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GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY MORNING. APRIL 1. 1921
DART 0!T.,Y. $7.00 Pll YEA
DAILY AMD SUNDAY. K 00 Ft WA
PRICE FIVE CENTS
RALEIGH IS OBSESSED
BY THAT APPOI NTMENT
B COMMENT FIERCE
cirl To "Raise a Serious Issue In
liUDtrnaiuriai r imcsa,
HIGHWAY
PLANS READY
program For New Commission
Which loaay urganizes ana
Sets Out On Big Task.
HANK BUSINESS FIGURES
ink Ar Bhy nirhiy Mora
... Twelve Million Dollar In
fvtal Reaourcea Compared With
Last April Showing.
rtw Gret-Dsoora Dily
308 Merchant Nitlooil Ssnk tldf.
Bj W. T. HOST,
ftaleirh, April 3. Governor Morri
il rtvtnue agent of the state will &1
h nobody in Raleigh to think of
iBTthint else.
Where the proieFianm wore wniie
tM battle raged one must marvel now;
it ene man who has been seen since
niterday will defend the appointment
d the Statenville man. No newspaper
mu printed in North Carolina, not
ma Jbitah Turner's personal organ
& iti most bitter days, couia print
whit !
The tribute isn t to waiweii, the ae-
futefl candidate. He has partisans
who share the personal element with
I Urn. But most of the comment comes
lniersonaliy. it proceeds irom men
1 who would like to see Governor Mor
rison Maintain the order of statesman
ihls which his highway commistson
pnoitlflcd, which his championship of
liberal appropriations exempunea. i ne
Vtti appointment is almost univer
sity declared to be the lowest con
dition of a. public obligation that has
teen shown by any governor in the
wmory of men who are now living.
At for Maxwell, there be plenty of
en who imagine themselves prophets
ini Maxwell's more recent public
norm the prognostic of retributive
Jiitioe. His apparent agreement with
OoTornor Morrison on most taxation
Batten and his partial abandonment
a? the great achievement of Maxwell's
Ui administration, his defense of the
wt ao ably and his willingness to bat
tit the demagogues everywhere, fol
lowed to soon by a let-up. If not a lay
town, at his less faithful friends In
terpreted bis course, these all tended
ti Mitigate the disappointment of his
(olio witif. But on the positive side
thtre It nobody to defend the Watts
ippeintment.
"noekjnf" io Raleigh Paper.
It wai so shocking to the morning
Mper here that It broke what prom
ised to be a settled purpose to make
i warfare against anything within
the narty. The Daniels organ played
tfly tweet tunes wfalle Watts waa
nplnff the state with hi Infamous
rtdletrlcting bill. The editor was
fcttced to open on this criminal legis
lation. But Mr. Daniels was quoted
u fearing to "hurt the party." Wheth
er the quotation was correct, the fel
)ew who undertook it knew well
ftotnrh what kind of lie to tell on the
Nwt and Observer. Hut the paper
today In trenchant, but curtly brief
style, declares that the "appointment
of A. D. Watts will shook the state."
The editor undertook a gentle dis
agreement with the governor on his
toolitlonof boards and his reversion to
ft old Institutional directorates.
Brerybody who knew the governor
helieved this to be merely a caprice
trowing out of his desire to fill as
any places as possible with his per
sonal friends. But the?e were not
tangtroui. Daniels wrote the gentlest,
oat impersonal dissent, whereupon
the governor declared: "To think after
I have made a thousand speeches for
Voodrow Wilson and Joe Daniels he
should come back here and the first
talng he does is to shoot me!" Daniels
shot again this morning and he did
sot use paper wads.
The real Tesentment Is not grounded
hostility to Watts. Very few peo
ple regard his personally so suf
eiently. Nor is the feel ing of outrage
the child of affection for Maxwell.
There are thousands of people who say
attt U SlmmonB; and Maxwell big
wlneta in Winston -Salem; and Mor
rison the water power trust. People
indignant because Governor Mor
"on picks up a man, who the Rim-
B- politicians aald last year had
STtTertd off the stage of state poll- ,
But Morrison picks him up. '
stands him on his feel and calls him
e belt the state has for the biggest
wsinett that it does!
But the feeling of outrage poet be- )
'd that. It doesn't care how much I
senfidence the governor has in Watts;'
vein t give a rap how much Mr. Mor
nson promises 10 look after hip - ward "
dottn't mind that there is nobody to
tch Mr. Morrison. There are plentv
People who are willing to fortet
e personal characteriMiH of the man
wrifj4 by the governor, it makes a
feel like a dog to remember them.
T"i when one newspaper man writes
a Ma' probations and the governors
rviiton of his feeble "ward." then
piset the columns edited by the
dietinguished individual in North
rollna. he wonders what on earth
In the Morrison mind.
t Xecesaary For Morrlnon.
Contact with an idealist for tight
J1 may have put wheels in Mr
")i' head. The fart that Wilson
"pointed Watts doesn't so much mat-J-
former Governor "raig used to
w Mr. Wilson and J W. liailey
?J on a dramatic colloquy Mr
J fl'd the most talking he wasn't
2JJ"B with Mr. Wilson just telling
hlr. Wilson could not understand
7T there was such anti-Watts feel-
Mr. Rail-v -nii.A I
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Senate Republicans to
Abolish 41 Committees
Republicans Propose To Consolidate Or Abolish Altogether Many
Small Committees Which Function Only Occasionally Or Not
At All Under the Program, Both Simmons and Over
man Will Lose Committee Chairmanships.
Dlly News Bureau tnd Telefrtpb OfflM,
The Klu. Hull.Hni (By Leued Wire)
By THEODORE TILLER.
Washington, April 3. The Republl
cans are aout to abolish 41 of the
small committees of the senate, and If
their program goes through, as seems
quite likely, both of the North Caro
Una senators will lose committee chair
manships.
Because of their seniority, Senator
Simmons and Senator Overman today
have chairmanships of two minor com
mlttees. With these chairmanships go
commodious offices and an extra slice
ft senatorial patronage. Such commit
tee assignments have been passed
around to the leaders of the minority
party, whether Democratic or Repub
lican, for many years. Now the Re
publican "committee on committees"
of the new senate says 41 committees
can be dispensed with In the Interest
of consolidation of power, economy and
more effective legislation.
Certain Republican chairmen who
are about to sacrifice their title of
"chairman," and along with it a slice
of patronage, will protest with their
Democratic brethren. But there seems
no doubt the abolition policy will go
through.
The Republicans propose to consol
idate or abolish altogether more than
half of the senate committees. Many
of these smaller committees seldom
meet It It likely that some of them
have never met but commodious of
flees are furnished their chairmen and
the existence of them carries also
clerk and messenger, and sometimes
an assistant clerk. In a number of
cases these minor chairmanships are
given to veteran senators of the party
that happens to he in the minority.
This takes care of tho old timers, who
may be in the majority and able to
return the favor within a year or so.
How the Thing- Works.
For Instance, take the senate com
mittee on "additional accommodations
for the-library of Congress," Senator
Penrose, of Pennsylvania, was chair
man of that committee, while the Re
publicans were out of power. Senator
Simmons, of North Carolina, was chair
man of the finance committee. When
the Republicans regained control two
years ago Senator Penrose moved
into Senator Simmons' big commit
tee offices and the North Carolina sen
ator took the Penrose Job, and thus the
chairmen of finance and additional ac
commodations for the library swapped
places and emoluments,, . Aw.3WI!$.?f-Jfr tZ
'So far as the record goes, there is noTment departments. Some of tne-m
agitation on for additional accommo
dations for the library of Congress.
hence it Is not necessary that the com
mittee ever meet. If a meeting were
called It probably would so startle
the committee members that almost a
quorum might assemble. Now this com
mittee will be one of the 41 abolished
Another committee to go is the com
mittee on disposition of useless papers.
This is headed by Senator Walsh, of
Montana, also a Democrat. Periodically
an executive department reports to
Congress that it has accumulated a lot
of waste paper, pamphlets, reports and
old letters. May we destroy them, asks
the department.
The procedure Is to get two or three
of the committee members together
and agree that It Is all right to destroy
"the papuhs." Congress gives the au
thority atjd then there is a bon fire.
That's all the committee has to do,
but. of course, being a committee, it
must have clerks, messengers, janitor
service and so on.
It Is also proposed to abolish the
committee on engrossed bills. The en
grossing clerks engross the bills pass
ed by Congress, but heretofore It has
not been considered well done and In
order unless the presiding officer Is
enabled to announce that the commit
tee on engrossed bills "reports the
engrossment of senate bill 999. an act
for the prevention of crime and other
purposes."
Now this committee Is to be "can
ned" and Senator Overman, of North
Carolina, a Democrat, loses a chair
manship under the Republican regime.
Many Useless Committees.
The committee on Industrial expo
sitions, Senator Pittman, of Nevada,
Democrat, chairman, is on the taboo
list. Industrial expositions come along
every 10 or 25 years when some com
munity thinks about staging a world's
fair, but the committee of the senate
bearing that name goes on forever or
has to date. Practically the same sort
of useless, or near useless, committees
exist in the house of representatives.
Among the 41 committees to be abol
ished if the report of the committee
on committees is adopted are a num
ber whose uselessness will be recogniz
ed even by the layman who knows little
of the kinks of legislation and patron
age prerequisites. Here is a partial
list of the committees that are soon
to close up shop:
Canadian relations. Senator Hale
chairman. If memory serves, no legis
lation concerning Canadian relations
has been considered In years. Canadian
reciprocity, which has a part of the
name, was proposed in the Taft ad
ministration,. Five civilized tribes, Senator Owen.
Democrat, of Oklahoma, chairman.
Practically all Indian legislation Is now
carried on bills reported by the Indian
affairs committee.
Indian depredations. Senator Myers,
of Montana, chairman. The Indians
ceased their depredations years ago,
but the committee has lived on.
Conservation, Senator Smith, Demo
crat, of South Carolina, chairman.
This committee has been about as ac
tive as the average fellow's appendix.
Committee to Investigate trespasses
on Indian lands. Senator Ashurst.
chairman. Comment Is unnecessary as
to how busy this committee has been.
Corporations in the District of Co
lumbia. Senator Pomerene, Democrat,
of Ohio, chairman. Few folks want
to Incorporate in the district and their
needs can be met by the regular dis
trict committee.
Revolutionary claims, Senator Bhep
pard, Democrat, of Texas, chairman.
The revolution has been over nearly
150 years and the committee has grad
ually been growing less active.
Committee to examine the several
branches of the civil service, of which
former Senator John Walter Smith, of
Maryland, was chairman up to March 4.
Leave Brandegae Untouched.
In addition there were .committees
IV govern-
malned Inactive from Congress to Con
gress. Now it is proposed to have one
consolidated committee on expenditure.
The committee on library is prac-
tlcallv in the same class. It has Juris
diction of paintings and statues hung
and placed In the capltol building,
and such other artistic and literary
matters. However, this committee Is
not be abolished. Senator Brandegee,
of Connecticut, is its chairman, sen
ator Brandegee Is also chairman of the
committee on committees which pro
posed to abolish 41 other committees.
It mav be merely a coinciaence mi
the library committee still lives.
The library committee was recently
called into unusual activity when it
was planned to put the seven-ton mar
hie statue of Susan B. Anthony, l.u-
cretia Mott and Elisabeth Cady Stan
ton, suffrage pioneers, in Statuary hall.
After looking the immense statue over
the committee said it was too big and
unwieldy to go In Statuary hall, so
It in moved to the basement noor
of the capitol. There was much excite
ment in the committee and In woman
i,ffrse circles at the time. Possibly
this Arm stand and sudden activity" "of
the committee Justified Its continuance
on the theory that another unsuitable
piece of sculpture, or an oil painting
of doubtful value, may be offered to
Congress at any time.
TI
Viviani's Visit Brings Peace
Question To Forefront.
IT IS A PRESSING ISStJE
France Fears Moral Effect Of
America Making Separate
Peace With Germany.
IS DIFFICULT TO DECIDE
Girls Float 24 Hours To Test Safety Suits
HAS FIEDjeS SAY
Communists Bitterly Attack the
Socialists For Betraying
the Proletariat.
THE MOVEMENT IS HALTED
Department Of Commerce To
Soon Confer With American
Manufacturers.
GERMANY TRADE REVIVAL
It till Cakli U Diltt Ne
irnriTirm. rwieloi rah"' !-"'" '
Berlin. April 3 The German com
munist party last night issued a proc-
In Detrrnilnlna It the Harding Admln
tutrutlon Fneoa n Task Almost As
lime As That Whtrh Wll
Faced When War Began.
Dlily Newi Burnm nd TeletTipa Offle.
The RIkcs BufldlnK IRr LMed Wirt)
By C. W. GII.BKRT.
(fopyrlflit. 1921. FDIIJdelcbii ."ublle ldftr.)
Washington, April J. M. Viviani's
presence here has brought the admin
istration face to face with the neces
sity of deciding Its policy on the Knox
resolution ending the war. That Is the!
Immediate and pressing Issue. Presi
dent Harding Is committed to peace by
resolution In his speech of acceptance
and In his various other campaign ut
terances. France fears the moral ef
fect of our making a separate peace by
resolution, both In Germany, where It
mav stiffen resistance to her coercive
measures, and In Oreat Britain, where
it may strengthen the hands of liberal
and labor anti-French elements.
The Knox resolution was the subject
of the conference between M. Vlvlanl
and Senator Lodge, chairman of the
senate foreign relations committee
Friday. Before the meeting between
the two It was said that the position
of Senator Lodge would be as follows:
First, that the Knox resolution
should be promptly adopted.
Second, that no new association of
nations should be based upon what Mr.
Lodge ia pleased to call "the wreck of
the present league."
Third, that Europe cannot expect
either financial or military aid from
this country.
Perhaps In actual conversation with
the French envoy Mr. Lodge was not
so uncompromising as these state
ments would Imply. One has come to
suspect a certain amount of heroics In
the public declaration of the senate's
Intransigents. Moreover, there Is a
good authority for saying that Sena
tor Lodge Is not fully Informed as to
what is the policy of President Hard
ing and Secretary Hughes on k-urope.
And that policy is subject to rapid
modification under present pressure.
A Difficult Undertaking".
The Knox resolution is hard to pass
In the existing emergency and it is
equally hard to avoid passing, having
been made a declared point of party
policy. Various suggestions have been
made for dealing with It, such as strip
ping it as far as possible of its Inter
national character and making it chief
ly a means of dealing with domestic
cernnlioertlonff .arrowing- ene. of the. e
laratlen of war and aa preceding it
with ao unmistakable a declaration
of our solidarity with our late part
nera in the war that the passing of it
will lead to no misinterpretation In
Germany or England.
Such a declaration to be made either
by President Harding or Secretary
Hughes has. as Indicated in this cor
respondence, been under consideration.
In the course of M. Viviani's stay here
thlB much at least will perforce have
to be decided, whether to pass the Knox
resolution and in what form and
whether to precede ft by some declara
tion of International intentions and
what the nature of that declaration
should be.
r ranee Is, above all, anxious. If we
should not see our way clear to aid
her by Improving European credit, that
we should at least do nothing to em
barrass her In her steps which she
thinks necessary to her own salvation.
Two such steps would be the bald pas
sage of the Knox resolution and the
early withdrawal of our troops from
the Rhine. This one etep would Inevi
tably be followed by others, for end
ing the war by resolution, would re
move the reasons for our continuing to
occupy a Rhine bridgehead.
This Vlvlanl visit Is only the begin
ning of a French effort to make us
see France as we saw her when we
entered the war, In danger of destruc
tion, this time through failure of her
credit as a nation by reason of Ger
many's refusal to pay for the dam
ages done during the war. France
counts upon reviving the ancient sym
pathy between the two republics and
upon making us see that as she stood
as the line of defense against autoc
racy In 1914 today she stands as the
only sure bulwark against bolshevlsm
and the utter collapse of Europe.
France Is Antl-Ilevolutlonary.
With her large peasant population
she is the least revolutionary state In
Europe. If her credit Is maintained
by the rolleclon of reparations due
from Germany or by and from this
country she rap. be counted upon to re
main conservative and to help preserve
In Europe the social institutions of to
day If she goes Into bankruptcy there
will be little possibility of stopping
the spread of revolution. The Vlvlanl
mission paints a dark picture. France's
In order to test the durability of n nafety suit for ocean travelers, two
New York girls, the Misees Ruth Maples and Doris Vanderweken, donned lh
suits and floated In the waters of New York bay for 24 hours. They took their
meats standing up In the water and even slept part of the lime. Neither was
the worse for the unusual experiment after the '24 hours were up. Th photo
shows the girls, with A. K. Jackson, floating around off the Battery wall.
Offensive and Defensive
Railroad Alliance Urged
Representatives Of 175,000 Organized Railroad Employes Hold
Convention and Map Out Plan "To Better Resist Concen
trated Attacks Of Railway Executive Association" and
"To Bring About Closer Affiliation Of Employes."
WALL STREET SUFFERS
Many Factors Made For Lower
Prices During Week.
BALANCE IS FAIRLY EVEN
With News Favorable and Un
favorable. Stock Market
Takes To Marking Time.
EXPECT WONDERS APRIL 11
Sew f'ongresn Is Looked to to Cars
About Kvery Business III That Caa
Be Thouarht oft Will Need to
He Muperraaw llody.
New York. April 8. Wall street ra
lapsed Into a mild form of the aTloom
with which it waa affiliated In Feh-
New York, April I. Representatives
of 175,000 organised railroad employes
In special convention here today called
upon the executive heads of the
recognized national and international
railroad unions to sanction the forma
tion of district "offensive and de
fenslve" alliances railroad district
councils In the New York district and
at other "starateglc points in the
railroading Industry,"
These district organisations are
necessary, It was stated In a letter
sent to the executive union officials,
to enable the railroad employes "to
better resist tho concentrated attacka
of the railway executive association"
and "to bring about a closer affiliation
of all railroad employes and perfect a
100 per cent organisation In all crafts
by stimulating- interest in their own
welfare and educating them in the
value of solidarity."
Delegates to the convention, who
represented all local railroad unions in
the greater New York district, urged
that "a state of status quo should be
declared by American Federation of
Labor so aa to dear the way, and make
It possible for what are now common
ly lrnowit -as -the transoortarloa broth
erhoods to affiliate with th American
Federation of Labor."
Through thia action, It was stated,
the "preambles and resolutions that
gave birth to Industrial autonomy by
the formation of the general depart
ments within the federation would be
preserved."
More than 250 representatives of lo
cal unions In the New York district
attended the convention, which was
called by district officers of the Uni
ted Hrotherhood of Maintenance or
Way employe.
The delegates affirmed their confi
dence In their International and na
tional officers and pledged to them
"our all In their untiring efforts to
secure and maintain for the railroad
employes the working conditions and
the standard of living that they are so
Justly entitled to."
We further believe tnat it wouia
be to the best interest of all concern
ed." added the communication, 'that
the present existing pact between the
16 recognised railroad unions be real-
firmed and continued Indefinitely, and
that the principle of craft amalgama
tlon, and Induatrlal autonomy be not
only recognised as a principle but to
be heralded by the railroad worker
as an accomplished fact."
"It would be to the best Interest of
the organised railroad employes In the
different railroad center.' It waa
stated, "that they be permitted to
form friendly railroad district coun
cil In order to bring about a better
local understanding and so that they
may be batter able to carry out the
mandate of the several national and
International union in line with the
offensive and defensive program a at
present In effect. And that aald rail
road district council be allowed to
function and be officially rsoognlsed
by the executive counoll of the
American Federation of Labor, and
the executive council of the railway
employe department of the American
'Federation of Labor to Issue what mar
be known a 'emergency charter' for
the present, or until a final disposi
tion Is mad of the policy manifested
here In the district of New York and
other atrattglo point tn the railroad
lng Industry throughout the, Unltsd
siaies wner im matter nas" Deen
given serlou conslderatien." ,
Formation of the district councils
vii declared to be "Imperative at this
moment of concentrated opposition on
the part of those who would divide
the railroad employe In order to de
stroy their economic organisation."
Besides promoting; closer affiliation
between the various union. It wa ex
plained that the council would dis
seminate "such knowledge to our mem
bership and Information to the public,
consistent with the policies of the rail
way employe' . department of the
American Federation of Labor, a will
give a clear understanding of our
purposes,"
As soon a word ha been received
from the national and international
union executive official, Anthony
Spalr, president of the New York dis
trict council of maintenance of way
and railroad shop laborers' locals, wa
authorised to call another apeclal con
vention of final action on the proposal.
ALFRED GRIFFIN FIELD,
MINSTREL KING, DEAD
"Al. G.," As He Was Known
Over the Country, Succumbs
To Bright's Disease.
FIELD WAS 72 YEARS OLD
'or jtnoflttnt Prrs
Washington, April 3. Orfense of the
nation's war-born dye Industry arraln?t
competition or the Oerman dye and
chemical trade will be takn op short-
. ,; ,n ,hf workers admitting i ne i iv oy ine orpanmeni ui tummcirc m
. c, r ...mrnrv movement was I conference her with representatives i meettn of her current expenses de
recent insurxii n.t ' ,oned of Amerlran manufacturers. Rapid re- j pends upon (Jermany s paylns: repara
a iaiiur n no iimc uvai or ncunnn iiiuuphj. rroc-
The prn.-lamHtmn bitterlv n-pr. .aches ' .-jaMv as a factor In foreign trade, de
the two so lahst parties for betraying partment officials said tonisrht. must
the proletariat and kniflnp th move - ,. (r,ken into account by American In-
hack, i' 1 " ,J - i- ----
ere unabl- to ! )t.rH and the couriry remain moe-
ment in
o,i thM communist s are i n ner .-n
are
m nt
m a k e 1
hnnreetosie
Instructed t hr.ak off the mo
and wait for bett.T limes
Letters r;i.tur''l on :
courier i n roule fr m H Ga
Blnvakia to Herlln furn
of Moscow's compile lo
tion and resnonsibi'ij
letters j.re dated earl'
, h..om Diihii. n was
1 . 1 1 v i n o v
vlsh'Vlk
Tlr'l'h1!-
h simple front
in the ins'irr'o
therof The
in Ma-on but
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I s'r Hatlev did not say as rh r,.pr.-seT. ta' i
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( liuSMa i :r work n j
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'hn another presidential
"- " ny I
Is because of Josephiie Pani-ls
'or Senator Simmons" the
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Mm ,1" B"t th- pri-sidentia. ap
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mm h.-torr the 1'resld-nt I
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nran prodiii ts needing the
or. -op, ration of the anvf-rnrm'nt in the
field of for.utn traiie. according
Secretary Hoover, will he given thr- .
attention of the department one st a
time. Mr. Hoover is to meet with the
w ar f;nnnrp corporation anil south' rn
I ankers tomorrow in an effort to de
velop a workable plan for building up
niton ports
X!:, i-tl.t arc f in 'r trade re-1
iva' j roeram. tffi-ia's saol is In the
la-.l- .f w;i! rliar.... fOrporatlnn,
li,i- i ,xp.cted to aid 'be expnrt'rsl
ra'i'.rs i-rta' ized under
In differ, r.t sections of
I r. .t dd " : n forma t ion of
tions. And fjermanv has r.ri..rl
pay and the present occupation of the
Hlilne cities is falling to collect
Kverything that Is being done by M.
Vlvlanl here looks forward to the next
step that France will he compelled to
take In roei. Ing Hcrmany. falling
financial aid from tins totintrv which
it is hardly believed that the Krench
to, count upon. What that strn will t..
is not known Well inform. d students
of French affairs li. ie r ll-ve that
when Germany refuses to pav th.
t.i I'M nrirMinn repara'i..n due M . ,
i . r ra nee
posit i.jjjgjy-,
i ' 'on '
desper,.,
I'er army
on I'.
and ( inveriior "ra .
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(By AuodkUd Frtmt
Columbus. Ohio, April 3. Alfred
Griffin ("Al O") Field, premier of
American minstrels, died at his horns
here today, his death resulting from
Bright s disease. Born 72 years ago in
Leesburg. Va., Mr. Field was educated
In the common schools of Brownsville
and Pittsburgh, I'a., later becoming in
terested in bunking and farming, and
in 1386 entered the theatrical business,
organizing n minstrel show which has
pe rated continuously since that time.
Mr Field was a former high na
tional officer of the Rika and widely
known tn Masonic circles. The funsrsl
will be held here. Tuesday afternoon.
Forecast By States.
Washington. April 2 Mississippi:
Fair Monday; Tuesday unsettled, prob
ably showers, not much change in tem
perature. Tennessee: Fair Monday; Tuesday In
creasing cloud in esu. probably showers
in west portion . continued mild tem
perature. Virginia and North Carolina: Fair
Monday aiifl Tuesday ; continued mild
( fin ra ' u re.
Louisiana. Monday increasing cloudl-tif-.'t".
Tuesday cloudy and unsettled.
Arkansas Monday ami Tuesday gen
eraJiy cloudy, rain Monday night or
Tuesday, colder Tuesday in west por
t ion
ik .ahoma . .Monday an'l Tuesday
r!M,(!y. rrim Monday night or Tuesday.
.!d.-r Tut hiUv
Kit st T- x.ix Mo mi ay and Tuesday un-
srr U-d. prohabU lcal rain, colder in
t.i -r ' f, r i 1 n Tuid'lay
U i T M.-rday cloudy. IocmI
ru t'. . T "I.IV '.AiT. ".Icr
Explosion Of 40,000 Pounds Of
Black Powder Rocks Section
About Fredericksburg, Va.
BLAST HEARD FOR MILES
FrederlcksbursT. Va., April I. Two
men were Injured, at least six
freight car were destroyed, and traffic
on the R. P. and P. railroad wa
blocked for hour thl fternoon when
40,000 pound of black powder In a car
exploded In the freight yards here.
The Injured are A. W. Johnson, con
ductor, and A. R. Brown, brakeman.
Tbe blast could be heard 10 or II
miles distant. Olaaa windows and plas
tering In home and stores throushout
Frederlcksburtr were damaged. Th
extent of damage could not be esti
mated tonight, but It 1 thought th
total will be high
Intense excitement was caused here
and throughout the surrounding coun
try. Hundreds rushed to the seen of
the blast.
Several freight car were splintered
br the explosion, which set three other
cars on fire. The Fredericksburg fire
department, after a hard fight, pre
vented the flames from spreading. For
a time It was feared other cars of ex
plosives might be on the train, but
this was dispelled by th authorities
of the railroad.
Two water tanks In the Immediate
vicinity were destroyed by the blast,
and two cows In a nearby field were
killed.
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lirlstol Va-Tenn. April J After
plunrlng 2b" feet over a precipice In
an automobile wunoui injur, ..,e.
setv.s. two ouna men and three girls
were fined Saturday in Hate lty. s..
for l.rloK drunk and disorderly ac
,rd,r, to acountl reaching here to
l.v In its 'oe fsll fie rar turned ve
, ndwise sex -.a! t.i, ,i and vsas mm-
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' n Ir, th. '.tr v,ere John Itar
. yi "..op. r itonnle Johns,n.
i..v:a .N.t.n.i", and lieoryia l.arldson.
Plan Heat Al Ulaail.
M' .ji Kia . At.nl i The two marine
...it,, piar.es on a trail biasing trip to
ti,- Viram Island, rested here over
Sunday Karly tomorrow morning ther
wi . ti'.p "f on the ,'ith lap of the
eeun at. trip for Key west atn poaen-,, n
tltiue i,n to Havat.a be-fore night-
ruary and early March during the past
week, and tor the first time In nearly
a month the bear aucceeded In forcing;
serious decline. At no tune, however,
was the atmosphere so deeply blu a
It waa earlier In the year. Special
iaaues were again singled out because
of the Individual weakness and de
pressed, and something more than 60
per cent of the March rls was for
feited. But the observer perceive dis
tinctly a better feeling, a sort of un
dertone denoting expectation of Im
provement, lrr the not far distant fu
ture, and a comparative iaok of ag
gression in the selling whloh foroed
the decline of the week.
There were more than a sufflolent
number of factor making for lower
prices. First, Punta Alegr sugar re
duced It dividend from SI to IS a year,
which In Itself Is no mar than In ac
cord with th times. But It was stated
In many quarters that tha raw sugar
situation and th proapeota for th
current orop are such that ther should
have been no dividend at all. Doubt
aa to th next payment, therefor, fig
ured largely, and doubt I alway a
force for unsettlument. Second, Sear.
Roebuck passed Its dividend. Third,
th British coal strike xrtd a stronsi
depressive Influence, Commodities con
tinued their downward movement.
Money beoara tighter, tb rats rlFlng
to T per cent. New York olty reserved
bid for 1 than half Its revenue bill
and corporate (took requirement on
t par cent basis. Interntlonal' Har
vester was hard hit en the ropots
of new financing and reduced divi
dend. Th number of Idle freight
oar reached Its hlgheit point In hi,
tory. Bom of tha chief ooppsr pro
ducers of ths country shut down com
pletely. Also there war a number
of report of earnings that showsd
up vry poorly. .
A iMsoaal Rally. '
It became plain' early in ths wssk
that th movement whloh had nt
prices , up for about two and a half
weeks was hot the major upward
..yend of iha yeav. and. that- It wag .
nothing fnor - than a seasonal rally
from the Jow prices of th axly part
of the month. Unless development of
a strlklhgly favorabl character make
themselves felt within ths nsxt week
or two It Is mors than likely that ths
market will bs narrow and that It will
move within a reetrlctsd prlo area.
Th fact that by no precedent would
th major trend sstabllah Itself art th
levels of. last weak did not deter op
timist from believing that preoedsnt
wa no guide In the times. Their
Illusion was ahattered soon enough
whan th real extent of th drop in
th averages becam known.
There wa by no means a heavy pre
ponderance of "abort" ammunition In
th weekly new, however. American
Telephone and Telegraph ' company
raised it dividend ' rat from to
per cent a year aa a preliminary to
new financing. Railroad earning for
February continued to show remark
able Improvement, soma roads Ilk th
Baltimore and Ohio for Inatanc, dis
played a net Incom as against a def
icit In th face of leasened groa In
come from th sams month of ltlo.
President Harding called m meeting
(with the heads of th Interstate Com
merce commission and ths railway
labor board to conaldsr .tho problsm
of th railroad and It la now thought
that he will make some recommenda
tion concerning th welfare of th
nation' transportation aystem la his
message to Congress on April 11. Ths
New York banking position wa de
cidedly better with a lx per scat In
th reserve ratla, 'although th ratio
for th ytm aa a whole advanced
l.( per cent. The Improvement In tha
motor Industry continued and is re
ported to hava oxtndd to many of
th accessory line and to some forms
of steel. The Oerman revolt seems to
be dying out and little attention was
paid to ths monarchist movement in
Hungary.
Marking Tlx.
It Is not trng that with th fav
orable and unfavorable new o evenly
balanced the stock market should
take to marking time. In faot, ths
movement In bualnea ha In on senao
had an adverse affect upon the secur
ity marketa. Among the selling of th
week was a good deal that waa credit
ed to weatera sources, and it wag
generally believed to be not pcula
tlv wiling, but selling for money.
Thl money Is to go back Into busi
ness. Among the lesuee that Buffered
In this way was Pennsylvania railroad,
which fixed a new low price for mors
than 40 years and two daye later drop
ped furthed. Obvlouely such a situation
is not one that really Injurea the mar
ket. But It la Just as plain that It
reduces th market to so strictly a
professional character that aom tlmo
will b required to life It from tho
rut.
In the meantime all eyes are turned
toward Washington. From surface
Indications each and every financial
111. from taxes and tariff to the rail
roads and labor Is to find ready solu
tion there in the special Bession of
Congress President Harding' discus
sion of the railroad problem with his
cabinet was enough on one afternoon
temporarily to check the decline lo ths
stock market. His conference previous
ly mentioned performed the same eer
vire for another session. To enumerate
the prohleme whl.'h various interest
,,p, 1 to have solved for them would
he little short of a catalogue of every
thing on the economic horlxon. Prob
..Mr no ad.nlnistration or Congress,
unless composed of supermen, could
leet s.l the I rlxht faith so radiated
performance. The
near j president's formula of less goternmeat
in business and more business In gov
erBnunl. while loudly enough acclaim
ed when It was uttered, seeme to be
considered by each special Interest as
applying to all others except Itself.
As a matter of fart, the fundamentals
ar- more than sufficient to occupy the
entire time of the Congress and the
administration sad most of the spe
cial demands will bsve to find thetg
(Convened en Pag Eight)
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