CITY
NORTH CAROLINA'S
LARGEST CITY
(U. 8. CENSUS)
Leads Alt North Carolina
Dailies in Home Circulation
1 VV 11
FORTY-SECOND YEAR
FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE
. OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, THURSDAY, DEC. 7. 1922
Weather: Rain
Sixteen ges Today LAST EDITION
TURKS MUST COME OUT OM SID
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SENTINEL
IES Of Mi RUSSIA
L'S 1 W BERN RELIEF FUND IS
HEADED TOWARD $4,000
SCOTT CRITICIZESCLEWIENCEAU IS
FIRE DEPARTMENT OF
NEW PERN
II
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Report Also Asserts Large
Quantities High Explosives
Were Found In Fire Area
FIRE LOSSES ARE $2,550,000
Even When' Tiro Company Got To
Scene Found It Had Left a Nozzle
And Had To Go After This, Then
Found It Had Also Forgotten
Wrench; Had To. Get .This
New BcrnTDec. 7 Xcw Bern
police today are -Investigating the
report made by W. A. Scott,
deputy Insurance commissioner,
that a largo amount of high or-
dosives was found In negro
louses and In one of their
churches,
Lieut. Kurtz, of Fort Bragg,
k said that prjy a, few shells were
1 found in the ruing of one or two
" houses. ,
When shown the story regard
ing the report of Mr. Scott, In
which he criticized the local fire
department, James 8. Bryan,
chief of the New Bern Are de
partment, issued the following
statement:
It is true as Mr. Scott says that
there was no nozzle ou the wag
on which was first at the scene
of tho fin-. The delay resulting
from this was not frreutcr than
three or four minutes. The state
ment thnt Mr. Scott makes con
cerning the wrench is absolute
ly untrue. I made the connec
tion myself and a wrench was
on the wagon. There were only
three houses ablaze when the
Are department responded and
not five as Mr. Scott says.
With reference to the coup
lings at theHopcr Mill it Is true
tliat the coupling there (lifters
from the .standard size, , but as
" we had proper connection on our "
trucks there was alisolutely not
one second lost 'in this resiioet."
In regard to Mr. Scott's state
., ment that the insurance on the .,
procrty destroyed would
amount to $33,000. W. H. Hen
derson, local banker, said one
company ' alone hiul policies
amounting to $100,000.
Raleigh, life.' 7 (t?y Associated
Press) Criticizing tho city Are de
partment, estimating the loss at $2,
550,000, and asserting that a large
amount of high explosives wns found
In "negro hquseq a,nd even In one of
their churches" the state insurance
department today issued the report
uf W. A. Scott, deputy. commissioner,
on the New Bern conflagration last
week.
As to the origin of the fire, he said,
it was unquestionably due to Ignition
of a shingle roof by, a spark from a
terra cotta flue in use for twenty
years in the home of Henrietta
tVBrien, colsred: A small boy dis
covered the fire and told Henrietta
and she, with a half dozen others,
eaw the fire burning around the flue
In the attic.
"By delay of th Are department
In reaching the scent." the statement
ronttmies, "five houses were burning
fiercely and the wind blowing a gale
. before help arrived. When the de
partment arrived it found it had left
a nozzle and op .coming with the
nozzle, found it had forgotten a
wrench and had to go for that.
In addition to this, CaDtain Scott
reports that the" Rowland - Lumber
Company fire, which wns outside the
corporate limits,, had xhe entire Are
department there when the other
lire, in the city, begun and at the
.factory fire precious time was lost by
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CHRISTMAS
SHOPPY
ALL COMPANIES
OUTSIDE THE CITY
WHEN FIR
BEGAN
IN REPORT
Salem Is Declared
A Class College;
A High Distinction
New Orleans, Dec. J Snlcm
College at Winston-Salem, Jf. C,
was declared an A Class Institu
tion today by the Southern Asso
ciation of Colleges, in session
here. No other college was add
ed to tho list from North Caro
lina, South Carolina, Virginia and
Georgia, and only four from the
entire South, nlthn thlrty-flve
colleges applied for that recogni
tion. This Is a great honor to Salem
College and a . distinction of
which the entire community and
the state have every reason to be
proud. There Is no higher col
legiate recognition possible lu
America.
The distinction will doubtless
be especially grntlfylng-to the cit
izens of Wlnston-Kalcm In view
of their co-operation and support
in bringing Uie material equip
ment of the institution up to such
a point' as to make "Old Salem"
eligible for the high honor con
ferred today.
Tho requirements of the 'South
ern Association In tile matter of
A Class recognition are very rigid
and any Institution which meets
them has every reason for pride
in tliat fact.
T
LANGLEY FIELD
Crash, Which Killed Six Air
men, Appears To Have Been
Due To Maj. Gearhart ,
WRECKAGE IS CLEARED
A Structural Iron Worker Became
So Interested In The Collision That
Ho Walked Off Roof He Wu
Working On, Being Seriously
Injured; Another Flyer Hurt
i Newport News, Va., Dec. 7 While
arrangements were being completed
today for tho funerals of'the six men
who were killed, when a Martin
bomber and a Kokker- scout plane
crashed in mid-air yesterday, a
board of inquiry was hearing the tes.
timony of a score of witnesses with
a view of determining if possible the
causes and responsibility for the ac
cident, which sent the two machines
hurtling to earth. The board visited
the spot where the planes landed and
examined the Are-blackened frames
twisted wires and the few bits of
charred wood and canvass. Soon aft
erwards the wreckage was cleared
away.
Witnesses today told the board
that it was apparent that Major
Gearhart, who piloted theFokker,
did nut realize his position until too
late. They said that when it ap
peared he was nearlng the squadron
of bombing planes and had no way
to get out he uttempted to swerve
sidewise and upward. This move,
The two officers will be buried in
Arlington national cemetery. AVheth
er the bodies of Private Kolas and
his companions Staff Sgt. Matsick,
Cleveland; Private F. J. Blunka, Chi
cago, and private i nomas Jordan,
Deepstep. C,a. will be sent to their
homes, awaited word from relatives.
In the excitement created by this
disaster it was learned today the
crash of a plane piloted by Lieut
Hillard soon thereafter was over
looked. Lieutenant Hillard was at
tempting to make a forced landing
as a result of trouble with his gaso
line tank, when his machine became
uncontrollable. He was only slightly
hurt, but his plane was badly dam
aged. Claude B. Maynard, structural iron
worker, was working on the roof of
a building near the field, when he
saw the bomber and scout planes
collide in the air. He forirot his po
sition and in an effort to follow the
falling machines walked off the roof.
He is in a hospital here today suffer
ing from a broken leg ami other in
juries x
1HQUJRY INTO
HEAGCIDENTAT
AGAIN GUEST OF
PRES. HARDING
Took Luncheon With Chief Ex
ecutive, This Being Only
Event On Program Today
HE IS STILL GOING STRONG
Strenuous Program Fbr Tho Past
Two Weeks Does Not Seem To
Have Affected Him In Lcust; Ho
Had Conference With Wilson
yesterday i Spoke Last Night
Washington, Dec. 7 Rising a little
later than his usual habit after the
strenuous day of yesterday and a
night address which keot him up
late, Georges Clemenceau today faced
a comparative lull in thu program
which has kept the veteran states
man on the whirl since he brought
his campaign for France to the
American capital last Monday.
Luncheon with President Harding at
the white house at 1:30 o'clock Was
the only scheduled event on his pro
gram for the day.
Whether his capacity for sightsee
ing was to keep The Tiger on the
move during the next to his lust
day's visit, or whether he would take
advantage of the easle program and
"point" for the concluding and im
portant occasion of his speech tomor
row before the conference of publio
opinion on world peace, he was ap
parently letting the day decide. He
plans to leave for Philadelphia after
an address here, where he will de
liver another address on Monday.
The Tiger had a busy day yester
day, which Included a quarter of an
I hour's visit with form!' President
Wilson. He delivered an address last
night before the Bouthern. Society.
Introduced by Hugh C. Wallace,
former American ambassador to
France, The Tiger was -glvou an ova
tion by his audience, which included
members of the Southern congrcB
sional delegations. Reiterating many
points of the argument presented in
his previous addresses, the speaker
received the first interruption of ap
plause when ho mentioned ex-President
Wilson and his "fourteen points"
after putting the question whether
the United States "had attained Its
one aim" of its participation in tho
war.
Asserting that he had not come to
tell the United States "how she
should act," M. Clemenceau con
cluded that what he asked was a
"peace aoj:, an act to make tho Ger
mans keep peace and to make sure
l,ul tiov na r "
Clemenceau lav abed today until 1
8 o'clock, four, hours after his usual
rising time. During the morning ho
received several visitors, among them
Theodore Roosevelt, assistant seere-,
lary oi tne navy; jonn nays Ham
mond, and Col. E. Ii. House, who
arranged his tour.
h0 guests at the President's
luncheon In honor of M. Clemenceau
included Vice President Coolldgft,
Chief Justice Taft, Secretaries
Hughes, Mellon, Weeks, Denby, Fall
and Davis; Attorney General Daugh
erty, Speaker Gillette, Hen&tor Lodge
and Representative Porter, chairmen
of the Senate and House foreign
affairs committees; Ambassadors
Juaserand, and Henry White and
Hugh Wallace, both former ambas
sadors to France.
BELL TEL. CO. EMPLOYES'
MEETING ENDS TODAY
Charlotte. Dec. 7 H. I. Satterfleld
division plant chief of the Southern j
Bell Telephone and Teleraph com-1
pany, at Raleigh, was granted the J
complimentary title of "King 'Pos- j
sum Hunter," by dolegates to the j
company's employes here as a result '
of his prowess last night In landing!
three of the little animals. i
- Business sessions today, a supper '
at the Charlotte Country Club and a I
dance at the Manufacturers Clubs !
were the last, events on the conven- j
tlon program, which has dealt largely !
with ways of improving service.
HEALTH SEALS
Seal letters and packages this
Christmas season with these pretty
squares. It will mean a protection
to one's self and community worth
while.
JFCJUAXTHi
donations of CASHmM FAR THF
AND CLOTHING BEEN" ; ZZZ::","'
pouring
Business Houses, Civic and Fraternal Organization, Churches
and Individuals Join in Aiding the Sufferers; Fund Has
Not Closed, But All Who Desire to Aid Requested
To Send in Their Donation As Early As
Possible; Funds Promptly Forwarded
Subscriptions to the fund be
ing raised thru Tho Sentinel for
the "relief of the sulTorors from
tile recent lire at New Hern con
tinued to pour in today, the re
sult being that the fund has
now gone above the three thou
Mind dollur mark.
Tlx1 feature of toduv's develop
ments won the receipt of
check for $1,000 from the R.
1. Reynolds Tohaot Company.
The clink was sent Immediately
to tho mayor of the stricken city
and the donation will have n
vital lHirt In relieving the dis
tress then, which has been so
acute since the conflagration of
last week.
The new donations included
gifts by business houses, civic
und fraternal organizations,
churches and Individuals. There
seems to he in evidence on all
sides an earnest desire to aid hi
relieving the distress of a sister
city at a most critical period.
Accompanying many of the do
nations were expressions of
Interest In the stiu.us of there-"
lief work and offers in more
than one case of additional
money If It should he necessary.
A feature of the activities In
connection with The Sentinel's
fund was the donation of 100
blanket by the Chatham Man
ufacturing Company of this city.
These blankets have already
becu sent and will he sure to
aid very materially In making
more comfortable many of the
victims of thisdinuHtcr.
The fund will bo kept open
rJor several days. Donation of
money and of clothing, particu
larly for children under twelve
yenrs of age, are still needed and
any gifts will be bladly received.
A number of boxcx of clothing
have already been secured un
der the direction of Mrs. John
Fewer Persons Dying Among
The 29,000,000 Who Are In
sured In U. S. and Canada
EQUALS THE YEAR OF 1921
Tills Leads Mod.'cnl Director To Con
clude That There Is a Distinct
Permanent Improvement In Na
tional Health Conditions; Rate
Of Deal lis e. Per 1,000
New York, Dec. 7 Life Insurance
death claims up to November 1
show that tho. United States undj
Canada are experiencing a health 1
record this year almost identical!
with that of 1921. which was the j
best in public heallh history. A
survey of these claims, covering the)
deaths for the first ten months ofi
191:2 among 29,000,000 insured per-;
sons, was submitted to the sixteenths
annual convention of the association!
of life Insurance presidents here to- i
day by Dr. Augustus Knight, medl-i
cai "director of the Metropolitan Life 1
Insurance company, of this elty. I
This year's experience with a low j
death"rate ts connId-red all thet
more remarkable because the first
quarter of the year began wit In a
much higher mortality than did tha
corresponding period In 19lil.
Kxtension of the average span of
human life in America by ten years
is possible Dr. Knight said, If pres
ent medical and sanitary knowledge
were, to be "Utilized thru the estab
lishment here of conditions equal to
the best now existing in various
parts of the world.
Still further material reductions,
are noted in 1922 Irom deaths of tu-j
berculosis. und typhoid fever, while i
suicides, homicides and children
diseases, with the exception of mea
sles, also showed some decrease.
On the other hand, automobile ac
cidents, organic heart ailments,
cerebral hemorrhage and blight's
disease caused more deaths this year
than in 1921. Mortality from heart
disease, which led as a cause of
death last year, shows a largn In
crease this year, a total of 180.000 j
deaths being Indicated in continental ;
United States mod Canada.
Forty-four life insurance compun-1
ies carrying over eighty-three per I
cent of the total ordinary business '
of the. two countries, have had aj
mortality rate in 1922 of 6.9 per
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;BIG YEARTO LIFE AND DIES USE
IMS. COMPANIES PLAIN LANGUAGE
i
i
in today
Hillard, chairman of the Social
Service Department of the Wo
man's Club, aided by other mem
bers, nd the,. mv H,,.n a,,,,,
as rapidly. Clothing should he
sent to cither Mr. W. II. Ilol
comb'H or Mr. It. U. Kinney's
oflliv at the City Hall, where the
various lutcktigcs are boxed ami
prepared for shipment.
As muted above, donations
will lie received thraoul the
week and those wImi have
thought of aiding lu this mint
worthy cause are urged to do so
at once, 1-lach day money re
ceived Is being sent by telegraph
to tho mayor of New Hern and
the clothing Is being dispatched
by CYprcsn to the chairman of
the relief committee In tho
stricken city.
NKW DONATIONS
It. .1. Reynolds Tolmcco
Co. $1000.00
Winston-Salem Hebrew
Congregation 100.00
Cash 10.00
American Oil Co 15.00
.1. T. F.tlierldgo. . . . . .7 A.00
.1. B. Dyer 10.00
Mrs. A. V. Maslln ft.ou
Cash it.no
Mrs. Flora T. Williamson a. 00
Mrs. II. C. Kelly ft.00
M. W. M utllson 5.00
It. K Clodfeltcr .. 11,00
Cash 25.00
Cash '. 10.00
Foremen R. J. 11, Leaf
House No. I 20.00
John W. Fulp 2.00
O. K. Zimmerman 5.00
P. T. Lehman 8,00
Trlvers Clothing' Shop 5.00
Mr. and Mrs.K.M. Hplvcy il.OO
Contributions thru Huron
Club (colored) 125.42
Previously acknowledged 1700.00
Snyder Credit Co .$ 5.00
S. C, Oglmrn B.OO
Mrs. A. II. Galloway... 6.00
i
N
Speaking From Same Platform
In Chicago They Go After
"Borers From Within"
GOV. SMALL IS CRITICIZED
His Pardoning of Lloyd Anil Oilier
Radical Condemned In Resolu
tions Passed; IVi-shlng Says War
Is Sure To Come Eventually
f. 8. Better.' c Prepared
Chicago, Dec. 7 General Persh
ing In two addresses here last night
metaphorically linked arms with!
Brig. General Charles Dawes in a
plea for a national awakening to the
dangers from external aggression
and the "borers from within." The
two generals wcr tho chief speak
ers at a patriotic dinner of the Asso
ciation of Commerce and d few min
utes later General Pershing repeated:
a part of his address irom a raaio;
broadcasting station. i
General hawes spoke heatedly ofi
the "skulking cowurds and dema-'i
gogues in nrttce," but his language;
wa uiiauoruuu by 4au an jucuvea
which gave him the nickname ofi
"Hell and Maria." ' I
General Pershing also spoke re-
garding the stale and civic condl-l
Hons and pleaded for tho education!
of the people up to their obligations t
us citizens. i
"You can have any kind of an ad-j
ministration In your stato and city.'
you want, but you'll never change. ;
things until you have educated the!
citizens up to their obligations," hej
said. Then General Pershing took i
up discussion of the gencrni defense.
"Some day war will come," hej
admonished, with pointing finger ;
"some day war will eornc and come
it will. We must como to the point
where we must consider national de
fense. "There is too mut h of a tendency
to tamper with the constitution, too!
little respect for the ' authority of!
this-country. The constitution la all.
right, no need to tamper with it. if!
those who want to do that will let It!
alone and live up to it. we will have
no more of u lot of trouble thai is
upon us righl now." I
Referring to tne Pacificist pledge.
General Pershing characterized it a
"pledge of disloyalty." "If we arci
wide awake we are going to start I
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GENS.
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WITHOUTRESLILT
Sheriffs Posse Has Even Cross
ed Into Mexico In Search
For The Murderess
TIPS FROM MANY POINTS
One Report Is That She Was At
Omaha I dint Night, But OIIUvin Do
Not See How She Could Have
Reached That Point I'nlew An
Airplane Had lb-en I'scd
Los Angeles. Dec. 7 The home of
lCd.' T. "Goldtoolli" Johnson, pro
moter of a new resort at Tla Juna,
Lower California, was the objective
today of the posse headed by Sheriff
William I. Traeger, which left Los
Angeles last night ill search of Mrs.
Clara Phillips, "hammer murderss",
who broke Jail Tuesday Whllo under
a ten year prison'senlenro for killing
Mrs, Alberta Meadows.
Johnson was said to have formed
a friendship for Mrs. Phillips while j
she was in the county Jail last siim-i
mer. lie was taken Into custody
last night, pending developments In
the search for Mrs. Phillips.
The posse arrived at the border at
S:30 o'clock this morning, but de
ferred crossing until daybreak.
The sheriff's nlllcn announced to
day It had received a telegram from
Sheriff Pltirock. at Ogdcn, Utah, stat
ing he was positive Mrs. Phillips was
aboard a train which passed thru
Ogden shortly lifter midnight.
The train 'ami one other wos
searched at. Laramie, Wyn..' but no
One answering the description of Mrs.
Phillips was found.
The Laramie police, who made the
search, also questioned members of
the train crew without learning any
thing of MrH, Phillip's herboits.
It had been -reported from other
sources also that she and a "blonde"'
friend boarded Hie train at Long!
Itench, Cnllfornla, anil Ihruout the
trip bail kept In their stateroom.
It nlso was stated that two wom
en were traveling on tickets reading
from Long Itench, Cal , to ltaltlmore.
Other reports reaching the sher
Iff's ofllce came from Omithii, where
It was said pollen otllcers believed
Mrs. Phillips had been seen Inst,
night on a train bc.iind for Chicago,
but It was said this was Impossible
"unless she had fled In an airplane."
With the hour of her escape ten
tatively fixed at about 2 o'clock
Tuesday morning local officers ex-i
plained Ihey found it hard to bc-
lieve that ha could have reached!
Omaha by Wednesday nlghl. ; I
The neaivh had ivulnnetl tod.iy iin-l
til It embraces nearly every part of
the western half or the Pulled Stains
and "pern tnilcd llilo 'Mexico thru tile
Lower California Peninsula.
More Sawtt f ound In dull.
Los Angeles,' Don. 7 -Hlx saws
were found In the posseHHion of K.
K. . Mc Null h held in the Los Angeles
county Jail on tlvrne criminal
i lun ges, according to Murk Bailey,
Jailor.
The saws were discovered In A
search of. the jail when, after the
escape of Mrs Cluru Phillips, con
victed "hammer murderess" esrW
Tuesday morning, a rumor reached
the jailor Hint certain prisoners
were plotting a wholesale delivery.
"Two Women Detained
Chicago, Dee. 7 - MIms Kinlc Coe
and Miss Clara Hill. IiIiik, or Haiti
more, were taken rrom the Incoming
Los AngelcH llinlle.l of the Chicago
and Northwestern railroad, by police
seeking Mrs. Clara Phillips, convict
ed murderess, who escaped from the
Ltm Angeles county Jail. The women
said the police of Chicago were
wrong in Iheir Identity.
Th women were not placed under
anesi. but after being questioned
were directed to ko to a local hotel.
The police suggested they remain In
Chicago for 24 hours until nil sus
picion was aliased. Sergeant John
Hardy, who boarded the train in
Mnywood and found the women, said ;
Miss Cue bore a resemblance to Mrs.!
Phillips If photographs of th" latter
wr a.--t;o'iiI .-likJiUMrbut-.h
mornlly certain that neither of thej
women was Mrs, Phillips,
The police, as a mailer of preeau-j
tlon, said they probably would takj
the women's finger prints.
Not at Johnson's Cabin. I
Han Diego, Cal , Dec. 7 Reports!
that Mrs. Clara Phillips, Los Angeles'
hammer slayer, had been seen In I
TU Juiins, Mexico, yesterday andj
that there was a possibility that she;
had taken refuge in a cabin believed i
to be owned by I1 "iloldtoulh"!
Johnson, near point of Itocks, on!
the ocean, proved false today after
Investigation by Sheriff William
Traeger. of Los Angeles and posse.
R. J. HI'VNOMIS CO.
DK( I.ARI.S DIVIDFNDS
The director of It. .1. Rcy.
Mollis TnliiM-co Company, at a
meeting held at Mh other todey,
declared quarterly dividend a -follows:
On Its preferred stork,
SI. 75 per -hare, mid oil Its com
mon sKH'k. 7,"c s'r share, all
piDiible in r;vh January I. 192:!,
to stiK'kholilers of record at the
close of liu.-liH-s Isec. lit, 1922.
TURKISH TIRI RnATESL
DIFFICULT
Ralph DePalma In
Jail For Speeding,
Has One Complaint
Modenio, Calif,, Iee. T Ralph
DclNtlmn, noted rnce driver,
serving time In the Madrl county
(all for spivdlng, has only one
complaint, he told Farly Cooper,
another race driver, who vlslicd
him.
Is'Pnlma Is surprised, he said,
hecatis he Is the only Inumle In
the county prison whose convic
tion Is not for violation of (lie
prohibition law,
At Least That Is Way'lt Looks
To Political Guesscra Down
At The Capitol.
MORRISON BACKS SAMS
On Other limit! Kimikcr-To-llo Daw
son And Cox Arc .Mighty Close
Friends; Political W ise .Men Pick
Various Chairmanships, lint
Don't Give Unisons I'or It
Italeigh, Dec. 7 Legislative ap
proach starts tomiu-s on gemral
assembly politics und 'hu big ap
pnlntmi nts of llni lower luiiiso Hie
all puiceled out 'n ndvHiici of
Speaker John G. DuWKOn's ur.ivll
unit election
"Grand old Man" Hit re Houghton
will head finance, W. N. Kverell Ih
apiuoprlallons. Lindsay C. Warren
Judiciary No. I, Major Walter Mur
phy Propositions and - Grievances,
11. G. Connor jr., education, and
Clayton Moorn roads, according to
lli guesscrs who haven't had a
word from anybody Justifying this
shot, at the legislative allotments.
In thu senate, I .leiitenatit Governor
V. H. Cooper must choiMtc between
D V. Giles, of Marlon, and Walter
II. Woodson, of Uowiiii, for huad
ship of the education committee and
Mr. Woodson will get It. Governor
Morrison Is excuedlngly anxious
that Senator A. I'V Sums, of For
syth, get a worthy committee chair
manship and Mr, Hams will In all
probability take a Jinlli lury com
mittee. Senator Giles will probably
handle appropriations and Senator
L. R. Vurser finance,
Speaker Dawson Is having his
troubles even without any contest.
It is the old woe when all men
speak well of one. Ho has had no
contest and therefore cannot reword
his friends at the expense of his
roes. There are no roes. Representa
tive Howie, of Ashe, will have a
strong claim on ilie committee on
road and Ambassador Will N'eal,
of McDowell, and Representative
Hob Cox, of Forsyth, are two of
Dawson's most faithful friends.
Committee headships are inter
esting chiefly as legislation Is rela
ted to Ihem. Thern are lost prov
inces to be found, railroads in the
w st. to be discussed and Nleam
boat In thn tasl to lie agitated. It
is rnpttslljr- tmportnnrthatT""these
great proposals get off lo a good
start. They get away best when they
have chairmen who know how to
direct committee legislation.
Theso few outstanding members
of both housiw do not obscure the
other new or old men. There Is K,
S. Parker", of Alamance, a man of
great ability, who cdmus down this
time. Then Captain W M. Sanders,
prominent business man of John
ston. Is coming up. lie Is a great
friend of Uovcinur MorrUon and
would aid his excellency mightily
In a big business deal.
Governor Morrison enters his
midterm on a dead level with thn
whole assembly. Two years ago he
presented hi program and the
general assembly enacted It much
as It received the proposals. The
1917 assembly did the same for
Governor Hlckett; but llie midterm
1. glslaturfl is always the hard body
to work with. Il Is this immemorial
condition that makes the friends of
Governor .Morrison so uncertain
about his shipbuilding scheme. The
half-way legislature always takes
the half-way view of things. It can
not be stampeded and it is hard to
be aroused even. It has allowed, the
gubernatorial glamour to wear off
(CONTIMUS3 ON fAUC EK3UTI
SIS AND CDX
GET IMPORTANT
CHAIRMANSHIPS
POSITION
MUST SIDE WITH
RUSSIA OR ALLIES
ON STRAITS ISSUE
Which Ever Course They Take
May Lead To More Serious
Trouble Later On
FEARS RUSSIA AS IN PAST
Russia's proposals Would PrHcllcnlly
Malta lllaok Sen a Russian lke;
Then, Too, V. H. Has Nldiil With
Allcs, Which Makes Issue
Fven " Minv Serious One
Lausanne, Dec, T (My The Asso
ciated Press) The Tuiklab delVgates
to tha Near Kast conference today
faced tho difficult problem of decid
ing whether Turkey,, in formulating
Ijcr plan for control of thu Dni'du
nelles, should cast bur lot w)lh litis
sin or with the rntontu powers and
the United States. Turkey's sugges
tion for the solution of tho per
plexing straits question will be made
pilbllo tomorrow ut thu Holwl Du
Chateau.
lsmnt Pasha und hi associates In
fdl'mulatlnt thslr p!un; were faced
by the sharp differences of opinion
between Great Hrllaln and Uussln
In the discussion of tho Dardanelles
question. If Turkey on thn one hand
goes over to the Hrlllsh camp she
fears the Irate Itusslan army on her
eastern frontier; lr on the other hand
she sides with llussln In demanding
complete control of the waterway
she fears the Hrlllsh navy In ths
straits.
The Turks llins far hav tempor
ised by saying they favored M.
Tchltcherln's plan; but they took Ibis
attitude before they hud heard tho
solution offered by thn pownw.
Isinet Pasha and his associates
were Impressed by the plan presented
by IjC-rd Curzon yesterday In behalf
of lire entente, which was approved
In general by the statement of tho
position of the rolled Hlut.s. Th
Turks. apparently cannot forget that
Hustdii Is Turkey's triidlllonul enemy
and thst Premier Lenlne's govern
ment may not be less Covetous of
Constantinople and the straits than
was Russia In the dnys.nf thu crars.
Turkey hti always found protec
tion In numbers. Khu has played thu
Ktiropeait coutiirli'd against each
other to licr great advantage llmo
and time again and she hesitates to
trust her' fate to Russia alone, while
tho rest of Furopif. supported by tho
Culled Hln Ies, opposes an effort to
turn the Hlink Heu Into a Russian
luke.
M. Ti hllehefln In trying hard to
defeat Lord Cuuou's plans, urging
It would enable a combination of
powers like thn nnleiiti to keep a
great navy In the Itlack Sea as each
member of the romblnntlon could
in ul n I a In there as many ships as be
longed to Rusblu, or whatever iiluck
Hea power happened to have the
largest navy St the time.
Turkey, however. In considering
Russia's plan, apparently hna an eye
upon her own pocket book. If she
adopted M, Tchllrherin's proposals
Turkey would be forced to make a
great outlay for a Meet and fortifica
tion and n.t she ha no money she
would prefer to have soma one es
bear the expense of policing the
strults.
Isinet Pasha Is In constant commu
nication with Mustaphtt KemaJ
PsshH.
There rire manv ritmora nf u notix!-
blo adjournment of the congress for
the Christmas holidays, inasmuch as
the situation between the power and
Turkey has cleared considerably. 1
Thu question of tho capitulations
Is In an even worse tangle than thu
straits problem, bu Great Hrl'dlrt,
... (CONTINUED ON PACJD EIQJIT)
DESPERATE MEG RO SHOT
OFFICER IN ARKANSAS
Marked Tree, Ark., Iec. 7 Sever
al hundred possemen with blood
hounds were believed eirly today to
have surrounded Muck Key, negro,
who last night shot to death Iw
Phillips, hit yesrs om. anu laiauy
wounded Louis Kinley, 2S. farmers
and members of a posse which had
attempted to arrest Key for an at
tack upon a deputy sheriff .in a.
swamp near here.
The negro after barricading him
self In a barn following his ttack
Upon the deputy sheriff is said to
'huve shot his way "thru a posse of.
lot) men. Key firing Wiru a crack
in the liiirn killed - Phillips .and
wounded Kinley,
Key was said to have resulted ar
rest when a deputy sheriff served a
warrant upon hint charging wife
beating, f .. . i
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