. House patting Into shape ta svs liable data oa the peace eoa mrcnces in the PreaidentV possets •While It is net believed that the t contemplates beginning the work of writing or dictating reposed hook, daring the few suing weeks ef hia testa of of it is aadcretood that ho has in the hsginnlag of work upon it r after his retirement to pri vatc'life. It Is known that Mr. Baker has only undertakes the task of ar rahginR the material aad that hie da ties do not include in aay way the literary workmanship. Prlemds of tha Fraaldeat ate ua> of each _ _ took place in Paris during the penes negotiations They have pointed out that ooe who played such a major idle at he and whom decisions later became the subject ef such violent controversy both in the United States and abroad could not afford to lot* the opportunity of setting before the world the motives behind As many disputed decisions, as Involve Shan tung, Flume, Dansig. the Anglo Franco-Americen alliance aad the D_:_s.s^s. Washington’s Boquest Multiplies 62 Times Father of Country Left *40,000 Fori Ceaiervelery of Mwale—Nee Aaeewata to *1*00,000 Denver, Jan. 2t.—When George Washington died, la 170S, It wee found that tho “Father of Hla Colla tor" left *40,000 for tho purpose of founding a national conservatory of music. This money has been held In trust for 111 years, drawing com pound interest. Forgotten by all save; a little circle of mnstclans, the prin-| cipal has mounted to something like 1 *1.500,000, nntouched for more than ISO yean. It was left for a Denver woman. Mrs. Fioamey Rivera, a leerher in tbe Woleett Conservatory of Made, to start tbe ball rolling toward utills ing this fund for the purpose it was intended. I I.ast week Mrs. Rivera, In company with Waller Daarooch and Eugene Ysaye, interviewed Presidsnt-Elrcl Harding on tho subject and Mrs. Harding has promised to put the pro ject through. According to Mr*. Rhrers, the main Institution will bo located in Wash ington. with various sab institutes throughout the country. The diploma* of graduation will be | lamed from Washington. < The main iontitota will provido for instruction in each of the (Inc art*— i mu*ic, palating and drama. Mr*. Rtvere laid today that the < thoaght of gaining Mr. Harding'* help 1 through e dream. i “Of course, I waa acquainted with ‘ the facte of the fand willed to mu*ic ! by the ‘Father of Our Country* to be gin With.” Mr*. Rivera *atd. "But a i ifew week* after Mr. Ilardlng** elec tion, I discovered that I *»* inter viewing the Protident-elect an the auhject of eatahVehing a national conservatory I wrote’ Mr. Harding, telling him that it aeernnd that ISO rear* wa* about long enough to wail for George Washington’* with** to I be carried out. "Mr. Harding replied, saying he waa a waved te lean of thl* fund. He invited me t* confer with him.” In company with Walter Damreach. ef New Yenr, and the violin tit. Y any*. Mra River* mad* the trip ta Merle*. Ohio, a few day* ago and met the President elect. "We conferred with him far about ; an hour,” Mm Riven said, "pointing| lout that Inaiuaach a* citohllehmeat1 I of the ceaaervatory was provided far • In thl* ipeeinl fand. It («ukl net ia .'terfere with the Republican policy of r retrenchment. He promleed hie sup* "We bar* aaade arranyrmanta with Senator Borah, of Idaho, to mtradaoe the htll at the next row! on of Con rreu "All of the Koropaan coontrloa. Fiance Italy. Utnuar and or on Bolehevirt korete. hava like rally pra motcd Ana orta. bat America haa eel doea appropr.at.ad a dollar for anah “^?a* aaad a rain into* of fine arta in the cabinet. Mr. Hardin* admit ted the need af inch aa oktcial. hot war of the opinion that If a mlatmer of odocatlon were appointed on the Cabinet, ha wenld be able to handle mature at ait.” ' i OUTLINE TERMS TO GERMANY IN NOTE ! m > Cwmm WuMd Tbmt Fartlear D«fay. Not Likely To Ba Tai «r«tods Forty O— A—Mti I To Twelve Par CatW iur Pari*. Jam. »0.—The_ ■irned by the supreme council of the alliee last eight by which the rcpoca tleas end dlanuam decision* of the el lit* will be conveyed to Cer »»*ny, wa*- delivered today to Ohaa. Bugowaa. Gemma under secretary of state for the treasury snd heed of the German delegation in Paris, with a letter of tmnsmHUl marked •‘con fidential.” The tetter with taro notes on reparations acd disarmament, to tals *,600 words ”1—As regards the il Iso rma meat of Germany, the allied governments have approved the conclusion fome nted in the net* attached hereto. “*—As regards the question of re parations the allied governments have unanimously approved the proposals formulated in that document, also at leekaJ t — r ^ The allied government* have am former occaaioaa end again today la eeaeeatiag to fruh delay* la the amt l«» of dimnaament, had duo regard to tha difficult!** that eurrooad the Gorman government in tho of tha obligation* which have r -palt •d from the treaty of Vcnaflle*. They have formed the hope that tha Gar maa government wfll not place tha alliee, who eanflrmi their ywiem deciaioae, under the neoeoaity of am* riaagiag the grave htuahoa which wfll be created if Germany permieta ha ‘ failing to amet her obligation* ‘‘Qualified delegatee of the f1— man government will bo * yeoeUag in London at February with ‘ tetemaeeU" T< Tha n Ue -i than, -ho ii of any treaty, pa. 1—Fixed vearty in oqaal Two annuiUot of 1. mark* from May 1, 1 IMS; (b) three annaitica at . 000,0DO gold mark* from Slay 1, 1 to May I. IMS; (c) three aanu of 4,000,000,000 gold mark* from Mav I. 1929: <d) three annuitize of 1,000,000,000 gold mark* from ago? I. 19*9, to May 1, 192a; (e) tfciftr >n« annuitic* of 8,000.000,000 gold mark* from May 1, 1932 to May t, IMS. "2—Forty-one annaitlaa running From May 1, 1921. equal ia amount to 12 per cent ad volorem of Gorman export*. payable in gold two month* after the clone of each half yaar. Farmers Pledge Cotton Reduction Foot Cowntio* In maiding Dana May Curtail Freduottoa 40,000 Balm Ceunliee Included In aad *aground ing the Dunn Dirtvict will reduce their cotton production by approxi mately 40.000 hale* la 1921. if tba farmer* Hr* up to the pledge* tignod yesterday In Ull'mjrton, Sanithfleld. Clinlon and Fayetteville. Still airffering from the blow de livered by king cotton )a*t year far mers of the four counties gathered in the county *rnt* and gladly pledg ed tho one-third redoctinrr- tcqacated by tho American Cotton Grower* Af fectation. In LHlIntgon. where the farmsr* were led by Robert L. God win, chairman of the llornrtt branch of tho amoeiation. there wai not a eduction »u oat to the vote of near t 1 DO of the leading cotton grow era f the county. La at year, according to tho I a teat ■innera repo it Jurt lined bp th« eon* m bnrean, thr foar counties produ H 12*.Id* bale* of cotton against 21,43* bales for tbo year lftl*. Of he 1*20 total Jobaatoa ginned 4#*» 74 bales. Harnett 27,4*0, Rampeon 14,032 and Cumberland 20.906. Canvaaaera have been appointed tn he tewnah-'pa of the varloai eoantiea o get the pledgee of tkeec growers ebo did not attend the meetings. "Oat a good brood sow—toko am >f htr"—this la the way to uae ocraa eh era cottoa and tebuceo are eat nna*
The Dunn Dispatch (Dunn, N.C.)
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Feb. 1, 1921, edition 1
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