- , e Ne and Ofos TJ1S WEATIICI Nerlh Carolina Fall Friday aad atardayi rising - tea poratar. . ini.O, jt WATCH IAELL ' f a fW . 6 rravwj ti -iara Mere esgriratkta Ml avM , ssasstog ss1 w. , ; . erver VOL CXII. NO. M2. SIXTEEN AGES TODAY. RALEIGH. N. C, FRDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19. 1920. SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. PRICE: FIVE CENTS UlUli DRIVE FOR EDUCATION WITH Methodist Conference Hears . Inspiring Addresses By Col lege Heads CHRISTIAN TRAINING " KEYNOTE OF DISCUSSION North Carolina Conference Ac -- cepts Its Quota of Thirty Three Million Dollars To Be Bailed Tor School! and GoL leges Next Year; Movement of Oreat Importance (By T. A. BIKES.) Bock 7 Mount, Not. .18. ThU hat 'beea educational day with the North ' Carolina) Conference ia aesaioa here ' and all the addresses of tha three ses aiona clustered around the idea of Christian education. A movement wu set oa foot for tha raising of thia on ferenre's quota of tha $33,000,000 which tha Boathara church propose to raise during the next year for' tha purpose of enlarging and strengthening tha' Ta ctions educational institutions, owned and controlled by the'ehnreh. An educational campaign will be ia the territory occupied by the 8onth era Methodist church. The movement was originated at the 1918 session of the General Conference, held ia Atlanta, . Ga, and has been placed before all the annus! conferences for their ratifies tiqn anl acceptance and all that have met op io this time have almost unani meusly accepted the quota they were asked to assume. Launched With Eatkasiassa. The church is entering npon the cam' paiga with the safine enthusiasm that marked the recent Centenary movement when 18,000,000 more than was asked for was subscribed and it is confident ly expected that throughout this eon ference the same apirit will permeate the churches that was so nobly mani fested when that great campaign was on. r The church realises thst unless this movement is earried to a successful completion it means a retrogression in 'every department of church work. The educational institutions of the church ire nothing more than training grounds for tha future .leadership of tha. King- ; lorn, aid unices tha appeals for this fund meet with a. hearty response- It means that a' great de.irth of leaders will follow. , - - Tha speakers today were all leaden . ; In tha educational department of church work and they were enthusiastic and a&ade (addresses r that , enthused 'the preachers Bad laymen present, and . they writ la turn go baek to their eon MUCH ENTHUSiASm . r gregations and enter, npoa tle work assigned them filled witn a determine tion to put across the movement and go aver ut ton in eev enarn in tna eon inference. K Waats Children at Church. At o'clock Bishop Darlington asked . that Hot. E. C. Morrison, who is here duct the opening devotional exercises. T . . J sme ma m pars ok mo hcuuu vuHjucr f Lake, dealing with Jesus in tka pres ence of the group ia tha temple. He declared that parents are too apt to lose their children in tha rush of other smaller' matters. Ha emphasised the Importance of tha children being taught ' to attend the church services, declaring lu li tney could not attend DOin ins Sunday school and preaching service that if tkey could not attend both the them to stay away from tha Sunday school and hear tha gospel preached. Tha- names of those absent when the roll was called yesterday were called sun onroiieu inu mo maaup vtaivu tout thia would be the-last roll call of the sessioa. Christian greetings were sent to the Moravian Hrnod .sow in aesaioa in the - city af Winston-Salem. tha conference ordered that 10 i v. i t . : .1 - - . order for the selection of tha meeting place for ths next aesaioa of the eon- ference- The class of tha first year was called and Rev. L. C. Brothers was paaaed to the class af the aeeond year, W. L Hatterfield was discontinued as m.aatn- istsr at his own request, and ke will retire from the ministry. Further conn sideratioa of thia question was deferred to another time. i. - Tha class of the second year was .called ana US louowiag young men wera advaaced te tka class of tka third year and received into- full connection: 1). A. Petty, U C Larkln, W. G. McFsr . land, N. B. Johnson, J, O D. Stroud, J. W, Dimmette, J. W. Hoyle, Jr, aad W. J. L aderwsod, was eieeied v weal deacon's orders, t . - Dlacaasm EdncatUnal Plana. ' Tha hour of day having arrived fori the order of tka day the eonlerenee entered into the eonsideratiea of the great adaeational plans of tha church, Dr. & i. Hatcher, of. Randolph-Maeos College, was introduced , as tka first sneaker oa tha srorrsm. Mr. Hatcher "I.M before tha conference tka general ratlines af the plana of tha campaiga. He declared that, thia is tha groat eat movement ever mndertakea - by the eaurck becaate of what is Uvolved ia it. Ha believes that tha General Con- , ference that inaugurated the move will go dowa ia history as a great epoch making eoaferenen. . .- Ia that eoaferoaea tka unification af Jlsthodum. lie OaUssry and .. the adaeatioaaj earn paign were eoaaidered aad set as foot. This progress of the ' charek ia ths program of God, ha aaid. aad it will ha impossible ' for -- the Methodist church to keep ker ataadiag at home or abroad anless thia matter of adaeatioa la kroagbt to success til aonelnsiM. Its) prime objecUve Is te develop ia the minds of the mem bership aa adeqrste eoaeeptioM of edo eatioa in the life af the church and tha world. There ia ao place oat carta Coatiaaed Ob Psge TwO ELECTION DAT BRINGS ' TBIPLET OF GIRLS TO BARN. WELLS IN HENDERSON Asbevtila, Not. 18 Electieu day brought ta tha keen af Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Barnwell, Edeaville township, Haadcraoa county, trip lets, Ursa kooactag kahy glrle. Tkey him beea named Edith, Ethel, and Elisabeth. Tka arrival af tha triplets, snakaa a total af aerenteen children for tha Barawells. Mr. Barnwell ia sixty years of ace and kla wife ia forty. .U tka children nra living ana they are aaid U he among the healthiest te he feand any where la Headeraea con sty. la addltiea te belsg noted for their MOB KILLS THREE NEGRO PRISONERS Lynchings Follow Murder of Prominent Georgia White Man Near Douglas Douglas, Ga., Not. 18. Thia city is quiet tonight following tha lynching of three negroea early this morning and fee further race trouble is anticipated. It was Deputy Sheriff W. T. Wiggins, who was held up by the mob last night while taking the three negro prisoners to Ocllla, instead of Fitzgerald as first reported, and forced to turn over the back to this city. Sheriff Tanner and a relative of Pearly Harper, the prom inent white man who was killed by a negro Wednesday, addressed the mob that wss ia front of the Coffee county jail, just as tha city's eleetrie lights were turned off at 1 o clock Ums morn ing. It was while they were holding the attention of the mob that Deputy Sheriff Wiggins spirited the three ne groes out the rear door and started on his trip to Oetila. Seven miles away tha deputy found the road blocked, aa automobile hsv ing been stopped across the highway. As he flowed down his ear was com pletely surrounded and he ia said to have been forced to deliver the ne groes. Tom Hutto, who was with Pearly Harper when the latter was killed, was the principal witness xbefors the cor oner s jury. He said that Boney Willie Ivory shot and "killed Harper and that Money a wife, Minnie, struck the witness over the head with a bottle when they entered a negro store here. Deputy Sheriff Wiggins did not re turn to Douglas following the lynching and tha first information was brought ia by Irwin county people, who drove here early thia morning aad who found the bodies at the roadside. Tha crowd was still waiting ia front of the county jail at that time, believing that tka aegroef were still Inside tha prison. ATHENS CELEBRATES VENIZEL0SV DOWNFALL First tCelehration In Many Months; Foreigners Say Greater Greece Is Dead Athens, Greece, Not. 17. (By The Associated Press.) Like a college town after a football game, Athens turned ont to celebrate thia afternoon tha first natural expression shown hero ia many weeks, if not months. The crowds, hav ing managed to get soma aleep after strenuous daya and refreshed by the sunny, calm weather, let themselves go. They organized a parade ia University street, marched past ths home of the fallen enixclos, swept on through State street Into Constitution square. to tha king's- palace; thenee to the stadium and back again, overflowing into ths side atreeu. Tka falling darkness brought ea roualng aad disorders, which were eon triboted to by soldiers coming ia from Smyrna, where thera have been trou blea with tha soldiers, who have been insisting oa being permitted to come home. Local foreigners express tha opinion that greater Greece la dead by her own hand and reduced overnight from a second rata power . to a comic opera condition. j DR. MADDRY: ACCEPTS JOB AS BAPTIST SECRETARY Delegates To State Convention Had AH Eettlrned Home Before. It Came Asherille, Kot. 18 la ' a message to Secretary Walter Gilmore of tha North. Carolina Baptist State conven tion, which adjourned here last night, Ut. tjnai je. Jdaddry of Austin, Texas, accepted tha call of tha eonveutioa to succeed Dr. , W. K. Johnson aa corres ponding secretary. ; The , message hers thia morning came after most af tha Baptist leaders had departed: for their homes. j. A" , - Ia accepting the call. Dr. Maddry wires as follows i Deepest amotions of. any heart atirred by action af con vention. Words - fail to express my gratitude . and appreciation for tha honor conferred oa ma. I accept tha call as God's call, see Hebrews 13:20 21V? Dr. Maddry wss formerly a min ister ia thia Bute and ia well known among the Baptists ia tha State. He will probably not Come to Baleigk until January 1st. . . ' , , FATHER OF HIGH POINT WOMAN, KILLED, IN AUTO H3h Point. Nov. 18. William F. Clauses, af Claasen, S. G, father of Mrs. Charles P. Coble, of High Point, was instantly killed lata yesterday aft ernoon when aa automobile ia wkiek ha was riding waa struck by aa Atlan tic Coast Line passenger train at crossing near Florence, 8. C. Mrs. Co ble accompanied by her husband. Bee. Chss. P. Coble, pastor - of the First Preabyterlaa ebarek here, left early to- day for Clausen, ia response to a me-1 sage telling ef ker father's death.:. ' RELATE RECENT EVENTS IN THE EMERALD ISLE Declare Ireland Practically Un der Control of British Mili tary Forces CIVIL PROCEDURE IN IRELAND AT AN END Four Witnesses Irish Town Councilor and Four Ameri cans Appear Before Com mission Investigating Con. ditions In Ireland; Sympathy Tor Irish Bepublio Washington, D. C Not. 18. (By the Associated P i a I.) Eye-witness reports of disturbances in Ireland con nected with the movement for Irish independence were given today at the opening bearings of the commission of the Committee of One Hundred In vestigating the Irish question. Four witnesses, including Denis Morgan, chairman af the town coun cil of Thurles, Irelsnd, and three Americans, who visited Ireland re cently John F. Martin, of Green Bay, Wis, and two clergymen Father Mich ael English, of White Hall, Montana, the Irish independence movement and told of violent events which they hsd seen and agreed that civil processes, except or the provisional Irish repub lic, were virtually at an end under the rule of the British military forces. MapMorgan said his home was riddled with bullets prior to bis ar rest and deportation to England with out any definite charges being pre ferred against him. With 200 other Irish Republican leaders, he said, he went oa a hanger strike until they were released. He also told of "mur ders" of Irish citizens by eonstabulsry and soldiers, including the "Black and Tan" forces. Clergymen's Story. Father English asserted that Brit ish soldiers had confiscated his papers. The military authorities derided -his protests thst be wss an American cit izen, he said, and he also told of having witnessed ths shooting of an Irishman, whose body, ha said, wsi beaten into unrecognizable form. Father Cotter, a Catholic editor, told ofthc killing of a Galway civilian by a British, soldier without cause, he aaid. ; - - Fathsr Cotter - and- Mr. Martin, a Knights of Columbus official, atated that sentiment ia Ireland aa they found it waa virtually unanimous for independence. "Sympathies of everyone I met. Cath olic and Protestant were for tha Bepublieans, said Father Cotter. The belief that religious prejudice or dif ferences were involved in Ireland, was unfounded, he added. Saspead Court Precedare. All witnesses said that civil court procedures waa suspended in Irelsnd, coroners Inquests prohibited, by the British government and that tha only authority exercised, except for ths British military forces was that of the bish Bepublieans. . 1 About 600 soldiers and 400 police are stationed constantly ia limerick, the Kev. English told the commission. Military raids through Peaniwill, a I Jmeriek district, were so frequent, he said, that it had been named the "Peaniwill sector." Mr. Martin aaid ka waa halted and Search td frequently by soldiers dur ing a journey from limerick to Cork, Dam Dam Bnllet Father Cotter said he spent tight weeks ia Ireland last summer, visit ing Cork, Galwsy, Queenstowa and many smaller towns. In Cork, ke aaid. a sister of Terence MaeSwiney. tha late Lord Mayor, showed him a dum dum bullet which had been fired at her but missed "Nights ia Cork- are hideous with the shots of the military, aaid Path or Cotter. He and Father English also told of seeing intoxicated soldiers firing their arms la the streets. Ia tha examiaatioa of Mr. Morgan, Frank r. Walsh aad Dudley Field Malone, counsel (or the. Commission for Irish Iadependenee, participnied. but Frederic C Howe. ' chairman: Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts, aad other members . of. the Investigating commission questioned' the America witnesses. It waa made dear by 8eaator Walsh that all of the-witnesses were summoned by tha . commission, which pays their expenses, without relation te any ether organisation ia fhia eooa- try. .:: Ia opening the bearings Chairman Howe said tha 'commission waa to con duct an "impartial, inquiry'' into all the facta, both from Irish aad Eng lish sources, and later send a com mittee te Ireland for further in quiry. . The- hearings her are . expected to continue for several weeks. . TWO SENTENCED FOR MAKING "FAKE RAIDS" Boeaoka, Va- Kot. 18. C E. Boberts aad it 8. Finer, white man who police declare are special t officers for "ths Buasell Detective Agency," were each fined tlOO aad sentenced te ninety daya ia Jail in police court here today oa charges of affecting "bribes' from person in a. local hotel following a 'fake raid. According te the. polka Boberts aad Piaeror several months have been operating ia "fake raids" ea underworld resorts, auto speeders and liquor law violators, obtaining consid erable sums ia "hash money", and bribes. . V ' Mills Close Dowa. Charlotte. K. C Nov. 38. The six plants ef the Chadwiek-Hoskina chain of mills. Ira of which are located here. c'ised dowa today-for aa indefinite period, .?: ...-. " ,, , .' ., , WITNESSES France Rapidly Recovering From Effects of Great War Garland S. Ferguson, Jr.. Formerly of AsKeville, Tells of Conditions Following Visit to Paris and Old Battle fronts; Says Industrial Conditions Good; To Turn in Cranford's Name for Postmaster of Twin-City. News and Observer Burean. 603 District National Bank Bldg. By K. E. POWELL. (8taS Correspondent.) Washington, Not. 18 La Bells, France, once bled white, is rapidly com ing into its owa sgaia and in Paris one would never suspect that the storms of wsr broke over its gayety for four fc.irs, says Garland 8. Ferguson, Jr, formerly of Asherille, who is practicing law ia the National Capital. - Mr. Ferguson, soa of Judgs Ferguson returned to Ameriea last Friday on the .Adriatic and reached Washington today. In company with business asso ciate ks sailed for France October 9 on the Olympic He spent some time in Paris and tsited the battlefields while away. Industrial conditions in France are good, he says. Ths country is trading with Germany under the reparations agreement in) the peace treaty aad is getting coal and raw products from her late enemy. She is reclaiming the de vastated land fast and rebuilding the towns that were destroyed during the lighting. a Visits Hladeabarg Llao... Bs visited St. Queatin end Guillemont farm, the point at which tha Thirtieth and Twenty Beventh divisions broke the famous Hindenburf line. The party also went to Bellieourt and Bony, towns wnere many usr nee is are ouricd, was also visited. Awsy from tha cities there is yet to bo seen erideneci of war. Grass has grown up oa trench banka, he declared, but old helmeta and such things are still to be seen. One woman, member of the party accompanying Mr. Ferguson, Two Negro Men Escape After Desperate Battle With Offi cers NearBadin Lexington, Nov. 18. Minns Dry, ne gro woman, ia dead and B. A. Shiplett, Southbound Railway conductor, ia suf fering from bullet wounds in the groin aad elbsw aa the result ef aa attempt to te into custody Joe Lewaty aad Mangum Scott, negro desperado, at Beeves aiding, about 28 mile south ef here late yesterday. LoWery had been arrest ed-aad Shiplett, who waa acting as- special officer, waa guarding kirn while Chief Early ind Officer Early, ef jMtain, were cussing ocdh The negro, advanced oa his captor, seized the pistol and abot bint twice and also accidentally shot the womaa at whose house they hsd taken refuge several hours -earlier, the woman dying .L!- - 1 , . ... i 1 imib uiernooo. a leieunono snessage late today aaid Shiplett a wounds are aot expected to prove fatal. The two negroes entered the barber shop of a negro named Pearson at Badia Tuesday night according to a Badia officer, and one of them asked Pearson to change a twenty 1 dollar bill. Whea Pearson produced a number of bills one of the negroes grabbed the money aad the other with a pistol held the patrons of the shop at bay until both could get away, Tkey secured about f 140. Yesterday, afternoon . the .suspicions of the conductor of Southbound Bail way train 63 were aroused by the amount of money earried by one of the two negroes ia hla train and ke notified Chief of Police Earley, of Badin, who was on the train returning from Greensboro. The officer went nto the nesrro coach to Investigate sad Lowery ia aaid to have drawn a pistol bat dropped it in a scuffle with the officer. He lumped from the front and of the ear, while Scott ran and jumped from the rear end. The latter struck his kead aa-ainst aa obstacle and ia aaid to bare crushed ia a portion of his skull in front. Chief Early, Officer Mabry and Conductor Shiplett who op erates the short line train betwsea Badia aad Whitney, returning to the vi eiaity where the negroes jumped from the train. They located the two negroes at Minnie Pry a house. Scott - escaped into the woods bat it was believed that with the wound ia his akolt ka eould not make his escape from the wieinlty. Lowery ia reported to have been sees about nine o'clock last sight passing northward through a rock out at Bali mountain, serersl miles this aide ef the shooting aad was carrying a pistol ia his hand. The night watch maa who keeps watch .at this cut eaw,the aegre there. - - - A neare aaawerug the description ef Lowery ia atae reported to aave passes her at an early hour this morning, walking the railroad track ia the direc tion of Winston-Salem. Feeling ia re ported to be rather intense ia southern Davidsoa and ths northern portions ef Moatgomery and Stanly counties. A rather striking eo Incidence ia that ths two negroce Uvolved are a largo yellow r.egre and a short tad rather stout Mak nam. Scott being the mulatto aad corresponds somewhat with tka de- scriptioa of the two negroes suiegeo to hsvs killed Jora Ford and assaulted two girl companions near Gsstonia re cently. Scott recently worked xor the TaUassee Power Company, but was dis- ekarged sometime ago. v..,.-... ENGLAND SENDS TROOPS - TO SAFEGUARD ELECTION Geneva. No. llr-(BT the Associated Press.)-Great Britain and Spnlu will send military contingent to Vllna to ;( rAr inrinsr tha Popular Consultation of ths Inhaltanta." This announcement was made this evening by the Assembly of ths League ef Nations. It was added that the French aad Bel gian governments already bad agreed ( te despatch eoatingeats there. - . t CONDUCTOR SHOT AND WOMAN KILLED went down ia a trench to get a souvenir and in kicking about rattled the bones of a dead boche. Paris is gay, Mr. Ferguson declares, and the Frenchmen have ao fears of prohibition ever invading their coun try. They miss the revenue they for merly received from exports of French wines to thia country, but, other than this, there ia 'nothing to ths move ment to make the world dry over there. Craaferd For Postmaster. The Postofflee Department informed Major Charles M. Stedman, fifth district representative, that it would send to the President tomorrow the asms of N. L. Cranford for recess appointment as postmaster ia Winston-balem and hi commission is exposed to issus prompt ly from the White House. v Mr. Cranford. formerly publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal, will bo designated as acting postmaster pending action cn his semination, which the 'resident will likely send to the fcenatc with the first batch of nominations after the Congress meets December 6. There ia only a faint ray of hope that he will be confirmed. The Bepublieans at Winston will IghLkard for thia ch ire bit of patronage and will inaist on their share of the spoils. Since the nomina tioa cornea ap practically de novo with the coming Into full power of the Be publican party, there isn't a much hope for 'a DensoMwt-'aa' aewsoiykf r he miit Hundreds of Tar Heels resided ia Washington are planning to est their turkey 1st ia order to attend the Virginia-Carolina elassie at Charlottesville Thanksgiving. 8peeial trains will be operated front Washington to Charlottes ville. Visitors From Far and Near To See Blooded Berkshires and Fine Ayrshires By BEN DIXON MacJTEILU (Staff Correspondent) Flnehurst, Not. 18. The oldest inhabitant,- .if , ke were- among the tea thousand people who turned out for the Baud Hill fair, perhaps tamed back among hla memories te tha old Scotch fairs that Med to be held dowa in this country before the war between tha Btates, whea the - eitisenry gathered onee a year from aiile aad miles baek te exhibit the products of their land, to swap horse and cattle and to bar ter with merchaat from the coast, and to fraternize with each other. The old Scotch fairs art traditional la these parts. It was a tims for merry making and for trading. The Sand Hill fair is aot ualika those ancient gather ings of the natives, only they come ia Fords now instead of ox carta, aad they do aot depend upoa the migrant mor- ehanta for their year's needs of things that they do not themselves raise. But there Is a revival of communal apirit, a pouring out of communal pride and some bartering aad trading at, horses, of fine blooded cattle and ef aristo cratic hogs of which there was a vast profusion oa hand." asmotkiag Missiag Bat No Sighs. The hardened fair goer missed some thlnglsnd aighed with relief. In all the modern plant wherein the fair is boused there, waa ne fat lady to be seen for a aiekle, no frowsy Egyptian to tell anybody s fortune: no screech ing ballyhoo to invite the multitude to foolish expenditures. The people amused themselves, aad very whole aomely, with games of their own de vising, witn excellent horse racing, per fectly managed, aad with a Vast array of the products ef the Sand Hill sec tion en exhibit Moreover they risited with their neighbors ' Hobody was bored, aad nobody wora out with the ceaseless gibbering of bajlrhoos. Chief among the attractions for the day waa the American Berkshire ahow. Three years ago Ltoaard Tufts told hit brother Berkshire growers that within tea years be would stage the biggest Berkshire (how ever seen la Ameriea. Ha didn't wait a decade. He did it today. In a vast kail there were gath ered together mors Berkshire hogs than were ever seen ander one root before, according to tha unanimous judgment of tha Berkshire Association, which ia ia session here. Score of States Reascsented. score ef State were represented. Taere were pen aner pea iuii ei laese aristocratic ewine with their upturned noses, aad their broad shoulders. The chief among the si, aad ' awarded (be graafi championship ef America, was an animal ewaed by Zed Williams, of Co lumbia, 6. O. His owner hss refused a modest 815.000. for him, and will. not part with many of kla offsprings for leas thaa a thousand. Ho ia heavily in- sored aad travels da luxe. Although there were aoa quite equal te him, there were aeorea'of his race whose price marks made a fashionable touring car look like 80 cents. Nor were they all from South' Carolina or from the' other 18 States exhibiting. They were raised right ia North Caro lina. ' Evea the ghost ef the ancient pineweods rooter is dead dowa here ia these' scad kills where he used to roam- ' No Scrub Beifeze There. -Gone also ia the sacred scrub heifer aad ia ker pUsee is the Ayrshire. The exhibit ef these cattle waa second to that of the Berkshires, aad tomorrow the people will gather for bartering with the owners. Thus has the circle swung back again, and tbe .descendants of ths sturdy Scotch, who used te bar ter have come back to barter again. But there wag aot room ia the great exhibitioa kail for everybody. Over la the handsome concrete main build lag there was room, and laid eut there (Csmtlauo Oa Page tfw) . I PINEHURST FAIR DRAWS THOUSANDS NATION'S TAXABLE INCOME INCREASED DURING YEAR 1918 . - Statistics Show Increase of $2,272,000,000 Over Re turns During 1917 TOTAL INCOmITaX FOR 1918 FIFTEEN BILLIONS Figures For Twelve Southern States Show Texas Led In Number of Persons Filing Beturns and' In Amount of . Tax Reported; Decrease In Millionaires Washington, 4Nov. 18. Despite the loss of 74 members of the country's million s-year income class, the tax able Income of the United States in creased in 1918 by ever 82,272,000,000 as compared with 1917, according to the income etatisties issued tonight by the Bureau of Internal Revenue. In come reported for 1919 amounted to 813,924,355 against sbout 813,7OO,0O0,00C in 1917, though 141 persons filed re turns for incomes of 81,000,000 or over in 1917 snd only 67 in 1918. Personal returns sled during 1918 numbered 4,425;114 and the tax, both normal and surtax, amounted to II.- with 1917w-5rowth of 952,224 was shown In fnrnumher of returns filed. The Increase jn the total tax was 843628,881. ' Classes of Income. Beturns for income of from 8500,000 to 11,000,000 were filed by 178 persons, while 1,516,9.18 persons filed returns for income from 81,000 to1 82,000. In comes from 82,000 to 83,000 were shown on 1,496,878 returns snd from 83,000 te 84,000 in 610,095 returns. For in comes from 85,000 to tlO.OOO, ,31956 returns were filed snd for incomes from 810,000 to 815,000, 69,992 returns. Over 30,000 persons made returns on incomes from 815,000 to 820,000 end 16,000 on incomes from 820,000 to $25, 000, whim 9,996 persons reported la comes of from 850,000 to 8100,000 snd 2,358 msde returns for incomes be tween 6100,000 and 8150,000. The largest tax amounting to $147, 428,655, waa collected on incomes from 850,000 to 8100,000, with 142,448,679 collected on income from 610,000 to 825,000 next. Incomes between 61,000 nd 62-000 paid 624,481,000. Wires File Kctaran. The number of -wives filing sonnrato returns froaa their haabanda was S5,- IM2, the Income represented being s.i,. 818,740. . 1 Of the Industrial groups from which income waa, derived agricultural ana reused Industries led with 372.830 r turns reporting a total income of 61,122,532,163, Income derived from investments for the yesr waa 84,84714,000. Rents and royalties paid 8975,679,666; inter est oa bonds, notes, etc., including a dueisries snd foreign sources, $1,402,- 485191, and dividends 82,468,74944, ' Soathera state. The twelve Southern states, Alabama. Arkansas, Florids, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, NortheCarolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, had a total of 463,890 per aonal lneome tax roturna, or 10.48 per cent of the country's total for the calendar, year of 1918. They reported a total net income of 11,649,774,194, er 10.35 per cent of the country's to tal and an increase of 200o8,770 over 1917. The total tax paid by the whole eountry and aa increase of $35, 730.545 over 1917. Texas led Southern states la the number of returns with Virginia sec ond, Oklahoma third and Georgia fourth. They ranked in the aame order (Contlaaed On Page Two.) JACKSON-BOARD MOVES TO ASHEVILLE TO FINISH Sixty Indian Votes Bone of Contention and Causer An. - other Adjournment Alheville. Not. 18. The conty board of canvassers of Jackson county ad journed thia . afternoon following a secret conference ia which it was de cided to meet tomorrow ia Aaherille for final sessions to finish the canvass of the vote of the November election. The meeting here will be held at 8:30 o'elocK tomorrow afternoon, probably in the Federal court room. .-At the secret conference at Bylva, George W. Sutton, Bcpubliean attorney, and H. B. queen who also ass oeea representing the Republican candidates before the board, were . present. The eanvsaa of all the 17 townahips of tbe county ha been mads except Quail. Barkers Creek- Dillsboro and Bylva. it was ia these thst the trouble was ex- nected. The board members elated that they thought it tha part ef wesdom to move the board meetings to Asherille, ss suggostea oy uovernor rucaeit, un loving his refusal te call out troop to protect the canvassers during meir work. . - The Indian rote la Quails township. where about 80 Indian voted, will be the bone of contention it la believed, for without them the Republican candi date cannot be elected, it is declared. When Quails township waa called this morning at Bylva, tha Democrat chal lenged two Indian women oa the ground that they bad been previously chsl tenged because of illiteracy and hsd failed to answer the challenge at th proper time, but appeared oa tha day of electioa and Toted.- Aa ' objection to this challenge was msde by Bepublieans, because of taeit understanding that th illiteracy test was not to be made ia the canvass. H. C. Moss moved thst ill the Indian Tote in the county be thrown out aid deducted from the re turns because tbe Indian are wards of th government and not citizens. Tbe motion waa seconded and would hare earried But the board adjourned. : , , MUST HOLD ON TO OLD-TIE VIRTUES OF COMMON SENSE Presidentelect Harding Urgej , People' To Have Abiding Faith In Republic LEAVES NEW ORLEANS ' FOR THE CANAL ZONE Expresses Confidence That America Will Soon Weather Reverses and Disappoint ments Incident To Becon. struction; Given Bousing Beception In Louisiana City New Orleans, Nor., 18. Sober-thinking snd aa abiding faith ia the repub lic during the critical period of war reconstruction were asked of th Ameri can people today by President-elect Herding, in an address delivered here just before he sailed for a three weeks' racatioa voyage to the canal son. Some reverses and disappointments, ke declared, must com as the after math of the world conflict, but ha pre dicted confidently that all of them would pass away again if the people onla "kept their heads" and held fast WtW f- rtTn-wr ''ffcrW'rWaV second formal speech since his election, Mr. - Harding spoke in studied terms and witk a quiet earnestaess" betoken ing a full realisation of tha responsi-. bilities ahead of him. But ringing through his address was a predominat ing not of confidence and unfaltering faith. Maintain Confidence. A confident America," buttressed by resources never equalled before by any people, and governed by a free repre sentative government, wss the ideal which the President-elect declared must be kept forever in view through the time of transition. He said bo one de sired that the old order should return, but he maintained that ia building for the new order there must be no sac ceptonce of strange eure-alls.and fancy theories. The address was delivered at a lunch eon of the New Orleans Association of Commerce, the central feature ef a program of entertainment by which the city sought to, show ths President elect that the partisanship of the cans paiga already . had beea foggotten, -Great street crowd cheered Mr. Hard ing everywhere during, his short stay and te a gathering of thousand ia front of the City Hall ke expressed hi i gratitude for the hospitality -extended bim through, the South. . . Following the luncheon, Mr. Harding wat the guest at aa informal recep tion held at the Elks Home, where hs was presented with a geld watch, th gift of the local lodge. His little talk" promised the committee of Elk devsl- . oped intp a 15-mlnute address before,, . a crowd of several thousand gathered . In front of the home. He stressed the talue of fraUraities, asserting that without Hi em there would be vsstly more trouble aad worry la governments and among th peopl ia general. -' Start Oa Voyage. Ths President-elect waa la New Or leans about five hour. Ha arrived . shortly before 11 o'clock la the morn ing from Point Isabel, Texaa, where he spent the first week ef ki men tion, and went aboard hi steamer, the , United Fruit liner Parismlna,- ahortly after 4 p. m. Soon afterward the Parismina started ea the four-day rua to Cristobal. Any possibility that th vessel would touch st a Mexican port on ker way down, la response to an invitation ex tended to Mr. Harding by ths Mexi can government, disappeared when the Stesmshlp company notified the Presi dent elect that such a stop would carry tha Parismina three day out of her course. She already bad delayed her ailing oa day te wait for the Prsoi dential party, and as sh earried a number ef regular passenger, Mr., Hardiag would aot approve a further Changs m plana. Beside Mrs. Harding and his ere- inry, ueorge a. lisraonu, w President-elect is accompanied by a number of personal friends, including Senators Hale, ef Maine, aad Frellng kuysen, of New Jersey. The party will remain la tbe Canal Zone about a week aad will land la return trip at Nor- folk, Va, ea December 4. t ., - DEPARTMENT DENIES ' TREATY WITH MEXICO Waslilna-ton. Not. 18. Publication In . Mexico City today of what purported to be the text of a treaty between the v United Btates, Great Britain aad France . signed id 1917 and dealing with certaia rio-hta claimed by those countries ia Mexico, brought prompt official denial . . from ths State department ox tea exist ence of any such psct. Officials at the ' : department were Inclined to believe the published text waa that of false treaty prepared during th war by Gaaaaaay for nroDaeanda purposes in Mexico. There hsd beea they said, previous iui d-eation of the ctreulatioa of "tot t fals document. ' , ' DEMPSEY AND BRENNAN TO FIGHT DECEMBER H : New Tork 1?ot. 18.-Jaek . Dempsey, ' , the world' hcarywelgbt champion, will defend hia title la a fifteen-round bout against Bill Breanan. the Chicago chal lenger, at Madison Square Garden here oa Tuesday, December 1.-Thli will be yr the first contest between big fellow to ' be decided inNew York State under the Walker -law and waa mad possible by the action takea by the Bute Boxing , Commission here today duriag a Joint ; meeting witk th license committee. Ia a statement the commissioners gar out tonight they said they had decided thst point hsd beea reached ia the -operation of tha new boxing law where they felt Justified la permitting heavy weight boxing contest. t