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r 'V - . - h V .... The Weather A PAGES TODAY Probably fair Saturday and Sunday; not much change in temperature. JLV ONE SECTION VOL. XCIX-KO. 268. MAY POSTPONE DATE FOR DRAFTING GUARD INTO FEDERAL ARMY Under Existing Plans Officers' Rank Would be Established on an Unfair Basis AUGUST 5 MAY BE NEW DATE Postponement Would be Valuable in Giving Time to Prepare Divisional Camps RECRUITING REPORTED GOOD fourteen Divisions Can be Organ ized Immediately Washington, .June. 22. Draft in? of the National Guard into the Federal armies for war service may be delayed until August 5 be cause it has been found that under the present plans for" drafting the guard in three increments, July 15. July 25 and August 5, the rel ative ranis of its officers would be etablished oh an unfair basis. The national defense act provides that National Guard officers shall take rank as of the date of draft. Advantage in Delay. The additional time gained by post poning the draft until August 5 would be valuable to the department in "mak ing ready the divisional camp sites, and would permit the assembling of addi tional equipment for the troops. The War Deparment has received nu merous requests for early drafting of forces from some states, -members of Congress stating .that the . troops ' were ready and eager for the call, while from other sections, notablyagricultural re gions, requests for delay have come as the loss of the number-of men involved during the harvest period might cre ate a labor shortage. Recruiting Good. Preparations for mobilization of the state troops are going forward smooth ly, officials say. . Recuitjng has been good- for the last month, particularly among regiments not called into' Fed eral service for police duty.. Reports from headquarter; contracts show that clothing, tentage and- other equipment for the troops will be avail able, there are sufficient rifles in store to arm every regiment fully, signal corps and engineer , equipment will be available on time and the only delay anticipated will be with artillery. On the basis of present returns, there will be enough infantry regiments to organize immediately after the draft 13 or 14 . of the 16 divisions with a num ber of regiments left oyer to form the nucleus of other divisions. GOMPERS AGAIN POINTS OUT NECESSITY OF QUICK ACTION Washingon, June 22. In a statement tonight again urging the imperative necessity of enacting the administra tion's food legislation before the next harvest, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Iabor, de clared that unless control of - necessi ties was provided prices would become prohibitive and that it was unthinka ble that the people "rest "content under such conditions and work and fight." "The probability of world-wide want makes immediate legislation to regu late food prices and distribution imper ative. With out boundless wealth and undeveloped resources we" have never considered economy in the use of food. But now all over this country thous ands are feeling the pinch of want. In creasing prices for the necessities of life have made thousands of families alter family customs. "The food pirates have for months been diligently profiting through the needs of the people. Speculation has forced prices and food riots have al ready happened in .this '" rich country. Today speculators are trying to buy up "ops before the plants are out of the ground. Speculators gamble on human nepds. By creating human -want, these Shuls expect to coin enormous profits. Should our government fail to establish control before crops move to the eleva tors and markets, the success of the war and' the cause of human freedom for which the Allies contend, will be 'periled." ' -' "EW YORK POLICE SHAKE-UP HAS JUST BEGUN, SAYS WOODS rrangenientBetween Policemen and Cocchi Bring Disclosed. Xew York, June 22:-i-JOverhauling of he police department as the result of ts failure to clear up the mystery sur rounding the murder of Ruth Cruger as resumed today when Commissioner oods suspended four motorcycle po llcemen and announced that the shake jjP had only begun. The policemen were jiabitues of the motorcycle repair shop Jt Alfredo Cocchi -where the body of he murdered girl was found after she 6ad bf en missing four months. Basis for the suspension of the patrol was their alleged disregard of an Tter concerning the arrest of motor speeders but the authorities were nk in the assertion that their in stigations were disclosing an ar "ngement between the police and Coc--fli by which money had been extorted the speeders and the cases' never Officially renorted. RED GROSS FUND GUIS RAPIDLY Pledges Yesterday Bring Total to $77,000,000 New York Has Given $33,000,000 MONDAY IS 'PERSHING DAY Churches to Take Special Collections Tomorrow Committees Urged to Make Big Drive on Three Remaining Days. Washington, June 22. Reported con tributions to the Red Cross hundred million dollar mercy fund tonight reached $77,000,000, of which more than 533,000,000 had come from New York City and $44,000,000 from the remainder of the country. Three days of the campaign period, including Sunday, remain in which to raise . the 'additional $23, 000,000. Al though pledges have rolled in at the rate of $15,000,000 a day this week campaign managers tonight expressed fear-that this average might not be maintained. Local campaign commit tees have received new instructions to work early and late, and the Red Cross war council hopes that the fund, like the Liberty Loan, will be lieavily over pledged during the last days. Churches will take special Reg Cross collections Sunday and Monday, the fin al day, has been designated "Pershing Day." A special message from General Pershing to the American people tell ing the needs for the Red Cross work on the battlefields of France -will be published. Cincinnati plans to make Monday "Mothers' Day," and several other cities are-expected to solicit con tributions to : be considered individual memorial funds to mothers of the donors. 1 tPostmaster General Burleson in a bulletin issued today called on postal employes to give to the limits of their ability for the Red Cross. t Henry P. Davison, chairman of the war council, received word that several state bank ing superintendents have recommended that :state banks declared special Red Cross dividend and ask shareholders to turn over the proceeds to the fund. This procedure follows the suggest ion of Comptroller Williams for Na tional banks. - Tonight's reports showed contribu tions to date by sections as follows: North Central $18,958,000; Middle At lantic $11,452,000; West $5,624,000; New England $5,800,000; South $2,389,000. RILL AUTHORITY TO BE GIVEN GDETHALS President to Direct Him to Build All Ships Possible Will Settle Contest Between the Gen eral and Chairman Denman as to Authority Granted in the Shipping Act. Washington, June 22. The contest between Chairman Denman, of the Shipping Board, and Major-General Goethals, manager of the board's emer gency fleet corporation, ffr authority to exercise powers granted by Congress in providing a merchant fleet, will be settled by President Wilson giving General Goethals the authority, with directions that he build all the ships possible, both steel and wood. General Goethals will be authorized to commandeer immediately all .ship ping now building, speed up its con structiotl and spend the $500,000,000 ap propriated by Congress for shipbuild ing. Chairman Denman will retain powers necessary- for operating and chartering ships and as president of the fleet corporation will continue to pass finally on contracts for construction. The government, it is said, hopes to arrive at some arrangements as to steel prices that will make it unnecessary to commandeer. The dispute over prices to be paid for steel took a new turn today when Chairman Denman asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the costs of steel manufacture with a view to arriving at a fair price, and General Goethals requested the steel committee of the Council of National Defense to take the matter up. Mr. Denman balk ed at paying more than $56 a ton for steel and refused to sign contracts made by General Goethals calling for steel at $95. - Mr. Denman's actibn- in requesting the trade commission to determine steel manufacturing costs was explained to night in a statement saying the Ship ping Board desired some established government agency to arrive at costs so that the individual consumer might "(Continued on fage Ten;. " ?i WILMIVON, N. rvsv . ... BELIEVES GERMAN U-SQAT WAS SUNK Naval Gunners Aboard Merchant man Responded to Attack With Shower of Shells RADIO OPERATOR'S REPORT , . : i Says Periscope Was Shot Away and That Another Shell Hit on Top of Submarine An Atlantic Port, June 22. The cap tain of an American steamer which ar rived here today, said he believed the American armed crew aboard had sunk by shell fire a German submarine on June 4 when the 'ship was two days out from Liverpool. . White the captain would make no further statement the wireless operator on board gave the following account of the battle: "We discharged our cargo at Liver pool and left for our homeward voy age on June 1. We were running at nights without lights. The guns were cleared for action. We saw one sub marine June 4. One British ship sent a signal . of distress, which we picked up. She reported she was fighting a submarine. Half an .hour later they reported by wireless the submarine had submerged." " "I heard S. O. S. from another Brit ish vessel she reported she .was be ing attacked by a submarine. After 20 minutes of hard fighting the submarine submerged and the steamer wirelessed she was undamaged. "We were on a zig zag course and making full speed when one of the gunners sighted torpedo headed straight for us. He shouted to the bridge: 'Here she comes. Torpedo port, aside.' "The chief officer who was on the bridge shouted to , the quartermaster, 'hard starboard, we swung off. The torpedo struck us .on the port side a glancing blow amid shops right near, the engine room. "We were ordered to the life boats, but'the.-eaptaJn who hffd-Temarned aboard, found the torpedo had failed to explode, and ordered all hands baclt on ship. "When the commander of the subma rine saw our crew climbing up on deck he started for us again. "The gun crews scrambled to the guns,, when about . 600 yards off our starboard quarter a shall from our for ward .gun hit the submarine and she submerged. Again she appeared and our after gun hit her' and' blew away her periscope. Another shot from our for ward gun fell right on top of her. There was a shower of black specks followed by a great5 commotion, bub bles of water and a light blue smoke arising from the stern of the Uboat. "Our crew which was lined up against the starboard rail watching the battle, gave a hearty American cheer when the submarine disappeared."4 ACTIVITY OF RUSSIAN ARTILLERY ES May Prove Prelude to Beginning of Infantry Fighting. French and Germans Furiously Engag ed Northeast of Solssons and In the Champagne Weather Checks Haig's Men. The French and Germans in the re gion north and northeast of Soissons and in several sectors in Champagne have been engaged in furious fighting for two days, with varying results, while in the eastern theatre in Vol hynia and Galicia the Russians are using their guns against the Austro German lines in bombardments which may prove the prelude to the com mencement of infantry activity. On the British line in France bad weather has brought the operations of General Haig's army almost to a stand still, except for bombardments, which are being reciprocated by the Germans, patrol reconnaisances and aerial oper ations. Likewise in the Austro-Italian theatre the offensive of the Italians, which was resumed Wednesday on the front southeast of Trent, has slackened materially in intensity. On the other fronts only minor engagements have taken place. - Having lost back to the French, the greater portion- of, the trenches - they had" captured in the vicinity of Vaux aillon, the Germans to the east of this region delivered violent, attacks along a front of about a mile and a quarter, extending from Epine Chevregny. to Laroyere farm. ' Againpicked troops; in large numbers were used in the assaiil and again, as before Vauxaillon, the French guns inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans, driving the assaulting waves back intb their trenches, except in the center, , where after repeated at tempts, the forces of the German Cro.wh Prince entered, a French salient.. In Champagne, southeast of Moron viltters, according the? Berlin war office, the Germans -in a surprise attack (Continued 6n" Page Two).'- 1 on ' " . - .... J . " - ' 1 1 i. i. . i . . , i n i - I C, SAiiXJBTY MORiGrTIJE 23, 1917 . " ' : - - . '. --.-. ......... ... .... - DRY' ADVOCATES H TO EtIDEAVOR 10 All FOOD BILL Admit They Propose to Make an Effort to Insert Stronger ; Prohibition Provision GOOD PROGRESS CONTINUES L" House May Pass the Measure To day Quick Action by Sen ate Seems Probable ? Washington, ; June 22. All other phases of the rather perfunctory fight in the House over the food control biU were overshadowed tonight by interest in preparation by prohibition advocates for admitted efforOto insert a stronger "dry" provision before the final vote" tomorrow. . .'.. The section- which would authorize the President to limit, regulate, pro hibit or. reduce the supply of food ma terials or foods .used in making alco holic liquors falls far short of the de mands of most ,of the anti-liquor ele ment. A majority hopes for absolute prohibition of the use of grain for bev erage purposes during the war. They are not agreed on any one proposed emendment, however, and their division may result iri leaving the presentj pro vision unchanged. May Pass Home Today. . Ercept or the prohibition drive noth-. ing was in sight cnight to'p.-n-cnt pip sage of th3 niaure 'tomon-oft--in the House and the outlook in the Senate for quick action also was considered good. ; - v : , Promising plans for compromises on disputed, points in. .the. Senate caused Chairman Gore.of the agriculture com mittee and Senator Chamberlain, n charge cf the bill, to express belief that it would' be- ready for conference by July 1," the- date by which President. Wilson; urges ? that ' the legislation should be enacted. - Formality of debate proceeded in tha SeWatef wrt'eriatbr ReecT," bf Missouri, after a late start,' occupying most of the afternoon iri opposition to" the "iheas. ure, whilo other leaders continued in formal conferences looking to compro mises. A-plan for adjournment tonight until Monday to allow further confer ences was abandoned because of the universal desire to conclude the lengthy speeches several senators are planning in order to proceed to amendments by the middle or later part of next week, after the House bill has-been receiv-. ed. , . , . , Amendments Presented. ; . Among amendments presented was one by Senator"' Borah" proposing that retail and- wholesale prices ' of bread, flour, and other foods be proclaimed by the" President "and that" the prices of steel, coal, oil, farm implements, fer tilizers, meats and clothing, worn by wage earners, be fixed by ' the FederaJ Trade Commission. . Senator King proposed a substitute bill authorizing the President to pre empt food and fuel used -by this coun try and the allies and" to' requisition products of coal' and" ore mines; -to , tlx prices of certain products, and to es tablish food warehouses. In the House Representative Towner, failed hy an overwhelming majority to substitute a complete bill for the administration measure which would have eliminated all of the control features Represen tative Lenroot waged a vigorous ;fight against the licensing provision, hold ing it was unconstitutional and illogi cal, but was defeated 123 to 66. ; " Important . amendments accepted by the House were one by -Representative Lenroot to eliminate the "blanket" con. trol power of rthe President over neces saries and limit it to.articels mentioned in the bill; one by Representative Moore, of Pennsylvania, to extend pen al sections to persona or agencies who volunteer their aid toi the President in control work, by Representative Anderf son, of Minnesota, striking from . the bill the power of the President to pre vent an uneconomical manufacture and in equitable distribution of necessaries' "and a conspiracy section added by; the committee. ' ' "Plenty of Teeth," Soy Lever. Chairman Lever accepted the amend ment, expressing himself as well pleas ed with the bill " in its amended formJ "It still has plenty of teeth in it," he said. "Most of the ehanges made thus far bring the bill back "to the form In which most of the committee originally, deired it. We accepted some of the pro visions now being changed by the Houe in order to get the bill on the floor." 1 The new conspiracy section provides: - "That any " person who conspires; agrees, or arranges with any other person to limit these facilities " for transporting, producing, manufacturing, supplying, storing, or dealing in any necessaries; to restrict the supply of any necessaries," .'to restrict the distri bution of any necessaries, to prevent, limit or lessen the. manufacture or pro duction of any necessaries., shall, upon conviction therefore, be fined, not; ex ceeding $10,000 or be imprisoned', for not more than two years, or both.." ELIHU ROOT SPEAKS BEFORE LARGE RUSSIAN AUDIENCE. Petrograd, June 21. Declaring that the United States was going to fight un til" the world ; was made safe for, de mocracy, Elihu -Reot, head of the American mission, made his first pub lic appearance ' here today. Mr. Root spoke to a large and enthusiastic Russian- audience gathered under the aus-; pices of th,e Russian-American commit tee for industrial and -economic - raj proachment, recently organUed,. LIBERTY LOAN 52 PER CENT OVERSUBSCRIBED; 4,000,000 PERSONS PURCHASED BONDS Final Tabulation Shows a Total Subscription, of $3,035,226,850; Ninety-Nine Per Cent in Sums Varying From $50 to $10,000 ; ; Secretary McAdoo Announces How Subscriptions Will be Pared Down to $2,000,000,000. Washington, .June 22. -Liberty Loan subscriptions totalled .$3,035,326,850, an Uv9lrr?ll4tL9.fW:lJ? r cent. j-iio mmi lauuiatiun was omciaiiy announced tonight, showing" that more than' 4,000,000 persons bought bonds. Ninety-nine per cent of subscriptions, or those, of 3,960,000 persons, were for sums varying from $50 to $10,000 while twenty-one subscribers applied for al lotments of $5,000,000 each or more. 'The New York Federal Reserve dis trict led the list with subscriptions to talling $1,186,788,400, or more than three times the amount subscribed in the next district, Chicago, $357495,950. The other districts sent subscriptions as" follows: Boston $332,447,600; Cleveland $286, 148,700; Philadelphia $232,309,250; San Francisco $175,62300; Richmond $109, 737,100;Kansas City $91,758,850 ;St. Louis $86,134,700; Minneapolis $70,255,500; At lanta? $50,878,550 arid Dallas $48,948,350. These subsecriptions include those Lsent direct to :the Treasury and approv ed among the various reserve districts. AUptneJttsrwill be made, Secretary McAdo-n,oimce1f as follows: "On sil&scriptions up to and' including $lQ,050v-ifll amount. These subscrip tiops'tptftlled $1,296,684,850: :'.';THofcefianv $10',000. up to and includ ing '.$100,000, ' sixty per cent of the Is " Enclosed in Small White Box and Labeled as Containing Argentine Cooked Beef v IS HIGHLY INFLAMMABLE In .BeJnsT s I?. ; F"?C9",PT , German ' "AgentsManufactnrers 'Are Warn . . " ed By Southeastern Army Head quarters. . .-Charleston,, S. ,C.., June 22. Warning was issued from Southeastern army headquarters, here .-.VJ4W manuf ac turers to .be. ori the lookout, for a small Incendiary, bomb : which is being made use of -in France by-that country's ene mies' to set firei' to . manufacturing plants. . . "We have recently received informa tion that the Germans are sending to France agents whose mission is to cause flresin establishments engaged in na tional work.-For this purpose they are furnished with incendiary bombs, of which the following is a description: "The bomb is shaped in the form of a pyramla, " 9 "centimeters in height, -the larger end measuring 9 1-2 centimeters long by 7 centimeters wide, the small end 8 centimeters long by 5 1-2 centi meters' wide. . "The four sides and the top are made of thin white metal, whil the bottom is composed of a thin sheet of card board covered with a light colored "var nish," the whole being covered in print ed paper. On one side are the words: "Advance special cooked beef, frigorl fleo Argentino central Buenos Aires," with the picture of an ox. The same words on the corresponding side, but without the picture. On. the remaining sides are instructions for using the (supposed) contents, in English, French and Spanish, printed in white on a blue ground. "This box contains highly inflamma ble powder, the chemical nature of which has not yet been determined. "Tp operate the bomb a special ap paratus, is necessary, which within about a' half an hour set working ig nites the powder in the box and sets Are to the surroundings. "It is, of course, improbable that the same . labels would be used in this coun try should the Germans attempt to use a similar machine here, but we com municate the above information in cas tney should make some such attempt." AMERICAN AVIATORS GO . IN TRAINING IN FRANCE Nice,- France,-June 22. Fifty Ameri can aviators arrived here today to un dergo a course of instruction at the seaplane depot. They were given the heartiest of welcomes by their French comrades. - . . A Washington dispatch June 8 stated that 100 American aviators from the haVy flying corps had arrived safely in France.-- They were the first of the Am erican ' fighting forces to reach that country. .TheTdetachment included four expert aviators and many .of the others were experienced in flying. - . Would Insure Growing Crops. Washington, June 22 An appropria tion of $10,000,000 for a. Federal bureau of war risk .Insurance, to insure grow ing crops of non-perishable products against loss or damage by the elements, was proposed 4ha. -bill -introduced today by 'Representative King, of Illinois. WARNING AGAINST INCENDIARY BOMB amount subscribed, but not less than $10,000 in . any instance. These sub scriptions totalled $560,103,050; allot ments to subscribers in this group will aggregate $336,061,850. "More than $100,000 up to and in cluding $250,000, forty-five per cent of the amount subscribed,: but not less than $60,000 in any instance. Sub scriptions in this group totalled $220, 455,600 and allotments will aggregate $99,205,000. "More than $250,000 up. to and in cluding $2,000,00.0, thirty per cent but not less than $112,50" in any instance. The total of subscriptions in this group was $601,514,900; allotments will aggre gate $184,381,800. - "More than $2,000,000 up to and in cluding $6000,000 each, twenty-flve per cent but n6t less than $600,000 in any one instance. Subscriptions in this group totalled $234,544,300; allotments will total $58,661,250. "More than $6,000,000 up to and in cluding $10,000,000 each, twenty-one per cent. Subscriptions in this group totalled $46,674,150; allotments will aggregate $9,801,600. "Two subscriptions of $25,000,000 each were received. The allotments to these subscribers will be at the rate of 20.22 per cent and they will . receive bonds at the value of $5,055,000 each. One sub scriber to $25,250,000 the largest will be given 20.17 per cent' or $5,093,650. "The paring down process thus will (Contihuea on page two.) WILL RUSH WORK All Sixteen of Them Will Proba bly be Beady to Receive M9M&JQZ September J. - , ENGINEER UNITS' DRAFTED This Branch of National Guard in Fif teen States Ordered Mustered In to . ' Aid In- Construction of the Camps. Washington,' June 22.-There will be no serious delay in construction of the 16 cantonments for the National army, Secretary - Baker said today, and all of the estabHshnients", probably will be ready about September 1, the tentative date-considered for summoning to the colors the first 625,000 men. The process of selecting the men, tlje Secretary indicated, probably will be set in motion early in July. Regulations , for. the, .exemption apd selection processes har Veen prepared and will be made public next week. President Wilson ts understood to have approved the : general scheme worked out by the" War 'Department to secure fair and unselfish- application of the law through local officials. Minor mod ifications are being made but plans will be completed in a. few days. Actual Work on Camps. Machinery for the great task of con structing the. :16 cantonme:.ts also is virtually complete and in some cases actual physical preparations have be gun. Most of the contracts have been let, army offcers have been detailed to oversee construction, and under an or der published today the engineer units of the National Guard of 15 states will be mustered . into . the . JFederal service immediately to aid in technical fea tures of the work. At each cantonment, it was announced today, all construc tion operations will be under direction of a constructing quartermaster. Seven of the men designated for these posts are regular army officers and the other nine are successful civilian engineers who have been commissioned as majors in the quartermaster reserve corps. The only question as to cantonment sites that is not finally- settled, Mr. Ba ker said, Involves a possible re-location of the cantonment now assigned to Des Moines. Building of the cantonments, the Sec retary said, would proceed on the pres ent general specifications though some minor modifications would be made be cause of the suggestions by the medi cal committee of the - Defense Council of which Surgeon General Gorgas; is a member. ... s The Difficult Problems. The main problems now are those of material and transportation. A new difficulty has presented itself in the shape of a shortage of iron water pipe. An enormoUs quantity of piping will be needed for the mains and connections at the camp and the available supply, officials say, will not meet the demand without crippling ordinary activities of the country. For this reason a consid erable quantity of- wooden piping will be used. By way of emphasizing what can be done In a short time when all the re sources of the department are put to work, officials revealed today that can tonments . for : the. regular army, made necessary by ithe expansion for war purposes, have been rushed almost to completion. ; The . work did not involve anything like the amount of material or labor needed for- the' 16- big canton , (Continued on Page Six). 01 CANTONMENTS WHOLE OTMBEB 39,987 DiSGUSS KEATING LABOR LAW IH AN EXECUTIVE SESSION Southern Textile Association De bates Ways and Means of Meeting Requirements FACE SERIOUS LABOR LOSS Four Hundred Delegates Attend ing the Semi-Annual Meeting at Wrightsville Beach ' Discussion of the Keating-Owen Child Labor bill behind closed doors was the leading feature of the eleventh semi-annual meeting of the Southern Textile Association in session at the Seashore Hotel, Wrightsville Beaclv. yesterday afternoon, ' following the opening session yesterday morning, at 11 o'clock. Leaders of the association last night declined to give out any de tails of the executive session other than, with Mr. David Clark of Charlotte leading, cotton mill superintendents de bated the best way to meet the require ments of the bill. - The executive session was called at the request of Mr. Clark, who is edi tor of The Textile Bulletin and who has been very prominent in the child, labor law fight; Mr. Clark having de clared at the morning session that, at the Asheville meeting some months ago, ,, when he spoke in open session, a repre sentative of the child labor "agita tors" was present, and next day there appeared in the press a lot of things he said and a lot more he didn't say, and, he had been embarrassed ever since. He . .therefore wanted no reporters around at the afternoon debate on the subject. - '- -i It was stated that this bill, which is effective September 1, would remove IS per cent of the operatives now employ ed from the cotton mills of the South, and that on top of this, 12 per cent of the present male employes would be taken from the mills by. the army draft and by volunteering, so that the textile industry will be deprived of 30 per cent-of its. operatives, at a time when the utmost production Is desired, when prices are good, when people need all the. employment they can get, and when the government itself will need 100 per cent production all along the line. When asked what the textile mills would be ,aMe to do to make good this deficiency of labor, Mr. A. B. Carter, of Greenville, S. C, . secretary of the association, declared that the mills could not replace the labor, and it sim ply meant a lessened production, with out, remedy. The requirements of the Keating-Owing bill prohibit the trans portation in interstate commerce of goods manufactured by child labor, thus preventing the ernployment of per sons between the ages of 14 and 16 for more than eight hours. That the measure and its approaching demands is not popular with the textile people was evidenced yesterday by applause greeting speakers who denounced tha idea that persons under 16 should not be taught to work but equally evident was a spirit of determination to obey the law, and to do whatever could, be done to make good the gaps it will create in the ranks of available opera tives. . ,'v - -SoeiiU Events Last Nlffht. Last night the delegates attended. a concert given complimentary to therh in the Harbor Island Auditorium, and afterwards enjoyed a darice at Lumina. The program for today's events in cludes the election of officers during th forenoon, and the following. Meeting called to order at 9:30. Report of Committees. Address, "The Relation of uperin tendent and Overseer as Seen by an Outsider," by N. E. Spessard, General Secretary T. M. C. A., for Riverside and Dan River Mills, Danville, Va. Paper by G. S. Esccott, "On Life and Death." E. E. Bowen, organizer and past president, and other members who have died during the year. Address: "The Man of the Hour," by John A. McFall, Supt. Dilling Cotton Mill, Kings Mountain, N. C. Address: "Cause and Prevention of? Uneven Yarn," by A. C. Adkinson, of Clayton, N. C. During the day, it is likely that a large number of the delegates will be. carried over the city and county roads in aoiomobiles, but this was not decid ed upon last night.' The convention will close its sessions this afternoon and while that means the end of busi ness, it is extremely likely that many of the 400 persons attending the meet- ing will remain at the beach for sev eral days. Hon. O. Max Gardner Speaks. The big convention has filled the Sea shore hotel with visitors, there being 400 guests registered yesterday. It Is nothing less than a mobilization of the trained hands and brains of the tex tile industry ' of the South, chiefly, with a fair sprinkling of men from a dozen other States, as far east as New England. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee, the Carollnas, Alabama. Georgia and Texas were represented " when a call by States was made at tha opening session; and there were others from various points not then present. Mr. A. H. Cottingham, a superintend ent, offered the invocation after the con vntion had been called to order by Vice-resident J. M. Davis, of Newber ry," S. C, who has made an ideal pre siding officer. Secretary A. B. Carter was in his place, assisted by Miss Min nie. Cranford of Greenville, who kept a record. Mr. Arthur Dixon of Gastonia, former member of the - State Senate, from Gaston, presented the first speak er, Hon. O. Max Gardner of Shelby, lieutenant-governor of -North Carolina who welcomed the visitors on behalf (Continued on Page Three). rii - i 1 V -
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