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AHEAD FOR LINNEY
UDGE BOYD RULES
Promises To Negrces Bring Se
rious Apprehensions To Emi
nent Lawyers
GRAVE CONCERN FELT
OVER CONFIRMATION
Makes Secure Hit Claim To
Leadership of Republican
Party By Tearing Away Mask
of ''Political Hypocrisy,"
Declares Attorney; South
Now On The Charity List
The News and Observer Bureau,
603 District Nat Bask Eldg.
By EDWARD E. BRITTON.
(By Special Leased Wire.)
Washington, July 30. The indication
at the eloae of thia week ii that there
will be action the coming week on the
'domination of Frank A. Linney for dis
4 trict attorney of the Western District
of North Carolina, and also on the
nomination of Henry Lincoln Johnson
for recorder of deeds of the District of
Columbia. Not alone in North Caro
lina, is there interest and concen in
fhe Linney nomination, but there is
much of it liic, and the tight that is
prMrtiwd Wit ' !' "Neiraton: "Hiram
Johiun:; n.i i-.r;iii has made it of in
terest in their states and amongst their
menus in asliington.
That Senator Johnson ha never for
given Mr. Linney for his aetion at Chi
cago is known, and there is recalled
that when Linney called at the head
quarters of the "Johnson for President''
boosters at the National Republican
convention that there was hot in
terview between the two, tho ''hotnesa''
being shown by Senator Johnson.
Promise Arouses Apprehension.
In the minds of many North Caro
linians there is questioning as to what
may result from Frank Linney being a
Federal district attorney, and it has
become known in Washington that ki
te rs aro being received here by mem
bers of tho North Carolina delegation
in Congress that express much appre
hension in the matter of the eonfirma
tion of Mr. Linney as United States
attorney since his promise to the ne
groea to prosecute Pemoeratie regis
trars. I have been furnished with a
quotation from one of these letters,
, which is said to bsv eome from ono
of the biggest Democratic lawyers in
North Carolina. This quotation is as
follows:
"I have been very desirous of get
ting the data that is now appearing in
aome of the newspapers with reference
to Mr. Iinney's statement before the
Raaat Judicinrr committee. Mr first
impressaioa was thai Mr. Linney should
not be martyred because he signed a
letter addressed to the white women
of North Carolina. Afterwards I felt
that ho had 'crawled' and' that he had
surrendered to the element in his party
which would demand tho indiscrimin
ate registration of colored men and
women in North Carolina. In fact, I
harve reliable information that already
the Department of Justice has directed
TnO 1I1UCU Dmw: auuimj.
districts in the South to investigate
and prosecute registrars who hare re
fused to illow negroes to registrar, smd
I had com to the conclusion that no
district attorney would be appointed
In the Booth who was not willing to
, agree to force on the registration books
the names of negroes and area to at-
1. .:...Int .m..Jmfllll t f
MCA Ml.
- necea&ary. I am very uneasy for fear
our suffrage amendment may be put in
jeopardy by proceedings similar to
those ia the Okklahoaia ease. Many
eminent lawyers think it might be
done, and I hare, therefore, viewed
" fot the last SO days with great concern
the developments in thia Linney mat-'
tor." - --
Bis Clatsa New Und laps ted.
But this is. not all. From another
"eonree I get a quotation front one of
the outstanding leaders of the bar in
Western North Carolina, this quotation
.'reading:
"I have heard it proclaimed that Mr.
linney represtnted the highest inter
ests of the Republican lrtj; that he
was a typical representative of the
Bepublieaniim of North Carolina, but
ever before have I been able to ap-
"preeiate the truth of the claim so well
aa I now do. I willingly concede all
that ia claimed for him for new since
ha baa torn away the mask of political
hypocrisy and taken hfe stand with the
negro politicians in bis party in favor
of the prosecution of Democratic regis
trars who try to maintain the su-
' premaey of the white race, it eaa no
' " longer be questioned that he is en
titled to undisputed leadership of the
Republican party of our State."
Letters of this nature are of such im
, port as to set Democrats' to thinking
i and to bring to their realization what
nay be in the plan of the Republican
- party to lily white" Itself in the
South by a surface declaration that it
? . - - V . M .1 It
, wants to got rid 01 toe negro qucavwu
while under the surface it wants to
hold on with might and snail to the
negro vote. This 1820 "regeneration"
of the Republican party in the South
ia tho wedge that it seeks to drive ia
- among the white voters with its plea
of "respectability? and it is akin to
that old saying of "When the devil was
sick, the devil a saint would be; when
tho devil got well, tho devil a saint was
he." These Republican United States
attorneys who are going to prosecute
Democratic registrars for not register
ing negroes just as they would prosecute
bootleggers, and illicit distillers seed
.waicniug. - -.;
- . Stalk Oa Charity list .
" And aov aa ono result of the "famine
and starvation and plague" bulletin of
""thsJTmWie health service and letter of
'President Harding, the South is being
offered, donations, put oa the charity
list as it were. There was made public
' Ceatlaaed oa Pago Two.) . -
Issues Permanent Injunction
Against Execution of War
rants ofDistraint
AGENTS MUST RESPECT
RIGHTS OF CITIZENS
Greensboro Judge Holds Com.
missioner of Internal Reve
nue Has No Bight To Sum
marily Make Assessments
Against Man Accused of
Violating The Volstead Act
Greensboro, July 30. An order per
manently restraining J. W. Bailey, col
lector of internal revenue for North
Carolina, from executing warrants of
distraint on the propesty of 29 persons
in Western North Carolina, accused of
a violation of the National prohibition
law, was signed by Judge James E.
Boyd in Federal Court this morning.
Judge lloyd handed a lengthy opinion
.iwiuiiiavMe-eedatt -
Ho stressed the fact that the rights
of the citizens of the United States
must be respected and declared that the
actions of some of the prohibition en
forcement agents now operating in this
country can be classed only to the
dealings given a barbarian conqueror to
his enemy.
Judge Connor's strs'ement In hear
ing a similar case that the "Conditions
in the Eastern district are such as to
shock North Carolina," will apply , to
the Western district also, according to
Ju,dge Eoyd, who declared that prohi
bition enforcement agents undoubtedly
indulge in flights of fancy in making
their estimates of the time that a still
has been in operation. Judge Connor
now haa about 30 similar cases before
him for decision.
Ilowever, getting down to the law in
volved in the proposition he does not
believe that the commissioner of in
ternal revenue has tbo right to sum
marily make an assessment against a
man accused of a violation of the Vol
stead act and then have his property
sold to satisfy the levy.
He holds that the penalties provided
under the Volstead act can only be ob
tained through civil actions in tho
courts or as a part of a judgment in
criminal action.
Ho asserted that the way in which
things harve been operated has got to
stop and that the commissioner of in
ternal revenue nor any of his agents
have the right to make an assessment
against an accused man's estate smd
proceed without his knowing anything
about the affair, to make out a great
bill and try to collect It without Any
course of trial.
He also declared that the right of
search without a warrant has got to
be' stopped, saying that every man is
entitled to the rights guaranteed him
by the Constitution.
The eases in question this morning
were the eomplaints filed against J. W.
Bailey in endeavor to get a permanent
injunction restraining him from selling
the property of the 29 plaintiffs to sat
isfy assessments made by the commis
sioner of internal revenue f orTdleged
violation of tho Volstead act. The
court held that any such assessment
must be made by the courts only after
proper trial and signed and the perma
nent order of restraint.
Collector Bailey was not represented
by counsel. Practically all of the plain
tiffs were represented. The cases were
argued before, Judge Boyd here some
time sgo.
COMMISSIONER CLARK
TO ENTER LEGAL FIELD
Chairman of Interstate Com
merce Comission Resigns
Government .Tob
Washington, July 30 Edgar E. Clark,
chairman of the Interstate Commerce
Commission,. who recently submitted his
resignation to President Harding, will
enter a partnership for the practice in
Washington of commercial law, accord
ing to an announcement today.
Mr. Clark, 'who has teen a member of
the commission since 1906 and chairman
for the last three years, resigned, it
was stated today, in order to relieve
himself of the strain connected with
his office and also to make more sub
stantial, provision for his family. It
was emphasized today at the commis
sion offices that there had been no dia
agreement between the chairman and
the administration.
Because of Mr. Clark's long service as
a member of the commission, the prac
tice of rotating the chairmanship
among the commissioners was aban
doned two years ago and Mr. Clark
elected to succeed himself. He was
again re-elected chairman this year.
President Harding has appointed Fred
erick L Cox, of East Orange, N. J., with
business interests in New York, to suc
ceed to Mr, Clark's place on the com
mission. GERMAN GIANT LOSES
CONEY ISLAND LAURELS
New York, July SO. Crestfallen at
having lost the Coney Island giant
championship, Ludwig Schulten, 7 feet
3, today sailed back to Germany on the
steamship Orduaa, reclining on a couch
comprising three beds lashed into one.
Until recently, Ludwig had only to
stand on a side show platform and show
f olka how tall he was. Then aa in
truder dropped around, towering four
inches above Ludwig's topmost lock. :
Ludwig knew his laurels were toppling
from his lofty brow. Ea pat on high
hat and high heeled shoes, bat his rival
followed rait and retained his four
Inches lead. Then he replaced Ludwig
on the platform. . 1
i Ludwig returns to Germany with the
will to grow, hoping to stags come
back. " ' . 1 '
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Photograph taken for tho News and Observer by Lieutenant Gus Lrar.tr at 2 o'clock yesterday sfternoon. The
Quarry road elbows its way east st the left of the picture, and along the wTdge. of tc Federal ei:ietnry. . Ttie diuk
water 'wf tti" pwi- fait ficseeit jurt"fteToVf the roai!.' The incinerator built by the city is at the right end of the pool,
and an inch or so below and to the right, the dark spot where the tunnel caved in. The fence will run along the upper
road to a point half way between the quarry and the elbow, thence to the tree beside the lower road, and tneu south along
the outer edge of the road to a point 40 feet beyond the incinerator, and back to the upper road.
Fence Off Quarry For Safety
Of Spectators and Prisoners
IS
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Searchers Heard Voice of
Woman In Mountains; Was
Marnnnwi On Lprirwit r
Spray Falls, Alberta,
a, Julyjfti&Mrs.
W. E. .Stone, resting in anllinprovUed
camp on Mount Eanon, described today
how the thrill sound of her voice,
caught up by the multitude of peaks
and crags and re-echoing, saved her
life after her husband, president of
Purdue University, of LaFayette, Ind.,
had perished in climbing the mountain
and after she had, lain eight days on a
perilous ledge.
A searching party had figured out the
probable course that Dr. and Mr. Stono
would take in the attempt to ascend
Mount Eanon. From a point of vaut-.
age the searchers had scoured every
side with their glasses without a sight.
of anything. Then, as they decided to
go on, one member of the party thought
he heard the cry of a woman from afar.
Listening intently, the searchers heard
it again. A more minute inspection
with their glasses revealed far below
and across the canyon the form of a
woman. One hour later Mrs. Btone was
rescued.
At different periods she had raised
her voice with all the vigor she had,
expecting that some time it might be
heard and she would be rescued
" Dr. Stone was withiil five minutes
climb of the top of the hitherto un
sealed mountain, the goal which he and
his wifo had set, when his own death
occurred.
The accident happened on July 10.
Mr. and Mrs. Stone expected to make
the climb, rest at the top, and then
got back to the food cacho that night.
Pr. Stone was climbing above, hope
fully, cheerfully and unhesitatingly
when without a word of warning, a
farewell of any kind, not even a sign,
he plunged over her head to the abyss
below. He fell fully 5,000 feet, in the
opinion of his wife. She sSw the body
strike a rock, bound from it from eliff
to cliff and on down the side of the
mountain. She began a hasty descent
in an effort to get to her husband.
She fought her way down the side of
the mountain, snd when found was 3,
000 feet below the point where Dr.
Stone had fallen.
How Mrs. Stone became marooned on
a ledge of rock she does not know
herself.
BRITISH TO HELP IN
POLICING UPPER SILESIA
Note To French Premier
Smooths Over Situation and
Promises Co-operation
Paris, July 30. (By the Associated
Pross.) Lord Hardinge, the British am
bassador, informed Premier Briand
this morning that Great Britain will
ingly agrees to the proposals contained
in the French premier's latest note rela
tive to troop reinforcements for Upper
Silesia. The British ambassador at Ber
lin, has been instructed ' to join his
French and Berlin colleagues in a com
mon demand that the German govern
ment facilitate by all possible means
the transport of Allied troops across
Germany , whenever the situation in Up
per Silesia renders it necessary.
Marquis Cur ten, the British foreign
Secretary, in the note which' Lord Hard
inge handed M. Briand, proposes August
8, as the date for the meeting of the
Supreme' Council, as the Italian Prem
ier ia unable to attend sooner. Premier
Lloyd George will attend, if theFrench
Ldesire bis presence. .
I no criusn repiy is extremely - eor
dial. Lord Hardinge expressed, satis
faction over the dissipation of the re
cent misunderstanding.
Blair Mikes Appointment .
Washington, July 30. -Commissioner
Blair announced today the appoint
ment of Daniel J. Gantt, formerly Fed
eral .supervising prohibition agent at
Atlanta, to be assistant' field super
visor with supervision over the south
eastern district.
OF TILY
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Ten-Foot Fence Will Be Erect
ed First Thing Tomor
row Morning
RE-OPEN OLD TUNNEL
FOR WATER DISCHARGE
Pump Will Be Installed at Low -er
End of Quarry; Pontoon
Plan Abandoned
Erection of a ten-foot wire fene, s-
mounted by barber wire and set 'back
fifty foct from the edge of fhe Kick
Quarry will be the first step toward
draining the pool tomorrow morning.
Then prison lubor will re-open tho oM
tunnel that used to drain the hole, in
stall tho ten inch rotary pump, alnd
within a week,' it is beKevcd thst.the
publui can be turned into the inclosarel
to look upon whatever of mystery the
thing may hold.- .
- Safety of the public, and freedo
of operation for the oruKsers detailed
to drsia the quarry JS'the purpose o?f
officials charged with draining the
quarry in erecting the fence. Tho
patent impossibility cf controlling half
a hundred prisoners with a tremendous
throng cf people about, snd the prol
ability that in the crush somebody would
fall over the precipice prompted the
decision to fence tho quany.
Spectators Can See.
From the .vantage of the upper
Quarry road, and from other points ad
jacent, the public can see the work
going on, without danger to themselves,
or hindrance to the men who aro doinj
the work. Guards frcm the State
Prison will police thi place, snd ad
mission into the Enclosure will be
granted only to those en.nected wi'.'i
or having part in the work. The pla-e
will be kept under etrictest surveil
lance until the work of drainage '
completed.
Careful survey of the work was made
yesterday afternoon ty Frank Tag
chairman of the State Highway Com
mission ; George B. Pou, superintendent
of the State Prison: V. D. Terry, su
perintendent of Public Buildings and
Grounds: Chartni D. Farmer, supenn
tendent of the Mechanical Division of
the Highway Coramiiijon, and George
r. Hvmo engineer detailed by Mr. Page
"to supervise the engineering work ft
draining the quarry, .'.leclmmeal super
vision will be in tharre of Mr. Farmec,
and the labor under the direction of
the State Prison.
Pump at Water Level.
The pump will be jet up in the south
end of the quarry, twenty feet from the
opening of the old tunnel. Mr. Page
abandoned the idea of biii'dlhg a poa
toon for the pump, titer it was de
termined that the wai-r could be forced
out through the tunnel. High power
transmission lines wl'.l be run from
Blount street to tho quarry by the
Carolina Power and Light Company
The intake pipes to Hie romp will be
lengthened as tho fall in the water lev.d
demands. A fixed dlrcharge pipe wl.l
be used.
Vcur ago when the quarry was in
onernlion. a tunnel waa built Ironithe
depression nt the south end of tlie
quarry, twenty feet beyond the locu
tion of the present incinerator, we3t
toward the depression papearing in the
picture, where the old drainage water
was discharged. The tunnel, much of it
through solid rock, is approximately 40J
feet long, and about four feet in diame
ter. From tho outlet the water was
-. v.lfl.l . ... n ;n . amfill atreatn. the be
ginning of which is soen in the lowaf
right hand of the picture.
Tannel Caved In.
Tha tunnel caved in at a point half
way to its outlet, at the dark spot ill
the corn field dciow '.ne mcmeramr.
From that point cst il wil1
sary to open the tunnel into a ditch.
The' other end of iU has never closed
entirely up, and it is Relieved that the
force of the water thvough it will r
open it eufficicntly for drainage pur
poses. Conviet labor will open up the
little stream for several hundcd yards
to carry off the water.
Surplus war material, issued to thi
State Highway Commtwion will be n?d
throughout the operation. The fencing
is part of five ear bads shipped here
several weeks ago. The ' pump and
motor were built for uw in France, but
were never sent across. They wore ob
tained by Mr. Farmer from a Maryland
.
Contlneed oa Page Two.) i
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Representative Byrnes Thinks
Reports of PHIagra in
South Exaggerated
REPLIES TO LETTER OF
THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Asks Hardin; To Take- "Appro
priate Action" Toward Offl
oials, Who By Misrepresent
tag Conditions. Led Him
Into Statement That South
Was Menaced With Famine
Washington, July 30. Eepresentativc
Byrnes, of Booth Csrolins, asked
President Harding in a letter today
to take "appropriate action toward
officials who by misrepresenting con
dttions misled you'- inW making the
statement' that parts ef the South
were "actually menaced with famine
and plague.
Beplying to the President's letter of
yesterday in which Mr. Harding aaid
that if investigation developed that re
ports had misrepresented conditions,
official refutation would be desirable,
Mr. Byrnes wrote:
"I wish to thank you very much for
your letter of the 8th. I agree thut
it is highly desirable that the Bureau
of Public Health Service should eon
tinue its investigation as to pellagra,
and I know that Congress appropriated
for this fiscal year $.'100,000 to enable
m service io investigate t!e dis
eases of man, the representatives of the
health service advising our appropru
tiona committee thst out of this sum
they would continue their pellagra
investigation. And there is no ob
jection to the special invesctigation
you have directed the health service
to make. What I deeply regret, Mr.
fresident, and what I believe the neo'
pla of the South regret, ia that before
such an investigation was made, you
were misled into stating in your letter
to the president of the Red Cross: 'It
must bring shock to the American pen
pie to realise that a grqat section of
their ow a country, which they are wont
to think of as immune from such ex
penenew,' U actually- mensred by
latmne and plague. Kor that is what
it would be called if it should befall
dt omer country, ,anl we may as
well give it its right name.
Reealt ef Droreuioa.
" "It is, of course, a consequence Of
the economic disorganization fiillow
ing the war, and it demands instant
and vigorous, attentiou. Our people,
so long and so often moved by splcn
did charitableness towsrds unfortu
nates of other lands, will never permit
sucn au affliction here.'
"Coming from the President of the
Lnited Btates, this statement has com
manded attention and has been nub'
lished in practically every newspaper
in mis country, snd doubtless in the
press of other nations. It is to thos.
statements we take exception. We may
U - . . . .
no oyer sensitive, out the average
American dislikes to have placed in
front of his dors, a flag indicating
the presence of a plague when as a
matter of fact there exists within his
home nothing to justify that character
ization; and likewise where there is no
famine he dislikes to be held up ns tht
suDjeet pr ehsrity, and compared with
the unfortunates of other lands for
the reuef of whose starvstion and dis
ease, our' people hare so generously
convriDurea.
Mot Warranted.
Upon reflection, I think yon will
agree that these statements are not
warranted by the report as to the
Increase of pellagra in Mississippi
Even if it should develop that these
statistics are eorect. the indicate in.
crease of pellagra ia .one state would
not constitute a plague .or a menace
to ue entire South, beeauea the dii
ease is not contagious.
-Ana certainly there is nothing in
tne telegram of tho editor of the
Spartanburg Herald to warrant either
of the. two statements ia question. In
that part of Mr. Hearon s telegram
which you quote, ' ho expressed the
opinion that, the health service should
continue ita investigations this vesr.
Everybody, agrees, and Congress hss
DECLAR
HARDING
i misinformed
(CoaUaaed e Pago Two.)
CARRIES P1GEO.V BRINGS
MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT;
FLIGHT OF OVER MILES
Washington. Jaly SS-Ommaal-catiea
with Washington by Narsl
carrier plrroa was maintained ta
ds? by the Presldentl! yacht
Maylewer as she steassasf ap the
Atlantic reaat with President sad
Mrs. Harding sseerd sa rants la
Plyssenth, MaaeacliasetU, whera an
Meaaay the President will spesk
at tha cereaioslea rammesMrstlng
tha tereantaaary ef the leading ef
tha PIlgTlas.
Befera tha Mi) lower left Wash
liiftoa yesterday, Liaaleaant A. J.
MeAtee, director of the Naval
Pigaoa Service, placed Ive carrier
plfena hoard. At 4:SS p. , to
day aae ef tha birds rrtaraed bear
ing a snasucs (rata the President
to tha execatlve afflre. Tha plgaaa
ksd left tha May fewer at Mitt
a. su, today wRea the yacht was
sboat M miles aortkfaat ef Cspa
Henry Light, a distance af ahoat
25 mllra from Washington.
, The JttoaKkatismssasity. ah tows
ly hastily scribbled, saldi
"Flae voyage, alt well, Mrs.
Harding greatly refrashtd. Making
oar schedule amidst eiccllsnt con.
d It Ions. Inspection this morning
revealed fine (raw abaard tha May.
Sewer. Greeting to all tha office
force."
LORD I1THCLIFFE
LFAVESFORCANADA
Expect No Such Incidents As
Occurred In Washington On
Remainder of Trip
New York, July 30. Lord Northcliffe
left for Toronto tonight on soother leg
of hit journey sround the world. The
British publisher declined to answer
any . question having reference to his
controversy with Premier Lord George
or the Interview erroneously attributed
to him by a British newspaper in which
King George was quoted as having told
the Paemier, in a conversation concur
ing the Irish troubles, that "I cannot
have my ueopls killed ia this manner:
"London has no orders to give the
dominions." was tho comment of H.
Wickhamstead, editor of tho Londol
Times, who accompanied the publisher
to Toronto, when asked whether he ex
nected any such incident ts the can
collation of the British embassy dinner
in Wsahington, to which they hsd bees
invited, on the remainder ef Lord
Korthcliffe's tour, which will tsks him
through Cansds, Australia and other
carts of the British empire.
The interview attributed to Lord
Northcliffe in some newspspers sbrosd
and which brought forth a denial from
the King was credited to Mr. Steed in
Monday's issue of the New York Times
from which it was taken. Mr. Steed,
however, declared today that he was
misquoted.
"The direct statements attributed to
me I did not make," he said. "I could
not have made them, because neither
Lloyd Goorge nor the King told me
what thev said to one another. I do not
know te this day what they said to one
another.
"As to the actual facts of the Irish
situation, it is a fact no one can eon-
test that the possible settlements grow
Ing out of the truce are directly ac
countable to the speech by tho King
at Belfast a great hearted, consider
able speech.
"It is also incontestable that King
Georsre feels for all his enbieete-o
equal solicitude, and nothing would re
joire him more- than to- see prospec
tive peace in Ireland.
"The London Times hns worked very
hard for the last two yearj to promote
the settlement in Ireland that the gov
ernment seems to be approaching, and
w have sriven Mr. Lloyd George's gov
ernment tho fullest support when it
seemed to be treading the path of peace.
We shall continue to give the Lloyd
George government fullest support in all
efforts toward a successful conclusion.
No- one knows that better than Lloyd
Genree. who for two years hss had per
tinent reasons to know how true it is.
That and thst slone was the sense of
the quite informal talk I had with the
representative of the New York Times.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
TAKEN FOR MOONSHINERS
Farmville. July 30. Mistaken for
moonshiners, a class of aevedal boys
from the Presbyterian Sunday School
here had a fine outing at Old Con
tcntne this week. They had built
a roaring ramp fire, told wondcrfun
stories of Indians and war heroes
and such things snd were just pre
paring for a big supper when two
pistol shots pierced the darkness. For
the space of a minute, it was very
quiet. The officers, who had sus
perted the boys of being moonshiners,
stepped out of tho woods and tne re
was great rejoicing among the young
sters to find some of their friends
in the posse that were searching
searching for blockade liquor. After
more ghost stories, the hikers returned
home. They voted for a camping
trip every week.
SIX MEN KILLED IN
PLUNGE OF 2,000 FEET
Grand Jaactloa, Col, Jaly 10.
Six men were killed and six others
lajarod, three eerlewtly, whoa a
trsmwsy car cable ellpped out of
the fwlvel late today at the Sehay. !
ler JDoylo Shale Company's plant,
tha ear planting to tho floor of tho
gakh, tjm foot below.,
Also Agrees To Accept Famine
Aid For Starving Children
From The American Re
lief Association
I:
SENATOR FRANCE WANTS 1
TRADE RELATIONS WITH
LENINE REGIME RESUMED
Maryland Senator; Now at Rif
After Trip To Moscow, En
thusiastic For Resumption
of Both Trado and Diplo
matic Relations ; Erings Mrs.'
Marguerite E Harrison, of
Baltimore, One of Prisoners,
Out of Russia; New Develop
ments May Tend To Clear
Up Russian Situation; Noth
ing Official On Matter Re
ceiver! In Wnarnvta-tnn Rn Far
Biga. July 30.-(By the Associated
Press. )-Soviet Russia has agreed to
release Ameriraji prisoners and to ac
cept famine aid from the American Be
lief Association just at the moment that
United States Senator Josenh I. France.
of Maryland, hut Wtnrned to Biga from
Moscow, determined to sdvocate renew
al of trade relations, and perhaps dip-
lomstie relations, between Bussia snd
the L'nltod States and bringing with
him ons of ths prisoners, Mrs. Margue
rite u. Harrison, of Baltimore, who
was freed by his efforts at Moeow. -
Senator France, who entered Bussia
several weeks sgo, sceptical of the ad
vantage of immediate diplomatic rela
tions with the Soviets, but believing
that trade relations were advisable, has
returned sn ardent enthusiast for both.
BitaatioR Better
While American officials in the Baltis
are speculating as to what effect the re
lease of the prisoners and the entrance
of the American Belief Association into
Bussia will have in clearing up the
Bussinn situation, Senator France de
clared that the Lenine government was
starting a new line of development in
Bussia, which ''cannot backslide into
radical Communism again."
Ia reply to a question aa to whether
the Moscow Bolshevikl were trying to
revolutionize the world, Including the
United States, Senator France said:
"I know nothing about the Third In
ternationale. But no man worthy of
any attention ever believed that propa
ganda could start rsvolutionary condi
tions, history shows."
Talked With Leader
The Sonator talked with both Lenine
and Trotsky and was impressed by
them.
......
x round tnai tho Husilan govern
ment is handling the situation in a
statesmanlike way," he said. "Lenine
is much interested In American rela
tions. Ths Russian factories hsvs not
all ccsscd operations; many sre work
ing well. They are short, of raw ma
terials, .but that is not their fsult. The
peasants are working tLe lands and the
farms ars prosperous where- they are
not in the famine and drought belt
The Senator mentioned furs as one of
the possible products of trade with the
United States, and asserted that there
would be plenty cf exports when the
factories were equipped and agricultural
needs were supplied from abroad. He
thought a commission of American ex
perts would be welcomed, but contended
that Bussia should have the right to
send one to America, also.
"I am convinced that Bussia will
carry out any guarantee or eoneessioes
made in return for credit, the Senator
declared.
Mrs. Harrison Freed
Describing his visit, he said ho was
free to move about and see what he
liked, and the officials frankly admitted
bad conditions where they existed. The
Senator secured Mrs. Harriscn's release
from prison independent Of the Hoover
snd Hughes notes, of which hs knew lit
tle. Mrs. Harrison was freed from the
prison hospital only a few hours before
the train left Thursday, and was sur
prised to find herself at liberty.
"After three weeks devoted to about
the hardest work I ever expect to do,
literally filled with interviews with the
executives of the central government
of Moscow, with the examination of
records, and, so far as the limited time
permitted, with personal Investigation
of basic conditions, I esn confirm the
impression I had on entering that the
United States should immediately re
sume trade relations with Bussia," the
Senator's statement res 3.
"My own belief is that the resump
tion should be of diplomatic relations,
but I prefer to have that recommenda
tion eome from the commission which
we would have to send 'to negotiate a
trade agreement. I am certain thst
any commission would see that prompt
recognition was desirable."
Order and Industry.
"I find no indication whatever that
Bussia is getting in a worse condition,
but on the contrary, I jel that the gov
ernment officials are in harmony and
working patiently and intelligently to '
bring about order and industry. Be
cent deerees have inspired confidence
oo the part of the Bussism people, and
any contact with the outside world now
will be of great help.
"Neither England nor Germany hesi
tates to extend this aid, and I dont see
why America should. Ia fact, ao I
crossed the border coming-out of Bus
sia I met a . special train of sleeping
ears, baggage ears and fla-tcars carrying
red automobiles which bore .tho British
eoat of arms. It was a British trade '
delegation going into Bussia, and I
thought there wss no reason why tho
American Eagle should fear to go where
tho British Lion dares venture.
''The famine Condition in tho Volga
is unquestionably bad," continued tho
statement, ''and tha government officisls
do not conceal their anxiety. Just how
(Coatlaaed oa Pago Two)