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IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH What la Taking Place in Tha South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraph Foreign Uncertainty of the Irish situation has caused the British government to change its plans and instead of pro roguing parliament as had been in tended, it will be adjourned until to some time" soon. , The special meeting ol the council of the eague of Nationsto take up the question of upper Silesia, referred to it by the allied supreme council, will be held in Geneva soon. The unanimous vote of the French academy recently voted to ask the premier and foreign minister to do their utmost to secure the adoption of AT ri.nnnh 1 Q Tl Oil fl r A AS t.Vl A Offlp.iftl I II a iicuuu medium of speech at the Washington disarmament conference. Chancellor Wirth, Foreign Minister Rosen and Dr. Haniel von Haimhausen under-secretary of the foreign office conferred with representatives of the coalition party with regard to .the IorTncommg peace treaty uetweeu me United States and Germany. Walter L. Brown, director of the American relief administration, has arranged for another conference i on the subject with Maxim Litvinoff, re presentative of the Russian relief com mittee. ; - Plans for the funeral of King Peter of Serbia, who died recently after a long period of ill health were discussed but no definite determination was reached. The government has urged upon the people to rally round Prince Alexander who has been actinsr re- gent. - Reports from the United States that she may suggest control of , China by an international commission are understood to have been considered at a recent meeting of the Japanese cabinet in Tokio. The Caruso Memorial funded by a fimrl rArAivAd frnm tViA MetrnnnHt.fln Opera company of New York, will take the form of an annual scholarship at the Conservatory San Pietro Majella fnr. sintrora OiiAstirma mp.nar.insr thft Rolidaritv of the alliance between France and threat rsritain nave oeea sausiaciumy cof tlor? T Itit r?.flor-rcro rorontlv an. nniiTirArl in thA Tlritish hniisA. nf rr Tri llions. Serious earthquakes shocks are re ported from the. Italian colony Eritriea on the African shore of the Red Sea. 1 T 1 T - : 1 1 ,1 -3 x our peupxe uave ueeu nuieu auu a score or more injured. Several houses collapsed and others damaged, while other casualties are reported from places near Asmara. the military authorities in Ireland have cancelled all leaves of absences for both officers, and men, and that all officers and men who are away have been recalled. . Washington- : Senator Reed, during the course of a discussion of the anti-beer bill in the senate recently took occasion to make some personal remarks about Representative Volstead, house pro hibition leader. The senate financce committee re cently. completed hearings on the chemical schedule of the permanent tariff bill, amended the house bill pro vision for an import duty on re-imported war supplies sold by this gov ernment to France. An application for an advance of $5,000,000 to the Citizens and South ern Bank of Savannah, Ga., for finan cing exports was approved by the War Finance corporation The $3,000,000,000 decrease in the value of the country's foreign trade during the fiscal year just ending was ascribed by the department of com merce recently to the world-wide trade depression coming as an aftermath of the war. Four idle shipping bord steamers were assigned to operators recently as follows: The ewburgh to the Mun son line; The Vinton County to the Clyde Steamship company; The'Alcona to Trosdal, Plant and Lofonta; the .Bartholomew to the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship, company. Favorable report on the administra tion's railroad funding bill was ordered by 'the senate interstate commerce committee by a vote of 7 to 2 recently. n There are now 5,785,000 persons un employed in the United States, ac cording to the statement recently made by the secretary of labor. A successful experiment, in Tphotog raphy from the air regarded by avia tion officials as possessing possibili ties "of high mititary value, has just been conducted by the army air serv ice. A photographer flew from Boiling field to Camp; Meade and returned a few minutes later. with a plate already developed ready . for printing. Many amendments to the republican tax bill will be offered to behalf of the majority members of the ways and means committee before t ho -takes a final vote on the measure Samuel TilderiAnsell, former ' acting judge "advocate general of ; the army and "of ' the prisoner's legad counsel; Colonel John E. Hunt and ; Cplonel C. C. Cressori were charged with con spiracy in connection, with the escape of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the draft . dodger, in a report signed by three of the five members of a special investigating committee. The first six1 remodeled DH-4 type military planes to be used on the transcontinental mail - route between New York and San Froncisco were in spected recently at Boiling Field by Postmaster General Hays and other officials of the postal service. Tariff rates which would equalize American and foreign production costs and legislation to aid in the establish ment of an American dye industry were urged before the senate finance committee recentlyby representatives of the North Carolina division of the Southern Tariff association.. Approval of Henry Ford's offer for the Muscle Shoals, Ala., nitrate plant and lease of the dams was urged re cently by James Smith, of St. Louis, vice president of the Mississippi Val ley Waterway association. ' A Birmingham (Ala.) resident named Benton was said to have tele graphed Secretary Weeks recently of fering to operate the Muscle Shoals plant on a 50 per cent basis with the government and to submit derails of his proposal by mail. Democratic members of the house at a caucus recently pledged them selves to vote against 'the republican tax revision bill, and adopted a reso lution declaring that the measure was "subversive of the principle that should govern taxation for the sup port of this government" Julius P. Knabe was nominated re cently by President Harding to be register of the land office at Montgom ery, Alabama. Edwin E. Winters also of Montgomery was named to be re ceiver of public moneys. Albert Ot tinger, of New York, was nominated to be assistant attorney-general. In spite of- arrests, seizures, prosecu tions and few convictions, whiskey, gin, rum, brandy and even 9 per cent beer are. flowing into "dry" United States from Canada in great volume than ever before in the Volstead era, and Washington prohibition enforce ment leaders admit that unless they have more money, more agents and navy and army backing, the job of keeping or making the United States dry ,4ooks hopeless. The present war-time levies on the married man's income, hie wife's candy and furs and his wearing apparel were lowered in the proposed revenue bill. The committee decided to increase the exemption of married persons pay ing the normal income tax from $2,000 to $2,500. This, in addition to the recent approval given to an increase of from $200 to $400 in the exemption al lowed heads of families for each child or dependent. Domestic J. S. Crowell, former owner of the Crowell Publishing company, Spring field, Ohio publisher of the Woman's Home Companion and Farm and Fire side, died recently in a hospital in Cincinnati. Two million railroad employees were still on the anxious seat when announcement of the United States Railroad labor's decision on the new overtime and working rules was delay ed on account of printing difficulties. More than two thousand Chicagoans were inducted into the order of the Ku Klux Klan recently in an initiation ceremony conducted six miles south of Lake Zurick. , Kit Mitchell, negro fireman, was se riously wounded and George Allen, en gineer, received part of a' load of buck shot in his face when a northbound Illinois Central passenger train was fired, on by unidentified persons near Longview, Mississippi. Sidney A. Kinciad Burke county commissioner, on the witness stand recently for the murder of his wife at Morgantown, N. C, claims that he had been drinking at the timo of the tragic occurence, and that he had no memory .of his actions, i r The British custom of taking out1 weather insurance has acquired a strong boothold in the United States. Five major baseball clubs this season have thus safeguarded themselves on all playing dates ,while many minor league magnates are similarly pro tecting their exchequers; A safe containing. liberty bonds val ued at , about $30,000 ind almost an eqiual amount of mortgages and other securities were stolen from the home of S. W. Young, a farmer about eight miles from Lake City S. C. while he was away. Asleep on the track, an unidentified young man, apparently 20 years old, was decapitated near . Ferguson sta tion, Tennessee, by a fast: southbound Louisville and Nashville passenger train. A youth accompanying him, who refused to give his name, stated they were returning from a show at Drakes boro and had stopped to. rest. The dead boy ; had used the rail as a rest for his head. ' v Two airplanes becoming entanelrt 500 feet , in the air crashed to earth at Mason City,; Iowa, killing' one of the pilots and seriously injuring the oth er. : ;. ;---.-:y .... t., ' Prohibition official says' that up from the Bahamas is coming a fleet of heav ily laden ships with ".the drink that not only cheers but inebriates," whose skippers propose to drop anchor five or six miles out from New York City and then advertise they are open for busi ness. It is interesting to note what will be done or can be done as this is beyond the three-mile limit ' RAILROADS APPEAL FOR REVALUATION COUNTIES' VALUATION CUT BY NUMBER OF f COUNTI E8, BUT RAILROAD PROPERTY NOT. NASH GOUNTY IS AN EXAMPLE No Order was Issued by the Revenue Commissioner at the Conclusion of a Somewhat Extended Hearing. Raleigh Caught between a local reduction in property valuation that does not apply to them, and a correspondingly in creased tax rate that does apply to them, three great railroad systems of the state made appeal to the Revenue Commission for relief in the form of reduction of their values to the same basis that has been ordered into effect by the various counties. Nash county and the Atlantic Coast Line were taken as the example for argument to the commission, with its real estate values cut approximately in half, its tax" multiplated by two, and the railroad's property remaining on the tax books as it was a year ago, but subject to the newly doubled tax rate. No order was issued by. the Rev enue Commissioner at the conclusion of the hearing. The" Atlantic Coast Line, operating in 33 counties, 30 of which have re duced property values from 10 to 50 per cent, wanted its value cut from BO to 41 million; the Seaboard Air Line, operating in 27 counties, 25 of which have reduced values, wanted a reduction from 34 million to 28 mil lion; the Southern, operating in 40 counties, wanted a reduction from 102 million to 66 million. Weekly Crop Report. Moderate rains occurred in the touthern and western portions of the state and there were scattered rains in the northern portion toward the close of the week, with cooler weather in all sections through temperature averaged about normal. Practically all crops made good progress in the southern and western counties except in some localities where there was rather too much rain, but in most of the northern counties progress was poor on account of drought, though local, rains afforded some relief. Much corn In the dry section has been dam aged beyond recovery and there are many complaints within this area re garding tobacco, such as firing and light weight. Cotton has been doinp; well in the south, but at a standstill on account of the prolonged dry period, particularly in spots along and near the border of the belt. Melons are plentiful and sweet potatoes are being shipped from the eastern section. "Mockery of Equal Treatment Projecting himself into the discus sion for the purpose of justifying: the action of the state tax commission when it refused to reduce assessments against the American and Liggett and Myers Tobacco companies. Commis sioner Allen J. Maxwell made public a statement in which he 'charges that the reductions allowed these com panies by the state board of equaliza tion, if allowed to stand, "make a ihockery of any. pretense of equal treatment in.the administration of our tax laws." ' Pershing Invited to New Bern. Washington, (Special). William J. Mode was nominated for postmaster at Rutherf ordton ; Walter D. Thompson, at Elrod, and Ora T. Nicholson at Er lander. A. T. Willis, secretary of the New Bern fair, has asked Representative Brinson to invite General Pershing to the New Bern fair September 14. If General Pershing cannot accept he would like to have Franklin D. Roose velt, Herbert Hoover, Secretary Wal lace or Governor Cox, of Ohio. Examinations for Postmasters. Washington, (Special). Examina tions for postmasters will be held on dates to be announced later at Besse mer City, Randleman and Red Springs. Breaking in Grissom. Gilliam Grissom, revenue collector to be, has arrived in Raleigh and has been the guest of Democratic Collec tor J. W. Bailey, whose eight years of service has expired. Young William Duncan, apparently, has no further chance. Grissom had nothing to do with the framing of the Linney letter. So there's nothing much to it but his appointment, which Commissioner Blair will probably rec ommend and President Harding make within ten days or two weeks, at the latest. ' ' ' " ' No. Controversy for Moody. Major W. Moody, former presi dent of the State Federation of Labor, said that he would be drawn into no controversy with President Barrett, or the federation or any officials or mem bers of the textile union, . He -was asked to make a statement in reply to the statement purporting to' come from many labor leaders in Asheville and printed in a number of papers. . : ' . , v..S-! ' ,V',. A Haying ' said nothing in the first place, Major, Moody insisted that he had nothing to say now. . Calefv TaXfiS. V- ; Liens against; real state to satisfy taxes levied oy the United States Government under the' Volstead pro hibition enforcement law have become sufficiently numerous in North Caro lina to give apprehension, to insurance companies and other large :mone7 lenders in the state, it became known. Although, J. W, Bailey, :collectort pi internal revenue, $ has been - enjoined by Judge Henry f G. ' Connor of the Eastern district - and Judge James & Boyd, of the Western district, from selling the property to meet the liens, the question of the validity . of such liens has not. yet been passed upon by the United States Supreme court and until a decision is reached -by the highest court, the property , is prac tically useless to its owner, either for purpose of sale "or as collateral for a loan. ' ' In the meantime the treasury - de partment has remained firm' in its po sition that the liens are valid and that the high penalties imposed . by the Volstead act are collectable, and has instructed Collector Bailey to continue to impose taxes where it is reported that anyone has engaged in the man ufacture of whiskey and to levy upon the property of the party in question in case of failure to pay the tax. Drive by Odd Fellows. The reports from the subordinate lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows throughout the state for the first week of the great attendance contest which was inaugurated Au gust 1 by Grand Master L. W. Moore, of Wilmington, indicate that there has already been a great awakening on the part of the membership. Grand iMaster Moore says that the great at tendance contest from Cherokee to Currituck is moving in fine shape and that the 11,000 Odd Fellows of North Carolina are behind this great pro gressive movement for the successful conclusion of the greatest revival in its history. 7 Fight Co-operative Marketing. With a fund of $25,000 which can be used in the campaign for membership, it is increasingly evident tha4 the Farmers' alliance is determined to make a fight to regain the influence it held in North Carolina a quarter of a century ago. The recent meeting of the alliance here and its stand for co-operative marketing recalls the fight a few years ago, when the Farmers' union dethroned Dr. Clarence Poe, T. B. 'Parker, W. C. Crosby and other con servative progressives forthe leader ship of Alexander and Stone. The dom inant "wing of the union is now fight ing co-operative; marketing. An Appeal to Preachers. "This bureau will honestly attempt to enforce law without fear or favor, the best available will be appointed as enforcement agents," declares Fed eral Prohibition Director R, A. Koh loss in an appeal to the ministers of North Carolina through letters that have been addressed to preachers in dividually in which he asks for re ports of specific violations of the pro hibition law. Marine Breaks World Record. Washington (Special). Sergeant Thomas J. Jones.whpse home is at Scottsville, N. C, not only won the Campbell rifle match at Wakefield, Mass., but also broke the world's rec ord for consecutive bulls eyes, mak ing a string of 131. He is a member of the marine corps, and Acting Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt wired him congratu lations. Other Nominations Expected. Organization republications, elated over the confirmation of Frank A. Linney as district attorney for tha west, say now that the slate will be made before Congress takes its recess. Postmaster Examinations. Washington, D. C. Examination will be held September 13 for post masters at Hamlet, salary $2,500; Newton, $2,400, and Norh Wilkes boro, 2,500. Robert, M. West has been appointed postmaster at Cumberland. Wilson Declines Invitation. Washington (Special). Senator Overman was notified by John Ran dolph Boiling, acting secretary to ex President Wilson, that Mr. Wilson could not accept an invitation to spend the rest of the summer at Lake Kanuga. Muzzy History Not Mandatory. The attacks made on Muzzy's his tory of the United States by the Unit ed Daughters of the Confederacy caus ed some, school officials to call atten tion to the fact that this particular history of the United States is not re quired bythe text book commission. It was one of four recommended by the commission for use i the high schools of the state, and there Is no re quirement that this .particular history be used. Information reaching Raleigh is to the effect that some of the schools of the state are using it. : Census of State Illiterates.- Washington v (Special). According to the census of 1920- tljere are 242,445 illiterate persons 18 years of age and over in he state of North Carolina, "illiterate" meaning unable to write. Of this number 104,673 are native white of native parentage, 171 are of foreign or mixed parentage, and 474 are of foreign birth. The number . of illiterate negroes is 133,516. in the total population ten years . of age and over the : percentage of illiteracy is 13.1 which. It is gratifying to note shows diminution since 1910. .... . - : : , -. V . " ' - V ' . iltlGOtlSflTUlit FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CANNOT COLLECT TEN PER CENT FOR VIOLATIONS OF LAW. IS MATTER FOR STATES ONLY State Laws Provide Penalty and Not a Tax, as is Provided by the Act Ruled Upon, Says Judge Boyd. J Greensboro, N. C. Judge - James . Boyd, 'in federal court, Iield the na uonal child labor law, which seeks to collect a federal tax of ten per cent on the profits derived from the products of child labor, unconstitution al. The decision was in the case of the Vivian Spinning Mills,- of Cher ryville, N. C, seeking to restrain J W. Bailey; collector of internal rev enue, from enforcing the act!. The Owen-Keating child labor law was also held unconstitutional by Judge Boyd in decision rendered two years ago and that ruling was up held by the Supreme Court of the United States. Regulation of labor, Judge Boyd ruled in his decision, is one of the powers retained by the states, and not delegated. to the federal government State child labor laws are adequate to take care of the situation and pro vide a penalty, not a tax, as is pro posed by the act of congress, 'ine attempt of the federal govern ment to regulate labor within the state is , an usurpation of authority and a violation of the sovereign rights of the state, concludes the rul ing. Tablet to Verdun Defenders. Verdun, France. Members of the American Legion dedicated a tablet to the defenders of Verdun in the city hall here. The ceremony 'was carried out in the presence of all the city. officials. i - New State Horses. London. The famous six cream po nies, which were formerly part 'of the state pegeantry of London, will never appear again drawing the 'royal coach through the London streets as, owing to in-breeding, the stock , has grown too small for ceremonial purposes. Austrian Labor Unions Grow. Vienna. The labor unions of .Aus tria have multiplied their member ship since the war. The total of all the unions in the republic now amounts .to 940,000 members as agains 253,137 in 1914. The number of women members is 223,000. ' Baltic Union Tor Protection. Riga, Latvia Efforts are now un der way to induce Finland to join the Balic Union, which became an accomplished fact with the signing of various conventions leading to a triple alliance in Esthonia, Latvia and Lith uania. Export Bill Passed by House. Washington. With a number of amendments in the senate bill, which would make one billion dollars avail able through the war finance corpora tion for stimulating exportation of agricultural products, was passed by the house. Sweden's Population. Stockholm. The total population at the end of 1920 amounted to over 5, 904,000, according to the central sta tistical bureau's preliminary figures just published. -Mexicans Talking Prohibition. Mexico City. There is a well de fined movement here which is said to have some official backing to make the federal district, which embraces Mexico City bone dry by September 1. American Ambushed and Murdered. EI Paso, Texas. Bennett Boyd, 18 years old, of El Paso, was ambushed and murdered by bandits in Mexico on August 18, according to messages received in El Paso by his father. Result of Turkish Victory. Constantinople. Claim is made by the Turks that their success over the Greeks in the Sakaria rivet region has caused the retreat of the Greeks along t!ie entire front. Greeks Reach Sakaria River. -Smyrna. After four days' fighting the Greeks have reached several points on the west bank of, the Sakaria river, while the right wing was crush ed beyond the river,' the Turkish left n6 fvtunng io officers. and .4,000 men. . 400 Marines for Canal Zone. . . .Philadelphia. A force of ,400 'ma rines embarked from hereon the U. S. S. - Pennsylvania - for ' duty in Panama. ' . French Monument to Americans. " Flirey, France. Lorraine's . monu ment to the American expeditionary forcesv the dedication of which -was one of. the principal objects : of ; the present visit of the American legion in ;6 leglon'8 representatives In the presence, ol the countryside.. int OLD N0RTH STATE uoiasboro. James h q . 78, Confederate Yan aS City, Texas, died here mi V Salisbury.-Mrs. Paul Pwi1 nown and hiehiv eier- uu uigmy ronon., Veil mea at her home here in year of VipV no-Q the by paralysis. Statesville.-Louis srev 93, one of Irdell com-v 0,!n' a9 most respected citizens iwi home at Loray. ' at Mb Concord. Mrs. J. M Oil -mi - C. C. Myers, had a'ivirrMr from serious injurv wlr t,e Va were riding in was struck 'bv' Iff car another Graham. A deplorable tragedy " discovered when it .was fom Ben N. Turner had killed himself? cutting his throat with a small knife. Mr. Turner had been in J? health for some time. High Point Miss Lucretia Owen for the past 10 months secretary the' High Point Young Women's ChrJ tian association, has resigned the sition to become employment seen tary in. the Young Women's Christiai association in Norfolk, Va. Asheville. J. Hampton Rich, aging director of the Boone' Tni Highway Association outlined the course of the Asheville connection with the Boone Trail highway, the scenic trans-continental highway be ing constructed in honor of Daniel Boone. Lumberton. Sidney R. Hendriz, well-known Robeson farmer, died sud denly while sitting at the dinner table. He held a small child on his lap when the final summons came. Heart trouble is supposed to have been the cause of his death. ' "Warsaw. Walter Vann, colored, was burned to death near this place when at attempted to pour gasoline into the tank of his automobile by the light of a lantern. Henderson ville.. The Citizens Na tional bank is now occupying its hail some new quarters on the northeast corner of Main street and Foutl avenue. ? Rocky Mount.. Two small kittens and a young rat make the happy fam ily of a fond mother cat at Enfield. Ayden. During the storm which reached this section lightning struct the steeple of t,he Methodist churc'a h Grifton, tearing off the top Gastonia. Two escaped convicts the Mecklenburg chaining were (if tured in the Crowders creek swtiM by Officers Terrell and Roper Mooresville McNeely s livery sta ble building, which has been a land mark in the town since its first in poration, was totally destroyed by Ire- Clinton. "Not guilty." That tras the verdict of the jury rendered i hours after they had taken tne jw.. naao. T TI7CJ a Tin BlimriSe tO those who had most doubt as to w validity of the insanity plea. Sanatorium. At a recent . tnbercj losis clinic held in Gaston coun.y. per cent of those examined werefo'J to have tuberculosis in an active lo and in need of sanatorium treatmew Raleigh. Deputy Sheriff J C. G J fis, of Leesville township. brougM stills to the sheriff's office, the W ading equipment having been cap during a raid by himself anu Sheriff Ferrell. AHhoirnl Rdwin Barbour 0 1 Norvell, vice president and casn the Wachovia Bank and iro.. pany, with headquarters m , Salem, died at his residence uc- an extended illness. whic Lumberton. A meetm at tree' 4 plans for combatting tne 0 arid studying methods of tar deT boll weevil conditions was . t ttt r,rad m the iarm oi jouu - tv southern part of Robeson coun . t in NAwtnn.-One of the mosi. esting meetings ever held m & was that at the Virginia W ...I. in me ionu ui nis CI""' . - m UiniT a rvu v " - pose OI oisaui" c;nPS9 sin A large number of tne u from Newton were present. ,-erage for !af tnhnrro on tne ra.r- . . . . . .. nfflCl showing' local warehouses- 1S2 pounds for $28 -ncreage nr hundred pounds, an over $5 per hundred Stateavine.-NoPOl1!Se.! -. Ill V" alowed in Statesville m;. mutter has been i A IT till 1 board of aldermen. . lSe f mous vote of the do- tbe room should be placed un in the town.
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