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,1 . 1- J I s - I TT CHARLOTTE HANK OlKAKHfOS ., r tlMiiuber ot Conuneroe. Week of Feb. S $41 MIM Previous week 4,99,7.l Name week, 120 ,8TB,a.44 j . fe.'H"' 1 ' .... - . A CAROLINA HOME NEWSPAPER OF CONSTRUCTIVE IDEALS, CLEAN AND RELIABLE IN NEWS SERVICE, AND A PROMOTER OF SOUTHERN RESOURCES, FOUNDED 1869. CHARLOTTE, N. C. SATURDAY MORNING,, FEBRUARY 5, 1921, PRICE FIVE CENTS, DAILY SEVEN CENTS, SUNDAY, ,t ... .1 ' rT f .fWX TODAY , J 2 PAGES 4 ;. ) t II lit J,), I 1 1 ' , t MEASURES FOR FIGHTING BUI mi Bill Has Been Prepared Au thorizing State Commission. SPECIAL'" POLICE FORCE This Force Could Bo Used Any where, Making Immunity for Blockader Impossible. BY H. E. O. BRYANT. WASHINGTON. Feb. 4. Within the next few day one or more bllli for a better enforcement of elate prohibition laws will be Introduced "ln the legislature at Raleigh. It la the purpose of the democrats to provide for etate-wlde control of til dry or wet altuaUon whichever It happens to be. No loop hole for Immunity la to be permitted. One measure already framed, and ready for Introduction waa seen by your correspondent today. It provider: For department of special law enforcement, to be directed by a commission consisting- of the gover nor, as chairman, the attorney gen eral and three other citizen of the state to be appointed by the cov entor. For a chief officer, to be named by the commission, to be assisted by not exceeding five officer. "The primary object of the de partment," the measure says, "shall be the enforcement of the laws of the state prohibiting, regulating, af fecting or concerning; the manufao . lurer. sale and transportation of In toxicating liquors, and the said chief officer and Held officers, and at least one of bi office assistants, shall each of them have with respect to arrests for violation of said laws, or search and selsura under said laws all the powers, rights, privileges, emoluments, authority and obliga tions, duties and liabilities now re posed In or imposed upon sheriffs by chapter 26 of the consolidated statute of North Carolina, provided the said powers; etc. shall obtain in aaid officers regardless of county lines and throughout the state, pro vided all teas, or rewards received by officers sbeU be paid over to tfea Th bill give tb chief otrnJiMlZ''lbr: hi Held affioer "power to salsa and cohnscat to the Us of tbs state any and all personal property gad mate rial found to be In the ass, manufac ture, sale and transportation of In toxicating liquors la violation of the law. Including animals and vehicles, and to sell the sarrto." Common car riers are exempted from the seicare provision "unless it be made to ap pear that such common carrier waa knowingly engaged in transportation of such liquors in violation of law. "Personal property of any charac ter used in the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors In violation of law." the bills reads, "is hereby declared to be subject to xelxure. confiscation and sale to the use of the state." Ample provision Is made for notifying the owner of the property seised Is to be sold, so that he can file written protest. "It shall be unlawful to transport or assist In transporting Intoxicating liquors In quantities of a much as one half gallon; and upon convic tion of such transporting or of as sisting therein, the person convicted Khali be guilty of a misdemeanor," the measure provides, "and punished in the discretion of the court, and the property, vehicle, or animals used in such transportation shall be subject to selsura, confiscation and sale." "Not exceeding forty field officers" for the state la the plan of the bill. That would mean the chief officer, Ave assistant and 40 others. For the maintenance of this force $1J6, 000 is requested. It Is estimated, however, that the money collected from dry law viola tors and the sales of property con fiscated would not only repay the 1126,000, but add enough to keep the schools of the state going, instead of the bar-room tax used for education al purposes it would be the other way round. "All officers, assistants and clerks appointed under this act," the bill says, "shall be commissioned by the governor and shall take the oath of office provided for public officers, and bonded. "It shall be lawful for the gov ernor to call out and empower all tho officer herein provided for to assist other civil authorities of the Ntate in preserving order In time of riots, mob violence or threatening public assemblies (and for such pur poses he may send them singly or In proups to any portion of the state and arm and equip them as occasion may require." The proposed bill would require county sheriffs to report to the chief officer on all Infraction of the dry laws. The purpose of this bill would be to make it difficult if not impos sible for a moonshiner or blockader to secure Immunity from federal or county officer. With the stata super vision the laws could be enforced In any county regardless of the party in. control. TRIED TO BEAT TRAIN TO STREET CROSSING Both Cot There About the i Same Time, With Bad Re suits for- Motor ar. Special to The Olwmr. SALISBURY. Feb. 4. Will Low ()er tried to beat a freight train at the North Main- street crossing to night With his Chandler. The car isas damaged and Ned Sherrlll, ' young' son of Conductor M. A. Sher- rill, who had been picked up as a passenger by Lowder. waa Injured i about the head. To the low move ment of the train Is credited the avoidance of fatalities. " TRIPLETS FOUNDLINGS WIFE NOW CONFESSES ATLANTA, Feb. 4. Mr. V. K. A. South, who last month startled Atlanta with th-i anrwumcBK'nt that at the age of 53 sho had given birth to triplets, acknowl edged In a statement today that the children, together with six outers In the South home, were obtained from foundling institu tion. "I don't like movies or thea ters; I don't like to go out; the greatest thins; In my life Is child renthat's why I did It," Mrs. South Ja quoted as saying Mrs. South' husband, who 1 a SO-year -old grocery clerk, dis claimed approval of his wife's action in obtaining the children from the foundling Institution. L GIN LICENSE Sixty-One Applicants Pass Su preme Court Examination. One Woman, Mrs. Florence Martin, of Asheville, Among Those Passing. Charlotte Obrrr Buru. Tsrberoush Hotal. BY B. E. POWEliu KALEIGH, Feb. 4. The supreme court today granted license to prac tice law to 41 applicants refusing comity to two who sought the reciprocal privilege provided for by the last general assembly. There were T5 applicants before the court at the examination Mon day. Among the successful ones is Mrs. Florence O. Msrtln of Ahe rllle. desk In the law offices of Harkins and Vanwlnkle, one negro, Robert M. Andrews of Durham, was passed. Following are the successful ones: Horace Vernln Austin, Newland; William Reynolds Allen. Jr., Oolds boro; Robert McCants Andrews, Durham; Thomas Whitnell Allen. Raleigh; Julian Addison Bland, Ral eigh; John Robert Burgess, Colum bus; Jay Btvens, Aquadalej Walter James, Bona, Rocky Mount; John Duncan Beri.Ralelgh; CUflaHf-- 1 .': krantly. Spring Hope; JV M Donald Butler, HayesvUla: Fran Brtel Carlisle, Lumberton; Walter Lee Campbell. Norwood;, Jea Carr, Tesehey; Rufus Roy Carter, Holly Springs; Guy Thomas Cars well. Wake Forest; Wade Hampton Dick ens. Enfield; Bnos Tyler Edwards, Polkton; William ROy Felts. Mount Airy; Jacob Joseph Fine. Raleigh; Hharle Meriwether Fortune, Ashe- Lvllle; James Spencer Fulghum, Ral eigh; June lurnesi irmcr, muc boro; Charles Howard Orady. Ken ly; Martin Luther Gordon, Nash ville; William Carl Goodson. Mt Olive; Lloyd Eldon Griffin. Eden ton; William Edward Hennessee, ftallsbury; Jasper Benjamin Hicks. Henderson; William Durham Har ris, Banford; Edison Thurston Hicks. Henderson; Avalon Evan Hall. Wlnston-Balem ; David Wesley Isear, Wilson; Otll Wylie Klutx, Maiden; Clement Manly Llewellyn, Dobaon; Merrill Cerdell Link, Mt. Gllead; Edgar Warren McCullers. Clayton; Talmage Owen Moses, Spring Hope; John Arthur Narron, Bmithfleld; John Albert 'Prltchett. Rawlings, Va.; Edward Knox Proc tor. Lumberton; James Carlton Pitt man. Gates; Thomas 'Ora Pangle, Dillsboro; William Gladstone Pitt man. Gates; Bhaw McDade Pruette. Charlotte; Hughes Jennings Rhodes. New Berni Oliver Gray Rand, Gar ner; Henry Leondas Stevens. War saw; William Brantley Womble, Cary; Richard Clyde Watkln. Ral eigh; David Henry Willis. Sea Level; William Bayard Yelverton. Goldsboro; Clayton Carlisle Cun ningham, Raleigh; Robert Lee Whltmlre, Hendersonvllle; Mrs. Florence Colleen. Martin, Asheville; Hubert Clarence Jarvls, Asheville; Thomas Atkinson Jones, Jr., Ashe? vllle; Ernest McArthur Currle, Fayettevllle; Ernest Calvin Cheek, Durham ; Victor Stanley Btarbuck. GERMANY DECLINES TO ATTEND CONFERENCE BERLIN. Feb. 4. It was officially stated (today that Germany has de clined to attend finAnolal confer ence of experts to be held at Brus sels beginning next Monday. The ground taken Is that Germany ra qulres her financial experts to re main at home for the present. Hundreds of Carolina Beople in Sunday Observer Pictures Four-Page Colored Comic Sec tion in Addition to Colored Photogravure Section; Gre at Variety of Other Features, Along With the News From Everywhere. Pictures of many hundreds prob ably a full thousand person of the two Carolina will appear In the Photogravure section of The Sunday Observer tomorrow. Perhaps never before has the colored picture ec tlon of The Observer shown uch a large number of individual persons. In addition to more than a score of photos of "Interesting People" and "Future Greats" of the Caro lina, the Photogravure section tot morrow will carry six group pictures representing as many different organisations in the two state, a follow: Delegate from North and " South Carolina Klwanls club at th first annual convention of the Carolina district. In Charlotte. , Second annual convention of the BRITAIN WANTS ALLIES Tl CALL DEBTS "SQUARE' Proposals Unacceptable American Government. WON'T PROPOSE AGAIN Chamberlain Says Government Is Ready for Cancellation of All Inter-Allied Debts. BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, Feb. 4. -(By the Associated Press.) The British government formally proposed a cancellation of all inter allied debts, but the proposals were unacceptable to the American gov ernment, said J. Austen Chamber lain, chancellor of the exchequer, In a speech to his constituents here today. "To make them again," Chamber lain continued, "would be, I think, beneath our dignity, and would ren der us liable to a misconception of our motive." In making them, he added, "we sought no national advantage for ourselves. We proposed a solution In which we should have foregone claims much larged than any remit ted to us, and we proposed it be cause we believed It would be In the Interests of good relations among peoples, the rehabilitation of nation al credit and the restoration of In ternational trade. "Our great! nternational debt is due to the obligation we undertook In behalf of the allies. If we had had only ourselves to consider we should have been particularly free of external debt at the preent time." Mr. Chamberlain prefaced his re marks by saying that he would have preferred at the close of the war that the whole lnter-allled debt had been wiped out, so as to 'Start with a clean Iate. There waa no pro posal for a settlement of tha Inter national debt among the allied and associated powers, whetier for a total or partlcal remlsslonfhlch the British government would not have been prepared to be a party to. ha declared. BKiaiuu dArLUi? tint! mm REPARATIONS PROBLEM PARIS. Feb. 4. (By the Asso ciated PresaX The French cham ber of deputies today heard Premier Briand explain the negotiations at the recent reparations conference in Paris and an assertion by the premifr that the decisions reached at the conference were the beat term obtainable for France from Germany under the condition ob taining at present. The premier requested tha cham ber either to accept or reject the decisions as a whole. It was de elded that all the deputies who had indicated their desire to be heard should tipeak before a vote was taken on the aestlon ana tne ais- cusslon was postponed until next Tuesday. "I have done the best that I could," said M. Briand. "If there a man In this chamber who has a better pracucai program, mi umi come to the front." Previously Andre Tardleu, for mer high commissioner to the United States, had continued the criticism of the government on the reparations agreement, begun yes terday. His argument amounted to criticism of the allied agreement. All the arguments, he said, tended to show that France was lit too great a hurry and should have waited a few weeks to consult the new American administration. M. Briand spoke in reply to M. Tardleu and compared the work accomplished by tlje peace confer ence of which M. Tardleu was a member of the French delegation, when it was working under better conditions and which, the premier said, failed to obtain better. results. "The Versailles treaty i com plete." exclaimed the premier. "There is nothing lacking In it on'lv it in not alive." The Versailles treaty In order to be effective, M. Briand continued, must rely upon the work of the reparations commission. "It is no secret," the premier asserted, "that the reparations com mission of which France is only one-flfth, had been unable to agree as to the amount to be fixed a In demnity ana the manner in which it should be paid. . Therefore the premiers had to take a hand In the matter." American legion, department of North Carolina, held at Harbor Isl and, near Wilmington. The "Chanters" of Oasis Temple, the new singing organization, at the mid-winter ceremonial held in Char lotte. The "Dokles" of Sues Templst gathered. In Charlotte for the Initia tion of a large class bf candidate. Carders' section o' the Kontherr Textile association, in session 1 In Charlotte. Oasis Temple band, which took a conspicuous part In the recent mid winter ceremonial In Charlotte. Other pictures Of Individuals, wdmen and children mostly, will In clude persons from Charlotte, Con- , (Continued ea Fag Fear.) to EARTHQUAKE SHOCK IS i RECORDED AT MOBILE MOBILE. AUV, Feb. 4.-Tfce seismograph at Spring Hill -Col lege this morning at 2:3t O'clock registered a fairly severe earth quake, about 1,000 miles south or this place, according tm Fath er C. Ruhlcmann, the director in charge. Father Rahlemattt say that the machine indicated that the shock was close to Vera Crns or Mexico Otty. The shock lasted SI minutes. WILSON REPLIES TODAY TO RAIL WORKERS UNI Spends Part of Day on Draft of His Message. HOPES TO FINISH TODAY Preparing Answer to Request That He Investigate Rail way Executives' Claims. J m WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. Presi dent Wilson will reply tomorrow to the recently communicated request' of seven large railroad labor unions that he Investigate railroad execu tives' claims before the railroad la bor board in Chicago that the rail roads must readjust wage or face bankruptcy. - i The President, it was said at the White House tonight, spent a part of the day drafting his reply to the unions and hopes to complete and dispatch It tomorrow. The natura of the reply was not Indicated but was understood to have been on recommendations submitted by Sec retary of tbs Interior Payne, Who till acts a director general of tha railroad administration. The reply, it was suggested at tha White House would take up points raised In both of the telegram sent to the President this week by th railroad workers through B. M. Jewell, president of the railroad employes department of the Amert lean Federation of Labor. The raJl uaiAAa in their first meeaase. iMd u ma . wima nuuoo -twrr day, asked the President to inves tigate the statement before the rail road labor board by W. W. Atter bury. vice president of the Pennsyl vania lines, that the carriers must be allowed to readjust wage or face the danger of bankruptcy, and. If the statement were found to be true, to place the matter before Congress and ask immediate enact ment of remedial legislation. The second telegram from the unions, received yesterday, Wa in the nature of a reply to a telegram ent to the President by Thomas Dewltt Cuyler, chairman of the As noclation of Railway Executives, who charged that the first telegram sent by the unions wa Tiumo pian ; league propaganda." This cnarge i the unions denieo in tneir message I an(j declared there was no economic ; Justification for wage re-adjust- ment. , Secretary Payne returned the tele- , grams with his recommendations to the White House today. CREEK PREMIER HAS DECIDED TO RESIGN ATHENS, Feb. 4 Premlem Rlial lis determined to resign. It was an nounced today owing to differences with regard to who shall dead the Greek delegation that will partici pate in the forthcoming conference on Near Eastern questions to be held in London. The Rhallls ministry was formed on November IS last. In sncoesslon to that of M. Yenlxelos. "What's the News?" Fifty million for roads, without any ad valorem tax, but a system of state maintenance and control, ap pear to be tlie best guesn on the work of the legislature on tlic roads question. Belvtn W. Maynard, the "Flying Parson," Is to speak In Cbitrlotte this month under the auspices of the local Junior Order council Chairman Butler, of the honse na val committee, announces positively that an International disarmament conference will be called. The senate gets down to business with the Fordney emergency tariff bi"- . J Harding's liouscboat heads up the Indian river for St. Augustine, after five-hour atop at Palm Bench. Wilson Is expected to reply today to tho request of the seven railway unions that he Investigate the rail way executives' claims before the labor board. The N. t senate spends most of the day's session In warm debate over various bills. Everett McArvor, owner of the Central Auto Service, of Gaatonla, is killed when his car turns over on the Dowd road near Charlotte. The N. C. supreme court grants license to 61 applicants for the practice of law In the state. E. B. Parker, New York lawyer, defends the work of the American li quidation commission In disposing of war supplies In France suTter the armistice. Hte"iansscn, the renowned arctic explorer, Is to deliver an address In rimrlotto early In April. Biokett write Simmons, support- Ui Ut position against tne tann pill and repudiating resolutions adopted by the southern tariff con gress. , Chancellor Chamberlain any the Brit Mi government formally pro posed a cancellation of nil inter allied debts but the American gov ernment objected. MTF PUTS IN IIMIIMb I WIU lie rrinnr niv mi LIJIIflL UHI II. .. "., uiiu. Peevishly Piddles Along With Ilinne Mot tor a , ,s WWIOr IWdllCIO. CHANGE IN- JURY SYSTEM J:'':-'; Effort to Get Rid of Profes sional Falls; Par Clearance V Talk and Pension Bill. Chanetts Observer JSureso. Tirko rough Hotel. - JULE3GH, Fab. . Loaded to the musxlA with speeches which ran largely to words, tha sanate Friday peevishly piddled past lunch time with'1 Bol Oallert't proposition to override Chairman McColn, of the appropriations committee, and pass a Confederate pension Mil carrying an Appropriation lof - 1,10.000 for the-purpose of doubling the pension of avary person now on th pension reu, without the committee having gons over It. ' ivi-' ; In th course or tn debate as to whether tha usual psooedure of com mitment to committee should be fol lowed, there was more heat exhibited tharyh so far. arisen 'during the sesslorw Everybody disclaimed any Intent of setting tha hair on anybody else, but Elmer Long, of Alamance, who threw In with Gajlert impressed upon the chairman of appropriations that eon versa Hon oil any subject waa free fn the senate, while McColn hlmU was finally badgered into making a point of personal privilege for wnusalt and .Governor Morrison. The gentleman from Vance main tains, that th press of the- stats wronged him. and his associates by terrains; them stupid for announcing a policy .of Ittrinar within the state's Income. ' H had -never Intended to Say for Improvement out of Income, e declared, ahd-wa ready to go as farvas t 3rt one In providing re lief for swngestlon at the university, but th Institution must submit plans t get .Its money's worth. A for eurrenf.axpenses. the stats must meet them from current revenue As Current Expenses. tn ourrnit exDense he seemed to Include nanstons ergo tha upport- rs.pt t flallart .bill, which Is m.Utitute for the-Kuthrfrd man's JMngis stssaw Hr-i fvBitrnrconMtienwtr Tiirai jhhw ..4 wlt. iitirh every Con 'federate 's widow on the pension roll, regardless of his or her financial condition;-thpught 11,300,000 in hand Walworth more than taking a ChBute motion to recall the orig inal from committee and put the ubstitute on immediate passage failed. iJtter everybody who hadn t had something to say about a bill for the relief of the Jury system had yielded to none in desire to do something for u followers of the lost cause. U. This measure lor the relief of the Jury system, by the way, provided that instead of being able to serve only once as a tales juror In two years, the talesman would be quali fied to sit In the box once In twelve months. A less unimportant meas ure could hardly be projected, one would think; but the lawyers of the senate and laymen as well, cussed and discussed the professional Juror, or, as Cox of Randolph termed era, courthouse terrapins who sit about waiting for a two dollar a day Job of deciding the fate of their peers or better, exhaust challenges, hang Juries and in other ways make life liard for lawyers to whom they are not friendly. Hartsell. of Cabarrus, made a ferv ent appeal for retention ol tho two year limit. Outlaw, of Pit . proposed to make It four years. Mendenhall, of Guilford, wanted to adopt the mi nority report of the Judiciary com mittee and ake it one year. Doc Griffin, of Chowan, made one of ma rare series of remarks and was for four years. Woodson, of Rowan, Long, of Alamance, Gallert, Byrd, of "Hawnett," 8waln. Tyrell and others too tedlouB and numerous to men tion, expressed their views, even Frank Taylor, of Wayne, being led into needlessly exercising himself. After an hour of murdered time the bill failed of passage and the professional Juror was "us you were. ' Want Trains lUtrtorttl. Among: tlie, new bills Introduced was a measure by Woodson, of Row an, to regulate through traff on the North Carolina railroad, which be ing Interpreted nieflns that Salisbury, Lexington, Thomasville and High Point mean to have trains numbers 21 and 2 2 bai-k. The bill simply pro vides that these through trains, Charlotte to Goldsboro, shall move over the lino of the North Carolina road, that is to say. shall not go by way of Winston -Salem to Barber Junction and thus skip everything between Greensboro and Salisbury. Burgwyn, of Northampton, fetched forward a bill to reduce the personal property exemption from 1300 to 125. This waa to be heard by the finance committee Friday night. Declaring that the par clearance bill, which came before the house Friday for, filial passage should have been entitled "An act to promote in solvency of state banks In North Carolina," Representative Tobe Conner registered vlgorou opposi tion to the measure and broke the even tenor of the day's session with a fiery 16-mlnute speech. Representative Conner's remarks against th par rlearance bill follow ed the unexpected activities of "the Insurgents" who fused with the minority member and by parlia mentary maneuver succeeded In get ting the "block seat" bill or Minority Leader Williams out of the rules (CMtlsmd OK Tw.) yUILLKN'8 PAPER QUITS. GRHBNVILLB, a C, Feb. 4 Declaring that hi newspaper, The Fountain Inn Tribune, a weekly pub lication, of Fountain Inn, South Car olina, Is "without revenue," Albert Qulllen, well-known paragrapher and editorial writer, announces in this week's issue suspension of publication International Cohference Will Be Called House Naval Committee Satisfied Such Action Would Meet With General Approval Hears Divergertt Views of Navy and Army Officers. i WAjJHINGTO.N. Feb. 4. Satisfied i from tesUmony ol a lart nUmbr ' "' witnesses that cal'.ing of an ln- it.itin.i nnfn.. tn dlsnusa disarmament would meet with gen eral approval, the house naval com mittee today called before It 10 high officers of the navy and ona of tha army and heard a vast amount of divergent and1 confusing testimony as to whether aircraft had mad capital naval vessels useless. Before the committee settled down to listen to the. officer, how ever. Chairman Butler announced positively that an International dis armament conference would be cabl ed by this country- He did not say when the call would go out but It was assumed from his line of ques tioning that It would be shortly af ter President-el Harding, With whim Mr. Butler recently conferred, takes oath. Rear Admiral William 8. 81ms, war-time commander of all Ameri can naval forces in European water and present head of the naval war coliege, the first witness - called, counseled against immedlats ' aban- !S COMING HERE UeuL Belvtn W. Maynard to Tell His Experiences. To Speak in Charlotte Last Weelc Jn February Under Aus pices of Junior Order. Lieut. Belvtn W. Maynard, world renowned "flying parsjon will speak in Charlotte the last week tn February. . ' !3f ' This native Tar Heel, who Urttod the world and wn the honor In th3 ion to nan iranwstv, . wuijjjjmiTwi art address hefe under the auspices of the three local councils. Junior Order American Mechanics Announcement Is made that the Juniors of the city hope to have Mr. Maynard fly to Charlotte on the day of the address and to give demon- tMHnna tn flvlntf HVAr thn nit V The exact .date of the proposed! visit of Lieutenant Maynard has not been determined definitely, the Juniors announcing that the time will be so arranged as not to con flict with any other big events sched uled, the assurance being that it will be In the? last week in this month. Lieutenant ilaynard has been one of the morft heralded airmen in America since his notable record In winning the trans-continental flight from Ne York to San Francisco and back ' Since getting out of the air service, lieutenant Maynard ha been engaged in "f. M. C. A. Work. The "flying parson" Is a native of North Carolina, many towns and counties of the, state having laid claim to him beoausa ,pf birth, resi dence or for some other reason. He "came out of" Sampson'., county and was a ministerial student at Wake Forest college when war was de clared and he entered th air ser vice. tTi' In addition to makingflights to many sections of tha jootlntry since his championship feat, he-ha visited North Carolina on swypral occasions, going to his fchna- mater ,bn& to Wlnston-Salerf. whlchXolty. has es tablished a flying field and named It Maynard field In his honr. The coming of LieutenanC May nard, who is expected totelrh hi" experiences in naming uwmj ir men and other, thrilling events, is ex pected to bring together one of the largest crowds that has ever gath ered in the dry Auditorium, where he is scheuled to speak., The Charlotte, Park and Dliworth Junior councils are bringing - Mr. FLYING PARSONh DEAD, I HURT Maynard to Charlotte for the pur-lirpninf c oilll TV pose of adding to their charity furutfT CnUH I Ur UUIL I T the committees announcing that this will be the purpose of all receipts above the actual expenses of bring ing him to this city. An admission fee of probably 50 tents will be charged to hear the "flying parson" it is announced. JO JO SAYS Rain today; Sunday. cloudy and colder Success is not a matter ut luck. If you don't believe It, ask any fel low who, has had nothing -but suc cess.. . ' Disarmament donment of the capital ship. He added, however, that if aerial force demonstrated tha value, he expected them to in the near fture, they would soon make major surface craft useless. He opposed discon tinuing work on the great JS1S naval building program and declared "no body Is going- to take his band off bis gun" until conditions become settled in. Europe. The superiority of the battleship over either the airplane or submar ine, was defeated by Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, bead of the gen eral board and tenner commander of the AUantle fleet, who declared that battleships and battel cruisers would remain, tha backbone of the that battleships and batt.e cruisers believe, he said, that aaytnmg very definite would ooroe out f the pro posed disarmament conference but said it was a worthwhile effort. Still another view, was presented by Rear Admiral Bradley A. Flake, retired, former member of the gen eral board and Inventor of the tor pede plane, who told th committee that aerial dreadnaught would be the capital ship Of the future. IN AUTO CRASH Dowd Road Scene of Still An other Motor Tragedy. , Car Turn Over and Gastonia Man Is Pinned Beneath, Dying Instantly ... 'M' - On man was Instantly killed;, and another had a - miraculous e$ v frem a ilk fate, in anofefc autoii.o bU. sccidept on .hyspw4.Road, arly-laet night. ; Thw dead man 1 Kverett MeAcyer, ,. wssr r irvwsrai Qastonia. HI oompamon, James An derson, Id. clerk in the Third Na tional bank, Gastonia, escaped With minor Injuries. In an endeavor to steer the big touring car around a farmer's wagon n, th Ullfvaheth mill tiHjiA fp- Arver drove the machine Into the 1 rear of the wagon, then brought it up with a crash against a stone wall by the side 6t the road. The Impact of the collision caus ed the car to turtle three times, young Anderson told the police. Mc Arvor, who clung to the steering wheel, wa pinned beneath the ma chine and died Instantly. Anderson was hurled to the ground several feet away. His neck is sprained and hi side bruised otherwise he Is unhurt. but Charlie Fewell, the negro farmer, remained on his seat as the ma chine ploughed Into his Wagon, al most completely demolishing the rear end. Both the negro and his horse came out valthout a scratch. The accident occurred at 7:80 o'clock. The Gastonia men were starting home after an afternoon In Charlotte. When they spied Few ell's wagon, some distance In front, McAryer, who was at the wheel, failed to turn soon enough in his errorts to pass the wagon. The dead man's body Haa brouaht ' to an undertaking establishment here and prepared for burial It ' will be sent to Oastonia this morn- lng. 4 Anderson, after a visit to the police station,' returned to. Oastonia nn a ' WralnTl refused tbvwo to a hnniii , : .ah . . ' wltl v.- - i. matter k'ffHjaTEltfVILLB, 8. C, Feb. 4.- " presence of the entire fm ,iiy .9t the supper tahle, Broadus I Barton, Z0 years old, blew out the brains of his father, Karle Barton aged 42, with a shot gun at their home in Tigervllle, in the upper section of the cotinty, tonight. AGAINST WESTMORELAND Convicted of the Murder of James H. Nantz in Iredell County. Special to The Observer. STATES VI LiLK, Feb. 4. The Jury in the case of Will Westmore land whose trial has been In prog ress elnce yesterday morning r h n rtrfrt wirh rhn mnril.. r H. Nantz on Octobe 20 took the case I tnis aiternoon at o clock. At 8-SO tonight the jury came Into the court dereerVVrreUi .. !:,...? r.ee m.u.?r; wtmorland ,,'u ",B witnout appar- ent emotion Bryson will or concern. Judge pass sentence on the ! prisoner tomorrow. Yesterday Westmoreland testified that the state's star witness. Ivey Sims, fired the shots that killed the Jitney driver in self-defense and that he himself was an innocent on-look-er. This story of the defendant, in tended to save himself, was contra dicted this morning by Percy A. Sherrlll, a young man from Trout man, who told of driving out on the night of Ootober 3t and saw Nantz's car with three other men in it pass St Michael's graveyard, the place where Westmoreland swors that Nants was killed by Sim. 8hi rill proved a good character. M DAVIDSON DEFEATED. W. -LEXINGTON. Va., Feb.. 4. Wash; ingtoav and Left's oulnt defeated Davidson college here tonight, II. to 28,' in a gam marked byth In fee lot shooting of both teamfc i rIS SllSf itii; BILL THAT PLEASES Fifty Millions fdr Roads Seems Certain From Committee; 1 GOVERNOR ' fStf VltXtlti V boughtbnwriasfas hV A Now Wrrtr Suits rtiiV;;. Insurgency Ajjaftu ?w i V . , . Te ,-'-..' r''V-yt"v' Cbarletf enssrvse Horeaa,11 - " rrtKWahr J.4 , , BY R. KPWbLL, .:. ; i- RALEIGH, Feb, tFlfty million ! , for roads without enraA Valorem tax, but septus .,! tatsf ,'1I114 tenance and control, appeared to-i night to b th best gueW ori the ' work of th 'gisJatar Is th tnter-j ; est of better .highway Is th,atat V j Passage of th. Doughton-Connor a, . bill Just a it to "nof .written wHJ.. I plea Ctovraojnr-nrieon, t he 'an- nounced today? but.ther are minor. ' differences that might be adjusted '' on th flfloor to make it a. mors e- ' ceptabl taw. from "hi viewpoints . The Inclusion of prevision that the f highway - commission, te b com- r posed of nine member,' cad dlcon- ; tlnue and disregard any" of .the pro'-' v.s . Jeots In th E.BB0 nU of ; roads ' taken over under th terms' of the r ; bills in part msets the executivs-f ' " objection to the 0-caJled Ciarkson . bill. . 'i , .".'- - v V Gossip has it tonlgnt that th gov-:" . rnor. Colonel T- Leroy Kirkpstrick -, and Herlot Cibrkson ar happy ovsr ; th announced 'ifctsn tion of th com-, mltte to, report th bP. favorab)y ' Th governor forme -1 campaign-' managsr . has been , th ' governor's . ohlef siratagist in th road Sfiht. He hortestl differed with. . him In .' th thus andi five thousand ml) age 1 program, hut not.sot lone ago. Jir- ; rtsori, Clarksorj nd, '"irkpai. ick, wer- all itoi' F ,v . . good" roads ' asaclatilii Mifcf 'l' y, and OowimfWsloner' Pa..Av e oad ' rsnuuitte to .HT iii. ' oughton-Wll, ' , tiuiuoB Kii... . .- 'Pag n MJu Berry were a r-. Th rv- emor .alone VaJsed- v accordant nut ' -lnA.te"''w1"w'S ..'fia ijnst4.v; he bad Major 'Pater- Murphy and a , host of insurgent ready to lnsurfe" . if h said th word. v All these contending force seem to be In perfect agreement now., v Only the "old guard." and there are ; none more reactionary than th au- thor of the most promising blllj Is to be feared. Reactionaries threaten to cut th bond lamia be fore it leaves the committee and there is a lot of talk tonight that" when the measure comes to th floor It will be for only twenty ml.llons. Publicity in Secretary Daniels paper -this morning about the difficulty of selling bonds bearing less than six. per cent, is assigned a th reason for the latest outburst of th trees-v ury guards. The Insurgency in the house, pop-r ularly known as the "Young Turk movement." continues ominous In spite of the fact that it refuses to break openly on the floor. Th nearest approach was this morning when the Williams resolution to give the minority a block of seat in the house was parliamentary maneu vered from the ruies committee, where It ha lain dormant since th session opened, and sent to Major Murphy's body on propositions and grievance. 11 was a funny situation and on that confounded the "old guar, nl' Minority Leader WilllamsT & strategy saved this resolution, which. . . may die yet. Tho old ones see no earthly reason for assigning th re-, publicans a block of seat when the session Is half gone, although the , . . ... .i i ,v. fiMt Ac ml. .t.i This morning Williams asked that it be taken from the rule committee and placed on the calendar. Speaker Orler put the motion and .after th clerk had verified the roll call, an nounced that It had carried. Two minutes later the chair directed th attention of the house to an errer tn the tabulation of the vote and in stead of 5 8 to 58 for, it turned out li to 5 5 against. Then came the maneuver. Wil liams declined to raise a point of order because the vote had one been verified and declared. He wait ed for a democratic motion, which film from Crisn. to take tna vet 1 - F . A- a ii over again anu seconoea insi. vw . this there was a viva, voce vote and jt , ' the CrlBp-Williams motion lost , Verification wa ordered again and ' V the clerk checked the vot. Governor- - t Doughton. afraid of the originate count, naa taiiea to vji oir iu virar- inai can or ins run, hu unani mous consent to vote against th Williams motion to take th resolu tion out of the committee' hand, Bull" Everett smashed a long lin of Precedent8 an objected to th """""" ' -t - - ttFVL? ,r&u3.aw& lSJS the mconi time, failed SI to SI. . wiiiiam came right back at speaker Orler with request that i he taken from lh rules commit. tee and sent to Murphy committee. The speaker sent It there, a custom ary proceeding, and th republicans stand a chance of gaining , insurgent sympathy and Wlnnig befor th committee If they have to Ioe on the floor and remain, seated all ovsr th , house. ' ..- : CE0RCETOWN DEFEATS i I , CAROLINA, 38 TO 2? H ff i i WASHINGTON. fib. 4-Th TT. versitv of North Caroline, basketball team, tonight mm th second defeat, , of Us northern trip, Oaorswt gsuw , varsity takuj h JMie camp by th oor of st t 4. Stf . North , Carolina five thu far . tt ,'' trip - ha def eared the VatversItT ( Virginia and Washlngte and Lv and ha V.st U V, M. L. fat MdllUois to Osorgetf ' j iit . ft, J') t 1 i 1 I, 111 I". lj ' ,
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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