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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN THE WEATHER. -i and South Carolina Partly """TKurtdiy; FrWy local rains M!iwwer. cow; Frl., colder. 14 PAGES TODAY 'DEDICATELV TO THE UP-BUILDING OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA' ASHEVILLEtNrcTTHURSDAYJV10RNlNG7 FEBRUARY 23, 1 922. ESTABLISHED 1868. PRICE FIVE CENTS Three Raleigh Bank Officials Arrested In RAVE CHARGES IN IK CASE END flFEICIAL PROBE Arrests Would Have Been Made Earlier, Time to , Pay Up Given BOND IS MADE BY THREE OFFICIALS Young Lady Bookkeeper Is Also uaoie to Arrest TARSOROCUH MOTH.' (Hi BROCK BAltKLKY) RALEIGH, Feb. 22. Three Raleigh bank officials were ar rested tonight under warrants is ued by Chief State Bank Exam iner Clarence Latham. charging misappropriation and misapplica tion pf funds as the result of the failure a month ago of the Cen tral' Bank and Trust company, of this city. R, 0. Allen, former president of the Old City bank, was placed un der bond1 of $30,000; J. H. High tower, president of the Central l,ank was held undor $50,000 bond and J. H. Massey, caihier of the Central bank, was held under $10, 000 bond. Hightower and Massey save their bond promptly and were released. Allen was awaiting the arrival here of his brother prominent banker of Franklin county, when C. V. York agreed to jo his bond. The issuance of warrants against the three officials is the result of Investigations carried on during the last several days by the cor poration commission. It was stated tonight by members of, the com mission that arrests would ive i been made earlier but that the body was awaiting ior omciais oi me defunct bank to make good prom ises to repay funds they are al leged to have misapplied. Their failure to make good this money , resulted in the issuance tonightof j the warrants. I YOUNG LADY MAV YET ' BE INVOLVED A young lady bookkeeper for Mr, Allen is also liable for arrest bars use of her refusal . to state hy she ImsBBs allegedly false en tries, in the books of the bank lot money borrowed by Allen, Her I name was not given by the cor poration commission, but it was r.tataa that l.ntaoa ah A Itivan tllO a.ftica iiiai uuivoa bid Bv3 ... reason for making these entries she too would be arrested in con nection with the failure. The obligations to the -Central bank of Mr. Allen are placed by i the corporation commission at ' 100,000. those of Hightower and Massey at $50,000. These men had agreed to furnish the money to meet these obligations, it was stated, and their failure resulted in the issuance of the warrants. Regret wax funeral here tonight ilm the arrest of the officials was necessary, hut the corporation 'I'mmission explained that the bent interests of the depositors in the bank necessitated action. Postponement of legal sprocecd ings is due to the desire ot the commission to represent the de positors' interest. Sympathy was felt, particularly for Mr. Allen and Mr. Hightower. The former is in his sixties, and 'be later Iihs a two weeks old baby while another child is said to be critically ill. Judsc ("ieorge 1'. re 11, member "t the corporation commission, commenting tonight on the failure of numerous banks throughout the s'atc said that the legislature had nut hcreiofure provided for ade nuatc protection ot the people 'hrough provision for the frequent inspection ,, banks bv the com mission. Owing to the depressed conditions facing business gener ally, and tim banks particularly, tlie commission has arranged for more frequent inspections of bank in? institutions j the slate. Three additional examiners recently have een nibloil 0 the staff of the "inking department, bringing total '" twelir. and within the next ten 'Va another examiner will be en Siucd. With a force of examiners suffi cient in ti1POt emergencies: the comnnssNin proposed to inspect certain of the weaker banks every Inree no. nil, .s, whil? ail banks, as Pm;,r,i i,v irtWi vviii bc inspected cni-ii year. The commission s made plans for kecninc: a close "lt''h fill I hr, hutilju An.l in nlim- inate as rapidly as possible aggra vtlnc situations which have re sulted In so many failures. "'be Central Bank and Trust company was organized about two 'aiK ago, being known until re lr,1'ly as ihe city Bunk. Mr. Allen lis lircAlilenr linlil Ilia n.i trie f co 'ngcil to the Central Bank W'l In impany, at which time "Nr. .Mil-lit, ,n or was placed in ch,u cr. Itecciitly t,c Stiperba theatre, a moving pi,ture house; was placed in the liaIKs f tno receier as one means of liquidating and provid ing funds so that depositors of the te rural Hank might be protected. Mr. .Mien formerly owned this tneatie. n0 is ttiiPged to have JJ'd large loans of the Central nk while he was acting in an onictal capacity, and since he re leased the management of the in 't,:uon to Mr. Hightower, he is -' to he the controlling stock -htWcr in the bank, enm "ciion ot tn corporation tioaiea somewnai or a "flSat nn irk. .... ... on mree men naturally : "eminently connected in Ral fun. Rumors that the failure of hank would result in arrests "e been current for soms time. "Icings for ' the three officials "intake place soon. Central Bank Failure Louis Chett Learns Bowing to Policemen Not Customary Here Too Polite Chinaman is Taken Into Custody For Examination Out West SEATTLE, Waslm., Feb. 22. Louis Chett, recently arrived from China, has discovered that in America to treat a policeman with too much politeness is to bp looked upon with suspicion. 'When Louis had" bowed courteously to a num ber of policemen on the streets here he was taken into rnstodv on the possibility that his mind "was unbalanced. Whijii the police station rapid succession to geant, the elevator jailer, the jail cook lies, prisoners and he arrived at he bowed in the desk ser man, the city the jail trus even to pttin-- neys who had come to talk to cli ents. Members of the county insanity board were treated to an elaborate succession of salaams, the judge was tendered the lowest one of nil. and Fong Tai. court interpreter! also was included. After Fong Tai had talked with Louis he explained to tip., court that his countryman was merely following the rule of politeness ex isting in China. Cheet was freed and Fong Tai explained to him mat American do not bow to licemen. po- P. I E; FATAL Woman Is Held In County Jail; Four .Bullets In Husband's Body Preston rialdwin. 3.",. public service driver, was shot a'ld prob ably fatally wounded by his wife, formerly Alice I'ritcha nl. at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The shooting occurred in front of the residence of Mrs. Baldwin, in the litre- Creek section two miles from Asheville. Four shots were fired bv the woman from a..3 dliw stmin, nV vrnn nUtoilanH ii effect. At an early hour this morning Baldwin was lying In a local hns-pitak;-his condition so critical physicians were unable to oper-1 ate, .with two .bullets In his chest and two in the head. ' A, hour after the shooting1 meinbers of the nolice nnd heriff' I departments reached the home of j Mrs. Baldwin. She was eating sup per. They told her she was wanted for shooting of her husband. "Alright. 1 knew you'd come, but wait until I finish eating," she told them. 1 lietweeri bites she asked tlietn if Raldwin was seriously hurt, and where she had hit him. She was turned over to the sheriff's department, and placed in the coiinly jail, where she is held without bond pending the outcome of her husband's wounds. The charge is assault with a dead ly weapon- with intent to kill. The sheriff has the statement of Mrs. F.aldwin In which she admits the shouting and assigns reasons. "I had to do it, and he had il coming to him." she told the sheriff, "lie was stooping to pick up a rock, and I never let hurl me if I can help it." The two have been married for, a number of years, but have lived j separate lives for some time, ac- j cording to officers. They recently lived together on Spring street here. . P.aldwin's condition last night was such that it was considered wise to have him make a deposi tion, and this was taken at the Co'itlimnf on Tuffn Tirol UN !1 BY WIF 1113 PROBABLY ARMY BOARD HOLDS PROBE ON WRECK OF ROMA IN SECRECY; ONE NORTH CAROLINIAN DEAD NORFOLK, statement bv Ya.. Feb. 22. A Mafor-fieneral Ma-! son L Patrick, head of the army air service, that he believed The destruction of the airshio Roma was due to an accident to the con trols regulating the altitude of craft stood out tonight as the only official statement from any of those Investigating the accident wl'.i-'ii yesterday caused the death ot "4 Vfcisons. the -injury of eight oth ers and the demolition of the world's largest semi-rigid aircraft Meanwhile tonignt the ariav board of investigators, called in'i .session todav, con'inued its hear ings tonight behind closed doors. None of the proceedings were al lowed to seen out of th? uiiar ters occupied bv the board. General Patrick expressed iii3 opinion, on the basis of testimony he had heard thus far and sub stantiated statements previously made unofficially by survivors cf the wreck that the elevating rud der, a contrivance resembling wings of an airplane and attached to the stern of the Roma, buckled and fell forward, forcing the craft into a nose dive, which ended when she crashed into a hisrh power electrlo transmission line, caught fire and burned with the greater number of her crew and passengers pinned benesth. ONLY TANGLED SIASS OF WRECKAGE JLKFT Only a UnitUd mass ot the steel framwork of h army dlrlfrlbl Roma remalnti tonifht to msrk th spot where 84 men lost their lives yestrdav. jgJSWlijPottli cmof tin treaty wmwmmsmM m DELAYED! f TsmfSh BY Leaders Prepare to See Harding Regarding the Blanket Reservations lodge, will call fwr mTTTi TinnnTTTiiTm u in r niuwi r . , Senate Begins Its Debate! on the United States Treaty on Yap WASHINGTON. Feb. 22. The progress of the four-power Pacific treaty in the senate again was in -tcrrupted today while administra tion leaders conferred among themselves and prepared to seek the advice of President Harding whether to accept the blanket reservation proposed by those who aro opposing unreserved ratifica tion. Contrary to the expectation of senators who had sponsored the reservation, administration accept ance of it was withheld at today's ression of the foreign relations committee and Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, republican leader and committee chairman, arranged to confer tomorrow morning with the President. Republican com mittee members supporting the reservation still predicted untight that both Mr. Lodge ami Mr. Hughes eventually would decide not to interpose serious opfinsition. Heretofore officials close to the President have declared he held strongly to the opinion thai, no reservations were necessary, al though at the same time il lias been said that he did not desire to become a slii kler "for senate ac ceptance of the treaty without the dotting of "I ' or the crossing of a "T." His decision is expected In hinge on whether the proposed reservation, which provides that every adjustment reached under the treaty shall be subject to the review' of congress, impairs or em barrasses Ihe purposes of the foil i--power ai rangenient I It is not considered unlikely I that the whole senate situation will - also be taken into consideral lop I by President Harding and Senator j Lodge before they adopt a course j of action. With administration ac-,'eptanr-e of the blanket reserva tion assured, it is conceded that the committee will be in a position In vote promptly and almost unani I Piously a favorable report on the treaty itself. Ittii with that, ac ceptance withheld it is th eappar cnt purpose of the reservatiom-ts to attempt to put through tlie com mittee a series of more specific qualifications, leading to consider able debate and a long' delay. One of these supplemental res ervations, attempting to define in "V" uu iti in nsius as useu in i'be treaty, was put into- th com mittee iiopper. today by Senator Johnson, republican. California. Like the blanket reservation offer ed by Senator Rrandegee, republi can, Connecticut. It went over without action pending Mr. Lodge's visit to the White House. While the committee continued its deliberations on the four-power pact today th senate began debate 011 the separate treaty between the l nited States and Japan relating to Yan and other former German islands of the Pacific. .Mr. Lodge explained the treaty at length, characterizing ii as securing till Ihe rights the 'nited States ever desired in ihe former Gorman possessions and Senator France, republican, Maryland, attacked jt as .1 repudiation of republican platform pledges ami a part of the league of nations plan which would lay the foundation for a new world war. THREE SUSPECTS IN TEXAS CASE HELD I COU'I'S CHRISTI. Texas, l-'-h. 22. - Thrt e suspects are held in jail here in coioieiiion Willi the death of Itlanehe I'erriqur. tfi year old girl whose lin.ly was discovered late ves- CONFERENCES I a ny bod v I niooen in a tincKct and parti ' ; ally concealed by brush and weeds. Ihe girls had been choked and bed in the throat. sta TF.ST CASK AT LAW KNOX VILLK, Tenii., Feb. 22 -A test rase, the admitted purpose of w hich is to outlaw i hh opraetoi s in Tennessee, was in.'Hitutid today before a local magistrate on behalf of unnamed clients. The case was styled the state vs, C. A. Nelson. It was continued lo March I. 'disaster, which began early (his i afternoon continued this evening and testimony was heard bv the board of army officers conducting that inuuirv. but none of the testi mony was marie public. The onlv official statement from the investigators was made bv Major-Genera 1 Mason M. Patrick, head of the army air service, who declared that it was his belief from testimony he had heard, that the disaster was due to an accident to the controls regulating the altitude of the Ronin. This statement bore out the story ,of survivors of the wreck who 'said that the elevating rud der, a contrivance resembling air plane wings attached to the framework at the stern of the Ro ma, buckled and fell forward forc ing the Roma into a nose dive. General Patrick declared '.hat there was no explosion or fire while the Roma was still in the air. The fire and resultant explo sion, he said, were caused by the high voltago wires upon which the airship struck when it plunged to earth. The board of intestlratlon !s made up of Major D, .Johnson, who Is. presiding at the sessions, Major J. H. Jouett and Major J, MoNurney, of Lang-ley Field. Af ter they had interviewed all the survivors of th accident, five of the eleven men ln the public. health service lioenltal who were well enough er moved to Lawr ley field. The xri Malor J. Cpiiiwi n f'f fwl ClTUlv'. BVilAO i v ihock m;Ki t RALE1C.H, Feb. 22. Colonel WiLson Orav T.amb. sr.. chairman of the state board of elections, thrice a delegate to the natknal democratic conventions and presi dent of the North Carolina Soelety i of the Cincinnati, died at Park-j vimv hospital in Rocky Mount nil 11:30 o'clock this morning. He i -,,.. , i r,-.,- ..,,,ntii .inn hist ,;c;n ;,, ,or the liist ten davs. Members of Ins tamm w at his beairie wuen t n run i.i "if. I'uneral service y:H he con ducted in the Church of the Ad- l vent in Ins home town of Vn- hamston, Martin countv. rrmav at o'clix'k. burial taking place in the family burying plot. A number of state ollieials and members of the Socictv of the Cin cinnati in Raleigh will attend the service. Colonel Lamb was S2 years of ace and had long been 'a promi nent ilgure in the nubile life of state. Resides his interest in pub lic affairs and his connection with the Society of the Cincinnati, be was active in .Masonic affairs, a leading member of the Episcopal church and prominent amona Confederate veterans. Survivihg him are John C. Lamb. Wilson C. jr.. Luke Lamb. Mrs. Fred F.. P.ulhtck. Miss Mayo liniib. Mrs. C. II. C. Mills and Miss Annie Statton Lamb. I 1 li RIXn.O l STATU I.IFK MANY YKAKS I Colonel Lamb had been iuier- ested in the political and social Ijfe i hi i,s state tor inanv irai had long occupied an influential I position in politics, and manv of fers of public iillice were ma,!,' him. hut he declined them all. preferring to devote his Interests to private pursuits, at the same time never hesitating to render FOR SCENIC ROAD Supreme Court Affirms Brock In Dissolving Injunction Tin- si. He Supremo court, silling ii, Kaleigh vesterilav. aflirme.l the ,:c. ision or .iudge Walter I-:. Crock, of ll-c Superior conri. in the ea.-e involving the iiipsi rue! ion of a scenic hiuhwav from l.lai mio to the ton of Mt. ( M 01111- MiU'llell. highest peak east, of th Mississlp- aud Wright. Mitchell He- 1. ,1,-1 ill in, iiud .Martin, i.oiuus uttorneys for tbjj, ML Vflriinwiii eomitiiny. legal barriers to thy early , - ,1:! - 1 struction ami operation or no ; highway were elinjJnated by the ISui reme court. . I Ihe Supreme rourt, In dissolving line injunction of the Mountain l!e t treat association permanently, also 'dismissed the suit of the associa tion against the development com pany, il is stated. This matter bin been hanging fire for several months, and the suit against the development concern, composed ot a group of Rlack Mountain iiiep. arose just after the formation of he company was completed and it was announced the highway would lie built along the route followei by the ol Policy and 'nickel t tailvvay Vv'ork was actually started and early last fall an injunction vv a secured by the Montreal associa lion against the newly formed en' -location. l"iniorarily rest ra itiin-- I t,e nincrrn for building Ihe bign- I wav. The matter was argued be -foi -i -I lulge Walter K. Rrock, pre (siding over H-;iiconibe Superior court at that time. The as-ooia- lon ilainii'l they had spent limn.- nds of dollars in developing the proicrty and that one of its i-lm f assets was the pure water lui loshed the hundreds of pi-isnni v, ho visit their grounds e-a.ii yea". If ti e road was built, it was con tended, the watershed would he raniaged and one of the greates' attractions of .Montreal would .bstroyed. It was further claimed that a railroad line would no' if.iinage the property, but that at automobile load would be a dr.ivr-li'i.-k. for tourist', would stop aim,;: the route and trample upon ihe shed. The .Mountain Ret. -eat associa -I'nti sought to re-train the dove iop tr.ent company from condemning land for (I miles of roadwn. 1 1 rough the plaintiffs' land as a ink in the 22 mile highway. Th" development company bad ib" t, ght of way for the highway b -l.veen Rlack Mountain and Mc Milch. 11. except for II mill's th" pi;-tt'tiffs' property and it filed a petition Willi John H. Cat hey. i leiic of the Superio. rourt of luincombe. for the condemnation if a right of way througn tin 'and. The court held the com pany possessed the authority, th' . arporatlon having the power i i i oiidemn such right of way as may be reasonably lequired for th" purpose of constructing the high way. It. was argued by the drvolot -ment company that the road would pot be tun through the land r( tno association any great distant" Work on the highway Is now in ;irorress and Fred A. Peiiey. one of the leading stockholders in the corporation, states It is their de sire to have the road completed during the coming tourist season '"this has long been Ihe dream of tourists coming to this section." h" said last night. "We will build : good road up this great scenic route and later It may he hard surfaced. We believe the visitors to this section should be given th P' ivllege of seeing one of the show places of Western North Carolina," Samlford Cohen, for four years traffic manager of th Mount Mitchell railroad, will . be traffic manager and in charge of devel opment of th highway to th sum mit of the famous peak, it was ststed by Mr. Perley. Mi. Cohen was at on time sec retary of th Greater Western North Carolina Chamber of Com merce and number many friend) ln this section who Will loam with r. opro val that h again will hav charge of th ascent to Mount Mitchell, He will tak charge of the work In th ptr future, 1 nrimnifr nuDDirDilHlPllin TP CCDlICi nr vmur DHnniLii inuniu iu jlihl hit mnTnuri 1 ! r ii 1 1 n n r n 111 p rr III M I 111 III H k I I 1 IUI 1 1 K 1 1 K I ll L 1111 IKK U IV Mill I I I IVIIIIIIILIIIllu L ' W w.. : the democratio na n ithin his imn ei . Il thrice represented North Carolina de-nnviacv ln demm-ratp- , national convention, ami for , many years he was a member cf the state hoard of eUvtn.ns. hold- ing until his death the ill shio of the board, lie wis thanu- ed by two suocc.ssh e cluiirpo'i ate reihiblican executive tee to:- the iusi.ee ciiu ic- omnn ;cm,:,. bis dealings with hi ! - Is: a I opponents as th h-Md of the heard of election-. Colonel Lamb was a ti F.tusro pahao. a vest r ma n and s-ui":-wardrn of the Churc!i of tlie Ad vent at W'llliainston. tic r.-pre-st-nted the parish in iifanv tiio-i--lan conventions ami a a ,h le g'.e from Ra.-tern Carolina i.i -cv- '.! iteneral i "0 en 1 , i' - of h church. He took an actu ;itcr-e-- :n chinch ai'fans and wi- - h. 1 d ed as line of the eh i i In t lie st ate. I h- a I t.vc in Mason,..' ilta.rs 1 ,el. master of Sk es a '! I- 1 was a mi e. lo IV.IS No. !'0. of illia niston. Siti. c t S ; :i ii., had been oi n; of the Nort h C.ii obn i : . of I lie Citu innat.. ha m ug i e of the prune mover- i III I II I toe i re o 4:1 ni.at ion in lli.s st.it of i'l.f. I so. -let v. In th" l'nited Ctitifedei a'. ve' et'ans. 'Colonel Lamb wa al-' iirnmiijent and acive. lie t nrni d (low 11 an appointment to 'he naval I .uadeinv at Wen Point or ler to i- in t he 1 ' mfedei ate ton ii, ami he fought calianllv Ihrougn ihe I ,ir as a l eulenan:. His intei'esls in :lie old eterans woo wen! i through the four years wi'li bun ,N alwavs keen and e eloselv ab y niovenient and general ; among ihe bv to,' fact three North four 1 1 "I 1 himself vvith eve their assistance fo welfare, v el era ns 1'iat lie His standini is indicated was one of t riinpiitifrf LONG TERM FOR Polk County Election Case Settled In the Su preme Court UTiynv vrw iii noi T ARB'.P.IH 1. 14 II" I H Srill K Slf.'KI.'l I AI.KIGII. Feb. 22. -The So iik court ill its Hist batch of ions of the spring term settles .iiiber of important cases thai ,ip have been hanging fire. No error is found in the Kincald mm iler ease in llurke county ani Sidney J. Kincald must begin bis "" of IS years nl tiarit labor I:; the state prison for tn tier Juiv 18. H2I, of his Lillle Kincald. I The Polk county election case which has been In litigation since IIHS, Is brought, to a close by an i I'i'iion upholding die lower coin-', in declaring Sheriff Frank Jack son, democrat, the victor over W. C llohor.lson. In the election for; ( flic, of sheriff, w hich term was I to begin in December, lfllS, elos U".g two years later. A difference nt two votes between the aggre gate polled bv Jackson and that : polled bv Robertson brought on I the !,i,it and it b'-is gone Ihe rounds in I he lower courts. j A' lion was dismissed In the civil 'a'iion of ihe Mountain Ketrent as sociation .-.gainst the Ml. Milehell I levcliipmont oompnriv of r.un i'omlii.i;. in which the plainlifl sought, to restrain the defendant in 1 1 road construction conipanv ifrom condemning land for si: 'miles of roadway through Ihe luaiuliri's land as a link in n 22 mile highway from I'.lack Moiin lain station to Mt. Mitchell. Another Interesting ease. this. from the eastern part of the slat". -Miles the point of ilouhl as I i ,t!ie power of tlie slate lligliwav commission 'o take soil from pri vate lands for road building pin -noses. The court nfrlrmeri tlie 'ower court's order dissolving an I injunction of .1. M. Jennings, Pas Innotank coiinlv. reslraining 111" j highway commission from enier I ing his land and taking foil ami Material for the purj use ol eou- IM rnct ing- a public hicinvav beiiik a pari of the slate sysiein of high ways. ; Sidnev .1 Kinraid. whose irlal jF't MotKanton in Augusl. l!'2l. a i j 1 ra ft oil wide Interest I hrotigiioii ; : le western part of the slat", I I lllerl bis w ife bv i inti'ng her threat wilh a knife lie was i i nil Intoxicated condition at tli time. He appealed from a second 'iegi-fe verdict, carrying with it -i !-enienoe of IS years a' hard labor ! PUBLICITY MAN TO HELP IN CAMPAIGN i Sprrtnl f )r'pirf'iu. Ti' Ahnttl i iir.tn ) rHAIUOTTK. !!. 'JJ - .1 l';ul Ijichk. director nf publir'tv or Siiitm Mti I'ultt ic 1 ' l ill l rompa n . liar horn JrcurM ' th Mutp tn lwmMf1 1 '.ir educational ni :c:m : ri;m -(ion with Jovrrrtor MtTt'iso.i' nr w fK i irnll urai cinlraoi, Jovm nur Mitrrifnn a nrwMiii'rp slmrtiy aflr iii arrival hrrf WcfJncsfJa v a f if rrioun. ! Mr. I.uoas will j?o to Raleigh wilh i In a few day in takr uu tiPB dut if I which will require 1i!h nrrvice for I fnmi fiO to f0 dav.e. I Kiyttip and lenbour, local conirar , I;.s and liuildcrs, wcrp awarded In1 r-Tiitra't for Hi erPfti'Hi of a f'tinl dormiiory on ih lavid'on roIh'K"'1 c;(in)ms flt a rn''(ine nf lim vxrryt liv I'onimlllPf of tit rntr'f tnt5 ' tr hold Wrdrifsday at I avidMn Th preV'Mou nf (hp d trrnl tm'ic . and j liPJitino, 1a tit will cunt Sn dtH'islon bs to thf rebuild incr of j f'hamlK'i'fi hall, whicli wai hunifd be fore Christina. wa reached. NAME RECEIVERS IN BANKRUPTCY CASE (t this ASunoiATBn rial's NEW YORK. Feb. 22. Federal re elvrs In bankruptcy were appoint ed tonlaht for the stock brokeras-e houee of Kardos and Burke. The firm, of which John Burke, former trraaurer of th United State and three times aovtrnor of North Da kota. Is a partner, maintains branohes In many cltlei. Liabilities wsrs slven u 11,610,000 ami assets as 110 000. liiitsd Htate liMrlet Judee Learntd Hand named Robert P. Stephanson as rolver, Under 125.000 bond. Immd!Uly aftsr 0. announoe mant of th reolvrahlp. Mr. Burke, who: heme i In Waahington, P. C niliiuriuvu mill bi.,ip-i ""'. ,..Ua nruliUnt mil Slrai.tnr.faf tha Prnfr- OaV Wnat JS (ts Bank of this olty. ALTERATIONS T ....... . 'J, T . . Willing to Guarantee Den ji-i P.J "llCJjr lUriUUUt-CICHU- izers in Fixed Amount WOULD CAPITALIZE OPERATING FIRM Is Willing to Deliver Pro duct at Not More Than Eight Per Cent Profit W.VMHINC.TliV. alterations in the bv Henry Ford for chase of the goei and power prole Slioa'.s. Ala have Feb. 22. -Three prooosiil luadc lea-e and pur tmient's pitr i. ets at Mil -ce been agreed lo ma mifact 11,' i'. l.v Ihe Detroit Thrv aie: One. to i ile into contract a delinile produce tert 1 1 if.ers 1 id form at. .1 given iiihmi tonnage. Two. in eapitali.e conipanv which Is the proposei guarantee ti 1 their llnish annual mini t lie 1 to be pel at n cr.-au'd for the ptirtiii.a' of suucrv isnig the Muscle Shoals opera! ions. Three, to revise ttie linguae of the so-called fai nii'rs' cla'i.se In older to insure the delivery of leriili.eis from the producing plant to the consumers at a profit not exceeding eight per cent based mi the cost of manufacture. Mr. Ford's approval of these luoil ilica : ions wa- announced to day bv W. IS. Mavo. chief eiiginei".' no Hie l-'oid company, upon his ret in n from Jirhuit wheie lie went las: week In confer vvith the lieiioit ma nufael u rer. Formal an nouncement to the house military riiininitlee ineiiihers vv ho are in-ve.-tigHling the offer in congress will be made bv Mr. M.ivo prob ably on 1 i idav . i ' While I bi"i' allcrahons were re-, garded bv some committee metii- , i hois as gloat l.v improving the form lot the proposal and adding to lis value an tliev view it from the go.-l ernmeni's standpoint, other inein-1 hers said it would have been made more acceptable if Mr. Fold had also agreed lo a reduction in the I I lease clause from HlU to .'ill ..H'j suggested by Secretary Weeks' en be tesiitieil bv the i omnia- I I ti e. On this immt. however. Mayo explained lhat Mr. Ford I fell t hat t lie fill year period ' loo short a time to justify hnancial investment neccssarv ' der Ihe proposed conlract I'm Mr. sill nti d e- I i liopniept ot the Muscle Shoal v.aler power facilities and miru.e I ! plants in i be section ol the .-. -unit iv where thev are Kiliialed. I The agreement m manuf n i ore finished feiillizers instead of "com pounds" II wa- explained, was made to assure the m oduction of thai commodity which several committeemen Had declared vviis not an obligation under the amount ot production guaranteed. The fixed capital proposal it was exulained. made the operating cumpanl' liable to the government during Ihb life of the contract and set up a certain sum which tno government might recover as a forfeit in the event of failure ; execute tno agreement bv the me crating concern. The Ilgure to le written in the agreement ,vi.. withheld by Mr. Mayo until i.e. appear before the committee. The third alteration wa Intend ed lo make It impossible for auv purchasing company lo Imv the lei tili.ers and retail them to !:ie farmers at prices exceed ing , '.li ma nufaii uriim costs plus eight per cent, i 'oni nil 1 1 eeiiip n imil ib -elaieil Iheii lear while Mr. .Mayo was heitic examined last week that the fanners would b" "ho..! uu" bv a purchasing couoe; n and hail Insisted that a clause be in serted in t ho contract which uould provide for distribution of ferti lizers from the source to the con sumers direct. .Mr. Mayo cxpla. ti ed today that the Ford auiomobi.c agencies throughout the cniiai.v would be iiiiheil for dish ibiin i-' purposes but nild Ihe exact pi in ior ferl.li'.er distribution had not been decided. The coniiiill tee lnid onlv ore meeting today on account, of holi day. Gray Silver, Wa slii ngl on representative of the American Farm liiireati federation teslilied that Ihe 1 .500.11011 tanner mein bers of lhaL.oigaiilz.Uioii had "en ri s'TV oil 1 v embused' the l-'oid ci fir and bad full coiilidenee i Ii h tliev would get cheaper fertilizers and other coin mod il jes whi'ii If would ma nufael lire at Miis.'io UH NATION PAUSES TO HONOR ITS FIRST PRESIDENT; MOST ALL WASHINGTON OFFICES CLOSED WASHINGTON. Feb. 'J. -The, 1901 h .liiiiversiirv nt ihe birth of tieomc Washinaton w.'is observed j ill t be n.i tional eripil;il ioibi v In o ' prHCl leilllv eolllplele slIKOeilsidll of j all governmental o'tlvities vi:li the exet.ption of i -oimi -ess. The senate and house ;is eus- tomary remained i" session mill j each heurd Washlmrton's freell j nddress read by one of Us iin-m- ! hers. The reiidiui.' or the address in the senate bv Senator I'oltid.o. ter of Washington, was lii-ard bv Kini l.ane. Hie iKw Oerinan eharee d'affaires, w bo oci upicd a si.n in the diplomatic sallerv. It was the lirst time a represenia I ive oi ( Jenns ny had been seen in the diplomatic Killery siwe Ambas sador Iternsloi-ff was handed Ills passport caiiv in 191.7. President HajdiiiK spent the forenoon at work in hi-, olllee on his lnessaye to ennsress on the ship subsidy oueslion. which IK ev pccleii lo be Iransniiilod Saturday or Monday. He later was a cuest at .uncheou tendered ofliclals of the . Washington National Monu ment soeietv. Wreaths were laid at the base of the Washington monument as customary and the usual exercises were held at Mount Vernon. UNPrBLISHFjD I.KTTEIt OF WASHINGTON GIVEN FRESNO. Feb. 22. Thomas S. Wads-worth of this city, today pre sented as his contribution to the observance or waaninuton s oirtn- I t-ui nt3 ii mil v' nil letter which General I unpublished Mil Republican Debt Commission Is Cause Of Tilt In Senate Alleged Attempt to ! Crucify Lad by Two j Negro Men Charged i A a7 Extracted From Hand I of Hoy - Had Another Victim in View ' WINCIIKSTF.R. Va . Fob. 22. .'Police of this city today are inves tigating an alleged attempt or two negroe to i i ucify Haney Gieeti walt. 12 -yea i old son of William Oreenwall. The crime is said lo have beep cominilteil hi"! night in a tool house In the yards of Ihe i llaltiniore and Ohio railway. i Suffering intensely from a wound 1 made. by a nail driven through one i I of bis hands, young Greenwalt was j brought to the local Red Cross of llce and sobbed out his story, lie said that the two negroes attacked him In the freight ;nrds ami dragged him to the tool house and attempted to erui ify him. The young son of Fred Hill, to whose iiome Greenwalt was taken after Ihe negroes had been frightened away, assisled In pulling Ihe null from Greenwalt's bund. The ne groes are alleged lo have slated that they .Intended to nail "Fred Hill's boy" up also. Fred Hill is custodian of county buildings here. Harding Not Expected to Object to Sale of For eign Bonds In U. S. WASHINGTON. Feb. 22. The financing of the soldiers' bonus by means of a manufacturers if wholesalers tux was discussed in what was described as a "general sort of wnv" at two sessions today of ihe republican members of the house ways and means committee dealing with this suhleet. It was annouined that there would be no further sessions unlll Friday nnd members Indicated that there wa., no disposition lo hurry a decision. Representative Lungwort h, of Ohio, ranking member of the spe cial committee, said it was his judgment that a general manufac turers and wholesale tax similar to that In fore ln'Cnnada would be recommended. He thought th rates would be lower than those In Canada as treasury experts had estimated that the Canadian rates. If put In force In this country would vicld $580,000,(100 a year or more I ban J200.000.000 In excess of the sum which It has estimated will he needed to finance the cash payments to the former service men. Mr. Longwortli said he did not think the bonus bill would be ready for the house this week or next. He staled there was no dis position on the miii. of many house members In postpone action ci. tie ri '..sure for a time to nwnlt th" r.ieo'ug of ihe refund. ng nc t.o nations between the Fulled Mil, sac, I debtor nations. Calling aii'ini' P bal the refunding com I.. ii i ." 1 1 been appo.ri e.l y toll .ib it. the Ohio nu'in'i,"! sail tbif was reason to .leheye tin. I.i lore July the 1-niUil Sla'cs .', . i.l.l n iv some of the r.'ltavli d Lo id- 'in hand. 'he I ' . -idetil. Mr. Lanvorth al on to so, 1 1 n 1 1 1 i 1 1 l o il 1 v tepid 'ie i .Mioseil lo the sale o( si'inu t lo to,, l' ii bonds in t it s i.' iuti- 1 1 y II-' i.. i I .,;.i money ror in- in, this. .tildid Tear before Ion i otild ' e doi.e . cue, ess would bavo to e iii! it a. law giving autii.i: I'.y o Ho eerot;.iV of Ihe Ireasuiv to so 1 1 1 si i so ol iiie securities, us the ic"-i nt. law provides that he ill';--; us," them ill retiring a purl ol Ihc- p.i.lii (lel.t. Tlie Ohio member said the I'r.s ideni was opposed to the enacl incnt of bonus legislation without anv provi-ion for raisin? Ihe funds. If tlie proposed sales tax piovision was beaten ill Ihe house, - - I rmifitm' uu ''ii;,.- 'tin) Wushliigion wrote lo Governor r.cniamin Harrison of Virginia, on 1'ebriiai y S, ITIiL'. The letter re fers to some diirii iillles ill connec tion with the administration of the American iirniv. Il is said to have been in' Hie archives of the eapitol at. itii-hiuulid. Va., until Mav, ISH.'i, when, with the occu pation of Richmond by the 1'nlon a riny. I'aptaln Lvle Wadsworth. a brother of the local man, took it as ;l souvenir, Tin- eoircliidin; pii r.-iKifitih of the letter slated: ' "The present i ircu nista nees are such as I.i render it inexpedient to j order the Virginia troops slaiioned; at rutpbincli from thence: that Kariiwnn will not bear a diminu tion without enda nuerimr. Ihe loss of the posl and Ihe devastation of Ihe frontier In eonseuuenee. There can he no probability that the Virginia troops will he incorpo rated with the rcvtiliient of Penn sylvania, and your excellency will recollect that it is inconsistent with the establishment of the army to make men "belotiKitiK to one stale count as part of the uuo ta of another, in conscuuunce of anv reformation or new arrange ment of corns, whatever. " The letter is siened: "Most obt hum ser. "GEOKGK WASHINGTON. RENEWS INSPIRATION. MACXIDKR SAYS ' INDIANAPOLIS, Ind,. Feb. ' 22. Hanford MacNItler, national Mmmandr ot the American le gion, today gave out the following COMMITTEEMEN DISCUSS TAX FOR BONUS FINANCING NOMINATIONS At REPORTED OUT BY Simmons Says Propriety Calls for at Least One Democrat on Body DISAPPOINTMENT IS. KEEN, HE STATES Lodge Says Republicans Responsible and Should Have Authority Washington. Fob. 22. Presi dent Harding's appointment of four republicans and no democrats to the allied debt funding commis sion, was attucked by democrats and defended by republicans today in a lively partisan tilt In the nenale. Kaiiler the senate finance committee bad reported faTorably the four nominations of Seere- uies Hughes and Hoover, Senator Smoot, republican, I'tah, and Rep tesentalfve Burton, republican, Ohio. . ! "Keen disappointment" over the fad that no democrats were . hosen for the commission was . xprrssed by Senator Simmons of Norih Carolina, ranking democrat and former chairman of the sen ate finance committee. Senator Walsh of Montana, Heflln of Ala bama. Williams of Mississippi nd MeKellnr of Tennessee, were othec .leinoerals who criticised the ap pointments while Senator Lodgo cf Massachusetts, the republican leader and Senator Kellogg, ri publican, Minnesota, defendel them. Senator Walsh announced that he would oppose confirmation of Senator Smoot and Representative Tnirton on the ground that thry were Ineligible, under the consti-. 'ut Ion, to act ss 'officers" of the government. - , Senators Simmons, Walsh and Williams said they had no per sonal fault to find with the four appointees. Mr. Simmons said a'l were "able, upright, experienced and competent" but he added that at leiyit one democrat should hav beer, named to the commission, .Senator Williams urged that two democrats be chosen and two re publicans dropped, ,. i . Recalling that there had been "fharp conflict" over the allied debt commission bill, Senator Sim mons said that under the circum stances and "In view of the gen eral Interest ot all tne people In sll these loans, 11 does seem that property calls for the opposition party to have at least on reuie- fentution." Senator Ijodge, declaring that the country s tlnances wer a Hi char; of " Secretary -Mellon, wh-t-by the provisions of th act as sicr.tary of the treasury wllj hs ix-olllrln chairman of the debt onimisslon, argued that til ra publicans would bp responsible for rny -action takeivsnd siiKgested I but I heir authority should accom pany Ihe responsibility. Ho als-i sild that when former President Wilson retired all members of th federal reserve board were demo crats. Senator Heflln, however, took exception to this statement, tryiiisf lie understood that there al wi.s had been al least one l" 1 ubllcan members of the hoard. Senator Kellogi,' pointed out that the allied debt hill did not re ceive a siriKle .lemoeialle vote In ihe senate when It was passed. He ndded that the President had ap-i pnlnled men "ln sympathy with the plan of seltleinenl' of the al lied leans. Former President Wilson's letter of 1918 nskitii; election of a demo cratic consress was recalled by !-ciiator lleflin. who said the re-pnbhc.-ini then said "u gre.-it depl nbotif Wilson wanting to shut out the leptibliciins." "And now yon ain't going to -t even one democrat In to see what' :oni? on,'' he said addressing his teinaiiis lo the republicans. "Toll io'iiiik rats." he added, turning ti ih.it side of the chamber, "ar rood enough to putjip the coin of the icilm. Rood enough to p,n' iaee to help win the great World w.-.: but you're not good enough lo Ml In the council i;hamber." Senator Heflln said that if Mr. Wilson had aied ns President Harding bsd regarding the debt commissioners. Senator Tjodge end other republicans would bp Indig nant ami "would he bobbing up 'ind down like one nf the?" cuckoo . locks." Seantnr Williams recalled that Mr. Wilson had appointed "nearly ell' democrats on the Paris peace commission to "make action ntol i cspniiKibllity synonymous" and li.nl been criticised by the republi cans for not giving that party rep n sentation. "And now- you won't let anv i'.'iiioi rat even act ns an observer," f.ud Mr. Williams. DANIELST TOSPEAK AT TUSKEGEE EVENT TI'SKFjOKK. Ala., Feb. 22 At the niiniiBl memorial exercise for T HoiiI.it T Wesblngton here-on fouild ers riny, April S. a bronze monument will hr unveiled on the campus of Tuskegtij. Institute to perpetuate the memorv of the famous negro educa tor Prominent sneakers interestml In the promotion of negro education are on the program. Including Jn sephus Daniels, former! secretary of the navy who will represent the south, IV. Wallace Puttriek. ehalr- j man of the general education board. and Pr. GeoTge O, Hall, of Chicago j renrespntlng the negro. I The statue which is eight '-et hlth Is representation In bronse of nr. ; Washington lifting the veil of ignor ance and superetttution from the ye of tha negro and pointing the way to opportunity, prosperity and sucoess through education, Industry and thrift. . . . -,o- COMMITTEEMEN
Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.)
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