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t %it$ |hto$. THUWDAY, APRIL 20th. IMS. 91.it PB YBAB 01 ADTANCB. WOULD cut rumuzm MIX HALF WuMnftM, April II.—The hmU farm bloc wta nwriid today by Sana tor Capper, of Kanaaa, Ha chair man, aa (arartef tha development of the Muscle Ihoala project In a brtof reference to tka power and nitrate project* on tha Tennes see river, made Hi a a poach on the floor, tka lewatnr declared hla belief that tka nation'! fertiliser kill eoald be reduced "by one half if wa carry oat tka Muacla Skoals project." "Anotker measure favored kjr tka farm bloc which will contribute to • * permanent and proeperatM system of agriculture," Senator rappar aaid, "la tha development of tha Muacla Shoals project. Wa should resume work tan madiataly on tha Tenneasee river. Tha nation's fertiliser kill is now about I2S.000.000 annually. I believe It ia poaaible to raduca this one-half If we carry out tha Muacla Shoals project " The Kansas senator's declaration waa made seraral hoars after tha senate agriculture committee, of which ha ia a member, had cloaad for the day Ito hearings on tha Muacle Shoals properties. Major W, H. Burns, of the war department's ord nance bureau, had teetified there on various phases of the power and ni trate developments at the shoala. Major Burns reiterated his belief that the government waa morally bound to execute in Rood faith tka contracts between the war depart ment, the Alabama Power company and the American Cynamid company, riving the later compaaiea exclusive purchase rights on the Gorgas steam plant and nitrate plan No. 2. at Muacla Shoals, in the event those unite were ever disposed of to private rnterprtar. He declared that as long as Henry Ford included the two projects to hi* propnwnl, fVinrrnw NitM not very well accept it in view of the agreement made by the war department with the tww companies. The witneaa made it clear, however, that the acting judge advocate gen eral of the army had given an opinion holding the contracts to be non-en forceable, null and void. Despite the ruling of the chief law officer of the war department, the major testified, It was the conviction of the ordnance bureau officiate that the government should redeem its written promise made to the two concerns when they constructed the plants involved. Chairman Kahn announced today that the house military committee would evolve probably within two days a rough draft from which it was haped a report could be fashioned aoon for preeentation to the house The inter-committer discussions which have been in progress every day this week, he aaid, were approaching a basis on which it might be possible to begin drafting the committee's re commendations for the house, cover ing the four private offers for develip ment of the shoals property. Lawyer* Are Told of Crime School* Joilet, III*., April 18.— Segregation of hardened criminal* from the first offender* in the be»t way to reduce crime, convict* in the state peniten tiary here today declared at a hear ing conducted by the law enforce ment committee of the American Bar aaaociation to get the criminal*' view of the cauiie of law breaking. The committee member* all agreed with the convict*. The committer made up of na tionally known men. heard from *ev en witne»*es stories of organised crime ring*, particularly in Chicago, bribery of police official* and of "school* for crime." One priaoner told of perfected crime organisation* in Chicago which guar anteed to get a man out of any trou ble through graft and bribe*, and «>■ plained that had he been abla to raise 9600 he could have bribed official* in the state* attorney'* office and would not now he in the penitentiary. One conrict *atd prohibition in creased crime, while another termed the Cook county jail at Chicago the greatest "crime school" in the coun try. Sevetal explained that the av erage young first offender is exper ienced and efficient In crime after earring a eowtonce with old tiasera who would pat htm through a ours* of instruction during tha ten* PARENTS OF SON KILLED KEFUSE INSURANCE CirMIMWOmwirtb. Koempi tmymtmU Washington, April 10.—The United Statea vetarana bantu today called official attention to what tt says la on* of the ao«t unusual raaea wtr handled by that bureau—tiia refoaal of th« parent* sf a North Carolina »oIdicr killed In the war to xrept government insurance becauee their rsligtoua belief! oppose receiving the monthly r heck a doe on the $6,000 policy The ineured man van Thorns* Hpeska and the bureau ha* even sent a apeclal inveati.-ator to Jenninir*. N. C., to persuade acceptance of the in auranee money. Today Dliwtor Oen rral Forties made the following [ planatton of the strange ease: "Refusing to accept the government I insurance earned by their aoa, who was killed In the world war, Mr. and Mrs. .Speaks, nf Jennings, N. C.. ax plained to a apt-rial investigator of| the *United States vetorans bureau p-cently that their religioua beliefs would not permit their receiving the monthly rherka due them on a $.1,000 policy. *1<MH inURVII IIM. "It is on# of th# most unuauii cuet wr handled by the bureau. The rlsims division, however ha* re ported sevcrsi ram wherein the- bane fir iary ha* refused the insurance mon ey on the grounds that monthly check* would be traffic reminder* of the one that is cone; alao, caaea wherein check* have been refused becauae the ' beneficiary ia wealthy and states that insignificant monthly amounts are more bother than they are worth. But the eaae of Thomaa Speaks, busier in the 21at Infantry, who was killed Oc tober 4. 1918, ia peculiarly individual "Following the death of Thomas Speaks, the veteran* bureau forward ed certain forms to his parents re questing that they be filled out and returned to the bureau. No response. Within a few weeks the bureau wrote the parents, enclosing jdditional cop ies rfTPRese form. Son no response, k This action, on the part of the bureau continued until June, 1921, when a special investigator called on Mr. and Mrs. Speak* ref-.tive to the case. "In s personal interview he learned the following: That the boy had en listed in the army a minor; that the parent* had been dependant upon the hoy; and that due to certain religious doctrines held, they, the parents, could not accept the monthly check* of 128 - 76 without feeling they were a party to their son's death. The investigator could not make them understand the protective side of government insur ance—in fact, they were arbitrarily opposed to any sort of insurance—and he reported to the bureau that the parents would, under no conditions, accept the money. Put in Bill For Tombstone. "Too, the investigstor discovered that the parents had brought the body of Thomas Speaks from France. He informed them that the govern ment was willing to reimburse them for certain burial expenses incurred, and asked that an itemized state ment be submitted to the bureau. When the statement arrived at the Washington offices of the veterans bureau, it was found to cover the erection of a tomb, built by the boy's father at a cost of $98.76. No mao-| tion of actual burial charges wife made and since the government can not, due to legal restrictioa, pSy for mausoleum* and tombs built by the deceased's family the Speaks family could not be reimbursed for the 198 HR expended. "The insurance money is sccruing in the huresu, and since both parents claim dependency upon the son, but are unwilling to prove their conten tion, the 130 additional per month has never been paid. What will be the final outcome of the case I* hard to say, but it look* a* though the iniurance benefits will never reach the father and mother until they modi fy, to some extent, their present re ligious viewpointa." Once Famous and Wealthy, He Die* In Common Jail Chicago, April 12 —Dr. J. C. Willia, formerly a famous surgeon and bank president and 10 years ago worth half a million dollars, died in the county jail today where he was await ing trial on chargea of pasaing 1128 worth of bogus checks. Dr. Willis wrote many medical test hooks and was s recognised suthortty on certain news diseases He loot his fortune through speculation. KEMTUCKJAM OFFERS MC TOBACCO LOAN JimJc* Bkflua WmU Lm4 TfiJMt Gf«»m >300,000. Raleigh. April W. Binghaa., •' **• BaH*T Rrowf' Ooper»tW. A-~itto« of Kentucky. pledged tke org»nl**d to' grower, * Nortfc Crol«~ £ utin »uu. an •* yy ** r MOO,000 mM by July *•* to wn the movement for the tlve marketing of tobae«o. »t ' Uat Monday night which Wake County Court Hoom In *» ^ In overflowing , Speaking of tb. half hoiwxwn of the I*> in K^frky WW held out agaln.t th. Burle, Aseoetation. Judg. Bingham said, •Th»r» art «l* war«h«>u»e. out In *en lucky that bit n«»t worth »l*ty cents »nd there arr 124 that will bring an h„ne.t price." Ami .peaking of North Carolina, he ~»d. "I* Ibr w.'rho-.-, m< n know their business. they will a« - rept the proposition " | Declaring that there la nothing] .tranrr or miraculou. in th. jooparaj liva marketing movement, the leader ,( The aurceaaful Kentucky organisa tion .aid, "Th* prlnkpl* is the •»«» hat ha- made all Industrie. .uccew rul -tb. railroad.. Standard (Ml and he great .teel enrporation ." He de iared that by carrying through the present movement to a aucceaafu 'inlah. the farm** of the Carolina* md Virginia would a» certainly draw profitable dividends from their or (anization aa the .hare-holder, in >ther highly reccaaaful indoatrWa. The Director, of the Virgin la-Caro ina Tobacco Grower.' Cooperative K.soriation, the North Carolina CM on Asaociation and officer, from •» hambers of commerce of all largi enter, in the State heard bow 41,000 Hirley grower, of Kentocky had g^ •d a »10,000.000 credit with the War finance Corporation and had received nan. of M.S00.000 from ,.nk. before even a leaf of tobacco raa In the hand, of m^ada* fUr'ninety day.. J"4** 4Ingham declared It waa entirely paid ,ff by the Aaaociation within lea. than »lf that time President Stone of he organixed burley grower, fetter id that taut year the Anaoetatkm handled 180.000.000 pound, of tobacco it a total ex pen* of *0 cent, per cwt Half of the fee heretofore paid by th* armer. for the privilege of .elling n a warehouae. Oliver J. Sand.. Manager and U. A. Morwood, Pre.idenl of the Tohacco Irower.' Cooperatitre AwocUtion. were other speaker. at the Smoker ijiven to the leaders of the two great Association* of tobacco grower, who reprenent organiaed tobacco farmers ,f area, rai.ing 900.000.000 pound* ,ut of the 1,400.000,000 pound crop I ,f the United States. I 0r J. Y. Joyner, Chairman of the Committee on Warehou.es, which has ,ucce»»fully completed the sign-up of more thin 150 warehouses in the Car ina. and Virginia said. Before July 1st. 1922 »* P">mi»e to have ligned up. 80 per cent of th<* tobacco growers in three SUtes. v> help us Sod: for hack of this movement is the eternal principle of Justice and Sack of that is a C.od of Justice, and » handful of selfl.h men -annot sU-p III." Babylon the Deadest of All Dead Thine* The ruin* of Babylon irf the dead Mt of all dead things in the wastes r>f Mesopotamia. They are located »hout 100 mile* south of Bagdad, and mattered over a wide stretch of ter ritory. The greater part of the city which has recently been brought to light belongs to the comparatively modern period o'f Nebuchadneizar. •bout 600 B. C„ but traces of the rirst Babylonian Kings (2.500 B. C.) ire left in the ruins, and successive ttrata reveal the streets and houses ^lilt by succeeding dynasties of the Assyrian. Neo-Babylonians, Persian ind Greco-Parthian period*. AI*o there are relic* to prove a prehistoric Baboon, but, a* in the -as* of NinevaK it i* impossible to :arry the excavations deep enough, iwing to the rise of the water level. The city when built by Nefeuchad lenT.ar, formed one of the greatest »nd Most significant the world has ■ver seen. Ancient historians can rind no word* to describe the gran Jeur of the palaces, the splendid edi fice*, large garden* and pleasure rrounds, especially the hanging gar dens.-Pearson's Weekly. Raider! lla, April 11 Esaetly Mty flv« confiscated autoaoMlaa are bow la "cold atonfa" tn Raidaville andar tha watchful eye of tha nwiij'a ahar tff and Ma dapotlaa. Since laat Thura day night Sheriff Sanda and hla aa sistants have brought In «%lM aoto n ohllea, Including faur Ford ton line can and an Overland roadster, tha captures all raaulttag from ralda In tha araatarn part of tha county Tha Sheriff* dispensary, aa a raault. waa replenished with more than MO cat ion* of moonshtne Several arreata vrrr made 8. T. Price waa given a hearing be fore .Squire Robert Mitchell here Sat. on a charge of transporting whiskey Price waa caught with others and sis automobiles in tha western the county a few weeks ago. J. M. Riddle, a member of the tranaporting crew, tamed State's evidence. Hla testimony in affect waa that Prtaa was tha ringleader of the gang, owned the cars, and In fart waa the man wanted. Squire Mitchell hobnd over Price to the next term of Superior court tn a bond of $2,000 Price haa been making hia headquarter* in (ireensboro for some time paat. Husband Kills Wif* Hunting For Burglar Charlotte, April 10— Sam Cmrip 50 yean old, "hot and killed hi* wife ■t his ken just over the Mecklen burgUnion line Sunday night ai 10 o'clock. The husband is said to hsre mistaken his wife for a burglar and fired, killing her almost instantly. The tragedy occurred three miles from Mint Hill, where the Helms fam ily were murdered Sunday. Mr. Crump heard a noise at a window sad think ing It a burglar, he said, got his shot gun and went out. Mrs. Crump also got up and went out, unknown to her husband. In a few seconds the wife the house, snd in the semi-darknens the husband fired. Baby It Drowned in Bucket. Rutherfordtnn. April 12.—Three miles west of here yesterday the 15 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ham Miller fell in a slop pail in the kitchen and drowned while the moth er was in the living room cleaning the house. When she sent her son fur the baby It was dead in the pail. 20 THOUSAND POUNDS OF POWDER EXPLODES. One Man Blown to Bit* and 50 Box Car* Damaged At Char leston. Charleston-. S. C.^pril 1S.-J Hill, white, foreman for the Columbia Sal vage corporation was blown into bits at 11:S0 o'clock this morning when sn explosion of 20,000 pounds of black powder occurred in an ammunition salvage magazine near the ordnance department. North Charleston. More I than 50 box cars were damaged and; trackage wrecked. It will never be I known what caused the terrific blast. Fragments of Hill's body were col lected over a considerable area and placed hi a coffin for Interment HI* cap was found shout 200 yards from the magatine, the ♦all* of which wen made with boxes filled with sand with h canvass roof. Hill and three negro laborers were aeen about the maga zine before the explosion. It is said the negroes were practically unhurt. For many miles around the explo sion was felt. Glaas was shattered in plants in.the suburbs of Charleston. It is believed that one or two kegs of powder were first detonated and that almost immediately all the rest of the 800 kegs went off with terrific force. A burning brand fell a short distance away among a pile of T. N. T. shells and among those who appre ciated the peril there was consterna tion. At the imminent riak of their lives Chief Thompson of the govern ment's port terminals fire department and Lieutenant A. L. Viloancy of the quartemaater corps extinguished the fire with chemicals. While it Is not known how the ex plosion occurred, it is reported that Foreman Hill had horrowed a steal coal chisel and it is believed that ha was working with this oa the steel powder kegs, sparks causing the ex plosion Tha regulations require that a braaa toplNMBl ha aaad, that RACE SEGREGATION mOBLEM IS SOLVED pnnntoBw wMta aad aalorad «4ti mm. It la baHaood that *• pnMm bxa —If My wlwi Mayor Jin« Tka cttjr hH fiilmiii about Sft wm tf laad on Baat fiwIiMlt atroat an wMak la to Watad a an dam ackool InildlM and plajririnidi for tka eol and paopla. Lota wfll alao ba latH nft and aotd to aiatin of tha raco for raaidaneoa. every parrhaaor Mn( required to tfwt IhwaMi a iMdfm homo. W N. Rejmolda, praaidant of Um R J. Reynnlda Tnkatrn (Company, mora than a jraor a(o gave tka colorad people what waa known in tka dajra of tka Carolina haaahall league aa Prinae Albart park aa a playground •ita. Sliwa tka naw development on Pourteentk atraat and tka aegrega tion movement, Mr. Kaynolda joined arith tka cttjr in making tka purrkaae of tka 2ft mermm. tka kaad of tka great tnh*rrn concern agreeing to inveat (Ha valua of tka kaae kail park in tka land purrkaaad from R W. Harige toek. Trinity Mm i» Bli«d But HmI Great VUioo. , Durham, April 12-Th. bl.nd .h.11 not lead the blind. elae thay in the ditch, but the atory of F L. Kikrr of the ft»hma» cla« at Tr.n^ ty colter »»»»W P"11 •njro** °Ut °' the ditch of depreaaton Kikrr can hardly •«* the nooiv-day ,un yet he ta makin* r*x» *l Trin ty college and aakinir no odd* from inyone "Ju*t becw » Urk* .hculdnt keep him out of «»*!*• Wy> Kiker; "what he need. <• , purpose, an ambition, or a convic tion that keep, him «oin* J01™1™ Thi. force in Kiker". life »• the ,mvicUon that ha ha. b^n called to enter the mintatry r"T fW* *** v>w thi. conviction ha* baen the «as ,1m. in hi. motor car of bein* that Da. kept him takinf every hill on hi*h m an effort to rain an education. "1 ju.t felt that 1 had to preach ind I knew that 1 ou*ht to have an education, no 1 came oyer hew, **> Kikrr. a. he let hi. aen.itive finrers trace the brailled word, on • hook pace "I didn't know how 1 ... Koine to *et alone, but my f.lh" said he would help me I havent known one month ho, thinn ,o.n» to be the next, but «rhool * .Imoat out now fcitd I »m .till here and expect to be here next year. Kiker »«y» that the fir»t at Trinity were the hardest P««P « didn't know that I could not •« and every office I went to they ju.t *av« me . little old card and told me to fill it out," he remarked. Now it u different, he «ay« Expreaaton. of doubt a* to hi. ability to keep up with hi. work were frequently heard when it first became known that a blind man wu anmnif the member, o* the freshman claw. Now he keep, every member of the cla»» on a hump lo keep up with hi. accomplishment, in the cla»* room. *In Latin and Bible classes Kiker lead.. In the fall term he secured an average of W on hi. U* "»d M on Bible. The text, he "J these cooraaa are printad in tb«> language." A peraon iroinit Into K k er's room and finding the text, with out knowing what they were mi«ht imagine that the Standard 0.1 com pany had stored ita ledger, there. ,uch a volume of space do they oe :upy. v.. Geometry also come, ea.y to Ki er. N course he cannot see the ItaM. mile. etc.. but he can carry them n hi. brain. In the <.ral dven him on thi. subjecthe outstrip *d many member, of the claw who lave perfectly pood eyea. None of the blonde >r brunettea. 'ither for hat »a«.r iave anythinf on the blind atoden when It comes to operatm* » type writer. Hia work in Entfllah m all vped and in iu neatnea. and perfae-; ion equal, that of the be.t .tonof "SL Wm war* -oe. not occupy ill hia ttaae. He 11 ' £ Columbia Utarary sacietyand 1»« aken an active part in the work ot h. *>ciety. Hi. n«* '"T'rrr iha »ociaty aaade^qait* an im •ft. At the ift of tt ha on the aliMry aa i to IUM|k to eator the for Mm MN wkm h « laat yaw, iml»g to Triattf to tobacco Acnvmr Lexington, Ky, April If.—Within Um paat month S4t new rootracta, repraaenting 1JNM acrea or ahMt f^ 000,000 pounds of tobaceo. have haan nn.<i«ai at tha offWaa of the field eervire division of tha Hurley To bacco Grower's Cooperative aaaerie tlofi, Assistant Oilaf William Collins eta toe. Thoaa rnntrarta roma from prac tically «»arjr county In tha barley district in Kentucky and from roun tiaa In Ohto and Went Virginia and Indiana, aa wall. Tobacto belonging to tha meotbera uf tha Barley Tobacco Growera' Co op* ratirr association will be deliver - ed to the warehouaea by April 14, Director Barker aaid Friday Tha Lexington warehouse manager. Rob ert C. Beatty, anno one aa that tho Fayette No. 1 warehouse will bo open Thursday and Friday, April 1.1 and 14 for the delivery of tobacco which fia nera may desire to bring to f-exinir ton, and the officials of the aaaoeia tum hope that every member |ia— will have delivered hia crop by April 14. next Friday. Secretary H L. Eearley and hia of fice ataff are at work on the aecood diatribution of funds to the growers, but becauae of the volume of book keeping involved in the diatribution, Secretary Eearley aaid he could not definitely fix the time of the diatri bution. He aaid the growers could de pend on it that the second distribu tion would be made at the eariieet possible moment. Durham Ready To Support the "Co-opa" Durham, April 10.—A maturity of the local tobacco warehousemen hare agreed to turn over their warehouaea to the Cooperative Marketing Aaao ciation, provided adequate arrange ments can be made In regard to laaaaa it was announced today. One warehouse, the Star Crick, will not he turned over tc the aa auciation, however, according to an nouncement by the pmpietora. The management of the warehouse seta forth, however, that there 'S to be no effort to fight the cooperative as sociation. D'ANNUNZIO LEADS SIMPLE LIFE NOW Italy's Soldier Poet, Who Caus ed So Much Trouble At Fiume, Ha* Retired. Rome, April 12.— Gabriel le D'An nunzn, Italian soldier-poet, whose operation! in Fiume threatened ta bring about wriou* difficulties for the Italian government, has settled down to the "simple life" in his beautiful villa at Gardone. The general public, finds it difficult to believe that "the Stormy Petrel of the Adriatic" will be content to retire to private life after holding positions of author ity, and there i> an irapresaion that he still longs for a political career. An intimate friend of the poet de scribes, in an article printed by La Epocs, the life D'Annunxio is living, and his enthusiastic return to literary pursuits. His last publiahed work, "Nottumo,', has reached a circulation o." 50,000, which is exceptionally large for Italy. He is now finishing a com edy entitled "Amaranth." which will be entirely different from hia former works, being eminently modem and ironic. It is written in simple lim pid style. D'Annunxio has alan renewed hia occupation as a journalist aad kaa entered into contracts with American papers to write on serious literary and political subjects. For the for mer he will receive 25,000 Ure, repre senting 11900 at the prsssnt rate of exchange, and for the latter 20,000 lire, or about 11000. This is high re muneration for such work. The poet has also beta aaMMfcV himself in designing (teeoratioas for women's gowns and in conversation with friends recently said hi a Joee lar spirit: "The firs of D'Anaonsie is pMpaffsd to supply Utt wli «Mt varied goods— fat beta*, peek*, wtoe
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