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Weather -'? ■ -7'VO ?! ": «* *■'•••• V ’ U ^;C; = • * ;-,• • -V .-A .*V~ ,..V v ’.■«-**. >f‘e „ ^TTfWfV’.j - ^ ‘ '. ? Fair today and Tuesday; Moderate Winds •i^ll-Day andNigfct Service of^he' Associated Press. FOUNDED A. D. 1867.—YOli. CXI. No. 57. WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1923. OLDEST b|H^ IN THE STATE. ■. v'..; ^ ',y : , , >V CIRCULATION—DAILY; MORE THAN DOUBLE, S - ‘ “ v '£p*i ' 11 ■ - - 7.-- * . , : -• ■ .. ■ ■ : •• . /fC. 1 V,-;. x ..... ' .'i,"i, ' army and navy may BE USED TO ENFORCE PROHIBITION LAWS Dry Forces Want President to Go the Limit Against Violators PRECEDENTS FOR THIS ACTION ARE CITED Coast Guard and Customs ser vice Unable to Cope With Bootleggers By DAVID 1AWRENC® WASHINGTON, April 29.—Shall the army of the United States as well as the navy be subject to call for the en forcement of prohbiition? President Harding is wrestling at the moment with the legal problem of whether he has the authority to or ilor the navy into action to stop rum running, but already it is apparent that whatever precedent is established with respect to the use of the navy may he equally applied to the army on' shore. The President! has found, of course, d,at the coast guard and customs serv ice is unable to cope with the viola tions of federal laws in the liquor traffic and the Anti-Saloon league and dry organizations generally have been pressing the administration to go the limit in using the full force of the T'nited States government to see that the statutes are upheld. Mr. Harding has asked the depart ment of justice to look up the prece: hpnts—that is whether money appro priated by congress originally for mili tary and naval defense can be utilized to enforce civil and criminal laws. The lawyers have found plenty of prece dents with respect to the army, as for instance the sending of troops to quell Rhea's liouor rebellion in Pennsylvania in the early days of the American re public when the first revenue laws were passed and there was difficulty in col lecting taxes. The military forces have also been used to effect statutes .elating to restraint of interstate com merce as for instance in the shopmen’s railway strike a year ago. Every gov ernor has the right to call upon the federal government at any time to fur nish troops to uphold jitate . govern-, went and quell disturbances. But the waters within the , three mile limit do not belong to any par ticular state and the question is whether a national emergency exists which permits the navy to be diverted from its task of-protecting the nation against foreign invasion into enforce ment of domestic laws. Broadly speaking, the navy can be- used in an emergency to put down civil war and has been used’ in that connection so that if the. emergency were great enough there would be no doubt of thi. power of the executive to order the raw into action. Similarly, if any huge plot to break down the tariff wall and smuggle goods into America were under way, the navy could be used to put down what would be in terpreted as rebellion against the au thority of the federal government. The general impression is that the lawyers will find there is ample prece dent and will leave the question of whether it is wise to employ the navy in prohibition enforcement entirely tp the \xecutive himself to decider It will then become - largely a matter of policy. Does the President wish to establish a precedent with respect to prohibition enforcement which may compel him some day with equal logic to order out the army' if any state of the Union fails to enforce the 18th amendment. The “drys" have fre quently talked in insistent tones about the need for the use of the entire army if necessary to make a populous state obey the federal constitution. The spectacle of the military establishment being used to put down liquoT viola tions it is admitted, would give the “wets’"’ new ammunition with which to appeal to public sentiment as the latter would’naturally declare that any laws which do not have sufficient moral sentiment back of them,.to obtain re spect without the use of the army and navy are wrong in principle and that no other domestic lawq, Jiave needed such drastic measures. The problem is full of political dan gers whichever way it is solved, but the best conjecture at the moment is that the department of justice-Will, ren der the necessary legal opinion and the- American navy will before long be engaged in prohibition enforcement. Pope Pius Pronounces Decree of Sanctity on Sister of Carmilites V. f ltujiK, , April zs.—(.»y Press.)—Pope plus today celebrated for the first time the gorgeous ceremony if Beatification, pronouncing the first decree of sanctity on Sister Therese, a nun of the barefoot order of Carmelites who died at Lisieux, France, ,6nly' twenty-four years ago. It is excep tional for the Catholic church to beati fy so soon "after death, such ceremony lining generally deferred for many fears, sometimes for centuries. Sistei TTherese was 3. beautiful poe^, writer and artist af high, gifts; she'en tered the convent when, only 15 and '•pent the remainder of her life, in holy works. J ..P.. . P . ( i / .. i' 911.000 FOR MEMORIAL ATLANTA, Ga., ‘April 29.—Voluntary subscriptions amounting to $11,000 to day were pledged by Atlanta citizens to help make possible the memorial .of Confederate soldiersV which ’it Is planned to carve in the granite face Of Stone mountain, near here. .The Pledges were made at a mass meet ing held under the. .auspices of the Stone Mountain Memorial association. AS REPUBLICANS DISAGREE OVER WORLD COURT PLAN DEMOCRA TS CALML Y SMILE By H. E. C. BRYANT WASHINGTON, April 29.7—“What is to be done with our i President?1’ is the way the hard-boiled Republican politicians put it these days. “How call we ditch him and get by with it?” After the New York speech, ladvocat ing stronger than ever, the; woffid court the G. O. P. fence fixers threw up their hands. Not even Senator Lodge would open his ' mouth. The “world court or wild cat tr.io Harding, Hughes and Hoover Vre riding for a very great fall,” according to the Borahs, Johnsons and LaFollettes. . As the Republicans battle and split hairs over the world court the Demo crats smile, and become better satis field. They hope for another 1912. Their candidate has not. been picked but they believe he will be a winner. Unless Mr. Hardirig backs out a cer tain faction of hi£party will not fol low him ev?n though he get the nomi nation. .If he quits he will get the Hughes and Hoover harpoons. There you are! Poor old Normalcy is be tween the devil and the sea. Every way he -turns he meets foes. Now he is preparing to take on more trouble by using the navy to break up the rum runners within the three mile limit. He is not quite certain what he can do, but he has asked the' de partment of justice for an opinion. Such is life at the national capital. Eyerybody seems to be sharpening a blade for the President. jgHere is what the Democratic na tional committee has to say of the sit uation: With the practical politicians and leading officials of the Republican or ganization ranging themselves against President Harding his defeat for re nomination in 1924—if he doesn’t withdraw his candidacy before the next national convention opens—is fast becoming inevitable, in the opin ion of those whose business it is to read political signs and portents. This new and powerful combination against Mr. Harding reinforces the op position of the progressives and radi cals who are resolved that he shajl not continue in the presidency. When Will R. Wood, chairman of the Republican congressional commit tee, went boldly to" the white house? and told President Harding^ that lilfe« proposal for American representation in the international court of justice menaced Republican solidarity it was/ assurance that this was merely tfcho ing the sentiments and words of Sea tor Moses, chairman of the Republi can senatorial committee. Senator Mc Cormick, Senator Brandegee, Senator Watson, Senator Lodge, and Senator Curtis, Republican whip of the sen ate. • The fact ie that a large faction or the Republican party is convinced of President Harding’s “unavailability” and want to substitute some one else to make the race in 1924. The leaders of this faction—all practical politicians—would prefer to furnish Mr. Harding an excuse and an occasion to eliminate ‘ himself, but they are resolved that if he won’t step aside they will bowl him over. Indiana is not the only state in which the “regular” reactionary ele ment, which ought to support Mr. Harding is either indifferent or hostile to his renomination. One Republican senator has said that the "organiza tion” in Illinois is so much opposed t to his candidacy that he would be badly beaten were he to enter a pri mary contest with Senator Hiram I Johnson. Antagonism to the Presi dent has been growing also In Penn- ^ sylvania. Senators Pepper and Reed are angry because their recommenda tion^ and objections have been ignor ed , in- the distribution of federal j patronage. Men who , control the Re publican machine of the state are equally sore about other conditions which they charge to Mr. Harding. Speaker Gillett is lifting his voice in favor of Mr. Harding’s plan for , American participation in the inter national court, but he Is not the spokesman of Senator Lodge or of other Republican leaders. With Lodge j against the proposal and the Boston Transcript and lesser Republican organs, denouncing it the official Re publicansm of Massachusetts is not j (Continued on Page Two) i COAST LINE FIREMEN CONFESSES TO MURDER OF VIRGINIA MAIDEN Joseph Enoch, Tells His Story of Killing After Long Drilling HAD TAKEN HER TO A PICTURE SHOW RICHMOND, Va., April 29.—Joseph Enoch, 23, a fireman employed at the shops of the Atlantic Coast h>ine rail way was reported by the police to night to have confessed the brutal murder , of Celia Shevick, the 16-year old school girl whose body was found in an abandoned field near her home Friday morning. , Enoch, who is said to have been an admirer of the little girl, who was a chum of his sister, made a complete confession of the crime, according to Captain Alex S. Wright, chief of the detective bureau in the presence of five detectives and a notary. The boy’s story, it was said, was put In jvriting and was acknowledged by him before^the notary. Accordingi to the alleged confession, which was linade public by the police, Enp.ch said (he had an engagement to take Miss Shevick and his sister, Ada Enoch, to a motion picture show Thursday night. Ada decided not to go to the sWbw, he said, and Miss Shevick wenttalone. Enoch is report ed as saying that he went home about 9 o’clock Thursday night and went to bed. About 1)0 o’clock he, is quoted as sayjum he gpt out of bed and, af ter wandetdng/through the streets for some \time\ /went .to • the railroad vlaductSnearNthe spot Where the body of the girl was found. Enoch ftyreported to have said that he waited under the viaduct for sev eral minutes and then saw Miss Sherick coming down the hill. She ■was alone he said, as she approach him Enoch is quoted in the alleged confessions he "smiled at her and she smiled at me.” He then said, accord ing to the statement made public by Captain Wright, that he struck her on the head with something he held in his hand. The youth denied, according ,to the officers, knoledge of what transpired after he struck the girl. ■ Enoch was taken into custody yes terday and was • subjected to a se vere grilling which lasted throughout the night. He was taken to the spot where the'girl’s body was found about two. o’clock this morning, but detec tives who accompanied said that He maintained his ignorance of the crime. Enooh was placed in solitary con finement late tonight and a special guard was placed,over him. A warrant formally charging him with 'criminal assault apd murder was issued late to day. V 'Celia Shevik, daughter of a tailor, died Friday afternoon. Her uncon scious form was discovered in the field early Friday by a negress. «■ Her skull was crushed and ugly wounds on the back and front of her head indicated that she was struck down With a heavy, blunt instrument. She was rushed td a hospital but did not regain conscious ness. ” TO ENTER IVY JUS GAMES PARIS, ,April 29.—Charles Paddock, the California sprinter, started train ing in earnest at Pershing stadium today to compete in, the Paris uni versity club games next Sunday, not withstanding the ruling of the Ameri can A? A 'TJ • to the contrary. 1 CHESTER CONCESSION FOREMOST TOPIC AT LAUSANNE CONFERENCE Paramount Question Among Delegates Now, is Who * is Backing Him FRANCE WANTS TO STILL HOLD RAILWAY RIGHTS LAUSANNE. 'April 29.—The Chester concession was the foremost topic of discussion today among the delegates to the near east conference. The mem bers of all the delegations, including the Turks. “What American financial interests are hacking Rear Admiral Chester? and speculation on twie attitude of the American government toward this con cession. If the French, which seems improb able, make a fight in Turkey to main tain their 1914 railroad concession, the Chester representatives must be ready to defend their grant, aa the last para graph of the famous article 94 of the draft treaty, it is asserted, would nul lify it. This article provides that all legislative provisions since 1914 which are inconsistent with the rights re ferred to' in the article are null and void. The article also protects the French railroad concession, with which the Chester grant conflicts. The first week of the conference has brought considerable progress; the territory section of the-treaty h^.s prac tically been agreed upon except the boundary of eastern Thrace, which, it is-expected, will be easily adjusted. The Turks are credited with showing a conciliatory spirit on the whole. They stoutly oppose attempts to !fcake them take over responsibilities for the acts of the old imperial government and they are extremely sensitive about any thing reflecting on tjre-ir national ca pacities. They are opposed, for in stance. to the arbitration of certain le gal disputes, on the ground that they would imply lack of confidence in the justice of decisions by Turkish courts. Dismal Swamp “Mighty Damp Place” Visiting Scientists Realise ' NORFOLK. April. 29,—A party of emi nent scientists yesterday gained some intimate fadts about the dismal swamp. They - learned, • principally that the sjvamp is a mighty damp place. Fifty members and guests of the Virginia Academy of Science visited the big swamp on the Commodore Maury at the invitation of Col. Mc Donald Lee, state' game commissioner. Soon after thp boat left Norfolk, rain descended in torrents, and by the time the party reached the wilds of the swamp they were thoroughly saturated. With impressions of old Dismal’s re puted humidity. The party included, .members of the faculty of several Vir-. ginia colleges and biology students of William -and Mary college and other Virginia institutions. The mission of the outing was to study <jlant and animal life :of the swamp. MAYOR STOPS HIM YOUNGSTOWN, O., April 29.—Albert Kish, Youngstown athlete and claim ant of the world’s endurance dancing championship,, upon bompleting 132 hours of continuous shuffling at one minute after, midnight this morning, was forced to stop. Mayor Reese is sued an' order forbidding continuance of the performance on Sunday. / aJ m mm w IN SYRIA TO Hi MANDATE H - * ggggf ^Igpnl Weygtekd is Given ,20, 00Q Additional Men as Re inf otifements 26,000 POILQf[3 NOW LINE 200 MILE FRONT -S In Face *of Massing Turkish Forces^ Mijierahd Thinks PARIS, April *9.—(By Associated Press).—Prance Is sending more troops, to Syria 40 hold the mandated territory against any possible aggres sion by the Turks. A considerable number of FrencH colonials have al ready embarked and are on their way to Syria, and two!(divisions, totaling 20,000 men, it is rdported, have been decided upon as- probable reinforce ments to be sent so 'as to give General Waygand a sufficient army. France now has -.2^,000 men In Syria, b.ut the northern.front is. about 200 miles in length, and a Turkish army corps of 20,000 is (Cjmcentrated there, with additional forces on their way. The announcement <Sf the French militarp preparations was made after Premier Poincare’s tvy;o hours’ talk this morning with General , Pell'e, the French high commissioner at Constan tinople, who first ^ent to Lausanne and then came to Karls for a confer ence with the premier on the general situation and for discussion, with General Weygand on the military plans. President .^flilerand later re- i ceived General Pe^e . ■Who gave the ■ premier full inforittatfpft on condi tions. . - The governmnt, swithout divulging the details of its frUuiW Syrian policy, simply let it be knoWgAftrough a semi official channel that1'" because of the massing of Turkish forces across the border from the French;‘'the despatch of fresh contingents -of French troops taken from the colonial' forces Is con sidered necessary.” -f}'\ The military measures, however, it is understood, have bee$ ta^en only as a precaution, for GenferalJS"^ ‘Brought from Lausanne a report -of Villa • long talks with Ismet' Pash^:,.-k^ich'< ..the French consider i^rfe;;j_.ieJ,h8M.ragl^ than ,Ismet’>i,:%ttl^Se'^*f?5fefe.',«h,wev:i' ene^r'-‘ " ■' i Alabama Governor Urge Observance' of Prohibition Laws Says he Will Use Force if Neces sary to Carry Out Statutes *>. GIRARD. Ala., April 29.-^-Speaking to 8,000 people in a' tent located on the line between this town and Phoenix City, Ala., this afternoon, Gov. Wm. W. Brandon, of Alabama, made an appeal for law observance and asked the co operation of the people in enforcing the prohibition laws. The address followed a complaint against alleged violations in Girard. The governor asserted, however, that if force is necessary it will be applied. He said he would use every dollar in the treasury for the enforcement of the law. He suggested that the towns of Gjrard and Phoenix City be consoli dated into one municipality. This suggestion met the approval of Mayor Clyde lil. Knowles, of Girard, and Mayor Claude B. Gullatt, of Phoe nix City, who announced their inten tions to support the movement. The name <4f West Columbus, Ala., had been suggested for the proposed munici pality. BOLSHEVIKS IN TURKEY CONSTANTINOPLE, April 29.-(By Associated Press.)—The police have discovered a bolshevik plot for the or ganization of a May day demonstration^ it is reported, leaflets have been seized which call on the 1 proletariat to rise against the capitalist government. Report has it that the bolslievik com mercial delegation here is involved and1 the police have made several arrests. One Week Only Left In Gift Race First Period; Must Dig In With the end of the second period only a few days off it is not to he wondered that more conscientious effort is being manifested jby every active contestant Whp^nokos to participate in the ’/hhibntloii' of 'this extraordinary^ . In lust a few nioredaya'the votes will be again reduced .in,'anticipa tion of the lowest vote offer of the entire cafmpnign. This second pe riod is the time to secure your win ning votes. After next Saturday night your subscriptions will count you less votes, and votes win. Then, too, remember that after next Saturday night'less votes will be given' for new subscriptions, which count toward both the spe cial prise of a $1,800 Essex Coach and the regular capital prises. After Saturday night yOu will find that it will take a great deal more effort to go. the same distance in the vote:count that you can attain In the next few days, by taking ad vantage of the 1 second' period vote schedule. • Taking everything into consider ation, these next six.days, ppefls suc cess or failure, let’s realibe that our opportunity is. here, and take full advantage of these next few day* of the big votes, f ATTITUDE OF LODGE AND LAFOLLETTE CAUSE MUCH CONCERN AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON. April S3.—Food for further discussion of the world court question among administration offi cials and republican leaders was pre sented in the publication of two new statements on the matter; one. by Pres ident Harding and the other by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,, chairman of the foreign relations committee and Republican leader in the senate. Of the two, that by Senator Lodge was generally conceded as likely to have the greater bearing oij the ques tion which since President: Hardings’ New York address of last Tuesday has transcended all othefs ,in interest among officials and political ■ leaders. The foreign relations committee 'chair man in a letter to Governor Hyde of Missouri described as vitally impor tant the two conditions to American membership in the court put forward by the administration but added that it might be assumed that “the senate may very possibly originate and propose other conditions.’’ This declaration by Senator * Lodge with his further assertion that a "sat isfactory adjustment will be reached.” was interpreted in some quarters as rather definitely indicating/ that he and a number of other Republican sen ators known to have similar views feel thait the administration conditions are reservations are insufficient. ‘ The natural result of this attitude, it was generally conceded, would be the offer ing the senate of new reservations de signed primarily .to separate further Ajnerican participation^ n court activi ties from the affairs/ot the league. Reservations For Harding Thf attitude whiqh\President Hard ing would take toward further reser vations has not been disclosed and quite naturally is not expected to be until the world court question comes up in' the senate, and any additional conditions proposed are drafted. Mr. Harding has indicated that-he regards the t*m conditions which he has recom mended as quite sufficient but there remains the question of whether he would not in the interest of party har mony accept reservations proposed in the senate.. Tie two . conditions to American adhesion to the international court protocol which the administra tion ha sproposed provide tor declara tions of the refusal of the United State sto Join the league of nations and that the United States shall have an equality of representation in the council and in the assembly in the elec tion of court judges. * ' The statement bv President Harding relative to the world court was mads in the course of his address last nigh? [ before the Americdfo society of newspa per editors. It was - declaration there was no truth in assertions that the administration had proposed American membership in the court at the behest of international-bankers. In making his denial the President referred to “a very earnest editorial” making such as sertions which he said he had read within the last forty-eight hours. A similar charge was ma„e several days ago in a statement on the world court made by Senator LaPollette, Republi can, Wisconsin. * Talk To Editors “There isn’t a word of truth in it,” said the executive to the editors in re ferring to the assertions of the edi torial, “and I want to tell this to you because it will enlarge your vision and enable ♦ou to comment, sometimes a little more satisfactorily. I have been President something more .than two years and I have yet to be asked for an j audience or be requested an interview | by a single international banker in America or elsewhere. . And the .only exchange of opinions between interna tional bankers and the' President of the United States has been at ,tne rs quest of the President and it is fair,to say that in the instances when they were summoned they have said with just the same patriotic interest and de votion that you would, say, ‘Mr. Presi dent, we are at your service in any way you wish to command us.’,” This was the only reference made by the chief executive to the world court question in his address which was de voted mostly to a decision of newspa per employes. FEDERAL GRAND JURY WILL PROBE FLORIDA District Attorney to Carry Case! * of 65 Year Old Negro i Before Body WAS LEASED BY JONES j TO PUTMAN COMPANY TALLAHASSEE,, Fla., April 29.—(By Associated Press).—The federal gov ernment has stepped into Florida's convict flogging affairs, it became known here today, when Fred Cub berly, United States district attorney,* announced he had under consideration making the leasing of Ned Thompson, 65-year-old negro by J. R., Jones, de posed sheriff of Leon county, to the Putnam Lumber company,' a subject of a federal’ grand Jury investigation. An agent of the department of justice arrived here several days ago and con ducted -an inquiry as to whether Thompson was held in peonage. He made a report to Mr. Cubberly, who is now laying plans- to present the mat ter to the grand jury, which convenes in Pensacola during the first part of May. Thompson is now dead—dying, it is contended, in the Leon county jail, after having been leased to the Put nam Lumber company and returned by them because he was not physically fit to perform labor. Thompson's death, Leon authorities assert, was from natural causes, but federal officials ate in possession of evidence, they declare, tending to show that death was due 'to excessive flog gings he received at the lease camp before being relieved. The aged negro came in contact with the convict lease system through an alleged error, there being no- charge against him at the time he was seht to the camp of the lumber company. A peace warrant was taken out against him. by a negro woman and as a result he became mixed in with a shipment of prisoners from the local jail' to the logging camp. \ Explosion at Signal Tower. Hurts Several DUBLIN, April 29.—The signal tower of the Great Northern Railway In Dub ,lin was blown up today as a train Was leaving for Drogheda* The coaches of the train were struck by an avalanche ,of fragments of ceiment and 17 pas sengers were injured by flying debris and broken glass. When the explosion occurred fire was opened on the station guard. Three men in a taxicab drove into a suburb this morning and while two of thejn held up a constable the, third smashed a window and threw a bomb into a dry goods store, wreck ing' it. •■Several employes living in the rear of the store were injured. The' entire district ip which the store is satuated was shaken., * ' “ ‘ , , some: modiste bill ‘v* WASHINGTON, April 29.—More than a billion '‘dollars’ worth of women’s clothing was manufactured in 1921, ■v^hile in 1914 there were less than half that amount. Value of-such products was placed at $1,622,743,000 for 1921 in a census bu reau announcement today, which gave the 1919 total as $1,208,643,000 and that of 4914 as $473,888,000. Y ;,^ DAUGHERTY TO RUN INTO LOT OF WORK ATMPPITOMY Many Important Matters Await His Return From Health Trip HAS FULLY RECOVERED FROM RECENT ILLNESS ‘WASHINGTON', April 29.—Attorney General Daugherty on his return to Washington tomorrow, after an ab sence of nearly two months in Florida and NoYth Carolina recuperating from illness, will find a number of impor tant matters awaiting his attention at the department of justice. Amon^ them are the request oi President Harding for a ruling as to the executive au thority to order naval vessels used in combating the activities of rum run* ners, and the government’s sugar in junction suit, filed recently in New York. Mr. Daugherty is sajd to have re covered from his illness. He is ex pected to remain here for several days to clear his desk of the most pressing matters, and then go to Atlantic City for a stay of seVeral weeks before resuming the daily routine of his of fice. He has sent word that he will arrive here early tomorrow from Ashe ville, N. C. I.EAVES ASHEVILLE WITH HIS PHYSICIAN ASHEVILLE. April 29.—Attorney General DaughSrty, accompanied by his personal physician, Dr. J. T. Boone, left here this afternoon for Washing ton after spending five .weeks in this section in an effort to regain his health. Prior to their departure, Dr. Boone stated that his patient was much; improved in health and was ready to take up his duties again. ■ • The attorney general declined to discuss matters that will face ‘him •when he gjoes to his office again. For two weeks he has been giving much thought to the sugar situation and it was learned today that during the past two or three days he has been consider-* ing the* request of President Harding for a ruling as to whether or not navy vessel* may be ■ used in the fight against rum runners. Senator Nelson’s Body Taken to Minnesota HARRISBURG, Pa-, April 29.—The body of United States Senator Knute Nelson, .of Minnesota, who died sud denly on. railroad train near York, Pa., last night, while on the way from Washington to his home in Alexan dria, Monn., le,ft here this afternoon for Chicago. Prom there it will be taken , to St. Paul and then to Alex andria where the funeral will be held, probably Friday. The senator’s sud den death was, due to heart trouble, brought on,, according to physicians, by gripp and colds from which he had suffered during the winter and by weaknesses of his age. He was 80 years old. The night before his de parture from Washington he suffered a sudden attack and a physician, who was summoned^ advised against hts leaving his home last night, as be had arranged some' time ago to do. tfe insisted on starting, hoWever, and left in company with his niece, Mrs. Edith Truscott, of Jennings Lodge, Oregon, his housekeeper in Washington. OFFICIALS OF FRENCH RAILWAY ARE KILLED BY Explosion Occurs on Passenger Train Near Coblenz, Re- ' ports to Berlin Say NO MAY DAY ALLOWED IN OCCUPIED AREA "Keep Up Passive Resistance in Rhur” Slogan of German Labor BERLIN, April 29.—German labor, flushed with the large part It has played in blocking the efforts .of the French; and Belgians in the occupation of the Ruhr,' is rallying witfi more vim than eve# for the celebration ^of May 1 as an international workingman holi day.' ^ For nearly a quarter of a year, the workers proudly. note, nothing but an unarmed army ,of laborers has success fully withstood the attempts of tens of thousands of soldiers to aohleye fruitful! results in the occupation of Europe's leading industrial district; al though this invading army lias been equipped with all the paraphernelia of war. The laborers believe this battle has been unique in the annals ctf his tory, and it has inspired them to make May day ring with the slogans "death rather than slavery," “no work under - bayonets,” and “keep up passive re sistance iq the Ruhr,” Fuel has been added to the fire of discontent among the workers by the announcement that the Frehch govern ment will demand abandonment of the passive resistance dhmpaigh before it witi negotiate with Germany. The; leaders of German labor declare sufehf a concession Is absolutely out of the question: that it would’ mean the sur rendering of their only weapon.' '* WBTZliAR, ’ Rhenish 1'russta. , April 29.-—(By Associated Press.)—;it stated in German quart rs here that the occupation authorities have' prqr liibited May day demonstrations, in the oceupied areas. ■'■■■■■ . LAW INSTITUTE GETS SUBSTANTIAL GIFT Carnegie Corporation Gives Them $1,075,000 for Special Program _ , > NEW YORK, April 29.—The Amer! can Law institute, founded last Febru ! ary at Washington under the leader ship, of Ellhu Root, tonight announc- ^ od the receipt of a $1,076,000 gift from the Carnegie corporation to be used in simplifying and re-estating thi thousands of common laws of the na tion. The gift in the first large* fund created to finance the program of the instttpte. Giving voice to the growing com' plaint of Judges, lawyers and laymen that the rapid multiplicity of Cour): decisions was greating an “intolerable evil” which threatens to break down the American system of ’ developing law, Mr. Root called a meeting of noted jurists a year ago to devise a plan for “promoting the admlntstra, tion of justice by clarifying, and simpli fying the law.” A committee of jurists was form ed which after months of research, urged that an association be created to undertake first of all a re-statement of the law. A national conference at Washington followed, which was at tended by the chief justice and mem bers of the supreme court, members of other federal courts 21 state chief justices, representatives and leading bar association, faculties of law schools and 200 prominent lawyers. . The American Institute since Incor porated, was the result. Its office In clude Mr. Root, George W. Wicker sham, Benjamin N. Cardozo, George Wei wood-Murray and William Draper Lewis and It will function through a committee, of 21. This committee later will be increased to 33 and represent every section of the • nation. ■ Chinese Will Pay ■ For Killing American WASHINGTON, April ,29.—China h*« agreed to make restitution for the kill ing by . Chinese soldiers last December of Charles Coltman, an American, an incident which has greatly strained good relations between the Washington and Peking governments. As a result of prolonged negotiations between American Minister Scnurman and Pe king officials it has been agreed that suitable apologies will be made that the military authorities in command of the offending troops will be removed from office, and that the principles of Coltman will be paid an indemnity to be fixed by ..the American government. >; Although official notification, of the agreement, had not been received to day 'at the. .state department, it is kpqwn to have 'reached the hands of diplomatic representatives; here and'is expected to be delivered to Secretary; Hughes next week. STEAM BOILER EXPLODES 'ATLANTIC CITY, N- J- Aofil 29.— Explosion' of a steam boiler in the ‘ plant of the Atlantic City Gas company 'tonight wredked the engine room of the plant, shattered windows within a. ra - dips of a mile and frightened residents throughout the city.
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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