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BRYAN GETS IIITO
FIGHT TO SECURE
CHIEF JUSTICE
HASVA BIRTHDAY
if a
HID iLdOLL
IN CHESAPEAKE
Daughter Of Wealthy Shoe
Battleship Alabama, Target Of
' Manufacturer Carries Cause
Of Tragedy To Grave
MOTIVE FOR SHOOTING
MAY NEVER BE KNOWN
Army Airmen, Afire Off Tan
gier's Island , .
ANOTHER EFFORT TO BE . ' .
MADE THIS MORNING
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Coservef
PBINSYLVAMIA NOT- MISS HANAN DIES I
TO GIVE EVINCE WITHOUT TELLING
AT LABOR HEARING STORY OF KILLING
Tn nnn lTPcr
IU DUI
STRICTER DRY LAW
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Flays Tactics Of "Wets" In
Senate In Delaying Action
On Anti-Beer Bill
ACTION DELAYED BUT
VOTE EXPECTED LATER
jTo Beer Regulations Expected
From Treasury Department
v In Fac0f .Continued Tjli-
" buster, Declares Wayne B,.
; Wheeler, 1 Of Anti-Saloon
League; Bryan" 's , Statement
The Newt and Observer Bureau,
603 District National Bonk BMg.,
By EDWARD E. BRITTON
; (By Special Leased Wire)
Washington, Sept. 20. The success t
the opponents of the conference report
on the anti beer bill in shoving it aside
'- - and the fact that the report of the
Senate Finance Committee on the reve
nue bill and of the judiciary committee
on the ratification of tho peace treaties
are slated to have, the right of way
in the Senate beginning Monday hare
Hot feased the supporters of tho meas
ure inside or outside of Congress.
Wayne' B. Wheeler, general counsel
.of the Anti Saloon League, said today
that the delay "does not-nesn any weak
ening among the firends of the meas
ure, that it will anally past, that "the
opponents of the bill have been afraid
to let it come to a test rote any time
within the--isv -weeks-th report has
been pending in the Senate. A 81i
'" buster can delay action but it cannot
permanently defeat-the passage of a hill
which is favored by a large majority."
!'l don't believe that any beer regu
lations will be issued in tire face of
this continued filibuster. There is ev
ery reason for withholding these beer
il regulations- now, that obtained when
tin; vote was delayed by the former
filibuster before the recess. If the wets
think they are making headway itli
the people: by resorting to these tactics
they n rj welcome to it. The constant
reiteration by (Senator Stanley thnt the
pending' hill violates the fourth emend
ment does not chaw;.: tl " fuct 'i'"1
this measure gives nn right of search,
either with r without a wa:r: n". Ami
in addition, it penalizes any officer who
makes n search without :i warrant as
authorised under existing law.' which
have been on the statute books for
tierades if sueh officer make the teareh
without probable eanse and maliciously.
If the' officer makes the search
through an honest error of judgment he
may, in certain instances, be ("b-'cet
to a civil damage suit, just as he al
ways -has been under the existing laws.
Bryan Condemns Filibuster
The conference report on. the anti
Kill tnt the earnest support of
tTZ William Jennings Bryan, who sport
i .1 i.b.a iliirinir iht week. TllO
tome uh.vo ncic
former Secretary of State conlcmns
the filibuster against the bill as being
thoroughly undemocratic, lie is:id a
prepared statement for use in Monday
papers giving his' views on the treasure
saying as to it:
'The conference report on the nnti
L v-- u:u 0a itu-tif,ii. The nun
(a Deer um mu uw " - -
' porters of enforcement do hst desire to
make the laws any more strict than
laefiaasary -lo. conji)tuoucuui:H:.. i"
it Tate residence 1s a permanent building
and it is entirely proper to require a
warrant for search. This might even be
,-.tin.loil tn flriii it aiiv hnnn fide resi
dent to protect his home from senrcirj
without warrant by miming amuaviis
that he has no liquor unlawfully con
cealed therein, lint it is different with
automobiles. To require a warrant be
fore searching a suspected automobile
would practically nullify the law. The
automobile could get into another county
before aw warrant could be secured. It
is inconceivable that nny dry Senator
ran be deceived by the mock heroics
of the wets. Liberty to disobey the law
is not considered sacred by any large
percentage of tho American people. A
filibuster by a majority to prevent the
enforcement of a constitutional provis
ion Is about as undemocratic a proced
ure as could be imaginable, especially
a constitntionnl provision which out
laws a criminal truffle
Shows Up Republicans.
Mr. Bryan bidjeyeajejnjjhMTCalry- that
"next ycnY tr"going to be. a great one
for the Domocratitparty," being hacked
up by five specif reasons which will
be recognized as valid. He finds these
reasons in the effects which Republican
legislation and lack of legislation have
produced throughout the country, these
five reasons being:
1. Tho revenue bill, which relieves
less than 5,000 men of big incomes and
makes the burden relatively larger on
11 the rest of the people. It ajso re
peals the. excess profitftfax for the
benefit of a few tnoujaiW corporation,
Ad relatively itddt to the taxes of the
jest ef the people. This is going te
please a few and displease a very large
number.
5. The farmers nave tuHeres a fall i
of nearly one IiMf In the price of
the products while they atill have to
boy at high prrcs. There is a revolt
tnong the farmers.
3 Wages are falling and the wage
iMri --ill lot be ia happy frame
of mind next year.
4 The former service men are not
Is pieased with the treatment they have
rewired. . , ' -
5 The mal merchant will be taking
ait losses by next year and that will not
Wri h'r" svtnwitii
"W!in vnn aiii! all tnmth tlmu lat
will have complaint to make of eondi
tiene will preesnt formidable array
I the polls.'
TO RIAL DECLARATION Of
".. TRlCAlJiXPECTBO-TOOAIt
ICasnTngton, v-pt. 23. Formal decU
TTfittloi "jut It tfuce in the Senate igbt
vtf. the jati-beer till and its search
nd seizure clause' is expected tomor
row. Snspeoaioa ef hostilities it to bat
few week according to the present
utlook, er until the ScmU disposes of
(Ceutlaeed 0 f age Twe)
PROMINENT WOMAN MEMBER I
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Ida TarUell, prominent journalist and writer, ra one of the three women
delegates of the unemployment conference that convenes in Washington today.
She first rams into public notice by writing a biography of Abraham Lincoln.
She then write a history of the Standard Oil, Company.
Conference On Unemployment
To Begin Deliberations Today
President Harding Will Form
ally Open Meeting With An
Atidress Of Welcome
SECRETARY HOOVER TO
OUTLINE HIS PROGRAM
Fifty Representatives of 'Key'
Trades Will Study Employ
ment Needs
Vi'aihingtou, Spt. 2.". The Xitiional
unemployment corfurcnee aumnoned
by President Harding 'to consider ways
and means of providing a livelihood
for the many thousands of involuntary
idle in the United States will assem
ble here tomorrow. Comprising half a
hundred representatives from most of
the "key" trades, members of the con
ference were selected, it was said, for
their knowledge of conditions in va
rious sections of the country and in
the various industries.
The first duty of the conference will
be to determine accurately the employ
ment needs of the nation at, present
and to recommend to the administra
tion emergency measures for mitigat
ing the situation a,s found to exist, be
fore the rigors of winter set in to in
crease the hardships of the wageless,
officials here said.
With the immediate problem of work
distribution, solved, accurdjjig . to. ad.
ministration officials, tho conference
will take up tho formulation of a per
manent policy for combating unem
plyment throughout the country when
ever and wherever a serious situation
may arise, and in addition suggest
methods for hastening the return to
normui of commerce and business gen
erally. The conference is to be formally
opened tomorrow by President Harding
with nn address of welcome to the men
rn'' women who responded to his in
vitation to lend their counsel to tho
government. Secretary Hoover, named
by the President as chairman of the
conference, is to lay before the confer
ence suggestions for efficient organiza
tion to enable an expeditious consid
eration of the question at hand and
the most practical means for reaching
the conclusions sought. To this end
it is expected tho conference will at
once form itself into committees to
inquire into the various angles of the
unemployment problem, the recommen
dations of the committees to be acted
upon by the whole body in arriving at
a general policy. Provision has been
made for as many as ten committees
indicating tint these bodies would con
sist of five or six conferences each.
Statistics and an emergency peogram.
it was said, would be the first subject
for stiulv by the committees. A mast
of data hn been prepared for the nse
of the conference by an advisory com
mittee of economic experts appointed
by Secretary Hoover, and, with the
data, and such additional information
OU the fcuhje t k the conference may
gather, by means of hearings before
its i ommitteex, it is believed the whole
picture of National unemployment may
be visual izeil quickly.
WILSON MAN KILLED BY
FALLING UNDER TRAM
Wilson, Sept. S3. While attempting
to board moving northbound A. C.'L.
passenger train here this afternoon
James Thomas, a Wilson plumber, fell
under the train and was irtsTaarly
killed. 'He was hurrying to get to
Williarrston ot finish a rush job. He
was an ex service man, a member ef
Company K, of this eity, and a sou ef
Gray Thomas.
ATTEMPTS MADE ON LIVES
OF HUNGARIAN STATESMEN
.Budapest, Spi. 2l-4Ey tbs Associ
ated Press.") An attempt on the life
Of Cdotit " Julius Andres, former
minister of foreign affaire, and former
President Sakovsky, of the National
Assembly, wat - made from the gal
leries of the assembly thaaber today,
five shots being directed aV the pair.
Neither was injured, although oue tml
Jet fit reed Count Amttreaaj't clothing:.
LOOK!
AFTER "FAITHFUL"
Fires Surveyor- General In
Land Office To Make Way
For Republican Friend
The News and Observer Bureau,
District National Bank Building.
By EDWARD E. BRITTON
(By FpeciaTTieascd Wire)
Washington, Sept. 25. Just as fast
ns Preiidnt Harding tees plain sail
Ing in the settlement of one political
patronage row another rises like ban
quo's ghost. During the past week he
and Senator Willis, of Ohio, buried the
hatchet over the. matter of distribu
tion of Federal patronage in Ohio, and
Senator Willis agreed to drop his op
position to the confirmation of Alfred
Nauts as a I'nited States attorney in
that State. Nauts being the friend of
Walter Brown, that Ohio friend of
President Harding whom the President
fixed up'' with the job of head of
the congressional reorganization com
mittee. Nauts will how lie confirmed,
while various friends of Senator Wil
lis will be given something "equally
as good" in the shape of pie and peace
jiiU. reign, beljvecii Harding and Willis.
lint even while the Ohio row was
doing settled another started among
the Missouri Republican's who quickly
hied themselves .to President Harding
with their conflicting tales of woe.
The matter of the Federal patronage
in Missouri was put up to him on Fri
day by Senator Spencer and Walter S.
Itickey, of Kansas City, a former mem
her of thevKepuhlican National com
mittee. Following the conference at
the White House the indications were
said to lie that the administration was
neariug a solution of the situation and
that as a result of agreements reached
that Senator Ppeucer would not hold
up in the Senate some long delayed
nominations for positions in Missouri,
in the number being a Slate, prohibi
tion commissioner, -an internal revenue
collector, and a T'nited States marshal
for the Ean&as City district, Uiese ex
pec ted to be sent in during the course
of week or ten days.
Looking After "Faithful"
That Republicans hungry after Fed
eral jobs are pressing so hard forthe
pie counter have forced action is in
dicated by a statement niad" in "The
Bulletin," a window display publics
tion issued at various tinn-j in Wash
ington each day. On Saturday it had
this: "The HaMing administration
made it clear today that ail Federal
join traditionally viewed as political
berths shall go to Republicans." This
statement was evidently based upon the
action of the President in the rase of
I. C. Thoresou, surveyor general in
the land office for Utah, whom Presi
dent Harding curtly dismissed to make
room for a ltepublicau, K. D. Sorensen,
the letter written by, the Presidont say
ing in so many words that Thoreson
must get out so that n political debt
could be paid, though TT.oreson had a
vear yet to serve under his eommis
sioa. The letter of President Hard
ing spells politics clear through and
there is no one who has been able to
find such another letter ever written
by any other President! Here is the
leiter that he wrote to Thoreson:
"I- need not tell you of the current
demand for the recognition ef aspirants
within osr pasty for consideration in
the matter of patronage. I take yon
to be a practical man who knows of
these developments with a sweeping
change ia National administration,
t'nder all these circumstances I would
like to have a new appointment in the
office wkirh you occupy."
This was the second call to Mr.
Toercsoa -to tt out,' for he had been
asked' to vacate previously by the sct;
ing Secretary of the Interior But he
again declined, and oa the ground that
under his commission he had a year
still to serve. And to-be was held to
be "insolent" ami , fired to make
HARDING
NG
; ',L, XCooiiaued en, fait T0.
Railroad Insists Oil Right To
Deal With Its Employes With
out Interference
PRESIDENT REA SAYS
RIGHT IS FUNDAMENTAL
Railroad Seeks To Have Set
Aside Decision Of Labor
Board That New Election
Must Be Held For Shop
CrsJts Committee To . Ar
range Working Conditions
Philadelphia, Pa., 8eptt" 25.-The
Pennsylvania Railroad company will
not present any evidence at the hear
ing granted it by the United States
Labor Board in connection with tho
shop erafts committee election dispute.
The hearing is set for tomorrow at
Chicago. The company tonight made
public a letter from President Samuel
Kea. to the board in which he states
that in view of the fact that the Board
had declined to hear the company upon
the issues of law and fact presented
in its application fo the hearing and
had limited the hearing to three
points, the company has nothing to
present. The letter will be filed with
the Board tomorrow by a representa
tive of the compauy.
Mr. Kea says the carrier "asserts
and will exerciste its right to deal with
its own employees without the inter
vention of individuals or organiza
tious whose manifest object is the
denial of the fundamental right of
employer and employers to deal, in the
first instance directly with each other
respecting wages and working condl
tions in which they alone are directly
in fe rested.
Wantl Decision Set Aalde.
The company on August 24 asked the
board to set aside its decision calling
for a new election of shop crafts com
mittee to arrange rules and working
conditions and requested hearing and
submit oral evidence. On September
, the Board granted the company's
request hut limited the hearing to
three points. They are:
What employees, not in the active
service of the carrier, such as men
laid off, furloughed or absent upon
leave, shall participate in the election
of committees; bow the representative
capacity of spokesmeajf unorganised
employes shall be ascertained, and
permitting the carriers to offer evi
dence of the adoption or ratification
of its sho craft rules by representa
tives of the crafts fairly selected by
a majority of the employee of that
class.
Mr.-Rea In his letter also says:
''The carrier reminds the Board that
in its application it asked the Board to
find in pursuance of the transportation
act that the carrier has tho lawful right
to establish rules and working condi
tions in the first instance, either with
or without first holding conferences
with its employes: and that the con
tracts respecting rules and working con
ditions heretofore entered into by the
carrier and itsf employes iu the shop
crafts are nn in full force nnd effect
without further action on tho part of
the carrier and its employes in the said
shop crafts. The Board has refused to
grant a hearing and to moke such find
ing, and lias in all respects declined to
hear the carrie upon. the isstiej of law
and fact presented in its said applies
tion. It follows therefore, that there is
nothing for the carrier to present in the
way of oral evidence on tho day fixed
by the board, September 18.
Cannot Accept Derision
"The carrier notes that it is referred
by the Board to its decision in which
the Board arrogates to itself the right
to ignore the decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States determin
ing the respective rights of employers
and employes nnd decides that hither
to unquestioned legal rights mast give
war to the Board's views of what is
just fair and reasonable as between the
parties anil the public.
"The carrier cannot accept these views
of the Board, novel and startling
though they may be, and, if followed
to thrr logical conclusion, revolution
ary in effect. It does not believe tbn
the transportation acj has deprived, or
was intended by Congress to deprive
either tmployers or employes of their
rnnMHutiojial and legal rights as es
tablished by the Supreme Court and
other emt ftf the United States.
''Tho carrier states finally that it
has not denied and ia not now den) ing
the jurisdiction of the Iibor Board to
hea nwid decide such disputes as fall
within the purview of the transports
tion act, but it denies the right of the
Board to invade the domain of manage
ment ant to assert jurisdiction over
grievances of whatsoever kind and char
ader in ronueetiun with the employ
ment the discipline and the discharge
of its employes."
Women's "Bill of Rights"
To Remove Discriminations
Washington, Sept. 2.1. A Woman's
'bill of rights," proposed for enact
ment by the Federal and all State gov
ernments to remove all legal discrimi
nations against women, Wat outlined to
drfy in a statement by the Nations!.
Woman's party.
Tho prrgram includes a new consti
tutional amendment, deelaring that "no
political, civil or .legal disabilities or
inequalities oa arconnt of sex, or oa
account of marriage" shall prevail, to
gether -with a- HI to give women the
tame rights, privileges, and Immunities
as men."
It was announced that Senator Cur
tis, Bepabrican, Kansas, and Represen
tative Fe, Republiraa, Ohio, would in
troduce the proposed eonttittrtioatt
amendment ia Congress October 1. and
that Oiiet of the aw. hiU Ju4 pesa.
John S Borland, . Who Was
' With Miss Hanan When She
Was Shot By Mrs. Laws,
Who Later Committed Sui
cide, Says Loss Of Financial
Support Responsible
New Tork, Sept. 25. Miss Mildred
Hanan, daughter of the late Alfred
P. Hanan, shoe manufacturer, died in
the Long Island College hospital early
today without having adyanced any
exnlanation as to why she had been
shot Friday morning by her erstwhile
chum. Mrs. Grace Laws, who later
committed suicide.
Join 8. Borland, importer and Dart
mouth eollege graduate who was in her
company when the shooting took place
outside the apartment of a mutual
friend on Schermerhorn Street, Broo
lyn, was at her bedside when the end
came at 4 o'clock this morning. Mrs.
Clara H. Hanan, her mother, and sov
eral other relatives also were present,
but the eirl. who had lapsed into un
consciousness shortly after midnight
died not recognizing any of them.
An autopsy performed by Dr. Carl
Boetigcr, assistant medical examintr
showed that A bullet pierced the thorax
and tho abdomen and lodged under the
ninth rib on tho right eidV. A blood
transfusion, made Friday seemed to
give the girl additional strength but
a relapse set in Saturday evening.
The real motive for tho shooting may
never be publicly known. Police es
pressed the theory that jealousy was a
contributing factor but they were un
able to determine whether it was be
cause of Borland or because of the
severance of Mrs. Thaws' friendly rela
tions with Miss Hanan. Borland told
polka that he believed Mrs. Laws was
driven to the act as a result of having
lost the friendship and financial asaist
ance of Miss Hanan. He also expressed
the bolief that this was followed by ex
salve drinking which Mrs. Laws ad
"nutted in a letter to her sister in Sun
Francisco found among her personal
effects after her death.
Mrs. Laws had lived with the Hanans
until about tvo weeks ago when a quar
rel between her and Mildred at Shore-
ham, Long Tsiund, resulted in Mrs. Laws
taking rooms at a hotel not f.'r from
the Hanan home on Park avenue. On
the evening preceding tho shooting. Miss
Dorothy (Jottschalk, a friend, had dined
with Miss Hanan and Borland at the
Hanan home, Miss Hanan md Borland
later decided to accompany Miss Gotts
chalk to her home in Brooklyn and it
was while emerging from her apartment
tho shooting occurred.
Kxcept to state that Mrs. Laws had
shot her and that Borland had nothing
to do with it Miss Hanan had declined
to answer the inquiries of police seeking
to establish a motive for Mrs. Kiwi'
act.
PROMINENT WOMAN DIES
AT STATESVILLE HOME
Statesville, Sept. 25.- Mrs Nathan
Harrison, age fill, wife of N. Harrison,
for many years a leading citizen and
business man of Statesville, died of
paralysis today at her home here. Mrs
Harrison was a native of Richmond,
Va., her maiden name bring Miss Dura
Jacobs. Sho was married to Mr Har
rison in January, 1SH.",, and 'jas Ihcd
in Statesville since.
She is survived byher husband ind
the following rhildrcr Dr. Harry liar
riMn, of Norfolk, Vs.; Mrs. Sidney J.
Weilman, of Richmond, Va.; J'e H.-.r-rison
and Cecil Harrison, of S'.ateville ;
Alfred ilrrison, who is in the U. 8.
Navy. The funeral wih be eond.irtcsi
from the home tomorrow af'ernooii at
3:30
POSTPONE TARIFF HEARINGS
ON FARM PRODUCTS
Washington, Sept. . Postponement
of hearings on tariff schedules on farm
products and livesto-k until November,
was agreed npon yesterday at a crmfer
ence between Chairman Penrose of the
Senate finance committee, and repre
sentative of farm organizations having
headquarters iff Washington.
The spokesman for the farmers asso
eiutions said they won 1.1 itzit lie ready
to go into a general .TWcuscion of th-
proposed tariff schcdiiie until ifhunt
November 1, and nrged continuation of
the emergency law until such time as
the proposed new tarrT '. g .es in t"
effect.
sent to all State chairmen of the wo
man's party except Wisconsin, which
slreajjy hawnacted the law.
Women would have the right, upon
marriage, to choose their name and
have equal voice in custody of their
Children, legitimate or illrgitimate,
ander the proposed new bill of the wo
men's organization. Other legaf. right!
for women Include :
Suffrage, eligibility for all offices,
freedom of routrutt; choice of domi
cile, "mldeoce or .m: Jury service;
acquisition and control of property;
control of labor earnings, eligibility for
fiduciary positions; equally to grodndt
for divores and immunities and penal
ties for tea ofiVhst's. 1
All eommoa law disabilities of wo
moa would bo abrogated under the
legislation, ,
! V -
ytsw r-xtxnt jf
William H. Taft, Chief Justice of the
V. S celebrated his sixty-fourth birth
day recently at his summer residence
at Murray Bay, Quebec, Canada.
Bob Benson, Wanted For Fa
tally Wounding Iredell Man,
Hurried To Charlotte
Slatesvillc, Sept. 25. After a dili
gent search for seven days and nights,
Bob Beuson, a negro wanted for fatally
wounding Robert lishmau last Sunday
night, was arrested this evening about
6:M) at the home of Alonrn Hart
colored, five miles west of Statesville.
Robert IKshman ran his car into
Benson's buggy and demolished one of
the wheels Hunday night, a quarrel fol
lowed which resulted in Benson's hitting
Dishman over tho head with a gun and
fracturing his skull. l)ihman died
Monday morning in a local hospital.
Since that time night and day officers
and posses of men have been scouring
the woods in search of the negro. For
the past two days there were possibly
five hundred people who joined in the
hunt Yesterday Benson was teen by
an ofi6er but escaped into a dense
forest after the officer iliot at him sev
eral time. His arrest tonight was
made in"tho house of a colored man,
where he had gone for food. For sev
eral days Benson had worn only a shirt.
Immediately after apprehension Benson
was hurried to the Charlotte jail for
safe-keeping.
Benson hungry and ragged came to
Hart's house early this morning and
asked for fttod and clothing and want
ed to surrender to the officers on con
dition that tl(i would be protected from
tho mob. Hart came to see Sheriff
Alexander and made arrangements for
him to get Benson and take him away.
Other men suspected t at Benson was
concealed in Hart'' house and arrest. d
him and slipped him away fur safe
keeping.
LINCOLN COUNTY OFFICERS
CARRY NEGRO TO CHARLOTTE
Charlotte, Kept. 2ii. Lincoln county
officers early today were understood to
bo on their way to Charlotte bring
ing Bob Bimsou, negro, charged with
f.iially clubbing Robert Dishman,
prominent Statesville business man,
last Sunday, according to a statement
by Sheriff Alexander, of IredelH
county.
Several taxi drivers started with
Benson to Charlotte, Jt was reported
in Stateville, but later in the night
Sheriff Alexander telephoned CharlotK
officers to inquire if they had arrived
here. loiter the sheriff was advised that
the taxi drivers had d-'livered their
prisoner to the sheriff of Lincoln
county. Sheriff AVxamb-r ther'npori
communicated wth the sheriff at
I.inciilnton and requested that ho tend
tho negro on to Charlotte, which the
la'ter agreed to do.
G0LDSB0R0 SENDS BIG
DELEGATION TO KINST0N
Kinston, Sept. 2o. The most nnique
religious pilgrimage in the history of
this section occurred today when 5'f
Goi.ljlioro business end professional
men and (heir families ind friends
came here to attend a service con
ducted by Rev. Lee McBride White tt
the First Baptist church. Mr. White,
pastor of the church, is conducting
evangelistic services, assisted by II. L
Wolslagel, a notel sin-r, uf Ashcvil.e
The (ioldsboro churchmen enmn n au
tomohiles "and swelled a huge cn.gre
cation at Pastor White's edifice. A
"booster'' choir of 2"" voices sang fa
miliar hymns cf the church.
MEETING OF MASONS IN
AH EV II. IE BEGINS TODAY
Ashcville, Kept. 23. Delegates from
nearly every section of the country sr
rited here today to attend the four
tcentb triennial assembly, general
C,rid Council, Koyad and Select Mas
ters, and the 3Hth triennial convoca
tion of the (irand Clantcr Roval Arch
Masons of the United States. At lent
seven hundred members of the High
Masonic Bodies af here frr the erent
which opens ton irnvv morning to con
tinue through Thursday.
TO MAKE THOROUGH PROBE
OF THE CHICAGO POLICE
Chicago. 111., Sept. 23. Federal olti
cialt today had ttarted nhiustile
investigation of the Chicago Police De
partment is a result of an 'appeal lat
night by Charles Fitrmorrit, chief of
police, who declared that, in his belief
'half ef the city't SH) policemen were
bootleggers, playing their illicit liquor
operation much more industriously
(has the watcbtl over the eity."
GET NEGRO AFTER
HUNTING FOR WEEK
Score Of Planes Will Take Air, '
Woth Bombs Weighing As -Much
As ton Each In Effort
To Send Hulk To Bottom; If
Vessel Stays Afloat Another
Effort Will Be Made Tuesday
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Norfolk, Va., Sept. 25. The old bat
tleship Alabama, targe of army airmen
ia bombing testj off Tangier'a Island,
in Chesapeake Bay, is afire in tho hold
and the heat it so intense and gat to
thick around it that observers were
unable to go aboard today to register
the effect of bombs dropped yesterday.
One of the last bombs dropped just
at dusk last night levered the anchor
chain of the Alabama aad no night
bombing was held last night, although
a squadron of planet was due to go out
at midnight t drop high txploaivo
bombs.
There was no bombing today, the air
men were given a rest until tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock, when sixteen or '
twenty planet will take the air with
1,HH) and 2,000 pound bomba. It it
possible that these airmen will link
their target tomorrow, although" it it
not intended that they ihall, as there
still remains another day of the oper
ations. The last day's testa tre to be
gin at 2 o'closk Tuesday morning,
with heavy bombs and the fiien will
go up with instructions to tend the
old vessel to the bottom.
Army officials in charge of the tests
have been unable to give a very ac
curate report of the condition of the
Alabama, although she is badly bat
tered. ,
Two airmen in a Idmont bomber
were forced to make a Innding in the
York river yesterday on account of
engine trouble, by they were rescued
by fishermen in miiuII boats.
ARBUCKLE SPENDS QUIET
DAY IN COUNTY JAIL
Prosecution Will Put On Its
Main Witnesses In Trial Of
Comedian Today
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 25. Roscoe
Arbuckle, comedian, charged with the
slaying of Miss Virginia Rappe, mo
tion picture actress, spent a quiet Sun
day in jail while the district attorney
prepared a list of witnesses for exami.
nation when the police court hearing
is resumed tomorrow.
The rst complete story of the party
in Arbucklc's suite in the Hotel St.
Francis on Labor Day which wus fol
lowed ty the death of Miss Rappe four
days later, is expected to lie told at tSe
hearing tomorrow when tho prosecution
calls Mrs. Bambina Maude Dctmont who
preferred the charge against Arbuckle
and Miss Alice Blake, and Mist Zeh
Prevost, who attended the party. The
order in which the witnessei will be
called was not anuounecd.
The defense has not indicated how jt
is to combat the testimony to far offer
ed by the prosecution. The only wit
ness who has been cross examined, and '
he only briefly, was Alfred Semnacher,
who yesterday testified for the prosecu
tion but ns a "hostile witness." accord
ing to the police judge. The police
judge is to decide whether Arbu'kle is
to be held to the Superior couV and if
so whether on tiie murder charge or
on the grand jury indictment which,
charges manslaughter.
TI.e defense had made no exempt to
check the prosecution in the question
ing of witnesses, taking advantage it
m said of the opportunity to learn
the Htate'j case against Arbuckle af
forded by the hearing.
SWIMMING RECORDS IN
BRIGHTON BEACH RACES
New York, Sept. -'.- Kight swim
ming records, five world's and three
American, were set in an open meet
in a 25 vard pool at Brighton Beach
today. The record informers were
M.ss Charlotte Bo) le, of New York,
Norman H 'ss, of Chicago, and relay
trams of the women t snimming iss)"'
nation of New York.
Miss Boyle set a world's record for
22) yards ut two minutes 47 2 5 seci
oruls, as mil. (...red mth the former mark
ef i.m made by Miss Ethel Da Bleib
trsy in Australia early this year. The
J m yard mirk was passed in, 2:32 4-5,'
four seconds faster than the world's
record time uiaile by Miss Boyle last
month.
R.. mule three Amcr'ean reeords,
covering 4"' metres in 5:14 2 5; two
seconds faster thad his own record
t in l!'l"; .MX' metres in 3:43 4-5,
three-fifths of a seeond better than
the former record made bv II. Foll
mer, ef Nw York in 1!16; and 400
yards in 4:49 3 5 hh -rnrpas'ed
Yoilmer's (correct) time of 4:54 1-5
made in lHi.
THOMAS VlLLE Jl'PGE AND
FARMER HAVE FIST FIGHT.
Thomr.iville. Sept. 25 The judgsj f
the BecordAr't eourt, Howell K. Kywer,
tnd a farmer named Charlie Trotter,
who lives three miles southwest of town,
met ia aa altercatioa, a few blows with
sts being struck, when they were pa ilea .
apart by nrhy observers, the physical
damage being light oa either tide. Tho
trouble originated over a suit agalntt
Mr. Trotter's ton, M years old. oa the
charge of operating a ear whils Intoxi
cated, the judge having placed Sao of
130 for the offense at the trial on tho
orning of tho day when, the fight oo
tarred,