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By E. L. RAINEY
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ITSON'S VIGTORY FOR
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RWHELMING
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HAS BIG MAJORITY OF COUNTY
UNITS AND LEADS HEAVILY
IN THE POPULAR VOTE.
HARDWICK ALSO LEADS
Lacked Four Votes of Receiving a
Majority, and There Will Be Sec
ond Primary on September !’ol.‘
News of the Election. |
ATLANTA, Ga.—The surprise off
rednesday’s state primary was the
S“thping‘ victot:;r of Thos. E. Wat-‘
son for United States Senator over
Governor Hugh Dorsey and Senator
Hoke Smith. His popular vote and
county unit vote in the conven
tion are both the largest ever known
i a contest in which there was se-]
rious opposition,
Watson carried 102 counties, Dor
ey 38 and Smith 14. Their strength
in the convention will be:
Watson —oo eON unit votes
Dorsey - - --——=====—--—lOB unit yotes
Smith ——eemee= —=ac= 34 unit votes
The popular vote of each of the !
cenatorial candidates, as shown by
official returns, is as follows:
Watson ~,-___-—---—‘--—-112,932|
DOrsey —cccmme —mmm—m- e 72,885
Bmith - - oA SRS
How Big Counties Went.
Of the six-vote counties Watson
carried two—Richmond and Fulton,
the home of Senator Smith and Gov
ernor Dorsey, the latter running
third. Watson had a plurality of
800 over Smith and 1,445 over Dor
sey. He carried the following 4-vote
counties: Hall, DeKalb, Walton,
Wilkes, Troup, Bullock, Ware, Mer-l
iwether, Thomas, Washington, Cobb;
Emanuel Elbert, Jackson, Decatur,
Laurens, Gwinnett and Carroll.
Of the six-vote counties Dorsey
carried Chatham, Floyd, Muscogee
and Bibb. The vote of the three can
didates in Bibb was: Dorsey 1,244,
Smith 1,119, Watson 1,013. Musco
oee county is being contested, a plu
rality of 4 votes-having been an
nounced for Smith and later changed
to four plurality for Dorsey. The
following 4-vote counties were car
ried by Dorsey: Burke, Brooks,
Houston and Lowndes,
Governor Smith did not carry any
of the 6-vote counties, but led in
the following 4-vote counties: Bar
tow, Coweta and Sumter.
In the town of Buford, in which
Watson was subjected to arrest fol
owing his protest against noise made
v a party of card players after he
had retired, he received more than
the combired votes of Smith and
Dorsey, and in the county received
1,225 more votes than Dorsey, who
was the next highest man,
Hardwick Lacks Four Votes.
In the race for governor Thos. W.
Hardwick leads in both popular and
county unit votes, and lacks only
four votes of receiving the nomina
tion,
Hardwick carried 78 counties with
100 unit votes. Walker carried 69
counties with 174 votes and Holder
carried 8 counties with 22 votes.
In the governor’s race, the popu
lar vote was as follows: .
Hardwick i osei o 2104 748
Walker .0 iz iil GG B 8
Holder .. i aoae & CABATH
Brown, .& st s iiE 208100
| As 194 unit votes are needed to
obtain a majority, a runover primary
between Hardwick and Walker will
be necessary. This primary will be
held on the first Wednesday in Oc
tober, which falls on the sixth day
of the month. The law provides that
the state convention shall be held
fifteen days after~ the second pri
mary, in case a second primary is
held, or fiften days after the first
primary.
Other State Races.
Official returns show that S. Guyt
.\Tir-l.x ndon was re-elected secretary
of state; George M. Napier was nam
ed the next attorney general; Paul
B. Trammell was re-elected railroad
commissioner; 0. H. B. Bloodworth
wag returned to his post in the eourt
of appeals; Judge Ben H. Hill was
elected over Charles W. Smith, the‘
Incumbent, for the court. of appeals,
all receiving large majorities, W. J.‘
Speer, state treasurer; W. A. Wright,
comptroller general; J. J. Brown,
C)'»mmlssioner of agriculture; E. L.
E ney, prison commissioner; H. M.
Stanley, commissioner of tommerce
and labor; M, L. Brittain, superin-‘
tendent of schools;~J. W. Lindsey,
pension commissioner; H, W. Hill,‘
supreme court judge; W. F. George,
K “me court judge, and A. Ww.
Stevhens court of appeals judge
were re-elected without opposition.
SENATOR-ELECT WATSON'’S
STATEMENT ON HIS VICTORY
_ THOMSON, ~ Ga.—Pointing out’
that he had conducted his campaign
for the United States senate on a
plaiform advocating “unconditional
tcjection of the league of nations
and unconditional maintenance of
American principles,” Thomas E.
Watson, in a statement to the As-
Sociated Press today, said his victory
I the state democratic primary
Proved the stand of the majority of
Georgia voters on the issue.
Mr. Watson declared his * “over-
Whelming victory” was “won against
the attempted dictation of officers of
the American Legion and for the
£reat English principles of free
Speech, free press, free assemblage
&nd complete separation of church
and state.”
“If any money was spent in my
‘émpaign,” Mr. Watson's statement
faid, “T do not know of it. Of
fourse, T paid my own traveling ex-
Perses and for circulation of extra
COpleag Of my paper."
SKIRTS LONGER
Silk Stockings Will Give Way to
Heavy Wioolen Ones, Chicago
Dressmakers Say.
CHICAGO.—Street sights are
to be different this winter—a mat
ter of a few inches,
According to members of the
Fashion Art League, an organiza
tion composed of fashionable
dressmakers, women’s skirts are
to be at least two inches longer
» this winter.
When the fashion show is stag
ed here Sept. 15 models will dis
play skirts which reach to within
nine and ten inches of the ground.
ip,. " stockings are getting so
ary *ot if you want to be in
style“ag: 'an gtockings will
be the thiny, " . -ers say.
There will be nv.. ifference in
gowns, dressmakers say. One dar
ing gown to be exhibited will show
a bare back. :
Millinery will undergo a change.
Hats of velvet in brown and Co
penhagen blue will be fashinable.
IN HARDWICK’S BERTH
HE SHARED SLEEPING SPACE
WITH WALKER, WHO WAS_UN
ABLE TO GET RESERVATION.
MILLEN, Ga.—At Millen, on the
Central of Georgia railway, the train
from Savannah to Atlanta passes at
midnight. It is always necessary for
a passenger here to wire ahead to
Savannah in order to procure a
sleeper from here to Macon, Atlanta
and other points. ‘
Two or three days before the close
of the gubernatorial campaign ex-
Senator Hardwick, who spoke here
in the forenoon and at Sardis in the
afternoon, wired to Savannah for the
drawing room on the Central train
from here to Atlanta.
The same day Clifford Walker, who
spoke in Swainsboro in the morning
and Sylvania in the afternoen, wir
ed to Savannah for a lower berth on
the midnight train on the Central
from Millen to Atlanta;
Mr. Hardwick secured his reserva
tion and Mr. Walker did not. The
agent at Millen was notified that all
berths for Atlanta were taken and
hence Mr. Walker was too late.
Both Mr. Hardwick and Mr. Wal
ker dined at the Hotel Estelle here
that night and both went to Atlanta
on the midnight train. Mr. Hardwick
and Mr. Walker for the night dis
carded bolshevism, inheritance taxes
and criticism, and buried the hatchet
and went to bed together in~ Mr.
Hardwick’s drawing room.
$400,000,000 MORE
TREASURY DEPARTMENT AN
NOUNCES OFFER OF TWO SE
RIES AT 5% AND 6 PER CT.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Treasury
certificates of indebtedness in the
amount of approximately $400,000,-
000 were offered by the treasury
department in an announcement to
day. The certificates were offered in
two series, according to the an
nouncement, both dated September
15, 1920, one bearing 5% per cent
interest and maturing March 15,
1921, and the other bearing 6 per
cent interest and maturing Septem
ber 15, 1921,
The issues are being made in or
der to provide for the balance of the
certificates requiring to be refunded
and meet the current requirements
of the government up to Oc¢tober 15,
David F. Houston, secretary of the
‘treasury, said in his letter to bank
ers and trust companies. Treasury
!certificates of indebtedness to the
amount of about. $640,000,000 ma
‘ture September 15, and about $160,-
000,000 mature October 15. The
greater part of these $800,000,000
maturing certificates will be covered
by the installment of income and
profits taxes payable September 15,
according to the treasury depart
ment)
The gross debt of the government
August 31, 1920, on the basis of
daily treasury statements, amounted
)to $24,324,672,123.79, as against
$24,299,321,467.07 at the close of
’the fiscal year ended June 30, 1920,
an increase of only $25,350,656.72.
The floating debt (loan and tax cer
tificates unpatured), August 31,
1920, amounted to $2,571,201,000,
as against $2,485,552,600 June 30,
1920.
LEATHER BAG THROWN
INTO THE WRONG AUTO
Grip Containing $150,000 in Nego
tiable Securities Is Restored to
Georgia Man.
BALTIMORE, Md.—The leather
bag which its owner, Lindsay Hop
kins, of Atlanta, Ga., said contained
$150,000 in negotiable securities
and which disappeared from the train
on which he was traveling from New
York to Washington dast night, was
restored to its owner today by Mr.
Albert Wehr, of this city.
Mr. Wehr s:xx;l the bag came into
his possession by mistake. He had
gone to the union station to meet a
guest and a porter, he said, threw
Mr. Hopkins’ bag into his car along
with those of his visitor. He did not
discover the error until he reached
home and was unaware of the con
tents of the bag.
THE DAWSON NEWS
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE POINTS
TO “SPECIFIC INSTANCES” OF
QUOTA ASSESSMENTS.
“
GIVES COMMITTEE “LEAD”
Governor Believes “His Pittsburg
- Charges Will Be Proved True.
‘Heaps Additional Coals of Fire
On Republican Chairman Hays.
CHICAGO, Ill.—Governor James
M. Cox undertook today to heap ad
dtional coals of fire upon Will H.
Hays. He dwelt anew on republican
campaign quotas and assessments
and brought forth new information
to bear out his statement in Pitts
burg that fifty-one cities had been
assigned the task of raising $8,000,-
000 to elect Warren G. Harding, that
amount being only part, he said, of
the total campaign fund.
Governor Cox made public names
and details of a meeting, said to have
been held in a Chicago hotel, at
which the coal men of Chicago were
advised by competent republican
leaders®that the coal trade of that
city was expected to contribute $BO,-
000. .
“The senate committee might be
interested in asking Chairman Hays
whether he knows anything about
the quota, or assessment, or what
ever the term he employs, of the coal
men of Chicago for $80,000,” Gov
ernor Cox said. “It might be worth
while learning from Chairman Hays
whether he recalls a meeting held on
the ninth floor of the Auditorium
Hotel, in ths city, early in the sum
mer, when J. K. Dering announced
that quota or assessment, I also
would ask Chairman Hays whether
he recalls that Mr. Dering’s remarks
were supplemented by C. M. Moder
well. 3 L
Names These Present.
“If the cireumstances are not
fresh in the mind of Chairman Hays
he might call on George McArtor
or E. E. Fike or Robert H; Zoller or
James Forester, of Duqoin; or Rice
Miller, of Hillshoro, who were pres
ent. There were some democratic
men present who demured against
the assessmnt; but the meeting was
held. Chairman Hays might be asked
about 4t -, :
The governor stated that “I
thought I would just leave a lead
with the senate investigating com
'mittee.”
| Says He Has Corroboration,
In the face of Treasurer Upham’s
sworn testimony before the senate
committee that some one had played
a “practical joke” on Governor Cox
in giving him the list of cities and
the quotas assigned them, Governor
Cox declared he was in receipt of
corroboration of the amdunts he
charged at Pittsburg had been as
signed to several cities named on-the
list.
One of the cities mentioned by
him “was Oskosh, Wis., and he said
that admissions had come from re
publican leaders of the accuracy of
the figure he named.
From other sources Governor Cox
said he had received information as
to the accuracy of the sums he said
had been assigned to other cities in
the “phomney list.” He said he was
able to prove by the testimony of
republicans that a quota of $3lO had
been fixed for Seneca, Mich., a small
township/
90.6 POUNDS PER CAPITA USED
IN 1920, COMPARED WITH 82
POUNDS IN 1919.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The produc
tion of cane sugar in continental
United States for the year 1919-20
is estimated, according to Brad
street’s, at 241,998,400 pounds, and
of beet sugar at 1,452,902,000
pounds. This _production, imports
from foreign countries and receipts
from noncontiguous territories to
gether give a total of 11,180,628,037
pounds available in the markets of
the United States, according to the
department of commerce. Deducting
from this amount the exports from
continental United States of domes
tic sugar, 1,444,030,605 pounds, the
re-exports of foreign sugar, 6,904,
215 pounds, and shipments to non
contiguous American territories of
7,745,146 pounds, makes the net
amount retained for consumption in
the United States 9,721,948,011.
Using the revised figures of August
1, 1920, issued by the treasury de
partment, of the estimated popula
tion of continental United States of
107,239,000, this works out a per
capita consumption of 90.6 pounds
in 1920, against 82 pounds in. 1919,
and 89 pounds in the hitherto rec
ord year, as regards per capita con
‘sumption of 1914.
| 'l'gese figures show that despite
the increase in price more sugar is
‘being used in this country today than
ever before.
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'ELECTED TO LEGISLATURE
| ON NEW COUNTY ISSUE
i In the primary last week Hon. J.
3. Cowart, of Arlington, was elected
to represent Calhoun county in the
legislature. Mr. Cowart favors the
creation of a new county with Arl
ington as the capital. He was oppos
ed by Hon. Harper Daniel, of Leary.
DAWSON, GA. TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1920
FLEE IN TAXI WITH $35,000 OF
LOOT, INCLUDING A $lO,OOO
BILL AND DIAMONDS.
NEW YORK.—Two armed men
entered the stock room of the United
Auto Rim company on the third
floor of 221 West Fifty-third street
and after beating insensible Phillip
S. Smith, president of the company,
made off with money and jewelry
valued at $35,000. The bandits es
caped in a taxicab.
Shortly after he arrived at the
company’s offices Mr. Smith heard
the door to the stock room open.
When he investigated he found two
men standing inside the door, hands
on hips, who asked him if Mr. Smith
was in. ¢
When the president replied: “You
are talkinig to Mr. Smith,” both men
brought their hands from their hips
and thrust revolvers against Smith’s
belt, admonishing him to keep still
and everything%would be all right.
Smith told the police he was robb
ed of slB,soo'in cash, which includ
ed one $lO,OOO bill, of which the se
rial number is B-232-A; a five carat
diamond ring, -valued at $1,500, and
a loose stone worth $15,000,
NEW U. S. ISLANDS -
ESCAPE DRY LAWS
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PROHIBITION MEASURE DOES
NOT APPLY TO RECENT PUR- |
CHASE FROM DENMARK. !
SAN JUAN, P. R.—Probably the|
only place under the American flag
where prohibition is not now in force
is in Virgin islands where, until con
gress enacts news laws, the old Dan
ish laws remain in force. ~
The colonial courcil of St. Croix
has just passed a bill repealing for-l
mer local legislation for that islana
which provided for local prohibition
until a specified period after thei
ending of the war., Similar legisla- |
tion is pending in the colonial coun
cil for the islands of St. Thomas
and St. John. |
U. S. Laws Not in Force. |
The treaty of sale by which the
islands were transferred from Den
mark to the United States provided
that laws in force at the time of the
transfer should remain in full force
and effect until congress enacted
special legislation for the islands.
This has not yet been done. In the
meantime the constitution of the
United States, in all of its provis
ions, is not applicable to the islands
and the eighteenth amendment has
no meaning there.
| As -a war measure the colonial
councils, the local law making bod
ies, passed prohibition acts to be en
forced during the war. As a result
'St. Thomas, where champagne sold
for $1 a bottle and other liquors
were equally inexpensive, and the
two other islands gradually became
Ary. : 2
Feel Indirect Force.
Merchants in St. Thomas, whose
business is largely that of supplying
ships stores, have contended that pro
hibition was one of their greatest
handicaps, while the sugar makers
in St. Croix were deprived. of a lu
crative trade in an important by
product of sugar when they were
forced to cease making rum. With
war prohibition removed by local
legislation rum making has already
been resumed. oy
Inidrectly, however, the Virgin
islands are feeling the force of the‘
United States prohibition laws. Pro
hibition Director Donaldson has re-|
fused to permit the shipment of al
cohol to St. Thomas from here to be
used in the manufacture of bay rumi
unless manufacturers binds them
selves to denature their product, so|
that it can not be used for beveragel
purposes. The manufacture of bay!
rum is one of the chief industries of |
St. Thomas and St. John. |
SIX WOMEN ENTER RACE
FOR SEATS IN CONGRESS
Miss Anne Martin, Nevada, Seeks genate Nominati;r‘:; Miss
Rose Schneiderman, of New York, Opposes Wadsworth.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Although
Mrs. Aletha Wheeler, of Grand Rap
ids, was defeated in her effort w 0
become a member of the house of
representatives, the women of the
country still have six entries in the
race this year for a place either in
the house or senate. There are two
members of the fair sex running for
the upper branch of congress and
four for the house.
Miss Anne Martin, candidate for
the senate from Nevada, is undoubt
edly the best known of the six. Miss
Martin for months was anl active
figure in the National Woman’s par
ty and directed many of the drives
against President Wilson, in the
form of white house picketing. Miss
Martin, who is seeking the republi
can nomination, is an experienced
campaigner. She made the race for
the senate once before, was nomi
nated in the primary, ran as an in
dependent and put the democratic
candidate into office by splitting the
republican vote. She is at present
touring Nevada by atuomobile ‘in
her appeal to the electorate.
Miss Rose Schneidermann, of New
York, is the other woman candidate
for a seat in the senate, and the only.
cne of her sex in the eastern states
BRITISH INVESTIGATORS HAVE
LEARNED DETAILS OF ASSAS
SINATION OF RULER.
ELEVEN IN PARTY KILLED
Nicholas Attempted to Shield Women
Of His Family When Order to Fire
Was Given. Slayer Was Reward
ed For His Act. .
The accounts of the two independ
ent British investigators seem to dis
pel all possible doubts that former
Emperor Nicholas, of Russia, and his
were assassinated in the basement of
their prison house at Ekaterinburg
on the night of July 16, 1918,
Robert Wilton and Capt. Francis
McCullagh, the Britons who made the
investigations into the reported kill
ings of the royal family, both spent
several weeks at Ekaterinburg and
talked with natives and soldiers who
witnessed the affair through the win
dows of the ill-fated house. Both
agree on the important details of the
story. :
Party Were on Their Knees.
The victims of the massacre num
bered 11, the British investigators
declare, being former emperor, his
wife, son and four daughters, Dr.
Botkin and three servants. The as
sassination was arranged by Yurov
ski, the jailer in charge of the depos
ed royal family. Wilton said these
men were Letts, but Capt. McCul
lagh declares they were Magyars,
who had been placed on duty instead
of a Russian guard, because the bol
sheviki feared a Russian could not
be trusted for the work.
All the doomed party, except Nich
oles, were on their knees, crossing
themselves, as Yurovski shouted the
order for the execution of “Nicholas
Romanoff. the bloody, and all his
family.” The former czar stepped
quickly in frent of his wife and chil
dren, saying something which could
not be heard, and was shot by Yu
rovski., Then the others in the party
were shot down with revolvers and
later bayoneted the bodies, accord
ing to Capt. McCullagh's storye
Murderer Rewarded For Crime.
Following the assassination of
Nicholas and his family, Yurovski,
it is said, hastened to Moscow to re
port the details to Nikolai Lenine,
the bolshevik premier. He was pro
moted to be commissioner of life in
‘surance in the province of Ekaterin
burg, and now occupies the best
house in town, confiscated from a
merchant, Capt. McCullagh says.
Even the bolsheviki of the city, how
ever, shun him.
SHOWS 367,241 TOTAL
NUMBER TO SEPTEMBER 1 EX
CEEDS SAME PERIOD LAST
YEAR BY 224,616 BALES.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Cotton
ginned prior to September 1 amount
ed to 367,241 running bales, includ
ing 21,143 round bales, the census
bureau has announced in its first
ginning report of the season.
Ginning to September 1 last year
amounted to 142,625 running bales,
including 1,118 round bales and
twenty-six bales of sea island.
Ginnings by states this year to
September 1 were:
Alabama 1,555, Arkansas 30, Cali
fornia 1,545, Florida 117, Georgia
15,170, Louisiana 2,629, *Mississip
pi 827, North Carolina 7, Oklahoma
396, South Carolina 699, Tennessee
nothing, Texas 344,019, all other
statés 317.
The cotton crop is opening rapidly
throughout the entire belt.
seeking a place in congress. Miss
Schneidermann, nominated on -the'
labor ticket, will have as her repub
lican opponent Semator James W.
Wadsworth. She was born in Rus
sia, came to the United States when
three years old and. now at thirty is
president of the New York Woman’s
Trade Union League.
Dr. Esther Lovejoy, of Portland,
Ore., a rersistent crusader in her
state for the improvement of condi
tions for babies, has been honored
with the nomination of the demo
cratic party for a seat in the house.
Mrs. Helen C. Statler, of Michi
gan, who is after the republican
momination in the Third district in
that state. has as her platform “no
hungry child in the United States.”
Miss Alice Robertson, of Musko-{
gee, Qkla., gained her political ex
perience as postmaster in that town!
in the Roosevelt administration. She}
has continued to display an interest
in matters political and is now seek
ing the republican nomination from
her district. |
Mrs. Mavie Weeks, of Norfelk,
Neb., is the editor of her own papct
in evervday life. She has been nomi
mated for the house in the Third
Nebracka district by members of the
Non-partisan League.
TOO FERVENT.
Youth Fined For Obeying Singer’s
Call, “Come to My Arms, and
Kiss Me.”
NEW YORK.—The prima donna
of uptown burlesque show sang
“Come to My Arms and Kiss Me”
to Magistrate Simms in the Har
lem court on Friday.
Whereupon he, without hesita
tion, fined 19 year old Charles
.Soicher $3 for climbing over the
theatre footlights to answer the
same call of the same singer last
Monday.
Soicher, charged with disorderly
conduct, following an “explosion
of emotion,” when he mounted the
stage from his first row seat after
the ‘song had been ‘‘sung at him,”
declared he could not resist the
appeal.
Magistrate Simms decided that
first hand information was best,
and that “Come to My Arms and
Kiss Me” be rendered in court.
~ WANT AMENDMENT
REFORMERS WILL TRY TO PRE
VENT GROWING OF TOBAC
CO. HUGE FIGURES.
- WASHINGTON, D. C.—A bulletin
by the department of commerce is
being cited by reformers who have
banded themselves together to pre
vent the growing of tobacco, as rea
son for its plan to renew its former
activity on an increased scale im
mediately prior to the beginning of
the December session of congress.
That cigar and cigarette smoking
is on the increase is proved by offi
cial figures. It is demonstrated-that,
whereas the exportation this year of
the 1919 tobagco crop exceeded ex
portation for any previous year,
home consumption was greater. Es
piecially does the cigarette habit
grow, although there is no appre
ciable diminution of the snuff-dip
ping and tobacco chewing habits.
The Anti-Tobacco League will fol
low the tactics of the Anti-Saloon
League and demand an amendment
to the constitution. It will attempt
to prove that cigarettes cause more
insanity than whisky ever caused.
Surprising Figures of Consumption.
The bulletin contains statistics
which may be surprising to those not
fully conversant with the industry.
In 1919, according to the bureau of
‘\crop estimates, there were 1,901,200
Lacres planted in tobacco while the
production from the. crop of 1918
,amounted to 1,439,071,000 pounds.
There werd imported during 1919
leaf tobacco and tobacco products
to the value of $86,485,035, while
the exports of leaf tobacco were val
ued at more than $250,000,000. The
combined production of cigars in
registered factories and in bonded
manufacturing warehouses was 7,
629,000,000, of cigarettes approxi
mately 55,000,000,000, and of chew
ing and smoking tobacco and snuff
427,000,000 pounds, There were 16,-
211,769,000 cigarettes exported dur
'ing the year, leaving 39,000,000,000
factory-made cigarettes for consump
tion in the United States! The ex
ports of leaf tobacco during 1919!
amounted to 765,913,164 pounds,
greatly exceeding those for any prior
year. The revenue collected during
the year amounted to $20,000,000.
Of this total North Carolina con
stributed $67,140,000, New York
$34,596,000, Virginia $12,664,000,
Pennsylvania $12,012,000, Missouri
$10,808,000, Ohio $10',859,00‘0. and |
New Jersey $10,226,000. :
U. S. CENSUS SHOWS 10,145,521
LIVE IN NEW YORK, CHICA
GO AND PHILADELPHIA.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—About
one-tenth of the people of the Unit
ed States live in the cities of New
York, Chicago and Philadelphia,
while more than one-quarter live in
sixty-seven cities having a population
of 100,000 or more, final statistics
of the fourteenth census are expect
ed to show.
The three cities with populations
of 1,000,000 or more—-New York,
Chicago, Philadelphia—have a com
bined population of 10,145,521,
showing an increase of 1,644,347, or
about 19.5 per cent in the ten years
since 1910.
Cities having 500,000 to 1,000,000
have increased from five in 1910 to
rine this year, Detroit, Los Angeles,
San Francisco and Buffalo having
advanced into this class.
There was a net increase of two
in the cities of the 250,000 to 500,-
000 class, with a total of thirteen,
although six cities advanced into this
classification. They are Kansas City,
Mo., Seattle, Indianapolis, Roches
ter, Portland, Ore., and Denver.
There are forty-two cities of from
109,000 to 250,000 this year, a net
increase of eleven, although seven
teen have shown increases bringing
them into this class.
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DR. T. H.-ANDREWS DIES
AT HOME NEAR CARNEGIE
Dr. T. H. Andrews, one of the
most prominent and highly respected
citizens of this section, died at his
home near Czu'negiel after an illness
¢ szvera) rmontial 112 was 74 year
of age, and his death is the cause of
general sorrow.
A S —AR
| SOME CITIES. .
Are made by the “pull together” of many
citizens, Resolve to pull for the Chamber of
Commerce and boost Dawson. _]
U. 5. HAS MONUMENT
OFFICE SUPPLIES WORTH $l.-
500,000 FILL DESERTED BAR
RACKS IN WASHINGTON.
LOT STORED ELSEWHERE
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Six Hundred Surplus Truckloads Fill
Other Warehouses. Valuable Type
writers and Other Equipment That
Were Bought During the War.
WASHINGTON, D. C.- Taxpayer
visitors in Washington, who are in
térested in the present cost of main
taining the government, can glean
more information from a visit to Po
tomac park, supposedly one of the
show spots of the city,»chan by any
inquiries they may make at the
treasury department. In a series of
dilapidated barracks in that park
there are stored more than §1,500,-
000 worth office supplies that would
'delight the heart of many a business
man.
There are difficulties to be sur
mounted, however, if a close inspec
tion is to be made. Signs warn visi
tors away from certain of the puild
ings. Sagging and bulging walls point
to an early collapse, but they still
are filled with material acquired by
the various government deparfments
'during the war, and now regarded
as surplus. Those buildings that are
not approaching a state of dilapida
tion leak in places, and all are more
than a mile from the nearest fire
station, with nothing but a hand ex
tinguisher in each in case of fire.
4,000 Typewriters Stored.
Building after building is filled
with desks, used by the men who
fought the ‘“Battle of Washington,”
but now surplus. There are more
than 4,000 typewriters stored in two
buildirgs alone, yet the business man
who wishes to buy a typewriter now
finds he may have to wait a week
or two before he can get delivery.
There are thousands of chairs, in
numerable waste baskets, squads of
filing cases and other forms of office
equipment, apparently in sufficient
quantity to” fit out all of the offices
in an average size city. Only so
much of this material as the govern
ment finally classifies as junk reach
es the market; the rest is being held
for some indefinite day when it may
be needed by one of the departments.
Stored as 1 is, it is more likely to
return to dust.
| 600 Truckloads Not Included.
’ And that does not include all of
the surplus of that character ocwn
ed by the government. Officials, to
whose attention the condition of the
barracks has been called, complain
because they are not empowered to
build an adequate storehouse, where
600 truckloads of such equipment,
now resting in the halls of vatrious
government buiidings, may be plac
ed.
A recent protest of the fire mar
shal of the District of Columbia
caused a little clean-up in the stor
age district. Weeds, higher than a
man’s head, were cut away from
around the fire plugs, but the ser
viceable autos, desks, typewriters
and other equipment that clutter up
the landscape of the capital’s show
park apparently are to remain until
time and governmental red tape en
gulf them. ——
MANY USELESS POSITIONS.
St. Louis.—A survey of govern
ment positions designed to weed out
useless ones was urged at the con
vention of the National Federation
of Federal Employes, which opened
here today.
Speakers asserted an examination
of every position should be made ‘to
ascertain its necessity. All unneces
sary positions should be abolished
immediately, they declared, so that
holders of important positions could
be paid higher wages.
Luther C. Steward, of Washing
ton, president of the association, de
clared there were 66,000 adults in
the government employ receiving
less than $3 a day. He added that
about half the 640,000 civilians in
the service were being paid salaries
established by congress in 1854.
IT LOOKS MIGHTY BAD
FOR JOHN BARLEYCORN
Twenty Nations to Send Envoys to
Meeting of ‘“‘Antis.”
WASHINGTON.—Near {Wenty
nations will be represented by speak
ers at the meetings of the fifteenth
international congress against alco
holism, which convenes in Washing
ton Sept. 21.
The tentative program was made -
publi¢ here by the American execu
tive committee of the congress.
The congress, which was to have
been held in the United States in.
1915, was postponed annually since
then because of the world war, will
open with a pageant on the steps of
the capitol depicting the steps in the
fight in the United States against
alcoholism. -
LEGALLY CREMATED MAN
UNEXPECTEDLY APPEARS
Husband, Believed Murdered, Learns
He Is But Cinders by Law.
Legally dead and ecremated, aec
cording to the records of the Alle
ghany county morgue, Samuel Scott,
of Pittsburg, Pa., appeared while his
wife awaited his ashes.
Scott was said to have hesl razr
dered last July and his body hidden
in a coal bunker of the towbeat Ri
val. When a bodv was found in the
boat it was identified by Mr=. Sectt,
and the cremation authorized. :
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