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rare:!,.; on your pspr. Send r flv IS before In order to avoid a,... single copy. Pertly tloady Wednesday aad Thursday, MBit! warmer la Boat portion Wednesday. - VOL. CXlli; NO.' 1 59j ; SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH. N. C, WEDfcDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1921. SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY.' PRICE: FIVE CEffTS LIIIIIEY 10 STAIID BY LETTER BEFORE SENATE HEARING s V )iaaaaMaaaBa- . rV. . Present Plans Of Tar Heel Re . publican Leaders Call For Little Talking Today . NEGROES MAY PLACE ; BOMB UNDER SENATE Clam Trom ' North Carolina Continue To Gather In Wash ington; Xreden .J- pares Brief; Bepublican Na tional ExecntlTe Committee ..Meets Alio; Other Hews " The News and Obtsrver Bureeu, ''03 District National Bank Bid. , , By EDWARD E. BBITTOt: -' - (By Special Leased Wirt.) , r Washingtoa, 1 T Uakaa ths jlans of today art dunged before i:iO Vomorrcw iftutnoou Frank A. linney, Rrpubliesn State chairman, nominated by President Harding for the poaition of District. Attorney of tho Western District of North Carolina will ataad pat. oa "the position that ho toik in hit circular letter "to tho women of North , Carolina" ia which ho called on the Democratic BUto chairman, by agree usnt with tho Republican State ehais- man, to eliminate tho negro in politic to end their registration and voting. Thnt is the reply tUt ho ia aaid to be ready to giro to Senator Ernst and the : sub-eommittee which has tho investiga- " tion of tho charges of tho negroes against linney in hand, and it ia the. understanding that National Commit teeman Morehead, and tho satellites : - which, revolve around him, are giving him advice to take that position un equivocally despite the antagonism that is aaid aad known to exist among Sena- . tors who eome from the States in which ' tho negro vote spells success or defeat ' to them. Clans Continno to Com Tho Republican- clans continue to Esther for the hearing on. Wednesdav 1 afternoon, National ' Committeemen ' John ' M. Morehead, Nominee' Frank A. Unney, and Iredell Metres nrrlTcd yes terday. Today ibey were joined by Ifvlil ' B. ' Tucker, of Whlteville, the Kepublican organization selection for 'District Attorney for the Eastern Dis trict of North Carolina; J. D. Dorsett, of Spencer, and others., Giithm Gris u ja, and A. E. Bolton have not Vet put in their appearance, aad the latt aewa -that I heard, was that kese ewot-eaid re Tlisve been concerned directly with Col. J. M. Meokine.ia the propers' iot) nt ' ' issuing of the- notod Unney latter, will , stay ia North Carolina, -and nt -appear t eihlbits in the, hearing, 7 Other North Carolina Bepnblicans are said to be expected, and there are re ports that two carloads of negroes srr to be here to protest the eonflrmsUne ' of Linney. The only negroes known to ' have arrived thai far are Professor D. : C Suggs snd W. H. Hsnnnm, of Liv- lngstone College, tho Isadora ia tho first ; protest of tho negroes against the con firmation of linney.. But I am at-- tared that other negroea will be in evi dence when the hearing begins tomoi row, and if all tho people attend the hearing who nro talked of si to be tr4tere Kill be the "8. O. fi." sign nng out It will be nseesssry to go early, avoid the rush and elarop onto n chair to hear ths tsrms of endear ment that will pass. ""; Metres Prepares Brief -' Cot. Iredell Metres is here not alone to give tho spoken ward ia behalf of Frank Linney, aad support him to the limit, but he has prepared and had jtrinted a brief in behalf of Unney, "its entitlement being i "Some faets worth while in ths mat ter of confirmation of Hon. Frank A. .Jinney appointed by the President as United States District Attorney, ,west . em district of Northtrollnt, by Ire ' dell Meares, of North Carolina." It ia .a humdinger, it is, in ths nlab . orate style in which it goes into ths Linney activities, the negroes, and ths "horrible" wsy in which the Democrats . and Democratic papers attempted te use Jtbe negro aa n "sears-crow" with which to wallop tli Republicans. In it Col . ncl Hearst traces tho -history ef ths negro from ths time of his enfranchise ment nt ths clou of the Civil Wsr, down to the time ef the linney letter aa a political factor, taking ths position that what linney said was all right, snd that hs ought to be confirmed. Hers is one paragraph from the "historical section of the brief, following his statement that the enfranchisement of ths negro "was a political blunder and . Its effects baneful to the social and ecouomio conditions of tho south" the paragraph reading: "The negro was quickly organized into mass of ignorant voters by de signing carpet-baggers, white aad negro , leaders, and led to vote solidly for ths Republican party, because . they were tsught it had free them, and if they did not so vote, they suffered bitter . ostracism by their own race. These - leadera raited . axd forced ths 'negro . tjuestioa? Continuing ths , Mearea 'brief set out that the Democratic tarty of the South made is slogan ' lican party bad- "to carry tho burden . "white supremacy' and that the Repub sf the 'negro question.'" The "grand Mher clause" is set out by Mr. Meares as "not discrimination ngaiast race." : though its prtil effects were "tj ' eliminate a largo number of aefroee from voting." And as to ths' Linney cose he sets out that no violation of law was intsnded, and that "the negroes ss a distinctive group, partly from con ditions which diseourags, and partly from their own indif erenee, are out of active participation in polities in North Carolina but there is neither law nor condition which deny the negroes vot : ing, if they npply snd . qualify, but - wherever he has been led into pjolities in mass formation, it has been die sstroos to . the State aad the politi- ; eal party whbh bestirs itself to ia- .il tCf ntlnoed Si Jsgt Treji ,4 SENATE LEADER TO V SPEAK AT TRINITY v. -' . m, - . 7v.; , 'StN,QLBLRT . ri Hitchcock Senator Hiteheock as minority, leader in tho Senate during the memorable fight for the Leagae of Natioas made a secure pUee for himself ia ths history of this country. The Senator :-from Nebraska will deliver the : commence ment address at Trinity College this morning. '. - ' President Of Princeton Theo logical -Seminary Preaches Commencement Sermon 7' Durham, June 7 Ths slity second annual Trinity College commencement was featured today with ths commence ment sermon in the morning by r. Joseph Boss Stevenson, president it Princeton Theological Seminory, the alumni nnd alumnne dinners nt l o'eloek, tho laying of the- corner stone of the Southgate Memorial building at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and the alumni address at Bight by Dr. E. C. Brooks, of Kal sigh, followed by tho business mi eting of the alumni. The eommenc raieut will close tomorrow morning with the ad dresa to the graduating elass by B-jrator Gilbert M. Hiteheock, of Nebraska. : Hundreds of alumni aad friends of the aollega packed Craven Memorial hall in the morning -to hearr. ftsvensoa a. J.fxrrtU' a ui i-.-tJ-i-e ot nnity'and . operatio as remedy for the evils of the .worlds. OTiti great audience Tjroko into loud applause when in ths course of his address the noted divine declared that 'Harvey; ambassador to England, had miaiaterpreted the Utll for which TRINITY SPEAKER CONDEMNS HARVEY America, fought In the war. That the audience agreed with Dr. Stevenson was shewn ia their applause. No Room for Rivalry. ; Dr. Stevenson took as his text the expression from tho writings of Paul, od's fellow workers." This was the ideal. which, ha upheld to the member al the. graduating class. He declared that God and. man were partners in n joint stock company, of which the for- behooves man, therefore, to allow him self 'to "bo governed according to the wishes of God. "He always wins who sides with God," declared tho speaker. Man is just ss helpless in working out h!"owa ends without Qod ss are the Aowers of the fields to bloom aad blos som without ths aunthias aad rain from heaven, it was said- Petty Jealousies and rivalries wsre decried In strong terms. "There is no rivalry ia nature," it was said. "The apple. is not jealous of. the, red eheek of the plum." ' There should bo no riralriea among men. find God's plan for your generation nnd then find your place in this 'plsn," was ths sdviee given.) i ---.4 ; .The Alnmnl Dinner. Apprezimstely thrss hundred slurani gathered in Angier Duks gymnasium at 1 o'clock with J. A. Long, of Roxboro, presideat sf the t alumni assoeistion, acting as toastmsster. , Prof. H. B. 8pencs Started things after the dinner with Tending a eom municrtien from the slum ass in which they attended greetings to the alumni and stated that they were no long;r ths f Mm of the milk but. a , part of the milk in that they had been given a aepatate name at the college. This reference was to 'the Soutbgata Memo rial building, new half completed nnd tha first unit of a co-ordinate college for women. ' Dr. Stevenson, ths commencement speaker of the dty, responded to the request of the toastmsster for a few worda in which he expressed best wishes for the future of the institution. Bishop V. V. W. Darlington follows! with aa appetite those present for aU in adapting DfT Stevenson as a North Carolinian, and ended with the words, ''God bless old Trinity, may shs svsr live and never waver' Dr. W. P. Few paid tribute to the Trinity men as Rsv.- H. M. North, 8. W. Msrr, J. D. Norwood and others, for the spirit of devotion aad self sacrifice which they bars displsysd U ths, educa tional drivs now under way. Jos. G. Brown, of Raleigh, president of the board of trustees called upon ths Trinity) man to go forward with the educational campaign aad not to lag. "It must not fail," he aaid. ' Linney Vanble te Attend Frank X linney, "Wl, who had been scheduled to speak for the tun' classes staging reunions at the dinner, was un abl to be present, having been detained in Waahinfrtoa ia his sffort to laad t' e district attorneyship of the Wss'.arn North Carolina District. In his absence J. H. Separk spoke for the classes. Hs begun by within . Mr. - Li.njy entire success ia his undertake .g in Washing ton, which won hearty , applause. Be .(Continued en Page Fenr.)1' Five Ashe County Womh Carry - Oat Successful Liquor Raid Mountain Woman of 78 Yean Heads Poise and Carries Only Gun in Crovvd-r-Driven to Desperation By Drunken Hus bands and Sons, These Women Take Desperate Measure ; To RidOmimunity of Curse.- i :y ; ' ' 'By JOHN C. DICKSON . J Tha report sf what is probably ths most nniqnrtlquor mid ever pulled off ia tho United States, ens. carried oat by five women in Ashe county, four ntiddls sged ones, headed by one TS years eld, the old lady carrying the only artillery in-the erowd, has just reached R. L. Blayloek,' clerk of the Federal Court, in Greensboro. It was a very success ful raid that the party of woman, driven to desperation by the spectacle of thsir husbands aad sons being "besotted'' by the . product, of the illicit distillers of the mountain eo vet, mtde, aloas, without evsn jaepnstablafei LtLwith them. ' :f Within a short tims after getting to the scene-ef whst they thought might be in the hesrt ef the blockade region the women found evidence ef five dis tilleries.' Ths stills td bsea removed but the fnraaees were all there, with a large amount ef "mash." The womsa did not know it by its technical name and when the ease against Ira Church, on whoso land they found H, waa trisd in Federal Court at Wilkesboro thsy referred te it at "sour dough.? It wss vsry, very sour. Irn drew six months' sentence in the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Judge K. Yates Webb giving him nil the law allowed for the first offense. Ira had never been convicted before. It wss tbs inability to. get tho men folks to do anything that stirred the Tat Heel 1 Club Women Rejoice Over Their New-Born Freedom BRINSON SPEAKS TO COLLEGE GIRLS ' r Congressman Pleads For Rural School Development In Ad- dress At Greenville Bistssweasa) Greenville, June Congreesmsn S. M. Brinson, of New Bern, today deliv ered tha address at the commencement exercises of ths East .Carolina Teachers' Training school, reaching here, from Washington this morninr. Bin address was oa the subject pfJTho School and School Csaft, and was atimely and helpful address, full of thought a happily delivered. I the coarse of h. rsmsrhs Mr. Brinson spoke ef the great admiration he had for the work dons by the institution, of its wide influence for vnlne in ths State, aad paid a tribute to the splendid work beinf dons by President Robert H. Wright. Cengrotsmsn Brinson discussed ths matter of the rural school tt tome length, telling ef its development from the primitive school of the early days of our country. He stated .that in ths last fifteen years tha rural schools had made a greater advance than the city schools, aad that with SO per cent of our populatioa living in- tho tountry the rural . school problem became the real educational problem in ! North rearbT'nir,yD'seui!fB mors! fores hs stressed the importance of this, and presented ths thought of the schools ss factors ia the social and aoeiety life of a community, dis cuxiiBg also thsir economic vtlus. He declared that our efforts should not relax until the rursl tchoo'a of North Carolina became in every respect the equals of the city Schools. Bis claim waa that of att governments ours ia the one which should provide ample educational faculties for all children Locauss ths government "is whst ths people make it. The early fathers he siid understood this whsn they pat into the constitution ''that requirements for schools nnd publie education forever be encouraged," aad declared that "no political power ia permanent unless it ie a (rant from aa educated eonstita ency." The latter part of his address was devoted to a dissuasion ef the teachers, upon whom he said larger responsibili ties issted thin on anyone else in our gcvirnment. "No saerifies ef money is too great if it shall bring about ia every community a well equipped and eflleji ently taught school." CI att Mshea Doaatlea. President Wright announced that ths doss of 1921 hsd presented to the school $5,000 in endowment insurance policies to mature in twenty years., Ia addition to this thsy presented a eheek for (300 aad liberty bonds and wnr sivings stsmps amounting te $150. This 1350 is to be used for interior decoration. The alumnae association haa begun to raise money for endowed scholarships. President Wright ssys he hopes to. livs to see a hundred ef these. The alum nae associatioa hsd presented to him $250 to use ss hs sees fit, and hs hss turaed this into tha scholarship endow ment fund as a good beginning. He ex pressed gratification nt the large num ber of alumnae pretest at commence ment and their splendid spirit.. One of the most important anaounes meata waa that hsrosfter each elass as it roes out will have a helping teacher to follow the girls up and advise with thtra and help them their first yesr ia he school room. ' : Thia tsaeher will be in the field one year and return to the school the next to teach methods, thus keeping the schools outsids and the training work en the inside closely connected. Miss Miriam McFaydea will go into the field next year, and when ehe returns to teach ia the school Miss Whiteside, the teacher of primary method will go out with the class of 1922. ' President Wright celled attention to the attractive dresses , worn by. ths members ef the class aad te the bins orgsadis dresses worn the dsy before. M .(Coatlased pa fsga Two.) women to action. The blockade sit na tion ia ths monataia fastnesses Of Ashe, across ths Blue Ridge mountains, nnd to all practical purposes, due to ths lack of good roads leading ever the mountains, a part of Teaaessee, waa do scribed by one man thus: "The male populatioa of Ashe is. eomposea or per sons who either make liquor, sell liquor or buy liquor. '. That is an exoggera tion. of course, but the "liquor demon' had suck a grip oa ths Ashe community thst it was practically impossible to get sufflcitnf informstion, the women thought, to get any blockadsr In eourt Asthsy described Hi the- mea folks would us around ths ehnrcnss ia drunken condition'. If a snonntaineer gave a harmless frolie liquor waa aa uninvited guest. Ths folks in Ashe live ia tho valleys, along "the branch.'' The read meanders along with' tho branch aad the coves are ideal placet for ths setting up of aa illicit dis iillanr. There are no clubhouses ia Ashe nnd the life of the people is mors or lees monotonous. ' The . blockadsr sddsd te his iaeomo by turning his tern into liquor and the mea of tho mona taina found some sort of social relaxa tion nnd pleasure ia drinking the stuff, . The women didnt. They got as plsasurs in seeing ths men spending their hsrd-sarned money for liquor nnd coming home tipsy. It was, as the re (Continued en Page Fear.) Mrs. Charles C. Hook, Federa tion President, Gives Ac count Of Stewardship NEW SIGNIFICANCE TO FEDERATION ACTIVITIES 4 smtmsw Keoreation . and, Community Ssrrics Keynote) Of Wrights ' -s rule Beach&setinf . By NULL BATTLE LEWIS Wrightsrills Beach, June 7. Repre sentatives of. women's clubs throughout the length snd. breadth of North Caro lina assembled here today for the 19th annual convention,- ef the State Feder ation of -Women's Clubs, . gathering at which tha subjects of recreation and mwttaltfy service Will b tk keynotes v. m;ukion;' - fc-.- i -w Some two hundred aad fifty strong, the delegates' swarmed over the Oceania Hotel snd took, ths piece, leaving the few' early beseh visitors ef mescaline variety to entrench themselves as se earoly at might b behind their news papers, snd to derivs what peace they could from their cigars. Thia year an atmosphere of iacressed distinction pervndes ths meeting of the Federation for although the organisation ia strictly non-politieal, the possession by it members of thsir comparatively new political linstrumsnt gives n great' sr signiflrsnca aad an addsd becking to the policies which tt may adopt. - Two Mementoes Busy Years. Preceded in! morning and afternoon by. meetings . vlesnrrafspl. trustees ana directors, the opening, ses sion of ths Federation was held tonight in the Harbor Island Auditorium, with the address of Mrs. C. O. Hook ef Char lotte, ; the retiring president, as its feature.- A summary of the important worn; sexompuinea ts the rsderstiou during th two years of her able admin- istratioa. together with a. call to wider service in the' future,' was ths substanes 01 Mrs. Hook a speech. "When ths gavel was preseatsd te me at Hsndrseonville two jrssr ego, ysa gave me a fsw definite tasks?' Mrs. Hook said, "the most importsnt of which was to endeavor to organize the North Carolina legislative council of women. After tho enfranchisement of women during the summer of If 20, at first ens may have felt it was hsrdly necessary to organize, aad yet when we faced ths levislativs program and sessions of ths Legislators, w real ized that unless we were able to main tain a working force in Raleigh during thia sessioa little would be accomplish ed. After the organisation, which was composed sf the ' Women's Christian Tsmperaace Union, the Business and Professions! Women's Fsderatioa, the League of Women Voters and ths North Carolina Federation ef Women's Clubs, earns into being, ths first definite step wss to secure funds. f Three Measarea Failed. "I could not imagine that there was a woman in North Osrolina unwilling to contribute in sn effort to sseure State censorship for moving pictures, for the sffort ws made to raise the sge of content from ' 14 to 16 years. North Carolina rates ss ons of tbs low est ia this respect. A girl csnnot msrry until shs is 18, she esnnojt control her property until shs is 21, snd yet at the tender age, of 14 she csn give away her body and souL and there is so law that can touch the diss who robs her of her virtue. Since yog have voted so msay times, I am' surs there is not a womna within the sound of my voice but resents the prying syss of hsagera (Continued en Page Two.) flaleighY Trade Week June 13th to J 8th A Gigantic Co-opsrativs . Selling Event thst will attract thousands sf 7- choppers. DR. PEACOCK SAYS HE KNOWS NOTHING CHIEF No Recollection Of Events At tending Killing, Thomasville Physician States '. REASON DETHRONED BY . LONG CHAIN OF EVENTS Burning Of Oaras; and Bam Cams As Climax ' To Long Series Of Embarrassing Hap penings, He reUs Jury; Of- nee Attendant Says The DP tor "JVas Crasy" . Lexington, June 1r Temporary de thronement of reasoa which caused the Immediate events of his slaying of Chief of Police Tsylor wsa offered to the jury today , by Dr. John W. Peacock, who took the stand about 11 o'clock this morning nnd remained there for ever three hoars, nsvst for .sn instant fal tering ia his denial of any knowledge of. the eventa from shortly after the time his barn was bnmed about S o'clock oa the morning of April 16 until n few minutes after tha killing. Not for three daya afterward did ha consider himself returned to a aormal condition of san ity, declared the physician. After hs hsd resehed the resrof ths drug store neross the street from the l-killing, it sll came back to him-"like a dreadful dream or awaking from, 'a nightmare" that ha had been shooting and that Chief Taylor waa dead. I positively do not remember any of the incidents of the morning before thst moment," deajared the Doctor time and again during the exanainntioa nnd cross- examination. He outlined his connection between Tsylor aa police chief and him self as councilman. . He declared that hs wss ths man who pressed npoa Coun cil last- August to increase Taylor's sal ary $25 a month because of his success in catching whiskey runners sad boot leggers. They were hunting squirrels together when Tsylor suggested n raise to him, said the witness. Tsylor Visited Oxsee Ths dsy before the November erection Tsylor cams te his office, said the wit ness, and reported that it had beea rumored five gallons of whiskey had beea brought into the place, advising him if it -were true to have it removed. The witness declared he insisted thst the officer should starch, so that ha might be cleared ef she report, aad as sisted ia making a thorough search. IaJUoreh at thia year he voted - ae councilman to reinstate the Chief, whs bad been suspended following aa en sountsr with the eity ettorney. ;,. Following- thin he investigated re ports concerning the office in his capac ity as eonacilmaa aad found informs tion thst convinced him the Chief should be dismissed. He then told of the meeting where hf made sue-mo tion, when two members voted to dis miss snd another that Dr. Peacock aaid had agreed to vote against Tsylor be fore the meeting refused to vote st sll, making n tie, nnd the officer remsined. He resigned the next day. Ths dsy following this meeting Tsy- lor neeosted him, ssid the witness, but be told him he would "See him later," ss he wss busy. Tet, end 1 11 see you. too," he said the officer replied. The ijamtefasiift&faiMmKiam to. hit ana iota mm myior nsa inresieaea io ''destroy the home" of the defendant, said ths witness. E. C. Lambeth brought him a similsr report and F. C. Bevia told him that Taylor had aaid unless he (Peacock) quit working against him (Tsylor) that the Doctor was "going t go west snd that d n soon," continued the witness, ndding thst R. E. Seira- mermsn reported Tsylor sev saying he would "Get even with every d n one working sgsinst him, even to certain members of the board. Hsd Had Little Sleep AU these things eoupled with knowl edge he hsd obtained about Tsylor preyed upon his mind nnd put him in greet fesr, so thst hs could haTdly sleep st nights, said ths witness. . Ths night before his barn was burned he was up until between 3 aad 4 o'clock with a patient, aad on the night of the fire was aroused about 2 and slept no more, adding to aa already nervous con dition, said the witness. He described ths burns hs received in the fire, ssying he suffered great pain and that his nerv ous condition greatly accentuated that. He declared the blister on top of his heed was like a goose egg and held down hia hesd to 'show the iury the eor, which hs, declared was 23 dsys ia heal ing. A half doxen witnessed wh preceded bias en the stand said they saw him prior to the killing and several talked to him some, all declared he seemed unnatural. Ths Doctor swore, however, that he remembered seeing none of them aad alao thst hs did not remem ber seeing Chief Taylor standing serest ths street before the killing. Other witnesses hsd told of seeing tbe Chief across the street for 13 or 20 minutes snd declared he glanced from time te time towsrd ths Doctor s office. - Gives' Outline ef Life. Dr. Peacock gavs sn outlins of his life, from boyhood to the dsy before tbe killing, telling of n aeore or more business ventures thst did not psn out. These-, included gold mining, vsrious kinds of woodworking, investments in fske sulphur company, a fske fig or chard company nnd of hia high hopes for making millions from the reduetioa ef tantalum and eolumbiua from col umbite, an ore which he discovered while an a fishine trio in Ytneey county, a 'company was organized nnd n laboratory built at Charlotte. The Doctor said that ths ors taken from the mines snd-shipped to ths laboratory would have beea worth over three mil lions of dollars, if it could asvs beea reduced, and expressed ths opinion that the ehemist, a German, refused to re duce the ere because it wss to hsve been used for wsr purposes. A piece ef this ere, large as a maa'a fist, which OFSLAYING (Continued en Page Tw) MAKES ADDRESS AT , WOMAN'S COLLEGE - A V - '- 1 Congressman ' M. Clyde Kelly, ' who delivered the commencement sddress st the North Carolina College for Womea at Oteensboro. yesterday. Con. gressman Kelly is classed, as sn inde pendent Repnblicaa, aad represents the Thirteenth Pennsylvania district with manr important cities aad m number of warda ef Pittsburgh, the populatioa of his distirct being npproximntely 300,000. This is his fifth term in Congress. Hs ia nn author of note, hia ' latest book having to do with community work, n subject in which he Is deeply interested, and which ha talked sf in his Greens- bore address. MAY GIVE MEXICO Fl New Treaty Of Amity and Commerce Proposed To Obre gon By The United States Washington, Juus 7. The American government has proposed a treaty ef amity aad commerce with Mexico, it wss announced today at the mate we partmeat, ia which Mexico will agree to safeguard tho rights of property ia that country hold by American citizens which waa attached before the consti tution of 1917- wss promulgated. . The signing of the .treaty automatically would accomplish . American recogni tion of the Mexieaa government. ' Formal aanouueement of the admin IsUation's policy toward ths imithera republic. wri made after the subject hed been discussed nt the regular rabi act meeting. President Harding nnd his advisers had-before them i a eommunt cation from Pretient Obregou relating to the proposed Srssty, which wsa pre seated te-the Mexican presideat by George T. Summerlin, the Americas charge at Mexico City, May r7. The text ef Obregon'e reply haa been with held nnd administration officers decline to discuss it or to make any comment as to the relation to u of ths announce men of policy msde public by Secre tsry Hughes. Obregou Agreeable It ia under at ood, however, that Obre gon referred to the negotiations which are proceeding with Mr. Summerlin and indicated a willingness to carry them forward. It ia hnown that hs hss summoned to the capital Ministers Calles sad Ie La Huerts, who srs reported to have counselled agsiaat ths signing of inch a ' ft? Mr Uttfran cabinet conference held sfter it had become known in MeX' ieo City that a traty of thia character wonld be proposed by the United States. Secretary Hughes announcement con tained no reference to the attitude s sumed by President Obregon, but It did say that n JHexieo did not contemplate a confiscatory policy with regard to property, the American government couia -conceive or no possible oDjfotiou to the treaty." Prevlateas hf Treats It waa stated thst tbs pronosed trestv contained "the conventional stipulations aa to commerce and reciprocal rghts ia ootn eonatries," that it provided for the conclusion of n convention for the settlement of claims for losses of life aad property, sad also a provision fr a jusi scutemsBi, or Boundary mat- Tie department's state mast said ths fundamental question aliich eoiifrontei las American government in consider ing its aviations with Mexico waa tha safeguard of property rights against connseaiion. it was smpnasirod thnt this question should not bs confused with any matter of personalities or rf the recognition of, any particular ad uinuwaiiou ana toe declaration was, made thst whenever Mexico was roady to give assurances that she would per form her fundamentapoblio-ation in tho protection both of persons and of rights of property validly acquired, thera would be "no obstaeis to ths most art vantageous relations between the tno peoples." MAY NAME SHIPPING BOARD MEMBERS TODAY Wsshington. Jans 7 President Hard ing's long delayed nominntiona of mem bers of the Shipping Board sre expected to go to the Senate within the neit forty-eight hours si a result of a series of conferences today between officials hers and A. D. Lssker, of Chicago, who has been aelceted for the Bosrd chair manship. Mr. Lasher hsd two longeonvsrta tions with ths Prtideat during the day aad although he said afterward a con clusion wss yet to be reached, ths im pression in administration circles wss thnt he would accept the appointment. Hs will call at tha White House sgaln tomorrow aad a formal announcement oa the subject is expected to follow. Organising Formers ' Csrthsge, June 7,Q. M. Southera, of Chatham county, organiser for this dis trict for the Farmers' Union,' is now at work ia Moor county snd during the past few days hss reorganised the locals st Holly Grove,' Springfield, Moonfhili. Ingram Braaeh, East Philadelphia aad ML CarmeL . JLL RECOGNITION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS IS LARGEST mm iRtOCALHISLORY Professor, Frank Graham, Uni versity Of North Carolina De i t y Tjvers Address .;:vL GEORGE MARSH JR. TEARS INTO SCHOOL CONDITIONS Many, Scholarship Honors Art r Awarded Including; Perfect ' Attendance 1 Secords Tor. .Eight and Nine Tears; Meni- .: bershin Of American. Torch . Society Announced Prof. Frank Graham of the Univer sity of North Carolina and a formr member of the Rslitith high sehr-il fse- ulry, railed the graduates of ths high socoi'l to their larger represonsibilitica in the city nudtiteMum last night and In a commencement artdrcss that 'will go down as a gem smong ths spliadid utteisntes which hate characterised three events ia forr.sr years, pnllitd the auditorium assembly tj its ft in a tribute and ovatn to Hugh Moreen, former nrineioal anil it Tirineiiut emeritni. Prof. Graham, in hia address to the ssventy members of the graduating class had called to their attention the splendid services of Mrs. J. M. Barbae and Miss Eliza Pool whew he turned straight to the elass and added: ' ; : . School superintendents msy some. aad go, school boards rite and fall, but he goes on forever in the Tightness of his scholarship and the sweet abiding strength of hia noble life Prof, Hugh. Morton." There was ae signaL The speaker waa not prepared for a pause, much Isss for a demonstration, but ia ons momsnt the big suditorium sudienee stood te Ha feet ia a burst of applause for the man who was ths first head of the institution that last night celebrated its biggest commencement and who still gives to it the' strength ef his wisdom and char acter. Tears late School Conditions. Professor Graham spoke after George Alex Msreh, Jr. president of the senior class, hsd delivered the valedictory. - In a brief mesange of farewell the yoaag speaker laid down to his classmates aad to the assemblage of friends of ths pub lie schools the challenge of publia edu. ratio n In Raleigh. , He analysed the school sit at tion, took stock of RalsigVe assets and liabiUtsea . . a m . . . . . .ti i . .. . ana xouna sue pnoiie skuhhu .eager twu )y deficient to Its showing ef progress: sis school buildings, only two of which sre new and the ether four ef which are discreditable three frame struc tures, two of which sre fire-traps with the high school a Joke, were it' ao too serious for laughing matter. Tbe qual ity of training hs had high praisa for, snd for the character ef the teaehera he had a apecial tribute,-but for the physical equipment ef the schools he found only condemnation. "Tom know what the aolutioa ia," he declared, "snd I know that yea will rslly to ths cause.'' 3 Special honors of scholarship" were announced by Prof. Holmes, principal sf tbe high school, last night-after Su perintendent Harry Howell had pre seated the diplomas to mmbtrs ef the graduating alas. The scholarship to the University of North Carolina went to James Edward Hawkins: Vmt Institute, to Lucy lire Btrother; and St. Mary's, to Beulah Esther Thompson. Mr.. Holmes explained thst this year there is .no Junior Order Medsl for Scholarship for ths entire school, aad had such a medal been offered the decision of the school authorities would havs been embarrasaiag, for the resson thst two young women, Mar garet Lineberry nnd Katharine Bretseh msde equal grades, ths high-' est in the gift of the school, and rep. resenting an average of betweea 99 aad 100. The Rii'hurd H. Lewis Debstsrs medal went to James Oiler BuTley. The members of the American Torch Society announced last night are Jnmes Edward Hawhiaa, Laura Russell,' Mary O'Kelley, Thomas Powell, Speight Barn es, Lucy Lee Btrother, Edgar Arn strong Ooldie Harirs, Franklyn Owen, Frances Tucker, and Mary Peony. But the honor that surprised the audi ence most was two perfect attendance records, one aretching over nine yesrs and attained by Annabell Warren aad one over eight years by LeBoy Dean. ', Perfect-Attendance. Not least among the honors were those of perfect attendance three of which were notable. Anna Bell Warren and Eva Dell Warren, Mr. Holmes snnouaced, had a perfect attendance record covering, nine years, while Leroy Dean had a aimilar record stretch over eight years. Thia record, incidentally, was equal led also yesterdsy by a pupil of ths Centennial Graded School, Tessie Bag well, who hss been neither sbsent nor tardy in nine years. Tho perfect attendance honors lsat nizht were awarded to Lewis Murchison, Thomas Powell, Charles Ashby, Bran Inn tmnimnir. Buiiiv Atkinson. Mar garet Lineberry, KHiabcth Marsh, Sidney Pskula, Henry Parker, Kath- rvne nmnrler. Josephine 'inacKer, Holen Toye, Annabelle Warren, Win nilee Barrett, Killion Bnrwick, Lulie Belvin, Annie Hoover Browne, Leroy Doan. Clark Fanner, Louis Howell, Joseph Matthews, Mary Thacker, Eva Dell Warren, Sarah Weinstein, Elisabeth Wiggs. , ' , Seventy Graduates. The members of the graduating class were : - - Klizaheth Susan Adams. Edgsr Wil liam Armstrong, Jamen Osier Bailey, Elian, Martruerite Baker. William Speight Barnes, Thomss Beath, Annie Kathleen Bell, Margaret Bradley Bird-' sons. Louise Frances Bland, r'raneia , McCee BousbaU, Mary Elisabeth Boweu, (Continued oa page three). : ?rrx: