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Hldtint MOUNT ABY. WW CAMLDfA. 1 VmciNlANS SUCK TO ntcs at Hm crimo for which Floyd Allan aod Ms son, Claud* Allan inn elac twM Hpr 3. Enfliah, axanol I ■—h«r of ths counaal for tha ds f«M; Richard Evolyn Byrd, lav. R. Oary MoatafM, Jade* WWlaai f. Rhaa. chairman of tho State corpora tin; J. 8. Johnaon, of Hanovi-r oovnty; Dr. Lm 0. Brooffcton, past or of tha Gror* Arcnua Baptist church; Dr. J. J. Scherar, Jr., pastor of tho Pint English Lutheran church; Mrs. Janet Stuart, of Lmrtium and i lev. H. D. C. NxRwhUn. pastor o>1 tW Seventh Street Christian church | uked that the men be pardoned, de claring they had served sufficient; time to pay for their part in^the^ Governor Trinkle said he would give the matter earnest consignation at the earliest possible moment. Among the others in the conference was Mrs. J. W. Stevens of Roanoke. Addressing Governor Trinkle, At torney English said the men and wo meo wots there to preaeat the peti tions signed by between BOfiOQ and ^ ftftA riMkMg * I i ____ a a trims far which a majority of the people ta Virginia doubted their gnflt. Ha said the suddenness of the cikM shocked the state and the na tion and a prejudice arooo which per maatad the atmosphere when the men wot* brought to trial and which prevented them from having a fair trial. Mr. English said in addition to the petitions ho iiiiisntsi letters frsm » of the U Jurymen who tried Sidna Allen hi the two Mate, urging dsns sitcy. Ho said ho had a letter fism a man In Winston-Saieas, North Carolina, who offered to poet a bond of 1100.000 that Sidaa Alls*, If par 4obmI« would (wwhft hftutlf pro perly B. Holman WQbs, of Boanoke, member of the Homo of Delegates, wfeo was one at the counsel for Claude Alton oad othsei of the dan, made an impaaakmed plea in behalf of the man. Mr. Wtnia said that Judge Masaie was between a eroso An of shots and that the ballot hnkiillnl in the Wirt chair eaasa from the right of ths chair, wkOo the msmbsis of the Allen gang were on the loft of ths chair. Ha dsdarsd the snthe wealth of commonwealth was arrayod against the set used man in their trials, and that afterwards ths legis lators made an a|ifiu|Hlatlim of 94M00 to'meet a Mkhscy in ths state's ooets in the litigation. Mr. Byrd, who was next hoard, aald the night before Claude Allan wont to the electric chair ho declared to Byrd. "I want yon to know that I had no more intention of shootfcgj tfee Judge than I have of shooting yon. I saw Dexter Goad reach for a pistol and I shot because I wanted to defend father. Judge Shea said ths one point that togwsesed him wna that the last man tried, after a la pee of several weeks* whsa excitement had died down had received lighter sentences far thp same charges than others triad previously and ha took this to -Heato that the commonwealth had weakened in the prsaiatation of its wltn tn* awmoimf oi «xcre» J. Z. Johnson, «f Huom court ■aid tka MntlmMrt to that county [ waa prmrticaJly rnimhiwi fa far ml tfta OoTtinor ertoadtnc douac Dr. Vroagfcton Mid to had written | M tetters to pwaatw—t Ma ta Bo naka, DaaWtto, KadfoH aad oth WILL END MADLY WEEK AT STAT* 10 feUgk. OH. 1-—A hiiIImHm 0t M MM U th* Ikt fo«* daj day, October 10, «4 ntalMtlH wttfc • double inntlM mi Friday, Mm Dixon, a Craven cMMtjr bvr| lar, will land th* diimil fallowed twe day* later by Helm Burnett, wntented for rape in Wake county, and on the mat day John Bush, a Caldwell county and Jo* Johnson, a Washington ty burglar will go down Into the hereafter together. It will break all the raeonte of the prison whan these four Men are kill ad in one weak. Thus far in the twelve years that the death by elac tmrution has been an inatitotion In the Stat* no more than two hare been executed in on* week. Ta times double execution* have staged, the last two w*eks ago when I Angus Murphy and Joe Thomas ware | killed. John Dixon, who was sentenced last Spring by Judge Daniels to execution, was caught red handed by a fourteen year old boy while he was burglarizing the house where the lad slept. Bis appeal to the Supreme Court waa denied, and he is making ready hit ways for death in the ten days that remain for him an earth. He is cslm and seemingly unafraid. Mclver Burnett, who attacked a white woman a few miles from Ra kigh on the day before he was to hare been discharged fro* the county roada whs tried before Judge for him. and he will go alone to the leath chamber an .Wednesday John Bush, who is a member of i prominent white family, waa sen tenced by Judge J. Bis Bay In L*> uoir three weeks ago. Lawyers for nim are understood to be staking in effort to perfect an appeal to the Supreme court in hit behalf, but thus far no notice has been received it the Prison of a stay af execution. He was convicted of murder. Joe Johnson waa _ sentenced from Washington county on September t 5y Judge Prank A. Daniels after a (ury had found him guilty of burg lary'in the first degree. No appeal liaa been made on his behalf, and barring executive intervention, he trill die on the morning of Priday the thirteenth probably before John Bush. He will he the sixty-second nan to die fat the chair. Five other man, including Clyde Montgomery, are awaiting death in the solitudes of the death row at the Prison. No date has' been set by the Governor for their going, liont tomery waa dinted a new trial by the Supreme court last April, but thus far no day has been set for Ms ixecution. It ie understood that an iffort will he made in hia behalf be fore the Governor. Chinas* Girl At State Univer »l*r . Chapel Hill. Sept. M.—The tint Chinese girl to eater the University ror a full college year arrived hers today. She la Miss Tss-Lien Yui. ind she came to Aaaexiea from Shang hai only a few weak* ago. A North Carolina missionary, Miss Lelia rattle, who taught her in China, directed her hers. Miss Yui speaks perfect BngUeh— probably a great deal bettor brand of the language. If the truth ha told. tku moat of tha paopto who mm sorn to it Sha is ro'n* to ba a ■pacial atodant la the School of Public Walfara this nart yaar. bat hi ttt> she expects to radiator aa a Junior and taka pajpslar cooraa toad tnc to fradoatiaa. "I waa educated hi tha MsTjrab* School in Shanfhai," aald Miss Tnl today. "It 1« a mlaaionary testa tion conducted by tha Southern Math odlita. Mlaa Tattle told ma about North CtooUna. Mora I caae to Chapat Hill I want with bar to bar homa hi Lenoir. Aftor landing In thia country 1 bad gone to Inehaitir, Mnaeeota, aad Chicago, and at Le ty. I had a fM raat from my lone trip." SHIPS MACE urro pomr to KViN MCNCK TARIFF I partada of tu lihWq. An mnfi of am than |1M •00 • day fcaa been caBartad hi c*t MM at Un port of Mow York riM July 1, and more than M ,000,000 •| day «w taken in Saturday, Moo day and Taooday. Caah withdrawal* from bank* be came ao great today, couplad with withdrawals by interior banks to mow cropa, call money waa forced' up from 4 1-2 to 6 per cent on the. ■tock exchange. When the tariff biU left the aao ate Last Tueaday to go to the White Houae for the Preaidant'a aignatore •teamahip men aent out appeals by wireloaa to ahipe at tea to bond every effort to roach port aa aoon as poasibio befbrr the new tariff could J become a law. Several sMpa, by tn-i creating their apeed. made New York ' harbor today and thva aaved the i owner* of the merchandiae they were | carrying thousand* of dollars in in-! creaaod duties. viner snipping concern* nsvinr steamship* due to arrive late tonight or tomorrow endeavored to obtain ruling* from the customs authorities that would consider the ships within New York harbor if they were within the limlls bootleggers' limit. The iteamahip Rotterdam from Holland with genera! cargo was doe to reach Fire laland around midnight but the customs gien ruled that the a hip would have to be well on her Vlji through the Winem to> mid night in order to escape the workings of the new tariff law. Sugar, tobacco and wool were the chief commodities withdrawn from customs, while woolen, silks and cot ton goods made up the bulk of the manufactured goods declared for duty at the last moment by the cus toms broker*. One of the shipments from foreign ports which failed in the race to reach here In time was a special trainload of English textiles, Irish laces and other merchandise rushed aboard the Mauritania before aha left England. The Haoretania will not arrive here until Saturday. Other steamships bearing large cargoes of goods which win hare te pay the new duties are the Franca of the French line from Havre, the La Bourdonnais from Bordeaux, the Vaaarl from Rio da Janeiro, the Lap land from Antwerp, the President Ffllmore from Bremen and the Roma. Oropes, Scythia and Baltic. In ad dition there are more than two score freight and tramp steamers speeding for New York with dtitable goods. "Unci*" Jee Com T* Trarwl Long Trail One Ttm*s Mm Washington, Sept. >0.—Uncle Jee Cannon dug into the cedar cheat to day for some woolen things he will wear next week when he hHa the same trail westward to IBtoo4e that he and his parents broke 83 yean ago in emigrating from the hOb of North Carolina, Thw early voyage westward was made in an old prairie schooner, out of the back of whkh UmW Jee, then barely four years old, watched the shifting scenery mid dresmsd. Evea playod around tha (nyfln, tta Hardship* and the atari that peaked daw* at Ma aa he alapt. Thm waa ananethlln that raaaaahl ad a taar in tha veteran'a eyaa aa ha recalled today hia aartiaat raaol teetJona of that tryin* trip, tat they apaitled aa la thltad of hia aaaing trip crrer tha aaae old pita—tMa an antnwahn* "After March 4, next, I will mata my laat journey homeward aa a m amber of tha Hooaa." aald Uncle Jo* "So tha trto by Motor, delayed! and dalayad, will ha auda at thia iim* aad on reery foot of tha road! my taart wfll haat wt& ha» plana aa I Mpk of tha auay taoon that! hara com# my way. I taw Jadjil I had better ffo mow, far March la a km «ty off and 1 aa iwalu old." M>r to tellit 4mt lately. Ha waa tout in tk» Satiate an Fri day of l»*t week, tit* day the Sen ate adjourned and Had been abaent mm days than, not (taring been praaant on tha day the veto on tha quant ion of overriding tha PrvaUfcnt'i' rate of tha aoldter bonoa MR m fakrn In thia matter Sanator Wat aon had *poken affainat tha hill, hot rhangrd and on tha rail call TO tad for tha ■nun. During tha laet day of i tha aaaaten Sanator 4Tataon mada hta. poeitfcm absolutely clear, and m riaw of hia daath here thia ■» rater tha| •cane at that thne become# a moat pathetic one Ltarinr the Int session Senator Wataon. whoa* seat wan on the''hack row of, the Democrat ir side. row ■lowly to hi* feet and walked * lowly and carefully to the front row be- j tween two deaka, placing a hand on each to aapport himaelf. "Mr. President," he laid quietly to the presiding officer, the President pro I tempore whom he waa near. No at tention waa Riven him. a Republican being rwognised by the chair. A rain "Mr. President," said Senator Wat aon when the Republican ceased, but •rain he waa not recognised. Four, times ha addreaaed the chair, but waa not riven recognition. Then a Republican aaked unanimoua can-j1 M - -- - - - - - - ■ «-»-« | Mill rtr ROaic mcMuvt, ana ^vwkiy | Bemator Wataon announced. "1 ob-' Ject," and atated that be would ob | ject to any unanimoua consent meas ! ure until he waa recognised. Than the chair recognised him and quieMy speakiny but two sentences. Senat or Wataon aaid that "when a vote waa reached on the question as to whether the veto of the President of the soldier bonua bill should be over ridden, I waa atrofgUav bat waa life and death with aathma, and had no r ha nee to arrange a pair. Had I bam praeant I would have voted to override that veto." Then he quietly returned to Ma eeat. He waa pale, showed marks of hia illness, and the few correapoodants in the preaa gal lery, agreed that Senator Wataon waa still a very sick man. ' • Called To Task For His Figurws By Repoblkaaa Washington, Sept. 26.—It ia rather an open secret around Washington that when Congreaaaan Will Wood, »f Indiana, chairman of the Bapufc lie an Congressional coeaasittee, naive ly confessed that the majority of 170 in the present yt Representatives would drey to •oaae 14 or 90 after the next election, he was called to task by snaaa of the Republican Uaden for oonfeeaing too much. It waa potetod oat to hia that aa adaaiaaion that the De mocrats would secure from 140 to 144 of the seata now held by la waa aa admiaaion of 4a thit nifkt tmlifitf thtt Dm might take the taU with Ike hide and thaa have a majority in the next Congree*. This fact ia said to have haw im presssd upon the ■aa ia he ia said to have bean called to rsrnnsidsr hia Amiim and not a diffennt lookbc Nt And than Indiana »aa ha* dona Juat that! thine. YnUrday he waa at the ] White Hooee and had a oonfannta j with Pmiiit Harding, a confer- I enee on political matters. Whan ha < cam* away ha waa randy with a brand nair lot of figure* and had ' jura pad one hundred par cent. Hia't lataat aat ia that tha lUpahHeana 11 will have a majority of M fat tha i Honaa, and that rainbow will laat him Cor another apalL In tha Mianthai tha Daaaaerata an foin«r ahead with 1 their eampaiga work, and aeeordtog < to tha tafwtU that ranch Waahintton i they an flndlnjt fiakk of tha moat i fertile kind ta which te plant Dan- j era tie doctrinea. Thar hold that tha i tread ia atronf for tha D—n crate and that theie will be "a M* killing" for them on election day. j I rwoMMirr mas loot LABOR AND 90UMKK VOTl a r. Cm cut Wuhkfifton, Itft 2J.-TW faM'i nUMtW bama MO fc •1 HI tka Ml that win ba •mftd Ik) Novamkar alaction. Up tiU vary WMtly buna* *a po polarity of flllMiiil Hartfnc to j poll tham through tkia fall at tka! bos. But within tka la Wa lack a* aoeeaaa ia aattMi tha rail and coal Mrtkaa kaa aartaa ly undannined bia popularity wttk Lhr labor paupla, acmrdlai to 8mmhI >orap» r» and now Ua bonua bill rato baa alianatad aa immanaa ma >»r of ax-acrriea mm If tka Nation-1 i! lagialatrra eommittaa of tka Amariran Legion ia eoiraet In Ha, itbnata. • Manrortf .UcMider, commander, of He American Legion, hat, In a drcu ar letter to members of Congress, onerntrated the fire of the Itfion jpon the bead of the President. Mr. Harding is bald responsible tor the failure of the compensation legiala :ion. Mr. McNider writea: "After :hree years of aareful consideration :he representatives of the people in Congress hare given the adjusted ■ompenaation legislation their ap proval. President Harding oppoaas t« enactment into law. Apparently kgreeing with the _ principle, he is inwilling that the handicap of those arho offered their lives and brought lafety to the nation should be adjust ■d." But the failure of the legislation rith the senate bill carrying the Me <ary amendsaent fo^the reclamation >f arid landa in the west has alao, t is stated, alienated the large irri tation vote. The friends of the bill -shninated this amendment to make t easier'for the President to with hold his rote. And for the same <eaaon they dropped the Simmons imendment, which proposed to raise he bonus money from the allied lebts due the United States. With he Simmons amendment out the *reaident condemned the bill for of ertng no plan for rsiaing the money. Bart the Democrats do not over ook the fact that the President's reto will grsatly strengtftau his larty's claims on that comparatively ■tall group of mam who furnish ha Republican coffers with eam isign money. The reto will supple nent the Potdney-McCumber tariff ft u a money getter. • So the campaign for the Houae of lepresentatires is about to open rith the President's popularity shak m by labor strikes and by hie oppoei ion to a demand to render a mead >f Justice to the men who went oat o face the fire for tlfcir country and rith one of the moat unpopular con rrsssis that ever met on Capitol HOI, iut with thfc campaign treasury able 0 get every dollar that can be spent, j Vhea Mr. Harding wrote his name to he Potdney-McCumbar bill making t a law and when he wrote his dis ipproral of the bonus bill, he meta- | •horically, wrote a check for the, ampaign of his party, the Democrats, leciara. On the other hand the Dernorirata tare law money than they hare erer tad according to Chairman Houae, of he Democratic Campaign Committee >f the Bouse. Some days his coas aitlee has not enough mooay to boy 1 postage stamp and some at the bembers of ths Democratic National jomaunee mortoca umm*| nuy*j to uvi office rants. TV \ >emocr»u." Mid Mr. Boom, "mw, tad lock telling Uhm with do mw rith which to toll thsm. "Bat dcpnMl upon K," he «mt on. the story will ret out. It is • story hat will hit every" man's and wo nan's pocket before sixty days arc rone. The sisal trust, the American Ifoolen company, the ' Pittsburgh tlnminom company, the Aurksn *ip% Um coaspany and scores of >ther hi* corporations have set the >toc* for the drama and far mifttans t wilt be a tragedy. The American teople will fatow who have um>.et»*d md staffed this tra««dy. H the tepoblieMs had all the sssMty hi (Tall street they cm net — jpesnI he story " »n* MM, on Hqnor rtolatuw," mU Mr fUyrwi "VntD thajr tn vtltlai to do this in rrtn (TMlfr drfraa, kowwtr, w cannot b»r» th* Vol ■UM Law oporattny at Ha fait effl rtwfy. "Jadcn an J oat coaling to laaMaa thr aariooaaaaa of tho tffnut. fmi all diatrirta I am cattta* rmporta ahowtnc that jail aaataaeaa afa ha mm in* Bora coanaaon, and that thai a ia a eaawqaait Inuaaalnc iMM't far tha law on tha part of tha liqaor ato awnt. The imposition of a fme as seas very little to the »m|t bootlegger with money behind Mm ami H ia aaey for him toH oat of hla profit* Rot he hate* to go to jail—and with the possibility of a Jail tana hanging over him, he ia apt to consider the matter of lsw-breskmg a little mora *rriously.M The futility of fines ia shown by the practice that haa irrown up in many statea of professional bonds men signing bootleggers' bonds, aad forming "companies" to rtand tempog arily any financial loss imposed by court sentences. So flagrant haa thia practice become in Georgia that it hasbetn openly and severely condemn ed by mm of the grand J aria*. The willingneai of judges to im pose prison sentences, which has bean very evident in recent months, accord ing to Mr. Haynes, has done a great deal to break up the liquor traffic among the more prosperous rlasass. The provision of the Volstead Act makes imprisonment for a first of fense optional with the judge, the limit being six months, and tha alter native being a fine of not mora thaa 11000; for a second offenae, ho warn, the penalty ia both fine aad impriaoo mant, varying from one month to fhw years. It ia ia the willingnees of tka judges to inflict the maximum rather than tha minimum penalty that tka hope of breaking up tha illegal liquor traffic largely reeta, as Mr. Haynoe seea H. Tha congeation of liquor csaee oa federal dockets »0 ha tailw eeetk by the appointmaait of S4 additional diatrict judges, provided ia the MB signed thia week by tha Priatdaaat Mr. Haynee estiaqptea that over 000 each caaea are pending, aad ia confident that the work will be expe dited greatly by the Increase of tha number of judges. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebeandt, assistant attorney-general, in charge of liquor violation caaes for tha De partment of Juattaa. also said tha* In many districts federal jodgaa at* im posing jail eenteneee in every poaafth caae. She named partienlaity tat syivania, central New York, Alabama, and California. The number of jail aentencea, aa compared with ftnee imposed atnee last Match averages r>nly 25 per cerit, however. Statistics on tha action of federal count In liquor violation caaaa far the last few moattha, while ahewh* tn incraaae over last year In jtl »entencea, give evidence that tham ia yet room for improvement. Ti ma—rj and Departaaeait of Jeetice officials igrac that UM percMUcr of U KDlNMi paaaod ikogM W fnrtir than H la. FtfVM for four recant months follow: April, convictions, MM; fine* to» poaod. WW.446; commitmenta to Jal. NL May, conviction*. MM; flaaa IS4*, rsa; coreattBMnta to Jail Ml. June, conviction*. 8M; fine. IT4. 151; commitment* to Jail. 7».
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