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The News aec ' ; 1 ' N, ; ten Pages today. . r. Saturday mornin THE WEATHER Partly cloudy, east showers t portion Saturdays Si, day probably fair, warmer. WATCH LABEL. ' as rt hm . ihitiI' a. w Man olwtisa sas araU sl a stasia Mao. erver VOL. CXI. NO. 129. 7, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1920, TEN PAGES TODAY. PRICE: FIVE CENTS RALEIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS REC EiVE E New Scale With $1,200 Maxi mum 1$ Adopted For Township STATE CLASSIFICATION BASIS FOR INCREASES Teacher Who Had Asked for Maximum of ? 1, 4 0 0 Art Sat isfled With Provision! Made By Township Sohool Board Negro Teachers Figure In Bates A salary scale with a $1,200 maximum for white teachers baaed on the State' classification, was adopted by the Ha leigh Township School Board yesterday afternoon and will he effective for the aew school year. The new acale, it ii understood, is acceptable to proponents of the $1,400 maximum seal who based , their arguments upon a misapprehension of the scale now in vogue in the Dur ham schools. -The salary scale adopted follows Claas A Teachers who hold a degree of graduation from a Standard A Grade College and have had two years teaching experience; or teachers with ten yeara training is acceptable schools, siw lor white teachers and $750 for colored teachers. Class B Teachers with college train Ing three years beyond the standard ' high school course. $1,100 for white teachers and $700' for colored teachers; ' Class C Teachers with college train ing two years beyond high school course $1,000 for white teachers and 50 for colored tenchers. v ' Claas D Teachers with one year of college training beyond high school course, $000 for white teachers and $900 for colored teachers. Class E Tenchers with standard high school graduation, $O0 for white teach ers and o50 for colored teachers. The meeting' of the committee was held yesterday afternoon at two o clock in the office of the mayor. Present rep resenting the Kiwanis Club, which has consistently urged increased salaries for teachers were Mr. Willis Smith, Mr. W. B. Smith and Dr. M. B. Gibson. i ne jtaieign woman a i mi nmcn , west on record Thursday afternoon for - 4.M n .U. nlu . A I V - Was. AM Bruncr, Mrs. B. H. Griffin, Mrs. t. B. Crow, and Mrs. W . A. Hoke. Mayor T. B. Eldridge, at the meeting mAm-m i;Al.dJ-lk' .tt'.f ...1- n school board in a tort of keynote ipeech. Based On MksapereheBalen. "The agitation for $1,100 salaries for teachers has been based on a misappre hension of fact. -In the first place, all the agitation has been based on a re port current 'that the Durham School committee has made a standard salary f $1,400. But the Durham schedule of salaries is based on a classification entirely different from that of the State Board of Education which ia the 'classi fication used in Raleigh. In the Dur ham classification, Claas A Include! those teachers who have done one year's work beyond graduation from college, and have received a Master's degree. In Raleigh it includes those who have graduated from a standard college with a four year eonrae, requir ing for admission four yeara of nigh school preparation, one-fourth of the course to hare been taken in profes sional subjects, and who have had two years of teaching after graduation in the kind of work applied for, whether primary, intermediate or secondary. There is, however, one important ex ception to this, viz. all teachers now employed in Raloigh school who have taught acceptably for at least ten yeara should be considered of Class A. irre- apective of college training. This is equivalent to Class C. of the Durham schedule. "The agitation jn Balcigh has been for $1,400 salaries for tpehers in Class A. According to the Durham elassifi ratios, the greater part of teachers in our liana a wouiu oe ruivu in visas . ... . 11 V. . X 1 11 C, nad their salary would be $1,000." Mayor Eldridge learned these facta In the comparison of the Balcigh and Porham classification from Mr. Jones Fuller, chairman ef "the Durham school committee, by whom he was informed that there were no teachers in Durham Claas A outside of the high school. Teachers in Class A in Baleigh are do ing work ia the elementary grades, one to seven. . - . r : ; . Is Highest Scale. Commenting further upon the salary schedule last night the Mayor went on te say, "The salary schedule we have adopted is for teaehers in this class at least $200 higher thaa the salaries paid to teachers doing the tame work under the most liberal schedule of salaries adopted by any North Carolina school board, so far at I have been able to leara. , "N formal action has bees taken In regard to annual increase of salaries, lint it is the understanding of the com mittee that, that phase is to be taken up later, and annual increase made un til a maximum aalary is reaehed that will place our teachers on a better footing thaa persons -of equivalent edu cation and training ia other, employ ments." - '' " " In consequence ef the Mayor's state ment to the committee, Mr. Howell, superintendent of Raleigh . schools, acknowledged that ' the , recommenda tions which he had made for a 11,400s aalary standard were based vpoa a mis apprehension ef the Durban standard with which hit comparisons had been made. Mrs. B. H. Griffin, president of the Woman's Club, and the committee from the "Woman's Club who were pre senting the teachers claims expressed (Centlaeed en Page Twe.) SALARY INCREAS APPRECIATE FATHER. SHE PLF J f , - VnV r v 7-1 Mrs. Stella Btern 1'erry. uovelltit, urge children to recotiuM merits and affection not only of Delegates From New York State To Democratic Con vention Instructed- Albany, N. Y., May 7. Delegates from New York State to the Democratio National convention fit Ban Francisco next month will recommend to the Na tional Dlatform committee the accept' nnce of a plank calling for Universal disarmament, a a means of establishing peace on foundations that .cannot easily disturbed and of driving dowa the burn cost of living. A. resolution pissing the delegates on record as in favor ' of auen a plank, was adopted unanimously by the. eon fetenee of flolegate. St. ti closing ses sion tonight, ' .-i I- Failure fif the conference to go on record en the prohibition question or the League of Nations brought eharges from Mayor George F. Lunn fit Bchneetady, and former. Supreme Court Justice cam uel Heabury of New York, that "the issues were being dodged. ' Mayor Lunn suggested that President Wilson s administration should be en domed and a definite stand taken on the League of Nations. Seconding the sue gestiont of. Mayor Lunn, Mr. Beabury offered a resolution which, if adopted would have placed New York a delega tion in opposition to a "wet" plank of any kind ia the .National platform. jso action was taken on Mayor Lunn a suggestion that a resolution "offerini encouragement to President Wilton1 should be presented to the conference, Jieplying to the eharges that issues were being dodged, former Congress man John J. Fitzgerald, of Kinss. member of the resolutions committee, said the Democratio party of the State at its unofljcial convention in February, had endorsed the administration of Preaident Wilson and had declared itself for a speedy declaration of peace and a lieague or .Nations. - Norman E. Mack, of Buffalo, was re elected National committeeman from New York, a position he, has held for twenty years. , HERBERT HOOVER CALLS ' JOHNSON TO TIME NOW Hiram Qualifies His Opposition To League ot Nations . .;. Ia Statement i ' Johnson and Herbert Hoover lave is sued statements making clear their posi tions on the league - of . Nations, re garded in some quarters as a .leading issue in the coming presidential cam paign., "I J.'4-.,. -. ' - V Senator Johnson, tpesklng 'of the re cent California primary, had this to lay in Washington:- : . . "I am very glad Mr. Hoover accepts so philosophically the result in Cali foraia. Mr.' Hoover says' bit friends 'introduced no personal issue' bnt regis tered their protest at my 'extreme op position to any league to prevent war and reduce armaments. My opposition hat been Mr. Hoovers English ' league, which aid neither of these things." Herbert Hoover today authorized the following statement: ' ' ; ' '. W ' ' HSenator Johnson is quoted at statins that ae bat never expressed opposition to any lague to prevent war and reduce armament. This indication of a change of heart is a matter. of great satisfac tion. He states that he does not want an English league.' None of ns dp. . But does the Senator mean that the covenant with the Lodge reservations it an Ea rfiah league! This is the covenant and these are the reservations which I have supported since they 'were first voted by the majority of the Senate last November. Will the Senator speak out plainly on thia subject so that the peo ple may know where he stands and what he standi for in this matter. J0 Per Ceat Stock Dividead Worcester. Mass- May 7. The Boyal WUreestser Corset Company today de clared a stock dividend ef 20C per cent from its surplus and voted to increase its capital stock from $800,000 to $2 400,000, giving stockholders two shares of new stock for each one share of old. DISARMAMENT FOR ALL NATIONS URGED N O 1 b S I V mother, but of dad. , sjslnsaaMatilal Revolution In Mexico Continues To Make Progress With out Bloodshed Washington, May ?. BeporU, official and unofficial, today credited 'the Mcx ican rebels with further bloodless suc cesses. Information reaching the rebel agents here, they aaid, pointed to an early occupation of Piedras Negras, Laredo and Matamoros, the only impor tant border ports of entry remaining in Carranta control. Newa of the revolt of tbo garrison at Vera Crux wat re ceived through official - channels. the town being' immediately:. evacuated by the rebels, presumably becatue of the presence m me nararr ui juciicsa gun boats, loyal to Carransa. - - V Official confirmation of 1 the report. received early in the day by rebel agente that Carranza already .had left the capital was lacking tonight. . The State Department today received several messages from the embassy in Mexico City but were all dated Thurs day. These dispatches made no mention of Carranza's intention of leaving 'the capital, it was said. Dispatches from rebel tourcei re' ported Luis Cabrera, bead of the Car ransa cabinet, -was en route today by train for Piedras Negras, and that Al fonso Cabrera, brother of the. cabinet minister, has been arrested by General Qonxales in Puebla. Alfonso Cabrera, while governor of Puebla, was concerned in the prosecution of American consular agent W. O. Jenkins. Developments along the border today suggested three possible fights near, the United States border. The commander of tho Laredo garrison appears to have held his men in line, notwithstanding the defection of customs and immigra tion guards, but rebels were reported to have captured a trninioaa or leuerai re inforcements between Lampazos and the border town. ' A similar situation was presented at Piedras Negras, opposite Esgle Pass. There the commanding officer was said to have disarmed his garrison, while a rebel force advancing .northward waa said to have reached a point only 25 milea aouth of the border. ' Andrew Almazan. the rebel who has been operating in northern Tamaulipas, was reported to be praparing to attack Matamoros, opposite Brownsville, Texas. Spokesmen of the revolutionists min imized' the importance of the refusal of General Calles to accept the services of Villa and the announcement of Gen eral Pablo Gonzales, that he could not support the revolution. Gonzales, who was Obregon's opponent for the presi dency, has insisted that hia break with the administration must not be con strued as indicating hit support of the larger . rebel movement. In the mean while he, hat occupied the capital of Puebla. and has the largest single re bellious unit ia the vicinity, of the cap ital.. - - . DORMITORY IS BURNED . AT SLACKSTONE SCHOOL Petersburg, Va- May 7. The main dormitory building- of -the Blaekstone Female Institute at Blaekstone, was de stroyed by fire of unknown origin thii afternoon.- The 400 girl in the build ing at the time escaped without injury. The fire started-on' the. third floor of the building, which waa.of frame con struction and in a abort time the struc ture was in ashes. 'The lose is estimated at $100,000, partially covered by insur ance. The students are : being given temporary shelter in the hornet of citi zens 'of Blaekstone. , Labor Federation Opposes ' Cevemmeat. Paris, May 7. The executive commit tee of the general labor Federation, an nounced tonight. that ia view of the at titude adopted by the government againat the strike movement, if felt it self bound to organize and extend its resistance to the government. Conse quently the announcement said, the Fed oration is considering the entry of aew industrial forces into the strike'move ment at an early date. Tonight the general strike situation showed littlfl change as regards the rail- roaa men ana the miners, but the dock men were, returning to orkv . BY REBEL FORCES EMiD STEALS MARCH Oil UNITED STATES IN TRADE Makes Contracts With German Manufacturers For Long Tim$ Tq Come EXPORT BIG QUANTITIES : OF RAW MERCHANDISE French Merchants Find They Hare Little Opportunity To Sell Across Bhine; Germany ' Using Economic Situation To " Bring Pressure To Change Treaty Provisions Paris, May T- (By, The Associated Press.) That Great Britain hM atolen a wide march en the united States an France in the reswrnption of business relatione with Germany is the opinion expressed by French merchants wh have tried to bur" goods across the Rhine. In a great -majority of cases, the merchants report, the German man ufacturert repliee t inquiry that his plant will be tied up' for a long time to eome by contracts with Dritian eon sumers. - An investigation based upon these reports is said to have developed the fact that the Britiah are exporting great quantities of raw material to Ger many for which they are asking no pay ment Jn money but are taking manu fae hired articles in exchange, Germany now" is getting her iron ore largely from Sweden under similar ar rangements, making her almost entirely independent of France for raw mater' ials. While France ia anxious to get from her coal and agricultural imple ments which she can no longer buy in the United States without immense dis advantages due t othe unfavorable ex change. Belief is expressed in metal circles that Germany it necking te use this economie situation te bring pressnre on France with a view te gaining con cessions ia the terms of the Vcrsaiflei treaty. ' ". -INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON COMMERCIAL KEATIONS. .rarU,.ikrX Tie- aVUrnaCaaal par- uamentary conference ea eommeree held ita closing session today With Pre mier Millerand presiding. The conference adopted a aeries of resolutions, ene of which requested that international legislation be enacted te control responsibility in! sea tranrpor- tation. ' The eeeond asked the formation of an international commission charged with studying tho question of exchange and arriving at an agreement concerning the debts of the allies and former ene my countries. The third requested that the various nationt immediately take steps to cur tail expenses, improve their financial positions and reduce the circulation of paper currency for the purpose of Sta bilizing exchange. The fourth de c la red that the reparations elauset of te Versailles treaty aould not be eanged and asked tat te reparations commission of te peace conference pro ceed to allocate gold bonds to te coun tries wio suffered troug te war and tat te nations signatory to te treaty facia tate advance on te bonds. - MAYNARD GETS DISCHARGE FROM THE ARMY TODAY "Tlia. Vlftnngr PoriAn" W4T1 Tstlrak agt H AJ u6 VWB WW a mn Position With Brooklyn . Central T. M. C. A. Mineola. N. Y., May 7. Lieut. Belvin W. Maynard. the "Flying Parson,'' who won -the army trans-eontiental and the New York-Toronto air races last fall. announced tonight that he would be dis charged from the army tomorrow. He his accepted a position wita the Brook lyn Central Y. M. C. A. and plant to continue in that work for a year or more before returning to the Baptist ministry. He is married and hat two ehUdrea. Lieutenant Maynard ia eon sidered one of the best pilot ia the AmfeVicaa army sir service. , HS'left the ministry shortly after the United States entered the war and joined the aviation service. He rapidly acquired the art of handling a plane and aoon after qualifying as a pilot. he waa made an instructor and served abroad ia that capacity. Aviation offi eiala who decided that hia eervicea were most valuable as an instructor prevent ed him from going to me rront at a combatant, although he it said to have requested . active combatant service on In the New York to Toronto race be several occasions. ' , eaaily led all other contestants, who in- eluded both army and civilian fliers. Ia the tram-continental race, limited to army aviators, he waa the first pilot to fly from Mineola te Sat Francisco and return, making the entire trip with only one roreea lanumg, quo vo en gine trouble.- : . Cenvleted ef Murder. ,. aPontiae, Mich, May 7. A Jury n"ctr euit court late today found Aneoa Best, a Flint, Mich, youth guilty of the mur der of Miss Vera Schneider a telephone operator whose body was found on the porch of an unoccupied dwelling ia a restricted residence districthere April 25. Beat was sentenced to lift impris onment. : I -; . ; Ceomhe Makea Flying Reeerd. Minneola, N. Y, May 7 Clarence Coombs, piloting an Oreaeo plane with three passengers and himself rose te the hetght ef 1600 feet vouched for by of ficiate of the American flying jSlub, 1 JOHNSON PLANS TO BREAK INTO SOLID SOUTH FOR VOTES Would Use North Carolina As Entering Wedge To Punc ture Wood Support V-cK WANTS NORTH CAROLINA TO USE AS AN EXAMPLE Primary Comes too Late To Se cure Delegates To National Convention But Backing of Republican Voters Would Be Strong Influence In His Be half, He Figures The Newt and Observer Bureau, 603 District National Babk BUI;., By R. E. POWELL. (By Special Leased Wire) Washington, May 7. The Republican party in North Carolina is In a fair way now to see something new in politics and the bandpicking of Morehead and Butler in order to gam National prcs tim ia miirhtv aot to find its way to I Doliticul araveyard unless somebody changes Hiram Johnson's mind lu the next few days. , The treaty bitter-ender, California! native son, the right hand bower to the chief Bull Moose of .1913 ana lor tne last 24 hours the fear of every Repub lican politician, all these things and probably more hat decided te make hit fight in North Carolina primarily to learn whether or not there are any Jfc publiaans in the South who think In terms other than the pie counter and the petty cash Wall street is willing to see splurged on Southern delegates. Te Teach Moral Lesson. It will be a unique affair in North Carolina. Of course, Senator Jphnson expects to get such a vote ia the pit maries on June fifth as te give him hit pro rata abare of the. delegates. Bat, greater thaa this, he is playing North Carolina for a moral lesson to 'other Southern delegates. He will hardly be able to get an expression ia any other State and he won't be able to hear the certified returns in North Carolina be fore the curtain rises in Chicago on June S. He wOl have, however, the returns tt carried ' in the newspapers - and ' the friends of Johnson will be In the Be- toubfieaa strongholds to watch the count, If North Carolina atands by him as hia friends ia the Tar Heel State have In dicated, the verdict will be held up be fore every Southern delegate at Chicago and if Johnson enters the convention fight with a plurality of delegates over any other candidate, his managers have been led to believe that the Southern delegates will swing over and leav On- eral Wood and hia boodle ladder but wiser companions. Greensboro Ia Hesdqearters. Greensboro, it waa announced from Johnson headquarters today, will -be headquarters in North Carolina. A per sonal representative ef Senator John- eon's l;ft Washington tonight for the Gate City in company with Iredell Meares, of Wilmington, who will pre sent him to the Republican contingent. No campaign manager wilt be selected at thia end. It ia the present plan of the Johnson force te organise a com mittee and let that committee pick state manager. Upon such manager will fall the duty of staging the Johnson fight in North Carolina. J. Hay MeCrary, of Lexington, hat been suggested for the job. It is not known whether he will aeeept or not, but from the information Senator John son has been given about Mr. MeCrary he is satisfied that the Lexington lawyer is the type of man he wants. Zeb V. Walser, of the same town, it directing the Wood campaign and it would add interest to the fight to have both the managers come from the same place, Try Te Head Off Movement. Much effort has been made by the so-called conservatives in the Repnbll ean party to head off this Johnson movement. For instance, Iredell Meares hae been receiving telegram from the Stat asking him to turn loose and let the action of the convention which en dorsed Judge Prilfhnrrt ' stand. Mr, Metres, of course hai nothing of the 1 : j i. v i - D!.V, i. . . i ii ii in ma iirnu. Aiaui nun um cu think of nothing but the nomination of Johnson. What strange reasons have actuated him to the belief that Johnson ean be nominated if he earriea North Carolina no ono knows but Mr. Mearee. Just the aame, he has started the fight and it promises to he stormy. Former Senator Marion Butler is die pleased at the construction of his re cent statement as an endorsement ef Senator Knox for the Republieaa presi dential nomination. Butler it for Pritch- ard first, Inst and all the time. He ex pects, to put his name before the con vention in Chicago and not to take it down for Mr. Wood, Mr. Johnaon or Mr. Knox. Me. Lowden is another matter although no one has suggested that Sen ator Butler is a Lowden man. . Pretty Mess All Around. It Is a pretty mess the Republican! are finding themselves jn all tho way around.' Penrose it sick but tending out advance notice of his presence at Chicago "with belli on;" Lodge, slated for Chief Keynoter, trying to reconcile Johnson to a party program and John son sweeping on like wild fire. Much of the Johnson support, it- is true, is by way of rebuke to the whole Republican party. , The California fa vorite was pushed out in the ring by the eld guard and told to "go to it. They ever expected him to develop any strength because of his bitter fight against the league of nations. Now they are realizing thst it it votet againat the Republican party, a feeling that we 11 give yon a dose of your own medicine" that is carrying Johnson os. Republirant in favor of the treaty want (Ceatlnaed ea Page Twe.) MEXICANS CUT RAILROAD LEADING INTO TEXAS Telegraph Lines Also Cut and No News Obtainable Re garding Trains Laredo, Tex., May , 7. The National Railway of Mexico, the prineipsl line connecting Mexico City with the Amer ican border, was. cut by Mexican rebels today st Lompazos, 60 miles south of the border. Telegraph wires also were eut and noM fer TO Senator MOSeS Re- bchi i-uuiu ue ouiainea ox a muuary , train reported to have started with 400 reinforcements from Monterey for Nuevo Laredo, opposite hore .following the mutiny of nearly 100 mounted cus toms guards there last night. The custom guards, who declared al legiance to the Sonora revolution, fled after exchanging shots with Csrranza soldiers last midnight and tonight were reported to be at Colombia, a border town 25 miles northwest of here. They wore said to be accumulating reinforce ments and equipping themselves for an attack on Nuevo Laredo. Reports that they hsd already demanded surrender of the city could not be confirmed. Gen. Reynaldo Garza, military com mander at Nuevo Laredo, today declared the municipal police and part of the custom guards numbering six hundred men, remained loyal to the central gov ernment. ES Picture of Country Press Fight ing With Back To Wall Pre sented To Committee Washington, May 7. The picture of the country press, which includes the little four pane paper frost back home, fighting with iti beck to the wall and almost ready to r.o under, beeauss of tho print paper shortage, wat presented to a Senate Investigating committee to day by Cortland Smith, of New York, president cf the American Press Asso ciation. , . . Along with bit picture of the troubles ef the country editor, Mr. Smith made the direct charge that the print paper market had been cornered and that the print paper interest hsd conspired to regulate production so that priest might continue to mount. In the face of thia situation he told the committee there wat . little hope for the email town paper and that unless quick relief waa, provided -hflf-oi ,theW-waul(l b wiped eut of existence. , " While other witnesses had charged that the market had beer cornered Mr. Smith, whose association largely sup plies the country press, was the first to allege a conspiracy to regulate output -The long extended heariars were In corrupted so that the committee might eonier oenina closed doors with As sistant Attorney General Ames,, who wat asked to recommend some wsv out or me irouDias, , John A.-? Penton. of Cleveland, who testified before the committee yesterday, presented proposals today to Postmaster General Burleson and the Federal Trade commission for doubling the postage rate on claas publications weighing more man a pouna ua limitina? daily papers to 24 page with on Sundays. The Federal Trade commission's find ings in its investigation of the newsprint paper situation were seat today to the Department of Justice, where, it waa eaid the report wat being studied "with a view to taking such action as it war rants. URGES PRESENT PRICES AS STANDARD FOR SHIPS Committee of Business Hen Make Xecommendations Be garding Sale of Vessels Washington, May 7. Prescnteosfijf of reproduction rather than original costs should determine the shipping boards prices for its war-built tonnage, in the opinion of the committee', of business men appointed by Chairman Benson to suggest terms of eale for the vessels owned by the board. The committee which was named after conference of business mn here last month, has submitted a report, which was made publie tonight by the ship ping board. The report assert that is the shins owned by the board wer built as a war emasure, under war conditions with at tendant abnormal costs and as a new industry had to be built up as a war necessity, 'the abnormal cost should be absorbed as war waste and prices should be fixed upon the basis of pres ent prices for reproduction, considering both foreign and domestic production costs."- 'The prices to be ' determined' the report adds, "in a manner to assure stability, either by fixing prlees for ships of given types and tonnages, which could " be -maintained over a period sufficietly long to give buyers the as surance that after they have contracted for purchase of ships they will, not be placed at a disadvantage by subsequent reduction in prices." Taking up the subject of terms, the committee . ecommended - that 10 per cent cash be payable on delivry of the ship with additional paymata it the rate of five per cent to be paid semi annually for three years,' and the bal ance in twelve yearly installment of five per cent each. The committee made the suggestion that "in view ef the fact that the ships constitute capital asset of the United State government," the proceeds from the sale of the vessels be applied to the redemption at mirket prices of Liberty Loan bonds and victory notes. . .- . - Issee Call for Baaks Washington, May 7-Tbe comptroller of the currency today issued a call for the condition of all national bank at, CORNER IN PAPER VITNESS CHARG the close of busines on May tV". . DUPONTS THREATEN - 111 II IVI 1 II UUU J BOOM FOR OFFICE Publicity Manager Writes Let- o Senator Moses garding Dye Bill. , r- -x- WANT HIM TO SUPPORT PASSAGE OF MEASURE Senator Kenyon Beads Letter In Senate During Considera tion of Dyestuff Measure Af ter Senator From New Jer sey Says Pro-German Influ ences at Work To Defeat It Washington, May 7. (By The Aaso' ciated Press.) Major General Wood's Presidential candidacy was the vehicle for another shower af fireworks isi the Senate today, when Senator Kenyon, Republican, of Iowa, charged that the DuPont interests virtually had threat ened to attack the Wood boom unless . Senator Moses, of New Hampshire, one of the General's campaign managers, desisted ia his opposition to the pending hill to protect an American dyestuff in dustry . , , The DuPonts are the largest Amer!- Senator Kenyon reading, by permission of General Wood and Senator Moses, a -letter to the latter, signed by Charles K. Weston, manager of the DuPont pub licity bureau, declared it was "certainly In the nature of a threat." , Chargea Fre-Gersnaa Iafleeaeee. The bill, which- is described by its sponsors as framed to foster an Ameri can dyestuff industry and prevent Ger many' regaining a worl.l control' of the tusiness, with its potential influence in the production of war munitions, was arparontly having a quiet time. Senator Frelinghuysen. Republican, of New Jer sey, had just finished tolling the Senate that pro-German influences were werk- ' ing to defeat the bill, boasting that they had prevented the United State from, entering the dyestuff s field before the war and hoped to do it again. n Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Colo' rado, who followed also, wis opposing the measure whea (Senator Kenjoa broke in.. "We have heard" of the Jnfiuene-e at . wort to defeat this bill," wui Senator Kenyon. "Has the Senator any knowl edge of the influence! at work to se cure ite passage! I have in my hand a letter addressed to a certain United States Senator who ia opposing thit bill, and is slue sue of the manager of the eani'itlacy of a certain gentleman for President of the United 8tatn, which letter is certainly in the nature ' of a threat to the Senator ia relation to th&t candidacy if he does not eease his opposition to thit bill. That letter is from the Publicity Bureau of the DePont Company at Wilmington, Del." , Senator Reada Letter, There waa a general awakening of interest in the ehambor and a piling out of cloak rooms II Senator Kenyan read the letter as follows. ' . , Tlear Senator Moses: " "I was among the gathering of Re publicans at the Playhouse in Wilming-j ton on the evening of April 15, and listened with great interest to your ad dross in support of the candidacy ef General Leonard Wood. Your exposition of your candidate l attitude on National preparedness was partirilnrly interesting, inasmuch a it showed the General to be in thorough ac cord with all ef the principles involved in the pending legislation for the devel opment of n self-contained coal tar chemical industry. Wilmingtoa ia in tt rested def ply in this industry, for no community hsd closer contact with the v'tal questions of preparedness or mor intimate knowledge of the inprepared ness of the country when the late war broke. "The smendment which yon have of fered and your active opposition to the preparedness feature! of the dye bill, reem to tome of us to be not in accord with your candidate's position or with your fervent appeal to us t support him, because of hia stand for national preparedness. "Personally, I want to support Gen eral Wood, but I find it difficult to reconcile the two attitudes ef one of hit important campaign managers the et on the floor fo the Senate and the other on the public platform sufficiently to) have full filth in hi cause. "I am outlining a publicity eampabjn to inform the publie concerning the present: status of the proposed dye leg islation. Msy I ask you to.eet me straight as to the apparent Tontradie tioa in your attitude toward General Wood's candidacy and your attitude oa the dye bill so that I may be perfectly accurate in what I writet . "Very truly yourv, v . ' "CHARIXS K. WESTON, "Publicity Bureau. ' The letter," resumed Senator Keni yon, "is used with the full knowledge and consent of the Senator (Mr. Moses) who resents it, and I am lure thit I ought to say that the candidate for President whom the Senator is support ing Gen. Leonard Wood, also reeeolt the letter. It thowi the method that sre used 'to try to pass this bill. We have the remarkable spectacle of a United States Senator who ia engaged in managing a presidential campaign, practically threatened at to what may happen to that campaign if ke does aot wlthdriw his opposition to this bill. - - Condact Publicity Campaign, i"! will say further that in lis with the publicity campaign which the Dn- . Pont people are carrying ea, for thi bill, there ia an article ia the Manu facturers' Record of April S3 end bear ia mind tho letter te the Senator n dated April 18 an article entitled! 'General Wood i for preparednes but (Ceatlaaed ea Pate Two.)
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