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NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD;: * c l< DISPATCHES UK IMPORTANT HAP- 1 l PENINGS GATHERED FROM , OVER THE WORLD. FOR THE BUSY READER i The Occurrences Of Seven Days Given In An Epitomized Form For Quick Reading Foreign? King ConBtantine of Greece, who has been visiting the battle front in Asia Minor is ill. according to a dispatch received in Paris. The treaty of peace between Germany and the United States was signed at Berlin at five o'clock, August 25. The discovery of an allegd plot to 1 assassinate President Obregon resulted in the arrest of General Jesus Salas Lopez, commander of a small body ' of troops in the state of Morelos. \ Efforts to salvage the wreck of the fcR-2, in the wide-spread mouth of the I Humber river, in the hope that more >t the bodies of the crew might be recovered from the twisted debris of the giant airship. 1 The Sinn Fein's reply to the British peace offer doesn't accept the proposals, but "doesn't bang the door to peace," the Evening News Dublin correspondent wired recently. Negotiations, he reported, are largely a matter of "logicshopping." Fears that a death list runing as high as ten thousand has resulted from typhoons around Ningpo on the coast, and on the Yangtse river, were expressed by relief workers recently. . All communication with the district ' has been severed. Census figures, pubished recenty, show that Great Britain has a population of $42,767,530, compared with 40,631,386 in 1911. There are 20,430,623 ' males and 22,336,907 females. The ?R-s, the gigantic airship constructed for the United States navy. , *"? 1?- noar Hull ? 1 lies in me numooi n?^?, ?, _ . 4 colossal and appaling wreck of what was the largest dirigible the world has ever seen. Of the forty-nine offi- 1 cers and men on board the airship, only five?four British and one Amer- , lean survive. ] An official denial that Director Cuno < io the Hamburg-American line is to 1 be the first German ambassador to ( the United States after resumption < of peace, has been issued in Berlin, i Cuno has also refused the post of fi- 1 nance minister. < Serious fighting is taking place at J Sidi Ameran, south of Melilla, Spain. Sharp fighting along the Spanish po- ] sitions there is reported. it is stated 1 reinforcements have been dispatched to the front. Washington? | Judge W. W. Larsen recently extended his attack on the railroad funding bill during its consideration in the closing session of the house. Congressman Charles H. Brand, of Georgia, member of the banking and 1 currency committee of the house of representative, gave out a statement / in which he expresses great relief in the improvement of the cotton market. The treaty with Germany which , was signed recently in Berlin was made public by the state department. It puts into force the economic, reparations, military and various other provisions of the unratified treaty of Versailles, but provides specifically that the United States shall not be bound by the covenant of the league of na- 1 tions or by other enumerated parts of the treaty of Versailles. The United States German peace treaty, framed by the administration J as a substitute for the long contested Versailles pact, has been concluded, and after initial conferences between ' President Harding and Secretary Hughes with members of the senate 1 foreign relations committee, the new ^ document seemed likely to be ratified j by the senate after it returns from its ( month's recess. 1 Nine high schools have been officially recognized by the war department as "honor" institutions not designated as such because of the "es- . pecially high standards of military training and soldierly displine." The , Chattanooga, Tenn., high school is included in the nine. , Friends of Senator Borah of Idaho, , father of the disarmament conference, ] are astounded to learn that Borah will i not be one of the American delegates. < However, Senator Borah will not presume upon President Harding, and has , blocked a move by his friends to get . the president to appoint him. i . Legislation creating eighteen federal i judfces at large has been recommended ; to President Harding because of the I congested conditions of federal court : i dockets all over the country. 1 Interesting figures on the number of farms and thoir sizes in the state s of Georgia and throughout the United 1 States were announced by the bureau i 1 of census of the department of com- I merce. The report contains prelimin- ? ary figures from the 1920 census of 1 agriculture with comparative figures for 1910. ( Congress put aside its work recently t for thirty days after a determined f figtA against the anti-beer bill had i forced those in charge of it to with- 1 draw it for auction by the senate next 1 fall. I Workers throughout the United States are planning a "biggest ever' f Labor day celebration September 0, I according to advices received by the ir American Federation of Labor head- i < quarters. . r Plans for the co-ordination of children's relief organizations interested a in Russian relief with the American 1 relief administration were discussed at a meeting of the European relief r council with Secretary Hoover and Colonel William M. Haskell, who is L to have charge of food distribution in r Russia 1 i: Disapproval of the administration's , ailroad funding bill, recently reportid by the senate interstate commerce committee was expressed by William 3. McAdoo, former director of rail- , roads in a letter presented to the senate recently by Senator Stanley, a Democrat, Kentucky, who requested Mr. McAdoo's views after the committee had refused to hear him. With temperatures above normal < tn all parts of the belt, cotton failed to show any general improvement during the past week. The Weekly National ond rtnllotin Rati) re VT CakUCi UUU v? V|/ JLTV>..VV.M W cently. Japan's "hearty and appreciative acceptance" of President Harding's in- I vitation to participate in the Washington disarmament and Far Eastern conference was expressed in a note received at the state department recently from the Japanese minister of foreign affairs. It is thought that congress will recess in a few days, and the solons will go home and recuperate from their arduous labors. 1 J. S. Wannamaker, president of the American Cotton Association, attacked the federal reserve system, and assert- i ed that deflation of the currency and i of prices had been terribly destructive 1 to all American producing interests, that it had been wholly unnecessary, without any reason and had been alto- 1 gether brought about, deliberately, by the federal reserve board, composed of bankers, working in the interests of 1 the bankers of the country. In the face of all sorts of claims ' by prohibition leaders that congress should not quit work until the antibeer bill has been disposed of, indica- 1 tions are that the senate an<J house ; will recess sqen without taking up that measure. Revenue derived from tobacco, ci- I gars, cigarettes and snuffs during the year 1920 amounted to $294,000,000, of : vhich North" Carolina contributed $108,- 1 447,000 and Virginia $20,721,000. 1 The United States government has virtually authorized Costa Rica to seize and exercise its jurisdiction over disputed territory in Central America now in possession of Panama govern- < meat troops. For the purpose of main- i taining control over developments that 1 nay follow, United States armed forces i ?some of them now being urshed from < this country ? will take up advanta- 1 geous position in the trouble zone in Central America. One singular thing about the present trouble between Panama and Costa < Rica is that the United States, white ( exercising a special protectorate over | the former government, is in the posi- : tion of assisting Costa Rica. Another i odd feature of the trouble is that the Coto region is not and never has been denied by Panama as belonging to Costa Rico. Domestic? i Lieut. R. M. Merrell and Jack Rode- J heaver, brother of Homer Rodeheaver, ( choir leader for the Rev. Billy Sunday, were killed near Winona Lake, Ind., when their airplane crashed to the ground. Albert Hackerman is the most ab- 1 sent-mended man in New York. Emer- ' ging from a Turkish bath started for 1 his office forgetting his clothes. i Revenue Agent Stokes V. Robertson said recently that the dismissal of the Buits against fifty-five of the sixty-two re-insurance companies by Chancellor Strieker would not affect the prosecu- , tion against the seven re-insurance companies. Dancing masters of the middle West ( in convention at Chicago say that business are finding ballet dancing excellent exercise, a figure reducer, teaches poise and grace and improves the health. Aopnrrtln? to Senator Richard R. Meents, one of Governor Smalls closest political allies, says that Gov- 1 ernor Small will be a candidate for reelection in 1924. Two masked bandits held up and robbed the mail coach Missouri, | Kansas and Texas limited train as it entered Denison recently of probably 1 half a million. John G. Shedd, president of Marshall Field Co., throws all responsibility of prosperity on the action of congress. Several eels were caught by mem- 1 bers of the lighthouse tender Colum- ' bine on the last trip of that vessel to , the Cape Lookout breakwater some beink at least at foot in circumference and over five feet long. Reports of a gun battle recently between Logan county deputy sheriffs and a large body of armed men at ! Blair, W. Va., according to reports 1 received at Charleston, W. Va. Thomas Hayes, 48 years of age, a resident of Nashville, Teun., was shot and killed recently by his wife, Mrs, * Maaeie Haves, who claims he was 1 trying to kill her with a razor when J she fired on him. Mrs. J. S. Moon, 23 years old, is lead and her husband was rescued ifter a drop of 100 feet from the Tarihan bridge at Memphis, Tenn., into ( .he Mississippi river, is being held on { i charge of murder as a result of the ( fatal wounding of the woman as she t kvas crossing the bridge with her hus- i jand. Jim Nesbitt, negro, serving a life sentence for murder on the Spartaniurg, S. C., chaingang, recently made i lis escape. He caught a bloodhound i nit on his trail and tied him to a trea i ind proceeded in his flight. He was < atur captured, however. Albert Chenvert. recently sentenced in a charge of beating his wife, wao aken from the jail by a mob and given i whipping at Bunkie. La. Then the nob pasesd the hat and tock up a colection for the wife and two-months-old iaby. Chenvert was told to leave town lost haste. He left. Chicago reports that i'-.rmers have looded the live stock and grain markets of the county with heavy ship nents, regardless of warnings from ; :cnunission dealers and demoralized ! narkets. Mobile shippers have filed complaint tgainst rates charged on hardwood ' umber and other products of the' for>st with the interstate commerce comnission. Flood waters in the state capitol , milding at Phoenix, Ariz., are slowly J eceding. The damage to the capitol i 3 estimated at $30?.0flfl \ TO WITHDRAW OUR TROOPS FROM RHINE ACTION WILL AFFORO RELIEF TO HUNS OF HEAVY BURDEN OF MAINTENANCE. A RENEWED PROMISE TO PAY Latest Available Figures Place the Number of American Troops in the Army of Occupation at 14,000. Washington.?Intimations were given in high official quarters that the withdrawal of the American troops from the Rhine will be seriously conaiHorpri rs soon as the peace treaty signed in Berlin has been ratified by the Senate and the German Reichstag. No definite prediction was made but it has been established that the administration would feel that there would be no necessity of burdening Germany with the support of an army of occupation. Under the new treaty Germany agrees to perpetuate the promise she made in the treaty of Versailles to pay the expenses of occupation, but there is no direct mention of the subject which, it is understood could be Interpreted as in any way affecting tne present situation of binding the United States ether to remain or withdraw. Latest available figures place the number of American troops in the army of occupation at 14,000. whose cost of maintenance is nearly a million dollars a month. Expect Release of Prisoners. Geneva.?With the convening here of September 5 of the second general assembly of the league of nations, it Is expected that the announcement can be made that the last war prisoner in Russia has been returned to his home. Spectre of Another War. London. ? The spectre of a new world war would hang over the Irish situation if the peace negotiations should collapse and hostilities were resumed, according to Lloyd George's speech in Barnsley. Government Not to Intervene. Washington. ? Encouraged by reports from West Virginia indicating that threatened bloodshed there has been averted, officials here saw little likelihood of the federal government taking part in the labor disputes there. Food For Relief is Moving. Washington.?American food is being loaded in trains at Danzig and will start moving towarb Petrograd in two or three days, according to word reaching Secretary of Commerce Hoover. May Demand Investigation. Washington.?Congressional investigation of the Z R-2 disaster will be lomanded unless the findings of the British probe are satisfactory to congress, Senator King of Utah declared. Disappointment of Diplomats. Washington.?There is no concealment here of the disappointment of allied diplomats in the new peace treaty signed by the United States md Germany. Prevention of Forest Fires. Washington. ? Activities for the prevention of forest fires and preservation of our forests are now on in most of the states of the union, the lepartment of agriculture announced. Are Many Supposed Swindlers. Chicago.?Sixty men, many of them leaders in banking and other busilesses in their community, will he inlicted in connection with the alleged Charles W. French $50,000,000 'swindle trust." Forty Killed in Collision. Magliana, Italy. ? Forty persons were reported killed when a passenger train crashed into a freight lear here. Scores were injured. Volcanic Eruption Expected. Honolulu.?Extreme activity during :he autumn months of the year culmi aating in a tremendous erupuuu >u November is the prediction being nade by local volcanologists for the Kilauea volcano. Taxes Ahead of Tariff. Washington. ? The senate finance committee decided to put the tax bill ihead of the tariff. Plans call for consideration of the revenue measure :o begin after hearings on the tariff iave been concluded. Reduced Prices for Paper. Minneapolis, Minn.?The Minnesota tnd Ontario Paper company anaounced a price of $88 per ton for lews print paper for the months of Dctober, November and December. Detectives Seeking Assassins. Berlin. ? Detectives were at work early in the Black forest, near Offen;>urg, Baden, attempting to pick up some trace of the assassins who shot ind killed Mathias Erzberger, one of lie prominent leaders in the German centralist party. i inLr inhn?nn is Paralyzed. Savannah, Ga. ? A special to the Savannah Press from Washington says Henry Lincoln Johnson, republican national committeeman from Georgia, has suffered a stroke of paralysis. Steamships Must Be Returned. New York.?Federal Judge Manton jrdered the receivers for the United States Mail Steamship company to return immediately to the shipping aonrd nine chartered steamships which were seized by the board. ANNOUNCEMENT BY DE VALERA "We Have Not Sought War, But If War be Forced Upon Us We Must Defend Ourselves, and We Shall Do So." London.?The British government's peace proposals were laid before the Dail Eireann, which rejected them unanimously, but is willing to negotate on the principle of government by consent of the governed, Eamonn de Valera says in his reply to Mr. Lloyd .George, the British prime minister. The letter proposed that Great Britain and Ireland appoint representatives with plenary powers to negotiate details on this principle. "We have not sought war nor do we seek war, b^|t if war be made upon us we must defend ourselves, and we shall do so," says Mr. de Valera's ; letter. i Date of Next Great War Set. London.-yAll doubts as to the exact date of the next world war have been ! set at rest by Mr. J. Ramsey Macdon!ald, prominent socialist and pronounc-i ed pacifist, who declared in an inter-! view tnat "tne wona in i?ou ana ^uuu will have to go through the same horrors as in 1914." Increase in Pellagra. Jackson. Miss.?The morbidity report issued by the state board ol health showed an increase in Mississippi in the number of pellagra cases reported. During July 2,201 , cases were reported against 1,212 cases for the same month in 1920. The Beer Tax In Britain. London.?One reason why the British government doesn't like prohibition lies in the fact that, according to figures just published, excise duty on beer for the year ending March 31, brought $616,907,000 rolling into Its coffers. All Treaty Rights Secure. ashWington.?Full title to "all the rights, privileges, indemnities, reparations or advantages" specified for the | United States upder the unratified ; Treaty of Versailles is reaffirmed in j the separate treaty with Germany. State Department Unperturbed. Washington. ? State department offlcail8 appeared unperturbed by the report that Panama would not recognize the validity of the commission selected to delimit the boundary line between Costa Rica and Panama. Another Airplane Falls. London.?An airplane carrying mail from London to Brussels, fell into the English channel a few miles off Calais, France, as the result of the explosion of its petrol tank.. Bandits Make Big Haul. Los Angeles, Calif.?Between $20,000 and $45,000 was obtained by the bandits who robbed the Huntington Park branch of the Lob Angeles Trust and Savings bank. Spanish Recruiting 8topped. Washington. ? Recruiting in the United States by Spanish officials for Moroccan service has been suspended on orders from Madrid, the Spanish embassy announced. ???????? . U. S. to Dispose of Liquor, i Washington.?Immediate disposition I of liquors seized under the national, : prohibition act on which storage! charges are accrued was ordered by. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. 7 do ii c nnn con Washington. ? The United States i will lose a million dollars through | the destruction of the dirigible Z R2 under the terms of an agreement enI tered into with the British government. Two Are Murdered and Robbed. Tampa. Fla.?Rube Jones, 45, of of ] Port Richey, lormer marshal, of Tarj pon Springs, and Bert Scott, 39, also of Port Richey, were shot to death from ambush at Stevenson's bend, near Weeckiwatchee Springs. Robbery was the motive, apparently, as Jones was known to carry a roll of about $2,000 in cash. This money | and a large diamond ring whicn he wore on his left hand were taken. A diamond stud in his shirt was overlooked as well as $34 which he had in another pocket. President Has Shipping Bill. Washington. ? The bill carrying $>48,i>UU,('UU ior expenses 01 me snip-; ping board until January 1, next, and : $200,000 for expenses of the disarma-' ment conference was sent to the i President. Farm Credits Agreed To. Washington. ? The senate before adjourning put aside the anti-beer bill to adopt the conference report on the agricultural credits bill already agreed to by the house and sent | it to the President for his approval. To Abandon Fort Moultrie. Charleston.?Orders have been received at oFrt Moultrie which have,, ' to do with the virtual abandonment of this historic post. Col. F. S. Long, i commanding, has been transferred to i the Philippines. Gun Fight Report Unconfirmed. Charleston. W. Va.?Reports of a gun battle between Logan county deputy sheriffs, said to number 300, and a larue bodv of armed men atl ' Blair. W. Va? liave been received here, but were unconfirmed. Steamer Sends S. 0. S. Call. Halifax. N. S. ? The American ( steamer City of Brunswick, from Mobile. Ala., to Antwerp, is reported 1 aground and calling for assistance from Sambro ledges, about twenty miles from here. The City of Bruns- i wick registers 9,500 gross tons. Peter Cooper Hewitt Dead. Paris.?Peter Cooper Hewitt. Ameri- i jean scientist end electrical inventor. 11 died in an American hospital here. Mrs. Hewitt and his sisters were at the bedside. |i WORK or WOMEN A FEATUBEJF SHOW MRS. F. C. HOOK SUCCESSFULLY ORGANIZING AN INTERESTING DEPARTMENT SEVERAL CONTRACTS SI6NE0 a Both Small and Large Individual Exhibits Will Be Displayed in This Unique Display of Handiwork. Charlotte, N. C.?The task of organizing an exhibit for the Made-inCarolna Exposition, which will be held here September 12 to 29, to show the handiwork of women, is being rapidly carried to a successful conclusion by Mrs. C. C. Hook, of this city, former president of the State Federation of Woman's Clubs. Mrs. Hook has charge of this work for the Charlottes Woman's Club, which has undertaken to form a comprehensive woman's work exhibit, expected to require about 1,000 feet of floor space. A number of exhibitors already have signed contracts for-participation in this exhibit, and details incident to a decison on the part of others are being worked out by correspondence, said Mrs. Hook. She began this effort about ten days ago, and said, "1 feel very much encouraged by the success which has come so early." Both small and large individual exhibits are being included in this display, making it convenient for manufacturers of articles of particular interest to women to participate as well as for various woman's organizations. Great Confederate Reunion. Durham, N. C.?With more than 1,000 veterans of the North Carolina Division, United Confederate Veterans, in attendance, the most successful state reunion in years closed with a reception by the Daughters of the Confederacy ^t Trinity College and a grand ball at Lakewood park. Tobacco Grower* Sign Up. Richmond, Va. ? Sixteen thousand tobacco growers have signed the marketing contract as a result of the state-wide drive for a seventy-five per cent membership in the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative association. Cause of Airship Disaster. Howden, England?The cause of the ] disaster to the Z R-2, according to the j best information obtainable here, the base of the destroyed dirigible, was j the breaking of the longitudinal gir-j ders amidships, made of an aluminum alloy, cutting the airship in halves. Much Alcohol Destroyed. New Orleans, La.?Twenty-six thousand gallons of pure grain alcohol were destroyed at the plant of the Jefferson Distilling and Denaturing Co. when lightning struck the plant. The Congress Has Recessed. Washington.?Congress took a recess until September 21, without a vote by the senate on a bill prohibit-1 ing the manufacture and sale of beerj to the sick. i No Medical Beer. Washington. ? Decision to wthhold issuance of medical beer regulations pending congressional action on proposed anti-beer legislation was reached by Secretary Mellon. Small Will Run Again. Springfield, Ills. ? Governor Small will be a candidate for re-election in 1924, Senator Richard R.vMeenta, one; of the governor's closest political allies said. Solons Leave Washington. Washington. ? Senators arid representatives generally left Washington for a vacation as a result of Congress declaring a thirty days' recess. Plot to Kill Obregon. 1 r ---1 - Tli a Hlonnvarv n f an IVIKJICU lilt uiowu.VI, alleged plot to assinate President Obregion resulted in the arrest of Gen. Jesus Salas Lopez. Arizona Capitol Flooded. Phoenix, Ariz.?Flood waters from Cave creek entered the state capitol building here. The basement of the structure was flooded to a depth of nearly two feet. Soldiers Seek Enlistment. Chicago.?A committee representing more than two hundred unemployed former soldiers, sailors and marines, placed an offer before the Spanish consulate here to serve in the Spanish foreign legion being recruited to fight in Morocco. Cotton Has Not Improved. Washington. ? With temperatures above normal in all parts of the belt, cotton failed to show any general improvement during the past week, the1 weekly national weather and crop bulletin said. Crisslnger is Optimistic. Memphis, Tenn.?D. R. Crissinger, comptroller of the currency, told business men and bankers of the cotton growing states tnat tne Business anu industrial outlook Is steadily improving. Villa Flees From Home Ranch. El Paso. Texas. ? Francisco Villa has fled from his half-million acre ranch at Canutlllo, Durango, to Par-' ral to enlist aid of the Mexican government in putting down a revolt among his followers. Only American to Escape. Hull, England.?Norman O. Walker, a rigger, was the only American to escape when the Z R-2 was destroyed. It was reported early in the night j that he had <jied, but inquiry has es-: tabllshed the fact that he is alive. j SPECTATORS PANIC STRICKEN i A Dispatch to the Press Association Says That Five Men Were Saved of the Crew of Forty-nine. j mi i _ < U J ^ rrn O C L.onaon.? iue giani uiramp 4n.-?, r purchased by the United Slates from Great Britain, exploded over the city of Hull, according to advices received shortly after 6 o'clock. The airship is a wreck in the river Humber. r The airship was passing over Hull in fine style when suddenly it was seen to break in two. Instantly there were terrific explosions and the air- R ship burst into flames and commenced to descend. Three parachutes were seen to leave the ZR-2. Thousands of the people of Hull watched the disaster. As the explosion occurred they dashed panicstricken in all directions for fear of being enveloped in the wreckage. It was while the Z R2 was cruising over Hull that she was seen to emerge * from the clouds and suddenly break in two. One portion appeared to rise "a ip the air. The other descended slowly and fell into the Humber. A dispatch to the Press Association ? from Hull says five men were saved from the crew of forty-nine. P< No Reunion of U. C. V.'a. ?( Lynchburg, Va.?Published reports that this year's reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, Sons of Vete- r* rans and other affiliated organizations has been abandoned because no j southern city was willing to act as host, were confirmed by Arthur H. Jennings, historian-in-chief of the 1 Sons of Veterans. Is Three Separate Whiskey Rings. New York.?A special anti-bootleg- 0 ging force sent to New York by the department of internal revenue has found evidence of three big separate 0 whiskey rings, operating in the belief that they are "grandly immune to the law," said Howard R. Kiroack, head of the force. cl A Heavyweight Family. ^ Bellefonte, Pa.?Centre county may have that famous straw that broke | the camel's back. Philip Straw and 8 his nine children are claiming the " heavyweight family championship of ho ufota Tho ton of thom woiffh 2,318 pounds. 84 Law to Regulate Rentals. Cincinnati, O.?It is reported that c* the matter o {enacting laws to govI em rental of residence property will g| receive serious consideration at the annual convention of the American Bar Association, to be held in Cincinnati from August 30 to September 12. P< Bt Stephenson is Bound Over. f Birmingham, Ala.?Rev. Edwin R. tjC Stephenson, who shot and killed Father James E. Coyle, pastor of St. Paul's Catholic Church, on August 11, was bound over to await action of the Jefferson county grand jury at a ^ preliminary trial. {(j b1 Legion's Home-Coming Welcome. Chateau Thierry, France.?The American Legion delegation found a home-coming welcome when they returned to Chateau Thierry, made fa- A mous by their feats of valor against c the Germans in the world war. ' vl Will- Allen is Lynched. Columbia, S. C.?Will Allen, negro, who shot and-kiled Noah Frick, a white farmer of the Chapin section ^ of Lexington county, was lynched by A a posse of 150 men near Chapin. ej Treaty With Auatra Signed. Vienna.?The treaty of peace with the United States was'signed at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. at ci Carpentier's Coming Combat. Paris.?Georges Carpentier will be called upon to face an opponent in m Albert Hall, London, on December 2, says the sporting newspaper Auto. The man to oppose him Will be chosen by Major Wilson, the English * fight promoter, frdm four prominent heavy- ai weights, Bob Martin, heavyweight ? champion of the American expeditionary forces; Frank Moran, the veteran pugilist r Bob McCormick, the English lightweight, and Joe Bickett, whose defeate by Carpentier in De- pc cember, 1919, provided a sensation for p! the sporting world. ?. tc Steamer Line Rseumes. Charleston, S. C. ? Announcement was made by J. L. Doten, agent for the Baltimore & Carolina Steamship company, that this line would resume ^ regular sailings between Charleston, a Georgetown and Baltimore. Marines to Sail. Charleston, S. C. ? The U. S. S. je Henderson, a transport, is on her fi? tirov frnm VnrfrOU to fall here for a contingent of 400 marines who will embark for the West Indies. They will come from Parris Island. , to 30,000,000 Starving Peasants. Riga. ? The number of peasants threatened with starvation in the j ( Volga region is now placed at 30,000,- ^ 000 by a Moscow wireless dispatch. . In this number 9,500,000 children are included. ' to New Offer for Muscle Shoals. Sheffield, Ala.?An offer of 4 per cent on an investment of $120,000,000, ^ or $4,800,000 annually, was made for the Muscle Shoals plant by Herman er D. Ruhm of New York city, it is bc stated here. re Georgia Sheriff Slain. niafirchonr fin ? John \V Robert son, sheriff of Pierce county, was VIII-1 . ed while searching for an alleged horse thief, near Patterson, in this m< county- th. Dirigible R Z-2 Takes the Air. de Pulham, England. ? Out over the North sea, above the low clouds and the banks of mist, the giant dirigible Z R-2 was cruising up and down off the coast of Norfolk waiting for day- t light to guide her to her moorings at ne Pulham. ?a v _ * MEREST IN SHI GROWING GREATER , I ????? f INAL WORK ON BIG CEMENT, BRICK AND STEEL BUILDING PRACTICALLY FINISHED. l XHIBITORS DAILY ARRIVING ailway Systems, Operating in South* eastern States Are Extending Aid in Every Possible Way. Charlotte, N. C. ? The final work , axing been done on the great brick, eel and concrete building and the iBk of decorating the interior praccally completed, the exhibitors, num;ring more than 200, began early the sk of arranging their jftoducts, pre iratory to the opening of the Madei-Charlotte Exposition Monday, Sepimbertember 12. This event will bo te first of its kind ever held, and one t the most important undertakings of iblic interest accomplished In the )utheastern states in recent years, c interest accomplished in the southScores of exhibitors and their repisentatives are arriving daily in harlotte to give personal attention. ) the hundreds of details incident to le preparation of and installation of ieir exhibits. T. H. Bryant, buildlg manager, has organized a staff of ten to afford whatever assistance that i proper and necessary and the injripr of the building is now a scene [ intense and constant activity. ' The railway systems operating in le southeastern states also are coperating in every possible way. Naturalization Class of 600. Detroit ,MIch. ? Administering the ith of allegiance to a naturalization lass of 600 by Federal Judge Arthur , Tuttle during a public Americaftittlon program at tlje Michigan State air grounds will be one of the outtandlng features of the national entrapment of the Veterans of Foreign Tare ih Detroit, September 19 to 24. Methodists Gain Many Members. Nashville, Tenn.?Statistics for prestation at the ecumenical Methodist inference in London next month xow that American Methodism has ? lined 1,225,091 members during the ist decade, it wad announced here. Pinchot Against Ford's Bid. Washington. ? Henry Ford's terms ir taking over the Muscle Shoals awer and nitrate plant were asilled publicly by Gilford Pinchot, >rmer chief 'forester and conservaonist. Sileslan Question Brought Up. Geneva.?Solution of the " Sllesiatt lestioh, which has puzzled' the >lest diplomats of the Allied nations r many months, was taken up her* f the council of the League of Naons. American Killed by Mexicans. Washington.?David I. Richards, an merican, was killed by Mexicans at hivela, according to consular adIces from Salina Cruz received at le state department. ( Woman Gets Appointment. Washington.?Appointment of Mrs. label Walker Willebrandt, of Los ngeles, to be assistant attorney gen*a! of the United States was anounced at the White House. Many More Drug Addicts. New York.?There are three times j many drug addicts in New York ty since prohibition went into efict, according to Bird S. Coler, com.issioner of public jyelfare. More Trouble In Morocco. Madrid.?Reports from Morocco incate that trouble has occurred nong the native Spanish auxiliaries i Eli Araish, on the Atlantic coast ! Morocco to the south of Tangier. Bandit Secures ?zou,uuu. Chicago.?The raid on the safe de)sit vaults of the Security Safe De>sit company in the Masonic Teme by four masked robbers, netted ie bandits $250,000. Recover Bodies of Americans. London.?The bodies of Lieut. Comander Emory Coil, U. S. N., and Ad ettit, a rigger, who were killed in the __ 11 of the dirigible Z R-2 at Hull, were icovered. Revenue Collections Smaller. Washington.-Mnternal revenue colctions from all sources during the ical year 1921 decreased more than I12,OOOX#0 as compared wi|h the evious year, while the cost of colction advanced from 55 to 88 cents r sioo collected. Hungarian-American Treaty. Budapest.?Clauses concerning the jague of Nations covenant, internajnal labor legislation and war crimals are to be left out of the Hungain-American peace treaty, according informatipn. Crowd at Memorial Services. Hoboken, N. J.?The largest crowd at has yet attended a memorial serce for returned soldier dead gathed on the armv piers to honor'the dies of 5,795 soldiers that arrived cently. Harding Will Call Conference. Washington. ? President Harding II call a national conference reprentative of the whole country to ;et here ne^t month to inquire into e unemployment problem in an enavor to provide a remedy. _________ Casualties in West Virginia. State Police Headquarters, Ethel, . Va.?Five men fell in an encounr between an armed band and atato )ops on Peach creek, Logan county, ar the Boone-Logan county line, ,pt. J. R. Brookos reported. a t