North Carolina Newspapers

4 ' r t . .. J. iAt ,--:?' - Weather Fair Saturday and Sunday; Warmer. 8 Pages JDtOttit World, State and Local Nevs Daily 1 1 .,- '-,TE I)ED A. D. 1867. VOL. CXw No. 10. WILMINGTON, NC, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1922. For OLDEST DAILY IN THE STATE. iter I I I mm I - -A. . II ' j Jk. a M. A. W MS STATE ELECTION BOARD OPENS OFFICE TO PLAN PGR COMING ELECTION Cj; vnill"!! uanuio, Arrive tuc briber Used m rrimary, Will Be Necessary FKI?ON" REFORM BODY PROBES CONDITIONS 11 1 J. TkT 1 TS Attention Lanea xo jeea ror More Courts to Eliminate Confinement of Prisoners Star's News Bureau 313 - Tucker Bldg. By BROCK BARKLEY t Sept. 22. Reop'ening the here of the state- board of P. ALT ou' r.c !..?. Chairman Pearsall has set ry.-,r;,--. the machinery . for the No- yr general elections. The listing P'rr.cerats and Republican candid- ttato rtistrirtn strtri manv r r -it i'i uicci o v 5l iuc juu ui rr:nt:r.5 i-e ballots. Some six million .hem likely will- be needed for the : r printed for the Democratic prirr.ar.tr s. v.":.::e Colonel Pearsall is handling eI-crion machinery, a force of re-.cgrfiphers in state democratic com- rr.i"t-:e headquarters is carrying out the r.mer.ts of Chairman J. D. Nor- Hced as a part of the campaign to get the Democratic party the biggest 5 are ci these ballots. Chairman Nor v:jd is building up an effective or-E-.r.izd'icn which began to move with v.e ' keynote speech at Charlotte of tr.'.'tnior Morrison. "ra- the Republicans are doing in nay of a campaign to. gather in ...n-i or the votes has not been brought :- the open but it is understood Chairman W. G. Bramham is doing a -"'-..-iderable amount of "gum-shoeing" f-. - his office over in Durham. The R't -thcan campaign will bs quiet, v-h emphasis placed on the counties ?nd districts where Republican chances for success are brightest. A number of Republican candidates "-a ? been in Raleigh on their way f er to consult with Mr. Bramham, ar.d they reported quiet activity among leaders of their party. The Democrats, witha lotta -boast about '""f tn administration in the stare and lots to denounce of the re publican administration 'n Washing ton, are getting into the fall cam paign enthusiastically. Governor Mor rion s keynote sp-eech will be followed by (v-ra! over the state by party !-"drt. Including'' Senator Simmons, who has r Et-ed to come down for one r,r rrc r.dtiresses. Tbp committee of one hundred cn prison reform complain?, through an art i.-tc prepared by A. B. Andrews Ra zh attorney, of. the inf retiuency of crirc.ina'. court sessions in North Caro j coun'es. In a majority of the cc.intie" '-ir-t more than two, three or fn-;r ?fr5- ns are held a year and th?s ra-isc-s the imprisonment of persons rb..--:g'I with crime for an unroason sb't i,..-?ih of time and causes the ro-mriif g'eat expense. The committee, now making sur vey nf county prison systems with the v'tw nf submitting recommendations for new legislation at the 1923 session r,f rn general assembly, gives an air ing to the problem of long periods of o-.rfin-ment in jails before trials as "n phase of social problems it is "neagtrj in studying. ?rq ti? tics given by Mr. Andrews show rp a- the. average person in North Caro sccused cf crime, in the average c . may be held in jail for 15 t---s. if unable to give bond, and if an-- 0f Tvc material witnesses against irn th,,,! be sick or absent, the state "-oj;(3 h9 entitled to continue the case 'tr.ri' f- next criminal term or another M- Andrew's table shows that 24 counties cf the state have criminal rr,Jr, rriv twjce a year, 32 counties v?--e i "fsion only three times a year only four times. Eight coun ; -.3-five terms annually; one, R'l'rr'-Tshe. has six terms a year; New Hi --r ?cven. Guilford, Madison and M"'-!er.b'tr?, eight, and Wake, ele ven H- t'v-ur the state's court system 'f.r i e r.-.ved whereby this situa 'or, rrif materially remedied, even " t only to take the first of f-- r-- -w t rm as a time for prison ' p'.ad guilty, or give a judge r1 : - -"'o-' to hold a special term when -: is-. .-rs in jail Justify it. -. Carolina school marms have : vo "politicing" against the -"-'ir.s'v- and the enemy of educa ' r'-jratj,; tjio high-tax booer and ' ',"c'-fd few of old foggies who '" ' ,J- 'tther hive the tax rate cut a -'-on to eeV the county a new -1 hr ise. ? -u ade to enlighten and in rv.e public and bring .it into a - T'husiastic support of the for '' 'ement of the educational for ' -. n-ork of Secretary Jule War rf ,no state teachers, assembly, fJ.ed his army of teachers - rKisvonary field as instructors, ' .-i the children but also of ' and the grand-parents. :"i'f iust now Is making its big-c,T-!des in an educational way, " i n the support of an informed :g: orance and illiteracy can be " r f f 'he Tar Heel map. There is ' '-- cornty in the state but that ' ' - to a dozen school buildings un Millions of dollars are Paired out for providing educa fac'Mtfes for young North Caro ' iid the annual cost of operating -'no-Is in the counties of the state 23."nn.ooo just23 times what lfi or so years ago. HKVILI.E TO FLOAT BONDS f "F.VILLE, Sept. -22. Asheville ,'. flat a bond issue not to exceed - ' ""'0 early next year, the oroceeds i-r",T -'vhich be uad ln the con- ""tr,J'tion of, an impounding reservoir " '"-e city's water shed. Work on the l;?? of the site and preliminary de begin at once, . .. , , ..... Peace in Near East Depends On Keeping Straits Neutral Until End of Allied Parleys Guns May Begin to "Speak" Be fore Conference Agrees on Terms of Greco-Turk Settlement ENGLAND DETERMINED TO KEEP DARDANELLS OPEN Semi-official Statement Declares British Government is Seek ing Nothing For Herself LONDON, Sept. 22. (By Associated Press). The question of peace in tlu near ast seems to turn tonight first i upon whether the question of the fu ture status of Thrace can be kept sep arate and distinct from the question of neutrality and freedom of the Darda nelles, and, second, whether the guns begin to speak before the negotiations between the allied representatives in Paris have ended. While there is not the slightest di minution in the announced determina tion of the British government to up hold the neutrality of the straits of the Dardanelles, a very significant semi official . statement issued this evening seems to indicate some modification of the British policy and its attitude to ward Greece in Thrace, whioh it may be assumed, is the outcome of the Paris negotiations in which Lord Curzon, the British foreign secretary, participated. This statement declared Great Brit ain was seeking nothing for herself, but that she would insist on neutral ization of the Dardanelles and free nn.Asne-A or tn waterway unucr mt- league 01 na. iiuna ui duuic vmvj . national organization. All other ques- j , . 41 Aw maw, C A,nfir 1 n T T- - t tiona were secondary. The nesotiations in Paris have not yet been completed, but according to advices received tonight from the French capital Prhnier Poincare is hooeful that by tomorrow a formula will be found acceptable to all parties and which will enable the allies to send a collective note to the Turks suggest ing a conference to arrange a peace be tween the Turks and the Greeks. One of the strongest charges made against Premier Lloyd George's near eastern policy, especially by the labor party, has been its pro-Greek char acter. The labor party announced that it was unwilling to engage the nation in a war for the fulfillment of Greek sTtiMtlo-ns. It has been commented upon as strange that after the pre mier's conference with the labor lead ers on Wednesday no report of the speeches made were published by either side to the conference. The silence, especially on the part of the laborites. was considered in some cuarters to .indicate that some expia- nation r concession to tne viewpu.ui. of labor was made by the premier. According to Constantinople advices received here Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the Turkish nationalist leader, demands within 48 hours guarantees for the evacuation of Thrace by the Greeks. On the other hand the Greek govern ment expresses the strongest deter mination to hold Thrace at all costs. France is suoposed to be willing to see the Turks back in eastern Thrace and if an agreement between the British and French governments on this matter is reached it is believed Greece would not be likely to oppose the views of a united entente. The foreign office has no confirma tion of the reoort that Kemal has fixed a time limit of 48 hours for the carry ing out of the required guarantees or or any advance movement by the Kem alist troops. According to the view expressed in official ouarters, the issue lies in Kemal's hands. There is no secret about the strength of the force that the nationalist leader is about to put in the field. No weight is attached to alarmist and exaggerated estimates of that strength. PARIS, Sept. 22. (By Associated Press.) Limited assurances involving the return of Constantinople, eastern Thrace and Adrianople to Turkey, were tentatively agreed upon today at a meeting of the conference of allied representatives and will be formally considered by the French and British cabinets tomorrow. Approval of these conditions of peace would mean a definite end to the near east crisis, and, it is hoped, would remove the possibility of a clash be tween the British and the Turkish na tionalists. To meet the insistence of the British that no claims of the An gora government should be accepted in advance of a peace conference, today's plan would be subject to a further dis cussion and approval by a full peace conference. Taking the so-called nationalist pact as a basis, the allied representa tives discussed for nearly four hours the Turkish demands. Lord Curzon, British foreign secretary, expressed some doubt as to whether his govern ment would agree with any of the conditions of the nationalists in ad vance of a peace conference, but he finally consented to forward the plan to London tonight. At first Lord Cur zon opposed even tentative approval of the Turkish demands before all the invited powers discussed them around the peace table, but the insistence of M Poincare, the French premier, won him over to the extent of accept ing them contingent on their full in dorsement by the British cabinet. M Poincare favored out and out ap proval of all the Kemalist demands, but it is realized in French government circles that the best that can be hoped for it limited acceptance by Great Britain. FORECAST BY STATES WASHINGTON Sept. 22. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia: Fair Saturday and Sunday; slowly rising temperature. Florida: Fair Saturday and Sunday; warmer ortlieat portion. Extreme northwest Florida, Alabama and Mississippi: Fair Saturday and Sunday." Tennessee and Kentucky: Fair Satur day and Sunday; no change in tempera-. " x - ' Forty-Six Victims Of Mine. Disaster Buried; -One Miner is Missing ! 5'-. BufS- ' in Jackson Ceases to cfribute; Band Leads .-nof Three Processions ; ,viSON, Calif., Sept. 22. (By the , r- ';ated,- Press.) The 46 bodies re ' ed from the Argonaut mine were t -zd today. " uBsess an QPf" ac" tivty or Jaxkson ceased. Even down in thedepth of the mine a rescue crew searching for the 4Uh victim stopped its labors. Twenty-seven bodies were borne to the Catholic church, eight to the Pro testant, and 11 to the Greek Catholic in three separate corteges. The ser vices at each church were an hour apart to permit the mourners to pay final honors to all. A ten-piece band playing dirges, headed each cortege. Over each grave -was placed a wreath, the final tribute of Jackson. The graves were in long rows. In front of them were provided benches for the many mourners. The relatives were taken to the church and cemeteries in special conveyances. The fate of the missing victim, Wil liam Fessel, remained as great a puz zle today as it was when it was an nounced that his body could not be found in 4,350 foot drift and cross cut where the other bodies lay. Fessel, whose laconic message that the gas was getting bad, tsras the only record left by the entombed men. may have e?,,rv4- n 1 ... ouuiu oaicLjf suinewnere m me venii- lator raise that extends from the 4,500 to the 3,900 foot level. This will be explored thoroughly. The search for Fessel will be con tinued until Jfec has been found or un til It is determined that he has been lost beyond recovery, it was announc-, ed today by E. A. Stent, vice-president of the Argonaut mine. Mine officials believe it would have been impossi ble for Fessel to have broken through the two bulkheads erected in the death drift by the entombed men. There is no doubt, they said today, that Fessel is dead. The distribution of relief funds to the dependents of the victims is in the hands of the Red Cross and the com pensation depa,rtmet cf the state in dustrial accident commission. Fverv LfT - "nreeks for 240 weeks. -each flAX pendent widow or next of kin will re ceive a check from the state. These checks ranged from $62 to $S4. C. & 0. Officials and Strikers Come to Terms Willard-Jewell Plan Used Ending Strike in RICHMOND, Sept. 22. The strike of shopmen on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, was settled early tonight by a conference of representatives of the strikers and the management. J. P. Parrish. general manager of the road, announced. The management, however, refused to consider any adjustment with the striking clerks, Mr. Parrish said. About 8.000 shopmen are included in the settlement which the general manager stated was "agreeable to both sides." The road has promised to take 1he men back within 30 days, according to Mr. P'arrlsh. The settlement was made on the basis of the Willard-Jewell agreement with the exception that the clause providing for the reinstatement of all strikers was dropped by the negotia tors. Under this clause the road would have been obliged to re-employ strik ing clerks. Convention of Orphan Association Closes J. J. Phoenix, of Greensboro, Is President By BROCK BARKLEY RALEIGH, Sept. 22. J. J. Phoenix, superintendent of the Children's Home Society, of Greensboro, was elected president of the North Carolina Or phanage association at the closing ses sion of its annual convention this af ternoon. - He succeeds C. O. Baird, su perintendent of the Od6 Fellows home at Goldsboro. Dr. L B. McBrayer, of the state san atarium, was elected first vice-president, and G. H. Garrett, superintendent of the Methodist Protestant home, of High Point, -second vice-president. State Labor Commissioner M. L. Ship man was re-elected secretary and treasurer. Dr. Archibald Johnson, of Thomaville Baptist orphanage and editor of Charity and Children, was named chairman of the executive com mittee. Today's sessions were given over to association reports and to addresses by Dr. McBrayer, Miss Edith Thomas and Miss Mary Shotwell, of the state child welfare bureau. OFFICERS ARE CONVICTED OF ASSAULT Oti NEGRO ELIZABETH CITY. Sept. 22. Police Officer Georje Twiddy, of this city, and Ralph Cuthrell, of Camden, were found guilty by a superior court jury tonight of assault with a deadly weapon on David Ovtrton, 16-year-old negro, who. it was: charged, they arrested April 2, without-?'warrant and who was found lour days later with a bullet wound in h.is back. Three, other defendants, al leged 'to have been In Twlddy's posse. were found not guilty, DAUGHTER OF-SLAIN CHOIR LEADER SAYS WOMAN KILLED "MOM" This Theory Accepted by Officers Investigating New Jersey Double Murder Mystery charlotte mills gives NAME OF THE ACCUSED Authorities State That Suspicion Had Centered About j This V Particular Woman NEW: BRUNSWICK, N. J., Sept. 22- (By Associated Press.) "A jealous woman filled 'Mom' and Mr. Hall." This assertion fitting in perfectly with the theory which authorities in vestigating the murder of Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills and the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall are bending every effort to prove, was made this evening by Charlotte Mills, 16-year-old daughter of the dead woman. It was the first time she had broken her silence save before the authorities since the trag edy stalked Into the humbls Mills home and left her its mistress. . "The woman I think killed Mom, ' she continued with bitterness in her voice, "was ."' She named a woman who he authorities also have admitted was the center of most of their suspicions. "This woman isn't an ordinary woman," she went on. "She has funny eyes that make you afraid of her sort of like a man. She hates young peo ple. She is three tfmes as strong as Mom. Mom weighed only 118. She didn't have a chance." Charlotte admitted she had given her aunt. Mrs. Elie Barnhart, of Paterson, a packet containing photographs of j Mr. Hall and of her mother. There also was one picture of Mrs. Hall, she" added. She said her." rh6ther gave her the packet before ah operation last sum mer, telling her to give it to Mrs. Barn hart in the event of her death. Charlotte s"n6t unaware of the stories on . w.hi.cJl ,tle supposed jealousy of her mother." Is .believed to be founded. .She,has,heard. the .gossip linkr ing her mothers name ian an unsavory way with thatrof the slain minister. But she believes in "Mom." "Mom did a lot of worlt- that a pastor's .wife should have done in Mr. Hall's church," she said. "My be some people con nected with theli church were jealous . . . , . . . her character was beyond reproach "A jealous woman helped by some man killed her." The jealousy theory was strongly supported .by several developments to day. Assistant Prosecutor Toolan, who has been directing the Middlesex county investigation, declared there was no doubt left in the minds of the investigators that jealousy was the motive. An arrest might be expected momentarily, he said. One of the strongest leads followed today was that of a reported attempt to poison Mrs. Mills at a tea party several weeks before she and the min ister were slain. Entire Personnel Of Railroads Asked For Concentrated Drive Harding Appeals to Men to Bend Efforts to Provide Ade quate Transportation WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. The entire operating personnel of the railways of he country was called upon todav by 'resident Harding for a "concentrated t Pr drive" for 30 days to provide tne trans portation facilities necessary to meet the national coal emergency. In a letter to Conrad E. Spens, vice president of the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy railroad, who was named today as federal fuel distributor under the new coal distribution, and anti profiteering act. the President declared that if the enthusiastic attention of tne railroads could be stimulated for a. month on the movement of coal and handling of empties "we could solve the coal situation not only as to ample supply, but prices would be read Justed." The President suggested that Mr. Spens takeup with the governors of the various states the question of pre vention of extortion, as the new act is limited to coal moving in interstate commerce only. "The federal government," President Harding said, "is loath o undertake to fix definite prices for coal, because of the objectionable character of such Intervention in peace times, because of the difficulty in arriving at fair prices without giving undue favor to some and loss to others and also because of the Incompleteness of an authority which is only supplementary to state action. "On the other hand, I wish you to set sufeh agencies as will vigorously follow up individuals usins facilities of'inter state commerce who are exacting ex tortion as defined in act, in order that we may have relief from such prac tices at the earliest moment." TWO CASES AGAINST JAMES F. BARRETT ARE CONTINUED SALISBURY, Sept. 22 The two cases against 'james F. Barrett, former pres ident of the North Carolina Federation of Labor, and editor of Charlotte and Asheville labor papers, in which he is charged .with being drunk and disor derly and carrying a concealed weapon, were continued in superior court here today until October 3. The continuance resulted from a let ter to the court from Dr. Glenn, of Asheville, which said Mr. Barrett was In a sanitarium and was unable to ap pear.' The alleged offenses are said to have been incidental to ".the "recent ' ' Spencer strike trouble BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS ADJOURN AFTER DEFICIENCY MEASURE PASSES IN SENATE WASHINGTON, Sept. .22. Congress adjourned sine die today with leaders generally expecting a. call from Presi dent Harding for a special session i November 15, preceding the regular December session. The President was in attendance to day for a few minutes before the final gavel dropped, to sign the usual sheaf of eleventh hour bills. The only im portant measure to get through on the last day was the deficiency appropria tion bill, the administration Liberian loan bill and the Dyer anti-lynching measure going over to the next session. Lacking in the adjournment today were many of the popular features, often attending the death of a congres sional session. The gallery crowds were small and undemonstrative and there were few floor wrangles. After disposing of the deficiency appropria ion bill, the senate passed a number of minor measures and listened to a few speeches while house members made one-minute addresses mostly for publication during the next few days in the congressional record and heard Representative Blanton, Texas, defend Attorney General Daugherty and criti cise Republicans, for alleged neglect in that respect. Speaker Gillett, after a brief ' speech, wishing all members God speed and good luck, banged the adjournment gavel promptly at 2 o'clock. The sen ate adjourned two or three minutes Chairman Hull Terms Late Congress Failure; Adams Gives It Splendid Record Heads of Two Major Parties Dif fer Widely As to Accomplish ments of Sixty-Seventh Congress RECORDS ARE PICKED TO PIECES BY BOTH WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. Opinions as opposite as the poles regarding the record of the 67th congress were ex pressed tonight in formal statements by the national chairmen- o the two great political parties. UCAA. l-M.? AMJUUVilVfllU WAS"" clared that "no congress " in time of peace ever made such a splendid rec ord," while on the Democratic side Chairman Cordell Hull asserted that "no other congress ever so signally failure to grasp the great opportunities or to meet important responsibilities." The budget law, reduction of taxes, the peace settlement, the tariff, the veterans' bureau act and agricultural and public roads' reforms were among the legislative landmarks enumerated by Mr. Adams as indicating the "con structive" pathway followed by the Republican senate and house. "Newberryism," "Daughertyism," the strike record, a treasury deficit, farm prices and failure to reorganize gov ernment departments, adopt the Ford Muscle Shoals proposal, suppress profiteering and settle .the Mexican problem were included in the "amaz ing record of non-achievement" recited by Mr. Hull. Chairman Adams' statement follows: "The congress just adjourned first convened in special session less than IS months ago. Consider its record. "It enacted the budget law, under which the economies of this adminis tration were made possible. It co-operated 100 per cent with the budget bureau in this economy program. "It reduced public taxes $818,000,000. It unsparingly cut public appropria tions. "It found 5,000,000 idle. To prevent J further aggravation" of ment, it enacted the r the unemploy restrictive immi gration law "It found agriculture facing ruin and assisted it on its feet by the enactment of a series of laws which afforded both temporary and permanent relief to the agricultural interests. "It re-established peace with Ger many and Austria-Hungary. "It enacted the Sweet law, which created the veterans' bureau and gave that bureau more funds than any other department of the government. "It enacted the maternity act re quested by the women of the country. "It created a refunding commission to get our foreign loans on a business like basis. "It enacted a permanent tariff which insures industry and agriculture alike protection and the working man steady employment at a good wage. "It granted liberal aid for public roads, strengthened the enforcement of the federal prohibition amendment, created more federal courts to re lieve the congestion of business and expedite justice and created a com mission to investigate the coal indus try. "In addition, the United States sen ate, in les3 than 30 days, ratified seven treaties formulated at the arms con ference which moved the world toward peace and committed the nations to a reduction of armaments. "It enacted no destructive, no sec tional, no class legislation. "No congress in time of peace ever made such a splendid record of con structive legislation." Chairman Hull's statement follows: "A patient and long suffering pub lic will welcome the adjournment of the present Republican congress, which promised more and achieved less than any other legislative body in history. No previous congress has been so gen erally condemned by leading citizens irrespective of party on account of its utter lack of constructive ability, statesmanship and fidelity to the American people. No other congress ever so signally failed to grasp great opportunities or to meet important responsibilities.- Hundreds of pat riotic Republican newspapers and thousands of leading broadminded Re publican individuals are voluntary wit nesses to the truths of these state ments... -, ; ' . ""Despite this barren record of the (Continued-- on Page Xwo-1 , later, having to stop the clock briefly while necessary bills were signed for submission to President Harding, wait ing jn his room off the senate chamber. A few political speeches marked the closing hours of the sessM n the sec ond of the 67th congress. Representa tive Mondell, Republican leader in the house, and Senator Smoot, in the sen ate, praised the dominant party's re cord, which was attacked in brief speeches by Senator Harrison, of Mis sissippi, and McKellar of Tennessee, Democrats. Leaders and rank and file now "go to the country" on the record, entering a fall campaign. Trains and automo biles leaving Washington carried sev eral congressmen released for the campaign. Statistical sharks were to night calculating the work of the ses sion, prominent of which was the en actment of the tariff law and passage of the soldiers' bonus bill with its death after the President's veto. About 300 laws were said to have been en acted out of 3,498 bills, and 358 resolu tions introduced in the house and 1, 249 bills and about 280 resolutions in the senate. Appropriations of the session aggregated over $2,250,000,000 and with authorizations $3,751,917, 000 was made available for the gov ernment's fiscal year needs. About 900 nominations were sent to the senate by President Harding which were con firmed with but few exceptions. Theatre Floor Gives Way and Fifty School Children Are Injured Only One Death Reported, But a Number, Including Thea tre Owner, Badly Hurt PITTSBURGH. Sept. 22. (By Asso ciated Press). Fifty chattering school children, most of them less than 12 years old, were massed in the lobby of UJietjBk.a-ne tre in the East Liberty district, late today, awaiting admission to a free show, when the concrete floor cracked from end to end and dropped the little ones into the basement. The body of eight-year-old Madalene Kunkle, dressed in- holiday garb, was removed from the debris. The injured, 38 children and the theatre proprietor, were placed on cots in a nearby hospi tal at approximately the minute the performance should have started. Sol Selznick, theatre owner, who fell with his guests, and four of the chil dren, were in a serious condition to night. A dozen boys and girls were unconscious when they were dug from the powdery mass of stone and cement. Some were, bleeding profusejy. Others, vaguely realizing what had happened, whimpered an dcried for their parents. Physicians at the Pittsburgh hospital rendered first aid to the injured before the institution was reached by a score of hysterical mothers. Victims who escaped srrave injuries were permitted to go home. whimpered and cried forftheir parents. City officials began an investigation as soon as the injured were removed. The crash and cries of the fright ened youngsters were heard two bloclts away. Policemen and civilians who made the first rescues said some of the children were buried "three deep." Robert L. Cochran, city superintend ent of bulldins Inspection, after a min ute examination of the theatre flooring tonight, reported that the floor was not properly constructed and that several of the timber-supports were rotted. Revolution in Germany Expected This Winter WINSTON-SALEM, Sept. 22. In an address today to a local 'civic club, Dr. J. Kenneth Pfohl, pastor of Home Mo ravian church here, who has just re turned from a church mission to Her rinhut, in Germany, said that he rode 700 miles on a German railroad for $2.53 in American cash; that his hotil room cost him 27 cents a night and that the 3,000 marks received by a rail way conductor as wasres was barely enough to buy his child a pair of shoes. Dr. Pfohl expressed the opinion that Germany's only hope for getting again on its feet is for some power on the outside to help the German govern ment. Unless there is a speedy change, declared Dr. Pfohl, there will be a rev olution in Germany in December or January, as the government cannot withstand the wrath of a starving peo ple when winter comes. ACCIDENT TO ARMY BLIMP DELAYS TLIGHT AT NOGALES NOG ALES, Ariz., Sept. 22. While at tempting to leave the aviation field here late this afternoon the army dir igible C-2 suffered an accident to Its rigging gear and as a . result, the bg balloon will not get away on the next leg of its flight until tomorrow morn ing, it , was announced. The C-2 will leave .for Yuma, at day break tomor row, flying over Tucsdn enroute, its, commander stated. TO RESTORE TWO TRAINS CHARLOTTE, Sept. 22. Southern Railway local trains numbers 45 and 46 operating between Danville, Va., and Westminister, S. C, suspended- a fortnight ago because, of the strike, will be restored Sunday, Sept, 24, it was announced here late today at head quarters of lines east of the Sou theraj DR. MILTON IS ELECTED NATIONAL COUNCILMAN OF EPISCOPAL CHURCH Selection of Wilmington Man Comes at Session of House of Deputies in Portland STAND ON POLITICAL QUESTIONS IS DEFINED Fair and Equitable Treatment Should Be Accorded Disa bled Ex-Service Men PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 22. The na tional council of the Protestant Epis copal church was completed today with election by the house of deputies on its quota of members and ratification by that house of the members chosen earlier by the house of bishops. The members elected by the deputies were: Rev. Dr. James E. Frman, Wash ington, D. C; Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann, Boston; Rev. Dr. W. H. Milton, of Wil mington, N. C; Rev. Dr. E. M. Stires, of New York; Stephen Baker. New -York; John Stewart Bryan, Richmond, Va.; Burton Mansfield, New Haven, Conn.; Samuel Mather, of Cleveland' O.; Philip Parker, Brookline, Mass.; George Wharton Pepper, Philadelphia; Harper Bley, Rochester, N. Y.; H C Wyckoff, Watsonville, Calif. The house of bishops elected mem bers of the national council as fol lows: Bishop W. C. Brown, of Virginia Bishop E. T. Lines, of Newark; Bishop W. T. Manning, of New York, and Bishop Coadjutor T. I. Reese, of south ern Ohio. Election of the Rev. W. B. Roberts, of Dallas, South Dakota, as suffragan bishop of South Dakota also was rati fied by the deputies. Resolutions adopted by the house of bishops defining the stand of the church on relations of capital and labor and world peace were adopted by the depu ties. The convention voted an appropria tion not to exceed $5,030 to aid the ennsuan cnurch organization in China. That sick and wounded ex-service men sh-ould receive "every fair and equitable treatment" and that clergy men should do everything possible for them, was declared in other resolu tions adopted by both houses. Resolutions thanking the press of the country for full and accurate re- ' ports of the proceedings of the conven tion were adopted by both houses Hopes of women for legislation at 1 me general confentton immediately g ivlijg them . greater Recognition in bytht action of the house of bishops here tuuay in lauing to concur In the action Of the deputies in an amendment to a canon which would make possible theis licensing as lay- readers. Some consolation was held out to the women by the bishops late today in a recommendation that women should vbe given. an equal voice in the church's affairs as they have in the affairs of the nation. . Harding Assailed By State Legion Leader CHARLOTTE, Sept. 22. Declaring that under the administration of Presi dent Harding, the Ottoman empire had been re-established and denouncing the executive, James A. Lockhart, re cently elected state commander of the American legion tonight assailed the administration policies in an address before the "Hornet's Nest" post here. Mr. Lockhart said that the President had broken every campaign promise made to the American veteran and had failed to provide for the disabled sol dier. He declared that Brigadier-General Charles A. Sawyer was blocking the Langley bill which provides for care of the disabeld soldiers. Charles Sloan of Asheville, editor of Oteen Echo, official publication of the North Carolina legionnaires, also spoke and attacked the treatment accorded disabled veterans. UNMASKED MEN KIDNAP AND FLOG FRANKLIN MAN RALEIGH, Sept. 22. Ten white men. none of whom were masked, Thursday night took S. Joe Turner Pulley from his home near Mitchell's Mill, six miles to Harris cross roads, in Frank lin county, and there in a chlurchyard whipped him unmercifully, according to reports made to Solicitor Herbert E. Norris today. ' Pulley, it is said, stated that he knew none of the men. According to reports of the affair made to Solicitor Norris, Pulley, who is E3 years old and has a wife and two children, was called from his bed to the yard Thursday night about 9 o'clock. He was seized by ten men, who were unknown to him, but who were unmasked, and carried in an au tomobile six miles to the Harris cross roads. After the thrashing he was left barefooted to walk back home. His in juries, which are severe, were treated hby a physician at Rolesville. ASHEVILLE SOON TO HAVE NEW MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL ASHEVILLE, Sept 22. Incorpora tion papers for the proposed million dollar hotel to be erected here by the I Citizens Hotel corporation, of Ashe- state tomorrow. A number who have arranged to become stockholders met this morning for the purpose of begin ning the execution of plans for the hotel, and a permanent organization will be formed as soon as a charter Is received. ; JAPAN REFUSES TO EVACUATE AND NEGOTIATION TO FAIL CHANG CHUN, Manchuria, Sept. 20. (By Associated Press.) An . abrupt break down is imminent In the negotia tions now going on here between Ja pan, the Moscow Soviet government and the far eastern republic of Siberia, owing to the Russian demand that Ja pan immediately evacuate the northern half of the island of Sakhalien. Both delegations, while awaiting ,flnal in structions from their governments, anr -nounced today that they were prepared ' to depart... -If -13 "3 9 1 A -: t . , ; f ' .. , f,(. k , 1 "'l V- h VA i It