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1 Partly cloady In eastj probably fcoftis In w portion BB tiJl J.ufiday ehowcnu on yonf pi nv i ? i--. . In Cfutf to c.l fc. ajngl copy. VOUCXIV;. NO. .87. THIRTY-SIX PAGES JOD AY. RALEIGH. SUNDAY iMORNING, SEETOlBER 25, 192C THIRTY-SftX PAGES TOQAY. , PRICE; SEVEN CENTS VI V T : lie STIIEY LEADER IHFI Kentucky .Senator Seeking To a mm an , uevm Amenameni io ire- - vpnt Sparrh nnH Sfi7iirp WATSON AND SHIELDS ' AIDING IN THE FIGHT Wayne Wheeler, Counsel For Anti-Saloon League, . Says Talk About Attack On Constitutional Government Without Basis: Seek To ' Overthrow 18 th Amendment H Nam and Observer Bureau. 803 District National Bank Bldg. By EDWARD E. BRITTON Washington, Sept. 24. The fight on the anti-beer bill being made by the advocates of amendment of Senator (Stanley would prohibit the search of person and property keeps the Senate tangled op in an effort to get a rote on the anti-beer measure, the filbuster against the bill being made a strong one. Senator Stanley leading it finds an excellent running mate in Senator Jinr Kecd, who does team work with Senator Stanley in order bo, prolong the struggle. Time and again tje voice of Senator Reed arose with th" remark: "I'suggest the absence of a cmoruiii," and there has been a roll call while Senator Stan ley had opportunity to rest his voice. At one time there were only. six Sena tors including Senator Stanfey in the chamber. Senator Shields, of Tenn., lines up wilh Senator Stanley, while Senator Tom Watson, of Georgia, also gives his aid with a remark, thrown in now and then when the supply or we Stanley oratory seems running low. During the six hour speech which he mado yesterday, Senator Stanley sent nnf for anndwitehes on which to nibble, giving definite notice that he and slay ing powers, that were not to be over lookefl. Hoping to get the revenue bill before the Senate there were effort made from time to time by Senator Penrose to get this in, but failing to do so he plans to make a hard fight on Monday to get a hearing on it. He ex presses his digust at the present delay in plain terms. But today the nntl beer bill was temporarily laid nside so as to csrrider the peace treaties and the reve nue bill may get the floor ou Atanday. Wheeler Answer Stanley. Senator Shields has been hammering away in opposition to the conference report on tho anti-beer as "ambiguous aud deceptive" and the position he takes is challenged by Wayne W. Wheel er, General counsol for the Anti-Saloon League. Speaking of this and of fight against "the conference report generally, Mr. Wheelersays! , "Senator" Tihleldi, . who opposed the National Prohibition Act and its pas sage over the President veto is in error when he says th conference com mittee report is 'ambiguous and de ceptive; This report makes clear that a ornate dwelling can't be searched without a warrant, n puuuiii.cp Vers who searches without a warrant without probabla cause as maliciously. It leaves all of tho law relating to search warrants with the exception of limitation about , searching a private dwelling just as they have been for year. .orvnrt : in decided contrast to the Stanley amendment, which pro hibits an attempt to search without a warrant. Xolio.lv knows what this means. The right of inspection, which has been recognized since the beginnins of the government under many laws would probably be called as ample to search. No one kpos what this might bo construed to mean by the different courts. If there is anything that is ambiguous and deceptive it is the Htnnley amendment. It is the smoke screen behind which the medicinal her brigade make their attack upon th eighteenth amendment and its n fcreement. From the beginning of the fight for the enforcement bill every subterfuge and camouflage has heen used to delaay action on it to protect medical beer. When one recalls thh cor rupt practices of brewers, hich was proven in the investigation under Senate resolution No. 37 and the vicious methods by which they eontrolled legis lative bodies, it ia amusing to hear the indignation expressed against the Anti Haloon League and the dry forces for fighting in the open for law and order measures." Hertator Overman h introduced a bill authorizing and directing the Sec retary of Commerce to collect and pub lish semi- annually statistics concerning th production and consumption of cotton and its by-products. The bill provides that this statement shall show th quantities, kind, staple and grades of cotton produced within the United States and the disposition of cotton as produced; also the amount of avail able cotton for world consumption and th probabl demand of amount, staple and grade, for the ensuing six months Senator Overman baa received from Greensboro and Winston-Salem re quest for some artillery tractors to gether with airplane liason for the Forsyth eounty fair and Central Car olina Fair at Greensboro Whkh take pise in October. There was such an exhibit made last year and request is for these to be supplied from Camp Bragg. Senator Overman has written ,to Adjutant! General P. C. Harris ask ing that the request be granted. Fir Postmasters Massed. The Senate this afternon confirmed ihe semination of five postmasters for Notb. Carolina towns1 Clyde K Jar tett, at Andrews, vice "W. B. Walker, resigned; E. C. Tucker, Fair Bluff, suc ceeding B. W. Sogers, who had been pestmaster until the office became thiri elas; W. J. Mode, Rntherfordton, vi. ? 1C T. DaTtOB r ratF'd : Hrfc-lfcrmtt." fpener, vie W. D. Pethet, removed ; A. 0. Parsons, at Star, succeeding 0. N. Scarboro, who resigned when the office Warn third elass. Th Postoffice Department announced (Ceatlafjeti Oa Peg Two) J LIBUSTER nrc NSENATE ltd "Devil Dogs" To Fight Again Battle Of Chahcellorsville Gallant Marine Corps Aviator ticing Night Maneuvers In Preparation For Mimic .War , , fare. On Historic Battlefield This Week ' i Washington Sept. 21 Captain John JUJIUU, Aaiim way- crashed to Ilia death from a height of several thouaand feet last night sear Quautieo, Va, while practicing night maneuver in preparation for the munie battle of Chaneellorivlll ' to be - r next" week by the Marine eorpa. "While 3,000 feet ia th air Captain Minnia wa "picked up by searchlight. It was his "stunt" to "get out" and in doing- this he headed th machine earthward for a dive. The machine got out of control and crashed into the Potomac river. The officer wa found beneath the engine.. Hi home wa in Montgomery, Ala. Captain Minnis, according to word re ceived here, met his death while at tempting to escape a carcbligbt which woa endeavoring to "pick out'' his plane. Diving downward his plane got beyond control and fell into the Potomac river. The body of the officer, who was a grad uate of the Naval Academy, and during service overseas with the 38th infantry was wounded and twice decorated for bravery, wai found beneath the plane. Reports received at -Marine Corp STILL IN PROGRESS Semnacher Declines To Repeat Description of Alleged Treat ment of Girl San Francisco, Calif., Sept. 24. Al fred Semnacher declined to repeat aloud from the witness stand today the de tails of Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle'a de scription of his treatment of Miss Vir ginia Rappe at the revel which preceded tho girls death, and instead wrote them on paper which he showed to the attorneys and to Police Judge Sylvam Lazarus, who is hearing the murder complaint against the film comedian. He first said that Arbuckle'a story of the incident, told to him, Lowell Sher man, Fred Fh- hliach mid Arbuckle's chauffeur, I' ry McCullough, and which involved the use of ice, caused a general laugh. When tho details were demanded, he objected to testify ing verbally. No one remonstrated at Arbucklo's tale, according to the witness, who said it was told in Arbuckle'a suite at the Hotel St. Francis, where the drinking party had taken place the afternoon be fore. Other conversation about the af fair was limited to discussion, of the intoxicate condition er aotiif or In participants, Semaacher said. He tea tided yesterday that he had only eoffeo to drink In answer to questions from Ar- buckle's attorney, Semnacher said he had observed nothing improper in Ar buckle's actions toward Miss Rappe or any of the other women at the party. When the news of Miss Rappe'a death fas brought bv a newspaper re porter to Arbuckle, Sherman, Fischbach and SomnacheT in Los Anfoles, the evening of September 9, Semnacher de clared Arbuckle expressed regret at her fnft. All of the group spoke of her death as an "unfortunato accident which they could not understand," ac cording to the witness, and Arbuckle, after a discussion of what had better be done, telephoned to the chief of police in San Francisco, offering to come north immediately if he was wanted. Semnacher was the first witness to 1)0 subjected to questioning by the de fense and these inquiries were but few Aside from his statement regarding Arbuckle's conduct at the party the de fense drew from him an admission that rranH UominL'uez, chief defense coun sel, had told him to tell th entire truth to Captain of Detectives Duncan Mathe. son, and that the defense had never heard his version of the case. Tha prosecution introduced as ex- hibi the garment which Semnacher said Miss Rappe woy at the St. Fran cis and Dominguez asked the witness if he had seen Arbuckle wearing Miss Bappe's Panama hat. Semnacher re plied that he had not. The defendant entered the court room with considerably more cheerful ness than he has evinced since his ar rest and grinned at District Attorney Matthew A. Brady's facetitious compari son of their two waist lines. His smile died away quickly, however, as soon as the testameny began. WILL BOMB BATTLESHIP ALABAMA THIS MORNING Norfolk, Va., Sept. 24. Armor piercing sheets were hurled from army .-.irpaHes onto the old battleship Ala bama today, aa a preliminary to the destruction of the ahip, which may occur early tomorrow morning. A squadron of planes will leave Lnngley Field at midnight with a load of 1,100 amd 2,000 pound bomb to be dropped on the Alabama. IMPERIAL KI.EACLE OF U.V KLUX KLAN TURNS IN FORMAL RESIGNATION Atlanta, Sept. T. Clark tonight announced hi resignation a Imperial Klcagl f th Knight of th Ka Klas Kla and stated that hi action wo14 automatically sever th eonnectlaaSrlth the KUn f Mrs. Elisabeth Tyler, am aatuitasit. Both had beta th aabjecta of article, printed la rarioaa news paper ad Mr. Clark declared a did net wish U tabjert her longer t criticism.. H added' that wHkoat her aid h wa "neither phriieally SnancUUjr" 4 Ty ! work ef preaaotlag the Klaa affair. Th ummanl was mad pablle la the form ef a letter to William Ljeacph Slmaaeaa, Imperial Wizard. ft wham Chark Srd hi aid aa a Manama I ratare if neeesvary. ARBUCKLE HEARING Falls To Death While Prac headquarter today ald "that . all "pr natations had been made for' th-laa Muvera. starting Monday, which will include marehei oil mote, than 80 miles from Quantieo to the aoen of th battle of the Wilderne, near Fredericksburg, Va tactical exercise and sham battle in which artillery of heavy calibre and all the accessories of Modern war will b employed, exhibitions and problem in flying by the marine 'aviation fore, and a reproduction of the Civil War bat tle at Chanoelloraville. The maneuvers will continue through the week. The Marin force, which will consist of more than Ave thouaand men, win include two regiments of infantry, the fifth and sixth, which were credited with having stopped the German advance at Belleau Wood, the tenth regiment of Marine artillery, equipped with French 75s, an additional battery of 159 nuli- meter heavy artillery, a regiment of specialists including engineers, . signal eorpa pioneers, and bridge bttildcra, and special detachments to handle mine throwers, anti-aircraft guns, giant Held aearchlights, tractors, tanks, armored ear and other appliances. T CAUSESMUCH TALK Senator Overman Drew Statute Under Which Railroad Is Seeking Injunction The News and Observer Bureau, 003 District National Bank Bldg. By -EDWARD K. BRITTON (By Special Leased WireV Washington, Sept. . 24. The injunc tion suit of ihe Southern Baibvay in its effort to escape the payment of taxes and to have the valuation placed on its property by the State si t aside by the Federal Courts was a matter much discussed by North Carolinians in Washington today. In iltis matter there vas brought to mind ajj act of Con gress which has to do with such a case, introduced many year ago by Senator Overman. After the injunction issued by Judge Jeter C. Pritchard ainst the collec tion of taxes in 1910 on account of acrious conflict of jurisdiction between the Federal and Stat) courts in which th President wa asked to take a hand and sustain a Federal judge, Senator Overman introduced a bilk known as the "Overman act'' and it constitu tionality being tested by the railroads it was sustained by the Supreme Court of the United State and ii now a law of th land. Th aet in question ap proved March 4 1013, reads: Three Jidge Mast Sit No interlocutory Injunction sus pending or restraining the enforcement, operation, or execution of sny statute of a State by restraining the action of any effort of such State in the enforce ment or execution ef such statute or in the enforcement or execution of an order made by an adi' ' trative board or commission acting under and pur suant to the statutes nt such State shall be issued or granted by any justice of the Supreme Court, or by any District Court of the United States, or by any judge, or by any circuit Judge acting as district judge, upon tho ground of unconstitutionality of such statute, unless the application for the same shadl be presented to a justice of Supreme Court of United States, or to a circuit or district judge, and shall be heard and determined by three judges, of whom at least one shall be a justice of the supreme or circuit judge, and the other two may be either cir cuit or district judges and unless a ma jority of said three judges shall eon cur in granting, such application aald application for injunction shall not be approved. "Whenever such application a afore said is presented to justice Of the Supreme Court, or to a judge, he shall (Continaed on Pag Two.) ADVANCES THEORY AS TO CAUS OF TRAGEDY Withdrawal of friendship and financial Assistance Sug gested By Borland New York, Sept. 24 The theory that Mrs. Grace Laws, losing the friendship and financial assistance of Miss Mil dred Hanan, was driven to a frenzy which resulted in her shooting the shoeman's daughter and then eommit Ing suicide, was advocated today by John 8. Borland, a central figure in yesterday's tragedy, Borland Dartmouth graduate, im porter ,and frfend of both Miss Hasan and Mrs. Laws advanced' hi theory only after he had been preased (o do so by Assistant District Attorney Wil son. Borland asserted that the ending of the friendship carrying with it with drawal of Miss Hanan's financial as sistance, had left Mr. Laws nearly "broke.?- He eiprcssed belief that this was followed by the excessive drinking for which Mrs. Laws writes her regret in a letter addressed to her (ister in San Francisco and fonnd among her possessions after her death. Then, in turn, according to th Borland theory, came the homicidal frenzy. It waa learned mat wnea me assist ant distriet attorney attempted to ques tion Mis Hanan lying ia a Brooklyn hospital lighting off death th girl readily answered, all questions except those icttaiains: Jo . the gnestion of whether Mrs. Iws had owed her money. Whea a detective asked Mis Kama, blnatly, why th ether divorce'e had ahot her, th girl dosed .her eye tad barely moved her head from sid to side to signify that she did aot knew. SU T BY SOU HERN 11' DOLLARS s. It'" ' Majority Report of Senatr Fi- - nance .Committee Formally - Approved By Republicans - FIGURE REVENUE FOR YEAR AT $2,735,000,000 Revised Taxation Bill Lacks Sixtj-flve Million of Turnisa ing Enough Money To Meet Scheduled Expenses, Accord ing To Committee Estimates, But Betrenchment Expected Washington, Sept. 4. A shrinkage of more' than $1,000,000,000 in income and exeess tares this fiscal year wai reckoned upon by the Senate finance committee in revising the House tax bill with a view to raising 3,324j000,000 ia internal revenue in the 12 months ending next June 30. Thia was disclosed by "the majority report approved today by committee Republicans and made public. The es timated total of revenue under the bill is $136,000,000 less than Treasury ex perts have figured would be returned this fiscal year under the present law, hut is $84,000,000 more than the revised total under the House bill. Estimated returns this fiscal year from income and profits taxes are $1,880,000,000, according to the report, aa against approximately $3,000,000,000 of actual collections in the fiscal year ended last June 30. Only about $Sb, 000,000 of this difference of $1,120,000, 000 is accounted for by ehanges pro posed in the present law. Treasury officers and committee members ex plained that the remainder is charged off to shrinkage on account of business depression, diverjon of funds to tax exempt securities Mid other causes. Declaring that the $3,324,000,000 total proposed under the revised bill was only $52,000,000 more than the Treasury had estimated would have to be raised through internal taxes, the report said that this ww "a margia of safety none too large for the fiscal year 1922 in view of the existing businesa depression and th uncertainty attaching to the yield of the income and profit taxes." "Your committee has acted," he re port said, "on the assumption that, with the . exception of the special railroad expenditures which will be nearly, if not wholly, completed in the fiscal year 1922, the aggregate expenditure for tho fiscal year 1D23 will bo substantially n large as in th fiscal year 1923. Tho special railroad wxpnaditareg Included in the 1929 budget amount, In. round figures, to $500,000,000; and ths receipts from customs and miscellaneous sources for the fiscal year 1923 are estimated at $730,000,000. Deducting both amounts ($1,230,000,000) from the total esti mated expenditures for 1923 (U.O. 000,000) leaves in ro' I figure $L',8i0, 000,000 to be supply i y internal taxes for the fiscal year lid. Based oa Idea ef Ecenamy "The revenue bill as recommended by your committee will raise during 1923, it is estimated, $2,735,700,000. The difference or deficit of $65,000,000 nlmut equal to the corresponding snr plus for the fiscal yer 1922 can and should, be avoided by saving and economics. Your committee deliber ately recommends a tn-i payment to meet ordinary expenditures on the pres ent assuming thai a reasonable measure of retrenchment and reductions will be accepted." "From th standpoint of revenue," the report added, "the most important change recommended are: "The repeal of the excess profits tax. which would reduce tho revenue about $400,000,000 annually; the repeal of the aurtaxe in excess of .12 per eent, in volving an immediate loss of from $S0, 000,000 to $90,000,000 a year; the repeal of th capital stock tax, involving an annual loss of sbout $75,000,000; the re duction of the transportation taxes by one half of January 1, 1922. and thei final repeal as of December 31, 19".n, involving a reduction of $i:i1,()0o,uiki during the calendar year 1922 and an eventual loss of $262.1100,00') per year; and the adoption of an additional In come taS upon corporations of five per cent, which would increase the reve nue about $260,000,000 annually. "The excess profits tax has been so thoroughly discussed that it is unnec essary to state at length the reasons which have led your committee to r nmtnenft itji tcdmiI. TriA time for dis enssion is past, and the time to 'epeal! the tax has arrived. Begarding surtaxe the report said: "Your foaimittee recommends a re duction of the maximum surtax from 65 per cent to 32 per cent in the belief that in th,e near future tho lower sur tax will, by stimulating sales and profit taking, and by making possible transactions, now blocked by excessive surtax rates, not only facilitate needed businesa readjustments, bnt actually in crease the revenue. In the long run in the opinion of yonr committee, the 32 per eent rate will yield more reve nue than the 65 per cent rate. Begarding the provision authorixipg the Secretary of the Treasury to issue an additional $500,000,000 In short term seeuriti, th report declared this was "not for the purpose of covering by borrowing any deficiency in the total tax revenue raised by this lull. The aburdity of ny contrary; charge,' the report added, is shown th fact that the Secretary of the Trees urv under existing h is authorised f to issue and have outstanding at any one time an aggregate of $10,0u0XX),000 in abort term eertifieatea of indebted ness, of which at the preeeat.time only aboat $2,750,000,000 are outstanding. Thia increase ia authorisation, i neee- ssry to enabj the Treasury Depart ment to carry out this . refunding pro gram and to enable it to traasfer be fore Slay I, 1923, as much of it short time certificates now outstanding as posaihl into note of a maturity ef aet more tftsa ave yesrs. III INCOME TAXES HARRIS ff SI OIE. El Says New-found Evidence Not Enough To Change Ver dict of Jury f - FORMER GOVERNOR CRAIG MAKES PLEA FOR HARRIS Governor Morrison Announces Decision immediately After Craig's Appeal;. Says Mays' Testimony May Be Elimina ted Without Injury to State's Case; Oct. 20 Execution Day Unless Governor Cameron Morrison reverses himself before October 20, J." T. Harris, Ridgecrest merchant, who slew F. W. Monnish, of Alabama, at Ridgecrest Septomber 3, 1920, will die in the electric chair at the State prison on that date. After a hearing consuming all of Fri day and a part of Safurday, Governor Morrison declined to interfere with the judgment of the court that demands tho life of Harris. Govornor Morrison nduitted the completeness of he newly discovered evidence discounting the credibility of Livinston T. Mays, sec retary of the Southern Baptist Assem bly, one of the principal witnesses for the State, but contended that the State's ease was complete without Mays' testi mony. "As to the witness vMaya," said the Governor, "evidence has been produced before me which would cause me to be highly doubtful of the truth of any statement made by this witness, but this testimony tan be utterly excluded from the case, and yet, in my judg ment, upon the evidence a' disclosed in the record, tho jury was1 not only warranted in convicting the defendant, but if they had not done so, with the tostimony of Maya excluded, they would have failed in their duty and returned a verdict clearly against the evidence in the case." Craig Make Powerful Appeal The deciainn of the Governor was announced . after former Governor Locke Craig had concluded a powerful appeal for the prisoner; Summing up the case deliberately. Governor Craig made his plea to the highest court, the court untrnmelled by constitution or statute and free to exercise and ad minister th law of mercy. He traced th inherited poison of Insanity that flowed in the veins ef the Harris fanv Wyl pointed out the weakness of the State ease with the elimination of the Mays testimony, and maintained that tho act of Hatris "was not that of pre meditation and deliberation and did not have in it that lasj essential of the highest crime. "I do not bcllvee the people of North Carolina will rejoice In the death of tho poorest of men," he declared, "when two great judges of the Supreme Conrt stand by and declare that he has not been tried by the law of the land and should not suffer death." "If yhu commute the sentence of this man," be went on, "all the good men and women of North Carolina wjll rise up and indorse you and the angels in heaven will cry 'Amen! Amen!'" Governor Craig concluded quietly. Attorneys on both sides, a few Inter ested friends of the doomed man. and his son, Paul Harris, had followed in tently the argument of the former (iovcrnor, now just a shadow of Ms former physical self, but strong as ever in his mental powers. During tlie hour or more of his effort, he sat close to Oovernor Morrison. When he had fin i!icd he leaned back in his rhair and waited. The silence wn nbsnlute. No Preliminaries Governor Morrison pressed the elec tric button nt his elbow, calling fir his stenographer. She ca-tne in. With out preliminaries be started hip state menL "I think, gentlemen," he beggan, ad dressing the attorneys for the defense, "that you have done all you can do t i save this man's life. I feel that I nm as ready now as I will he at any later time to m'eet my duty in respect to it. It is true that nqdt'.r the Constituion of the Rate I have the power to stay the execution of the judgment of the Superior Court of Buncombe County, affirmed by the Supreme Court of the State, but I do ro.t think that such new evidence has been brought to mv attention, or such evidence of the char acter and manner of the trial in the Courts has been ma 1" knnnn to nic as would warrant in toeing the processes of the- court, and commuting the death sentence of the prisoner to imprisonment. "The two dissenting judges nrvon the Rupreme Court bench (fid not. say that the prisoner ought lo.t to die, or x pressed any onininn indicating thn either of them thought him innocent of murder in the first degree. They d:s sented from-the majority judgment of the court upon certain exceptions ss signed as error bv the prisoner in his case on appeal. l'p"n thnsc exceptions I .do not agree with !f bsi! position takfn by the dis.-nt:T judges, and think the majority opinion of the court the -correct Jaw, but if error vas cii mitted in the respect jKiinted out by these two dissenting judges, the errors would not go to a substantial determi nation of the cause. Error may have been committed in the respect stasl by the two dissenting jo.lges, and yet thia would not warrant me, in forever determining that the prisoner should not suffer fur the crime. murder in th first doprV. Mays Nat Eawntlal "As to the evidence of the witness Majvv- Midfence has been. produce d before me which would cause rhe to be highly doubtful of the truth of any statement made hy thia witness, but his testimony can be uterly excluded frem the rsie, and vet, in my judgment, (Caallnaed oa Pag Two.) ' MORRISON DECIDES JCDGst LONG UPHOLDS NEAL. DONATIONS TO TWO 7 - ' ORPHANAGES OF. STATS Winston-Sale at, Sept. SWadga B. T. Long, Of ths Sapor lor Conrt, rendered a decision 1st this after, aeon In which ; he dismlase'd the caveat filed by Pablle AdmlaUtr. tor C K. Hamilton ia th John Nal will cut, Th coart's deelaloa sus tained CUrk McKaighn In appelat ing th Wachovia Bank and Trast Cohspaay of this city treats f the Neal tat, estimated ,ta b worth Ix kindred thoassad dollars, th balk ef which will ho divided he twee th Methodist Chlldren'e Home her aad th Masonic Or. phaaag at Oxford. II Getting Out of Way of One Ral eigh Man and Woman Are Struck By Another Mrs. Florence Wobb, Firwood svenue, was instantly killed and W. A. McDade, Belmont street, received injuries of which hs died two hours later, shortly after noon yesterday when Seaboard Air Lino passenger train No. 12, north bound, knocked them off the track aa it rounded the curvo near the Dawson street intersection of the railroad. Mr. McDade, a carpenter, was walking along the track going north and a few feet behind him was Mrs. Webb, a mill worker. At this point the Seaboard is doubled tracked. They left the south bound track for ths north track when the Seaboard shoo fly passed. It was at thia point that No. 12, Engineer C. V'adcn, bore up behind them. Investigation by Heabonrd officials was to the effect that at this point, and rounding the curve, the engineer could not seo the man and woman ahead. The noise of the Hhoo-fly just- passing, it is surmised, prevented them from hearing the train coming up behind thorn. It struck the woman first, hurling her down an embankment of about fifteen feet on the right, and immediately threw the man down tho same em bu nk incut- Mrs. Webb was killed instantly but Mr. McDade was rushed to Bex Hospital where ha died of bruisea and Internal injurioa at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Webb recently came to Raleigh from Durham to work in the Melrose Knitting MilL She ia a widow and has one son, a policeman in Norfolk. Ef forts were made last night to notify the son of his mothers death. Mr. McDade it a carpenter living on Belmont street and was fifty years old. RAILROAD EXECUTIVES LOOK INTO FORD'S ROAD Report Greatly Increased Movement of Automobile Parts Over His Railroad Washington, Sept. 24 Increased earn ings of Henry Ford's Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Railroad worn attributed by the Association of Railway Executives in a formal statement issued today to a heavy advance in shipments over the road of automobiles, motor parts, and mine products, the association's state mont said, have decreased since the De troit mapiifaeturer took over the road. Figures as to traffic over the road in April, May, and June of this year as compered with the same months of last year, whea the rfiad was not urder Mr. Ford's management, were presented by the association to show that bitumi nous coal shipments decreased from .Vi,(i50 tons in Ift'-'O to 416.H40 tons in 1921 while the bar and sheet iron and similar shipments advanced from 20.9HO tons in lSJi(, to 1"4,M7 tona in 11)21, ami automobiles and automobile truck freight amounting to 4,4!! tons ia 1920 Increased to 208,570 tons during the cor responding three-month period of thij ye. 'i r. "These liguies speak for themselves," tho statement said. "The coal, irjn, an 1 ore, pig iron, and chemical traflic de clined, while bar and sheet iron, cast ;t'gs, and vehicles showed great in iii'iises. In particular does the move in cut of automobiles nnd automobile tr.iiks stand out. Tho increase in metal parts shows that raw or partly finished materials for the manufacture of auto mobile! ia being shipped over the VD in quantities unknown before Mr. Ford acquired control. 'The drift from low grade to high grade commodities naturally wes re flected in the average receipts per ton mile v.hieh has increased almost 50 per cent since Mr. Ford's management took charge.'' DONATES PLAYGROUND TO CITY FOR THE NEGROES Winston 8alem, Sept. 21. Prince Albert l'ark, for several years playing field for Winston Salem's professional baseball team, has been presented to the city and accepted by the aldermen as a playground and park for the col ored people. The gift wns made by 'resident W. N. Reynolds, of the K. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, who bought Hie property for fl.1,000 at the close of last year's l'icdmont League sensoa. The ssmn bus been used this summer by the colored people as play grounds. It nil hereafter b main tawied b the city. ATTORNEY GENERAL ASKS FOR LIST OF KLAN LEADERS Washington, Sept. 24. Attorney General Danghtrty ban laatrneted Director Barns ef th Barea ef la reatigatioa te prrpar a list f aaaae a4 address ef Ka Mai Klaa leader la varioa part ef th co try, Deprtsset f Jutlc omciala aid today. It waa Udkated that U1 Mr. Dag huts. sUU had ji4 advlaeneat the matter ef Ing Klaa leader to Waahlagtea for interrogation reartrnlng thtlr activi ties, aealrt thia lafaraaatloa 1a th event ef a early sledsiea apoa the tfoa. 10 ARE KILLED BY SEABOARD N ECHOES OF TREATY i SCRAP I SEHATE HEARD ONCE MQRE Lines Drawn With: Statement ' By senator Lodge and Broad side By Senator Borah : HARDING TAKES HAND - IN VERBAL FIGHTING President Requests Prompt Ac tion-On German Treaty, But Plenty of Criticism Expect, ed From "Irreooncilables"; Borah Urges Complete With drawal From Europe (Washington, Sept. 24. Echoes of tho Versailles treaty fight resounded today aa tho Senate began debate ia open session on the new pesee treaty with Germany. The lines were drawn with an opening statement in behalf of the new treaty by Senator Lodge, of Mas sachcusetts, Republican leader nnd chairman of the foreign relations com mlttee, and an initial broadside in op position by Senator Borah, of Idaho, Republican "irreconcilable." Confidence in early ratification was expressed by Senator, Lodge as he pre sented a letter from President Harding requesting prompt action "so that w may put aside the last remnant of war relationship and hasten our return to the fortunate relations of peace." Opposition was indicated, however, in addition to Senator Borah by Senator Reed, of Missouri, a Democratic "irre concilable," while several other Demos erafs Intimated that they would erlti-' cm the new treaty. No Alternative Tosilhl Senator Lodge declared that there was no alternative, In establishing peaceful relatione with Germany, other than th pending or a similar treaty, and Presi dent Harding-in a letter presented by Mr. ixKlge, asserted that the new peace treaties "are in complete harmony with the resolution (the Knox-Porter peace measure) adopted by thn. Con grcss; indeed they are the euteome of th executive' endeavor to carry out th expressed wish of the Congress.1 Discussing the reservation favored by th foreign relation committee, Senator Lodge aid he did not believe that ef fered by Senator Pomerene, Democrat,' Ohio, extending to the American indi vidual the property protection accorded under the treaty to the United State! -government to be absolutely necessary, out was agrees Die to its incorporation. Senator Pomerene took issue of the point of necessity, declaring th Lusi tania disaster aad other claimants should be protected. The Republican leader supported strongly the other committee reserva tion to require an aet of Congreas be fore appointment of an American rep resentative on the reparations or other foreign aommissions saying it consti tuted "sound procedure." Senator King, Democrat, Utah, naked if the administration intended to par ticipate in the reparations commission and Senator Lodgt in reply said h did not know whether the administration had decided to recommend appointment of an American on the commission. "It might seem very desirable to be represented on the reparations commis sion," Senator Lodge added. ''Rat I do not believe that involves us in anything of the relation of an alliance. "We'll be bark in the League of (Na tions," interjected Senator Wafaon, Democrat, Georgia "if we go intoi; the ante chamber, we're pretty sure tdf be led into the living room. The question is whether this treaty in its ambiguous claufes, will not be the beginning of our entrance into the league." Senator Lodge replied that he eaw no such danger and that Congress had to be trusted to decide whether Ameri ca should join the reparations commis sion. Oppose Half Way Measure Discussing withdrawal of American troops from Germany, Senator Borah said that presence of troops was re quisite to execution of the Versailles treaty. "I am in favor of withdrawing Ameri can troops," he continued, "but I am not in favor of claiming rights aad benefits under the Versailles treaty which French troops secure. If we are to have their advantages, then every moral sense insists that we shall do eur part in the eieMtion of the treaty. "We can not take the position nnd maintain it before the world, that we will place on France the burden of executing the treaty and then claim all the privileges. It is an intolerable, in indefensible position and I predict w will not maintain it long. "We are tied in, completely to the Versailles treaty! We can never get any benefit from it except as we help execute it." It would be necessary to secure rights from the reparations commission Sena tor Borah argaed, "or else mail taia our position as a separate sad an- . derx-ndent nower."" "If any man thinks hs has escaped the Jjcague of Nations by getting into the reparations commission" Senator Itorah added, ''hell be due for a aad awakening after he gets in there. Senator Reed said he thought a treaty of peace waa to settle, the difficulties with Germany, the Knox resolution,, he argued, having ended the ' state ef war. "This treaty," said Mr. Reed, "settled more of these questions. It leaves a in the same position is the Kaox resolu tion except that Germany accept." BRYAN CALLS AT WHITE HOUSE TO P-AT RESPECTS 1. - m ' - - nasumgiuB, ov'w tv. iiiiuB mea nings Bryan called at the White Boas , today, paid his respects to Preaidnat . Harding and registered hop that th arament negotiatioas would accomplish their purpose. Th call wa described. : by Mr. Bjysn a a purely social ana, .J
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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