The daily times., 1921-08-02
HARM DONE THE
SOUTH IN Recent
PE[LAGRA SCARE
SEMI-FAMINE
No PellaRric Conditions Due tc
Shortage of Food Found by
Red Cross Workers. Whis-
key Found in Bottom of
Rock Quarry. Military Sit
uation in the State.
(By Max Abernethy).

(By Max Abernethy).
Raleigh, Aug. Representative
of the Red Cross stopping at the cap
/, tion has failed to find the existence
| of a ''semi-famine" or "pellagra cpl
demic" as was indicated in Presi-
dent Harding's statement las3 week.
The Red Cross workers are enroute
to Washington where they have been
called for a conference with Surgeon
| General Cummins regarding the
Ipellagra scare that has swept over
the country since the president issu-
ed his statement. With denials and
protests coming from virtually every
Southern State that there was any
famine or epidemic in the South Pres
ident Harding's request for an in
lvestigation is to be conducted and the
Red Cross workers have been called
in.
| That great harm has been done the
South by reason of the alarm sounded
by the president, based on a report, of
the U. S. Public Health Service, is
the opinion of the Red Cross visitors.
While here they called on DIR. w S.
Rankin, State health officer, and were
given the facts concerning North
Carolina and the pellagra disease.
is not different from other states in
the cotton belt.
! Red Cross workers in the cotton
belt states number around $50 and
from none of them has any report
! been received which would indicate
a pellagra epidemic, nor has there
been found anything tending to bear
out the statements made by the pub
lie health service.
! North Cardinals reorganized Ma
i tional Guard is now within less than
one thousand of it's pre-war strength,
1.-THE indications being that with the
mastering in of units now on the
waiting list this difference will be
greatly reduced.
The figures are made public at the
Office of Adjutant General Metts to-
day. There are now % separate units
with an approximate strength, en-
listed. and commissioned, of two
thousand men. The guard in it's pal
miest days did we'll to enroll 5000
and then there were three infantry
regiments. Today there is only one
regiment of doughboys.
The latest organization calling for
Federal inspection is the anti-aircraft
machine gun company, the first of its
kind, at Raeford Capt. r. B. Lewis
Jr., is the commanding officer of this
new unit. Major B. F. Ristine, u. S
Army, will conduct the inspection
Thursday.
Placements by Federal and State
free employment bureaus in NORTH
Carolina during the week-endine
July 80 total 1873, according to FEEDER.
al Director NJ. L. Shipman. The off.
ces finding employment for these
workers, skilled, unskilled and pro
fessional, are located at Wilmington
Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro anG
Winston-Salem. Director Shipman re
ports that there is still a surplus Of
labor which is being gradually re
duced.
With the announcement from the
State that the drainage work of the
rock quarry would be undertaken ru
mors have gained momentum as tt
what lay at the bottom of the ho1,
from which rock used in erecting
the capitol building was quarried
The number of bourbon whiske.
cases increased over Sunday from tw,
to twelve and the skeletons which
Dame Rumor first told about NOR,
than trebled. One citizen is said t,
have offered five hundred dolla.
loan to Treasurer Lacy when it wa
, represented that whiskey in copiou
quantities lay hidden beneath tn