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Ed Observer wATCauca yor par. f n rntu v iefor irrmon la or to au4 BiMiftg & cepy. Continued warm " goHr ftr mU Friday aad Satar. y. VOL. CXIV. NO. 64. SIXTEEN PAGE5 luUAY. ; RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 192!. SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. PRICE: FIVE CENTS FARMERS PiN FAITH SECR II is Colleges Postpone Openings s MORRISON REFUSES CONCORD'S APPEAL FOR STATE TROOPS v In Face of City s Water Famine IH MARKET SYSTEM, WILL B YIELD IN THIRD OF Mereciith And State. Colleg Students Will Arrive Week SOON AS POSSIBLE Water; Apparently Little Change In Situation; Weather Bureau Holds Out Little Promise of Showers' I 7T7"A News a mm mm mm vsrr m 10 SESSION CENTURY FOREGAS W. B. Blatock, of Wadesboro, i . Heads State Convention V of Farmers MRS. R. K. DAVENPORT IS HEAD QF WOMEN'S GROUP Co-operative Marketing . Is ' Theme of Final Day's Con vention ; Dr. J. Y. Joyner and L. S. Tomlinson Speak -r Women Discuss farm Home Work " T ' Pkditinilfcetr "t aith in co-operative North Carolina Farmers and farm women who hav been In session here for three days in annual eonvehtions, adjourned yesterday shortly afternoon with the election of officers. U." B." Elaloek, of Wadesboro, sue feeds B. E. Miller, of Mount Ulla, president of the farmers organisation, while W. W. Shay, of Raleigh Weeeds W. F. Bute, of Baleigh as Secretary. .Vice president ire to be appointed by the president. tk rurrn Women's Convention, in closing session, elected -Mfs. K- Davenport, of Wbitsett. president n Mrs. Lilly York Ballentine, of Carde nas, vice president: and Mrs. Jane Mc- Kimmon, Kaletgn, wcreiary. Yin tfcn eve. of airrmrnmcut, the Far Pnnvention. with Dr. Clarence Poe in the chair, adopted resolutions en "., i m.rlcnt.inir and the sign Tip month, September 13-Octobcr 15; urging the development of plans for hntviA nwn ershio: urging the more gen eral growth of livestock, Bd the use of farm machinery; advocating better drainage facilities and care of the forests; and a cow and garden for ev ery farm protesting against a leak . I. th. nount taxes as exposed by lit V. C. Brooks: asking for a campaign ninrt nrnfltMrine: endorsing, the -use of Muscle Shoals as a means of cheaper nitrate; protesting against increased jf i nntn.li: and-asking for data through tlie State and National farm agencies on principal crops trihution among the farmerB, for dig- rjnrUve Marketing Day. . Thursday was co-operative day for the convention. L. S. Tomlinson spoke Art r'n.nnorative Marketing' ana " the - Business manf P. J. V. JoTW J ""obperativ Marketing of Tobacco and K. W. Galtbcr en Co-o-perative . Market's of Sweet Potatoes. ; 1 ( At the beginning ot the wonting session. A. J. tnekher,.serethry of the National 'Tana Loaa Association, Ral eigh; spok on thou of th federal lion Bank and t the close of It, h M. Workman, completed hi address and demonstration on warehousing cot ton. . . - - !5 want to tell you and I want you to-go back to your homes and tell your Beighbors that co operative mar keting means, more to the South than 'any proposition ever afforded save ar.d except only Jesus Christ" declared Mr. Tomlinson. . , He discussed co-operative market ing from the business standpoint, point- - ing out that the system is advantag eous to merchants because . it enables the farmer to trade with the merchant and to' meet his obligations, and it in- ' creases the farmers' spending powers. Dr. Joyner in bis address stres'jjd the-trcinendous earnings of manufac turers of tobacco in the last eighteen months, without any reduction in the price to the consumer, compared this with the pitifully small price paid the farmer for bis tobaeeo, and then cited the fact that the cost of loaf tobacco is. seventy per cent of the . eost of Bianuacture. i H pointed to one tobacco manufac turing concern that declared a dividend tt 75 per eent oa its common stock, amounting to 170 per eent of the orig inal eomeaoa steck of the corporation, . and another whose net earningt lor a year were wt down as 18,600,000. . Chief Cause f Ignorance. ' The chief cause of Ignorance in the South, Dr. Joyner maintained, lis the low price of the Bouth'a ehlef money trope, formosly he said, cotton and tobacco were grown with negro slave labor, bow they are grown with white and black slave labor because the far ier ncvet gets a returns pa the labor af his wife and children put into the croductloa of kit crops. The whole trouble is with marketing y lntained. The farmer is ca'cghl lhj one aide by organised buyers ' Sad on .the other by. organized sellers, bneco crop is marketed ia the 'first sixty days. ' - ' Women's Coaveatloa. Election of officers for aext year was the main business of the brief session - of the Farm Women's Convention held yesterday morning. The officers follow: Mrs. B. K. Davenport, of Whitaett, Guilford County, president; Mrs. Lilly Yatet Ballentine, of Cardenas, Wake County, vice-president; and Mrs. Jane & McKimmon, of. Kalclgo, secretary treasurer. -'C ' Mrs. McKimmon spoke briefly on tho remarkable growth of the ram Worn Convention" since the -first on held ia 1910, which only ova women attended. Since- many women leave Baleigh before the election of offleert on the final day. It was voted to have the election next year oa the afternoon of the convention's big ' day whea all the delegate could be present A reso lutioa Thanking the Stat College for Its courtesy to the farm womea was adopted. ''. " "i - 1 'k Report Fross Farm Bartaa. '' -; Immediately spoa the conclusion of the Farm Women' Convention, there wa held the annual meeting -of -the 'North Carolina Farm and Hon Bureau with Mrs. Willard McDowell, of Meek lenborg , j presiding. L'lecttea of . the 'Bureau' officers for next year wa as , Contlaa4 oa Fag Fent.J ;, . ' ' . -' .' -' ; - s Camp at Fayetteville Not To Be Abandoned Until Secre tary Injects It' I BRINSON FINDS DELAY ? , IN VETERANS' BUREAU Senate Finince Committee To Writ New"TXevenut Law latirely: Paper , Published In Samoan Island Pays Tri hnteTo Judge A. M. Noble; Helping- Former Soldiers New and Observer, Bureaa, C03 District Kational Bank Buildisg. By EDWARD . BRITTOJf (By Special Leased Wire) Washingtoa, Sept. 1. Despite' all the order for the' moving of troop aad for the transfer of o peers from one section to another, Camp Bragg kt box yet wiped off the map a an army camp. Since the departure, of the hio- eatioa from Fayetteville, which per sonally urged 8eer?tary of War Weeks not to permit the camp to be aban doned, that experts had declared there was no better range of ..heavy guns to be found than at tho oamp near ray ottevillo. orders for troops ther to move as near Si?ptember I n pae Lticable have been steadily issued, while War Department -order have been issued from time to time assigning the officers at Camp Bragg to other posts Not Yet Abandoned As September 1 ia here, S personal statement was sought this morning from Secretary of war Week. Ho was asked as to the status of Camp Bragg, whether or not it would be vacated un der the orders issued, and whether the previous understanding that he would -visit the camp wa correct. The answer was that Secretary Week has suspended the orders for tho vacation of Camp Bragg, and that as soon as possible he would visit it himself, so as to examine into condition. Asked how soon he expetced to visit the camp. the statement from him wa that he hoped to do so in tho next week or ten davs. So. until - Secretary Weeks personally inspects Camp. Bragg it is not going o be abandoned, no matter wh changes are maa in me troops which are now there. Some special War Department orders made public today show that somo m ecr or command wmch. .win go io Camp Bragg are to bo mnwerrea, 10 other rommands on. arrival at Camp Bract?. Twelve offiecT, flrjt lieuten ant, eaotaia and major, are relieved Jtom duty with tho S'nh Attn lery to tuke ejact pon it arrivti at Camp Bragg, aad when tt Is piaeoa on the inactive list they go to me JJta Field Artillery. Afcd aimilar orders re issued to eleven of the same class officers transferred from 19th Field Artillery to the Slat Field Artillery, when tho regimental headquarter and the first battalion of. the 49th Jiela Artillery arrive at Camp Bragg. , Brlnsoa rlaaa ueiay CongreMmaa Brinsoa declare that he find inexcusable delay ia tho War Veterans' Bureau, having handled ease personally today, tba of Edward L. TiMen, .of Goldsboro, who developed a ease of tuberculosis ater beiag cap tured in France and held in prison in Germany for two month. He is under treatment at Biltmore, bnt managed to get to Washington .stating to Mr. Erin son that he bad been writing to the War Kisk Bureau for ncarl a year about past duo eomepnsation, but could get no at tention to his letters. Mr. Brinsoa went with him to the Veterans' Bureau, pressed the matter and jn a few hours had secured the payment of some $700 to 1800 a itd after a physician' exam. nation a further compensation of (80 a month. The man ought not to have to come here to push hi ease, said Mr, Erinson. "If there had been no one here to aid him he might waiting yet." Tariff Bill Aald. The Fordney tariff bill wa laid aside by the Senate finane eommitte today and its attention was given to the Fordney tax bill, tho second of the monstrosities bora to the Republicans of the House. 'And the' decision la to rewrite the tariff bill. The ttatemca from the eommitte i that the bill it propose to make will not be a aerie of amendment to tho existing law, but will Include ia on document every in ternal revenue law oa tho statute-books. 8o come the word front Chairman Pen rose, who i the wholo (hooting match so far a th Republican go. Ho says that it i desired to perfect a measure to which any individual tax-payer eould turn and Had any tax provision af fcctihg hi payments. The Fordney bill ia also" idewipd by Senator Bmoot, who bat prepared bill all hi own to tak the place of the fordney offerings, which a hold sot the measure that hould be adopted and bring mora, dissension into tho Republican ranks with, hi scheme. He propose to raiie f.,895,000,000 from only sis sources of taxation: Ineom tux with a- msiumunt rat of 22 pe eent; tea per cent oa net corporation profit; 'tobacco taxes at, th present rat ; estate taxes; a three per coat manufacturers' sales tax; th import taxes, '." . These would bring la. $3,230,000,000 sna me oiner wiowjJW n counts on getting from th collection of unpaid taxes, receipt from war sal vara, and th old tax oa withdrawal of liquors from bonded -warehouses. Ho predict a cut in expense and hold that hi plan will give th government a unlu of $434,700,000 for tho treasury to moot other demand. , Veteran Baroaa Bosv - Th Veterans' Bureau ia beginning to announce th results, of some of th work being done , by it "clean "op quad, which aro being sent over' the country to aid former service saea to (ConUaaed w Fare Foot) . Poetpoaesaeat of th opaBlng 4at for 1 State Collet of Agriculture and a- gihecring aad for Meredith Collcg aad th tugeatioa that similar action may be considered today by tho Baleigh Township School Committe as a awn of farther conserving the dimin ishing water supply at I Raleigh featured th development of th day yesterday. Faced by the fact that ther Is leas thaa tea day supply of water ' on hand. Dr.. W. C. Riddick, President of State College, announced that th open ing scheduled for September S woobl sot tako place an til September LI, while Dr. Charle E. Brewer. President of Meredith, snsouared that She open ing of Meredith htd been postponed from September 7 until September 14. Eoth Peace Institute and St. Mary's School open oa September 14 and 15. Now High Prossar Periods Following a eonferoaca between Commissioner of Pubis - Works John Bray, Dr. E. F Long, eounty health officer E. B. Bain superintendent of the Waterworks, and Engineer H. H. Mil Ifr, of the State Board of Health it was announced ysterday that begin ning today high pressure will only be be used between tho hours from 7:30 to 8:30 o'clock ia tt morning and from 8:30 ontil 8:00 in th evening. Raleigh i act alone in its water famine. From th town of Wilson yes terday cams an appeal to the City Com missioners to forward at once a copy of th eity ordinance recently, adopted her to reduce the consumption of Gen. Bandholtz Requests Troops Be Sent At Once Telegraphs Jo Washington Fol lowing Reports On Coal Field Situation NO CASUALTIES ARE ' REPORTED DURING DAY Advices Indicate Ho Disposition By Miners To Disperse . Armed Forces Charleston, W. V., Seyt, t.-BrigadUr General H. H. Banihaita early tfjjs iaorniag suuumaeoi- that he had aeai-a a telegram to th Washington War De- partatBt requesting that Federsl tropi bo sent to West Virginia at one. 4 , General Bandholts't announcement follows: ' i "I am satisfied the' miners will Sot obey th President'! reclamation, I have dispatched a telegram to, Wash Ington requesting that Federal troops bo sent into West Virginfa imme diately. General Bandholtz' decision was reached after he had listened to a report made by Colonel 8tanley . H Ford and Major' C. H. Thompson, who late last night returned from a trip along th Boone-Logan eounty line. Request Received. Washington, Sept. 2. The request of Brig General H. H. Bandholts for Fed eral troops in th West Virginia itrut area, was received at the War Depart mcnt at 1:40 o clock this morning and immediately .referred to Major . General Habord. assistant caief of staff, - A question, however, arose as to whether the message was a recom mendation or a request for troop and it was sent to Adjutant General Harris for an interpretation. General Harris later admitted that ho had received "a telegram com' munieation,' but said that' "nothing would bo given out. Later it was understood that the message was a "request for troops.' DESULTORY FIRING ALONG ' ENTIRE LINK REPORTED Logan, W. Vs, Sept. WDesnltory firing along Crooked Crock and in the Blair Mountain district thi aftoraoon wa reported to the authorities here tonight. ' Th advice were that nose of th Logan eounty forces Wis hit. It was net determined whether the other side suffered casualties. These dis tricts wer "the seen ' of yesterday's engagement, one of w.-ch resulted in tho known , death of three men. At other poaits along . th Logan-Boone eonnty border quiet prevailed. Aa uirplan soared above Blair and Hewitt' Creek late in the day. Upon its -ceturn to Logan tho aviator report ed to Sheriff Don Chafla that h had observed a large gartering of met serosa the ridge, evidently in eoa ferene. He further stated that groups wero seen traveling westward, , ap-paroatly-to joia-ta fores assembled la th Jeffrey-Blalr region. GOVERNMENT AWAITS MORE ' INFORMATION ON SITUATION Washingtoa, Sept. 1. Preliminary re port having indicated a breaking vp of th band operating ia tho West Virginia coal fields, officials of th. Fed eral government tonight deferred de cision oa th question, of Intervention ia the (tat pending a mor complete and, final report from General H. H. Bandholtz, th war Department's representative ia th disturbed area. War .Danartment official were not prepared to say whea the com pie to re port of Geueral Bandholts, oa which President Harding and Secretary Week will base their decision, might be ex pec ted. Belief was expressed la some quarter that th general would not be ablo to effect a complete survey of th situation and report before tomorrow and thi feeling apparently was shsred by Secretary Weeks, who after receiving th first report cancelled plans te (Continued a peg foar) water. From L. A. Denson, of th Weather Eurean, it appears that th dry area axtemfi from , Rowsa aad Rockingham (ountie East to North ampton and as far south as Wake. Yesterday was th 110th day . sines ther was a rainfall of as much a an inch of rain in Z4 hoar. It wa the 97th day since ther was a much as tore quarter of an inch Of rtin. The prospect, he declares, is not en couraging, unless tk continued hot wave devlbps a local thunderstorm. Mayor Imps la Teach Mayor T. D. Eldridgo eommnnicatsd with tho News and Observer last night upon hi arrival in Blowing Rock where ks had planned to spend, ttre- rest of the week. "If there Is any seed fouiy pres ence In Raleigh I can leavtir on short notice." Mayor Eldrtdg declared, explaining that before hi departure all wis steps which eould well be token in the conservation of the limited water supply had beta undertaken. J. B. Collie, former Superintendent of th Stat Prison, yesterday pointed ot that three artesian wells on the site of Camp Polk can supply enough water to accommodate 60,000 people. Mr. Collie was of the , opinion that the pumps used by the government at Camp Polk aro still in serviceable shape. The artesian well water, he believes, with the laying of a pipe line to the eitv lines at the State Fair Grounds, eould be easily and without much expense, be pumped into the city system.' No action had been taken son this sugges tion last night. BEM PIES Frank Parker Returns Visit To Border Markets From Good grade of tobacco, composing fifteen per eent . of th crop ,6n the border loos leaf market In August bonght almost b good price a last year according to Mr.' Parker Agrtculturl eUtisUeiatt, who has just returned frotn a vliii to the markets in Robeson and uoiumoui counties. Theso - grades," says Mr. Parker, "may b expectod to sell favorably over the entire bright letf belt. The fifty per cent of medium grades are much lower than last year, but are far better than the 33 per cent of the crop that is ordinary and which it doesn't pay to haul to market ''The estimated average price for August over the belt will be about four teen cents as sompared with about eight in July. The larger proportion of good grades have helped the August sales. A recent day's break at Fairmont at 26 cents caused many farmers to smile. Whiteville soems to have htd the best of the crop,' averaging near twenty cents. Lumberton averaged about ten cents as compared with less than six in July. Excepting Lumber- ton all of those markets closed with August. Big breaks were sold during the last days. ' Thirty cents for good grades were quoted. Twelve cents for medium and below three cent for th poorer gades were not unusual. Th total production of this belt is fore casted at three-fourth's of last year's crop with tho quality about the same. although the color is irregular even if brighter. The exture is the selling factor more than color this year. The unfavorable weather caused varying color and a rather thin body. Th main bright leaf belt has a very variaois prospect, .uenerally however, th "body' i much better than last year. Th yield per acre is good ia the sew aad light in tho old belts. A terribly dry area is found throughout th upper Piedmont counties. The late erop were badly hurt. Most all crop this year hav been given mor - distance and topped lower than last, year's crop." Cat Newsprint Price New York, Sopt Tbs International Paper Company annonneed todsy a eut ia the pri.e of standard newipri.it paper from 4 8 4 to 4 cent at the mill for th qua:i btginning October 1. BALEIGH NEGRO BOY IS LOCKED IN BAGGAGE CAB RIDES TO WASHINGTON : By Edward e. britton ' ; (By Special Leased Wire) . Washington, Sept, 1. Locked la aa empty aaggag car, a aInc.year.old aegro boy reached Wsahlagtoa last Bight from Baleigh aad ia being hold at tho Jtonso, of DeUntioa. His asm If NathaaUl Ferguson, aad U fornutioa from Raleigh la that ho fcs th aoa of MIbbIo Ferguson, of Lsae's Bottom.. Tho yells af the ysing negro at tho Union Depot attxaeted tho attoa. lion of Detective Kflly, who was oa leave. He lavostlgstod th aotao aad released tho boy, who told him that a aamaor of aegro boy wore play. Ing la tho empty ear on a elding la Baleigh. aad that tho other boys had locked him la. ' ''Had a od rid," h aald, "bat ' an orfsl ho n try." Ho was givea food aad asked that his mother bo told his wkeresbeats.' Tho polios tot la tooch with Raleigh aad locaUeT her, th reqaeot coming to nd th boy homo. la the looming tho police will so If tho railroad wfll aot tako tho boy back, or If aot will ash th Board of Charities te do so. . , TOBACCO BRINGS Month of August Was Most Disastrous In History of Cotton Growing CONDITION OF 49.3 IS THE LOWEST ON RECORD Department of Agriculture Forecasts Production at 7, 037,000 Equivalent 500 Pound Bales; Lost 1,116,000 Bales Since JuIjl Report; Statement On Condition Washington, Sept.,1. Cotton growing ha just suffered the most disastrous month in Its history. Tho indicated erop will be the smsllest In the last 33 years, while its condition of 49.3 per cent ot a normal, now is the lowest ever recorded in any month in the history of the industry. Ravages of the boil weevil are principally the cause of the severe decline of the erop, amounting to a loss of 1,116,000 bales in prospec tive production since last month's fore cast. The Department of Agriculture. in announcing today its forecast of a total production of 7,037,000 equivalent 500-pound bales, based on a canvass made August 25, declared- everything seemed to have gone wrong with the crop. Lowest Aero Yield n acre yield of l'J7 pounds to the acre is indicated for the country as a whole this year.. Never in the last 56 years has the yield been so low. The nearest approach was 129 pounds in 18(18. Onjy 10 per cent of .a crop is promised in some counties of South Carolina. Parts of Oklahoma will have not more than 15 per cent of a crop. About one-third of a crop or less will be produced in portions of Texas, South Carolina, and Georgia. A half a crop or better may be produced in Missis sippi, northern Alabama,- northern Georgia, and northern South Carolina. States on the northern edge of the belt may have about two-thirds of a erop. The production was forecast a month ago at 8,203,000 bales, based on tho July 25 condition of the crop, which was 64.7 per rent of a normal. Last year's crop was 13,439,603 bales and the August 5 condition was 67.5 per eent of a normal. The average condition of the crop on August 25, for. tho ten years 1011-20, is 67.7 per cent. The decline in condi tion from July 25 to August 25 was lfi.4 points,, compared , with aa average de cline of 7.7 points fd th tcajreara. , Condition By State Th condition of tho erop on August 23 and the forecast of production hated on th condition, by states, were Virginia condition,' 63 and produc tion 11,00(1 bales. North Carolina, 62 and,532,000. South Carolina, 50 and 544,000. Georgia, 41 and 837,000. ' Florida, 59 and 16,000. Alabama, 53 and 472,000. Mississippi, 57 and 679,000. Louisiana, 45 and 244,000. Texas, 42 and 1,938,000. Arkansas, 63 and 729,000. Tennessee, 74 and 235,000, Missouri, 78 and 50,000. Oklahoma, 48 and 474,000. California, 83 and 75,000. Arixona, 85 apd 4f,000. All other states 85 and blank. Lower California's production fore cast is 34,000 bales, which is included in California figures but excluded from V. 8. total. Lowest In History. Tho condition of tottnn on August 25 was the lowesl it has ever been in any month in the history of the cotton growing industry, according to the (ecords of tho dcrartment. In com menting on Ihe conditions the depart ment, in a statement, said: "The damage has been the greatest in the area from central Oklahoma to north central Texas, the fill In eondi tion amounting to f jm 25 to 30 points. Declines of from ten to 20 points are shown for southern South Carolina, for Oeorgin, northern Ala- (Continued on Page Four) Camp Bragg Is Now Abandoned By Vendors of Booze, At Least By BEN DIXON MacNEILL Fayetteville, Sept. 1. Camp Bragg has been abandoned by the manufac turers and vendors of contraband spirits. Not' one is left in all the vast reaches, of the cantonment's 120,000 acics of area. Their houses aro bat tered, sfhoklng ruins, snd their dis tilleries ars backed to pieces. They have fled, thoss of thevs who were not captured, before an offensive sgalnst liquor-making that is likely without parallel ia ajl the snnals of law en forcement. ' Brigadier General A. 3. Bowley, some time commander ol the Artillery of the Second Division, and comanding gen eral -at Camp Bragg took the Held tgadist , th moonshiner and th boot legger not many days since, seising their house and burning them to th ground, tnd corraling such of Hie male factor al he eould get his hand on in hi camp prison. Fear ha struck to th heart of the moonshiner, and tho camp ara hs likely teen th last of him.; , . Department made for its heavy artil- Th wild wilderness that th War lery to manoeuvre in looked like a haven to th mitker of liquor. Twenty miles, long, five to eight mile wlder seven hundred abandoned farmhouses, weeks on end when nobody came near them, and, several tboussnd soldiers stationed nearby who drew gnodf cash money every first of th month.' They invested tho place, set up their, still in profusion nnd mode liquor,. But how they hsvs fled. They grsw too bold ia their traffic, end discounted th storks that they mast hv heard CHIEF OF POLICE AT CONCORD QUITS JOB Turns In Resignation After It Is Requested; Plan Te Im peach Sheriff Concord,- Seat. 1. At Ike rrg. lar meeting of tho Board of AU.r sata tonight, C. A. RoblasOa, k has chief of the Coscard police for alatool six years, gavo la kla rwigaatbn. Ia mlialag Chirr Robin slated that aadr existing condition I realga as rkitf of the polirrof Coarard. effective at UKt." The rwigaatloa ws naaaimoaaly eeceptvd. Fallowing (ha reafereur with Governor . Mosritea- i Cksrhttto this ifteraeoa, a mass saectiag of tho' cltlseoa of tho city was held aad It was decided U ask Chief Robinson to resign. Ihia was dooo and the realgnatlo follow. It ws contended by those present at tho sum wiMtlng that Chief Rob Insoa had not done hi fall daty la tho strike sitcstioa here. TO (iO AFTER SHERIFF Persona present at the saaas meeting announced after tho nieet Ing that Impeachment papers weald bo entered r Superior Cosrt hero Immediately a tolas Short Carl Spear. Sheriff Spears kaa beta In. efficient In kla datiea daring tho strike, th mass meeting declared,. Mayor Woaible announced after tho meeting jf the aldermen that he has appointed Harry M. Joyner, first sergeant of tho military com. psny hero, as, chief of police to servo tho anexptrod term of thief Robinson. The term expire Sep tember 3. Tho action of tho mass meeting ' followed tho conference with Gov. ernor Morrison in Charlotte thla afternoon. In which tho Governor asserted that State troop woald and "oud not bo peat: hero to "polico the city, and that the cltiians of the coaaty shoald take some setlon to get rid of Iks "in efficient officers" oa that troop woald not ho needed for "police daty." E Farmers Adopt Resolution Call ing For Legislation That Will Stop Conditions Aroused by tho revelations of ineffi cieney in counly government in many counties of tho State made by Dr. K. C. Brooks, SupcrintendeM o? I'nlilie Instruction, in nis addre-n beora the body Tuesday morning, tho Farmers' State Convention yesterday adopted a resolution calling for legislation ivhii'h will expose and stop -,u"h condi tion " ' We havo been amaxe'l," real the resolution, "at th? v velation of favorit ism and negligent in eol'eettng t.ixes in many counties in North Carolina as reported by Dr. I'rooks, tuch failure to make rertaiu element iiiy their Uxcs throwing an incxeusr.bly heavier burden on other individuals and other counties, and we call for lcjtislatioB which will expose and top such condi tions." Dr. n rook j has had definite reaction from his speech. Delegates to the con vention and others who read repo-ts of the speech have described to him con ditions in counties other than those ho had in mind when he emphasized the necessity of having greater compjtencj in the personal of eounty officers charged with administering the funds of the people. Along with the compliments there have (Continued oa Pago Foar) about tho commanding general snd his determination that every regulation In the book has got to be carried out, to the very last bitter of it. There is one in th book that fotbids traffic in liquor among soldiers, and hereafter It will bo a mighty slick, not to say stesl thy, bootlegger who get sway with his trade st ths camp. Ths Beginnings The offeasive had its beginninggs a few nights ago, snd continued until today! when officers combing the camp territory were unable to Iqdwny more stills. It was Friday night that Gen eral Bowley-saw two soldiers making their way nnsteadily toward thefr quarters. He halted the pair. t . CWbst have you under your shirt there!" demanded tho General of one of them. "Nothing, sir." "What havo yon under your -shirt I" Tbs General's voice was grows suddenly hard. "A quart of liquor, sir." He fished it out snd handed it over. Wher did yoa get it!" At a aegro homo down there,1 an swered th now. thoroughly sobered soldier.'' , "Wher did yon . gat it th troth BOW.1- 1 ,; - . ' , 2M soldier told th tnith'st th sec ond try. A passing officer wa stopped, BROOKS EXPOS mwm ana tii two men tent to camp with Mm. A goarjf was ordered out, and with tliem th General went to 1h pine wher th soldier had said h got the. liquor. Th plac wa a abandoned Continued oa Pag Four) . Governor Declares He Will Take No Action Until Today Following Conference Held at Charlotte OPENLY ADVOCATES THAT SHERIFF AND CHIEF OF POLICE BE TURNED OUT, Dispatches Adjutant General Hetts To Concord To Keep Tab On Situation Pending Action of Executive Commit tee of The Textile Unions On " The Suggestion of Labor De partment Conciliator That Strike Be Called Off; Concil iator Tells Workers Strike Is Hopelessly Lost; Morrison Wary About Sending Troops and Still Declines To Discnss Merits of Controversy; Metts Talks Plainly To Concord Delegation .,. , . By JOHN A. LIVINGSTONE (Staff Correspondent.) Charlotte, Sept. 1. Governor Cameron Morrison refused today to heed the Macedonian cry of fourteen Concord business men to send troop into their town and declared that he would tak no action until tomorrow. The Governor roundly excoriated tho law enforcement officers of the town and eounty and openly advocated turn- ing out tlie sheriff and the ehief f police, when the delegation from Con cord railed on him at tho Manufactur. era' Club this afternoon. He dispatched Adjutant General Metts to Concord to keep tab on the strike situation while axanhng action of the executive com mittce of the textile unions in ths strike area tomorrow on the suggestion of Conciliator Robert M. Mo Wade of tho United StaW Department of Labor, who has been in the section 1 for several days, that the strike be called off, as ho considers it hopelessly lost by th workers. The Governorrcmains ia Charlotte tonight while the military eompanie at Concord, . Charlotte and Winston, fialem sre in readiness to march at a minute' aoUco, " " 7, Governor Vary Wary. , Th Qorrar wa wary today la act ing oa any request for calling out th , troops and blamed most of th trouble down in Cabarrus on th Republican aheriff and th Democratic ehief of po lice, sparing neither nor asking quar ter. lie refused most positively and em-, phatically to discuss in any way th merits of the strike controversy, though intimating that the atrike ha beea lost aad that it would be a msgnani moua thing if the fourteen business men from Concord could show a mora forgiving spirit Adjutant General Metts put In a tel ling blow for law enforcement in a i speech congratulating Cabarrus citizen on their first cooperative effort to remedy the present deplorable con ditions growing out of the strike. Speaks For Delegation. "We are helpless," Charles Wagner, prominent banker and spokesman for the delegation, told the Governor. The refrain was taken up until it seemed that Bolshevism, anarchisni, Sovietism and all the other had iams had taken their domicile in old Concord. They blamed tho newspaper for making criticisms and heaped condemnation on ' journalists, who were not unnamed, be cause of. their suggestions ss to ways and means for settling the Strike. The Governor had had enough of cal ling out troops and told the men that if they wero half as earnest in helping to enforce law and order as they wero ia making their Macedonian appeal, old Cabarrus would soon have law and order. Mr. Morrison was unsparing iu condemnation' of the local officers, none of whom ho named, and declared that if ho had the power he would relievo the sheriff, who had evidently boon lax in lii is duties. , Morrison Fires Bomb ' 1 Then the Governor Tired a bomb Into tho solemn gathering. He had just, finished a conference with L, M. Bern hardt and F. M. Sloop, local leaders of tho textile union in Concord, in which they had assured him that the executive i committee of the unions in the striks district would meet in Churlotte tomor-1 row niorning to set on the suggestion from Bobert M. MeWade, United States Ccnciliator, that ths striks bs called . off officially. The seriousness of tho situstion had Impressed itself on the Governor, but he . could not in th face of efforts to set tie the strike again call out the troops, if there was any possible way to svoid it. And he wis exceedingly anxious "" to avoid it. Members of the delegation returned again and again to the story of tho de plorable conditions in Concord. They ' told how tho picket linos had beea ca- tablished around, bouse at th Noreott ' and Crown Mills. An old msn had had'' ' hi shirt torn off his back, an old wo man had been dragged across th street, and th aberiiT bad not' moved hi ' hands. They were helpless, completely, absolutely and without reservation, V helpless, -utterly helpless. 1 " Th Governor told, them of th bit responsibility placed . upon him and of hi reluctance to call out troop. Ia . plain language, he indicated that it wa -about time they got a new sheriff and a new ehief of police at Concord. Stayo Out of Controversy. Of on thing th Governor insulted on fighting shy. He would aot discus th merits of tho controversy. He did ; not go Into that.1 - He would aca that law and order was ' enforced. He had made a speech ia : : (CoBtlaa Fsgo Foot) 7
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Sept. 2, 1921, edition 1
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