Weather Fair and Wanner Today 8 Pages Full Day and Night Service of the Associated Press. FOUNDED A. D. 1867.—-VOL. CXI—No. 139. WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1923. OLDEST DAILY IN THE STATE. CITY LOGICAL POINT FOR STATE TERMINALS, J, S, MANNING STATES Attorney General Says Wilming ton is Only State Port With World Commerce HAS WORLD COMMERCE AND WATER FRONTAGE Work on Other Ports Progress ing But None Compare With This •Wilmington is the most logical point i,, tim state of North Carolina for the ptate terminals," declared North Caro lina's attorney general J. S. Manning Inst right in an interview with a r,presently# of the Star at Kitty cot tage. Wrightsville Beach,'where he is taking a short vacation. justice Manning, when asked in reference to the location of the state -.v.-ned terminals, said that Edenton. jlmehead City and other places were p-.orl ports, but an enormous amount -,f development would have to be made and this would be done gradually. Continuing, he added that Wilming tan is the only North Carolina port that enjoyes foreign commerce to any extent and if it is possible for the state to obtain enough water frontage then this port will eventually be selected. The purpose of the state waterway commission, he said, was to develop the state so as to benefit Its people and our. foreign trade ' and by doing this the city which obtains the state terminals will be benSfltted and no Private interest will be able to thwart the purpose of the state In its deter mination to do this. "It is impossible to forecast to what extent the state will go in building up a state owned terminal,” the at torney general said, "but the people tan be assured that whatever is spent it will be for the 'interest of the people and the commercial interest of the entire state.” But however, he says, "that there is no power, indivi dual or combined that can 'stop the progress of the state and Wilmington with, her foreign trade and big water frontage can feel assured that she,has the only logical location -for the ter minal." SOUTHERN RAILWAY GRANTS WAGE BOOST Conference in Washington Fol lowed by Announcement of of Grant to Shopcraft Men CINCINNATI. O., July 20.—Wage in crease of from one to three ‘cents an hour for shop crafts employes of the fouthenr railway have been authorized as the result of conferences In Wash ineton it was stated at the genera! manager's office here today. According to word received here me tal trades workers In shop craft are to receive increases of three cents an hour: car repariers two cents and ap prentices and helpers are to receive one cent an hour raise in pay. It was said that from lS.zOO to 20,000 men will share in the increase in pay. Will Line State Banks For Federal Reserve B H. E. C. BRYANT ''WASHINGTON, D. July 20.—The nt special committee on the condl ti V-, of prate bank and their reasoifs fr,r remaining out of the Federal Re perre system plans' to get information before congress meets on the situation in the r"arolinas. The members were chosen from the Fep.ate and House committees on bank ms.- and currency because approximat (i' 1«,non banks have held aloof from ‘be Federal Reserve system for various reasons. The first work is planned In England states. Later the mem ber? will jo into the west. The South ern trip while not yet planned, will br held sometime afterwards. ’ decision has been reached on what towns will be viisted if any in North Conductor St. George to Leave Service to Rest 'net. St. George, a former Wilming ron;a n. who for many years with one lnte-im cf tw0 or three years, has been conductor on the Clinton-Warsaw train - fettring having reached the age of T‘r ’fmtnt fixed by the Atlantic Coast Ti'o railroad, with salary continued. : tpt. and Mrs. St. George will live ■"olv their son, Mr. David St. George, !,i Portsmouth, Va. Third Flight Likely For Lieut. Maughan ’WASHINGTON, July 20.—'While ■ 'my air service officials authorized '' announcement' eajfiy- today that !■ ut Russell L. Maughan would be -ranted permission to make a third ; '-mpt this year at a daylight-to r p k trans-continental flight, later de '1 iopments indicated that a final de 1 'on would await the arrival here of bia.ior General Patrick, chief of the »-r service,-probably-on ^Jnnda.y. Bandit Chief Villa Is ^ Slain With Escort WBle Ambushed Near Bi§Slkanch «r Most Picturesque Figure in Mexico Political Victim 100 NATIONAL GUARDS ON SLAYER’S TRAIL Will be Gijisen Military Burial; Was Millionaire Land Owner MEXICO CITY, July 20.—(By Asso ciated Press.)—Francisco Villa, former rebel chieftain, was killed from am bush this morning near Parra! 1, in the state of Chihuahua, it was confirmed this afternoon by the department of interior. President Obregon, it was an-' nounced, had ordered that full military honors be rendered at the funeral. The official announcement gave few details, stating only that Villa with his personal secretary, Col. Miguel Triilo, and an escort, had been am bushed while en route, from Villa's ranch and Canutillo to Parrall and at 8 o’clock. Villa was instantly killed, together with Colonel Triilo and three men of the escort party. Secretary Exonerated CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mex., July 20.— (By Associated Press. l-^Official tele grams received at military, headquar ters confirmed the death of Francisco Villa near Parrall this morning and ex onerate his secretary, Miguel Triilo, of all blame for his death, . earlier tele grams having said. Villa was killed by his secretary. Excitement here is intense. The as sassination of Villa and the brief fight which followed, are said to be the out come of political disturbances. General Eugenia Martinez left here at 11 a. m. today with 100 soldiers on the way to Parral. According 16' the official reports. Villa left Parral, accompanied by Triilo, two guards and a chauffeur, early this morning. While going over the Guanajuato bridge near Parral. the party was assaulted from both sides by a number of men. Villa and Triilo were killed at the same instant, together with their com panions, thg official telegrams say, The. bodies were taken to Parral. El Faso Hears of Fight EL PASO, Tex., July 20.—Paneho Villa and his secretary, Miguel Trillo, were killed at the same time this morning by men who fired on Villa and his party as they were crossing a bridge near Parral, according to infor mation received by Juarez employes of the National Telegraph of Mexico. The company’s lines, they say, have re ceived no report laying the responsi bility of Villa’s death on Trillo. They report a fight, with the number of dead'undetermined. Clues as to the identity of the slay ers of Paneho Villa and his secretary. Miguel Trillo, have been found, and friends of the general who was slain today think it is but a matter of hours until the persons who planned and exe cuted the ambuscade will be captured. XOO Troopers Seek Slayers Villa an$J his secretary, Miguel Trillo, were killed at the same time when they ran into an ambuscade while crossing i the river at Parral, according to re ports received at Juarez by the Na- i tional Telegraph Company of Mexico. A fight followed the killing of Villa, but the number killed or wounded has not been determined. General Eugenio Martinez, with one hundred soldiers, is en route tor Parral. No government action vwill be taken until Martinez has had a chance to make a complete in vestigation and report. All advices coming from Parra) de clared Villa and his aide were killed at the same time and no blame for Villa’s death is laid to Trillo. Three Men Captured Three members of the band of ban dits responsible for the death Gen eral Franciscd Villa, his secretary Mig uel Trillo, and two body guards were captured late today by a detachment of federal- soldiers under command of General E. Martinez, a short distance from Parral, acording to information received at Jaurez, military headquar ters tonight. About half a dozen men comprised the band of assassins. They fired upon Villa and his men from a house they were passing and are reported to have madS their escape from thescone. MAGNili /TJNSON Farmer-Labor' victor in Minnesota eliction for United States senator. MOTOR BOAT OWNERS ANNOYED BY SPIES Say They Can Have no Pleasure With Dry Agents on Trail By H. E. C. BRYANT WASHINGTON, D. C.; July 20.—Mo tor boat owerft,, aJoiw,, coast, especially those from Norfolk to Florida, are complaining to their rep resentatives In Congress against the nosing around of dry agents. They cannot have any. pleasure for the Haynes rum-hunting crews. It is reported that the little fun making or outing parties that take summer trips are constantly molested by prohibition enforcement craft. Sev eral southern senators have taken the matter up with the officials of the treasury department. It’s got so that everything looks like a “rum-runner.” The incident of William H. Anderson, superintendent of the anti-saloon league in New York, on a charge of larceny caused much comment here to day. Anderson has been a. turbulent leader. It was generally believed that his row with Dr. Edward C. Dinwiddle caused the latter to quit the league, where he had been a, real wheelhorse. Dinwiddle stood behind Edwin Yates Webb In his strenuous campaigns for prohibition in the house. Now Mr. Webb is federal distrist judge and Din widdle superintendent of the National Temperance bureau and active In other dry organizations. Taylor Family Slayer Must Pay the Penalty COLUMBIA, S. C., July 20.—The state supreme court today affirmed the death sentence by the York circuit court against William C. (Wild Bill) Faries, aged slayed of several members of the Taylor family at Clover, S'. C, last year. Under a law passed by the last ses sion of the General Assembly, Faries is sentenced automatically to die on the fourth Friday after the handing down of the opinion, which in this case would be August 17. He was convicted specifically of killing New ton Taylor. WAR ON CONTRACT BREAKERS STARTED BY ATTORNEYS FOR CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION Lynchburg Tobacco Warehouse Manager Rides 50 Miles to Stop Sale INJUNCT1>TS WILL BE BROUGHT FREELY Attorneys Retained All Over South Carolina by United Growers (Special to the Star) FliORENCE, July 20.—The Tobacco Growers’ Co-operative association is anticipating very little contract break inir by Its members in the South Caro lina belt this year. Members and of ficials of the association have never theless been on the alert to protect the loyal membership from contract breakers at- the very opening of the season and have acted instantly upon the very few cases that have -ome to “^cording to ft U Wlllcox,' of Flor-' ence, attorney for the' association in the South Carolina belt, suit has been prepared and an injunction is being presented to the judge against W. M. Venters, of Johnsonville, Florence county, who has openly stated that he never intended to deliver any more tobacco for the association and has so far failed to deliver any of his 13 acre crop to the association. Another suit for injunction and li quidated damages is being prepared against T. R. Mims, who* is said to have recently sold BOO pounds of to bacco to M. Kl Gravely & Sons, ware housemen, of Lake City. The courts repeatedly sustained the right of the association to injunction during the past year, and the first contract break ers against whom the organized farm ers instituted injunction proceedings nine monthe ago are still prohibited from delivering, according to Maj. W. •T. Joyner, 'jf the legal department of the association at Raleigh headquar ters, who is now in Florence to join E>. Xj. Willcox, chief attorney of the associatli?* in South Carolina, in pro tecting ' no association by all legal means. Attorneys have been retained for the (Continued from Page One.) WILLIAM A. ANDERSON INDICTED AND BAILED Head of Anti-Sgiloon ' League Says Finding is Honor , Badge NEW YORK, July 20.—William H, Anderson, superintendent of the Anti Saloon league of New York today was indicted on _ .several counts and the grand jury yfiicfi returned the In dictments. reconjmended legislation in vestigation of the league since Mr. Ahderson took'its helm In 1914. Three indictments—Two charging grand larceny In the first degree and one forgery in. third degree—were handed down today. Assistant District Attorney Pecorft announced that the jury also had voted two indictments charging extortion and that these would -be filed next Wednesday. » Mr. Anderson, on hand when the in dictments were handed down, pleaded not guilty before his council former governor Charles S. Whitman could open his mouth. After the dry crusadei had been released in $5,000 bail, he is sued through his publicity department a long statenient which began. "I shall bear as medal of honor and service badge iny indictment for polit ical purposes By fhe most corrupt and powerful wet political organisation in the world as part of the Tammany con spiracy to put the nullification gover nor of New York state in the white bouse in defiance of the conscience and character of the nation.” The first grand larceny indictment charged that Anderson feloniously ob tained $4,578 from the league in March of 1921. The second grand larceny indictment alleged that he feloniously obtained $1,759 on Febraury 3, 1921 The forgery indictment set forth that he had falsely ordered $4,400 to be entered in the league's books in March 1921. as the hotel and traveling ex penses of O. Berthall Phillips, a col lector for the league. Grand jury investigation of Ander son's handling of the league’s funds was pressed after he had steadfastly refused to be more specific concerning the expenditure of $24,600 than to state that it had been used ‘:for publicity purposes.” Both Sides Satisfied With Auditor’s Report 312 Tucker Building By BROCK BARKLEY RALEIGH, July 20.—The auditors’ findings as to the condition of the state treasury seem to have left "all hands” about Raleigh pretty well satisfied. Those who Insisted the state was finan-. dally able to carry on the enlarged programs of progressive undertakings found support in the audit and those who clamored for the slowing up pro- I cess read in'the report.justification for their views. Governor Morrison departed yester day afternoon for Asheville, to com plete his-interrupted vacation, in a fine nujnor as the result of the committe’s report. Treasurer Ben Lacy and mem bers of the budget commission felt they had been upheld, and Corporation Com missioner Allen J. Maxwell, in a state ment to tl^e Raleigh morning paper, pointed that, figuring his way, his J5,000,000 deficit claim was sustained. The auditojw' job wasn't to act as referee and judge between the conflict ing claims of the officials duly charged with hdministerlng the state’s financial affairs and the man who put himself into that position, however. They were directed to find out how the treasury stood, they seem to have done ■ this to the satisfaction of more people than a man or group of men, working on conflicting claims, have done before. The full financial report was not available today for the digest of news paper men as the copies used by the committee have been returned to New York for retyping. They will be back next week, and thn Secretary of State W. N. Everett will put his book at the disposal of the newspaper writers and others who may be interested. Eighteen hundred copies will be printed s'o that any one clamoring for one will be able to get It, and, besides, each member of the general assembly must hava one. Governor Considers 58 Pardon Petitions Morning Star Bureau *312 Tucker Building BY BROOK BARKLEY RALEIGH, N. C-, July 20.—Governor Morrison’6 office announced today the executives decision in a whols?)e l.t of pardon applications considered dur ing his week’s stay at the capitol. His decision in 58 cases, perhaps the largest number announced in one day during his administration, included 27 declinations to parole, 20 paroles and one commutation. Among applications for pardons de clined were those of Duncan Blue, Robeson county, serving five years for manslaughter; Levi Strickland, Robe son county, six years for second degree murder; Joe Catlett, New Hanover county, 12 months for fornication and adultery. Among those to whom paroles were granted were Henry Burns, Columbus county, sentenced in August, 1922 to 12 months for fornication and adultery; M. C. Jones, New Hanover county, sen tenced in May, 1921, to four years for an assault with a deadly weapon. CALL FOR HUN MARKS BERLIN, July 20.-^Foi;eign curren cies aggregating 20 trillion marks were called for by banks and priviate buy ers. This sum represented Germany’s total pre-war requirements for a whole yfear and precipitated a situation un equalled in the history of the bourse in that it compelled the Reichbank to intervene with a threat to withdraw discount credit to those making huge demands for currency not covered by cash equivalents. ' Mrs. Watson Says Husband Got Klan to do The Whipping; Identified Lawson lit Regalia STATE ATTORNEYS THREATENED EUMBERTON, July 20.—Stephen McIntyre, volunteer assist ant counsel for the state in the flogging, case here,, received this letter at the Lumberton postoffice at 5:30 tonight. It was written in pencil and reads as.follows: , j “No doubt-you realize that you have stopped jprosecutmg and begun-'^ersecuting those that have done their duty in the sight of God and there is no court higher than His will. “Possibly in your contorted and hellish mind you think you are serving your commonwealth when you are advocating im morality. “Vile and relentless attacks, with a sataric intention, have been made on the character of at least one of these just men. Surely you must know that amony any 12 honorable men that could be selected, at least part of them are imbued with the Her culean spirit and giant strength of the invisible empire; therefore, vour efforts are as chaff before the storm. ‘‘The relentless persecution must cease tor surely you Know that dead men have been dragged from a lake for a less serious criime than you are committing, and nobody copvicted. “Your intelligence tells you that the exposure of this warning brings an invisible invincible hand and that it si mightier than the courts themselves upon your poor and unworthy carcass. “We command you to show this to T. A. McNeill, for it is as much for him as it is for you and the same penalty is on him if he exposes this letter.” By R- M. NORMEJiT Jury Gets Case Today j LUMBERTON, July 20.—Evidence lnj the case of the state against' Mike Lawson, Fairmont police chief, Jule Brogden and John Hedgepeth of Proe torville, Robeson’s alleged floggers, was completed this afternoon at 3:40 when the defense rested and Solicitor j T. A. McNeill opened argument for the prosecution a few minutes after coun sel had agreed to three and a half hours speaking for each side. The state contends the outrage was committed on the night of April 14, this year, between 10 and 11 o’clock and introduced rebuttal evidence to day to show Lawson had not gone home at the latter hour but was seen coming from the direction of Proctor ville at about that time. . Evidence also was offered that a car i similar to Lawson’s had been seen on ] the road going from Proctorville to Fairmont, shortly after it. ■J' xtfday’%'s«ssiOn of the eourt was tured by the evidence given by Mrs. Mary Ann Watson, a victim of the masked bands lash and a sister to th.e defendant Hedgepeth, and a further at tempt on the part of the state to break, down the imposing alibi built up for Dawson. JIrs. Watson Testifies Mrs. Watson revealed a tragic chap ter of her married life with Sam Wat son, the Proctorville policeman, as she told the story of the crime, declaring her husband and his clan were re sponsible for it. Her oldest daughter was putting on h%r slippers at the Purvis home and all were preparing to leave when the Ku Klux arrived, she said. She was grabbed about the throat and bundled into an automo bile, she stated, and after Mrs. Purvis had been thrown in beside her they were carried to the negro church yard and whipped. En route she had demanded a reason for the brutal treatment and was told she. hadn't raised her daughters proper «ly' and hadn't treated her husband right. Arrived at the church yard a thin sack was placed over her head and she testified she identified T^wson as a big, tall man handed him the lash, a large leather strap. Lawson plied the lash, she declared, under di rections of the judge, whom she de clared she would always believe was P P. Smith, whose name has been brought into the case a number of times. , . She was punished so severely she declared she didn’t believe she could reach home when Lawson inquired if a few more licks would help her. Arriving home she found her child ren had not come back and she began praying for them. Her husband com forted her with the remark that “you got just what you deserved" she testi fied. , Men calling themselves klansmen. came back to her home the following Tuesday night to make peace with her, she told the jury. The witness stoutly denied she had ever done any thing to merit such a flogging. On cross examination Mrs. Watson admitted she had caught her husDand spying on her, and declared he was “the jealousest mortal being that ever lived on earth.” He was meaner to her than satan himself, she said. “Sam Watson and his clan had tills done" she told ths jury and appealed to the court during a barrage of ob jections from the defense to be allowed to name them. Her testimony was ordered stricken out when it was found ie evidence was hearsay They mailed her a black hand letter he told the court. Declaring she would ,0 through fire to hlep her brother ’he stated she did not recognize Hedge >eth in the crowd and believed he told :he truth when he was on the stand. Witness Exonerates Brother “I wished hundreds of times I was lead” she declared, “and would gladly ake my brothers placs if it were lossible.” The witness admitted she had told lome persons shortly after the occur ence she didn’t recognize any of the Clansmen, but declared she said this hrough fftar and did recogniza i_,awson >y his voice. On redirect examination Mrs. Wat lon stated her husband tried to get ler to go to the Purvis homo on Fri lay night previous- to the flogging vben she declared the visit of the clan had been planned but a storm nterferred. \ A number of young men from around rairmont paying social call in Proc orvtlle the night of the 14th, described i, car they saw at the negro church md which later passed them at high ipeed on the Fairmont road as identi ■ally the same as the car owned by i*wson. All fixed the time at which (Continued on Page Two.) MINNESOTA VERDICT STARTS TIDAL WAVE Senator Moses of New Ham pshire Says Resentment at G. O. P. is Spreading WASHINGTON, July 20.—The wave of popular sentiment which carried the Farmer-Labor party tp victory in the recent Minnesota election soon will make itself felt in other states, in the opinion of Senator Moses, of New Hampshire, chairman of the Re publican senatorial campaign commit tee, whq predicted today* that the ;r# ’gnlt mi#ht' be disastrouato Republican' plans for retaining a majority in tlie senate. Defeat of the Minnesota Republican senatorial candidate by Maguns John son, Farmer-Labor nominee, was at tributed by Senator Moses to general dissatisfaction, but particularly to com plaints of the failure of the farm legis lation of‘the last congress to produce expected results. Market Co-operatively Truckers to BURGAW, July 20.—Burgaw made Its first stand for co-operative marketing last night when it organized a truckers’ organiziation with about 30 members. The movement dor the organization started 10 days ago when it was found that acting individually growers were unable to load In car lots and were missing good' markets. St. Helena has had an organization that Has functioned profitably and this has been the inspiration for Burgaw. The St. Helena local had a member at the meeting last night. The as sociation elected W. O. Savage, presi dent; H R. Bowen, vice president; J. T. Horrell, secretary and treasurer. H. R. Bowen also was elected director. Strawberries are the principal crop at Burgaw, but lettuce, beans and peas are grown. SHELBY LOST 962,000 OMAHA, Neb., July 20.—Mike Collins, St. Paul matchmaker for the Gibbons Dempsey heavyweight championship fight at Shelby, Mont., in an interview with a Omaha World-Herald reporter here today, was quoted as declaring that citizens of Shelby "lost less than $62,00(1 all told” in connection with pro motion of the Gibbons-Dempsey affair. MILLION DOLLAR FAILURE OF BARRETT & CO. IS COTTON SENSATION Augusta Firm Claimed to Be Greatest Factors in World BANKS TIPPED CRASH AND RUSHED IN COIN Wall Street Says Firm Made i Outside Investments That 4 Failed ^ AUGUSTA, Ga., July 20.—Barrett and Company, reputed to be “the world’! largest cotton factors” with hoadquare ters here, announced tonight that the! M were unable to meet their obligation* amounting to approximately $1,000,400, A committee composed of New York, New Orleans and.North Carolina bank ers, representing part of the creditor* were in conference tonight with a wlet* . of working out some plan of llqjrida tlon for the preservation of the .Oonv, pany assets and the best protection ot its creditors. . "The bankers went int.r> s ssion early this morning, adjourning at 1 o'cdook declared James Hull. Jr., senior Monk* ber of the law firm of Hull and Bat** rett, attorneys for the firm. "Later in the afternoon another ses sion, was held at which a tentative plan was agreed upon which Is beilev- . ed favorable to all." "Another meeting will be held to morrow at which the total assets and liabilities of the firm will be sumtned up and full statement will be repre sented to the creditors and a committee ■ will be formally appointed to handle with firm members the company's af fairs. *" *' Mr. Hull said it would be Imposs ible because of the vast Interests in volved for a financial statement to be Issued earlier than tomorrow, attor neys said, but it was intimated by them that the company’s assets would equal the approximate of $1,000,000, announced by them as the cotton firms obligations. Frank H. Barrett, president of the company, today formally announced he had telegraphed his resignation to :g the New York and New Orleans ton exchanges. His seat on the New . York exchange was sold for $46,000 he said. His resignation, he said, was "due to my inability to meet my obligations 5 at the present time.” Rumors that Barrett and Company was seriously involved, caused Augus ta bankers to take precautions and $3, 500,000 in currency arrived here lata fp| last night from the AtJ^ta federal re serve bank. Wall Street Unshaken NEW YORK, July 20.—Recent Com- ; mitme'nts of Frank, H. Barrett, cotton ; factor, of Augusta, Ga., and one of the ; leading cotton brokers of the south, who was suspended from trading In . the New York cotton exchange today when he notified the executives he was unable to meet hfs obligations, were relatively small. New York cotton men , i said, and his failure will have little ef fect on the local market. i Reports from Augusta to the effeot that he had large loans with the New | York banks could not be confirmed. i| Cotton men generally were lnoline