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11 fSI t , i. arrest vvKrxr. rRrrin A-r 5 WEATHER TODAY - SSMSSMMa ' Generally fair tonight and Thurs- day; no change ia temperature. . TION IN PROPORTION TO CITY'S POPULATION IN NORTH CAROLINA , MMMM 999 A H TfSPnfP-vr TO VoL19,No.38. CHAN CLUB, 0F27.HK Former Mayor of Win ston-Salcm Presents Charter: Enthusiastic Meeting is Held. Presentation of the charter, an address by Ex-Mayor 0. B. Eaton, of Winston-Salem, much music and a rare disolay of eatables, fea tared the initial official meeting of the Salisbury . CiviUn club last night at the Yadkin hotel dining hall, where approximately 75 un tans, including: 25 from the Char lotte club and local officials. assembled and made the occasion one that spoke well for the prog ress of the organization. W.- E. Hennessee, president' of the local club, was master of the ceremonies. He was exceedingly capable and kept the large gather ing in good humor and the pro a-ram full of oeo. lit addition to the chief address of the evening, President W. T. Andrews, president of the Rotary club and President Peter Board, of the Kiwania club and President of the Charlotte CiviUn club, made brief but appropriate ' talks. A number of extemporaneous speech es were also made. ' . The musical program was one of the outstanding features. The Charlotte CiviUn Quartette ren dered several numbers;. .Mr. Fred Young, two timely. solos and Miss Davis, of Charlotte accompanied by Mrs. Workma. also of Char loUe, beautifully sang: "CiviUn, My CiviUn," an improvised song to the tune of "Maryland, My Maryland. She was attired In a gown impersonating the Statue of Liberty, with Old Glory in the rear and lighU properly focussed on Vie singer. Following Miss Davis' so lo, the entire assembly sang the song of the organization with vim. Charles . Coggin, local attorney, in the absence of Mayor Strachan, introduced the speaker of the ev ening O. B. Eaton, ex-mayor of Winston-Salem, and reputed to be the only ' farmer member of a Civ iUn club in eaptivity." , . Mr. Eaton made splendid ad dress, enunciating the basic snd fundamental principles for which the CiviUn club was organized and on which it sUnds. 'The CiviUn club is a block,' the speaker said. "It is a group of men banded together for a den niU and noble aim. taking advent age of all elemenU and making the best of them. . A goal can best be accomplished by following . the Golden Rule. ' . "The CiviUn club doesn't claim to be a church brt ia an organiia tion of high standards." Mr. Eaton then outlined and an alyzed the "creed of the CitiUn.' He inoke on the Dower of "hand' shaking;", principles of congenial ity; blessings of friendship and quoted the philosophy of Jim Riley to subsUntiaU his statements; and finally, the good resulU ef good cheer, laughs and smiles. ' v. Hi address overflowed with wit and optimism.. ' v . He devoted the main part of his address to the subject of consecra tion. "The eye, the mouth. , the hand, the ear, human thought are marvelous organs if consecrated," he stated. He. then expatiated on the results to be brought about by CiviUns through combination and consecration, adding that organiza tions like the CiviUn. RoUry and Kiwanis. "were the bulwarks of liberty and civilization. The fusion makes more things possible," he sUted, "service always being the slogan, the goal to be attained." Mr. Eaton, at tiiis point, pre sented the charter to the local club. Mr. Hennessee, very fitting; ly, accepted the document. Telegrams from the CiviUn clubs of High Point and Winston-Salem, explaining- their inability to attend, were read by the secreUry. A wire was also received from O. B. An drews, president of the interna tional association who predicted a long and successful career for the local club. Officers of the Salisbury- Civi Un club are: Wm. .E. Hennessee, president; Charles L. Coggins, vice president; B. 0. Clark, secreUry, Thomas A. Foreman, treasurer, and Fred H. Young, sergeant at arms. "The members ;are: R. O. Yancey, I. M. Richardson, 'Paul A. HeiMg, O. G. Barnett, James ' H. MeKenzie,' John A. Seaber, Chas. E. Malone, W. S. Overton, Jr., Sam H. McCubbins, Geo. U. Keeier. . E. Si'nafer, Bryce P Berd, Bishop U Leonard, Wm. G. 'Alexander, BenJ. T. Mitchell, E. W. GvHuff man. J. E. Slfford. AlfreeKBrady, Cecil Royer, C E., Woodall, Hayne Blackmer and Gilmejr Martin. DEMANDS LIQUOR -REFORM t ' London, Sept "Lady Aastor has opened her campaign for re election to parliament , on a dry platform, with the issuance of a pamphlet entitled "Are Temper ance Reformers Cranks?" She -demands liquor reform on the ground of political purity, so cial betterment, economics, educa tion, character and religion, citing he? bill she will offer in : parlia ment , , f CHARTER OVER 1,900 MILES " OF NEW ROAD NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION Raleigh, Sept' 6. Nineteen hun dred miles of roads let to contract at an approximate cost of 134,000, 000, and 4,000 miles of other roads under maintenance at a cost of less than three million dollars for the 16 months period since the sUte highway commission was reorgan ized in May, 1921, was . the sum mary of the work of the commis sion presented to the members in session by Chairman Frank Page yesterday., ' Meeting for the first time in three months, the commission spent the entire day-in taking stock of what has been done, ana in clear ing the way for future activities in road construction and mainten ance throughout the sUte. With more than 1.200 miles of road un der contract the major energies of the commission will be devoted to pushing construction for the Im mediate future. . GREET SEC. HUGHES Arrival of American Mis sion at Rio De Janeiro Signal for Harbor Dem1 onstration. (By Associated Press) Rio De Janeiro, Sept 6. Guns boomed from the warships of eight nations when the United SUtes ship Maryland entered the harbor of Rio De Janeiro yesterday aft ernoon carrying the American mis sion to the Brazilian centennial ex position, headed by SecreUry of SUte Hughes. The steamship Pan America, which brought Secretary Hughes from New York' overtook the Mary land and the Nevada Just before they arrived .M the entrance to the harbor whet the secreUry and party were transferred to the Maryland The Maryland anchor ed in- the midst of the international fleet and exchanged salutes in which the harbor craft joined. Although the United SUtes has not recognized the Mexican gov ernment the" gunboat flying . the Mexican flag saluted and the Ne vada returned the salute by order e the secreUry of state -who told Admiral Jones diplomatic techni calities should be waived since both vessels were in friendly harbor, LEGIONNAIRES HA YE - , GOLF TOURNAMENT New Orleans, Sept 6. New Or leans sportsmen are preparing for lively competition at the American Legion national convention golf tournament over the New Orleans Country Club course October .16, 17, 18 and 19. The tournament will be open to all American Le gion members and members of the Legion Auxiliary. The qualifying round . will be 18 holes, with the lowest 64 quail firing. The final round will con siet of 86 holes medal play. The tournament wfll be : divided into three competitioner Men of the Legion, women of the Legion, and women of the : American Legion Auxiliary. Medals and trophies will be awarded to the. winners and runners up in each event . GLEN CURTIS FLIES . " ' IN A .MARINE GLIDER (By Associated Press) Port Washington. N. Y Sent 6. Glen H. Curtis, famous aviator. made a night of 40 second today in a marine glider over the waters of Manhaseet Bay. It was said to have been , the first glider ever to nave, risen from the water. Posse, With Bloodhounds, Scour 'Warsaw Vicin ity; Hallucination, Says Physician. (By Associated Press) ' Warsaw. N.X.. Sent 6 -The search for a man .reported to have attacked a prominent younsr wo man near here last night waa prac tically abandoned early today when a pnysician wno examined her ex pressed the belief that she had suf fered from an hallucination, it was stated, that' the police department wis morning. , v -The young woman was heard -tb scream early last night' a few min utes after she had gone on the bark porch of her horn to get a drink of water. , . She told, those who came to her rescue that she had been attacked by a. man but was unable to de scribe him.. '!, -': A posse and a number of blood hounds quickly -was organized and the surrounding country was scour ed all night long for the suspici ous person. ; i v - s When the physician made the an nouncement this morning, follow ing an examination, searchers prac tically abandoned the hunt No arrests were made.' ' ) - GIRL SAYS SHE WAS INSULTED BinWMEIIT ATV00DLEAF,N.C. Hardaway Company to Open Quarries "to Sup501 46 incomplete ply Rock for Road Work in County. . The Hardaway Company, one of the largest construction concerns in the sUte, having numerous con tracU, among these 'being the highway bridge over the Yadkin river above Spencer, is entering upon a piece of development at Wood leaf, -in western' Rowan, which is of large significance. The Hardaway people have bought a large acreage of quarry land and are preparing for a large devel opment. The quarries lie ' along side the railroad and project back a considerable distance. The land adjoining the railroad was that bought from Messrs. Ira and Hugh Bailey, and comprise land on which the once famous Bailey peach or chard ia located, lying . adjoining and back of .the Bailey acreage the Hardaway Company has bought the farm and home of Mr. ii. N. Bailey, a track of land containing something like 120 acres. The home cite will be used by the com pany m its development plane and as needed the quarries will be ex tended to reach the Flemming lands. v The new owners intend to de velop this property to the end of furnishing rock for the projects it has and may have in this section of the sUte. In addition to the building of the river bridge have the Hardaway people have other contract of magnitude and will al ways be engaged in large works that require considerable stone. The company hae begun work and is now erecting a number of houses to take care of the employes in the quarries and also in setting up a very large derrick with which to handle stone from the quarries. H The Bailey Brothers will con tinue to 'devote themselves to farming on an intensive scale. Re cently they began the installation of a irrigation to keep their fields well watered. Messrs. Bailey ship a great deal of produce fresh from the truck field and this ir rigation is intended to guarantee their growing crops a supply of water at. any time needed. , Jt h understood .that these quarry de velopments will undermine . the peach orchards which were quite famous some few yean ago. OFFICERS KILL TWO BIRDS IN A SINGLE THROW; MUCH B00ZE That no place is a "safe place' to hide booze was made a fact yes terday when Officers L. G. Trexler and C. L. Grey, federal prohibi tion officer and deputy sheriff, re spectively, seized and destroyed ten gallons of whiskey is miles east of High Point the whiskey oeing located in the ground ev eral feet in a keg. But there was a slip up some whereA path lead to the stuff- it had been well used well beaten, so me omcer report. No arrests were made. " : But while the officers were Uk ing this search, a wagon, loaded with booze, came by. His mules refused to outrun the machine of the officers. . The man ' waa ar rested and whiskey confiscated. Officers wouldn't divuhre the name of the man, but stated that he will meet the federal commia sioner in the near future "and five a iuu account or nis Dooty." . YADKIN BRIDGE BE ONE LARGEST IN THE STATE The double drive concrete bridsre over the Yadkin river at a point between the present toll bridge and the railroad bridge, for which the contract was let last week to the Hardaway Construction comnanv. U is said, win oe one of the larg . t ... - - . ' est and highest pridires in the state. The heighth is made necessary on account oz the possibility of back up waters from the proposed dam to be built at Stafford's mounUin by the Tallassee company of Badin. The largest approaches to the structure will be from the David son side of the river. It is believed the work on the national highway from Lexington to, the river, a distance of eleven or more miles, will be completed by fall and the .short uncompleted stretch on the Rowan side will be put down 4n tims for the opening 'of the new bridge. , ' ; . , EVENING POST COST SAME AS PAPER OF '65 An issue of the Carolina Watch man dated July 15, 1863 was found when the house on the lot of Mrs. Richard Henderson on Fulton street was being torn down yes terday.' The subscription rate was two, dollars for six, months, , the same as the Evening Post bv mail. The Watchman was issued weekly and the Evening Post daily show ing that your paper today is about six. times cheaper, than the paper your grand-father read. The paper was a litt!eJarger than the tablokt papers of today with only four pages, one and a half pages were advertisements. SALISBURY, II. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER STEPHENS IS LEADING VARDAMAN IN THE MISS. RUN-OFF ELECTION (By Associated Press) Jackson, Mist., Sept 6. Revised I official returns today from 75 of the 82 counties of the state 29 James K. Vardaman by 10,876 votes' in the contest for the Dem ocratic nomination for the United States senate voted on in yester day's run off primary. SLOOP PAYS FOB Large Crowd Present to Hear Trial of Postoffice Clerk for Assault on Preacher. The much discussed SloopJim isoiy case was disposed of in the county court this morning before Judge T. G. Furr, and resulted in a fine of 50 and coste being im posed on Mr. John Sloop, the de fendant , This case grew out of an assault on the Spencer Methodist preacher on Main street in front of the Ford hotel several weeks ago. when Rev. Tom P. Jimison was felled to the sidewalk by Mr. Slopp, a clerk in the postoffice. At that time ex citement rap hjgh among the Spen cer shopmen, who are on strike, Mr. Jimison being one of their chief champions. For that reason it was decided not to call thecase up for a hearing until after the excitement had abated. The defen dant was indicted on a charge of assault and the fine imposed was the maximum. The defendant was represented by one attorney and entered a submission, and the county prosecutor had two assist anU in the conduct of the case. Rev. Mr. Jimison told of going in the army salvage store and' se curing a kit knife to go with a camping outfit he had recently purchased and' on coming out of being assault ..He did not know who did it or what had happened to him at the time. Mr. Sloop said he had heard remarks . by the preacher and then-seeing-him se cure this dangerous .looking knife, as ha termed it he seised him and as he did so he fell to the pave ment and 'that he held him until officers could arrive. He said he could not resist taking hold of Mr. Jimison when he saw him, slip the kntfe, unwrapped or uncased, In his hip pocket. Word had been circulated that the case was to come uo th,i morn ing and the court room was filled, the greater part of the audience be ing members of the striking-shop crafts. - Aside from the interest manifested in the case there was nothing out of the ordinary in con nection with the trial. LOADED SHELL IN COAL PILE New York, Sept 6. hA three inch loaded shrapnel shell was found on Friday in the coal pile at the plant of the Fletcher Manu facturing Company, makers of phonosrraph records, in Long Is land City, by John Schmidt as he was about to feed the furnaces tm der the boilers in the factory. The discovery waa not reported until yosterdsy to give detectives an opportunity to make an tnveetiga tion.' ' At the office - of the Fletcher company it was said that coal had been delivered to them early Fri day by two dealers in Long Island City and it was impossible to, tell in which consignment the ehell was buried. The tactory employs more than 100 workers, many of them women. .- ': .. ' - TREASURY FIRE EXPLAINED. Washington. Sept 6. Experts finally have decided that the fires on the roof of the treasury build ing last spring were started by tar pot heaters used by workmen re pairing the building. , - : niL. i. . j-ii l! in exact conditions prevailing at the time of the fires were re produced. Over the wood flooring was a four and one-half inch layer of sand. . But after the heaters had been burning for eight hours the wood was smouldering, although it did not begin to blaze for more than an hour after the heaters had been extinguished. - STEPS FOR TRAFFIC CONTROL Shanghai, Sept. 6. One out growth of a police report, which shows that in the first five months of the year 1,009 traffic accidents occurred in the thoroughfares of the international eettlement in which 33 were killed and 471 in jured, is that new and more drastic traffic regulations were brought into force by the municipal coun cil. . . - ' FOUR SAILORS INJURED Key West Fla.. Sept Four - member of the crew of the steam ship Coulee were being . treated here today for injuries received when, the bulkhead between a sul phur cargo and the ship's bunkers collapsed. Sulphur dust blown into the fire ATTACK ON JIMISON roo mignited and exploded. MINI CREEK ARMY1SINFUGHT Only 100,000 Men Left and Turks Are. in Pur suit; Fastest Advance in War History. (By Associated Press) -Paris Sept 6. (Latest advices reaching official circles here on the Asor Minor situation declared that all that remains of the Greek army is 100,000 men, who are flee ing in utter rout before the victor ious Turkish nationalists and which is now less than .60 miles from the Mediterranean. The ad vices declare it Is probable that on ly half that number of Greeks will reae hthe sea as the organized fighting units of the Turks is now within (0 miles of Smyrna and 40 miles from the sea of Marmora. The Turkish advance since the offensive was launched ten days ago It stated to he more than 180 miles, which experts here says is one of the fastest advances in the history of all wars. 10,000 Slain, Greeks Hear Tthens, Sept 6. Fresh at tacks by the Turkfsh nationalists have been repulsed by the Greeks who inflicted severe .casualties on the Kemalista, according to an official statement issued last night "The number of enemy killed exceeds 10,000," the statement! says. "Our forces retired in order. "The enemy has not yet occu pied Eski Shehr, although the town has been evacuated five days. "The massacres and persecu tions of Christians in, the 'evacu ated district continue. "A considerable number of ref uges , are following our retiring troops." , ' . In general the military situa tion was regarded in official cir cles as continuing to improve and the position of the southern Greek forces, east of Smyrna, is considered here as secure. AGED CONFEDERATE VET ANSWERS LAST ROLL CALL Jacob F. Castor, 84 yean of age, died at his home 10 miles south of Salisbury, Litaker township, at 11 o'clock this morning following a continued illness. ..Infirmities of old age were responsible for. his death. Funeral service! will be conduct ed Thursday- morning at the home of the deceased at 9 o'clock. In terment will Uke place in the Or gan church cemetery. ' Mr. Castor was an old confeder ate veteran and bore marks of bat tle to his grave. He had hosts of friends and was a leading citizen in his. community who will mourn his loss. Surviving are five children, three sons and two- daughters. N. 0. MAN MAT FILL X 1 TARIFF VACANCY (By Associated Press) Washington, Sept 6. Appoint ment of W. A. Graham Clark, of Raleigh. -N. C. to AH the vacancy on the tariff commission, waa rec ommended today by Senator Sim mons, Democrat, North Carolina. Mr. Clark is now employed by the commission In an advisory ca pacity. NEW $750,000 ARMY HOSPITAL BE BUILT (By Associated Press) : Washington, Sept 6. .The erec tion of a new hospital to. . coat $750,000 for disabled service men in the fourth district, comprising Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and the Dietrict of Columbia, will be begun when a auiUble sight is obtained. Director rorbes of the veterans bureau announced today. PREPARE FOR C. A. , R. ENCAMPMENT Des Moines, Iowa, Sept 6. The 56th national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held here during the week be ginning September 24. THEATRICALS IN SCHOOLS Paris' Sept 6.- Goimr to school will be goin? to theatre at least part of the time for .the children of France. ,-. ' .' Believing in the importance of the theater for educational pur poses a society has been formed in Paris which will finance free thea trical performances to be given in schools orphanages and children's Institutions throughout the coun try. - NEW HAT NO BILL Marion, O., Sept 6. Mrs. War ren G. Harding Is to have a new hat this fall that isn't going to cost her a penny. A local milliner has designed one that is to be given to her. It is of the new shirred model of gray panne velvet trimmed in silver cloth and feathers. Mr. R. M. Hudson, of this city, was a vislttor in Kaleagh yester day. 6, 1922, ImpsrcEiment Proceedings Agaimst Daugherty Urged; ay Be PROPOSAL TO END STRIKE ADMITTED Bi'SEf: IClHfJSJJOn Executives Say If Move is On, It Concerns Only a Few 'Railroads in United States. (By Associated Press) Chicago, N Sept 6. Stren representative of the strik ing federation of ahoperafU were declared by John Scott, secreUry of the railroad em ployee department of the Am erican Federation of Labor, to be in Baltimore today for a conference with railroad exe cutive on a proposal to end the strike. Mr. Scott Intimated that a proposal on what was hoped the strike could be halted had been prepared but could not ' outline it The conference, ha said, waa to have been secret Should the meeting produce favorable results Mr. Beott aid, tho policy commission with 90 unions represented would be summoned to meet ' In Chicago. Consider Separate Settlement Nr York, Sept 6 If any con ference is being held in Baltimore between the striking shopmen and the railway heads it involved only a few individual roads and is not looking towards sv settlement of the strike on a nation-wide basis, it was said at the headquarters of the association of railway execu tives.. . . - ' ; Chicago, Sept 6. -Leaders of the railroad shopmen strike and railroad executives were in ac cord today in dentals of publish ed reports that there was a new movement on foot to settle the railroad strike. Reports that Bert M. Jewell, head of the shopcraft organisa tion, who . has been absent from strike headquarters since the government strike injunction was granted by .Judge Wilkerson had been in conference in Balti more with Daniel Willard, presi dent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, was contradicted today by Mr, Willard. With the rail heads asserting that they knew of no new peace move John Scott secretary, and J. F. McGrath, vice-president of the Railway ' Employes Depart ment of the American Federation of Labor denied that a call had been issued from headquarters for a meeting of the union policy committee here tomorrow. Other union ' officials . declined to reveal the whereabouts of Hi. M. Jewell. Vague and uncertain rumors said he had been "in the East" Mr. Scott said he 'had heard nothing of Mr; Jewell's re burn here today, adding that he was not expected for several days. Mr. McGrath declared that ru mors of a contemplated meeting Thursday was a plot to deceive the shopmen. Meanwhile federal agents awaited the return of. Mr. Jewell to formally serve him with the writ of injunction. DOOLITTLE BUSY WITH . PLANS TO FLY AGAIN San Diego. CaL Sent 6. Hav ing eaten his first breakfast since starting' his air dash from the At lantic coast to the Pacific ' Lieut. J. H. Doolittle, army airman, who late yesterday completed a flight from Jacksonville in record time, was pusy loasy with plana for his next flying task. He has been in He has been in-! structed to report for datv a Me- Cook field, Wayton, and plans to fly there, starting Friday in a spe- cially constructed DeHaviland ' i a v mmm sat atac plane which brought him here from the Atlantic coast well, within 24 hours. Lieut Doolittle showed no sisna of being worried about his new task, and according to the rules of the flying game ho coght not to be anxious about it, for he has plenty of time to make tie flight and intends to make it in easy stages instead of with only one stop as on his flight from ocean to ocean yesterday. 'r r:- ' -- R. R. OFFICIAL SUICIDES. Augusta, Ga., Sept . 6. B. F. 1 Kirkland director of industrial de velopment of the Georgia and Flor ida and 'former general manager of that road, shot and killed him self near here this morning. He left a note to his family laying M "goodbye." Hew Peace Move AN ATTEMPT TO WRECK A SOUTHERN 'ROYAL PALM' (By Associated Press) Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 6. The derailment of the Southern Rail way's "Royal Palm Limited" i northbound for Cincinnati just out- side the railroad yards last night resulted from the activity of wreckers, local officials in the Southern Railway offices an nounced today. Several cars of the train left the rails but re mained upright the limited hav ing been running slowly at the time. No one was injured. ' - SOUTHERN'S OFFER IS STILL HELD GF'EH asMMsasawMa Rumors of Partial Settle ment Plans But None Make to Southern; Johnson Disappears. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Sept 6. At the moment when rumors of' an im pending partial settlement of the rail strike are in wide though con troverted circulation W. H. John son, president of the International Association of .Machinists, on of the largest of the six railroad unions now on strike, took occa sion to disappear completely. Mr. Johnson's associates and his family professed ignorance of his where abouts but were unanimous in be ing confident that he was on o fa cial and important duty. Adding to this mystery was the established fact that Mr. Johnson had a conversation yesterday with Secretary of Commerce Hoover before he dropped out of sight and ia reported to have informed the secretary that a settlement pros pect was bright ; Whether B. M. 'Jewell waa in company with Mr. Johnson in the tatter's mysterious journeying or whether railroad presidents were seeking or being sought for a set tlement conference remained in the "rumor" state, with every rail road source of information deny ing that the executives were seek ing such meetings. The Southern Railway, whose president Fairfax Harrison, had sought a separate settlement with the striking shopmen on the basis of giving them everything their leaders had accepted, has had no overtures, it is said, for a renewal of negotiations. The manage ment, though now engaged in em ploying new men, still is able to make the original offer again, it was added. Denial by B. & O. Ofhciala, Baltimore, Sept. 6. Officials at the Baltimore h Ohio general of fices here who stand close to Presi dent Samuel Willard and Vice President Chas. W. Galloway pro fess ignorance of the presence here . i . 1 .L. J M l Ol representatives oi uie iruunT shopmen or any proposition from then! looking to a settlement of the strike. Mr. Galloway was said to be in the west Mr. Willard was at his office during the forenoon but could not be reached for an expression on the Chicago dis patch. " ' - LAFOLLETTE HAS SWEPT WISCONSIN FOR SENATOR Milwaukee. Sept 6 Indications 'early 'this morning were that Sena tor Robert M. LafoUetto had been overwhelmingly renominated in yesterday's primary" election over W. A. Canfield as Republican can didate for United State senator at the November election. According to the returns H ap pears that the people of Wisconsin have endorsed the issues Lafollette ocated at Washington and on woica a moagm renominwuun, these being opposition to the Each Cummin act, Newberryism, the . - . . Pwf treayopposmon ?" po"cie rnniuBiii u ?, THREE KILLED AS THE RESULT POLITICAL FEUD (By Associated Press) ' i; Houston Texas, Sept 6. Three persons were killed, another shot and another stabbed, last night at Sealy, Austin county, Texas, as the result of a political feud between two families. The fued was fought out on the Main street of Sealey. ; MUCH COAL IMPORTED New York. Sept 6. One million tons of British coal have been im ported into the United State since the beginning of the mine strike. Last week 17 vessels brought 87, 730 tons. - It is ' estimated 175 steamers have been chartered for bmndlta coal " PRICE TWO CENTS SEN. BORAH ASKED TO START THEM BY S1KE JAIiAII Senator Robinson, -of Ar kansas, Attack Injunc tion In Senate ; Abridges Free Speech. (By Associated Press) New York, Sept 6. Th institu tion of proceedings for the im peachment of Attorney General Daugherty and Federal Judge Wil kerson, of Chicago, on the grounds that the injunction granted by the latter, at the former's request was in violation of th constitution of the United States, was urged on ' Senator Borah in a telegram dis patched today by John J. Dowd, chairman of the general strike com mission of the eastern railroad shopmen. : "This injunction," th message said, "has not only violated free dom of speech, assemblage and th press, but has made th depart ment of Justice and' the - federal courts accessories to the crime of union smashing which a small group of railroad executives are seeking to perpetrate at the ex pens of th nation, finch conduct ' cannot and must not go unrebuked by an outraged people." ( Attacked in Senate. Washington,- Sept 6.rThe in junction obtained by the govern- ment against th striking railroad shopmen was declared today in th senate by .Senator Robinson, Dem ocrat of Arkansas, to be "viola tive"' of both the constitution of this country and th Clayton anti trust act. In his attack the senator de clared tiie ; injunction "abridged , freedom of speech and the preaa and the rights of people peaceably to assemble." : He argued also that it violated the section of the Clay. Jton act which he said implied "that laborers may organize and act in ,concert for the purpose of mutual jneip without risking prosecution .under the anti-trust laws. OVERMAN COMES HOME ' LATTER PART OF WEEK; V ANKLE DOING : WELL ., Senator Lee S. Overman, who . was painfully injured in a fall in Washington recently, will arrive , in Salisbury aome time Friday. Ha will spend torn tint in the city recuperating. 1 - , Mrs. Overman, who, - left for Washington several dsys ago will . accompany him home. - Mr, Overman's ankle Is reported ' doing nicely but he will not be able to walk on it for several weeks, it is stated. ' , $ 77 NEW WORKMEN , "s ' ARRIVE AT SHOPS Th biggest batch of men to ar rive .. at the Southern's Silencer ' shops from the north since th company began putting on men, following the strike of July 1, ar rived this morning, seventy-seven being received. Of these 50 came in on No 137 from points in the north and 27 arrived on No. 11 from Richmond, Va. They went at - once to the shops. ',' v ' It was stated today that several additional negro helpers, who had been out since July 1, returned to , work. Quite a number of these la borers are reported to have gone back in the past week or ten days. However, some of the imported; men are leaving from time to time, and about 30 are said to have quit yesterday afternoon. . i SOUTHERN TO ANNUL v - TRAINS 15 AND 16 ' The Southern Railway will cut off Nos. 15 and 16 between Salis- bury and Asheville effective with test trams out of : both point Wednesday, September 6. No. 15 loaves Salisbury at 0:15 a. m. and arrives at Asheville at 11:15 a. m., and No. 18 leaves Asheville at i:4) p. m. and reaches Salisbury &t 10 . p. m. This curtailment is only temporary and like those reduc tions announced previously. , ... . - SENTENCED TO SSA - San Francisco Sept 6. T -s Erst sentence to labor at sr j given by a court here when 1 King, on psrole for en v - arrested for bigamy ani ; custody of Henry Ne!. f of a sailing vessel. ' Nelson said X 17. 'i t ? in every port, at 1 ; meet aid zzt LLa ' m 4
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