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FOUNDED AD. J867.—VOL. CXL—No. 47.
WILMINGTON, N. €., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1923.
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OLDEST DAILY IN THE STATE.
LOHO ROBERT CECIL
TELLS RICHMOND OF
WORLD PEACE IDEA
Tormer Member of British Cabi
net Pictures Ideas for
Peace of World
nruMOXD, Va., April 19.—A if “in
;inl devilish fear" is at the hot
„nl ,,i' the world’s troubles and can
allayed only through persuasion, and
toiler understanding of the dlffl
and differences, of nations.
onl r.ohert Cecil, foihner member of
j, British cabinet and Britain’s chief
xponent of the league of nations, de
.jar,*rl in an address here tonight in
lie explained the functions of
le international council and pictured
i, .ss ini lit ies for the peace of the world.
iirrlaring the Washington arms con
nmncc was "highly successful" wap
j st,-p in the direction of peace”
iinbert asserted that disarma
in made effective through the
Upping of huge n&vies and arsenals,
vr.ild bo "one of the greatest reforms
,, tin history of international affairs.”
[van,.” he said, ‘‘is impossible until
IU. .fear and suspicion of nations is
.ppnased by the force of persuasion
xertcl through an international coun
j] league administered by all the na
!„ns of the world for the common
rood."
It, Moulding to a question at the con
fusion of his address, Lord Robert
xpresscd the opinion that France was
"wrongly advised” on the steps she
onk to enforce payment of the repara
ieiis. but declared that the facts and
ireiiinstances of the Ruhr occupation
lid not. warrant the charge that
■ranee was actuated by improper or
mpri motives. "France fears,” he
aid. "what might happen when* Ger
many recovers from the war, and this
ar. coupled with a suspicion of her
• Id enemy, c aused France to invade the
tulir for the sole purpose of collect
lie what she considered a just obliga
Lord Roberts said he believed the
■■'!>,i rations clause in the treaty of Ver
irllcs was, faulty in that it fixed an
inKicrminate amount for Germany to
iav. He said a far better plan would
,t\e been to fix a definite sum and
irranpe for definite payments in ac
rordance with Germany's ability to
Prefacing his remarks with the
!■-duration that he did not come to
im rica to tell the people or govern
ii.nt what to do or to instruct them
'n peace, Lord Robert touched briefly;
- the views of the old and new
world in regard to international af
'airs. He said he had found in the
I'nited States some people who have an
impression that the statesmen of Eu
■np,' are cunning and that govern
ton(s are wicked.
-But wP are not so clever or wicked
rs some would have you believe,” he
paid. "The old world and the new
>arid want right and the people of
Europe are not so vastly different from
the people of America.”
Declaring that the league of nations
"is not an alliance,” but “a series of
'enferr nces,” Lord Robert said that Mit
has demonstrated that when nations
knew ail they can forgive all.” He
said the chief purpose of the league
n-as to bring all the nations together
wound the conference table for full
and frank discussion of their prob
ems. Only after such discussion, he
said, can solutions by made.
Lord Robert said the league had ac
'ompllshed results where the supreme
council of the alliance had failed. He
fro nted to the rehabilitation of Aus
rla as one of the achievements of the
league fend expressed the belief that
Mn league could work out a compre
hensive plan for solution of the repa
ration problem.
Lord Robert was presented to the
itidierp'p, composed of mbre than 4,009
net! and women, by Senator Carter
Slisa. A brief reference by Senator
liass to former President Woodrow
Tibon as the signal for a demonstra
: and It was several minutes before
he speaker could proceed.
Woman’s Building is
Approved at U. N. C.
ntAPEL HILL, April 19.—A vom
it's building, to cost $100,000, was in
■iuiled in the building program for
■ bo next two years of. the University
tf North Carolina by the executive
funmiltec of the trustees, who met
lore today.
Other important features of the
"iiidinr program are remodeling the
I'd buildings, $125,000; chemistry
building, $400,000; men’s dormitories,
I27.r,.iino; permanent water supply,
MtVnmi; roads and grading, $50,000,
,n’l physical training building, $40,
'00. , ■ • r '
T|ie total amount provided for in the
schedule is $1,637,700, , '
URRY WORSE FINALLY
SURRENDERS TO OFFICERS
Washington, April is.—Harry F
lurse, finally surrendered himself to
ny to the district of Columbia su
T‘ rue court and imediately, was placed
nrl' r arrest on a bench warrant is
,;"d for him last Monday by Justice
i'fford. after his $10,000 bail bond
nd been declared forfeited. Morse
■n arraigned and entered a formal
'"a of "not guilty” to indictments
rgltig him, his two brothers, Ervin
nd Benjamin1, his father, Charles "W.
h'l'ee. and four others with conspiracy
11 ib fraud the federal government
''rough war time ship contracts. ,
Justice Stafford then heard evidence
f doctors to determin'e whether Morse
nonid be placed on trial, at this tinne.
'‘■viral physicians who examined him
'°1'1 at his home, at Bridgeport, Conn,
ml after his arrival in Washington
ils: night, testified, that he was suf
firi"K with a mild form of heart inr
’■moji and that if he were placed on.
rial now his complete recovery from
ailment would be jeopardized. The
nd.e reserved decision until later
' b< n other physicians could examine
Ulnae. ■
WHERE FOUR WERE KILLED
When this Gresft Northern train w as wrecked near Spokane, Wash., four
were killed. The accident occurring i n a gulch, rescue work was greatly
impeded.
Head of Great Klu Klux
Addresses Annual Meeting
of Kamelia In Oklahoma
New York, Where Seven Million People Live, But of Whom
Only One Million Are Native Bora, Is the Hothead
of Anarchy in the United States, Said
William J. Simmons
TULSA, Okla., April 19.—New York if
“the most un-American center on the
American continent,” William J. Sim
mons, emperor of the Ku Klux K'lan,
declared here tonight to the Kamelia
the woman’s organization formed along
the lines of the klan, at their first
general convention.
Directing the attention of the con
vention to what he said was the
“menace to the white Protestant civil
ization of the race from, all sides,” Col
; onel Simmons said the foreign popula
tion settled in the great centers o1
population. He cited New York.
“Within a radius of 19 miles,” he said,
"there are more than 7,<500,000 of peo
ple congested. Of this enormous cen
tralized population there are only 1,
100,000 native born, white p^ptestant
Americans. The majority of some 6.
000,000 of this vast centralized popula
tion are of every land and every tongue
and every creed. They speak 37 dif
ferent foreign languages ,and none oi
them in their homes or in their com
munities speak the English. language,
The foremost political and social eco
nomist of the world recently made a
survey of New York city and after
listening to its babel of tongues, after
feeling its hot breath of anarchy, after
touching its seething restlessness, he
calmly turned away and said that Pe
trograd, in its dust and desolation,
was a picture of New York of the fu
I ture.*’
The founder of the klan told the con
vention that ‘an organization of patrS- I
otic white protestant American women
was the other part of a dual vision"
which came to him in his youth,-and
“I am proud to see the realization of
my dream in a great national woman's
organization.” He called on them to
take their places beside husbands and
fathers “until the ideals of American
ism are established and the institu
tions of the world?*, greatest .democ
racy are made secure for all-time, ' , ■
■ Colonel StmmonV'ealled e»n ' thtr.cWO
men to preserve the home and to re
form and reorganize “the social life
of the nation.” He asserted that the
nation was in the midst of a transi
tional period “when all what, was old
and was being ridiculed and all- that
is substantial is being swept away.
There must return to reverence, to
decency and to the earlier processes
of social life. If the present fove
ment continues, we shall be a nation
I without modesty, without decency
without marriage and without re
ligion.”
Play grounds, for children in cities
and American music, the klan chief
tain said, are essential. He said the
public school system was “being
threatened and invaded. A sect hold
ing allegiance to foreign potentate,
maintaining the right to educate their
children under the supervision and
control of their church, invlghs
against our national public school sys
tem.” j
‘BENDER’S LIST IS
NOT FOR PUBLIC
Forty Names of Purchasers Of
Whiskey On Same; Distiller
Gets Four Years, Suspended.
"Bender’s list,” which has been
talked In poolrooms tuid In parlors,
contains 40-odd names and will not be
made public. Recorder George Harrlss
Informed a representative of The News
today, after he had pronounced judg
ment upon D. W. Bender, negro, who
was charged with violating the prohi
bition laws.
Bender, a 61-year-old negro, was ad
judged guilty 'by Recorder Harries on
the following counts: Receiving, sell
ings, transporting, possessing and man
ufacturing whiskey.
Recorder Harriss Imposed a sentence
of four years on the county roads, but
suspended judgment upon payment of
j the costs, and required the defendant
to give $600 bond for his appearance in
recorder's court on the first Mohday of
every month for a period of two years.
If, at any time during the four-year
suspended sentence, Bender is caught
violating any of the prohibition laws
Recorder fearriss warned that he would
be brought into court apd required to
show cause why the sentence should
not be put into effect.
The Judgment
In instructing August I* Meyland,
clerk,of recorder’s court, to write down
the verdict, Recorder Harrlss, said:
"The defendant coming info dpen court
and, through' his attorneys, h. Clayton
Grant and J. C. King, confesses and
pleads guilty to manufacturing Intoxi
cating liquors, will be required to give
bond of $500 and to appear before this
court on the first Monday of every
month for two years, to show good be
havior and that he lias not violated apy
part of the prohibition lawe of the
Bender submitted an additional lifet
of the names of .parties'to whom he
claimed that he had sold whiskey, after
Recorder Harrlss told him that the first
list did not contain the names or many
persons who bad called on the recorder
to have their names withheld from
publication, .
"Are you on Bender’s llstr la a ques
tion that has been asked of many citi
zens by their friends on the streets and
in afhoss since ttm fact that such-a list
had been compiled by Bender and
turned over to Sheriff George C. Jack
Hon, who, in turn, gave the list to the
recorder.
LIONS CLUB HELD
WEEKLY MEETING
Numbers of Matters Disposed of
At Luncheon Held at Hotel
Wilmington.
The attention of the members of the
Lions club meeting in regular session
today, was called to the coming indus
trial election that will be held on June
19th and,every Lion was,'urged by sev
eral speakers who mafe remarks on
the subject, to be sure and register:
and vote in support of the project. C.
C. Brown brought the matter before I
the club. ]
Committees who last week visited
industrial plants in and around the
city in company with representatives
of the two other civic clubs in the
city today made reports of those visits
and it was clearly brought out that
the visits ‘were appreciated by the.
concerns vlisted. ‘
Fred Casey, of Charlotte, was a vis
itor at the meeting; today. Mr. Casey
when called upon by the president of
the‘dub made .a shorty talk that was
thoroughly enjoyable.
All Lioiis who can possibly do so
were requested to attend the school of
infant hygiene' that will, convene at
East Wilmington tonight. . Dr. A. McR.
Crouch will lecture at the meeting and
Lion Tom Croom will be in charge of
the entertainment program.
At the ;Sug®sstion of Lion Caldwell
a. committee #111 investigate the feas
nbllity„of .offering a declamation medal
to the” boys, of the senior class at the
high school" The prize, committee will
look Into the matter and report at the
next •• meeting. ■ , 1
Quite a number of .-routine matters
were disposed of at today’s meeting of
the club.’ - .
SEIZZB BIG LlftpOR SHIPMENT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 19.—Five
thousand, two hundred and fifty
quarts of liquor were seized in a
freight car, on the tracks of the At
'lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic rail
road here this afternoon by federal
prohibition enforcement officials, rail
'road special agents and police.
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MOREHOUSE PARISH
CITIZENS SURRENDER
_: ■
in Bills of
___ ^ Surren-..
- *. - “Offered to Sheriff *
BASTROP, La., April 19.—All but six
of the Morehouse parish citizens named
J.n bills of information filed here yes
terday by District Attorney Garrett as
a result , of the .operations of hooded
bands hv the parish last year, surren
dered to Shferiff Carpenter today and
made tyjnd in the nominal sums re
quired. t
Those who did not Rive themselves
up were Dr, B. M. MoKoln, now in Bal
timore; Ed Ivey, traveling out of
Natchez, Miss., and Laurie Calhoun,
who is near Brownsville, ‘ Texas. The
other three', are known to court offi
cials only “Cox, McIntosh and Eld-'
■ridge,” as tbe clerk of the court is not
certain Which men , are wanted, there
being manjt of these names in the par
ish, has not issued warrants for their
arrest. "
Court officials here said so far as
they knew,-no plans for trial of the de
fendants' had been made but it was be
lieved the cases would be called at the
next term of district court in October.
C. E. Weatherby Dies
In Kinston Hospital
Well Known Salesman Dropped
Dead Yesterday
f^lined
^ ..iitave
Carleton E. Weatherby, weli known
salesman of tho Hortfoyd Baking Pow
der company, dropped dead in a Kin
ston hospital yesterday morning.
Funeral services will* be conducted
at his home in Faison this morning.
Mr. Weatherby had many friends in
North and South Carolina and was
well known In this City_
Dead Baby Found in
Pared Post Package
Postmaster General New Has
Ordered Investigation
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‘ post package, opened today by the
postmaster at Duncan, Okla., contained
a dead baby, '^a telegram to the post
master general today said. Postmaster
General New immediately obtained a
thorough investigation by the- postof
fice inspection service. The package
was received at Duncan, according to
the telegram, on a train from Caldwell
and Fort Worth, Tex., but it was
handled as an “outside parcel” and
bore no mark to show where it had
been mailed.
Offers 4 Cents an Hear
NEW YORK. April 19.—Officials of
the St. Regis Paper company at a con
ference with representatives of their
employes today, offered the workers an
increase of four cents an hour, Floyd
Carlisle, president of the company an
nounced. The workers decision will
be announced next Tuesday.
CLERKS EXAMINATIONS HERE.
WASHINGTON, April 19.—An exami
nation will .be held at Wilmington May
26 for railway mail clerks.
POIA) PLAT RESULTS.
PINEHURST, April 19.—Sand Hill
defeated Sand Hill greens polo team
today, four goals to three, seven
chuflflas, Sand ^lill allowing Greens
two goals handicap. The outstanding
features of the game were fine team
work of the Band Hill, and the re
markable individual playing of W. F.
Egan, formerly with the English in
ternational team. Three games re
main to be played In the tournament.
Mail Carrying Planes
Fly Five Million Miles
WASHINGTON, April 19.—Up to the
close of last year aviators of the air
mall service had flown a total of 3,
28-,823 miles since the inauguration of
the service in May, 1918, according to
a report' on the accomplishments of
the service made public today by the
postoffice department It was esti
mated that the service is now oper
ating on a schedule of 2,009,000 miles
a year.
Deficiency of Uncle Sam’s
At Forthcoming Conference
Fighting Fleet to Be Shown
An Important Decision to Be Reached is Whether or Not Main /
, Batteries of Battleships Shall be Raised to Secure Increas
ed Battle Range! Great Britain and Japan ^
Far Ahead on Tonnage.
WASHINGTON, April 19.—/The forth
coming' cabinet conference to decide
whether the main batteries of 13 Amer
ican battleships shall be elevated to
obtain an increased battle range, may
develop into a major naval council
to discuss basic national policies of
extreme importance.
Carefully compiled data, illustrating
an international race for supremacy
in naval auxiliaries which has follow
ed the Washington arms conference, it
was said today in naval circles, will
be laid before President Harding with
formal expression from his naval ad
visors as to the necessity of the Amer
ican program if the agreed balance is
to be maintained. With this data will
be a summary of the joint, report of the
army and navy on the results of the
recent fleet maneuvers off Panama.
The controversy over the gun eleva
tion, raised by the denial of the Brit
ish t embassy that similar action has
been taken in the British navy and in
ference that it was considered as a
violation of the five, power naval trea
ty, is expected to be subordinated to a
wider problem entailing a review of
the full* naval situation which has en
sued, if not from, the Washington con
vention.
On a mathematical application of the
5-5-3 ratio President Harding will be
informed that the United States is defi
cient 220,000 cruiser tons, and upwards
of 80,000 submarine tons of the strength
of her co-signatories, and that these
discrepancies are growing steadily. The
naval report will stress the view taken
by the American delegation to the con
ference, the limitation of capital ships
is meaningless from the viewpoint of
either economy or national security so
long as unrestricted construction is
permitted in other types which, al
though classified aa defensive are capa
ble through recent developments of
conducting affenslve naval campaigns.
In modern cruisers, according to the
naval computation, the United States
holds the small end of a one-four-two
ratio as compared with Great Britain
and Japan even should the 10 cruisers
of the Omaha class be considered as
completed and in service. The 7,500
tons Omahas are rated as superior to
the British ship of the same class,
but the 10 American Vessels are faced
by a British fleet of 47 and by a pros- ,
pectlve Japanese fleet of 21, the bulk ;
of which are of 10,000 tons with armor
and armament which make them to all |
purposes ships of the line. 1
The remainder of the Japanese pro
gram, embracing 15 cruisers, 24 extra
sized destroyers and 22 sea going sub
marines will be analysed carefully in
the nary’s report to the President.
1BELHAVEN MAN TO i
HEAD ASSOCIATIONi
An Address By F. M.-Simmons
Featured Final Session of
Drainage Convention
NEW. BERN, April 19.—Election of
F. P. Latham, of BelHaven, president
for the ensuing year, selection of his
town ae the place of meeting for the
1924 convention, and a speech by Sena
tor F.^M, Slnjmons at.^ie charahstt-of,
commerce banquet'were ‘’t'e^turtrS oi
j the final program of the thirteenth an
nual convention of the North Carolina
Drainage association here today.
In the afternoon session, the follow
ing officers were named to serve with
President Latham: W. D. Alexander,
of Charlotte, vice-president; B. M. Pot
ter, of New Bern, secretary-treasurer
to succeed Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt, of
Chapel Hill. Col. Pratt, John H. Small,
retiring president, and three others to
be appointed by the.new president Will
constitute the executive committee.
The association also voted for the ap
pointment of a vice-president from
each of the twenty-three counties
which were represented.
The banquet given by the chamber
of commerce, s»nd presided over by
C. C. Kirkpatrick, it’s president, was
outstanding in -the two day session
for thp address by Senator Simmons.
For an hour and 45' minutes, he held
his hearers with a discussion of con
gress attitude to drainage and recla
mation work. Congress support at
present is uncertain, the senator said,
but he expressed the belief that sub
stantial federal aid was coming. This
type of reclamation has not taken con
crete form with the government was
his view. Reclamation by irrigation
was more easily found constitution
because of ownership by the govern
ment, not the case in the areas need
ing drainage, however.,
■ The Morning program was taken up
by addresses by drainage experts,
general methods and supervision of
construction and 1 maintenance in
drainage were discussed by W. K.
Allen, engineer, of Wilming-ton; F. F
Wetmore, of Lumberton, and Pat John
son, of Pantego. C. M. Sherwin, of
State college faculty,, reported for his
committee on soil characteristics and
E. W. Gaither, district agricultural
agent, of Wilmington, told of the pos
sibilities of reclamined swamp lands.
-.For construction of tile drainage
eastern North Carolina clay deposits
are very desirable, Col. Pratt told the
convention in his report on manufac
ture of drain tile in North Carolina.
The needs and benefits of tile, drainage
were discussed by ■!£> O. Bertel, United
States engineer of the department of
agriculture.
The convention was adjourned at 5
o’clock and tonight delegates are leav
ing for their homes.
VICTIMS O F SOVIETS
Ar-chibishop Zepliak, Metropolitan Pi
Petrogjrad, whose' death sentence was
commuted to ten years Imprisonment
t>y the Soviet government folio wins *
protest trorij many - nations, ' '
Monsignor Budkewicz, vicar-general
of Petrograd, who was shot to death
by order of a Soviet court in the cam
paign to drive all organised religion
from Russia.
GOVERNMENT AGENTS
CAPTURE MUCH LOOT
Nine Mail Robbers and Two Mil
lion in Securities Taken in
St. Louis Raid ;
ST. LOUIS, April 19.—KTine men were
arrested and. more than $2,000;000 in
securities, stolen in tbre daring jslabery
of a mail truck here on April 2, was
recovered late today in a spectacular
raid, by. irss.tofftce-Inspectors and deputy
sheriffs Si St Louis county*' west of
this city.
The loot was found in a luxurious
bungalow at Richmond Heights, occu
pied by Wm. F. Doering, 29 years old,
a tire salesman and alleged gangster,
who was taken into custody with Theo
dore Weisman. 28, prjprietor of a shoe
store in Johnson City, Ills., arid Wm.
D. Williamson, 49 who said he was em- j
ployed as a yardman by Doering. In '
addition, six other men were arrested
on suspicion in connection with the
holdup.
Under the decision of chief of dectic
tives Ellis W. Hoagland and chief office
Inspector Reuter, the raiding party ob
tained a'search warrant and made a
systematic search ' of Doerings resi
dence. In the attic in an old suitcase
the officers discovered most of the loot
consisting 'of some negotiable security
and unsigned notes of the federal land
bank.
Further search of the house revealed
a small arsenal. Sawed off shot guns,
dynamite, fuses, revolvers and • auto
matic shot guns were taken from
hiding places by<the officers, who de
clared these were the type of weapons
that victims of the robbery told the
police the bandits carried. \
Two million dollars worth of bonds
and securities including in the loo$
taken if, a hold up of an armored mall
truck here .April 2, were recovered
late today in a home in St. Lonis county,
several miles west of the city limits.
The loot was rocovered in the home
of Wm. F. Doering.
Unregistered bonds of the St. Louis
federal land bank to the amount of
$2,139,900 and $2,25,000 of other paper,
of which $81,250 was negotiable were
taken by the robbers.
Nonotop Dancing is
Injurious to Health
So Says President of American
Society of Dancing Teachers
NEW YORK/, April 19.—Members at
the American Society of /Teachers of
Dancing today were advised by Vice
President Louis N. Chalif to do every
thing in their power to check the non
stop dancing marathon- wave which is
sweeping the country.
“Non-stop dancing contests are dan
gerous to health, useless as entertain
ment and a disgrace to the art and
profession of dancing,” said a bulletin
sent out by Mr. Chalif.
“American dancing enthusiasts have
certainly shown their ability to com
. pete with their British and French
contemporaries when it comes to mara
thon honors, but no further value can
come from such long distance con
tests.”
GREAT RAISEN PARADE TO
BE HELD AT FRESNO, CALIF.
FRESNO, Calif., April 19.—A gigan
tic parade eight miles long will in
augurate the 16th ‘ annual raisin day
celebration at Fresno, April 28. Nearly
every community, civic and military'
organization in the raisin district will
be represented in the parade. The un
usual floats being- planned will cost
over 160,000. Many handsome trophies
are to be awarded for the best floats
and marching delegations. -
t Larkin Released, Re-Arrested
NEW YORK, April 19.—James Lar
kin, recently' pardoned by Governor
Smith and relesed from Sing Sing
prison where he - was serving a term
tor criminal anarchy, .was arrested to
day and taken to Fills island on a
i warrant ot deportation
fUDGE STAFFORD WILL 1
BEGIN MORSE TRIAL IN
WASHINGTON MONDAY 1
— ■ ("p
Father and Sons Charged WWW
Conspiracy to Defraud Gov
ernment' of Money
WASHING-TON, April 19.—Deapit* ,•
his plea of Illness, Harry P_ Mon*
must go to trial next Monday with 3tS*
two brothers, Ervin and Banjamln; hi*
father, Charles W. Morse, and four ■
others on indictments charging con
spiracy' to defraud the United States
in connection with their shipping op
erations.
This was the decision today of Jus
tice Stafford in the District of Co
lumbia supreme court after he had
heard conflicting: opinions of phy
sicians as to whether young Morse had
heart ^trouble.
In overruling the motion of Morse'*
counsel that their client be given a
separate trial at the next session of -
the oourt, Justice Stafford said It
seemed to him, considering delays al
ready encountered and the expense in
volved In such trials, that voUng Morse
never would be tried If he were not ■
tried at this time. )S
Alter avoiding service or a nencu
warrant Issued for him last Monday
because of Ills continued failure to ap
pear for trial, Harry Morse surronder
sd himself to the court at noon today
wd immediatedly was placed wilder
rrrest. His bond of $10,000 previous
ly had been declared forfeited, but
Justice Stafford said the penalty would
sot be enforced provided costs of is
suing ajid endeavoring to serve the
bench warrant were defrayed by the
bondsman.- Later the defendant again
was admitted to bail in the same
amount.
Morse told the court that after he
was advised late last Monday that his
presence in court had been ordered he
consulted his physician, who informed
him that he should not make the trip
from his-home in New London, Conn.,
to Washington if it possibly oould be
avoided. The defendant then sought
to get in touch with counsel in Bridge
port, Conn., to determine what he
should do and the next day he went
to that city and conferred with his
lawyer.
Told that he would have to obey the
court's order, Morse left Bridgeport
yesterday by rail, going to Baltimore,
where he obtained an automobile for
the last lap of his Journey. He
ed that he' adopted this course t<x avoid
arrest.- 4-rrjving here' he went to, the _,!;
office of Hr. D. Percy HI cling for ex- it
amination and later entered a hospital.
Besides Morse and hJs three sons,
the defendants are N. H. Sampbell, of
New York, assistant treasurer of the
United States transport company, Inc.,
Rupert M. Much, of Augusta, Me., as
sistant treasurer of the Virginia Ship- j
building corporation; Philip Reinhardt,
former auditor at Alexandria, Va„ for
the Emergency Fleet corporation, and
Robert O. White of New York, president
of. the Transport company and assistant
treasurer of the Groton Iron works,
Groton, Conn.
Chairman Lasker of the shipping
board; Attorney General John Barton
Payne, who was chairman of the ship
ping board at the time the Morse con
tracts were being considered; William
G. McAdoo, former secretarv of the
treasury, and Charles M. Schwabb and
Major General George W. Goethals, re
tired, former fleet corporation offi
cer, are expected to be among those
whose' testimony will be sought by the
defense.
Mr. . McAdoo; and Stuart G. J3ibbony
were mentioned in the indictments as .
having conveyed to the shipping board
officials in their capacity as attorneys
for the Virginia Shipbuilding' corpora
tion, statements purporting to show
that the corporation was in excellent
financial condition. It was not
charged, however, that they knew of
the alleged falsity of any representa
tions made to them by their clients.
President Will Speak
New York Press Meeting
Accepts Invitation to Address
Associated Press •»
WASHINGTON, April 19.—President
Harding has accepted an Invitation to •
deliver an address next Tuesday at
the annual meeting In New York of
the membership of the Associated
Press.
The chief executive, who probably , i.
will be accompanied by Mrs. Harding,
will leave Washington late Monday
night and arrive in New York early S
Tuesday. His address will be made
at the luncheon held in connection with
the annual meeting of the Associated
Pi-ess.
, Plans for the visit of Mr. Harding,
other than the delivery of his address ;
were not disclosed today at the white
house where the acceptance of the in- '
vltation was announced, but is expected
that the presidential party will leave
for Washington late Tuesday night. ;
Among those in the President’s party 3
will be George B. Christian. Jr., his ,
secretary, and Brig. Gen. Charles E.
Sawyer, his personal physician..
WEATHER FORECAST
WASHINGTON, April 19.—Virginia;, :
Fair and warmer Friday; Saturday un
settled, followed bv showers with mild ,
temperature. J-S
North and South Carolina; Fair and ;•
warmer Friday; Saturday local show-,
ers and thunderstorms; moderate varti, •
able winds. "fit.
Georgia: Fair Friday; warmer ;'ia :
southeast portion; Saturday showers ,•
and thunderstorms; moderate souther- ;
ly winds. ~ "
Florida: Fair Friday and probably ;
Saturday; gentle variable winds;
Extreme northwest Florida, Ala
bama and Mississippi. Increasing
cloudiness Friday; thunderstorms FrI- ?
day night and Saturday, increasing >
southerly winds