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1 THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. SUNDai , FEBRUARY 6, 192l. TWO t - f i t t : I I- i 4i ' .. il , !i '-..:' i . '' ,' zi' - POLITICAL GOSSIP HAS. WOMAN WILL DEFEND DANIELS FOR SENATOR! ALLEGED : MURDERER Eastern Boosters Willing to Back Him Against Sen ator Simmons ' Morwlug Star Bureau, Yarhoremg- Hotl. Bj R. E. POWELL RALEIGH. Feb. 5. Eastern men watching- the political developments of this general assembly are willing to lay a wager that Josephua I?aniels will do battle in 1924 with Senator Sim mons unless the senior senator sur prises his close friends and contents himself with the laurels already won. Half of the session has passed and it has been fraught with an abundapce of political gossip. There has been evident at times a smattering of partf ean politics but all through the work ings of the law-makers has been drawn a line between the progressives and reactionaries inside the Democratic party. No one is authorized to say for Mr. Daniels that he Will oppose Senator Simmons for the nomination four years hence. One would be foolish to sug gest that such a thing is in the secre tary's mind, for he has repeatedly said and his paper has printed his personal declaration, that he seeks no further political honors. "Eight years in Wash ington is a long time to be away from North Carolina," he said in his ad dress here a few days ago. and "North Carolina is the best place in the world to live." Public servants, his friends argue, are never controlled by personal am bitions and desires and if the populace clamors for Mr. Daniels to get in the race and go back to Washington as successor to Senator Simmons there is nothing left for him to do but to yield to their Importuning. Eastern meh want him ready to take the nomina tion. if Simmons steps out and if the senior senator is not ready to do any stepping, they are willing to back Daniels against him. One hears such suggestions as Wil ton McLean succeeding Simmons and Max Gardner taking up the toga Over man is represented as being willing to surrender when his present term ex pires. Easterners and westerners alike believe Gardner will be the guberna tionat ne-minee in 1924 or retire from politics. There is reflected among" the legislators enough sentiment to break the tradition upon which so much is said to hang. V Raleigh is mosfe likely to offer Clar ence Poe to the state if geographical Issues become a dominant note in the next campaign; Wilmington will offer Lieutenant Governor Cooper.; Lumber ton will suggest Angus Wilton Mc Lean;1 Clayton will back Charlie Horn for the Job his father failed to land, and Wilson is ready to sponsor Atlas Finch just as long as there is a strug gle in the east. GERMANY PLAYED, LOST AND MUST PAY, IS THE (Continued from Page One) bankruptcy, pretends the state is poor. tut she has many rich citizens and one needs only to look at the dividends declared by the big companies to real late how Germany's industrial and com mercial life is resuming. Thus, the object f this plan is to make the German citizens of . this gen eration, especially the directors of the great Industries who were the prime authors of the war, bear a share of the reparations' burdens, particularly since thy, themselves were enriched by the war. If it is asserted that Germany, to effect the payments, will raise the prices of her exports, rt answer that J she would do similarly f she obtained the money by increased taxes and this would force higher the prices of every thing. Anyhow, it ts the best means for us to avoid being the victims of this situation. Let's see what happens. UDED IN A M'KT HKAVKX AXD DIDJVT WANT TO STAY NORFOLK. Feb. 5. Trying to break jail, Edward Kane, 17, dropped Ave etories down a chimney late today and landed unhurt in a basement room in which seized liquor is stored pending its use as evidence in court. A iiistol found in the room was fired several times by the boy before he attracted atteption and was released from the locked chamber. In China the gambling houses are among the largest advertisers. Three hundred thousand lost jobs In ew xorit state in 1920. There are 33,000 permanent moving picture theatres in the world. MTAXDAni) RATES I!uy your car and truck repairs on ihe same basis that you purchase your merchandise. We Quote a fixed price for all standard repair work. MacMil 'an's. Fifth and Wright Sts. (Adv.) . . MUTT AND JEFF No i vieu., wen., wen.! - High school r THAT T PAb IT AMt GOT TH "BlG r If PJIff: "S5 X wee jL'iii''"! L.U I i Srr'S Hi ' U Defendant in Capital Case Trusts His Fate to Feminine Attorney Dj- JIAHGEI1V.EEX (International Xcws Service) v - NEW YORK, Feb. 5. For the first time In the state of New -Jersey a wo man will h.elp defend a man on trial for his life. Mrs. Augusta E. Maley, of Hacken sack, will be one of the counsel for de fense when William Gleason come 8 to trial for murder wlthin the next three weeks. - - - - . The first woman of Hackensack to practice law, she is also the first wo man in her state to? try a criminal case. A jury of men. will hear the testi mony. But a woman will question their fit ness to pass upon that r testimony be fore she permits them to attain a place In the jury box. "The next - best thing to a Jury of women, or one with soma women mem bers, is to have a panel examined and challenged by a woman," said Mrs. Maley. Woman challenges man in the su preme court of her state. Appropriate in this town, combination of the old and the new. Across the street fromtbls Imposing home of avenging justice the light winter's snow falls timorously on a graveyard three hundred years old. Prejudices Have Been Bnrieif Here lie prejudices mat have turn ed to dust, buried bigotries. Pale monuments that look like the gh-osts of gravestones middle together, as if to barricade their lifeless lessees against the sharp step of progress. The ancient hotel near by where George Washington stopped to rest continues its course, of uninterrupted charm. Down the main street' of the- busy little town here and there, crowded in between modern structures, can be seen a washed-out, bluish-white house,rlike a bleary-eyed old. man with sagging cheeks. Or, perhaps, n Is a decent old residence that has na a, new shop front of neat red brick put 'on to mod ernise it, for,al! the world like a point lace grandmother that was Torced to slip on a striped blazer to keen from freezing to death. , This is Hackensack the picturesque old and the bustling new-. Perhaps a town can .best be seen by someone to whom it ts unfamiliar. And perhaps a woman can best be describ ed by someone who knows her very well. Mr. Maley Iratse III Wife "My wife is not a new woman." says United States Commissioner Patrick Henry Maley. , "She Is an old-fashioned woman who is up-to-date." Mrs. Maley smiled at the indictment, and told me hOw Jt came about that she will help defend William Gleason when he is ujit on trial for his life. When Commissioner Maley a few years ago wanted to take in a law part ner he was puzsled as to a choice. Mrs. Maley, a former school teacher, asked if she couldn't study law and help. : "I asked Mr. Maley why his life part ner couldn't be his. law partner, too," she said. "And she began to study law, got through and passed the bar examina tion as soon as it could be done," In terposed her proud hueoand. "Although I do not consider criminal practice the proper field for a woman lawyer, I have taken a. great interest in this case.' said Mrs. Maley. "My hus band will be counsel for the Gleason boy, but I have prepared the case for him and wlj. help in the trial. Just how I can't say yet. Developments will decide that for me." "L wane tto credit tnat Is not due to me, but I am very much interested In the case ofthis boy. He was honor ably discharged from army service, and was faithful and hard working. "He has toeen unfortunate and got into bad associations. He came to Hackensack with some other boys to engage a hall to give a party. The occurrence was no planned affair." In the courthouse corridor I saw Mrs. Annie Gleason, tne mother of the prisoner, and his two pretty sisters, well dressed, intelligent girls. "It's a comfort to nave a woman in the case." the boys mother said, her eyes full of tears. "A woman under stands. A woman can see into an other persons' heart, sue understands my boy." GIVEN LIFE IMPRISONMENT TUSCUMBIA, Ala.. Feb. 5. A ver dict of guilty of first degrea murder was returned by the Jury tonight in the case of Will Holmes, former deputy sheriff, and wealthy land owner, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing of Don Stephenson, pro- hlbition officer. The jury was out about an hour. IRISH AWARDED DAMAGES DUBLIN, Feb. B.Awards of 1187,000 as compensation for property destroyed by crowned forces at Ennistmon and other villages in County Clare, have been made by Judge Bodkin. - I wonder Jeff's graduation x : ffAvrrr, i uja MeReV THROUGH CAY TkvJNtC A urn t . FGOlviT fY Vla u at t om seeMS w c Hose our oujaj AT" THe. ABOUT AWO SANTUlcHLfSNlV HArVt, IRISH GOLONEL OFFERS DETAILS OF OPERATION Describes Methods By Which Republican Army Is Fight- f . ing British DUBLIN, Feb. 5. "Colonel X.." 7 a high officer of tne Irish republican army, has given to the Associated Press a lengthy statement on the army and its operation. This is the first au thorized statement thus made public, but the Identity of the' officer, and the circumstances of the interview cannot be 'disclosed, nor is the correspondent permitted to publish the statistical in formation supplied regarding the total number of forces, both regular and "'ir regular" as: the flying columns com posed of -men-on the run are termed now in the field. The officer who will be designated In the interview, as "Colonel X," spoke freely, answering unhesitatingly every question propounded, but he enjoined non-publication of various statements, which, he said, "might give informa tion to the enemy." He emphatically denied the recent declaration of Major-General Strick land, in command of the British troops, that the Irish republican army organ ization was dismembered, and repudi ated the suggestion that the remark able activity -in the last fortnight was a determination to disprove the statej ment that the morale of the volun teers was impaired. "tv. rcnt lnrjii In th number Jyf m-i, ecu. o. Auaouacemeni Lii0 !r""t:nLr?Xn?.made here tonight that Walter A. of attacks on the crown forces." said "Colonel -X." waa only a natural de velopment duo to the perfecting of our organization. From now on there will be further extension and Intensifica tion of our operations in all parts of the country." He intimated that the republican army would soon begin the issuance of a military communique, probably weekly, and added: "Our system of communication is not yet very rapid, but it is certain." He smiled as a reference called to his attention that Michael Collins was head of the republican army, saying: "That is a delusion persisted in not only by the public but by the British government." He did not say whether the direction of th,e republican array was in the hands of one man or a committee. There is a large reward outstanding for the arrest of Collins. "Colonel X" said: "The Irish repub lican army dots the entire country. Our plan is to account for every dis trict either by battalions or companies; every foot of ground is being surveyed and studied with reference to the most promising spots for ambushes and with regard to the, dispositions of the crown forces. "We are slow but steadily carrying out our plans. It should be under stood, however, that we must organize and train men for the work while we are engaged in fighting." The unit of the organization, accord ing to the officer, is the company whose full strength normally is 100 men, each company being tactically self-confident and furnishing its own signalers, engineers and mechanics. "The tendency, .though he con tinued, "is to operate in smaller units in areas like Ulster, where certain dis tricts are rather too thinly peopled or the population Is hostile. We have only small groups engaged in recon naissance and Intelligence work. In some areas, where conditions are wholly favorable, the companies Are formed into battallions and brigades. This Is "our 'regular army. The men on the run are somewhat similarly or ganized but in small units. They work in conjunction with the regulars andJ are kept 'well armed, clothed and equipped. But the vast bulk of our men are not on the run; thev are available for operations in the day time, others at night." .' Questioned as. to -who directed the attacks. Colonel X replied: "If it be an attack on a barracks, or other major operation requiring a large number of men, the officers in the dis trict must satisfy us at headquarters that it won't mean throwing away men or ammunition. In smaller operations, however, such an attacx on one or two lorries or the seizure of military sup plies on trains or raods, or raids on mall, the men act on their own initia tive. "Our methods are undermining the morale of all the crown rorces. Take the. auxilaries, for example. At fir3t the auxilaries were a dashing lot and handy with their guns. But now since they have been forced to take refuge in armor-plated cars covered with netting, their prestige is gone. We ho longer fear them. "We are also undermining England economically. The cost to England, we estimate, is a million pounds 'weekly to maintain armed forces in Ireland, and It will be necessary to increase the iorces tremendously before they can make headway against dir." Further more, we are undermining England's reputation abroad." BERNE, Feb. 5. The latest compila tion indicates there are now in Switz erland 106,000 unemployed persons. Many of these were workers in tl,e watch and textile Industries. Unem ployment Is Increasing dally through out the country. oration got a big hand, : looking AN 0Dt es s rVT SV1BCT BUT I'fc HeAfc You M.-jiji.lL'. ReAX it: ji LEWIS ATTACKS - -; . XV REPARATION ARRANGEMENT NEW; YOIlKi ; Feb. 5. American business men - must prevent the de struction f the new German people and the beginning;, of the end of Amer ica's world commerce as: contemplated in the reparations demands of the allies." former United States Senator James Hamilton Lewis, of . Illinois, de clared in an address iet ore tne Far West Travelers -association here to night. The speaker charged that the repa rations arrangement as announced in Paris was designed to prevent the cen tral powers from trading ' with the United States or from, getting any eco nomic help from this country. ITALIAN'S' FIXD JTRADIXO IN RUSSIA PROFITLESS AFFAIR CQNSTANTIOPLE, Feb. 4. The first trading venture with the bolshevik! has-resulted unprofitable, said officers of the Italian steamer Ancona, which arrived here today f rom fNovorrossisk, a port on the east coast vof the Black sea. Several reasons, for jhe profitless voyage are given, foremost being a costly charter and the detention of the vessel at Batum by the Georgian gov ernment for many weeks. The crew added that the Ancona was obliged to remain at Kovorrossisk for a month; awaiting a cargo of hides, furs, car pets, sunflower seeds and . other com modities which were exchanged for sugar, flour, coffee and cloth. HILDEBRAND TO BECOME EDITOR ASHEVILLE PAPER Special to The Star) A SH1TV1T t u T7i - r k . . tuideorand, formerly president of the Greensboro Daily News and owner of the Asheville Gazette-News, and High Point Enterprise, has bought the C. J. Harriss interest in the Asheville Times and ' tonight became president and editor of the Republican, daily, which will be continued as such. CLANCY IS MANAGER TWINS" (Special to Tbe Star) ..WINSTON-SALEM, Feb. 5. Owners of the Winston-Salem baseball fran chise of the Piedmont league this af ternoon closed a contract with Chas. A. Clancy to assume management of the team during the 1921 season. He will begin work at once to secure play ers in addition to 12 or more men on the roster from last year's club. PALMETTOES BEAT FLORENCE (Special to The Star) FLORENCE, S. C. Feb. 5. The Pal mettoes of Charleston defeated the Florence high school basketball team iast night, 41 to 18. The Florence lads were defeated also this week by! the Porter Military academy boys, the score being 34 to 32. Both games were played in the gym of the new high school building. RAID STEAMER AT MOBILE MOBILE. Ala., Feb. 5 Folio wine; The seizure of five cases of foreign whiskey on board the Munson Line steamer ilunisla here today by the forces of Sheriff W. H. Holcomte, nine members of the crew were arrested and docketed on the charge of violating the prohibi tion law. On the last trip of this vessel to this port, the same steamer was raided considerable illegal liquor seized. This makes 101 steamers raided since Janu ary 1 by the forces of the sheriff. CLERGYMEN STILL BARRED SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Salva dor, Feb. 4. A bill making clergymen eligible for election to the senate and chamber of deputies of Guatamala was defeated in the constituent assembly of that county, (today, according to advices received here. The e. rote aerainst the measure waaJ46stOv5. , CHAINS OF DEBT WILL BIND FOR GENERATION (Continued Trom-Page One) the one burden of ' dumping competi tion, will hardly- b remembered. In the changed world of the future the true face 'of 'new Germany will be clearly recognized, or else the old one of 1914 will be unmasked. And only then will" yinr see a European agreement which will extend beyond this continent "and which wise men may call final. Tou, that means your contemporaries, dear boy. So I am not quite sure you will have to bear the Chains of debtor slavery which, however; weigh more heavily than any tribute laid on barbarians by ancient Rome. Certainly reason will no longer af firm humanity, because of mechanical and technical wonders, has developed essentially beyond the time when the Athenians, in pious contemplation at the foot of their recently destroyed Actopolls, listened to a tragedy which, without a word of hate or triumph, only described the misery and distress of the conqered Persians. To baptize you, with the holy spirit of such feeling, my boy who are born to suffer,' is the ardent wish of this mild winter day. The annual production - of electric lamps in the United States is 130,000. 000. The largest number of world's bach elors are ' to be found . in the United States. -:- m 'Ttte SArvj&wicH islands r ve oceAW ANt THe pfctrJctfH.e IIOfcVJSTfcY T5 -We,MANUFfCTUrfc 0 SrMJOUMCHe. 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Dictograph Products Corp. 1302 N. Candler Building ' New York-City, N. T. n MILLIONS TRANSPORTED UNDER NOSES OF BANDITS Movement of Vast Sums Carried Out Quietly ST LOUIS, Mo- Feb. 5. While ban dit gangs were shooting down privaee citizens and daily risking their Jives in hold-ups netting paltry hauls of a few """? """ia aus l"e un- recedt crime ,n st- -o l nikjcj- u urcemuer, more man $80,000,000 in gold, silver and currency was hauled through the streets under the very noses of the notorious high waymen. It has Just been learned." This huge amount, carried almost daily in quotas of $500,000 to $5,000,000. any load of which would have made the gunmen wealthy beyond their wildest dreams for the remainder of their lives, was transferred in motor trucks from the United States sub-treasury in the postoffice building, at Eighth and Olive streets, to Union Station, at 18th and Market streets, a distance of 15 blocks, through a section in which sev eral times a week the boldest daylight payroll robberies were beinpr staged, not to mention numerous "stick-ups" of private citizens. And never did the guard of any onte of these rich hauls consist of more than three armed men. The moement of this great wealth was made known by W. D. Vandiver. head of the sub-treasury, after com pletion of the transferring of the money to United States mints at Sah Francisco and Denver. The transfer was neces sary in order that the St. Louis sub treasury could be closed in accordance with an act of congress last May. A branch of the St. Louis federal re serve bank is preparing to occupy the -quarters vacated by the sub-treasury. Vandiver, who has been in charge of the sub-treasury for the past seven years, is to retire to his country home near Columbia. Mo., and the ' 25 other employes of the sub-treasury are to be transferred to other branches of gov ernment service here and in other cit ies. Some of them had spent as many as 25 years in the local sub-treasury. The St, Louis sufc-treasury was es tablished" August 6. 1846. and because of unsuitable quarters, - the first sub treasurer, it is said, found It necessary to nightly carry the currency on hand to his home and secrete it until the fol lowing day. There was $40,000,000 in the sub treasury when Vandiver took charge and the amount on hand has at times reached . as much as $83,000,000, the pinnacle being attained the past year. Of this amount more than $40,000,000 was in gold. This was transferred to Union Station by 35 motor trucks. One 4 day a caravan of five huge trucks, each laden with one hundred thousand silver dollars, wended its way through the congested traffic to Union Station. The day previous $5,000,000 in gold was transferred through the streets to the station and placed aboard trains. Vandiver was much amused over .hav ing outwitted the several . gangs of bandits, each rated as desperate as the famous Jesse James outfit, which are believed to make their headquarters in St. Louis, but which have managed to evade all efforts of the authorities , to run tbem down. ' Copyright. 1020, Traae-naark Reg. Mo-nrcTs A FAT STANDING BCTWCCWWO v BREAD-ruu AM He SAt T Hetoce -THe NANie nwv,,vm . mm DAYID V- SHIR MANHATTAN AND METRIC SHIRT AT A SAVING OF 33 1-3 TO 50 PERCENT Printed Madras shirts, f An Av at- ...............!... 5)2.00 Corded .Madras shirts, at.. , $.65 Woven Madras shirts, An n at................. ;y.30 Silk and Linen and Silk shirts, ( r a at PU.5U White Oxford neckband shirts, tf0 Pa -t White Oxford attached collar shirts, (t -A -t These Values Cannot be Equalled In Our Spring Line BUY NOW The A. DAVID CO. The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes JUST RECEIVED BY EXPRESS Brown Suede Black Suede Gray Suede Black Satin "WITCHCRAFT IS RIFE SOW SIN ZULULUAXD, SPITE LAW DURBAN, Feb. 5. Witchcraft i as rife today in Natal and Zululand as it was two years ago, in spite of the governments' efforts to suppress it. This statement was made by counsel in the native hig-h court when a native was charged with triple murder which occurred as a result of the victim's be lief in witchcraft. Fanaganye and his son, the accused, had kraals adjoining each 'other be longing to the father, and witchcraft was practiced in the larger hut. Just before the murders an epidemic of malarial fever affected the district, and a man named Mputshana's wife, daughter and mother died of it.- Fana ganye maintained that witchcraft was the cause of these deaths. The murders took place in the small er of" the two huts. The son killed his half-brother first, then the boy's moth er and a woman of 76 who happened to come into the hut. He hid the bodies. He told his father what he had done and when inquiries were made it was alleged that the father said that the boy had died from fever and the two women had fled. Th judge said thai there was no evidence against the father to Bupport the charge of murder and he was dis by H. C Fiafccr, V. . Pat. Off.) KOb rw - H r j, - 'S SALE ,1 at' lie or i lioi rc rf ol 0 ic fit' i( He o ih hu- n pi; va FECIAL to B Strap Pumps With Louis and Baby Louis Heels Mail Orders Promptly Filled 1 "The Shoe Store Ahead charged. On behalf of the Fon it v pleaded that he mipht have bf en insa at the time that the crimes were corl mitted. F-OREXCE BOV I KIIXKI) (Special to The Star FLORENCE, S. C. Keb. 5. Ni'lul Tee, aged 16 year?, tlie son of Elij Tee, of Florence county, shot hims' fatally while out hunting with a cm: panion today. He was attempting i open a cabin door with the butt of h gun when the trigger snapped, yern 4ng the load of shot into his abdoiK 0.nd killing him instantly. If von didn't eet vour shares in Vlmnr crina CfttllrHaV MtCln tit iUlY t1n wAk and subscribe. Series !t: onen. Orton Huildinsr & Loan Assc tatstn nffioo Toman & .TalllCS, I4 Southern Building. (Adv.) Vionsci ;a an awful fl nnnsivn -nrohositlon. Why not l tha TRAVEI.KRS ta.ke the chanc when the cost is so low? Phone James & James to put waniulr surance on your car at once. .JAMES & JAMES. Inc Southern Building Telephone No 507 and 16J By BUD FISHm E jYou'el 1 A NuTy
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