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ed Ob THE WEA THZS Nertk Carellaa Partly cWaSv WHie4r Ad thsnaay ; liu tU ckaage la tat Uapfratira. WATCH LAILL ea yonr paper.- Bend rntsril flr )ys bfor cxplrtUoa la rer , avoid BtiutBg tngl copy. , VOL CXIII. NO. 173. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH. N. C WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 22. 1921. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. PRICE: FIVE CENTS ! The News a server. RELEASE OF BOMBS PREVENTS LOSS OF Giant Naval Airship Catches Fire While On Test Flight Near Base DOZEN NAVAL OFFICERS FIND SAFETY IN WATER Quickly Rescued By Crew of Army Tug In Bay; First Flo tilla of Aircraft Make Quick Work of Destroying German U Boat; Submarine Goes Down Newport News. Vs., June II. Pre mature release of thr.'O bombs, esrried by the giant NO . 7 when she left the naval base this, morning on a testftigli!, saved the live of twelve naval officer and men aboard whrn the ship csttght fire and was, destroyed after a forced landing off Tinner's Point in Hampton Roads. Almost as soon as the N.C.-7 touche 1 water, burning gasoline spread over the waves, menacing the Uvea of the twelve men who had leaped overboard to save themselves. A radio operator was overcome by the fumes, but at the further risk of their own lives his com panions took his unconscious body in tow and swam beyond the danger tone. The army tug Britannia which had started racing to the 'scene aa soon s it became apparent lliat the N.C.-7 was to be forced down, hauled all twelve tint of the water. E. J, Applegate, eivil-. ian employ of the .irn y boat, jilinpcJ into the water and helped the radio ope rator aboard, where it was found he had suffered no ill c. orscquences from his experience. Had it become necessary to complete the schedule of attack upon tho former Herman aubmarine U-117 off the capos, the N. C. 7 would have been in tho sec ond attacking division and she was on A shrrt tri.il flight when fhmes were discovered bursting from the main gas fe?d line. Tho piano was flying at an altitude of 2.0 feet when tho fire started. Realizing the danger of al lowing flames to reach the bombs, the bombing officer released them. All hands then, sought by the use of fire extinirulshers to tare tho ship hut flames quickly sprrad to all par' n4 an immediate landing was forced. According. to witnesses who were in a fishing boat about two hundred yards Xrom the spot where the N. C.-7 landed, each of the three bombs exploded when they ' xt We.lt. the water. Ko effort was made by the fishermen to approach the burning plan ai the army tug arrived quickly- and began taking the men in At the Naval base it was said that the safety pins on tho bonrbs ahould have prevented tneir detonation. Investiga tion of all the circumstances of the ac cident was ordered and a report for warded to the War Department. FORMER GERMAN SUBMARINE HIT SQUARELY WITH BOMB On Board U. 8. S. Henderson, Off Cape Charles, Va., June 21. A direct hit with a 163 pound aerial bomb dropped from an F 5 L. type seaplane, sent the former Gorman submarine L- 117 to the bottom of the Atlantic to day and abruptly terminated the first of a series of experiments by the army and navy to test the ability of naval vessel to withstand damage inflicted from the air. The one-time German commerce raider and submariue mine planter was bound for Davy Jones' locker just 16 minutes after the first alvo of bombs was launched. The bomb that settled the fate of the TJ-117 waa one of a salvo of nine drop ped from three planea that constituted the fist and only aerial division to engage in the actual attack. A few minutes before the fatal aalvo waa fired the same division had dropped three bomb to get the. range. The projec tile! were hurled from a height of about . 1,100 feet while the planea were making more than 100 miles an hour. It was only six minutes after the second aalvo was launched that the T.M17 made its last "crash dive" to find a resting place 50 fathoms deep. The sinking of the 1M17 in so short a time came as a surprise to most of the army and navy officers who wit nesscd the experiment, many of whom had been frankly sk-'ptical regarding the ability of the plaues to even hit the aubmarine, regardless of the fact that tU the condition favored tho at tacking foree and no effort was made to simulate actual war conditions. The U-117 waa securely anchored and the bombing olanes wero furnished with eharta showing the exact position of - "the target; Tout fewexpected that a fatal injury would be inflicted oa the U-boat to quickly. he plana for the test celled for par ticipation by 24 naval and marine planea and a later attack by 23 army machines if the naval craft failed to sink the submarine. Nearly 200 bombi were provided for the affair but only twelvo were used and of the 47 air craft scheduled to take part in the bombing but three obtained a ahot at the target while three ncrc were robbed of their tehsnee after reaching the scene, by the effective work of the first division. The division that sunk the U-117 waa commanded by Lieut Seles Thomas. : The three plane were commanded by . Usutenanu iises; rtumlJl tm Uarvey Although), tit detailed plana for ths - exercise- called for the appearance of the first division of three FJJ L, type planes over the target at 9 o'clock, it was an hour later when the division was sighted. Led by Lieutenant Thorn as, the planes approached the target in battle formation. Each plant tarried four 163-pound, bombs, each bomb con talning lJS-pouidi of.TJC.T. As the division swung round for the run past the U-117, tho plants dropped down to boat 1400 feet from the surfaceanjl --whenthrfcw4'''o'f .'"flit formation was almost over tbt bow cf tht U-117 ob server saw three bdmbs, one f roraeacjj. jCoalUsei em fag Two.) LI E ON SEAPLANE MRS. ANG1ER B. DUKE Vj!'.r!.--..'it t-lC7 " II III V . . J , If 1 A recent-plmhigntr of Mrs. Cornelia delphia, uho ha IiIihI utt in Philadelphia son of Benjamin V IHike, the tobacco one of her two sons Anthony. Insert, Maine Fishermen Give Cre dence To Theory of Cape Hatteras Sailors Portland, Maine, June 21. -The tho ory that pirates are afloat in the North Atlantic has found credence here. Be lief in this explanation of tho fate of tho reeoritly misting - skips ' jBS grown- vdth establishment of the fact that a message in a tottle picked up two months ago north of Capo Hatteras, purporting to eiplain the disappearance of the crew of the 8ve masted Bath schooner Carroll A. Peering, mystery ship of lhamond Hhoa's, was written by Henry Bates of laleabora, Jlaiue, a member of tho crew. Question of its genuineness as settled today by hand writing eiperts who compared it with letters written by Bates. The unsigned note stated that the schooner had been captured by an oil burning craft, some thing like a subchaser, that the mem hers of the orew who wero hiding all over the ship with no chanco to es cape were being handcuffed and that everything was being taken ntr. Through tho efforts of Jlrs. Willis M. Wormell, of this city, wife of the captain of the Decring, and friends the investigation was started by the State Department, the Department of Commerce, the coast guard ami otbet government agencies to establish the fate of . the missing crew, which con sisted of twelve men besides tho cap tain. They are working on the theory that the oil steamer Unwitt whieli dis appeared in the same locality at about the same time while bound irom lexas to Boston, was captured by the same pirate crew. - - BEGIN WOBLP WIDE HINT . FOR THE MISSING CEEW Washington, June 21. A world wide search -for the ni&aiiig cr'cw of the schooner Carroll A. Deering, of Bath, Maine which piled up on the North Carolina Beach last January with all sails set, but not a living soul aboard has been started by the State Dc nartment through American consuls. Tho mystery is being investigated by tho Department of Justice and the Department of Commerce as is also the npexplained disappearance ot .the American steel freighter Hewctt, out of Sabine Pass, Teias, for Boston. This eraft disappeared st about the same tims that the Doe ring came Ths summary of the history of Deer jng ease as seat to consuls by the State Deparmteat discloses that when the Deering panaod Cap Lookout Lightship, N. C, on January 29 while bound from Rio de Janeiro for Norfolk, a man other than the master reported that the vessel had lost both anchors and asked to be reported to its own era. - Foal Play Snspect. Two days 'atcr the vessel was found on the beach which the State Depart ment describes as ''in such condition that there is every suspicion of fool play having oeenrred.' 1 Tha department's summary also says tha,t a short time after ths Deering passed ins lightship, a steamer, the nam of which has not been ascertain ed, passed the - light ' Vessel and was asked to stop and fake a message, but no response was received to tha num erotis attempts oa tha .part of the master of the lightship- to attract the teasel s attention." . - Tho department's summary then says that on April 11, tht - followjng mes sage wss picked an m a bottle near Capo Battens: "Deering esptnredby loll-bunilcg boat something " like chaser, faking off everythiag, handcuffing crew. Crew hiding all over ahlp Ko -chsncs to i- p H I0) J fA - A i .fl ., 4 u iv . ' BELIEVE P RATES ROAM IN ATLANTIC (CeBtlaned sua t Pag Two.) . - . Tr . : ... - - SUES FOR DIVORCE 3 Biddle Itnkc, of New Ynrk and Phila for divorce against Angier It. Duke, kiiii:. .Mrs. Duke is shown here with Mr. Duke. 11 Ml Birmingham Editor Proves Theory To Publishers By Actual Experiment Ashrville, June 21. That the moun tains and foothills of the South hsrve an iuexh.iustible supply of spruce pine from which satisfactory wood was re-Tcah-d to the members of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association in anuuirl convention at tha battery I'ark Hotel by E. W, Earrett, editor of he Iirm mpham Herald, this afternoon. To prove his statements Mr. Barrett brought with him copies of his publics,, tion Monday morning, printed on paper niado from spruce pine rut on Yellow creek, mr Warr-or river, Alii bamn, and ground and manufactured in Niagara Balls. The report of Mr. Barrett's activities interesting paper mills in using flouth crn'Spruco pine for paper rulp was met with applause by the Southern Publish ers and much interest was til-ken in the announcement made bv Mr. Barrett that plans are already under wav for the erection of a paper mill near I ir iningha-iii at a eost of a million nnd s half dollars. This proposed mill which I bo erected, Mr. Barrett said, within the coming year will have a capacity of slightly over 1;,000 tons of paper year. Birmingham uses, he said, about 10,000 tons per year. On this basis saving of 67 cents a hundred pounds would bp effected ir freight rates. Al though the price of the paper would be about the same, the savng in freight rates would bo enormous. Mr. Barrett read a report of a paper and wood ex pert who helped him in his investiga tiona. According to this eipert, Robert i lade, who saw the Southern wood ground into ptilp at-the Defi.-mre Pwpcr Mills in Niajrara Falls the paper pro duced from Southern Bpruce Pine .is equal in every respect to" that made from Canadian Spruce and stooVl the standard test for pryit paper. Ijate arrivals for the convention m- cludo John Park, of the Raleigh Times and . C. Dowd, publisher of the Charlotte News. FORCED BY HUSBAND TO SUBMIT TO NEGRO MAN Pinehurut Woman Makes Grave Charge Against Her Husband - - Csrthage, Jure 21.-.Jim Maples, of 1'inchurst, while, aged sbout 32 years is in the jail here on a charge of crimi nal assault. His wife, a woman of about 30 years of age and of good character, charges that Maples held her and forced her to submit while a negro, Jake Smith assaulted her. The attack, she says, occurred st her home in Pinehurst where the negro is said to bsvs deliv ered whiskey to Maples. Mrs. Maples informed a brother of the attack and they swore out a warrant against the. man. lie was srrested snd elver! preliminary trial this morning, being held on tho charge of criminal assault in too Hum of S,00Q. Being unable to give bond, be was brought tf Carthage and placed in jail. Officers are search ing for tho negro. Much indignation has been expressed over the crime snd it is said that threats were openly made against Maples at the preliminary- hear ing before ht was brought.to ths Moore County jail. -' Tha negro. Smith, is ssid to bo blocksder, selling', whiskey in the Pinehurst and Southern Pines neighborhood. Salgravs Manor Kededleated. Bulgrave. Northamptonshire, Junt 21, Sulgrave Manor, ,. anjeitral ham a' the YVashingtons, was rededieatcd here today with elaborate ceremonies after its 'restoration, at a rrt of fifty thsu and pounds to the state in which it ex 1 .A-lij SOUTHERN TIMBER MAKES GOOD PAPER , isted, ture tenturiet) ago,'. ATTORNEYS ARGUE SOUTHERN POWER CASE BEFORE BOYD Judge Bynum Fires Opening Broadside For Defense In Federal Court ATTORNEY SAPP TALKS FOR THE PLAINTIFF Sole Point of Law Involved Is Whether or Not One Public Service Corporation Must Furnish Power To Another Public Service Corporations Por It To Sell Greensboro, June 21.-The big guns have begun their salves in Federal court as the attorneys representing the. North Carolina Public Service Com pany and the Southern Power Company thunder out their rensons why Julge James V. Boyd should render a jtnlg ment in f.-nor of their respective conj panics. All of the exidence iti tiie case, trial of which wns begun Thursday laorning, was placed before the court at a little tlo after 11 o'clock fl.is morning, and the first volley mis fired bv Judge W. V. Bynum, for the Southern Power Com pany, after Judge Boyd had dicided that the defense was entitled to the opening and closing arguments in the ease. Bynum Fire Broadside Judgo Bynum and O. I Supp, of the North Carolina Public Hervlce Company, skirmished a little before Judge Bynum began his speech, which was over an hour in length, but ns the presiding .judge ruled with the defond.int. Judge Bynum placed the opening arguments before the court .Tudgo Bvniim fired broadside after iroadside point blank into the front and flanks of the plaintiff company in his effort to break down thsir claim for judgment that the Southern Power Company should continue to furniih power to the North Carolina Public Service Company. (). U Snpp, in light battle array and with stack upon stack of references and law books filled with, the collec tions that have been made; or eases bearing on the present ease, replied to the thunderous charge of Judge Bynum this afternoon. Mr. 8app was more on the order of a sniper as he talked quiet ly nnd forcefully, endeavoring to pick flaws in the arraignment mado by Judge Bynum and tho evidence that h4 becsl offered by the Southern Powef Com pany. Entitled to Service Mr. Sapp's eonttfntir.u was that, the North Carolina Public Service Com pany Is entitled to receive service from the Southern Power Company, ss ho holds that the Southern Powrr Com pr.n.v is a w holesale company doing busi ness almost exclusively with corpora tions, large industries and other public service- companies which distribute elec tric current and power in municipalities in this State. He asserted that the North Carolina Public Service Company has the same right to receive power from the, defend ant. company that the Southern Public Utilities Conipanv has. Also, the North Carolina Public Service Company has the right to receive a rate the same as that given the other companies by the defendant companies, ho said. Want to Smash Company Tn discussing the contract which was offered by the Southern- Tower Com pany before the old contract expired, ho declared that the rate asked was unlawful and that it would have been folly for his client, to have signed it. In the final analysis hn declared that the only motive of the Southern Power Company now is to drive the North Carolina Public Service Company to the wall. He said that his client s back is now tn the wntl and stated that if Jtidg Boyd renders a judgment stating that tho Southern Power Company is not in duty and law bound to furnish the N'urth-Carolina Public, Scivico Company current on the same terms and same conditions that it is now furnishing other corporations in a class similar to the plaintiff company, that the plaintiff company will die Tho North Carolina Public Service Company is now ready and willing to sign a contract with tho Southern Power Company to pay for current at the rate to bo determined by the North Carolina Corporation Commission, he declared. Conclude Argument Today Mr. Sapp's speech witnessed the clos ing of the court today. W. 8. O'B. Rob inson will speak for the Southern Pow er Comphriy tomorrow morning, and will bo followed by A. L. Brooks for tho opposition. According to tho statements of both Dart ics to the litigation, tho case has rtsolved itself to the question: "Does the law provide 11 it the Sonthern Pow er Company, a public service corpora tion, must furnish power to the North Carolina Public Service Company, an other public service company, for dis posnl to the cities- of Greensboro and High Point f Both sides have quoted resms of legal for in their effort to influence tho judgment, which will probably be ren dered within the neit two or three days, , Both sides sre still apparently confl dnt of victory,-and 'as Judge Boyd has given no intimation ss to the judgment which ho will render, there is no wsy to forecast the result. Boyd CIsims Duty to Citizens Judie Bvnum outlined the proposi tions it ,law involved in the ease, as they appeared to him, as an opener. He declared that tue noutnern rower win pany contends that it ewes no duty to tha North Carolina ruuiie service lonv psny i furnishing power for distribu tion at a rront in tne ones or ureens 1 J fX:L V1 miA HiMaf... Doro anu aiu uu, mncwiE, that the North Carolina Publis Service Comnanv is not entitled to xosnda tory injunction, forcing the continuance of the service. The defense submits Catlns4 Page, Two.) - V- SOUTHERN BELL CO IT Claims Order Corporation Conv mission In Contravention of Its Constitutional Rights WANTS NEW RATES DECLARED NULL AND VOID Also Asks That Commission Be Restrained From Interfering With Company In Collection of Charges AsW For In It. Original Petition To That Body -The Southern It.-1 1 Telephone an, I Telegraph Comp.mv hss made g . Its threat to carry into trctrrat court its fight for higlier r:ti in North Carolina, partial y a'oiwe 1 l y trie Stole Corporation Commf;oii Complaint h:is been tiled w,:lt M;c Clerk of 1'. S. Ii,tnct Court for Kjst rn North Carolina here claim. ng that the order of the eonimisvon : in f,m traventioii of Section I, Fourteenth Amendment of the I " n l 1 St.itis Con stitution, asking that it be declined null and oid, and fur'her pray-ng for an injunction, restraining the Corpora tion Commission from putting into cf feet this order or proceeding in any way thereon. Tho complaint w a tiled without pub iicity by James II. l'ou, I., li. nrser. Hunt Chiplcy and K. I. South, Satur day. It is directed iig-iiut the members of the Corporation C.iinmisMon, H. O. Self, chief clerk, and ' S. Maiming, attorney lienernl of the S'ate. The commission lias twentv dav in wln-h In flirt an answer In its complaint of thirtv two pages, with a number of exhibits attached, the Soujliern Bell ects forth its ps. tion that it never lias made a reason able profit on the fair value of its prop crty in North Carolina, in no your n eeedins: six wt cent and in I'.'-'l not exceeding four per cent. Plead Poverty " Tho complainant, if rciu.red t charge and collect the rates authorized by the order of the Corporation Com mission of May .11, 1!21," it declares Will bo unable to meet its obligation" maintaiu Its plant in first class condi tion and provide tho necessary mldi tional facilities nnd service required byJfce public within the felate of North Carolina, and by the said order of the Corporation Commission that the public will suffer in tho impairment of and .tne inadeouacv of tho service, and that complainnut will sustain material dam niro to its nronrrtv and irrcat financial loss and may be subjected to much lili ration at the instance of members of the public st large and may be pro rn.il.-d nif.-iinst in suits for penalties ind by prosecution by snid Corporation 'oninnssioii by reason of its Iinancia nabilitv tn carry out that portion of snid order of the Commission to provide adequate facilities without delay Got Only 40 Per lent. In the order of the Corporation Corn niismon, the Southern nen leupuont- Comiianv was uuthorired to increase its exchange rates in North arolm twentv-fnu cents on residence tel nhoiios . and ten per cent on business ell-phones, tho latter Increase lo oe no leas than twenty five cents and no more than fifty cents, averaging a rate it was claimed, only forty per cent of that asked for. In tho complaint, the Telephone l oin pany de-lares that it tiled a petition for an increase of rates on II. lll'JO. sottinir forth the necessity of making extrusions i tho Stat inioiintinir to more than halt million dollars, that no hearing was granted on the tition for the months an that in the iiicuitmit! ths company was rrnuired to pav s)r,'HHj for an audit o ita books bv an accounting firm se lectcd by the commis.Mon. This, action, together wjLn the. ue. nial of petition to n-hear, tho ord of the commission restoring free service between Wrightsville Beach nml Wilmington, the elimination of the forty two cent additional rh.argi on each Quarter of mile beyond the old city limits of Raleigh lor cm tumors within the territory recently annexed, the complaint charges a vio lation of the fourteenth amendment ol the Constitution of the Vnited (States. Claim Expansion Necessary At this time, the complaint further declnres, there are twenty-five hun dred spplications for exchange service in North Carolina which cannot I' accepted until extensions to the service are made aggregating aoou.uw, wni i expansion, if continued, will eost dur ing the next five years w,'n. The company's exchange investment in North Carolina December .H, 1."J, the complaint asserts, was d,4:H,V.M while the fair value of as a going con cern was thirty five per cent greater than this. Then the investment In toll line property was S)128, 104.56 the fair going concern value being tnirty five ner oeut in excess. Whereupon, the tomplsint stki tho court to decree the order of the com mission null and void; to restrain the eomniiasion from taking action to compel the complainant to charge the rates prescribed by tie commission; to restrain the commission from attempt ing to interfere with the officers or agents of the company in putting into effect the rates originally asxea tor at the hands of the. commission ; to enjoin tbo defendants and all others fro proceeding against the eompiananta to enforee penalty for disregarding the promulgated rates or Worn putting into effect the rates ssked lor; to restrain the. defendsnts from proceeding to compel extensions of service until reasonable -time after the determination of fair rate: and to restrain the de fendsnt, particularly B. O. Self, from .. ' . . m ... issuing or ceriiiying vnpiro - ox me Commission's order. l My Jlst, GOES INTO FEDERA! COURT WITH FIGHT STATE WINNER QF DECISIVE VICTORY IN FREIGHT RATES BITTER DEBATE OH IRISH QUESTION President Gompen Stops Ora torical Battle By Adjourn ing Convention IK-nwr. June '.M A b.t'e ornC'nea fii'it over the Irish quest on was pre eqot.i'ed on the I'onr of the. convention f the Aim ricau Pe I. rfHjen of IjiIiot .ate todav and was ut rls height when I'res.d, nt Samuel (lumpers adjourned :he eoneiit,o.i until t.iii i , r r.- . The deb -.tr started r hen the -esolu 'ions e.spimitt'-e rep, r',d a sub-1 .ta'e tVr the f-etr n-,., .ft ion1 introduced b liuli lULatLuLi s. which ignored the ffert to mn.'c s boc,tt against the ritish niatiufc t rs and iu. ports. I rr Irish Ksf oxaillon The i uiiii.ttce's report disposed ot e lush ipast..iii by asking the eon ntion to riamrn ,ts s; mp:i'l.y 'or th- Irish cin'e, bv urg.ng ree. kiu' uhi of Irish r. pu':!.c and by urging trial ind pan .shmcn! for lln'.-h anny men ifu iit of a' rocr n i in 1 rei.ind. No s , oe.t r h: d the eoniintttei-s re tort lt en rea.l -.hen Cnrin liiis roicy. legate fmai the barber's union, tool'. the floor and re. d tcie.gr.iMi from im- Ho'-rnd. st-eret-iry il i.i, "pi.-.M, n! of : -." w h o-h said ''I he orMt''at on , - to Kamonn de ie Irish ropiih i en. an K. d-ra on to do some want the bo ion . r I .ai'"i is lonsi u thing lor Ir, , md. V e alt or nothing" Mr. i'olev d''!ared, "there is onli ne jd.oe while we ran hurt Kngland lid th: t i iii h. r p..ek. tbook." Christian M M.-oU. n, of tho Chieag i 'ederation of K-ibor, lion nioid to uneiid tli- , ornlniltee s report bv ad ling a rlausr calling for a boycott by Ain.-ric.-iu labor against Hnti-Ji goods ami British companies lis long as the Bntrsh gtivrrnment mnmtn-ns "its bar Urous. and dwttutUM: ,p.Ucj-, in Iru: .nd." Make Point of Order A point ot orcb r was r.-Msed that this ould not be introduced because it was part of resolutions already rejected by the coin in litre. P resilient dumpers all) taiiii'd the point of order and adjourned the convention while several delegates were struifgling for recognition of the chair. The resolution reported bv the coin nnttro wav Mrttoiliy identical with one submitted bv a committee of Irish sympathizers . headed by Peter Brady of New- York rueid that some of the more draslic phrases were omitted. Th ommittre also struck out a paragra-ph demanding that President Harding, Ins cabinet and Congress take necessary slens lo demand from tm.-rt l.ntain the defaulted interest and the loan i.u the Cnitcd States and now used in part to "promote llo- brutal campaign in Ireland." Condemns Shipping Board The government i w:w charged with "fostering and perpetuating' the noli union shop in a resolution adopted by the convention rninnieiidinir the sea men's union for refusing, to submit to the alleged 'open shop'' policy of the I'mted States shipping Board. "Tho shipping board will permit nion men to work nnd live," the de clared said, "only upon condition thwt they be sufficiently submissive to the non-union men n-nd s'riko breakers to be tob ratod by them.' 'Hiding behind a smoke screen of hostility to union labor.'' thT resolution said that the uhippig Board was "tor, pe4oirg t-b-flfeart:haat marine ajid sea power of flic Unijed Stales." ( CLAIMS VAMP8 LINE . BOAD fO CHICAGO BEACH Chicago, June Sp. Police women, who wsith tape mensi.rio, needle and thread, have been surveying and reconstructing Chicago's one piece feminine bathing suits of last season to conform to this year's beach rules, paused in their work today to tackle a new problem. Captain MeCarthv, of Town Hall Sta tion, snid he found hundreds of ''vamps" lining Sheridan road every morning to smile their way into the loop bound automobiles of business men. On every corner knots of girls apparently waiting for busses have been interfering w.th traffic, the captain said, by "smiling" pleasure cars to a halt. DEADLOCK OVER NAVAL APPROPRIATIONS IS BROKEN Washington, June "I. -The deadlock between the Henite and Bouse over the naval appropriation till was broken today by conferees wi'h the virtnnl agreement to lop off a'oout ninety mi' lion dollars of the ninety eight mil lion dollars added to the bill by the Senate and with the right of the Hous to vote directly to the Borah dis armament amendment. Many minor tangles remain to be clenred away, but the conferees were reported in sub stantial agreement on all major points. HIGH EXCHANGE RATE 19 BLOW TO EGYPTIAN EXPORTS Washington, June 21. The high rot of exchange of tho American dollar is seriously interferring with the favor able progress of American exports to Egypt, although it is aiding the Ameri can purchases of Egyptian cotton, ac cording to consular advices today to the commerce department. 81ms Reaches Saady Hook. New York, June '22 The steamship Olympic, bearing Roar Admiral William 8. Sims home from England reported off Bandy Hook early this morning and was expected to reach Quarantine about 6:30 a. m. She will dock early ia tho forenoon. , Interstate Commerce Commis sion Hands Down Opinion Im Noted Carolina-Virginia Cities Case HEAVY OBSTACLES IN SHIPPING REMOVED IN A SWEEPING DECISION Means Sweeping Reductions In Freight Rates To Many Cities In South; Fight Instituted Two Tears Ago By Cham, bers of Commerce of North Carolina and State Traffic Association Results In An other Important Victory; North Carolina Corporation Commission Aids In Securing Victory The N -i and Observer Bureau, 6".t Ihstnil Nutiofual Bank Bldg. By EDW ARD E. BUTTON. y Special lieased Wire.) Washington, June 21.--In substantial figures flint mean a great victory for North Carolina in e?king just freight rates in comparison with the freight rates made for Virginia cities the In terstate Commerce Commission today made public in print ;d foim its decis ion reached on June 7. The decision is justiy tn be termed a great victory for Nor;h Carolina and what has been accomplished iu the case by the chamber's of commerce of the state and the North Carolina Traftie Association, with respect to rates be tween North Carolina and the Nortll and Kii.st, and bv these chambers of c, , linnet, c and tint traffic, ssso.'iatio'i with regard to rates between NortU Cerolina and the Sout'.i, in which latter phase of the rasu the North Carolina toiporation Coiiimissiin cooperated, offers high encoiirngoment in further efforts taat may be made, lay jh&'jjvs... . of the State tn lift the heavy and un jnst burdens that the railroads by their freight rates have put upon the com meres of the State. Tho changes nnd "he reductions In rte tircUnnl by the interstate Coni ini ree Commission are material all along the line, and thry deprive the Virginia cities of mui.i of the erushing ad audi ju they huvo cn.icyad lot many years over North Catoliua cities and luttttv ,m ju Hdvat5 which have cimbbd the Virginia cities to purchase good-s in the East anil job them out not only rght up to the very doors of points in North Carolina, but to taks a monopoly in jobbing to (south Caro lina i.nd tho Southeast. Will Remove Ilea- y Obstacles. - North Carolina bv reason of these change in rate between tho East and North Carolina and foe new rates es tablished from Nort.i Carolina to the South, which ruu from ID cents up to V) cents Irs than the rates from the Virginia cities wi'h differentials under Norfolk and Richmond ranging from cents to 55 cents in the first class rales, will now be in a position to purchase- glials in the East on a more equitable basis and be enabled to job goods out in the South. These rates apply in both directions, nnd they will remove the heavy obstacles to a largo evtcnt that have prev 'nted the location of new industries in the Htate, and en able those that have managed to exist under old rates to expend their busi ness. .The North CWnlina rate esse has been one of long standing. It began in March, 1!1P, being instituted by the various chambers of commerce of the State, nd vigorously prosecuted by these and the North Carolina Traffic Association, the North Carolina Corporation Com mission joining in the rase as to ths rite between ..North Carolina and tho Houth. The case a riigiually decided. . by ihe Interstate. Commerce .Commis- sion in May, 1920, but upon petitions of the railroads and, the Virginia corpora tion commission, the rjso was reargued in September. The decision rendered today disposes of the case as reargued, and sustains the con'entions made by the North Carolina chambers of com merce and the North Carolina frafflo Association that the rates between eastern ports and easrn interior cities and Xorfh Carolina as compared with, rates between- eastern ports ai:d interior cities and Virginia citi" are unjust and prejudicial to the State of North Carolina. How Decision Affects Rataa Instesd of the prosut scales of rates under which as for illustration the taf "from -New -York- aafl Phtlsdelphie. to Richmond is R'i 1-2 as against the rate from New York and Philadelphia 1.C0 to Raleigh, a difference of 78 12 cents. The commission orders that this difference in rates shall not exceed 60 whereas the rate from Baltimore to cents. For further illustration, that Richmond is now 68 cents snd the rate from Laltimore to Raleigh is SI .50, a difference of 82 1-2 cents, the Corns mission orders that the difference shall not exceed 60 cents, thereby requiring a reduction of 22 12 cents from Bslti- more in the advantage in rates enjoyed -by Richmond at present over Baleigh and other ponts in the' largo territory of North Carolina) included in Zone 1. Theso illustrations serve lo show the v great victory that has been won through the docision of the commit -sion. Zone 1 inolude a large section of northern and central North Caro lina, being roughly described; as that - part of the state lying North of' the Southern Railway line from Winston- . Salem, Ureensboro to Goldsboro, and the Norfolk Southern from Ooldsbore) to but not including New Bern, which plaee takes rates lower than cone and slightly less than Wilmington to snd from the eastern cities.' Zone I therefore include points like Baleigh, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, ' ' Durham, Cary, Wilson, Henderson, Oxford, , (OqatinneA Page, lour) . vi .A a i.u iin iin,ii ii C XL
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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June 22, 1921, edition 1
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