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.. :.; V , a ,(', . Weather To-day i CLOUDY TONIGHT AND , TUESDAY HKlfBEK OV THK AMOCtATKO TBESi Tha Associated Prwa mrlasivaly nlit)sd to tha asa for publication of all mot dUpatrbaa aradiud to it or not othsrwls. aradltad la thia vapar ana ' tha loral ns published. THK BAL18BUBT i.Vi. INQ POST la a meaiber of Tba AnoriaUJ Praat au4 fata tha aftcrnooa reports. . I A VOL. 1.1 NO. 150. SALISBURY, N. O, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1921 PRICE 2 CENTS 2 7 VLL iliiii LJ, WU : ' 'X: . - "a? J , ' 9 WARREN CO. NEGROES SAFE i POTENTIARY; WARRENTON IS QUIET NEGROES SHOW UGLY SPIRIT BUT Five Additional Arrests Made Today Following Troubles Yesterday and Firearms Taken. WARRENTON QUIET (By Tha Associated Fmi) Raleigh, Jan. 24. Nine negroes ; arrcsteq in connection with the shooting of Traylor brother and two other white men early Sunday morning at Norlina, arrived here at 12:45 this afternoon from War renton and were placed in the state penitentiary for safe keeping. These negroes were arrested with Plummer Bullock and Alfred Wil liams who were taken from War ' ren county jail early this morn ing and shot to death by a mob. Chas. Smith, one of the nine ne groes, told the officers while en . route here that Matthew Bullock was the ringjeader of the negroes. Smith said Bullock came into his pressing club shortly after mid , night Sunday morning accompan ied by about 15 other negroes and stated, "We're fixed for the Tray lor boys tonight.? Smith1 said the negroes were armed with shot guns and revolvers. He declared that I he was asleep when the firing near the railway station started. He gave the officers the names of the negroes he 'said were in theparty. Five More Arrests Warrenton, Jan. 24. With the exception of a few groups of ne groes here and there who still ap pear to show an ugly spirit, the scene Of the lyndhing of two ne i groes by a mob of masked men last : midnight, has settled into quiet to ' day and no further trouble is an. tkvpated.-The Warrenton vtome guard ordered out last night is 'iDJtrolling the town this morning and it is not thought necessary to cajl for further assistance. Twenty-five citizens were deputized to foatrol the town last night after the lvnchine. With the imprisonment of the 13 negroes brought here from Norlina ,i in subsequence of the lynching of the twd negroes, Warenton negroes began to show signs of agitation and threatened uprising to the ex tent that five, apparently leaders among them, have been arrested. All manner of fire-arms is said to . : have been found on them, includ ing Winchester rifles, shot-guns and pistols. A . jury was empanelled this morning: for 'an -inquest over the bodies of the two negroes, Alfred Williams and Plummer Bullock, lynched last midnight. The 11 ne groes left in the county jail by the mob will be taken to Raleigh for safe keepinjr, ,' I The lynching which occurred shortly after midnight was the cul mination of several days of ill 'feeling between negroes and whites i of Norlina which reached a climax . early Sunday in a pitched battle there in which five white men and three negroes were wounded by pistol shots. Bullock was said to have been the instigator of the trouble at Norlina following a dispute, with a groccryman over the .purchase of ten cents worth of apples. Williams was said to have been one of the leaders of the negroes which gathered at the Norlina railway-station Sunday morning and dpened fire on the whites. The mob in its invasion of the -fail did not molest any . of the other 11 - prisoners. When the mob gathered Sheriff Davis who lives some ; distance from town, was notified. He was fired upon by masked men not far from the jail. The men explained , thay were guarding the jail from an attack by would-be lynchers and said they thought 'the sheriff was on of the attackers. v When. Sheriff Davis finally reach ed the jail, Williams and Bu'llock nad been taken away after John Green, a negro jailer, under threat ' of death, had turned over the keys , to the mob. , Aibout 150 men were in the mob that entered tihe jail. The two ne . groes were , taken into the woods about a mile outside of town and their bodies riddled with bullets, . Investigation to Be Made ' Warenton, Jan. 24. Coroner Jones began early today to em panel a jury for the purpose of con ducting an inquiry into the death , or tne negroes lynched here early 'this morning. vAt 10 o'clock the jury had not begun its investiga tion. Sheriff Edwards of Warren ' county announced thia morninsr - that a rigid investigation would be made into the lynchirg. No arrests have yet been made in connection with the death" pf the negroes. The Riot at Norlina. Norlina, N. C, Jan. .23- Eight 'men,, five white and three negroes were wounded, two perhaps fatal ly, in a near race riot at the Nor lina railroad station, between 1 and 2 o'clock this morning and now 13 negroes, charged with participa tion in the shooting, are in War ren county jail at Warrenton, m default of bonds ranging from $200 to $1,000. . The wounded men are: R. L. Trallor, white; Lloyd - Traibr, white; H. A. Rainey, white; W, i. Upchurch, white; H. A. Ainscoe, white, Claude Jones, negro; Jerome Hunter, negro and, Robert Moss, negro. All of the white 'men save W. J. Upchurch and Ainscoe are in the Henderson hospital where physi cians stated tonight that Traitor's condition is critical. Jerome Hun ter, the negro mose seriously hurt, is in a hospital at Raleigh, where small hopes are entertained for his recovery. Robert Moss, slight ly hurt, is in jail and Claude Jones is at his home under guard. v The. difficulty this morning fol lowed bad feeling which has been growing since Tuesday. On that day, according to Chief of Police S. P. Fleming, of .Norlina, Plum mer Bullock, negro, went into the store of J. P. Williams, a merchant of Norlina, and sought to buy ten cents worth of apples from Brady Trailor, clerk. The negro profess ed dissatisfaction with his purchase and wanted his money back. The exchange was affected, after some words, whereupon the negro cursed said Trailor, it is said, and threat ened him. According to the 'chief of po lice, the Trailors received i word last night that the negroes' were organizing to make good Plum mer Bullock's threat. Between 1 and 2 o'clock, perhaps a score had gathered at the Seaboard depot, some of them it is said, with shot guns. , Raby Trailor, brother of Brady, approached Matthew Bullocg, ap parently the leader of the negroes, and asked him what the trouble was aqput. While they were talk ing, according to evidence brought out in the preliminary hearing this afternoon, Jerome Hunter, negraf Walked up and fired at Trailor front-close range. The whilfe man fell and Hunter shot him twice as he lay on his back. 1 The shooting then became gen eral and in it W. J. Upchurch, en gineer of a switch engine, and H. A. Rainey and H. A. Ainscoe, car inspectors, were shot, as they were about their work on the railroad yards. . Matthew Bullock, said to have been the leader of the negroes, made his escape, and the round-up, made by a posse of white men formed shortly after the shooting this morning, failed to locate him. Thirteen however, were arrested and committed to jail in default of bonds, after preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace J. C. Hardy, of Norlina. this afternoon. While the situation appears quiet here tonight, there were ru mor e that an effort might be made by negroes of Warrentofi, four miles from here, to- liberate mem bers of their race in jail. Feeling was high this morning among the white people of the community, but has apparently calmed down to night. Tasker Polk, prominent at torney, appearing for the state, this afternoon made a talk to the assembly gathered for the prelimi nary hearing, in which he counseled law and order. , v MORE TROUBLE FEARED IN WARRENTON TONIGHT (By Tha Anoclatcd Pmil Henderson, Jan. 24. Nine of the, 11 negroes held in the Warren county jail last night in connection with the race riot at Norlina early Sunday morning passed here at 10:45 o'clock this morning en route to Raleigh where they will be iplaced in the state prison for safe keeping following the lynching of two of the party, Alfred Williams and Plummed Bullock. V The party passing here was un der a Iheavy guard. Persons aboard the train said that while authorities in Warenton arid Norlina professed the belief that tha situation was well in hand, private opinion was that further trouble was feared to night U. S. SETTLING DOWN UNDER PROHIBITION Liverpool, Jan. 24. Lord Lever hulme, one of the Great Britain's largest manufacturers, .. told the Daily Post representative on his return from a recen visit to the United States that "prohibition in America has come to stay of that you may be certain." . "The people aTe settling down under it," he continued, "and I be lieve that if put to the popular vote, 75 per cent of the electorate wouia support its continuance There is not .the slightest chance that the law against alcoholic drinks Wsjl ever be repealed." . Mr. W. H. Ruth, son' of Mr. W. M. Rufh, who has been with the Standard Sewing Machine ' Com pany, left today for Augusta, Ga, where he will have charge of an agency for the Wayne Oil Pump Company, of Fort Wayne, Indiana. 'BEATS MONTE CARLO MRS. HARRY SCHWARTZ pMra. Harry SchwarU of New York played a hunch while honey moonlne at Monte Carlo and won. she says,' 1100,000. She and her husband have Just returaea to New York. It was her twentieth birthday and she played "20" on the wheel. INJURED BY OIL Twenty Frame Houses in Memphis Splintered By Force of Explosion and Burned. " Memphis. Tenn.. Uan. 24Twen- ty-five persons were killed and 15 or more injured as a result of an explosion of a tank car filled with gasoline in the northeast section' of this city today which, set fire to a row of small bouses occupied mostly by negroes. A number of whom are missing and believed to .have been burned to death. Early (police estimates place the number of deaths as high as 25 while reports from various hds. pitals indicate that at least 50 have Seen given treatment lor injuries. Twenty frame houses, the length of a block were literally splintered by the force of the' explosion and were set on fire, while windows within a radius of 15 blocks were broken. Virtually all of the nouses were occupies oy negroes. Every ambulance in the city was rushed to the. scene and . volun teer rescue parties were formed to aid the police in removing the dead and injured. The fire was under control before it spread beyond the wrecked houses. COTTON GINNED PRIOR TO JAN. 1 (By Tha Aaaoctatad Praa Washington, Jan. : 24. Cotton ginned prior to January amounted to 12,016,465 bales exclusive of 'in ters and including 204,000 round bales and 7,300 bales of American Egyptian and 1,166 bales of Sea Island. Ginnings prior to January 16 last year were 10,307,120. Gin nings for North Carolina thia year to January 18 were 801,746. ; CARDINAL BARRED BY REVOLT DEAD Lisbon, . Jan. 24 Information has been received here of the death of Cardinal Jose Sebastiao Netto, formerly Patriarch of Lisbon, who died in one of the Franciscan mon asteries of Spain where he retired after the revolution, in 1910. He received the Cardinal a cap xrom the hands of King Louis I of Por tungal in 1883. Previously he was Bishop of Angola and the Congo, where he was a missionary. After the Portuguese republic abolished religious congregations in Portugal, Cardinal Netto left the country with all the other Con gregationalisms and retired to a convent in Spain. He was 80 years old. Har risen Sends Private Car for ' . Bishop Kilgo. Charlotte, Jan. 23. President Fairfax Harrison, of the Southern railwayj has sent his private car to Baltimore for. Bishop John C. Kilgo to come home in when he is able to travel. Bishop Kilgo has been a director of the. Southern for 10 or 12 years, v ; The bishop is expected to arrive home this week following an oper ation at the Union Protestant boa- piUL " . ; f MY TANK EXPLOSION GOVERNOR PROBE KY. NIGHT RIDERS Appearance of Old Band in Blue Grass Section Calls for Investigation by Morrow. (By Tha Aaaociatad Praaal Lexington, Ky., Jan. 24. Gov ernor Morrow today planned an investigation of night riders in the Blue. Grass tobacco belt of Ken tucky, following the appearance oj "riders" Saturday night for the first time in years. Fifteen farmers in Bith - and Fleming counties were visited and warned that the selling of their leaf tobacco or thlanting of new crops this year would result in the burning of their barns and the de struction of other property. The warnings followed the recent clos ing of the burley tobacco market at which unusually low prices were offered farmers for their leaf. SOUTHERN POWER FIGHT START TODAY Raleigh, Jan. 23. Lawyers rep resenting multitudinous interests are here tonight for the beginning of testimony tomorrow morning before the corporation commission, which is entertaining the Southern Power company's petition to in crease its hydro-electric rates. The gross amount of the increase will be 12,000,000 experts employed by the opposition say. Of this the J. W. Cannon string of cotton mills will pay 1100,000 and Ned Parker, of Graham, represents another syn dicate quite as hard hit. J. Lee Crowell, of Concord, is appearing for the Cannon mills; T. C. Guthrie of Charlotte, is opposing for his clients the great increase;; A. L. Brooks, Judge W. P. Bynum and R. R. King) of Greensboro, are among the protestants; ;T. C. Linn, of Salisbury, is resisting, and S. M. Gattis, of Hillsboro. is kicking. The city is full of lawyers, and the lawyers are full of fight. Uames Buchanan Duke, president of the Southern Power company, will be down tomorrow night, the lawyers sad. E. T, Cansler came this afternoon to fight the battle for the Southern Power. ' Z. . V. Taylor is expected later Tonight. The Southern Power company's course in asking to increase the rates is regarded a virtual breach of all existing contracts with the consumers of power. Many mills and manufactories have long time agreements which (will be destroy ed, and when this is done every power company in ths state is ex pected to follow the Southern's ex ample. COUNTRY CLUB MEETING TONIGHT Stockholders of the country club of Salisbury will meet tonight in the community building at 8 p. m. for the purpose of electing officers and discussing improvements to be made on the grounds, v The board of .directors will have a plan to submit for the approval of : the stockholders whereby" the club can make needed improve ments at once without increasing the dues of the club. Improvements planned, qut held up on account of finances, include swings and playgrounds for the children, further work on the golf grounds, and tennis courts. CHARGED WITH FORGERY. White Man Bound Over to Superior Cocrt Charged ' With Having Forged a Check. Carl Harris, a white man who gives his home as Danville, Va., was arrested Saturday afternoon charged with having forged a check for $20, signing the name of Mr. T. D. Brown, and attempting to have the same cashed at the Salisbury. Bank & Trust Company. He waived examination in county court, this morning and his case went up to the February term of Rowan Superior court, , Harris is said to have called on Mr. Brown and asked him to en dorse a check on a Greensboro bank but was refused, and , afterward he is alleged to have secured a check on the Salisbury Bank & irust Company and made it out for $20, signing the name of Mr. Brown. However, the check was not honored but inquiry was made, resulting in the arrest of Harris. LEWIS-CRADDOCK ' TO MEET TONIGHT (By Tha Aaaociatcd Praaa) New York, Jan. 24. Ed (Stran gler) Lewis will defend his world's heavy weight catch as catch can wrestling title here tonight against Earl Craddock, fromer champion. ; Craddock lost the title last year to Jones fitecher wiho recently re linquisihed it to Lewis. . . A - ' " , Noted Confederate Officer Dead (By Th. AatoeUtad Preaa) Anderson. S. C Jan. 24. Col. Joseph Newton Brown. ': as-ed 89 years, ranking surviving officer of the Confederate army in South Carolina, died at bis home here this morning. , .. MAYOR CALLS Board Meets This After noon to Consider Plans for Bond Issue to Pro vide Facilities. Mayor W. B. Strachan. who is ex-oflkio chairman of the city scnooi board, today called a meet ine of this boaTd to be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock at which time he win submit plans for a proposed bond issue to secure funds to vrovide necestarv addi tional buildings and the improve ment oi some oi tne present school buildings in the way of enlarge ments and otherwise and for the erection of a high school building, also for the establishment of a tax rate to cover the operating expenses of the city (public schools. These matters will have to be submitted to a vote of the people and as soon as the .necessary authority, can be secured from the legislature and it is found what action this body will take, if any, on pending school bills, it is hoped by those charged with the duty of seeing that the city school are operated that the people of Salisbury 'Will support any pro gressive plan to take care of the schools. As previously stated Mayor Strachan has already requested the services of the state architect to make an investigation and sur vey to see what can be done in the matter of enlarging several of the present school buildines. There is not at present sufficient room or equipment to nronerlv care for the children, this condition arising from the fact that the enrollment at all four of the schools has in creased by leaps and bounds and so taxed the capacity of the build ings that it is now necessary to operate the lower classes in morn ing and afternoon shifts, thus de priving all of these children, the beginners, of something like half or at least a third of the time in which they ought to be in school. it is also taxing the teachers and in other ways retarding the effi ciency of the schools and some thing must be done and that at the earliest notaible time. nd it ia to plan for relieving . the situation that the meeting ox the school board is being held this afternoon. NORFOLK OFFICERS ON A MAN HUNT . (Dy Tha Aaaociatcd Froa) Norflok. Va.. Jan. 24.Wifcli officers scouring the country around Portsmouth and Port Nor folk feelincr ia hl?h atrninnt an unt. dentifled negro who made a brutal assault on a white woman, a mem. ber of a well known Norfolk coun ty family. v I he county authorities are pre pared to take precaution to protect the negro from violence at the hands of enratrad ritiiena in tha event of his canture. Rlniviiiminrfa have been on the trail of the negro snice Saturday when the woman was attacked while driving' nlnnn thru a narrow roadway. COOUDGE COMING SOUTH TOMORROW (By Tba Associated Prcsa) New York. Jan. 24 Vlro-ni-aal. dent-elect Calvin Coolidge will fol low the example of president-elect Harding by taking a vacation in the South, beginning next week after 1 ii . . . ne aaaresses a conference of busi ness men in Atlanta the latter part of t he week, after which he will go to Asheville to rest until the middle ofFebruary. ' He will leave here tomorrow for Atlanta. LIQUOR CASE NOT TO BE REVIEWED (By Th. Associated Pnas) Wanhimrtnn. Jan 91 : TVni. tion in Richmond, Va., of Chas. siCKei oi cringing liquor into the State was virtnnlt-v anafainul Th " - - -V MB n ..w the United States supreme court wuay. : Sicked hromrht- an anneal nn Th - gy-- fl'MS V U1IV ground that section S9 of the Vir- vinia . proniDition act of 1916 was invalid. He had been sentenced to Pav a fine of 150 anH aarvA aim year in jail. - ' , lhe supreme court held it was without jurisdiction to review the case. :-, BUYS SAME HAT HE DISCARDED IN FRANCE Perth Amboy, N. J., Jan. 24.---Howard Tappen, an American Le gion member of Perth Amboy, did not cast his bread upon the wa ters wit h the traditional return. He did, however, discard his over seas cap many months ago In France. .: :..; ..--,':- ..-. -;.y.: ' -'The other"day, Tappen bought a renovated army cap in an army goods store here. When he tried it on, he found 'the size to be just right. But when Tappen looked inside the hat, he. was consider ably preturbed. On the inner lin ing was his name, written in his own handwriting. The cap was the one he had dis carded in France after the Arm istice. '...I. WJUijf Harding's Vacation Pals "3? mi i I Sit SBB ''.v. ':.. . V i i 7 Grouped about President-elect Harding here are the men 1? vlted to accompany him to straw-hat land for the pre-lnauguratlon vacation. The map shows 8t. Augustine, Fla., first destination. Here Harding will board Senator J. 8. Frellnghuysea'e yacht for a cruise (la the waters Indicated by the half-circle) where job-hunters can't reach him. Frelinghuysen Is shown In the center below Harding. On the left (top to bottom) Senator A. B. Cummins, Miles C. Cahill, secret service guard, and Senator Frederick Hale. Right, Senator A- B. Fall (above) and George B. Christian, Harding' sec retary ALL BELGIAN LOXN' FLOATED TODAY , (By Tha AatoeUtad PraaA New York. Jan.: 24.--IJ. P.'.Mor. gan & Co., and the, Guaranty Trust Company announced ' this tnomitig that the subscription books for the $30,000,000 Belgian loan were open ed at 10 o'clock and immediately closed. , . . ' " The announcement wae taken to mean that the loan had been sue-. cessfully oated and that it was ov- i ersubscribed, although it was sata the amount of oversubscription , could not be determined for several months. . , . CORK LORD MAYOR ; NOW IN NORFOLK (By Th. Aaaorlatad Praat) Norfolk, Va., Jan. 24,Donald O'Callaghan, lord mayor of Cork, late this afternoon wUl be surren dered to the chief inspector of im migration at this port. He is now in custody of Judge Lawless, his ders of the state department for the cancellation of the lord mayors parole. ' .!. RESIDENCE OF CHRISTIAN, NEXT TO HARDING, BURNED Marion, O., Jan. 24. fTho resi dence of George B. Christian, Jr., next door to the home of President-elect Harding, and used . by him as hi3 headquarters, was de stroyed by fire 'this morning. AH campaign documents stored in the building, although somewhat damaged by water, aTe thought to have been saved.' The' desk at which the President-elect met in conference with the "best minds" of the country also was removed from the 'burning building but slightly marred by the flames. " The fire started from an over heated furnace. The house was unoccupied, AIRPLANE MAIlT FOR NEW ZEALAND New York, Jan. 24 New Zea land will soon inaugurate an air- plain mail service modeled after that in use by the united states Post office Department, according to J. B. Murphy, of Timarou, New Zealand, who came here to see de monstrations of various aircraft. The company with which he is con nected has signed a contract to carrying the aerial mails in New Zealand, added Mr. Murphy. Sightseeing over Mount Cook in airplane also is contemplated. Mr. Murphy said. , Mount Cook is a major objective point for tourists m that country. . ,-. . ; - . ROCKY MOUNT ACTION IS A SURPRISE TO WILSON Wilson, Jan. 24. The action of Rocky Mount tobacco board of trade refusing to close on January 27 and 28 for the drive for tobacco acreage reduction, came as a sur prise to those who aTe behind the movement in eastern North Caro lina. The demand for a closing down of $he warehouse comes irom xne xarmers inemseives throughout the tobacco region. Dr. M. J. Ragland went to Spar tanburg, 3. C, this morning to at tend a convention of the South eastern Vetinerinarian Association and will be gfine several days, ; i . U5TINC ..Da - .v. A. , j-a... . i MORSE TESTIFIES BEFORE COMMITTEE ' (By Th. Associated Prats) v New York, Jan. 24. Perley Morse, whose accountant firm aud ited the books of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, appeared today before the Walsh committee investigating the affairs of the Untied States Shipping Board and corroborated the testimony of Col. E. H. Abedie, former general comp troller, concerning the discovery of a voucher for 260,000 alleged to cover personal expenses, of Ohas. Schwab over 1918. , Stacked Up Like Cord wood, With Two Hun dred Barrels of Alcohol . Laying Around. ;i ? Lansing, Mich., Jan. 22. Two hundred barrels of alcohol, more than 100,000 quarts of bottled in bond whiskey, gin, cordials and other liquors, stored away by the state constitute a problem for Fred L. Woodworth .state food and durg commissioner. ' v : j . Tha int.nviinnta have been seized i by state authorities since Michi igan became dry May 1, 1918. The more than 100.000 bottles are piled like cord wood in the basement of ' a building here and about them are grouped the 200 barrels of alcohol. The basement where the state liquor store is kept is harder to break into than Jackson1 prison is to break out of. There are bars over the cellar windows and great locks on tne doors. More than 200 different kinds of whiskey are represented in the 100,000 or more quart bottles piled about the cellar. About 20 stills a day, ranging in size from the kind that are lifted by means of derricks to those that may be carried easily by one man. are received at the building and stored away in the dark recesses of the basement. Mr. Woodworth has a collection of ingenious articles used by boot leggers to smuggle whiskey from one city to another large enough to start a small museum. There are about 400 hot water bottles, a violin case concealing a tank to carry a gallons, milk cans' with compartments for milk and other compartments for whiskey, and dozens of. other articles that in their time served the purposes of whiskey smugglers. Mr. Woodworth has asked the internal revenue officials at Wash ington to sell the confiscated whis key to private firms that use liquor for medicinal purposes, the pro. ceeds to be turned into state chan nels. Rowell Leaves Shipping Board " Washington, Jan. - 24. Chester .Rowel I, of California, today re signed as a member of the new shipping board effective immedi ately. It was announced at the White House that he was leaving the board to become a member of the California railroad commis sion, w , . . "A X ".w.- m J j lOOPQMS IS SOME PROBLEM 10 DEFEAT W Governor and Good Road Association at Logger heads as to How to Raise Road Money., v v (By MAX ABERXtTHT) ; Raleigh, Jan. 24. Expecting dis cussion during the present week In one or both branches of the gen. eral assembly over the two-proposed workmen's compensation acts, organized labor today : an nounces its decision to have .both of the measures defeated. ! This announcement is made here todsy by W. F, Moody, president of the State Federation of Labor, who says he has studied both the Detariey bill and the Young bill and has found them wanting in many particulars. Organized labor in North Carolina, say President Moody, will have nothing to do with either measure except to se cure their defeat if possible, and the union's hesd thinks this can be done. .' .:; .. ,v-v- The announcement sent to the state papers last week aligning the unoinfsta back of the DeLsney bill and in opposition to the measure drafted by the commission ap ipointed during the Bickett admin istration and introduced by Repre sentative Young was before it be came known that the State Fc I eration of Labor had deserted th Mecklenburg senator. The labor" : did intend to urge support for t: -DeLaney bill, saying that it w their understanding that it wot, be vastly different from the co -mission's draft. Now they take t, position that the measures are wi , night one and the same. , Senator DeLaney said to? -that while there was no radical c: ference in the proposed bills l believed the bill he had darfted f introduced would be more sati; f -tory to organized labor than t. Young law. , "In drafting my bill,w said .Sen ator DeLaney, "I did not atten to unduly discriminate against t employer nor to show partiality t the employee, but I -A did try t strike a happy medium between t' two so that the bill wo'H some chance of passing.- .u it's up to the laboring men; if t don't want to give and take I feai that North Carolina will not have any kind of workmen's compensa tion law during the next two yeari."',t: v. ."' - : : Members of the house and sen ate expresst Ihe opinion that.un!"n the- State v Federation v of -. Labor lends its support -to one of th-3 proposed bills both will be de feated since, it is pointed out, tr.i legislation is intended to proviU relief for the man who work with his hands and ia injured whi! ; so doing. The sage prediction ia that neither bill will pass muster. Busy Week Expected , ' , Governor Morrison's intention of going before the legislature either Wednesday or Thursday to delivp? his taxation message which wi,i have an indirect bearing upon roa ! legislation is taken as the cue that the present week's session will be one of the busiest so far. At loggerheads with the pro grani the Nortiv Carolina Goo I Roads lobbyists are advocating the governor's message is looked for with much interest at the capital. The good roads' lobbyists are in sisting that an ad valorem tax be levied to finance the road building program while Governor Morrison holds out that no general property tax be levied. The governor would raise the money from a bond issue, paying the interest with the auto mobile licenses and gasoline tax. Then the question of mainten ance seems to be (pestering the lif j of everybody. There are those who think the state should build and maintain the, highways; the governor's plants for state and federal construction with county (maintenance under rigid inspec, tion. The Morrisonian, plan is for 3,000 -miles ? of nard-surfaced roads, to be -'constructed from county seat to county seat wit, i money furnished by the sale of tha state' bonds in as big amount as is necessary. The good roads asso ciation differs . with the governor again on dirt roads. Governor Mor rison is eternally opposed to spend ing a dollar of the state's money on sand-clay or "mud" roads. lie wants them all hard-surfaced. The good roads association's bill pro vides for state maintenance of sev eral thousand miles of dirt roads. : As told in this correspondem-- for the first time the governor i i being opposed in his road buildin 7 program by the -good roads orsnm ization. Unles all factions unite on some plan it is feared that t' state wil lnot get thelcind of ro construction everybody wants. A one member of the le-nslature Upresses it. "There, are too mar - i-s Hit-as m xne neaoa 01 the go roads folws. They all want t same thing but are not willin? t surrender their personal views." y - Gcddea Arrives in Lop ' i x. (By Th. Associated Trmu) Liverpool, Jan. 24. Sir . land Geddes. British ambn' the (United States, who wr- to London ten days $ '-i, here at 8 a. m. today. I -to receive newapn- - f ents. lEN'SACK
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