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i ... THE WEATHER: -fair Tday, cache east par r tion; Wednesday fair, warns .Two prtln.;. J ".Z ..'.'IL'ZZI 'r WATCH LAEtX. erver sv ...i. i a hrfev. ifa aad rM VOL. CXI. NO. 90. TWENTY PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY MORNINC 1920. TWENTY PACES TODAY. PRICE: FIVE CENTS STORM DEATH LIST 55 IN SOUTH WITH 173 IN WHOLE U. S. SENATOR BORAH WHO ATTACKS CANDIDATES v V w r JL TO GET DELAWARE IFCOiJL IBLE BY RA! E 1 VOTE iOOLEOF APRIL ....... . .,..- ;... ,..,..;.. ?: EXERT PRESSURE WILSON TO SPEND H0T1NTHSA1Y FROM WASHINGTON VERMO CIS! ON DRY ON F BESD VILL PERMI Chairman Wilt Hays And Cole man DuPont Slowly Chang ing Opposition RATIFICATION APPEARS s CERTAIN ON WEDNESDAY Strenuous Tight By Anti-Snf-fragist Porces, Who Import Liquor Lawyer To Giro Ad vice ; Two Senatorial Candi dates In Southern States Re ported to be "Pulling Wires' By B. K. POWELL. (Stall Correspondent.) Dover, Del.; March 9. Continued pressure of tha Republican National eemmittc at Washington, through a woman representative bf Chairman Will Hay and Delaware'! National commit teeman, Coleman DuPont, appeara today to be lowly but effectively changing the acntiment of the Delaware ivgwiaiure -in favor of -rMnatioaof- -tb -Susan B. Anthony amendment to the eonstilu4Vonlce there for st least the last two tion which, if action cornea on Wcdnes day, will confer Upon the-women of the United State the right to participate in the coming primaries and November election. Delegate McNabb, Democrat, in the lower Hoimo teems to have lost eontrol of the bitter-ender in the tippositioa party and the suffragists today are eon. ndent that the House will ratify with several rote to apare. It i generally conceded that if the. House, act favor ably the Sennt will promptly follow suit and enablo the Secretary of State to proclaim the amendment ratification vituin tho next ten ray. Antl Well Represented. Th "antis," and they nre rpreentd here in larjre number and bweiiromlnent of ill and political leader of the State, declare themselves satisfied with th aituation and claim to be holding aa ace ur their leevc. What thi is, one ha been able to definitely learn. 4 Itir something- immediate, however, to the detriment of th opposition to eon teat the matter In the. court.1 Th ar . " tout plit of long standing in th weltbyrDuPout family iatvapoadbl for much of lb hitter feeling oa MIB sioe. While Democrat and Republican, of National Importance are rrn-iag ratine Hon kern: th "local color" is so deeply rated on th political horizon of the te that it ha obscured the National aspect almost , entirely. It ha been only within the past 'twelve hour that thi litnntion changed for the better' and th arrival of the National committeeman here thi after i noon, following close upon the heel of importuning 'message from such Ke ; publican Senators aa QnuU Nelson, Wes ley Jones, Charles Curtis and Beed . Siaoor, is calculated to result in further '" improvement from th viewpoint of the . suffragists. Senator Ball Returns Senator L. H. Boll, of Delaware, re turned nere from Washington this morning where he went frr a week-end conference with Republican leaders -at the- National Capital-. Jle . ha been in eonforenee today with Governor Town- send and with Republican members of ' both Houses of the legislature. It is bi j opinion tonight that the aituation ha r materially ehanged and .that Delaware, although it refused to ratify th 11 f- teeath amendment, will ; revert to th traditions that surrounded thi historic ' eommonweslrh when it acted first on th federal constitution . Contracted with the position of the President and members of nis cabinet, two of whom htve urged members of . the Delaware body, to vote for ratifi cation, is th violent opposition to suf- frag manifested by Henry B. Thomp son, Wilmington millionaire, and al though a Republican, a" cdrse personal friend of President Wilson. Mr. Thomp- . son was a member of the board or tru i tsei of Princeton when President Wilson I wa there. Hi wife is leading the fight agmnst ratification and ha martuantd k to her aide soma of th Wealthiest of the State and omr of it social prominence In addition to what she personally lend the opposition. Woman Leaders On Seen. Alice Paul, of the National Woman's Party, is her and is conducting a fine ight for the suffragists, though working part from the representative of th National Equal Suffrage Association Hisa Charlotta Rowe.-of. Washington, presenting, tha Vatinml Anti-Buffra- L-ist organization, tr here, and waala. L strenuous fight. A lending liquor ! (iwyer. or jsaitnnore, well known in Inryland polities, is expected to arrive era tonight for a late roafercne with rcNabb and other leader of the oppo sition. ''::''ZZ ' ' I Buff ra giatl from outsid Delaware, familiar with th eertaia contest of L'aderwood, of Alabama, had; Smith, lof m.m iw-nomioauon, were pavy today in running to cover a well ground ed report that tho Alabama aad Georgia Senator wer "pulling wires" to pro- wens iavoraoie action here. They were likewise interested in th potential op position to Senator Lee 8, Overman, -m sens uaroiina. ; ifitfii;- --la tho-omptex developments of th Delaware situation, it became known today that Republican statesman Daniel . fcaytoa 1 waging a hard fight against ratification, while his father, Congress man Caleb Lsyton, Delawaro'a Ion rep-i-csenfative in tie lower branch of Con treu, la under orders from tho Repub lics eoagreloaal committee, striving to bring tho recalcitrant ia his party to tha national viewpoint. .- : , Son Irlon, Urgely influen.cd b,v,AJ? f red L DuPont, who owns immense farm ing interest ia Southera Delaware, i (Continued oa faga TwoJ White House To Be Moved To Estate of Chas. R. Crane In Massachusetts CHANGE WILL BE MADE ABOUT MIDDLE OF JUNE Country Place Is At Wood's Hole, Overlooking Bussard's Bay; Decision To Take Pres ident Away Prom Capital In dicates Improvement ; Exec utive Offices Be Moved Washincton. . March 29. President Wilson will ipend th summer at. Wood Hole, .Mass., where tho summer White House will be established on the estate of Charles K. Crane, the Chicago busi ness mn recently appointed minister to China. Arrangements already are being made for moving the President and his family and - a- seed - pert of the eteentive weeks of June and all of July and August. The Crane estate is an ex tensive country plneo which overlooks BuzmriTs Bay and Vineyard Boumt aim is cloe by Marthas Vineysrd, an is land which figures in Colonial history. President Taft and his family spent their summers at Beverly, Mast., not (0 rrv far a n V The . decision to take the President away for the summer is Interpreted at the' White House, a further evidence of the continued improvement in health which Dr. Grayson, hia personal physi eian; ha been representing. Up to i week ago it had in fact been practically decided not to take the President away for the summer, because it was felt that he eould be better cared for at the White House. The plaa to spend the summer on th New England coast. Dr. Graysoa said, meant that th President eould continue th program of motor riding, possibly (oino short yachting trip, probably on th Mayflower, and might vn get ia a few hole of golf if i - - . " ' . ais unprvTvoifBi nausn - Last "iaaaf la Casltal. Last sunmmer, ihy hi first , ia oftct, tho president spaat in ; - v ashington, Other hare bee srient at Cornish. N. H. Th first sumtier, which wa a very hot one, Mr. Wilson pnt the ir cooling plant it th White Hons offlee out of tommilonr Cad announced that inas much a he was aszing congress to day in session in the eapitol throughout tho do; day he would nndertak it himself. and he did so Tho President did not return from the peace conference at Paris last year un til mid-summer and he spent th next few weeks oreMrina for hi Ions (peaking trip in th West, from which ho returned a very kick man" to us th expression contained in Dr. Gray ion's official bulletin,' nd with a few occasional motor ridea of late, he ha been confined to the White House ground over since laft October. Secretary Houston has a ' place at Wood . Hole- near tho summer Whit House and other beautiful,-estates -are close "by. Dr. Grayson decided to ac cept MrCrane's offer, it was. said, be cause ho .wanted the President nway from the' oppressive' beat of Washington in mid-summer and because, he wanted him near tho salt water. ' Aaaoaaesmoat Ixctd. ' Under present arrangements the Pres ident will be in New- England while the Democratic national convention . 'is in session in 6aa Francisco, altlwughj Con gress from, all Vindications mew will, nominally be . in - eioa, but. actually will be traasatting' no business,' by gen tlemea' agreement between th lead-J en. There have been some h)Je that tho President might' reserve the much expected official, airnouneement - as to whether h .wants,, , third term. , -for presentation at .'the-Tonrvention and -if that he true,r he; probably would pro- para bis letter, at-the-summer White House. . "VI , The usual !ff of' seertaries. elerls, stenographer and secret service men will accompany the' President Special telephone and telegraph wires will b installed, and to all practical purpose V' :' .J ' . (Coattaaod oa Tago Two.) WILSON NOT OPPOSED TO GERMAN OCCUPANCY AmbassadorWallace Says Reg 7 ular Troops' May Oo Into V ' .Buhr Valley il fll" th American ambassador to ranee, at today' session , of ronfereaee of am bassadors, confirmed tho sratemen mad in- Waibingtoa that President Wilson wa aoV opoosea to lth entry of mor troop of the German regular army lata th Buhr Valley" if tho German govern-, meat desired, to send them there. : Poring tho sesion Ambassador' Wat laeo baaded to Premier Milleraad the aoto f President :Wilio regarding ;4e Turkish , qoestlon.-7 iadleatioa aapto tho contents ef tho hots was givaa out. Ta conference of ambassador contin ued consideration of -the response to be sent to th Hangariaa plenipotentiaries concerning questions which hav arisen witu re?ar't to- the- -peace termo st- mitted to Hungary. . V f ' Sreasures for the evacuation of Bus- sians menaced by th Bolshevik advance ia the Kovoroooisk aad Crimea resrloas iar also take jip-aad tha oafetoaeo oecidea that th population in the territories ta which plebiscites hav been held may not MrtieiMte ia tha tMitf Germaa oloetionav- . , Charging that "war profiteers" had and Democratic national' conventions, Senator Borah, Republican of daho, told the Senate that the pro-convention ex penditure of some Presidential candi dates presented a "shameless situa tion" promising a saturnalia of cor ruption unless Congress called a halt Senate Votes Big Appropriation For Service New York To 'FrjscQ, . Washington, "March 29. An appropria tion of $1,415,000 for serial mail service from New York to San Traneisco wa written into the annual postofflce ap propriation bill today just before it passed tha Senate and was sent to conference. The House rejected a simi lar proposal, but Senat leaders were hopeful, the House would change its stand. Th rout provided ' for is ' by way of Chicago and Omaha. Varioua pro posal for Southern-routing wer throw out on points of, order, .wi a motion of Bona tor Dial, Democrat, South Caro lina, to sstablUn aa additional route from w York to Atlanta, MAKE PROVISION AIR MAIL ROUTE terl!lH'!h?"i "aoaaead -.'UUDr of Wrt mem- He 1462,000,000 - for expense of the postal service during the next fiscal year, aa increase of about 1,300,000 over the House figure. ' The Senate: also inserted provision for retention of tho abandoned mail tube in various large cities and for appointment of a Congres sional commtttoe to investigate the whole question of. mail ' transportation ia contested center. An amendment -by Senator Swanson, Democrat, Virginia, to permit loaning of army tractors for use by th State in road building was adopted, but the Senat rejected without a record vot proposal by Senator Myers, Dem ocrat, Montana, to prohibit postal em ploye from holding membership in any union affiliated with any other union OuUid the postal service Admiral Grant Criticises Navy Department For Part Played In War Washington. D. C- March 29. Amer icaa submarine nd many second line battleshis wer not ' in. condition for war eryie in April, 1017, Bear Admiral A. W. Grant, then commanding the submarine force, today toldHho Senate committee investigating charge against the-iNavy Department' conduct of th war. , The submarines were too small, of too short .radius,- moupted - small gun and contained poorly designed en gines, tho- officer testified, while ihe battleship required complete , over hauling to fit them for tervice. Admiral Grant commanded the sub marine force for two year prior to tho war and ..later commanded, '.battleship force one of the Atlantis fleet with the rank of vice admiral. He testified that begining in 1915, , he , had urged con struction .of 800-ton submarines, but j received no support in the Department, moot of tho opposition coming from th general' board. Later, h said, th 800 boots were authorized and built. The Department was alow to -.consent to overhaul for the battleship of hi force', although, h had ' been instructed that the hip were to b keptp In eon ditlon for-battle. Admiral. Grant said. Not one of his 24 vessels would hav remained afloat-if it had. received a serious uaderwater blow ' ia -August, I91I,.he aid a. none efJhemhad eomplteJy watertight bulkhead at that time. ' ' , . . H"tt OermanT fleet had brokea through tho British fleet la tho summer of .-1917 weald ynnr- .fore . hav been ia ooadiUsa to meet the enemy 1" asked Chairataa Hale. - vT '";' : "W would hav gone out and done the best w could, but it wouldn't hav been much, was the officer' reply. Ia reply to a. question from Senator Trammell, Democrat, Florida, the wit- oes jaid. that. JhJ blpps. of hht. tmi, aid go to sea aaa performed practi cally th am daty during the war a the newest tosh!. H. tostifled.tbat h opposed they wer s effective a th - modern ship 'jn -tWs wr."J i ,,,,-.. Bead Admiral H. T. Mayo, commander of the Atlantis fleet-during tho war. now a member ef tho - navy tenernl board, will testigy tomorrow.- i TESTIFIES SHIPS NOT IN CONDITION -;-'; .- ui-- ..r Suffragists Have Hopes Of Put ting Amendment Across In Connecticut Also COUNTING ON NORTH CAROLINA IF THEY FAIL Peeling of Optimism Pervades Equal Suffrage Banks In Washington; Republicans In House Prepare To Put Across "Peace'- Besolution To Help Senate Brethren The New and Observer Bureau, 603 District National Bank Bldg. (By Special Leased Wire.) Washington, March J. The fluctuat ing mood in which the women sponsors of suffrage find themselves in dealing with, th final phase to bring ratifica tion of the Sustia B." Anthony amend ment by the 35th atat la more expres sive in Washington than anywhere-else. For" the headquarter ef the National Woman's party i situated here, and radiating from -thi beehive of activity are the various women agents carrying on their work Of conversion " to" the cause of quick ratification. ""Chancer To? suffrage success in Dela ware have " brightened, ' according to Alice Paul, chairman of the National Woman's party," reads the . statement from, the suffrag headquarters here to night. During last week. tho. same head quarters had lL bat given up hope. Tonight .find tho optimistic statement that -"lli aituation ju . Vermont and Connecticut ha also altered greatly in layor ot th amendment." Aecesalea of Strenrth. "A great accession of strength during the week end recess of the legislature," Hiss faul states, "makes us feel that the outlook is sow brighter, particular ly when considered ia connection with th mora hopeful prospects in Vermont and Connecticut. The activities 1 Delaware for tha Ust two d ay have bcea enormoust all the force of the country aro apparently concentrating their effort o ratlflration of tho amendment by Delaware. Ia Vermont "lb Governor today au ber of- tho- woman party, that he would call a special session of th legis lature, if sdvlsed by the attorney gen eral that it was not unconstitutional for him to do o. Tho Governor up to this time ha refuted to consider summon ing session, declaring that under the constitution the legislature eould not take action which altered the constitu tion and that the ratification of the amendment did constitute such an ac tion. Connecticut Snff raglat Honefal. In Connecticut auffragists continue to hope that tho opinion ot the former at torney general to the effect that the legislature of the State is empowered by the constitution . to convene itself in special session if the Governor refuses to act will bring about a session in that State in th near future. - The Nationn! Woman s party In Dela ware, where Mis Paul i working with State Chairman, Mr. Florence Bayard miles, the national ratification chair man, Mr. Laurence Lewis, and a corps of organizers, hss divided its work by counties and has spent the recess inter viewing political leaders of the State, leaving no man unreached. Landing Flelda Here. North Carolina possesses 11 landing fields for aircraft, nine-tenths of one per cent of the fields in the Cnited States. The symbol allotted to the Tar. Heel State, is "North Carolina". it being the recognition mark assigned by the air aervie to be displayed with tho field number on each airdrome. The announcement is wade- tonight by the War 'Department that-the- Air craft Manufacturers' Association re ports more than 1,200 landing-field in tho country,. of which approximately 10 per cent are permanent airdpmcs of the army, navy aerial mail. erviee or of commercial concerns. irginia-Wts-f 16 landing flclda,r Carolina 1 Tenneeo20. andF South Carolina 12, Tennessee Georgui 48. representative:1 Zebulon TWeavcr ac cepted an invitation today to mako an address at tho opening of the new Y. M. C A. building at Canton April 23. - Major Charles M. Stedman, the Greensboro' Congressman, appeared be fore the House appropriation commit' tcathi ..atern8oa.Jnthentrest of n increased : aprpopriation ' for the maintenance . of the Guilford battle arround at Greensboro. The -appropria tion for last year was 9'00, and al though Major Bterlman isarginj an in crease it i not likely that the Bepub Ucan. ateering committe will relent in their "economy", nsogram on ,-wbiek they are preparing "to go. to tho eoun- try, an appreciation . tor in name mount a last year is expected to re sult. ( As retier ror ineir jtepuojicaa oreiu ren in th Benatc, the Jiouse majority i working on their plan to bring about peace, and before the week is out a Joint - resoiotioa will 4ikely ; :bo iatro duced for consideration of th House.. - Th headway which the. Bepublieaa members of the lower body will; mako Is debatable, but' they must at least bo credited with a noble purpose la at tempting to. do what their parry leader could not do in the Senate. ' Z. Tha language of the proposed "peace resolution is causing tho delay in Hduse circle. Tho Knot resolution, presented Immediately-following the first rejec tion of the. treaty by th Henat in No Vembe, provides , ittr -a foEsnal, -pente,. with'the stipulation that Germany ia to be bound by the treaty of Versailles a -(Caatlaitd oa Pig Two,)' Arguments To End Today And .Supreme Court Will Take Recess Until 19th JUDGMENT EXPECTED IMMEDIATELY THEN Root, McCran and Prierson Make Arguments, Former Two Attacking Validity of Eighteenth Amendment And Latter Appearing For Gov ernment ; Another Case Up Washington, March 29. A possibility that the Supreme Court might pas final judgment on prohibition questions aow bsfore it by the middle of next month was seen b ysome observers today in the announcement that, the foil ft recess to be taken at conclusion of arguments on these casea. probably tomorrow would extend to April ID, instead of April 12. The opinion, wssexp.resscil.liy- those fa miliar with the court's procedure that a decision might le rendered immedi ately when tho court reconvenes. Further argument on both sides of questions, touching validity of the eon stitutioual amendment and the enforce men t net new before the court was pre dieted today. There were in connection with the original suit brought by New Jersey as well aa appeals from that state and from Wisconsin. Bhodo Island, Krntucy and Massachusetts cases have already - been argued and will be considered at the snine time. . Three Make Argument, Elihu Boot representing Christian Christian Feigenspan, a brewer of Newark, N. J., Attorney General Thos, V. McCran, of New Jersey, in opposi tion to the constitutional amendment and Assistant tAtonrry General William L. iriersou for the government, ad dressed tho court today. Mr. Boot characterized the probibi tion amendment aa new legislation made under color of an amendment affect ing personal right. '".'If ita validity waa upheld, ha said, the effect would be that the court roeogniied in addition to tho legislative powers of Congress and th oaaetmesit of legislation- by consent of threojiourth of the states, which,, he said, treuld be perversioa not only of tho word but of the whole tone and charnetcr' of the-mnstihrtioni" -For Coed of Country. "It is of little consequence," Mr. Root said, "if there be or be not prohibition in thi country. It is of vat eonso quenre, however, that your honor now decf.le rightly and for the good of our country in the future if there are to bo any limits to the power of amend ment nnd whero the line of limtiation is to be drawn. "I insist-that Toor honor aro- not at liberty to put a construction upon the power to amend that will overturn the (Continaed on Psge Two.) In Capital, But Status After Conviction Is Still To Be Determined.. ; Washington,' P. C. March 29. Senator Newberry of. Michigan, "who returned bere'today, wiH not. resume his aeat in the Senate until questions aa to his status arising from his conviction in the Michigan election conspiracy case have been disposed of. "I aliall not resume by activities in tho-8enate,"-he id"unta . alL tuatr ten 'growing out of the proceedings in Michigan nre cleared up. i.lloru'u not appear .ouay CapirotTrwafderstoodtHiave conferred with soma Republican leader and will return to- Miebigaa for ihe Easter holiday Without any definite plan as to when ho will be back in Washington. Democratic Senators who were act! v -in prcjsiag far invest igatioa. of th Michigan senatorial content, wJjuitte that they had been prepared should Mrr Ntwberry- haTO--pwV-tn--n -appeer-anee in the Hcnate, to seek his expulsion on the ground of ' his conviction on a criminal charge. His decision obviate that action and it wa assumed tho next step pwould be. in -the committee on eleetiona where the Ford-Newberry con test is pending. - :vea should Mr.-Newberry not par ticipate in any roll calls or bo paired on any vote, the Republican .control of tha Senat by a majority of eae wouuLiontinua, ths polilisaLaU Dcing s to 47. EXPEL EIGHT STUDENTS FROM BAPTIST COLLEGE Wske Forest, March 29 During the past week eight students have been ex pelled from Wake' Forest Colleeo for basing. Fiv of the men, it i reported. j were fresbmea. aad were dismissed be- ennse of tho basing -of a number of their own classmate' wbd bad painted XMT elaitomerttT. T92ff-nirrerat of tM college buildings. It if reported thatontudont ad-lmot-lr-aa eye, a a result fif injuries inflicted by i a ? .tipper ,iaiBiavas , Three Running Races. Three Harness Kaee.. Specialties. Pinchurst Tomor row. . At. :Z,;:.:.Z:.:. .-:H..., . i NEWBERRY'S SEAT VACANT FORTH NINETY-FIVE DEAD I Illinois Hardest Hit of Six States In Section Swept By Tornado INDIANA AND OHIO ARE ALSO GREAT SUFFERERS Fatalities Also In Michigan, Wisconsin and Missouri; In jured list Is Large ; Troops ' On Scene At Elgin, His. ; Chi- cago Mobilises Surgeons And , Nurses Chicago, March 29. The death list of the Palm Sunday tornadoes that swept sections of eight states, tonight stood at on huadred and seventy-three. Telegraph and telephone servxe with many isolated communities in the Mid dle West had only been partly restored tonight, and indications wer that the toll of death and destruction would be augmented. The known dead in six Central West ern states numbered 95, while S3 were killed in Georgia and Alabama. Tho property lose in the Chicago area alone was estimated at A,000,000, while fa tho other states affected tho material, lot waa large. Illinois Hardest Hit. . Illinois waa the hardest hit of tlis Central states, with thirty dead, more than one .thousand injured and twj thousand mad homeles. Indiana reported 8 fatalities and Ohio M. Nine were killed in Michigan and one each in Wisconsin aad Missouri. The death list ia Georgia waa placed at 38 aad in Alabama at 17. At Joilrt. Illinois, three persons wer IN CENTRAL WE probably fatally injured, fourteen wem tier here. -- seriously hurt and the property los wa Property 1m at La Grange wa esli estimatc I at a half million dollar. I mated at 1500)00, with that at West " Belief Foreo Omaaiaod. Troepo patrolled the streets of ClsH. Mel rose Park and Wilnutt today. - Health Uommiaaioner ' KoberUs. - i Chieago, Biobllixed every available sui - goon and aura and orit them t the Isevertly than did th floods f hist Pi triekea reas. Major Thompson acted I eemher, according to report here. At with the city council ia raising funds La Grange th chief damage Wsi In the by fblie subscription, aad Bvd Cross headquarter were opened. in several places American Legion pott cent volunteers to natch for loo cn and assist in relief work. Result of Two Storm. Henry J. Cox, weather forecaster for Chicago, .aid the tornado was th re-" suit of a combination cf two storms. One developed, in Alaaka, travelled through British Columbia and joined a storm from the Southwest, which de veloped in the and plateau ef South ern Arizona and Nevada. This combina tion. Prof. Cox said, resulted in a rotary motion which formed eddies and caused a tornado. Although the tornado travelled for ward at a rate of about fifty mile an hour, the wind at the core of the tor- aado was estimated to have had velocity of from two hundred to thres hundred nulea an hour. MAYNARD AGAIN FAILS TO LAND ATASHEVILLE "Plying Parson" Overshoots City By Porty Miles, Land ing At Hot Springs Asheville, March 29. Lieutenant 8. W. Mnynanl - the Flying Parson," agniu failed to find Asheville thi afternoon when he hopped off at Morgantoo, and landed at Hot Spring.' N. C. fortr mile from. this. ritv. In thn illrcrllnn of ilnoxvillc-. Ho aired back toniht that he would arrive here tomorrow ure. May nurd left hTnoxvillo Sunday afternoon and overshot Asheville bind- in-at Morssnron.- fnHv nilix-mt; It believcTthat he turned off the I French Broad river at Newport nd I struck the C. C. and O, going via Marion I ' to Morganton. Tied op there over Bun day owing to the heavy rains, he hopped off this sfternoon and struck out again on the C. C. and O. and missed the city again. He passed over Hot . (Springs landing in a held out of gas. Ho will be here tomorrow juorning for an .exhi bition night.:e says. SPEED NEGRO AWAY AND - THREATEN TO HANG HIM Paris, Ky- March 29. Grant Smith. negro ''barged witw- criminal' assault; was removed' from the eonnty jail hero early tonight by a mob of fifty men. who plaecil him in an automobile aad rushed him out of town. Member of tri an nounced their intention of hanging the I negro from a bridge at Milleraburg, nine milos awry. ." : f, !'".'' Hmith -w brought to the Bourbon county Jail:; from Tlemingsborg thi suirnina; xr . safekeeping.: it was .ar rested in Michigan last week, , charge! wna assaulting the daughter of. a Flem ing county farmer. SIX LOCAL UNIONS TO ' STRIKE WITH CLERKS Roanukc, a Manh 59. Si local taborxnnlons of7Norf6lknd"Western railway employes voted .( tonight . ti Strike- in -sympathy a it h (be Railway Clerk who walked out esrly last week. Action wa taken at a mas media behind closed doors. The men agreed to wj put tomorrow. Twenty-Six Persons Lose Lives At LaGrange, Ga The Heaviest Loser ' t ALEXANDER CITY, ALA., 1 ' REPORTS ELEVEN, AND. WEST POINT, GA 10 five Dead At Agricola, Ala., And One Each At Macon, Oa., Milner, Oa.," and- Cedar Springs, Ala.; Hundreds In jured; Belief Work Well Un der Way To Care Tor Hon- dreds Bendered Homeless; , LaOrange and West Point. Oa., Hare Property Losses Running Into Hundreds of Thousands Atlanta, Gs., March 9. Relief work waa actively- under war ody--ra-the-storm-swept cities of La Grange and West Point, .Ga., wher tornado that also caused heavy damage flnndny af ternoon in other part of Georgia and in Kastera Alabama had takea heavy toll of life nd property. Hi-ports late today from la Grange. the heaviest sufferer, tended to tone down the actual loaa of lift, putting the known dead at 18. This would mako the total known dead te divided as foK lows: I -a Grange, -Ga- 26; Alexander City, A-laM lit West Point, 10: Agricola, Ala- 5; Macon, tj Milner, ' Ga., 1 ; Cedar 7 Springs, Ala,, 1. Haadrcds Iajnred. The number of injured was known to run Into the hundreds and after a sight of darkness -and confusion attendant upon .the wreckage ef tho power plant, the injured at La Grange and West Point were being eared for ia impro vised hospitals with th aid of tho I Atlanta Bed Cross and army authori- I Point said to be "hundreds f thou- I saads." tho tornado that wrt I through West Point Shortly after 4 lo'flaelB Snndaw- aftean-SrMekd tho- 1 busines part of that town even mnr mill aeetlo wher Mvera! hundred borne of mill worker wr destroyed. Smsller Town Safer. Property loss nesr , Alexander City, Ala., was nut it nearly S3O.0O0, whilo tha loss in Alabama wa expected to ho increased details of minor damage came in from isolated communities. . Macon, Ga. suffered heavy property losses and one negro woman wa killed there, while s far east a .Washington, Ga., the storm caused damage . esti mated at 130,000. Thi waa chiefly in a;nroofod building. Many smaller town, . in Georgia reported damage to bundl ing, notably Williamson, Hogansviil and Milner, one life being lost at th latter place. L KING COMPELS CABINET AT COPENHAGEN TO QUIT Copenhagen, March 29. The cabinet of ('. T. Zahlx. Premier and Minister of Ju"tio,, 'ninrA Th Kin i ucniiuuL'u me n-Bi(uauv . not inv inet beesuse of differences which had arisen concerning the plebiscite in the l lansburg region, and called the liberal leader, M Mmrjrasrd, t form a eab- i inet. It is presumed that M. Meergsard has a ministry ready to assume office, M. Zahle has not been asked to eon' Untie in the interim. . ' ' The Politikaa describe th event a "a unique coup d'etat in Paniih con stitutional history. ', j ' . The nnexpeetedness of th downfall of the Zable mlniatry i emphasized by ttie "' ht iglag yeterdr began the Knster holiday and most of ,ka member are on the way to their ihomea. M. Uebe, an advocate of th high. formed a new esbinet to h" Pw ot tnat ot it. Zshl. M. Lie'.) 1 a well known conservative poliJ ticiau. II is not a-nember of parlia ment. .'.,' PROMINENT MEN ASK TREATY BE ACCEPTED Washington, March 29. An appeal to" President Wilson, which later will also bo smade to th Senate, to accept th peace treaty with the Lodge reserva tions, and leave tho disputed Issue to negotiation or a national referendum, ra presented at the White Houao to day oa behalf of a eommitte which number among it membera President Lowell, of Harvard; former Attorney General -Wickersham, Cleveland II. Dodge, Rumuad Dwlgbt,7 Hamilton Holt, ' Jacob U mutt, John U. Milbnrn. Augustus Thomas aad Samuel Coleord, of new York and several others. It wa said that the plan for accept ing the treaty "with tho Lodge reera tion aad su k' thers aa may- bo oh- : tained with the. necessary two-thirds vote for ratification, ha been enanracd by some national i fares not named in th petition today, but which will b announced later and that the eommit teeJn charge of. the movement expect to make it a aation-wide on. . RALEIGH MAN WILL WED ? A NEW TOkK DITORCEC. Chicago, III., March 29. Th niarriaga , hero t -Kiehar CWatkias, aged 37, of Raleigh, N. C, aad Miss Margaret Reed, 23, of New Tork City, divorced at Reno, Nov-. March . 6th. is Indicated br th granting of a license to them Saturi, y.