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5 i fews and Oibs V7ATCH IALZ i - j tmwal e j i mm4 mvm4 erveir awenfWe) ! (ABh vol cxn. no. eo. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. , ' RALEIGH. N. C. SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18. 1920 TWELVE PAGES TODAY. PRICE: FIVE CENTS EXPERTS GIVE . OPINION THAT WALL STREET EXPLOSION WAS CAUSED BY A POWERFUL BOMB GENERAL : VIEW OF WALL STREET AFTER EXPLOSION BETTER FINAIiClAL THE WLlTnLH -, , Fair Saturday Bad Baaday, ' with a change la taa tm- pcratare. ,sMtl : RPIAHSTO To Make Effort To Have The War Finance : Corporation Resume Operations C0H0N ASSOCiATIOli APPOINTS COMMITTEE McLean Cooperating With - Senator Simmons and Oth - en To Help South; May Be v ject Virginia Petition ; Tor Re-Argument of Bat Case; Young Ellsworth Dies . " , Naws and Observer Bunas, 80S DUtrict Nat. Bank BIdg. - (By 8peeial Lessed Wir.) Washington, Sept. 17. The Amsrlcas Cotton Assoeiatloa has appointed com mittee composed of Senator F.'af. Bim- noma, Senator Joseph T. Bobinson, af Arkansas, and Senator N. B. Uiav 01 Bouth Carolina, to eonfer witn Secre tary Houston and tts President with view to bavin tha War Finance- Cor- ; t oration reiume opsrationa in a effort to assist in relieving the present acuta - financial situation in tha South. ' - Tbia committee will rapport and pur. . sua tha movement inaugurated several days ago by Senator Simmoni to bring . ' into play every -proper agency of tha government on protecting ma marsenng of the Souths greet money crop, to bacco and cotton. It is thought that tha resumption of operations aad of loans by tha War Finance Corporation will help materially in Ue concerted effort for relief and for stabilisation of tha price of Southern farmer' pro- duets. . McUo la Co-OnernUna. Honorable Angus W. McLean, of North Carolina, is the managing direc tor of tha War Finaaea Corporation, and Mr, McLean is co-operating actively with Senator Simmons and his associ ates la tba general effort now being made. This committee, it is understood, will ask tha government to extend ue Southern banks a loaa oa tha basis of tha loan made by Secretary of the - Treasury MeAdoo two year ago to these same banks to tide the Southern farmers ever. The cottoa crop is worth t22,00V OOOXX) and it has been estimated that the loan for both cotton aad tobacco should be 2,COO,000,000. , . , Mar Reject Petitions. J. H. Fishbaek, counsel for the North Carolina chamber of commerce la the ' North Carolina aad Virginia cities rate case, said today that ha expected the Interstate Commerce Commission at its ': meeting1 tomorrow to reject the petitions -if the? Virginia, Corporation Commis sion aad the carriers that tha re-argw meats in the case be postponed iron September 30th, the data appointed by the commission, to a much later aatc, Ho said the infnrmntioa be had receiv ed was to that effect He waa now Suiting on word from the commission. It it did decide to postpoaa us Bear ing, ha would probably go to Baleigb Monday for a conference with his North Carolina, clients and ethers interested in the case. Mr. Fishbaek said It was aa clear as daylight to tha Interstate Commerce Commission that the .Virginia authori ties and the railroads were paying for time with the hope that something ould possibly turn on to save taern ' They hare ao ease. Nothing has oc curred aince the Interstate Commerce Commission decided against them, but they . are now petitioning the eommla- sioa thst they now have a plan wntea they do not reveal, but expreas tha hope that it will solve tha problema and give complete satisfaction all around. . They went three months to present this plan. . Doa't Need Revision. " Chralci J. Bixey, Jr., and Henry ThnrtelL two of the attorneys of the Southern Bailway, have written the com mission under date of September 15th that the carriers would dislike to call ' attention to tha incon sistencies and many detects in its rej port aad pointing to their Inability to - carry out the terms lam down in we report without at the same time of fering something helpful aad construe live. ' The carriers do not believe any re vision should be made la the eastern adjustment along the lines lndieatad, or required in the commission's report ard ' they remind the commission that they do not wish to be understood as prom ising a revision in the eastern adjust ment bv nslna- rates between the Vir ginia cities and the east to which would be added sny schema of fixed differen tials to arrive at total rates between the east and Carolina territory. But these attorneys for ths carriers do believe that a complete revision in rates between Virginia cities and North Carolina poinU on the one hand and South Carolina points aad Georgia points on the other can be made which will give greater reeogaitioa to the ale ment of distance than prevail nnaer ex isting adjustments. Beoulrce Mere Revlalea. " ThMe earriera claim that a rsvisioa of rates betfeea North Carolina aad Virginia cities" requires a revlsioa of rstes in outlying points buck as unsita ' noogs, Knoxvilie, Atlanta, Augusta, . Charleston and Savannah. The revision of the North Carolina-Virginia rates, they claim, would require, revision of rates East ana wen ana wis soma mm be worked out under ninety days. . Mr. Fishbaek ssys all this is dearly a play for time, that ft has been threab ed out before and that ha la 'satisfied the oommlasior will wot for a moment consider It. - Yoang Ellsworth Plea. Worth Bagley Eleeworth waa so fatal ly injured la the New York explosion that he died there yesterday. , The youftg man waa twenty years old, the eon of Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin D. Ella worth of Washington. Mr. Goodwin Ellsworth, the fsther, who holds an Im portant position in the Postoffics De partment, waa in Philadelphia oa kU way to Atlantic City when ha received , ., ; Coatinnsd oa Pago Two.) ' . . Business suspended in the entire of thousands of clerks swarmed tba nsaneiai district at taa time of explosion, roueo reserves were ordered out from alt lower Manhattan station. Photograph gives general view of scene la Wall Street following terrific exploaloa In the world's greatest financial oeater at the boob hour Thursday. .Tens of thoualnda of aersoaa flocked to lower Manhattan In a few aninntm follow. ing the blast At last reports thirty-six injured. , Investigators ars working oa the svidsnee to substaaHate this contention wagoa ana anotner veaioie. ... San Francisco-Hears Cox In r Historic Exposition Hall ROOSEVELT CALLS HARDING TO TASK Republican ' Candidate Con : tinues To Misrepresent , Haitian Question; ; ' Hartferd, Conn Sept. 17. FraakUn D. Boosevelt, whoa ahowa that portion cf Senator HsrdiagV speech at Marlon today la which tha Sepubllcaa eandl s'ate deaounced' tha; alleged rape of HalU aad Sat Doming and"whlcin said was reeeEfly admitted and boasted ty Mr. Boosevelt prepared a statement Claying Senator Harding's charges. Mr. Boesevelt's statement follows i "When the Marion speech today was shown ma I Immediately sent to Sena tor Harding at Marion tha following telegram t "BegTetta ieta today'e Troeeek you have put into my mouth aa alleged statement about the votes in the League or nations oi HaiU and Baa Domingo which I had already publicly denied making and which denial waa printed la an the leading newspapers. I can not believe yon did this intentionally, (8Igned) 'F. D. BOOSEVELT.' "Mr. Harding has been a member of the IT. 8. Senate ainca the government was compelled to intervene ia Haiti and San Domingo ia order to prevent a recurrence at our very doors of acts which wtre deemed intolerable," said Mr. , Boosevelt. "This action . on the part of the United States not only met with no protest from the Senate but was done . with the full knowledge ef everybody. As I remember it the Uni ted States was obliged to restore order in Haiti la 1915 aad in San Domingo shortly after that Sines that time here has been ao effort to conceal ths United States policy, of helping these countries to get back oa their feet, fincaeinlly and every - other way and to enable them as soon at possible to operate agaia under their owa legis latures. This ass already been aecom pliohed in the easa of Haiti. "Benntor Harding is Quoted aa sav ing: . 'Prsetieally all we knew now is thst thousands of aativs Haitiaaa have been killed by American marines and that many of yonr gallant men have sacrificed their lives at tha behest f aa executive department in order to establish laws drafted by aa assistant Secretary, of the Navy, to secure a vote ia ue league and to continue at the point af bayonet - a military domlna tion, which at this moment reouires the presence of ao -less than 8,000 of our armed men oa that foreign aoi!.' "Soeh a statement as that ia the merest dribble and If Senator Hardina made it, he did it in nn apparently de liberate attempt to deceive, for eves be, through his service In tha United States Benate, must' know why tha ms rines were sent and why they are kept there. It la In line with aama policy observsd by President Boosevelt and President Taft under which for 'years, wa nave maintained and still maintain small detachments of . marines. ! Peking1, and Nicaragua., MACSWlNEY' REPORTED ' TO BE MUCH WEAKER IjinAnn. Rnt IT .Tlii aAIIi Lord Mayor. MaeSwiney; of Cork was described aa very low In the Irish Belt Determination League's bulletin iuued ti night ; Tha bulletin says: ;f i-ora Mayor UaeSwiney is vary low indeed. ? He la suffering from ara psins ia- the head. Ha la still son- SeiOUS." " . : : , . ; , FEDERAL RESERVE ACTION CONDEMNED BY GROWERS Suffolk. - Vs. Sent IT PMnt!.. condemning the action of the federal reserve banks for failln . ...a proper credit for tha movement of farm crops and urging holding of peanuts for better prices have Just been adopted at a meetiac of 100 Virginia. mmA North Carolina peanut growers ksfSj . Wall Street section for the day, including persons lost their lives aa a result of ' theory that the blast was tka work of aaarehists,' having gathered ' mneh as opposed to tka theory that it reaaltod from the collision of a powder i , Democratic Candidate Ar raigns Harding As Selection of Reactionaries THOUSANDS GREET HIM IN PACIFIC COAST CITY Praiaes Progressiva Spirit ' of Hiram Johnson In Sac , ramento Address " Saa Francisco Cal Sept lTv-Frora the auditorium stage where his aomina- tiaa for tka presidency waa aaaoanoad at tha Deanoeratia Kational convention last July Governor Cex. of Ohio, to night to aa sadieaeo of thoasaada, de livered tha party aoetrinre and, eoa trastiag the Democratic sad Bepubli aa conventions, arraigned the choice of Senator Harding, his opponent as a selection of a group at reactionary leaders. . f . Governor Cox also discussed the Japanese question, a burning local is- aue, declaring for eo-ope ration between California and the Federal government "whereby ahe (California) excludes the Oriental settler." He charged 8eaator Harding with changing froat oa the questioa upon the snggestioa af Gov ernor Stephens, of California. ' The League of Nations, progressiv- ism and noa-partiaansblp also were preached by the presidential candidate and be ' reiterated his "corruption I und charges and evidence aeaiast the Bepnblieaa leadership and "big pusiners. Pralsea Hiram Johnaaeu Prior to hia address hers toaightf the governor, -opening his five-day Califor aia campaign spoks to a large crowd oa the city plana at Sacramento, the old homo of Senator Johason, Bepnbli eaa, whom ho praised as "aaother modern progressiva although a foe, but a frank, outspoken one, for the league. a large crowd and ' reception com mittee met the governor at Oakland pier and after a parade p Market street tendered him aa informal hotel reception before hia auditorium ad dress. En route here, the' Governor made a - rear- platform address at Boisun. Senator Harding's nomination Gover nor Cox asserted, waa a "ratification" by the Senatorial oligarchy. The ensuing Bepubliraa campaign he said, had been "a sickening farce to de cisive the public i -The Governor also accused Senator Harding of havina? a "chameleon nol- icy," charging him with reveraing Me position upon the Japanese questioa as well ss apoa the League of Nations. The Senator's latest league speech, the Lienor ratio candidate declared, made a total of tea variant positions assumed. Oeaewaeaa ChKaaw Ceaveatiea. ' Deaouaeing the Chicago eonrentioa proeeedinga in scathing terms, Governor Uox saidt ' - , " "From that hour until this, the small group of men that made the nomination haa been the custodian ' of the candi date j sponsored and censored his spoken word and outlined hia whole course. Ia grateful recognition Senator Harding ia hia speech of acceptance, promised a plural government ia contradistinction to ths eemaeienee aad personal respoa- sibillty of the President himself.. The performance at Marion through the weeks has been tha greatest political farce ia , tha history of tha country. Certain types of men wtre ssnt for, aad aa they leave the front porch prepared interviews are handed to the press. Everything works with a mechanical precision. The hand of tha masters is supreme aad tha ene objective is to de ceive tha public as to what is actually going on behind tha scenes." In stating his position oa tha Japa nese questioa Governor Cox read the Democratic platform plank pledging support to policy of "aon-admissioa of Asiatic immigrants.". ' , Negro Dies at Ags ef lit. Petersburg. Vs., Sept 17 Peters burg lost its oldest eitisea today wbea John Amen, a negro, died la the city almahouss at the ago of 111. Ha waa bora ia July. 1809, aad haa a sob ia Brooklya ever 79 years old. Ha has been in tka almshouse hers for mors than twanty-Sve years. .... -y i4t Am the New York Stock Exchange. Tens tha explosion aad over two hundred wore LATE ANTIS VILL No Scratching of Suffrage supporters un Democratic Ticket, They Say JUDGE FRANK WINSTON TO MAKE SOME TALKS Wake Conference Between Ladies and Executive Com. mittee Deferred; State Sen ator Lindsay Warren Here Yesterday; Dates Tor Mor rison, Page and Gardner MBkuaiJlauL BFTTWalrmnw1 A conference between leaders of the newly enfranchised voters aad a part of the Democratic executive committee of Wake county was postponed yester day afternoon until aome data next week oa account of the inability of some manners o ithe Committee to meet with the ladies. Plans wtre to be discussed for ret ting the full womnn vote of . Wake eouaty registered nnder taa State pro gram as mapped out by Chairman Ttcavao D. Warren. Meetings ia every school house ia the county are to be held for the purpose of arousing the women to their responsibility and sav ing tha way for them to discharge their sow puoue duty. i "I think it of paramount importance at thia time," Mr. J. W. Bailey jaid yesterdsy, "that every Democratic man la aorta Carolina ahall take counsel with hia wife, hia daughter or his mother or sweetheart and bring to tha I new rotor of the family her response buity la selecting the governing officials el Aorta CsroUna." Ant is Goiag To Vote. . Oae of the lata anti snffrags leaders, while refusing to concede to their late opponenta the full measure of victory, declared yesterday that the aati suffrsge women of North Carolina will. aa a general proposition, nil la with ths determination of former Wake aati-saffragista aad go to the polls aad cast taeur oallota. Among them, it ia to be noted with aome degree of aurpriae, that there iant anything like the amount of re sentment toward suffrage supporters among ths candidates aa ia the eaae with the former suffragists, now mem bers of the League of Woman Voters of North Carolina. The Democratic wo men, and they were by far ia tha majority, are going to vote for Lieu tenant Governor W. B. Cooper, who supported suffrage, just as cheerfully aa they are. going to vote for Cameron Moriieoa, the Democratic standard bearer, whose, opposition to suffrage while tha fight waa oa waa kaowa aad read by all women. 1 Oppoaitioa to Mr. Morriaon amnno- former ardent auffragista continues to diminish as the heat ef campaign paases inte tha- cool deliberation of voters offered two political affiliations ia North Carolina.- Gradually, some of the conservative women think, this an. poaitsta will disappear almost entirely. cutaauea la Antl Cokntlea. The aitaatioa ia soma of the atronroat aan-eaffrage . counties , according . to State Seaator Lindsay C. Warren, ia sigaiy encouraging to Democratic pros pects la November. ' Beaufort repre sented by tha briliiaat aad strategic gentleman front Washington, ; will probably return a record-breaking Democratic majority ia November. Ths same information has been received by Senator Warren from other counties where the sentiment against equal voting privileges was nurketfly strong. Bonater Warroa was here yesterday aad apeat sometime la conference with Bute Chairman Thomas D. Warren. Tha State chairman yesterday an nounced a number of new dates for aptakera daring the campaign, includ ing four for Collector Bailey who opens in Onslow county- oi October 11 aad swings up to Burka aad back to Guilford and Almanacs. ' d Judge Wiaatoa To Tslk i Oaa of tha moat interesting aa- aonacemeBta- of . the eaWalau. made yesterday,'' is that Judge Praaela D. Wiaatoa will take the etump with la the iCWlaae cm fage Two.) STAND BY PARTY BEGIN SEARCH FOR L Department of Justice Agents Find - Evidence of Bomb , Plot By Radicals . r WM. J. FLYNN MAKING CHIEF INVESTIGATION Eeports To Department Heads ' at Washington That Evi dence Points To Anarchist Bomb As Cause of New York Explosion; Agents On Hnnt For Suspects In IT. TE New York, Sept. lT-Beielpt by Department of Justice agenta to night ef Cva radical circulars stgn ed "American Anarehistie Fighters," which were found In a mall box at Cedar street and Broadway at 11 :M a. m., Thursday, furnished tha first tangible clue, they said, to tka identity of ska persons who were responsible for ths explosion la Wall street which three minutes , later killed SS persons, injured 200 others and caused property damage ruaaing into the millions. Ia making public tha circulars, which were printed on eheap paper, ' T by 11 inches, Chief William J. Flynn, of the bureau of investiga tion of the Department of Justice, . called attention to tha fact that tha bombs sent ia the nation-wide bomb plot oa June t, 1910, were wrapped ' in elrculara announcing tba coming of the revolution and signed "An archistic rightera." Washington, Sept. 17. Evidence that yesterday s exploaloa ia the New York financial diartlet waa the work of radi cals was ia tha hands of ths Department of Justice tonight and ' agenta of tha government were searching for the per sons responsible for the crime. William J. Flynn, chief of the de partment's bureau of investigation, who ia ia New Tork conducting tha princi pal Inquiry into the explosion, reported to tha department daring the day that everything pointed to an anarchist bomb ae the causa af ths explostoa. Chief riyna'a report, which Is understood to give detailed evidence to support the eonelusion, waa not made public, but officials declared that tha department waa making every effort to round Bp all persons having advance informa tion of the eupposed Plot. How far from tha scene of tha bomb ing the investigation is leading was not indicated, but it was said that radi cal sections of Nw York wore being searched for suspects. ' LEGION WILL DECLARE WAR ON HIGH PRICES Forming Plans To Bring About Discounts From Current Selling Prices New York, Sept IT. The Amerleaa Legion haa annonneed formation of plana to mobilise its forces throughout tha country for a war against ths high cost of living. la every community where there is a post, the legioa contemplates organ ixing retail dealers into an association, prospective . merchant members of which, it is said, already have pledged discounts - approximating S per cent from current selling prices of all com modules to ths 8,000,000 members of the legioa and their families. Details of. the program, whleh legioa officials ssy has- been approved by large retailers in vsrious eiti.i, were uade public by G. Bobert Baines, busi ness msnager of the. American Legioa Weekly. If sanctioned by ths national executive committee, it will be submit ted to the second nstionsl convention of the -ex-service men's organisation in Cleveland this month. "All ths lsrge retailers whom we have approached pronounce the plan sound," Mr. Balnea said. "In each city where the legion has a post, one or more stores ia every line of busi ness will be selected for membership ia the American Legion Stores Asso- eiation. In the lint will bo grocers, clothing and department stores, suto noblle dealers, hotel keepers and deal ers in msny lines. No profits will ac crue to ths legion or the association, whleh would be incorporated and eon- trolled by the directing heads of the legion." AUBREY BROOKS SPEAKS TO WOMEN OF ALAMANCE smnaaasnMa ' Burlington, Sept. 17. Hon. A. L. Brooks of Greensboro, well known ad vocate of woman suffrage, delivered s great Democratic speech to a large audi ence of Democratic women of Alamance county ia tha Muncipal Theater build ing hero yesterday sfteraooa at . t o'clock. He spoke oa the vital matter affecting the women in the coming State and" national , election. The" women evinced 'their great interest la politics by their presence at the meeting yes terday, and it ia the opinion here that the women of tbia county will poll a large vote in the fall elections. . . mmm" -M-HaB -Amandaen's Ship Icebonnd. Noma, Alaska, ' Sept. 17-Captatn Boald Amundsen's expedition ship, the Maud, whleh left this port nearly two months ago, bound for ths north pole, is caught ia tba ice about twenty miles off Capo Serge on the Siberian coast, according to information brought hare yesterdsy by Captain Heck la, hose fishing boat was also icebound near tka Maud. - " RADICA SUSPECTS SECRETARY WILSON READY TO HEAR CASK OF MINERS Hailetoa, Pa Sept. IT Secre tary ef Labor Wlmea tonight ro plied to Ue telegram at the policy committee . of the Unite Mlao Workers of America, aent oa See. tember IS. He promissa Immed iate consideration of the olalma of the miners aad Is ready to meet with their committee. . " The tclegrja followsi ' "Bare Jast retained to Wash ington and fiad yoar telegram of the thlrteeath awaiting me. Ia view of the fact that yoar policy committee has taken Ue win snd honorable poaltlea of .advbriag Ua Idle mlao workera te.retara to work, I shall bo glad to meet Uo committee aad earefally oonaider say claims af Ue mine wwrkera which It may have to present alaeerely oongratalato yea anon Ue decision yoa have arrived at It ia the anly coarse to protect the Just Interest of. th mine workers aad Ua welfare of Uo pablle which Is composed la great pert ef people who kava to work for wagee." (Signed) "W. B. WILSON." OPPOSES PLAN TO SELL STOCK YARDS Federal Trade Commission Says It Will Not Put End To Packer Control . Washington, Bept 17. Rejection by the Department of Justice of tha plan of tba "big five" packers for tka die- position of their ownership ia stock- ysrds waa recommended today by the Federal Trade Commission ia a special report to Attorney General Palmar, The packers' plan providing for Us sale of Ue etockyarda id fifteen cities to r. H. Friaeo and Company, of Boa- ton, snd ths formation of a holding company for these ysrds, wsa attack ed by Ue commission on tha ground that it would permit increased rather than diminished control of Ua yards by tha packers.. The plaa was diawa ap by tha packers after Ua filing of a consent decree ia Federal court here which . disposed af anti-trust Ltigstioa started by Ue government against Ua packers at Chicago. , -The commission mads its report aa Its owa initiative under authority of the act creating it and providing that it may Inveatigate Ua manner ia which any final decree la aa anti-trust ease ia being carried out Tha object of the government litigation, Us conv mission declared,' would not oa aecom oliahed bv Ue paekera' plaa.' . The fifteea stockyards, included la the plaa, handls 73 psr cent of the stock received at all ysrds ia Us country, Uo commission reported. TO ELECT SUCCESSOR TO DESCHANEL SEPT. 24 Premier Millerand Mentioned As Probable New Presi dent of France Paris. Sspt 17. (By The Associated Press.) A successor to Psul Desehsnel, as president of Francs, will bo selected Fridsy, September 1, according to general belief today in political circles although the date will not be deiinito ly fixed until meeting of parliament Tuesdsy when the president's resigna tion, bsnded t Premier Mil'erand at u'ambouillet yesterday, will be placed before the leclslative bodies. That auesiesapr, it appeared today, will be Alexandre Millerand, tie pres ent premier, aniens his powers of re-sistanes-to a call to Us office prove arrester tba a ths sapid ly accumulating fores of publie sentiment favoring him for the chief magistracy. Definite decision waa reached by the cabinet at its sessioa this forenoon that the parliament should be convoked la extraordinary session next Tuesday to receive the resignation. The premier Informed the cabinet that President Desehsnel bad insisted upon Ue im mediate acceptance of hia reaignatioa. Aside from M. Millerand, the candi date who seems to be most favored to succeed President Dcscbansl continues to be Charles Jonnsrt. REPUBLICANS OPEN SPEAKING CAMPAIGN Chicago, Sept 17 Ths i Bepublleaa party officially opened its speaking cam paign today with approximately 6,000 speakers spresding over Ue country to ilellrer sddreases from Bow until elec tion day. Addresses made today dealt mamly with the league of aatlons, wemca's position in politics, the mean ing of Constitution Day-rtodayfjnd the necessity "for evsry one to ote," sccording to annonnsemcnts of Bepubli raa headquarters hers. , During tha campaign, It was announc ed, the doetrinee of the Bepubliean party will be discussed thoroughly la every district in the country. A special group of speakers haa bssn appointed to cover college and university towns. SUSPEND PRIORITY i ORDER AS TO COAL WsaMnrton. Bent 17 Priority lu shipment of coal , by water to New England put into effect several wseks ago to relieve Ua New England coal shortage Waa auapended today by Ue Interstate ' Commerce Commission. Ths order gave preference, to coal ship ments amounting to approximately JL6Q,000 toaa of coal monthly; to. Newi Exact Cause of Blast That i Took Toll of Thirty-five Lives Thursday at Noon . Re-' mains Deep Mystery CHIEF FLYNN POSITIVE BOMB WAS RESPONSIBLE r FOR DISASTROUS BLAST Declares v Infernal ZXacnine, Loaded With High Ziplo- sires and Metal Hugs, Was Carried To Wall Street In Wagon and Timed To Go Off at Noon; Collision Theory Not Tet Abandoned En tirely; Eight Investigations of Explosion Under Way; Number -of Injured As Be. suit Passes Three Hundred Mark; Six Deaths Buns Total Up To TMrtyJlTe; Property Loss ' Probably Orer Two Milliona . V f . IDENTITY Of UXn WHO "' SHOD DEAD HOBS! KNOWN ' Bsekswaack, N. J, Bap. 1T Idsntlt ml tha htachaaaltk la akaJ Ue bona found dead aoar the aeeas of yeeterday'a ezplsetea la New -Tork'a Baaacial district, la kaowa to tha Department ad Jaaalco, aa cording to a statement saada here tea alght by William MV Mead, chief ' , clerk la taa oflee ef J. P. Morgan , and Co. Tula blacksmith, bo aa. deeT elalaas to know Ua nana who owned taa aalmaL PLOT WAS PKKMKDITATXD ' "We feel Ust Ue plot wsa prw. . meditated," declared Mr. Mead. 1 "aad that a deliberate attempt waa made te dastray Uo baUdlag of J. r. Morgan A Co, aad te kill aad lajnro aa assay people aa paaalbte. "Tha aaaot likely story of taa aa- pleaiea ss that a rod wage drawn) by a hone stopped at the left aUe y af Ua earn faclag east oa Wall -street aad directly paeaita taa oea .; . tor of the Morgan balldlag. A man ' , moat likely thea set a large koeab, Believed owesseea t tha waa, tat t . explode at 13 o'clock bom aad thea LjMUhad-way i-v ' -. . J - KNOWS OWNIB OF BOBS ? ' bare ' found parts ef ' the wagon aad aaeea ef Ue horse. These ; shoes are ex pact sd te aid materially la solving the mystery ml tao trsg. ody, for wo have feaad taa black .' aalth who abed tha aorao aad who elalma te knew Ue maa who owna ' Ue aalmaL"'' . J' New Tork, Sept lT-(By the At? eiated Press.) Ths exact cauee af Ua exploaloa which in Ua twinkling of aa eye yesterday st boos tmnaformed Wall Street, aear Broad, from a eeene of bustling activity to oae af dreadfal ssrnage, . remains tonight a mystery. Official opinion as expressed by Was J. Flynn, chief of Ue bureaa of a vsstigatioa ef Us Departmoat of J no tice, and Fire Commissioner Tbomaa Drsnnsn, ia Uat Us disaster waa caused by a time bomb loaded with high explosives gad reinforced with metal slugs. The iarly theory Uat tha blast waa caused 'by a ooUisioa be tween aa explosivs-ladea wagon aad another vehicle seems to kava been dispelled by subsequent iavastigation, alUough it haa aot yst boea entirely discarded by official iavostigators. Duo To Bomb, Save Flyaa, Chief ITynn, who arrived bora from Washington last aight to take charge of the federal investigation, declared, after leaving Ua J. P. Morgan office late today, that "from evidence ob tained within tha ust few hours it baa been definitely established that Ua explostoa was duo to a time bomb. "The pomp waa taxes to Wall Street," ha added, "ia Ua wagoa which waa blowa to pieces. Tha laferaal ma chine wss timed to go off at boob and apparently was placed ia Ua wag on by a peraoa who waa withia four blocks of Wall and Broad streets when the explosion oecurrod." Death Total Now SS. Six more f deaths aiaeo midnight, brought the death total tonight to AS. Tha number of injured, including those treated at tha eeene, in kospitsla aad, at their homes, was appraxlmatsly (00., Nisrly 100 of those are still bciiar treated ia botpltala. Tha property damage ia ' variously sstirasto-1 from i,:xxu.oo to 2.eoo)oo. . i Bight separata Investigations of ths explosion wsro andcr way tonight. They were being made by tha Department at Justice, under the supervision af At- , torney General Palmer aad William J. ; Flynn, chief of the bnreaa of investi gation j ths Now Tork police depart ment, nnder the supervision of Com . m union er Enright and Chief Inspeetet Lahey; tha fire department, Ua build ing department, Ue September grand jury, tha medical examiners' office and two private inquiries by insurance com- panics and J. P. Morgan e) Company. Key To The Mystery The key to the mystery appareatly Ilea ia Ua identification of the wagon drawn by an old horse, which waa left standing at the curb ia Wall street aear the United States asssy office aad aeroae the street from ths Morgaa bank a few minutes before the explosion. The horse wss killed aad tha wagoa blow to bits ' ia ths blast' Ths driver of Ue wagon is believed to have eeeaped. Federal and tiAlia enttinrttlMi tnnlirht arre efea- terlng their activities on Uis phase ef tha case. Search Livery Stables. ' Every livery stable la the city ia be ing canvassed to determine whether a Boras aad wagoa are missing. Exami nation af Ua horse a body diselooee that it had been newly clipped and shod. This and a mark on tha horse's shoea I lit (CentlBBed aa Page TweJ UJ, ',. 1 J
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Sept. 18, 1920, edition 1
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