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v;:;.':. NORTH CAROLINA 5o,boo,ooo good" roads state A CAROLINA HOME NEWSPAPER OF CONSTRUCTIVE IDEALS. CLEAN AND RELIABLE IN NEWS SERVICE. AND A PROMOTER OF SOUTHERN RESOURCES. FOUNDED 1869. CHARLOTTP. N. C. MONDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1922. PRICE: FIVE CENTS DAILY SEVEN CENTS SUNDAY TODAY 14 PAGES US OF TIE HOLD THEIR Oil AND H GAINS Railroad Car Loadings Have Reached New High Level. TRAFFIC IS INCREASING Wheat Prices Stiffen, but There Is Much Uncertainty Con cerning Cotton Crop. NEW YORK, July 2 i Iiy the Associated I'ress ) While the us ual uncertainty of the season and a few- others of a special character have dominated the country' h mar kets during the pant week, n-turns from Industrial centrals continue good Hteel production ha mam' talned Its, latent gains. Kailroad car loading have reached a new high level for the ji-at and repot til from a number of center mention active cooperation for labor between makers of steel, automobiles ami railroad equipment on the one hand nnd the building trades on the oth.-i Allowing for the coal strike, wh.ch naturally affects the showing of railroads serving union mines. the May earning statement of the c.ir rlers. whuh are now tn pub hslied. testify to a turtle: gatn in the volume of traffic. Seasonal I'miTta ntlo.. Regarding the swa. na ! uncer tainties. pltnrjp;41y rela '.g to rnw crnp little in tin- way of news 1, is developed. Ka.r weathci m the cotton belt improved crop ondl'ions and took the edge off Hi- minor crop scare of two we. k- airo I' also resul'ed in the rati' - i! i'"in of the advarne in pr:-s. Irte.est i'i trade has i entered in tomorrow's government crop report, pi.v.ite es timates favoring a condition :n 'he neighborhood of 73 per en' The amount of damage which the w evil, which has had an unusually favor able start, may accomplish. I'li.an.s largely a matter of conjecture Wheat prices T:ffene) el jrhtly partly on reports of smaller suj-ply of the cash conmiod.ty and partly on disappointing threshing ret-jrr.s. There were reports also of some nhat better foreign buying In the course of a faltering rally, the July delivery reached the vicinity, of Il ls, but the market was thin and uncertain, as Is, In fact, consistent with Its betw-eenlcrop character. , good yield remains In prospect, and mail order business Is picking up1 well. Despite flurries in call nnney. which carried the rate on the New York stock exchange as li.irh as 5 1-2 per rent, the rnopey market still holds at the low levels of the year. The disturbance in call money is generally attributed to ;.( :al de mands connerted with the end the first half year. The !.. - observer" expet pronounced e.s, a-aln in July. Opinion :s dr. ided a.- to whether the price of mor.ev aire.nl has touched bottom or whe.her it may still go slightly lower l.-f .re knowing an upward turn. Coal Strike Ilewlopments. Developments In the coal strike are now commanding close attri tion. Stocks of fuel are dwindling and demand is growing Some quar ters point out that the dei.ivmir of a settlement for another month or two might occasion a car short.-ure later in the autumn. The uncertainty re garding soft coal prices is. mean while, producing doubts in relaied markets. Production of bituminous at non-union mines has continued to grow, but still falls 'hnrt of normal demtrd by at least two-thirds.. An thracite output remains practically nil. All parties concerned appear to be growing more anxious for a set tlement. In contrast to their a'ti tude regarding the coal strike, most financial and business quarters have seemed but little Impressed with the possibilities embraced in the railroad walkout. Temporary congestion In the local bond market is shown by the com paratively small amount of new of ferings last week, which totalled only $.10,000,000 as compared with a weekly average of $100. "0ft noo dur ing the early spring months. Prices last week wire firm to "strong with the principal dealings in the liber'y Issues. The fourth liberty 4 1-2 s reached a record hiith of 100 32 on Saturday. Prices of railroad bonds were not affected by the threatened labor troubles. While offerings of foreign bonds to date this year have reached the huge total f $84ino.OOi'. or U than $10,000,000 below 'the 'total for the whole of last year, a .derided slump in these issues is predicted for the next few weeks. Kailure of the German loan negotiations, ail slow sales here of the recent Jugo slav and Mnnteriednn issue have had a dampening effect on the mar ket for new- foreign securities. South American I.0011-. Negotiations for three South American loans probably w.ll be concluded within the next few week They Include a short term Issue of $2,000,000 to I.'.OOOO"') to Peru pending the negoiatinn of n much larger long term refunding loan; i loan of $5,000,000 to the Pacific rail way of Colombia, and a loan of $12. 500.000 to Guatemala, the proceeds to be used for the rehabilitation of the paper currency of that country, the payment of the government's In ternal debt and the establishment of a national bank of Guatemala With the impending arrival here of Jean P.irment ier. repre-en'ing the French, some action is expected bv the -ral banks toward the refund ing of the war old. gat ons to that country Little hope is entertained that Krance will begin the early pay ment of interest, hut It is expected that t least a tentative date w.ll be fixed when such paymen' i may be expected to begin. Great Britain also is expected to take some defi nite action along that line this month Heavy railroad financing is ex pected during the tim f-- weeks sJ)pll' atlon to lvsue equipment trtjs' 1 Cattnet rsc I" l TWO VERY DISTINCT EARTHQUAKES FELT WAMII.M.TUN. July 2. Two earthquake shorts worr i-giMer-cl on the Mlsmogniph of (ji-orgc-I'mn university today, one tills afternoon apparently being "lo cal'' and potwdbly In Uie lulled Slates at a distance of "00 or 800 jnUrn from Washington. The otlicr vu felt this morning but was at a greater distance. The one this afternoon eoutlnued from 4:28 to 4:35 o'clock, but was not as pronounced as the one this morning. The first fiinke esti mated to 1m- 3.H00 mile from Washington and dcsrrlbctl us "-ry imiKiuiHiil" on the seismo graph. The quake Iscgaji at 8:44 a. in., and continued for two hour- Republicans in Turmoil Over Successor to McCumber. Nightmare of LaFollette Fright ens C. O. P. Leaders Out of Their Boots. BY II. V.. V. IHCYAAT. WASHINGTON July 2 The de sertiot IJ.-pi e-.-.'t:ve Kordney. of the wjs did ti.eati- committee, and the ! i" Sena 'or Mcl'-jt-i-ber. h , rimi! of -he fmar.ee . orn- mif.ee. le.tvc. Vie r So I' a I, S In .'1 hoe A row is Threatened o'.or the 'lairman-hip of the ho is c -t.n.i'- tee l;ep-S4-e-;l;ve I.orCWorth. Of Ohio would tike it away from G-ecn. of Iowi. b'J there i ro con tent ;n the sate. The t; o p. lead ers are a.' raid if thev s art jostling fh" committee aroun 1 Senator I-a-Kolietje might get up top. Senator Reed Kni(Mi. one of the Mormon lenders f the world, will succeed M.-fum r When M Snoo; pf-.f.rd the senate eff .r:s '.ere male to throw him out on ac cnun' of his religion, or the do trine of tiolygamy. which failed. The country is looking on with Interest in this situation. Senator S-nimnns racking democrat "f The finance ommit'ec th nk thar'Smoot will succeed Mcf'umber as chairman. He sa'd there it no escape for the rep:;h'icans without a revdufion in '.mmjttee making "Sena'or Smoot.'- sa d Mr. Sim mons "!s !n the right place for pro mo!. on to the chairmanship, and he Is the fittest man fin the republican side for that Job The fact that he is prominent in the Mormon church has not been raised against him. and :t ; not very likely to be." Srr.oot Is able and experienced. Sec, tr.r S:mmon asserted. Penal"! I-aKollefe I a thorn in the flesh of 'he regular republicans of -he hr.ance corr.miee and i is predicted tha h- Hull (1 He dropped from that a-.-nri:ri:ent In the next Congres- He aid 'ha' would rai- a gret r"W. hut he ; getting too n"ar the ..;)' f-T comfort. BIG GRAIN ELEVATOR BURNS AT BALTIMORE Baltimore and Ohio's Loss Es timated at Between Three and Four Million Dollars. P. AI.TIMOKK. July 2. Lightning tonight struck the roof of one of the several big grain elevators at the Baltimore arid Ohio railioad's terminals at l.Oi ust Pomt. and in,a few min utes the Immense structure was in flames Although deluged by rain in the terrific storm pre vailing the flames spread rapid ly. Nearly the entire citv fire de partment, including fire boats, was quickly at work, bu! the fire Fpread rapidly. onn enveloping elevator- P and ". at pier five, ail of w hi- h were w recked The elevators contained over 500. 000 bushels of craln. which, with sixty carloads of export tobacco on the pier w as destroyed. The rs'I-oad company's loss is es.i mated at beTween $.1 ;on oor :in(j $ J.MoOtoo Several firemen were injured or overcome by heat and " oke. The Afier i-iti Sugar Penning company's bitr plant and other alnable toopcrty on the south water front were untouched A numbe- of freight cars were hurried Several vessels were s -c-' hed before they could be tdii 1 on- itn The harbor PRESIDENT HARDING MOTORING TO MARION 1 NH iNTOWN. PA. Julv 2 HH 'he A-oc: itel Press presub nt and M:s Harding enroute to their home :n Marion Ohio, arr-ved lit" tcmI'iv at a hotel in the mountains near he: e for an overnight stay. To morrow tbev will cent nue their at! tornoYle tr.j. n- l expect to tep li the - d cat fn b night Mom of f1'.'- il;iv was sp n: T-act. ing up a -i.I down the inoiirtain slot.es of soufh-n Penn- Kama and nn:thern Ii-lard ltaon '".etv stcir .'fid here The P.- at f -. i a i . Iff the i;f-T'li re h-ittlefld where vesterdi l.e w.-ness-.i a leorodj--tion of Picket' s charge by marines encamped th.ere. and did not reach the hotel ne.-.- here un'il shortly lefore dark. Kmoilte tbe President accompan'ed bv Mrs Harding, turn ed from the rriain hichwar and went to the hoin of Senator William K Crow, who ha been ill pra'ticallv all of the time n-'e he succeeded late Sotor Philander i' Knox Tftv spent half an r"iir at Ser,aror Crow's bom. . i ANOTHER PRETTl ROW BREWING iimi m RETURK OF ALIEN Ff PERT! Ch:mical Foundation Subject of Warefare in Washington. FOUNDED BY DEMOCRATS Presumed to Be a Continuation j i of Prosecution of Alleged Wari Frauds by Republicans. i WASHINGTON. July 2 The move of the Hirding admlr.lstrat.on against the Chemical Foundation, inc. was the i tiief topic of dls'.u--:on o! (.ni-.al Washington on thii rizxl-rig hut auiiday. The determination of the admln istiafion t take steps against ti.e foundation, which was organized by Krari'is P. Garan and several of his associates in t r i - alien property .untod-an s o!Il- un-l'-r the Wilson ailm.mstrdtion. wa.s -eve.lled in a letter tn.de pjbln veMerduy a: t.'i ; white house, m w h:-h President ' Harding instructed Thomas W. Mil ler, the present alien property cus todian, to demand return of all paten:.-, copyrights and other property transferred to the fuund.il. on. Tne move came as a complete sur prise to grea' proportion of official Washington, and ''' -b;.- reason it 'was a subject of . o!iv.-rsj.t.on today wherever o.'R lals met. Otlb la n ' closely anne-ie ! wi'h the adii.:t.:." iratim'.i jiii'if deemed to fiii pl' - n.ent what wis contained :: 'he presidents letter anj the acom- ,.nvl:ig f itement by Attorney Gen eral Daugheny hn.y-.ng ,hal lh(' transfer of patents to the foundation ,d 1.en utile- invest' .gallon lor -ome rt.ori'hs b;. -he department o. jj-ti-e and tha' :h- Presidents in tru. '.ions wojj. l b- prompt;;. di- r War Fraud I'nr--ntln. Alien l-ro-efv castod an Miller, as well a- Mr lia i-rh-ity were out of The cYty. and A Mr, heli Palmer who pre-edrd Mr Gatvan as al.en .property custodian, and under whose rdministratiou of mat ol e n the Gem...:-. ;,i.i""-- V- " V" ,eed. "J.I '"- l'- f"unJ ,h' inner ottcals. while not acquamt ',d with t! - details of the move, saw , in it one of the s.eps w the adn.in straaon alleged var fiaud. proe icutions They al.o saw the prospect of considerable discussion of he I matter m the senate, where the chemi-al foundation often has been the subject of fire from the repub lican awe. and has been as warmly defended by democratic members. ' Mot house members had left the I capital, due to the six weeks ad ! journment taken Friday, but among the republicans still h-re Kepresen tative Wcdiuff. republican. Michi gan, was about the only one who would comment Mr Woodruff who has attacked the department of jus-t-e on :h- grunda that it had been retr-Hs in prosecution of war frauds, described the president's action as splendid' and added that th course was fully Justified in view ..' the charges made in Congress at various times that the foundation had acquired from the alien prup ertv custodian's offlc-e German pat ents w orth from $ l a.om. oo0 to $:u. i.iiv.tc.i) for approxiniaf ly $2."il'.OU0. Propcrt) legally Tun has-d. 1). iiio ra::. m-mbers generally have po.med to Mr Garvens testi mony bef..r- :he senate dye-stuffs lobby iniestigating committee as an answ'e;- lo these charges. Mr. Garv.-n liefore that committee said tin foundation acquire its patents, copy rights and oher similar properly through a i'e made under executive order issued by Acting Secretary of State p..;: at the dire t.un "f Pres ident Wi'.s n. Authority for the sile. he told the . ., mm.: tee. was . on ta.ne 1 m an amendment to the trad mi i:h the enemy a ' Stock of 'he foundation.' Mr. Garven s stalenient showed. was held bv the five trustees who elct the orfkers and directors. These 1 trustees are Cleveland H Dodge, of '.New J'ork. Ot'o T. B.mnard. presi dent of the New York Trust com pany: Judge George I- Ingraham. presiding Jift'te of the appelate di vision of New York: Henjamin H. flnswoid. Jr president rrf Prown Brothers, of Baltimore, and Ralph Stone, president of the Detroit Trust company. GAMBLE NOT GUILTY CF MURDERING SPRY Jury Returns Verdict at Greensboro After Being Out for Sixteen Hours. sprrial to The Ole.erir G KKKNSP." I : ' lu 2 Not guilt''" "a- lhe crdot brought in liy a ' Guilford .'"rv this t, ..rning m lhe ,-ae of St..'-. G -.:. y.ung lii;e mm '. Shcl'V, ch tra-l with nnirder Ga-ille vat pbiccri .r trial In Guilford cri-i.ir.al loiirt Friday rnorn-ng for hi- l:f- in nnnectioii with tho.klllin; of M tx Spry, of sCt"bury. here on the afernoon f May 2f S If d' fense w is the plci of the defence. aid after being out for about six'e.'tt hour- the Jury this morning cleared Gamble of the harge. rinding that he killed the Sal isbury man in self d fens- Gamble is held in the county Jail in default of bond in the sum of $3.u"0 for tarrying a onci-aled weapon On that ' harge he will be inel a: the ncrc term of court here. Gan. l.'--'s mot her Mrs I nnie Spry of She'by. hs wife, from whom he i said to be seeking a divorce, and hi aunt wele all in the ourtmom when the Jury returned its verdict 'His mother was overtone saving nothing for a moment She then threw her arms uround bis neck and wept for seieral minutes She shook hands w ith ear h mem -l-er of the jurv and expressed thanks for iheir vrdict 'iambb s wife give n signs of nv ennotton Ir-imdiaily follow n; th taking of th erdot tudg G S Ferguson hdjnurned th cf.urt GOVERNOR WILL SPEAK AT ELLERBEE SPRINGS lUXKIXGIIAM. July 2. Gov ernor Morrison will be the speaker at the Fourth of July celebration Tuesday at Kllerbe Springs. He SM-aks at 2:30 in the afternoon. At noon a big basket picnic will be spread. At 1 1 o'clock un air plane from Tope fit-Id will come to Kllerbe. .Spring and do stunts overhead. Ictlnilc assurance of the coming of the airplane was received today by Kdttor Ifutac Ixindon from Major Goolrick. IP OF SKfLANO Washington Party Enthusiastic Over ML Mitchell Road. Arduous Journey Is Made Easy and Scenic Panorama Made Available to All. BV II. V.. V. BRYANT. WASHINGTON. July 2. A Wash ington party composed of Wisdom I). Brown, Harry F. Gary, George Duval. Jr. Arthur K. Cook, Krnest I.ec and Hutu1 W. Pearson, has re turn" d her.- from North Carolina witii gb vving accounts of the open in: of the automobile road from Plat K Mountain to Mount Mitchell. In an r.ihusiast,c outburst in The Washington Star today they told a'totr it The star said ' ' Discovering the top of the east ern Amenta, with all the dittbulties Of :he discovery eliminated by mod ern n'erprisc and ingenuity, was the c:.ei-:cnee of a party of Wash ir.gto;,;ais u ho. last Monday, made .-. trip by motor from A-hevil'. to the summit of Mt. Mit h--Il. eleva tion t'..?ll feet, on th- o casion of the formal opening of the motor road just completed. from Black Mountain. a distance of twenty tilles. "Black Mountain Is only sixteen miles from Asheville. with which it .s connected with a concrete road. The roato from Block Mountain to the crest has been graded and sur faced with cinders, so that the en tire trip from the center of Asheville to the center of the crest of Mount Mitchell can be mad" in two hours.. ' "The road to tip- top of the moun ; tain follow s most of the w ay the I route of an -abandoned logging road, I whit h had so many sharp turns. 1 heavy grades and switch hacks as to make it impracticable for passen ger seivice. The owners of the lumbering enterprise were induced to convert the roadway of tram Into a motor road which would enable the visitors who annually go to Ashe ville and nearby resorts to travel by to the summit of Mt. Mitchell. "Mount Mitchell is. said to be the highest point in America east of the pockies. It Is the highest of fifty peaks within a ratlins of a few miles of Asheville and Black Mountain, uhi' h are in the center of the "Land r.f the Sky." The road from Black Mountain to Camp Alice, near the rest of Mt Mitchell, affords a pano rama of changing lisfhts and shad ows 'The entire Mt Mitchell area is mt luded in the Mt Mitch. -II national fo-.si. which, it is explained, will ewntunllv include 2 IS. 000 acres of litid in nuncnrt.be. McDowell. Mitch ell and Yancey counties. Located within the area are three mountain ranees. tJie Craggy mountains, the Black mountains and thirty miles of th" Blue ridge. "The center feature is the Rtack n ountain range, of which Mount Mitt hell is the commanding peak." OPERATORS AND MINERS REMAIN IN A DEADLOCK No Basis for Settlement of Coal Strike Yet Reached by the Joint Conferees. WASHINGTON. June 2 Opera tors and miners of th bitum nous fields remained deadlocked tonight after another days session of the Joint conference called by President Harding and admonished to reach a basis for negotnting a settlement of the strike with measurable prompt ness Meeting from 2 o'clock to 4 o'clock today w th Secretaries Hoover ami Davis each side voted down the proposal of the other for a basis of negotiation and adjourned until pi o'. lo -k tomorrow. Meanwhile op. eriV.rs anil miners are to meet se; iratelv to consider methods of solv ing the problem of the coal indus try. I'pon ail journment of todaq s ses sion, 'he operators returned to their 'io'cIs while the miners remaned In the confer, ii'-e room at the Hed Cross building Offlci.il report tf today's pro end ings was matte pu'di by Se -t e-ary Hoover in the form of a statement Agreed upon by himself jnd Secre tarv Davis as follows "The operator- voted down th" proposal for conferen -e between m. tier an I opera'ors in the central i o;npc' it ; e "elds alone The ni ners v..fe 1 down 'he proposition for In ib ;ieti'!"tr .-inferences be'ween min ei and operands in v h district I"pon suggestions for further eep arale enferener- of operators and miners for further consideration of methods the Joint onference ad journed unt.l M' ''.iv .it pi a m" PEANUT IN WINDPIPE CAUSES CHILD'S DEATH ASHKVILLK. July 2 The swal lowing of a peanut which lodged in h'S windpipe is, believed to have caused the death, ."of Ha Wells. 3 enr old. who died t.od.iv at a local hospital Art operation was per formed ot1 the . hibl in ati effort to i ivp h-s :'.f when ;t w.ts evident the i-ifect . i" had set in I'Tim mon a soon developed when tbe inild suffered a relapse BY AUTOMOBILES TBI SEIII pmrnr mWR 1 .ill T lit NEB UNIMPAIRED ON, ALE RAILROADS Union Leaders and Lab.orj Board Mark Time Over Sunday.! 'JEWELL ARGUES CASES Strike Ballots of Maintenance of Way Brotherhood Will Be Canvassed Today. CHICAGO, July 2. (By Lhe As- sociated Press) Hallway eve utlves. ' union leaders and the L'niled States railroaJ labor board markeu time today in t.'ie country-wide strike of, shop-men. while train service con-; tinued uninterrupted by Saturday's . walkout. ' H. M. Jewell. h-ad'oT th..- shop men, who ignored tie orders of tne labor board to appear before :t and explain r:i strike action, spent the day at union 'headquarters receiving reports Ironi all sections of the country. While he refused to give any figure, he asserted that the walk-out ..vas "practically 100 per cent." I Kaliway executives. however, I claim thai prabably leas than i0 per; : cent of the 4U1.0U0 repairmen had joined the walk-ou:. which began at. : lu a. m. yesterday. Because of the Sunday holiday, ihey said they had ; been unable to make a complete ' check of iheir shopmen, but that train service would continue regard less of bow many laid dow n their j tools. l"p to the Government. With- the union leaders refusing to treat with the labor board, the railway executives asserting that the dispute was entirely between their employes an! the government, and the labor board assuring the full pro- lection of the government. Interest ii. railway circles was centered on Detroi . where the executive council of the I'nited Brotherhood of Main tenance of Way employes will meet tomorrow to cangass the strike bal lot of the track men. Hope was ex pressed by the rail executives that tne maintenance of way men would not Join the walk-out. I ' Mr. Jewell today explained he ig nored the labor board's summon be- cause the board failed to exclude : i troro wage reduction hearings al- 'most eighty roads that had in part i or wholly violated ruyngs of the gov ernment trlbual which, h said, haa I caused railroad employes to regard i i the board with no slight misgivings. I i "Practically all of these eighty I reads violated decisions of the labor I I board." Mr. Jewell said. "Yet they j 1 were im luded in the wage reduction' hearings. If the board had ruled, i that these roads were not eAitled j to participate in these hearing! the tespec! of railroad labor for the I tribunal would have been Increased I niateriall..'. Hailroad labor would then have looked upon the board as a tribunal willing and ready to deal out Justice. If this had been done, i the officials of the shop crafts could ! have gone to the men with this as. an argument and averted the strike. But '.his was not done, and postpone- ' nient oficrne strike was humanly im- ; possible. i Justine His Action. "In the first piace. my appearance before tiie board could Dot have re sulted in arbitration. The board should have subpoenaed officials vvhoi signed the telegram authorizing the strike only those men could re all . the order. If I had done any such i thing I would have forfeited my of-j tice immediately. "Justification of my refusal to obey the summons is seen in the fact that the men are now on strike, without bloodshed or los of life and are up holding law and order. If I had tone before lhe board there would hav- resulted misunderstandings : which would have ended in chaos among the shop crafts organization ". Mr. Jewe'd said the announcement, of the results of the shopmen's strike ballot would probably be made public! ti morrow following a meeting of the .-jecutive council of the union He said that since the strike orders be came effective he has received num bers of telegrams confirming reports that the walk-out was almost 100 pef cent effertlve. One of the tele grams, he declared, was from the national headquarters of the Broth trhoo.l of Railway Car Men of Amiiica. and said that this organi zation was 100 per cent responsive to the strike order. BELIEVE STRIKE WILL TERMINATE IN A WEEK Spee's lo Tiie Observer. WILMINGTON. Julv 2. -Coiirl-I den-e that the rail strike will be . tfiniinated within a week was ex pressed here today bv H N Page, ' secretary of the local machinists' union. Advices are expected tomor- , row Pace said that would indicate ' the final outcome of the contest. There was no chano- in lhe local j s tua'ion todav, with the exception that pickets were placed at the Const I I. ne shops. These will under no cir- j cumstances resort to plivsical violence, leaders said Train s htdules were ma ntained here todav with foremen and other ! superior employe keeping neces s.i rv r ours in oi dej A'lant c Coast I. in. oflb . ils de clared 'here would be no Interreup t ion of t r l e erVi c" i STRIKE'S FULL EXTENT WILL BE KNOWN TODAY NEW YORK. July 2 - -While un on leaders ,,f striking rail shop crafts today claimed that the walk-out In the metropolitan district of New 'York citv was "100 per cent M, cess ful." rail officials declared that not more than 15,010 0f the 23.("'0 men in the district hid obeyed the .all Recruiting of strike breakers con tinued at railroad and private 'agencies At noon several roads re pined that vacancies e.-ced by th" .walkout at 10 a tn e''rd.v .cud j be more thac ed T" this stlteriien operV' v'.e's (Cfitif Inud on far Tb I SUCCEED BRINSON IN CONGRESS Incomplete Returns From Third District Give New Bern Man Lead of 500 Over Major Matt H. Allen, of Goldsboro, but Latter Still Claims Nomination Allen Carried Five of Nine Counties, but Opponent's Majorities Heavier. HV BUOCK HAIIKI.KV. i RALKIGH. July 2 Keports re ceived in Kaleigh up to tonight, based on incomplete returns from the,, third congressional district, give Charles La ban Abernethy, of New Bern, a lead of around iiO'i vot -s ' over Major Matt H. Allen, of Golds boro. The closeness of the contest will make complete returns neces sary for the final determination of the victor. In a telephone communication to The News ami Observer Abernethy ' claimed the nomination by l.ooo. Allen supporters were understood to be still cia.ming his nomination by 1 500. Allen apparently has carried five of the nine counties, but heavy ma jorities in Craven. Pamlico and ' Jones evidently turned the trick for Abernethy. If incomplete returns in-i diea'te the actual result. The News; snd Observer gives Abernethy a 500 lead on the basis of its figures. Besides the, nomination of W. F. ; NEGRO WAITER MEXIGflN REBEL SHACKS Gl RL.FORGES BEATEN Passenger on Louisville and Nashville Suffers Indignity. Was Scuffling With Her Assail - ant in Rest Room When Con- ductor Rescued Her. BIRMINGHAM, ALA . July 2 W. E. Hayes, negro waiter on the Louisville and Nashville train No. 3. en route from Nashville to Bir mingham, is In Jail here tonight on the charge of having attempted to criminally assault a prominent young woman of Montgomery. Ala., who tai a passenger on the train today. The negro was removed from the train when It arrived at the station here by local officers, after tele graphic Instructions from Cullman, where the alleged crime Is said to have been attempted. According to Conductor II. K. Cook, the negro, who was serving patrons of the dining car at lunch, was cleaning off the tables just be fore the train left Cullman. Being the last person to leave the diner, the young woman was followed by Hayes to the rest room. Just as the passenger closed the door be hind her. the waiter forced himself into the compartment, but was re pulsed. I'pon h second attempt he forced himse'f through the door by throw ing his In ilv acainst it. and was scuffling with' the young woman when Conductor Cook rescued her Hayes is said by local offlcia's to have denied that he laid hands upon the woman, but admitted that he forced his way into the rest chamber after the passenger had left the diner. The negro is heing rarefullv guarded In the Birmingham Jail and will be turned over to Cullman authorities tomorrow. The young woman stated that she will appear to push charges against Hayes. GRADY AND WARD RUN CLOSE RACE IN SIXTH Probably Will Take Official Count to Determine Actually Who Has Won Out. HpeclBl to The Observer. KINSTON. July 2 Henry A Grady and George R. Ward today appeared to have run a much closer race in the sixth judicial district pri mary yesterday than appeared on the face of last nlcht's returns. Gradv s visible lead this evening was 240. that being his majority in Leno r county. Last niitht's returns as re ceived hen- ind ented n majority of ; more than l.OtiO for Grad. Grady; carried Sampson bv a large majority Onslow- and Pupl n gave Ward ma- i Jorltles approximately tieinc Cradv's lend in Sampson Lenoir held the .U-clsion. Some precincts were still m'ssing today, and these, it was be lieved here, micht swell grtKlv s leady Ward men here would not concede I Grady's majority more than lion ..ut of approximately S.000 votes ca-t while newspaper reports said Ward. t a resident of Hupiin. had refused t" admit his defeat. The canvass of the official returns :s expected to show the result one of the rloscst in the hisiorv of the district One loci! rewsp-tTier gaveGridy a maiorif of . 21'i with a few small pn-c rets m:s. in - believed favor-ble to Un h ' . - - LENOIR SEES SIGNS OF RETURNING BOLL WEEVIL - Imperial 10 Tile Observer KINSTON .li.ly 2 - The boll weevil has made its re-appearance in I.e. noir countv Sne. miens are reported from the s"on'entnca Neck plant. i-, tion of John H Keld. one of 'lie lareet In that -ection The weevil made IM first appearance In !.."nir, lae' year but not in nrm Miimhirs I Kxperts have 'iid 'he p st will not attain minimum d.'-t ru nveness in this Immediate e. r i ri until the um- ner of 1 9J.1. w'ie b. ns . oin (il.-'e a eon t b 7 j... wree ' - , r'ttl t-e-e f' e- b'r- in estoi' lit w I' fnr-he-. r p. . l-i-l. ' a-j. I h Kvans fo rsolicitor in lhe seventh district, and of Miss Lottie Lewis for treasurer of Wake county, re turns from Saturday's voting show that Wake has broken a long stand ing precedent by returning C. A. Gosney to the legislature. This county seldom has sent a represen tative luck, but it gave Mr. Gosmy a handsome vote this time, and h1! will have his seat again at the next session. N. L. Broughton is the oth er Wake, representative. ABFKNF.TIIV CLAIMS TIIE NOMINATION. NEW BKKN, July 2 Charles L. Abernethy claims the nom. nation for Congress by a majority of not less than 1,000 and possibly as many as 1 .Sort votes over Major Matt H. Al len, of Goldsboro. Of the nine coun ties, five give Abernethy 4.4S0 ma jority and four give Allen 3,000 ma jority, according to returns receive J here, which arc regarded as prac tically complete. j Federal Troops Preparing to ; Follow Up Advantage. j Five Rebels Are Killed, Three ; Taken Prisoner and Horses and Mules Captured. WASH INGTO.V, July 2 Rebel torces were defeated and scattered by federal troops near the Asuada camp of the Cortese Oil company in the Tamplco district of Mexico on June 30 . according to a message re ceved by the state department to day from Consul Shaw at Tampco. The latter said his information was based upon a report ho had received from nil company officials yesterday. There wero two actions, the con sul said. In which five or six rebels were killed, three taken prisoners and (10 of their horses nnd mules captured. The federal troops, he added, according to his advices, were preparing to follow up the rout of the rebels, while other federal troops, he understood, were coming into (he. district. Mr. Shaw In his message, which was died at noon yesterday, did not mention the name of the commander of the rebel rnrces. hut it was as sumed here it prob iblv was General Gorozave. who recently took several of the omp'oves of the oil company prisoner and seized much destruc t b'e property of the concern ns "se curlly" for the payment of 15,000 pesos. The situation now was apparently well jn hand bv the troops of the Obregon government, the consul stated. The employes and property held bv General Gorozave w.-re subse quently released, as were those seized at the Pccer.'i camp of I.,i Corona company in the same district. Consul Shaw- Into las! week re ported that all the Americans thus seized were "no longer held." but no detn led information has been re ceived tn indicate just what had oc curred at the two .amps. HARRISON WINS BY 48 MAJORITY FOR SENATE Outcome of Balloting in Rich mond in Doubt Until Last Vote Was Counted. Siertnl lo The Olmervrr. ROCKINGHAM. July 2 - The hol ies: primary ever held In Richmond county, with the largest vote ever cast, came tn a close with the vo'e esi erd.i v Th" outcome of the r ice for Semite and clerk of court was In .baiht to the 'is- ballot was ..nnte.l The c'osest fight was that of the '.ib..r un on candidate from II. unlet. Ar-thu- K Muse, for the state -cn-ite. against W. K Harrison merotitiit. of Rockingham He n-'nn won bv a m-Oor'tv of lv I'oiir' thousand, four hundred and si n n' 'luce votes were cast, of w-'i.. h lli' .- .n rc. e:e. e.l 2 "til For clerk of . .. . Walter S Thomas, of Rockinghmi won over II P. Austin, of H iml. t bv 197 ma jority F.- -lo ff Homer 1 Bald win won ...'. "' C. i-1 i Shores hv Tito mnfority T't were five candidates in th s run of ml primary for county . ... im.s- .Opel s. W p. Co'e. Hen- v C W ill. 1 r G C Ca.b.,ll. I. n F"::"li.'i vi.l John A McN'.-iH The ili'i'" who w.-re nominated were I'r i'i Id- ' I riit -hev and "W ill In the run-off r i' - for so' cjtor !' Hon Phillips ,.r Rockingh up. i A.c Id War VeTerm Won -ve'W' he'lr. Ilg V " -r G Ibei" H Rllssetl , f ' a ii : ti bu rg Ph Hips' Niiii'i'l v in ').- di-tret will be r.nn f,. ue ,,r. '".1.1 majority In Rchmond .oiin.. I"i! nn Inrl'v In Russc!" homeionn Iv of Scot "and fioo In Anson. 1 n I'nlon. a-'d do ft in M.ore I it v ibniit 30.1 v.itu were , ac in ..-i'v. these he ng div de 1 abici erpn! McNEILL'S MAJORITY IN ROBESON WILL BE 1.600, .pril lo The l.r't , 1.1 MUKHT'V : Twenty- I ftv e on' i . If ... -'.n pr- "l $ g ve MfNVI' .' -l c.-,.;M r-er 1.42s , M N' ' - ' 4 ' "' he less that, 1 - '. OF RAIL I E E Labor Board Makes Public Some Illuminating Figures. CUT IN FREIGHT RATES Three-Times Cut in Wages, but Latter Still Far Above Period of Former Private Control. CHICAGO, July 2 The cut of -about $135,000,000 In the wages ot some 1,200,000 railroad employes, which became effective at the sam time that a 10 per cent cut In freight rates amounting to about $400.00;---000 went into effect, atlll leave hourly wages measured In actual : buying power above the wages of -M December. 1917. Just before govern- ment control, according it iigure compiled by the United States rail- .; road labor board. Machinists, who are among they' shop crafts employes on strike werty"'; cut seven cents an hour. They aver- . aged 77.3 cents and now average-; 7ii it renin in 1917 the rate wa ' 50.5, the new hourly rate being 3 per cent higher, cost ot living. ac, cording to board figures. Is 17 per : cent higher than In December, 1917 . The board figures the new hourly ' rate for machinists 19 per cent'' greater in real purchasing powe?... than in December. 1917. ; ' Car men, cut nine cents an houT.J' V.n,,a nn avurilffA hotirlv WSflrflr . of C4.4 cents as compared with J7.7 ' cents in December, 1917, the board fiirnreu show. This represent net increase of 71 per cent In castas" and an advance of 45.7 per cent in ;' . . . . i actua 1 purchasing power ot u hourly wage, the board maintains. 'V Average hourly earnings of m- CllllllOlO, ih vui uino ,' y figures, are 15 cent an hour les,; than under tne peaK rate esrouaa : ed by the board in. May. 1920. but .' .u. eAol .'oli.A la ftonired am seven- per cent greater, due to the drop IB J the cost of living. . Average earnings' of car men r -n....e,.i t.o 1 A ft centa an hour leaa-l' than in May. 1920. but buying power is g'ven as 3.3 per cent greater the same reason. ":. I Accordintr to labor statistics conJ-i 'nion labor In maintenance of way la V 1917 averaged 19.3 cents an hour-,? r ..V. ...... ...1 S..a lATltll nf1ff Tl HV . 11 .!.-! Lin'I'l'lU ...v .H..w averages 32.7 cents, an increase ot-,. about 70 per cent In coin and 45 "! per cent in buying power over th 1917 wage scale. v " Clerks in 1917, the board' table V show, received 34.5 cents an hour . average. Most of them are cut?'! hen., coots and now sret 58.5 cent an hour, this representing 7d P cent more man uie iioui ij isto v -. 1917 and a purchasing value of ? 1 1.7 tier cent higher. . " Common labor around station -: averaged 22.4 cents an hour . in , 1917. rose to 52.1 cents In 1920, wa cut to 43.6 cents in 1921 and th new rates 39.0 cents an hour. Thi ih.. bourd contends Is 77.5 Per cent... l.;,,Ke thnri n 1917 11 Off IM HUT" T chasing value is ai.a por - ctu higher. '' IiV Signal men. malntalnern Xnd a: sistants averaged 32.8 cents in HIT ' Yesterday's five cent cut put th ' average nt 64.3 cents an hour, tn hoard says, this representing a wag, e figured in actual money 96 per cent;, higher than in 1917, and having purchaing power 67 per cent higher Stationery firemen and" eiiglntfT room oilers averaged 21.8 cents an ;, hour in 1917 and the latest cut leave . their earnings at '49.6 cents. Thi r nis n Increase of 127 per cent in coin ; and is 94 tier cent greater In buying;'', power, the board maintains. J S The national Industrial conferenctj ; hoard has made a comparison of th " new wage rates those in 1914, using its own cost of living index. It ; places the average earlngs of th , four main groups which had their . waves cut at about 19 per cent ; higher than in 1914. measured In.';, l.uving power. V.-' Iti-low is given a comparison of. the rates of play for the group ; which had their wages co Tester ; day, the figures being from th ;; I'nited States railroad labor board. 'y The first date. December. 1J17. i just prior to federal control; Janu-' arv lfi20, jutt before termination of-' federal control; May. 1920. .when th wage increase of the board becam - Konllnard om !( Tw ' Showers and thundertorm VoB day. cooler In north portion; Tn dar cioudr. moderate tmprttr; possibly howeri on coC ' ' ' I v , ' The Ohio uilor arrosf4 for -. legging will plead that h ba4 K fof trying on hip pockets. . PRE-I JO JO SAYS -e)'tcrT ts.-F Tli 5LPIJKV
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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July 3, 1922, edition 1
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