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i . - i 4 . i C-. : ti .f teij Sir.. .opr. VOL CXIV. NO. 84. SIXTEEN PACES TODAY. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1 92 1 . : SLXTEEN PAGES TODAY. PRICE: FIVE CENTS OVER A THOUSAND PERSONS LABOR LEADER IS SPEAKER HERE DEAD AS IN SERIOUS PLACE TAX REVISION BILL - ft f BARELY QUORUM III SEKATE VHEH !T : RESUMES DEBATE DECLARES LABOR IS PRESEIIISlEIIDED RESULT GREAT GERMAN 4UT AA M KJMT A W Ai 1 I u a. Anti-Beer Bill Gets Into Action Early But "Wets" Stave Off Vote On It t SENATOR PAT. HARRISON.. , V SHOWS UP REPUBLICANS .' .'. . 1 . . . 'Searchlight,' ' Won - Partisan onthly, Shows Fallacy of Harding' Claims To "Bar. tags'- Xa ;OoTernment lx penses ; : Secretary. Beam an Pleased Over Rat Outlook The Few aad Observer Bunau. JOS i.ilitrWt Ntional Bank Bldg. Mr IQWARD K. BRITTOX. (By Bpeelal.Laaacd Wir.) Washington, Sept. SI. Congress did mo; (it. bark to work t-ly with a . tuah tor eata after a mosrh nf recess, Clor.cnly. RJSBatnfi outot the 2, f tbtie 33 being Bopoblieans and PI . boing . Democrat, answered '"present" to th roll ealL Having barely a quo rum at the ppenlng ther a a eount ing of noses from time to timo to tee if a quorum ''wa oa hand to go at business. But ther was little necom- -tUsLi'd during the sossion in the Beute, alii the HonseTT Tf l5itI,maBTa agreement narking time till die Senate get same of the Houm billi sent to it . ready for House action. The -tret of these billi is expected 7 to be the revenue bill, and thero are differeVes between th Senate nad Boose x rjoflsar it will hav to go to in ference in the threahiog out of the dif ferenees. Senator Pen row, chairman " of tho Senate Finance eommtttc;, says that hi expects to hare Senate action in two weeks, a short period of confer ence, and the measure ready far the President before .October gets away. Aatl-Becr Bill ta Action. The anti-beer bill got intol action errly with .the reconvening of I he fen ate. There wan 'a lull and it nadci a quick appearance, and -there cr.siod a lot of wrsngling mixing up on the measure, the "dry" evidently ready for a vote and invitwg it, while the wots oa the other hand, were for staving off action for the preseut, recognizing That there waa defeat for them in the vote. There were elasbea from aide to fide en the questioa of the search sad Seizure provision, tut there wai so con clusion reached. It appeart cry evi dent : thai '4be (oafcreac prupoaal i eoinr t win.' and that the Stanley jm-... amendment is doomed to defeat. But - one of the" figlitera to the last for it wilt be Seiator Jim Reed, of Mia Senator Pat Bamaon, f Miaaiesippi, took oeeaaiorodity to band ant a few aliarp things to the Bepablicana, telling them that the ytrr thing or wnica we Republicans had tomplained in the rase of President Wilann had just been done by President Harding, that he had writ ten to Senator McCormick a letter to he used in thd New Mexico tleetHfn that was a -call to Republicans to put orer a Republican Senator to support the administration iust as President Wilson had done. He spoke of the efforts of the Republicans to' make it appear that -there had been great things done hy their party in Congress, that President Harding hatLSioken of "monumental accomplishments'' without any of theae baring been accomplished. Reviews Republican Record. He went over the Republican record ia legislation during the extra session and showed how little had really been done by the Republicans even In the keeping of their campaign pledges, and , showed that the country wns today in f a far worse shape than when the Re publican party camo into power with thel.Noveuiber election. fefnator Harrison spoke vigorously and stripped off the mask of preten ainns from the Republicans, his remarks going to show that it had been "mono- mental accomplishments" that had marked Republican legislation, but that it had been "monumental failure" to . meet the needs of the country. The Democratic party ia to have here in Washigton within a rery few days the services of a monthly magazine to be knownas "The Searchlight," judging from some advance extracts from it eiren out by the Democratic National committee. The Seare'alight is to be issued as a non-partisan publication, devoted to novernmentaJ affairs. "The Truth about this administration" is th " "" title which will covet tha entire isiroe to be off the press of September 30, and with the telling of the truth as te its doings then this will be a full refutation of the elnisha of "monumen tal accomplishments" set forth in President Harding's letter to Senator McCormick. It 'will tell of financial wizardry by which deficiencies are be ing made. to. appear to the people as "savings, of the happy nnl harmonious experience of Rig politic and big busi ness worliing together, of oil and the old guard., And talking of savings which the Republican prate aboutt it demon strates that the alleged saving of $350, 000,000 which the administration says it ia going to make will develop into something like a deficit of (1,730,000,' ... , 000, holding that tho - political success " of the deception being practiced de ' pendi upon keeping the people de ceived. x ' , t ! ; . The Joggling Joker And The Searchlight devotes some at- tentlon to the ''joggling joker" in the second deficiency bill, of June IS, which ' contain thi provision: TTh etatement of pporpriatlons -etc, for- th third session of the Biatfc- Bixth congress shall include th army-, naval and second deficiency appropria- tioa act nesr( during the nrst session of the Blxt Seventh congress, and all othflf ajspropriatlont ttjde't th lat-1 - ter tesioa shall be CMnpilen and pub lished tvitn the statement of appropria tion for th second evasion- of th 67th congress. . ' Th rough this) simple device" the ! (Cntledf a Tag TV) ' : v t". . GEORGK U BERRT, PrMdat laUraatioaal Priatlag froas- aaea'a aad AmIsUbU' CbUb f Asaorica. STREET CAR LINE Takes All Outstanding Stock in Company and Wilf Operate It In Future, Ooldsboro, Sept 21. At a meeting of th otoekholder of tho GoMsboro Street Railway Company her in the Chamber of Commerce room this week the city bought all outstanding stock in th Goldsboro Street Railway Company and in th future this ear Ifte will be owned and operated by the city govern ment. Ooldsboro has been without electric cars for almost a year, due- to the fact that all ol the streets that the ears operated over were in the H-mile street paving contract that tho city haa just completed. The car line has been re placed with new rails and steel cross ties in a cement base. Six modern elec tric ears have been purchased and as soon as these arrive a regular ten-minute schedule to all parts of the city will be put into effect. It was announced her today that Wayne county highway commission by th Stat Highway Commiseien aad the contract ha been entered into between which the' State ia to buildt a hard Sur face road immediately from Goldsboro to th Lenoir county lias, connecting Goldstar and Kinnton wlyh hard sur face road. Tho county is to advance tho State th money to build the road to be repaid wifhin four years without interest. Estimates of the cost of build ing this hard aurfaco road are being made and the contract for it construc tion will bo let immediately upon re oeipt of estimates. In spite of the downpour of rain be tween 6:30 and 9:00 thia morning, the tobacco growers of Wayne and adjoin ing counties placed 47,500 pound of the weed on the stiles floors here. 60 per cent of which sold at a price exceeding W7.3?! a hundred. The general average of the total sales on the three sales floors in Uoldshoro today was (19.11 n Lundred. N01MPR0VEMENT SHOWN" IN 1921 COTTON CROP Further Deterioration Report ed; Weevils Invade North Carolina Counties Washington, Sept. 21. With weevil still active and damaging in many lo calities and dry weather prevailing, eotton, in general, showed no improve ment and further deterioration was re ported in many sections of the bcl during the week just elosed, said the National Weather and Crop Bulletin nssried today. Weevils were reported in North Caro Una ns far north as Meck'en'.urg, Cum berland and Jones counties. Roils were opening rapidly and premat-jrely in much of th belt, especially in tlie.eett em sections, with very littlo indica tion of a top crop' the bulletin si!d. Picking and ginning nnder favorable weather conditions progressed rapidly, South Cnrohna reporting fhn work practically finished. ,A large pwtioo o" ine crop aieo nas been gathered jn Georgia and" Southern Alabama. C.v,.n Wb ''fair to good" in north orn ana wes'firn Oklahoma bun -poor to failure" in thi south cent. a! ar.d southt;ern sections of the 8uc. It "generally very poor in Tci.u, al affii tlct the average in some sec- ons. Ire erop in Arkansas ranged frem "very poor to poor'' in tho south to "poor o fair" in he north. lock f moisture unfavorably affected late corn in the Gu!f .iiH lower Atlantic States, according to the bulletin. Early corn, howe.wr, made good progress, har vesting Deing nearly completed, APEX OPENS MARKET WITH URGE CROWDS Prices Bnnr Optimism To Farmers at Both Apex and Keidsville Openings Apex, 8ept tU The tobacco market opened today with 35,000 pounds and apjKQilmately 3,000 people present. Of fering were th last tattings of a very nondescript type with, an average of ap proximately 25 cent.' Travelling buy er 'say tnis was the"highest "opening in this belt for typo offered. Farmers wersr, well pleased.' Beidsville, Sept. 21. Large crowds of farmer nltenaea " orKlBg " tale of Refdsville tobacco market today. Only about 20,000 poands'wem sold and price wore highly satisfactory. The warehouse - averages waa a tittle over 20 ent Price wcr from S3 to a hundred higher oa same grade. lhaa a year ago. -. . ; , . . . H, .: GOLD BORO BUYS Q. Lr Berry Pictures Organized Onslaught On Organized La , bor By Big Business ' ; SPEAKS AT MASS MEETING! IN WAKE COURT ROOM Bir Business, Ha Maintains, Has Clereriy Sold American Publio Idea That Labor Is Besponsibla .For Living Costs; Speaker Presented By Josephns Daniels George L. Berry, president of the In ternational Printing Pressmen's nd As sistaata Taioa, told aa audience ia the Wak County Court room last sight that by a campaign of propaganda and manipulation big business has sold U th American, publie tb idea that et ganised labor is responsible for the high cost of living an 4 tho only solution of the problem lies in the reductioa of wages. "The publie has been divorced from the trades union movement," he de clared. "Make no mistake about it. They hate beensoid" th idea that -organised, labor ia responsible for the high cost of living and the only solution is in the reduction t wagoa. Thia is as fic titious, a absurd a the doctrine that th farmer's product must bo reduced to the level of 1914." President Berry, a major of engineers in the World War, a veteran of th Spanish-American War, who failed to be Governor of his State by a 'margin of eighty-two rotes, and who is now head of the pressmen s organization of North America, spoke at a mass meeting called by the local pressmen a organization. The speaker il now making a tour of the South in the interest of the labor movement and he took occasion last night to discus, incidentally, the local situation, brought on by the adop tion of the so-called Open Shop or American Plan. Josephu Daniel Prcoent Major W. P. Woody, president of the Central Labor Union, presided lsst night and Josephu Daniel presented the speaker. He eatlcd attention to the fact that Major Berry was President Wilson's appointee to represent labor at the Peac Conference at Versailles. "In my judgment" h dclard, "that part of the peace treaty granting to labor ia Magna Carta ia on f its best provisions, snd did more to cause its defeat at the hand of th Senate than any. other thing. "When this document, with it sew conception of labor in tho proposed federation of the world waa brought back, immediately every interest in America sommitted to teach Labor its place, began to fight the League of Nations, be went on. It waa I 'cry for normalcy, e de flared, and every reason save the one moving reason was assigned as prevail ing in their attack. ' I moved ut of normalcy on No vember 11, IP II and please God I never expect to go back, he declared. Ninety per cent of the men who want to go hark ttrnnrtnalcyj-want tir gtr wt To the condition when labor stood ss a suppliant and not as aa equal partner ia industry aqd all the things of life. I stand as an American for bar gaining between employer and em ployee, not by individuals, but by whole organizations. We shall never destroy the feudal system which passed out in term aad form only, but still lives and plants its mailed fists on those who seek to rise, until w com to that old time theory, "Th injury of one is the eoncera of all. Now for Encouragement "Tf there ever was a time in the ii tory of the trades union movement when co-operation, co-ordination and encour agement is neded, that time is how," declared Major Borry expressing ap preciation for the remarks of tho former Secretary of the Navy and his attitude toward labor. "There never haa been before such a clever, scientifi cally prepared fight for the unhorsing of labor as is now abroad in America.'' Big business, he declared, making use, of skilful propaganda and fictitious de pression in business has conspired to teach labor ,its place the place of sub mission and the public has been skillfully sold th picture of labor as a tyran nical, Bolshevik ridden host of radicals, He explained that when he said big business he was not talking about th employers of Raleigh but about the high powers who eontrol all save tha very few independent employer Big business he maintained, controls the government. ' It was responsible ter the failure of President Wilson' Labor conference and through its manipula tions labor Is in a serious predicament. The American Plant "The American plan the weapon of the enemies of organised laBor, h characterized as an impossible imprac ticable scheme. "It 1 a unsound economically a any thing eould be," he went on and any employer who plays with the open shop policy i just as sure to get hi fingers bnrned ss the sun .is to rise in the morning.? ' The employing class, he continued, ha a many bolsheviks, radicals sad direct aationist a the employ class. "What" tho difference," he sked, "between a group of employes who de mand increase in wages and a reduction of work hours in ten mlnutejL6ra strike, and the employer atho posts a notion on his wall saying "Next Mob. day wage will bo reduced twenty-five per cent They are both direct sctloa- iit . -:Tbo epeaker laid dowja the fuada mental 'principles governing' the press men' organization no strike if ,th employer will agree te arbitrate, un willingness to take advantage of direct action methods, an abiding Interest, in (Coaiiaac Tag TJ Senator Gives Notice That The , Majority Report Will Be v 1 SubmittedToday MEASURE TO COME UP - IN SENATE ON MONDAY Bill As Changed. By Senate Fi nance Committee Is - De signed To Raise Three and a Quarter Billions of Dollars This Fiscal Tear; Some of Its Provisions Washington, Sept. 1. The amended House tax revision bill was presented formally today to the Senate by Chair man Penrose, of the finance committee, who gav notic that he would submit th majority report tomorrow and urge at that time7 that - th measure be eon sidered as toon as other business of the Senate would permit. Designed to raise approximately three and a quarter blHions of .dollars in revenue this fiscal year, the amended measure provides for: Provision of Measure. Repeal of excess profits tax on Janu ary 1, 1922, as proposed -by tno House. Reduction pf the masim'! jnenm. surtax rate from 65 per cent to 32 per Cent effective next January 1, as pro vided in the House bill, but with change made in tha lower brackets so as to reduce the amount of surtaxes paid by all individuals. An increase of fire per cent to 15 per cent in the normal -corporation in come tax, effective January 1, 1922, in lien Tf the 2 per cent advance agreed upon by the House. Repeal of the corporation capital stock tax, beginning in 1922, a new provision. ; Reduction nf fh freight and pas senger taxes from threis and eight per cent to l'i and 4 per cent, respectively, effectivo next January I, with their re peal on January 1, 1923. The House proposed repeal of all transportation taaca a of next January 1. An increase of (300 in the exemption allowed to heads of families having net incomes of (5,000 or lese, a House pro vision. An increase from (200 to (400 in the exemptions allowed on account of de pendants, alqo a IIuuib proposal. Repeal Laxary Tries. Th finaac eommitte -eonenrrad in th House action in repealing the so called nuisance and luxury taxes eoi meted direct from the consumer and substituting manufacturers' taxes. These and Other minor change in th bill previously have been published. An important change ia the House bill, not heretofore made publie. deals with taxes on capital act gain.- The Senate committee measure provides that ir any taxpayer derives a eapital net gain in any taxable year, "such eapital net gain shall be stated sep arately from the ordinary net income in the taxpayer's return; 'and only 40 per centum of such capital not gain shall be tnkca into account in do termining the amount of the net in-" come upon which taxes are imposed by sections 10, 211 and 230. of this title (the normal income, surtax and cuippration-tirx' "sertimrf 77" ItPUffy" s'uTh' case the tax shall l collected and paid upon the sum of the amount of ordinary net income plus 40 per centum of the amount of th capital net gain. House Provision The House bill provided that in the ease of any taxpayer other than a cor poration whose ordinary net income and capital net gain together exceeded (29,000, the total tax imposed should be the amount of tax ou the ordinary net income "plus 12Vi per eentiim of the capital net gain, or minus 12' per centum of the capital net Joss, as the caso may be; but in no case, where a taxpayer derives a capital net gain, shall the total tax be less than 12Vj oer centum of the total net income. Republican leaders have not yet de termined when the tax bill will be taken up for debate, but Senator Pen rose said today it probably would not eome up before Monday, as it was de aired to give members of the Senate ample opportunity to discuss it. He added that there was growing dispo sition to consider this measure and the treaty with Germany alternately, with the tax bill debate during the day and the treaty taken up at night sessions When Senator Penrose offered the billj Senator Underwood, of Alabama, Democratic leader, obtained unaui mous consent or the filing of the minority report within seven days. Senator Larollette, of Wisconsin, 1 Republican member of the finance com mil tee, also obtained consent to .file dissenting view within that time should he decide to do so. Dim At Arc of 114 Year. 1 St. Ixiuis, Sept. 21 .-Jane Buriam, a negress 114 years old, who wos slav on a Virginia plantation until freed after the Civil War, died ycrter- doy at Altoi, III., where rhe had lesided for over a hslf century. THREE NEW APPOINTEES. ALL MINISTERS' SONS. Wadesboro, Sept. 21. The three men appointed to the posltiowa of Supreme Court judge, Superior Coart Judge and aolieltor ar all sons at .minister, again proving th prvrb that ml n liters' sons ar remarkable for badness te b. -foaaded Ija fact. Jadf , Adam U th oa of a Methodist minister sad presiding cUr, th 'lata Shockley Adam; Jadge Brock, tha' son of a Baptist minister, th Rev. Mr. Brock, still living, aad Solicitor Nash is th son af a Methodist minister, th 11 Dr. Ktth, veil known ia North Caro lina. :. , . HARRISON FLAYS HARDING RECORD Mississippi Senator -Attacks President For Taking . .So. Many Vacation Trips COUNTRY CALLS FOR REAL WORK, HE SAYS While Harding Bests Easily Senator Says "Millions of Americans. Were Hanging Their Heads In Shame" Be cause Men "Who Helped Win War"Were On Auction Block Washington, Sept. 21. Senator Harri son, of Mississippi, one of the Demo crat ie spokesmen in th eSonate today attacked President Harding for taking a vacation trip last week and charged th KefHtblica 4min4tratkm - with failnro tiLcarry out 'If eajnpaign jdedge to bring increased prosperity to" th country. The Mississippi Senator in his speech which enlivened the reconvening of th Scant declared that while President Harding and several members of hii cabinet were enjoying the vacation trip "millions of Americans were hanging their head in shame" because men who "helped win the war wore on the aue tion block in Boston. "The American people want more work and les pi))-." said Senator Har rison, looking across to the Republican side of the Senate chamber, more re suits and fewer recommendations; mors meal ticket and fewer bread lines; more prosperity and fewer poor houses." Senator Harrison made the letter re cently written by President Harding to Senator McCormick, of Illinois, chair man of the Republican Senatorial cam pa'ign committee recounting the achieve mnnts of the Republican Congress, the basis of hi address although upon in qulry from Senator Penrose, of Pen nsylvania, a Bspahlkas lesder, as to his "text, he said he was speaking on "the deficiencies and delinquencies of the Republican party The President' letter to Senator Me- Cormirk, Senator- Harrison snid, "shock ed and almost pained (6m Democrats" nd was written in the interest of the candidacy of Senator Bursum, Repub lican Senatorial Candidate) in yester day's election in New Mexico. Senator Lodge of Masa'chuae'tts, Republican, leader in this connection read a tele gram announcing the election of Sena tor Bursum and explained that ha was not presenting it as an argument but merely as information. TAX REVISION BILL AND TREATIES ARE RECEIVED Washington, Sept. 21. Receipt of by the Senate of the tax revision hill from the finance committee and of the peace treaties with Germany, Austria aniL. Hungary-f torn President. .Harding were the principal features of the re assembling today of Congress after its rccesa. Only brief sessions were held, the Senate, after re-opening of warfare over the anti beer bill and a Democratic attaek 011 President Harding and ad ministration policies, adjourning until tomorrow and the Houso, under its Agreement to transact no important business until October 4, adjourned un til Saturday after a perfunctory meet ing. Three day recesses of the House will continue until next month. Many members of both parties failed to put in an appearance today. Only .14 of the 90 Senators answered the roll call and but two score House members heard the gavel. Republican leaders expressed frank disappointment over the small attendance. In the Senate the peace treaties were referred to the 'foreign relations com mittee which will begin their considera tion tomorrow. Little time would be required by the committee for the,jr consideration Senator Ixidge said, add ing that Secretayr Hughes apd other State Department officials, who already nave explained the treaties to the com mittee wonld not be recalled. Night sessions of the Senate, Republican lead ers said, were being considered tex , pt'dite.jatification. ' V, Senate debate of the treaties, Sena tor Lodge announced would be in open session. It had been stated previously by Republican leaders that the debate would bo in executive session and no reason for the change? to public ses sions was given. Closed sessions have been opposed by Heuator Borah, Ro publican of Idaho, and others. BURGLARS GET LITTLE IN RETURN FOR TROUBLE Red Springs, Sept. 21. Burglars visit ed the business district early this morn ing gaining entrance into the J. II. Turner Furniture Wore, Rcil Springs Drug Co., office of Dixon, McLean, and the American Kxpress Company office, in th A. C. L. U'pot At the first named place the intruders secured some hand bugs1 and . suitcases and forced open the cash drawer, but secured no money At the - express office (" wa taken. Bloodhounds were secured and puton thotrait withoutuccess.Ther i ho clue to the robbers. BRINBON WILL RETURN TO WASHINGTON ON SATURDAY. New Bern, Sept. 21. Congressman B."Sf. Brinsoh will leave here Bunday for AVashirigfon. Although Congress has 1 convened-, Air. Brinson explained today that immediately upon assembly an adjournment fur three days would go into effort snd thit tha House would not get down' to actual business until October 4, WILSON' MERCHAXTS NOT TO TRADE 15 VIRCIXIA W1U, tent. JL Wilson has vatea f.r tssa from th Yir glaia Uga Vlrgtaia ttt . Vlr. giala saercaaata 4a (act from all thing that hava ovea a email af Vtrgta!, With only two dlaarat lag vati rocaraMt. tha Merchants' Asaarutloa. ha s IWli M aaasslsg traaiag with Virgiala trm. If It ess poMlkly l avoided. A Weal marcasat ha cswclkd two order far faods la Narfelk, a a cf proprietor aat only caaeclle4 hi ardor bat shipped hm its hack ta Narfelk. wall, a sell af live stock swear k will la th fatar hay hi bene aad male la Wtra State aad a grocoryaua raaalag a ehaia af stores has sat a tha aa dmittaac'' iga aaalast U sslcs men rprMatlag Vlrgtaia Iraki. Eves Wlhwa vmi, aha hav gott.a la th hahll af iving ta Rich, ad ta bay soaothlag "eiels.lv., hav aortdes to pat an th haa aad will trad at horn, la th fatar. Lt'a war te tha Sslshh. WANT TO IMPROV E- Movement Launched at Univer sity Conference To Interest Commissioners , Chapel Hill, Sept 21. Improvement ia county government dwnrfed all other themes st tho today's closing ses lion of the conference on Town and County Administration, here under the auspices of the University of North Carolina and th National Municipal League. The revelations of Dr. E. C. Brook State Superintendent of Public Inst rue tion. State Auditor Baxter Durham, Dr E. C. Brannon, and others, about the deplorable financial eonditinna in most counfvs, hav awakened a keen interest ia this weak spot in local government aad there it to be a vigorous effort, dur ing tha aext year ta Had the right solu tion of th trouble. Wants Pali Cammlaaioaar. As a mean of ending tho slipshod and inexpert coaduct or county busi ness. T. B. Paiton, of JUheviUe, - presi dent of th Stat Association nf County Commissioners, advocated today the paid commissioner system. In counties where the annual budget amounts to (30,000 one commissioner would be paid, where it amounts to (100 000 two would be paid, and where it amounts to (200, 000 three would be paid. Henry Dwire, Mt Winston-Snlem, and H. W. Dodds, secretary of the National Municipal League; favored a county manager plan similar to the city mana ger plan, the man to do the job beirtg obtained wherever tho best talent tould hft.lu.und, Ilut..bjjUi-JlJ-J&ikA-ii-uI, Mr. Dodds would have this system only in counties that vote to accept it. It would not be imposed by Kt.it law against the will of the people. There is to be no undue haste in seeking to bring about reform, first must come a thorough study of condi tions and a full discussion of all dis puted points, so that the public may decide intelligently wh.t it wants. For that reason, the next year will he de voted to .the ground work of collecting facts and letting people know tbem. To Internt Comatissiosers. Only thirty nine counties are now members of the Association of County Commissioners. The men who are most interested iu improving county govern ment are going to make a membership drive to bring in every ono of North Carolina's counties. The decisio has already been made by the association lo hold its next meeting, in August, 1922 at the University. Preparations for this gathering are already under way, and it is planned to bring in, as tbey have been brought into the pres ent conferencs, local government ex perts of national reputation. Dr. E. CA Branson, head of the Department cu Rural Sociology in the University, ia to be in charge of the project. Mri Dodds, before his departure to day said that in his capacity as repre sentative of the National Municipal league he had attended meetings in many States, but st none of them had he found liver interest, or a stronger determination to improve local govern ment, than at this meeting of North Carolina State and county and city officials. HOLD UP EXECUTION OF NEGRO PRISONERS Littl Rock, Sept. 21. United States District Judge Jacob Trciber today granted a writ of habeas corpus in fair (Vine af six Klaine negroes sentenced to te electrocuted Friday and issued a tem porary restraining order enjoining State authorities from executing sentence pending hearing of the e.ise Monday. The negroes were convicted of murder in connection with the Elaine riots of im : NEW MEXICO RETURNS -: REPUBLICAN TO SENATE Albuquerque, New Mex., Sept- 21. W. C. Oestrich in charge of Democratic State headquarter here, . today . con ceded the election of Holra O. Bursum, Republican, as United States Senator over Richard II. Banna, Democrat. With report from every county in tho State in a majority of which the vote was complete. C. L. Phillips, Re publican campaign manager claimed Bursum!. majority wonld exceed 7,000. COUNTY AFFAIRS Disaster at Chemical Products Plant Spreads Death and -Destruction On Every Hand-' ' ' :i THREE THOUSAND MEN ON SPOT WHEN POWERFUL! EXPLOSION OCCURRED, Third of Honses . In Oppaa Oil Rhine Raxed To Ground While Not a Door or Window ' Left Intact For Radius of Three Miles; Attributed To Excess Pressure On Two Ad joining Gasometers; Heart Rending Scenes Witnessed. French Medical Units Aiding In Rescue Work; Three' Workmen's Train Buried In" Debris Mayenee, flermany, Bept 21,-(By the Associated Press). A great i plosion todayat-the chemical -proda nlast of, th BadjaehV ' Aamsfahrl-r Company at Oppeu on tho Rhine, wrecked the town and spread death aad destruction on every hand. Th num ber of killed is variously estimated at - from one thousand to fifteen hundred, and the injured close to two thousand. One report lays thst'ther war three thousand men on the spot at th moment of the explosion and It Is be lieved that about half of them wera Idled. The town of Oppeu is a sceaa of utter desolation, more than a. third of the houses hsving been completely destroyed, while the. roofs et th other -were swept off is if by a whirlwind. Her also many were killed or Injured. Caaaed by Excess P ma a re. The explosion is attributed by tome to excess pressure in two adjoining gasometers, the whole of this part of the worka being literally pulverised. Where the gasometers stood is now a funnel shaped hole 130 yard wide and, 45 yards deep, while twisted girder aad . debris of every descroption lie scattered akout, For a distance of several hun- drcd yalia not a wall is left stsndiag. Th directorate of tho Company l quoted a saying that th explosion cur red in a store houso containing four thousand ton of nitrous sulphates, which had previously been examined and was believed to be fre from danger of explosion. All the workmen' dwelling la th vicinity wera rased. At Mannheim on the opposite side of tho river, 33 per sons were seriously injured aad two hundred or more slightly injured- Lud wigschafen reports say that three work men's t-alns were buried under th wreckage and many Children on their way to school in that town were injured. Heart Rending Scenes Heart rending scenes were witnessed on all sides. At the little cemetery en the outskirts of Oppau there ar al- ready- more than tw.u tinnrtTrt' laid out on the grass. Numerous tomb stones were lifted and hurled in var ious directions by the force of the ex plosion. There was not a door or win-, dow left intact for a radius of thre mi'es. French medical units are aiding ta the rescue work. Assistasce also ha been rushed from all tho neighboring towns, and all public and prlvite motor cars and vehicles were requisiti uei The roads lending to Oppau wero so.'-n crowded with people making thiir wuf to the scene of the disaster Tha region in the Rhine Palatinate where today's disastrous explosion oc curred was developed during th war into ono of the most extensive and productive of - Germany's chemical,, munition supply districts. Oppau it- Self is a comparaftivcly small town with only a few thousand population but neraby are Frankenthal, a eousideralfV larger place, and Ludwjgsha'fen, which has a population of some 75,000 and. which during the war was accounted the largest of the German chemical manu facturing plants fur war purposes. The chemical works there ore still en a vast scale. It is about seven miles authoaat of Frankenthal and directly across the Rhine from Maniheim. During the war the region was fre quently bombarded by.'allied air squad rons. Ludwigshafen being their partic ular target. Eye Witness' Story A regiment of Colonial infantry an! the First Madagascar regiment from Ludwigshafen immediately proceeded to Oppau to preserve order and aid ia the work of rescue. Describing thjlianter, a captain of the First French Colontal Infantry, who was an eye witness, said: ''I was riding close to the factory at 7:."A in the morning when suddenly I heard a dull rumbling. The earth seemed to ' quiver snd. an immense column, of tl.imo snd smoke shot up a few hundred yards from me, followed imiiicdhtely by an tip.Won and a rush of air which hurled mo and my horse to the earth. When I picked myself np an immense cloud of dust and smoke hit that part of the factory wear tho gas-meters. All sorts of objects, beams, blocks, stones and bricks rained down the road. Village Destroyed ''Hearing cries behind me I turned,. and realized that the village of Oppau -was destroyed by an earthquake. Shortly after, the main biyldings of the plant burst into flames, and the air " was- filled -with the foui ef ammonia. Twenty minutes after tb first explo sion, there was another, bat less violent. , "Tho alarm was quickly given and in , less than half an hour after the first ' explosion-help arrived- Unfortunately, -as further explosion wer feared, the- V (Continued ea Pago Twelve.) I-'. .1
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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