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New Britain herald., 1921-09-19
COPPER SUPPLY GONE
Mining Industry Interested in Report Which, If True, Means Resumption of Business in Mine Country.

Butte, Mont, Sept. 19.-Copper cir cles here are interested in a report from Fl Paso, Texas, that all surplus copper stocks in the country had been disposed of.
 John Gillie, general manager of the Anaconda Copper Mining Go. said yesterday this was the first he had heard of it and was inclined to dis credit the statement.
 An El PaSo dispatch Saturday night stated that John M. Papper Washing ton representative of Fl Paso cham Der of commerce had telegraphed the chamber that imm ediate revival of the
New Britain herald., 1921-09-19

A teachers meeting of the worthing- ton school will be held tomorrow af- ternoon. Clifford E. Brownell, agent of the state board of education in charge of the physical department, will, be in charge of the meeting and viii talk on Physical Education in -Our Schools"
New Britain herald., 1921-09-19

| copper industry in the southwest
 might be expected as all copper stocks in the United States had been disposed of.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
Bin Cotton clnnerv Burned.

Rockingham.-The large cotton gin
and warehouse of the Dockery Farms,
in West Rockingham, were found to
be on fire and both buildings were con-
sumed. The gin was the largest and
most complete in Richmond county,
being an eight-gin system. In the
warehouse were stored 300 bales of
cotton, and this was a total loss.
Two hundred and forty bales of the
cotton carried insurance. The loss to
the company from the cotton, gin and
warehouse, exclusive of insurance,
will total $25,OOO to 100000
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
Washington

The senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of E. Mont Reilly of Missouri
to be governor of Porto Rico.
Progress in efforts to relieve the
cotton situation in the South has been
reported to President Harding The
president expressed qualification and
hoped that the Southern farmers would
soon become prosperous
Gold received in the United States
between January 1 and April 80 to-
tailed 1866, 312,951; sent out during the
same period $4,85444O.
J. E. Dyce, who was campaign man
ager for Jake Hamon, killed by his
concubine, will be appointed warden of
the federal penitentiary at Atlanta,
Ga, succeeding Fred G. Zerbst.
The department of justice was re-
Gently told that the reason Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll became a Stacker
was because the stars told him that if
he went to France he would come
back corpse.
Representatives of the marine work
ers failed to meet with Secretary Da-
Wis to continue conferences looking to
a settlement of the shipping wage con-
troversy which has resulted in crews
of some American merchant craft
walking out. Mr.. Davis said that the
conference would not be held and that
he did not know whether the meetings
would be resumed.
The budget bin was passed bv the
house but with some changes as adopt-
ed by the senate.
XIV
relegated to the junk pile if the Unit
ed States department of agriculture
finds merit in the fly killing prop
critics claimed for sappling grown
from the seed Of a Kentucky coffee
tree by the late Prof. G. F. Holmes of
the University of Virginia. It is hoped
the seeds of the tree will exterminate
the pest.
The portions of Virginia, Tennessee.
North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and
Arkansas within the national forest
reservation would also become a game
and bird sanctuary under a resolution
presented by Senator Shields of Ten
neSsee
Thomas J. Muncy has been confirm
ed as United States district ATTORNEY
for the western district of Virginia.
A resolution calling for a Sweeping
senatorial investigation of "pernicious
lobbying" will be introduced in the SEN
ate by Senator King of Utah.
Proponents and opponents of world
disarmament and of a sweeping re-
auction in American naval expenditures
recently clashed in the senate and there
was a bitter controversy which was
only suspended when the naval appro,
prlat1ons bill for the next fiscal year
tailed to pass.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
peaerter Arrested foe Theft.

Scotland Neck.-Harland Grey, an
acknowledged deserter from the navy,
who was arrested in Rocky Mount on
a charge of stealing horse and bug
gy from Ed Wat1Nn here, has been
held for the next term of Halifax SUI
perior court. Young Grey claims that
he left his home in Tennessee four
years ago and had not been back
since. He was granted Is days fur
Tough from the navy last Thanksgiv
ing, according to his story, and sinoe
then had been wandering around FROM
JIace to place until taken In.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19

Further reduction in live stock losses
due to disease and exposure during
the past year is shown in recent re-
port Of the department of agriculture.
Vice President Green of the South
ern railroad recently attended a con-
ference of government experts, carriers
and watermelon growers at Albany,
Ga. He makes the statement that it
was shown there that the producers
got &c apiece for waterme1Ons, the car
riers 12c and the retailers the bal
ance. The government announces it's
intention of going after the retailer"
Before the interstate commerce COM
mission at a recent meeting several
United States senators gri1led the pres
ident of the Southern Pacific anent
the anomalous transportation system
existing all over the United States.
The first $50 bales of American cot
ton donated to the German children's
fund by Americans has arrived at Bre-
men. The cotton will be converted
into clothes for children.
Present federal taxation plans call
for an average contribution of approx
imateIy $40 from each of the 1O5 ,00O,-
900 peoplein the United States.
The senate has passed the emergen-
cy tariff and anti-dumping bill, retain
ing all amendments recommended by
the finance committee, but rejecting
those individually proposed.
A reduction from to 6 1875 in
q Rn
commercial paper by the Minneapolis
Reserve bank has been announced by
the federal reserve board.
Uncle Joe'' Cannon, record holder
for service in congress, celebrated his
S5th birthday on the 7th instant by
sticking to the job.
Changes in the chief
of the Atlantic and Pacific divisions OF
the United States navy are to be an
nounced shortly by the navy depart
ment.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover re-
Gently appeared before the house ap-
preparation committee and urged an
appropriation of 100000 for the extern
sion of the foreign trade activities Of
his department.
The senate confirmed William NJ.
Steuart as director of the census and
Francis M Goodwin as assistant Sec
rotary of the interior.
The special correspondent of the
Atlanta Constitution says, that the Unit
ed States foreign status is back where
it was two years ago with the excep-
ton that President Harding is now
creeping in at the back door of an
international alliance that the Republi-
can party flauntingly repudiated when
President Wilson urged the nation to
enter with her war comrades" man
fully through the front.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUETuRE
TO MAKE ANOTHER EFFORT,
TO STAMP OUT PEST.
SUGGESTS NON-COTTON ZONES
Texas Delegation Excuses Failure to
Cooperate by Declaring That the
Question is a National One.

Washington.-A new campaign to
stamp out the pink boil boil worm
menace in the cotton growing states
is Ito be launched by the Department
of Agriculture. A special committee
to recommend measures to be adopted
was appointed after a conference be-
tween representatives of the cotton
tates and officials of the Department
of Agriculture.
Chairman Marlatt, of the Federal
Horticultural Board, told the confer
ence that establishment of non-cotton
zones in places of infestation was the
only means of getting rid of the pink
bool worm. Charges that failures OF
Texas to provide adequate measures
of, control and failure to cooperate
were met with declarations from its
delegates that the question was a ma
tional one.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
Domestic

Three automobile bandits recently
robbed in Chicago the Commercial and
Savings bank of $1,000 and escaped.
The National Retail Coal Merchants,
in session recently at Richmond, Va,
declared there would be no further
drop in the price of coal.
A terrific storm visited the Chester,
| S. c., section recently, destroying sew
eral bales of cotton. There was an
unusually heavy rainfall.
J. F. Hawk, foreman in a Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, foundry, was shot dead
recently by negro whom he had just
discharged.
Walter Bowers and his son are held
by a Greenville, S. c., coroner's jury
as responsible for the death of Andy
| B. Wells a farmer of Travellers Rest,
who died as a result of heavy blow
on the head with a heavy iron bar
Bread is two cents cheaper in New
Haven, Conn, than it was a year ago,
and is expected to become still cheap
er in the near future.
The Alabama, Tennessee and North
err railroad has filed petition with
permission to make a reduction of
Is 2/3c in it's passenger rates. There
seems no doubt that the request will
be granted
His body wedged into a very narrow
well, rescuers worked for eight hours
before they released Walter Troy,
aged two, from his perilous position,
in Dyersburg, Tenn. The child had
fallen head first into the we'll. Efforts
to extricate him were futile. Finally
a hole was dug three feet from the
well and a tunnel cut through to the
bottom. The child appeared little
the worse for the accident.
The Southern Baptist convention is
| in its sixty-nine annual session in
Chattanooga, Tenn. Thousands of peo-
pie throng the streets Of Chattanooga.
Edward N. Mittle, prominent Green
vile banker and business man, convict
ed of the Staying of J. H. Patterson.
near Rowesville, has been sentenced in
the court Of general sessions at Or
augsburg, S. c., to serve nine years~at
hard labor in the state peuitentiary
No plans for the re-arrest Of John
J. Mcnamara, Los Angeles dynamit-
er. were known to prison officials when
he left San Quentin, Cal, prison at the
expiration of his 15-year sentence. Nc
Namara, who pleaded guilty to charge
Of conspi1 acy to blow up the Llewellyn
Iron Workers, earned the maximum L.
gal reduction of sentence for conduct
so that he actually served less than ten
years.
The National Advertisers conven.
ton in session at Atlantic City, N. j.,
discussed the abuse of advertising by
individuals and advertising mediums.
Directors of the Southern Railway
company at their semi-annual meeting
in New York took no action on the
semi-annual dividend of 2 1/2 per cent
on preferred stock due at this time.
No explanation was offered.
international money markets, as
represented by foreign exchange, were
further stimulated by Germany's &C.
ceptance OF the allied reparations uItt
matu;n.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD over
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF This
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What % Taking Place In The South.
land VIII Re Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Foreign

Col. George Harvey, now American
ambassador to England was received
in audience by King George at Buck
ingham palace recently. Colonel Har-
vey presented his diplomatic creden-
tials. The American ambassador was
carried to and from Buckingham pal
ace in the royal state coach.
Great Britain's industrial crisis has
become so acute that the nation is
threatened with revolution unless there
is an early solution of the troubles.
The present crisis is viewed as FAR
surprising in seriousness the general
strike of several weeks ago. There is
every indication that the struggle has
developed beyond fight for higher
wages.
Col. George Harvey, the new United
States ambassador to Great Britain,
presented his credentials to Earl Cur
son, the British foreign minister at the
foreign office May II, and win later
be received by the king at Buckingham
palace.
Russian newspapers have published
a wireless dispatch to the BOlshevik
SlclAA LAAS IAoG OONANE
troops have suffered defeat Of some
consequence during fighting against
rebellious Siberian peasant armies,
says report sent out from Copen-
hagen.
Germany has accepted the allied ul-
timatum. The reichstag by vote of
221 to 49, yielded to the final de-
mands of the allied powers, and, in
so doing, agreed to fulfill the terms
of the treaty of Versailles ito the Ca
pacity' of the nation to do so.
1t is announced in England that AL
bert, king of Belgium, will visit Eng
land in state from July 4 to July 8.
DR.. Alfredo Zayas,, president-elect of
Cuba, announces his desire of initial
ing, as soon as he takes office, nego-
tiations for the modification of the
commercial treaty between Cuba and
the United States.
Military authorities at Camaguey,
Cuba, railroad center, have, been or
dered to establish a vigilance service
over the property of the Cuban rail-
way lines which have been tied up
for ten days with strike of the en-
p1oyees.
The transport workers of London
recently issued a manifesto placing a
ban on the handling of all foreign coal
shipped to England.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
Raleigh School Superintendent.

Raleigh.-The acceptance Of the st1-
perintendency of the city schools of
Raleigh by Sam b. Underwood of Pitt
county is very pleasing to Raleigh
people generally, who believe be is
one Of the best school men in the
state and will, during his four year
contract with the city school board,
be able to work out school system
in Raleigh that will be a credit to the
state. Superintendent Harry Howell
will go OFT of office on July 1, and
Mr.. Underwood will take charge Of thf
city schools on that date.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
Fierce Moonshine Battle Waued,

party of revenue officers and guards
at big illicit moonshine whiskey still
near Pascal, three unidentified ne
groes were killed, according to mea-
ger reports received here. None of
the officers was hurt. The officers
seized three big distilleries, $4,000 gal
Ions of beer, $50 gallons of whiskey,
and $4,000 worth of material.
The negroes, who were killed, we're
on guard at the distilieries and fired
on the party of eight revenue officers
when they approached the plant.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
Newberry Sees Harding.

Washington. = Senator Newberry,
republican, of Michigan, who recently
resumed his official duties after re-
versal by the supreme court of his
conviction for violation of the corrupt
practices act made his first call on
President Harding
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
Dial Bill is DELAYED.

Notwithstanding Dial bill, to pre-
vent Judge Lands, of Chicago, from
holding his $42,5OO a year job as ma
ttonal baseball arbiter, came up in the
senate momentarily. but was deferred.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
Estate Tax Held Valid.

Washington.-The estate tax pro-
vided in the revenue act Of 1918 was
held valid by the supreme court in
passing upon the appeal of executors
of the estate of the late J. Harsen
Purdy, of New York
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19

Kinsten.-Federal and state sweet
potato experts will come here June 2
at the behest of the chamber of COM
merce to tell local farm ers how to cure
and save their crops of sugary pro-
ducts. The organization plans to help
growers throughout the section in this
kind of conservation, and is expected
to furnish material aid to progressive
farmers.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
For Arnov of 175 900.

Washington-An army of 175,00O
men was decided on by the senate
subcommittee considering the army
appropriation bill. The measure as
passed by the house provided for $780,
900 men.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19

ille.-Announcement that re-
duced found-trip summer tourist fares
to the mountain and seashore resorts
with liberal stop-over privileges will
be put into effect by the railways OF
the South on May 18th is expected to
result in an even larger volume OF
travel to Western North Carolina this
summer than in the past.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
Aviatrix Breaks World Record.

Mineola, N. Y.-Miss Laura Brom-
well, % year old aviatrix, broke the
worlds loop the loop record for her
sex when her plane, starting at the
height of 5000 feet, performed 1919
complete loops
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
Tobacco Planters are Warned.

Danville, Va.-The enormous over
production by the tobacco farmers in
the Bright Belt is accentuated in the
annual report on local market condi-
tions made by w. Crews Wood, presi-
dent of the Danville Tobacco associa-
ton. Unless the 1921 crop is cut very
materially, Mr.. Wooding declares, the
next season will be disastrous.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
West Point Row Settled.

Washington.-The appointment OF
General Pershing to be chief of staff
settled a row in the army. Secretary
Weeks had selected Major General
Hartford to succeed General March
The West Point clique vigorously in
terposed objections. Harbord entered
the service a private and fought his
way up.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
Turk Saws His Ace is 147,

COnstantinop1e-Zo the human
pack horse, who claims to be lat
years old and still can carry 200
pounds with ease, attributes his long
life and health to hard work and prop
er diet.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19

Washington.-Th government won
in the supreme court its contention
that increased value of any capital as
set must be considered in a corpora
TONS profits when taxes we're COM
Duted
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
Plan for Marketing Cotton Crop.

Washington.-A plan for marketing
practically the entire cotton crop of
the country through a national grow
ers sales organization was adopted
ct a conference held at Oklahoma
City.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
sss. 600. 900 to be Called For.

Washington.-Unc1e Sam has $685.
100000 of some people money waiting
in the treasury for them to come and
get it, according to the latest official
figures Of outstanding temporary lib
erty bonds.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19

Dunn-Ben 0. Townsend, the Har-
nett farmer who successfully intro
duced long staple cotton into the coun-
IT, last year, is this year striving to
produce Watermelons on a large scale
for the MOI ~nern markets. He and
George L. Cannaday have planted
about forty acres to the citrus vul-
garuS.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19

utherfordton-A contract for top
soiling 997 miles of the Charlotte
Asheville highway. between here and
Chimney Rock, or from Green Hill
to Flynn's Store, five miles from
Chimney Rock, was let at Marion.
This means the county will soon have
a good road to Chimney Rock.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19

Raleigh.-Jim and Ed Sharpe and
their chauffeur, Alfonso BurlesOn, all
of Albemarle, are in the state prison
for safekeeping following their arrest
in South Boston, Va, charged with
attacking two young white women
of Roanoke Rapids, N. G.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19

Durham-Three hundred ministers
of the Eastern and Western .conferen-
ces of the Methodist Episcopal church
in North Carolina are expected to at
tend the summer school for ministers
at Trinity college.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
Sale of 2 zoo. GOO Feet Lumber.

Mobile, Ala.-One Of the largest
lumber deals concluded in many
months was closed when the E. D.
Flynn Export company sold 100000
feet to Cuban interests.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19

Shelby.-W. T. Love, OF Gaston1a,
has bought the plant Of the Brison
Manufacturing company near here,
formerly known as the Buffalo mills.
The property was sold recently at
public auction by w. D. Anderson, OF
Gastonia, receiver for the company.
Mr.. Love bid $4,000 for the property,
which includes the factory plant and
a number of dwelling houses for the
mills employees The mill was CAPT.
talized at 100000.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19

Greenville. - Provisions have been
made by the county commissioners
for turning over 100000 to city banks
which is to be used in the general i'm
provement of roads to Farmville and
Lenoir county line as needed This
amount is the first of the 100000 in
bonds recently issued by the county
bonds recently issued by the county.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
SHELBY COUNCIL OR THE JUNIOR
ORDER CONDUCT CEREMONY
OF FLAG RAISING.
FISH FRY PLEASANT FEATURE
Audience of Several Hundred Present
Listened to Excellent Music Fur
nished by the Granger Band.

Spencer.-The splendid town OF Yad-
kin, located on the national highway
near Spencer, was captured by Spen-
Ger Council No. "A, Junior Order
United American Mechanics, which
conducted a flag raising in front OF
the Yadkin school with interesting
ceremonies. Several hundred persons
were present to listen to the excellent
music by the Er1anger band from Lex
ington which furnished music for the
occasion.
One of the most interesting features
of the day was a big fish fry on the
banks of the Yadkin river where an
abundance of fish had been prepared
for the big crowd. This part of the
ceremonies drew a large crowd to
Yadkin for the flag raising.
The largest lot Of country hams
$500 pounds, ever brought to Spen-
Ger, was landed here one day the
past week by Sam T. Dorset, who
made the trip by motor from Galax'
Va. The hams are being sold at
wholesale as well as retail.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19
Winter Wheat Acreage Reduced.

WInter wheat 'HCTed9e NcuuOOu'
Washington.-Winte wheat acre
age for the II countries in the North
ern hemisphere growing the crop was
placed at 99,4OO,OOO acres as compar-
ed with 100, 100000 last year.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19

Kinston. - Clarence Bond, prem1-
nently connected here, who was found
in his room in a Norfolk boarding
house with 4 bullet wound in his head,
died at that city. Relatives here say
their belief that the shooting was &C
cidental has been strengthened by
conversations with persons at Norfolk.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19

Winston-Salem.-Bo Erwin and
Dwight Mccain, two young white
men, about Is years old, charged with
robbing the postoffice and a store at
Cherry Lane, Wilkes county, were ta-
ken to Guilford county Jail to await
trial in federal court. ErVin and Nc
Cam claim that they are natives OF
Allegheny county.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19

Greensboro-BishopU u. V. w. Oar
lington, of Huntington, w. Va, who
has presided over the two Methodist
conferences in the state for the past
three or four years, has again been
assigned to these conferences. Bishop
John C. Kilgo, of Charlotte, has been
relieved of the presidency of the con-
ference because of failing health, but
is to be associated with Bishop w.
F. McMurray, of Louisville, KY, IN
the conduct Of the ninth Episcopalian
district made up on northern Texas
and Mississippi.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19

Lumberton-Snow fell in Lumber
ton on the morning of May 4, accord
ing to a number Of citizens Of the
town. It has been many years since
snow fell here this late in the spring,
according to older citizens. The cool
weather of the last week has retarded
the growth of crops and some farmers
report that much cotton has died as
a result OF the cold.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-19

Raleigh.-R. H. McComb, a Junior
of the North Carolina State College Of
Agriculture and Engineering, entered
a plea of nolo cOntendere to simple
assault when he was arraigned in
Wake county criminal court on a
charge of hazing and judgment was
continued upon the payment of costs.