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he New WEATHER: Rslsr and warmer Wednesday! Thartday win. WATCH LABEL. M fat sspef. ' r"wsl I Sara s-trars r"'Ho aa steal -Istiaa sirs. ca. erver VOL. CXL NO. 7. TWELVE PAGES TODAY, RALEIGH. N. C WEDNESDAY KlORVju4 NUARY 7. 1920. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. PRICE: RVE CENTS. '"TP sine o os COlli TO SUCCEED COLLECTOR TAYLOR III Colonel Walker Taylor For wards His Resignation To Secretary of Treasury RECOMMENDS COWAN AS SUCCESSOR FOR PLACE Former Newspaper Man, Now Secretary of Chamber of Commerce in Wilmington Endorsed By Both Senators; , Thief Breaks Into Home of Mr. and Mrs. Britton I Tim News and Observer Bureau, 1 603 District National Bank Bldg. By R. E. POWELL. By Special Leased Wire. Washiugton, D. C, aJn. 6. Col. Wal- xcr Taylor, collector oi nmwiw k Jiort of Wilmington, today tendered his resignation to Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass. Senators Simmons nad Overman were hf tiia urtinn bv wire today and I sifter a conference they agreed to recom mend as successor to Col. Taylor, vamen I. (owan, now secretary of the Wil mington Chamber of Commerce. Colonel Taylor was here several days go and discussed with the Senators the matter of resigning. He gave as liia reason the pressure of private busi-mss-and iu his messages today as signed personal demands as the reason fur leaving the government serviee. . The telegram containing advices of CoV Taylor'a 'resignation reached the North, Carolina Senators today a ahort tune after their rctur to the capital from the. State. In his wire, Colonel Taylor .recommended that Mr. Cowan le appointed, to succeed him and it re quired but axhort while for Senators Kimmons and Overman to decide upon the man they would recommend to the Secretary of the Treasury. : May Increase Salary. The position pays 3.800. Some time ago Senator ftimmone secured thv pav sage in the Senate of a bill increasing the salary-of the collector td$3,000, but this was held Bp in the House and mem bers of that body favorable teethe in urease hav..ai far. been, anabla to put it through. . - While thete is nothing wild U Colonel 1 Taylor's resignation atout salary, it t Ifirugetber probable that another effort A .. ' I v. - 1 . - H..I.a--l. liill 1 Villi W HINUW lO " that Mr. Cowan, who will undoubtedly be appointed by the Secretary oi ue Treasury," may have the benefit ofthe increase. . Many prominent Wilmington ians, in a4dition to Colonel Taylor en dorsed Mr. Cowaa for the position. Colonel -Taylor was appointed eollee tor of the port of Wilmington lit 1914, succeeding B. F. Keith, the Republican iueumbent at the time the Democrats came into power. He was reappointed in 1918 and had about three years to serve on his second term, Mr. Cowan v ill hold until the expiration of the . ond term. J - Collector Cowan, assuming that he will be appointed right away, is a. former newspaper man of Wilmington and ery popular Wilmington man. After leaving the Wilmington Dispatch a few" years ago, h became industrial repre sentative of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce and in that capacity cured for -Wilmington -the- tw hip yards now located in the "City by the Nea." He ' gave up his work as Indus-ti-ial' reiiresentative to Become secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and in this capacity he has been keeping Wilmins ton prominently before the public. ., Regret Taylor'a Resignstlaa. Senators Simmons and Overman both expressed regret today over' the resig nation of CoL Taylor. Tew offlcehold t in the State have been more popular I with the publie or with the department they represent and the Treasury De partment is keenly eognirant of the loss of a tallied official in Colonel Taylor. Large insurance interests in Wilming ton - and- throughout Eastern Carolina and personal holdings that require more of his time than he nas oesa a Die to give in addition to hit official duties moved him to resign. The return of both Senators today brought to the front again the matter of, the appointment of successor to Col. Alston D. Watts, who several da.yst ago resigned as supervisor -of the reve nue forces in North Carolina . At the offices of Senators Simmons anfd Over man it was stated that no decision had yt been reached regarding the appoint ment, v ,, - '; No Successor to Watts,. "During the recess of Congr.iss,' how ever, the rums has persisted that the office will be abolished. There haa been a suggestion that in plaee of super visor, the Internal Revenue Commis sioner will create the office of chief deputy of tha-iscome tax division and that the wew-job will -fro- to Sheriff Ci H, Haynrt, of Surry, who has been strongly tirged as successor to Colonel Watts. This it regarded as a happy solution and on -that will very probably be maderJt would place, the entire tevenu work untfer the direction of Collector Bailey aiid concentrate the activities in Kaieigu. The new Job, it haa been sug gested, would not earry the salary that the office of supervisor would nor would it leave any doubt as to the ranking offl rial in North Carolina. " The chief of income tax division, should this be the iititeome, would be under Collector Bailey. ' .' - - Tar Heela la Washington. ' .The ; first .visitors from North Caro lina to. call' en Congressman -Hoey ar rived today j afopping over on their way to the New Tork Automobile show. They were Dr. Clarence Clapp, of Newton and Z. B. Buchanan, and son, B. C. Buchanan, ef Hickory,- . ?- - , Postmaster A. Wayland 'Coeke.ef (Continued en Pago Two.) III CUSTOMS HOUSE WANT "FAIR REPORTS OF CONVENTION, THEREFORE " GREENSBORO IS SELECTED. Greensboro, Jan. fc iccsuiboro waa today selected aa the place aad March S aa the date for the1 State Re publican convention. The vote was twelve for Greensboro aad foar for Raleigh. Greenaboro waa arged be cause newspaper here won Id print "fair reports" of the coaveatlon. Jake Newell and others aaid that the News and Observer and Charlotte Observer weald belittle the coavea tlon, If it were held la one of these eitlea. Frank Linney, chairman aad Gilliam Grlseom, secretary: E. C. Dwncaa, John M. Morehead, Dan Hill aad Ham Jones wero among those la attendance. - .Carl- - ! wanted the nvn tioa as late as poaaible, aa "many dissatisfied Democrats h- woald have time to come ia. It waa a harsnonloas meeting, every one said. Resolutions were passed endorsing Jadge J. C. Pritchard for presidential candidate of the party. ' ' BANKERS TO STOP BIDDING MONEY Conference In Washington Fails To Take Final Action On Interest Rates ; ANOTHER CONFERENCE Governor Harding, of Federal Reserve Board, Serves No tice of Intention To Deal With Financial Situations 'Freely and Independently'; - Appeals To Bankers To Help Washington, Jan. 6V Bankers repre senting clearing house associations in all parts of the country; meeting here today at the call of the Federal Reserve Board, failed tit take final action on the question of interest rates on. bank bal ances, but decided to hold, another con ference at which 't la expected an agree ment nay be reached to put a stop to competitive bidding between. New-York aad" inland cities for ut-ef-trwn de posits. . v f ; v ; i - - At the request of the hankers, the federal Reserve Board tonight issued call for a second conference at Chicago January 23, to be attended by three rep resentatives from each Federal Reserve district.""' Ia opening the meeting today, Gov ernor Harding, of the Federal Reserve Board, served notice that the board did not eonsidervitself bound by any ar rangement of clearing house associations whereby the interest rate on deposits would be advanced or reduced auto matically in line with increasea or re ductions in rediscount rates of Federal Reserve Banks, but would act "freoly and independently" in taking any neces sary action to meet the financial situa tion ia various parts of the country. Governor Harding predicted that a raise in the rediscount rates would be neces sary, and appealed to the bankers not to "make a scramble for deposits? by advancing interest rates on bnlanees. He protested against a tendency to turn deposits into investment funds. . A resolution adapted by the. confer ence gave the following propositions as the "opinions''- of the meeting: ' That the present ''sliding scale" for "advancing or reducing interest rates ia not satisfactory. That existing regulations should not be abrogated until mors satisfactory regulations are adopted governing rates of interest paid on deposits. That the Federal Reserve Board should always be free to establish the rate of discount without reference to any clear ing house regulations as to the payment of interest. ' That payment of high rates of Inter est on bank or commercial balances is unsound and is bad banking, and that every effort should "be" made-4o avoid such practice. . ESCORTS VICTOR BERGER ' AWAY FROM JERSEY CITY Jersey City N. J., Jan. -Victor L. Berger, representative-eloet 'from the Fifth Wisconsin District, was escorted out of Jersey City tonight by Chief of Police Richard T. Battersby. His de parture followed promptly his arrival jn the scheduled 'role of principal orator at a widely advertised mass meeting under the auspices of the Socialist Edu cational Club. . The police refused to permit the meet ing to be held, announcing that those who desired to pay dues, or transact business with the officers of the elub eonld do so, but that, speeches would be bavreur-- CANADIAN PAPER MAKERS MUM Mttr REGULATIONS Ottawa,' Jan. '8. The Gsvernor Gen eral signed an order lnsouncll today authorizing the minlsterof, customs to refuse export liconses to -manufacturers of newsprint paper who rjfuse to com ply with sny order of the controller of pnpcK Another order In council empowers the paper controller to requisition and dis tribute to Canadian newspaper publish ers any newsprint paper which a manu facturer' has refused to deliver on the order of the controller Manufacturers will be compensated fo any sueh sefs ores at a price, Hied by the controller. Penalty f of. aou-eomplianc'e with the controller's: order is fixed at $500 a day fqr a period not exceeding 10 iy,-,.zjc2.f .. .. r-: . . "o io me r-inenurnt Knees this after nova 2:40. Dig card. (adv.) , 1 si II I SI i ' s si I 111 I Iff 1 1 - '' - II I 1 1 si I la 1 , .0 PERSONS IN RAID MSgX Department of .Justice Agents Secure Cards With Names of 1,000 Communists FIRST OUTBREAK TAKES PLACE AT ELLIS ISLAND Two Score Women Radicals Rise In Body From Dinner and Rush Movie Men . Off Premises; When- They ' Re turn With Burly Inspectors, Women Charge Them Again New York, Jan. '6. Fourteen men and women attending a meeting of -the Com munist lbor party were arrested by Department of Justice agents in a raid late today on the offices of the Kovymir, Russian Soviet newspaper. The agents also found cards on which were the names of 3 ,OM) Communists throughout the United States. While this raid was iu progress, 57 more alien plotters, including Aleian- der Dormnn, said to be leader of New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania Com munists, arrived at Ellis Island nnder guard to take their places with the other hundreds swept up in the government's dragnet of foreign revolutionaries. At the island the first outbreaks sinee the beginning of the Department of Justice raids were reported. The ElIis Island Boviet," established by Emma Goldman and -Alexander Berk man and their companions who are now on the way to Russia on the "Ark" Buford. came to new life in two revolts. Greg ory Weinstein, hailed as Trotiky's clos est f iren 1 hi the: "United States." and "chief of staff," of Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, "Ambassador" of Horiet Rus sia, refused to be photo'graphed and fought desperately when half a dozen inspectors forced him to ''pose" for the official camera. Women Chase Movie Men. In the woman's department, 39 femi nine radicals rose in a body from din ner and rushed "movie' iua off the premises. - Ob the. return of the canters men wth seven burly "Inspectors, the women charged again end swept the place clear after a spirited fight. The casualties war one man badly scratched and another decorated, with a black eye, the result ol a "left awingT by a girl, who said she had fought in the Hus sion women's battalion of death. 1 Tomorrow. Supremo Courts Justice Davis is to sign an order committing to jail Dr. Michael Misleg, treasurer of the Novy Mir, for contempt of the joint legislative committee investigating seditious activities in New York. By Justice Davis' order, Misleg will be kept in durance until he answers the ques tions of the committee. - Deputy Attorney General Berger an nounced today that Martens nad 8an teri Nuorteva. secretary of Martens' "Embassy" will be dealt with aimilar.ly, as win an oincrs wno decline to testify or produce documents for the commit tee. Martens nad Nuorteva refused to answer questions and to Drodueei bonks and papers of the "embaaSy." Both elaimed diplomatic immunity as 'repre sentatives or a foreign government. Release Communist Secretary. 'Harry Winifsky, secretary of -the Communist party,, taken in the Federal raids Friday night, was released today by the Department of Jnatieenpon- his production' ol evidence of citinestship. He is awaiting trial in the State courts charged with criminal anarchy. Included in the prisoners taken in the raids on "Novy Mir" was Dr. Vic tor Pachakachy,. formerly a companion of Lenine and Trotzky. According to agenta of the Depart ment of Justice, Dr. Paehakchy was one of hs leaders in the Russian Koviot revolution ia 1907, following which he wss exiled to Siberia. After escaping to South America through Germany, he returned to Europe in 1914, to become (Continued oa Page' Twe.l ADMIRAL JELLIC0E GOEST ' TO HAVANA FOR HIS SHIP Before Leaving Washington He Expresses Appreciation of Reception Washington Jan. fl. Admiral Vis-(ount-eilicov,'rnnking officer of the British navy,, left Washington late to day for Kay West en route to Havens, after having Inspected the United States Naval Academy at 'Annapolis and the corps of -cadets. The Admiral was' par ticularly pleased with the type of yonng men composing the .student body. At H.iTnna the -erniser New Zenl.ind is -waiting to take the party either -to South Africa or England Tho destine) tion is to be announced later. , : Just before leaving Washington, Ad 1 i-ii:-..- 1 - J , .... M.fc (which be wpresed bis gratitude for the cordial reception given him-Aiy the Amcriesn people. , , Of all the matters for which we have reason to be grateful." he said, ''is the continuance of . the spirit of eomra:le ship which was tlu one great feature of the "far that has impressed me the' most. "From the first moment of our ar rival we have experienced thfe. Indeed, It was extended ta'ns in New York prior to our visit to Washington. It was my priviloge to hare lern in close association with thA United States navy for many years before the late war. That association dates back, t the days before tfie Boxer trouble in ; China, and from my experience then' I felt that if the two navies , ever esme to gether again they would work in closejje: comradeship. That belief, as all the r uttermost," "" . v 5 .iLL MEEI trtoH OTHER Expected To Declare Their Views On Public Questions at Jackson Banquet DOZEN SPEAKERS WILL ; MAKE SHORT ADDRESSES Besides Message . From Presi dent Wilson, Letter Prom William CL McAdoe Will Dis cuss Some of Issues of Cam paign; Kansas City Boosters Begin Work Por Convention ' Washington, Jan. Prospective can didates for the Democratic nomination for Fresklent will meet each other sad publicly declare their views oa public questions at the Jackson day banquet which is to conclude the meeting of the Democratic National Committee -here Thurtday. A dozen speakers are ea the program, aud they 'include most of those who have been prominently mentioned as Presi dential possibilities. Besides there will be resd a massage from President Wil son, possibly touching oa a third term and on the peace treaty, aa a letter from William G. McAdoo .former dee retary of the Treasnry, discussing some of the issues likely to enter into the campaign. The banquet will he in two section with more than 700 guests at each. AU those" on the program will speak at both places, however, so the committee offi cials expect oratory to continue far into ths night. .. Of the six cities asking for the Na tional convention, Kansas City was thfe first to begin active work amoag the arriving committeemen. Headquarters were opened by E. M. Clendenning, sec retary of the Kansas City Chamber ef Commerce, and literature waa distrib uted describing the city's convention hall nad hotel 'and railroad facilities. Tonight the Chamber of Commerce dele gation entertained at dinner the Mis souri members of Congress, aad various committeemen. ' , Chicago aad San Francisco ' are ax pected to begin their active, campaign for the convention tomorrow. t:in-'-nsti, Cleveland and ."JadiansnnVs also are expected tq, ash fey tw?r. - FORMER ARMY OFFICER r KILLS PITTSBURGH NEGRO Pittsburg. Pa., Jan. . ficorea ef per sons traversing downtowa Fifth Avenue tonight witnessed the killgia of Albert Loving, a negro, who was shot to dssth by E. M. Price, a former army captain in the regular army. Price earns to Pittsburgh four months ago from Salt Lake City, Utah. The killing occurred at the front ea trance of a nrnminent W.l a,t.i.i. Paving waa employed as a bell boy.' Of- ncials of the hotel informed the police that Price and Loving had argued In the lobby ahortfy before the killing. Price left the hotel followed by Loving, who according to witnesses, struck the former. Price, it is aaid, then drew a revolver and shot the negro. UNITED1' STATES LEADER IN COTTON CONSUMPTION , "Washington," Jan. " . The -United States consumes more pounds of raw cotto aand spins more pounds of cot' on yard than any other country, according to a report of ths Tariff Commission which has conducted a special investi gation, and today announced its eoaem. sions on the import aad export trads in cotton yard in relation to ths tariff. Ths United States produces mors thaa 99 Iter cent of the cotton yarns required for domestie industry, in fact, the import and export trade together do not amonnt to-one per eent of the domestie produc tion, ths report states. The. com mission found that imports of cotton' yarn - are mainly supplemental and, sa a whole, have been little influ enced by such variations in tariff rates aa have-been made in the last thirty years. . REPUBLICAN WOMEN GET POINTERS ON POLITICS - Chicago, Jn. 6. Qnestjmis end an swers were the order at ths closing ses--ien today of the conference of Repub lican women from fourteen states of ths. Middle West. Delegates left for thoir homes tonight primed, according to leadors, with information on 'how te make a "Democratic editor print Repub lican propaganda, how to persuade is. dividual dissatisfied with primary re sult to work for straight ticket voting, how to biro- halls, introduce and accom modate visiting sneakers, eolleet ram- nsiirn funds and canvass nreelneta. These and many related problems of the professional politician were ex plained to the women by psrty experts from the National committee and from the women! division of 'the organisa tion.' While the women, were in school the Kational committeemen and other experienced - leaders discussed . ia , a secluded hotel conditions in ths several states,' slogans and issues, It was' in dicated that there was virtual unanim ity on the idea jthat pre-eonventioa talk should renter on the "sins of the Dem ocratic adiniasttration. ' - Argwe Farm Leva Act. Washington, Jan. -Ariruments on the roiititntionalit.v of the Farm Loan. Art wore begun today in -the tkipreme Court and will be concluded tomorrow. Tho appeals resulted from dismissal by I tne rednrai listrirt wun oi injunction proceedings brought by a stockholder .to Company from investing its funds in fnrm loan bonds issued byVderal land banks aud joint stock land banks. COULD NOT FIGHT GOVERNMENT, SAYS1 GREEN TO MINERS Could Have Whipped Opera tors, He Avers, But Not Uni ted States of America ELOQUENT DEFENSE OF UNION OFFICIALS MADE Acceptance' of President Wil - son's Proposal of Settle- j ment Could Hot Be Avoided, He . Declares Amidst Ap 'planse; President Lewis Ex v. plains Natnre of Agreement Columbus, O., Jan. Defending the action of himself and acting President John L, Lewis in agreeing to accept President Wilson's proposal for settle ment of the soft coal miners' strike, AVilliam Green, international seeretarv of ths United Mine Workers, declared the only other alternative was "disaster and defeat for the miners' organization." "We could have whipied the coal operators, but we could not, if we had wanted, to, whip the strongest govern ment on earthour government, which had just finished whipping Germany. -It wa nad not accepted President ilson's proposal of settlement, tho pos -owers of the Federal government would have been' turned loose on us with greator ferocity than anything we have ever seen," Green continued. "We knew we had reached the limit," he asserted, aa ths delegates, with loud spplause and eheering voiced approval of what he said. "With every mining eouiiuunity in tho country, honeycombed with - the- Federal agents, gathering evidence against our men, our funds tied up end women and children freezing and facing starvation, how in the name of God, could we go oa with the strike!1 Green continued. Orson's speech followed sn attempt on ths part of some of the delegates, led by Robert H- Harlan, president of the Washington miners,' to defeat ths pur pose of ths motion by Philip H. Murray of Pennsylvania, to prove the action of the officers, by-requiring the sward, which is to be 'made J-y the President's commission to be submitted ts a refe rendum vote, or a reconvened convention. f thr4Jtuisu-'tt'hers, 1 That concurrence by the convention of the United Mine Workers la the ac tion of th International officials In ac cepting President Wilson's proposal binds the miners to aeeeptsnce of any award made by the commission was stat ed today by acting President Lewis. The statement was made after Robert H. Harlan, president of the Washington miners, had sought to amend the mo tion of President Murray, of ths Penn sylvania miners, which proposes rati fication of ths action of the internation al officials. Harlan asked that ths con vention be reconvened to pass wpon the commission's swsrd or that the award be submitted to referendum. . Lewis ruled ITarlaa'a motion out of order. He said if the convention should agree to await and see what the award of the commission may be, he did not think there would he any award. . The. new angle has precipitated in tense debate and may delay vote on the question WAITING FOR WORD FROM " WILSON ON PEACE TREATY Leaders of All Senate Factions Interested In Jackson Day Message r ' Washington, Jan. 6. Disposition was evidenced by lenders of all Henate fac tions today to await President Wilson's messags to ths Jackson day dinner of Democratic leaders Thursday before tak ing any further action in the German peace treaty situation. While numerous individual and informal conferences continued today between Senators, Spokesmen of the various groups ssid they did not expect any move in""thet Bensts until after President Wilson a letter is made public The only new development today in the treaty controversy was 'the Inaugu ration ef discussion between a few Dem ocrats 4i nd "mild reservation" Bepubli raas of modified reservations, aaid to have been prepared by Senator Kea drick, Democrat, Wyoming. Ths draft of these reservstions was said to have been presentod to Senator MeNary, Re publican, Oregon, and others of the "mild reservation" Republican group. The jpepneed modifications, it was nsidi had not been submitted to 8entor Hitchcock, acting Demoerstle - lca'der, Senator! Underwood, of Alabama, Kena- tor Hwanson, of Virginia, or other Dem ocratic leaders, - TWO NEGROES JAILED QN -. CHARGE OF KILLING MAN Ashsville, Jaa. 6. Waiving prelimin ary krratvnmW. Cnrnell' . Tallpv. the 18-year-old white youth, aad Jim Thorn- aa, aged 40, aegro, charged with ths i murder of Will . Erwia, prominent Ktivwah Merchant on the night of De cember 9, were remanded to jail at Beadersoawille today. Being1 charged with rat degree murder no bond was permitted. ' Their case wilt be acted lip on. by . the superior cwrt grand jury that convenes in Heudcrsotiville on -tho first Monday in March. Although there-. was some talk on the streets of . Ilendersonville of lynching the pair shortly after - their arrest, Sheriff Allard Cass anticipates no dilli, eulty over his prisoners. . 5" ' Talley hss made a" complete admission fit la and Tnutlof hil part -hi the murder to4he - sheriff,4 anu sunougn i nomas acmes tne crime, - he has been positively identified ly Talley, wording t the siiorilT. KENTVCKY JOINS RHODB ISLAND IX RATIFYING SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT. Providence, H. I,, Jaa. fl.-The tate leg is lu turn formally accepted ratification of the Woman's Suffrage Amendment today. - KENTUCKY JOINS RHODE ISLAND IN RATIFYING . SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT. Frankfort, Ky., Jan,- 8. Balillca lion of the Federal Woman rluffrngo amendment was completed by the Kentucky legislature late thia after noon. The House of Rcpfsentatives voted T2 to 2.1 and the Menate 30 to a. to ratify the amendment. There was little debate in the lower Houso but action in tho Senate was not taken until sn nmendmrmt which would have submitted the question of ratification to a Slate . wide refer endum, waa rejected by a vote of 23 to w. , , State Department Receives Ad vices of Murder of Two Men at Tampico MEXICAN GOVERNMENT. URGED TO TAKE STEPS Brings Total of American Citi zens Murdered In Tampico Up To Nineteen Since April, 1917; two Navy Blue jack ets Under Two Months' Sen tence To Be Seleased Washington, Jan. 6-Beeeipt by thj ftate Department late today of advices that two more American oil men, T. J. Roney and Earl Bowles, had been mur dered by Mexicans in the Tampico dis trict of Meiico,, was follow ed by In structions to the American Kmliassy ia Meaico City to urge , ths Mexican gov ernment to- take every possible step to bring abotit the capture and punishment of the murderers. . ; - First, word of the killing of the two Americans, which brwi(ht"the. total of Amerlearwaitisears'Wdere't the Tampico district sines April,' 1917, Hp to nineteen. reached Washington through private sources. Later ths Htate Department announced the receipt of similar advices. The Htate Department also was in formed during the day in a report from the American consul at Mazatlun, Mex ico, that Harry V.. Leonard and Harry O. Martin, members of the crew of United H tales submarine tender 1'oeo moke, arrested in Mnr-atlsn November 12, after a Street fight with a Mexican, had been sentenced to two months im prisonment. The report said, however, that as the sentence (tsted back to No vember 12, when ths two bluejackets were arrested, their release should be effected January 12. MURDERED AMERICANS ARE , FROM TEXAS, REPORT SAY Houston, Tex., Jan. Two Ameri-! cau employes of the International Pe- AMERICAN OIL IN KILLED 111 MEXICO 1 tioleum company, murdered by bandits j Proposed expenditures from the nit! j near Fort Ixilios, Mexico, were from lion ilollnr fund included $350,000 for Texas. They wero slain . .Monday, ae- cording to informatioa received hero today. - 1 J. Roney was a Houston oil nin'n, and Karl Bowles formsrly was with the (in If Kenning Company at Deaumoiit. The. first report- received here from, a correspondent at Tampico war-con-, firmed in a report to ths TexasTrompttny. The telegram to tho Texaa coniiwny I from Its representative in Tampico I merely said Roney was killed by bun.- j dits Monday at Port- Lobo. A similar message was received by the Uulf Re fining Company. Bowles was prominent in Texas oil affairs in the spindle top days. -. .'. ...- .. INCREASE IN SALARIES F0R TEACHERS IS URGED t New Tork, Jan. 8. Material iu''ri"a iu teachers' salaries wsrs urged today j In a program form u Is ted by irt..iK iuu- i cation ofHcials from nine Knsteru Htutes as a means of relieving a critical short age of teachers which has closed hun dreds of public schools nad thrniteus to close more. . - "The public schools of the nation are facing a csitical situation," says tint program . Mfn -the Htutes of h At lantic seaboard hundreds of schools are eiosod neeavse' tcacncri are not lira II- alla tnr thnm " i . . i .J ' ,.-a1 CONFERENCE WILL t'RGE - , A SHORTER WORKING DAT ;.. : . New York, Jan. 8. An "Atlantic! ("oast Conferenee n the tost, lifjiviug.'.' at which vfforts will be made to get Eastern seaboard States to join their sister States in ths West ia legislation for a shorter working day and minimum wages for women, was called todav for January . at Newark by the National Consumers' League, Speakers will in- elude Lnited Mates Senator William H. Kcnyon, sponsor for ths Kenyon-Ken-drirk Packer,, Legislation ; Williiim H. Colver(u.rhairoian of tlie Federal Trade Conimisaibn, and Mis.i Clara Mortcnson, secMacy of the Minimum Wage Com-, nissiun of the District of Columbia. Steamer la Distress). r , Rio Janeiro, Jan. 4. The Brazilian i steamer t'ocone, 0,7 j0 tons cross, for merly Ihe German steamer Coburg, which sailed from this port yesterday for Kurope with passenger anil a gen eral cargo, returned last bight with a are in her cargo of cotton discovered - when - - itir was'lhreeTiOiirs fsctt. Thn passengers were nisenihnrked and tho flames extinguished. The damans was said to bo heavy, l-SAYS AGENTS TAKE PART IN FORMING -COPUNIST PARTY; S. Nuortva, Who Is Secretary of "Ambassador" Martens, Issues Statement (CLAIMS SECRET SERVICE ; MEN ATTENDED MEETINGS Helped " " To " Draft " Platf orm, ' Which Forms Basis of Be. ' cent Arrest; He Alleges Congress Asked Bj Labor Department For Fund of Million To Enforce Laws Washington, Jan. 4. A written state-, ment issued to the press here tonight by f. Nuortva, who said he was secretary to Ludwig O. A. K. Martens, self-styled . Ambassador to the United BUtes from the Russian Hovlet government, charged . that agents of the Department? of Jus tice had "actively participated" in the t'nrmuhitioa of Communist party plat form planks "which now form the basi of the persecution of thousands of peo- , pie." Ths statement' alio asserted that we can prove that the chief figures in sue h celebrated bomb plots wsrs agents of n similar nature," and that some other ' radical activities now said to have been instituted by Russians "were ia realitv managed and inapt, .-d by seeret serviee . agents.-' "The Russian Government Soviet Bu reau," it added, "would welcome an op- . portunity to make good these assertions . before the proposed Senate Investigat ing cituoiittec." .. - Claims Money Squandered. r The hearing conducted by the pro-", . posed Senate committee, the statement further asserted, "would also- have opened wide if we were permitted to testify the Augeaa stables of the work of Snsslsn reactionaries in this country , who have squandered on abominable pints and intrigues tens of millions of money lent by ths. American govern ment to Russia." The additions), charge was made that there seemed to be "many people be sids Mr. lioris bakhmeieff, (former rep- . resentstive of the Kereasky government -In Washington) and his crowd who tnnld nut' like to havs these, matters 1 mmmmtlJIf'm Ths bureau had bjest informed ef ths . arrest of Gregory '' Weinstein, ' ef lt membership on deportation proceedings and that similar action "la threatened sgainst Mr. Martens and other members of the staff," the statement said. It ailiU-d that "neither ' Mr. Martens or I are opposed to going back to Russia." - Nuortva, who is quartered at a local hotel, in issuing the statement, said Martens was In Washington and added that mo attempt to arreat his chief had been made by. government agents. .... Congress Asked For Faad. Congress was asked today by ths La-., bor Department for a special fund of H ,000,000 for the enforcement of laws agalust alien Radicals and $150,000 for their deportation. ' To continue its wofrk of regulating immigration, the department also asked mat -SJixj.uw ie granted by- Consresa as a deficiency, the 12,450.000 oreviousl v granted for the year ending next July 1 1 being iiisuftitient. I 'ransiMirtalion, and- approximately aiu,ooy lor employing more than KM) inspectors for enforcing laws against radicals. V The Department of labor's request i for additional funds .-to conduct it ; work. in., rooting out radiealkm Wits j based on a recommendation of Anthonv. (annnetti, Commissioner General ef Immigration, who declared the Depart ment r' Justice had amassed such quia titles of evidence agaiant 'tho radicals taken ia the raids as meaa at least two months work. Prediction wivs mads at the department of Justics that the hearings on deportation rases, which rt acheduled to begin 'tomorrow in several cities, will require that much time. ARREST LLOYD PREY0ST T. FOR MURDER OF BROWN Mouut Clemens, Mich., Jan. I. At the request of Attorney-General Alex J. Oroesbeck, who headed the spscial grsud jury investigation into the slay ing two weeks ago of J. Stanley Brown, a warrant was issued today for Lloyd Provost, cousin of Brown's ! widow, charging first degree murder. Prerost' has been in custody without warraut sinco last weckv According to the nuthorities their in- vestigation nas uncovered circuinsun- tial evidence which completely npsets Prevost's alibi and .constitutes, they j say, a ease as completely -convincing las is possible ill. tho absence of direct 1 proof by eye witnesses. The evidence .alaa-ojnJsestha-oflJecra-stalecaV-tu involve a serond man later, v , NEW YORK BRYAN LEAGUE SWINGS TOWARD GERARD ' New York, Jaa. s The Bryaa League of New York, resurrected a few days ago for the anrpose of booming William Jennings Bryaa for the Presidency, te. dsy announced it had swang around la" support of James W. Gerard, former am-, bssaador te Germany, whe haa Sled la South. Dakota his formal tetice 'ef can didacy for the Democratic aomlaslles. BILL IMTRODITED FOK' ' BRINGING BACK BODIF.4 Wushiiigton, Jan. 0. A bill directing, the Hocrelary of War to arrange for.the" return. government exiwiise,. of Uie bodies of soldiers, sailors sud marines now buried in Kuropo where' the re-, niiivnl bus "been requesfilty the next" of kin, waa introduced today, by Senator Harris, Democrat, Oeorgin, and reforrsd to the Military eommiua
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