PAGE TWO THE POLK COUNTY NEWS HILL OPEN IRE CAMP BRAGG AND MANY OTHERS TO BE OPEN FOR INTENSIVE TRAINING. Oil WIDER SCALE THAN EVER Military Training Camps Plan to .Em brace All of the Components and Agencies of the Army. Washington. Military training will be opened this summer on a wider scale than ever, it was announced by the war department. Outside the national guard units, which will be trained in their own states, the following camps will be opened for intensive training of the organized reserve officers and citi- sens: Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont; Camp Devens, Mass. ; Plattsburgh, N. Y.; Camp Dix, N. J.; Camp Meade, Md.; Camp Bragg, N. C; Camp- Benning Ga.; Camp McClellan, Ala; ' Camp Knox, Ky.; Camp Custer, " Mich.; Camp Grant, 111.; Fort Snelling, Minn. ; Camp Funston, Kans.;, Camp Travis, Tex. r Fort Logan, Colo.; Camp Lewis, Wash.; Presidio of Monterey, Cal. 1 t. t This summer, for the first time, the military training camps plan to em brace all of the components and agen cies of the army. Practically all the officers and men of the regular army will be utilized at the summer" train ing camps to instruct those who en- I list for the training courses. If congress passes pending appro priations, the war department plans summer training for i approximately 160,000 members of the national guard 30,000 reserve officers and specialists 10,000 student members of the reserve officers' training corps and 27,000 civil ians, a total of 227.000, men. Nearly 1,000 reserve officers will be called in to act as instructors, in addition tc those of the regular army. Each army of nine corps areas intc "which the country is divided wil train 2,000 reserve officers, 1,000 re serve enlisted men for two weeks at a time throughout the summer. Applications for attendance at the - camps will be accepted at corps headquarters after . April 1. "Red White and Blue" courses, will be con ducted. Training in the Red course will be confined in general to the simple - fundamentals.' In the White course for non-commissioned officers and the Blue course for officers, the training will be in subjects for ap pointment in the grades indicated. Age limits for the . Red course wil be from 17 to 25; for the White course from 18-to 26 and for the Blue course from 19 to 27. Aeroplanes to Fight Rum Smuggling Washington. Prohibition headquar ters reports from Florida of what i said to be the first dry law air raid ai sea with The inauguration of land water and air warfare against rum smugglers along the south coast. Commissioner Haynes said he had not as yet received a report from Miami of the seizure of the British schooner Anna Belle with a cargo o liquor off Jewfish Creek by airplanes of the prohibition forces, but added that advices of the squadron's initial flight would reach headquarters soon Young Heiress to Marry Oser. Chicago. Mathllde McCormick. 16 years old, had permission of her father Harold F. McCormick. to marry Max Oser, a -horseman of . Zurish, Switzer land. Mr. McCormick announced the engagement in a 33-word statement He said it was hastened a few weeks by the fact of the recent newspaper puoiicity. 1 14,000 "Foreign" TrooDS. Dublin. Fourteen thousand British troops are now left in Ireland, accord ing to a statement issued by the pub licity branch of the Irish republican army. Fifty military barracks and ira police barracks have been taken over oy tne provisional government Farmers Pay Back Loans. Washington. Improvement in agri cultural conditions is beginning to manliest Itself In an orderly liquida uon renected In recent repayments to the war finance corporation in cohnec tion with its loans for exoort. aericul ture and livestock purposes, Managing JLHrector Eugene Myer declared. From January 1 to February 15. in elusive, he said a total of $15,233,000 has been repaid to the corporation, wmcn j,2U,uoo represents repay ments of loans made under the war powers of the organization. Retail Food Prices Decrease. Washington. The retail food price index, maintained by the department of labor on reports from representa tive communities throughout the Unit ed States, showed a decrease of five per cent in January as compared with . December, It was announced. During the 30-day period covered by the re port 26 of the 44 articles of food con t sidered as within the culinary require ments of the average family, decreased in price from 1 to 29 per cent, the high est price, change being in the cost fresh eggs. ACTIVE SPINDLES 4N COTTON MILLS SHOW BIG JNSREA8B Washington. Active cotton spin dle hours reported for the month of January were 7,929,358,1 36. the department of commerce an nounced. Based on a activity of 25 1-2 days of 8.7 hours per .day, the average number of spindles dp- erated during the month was 35, 751,715, compared with an average of 34,154,410 for Pecembef and 36,074,401 for November. Active spinning spindles for the following states for the month in cluded: For Alabama, 1,291,616; Connecticut, 1,291,616;, Georgia, 2, 288; Maine, 1,114,518; Massachu setts, 10.517,793; North Carolina, 5,200,995; Pennsylvania. 171,815; Rhode Island. 2,582,908; South Car olina, 5,021,650; Tennessee, 428,693, and Virginia, 616,758. AGREED ON SHIP SUBSIDIES FOR UPBUILDING AND MAINTE NANCE OF AMERICAN MER- t CHANT MARINE. .. Merchant Marine Program Has Been Virtually Determined by Adminis tration Leaders. Washington. Both direct -and indi rect ship subsidies for the upbuilding and maintenance of the American mer chant marine hLve been agreed upon by administration leaders, it was said in official quarters. The merchant marine program, it was added, has been virtually deter mined and was in the drafting stage with Chairman Lasker and experts of the shipping board engaged in the preparation of a tentative bill for in troduction in both branches of con gress late next week when President Harding plans to submit the adminis tration recommendations. A.direct subsidy amounting to about $30,000,000 annually was said to have been agreed upon by the president, Chairman Lasker and other republican leaders. ' The basic rate, it was added, would be one-half of one per cent per ton. per hundred miles. Ths would be paid to operators of American ships to aid in their operation and the ex tension of their trade routes. The one half cent rate would be given to ves sels of low speed and a sliding scale, it was said, would increase the rate to as" high as one and three-quarters cents per ton per hundred miles for the speediest American vessels. The direct subsidy, it was stated, would be the principal charge upon the treasury, while more benefits, of ficials believe, would be received by the merchant marine from the indi rect subsidies. These would include special rates for carrying the United States mail and preferential' railroad rates. The latter under' the tenta tive administration bill now being pre pared, technically would be in the form of reduced cargo rates xm Ameri can vessels when shippers would be given a reduced cargo rate on Ameri can vessels when shipping merchan dise to an American port for export vessels operated by the emergency fleet corporation. Contracts for Oteen Improvements. Washington. Awards of contracts aggregating $350,000 for work on the public health service hospital at Oteen, N. C, were announced by the treasury department. A contract for construc tion work on the hospital, at a cost of $257,694, was awarded to Fanning & Quinn, of Norfolk, Va., and a contract for mechanical equipment at a cost of $63,500, to the Union Electric com pany of New Orleans. 'Business Conditions Imorove. Washington. Business conditions throughout the country are better than they were a year ago in the view of treasury officials, who declared, how ever, that the improvement has been gradual and there was no Immediate prospect of a sudden pick-up in busi ness activities. American Forces on Rhine Reduced. Washington. An immediate further reduction of 203 officers and 3.000 men in the American forces in Germany was announced by the war depart ment. There will be remaining in Germany after this reduction a total of 2,217 men. Troops Ready for Trouble. El Paso, Texas. Five thousand troops at Fort Bliss were being held ready for any emergency which might arise along the border. They were mobilized when rumors were scattered in Ju'rez and El Paso that 3,000 men were assembling in the bills south of Jvarez, and that the Juarez garrison wa expected to "revolt.' Juarez mil itary &cA civilian officials strongly de nied each report but admitted they are aware that revolutionists are trying to recruit men in Chihuahua. Boaz Long Retires. v Washington. Boaz W. Long, Ameri can minister to Cuba since 1919, has tendered his resignation to .President Hording, to take effect at once. Mr. Long has been in the United States for several months, having left Cuba soon after Major General Enoch H. Crowder went to the island as the personal representative of Presi dent Harding. At the state depart ment, where th resignation was an nounced, ft was said that Mr.. Long would engage in business in Central America. x - HOSPITAL PLAflS ARE 11 fl 0 U f 1 C EO ADDITIONAL HOSPITAL CON strIjction TO CArtEj FOR 'i i FORMER SERVICE MEN. IN VARIOUS PARTS OF COUNTRY Proposed ProVam Would include Many- Beds Needed for the Care ! of Mental Patients. Washington. Detailed recommen dations for additional government hps pital construction in various parts of the country for former service men framed! by a conference of special-! ists on mental diseases were made j public by the veterans' bureau. The j proposed program would include a i total of 12,000 beds needed for the ! care1 of mental patients. Location ofVa hospital of 500 beds in the western part ; of Massachusetts to receive pa-1, tients Jfrom Vermont, New- Hampshire j and northern Connecticut towns was recommended to replace the hospitail now in use at East Norfolk, Mass!, while the use of Fort Hctover at Buf falo j was suggested. Increase of the hospitals at Perryville and Gulfport;, Miss1., were recommended together with; the construction of a new in stitution of 500 beds to be increased latef to 1,000 beds in district No. 7 comprising Ohio, Indiana and Ken tucky. ! Disapproval of the use of the hospital at Maywood, 111., was express ed and a new hospital of 1,000 beds to be increased to 1,500 beds was urged for district No. 8, comprising Michigan. Illinois and Wisconsin. P A 'new hospital of 500 beds to be irif creased to 1,000 beds was urged for district No. 9, .comprising Iowa, Misf souri, Kansas and Nebraska, to rejf place the present institution at Knox ville, Iowa. I A hospital of 500 beds was recom mended for district No. 10, compris ing Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana. if A hospital of 250 beds to be .in creased' to 500 beds was suggested for district No. 13, comprising Ore gon, Idaho and Washington, whiph' would care, for patients from the westf era part of the Tenth district and the northern part of district No. 12, com! prising j California, Nevada and Aril zonal ' . jj An increase in the capacity of the: j hospital now being built at Fori Logan H. Root, Little Rock, Ark j was also recommended. . The program was said to' he under consideration by the bureau which was awaiting the action of congress; j upon pending legislation, to provide $16,000,000 for further hospital con struction. Much Electric Power- Promised. Washington. Supply of hydro-elec-f trie power for municipal and industrial' purposes throughout the region with-f in transmission distance of Muscles? Shoals, Alabama, estimated by engi-: neerj experts at 400 miles, was prom ised by Thomas W. Mastin, president of the Alabama Power company, in the event Congress accepted the of fer of that company for purchase and lease of the shoals projects. Mr. Martin's statement pointed out that the offer to operate at Muscle: Shoals j under the federal water power act obligated the company to! function as a public utility "bound to serve everyone without discrimt- nation, either in rates or in service."'. Photographers Pay to Snap Wedding. London. Completed plans reported for photographing Princess Mary's wedding on February 28 reveal - the fact that photographers, in order to1 procure; desirable vantage spots for their cameras, will be called upon to pay huge sums of money. v; From 40 to 60 motion plctiire cam eras will be employed and about 100 press cameras for snapping photo-! graphs: of the procession. A favored; place for taking pictures will be near the Westminster abbey gateway where! the brid&groom, Viscount Lascellea.i King George, Queen Mary and other members of the royal family as well as the chief guests; will alight from their carriages y Cross Border Into Mex loo. Mexico Citv. Thlrtv " r .- - - -wm. the American border into Mexico at Columbus, N. MV according to ad vices sent by Governor Enriquez" of the state of Chihuahua to the war of fice, j The advices said the' men were being pursued. I Rebel forces of Rosalio Hernandez!, under close pursuit by federal troops, have, been driven from Chihuahua across the boundary line intovthe hills of the state of Coahiula, says a mesir sage received by the department of the interior from Governor Enriquez, x Plan Expansion for University. ! Washington. A nation-wide camf paign-for two million dollars as an endowment and expansiori -fund for Lincqln Memorial university, a schooi located in , the mountains of Tennesl see, has been started here. It would provide; facilities for: a ' thousand or more students: ; r; , ; j Governor Taylor declared the memi orial university already is - working wonders in the regeneration' and dei velopment of the hill , country! It was founded 25 years ago at Cumber- fana uap. I ' I 1 1 - ik WASHINGTON CLOSE Washington. Seven theaters, in cluding New National ahd Poll s, two of the principal playhouses in the national capital,; were ordered, closed by the'board f 'wmmlsslon ers, the governing -body; the Dis trict of Columbia. - The order was' Issued after an- in spection of the playhouses In the district had been completed by a board or five engineers.. The inspection .grew out pf the recent collapse of the Knlckerbock,- ere theater, which cost the lives of, 98 persons.. t . r (1 Other theaters closed were the Methopolitan, Columbia, Maryland and Foraker, motion piceure houses and the Cosmos, , vaudeville! i0 and, moUon pictures- The;, Metrppo,' tan and the. Oolumbia' are, two. of the larger downtown theaters:: The former is owned . by the ; Crandall company, which also owned' the Knickerbocker. . f ' v . r The report of the engineers on which the order was Issued was not made public, but members said that "in most cases" structural' weak ness and inadequate Are protection had been disclosed by their Inves tigation, i OFFER FOR MUSCLE SHOALS PURCHASE AND LEASE OF MUS CLE SHOALS SOUGHT; BY ' o . . i . .. ALABAMA POWECOr : U Properties Are Subject to Recapture by Government at the End ' of That Tiine. Washington. Another offer for the purchase and lease of the: government properties at 'Muscle -Shoals,. Ala., was completed and arrangements made by its sponsors, the. Alabama Power Co., for immediate filing with Secretary Weeks. The offer was tendered by Thomas Martin, acting for the Alabama Power Co., of which he is president, and with its submission the total number of proposals received by the govern ment for its war-acquired properties in Alabama was brought to four. The new ofTer" is expected to be transmit ted soon by Secretary Weeks to con gress, which has before it the offer of Henry Ford. The Alabama Power Co. proposes completion of the Wilson dam "with out further advances or expenditures by the United States" and the out right purchase of the Warrior power plant on the Gorgas river, which is sit uated on ground already owned by the company. The properties would be leased by the power company for a period of fifty years under the plan and be sub jected to "recapture by the govern ment" at the termination of that time. They also would be'operated subject to the provisions of the federal power act. under an operating license. Graduates May Not be -Commissioned. Washington. The house naval com mittee, in trying to discover some way of reducing appropriations for the na val establishment next year, was 're ported to have agreed informally to recommend that the first class at An napolis, to be graduated in June, would be turned back to civil' life without commissions in the navy. Although members declined, to dis cuss this- proposal, it is understood that such a recommendation probably will be made, along with the further proposal that , the number of men to be admitted to the academy each year to be reduced from five to two, for each member of congress. Secre tary Denby proposed tnat th reduc tion be cut on a congressional allot ment from , five to three. Asks Grand Jury to Investigate Fire. Richmond, Va. Chief of Police Charles A. Sherry announced that, fol-i lowing a' week's investigation , into, the fire which destroyed, the Lexington hotel here t February 7 and cost .12 known lives, he has recommended to Judge D. E. Richardson, of the Hus tings courtr and Commonwealth's At torney Dave Satterfield tha results of his inquiries "merit, a grand jury investigation." Southern's Record of On-Time Trains. Washington, During the year 1921 the Southern railway system operated 179,835 passenger trains, many of them being through trains operated in connection with other lines and ering distances from 1,000 to 1,500 miles. - ;i . - ;;,A,.?; Of this great number of grains 172, 182, or 95.1 per 'cent, ran on'scheuTet or made up time, while on the South ern 166,277,. or ,92.5 per cent,, reached final , terminal oa ' time Vice Presi dent; Henry ,W, Miller, in charge .of operation, announced. Highly Prize Wilson's Old Shirt Albany, Ga. Aprons made from the cast-off shirts of national local ca lebrities were auctioned off . in the name of sweet charity at a local thea tre under the ' auspices of the local D. A. R chapter, and former President Wilson's brought more than any oth ers. There were 'aprons made from old shirts contributed by Henry Ford, Jack Dempsey j Thomas A. Edison, Ty Cobb, Wallace Reid, Governor Thomas W. Hardwick and many others. 'The proceeds will go to help pay for the education of an orphan girl. "BuRCES GROl'l CONDITION OF BANKS IN DECEM BER DESCRIBED AS "VERY SATISFACTORY." f INCREASE OF $406,000,000 Shows'the "Most Satisfactory Turn in .-'' Financial Affalra" of the Coun- . .. ' - --'.r-V-try Si nee 1919 : -Washington. Resources of. the 1 na tional banks of the country, exclusive of re-discounts amounting to $19,420, 000,000 at the last call on December 31; showjed an increase of $406,000,000 over the previous call in September, according to an analysis issued : by Comptroller of the Currency Crissin ger The ' condition of the national banks in December, he declared as "very satisfactory" and called atten tion' to' the fact that until September their resources had more or less steadily declined from their peak of 22,711,000;000 in; December, Conditions of the national banks, as reported .by Mr. ; jCrissinger, were said in a formal statement issued' by the White House ;to show "the most satisfactory turn in the financial af fairs of the country that has been reg istered by a bank statement since the conclusion of 1919;" ';' "It demonstrates," the statement continued, "that the process. of liqui dation, has been proceeding, at , such an excellent rate that it may fairly be said; that we are well on the rpad to getting ; the "frozen credits" thawed out.' Ir hla- regard, indeed, it is by far, the most ! satisfactory - showing that has' been made since the phrase 'frozen credits' was invented." 4It must be - borne in mind," the statement " said "that the . national banks represent, considerable less than' half of the total banking capac ity of the nation. It is therefore safe to assume that the state pavings and private banks and trust companies have experienced the same turn in the tide that is. noted in the case of national banks. ' "We may, therefore, conclude that the figures for national banks may safely be doubled in order,, to get an approximate representation of the sit uation as to the entire banking , es tablishment of the nation. "Under any analysis, the figures in dubitably demonstrate that the peak of liquidation and consequent depress sion was passed somewhere between September 6, last, and December 31; last, and that the tendency has been steadily toward improving business and less reliance of business upon the support of the banks. "Of precisely like tenor are re cent advrces from the war finance corporation, which reports a. progres sive liquidation of its loans ; and - a general improvement of conditions in the agricultural'Industry. Recent stab ilizations of prices for agricultural staples have brought the farmers to the point, where they are able to realize something at least approxi mating costs of production, and can look forward hopefully to still further improvements in no very -distant fu ture." ' . . , , Refuse Extradition of Bullock. Hamilton, Ont. Extradition of Mat thew Bullock, negro4; to the United States, to stand trial in Norlina, N. C, on charges of attempted murder of Ra bey Taylor during race riots there, was refused by County Judge Snyder on the ground of Insufficient (evidence. Judge Snyder decreed that! witness es must come here from. Norlina to testify against the negro. Bullock recently won a fight against deportation to North Carolina chiefly through the intercession of the negro population-of Toronto and the com mission of immigration holding that the negro's conduct had been good during' his stay here. ' Bullock was re-arrested here on a United States extradition warrant. He was. taken in custody as he was about to. start to work for a contractor by whom he had been' employed prior to his first. arrest, ' . ' . Three . Killed in Wreck. xChapel Hill, N. C Three boys were killed and three others Injured when the . automobile in which they were riding, was struck by a switch engine at a crossing in the eastern part of this city. With the exception of the driver, of the car, who was killed, all were, students at 'che University 6t North. Carolina. - 7 ; , 4 News, of . the' Itatal .tragedy has brought sorrow to the university and the entire community. , The 'reports reached the village several hours after the accident occurred. Kidnaped Unionists Returned Home. Belfast. Return to their homes of a large i number of the -kidnaped Un ionists has had a stimulating! effect on public opinion in Ulster, but the situation on the border continues to be one of dansrer owine to' thn nrnT. imity of rival' forces at some points. wews or tne arrangement for liason commissions on each side of the, tnn. tier also was received with satisfac tion and the hope is widely expressed that they will become oneraHvA quickly as possible.- : CONDENSED NEWS THE OLD NORTH SIj SHORT NOTES F INTERE5T, CAROLINIANS. Greensboro. Closing convention of the North o-.N thaler, . president of Salem pni. .riiuu-oaieffl, was unanir chosen chairman of the next tion. . e2t ' Taylbrsville. C. W. Maj bem Ane piant is to Degin operation the next 10 days. The product t' Known as tne KocKy Face" brj tween sidewalk and street m with grass; more roses and shmtl and a general cleaning up, are the ,first recommendations resJ: from the creation of a civic sulJ mittee of the department of chrf' fairs of the Gastonia Chamh0riJ - - - ui merce. ' , " Wllnjiington. Establishment! barge line between Wilmington,) ington, Beaufort-and New Eeri t) early date was . announced by the mond Steamship , and Wreckicjl Transportation of sand and will be the principal work of the line. amite his way out of a prison c at. Boone Ford, Mitchell county, l Edwards, serving a ten-year secv Hor murder in Guilford "county, ; I shot'and seriously wounded by g-' Willie Owens, a Raleigh man, ser a short sentence for highway rofe was slightly wounded by a stray let. 1 - I I New Bern. According to reft reaching here, from Beaufort i Morehead City, the cargo of ryerl key thrown off ' a stranded schc! near tnose points several weeks r has been practically' exhausted. I whiskey was salvaged by native that section and used both for if consumption and shipment outsii! good portion of it Is reported to k; been sent here. ' 'Milton. The people of this coe? . nity have started a movement tc vise means to locate a deliver' p . here for this district of the Tokl Growers ' Co-operative assowi Strohe resolutions were adopted recent mass meeting which vni ' tended by practically all the reprs ta tive citizens. J Greensboro. Rev. Robert E .t rector- of the Holy Trinity Epif church for the ' last seven and a years, has resigned to accept th: torate of a, church in Vineland, !j .Wilmington. Samples of milk ; plied by a local dairyman were W "analyzed by city health officers lowing the death of a 13-montl;s-j baby ' and the , serious illness of other children ranging in ates tt 2 to 7 years. Kinston. Discerning i5tore-bi ers who had sacked the Queen str hop of Charles A. Waters 6f dre;-: and other merchandise valued at 000, were' cornered by police ' they prepared to take away the gc in a truck. Four negroes were rested and two are believed to tf escaped. Haw River. J. D . ' Stephens, an erave in a local cotton mill, killed instantly by a switch en$ from Burlington. Stephens, io known as "Pat" Stephens, was umj ing a car of cotton and stepped acv the track on which the engine operating in an endeavor to reacnj platform. He is survived by his and two children. . Greensboro. Jesse L. Arffif former president of the BanJ Thomasvllle, which was closed" on ; gust 28 by the state bank exami is speeding back to North Carfty. from Laredo, TexaJ, in the custody iv. rm.nmAxtri'liA r.Vii a.f nt nnlice, Wimherlv followine his arrest t capture in Mexico City, acorof .. , :. . telephone messages reaching from Thomasvllle. Lumberton. Jake A. Baxley. 62 years, and , a well-known RoD county citizen, was found dead'J at his home,, near Buie. It is tn death resulted from heart trouw Lumberton. The state h a reward of $250 for the arrest . conviction of murderer of 'V' Bullock, in addition to the $250 oy by the county, making a .total f Bullock was shot and killed iJ fbom, near Lumberton, on the n.bjf January ax, me i 9nittA a o-loca ' willllnW H the 1 ... .. ,i j v . "v ..tr .WOrKCl nere, going luroun "c"vv . v.--v.ant :an xue noor , to -lie ujtB-""" there through the doors and -; Wilmington Permanent orfr t!oh of the'East Carolina Chafflj f-; commerce was enecieu - with the erection of secretary11- ers and the adoption or a 11CJ tensive program of developmen Y Ci. Bartlett. of Dublin. Ga., ana.- .- . - r- VPf I Eddy, 'of Paradise, Penn., we ed as managers.