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fflMjl:- EWMG POST , WEATHER TODAY Local thunder showers tonight LARGEST EVENING CIRCULA. TION IN PROPORTION; TO , CITY'S POPULATION IN . NORTH CAROLINA and Tuesday. PRICE TWO CENTS Vol. 19,10.12. SALISBURY, N. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1922. TT TT TJo .TTT) ' MM n . Retaim 1 Sdtfi: SENATE BLOCKED HARRISON S EFFORT ON SUGAR PROBE Senator Smoot Prevents Overthrow of Plan for Probing Charges Against Producers. (By Associated Press) Washington, Aug. 7. Efforts to bring up Senator Harrison's reso lution opposing1 investigation of charges that American govern ment officials sought to have Cu ban sugar producers curtail their crops this year in return for re duced tariff duty on sugar were blocked in the senate by Senator Smoot. Republican, of Utah. Sen ator Harrison asked unanimous consent to call up the resolution but Senator Smoot objected and Senator Nicholson, Republican, ofi Colorado, made a motion that the suits r schedule be laid on the table until there had been an. investi gation. A ' point of order by Senator Smoot that this motion wee out of order was upheld by Senator Cummins, Republican, of Iowa, who was presiding. Senator Nicholson declared that "very serious charges" had been made in articles read to the sen ate Saturday by Senator Ham son and that he felt the senate should pot proceed. with considera tion of the .sugar schedule until there had been an investigation. Senator Smoot said he wanted the senate and the country to know that "this propaganda that has been spread from one end of the country to the other was a con tinuation of the fight against do mestic sugar producers oy the sugar refiners." "They have made up their minds," added Senator Smoot, "never to be contented until they destroy the sugar producers in the United States. If they suc ceed the American people will pay dearly," he continued. Declaring that the refiners profits were unconscious ble Sen ator Smoot said they sought power to lower sugar prices when the domestic crops comes to the mar ket "With th aid of Wall street and a banking group they are now trying to throttle the sugar . in dustry in America," he said, add ing that stock promoters and spec ulators were also taking up the propaganda and supporting them "in the hundreds of millions of dollars stock in Cuban sugar com panies foisted on the American public. "These are war babies," Senator Smoot declared, "and they are asking that our children be kicked out of their own homes to make places for theirs." Washington, Aug. 7. Denying charges that he proposed curtail ment of the Cuban sugar crop to 2,500,000 tons this year in return for a reduction of the tariff on su gar Senator Smoot, Republican, Utah, read today to the senate a statement of the president of Cuba that no proposal for limitation of the crop had come from American government officials. FIELD ARTLLERY BOARD TO CONFER ON STRIKE (By Associated Press) Washington, Aug. 7.--Orders hsva hpon ixxupH fnr tha tnnifur of the army field artillery aboard from Fort Sill, Okla., to Camp Bragg, N. C, the war department holding that the North Carolina post offered better facilities for operations of the board in testing long range guns and other field artillery equipment. URGES CREMATION AS CHEAP New York, Aug. 5. Urging cre mation as a more sanitary and economical method of disposal of bodies. Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf has compiled statistics from 60 promi nent sanitarians, ethical and. relig ious teachers to show that funeral and burial expenses are too high, that there is possibly danger of m- fection from interred bodies and that ground in congested districts could better be used for pubikrj parks than graveyards. Most of the clergymen answer ing the questionnaire claimed that there is no reason, scriptural or ethical, against cremation. The enly objection that can be raised, according to Dr, Knopf, is that the burning of a body may destroy evidences of poisoning or foul J)lay. - Getting Fat TWs latest portrait of tne formal a-own Prince of Oermur, Just received from Wlerlnrtn, Mniu.m N. W. Menius, Salisbury, Route 8, Wins Second Prize. With Sixty-nine Products. S. B. . Karriker, Barber, route one, again captured nrst place in the, Evening Post's "What Can Rowan Raise" contest with 79 pro ducts. Mr. Karriker alsp won the prize the first week. The competition this week was stiff, C. D. Peeler, Salisbury, route N. W. Menius, route eight and Adolphus Brown, route three all had lists running close to the seventies. ' Mr. Karriker's list as allowed is as follows:, ' V Turnips, horse radish, pepper, okra, sweet potatoes, squash, beets, radish, carrotts, tomatoes, cucum bers, pumbs, pears, damsons, scup pernongs, milk, cantaloupes, but ter, wood,, peaches, Irish potatoes, blackberries, grapes, vinegar, wa termelons, cotton, wool, onions, bacon, "cabbage, peanuts, molasses, rape seed, clover seed, pecans, .but ter beans, cherries, hickory nuts, parsley, sage, beef, goat meat, bar ley, alfalfa, millet, strawberries, turkey eggs, gutnea eggs, duck eggs, hay., kale, scalebarks, col lards, celery, rye, wheat, corn, vetch seed, oats, lettuce, currlan der seed, mustard seed, snap beans, peas, chickens, figs, honey, citron seed, pumpkin seed, pawpaws, per simmons, catnip, horehound, pen oroil, artichokes, mutton and wormwood. ( 1 N. W. Mepius won the second prise with sixty . nine products while C. D. Peeler, route eieht, fell Only one shy of tleing Mr. Menius. This, week beginning today is the last week of the c6ntest and it is probably that many farmers will enter the last week. No tabulation of the standing of tha various .entrants into the monthly contest has - been made and none will be made until the contest closes this Saturday. Each week's products ! have been more or les8 he same and it is not thought that the monthly contest winner will have many more pro- aucis man m tne weekly contest. TO HALT OIL, POLLUTION. Washington, Aug. 7. Represen tatives of six executives depart- m on f mnA tliA hlnnlnor 1ia.I mV. will work out a program to submit ! to the forthcoming international conference for the prevention of pollution of navigable waters ,by oil-burning and oil-carrying steam ships, were designed by the state department. . . v ' The representatives are: Stanley W.- Horndeck,: state department; Lieut-Col. G. E, Hillsbury, ;war department; Capt H. D.' Lackey, navy department; K. van H. Mills, interior department: George A.1, Lawyer, chief United States game warden, agricultural department: Henry O'Malley,' commissioner of fisheries. . commerce department, and W. E. Griffith, manager of the operating . department, shipping board. ' - ' The committee will meet short ly at the call of the state department S. B. KARRIKEtt WINS 2ND TIME MING PRAISED FOR EUMiHATENG POLITICAL 'PIES' Diplomatic Selections Commended; Reward ing Competency Instead of Politicians, Declared. (By Associated Press) Washington, Aug. 7. Long strides toward removing diploma tic posts from rewards for politi cal service have been made during President Harding's administra tion, accofding to a report issued today by the Committee on For eign Service of the National Civil Service Reform League. The report says the first year "seems to indicate that an earnest effort has been made to retain the service of men of experience and to appoint to diplomatic posts per sons with qualifications in diplo macy." ' The committee reports that five of the nine ambassadors appointed byvPresident Harding were men with previous experience in diplo macy. Six of the thirty ministers now serving in the diplomatic corps, the committee found, were appointed .on the basis of their ex perience and eight were men ap pointed during previous adminis trations but were retained by President Harding. Four ambassadors, sixteen min isters, two agents and consuls general and one minister resident and consul general appointed by President Harding, the report says, were persons without any previous diplomatic experience. "While many of the . twenty, three appointments made of per- sonss without previous diplomatic experience operated as a recogni tion of political obligations, "the report states, "the evil of such ap pointments is largely abated by the present administration and contrasts favorably with the re cords of the first year of otheT ad ministrations. For this record, President Harding and Secretary 'Htaghes are to be commended. President' Harding Is furthermore deserving of commendation in that he had selected for Secretary of State a man of the highest quali fications and one devoted to the merit principle." The committee reported a still better showing, "an unequaled rec ord of adherence to the merit sys tem" in its examination of ap pointments in he consular service. There has been, during the first fifteen months of the present ad ministration, the1 report . states, "not a single exception to the rules requiring appointments through examinations in the consular service-" , 1 It is worthy of special notice, the report says that the present administration "to a greater ex tent than any other" has chosen as assistance to the Secretary of State men trained in the foreign service. WOULD INCLUDE W. VA. IN CENTRAL COAL FIELDS TO EFFECT SETTLEMENT (By Associated Press") ClevelandrAug. 7 -Extension of the central competitive fields to include northerwest Virginia as a part of the territory for making a basic wage agreement in the soft coal industry will be sought by the Monongshela Coal operators asso ciation at the wage conference of operators and the union miners that opened here today with the view of breaking the soft coal strike, An application by the operators '.the "tension of the central fields which now includes Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and western Penn sylvania, it was learned, has al ready been filed, with President Lewis of the miners and will be submitted by him to the union poli cy committee. Secretary Davis Optimistic. Washington. Ausv 7. Secretary of Labor Davis expressed the opin ion today that much good would come out of the conference to begin today In Cleveland between a num ber of bituminous coal operators and representatives of the Uaited Mine Worker of America. '; Repre sentatives of the labor department were understood to have been di rected to foe present as observers and to communicate developments of the conference to Secretary Da vis. . BISHOP KILGO DYING (By Associated Press) Charlotte, Aug. 7. Bish- op John C. Kilgo was re- ported to b in a dying con- dition early today at his home here, after another heart attack, which he suf- fered during the night CAR TURNED OVER One Killed in Florid, An other in Hickory, Other Casualties Over the Week-End. (By Associated Press) High Point, Aug. 7. H. W. Hemerick, 35 years old, of High Point, was instantly killed Satur day in an automobile accident near Elkin, according to a mes sage received here this morning. Hemerick with his wife and sev eral children were en route from Elkin to High Point when the au tomobile turned over on a curve. Hemerick, who was- drWing, was pinned beneath the machine. , His wife and children received only minor injuries, according to fct formation received bare. High Point, Aug. E. Mul- lies, who was injured when an au tomobile in which he was riding collided . with a trolley car lata Here last night remained in a cri tical condition this morning. It was announced ' at a local - hospital where he was taken following the accident He has aTlghting chance for re covery, physicians said. Mullies is said to have been driv ing his automobile at a rapid rate of speed when he struck the front of a trolley car. .In the collision, both the auto mobile and trolley car were badly damaged. , The motorman and three pas sengers on the car at the time of the accident were not injured. Hickory, Aug. 7 Jacob Lee Bol lick, Caldwell county fanner) died in a local hospital here yesterday afternoon following injuries re ceived when his automobile turned over with himself, wife and three small children, near Hudson, N. C, about eight miles from this city. Bollick, who was subject to se vere headaches, is believed to have suffered a sharp pain which caused him to lose control of the ma chine. His wife and three children were badly bruised but will recover. ' Bollick was 47 years of age and highly respected in his community. Bollick is survived by a wife and 11 children. NINETY-NINTH COTTON MILL FOR GASTON CO. (By Associated Press) Gastonia, Aug. 7. incorpora tion of the Art Cloth Mills, Inc., with a capital of (200,000, to man ufacture colored fancy eilks, nov elty dress goods, and ebjrt ma terials, announced today, makes the 99th cotton mill for Gaston county and is believed to be the beginning of the inauguration of finishing plants as a feature of the textile industry here. H. D. Gagner, of North Adams, is president; R. L. Stawe, of Bel mont, vice Weiident and J. B. Reeves, of Gastonia, treasurer. "SHIMMY DIVE" LATEST FAD Youngstown, Ohio, Aug. 3. The "shimmy dive" is the latest fad here. In the eyes of the spectators,' bathers at the local pools are not popular if they cannot do the "wiggle" when they plunge. A number of boys and men have become experts in leaping from the springboard, preparatory to taking an ordinary plunge, and, while in the air, do the "shimmy," the "snirke crawl," or "turn the worm." Virginia Faces Coal Famine Richmond, Va., Aug. 7. (Alexan der Foward, fuel administrator for Virginia, announced today that the state is "facing a coal famine" un less the miners strike is sttled at an early date and that industries throughout Virginia will be forced to tuspend operations because of lack of fuel. . Mr. Craige Arey, of Danville. Va., spent the week-end here with his mother, Mrs. D. L. Arey. MAN DEAD SERIOUS CHARGES I K.K.KJEIERS Indictments Range From Kidnapping to Intent to Commit Murder; Total of 37 Arraigned. (By Associated Press) Los Angeles, Aug. 7. A night raid by masked men at Inglewood, a suburb of Los Angeles, on April 22, 1922, resulting iq the slaying of one raider and the wounding of two others, was followed by an In vestigation in which the first defi nite charges were made that the Ku Klux Klan of the present day is engaged In deeds of violence. Forty three persona were indicted by the Los Angeles county grand jury for false Imprisonment, kid napping and assault with Intent to commit murder in connection with the raid. The trial began today. Thirty seven of the accused were mentioned by name and six, un identified at the time, as "John Does." Those named included Wil liam S. Coburn, Grand Goblin of the Pacific Domain of the Ku Klux Klan; G. W. Price, King Kleagle of the klan for the state of Califor nia, and Nathan A. Daker, Kleagle, or organiser, for Los Angeles county. The victims of the Inglewood raid were Fidel and Mathlas El duayen, brothers, proprietors of a winery near Inglewood, operat ing tinder a . federal license, A crowd of men estimated a num bering from SO to 100 entered the Elduayen place, bound the broth era and carried them to the Ingle wood city lall and asked to have them locked up as "bootleggers." The Eldupayens were then carried to Redondo Beach, ten miles away, and a similar attempt was made at the lockup there, with the same result .i ' While the raiders were surround ing the Elduayen place, Frank T. Woerner, deputy city marshal! of Inglewood, rode up in a motorcycle and was ordered to halt by one of the group of masked men who were guarding, the highway. Tha deputy displayed his badge, where upon, he testified later, several re volvers were levelled at him. He drew his own weapon and fired in to the crowd, three men falling. Woerner continued firing until his ammuniton was exhausted, then returned to the Inglewood police stajtion for more. When he got back tothe scene of the raid the crowd had dispersed. The three men shot by Woerner were carried into the town where they were found to be M. B. Nosh er. Inglewood constable: Walter E. Wosher, his son, and Leonard Ruegg a deputy constable. The elder Nosher died about an hour after he wass hot Meanwhile the Elduayen had been set free several miles from their home. An inquest was held three dayi after the raid, in an Inglewood un dertaking establishment Blake E. Shanrbeau, a traffic officer, testified that the raid had been organised the night of April 21, in the same room where the inquest was being held, and that at the same meeting candidates for admission to the KuvKlux Klan had been Identified by Baker. He and other witnesses said Baker led the raiders in the attack upon the Elduayens. Co burn testified he was In Inglewood that night, declaring he went there because he heard there was some kind of trouble, and he wanted to make sure no Klansmen were mix ed up in it. A few days after the inquest a sauad of deputy sheriffs, equipped with search warrants, entered Co burn's office and seized all docu ments relating to the Ku Klux Klan. Later District Attorney Thomas Lee Woolwine declared the documents contained "conclu sive evidence" that the Klan was officially concerned with the Ingle wood raid and with other acts of violence in its "Pacific Domain." The Los Angeles jrrand Jury ex amined about 125 witnesses in ed ition to checking over the docu mentary evidence. Coburn and Price were in Atlanta, Ga., where the supreme headquarters of the Klaft , were located, when the In dictment was filed, but returned and furnished bail. All the others also gave bail. Tibet is the loftiest region of its extent on earth. AH THREE ARE INDICTED FOR ALLEGED WAR FRAUDS ON THE GOV. (By the Associated Press.) Washington. Aug. 7 .Indictments were returned todayMy a special grand jury investigating the al leged war frauds against Ernest C. Morse, former director of the sales of the war department; Ev erly M. Davis, president of the E. M. Davis Chemical company, of New ork, and Alexander Phillips, associate of Davis. The three men, all of whom live in New York were charged in the indictments with having defraud ed the government out of more than one million dollars in connec tion with the sale of the war built plant of the Old Hickory Power company, near Nashville, Tennes see, v I ON 1 EVE OF ALA. PRIMARIES Both of Gubernatorial Candidates Strictly in Favor of Prohibition Laws. ' (By Associated Press) Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 7. W. W. "Plain Bill" Brandon, of Tus caloosa and Bibb Graves of Mont gomery, candidates in the Demo cratic primary tomorrow for gov ernor, rested today for their cam paign endeavors which took them from one end of the state to the other. Their race will be of chief interest to the voters, although the congressional contests in some dis tricts will attract many to the polls. Both of the srubernatorial can didates are for strict enforcement of the prohibition laws, and Mr. Graves would prevent Sunday from -oeing commercialized by amuse ment run for pay." Ho favors an Americanism ' which give "each man freedom to ioin or not to ioin any lawful organization that will admit him, whether it be an em ploye's union or an employer's as sociation Americanism that srives each man freedom to bargain eith er individually or collective as he can; that gives each man freedom to be bargained with, either indi vidually or collectively as he can." Mr. Graves, a world war veteran, also favors a soldier bonus and abolition of the convict lease sys tem. Mr. Brandon is standing on his "nine points" a designation of his platform which contain nine brief paragraphs and the principal plank of which is for abolition of tax ad justers and field agents of the state tax commission and "all other un necessary employes of the jitate." He favors a reduction in taxation, preferring, he said, "a poor state and a rich people, rather than a rich state and a noor neonle." He Would "remove as far as possible the tendency to centralize govern ment which he declares should be kept in the head of the people." Mr. Brandon is probate judge of Tuscaloosa county. Present representatives in the lower house of congress are can didates to succeed themselves from nine Albama districts. In five dis tricts the Incumbent has no oppo sition, these being John Mc Duffle in the first: Henry B. Stegall in the third: Lamar Jeffers in the fourth; W. B. Bowling in the fifth; and W. B. Oliver in the sixth. Rep. L. B. Rainey is not a candidate to succeed himself from the seventh. His place is sought by M. C. All good, Oneonta; Alto V. Gadsden; J. M. Miller, Gadsden: L. L. Herz berg, Gadsden and W .E. James, cuuman. In the second district John R. Tyson is opposed by T. M. Arling ton and J. Morgan Prestwood. The contest in the eighth district is be tween Kep. Ed B. Almon and Mrs. W. B. Edmundson, only woman candidate for congressional honor in Alabama. Rep. George Huddle ston is opposed for renomination from the ninth district by M. B. Grace, and Rep. Bankhead will fight it out with H. P. Gibson in CANDIDATES RES the tenth. Republican' primaries will be held in the counties of - Chilton, Blount, DeKalb, St Clair, Frank, lin, Winston, Shelby and Cullman. Candidates will be nominated in a few other counties at Republican conventions. Republican nominees will go into' the general election against the Democratic nominees. A PEACE PLAN IS MADE PUBLIC AT THE WHITE HOUS CONFERENCE WITH President Reminds Both Jewell and Cuyler That They Have Pledged Themselves to Recognize ; Validity of Labor Board. ' By The Aisodated Preii.) Washington, Aug. 7.-President Harding today called upon' the striking railroad shopmen to return to work, requested the railroads to assign them work and asked both the ahopmen and the earners to submit the dispute qf the question of seniority to the railroad labor board. The president sent telegrams to B. M. Jewell, head of the railroad shopmen's union and T. DeWitt Cuyler, chairman of Ihe railroad executives, outlining would result in the termination of the strike. Mr. Harding in his message asked that both parties to the ilispute agree to comply with the decision rendered on seniority j)y the United States labor board. , The further statement was made by the president that ha was "mindful" of the pledge of both the executives and the striking workmen to recognize the validity of all decisions of the railroad labor board. Sheriff Newkirk Serious ly Wounded; Will Call State Troons to Pre- - - ,. serve Order. Joliet, I1L, Aug. 7 Rioting which broke out in, the railroad yards here this morning resulted In the killing of Special Agent Phillip Reitx, of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern railroad, an unknown striker and the serious wounding of Sheriff James Newkirk. Local authorities are planning to call state troops to preserve order A mob of several hundred gath ered in the railroad yards this morning. The trouble is believed to have started over the shooting of a striker Saturday. The sher iffs office at 9 o'clock this morn ing called for state troops, after it was decided the local authorities were unable to cope with the situa tion. , ; TWO MEETINGS BY LOCAL SHOPMEN OF SOUTHERN There was a meeting yesterday of the executive committee of the local shopmen of the Southern, who have been on strike more than five weeks, all of the six shop crafts being represented on the committee. Mr. J. M. Ellis, one of the six general chairmen of the shop crafts on the Southern sys tem, came in, from Washington, where he went last week for a meeting, with other chairmen, with Vice President Miller of the South ern, and met with the local execu tive committee, returning last night to Washington to be present at the conference between the chairmen and Mr. Miller, which was postponed to today. At the close of the meeting it was stated by a member of the committee that there was nothing to give out. There was another general mass meeting of the local shopmen held in the Strand theatre this morning at 10 o'clock, but it was said it was only one of the stated sessions and that nothing of general"interest had transpired. Inquiry as to whether the men on the Southern were taking a vote on the question of negotiating a separate agree ment brought the information that no such vote was being taken. In the meantime the men, along with the general public, are await ing the outcome of the meeting of the general chairmen of the shop men on the Southern with officials of the company in Washington to day. SIGNAL UNHEEDED; 38 PEOPLE DEAD (By Associated Press) ' Sulphur Springs, Mo-., Aug. 7. Failure of an engineer to heed a block signal caused the rear end collision on the Missouri Pacific here last night in which 38 were killed and about 37 injured, 25 se riously, according to John Cannon, assistant general manager oi tne road. The shin -bone is the longest In the human skeleton. u 2 MEN KILLED IN R. R. YARD RIOT E TODAY AFTER A s Cs C. his plan which he hoped He also pointed out that the question of senority which the ex ecutives rejected and outlined in a settlement plan proposed by him, remains In dispute and bars settle ment. ' , The president's telegrams were made public at the White House at 1p.m. today after the executives had held another conference with Mr. Jewell .and other strike, heads and with Chairman Cummin ef V the interstate commerce commis sion who has been' In contact' with J railroad executives, , The statement was - authorita- tlvely made at the .White House in connection with call issued by the president that Mr. Harding re garded bis proposals as final from the government and hoped for vol nntary action by the railroads and employes to end the menace te the : country's interests which the ad- ministration sees in the paralysis of transportation, particularly in the coal-fields. . v The proposals today were mads without consultation with the rail road executives and the President did not know what will be the atti- , tude of the labor union, it was added. . ' Settlement thru the railroad la- . ' bor board, the president Said as : course for the government to seek. The president, It was added, con- , sidered the suggestions just made ' as representing the judgment of . one who has been standing in be- -tween the parties to the contro versy. . . 't.,""A The president, It was stated, trusts that the new proposal will draw the support of public .opin ion and bring about a speedy end ing of the strike which is now on its sixth week.'1 , r , Jewell at White House , B. W. Jewell, head of the strife ing shopmen, accompanied by J. P. Noolan, , head - of the electrical workers union, and William John ston, president of the machinists , association, arrived at the White House shortly before , noon and ' were ushered into the president's' ' office. . :-.'.: -V-. Prior to ' the conference with the strike leaders President Hard -ing conferred for nearly an jpu with Chairman Cummins, ef the senate interstate commerce com mittee, on the strike situation and this conference is regarded in some Quarters as having significance, inasmuch as Chairman Cummins . and some of his associates ef the . committee have been keeping in( close contact with railroad execu- tives. Grable to WasMngton. Chicago, Aug. 7 E JP. Grable,, head of the maintenance of way men, departed today at noon tat Washington to attend a conference " with leaders of the onion men not . on strike, called for the purpose of considering the general situation of the shop crafts and petitioning President Harding for an audience Injunction is Continued. - - Raleigh, Aug. 7-3oaneel if both sides agreeing, Judge H. C, Connor in United States district court here today continued to 6p tember 5 the temporary injunction issued several weeks ago restrain striking shopmen and others from intenfermsr with employes of the Seaboard Air line Kaiiway, Mr. John a Wright left tMs morning by automobile for rl-?' where he goes after Mrs. Vr' . .t and little daughter, who have t- ?i visiting Mrs. Chas. A. Klut'.i t r soma time. - CUMMINS OF I
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