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iirv"r"v,v'jrtrx Weather Today LOCAL RAIN'S TONIGHT; WED NESDAY FAIR v A.'.'oiT Puh"h4 THK SALISBURY EVt3! f4 the afternoon reports. " . .7 VOL: 17. NO. 86. SALISBURY, N, C TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1921 PRICE 2 CENTS ANOTHER CONSULATE BOMBED, DAMAGE IS SLIGHT Note Protesting Convic tion of Italians Place . Under Door Before Portugese Consulate is Bombed. (Br Tho AmoHoU PrM Lisbon, Nov. 1. A bomb ex ploded this morning on the Htai reuse at the American con hulate here. No damage of any consequence was done, how ever. The police attribute the outrage to the agitation in con nection with the canes of Sacro and Vansetti, Italians under conviction of murder in Massa chusetts. , The bomb, which apparently M Jis some form of greuade, had been placed lx-fore the door of the quarters of the American consulate. It appears it explod ed after the consul in leaving the quarters had given the grenade a push with his foot but the interval was suilicient to give time for escape. Damage Slilht Washington, Nov. 1. A dispatch from Consul General Hollas at Lis bon was received today at the state department and reports the bomb explosion in the consulate there. The consul general said the Portu guese governrment was investigat ing the outrage and would make every effort to apprehend those re sponsible for, the affair. Only a trifle damage to the building was reported. f he message said a note protest ing against the conviction of Van setti and Sacco in Massachusetts was slipped beneath the door of the consulate and a few minutes later the explosion occurred. Threats Investigated An investigation has been insti tuted by the department of justice jnto the threats being made by radicals in connection with the cas es of Sacco and Vansetti, Italians convicted of the murder of a' mill paymate&,w;- - HOSPITAL : tAKEN OVER TRIS MORNING Mr. Kenneth Montcastle, son of Mr. and' Mrs. George W. Mont castle, of Lexington, was operated on at the Salisbury hospital this morning. The operation was a suc cess and the patient is reported doing nicely. The. hospital was formally taken over by the new stock company this morning and it is now under the new management of the com pany which recently purchased the i property from Drs. Whitehead and : Stokes. ". :.. 11 WERE DROWNED IN N. J. STORM, BELIEVED ' . (Br Th AmmUU4 frt) Angeleseaj N. J., Nov, 1. Eleven fishermen are believd to have been drowned by the upsetting of a small fishing boat in the sea storm the preva'led along the New Jer sey coast yesterday, one Ashing boat is also missing. The sea trag edy was not known until two bodies were washed ashore near the old Springs coast guard station and on the finding today of an upturned boat- 1 The two fishing boats left Angelesea yesterday in the peak of the rising storm for. the fish towns, about ten miles' off the shore. '. - . . ; I.IR. MARSH TALKS 1 TO ROTARY CLUB Mr. E. H. Marsh, superintend ent of the Spencer transfer sheds, was the guest of the Sal'abury Ro tary club at the noon luncheon to day and made a very instructive talk to the -club on the scope of the transfer business at this point Several other guests were nresent, Rotary members here for the Parent-Teachers Association now in the city. . The Salisbury Rotary club is to be tbe host at a rectption to be piven this evening from S to 6 o'clock ' at the Old Hickory dub rooms. Members-and- their wives are expected 'to be present -to re ceive the visiting delegates. . , ; DECLINES AN INJUNCTION ': (Br ttf AeUtJ Prcu) , Washington. Nov. 1. Justice Ilitz, of the District of Columbia supreme court has declined to en join Attorney General Daugherty and Un'ted States Marshal Splain and others from, serving subpoe nas or other legal. process on the National Coal Association and Jonn D. A. Morrow, its vice-president, to answer an indictment returned! against the plaintiff and 220 others in Indiana for 'alleged conspiracy to violate the Sherman anti-trust law. $ h ,v ":-';r.-;, i i d i , i . '' ' Cost of building street railway lnes in streets varies from $35, COO to $75,000 a mile. ' AMERICANISM DEMS. MAY AGREE ON WHITE'S SUCCESSOR (Br Thi Aractt4 Frew) St. lxuis, oNv. 1. Indications i this morning were that ft successor , to George White as chairman of; the Democratic national committee might be agreed upon by various parties before the committee meets at noon. Beckinridge Long, of Mis souri, and Washington, D. C, for mer assistant secretary of state, was said to be acceptable, but his electiton is contingent upon, the resignation of Edward F. Goldtra, committeeman from Missouri. E Convention .Will Be For mally Opened Tonight--About Seventy -Five Delegates Here. About seventy-five delegates from sixty branches of the Parent-Teachers Association gathered in Salisbury this afternoon for the opening session of the annual state convention of the association which will be formally opened to night with addresses of welcome and responses. The actual opening of the con vention will take place this after noon at 2 o'clock at the Methodist church, however, when the dele gates assemble to bear the re ports of the state officers for the past year. The meetings will be presided over by Mrs. Joseph Gar ibaldi, of Charlotte, president of This morning was given over to I the registration of delegates and I a meeting of the board of mnnag- i era. Th's afternoon following the opening session the delegates- will be tendered a formal reception" at the Old Hickory club by the Rotar ry club. At the formal opening tonight, the delegates will be welcomed to the city by Mr. Stahle Linn while Mr. Fred Archer, of Greensboro, will respond. Following the response, Dr. W. A. McPiul, of Charlotte health de partment, will deliver an address on the health of school children. Th's will be followed by a round table discussion led by Dr. H. H. Newman and the night session will close after an address by Dr. D. W. Daniels, of Clemson College. The association will take up a number of matters pertaining to the schools and more particularly the relations of the parents and the teachers. Among the more important questions likely to come before the meeting, according to one interested in the association are ways to increase tha enroll ment of the different associations, ways to courage and promote civic pride, ways to improve and beau tify the 'exteriors and interiors of the schools, and' other, things to make school life brighter and hap pier. . A number of prominent speak ers are slated for address during tho ffhre day meeting of the asso ciation, among them Dr. E. C. Brooks state superintendent of public instructions r Paul J. Weav er of the North Carolina College for Women and Mrs. Watkins, na tional secretary of the association. A number of. social entertain ments will be given in honor of the visitors. The Yadkin hotel is headquarters for the convestion, but most of the meetings are be ing 'held at the First Methodist church. .' COTTON MARKET Cotton Market Quiet Nek York. Nov. 1. The cotton market was quiet today during early session and the opening at an advance of 2 to $ points was a poor response to "relatively firm cables, because there was further liquidation by tired longs with Wall street and Western selling. After sell'ng off at 18.14 for Jan uary and 18.07 for March or about C to 8 points net lower the mar ket steadied on covering. Opening Steady New York, Nov. 1. Cotton fu tures opened steady. December 18.37 January . ... , ... ........ i . 18.32 March .................. .Y 18.20 May 17.81 July ........ ........V.. .17.82 ' Concord Market Concord, Nov.s 1. Cotton sold for 18 1-2 cents on the local mar kef . 'Rubber is selling in London for Its cents a pound although it costs more to grow and bring it there. France Jn normal times makes about 26,000,000 pairs of cloves a year. NHMEHB Y Hi READY TO COLLECT INCOME MS IS BR Sheriffs Have Collected it : Heretofore Free Em ployment Bureaus in State Getting Jobs. (Br MAX ABERfJSTHT) Raleigh, Nov. I. Tax gatherers from the State Department of Rev enue will soon be sent out from Raleigh in search of some several hundred thousand North Carolini ans who have listed their incomes for taxation for the year, 1921 This is the first year that the state has undertaken to collect its own income tax, thereby relieving that burden from the sheriffs of the counties. The result of the work on the first year will be watched. The prediction is being made that the state is a much bet ter tax collector than the county, and this year the state "has its op portunity of making good. Heretofore collection of state in come taxes has largely gone by de fault. The sheriffs were charged with the work and while they can not be accused of failing to do their duty it is a fact that thou sands escaped payment while the county officers were running down criminals, breaking up moonshine distilleries and giving much time to the collection of the county ad valorem taxes. With the law, changed by the 1921 Legislature, to guide the work the state now goe3 forth for its full share of the North Carolina income. The sheriffs have listed the in come tax and the State Department of Revenue takes over the work of collecting. It is known that the lists are far from being complete, and this must be remedied. Piob ably another year will be required to do this. The big task now is to collect what has already been put on the tax books. To make the books tell the truth about the incomes and to put every name down that should go there, state revenue agents will be put to work. Commissioner Watts will probably announce the appoint ments within the next 30 days since the actual collection of income taxes will begin soon after Janu- ry 19 Free employment bureaus in the Trtate'- are" tilTvproducing ''- results, 335 men and women having been given work through this source for the week ending October 29, ac cording to an announcement by M. L. Shipman, federal director. The placements are as follows: Asheville, 20; Charlotte, 79; Greensboro, 29; Raleigh, 85; Wil mington, 74; Winston-Salem, 48. PROBABLY BURY FLEER IN PHILADELPHIA, PA. (Hy Tt AwrolattJ Prcn) Thomasville, Nov. 1. Arrange ments for the funeral of Frank H. Fleer. 64 years old. wealthy chew7 ir.r sum manufacturer of Phila delphia, who died at his lodge thres miles from here at 3:30 o'clock yes terday afternoon following a stroke of apoplexy ,will not be completed until the arrival of a sister and other relatives from Lansdowne, Pa. It was stated at the Fleer lodge today that the body would probably be taken to' Lansdowne, Pa., Mr. Fleer's old home, where the feuneral service would be held and that the interment would probably take place in Philadel phia. HULL OF TENNESSEE TO HEAD NAT. DEM. COM. ' (Br Th AmcUUd Vrew) St .Louis, Nov. l.-Cordell Hull, of Tennessee, will be chosen chair man of the national Democratic committee this afternoon to suc ked George White, of Marietta, Ohio, it wan announced following the refusal of Edward F. Goltra, committeeman from Missouri, to resign to make, way for Brecken ridge Long, of St. Louis and Wash ington. ' Mr. Long and Mr. Hull were the only two on which all fac tions were agreed upon. ATHLETIC FIELD FOR WAKE FOREST . Wake Forest, N. .C, Oct. 31. After several, years of waiting and prolonged discussion of various and sundry plans Wake Forest College is at last to have a new and adequate ahtletic f.eld. This has been made possible thru the generous offer to bear the rest of excavating and grad'ng the new field made by Mr. and Mrs. Claud Gore of Rockingham and Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Gore, of Wilmington. The conteact for the excavating has been let to Chandler and Rag land of Louisburg, who began work last week. It is expected that the new field will J ready by Feb ruary,: 1922. The new field is lo cated several hundred yards off the wesf boundary of the campus and is 450x400 feet, situated in a natural semi-basin affording ex cellent facilities for the construc tion ot stadium. The cost of grading . will approximately $7, 500., - :"' - Average westerner oses 2 1-2 tunes as much electricity as the easterner. MILKMAN DIDN'T ARRIVE IN NEW YORK THIS MORNING (Br TIm AmrUUj Frms) New York- Nov. 1. Approxi mately eight million people in New York and surrounding cities found no milk,and cream on their dumb waiters or back step this morning. The milk wagon drivers' union is on a strike for a wage increase of five dollars per week and an annual vacation of two weeks with pay. District' corporations gave out notice of their determination to put the open shop plan into effect and advertised for men to take the places of the strikers. Milk and cream by The million quarts piled up at railroad termi nals and city and health authori ties worked hard to keep the sup ply moving to hospitals and inva lid homes. Bring $101.15 With No Commissions Said to Be Highest Price Paid in North Carolina. The board of county commission ers today sold 500,000 worth of Rowan bonds at a figure said to be the highest yet paid for like secu rities in the state of North Caro lina, the bonds bringing $101.16, with interest to date of delivery, no commissions and no deposit ar rangements being made, it being a straight cash sale. The bonds will be printed as soo nas possible and the delivery of the money made immediately thereafter. There were about ten bidders, the purchasers being Seasongood & Mayer, of Cin cinnati. These bonds are for the purpose of retiring outstanding notes of long time standing, the greater part of the funds of which were used in building highways and bridges. These are the same bonds that were advertised for sale last May, the highest bid at that time being around $96. However, the board of county commissioners rejected all of .the bids at that time and ex ercising foresight and judgment and waiting until this. time saved the county approximately $25,000 on the issue. Some of the bidders stated today after the award had been jnade thaJtw the .best t)ric '-pald for-any "line- of bonds n the state in a long time, if not at any time. SALARY RAISE MADE TO RETAIN COMPETENT MEN (Br Th AuacUUd Prcwl Washington, Nov. 1. Defraud ing its act'on increasing the sala ries of employes of the New York federal reserve bank the federal reserve board, replying to a sen ate resolution of inquiry, declared the advance was made "in order to retain the services of officers who were constantly being tempted with outside offers at high sala ries." HISTORICAL SQCETY : HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING Raleigh, Nov. 1. An ddre3S by Dr. D. II. Hill, president, and addresses by several men, of note in the state and nation will fea ture the annual meeting of the North Carolina Literary and His torical association to be held here December 1 and 2. ,An interesting nart of the meeting will be a con ference on the teaching of history in every field of education in Narth Carolina. A series' of papers on tate history is being arranged, and leading poets and Wfiters will read Works composed for the oc casion. This is the 21st year of ihe association, and it has proven of in estimable value in stimulating in terest in the history and literature of North Carolina. Serving with Dr. Hill are W. W. Pierson, Jr., W. H. Glasson, A. B. Andrews, Jose phus Daniels, R D. ,W. Connor and Burton Craige. STRATEGY BEAT HARVARD v ACCORDING TO I MILLIP) Cambride. Mass, Nov. 1. "Bo" McMillin,' Centre college's star, said he had reached the zen ith of his football ambitions 'when he crossed the Harvard goat. Sat urday. I am the happiest man in the world," was the way he ex pressed it after tbe game., "Last year," he added, ?"whn Caotain Horween offered me the ball used in the game we lost I re fused it, and told 'him that to the victor belonged the spoils, i also todd him that I would be back next year to win he pigskin. Now I've got it, and 111 keep it for my kids." He disclaimed all individual credit, saying that without the play of Armstrong,: Robert and the rest he could not have scored. "I just tried to carry out orders," he said. . ' He attributed the winning of the game to the strategy of the Centre coacfoes. At a conference between players and coaches be fore the game it was decided not to resort to open play. "1 think this fooled the Harvard eleven," he went on, "The treatment accorded us by the Harvard officials and -the sportsmanship displayed by the (earn could not have been improv ed upon." (500,000 ROWAN BONDS SOLD TODAY FOCH PUSES AMERICANS FOR IRACflJY Was Prodigious Effort on i the Part of Entire Na tion's Intelligence, He Says. Kansas City, Nov. 1. Marshal Foch, principal guest of honor to day .entered the American legion day, entered the American legion convention .hall from a side en trance and went to his box amid cheera just aa the convention was called to order. He was preceded bv a guard of American soldiers. holders of. the Congressional Medal of honor. Following is text of Marshal Fochs' address before the Ameri can Legion convention: "Officers, non-commissioned of ficers and soldiers of the great American army; "My dear comrades of the Am erican Legion: "I cannot tell you how great is my satisfaction at finding myself amongst you, valiant soldiers of 1918, to live again our glorious memories. Three years ago, on the first of November, 1918, the entire American army in France took up vigorously the pursuit of the defeated enemy and did not halt until the German surrender. "Hour of glory 'for tho Ameri can army, a proper culmination for a military effort, prodigious alike in its intensity as in its rapidity. One and all, you have had your share in it. You may well be proud. "In responding in mass te the call to arms of your government, in equipping, training and organ zing yourselves as rapidly as pos sible you had in view only the pur pose to take place as soon as pos sible in the line of battle. "In numbers: eighteen months after the declaration of war by the United States on Germany, the American army had passed from effectives of 9,500 officers and 125,- 000 men to 180,000 officers and 3, 500,000 men. "Affort of organization: If, in the mcc'.h of March, 1918, you had in Fiance but six divisions, six months later you had 41, of which 31 engaged in battle. ,. "Effort in instruction:v In order have officers; non-comn?Uion4 officers and men rapidly trained, you multiplied in America as m France, your schools and camps, which became centers of predigd ous activity. "In order to arm you and camp you the American manufactories worked without respite and sup plied all your needs. "Admirable effort also in trans portation. You swept away every obstacle which" interfered with bringing your units from the cen ters of instructions to the ports of embarkation. "In France, you improved the ports of debarkation, created new installations, increased the traffic of the railroad system by work of all kinds and multiplied your storehouses and hospitals. "Your shipyards were organized for intensive production in such a way that when the war ended you utilized for your ocean transporta tion almost four millions of ma rine tonnage, instead of' 94,00 available at the beginning of the war.' "And meanwhile your splendid war fleet, thanks to its vigilance end its fine military qualities, pro tected with an efficiency to which I am happy to pay tribute here, the transportation of your troops and material. "A prodigious effort on the part of your ' entire nation's intelli gence, will power and energy. A prodigious effort 'which has filled your associates with admiration and gratitude and confounded your enemy. "This splendid spirit of an en tire nation we find again ,on the battlefield of France, where it was blazoned in the admirable vir tues of bravery and heroism. r "It was the spirit of the second and thrid American army divisions which, one month later took part in the battle of the Marne and dis tinguished themselves immediate ly in operations around Chateau Thierry and in Belleau - wood. Again it was the spirit of those five divisions which, on the eigh teenth of July participated in the victorious counter offensive of the tenth tid sixth-French armies be tween the At8ne and the Marne and contributed in great measure to that victory. -; . "Finally, it was that spirit which animated all! the American army when, on the tweny-fourth of July, General Pershing formed your splendid units' under his own direct command. . ' , "On the twelfth of September, 1918, it he first American army de livered its first battle on the soil of France. It dislodged the ene my from the St Muriel salient, where ha had entrenched himself for nearly four years, threw him back beyond the foot of the hills of th Mouse. From the very i first the American army entered into gflory. How many further laurels was it yet to win? "The St. Miehiel operation- was nearly ended when the American army attacked on a new front. On (Continued on page three.) n France Wi m m n , Former Students North western Univ e r s i t y Held for Murder of Los Angeles Broker. (By Th AimcUuJ Prtu) Los Angeles, Nov. i. Mrs. Ma dalynne Obenchain and Arthur C. Burch, once fellow students at Northwestern University, Evans ton, 111., were placed under arrest within twenty-four hours of the time J. Belton Kennedy, young Los Angeles insurance broker, was shot to death on August 5 last. A week later they were indicted for murder. When they were arraign ed, Ralph R. Obenchain, divorced husband of the woman deffidant, who was also a student at North western while she and Burch were there, appeared as her counsel, having dropped his law practice in Chicago to come to her aid. Kennedy met his death in front of a rustic cottage owned by his parents in Beverly Glenn, a sec tion of Reverly Hills, a residential suburb. Late on the the night on August 5 Mrs. Obenihan appear ed at the Beverly Hills, police sta tion where she said she and Ken nedy had gone to the cottage after an automobile trip and were look ing for her "lucky penny" she said she lost on a previous visit. As they were searching, she said, two men who "talked like foreigners" iumned- from some underbrush aod-v fired two isbotsJfanfidir f ell and, after saying "good - night Maduynne," expired. . ' The police found Kennedy had been shot through the back of the neck, the spinal column having been shattered. , A shotgun had been used, it was ascertained. Mrs. Obenchain professed to know of no motive for (the shooting. She said she had divorced her husband be cause of her love fpr Kenedy, but said she had refused offers of the latter to marry her, because of op positiop cn the part of his par ents. Mrs. Obenchain was detained as a witness. While the investiga tion was proceeding the next day, the cleric of a downtown hotel in Los Angeles came to the sheriff's office with the tale of a man who had rented a room there several days before. The room was al most exactly opposite the offices in a building across the street, oc cupied by Kenedy and his father. The clerk said the man went out the night before carrying a long package tied with newspapers, and returned without if, and checked put of the hotel in the morning. Investigators established that the man was Arthur C. Burch. son of the Rev. William A. Burch, of Evanston, 111., and that., he had taken a train for Chicago after leaving the hotel. Telegrams were sent along the route of the train with the result Burch was arrest ed the same afternoon at Las Vega3, Nev. He was brought to Los Angeles two days later. I he wcestigators declared they ascertained Burch came , to Los Angeles at the request of Mrs. Qbenchain, and that ho told a pas senger on the train coming out that he was on his way to "help a friend who ws in trouble," also that he sent Mrs. Obencham 085 before leaving here. They also de clared Mrsfl Obenchain said noth ing of Burch when,1 telling her story after the shooting. Kenne dy's parents denied their son sought to marry Mrs. Obenchain, declaring that i t was she who "pursued him." Another development about this tame was the finding of two empty shotgun cartridges near the scene (Continued on page su) P. H. FLEER, GUM KING, - DIES AT HUNTING LODGE Thomasville, Nov; 1. .Frank H. Fleer, multi-millionaire chewing (rum king, of Philadelphia and Thomasville, died suddenly at his country home, Cedar Lodge, three miles south of here, this evening at 6:30 o'clock' from a stroke of appoplexy. He had just eaten a hearty dinner and, accompanied by Mrs. Fleer, h's bride of only a few months, had gone up stairs. . Surviving, in addition to Mrs. Fleer, are two daughters, Mrs. Gil bert Mustin and Mrs. Russell Ber-. ger, of Landsdowne, Penn., the Fleer summer home. No funeral arrangements have been made as yet, but the remains will be carried to Landsdowne some time tomorrow for burial. : . Ira! DIVORCED WOMAN, NI DEFENDS HER IN MURDER Ml WW ' mm iers : fi Watson WORKING AS OBJECT OF CHARITY; GETS $50,000 , (B7 Jte AMorlH.d Pr) Youngstown, Ohio, Nov. 1. While working in the park3 here as one of the city'3 unemployed C. P. Virtus, 28 years old, a former Canadian soldier, received a let ter from a trust company at E:l- monston, Canada, informing him that he become sole heir to his fathers estate, valued at U-twoen $40,000 and $50,000. The letter said a will leavirig the property to . Fiske University at Nashville,; Tenn., had been found but as this i will had not been witnessed it was not regarded as valid under the Canadian laws. " Hearing at Charlotte As to Bond for Man Charg ed With Killing at Kan napolis. (Br Th Auoclatt Prtu) Charlotte, Nov. 1. Habeas cor pus proceedings were held here at 11:30 o'clock this morning in the case of 0. Gl Thomas, held in con nection with the killing at Kan napolis on the night of September 25, of Arthur 3. Allen, of Concord. All of the evidence as presented before the coronor was heard and new evidence by Miss Globie Law ing, of Kannapolis, was presented for the prosecution. Judge T; J. Shaw, who presided at the hear ing, announced that hv would ren der a- decision -this oCttniSlLs The new evidence by Miss Law ing, 13-year-old daughter of . E. Lawing, of Kannapolis, was to the effect that she was an eye witness to the shooting, .saying that' she saw a big car drive up and a Ford sedan then drove up toward the larger car; people in the big 'car called to the ones in the Ford; people came back from the ,Ford car to the big car. One of these was either a boy or a woman, They got in the big car and talked about five minutes. A man got out and as he walked away the. first shot was fired; then he turned around and as he did so two more shots were fired. ;t : y Solicitor Hayden Clement weht to Charlotte this morning to ap pear for the state in the hearing and to resist efforts to have Thom ah liberated on bail.. He win pros ecute Thomas at the January term of Cabarrus superior court, at which time the case will be called at Concord. s FIGHT FOR ESTATE . OF HER DEAD SISTER SI II VI NEW EVIDENCE IN THE THOMAS CASE Kinstdn, Nov. 1. An differ wilHhoulder"that he. was the enuaf of be made by counsel for HTjss Bes-flWiy. en'tOT': ni assumed; full r-v sie Thornton to establish a nuncuyt8PonslbwitX'forijthe .charges,; . Dative will for the admin'stration (saw-he would. refuse' to' co bef of the estate of the late Mrs. Wal-S ter Redd. The procedure has sel dom been resorted to in this, sec tion. ' r It was announced today ' that Miss Thornton, sister of Mrs. Redd, was instructed by the latter on her death bed to "take charge of !her children and property," and that several witnesses would testi- I iy to vne iaci. mis, counsel ior; miss morn ton ciauneu, esiaousneu the nuncupative will. Tho action is to be contested by relatives of Mrs. Redd's late husband, it was understood. : INDEPENDENT MINE STRIKE. IBr Th Auoclttcd Pren) , - Athens, O., Noiv. 1. 'Between 275 and 300 union miners emolov- ed in mine No. 26 of tho -tN. ew York Coal .Company at Floodwood, this county, went, on strike this morning as a protest against the check off injunction issued "yester day by Judge Anderson in federal court at Indianapolis. The strike, as far as could be learned here, was not authorized by any officials of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica and was instituted by local miners on their own account. ENGINEER IMPROVED. (By A. W. HicU) Spencer. Nov. l.-Engineer J. S. Lawson, of Spencer, who was in jured by jumping from his engine when it crashed inta a work tram near Burlington a month ago and who has einoe been in a .hospital at that place, has been removed to the Salisbury Hospital. - Jits con dition improves very elowly tho it is thought he will recover. iMr. Lawson ia . suffering principally from an injured leg 'Vbich was badly broken in the accident. 4vatta9 er - thont 1:1" Iharges ; Investigation By Special Committee Or d e tfe d Following Charges of Ga. Senator Who Pro duced Alleged Picture of Gallows. (Br Th AHortitfd PrM) ' " Washinirton. Nov. 1. IntM- tigntion by a special committer ,.h,11.tp,.s i,v Soimtnr Wnti'nii .! n,UK'S V,r.8,s,on' '''"OJTHt, of Georgia, that American soldiers- hi France were hanged without fiftnrt martial or other trial wai' to- day ordered by the senate" by unanimous vote. The commit tee will be appointed by thri president of the senate iWid Senator Watson will be invi,ted before it to produce proof, . The special .committee1;' as named by Senator Cummins of . 'Iowa, president pro tem ,of;,tji'o . senate; will be headed hiy Swi-.1 ator Hrandegeej Ropublicaaof ' Connecticut, and consistvif Senator Ernst, Republican,- of v Kentucky; Senator WiUis'Jty" publican, of Ohio; .Senator, OvertUHii, Democrat, of North V Carolina, and Senator Pome rene, Democrat, of Ohio. v V; , The charges by Senator Wa'tfton that American soldiers serving in. France had been hanged without -court martial or other form of trial ' precipitated a heated debate in the senate. Chairman Wadswotth of the military committee invited the Georgia senator to appear before his committee to produce evidence to support his charges. ' Senator Watson produced , a small photo graph of an alleged hanging and in&iud Jhfttihe,lch3lr''s.wr1'1' , . ho, said he, had jxamlnd te piio . . tograph and "had been told y two .? former service ; men wii v? , charges were true but he was "nn-, t willing 'to proceed on euW ;evt; . dence." .,, . '.': - "How , many senator! lcnow,T.i; Senator .Watson" had', asked, "th6 . private .Soldiers were fcrquently shot by officers .because 'of some- ' complaint 'against officers? inso- .y lence; and that; they.had gallowa-ort, f whfch men. were hanged day afw, ddy 'without court' martial of )('; otherform (of trial., 4 have ; photograph f of one of thos', ,. lows' upon which ?), white $ jZn been Executed at sunrise,' phbtograph waa takena tfc , rt'othewaituig Teamp Jails' t6 be haged morjiirXe, ,'orn. - f Senator WaflBworth decWrf v;a . . chargrf could .'hot Wghtly brushl ' ed asdo. orexensed 'on th irrnin of fbtcitibility, indebate,' deirfanded ; that Senator and. he Vatr V - prrmuce xne nior.- ' f 1 . Senator Wetson. reisiied that'll e ' rrysented tho)tiemand7 uni'rf "Ael foot rtO, foot And WTor cpmmitjeejvith his evidT or produce, witnesses .'unless $ur anteea immunity. 4 . 1 ; . "I.mean every woro I say.T SJ.i ator, Watson'e4ded, "'and did' no,,; over paint the pictwre. ; I havo -photogranhs of " the gallows ip t wich soldiers were hanged and I can produce witnessed if it .is safe1 for them to'-appear. a. prerare or wnree f men iumz ! like dogs! I can produce men, : it were safe, who saw men ah without trial. 1 1 teannot oomm-1 men An come here and incur dun-: ger. ''Tiaw llborf was ' piled . -up ' mountain high- tf 'finance aroKv: -, . tually.glSn. to the French whv.i ourmen.vlnre v starving.. I cam proves ou men were nnn.eees'-' exposed-and sffcjto -die on, - . road.Vll knowVervice men wlw saw, these things; 4 nL told ?'' about -.fhenj -TheV told me ietti. were censored and aterotyped " to conirom.Yt -regulations and bow soldiers-who idid 'BrtVonrr''. w: " subjected; to barbaron. trV t.ment. Thesevmenarenot goinj ' - ti . . Europe towtftght ' ajrain; l ' . r 1 then" saythey would, 4ieX ' -e they ! Would .gorf They weretr ' - . ed inhumanely i "and told- r..: n thmsehres.w :?.w- ' v Senator Watson while. speak. v , and refusing to produce evidence ' before the military f ommittee saiJ- -he would do so before another "iin- partial" committee. ' 1 . Senatof Lenroot, Republican, cf . Wisconsin, Characteri2ed the Geor gia senator's charges . as p i- ' ftrousand declared he d'mrc',..- ' . the impartiality of nrominont 1 ' "i ocrats on the military cow 1 as well as Republicans in r ': - : to appear before the mil.. --ry l Senator Wadsworth v challenged the truth cf v.:. Watson's charges.
Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Nov. 1, 1921, edition 1
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