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... he News md Observer WATCH HEEL fienerany, fair Taeedny end Wt.aet.ayt. Uut Ii 4k t nptntarw. v- y y naaerr g-wd cawu 8ve anye lefore expiration In order to avoid missing IB(l0Pt, VOL' CXIVf NO. 26. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH, N. C. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 26, 1921. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. PRICE FIVE CENTS MISSQUR SLOGAN FITS REPUBLICAN 'Harding, Hell and Hard Times' Aptly Describes Conditions Everywhere Now" FAVORABLE REPORT ON LINNEY IS SUBMITTED Railroads "About 7ace" On New Bates To North and North Carolina Representa tives of Shippers Declare They Will Not Accept The New Jigures , Trie Newt and Observer Bureau, 603 District National Batik Ruitding. B EDWARD I. BRITTON. (By Special Leased Wire.) Washington. July 25. From Missouri where the Republican Governor is named Hyde there comet a new slogan for the Republican party which it will hardly adopt of its own choice. Out Missouri way it is ''Harding, Hyd. Hell and Hard Times." This is the way things are looking to the folks in the "ahow-mc" State. Just back fnira a visit to it a Wash ingtoh man declares that conditions In that State, especially in North Mis aouri, nre going frQtn bad to worse. 'Lt voir i V f: wheal fields' aaid he "haiv .- h d were receiving eis nnd seven dollars a day, with board, hut the present rate is two dallars a day and board. In St. Louis there is v rush to employment agenciet each day, and early in the morning there M It JOnr TO gCT TmTuiRn rai rre which eutiifri'itutr. And the Missouii people are denouncing the fain prosperity', that the Harding admim atration has brought. Hence the wide spread cry of "Harding, Hyde, Hell and Hard Times." Report Linney Favorably. The Linnev nomination went over tlie ton.toduv ao far as the actiuu it the Senate judiciary committee' could nke it. That committee, with t.o formal vote taken, according to Senj tor Overman Kgrced to report thi nomination favorably. There wcr? present nt the committee meeting Republican majority, with only Sera tor Overman representing the Demo cratic minority. Senator Overman taid mat luc nopuuueans nan uciuruimri - to report the nomination of Linney for District Attorney favorably, and ho raised no objections. How he will yote when the matter of confirmation comet befnrs tho Senate he has aot vet determined. The committee meet Ing today was an cntirt change of front on. the part of the RtpublieaBt, i for when Linney s nomination was taken np at its first appearance all the Republicans voted for an unfavorable renort. Todnv it was for a favorable Teport that they acted. The nomina tion will be taken up in the Senate ia the next few days, as will also lie that o the Georgia negro, Henry Lincoln Johnson, for recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, for which Senator Ball has secured a favorable REGIME ALL RIGHT report by polling members of the Dis trict oC Columbia committee now in Washington. Railroads About Face. There, is a mad crowd of North Car olinians here tonight, these being sec retaries of chambers of commerce, offi cials of North Carolina trafue asso eiation, representativet of a number of large shippers. According to Secre tary M. B. Beaman of North Carolina traffic association and secretary of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, the railroads are going squarely bark upon the position to which he declared a few days ago they had committed themselves, thi being full compliance " with the order of the Interstate Com merce Commission whose order was for a change in the Virginia cities rates so that North Carolina shippers with their Virginia competitor!. Ac cording to Mr. Beaman, the railroads today offered rates which while being decreased in tome particulars still . were Increased in others, making on i. the whole an increase of. freight rates - for the State. "We are not going to accept their figure.." declared Secretary Beaman, "if when the formal conference comet w 4K. MAntlna t K . r . i via .ItMiar. mm the rates which they proposed today we will fight them to a finish, and talc the ease back to the Interstate Com - meree Commission in order to have a drastic order issued by the commission. The railroads are not alone backing - the commission's order on these rates. butthey are planning to increase the ratet from Virginia into North Carolina nd tlee rem The Virginia represen 1 . A l - . 1 one mind with us ia this matter, and we ire going to make the fight against these proposed ratet in unison. The fsilroadt are treating us badly in this matter, at they are in the Virginia- Carolina ratet which the Commission ordered and we are not' going to tit till and take the rates they propone, tot they are unjust to Aorta Carolina. ' If we find it ia necessary we are going ' to ask the North Carolina delegation to go in a body to the Interstate Com aneree Commission to .insist that the tailroa'dt bo made to obey the order . ef freight rate reduction which the " . eommisaioa ordered. At preteent the railroads are bluntly refusing U to this.' TTera today in the informal eonf. .nee wit, toe railroad official, were Albert L Cox, of Raleigh, attorney for the North, Carolina Traffic Association atsociated with t. H. Fiahback aa at torney of Washington, and M. R, Bea man ia the .rate case fight, both ef ' whom were also present ; W. 0. Womble, of Raleigh, rate clerk of the North Carolina Corporation Commission: C W; Boberts, eeeretary of the .Greens boro ' chamber of commerce: C. H, Turner, president, and C. E. Hope, tee f Centlnaed fear.) State Owns Not Only Quarry But Federal Cemetery Besides Admission of Ownership, But Going; Morrison Passes purden to Building and Grounds Committee, But They Are Without Law; Suggested Now That Superior Court Order Quarry Drained. Not ealy did the Board of Public liuildingi asd Grouadt reverse Its dis avowal of ownership of the Bock Quarry yesterday, but it went further and ex tended its claims to inelude not only the quarry itself, .but much adjacent property upon whi;h squatters have settled, tad to tome six or seven acres of the land where sleep seme hundred of iankee toldiers, buried there during tho Civil War. Declaration of ownership waa issued after Governor Morrison had called np Secretary of State Giimet from the Bummer Capital and transmitted to him Solicitor N orris' request for aid in draining the quarry at the first step tovrard the revelation af wha'tswv.ir mysteries that lie under, the green waters ef the pool. He passed the N qu.'st oa to the committee with power to set. Still Na Answer. Tet the question tf draining the quarry, which has stu k like a buir in the minds of most people in Central Carolina for nine days remains with out a good JneajAhy "No!" or an equally decisive "Yet!" for an answer. Tie The "Board which Ts tastodian for all the State property can't find any law, rnd unless it just takes the bull by the horns," at sayt Colonel Grimes, thi answer is likely to be negative. There seems to lie no law by which anr legally const it atul authority ts willing to work the pumps with. TV city authorities say that the property i the States, and nothing more than cu riosity wants it dried nt. Tho Insur ance Department can act only when there has been a fir, and the" commit tee is entirely without authority to n cur expense in getting the water out of MX" quarry; Kothinir reTrain now,, it i"pontcd out, but a bench order from Young Man Masquerades Suc cessfully As of Feminine Sex Until 21 Years Old now a young man masqueraded ss a girl 'from" th'O time of his birth until be reached the age of 21 year of age,' it the ttra-ngo tale and it's absolutely trnc brought hack from Ocraeoke byj Washington visitors who have just re turned from the island, according tc the Washington, N. C, Newa. Vera Williams was the name of the "girl.1 Charles E. Williams Is the name of the man. Williams' mother, it is said, had her heart tet on a girl-baby. When the boy was born the determined to dress him as a girl and not say anything to anybody about it. He waa dressed as a girl and he went at a girl until lie reached the age of 1 years. furing all that time no one ever entertained any suspicion but that, he was what he represented to be. In fact, it is said that at various times several of the young men of the island courted him. ft hen he reached the age of 21, how ever, wiltfftnt decided that he had had enough of masquerading. Without saying anything to anybody about it, he Bent off to a mail-order house and bought a complete outfit of men's wear- ng apparel. When the stuff arrived he concealed it in hit room. That night, after the rest of the family had gone to bed, he proceeded to make some alterations in his personal ap pearance. He cut off his hair and he cait off the female wardrobe that he had been wearing for to long. The next morning, when' the mail boat left for Leaufort, a young man got -aboard, whom no one recognized, in apite of the fact that all of -the passengers had been knowing him or her for many years. From Beaufort he' went to Baltimore, where he suc ceeded in getting a job in a restaurant. Finally he returned to Ocraeoke, and he'a living oa the ialand now.' "IJeVi a splendid specimen of mtnhood and thote who knew him cannot help but wonder how it happened that they had never had any tuspieiont concern ing him before. OCRAGOKE BOY WAS TWO DROWNED AT DRESSED AS GIRL SWANSBORQ BEACH May Suggest Broadening Of Corporation's Powers President Harding Ejcpected to Be Made Agency for Bringing About Economic Readjust ments in Communication to Congress Today Washington, July 5. Broadening of the powers of the War Finance Cor poration, making it the great govern mental agency for bringing about the necessary economie readjustments of the nation, 'will be auggetted by Presi dent Harding tomorrow ia a special eommnnieatioa to Congress, according to forecasts tonight in high administra tion circlet. Tha special letter from the President, it hat bee a announced, will deal pri marily with tha proposed financial tet tlement between tho government and the railroads. Bnt according to atate- menta by administration leaders, it probably will go further and reeont mead not oafy that the War Finance Corporation take charge of tha railroad settlement, bat also thct it ba placed ia direct aad practically tola charge of farm credits and export financing. Hearer Recommends Plan Secretary Hoover aaid today that ha had recommended euch plan and that hit recommendation had beea approved by Secretary Mellon, aad Eugene Meyer Jr. manatinf director of tha War Finance Corporation. - Inveetigation, Mr. Hoover aaid, ntd Still No Power to Start Pumps toma tnperior cwurt judge ,'lreetlng the county commissioners to pomp it out. Crimes aad Laey I aspect. Colonel Grimes and Treasurer Laey and Assistant Attornev General Frank Nash got, out all the old mape and laws and took tt.em out to the quarry res terday afternoon aftor the Governor hat been heard from, and arrived at the conclusion that the State had i lot of land out Micro. Today survcv on will go out with their instruments and tre just how much the State does own, and who it living on it who oug'it not to. But the quarry it not drained, and the quettion developed yesterday, in the phrase of one prominent citizen, into ''Who will be the final recipient of this tuck that hat been pitted to lustily for the past nine days! The answer v tho riddle it not yet written. Every body but the courts hevo had a thot nt it, ntd it hat been dropped it quickly nt it was received, and passed on to tome no more hospitable hands. The State Board has not yet said "No," yet little it felt there. Peacefnl at ((uarry. Meanwhile if then t.re automobibs tt the bottom of tha cunrry, if thore are "corpi delicti" there, or even if there are uncounted rises of genuine bottled-in bond' liquor there, nothing appears likely to disturb them. Info mntion that emanated from the aamc sou. e at that which started the iiivet'.i gation, declares that 'ltrc are not leu than three other automobiles in the quarry, and now it is alleged that the body of a Greek ci.ir.en who disap peared mysteriously a year ago, a hid den there. Some hopes sprang up in the eit; (Continued page fear.) Walter Bunting Mattocks, i Maysville, and Boy From Belgrade Drown New Bern, July 25. A pall of gloom bat been thrown orer thit entire iom munity following the drowning at Swansboro ueactt Sunday afternoon a G:30 of Walter E-unting Mattocks, 21 year old ton of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Uttttacii, of Maytville, and the IS year old ton of W. C. Gerock, a well known citizen of Belgrade. Young Mattocka was one of Jonet country'i most prominent young men and well known throughout Eastrea Carolina. Quite a party of young peopl from Maysville and Belgrado ha motored over to the beach for the af ternoon and went in bathing in th snrf which was rough and had a atron undertow. A group of five or stepped into a tlough and were carried under. Every attempt to resuscitate the two young men wat of no avail, Walter Mattocka wat a teceond year medietfl ttudent nt the Medical College of South Carolina at Charleston, S. C. Ho wat possessed of a loyal, gener ous, and lovable disposition. Beloved by all the young people, honored and respected by his elders m a promising young man and related to most of the prominent families in this part of the State, his death has been universally mourned in Maysville. and deep felt grief for his many relatives. Young Mattocks wat the oldest ton of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Mattocks. Mrs. Mattocks wat Misa Virginia Whit ty, of Pollocksville, before her mar riage. Young Maftnckt wat born on October 15, 1900. The funeral service was held from the Mattocks family residence at Maytville thit afternoon at 5 o'clock followed: by interment in the old Whitry and Haywood family burial plot in Poolloektville eemetery. The funeral wat conducted, aecord ing to the ritet of the Methodist chnrch of which he wat a member. The funeral arrangement! of the other young man could not be learned Vt it pretumed that be will be buried in Belgrade thit afternoon. Ask That Finance Corporation convinced him that tha broadoning of the t inance Corporation t powers through legislation, permitting it to handle adequately the triple problem, waa the proper conrae to pursue. Fundi lor speeding up of business, the commerce secretary asserted, could be made available by the corporation without a great drain on the treasury. Tna corporation la empowered to issue boade op to six timet ita eapitaliaatioa Of 5OO,OO0)0O. Haa $3M,a,e Aecoaat However, according to Finance Cor- poratioa officials, that organisation hat aa account with tha treasury of more than $300,000,000, ao that a bond issue would mot be necessary until that aunt wat exhausted. Pay mentt to tha rail roadt, however, are expected to clean oat quickly the account with the treas ury. la connection with the aeeettarr gov ernmant financing to meet the first call for (nnda for the railroad, it waa indi cated, by tha treasury that aa latae of treasury eertifieatea would probably be made oa August J. It waa aot thought however; that tha next ima of the treaanry a new thort "term- notee would ba floated until September. . EXPERTS DISAGRE e i ON AMER1CANPLAN American Valuation Provision of Tariff Bill Before Sen- ate Committee TWO MEMBERS OF TARIFF COMMISSION ARE HEARD Chairman Thomas W. Page Contends Valuation Pro vis -I ion Heana Higher Prices i On American Commodities While William Burgess Save It Is Only Feasible Plan Washington, July M.-Disagrecment of experts as to the practicability of American valuation provisions proposed in the Fordney tariff bill, marked the u. i o measure today by the 8enate finance committee. The commit h..rH ..(....... i, Thomas Walker Page, chairman, and I William Burgess, a member of the tnriff commission, but their views differed widely as to what effect the suggested basis of levying import duties would have on the consumer on the one hand and on the manufacturer and merchant on the other. Mr. Page contended the new nlan meant higher prices on American rom modifies which compete with imports subjected to the import tax. while his colleague on the commission held that pyramiding of prices was no more like ly to result under the home value basis than under the present tvstcm of as scssing duties on tho foreign value. De signedly, the American, valuation plan it to defeat andervaluatiou of irtlporti and therefore gather more revenue, but the object, Mr. Page said, was phantom like in character for the reason that little fraudulent valuation had taken place. Mr. Burgess submitted figures which he declared showed undervalua tion of imports in 1929 to have boon discovered in 25 per cent of all thip mentt subject to ad valorem rates. No Other Method Mr. Ihirgcsg told the committee there wrs no other method by which the gov ernment justly could levy assessments on imports in view of the fluctuating exchange rates. He said it presented the only possibility of customs officers obtaining accurate valuation figures on imports and that aueh were vitally im portant because of their effect on the ultimate amount of revenue collected. It also would avoid discrimination in the tariff ratet against countries whose money hat not depreciated and in favor of thote whose currency it at a low ebb compared with American mewr Objection to th proposed change was voiced by Mr. Page because, he said, it meant disturbing; further, aa already thaotie commerce. He felt that the cle- tnent or qount ana uncertainty wnicn would enter into business transactions for the next few years warranted that the change be deferred until conditions are more favorable. The international economic situation, Mr. Page explained, should be given an opportunity to right itself before this government should attempt what he called a radical depart ure from proven methods at the customs house, Hat No Faith la It "There is no other way of meeting the exchange situation except by this American valuation provision, Mr. Page added, ''but I do not believe it will accomplish what is claimed for it. I think it will fall far thort of what it it supposed to do and at the same time will keep business moving in the dark, for no one knows what its effect it go ing to be and no one canHell -what effect it will have on different com modities." Mr. Page said, however, that the plan could be developed and he believed that. if-giwm lima it aouid lo made praci iciuie, uui ins piiuciu uujeeuuii was to putting it in effect at this time He mentioned at another "danger the extention of "ao much responsibility and power" to customs appraisers. Tho power opposed by llr. rage would be turned to the aeeouut of the govern ment itself, according to Mr. Hurgess, .h .WlnnM that nnder the American valuation.. rcmtrDl . of the import., for. the first time re.ted fully with the American government. He added that government, no aanea tnaii for the same reason, diplomatic entan- glement. would be avoided and ques- (inn. f enforcement of the law would be disposed of without delay or diffi ........ - culty. LABORER STOPS FLOW FROM FLAMING OIL WELL Defies Intense Heat With As bestos Shield In Effort To Extinguish Blaze Mexico City, July 25 Guarded by an asbestos shield, a laborer in the Amatlan oil fieldt yesterday approached to within a few yardt of a blaring well, known aa Number Five, and after trending fifteen minutet in the terrific ht with fl.iminff oil fal in? all around nearly closing a valve which controls TO VALUE IMPORTS ttil TS: v... u ... w.L CHANDLER BROS. AND CO. A S1V 1UIC HDD as V v damaged the piping system to tueh an extent that it waa impossible to close therWe completely, but when the pipet become cooler, it it believed the unnlv can be eut off entirely by a similar junccdiire, aad that the fire, wnicn nas occn nurning ior mum njniniui omcers in i nuadelpttia. Its no a V. -Miti a loss estimated at eeverni Billion dollars, will be extinguished. KINSTON WOMAN DIES ; AS RESULT OF SHOOTING Eibston, July 25. Mrs. Effie Bedl, age 32, widow and mother of five ehil dren, died early today from wound, in flieted yesterday by Lanaie Bet, who committed suicide after shooting the woman. Mr,, Redd m.de no.tatenvnt before dying. ' Best, who wa. eonseioat the naif Hour hi lived after tha aheof- ing, aaid nothing to iadictte tha cause. iraiinEE TAKES UP TASK OF Will Begin Actual Work of Al- termg The Revenue Laws at Sessions Today HARDING GETS DETAILS OF MR. FORDNEY'S PLANS Talk of Restoration of 3 Cent Postage Stamp To Raise Revenue; Stamp Taxes of Various Kinds Also Suggest ed, As Well As Flat Tax On All Corporations Washington, July 2i.-ri.ms for building a noi tax law tuok nior. definite form today as preparations were completed for flic actual begin ni tomorrow of revision of the . revenue laws by the House w.sys and meant committee. President Harding -earj details of what House leaders propose to d. from Chairman Furdney, of the com mittee, during the day and informs 4 kin leaked out indicating that the three cent postage stamp might 1 resorted to as a revenue producer. The return "to the tlireo cent stamp was understood to have been disrupted nt the conference Saturday between Secretary Mellon and Mr. Fordney and other Republican members of the ways and means committee. The suggestion will be taken up with the l'ostoftice Department before auy further moves are 'made, however, it was stated. Talk Of Stamp Tax. In the search for methods of raising around four lnlUon dollars a year, members of the committee were dc dared to have talked also of a stamp tax on bank check, but that suxges tion was understood to have been frowned upon by the treasury. Othe stamp tnx proposals may get som consideration in the committee, bn members said officially they fenre the reaction from them. Mr. Mellon, it was said, had told th commiMfc that he was opposed tu th. use of- any kind of "sales tax to sup plant the excess profits levy, which ' is conceded, will be abandoned. H nas represented aa being favorable, to a flat tat on corporations, believing that such a tax would offset losses due to the contemplated repeal of the profits nnd some minor nssessiueuts. Aa Ta Corporation Tax. Committee leaders declared they nedtewe the fOrporation tax would take the form of a fifteen per cent levy on incomes with the exemption of 2,000 now in effect abolished, Representative Longworth, Republican. of Ohio, who has n bill makini; surh provisions, snid the corporation tax would yield around 'half a billion dollart a year. Mr. Longorth's bill also would reduce the higher surtaxes on incomes and his plan in this respect wat said to have tho treasury secre tary's approval. The opening session of the hearings tomorrow will include discussion ol about all phases of revision, accord ing to the calendar posted tonight bv tho committee. Mr. Fordney said he would insist on concluding the open session in four days. He Inlievel the House would get the measure in about thjee weeks, but other House leaders, including Representative Mann Republican, Illinois, said the bill could not be put into shape that quickly. SERIOUS FIRE BREAKS OUT ON CUNARD LINER ManTfjtattia Dnrlcorl nt Krmtr.. ampton, In Danger of De struction By Blaze Southampton, July C5. (By the As sociuted 1 ress.)r-f ire broke out today in the first- cn-hin of the Mauritania, of ''" snip or me oio !'"'al" d' ',rV ra'1 T?. m"st FTm. '""If1 ,At 8 0,rl',k tonight, many ho.. uc ra- " - - ... hum., "7 "". '" "anies were mm "ting into the interior of the great "t'amahip, and it was certain that the i r. . i . ,, ure ngiuers wouiu ie at wort through out Uie entire night. The fire is supposed to have origi natea from a lighted eigaret dropped upon the carpet in the main saloon, ana it had made very considerable bead nay before it wat discovered. In addi tion to tho fire brigades, tugs assisted in the efforts to save the vessel. The firemen worked under great difficulties from stagings slung over the side, from which points of vantage they projected vust quantities or water through the portholet into the cabins. So great was tint volume that the liner, which was lying at her dock, took a dangerous list to siarDoard. Timely action of the pumps however, enabled her to right nerseir. ANNOUNCE FAILURE OF New Tork, July 25. The failure of me arm of Chandler Brothers 4 Com pany waa aanounced from the rostrum of tho Mtock Exchange today. ine nrm it a member of hnth th New York and Philadelphia exchanges, l tlee to the New York Exchange merclv stated that it regretted it. Inability to nicei in oDiigation.. o hint waa given or ine iiaDiiitiea. The Arm was organ red in Janu.ry, 1914. The member it Frederick T. Chandler, Jr. The other? are Earl Mindenhall, Lewi. E. Waring ma toward a. tattle. Keeelvere Appelated Philadelphia, July 25. Edwin J. Gil illan and Corneliua Haggorty, Jr., were iioay appointed receiver, for the firrr f Chandler Brother. ComoanT. whosi failure wa. announced on the New York Stock Exchange, REVISING TUX LAW HARDING ASKS FOR REPOR T ON FAMINE IN COTTON STA TES BE Al FORT YOUNG MAN KILLED BY PITCHED BALL AT LOCAL BASEBALL GAME Beaafert, Jaly 2S Charter Nee, ace Ji. wat Mrtwk aver the head hv a pitched bal and ranting trt bae fell dead in game between the "leans" aa "Fata," whkh had tone til inning here Ik la after. km. The platers were asaatewrt wkar had arranged the game ta se es r fends to he givea ( a Weal charity. Th Tenng na leavee a widow, ho aa prostrated by the death, and twe children. Dr. W. S. Rankin Says Only Four More Deaths This Year Than Last 'I have no information that would lead me to believe that pellagra is ea the increase in North Carolina' de- elraed- Dr. W, R, Kanktn, Secrrtarr of the North Carolina State Board of NO BIG INCREASE Ifl PELLAGRA HERE Health last night when his attention ton Twit, President Harding today re waa called to Washingtoa dispatehet lted both the Publie Health Service to the effect that President Hardina ?n,! !' American Bed Cross to make has called on the Public Health Service and the Red Cros'k to investigate and report tm a situ jrtimr of tflfhf famine and epidemic of pellagra in a large action of the Southern Cotton Belt "I'p to July I there were only four more deaths in North Carolina this year from pellagra than in 19"jO." Dr. Rankin stated. "The figure far 4920 was .12 and for 1921 56." "From a fourth to a third ofthc, pel lagra deaths" I'r. R.inkin declared, "occur in the three State Hospitals for the Insane in North Carolina." He accounted for this largely on the ground that one of the certs of pel lagr.i is insanity and the patients reach the hospitals in that stage. "However," he added, '"it is now pret ty well established that whatever may Iff the cause of pellagra its cure is dietary and wherever it Is found that physicians appreciate the faet that the high proteid diets of milk, meats and eggs are of curative benefit, the pel lagra death rate decreases. It has been on the decrease,, jn North Carolina for several., years." It is not known whether the reported pellagra epidemic referred to North Carolina or not. But this State pro dueed in 192H approximately (.1 per cent of the South s crop. Tcxaw Id with .12.4 then came in order, South Carolina, 12.6 per rent; Georgia, 11 per cent. GREENSBORO YOUTH IS HELD PENDING INQUIRY Another Greensboro Young Man Drowned In Lake Richmond Sunday In Riihmond, Va., July 2.V Julian K. MeCauley, 19 years old, of 341 Bragg street, (ireensboro, N. C, was held by the police today in connection with in - quiry into the death of Wcldon (ilenn, 11 years old, also of Greensboro, whonelne most complete possible report that body was dragged from Shield, lake at Ilyrd l'ark Hundnr afternoon. A teeh - nieal charge of vagrancy was lodged igninst him. Glenn said that his mother lives In tho Jennings AparUueul on West Market street, (ireensWro.Jli father, Leland rerrand, head of the American Refl (ilenn, formerly a locomotive engineer Cross, in the tame tenor, and suggest on the Southern railway running be ing that eo-opcration between this tween Greensboro and Monroe, is now organization and your own might be operating n garage in Columbia, S. C., helpful, having in mind tho need for although Glenn was aaid to have disap hasto in making a full aurvey, and in peared at the lake, yesterday afternoon, it wrij'not until thi' morning that 'Mr Cauley who was with him sounded the alarm. MtCauley said that he had dived mo ine waii r, rxperiing i,ienn lo oi low him. He saw no more of his com-1 tion about tho situation shall make ap panion. but he wa. hoping that he I parent that legislative action is neees. would turn up alive. He admitted to day that both he and Glenn had been drinking bromidia. Coroner James Morehead Whitfield said that the drowning Was obviously due to Glenn s condition when he ent - ered the water, (ilenn and Met 'nu lev came here recently from Greensboro. Among (ilenn's effects was a card case bearing the name ef W. G. Anthonr Atlanta, Ga. Gleiui, it developed, had been using this name as an alias here. TEXAS LEGISLATOR IN ATTACK ON KU KLUX Protest Against Col. Simmons' Plan To Investigate Texas Activities Au.tin, Im,, July 85. William J. Pirr.Tnons, of Atlanta, Go., leader of the K ii Kiux Him, and ''any man who ad- mi!) membership of the Eu Klux Klan is a party to every crime the oreanira tion commits," Representative Patmnn, of Cnst county, declared in the lower house of the Texas legislature today. He was speaking on a resolution aignej by hurr!f : nd ot:.er nem'ers protest' ing against Simmons reported intention of sending re.reert:,t.vet info Texas to investigate the Klan a activities. Representative Patnlan directed; his remark, at Representative Laker, who h.id just concluded a .pceca defending the Ka Klux Klan, but declaring that Simmon, wa. not connected witth the Tcxa. organizations Ea-r also had pro tested against Simmons tending repre sentative, to this .tare. - Mr. Patmaa asserted that the lesrisb re also "it a party to every. crime if i tit. idly. by-and-janeathHig-tolpyf tB, report whiea Surgeon Gee curb tho lawlestaet of thi. orgaaiaa- tion. . . i (Cantlnaed an page fear.) . Chief Executive - Asks Public Health Service and Red Cross To Investigate The Sit uation Immediately PROMISES FEDERAL AID IF CONDITIONS JUSTIFY 1-Ul.UHtSSIONAL ACTION President Expresses Alarm at Reports of "Semi-ramine" and Threatened Epidemic of Pellagra In Southern States, and, Wants No Time To Be Lost In Ascertaining Tho Actual Conditions; Reported Pamine Condition Said To Be Result of Depression and Inability of Thousands To Get Proper Variety of Pood To Ward Off Pellagra; Writes Letters To Red Cross and Public Health Service Washington, July 25. Alarmed at ."porta of a threatened "temi famine,".. poupled with aa epidemic of mIUmil iu inrge section of the Southern .. immediate investigation and report what could be done by the Federal government to relieve the- situation. The fullest cooperation ow all fed. era I agencies in the relief m .,,... was promised by the President, who uociarea that if found necessary, Cob- gross would be asked to ttasa tneeiat legislation. He urged that no time ba lost in ascertaining the actual condi tions and applying to them an effec tive remedy. Many Need Good Food The threat of " famine and ntaamn the President wrote to the health see. vice and the Red Cross, teemed to arise from the fact that depressed markets had made it Impossible for the people of a large tection of the South to sell their stocks of cotton. The re sulting shortage of money, he snid, apparently had deprived niamy thja- saadt of the variety of food necessary to ward off pellagra. President's Letter The President, ia hie letter to Sur. geon General Cummins, .aid: 1 nvf risen gre.tly concerned ta note tha publie statement from the Public Health Service .. to the men.;, of pellagra and conditiona of at least semi-famine in a largo .ection of the cotton belt. That such a condition t. obviously a temporary incident to the economic dislocation following the wr. cannot lessen our concern. Famine .ad plague are words almost foreign to our American vocaliulary, .ave as we have learned their meaning in connection with the afflictions of lands lest tt'vor cd, and toward which our people have many times displayed large and generous chanty. Iminedinto and effective mrasures of amelioration are manifestly de manded, if condition? even approvl- ma" the gravity suggested by the puhlie health report. It is unthinkable that we should delay for a single day 1 '" institution of such measures, TI"'r,fore, I am writing to ask you for fan be made at once provided there l1" anything to add to what you have I already made public and especially for suggestion of proper measures to deal with the situation. I I am also writing to Dr. Livingstoon I planning relief measures. I wish you t both to be assured of my co operation - and of all aid that can appropriately I be given through the executive depart- . i meni ana to Know that if full informs- sary. I will on a proper showing be prepared to ask the requisite author! mtion from the Cors-res" Letter T fir FrrJ I lis i,.Uet to Dr- franj Mr 1 llinlinir unid Recent reports of a distressing condition among the rurnl populatioa in a large section of the cottoa belt, are confirmed by a publie stttement from the Public Health Service. Tawy indicate that due to the "' depressed cotton market, many thousand, of people are unable to sell their nne Product for money wherewith to obtain I a necessary variety of wholesome food, and thRt th'rB srave threat of aa epiuvnuc ui pellagra. ' It must bring a shock to the Am erican people to realize that a great section of their own country which they are wont to think of at immune from such experiences, it actually ' menaced with famine and plague. For that , it what it would be called if it should befall in any other coun try, and we may as well give it it. right name. It it, of course, a conse quence of the economic, disorganization following the war, and it demand. In stant and vigorou. attention. Our people, to long and so often moved by .piendid charitableness toward UK- unfortunates of "other land., will nevjr .permit such aa affliction here at home. Want All Facta. ''Moved by a realization that there most be no delay in coping with tuch a condition, I am writing to atk if. the Red Cross c.a make aa immediate inveatigatioa and report the present situation), the outlook ' for tha future. vd the measure, neeesary for prompt effective relief.. I am eneloaing a IB- 1 1 V...