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, ; WEATHER TODAY . Partly cloudy tonight and Bator- day. No change in temperature. Vol. 19, No. 46. Britlsla .'Threaten Americans- , ; ' ' o MACCAPDfQ MIIQT ifinucnuiiLU inuui rrr? STOP, 10 BYBRITiSH 2,000 Christians Were Massacred By Turkish Firing in Asia Minor, it is Charged. (By Associated Press) London, Sept. 15. The admiral commanding; the British squadron at Smyrna has warned the Turkish authorities in the city that if the massacres are continued the Turk ish headquarters will be bembard ed, says an exchange telegraph dlspatchi f rom Athens. American Destroyers Arrive. London, Sept. 15. An American destroyer has arrived at Pirens, Greece. Turks have entered the British consulate at Smyrna and murdered an official who was as sembling: the archives, says a Reuter dispatch from Athens to day. Postmaster Wilkinson is said to have been murdered as well as other Englishmen. j Sir Harry Lamb, consul, is be lieved to have escaped on a war ship. Hundreds of Bodies, Malta, Sept 15. "Hundreds of i bodies of the victims of the Turk' ish massacres in Smyrna were lying in the streets., of the city when the British hospital chip left there with more than 400 refugees on board, according to a statement made by a corespondent who ar rived today. 2,000 Massacred. London, Sept. 15. From 1,000 to 2,000 Christians were massacred in Smyrna by the Turks before the fire, which swept the Armenian and other quarters of the Asia Minor seaport, it is charged in semi-official and other Greelf mes sages from Athens which were re ceived here today. Among the outrages, carrying off of students in the American college in Smyrna, it is alleged. - The Greeks believe that fire was set to the quarters by Turks to eonceal trades of their misdeeds. Considerable property has been lost in the fire, it being estimated at one billion francs (about 75, 000,000 at the present rate of ex change for the France franc), held upon American firms. TURKEY MAKING A , GRAVE SITUATION LOOKING GRAVES . (By William Philip Simms) Washington, Sept. 15. Too mnv nt na r inclined tn xrva the Greeks the laugh for having received a drubbing at the hands of the Turks in Asia Minor, then forget the thing. Nothing could be a bigger mis take. - The Greeks looked for trou ble; certainly, and they found it. King Tino asked for a licking, and he got it . In all of which we con cur, But . . The Turkish victory, is not the end of a perfect day but only the begining of an unpleasant one or rather the continuation of one just one more episode in the Euro pean tragedy now going on.-The episode, however, may have stu pendous repercussions later on. Mustapha Kemal is friendly with Soviet, Russia.- Russia is now vir tually the ally of Germany. Let us not forget that, nor that the Turk ish victory over the Greeks will net go unnoticed anywhere in the Mus sulman world. ' - i ' Europe is still a bubbling caul dron of opposing interests, of con- iiictingr amDiuons. Hatreds are still at the boilinir noint Povertv and hunger are the driving forces 'of certain of the nations, and al- most daily we are hearing open threats ' of, this country making common cause with that country; in the event another country at tempts thus and so. ;,:,---v':-:,:.-v',-v.- The military "comeback" of Tur key in Asia Minor has set Con stantinople mad with joy, accord ing to the cables, , , ' - Will Turkey long keep to her self the dissatisfaction she so keen ly feels over her situation in En rone? England has oooosed Tur TURKS ARE ' key Turkey lies' between .England, edly there is nothing to laugh over and India what view will London in the Greek debacle. The re-entry now take of the matter? , j into the arena of a powerful fight France has been friendly with ing force and no one save those Turkey. What will Paris say ? who have never come in contact Turkey can make trouble for Eng- with the Turks deny they can be a land in India and Egypt Will she powerful fighting force merely make demands on Great Britain ? serves to render an already grave Poetic justice maybe, bQt assur- situation more critical still. , - Arrive AMERICAN QUEEN. -v'::va-i:'.-:-k : The former Mrs. William B Leeds, widow of the American tin plate king, now the wife of Prince Christopher of Greece, may . be come queen of Greece. King Con f angina nnAMti1a ltAnntA 4-Vi a Greek defeat hy the j. rony be forced to abdicate in xavor ox Prince Christopher, his brother. AFTER SIX YEARS Will Johnson, Alias John Oglesby, Arrested at Cleveland, This County, Yesterday. Arrested for one of the highest crimes in the category of criminal offenses murder after being at large more than six years was the fate yesterday of Will Johnson alias John Oglesby, negro, who was taken into custody at Cleve land by Sheriff Krider and Deputy John Gaither and who is now lodged safely in the Guilford count ty jail at Greensboro. - Johnson, or Oglesby, in 1916, killed another negro, Bennie Moore,1 in Greensboro and made his escape and although the Guil ford authorities made every effort at the time to locate him he euc- ceeded in keeping his whereabouts unknown end although he has been only a short? distance away the greater part of the time he ap peared to be safe from the; law. However, the process of the law, although slow at times, is sure and certain and officers never forget a criminal wanted for a capital of fense and the hunt for Johnson or Oglesby, although not pressed with as great vigor as at first, was kept up and the negro was located at Cleveland, . this county, this week and the arrest made by Rowan officers. He was brought to . Salisbury yesterday afternoon and lodged in jail and Demitv ! Sheriff I. G. Seamore, of Guilford, came to saiisDury ims morning on an early train and left on No. 86 with his man, and he will be tried at the next term of Guilford coun ty superior court. Since coming to Cleveland Johnson-alias Oglesby married a wo- ma,n of that community and they have two children. She knew ; nothing of his being a fugitive .from justice at the time of -the t marriage and so far as the officers i know was unaware of the fact that he was wanted for murder In an other county. He had been living at Cleveland the greater part of, the six years elapsing-since the murder charged to him waa com mitted and -evidently thought that time had erased the memory of the killing and that the hunt for him had been long ago abandoned. WWMWW sv IDE A ll 'MW-T $100,000 HUGE SUIT AGAINST GOV. OF MISS: HAY Former Secretary to Gov ernor Sues for Breach Of Promise; Inspired, Russell Says. . (By Associated Press) Jackson, Miss., Sept 15. An other chapter' in the administra tion of Lee M. Russell, governor of Mississippi, is expected to be written at the term of the Hinds county circuit court, which opens Monday with the hearing or a suit for $100,000 damages filed by Miss Frances Cleveland Birkheed, of New Orleans, La., - stenographer and former secretary to Mr. Rus sell, charging the governor with seduction, breach of promise and responsibility for a criminal oper ation. The charges made by Miss Birk head thus far have resulted in a legislative investigation of allega tions made by Mr. Russell that the suit was inspired by agents of what he termed "outlawed" fire in surance concerns; transfer of the suit from the federal court here in which it originally was filed to the state courts when attorneys for Governor Russell challenged the state courts when attorneys for Governor Russell challenged the jurisdiction of that federal court, and a recent re-filing of the suit in the United States district court at Oxford, the governor's home. As the case now stands .it is pending on the dockets of both the Hinds county court here and the federal court for the northern dis trict of Mississippi at Oxford.. Miss Birkhead charges in her complaint that she Was betrayed while acting as a stenographer at the state capitol, assigned to the office of Mr. Russell, then neuten ant-governor: that she was prom ised that Mr. Russell would obtain a divorce and marry her and that subsequently she went to Memphis at his instigation and that an oper ation performed there had resulted hi permanent-Injury-- - Governor Russell has vigorously denied all the allepetions made by Miss Birkhead; charged that an attempt had been made to "black mail" him; declared that the suit was fostered by outside influences and that the complaint was filed at the particular time it was, early this year, in an effort to discredit him before the legislature, then in session. , . ' The legislative inquiry, which also investigated charges made by the governor that certain fire in surance interests was maintaining a "pernicious" lobby in Jackson in the interest of pending legislation, resulting in a committee finding which declared the governor's alle gations not proven. The commit tee was named by. the lower branch of the state assembly in response to a request made by, Mr. Russell after a .proposal to cite him before the bar of the senate in impeachment proceedings based on the allegations made by Miss Birkhead had been voted down. Governor , Russell did not appear before the committee but submitted in writing his charges and outlined circumstances on which, he explained, he based the allegations. - , A request that he be. permitted to have a representative present at the hearings to cross-examine witnesses was denied bj the com mittee. Governor Russell has charged that Alleged animus against him on the part of certain fire insur ance concerns was due to the filing of anti-trust proceedings asking penalties aggregating more than $8,000,000. A wholesale with drawal of "foreign" " companies from Mississippi followed a chan cery court ruling in favor of the state revenue agent who brought the suit The case now is await ing a decision by the state su preme court, - Dismissal of Miss : Birkehad's original petition in the federal court for the Jackson district was on the grounds that Jackson was merely the official residence of the governor, and that such proceed ings should have been brought at Oxford, in another federal court district where Mr. Russell main- Uins his permanent residence. Im mediately alter this ruling, the suit was transferred to the state court but was'refiled last month in the federal court at Oxford and service .obtained on the goveronr when he went there to vote in"the democratic senatorial , primary Aucust 15. i Hearing of the suit in the Ox ford federal court has been tenta tively set for the December term. RUM RUNNERS TAKEN. (By tee Asxte4 prs.) New York. Sept 15. The ' drv navy today captured two alleged rum running schooners with car goes worth $150,000 and $40,000 in eold aboard near the entrance to New York Harbor, as well as an unnamed launch which sank while being towed tonort Another schooner and swift power boat escaped ' 1P ILj v SALISBURY, N. C; FRIDAY, SEPTEMBERS, 1922. JUDICIARY BODY TO w ' CONSIDER CHARGES AGAINST DAUGHERTY x (By Associated Press) Washington. Sept 15. Impeach m'ent charires aeainst Attorney General Daugherty as a result of his- petition for an injunction in the case of the striking railroad employes, as presented to the house Monday ty Representative Keller, will be considered by the judiciary committee at a meeting tomorrow at which time Mr. Keller will be heard. The call for the meeting was is sued today by Chairman Volstead who stated to the house in ask ing for an investigation that . he was prepared to go before the com mitteo and present evidence in support of his charge. There were no indications as to whether the attorney general would be repre sented. Superior Court Winding Up Criminal Docket; . Several Minor Cases Disposed of. Judge T. B. Finley, presiding over the September termof Rowan superior court, yesterday afternoon pronounced judgment in the case of Jake Brown and Dug Dunham, well known white men, Tn thecase in which they had earlier in the week been convicted of violation of the prohibition law, transport ing - liquor,, crown was given twelve months on the roads and Dunham six months. Notice . of appeal was lodged by each defend ant and the bond of the former was fixed at $1,000 and of the lat ter at $500. both of which were immediately furnished. This case had gone up on appeal form the county court, where Judge T. U. Furr had also imposed a . prison sentence. The cas against Charlie Clark and Russell McCall, charged with forgery and which consumed con siderable time of the court result ed in Russell entering a plea of forcible trespass and judgment was suspended on payment of the costs. Judgment was suspended as to Clark and the defendant was dis charged. Carl Whiriow. convicted of hav ing liquor for sale, was fined $300 and costs and given 12 months on the roads, capias to issue on motion of Whiriow any time in the year. Will Davis was - convicted of carrying a concealed weapon, sen tenced to 90 days on roads. Tommy Turner, under Indict ment on a charge of larceny of au tomobile was found ruiltv and judgment was two anda half years on the roads. In the case of Lizzie Rosebro and Robert Rosebro. Cleveland neeroes convicted of manslaughter in con nection with the killing of Colum bus Nicolson, another negro, on May 22, and in which the jury recommended mercy as to Robert Rosebro, he was sentenced to 12 months on the roads and the wo man was given three years in the penitentiary. There were one or two minor criminal cases to come up today. these winding up the criminal docket was taken up. Court will be in session again next week, with Judtre Finley continuing on the bench, for the hearing of these cases. FIRE IN SMYRNA HAS RENDERED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HOMELESS Smvrna. Snnt. 15. Fir whuOi started in the Armenian quarter of Smyrna early yesterday after? noon had spread early this morn ing to the Turkish section of the city and was making rapid head way. The entire European settle ment was in ashes and countless thousands were homeless. Hun dreds of casualties were inflicted among those who were caueht in the section where the flames soread with the greatest rapidity. - fourteen naturalized Americans are missing but all of th Ameri can born are accounted for. Ten of them are in the suburbs with the American and Turkish guards. May Be at International College London. Sept 15. -It is believed here that the 14 naturalized Amer icans reported missing in Smyrna may be members of the American international college which com prises the bulk of ths American population in Smyrna. ANOTHER KIWANIS . - - MEET IN COUNTY Another meeting of the Kiwanis club in the county will be held Fri day, September 27 at Woodleaf. The Kiwanians will leave Salis bury at five o'clock. Judge T. B. Finley. who is pre siding over the Rowan superior court this session. Dr. Richardson X-ray expert at the Salisbury hos pital and W. C. Maupin, Jr., were guests at the weekly , luncheon of the club today. ' - Dr. Richardson made a talk on the use of the X-ray.' A number of the members of the club decided to visif the Carolina exposition at Charlotte on Kiwanis day. n SEN1CES IN LIQUOR CASES HONG" POST TWO DIE IN CHAIR FOR AN ATTACK OH FL0R1DATOURISTS Angus 'Murphy and Jos eph Thomas Pay Pen alty at Raleigh; Mur phy Makes Confession. . (By Associated Press) Raleigh, Sept 15. Angus Mur phy and Joseph Thomas, negroes, convicted of charges growing out of an attack upon Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Ketchen, ef Miami; r la, near Southern Pines, several weeks ago, were electrocuted this morning in the state penitentiary here. Murphy was the first to be exe cuted, being placed in the electric chair at 10:3U and pronounced dead after three shocks of brief duration had been sent through his body. Thomas quickly followed Murphy to the death chamber, only two shocks being required to pro duce death. Murphy this morning made a complete confession to his spiritual advisor or his participation in the attack on the Ketohens. He de clared that Thomas had nothing to do with the actual attack but that the latter did receive a part of the jewelry and other valuables taken from the couple. Both negroes walked calmly from their cells to the death cham ber. Thomas hesitated at the cells of other men in "death row,1 telling them good-bye. Four women were . among the few spectators permitted to wit ness both electrocutions. They did not show the lightest emotion whilo the lives of the two men were being sniffed out. 2 MORE COMMUNITY FAIRS ARE FORMED IN ROWAN COUNTY Organization of two more Com munity fairs in Rowan county has been effected during the past week. according to an anouncement made this morning by Miss Adna Ed wards, . Home Demonstration Agent Woodleaf and Gold Hill have been added to the list ' This makes four Community fairs scheduled for the latter part of October in Rowan county. They are Woodleaf, and Gold Knob, just recently formed: Mill Bridge and China Grove. Officers for the or ganization at (Wood leaf are: Mrs. E. L. Fisher, president: Glenn Cul- bertson, vice president Gold Knob; T. J. A. Sarger, president and A. B. Fisher secretary. The Woodleaf organization in cludes the following townships: Cleveland, Scotch Irish, and Unity. Gold Knob includes: Providence township. . RUSSIA READY TO WELCOME AMERICAN TECHNICAL COMMITTEE (By Associated Press) Moscow, Sept 15. A note which is considered a reply to the unof ficial inquiry of the United States as to whether an American Tech nical commission would be welcome in-Russia, states that soviet Rus sia is "ready to consider and open preliminary negotiations for the purpose of the re-establishment of official relations with America." REV. LORINE 6ATE3 OF U. S. MISSION IN NDIA, IS MURDERED Bombay, India, Sept 15. The Rev. Lorine S. Gates, 77, of the American Mission, was murdered at Bijapur on September 8. rouce nave arrested a Juonam medan charged with the crime. CONFERENCE CONSIDER LIMITING COAL PRICES (By Associated Press) r Washington, Sept 15-3onsid- eration of a program for volun tary action limiting: coal prices and to effect the most advantage ous distribution of fuel supplies was the purpose of a conference in which nearly half a hundred repre sentatives jot business, industry, railroads, public utilities and the government met today at the de partment of commerce. . Invitations for the conference were issued by Secretary Hoover on behalf of the president's fuel commission and at the request , of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States with a view to con sidering such measures of co-oper ation as will insure a speedy re turn of the coal situation to nor mal - ' : j CHILD INJURED The small child of Mrs. E. H. Wade was badly injured about two o clock this afternoon when it feu out of a window just at the rear of the Peoples National bank build ing. ; . DIRIGIBLE -C2 LEAVES AKRON Akron.- O.. Sept 15. The din- gible C-2 left Wainfoot Lake avia tion station near here at 9.52 o'clock for Qeyton, O. ' Scopie of dome j&oaas m Clerk Strike TO New System Would Reg ister Crooks of the World for Long Dis tance Identification. (By Dudley Siddall) New York, Sept 15-Three Danes, one a young woman, have come to New York to tell the na tional police conference how the world can be shrunk into a smaller space lor professional croons. They are here at Police Commis sioner Enright'a special invitation to demonstrate a newly Invented "long distance Identification sys tem' and to urge its international adoption. "The neatest aid to police Iden tification since the Bertillion sys tem," says Mrs. Mary Hamilton. notedNew York policewoman ana student of finger printing. Alter eight years, nanen jor geosen, assistant commissioner of the Copenhagen police, has per fected a method of translating the loops and whorls of finger prints, as well as the facial and physical characteristics, into numerals. How Method Works. You don't have to be an identi fication expert to see what that means. Suppose you were con victed of a crime. Your - finger prints and Bertillon measurements would be taken in the regulation way. Then, by the Jorgensen sys tem, the results could be reduced to a series of about 20 numerals. You would be .the only person in the world who would exactly match those figures: and, inversely,, the figures would be the only ones which would exactly match you. ' Your name and numbers eould be listed in a crook's directory. copies of which could be kept in every police station on earth. No alias, no change in appearance, no f 1L 11 LI. passing m me years, wuuiu cnouie you to conceal your identity from any police department which found it necessary to check your finger prints and measurements - against your numerical rating, or vice versa. A telegram from the inter ested department would quickly brin your complete criminal rec- Testa Successful. drd from a central bureau. Miss Ingeborn Charlotte Hell- nerNielsen is the young woman who made the Journey across the Atlantic with Commissioner Jor- fensen and Military Judge Erick chaffer. Her work is to classify finger prints and Bertillon meas urements into the "long distance system." Both at the Hotel Penn sylvania,, where the party is atop- ping, and at police headquarter Miss.Hellner-Nielsen has success- fully met every rigorous test that .uwm.uuii.i jF veieumvcu luenmi- cation experts could devise. It takes her but a few moments lit erally "to get a criminal's num ber." "This i an auxiliarv to the iden tification systems used by the po lice in various countries," said she. It would not replace present methods, but supplement them and enlarsre their uses. Everv nrofei eional criminal in the world could be listed in a book no larger than a dictionary. And instead of mak ing it necessary to mail actual fin ger prints or wire long descrip tions, a few numerals would tell the whole story." ... ' CAPTAIN THOMPSON, OF HIGH POINT BASEBALL CLUB, BADLY STABBED High Point, Sept 15. A. W. (Gus) Thompson, captain of the High Point baseball club, is in a local hospital suffering from a se vere, cut across the abdomen, the result of an affray here last night Physicians say ' Thompson will be unable to play in the champion ship series with Durham next week. ;:::iA-i - ''. . Up to noon today the police were ; unable to learn who was involved in the affray with Thompson. No arrests have been made. - FORD PLANTS TO CLOSE . TOMORROW AS PLANNED Detroit. Sent 15. In resoonsc to questions concerning conflicting rumors as to the closing of the motor plants here tomorrow E. G. LaeDoid, personal secretary to Henry Ford, today issued the fol lowing statement: . "Mr. Ford s statement of several weeks ago that all plants would close September 16 still stands I believe. He has made no statement to the contrary and if he has any new plana he surely will issue a new statement" i r MAKE M Avoided On Pa ROBBERS HAUL SAFE AWAY IN TRUCK AND TAKE $155 IN CASH (Dr Associated Press) High Point Sept 15. A small safe in a gasoline Ailing station, owned by D. O. Cecil, on the out- li... . i tk. .!.. ... .. i.j aw'y by robbers last night to a point nve mues irom nere on me Winston-Salem road. The safe was broken open at this place with a heavy tool or sledge hammer and, robbed of $165 in cash. (Police say robbers loaded the safe on a truck. N? arrests were made. BIO, MILL COMPANY FILES PETITION OF BANKRUPTCY (By Associated Press) New York, Sept 15. Alleging liabilities of ii.OvO.uw an involun tary petition in bankruptcy was filed in federal court today against Gatti McQuade, manufacturer of mill products with plants in New Jersey and the eastern district of New York. Asset were- listed at 1500,000. .. CONFESSES TO MURDER UNKNOWN TO OFFICERS (By Associated Press) Augusta, Ga., Sept 15 Chief of Police Grubba today received a telegram from Sheriff R. E. Lewis, ot Robeson county, North Caroli na, ordering him to release Frank Summers, 85 years old, who yester day confessed to the killing, February 19, 1921, at Mariette, N. C, of Manning Ford. " . According to Sheriff Lewis' mes sage there is no record of such murder and ' the authorities have failed to find anybody in the vici nity . in which the alleged crime was committed. Chief Grubbs has wired the at torney general of North Carolina for further instructions. Summers will be held in jail here until a re ply is received. . ; . . ARCHIE NASH IMPROVING ; . AT JOHNS HOPKINS Word from the bedside of Mr. Archie Nash, former deputy sheriff, who waa shot in the head while making an investigation as to an alleged attempted robbery in East Spencer some nights ago, and who is in Johns Hopkins , hospital at Baltimore, is that be . is ' getting along very well and ' there are strong hopes that he may recover. An x-ray taken at the Baltimore institution sustains the location of the split bullet as made by the x-ray at the Salisbury hospital, that It anlit aft int.F. tk ;hemd at the right ear and part of it fminH iuionant n th. h.. tbram.t the other part taking an- other course. An operation baa not yet been performed. MRS. HARDING IMPROVES; - PRESDDENT AT OFFICES (By Associated Press) Washington, Sept 15. Presi dent Harding, due to the steady improvement in the condition of Mrs. Harding, was able to go to his office today for the. first time in a week. . -.-: -i;' The Friday cabinet meeting was the president's only engagement for the day, his seni-weekly con ference with newspaper correspon dents being called off in order to permit him to spend the afternoon near Mrs, Harding's bedside. Continued improvement in Mrs. Harding's condition was reported today by Brig. Gen. C. E. Sawyer, her physician, who in response to inquiries replied: "All's well." Cotton Market New ; York, Sept -15. The cot ton market opened steady at a de cline of 3 to 9 points net lower. This was attributed to overnight selling orders from the south and also scattered liquidation due to more favorable 'weather reports than expected and continued re ports that the south was selling cotton as rapidly as it can he gin ned. Opening Steady. New York Sept 15. Cotton fu tures opened steady: a , October ........... 21.43 December ........ 21.75 January 21.61 ' March 21.63 May .............. 21.58 Concord Cotton. Concord, Sept 15. Cotton sold for 21 1-2 cents i pound here to day. , ', Salisbury Cotton. Local cotton sold for 21 3-4 cents a pound. . MM LARGEST EVENING CIRCULA. TION IN PROPORTION TO CITY'S PAPULATION IN NORTH CAROLINA , PRICE TWO CENTS Clerks Freight Jlandlers Strike is Temporarily Averted on Pa, By Brotherhoods. (By Associated Press) Chicago, Sept 15 Refusal by a number of the country's biggest railroads to enter into the Warfield Willard dual plan for ending the shopmen's strike on a basis for a -separate and individual agreement, developed an element of consider able uncertainty today over the scope and effect of the peace pro-' gram. While some of the larger sys tems had flatly rejected the plan, others, notably, Chicago and North western, and Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul, had virtually agreed for the arrest and settlement of the strike and favoring restoration to strikers of their former Jobs un .der terms of the separata settle ment plan. ' , Strike leaden are said to be ad- ' dressing communications to some of the unwilling roads asking them to reconsider their rejections. No obstacle will be placed in the way of the shopmen returning to work on railroads parties to the separate settlement plan, B. M. Jewell, head of the Railway Em ployes Department of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, said to day in denvinr statements bv Fred W. Rausch, union leader, at To peka, .Kansas. - . ....i.-.- Rausch said last night that let ter signed by B. M. Jewell direct ed that no man return to work un til all of the roads had signed an agreement Such a letter might have been aent out before a set tlement was . reached, Mr. Jewell said, "but it does not apply now." -. Walkout Threatened Washington, Sept 15 Repre sentatives of the Brotherhood of Clerks, freight handlers and ticket sellers of the Pennsylvania' rail road decided at a conference todi with Acting Secretary of Labor Henning and other government of ficials to use their influence at a meeting tonight at Newark, N. J of union workers to prevent a walkout involving 6,00 0 men em ployed on the Eastern 'division of the Pennsylvania system.- . Averting Another Strike Washington, Sept 15 A hur ried conference between officials J of the department of labor and the general chairmen of the Brother hood of Railway Clerks, Freight Handlers, Ticket Sellers and other labor leaders was held at the de partment of labor today in an ef fort to avert a strike among such employes on - the Pennsylavnla system.. .';'' v;.f A Official Statement by Pa. 1 . Pittsburgh; Sept 15. Officials of the Pennsylvania system issued ' a statement this afternoon stat- ; ing th3t they were in conference here with representatives of the conductors and trainmen. "The conference is with reference to the present agreement" the state- '- ment said, j - Sign Agreement ; . New York, Sept 15 The entire . New York Central railroad system . today signed an agreement with the conductors and trainmen cov ering working conditions, wages ' and rules for a period of one year, beginning September 30. ' A statement issued by the New York Central railroad system said that they would provide immedi ately for the withdrawal of all . controversy now pending if before the United States Labor board. HIGHTOWER-MASSEY CASH BEGINS AT RALEIGH ' (By Associated Press) Raleigh," Sept 15. The trial of J. H. Hightower and H. A. Mas sey, former president and cashier respectively of the defunct Central Bank & Trust (Company of this city, charged with receiving depos its knowing the bank to be insol vent 'was started Wake super ior eourt here today. ' : . ' Massey and Hightower are also charged with embezzlement in con nection with the failure of the bank but this case was continued until the next term of court DIRIGIBLE AT DAYTC'r (By Associated Press) ! Dayton, Ohio, Sept 15 T army dirigible C-2 arrived at . u bur Wright field near L;j toa i Peace Plan; II "I D iect irianv: UNV1LLING ROADS RECONSIDERATION ASKED BY UNIONS
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