THE DUN* Volume VIII. Dunn, North Can CHATTANOOGA WINS NEXT CONVENTION OF ROAD BOOSTERS National Good Road* Associa tion Petitions Congress For Federal Aid GOVERNOR BROUGH TO BE NAMED PRESIDENT i Continuous Flow of Good Roads Oratory Features Greensboro Meeting; Con gress Requested To Devote Allied War Debt To Build ing of Improved Highways. Greensboro, April 20.—Adoption of resolutions petitioning Congress to continue.the present Nation-State co operative system of Federal Aid In road building and to appropr:ats> >100,000,000 annually for five years; together with the -election of Chat tanooga as the next place to hold the meeting and n continuous jow of good roads orstoiy featured the thitd day of the Joint good roads conven tion here. Election of ofleen for the United' Stats* Good Roads association will occur tomorrow. Former Governor Biekett wired that he would be unable to deliver the address scheduled on account of the press of busiaoa. Senator Town-cod, scheduled for an address, wired that he was delayed, but would be on hand Thuredav. Brough Slated For President Speeches by A. G. Batchelor, of Washington; Col. G. A. Nelson, of Alabama, sod Ool. Joseph Hyde Pratt, of tha University of North Carolina, together with a musical program ren dered under the direction of Mist Alias Bivins, of tha North Carolina Collage for Women, were features of this morning's meeting. This afternoon tha meeting was in charge of tha engineers attending the convention and their dieenasiens re lated to problems facing those en gaged In tha practical end of highway construction.. It la generally thought that Gover nor Cbas. H. Brough, of Arkansas, will bo unanimously rw-electod presi dent of the association and that J. A. Bounties will succeed himself as sec retary and director general. resolutions was the first th* mom- f ing activities. Col. Benehin Cameron,1 chairman of the committee, submitted tha report which was reed by J. H. Scarborough, secretary of the com The resolutions followed .the ad vice riven by Senator Thomas Heflin of Alabama, yesterday, and call on i Congress to eontinne the Fedoral aid i program and also to make an appro-. ? station of |l00,000,000 annually or the next five years for the suc cessful operagion of this program Colonel Cameron, between maps, made vigorona talks urging the ad option of tha resolutions and seems greatly gratified at thair unanimous adoption. Endorse Federal Co operation Tha resolutions will b« presented to the President and to Congress by a committee which will go to Washing ton next week probably making their, appeal on Tuesday. The resolution follows: “Whereas the Federal and State co-operative road plan has rossdtod in the construction and improvement _ • it..._J . _# _<1 - . _a _aJ.I and public highways which directly benefit many thousands of American people, and "Whereas this plan has been en dorsed by business men’s leagues, chambers of commerce, farmers us Iona and other bodies interested in good roads, and "Whereas there is no public polio that will bless and benefit more peo ple than that, which is new being car ried oat in the construction of nubile roads in the various Slates of the Onion, “Therefore be It resolved that: We heartily endorse the Federal and State co-operative plan of road build ing noar in practice and we erge up on Cengrese the wpertane* and no cassity of continuing this work and avoiding n National ealamity. “To prevent this calamity we mge the Ceagrcsa to appropriate the sum of $100,000,040 a year for n period of five yearn. Want Wee Debt Fee (tends “Whereas during the World War the government of the United Statee attended loans to the allied nation* in the sum of abont $10,000,000,000 and "Wherea* much It being said about the payment of this debt and dtspi>*i tien te be aaadc of sects monies when . paid and "Whereas the construction and nt provement ef pest roade and public highways in the Usssted States w.iuld directly benefit more people than ware this money need in any staer "Therefpro be it received that: Cengrese in hereby lequeeted t) de rote tble menep *c the National road fend snd shell be used a* Congress shall direct in building and improving p>. t reads and public highways in tfa-j United States. deny a baits on the sea of matri mony has been wrecked by squall*. The higher a man get* the mere 1m ha* to depend on others te hold him np. . _ The eld battleship, Keeraarge, ii being transformed into a floating crane. SMITHFILLD WINS THURSDAY GAME Suttau Helds Viviiois Scoreless For 7 Innings, But Errors in Eighth Lose For Locals After holding Smitlii'n Id ecoretasi tor wren itimngv in a pretty sus»,un nf the nittionul pastime on Fall s’round Kit Id yesterday utternnon, the local boys wobbled in tho eighth uwi let in two runs to tie the score and then repeated the perturmancc in the ninth tv permit two more to cruse the rubber, i'tic final score teas 1 to l. Dunn's two runs came in the (list inning on a walk, an error, a balk and a hit. Thereafter nobody hud u chance to score on either tide until | Smilhtie'd pat a crimp In local good! spirits in the eighth. Sutton pitched j beautiful pame for Dunn, yielding omy four hlti in the entire sc.'jiun. In the eighth, how. ever, he mud- the first of a series of error* that con Dunn the game. With p man on find he let a grounder get by and both runner* were safe. A. wild pitch and a passed ball let unr of tbedi in. Then Wringea muffed *f slashing liner to canter, lotting in the tying lull. Ferrell’s w :d throw to first in the ninth with two men on bases let in the winning ran, and two mure bobble* act over another. The local tram, thoug, showed np remarkably well in the conceit, con vincing the skeptical Ihul they huve some baseball ubiity. The neat (rgmi will be bette - attended. Carolina Authorities Protect Against Rain Taka Out Iniurtace On Virginia Garnet; Pitching Choice Bvtwara Llewellyn Witaon Chapel IIIU. April 20— Athletic authentic) at the University of Ninth Carolina am hoping for fair weather for the annual Carollna-Virginia baseball gamer in Orrrnsboto, April 23 and in Chapel Hill, Aujruiit 23. but they are taking no chances. Graduate Maaisu'e Charlra T. Woollen has taken out rain insurance potleios on both games, one for sev eral thousand dolls i. on the Grccna huio game, another for a loss iniu for the Chapel Hill came. Continued evidence that the Grevn.vboro nm under favorable conditions will draw the biggest crowd Chat ever saw a baseball game lit North Carolina led to this step. The game has been the biggest money-maker of the tiusebaf was son and hns by itself almost awuag the whole burden of baseball expense. Rain in Greensboro Saturday would mean a body blow at the fins nets of Virtually every member of thn stu dent body who can afford to get a wmy from hir classes is going to Greensboro on the special trail and many ritiseni of Chapel Hill. The train will leave here early 'Saturday morning, arriving in Grrrnsboro a bout noon. On the return trip it will leave Greensboro late at night, ar riving at Chapel Hill in the small hours. Coach Fetter yesterday sent bis men through a gxrae with Kml I'at terson’a freshman team. Wilson, Llewelyn, Biyson. Roscman, and Ab ernathy all worked in the box, with Llewelyn and Roeemxn showing up beet. Llewelyn’s good form continues to make him a likely possibility for the Greensboro gamr, although Lefty Wilson’s cool head and long experi ence may give him the twirling job. Western Congressmen Take Up Immigration Organization PrrfticUd For Pnrpcs» Of Handling Jap Immigra tion Praklam ( Washington, April 20.—Active woik by the organirution of Senators and Reprc-cniatives of eleven far Western Mates, perfected today for the purpose of uniting efforts for dealing with the Japanese immigra tion problem, .will begin within the next weak. Senator Johnson, Repub lican, California, chairman of the organisation, announced tonight that he would name a* committeemen one Senator and one raprssetstive from each of the states this week. Tbs first work of the organisation, it was announced, would be to make a survey of the situation with the ex pectation of submitting information collected to other statce for possible action. Members present at today's organi sation meeting emphasised "the nec essity of natioa-wida co-operation” with the Western states In facing conditions which they described as threatening, unices remedial steps were immediately undertaken. LIST OF KNOWN DEAD IN STORM SWEPT AREA IS *4 Memph’s, Ton*., April 1*.—With the death tot) of the tornado aad storms which swept six southern states Friday and Saturday remain ing at approaim..i*',y 100. relief work in the storm swept areas Is being poabod forward by national, state and civic, organization* with rsperts tonight Indicating that Immediate needs of the ^offerers have been cored for, and arrangements made to render forthf enterprise in tho Sooth, today ap pealed to President Hardin* and Con gr»« for a protective tariff, which it declared was imperatively necessary 10 save tho Souhh from “tht throes uf an economic disaster of unparallel ed intensity.'' A memorial presented ho the House nays and means committee said agri culture "lies prostrate,’’ the manufac turing industry ia “threatened with paralysis'' and tha mineral industry ia “entirely inoperative." The imme diate enactment of "eueh tariff sche dules as will equalise tha coat of pro duction in this country with that of foreign countries” was ashed. A copy of the memorial later was presented to president Harding by a committee, aho a%ked the support of the admin istration In thair efforts. The Presi dent also was asked to attend tho neat meeting of tho association, which will t>a held in Columbia, 8. C., within ihe nox« two or three months. The invitation was taken under adviso meni by the President. Durham Win* High School Debate At Hill Chapal Hill Victus I. lctu~.hoU.tic Track Coatuut Held Uafit An pice* of Uaieeralty Chapal Hill, N. C., April 18.— With the victory of Durham high ichool in the state-wide debating eon* Irti and of Chapel Hill in the inter* Kholaatic track meet, two more con ical. conducted by the University of; North Carolina for tbs high schools t lave passed Into history with sweep ing success. More than two handred schools, ■trrally from the mountains to the ICS, wore entered in the debate this fear. Prom as far cast as Carrituck. Pamlico, and Columbus counties and From as far west as Allegheny, Hay wood. and Buncombe high school t>oys and girls dug deep into the tuestlun of collective bargaining hrough trade uniona Eight hundred if them who were chotut to repre sent their echooIs met in dual and tri i.gular contacts two weakl ago be fore an aggregate audience —-»-s it more than 80,009 North Caroline level of North Carolina one notch higher," is the way one well known North Carolinian phrased it. An even fifty sc boo is, winners in the first contest, cant 200 debaters, osarly half of them girls, to Chapel Hill for the farther elimination rounds. Ail sots 18 taame on each aide if the debate were eliminated la the Irst round at the university, and all lave Grecnkboro and Durham were ilimineled in the second round. For Ehc final debate 1,600 person • Ehrongcd the wide sweeps of Memor ial llall at the univeTeily and five university professors by unanimous lecisioo gave tbs victory to Durham, snd with the victory went the Aycock Memorial Cup, emblematic for nine rears now or highest honor* in de bating. Jersey City Selected As Scene Of Big Fight Actaal Site Fee Dempeoy-CacpouHer BaltW Will B« DwiM |a , r*» Day* i New York, April 10.—Definite sa lection of Jersey City as the scene of the Dempsey-Carpeatiar heavyweight titular bool Jaly 2 marks another step In Ih* staging of what la expect ed to be tha moat important iiaba battle la th* history of As pries ring. While the actual site far tha orcaa will not b* chosen for another day or two. Promoter Tax Rickard baa nar-| rowed tha selection down to thro* lo-I calities, any one of which will aarva admirably for the erection of the bur* structure which will honaa box ers and spectators. It was ganarally understood several day* ago that Jersey City would be chosen, due bo It* proximity to great er Now York with its lira million population. Rickard said ha figured on a total population of clots to IS, 000.000 persona to draw from withig a radius of Uirao hours’ travel. Tha widespread interest in tha bout >» rvidancad by a rapidly increasing mail each day contaiaing application for tickets. The pasteboards new art being printed, but will not be put an *al* until the lint of noxt month. KBLLOCC FAYS TRIBUTE TO SENATOR SIMMONS Wellington, April IS.—la his speech the other day on the Colom bian treaty Senator Kellogg paid a tribute ta Senator SI arm on*. Raff er ring to Senator Si am m oat’ attitude on matters coanaetad with lb* build ing of the Panama Canal aad parti cularly tha treaty with Panama nego tiated in the Arst Roosevelt adminis tration. tha Mlnaaaota Boaster mid: “While Senator Simmon* did not la all respect* agree with the admin istration In power la IMS. hit speech an the occasion of the Mtk la Ih* main supported th* attitude of Presi dent Roosevelt aad showed th* bread ■fended ■tataamanihlp for which ho k noted." Senator Kellogg quoted copiously from (hr speech whiah Senator Sk» ■non* made In IMA on the treaty will Panama. STARS LLOPED TERS That “Tkty Nn«r Wednesday's Hogwlars Aidsd by favorable of umpiring, H Taylor’s windbro kan all stai irmar year* warv: soundly dru Sam Ferrcll'a re- ] galan on Fi ad Ball field j Wednesday a. Ths score stood tan to whan thv bard- i breathing all ve op tbp ghost | ■ nd expired proving the I ego-old eonl l “tiiay never cores back '1 It won't bad game at Hist. Bunk Lana, t with a much too largo a girth. ' on the mound for the ftsrs. lie prims sonar ten rears ago B made the heat of there whiff tl _ when they swung for bis hooka. had the old ball breaking nici _ tha innings He pit chad, bat the hsmwiftacu of his Arid ars permlttad apvaral biffs to go for Sits when they ifcaald have been easy fata. Tha youAsters piled up vight runs while BuA was pitching thire Innings. That toe much for the wind of tbs let and ha yielded the position James Cameron Bmith. Smith held youngsters to two bits, bat these a 'goodly sprink ling of error* l them two mote tallies. > Herbert Toy] r caught the first la «ng. hut warn to the outer garden In tha second, am* when he found hat some ipd . was needed oat there. Tiny ) may. thr diminutive rent lemon who dansbs fosefTivllhood lacroedcd Her! rt Taylor as the lacks trapper. ] a parformerl nicely, doing the late* got ten tot shimmy for he delectation W the crowd when Bcvo Cal# sha| a foal skyward. Ka noy mimed tha *11 by four feel, but the umpire *ti ck Bcvo out on the icxt bail throw , he nothing was last. Mayer J. U yB-Wodt held down :hs initial saemwith only ono error If hu discredit' in the entire game. Sia honor was]determined to make no errors at aft The find ball batted A iwlft In kiji direction. fir- maJn An nfL.v* «ss :a_i_s_ Ing that he did hit want to make any irrar*. The cl oat want for two baser tnd war beginning of the (Wo run* rutda by the mgnUr* in the first ran* ; NeU Cre^ orqpmcnted the second tack. NclU showed the youngsters up la this portion) and with the dUn Nothing got bf Mm either oTthc Held or at batija four times at bat be clouted cmfcra single, and one ■ajiWng Mnd Dowd, a rn'iipte disced by the regulars filled In at left field, snd helped considerably by spearing two long file, and by one pretty throw to third to nip a runner. The regal art showed up best in their srgumenU with the umpire, who being an old-timer himself, was secured of every crime from mayhem to highway robbery and burglary. Slaughter Of Jackass Was Not Act Of War Seeauso, Says Williams. It Doos Not Appear Ha Wa* An American Jackass Washington, April 18.—Debate oo the long ponding Colombian treaty entered its ftaat phase today with Senators Polsdexter, Washington, snd Townsend. Michigan, Republi sh*1*. speaking in opposition, and Se nators New, Kcpublicin, Indiana, and Williams, Democrat, Mississippi, fav oring ratification. Under agreement speeches were limited te one hour. Denying that the American gov ernment instigated tho revolution which resulted in the separation of Panama from Colombia m 1803 or that American troops pievented Co lombian troops from landing at Col as to put down the revolt. Senator Poindexter characterised the treaty •» a “proposal te pay the government of Colombia *2f,00u,0ou without consideration to the United State..” Senator Towaacnd, voicing tho Mac objection*, contended that ia .. 01 repeal of tha act 1 (.vying tolls on American tonnage pawing through Panama canal similar free dam from lolls aadcr the treaty would have to bo accorded to Colom bia. Arguments ef those opposing rat ffl11"* were described by Senator lUera as largely "looking backward.’' Tho Indiana senator urged the senate la its vote oa the treaty act for Wed **fday to take tha futuro into con da something that would "affect favorably out trade relations urith all af the republics of Lotin-Amerlea." Senator Williams urged ratlfles • matter of Justice to Colosa bla, attacked tho course of tho Amor *«« toyoramant under President Roosevelt with rtsaect to that coun try aa "high banded,” and asserted Uera was abeolutcly no proeedent W the United States *■ •* about >1 Panamans, two ** thru* nlgxera, a few mules end a Chinaman.” - TaI"ln« to tha suggestion from the Republican side that Colombia la «r !•« aa Colon at tha time of the Psn V"** feyett committed an ‘overt act’, .the Mlaslaslppl senator said that tho ••ly eaeuahJoe, tho kllllag of a Chinn man and a mule, eeuld aot be consid ered a warlike aot agaiast tho United Rules because “It has never Ivor ascertained that the Jackass wss an American Jackaaa” •A tumbling sastno surpassing any thiag at Moots Carlo la to bo bum ” tn WmiThi the bountiful buy of >le do Jgpldto. A modora furry will URGES CONGRESS TO INVESTIGATE Farmers* Union1 Wants Com mission To DoUrmiao What Alb Agriculture Washington, April 20.—Congress win urged in a resolution adopted today hy the National Farmers' Un ion, in convention hern, to appoint a join'. comninioB to determine “what ia wrong with ugrirulture" and to en act legislation to “correct the discov ered and established evils.” "The farmers have been branded as piofiteera," the rciolntion said, “and have been accosod of taking or threatening measures which would remit in a dangerously diminished quantity of available product!," add ing that the country was entitlad to know the facte and that Congress was thr only agvnry equipped “to as certain tho truth.” On the o'her band, it charged that 1 the farmer* had been discriminated against in the matters of credit and j t'unsportatlon and that they had been 1 forced to «ell their products below | the cost of production while residents of the cities had hern compelled to * pay “live or six times for thoir food 1 tho amount which tho producers oh- ! tainod.” I Agriculture stands in a “unique and strategic position,“ John McBpar ran Muter, or the Pennsylvania State 1 Grunge told tho convention, with e*p- 1 Ital and labor on either side organised and looking after thoir own Interest*. < Thr fanners he added, should stand together. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace urged the various farm organisations to take constructive steps to build up 1 sn organization to protect ond pro- 1 mote agriculture. In quick succession, rrsolntlons J were passed for the appointment of 1 ... sk. «-ad 1 lb" farmers and thr amount af credit ' ixtendcil to them in compaction with 1 >ther industries and alaa on the “in. ' 'nir practices and discrimination a- ' raln»t co-opreatlve roneerns." I Members of the Karmen' Union 1 *rrr mid by Mr. Reed, their national I I'crctxry, to have MU,000,000 Invest- 1 >4 in m-operative organisations 1 ehkh did a turnover In hualaees val- < iat< last year of over MOO,000.000. I iVhen yon ace hoard* of trad# and 1 ■hnmhers of commerce patting any 1 firm organisation on tbo hack," he ’ ontinued. “jt‘* not worth a com to 1 be farmer" adding that “we hart • tisod in oer tfM fg Jhat crowd." 1 Boprposnt.Uve Upshaw, of Boom la, < ■mimifa^la mygiWi bhM-aowtaHam i 'or a. Congi onional commlaalon to * nvostlgate the farm sitnatioa sad < Kadame Arrest told of the work of 1 he International Institute of Afrt- 1 ■olture at Rome, with which she Is 1 :oanected. Cotton Consumption In 1 March Show* Increase 'ewsr Spiadlss la Operation Than I During February. How. tm Washington, April J 5, — Cotton Manufacturers utilized more nw rot on during March than is any month liner last September, a total of 487, 183 hale* having been contained dur ng the month, arcording to the cra ms bureau’s monthly report issued ■orlay. They ware fewer cotton spin lies in operation during tfet month .hen in Fidwuary, the largest reduc tion having been shown in the mills it the cotton growing stats*. Ths Month's total, St,104,944, was 858. 182 less than February with tbs mOls >f the cotton growing states showing >17,794 of the reduction. Cotton Mu mmed wsi 20,325 bales mom than n February. Coasumption in March last year eaa 575,789 halos of lint and 31.597 of Union. Cotton on hand March 51 in fnnranilnv wti 1. 187,790 bale* of Hat sad 808,847 of lintors, compared with 1,158,996 af lint and 804.889 sf Hnters a year ago, and in public storage and at eom praaar* 6.286.300 bales of Hat and 294,250 bales of IInton compered with 8,240,107 of lint and 491,856 of lister* *o held a year ago. March imports war* 27,282 bales, compared with 183,727 lad year and export* were 876,180 bain uieladiag 6,816 bales of lintors, compand with 794,460 bales, Including 4,471 sf fin tots exported In March last yaw. COWAN AND THOMPSON WIN (N WILMINGTON PRIMARY Wilmington. April 29.—damn H. Cowan was nominated for swjrsr In the city primary yesterday over Lb« 9sld receiving 891 plurality error hi* opponent*. Jos. E. Thooipeon, candi date for rommimioner of flaanee, re ceived a plurality ef Idtl ever two opponents, U. N. Chadwick tad Mr*. Lillian Rogers. P. Q- Moore, mayor ef the city for snany years, wai elimin ated from the coated far coma is 'ioner of public works, and R. C. Cantwell, Hr., and J. E. I,. Wade, la hor candidate, WIN rua off May 8. Cewaa'a ruareet opponent was Jos. II. Curtia, labor caoilidaU, who trail ed Cowan by 1,680. Cowan who la reerrtary of Ihr chamber ef com merce and collector *t tb* port of Wlimiagten, formerly edited the af ternoon papor here, and was at on* time provident of thff light that ha might hare received, wen under a second degree eoarvic loa, being to gene*. On tb* other mad, however, (her* ie the usual mount of sympathy that always msn festa itaalf for tha defendant in a nurdar trial, in this earn mostly a nong the fairer sax, the youth af the tandaomc prisoner, a veteran of the trust war, pals aad wank from tha •Facts af the wound logic tad by tha ■and of Ms dying victim, the ld-ytar >ld sweetheart and bar devotion t* lias despite tha will of family aad the tarn Sand af .oeiety—all weaving >round tha episode a fabric af Torn inee that hid, for them, its baser aa >«ct*. Oat young girl ban already vrittea a motion picture drama bas 'd an the case, while ether* seat Inn ha# U the pnttnsi during hi* trials. Ky.'ta cube tha |t_. )ond required t* free _,__ :r«dc ace b givaa (ham by tha am ble who have a* far fee*reed a* >ff*r to auk* band. Crowd Beats Negro In Maryland Court Room ’•anted Upon By IpeeSatarn Fall a w btg Acquittal Of Aa Anenult Fradartek, Mi., April It.—Aa out break occurred in the Frederick :ounty court ream lata today whan 3mrbt Haary Dorsey, negro, was se luittsd of the charge of attack on a •bite woman of fealthnora eaunty, spectators pounced upon the negro, seating him with tbatr fists. Water Hastes and ink arrtls war* thrown ecromth* room and tha uproar did »®l subside unto an* of tha Judges rescued tha negro and carried Mm into aa ante-roam. > Tha negro pcevfeudy had bean : on vie ted and sentenced t# hang, hut s aaw trial waa ordered and ha waa acquitted. Immediately after the court had finished announcing tha reasons far acquittal, a man leaped st the negro and ha seas followed by •thaw, who nudiad the negro aa h# started a flight from the rums. A spectator Jumped on the trial table and struck him in tha fas* arrarnl tlmaa A sister of tha plaintiff Joined Im mtidt kit 4km iaartn mm km-* A water flew mi hnriod at tho Mgra aad narrowly miased Chiaf Jadga Urner. who with Jndgo Won. Ojlagton aad Pater triad tha aaaa. The »proar contJaoed nntil tho court taak personal charge af protecting b^tE^e?* fh“Br The negro waa placed la Jail, whan ha mi protected tonight bp a hoary guard. METEOR SHOWERS HOT METAL OVER GEORGIA Maces, Oa.. April W.—AMeteor. or a aaate* of aataors that paasad or. “ ■***• *»d loatheni Georgia ohoot • a’clock this man lag, exploding and •hewering hat motel oo haary at Iran, frightened people la tha aaetlana at the Rata w&are tha phenes, eaom waa rteMe. Tha meteor waa aaan in Maeoe. It exploded aver Cordate aad alas ht Pitta, tome distance eaet of Cardala and alas at Albany, aantkwaM at hare. At Pitta, in Wllcoa cauaty, mom than a dooan hoary anploalana ware hoard, than as If n meehino gas bad been pressed Into actloa there was a •harp crackling la tha air for arrrml "•I notes and rad hot metal, soma pla ne* weighing six pesadt each began ta fall te the earth, In the wake af the falling fragments was n trail af bi**k Maks. The «ky was alandlan. J -- - Madame Maria Carle, dlacararer ad »•**■■ «* rfMtlnt tWa eonatry, waa awardad the gold medal ef tha Ms tlwnml institute of loclal Bctoane re eon tip. The award waa mads Virami of the great benefit at her dUseeery ^ ^ w Ity. ■I ... MAYOR WADE AND ELLIS GOLDSTEIN ARE NOT OPPOSED Wards POLICE DEPARTMENT AGAIN MADE AN ISSUE Lota <4 Talk V- 4 Talks of “Ring.” With the rasa narrowed ta contest* is three wardi between them whs tip Ire ta anmberthip so the Beard at Commissioners the stage la about •at for As big fight to be waged a •eng the Democrat! la scat Mends? afternoon's municipal primary. Of •aura# there to atoll a chance that •am# other eaadidatci may hah ap » oppose Mayor Wads for the AM ' txeeutWe’s office and Kills Goldstein, for the fourth ward seat aa the . Board, bat at pram at It looks aa K the Dae op win mam's as R i*—-*■. dneo those who desire ta baaaaaa randidaim most aater their same# * with the Democratic Frumtirs Cem olttae before sundown Saturday. There art two candidates far tom otoaloaer fruot the Drat ward, throe from the second and too frets Aa bird. They are: rimt Ward: A A Shaw aad A M. Wanes. Second Ward: Lofton A Tbit, P. K. Lae aad W. D. Tiuaago. Third Ward: William IL Newberry . ind I. W. Purdtc. Both Messrs. Bhaw aad Wanao ire new eondidates. They spin ta Iona*, who will not ho n raihtoti For re-election. m Datfl last Tuesday Kr. Goldstein, tola remaining candidate in thsk 'ourth ward, was if>mi hy Char las ft. Ayeock. llr. Amuck, howtvut, de rided not to eenfinus tha spa tost, l aw rest, and withdrew. Xo other can- . iidate has oxprrmod a wiillngnaea ta itfampt taking tha scalp at the Boldy. Thar* is aa Mads wiH ha tha tar tha odteo ho If tha result of tha primary is net latisfactory ta a largo part of tha town's Pom erratic eiAcaship, haw ser. there to a strong probability that aa Independent ticket will be woagkt out. It to not unlikely that Mayor Wade and Mr. Goldstein will bo included la this ticket la the event they are the choke of Moadoy'e pri mary. ^g||gg A|mim |||g| In spite of o strong effort to hoop the police department out of the com ag election, it appear* that It wftt »c one of the important issue*. Thaos eho last year were apposed to meth od* of tho department have wan many recruits to their rank* tone* tha last ■lection and art threatening to halt the party ualoa* a okas sweep Is made spaa tha whale personnel of tha department. One surprising footers of this to that many woman of Dunn are ■gainst the department a* It to can* stunted and conducted. TVs bigger fight, though, seem* to center around the question of finnmea* and their expenditure, and there to aa svex present contention that there to a “ring" in control of tha town. Same are a little In tha dark ae to who constitutes the ring, hut they nra eg'in It Being convinced tha* some member* of the present admlatotrw Uun are in with tha “ring,’* they am far making a clean sweep ta some of the wards. Goad Old Maddlsgtog However tho primary to ehasst hare aad the election will follow teen af terword*. Ia a little while tha whole matter will ha nettled aad tho good folk of Dunn will settle dawa to lav ing aa* another again. In Gw mean time, it to quite natural ta expect til Aim tin mil Iks sn»l *14 Meet mad they can find aad Stag It inU the feeee ef whomever they may oppoae—end nobody will remember anything about K until the next alee tloa time eemee a round. WlATNIt UNPAVOftABLB PCM NEW COTTON CtOP Waahlngtoa, April II.—Generally unfavorable weather impeded preg rem ef the new cotun crop daring the peat week, only the Eattam ate tea ef the holt having condition* favor able to planting, the weekly crop beV letla of the Weather H Breen today •hewed. Planting hac became genetai throughout Georgia end moth ef the return la up end being chopped, She report mid, bat tbl« work wee1mm pered la the central portion* ef the belt doc to hooey mine. The Ptedmowt tectlen of South Carolina wae the hardeot kit by the ernest told map, although the ptaata are Aowiag aa pretty wall. The report chewed the recoat freeu weald neeemttate re- ' pleating in LoaUlaaa, aad Arkaama. Market gardener* rirmctlmi* aaa aa much aa 1,P*0 pound* «f cemmerrtal feitmaer an aa acre ef jyeaad. Thia weaM be at the rate ef about 4 ar * pound* to a plat ef greead IS feat le eaab direction or ISO fart ante*. Under moat eeadttfeea 10 poaade ef M«k grade f ertiUaar la the maxim am he eaed on a gar d»» 10 by 44 feet la dm.