' M v;.i ;■ ,V . i, *. ■ ' V - ■ - sjrv: . • *• ' ^ ;; ■. p, ■ ' CIRCULATION—DAILY, MORE THAN DOUBLE, SUNDAY OVER THREE TIMES, THAT OF ANY OTHER WILMINGTON PAPER ■ ■ $L4 y p y* Weather Fair and Warmer .Today and Tomorrow M Full Day and Night Service of the Associated Press. FOUNDED AD. J867.—VOL. CXL—No. 47. WILMINGTON, N. €., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1923. =»■ ... 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. ' ■ . ,, 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 ; • : i:. .14\. i„.W^ ..... /v : •. WASHtNOTci^r, rt—A- 'ya^ei ‘ 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 southerly winds