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RALEIGH. N. G, TUESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 2. 1921.
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VOL CX1V. NO. 33.
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Confirmation of Linney and
Johnson Goes Over Because
of Simmons' Absence
REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER
LETS CAT OUT OF BAG
d. O. P. Organ at Twin City
Gives Expression That Is In
ferred To Mean That Linney
.Would Vigorously Prose
cute Democratic Registrars;
Overman Opposes Probe
News and Observer Bureau,
003 District Nnf. Bank Bldg.
By EDWARD E. BRITTON.
, (By Special Leaned Wc ,
Washington, Aug. 1. If Linney and
"Link" were to be asked their private
opinions about dehy in their confirma
tion to the Federal jobs for which
President Harding has nominated them
and were ''cussin' " men, they would
certainly cry out ''hellanmaria" at the
hard-hearted Senators who are contin
ually holding up any action. Again this
iLfternppn,the. 8s,lattJ in executive ses
ion, let the noniinlitioiTof the North
Carolina Republican State Chairman
fur lihtri"t ."--.'-v and the negro
Republican "n:;:Tr.: i-oiiimifter-mnn for
l.-corder ui d.v;l; lor tlio District of
Columbia toboggan to another day.
"When IJlo time arrived nr arrtow
Senator Curtis arose and informed the
Senate that as Senator Simmons de
tired to be' heard on the mutter, and
' being indisposed and absent from the
chamber, requested that the matter go
over to another day. And the Senate
agreed to the request of the Republican
whip.
Cat Out of the Bag.
But the cat is out of flie hag. That
is, the cat and tho bag which have to
do with the Linney nomination. Where
many people are engaged in a con
apiracy someone always spills the
beans. This time it is the Republican
party newspaper, "The I nion Repub
liean," of Winston-Salem, the newspa
per that is branded in North Carolina
for its position nlw.tj-s sturnidly msin
tained that "no Democrat can be right
and no Republican ran be wrong, and
that -every Democrat should be hung
without the formality of trial, and be
buried without the benefit of clergy.
And here is how the conspiracy works
out.
In its issue of Thursday, July IS,
just rcnehing Washington, tho Union-
Republican linings a leak and the truth
eamei oujt, Tpundotitand Jha.jfull ig
itMca'nce of Vhat the Urnro-TUpubTican
eaya it is neeeaanry to be first familiar
with that paper'a unalterable position.
thundered in us columns, for a genera
tion, towit: ''Whenever the Demo
crata carry an election anywhere It
means that gross frauds, intimidation
corruption, ballot box stuffing and plain
tealmg havo all been perpetrated.
Heretofore in this correspondence let
tera have been quoted 'rom prominent
Democratic lawyers expressing grave
apprehension lest the continuation of
Linney would mean an attack in the
courts on our suffrage amendment and
the wholesale prosecution of Demo
cratie registrars who have been exer
cmng the judicial powers vested in
them by law in maintaining white su
premaey in North Carolina.
Promise to Negroes.
Since Mr. Linney has surrendered to
tho negroes and promised them catcgori
rally and specifically that he would
prosecute every Democratic registrar
who discriminated in any way between
whites and negroes in elections, those
beat familiar with the situation in
North Carolina have believed that this
meant that District Attorney-to-be
Linney would take as sufficient the
word of negroes who alleged they had
been denied their rights. It means
that whenever a negro or one of his
white political bedfellows complains to
District Attorney Linney that the no
gro has been refused registration Mr,
Linney will at once institute prosecu
tion of the registrar and will consider
. the word of the negro complainant suf
fieient upon which to set ia motion the
government machinery in prosecution
of white election officials. It means that
Mr. linney will prosecute Democratic
registrars for the reason simply that
they have exercised their judicial dis
cretion in the way the negroes and
their white allies think it ought to have
been ' eicrcised. It does not teed to
h said here, for every one knows it,
that if this course should be followed
chaos would result in North Carolina
and a "Red Shirt" regeneration be pro
dueed. The Union-Kcpnmican says
To Prosecate Frauds
"Senator Simmons will not vote for
the confirmation of Hon. Frank A
Linney as district attorney. If Mr
Linney is appointed he proposes to prose
euta election frauds in this tatc- If
it has ever been done before the e-ordi
do not show it."'
This editorial expression means that
Linney is to go-further than even the
rabid - Republican District Attorney
Alfred Eugene Hohrm went during the
sixteen years ha acted ns United States
srttornty under Rcpublicaa administra
tions. It means also that Linney
to go further in punishing Democratic
regi'trars than Republlcxa District At
tortey Hairy Skinner, Clauds Iter
Brd ani' others ever went Jt meon
that tie Union Republican it aot satis
fied with the eeaduct of Holten, Skin
nar et al whea they were district ettor
neys in the old days snd that the Unio
Republican understands that Mr. Lin
ey il to insngtlraU against whit
, registrars a regime of persecution and
" prosecution that "even Holton, Skinner
and Eernard never dared to start; a
retime that will la the end fully satisfy
l vea tho Uaioa Repablieaa, which row
liderl it a capital crime aid a Juitifiea-
tioa for outlawry simply to bo a Demo
crat, or to bo against full negro suf
frage tad negro pnrtirnpatioa ia poll
Tho Union Republican is the paper,
"t Continued oa Pago Foot)
E ONCE MORE
DELAYS ACTION
10
NOMINA
IS
Water Flowed Out of the Quarry
3:32 Yesterday;
Tunnel Opened and Natural
Gallons; Substitute Small uas Driven rump tor
.Work; Fence Goes Up By Magic and Street
Is Established By Vendors of Rations
Water began to flow from tho Bock
Quarry at 3:32 yesterdty afternoon.
A three-inch pump driven by a five
horsr power gasolene engine was in
stalled purely tor experimental pur
poses, and it worlfed so effectively
that the plan to install the big 10-
inch, electrical driven pump was
abandoned and a battery of five
smaller pumps will bo installed this
morning.
Opening of the tunnel tnai useu
to drain the quarry disciosea me
fnct that the surface of the water
could be lowered two feet by satur.il
rainage, and the pumps were stopped
uring the nignr, wnue mv 'w
flowed out. Early today the Ave lit
tlo pumps wilf be put to work again,
and an aggregate flow of 1,250 gallons
per minute will be obtained.
Small I'ampa ineaper.
Two days of labor and 1900 will
be saved by using the five small
pumps instead of the one big ono,
in the opinion of Charles D. Farmer,
superintendent of tho Mechanical Di
vision of the Highway commission.
The small pumps will give as much
water as the one big one, and elini-
unto the necessity of installing power
ransmission lines and a transformer
fto" Vrtho''awtT-''
Fences grew about the quarry yes
terday almost by magic, and the
rowd that flowed thither got ouly
s far as '"Wiener , Street,'' which
snrang into being almost as quickly
as the - fewee - grew. -- Half dozen tent
of vendors were erected during the
afternoon, and visitors who go to the
NO FOOD SHORTAGE
II
Replies To Congressman Ham
mer Deny Pellagra outbreak
or Food Famine
The News and Observer Bureau,
Cu.'i District National Bank Bldg.,
By EDWARD E. BRITTON.
(By Special Leased Wire.)
Washington, Aug. 1. Congressman
Hammer is receiving many letters of
reply in answer to his letters of
inquiry to physicians and mayors in
his district as to the "famine, plague
and pellagra" reports of tho Public
Health Service, He wao greatly annexed
by the reports, and sees the necessity
for correcting them. The replies to
him, without a singlo exception deny
tho deplorable conditions reported ex
cept in two orhrco counties where a
slight increase of pellagra over last
vear was shown. Reports say money
is scarce, business dull, times hard,
but everywhere tho people have plenty
to eat.
Counties Have Food.
Ilokc as well as many other counties
in the center ot the cotton belt re
ports more than a sufficiency of food
products for the county. From
Richmond county ono physician re
ports that he has not collected
enough money from his practice to
pay his gasolene bills, but that there
is no real famine or plague of pella
gra. Other reports from the county
say food, peaches and blackberreis
are plentiful. Anson county, with
letters froih well known physicians
in WadesbOTo, Folkton and Morven,
say there is plenty to eat, while one
from Wadesboro says that persons
having pellagra have plenty to ear,
but fail to eat that because of not
knowing the value of a balanced diet.
Scotland county is all right, says a
letter from Laurinburg telling of an
abundance of poaa, beans potatoes,
green corn, okra, cabbage with nearl
every family in the rural districts
as well as "a lot of full grown chick
ens with more eggs than they can
use, while almost every family m the
county and tewn has a fine - Jersey
eW. Lee, Randolph, Davie. Yadkin.
Montgomery, all give good health re
ports. "Harding" hard times have not
reached Davidson, states a letter from
that county. Outside of the seventh
district a physician from High Point
writes that the President would have
served the 8outh much better had he
tnkon occasion to verify the informs
tion upon winch he acted before he
wrote his letter.
Invitation To Harding.
Senaor Simmons and- Overman snd
Beprevnutive Weaver lave received
telegrams from Mrs. Edith S. Vander
bilt, of Biltmore, president of the North
Carolina Agricultural Society. That to
Senatpr Simmons reading: "As presi
dent of tho North Carolina Agricul
tural Society, I desire through you snd
tho ether North' Carolina representa
tives to extend to President Harding
a very cordial invitation to attend the
North Carolina State Fair and make
an , address thtro on the nineteenth or
twentieth of'"Oiftober as may best suit
his eonvenienco. I am also telegraphing
Henator Overman and Representative
Weaver and would appreciate it very
much if you would confer with them
at once, calling tho other North Caro
lina Congressmen into tho conference
to act with you."
There will bo a conference as re
quested and the invitation extended
Seneator Simmons said ia reply: ''Presi
dent Harding is now oa short tacatioa
ia New England. Will confer with
Senator Overman and' Congressmsa
Weaver, and other representatives'' as
yon suggest and shall bo glad to urge
tho President on his reutra to Wash
ington to accept invitation to attend
State Fair and make address. . -
Congressman Ward .today introduced
bjl for tho survey of tho. Pasquo
tank Bivei at Elisabeth City. Another
hill iatroueed was to pay to W. L
Clark,- of Elisabeth City, SL500- for
dNBJgrto his boat, tho "Witerlily,"
' (Coatiaaed oa Fago Foar,) V.
N NOR
CAROLINA
Dry By Saturday
Drainage Takes Out Million
quarry today need not he thirsty nor
hungry if their thirst' can be quenched
with pop and their, hunger appeased
with carnival rationing.
City Collects Feea.
Question arose between the conces
sionaires on tho one hand and munici
pal authorities on the other as to
whether the vendors of meat and drink
were liable for payment of license
fees. The Mayor instructed the Chief
of Police to eollcct a fee of ten
dollars each from these tented cases1,
and among them were those who dU
puted with collector as to his right
to collect - the license when they . aerc
on State property.
Tho Board of Public Buildings and
Grounds has no objection to anybody
opening business there, from a shoe
shine parlor to a real estate and in
surance office, and has no interest in
the collection of totes. BiSt no ob
objection will be raised to the fatten
ing of tho city's treasury and the
Mayor is determined to ave his
money if business is to be done
there.
Priceo fiwlag Upward.
Licensed or not, the tents are ther?,
and appear to be going to stay there
until the last of the curious have gone
their way. Regular carnival tents
are- there to., house . .some of the
wiener emporiums, snd others .hold a
precarious location with nothing over
them but . tho shade of shabby, dust
covered trees. A dope costs ten
cents, and the ''wiener" had advanced
to the dignity- of a sandwich in price.
(Continued on pago foar.)
E
I
Was Former Chief of Police of
Matewan, W. Va.; Five Per
sons Under Arrest
Welch, W. Va., Aug. l.-Sid Hatfield's
career in West Virginia ended today
on the court house steps of this village.
It remains for a coroner's jury to
pass judgment to as to who shall be
held for trial on a charge of having
fired tho shot that ended tho life of
a picturesque figure in tho industrial
sjfifo of JIiao county,, C E. Lively,
La private detective, la being held, pend
ing a verdict.
Hatfield, former chief of police at
Matewan, and central figure in the trial
early this year of more than a score
of men charged in connection with the
(tilling of a private detective fourteen
months ago, together with his friend
Ed Chambers, also a defendant in that
trial, fell as a result of pistol shot
wounds suffered as the two men were
entering the little court house where
Hatfield was to face trial on another
shooting charge.
How Fight Started.
According to persons nearby, Hat
neiu, wun a party or mends, ap
proached the entrance to the court
house just before noon, where they
met Lively and a group of com
panions. Friendly greetings were said
to have been exchanged, but a moment
later theose on either side were not
iceil-to assume hostile' attitude. Loud
talking was- indulged in and this was
followed by the crack of pistol fige,
No one, however, could or would say
who commenced the shooting. Hatfield
and Chambers were seen to fall. Ex
amination revealed that Hatfield had
been shot in the chest and Chambers
in tho head and breast.
One of the guns carried by the Mag
nolia constables witnesses said ho .ear
riejl two bad been discharged, it wafc
said by those who rushed forward.
All shells in the pistol were empty,
it. was said. It was further stated
that Chambers had but one gun. Som
of the shells in it also had been fired
it was declared.
Caused No Flarry.
The shooting, although creating some
excitement, did not cause more than
a flurry and thr large crowd in Welch
for the trial was dispersed quickly by
local authorities. Tho charge on which
Hatneld was to have been tried today
was in' connection with the shootia,
up oi oionawi, w, va., about year
ago.
Mrs. Sid natfield, who formerly was
the wife of Major C. C. Tetcrman, one
or those sl.vn in the Matewaa battle.
which resulted in tho deaths of seven
private detectives and three citizens.
was in vteiea to attend court at the
time.' Her marriage to Hatfield was
solemnised two weeks after tho death of
Matewan s chief executive.
C. E. Lively was the "sorprise wit
ness for tho prosecution ia tho trial
conducted in conneetioa with tho death
of Albert C. Felts, director of the band
of private detectives which had been
sent to Matewaa for tho purpose of
evicting miners' fetnilies from the
bouses of a eoal company. This trial
was the eulminatioa of atreet battle
in the West Virginia mining towa one
year ago laat May 19. Whea tho battle
started .that afteraooa tho detective
bad completed their work fad were oa
their way from the htrtet at whbh they
had been stopping to tho railroad at
tioa aearby. Immediately after tho
acquittal pj a jury that had listeaed
for many weeks to testlmoay ia tho
ease; Hatfield ana the eo-defeodaats re
turned to Matewaa.
Shortly thereafter, Hatfield, was re
moved from tho office of chief of police
and immediately elected aa constable
of tho Magnolia district, aa office ho
xstaiaed to us time of fcia death.
A
I KILLED
DURING UN El H
RESIDENT
SPEAKS
AT CELEBRATION OF
S'
Re-Dedicates Plymouth Rock
As Symbol of brotherhood
For The World Today
STRESSES PRINCIPLES
OF PILGRIM FATHERS
he President Also Eulogises
Achievements of The English-Speaking
Races ; Modern
Mayflower Carries Execu
tive To Plymouth, Mass. ;
Other Prominent Speakers
Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 1. Plymouth
Rock, for three centuries a landmark
of American freedom, was rededicafed
by President Harding today a a- sym
bol of "real human brotherhood' for
all the world.
Speaking at the tercentenary cele
bration of the landing of the Pilgrims,
tho President declared his fervent hope
that tho. principle of toleration and
liberty for which our fathers crossed
tho Atlantic might soon awake a new
world era in which peace and under
standing would be assured among the
nation... IU. rcuirfra. in .particular to
tho nation s effdrt toward disarmament,
asserting his faith that the movement
would Succeed.
Tribato to Pilgrims
With" his tribute to the Pilgrims, Mr.
Harding linked a eutngy to the achive-
ments of the English-speaking race
everywhere and declared he waa con
vineea mat me mission of the race
would encompass even greater things
than it had yet accomplished. The
leadership of the English-speaking peo
ple in tho present world crisis, he said,
could not bo denied nor doubted by
anyone.
The President's address, delivered
within a few hundred feet of the spot
where Plymouth Rock has been en
closed in iron palings to preserve it
for posterity, was part of an anniver-.
sary celebration ia which Vice-President
Coolidge and many other high.offl
cials wf state and nation participated.
trhr hi the day he had headed and
reviewed a parade of civic, military
and naval organizations through the
historic streets of Plymouth, and to-
aigh't he witnessed the tercentenary
pageant reproducing the landing of
the Pilgrims.
Maylower of Today
With Mrs, Harding and a party of
friends ,tho Piesidoot reached Ply
mouth from Washington shortly be
fore noon on his yacht Mayflower
named for tho Pilgrim ship which ca
tered this harbor under such widely
different circumstances three hundred
years ago. Three battleships and six
destroyers formed an escort for the
Mayflower of today. She was weleomed
by a booming of the Presidential salute
from a battery ashore, while a British
cruiser, the Cambrian, dipped her flag
at Jier anchorage just outside Ply
mouth harbor.
Ashore a troop of cavalry formed a
Presidential guard of honor and many
organizations, including a unit of Brit
ish marines from the Cambrian, march
ed in the parade which passed in re
view before Mr. Harding and his party.
Other ilpeakera
The President's hope that Plymouth
Hock might become a shrine for all,
free nations was echoed in brief ad
dresses by William H. Dcbeaufort,
charge of the Dutch legation at Wash
iagton, and Captain Sydney H. Bayley,
naval attache of the British embassy.
Vice-President Coolidge, who was not
scheduled to deliver an address, satis
ficd the demands of the throng by
speaking briefly. Secretary of War
Weeks slso had a place in the apeak'
era' stand.
The exercises, indeed, were turned
Into an "Old Home Weeh" celebration
whea at the word of the chairman that
thev were to be closed, the crowd called
loudly for Vice President Coolidge;
Senator Lodge, Major General Clarenee
R. Edwards and Secretary Weeks.
President Herding first brought to the
front personally the senior Senator
from Mapsachusetts.
Leaving late tonight aboard the
Mayflower the President and his party
expect to reach Portland, Main, to
morrow and there take automobiles for
Lancaster, N. H., where they will spend
the remainder of the week resting at
Secretary Weeks place and sight seeing
among the White mountains.
DR. A. PAUL BAGBY TO
GO TO WAKE FOREST
Accepts Position On College
. . Faculty; Will Also Have
Charge of Church
Louisville. Aug. f. After having been
pastor of the Highland Baptist ChurchJ
for ten years, the Rev. a. raui nagDy,
DD- Testerday tendered his resigns
tioa to accept aa important charge with
tho church and college at Wake Torest,
N. C, ono of the leading Baptist schools
ia the South, and will remove with his
family to that place probably early in
September.
Three weeks ago Dr. Bagby for the
fourth time during his residence here
won tho golf championship of Ken
tucky. Ha did teaching work lor ut.
E. Y. Mullins in th Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary during the tatter's
world tnnr ' last vear ia a survey of
Christian world conditions. U attead
ed to both teaching and pastoral work
and was ia charge of tho Y. M- A
work at the bast hospital at Camp Zotlr
arr Tavlor.
Tho Highland Bapist Church oa Cher
okee Road ia reported to have mado ua
anal progress in recent years under
Dr. Burbr. All indebtedness on the
ew edifice was wiped out and a largo
rer-eobtcriptioa mad ia tho 75W0,
000 fund ouota last year. Ia additioa
to his dutiea at tho college Dr. Bagby
will bo raster of tho leading Baptist
PIL1
LANDING
eh arch .fit Wk forest, 4
Confesses Crime So As To
Square Hijnself With God
Thomas Jackson, Former Ayden Man, Makes Public Admis
sion That He Set Fire to Pressing Club Several Years
Ago to Get Insurance Money ; Decided to Confess
After Conversion by "Cyclone" McLendon
Ayden, Aug. 1. Impelled by a deep
and growing spiritual eonviction that
he should conftss a criu:e that has bc;n
a local mystery fo' several years,
Thomas Jackson, a former citizen of
thi place, yesterday mado public ad
mission in the presence of a hundred
or more persons in the Seminary audi
torium here that he set fire to his clothes
pressing establishment in order to oi
led insurance money on a policy j
hsd purchased a short time previous.
Tho blare started by Jackson, accord
ing ta his statement, also dost roved the
Ross hotel and, damage J a residential
atructure. .
No Actioa Taken.
Late today it was learrid from local
representatives of insurance comonni's
that no action against Jackson had been
planned so far. It appears that tho
matter will be one for. the local au
thrrities, but deflnits steps in this di
rection were not taken today.
Jackson, who now iivea near Green
ville, announced on the streets of
Ayden Saturday afternoon that he
would preach in the auditorium of the
seminary Sunday afternoon, and inci
dentally eonfided to a few friends his
intention of mi.kinit a public confes
sion of the burning of a pressing estab
lishment, of which ho was proprietor,
iomo years ago in order that he might
-oMc-tlw4iwMe--wey-,
Tells Whole Story.
Ytcrd3l afternoon, in the presence
of a large crowd, Jackson, with a voico
almost choked by emotioa, recited
tho details, telling how he took hie
rifle near tho mldntRM hour nnd lwTt
home, fiHly intending to kill anyone
who happened to see or recogniro htm
Boll Weevil Plays Havoc
With South's Cotton Crop
Forecast of Production 8,203,
000 Bales; Condition July
25, 64.7 Per Cent
SMALLEST COTTON CROP
IN QUARTER OF CENTURY
Further Threat of Damage,
Says Department; Condition
In N. C. 75 Per Cent
Washington, Aug. 1. Tho boll weevil
played havoc with tho South's cotton
crop daring July, heavy ralnfal) aiding
in tho destruction by promoting a rank
growth of weeds and grass, and as a
result a prospective production of -8,-1
203,000 bales' was forecast today by
the Department of Agriculture, basing
its estimate on conditiohs existing July
25. That is a loss of. 230,000 bales com
pared with the production forecast a
month ago.
The crop declined 4.S points during
the month, much mora than the average
decline, bringing condition to 64.7 per
ecnt of a normal, the lowest July 25th
condition on record with one exception
that of 1386, when it was 64.1.
As unpromising is thb present condi
tion of the crop throughout most of
the belt, there is still very serious
threat, the Department experts say, of
continued and increased damage from
the boll weevil, while grass fnd weeds
are exhausting much of tho crop that
remains.
Summary f Condition
Summarising conditions, the depart
ment issued a statement saying:
"Cotton suffered more than the
usual decline during July, being dam
aged particularly by the boll weevil,
especially in the newly invaded terri
tories in South Carolina, eastern Geor
gia, southern and eastern Oklahoma
and southern Arkansas. Damage from
the insect throughout the belt has been
heavy and tlie threat of continued and
increased damage Is very serious. In
many -sections it'pfbmises to take all
new growth.
"This condition results largely from
the heavy July rainfall, which ha also
leached out much of tho scanty supply
of fertilizer and encouraged a heavy
growth ot grass and weeds which Is
exhausting much of what remains.
"Farmers are unable to give a final
dressing of fertilizer in most instances,
aa has been the custom. Through most
of the belt the present condition of
the plant is unpromising, sinee it faces
on the ode hand the danger of drought
nnd on tluP other increased damsge from
the boll weevil.
''Conditions are favorable only in
the fringes of the belt in western Texas,
wcjtern Oklahoma, along the Missis
sippi River from northern Mississippi
through Tennessee and into Missouri,
in Virginia snd North Carolina, the
northern portion of South Carolina and
in the delta section of Mississippi,
where the plants are well rooted and
sturdy with good set of first erop
bolls."
Comparative Conditions
The condition wns 74.1 per cent on
July 25 last year, 67.1 ia 1819 nnd the
tea year July 25 average is 75.4. tast
year's irop was 13,365,754 bales, that of
1919 was 11,420,763 bales, in 191 it was
12,040,532, ia 1917 it was 11,10;,375 and
ia 1916 it was 11,449,930.
Tho condition lay states follows:
Virginia, 82; North Carolina, 75;
South Carolina, 62; Georgia, 59; Flo
rida 60; Alabama, 88; Mississippi, 6$;
Louisiana, 69; Texas, 62; Arkansas, 76;
Tennessee, 75; Missouri, 80; Oklahoma.
68; California," 83; Afiiona. W. All
other state 88.
FOUR PERSONS KILLED
WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO
Jacksoaville, FUu, Aug- ! Four per
sons .were killed whea a Florida East
Coast Railroad trala struck an automo
bile acres tho ' river from here, ae-
cording toi report received at police
seadquartora.
He said ho poured gasoline on the
floor t tho pressing f li b building anl
then ignited it. Tho blnze rapidly
spread. The Ross hotel was also de
stroyed and a resilience nearby was
badly damaged-
Jackson, who says lie was converted
last fall during the revival meetings.
conducted by "Cyclone" MeLendon at
Greenville, told his hearers he had been
unable to rid his mind of the crime,
and asserted that God told him he must
confess his sins before he could be for
given. Jackson presaged his remarks
with the text ""That every knee must
bow and every tongue confess."
Squared Himself
None who heard Jackson doubted his
sincerity, and it is now a question of
what action will be tnitcn In tho mar.
ter by the insurance companies. Jack
son says this is a matter .of no concern
to him, as he wanted trt SQll ace him sett
with his Maker, adding that after he
had prayed earnestly over it God di
reeled him to come bs'h here and toll
all about the crime.
Tho sympathy of those present was
with the mnn who bare! his life in obe
dience to the text and :nany went up to
ehake hands with him st the conclusion
of his talk nnd congratulate him upon
his manly stand.
At the . offices of the North Carolina
Insuruuco 3)'epMiuo'nt' yterdSy "if ""
stated that-aa examination . of records
of the past scferat years failed to dii
close sny investigation having been made
of the fire Thomas Jackson is said to
have admitted he trtd at Ayden for
the purpose of collecting money on an
insurance policy.
Petitions In Circulation In
Goldsboro But No Action
Taken By Aldermen
By JOBM A. LIVINGSTONE
.. (taff Correspondent)
Ooldsboro. Aug. J. An advertised
eruption over the removal of City Man
agsr W. M. Rich did not take pluce
tonight. Instead there was one of the
Aldest meetings of the board of alder
men that has been held this year. Only
routine business was transacted and the
score of men on hand to watch the
fireworks found the pyrotechnic instead
'at tho woman's club, whero something
more than a hundred women were en
gagod in discussing way a and means of
Improving conditions.
The women centered their attack on
tho country home, at which conditions
are said not to be of the best. Chairman
Bizzell, of the Wayne board of com
missioners, slipped into tho women's
meeting to hear what wss going on.
He was called on for a speech. He
isn't an orator, but he talked straight
and let the women know he was with
them henrt nnd soul.
GoMoboro Haa Religion
Goldsboro has got religion all ovet,
but it isn't the kind that would ride a
man. out of town on a fence rail be
cause of his moral or religious views.
The kind of religion these folks have is
that of which the Master spok when be
told the rich man to sell what h had
and glv to the poor.
It is'nt the religion of intolerance but
the religion of love for one's fellowmen.
It isn't denied that there are some who
would tighten up the reins to forco
those to come iu who might rebel, but
they are not ia tho- majority- There
are not among the ruling spirits.'
Th Recall' Movement
While sthe city mannger holds office
at the discretion of the board of alder
men, a definite movomcnt was started
after the municipal election in May to
get a new man for the job. Dissatisfac
tion over the way money had been
spent in building streets seems to have
been st the bottom of it. Then came
the Ham revival, which overshadowed
everything else, and the movement died
down. It was almost forgotten until
sn. event that happened two kecks ago.
(Contlnaed oa Page Nine.)
CARRYOVER OF COTTON
HEAVIEST ON RECORD
Secretary Hester's Figures
Show Commercial Crop of
11,377,316 Bales
New Orleans, Aug. 1. The cotton new
year, with its annual statistics snd rush
of excited trading, was marked today
by an advance in pric which experts
estimated would bring Southern plant
ers M.I ,"00,000 more for their erop.
The day' developments put the price
up a cent a pound. Interest was cen
tered mainly ia the item of th carry
over, which was placed by H. G. Hester,
secretary of tho New Orleans Cotton
Exchange, at 9,194,000 bales, tty largest
carry over oa record. '
Secretary Hester announced the com
mercial crop for the year ending July 30
st 11,377,318 bales, a decrease under
fast year of 1,063,864, a decrease under
year before last of 932,337, snd a de
crease under 1917 '18 of 529,607.
Southera consumption, which hi stated
st ZflW&H bales, Mr. Better says, in
dicates a decrease of 694,501 bales com
pared with bst yesf aad a decrees com
pared with year before laat of 437,273.
Mr. Heater estimated the world's con-
tumptioa of America a eottoa at 10,500,-
REVIVAL REVIVES
RECALL MOVEMENT
wv paioa, r -
SECRETARY MELLO
SUGGESTS METHODS
F
Proposes Flat License Tax of
Ten Dollars On All Makes '
of Automobiles
WOULD LEVY TWO CENTS '
TAX ON ALL BANK CHECKS
Three Cents first Class Pos.
tage Sate and Added Lev
On Cigars, Tobacco and
Cigarettes Among Sugges
tions Made To Raise Four
Billion Dollars Next Year
Washington. Aug. l.-X tat of two
cenTs oii hank cheeks, aflat license tax.
of 110 no. all automobile, irrespective
of cost or horse power, an increase of
first class postage rates to three cents
and an added levy on cigars, tobacco
and cigarettes are understood to havo
been among tax revision suggestions ,
presented today by Secretary Mellon to
tho House ways and mean committee,
meeting, in executive session.
uther suggestions were said to hav
included:
AtsMtiniW-of M-pet TfeffMlt -tnnt' -portntioa'
ta xes, both passenger and
freight, next year and their elimina-"
tion the year following.
Kepeal of the taxes on soda foun
tain drink and ice cream.
Repeal of the excess profits tax and
elimination of the 2,(.KXl exemptioa oa
corporations incomes.
Increase of the normal income tax
on corporations from the present tea
per cent to fifteen per cent.
Elimination of the income surtax
brackets above 4i) per cent with tho sur
tax rates on iucumes ranging from
'.,000 to .Ki.OOO increnaed.
Would Raia Foar Billioaa
the revenue bill as revised in accord
with these suggestions would bo de
signed to raise approximately four bil
lions of dollars next year, it was said.
Mr. Mellon's memorandum embodying
his views was withheld, but Chsinrtaa
i'ordney promised .to make it publie)
tomorrow.
--Representative Garner, of. Texan,
ranking Democrat member of the com- '
mittoe, attacked the Treasury Secre
tary's proposals, declaring that every
one of them constituted a "shifting of
the tax burden from the classes to tho
masses."
Mr. Mellon was said to have esti
mated government expenditure for
Host year at $4,675,000,000, but Chair
man Fordney said this wa dependent
upon how much of th 1500,000,000 duo
tho railroads would have to be ad
vanced out of the Federal Treasury,
the cost of operating the government
merchant fleet and the aire of expendi
ture for the army and navy.
Custom Receipt
Aside from internal taxes, the Treas
ury Secretary wns understood to havo
estimated customs receipts for next
year at f 150,000,000 and miscellaneous
receipts, including salvage at V!50,000,
000. Ho waa said to have figured fhat
the $10 license tax on automobiles
would bring in 10"0O0o0 and that aa
edded levy on cigars, tobacco and
cigarettes an additional fC5,0O0,0O0. la
creased postal rates have been esti
mated to yield another $73,000,000, but
the estimate as to the income from tho
proposed tax on bank checks wa not
disclosed.
The loss of revenue through redac
tion of the transportation tsxe has
been placed at approximately $150
000,000.
After tho committee had heard Mr.
Mellon, Internal Revenue Commissioner
Blair, Dr. T. 8. Adams, treasury tax
expert, and other fiscal officers of tho
government, Chairman Fordney reiter
ated his statement of last Saturday that
he believed the. nation's tax hill could
be cut $o00,000,000 and the government
run for four billion dollars a c.a.r. . .
- Ca'raer I'rge Economy -
RepresentativeGarner said that gov
ernment expenditure in excei of that
sum next year would be a "wilful,
wicked waste of public funds, .wholly ,
indefensible." He asserted tlit tho
Federal establishment could be run for
$3,500,000,000, adding that Koprcsent
tive Madden, of Ilinois, the new chair
man of the appropriations committee,
had declare. ( in an sddrcss that thin
turn should be sufficient.
Before the committee heard tho
Treasury experts, the Republican mem.
bera were in conference with Mr. Mad
den for a discussion of expenditure
next year and more particularly the
needs of the Shipping Board, the army
and the navy. t
Examination of the Treasury officer .
concluded the committee's hesrings oa
the revision measure snd tho Republic '
can member plau to get to work to-.,
morrow on a final draft of tho bill.
Chairman Fordney reiterated that- th
committee probably could not complex
the measure nndcrthree weeks. V
BAYBORO CITIZEN ENDS
LIFE WITH A PISTOL
New Bern, N. C, Aug. 1. Leaving a
letter giving instructions regarding hia
funersl, naming the man to dig hi
grave and the kind of coffin ha deairod,
E. A. Hough, 72, prominent retiredl
business man of Bayboro, near hero,
ended his life at Bayboro early today
by firing bullet through his head. IU
health i believed to havo bee th
cans.
CLOUDBURST IN VIRGINIA
CAUSES DAMAGE OF $20,000
Danville, Va., Aug. 1. A tloudbarst
caused damage estimated af $20,000 ai
Gretna, a small towa near her, late
Saturday tight, according to advke
reaching her today. Rain tamo dowo
in torrent and a th culvert wer
anabl to carry off the water it backed
ap ia the atreet, daanging atores ani
residcata, - . i-.
ORRAISINGIiiEY