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. H' THE jf'EA TliER. Fair Monday. Tuesday Inr reaa log eloudlneseolorobshly raia. Utile ckaag la Understate. WATCH LAJtZL a flat w-v. tt aa-J i-e aaje ktfM xtratta m4 tnU erver a T7 VOL (pen, NO J 59, TEN PAGES TODAY RALEIGH, N. C. MONDAY v MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1920. TEN PAGES TQDAY. PRICE: FIVE CENTS T T mm y los ;.,. ;,, i :. '-, , . i , j : mews 1 M r it FINALSESS1QN0E teTH CONGRESS TO President Wilson's Annual Mes- sage Tuesday Onef Out . standing Features v ; , . :-v HARDING TO ATTEND CONVENING OF SENATE)' Big Demonstration in Upper H House in Honor of President. ' Beet Is Expected; Uncer-tainty- as to Whether or Hot " - President , Wilson Will Ap ' pear in Prson . Washington, Dee. 8. Th sixty-sixth Congres swill convene at noon tomor row (or it third and final session, with outstanding event the attendant tomorrow at the Senate session of President-elect Harding and tha pre sentation Tuesday Bf President Wil son's annual message. . Senator Harding wss , due to arrive Id. Washington shortly before midnight tonight from Bedford, Va., where he Bade an address today, and i expected t go to hi office at the Capitol about nine ocloek tomorrow enraing ana ttaoa to- v-t tha .Banata ehumber 'to make a brief address In response to the demonstration vof woleoine expected from his eolleaguea and . spectator still was K doubt tonight and was dot pendent, Republican leadei aaid, on the turn of developments S morrow. Uncertain Featnre. Another uncertain feature of the re convening of Congress was whether or not president Wilson would deliver hi message in person or send it to Con gress Tuesday. Opinion generally was that the latter course would be fol lowed. . There was practically no in formation regarding the contents of the message, but the belief was preva lent that it would .deal with America's international relations and pressing re construction problems including tax ation. , ' The final session of the. present Con gress opens with only Vhree months of allotted official life, ending just before the inauguration of President Hnrd ing on March 4, and with an extra session soon afterward in prospect.' Ap propriation bills will constitute the principal task -fft this aession. Secre tary Houston, of the Treasury,' will transmit to Congres tomorrow the an nual budget of estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1022, said to aearedite between four and bil- lions of dollars.- -These -estimstrs will form the basii for the appropriation Wiiv :.,-:r -;:r- u Te Notify Peeaideat. 1 ' Except fur the demonstration ex pected to attend the appearance of President elect Harding In the Senate, the opening session promise to be brief and routine. Theprogram called only for roll-ealls in Senate and House, appointment of eommltteeo to notify each other , and President Wilson of their convening and adjournment until Tuesday. The Preaident will reeeive the notification committee in person ' and advise them regarding the delivery of his "message Tuesday. Actual work of both branches of Congres is to begin Tuesday. The Usual opening avalanche of bills is exneeted tomorrow in the" House and Tuesday in the Senate. Consideration of minor miscellaneous ''measure on the nnfinlahed business calendar prob-J ably will be started Tuesday in tne House and Wednesday the Senate will 1 begin dabate on the Kenyon-Kendrick - bill for Federal regulation of the meat industry. . ' ' - . :1-, t LeglslaUv) Progrsm. ; ,' . A tentative program of legislation in addition to the appropriation bills i ' expected -to be. determined this week bv Bepnbliean leader , In conference " sAong themselves and Srith President elect Harding, who will -remain here over,Tneday for .brief, - but "Tmsy period in counsels, legislative si well ' political, s . '-.' Republican leader predict that Con gres will be forced to work steadily . to complete the -tpprobriation bill by Kirch 4. - In addition to these, bills "ether legislation likely to be taken np , includoa measure to repeal. war legis latlna Ynr relief af farmers and nroh- - ably n few other emergency bills. ConM mittees, however, ' were preps red to work generally on', matter to be eon aiHered at the extra session. . A fall attendance of both Senate and House -tomorrow is in prospect. Viee President Marshall, Speaker Gil- lett and all floor leaders together with ' ' most of the member of both branches, had arrived in Washington tonight. "BICKETT IN WASHINGTON -. FOR OPENING OF CONGRESS (By Special Leased Wire.)" Washington, ' Dec,' 6. Gov. Thomas Walter Bieket and Mra, Bickett ar rived in Washington tonight front - Philadelphia, where last : nigh they warn entertained Jy the . North Caro lina eocietyj in' the Quaker city.' ' Tha Governor will .appear tomorrow " before the joint agricultural commit , tee hearing the troubles of the fanner it the delegation of Tar Heel-Tobacco ' Growers turn np. , He . will 'also call on Secretary Baker: tomorrow to talk over with hint plans , concerning the training earn a, for women at Asheville. While in tE city, tha Governor and ' , Mrs. Bickett will be guests of M. and Mrs. William Kearney Carr. They will be' luncheon guest tomorrow of lira. Jtiver, who" was Mia Mary - Battle, ' formerly of Bock Mount, and tomor row niicht they will be entertained at .a theatre party by Secretary and. Mrs. Pamela. i- The Governor expressed a keen inter est tonight in the possible appearance of Preaident Wilson before Congress on Tuesday and he will-remain hereto hear the Presides if it is determined that he will deliver hi message in jvrson. ' .,. - ; Aifff thest Whether Senator Harding would I tion, while in Georgia, Florida, ALa-I TENDENCY TOWARD E XHOLDlNGOFtROPS MO CiOLlS ' FederafReserve Jeoaft Reports Heavy Increase in Move ment of Cotton s GENERAL REVIEW OF BUSINESS CONDITIONS PerlotTof Readjustment DiiringK 1 November Marked By Gen-4 era! Refusal of Consumers .to Buy "Until Prices Com Down"; Low Grades of To-1 'bacco in the Southeast . Washington, D. C Dee, S. Heavy inereue in the movement of cotton wit reported fay the. Federal Reserve Board in it (review of business conditions for November although, the report said, a tendeaey developed In' North Carolina and South Carolina toward a erop-holdirrg movement. Continuation during November of the period of readjustment, which, ac cording to the board, was accompanied rjy a general rerusai or consumer throughout the country to buy "until pritei tome down," showed ae pro nouwedJ development In Virginia, bama, tasters Tennessee, ' Southern Mississippi and- Southern -Louisiana favorable agricultural condition con tinued, despite some shrinkage in yield. ... The portion of .-the board's . re ajaw dealing with the Southern states said that larger quantities than usual of low grades , of tobacco were report ed. , Lew Tobacco Grades. , More than uiual of the low grades of tobacco was reported due to dam age of various kind.' In Tennessee tha color was bad and the quality rather low. Farmers generally were reported dissatisfied witt the price, which had manifested itserf in a ten dency toward slower marketing. Cotton picking had been completed in Florida; and nearly so in Alabama, South Carolina. Mississippi and Louis ians, but in Upper Georgia tha boll weevil had increased 50 per cent. . ' Coal production in Alabama wa re ported as having steadily increased despite the strike in that field. Plenty of coal for home use waa reported in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina although, public utilities were reported ann narrow margins. ' Textile 8hut-Downs. ' Further shut-downs and (ferr-wf tensive curtailment of working time in the textile industry were reported, cotton mills ia New England operating from 30 to 4Q. per cent of capacity. Finishers of cotton fabrics billed 4o 233,000 yards of white, dyed and print ed fabrics during November compared with 58,670,000 yards in September. In the Biehmond district, the report stated, decreases occurred in the whole sae dry good trade wholesale grocer and wholesale shoes, while in furniture lines increases were reported. In the Atlanta district a decline was reported by the board in all four lines, sales of wholesale .'shoes dropping 36.4 per eent from October,' and dry goods 3SS per eent.-' . .". . ' v' -. . Lumber Mills Plot. , I A number of lumber mills were J reported closed up in thf Atlanta dis trict, TheV43 mill belonging to the Southern, pin .Association showed an output of 35.4 per cent below normal the -last week of October, with ship ments in excess of output. , , Furniture factories in the, Richmond district) were reported to be-receiving few order and were , either closed or running, below normal. - " Building activity (bowed general declines, the .Biehmond' district re porting n decrease of 47.8 per eent compared with a year ago, and the Atlanta district about 60 per eent .Unemployment continued to Increase in all industrial section of the .coun try, the Biehmond district reporting a marked inereaae in unemployment of both (killed and unskilled labor. A number of cotton mills in North Carolina and, South Carolina had re duced wsgVsbout IS per eent Cotton picker and eorn busker were scares in . that district. From : the -Atlanta district it was reported that farm 1' bor ,n Uuisiau. wa. barely aeWnti re harvest the crops. MOUNTAINEERS USING v BANKS FOR FIRST TIME Epidemic of Robberies Brings - Much Hidden1 Money to Hickory Banks - . Hickory, Dec' 5. A a result of re ports of numerous holdup and the al leged murder and ' robbery of Glean Lippard near Hickory, a well-kaownJ mountaineer and Ms wire came into Hickory and deposited In a local bank the turn of 12,800. He bad never used a bank, before nnd naked a variety of questions, ftnaJly being e"nvib,eed that any .money he left with the bank would (till bo bis. If he Was not entirely con vinced, he at any rate remarked to the cashier that he himself Would be safer without thf money, and bo and hi wife went to'work loosening the greenback from n acor of . email package, which were fastened to their1 clothe. ' ' Other men- have , Begun using ' tha bank lately, but it 1 said that, thou sand of dollar are bidden a way In tha mountain section by people who have not yet learned the importance of ' banking their morjsy nnd using 4 Hickory i business men expect toNbe well represented at any hearing in BaV eigh during the cession of the General Assembly: in the interest of good roads' and it t the present intention to stay on the job until hard surface highway are made available tq th State. 'r .' NQW HERE lSTJ",frj3'" 4f if: V .. . It Eas rental aed for the afier-war building campaign to earoll womea in the made in an American manufacturing plant, shows women and girla lending brick U. S. Navy Best Fed Body Of 'MenfoWorlL-S&ysMcGowan 1 Paymaster General of Navy tSays Profit Was Realized On Surplus Sales NAVY RATION REFLECTS 1 HIGH FOODSTUFFS COST Gives Expenditures as Result of War; Makes Number of v Recommendations WashingtonrDee. 5. Claim still may be made that the American Navy is the best fed body of men in the world. Samuel McGowan, paymaster general of the Navy, declared in his annual re port, made public today. Ia support of hi statitsnont. Bear Admiral Me Gowaa cites th following order issued by Admiral Wilson, commander of the Atlantic-Fleet: "Due to general excellence of present Navy ration and bring; conditions on board ships of the fleet, "training tables for athletic events are eon slderetT unnecessary and are therefore forbidden. - - Surplua ' provisions . . left - vr - after filling the war-time need. Admiral Me Gewan aaid, have been disposed of, nt reasonable priees. He added that new stocks of th . current season's ' ek were . being obtained in suu nt quantities to meet the eatimatej 're quirements for the coming year. High Food Prleea. ' Increase in the price of foodstuffs during the year were reflected - in the east of the Navy ration, which rose to an average of 70.fi cents, as compared with S5.7 cent in 1919 and a pre-war average of around 37 eent. Admiral MeGowan asserted that final figures showed that the Navy subsisted POO ,000 troop en route to France and 1,200,000 returning troops. In eonnec-t tion with the war-time work of the sub sistence branch, he said: "Despite the scarcity' ' of certain articles of food and the .constant and persistent - pressure , ' from outside amounting in effect , to actual props gaada Tor relaxation' of the rigidity of tha Nevy's specification, eapeeially ' on meat, no such thing was don and 'the standard"- of subsistence was never lowered.' V '., AdmirarMeGowaa esGmsted that the Navy during the thro' yean from, the outbreak of thotwar to the first of last April spent more than $403,000)00, or Sine and n third time aa "much, as bad been expended during the previous 183 year of the navy' history, during which tim it was engaged in - four wars." : r AnprMiiaUaaa. Cat) Threutvia Naval apprepriaUoa for labor by tha last Congress was doctored by Admiral - MeGowan-' to have been "too rreat to reasonably expect anything : like satisfactory k service for the various bureaus of. thefJavy De- partment.". ' It will be neessisry de- spite effort to;, simplify report nnd less work, n announced, to go xo von- - , S'S gres early in the session convening to- Progress in th sal of surplua ves sels by th Navy wss described by ..the paymaster general as aatisfaetory, During the Inst fiscal year these sal amounted to - more than Sv million dollar -although' most of th -vessels old were email 'craft. ',-?, ' ... Nee4Coah1ng riant. " On qf tha chief recommendations made by Admiral UcGowan is that the Navy coaling plant at New York and Boston be , located " on ' government owned property.- The government has large Investment ' oi capital in ewal ing plantTon rented ' ground ' at - the two cities, ho aaid; adding that "sound business, and naval policy requires that th control, of these plants be removed from ' commercial diapoaitien. by gov crnment purchase of the land, v - , . Mad A Profit. (,"' Admiral MeGowsa's , report revealed that the Navy Department "mad' a profit on the enleis of urplu materials. Th jpymaater general estimated the receipts from stele of surplus stocks durinx. th -fiscal .year at $7.0,132,061 a4 the aoefof appraised value of the material at 6A3fl5S, making th wet profit to the denartment more .than three and a naU -million- dollars. . mi i r--" m,. . Browned White HuaUag Dacha. -Petersburg, Va' Dec' S- Lieutenant Bnipb H. Countryman of the 62nd In fantry, Camp Lee, waa drowned .Satur day night while out duck .hunting, oa th Appomattox river-in. n casoe., B. W. f-l.. ll.i. . ab fif . nraminmt fnmilv Kot Petersburg,, was reseaed by river strapper after , he had clung M us canoe for twenty minut.--- . -- COMES THE. GIRL. HOD CARRIER tjWT ,fC. .jr -v 1 ? eBBW3bnlaBBnfeM HINEKS TO FIGHT TO FINISH WITH OPERATORS IadlanapoUav lad, Dec I Th Vailed Mino Worker of America plan to carry en a straggle with the coal oneraton of Alabama and Mingo County, W. Va-, to a Inlah." said a statement Issaed her tonight by th anion officials . According to the statement, the snloaV International -board haa snlmossly adopted n declaration, remising the Alabama and West Virginia minors "the foil moral nnd financial km lata ace of the interna tional talon. ; GREEKS VOTE 10 Whole Situation In Hands of Deposed King With Any : Solution Possible Athens, Greece, Dee. fi. (By the Associated rress.) The plebiscite held today has shown an overwhelming ma jority ia favor of th return of for mer King Constantino to th Greek throne. ' The plhhiseite to determine the wish es of the Greek people regarding the return of former King Constantino to the Oreck throne began, according to plan, throughout Greece this mora ing. In face of the expressed opposition of the -allied governments the question was put aquarely before , the Greek people and th indications prior to th balloting were that fh Greeks would return Constantino ' who ia now In Switaerland. In the harbor of Piraeus, the port of Athens, important xinit -of the French - nnd British navies ar an chored, ready for any ' emergency, while five additional British warship ar stationed not far distant. Ia political circle it was said today the whole situation lay . in th hand f Constant in-with any eolation pos sible. The Venebelists were forecasting that Constantino would receive s heavy complimentary vote in the plebiscite but tost he would abdicate ia favor of his son. Prince ' Goorge, Duke of Sparta. The Teuexeliat organ Petri has demanded Censtnutin' definite abdication, . while other newspaper comment takes a mournful Mote, to the effect that the recent allied note means revision of the treat of SevTei with the loss to Greece . of Smyrna asd Three. '. . i J ; . , While the pttblacite proceeded, the white haired and' wrinkled Premier Khallis suffering" from the- loss ' of sleep, strugglsd.rn "the . foreign office to formulate ,a6t in .answer to the alUed communication'1 with interrup tioaa from every source, due to hi slogan: . "This , Js s democratic gov ernment;.! receive all callers at all timec" - A joint Franeo-Brah note was re ceived by the government hut night, remindinw it that under the agreemeat Of 1897. by -which ' Greece' finances were put under French- and , British control, the ' Greek - authorities can print' no;-new money. . ,' J,:'' . Athens is bedecked with the Amer ican 'nnd allied flags, and the populace shows no resentment over th allied ot telling of th measures to be taken against Greece should thee return of Constantino be voted at the pollc f NORTH CAROLINA NEGRO DIES th WASHINGTON Waahijurton, Dec 5-John 0 Daney, oa of the wealthiest negroes in th Middi Atlantis states nnd former col lector of customs at Wilmington, N. C, died her today. During President Roosevelt's adminiatratian he nerved as Columbia. Hs . wis bora in Tarboro, OKLAHOMA NEGRO HANGED -rFOS'ATTACK ON WOMAN V', v-' j, ., -s .1 - - - i Tulsa, Okm, Dec 8-An Unidentified sVegro charged with an assault this after aooa upon a white woman; 67 years old wss taken from ths Hughe county jail st Holdenville tonight bp' a mob, of about fifty men and bunged to a tele phone post. ' The negro's" body was thea riddled with bullet. ' v i a. f. -Vl-dH r W4j i. Htm . mum in mi . iniiimMAii't-itMJip.Jwg'..4 BACKCQ STANTINE M.t -f .'-It a! &n.'?r ranks of the hod ehrrierm. The photo, on an electric eonvryor. EPARES TO First Attack in Effort to Get Negro Results in Death of Leader Bristol, "Va.-Tenn., Dee. 5. A mob of 700 men from Appalaehia, Va, armed with high-power rifles and dynamite, is preparing to storm the jail at Wise to get possession of the negro held there for the assault on Creed Boblnett, ac cording to a message received tonight by Deputy Sheriff L M. Odell, in charge, of deputies guarding the jail. A long distance telephone message from Norton to Bristol early in the night said such a message ia being dis patched to th handful of men at the jail and that the mob was reported to be forming rapidly in the, coal field section adjacent to Appalaehia and Norton. ,- .. 'At, midnight pdell aaid: tha officers were expecting an attack, aMV 9 J meat and that a sortie from th jail was planned to prevent, the building from being dynamited. Other reports sail.. that Severn auto mobile loaded with men wore seen to leave Appalaehia and that an attack on the jail some time before daylight had been determined upon , by leaders of the mob. This report, coming from un official aaurcea, aaid the attacking force wa growing rapidly by now arrivals from different ports of the coal fields. It was ssid leaders were planning an early attack to get posaession of the negro before the arrival of troops from Roanoke. Prominent eitixens; i is said, are. trying4 to dissuade the mob lead ers from- aa attempt to storm the jail; -l A machine gun baa been mounted In the jail and Sheriff Auburn Oorder soys th offlcsrsr haT6 been instructed to "shoot to kill." Intense feeling has been aroused in Apryalaehia over the assault on the aged merchant and th repulse of the rn t the Wise jail and crowd hav thronged the streets all day. Reports over the long distance tele phone from both pUoes say a determin ed effort will be made tonight to lyneu . ,l j,i, i Tate Blondell, chauffeur, who was kill ed when the first volley was fired about 2 o'clock this morning. The officers said 'Blondell, who appeared to be the leader of the mob, was killed outright while leading a charge on the front door of the jail. Sheriff Corder say member of the mob fired first and fhst their fire wa returned y the deputies from th doors ssd window of th JsiL v v At 1:15 o'clock deputy sheriff Odell said no signs of the attacking party had been seen and that the officers had' taken precautions against sur priss attack. H The officer said he thought th attack would not be made if th mob' supply of "liquor failed to hold, out." The situation, at this hour remained unchanged, . COVCKNOB DAVIS ORDERS . , . . v TROOPS TO GUARD JAIL Biehmond, y Dec 6. Governor Davis tonight ordered a detachment of twenty-five members - of th National Guard from , Boahok and twenty-five members of the National Guard from Lynchburg, forming n company of fifty men, to leave Boanoke 1 on a special train at t:30v o'clock tomorrow morning for the scene of the, disorder at Wise, Va. Ths detachment will be under com mand (of Major; Alexander. Thegover nordeclared. tonight that he will not countenance ' mob .jrioleaee, that - the courts aad not Smob will try Wil-'l liams, aeeusd,-ef baring assaulted and robbed Crard vBobjnett,: a , merchant, near Appalaehia. ' v' DISASTROUS SUNDAY FIRS BURNS ELKINS WARkTBOUSS ; . .(. .a" V- . 'Winstoa-Sateac'. Deell'sJ-A'' fire that, threatened to destroy the en tire basinet -district r at Elkin, North Carolina, brake out at UtM o'clock .today nnd. eomplstely .de .streyed Ciena's warehoos sod the S. W. Y. C. ' Snpply Cemsany's balldlag oa .Mala street. The 8o th ere Railway station caught- several times, bat wss saved. . The toes' Is estimsted .at 3,00 with 25,Mt Insurance. 0- . - i .''a. c y mam X .1 MOB PR nmnii mi i m in uiuiiiit jiuu numii CONGRESS OPENS WITH PROMiSE OF s iIEROUSTHRILL$ Arrival of Harding Today Adds . to Spirit of Expectancy . in Capjtal ' WILSON MAY READ HIS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS After Tuesday Legislative Body Will Settle Down to Work and Plenty of Precsinrob. lems in Sight Demanding Action; Agricultural Situa tion Pressing Tile News and Observer Bureau, 603 District National Bank Building. By -B. B. POWELL. (By Special Leased Wire.) r Washington, Dec 6. Ia spite of re peated assurances to the contrary given by members of Congress within the past fortnight, the third "sesion of the Sixty Sixth Congress, formally convening to morrow at noon, promises o furnish plenty of thrills to the country before it passes into history with the ex piration of the Wilson administration. There ha been talk now for several are in tine way and another destined ... i. . . .i , .1 . ,w vo fjrrivufcu to (as BUlons. ouppij bills, the adjustment of world trade eonditioas, legislation for the farmer and legislation for the reformer IB" ad dition to the special legislation to be demanded by the new voters sp suel! importance to the nation that they cannot be postponed until the new Con gress ' is, called together by President el .set Hnrding. - Washington Oa 'Tip Tee." With the arrival in the city today of most of the members of the Senate and the House all Washington is on "tip tee," as it looks for the dramatic to break loose in the historic halls tomor row and next day. President-elect Harding is scheduled to appear in the Senate tomorrow and at least answer the roll call. While his senate rial ad visers have been warning against it, Mr. Harding himself ia represented ss being anxious to deliver some thoughts to his colleague and galleries that are certain to be packed. Again on Tuesday another event, greater in some respects than the po tential happening of the morrow, may be chronicled as a part of the record of the short session. Wood row Wilson, without jrheel ehair, crutch or cane) may walk into th hall of the House .4 T a l . place at the reading clerk's desk, ind deliver to a waiting world his final message on the nffuirs of this govern ment. It is not at all certain tonight that the Presideat will decide to go to the capitol, but information from the White House is that Ije is anxious to do so despite the hope expressed by Dr. Gray son that he would not unnecessarily ex ercise himself. After Tuesday Cong, ess will really settle down to work end in the mesn timo member of committees will be busily engsged in sharing their re spective programs for the session.' The joint agricultural committee, called' to gether to furnish legUpion to roller the "agricultural crisis, has (been sit ting several day and will resume Its work early tomorrow mrrning with dele gations of tobacco farmers from North Carolina and Virginia on hand to pre sent their plight to the lav makers. Agrlcultural-'flituatlea Pressing. The agricultural situation Is by fsr considered tlm , most pressing problem oa hand and Southern and Western atort hav alike served notice on Con J - "" " ei fsrmer constituent! 1 are to be given i remedial . legislation that their farmer constituents will undoubtedly com in th Senate ia the next day or two and Senator-elect Tom Heflia of Alabama, who takes his seat tomorrow, is apt to lead the way. Bepresentative Jimmy Byrnes of South (Continued on Pago Four.) HEARING IN SHEPARD V CASE OCCURS TOMORROW At Least Three of Defendants ',. Expected to Attend; Ap ; plication for Bail Jtfacon, G Dec 5. Promised per sonal appearance in court of at least three of the defendant in the alleged poison conspiracy, which the State is attempting to show caused the death of Fred D. Sbepsrd, of Houston county, on Jun 1, will tax the Bibb county eourthouse to itsi capacity on Tuesday morning, when tearing, for bail takes place, in the belief of Sheriff J. B. Hicks. He said tonight, however, that be ' would be ablo . to ' handle the situation without additional v deputies. John Hopson, son of Mrs. F. Eugene Elmer by a former msrriage, arrived here :thls afternoon from Abbeville and Was theonly visitor during th day to Mrs. Elmer and to . Mrs. Aunt Cutts, ..with whom be . formerly lived. It wa he who" ; wss shot by John Turner, overseer on the Cutts planta tion sevesH-month ago, . and inci dentally Turns as ssid to be on of the star witnesses for th state. - Eldridg Cuttai husband - of Mr. Curt, had hi brother, . E. A-Cutts, prominent Savannah man, will arrive her tomorrow 'with Several lawyers, for conferences with'- their Joeal law. yers, former Congressman C. L. Bart lett asd B. U Berner, relative to the next step in her behatf. . " - - Th state's ease In opfiositloa to' the granting of bail for a ay of th defendants- will be based ... oa affidavits, from witnesses and from - Dr. ' John Fnnke, pathologist, ; snd j DW Edgnrd Everhart, chemist, of Atlanta. Tha de, fens also will bare expert testimoy to rebut the state's showing, -.1 is learaed. .. ' . . ; ''.',-.v.'--V ' - PRESIDENT-ELECT : DELIVERS SPEECH AT HOME OF ELKS Redeems Promise Made Boy hood Friend Before Nonv ination, at Chicago . y OVER 2,000 TAKE PART IN , MEMORIAL EXERCISES Harding Takes friendship as Principal Theme of Mem, orial Oration at Bedford, Va., Speaking Along Re- ligious Lines; Memory Is v One of Greatest Gifts to-,. . v. m ..." - - ocarora, va, vec o. rresiaeat-eiect Harding today redeemed a promise to Mb. boyhood friend, Heary M. Stow, i -now a Blind resident of the Elks' Na- ' tioaal Home here, and practiced hi wa precept of "memory's revealmaut In fellowship and friendships," which formed the basis of hi oration when ' he delivered th address this afternoon f at the annual nsniflrlil riaM mt eh' national lloma Ldge of Elk. It was at the invitation of Mr. Stowe, V formerly a business msa of Marion, Ohio, that 8enator Harding, then a . ' candidate for the Bepublieaa nomiaa- " -tion for the Presidency, agreed to de- liver the snnual memoriat servlee rm wnB o was omuiaiea.ae rwpeaiea nia . promise to be carried out irrespective ' . of the result f his campaign. Bo today ' '; -he delivered the address, declaring ia ' the presenee of the friend of his youth that it ia nnt vlvnn in mH Hon a . . spirs great shafts of granite or tablet' of bronxe, but it is th privilege of avsry - living being to plant sn ever-blooming friendship in some fellow breast and gatlfcr all'the fruit it'bears." Great Crowd Attends. - The oration was delivered in the open beneath the mild sun of au Indian " summer day from ths portico of the Elks National Home at which two thousand Elks and friends from stl ports of Vir- ! -ginia gathered on the lawn to tsks part in the exercises of th order ia memory of fourteen brothers who had died dur ing the year. Senator Harding was in troduced by Grand Exalted 'Ruler Wll- ; Ham M. Abbott, of Baa Praneiseo. Pros- l ent were Past Grand Exalted Baler and other prominent member of th order. Senator Harding reached. Bedford City this morning at 7 o'clock and left it 6 o'clock thia afternoon for Washing ton, where h will remain for two day -in conference with Senator and other ' before going to his homo . In Marion. . Tuesday eight. After a lata breakfest . the party wa takes on an automobile M. mmA ili.ii. 4ft h atiA.l tinm ftir lunch. - The Jpreeideni-eieet missed church, Mr. Stow responding to his , n ii i, . v . a tn Ska IajmIIab A . flantlat cauirh with the regretful answer that there wsh none In Bedford City. y Memory Greatest Gift. "The greatest gift in God's master bestowal upon Snaa is memory," aaid Senator Harding, in opening hi memor ial oration. ''It is ths storehouse of ' . everything in life worth while. It fash- -ions character nnd inspires all hop. It take all the impression of human existence and by tome alchemy of lov 1 removes the dross and make th golden cross, of faith whioh is th rosary to every human prayer.. . . ,s . v" ; "One cannot fancy a life fit to live . without memory' revealment in fellow. ' ships and friendships; without lov snd attachments s without encouragements and endearments; without Inspiration , and th consciousness of enlevements.' . ' ' : "; Recite Kx perUrne. -- Reciting the experience of an iasaa man, who had his sanity restored by a surgical operation st the expense of bis 8en-im(mory tk- cratoI t0Btinud: Ws srs met iu memory today, la . grateful, fraternal memory, in behalf of those who have takea the fork of the road to eternal peace. Ours is not a . memorial of grief. Only happy memo ries ere becoming to the departed, only helpful memorlee are worth while to the living. If the departed brethren could , knowof our memorial, if we could solve the great mystery of mysteries and know that they knew? w should still attune 1 our memorial above the murmuring of sorrow. For them the Book of life is closed. Sorrow has had it becoming . expressions, but normal, natural Inter est is iu the living. Indeed, we ar met for the living, else thi meeting would be iu vaii.. We ar met to remind our- -selves that aa we lire, so shall our men. ories endure. Wo come to. a fresh eon-' elusion today that ia our daily live we are making memorial and it ia th -privilege of every hnmaa being to leave , such a memory as he would like to have recalled." - ' -:, ' lafiuoaee of Example. .' The influence of, example was Illus trated by th Senator with two experi ences of hi own, in which by words of sheer to men who had become th vic tim of stromf drink he had had th satiafactioa of turning them away front the path they were following into a successful life. Of the disappointment of public life, he salarv ' ., , "How often do we criticise harshly, when ire ought to bestow a garland. We db it in private-life, and leave a j wound where praise would bo more bo. coming. W. do it in public life, and withhold from sacrificing public - men -th on eompensation,that might atone." CONTEST OVER OFP1CB.OP A POSTMASTER AT LENOIR . Lenoir, - Dec 6V-E. P." Wakefield,. chairman of the county Bepublieaa ex ecutive committee, ha announced his candidacy for th erne of postmastsr . at Lenoir. Mr. Wakefield nnnounee- . tnent eomee as a bomb into th camp of ether Republicans, who had lined np to support J. D. Matheson, th present sssistant postmaster. . Immediately following 'th November election, Mr. Matheson . entered th . field-with a petition aadr has hundred of signa tures of both Republicans and Democrats.- Mr. Wskefield ia said to b asking for Bepublicsn ndorsement, claiming that Mr. Matheson i th candidate of th DfinocMta, i : N' "
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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