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E WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT. FOR RESULTS. Tae the POST Penny Column. VOL. 9. NO. 140. v SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 191 S. ' ' . . I . PRICE TWO CENTS- ! - , B I I Ml - " - ..- - . . ... " " - " . ' CURRENCY BILL SENATOR GEORGE W. MORRIS. BIG 111 N.C. LAW JOHN MITCHELL, STATESVILLE L1AII , COMMITS SUICIDE IS ABOUT OFF QUARANTINE OF HEALTH PROSECUTABLE LIQUOR READY i Y ADMINISTRATION'S BILL TO BE INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS MONDAY. , Personally the President Will Plead Hia Currency Message to Conf reas ' Chairman Carter Glass of the House ' Banking Committee Made .Public the Peat area of the Bill on Thursday Night Some of the Prominent Features of the BilL Washington, June 20. Chairman Glass last night made public the ad- ministrations currency bill. This bill win oe iniroaucea juonaay in eacn r branch of Congress and on that (lay President Wilson will personally read his message to Congress on the cur rency bill. ' . An outline of the measure prepared by Mr. Glass describes it as "a basis for legislative action" and states that it will be gone over in detail for al terations, and sets out that its pur , pgse is to accomplish three princi pal objects: Principal Objects. ' Provision of a means for ( redis . counting commercial paper of specifi ed types. i A basis for elastic notes properly - safeguarded. ' " ', ';, ' a Machinery for doing foreign bank ing business. , The measure's essentials remain as they have been outlined 'from time tb time since the president began a - study of the subject with house and senate leaders, Secretary McAdoo and other advisers, providing twelve or , more federal reserve banks which will rediscount paper, deal In government securities, exchange and conduct gov ernment fiscal operations. National banks and such state f banks . and trust companies as conform to stand ards would be stockholders of the re serve! banks. ' The government would ;hoia;nbtocV I ' ,f; i Control Reserve Bank. . ' The government would control the V federal preserve banks entirely through a federal reserve board of jfeeven members in which the batiks would have ?no representation. . The board! would be composed of the sec retary of the treasury, secretary of agricultural, .the comptroller of the currency as members ex-officlo, four - other members would be chosen by the president and confirmed by the - senate. :L " ' ! ; : ' f .-The natural bank note circnlatioB . would remain undisturbed, ' and no proposal is made in the bill, for re ' tiring Approximately $700,000,000 2 per cent bonds upon which that note issue now rests. An amendment or separate bill, to refund those bonds Jnto 3 per cent bonds may be in- .. troduced later. '; ' v ' ' . ; Won't Protect Note ' No change would be made in the o protection of other existing notes. i The federal reserve board ' would require fine federal reserve; bank to rediscount the paper of another and Would establish a rate on', discount (not necessarily uniform for all re , f V "serve banks, but made with a view to accommodating the commerce of the , country and promoting a stable price level. w' - ' f - ; T For reaching . the'present bank re ' ' serve ' system, the bill ; proposes i to " transfer the reserves from national ; . Tpanka in the'present reserve and cen tral reserve cities to federal reserve banks, carryiiig the, process of trans fer over thirty-eight months to avoid hock to market conditions, frhe bill proposes, Miording' to ; MW . Glass' statement, "ultimately the- establish ment of a reserve system in which J country banks will have 15 per cent of reserve 4. e., 15 per cent of total demand liabilities such 15 per cent - to be held 6 per cent in the banks ? vaults', 5 per cent with; the national reserve bank and 6 per cent either at home or, with ; the reserve bank, ; 1 while reserve and central reserve city banks have reserves of 20 per cent of ' demand liabilities, of which . 10 per cent will be at home, 5 per cent, with the reserve bank of that district, and V" 6 per cent at home or with the re- serve bank," the statement says. - '" Assisting Postmaster Bivina. r Mr. John U. Norwood, a popular mail clerk on the Yadkin road, is as siBting Postmaster J. D. Bivina at Albemarle, temporarily in the ab fence of an experience office force.-; f ' y "- ' i V- v. ' 1 Senator George W. Morris, of Ne braska, who declares that as a result of his activity against the coffee trust there has been a reduction of four cents a pound in the price of coffee. Speaking of coffee Senator Morris says: "The reduction of the price in face of threatened official action, although the present outlook, is for a crop short age, shows the artificial character of the high prices. - The Department of Justice has been bamboozled by the 'valorization syndicate, which is still victimizing the American people." MQRGANTON ASYLI IN Room Inadequate to Care for all Pa tientsFive People Adjudged In- - sane Being Held in .Bucombe Jail Eleven Been Committed Within ' 30 Days. Asheville, June 20. Bucorhbe coun ty jail now contains five prisoners, all of whom are confined on the charge of insanity, and the county officials are not able to place any of them tn the State hospital for the insane at Mor ganton, owing to the crowded condi tion of that institution. The five in jail are Arthur Green, Joseph W. Fauntleroy, Frank Blackwell, Pink Freeman and Imdgene R. Jones. Bona Massie was also confined in the county jail on this charge until recently, bu.t was taken to Motganton, and 'Mrs. Helen Miller wil be taken there' to day, .t it : yl' :4:;t; Officials of the. county has recent ly received a letter from John' Mc Campbell, superintendent of the , hos pital at Morgantojti, in wbic he staled that the institution is badly crowded, and that the failure to admit the re maining patients, L the county jail here is due solely to lack of room. Mr. McCampbell cites the fact that the institution now responsible, in eluding patients on parole and those who have escaped, for 92 more men than there are beds in the institution. "We are now having an epidemic of smallpox,", one letter continues, "and in order to clean up the ward infect ed our room will be still further cur tailed. This ward must Se renovated, and in order to do this work properly the patients must be removed from the ward, and this will require more thaw the 'available number of "beds in tie hquse. ,r , . : "l regret very, much this deplor- awe1 condition ana iujvb naxen tne matter before the legislature year after year for the past tfx years and my predecessor has also taken the matter beforetjist body years before. If the influential men of the differ ent counties would aid us before the legislature no doubt sufficient appro priation could be secured to meet this urgent demand, but I regret to say that in most instances their interest is not aroused in this direction, save when they have these unfortu nate people on their hands and in their jails." ' .Buncombe county has committed eleven people within the past thirty days, and at this rate the institution, it is declared, cannot begin to take care of the patients from all over the State. Assurances have been re (eived that the inmates of Buncombe county jail will be cared for as soon as possible, and in the meantime they will have to remain in jail here. World's Largest Ship to Dock at Ho- boken Every Porthole Ablase Huge Liner Passes Sandy Hook with Band Playing. New Y6rk, June 20. The giant steamer Imeprator, of the Hamburg American Line, the latest and greatest triumph of the ship biulders art, passed in at Sandy Hook at 10:35 o'clock tonight her first voyage across the Atlantic, completed save for the fifteen miles up New York Bay. Com modore Ruser spent the nigt off Quar antine, planning to land his passen gers at the dock in Hoboken about 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. The great vessel was abalze' with lights from stem to stern and presented a magnificent sight as she neared the Sondy Hook lightship. Apparently al on board were planning to stay up all night . ' f The orchestra was giving a concert in the main saloon of the great float ing palace, dinner parties were on in the several restaurants, while groups were seen on deck slowly pacing to and fro. The Imeprator was sighted afar out about 9 o'clock. A half hour later she was abreast of Ambrose Lightship. Here a steam pilot boat came along side, and a very proud pilot was hoisted on board to direct the great liner through the devious windings into New York Bay. As the pilot boat saluted the Imeprator and the two lay alongside, the incident strong ly reminded one of a rowboat along side the Wool worth building, as the Imeprator loomed up ike a small city built solely of skyscrapers. 1 ' 556 Miles Best Run. Capt Ruser megaphoned that the boat had been delayed on the trip over by foggy weather and heavy galea. Desupite this, however, he reported that the day's best run was 656 miles, i A special tug, conveying the Ger man Consul General of this port and Hamburg-American Line officials, will meet the Jmperator at Quarantine early in the morning, and as soon at Dr. J. J. O'Connell, health officer, has given the ship a clean bill of health the tug will escort the liner to her pier. DEPMMENFS NEED : AT LEAST $8,000,000 Secretary McAdoo Makes Urgent Ap peal to Con gresx to Provide Funds Inter-State Commerce Commis sion in Worst Straits. Washington, June 19 .--Government departments urgently need, $8,000,000 and 'today Secretary McAdoo asked Congress o appropriate' fo( the de ficiencies and emergencies. ' The ; in terstate commerce commission peeds 11,500,000 for the physical valuation of railroads, $1,000,000 must be 'had to repay Mississippi river flood relief expenses of the war and navy depart ments; 6250,000 to begin the Arlington National cemetery memorial "amphi theatre; $1,000,000 for the new indus trial relations commissoin; , $160,000 for the , new, department of labor; $8,000 for the Atlantic iceberg patrol; $100,000 for the .production-cost in vestigation of the bureau of domestic and foreign commerce; $1,000,006 for replacing stores " destroyed in the Benesia arsenal, California; $500,000 for various public building projects and $39,000 for the civil service com mission's examination i of all fourth class postrfuuters. ; "In- X TORNADO SWEEPS ROOF 4 ' t , FROM FLORIDA CAPITOL BigVDamage to Crops and to Property byCycfcne .?: .-v5 Tallahassee, Fla, June 19. A tor nado swept over the city last even ing, unroofing the State capitol and many stores, ruining the ; stocks of merchants, tearing trees out by the roots and twisting tlegraph, telephone and electric light poles off at the base, plunging the city into darkness and cutting off communication with the outside world for hours. - .The' funnel-shaped cloud, carrying wind, rain and hail, swept across the country, killing and maiming L live stock, damaging the cotton and corn crops and razing buildings. ' So far no loss of life has been re ported. ' It's a pretty good fault for a wo man's elbow to be sharper than her tongue.'. Read Leonard's ad. Dra. Cyrus Thompson and A. A. Kent Chosen by Stste Society Ktmton Physician Heads Organization; "Medical Defense" Proposed. Morchead City, June 19.- With the election of Dr. Cyrus Thompson, of Onslow county, and Dr. A. A. Kent, of Caldwell, a? members of the State Board of Health the North Carolina Medical Society, in session here since Tuesday adjourned this afternoon and the visiting physicians are enjoying the surf and fishing for which the re sort is famous. 5 Officers of the society were elected s follows: ' President, Dr. J. M. Parrott, Kin- iton; vice president, Dr. John R. irwin, Charlotte; secretary. Dr. J. A. Fcrrall, Raleigh; chairman on Com mittee of Arrangements, Dr. Albert Anderson, Raleigh. The new Board ot Councilors met and organised by the election of Dr. M. L. Stevens, of Asheville, as president, and Dr. K. P. B. Bonner, of Morehead City, as sec retary. V; ;., The society purposes to adopt a plan for what is known , as "medical defense, employing a competent at torney to represent the organized profession in two particulars. The first will be to defend in all the courts against malicious prosecutions all so ciety members. The second will be to look after the proper enforcement of the medical laws of the State and thus relieve individual members and county societies from the odium and expense attending these masters. People are always accusing "old est inhabitants" of remembering things that never occurred. T Fourteen Met Death at Vallejo, Cali fornia, 'When Two Electric Trains Met Headon Many - Others Are Injured, Vallejo, Cat., June 20. A confus ion ot orders brought death to 14 persons today ; when two electric trains 'met headon near here while running at high speed. Eleven Were instantly killed, three died within a short time and three of the 30 or more injured, are perhaps fatally in jured. ;Y'?'.::; . The conductor of one of the trains who took orders by telephone from the despatcher just before the acci dent, is among those probably fatally injured. ' ." : Nearly all of the killed or injured were residents of Vallejo -and vicini ty. TO. ME IN: DURHAM Merchants of the State Finish the Wilmington Meeting and Go Next Year to Durham Garibaldi Is Elected President of Stat Asso- . elation.'' .-.:''. i The fact that Durham had never had the Merchants , Association led the delegates to the convention at Wilmington to vote unanimously for the Bull eity as the meeting place for 1914 over Salisbury. - , ; : Following-are the officers: Presi dent, Joe Garibsjdi, Charlotte; , vice president, E. H. Munsen, Wilming ton; secreUry -E? W. Berryhill, Char lotte; treasurer, S. P. Burton, jAshe Ville. y ' v -. , ; Reports from the local associations .were made by their representatives or read by the secretary, .and showed that splendid. progress is telng made. Mr. Norman Johnson called atten tion to the Importance of having some definite plan for increasing the num ber of local associations. He stated that one reason many of the smaller associations had failed was because they had attempted to pattern too closely after the larger organizations of the cities. He suggested the ad visability of devoting more time to the study of strictly mercantile mat ters and less to the delinquent list While he did not believe that State association could afford the expense of a regular organizer, he thought that the State could be divided up In to sections, and the associations al ready in operation could look after working up new associations and pro bably do better work than a regular organizer. ' ' ' " Edgar E. Broughton, of Raleigh; Attorney General Haa Ruled That as No Penalty Is Attached Law Net Enforceable la Not a Criminal Statue. . -' ; ' Washington, June 20. The Webb law forbidding interstate shipments of liquor into "dry" States is not a criminal statute and violations of it cannot be prosecuted in United States courts. Attorney General McRey nolda so declared in instructions sent; yesterday to every United States at torney in the!, country. The law merely prohibits such interstate traf fic and contains no penalty for infrac tions. "Its purpose," said . the attorney general, "is to permit State laws to operate in respect of intoxicating liquors moving, in interstate com merce." ' ; ' , '.Y . s- .- The law simply , deprives 'shippers of any privilege Uiey might claim on the ground of interstate commerce and permits the application of State prohibition laws to interstate , com merce in liquors.-; This is, the first time the depart ment of justice has construed the Webb law, which was declared uncon stitutional by former President Taft and former Attorney General Wicker sham. President Taft vetoed the bill on the ground that it violated the in terstate commerce clause of the con stitution by delegating the regula tion of commerce to the States. The bill was passed over his veto. Attorney General McReynoldsV in terpretation is said to mean that the federal government is not called upon to enforce a law for the violation of which no penalty is imposed and that the interstate commerce forbidden by the law is "outlaw" commerce in re gard to which' the States are f ree to apply thesir. statutes. , The attorney general did not attempt to pass upon the constitutionality of the act and it is believed that this' question ulti mately reach the United States Su preme coutr. ' , You will discover that most men are alt right, if you only take the trouble-to as kthem. - MEETS AT ASHEVILLE Lawyer of the State to Meet tn Con. vention at the Battery Park Hotel on the 2nd. 3rd and 4th of July. : The fifteenth annual meeting of the North- Carolina Bar Association will be held at Battery Park Hotel on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of July. , The follow ing program has been arranged for this meeting: . - The association will convene at 6:3$ p. m. on Wednesday, July 2nd, and . will be called to order by the President Hon. James S. Manning, of the Raleigh Bar. The. address of Welcome will be delivered v by Mr, Thos. S. Rollins, of the; Asheville Bar. The Response will be delivered by Hon. John D. Bellamy, of the Wil mington Bar. The President's address will be delivered by the President :p .. July J, 1913 Morning Session. 10:00 a. m. An address by Hon. Robt W. Winston, of the Raleigh Bar. Evening Session. 8:30 p. m. The Annual Address en titled "The. Lawyer, his Opportuni ties and Failures" will be delivered by Hon. Thomas' J. Jarvis, of Green ville. ' ; ': . ' : , - r July 4th, 1915 Morning Session. 10 :00 a". ' m. iAn address bjr Hon. Stephen C. Bragaw, of Washington. Report; of Specht Committee on Legislature and Law Reform.. .' Report of Special Committee on Terrene System. Election of Officers. - R. L. Poston, of Statesville. and J. T, Porter, of Charlotte, were appointed a committee on organization to .In corporate Mr. Johnson's recommen dations into a report which was later read f before the convention and adopted. DEATH OF LITTLE GIRL. Bernice, the three-year-old daugh ter and only child of Mr. and Mrs, J. D. Barber, died at the home on the North Main extension yesterday, af ternoon an illness of four weeks. The funeral and burial .took place at Piney church, Boone township, Dav idson , county, this afternoon at 3 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Kirk, the pastor. , j 1 -r 4 t. John Mitchell, the big labor leader who is one of the 'trio of leaders, Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison, who have been granted an appeal in the contempt case by Chief Justice White. ' Being minus the price of a hair-cut isn't the only thing that makes a Bo hemian. ' , . ' , ' ' God created man a little lower than the angels, but you cant make some men believe it- ' ? YEGGMAN LOOT SAFE : AT CHARLOTTE E Obtain $24.75, But Leave Large Amount of Stamps Make Escape Evidently Professionals The North Charlotte PostofScf the Scene. . - Charlotte, June 19. Expert yegg men during the early morning hours cracked the safe of the North Char lotte postoffice and 'made away with the money contained therein which amounted to only $24.75. Between five and six. huridred : dollars worth of stamps wore' left untouched and the confusion of the room indicated that the intruders took a hasty leave. - - People .in the , neighborhood - were awakened early this morning by the explosion. Immediately the matter was investigated and it was discov ered that the safe had been blown Postmaster W. V. Hall was notified of the matter and he immediately I went to the office to make an invest! ) gation. It was discovered that the entire loss amounted to $24.75. Be tween five hundred and a thousand dollars worth of stamps was in the safe hut these were not taken. ; It Is presumed that the noise of the explosion was was more than the yeggmen calculated ; and they were forced to make a hasty get away. Entrance to the building was made from a door In the rear. The safe jtself was completely blown to pieces. Chief Moore investigated the affair this morning. He said that it was a complete job with all the handmarks of an expert Nitre-glycerine was the explosive used. Chief Moore was of the opinion that they miscalculated the strength of the safe. While it is unusually large for' the purpose,' at the same time it is very lightly built being decidedly below the average in strength. , ; . , ' V COLORED REVIVAL MEETING. The revival meeting which has been in ' progress at the Moore's Chapel Methodist' church in the vicinity of Livingston College, for the past ten days has resulted and great good al ready. There has been 20. conver sions, and 15 persons added to the church already. . ; . ft"---aThe meeting closes tonight The Evangelist Rev. W. D. Speight, D. D,. of Charlotte, has delivered welt pre pared and forceful sermons, large congregations have attended each ser vice, and a general wave of religious enthusiasm has prevailed. His sub jecV .tonight will be "The General Judgment", Friends are Invited -to be present " A man has to have considerable of the divine affatus to find poetical in spirations In his back yard. MR. W. W. COOPER ENDS LIFE , AT A PRIVATE HOSPITAL AT MORG ANTON. . CUT THROAT AS A F.EANS Had Been at the Institution 8everal Weeks for Treatment and Would : Have Been Discharged in a Day or Two Locked Door Before - Com mitting the Awful Deed Lived ; About an Hour. StaUsville, June 20. Mr. W. W. Cooper, a patient at the Sanatorium, slashed his throat in an attempt at suicide a little before 6 o'clock this morning. He died at 6 mimies to 7 o'clock. , . i . . - - Mr. Cooper went to the . Sana torium four week fcgo for treatment 'or casbuncles. lie had recovered and would have been discharged to day. Early this morning the nurse On. duty heart) him let, down the win dow of his room and lock the door. This was immediately reported and the door forced open,' Mr. Cooper was found on the floor with a fearful gash in his throat. The ctfrotid ar tery was severed and the floor by the bed was covered with " blood. ' Dr. Long was called, the flow of blood was staunched and all possible was done for him. ' , - The weapon used was not discover ed but it is supposed to have been a knife which Mr.,Cooper had concealed about his person. . a. Mr. Cooper, had been apparently in normal condition but suffered from melancholia. He waa for a couple of months a patient at the State Hos pital last winter but was discharged early in April. ' - BAPTIST-LUTHERAN , ,-'. .., , BASEBALL CAME The first ball game of the season In the recently organized Sunday school league will be played at' the fair grounds tomorrow afternoon, be ginning promptly at 4 o'clock and will be between a team composed of the First Baptist Sunday school and the boys of St oJhn's Lutheran Sun day school. The contest will no doubt be close as both teams are in good shape. No admission will be charged to these games ahd a good crowd should be out to witness the opening of the "league" games. The players are as follows: Lutheran players Ike Linker, Ar nold Snider, Marvin Snider, Will Shaver, Gilmer Miller, John Busby, B. Morgan, Jake Rendleman, George Dewey, Morris Miller, Ed. Dunham, ' David Rendleman, Will. Snider. Baptist players Cleve Yarborouph, Pete Yarborough, Pike Page, Lee Lovet, Will Davidson, Jim Pennington, Joe Fisher, Charlie Fisher, Charlie Sloop, Reid Hall, B, Wilson, R, Thomas. ATLANTA LAWYER ARRESTED. Attorney Dodgen Arrested on Charge of ' Larceny After 'Trust Took V Money for Own Use Which Client ' Claims Was for his Liberation from the Tolls. Atlanta, June 20. James H. Dod gen, a well known young member of the Atlanta bar and a leader in the reform . movement to abolish straw bonds, has been indicted by the grand jury on the charge of larceny after trust ' . - " Mr. Dodgen was arrested in his office this morning by Deputy Sheriff Plennie Miller. The arrest has caus ed a sensation in court house circles. It is said that the grand jury has other , bills pending against Dodgen. The specific one under which he was indicted charges that he secured the consent of an imprisoned negro to sell the negro's household furniture to false money to get the negro out of jail, and that he simply kept the money and let the negro go to the chain gang and 'serve his full sen tehee.. .dM -.fi i-AU '.''' , The accusing negro is named John Wilson. He alleges that he turned over to the attorney the keys to, hia house and a bill of sale for his furni ture, in order to raise money to pay the lawyer to get him out on a cer tiorari bond and get his sentence re duced, after he had pleaded guilty and been sentenced in the criminal court on the charge of gaming. The at torney's side of the story is said to be that the negro owed him the money for previous services rendered. In the event Dodgen Is found g .'.'.'y, it Is understood, disbarment proceed ings will be undertaken against ! i n. t - - 1