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FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1921.
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N. C. STATE NEWS
A Digest of Everything Worth
Knowing About Old IMortn
State Folks and Things
An automobile and a motorcycle were
wrecked in a collision between the two
on a road near Wilson Monday. One
person was injured.
John Henry Johnson, colored, caught
stealing automobile tires from a moving
freight car, jumped from the car and
was killed when his head hit the tracks.
Fully 2,000 people from, five counties
were present at the opening ceremony
of Willow Brook Park at Benson Sat
urday night.
Wednesday, August 31, will be the big
day at the State Farmers' and Farm
Women's Convention to be held at the
State college, beginning on August 30.
Bart M. Gatling, postmaster of Ral
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One Solid Week of Fun
Horse Races Aato Races
Fireworks
rive Bis Bauds - Ten Tree Acts
Mabel Cody in a Hurricane of Thrills
Thousands of Exhibits
Ever J)oy Rain or Shine
dtaued in
the Clouds
N excursion
on all Railroads
Six Bis Days- StartinsLaborDay
SEPTEMBER 5 TO 10
NORFOLK VIRGINIA
Make "Fair ,'' "Week
Your ft
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" September
5 to IO
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Merchants and hl&nufzetuzezs
Association of Norfolk
Invites you to pure has 2 in Norfolk ike
merchandise which you cso.no t obtain
ai home. Take advantage of this week
of special prices.
Norfolk Virginia
TV hen You Attend
The Norfolk Fair
Visit Us.
&
UR store is
in the city. When you are in
town Fair Week or any other
week we want you to make a tour of
inspection. Take in every one of the
three floors examine the finest and larg
est jewelry stock in the entire Southland.
We want you to make yourself at home here let
our store be your headquarters. Drop in the
Music Parlors for a few minutes recreation and music
write a post card or letter home in the Gift Shop
use our telephones let this he your information
bureau.
Don't confuse our location. We -are located at
231-235 Granby Street Our store is easily discern
able by the large steel and glass awning that extends
over the pavement. Our name is pn either end.
There is only one Paul-Gale-Greenwood store.
Established Since 1847
PAUL-GALE-GREENWOOD CO. INC.
Largest Jewelers South
231-235 Granby Street Norfolk, Virginia
eigh, was re-elected president of the
State League of Postmasters, in bbssiuu
at Hickory..
0Tit.fn tobacco warehouses oper
ated in Bladen, Columbus and Bobeson
.Hh in July sold 2,570,564 pounds
of tobacco at an average price of $7.54
per hundred.
w .T Ellis, employeat a cotton mill
HiAinf concussion of
ill T AlUliJUfi vvj v
the brain, after he had fallen. 11 feet
from the top of a boiler to the concrete
floor, landing on his head.
Mm- than 1.000 spectators were on
the banks of the Country Club Lake to
witness Raleigh's nrst water carmai
stased bv Director J. Richard Crozier
of the Community Service.
W. T. Sullivan, night watchman at .the
Farmers' Cotton Oil Mill at Wilson is
dead as result of having been struck
the. head with a piece of iron pipe
by a robber early Sunday morning.
Following Governor Cameron Morri
son's visit to Concord, the textile strike
thriller in which
thcks the Limit-
nates
Shopping
"Week
Come prepared for
big buying oppor
tunities inNorf oik's
wholesale and re
tail C3tzhlis1iznszit3.
one of the showplaces
there and at Kannapolis involving some
4,000 employes has been broken, and
most of the mills have resumed opera
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Resources in 554 State, private and
savings bank and trust companies in
North 'Carolina showed a decline of
more than $43,000,000 June 30, 1921,
as compared with the ; figures of the
previous June.'
Calvin Smith, negro . wanted by the
police on a warrant charging , assault
with a deadly weapon upon his wife, was
shot and aimost instantly killed in Bal
eigh by an officer who claimed he shot
in self defense.
Mrs. W. N. Reynolds, , wife of the
head of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company, of Winston-Salem, has con
sented to permit herself to be consid
ered as a candidate for president gen
eral of the National D. A. R.
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R. A. Rothmeyer, field - inspector for
the Federal Bureau of Public Roads,
while in Raleigh, said that North Caro
lina has done more with surplus war
material ' allotted to it for road build
ing than any State in the Union.
State Treasurer R. B. Lacy is send
ing out letters to the 39 sheriffs in ihe
State, who have not yet made settle
ment for last year's taxes, calling at
tention to the fact that he is supposed
to sue them for the remainder, due.
Frank A. Linney, has visited Char
lotte to arrange for making his official
residence there. He has announced the
appointment of Thomas Harkins, of
Asheville, and Charles A. Jones, of Lin
colnton, as assistant district attorneys,.
H. Arnold, an Atlantic Coast Line
engineer, was arrested on a charge of
speeding a yard engine within the city
limits at Fayetteville, and was dismissed
by the mayor, who cautioned the engin
eer not to repeat the dangerous prac
tice. ' .
. Carney Brown, B. H. Winborne and
A. S. Ward, of "Wilson, and Mr. Hooks
of Fremont, were seriously injured
when the car in which they . were rid
ing crashed into a telephone pole on
the highway between Wilson and Rocky
Mount.
J. Bailey Owen, of Henderson, Grand
Master of the Grand Lodge of North
Carolina A. F. & A. M has issued an
appeal to the Masons of the State for
contributions for the construction of a
hospital on the grounds of the Oxford
Orphanage.
After attending a revival meeting con
ducted by Rev. Bexter McLendon, bet
ter known as "Cyclone Mack," Thomas,
Jackson, a convert, confessed to setting
fire to his pressing club in Ayden in
1913, and is now in Pitt county ja4!
under a charge of arson.
Dr. J. W. Taylor, an optometrist of
Greensboro is out under a bond of $1,
000 to appear in court on Aug. 31 to
receive sentence on a charge of immor
ality growing out of his conviction on
this charge with his secretary, Miss
Clara Sanders, who was also convicted.
Government agencies, the Red Cross,
and the American Legion will . begin
work in North . Carolina on September
1, in their Clean-up Campaign to cut
the red tape that has prevented thous
ands of disabled veterans from receiv
ing the aid that the government is glad
to give.
Secretary Herbert Hoover, of the
United States Department of Com
merce, will deliver the chief address at
the Harnett county agricultural fair at
Dunn, October 15, and will be intro
duced by Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt,
the president of the North Carolina
State Fair.
One hundred and six applicants for
law license iu North Carolina faced the
Supreme Court examinations at Raleigh
Monday, eclipsing in numbers any class
jii me msrory ot tiie s:ate. xiie near
est approach was 103. Included in the
iist of applicants were one woman and
two negroes.
Governor Cameron Morrison has juit
announced from the summer capitol at
Ashcvi'Ic that lie will call very shortly
a conference of planters and growers
of cotton froni all the cotton producing
States, in' compliance with a resolution
pacd at the last session of the Gen
eral Assembly.
The American Tobacco Company had
representatives in lialeigh Thursday to
ask for a rebate of $10,000 from Rock
ingham county property, after having
had $110,327.32 handed over to it last
week in rebated taxes by Revenue Com
missioner A. D. Watts, and the State
Hoard of Equalization.
Plans for a delegation of farmers from
Pitt, Craven, Lenoir, Beaufort and oth
er eastern counties to visit Roeky
Mount and Nash county for the pur
pose of inspecting the Tweet potato
storage houses and especially the large
house which is now being erected in
Rocky Mount, are now beingformed.
IS years at hard labor in the State
Prison was the sentence pronounced on
Sidney A. Kincaid, Burke countv com
missioner, who was tried at Morganton
on a charge of. murder of his wife. At
torneys for the defendant gave notice
of appeal and the court announced an
appeal bond of $250 and an appearance
oopd of $10,000.
Judge James E. Boyd, in Federal
court at Greensboro, signed an order
permanently restraining J. W. Bailey,
Collector of Internal Revenue for North
Carolina, from selling the pfopertv of
J.' M. Ray, and his son Bascom Ray, to
satisfy assessments made by the Com
missioner of internal Revenue following
a report charging the two with man
ufacturing whiskey. ;
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In preparation for a test case to de
termine the validity of the section f
the Revenue Act prescribing the tax. for
insurance concerns, James H. Pou. rep
resenting the Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York has filed with
Stacey W. Wade, ' Insurance Commis
sioner, a formal demand for the $14,
191.78 alleged excess fees paid by the
company for the six months' ending
June 30.
"A mockery of any pretense of equal
treatment in the administration of our
tax lawsf "and ought to be rescinded,
declared Corporation," Commissioner A.
J. Maxell pn , the action of Revenue
Commissioner A. D. Watts in ordering
an aggregate retroactive reduction of
$12,733,450 in' the assessment of the
property owned, by Ligget & Myers,
and the American Tobacco Company in
Durham. '"-,."-; : :,v.'; :
Over seven, thousand dollars the Stale
of North Carolina ,will have to pay for
sending ; three companies' of the North
Carolina National Guard to Concord and
Kannapolis to attend the opening of cot
ton mills there after a strike of cotton
mill workers in protest against a 40 per
cent cut in wages. Under the' new law,
it is said, the State must pay the bilL
Formerly, the county: calling for the
troops1 paid.
Former Governor T. W. Bickett, at
torney for Raleigh "open shop" print
ing houses and ; their non, union em
ployes, has had issued a temporary re
straining order . prohibiting - officers and
members of the three Raleigh printing
trades unions, and 90 odd individuals
cited in a complaint from any molesta
tion of present employes of these print
shoos who are taking the place of
striking printers.
Judge James E. Boyd,. in Federal
Court in Greensboro this week, held the
national child labor law which seeks to
collect a federal tax of ten per cent
on the profits derived from the pro
ducts of child labor, unconstitutional.
The decision was in the case, of the Vi
vian Spinning mills, of Cerryville, N. C,
seeking to restrain J. W. Bailey, Collec
tor of Internal Revenue, from enforc
ing the act. The Owen-Keating child
labor law was held unconstitutional by
Judge Boyd in a decision rendered two
years ago. His ruling then was upheld
by the Supreme Court of the United
States. The , attempt of the Federal
Government to regulate labor within the
State is a usurpation of authority and
a violation of the (sovereign rights of
the State, concludes the ruling.
CONFERENCE TO
BE ONLY A SHAM
Militarist Spirit of Lodge, Not
Pacifist Spirit of Borah, To
Speak for America
By DAVID F. ST. CLAIR.
Washington Correspondent of The Independent.
The apponitment of Senator Lodge as
one of the American delegates to the
arms limitation conference to meet here
on November 11 and his speech in the
senate after the appointment declaring,
that he favored only general disarma
ment has given Washington the definite
impression that the conference will be
nothing more than a sham and a pre
tense. . General disarmament would mean the
military disarmament of a nation like
France. It is certain that France will
never consent to disarm' and that it
would not be safe for her to . do so
while- her present relations . with Ger
many exist. France has been invited
to the conference and has accepted. She
will be asked to disarm and i of
course refuse and by that loop Lole the
world's big munition makers will be
saved from scrapping their factories.
That is the interpretations that some
of those most deeply interested in the
results of the conference give to tne
Lodge appointment and his speech. It
is believed that Senators Knox and Un
derwood opponents of disarmament will
also be appointed on the delegation.
That prospect with the actual appoint
ment of Lodge has redoubled the efforts
of the women of the country to have
one of their sex appointed. Without
a woman on the American delegation
they contend the conference i already
doomed to failure.
The friends of Senator Borah of Ida
ho are asking why he has not been
appointed. Borah has been the origin
and inspiration of the whole movement
It was his brilliant battle for his naval
disarmament amendment to the naval
appropriation bill that finally forced an
unwilling senate to accept the amend
ment and a reluctant President to call
the conference, yet the crusader Borah
is ignored and Lodge an opponent of
the onlv sort of disarment that is held
to be practical at this stage is chosen.
No Use for Borah
But Hardng has no more use for
Borah as a delegate to this conference
than he had for the Borah amendment.
He did all that he as President possibly
could do to kill that amendment." He
sent for . Senator Poindexter, chairman
of the naval appropriation ' committee
and asked him to plunge the knife up
to the hilt in the Borah amendment. It
must not be allowed to pass. Mind you
this amendment had no other object
than the disarming of the great navies
of Great Britain, the United States and
Japan. But the President said that it
as inopportune at this time and we ido
not want it. '
But Borah had created vt ferment
throughout the country. Women by
tens of thousands had rushed to the
telegraph offices with messages to their
senators. The long distance telephone
wires as far away as Denver, Colo.
Augusta, Me., Jacksonville, Fla. and
Houston. Texas, were singing with
voices of mothers who had lost sons in
the war in France.' The Democratic
senators soon began to fall over one an
other to -follow Borah's lead and when
enough Republican senators had joined
in the grand march to pass the amend
ment, the President gave out the state
ment that he had all along been work
ing for the noble purpose that has anix
mated the soul of the Idaho senator.
But instead of calling . ay conference
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for naval disarmament or the limitation
of naval disarmament, he calls con
ference , for general disarmament with
Pacific problems thrown' in and invited
France and 'Italy who has . no,, , pacific
problems and China who has no1 navy
to the conference. ; Thfe Borah plan was
aimed at sDecific. practical results has
been perverted to givfe the President the
credit f the movement and to -defeat, it
with impossible demands."
Harding's Incapacity As Leader.
The friends of the real limitation of
armament point to the President's per
version of Senatorf-Borah's move as a
striking illustration, of Mr. Harding's in
capacity as a leader. He not only
shows no initiative but frown upon the
one great clear, practical proposition
that he is forced by public sentiment to
take hold of. Then to make it unwork
able he loads it down with side issues
and appoints men on the delegation that
must initiate the" program of the con
ference, men who - will demand ah im
possibility. If " the conference succeeds
and the whole world is praying that it
will it will be because the sentiment of
the American people will compel suc
cess. '
But the impression grows here ' that
the men who wTill really, have the des
tiny of .the conference in their hands
are working to render it a failure. All
the army and navy people when not
openly are secretly fighting it. They ar
gue that the failure of the movement
is the only way to quiet the agitation
for disarmament. They contend that
disarmament would instantly result from
friction.
Two months ago Rep. E. W. Pou in,
an interview given out in this corres
pondence said that President Harding
had no foreign policy. That he not only
did not know what to do but did not
want to do anything but keep his party
together and drift. Nothing has occurred
since that time to change Mr. Pou's
opinion of the President. But if the
conference is a failure, will it not give
a death blow to ' the Harding adminis
tration? WelL of. course it should and
it probably will, but if it is a failure
the men who will have made it so, will
say that the. President was not in favor
of it to begin with and that -hfe called
it to demonstrate its failure. Either
that or the failure will be put on some
one else's shoulders.
The real friends of disarmament Have
begun to bestir themselves to have the
conference sessions open to the public.
The decision on that issue they believe
will be a test of the success or failure
of the conference. Tbere is an', over
whelming majority of the American peo
ple in favor of the reduction of arma
ment but only in open session can they
bring their influence to bear.
A little classified ad costing you a
cent a word will tell more than 15,000
readers of this newspaper what you
have to sell or what you want to. buy.
Mr. Vaughan, Farmer, Tells How He
Lost Ail His Prize Seed Corn.
'Some time ago sent away for some
pedigreed seed corn. Put it in a gunny
sack and hung it on a rope suspended
from roof. Rats got it all how beats
me, but they did because I got 5 dead
whoppers in the morning after trying
RAT-SNAP." Three sizes, 35c, 65c,
$1.25.
Sold and euaranteed bv Culpepper
Hardware Store, City Drug Store, G.
W. Twiddv. John C. Bond. Edenton; W.
A. Leggett, Edenton; Sawyer's General
Store, Camden.
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' Blankets About Hklf Former Prices
' August Clearing- Sales are a splendid chance for
housekeepers to secure- a supply of nice warm Blankets
that will be needed next Winter. They can be bought now
at just about half last year's prices..
Former $4.50 and $5 Cotton ! Plaid Blankets. They are of good me
dium weight, size 66x80 inches. Just sixty in the lot, in a nice assort-
ment of plaids. .- r.' ', ' ' -. ; :;'.7 . '
' August Clearing Sale Price, $2.48 a pair. '
Foriner $5 and $6 Cottan Blanketswith the wool nap finish. Excel
lent medium-weight Blankets, white with pink and blue borders, in
sizes for both single and double beds. There are one hundred and sev
enty pairs 'in this lot. v ', :
August Clearing Sale Price, $2.98 a pair. :
Former $8.75 to' $10 Part . Wool Blankets, in white with pink or
blue borders, also a good collection of - plaids. They are of splendid
weave, in size for double beds. . One hundred and forty, pairs in this
lot.. - ' .." ; V . .:''.
August Clearing Sale Price, $4.98 a pair.
Main Street, Third Floor. 4 .'
Clearing Summer Sport Silks the
Best On$s Now $2.98 a Yard
By the "best ones" we mean those formerly marked to
sell for as much as $6 a yard. And what lovely fall wear
ables .will be made from these Silks.
This collection comprises such well-known SpOft 'Silks
as the "Tally-Ho" Crepe, "Here-N-There" Crepe, "All
Time" Crepe and' Sport Satins,. 40 inches wide, in a yide
range of pleasing pattern effects and colorings. Now "all
at this one Clearing Price, $2.98 a yard.
$1.50 quality, 36-inch all silk
white Hanon Pongees.
August Clearing Price, $1.25 a
yard.
$2 quaUty, 36-inch all sSk Fou
lards, shown in navy and black,
with small designs.
August Clearing Price, $1.59 a
.yard. r '
$3 quality, 40-inch Black Satin
Charmeuse, soft and lustrous and
very popular for fall wear.
August Clearing Price, $2.29 a
yard.
$2 quality, 27-inch all wool Bla-.
zer Stripe Flannel, very popular
for sport wear. Shown in lavender
and . white, red and white, copen
and white, and green and wkite.
v August Clearing Price, $1.69 a
yard.
36-inch Tricolettes, good qual
ity, in plain and fancy weaves.
Shown in black and colors.
August Clearing Price, 98c?
$L69, and $1.79 a yard.
40-inch all silk Crepe de Chine,
j-ery good quality, for dresses and
undergarments. Shown in white,
''flesh, pink, navy and black.
August Clearing Price, $1.25 a
.yard. ,
$3 quality, 54-inch all wool navy
French Serge, very popular for
the early fall dresses. v
August Clearing Price, $1.98 a
yard.
Plume Street.First Floor
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' $2 quality, 33-inch all silk Satin
Stripe Men's Shirtings.
August Clearing Price, $ 1 .25 a
yard.
$2 and $2.25 quality, 36-inch all
f ilk Chiffon Taffetas, shown in a
full line f the most , wanted
;shades.
' August Clearing Price, $1.89 a
yard.
$1.25 quality, 33-inch Natural
Color Pongee, suitable for men's
shirts, ladies' waists and dresses.
August Clearing Price, 89c a
yard.
.$2 and $2.50 quality, 36-inch
plaid and check Taffetas, suitable
for dresses and skirts. Shown in
black, white and colors.
August Clearing Price, $ 1 .59 a
yard.
$2 quality, 36-inch all silk Mes
aline, shown in light and dark
shades, also black. -
August Clearing Price," $1.69 a
yard.
$3.50 quality, 54-ineh black and
white check Velour Skirting.
Shown in three sizes of checks.
Very popular- for the early fall
wear.
August Clearing Price, $1.98 a
yard. ' "
S2 quality, 40-inch all wool navy
French Serge, very popular for
children's dresses. v
' August Clearing Price, $ 1 .59 a
yard..