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: GASTOU COUNTY MURDER AND
ASSAULT ARRESTED IN S. CAR.
John Ford Uninjured Member of Auto Party Will
Go to Blacksburg to Identify Those :IIcld-Ne-gro
Taken From Freight at Spartanburg.
(Br Tk Aatociatl Ttm)
Gastonia, Nov. 8. Two negroes
have beciv arrested at Blacksburg.
H. C, at suspects in the case of the
murder of John Ford and the se
rious injury of a girl companion on
a highway three miles from here
Sunday night.
Ransom Killian, a friend of
Ford's, who was in an automobile
and who it is alleged was attacked
by the two blacks, the men being
Tobbed and the girl companions at
tacked, was interrupted as a wit
ness before the coroner's jury of
Gaston county today to be taken to
Blacksburg to identify the two ne
, groes.
Strange Negro Fired At
Spartanburg, S. ., Nov. 8. A
strange negro who was, riding on a
- freight train passing thru this city
was fired . at by local policemen
early today on suspicion that he
night have been one of those im-
. plicated in the attack on a party of
motorists near Gastonia late yes-
terday. : The police do not believe
the negro was hit.
Posses Search Gaston County
Gastonia, Nov, 8. Authorities of
Gaston and other counties and nu-
- merous posses of armed men today
continued their search for two un
identified negroes who late yester
day held up an automobile three
miles from here, shotand killed
'John Ford, of Lincolnton, and as
saulted two girls. Ransom Kil
" lian rne of the party, was unin
jured. The two young women were
brought to a hospital here last
night and were reported in a se
rious condition.
Ford, it is said, was killed when
' he offered to resist the negroes
upon their attempt to drag the
girls from the car.
WHITE SLAVERS CONVICTED:
CARRIED GIRL TO ATLANTA
: Atlanta," Nov. 6j Federal au
thorities have received news of the
jfwivietfen in Greenville, S.Cj?Jt
"BiHy" Osborne," vaudeville ac
tor and Guy Algin, a taxi driver of
Anderson, charged with violation ot
the white slave act :n that they.
Drought a girl to Atlanta. The de
fendants were sentenced to pay
fines of $500 and each to serve 15
months in the Atlanta penitentiary.
In the preliminary trial before
Commisioner W. C. Carter, Os
born the vaudeville actor declared
he had brought tne girl here to
learn how to be a chorus girl in his
act and that he intended to marry
her if she made good.
70,000 ARE HOMELESS
IN AUSTRIAN CAPITAL
Vienna, Oct. 17. A survey of hous
ing just completed shows that 23,
000 families comprising about 70,
000 persons are virtually homeless
in Vienna, so great is the shortage
of living premises in spite of the
requisitioning process that has
C7 . been going on for a year.
These people ' are hearded into
(passage ways, where often 15 to
( 20 persons sleep in places used for
" other purposes in the day-time, or
in the pleasant weather they sleep
in parka. It is now proposed to
permit them to erect shacks on
available land thruout the city.
QUEER MONUMENTS IS
PLANNED BY SOVIETS.
Building 650 Feet High WiUi Re
, volving Floors Planned at Mos
? cow.
Wasiiangton, Nov. 8-iWell au
thenticated information received
in Washington is (to the effect that
t the Peoples Festival recently
held hi Moscow ito celebrate the
third anniversary of the Bolshe
vist revolution, there was exhibit
ed a model of a remarkable monu
ment; .that is to be erected in com
memoration of the Third Interna
tional, which was held some
months ago in Moscow.
The model was designed to illus
trate .the soviet form of govern
ment and was made by the paint
er Tatlin. It represents a Wild
ing that will be 650 feet high and
will, consist of four revolving
floors. '
The first floor is in the form of
a cube and shows the location of
the legislative branch. This floor
will make one complete revolution
a year. The second floor is a pyra
mid with the top cut off and will
contain the executive departments.
These departments "will make one
complete revolution a month. The
third floor is a cylinder represent
ing the information divisions, pro
paganda, etc. This floor revolves
daily. . ,
The fourth, and top floor Is a
hemisphere. It will house radio
stations, and other scientific ap
paratus. , It is not stated whether
this floor, revolves. - . -
The basement of the edifice will
be equipped with garages- (pre
sumably for the cars of the em
ployes en the revolving floors
above) other modern conveniences
and motion picture shows,
v Underneath all of this wiH be
cellars, which presumably will 1m
employed aa prisons and dungeon.
' The mechanism which causes the
floors to revolve is a secret.
BEATTY Gil III
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Mob is Reported to Have
Gathered at Blacksburg,
S. O, Where Two Ne
groes Left Freight.
(Special to Tb Evtnint Port)
Gastonia, Nov. 8. iSo far no ar
rests have been made in connec
tion with the murder of John Ford,
White, and the fatal shooting of
Essie Beatty, a white girl, near
here last night. Sheriff Carroll,
Chief of Police Orr and a posse left
here in automobiles early this
morning for Blacksburg, S. C near
which place it was reported two ne
groes had ibeen seen having alight
ed from a freight train going
south from here.
It is reported that a mob of
4,000 men is gathered at Blacks.
burg and that the man hunt is still
on there. Three negroes have
been arrested today in Charlotte
merely on suspicion and are being
held there pending investigation.
The Beatty girl is in a dying con
dition at the city hospital, rhysi
cians think she will not live thru
the day. Her dying statement is be
ing taken this afternoon. ' The
Grice girl is uninjured and testi
fied before the coroner's jury
which Is still in session.
Many conflicting stories are out
regarding the affair and as yet the
officers have not formulated a defi
nite theory. The statement of a
local jitney driver that he put two
negroes whom he had engaged to
carry to Blacksburg out near the
scene oitne muraer st nigJRI
SeemT o-frohdratethc restate
ments o fthe girls and Killian that
the shooting was done by negroes.
OVER7 MILLION
BALES GINNED
(Br The Awneiatcd PrM)
Washington, Nov. 8. Cotton
ginned prior to Nov. 1 amounted to,
7,471,352 running bales, counting
round bales as half bales which
numbered 160,748 including. 23,428
bales of American Egyptian and
562 bales of Sea Island.
G innings by states included:
North Carolina, 355,157.
Virginia, 3,088.
South Carolina- 858,715.
AMERICAN UNIFORMS
CURIOSITY IN PARIS
Only a Few Thousand of the Two
(Million Doughboys Are Still In
Europe
Paris, Nov. 8. Of the" 2,000,000
doughboys who celebrated the ar
mistice two years ago in France,
there remain in Europe today:
About 15,000 in the army of oc
cupation on the Rhine;
Several hundred in the Graves
(Registration department, looking
after 400 cemeteries in various:
parts of France.
Perhaps 25 officers, with head
quarters at 7 Rue Tilsitt, settling
up the last of the A. E. F.'s bills;
. And nearly all of these are new
recruits shipped over after the ar
mistice, j
On the boulevards, two years ago
peopled by doughboys, the Amer
ican uniform has again become a
curiosity. Occasionally heads are
turned with a reminiscent smile as
a khaki-clad man with a big A on
his sleeve walks across the Place
da 1'Opera.
Of the some four or five thou
sand who hid in the hack alleys of
Paris when their comrades went
home, probably not more than a
thousand perhaps only several hun
dred, remain. Army authorities
still pick up these deserters from
time to time one in a police court
another in a jail, a few on recogni
tion in a cafe or on the street, and
ship them home in handcuffs. Most
of them were criminally inclined
before entering the army and went
back to their old trade in Paris.
The second anniversary of the
armistice wil Isee the Yankee sol
diers in France already receded into
history.
As to the two tiny military
branches in France. It is estimated
that another year will be required
to complete the removal to America
of the bodies whose removal has
been requested by relatives. Thus
far, . requests have been received
for about two-thirds of the number
buried in France. The remaining
htird will be concentrated in four
or five large buying grounds.
Colonel Warden, military attache
at Paris, placed the total claims
still to be settled at about 3,000
generally small amounts; bills
from French civilians for services
or supplies. . r; ; ; .
tlOHN L. TODAY
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JOHN D
ROCKEFELLER
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NEW YORK The richest man
tn the world has only' one . vote.
'even as you and h Aad. to cast
that vote, he has to go to the
polling place, also, "even as you
and L", John D. Rockefeller cast
his rots here election day at Pub
lio School No. 11, East Fifty-first'
st.' Hs Is 81 years old. C This In
th4 first time Rockefeller has at
pears A ta public for many months.
Jy3sggy?.f ftaoae.
PROGRAM FOR
ARMISTICE PAY
Capt Lombard Will Present Gun,
Mayor Mracnan Will Accept
Miss Crouch Has Charge 01
Music.
With the assurance of the French
Charge D'Affaires thai Capt. Lom
bard will represent the French irov-
ernment here for the unveiling of
the German gun on armistice day,
Mrs. R. L. Mauney,' chairman of
the committees to arrange the pro
gram announced the following pro
gram to be carried out tot the gun:
me fctar spangled Banner.
Invocation.1
Soldier's chorus from Foust.
Senator Overman introduces
Captain Lombard.
Captain Lombard presents the
gun.
Unvcihnjr.
Marseillaise.
Acceptance by Mayor Strachan.
Miss Julia Crouch arranged and
will direct the musical program on
the occasion. Miss Crouch will Tie
assisted by Miss Howell, supervi
sor of music in the schools, wno
will have charge of the children
singing.
As announced Saturday, those
organizations marching in the pa
rade will assemble at the Commu
nity building at 9:30.
Mayor Strachan has issued the
following proclamation:
"On the 11th day. of November.
1918, an armistice was signed that
pronounced the World War involv
ing the most gigantic sacrifices of
humanity ever known had reached
a conclusion; and, the purposes of
freedom and peace for which
America entered the conflict should
reward the people all nations.
In commemoration of this great
event which American manpower
and means brought to a speedy re
alization the general assembly of
North Carolina has declared Arm
istice Day a legal holiday and the
governor of this 'state has so is
sued his proclamation.
VJtfow, therefore, I, W. B. Stra
chan, mayor of the city of Salis
bury, N. C, proclaim Armistice
Day, November 11th, 1920, a holi
day and request all our people to
observe the day by taking part in
the exercises and celebration pro
vided for that day in the city of
Salisbury."
(Signed)
W. B. STRACHAN,
Mayor.
HARDING WILL LEAVE
NEW ORLEANS NOV. 18.
"New York, Nov. 8-President-elect
Harding , will said from New
Orleans November , 18th for the
canal sons on board a United fruit
steamer, it was learned here today,
and returning he will be Itndef at
Norfolk December 4tbf .Arrange
ments were made whereby the ship
he will take fre mNew Orleans win
remain over one day from its
scheduled . sailing date to accom
modate the Harding party, now
placed at 86 persons, A stop at
.Norfolk will be by special arrange
ments. -
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SALISBURY, N. C, MONDAYNOVEMBER 8, 1920
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KEPT IN PLACE
So Declares United States
Supreme Court, if Law
fully Acquired-Request
of Seaboard Denied.
( Ft Th AMOeteted Prm)
Washington. Nov. 8. Liquor
lawfully acquired by a person for
personal use may be stored iri any
place other than his home, under
a ruling today by the Supreme
court.
The court's decision was on an
appeal brought by William G
Street of New York from the
lower court decrees refusing rn
injunction prohibiting federal pro
hibition officers from seizing liquor
which he stored in a room leased
from a safe deposit company.
The court declared congress did
not intend to prohibit such stor
age when liquor was lawfully ac
quired for local purposes.
Justice Clark also held that
transportation of lawfully acquir
ed liquor from a warehouse to the
home of the owner did not consti
tute "transportation" in the mean
ing of the enforcement ct.
Seaboard Request is Denied.
The Supreme court today denied
the request of the Seaboard Air
Line RailroaS for an injunction re
straining the inter-State commerce
commission from enforcing exist
ing traffic regulations.
In taking this action the court ;
affirmed the decision handed down
by the Virginia courts in the "Rich
mond switching case'- I nwhich tne
contention of the inter-State com
merce commission was that, the
practice of the railroads of absorb
ing switch charges was a violation
of section two of the commerce act
in that it made traffic discrimina-
.torp against certain thlpmenta.
Jules Arnstein Ordered Relessed
' Reversing the federal district
court the supreme court today or-
dnd the release of Jules W.
(Mickey) Arnstein, who had been
imprisoned in New York since Au
gust 10th on charges of contempt
far refusal to answer questions put
to him in bankruptcy hearing.
lArnstein s i name was connected
with operations of an alleged "ring"
of eond thieves in New York.
L..Asnsti la-bU appeal- to the su
preme court contended that he was
within his riyhts m refusing to an
swer questions which he consider
ed might tend to incriminate him
and maintained he had waived no
constitutional rights in . filing
schedules of bankruptcy according
to another order of the New York
courts.
TRADE PACT WITH FRANCE
DISCOURAGED BY U. S.
Paris, Nov. 8. The Associated
Press is informed that France has
been urging a new commercial
treaty with the United States, but
that the American .officials have
pointed out that there are great
difficulties in the wsy of negotiat
ing any sort of treaty and that this
probably wil lprevent such a treaty
being effected. '
The Franco-Czecho-Slovak treaty
signed yesterday is a barter and
trade agreement, the countries
making mutual tariff concessions.
Barter and trade probably will be
the chief features of all the French
commercial treaties in contempla
tion. Thru such means France
hopes to obtain material needed by
her and at the same time develop
markets for domestic products.
PEACE IN BASEBALL
Orranized Baseball Getting on a
Normal Basis Again Club Own
ers Confer
(By Th Aiuoflte( Prcm)
Chicago, Nov. 8. (Peace in or
ganized baseball was believed to be
in sight today when Ban Johnson,
president of the American league
and his "loyal five" club owners
went into session at the same hotel
where the National league mag
nates and the three minor league
owners were meeting.
Clark Griffith, one of the "loyal
five," accepted an invitation to at
tend the rival meeting and discuss
plans for reorganization of the na
tional commission.
OFFERS OLD LAND
GRANTS TO PROVE TITLE
New York, Nov. 6. Records of
land grants made by Peter Stuyve
sant before the end of the Dutch
regime in New York more than 200
years ago were presented by the
city today in its action to prove
title to a stretch of land along the
Hudson river side of Manhattan
Island, now occupied ss a "right of
way" by the New .York Central
railroad. )
The strip of land in litigation,
extending about eight miles, from
Seventy-second street to Spuyten
Duyvil, counsel for the city asserts
is city property under provision of
the Dongan charter vesting the city
with title to all "vacant, unpat
ented and unappropriated land."
u. d.cTg"athering
? FOR CONVENTION
; (By T& AMoeiaUS Pros)
Asheville, Nov. 8.The van
guard of the delegates of the
United Daughters of the Confed
eracy which opens a three-day busi
ness and-social convention here to
morrow arrived in the city today.
UUODIYB
OTHER THAN HOME
WILSON BEGINS
ANNUAL MESSAGE
No Intimation As to What He Will
Recommend ,CoBgreas To Do
(By Iht ,AmocUU4 'ml
Washington, Nov. , 8.-Presldent
Wilson today begun work on his
annual message to congress which
will fee transmitted either on the
opening day of ths next session on
December 6 or the dsy following.
White House officials said today
they had no intimation as to what
recommendations . the President
planned -to make to congress but
administration officials expect that
among other things, he will again
urgejhe-enactmsnt of a number of
reconstruction measures which hs
recommended in his first message
to the special session of the pres
ent congress esrly Isst year.
This week the president will re
ceive three Latin-American diplo
mats wno nave arrived in washing--ton
within the last few weeks.
Appropriations for First
Fiscal Tear of Republi
can Administration Are
Being: Worked Out.
f By TIm Aacbtd Prw)
Washington. Nov. 8. Estimates
which Congress will mske of appro
priations for the fiscal year of the
new Republican administration are
now being prepared by the various
government departments under di
rection of Democratic cabinet offi
cials and in accordance with the
promise of the Wilson administra
tion. These estimates will be sub
mitted to Congres sat the opening
of the next session December 6.
Since the Republicans have a ma
jority in both the senate and house
sharp changes are expected to be
made in most of these estimates
under revision plans which Repub
lican congressional leaders are ex
pected to work out in co-operation
with other leaders of the Harding
administration which takes office
March 4th.
The present political . situation
with regard to annual appropri
ations Is similar to that which ob
tained eight years ago . after the
first election of woodrow .Wilson
but the economic situation -in. ths
country- -vastly., differentia -At
that time the Republicans were in
control of the executive branch of
the government under, President
Taft but the Democrats had a ma
jority in both the senate and
house.
COAL DEFENDANTS
LOSE PEORA CASE
(By Th AMoeiaUd Pnh)
Peoria,, 111., Nov. 8.-f-Defendants
in the coal conspiracy case in the
United Slates district court at In
dianapolis lost their case in the
federal court here in which they
sought to enjoin officers of the gov
ernment from removing and prose
cuting them at Indianapolis on the
ground that section nine of the
Lever act was unconstitutional.
Coal Cases Continued.
Indianapolis, Nov. 8. Ai the
request of the government the
conspiracy case against 125 soft
coal miners and operators in In
diana, Illinois, Ohio and Western
Pennsylvania was continued when
they were called in United States
district court before Judge Ander
son this morning. Judge Ander
son then immediately started upon
his investigation of Attorney Gen
eral Palmer's connection m the
case, at one time declaring: "I'm
going to find out whether the at
torney general can hamstring a
case in this court"
Ben W. Simms of LaFayertte, In
diana, who recently resigned as
special assistant district attorney
in the case was the first witness
called in the investigation.
VGAINST BABY SALES
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ALXC1A. BROWN
DALLAS, Tex. The price o
babies Is $10 In Dallas. A thru
lag trade in new-born children 1
carried on by maternity homer
here.' according to Miss Alecta
Brown,, director of public welfare
who Is asking the city commission
for aa ordinance' regulating such
homes.
SUMMING SUM
NEEDED BY GOVT
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JACKSON GOUHTY
CITIZENS RESEHT
CHARGES
MADE
Say There is No Attempt
in That County to Inti
mate the Board of Elec
tions There.
(Br Th AfMclaUd PrVMt'
Asheville, Nov. 8. Representa
tlve resident sof Sylva and Jack
son county are very much incensed
over reports that there was an at'
tempt to Intimidate the election
board there and prevent a correct
count of the ballot, according to a
number ox tnem who came to Ashe
ville today to protest against re
ports to that effect.
The delegation was headed by
Sheriff G. M. Cole, J. M. Worley,
former Sheriff C. G. Harris, J. B.
Ensley and others. The protested
to the Asheville Times asking cor
rection of the story carried by oth
er newspapers in this section. It
is understood they will seek an au
dience with Governor Bickett when
he arrives late today and present
the facts to him- believing he is
misinformed as to the true state of
affairs.
That the trouble which caused
meisages to be sent to Governor
Bickett asking troops to protect
the election board were not caused
by civilians having a hostile atti
tude toward the board, was a decla
ration of the delegation today.
An attorney who went to Jack
son county, the delegation charged,
made uncomplimentary remarks
about the women who voted and
demanded that the vots of illiterate
women be thrown out. This, the
delegation said, incited the citizens
and their indignation was aroused
against the attorney who was ad
vised to leave the county at the in
stance of some of those who wished
to avert trouble.
HAJIDING-OBREQON
MEETING GIVEN UP
Presldent-Blect Wants Complete
Rest on Vacation Might Com.
plicate Mexican Sltuatlcn. .,
I crownsvoiie, imov. s- riaui
to bring about a meeting between
senator Harding and Alvaro Ubre
gpn,.-Preiidnt-lcct , . of Mexico,
wnue tne former is m this section
have been; dropped out of deference
to Mr. Hardin's desire of complete
rest, it wss announced today. -
Committees having the matter in
hand also decided that inviting of
the Mexican leader here might com
plicate the , Mexican situation,
which, it was announced, they ex
pected to be cleared soon by Amer
ican recognition of the . present
Mexican regime.
Senator Harding has accepted an
invitation to take part in an Armis
tice Day celebration Nov. 11, it was
announced . by R. B. Creager, at
whose home Mr, Harding . will
spend his vacation, at Point Isabel.
The celebration will include a pa
rade in which representatives of
numerous South Texas towns wnl
participate. The procession will
disband at Fprt Brown, where Mr..
Harding is scheduled to deliver an
address.
Plans virtually have been com
pleted at Point Isabel for the re
ception of the President-elect and
his party. Upon his arrival Mr.
Harding and the entire party will
be taken to the country club for
luncheon The afternoon probably
will be-spent on the golf links ami
later In the day the trip to Point
Isabel will be made in automobiles.
OUR DEAD IN ENGLAND.
Bodies of 550 Americans Will Sleep
Permanently in Great Britain By
Request.
(By Th Amoristed Prm)
Washington, Nov. 8. The bodies
of about 550 American soldiers who
died in England are to remain per
manently in that country by re
quest of families of tne men.
secretary Baker announced to
day that orders had been given to
concentrate the bodies in a perma
nent cemetery near London which
will be under the perpetual con
trol of the American government.
'All other American dead in Great
Britain have been returned to the
United States according to
war
department announcement.
Humanitarian Convention.
Montevideo. Nov. 8j Robert E.
Jeffery, the American Minister
here, is negotiating with the Uru
guayan Foreign Office for a recip
rocal convention for humanitarias)
services to be given to persons
leavmg Jail m both countries af
ter completing their terms of im
prisonment, m accordance with a
project formulated by the Nation
al Prisons Committee of New
York.
Under this convention, the Uru
guayan authorities would commu
nicate to the United States Immi
gration Department the egress
from Uruguayan prisons of all
American citizens and the Prisons
Committee of New York would
procure their repatriation and ob
tain work for them so they can be
reformed.
When an Uruguayan citizen left
a United States prison, -a similar
notice would be addressed to the
"Patronate de DelKuenbes del
Uruguay." so that that institution
mi?ht take measures for his re
patriation and procure him an
honest way of making his living.
POLICE FORCE THREATS
TO RESIGN; HOUSING
SHORTABE BE RTIJEVED
(Hy Th. AMOcfatad Prm)
Essex, N. J., Nov. 8. "The
police force" of this village has
threatened to rettlgn unless he "
can find a real livable house in
which to make his home when
off duty.
Samuel Mullins is his name.
He is chief of police, sergeant,
and patrolman. By day he is
expected to protect the village
from stray cows, snd by night
fro mprowling robbers, but in
his spare time he has no sat-
isfsciory home because of the
housing shortage. '
The burouih council intends
to adept a resolution providing
for the erection of two houses.
The sity lathers will double
the present size of the police
force.
S.C.
Walter Salmon, Young
Ex-Soldier, Calls at
Home of Chief Keslcr
and Gives Up.
Walter Salmon, a young white
man, wanted at Greenville, S. C, on
a charge of having brutally mur
dered another white man. Ace
Flinkenshell, near that city last
Friday, and for whom the South
Carolina authorities have been
hunting since, called at the home of
Chief of Police J.. W. Kesler, ot
Salisbury, last night and gave him
self up snd is now tn the Rowar.
jail awaiting the arival of an offi
cer from Greenville to take h:m
hack to that oity where he will be
placed on trial for his life.
The story of Salmon's life for
the past several years and of his
coming to Salisbury to place him
self in hands of an officer read like
fiction. The reports sent out from
Greenville regarding, ths killing
gave the name of the alleged slay
er as James E. Sslmon but his cor
rect name is Walter Salmon, and
crime which is laid at his door is
said to have bean a. most brutal
one. It Is charged that he killed
Klinkenshell f or the purpose of roo
bery and secured $300. - However.
while he had very little to say re
garding the crime for which he
must answer he told jChhtf . Jtauer
he did not get the 8300 said Co have
been taken from the dead matrs
home. . ,-, v .';' 1 ' .-. ,..' i-
Salmon is 26 years old. of rather
.good appearance and carries a
food face, one that would not class
im as a criminal He originally
hails from Owensboro, Kentucky
and served overseas , in the world
war. On his return at the close of
the conflict he met a Miss Hartley,
a trained nurse, at Trentdn, N. J.,
who is from Burke county, this
state, and who is a nlepe of Mrs.
Kesler, wife of the chief. It was
a case of love at first sight and
.shortly afterward he and the young
woman-were' marired. They later
went to Burke county and lived for
a time with Mrs. Salmon's parents,
and it is said the father-in-law of
young ex-soldier, not pleased with
his conduct, informed him he would
have to leave his home. He went
to Greenville, S. C, where he had
been in camp during his training
period. The next heard from him
was when the papers carried an ac
count of the brutal murder for
which he is charged.
Salmon came to Salisbury last
night on No. 32 and went at once
to the home of Chief of Police
Kesler on East Inness street. Re
had read in the papers that his wife
was here visiting relatives and he
said he came here to see her and
give himself up. The chief was
not at home when Salmon called,
but his son, Ney, was there, and as
noon as the 'fugitive entered the
house he informed them he had
come to surrender. The chief was
notified and went home and pTaced
the young man under arrest and
accompanied him to jail.
Mrs. Salmon was not at Chief
Kesler's home, however, when her
husband called. She had ben
.there yesterday but left in the a.
ernoon and went to the home of
a relative in the county, not know
ing of her husband's visit until this
morning when Chief Kesler went
out in an automobile after her. She
had known several days, however,
of the crime for which her hus
band was charged, as also did the
chief.
Salmon sadid he had been in
South Carolina "since the crime un
til he came to Salisbury last night.
He spent Saturday night in Spar
tanburg. A special from Greenvill s of date
of last Friday, the day of the kill
ing gives the following account of
the affair:
As a result of the robbery and
murder early this afternoon of Asa
Flinkenshelt, age 44, the sheriff
has secured a warrant fer James
E. Salmon of Morganton, N.C,
charging him with having commit
ted the crime. Salmon has not yet
been found.
Flinkenshelt lived half a mile
beyond the city limits on the Laur
ens road and was a farmer. He
was in his home when a young man
drove up in a car, alighted, entered
the house and demanded money.
Witnesses state that after he had
talked for. a few minutes with
Flinkenshelt, the young man fired
five shots into him, killing him ai-
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Canvass Board in Jackson
County Had Trouble
With Citizens Deputiz
edMay Send Troops.
(Br MAX ARkRNETHY)
Raleigh, Nov. 8. The difficulty!
experienced by the board of elec
tions in canvassing the returns ot
Jackson county at Sylva, the coun
ty seat, is considered here as more '
serious than newspaper reports
seem to indicate ana it is reported ,
unofficially that unless the situa
tion clears at once some action will
be taken by State officials.
Certainly the affair is not liked
by Governor Bickett and others in
authority who have tried by read
ing press reports from Asheville
to get at the bottom of the trou
ble. The governor has already
telegraphed the sheriff of , the
county to deputize enough men to
give protection to the members of
the county board while the returns
were being canvassed and if .this
was not practicable State troops
would be called out. This order,
from the governor, it was thought,
would be sufficient to quiet the
Jackson countians but later , re
ports seem to indicate that the
canvassing, board Saturday was
prevented from completing its .
work because of (the presence of a
mob. , V . : . f-- , r,rr-'
So the board adjourned for the
second time to meet again tomor
row. If the work of the can
vassers is interfered with then it ,
is considered certain that the gw
ernor will at ones authorize troops
sent to Sylva to protect the mem
bers of the board while the count
is being made and' order an inves
tigation of the whcie affair. :
Reports reaching the capital are
that the Republicans of Sylva and
the county, more than 100 in num
mber. are seeking to intimate the
members of the board and to in
fluence them in counting the bal
lots. ' The canvassing board is
largely Democratic and this fact,
due to the anticipated closeness of
the vote, is responsible for the dif
ficulty.. , ; Vr-V". -
, The contest of Barkers Creek,,
which Is 'atrongly'.Republlcpn by
Walter Haynes, Asheville attor
ney; when the board : first met
Thursday - k 'understood to have
Participated the first trouble. A
demonstration from the Republi
cans followed and the board aJ
journed until Friday. iWhen the
canvass was started the second
time a larger number of Republi
cans appeared and gave i evidence
of making trouble. 'A similar sit
uation was experienced Saturday
when the board adjourned until '.
tomorrow. Information furnished
Governor Bickett is to the effect
that Sheriff J. J. Cole, who is a
Republican, left the county soon
after the board first met last week
and there is no one in his office
capable of handling the situation.
There is a likelihood of the sheriff
being removed from office if . the
reports reaching the governor ore
true and he does not give assist
ance and protection to the county
canvassers. r -1
- The whole affair is considered
displeasing here and if further
trouble occurs it may be expected
that Governor Bickett will order
a sweep'.ng investigation and those
guilty, whether Democrat or Re
publicans, will be prosecuted.
Departments ' Preparing Ehidgets.
State departments and ail State
institutions are now -: preparing
their budget to be presented to
the budget' commission by Novem
ber 1U. --.v...'.
Every department along " with
State's institutions must, , under
the.nrovisioris of the law. submit
to the commission a detailed" ac- -count
of its. expenditures for the
coming' year. Once (this budget
has been submitted and approved
by the commission and the appro
priations committee of the legis-.
lature it must be strictly adhered
Under the budget system it is
impossible for any department to
transfer funds, and the expendi
tures must be made according to
the budget as approved.
Adjutant General ! V. Van B.
Metts, who is back from the corps
meeting at Charleston, S. C, re
ports that under the reorganiza
tion of the national guard North
Carolina must recruit 5,000 men in
North Carolina.'. -i.;;.'-v" .vvy: .
REPUBLICANS OPEN FIGHT i
ON PRESIDENT GOMPERS
Washington, Nov. 8. Jonathan ,
Boure, Jr., president of the Repub
lican publicity association, one of
the Republican national committee
organizations, served notice today
that Samuel Gompers, head of the
American Federation of Labor, is
"another despot to be dethroned."
Rev. P. M. Trexler, well known
minister of the caunty, was oparst
ed on at the sanatorium" yesterday.
The ooeration was performed at 6
o'clock after , Mr.-Trexler had been
hurried to the hospital after a sud
den illness.' The best and most en
couraging reports come from his
bedside today.-,- ;;.t,:,'. --' ..aM
There are approximately 8,000,
000 foreign wage-earners in manu
facturing, transportation and other
industries in the United States.
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