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t- ■ t VOll XXV No! 22. MOORESVlLLE, N. C„ THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1921 $1.50 PER YEAR Watches and Clocks Punctuality is the first essential to a successful carrer. If you are at youT desk or place of business, every thing:V>es good and the boss is pleas ed. In order to meet this requirement we can furnish you with the watch or clock you n4ed, or we can repair your ^ld ones and put them in good condition. Eugene D. Fink t Call on Us “Any Time.” Jeweler F. D. STONESTREET &CO We want all your country We carry a full line of staple and fancy groceries, vegetables, fruits, etc. Prompt Service Telephone 86 F. fi STONESTREET & GO. PAINTING P^per Hanging If you have painting to do, I will cheerfkilly estimate on your work. Lowest possible price for first-class J°b. , Independent and Capital Wall Paper Co. Samples shown on re quest. Can do your paper hanging and save you money. All work guaranteed, to be satisfac tory. ' B. B. KERR, Painter and Paper Hanger MooreaviUe, N .C. ruapiM w macuwaoa. SALE’S SALVE wfll heal the Pimple. anJ nmi MOORESVILLE DRUG COMPANY produce. and Agent for Sherwin-Williams Floor lac is a superior quality V4mish Stain for use on Furniture, Floors, Wood work, etc. We want you to try it ouf for yourself, and for that reason are making j th^ Great Special Offer as per coupon below. | Sign Coupon and Bring It to Our Sion Today T— FREE |LOORLAC SAMPLE h— _ le Furniture Company Agents MLEIGH-RICIOHD BRIDGE IS OPENED CONSUMMATION 9F TWO YEARS OF EFFORT WAS ACHIEVED ON FEBRUARY 23. MOST DIRECT TOURIST ROUTE Road Gangs Along This Line, Also In Georgia and 8outh Carolina Very Busy Grading and Filling. Raleigh. Consummation of the thoughts and ! Ideas of the several communities ln j terested as to the desirability of a bet* ter method of communication with the ! world, North and South, was achieved } when on February 23 the South HiU Henderson Bridge was opened to trav el and traffic. The new bridge shortens the dis tance from Richmond to Raleigh be ! tween North and South, twenty miles, and from South Hill to Durham, the route Is over the South Hill-Hender son bridge, and through Henderson and Oxford. In a recent communication from one of the officials of the American Auto mobile Association, the following ref erence was made to the new route: "We are going right ahead with preparing new detailed strip maps showing the main route down through | Richmond, South Hill, Henderson, Ra leigh and Pinehurst so that by next fall the procession of motor cars car rying tourists from the North to the Southland may be directed over the beBt and most direct route. On oui inspection trip through to Florida, we found that all through South Carolina and Oeorgla the road gangs are very busy grading and filling along the main lines of travel, especially along the route, or course which we expect to route our members over during the coming season. The State Highway Commissioners advise us that condi tions will be better than ever before down through the Carolinas and Geor gia so _t\at the usual difficulties will not be experienced in getting through. I Of course the Virginia section has | been wall taken care of, and Commis | sloner Coleman Is making a real high way throughout the State.” Insurance Company is Warned. Insurance Commissioner Stacy Wade served notice on the Belt Auto molble Indemnity association of El Paso,, 111., that it cannot do further business in North Carolina or get its unapproved contracts approved un less there is quick and radical im provement In the business methods of the company. "Ths stand is taken,” said Mr. Wade, “Not because of any flagrant violation of the Insurance laws.” Governor Morrison to 8peak. Governor Morrison has accepted the invitation of the North Carolina Mer chants’ association to deliver an ad dress to that body when- it meets in Greensboro on April 7. The governor spoke here to a group meeting of bankers, enjoining the financiers to do the patrotlc turn by the state now, just as much as they did by the na tion when it went to war. Prohibition Agents Active. ' Chief Federal Prohibition Agent Gulley and Agents Ranes, Richardson and Brady last week arrested twenty men on charges of violating the pro hibition laws, captured eight Btiils, I confiscated a large amount of whis key. Sustains Lower Court Verdict. The supreme court upheld a verdict for $3,500 damages given in Bruns wick superior court to J. H. Cotton, a well known white man of the county, because of a slander made against him by officials of the Fisheries Prod ucts company of New Hanover. “Baptist Bishop” Is Dead. Rev, J. D. Hufham, D. D„ one of the best known and most highly esteemed Baptist preachers in the state and re ferred to by many as “the Baptist bishop of North Carolina,” died after a brief illness. Commissioner Shipman Returns. Washington, (Special). — Commis sioner of Labor and Printing, M. L. Shipman, who has spent two days on matters connected with the national and state employment. service for North Carolina, left for his home. Mr. Shipman had quite a lengthy confer ence with the new Secretary of Labor. James O. Davis, who is much in terested in the employment service. Mr. Shipman gets the impression that the present arrangements with relation to the work in North Carolina will be continued. Storm Does Little Damage. W. P. Corwith, of Saluda, N. C., president of the North Carolina Hor ticultural society, and a large orchar dtst, expressed the opinion that no great damage had been done to the fruit of western North Carolina by the storm which swept that section. There was'a temperature which caus ed Ice to be formed and high winds continued from nightfall to shortly be lters daybreak. . AH orchards of the flalnrta section pan In ten Meom. ._j POLICY OF ALLIES IS ALSO OUR OWN HUNS MUST MAKE REPARATION TO THE UTMOST LIMIT OF j THEIR ABILITY TO PAY. HU6HES EXPRESSES PLEASURE Says That United States Government Stands With the Allies In Placing Blame for War on Germany. Washington.—Formal statement of the attitude of the United States as to German reparations Is contained In an exchange of communications with Ger man government officials made public by the State Department. They are In the form of memoranda transmitted through Lorlng Dresel, American high oommlsloner at Berlin. The German communication, dated March 23, was written by Dr. Walter Simons, German foreign minister, and asserts It was “entirely clear" both to the government and people that Ger many "must make reparations to the limit of her ability to pay" but sought “examination by unbiased experts" to determine the extent of her ability. In his reply Secretary Hughes ex pressed pleasure at Germany’s “un equivocal expression” of Its desire to pay to the limit of ability and de clared the United States “stands with the governments of the Allies in hold ing Germany responsible for the war and therefore morally bound to make reparations, so far as may be pos sible.” Robbed by Mexicans. Douglas, Ariz.—L. R. Bailey, post master of Blsbee, Arlz., who was found in bis office bound and gagged, said he had been held up by two masked Mexicans, who forced him to open the pestofflce vault. The robbers escaped with $60,000, according to word re ceived here. Endorse Trip of Delegatee. San Francisco.—The American La bor Alliance for Trade Relations with Soviet Russia, at a meeting here gave endorsement to a delegate elected by the Potters’ Union of Richmond to at tend an international industrial con vention in Moscow, Russia, on May 1. \ -* * Secretary Denby Has Returned. Washington.—Secretary Denby has returned to Washington on the de stroyer Pruitt from a two-weeks' visit to the Atlantic fleet at Guantanamo, Cuba, and navy and marine corps shore stations in Cuba Haiti and San Domingo. Western Union Growing Concern. New York.—Gross operating income of $119,991,826 for the year 1920, is re ported by the Western Union Tele graph company, an increase of 17 per cent over 1919. Other income for the year brought the total to $121,473,685. Operating expenses amounted to $106,838,713 an increase of 20 per cent. Stinnes Buying Press. Vienna.—According to reports cur rent in newspaper circles Hugo Stin nes, the great German capitalist, is buying up the Austrian press on a big scale. It is said that he has acquired three papers in Vienna, one in Linz and one in Graz and has started a new paper in Klangenfurt. Many Roads Destroyed. Dublin.—Flying columns of the Irish republican armv are officially reported to operating in Fermanagh, Armagh. Tyrone, Kildare and Queens counties. There has been much destruction of roads. Greek Prince Killed by Turks. London.—Prince Andreas, of Greece brother of King Constantine, has died from wounds received In fighting near Brusa, says a Constantinople dispatch. American Radical Deported. Mexico City.—Linn A. E. Gale, an American radical who was arrested .here has been deported from Mexico by the way of Vera Crus, It la said by newspapers of this city. Request of Greece Refused. Constantinople.—The allies will re fuse the Greek’s permission to trans port their troops In Thrace to Asia Minor by way of Constantinople or to use the Ismld railway. Tremendous Powder Explosion* Prederickburg, Va.—Two men were Injured, at least six freight cars were destroyed and traffic on the R P. 4 P. railroad was blocked for hours when 40,000 pounds of black powder in a car exploded in the freight yards near here. Three Year Egg Contest. Murphysboro, 111..—Four hundred hens have been entered to date In a three year national egg laying contest starting here November 1. The race Is regarded in Illinois as the lint of Its sort ever held. Daughter 8ees Father Sulclda. Miami, Fla.—B. C. Williams, former deputy sheriff and Dade county Jailer, shot and killed himself In his home here while his daughter peoped through tite doorway a witness to the tragedy. VIEWS OF WALLACE OH HIGHER KES PENDULUM OF PRICE READJUST MENT 8WUNG TOO FAR AND TOO VIOLENTLY. dollars' must be equalized Farmers Must Be Paid an Approxi mate Increase of 70 Per Cent for the Produot of Their Toll. Washington.—Food prices must rise again—and rise soon—before the com ing of real prosperity. Alt the farmer raises is sold for too little; he is re ceiving fifty to sixty cent dollars for what he sells and paying 100-cent dol lars for what he buys. The pendu lum of price readjustment has swung too violently and too far in his direc tion. One of two things must happen, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace be lieves, before the country can be truly prosperous. As he sees the dilemma, the horns are described thus: 1. Farm products—and this means all foodstuffs—must rise approximate ly 70 per cent in wholesale prices to the farmer; or— 2. The retail price of everything else must drop still further until the buyer’s dollar and the farmer’s dol lar are worth exactly the same amount. Present prospects are that both movements will be noticeable within a short time. Increased prices of food stuffs will be brought about to some extent, it is believed, by the enact ment of a tariff sufficiently high to prevent the dumping into American markets of farm products raised abroad., these products at present be ing sold at prices lower than the cost of producing the commodities on American farms. Harding Dines Newspaper Men. Washington. — President Harding fulfilled one of his campaign pledges when he gave a White House dinner to newspaper correspondents who were assigned to him during his race for the presidency. These reporters, who organized themselves into “the order of the ele phant,” gave a dinner for Harding last September. Want Amnesty for Prisoners. Atlanta, Ga.—Samuel M. Castleton, personal counsel in Atlanta for Eu gene V. Debs, socialist leader now serving a ten-year sentence in the federal penitentiary here for violation of the espionage act, will appear be fore President Harding April 13 to present a pica for general amnesty to political prisoners. Curs Found for Seasickness. Brussels.—Dr. Nolf, a professor at the University of Liege, announces that he has discovered an absolute cure for seasickness by the use of belladonna and atropine. Seasickness according to the doctor, has its origin in a nerve in the interior ear which causes dizziness. Elks Take Ty Cobb In. Detroit.—Life membership in the Elks has been voted Ty Cobb, man ager of the Detroit American League team, by Detroit Lodge No. 34. A gold membership card will be presented the Tiger manager before the open ing game of the season here April 13. Heaviest Holders of Bonds. Washington.—National banks are heaviest holders of government bonds. Their total Investments in Liberty bonds and Victory notes amount to $2,269,575,000. The banks have in all sorts of securities, both foreign and domestic, $4,186,465,000. Housing Shortage to Continue. Washington.—Hopes for relief from the housing shortage were shattered by John H. Donlln, president of the building trades union. There is no relief In sight or any In dication of a revival of building ac tivity, Donlin declared. Huaband Only to Recommend. Washington.—Recommendations on appeals of Immigrants barred from entering this country will be made directly by Commissioner General of Immigration Husband. Jewell and Harding to Confer. Washington. — President Harding has invited Bert M. Jewell, head of the railroad organizations affiliated with the American Federation of La bor, to confer with him here on the general railroad situation, It was learned in labor circles here. Watch Progress of Coup. * Amsterdam.—Former Kaiser Wil helm and the former crown prince are watching eagerly the progress of Em peror Charles' attempted coup, accord ing to reports received here. Request of Germany Denied. Faria — Germany’s request thal pending questions of disarmament be referred to "an Impartial commie sion," was rejected by the Allies. Ger many was informed that she must submit to the original disarmament pmamla of the AlMsa. RAILROAD ASKING WAGE REDUCTION ' l THE PRESENT COST OF LABOR MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO OPERATE SUCCESSFULLY. COST OF LIVIN6 GOING DOWN The Pennsylvania Railroad System In February was Operated at a Loss of More Than $8,500,000. Pittsburgh.—It has become Impos sible to operate the Pennsylvania rail road successfully and continue to pay the "abnormally high” wages fixed by the Railroad Labor Board, C. S. Krick general manager of the eastern region declared in opening a series of confer ences between officials of the com pany and representatives of its em ployes to discuss proposed reductions in salaries and wages. Mr. Krick maintained that the en tire world rapidly is getting back to normal and that since the middle of last year, the cost of living has been steadily going down. “At present,” he declared, “nearly 70 per cent out of every dollar the Pennsylvania railroad receives from operation is paid out in wages. The remaining 30 cents is not sufficient to buy fuel and other materials and pay our taxes and other obligations. : “Without taking dividends into con sideration, the Pennsylvania system was operated in February at a loss of more than $8,500,000. Removing Hero Dead. Washington. — Announcement Is made by the War Department that .work is going on in removing the sol dier dead from the great American cemetery at Romagne, Fran.e, where more than 22,000 bodies of those who gave their lives in the Argonne are in terred, the shipments of the bodies to bo expedited. In all there was 75,882 dead overseas, been returned. Navy Recruiting Is Lively. Washington.—In the Southeastern division of the Navy Recruiting Ser vice, Raleigh, N. C„ heads the list for the number of recruits for the week ending March 31. With 91 recrolts from Richmond and Atlanta tieing for second place with 18 each. „ “Offensive and Defensive.” New York.—Representatives of 175, 000 organized railroad employes, in special convention here, called upon the executive heads of the re.ognlzed national and international railroad unions to sanction the formation of district “offensive and defensive” al liance—Railroad District councils—in New York district and other “strategic points in the railroading industry.” Hbld up List of Evaders. Washington.—Publication by the War Department of the list of war time draft evaders has been post poned until Attorney General Daugh erty can prepare an opinion on the question of the legal liability of the government in the event names of in. nocent men should by accident ap pear on the lists made public. U. S. Exports Much Morphine. Tokio.—Morphine brought from the United States every year to Japan for re-export to China amounts roughly to 65,000 pounds, Baron Fujimura, raising the question of the opium traf fic in China, asserted at a session of the budget committee of the Howe of 30,000 Jugo-Slavs Ready. Vienna.—The Weiner Journal an nounces that thirty thousand Jugo slav troops have been massed in Var asdin in Croatia, with the intention of marching on Steinamanger and preventing a restoration of the Hapa burgs by all means. Asks Provisional Reduction.' Chicago.—Provisional reduction of the wages of approximately 26,000 un skilled workmen on the New York Central Railroad, to be effective April 1, was asked of the Railroad Labor Board. Roosevelt and Hoover Invited. Washington.—Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover may attend the good roads meeting In Greensboro, N. | C.. April 18 to 23. | Fought Fire Among the Clouds. I New York.—Firemen fought among . the clouds tor more than an hour be fore subduing a dangerous blase on the 81st floor of the towering Equita ble Building in the heart of the down town skyscraper district It was one of the highest fires the firemen have ever been called upon to fight. Fruit Crop Safe so Far. Washington.—With the passing of the cold wave which came on the heels of Easter, officials of the depart ment of agriculture expressed the be lief that the fruit crop surplus of the country as a whole had not been ma terially affected. Temporarily Demobilized. Terijoki, Finland. — Througnout Russia soldiers and sailors for the first ihue in years are receiving leaves of absence or are being demobilised temporarily. J. R. FARR. J. R. Farr is one of the new mem bers of congress, representing the Tenth district of Pennsylvania. ALMOST COMPLETE STOPPAGE Danger Threatens That Mines May be Flooded and That Many May be Irretrievably Ruined. London.—All work ceased in the coal mines of the United Kingdom at midnight with the exception of a very few districts and approximately 1, 200,000 miners were idle as a result of the controversy over the wage is sue. In only two collieries in York shire, one in Northumberland, one in Scotland and one in North Wales the men have promised to continue at their posts without prejudice to any terms that may be agreed upon, but all other pit workers, including me chanics, pump men, ventilating men and pony men, came out with the miners. Danger that the miners may be flooded threatens and many may be irretrievably ruined from the inrush of water. Strenuous efforts are being made to enroll volunteers. Yorkshire pump men have decided to remain at Apprehension is felt that the Na tional Union of Railway Men and the transport workers’ union, partners with the miners in the labor dispute, may be tempted to strike in sympa thy with the coal diggers. In such an event, the nation would be confronted by a crisis of unprecedented gravity. Germany Dumps on Belgium. Brussels.—In a formal note ad dressed to the Belgian government, the Belgian Federation of Contractors charges Germany with perfecting a gigantic system of dumping. This is declared to be so formidable that no industry outside of Germany can fight against it unless determined and rap id action are taken at once. Death of “Uncrowned King." Berlin.—Wilhelm Sylt, known as “the uncrowned King of the Berlin proletariat," died as a result of a bul let wound received after he struck a policeman who arrested him on sus picion that he was planning a general strike. Want Chinease Treaty Revised. Mexico City.—Declaring that Chi nees are monopolizing the labor jobs In the northern district of Lower Cali fornia, a delegation of citizens of that territory has arrived, here to ask that the treaty with China, negotiated six years ago be abrogated or revised. Legion Asks Controbu’tions. Indianapolis, Ind.—A call for all members of the American Legion to contribute ten cents to a Memorial Day fund for the decoration of Ameri can graves overseas was sent out in a bulletin from national headquarters of the legion here One Woman Blinds Another. Jerome, Ariz.—Mrs. Clarence V. Hopkins, wife of a mining engineer, was rushed to the Prescott county jail to avoid violence against her, follow ing the throwing of acid into the face of Lucille Gallagher, a school teacher. Fighting Has Spread. Athens. — Fighting between the Greeks and Turkish nationalists has spread along the line in Asia Minor until the northern end of the active eone is within 30 miles of Ismid. Beer Drinking Falls Off. Washington.—Beer drinking in Ger many has fallen off by more than 750, 000,090 gallons a year as compared with pre-war consumption, Consul General Coffin, at Berlin reported. Engage Russian Militia. Tokio.—The anti-bolshevik troops formerly commanded by the late Gen eral Kappel, armed with machine guns, opened an engagement with the Russian militia in Vladivostok, says a dispatch from that city to newspa pers here. Campaign Wins Favor. Richmond, Va*—The campaign of the tobacco growers of Virginia for co-operative markets has already won a majority of the growers in live counties. Japs Know Nothing of it. Tokio.—Authorities at the Japanese foreign offices say they know nothing of the reported visit of former Pre mier Venhelos of Greece to Japan. It has been reported that M. Ven iselos would go to Japan m the guest of the Mikado, PROFESSIONAL CARDS PROFESSIONAL CARDS FOR Life Insurance See E. MACK DEATON. Office: Old Central Hotel Building Mooresville, N. C. DR. L. PARKS TRIVETTE Dentist. ' Office: Up Stairs over Abernethy’s Jewelry Store, Mooresville, N. C. ZEB. V. TURLINGTON Attorney and Counselor At-Law Mooresville, N. C. DR. S. FRONTIS Dentist Office over Miller Drug Co. Mooresville, - . N. C. ALBERT L. STARR, Attorney At Law Collections and Loans. Office in tke M. & F. Bank Building Mooresville, N. C. DR. C. U. VOILS Dentist Merchants and Farmers Bank Building Phone 206. Mooresville, N. C. . R. c. McPherson Optometrist and Optician Telephone No. 184. Office: Next door to People’s Homs Furnishing Company Mooresville, N. C. GEORGE A. MORROW Attorney-At-Law Office over Miller Drug Company' Mooresville, - - - N. 0. DR. JOHN W. MacCONNHLL Eye, Ear, Nose and Threat Office: N. Main Street, Davidson. Hours: 8:30 to 1:30. Afternoon by Appointment Only FUNERAL FLOWERS Prompt Service B. M. McNEELY & COMPANY J. F. GAMBLE Land Surveying Bell Phone 3111, Davidson, N. 0. For live dyeing and clean CLEANING CALL SAY! If clothes don’t make anjr4i* 'erenee in a man, try going dtva he street without any. H. B. MAYHEW Phone, 240. HUB STUDIO Photographs of Quality NORRIS & REYNOLDS Proprietors. R .L. McKEE Chiropractor Office over W. M. Neel & Co. Phone 39 lours: 9 to 12 a. m., 2 to i |. u. CAMERAS CTSPEEDEXFIU* 7 to 8 p. m. J17, ' V. Memory** Faithful Ally. An ANSCO camera will preserve the scenes of everyday life and flood the memory with pleasant recollections cf the year’s events. ANSCO cameras are made la nu merous styles with various lens and shutter equipments to suit all tastes. Many refinements, not to be found kt other makes, are possessed by thaew ATe have just the model (be Drop in and let us show it to you. *Ve carry, also, ANSCO KPREJ5K3C FILM, CYKO PAPER «uA ANSCO Chemicals. Mooreatill© Dm* Company Mooresville, N. C. _^ Kmmmmmm
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