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GREENSBORO DAILY NEW WEATHER 44 Pages Today Four Sections Tonight i Warner Monday. VOL. XXIV. NO. 69 CNTEEEn Al 1ICOND CLASS ItATTKl T roe-romcis, ngtoisauHo, n c. PRICE SEVEN CENTS GREENSBORO, N. C SUNDAY MORNING,. MARCH 27, 1921 DAILY. UTA. If.CO MS TUI DAILY AND SUNDAY, l 00 Til YEA! Women As Lawyers Thursday's Affair a Case Of His tory Repeating Itself. BUTLER HELPED START IT It Began August 10, 1910, W hen E. C. Duncan's Leadership Was Defeated. THE HOG WAS BORN THEN sae Former Senator AtVkat Time Was Coaching Morehead, One Of Those ao Helped Root Him Off the Stage Thursday. Ttas Greensboro Uaily Newt JC1 Men-liuiis Nalloo&l hit lis.. By W. T. BOST. Raleigh. March 26. Senator Marion Butler's "hog combine" which rooted him off the stage in Greensboro and away from the trough at Washington will doubtless make many a Republican scratch his head for a recollection of Mr. Butlers contribution to me ma chinery which made the swine trust fosaible. History has a habit of repeating It self and this time Old Htst performs In nil accustomed cycle. It was In Greensboro Auguat 10, 1910. , that Sen ator Butler and National Committee man John Motley Morehead wrested control from Edward Carlton Duncan, of Raleigh, and hog-tied the best loved nan In his party. Mr. Duncan was not bounced at that meeting, but he was defeated In his effort to elect a state chairman In sympathy with him. As old-timers now recall It, Tom Settle and .'udge Gus Ewart were put up for temporary convention chairmen. Set tle was elected. That showed how the convention would vote, and Mr. More head was elected state chairman over Judge Spencer Adams. But Mr. Duncan was still national committeman with the big word al ways In distributing patronage. That was a very great artront to Messrs. Butler and Morohead. who administered further on 'he national committeman. Mr. Duncan was in their way until the convention of 1513. To get rid of a man who was peculiarly close to Presi dent Taft the following was incorpo rated Into the plan of organisation: "There shall be a state executive committee composed of one member from each congressional district in the tats to be designated by the district delegation at a state convention as sembled, ten members at large to be fleeted by the state chairman, and shall also include the chairman of the convention at which election Is held, nil said eommittee are required to call a state convention of the Repub lican party at least 60 days prior to rery election for members of the geyi- Jral assembly, and oftener. If necea ary, In the Interest of the party. Mem bers of the state executive oomtnlttee shall be biennially elected at the state cuubuos and shall elect tary,. who may not be a member, and the chairman of said committee shall be elected by the state convention." Wheat the Hog Was Berm. 'The "hog" part of the hog combine , was born on that awful Auguat day In Die. The almplest-mlnded reader can see what was in the mind of Mr. But ler, who was then universally recog aiied aa the political brains of the "hog combine." He did not know that he was coaching a man who was later te acquire more power and more sense than hia alleged creator. There are 21 .members of the Republican executive committee. Ten are elected by die trlcte. one from each bailiwick. The chairman appoints 10. He makes 11 end kindergarten mathematics will tell one who controls. This was the dainty dish set before the old king in stste politics. It work d well In 1910. It did not get much or a vote, but that was not its purpose. It was after Mr. Duncan. It a-ot him - In 1912 came the debacle which took verything of the old order. But there Was a Charlotte convention that year and the Roosevelt schism from the reg ulars left Morehead state chairman. " Duncan national committeeman and a handful of Republicans, among them Messrs. Duncan, Morehead. Settle, and Finney, true to the organization. '; The "hog combine" of the 1910 con Jlnued to trim the national commit tseman who was then Mr. Duncan. It proscribed that "a national committee man shall be elected every four years by the convention which elects dele gates to the national presidential con vtntlon. It shall be no part of his functions or proper sphere of action to dictate, endorse. or to Interfere with local appointments. It shall be his aim and duty to promote the poli cies of the party in the state and In se nation rather than to assert his personal preferences in matters of local patronage." This section was mended May is. 1912. at the Raleigh state convention and the section as esoted vt as adopted on that eventful The 19J6 convention that over "irtw Mr. Duncan In the greateat ot II modern convention fight, was a Bntter-Morehead conclave. Alexander iAmont (now lamented) McCaaklll in the convention apeak ins rid Butler wis out. The Duncan I Helen- frfyCormcJa E FOUND BURIED ON THE 11 The woman attorney, but a few years ago a novelty, has proven her self a success In the courts of the country. Numbered In the fast grow ing list of Portias Is Miss Helen Mc Cormlck. deputy assistant district at torney of Brooklyn. N. Y. Though still In her twenties. Miss McCormlck has had much law experience and was the first woman district attorney in New York state. STILL HOLD HOPE FOR FIVE MISSING AIRMEN Mr. Officials Believe the Men Were Picked Up Or Landed At Some Isolated Spot. SEARCH BEING CONTINUED Pensacola. Fla., March 26. Officials at the naval air station here decline to give up hope for the safety of Chief Quartermaster G. R. Wilkinson and his four companions who have been miss ing since March 22 when they left o'n a free balloon hop. Search f all the area to which the wind might have blown their craft has been made by dirigibles, seaplanes and eagle boats Without success. Failure to find the .balloon of the basket Is taken by officials as Indicat ing that the balloon either drifted ashore on som Inhabited and Infre Quented shore or that the men and their balloon were picked up by soma fishing boat which refused to put back to port with them. The searoh is be. Ing continued and officials say they will not abandon lop tor three weeks, the duration of the usual flatting cruise. The missing men are: Chief Quartet master O. R. Wilkinson, of Houston.' Texas; machinist's mats, first class, R. V. Eland, Belleville, III; Private F, Kershaw. Payne, La.; Private J. O. Elder, Lebanon. N. Y and Private Wll Ham K. Tressry, Salem, Mass. The las three are United States marines. Search for the missing balloonlsts was directed by Commander Robert W. Cabaniss in person, assisted by Lieut. W. F, Reed, Jr., aerlngrapher. Lieut enant Reed has taken part In two In ternational balloon races and was call ed in as a nexpert adviser to the navy crew on mapping out plans for the last race. Lieutenant Reed and Commander Cabaniss plotted every course the miss ing balloon could possibly have taken, considering the wind conditions which prevailed a.nd planes and surface craft were directed to cover these routes, with no results. Radio messages from the station here were broadcasted to all vessels In the gulf but no favorable replies have been received. SKTTLKM EIVT OF A. B. AMD A. STRIKE Is) NOT LIKELY HOW Atlanta, Ga., March 28. Posslblll ties of an early settlement of the strike of the union employes of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad faded late today when repre sentatives of the strikers withdrew from the federal court room after Judgea 8. H. Sibley and Henry D, Clayton had ruled that the court was without authority to direct the re ceiver to discharge men employed to take the places of the strikers. Earlier In the day conciliatory pro poaala had come from the striken when their representatives stated the men would call off the strike imme diately and return to work at the re duced scale of wages. If they were permitted to return In a body and re sume their former status and provided that the court would order an audit of he company's books to determine If they were able to pay the wage scale at Issue. This nronosal was rejected by Mor ris Brandon, of counsel for the rail road, who declared that 900 men had bees employed by the road since tne former emDloves went on strlKe ana these could not be discharged to make room for the return of the old men. fortes were sbout to get by an elec 'jon for aatlonat committeeman until 'so national meeting when Mr. Dun can would have been elected McCas took the floor and uttered his famous philippic at Mr. Duncan. Mr tier Fame In. Alexander Lamented ased firing snd Butler shot a broad s'. That brought Duncan to the Inform He read from a letter writ- n him by Morehead aeklng for a con 'Wtnce to rid the party of "the In bos of Butlerlsm ' Duncan dra slically asked Morehead to stand snd let Duncan and Muller sub 't their Issuea before the convention. y effort to divert the real contro ls meant nothing, he said. More sd refused to stand aside and indi d his willingness to accept. He sented Mr Duncan's use of the tet- oa Butler. Is a few days Butler was calling on jj national committee to get Mr. "scan off the committee .and Mr rehead on. And until the Kepubli s convention In Greensboro a year Messrs. Duncan and Morehead a little dealings with each other ' did the Jews and Samaritans Tke "Hs- Part. u Mr Butler s ro'e In the great ' "drama is Interesting for whole-1 " traffic In the hog he has not!,,, been equaled li invented then "r which went the w iiole hog merry ha ha down here """crat WOMEN EMPLOYES PROTEST ACAIY'T VH1.BO REGISTER Dallr Newt Bureau tnd Tfleiriph OMto. Tbe Slap BiUiainf (By l,.aisd lrs Washington. March 2 Several hun dred female employes In the ornce ot the register of the treasury are sign ing a petition asking Secretary Mellon not to appoint a neitro as reenter. This petition. V was learnea loaay. a being signed by practically every woman employe In the registers ornce. Its circulstion follows repors that Henry Lincoln Johnson, the negro na tional committeeman from Georgia, was slated for appointment as register of the treasury Johnson had declined to take any diplomatic or consular Job that would take him ou' of the t'nlted States and the register of the treasury is the most likely berth for the Geor gia negro. For menv vears. w.t'i the eiceptlon of the present register a neKro or an Indian has been selt-ced for the Job of register of 'he treasury. The pres ent register is William S Kl 'l.,tt. of Georgia, who rame up from II. e ranks i ,h. ir.iirv .ierartmer.t- The two1 preceding registers were Indian, son V Lvor.i. a C.orgia negro, register some years aso Body Of Another Negro Taken From Yellow River. THlS BRINGS TOTAL TO 9 Gruesome Disclosures Are Made In Jasper County Peonage Case In Georgia. STILL OTHERS PROBABLE Negro Who gays He Killed Foar aaa Helped Kill Otkers at Ike Dlrectloa of Williams Leads Officials to the Scene. Atlanta, Ga.. March 26. Disclosures that will aurpass developmenta already made In the alleged Jasper county peonage case were promised tonight by authorities following the discovery today of the bodies of five negroes burled near the home of John Williams, a prominent Jasper county farmer, and the recovery of the body of an other negro in the Yellow river. With the alx bodies unearthed yes terday under the direction of Clyde Manning, who was taken to the scene to substantiate his alleged confession that he killed four of thQ negroes and aided in the death of others at tha di rection of Williams, a total of nine of the 11 negroes' said to have been killed have been found by officials. Under the protection of a posse of 16 men and the guidance of the negro, a number of men searched for the bodies today near Williams' home and In the Yellow i river while the Jack son company of the national guard was hold under arras ready to go to the scene In case of opposition. Williams is held In the Fulton coun ty Jail here, having been arrested after Manning's alleged confession. He today denied his guilt and declared that an old family feud had resulted In a "frame up" to cause his arrest. SEARCHING FOR TWO OTHER BODIES SAID TO BE IN HIVER Covington, Ga., March ! Six bod ies of ntgroes had been recovered late today In connection with peonage In vestigation! being conducted In the adjoining county of Jasper. Three were previously found In the Tellow river. The search continues for two more bodies, said to be In the Alcovy river. One, of the bodies found today was in the Alcovy river, being weighted down and chained, as In tha Tellow river cases. Five bodies were dug from shallow graves, the heads of four of the ne groes had been oruahed with an axe. A fifth had been shot with a pistol. Sheriff Johnson, of Newton county. says that the negro. Manning, wnom tha sheriff says confessed to all the killings, led the searchers to the burial placet. . Warrants for three gons at Williams, .Tniin.. Hnvlar and Marvin, were taken out In Fulton county yesterday at tha request Vf Governor poreey, and war to have been turned over to officers In Jasoer county, but reports tonight from Montesuma. pa., stated that the Wllliamsoys were mere. ouv u- w been placed under arrest. Of the bodies recovered today, three were found in a pasture near the Wil n.mfl house riurlnflr the morning. In the afternoon. It waa stated, Man nlng led the party to the Campbell farm, aouthwest Of the Williams piano, where two more bodies were disin terred. The Campbell farm Is said to be under the management or tne wn Hams. The sixth body recovered toaay was taken from the river near the Waters k.iH Then alx. together with thoa recovered from Yellow river sev .mi riava aaro. weighted aown wun rocks, makes a total of nine bodies AMtiintil for to date. Belief was expressed tonignt mat an of the victims had been killed at the Williams place since reDruary 11. hn innts of the department of Justice visited the farm during an In vestigation of alleged peonage in that vicinity. Williams (s a cousin of Sher iff Persons, of Jasper county, at pres ent under Indictment for alleged peon- Manning, tne negro ' - slons led to the revelations on the Williams farm, was brought back to Atlanta tonight and placed in the Pul ton county Jail. : EXTRA SESSION MEETS Things Are Happening, But Big Questions Move Slowly. THE PRESIDENT SWAMPED WILL FORMALLY OPEN NEW SOISSONS LIBKAKi Oae Of Most impreeeiv ...... , Easter Celebrations Biogea nj American, la Fraace. iBMlal CaMi ta Uall (CowrllM. 1011. w rtllladrtpliU rubllr Leajer.1 Parla March 26. One of the most impressive wlneless Easter ceieora .i. omonsr Americans In France will v. .k. eoml onenlna of the new pub- iii,..,. .1 So ssons unaer me auspices of the American committee for devastated France. The grounds and buildings were provided by the Ity and new library dookb m rrii.. . , . .. i . . . a n.itrnvea in i. 1 ... ..mon to the furniture and appoint ment. are the gift of the American . cost of about 60.000 The mayor of solssona win unn.. ill be msae ny v of the American ind Rear Admiral MacGruder. who will represent - Awir --m lace. utners win v Wlster and nd responses arlton. director library In ' Parts, Enough Thrust On Him To Keep Ordinary Administration Busy Four Years. HE IS ALLOWED NO REST The Administration Has Already Doae Many Creditable TkJnas Bat the Public Judges By What Has PI ot Heen Doa e. Dallr News suraao and Telegraph Urflea. The Hsu BulldliK (By Leued Win) By V. W. GILBERT. (CopTrifbt. .031, I rhtlaetliihla Pjlillc UJrer.) Washington, March 16. The major problems of the Harding administra tion will apparently go over till the re turn of Congress In special session, The absence of the legislators from Washington gives the President a re spite In making domestla appoint ments. In filling diplomatic poets, In deciding definitely upon the leglsla tive program. And the unaettled state of Europe aforda a good excuse for making no decisions upon the broade aspects of the foreign policy. On the surface things are happening here, things like Attorney General Daughterty's action In the Debs cass. Secretary Hughes' prompt moving la the Panama-Costa Rica dispute, mat ters upon which the rather effective membera of the cabinet can follow their own initiative. But beneath the surface the larger issues are moving slowly. President Harding Is over whelmed by the rush of big questions that have confronted Um. He has not made his system of doing business by conference with the best minds work. He is finding that the presi dency is not a deliberative task and all hia training In publio life has been as a legislator, whose work Is de lucratively with the best minds of the legislative committees ot which ha is a member. ' Since his inauguration enough big problems have been thrust at him to keep a 4 ordinary administration busy for four years. Ha has no rest. Eu rope welcomes his advent Into office by getting Into a Jam over German reparations. The Colombia treaty be comes of imperative moment. Russia rises once more Into the position of a problem. The relative place ot tariff and taxation In the legislative program cannot be settled and stay settled. Some Imaortaat Qaeatleas, Will the American fleet go Into the Pacific, with all that such a coacen. tratlon Implies regarding loreign re latlonat M. Vivlanl's visit impeode. Will hl'Mas;. to t head the whole subject at the league, and the relations at this eountrji. wun tne allies anu with Germany, while the cusstlon of trade with Russia, the question or tariff and revenue legislation, the question of the shipping board, the rush of people wno want imnimuui' ships threaten ' to overwhelm Mr. Hardine-T M. Vlvlanl Is pushed aslds imnffielal. a mere kisser of the new government's hand who cannot trouble It with aerlous inquiries wnen u te not quite ready for them ana nee a thousand problems competing for Its attention. But will he stay In tns role to which he has been assigned? Tk. ! Vlvlanl mission. St tne out break of the war, turned out- to be something much more than ths payer of respects which Mr, wnson wanieo it to be. . m .oonnnt of Washington is true which tells merely of the things which hiv. bran dons. Ths things which have been- done In this administration are many and creditable. But It is i. .h. .nil hv the things wnicn nave not been done that men and adminis trations are adjudged. And It Is the things which have not been done which are the big and Important tnings. Probably It Is too soon to ask that h. more Imnortant of them should be done or even definitely under way. But It Is not too soon to look for signs of a system which will get them done, at least with reasonaoie One can't aee the system yet or ir one divines it one lacks evidence that It will produce results. Waats a Ktraasl seippinsj no-. Take the appointments. The I'emo- crats were much crmrisea mr mo organisation into wnicn iney permu ted the shipping board to get. There is no new shipping board. Probably there will be none until the special ....Inn hearlns. Mr. naroing . a little aulrk In the la hlch he says compels oeiay. ". Is making a tremenoous .iu ..,..., nralseworthy effort to get a big man . , TV.- D... il.nt for rhn rman ot noaru. i oc . ..ii.. in evervhodv about this board. He consults all the best minds, but the Incident delay disquiets his friends A Republican senator, one of I he ablest and moat loyal, has been to the Presi dent twice to tell him that he Is only msklng trouble for himself by the wsy he Is going at his choice of shipping board members. The diplomatic posts go over appar ently till the special session. nortant place seems certainly filled ex cept Great Harvey The Fust Easter The light of morning floods the earth On that first Easter day, And the blessed tomb gives up its dead As the stone is rolled away; And the God-man goes from His earthly toil, From sorrow and pain and care To take His place in heaven above And meet His father there. "I have come, my father" says He then, "To plead for my human kin And pay the price to justice owed, That my brothers may enter in. I do not come with weight of gold, Nor claim by right of birth; k I do not fare by learning deep, Nor spring from the great of earth: For the coin I bring to the toll gate here Is minted in blood and tears, Is scribed with a legend of sacrifice And worn with the labor of years. And I ask that this coin may entrance give To the kingdom of their God For each of my human brethren Who treads the road I trod." And the great Lord God smiles on His son, And answers that all may hear: ' "Thou has served and suffered and labored and died For those Thou boldest dear; So let it be a welcome waits; And each of Thy human kin Who brings the coin of service Shall straightway enter in. But all. who would win to heaven must know That this is the law of God Those who enter here must tread The road my son has trod." R. D. Douglas. PROLETARIAN ARMY AT Affairs Go Smooth Willi Tar Heel Married Folks They Are More Congenial and Steadfast Than In Any Other State, If Figures Mean Anything Fewer Divorces In This State Than Any Other in the Union Except South Carolina. Democratic Caucus Is Called For April 9. .lud-was 1 ,700 EaaploTre l-a'd O0T. :oanae. Va Mar, h I'fi- Ir. .-..n- 1 lth orders ivs'ifl a eeK ,. ,n the .... al shops r There na A t,.,,w,.. ould Indicate that It has been reaaed mith "hog" oil t'hairman ance employes a nd he v-rfnlk iter, ia'd "fT a' r id e until April J s er n day 1 oa. 1 : ehla. II jVy's appointees hsA not fsred 7Jy et the hoar ' trough of federal B Kip w Ward was pu' on the committee " s agreed Willis O CeaUaa-4 ea page three.) all H-.4e.ea- lalereeta Dublin. Marrh : -All the business interests in "Tok-stown two mi.ee from the erene of the ambush in hirh R J Peek was ktil'd on tss W ednel, r. ha e been closed by the j aataoritiea. Eugene Morel hr.rian of the Blbliotheque Nattomaie. The American committee will tj rep resented by Mrs A. M Dike?' com missioner, and Miss Jessie ( arson head of the committee's library work nd dlrectrees or us neia cen.c... SPECIAL Ml SIC FOR THE rim ERA L OF thk ' Baltimore. March 2 At the funeral services for Cardinal Gibbons next Thursday in the cathedral there will be sung music heard before only at the funeral of sovereign rulers of the Catholic church In the Sistlne chapel In Kome. The manuscript never before has left the Vatican. Just before the body Is laid to rest in the crvpt beneath the cathedral al- ! tar and the dlstinguisnea assemniaKe 'stands with bowed heads, this solemn Gregorian chant will be sung This music, which was prepared es ' peciaily for funeral services of popea. ', is amonr the moat beautiful and tm- j pressive compositions ever written for i I a Gregorian choir If will be sung by t 1 the Gregorian rhoral society or Hi. Marys serninsr Meat, t eney teosl the ftaaee. Na rhes March 2 At 2'J o'clock Tonight, Iioctors t. T. I'hamberlain and .1. S. Ulinian Issued the following bul- (cold ieun regarding Lieutenant t oney a cond it Ion Lieutenant Conev spent a fairly comfortable day. His condition Is practically unchs'nged. Temperatare lost puae . rtapirauoa la." Britain with Col George The delay Is not of moment ....ni . . a avmDtom mat " minu trained to work with other minds de llberatlvely in a legislative eommittee has not yet learned the new trick of one man action which an executive po sition requires The legislative sltustlon Is familiar Tariff or taxation Brat" The question was asked In Msrlon and at St. Augus tine and ever alnce. It won't be clear until the emergeocy bill has been passed and the members of Congress fresh fromao-tact with th.tr con stltuents bri&g'back the latest word Th.r. r. difficult lea. Mr Pordney. who seems to control the house. I i.n.H fanat c on tne larm fanatlca are alwaya s a And in the way of a program or aweei ren.oo. rrrrnut By atatee. Washington. Mar.h Virginia rartly cloudy anil warm wim .,--- aional showers S"unaay. .moi.u.j uo..-.- tled with rain ana cwiu-i North and Sout.'i ar Partly cl'-udv Sunday, ahowers Sunday night continued warm irkin.ii Sunday rrobabl dershowers colder In 'st and c-ntral poitions. Monday probably fair, colder in rast anil aou-n pu. f ik r.' tr a Su'da y rr,'.. h 1 ol'ler M"!id cod. Kas: Tns SiS.lay north ar1 Monday probab y ra'r. and s .u'h portions West Teiaa .-"jrday enep- rearing In "'I'liv' portion mM.r. much colder ia Borth portion Jaeaaajr taut Dlttr New Sulfas and TaUfrass Srllea. ; . . XM ticsi suUdtDt igf urns win) ,' 97 THopoa TILLEH. : Washington, , tiacoh .. Married ootsatat In North Carolina are tha moat congenial nd steadfast of any state ta the union if divorce figures compiled here by the International reform bureau mean anything.' The International reform bureaju, headed by the Rev. Wilbur T, Crafts, of "blue law" fame, says It has made a country wide survey of the divorce vll. Its figures announced today are from records for the year Ills. Of the 41 states North Carolina stands 47th on the list In the granting of divorces; that Is, during that year she grated fewer divorces In propor tion to population than ay other state except South Carolina. South Carolina's record was none, baoause divorces are not allowed In that state. The Dietrlct of Columbia, which per mits divorce only on one ground (In fledllty) etands 41th on the list, hut North Carolina Is the tail-end stats of all atates where divoroea are to be procured. Nevada, with Its Reno divorce colony, heada the list with let divorces to every 100,000 of population. However, all this shouldn't be charged against Nevada because most of her divorces are granted to folks from New York and elsewhere who go to Keno to get rid quickly of their marital woea North Carolina had only 10 divorces to every 100,000 of population. The year 191 wss selected as a normal year, before the United States entered the war. - Divorcee By State. Here are ths divorce figures for a number of statea, the number given each Inatanca being on the basis of 00,000 population, aa, for example. Texas 221 divorces to every 100,000 of population: Nevada. 161; Montana. 411; Arlsona, il; Orgon, 177; Washington, III, Il linois, Hi, Ohio. 17; Florida, 111; Kentucky, 140; Tennessee, HI; Louis iana, US; Mississippi, 101; Alabama. 101; Virginia, II; Maryland, 17; Oeor gla, 64; New York. 44; North Caro Una. 30; South Carolina, 0; District of Columbia, 16. A supplemenfal table shows ths ratio of divorce to marriages and this gives the North Carolina ratio as one divorce to every approximate 40 marriages, and North Carolina again stands next to South Carolina and the District of Columbia at the tall end of the list. "The first table," aaya the Interna tional reform bureau, "shows that 24 American states, ranging from Ver mont, at 16S divorces per 100,000 popu lation, to Nevada at 152. had a divorce rate higher than waa ever known In Japan, whnae record waa supposed to be the worst In the world. Jspsn's rate wss 221 In lit, bul a federal law take note brought it doa n in one year. Il. to 1M. and by 191. It had fallen to lit This rate of in for Japan In 1 1 la better thsn that of, eight more American states, from 111 In Maine to 144 In Nebraska. This makes a total of 22 American staCea. two-thirds of all. that had a higher- divorce rate than Japan in census of 1111. Ratio Of lllvereee fla Marrhaaea. laws, and something y test cases in United Htates Supreme oourt to de ola re Invalid - fraudulent divorces ob talned fo-ample without raal aotlce n amtiiui.il). ', ..r.i,,, .".-.i .-,p. asasaoerats ajaaaaa April a. 'Representative Claude Kltchia said today he would eall a oaucus of the Democrats of the house to assemble on April I. At this . party caucus the Demoorats will decide upon their at tltude regarding the tariff program Of tne nepuDiioan majority. There Is no doubt of Mr. ' Kltchln'e nomination as Democratic floor leader and he may also be given the nomlna tlon for speaker. . i The later, however, will - be aa empty honor as ths Democrats can on ly go through ths form of voting for a Demoeratlc presiding officer In a strongly Republican Congress. The secretary at war today held that he has no authority under the law to lend to Boy soouts organisations army tents for tha use of ths scouts at their summer encampments. In behalf of Boy scouts of his state, Senator F. M, Simmons recently appealed to the war department for the loan of tents to these scout organlsatlona Secretary Weeks today advised that the war department Is without au thority to lend any government prop erty to civilian organisations escept In cases where Congress has sanction ed such action. There Is no authority of the law for the loan of tents and equipment for the use of organisations of Boy scouts." The departments ruling will bring disappointment to many Boy scouts In North Carolina who have written, to Washington hoping to have an excep tion made In their rase. GAS RATE HEARING AT Commission Will Render Its De cision As Soon As It Reads the Evidence. TELEPHONE CASE MONDAY Tie Georgia followed li y and Monday thun- Knerally fair, fair, continued local showers, nest portions, colder In esst gen.rsliv fair. The second tshle gives rstlo of di vorces to marriage for 47 states and IMsfrlrt of Columbis Jspsn's worst ratio of divorces to marriages waa one r!ivore to " 45 marriages in lfoi The Japanese ratio for 1)14 waa one di vorce to , 19 marriages neventeen of our stati s had ratios ranging from 1 AM in Kansaa to 1 1 S4 In evaa ttesid' S these 17. ta e not I.imoia and Michigan ran tsorae than Japan best with ratioa of 1 7 21 and 1 7 respet lively Dallr OS Ilalelgh. March II. Brief examina tion of Manager Paul Ttllery, of ths Carolina Power a ad Light company, today as te overhead expenses con eluded the long gas hearings, all the representatives having gone home yes terday. Briefs will be presented Mon day. Kalelgh'e rate which le now II II with Ave cents a thousand discount for cash, has been vehemently attacked. but the Ttllery testimony furnishes the foundation for ail the evidence eub- mltted City Attorney John H. Hlne d.-We. conducting the cross-examination today, deciarea tne overneas expenaee exceptionally high. He also contend ed that the company's valuation for tasatlon In May. 1111, was far lower tli an Its Inventory later ah owed It, the the tax valuation being 1201.000 ehy. The corporation cofnmtaaloa will de cide thia controveray as eooa as It resds the evidence and the ratee will be effective from April 1. Monday the commission will receive the telephone companies which ars asking considerable Increase In ratee all over North Carolina The commission took up these ap peals in December but continued the .J" .V . hearing until March owing to the In e the states of, ........ .w. BUll, If .1 IW v w . .... telephone tarlffe asked by the petl- tionera. The resistance la stronger In this controverey than In the others. with a constructive Imagination, that I -P". -in .v.n.r .o. ... v.i.y srlll seek to ream, in some m.-frsure i n" nd wl" dertsk lo show the the long saoniea of a husband or -Ife snrea.onablenea. of the proposed ratea or both- often children and relatlvea1 Traffic men here today discussed as well that precede and fo.iow eachiwi,h ,n corporation commissi". divorce Suteiv ir.tella.nt omen I ' n ter etat e Commerce sow armed with the la.l'it. S'.tne of them In legis. stive halls some In la'lons ran do "make It harder brewkitigup of 1 Interstate Commerce commission amit.ere rearing In Memphis begin ning April i when the Mississippi val lev casea will be taken up W S. Crelghton. of Charlotte. J U Oraham. of Wlnton-al"m. 1. T Ryan. courts of domestic j something by law to to do wrong ' in thl families Sorc.ethli.g tan he don bof Hiah Tolm. and M R Beamaa. of Jones iln ire eniend-nent of national ' ftale'gn. attended thts rcaference legislation fo gt' snake uniform -fve I'ortgres sstr.r Sal plan a method of weetlng the Isenes carriage and divorce j which will be raieedl ta that hearing. It Consists Of About 8,500 Men Very Poorly Armed. TOWN IN HANDS OF REDS Chemical Plant in tha Town Which Employs 22.000 Hands Is Standing Idle. TO GET GROVER BERGDOLL t altea State. Map Have Draft Dodgree , Brought Back Frwsa tteswaany Throasrk . a - DaisMBa rraas -Ureal Btttalsu latalil taws Is talU Kssa, ' (CaafrlaM, !!!. w Wadslpale rtiklls lesjer.) Halls. March II. The Leuaa prole tarian army la the anlr considerable body ot oommunlst Insurgents yet In the field tn mid-Germany and oonalsts of about 1,101 rasa poorly armed with about too rifles, six or sight machine guns and a small supply of ammuni tion. It la sitting around at Leuna, as your correspondent established by a visit to the town today, engaging In little military drilling, watting pas sively to be attaoked In no very op timistic spirit and dlsdouraged by thu failure of ths rest of the German pro letariat to rlss in its support .1 Tha town Itself which Is bul'.t up around a great chemical plant. Is com pletely In oommunlst hands. The plant which employes 11,000 hands has been Idle since Wednssday when a general Strike was proclaimed. Only the neoesaary work to prevent the plant being ruined Is being conducted and communist leaders threaten to stop these and ruin the plant If attaoked. Their only ray ot hops Is nsws that the town ot Hettstedt also has been eelsed by communist workmen and a report, as yet unconfirmed, that work men at Bltterfeld. where the. great eleotrlcal eaatbllehmenta are supplying eleotrlo power by long dlstaroe trans mission to mld-Uerman Industrial re gions and Berlin are looated, are tak ing possession' of the plants and fao torlee to run them on the Italian aad Rueslaa model for the benefit of the employes.' . Otherwise the "March revolution" In mId-Qerman Is flickering faintly and threatened - with quick j extinguish ment. , i Your correspondent Interviewed to day ths dictator of Leuna and the oom mander of the Insurgent army, Chair man Kempllng, of the Leuna committee ot action. Chairman - Kempllng dis claimed Indignantly the charge that he or the mld-Uerman Insurgents were acting under Moscow's orders and de clared the movement wss of spontan eous origin, "we tired of being a slave to allied aad German capitalists," he declared "Our action was under taken as a result of grvences which have been piling up tor months. The requirements and-restrictions of the capitalist and militaristic system have ' been hard te live up to and Anally the cup ran over. At heart we all are pa. clrtsts but ws realised this brought us nothing and nowhere, You see ws have discarded all respect for human life and property and are going to use the same principles and tactics as the mllitarlstlo forces of reaction.", MAY GET GROVI0H BHRGDOLt. THROUGH BRITISH UHMANO IsmIsI Csela Is Baiiv am. trwnai. mm, iv rhiiatMpbia rmitc Lstjsr.i Berlin, March II. It Is believed here tha: Washington has hit upon the only practicable way of scouring Qrover Bergdoll, through a British demand . for extradition for his oassoort fraud. Ths noted draft dodger has beoome such a hero In the national mind by the Unsuccessful attempt to kidnap him at Kberbach and by the advertising hs obtained from the trial at Mosbach this week and the crime of desertion in war against Germany Is so near tha classification of a political, non-extra-dltabie offense, that the government scarcely would venture to surrender blm to America even If It so desired. The case ot Naef and Zlmmer Is different. The government. It Is be. Ileved, would be Inollned in enn.lH.e . an application for their release or oven 10 remit a greater part of their sen tences of Its own accord as soon as tha flrat excitement over tK. tn.i k. died away, recognising that th.v - acting on higher authority. Release uld be granted as a favor. In...., not as a right. It Is ths aovafnm.nt . contention that the .attempt -to eelse Bergdoll was an undeniable violation of Oerman sovereignty and aa affront to German laws. No demand. Brltlah we a ..!.- . Bergdoll'e eurrender nor for the' re- -'eaae of Naef and Klmmar has .t k presented n Berlin and th. in..t... commission hero has received no In- ' structlons regarding Bergdoll since his presence In Germany was established. a ... ""'.." Bera-dol aad the two detectlvee. If taken up with the Oer man government, will In all probability be handled through the im.ri... .in. ary authorities at Coblena, not only r. . """""sion nere is with out recognised legal status to nego. J,c,u steps " th. now XI i-V. B"'" "" h.v. fror. the beginning been taken by the mill- m.T,c"chh.n'nr " ."' 'P' yesr '. hla.V. absolu'teTy r:.i5r uunun broths:, or gkovbr srpks RELKASK I P-RON LEAVE WORTH Assarlals. Ft. Kansaa City. Ho.. March II u. - X. ,0., mlHtn -u" "- In the olive drab he declined to wear during the war. ri. u 71,, -C. d.lph.. mllll.na.ra. convicted of drift '"'"' appeared, today before Judge court V""1' ' district court In Kansaa ciiv v... . habeae corpus oroc.arfn.. i..' k Instituted seeking his releaae from th. military prleon at Fort Leavenworth Kana At the eonclualoa at iv.. ..... Judge Pollock announced that he would take under advisement the matter at L"m!v "I ,"u'' h'arlng the admiaal. blllty of evidence to ahow Bergdoll had not received notice te report for mill, tary service. When Bergdoll waa saatri Is .1.. Judge's chambers the handcuffs were removed and he listened in u.i Charles C. Creason. who had prosecuted i csiin mar in case agalnat htm. tell that Bergdoll had told him that he re ceived the draft notice, and "I knew all the time you were after me." 'He waa not placed em th. wltneea atand. When the bearing waa over, the handcuffs were snapped back on hie wriata his wpor handed him a campaign hat wlthoot the blue cord of the doughboy and he started bark ta th military prison et Port Lee vea-wovth. Bergdoll ta a brother of Orsrvar 0L Bergdoll,
Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, N.C.)
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