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The NeimM d'OfDserver ,y xr - : 7; THE WEATHER Fair flsturdiy and Baadoy. WATCH LABEL ,: m tMr . t-iV mini I r Mart wrUMM sat rcW MM Sltl SOS. VOL. CXL NO. 38. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH,N jATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1920. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. PRICE: FIVE CENTS NBV YORK SUFFERS FROMIRSTSTOi IN SEVERAL YEARS i - i " City's Great Army of Commu ters Start Home Through Gigantic Snow Squalls TRANSPORTATION ALMOST 4 COMPLETELY PARALYZED Only Subways Able To Main tain Schedules While Street Cleaning Department Almost Helpless Because of Inability , To 0t Hen; Food Distribu tion Difficult Problem New Turk. Feb. fi.-New York itill in storm-bound lute tonight and ther was small prospects of relief. The city's great army of commuters start ed home through enow squnlls blown up from the northwest by a thirty mile cS'O and at weather bursas Raid tho fall would continue for another twelve hours. LVnior.ilizaiiou of transit lines of all kinds was almost unprecedented. Only . the wbwnys were maintaining i regular arncuuie ana every train i hem was literally mobbed at the rush Lour, surface ears Had almost ceasea IV operate. Long Unes of them were li'd op in all ports of the city behind' tai'gles of trucks, drays, motor buses, .-utoiuobiles and taxienbs. Unable Ta Becare Men. .So serious ' was , the situation that ." i:i.v:.r Hrlaa issued a proclamation late ii-ilny calling upon all persona engaged 1 i tlit transportation business except in t'if delivery of foodstuffs, coal and ni'Jt. to cease work from tonight until Vc-sdi.y morning turning their trucks r id tailoring forces over to the city to ;i.' ct the storm emergency. The. street cleaning 'department ad-i-."-;?d' that it was virtually helpless "J :ise of its inability to hire men. i -f 75 cents to $1 an hour was offer ! for snow tliovrlers but only; 8,000 1 the 14,000 men needed could be re :r -i .'Vited. ' ' ": ' The problem of distributing the eitjV 'mI supply also', bad become serious. ' -liifc iwiIm. .rivAft verv trteirular to mi- i?'d tosSMoirwwt- nkind " s ' g.-neertes and produce made their i.en.U with the utmost difficulty. -i ' May Persaa Injured. y : 'in of person were injured today. s.viousiy nj- nunnn . ruiuiim, " .-. and corniccT enrriod down bv of r.mx. LuMitcunrrt-Celonel -i'ri-.k Dr.visoM. stationed at Oov ' -' 1 ln.nl, died lain , tod-vr from , .tiro of the sS.m1I RiifTrml vtieu he T iii'k by a gl!'- etiiiup.v. t tiitious on tb. harbor and in t.ty waters were little improved, al ' ::U it wa hoped a shift of the wind ' i-i release some of the boat Held 1 - ;,.l.in..fichl" of fce. I right" steamers were fast in Lone ; i.d Sound and itus aeit't. their j ci' v.ere nuramg vainiy againiv me .1 nic...IMa.ine, of the New England . '.'xm.ohip Company, ashore off Exeeu ' i.d J'oint. wne listed to port and - .""! to be down by the. bead. Two : cocking tugs trying' to assist her were .. t jn the ice field. Another sound U tuner was helpless short distance rvay. Scaaaaers Fresea la. Oilier steamships ice bound were the :.iester W. Chapiu, New Hsnipshire. I Vquonrtock nd CifJTbf Lowell. Several (ousting schooner and a number of Inrgcs also were froien in. Trsns Atlantie ships were held ia port and wireless report from vessels at sea told of high winds and raging waves. . - T w I lUHiMi !"w " - .'"J iy. but against neavy odd to keep train moving. The first train of the day from the West on the New Tork Central arrived about 3 o'clock, after bavin taken nearly fourteen hours for the usual four hour ran from Albany. ATLANTIC STORM CENTERED NORTH O F BOSTON LAST NIGHT ISTSSrtSt C i ftoriu tea and Portland, Maine, - where the harometrr baa dropped more than an inch during the last forty-eight hours, th weather bureau announced tonight. The iatens eyeloae. is moving north vnsfc.. ; -: Snow continue to fall ia northern New England and ' ' eastern . New York, th report said, and rain i still falling oa th Massachusetts coast. Elsewhere a ear the storm center the weather baa cleared. ' With the exception of now for New Ub gland and im the eastern State; the predltUcisffer the next fui ty-eigbt hour rs for fair weather. Storm warnings are displayed oa the Atlantic coast from Eastport, Maine, to Delawaro Breakwater. UNABLE TO CLOSE WAGE - ' NEGOTIATIONS AT CAPITAL Washington, Feb. 8. Representatives af th anion railroad worker aad offi cials of the Railroad . Administration wer unable to complete their negotia tions wag demand' today, a pokes mea far both aide had indicated we probable. . Director General Hints was not prepared to lay hie new propositions before th anion, beads sad the eoaf jr ene aljoaraed after a brief cession to iMett again tomorrow afternoon. Ts Oaoa Commercial Belatlen. Washington, Feb. S Esthonia will enter into commercial "relations with hovict Russia at once, according to ad vices reaching the State Department to- REPUBLICANS TO SUBMIT MODIFIED RESERVATIONS Senator Lodge Expects To Pre tent Modified Draft In Sen- . ate As Substitute Washington, Feb. 8. The modified Lodge reservation! agreed o tentatively by the recently abaudonod bi-partisan committee, most likely will be the baai on which consideration of the peace I treaty will be resumed next week in the Senate. - . .' 1 Republican, leaden after a aeries of conferences with their party colleagues today decided to take the initiative on the Senate floor in suggesting adoption of the bi-partisan committee's modifi cation of the Lodge reservations. Al though it is expected under the de cision that the . original Republican reservations will be attached to the treaty when it ia referred to the For eign Relation committee it is - under stood -Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, the Republican leader, .will present the modified draft at a substitute after the committee has reported. Definite decision a to whether the Democrat would accept the reservations with these modifications will not be reached, it was said today, until to morrow' conference of Democratic friends of the treaty, and perhaps not then. The general opinion prevailed, however, that the change worked out in the unofficial committee negotiations would prove satisfactory to a majority of Democratic Senators. FATE DECIDES TANGLED CLAIMS TO TWO BABIES pneumonia Takes One of In fants in Atlanta While Other Falls Into An Open Grate Atlanta, el; e.-r-iata took a hand tudiiy in the tangled elaims to blue-eyed Mary Elisabeth and brawn eyed Louise Madeline eight month old babies, over whom . two mothers were going to court tomorrow. Pneumonia claimed Mary Elizabeth, whom neither mother wanted, and the other child fell into an open grate sustaining burns on bet face tuut physicians said Inlght V.OV fatal or mar her looks for life. (' The children were born the same day at the Grady hospital here and Mrs. John C. Garner recently announced that the blue-eyed child given her was not her own. She claimed Louise Madeline a the brown-eyed girl is knowu, Mrs. Daniel L. Pittinan,- to whom nurses at the city institution gave the brown eyed child, maintained it was her very own. " ". -' t .. .. V,. -i'- -. - jMVfc WieV? it ItfJlet iolike bStfi children to bo sura she bad her own and later nought habeas corpus proceed ings which were et for tomorrow. Mary Elisabeth, whom Mrs. Garner had been rearing had been ill for several days and her. death, which was not so unex pected, came on the very day that the other tot scarred herself for life, MILLION DOLLARS LOST IN BIG FIRE IN MANILA Destroys Half of Buildings of Philippine Carnival Ex position There Manila,; Feb. 6. (By the Assoviuted Press.) Damage to the amount of a million dollars waa caused here last night when fire destroyed half the buildings of the Philippine carnival ex position and the island exhibition they contained, . Many of the exhibits were irreplaceable and the loss is serious. Thousands of visitors on th grounds became excited when the fire started and sixteen persons were injured. Fed eral troops assisted in restoring order and are credited with having saved hundreds of lives. A high wind prevented n spread of the flame to the residential section of the city. """ 4m : ) : V . i mi i u u i a. a inuni -mm IUD JHLMU1 n.... it. . i . i the most spectacular ever presented, known a the "Victory Carnival." With the exception of . last year's postpone ment due to the war the carnival has beea held during the Philippine Sum mer, January and February, since 1908. STRINGENT LAWS WILL NOT CURB RADICALISM, HE SAYS New Y A"j General De. Clares That Education Must Assist The Law " Washington, Feb. . Stringent laws and atrict enforcement of them will not curb radicalism but 'ducat ion must walk hand ia hand with law, Charles D. Newton, Attorney General of New York, today told th House Judiciary commit' tee, which is considering anti-seditioa legislation. Though differing with the New York Attorney General in the extent and seriousness of - the radical 1 movement,.! Francis H. F. Kane, who resigned as district attorney ior eastern Pennsyl vania, because he differed witk th De partmeat of Justice ia it campaign against tho Red agreed that education was needed because many member of the Communist labor and other radical partie were ignorant of th purpose of the organization aad signed member ship cards nader false assumptions. Former District Attorney Kane told the committee he aaw no menace to the country whatever ia tho way of radi calism much of that which i said and written oa , th subject being ,,"mer bunk." - ' v. : . . r The New York attorney general as serted the radical movement is fed on Ignorance and misguidance. For that re&aoa be recommended that teachers of Ameriranisatioa work simultaneously with Department of Justice agents, the foremr to educate ia patriotism those 1'sMe to fall under the teachings of the radical and the latter to arrest and hand over for deportation fhsVgraduated pupils ia thi radicalism schools. FRIDAY'S REPOMI shows wmm INFLUENZA SPREAD C Health Authorities Believe That Epidemic Has About Spent Itself WITH MORE COUNTIES IN REPORT TOTAL IS LOWER Winston-Salem Continues In Grip of Epidemio With 406 New Cases of Influenia and . Five Pneumonia; .Only 13 Deaths In .State During Day; Believe Closing: Is Useless Basing their belief ea the materially reduced total of new eases reported yes terday, although the total Includes many counties that have not previously re ported, officials of the State Board of Health expressed the opinion yesterday that the epidemic of influensa has about spent itself, and that the next few days will show a marked decrease in the. num ber of eases. V The total for the day from forty-three counties amounted to 2,943 new eases as against 2,485 from thirty-eight counties ia the report of Thursday. There was a alight Increase ia pneumonia during the day, but the death rate from both influenza and pneumonia remained ta tionary with a total of twelve. With the report of 100 from Union and 104 from Johnston counties, neither of which were included is Thursday's report, yes terday's figures were greatly increased. Winston-Salem continue in the throe of in outbreak of serious proportions with a total of 408 new ease for the .day, and an increase of twenty-nine over the previous day report. New coses of pneumonia in Winston-Salem numbered five with two death. Drastic steps were takea by the municipal au thorities of the tobacco metropolis yes terday to check the spread of the dis ease, and all public gatherings are pro hibited, i t Commenting on the closing orders that had beea issued in many om munltieV DV1 M. Register, State Epidimolngist, declared that closing is practically usebywi a. m tiw of . iaj oueaxa prevention. Jnltuenna, no caid, is on of those contagion that nothing save exhaustion seems to eheck. Clos ing, he points out, may delay the spread of the disease, allowing the relief facili ties to meet the situation without break down. The report by counties is as follows: Alamance, 10, one death; Ansen, 35; Beaufort, T50, two deaths; Cabarrus, 185, one death; Carteret, 6; Chatham, 6; rimrnkee, 8; Cleveland. 40; Davidson. 02: Durham, 50; Winston-Salem, 406: Edgecombe, 24; Forsyth, 72; Franklin, 26; Gaston, 6; Graham, 2; Greensboro, 50, three deaths; Halifax, 11; Haywood, 51; Hertford, 50; Johnston, 106; Lee, 15 Lenoir, 12; Charlotte, 45, two deaths; Mitchell, 60, two deaths; Wilmington, 2; New Hanover, one death ; Northampton, 9; Orange, 35;, Pitt, 43; Richmond, 7; Rockingham, 24; Bo wan, 01; Ruther fordton, 32; Sampson, 11; Stanley, 20; Surry, 6; Transylvania, 5; Fnion, 100, two deaths; Raleigh, 120; Wake, WO; Washington, 5; UoldsbOro, 6 ; Wilson, 43; Yancey, 3V Total, 2,243. -Pneumonia was reported as follow; Robbinsville, 1; Waynesville, 8; Lex ington, 2; Winton-8nlem, 5: Plymouth, 1 Washington, 15; Goldsboro, j Ede rombe, 3. Total, 41. - H. C. STUART NAMED FOR COMMERCE COMMISSION Louis Titus, of San Francisco, Nominated As-Member of Shipping Board Washington, D. C Feb. . Former Governor Henry G. Stuart, of Virginia, was nominated today by President Wilson ss a member f tB Interstate- Commerce Commission to succeed James 8. Harlan, of Indiana, whose term has expired. Louis Titus, nn attorney of San Francisco, was nominated to be a mem ber of the Shipping Board. Mr. Titus succeeds Henry M. Robin son, who resigned last year. He is a Republican and a graduate of th Uni versity of California, and Is now prac ticing law in 8an Francisco. Thi i former Governor Stuart's sec ond appointment to a Federal of flee since his term a governor of Virginia expired two year ago.' He wo named member of, the Federal Meat Commis sion in April, 1 1918i Before being elected governor, Mr. Stuart wa a member of the Virginia State Railroad Commission. NO IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF AMERICAN AVIATORS Douglas, Aria., Feb. fi. American Consul Dyer, of Nogales, has been in formed by Mexican officials thst Lieu tenants Usher andWolf, American aviators detained at Naeozari sine their airplane landed lost Wednesday, will not be released until there has been further discussion .between thi gov. eramentjnd Mexico, according to word received at headquarter of the Arixona military district today. " , STREET CAR STRIKE IN COLOMBIA IS SETTLED Columbia, S. C, Feb. 9. -After an in terruption of ten day street car service will be resumed ia Columbia tomorrow morning, the strike of employee having been settled tonight. Under the terms of the settlement the company' wag scale is adopted providing for a minimum of 44 cents per hour and a maximum of 62 cent. ER DESIRES 10 IV OF EI ARITAL OF STATE irOvlki Senator Overman Nips Proposal To Bring Colonel Vander ford To Raleigh COMMISSIONER WANTS TO CONCENTRATE HIS FORCES Kentuckian Will Be 8t Into State Temporarily To Coach Internal Reyenue Agents; Bepresentatire Brinson , To Speak at New.Bern; "Flying Parson" To Fly Instate The New and Observer Bureau,' 603 District National Bank Bldg. By R. E. POWELL. Washington, V. C, Feh.sV-By mak ing a vigorous protest, Senator Over man today practically nipped in the bud a plan of Internal Revenue Com missioner Roper, by which the office of the Federal prohibition director would have been moved from Salisbury to Raleigh. , At the same time the junior Senator was informed again by Mr. Roper that Captain Boyd, now in '.the internal revenue service ia Kentucky, would be sent intu North Carolina temporarily until the two Senators and the com missioner can reach an agreement re garding the snpervieorahip. Mr. Roper told Senator Overman that Cnptaia Boyd would play the role of school mas ter to the internal reveutM agents in North Carolina while the negotiations looking to the re-etsablishment of the western district ore going ahead. Weald Concentrate Forcoa. The commissioner wanted .to move Colonel Vanderford aad hi force, con sisting of two assistant and clerical help, from Salisbury, the prohibition director's home, -to Raleigh, with a view to concentrating the activity of the revenue force there. Colonel fonder ford objected to being shifted road any more at thi (tags of th game, and Senator Over-man persuaded the com missioner, at least for the time being, to abandon this scheme. : This waa one of the eentem plated changes which was argued ta the Attor ney General when Marshal PTjre H. Belmanyi pplieaiioa te-cn- hVs elfioe from Raleigh to Wilmington was unner consideration. Th spue he oc cupied in Raleigh, it was pointed out, was needed for th prohibition director. The two Senator today conferred at some length regarding the administra tion of revenue law ia North Carolina.! Both ore, very much concerned over the i action of the commissioner with refer ence to Captain Boyd. They have no personal objection to the Kentuckian, oui ootii are inclined to think that tnere are Aorth Carolinians ia the revenue service deserving f. promotion. No Capable Maa Aval labia. The commissioner, aetiar on a r. Mrt -. - , . , . iul a r'"T. A ""P. wrote L"! 'i'"' ,n"e w" B0 m" nlses .slJrln.1 w i I u ?..firi . Y 311;:'", ' ".S." th. v ;C.j:,7J5n ...... ... ..,.,, , armin larougn Captain Boyd and then settle the ques tion of who shall succeed Colonel Wntts. onerin- Hay hps ia going to be ap pointed a chief deputy jn charge of i w,o - mi mu-s, commissioner Koper has' said. If the problem then ia work-1 ed out as the Senator desire, a promo- ' tion will be arranged for Sheriff Manly i McDowell and thing will be in good t shape again. ' Representative Briaaoa To Speak. Representative Sam Brinson tmtuvsn Expeditionary Force in the World accepted an invitation from tho Xew"wT snnouneed today by Adjutant Bern Chamber of Commerce to attend Qeneral Harria with the issuance of a the big reorganization dinner 'cf tlintfin"' revised list of the "Old Caaunl organization which will be given in New , ties" sine the review of the American Bern on the night of February 17, end ' Expeditionary Force records praetienlly which will be featured by the address been completed, it was said no f ur of Secretary of War Baker. Th 8e-l,h,'r additions or corrections were nn retary was urged today to accept aa 1 tieipated. invitation- for the day following ex-' Th' total casualties to dste follows: tended by the Washington Chamber of Killed in action, including at sea, Commerce and .deliver an address ; there. He has not indicated whether ' he can accept or not. "Flying Parson" Comina. Lieut. Bclvin W. Maynard. the Tars"102- neci r lying rnrson, nas neen re lieved from fluty by the War Depart ment and In the next few day will make a flight from Washington to Ral eigh, from there fi Greensboro and then to Fayetteville for the purpose of stimulating interest in the air service. Maynsrd has not been discharged but tt , um . a. . . Is transferred, for the time being, from Mineola Field to 7.u:. s - Washington for .re-1 eruiting werk. He will m.k. fli.M. iiiMini ,,1,, win SHIP niB - nii ta .5 tfc. intermediate point, ia North j v, .. i , . No announcement has been made of: " "2 w"wJ:.M.s?l ..n... .. Hn.i.i vi. aa nip. next few days to complete the itinerary.' Delegation "rom Goldstar. "A delegation from Goldshoro headed by George C, Kornegay is expected to. reach Wsshington ia the morning for : a hearing before the Postmaster Gen eral with regard to securing larger ac commodations for the Goldshoro offic. ' Col. John D. Langston, of Goldaboro. ia . here and will .visit the department with the delegation. Representative) Brin son will present the Goldsboroites to ; the Pnstmneter General. , ; 8, B. Miller, of Stateavllle, hna ar rived here and tomorrow will begin hi duties as secretary .to Representative R. L. Doughton. Mrs. Hannibal L. Godwin and daugh ter. Mis Ruth Godwin, are here with Representative Godwin looking for a horn to occupy whll the new country i home near Dunn 1 being built. Big race at Piuehurst tcday 2:45 p. m. (Posrpo,ned from, Wednesday)), adv j ORGANIZED LABOR PLANS FOR FIRST-NATION-WIDE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN Washington, Feb. 6. Definite plans for the first nation-wide aggressive po litical campaign by organised labor to control Congress and select friendly Na tional aad stat officials ha been made by a committee of the American Fed eration of Labor and will be announced soon. Th fight, labor o fecials declared today, will be bi-partisan and will be launched in tho coming presidential election primaries. Organisation details have been formu lated by a committee composed of the executive council and department pres ident of the Federation, which has beea ia session her for the past two days. Samael Gompers aaid tonight that an explanation of the movement would be made tomorrow. The committee formu lating plans was appointed by Mr. GRAND JURORS AT NEWBERRY TRIAL They Testify As To What Three Newberry Men Told About His Nomination Grand Rapid. Mich, Feb. 6. What three Newberry men told the grand jury which raturaed indictments against them, th Michigan Senator aad more than a hundred other campaigners of 1018, wa told ia the trial of the case here today. .The revelations of th inquisitorial proceedings came from C. R. Higbee, of Benton Harbor, clerk of the grand jury, and Charlee 8. Potts, of Hastings, a member of the body Beside th grand jury testimony the day brought additional evidence regard ing tho methods by which James W. Helm waa nominated to rua against Henry Ford 4n the 1918 Democratic primary. Two men from Grand Rapids told of receiving o a day and their ex pense to get signatures to the nom inating petitions, and all the petitions filed were brought into court by an attveh of the Secretary of State's ofiice at Lansing. The prosecution askefl only that th Helm petitions be impounded for the purposes of the trial, but the defense also had the Newberry petitions l-ft in th custody of tho court clerk. Helm himself cross-examined the witness from tho secretary's office, but failed to learn who brought ta petition to th State house. 'i- TBerw- wa'iltr vije today l"to a second bank account kept by Charles f loyd, head of the Grand Rnpids branch of th Newberry campaign, but It was aot established that this was anything more than a personal aeeount and Judge Seeotoaa indicated that the testimony might be stTickennont latere The grand jury witnesses were sub jected to a close examination by Mr. Littleton before they were allowed to answer questions naked by Frank C. Bailey for the government. Thv knowledged that they had refreshed their memories just before taking the stand by going over notes made by iiijrr it i ip ouuif'r, ini t Higbee or Dale Soutor, one of the gov- Umment attorneys. While this was go. B4ing on Pott remarked to Mr, "Littleton member ail the testimony of more than three hundred witnesses.- and the de- -Plied: -IH My you -M to go fart." REVISED CASUALTY LIST OF THE AMERICAN ARMY No Further Additions or Cor rections By War Depart .ment Anticipated Washington, Feb. 6-Completion of the record of casualties of the Ameri- "J.4. , ' wounds, 13,900. Die4of disease. 2.1,738. I,ipd from accident and other causes, wounded nr-ipt.'jv 'i.v- S.T per cent cfurning to duty), 213,423. Missing in action (not including pris oners released and returned), 3. - Total of, 293.070. SECRETARY DANIELS ASKS FOR THREE AVIATION CARRIERS Washington, Feb. 8. Construction of .1 ! . ; J . Am. Hire pTiiiimn Turners m uu luu : vir . . , j "y" renqrra w.. mw.s - . - ' . ... , . r-l..l- p "posed that fabriested steel on nana at ine nosr isinnii siuiinru m , , . ti,n mnt nf " a.ooo.ooo to n.ooo.ooo; TEN MILLION DOLLAR FIRE WHEN FERTILIZER PLANT DESTROYED NEAR HAVANA Havana. Feb. Fire destroyed th prtndpsl balldiegs of the Amer ican Agricaltaral aad Chemical Com pany aad their content at Reaia. near here, today, with a i esti mated at mora taaa II ... The Isaac aro aald ta have rla! nated aa board th Americas wooden, freighter Brroklaad, laden with nitrate, which waa sneered at ta Regla docks la Havana harbor. The Brooklaad at a total loss. Nameroas explcwioa daring th Sr saread panic among th (nhabltsaU af the village Of Regla. Sevsral flremoa are reaerted to have aeoa ialared. . Fir sppsratsvs from this city was eont to Regis' oa board Tsartsor ferry Gompers in accordance with instruction given by the general labor conference held here last December 13, to put into effect th "declaration of principle" Adopted at that time. Representative in Congress, state and municipal officials whose records show them' to bo unfriendly to or ganised labor, it was said by member of the committee will be apposed vigor ously for re election and new candidates hostile to labor interests will meet the same opposition. Every craft affiliated with the Federation will be called upon to join ia the political fight it was ad ded, and congressional districts will be actively canvassed and an army or or ganizer will be put into the field. The Federation now elnims a membership of more than 4,000,000. Representatives From Eight Districts Oppose Domina tion By Federal Reserve New Orleans, La, Feb. 6. Represen tatives of banks in eight out of the twelve Federal reserve districts, unani mously' opposed what they claim domin ation by the Federal Reserve board's co ercive methods to fore non-members bsnks to become members of the sys tem, the universal clearance of checks st par and started a nation-wide move ment to bring about an amendment to the Federal reserve act and to limit the powers of the Federal reserve Imnrd at a meeting held here late today. Following the adoption of the reso lution which is to be sent to every bank in the United States and to the member of Congress the body voted to form a temporary organization to be known a the national and state bank protective association to fight in every section of the country to have certain sections of the Federal reserve act amended by Con gress. The main points in th resolution adopted, at the meeting here wer a follows .' To most vigorously urottut igninst the policy of attempted domination by the Federal reserve board and bank ov er Bon-memlier .banks by coercive and oppressive methods; the announced pol icy ta enforce universal . par clearance of oh'aks by seethed deacibed by Use reaerai reserve pans ta it sen is emoar raslng annoying and expensive and we denounce same as both illegal and wrong; proper nd ministration and nec-t-ssary Amendment to the Federal Re serve act and we ask Cop gress to invest igate the Federal . reserve set relative to the folowing details: "Coercive methods to force non-members banks to become members; substaa tial competition of Federal Reserve banks with their own member banks) open niaiket tiansiictions; the enormous esrnings of the Federal reserve bank amounting in 1919 to 98,000,IW0 on a paid up capital of W,0O0,OOO; relative salaries and bonuses of officers and em ployees compared with private insti tutions; oppressive policies toward member banks nnder gulae of correc tive meaaures; attempted destruction independence of great state bank sys tems; intimidation of directors of Fed eral Reserve banks to prevent many from performing the functions imposed by law; effort to frtree. the diversified business of the country to conform with rigid rules and standard determined and announced by th Federal reserve board; refusal to rediscount for inombcr hanks certain paper which did not con firm to Federal reserve board ruling the refusal of Federal reaerve banks to make loans on liberty bonds; the un wisdom of the announced policy to spend any amount of money to collect checks from non-member banks rnther than pay exchange. "CAPTAIN" HAMP RICH ONLY PRIVATE IN GUARD Winston-claleni, Feb. 6. The press reports sent out from New Orleans' last night regarding the arrest of J. Hainp Rich on the charge of impersonating an army officer, stated that Rich wa a lieutenant of a home guard company in this city. This is untrue, a he has never been more than a private. The eity health department reported this afternoon 107 new caeca of In fluenia sine last evening and that nine patients had developed pneumonia. This is a. smaller number than wa reported yesterday: J. Hamp. Rltck Released. New Orleans, La., Feb. 6. J. Hamp. Rich, who -was arrested here for im personating an army officer, was ;ib!c to satisfy the department of justice of ficers of his good intentions, and wa released from custody today. CONGRESSMEN JITMP ON THE ' WEATEEITBTJRI Washington, Feb. 8.- Attacks on the Weather bureau wer made in the House today by Representative Mann, Repub lican, Illinois, and Bee, Democrat, Tex as, Frequent errors in the forecasts last summer, Mr. Mann said, led him to conclude generally that the weather would not be according to prediction while Mr. Bee cited the death list result ing from the storm in the Gulf last sum mer is partly due to lack of warning by th bureau as ta the course of the storm. Mr. Kimball Condition Slightly eBtter. Henderson, Feb. 6. A. H. Kimball, a prominent lawyer of Greensboro, who is in the R-irah Elisabeth Hospital here critically ill was somewhat improved tonight. Mr. Kimball was in a hospital in Baltimore for several weeks. vBe cntly he was moved to his farm near Oxford.- His -condition becoming very serious he wa taken to the hospital at Henderson. BIKERS PROTEST AGAINST RULING UNABLE TO REACH STRANDED VESSEL All Efforts To Reach Old Domin ion Steamer Off Rockaway Point Unavailing , HUNDRED PEOPLE ABOARD LINER TO BE RESCUED Desperate But Futile Effort By Coast Onard To Get Lifeboat To Vessel; Ho Immediate Danger To Passengers and Crew Expected; Another Ai tempt Today To Beach Ship New York, Feb. 6. Baffled by a blind ing snow storm and the towering war of a furious sea, all attempts of res cuing vessels to reach the Old Dominion liner Princess Anne aground off Rock away Point with 104 person aboard, had failed tonight. More than a half dosen sea going tugs, a coast guard cut ter and a police boat, which put out to the aid of the stranded vessel, wer un able to get within hailing distance, aad shortly after nightfall temporarily abandoned their pain to take off th ti passengers. On the shore, the eoast guard made 1 desperate but futile effort to get: lifeboat out to the steamship. Unable to launch a boat because of th heavy brenkers, Captain Tucker, of the reve nue roast guard Vation and 19 men were standing b through th night. On the shore opposite the Princes Ann. No Messages From Vet The distressed vessel, which is about a half mil off shore, could not be dis cerned through the darkness tonight because of the thiek weather. 8b was also unable to eoinmnnieat by wireless a her dynamos was reported to have gono out if commission late in th af ternoon. When last sighted before nightfall she wa listing to starboard, and her stern was gradually swinging ia toward the bench. bT liner, how ever, is not believed to be la nuy im mediate danger, aa she is apparently resting easily on sand reef. . . Captain F. Beea, who is ia command of th Princes Anne, hi reported to hava brakes kit knea cap. Many of the passenger re believed, to be sofferieg front cold int exposure Thhip U " also said to be llgbtles tonight the lighting plant was roportvd out of com mission. ' ' '" Wreckage Steamer gent The coast guard eutter Manhattan, which started out late today to the res etf'e wfUhe Prince Anne, wa forced to turn back because of the shallow water in which th hip is resting. Other tugs lso found the wter too hallow to risk an attempt to get alongside of OIBcTabl' of llin Old Pvittinlun Li announced tonight that it wa believed that all attempt to rorcu th passen gers on the Princess Anns would b abandoned until daylight. The wreck age steamer Rescue ia rushing to th scene from Norfolk and i expeeted to -arrive during th morning. If the weather continue rough to morrow and th stranded steamsr (is endangered by"tbo heavy seas, it is planned to attempt th reeue of the pasengers by the breoehe buoy. If it ' is Impossible to shoot line aboard, it 1 said, that th naval dirigible B-10, which is at Rockaway air station, may b used to carry o lln to th veoseL 1 - Washed by towering wave, driven la from the Atlantic by a northeasterly gale, leaking and her wireless all but out of commission, in uia tiominion Lino pasaenger steamer Princess Ann, is lying on s sand reef near Rockaway Point. v. On board are 12 passengers, wbo left Norfolk yesterday for New York, and a erew of seventy-two. Half a doxen ocean going tugs, supplemented by coast guard life savers, tonight were en deavoring to affect their rescue ia the face of a storm, which, observer de- dare, Is the worst seen on this coast in many, years. The name of the first- . class passengers aboard th Princess Anne, are: Mr. nd Mrs. W. G. Thomas, John Tompnine, W. J. Task, Jo Low, B Fernandes, Miss M. Kahn and J. Knpi Ian, of New York; Stanley Maskie, C. , Castro, Charles Wigoe, William Martin, Edmund Ronlan, C. Coffmaa, John Ban-, toe, , Tony Bantos, Tony Calvert and Francis Flannagan, of Brooklyn! T. J. Tho maa, of Buffalot Joss Touches, Louis Berry, of Newport News; Harry Myers, Nick Arnist, M. D. Pasternac and- wife, of Norfolk. The' Princess Ante went aground la the early hours this morning. Her wire less sent broadcast an B. O. 8., and as soon as crews could be. summoned two navy tug and a eoast guard cutter put but to her assistance. t- Wlnd Prevent Rescue. v The life guarda at Rockaway Point attempted to send a suu boat to her asaistsnee, but high sess, pounding tho beach in waves twenty feet high, made succor from that source impossible. Life boat were .then placed on larger 'ves sels and a detour was made around Rockaway Point to a position where ef fort to reach tho ship . gave - more promise of success. A change ia tbs di rection of th wind late this afternoon resulting in a somewhat less turbulent tea, ladirated that , rescue of passenger and erew soon may be effected, Th steamer, according to win-less reports, is so badly damaged that the may he lost if thj pounding tontinues for an other 24 hours. ' VIRGINIA STATE SENATE i REJECTS EQUAL SUFFRAGR Richmond, Va, Feb. 6. The 8tat Senate tonight rejected the woman tu(N rage amendment by a vote of S4 to 10. 'This makes the second defeat th suffrage question hna had ia the Vir ginia Legislature ia the past fsw year- N FURIOUS STORfvl
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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