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1 l 1.-1 lui 1 iljr clouu la' wf aid led . U tut Titijar) cnesdsy fair aad warmer. erve 6n yo r r.i" ft - five iyi In oroer to avul it.. Ins I copy VOL. CXIlt NO. 151 SIXTEEN PACES TODAY. 'I RALEiGHN. G? TUESDAY MORNING,: MAY 3 1921. V :: SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. V ; ;u - PRICE: FIVE CENTS COL MEEKIIJS HOW illlTS TO GET JOB Reports Have'lt That He De- sires To Be Successor To ? V : Late Judge Goyld ' ACTIVITY EXPECTED 4N- ; ; LINNEY CASE THIS WEEK Under Hew Program Of Fjfoi - liibition Enforcement, " Hen t ., Who r; Have Been' Making ; Beal Fight Are To Be Giten , Their Last Pay - Envelopes; ; Some Political MotiVei t . . Newt nd Observer Bureau, y , . J 603 District KatL Bank Btdg. :; By EDWARD E. BBITTON. . i (By Special LtaseoVrWirf.) v" J "Washington, May 8b T higher heights would CoL, "Ike" Meekins, of " Eliiabeth City, be titrated, if the re porta that have bad start her are to . be relied upon. ' Mow .holding the poet lion of general counsel for tlfe Alien Property Cut todian, hia position sack that Jn the absence of Alien Property Custodian Miller he Becomes the acting custodian, the Pasquotank man is said to hare hit eyea upon the bench. In short, it is said that Col. Meekins hat ' let friends know that he desires to be the aueeessor to the late Associate Jus tice of the Supreme' Court of the Dis trict of Columbia,- Ashley M. Gould. While the position he holds now is a good one, with a nifty salary, Col. Meekint regards 'a life tenure ot a judgeehip a a far better proposition, and he is, therefore, not alone hating hie, eyes upon the position, but hit haada are reaching out after it. Aad as Col.' "Ike" la a hustler; we may ex pert aim to get very busy in his pur suit f the judgeship. With Cot Meekint in the race, North Carolina hat twe entries, the first en try heretofore announced being- J. J. Britt, of Asheville, one-time Congress man aad one-Ume Third Assistant Post master General, who waa also aa entry in the race to succeed to- the position vacated by the death of Judge Priteh ard. Whether either of the North Caro lianiant will have a look' in depends upon whether President Harding will go oat of the, District of Columbia to pick man. Great pressure is being made upon him to name a Washington .man, for the Into Justice Gould. wss a ..Washington eltiaea whea he was named for the position, and if he does, then its "blooey for outside candidates. Mr. Brit it bow a Washington, vhitori and it aeeomplmed "by, 1, A. BoUins, ol Asherille. Whether the two are hero .to boost the Brit raadidaer, or to aid Frank A. Linney Ja the fight being .wade against hie -confirmation as Dis trict Attorney, for ; jtheJWettein District of North Carolina, yet remains to be teen. Both causes may .bring them : here. - r 'Linney Mstter rja.""" Activity in the Linscy (matter It look ed for this. week. ,H eonflrmstioa it ao longer a local question affecting Be publican squabbles in North Carolina, : but it hat become a national issue- in to for at it affects states In which there Is any -large negro vote, especially in Northern and" middle Western states where, the negro vote ie the deciding 'factor, for is those statea Bepublican members of 'Congress do not want to imperil their chances of re-election and their , party's primacy by offending the ' negro, for the negroes are up la arm ' against Linney because of hia anti negro circular letter, and hit declara tion that he stands by the anti-negro views expressed in.it .- - Because of their fear of, giving of fense to negroes, Bepublican leaden in .the Senate are opposed to going on record en the nomination of Linney, aad the report grows in site that there it pressure being brought by them to hare President Harding withdraw from the Senate the Linney nomination. One ef the influences said to hare delayed the hearing of the matter la that when the first fight on the nomination was sprung the Davs Blair rumpus was in full flower, and the part of wisdom, It waa pointed out, would . not be to ' hare two North Carolina rueusea going I at the tame time. On the Linney matter Bepublican Senator! are "between the devil aad the deep blue sea,' for they neither want to- be put- in opposition to the Harding administration, which ' thus far it backing Linney, and which hat large favors yet to bestow in the way of patronage, nor in opposition to the negro rote, for that might threatea their politleallives. , The lot of these , Senators it now a most unhappy one, for it is a ease in which they may be "damned- if they don't and damned if i they do." . u . X j . Prohibition Enforcement. The Mellon program with the advent ef Dave Blair aa Commissioner of In ternal Berenue it said to be a eleaa slate in handling ' the ' liquor 'and' pro- ' hibition questions, and that despite the protests of Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the Anti-Saloon league, the men who hare been- making a real fight for the enforcement of the prohibition law are. to get. their pay envelopes with the Invitation to fa0e away. This at titude it said not to mean that there . will be any laxity 'in enforcing the law, but that the enforcement it to be along the lines laid down by the Department ef Justice. In other -fords, it it not toi bo to drattie-an- enforcement under the new regime. In speeding the de parture ef John T. Kramer as prohibL- ' tion commissioner it it understood thtt the assistant commissioner, Captain p. Spencer Bliss, ia also to be handed hit hat, aa will bo also the case with th various deputy commissioners, with a transfer , for Solicitor Carl. A. . Mapei and Chief Chemist Adtmt. - Por the jobs now held by Democrats the plan ia understood, to. he .fpr Br publican successors, so that there may - be a let up on the powera that be for - jobs. At to what exactly ia to be done ia firing a big part of the present f oree Commissioner Kramer' hn' been left la ; (Continued fa Pago Two.) . i ON DISTRICT BENCH TO ilVESTIGATE FATAL Officers Of Air Service Jo Look Into Circumstances Of , V . Wreck Of Eagle- , SEVEN LIVES LOST IN ; - CRASH DURING STORM enaa-eas ssssta.a Official Wot Inclined To Lay Blame On Pilot Amt, who v . Wag Considered One Of Beit Pilot! Ia The Serrice; Idea That Plane- Wa Defective Not Taken Seriously ' , Washington, May 0-Appolntment of a -.board 'of .three, efficere "of the Army Air Service ..to- iaveatigate . the circumstances) surrounding ; the ,' acci dent in. which five.army men and two eiviliaas;lost their lives when a big army' Curtist-Eaglo ambulance airplane trained to earth ia a severe storm near Morgsntowa, Md, Saturday evening, waa announced today by Major M. TA Seanlon, ' commandant at Boiling Field. '; : Captala W. C. Ocker, who wat caught In -the -storm himself, while flying here 'from Langley Field ia aa 8E-8 single-seat plane, is' senior member of the bosrd. The 'others are lieutenant P. C Wllklnt, who wat the first army officer to go to the aaene ot the crash and take charge of the bodice, and lieutenant Leroy Wolfe. They .will en deavor to determine among other things whether the crash was the result of any defect in design or equipment of the airplane i of any mistake or misman agement on the part of the pilot, lieu tenant B. .M- Ames, and whether, the Ave army men met death in line' of duty. , w Amea .Not To, Blame. -Flying ef fleers stationed in the city and at Boiling Field, asserted empha. tieally today: their belief that Lieut. Ames had 'not "lost hit head" in the storm, aad therefore, been ia a measure at least responsible for the accident. Ho 'was one of the, best and 'coolest pilots in ths service and waa familiar with the big Curtiaa plane, they de clared. They were alto inclined to dis credit reports . thtt the wrecked ma chins' waa defective in design. , Major Seanlon declared .that he had piloted i similar nlnne. wlthoot the ambulance equipment, t New 'York with eight pataerigerr recently and found It" satis factory ia every wt&?-r-.:r. 4k i Ths ' board ef investlgatloa visited the aeons of ths wreck today sad took the testimony of persons who were aesrby whea the Eagle crashed. They made a careful ttudy of ;the wreckage and afterward had it burned, aa it ws considered unsanitary. No part of the plane waa salvageable, effieora said, ad ding that army-aviaton would not fly la a plans carrying any equipment tak en from the wrecked machine, anyway. Details A Mystery. '. It teemed probable that the dotailt of the -accident would never be known, aa every men ia the plans wss killed. An examination of the personal effocti of the victims showed that aiz of the seven watehea had atopped at 6:20 P-m., flxlng the exact time ef the erath, it waa believed, beyond dispute. The teventh watch stopped at 6:S5. The board wat sxpeeted to finish Us inquiry tonight and report to Maj. Seanlon tomorrow- A number of pbotograpbt were taken of ths wrecked machine. Major T. O. Turner, ia charge ef Ma rine Corps aviation, it became kaown today, had a narrow, escape, in the tame storm which canted the wreck of ths Eagle, aa well 'at tending a Fokker plans piloted by Captain B. 8. Wright crashing to. the earth at Bock Point, Md., and giving Brigadier General Wil liam Mitchell, assistant ehief of Army aviation and Captain Ockcr, his side, some thrilling moments. He wss flying from Langley Field to Boiling Field, and ran into ths outer edge of ths storm about over Dalhgren, Va. H headed for the river, thinking to make the marine landing field .at Quaatieo, Va. Bad Hard Battle. "When the full force of the storm bit ms I vraa firing st sn stitude of about 1,100 feet," Major Turner atid todty. "I wat in a' two teat plane with Lieut. Sanderson at a passenger. When ws caught the direct blast of the wind our speed waa cut down to five miles an hour and almost before we knew what had hit at we were knocked, down from 1,100 feet to .about 400 ia oneJ abrupt drop. The ship waa entirety out of control. It waa just at though ths hind of a giant had reached up from the earth and matched ut down 700 feet. I The wind changed from southwest to north slmost instantly snd the result- terrible. It rained harder and the windT went down as ws cams ia tight or. Quantico and at wo circled over the field there the tun cams out for a few minutes snd ws mads a leading. I will never fly in another thunderstorm under any conditions." After he had made hia landing Major Turner found the propeller of his plane badly split. Ht took mother machine and completed the trip to Boiling Field. DENIES STATEMENT THAT. " PLANS WAS NOT BALANCED ' Mlaeola, N. Y, May S0Biehard H. Depew, Jr., chief pilot at the Curtist aviation field, tonight denied ths state ment mads yesterday, by Captain Do Lavergne, air attache of the " French embassy, that the big 1 Eagle plane, wrecked. with the lose ef seven lives, waa badly balanced and the weight wag too much.' -V ":' ' " f-, Depew declared ths plans carried .an horizontal balancing atabilixer and that planet of eimilar . type : had carried heavier loada and 'remained aloft for IS hoars. No plane, he added, was ab solotcly. safe in, a fog or thunderstorm. APPIil T BOARD airplaneagcideut . j,; Sri W .. t. V TV- nWamnl a I. h ontuMd PolUh iDinmiti af Silesia and seised a 'number ol towns. orders, but'miaor -outbreaks have been Tommy 'Milton Winner In - Njin th Speedway Classic PDING DELIVERS I Memorial Ceremonies At Wash - ington Have An International v . Significance x-- . Washington,' Mar. 80. The ' aaUdnal capitals ', memorial .' ceremonies for American war dead were colored by a new touca, of international tdgnifleanee today at services held in Arlington Cemetery under thV lead of President Harding.- .." . . ter to veterans of three wars sad to a Speaking ia ths Arlington 'amphithea-distinguiahed- eomjMtay-of officials aad diplomats, the President red edict ted ths nation to the cause of freedom and civ, ilitation . and , promised that it . never wouia xau u Joeasnro up wt mij ar mand presented to it, in behalf of civil iaatkMu.: By -atriUtist -across the. sea'ia the World War,, he declared. Amerlsa had sanctified. seam her faith ia free institutlona for peoples everywhere. "Wherever men. ara,free said the President, "they ; rel wont : to, five thought to ' eur eouatryw services' in freedom's esuse. Today -the so as aad daughters of other lands are placing with loving?' hands ' "their "laurels -' oa American graves. Our .Memorial. Day ia besoms an' international occasion. At the conclusion of. the address, Sir Auckland GeddesV ths British Ambas sador, seconded the sentiment by plac ing on-the American flag- beside the President a wreath of roses preaeatei by the people of United Kingdom' snd her dominions "ia undimmed memory of the sacrifices that America has made for individual liberty. Harding's Address. ' Ia special reference to the World War President Harding declared America had opened ths door to free institutions, even in the eountriea against which she fought, aad had given opportunity "of planting democracies where absolutism bad held sway, of makiag ths peoplo supreme." He sdded. that the trouble state of conditions abroad still made it doubtful whether the vanquished peo ples would accept that opportunity and would "pay ths prlee required to main tain the freedom to which the door hat been opened.'' The exercises at Arlington, with their background of thousands of flag-drapeJ graven,, formed 4hs eater of ths capi tal's Memorial, Day ceremonies, though various smaller gatherings were held In other parts of the etty. During th day a parade of veteraae, headed by Lieut. General Nelson A. Miles, wat reviewed by .the President aad Mrs Harding front the steps' ef the execu tive oces and many thousands jour neyed to Arlington nnd other cemeteries to pay their tribute to the dead. One Unusual feature was a gathering of survivors of the Naval Academy Class of 1881 to decorate the - graves of their dead ' class-mates. Admiral Baron Sotokihi Uriu, of the 'Japanese N.ivi', the only living Japaneao .graduate of the academy, waa among those who attended, having come' to- this country particularly for the occasion aad for a class reunion to bo held tomorrow st Annspolia..- Other members of the class include Secretary ot War Weeks, Sen ator Weiler, of Maryland; Admiral H. B. Wilson,-snd. Major General George Barnett, of ths Marias Corps. Ia Statuary Hall at the Capitol, tribute was paid to Boger WUliama la a ceremony commemorating his fight for religious freedom snd tolerance oa the American continent. The services, which are to be. an annual memorial day feature hereafter, were held uoder auapiees of the Bets Zeta Tau frater nity nnd included addresses by Bepre srntntivee Barton, of Ohio; Kahn, of California, and Stiness, of Bbode Island. Presentation ef the memorial wreath by Ambassador Geddes wss not-, u part of the pre-arranged program for tha Arlington ceremonies, hie request for permission to msko ths offering haviag reached officials in charge just before the President began speaking. CHIEFS Of POLICB AND SHERIFFS WILL GATHER Petersburg, Va, May SO. For the purpose of closer co-operation between the cities aad counties of the state rel atie to police affairs, chiefs of police snd county sheriffs from almost every city and county in Virginia will gather here Thursday '. for a one-day semlnn. The meeting has been called by Major John O. Walker, ot Petersburg, Director olj public earcty. " -A'SCENE FROM TROUBLED 7i . viamhjm itf the' Oemaii nlehlaeita-nnliea7 in 'aa Tinner Bfleeiaa town brlnainc Korfantv's f oreea.- Beeeatlsr the iaaunteata started- serious trouble in- Upper Oerman md allied troops eeeupying toe reported from time to time siaee. Ralph De Palma Forced To Quit The. Race After Setting Terrific Pace MILTON'S AVERAGE WAS ' 89.62 MILES PER HOUR HL,n - rican Bufl 0arAaia.Dem onstrates Superiority Oyer .V foreign Makes - . - ' Indianapolis, May 80. -Tommy Mil tf wridjehsmDlon speed raeer, today niloted an American car to tho finish lino first in the ninth renewal ot the. International racing elaaale, the 500 mile dash around the Indianapolis Speedway. , Milton's - victory, .cams through ' a beautifully driven race, which was woa after Ralph De Palms, popular favorite , for the victory, ,had set such a torrias pace during the first 250 miles that all except 'one ef,' thi forcl(pt made earsj' Including hi wn wsrs. toresa front ths traca wrongs MxhMical tranMet or. minor accidents. Of ths twenty-three sntrtntt "only eight -completed the , 500 mtlei nnd seven ef these were American made ma chines. Balph . MalfordV driving Sv other America, built maenine, was awarded ninth position - without finish ing after all the ethers, had dropped by the wayside. Miltoi establiihed a new track record for ears of not more than 183 inches piston displacement by com pleting the' 700 miles ia five hours, 34 minutes and 44.85 seconds for as aver age of 89.68 miles per hour. The fatteet time ever made in tne speeoway waa but twenty hund ret ht of a mile faster per hour, this mark being made by De Palma in 1915. The victory brought Milton nearly $36,000 in vrine money, $20,000 for first place, $0,200 ia lap priaet aad tho balaneo in special prises given by accessory companies, sarlca Cemes Second. Less than four minutdS behind Mil ton came Boseoe Strict, who had fought a bitter raes with De Palma in fhe early houra and held second position moat of the way. The race began with De Palma at the polo aad ho soon jumped into a lead. Hia ruthless tpeed kept him well to the front, although Sarlee'and Joe Boyer forced him into a terrific pace during the early tape. Boyer soon dropped be hind throua i lost of time st ths pits. but Tom Alley, a last minute entry, jumped to the fore and helped Sarlet rush De Palma, Gradually Italy's rep resentative iaereued hia lead, however, and at the haU-wsy point he wat more than two laps to the good. Boyer, however, who raeed alongside of De Palma, although actually lis laps behind from the fiftieth lap oa, had started a aeries of sprints which taxsd Do Palme's csr to keep in front snd st ths 101st lap Ds Pslmn swung into the pits. His engine had been missing for severs! laps, but after a quick change ef plugs he rushed -back on the bricks still shetd of Milton, who had forged sp to second. . , ; .- De Palma Quito , Another trip, to the pita lost more grrnad, a third visit left him on almoea even terms with Milton aad finally the leader swung to ths tide of the trsek and with a characteristic smile, ordered his car to ths garage, where it wss found .a-connecting rod waa broken. De Palma had woa $10,800 in lap prises before being forced ut. . ' ", " Milton quickly swung to tht front and never loot bit lead. He previously had made one trip to the pitt for a change of tires and signalled his me chanics that he would make ons mors for gss. Hia second stop was timed so nicely . thtt be wis off the. epeedwty ' (Continued ea Pag' ; Many Demand, Get into vitsl personal contact with the tide that surges through ths Want Ad Columns from day to day; Keep la touch with ths demands sf big business, individual needs, house hold easentislt snd .ths Requirements of thott in all lines of activity. ; ' - Ths Want Adt reflect the aeedt of many. Meeting the demands of the Want Ads has resulted in gainful transactions is baying, selling, ex changing, renting aad hiriag for many men and women. News and Observer Want Ada will put you in personal contact with thousands daily. s SILESIA ; f v.- - i i pieDiscHc area pui a swp w .we ..iDijji.nj Country Faces Shortest Crop In Quarter Of a - Century. : : Speakers Declare , HARDING OFFERS ALL ASSISTANCE POSSIBLE Senator J. Thomas Heflin Pro poses Discontinuance Of Cot , ton Exchanges If They Can not Be Adequately Begulated By, Law ; Wannamaker Pre sent Present Situation LITTLE CHARLOTTE CIRL , TALKS TO PRESIDENT OVER LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE , New York, May M.r-A three-year, sty srirl ent4 toPresMsat-HsreV tog's; telebaon message received to day- at tho national eaafsreiea sf the ' Asasrtrsa "Coffonr Association. "The Boat thsaka yoa, President Harding, far year snssssaV . hail little Mary J. Chase, daaghter of a wealthy esttoa groweriof Chsrlotta, North Carolina. "God bleea yew Md our country.'' , . ' ; New Tork,.May SO-Wayt sad means of rehabilitating the cotton industry and putting it oa a pre-war basis, were discussed . today at the opening of a national consultation of American" cot ton growers, manufacturers and affili ated interests.' Leading cotton growers and govern mental officials warned that the coun try faced the shortest cotton crop in the lest 23 years, nnd that unless im mediate clops-wets taken. to create a msrkct snd . restore the staple to a proflteb'te price, a greater shortage would result in the next few . ears. - Figure i pretested by the, variout speakers showed that the .reduction ia cotton acreage thia year, ranged from 30 to 85 per cent, due to the acreage reduction campaign for the national cotton association, the rava;..-s of the boll weevil aad unfavorable weather eoaditions. .. ' . The government recognises that ths iadnttry - facet, a critical situation. Presideat Harding declared .ia a tele phone menage to , ths conference snd be assured the cotton growers that the administration desired in every possible way to eo-operate with thott seeking to improve eoaditions. . Two three-year-old daughters, ef cot ton mea . replied to tht President's message, thanking aim on be ball of the North and the South. Need United Effort. United effort by ' aovernment and business is accessary if ths cotton in dustry - is to-regain ita feet, declared J. 8. Wannamaker, of St. . Matthews, 8. C, president of the American Cotton Association. - Artiflcial. : inflation, in valuta must be overcome, ht said, and the channela of commerce opeaed and expbrte of raw cotton stimulated. He defended the acreage reduction cam paign, declaring it . would have . been nothing short of suicide to produce mere 'than half a crop of cotton in 1921.". . Senator Joseph E. Baasdoll, of Louisi ana, a cotton planter, estimated that cotton producers 'had , lost approxi mately. $2,000,000,000 ia 1920, due to adverse msrket conditions. Senator, E. D. Smith, of South Caro lina, said thst with a group, of Senators from, the aerieultural states of tut South snd West, he believed they had a solution of the situation in view. He explained that it wat proposed to modify the Federal Becerve Act so that the farmers would have some fixed snd dependable financial arrangements. He gded thst it wat proposed to maks it mandatory upon tie home banks tad ths regional banks to accept the farm ers' paper at fixed discount rates, aad that thit paper should be good as long at ths btnk's sssete permitted. Cotton st no time, he laid, should Sell below 30 cents. ' The Ainerictn cotton erop it the most wattefuily handled staple farm product ia the world, Harris Jordan, secretary st the association declared. "Uneconomic tones due to wssts ssd orlmitivs practices in haling snd hand ling ths .eottton, crop," hs said, "wlps out tbd full annusl valus of a crop every v tea ears, sceording to figures ' " .(Continued on Page Two.) COTTOII IF.TERESTS DISCUSS PROBLEMS IULBUILDING WORLD COLLEGE MEN'S TASK SERTS WILLIAMS PLEIIW OF CREDIT, DECLARES VlLLiAMS Two Thousand Million Dollars Reserve. Lending Power; Farmers Need It o Farmers are the caly eltss sf pro pi j ia Hit, United States , working at hun dred per cent strength, declared Joha Skelton Williams, one ef the leading finer tiers ia ths Soath, discussing business condition! here yesterday, aad Federal Beservo . bankers should use two thousand million dollars reserve leading' power. to help them, and the small bank with .which they do bust nets to lasses their operations. Ths sooner this is doss, snd ths sooser capitalists who hold oat for war tints prices and ; workmen who hold out for wsr Aims wsges get to gather aad start business going, the better it wlb for America generally hs declared. ; ' " Country t Beat Base. . "The farmer is today ths country's best hope," declared Mr. Williams. Hs is busy oas hundred per eent, and engaged in the creation of real wealfch. He ia also raiting tho products which must bo used to feed not only himself, and other mta who are st work, but also ths vast army of ths unemployed, now estimated in this country st pros snt st five million men. "The honest fsrmer should be given the financial help he needs to carry oa his work, snd ths country bsnk with which hs does business should be preserved by the Beservs Banks with the funds aecesssry to accommodate him. "Our twelve Federal Reserve banks hold mors sold than aver before in thrtir history, and their reserve lending Dower is now sbout two thousand mil lion dollar Tht artificial restriction of credit, which is still causing great suiferins? ia many sections of ths coun try it wholly indefensible under exist ing conditions, ut ass aireaay innieteo on tho country collosssi losses and an Uld wrStehsdnoss It has been, in the oDiatoa at many af the best Informed, ths direst cause sf a Urge part st unemployment. . Idleness Costlier- Than War.' 5 HritS' cconemle loss resulting from idleness, It more severs in some wsye than ths svsmgs monthly cut of ths war, during the 18 Months preceding the armistice. ws estimate we average earning capacity of ths men now st work at four dollars a day, with flvs million out of work, ws are losing twenty million dollars a day or $500,000,000 per month, six billion a year. "Aad those men. though idle, are consuming, at tsy two dollars per day, 250 millioa per menu, wnite prouuo ing nothing, using up past savings or going ia debt. "The sooner ths capitalists who holdina out for wsr tims porflts, sna ths workmen, who sro still demsndlng wsr tims wnges, come to tome under standing snd stkrt mills md factories nrnr'nelns at nricct which people can afford to and will pay, ths better it will be for nil." ON? MAN KILLED AND ANOTHER BADLY WOUNDED Deputy Sheriff Fires In Bffort To Stop Disturbance At Olenrille AshevUle, May SO. Ford Burgiss Is dead and Jasper Jennlng is probably fa tally wounded at tho result of a thoot Ing affray at Glenville, 20 miles from Sylvt, oa ths Tuxedo Bivcr, Snturdsy. Ons bullet fired by Deputy Sheriff Wal ter Breedlove struck both men. According to members of the sheriff's force at Sylva, a number ef Intoxicate 1 tmntjul tn break no a school entertainment at Glenville when Deputy BheritT Breedlove sougni to resiore or der Md take the disturbers from the .n. nf ths men is said ta have reached for s weapon, whereupon t'ia officer opened Are. The outlet piereei Burgisa enest nesr tne oean, sni passing through his body, strurlyjas- per Jennings, s oysianoer, whom:, ha latter in the shoulder. Jenninirs' condition wss today reported critical. Officers said Burgisa sna tne oiner j;.nkjra hail been' ordered to lesre the place, but refused to heed the warn ing, snd grew abusive toward the offt era. The tragedy ended the entertain- mnt, and resulted la a number oi ar rests. BVNDREDS TOPPLE INTO WATER WBEN LARGE DOCK COLLAPSES AT ASBLAND, WIS. Ashetaad, Wis, May . More than two score persons received minor laJarUs aad severs! hundred others had narrow escapes when the commercial dock, oa which Mentor la Day exercises were In prosTew today gave way, toppling the crowd Into Cheqaaaugon Bay. It wss be lieved all were saved. After Us eslUpss of the dock, the vktltas were further endangered whea n frame building slid into the water, bat a pile held the strue turs back from tho struggling mass of people..-A number of boys who wsrs on ths building whea It moved Into ths bsy, Jumped to sefety. No ono waa reported seriously' In jurs. ' Former Comptroller JDf ' The : Currency Delivers Commence ment Address Before Grad . uates Of State College Of Agriculture -and Engl- ' - - neering "' '. .... SPEAKS IN RALEIGH ' , THIRD TIME IN LIFE. , His . Messare To Students Oomes As Oulmination Of ' Days Prorram ' Oiren Over -. To Alumni Brents; A. E. Zs cott Alumni Speaker; .Pinal Exercises Will -Take Place This Mornint: At 10:30 . ! i "Tht work of rebuilding the world, of re-conitrueting clvillxetioa, of restor ing sad replacing fssrs and tsars, it rift aad misery wKh soateatment aad csa Sdeaee' and neaea nDii 1m Sam hv vm ' men, md ths mea who are graduating from other colleges in these after-war days," Joha Skelton Williams, formes Comptroller of the United States Treat- . ury, told ths members . ot tho senior - elass ia his address at State College last alght, ' ' "Ia that work saea of -yon sad nil of yoa have a responsibility of doing some part. You cannot escape that responsibility in tho eyes ot aa all-see-' . ing God. It is for yen to study to avoid tne mutates and Uie blunders . taVt were mads in other times whsn the nation wallowed ia aad blundsred through trying times. Committed to , yoa is tho widest aad mightiest work . that hat ever beta committed to human -power." '.' Mr. Williams' address cams as the culmination ot a series ef commence. meat events that crowded the day, bo ginning with the elass day exercises on the campus at 10 'clock, ths meeting of ths Alumni Association, aad a bar becue tendered tho alumni and their ' friends oa ths esmpus at 1 o'clock, md the alumni, address by A. E. Es eott, delivered just before ths prinel ' pal address of ths former Comptroller. The sddrees will be followed this mora ing at 10:30 by ths sserelsst of grsdu H atioa. '; a . I The speaker was presented to tqa audience by Jotepkua Daniels,' former seerstary of the United States Navy, ia a few brief words in which he paid tribute to Mr Williams' eham ' nhir. of ths Boathera t farmers J, fats throughout the , period of C k jtion which has brought ths South sack dis astrous consequences. The 1 exercises were presided ever by President Wal lace C. Biddies, md it waa ha who pro. . ssatsd Mr. Eseott, ths first spesksr.- -j j Third -Trip To Raleigh. , . 4 Tetterday wat thi third tims that Mr. WiUltns has spoken in JUleiga, during his career. Twenty-one years sgo bo wst a commencement apeaker st Stats College, snd twelvs years ago, hs, with. Viscount Bryee, the then British ambas sador in Washington, spoke front the tamt platform before "the , Americas .. Farmers' Con areas. Felieitioua references to ths ' State's resources and history, particularly la its ability to tuppljr tho Nation with abls secretaries of the Navy when emer gency demanded them engaged the opening moments of ths spesker's time. He paid high tribute to ths record suds by ths navy during ths recent wsr, and -Josephus Daniels as . its commanding officer. He spoks in part ss follows i, . "All graduating classes have bee t told by speskert, more or lees convinc ing md eloquent that they arc about to go forth into the world. Whatever else they may have said, graduation' orators always hats brought that in, with oae assortment of , words . or an other. Now, howsvsr, ths expression ia '; not s mere figure of speech it is a -literal fact. Ton young gentlemen here, snd thouttndt liks you, srs going into ths whols world, and ths waols . world Is, dependent oa you. What We Have Proved. Wo proved ia terrible fight aot that we might - terrify the peoplo of the . earth, but that we, aa free men, had. struck hard for freedom. Our ambition it not to amoks conquered tribes, -.with sullen snd bitter bsts against us, pass abjectly under the yoke, but to . iaivto men of all toagues, and all forms of government, to turn to ue for hope and help, ss strong snd kindly friends, with '. whom they may move forward . ana : upward. ' Fulfillment of that task is a greets? -snd higher work thsa the" . task of .the graduttet of the 15 colleges that Amer ica boasted of st the end of the Revo lution, the speaker declared,- aad more vital and complex than ths' situation that confronted the astion at ths and of the Civil War, confronted the grsdu- atlng classes of American colleges in the years after '65. Mr. Williama turned back over the history ef the edses- . tional institutloni of those epochal times, drawing a picture of ths condl-. Hons under winch they worked, and how well they fulfilled their task. . '"The task of our long-gone jredeees sors was to make one nation,' he eon- tinued. "Youre it to be the inspiring, the creative, the controlling power in the making and remakng, the rescue, the re-shaping, the restoration and es tablishment of many nations. Ths work of rceonttructon of the touth ssd tho country sfter the Civil Wsr is .still within ths memory of maty of us. Be- -construction is hardor aad mors per plexing, isers trying t ths sout thsa construction. .' " : "Grievous blunders wsrs committed in every period ef construction md re onstruction, often gilded over by hit- torians," Mr. Williams pointed out. Washington's letter to a dawdling,' dis tracted government was quoted. The trained thinkers, the educated men in that age rallied to ths sid of Wsshing ton and put down the shabby politician (Continued oa Fags Two.)