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1 The News aied'Olbserver WEATHER: Oeady aad continues! cold Mwitr, Tsseday srobably fair and alightly wanaar. WATCH LABEL. a as sr. elv sna-swal ssrs Mm ntiaUaa aad 111M aiMtaa a sin. mm. VOL CXL NO. 26. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH, N. G, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1920. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. PRICE: FIVE CENTS BOLSHEVIK.! ARMY GET AMERICANS IN CAPTURING POLES Garbled Telegram Indicates That Members Of Red Cross Mission Were Taken ENTIRE POLISH ARMY TAKEN BY BOLSHEVIKI Seven American Engineers In Party Besides Col. Blunt And Other Red Cross Workers; American Consul At Irkutsk Sends Message Which Is De layed In Transmission Chita, East Siberia, Monday. Jan. 19. Via. Harliin, Manchuria, Tuesday, Jan. 2., by tlie Associated Press. Colonel Blunt and seven other American engi neers. Miss Ford, 'Captain Charette and several other ineuhrra of the American Bed Cross, and n entire Polish armv, composed of former prisoners have been raptured by the Bolahevikl at Kliuchin sLuyn, according to a g:irllt'd telegram received from Joseph H. Bay, former American consul at Irkutsk. The dispatch from Mr. Hay was sent from somewhere beyond Nizhnjudiusk. January, 14. It was somewhat garbled in transmission. Kluchinskaya is on the trans-Siberian Railway one hundred miles west of Nizhniudinsk. sThe Czechs are fighting a rear guard 'a.tion with the Beds near Krasnoyarsk. , Bolshevism is gaining in Chita. Ernest . Harris, foruier American consul, at Omsk, is still in Chita. , The British, Japanese and French Misr s:uuj and many members of the Ameri c. u B?d Cross, have arrived in Harbin. The only ofliccr in the American armv aaim-ri Blouut is Major (Captain of Ca valry) Wilfred M. Blount, who according (to tl:o latent available army directory. ' nai stationed at Fort Oglethorpe. On. ' A Bolshevik wireless communication received in London, January 13, an; munccd the capture by the Bolshevik t ' fi.rei-s in tha Krasnoyarsk region o i bi ilwn pn'iimnl AT PoIUh lcfrionar- ics, together with sixtoen gun and t. iiity thousand rifles. Adispatch from the London Daily - Jiail's Harbin o,'fsp.nd"mt received in Loudon January 20, said there was a- unconfirmed report in liar bin that the Bolshoviki had destroyed a Polish dlvMon ueur Krasnoyarsk. -r- . . . :, . , '"T -'."'-" i:aJcs blunt stationed in california, report sats. Chattanooga TcanVJan. 3. Major Vilfnd M. Blunt, mentioned in con i:Ttio:i with the cspture ef United fitaU'S engineers in Siberia, and - who was farmeily stationed t( Fort ' Ogle thorpe' is itrrrrn Command of a battal- ' ion of the Eleventh Cavalry at ileii e.ila, Cab, according to friends here. The latest army record register ahowa (wo other Colonels Blunt, both of them . ' retired.- . - ' " CREW PROBABLY WILL BE ' TAKEN OFF THE POWHATAN Water Gaining Slowly In Army Transport Still In Grip Of Strong Gale Boston, Jan. 25. A wireless message Intercepted here late today from the auiy transport Powhatan, which has Wn disabled Jiff the coast since late Bimdny, said the wter--wa gaining lowly and that it might be necessary to take off all the erew except a few volunteers.' Belief waa requested as poon as possible. The message, which was addressed to United States army officers at Hali " f:;-.-, aaid that the United State! coast guard cutters, Gresham and Acushnct, and the Canadian government steamer, Lo dy Lsurior, were standing by and that the V. S. Const Guard cutter, Ossipec, was near. In stating that he ! anight remove the crew Capt. Randall - said ha would "take no thanees.' i Aa earlier message from the Gresham I intercepted here reported tha Pow ha tan as drifting helplessly before an ast-aorthenst rale with the steamers , that were standing by unable to put tow lines aboard. Tha position at noon was given as about 230 miles southeast of Halifax. BATTLE OF STATES TO BE FOUGHT IN COURTS NOW ' Wichita Folia, Texas, Jan. 25 Twerity wres Texas rangers and two score Ok r "lahoma deputies today continued facing 'each other along tha disputed boun dary Una between the -two state run f iiing through valuable strip Tf Bed river oil land which each state claim i in its territory. V Ne clash had been reported tonight nd. Adjutant General Cope, of Texas, in charge of the rangers, is said to have told A. Alexander, .president of ; the Bark Divide Oil Company, whose land " ia in tha center of tha disputed sec tion, that fores would not be need to ' take possession of the area held by the Oklahoma, deputies. . Texas "would wait for ths Federal courts to decide," a is quoted as saying. i i F Basra Explorer la Dead.. ' Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. S3. Ti body of Professor Bichard ' L. Garner noted African explorer seieatiat, who died at a local hospital Thursday, after . a few days illness of pneumonia was ' today shipped to Bristol, ' Tenn, tha t , ,laee of his birth, for burial. 'T Snowing la .Charlotte .- Charlotte, Jaa. 25 This section of tot Carolines is ia the grip of the first snow and sleet storm of the winter. FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED WHEN ENGINE TELESCOPES . CAR ON CANADIAN ROAD North Bar. Oat Jsn. Fifteen person art dead a!1 lart Ban ner injared aa the raaailt of a collis ion today between tha twa sections of tha Csaadlan Pari Tie Express for Vancouver, which secsrred a boot 11 mi lea east af here. Tha raar sleep er of the firs eeetlea, which waa tailed, wa teleeeosed 7 tha loco motive af tha estead acctloa and eight stssscagers wtra hi Had out right, seres dying later from their Injuries. SAYS SETTLEMENT OFSTRIKEUNSOUND Dr. H. A. Garfield Declares Compromise To Be Menace . To Our Institutions Chicago, Jan. 25. Dr. TI. A. Gar field, former Fuel Administrator, in an article Written for Farm and Home, declarea that the compromise that end ed the eeel strike to be "unsound in principle and a menace to our insti tutions." Dr. Garfield aajrt "The wages wow paid to mine work ers are sufficient. The opportunity that should be tha mine workers' can not be assured merely by an increase ; in wages." In proof Dr. Garfield cite the aver age of (0-50 per annum earned by the ltrwr at Jpaid' miners working ISO days in the .rear, while for tOO days' work the nvi'r.ijre. miner ia the bituminous fields nf Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Il linois, earned $1,530 in 1918, and $1.3tH) last year. Thia is "mora by a consid erable sum than the average net re ceipts of the farmer and many others v.iio may or may set work 300 days or more in tha year," ''The publie ought not to be asked to pay more for eoal" emphasizes the ex-Fuel Adminiatrator. "It is impos sible to increase the Wage of the mine workers without inciting; the workers in every other industry, including, of course, agriculture, t demand an in crease in wages. This would send 'he cost af living apward in a vicious spi ral, "which will in the end prove hurt ful to the workingmsn. The purchas ing power of the dollar and not the number of dollars received is the im portant factor. "The publie is the. chief sufferer when the capital and labor engaged ia the production of commodities neces sary to the support of fife fall a fight ipzr" eoatihufd Dr.ariield.. "In Jbfsss ease, certainly the interest of the pub lic. . ts vital and therefore - paramount, Wa may admit the right to strike n the part of labor, and tha right of cap ital to boycott, hot in each case (he right of the public to live is paramount and will be aaserted. "We now are called upon to contem plate sn arrangement with a group op posing the government which however it terminates, is unsound in principle snd a menace to our institutions. To guard against affairs, reaching the strike stage, - Dr. Garfield urges a permanent fuel administration aa a consultative and advisory- tribunal. PHILADELPHIA MAKES CHANGES IN GOVERNMENT Legislative Authority Under New Regime Lodge In Coun cil Of 21 Members Philadelphia, Jan. 25. Many changes in the city government became effective with the induction into office of Mayor .K Hampton Moore,-They-wore author:, iced at the last session of ths legisla ture. The legislative authority passes into the bands of twenty-one couneilmen, organised into a single body, esch mem ber being paid $5,000 a year. This eouueil takes the place of the old. two chambered council of unsalaried mem bers. Holding of more than one salaried of flcj by one man is absolutely prohibited. All city employees are required to cense political activity. They are for bidden to solici' or pay political as sessments, voluntarily or involuntarily. The city has acquired the power to do its own paring, repairing and clean ing of itreeta, collecting of ashes, garb age, wasteand rubbish and disposing thereof. Thia is hot compulsory, how aver,' as it still msy be done by con tract. , " Mayor Moore for many yeara repre sented a Philadelphia district in Con gress. Elected 6a a reform ticket, he has promised to revolutionise methods and do swsy with ths old "gang.' Al ready he has ahaken up the police and served aetics upon thieves, peddlers 'of habit-forming drugs, bookmakers, gamblers and the underworld generally that they must get out of the city. Pro tected vice will not exist as long as he is msyor of Philadelphia, -he has de clared. . , Prominent ia the membership of the hew eouneil ia William W. Boper, fa mous as a Princeton football coach. " MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD FOR DEAD CONGRESSMEN . Washington, Jan. 25. VeioaTial ser vices for tha late Bepreaeatativea John I Burnett, Alabama, and J. Willard Bagqdajs, of South Carolina, were held today in tha Home. Eulogies ware said by members of both delegations. Demo cratic Leader Clark, of Missouri, and Representative Pyer, Bepuhliean, Mis souri, and . Clark, Democrat, Florida. Representative Byrne a eelleagiae of sir. Ragsdale, presided at tha first service, while Representative Almon, a eolleague ef Mr. Burnett, waa chairman during the latter service. Several hundred rela tives and friends were present in the galleries. WEPIOEK NOT GENERAL NOW IN NORTH CAROLINA Three Deaths And Four Or Five Hundred Mild Cases Re: ported In Gastonia NO FURTHER DEATHS IN ! BEAUFORT FROM MALADY; New York City Reports Over Two Thousand New Cases! While Cases And Deaths Are Decreasing In Chicago; Mem phis Orders Schools Closed; Churches Susuend Services Three deaths from influenza and tinuc monia in Gastonia since the disease be came epidemic in this city a week or ten days ago and one death in Beaufort, where about 150 eases in a mild form exist, represent the fatalities in North Carolina from the malady. Gastonia re ports from four to five hundred cases of a mild form. ' ' As a precautionary measure the Beau fort authoritiea closed up the sehools a week ago but so far the schools havit not been closed in Gastonia. About forty eases of the disease in a mild form exist at Graham and ti. State health department has aent two nurses to aid in their treatment. Fuquay Springs reported a number of cases last week and the schools were closed there, but are expected to re open again thia week. A few cases are also reported from near Cary in Wake eounty. Exccpt'fF sporadic, cases in a mild form, the State health department has received no reports from other places that would lead to the belief that an epidemic is in sight. Every precaution is being taken to prevent the spread of the disesse in thia State. GASTON COUNTY TREASURER VICTIM. OF THE DISEASE. Gastonia, Jan. 25. Carl Finger, county treasurer, died here at his home thia morning from Influenza and pneumonia. . He wo the third victim of this disease since it became epi demic a week or ten days ago. There sre between four snd five hundred eases of flu but with few exceptions, where, it is com pliwiTca .with pneu monia,, they areef ilT type. far nothing" luialAeiTelosod but there is 'a possibility that the elty schools may have to elos if the eptdemle gains much mora headway. ALL CASES REPORTED OF MILD TYPE IN BEAUFORT. Beaufort, Jan. 85 Two weeks ago mi epidemic broke out her which the physician pronounced influenza. It is similar to la grippe and ia of a mild type. Only one death baa been at tributed to it. .There have been prob ably 150 eases more or less. The situs tion seems to b improving somewhat now. TEN CASES OF DISEASE REPORTED IN ASHEVILLE. Asheville, Jan. 25. With the devel opment of ten eases of influenza here within the past two days, the city health authorities are calling upon tho publie to exercise all possible caution in limiting the malady against an epi demic. Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, city health officer, appeared tiefore the city commissioner and reported that one family ia the city ha six ease of influenza, and four other- eases - havs been reported. During the great epi demic Asheville had 4300 eases of in fluenza with 101 deaths. OVER TWO THOUSAND NEW CASES IN NEW YORK CITT. New York, Jan. 25. Despite the strenuous efforts being msde by the health authorities to check the spread f Influenza, there were 2,855 new Case of the malady reported her dur ing the past 24 hours, .Health Com missioner Copeland announced tonight. This wss an increase of 494 over, the number of casea reported during ths previous day. Deaths from tha disease numbered thirty, a decrease of three from yesterday, while 75 persons suc cumbed to pneumonia. Since January 1, tera have been a total of 8,799 influenza and 8487 pneumonia eases reported. In ths same period there have been 195 in fluenza and 1199 pneumonia deaths. Health Commissioner Copeland has sailed a ' conference for tomorrow afternooa of the nursing emergency eouneil and . all other organisations having: any facilities that may be use ful in controlling the influenza epi demic. It is planned at thia time to co-ordinate all efforts of the various organisations with ths health depart ment, . i DEATHS FROM INFLUENZA DECREASING IN CHICAGO . Chicago, HU Jan. 25. Influenza and pneumonia . eases and deaths are de creasing it wa announced today ; by health commissioner Robertson. During the hut 24 hoars Dr. Robert son said, 1350 eases ef influenza and 209 -eases of pneumonia were reported. During tha same period there were fifty deaths from influenza and fifty-one from pneumonia. - SIXTEEN CASES OF MILD FORM REPORTED IN MEMPHIS Memphis, Tena Jan. 25. Hixteea eases ef Spanish influenza in mild form were reported to tha city health authori ties today, making a total ef 7S thus far recorded. A majority af the churches of (Ceatinaed en Psge Two.) REPUBLICANS TO EXPLAIN IT Will v", Know At v c artizan ( Joday CHaIV LANGUAGE Ok. TO BE ALLOWED : Neither Lodge Nor Hitchcock Will Predict Outcome Of To day's Conference But Believ ed That Even Though Demo crats Will Not Accept, Nego tiations May Continue Washington, Jan. 25. Limits to ( which Republican Senate leaders sre willing to go in moarffying the Lodge rrvatious to the peace treaty will , lv transmitted to Democratic members of the bi-partisan compromise com .nittre tomorrow al a meeting upon uliich aiay hinge the success or failure rf the preaeit compromise negotia tions. j Although thure waa no official defini tion of the limits set by Senator ' Loiltic, of Massachusetts, snd his as-' ' ftneiates available tonight it was under stood thnt the Democrats would be told that changes in the two main . reservations, those relating to Artieie l Ten and to voting pu.-r in the League 1 nf Nations must bo changed in lan guage and not in principle. burn an answer to Democratic pro ; posals for compromise was said by sev . eral members of the Republican eom ! u it tee to reflect the majority of sen- timent on the Bepubitcan aide of the ; S( nate and also to be agreeable for tho most part to Seaators Johnson, of California; Borah, ef Idaho, and the others of that group who Friday called Senator Lodga and Senator New, of Indiana, into conference and demand ed to know whether the negotiations for compromise were going and how far. Neither Senator Lodge nor Senator Hitchcock would predict tonight the cuteome of tomorrow meeting, the former confining hia comment to the statement that he was "a poor prophet ia such matters," and the Utter as serting merely that aa was ''hopeful but not confident." In other quartern the belief waa expressed that even though an agreement on the basis af the Stcpablican answers might be -viewed by the Democratic csmferee-s as 'hopeless,' the negotiations migst be continued for several days before the tnal break cams. Should there be a break between the two informal committees it wss con sidered possible that the "mild reser vation" Republican might again send cut feelera" among the Democrats and new negotiations be started. ADOPTION OP RESERVATIONS WOULD INVALIDATE TREATY New York, Jan. 25. Adoption ef the Lodge reservations by the Senate would require the re-submission of ths peace treaty to the allied nations 'and Ger many in order to make tha treaty "a legal ' aad binding instrument' George W. Wkkeraham, former attorney gen eral of the U. 8. declared in a state ment tonight which he has prepared for the league to enforce peace. The fourth reservation by which tha United States "would reserve to itself exclusively the right to decide what que tion are within its domestic jurisdic tion" Mr. Wiekersham declared would remove from . the jurisdiction of the league "a scries of question of the high eat importance" and "peculiarly provo cative of international difficulty." .The tenth reservation which gives the United SUtes the right tO Increase it armament whenever threatened with in vasion er engaged in war, Mr. Wiek ersham maintained, ia against the spirit of the covenant and amount to an amendment of tho trouty. He alio ob jected to the eleventh reservation, which says the United dates will use its own judgment about boycotting offending aa tioas, stating that it modidns article 16 of the covenant. "These examples appear to me to be sufficient,? continued Mr. Wiekersham, "to demonstrate that the reservations as proposed involve a modification in es sential particular of provisions of the treaty aad a ratification upon condition of tha adoption, ia my opinion, would be invalid until accepted by tha other powers to tha peace treaty. My eeaclu aioa is that a ratification of the treaty, including the Lodge reservation would require a resubmission of the whole treaty to those powers which shall have accepted it, including Germany." WOMAN RUNNING SINGLE HANDED RACE FOR OFFICE Lenoir People . Expect Miss ' Pries EaU To Succeed Post master V. D. McOuire- Lenoir, Jan. SSMiaa Frises Hall seems to' be running a single-handed race for the Lenoir postmaatership. Mia Hall has been ia the poatofSee for sev eral yeara as moaey order elerk and understands all the ins and. outs of the work. She has already secursd an endless list ef endorsements from local business houses aad Individual patrons of the offieee. No one else hsa an nounced any intention f being in the race to aoeeeed Postmaster V. D. Guive, who recently seat in hi resignation in order to enter business life. Quite a bit -ef speculation followed the announcement of Mr, Guire's resig nation, and it waa thought that several parties would be ia the race. ' The office paya $3,300, aad ia a plum that many might desire. The civil service commission hss announced that the x-r-"i nation will take place on February loth, . .-. ,.".. - CONGRESS BEGINS T IMPORTANT WORK Developments In Connection With Peace Treaty Of . Transcendant Importance LEADERS PUSHING BILLS THROUGH HOPPER NOW With TinaUVote On Kenyon Americanization Bill, Senate Takes Up Bills To Increase Pay For Army And Navy Per sonnel; Sims. Daniels Con troversy '.Inquiry Continues Washington, Jan. 25. Although de velopments in connection with the pence treaty are of transcendent interest, Congress tomorrow starts another week nf action on important legislation and invest igations. With a final vote on the Kenyon Am ericanization bill expected tomorrow the Senate will begin consideration of the bill to ineresse pay of the army, navy and coast guard personnel. In. the House the regular appropriation bills will be pushed during the week, leaders still firm in the hope of adjourning Congress sine die about June 1. Of tho many investigations in progress tho Senate naval sub-committee inquir ing into the 8imDanjcls controversy over awards of navy war decorations plans to conclude its hearings and make a report to the full .committee late this week. Secretary Daniels is expected to testify Tuesday and may be on the stand two or three' daya. After ending the decorations inquiry, the sub-committee plans to begin investigations next week of the general war activities of Khe navy. Effort to have counsel authorized for use of the sub-committee in the new inquiry promise further spirited debate on the Senate floor. An other naval sub-committee also will consider further the question of investi gating ehargea of immoral praetieea at Newport, R. I. Regie Bolsh.vlkt Inquiry. Inquiry into Bolsheviki propaganda will be resmped tomorrow by the Senate Foreign Relations sub-committee headed by Senator Moses, Republican, New Hampshire. Ludwig C. A. K. Mar- tensr'iwvtf "VAmwasaftor ana ni at sistnnU ass" to' resume tnrtfJnrtfaiiony. Heasational developments have been promised by members of the sub-eom-mittee. An army reorganisation bill ia to be reported out early thia week, prob ably tomorrow by tha Senate military committee. It will include a universal military training provision. The House military committee divided on universal training will continue work on its bill this week, with further de velopments expected from opposition to the Honse steering committee's nomi nation of Representative Harreld of Oklahoma, an opponent of universal training, to a military committee va cancy. Another important bill scheduled to reach the Senate calendar this week is the Senate agriculture committee's measure, for regulation of the packers, stockyards, livestock, , eommiesion merchants and other agencie of the meat, industry. The committee meas ure is to be a substitute for the Kon vnn.Kend dick Italia which met with strong opposition from the packing and1 other, business interests. To Work on Railroad Bill. Conference on the railroad, reorga nization bill may bring ths snti-strike and. other- eontrpverted sectipns before ths ' House snd possibly again in the Senate for a vote. The conferees nro Hearing the stage of being able to re port a partial agreement on some of the disputes between the Cummins, snd Each bills, but with deadlocks on the anti-strike and other major features. Sedition legislation may bring fur ther controversy in House committees this week. No action on the House floor ia expected this week. Appropriation requested by Secre tary Glass and others for food relief work ia Europe are to Tie eonsidercd further this week by the Houserwsys and means committee. Herbert Hoover and other may be called before the committee. , SOUTHERN BUSINESS MEN ARRIVE IN WASHINGTON Preparing Tor Hearing Before Senate Commerce Commit tee On Export Bates The News aad Observer Bureau, 603 District Nstionsl Bank Bldg. By R. E. POWELL. Washington, Jan. 25. Representatives of Chambers of Commerce and shipping interests ia the South Atlantic and Middle Western eitiaa began arriving her thia evening for a conference to morrow preparatory to hearing before the Senate Commerce .committee on Tuesday . regarding merchant marina legislation. . -,.! - -Freight rates that enable Southern port to compete with New -York 'and Boston for interior business are ia jeopardy aa well as the continuation of . trade routes to Latin' America, the West In dies, England and Continental Europe. Opposition to any revocation of these rat or discontinuance ef the trade routes will be vigorously opposed before committee. . . ;. ' .: A. social feature of the . meeting ia a banquet tomorrow night at the New Willard hotel at which member of the Southern delegation ia Cong-res will be present, i Matthew. Hale is here repre senting the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce. ' ' AN HER WEEK OF SPEEDING AUTO HEARSE BUMPS INTO STREET CAR Driver Of Machine Catapulted Into Front Yard Of Ral eigh. Residence Catapuleted some fifteen feet into the front yard of a residence on East Martin street ia Raleigh, the driver of an automobile hearse was little the worse for the experience but the street ear into which he bumped, while driving some 30 miles ail hour, accord ing to witnesses, had the front end badly broken up. The accident hap pened at 6:30 o'clock last night. Tho negro was bruised up somewhat from the smash but otherwise felt all right, lie was turning from East street to Martin when he bumped the trolley ear, w hich was in charge of B. L. Carle ton. The hearse was not badly damaged. HIGH WINDS BLOW VESSEL 1,500 MILES OFF COURSE Norwegian Steamer Picked Up By Cyclone Soon After Leav ing New York City Now York. Jan. 5. Driven 1,300 miles off her course by a cyclonic blis-za-nl which raged for four days while on a trip from New York to St. Johns, N. F., the Norwegian steamer Puna, arrived here today on her return trip minus one member of the crew, who wss washed overboard, and lacking life boats, doors snd fittings, which were either torn away by the storm or burned for fuel. The steamer left here December 7 for St. Johns, and four days later encount ered a terrific wind storm and bhrxarrt. The small craft, caught in the center of the storm, was blown into the mid Atlantic and forced to- head for the Azores because of lack of fuel. The. eoal became exhausted before land was reached and all available wood work waa burned. Ludwig Larson, a eoal trimmer, waa washed overboard ia the midst of the storm. The battered craft finally made the Island of Fayal ia the Azores and there obtained enough coal to carry her back to New foundland. BRYAN URGES SENATE TO RATIFY TREATY AT ONCE Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 25, W. J. Brvsn. speaking here this afternoon, urged im mediate ratification of the peace treaty en the ground that the controversy should not be made aa issue In tha coming Presidential campaign with the consequent postponement of possible settlement for another fourteen months. Mr. Bryan stated thst there had been ao change in hi position In regard to ths treaty." He said 'that he bad arced immediate ratification ever sines the adjournment of ths Senate last Novem ber. He declared that National prohibition would be made an issue in the campaign and urged ths dry force to find out the exact position of every candidate on the question which, he said, many of them had yet failed to make clear. FOOD CANNERS TO MEET TODAY IN CLEVELAND Cleveland, 0 Jan. 25. Approximately 5,000 delegatea sre expected to attend the opening session tomorrow of the Six day convention of three big Ns tionsl organisations representing food canning and allied industries, the Na tional Cannera Association, the Nation al Canned Foods and Dried Fruit Brok ers association and the Canning Ma chinery and Supplies Association. The convention will lay plans for a great increase in the national food sup ply and dolcgates ssy they sre pre pared to do their share in forcing down the cost of living and save every pos sible pound of food from waste. Joining the delegate in celebrating the- one-hundredth, anniversary of the Canning of the first food -in. America will be a number-of food and agricul tural experts from Jhe United States government. - "f ' COAL OPERATORS PROMISE TO OPEN THEIR RECORDS Washington, Jan. 25. Mine operators of the central competitive field an ninneed today that in presenting data this week to the coal atrike aetthiment commission their records will be laid "before the publie view for - the first time." "Before the commission finishes hear ing the aide of the operators,' said a statement by. the central competitive field operators, "intimate records and data, never before revealed, touching upon the wage issue and dealing 'with various features of work in the mines, will be laid before it." GOVERNOR C0OLIDGE NOT CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT Boston, Mass., Jan. 25. Governor Coolidge declared today that he was not snd never had been a candidate for President and that he would -not enter a contest for the Massachusetts dele-; gation to the Republican Nstionsl con vention. Ho did not say that he would oppose the presentation of his asm at Chicago but wa emphatic in his asser tion that ha would not permit the im putation that he had nsed the office of Governor to promote his own interests through the selection of delegates. Injuries Prevent His Bkating. Lais Placid, N. Y-, Jan. 25. Injuries which Charles Jewtraw, amateur skat ing championship sustained ia a race her a week ago, will prevent his par ticipating ia the national amateur championship races at Saranae Lake next Tuesday, Wednesday - and Thurs day, it as officially announced today. Jewtraw was thrown heavily to the ice and knocked unconscious in "dodging a child which wandered oa the course. It is expected he will be sbls to compete in the international amateur champion ships here February and 13. . SUM CHANCE FOR WADE NOMINATION TO BE CONFIRMED Senator McKellar Gives Some Illuminating Information In Minority Report HOWEVERREPUBLICANS SHOW PARTIZANSHIP Majority Beport Opposing More head City Democrat Adopted In Committee By Strict Par ty Vote ; Republicans Agree Nothing New In Case And Will Back Up Committee The News and Observer Bureau, 003 District National Bank Bldg. By R. E. POWELL y (By Special Leased Wire.) c ; Washington, Jan. 26. The prospect of a spirited fight in the Senate ever the nomination of Editor Robert T. Wade, named by President Wilson a few days ago for the second time to be postmaster at Mlorehesd City, grows brighter as the time for consideration ' of the majority and minority reports draws nearer. No date haa been agreed upon but it ia probable that th mat ter will be disposed of within a fort night. Republican members of the cub-committee which heard the complaint against the procedure which placed Editor Wade ahead of Cleveland L. Willis, Bepubliean, applicant for the . L. . .i .i. : sure tiist ijivra IB suiainf nww im the case and that the Republican ma jority in the Senate will adopt ths ma jority report of the committee aad d . eline to confirm Mr. Wade. The Democrats are going to make their fight on the minoty report pre pared by Senator Kenneth McKellar, ' of Tennessee, copies of which have lust been made public. This consist in a review of the esse, setting forth the first examination in which Willi re ceived a grade higher than that given Wade, the application for a re-rating by friends iof Mr. Wade and th sub sequent action of the civil service com mission. Upon this action, Senator McKellar a r rues : . Willis Hsd Fair Chance "Whatever may have been the find ings of ths first hoard er the review ing board er of the eommissioa snd whatever technicality may hae arisi-n in tho matter ef taking of appeal er in the matter of giving .notice ail these matters msy certainly b disregarded insofsr as action here is concerned. "The reason why I mske this state ment is thst the committee has allowed both candidates to appeal (from the original rating). They had all the pi pers in the ease before them, they gave Mr. Willie' friends and support ers every opportunity and they even permitted extraneous fact to be testi tified to st length and shut off testi mony of those who favored Mr. Wade and who felt that the civil service com mission had not done wrong ia the mat ter and that the Postoffice Department had not done wrong in the matter." Decided by Partisan Vet. According to the report, prepared by i Senator McKellar the case waa decided against Mr. Wade not on its merits but from a strictly partisan basis. The manifest equities of the -ease, said he, entitle Mr, Wade to ths highest grading and in substantiation of hia claim he put into the record the respec tive answers of the two applicants mads to the civil service eommissioa. "It is perfectly evident from a mere inspection of these two answers on bus iness training snd experience that Mr. Wsde's business training and experi ence is superior to that oll'-MrrWilli,' Senator McKellar ssys. It will be teen that up until 1911 he was a clerk earn ing a salary of from $55 to $87.50 per month. From 1911 until 1918 he conducted at different times a eoal aad wood business, a butcher business snd a cafe. His net earnings were $1,200 per annum, he say. - "Oa th other hand Mr. Wad wa a student in ths publie schools until 1907. Ater school hours snd during vscatioa periods sfter thst. time hs worked si sn assistant in hi father's wholesale fish business. For three years ha was stu- -dent at ths A. and M. college, Balsigh, snd in vacation periods he worked in his father's store. Ia 1910 . and 1911 he conducted a braaeh fish busissss, . then he bought out a newspaper and hr hi been editor and owner of this week ly since. He made from $1,200 to $1, 500 per year out of it. Be also tarr ed a assistant clerk and pay elerk ia ths North Carolina legislature. Senator McKellar ssys a (rest deal about Mr. Willis eoal and wood business.--'' Wv ' ' - "He says he did some jobs around the fish house" runs th report, "If there was anything to do. I don't know whether he dug bait or ran errands hut ' ths truth of the matter is just a was stated by him: "1 was not in any par ticular business at th time. The writer, of thia opinion was bora and raised ia a little town md we had a young man in that town who remind m very much of .Mr. Willi, except that he never ad mitted - he had nothing to do but always claimed to be busy helping Jim Wil liams. Jim Willisms had been dead for 20 years.' Wade's Sswesssfal Career. The report then quotes Mr. Wade's answers about tha Morehead City Coast er and thia ia ths . MeKsllar argu- - ment: , - - , , it is a ten page weekly paper aad, as th committee knows, a very excel lent country paper. The character of . ths paper and its editorials sppear ia the record. During; 1915 aad 1917 Mr. ' Wa was pay elerk of tha Senate branch of the legislature, ha had, - (Continued en far. Twa)
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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