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The Weather Want Results? Partly cloudy today and Wednesday; rrobablv local thunderahnwura x.-i ' i nesday; little change in temperature, j Stajce of river at FaTettev!lle ve- terday at S a. mM ilA feet. - Then the Kj;lcal thing to do Is to us the columns of The Morningr Star to reach the buying public of Wilmington and Its surrounding territory, with its 155,000 peopl 9 AY He? VOL. CVII. NO. 147. WILMINGTON, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1921 a:- OLDEST DAILY IN THE STATE. Stair PROPOSE FLAT TAX OF $10 ON AUTOS, 3 -CENT POSTAGE ; A CHECK TAX TREASURY DRAFT OF A NEW REVENUE BILL IS GIVEN TO COMMITTEE Secretary Mellon Suggests In-; creased Levy on Cigars, To bacco and Cigarettes CUT RAIL CHARGES Would Repeal Soda Water "Nuisance" Tax and Abolish the Tax on Excess Profits WASHINGTON. Aug. 1 A tax of two rents on bank checks, a flat license tax of 510 on all automobiles, irrespective f cost or horsepower, an increase of Irst-class postage rates to three cents and an added levy on cigars, tobacco and cigarettes are understood to have been among tax revision suggestions presented today by Secretary Mellon to the house ways and means commit tee, meeting in executive session, Other suggestions were said to have included : A reduction of 50 per cent in trans portation taxes, both passenger and freight, next year and their elimina tion the yas following: Repeal of the taxes on soda foun tain drinks and ice cream. Repeal of the excess profits tax and rlimination of the $2,000 exemption on rorporation incomes. Increase of the normal income tax on corporations from the present 10 per cent to 15 per cent. Elimination of the income surtax brackets aboye 40 per cent with the surtax rates on incomes ranging from tfi.000 to $50,000 increased. The revenue bill as revised in -accord with these suggestions would be designated to raise approximately four bi'Hons of dollars next year, it was said. Mr. Mellon8 memorandum em bodying his views was withheld, but Chairman Fordney promised to make i: p'-iblic tomorrow. Representative Garner, Texas, rank ire Democratic member of the commit ter, attacked the -treasury secretary's proposals, declaring that every one of -hem constituted "a shifting of the tax burden from the classes to the masses." Mr. Mellon was said, to have esti mated srovernment expenditures for r.xt year at $4,675-,00,000, but Chair man Fordney said this was dependent upn how much of the $500,000,000 due the railroads would have to be advanc ed "ut of the federal treasury, the cost ': operating the government merchant f!et and the size of expenditures for the army and the navy. Aside from internal taxes, the treas ury secretary was understood to have estimated customs receipts for next year at $450,000,000 and miscellaneous receipts, including salvage, at $350, ""'n,00O. He was said to have figured that the J li license tax on automobiles would bring in $100,000,000. and that added I'-vy on cigars, tobacco and cigarettes 'in additional $25,000,000. Increased postal rates have been estimated to yield another $75,000,000, but the esti mate as to the income from the pro posed tax on bank checks was not dis closed The loss of revenue through reduc tion of the transportation taxes has been placed at approximately $150,000,- orm. After the committee had heard Mr. Mellon. Revenue Commissioner Blair, Dr. T. p. Adams, treasury tax expert, and other fiscal officers of the govern ment. Chairman Fordnev reiterated his 'tatement of last Saturday that he be lieved the nation's tax bill could .be cut loOO.nno.ono and the government run for four billion dollars a year. Representative Garner said that government expenditures in excess of that sum next year would be a "wilful, "irked waste of public funds, wholly indefensible." He asserted that the f dral establishment could be run for 2.500.000.000. adding that Represen-?-'ive Madden, of Illinois, the new '""airman of the appropriations com mittee, had declared in an address that t'"-is sum should be sufficient. Before the committee heard the treasury experts, the Republican mem-b--rs were in conference with Mr. Mad-n-n for a discussion of expenses next yyr and more Darticularly the needs r,f the shipping board, the army arid ' '" c navy. Examination of the treasury officers c "io'Dded the committee's hearings on T revision measure and the Republi ' ' members plan to get to work to tr. jrroi.v on a final draft of the bill, r' ;-irman Fordney reiterated that the ' ;'-.r rr.it tee probably could not com ' the measure under three weeks. TI71KS CLAIM GREEKS ARE f HKCKED AND ARE RETREATING "ADOX, Aug. l.: It is announced a Turkish source that the Greak ; have been checked in front of ihissar, according to a Router dis from Constantinople and that Jreek army is rtreating toward h-Shehr, abandoning enormous 'rial and prisoners. ';.zim Kara Bekir, one of the na 'Ust commanders, together with commanders of the Turkish and i t armies, has been ordered to the 1 front with reinforcements. : r trv : r-r K - - 5: r; ntux HITS AUTO ONE DIES 1 AC KSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 1. One '-p.--. was killed and seven others more v ;. ss seriously Injured when a Florida E'ist Coast railroad train struck the at mobile in which they were riding ar grade crossing In South Jackson V!i' across the river from here early 'is-'ht - - " - - ' - r Carolina Barge Line to Baltimore Concern BALTIMORE, Aug. 1. Operation of the barge line from this port to Norfolk, Va.; Elizabeth City, New Bern and other points in North Carolina, which has heretofore been run by the Inland and coast wise waterways service of the war department, was taken over today by the Baltimore, Philadelphia and Southern Transportation company, which recently purchased all .-the vessel equipment and terminal fa cilities of the war department. riARGE LINE CUTS RATES NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 1. Through all--vater freight rates between New Orleans and Pensacola, Florida, were announced here today by the Mississippi-Warrior service, the government barge line, in connec tion witfc the Pensacola, St . An drew's and Gulf Steamship com pany. The barge line will handle the freight between New Orleans and Mobile and the steamship com pany from Mobile to Pensacola. The rates will be 20 per cent less than the present all-rail rates.. The new rates became effective today and .the first shipment was a large con signment of rice. JAPAN NOT ALONE IN WANTING THE PROGRAM OF CONFERENCE FIXED Other Powers Want Scope of . Discussion Outlined Clearly Before the Meeting MUST LIMIT WORK Otherwise Disarmament and Pacific Debate May Run for Indefinite Time WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. Determina tion of the date for the disarmament conference was understood today to xest lar&ely in the foreign offices at London, Paris and Tokio. The diplomatic representatives of the invited powers have conferred at length with Secretary of State Hughes concerning the advisability of begin ning the conference November 11, or upon some other date, and have in turn referred the question to their re spective governments. Until further instructions are receiv ed by the ambassadors it is expected that no definite action will be taken. Representatives of foreign govern ments have made It plain, however, that they regard determination of the agenda as far more important than the fixing of the date of meeting. They are understood to have reported in de tail to their governments the desire of Secretary Hughes to leave to the main body as much of that work its possible, but there is increasing ev idence that Japan is not alone in her insistence that the scope of the con ference be more clearly outlined before the formal sessions are begun. Al though consideration of that phase of the plans for the conference is not expected to give rise to further delay in issuing the formal invitations, it is believed that the ambassador's expect to receive from their home offices In structions as to the parts they shall as sume in adding to or taking from the list of subjects that may be discussed. "While Japan has made it clear that there are subjects which she would discuss with unwillingness, if at all, there appears to be a growing convic tion that unless some limitation is placed ut)on the number of subjects to be considered the conference may be continued almost indefinitely. The chief object of Japan, it is understood, will be to bring to the front her right to expansion, and in that connection her claims in Siberia, Manchuria and perhaps other regions. GASTON MEANS CLAIMS LOSS OF $57,00 CASH IN TRANSIT CHARLOTTE, Aug. 1. An XPS shipment of slightly more than $57. 000 in currency said to have been shipped, June 22, bzy Gaston xJ. Means from Concord, N. C. to Chicago Is missing .it was made known herP to night by attorneys and express com pany representatives. When the pack age reached Chicago, it is alleged, ?t contained only a block of 'd- Means, it is said, claims that l.e counted and wrapped the money in the presence of witnesses and addressed it to Roy D. Keehn, of Chicago, attorney for Mrs. Mary Melvin, administratrix o the estate of her sister, Mrs. Maude a' King, who was shot to isth. rear Concord in August, 1917. he ship ment according to .Jake F. Newe !, Means' attorney, was a payment .n connection with settlement of the King estate representing earnings from a deal In raw rubber engaged in by Mrs. King and Means, as her business ad visor, pror to her death. Means, it is said, has filed a claim with the express company for te amount alleged to have been lost. PRESIDENT OFF TO PORTLAND PLYMOUTH, Mass., Aug. 1. Presi dent Harding left Plymouth tonight for Portland, Maine. The submarine ehaser No. 408, with the presidential party aboard, shoved off at 11:1;, and, went down the harbor to transfer them to the Mayflower, HObvER MOVES TO AID SID HATFIELD DIES IN RUSSIANS AS SOON AS'WEST VIRGINIA BATTLE PRISONERS ARE FREEDjWHILE GOING TO TRIAL Expects to Spend Up to MiHion and a Half Monthly for Starving Children NO POLITICAL MOVE Purely Humanitarian Effort to Relieve Increasing Distress in Unhappy Land WASHINGTON. Aug. J-Prepara-tion for the relief of starving Russian children, upon release of American prisoners held by the soviet govern ment, wac ordered begun today by Secretary Hoover, as chairman of the American relief administration on re ceipt of a cable from Maxim Gorky transmitting the soviet authorities,' un conditional acceptance of his offer of aid. Mr. Hoover instructed Walter Ly man Brown, at London, European di rector for the relief administration, to proceed immediately to Riga to negotiate with the soviet representa tives concerning the details of supply ing food. Mr. Brown was cautioned, however, that negotiations should only bee begun aftejj- the American prison ers have been delivered out of Rus sia, as demanded by the state de partment. Successful conclusion of the negotia tions, Mr. Hoover said, would permit prompt shipment of food into Russia from Danzing, probably into the Petrograd district first, as it was the most accessible. Food distribution throughout the rest of Russia would be taken up "gradually, he added, as the facilities became available. Mr. Hoover announced that there would be no public appeal for funds to aid the work but that the admini stration would use the money it had available. Other American organiza tions, he added would probably co operate. When the work was in full swing he estimated the cost at from $1,250,000 to $1,500,000 a month. Russia's acceptance of the relief administration's offer in no way fore casts the Consideration of recognition of the soviet government, It was in dicated ati'the state department. Con dition in IRussia were said to be di plomatic relations were said ito con tinue to exist. The state department, it was said regards the prospective relief as wholly humanitarian in character and not to be confused with any political move. TWO ARE ARRESTED FOR BEATING UP GEORGIAN Another White Cap Outrage in Florida LAKELAND. Fla.. Aug. 1. Two men were under arrest at Tampa and two others were being held in the Polk county jail at Bartow tonight in connection with the flogging by masked men of L. B. Hughes between here and Mulberry late Saturday night. William Johnson and Robert John son were arrested at Tampa today while R. M. Motes and E. Taylor were taken in custody at Mulberry early Sunday morning, according to ad vices here. Hughes only recently arrived from Georgia to visit his uncle, William Musgrove, an employe of a phosphate plant near here. The two were re turning to the plant from an automo bile trip to Mulberry. Just as they passed the outskirts of Mulberry they were halted by four or fiv masked men, who took Hughes in charge and made off in v the direction of Lakeland. Musgrove returned to Mulberry for as sistance and a posse was quickly formed and gave pursuit but later re turned without having overtaken the captors. In the meantime an automobile party enroute from Mulberry to Lakeland met Hughes staggering naked along the highway. His body was covered with bruises, received when the mob tied him to a post and severely beat him with straps. Hughes said he asked the men why he was being handled in this manner and received a blow on the head in response. The affair has created intense ex citement in this section and extra guards have been placed over the men detained at Bartow. PAY THEM DOUBLE AND SEE THAT THEY STICK TO JOB WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. Members of the senate and house virtually would be required to punch the clock un der a bill introduced in the house to day by Representative Kissel! Re publican, New York. As a result of the difficulty of ob taining a house quorum, with so many members eager to get away for the "dog days," Mr. Kissel proposed that salaries be doubled, with heavy daily fines for senators and representatives failing to show up for a double daily roll call at the start and close of every session. The man absent with out .leave for one day of legislative week lose his week's pay. For a -50-day session the penalty for a day's leave would be $300, with a fine of $150 a day for a session lasting 100 days. Within the past week the house has had a job trying to get 217 of the 435 members present at one time to enable it to perform business. During the session today ap point of nO " quorum twice necessitated a long delay after a- roll call while clerks were sent out to round up members. . After, a second attempt the house got tired and quit. LYON FUNERAL AT DURHAM DURHAM. Aug. 1. -The remains of Edwin Buchanan Lyon, nephew of James B. and Benjamin N. Duke, who died in New York, Sunday afternoon, will reach Durham tomorrow morning aboard James B. r Duke's private car. The funeral services will be held to morrow afternoon at 5:30 o'clock at his home on Morehead :Hill. He and Ed Chambers Shot Down and Killed on Courthouse Steps at Welch DETECTIVE IS HELD Hatfield, Only 26 Years Old, Was Famous in West Virginia Coal Field War WELCH, W. Va., Aug. 1. Sid Hat field's career in West Virginia ended today on the courthouse steps of this village. It remains for a coroner's jury to pass judgment as to who shall be held for trial on a charge of hav ing flred-the shot that ended the life of a picturesque figure in the indus trial strife of Mingo county. C. E. Lively, a private detective. :s bein? heid. pending a verdict. Hatfield, former chief of police of Matewan, and central figure in the trial early this year of more than a score of" men charged in connection with the; killing of a private detective 11 mouths ago, together wih his friend. Ed Chambers, also a defendant in that trial, fell as a result of Pistol shot wounds buffered as the two men were entering f-.the. little courthouse where Hatfield was to face trial on another shooting icharge. - According to persons nearby, Hat field with a party of friends approach ed the entrance to the -courthouse just Before noon where they met Lively and a group of companions. Fricnly greetings were said to have been ex changed, but a moment later those on either side were .noticed to assume a hostile attitude. Loud talking; was indulged in and this was followed by the crack of pistol fire. No one, how ever, could or would say who com menced shooting. Hatfield and Cham bers were Been to fall. Examination revealed that Hatfield had been j?hDt in the chest and Chambers in the head and breast. One of the guns carried by the Mag nolia constable witnesses said he car ried two .had been discharged," It was said by those who rushed forward. All shellsln the pistol were empty It was-"f aidT-; further statei that Chambers had but one sun. Some o the shells in it, also, had been fired, it was declared. The shooting, although causing soni excitement, did not cause more than a flurry and the large crowd in Welch for the trial was dispersed quickly by local authorities. The charge on which Hatfield was to have.been tried today was in connection witfruhe shoot ing up of Mohawk, West Virginic, about a year ago. Mrs. Sid Hatfield, who formerly ,was the wife of Mayor C. E. Cesterman, one of those slain in the Matewan battle, which resulted in the deaths of seyea private detectives and three citizens, was in Wrelch to attend court at the time. Her marriage to Hatfield wag solemnized two weeks after the death of Matewan's chief executive. C. E. Lively was the "surprise" wit ness for the prosecution in the trial conducted in connection with the death of Albert Felts, director of the banl of private detectives, which had been sent to Matewan for the purpose of evicting miners' families from the houses of a cloa company. This tr'al was the culmination of a street bat tle in the West Virginia mining town one year ae:o last May 19. When the battle started that afternoon the de tectives had completed their work and were on their way from the hotel at which they had been stopping to the railroad station near by. Immediately after the acquittal by a jury that nad. listened for many weeks to testimony in the case, Hatfield and the co-defendants returned to Matewan. Shortly there after. Hatfield was re moved from the office of chief of police and immediately elected as constable of the Magnolia district, an office he retained to the time of his death. Although only 26 years old, Hatfield's name was known to almost every West Virginian and to many persons outside the state, on account of frequent pistol episodes to which he had been a party. He was one of the witnesses recently called by the senate committee ap pointed to investigate the Industrial conditions in the Mingo coal Helds. FIVE MEN REPORTED HELD FOR KILLING SID HATFIELD BLUEFIELD. W. Va.. Aug. 1. Re ports from Welch tonight were that five men. including C. E. Lively, are being held in connection with the shooting of Sid Hatfield and Ed. Cham bers. The others held are: H. H. Lucas, deputy sheriff of Mercer county; Rob ert Day, William Salter and Buster Pence, deputy sheriffs of McDowell county. Lively also Is a McDowell county deputy sheriff. Prosecuting attorney G. L- Counts, stated he expected that the investiga tion would narrow the list to Lively and Pence. SEVERE EARTHQUAKES FELT IN LEGHORN, ITALY, SECTION LONDON, Aug. 2. A violent earth quake shock was felt at Leghorn, Italy, and elsewhore Monday, says a dispatch to the London Times from Milan. Se vere damage was done in the Lake "Lu gano district. A large building col lapsed in Bari, burying many persons. The fuH. extent of the damage done and number of victims is not known. LADIES GETTING BACK TO COTTON AFTER SILK CRAZE (Special to Tbe Star) DURHAM, Aug. 1. Cotton" hosiery is rapidly returning to popularity with women and men'ot America, J. S. Carr. Jr., the "hosiery king." declared upon his return today, from New York. Mr. Carr states that, some of the large hos iery distributors -of ?the country doing business with- his. miHs- have ordered more cotton hosiery within the past 30 days than; for the entire 12 months pre ceding. Advance in Cotton Means 41 Millions to the Producers Crop Report Puts Condition at 64.1, as of July 25, the Lowest Since 1886, and Estimates Yfeld at 8,203,000 Bales De velopments of the Day Send Price up One Cent Boll Weevil Has Played Havoc With the Staple NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 1. The cot ton new year, with its annual statis tics and rush of excited trading, was marked today by an advance in price which experts estimated would bring southern planters $41,000,000 more or their crop. The day's developments put the price up a cent a pound. Interest wag cen tered mainly in the item of the carry over, which was placed by H. G. Hes ter, secretary of the New Orleans cot ton exchange, af 9,194,000 bales, the largest carry-over on record. Secretary Hester announced the commercial crop for the year ending July 30, at 11,377,316 bales, a decrease under last year of 1,065.864, a de crease under 19-17-18 of 529,657. Southern consumption, which he stated at 3,096,504 bales, Mr. Hester says, indicates a decrease of 594,501 bales, compared with last year and a decrease compared with year before last of 437,273. Mr. Hester estimated . the world's consumption of American cotton at 10, 500,000 bales. NORTH CAROLINA CONDITION IS PLACED AT 75 PER CENT WASHINGTON, Aug. 1- The boll weevil played havoc with the south's OVERSEAS MAILS WILL BE HANDLED SPEEDILY Much Time Will be Saved Under Old System Revived by Postmaster-General NEW YORK, Aug. 1. The prewar system of transferring foreign mail from incoming ships to fast despatch boats for quick delivery to the nearest postoffice was reintroduced here to day in the presence of Postmaster General Hays and his three chief as sistants. Mr. Hays said this service -meant a cortno- nf 12 tn 24 hours in delivery,- not only New York, but the entire , irr l l T AAiA .tits tolr. country Denenitnis, o ing mail from ships several hours be fore they docked, permitted placing it on earfier trains. Today's change, - Mr. Hayes said, would be followed by other improve ments in the sea post service whereby mail would be sorted on board ships and placed in the proper bags for de livery to various trains. He estimated that in some cases this would save one to two days. Mr. Hays was accompanied on his inspection trip by Representative Halvor Steenerson, of Minnesota, chair man of the house postoffice committee, and department officials. Aboard the steamship President, as signed by the government to the de partment as a delivery boat, they wit nessed transfer of mails from four ships the Cedric, from Liverpool with 1,847 bags; Zeeland from Antwerp, 1,361; Ryndam from Rotterdam with 30, and the San Lorenzo from Uorto Rico, with 451. The transfer was made before the ships passed quarantine. It required only one hour to shift the mail from the Cedric to the President and in less than another hour it was being un loaded at a pier into fast motor cars for the general postoffice. The Zee land's mail was taken off at least four hours before she docked.' The postoffice has arranged with the New York .Central lines for use of any vessels needed to assist the Presi dent. ORLANDO RESTAURANT MAN IS ROBBED, SHOT AND KILLED ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 1. W. H. Milt more, proprietor of the Arcade restau rant, was found dead, shot through the heart in a room at a local hoted about 10 o'clock tonight. Lena Clarke, the daughter of a minister in West Palm Beach, who registered for the room yesterday afternoon, is being held by the local authorities charged with murder. Baxter Lee, chauffeur, who drove the young woman from West Palm Beach, is also held as an accessory be fore the fact. Besides the body in the room two cut money baks, which had presumably held the sum of $32,000 stolen in a robbery of the West Pllm Beach postoffice last Tuesday, were found. According to the story of jthe clerk at the hotel, the young Clark woman registered at the hotel late this after noon. Miltmore went to the room around 6 o'clock.- No shot " was heard and no inkling of the tragedycame to the intmiates of the hotel until the authorities went to the room to make an investigation. NEGRO AUTOIST IS HUNTED AND A RACE CLASH FEARED PETERSBURGH, Va., Aujr. 1. Posses of citizens tonight are search ing the country near Farnrville. Va. for James Causey, negro, charged with running down and killing Herbert, Pil low, a young white boy, witn an auto mobile late Saturday. Pillow and his father, reports from Farmville state, were walking along a paved - road . a f-m ttiJIps out of town when the autto- mobile which Causey was driving J struck the boy, killing nim aimo3t n stantly. It is reported mot) violence is threatened in- the event the negro fs captured tonight. Telephone reports from Farmville at 9:30 o'clocle tonight state that negroes are congregating in various parts of the town and chat police officers are experiencing difficulty in dispersing them and preserving-order. It is fear- . . . t W.. J U ' vent Causey shtiuld be captured, . cotton crop during July, heavy rainfall aided in the destruction by promoting a rank growth of weeds and grass and as a result a prospective production of 8.203,000 bales, was forecast today hjr, the department of agriculture, bas ing its estimates on conditions exist ing July 25. That is a loss of 230,000 bales compared with the production forecast a month ago. The crop declined 4.5 points "during the month, much more than the aver age decline, bringing condition to 64.7 per cent of a normal, the lowest July 25th condition on record with one ex ception, that of 1886, when it was 64.1. Unpromising is the present condition of the crop throughout most of the belt, and there is very serious threat, the department ' experts say, of con tinued and increased damage from the boll weevil, while grass and weeds are exhausting much of the crop that re mains. The condition by states follows: Vir ginia, 82, North Carolina 75, South Car olina 62, Georgia 59, Florida 60, Ala bama 58, Mississippi 68, Louisiana 59, Texas 62, Arkansas 76, Tennessee, 75, Missouri 80, Oklahoma 68, California 83, Arizona 89. All other states 88. GREEK SHIPS STAGE A RAGE TO LAND PEOPLE Losing Boat Has 47 Too Many Immigrants for the Greek Quota for August NEW YORK, ANg. 1. It pays immi grants to form their line on the three mile limit. Since Friday there had been bobbing about off Sandy Hook on the steamship Megali Hellas a number of Greeks who could not crowd into the "United States wlh the July quota allotted s their country, under the nervf restrictive im migration laws. Then, Just as the calendar was flip ping over to August, along came the steamer Calabria, with another contin gent of Greeks whose number, added to those aboard the, Megali Hellas, gave a total of 704, or 47 more than Greece's total for this month. So today the two boats made a dash of it for quarantine and the Megali Hellas edged in two minutes ahead of her rival, thereby assuring her pas sengers a foothold on the promised land. Ellis Island officials -postponed until tomorrow what will be done with the extra 47. Some of the 704 may turn out to be college prdfessors or mem bers of other exempted'groups, thereby making way for others. Otherwise it appeared tonight that the question would have to be referred to Washing ton. If any are shipped home, they will be the first immigrants turned back under the new laws after actually hav ing reached these shores. ENEMY" AIRMAN "DESTROY" THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1. A squad ron of "enemy" air marauders theoret ically destroyed Philadelphia at noon today and thus opened the way for an invasion by land. New York and other strategic points" had been "destroyed" previously, in the mimic warfare that was inaugurated to demonstrate tne effectiveness of airplanes as super-machines of destruction. Led by Gen. William Mitchell, the airmen, 16 in number, arrived over the the center of the city at 11:30 this morning. From a height of 1,500 feet they "demolished" the city hall, the postoffice, the . Bourse, shipbuilding plans along the Delaware and impor tant manufactoris In the mill district. Then, turning their attention to League island, they theoreticall blew the navy yard out of the harbor. At 12:30 o'clock a lone plane buzzed over the city and reported to the main squadron that Philadelphia was in ruins. Thirty minutes after the attack start eded, the same planes were on the way to Wilmington, Del., Baltimore, and the United States naval academy at An napolis. GENERAL METTS ASKS FOR COLONEL GREGORY'S HELP (Special to The Star) WASHINGTON. Aug. 1. Adjutant General Metts has requested the war department to assign Col. D. D. Greg ory, retired, to duty at the adjutant general's office at Raleigh with the na senior instructor in the R. O. T. C', at tional guard. Colonel Gregory has been the A. and E. college for a year. He has consented to the transfer. It was pointed out by General Metts that the work of Maj. B. F. Ristine, senior in structor, is very heavy, and Col. Greg ory is greatly needed. Senator Sim mons has taken this matter up with the adjutant-general here. BANKER HELD ON WHISKEY CHARGE RESIGNS HIS JOB JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 1. R. E. Wheeler, chairman of the board of di rectors of the Guaranty Trust tand Sav ings company, and J. E. -Madigan, cash ier, tendered thelf resignation's at a di rectors' meeting of the bank here to day. Beyond the fact that the resigna tions had been accepted no official com ment was forthcoming from bank offi cials. . Wheeler is under federal, indictment for alleged violation of the prohibition law. ' ' " ' PILGRIM ROOK SYMBOL OF REAL BROTHERHOOD MR, HARDING DECLARES President Hopes Principles of the Fathers Will Prevail Among Nations A NEW WORLD ERA Faith in Disarmament Move ment Asserted by Executive in Plymouth Address PLYMOUTH. Mass., Aug. 1. Ply mouth Rock for three centuries a land mark of American freedom, was re dedicated by President Harding today as a symbol of "real human brother hood" for all the world. Speaking at the tercentenary cele bration of the landing of the Pilgrims, the President declared his fervent hope that principle of toleration and liberty for which our farthers crossed the "At lantic might soon awake a new world era in which peace and understanding would be assured among the nations. He referred in particular to the na tion's effort toward, disarmament, as serting his faith that the movement would succeed. With his tribute to the Pilgrims. Mr. Harding linked a eulogy to the achievements of the English-speaking race everywhere and declared he was convinced that the mission of the race would encompass even greater things than it had yet accomplished. The leadership of the English-speaking peoples In the present world crisis, he said, could not be denied nor doubted by anyone. The President's address, delivered within a few hundred feet of the spot where Plymouth Rock has been en closed in iron palings to preserve It for posterity, was part of an anniversary celebration in which Vice-President Coolidge and many other high officials of state and nation participated. Earlier in the day he had headed and reviewed a parade of civic, mili tary and naval organizations through historic streets of Plymouth, and to night he witnesses the tercentenary pageant producing the landing of the Pilgrims. With Mrs. Harding and a party of friends, the President reached Ply mouth from Washington shortly before noon on his yacht Mayflower, named for the Pilgrim ship which entered thi harbor under such widely different circumstances 300 years ago. Three battleships and six destroyers formed an escort for the Mayflower of today. She was welcomed by a booming of the Presidential salute from a battery ashore, while a British cruiser, the Cambrian, dipped her flag at her anchorage just outside Plymouth har- uur. Ashore, a troop of cavalry formed a presidential guard of honor and many organizations, Including a unit of British marines from the Cambrian, marched in the parade which passed In review before Mr. Harding and his party. The President's hope that Plymouth Rock might become a shrine for all free nations was echoed in a brief ad dress by William H. de Beaufort, charge of the Dutch legation at Wash ington, and Capt. Sydney H. Bayley, naval attache of the British embassy there. Vice-President Coolidge, who was not scheduled to deliver an ad dress, satisfied the demands of the throng by speaking briefly. Secretary of War Weeks also had a place in. the speakers' stand. The exercises, indeed, were turned into an "old home week" celebration when, at the word of the chairman that they were to be closed, the crowd called loudly for Vice-President Cool idge, Senator Lodge, Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, and Secretary Weeks. Presi dent Harding first brought to the front personally the senior senator from Massachusetts. Leaving late tonight' aboard the Mayflower the President and his party expect to reach Portland, Maine, to morrow morning and there take auto--mobiles for Lancaster, N. H., where they will spend the remainder of the week resting at Secretary Weeks' place and sight-seeing among the White mountains. WEATHER FORECAST BY STATES WASHINGTON. Aug. 1. Virginia: Increasing cloudiness probably fol lowing by showers Tuesday afternoon or night in west and north portion; Wednesday showers; not much change in temperature. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia: Partly cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday, probably local thunder showers Wednesday; little change in temperature. Florida: Partly cloudy weather with scattered thundershowers Tues day and Wednesday. Extreme north west Florida: Party cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday; probably local thun dershowers Wednesday.. Alabama, Mississippi: Partly cloudy Tuesday; Wednesday unsettled with local thundershowers, somewhat cooler Wednesday in north portions. Tennessee, Kentucky: Partly cloudy and continued warm Tuesday and probably with scattered thundershow-, ers; Wednesday showers and thunder storms; cooler. Winds: Hatteras to Key West, east gulf of Mexico: Moderate southeast and south winds and partly overcast weather Tuesday; over west Gulf of Mexico: Moderate to southwest winds and generally fair weather Tuesday. Sandy Hook to Hatteras: Moderate variable winds and increasing cloudi ness Tuesday. Hatteras to Florida straits: Moder ate southeast and southwinds and partly overcast weather Tuesday. NO FIOHT ON JACKSON (Special to The Star) WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. Marion But ler said today that there would be no protest against the confirmation oi Brownlow Jackson, whom the Republi cans propose to nominate to succeed Marshal Webb. The North ' Carolina Republicans were united for the Hen dersonville man. s Y
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