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J0HI1S0H SAYS HFS
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California Senator Will Attend
To But One Matter At a
Time, He States
REALIZES HE'S BEATEN
BUT HE WON'T QUIT
Believes Jk Primary And Ex
plains Why Eepublican Party
la North Carolina Befnses To
Oira Heed To It ; It'i Becanso
Bosses Want To Stay In
Power, He Declares
The New and Observer Bureau,
603 District National Bank Bldg.
. n. mwiin E BRITTON.
(By Special Leased Wire )
Washington, May 14. "I have not yet
dcteimined what I shall do in retard to
the nomination of Mr. Linney, was the
answer given ma by Senator Hiram
Cohnson this afternoon. I had been
talkiig with him concerning his fight on
the er.nnrmation of the appointment of
Dave Blair as Commissioner of Internal
BeTenne, and switched to the subject
of the nomination by President Harding
of Prank Linney for district attorney
of the Western North Carolina district.
T .hall nnt do anything in that mat
ter," he continued, '"until the Blair
nomination is disposed of. That is the
" D re sent mstter and I will not now go
beyond that. After there is action
' which disposes of that, then I will give
UNDECIDED ABOUT
ACTION Oil LlllllEY
my attention to the Linney nomination.
Belierea In Primary.
-. Senator Johnson knows that he will
' not be able to defeat the confirmation
f Dave Blair. He told me so in so
many words. "I realise" said he, "with
the forces of the administration sup-
' porting Mr. Blair he will be confirmed.
Yet I hare won my fight in showing that
' my contentions are right, that he vio
lated the mandate of the primary law
et his State. I believe in the primary.
Jt gives the people an opportunity to
express their views. I have sjarned
that the Republican party in North
Carolina gives little or no heed to its
mandates. The reason is not hard to
tee, for it is because the leaders of
the party there, the bosses who run it,
do not want the primary, to count.
, - Hence they discourage it and for the
reason that if the people of the Be
trabliean party expressed their views
iHfl Mina uRir Euum auk wiuiwot
ther e would be no more place for the
posses.". x
. The finale in the Blair ease is Bow
-expected to occur on Monday though
there is a possibility that this may be
Referred till Tuesday. The -finance eom
jnittoe of the Senate met thia morning,
but devoted iU time to the mstter of
r the sales tax, waiting for the printed
1 report of the proceedings of the Blair
investigation. That was not in the
gasus oi ui diouiuvi, tu. cvwiuu
. tee till nearly 4 o'clock this afternoon.
It is a document marked "'confidential''
ad newspaper men can only make
guesses. But the publie may understand
that the essential facts have been given
it.
To Take Fight Te Senate. .
In the document there will be found
letters received by Senator Johnson
from North Carolina and perhaps other
places concerning Mr. Blair and the
Cannon family tax matters, and the
sharp replies he mads to them. But
Senator Johnson has not stopped his
fight on Dave Blair at all. He will
' carry it to the floor of the Senate and
expects to have quite a respectable
Showing of votes with him. . I told him
of the forecast I had made of the vote
In the committee, and of this he said:
"I am inclined toi agree with you in
your figures." And my figures were
that there would be three votes against
Blair and thirteen in his favor.
Among the Democrats it is realised
that there is a chance to defeat Mr.
Blair in the Senate, if the Democratic
vote can be lined up against him. It
is knows that Senator James Beed, of
Missouri, is 'against Blair, that hs will
to vote both in committee and on the
floor is regarded aa certain. It is the
tlear understanding that Senator Beed
and Senator Fat Harrison have been
sounding out the Democrats to see if
there was a possibility ef the Democrats
getting together with the Johnson forces
and lining up against Blair, but it was
found that thia could not be done. One
Democratic Senator said to me, "When
the Wilson administration came into
power the Republicans did not interposs
themselves against the nominations made
by Jrresident Wilson and the Democratic
party will hardly pursue a different pol
icy with regard to President Harding's
nominations. I can see no good that
tan eome from it. Let the Bepublicans
fight this thing out amongst them
selves." Tar Heel Senators Far Blair.
- In the Senate it is ths expectation
that both Senator Simmons and Senator
Overman, the North.. Carolina members
.will vote for the North Carolinian
named by the Preaident for commis
sioner of internal revenue. The vote of
these two North Carolinians will be
If such aa to prove no rallying ground
Blair, for the expreasions of each have
been friendly towards him. Todsy in
I the Senate Senator Harrison made aa
enort to secure open executive sessions
but failed. Hs referred to the Blair
executive hearings in his remarks and
aid that Senator Johnson would per
haps like open sessions.
Mr. Blair has returned to his home in
Winston-Salem and will be back in
(Washington Monday for what is ex
I pasted tr be the final round-up in ths
I fight made oa him. National Commit
1 teemaa John M. Morahead also returned
! to North Carolina. Mr. Blair does not
agree, nor do his supporters agree, that
Senator Johnson has mads good in his
fight, and-they. nay- that-he will gain
Mukiijag xuj Hnpui w una Bp wiu
anything wrong the men who endorsed
Mr. Blair, among them his father-la-law,
J. W, Cannon, of Concord j Stuart
(Continued Oa Page Four.) "
CAMPAIGNS THREE
DAYS; IS ELECTED
W. Ben Uoedwin, newly elected
mayor of Elisabeth City, conducted a
three day campaign. He announced his
..nifl.. m Rittardav and en last
Tuesdsy he was elected by an over
whelming majority, lie is grana eniei
of the Elisabeth City order of Bed
Men. and one 0i that city's best known
business men.
Another Step In Effort To
Squirm Out Of Jurisdiction
Of State Courts
Greensboro, May lv With the North
Carolina Publie Service Company stand
ing fir magainst all efforts of the South
ern Power Company to squirm out of
the jurisdiction of the State courts into
the federal courts in the action brought
by the North Carolina Publie Service
Company, Greensboro and High Point,
to prevent the power company from
making good its threat to discontinue
the serviea of current, the Southern
Power Company has secured a tempor
ary injunction from Jndge James E.
Boyd, Western District Federal Court,
directing that, the publie service com
pany and the two cities appear before
him in Greensboro May 21 to' show
cause why they should not be perma
nently enjoined from proaeentlng their
suit in any yeourt aaeept the) federal
court. , . 1 ,
The application, tot M Injunction
from Federal Judge Boyd followed
straight, oa the heels ef $hr apraion
of the North Carolina Bupreme Court
Wednesday when the tottrW for ths wot
ond time, held that the action began by
the publie service company in the na
ture of a mandamus was not removable
to the federal courts. On two occasions
the case has eome to the State Supreme
Court with the refusal of the, lower
court to remove aa one of the prime ex
ceptions. Judge W. P.J9taey, writing
the Supreme Court's- opinion, found
Judge J. Bis Bay in error in rendering
judgment on the pleading - Conse
quently, the ease was sent back to the
lower ronrt for trial on the issues, but
the eourt expressed not the lightest
doubt about the correctness of Judge
Ray's ruling that the aetion was not
removable to the federal eourta.
Willingness to Psv
The specific pleading which Judge
Stacy held sufficient to warrant clearing
up through process of trial was the at
legation of the Publie Service Company
that it stood ready and was both able
and willing to pay the Southern Power
Company, a reasonable rate for the
power service furnished it. The denial
of this by the defendant Judge Stacy
held, raised a question thst justified re
turning to the lower court
In its supplemental petition, asking
for restraining order the Southern
Power Company alleged thst the North
Carolina Publie Service Company, is in
debted to the defendant for electricity
furnished it ai Greensboro and High
Point during the months of January,
February, March and April, 1921, in the
sum of 167,008.90 all of which said in
debtedness remains due and unpaid;
and as this defendant is advised and
believes, said North Carolina Publie
Service Company hopes to continue the
use of thia defendant's electricity st
Greensboro and High Point without pay
ing anything therefor, or at most pay
ing htcrefor considerably less than the
cost of producing said electricity.
Checks Are Refused.
In response to this, Publie Service
Company officials announced today that
each month a cheek has been forwarded
to ths Southern Power Company, for
the amount stipulated in the injunction
ordered by Judge J. Bis Bay. These
cheeks have been uniformly refused by
the Southern Power Company and are
kept on deposit in a separate account by
the Publie Service Company.
JOHN PARK SELLS HIS
PAPER IN FAYETTEVILLE
Fayetteville, May 14. Dtrid B. Lin4
say, of Marion, Ind., former publisher
of the Marion Chronicle, has purchased
the Fayetteville Observer from John A.
Park, it was announced here today. Mr.
Lindsay assumed management today.
The Observer, the oldest newspsper
in the State, was purchased by Mr. Park
from a stock eompsay composed of Fay
etteville businsss men in January, 1920,
and many Improvements were added to
the plant under his management.
TOUTHFUL GANGSTERS MAKE .
-EFFORT TO BREAK OUT OP JAIL.
Bt. Petersburg, Fla, May .14- Feur
youthful 'gangsters," ranging in age
from 13 to 18, early thia morning bored
through sixteen inehea of solid brick
wall in the city , jail here in aa effort
to force the lock and effect their
scape. " ' ' . . '
The boys were arrested yesterday and
admitted to the polies they had stoles
a city auto truck and were driving about
the town all night. They are being
aem via marges ox aisoraerqr onduet.
x ' " 1
SOUTHERN POWER
SEEKS INJUNCTION
Pn rJT R BPPfHT
nuuumiLU iu-1 mi
OF DRASTIC CUTS.
MADEIHVALUES
Unable To Raise Tax Rates To
Compensate For. Reduced
Values .
WANT COMMISSION TO
DISALLOW CUT ORDER
Carteret Makes Tormal Appeal
and Attorney General Boles
That Values May Be Return
ed To Point Where Income
Is Sufficient; Commission
Meets Tomorrow
Sober second thoughts oa reduction
of property values, considered in the
light of the fact that reduced values
meaa higher rates, and a limitation
that will bold the rate within 15 eent
limits, has moved authorities in several
counties to request the Bevenue Com
mission to disapprove what they had
ordered when the Commission meets
tomorrow for a review of the aetion
of about half the counties in ordering
reduction. ,
Carteret county the far eastern
stronghold of the minority in the State
has made formal petition t the Bev
enue Commission to be allowed to re
cant from its horizontal reduction of
50 per cent, and the Attorney General
ruled yesterday that county could
reconaider if it so desired. Carteret
couldn't figure enough income oa its
reduced values to run its county gov
ernment, according to the chairman
Of the Board.
Below Deadline.
Other counties throughout the State
have come to the same conclusion and
have communicated their conclusions,
though informally, to the Bevenue Com
missioner. Computations both ia the
Commissioner's office, and on the part
of various coanty fiscal officials have
been generally productive cf the op
inion that much reduction in values
would leave the eountiee below the in
come deadline provided in the 15 eent
limitation written into the constitution
last November.
The danger of too drastic redactions
in county valuations was pointed out
by the old Tax Commission weeks be
fore the Beveane Commission assumed
authority May 1. It waa declared by
Commissioner Maxwell at that time
that no county could be safe in order
ing: a reduction that would reduc its
income below the) requirement of its
local goverasneatal-- needs in the face
ol the- fas that the maximum levy
would be IS ceate ea the 10O valua-
tian.
v Most of the mattes went as high as
It cents lean year, though the average
wai somewhat less than that. All of
them were bald within the tea per
eent increase over the previous year,
with the result that many of them
were required to obtain authority from
tha General Assembly to issue bonds
to fund floating indebtedness. School
incomes were not hampered by the ten
per cent limitation, and exceeded it by
more than a million dollars.
Forty-four counties in the State bad
reported aa average horizontal reduc
tion of S8 per cent when the time
limit for filing reports expired Aprii
10. Sine then a dosen additional re
port! kare been received, making some
what mora thaa half the counties in
ths State. Others reported content
ment with the present valuation, and
others provision for individual adjust
ments ef values, and some two or three
aew valuations altogether.
All these reports, together with those
which ask re-consideration, will come
up before the Bevenue Commission
when it meets tomorrow morning at
10 o'clock for review. No declaration
of policy has aa yet been announced
by the Commission with regard to those
counties ordering horizontal reduc
tions in valuations, snd tomorrow's
session is being wstched with consid
erable interest. The action of Carteret
Sounty has injected a new aspect of
the review for consideration.
Carteret eounty wanted the General
Assembly to cut its values ia half,
but the matter was left to ths eounty
boards, and srban the time came, the
Carteret commissioners cut it in the
middle. The eounty had levied very
nearly to the limit last year, and thia
year it finds itself up against the
proposition of taking a 50 per eent
cut in income along with the cut in
values. No way has been devised of get
ting along without money, and new
it wants values left as they were.
It ia the opinion of the old Tax Com
miasioa that many counties could get
along with a reasonable reduction in
values without jeopardizing ths county
finances, but those that run 33 13, 50
and 60 per cent, it is believed, will of
neeesstiy reconsider.
Doctor Aeqnltted Of Charge.
Titusville, Fla, May 14. Dr. Paul
C. Perry, ef Jacksonville, one of the
most widely known surgeons in Flor
ida, was acquitted of a charge of man
slaughter by a jury in circuit eourt
'hero today. The ease grew out of the
death but year of Mrs. B. is. larocbe,
Jr., of Merritt Island, thia eounty.
thirty days after Dr. Perry had operat
ed upon her for kidney trouble. The
surgeon removed from the patient the
only kidaey functioning.
Brotherhood Electa Officers.
Wheeling, W. Vs., May 14.-A11 of
ficers of the International Brotherhood
of Firemen aad Oilers with one ex
ception .were re-elected at the eloaing
session of the 16th annual eoavenUon
of the brotherhood here today,
Newark, N. J, was chosen aa the
eoaveatioa city for next year.
Modify Packing BilL ,
Wasbiagtoa, May 14-Miaojr changes
la the Norria bill for Federal regula
tion of ths meat packing laduajey war
agreed upoa today by the Senate agri
culture committee. Plans were mad
to press the measure ia the Senate after
the Navy aad Army .appropriation
measures ra ut of ths way.
Ill
ESDAY
Selection Of Next Place Of
Meeting Left To Executive
Committee '
REPORTS OF DIFFERENT -BOARDS
HEARD YESTERDAY
Zdnoatioa, Sunday School and
Tore iffn Mission Boards
Mako Reports; Secretary
Says Poreign Missions Will
Go Long- Way Toward Abat.
inf Unrest In Europe
Chattanooga, Tsnn., May 14. The
sixty-sixth annual session of ths South
ern Baptist Convention win adjourn
at noon Tuesday, according to action
this afternoon when ths committee oa
order of business was instructed to so
shape the program. Whil the selec
tion of the next place of meeting will
be left to the executive committee, the
date for the assembling of the 1922
session waa fixed for Wednesday after
the aeeond eeasion day in Ma and Dr.
B. J. Porter, of Oklahoma City, waa
chosen to deliver the next sammenee
ment sei.non, with Dr. W. F. Powell,
of Asheville, N. C, aa alternate.
Be ports of the education. . Sunday
School and Foreign Mission boards oc
cupied the larger part ef the attention
of the convention today, the e porta
being discussed by the general secre
taries and others.
Need Foreign Mlasioas.
Foreiga missions in the Balkan i.:ats
ir. Southeastern Europe will do more to
end war than any vtber power. Dr. J.
F. Love, secretary of the Foreign Mis
sion Board ef the Southern Baptist
Convention, told the convention in do
tailing the occupation of Jugo-81avia,
Hungary and Bumania, the Ukraine,
Syria and Palestine by bis board, and
after reciting the large relief contribut
ed by Southern Baptists, Dr. Leva said
"We abould feed the Armenian or
phans, but ahould send machine guns
to Turkey to prevent the Turks from
making mesa orphans in that country."
Special ytayera that God will stay the
devastation af the famine in China at
aa' earry date were offered by the con
vention thia afternoon, after Dr. J. F.
Love, of the Foreign Mission Board, an
nounced that through that board South
ern Baptists had aent $140,000 in cash
for famins relief in Chiaa and a similar
amount to Europe, while clothing to
the wain of 100,OOQ went to th sur
fering families ef eastern Europe.
CHARGES COLLUSION. ,
as akAsim satll-i -
AMUNU wHit! w,m.m
Seamen's Bepreisntair Says
American - and foreign , Ow9
ers Demand Same
Washington, May 14 It would be
"altogether too remarkable a coincid
ence that the shipowners of Europe
and the ship-owner ef America should
demand from the seamen substantially
the same things at ths same time," An
drew Furuseth. president of the Bea
men's union, said ia a letter today to
Winthrop L. Marvin, of the American
Ship Owner's Association. The letter
was in reply to published statements
of Marvin that charges made by Fur
useth were "libel (gainst a respoav
siblo department ef the gover
ment.
The Furuseth ehargis were contained
in a pamphlet entitled "A Statement
of Facts'' which with a verbal state
ment made at the time it was issued
alleged that reductions announced by
the Shipping Board -and American
ship owners were a part of aa interna
tional agreement among the ship ; op
erators.
In his letter today Furuseth eharae
terized the Ameriean Protective and
Indemnity association as "a younger
brother" of the International Shipping
Federation. limited, of London, whoso
charter, he said, "specifically authorises
and insists upon co-operation wlth ev
ery ship owner organization throughout
tho -motU." . i
NEGRO FUGITIVE IS
KILLED BY PURSUERS
Atlanta. May 14. ''Bos" Bosser, ne
gro accused of shooting aad fatally
wounding Deputy Sheriff Kemptoa, of
Coweta County, was shot to death neat
Grantville late today by a posse which
opened fire, it wss dselarsd, after the
negro fired two shots at his pursuers.
Deputy Kempton died, today. 1
tURORA BOREALIS MAKES
TELEGRAPHING DIFFICULT)
INTERRUPTS NEWS SIRTICK
Washington, May 14. Press aad
tommercial wire leading oat at
aashiaatoa early tealght were prea
Tated by the at raise and mystorioa
iffecto af the Aarora BoreaUa. At
Interval powerful earth - earroata
shart-clrcaltod the wire aad mad It
Impossible to transmit either news
Each year telegrapher aad ro
ator attendants are baffled by the
meer behavior af thslr circalta aad
iter snaking frantic effort to tnaa
np their wires. It Saslly dawn apaa
them that It is aaotber visit of taa
Aarora Borealia with Its aoeallar
magnetic force, aad they.msst alt
Idily by aad await its passing. . :
The twa Associated Pros wire aad
the special Washington leased wlra
la the Newa aad Observer file
broaght la now Intermittently, the
aerator being laterrapted time
aad agaia by the effect of the
Aarora Borealia oa the lines. The
wlros. west "dead" a sassier af
tlmsa, aad aeadlag aad receiving
topped aatU they cast to Ufa
again. AU sews report to the Newa
ad Observer err eeasidwably do
layed by the peculiar phoasmsaoa, ;
CONCLUDE!
- MEETING TU
HARDING
MARTIAL LA W INTO EFFECT
IN MINGO STRIKE DISTRICT
PLANTS NEW HAIR
A
J ?S I ft
Those bald-beaded ones should cheer
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L . , ' . r ' - --St
r.sl! ' !
:1m hs) VS.X
sew hair on arid domes. Dr. -J. S. Psrsegan, of the big city, claims hs has a
machine which will make a door knob like a moss bank. Parsegen. a graduate
of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and a member of a number of medical
societies, haa been experimenting lately on himself and has injected some fifty
snips of feminine hair into his hesd with his electric machine, tho main part of
whica la a last working needle tost thrusts hairs into the epidermis.
Tornado Kills Three Persons
In Sampson and Harts Others
Officer McCullen and Wife
Hurled 35 Yards From Their
Home and LJoth Diey
ONE NEGRO DIES FROM
INJURIES AT R0SEB0R0
Property Carnage from Oy.
- clone Will Amount To Fifty
L Thousand Or More
Clinton, May 14. The storm of Fri
day afternoon ziggaglng diagonally
serosa- the eounty from Bosobbro to
the Wayne line, dipped down a num
ber ef times, sweeping clear a 200 yard
ton of timber and houses in Newton
Igrovs township. Just before it left
the eounty it flindered the home of Offi
cer McCullen, buried him snd his wife
IS yard away, leaving the husband dead
With his brains oozing out and ths
Wife fatally wounded, she living less
than two hours.. Numerous barns were
wrecked in this community and several
peopl stTShtly hurt. A cow tied to a
Stake waa missing and had not been
found hours afterwards.
1 In mid-course through the county, it
track seversl homes in Houeycutt's
township, destroyed the store of J.' A.
Reynolds and scattering) goods broad
salt. It destroyed a church and Odd
fellow's lodgs, one or two homes utter
ly, but Injured none.
' At Boseboro one of the injured ne
groes died laajt night.' ' The damage in
ths eounty 'is approximately fifty thou
sand" dollars, tfcs greater' part being at
Boseboro, where th Howard-Turlington
Ginnery sustained a fifteen or twenty
thousand dollar loss and the Williams
McKeathan Lumber Company a consid
erable one. There wss no tornado in
surance. -
I Mr. H. J. Cooper, a prominent eiti
ssn and uncls cf Dr. G. M. Cooper,
died this morning after a long. illness.
1
8IVEN NEGROES INJURED BY '
f TORNADO IN WILSON COUNTY
' Wilson, Majr, 14 Seven negroes were
Injured, one of them seriously, when
a house- oa the Hiram Waleton farm on
Contenrnea creek, near here, was blown
dowa during a terrific wind and rain
storm .which visited Wilson county late
yesterday. Out houses and fences were
blown tdowa 'and trees uprooted in : dif
fusa t sections of the eounty. It 1
belisvad th damage to crops will be
nly slight because of the absence of
bait - ; '
TO ADVANCE BIG SUM
FOR EXPORTING COTTON
' Washington, May 14 Approval of
advances of 12,000,000 to assist in fi
nancing eotton exports was announced
todsy by the War Finance Corporation.
Advancement of $1,800,000 sgainst cot
ton actually exported has already been
made, th announcement said.
1 One approval was for an advance of
1,000,000 in connection with the ship
ment of eotton to foreign ports for
warehousing and 'distribution.
The cotton will go forward to Liver
pool, Havre, Geaoa, BremerLand .Kobe,
Japan, Tlie' other application approved
was also Tor an advance' of (1,000,000 to
finance th exportation of cotton, from
American. -interior points and Americsn
ports under contracts' for ihip)ne,nts
from October to December.
The 'corporation also announced that
it has issued-a -siseula outlining the
requirement of the corporation in eon.
aection with applications for advances
to Ameriean exporters and American
banks, bankers and trust companies, for
th purpos af assisting in ths exporta
tion ef domestis producta. 1
PREPARES
IN BALD HEADS
up, as a New Tork doctor says be will
J. C. Bragg Sleeted President
Of State Travelers Protec
tive Association
named
convention
president, of the Travelers' Protective
Association, which haa been In aeesioa
her sines Friday morning, at it con
cluding business gathering thia after
noon. Governor Morrison was th 'guest
of honor st a banquet here tonight.
Governor Morrison began bis Speech
with a tribute to the traveling nil.
characterized, by the Governor as com'
bining jollity with greet business sagac
ity, a carrier of good cheer throughout
the State, in the highways aad byways.
From tha the governor launched into
a discussion of the legislation enacted
by the last General Assembly. When
he got to talking of good road he
warmed up.
Out of Raleigh he ssid, there bss
some a miasma of doubt. They ask,
"when are they going to build," the
Governor said. The answer to that he
continued, is the- order of the Governor
snd Council of Btate .to th highway
commission to to shesd and build roads.
They ask where are they going to get
the money I
'That ia none of their business." the
OovrOjior sai'l, "That is the business
of the Governor and the Council of
Htate. We are going ahead and borrow
the money to build roads ss fast ss
sound business permits." The bonds
ill be marketed, he said when the
financial situation justifies marketing
them.
' In addition, 'to President Bragg, the
following officers were chosen: First
vice-president, E. F. Hhaw, of Hender
son; second vice president, E. I. Flem
ing, Rocky Mount; third vice-president,
C. r I Mosteller, Hirkorv ; secretary-
treasurer, D. C. Crutehfleld, Winston
Balem: attorney. C. G. Lee. Asheville;
chaplain. Rev. Isaac Hughes, Henderson.
Four directors were chosen to fill the
vacancies of the expired terms: J. Les
ter Wolfe, Charlotte; A. T. Wisheart,
High Point; C. C. McLean and O. W.
Patterson, Greensboro.
High Point Winner
High Point beat Winston-Salem and
Rrfrky Mount for the convention place,
although a heated verbal parley pre
ceded the .final choice, which was after
wards made unanimous.
Thirty delegates were chosen at the
afternoon session to represent the State
association in the National convention
to be held In Louisville, Ky., in June.
Members of the State Travelers Pro
tective Association presented the retir
ing president, H. T. Morris, of Hender
son, with a gold watch as sn expression
of their appreciation of his service and
work.
Ten business snd executive commit
tees were elected st this time, also.
Fully three hundred-sttended today's
scsions. .
"Let's. do something was the key
note of the morning session. A number
of. hotels Were condemned ss extortion
ate in priees and incompetent to house
the traveling publie comfortably.
A resolution to the effect that the
member of th North Carolina Divis
ions, Travelers' Protective Association,
(Caatiaaed em Pag Flftoea)
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Greensboro, May 14. High Point was! When President Harding decided oai
as the meeting place of th next " """"V TC't " ' ? th!
snd. J. C. Brsgg, of Baleigh, I Senator Butherlsnd. of W-rt VSU..
TO PUT?
Actual Declaration Of Martial
Law Withheld Because Of '
Report That Situation' .
Js Somewhat Better
GOVERNORS OF KENTUCKY
AND WEST VIRGINIA ASK -FOR
GOVERNMENT TROOPS
Messages Trom Two States
Tell President Of Serious"
Conditions Growing Ont Of
Constant firing In Mingo "
and Pike Counties' By Strike
ing Miners, Whioh Has Been'
In Progress For Two Days
AH Araflalile State Troops'
Being Hurried To Scene 0
Trouble; Passengers Oai
Trains Seek- Befuge Front'
flying Bullets Under Seat. .
Of Coaches; Telephone and
Telegraph Wires Being Shot
Dowa .
Williamson, W. Va, Maf 14", ,
RelatiY peace has been rv
stored tonight to the mountains
and valleys of Mingo county
West Virginia, and Pike courw
ty, Kentucky, after a pitched
industrial battle that had last
ed since Thursday morning.
Only desultory firing was
going on tonight at isolated
points, and authorities reported
that efforts were being made to .
arrange a truce.
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PRESIDENT TAKES STEPS
TO DECLARE! MARTIAL LAW
Washington, May 14 Proclamations
wer eigaed by President Harding lata
today declaring a state of martial law
ia Ming eounty. West Virginia, aad
Pike eounty, Kentucky, along th in
terstate norder, th area affected by th
Coal strike riots. The proclamations
wer turned ever to Secretary af War
Weeks to be issued la his discretion
ahoald report from th troubled regtoa
matt auch aetioa accessary.
At ths War Dcpartmaat order wer
immediately after th signing ef th
proclamation, Informing Major General ,
Geo rg W. Bead, commanding tho Fifth,
eorp area aad Fori Benjamin Herri. '
son, Indiana, af tfi President' aetioa.
and ordering him to held a sufficient
aurnber of troop ia readiness to mora
to aaak martial law effective in th
ere comprehended by th President's
proclamation.
it wss intended that the proclamations
should be issued immedlalslv. A few
moments after they were signed, how
ever, a telegram waa received at th
White House from Governor Morrow,
ef Kentucky, announcing that the situs
toa looked better and that ths State
troop had been ordered to patrol the?
Ksntueky side ef the border,
Sltaatloa Better.
It was thia Information that cause!
th postponement of th issuance of ths
proclamations. After another confer
ene with Mr. Weeks, the President da
eided to leav the papers ia the Waf
Secretary's hand and to givs him an
thority to issue them at his discretions
Secretary Week immediately returaed
to th War Deportment aad invtruatod
Major General March to prepare erdea
aad tab th necessary steps to mak
martial law effective ahould th proolao
matioa be issued.
President Harding waa fnflnenesd lal
hi decision, it was naderttood by bit
conversation with Senator Sutherland
Th Senator took to tho White Hon
a number of appeal from citises a
West Virginia declaring that tho aitna
tion was beyond the control of the Stat
authorities aad that Federal aid waa
necessary. On telegram from C. B.
Wilson, st Huntington, said that th
people of Mstewaa, W, Vs-, wer being
fcahot dowa like rata."
Urgent Need For Troops.
Earlier in th day Secretary Weeks
had transmitted to th President telea
grams from the governors of Ksntnoky
and West Virginia describing ia detail
the situation and asserting the need for
Federal troops. Oa such msssag from
Governor Morgan, of West Virginia, v
forwarded a protest from W. J. Jeaka,
general manager ef the Norfolk A Wt
era railway, declaring that passengers
snd employes -traveling oa the road'
trains were in darajcr from lying bale j
lets, that telegraph aad telephone wire .
were being shot dowa and ootid not b '
repaired owing to th constant fusiliado,
snd that passenger wer compelled to
take refuge beneath the seat of th
ears to escape injury.
Governor Morrow's telegram convey
Ing information that the situation
looked more hopeful, caused the with
holding f the martial law p reclame
tions, explaining that Kentucky Stat
troops not previoualy available bad
beea mobilised aad were being sent te
ths Mingo-Pike eounty border, ea th
Tug giver.
GUARDSMEN ORDERED TO
CO TO SCENE OF TROCBUB
t Frankfort. Ky- May 14. Two com
Wniee of Kentucky National Guards'
men 1st today were ordered -to.-stem.--Csrr,
Ky ia Fik eounty, where a state
of virtual war haa been en for the last .
two days.
Governor Edwin P. Morrow issued the
order when it appeared that United
State troop would not be sent te taa .
district at th present time. ,
Th troops, who are nader th com
mand of Major Frank Loss, of th
office of . Adjutant General . Jeeksea. '
Morris, consist ef en company ef SO
men aad aa au tarns tie rifls company ef
20 most Xros Morskasd. - . , .. ' .
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