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r'. -Ate 28 Pages and Monday World, State and Local News Dally Sunday Warmer on Coast TENDED A. D. 1867.- VOL. CVIV. No. 8. WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1922; OLfDEST DAILY IN THE STATE. -1 i i i b i i ii mi i i i i i i ill r. ii ii ii iii. li it ii ii i in it i i n ii ii ii ii ii.ii'ii ii ii s tv;, i i i .i " " S ' ' ' ' ' - . .:- ; : t .; , !" jjT.jjjY DISCUSSION Soldier Bonus Muddle Will Again tfNATt HtVltWo ne nererrea to rresiaent naming t nnMTPnUPRQIF monaeu ana utner nepuoucans WASHINGTON, March 18. The sol diers' bonus muddle is to be referred to President Harding: again. Representative Mondell, of Wyoming, the Republican house leader. an nounced today that he had requested a conference ,with the executive for to morrow evening after the return of Mr. Harding; from Florida. He said RETURN r OtiO JT lKUi J house by,- other members of the house The specific nuroose of the proposed nf SnlonS Aim Volleys Jronference' was not disclosed by Mr. Uinber Ui U1V Mondel!, but it w&s reported that he would seek to obtain the President s views on the compromise bill with its bank loan provision in lieu of a cash bonus as well as his opinion as to whether the measure should be callcl. up Monday under a suspension of the rules, as most house -leaders desire. Mr. Mondejl's announcement follow ed a conference between Speaker Gil lett and Republican house leaders. Mr. Glllett announced afterwards that f he would not make up his mind before Monday mornine as to - whether he would' entertain a motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill. Such a mo- ... u r( "nifTirAnre Ts flUe r leiti ui Covered ah Debates UpoRTEKS OF PACT sLl T,ir riTT?X FOES' At And Defend Arms Agreement V.ASHIN l-day For .-r, ,v March 18. The ry c m troversies centering -.v.- conference was review. t -,- senate today during an I on the four-power Pa- : tr rii time eince early in the .'...y .j ttpporters joined bat- with its irreconciiaDie op- re of senators and ful-! issues u- 1 : M'O "".nv -ues of the treaty fight were ';.ra lulu union i. r iui inson, Democrai, Arsa- , .... fiolr? Hav nf nratnrv iiirtfQ " - ' ' . J : 1 UA rn .'OiTi't uipiuiuatj. Yvaa by Senator tlon would block all amendments and also prevent a motion to recommit the bill with instructions XX, the ways and means committee. . The conference in the speaker's offlce lasted for more than an hour and was .behind closed doors. Mr. Mondell was delegated as afflcial spokesman and made this statement: "We discussed the question of the bonus in all its phases, fully, freely, good natuedly, but did not reach- any definite conclusion or make any defi nite arrangement." Preparation of minority reports on the bonus bill by both Democratic and Republican members of the ways and means cpmmittee -vV-ent ahead today, but they will not be presented until Monday. Representative Kitchin", of North Carolina, the Democratic house leader, who appeared unexpectedly at the capitol yesterday for the first time in nearly a year, and other Democrats were writing a report opposing the bank loan provision. Representatives Treadway and "Tllson were preparing a joint report for the Republican minority. HARDING TO TARE UP SOLDIER AID PHASES ahead of Bonus item Plans To Discuss Hospitalization And Vocational Training Features of are1 Sena! tnen '.r.i in attack filt--;, rniiicii, California, who ' .. , i. 4 1 T niir.powfr pact. joined in with an assault on the ;na -i--g settlement as an example of V "sort "f diplomacy with which he When the discussion drifted to the naval limitation treaty ana its iortin ca:kn prohibition, Senator Poindexter. Republican, afninjion, ojienaeu inc Conference as a real peace accomplish ment, and whei the Shantunsr agree ment was Republican :rp Shantung- treaty to support his ar gument taai ine 'cunierence nau pro RALEIGH POLICE GET MEMPHIS SUBURB IS i i QUANTITY BAD LIQUOR ROCKED BY GAS BLAST - Two Italians Arrested in Raid; Cocaine and Other Dope Taken Gasoline Tank Explodes and - Several Buildings Burn; None Killed MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 18. Holly wood, a Memphis suburb, was rocked late today by the explosion of two tanks of gasoline at the plant of the By BROCK BARKLET RALEIGH, March 18. A booties liquor sensation with a real metropoli- i i.t, hsra rdftv with the r. .. th,..,fl iRoval Refinine company. A nflmber of ( hurp bv tne ponctj oi tuuoc- - of cocaine, denatured , employes are reported to have sustain """"'""S uu ... i ., jj; K.,rn. 1-nt no fa TssMilPd Senator Ijnrnot. onU a nA other , chemicals eu uimui mjuu .. . Wisconsin, read portions of 1 ' u0 .-w uaders of a ' tallties occurred, as almost all the em- trans c-f Italians who have been en- ucea a sreat aeai 01 actual oenent to i gaged in , tne manui-uiD iii: d. l i ri.'d I t u auuicaacs suuifoi liuk i i i imKAiAH "firnrcn nuuui w i in ii in 1 4u if ci itne toiir-power paci were maae Dy ssen- ors Jones. Republican, Washington, ir.Q Capper. KepuDiican. Kansas, T mannor in which the treaty was pifgot:atrj, tin' cnarg:e tnat insumcient r.form.tttori had been supplied the sen- ployes of the plant had left the grounds before the explosion occurred. The principal explosion occurred when the Are reached a 32,000 gallon gasoline . tank which had been par- liniild seizure and arrest are the results of , j ictlirfttlnn bv the police I S '.. .,iti- of a c-ane of Italians 1 tialJy emptied, and" which .company of who came here recently from Phila- Acials say ,dfd not" contain jnpre than dtilDhia- Tnere were T laKen New Bern Commissioner Holds Two For Trial ormer Collier To Be Airship Carrier WA.SHIXCTON-. March 18. The for v naval collier Jupiter, first turbo- etric propulsion vessel to be built, bo .-commissioned Monday at the "ftik naval base as the naval air- 311? oarr'-.cr- T 1 mi !-! i - i . v i j iiu iwv- I 1 1 y n I ii M N . i r1 . v um.m n -mrgoinsr the psocess -of conver- White, alias Charles Jones, also wanwo n for morP than a year and has in Alamance county, is in jau n eie m fn fittA.-i -i.-., . . . I . K-n nf $1,000 along wnn - j in d. iop aecK on wnicn aeiaun i . .ofjl1,lt Df '."its can land as n with 0r.Q, Havu-nnd Ham, a negro, in derauii oi starting :hem intb the air while th S200 bond foUowing their hearing inis "P under way. afternoon before U. S. commission! . Ah LaneiPy. first irnin. r, I nunner on charges of manufactur- aririA.i . I rr, ThAV will be neia wr line V ; !hraT rped'of iXerffSSS: which convenes here next land or Chlcago. probably next wek oxin1a:. y uots and dTspllces SJSS TO men were 'i0 " el?7 in CaS6 0Por8 ;"t ia-: j,,no t x officials with two giant steam di"tlllef" an miners fail to arrange a new now yrr:,.r J?!.. -!T fr hundred gallon capacity worWllo. contract before April i. bot-The seven In tne. . .. - - . . I Us - 1 . s-f am t if fa.i ure to InclTtrtft rmtmlri I --,.1: rtresumauiv nave two. reputed to be :ig thoir interests were amofisr tho-4b;e the leaders of "the gang, are oemg w ijaestion 1'iougni into ine v -1 jn - jail sr iTnfe'ds. Iv.ocrat, Tenne8ecwlMiIticl-or .v..u ...u. L.n. - . w.wM . . ,J WBflu W ff 111 ff : rW ' r Auckland Geddes, had been nuoted I ties -bearing the : label ot pure a SDeech in Los Anerelfcs u vlrtu.llv I to.A in hond "Scotch. wnisuey, lying that a war in the : Orieitt 5 had contents really compose cocaine, n averted by neerotiation of thk neW I nt.. denatured alcohol ana oineir. tr. I chemical of :. a dangerous character. Senator Johnson immediately, in-I The property was smzeu ojr m v""v blred since when the ambassador had I in two separate places, tne equipment n making speeches to Californians I having been -distributed among support of the treaty and Senator floor, rear, rooms or two siore duh-.. cDmson declared that if it were true lngs on back streets. xne capture 'anan h.lrl hepn nppnurlnc tn 4ttof-lr T7Mlgi- mnrninK Of tWO SUll Cases U- American possessions in the Pacific It fed with bottles of the fluid gave tne. oj.d oe hard foi him to support either j officers the clue wnicn ieu ThP ft q v t r.tK,, i.,..in I -.norsi for mittiner into botues. ' - "-ui' UU I lUl J I. -J i Li 1 a Vj U C3 D1U11 I III KJ.UJy V - to the been HAS NO ENGAGEMENT YET WITH LEADERS STATE TO , io.ooo gallons. It let go with a roar wmch could be heard . several miles x mW ianK eonapsfid Tew momenta lateiy-Th. iBfcApradlniH u.reciro ut. opiy-A. tew; sheds and BmlXuildings Vere. destroyed, the main part.of the -plant beittg-.sved. - Bff orti of firemen were confined to saving- nearby buildings . andr another storage taink which contained" 20,000 gallons of -rued oil.- : - Th.ei Are originated with the explo sion of a, wagon, tank,; which -was being-filled. ( The driver of the truck who could give nos explanation as to the cause of the xpioskv was thrown some distance, butf'was only: - slightly bruised. ;A. smaller gasoliiifl tank also caught, fire and the blaze Jumped to the f1?8 ' tapk which exploded. Officials f . the iCOmOATlV tnnlo-V, " . , T.ll ' Vro n'nokl. ' ' ' . o opened the hope of some members of The discovery causea mei l r. ti" , 've estimate of senate who had hoped to lay the I Glenn to issue a warning .Ba.v - - x- tne neigh eaty aside durine the lrst days of drinking. Of whisKey woeueu oo xt week in order to give attention to I by the people of Raleign. . 'Reports nave come -w - de-ed likely by the leaders that in- large quantity of bottiea in rt wonui hp iiffi?Br.t tr. irn I mhtVfiv has been scatterea xnrougn- J"io:! 50inff practically without out the city and people who have come iterruption until after ratification into' possession ot any snoum oCwiP 'te is taken under a unanimous tcon- of the stuff, r.t agreement on Friday. warned the chief. Two Men And Still iken By Offices bdrhoo flA". ill- - " .uc," -."- t numes, rearing that the entire suburb would k be de stroyed byieserles of explosions. - . , : ' ' Coal Miners Ready To Walk Out April 1 NEW (Special to the Star.) i3 xt.tk Tv. Marc ii is. 3lcvt. NEW YORK, March 18. Six hun dred thousand union miners in the anthracite and bituminous fields will quit work April 1, unless some unfore seen solution of the present wage con troversy; Is offered in the meantime, John I. Lewis, president of the inter national organization of United Mine Workers, announced today. Plane for evacuation of the mines alreadv are under waj', Mr. Lewis said. In the event of a walkout, crews of 'pumpmen, engineers, firemen, watch men and helpers will remain at their posts to prevent flooding of the mines and maintain the properties, he said. Final orders for withdrawal of the men will be issued by the general poli cies committee of the u.nlon at Cleve- 2T nonproflo t nnmll 11.A elision of twn haffla 07,; Ui,- ' T'n.- sa-.i navy three and iour uuu ri"r eiTtpn nnTit in janes cuuuij 'a pita Bern tns a forced maiion treaty morning '-r- t officers earners with a displace- nrohibition agenis --s- h lame on themT andhey wen 8Ceize the two operators ' only af r had tehasea int mps turbo-electrle dred yaras heiA run an,i nau ttii""' " ... . . . . 1 . ..-!- . rtT rw "men nas Been simnMrturt ml m aoumwcov - . th. i.ri ,f:rr 'rri w. D. Allen ana a wo uuiuaiiuii iremy mormue - i ntv officers. ibition agent tlw. "3.000 ions and a ned of bin: plants were runnms nn 3n knots. -1,-" vas built at the Mare -din :i nr iaimit. ni.A itm.ii " " . . utio.i lu maae 1 ici , o a ten-sraiion n he-- 'c--:rd of snowed tne successful keg or nqu" ru.; ; ri tw-e-allon "r propelling machinery corked UP ana "4" " . oci- u ' - . Two thousana years. She will be used I jug was under the 'et P at capacity a an'alrplane car- 1 1 V. A nlJiTlt. cers raiaeu;"- -72. xnvrt alornr as "a training ship and a 1 arall6ns of Deer were r t:ie air fleets of the naw with the outfit- '- ,wrtT, 'u, a.-tivo t,o v x..T" 0;..i, tit New ern imo -nc uauiB Oi""1".. B...f inaLsted tniS working contract before April 1 The order to suspend operations in the anthracite field April 1 already has been issued by the miners general wage council in session at Shamokin, Pennsylvania. An arbitration commit- i tee of eight, composed of operators and miners, will meet here Tuesday, to discuss a new wage scale for this fieri. Work in bituminous mines automat ically will cease April 1, Mr. Lewis as serted, because of the operators' refu sal to meet with the" miners in' accord ance with the terms of their last contract. whiPh she could bv, - lnaiiJted this I not keep by the officers, .-----. hliai. was hl9-PT9 TTJt to get off on a t,cr and was about to gei w u tw I T" " , v. nonutv Marsiiai j.u Bl Fir , r KI3CORD I Small DOHU w o ---- - - . d ec. -s L"; . 1 bi.n. smith "jissKsa r6" v.i ' na captain ot tne qgrnsw. . m hfl. had -been on Stewart nn the v. tr.T, -K team, broke the In- ' rord for the l.OttjO-yard Pnt ft indoor irampi at tha armory. Cutbils - time was 2:12. iiimiif n"VM,N WINTAIN DIES lmr8l' Star.) s'i ah-.,. V-"" -uarcn is.--E. C. Nye, years, died today at hla . , . . -'urn 1 V. c n , orr . Jrf aamlttea that he was man want.a In Alamanae for altHHt-. mTSHN13L. Fla March 18. Mrs. Ida T?.L5r hr daught.rs, Mrs. 'l:i f. 1 Robeson countv. ' De l"'f n nl for some time. He 'nagAd in the - merca.nt.il a 'jr number of yers and I years oldi An jail r... :. , B Iarm- The' funeral , , . "v,:i "om iiic Branch I an tnian v ae-o. filed " 1 ot whlich-lAf.A9j(il-vni found ln. a Dona.nerv . . -"-.Sunday at , . clrcrtt jfcmrt lt,iSo., ior ineir.i" -" , . . tK i,.Ar. corpys. Judge .Bullock t-.-SJ, ing,bn thoVPitioii u rr- Man And Wife Die When Theater Burns AUGUSTA, Ga., March 18. James A. Tant, 60, and his wife, 45, were burned to death here at 3 o'clock this morning when Jhe Grand Theater, an old play house, ' was gutted by fire. The Tants made their home on an upper floor of the building. While the firemen were fighting, the theater fire, flames broke out in a pool -room-next door. The fire authorities charge both fires to incendiaries and declare their be - th. Mtn of murder in connection r wa9 an inrani wnu -'ZZ atrn ied Git IT HO.t .. ' " FIDESiCE VOTE ?rpc. -'arph 18. fRv A-naKlat '.vac 9 belated Government "of Premier r'n us first vote of confl. --l-amber of deputies to--ote v.-aa 275 to S9- ' ' : TOfctuwtftn and hM daughters, to incendiaries ana uwmie weir De Yftt. nd WhittiAgton, 16viief that the several 'fires here during iv.,. charsred witn l the oast four months -were tne result or arson, "xne siaie nru nmrcnai .nas been summoned and local representa tives of fire underwriters are demand ing an investigation. The owner of the theater hag offered a $500 reward for the conviction of the nre.bugs juxd lhe city authorities, an nounce they will on Monday offer a re ward in . the case, i Tant was stage manager of the Im perial theater "hera. ; - t. TV M. Seymqur, ioci physician afso held on a flEi would apply to'JudsBullock for hail. ON BOARD PRESIDENT HARDING'S TRAIN, NEATl SAVANNAH, GaJ March 18. (By Associated Press) President Harding will take-up, ahead of soldier bonus, two, phased ' of -government aid for former service-men when he re turns to Washington; tomorrow, namely hospitalization and vocational training,. These will be discussed at the white house conference Sunday night between the President, Director General Forbes of the Veterans -bureau, Brigadier Gen eral Sawyer, General Daves and offi cials of the American Legion in Illi nois. " The President has no engagement with the house Republican leaders as yet to talk over the soldier bonus sit uation, it ,becam.e-known today, and wiii not see thereuntil Monday.; ; ' . The President today declined to com ment on. the soldier bonus situation as reported from Washington and. was said to feel that any advance statement on any conference he may have with Chairman Fordney and other house "Re publican leaders Monday on the subject would be improper The President is known to retain the same. .position-on. the bonus as out lined in his letter-:t9 Chairman Fordney which was enaqtment of a- sales tax or postponement of the legislation. Administration officials ' are said, to be of the opinion, that there is small likelihood that the bonus bill in its present form will finally be enacted into, law and they are. representing, as feel ing that the:' senate will not pass it without some ta'xa't'on feature to raise the fund. High administration official are declared to. believe the President will re-state his position to the house leaders and they-expect to see the senate adjourn without passing the bill in its present forih. Belief that the matter-should be postponed until some means is: thought. yf paying the amount in one lump sum and, not in dribblets is said to be groWig in administration circles. :'': '?: Akeili-;flr,'V'IevnB The Illinois Leifim officials, it was said, have been ri l(riiig the plan, of hopltaJiiatioBi arid, toeatlof lal training ofc ?f orm'ftjrii srtt6&1&n.frA. Saow car- have been asked to lay-bef, re the Pres ident and th other .government offi cials responsible;, any-constructive plan or suggestion" they might have which they think , would' be better or any im provement bn "that which the govern ment is folloying. - ' The. government,' it was' declared, is anxious to.dolr everything , possible for the men who were wounded or disabled in the service and is always ready to receive anr's.narge'stlon looking to bet terment. The whole situation .is. ex pected to -De-- gone", over at the white house conference Sunday night and an amendments which may merit will, it was asserted, be helpfully received. The proper .safegdarding of the aid for the former service men, "and at the same time the . determination to see that all possible assistance js rendered the men who' are bearing disabilities a a result of their army service is the constant aim , of thhe government, it was add o. Mr. Harding was consulted by Secre tary Denby over the long distance tele. phone at St. Augustine on . the navv fuel situation, it was asserted, and was understood to have told Mr. Xenby to carry out the intentions of congress and practice all the economy in fuel possible. . The navy secretary was said to' have felt that the $6,300,000 aDnro- priation for fuel for the navy for: the rest of the fiscal year was insufficient and Jt would hardly be possible to keep the navy steaming. Mr: Harding; is un derstood to have sugges ed that every thing practical be done to carry out the wisnes or congress without crippling tne navy. " xne navy secretary told the Presi dent, it was said, the situation con cernmg tne west Virginia and the Washington and of tne final decision to order - the completing of the West Virginia, now building at Newport News, va., because it was nearer com pletion than the Washington. Want tf Take Trip Mr. Hardins-.-wilJ be unable to make the trip to. Alaska until congress ad journs, It was declared, although he feele that it would be well worth whlJe to get a first hand information as to : conditions in the territory. The Pres ident is very much interested In Alas ka and desires, to do everything: possi ble to make' it prosper. Should con gress remain in .session until the . first of August It 'would then be too late for the president to make the trip, admin istration officials with the party said The President will make no cam paign speeches this year, it was added He is booked for three speeches in the near future, however, one at the un veiling of the Hamilton mounment, the Grant memorial in., Ohio, and the Lin coln memorial in "W ashington. . Mr. Harding, during the few min utes the: presidential train stopped at Jacksonville -to change engines,- walk ed forward and shook hands .with the engineer, ftreman-and members of the train cre,wj He was cordially greeted and the engineer on the train north from Jacksonville was told by the President to take his time. "I will be careful the engineer, replied, as. the chief executiye shook his ; hand and Iwished him well. Accompanying the .President homers Under Secretary of State Fletcher, who said h had about two days, work to do after reaching" wasqingron Deiore re linquishing his present position. Mr. Fletcher- said he expected to leave the first Of next months to take up his du ties as ambassador to Belgium. VICTORIOUS IN SUIT OF FIVE RAILROADS SEEKING STAY PAYMENT OF TAXES UNLESS DECISION IS REVERSED STATE GETS OVER HALF MILLION Payment Within Next Thirty; Days Is Ordered In Opinion PLUCK AND INGENUITY OF SKIPPER IN DEFEATING FIRE ON SHIP WHILE GUNS HELD STOKERS AT WORK, TOLD Captain of Liner Potony Passengers in Staterooms While Grew, Under Guns fleers, Labors With Engines' and Fire; Stunt During War Dodging Subs Aids . Skipper vrenching Blaze After 16 Hours NEW YORK, Mfe. j-A. thrilling i r tale of fire at sea.'Sith 104 panic stricken men and women locked in their state rooms and stokers held at their Posts under the threat of drawn pistols, was related by passengers of the United' States liner Potomac, when she arrived here today from Bremen. It - was a tale of Yankee pluqk and ingenuity of a skipper's refusal to give up his ship until every hope had been abandoned, and of his acceptance of the "thousand to one chance" which turned a threatening catastrophe, into a merely harrowing ... experience for those, aboard. , , , . .. - The fire" was discovered at midnight;, March 2, a few hours after the Potor mac, with Captain William. McLeodll charge, sailed from Bremen ur the coast of Holland into the North Sea. She had been steaming alonjc on a smooth sea when suddenly, wl.th howls of warning the Spanish and Filipino stokers bounded from the hold and started for the "life boats. 1th revolvers, ordered them aov- tn the fire room, which had be-l come an inferno of smoke, with flames. billowing from, an adjoining cumyii.r. -n.Ao mattresses, life preserve nicui w i - - - ers and ships stores naa mysienuu, taken fire. . a x c . - . ..i,w tvrniio-li the ship. ine UUH--tJ ... .o-r5 hrolte from their rooms and made for the lifeboats. Cap- tain-McLeod sent steyarus w . them back and prevent the frenaled ones from leaping -owboard. Chief Bneineer is. .. ivi. - i "- .- ady.had placed guards over the boil- room crews, ana sireaii-o were spouting tons of water on blaze. ' ' "V,:.. Huge clouds of smoKe pomu v. the 'hatchways, the almost TZ heat around the stoKers, v". w . fire, gave evidence that it was gaining headway. At 1 a. m. the fire had become so fierce that the decks were hot. At 4 o'clock the Potomac slowed down to half speed. At 4:50 Captain McLeod ordered the engines stopped and the blazing craft rolled sluggishly about while the whole crew turned fire fighters." - Seamen went over the sides in bos'ns chairs with sledge hammers, smashed in the cast iron port lids, and directed their hose into the heart ; of the tnre, but. without effect. Even live steam, turned into the hatchways, failed to retard the flames. k. .At, 8:20 a. m., after the S. O.- S. had been sent out and a rescue, vessel was beav-fng to, to await the result of the bittlW Cantain McLeod decided that; GOVERNOR MORRISON PLEASED WITH VERDICT Says It Is "Great Victory Fr Most Just Tax System In America" w oatye captain Jl" " " rni rrairoad3 against the payment of taxe .(W.;; hcoii ViIr shin lie would r .. .. ...... f ? w 1 an M A, v m lir 9 t Iave for Home JACKSONVILLE, Fl March 18. rBr Associated Press). The vacation trin" of. President. Warding was ended today and tonight the chief executive and Sirs. Harding jvere en route i io Washington;"where their special train 104 state - re er try a stunt he learned during the waii while dodging enemy submarines, - He' steamed ahead at top speed, until the whole ship throbbed with the vi bration and her outline was almost obscured by. the dense smoke sweeping v&ati. finflflenlv he ordered the rud der hard-over. As the vessel careened. in h "comeabout" her starboard side Utted so sharply as to throw the tons. ot water in her noia up ai.one . and over the heart 'of the fire. Imme diately the flames subsided, and at 4 p. m., sixteen hours after the alarm was sounded, the fire was under con trol 'and the vessel resumed her voyage. Chief Engineer Garland was over come by heat and-fumes in the last hour of the- fierht and . was under the care of the ship's surgeon for several days, according to passensers who narrated the tale. Richard Albrecht, chief ofncer.'and a seaman were slight- y ThiU Potomac still had about thirty tons of water in her hold when .with 'ttstNto port, she steamed In today. By BROCK BAtKlRY RALEIGH, March The state -.ff North Gar.qiina -emerges the viotofln the railroad suits, under decisions handed', down today by the "special court, consisting of1 Federal Judges Waddell, Boyd and Connor, denying the interlocutory injunction asked, by. Jive : iwo Washington boIon Says Voters Will Stand With G. 0. P. Jones Charges Democrats Have "Opposed" Work of Ke-publicans tinn by the pePe - ------ - l i,rvprdict of the last election- was predicted by Senator Jones Re publican, Washington, in. a speech to Say in .which; he awerted ttat. the srork which nis pany - . n a n m T I i.k n vu.a UWl"- L. v r- heritage of the last administration and lie i -cfe v.t,i,Hnnist. persistent uemocrauu vwov tactics. M . WOB The Washington senaiui m attempting to "maKe a ;wr-u cise" statement of the Republican re cord but to ao SO it wa-B J 7" w at AVfvrv turn" the Democrats had sought to delay, obstruct and oth mkP the work of the raajor- Cl W iO,- - .j.-.-, .! itv appear as of aouonui vaiuc. The American . peopie m conclusion as to now iney wn next November, Senator Jones assert ed "will take into account not only what wb have done ana tne condi tions under which we have done it, but also the results of the first years of the Democratic administration un der Woodrow Wilson". 'We were in normal peace nines he continued. "The war naa not rje- o-nTi TMo one exaecteo it. xi un Democratic 'party can run the country well it should have done so then. How did it succeed? Have the people for- o-nttftn? This is what tne iaci aim the -records- show.. We h'ad business depression, idle labor, curtailed mar kets, reducer revenues, greater appro AKed tn Plot' To5 Dynamitq Car Gompany Lines Declare Portsmouth Strikers Planned To : Destroy Bridges PORTSMOUTH, Va' .March 18. A plot with wide ramifications to blow up bridges and property and cripple ser vice of the Virginia Railway and Pow er company, operating street car lines in this city and vicinity, has been un covered by. Norfolk county police. Two men who, it is alleged, attempted to blow up the company's. Cradock bridge have been arrested and police lines have been cast for others involved in the nlot. The company is engaged in a strike with its platform employes of two months duration. W. J. Cox, a motorman formerly em ployed by the company, was arrested this afternoon in connection with the attempt last night to blow up the bridge. Another former employe, W. H. Callaway, was arrested on the scene of the attempt by officers who had maintained a five-day-and-night watch.. -' Callaway and Cox, according to the police, had tamped two sticks of dy namite into holes bored into the foun dation of the bridge and had attached fuses, when . they were surprised, the former being overpowered-by the offi cers while the latter made his escape bV fleeing into swamp land bordering the company lines. , County police .'claim to have conclu sive evidence against the two men held and others whom they expect to arrest within twenty-four hours. Informa tion in the nanos oi tne onicers to priations, increased transportation njgnt indicates, they said, that the at i-iites. soeciaJ dirfect and multiplied taxes and a higher and increasing cost of living.- The party that made; such a dismal failure then and showed such poor leadership after, the war, cannot be- trusted to solve th great and difficult questions that iace; us now; . Senator Jones, told the senate that tempt to blow-up the Crad-cK bridge was but the first of a series of out rages planned against the company to destroy property and effectively crip ple service. One charge of dynamite was planted within eighteen inches of the water main supplying radock, a community the Republicans, one they were able to 4,000 people and the federal govern function.in congress without the cer- cent's ammunition depot at St. Jullen'g tainty of a presidential veto, had been f creek and have destroyed, officers said, compelled to untangle and unravel "the j tne high tension wires supplying those two places with electric power. County officers disclosed last night that a mysterious explosion early last Tuesday morning for which no explana tion was given had been an unsuccess ful attempt to wreck the Cradock bridge. maze wrought by eight years of Demo cratic control. . ; , ' i i . , Brother Wilmington Man Succumbs As He Guides Speeding Train JACKSONVILLE. Fla., March 18. Louis G. Dowell, 45, engineer in charge of an Atlantic Coast Line passenger train, fell unconscious at the throttle of his engine today while running full nneeri near Hainesworth and died a short time later In the baggage car, Confederates Will Have Reduced Rate MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 18. An nouhcement that th,e United Confeder ate Veterans will still be allowed the where he was taken after the fireman "-'' " a T iw where ne was i n . the annual reunion In Richmond, Va., was made by railroad officials here to- .tonned the train. Mr. Dowell was a brother of W. W. Dowell, of Wil mington, N. C general paymaster for the Atlantic Coast Line system. . Phy sicians said death resulted from acute indigestion. " - - . , . Brother Iavee ' W 1 "W. Dowell, brother of the .de ceased, left Wilmington yesterday af ternoon at 3:30 o'clock - P- '"f61 a telegram omi Jacksonville. Fla telling of the death of his brother L. G. DowelL The telegranr arrived here shortly- before . 1 p. m,, Saturday, but contained no details, 1 : day. The Southeastern Passenger as sociation at a meeting in St. Augustine last month announced that the reunion rate this year would be one fare for the- round trip. This announcement raised a storm of protest from the vet erans with the result that the rail roads have granted the old rate. The cent-a-mile rate will apply only to veterans and dependent members of their families traveling with them and members of other Confederate organi zations- ; Others .attending, the reunion will pay half fare. vnlun tinn The f Seaboard, Southern,' Atlantic . Coast Line, -'Norfolk.: Southern and At lantic and .Yadklrt "railways must pay to the state and the various counties within the next 30 days taxes in" excels or a half million dollars, held up pend ing the outcome of the suit." The i-railro. d, of course, have . the right of appeal to the supreme cou r.t. and -it- was considered that this. : step would -be- taken. : Nevertheless; the vic tory for the ' state- is significant, ft was hailed by- Governor Morrison ;as "a great victory for the most just taxi sys tem in America.' Tax Commissioner Watts, members of the council of state, the attorney general's office arid iall of ficials and state's attorneys Interested in the contest were elated over the de cision. . . "The court after consideration of the bills, exhibits; adfrldavits and argument of counsel," reads the per curiam de cision "is of the opinion that, for the purpose of this' motion-only, complain they have neither in their, pleadings nor upon their proofs adduced, made such a case as entitled them to have an , .. MapinAHtnrv -in f r-nction in said- cfttise . .,- if?:feaor"and the motions for tieh interlocutory injunctions in respect to theirad Valorem and the franchise and privilege' tax should' not be- granted, and said motions and each of them is denied." The decision of the oourt was unanimous In regard to the imposition and en forcement of. the Income tax against the railroads, the court gives the opin ion that the "contentions sought to be made by complainants" are not pre sented "upon- the bills and proofs her '-I. The court,, therefore, does not pass upon, or express any opinion respect to the validity of the income tax.'or the statutes enacted for its en forcement. Complaints may, in respect to such income tax, proceed without, prejudice in such manner as they may bj advised." The complainants sought in an in terlocutory injunction against the pay ment of taxes on the state's assessment, a franchise ' tax and the Income tax. The court's decision goes against them in each case. The court's decision followed, a three day conference in the chambers here of Judge H. G. Connor, .of the eastern North Carolina district. The decision came as somewhat of a surprise, as it. had been announced that considerable time might be. necessary to arrive at:a conclusion. ' ' . " Officials of the state department, revenue were unable this afternoon to give figures as to the exact amount the roads will be. required to' pay into the state treasury within 30 days.. They had paid on a S14l.740.535' assessment, as ordered by the. court, during the hearing ''at Greenebpro. . The decision upholds the original assessment of 209,250,400, so that" the roads must pay to the counties on $67.509,865. The tax rate varies in the counties. In ad dition, there is a franchise tax or Ju, 250.40 that must tie paid, and the In come tax wiiramount1 to 'considerable, the aggregate tax forthcoming to the state and counties as the result' of the decision exceeding the half million dol lar mark. .. The state's assessment and the as sessment on which the roads Fou.ght to pay is iyen by the revenue. depart ment as follows: . . . Name. Original. PaldjOn: Southern . .$96;306,357 S6O.0OO.0OO Atlantic & Yadkin 4.104,709 175,(56 Atlantic C'st Line 51,163,717 34.645.3f5 Norfolk Southern. 22,840,952 . 18,000.060 Seaboard Air Line 34,834,685 27;il9,384 Pursuant to the provisions of tl.e (judicial code the complainants may ap peal directly to tne suprumc i.uui. y. the United States irom tne reiusi oj. the three, judges to grant . the . injunc unna tii further proceedings will be before the district Judges acting sep arately in eacji case pending in tneir districts. Upon the appeal, the su preme court may, upon cause shown to them, state further proceedings" by the state until the decision oi mo h peal. This jurisdiction ' of the tnree judges Is confined to hearing and de ciding the motion for. an Interlocutory Injunction.. This provision was origi nally an act of cdngress ititroduced by Senator Overman. . Its wisdom Is man Lfest, bringing to the' hearing three judges, Instead of one. ; Funeral Today For r Julian S. Carr, Jr. DURHAM, March 18. Funeral er-' . vices will be held Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock for JnWatt S. Carr, Jr., eld est son of General Julian-8. Carr, and president ef the Durham Hosiery Mills. who died Friday morning In New York. : The services will r be conducted t "SomeraetA ttae Carr. home place in this city, Rev. A. D. Wilcox, pasterof -Trinity Methodlat church, being In charge, , V, J ll f V 4 . 1 f 1
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