SECOND UPRISING AGAINST
ADMINISTRATION IS NIPPED;
MORRISON READS RIOT ACT
joint Resolution Blocks Effort
of Alleged Conspirators to
Obtain Recess of General
Assembly
tHE governor CONFERS
WITH PARTY LEADERS
Executive Said to Have Threat
ened to “Sever Relations”
Should Members of the House
Persist in Their Alleged “Stall
ing' Precedure; Administra
tion Not to Falter in Its Pro
gram Until the Maxwell
Charges of a Treasury Deficit
Are Established; Commission
er’s Claim Basis For Move
ment For Recess
Morning StftT Burmu,
312 Tucker Building.
BY BROCK BARKLEY.,
r-U rciGH, Feb. 14.—A second uprls
ij'against the administration in the
(orrn of a carefully planned and elab
orHy organized conspiracy to force a
rerP«s of the general assembly was
,n,Bhed today when the senate and
htlUse passed the joint resolution pro
viding for the continuance of special
investigation committee after the leg
islature adjourns and for the transmit
tal of its report on state’s finances to
th, governor and council of state .
Th. reBult is the acceptance of the
Ji"et commission’s and the treasur
es reports as the official basis upon
' hirh to act. and serious consideration
legislation looking to the further
„ ‘n.,i„n of educational and charita
ble institutions and other obligations
a progressive program, is expected
,0 succeed the stumbling, bucking, slow
moving legislative machine of the past
fe» the Maxwell deficit claim is proved
to be more than a mere political blun
j,.,-bus the state will meet the result
ing responsibility. but.it will not hal
ter or hold back important legislation
because of political thunderbolts. There
Ls been so much politics mixed UP
with these sessions of the legislature
that main of the members themselves
have been fearful of legitimate under
taking* One senator remarked today
bat "vou can’t just tell where to step,
f r fear a trap has been Md lb* you ~
The Maxwell deficit claim was the
excuse for the recess movement, it is
claimed. Machinery to bring it about
was quietly put into operation four or
five days ago, and when discovery was
made yesterday afternoon the move
ment had reached such proportions that
its Instigators were preparing to strike.
The special committee’s report, sched
uled for last night and announcing no
report would be available before April
1. afforded an excellent opportunity.
The report was delayed until this
morning and instead of the motion to
adjourn came the joint resolution. I
the assembly is not in session when the
committee concludes its work, and it is
presumed it will not be, copies of the
members of this assembly and the gov
ernor will report officially to the next
There was a feeling this morning in
legislative circles that with the upris
ing smashed, the house would get down
to earnest work, and start the appro
priations ani revenue bills through.
On!v about 18 days remain of the ses-.
sinn and two full weeks Is expected to
be required to put through the most
Important legislation of the session.
Deliberate movements to hold ba<ik
legislation and to stall the general as
sembly have been charged for some
days, and members have expressed gen
eral disgust over the state of affairs.
Tbe house has been leaderless.. It is
reported the two men who were sup
poseh to have taken the places of
Houghton and Everett, as leaders,
Chairman Walter Murphy, of the ap
propriations committee, and Chairman
H. 0. Connor, Jr„ of the finance com
mittee. were supporters of the move
ment to force the recess.
The need for Mr. Dough ton and Mr.
Everett has been expressed by individ
ual members since it became so evi
dent that the house was doing nothing
more than stalling. Yesterday the
state of affairs In the lower body grew
worse and one member declared last
night's assembly to have been “a seeth
ing mass of political bolshevism.”
horning was said in the open, but a
great deal was done in the hotel lob
bies arid in passage-way confabs. The
fight against the recess was carried .on
by some members throughout last
Governor Morrison spent three hours
in conference with members of the
special investigation committee last
waning. Rumors are to the effect that
he road the riot act to them, declaring
that unless the general assembly put
ihf-. brakes to political runaways he
*ou1d nave nothing more to do with
‘he body what-so-ever. Speaker John
G. Dawson, of the house, h:s own posi
tion as speaker under attack, went in
to tbp fight. His speech In the house
morning concluded a 16 hour cam
paign against the recess movement.
The senate never got in on the or
ganization to an extent that made its
concurrence in a motion to recess like
Leaders there added their stamp of
^approval of the moment, it was dis
covered. Senator Varser and Giles,
charmer respectively, of the senate
finance and appropriations committees,:
announced publicly that they would op
P°se an> efforts to adjourn. The re
***** *as true of the finance and ap
propriation committees chairmen of the
],0u*p. immediately following the Max
Wr'!l pronouncement and the G#ver
Il0r s 'i^mand for an investigation, two
ag() efforts were made to arouse
^content in the general assembly and
™ telay and stall legislation. Talk of
Jjijourmnent, began through -the mo
, °n or Dennett, of Anson, a habitual
aoti" on everything that carried ah
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SEARCH OF GRAVE
FAILS TO REVEAL
RUSSIAN JEWELS
Coffin of Seaman Jones is Open
ed But no Crown Jewels
Are Found
TROOPS SURROUND
THE BURIAL GROUND
NEW YORK, Feb. 14—Fifty fully
armed soldiers, high military officials
and heads of various government de
partments today exploded the. myth
that Russian crown Jewels, worth $4,
000,000, were concealed in the grave of
Seaman James Jones, in the Cypress
Hills cemetery.
While a cordon of troops surrounded
the burial ground, barring admittance
to any one but government officials,
the body was exhumed and the casket
and its contents were carefully exam
ined under, the direction of treasury
department agents. No gems being
found, the body was replaced in the
coffin and again buried.
The exhumation was conducted un
der orders from the war department to
i establish whether the jewels once be
longing to Czar Nicholas, had been
stolen and concealed in the coifin of
Jones, who died at Gibraltar in 1920, on
the transport Edelyn.
l A full company of soldier* joined
the military guard which has been on
duty for more than a month at the Na
tional cemetery at Cypress Hills.
The company was drawn up in front
of the cemetery gate and announcement
was made that no one would be per
mitted to witness the disinterment ex
cept the military and agents of the
treasury department.
Sensational rumors regarding the
Russian crown jewels have been cur
rent ever since the death of Czar Nich
olas.
The first concrete evidence that the
United States government was seek
ing the gems {n America came early
last month when William B. Williams,
special agent of the treasury depart
ment admitted he was investigating a
report that $4,000,000 worth were buried
in the Brooklyn cemetery.
The story was that the jewels had'
been smuggled into this country in
1920 in the coffin of the sailor who
! died on the army transport Edellyn at
Gibraltar in Augpst, 1920, while ^he.
. vessel" wai*.' bo. .its way from Vladtvos
I tok to 'the United States.
! The exumation had be^n ordered to
settle the uegstion of whether $4,000,
000 worth of gems once belonging to
i Czar Nicholas, had been smuggled into
the United States in 1920 on the army
transport Edellyn. It had been report
ed that the smuglers had concealed the
jewels in the coffin of Jones, who died
at Gibraltar while the transport was
on its way from Vladivostok.
Newspaper men were barred from
the cemetery during the disinterment
and after the examination in the pres
ence of army officers and officials of
treasury department ,the military
guard was lifted and Col. J. J. Galla
gher, commander of the army supply
base in Brooklyn, announced to news
paper men:
"There is nothing to report. No
jewels were found.”
The official witnesses then signed a
statement to this effect.
Harding Restores 17
Suspended Employes
May Return to Positions Under
. Civil Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—An execu
tive order restoring the civil service
rights of 17 of the employes of the
bureau of engraving and printing who
were removed nearly a year ago after
an Investigation, was issued today from
the white house.
The order set forth that the 17 indi
viduals who were separated from the
bureau of engraving and printing wcjuld
be eligible to re-enter any part of the
government’s classified service "in ap
propriate positions for a period of five
years from March 31. 1922. on certifi
cate of the civil service commission."
Six additional former employes were
declared by the order to be not eligi
ble for re-entrance since they had been
retired upon annuity.
With the executive order all men who
were in the civil service when dismiss
ed from the bureau and who are now
living have been reinstated. Today’s
order is, effective from the date of the
dimissala.
It has been made clear that restora
tion of the civil service status does
not necessarily imply that the men will
be returned, to their former positions.
Postmaster General
Work is Criticised
By H. E. C. BRYANT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Postmaster
General Work is being severely criti
cised for his administration of the
postoffice department. He has made
It more partisan..than Will H. Hayes
did. Now he aspires to be secretary
of the interior and must be confirmed
by the senate. He issued a statement
today trying to correct an impression
that he has named party man for post
office jobs. He denied some of the al
legations. North Carolina people know
that he has ousted several Democrats,
man woman or ex-soldier, whenever
he could do so. . ■ ...
Frank A. Hampton said today that
about one per cent of Democrats had
wpn out in the North Carolina con
tests. He could not recall more than
two or three individuals.
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BOYCOTT SITUATION
IN OCCUPIED RHUR
GETS MORE ACUTE
i ———
Most Notable Feature of Ger
man Plan is Refusal to Deal
With French
FRENCH AND BELGIANS |
SEIZE TWO HOTELS;
This Measure is Taken in Re
taliation and is Countered by
Cutting of Wires
ESSEN, Feb. 14.—The boycott battle
between the Franco-Belglan occupa
tional forces and the Germans is daily,
becoming more acute in the Ruhr, par
ticularly in Essen. The most notice
able features are the failure of co
operation by the Herman police and the
refusal of hotels and merchants to
serve the French and Belgians.
In retaliation, the allies seized two of
the largest hotels in Essen but this
was met by further active opposition of
the Germans. Yesterday, tne Germans
severed the electric light current sup
plying the Kaiserhof hotel, where the
allied engineering commission was
quartered. The French countered with
an ultimatum that unless the lights
were restored by 6 o’clock last evening
the entire lighting system of the city
would be shut down. At that hour the
Kaiserhof was still without electricity,
but the city lights continued to blaze
forth. The Germans said a detail of
troops was sent to the muniicpal light
ing plant to cut the power but had to
leave without accomplishing its pur
pose because the doors were tightly
barred. Vice-Burgomaster Schaefer
was arrested this morning in connec
tion with this Incident.
Figures on the child population and
milk supply of Essen are announced in
German quarters in substantiation of
the claim that the occupation is caus
ing aoute distress. The city, acording
to these figures, has 22,000 children un
der two years of age, approximately j
45.000 under six years and 82,000 chil- j
dren of school age. The daily milk I
supply thus far this month has been 5,- j
800 to 7.000 liters, as compared with
35.000 liters for the same period in Jan
uary and February of last year. It is
pointed out, however, that these months
ordinarily are bad for providing milk.
The present supply permits of about
one quarter of a liter for each child un- j
der two years, and it is asserted that
many children are being given sugar
and water instead of milk. ' i
LONDON, Feb. 14.—Two policemen at
Duesgeldorf were arresttd there today
charged with setting fire to . a bam,
the billet of French troops..says a Reu
ter dispatlh frphi- Dttesselworf... One Of
the policemen was wounded in trying:
to evade 4krrest. I
General de Goutte, the French com- i
mander, the dispatch adds, has decided !
to disarm the Schutzpollzei and grad
ually transform them to municiple
police.
A Reuter dispatch from Essen says
that, in addition to the burgomaster,
the president of the >hotel keepers’
union had been arrested. The burgo
master wlll be he'fl responsible for cut
ting of the elctric current in the Kai- j
serhof hotel and will be court martial- j
ed unless the current is restored. |
Jury Probing Race j
Clash Takes Recess!
BRONSON. Fla., Feb. 14.—Following
the examination this morning of sev
eral witnesses In the investigation into
the race clash at Rosewood early in
January, the special grand jury re
cessed shortly before noon and George '
Decottes, prosecuting attorney, went to
Gainesville in search of additional wit
nesses. j;
It is not known whether the grand]
jury will resume its sitting tomorrow. |
Mr. Decottes said the\ body would be j1
called to meet when processes have
been served on additional witnesses. ,
Plans Complete For j;
Great Speed Carnival
NKW ORLEANS, Feb. 14.—With 39
of the fastest hydroplanes in this coun- ■
tr£ here, arrangements for the begin- ■
ning tomorrow of what is declared will •
be the greatest speed boat race meet
ever held in the United States had been : ;
completed tonight by officials of the j,
Southern Yacht club, sponsor of the ,
event. The races, which will continue ,
through Sunday, will be run over a two
and one half mile course in Lake Pont
chartrain at West End.
■ The .contestants include boats from
all parts of the country but while Gar
Wood, of Detroit, had entered "Mies
America I, and Miss Detroit VI” neither |
of these speed' marvels had arrived and
it was understood they would not par
ticipate. J
HARDING COMMENDS
SOUTH’S SPIRIT TO
WOODEN WORLD
“Corr^fex’ After Civil War is
Egg|p Which Might Well
/i? xlfbe ' Followed .
/ '■»&?/ . : •X~'/ ;
i^f^UTIVE UNABLE
> TO ATTEND RE-UNION
"Vf _
Expresses Regret That he Can
Not be Present Gathering
of U. C. V,’s
NEW ORLEANS, Febv 14.—The peo
ple of the south In accomplishing the
reconstruction of the south after the
pivil ■war ‘‘set the finest example that
;ould be urged upon a war wasted
vorld today," President Harding declar
'd in a letter made public tonight by
-apt. James Dinkins, chairman of the
rommlttee in charge of . arrangements
for the annual reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans in New Orleans
in April.
The president wrote Captain Dinkins
sxpressing his regret because of his in
ibility to accept an invitation from the
pommittee to attend the re-unioni
“You say in part* said Mr. Harding
‘the call of the time Is equally to em
phasize and impress the courage, loy
Uty and constructive citizenship of
American manhood in the peace that
follows war. The Confederate veterans
aegan anew with resources exhausted
ind opportunity reduced, and by
natchlesB energy! devotion and co-op
pration rebuilt and rehabilitated their
and into immense production and broad
prosperity.”
"I am quoting these sentences, be
pause they have moved me to say that
in my judgment the reconstruction of
:he south, by the people of the south,
n the face of the tremendous dlscour
lgements following the war, set the
lnest example that could be urged upon
l war wasted world today." The pres
ident continued: “The men of Dee’s
ind Jackson’s armies went home to
heir tasks of reconstruction with
pearts of courage and purpose of de
ermination to overcome all obstacles:
;o deserve the good will and the help
pf others, by proving their own good
will and by helping themselves to the
ltmost of their capacity. They had
jarned it yet more completely and em
phatically by their conduct afterwards,
md in earning it, they insured not only
he union’s restoration,, but its advance
■o that-splendid-place-which it holds j
n the family of nations.
In this connection, ^ypecause this
heme has long nvade ajasnuliar appeal
o mf.' I .shoul.4... *WA-tW ^rt . another
hought. The men of the Cdnfederate
irmles went home after the war to a
and that not only f is devastated, but
iat suffered literally a revolution of its
■conomic system- However, desirable
vere the ultimate results of that revo
ution, it imposed upon the people of
he south a complication of difficulties,
vhich vastly aggravated their task of j
‘eframing an empire's social and in
iustrial plan of life. Their achievement
n all their circunl8^ances constitutes
me of the greatest accomplishments of
my people in all history.”
Simmons and Overman
Both Favor British
Debt Funding Measure
By H. E. C. BRYANT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Senator
Simmons is In favor of the debt fund
ng bill. He wrote Senator Overman
;o look out for his vote in that contest
n the senate. His views as expressed
n a letter to Mr. Overman are:
"After matur deliberation I have con
:luded that it would be unfortunate if
his congress did not approve the Brtt
sh debt settlement. Failure to do so,
: fear, would make a serious world
:ondition more serious and would
move a serious setback to Internation- j
l1 stabilization and would be a regret
ul jar to the cordial relations between
his country and Great Britain, the
naintenance of which is at this time j
if snch high importance.
"Under the circumstance I wish you ]
vould see that I am paired in favor of
he settlement and announce that if I
vere present I would vote for the bill.”
Senator Overman replied to Senator
Simmons that he also favored the
neastire and would vote for it. He as
lertod that the opposition did not in
ilude more than 10 or 12 Democrats.
STORM WARNINGS ORDERED UP.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 14.—This storm
yarning was issued today by the
veather bureau:
"Advisory northwest storm warning
llsplayed 4 p. m.. Cape Hatteras to
Nantucket, Mass., pressure will rise
■apidly tonight attended by northwest
rales.”
Turks’ Decision to Close Ports i
Of Smyrna and Ismid to Stand
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 14.—A tel
jeram from Angora to the exchange
telegraph sayB the decision of the
rurks to close the ports of Smyrna and
ismid to the allies is irrevokable and
that their warships must leave the har
bors The entry of Greek merchant
vessels into the Turkish ports has
been forbidden, the telegram says.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 14.—Reut
ers’ "understands that the Turkish au
thorities at Adrlanople have ordered
ill the old women and children to va
cate the town as a precautionary meas
ure because, "in the event of trouble,
it naturally would be focussed on Ad
rianople.” .
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. W. —(By
the Associated Press. ),-Ismet Pasha s
mbvd&dto are still ODseure, but he is
expected to reach here tomorrow. Un
til his arrival, both the Angora gov
ernment and the allies are merely
waiting. There is i*«ason to believe
that Ismet, will meet the- allied high
commissioners in Constantinople be
fore proceeding to Angora, and there
is general expectation that such a con
ference will have far reaching results.
The Vakt pays a remarkable tribute
to the American press for its reports
of the Lausanne conference, declaring
that what happened in the conference
■was accurately chronicled and for the
first -time the Turkish position was
presented without bias. It feels that
owing to the there has been a decided
change in American public opinion, in
a measure, overcoming this .insistent I
anti-Turkish'propaganda, which the I
paper says,' had "colored American!
thought."
v ’r yy^'-A
BODY OF H. A. GRISSOM
FOUND IN THOMAS CREEK
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 14.—
The body of H. A. Grissom, Greens
boro, N. C., druggist, who disap
peared the night of January 19, was
found late today floating in Thomas
creek, six miles from the place his
submerged automobile was found
the day after he disappeared. The
body was'identifled as Grissom's by
the clothing and a watch and chain.
The body was discovered by
Thomas Ogivlive, a farmer, who
was going- down the creek on a log
raft.
Since his disappearance, Grissom
has been reported as being seen in
various places. He was in Jackson-■
ville the night of January 19 with
Mrs. Grissom, whom he left here
while he started to Atlanta. She
returned to Greensboro by train
and ho was to have wired her from
Atlanta.
The next day his automobile \vas !
found in the creek, but efforts of ;
a searching party to recover the
body proved futile, although the
stream was dragged and dynamit
ed for several miles. !
GREENSBORO, Feb. 14.—The i
body of Hyatt A. Grissom, found
late today in Thomas creek, hear
Jacksonville, will be brought to
Greensboro at once, his relatives
stated tonight after they had been
informed of the finding of the body
by a Associated Press dispatch.
L. W. Jenkins, manager of the
Grissom Drug stores, who went to
Jacksonville immediately after Mr.
Grissom’s disappearance, left in
structions with a Jacksonville un
dertaker to send the body, in case
it was found, to Greensboro. Mr.
Jenkins, and members of the Gris
som family, are satisfied that the
body found is undoubtedly that of
the Greensboro druggist Inasmuch
as a detailed description of the man
his clothes, his watch and other
articles he might have had on his
person were left with Jacksonville
authorities by Mr. Jenkins when he
was in Florida.
Neither Mr. Jenkins nor members
of the Grissom family, plan to go
to Florida, it being supposed that
the Jacksonville undertaker will
send the body to this city by ex
press. Mr. Grissom is survived by
his widow, a small child, his moth
er, and two sisters.
Committee Probing State’s
Finances to Continue Work;
Anti-Klan Bill Passes House
THE SENATE FAILS
TO REACH VOTE ON
BRITISH DEBT BILL
Night Session Also Fails to
Materialize; Final Vote Ex
pected Friday
, WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The senate
failed today to reach a vote on' the
British debt funding bill, as had been
expected by administration leaders, and
also called off the proposed night ses
sion, but negotiations providing for a
final vote next Friday made material
headway.
Formal proposals for a vote Friday
were brought before the senate late in
the day but a decision went ovy until
tomorrow. Democratic opposition com
pelled the Republican leaders to can
cel tonight’s proposed see-.lon but sen
‘SJtor Ro’prn?Op„ Democrat. Arkansas,
told the Senate that tomorrow .there
•was every prospect for an agreement
to vote on Friday.
Acceptance today by Republican lead
ers of the Robinson amendment to limit
the debt funding legislation to the
agreement with Great Britain and
provide for acceptance of fundings with
other debtor nations by congress in
stead of the president as provided in
the measure as passed by the house,
smoothed the way for the scheduled
passage of the bill Friday.
r After private conference, Senator
Smoot, Republican, Utah, in charge of
the bill, late today proposed an agree
ment to limit all speeches to five min
utes after 2 o'clock tomorrow. This
was objected to by Senator Robinson,
who said that while there was no dis
position so far as he knew to delay
action, several senators had planned to
speak at length. He said there was
not the slightest justification for a
night session and after considerable
sparring the counter proposition for a
vote on Friday developed and went
over for action until tomorrow.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massachu
setts, said the minority would agree to
a vote Friday but this met with ob
jections from Senator Jones, Republi
can, Washington, in charge of the
side tracked shipping bill, who said he
realized that every day’s delay made
defeat of that measure easier.
Introduces Resolution
in House Criticising
Occupation of the Ruhr
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14— A resolu
tion. protesting against the French oc
cupation of the Ruhr, requesting the
President to call a world economic con
ference and setting forth the view of
congress that France should arrange
to pay Its war debt lIo the United
States was introduced today by Rep
resentative Voight, Republican, Wis
consin. :
The resolution characterized the Ver
sailles treaty as a “perversion cf the
terms of the armistice” and terms the
invasion of the Ruhr as an “act of war
against a starving and defenseless peo
ple, making it still more impossible for
them to comply with the treaty.”
Asserting that Germany, before the
war, was America's second best cus
tomer, the resolution says the Ruhr oc
cupation seriously has disturbed com
merce with Germany and that it is the
duty of' the American government to
protect that trade “irrespective of the
moral question Involved in such invas
ion.”
Rock Hill Man Killed
in Auto Accident
(Special to The Star)
U’MBBHTOJi, Feb. 14.—JsckJi
Huggins, 22, Of Hook: Hill, S, C.,
' was fatally injured here tonight In
on automobile accident. Huggins
was cranking an automobile while
His brother, F. M. Huggins, of this
place, was sitting In the seat. When
the engine started the fmachine
moved forward and In reaching his
foot for the brake clutch the man
in the car stepped on the accelera
tor Instead. The car lunged for
ward catching the victim between
i the radiator and a telephone pole.
He died at 11(45, one hour and 45
minutes after the accident. '
Financial Committee Retained
Until Auditors Are Ready to
Report, Regadless of
the Time
IN SHARP DEBATE WADE
FIGHTS KLAN MEASURE
Final Vote on Amended Bill is
63 to 44; Age Limit Measure
Goes Through
RALEIGH, Feb. 14.—(By Associated
Press.)—Final- passage of a, resolution
introduced in the house by Speaker
Dawson and concurred in by the sen
ate, to provide that the special com
mittee now charged with investigation
of the state's flnanqial condition con
tinue at its work unti] the auditors
which have been procured are ready
to report, passage of the amended Mll
] liken bill to regulate secret orders by
. the- house; tonrVthixd reading ■ S3.-tp 41,
and final senate action on. the house
bill-to raise the "age of consent hi the
case of females to IS years,” featured
the day in the general assembly, and
tonight the Jlilliken bill stood ready
for action In the upper house.
After \,.iat members have termed
the bitterest debate in years, the MU
liken bill was passed with an amend
ment which would make the provis
ions of the act applicable only to such
organization whose members resorted
to masks or other disguise in their re
galia,. The main provision of the bill
would require such orders to register
a roster of their state and local mem
bership with the authorized state au
thorities.
Hot debate also featured the senate
fight on the “age of consent law,” and
it also failed to escape amendments be
fore it, finally passed. The amend
ments would provide that violation
would be termed a misdemeanor in
stead; of a felony as originally pro
vided, that marriage of the defendant
would he a bar to further prosecution,
qnd that all defendants under 16 years
c»f age would be in the jurisdiction of
the juvenile court.
Because of the long sittings which
j the house has held on the secret or
I der legislation, just before adjourn
ment, Representative Burgwyn, of
| Northampton county, one of the lead
ing proponents, moved that the vote
by which the bill passed its third read
I Ing be reconsidered. Representative
Connor, of Wilson, Immediately moved
to table the Burgwyn motion, and the
I motion to table carried unanimously.
The vote was taken to finally dispose
of the measure as far as the nouse
1 was concerned.
| The last amendment the bill carried
| substituted the Everett amendment of
I last night exempting orders whose
tfiemhers wore emblems, an was offered
| by , Representative Whitaker, of Guil
i ford, which provided that the provis
j Ions of the act should apply only to
* such orders as use a mask and gown in
| their regalia, or otherwise disguise
! their Identity.
The bill was called up for final read
ing immediately following the Intro
duction of new bills and resolutions
| and was the only business transacted
i by the house with the exception of the
financial Investigation committees re
I port and the subsequent resolution
which provided that the committee con
, tinue in. service and report its findings
to the governor and council of state
; if auditing of the state’s books could
not be completed by the expiration of
the sixty-day period of the general as
sembly.
The first onslaught on the measure
! came in the form of a series of amend
, ments. The first was offered by Deaton,
of Catawba, which would'have strick
en from the measure all references to
the registration of names with state
authorities and. he was followed by the
latst amendment by Mr. Whittaker
which was later adopted.
Before the amendments were put
Representative Martin, of Washington
county, sent forward a substitute for
the entire bill and all amendments
which were worded identically the
same as ■ the amendment offered last
| night by Representative Bryant, of
Durham, making for thet perpetration
of a crime a mlSdeWieariqr punishable
by a fine of from to. fl.OOO, or im-,
■prisonnient from four months, to two
years.
Representative Burgwyn, of North
ampton county, objected to the subsU
tute, and asked the house to defeat it.
Mr. Deaton came to the support of the
bill as. substituted by, Mr. Martin.. Mr.
Whittaker denounced’ the attempt to
substitute and said that “there was no
room In the United States of. America
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SELF CONFESSED SPY
AND AGITATOR SAYS
HIS REPORTS FALSE
Albert Balanow Admits Guilt of
Double-Crossing of Gross
est Kind
FOLLOWS ORDERS
OF HIS SUPERIORS
Alleges His Activities Were Un
der Instruction From De
tective Agencies Heads
CHICAGO, F,eb. 14.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.)—Albert Bailin, alias Al
ber Balanow, confessed spy and aftent
provocateur, admitted today under ex
amination by O. B. Smith, assistant at*
torney general of Michigan, that many
of his reports while an agent of the
Burns and Thiel detective agencies
were false.
Balanow, in a deposition being taken
by Frank P. Walsh, attorney for 22
alleged communists facing trial in
Michigan, had pictured the communist
and communist-labor party and the 1.
W. W. organization as being virtually
controlled by the two detective agen
cies and operated as sirle lines for ex
tracting money from banking and busir
ness agencies.
He charged that he and other agents
of the two detective agencies organ
ized labor unions and radical organi
zations and dictated their activity in
order that the detectives might arrest
deluded radicals who followed their
lead.
As he painted the picture of detective
activities today, radical meetings con
sisted largely of private detectives who,
at times, wei e so stupid, lie said, that
they reported on each other. So many
supposed radicals were really private
detectives, he declared, that they were
continually suspecting each other.
His admission that many of his re
ports were untrue came when attorney
Smith Questioned him about a report
he sent from Milwaukee edtailing an al
leged meeting with one "Bechovetsky,”
supposed to be a dangerous representa
tive of the soviet government.
The examination developed he had
furnished the report to John B. Garrity.
then chief of police of Chicago, and
tho Thiel agency, and collected a salary
and expenses from both apd Mr. Smith
also attempted to show that the same
report was sold to the Burns agency
and expenses col ected again. But this
the witness denied, although Mr. Smith
produced a copy of the statement said
to have come from the Burns flies.
“You knew it was a lie when you
wrote that to Chief Garrity,, didn't
yoy?’’ Mn Smlth asked . Balanow.
v'S'eg,*'’’the witness replied, "but
Michael Flannigan, vice-president of
the Thiel agency, told me to write it."
"If the detective agencies told you
to go out and kill a man, would you
do it?" Mr. Smith asked.
“When you worked for a deteotive
bureau, you are supposed to follow or
ders,” Balanow said.
"Then you would kill a man?”
“Well, I would consider the circum
stances.”
The Milwaukee report which the Wit
ness admitted was false, concerned the
Wall street bomb explosion in New
York city- On direct cross examination
he testified that Flannigan, the Thiel
agency, told him the day after the ex
plosion on September 16, 1D20. to go
to the Stag hotel at Milwaukee and
register under the name of "A. B. Rose
burg”/ and1 there write a report alleg
ing he had met a radical named “Becho
vetsky,” a soviet representative in this
country, and that Bechovetsky had told
him that some 30 Russian leaders had
recently held two meetings and plan
ned various bomb explosions, assassina
tions and armed revolts.
Flannigan, he swore, told him to
mail a copy of the report to Chief of
Police Garrity. The Thiel official, he
said, had arranged to have him put
on the Chicago police bomb squad pay
1 roll, and later both the police and Flan
nigan paid his salary and expenses for
the Milwaukee trip.
Flannigan also gave him a list of
alleged communist party members, he
said, and told him to mail It to Garrity.
who would have it photographed and
them mall it on to iBaac E. Ferguson,
of the workers defense committee, so
that Ferguson’s office could be raided
and the list would be found there as
evidence to be used in convincing him.
On cross examination Mr. Smith pro
cured a copy of the report, taken from
the Burns' flies, and Balanow admitted
selling it to Burns so time later, al
though the assistant attorney general
attempted to show it was written atid
mailed from Milwaukee to the Burns
office an September 20, 1920.
Balanow admitted that the report
as read, by Mr. Smith was essentially -
the same as he had made to Chief Gar
rtty.
Today's story by Balanow was as
weird as that, he told yesterday and
Monday. He pictured Meyers as pro
posing to send him to Russia to kill
Benlne and Trotsky by putting poison
to be obtained from Burns agents in
Poland in their drinking water. Ho
swore Arthur Proctor, secretary here
of the communist party, was on tho
payroll of both the police department
and the Thiel agency and his records
as secretary in the police station. He
declared Roscoe T. Simms, negro, or
ganizer of the American Federation of
Babor; Beon Green, one of the organi
zers of■ the Seattle strike, and other
well known labor and radical leaders,
were real ly detectives in disguise.
'
General Allen Says
Farewell to de Goutte
DDBSSBLDORF, Feb. 14—Maj. Gen
eral Henry T. Allen, who was In com
mand of the American forces in the,
Rhineland and who will leave CoBlen/
next Monday direct for the United
States, paid a farewell vilst today to
General de Goutte, the French com
mander. General Allen motorrfd from
Coblenz to Duesseldorf this morning,
had luncheon with .General de Goutte
and returned to Coblens during the
afternoon.
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