; The News mil Gfos erver Partly cl4y, local thaader. shew n Taeaday ad W ednsev day; no change U te-peralara. e yoar tpr. Perl r-""l tle dsys tefnr : In or 4 ft t ovetd ...!. 4 ingle copy, vol. cciy. , ot ACIWJJIEl L 12. REPORT GOES OVER urn m WEEK -Two Members Of Sutj-Commit tee Away and Body Will' Not . Meet Until Monday - JOHNSON REPORT MAY i - GET TO SENATE FIRST ' ' Senator Simmoni Continue I To Get Xeque.t. J or Picture. Ot ITecTQ Kennblican TromL ft- , A--4 .. rPresident your commission as tuier Georgia; protest! Against JlStiM of'the.Uaited states.-it af- Appointment Of lohlosil fords me great pleasurs en account of I Pour In To Tar Heels - News and Observer Bureau, 603 District National Bank Bldg. By EDWABD E. BR1TTOX (By Special Leaeed Wire.) Washington, July 11. That "mystery ship" ef the political sea, the report ef the sub committee ef the Senate judi ciary committee oa the. confirmation, of Frank A. Linney as district attorney, failed to be located again today, and according to reports from the commit tee it will be neit Monday before the Teasel arrives in the committee port with the log of its career.' The commit ter eras ready to hear it this morning, but 6kipperErnit pardon me, Senator Ernst of the sub committee was not in attendance, and Senator Overman was in North Carolina on a visit to his newly-arrived grandson. Senator Cummins was on hand, but there had been no confabulating of the subcommittee since the report was printed, and so the matter goca over to next Monday, when the judiciary committee is scheduled to meet again. Incidentally, Senator Ernst, who is the ehairman of the sub-committee, was in Potomac Park this morning with a dele gation that went for a hearing on some matter connected with the Shipping Board. I chanced to meet Senator Ernst in tlie JNhvt Buildinff. in wnictt in Shipping Board is housed, and in re J. spouse to my question if there wail ''anything doing' in the Iinney matter, lie replied: Walt Until Next Week "Nothing today. Just as soon as we . can get the aub -committee together we will go over the testimony and make a report to the judiciary committee." 6o we wilt have to hold our horses till next work to get the say se on the matter. ''"'. It appear now that it is n neck -and- neck race aa to whether .the Llnney re.-. viort will ret to the Senate ahead of the link" Johnson, report, far there is still . a beld-nff on the resort of the District ef Columbia committee ef the Senate concerning the nt mlnation of the Geor gia negro, member ot the Republican National Committee, with Wednesday ef this week let for action-tin it. Senator Simmons continues to receive letters asking for picture of the negro nominated by President Harding for recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, for readers ot the News and Observer have read, of the call on Sena tor Simmons for one by JVC. Whltmlre, a weu nown merenant or unerry rieia.i Transylvania county, who want to show l white Republicans of Western North Carolina the picture of their ally. One letter asking for 4 pie tar of Johnson came from 6waa Quarter, Hyde eounty, on the eastern coast, another from Dilla be.ro, Jackson county, in the far west, while another was from forest City. . .v. hm tttL W oe everywhere in North Carolina, Was) In 'Old Rellabler I a0"1" yivyvuj in Beplving o the letters, Senator Shn-1" d that ny order or direction m, eorrennndents that be! addressed to said elerk -was witbout su- y.a .. ts,fnn f th. wew. but ad- vised then te set a copy of the News - mud Obsrvr of Sundav. Jnlv 10. that It l Tdetnra of Johnson. But he plans to have a picture, for Frank Hampton, his secretary, is at work to secare copies in order to send them te ths parties who may have written to . Senator Simmons for them. He finds . that f.ti.W Km kail a nhotnroink tjllf en at one of the leading photographers snd feeling his eats on his nomination by the President, he has ordered the a .a tt strvs-f- aL. " k that to the- Georgia negro with th . ?, Z . Z ai aaW - Presidenthn. handed kim.! ProteaU ngainrt the nppointment of B.TSohloef Wtstar?, federal tttYNnlxa o!SSrS farces, for they hold thst Eohlosa, the 'Hog-Combine'' choice for ths job, is too ''wet to be given th place. Num bers of these hav some to Senator , pininiOBa, He..-.wHn. rUmimn . to be put in such S place, asking Sena tor Simmons te oppose his confirmation. In this natter there Is bo confirmation by the Commissioner of Internal Beve- nue, through the prohibition director, th settlement therefor being In tlie hands of Commissioner Blair. The pro tests against ths sppointment ot Kohloss will be placed before him by the mem bers ot tho North Carolina delegation which hav received them. . ' Making his protest a broadcast one, Bsv. B. I Davis, ef Ealeigh, Superin tendent of the North Carolina Anti Saloon League, has sent out a mimeo graphed letter opposing th sppoint ment ef Kohloes. In tt he calls artea- tion to the fset thst as Mr. Eohlosa would have the selection of 45 federal .Addressing Benat Bepubllcans, Sena agents for ths enforcement of the pro- tor Harriaoa said : kibition law ia North Carolina, he Tor a(ht long ytsr you sbused should be ft prohibitionist and a states- this sid ot tho aisle, saying ws were man, a man held ia high esteem. 1 He nothing but rubber stsmps and respond asks it th Salisbury maa meets ths ed only to the will of th President requirements, and answers "No," thai We, thank God, responded to request while nobody seems to knew how he for legislation for ths people. Ton rs voted on prohibition yet ef these with spond to requests for' ths defeat ef leg - whom he has talked, vBepublieans and islsUon for th people." . Democrats, are agreed that hs is not Senator Harrison atkel ths" Bepubll the man fo the job, and thst"! sm whether they intended to "desert satisfied thst he is not and thst his Senator . McCumber, Bepublican, North , . . Dakota, in charge of the bonus bill. (Csmtinced ea Pag Two.) "Are yon rung to accept tho view SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY, TAFT ASSUMES HIGHEST " JOB ON NATION'S BENCH , , i, . Tomer President Formally Sworn In As Successor To V. Chief Justka White) . . - - , ,,- Washington, v Jnly H William ' Howard Tft was-wern- inodajri Chief Justice of tha United State. The simple ceremony of iterating1 the former President to the Supreme -Court was performed in 'the office of Attorney General Daugherty by Justice Hoehiing, of the district coast in thesbsenee from the city ef the Justices of the 8uprtme Court ' ' Those present Included -'Mr, Taft's brother Henry W. Taft.'ef Kew York, and Joha T. Adan, ehairmaa of the Bernblieatt National committee. Before the oath 'was administered Attorney Genernj Daugherty presented gjgjSi "I ho kand ..yon ea behalf of ' the. on personal relations, but far above that I feel a security to the country, its constitution, its laws and its people, in your installation in that high court Immediately after taking thooath, Chief Justice Taftc went to the White House to pay his respect to President Harding. FILES IIS ANSWER Seeking To Hold Original As sessment On Cannon Milt Property Cabarrus County, through it attor neys Charles V. Harris, J. 8. Griffin and B. R. Williams has filed answer to the compalint of the Cannon eotton mills and others of Cabarrus county seeking to restrain the county from the collec tion of taxes levied on the valuation fixed by the Board of Appraisers and Beview of the county before the Cor poration Commission reduced the origi nal valuation from $19,480,308 to 9, 286.689. The respondent maintain that the vnuu iumoiihuiii. uiuni u i State Tax .Commission, three months after adjournment of the Extra Sea ion attempted parte" to hear the complainant pa a,pfel from, the origi nal assessment nd thereupon reduced the assessment by 10,193,619, The Clerk to the Board of Commis sioners of Cabarrus, without authority from that board or without conferring with it, and acting upon the direction of the Corporation Commission accord lag to the answer- transmitted to the tax collector the rhand assessment ot Hie oustim 'OrJHwiejtrW ty commissioner ordered the original assessments restored. This volue, a determined by the Board of Appraiser and Btvu on May 1, 1919 follows: Cannon Manufacturing Company, $11,635,592; Gibson Manufacturing Co.! $1,613,743; Cabarrus Cotton Mills, , 802,785; Franklin Cotton Mills, t)l,4J8,. 188, At this stage of the proeeeings, tlie eotton mill (ought an . injunction through the Cabarrus County -courts aaainst the eountv and H. W. Caldwell. xx Collector. The date for the hear j, j,M Bot oeen ,et- Briefly, the answer sets forth a de nial "that the Corporation Commission, acting aa a State Tax Commission, had the right under or by virtue of any 'power conferred upon it by law to issue ny order or direction te the elerk or ths board of commissioners to ehsnge, " r amend the original aisessmeut thority of law snd of na binding or loagl effect. On the contrary, the defendants Mlese that Jt, the said Corporation Com mission, was without legal authority to either hear the matters on appeal or make an order changing said assess- tnents under provision of Chapter 1, Section 1, Public Laws Extra Session mo." LEGLESS MAN SWIMS 300 YARDS TO SAFETY Gilbert, Minn., July 11. While Harry oodard, n good swimmer was drown ing,. Boy Bhodds, minus his two wooden les "hich became loosened wh'n a boat by flT, men 0TMtuniedi am hundred yard, to shore yesterday h Ss U BOlt ',0-ch(d Bho35a told friend, her. that two wooden legs to aid them to reach the shore CABARRUS COUNTY Harrison Attacks For His Visit To Capitol Mississippi Senator Declares President Disregarded Promise tO Avoid Interference With Congressional Prerogatives in Asking for Deferment Washington, July 1L President Harding was attacked today by Senator Harrison, Democrat Mississippi, for vis iting th Capitol last wsek and urging deferment of th soldiers' bonus bill. Ths President, Senstor Hsrrison told ths Senate, disregarded public promises made early in his administration to avoid . interfering with Oougrsssiosal I orerotratives. -f JRALEIGHN. 0 VERN OR SELECTS 1 B R 0 0 K S TO HOLD EiORS FOR IS COOIITIES JO OLD NORTH CAROLIflA RY. Wade Harris Is President and o Archibald Johnson Is Secre- taryTreasurer ATLANTIC & N. C. ROAD ALSO GETS NEW, OFFICERS OV D. Bradham, Of New Bern, Is President and W,. Stamps Howard, Tarboro, " la Secre tary and Treasurer Of East- 4 era Railroad; Slates Of Both Soads Virtually Wiped Clean Wade H. Harri, editor of The Char lotte Observer, is president of theNorfi Carolina railroad arid Archibald John- son, of Thomaville, editor of Charity I and audren,ieeretryn4tanretll",1. Assembly as au- while C. D. Bradham. of Kew Bern, 1, preeident ef . the Atlantis and "North : . m 11. , .1 .i. x r .1. i Carolina Bailroad. and W Stampi How ard, ot Tarboro, if secretary and treas urer, Tese appointment were announeed by Governor Cameron Morrison yester day when, with one exception, he wiped the old directorate elates clean. The exception was in the ease of W. H. Me- Klwce, of Ealeigh, who continues a director of the Atlantic and Nona Can- linn Bailroad. The new appointments for the North Carolina Bailroad follow! Wade H. Harria, Charlotte- President; Archibald Johnson, Thomasvill. See- re tary-Treasurer ; Charles 1. Dalton, Charlotte, State Expert; Ben J. Smith, Charlotte, State Proxy; Bichard N. Haekett, North Wilkes- boro. Attorney, Directors: John F. Bowles, State ville; W. T. Brown, Winston-Salem; Wade H. Harris, Charlotte; C. W. John ston, Charlotte; Robert Lnssiter, Char lotte; B. W. H. Stone, Greensboro; WJ liam Weill, Charlotte; GUbert C. Whit. Durham The appointments for the Atlantic k North Carolina Bailroad are C. D. Bradbam, New Bern, President . W. Stamps Howard, Tarboro, Secro retary-Treaurer. W. i Evans. Baleish. Attorney. W. C. Petty, Charlotte, State Proxy, Chaa. V. Webb, Morohead City, Audi tor T. Boddie Ward, Wilson, State Expert. Directors H, D. Batoman, WiUonj a D. Bredhem, New Bern; T. Austin. I1ff,1Trtmmsi be.ro t Courtney ftutcneu, JUnatoar-W.I H. McElwee, Raleigh; David F.MtKinns, Lmii.il.ura: Dr. Josena 1". Patterson. I New Bern. I The old officers of the North Cars-1 Una railroad were: Word-H. Wood,! Charlotte. President: K. Bruce White. I Wake Forest, seeretaryreasuer; r. M. Pcarsall. New Bern, attorney ; Bobert Houston, Beldsville, State proxy; andllin have settled the responsibility of J. G Steed, Mount Gilead, SUte i-x-1 pert The eld officer of. Jhe Atuintie rmwpf .county nvrUioriUee-tn fuifiinng the North Carolina Bailroad weret Charles & Wallace, Morehead City- President; G. T. Ormond, Kinstun, at torney: T. W. Slocumb, Goldsboro, so retary sad treasurer; A. E. Bountree, Kinston, expert; T. C. Etherwge, Ne Bern, State Proxy. MORRISON TO LEAVE FOR RALEIGH TODAY a.i...iiu 'yi Ji.-flnv.rnoe Cam.- ron Morrison plans to leave for BaleigU Tuesday, it -was made :-iown this morn- j ing, in order to roacA tns capital euyi in tima for th. -eouf orenee of Stats offl-1 einl in renrd to the enllina of a soeo- ial session of the Legislature to discuss the Municinal Finance Act. which was declared invalid because of the faUnrel of a elerk to make proper entries ia the journal. The Governor has been in tie city sinee Thursday. The North Carolina cities ars sp posed to haver their, financial statement in the hands of the executive ant. eoan-1 cil of state; by. the time of the Confer-1 enee Thursday. The Governor declared last week thai ths conference would be called if ths statements warrant such action on his part Ho spoke of th oxpense estimated around tH0fl00 that would bs involved in ease 1a General Anaembbly is called together . It is gathered on good authority, that , .1 . , I 1 - . . B I I upon tho dat will bo about The .first of ugun wiia , ui . onaevmeat n n nance act being eon aider el an emer - (eucy clause su lUKun irnti, of Soldiers Bonus Bill pressed . by executive interference I" SenatA. TTmlms mtimA. hil. thm tmm Bepublican Senators in tho chamber re - mained silent . - - ' . Ia his address retiiina from tha Sen. ate, last December, Senator Harrison said thst Mr. Harding had pledged him - sou not te interfere with Congress. Xet the Mississippi Senator continued, the Preeident had visited tho Capitol last wsek, "buttonholed Senators and urzed deUy oa th bona bill." Mr. Hsrrison r"" . . " ator McCumber of th flnane commit - tee. had promised auiek relief to former servie men. ' Senstor Idas. Nsw Jersey, from th Bepublican side, referred briefly to 8en ator Hsrrison' speech, decrying "politi- m vj-yimj- -i- , r , - Bopubllcans would seek to get the President's elewpoint lis said, with - out "cringing behind an administration policy as Democrats did, 'for so meny in can opecuu wins s aociacartiey Genemi. Hardmg C.TUtSDAY MORNING, JULY 12 1924. SCHOOL INCOMES Disallow; Claim That General , Assembly' 30-Cght Umit On Taxes Governs O - i LEVY DOLLAR ON NEW Constitution ' Pixes Duty Of LeTjiDf and Collectinf Suffl- h eient Money To Sun Schools, and Lefislature Is Power less To Interfere, Declares School Bead Constitutional prevision ' take -rank over legislative enactments, and su county in the Stat ia going to be l- lowed to cut down it property values ltolZ" 6 . o. v. ureou, ctai tmperintendeut of w, . . .. . - . Publie Instruction. diacusain: ths finance of the echools of the State. 11 warning will be issued to the eounty authorities by Dr. Brooks early tnis week, telling them flatly that the legislative limit of 30 cents on property for school purpose will not hold good unless it provide sufficient money to run -the , schools. A dollar must he levied U necessary t provide as mn:h money aa waa raised last year before any money will be forthcoming from toe equalizing fund. The constitution says that the eoun ty commissioner must - provide the money to run the schools six months; No.roatter what the General Assembly may say about thirty -cent tax rates, the constitution aays that the commis sioners must raise the money. The schools have got to be kept open, and the commissioners lava got to raise the money. The Supreme court has already passed on thst fact. Cut Groaad Under Law I didnt write the constitution, but l did write the law that provided thst betero nay eounly-TiSrtfcrpates ia the equalising fund it must "provide funds up to a certain amount. Now thev havo cut the ground out from under the law by reducing property values. It will bav to be built back oa a rate that will raise the money needed by '.he schools. ' Bailing school funds is imposed en tirely upon the eounty commissioners by the constitution, Dr. Brooks pointed out. They cannot get away from it Whatever money the scanty Board ef e9t-W't'-1t, muss levy awi quev u.-tey aeelins to do it. they are :abjeV indictment How much money ' Is needed is left to the determination ft' the educational authorities, sad how to Set it to the eounty commissioners. Supreme court opinions in two eases line commissioner, and the Attorney I eoming up' from Alamance, and Frank- General has ruled that the General As- Isembly could not restrict the power the constitution. The thirty cent rate ftr tatxee for school purposes does not stand, in the opinion of . the Attorney General, to limit the power of the Commissioners to levy taxes, Dlartgard Talaea Dr. Brooks will leave no donbt in ths minds of ths Commissioners that with Put Mgard t0 vnvttf they at year, regardless or the tx rate ? required to raise it. Not untU us U done will the tate s reUUvely vnu..u wu us -.uiimiio mr nssistinS counties that fall short in their appropriations. t - Only about half the counties in ths Stat have fallen into the situation dis eussed by Dr. Brooks. The others hsve I left property values where they were I placed under th devaluation Act, and I will experienc bo difficulty la their levies for this year. Counties that have I cut values from 20 to CO per cent are the ones which givs concern, Ths instance of Green eounty with I its property reduced 60 per cent in tax I book values, and its school fund cut I from 100,000 to I30M0 under the SO I cent levy was cited bv Dr. Brooks Greene will have to levy a school tax I of 60 cent before it can claim any pxt of th S0e,00e oqualizatioa fund, I ueardlav to Dr. Brooks aad the AHerl I .ipl. manifest Injustice of allowing l half th counties in th StaU to reduce l t-. M.nn.rt-r -.inM..i ht, uhAnl income, and fall back wpoa th equali sation fund, while the other Mat main tain their incomes, and get little from ths fund, was pointed out by Dr. Brook. Be declared that ts iaequi table and unjust, and will not bs toler ated "Besides, ths State ha bo fund squal I tinned. "List year we had 1500,000 for ths equalization fund and this year ws hav 1000,000. Divided equally among th counties it would fir each about 6,000, which would not be a drop in eomparea w u demands I that would be made upon it." I V. f 1 k . ... . . . . 1 1 " esumaiea was m scnooi xuau I ia ths fitetorhas been reduced about I two millioa dollars throngh ths reduc- I tion of property values, i Ths Stat has 1 no money with which to make up the I shortage, and no resource from which I to obtain it, Property valoe win hats I either to be returned to their former I buU. th mta raised to eorreetwaJ 1 with th redactions, is ths" positloa of l ts rjtau Board ot &dneauoa, 1 i. . I tJ. ft. Stool Tanc BenoH I New Tork. Jnlv H-Th monthly ten I nan renort of tho United State 8tsel - 1 Corooration. mads vubli today, showed j 8,117,868 tens of unfilled orders oa hand ijua ou, l Dis as oecrvaso unun I order en May 31. which were 9.462.t87 1 tons. i, . ".-.. I This Is th smallest total ef unfilled order sine ApriL 1919, when 4500,681 PRESIDENT 10 ASK . rtcutive ExoectetfTo Appear Before Senate Today in Re flard To Bill AS CONFERENCE WITH REPUBLICAN LEADERS Lodge and Curtis Said To Hav Oi?ea Assurance That a Mo tion To Eecommit The Bo nus BiU Will Be Adopted; Entire Legislative Prorram Also Under Discussion! WssltiagTofi, ""July it.P-reaidnt srd'n .r'au to appear before the Senate. tomorrow and auk for tempor ary postponement of the soldier bonus MIC Plans for the President's address to the Senate wore discjixsed late today by .the .executive , with, . Senator .-Lodgn, Massachusetts, Bepublican . leader. and Benator Curtis, of Kansas, Bepub llean whip. It Is understood that the bonus .biH wil be the only subject toucfied .upju j:i the address and that suggestion for. a joint address , to the Congress or the transmission of a mes sage -ba-ve been abandoned. - - Plans Not Definite. ' The President, it was said, had ex potted to address the Senate today. but was prevented by pressure of other business. He is now expected to spesx in the Senate Chamber tomorrow at toraoon, hut if delayed further, it is expected be will do so not later than Wednesday. It will be the second tiuie President n&rding"ha addressed the Senate, tto first time being immediately after he was inaugurated when he presented in person his rabinet ronunationa, at an executive session. He has addressed one joiut session of Congress, whes h.e..real his messnge at the opening of the special session. Decision to address the Senate on tb bonus bill at the earliest opportunity was reached by the President in eon firenee with the H.ypuliliean leadors at the Whito Souse while the Senate wns debating th emeaaure.- Discuss Leslslatloa. Senator Lodge and Curtis were said to havs given him assurances that siution to recommit the bonus bill would be adopted. At the eouferene. the entire legislative situation waa said to have been discussed, although, it waa, , jMei, Ahat the President w SDakihe tb ths Senate rld not dit eu Uriff or tS legislation. r when the Senate resumed eonsidera ilea cf ths soldier bonus bill today Senator . Nerria, Republican, Nebraska, introduced sn smenjmont "directing the Secretary of the Treasury to tol loct interest due on .allied dent, the fund t be set a-jds to pay the bill expense. Hue interest Bum Senator Norria said he was advised by the Treasury that accrued interest on the foreign loans oa May 15th was nine hundred and twenty-two mllllo dollars. Greece and Cuba, alone, he id. hod Paid all their interest. Sens tor Beed, Democrat, Missouri, suggested that European " nations, spply towsrd their debts "the money they now are uendiur in fightir-g over there. 'Sines this grent unguo or canons came along, said Senator Norria, the European nations have spent more on warfare snd in attemptiag to aubdui rebellion, than would pay all the inter est they owe. Henntor Watson. Benubliean. Indiana objected to the provision of tne Norris amendment directing the Secretary ol the Treasury to collect the interest due oa foreign loans, explaining that pro vision might bs a direction to do the impossible. Senator McCumber attacked the Nor ris amendment, declaring he eould see no reason why the receipts from the foreign loans should bo applied to any specine indebtedness. , Legion Makes Attack Pis as to delay consideration of the bonus measure were attacked by the legislative committee of the American Legion in a Statement tonight. It re ferred to the letter of Secretary Mclloa urging that consideration be deferred as "intellectually dishonest, eeonomt eally unwarranted, and politically ludl CIUU1. UBIVIimUVIII !( BU-.U, merely a subterfuge, a play for tim in rou en wnicn its enemies nop uui- matcly to defeat the measure.' Secretary Mellon's ''dintribe., . th statement said, is nothing more than "i mere rehash of the objections long ago interposed by his predecessor la emee, former Secretary of the Treasury Hons ton. , FOREIGN TRADE FELL , OFF THREE BILLIONS Washington, Jnly 11. America's foreign trad fell off mot than three billion dollars daring the fiscal year ended June it. A snm : mary of trade waned today ky the t Department of Com mere , shows ' th stamp wa about evenly divided between exports and Imports. : LLOYD CEORGC NAT COM! ; - . . TO THS) pOTID STATES Mason, juiy ilc rremier ioy Coorgo may visit the United State to attend noma of .th meetings. In eonaactie with President Harding's ptwpoed conference, cording to th Dsiy MalL, v - This ia soadltlond esa, affairs at homo, a tka Premies could" hardly leave until th Irish Beetle has been settled. . , : ; ' Th Malt lagresto Uat aU teehal at work eonld .bo dona.hy experts, loslag ths ul timet mealdiag of an almost ' completed agrsmnt to final conference at which President Harding and tao premier of Ike power weald be present I th 1st fall of tkts year or early Best yesr SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. PRINCIPAL APPARENTLY FAVOR DISARMAiMENT IDEA E Valera Informs British Premier He Will Be In Lon don On That Date London, July 11. (By ths Associated rre?s.) The two leading developments the Irish situation today were the designation of next Thursday as the laV on whiih Premier Lloyd George and Kainoiin DYTaicTn will meet in London begin conversations looking to the lettlement of the Irish question, and the coining Into effect at noon of the truce in Ireland as sgreed upon. The official announcement that Mr. Pe Valera would come to London next Thursday to confer with the Prime Min ister did not specify the place where the actual meeting ia to be. held. It" is ndorstood that the Irish Bepublican leader will have as eollesgues Arthur Griffith, founder of the Sinn rein, snd rofeesot John MaeNeil, E. J. Duggan and Austin Stark, Sinn Fein members of Parlinme.it. " Mr. Lloyd George's S- socintes at the' conference hare not been announced". The Irish truce brought back to Dub lin much of its obi peace-time appear ance, the afreets la king their - usual military display and confidence beine I xprossed that the Kepuhliean icreee would observe the conditions of the ar-1 mistiee. Strict adherence to the truce alao waa observed throughout County Oslway. ' Belfaat Disorderly. In other part of Ireland, notably Pelfnst, where despernts righting oc curred yesterday and continued with diminished severity this morning the truce was observed in varying degrees, its provisions apparently being complied iviiuvu, ij.iiik .uu.H..v RISH CONFER NCE SET FOR THURSDAY with mors promptly by the Crown force 7, w.icoming ia inni than Jhe Bepublican. two. of Preeident Harding ia ths nub Act of violence in various part of the country wet leported in consider able number up to mid-day. These Wiriu til usp s nsiy wv aassia-ueaj svsv clnshes largely occurred in th extreme western and southern sections of Ire- land, and the authorities assumed that Uiey were due to non-receipt of aoUee of the truce Baids on two Dublin branches ot tho UlaUr Bank oosuned during the fl.v. th. raiders obtslnin, v.rsl hun. THUCX IN IRELANP GOES INTO EFFECTS PUBI.IN QUIET. Dulln, July ll-(By tha Associated PM.) The truce in Ireland, agreed i pon by government officials and Bepub lican leader pending peace negotia tions, went into effect at noon today. In Dublm the complete disappearance from the streets of the military police lorriea and armored rare marked tke official beginning of the truce. In Londonderry, according to the terms of the truce, the police at noon were summoned to their barracks to hand in their reports, subsequently re- iii,nrm iiuij umiroiru. -In Belfast disorders were still con- tinuing in lesser degree this forenoon snd the police were still retaining their arms. The yard of Dublin Castle, which, is usually active with the movement of I police lorries and armored automobiles, th yard being mainly used as a start ing point for these vehicles, wa empty of car this morning, while the auxili aries on duty were standing about in their shirt sleeves. The Dublin castle officials and others in this center, who hitherto hsve been unable to walk in the streets openly were going anour this forenoon as un der normal condition. TAR HEEL BEING HELD AS A MURDER SUSPECT John D. Camp, Originally Of Shelby, In Custody Of Au thorities At Richmond, Va. Biehmond, July 11. John D. Camn. 34, with only one leg, giving his ad ference on Pacific affairs, dress as 234 Oxford street, Portland, Looking to United Stale Maine, was held here today oa suapicio-i "The world has been looking to th of having murdered John A. Minsun, United States for such a lead." Mr. aged night watchman, in a shanty on Lloyd George declared in referring te the banks of the James river the night President Harding's message. "I am of January 8 last. confident that the House wilt esteem Camp, who is originally from Shelby, it as an act' of far-seeing statesmaa N. C, and who admit, having done time ship and will wholeheartedly wish it sue on the roads m that State in 1010 for eess. No effort will b lacking to make bootlegging, admitted to th. police that U ,0 M tu, palt ot BritiJl rV he passed" through I'ebmond January , Mch lhafet th fu th L fefett-lf' WW" Pirlfc inspiring if. her. tho Bight of the murder. mbs.mdor ,ws. in the gallery of tho ; He .Wm arrested on a tip from Char- 1 fM ? bw" the Pr,m MlBirt lott county thst he wss the man who ,ttcn,?nt- , ' killed Minson. Camp was recently ar- Ur' Upfi, Ge0Tgt by M'e"in rested. tn Danville. Vs.. for posin. as t0 ,h Anglo-Japanese treaty. He sak, a' disabled world war veteran while eell- ing pencils on the street. He lost Ms leg i r a dredging machinu accident in 1908. Minson was killed with a blow on 'ths head ,with sn axe, and bis body Was not found until twelve hobrs later. The' motive forithfl' crime sa never estab- -shed. - ,, WOMAN SETS RECORD F0R PARACHUTE JUMP St. PsuL July 11 llias PhoobeiJ. Fairgrave, IS years bl age, ot IbH city. established, a new world's reeorTfr a parachute drop for women when - she dropped fifteen thousand, tws hundred feet from aa airplane at Curtiss Field, sesr hers- yesterday. Li , ' J It took exaetly twenty minutes from the M ralrgravs leaped natU she slighted safely in a wheat field. . "It wds terribly ,M said Miss Fair- graves later, "X never want to try it PRICE: FIVE CLNT3 POWERS SugocsUonjDf President Hard irrg Expected To Meet" Ready Response From Capitals .Of Nations Concerned ; BRITISH PREMIER IN' ' STATEMENT' WELCOMES -. HARDING'S INITIATIVE Lloyd Georj-6 Refers To Invi tation Looking To Disarma ment Conference .Ia Speech -To The House Of Commons; " Sentiment In Other Cona-u: tries Concerned Also lp pears TaTorable ; Far East em Question May Be Bi Subject To Come Up Tot Discussion; Plans Tor Coa ference Not Yet Definitely , Sn&ped and Scppn.Kot.Yt r Determined; Hughes ProV ably Would Heto American" Delegation .rT ' "; Washington, irff 1L Tne'suggestiaa of President .Hardinf ..looking - to .' disarmament eonferene at Washington was siepeeted by officials here today t ' meet a ready resDona fro th..Bl. tals of the powers concerned. Ths proh. : sbl sttituds of tho sowers towirA wn,k A nrnnoaL It iA ... . j.a i - - r -- - - , wwm nuugii ii . advance through American embassies and legations abroad , and ths impres sion was gained that replies to formal . Invitations to such a eonferene would prove favorable. t Tending to confirm tho belief. In the opinion of officials, waa the statement of Premier Lloyd George in ths Ho'.M . 0 - - r. . Iter. In the preliminary - questionlnf through American representative s , , , . - . , I -Ml U 4too that the Taf ff ion tioned to as- "ruua u ln w?uaJ? f"1' f discussion a con. neetion with eonsideration of disarms ; . li j i If .ultn SSj. T f1? thu thl,..tio.tt wottld trMt V Th seep of ths prenoecd Conference however, is understood not I have beet . definitely determined, while the details ot organisation will be left ever .until formal acceptances to th invitations hav been received. In this connection, it wss said today that before the con ference actually meets there may be soms definition of the subject to be eon-, sidered and an understanding given of what the powers consider their special interests. No date for the gathering has as y. " been set, nor has the .' meriean repre sentation to the conference been de termined, although it is believed thit Secretary Hughes may head the Amerl- I can deleimtlon. Whether hit ;.: ,..,y.A -t-i require special treaties or other forms of agreement ia a subject wbieh officials have indicated Is too mriv nr lm. Lions. ' , LLOYD GEORGE SAYS BRITAIN WELCOMES DISARMAMENT IDEA London, July llf--(By the Associated Press) --President Harding's message ' looking to the calling of an interna tional conference on the limitation of armament haa been received with tb utmo,t P'eure by Great Britain, Air. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, de clared in tho House of Commons today. Speaking on the subject of tho Ameri can communication, the Prime Minister said: - ,"' "I need ot say that the' welcome with the utmost pleasure the Presi dent's wise and courteous initiative." The house cheered this statement, and the Premier added: "In saying tha , I speak for the em pire as a whole." The Premier said China would bo' treated aa an independent in the ron- the JPnese government took the view that uo -0,i''9 ot denunciatjea-of th. t,oat had fti &nf ""d that this I view also was held hy ixrrd wirxon, tno I foreign minister. The matter was r ferred to t the Lord Chancellor, ths Prime Minister declared, who after a consultation with the law officers of the ' crown had announced, that no notice had yet been given and that the treaty, therefore, remained in force until de- !4: TrM'f that ths agreement be brought into complete harmony with ths covenant ef ths Lcagus of Nations..,. Vf j FRANCE 1 WOULD ACCEPT . H INVITATION Of HARDING Pifis,'. July Va-4. By; tha . Assoc Uted Press)-heldoa Whitehouse, counsellor foreign ofiic just before boob tod, ,Ba ulM with ji. 0, Prtel.j u u zc. director of peUticsl af- - - Sfaln." : y ' .;.,:. . ... .. f - Continued am Peg TwJ weary moauia u umi, -. t j ion wrrv uu. n.i.-i... . 1 . -l -i ..,.,! , -m ii i