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nrnT-TTal The Weather: .,r Monday and Tuesday. Blver stage at FayettevlHe 8 a. m"' terday . WILMINGTON, N. C , M A YMORNING, MAY 24, i920: OLDEST DAILY IN THE STATE. VSs Ttfflfewfe0 CjFTT? A rVk Complete Service :iB : : .Associated Press,'; ! II I I ( I I f v miieea it; J ""V ,""' i n Mi i JJaOO ' ' - ! ; " " --JnL-No. 145. I 1ARRANZA VICTIM OF TREACHEROUS ATTAM-MHT ci in By Fire Of Faithless Guards While Asleep In His ; '. Hut. , S Jk CHIEF OF STAFF REPORTS TO OBREGON Traitorous Followers Of Herrero Blamed For Brutal Assas-. sination. 1 iro City. May 23. A diBpatch re , .Tnan Barracan, chief of II of President Carranza, Bays Car- la met his death at the' hands, of c neral Rodolf o Herrero-s forces . at ilxcaltorgo. The dispatch did not The dispaicn . ------ Alvaro Obre&on: neierrms u Igram of this date, Herrero joined He column at Patla, professing loyalty, .vinz at Tlaxcaltongo, Herrero of- fprod hospitality to v.ntlnels who Knew ui " - ' clock in the morning ms men, h-duoih nn.ar1 In them. BUT-, uc ..j shelter . where carranza ffr.teep " firing their rifles furious 1 s u., PtArvnnfl offered re ly 1IUU 1 ... t. -ifv. V. natural de. lsiainp. . ... ... . , a IT M I 1 1 1 k II nivi . v - Uoralization causeu mis '-General Francisco Murgula fought aliantly in the Bemi-darkness re; .niaine- the traitors wno nau "Pi'oBu he defenders. - tVip iinexpetenneBo n.v- Lui ne tn p ear u u i m.i.tt.j "- P"1CS ,T ..mh nn the defense was t,c..v. w . stent that the attackers were forced lo take sixty prisoner , ""e "1., Vf-.i- Manria?: Paulino monies, vrn- fcarias. General n. jrer, v,uluUB homes. General Vlllela and Carranza's n,ir ponacience is ciear, uur gti , .... r iUA Tw oMxin In. or tnp aeaiii vl . tj.w... nr,:niahip We are ' satisna inn wo irt not abandon him for one moment. he few men wo.und'ed ana aeaa is - tafned bv the fact that tne traitors anned fieir crime, knowing, the place here the Presfdent was sleeping, ine oyalty and courage of the. President s nUnwprs were useless - ajrainst tne reason of those criminals." ; The flaps on the American embassy d all the other embassies Were placed t half-mast, when the news oJ tne as kssination .o President Carranza. ar rived. - -i Washington. May 28. Prospective political developments in Mexico tnis week began today to overshadow the illine of Carranza. The Mexican congress meets m spe cial session tomorrow to choose a pres Ident-ad-lnterim. Adolf o de La-Huerta, chosen hv the Sonora group a month 8eo as the provisional president, and General Pablo Gonzalez appear to be the outstanding candidates, but the hief concern of the American officials and business men having Mexican in terests is not so much in . the identity of the successful candidate as ,in the strength of co-operative spirit to be manifested. , v .. t y While doubt of the ability of any one chosen to restore the country to a state of tranquility sufficient to war rant the holding of regular elections was expressed by both business men and officials, it waa agreed that the removal of Carranza ought to make this task far more simple. Although the killing of the fugitive must be satis factorily explained, it was said, before foreign governments will give serious thought to any except a defacto reign of the new government the government has been materially strengthened from a military and political viewpoint. RAILWAY CLERKS CONTINUE OFF JOB Order To Return Countermanded On Second Thought At Headquarters. Atlanta, Ga., May 23. The order sent fit from national headquarters of the motherhood of railway clrks for the e,ks on the Central of Georgia rail Way to return to work has .been C(Jntermanded, J. W. 1 Nelson, grand -president of the union, stated here "night. .Mr. Xelson was shown a' copy of a "'eram from O. H. Fitzgerald, sec tary of the brotherhood, to : Central J5' Georgia officials in Savannah, say ,nS Mr. Nelson had been instructed to lr the clerks back at once, "if they 8re on strike.". n.Vi,re-P'resident Nelson, after, receipt L instruct.ions, talked over the tel 'Pnone with Secretary Fitzgerald Yin mcago, and a result of their eonversa. "on was tV)at the oj.der wag reBCindied, ne clerks will remain, out at least '""i the Central withdraws . its an "'"cement that their places would be mn, unless they return by Monday j. "g- he continued. General Man- " Downs?, of the Central of Georgia, rsteCe,pt of th telegram from Sec tin, Fitzerald had extended the ""If limit . . . . a ; " . ; lo monaay noon "-c-t resirlenl- T . 1 . . . t. J .tJ 1 the nieht that reneral chair- Presenting the organized clerks On . , wentjr-njno iin(,a tv, nniit.h.Kt alv 4here toda-y and approvted the Wt , The clerk claim td have grant tl on "fusal of the road to a8,ltl(Vem conference at which it b air.f.er8J00d wa&e matters, were to quests The road assorts that the hinds h, 4" been takn t Of ' Its y the national .ra-ilroad aboard. SOUTH ATLANTIC CRUSADERS SPEND DAY INDES MOINES Attend Church In Morning And Are, Guests Of Chamber At ' NightLittle Speaks. (Special to The Star.) Pes Moines, Iowa, May" 23. The South Atlantic party spent Sunday in the capital" of laws., and citizens of Pes Moines eager and glad to welcome them, . " It was a restful, lnterAstihg and prof itable day. The South Atlantic Special pulled into Pes.; Moines at 9 o'clock this morning and most of, the party availed themselves of the opportunity to Attend, church, scores, going to the various services held in the city. The afternoon was spent in sightseeing,the ousiness men of Des Moines carrying the, party, out in automobiles. .. : . i The visitors .had chances to behold the rich, agricultural lands of Iowa, but while viewing them the Wilmington delegation told their hosts of the won derful' agricultural ; development in North , Carolina, l and impressed upon them that the Old North State is doing Dig things in corn growing as well as Iowa. . . v ..v.. " . i The climax of the stay in Pes Moines came tonight when the chamber of commerce gave the visitors a dinner in i the elegant hotel Fort Pes Moines and W. Little, of Wilmington, who deliv ered a gem of an address, placing the message of the South Atlantic squarely before the' pes Moines business men. r . TfaHonj Harvey Ingram, editor of the Pes Moines Register and Tribune, gave a welcome to - the vlaitors and told of the mid-west's interest in the proposition presented. ' Former United States Senator Lafe Young, editor of the Des Moines Capi tal, and H. Wi Byers, corporation coun sel of Dea Moines, also gave the visi tors a rousing welcome. Tomorrow comes Kansas City and a big day is ahead." Former Mayor Rhett, of Charleston, was compelled to leave the trip today on account of being sick. - The Wilmington bunch at every so cial affair manages to let its presence be known. They have . become the official' booster yellers of the trip, while the song' they composed is always sung by the eatirevassemblage. ' - v Louis Shrier found relatives here today in Mr; and Mrs. Minor Silverberg, iind was- ultrahappy: HIRAM JOHNSON LfeJADINO THE GENERAL IN OREGON Portland,' Oregon, May 23. Senator Hiram Johnson had; a lead of 1,639 , votes over General Wpodi in the Oregon re publican Presidential primary, accord ing -to figures compiled tonight; by the Portland Oregonian. 5 . Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was leading William Grant Webster of New York and Elwood Washington, for republican vice-president preference. In the contest between Senator Cham berlain and Harvey Stark for the dem ocratic nomination for United States senator the vote stood: . Chamberlain. 12,885; Stark, 11,585. - Robert. Stanfield had a heavy major ity over Albert A. Braham for the re publican senatorial nomination on the face of the incomplete returns. MORRISON-FOR-GOVERNORM Y DELEGATION TO MAKE TOITR Charlotte, May 23. A "Mow! son -for. Governor" delegation, comprising more than 200 citizens of Charlotte and Mecklenburg county, will leave here to morrow morning for a tour. of neigh boring towns to prompte the' campaign interests of the Mecklenburg man. t' The party will be made up" "of more than sixty; automobiles, headed " by a brass band. Business merr; bankers,' merchants, farmers and others have already given In their names as de siring to make the trip. The delega tion will invade Gaston, Lincoln and possibly other counties. Mayor Mc Ninch and Chairman A. M. McDonald of the county commissioners will join the delegation, it was announced. FRATERNAL MEN PAt TRIBUTE TO LATE MAJOR TAYLOR PACE (Special to -The Star.) , Wilson, May ; 23. The largest at tended Masonic funeral ever witnessed in. this city was that of Major Taylor S. Pace,, whose remains were interred in Maplewood cemetery this afternoon. Hundreds of Masons, of every degree, from Wilson ' and adjoining counties were in ' line to pay-1 tribute. Major Pace . was ' secretary 'and treasurer of Mt. Lebanon Lodge No: 117, A. F. and A. M., secretary and ' treasurer of Mt. Lebanon chapter No. 27; recorder,, of Mt. Lebanon Commandery No. . 7, past commander and an honored, member of Sudan Temple Mystic Shrlners. HOBBS SURROUNDED , . Fayetteville, May . 23. George Hobbs, leader of a gang of negroes that , killed two white men here Friday night, is surrounded . in ta swamp seven miles north of this city. The negro is reported to be heavily armed. He went into "a , store near the swamp last night and bought something to eat, backing put with gun in " hand and -.entered the swamp. r A. posse was quickly r on his trail; v " ' f ' GOMPERS PRESENT CONGRESS Labor Chief Calls On Workers For A Legislative Overturn In Order That Oppressive Cbn-' : ;..: , r ' : editions TVtay Be. Remedied S S , Gompe rs ' "Five Points" i First Khmediate adjustments of -wages, both in pri- : vate employment and in government service, to at least meet the living costs that have outstripped incomes by reason of, ; this era of frenzied profiteering and gambling. This must , be done without delay. ' V f - Second immediate effective action must be taken to " prevent continued increases in the cost, of living. ' V Third There must be 'an end to the enactment of the t kind of legislation typified by the . Esch-Cummins railroad law and the Kansas court of industrial relations law; There must be an end of legislative repression, restriction and coer cion." Not only must there be an end to the enactment legislation of this, character, but there must be a repeal of legislation already enacted. , . . ' " . t : Fourth The congress of the United States will do well to give immediate and effective, consideration to '," the pro- , posal of the American labor movement that control of credit capital be taken from private financiers 'and placed in . the hands of a public trust xto be administered upon principles voluntary and co-operative in character.. This will strike' " a vital blow toward eliminating the abuses, of profiteering and exploitation. v r . . . : . Fifth The congress should provide immediately, for , full publicity for income tax returns. , ;-. (Special to Tke Star.)1,' Washington, May 23. Writing in the June issue of the American Federation ist. Samuel Gompers, president of the American " Federation of Labor, calls upon the workers for Van overturn in congress' The republican congress,; he declared, may be indicted "as a -congress that has been negligent of duty and thoughtless of the -welfare of the people. ' - " . ' - i Mr. GorhpersV article appears under the title, '"Labor's ' Protest Against A Rampant Tragedy" ;,WlUo EHorts'UaavalliBg - Repeated efforts of President Wilson to enlist- the attention' of congress in measures eslgmed t-lleviate-Amrtilt can living conditions "have failed utter ly, Mr. Gompers -declares. He reviews the remedies proposed by the President and attributfeer merit to thenv but as serts that. as far as the attention' or sympathy of congress, is concerned, "the President may , as well; have stood" on the steps of the' capitol and spoken to the automobiles usually . parked on either side." - , Holding that the cost of living has become a paramount issue, the feder ation executive devotes some space to an itemized review of excessive rirofits alleged to have been accumulatd by va rious corporations during; the recent past. It would be possible, he' asserted, to fill the pages of The Federationist with citations of enormous profits. y An alert electorate, says Mr. vQom pers, will not overlook the indictment that Is resting against congress: He summons, , to the fight all Americans who - elect a congress, "with which we can go forward." v ' A Portion of Article. The concluding portion of the article follows: ... .,' , v , ; "The congress of the United States can not vsay that it has not had laid before it suggestions for effective ac tion and plan lor. real relief, It can say only. that, It would not listen and would not act. . ' V ' ' - - "Against the- congress of - the United States there est an Indictment which I SIMMONS A FACTOR IN PREPARING .TWO , IMPORTANT -BILLS Tar Heel Senator Ranking Dem ocrat On Committees Draft- ! ing Budget Act. ' Washington, 'May, 23. Senator.; Sim mons has devoted a large part of his timeduring, the last several months to two important subjects of legislation (1) the establishment of ..-.a national budget system and (2) the preparation of a comprehensive scheme of legisla tion for the progressive establishment and . rriaintenance of a- national ! mer chant marine.', ' The senate some months ago created a special committee to devise, prepare and report a - budget bill and Senator Simmons was ,named as the ranking democrat on that committee with' Sen ator McCormick, of Illinois, as ranking republican and .chairman of the com mittee. The bill prepared and present ed by the . committee was so satisfac tory that it passed the senate 'with but little debate and practically no opposi tion. v .The chairman of the committee, Senator McCormick. has . repeatedly stated that Senator Simmons had 1 more to' do with the framing of this legis lation' than any other man, , The shipping bill, -which passed the senate Saturday, is acclaimed 'as 1 a thoroughly practical and wisely de vised scheme of legislative machinery to promote and permanently establish a merchant marine, to develope alloiir ports, Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific; arid to, promote, and extend our . foreign trade. This great p'iece1 of . legislation J was, worked out and 'formulated,5 by a i sneciaL sub -committee of .the committee GNS j an alert electorate will , not overlook. There -must be an overturn in con gress! . . . , , . , , "Enemies must be defeated. Friends must be elected. - , w "There must be sent to congress men who understand and men who, can .'be trusted.'1 The record of betrayal must for the sake of the nation's welfare give place to a' record ; of constructive progress.- ' -' ' ' "The declaration of war by powerful and unsortipulous "employers is recog nized by the .working people of i Ameri ca. For sixteen month and more, these employers hjave beettf vondnctlng a 'si lent Insidious warfare- In the face of stand' rfrmrand1 will" tolerate no break downof Its standards.; ?It tvill resort I to no undue haste and-it will counte nance no conduct that is not in .strict est ticcord" with 'trade union traditions,r trade union- laws -and rules and " the highest concept of. thev patriotic .duty of Americans citizens. -. But war; forced upon the workers must " be recognized and it Is recognized. T- ' . , "The war - of - another . character, but driving toward the same end typified by the enactments and. the philosophy of the present congress can be .no'less ignored and it will be no less ignored. The working, people of the United States are ' aroused not pnly . as trade unionists, but as trade unionists, work ers, and American citizens. ''There is a determination throughout the United States to right the wrongs that . have been . inflicted. - The indict ment is based upon the established facts of what has taken place. , The remedy in every case must be a remedy applied with the facts in view. ; "We are going forward in. the United States, not; backward. No American citizen will ' rejoice " that we have not been' able Xo go forward ylth -the pres ent . congress,:: but since rwe- have ;not been able to go -forward with the pres ent congress,' It' is the duty of Ameri cans to, elect a congress with which we can go forward. .To that "task, then, bend all effort." . . . . - ,,..', on : commerce -of "which,5 Sub-committee Senator Simmons was a member repre senting the democrats. : Senator - Jones. ;' of 'Washington, (whose name the ; bill bears) 1 representing the - republicans, was chairman yof the sub-committee. As . a special i compliment to Senatos Simmons, a" part c of the u work '.of the sub-committee " was - done at night -at his home, and , in its conception - and preparation he too a leading. part .Y? It is well known hereV as . in North Carolina, , that when Senator Simmons becomes .deeply interested in doing something . worth ; while .3 he' puts: his whole soul iti the work, y In this spirit he entered upon the duties of working out these two great legislative projects and is justly gratified, at rthe universal satisfaction with which these two. bills (both of- which will soon become law and which he believes will be produc tive of great and lasting public, good) have been received, not only in the sen ate and congress, but throughout .the country. - . ' ' ' - - With respect particularly to Senator Simmons' work; on the national budget bill, the -bulletin.- published, ' by : the democratic " national commitlee. con tains this .week the . following, article: : "President - Wilson's recommendation for a budget eystem. is about, to be put into eff ect V A. bill providing for: H establishment! has- passed, both houses and is being .'considered by conferees., ; "Republlcajns -will "try; o take credit for it, but democrats, urged' its passage, and - Senator McCormick, - who had charge of uthe measuTe,. admitted that Senator -5. Slrrjrnono. " democrat made possible the 'pending legislation,' . ' " Every. member ..of the .committee,' said Senator Simmons on the ' floor-of the senate, ."felt profoundly the re--sponsibilityr that 'had been placed upon him , in the' framing f t the .'measure, and :that the1 country at large," without regard to party had declared Itself ir favor of some effective legislation o! this character. '" 1 - , ' 'I think .the. bUl is admirably worked out to accempliah the . general - purpose (Continued on Page Three.) ,; CAMPAIGN FUNDS NOW UNDER PROBE; ' FIGURES ARE HIGH Indications ' Are ,That General j ' Wood WiU Lead In Ex- ' . K pense Account. WILD STORIES TOLD - OF M'ADOO'S OUTLAY Reflect Little Credit On The De- : tractors Of, Himself And A V u President: -' . BY MARK SULLIVAN (Coprrlght, 1920, for The Star by N. Y. Evening Post.) Washington; P. C, May 23. The sen ate committee to investigate campaign funds meets tomorrow morning. Much that has been innuendo will now be made a matter of record and much else that has 1 been gossip will . be proved untrue. - . -For example, within the last week a large number of - newspapers carried a story under sensational headlines, to the . effect that a fund of five million dollars had been raised or subscribed to get the democratic nomination, for MeAdoo. The story mentioned ae ac tual or potential" subscribers, Edward N.y Hurley, Cleveland Podge, Bernard MJ Baruch, Thomas Li. Chadbourne And others. The judgment -of your cor respondent Is that this particular story is grotesque. -1 doubt if any fund what ever has beea' spent," . raised or sub- aarfbed i(n.' Mr." : McAdoo's1 behalf by i thesef'men o-r any other men. Mr. Mc5-AdooV-aplra.tionsY for. the Presidency are J now' and have been for a week or ten; days, past rather low. But the reasons 'have nothing; to do with big campaign funds, and' the use of this particular - story "to Yhiurt "him suggests unpleaslng qualities in these enemies of Mr. MeAdoo ahi of Mr." Wilson.' Stories of this kind; are injurious to the coun try's morale and.the investigating comi mlttee could not perform a better serv ice than .to run tfhls "one down.. , - i . . . Another Story In Circulation ,u Another story widely, circulated has been to the. effect that the republican national committee is raising a fund, of ten million dollars for the coming cam paign between the two parties. , Your correspondent believes the; degree of accuracy. ji , the . story i is, about fifty per cent, and this is aninusually. large veracity percentage f or this. . kind of committee' is -raising fiver million or, at xne ouiBiae, live .in --t a, . imu minion dollars 'for the coming campaign that figure Is not : materially larger, rela tive to changed conditions, than, both the parties have ; raised and ; spent in other recent .national campaigns. . y As to the gossip about the Wood cam paign" fund,, tha?e wilt be most-certain-ly at -least a fifty ,per- cent, .deduction for errors But even after j thatdeduc tlon enough of fact. will remin to keep most "of the spotlight of ;,the Investiga tion on the Wood fund.., .The- general feelings even among '.those republican leaders who have no unf rlendlfness for General .Wood,' Is that the -mere: quantity-of the money thafhas been "raised and spent In his behalf is. In excess of current standards" 'of-; what campaign expenditures' ought to .-be. , General Wood's' managers andthe .more inti mate friends of .his candidacy have al ways expressed indignation at- the em phasis laid on. his expenditures and complete confidence In their ability to convince the public that there has been no impropriety in this aspect of their campaign. Assuredly, they will be able to prove muoh .of the talk untrue. But there can. be no' doubt that, the .amount spent on the Wood candidacy ba-s been large. ' --"': ...... over Half Million Persons who; have, been close to ft believe that the Investigation will dis cover an. amount In excess of .half a million dollars. If this sum seems large, .and undoubtedly, many disinter ested people so regard) .it, . i is on the other hand , to be. remembered that the mere clrcularlzatlon of . voters on a large 'scale "runs into bier money. For example,. the Literary Digest's straw vote covered eleven million voters. The cost Included a one-cenit stamp n each letter and a . one-cent stamp ; on the nostal . card for reply. The' cost of the postage alone is. $220,000.. Probably a fair estimate of tne money spent oy the Wterary Digest In taking this straw Vote must be over a. hair million aoi lim. ' although it was conducte with the economy characteristic of a busi ness organization as distinct rrom a political one: It would be desirable for the country to have the testimony of th managers of the Literary Digest on this point, merely a snowing tne min imum cost of circularizing voters on a large scale. , f -7 - ; Neoot- to wood, it win. " dc iouna that Governor Lowden's was the lflre-est. The Lowden fund will, proba bly be ' found to have reached art, aver age of fifty thousand; dollars for each of the four states in which he made an aggressive campaign. The bulk of the Lowden ; fund wag contributed" by. him self -nd members of his family. The amount contributed by others has been relatively neglible. - - The- next ; largest amount will turn out to be Senator Johnson's. Most, of the Johnson r money ; in . California, through an odd , way, was contributed by '-. old - guard republican leaders ;; in thati state who have no reason to love the; senator. . Outside ,of California. Johnson's .campaign, was conducted, at whit probably. may be. taken as a min imum of expense and yet it will proba btV turn out that even a campaign. con ducted wltlu so little an organization and with such unpretentious expendi tures &s Senator Johnson's. In Michi gan. Indiana, Nebraska, New Jersey and elsewhere.' must have cost at. least $500,000 In addition to the probably much' larger sum that was spent' In California-- " Campaigns cannot -be con flicted without money, and , it Is the sheerest hypocricy to . pretend, other wise: - ." ' , y ""Even 'so minor a campaign as Senator - (Continued on Page Three.) . PALMER CERTIFIED TO HEADQUARTERS AS GEORGIA VICTOR Secretary Of State Executive Committee Corrects Erro neous olting Report. Atlanta, Ga., May 23. Hiram L. Gard ner, secretary of - the Georgia - demo cratic executive committee, forwarded today to the , national executive com mittee headquarters at Washington the official certificate of the state commit tee issuing the credentials of the state committee to' - the full Palmer delega tion from Georgia' to the San Fran cisco convention. , ; - - The certificate contains the regula tions for" the Presidential primary as issued on February 10, in "which It was provided that all of the state dele gates to the ' national convention shall be chosen from among the friends and supporters of . that , candidate receiving the highest - county unit: vote. It showed that Palmer received 148 votes,: Watson 132, and Smith 104. , ; In forwarding' the ;letter to the sec retary of the national committee, Sec retary Gardner statea: ."Press reports hive misrepresented the situation in Georgia. No bolting." convention was held, nor was there any necessity for such. The . : rules of the primary adopted long before either Smith, Wat son or Palmer were candidates, pro vided that the candidate to receive' the highest number 'of county unit votes should have the whole delegation. Not until after Palmer had won under the rules of the primary . was there even a. suggestion of dissatisfaction .about the regulations. ' , When the state convention met the Smith and -Watson .forces combined and i were strong - enough t to disregard the rules ' under which K the primary ,had wn r,,n whir.hbp.v did on the theory that the -convention was supreme and had. the right to do as; it wished. ,v . "It was the Palmer delegation "to San Francisco that met and organized im mediately after " the ; ' convention ; ad journed and this the press erroneously reported to be a meeting of the Palmer delegates : to the states convention." : Delegates elected ; by-, the state convention- and representing the Smith and Watson factions - will .meet : here ext Wednesday to organize and make plans for attending the San Francisco con vention. - Farmer Senator : Thomas W. Hardwlck". IS expected to bead the. dele gation. . ., V . . , TROOPS DISPERSE . ALEXANDRIA MOB Virginians Stirred By Killing Of Motorist' And Robfcery Of 'vj . His Fiance. Washington, May 23. Cavalry from Fort Myers was called' out late tonight to disperse a mob of more than a thou sand persons who surrounded the jail at Alexandria court house, twelve miles from the limits of the. District of Co lumbia, attempting to obtain posses sion of William j Turner, a negro. " Arrival of the cavalry, which" had been requested by the sheriff of Arling ton county, scattered the mob, .which had formed ' during the afternoon threatening to lynoh the negro. . The troopers took up their, station about the jail ' andJate tonight the village was reported, quiet. . Turner Is accused of having shot , to death T." Morgan Moore, an employe of the torpedo . plant at' Alexandria and of having attempted to attack Miss Pearl Clark, of Washington, Moore's fiancee, and secretary to Representative Britton, of Illinois1. The negro ;was ar rested early.,; today about two hours after Moore was. killed'. .Turner later confessed, according to the authorities. Moore and "Miss Clark, according to the report, were seated in an automo bile near the Virginia end of the Poto mac river bridge connecting Washing ton and Virginia when" the negro ap proached them. Pointing a revolver . at Moore, Miss Clark said, the negro de manded money.- When Moore refused, Miss Clark said she became frightened and jumped from the machine and the negro Btarted, after-, her. Then Moore, according to Miss Clark, seized a re volver from a doorpocket of the auto mobile and fired at the 'black. In an exchange of shots - Moore was shot through the heart and the negro struck In the leg and hand. ' ( According to Miss Clark, ne contin ued to pursue her until she had given him some Jewelry. Turner.- who is said to have answered the description given by Miss Clark" of 'the assailant, was arrested in the Virginia Arlington national" cemetery. -Police say Y.that Turner bore two wounds, one in the hand and the other in the leg, when arrested. ."-"" Moore and Miss Clark, whose home is in Chicago," were ; to be married soon. ' PENROSE IS FAILING. ; t ' . Philadelphia : May . 23. United States Senator Boise Penrose, who fcas been in fail ing health for several months; had a relapse yesterday, .it Was announced by his physi cians tonight. His condition is said to be serious. ,-" His physicians stated, how ever, that the senator is not in immediate danger. : --- - - HARMON RORISON, , WILMINGTON ACE, MISSING IN ACTION Polish War Office Feara He Has Been Killed Or Captured By The Bolsheviki. SERVING WITH KOSCIUSKO SQUADRON IN UKRAINE Won Distinguished Service Cross1 With American Army ,Then . Joined Poles; . Lieutenant , Harmon C. Ron-. . son, of this city, who since his discharge from the service of Uncle Sam in France last Au gust, has been ' aiding Poland in her fight against the bolsheviki on the southern Ukraine front, u is reported by the Polish mili-; tary authorities as missing for several days. , ' , . t - ,v An. Associated Press dispatch' dated Warsaw, Poland, May 23,: was, received by The Star early, last night reading as follows: "Lieutenant Harmon C. Rori sori, of Wilmington, N, C, a piloV in the Kosciusko aerial squadron, has been missing for several davs. since hp. bpo-an flirif - , . . . , oDtain a report concerning the bolshpvik- linpa rn f Via or,nfUA.U UUAieviK nnes on tne southern front in the Ukraine." : . '"Since the start on his mission , Rorisbn - has . not been reported and the Polish military. authori ties are , of the opinion that he either was shot down by the ene my or i forced, to land inside' the bolshevik lines. J . . , . "Wireless efforts have been. made to ascertain the fate of the aviator."'. ' " C. C. Chadbourn, an uncle of Lieutenant Rorison, stated last night that he had not heard a word of the plight of his nephew other, than this dispatch, but that he had received a letter from the lieutenant during trie past two or three days but was of the opinion that it had been written several weeks agol Mr. . Chadbourn said that the letter r was of good cheer and told of the many bombing attacks- ;his squadron had made upon the enemy recently. ' 1 .. Before the draft was begun in the United " . States, Lieutenant Rorison left here to enter ah aviation camp. He was commis sioned first lieutenant on leaving there for France, and for brav ery in Europe he was given the distinguished service cross. " . ; . On being discharged from the American army in France last August, Lieutenant Rorison, at his own expense, traveled : 6,000 miles to join the Polish army to aid in suppressing the. bolsheviki. There he joined the Kosciusko aerial squadron, made up of American aviators., ' " . . : . , , Lieutenant Rorison has lived with his uncle, C.' C. Chadbourn, in this city practically all of his life and has a wide circle of friends who will regret to learn that"r he : is , missing; and as .. yet . unaccounted for. ; . - He .' was ranked as Wilming ton's only ace hi. the World war. CHILDREN'S THROATS -' SLASHED WITH RAZOfc Mother Also Makes Attempt On; rHer Own Life. - . , , Cuthbert, Ga., May 28 Mr. W. H. Ward, of Cuthbert, slashed the throats of herself and four of her five children , with a ' raz&r , early .today, according to the police,; while ; herl husband .lay asleep. in an .adjacent room. ' . ' Mental derangement frdtn long ill-v n'ess was ' said by her family , to have caused the deed. i One of the children, a girl of five, died from the injuries. , Two .. others Were' said to be. in a Serious condition, but. the 'fourth child and the mother are expected to recover. v- ... .ji-