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. i . -rnarLAKi -V, - . M sees -sweet. Sswd SwSwwSl S ' 47 lessee nptrHi aaa aveM - - -iswat a ssaeW easr. ' 1 1 ' ' . ' ' n jhe News and Qbs TBB WEAWtS - Put V (Mr inMir - e eaaleaal at rears Friday aad eirveir VOLL CXI. NO. 39 SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. ; ; RALEIGH, N. C. FRIDAYS MORNING, AUGUST 6. (920 ' SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. PRICE: FWE GENTS ENGLISH GALL HALT; RUSSIANS REFUSE; MARCH CONTINUES Polish Situation Described As Serious With Prospect, j. For Early Capture : of Warsaw Washington receives- official dispatches SHOWING OUTLOOK GRAVE Americas OoainLPrepivrei To Leare Capital of Poland ' Wall Bolshevik Forcer. Path On; German' Government Serves notice That Allied ' Troops Will Be Befuied Ad A minion Through That Conn- try To Aid Polei In Poihing Back Javaden; ' Advancing Troopi Would Hot Obey Or der To Halt, Says Dispatch .' London, Aug, 5.--Tht BussUn Soviet's teply to Great Britain1! call lor a halt of the Bolahtvik advance is Poland U WliBiSbw.paper says the gioundl WiNffWiaiunnenl mWM til rAtinn taken It that the armies would not obey aa order to halt sad will only 'be eoateat wbaa they reach Warsaw, which has bee promised to ueo lor loot. rT-r--r; CCBHAN GOVERNMENT TO BEFUSE ADMISSION TO ARMT Berlin, Aug. 5. The German govera- ment i sdetermmed to prevent by all aieans the entente from seading troops through Germany to. help- Poland, -ao. cording to a declaration made in the BeiehiUg today by Dr. Walter Simons, the foreign miniiter. Dr. Simoni inti- Biated that if the necenity aroie Ger many would tight to prevent auch "violation"" of German territory. WASHINGTON LKAEM8' THAT SITUATION VERY SERIOUS - Washington, Aug. 5. The Polish ait kation described at the State Depart- contention w nndenroodto - hare- be - se-Ui -aubjt-f diploooa4fe-J'''f .- changes not only between the allied i overnments but betVjf u the allied toowera and the United States. 7 The trend of the exchangee vaa ot tlisclueed in official circles here and silence - was maintained vby ffloiais generally sm to the international aipeete of the Foliah debacle. . Official report! to the State Depart' meat were said tefbt cuite as duquiet- Ing ai preas diipatehea and authoriza tion was sent by t lie department today to " the American legation at Warsaw for. removal with allied diplomatic Teprescntativei from the capital, now endangered by the westward sweep of the Bolshevik forces. Joha C. White, charge d'affaires of the American legation during the ab sence of Hugh Gibson, the minister who - is ia this country, waa informed to nse bis owa discretion in leaving Warsaw. Mr. Gibson, --who has - been in jthe United States several montha on leave during which he has acted as an ad viser, to the State Department, will leave soon for his post. HI MANIA CONCENTRATING ; TROOBS ON THE BORDER lxadon, Aug. pi Human is is con centrating troops on the Rauo-Ruma niaa frontier says a wireless dispatch from Moscow. FIGHTING GOING ON IN TLAINS AROUND WARSAW Berlin, Aug. S. (By The Associated Frees.) Fighting ie now going on vir toally oa the plaina before Warsaw, says the Tngeblatt s special East I'm sisb frontier correspondent. If the Sod army succeeds in breaking through the Chorxelle Pultusk Ki.e, he adds, it will have arrived , before the forts of -Warsaw;"".---. - . . "(ChbraeneTs aKoul7ff miles north et Warsaw, while Pultusk lies about 35 hiiles north of the capital). Heavy fighting ia reported by the - correspondent to be proceeding at Nov. gorod (Northwest Russia.) He says -that-oaAugiist--ind-f!Rajiaa'Te- servss, comprising- 30,000 infantry and a regiment of field artillery, passed through urejeve on the way to Nov. gored. BOLSHEVIK OFFENSIVE ON BUG RIVER ORDERED 8TQPPED Wnraaw, Aug. 8. (By the Associated frees.) The Bolshevik offensive against the Poles slong the Bug "river between Brest Litovak and the confluence of the Nnrseo has bees stopped. The Polish coOvter-offensive north and south is de- veiptng auecessiuiiy and the new Polish army concentrated between the Narcw sad Bug rivers has driven the . enemiy back to the edge of the Province - of Grodno, notwithstanding the pres sure or the Bolshevik forces which crossed the Narew opposite Jtmta. Ia Volhynla the Polish position upon the Upper" Btyr ea the Stoebod and in . ithe Pripet Marshes are holdingwell. B0L6HEVIKI ARMIES MAKE AVERAGE OF SIX MILES DAILY - Warsaw, Aug. 8. (1:30 a. m.)--(By The AaeociaUd Press), Buaaiss soviet krmies driving against the Polish lines jeefeading Warsaw are maintaining an average progress of six ml Ice. per day la the direction of this city. - They are being held ia the sooth, "however, aad ia some places are being tsshed back front the districts out of Lemberg, which ia ons of the objectives : of their pneeat eampaiga. Today's official statemeat - Issued at a .... - ... . m , yCpntlancd, f age Tb.reo.1 ,.v40J SLs9I3 NORFOLK NAVAL RESERVES CALLED TO THE COLORS Bettered Civilian Sailors; Take Place of Othen Ordered .... j! 'To Europe'--' .Korfolk, Ytu, Aug. Sj Naval rsserrei of the first third and fourth districts war today called into active service by orders, from tha Navy Department, ac cording to report received in Norfolk. No order, were received hers ' calling the fifth dittriet reserves to the colon. ' The" ordere caused eonsldsriblt epet ulitlon in Naval circlet but at the aaval operating bate here, It wae laid that ao ordere of any kind had been received. The real significance of the reported ordere eonld not be learned but it wai uid by MTeral officials that it wae prob sbly caused by the sending of additional dertroyers to European wetertIt was thought that tha reserves may be need to fill shore station! of regular naval officers and men sent with the fleet. It was alio, said that orders have been issued for sending a fleet of de stroyers to Adriatic and Mediterran ean - waters This -JleetiwllL ie .eom poeed of the Brooks, Kint, Gilmtr, Humphrey, Tox - and- Overton. They hi ds accompanied vj ne eruuer I 11l'o , J- g yfctfi also placed a limit oa the granting of furloughs. No one will be granted leave of absence for as long as thirty days. Navy officials took thia to indi cats the Navy expects to dispatch the destroyers to European waters at once If a call for the fifth district re serves is issued it will corns throogh the office of Admiral A. F. Feehteler, eommandant of the district, with head quartero at the Hampton Roads naval base. Beeruiting points were advised today of the order calling the first, third and lonrth aisirwi reserves to the service. New Tort, Aug. 8. NavaL authorities here tonizht said the order today call icr naval reserves of the first and fourth naval diatricta into active serv ice, was merely the usual aummer call for doty aboard ship for a two weeks' period. BfimSH CABLE VESSELJUOT TOENTER AMEmtmNJffATEK Will Wait Tor Perminion From State Department, Sayi - Ambasiador j UiamL Fix.. Aug. 5. The British cable ship Colonia, chartered tolay the Soath -American cable from Miami to Barbadoes ia -the British West Indies, ill " not enterAmeriean waters' tintil sneh permission la granted by the State Department in Washington, according to adviees received today from the British ambassador, Sir Auckland Oed- des, by A. H". Hubbard, British vice consul In Miami.- Hubbard is, instruct ed, in a long code dispatch from the ambassador, to take command of the cable chip and to keep, it outside the three mile limit until further Instruc tions from, Washington. Wireless connection has not as yet been established with the steamship Colonia. which left Newport News sev eral days ago, but it is believed that the ship is now off the Florida coast. The wireless station at Miami is en deavoring to get in touch with the enbie ship and the U. S. destroyer 165 is- held at the municipal docks to take iht British vice consul to the Colonia as soon as it can bo located.- WANT UNITED STATES TO BUY LAND NEAR CEMETERY Paris, Aug. S. In order, to prevent any commercial encroachment upon Romagne eemetery, where 83,000 Ame rican soldiers are buried, the French government has been asked by the American Armv Graves Registration- Service authorities to purchase, the gen tle slope facing the front of the eeme tery, and the entire erest of the hill onpid-in part- by -the cemetery ras well ae plots at both aides. The Romagne, Suresnes, had Belleau Woods eemeteries have been approved by the Secretary of War as the per manent resting placet of more than 30000 soldier dead-who jrilLeontinuei-to sleep in French coil. Hnresnes, which is on the slope of Mont Valerian, one of the forts built to defend Pane, is al ready protected against encroachment of any sort, and the same is nearly true of Belleau Woods. The extra groundto be purchased at Romagne .will not only safeguard the cemetery against any encroachment but will provide areas which will be used by American horticultural experts to surround, the hallowed spofwith trees and shrubbery. At the present time the eemetery is surrounded only with, a long wall, and there is no available space for olantine-. - -" 1 The beautificatloa of the eemetery will not begin for come months as most of the bodies in the eemetery now are to be removed , to America,' and this work will not start until mid-September and Cannot be finished until some time next year. After - this work ia finished bodies from otfcW-eameteriei will bo moved in. COVERNOR ROBERTS CONTINUES ...... .j: .' TO GAIN IN PRIM ART MembhU. Ten- Ana1. o-TJsofflcial and incomplete returns from '45 of the itS counties in Tennessee, tabulated late tonight by the Memphis Commercial- Appeal, showed Governor A. H. Boberta leading Yii B, Crabtree, his ODDonent. ia today's Statewide primary for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination by 10M7 votes. These figures cave Roberts 26,433 votes and, Crabtree 15,478. v.., 1 .. .. . .. Crabtree carried Shelby county, in cluding the city of Memphis, with a VMSTAFT'SEP TO SECURE SENATE TO RATIFY TREATY Governor Cox Believes Former President Will Put In Some Good Licks : STUDIES SUFFRAGE FLIGHT NOW ON IN TENNESEEE Eqnal Suffraj e Champion Sayi Democratic Nominee Doinf Work That Really Counts; Oandidale Deroting; - Much Time To Makinp; Surrey of Entire Situation There Dayton, 0, Aog. 6 Hope that former President Taft would aid toward elect ing a Senate 1favortkg the League of Nationi wac expretted today by Gover nor Cos, Democratic presidential nomi nee... "We have every expectation, said the itatement, "that Judge Taft will arge Bepnbljoant ia any State where a pri mary eonteat is. on for. the nominotion of a candidate for United States Senate I la wap saj ikc.Tj.aeaaa a fSmim.... . . fav..dUhe4fltaic,.of Natieaate!tJL doing he can consistently remain a Be publican in the face of hit statement that the position of his presidential candidate on this question is wrong.' governor uois sutement was prompted by reports of eueeess ia the Missouri and Oklahoma Democratic sen atorial primaries of Pro-Leacuo candi dates and by aaauraneea of a Democratic victory in New Hampshire. Gordon Woodbury, new Hampshire s renresea tativo on the notification committee, to day told the Democratic candidate that the Democrats would carry that State and also would defeat Senator Moaes, Republican. Governor Cox accepted tentatively aa invitation to make at least, one address in New Hampshire, probably at Man chester between August 20 and Septem ber 1, subject, to arrangements et the speakers' bureau. The candidate said be hoped to make several addresses ia New England about, that time, having tentative ..dMeMM Connect icutrnl Mm-. sacnuaeiis. ue naa never visitea new EnsOTd-.a2a5asai-.- - Takes Up Tennessee Fight.' Much time waa devoted by Governor Cox today to a aurvey. of the womaa sun rags fight in Tennessee. Ho ex changed Tennessee Information . with Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, of the National Woman's party, and said that it waa "a very complex situatiea," partly because of State constitutional questions raised regarding jurisdiction of the legislature to act on the proposed Federal amend ment. Governor Cox said mneh work would be required before favorable action in Tennessee eould be assured. Be had not received meaaages from members of the legislature urging a 'hands Off policy and did not indicate hit prospect ive replies. - Mrs. Baker said that the Democratic nominee was doing much more effective work in Tennessee than. Senator Hard ing, the Republican candidate- Doing Work That Ceants. "Governor Cox has been sending tele grams aid doing work that really counts', said Mrs. Baker, who -visited Senator Harding yesterday while ecu. ator Harding has been sending tele grams asking how he might help." It was suggested that the Governor might visit Teanesaee but this is deemed im probable. In honor of ths notification committee selected at San Francisco to officiate here Saturday Governor and Mra.' Cox will give a buffet noon luncheon at Trail's End preceding the ceremonies at the Montgomery county fair grounds. Members of the Democratic National committee and Other prominent Dem oerata also will attend. Besides Frank lin D. Roosevelt, the vice presidential nominee, Mrs. Roosevelt and their daughUrr"house guesta at Trail's End during the notification penoa win in clude Chairman White of the National committee, and former Oorernor ,Canip- belU-xfJObio. Governor Cox said he viewed the .visit here on Saturday of President Wilson's secretary, J. P. Tumulty, as without oolitical significance. Ths., Governor added that besides the courtesy of Mr. Tumulty's visit he had known himfor many yean and wat p leased mat ne would be preaent here. PROMINENT RICHMOND MAN DIES AT ADVANCED AGE Father of Mars. Bennehan Cam eron, of North Carolina, - Panel Away Biehmohd, Va., " Aug. 5. Peter H. Mayo, retired ' millionaire tobacconist, of Richmond, died thia afternoon at 5:45 o clock at his country home, Pow- ha'an," in Clarke county, aged 84. -lie had been 111 only a few days, having been stricken with an atUck of the heart. Previously, he seemed in hit nana! good health. . The" body will be brought to Rich mond aad the funeral will be held Sun day from All-Saints Episcopal Church, to the building of which he was a heavy contributor. He wat senior warden of the church and had long been a mem ber of the vestry. - His wife, who .was Miss Isabells Burwell, of Clarke county, died a few years ago.. Two daughters, Mrtv-Thomas Nelson , Carter, of - Riea- mond, aad Airs. Benehan Cameron; of Baleigh, Survive. Both were with him wheal the end came. - i.- Mr. Mayo' was bom at "Pewhataa" in -Henrico eonnty, ' which waa . named for the Indian chief, Powhatan, 1 who lived ia that vicinity lit early Colonial days. . Bt had spent practically ais entiref5 lifs in- BiehmoBd. Hr -retired from active business tomt years ago. No eitixea, of Bichmoad wag bsis bigUy National Committeeman Who Stands For Suffrage I HON. A. WILTON McLEAN. T States' Rights defense League; Resents Interference of esWWrfflaWwWihftJf. kj,..siid yafii,V :, . "States rigfaU la inviolable principle of Southern Democracy, and we sol emnly protest ootsids political pressure oa Soothers legislatures to secure rati fication Anthony amendment, the State's Bights Defease Leans of North Carolina yesterday telegraphed Gover nor James M. Cox, Democratic presides tial nominee, at Dayton, Ohio. The telegram was signed by Mr. William H. Williamson, ef Baleigh, and declares say further interference of national leaders will be firmly resented. The telegram follows: "Slates' rights is inviolable principle of southern demoeraep, aa w solemnly protest ontaidt political pressure oa Southern Legislatures to secure ratiS "cation Anthony amendment We are not mere political pawns ia national polities, and will resent finn'v fur ther Interference of national Waders. Ths people of the Sooth arc opposed to the suffrage amendment, aad our leg- "uiWures' -' i'BSelf WprmliWPiA'e'kS". pre-thaopBOfiM from national political lea vis. Any other position, by na would sacrifice our hoaor upon fickle altar of enpposed po litical expediency, and to that we eanot NAVY YARD WORKERS ASK FDR INCREASED WAGES Sepreientatives of 80,000 Men Appear Before. lCsry Wtf Board With Eequet Washington, Aug. du -Bepreoentattivet of 80,000 navy yard workers ia 43 navy yards ia the country appeared before the Navy Wage Board today to urgo aa immediate laeveaso-ia wages of approxi mately 40 per cent. They asked that the average wage be increased to $1.03 an hour, which they said was five eenrt an hour less than workers ia ths sanis trades received from private industry. Afore thsa 200, spokesmen for ths workers waited ' to be heard and the board decided to hear them in the al phabetical order of their trades. It wee expected thst the hearings would be concluded Saturday. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Boose- velt told the board aad the workers that, in view of the fact that the ap propriations for the pay of He navy yard workmen wero Bird ty law, it would be necessary to drop employes in direct proportion to the smount of increase granted. The representatives of the men later said that they would not object to such curtailment of the navy yard forces aa there were plenty of positions open outside for men dis charged. The members of the board are Cant. 3. K. Robinson, United States Navy.; A. J. Barnes, secretary of the Metal Trades feetioa of the .American .Federation of Labor, and .Louis MeH. Howe, Hsaaistast to Mr. Boooevelt. - TO TAKE LEGAL STEPS TO PREVENT LANDING Tsmps, Fls., August B. Federal dis trict attorney Herbert Phillips of the Southern Distrist of 'Florida, op erating under instructions from Wash ington, is prepared to assist the Navy with the legal departmest of the Gov. erament, if neceaaary in connection with refusal to allow the landing of the Western Vnion'a aew cable lias to' Barbados at Miami. Mr- Phillipa states that the govern ment it refusing to allow landing ef the cable under the precedent set by t-reeident Great, who, ia 1809 refused leading for the irrat AtlsntU cable because the French governnlent had granted a monopoly- to the comftanv. President Great held" that thiTeountry could not allow foatenngof a mono poly and the cable waa allowed en trance to the United States' oaly after the monopolistic feature had been re- esued by Fraaee. if the -Westers Union shall show thst there is ao agreement with the Western Cable Company or the government of Bra nil oa the flnal extesnuoa ef the line trhteh would prohibit another com pa ay paralleling its lias ths baa will be lifted. .'.-'..- -J ' BKECKENR I DC 1 LONG GETS ' NOMINATION IN MISSOURI ' St. Louia. Aug. &r Plnralities of the leadiag caadidatea sfor ths gubernatorial aad.. senatorial nominations increased. as nnoSleial' retaras 'from rural distieta of Tuesday's statewide primary election drifted in today. Breekenridge Long, ca tho face of these returns seestt cure f tht democratic nomination for Fait-1 mm x WIRE OF PROTES A. W. McLean His Vote JFor Ratification National Cbmrnitteeman From North Carolina Declares Dem : I ocrats of State Can Afford to Make Some Sacrifices of Per sonal, Interests and Convictions In Order to Help Demo cratic Party And Advance Cause of Civilization. SA. W." MeLea, Democratic national committeeman- for North ' Carolina, would unhesitatingly vote ia fsvor of ratification of , the womaa suffrage smssdmeut'if'litF'WSTS ti-msmbcT -f ths: North Carolina Legislature. . Be mads thia declaration in a state ment which ha made public when asked to state hit position on ths queetion of ratification. It teems to me," said Mr. MeLcta, "the Demoerata of North Carolina can afford oven to make aonis sacrifice of their' own interests and convictions ia order to help the Democratic party wis ia the nation aad thereby adva'aee the eauae of civilisation throughout tht world. The statement. follows : Principle la Settled If the queetion of granting the fran chise to women by amendment to tht Federal. Constitution could hsvs bees presented to me. as a new question that is, if it had not been already de termined in principle, and If I had the power to decide it I certainly would not favor it. "I cannot overlook the faet, how ever, that the principle hat now bees settled, and that it U manifest that not only a majority of the people kit this country, but of the other great civi lised nationi of tht world, far or woman snffrageT -The' national conventions of hot" great plttlca&.paiUee have. udM mously declared in fsvor of Jt in their platforms. Ths nstionsl. Democratic Democratic convention, aa well as tht Democ ratio convention of our own Bute, have in terms requested our Leg islature to ratify the amendment. The only question now left open, therefore, it ss to the time when tba principle it to be given practical ef fectthat it, whether It shall be dont ia time to allow ths women in all the States to vote this year or lster. They sre already entitled to vote in 15 .Governor Lowden Calls . I9C0 To Stop Rioting - r MCtMUtrMon'' A'iii"" tTree" .. aaoa are re ported to - hero '. baaa killed, many Injured aad' several hoaaea of foreign residents fured tonight In Was Frankfort, 111., 14 miles aoath of St. Louie,' hy a anob beat ea avenging the marder of . Amlel Calyatorra, II yeara old, and Teny HempeL Is, both of West rraakfert, whaedlee were foaad near here yesterday. r St. Louis, Aug. 8 A' mob of more than 8400 ia in control of Wtst rrnnk- fort, III, threatening to drive out the foreign population following the dis covery yesterday of the bodies ef Amiel Caleaterra, 19, and Tony Hempel, 18, who had been murdered, according to a long-distance telephone message received tonight. The rioting started , this afternoon, according, to the message, when two mora suspects were arretted in connec tion with the murder. The mob, hastily organised, ttormed the jail, demanding the prisoners. When thia wss refused they demanded that s committee chosen from their members be allowed to talk to the prisoners, The anthoritisa granted this demand and one of the priaonera who it a chauf feur, ia said to have informed his Ques tioners that he drove Caleaterra and Hempel to Boyaltoa,- Monday in com pany with Settino Des Sensis,, who alto it held in connection with the murder, The committee then withdrew from the jail and the two prisoner! were hastily removed bv the authorities. Tho mob is reported, to have divided and started for nearby towns, where it is believed that Sentia'and ths other two suspects may hsvs been token' West Frankfort is in the" southern Illinois coal region, and has been cut off from, telephonic communication for soma tune oa account of labor trouble and only meagre information wat available. Foreigners are reported to be leav lngwestJrankfailandMriqn by every road carrying what household goods they can and in many instances driving cattle ahead of them. (Centlaned On Page Tea SENATOR GORE ADMITS HIS DEFEAT BY MR. FERRIS Oklahoma City, Okla-TAugl 0 With the exception of the contest for the Democratic nomination 'for' United States Senator, in which Bepresejitativt Scott ternt defeated Senator Thomas P. Gore for renominatlon, none of tht mora important races in Tuesday t pri mary election had been definitely de- elded by returna tabulated tonight, election boaTd officials said it might be m week or more before the complete returns were available; - - Senator -Goto issued a etatement in which ha aaid i . . . . Aa -this rings' down tha enrtsin on my political eareer, I take tbia oppor tunity to expreea my gratltjide to tht people of Oklahoma for all.Jt bat they have done for rit la the past and to expreea any appreeUtienato my friends for their fidelity ia this contest, "I shall eontinus to wish and to work for tho triumph of Demoeratiirpria- eiplee, liberty ef thought, speech, con science, the press, etc . -.- ... - Senator Gore's war record was made ths issue" la tha eampaiga by-Bepre- tentativt'Ferrit.- Ferris msds hit cant. I paigai oa a WUsba platform. Senator Gore has represented Okla homa ia the .Senate sinee. ttalehood. la 1907, while Feme has been a repreeea utivs from the Six district also during Would Cast Stater of the Union, and ia tomt of thett States they havey been voting for more than SO years. It it certain that tht amendment will bt ratified in Jana- ary y wt-if -it is - b ot . rilifled befwe ' tht November election. Tho fsilurt to ratify it now eannot result ia its nti- mato defeat, Dut oaly la postpoaing ths proposition to' a f utart date. Will Promote Sacceas of Party . . "From a cloec atudy ef tho situation I am thoroughly convinced thst tha success of the Democratic party la tha aatiea will be proenoted If the weatea are allowed' to rota at tht ewaaiag s We lle a, and for thia reasoi I do tot be lieve that the leaders of tht Bepublleaa party sincerely desire tht ratification Of the intendment now. There ia a strong reason for thit attitudt oa tJtrtr part. Tht Democratic party it eeeeatitlly . . 1 , . 1 . ,. , ,.- pany oi meaii, ana lis neuonai ptat form contains many idetlittio aad pro grsstlvt principles affecting tht weV- fsrs of the men, women and children ef this eouatry. Tha Republican party, oa tht othtr hand, ia usually controlled by the materialistic, or utilitarian spirit. Both its platform and its eandidttt thia year are reactionary, manifesting an unmistakable tendency to return to the old order of things at they affect tho humtn relations. Tht idealistic ana rfttiainiitiatit for WW0Rii Democratic party ttandiwtoday snpeal partHularly to women, who are not ao apt to be controlled by material con siderations. Mnranver. at tha rjresent time ths fate of the greatest ideal for which any party ever stood, to V.t, tht Letgua of Na tions, it hanging ia tht balance. The Republieaa party proposes to havt the United States repudiate its obligations to its allies and to the world by defeat ing tht Treaty and League, thut leivlng (Coatlnaed Cm Psga Two.) On Strike-Breakers Denver, Col, Aug. 5. One mta ; killed and between thirty and thirty-ire ptr- tont lneluding Chief cf Police Eamil ton Armstrong aad tight or tea other policemea, wers injured, several se riously, in rioting between striking street ear men,, their tympathitert aad strikebreakers tonight. Firs street ears have been wrecked and the plant of tha Denver 'I'ost damaged by the crowd. The dead man has not beta identified. ; Tht mob at 10:30 p. m. waa gttherjng In front of the Tramway building, where the strike brctkera arc housed, but had attempted ne violence. Tht rioting started thia afternoon when two ears manned by ttrikt break era wers forced to stop-by a motor truck oa the track. While tht cars were hatted, a parade of atriktrt aad sympathizers who had been conducting a demonstration at tht City Hall while a committee from the Tradee and La bor Assembly conferred with tht May or, reached tha corner. There were one thousand in the eaurads. Fighting im. mediately became general and 'has eon tinned steadily ever since in various portions of the city. Three Cars Wrecked. Three cart were wrecked, two others wort turned oa their tidet in front of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Con ception. Strikt-breaktrt who manned the last two Ctrt tuor refuge Inside tin Ca thedral and remained there until res cued by the police. Tot mob gathered ia front of tha Post building just after attacking the first cart. It waa dispersed that tima without having dons mora than taking copies ofi-tht sfternoon edition from newsboys aad litering the streets with mem. Tht Post has opposed the striker At 8 o'clock the crowd sgain gathered in front olrthe iToct. Nearly all tho windows in the preaent plant, a three torjr.bpjlding, and in a new one being runt next door, were broken. When Post : employees hoisted aa American flag over the building, tht rioting tub sided slightly but wat rtnewed a few Tht mob then entered tho building, Hammers and tpikea "were thrown into tht linotypt miehiae, paper rolls were moved into the it roots, wster wat pour ed oa the preen ea and tht presses were damaged by hammtrs. Shots were fired severs! tinxs during tht troublt tnd a number of persons wire wounded. Oth ers wtre injured by being struck bf flying bricks and othtr missiles. Nio accurate account of thtlnjured was ob tainable. There was no abatement la tht riot ing tt3p:30 p. in. ' , , CONGRESSMAN MOON BEATEN . . -- IN TENNESSEE -. PRIM ART Chattanooga, Tenn- Aug. 5. Unof ficial returns compiled by the Chatta hooro Times, from the Third eongrea- tioaal district indicate that, Congress man Jbkn A. Moon nas been defeated ia the Democratic pimary for renomiastion ty Judge Joe V. Williams. Col. Alfred Taylor, candidate for Republican nomi nation for Governor spneart to havt de fatted Jesse M. IAttletin by aa ever abflming majority. Ceelldge to Tour Country. 'Boston, Aug. 5. Governor Coolidge said today that he would make a tour of tht country In .behalf of tho Btpqb- Ueaa ticket if tha party manager! de cide Upon tuch a course. Thns fir no reouett cf this tort at coma to him tad hit campaign plant it viet Breti- STRIKE CAUSE OF RIOTING IN DENVER 'dejjlal -tandidittj art In abryaact, -ej REVERSE ACTION FOR LIMIT UPON CITY TAX RATES 'rf Special Committee Frames Draft ot Amendment With : out Provision ' LEAVE LIMITATION TO LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENT Believed That Stats General Fund Will Be Eeduced Trom 66 3-S Cents To IB Cents' Haximnm Income Bats Fixed 1 at 6 Per Cent; Fall Commit tee Meets Today Reverse tetlon wss applied to tha pre viously approved constitutional limita tion in tht tax rata for municipalities in levying upon property for geaernl ex pentet when the matter of framing a constitutional amendment wit taken J by the special eommitteo named for that purpose yetterdty. The present draft of the document makes prevision for fhe . limitation Of only -State taxes, leaving munlciptl limitation! to be imposed and ,The document will.. &Mflk))IH9mr the full committee when it meets thit morning, and what tho full membership will think of the action of the special committee remains to as tetn. Opinion among the members of ths smaller com. mittes it by no meaaa uaanuaoua that tht action taken ia wist, and there) are generally recognized, possibilities of a minority report in favor of a conttita tional limit for cities, aad a fight fa -committee that may bo taken to tht floorol iha Oeheraf Aasembly. Bepreaentative B. m. Dougkton, Ben- " -ator James M. Gray, and othtr members - j of the committee," after conalderlng the proposition, to -limit cities, st further length, tnd hesring the opinions of, Corporation Commissioner! Maxwell and "" Lee, arrived at the conclusion that municipal finaneei nre a little too far i8!ilMl4aeft'flTJ organic law of the commonwealth, and i o thinking, removed it from the propotetmendment, ' A eopjof tht pretent draft wat transmitted to tba Governor yesterday . ariernoon,no ae win Ukely have , thing to tiyvtbout it before it i Untlly passed by tht eommitteo The proposal to limit elty taxet hat aa tctive sup porter in the governor, aad it it believed that he will. lend tho weight of hit In fluence to having the amendment take the form approved in ths sub-corn mittes Wednesday, when it wis sdopted by a . vote of 13 to 5. By a Majority Vote; As ths bill to tumit tht amendment to the vote in the general eleetioa aew stands, tht amendment will require only a majority of the vTjte east instead of the customary msjorfty of the qualified vote. In it is alto a new aeflnitlon of what eonttitutet a qualified .voter oae who has paid hit poll lax. who has lived in the State for two ytars aad who has lived n the precinct for four months. No mention is made of the residsnes in tho county in which the vote ia cast, that proviaibn being repealed by tho en actment. Whatever amendment placed oa muni cipal taxation will be done by action. ef . the General Assembly-through a revise! of the law of 1817, according to mem bers of the committee. This provisioa ean be sramn-ded by ths Legislature aa it Willi, and will enable municipalities to meet contingeneiei hoi now apparent if they should arise. Thit method of limi tation Is not sufficiently assuring to tome members of the eommitteo, aad from there arises the possibility ef a fight in the eommitteo that may find -its way to the floor of the Legislature.. Tsx Rate II Cents. "Virtual atiurancc wit given yesterday that the present constitutional limita tion of 06 2-3 eenta of State taxes will be reduced to IS cents per (100 valua tion. The limitation for the maximum income rate will he 0 per cent for ia- , comes of ovsr $3,000, with a sliding teals downward, bated altogether on ths pretent Federal income tsx. law. The incomo from this tou reCTtt "It" believed," will enable the State to remaia well below the 15 cent limitation contem plated for real and pertonal property. The limitation practically agreed upoa ia bated on tht assursnee from tha Tax eommisslon that ths property valuation in the State has been increased about 400 per cent. . Exact figures ire not yet available, but it wat ttated to the com mittee that the total would be little short of HflOOfldOpoOs- The contem plated limlta would bring the State - itt enstomtry revenue, of about $1,500,- 000, for which there la no immediate call for ihvreese. Members of the committee believe that the 10 per cent margin of increase, allowed in tho Be valuation. Act will not be needed. School Tax Unlimited. The growing needs of" the public school, system." of the State will not be , hampered by constitutional limitations! in tha.way of taxes, and. whstevar assy v bt needed for providing the tlx moatht term of school authorized by the consti tution may be levied, nnd counties and citiet will be left free to levy taxet) for whatever special tehoolt their aiti-" seaa want. Their deairct will require , expression at ths polls. 4 r-. - Discussing the prnpoaal to not intef- fere with municipal tax rates by eoa- titutional amendment, Senatpr Gray said yesterday thit he believed that the remarkably low State rata would act as . -an incentive to keep eitiot and townt within thit limit also Tba i entire membership of the committee believed that the working out of tha rtvalaatioa let would in -time to come to be looked . upoa at ona oft the greatest pieces of eonetruetlve legislation aver-connmatt ti 14 $ State, r.-. . , r
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Aug. 6, 1920, edition 1
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