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■Jkj '«• ESTAB*i^*ST^ l«« GREENSBORO. N. C. MCND4YJWANUARY 8, 1917. VOL. 96—MO. 3
OFFER FOR THE COURT HOUSE STATE NORMAL ASKS $125,000
OM BID RECEIVED—SIX SITES
OKI FRED FOR IXH'ATIOX OF
NEW BUILDIXO.
At an adjourned meeting of the
»oard of county commissioners to-day,
called for the purpose of receiv-ing
bids on the court house property
and offers of sites for a new court
House, one offer was made for the
purchase of the property now occu-
,i,.j by the court house and a half
dozen sites were proposed. The sin-
Sle bid on the property came from
•he Jefferson Standard Life Insur-ance
Company and was for $150,000.
•liis being the figure at which the
•ompany contracted to buy the prop-iriy
two or three years ago.
inasmuch as the property, if sold,
will be put up at public auction, it is
!Oi improbable that there may be
•liter bidders and that a higher price
i.han $150,000 may be offered.
Tie following sites were offered
for the new court house:
Through Mr. It. R. King, Mr.
I'easar Cone offered the lot at the
southeast intersection of WestWash-ington
and South Greene streets,
with a frontage of 160 feet on Wash-mgton
and 260 feet on Greene, with
streets on three sides, for $15,000.
The ('aidwell property, on the
southeast corner of West Market and
Ashe streets, with a frontage of 150
feei on West Market and 150 feet on
Ashe, together with an adjoining lot
on South Ashe 74 by 150 feet, was
offered for $51,500.
The Irving Park Company offered
i he old Gilmer home place, on the
corner of North Elm and Church
streets, fronting 260 feet on North
Elm and 125 on Church, but named
no price. It was stated that the
property could be had at a satisfac-tory
price.
J. C. Bishop made an offer of his
nome place on Nortli Elm street,
ft-lth a frontage of 210 feet, at $150
a foot.
Col. James T. Morehead stated to
the board that he would sell his
property on the corner of Sycamore
and Greene streets, but intimated
;!iat it would be at a higher figure
than he offered it before. His prev-ious
offer was to sell for $37,500.
The llagan property, bound by
Summit avenue. Church street and
Walnut street, was offered for $55,-
OO'i. It the entire property should
not be desired, it was stated that a
lot fronting 325 feet on Summit ave-nue
and 300 feet on Church street
.vould he sold for $30,000.
FOB MAIXTEXAXCE ALONE. EX-LARGEMEXTS
TO BE ASKED
FOR LiATER.
Raleigh. Jan. 6.—The trustees of
.the Greensboro State Normal Col-lege,
in session here yesterday de-cided
to ask the legislature for
$125,000 for maintenance. The
amount to be asked for enlargement
■will be agreed upon later. There is
pressing need for enlargement of
the dining hall, dormitory, class
,"ooni and larger auditorium.
The enrollment, the largest in the
history of the college is 740. There
have been 7,000 students in the in-stitution
and more than 1,000 have
graduated and 95 per cent of them
have done service as teachers. The
work of tire college, the directors in-sist,
has directly influenced the ele-vation
of education in every section
of the state.
The alumni have asked that the.
•name of the college be changed to
Mclver College. Others suggest
North Carolina State College. The
directors have not yet decided to ask
for any change and want to hear
from the people on the subject.
CUBA WITHDRAWS HER SUIT
CUBAN MINISTER TO GIVE OUT
STATEMENT AFTER CONFER-ENCE
WITH LAXSIXG.
THIXK LATE BOND
EFFORT THE LAST.
WILSON NOTE IS HUE
ALL POSSIBLE RESPECT.
London. Jan. 7.—G. N. Barnes,
minister of pensions, in a speech in.
London today said President Wil-vm's
suggestion that the belligerents
Hate their terms for peace was en-
■itled to all possible respect. The
American people, the minister add-ed,
on ihe whole wanted to be on
friendly terms with England and
therefore "we ought to cultivate
'IIHI friendship."
"The president," Mr. Barnes said,
"should be assured that this country
is not out to smash Germany or any-body
or anything except military
•owcr and pride."
Declaring that President Wilson
should be left under no misappre-lension
as io the objects of the en-
'.ente allies. Mr. Barnes said that
what was wanted before the allies
sou Id enter into negotiations was
she "clearing out of the Germans
from Belgium and the territory of
small peoples, reparation to these
peoples for all the wrong done and
subscribing by Germany to a
lo'-ument of peaee which would be
lacked up by the international moral
•ones of the whole world."
Regarding Germany's peace offer,
Mr. Barnes said:
'We cannot make terms with a
»'ild beast and the answer given by
'•'<■ allies is the only possible answer.
W» all want peace but the best way
■" attain it is to banish peace from
">r minds until we have attained the
'ltjerts we set out to secure in the
Washington, Jan. 7.—Attorney
General Bickett gave out the follow-ing
statement for the counsel for
North Carolina in the case of the re-public
of Cuba:
"We were furnished yesterday by
the solicitor general of the United
States with a copy of a communica-tion
by the minister of the republic
of Cuba to the secretary of the state,
advising the secretary of state that
the president of the republic of Cuba
had very promptly on January 4 re-voked
the decree authorizing the
suit against the state of North Caro-lina
and requesting that the attorney
general of the United States present
the decree of revocation to the Su-preme
court of the United States and
take the necessary course to have the
action against North Carolina dis-missed.
"We were informed that in this
matter the facts of the litigation had
not been properly presented to the
president of the republic of Cuba at
the time the decree authorizing the
suit had been issued; and that when
the minister of the republic of Cuba
to our government was informed by
the introduction in the senate of the
United States by Senator Overman
of this resolution, of the character of
the bonds involved in the suit, steps
were very promptly taken to have
the decree revoked and the action
dismissed. We had come to Wash-ington
prepared to argue the motion
on January 8, brief having been filed
in the Supreme court on January 1.
"Thus another effort to harass the
state of North Carolina with the col-lection
of the fraudulent special tax
bonds has come to naught, and we
believe this is the last effort that will
be made. The brief was made a
part of the Congressional Record by
Senator Overman. This action of
the republic of Cuba is in accord
with the course pursued by the. great
states of New York, Rhode Island,
Michigan, Missouri and Nevada, each
of whom declined to accept dona-tions
of these bonds. This action of
Cuba simply adds another chapter in
the history of" the complete vindica-tion
of the position of North Caro-lina
in regard to these bonds.
"After the jnost careful and pa-tient
investigation we reached the
clear and decided conviction that
these bonds can never be collected
by any holder of them in any court
of this country."
Washington, Jan. 5.—The repub-lic
of Cuba will withdraw its sup-port
of the petition in the Supreme
court to sue for payment of the old
North Carolina repudiated bonds.
Senator Overman was assured of
that by tne minister of Cuba today.
Cuba has instructed its representa-tive
here that the decree authorizing
the action against North Carolina
will be recalled.
Dr. Carlos Manuel De Cespedes,
the Cuban minister, conferred with
Secretary of State Lansing this af-ternoon
and will give out a state-nen;
explaining Cuba's position to-morrow.
Senator Overman will withdraw
his resolution asking the state de-partment
to ascertain from what
source Cuba obtained the bonds. It
was this resolution that brought
Cuba to a realization that she had
been imposed upon by New York
speculators. The Cuban minister
here read what was said by senators
in the ss.nate Tuesday regarding the
bonds and cabled his government.
Last night he received instructions
to see the secretary of state and stop
the suit, as far as it is possible to do
so, at ence.
A New York attorney. It is under-stood,
went to Cuba and gave the
North Carolina bonds to a charita >!.'
Institution, which asked the repub-lic
to sue for payment, and got him-self
rppointed by Cuba to bring the
suit
There is some doubt here as to
what will happen when the case is
called by the Supreme court Mondav,
the day set for North Carolina to
suite her case, and opposition to the
suit. The statement of the Cuban
government, as made by Dr. Cesped-es
tomorrow, will be used by Senator
JOBS™ POLITICAL PLUMS
XO ICS IX FARM LOAX
APPOIXTMEXTS DE-CLARES
BOARD.
Bickett in the Supreme
Wasflhgton, Jan. 7—Organization
of the Jfrelve federal land banks has
been Jpiertaken, the farm loan
board Jinounced tonight, with a de-lermtfrltion
to eliminate politics en-tirely.'
w the selection of the men
who alfe to set up and operate the
new lnfeitutions." The board's state-ment,
fjpplaining that pressure is be-ing
espied for the appointment of
men oft.party influence, particularly
Democrats, says:
"It pay be stated without qualifl-cationfthat
these jobs will not be
handef out as political plums. The
only cpJisid era lion which will be
taken Spto account is that of merit,
efficieBy and ability. There is no
divisiofi of opinion among the mem-bers
ojf the board as to this princi-ple."
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Fory^each bank the board is to
name Mve directors, from whom a
president, secretary-treasurer and
vice president will be chosen as man-agingrofficers.
In addition, there
will fan for each bank a registrar, to
act as; fldicuary agent of the govern-ment.
The board announces that in mak-ing
these appointments every effort
will be made to get men whose fit-ness
will commend them not only to
farmers who must borrow money,
but to investors who must look upon
farm loan bonds as safe and prime
securities if they are to buy them
and accept a low rate of tnierest.
Secretary McAdoo made public to-night
a letter he has addressed to
the governors of all states, urging
that they recommend to their re-spective
legislatures the enactment
of laws to make farm loan bonds le-gal
Investments for trust funds and
savins* banks, where such laws are
necessary. Mr. McAdoo also has
BELIEVES IN 20-CEHT COTTON
ALABAMA COXGRESSMAX SAYS
PROSPECTS FOR CROP THIS
YEAR ARE GLOOMY.
RUSHING ILOGAL. MEASURES
MORE THAN BOO MUST BE PASS-ED
BY BOTH HOUSES AT
OXCE.
Overman In the senate and Attorney wrrtJik'toHhe various farm loan or-
General
court.
The final effect of the action of
Cuba will be to stop the suit. The
game of the repudiated bond ped-dlers
of New York has been punc-t
ired
Overman Delighted.
Senator Overman is delighted over
tiie result of his resolution.
"I am sure that Cuba would not
have become a party to any such
procedure had she known what and
who was behind the tender of the
bonds." said he. "The debate In the
senate on my resolution will serve
to inform the Latin-American gov-ernments
that an effort is being
made to collect all repudiated bonds
of Nortli Carolina and other South-ern
states on neighboring republics.
I think the effect will be widespread
and of much good.
"My information is that Cuban
government officials are indignant
over the attempt of American repu-diated
bond traffickers to impose on
their republic.
"The Cuban minister has notified
me that he has been instructed to
say that the action of Cuba authoriz-ing
the bringing of the bond suit will
be rescinded. The bonds were do-nated
to a charitable institution by
the repudiated bond committee of
New York. Cuba was misled into
bringing the suit.
"I want it to go out to all the
world that those old North Carolina
bonds were repudiated and ought
not to be accepted by other states or
countries."
ganlzations of each state, pointing
out the desirability of co-operation
by them with the governors in any
measures adopted looking to the en-actment
of such legislation.
DOUGLAS DISCOVERS A
SUBSTITUTE FOR LEATHER.
Head Man Drives Horse.
Quakertown, Pa.. Jan. 6.—Home-ward-
bound after delivering milk at
'ticiilandtown, Aaron Durn. aged 75,
* farmer near California, died of
•Poplexy on his wagon. His body
*'as discovered when the horse ar-rived
home, driven by his dead mas-ter.
RESIGNATION OF LIEUT.
HOWELL IS ACCEPTED.
BnAtftt
Camp Stewart, El Paso. Tex., Jan.
5.—The resignation of Second Lieu-tenant
James M. Driver, company C,
second regiment, has been accepted
by the president. First Sergeant
Maurice C. Waddell, company C, of
Selma, has been recommended to
succeed him. , . ■
Dr. W. C. Kluttz, native of Salis-bury,
city physician of El Paso is
dead of typhus. He was one of the
leading physicians of the Southwest.
The resignation of First Lieuten-ant
Clarence Howell, compmany B,
third regiment, was accepted today
by the president. Eieutenant Howell
quits the service for business rea-sons.
His resignation leaves com-pany
B with only one officer, Second
Lieutenant William C. Colder.
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XORTH CAROLINA MAKES
HER BEST BOW TO CUBA.
, Raleigh, Jan. 5.—The lower house
tonight sent bouquets to Cuba upon
the little republic's withdrawal of
the bond suit and made its manners
to President Menocal and Senator
Overman.
Governor Craig sent a special mes-sage
relating to the withdrawal and
the announcement was met with ap-plause.
It came in the midst of a
great rush of bills.
The resolution of the house was
offered by Representative Doughton
who declared President Menocal dic-tated
a decree of withdrawal upon
information of the character of the
'bonds. This being voluntary, Gover-nor
Doughton asked that we tender
to our Bister republic our profound
thanks for her patriotic action touch-ing
upon a matter so Important to
the interests of North Carolina.
An expression ot admiration for
New York, Jan. 5.—In a dispatch
from Miami, Fla.. published in the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle yesterday, ex-
Governor W. L. Douglas, of Massa-chusetts,
who is a manufacturer of
shoes, was quoted as saying that he
had discovered a "satisfactory sub-stitute
for leather" out of which
serviceable shoes could be made to
retail at not more than. $3 a pair.
Mr. Douglas emphasized the import-ance
of this discovery by predicting
still higher prices for leather and
real suffering among • those who
could not afford to pay the prices *e-manded
for.footwear.
Mr. Douglas refused to divulge the
nature of his discovery, according to
the Eagle's correspondent, but as-serted
that experiments had left' no
doubt of its value.
Shoe manufacturers in Manhattan
and Brooklyn shook' their heads
doubtfully, however, when asked to
comment on the dispatch.
Washington, Jan. 5.—Represen-tative
Heflin, of Alabama, addressed
the house today on cotton. He told
how cotton farming was being aban-doned
in the boll weevil sections of
the South 'and said that prospects
for a cotton crop in 1917 are very
gloomy.
He said that the crop of 1916 was
750.000 bales short of the 1915 crop
and that we had already exported up
to this time 900,000 bales more than
was exported to the same date last
year.
He said that the cotton mills of
the United States consumed during
the past year over 7,000,000 bales
and that foreign spindles had con-sumed
7,000,000 bales of American
cotton and that for the coming year
15,000,000 bales of American cot-ton
would be required to supply the
spindles here and abroad and that
the crop of 1916 would be less than
11,500,000 bales, which will show
the supply to be 3.500,000 short of
the demand.
•He declared that June of this
year would find the smallest supply
of cotton ever witnessed at that sea-son
of the year in the United States.
He predicted that cotton would bo
back to 20 cents before that time.
He said if the war in Europe ends'
in the summer that cotton would
sell for 30 cents and maybe more.
He gave as his reason for this state-ment
that Germany and Austria
would want 1,000,000 bales as soon
as the war was over and that the
spinners of England, France and
America would be in the market to
see that the supply of cotton is not
exhausted before they got their sup-ply,
and high prices are bound to
follow.
He said wool is now selling for $1
a pound and that considering the
high price of wool, 25-cent cotton is
not an exorbitant price. He charged
that certain cotton spinners in the
United States and representatives of
foreign spinners had entered into an
agreement to divide out the territory
of the South into counties and dis-tricts
and that the agent or buyer of
one concern would not bid for or buy
any cotton in the territory of the
other. He said that if the producers,
merchants and bankers of the South
would stand together and hold the
remainder of the 1916 crop they
would profit from $10 to $20 a bale
on it. He declared that on account
of the small supply of and increasing
demand for cotton, that money in-vested
in it is the best investment
in the world.
Raleigh, Jan. 6.—The calendars in
both the house and the senate are
well up in having all bills that are
speeding ahead of the constitutional
amendments either through their
readings, in both houses and in pro-cess
of enrollment for ratification, or
in'the case of roll-call bills, awaiting
second or third reading in one or the
other houses. All must be cleared
from the legislative mill by Tuesday
and duly ratified. There are more
than 500 of them. Remarkably tew
have been given unfavorable report
or defeated on the floor. It is the
opinion, however, that nearly half of
the bills that have flooded the assem-bly
and clogged the legislative ma-chinery
as "emergency bills." could
have waited consideration later as
they are not really barred by the
constitutional amendments.
About the only statewide bill of-fered
today came in the senate from
Senator Allen, of Wayne, to provide
for the indeterminate sentences for
convicts in this state.
Senator Pollock offered a resolu-tion
to reimburse Judge W. M. Bond
$200 expenses in investigating the
lynching of Joe Black, in Lenoir.
There was objection by Little, or
Anson, to immediate pasage and it
•went to committee.
The senate heard Governor Craig's
message on the withdrawal of the
Cuban bonds and adopted the house
resolution of thanks* and apprecia-tion
for Cuban action and Senator
Overman's service.
Both, houses held morning and af-ternoon
sessions, and the senate this
afternoon consigned to the unfavor-able
calendar the Washington coun-ty
bill to change the county seat
from Plymouth to Roper. Big dele-gations
were here and had a com-mittee
hearing before this action,
which ends the affair, was taken.
the "patriotic and successful services
rendered the state of North Caro-lina"
was given Senator Overman.
After quoting from President
Menocal's decree of withdrawal.
Governor Craig says: "We are deep-ly
gratified that the republic of Cuba
has refused to participate or be a
party to the methods that have been
employed by the holders of these dis-honored
bonds. We have had an
abiding interest and fraternal feel-ing
for the people of Cuba, and in
the war for her emancipation, -our
soldiers bore a conspicuous part.
With pride and gratification we have
watched the development of the is-land
republic and rejoice now that
she has generously and gladly re-moved
all cause of any estrangement
between us.
"The state of North Carolina ac-knowledges
with gratitude the high
sense of duty of Senator Overman to
her, and his valuable services in this
situation fraught with anxiety and
danger. The resolution and the dis-cussion
by him in the United States
senate and the subsequent with-drawal.
of the action by the republic
of Cuba haa given international pub-licity
to the invalidity and the dis-h.
o.n.or ot th.es-e bonds-.'' ^._f.
EX-PRESIDEXT TAFT
WARNS OF WASTE.
Sharon, Pa., Jan. 6.—Prosperity-resulting
from the European war has
led to great private and public ex-travagance
in the United States
which will constitute one of the na-tion's
most serious problems when
the war ends, declared former Pres-ident"
William Howard Taft, in an
address here tonight on "After the
War, What?"
"A continuance of this extrava-gance
for another year must form
habits that will cause real suffering
on the part of wage earners to re-duce
their resistance to the reduc-tion
of wages and will embitter the
industrial controversies that are
likely to arise." said Professor Taft.
Public extravagance, he said, was
indicated in the large appropriations
for public buildings, roads and im-provement
of rivers and harbors now
being considered by Congress. The
former president warned against un-dertaking
projects which entail reg-ular
appropriations for years to
come, as, with a lessening of pros-perity
following the war, will come
an equal decrease in public revenues.
ELEVEN SCHOOL CHILDREN
ARE KILLED BY TORNADO.
flood Prices Rise Fast.
Washington, Jan. 6.—Food prices,
advancing throughout the year, took
a 4 per cent jump from October 15
to November 15. tables prepared to-day
by the bureau of labor statistics
show. Beef alone of all the staple
foods grew cheaper. Ham, bacon,
rice, coffee, and tea remained about
the same.
Potatoes made the greatest price
gain, rising 21 per cent in 30 day*;
eggs and flour went up 13 per cent;
beans, 11 per cent; lard, 10 per
cent; meal, 8 per cent.
Muskogee, Okla.. Jan. 5.—Eleven
school children were killed, four
probably fatally hurt and eight ser-iously
injured when a tornado
wrecked the Vireton rural school
house, known as the Lee-Beldwin
school, near Blocker, Okla., today.
The school building, a Baptist In-dian
mission a quarter of a mile
away, and four farm houses are in
ruins and a half dozen other farm
houses were lifted from their foun-dations
by the storm, which swept a
narrow path for a distance of six .
miles.
The storm struck first at Richville,
seven miles southwest of Vireton.
but did no further damage until
within a quarter of a mile of the
school building.
Tearing up the valley for nearly a
mile the storm "then ripped the
school building from its foundation
and hurled the children down the
hillside and across the ravine, some
of them being picked up 100 yards
from the site of the building.
Only two children of 28 in the
building, escaped uninjured.
THE BRITISH OCR
BEST (THTOMER8.
Washington, Jan. 6.—Purchases
of nearly $2,000,000,000 made the
United Kingdom by far the best cus-tomer
ot the United States in 1916.
An analysis published today by the
bureau of foreign and domestic com-merce
shows that no other nation
bought so much by half, but still fell
short of $1,000,000,000. Canada
was third, with $600,000,000.
Besides the central powers, the
three neutral nations of northern
Europe alone of all the world failed
to receive more American goods than
in 1915.
American exports to Germany
during the year were more than
$1,000,000. Austria-Hungary took
less than $100,000.
Japan in 1916 took $94,000,000
of American goods, against $40,000,-
000 the year before; Cuba, $145.-"
000,000, against $83,000,000; Rus-sia,
$144,000,000. against $37,00q,-
000; China, $29,000,000, against
$19,000,000; South America. $197.-
000,000, against $129,000,000.
Imports from South America dur-ing
the year increased 50 per cent.
Asia sold nearly twice as muoh to
the United State* as in 1915. Bn-.
rope showed some increase.
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