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T Y s-lii d Observer WATCH LAI 11 ' M ft MS, tni :misl I r Mm ilr.ta 4 lariat sbicle eer. WEATHER Fartlv cloady Sandayi Mea day fair. VOL OX. NO. 153. FORTY PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH, N. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1919. FORTY PAGES TODAY. PRICEt FIVE CENTS, CALL FORT BY GOVERNOR OF TEXAS Situation Declared To Be So Critical That Large Force Is Needed To Protect Lives and Property govhobbyIsks THAT TEXAS CAVALRY BE CALLED -'INTO FEDERAL SERVICE Urges Secretary of War To Act at Once and Call Two Tezai Brigades With Brigade Com. r - minders and Headquarters Detachments; Text, of Gov ernor's Telegram and of The War Department'i Instruc ' tiom To Commander- of - Southern Department Washington, June 7. Declaring that " tha Mexican aituatioa ii ao critical that a larger fore of troop oa tha border if B e nary to protect Uvea aad prop ' erty of eitixens, OoTernor Hobby, of ' Texas, hat requested Secretary Baker to call into the Federal service the first and second brigades of Texas cavalry and to mobilise them at a coaTeoient ' point ' The War Department immediately telegraphed tha commanding general of the Southern Department, who baa charge of the border guard, asking hi newt oa the request and for any infor mation bearing upon the situation de eeribed by Governor Hobby. Test of Coveraor'a Telegram. Governor Hobby's telegram to Secre tary Baker follows: . The Mexican aituatioa Appears to me ao critical that aa omorganey mar aria at the moat unexpected moment, requiring a larger force of troops on ' the border to protect lives and prop erty of eltlsena that are at present - available. I appreeiate that far border duty cavalry ia the moat effective ai . of tha service, and I also appreciate that the regular army la abort af eav airy, Therefore, X respectfully Brge and reeommsna that tks first aad second brigades cavalry, national guard of Texas, b called into the Federal aerv lee. 2 erg thai, (ha call include bri- gad commander aad . brigade head- . quarter detaehmentr ao that tha- eav airy ergaaiiatioa may go intact under command of two brigade commanders. I also suggest mobiliaatiea be fixed for defiaite date aot lea than 20 day from date of call, ia order that officers and men can, arrange personal affair ' aad such officers and mea who have de ' pendents aad for other satisfactory reasons may bo discharged aad their place tiled with other who will be anxious to go into active service. This ' 20 day' period will also provide time to arrange details for . transportation aad camp. I suggest Camp Mabry, at . Aastia, a mobilisation eamp. My . anxiety that uvea and property of eiti ' sens be amply protected aad by knowl edge of conservatism aad efficiency of officers and mea of Texaa eavalry bri- ; gades prompt this suggestion. War Department's Massage. " The department' telegram to tha Southern Department'i commander wa . .aa follow t "The govcrmor of Toxaa wire tha department that the Mexican situation appears to be so critical that aa smer- geaey may aria at the moat unexpected moment, requiring a larger fore of troop oa the border to protect live aad property of citlzena thaa arc at . present available. Toar view and any information bearing upon th itna tioa arc desired by wire." Many Americana Killed. Nogalse, Aria- Jane 7, More than two Americana aad forty Mexicans have , beoa killed by Taqoi and bandits la the Im Colorado district of Honors, Mex ico, during the last two weeks, ac cording to the statemsnt of nine Amer , ieaa mining mea who arrived from that lghborhood tonight The party of American, whose homes . rre ia Arisona, Colorado and California, have scat statement of condition ia that district to the Stats Department . at Washington with eopiea to Senators Thomas of Colorado, Johnson of Can . foraia aad Marcus Smith and Henry F. -Ashhurs&of Arisona. HOUSE NAVY COMMITTEE ... MEETS DANIELS. HALF, WAY Outs Down Personnel For 1920 Asked By The Secretary; ' Want Economy Washington, Jan 7. lb Hon ' Naval Affair committee agreed today to meet Secretary Daniela half way ia the sis of the navy. Ia framing the 1920 appropriation bill tha committee approved the secre tary's recommendations that tha enlisted perso'aaal be fixed at 250,000 until Oc tober first From tut data to January first Mr. Daniel wanted 223,000 mi . The committee voted to pot the maxi- ' mom for that period at, 800,000 and 78,000 hereafter, as against 200,000 " thereafter;' tha number asked bfXht de partment . ; i ." ' ' " Chairman Butler Mid the committee was determined to have economy, and . that it would eliminate or greatly re duce all Heme not regarded a abas lutely essential for a high degree of 5 efficiency. Member estmated that the reduction ia peraoaael meaaf a saving X $150,000,000. , . " ; ROOPS ON THE J BORDER ISSUED GERMAN MACK TSBATT WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED BT THE ALLIES UNTIL SIGNED Parts, Jane 7 The American dele gatiea to the peace) caafereaes ap parently la firm ia Its decision aot to aathoriso the publication ef the Ger man peace treaty aatil H is signed aad net avea to cosnmaaleate the official text In IU present form to Ue United Bute Beast. A member of the Amerleaa dele gation ia dlscnssiag the complaint aaade la the Senate eemcernlag -UeaUoa of the treaty In Germany aad chargea that copies were la the haada of New York bankers, aald the delegation bad act violated the pies' ge made to ether sewers aot to gtva oat the treaty aatll It is com pleted and will not de so. He added that so far aa ho knew Germany had net been requested to keep the treaty secret, aa each a reqaest to aa oppoaeat weald net be la con formity with accepted diplomatic practice. The delegate, la replying to aa la qalry why the , cavefont of the Leagno of Nations aad beea pab Usaed, aald that white the covenant waa part of the treaty. It dees aot aetaally deal with the terma of peace aad, coaaeqnently, la essentially of a different character. BY Likely To Attack German Gov ernment As Result of Exe cution of Leader (By the Associated Press) Berlia, Friday, Jone 6. The politi cal mistake of tha Bavarian cabinet la permitting the execution of Levins Nis eea, a leader ef the1 Bavaria Commun ists, It beeam apparent today, Is likely to result la another Bpartacan attempt against the government. " 1 The political effect of the execution asserted itself ia Berlia today. A gen eral strike waa ordered and the Inde pendent Socialist organ Die Freiheit opened up aa editorial broadside. The Bpartacaa movement has been in coarse of preparation the put several week oa account of the outcome of the trials 'of the slayers of Dr. Liebkneeht and Bona Luxemburg, the escape of military officers imprisoned for killing the Spartaeaa leader and the stera rale of Gustav Noske, the minister of na tional defense. The aituatioa haa fur nished the Independent Socialists, Spartacans and extremists with handy ammunition. The political disaffection has extend ed to the Majority Socialists snd resolu tions adopted by factory and worklng mea'i councils calls on the party con vention, which will meet at Weiaaar Tuesday, to demand th retirement of Socialists from the present government The Badical oppoaenta of the Ebert aad Behaehlemaaa government also are using th tangled peace eitnatioa aa another weapoa with which to attaek their former comrades. If th cabinet weathers the blow, it ia believed it will be chiefly beeaaao the allied reply to the German counter pro posal will be sufficiently favorable aad conciliatory to enable the present gov ernment to regaia ha nr entire. Any tangible prpgrcas ia the peace negotiation from th German view point ia expected to prove a a effective counter irritant to the maneuvers of the Independent Socialists. Today the flurry had hardly reached tha stag of aa acute crisis, although the followers of Hugo Haass were aaid to bo predicting the overthrow of Etert and Behniedmana within eight days. The German National Assembly will meet ia Berlia the latter part of aext week. ELECTRICAL STORM'S STRANGE CHURCH VISIT Harrisonburg, Va., June T. Electric wires had to be cut la th United Brethren Church following a visitatiea of a peculiar electrical storm. The lightning (am ia oa the wire after striking th steeple of the chareh, started th motor of th church pip organ and netting aglow all th light ia th buildiag. Th wires were la such condition that they had to be cut be fore the esrrent could be tamed off. The lightning bolt cam in following a storm aad after the eua had betas to shine agaia. The bolt tore away a considerable part of th building. HAILSTONES SIZE OF . HEN-EGGS AT RICHMOND Biehmoad, Va-, Jane T. The westers part of th,eity waa visited by a severs hailstoi at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon, some of the hail being as large aa hen eggs. Shade trees ia the boulevdrd were badlV dnnueed. tha larM hall ntln thousands of leaves from the trees. Bos onshes were stripped of their bloom and ia some part of th ity flower plants were beatea to tb greend. . Several doaea pillars, erected ia heaor of th home-coming army Sivisioa, were blown dowa alone tha auin tkmiirh. far. ' " ANOTHER ATTEMPT SPARTACANS NO REPLY YET TO BRIHSON TO SPEAK GERMAN PROPOSALS AT SCHOOL CLOSING No Date Set Now, and Big Four "Continue To Hasten" Work . ; On The Answer BERLIN WROUGHT UP OVER NEW RHENISH REPUBLIC Attempt To Counteract The Be publican Morement; Bead of Austrian Peace Delegation Returns To St. Germain; Renewed Discontent in Ger- v many and Bavaria (By the Associated Press.) Peace conference commission and councils continue their work of hasten ing completion of the reply to th Ger man counter proposals Indications era lacking, however, as to when th answer will be ready. No dat for handing the reply to the German haa been set, although it was reported earlier in the week that Monday could see th reply transmitted. The council of four again on Satur- day considered the German eonnter proposals, especially the western fron tier of Poland. The frontier, as out iined in the peace f tmt, waa tha causa of strong protests from the Germane. Count Von Brockdorff-Bantxau, tha head of the German delegation, i at Cologne. One report 1 that hi visit has to do with the aituatioa in the Bhineland brought about by the procle matioa of a Rhenish republic The Berlin government is attempting to counteract the republican movement by the appointment of Karl Trlmborn, i Centrist and a resident of the BhinO' land, a regional president. A report through Paris says the Ger man National Assembly met in Berlin, Saturday to consider the pesce terms' tad reports from the German plenipo tentiaries. Another report is that the assembly has been called to meet ia Berlin late next week. Dr.- Kenner, chairman of the Austrian delegation, has returned to St Germain after conferring with fellow members of the Austrian government at Feld kireh. The Austrian National Assembly was expected to meet Saturday to con sider the treaty. There are again signs of political dis content in Germany. Tha radicals have aeixed upon th allied mistake of th government to begin another eamualn. Ia Bavaria disorders have broken out ia Munch a a protest by. the, radicals against th execution of the Bavarian Communist leader, Levin Nisson. . A general strike has been called !a Berlin and strikes also have occurred ia several cities la Bavaria. FRENCH AND ENGLISH ARE STILL FAR APART Therefore Little Progress Was 1 Made Yesterday On Hun Counter-Proposals Paris, June 7. Uttle progress waa made today by the council of fonr ia the attempt to formulate the reply to the German counter-proposals. The at titude of the American i commission re mained thnt of mediator. The French and English were as far apart tonight as they had been any time durirg the week. M. Clemeneeau remained firm in hia determination not to reduce the demands upon the Ger mans. It is expected the majority of th re ports of the minor commission will corns before the council Monday, whea it ia possible more rapid progress will be msde. It has beea pointed out to both the French and English delegate that virtually as much time ha beea takea by the allies ia preparing aa answer to tb German counter-proposals as waa allowed the German to consider th' treaty after its presenta tion, and it ha been urged upon them to effect aa agreement as soon as possible. Th question of Flume also was dis cussed today, but no decision wa reached, ASHEVILLE SCHOOL HEAD QUITS JOB IMMEDIATELY Asheville, Juae 7. City school Supt. W. A. Anderson rather suddenly re signed hi position todsy. The city board rather promptly and unanimously accepted the papers aad it is under stood that Mr. Anderson is leaving Asheville at once. He etated that he had two good position offered him elsewhere and that he thought it best to accept on of them. Mr. Anderson came hero three montha ago from El bertoa, Ga., where he was given Splen did credentials as head of the schools. Aa atmosphere of mystery hangs over the resignation. Ajiderson was decently re-elected for the nex school year. BRITISH TO JOIN IN . COTTON CONFERENCE London, , June 7. The eommlssloa connected with the world's cotton con ference to be held at New Orleans has interpreted the decision of the British Board of Trade to send delegatea a British official recognition of th con ference. ' s 'We are glad the officiala hav taken this action, particularly ia view of the misgivings British trader at first bad toward th conference,' Walter Parker, of New Orleans, aald to th Associated Pre today."'' 7--: .-7 "After the British bad pointed out to them that we proposed to help each ether through the medium of th coav fere 11 re sad that cotton trade better ment should go hand in hand with re construction, they were anxious . to JoU." Th commission will leav for th coatiaeat toaigat ; ' Hon. JLW. McLean-Called Jo Testify Before Congres sional Committee The New aad Observer Bureau, DOS District National Bank' Building. By S. B. WINTERS. (By Special Leased Wire.) -Washington, D. C, June 7. Repre sentative 8. M. Brlson left Washington tonight for New Bora where he will spend Sunday. He goes to Goldsboro Monday where he will deliver the com- meneement address at the closing exer cises of th Goldsboro graded school. Bepreeentativa Brinson will return to Washington Tuesday night Th Hons Committee on Appropria tion called A. W. McLean, of Lum- berton, who is a member .of the War Tinaae Corporation, to make a report oa th achievements and plana of th war-created agency. Mr. McLean was oa the stand for about two juuirj and a half and the committee was well pleased with bis account of the activities of th War Finane Corporation. The former Bobeson county eitix-n swap ped yarn with Unci Joe Cannon, who is a member of the committee and who was bora ia North Carolina. The for mer Speaker of the Hons of Represen tatives told Mr. McLeaa hs thought he wss from the Tar Heel State. Claude Doughton, a sob of Represes tative B. L. Doughton, arrived ia Wash ingtoa today upon th completion ef the college year at the Augusta Military Academy at Fort Defiance, Va.) He is a member of the freshman class Young Doughton will go to hia horn in-North Carolina tomorrow. Bepresentativ Doughton returned to the National Cap ital yesterday from a visit of several days to the State. D. 8. Orrell, of FayUteville, was visitor to Washington today.' Mrs. C. E. McCullen, of Burgaw, Pender county, ia visiting friends la the city. Lawrence MaeBae, a banker af Char lotte, who wa formerly private secre tary to Bona tor Simmons, wan a busi aces visitor to the National Capital to day. -'..- W. A. Self, a lawyer of Hickory, is in the city. Probable' Cause Found in Case of Traveling Salesman, Charged With Bigamy (Special to News aad Observer.) High Point Juae 7. John W. Moon, born and reared here and a much ad mired man, was today bound over to court by City Judge O. Arthur Kirk man, in the sum of $2,000 oa a charge of bigamy. Mrs. John W. Moon, No. .li .sr Mis Bessie E. Mauncy, of Monro;, Ga., as she preferred to be called, was the renter of attraction and the loading witness for the prosecution. She made an ideal one and won the admiration of all. She is beautiful, intelligent anj well bred. There was only one other witness, Marvin' Hicks, brother of Mrs. Moon, No. 1. Both introduced ronrlu sivs evidence of the marriage of Miss Loth May Hicks ia 1898 and Miss Bes sls E. Maunsy ia August, 1018, to John William Moon by marriage certificates aad otherwise. The second Mrs. Moon told of th eourtahlp ef her alleged bigamous hus band, the travels, trial and tribulatioas and finally th terrible revelation to her of her husband's having a living wife and four children whom he forsook for her. Before the complete revelation she testified, she had left Mr. Moon oa ac count .of hi drinking and abuse, and returned to her parent in Georgia. Miss Mauney, a ah desires to be known, wa born in Asheville. She is 23 year of sgs, and impresses one with her striking personality of refined womanhood. Criminal court begins in Greensboro June 18th, when the case will most likely be called. BODY OF DEAD INFANT" FOUND IN LITTLE RIVER 1 " " (Special to News and Observer.) Goldsboro, June 7. Local Greek re ported to Coroner Claude Baker the finding of a dead body of a white in fant lodged against a log ia little Biver near Goldsboro, where they claimed they were fishing. . - - Coroner Bilker investigated their story and found tha body just a they described. Aa examination showed that the body had beea ia the water probably two days. The eoroaer reports having clues ia hia posaeasioa that may later develop ia soma sensational arrests. Ha is also endeavoring to locate a negro maa aeea near the locality, where the body wu found,' by several people, and who Is reported to have hid a largo bundle under his ana aad acting ia a sus picious manner. N.&W. SHOPMEN VOTE TO JOIN IN STRIKE Koanoke, Va., Jun 7. Desplt th announcement that order had beea sent out by Amerleaa Federatioa of Labor official directing striking' Nor folk and Weetera employe to return to work at one under penalty for re fusal, approximately S,000 local shop men this afternoon voted to Join the strikers Monday and thr plaa to bold eetiagt tomorrow. v SECOND MRS. MOON "TESTIFIES 11 CASE y -?-"- vv.J. v ' - 1 1 issm - C.T.U. mm ORDERED TO STRIKE Nation-wide Walkout Effective Wednesday Affects 25,- 000 Members NON-MEMBERS URGED TO ASSIST IN THE STRIKE Asked To, Refuse To Handle Commercial Messages Over Railroad and Other Lines Hot Embraced in The Order ; W. U., Postal and American T. & T. Co. Affected Chicago, Juae 7. A aatioa-wide strike of telegraph and telephone oper ators who are member of th Commer eial Telegraphers' Union of America was ordered today to take effect next Wednesday morning at 8 a. in., staad ard time, The order wa issued at gen ral headquarters of the union here oa telegraphic instructions from 8. J. Konenkamp, international president, who waa in Pittsburgh on his way to Chicago. The atrike order applies to employee of the Western Lnioa Telegraph Com- paay, the Americas Teleptone aad Telegraph Cou pany and thj Postal Telegraph aad Cable Company with its associated institutions. It was estimated at headquarters here that tha atrike would affect between 10,000 and 100,000 individua.., of whom nearly 25,000 wen said to he member of the union. Outside of the union ranks, it was said, many wire worker had pledged themselves to support strike. The decision to call a nation-wide strike was reached by President Konen kamp, after spending several day in Washington, where he had directed strike of union employes in ten South eastern States. That strike followed strike of telephone workers in Atlanta, where telephone employes were aaid to have been discharged because ef union affiliations, although the Southern Bell Telephone Compaay denied union me bership had beea .the basis of any dis charges. A strike vote was takea recently con currently with one by the International Electrical Workers Union. Text of Order. The striks order was as follows t "All telegraph . and telephone em pleyee striks -1 hereby declared to take effect Wednesday, June 11, 1919, at I a. ra standard time, against th Western Union Telegraph Company, The American Telegraph aad Telephone Compaay, Th Postal Telegraph and Cable Companies with its associated la stitutions including the Mackay 'and North Amerkraa Companies and against telephone companies where our mem bers are employed. . "8. J. KONENKAMP, , 'International President'' Accompanying the atrike order were lengthy instructions to members em I-loyed by concerns not affected by the order to aid in making the strike effect ive. This, it was explained, meant that such employes of other concerns would refuse to handle telegraph and telephone niessagel classed as commercial busi ress. 7 . - Not to Handle Commercial Mesaagea. Canadian members of the union, it was said, would refuse to handle anv commercial busiaess originating In the United Mtates or directed to any pom withia that country - . Bailway telegraphers also would re fuse to handle commerrial business. was declared, aa a result of passage of a resolution at the recent convention of the Order of Railway Telegraphers tn Bt Louis, declaring that sueh business would be banned by employe of that organisation in the event of a atrike. Ia Chicago, it wa aaid at unloa head quartrs( more thaa 4,000 wire workera would be affected. Cases of the Strike. The Commercial Telegrapher Union waa bora here in 1902. President Ko nenkamp declared week ago that Post master General Burleson, who had taken over control of the wire system, had refused to grant the employes, increased wages demanded and that ualess ihe union was recognized and the men given relief from the high tmt of living a atrike would be inevitable. Mr. Konenkamp will return tomorrow to direct the strike. BOTH SIDES SAY THET ABE SATISFIED WITH RESULT Atlanta, Ga., June 7. Representatives of both the Western Union aad the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America, expressed aatisfactioa tonight with the situation growing out of the strike of keymea in the Southeastern Statea. Little change In the situstiol was reported by either aid. Union oflle.inls reiterated their elaim that approxi mately 1,000 employee of the Western Union had responded to the strike or der issued Thursday night. On the other hand, II.' C. Worthen, general maaager of the.Southera division of the Westerai Union, reported that SIS em ployee were out today, compared with 283 reported .yesterday. Business was normal, and "being moved la first-class shape," he declared. Following the receipt of the order to night of President Konenkamp, ot the Commercial Telegraphers' Thion, rail ing a general strike of all member of the unloa throughout th country next ' Wednesday morning, unioa offi ciala declared the entire wir systems id the Southeast would be completely tied up. No estimate of th aumber ex pected to go out, however, waa made. No Celehratioa at High Point ' High Point Jan 7. High Point baa decided to , forego her big 'Fourth of July celebration aad Join he da with Greensboro ia celebration ef the day at Guilford Battlegroaad. LOTS TO DEFRAUD the mm Army Officers and Business Men Indicted For Alleged , Conspiracy . (By The Associated Press.) Detroit, Mich, June 7. A a alleged 1 conspiracy to defraud the government of $30,000,000 vorth of munitions sup. plies haa been ' uncovered by Depart ment of Justice acnts here, it became known today, . Indictments' charging conspiracy have been returned by the United State grand jury agninst Sartorio Nicholson, of Washington, connected with the ord nance department; Grant Hugh Browne, millionaire sportsman; Fred C. Collins, vice consul of Greece, and president of a local realty company, and a United 8tateo army IBer now ia France, ac cording to Arthur U Barkey, chief of detective bureau of investigation of the Department of Justice. Other Centers Being Investigated. Washington, June T. Indictment of army officers sad business men at De troit was the first step by the Depart ment of Justlre and army Intelligence service, it wss said here todsy, ia a campaign against, alleged author of iraauieni plots sgalnst the govern ment in connection with munition sup plies, Chicago, Pittsburgh aad Boston were among the cities mentioned here as be ing other centers of the invest igntlon GEfCTSlTTO Mrs. R. J. Reynolds Wants New High School Building To Be Memorial Winston-Salem, June. 7. The gen erous offer made by Mrs. Katharine 8. Reynolds to donate $50,000 toward the purchase of a site for a bcw high school building. Including a large playground and also to erect a modern auditorium ia connection therewith with a seating capacity of several thousand, haa been widely discussed todav. In her Pro position regarding the auditorium, lira. Reynold makes provision thst the sit Must be en the farm of her late hue baad, E. J. Reynolds, located la East era Winston-Salem and sear th city hospital. She statea that the earn is to be gives as a memorial to her hus band who ia hi will bequeathed 240,000 for the erection of white and colored hospitals here. While some slight opposition to the location of the site has developed, still it is understood that Superintendent Latham aad the school board are enthu sisstie over the proposition, expressing the belief that if it is accepted it will mean a million dollars school plan aad playgrounds for this city. The matter is expected to be takea up at once and aeted upon by the alder men. If another suggested site in West Winston-Salem owned by R. II. Klines, is secured for school purposes, Mrs. Rey nolds announces that her gift of $.10,000 to high school building will hold good. Though the erection of the euditorium will only he included provided the sits on east sjde is chosen. COTTON CORPORATION FURTHER COMPLETED Executive Committee of $100, -000,000 Organisation Takes Important Action New Orlesns, June 7. Organisation of th 100,000,000 Americas Cotton Export and Financing Corporation was further completed at a meeting here today of the executive committee of the concern which appointed its first board of directors and launched a movemeat for the holding of a conference of cot ton interests at Dallas. The meeting which was presided over by Governor B. G. Pleasant, ehairmaa, w. s held behind cloaca door. It wasfna! iiyr announced another aeesioa would be held .omorrnw. The board of directors, composed of fifteen members, eleven of which are members of the executive committee, and four at large were de cided on as follows: , Governor R. O. Tlonaant, Louisiana, chairman; Geo. W. Rogers, Little Rock, Ark.; Hinton E. Cnrr, Birminghnm, Ala.; J- A. Browa, Cbndbourn, N. C.; L. E. Jeanlngs, Sumter, 8. (.; R. F. Wil lingham, Macon, ta.; lroy Percy, Greenville, kins, i J. A. Kemp, Wich ita Ftlla, Tcias.'R. B. KnoKden, Mem phis, Tenn.; Senator R. L. Owen, Ok lahoma, and W. B. Thompson, New Orleana. i The four member at large are to be named later.. AU members of the executive commit te were present at today's meeting with the excrptioa of Senator Owea and Mr. Kemp. It waa stated that no decision had beea reached is to the selection of per manent headquarters of the corpora tion. . Under a plaa agreed oa a banker in evh of the cotton growing State will be ashed to take charge of campaign for soiling stock ' of th big corpora tion. ' .-' It wa announced' that Governor W. P. G. Harding, of th Federal Reserve Boar had beea asked to accept the preaideacy of th corporation- , . j , i Expected Transport Arrivals. :. ' i , Washington, June 7. Expected trans port arrival announced today were: : Leviathan, Kew Tork, Jone 12; Can marea. New Tork, Jun 1; South Bead, New Tork, about Jaaa 14, v- VARREN ENDORSED I Overman -r Formally - Recom mends Oohfirmation By Sen ate of New Bern Attorney COMMITTEE OF WHOLE WILL CONSIDER MATTER Sub -jCommitteer Named To Make Inquiry Into Charge i Preferred By N. O. Republi can! Representative Brin son Tells of Warren's Career at Law School News and Observer Bureau, 603 District National Bank Bldg. By S. B. WINTER ' (By Special Leased Wire.). Washington, Jun 7. Senator Lee B. Overman, has formally recommended th confirmation of Thomas D. Warren,' ef New Bern, as United State. Attorney of the Eastern North Carolina, and the paper are to be referred to a commit tee of the whole. The sub-eommitte appointed to inquire into the ground for the charges of North Carolina Re publicans against the New Bera lawyer la composed of Frank B. Brandegee, ehairmaa; Senator Lee 8. Overman, of North Carolina, and Senator A. B. rail, of New Mexico. The North Carolina members ia Con gress got solidly behind the mov today to put the State Democratic ehairmaa across, and with the exception of a sin gle congressman who was out 'of th .ity, each wrote an endorsement of Mr. Warren. Strikingly significant aad a fac which Invited favorable (omment & tiic strong letter of endorsement written . by Representative Claud Kitchin. Although Mr. Kitehia and Mr. Warren ar member of different camp in Democratic party th Second Dis trict Congressman gave unqualified ap proval to the candidate of the New. Bera attoraey. . Stadled Law Together. Representative 8, M. Brinson, of th Third District, today recalled a humaa Interest incident ia connection - with the fight that ex-Bsaator Marion But ler la making on tha nomination of Mr. rWtTrea tit United Statea Attoraey. The two studied law together at the State University ia 1S9S under the lata Dr. JoTitTManntng,' father of Attorney 4." General J, B, Manning. Representative Brinson was also a member of th ssm law class and tb Third District Con gressmaa while strolling through th nark one day with Dr. Manning, whs wiis lead of the law school, asked th veteran law instructor who was tbo ablest student in th class. Doctor Manning, with characteristic fairness, replied, 'Tom Warren ia the best eta--dent ia my class." Whea the subcommittee of the .Sen ate has completed ita investigation, of , the charges filed against Mr. Warren, which are understood to be largely -based on political activity, the commit tee of the whole will vote as to whether ; his name shall be confirmed or rejected, Majority vote make the final decision.' Warning to Corporations. The Commissioner of Internal Reve nue today instructed Collector J. W, Bailey and A. D. Watts to call th at tention of corporation to the fact that , contributions made by corpora tioaa ar not dcducible from gross lneome ia fig uring income aad excess profit taxes. The Bureau: regulations to this effect . were sustained by decision of the At torney General on May 19. Accordingly the tax on this item cannot be made the subject of a bona fide claim for abate ment and all such elaima filed will bo promptly rejected. The Commissioner (eels that it is only just to corporation that they be advised in advance sf 1U lag their returns en Jun 15 that ear porstions deducting contribution from gross ineome, knowing that such deduc tions ar not permissible under the reg ulations, may subject themselves to a penalty of 68 per cent of the amount of tax improperly withheld and also" raa the risk of prosecution and of a 00 per cent additional assessment for filing false or fraudulent returns. Further more, the withholding of tax du em 1 foswiutton improperly aeaoeiea may default with respect to th second in stallment of tax du oa June 15 which would make all taxes payable oa 1918 income immediately due. Maay Soldier Gives Work. Four hundred thousand soldier Bad sailors, including officers and men, bar beea placed in touch with positions by the United States Employment Bevvies from the signing of the armistie to June 1. Approximately 1,000,000 civil inns, a great proportion of thn war worker, have bees placed in employ- -ment during the same period, ' Th U. 8. Employment Service is now plseing sol diers and suitors at the rate of betweea 13,000 and lJ,000 a week. "WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING" ' SAYS PRESIDENT OF W. V. New York, June 7. The aatioa-wida strike of telegraph and telephoae operators ordered by S. J. Konenkamp, international preaident of the Com BY JUNIOR SENATOR mercial Telegraph Union, "will amount .. to nothing," according to a itateme tonight by Newromb Carlton, head t the Western Union Telegraph Compan - Disregarding the south and south we where he said only .100 of 12,000 einV ployect arm. m strike. . Mr,, Carlton, . declared extension .of the. walkout to the rest of the country' would bring few recruits to the ranks of the strikers. The strike will have ao effect oa the telephone service of tb American Tele graph A'-Telephone Company, it wu stated at th company's office her to- night. Few of. th company's yonng -women employees are members of tha aaioarJt wa said, ' ; T
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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June 8, 1919, edition 1
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