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ASHEVILLE CITIZEN "DEDICATED TO THE UP-BUILDING OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA" THE WEATHER 1 L PAG I D TOD PAGES Foraeast for North-South Carolina! Cloudy; local rains In Interior Wed nesday; Thursday ralnt. AY J ESTABLISHED 1868. ASHEVILLE, N. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1922. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE Fort Worth Cham Blown By SEVENTEEN ft R E GRAVE DOUBTS OF PROBABLY DEADIfLY I NG BOAT'S FLOOD ARE AlSftFETY VOICED Property Damage in; Texas Town Is Placed at MilUonDollars. WATER LEVEL WITH ROOFS OF HOUSES. Mississippi River Stage J New Orleans Goes One! Tenth Foot More. FOKT WORTH, Tex., April i5 lohn j. McCain, Port Worth city engineer, issued a statement fo iiisht in which he declare that die levees around the rivers, which broke here early today and flood ed lowlands of this city, were "dvnamited by unknown parties" and that an investigation by a grand jury would be demanded im mediately. "It is our opinion that the levee fii.i nor hrpnk of (is own arvoril. i,... ilvnamlfn tm ti I nu ttrion It a I the situation is relieved wo are "fl ing to place the facts before the Hiand .1ury and demand an Investi gation," McCain declared. . "This decision Is based on a vr port maae 10 me oy .loon j. i.jui-u. j field supervisor and a member of j Uie levee board for t ho last 12 years, in which he declared he had inen patrolling the levee all Mun- D night and all day Tuesday and It was his opinion that the le was dynamited. "We are not placing' the blame upon any one but we are going to place the facts before the grand Jury." SEVENTEEN ARK PROBABLY DEAD IN THE TEXAS F1XKJD PORT WORTH, Tex., April 25. --.Seventeen probably dead and property damage estimated at ap proximately $1,000,000 is the toll of a flood which swept Port Worth early today, carrying before it scores of residences and small buildings, overflowing hundreds of acres of land and Inundating sev eral city streets. The estimate of possibly 17 dead was made by Maj. 1. O. White In charge of Red Cross relief. The flood was confined chiefly to the lowlands adjoining the tribu taries of the Trinity river. Marine, Sycamore, Clearforks and the Trinity river were swollen, over flowing' the bottoms nearby. The flood Li the most severe in the history of the city, according to old time residents. Trinity river stood at 86.7 feet at noon and was still rising. The gauge measured only seven feet yesterday. With the break, of the East First street .wee lata today. It was believed the water on being released would fpead out, losing some of Its force. Coming on the heels of rain, the Qviest in the history of Fort th, mid a wind and electrical m in flood took scores of people by surprise. The lowlands adjoining Sycamore creek were the lirrt to suffer and at one time water was standing Jevel with the roofs oi" the residences. Word neri,..- -PoOTiin wnrkuri are labor- IContitimd m rut M"l LI NEEDS i C I TI Steps Taken Toward Se curing Additional Rooms and Repairs as Well. J.hevlllo's school problem is bv neans confined to the construc-'.nn- of new buildings. The old - nools, many of which arc refine,- it, great need of additions mu repairs, are also to have at ' riUon under the promise given the board at the time the last 1 .rcessful school bond election 'vns called. Initial steps to carry out-that loomiso were taken yesterday aft--i'noon when there was appointed 1 special committee to make an mmedlate surVey( of the present I'ubHo schools, This t,o:iimlttee is instructed to " part the results of their investi gation in detail to the school ad visory, board, making recommen dations so that suitable action may h ttkei toward the correction ot "listing troubles. This means numerous additions "-4 much renovation. lddltions at Park, Asheland, Wl, Livingston and Buffalo street schools have long been considered imperative, and will be Riven con sideration by the special coramit- ee. At Asheland avenue school a 'unch room and manual training department were virtually . prom. UJIIO t0U BU lit--. 'ommittee will doubtless find rea son to paes favorably upon such additions. R. J. "berlll, ZS.Tf publio vorks; W. E. Brooker, su uerinteaderit of city schools: In spector Johnson, overseeing con struction of the new schools, and "r. Cari V. Reynolds, city health '-fflctr. Considerable tntrAMt ntianhea to as! ;ne Dronoseri investigations ''tiwns living- In sections where wtff'ts 'wtq aitendlnr thsrir-w-nt naded schools have registered Jmplalnts in numerous oases. COMMITTEE SURVEY SCHOOLS Engineer es Levees Are Dynamiter Craft Left Key West Monday Morning With Six Persons on Board. TRACER MESSAGES WITHOUT RESULTS Islands Are Combed and Naval Seaplane Takes Part in Search. MIAMI. P!a April ' SaiGrav doubt exists tonight as hi the fate of the flying boat Santa Maria, which left Key West .Monday morn ing for Nassau with iix persons aboard her, and has not been heard from since. Searching planes were sent out this morning-, bin returned tonight without having located a trace, of the missing craft. It is. believed thai the Santa .Maria was disabled at sea. but there in no conjecture as to where she may have been forced down. Tile Santa Maria left Key West at x o'clock Monday morning for Nassau to brine back to Miami C. A. Mchiller, a pilot of the Aero- marme corporation, owners of the tsanta .Maria, wtio was attacked and seriously injured by Nassau thugs last Friday. Schiller has been un c-crjacious ever sinew, and the Santa Maria, when she sailed from Key West, carried Dr. Eugene A. Lowes Leslie, A. Curry, a pharmacist, both of that city, and a woman nurse from Havana to attend him. Pilots Ed Mustek and K. OS. Rich ardson flew the ship. The Santa Maria was due in Mi ami at :i o'clock yesterday after noon, and wljen at dusk she had not appeared, tracer messages were sent out. This morning 'it was definitely known that the flying boat had never reached Nassau. Aeromarine officials at Key West immediately sent out the sister skip Tonoe de Leon to comb the waters. Commander Albert Read, who arrived here yesterday with a fleet of naval seaplanes from Guan tanamo bay, ordered one of them to Join the search. At 8:30 tonight the naval plane returned from an all-day flight along the coast and out over the keys to report that it hod sighted nothing. A UUlo later George Cobb, pilot of the Fonce de Leon, wirelessed from Nassau that he had covered the Islands and had failed to sight the Santa Maria. Commander Read tonight was preparing to send out his whole fleet of nine navy torpedo planes in the morning, provided tho wind permits. Fast speed boats all along the coast from Miami to Key West also will be mobilized to Join the search. IS CON VICTED UNDER THE SYNDICALISM Ad' SA FRANCISCO. Calif, April 35. Miss L. Whitney, club wo man nd social welfare worker, must serve 14 years In prison, th district court of appeals decided today in conviction and sentence on a charge of violating the state syndicalism act. CLERKS TO MEET President Cathey Breaks Tie on Place of Meet ingDate July 6-7. The North Carolina association of Clerks of the Superior court will meet In annual session at Waynesville, July 6-7, according to a decision reached by John H. Cathey,. clerk of the. Buncombe Superior court and president of the state association today. For several weeks the matter of a meeting place has been the sub ject of discussion by thv clerks and with Ashevllle and Waynesville In the running a tie vote was record ed. In an effort to break the tie President Cathey urged all mem bers who had not voted to do so and with the latest returns the question remained a tie, therefore the president's vote decided the meeting place. The association numbers as its members the clerks of the Superior court In the respective counties of the state and Mr. Cathey, of Bun combe, has been president for two terms. The clerks take an active Interest In court procedure and the state laws. Since the duties of the clerks are so numerous In this state and that they are governed exclusively by the statutes, their meetings are ot considerable im port " - While the program committee has not finished Us work for this year It Is stated a speaker of prom inence and a man who occupies some place of honor In the state will be secured for the principal jadaM on the opening day, July . iA. D. Watts, commissioner of revenue for North Carolina, will discuss the state inherltanei tax W- Si K" ?L son county will discuss the rela tion of the clerks of the Superior court to the colored race. Mr. Johnson, who has held office "since the memory of man run neth not to the contrary," and whose period of public aar"vlo ss clerk of the Superior court is ex celled oniy oy juage race. 01 Bill," and his presence t this year's meeting has been assured. -SUPERIOR COURT WAYNESVILLE 1 PLEAD FOR FOR tMERGENCY t Weeks and Pershing Wni.U Tin... T ,.. Body Cap; "UIUU uuuy vau- ble to Meet Situations SUPPLY BILL WILL NOW BE WRITTEN Pershing Says Casualties and Costs Heretofore Unnecessary. WASHINGTON. .April 2:V A plea for a national military policy tthi. li would assure the checking of aggression by foreign power in its incipiency and which would avoid "confusion, disorder, delay and extravagance," when emer gencies arise, was nmde today by Secretary Week ami General Pershing before a senate commit tee in support of the war -department program for an army , of 1.1, 000 officers and ISO. 1)00 enlisted men. The suiteiivnis by tlie two army heads remoulded the public discus siou of tlie annual army supply bill and the appropriations com mittee, which has charge of it will begin immediately to write the measure. General Pershing- declared that had the I'nited States been ade quately prepared, "there is little question that the I'nited Stales un der strong leadership could have prevented the world war alto gether." He added that there was no doubt that the war between the states, likewise would never have occurred had the L'nion been equipped with an army of reason able size and ready for immediate use. The army of 115,000 men and 11.000 officers, fixed by the house was considered by Secretary AVeeks to be below the safe minimum re quirements, of the country. He asserted ' that "unbusiness like" conduct of the military establish ment in years gone by was respon sible for the expenditure of "un necessairy" billions in America's wars. "We have entered each war with our national defense system unor ganized," Mr. Weeks continued. "This has required an extempor ized organization thrown together in great haste and resulting always in excessive expenditure and ex cessive economic disturbances. In each war, we have consistently ad hered to policy of forming a great citizen army to reinforce our small regular establishment, but In the absence of any definite plans the process'-'Sf ornlttig ' this- -citizen-army has been one of confusion, disorder, delay and extravagance." In General Pershing's statement regarding the size of the army, he warned that human nature has not 'changed and that "our own expe riences should have taught us that the existence, of envy, jealousy and hatred cap no more be Ignored among nations than among Indi viduals." "We should possess and continue from year to year," said the gen eral, "a consistent and well mature plan contemplating definite prelim inary preparation and training for its complete development in case of emergency. "This is only the part of com mon sense and ordinary precau tion. World conditions of today are not reassuring, but, regardless of all that, we cannot afford ever again to be negligent. Human na ture has not changed and the hls torv of nations is one of strife. "The friends of today are often the enemies of tomorrow. Failure to recognise these facts has with out exception found us always un prepared. "Lack of preparation in all our wars has caused us unnecessary loss of life and has left us staggering- under financial burdens." FLAGSHIP IS ORDERED TO CHINESE WATERS WASHINGTON, April 26. -Ad-mlral Strauss, commanding tho Asiatic fleet, ordered his flagship, the Huron, from the Philippines to Chinese waters On his own initia tive, it whs said today at the navy department. HE'D BE A 11 1 1 MP MCf ITFM j-A ri--iiMw)mni t IS. (wi-til.(.im l - Will D. Upshaw, of Georgia, BOMBS THROWN AT TWO Mills IN PAWFUCKET Utile Damage, But Great Excitement, Is Caused By Explosions I'AW'l'l TKET. R. I.. April Pawtucket wrrr at IV o'clock and The rumens lalurlVll lotlilfllt a, ,, .,., Ly K.a ex ulusions beard throughout the cliy. Hundreds of people poured Into tlie street. It a two hours before ih 'police wore able to locate the scenes of the explosions. A rem in the roof of th Jeuckes Spinning company plant about two fit Iocs was the first hie. Tlin police found that a bomb hsil been thrown upon the roof, making the buie and breaking a number of wln- .1 dows. but witttout doing material damage to the machinery within. .No one was In the building. Operatives at this mill have been on atrike for 11 weeks and It '.has been the scene of most of the troubbi In Ibis city sincn the Inception of the strike asnli)st the i'M per cent wage cut. The mccoihI explosion was at the ("town Manufacturing company's plant, two miles from th .lencKes plant. Police found that a bomb bad been hurled to a cement platform and that, the only damage was the breaking of windows. M'LEAN WILL SET LAND BANK L He and Lever Will Work in Co-operation Location Not Yet Picked. wairinoton arn-40 -m imstiLi a oituix 1 ' II H. C. tHUST) WASHINGTON, April 28. -Angus Wilton McLean, who gives up his position on the war finance corporation May 17, announced today that he had arranged to es tablish a joint stock land bank In North Carolina, similar to the one to be set up in Columbia by Aabury F. Lever and others. The capital stock to be $250,000 to start with and will be increased from time to time as Its progress demands. Mr. McLean is not yet ready to make public the location. Several places are under consid eration, but no final decision has been reached. The McLean bank will make loans In North and South Caro lina. Just as the one at Columbia will do. Mr. Lever will be a di rector in the North Carolina bank as Mr. McLean Is one In Colum bia. ; , It was - explained -today that while the two banks will be under different ownership they will act In close co-operation so as to pro vide ample facilities for obtaining; farm loans in the two states. Mr. McLean said today he and Mr. Lover had canvassed the situation and come to the conclusion that there was ample room in the Car olinas for the two banks. It was pointed out that there Is need for such Institutions at this time, as the farmers need money to work out their losses and extend their credits, QUITS THE WAR FINANCE CORPORATION ON MAT 17 WASHINGTON, April 25. Plans to establish' a joint stock land bank In North Carolina with a capital of 1250,000, were an nounced today by A. W. McLean, who will sever his onnectlon with the wsr finance corporation May 17. He said he had made ar rangements for the bank to make loans in North and South Caro lina and to Increase Its capital from time to time as needs de velop. This bank, Mr. McLean eald, with the similar institution Just established at Columbia, S. C, by A. I , Lever, who recently resign ed as a member of the farm loan board, will provide the Carolines with two such banks. Several cities are under consideration, h added, for headquarters of the North Carolina bank. The banks will operate under federal charter and with the fed eral land banks, will be under di rect supervision of the federal farm loan board. BIG HELP TO THE By BILLY BQRNE would establish branch, banks in NORTH 0 SCHEME STRIKE' Kentucky and Tennessee; Are Negotiating Separate Wage Agreements. HARD COAL PARLEY ON WAGE SUSPENDED Lewis Says There Will Be no Change in the Policy of Miners. WASHINGTON, - April 25. The government Is wurkiiif 011 a plan looking 10 ending- of the coal strike, which It will submit soon to bolh operators and union lead ers, it was said today at the White House. Details of ilie plan were not disclosed but it was snlil tli.'it It does not include federal super vision of tht coal industry. 1 The plan, which now is receiving i tlie attention of President Harding and his advlrsers. was said to con template a. permanent solution, if possible, of the basic problems of the industry. Presentation of the plan, it was indicated, would be made when a favorable opportunity presents itself. TWO iSTVTES ARE NOW NEGOTIATING WAGES SPRINGFIELD. 111., April 2T Negotiation of separate state wage agreements by striking coal miners in Kentucky and Tennessee was announced today by Frank Far riugtou. Illinois president of the United Mine Workers. Separate wage agreements by local Illinois miners ure imminent, he said. In Alabama, he said, the state union officials have instructed members to continuo at work. NO CHANGE IN POLICY OF MINERS, DECLARED PITTSBURGH, April 25. -There will be no change in the policy of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica In the conducts of the national coal strike, said John L. Lewis, in ternational president, here today. Mr. Lewis stopped for a confer ence with the officers of District No. 6, while on his way from In dianapolis to Charlestown. W. Va., where tomorrow he will confer with the officers of District No. 17. Mr. Lewis said after a conference with Vice-President P. T. Pagan and Secretary William Hargast, that he wan very well satisfied with the progress being; made toward the organization of the miners in tho extensive Fayette and West moreland non-union field, where, his reports showed, hundreds of non-union miners had joined in the strike. Reports that a number of mines in the Fayette -Westmoreland re gion which had been affected by the strike, resumed operations to day, excited much interest in Pitts burgh, Operators declared that that pointed to early resumption in other mines, while union lead ers said such defections were al ways to be expected particularly In the region where the miners had never been on strike. ANTHRACITE NEGOTIATORS S V S I' K N I D THEI R TALK . NEW YORK, April 25. Failure of anthracite operators to agree on a program of wage reduction de mands today resulted in n, tem porary suspension of conferences of the joint sub-committee on wage contract negotiations, seeking to end the ooal strike No date was set for the next meeting. SERIOUS SLOUGH IX LEVEK IS REPORTED NATCH KZ, Miss.. April 2ft. A serious slough appeared In the Mississippi lovee hetwocn Byrne and Buckrldge about 11 miles above Newellton. l.a , today. A crack of about 40 feet long with clear water showing developed. The threatening condition caused great apprehension for a timo and men were rushed from adjacent points to combat the new trouble. Late reports from Newellton stated that the levee is now in satlsfac ory condition. , Engineers stated that all the levees in the fifth Ixiuislana lovee district are holding. . . T OLD MAN .t - - sff.l) tw 1 Rw sttw the capital of each state. FEDERAL ED Bl WROUGHT fc; Russian Action Tantamount Tn Th iron f3 French Grow Restive At Genoa Lady Aster Declares U. S. ISOVjETTO R C E S May Yet Enter Genoa Meet HM IDF UICCCI) Sings Praises of the Associated Press at Meeting; Held at New York Defends Position of j Women in Politics. I.Y YciLK. Api il -- Lady , I il Ic.idiuK editors and j jStol t o;ihhsh. is of the I'nited Stales to-1 day at He animal luncheon or The Assoclat.d Press, that America would el join the confere'ice at Genoa. "1 believe AmeM'.t .-.in show tn nav to peace," she exclaimed IVr Wiitly. amid a nale of applause. The reference l Genoa was but one of a : core or subjects touched upon by ti e Virginia -born member of tho Pritish house of commons i.i a bieey address on mother love and practical politics that held the close intention of her auditors in the grand ball room of the Wal 'jorf Astoria. Her audience was month' men. although the boxes in the rallery were filled with women. l4idy Astor seemed perfectly t linniii fru'i the moment she trip ped Jauntily into tlie room to tlie strains of "Dixie." Sim joined tn the inHlng of "Curry Me Back to Cld Virginia:" shouted "hear, near, wnen ner nnsoB.nu, im-uun A.sior spoive niieiij- nun piwuoi-ju 1 chair and waveu gooa oye ai the conclusion of the luncheon. She digressed considerably from her prepored address, touching at landom on such topics as Lloyd George. Bolshevism, labor and capital, the power of the press, a closer understanding between England and the United States. She proudly said she was a Virginia patriot and a very ar dent one. This Patriotism, she t too. her well "because saiiI. had it has proven to England that the , real patriot can be useful in any country, ,;nd a narrow, bigoted pa- THEFT OPERATING HERE Five Under Arrest and One Sought, Said to Have Stolen Twelve Cars. With the arrest of four youths at 9 o'clock yesterday morning, and apprehension at a late hour last night of a fifth, police believe they have broken the backbone of a well-organised automobile theft ring, which for some time has been carrying on extensive operations in tho two Carollnaa and surrounding stains. Of the four first arrested. C. O. Moore and R. W. Wilson are of Columbia. B. C. A. H. Brown and C. B. Giiyer gave their ad dress as High Point. Police be lieve the names are fictitious. Two of the alleged band es--capod when pollen rounded them up In an apartment house on Ashland avenue, and one of these, according to the oftloers, Laoey Lanier, of Greenville, was arrest ed at a late hour last night as he swung off the train from Green ville at the Southern depot. Police believe Lanier had de parted previously for Greenville or some other South Carolina point, driving a stolen auto which he disposed of there, returning 011 the train to make another trip. All five are being held in the clay Jail without bond, and po lice are searching for a sixth man. Dozen Oars Stolen U'Tn in Two Works. Information which came into the hands of the police with the arrest of the men, they slatu. tends to lighten tho mystery sur- lounaing the disappoaranco from Ashevllle in tho past two wooka of more than a dozen automobl'es, all new, and of a like number in Gastonla. Other points report similar losses. According to arresting ofllcms, evidence in their possession indi cates that members jf tho band Picaea up euiomotmes in Humor ous North Carolina cities, and either altered the idntilleatla numbers in private garaitcs which they rented, as Is alleged to have been their method hare, or cuie rushed them across the fcUte line to Greenville, Spartanburg or Co lumbia, where they were altered and sold. Two automobiles, reported stol en several days ago. werw found in a private garag.i on Avhlaud avenue rented by the band, ac cording to tho police. Otic of the cars was tho property, or S. At. Alexander, they state. ' Tills cur was last week reported stolen. The other automobile, polite say, was reported stolen from Gastonla. They assert keys to the garage In whic.n the stolen car was located wr.i found on the person of one of the first four arrested. DAUGHTERS OF IM2 OPEN ANNUAL CONVENTION WASHINGTON, April 2 5. -"-The J-Kiugnters of 1812 opened their an nual convention here today, most of the time belni; occupied with re ports of "the national officers and standing committees. Senator Stan ley, of Kentucky, was tho chief ! speaker at the annual banquet of tne ofgaiiliallon tonight. Officers will be elected tomorrow. ' THIRTY-SEVENTH VICTIM .! IN WALL STREET BLAST NEW YORK. April 27. The 7th victim nf the Wall street ex plosion in 1920 ha,s just died. A doctor's certificate issued for Frederick Davey Sopor of Brook- 1 l ft gUV o nu Ih. I'.ll.. of flivilli i,H. '"eived in" t hi" dia'aster. lnjlm''" ADTO RING n in re trl.it is no iff to ah) ciiiiiirv. even his own " She stopped to apologia, for her recent lenmrks against th" bonus, siying: "I forgot I was a Hritisil member of parliament, and I upoke ait a Virginian. I seem to have worried some people." sho nald, ' but perhaps these people are not m'ty-l1fty like I nm." Touching on politics, she said: "1 suppose miany or you are despernttiy set ngatnsl women coming Irto politics and I don'l bl.ime you, I am sorry for you. 1 think -ooner or later you will see that we are perfectly right to want to come Into public life." Aswx latod Press Gn at l-owur tor Progress In dieuslng the press, he said: "The press of a country 1s 4 little dlilcrent from ambassadors. We send our ambassadors and thev can interpret their government; but the press ran even to fur ther. They can interpret, the dlf feient pooples. And that is whv TM Associated Press has boen. I ihuik, really one of the neatest stents f.r progress that we have known In our generation. You cannot realise how great that re--possibility Is. I do not want to .flitter the press. I do not really 'like in ouiiar uny one. . "But 1 think tho whole world should know what it owes to Mr. Melville IS. Stone (counsellor of The Associated Press nn,1 tnr mnnv vs.ra !( Dn.. 1 His vision created you and when he did It I think he did what an 0ld negro cook down in vi,Jit. gay, 1 dM .,. , ,hnw.rt IvmttiuHi m f lot A ni E MAILS FOR D PURPOSES Defendants Held in Char lotte in Default of $2,000 Bail. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., April Z5. B. C. Shsfer anil Sale. two alleged agents of the Point of i-urcnase Advertising association, York, Pa., are under arrest at Charlotte, N. C, charged with us ing the United States malls to de fraud, the case havlnj? been worked up by postofflce Inspectors from southeastern headquarters here. Huge profits by use of a mintr eloctrlo sign sold for a small amount in which advertising spare la supposed to brlnf In monthly revenue from national advertisers Is ths proposition whloh is said to have proved attractive to many merchants throughout the south Including several local firms. Ac cording to inspectors. Schaefer and Baxe appeared In Mobile two weeks ago and advertised in newspapera soliciting application! for th man aershlp In that city of the Point ot Purchase Advertising asancia tlon and let the contract to W. C. Lambert for Mobile and the state of Tennessee. When Lambert came to this state he found that the state right had "been sold to C. H. Mullen of Nashville. It is reported that Lambert then visited Chatta nooga and KnogviUe, only to dis cover that representatives of Mullen had been ahead of him. Snhaofer nd Saxo also sold ter ritory at Annlston, Ala. When the United States district attorney at Birmingham learned of their activ ities he ordered their wrest but the men had fled. The fugitives were trailed by postoffloe inspect ors and Miss Ethel Hayes, art ex pert In the cotton business who as chief witness In the recent million dollar fraud case at Annlston, was brought into the case. She went to Charlotte and Identified the two men masquerading as Max Golden and 1J. Clausen and who had there opened an office under the name of the North Carolina sales and Ad vertising Agency. Their arrest fol lowed and they were plnced under 4,000 hall. HEARING-IS SET REFORB COMMISSION'Elt, MAY 4 CHARLOTTE. N. C April 25. Bert .Sure, alias Max Golden, and Edward C. Slinfnr, alias E. Clousen, are boinr held in Mecklenburg county jail hero In default of 2, 000 bond each on charges of using the malls to dofraud and soiling territorial rights for an alleged bogus concern. They were held by United States Commissioner Cobb for hearing, May 4. The two men were arrested here by M. C. Coin, United States deputy marshal and T. C. Olbbs, postoffice Inspector, after they had leased quarters here and opened a branch office under the name of ''North Carolina Sales and , Advertising Agency." The urrcst mudo last Fri day was on charges preforred in Birmingham, Ala., from which city they recently came to Char lotte, having been trailed here by thn federal auents. Officers say that Saxe and HhAfor wrern the names tinner wnicn mey operated In Birmingham, but that in migrations here they used th names of Oolden and Clousen. OVER 3.500 HOMELESS IN THE TRINITY . VALLEY ST. LOUIS. Mo., April 25.--More than ,S00 persons are home less and at least 1.S00 homes In the Trinity valley between Arl ington Heights and Fort Worth. Te.as. are Inundated, according 1,. .U. ..... -a,.alv.H liv I Ha smith western division of th American Red Cms here tonight. CHARG Ti MEN USED FRAll IIUII IIIIL. IIIIIUUI.V ON POLISH LINE Poland Told Her Union With Ames in Note May Abrogate Treaty. frenchTntimatb MAY QUIT MEETING Dislike the British Inter pretation Placed Upon Their Note. GENOA. April 25. (By the As .locuuod Press. ) Soviet Rues contributed another sensation to Km economic conference today by sending a note ot the Polish dele gation 11 ii'.onstratlng against Po land s action in Joining with thai allied powers in protest against J separate treaty between HumsU( and Germany. Russia claimed that tho peace treaty between her self and Poland covers all rel tioiiK between the two countries so that Poland, Ilk Germanyj 1 tould not participate in the dla- cussion of Russian affairs, even I Intimating that Polaud by her piesent action in the conference. has abrogated the treaty signed at Riga on March 1. 1921. Russia Las a strong; red army encampc-d near the Polish border. and for this reason, the Russian! remonstrances a r regarded by! some ot the delegates aa equlva lent to almost a threat aaalnitl Poland. The experts on th Russian' question sitting without the soviet delegates, today compared notes) on the new proposals presented by the Russian delegates at Tester, day' session, and decided to for-) ard their report to their respec-i tlve governments. It is expected! that when the answers are re c ived from the various capltols , ui powers will submit counter propositions to the soviet couched tn firm :unguag, lo an endeavor to reach working basis for an ujoord. "v.-." "We cannot tay here forever," said a French delegate tonight. The Fronch are disturbed over Itn manner in which the lflngllsh have interpreted Premier Poincare's ad dress. She French spokesman made it c.'oar that all Frenchmen are alnrmod over future military possibilities of the Russo-German) merely voicing France's genuine treaty and that M. Poincara was disquietude. There ore certain in dications here that Franca with her dwindling population is fear ful of the constantly Increasing German population, nnitn.i uiihi mighty Russia. The French atti-1 'ude toward Russia is described! as Ilk that of Japan toward China each want an organiser! and prosperous neighbor, but doe, not desire that that neighbor be so dtrong as to loom tip as a pos sible menace. "Rl'SSIANS WTIJ, NOT ACCEPT PARTITIONING! WASHINGTON. April 2C. The Russian people will never aocepl the "evident plan nf th allies at Genoa to partition Russia into col-, onles of the European nations."! probably Including OermanyJ count llya Tolstoy declared in tn address today. Such an attempt, ha added, would hrfrig great dangeo to the future and he advised Amer ica to "keep hands off" and recpg nl7. any Russian overnment which, will guarantee security to trade, labor, property and personal right. tonine, Ktliine of Germany, and Lloyd George, whom Count Tolstoy) dpscrlbed as controlling the des tiny of Europe, each have, plana foi the settlement of Europe, he said,' but the BritlHh diplomacy, "aimed at capturing the Russian market" ronfllcts with Htinnes' designs cm this market to "make enough to pay the German Indemnity." Meanwhile, he added. "Lenlne hopes to retain power by selling Russian conoesslo-M for loans tn bolster up the fcetehevlkt and lo permit them yet to tUc advantage of a ruined Europe to achieve a world revolution toward commun ism." "It la this situation," th speaker declared, "which has , Drought about the Genoa conference. iDtur land and France know that if Ger many gets the Russian market she will have won the war. Bo now the plan is to apportion up Russia's great natural resources among- th -allies and to make her a seoond India. Uiitnln will get the oil wells. France probably the mines; Ger many will be given a shnre to keep her in the plot, and Lenlne will got the loans In exchange for thesn concessions which will keep the bolshevik! In power." Eighty per cent of the Russian people, he added, wer "bitter against the allies and especially against Rritaln," and this, h warned, "spells great danger for the future," ' NORTH CAROLINA BANK MEN ARE; IN kKSKION PINKHUItST, N. C, April 25.--The a.tfth annual convention of, th North Carolina Bankers asso ciation will meet at The Carolina hotel tomorrow morning for a three day session. More than 590 members of the organisation will be presont, according to Indica tions tonlghl, Thn chief address on the first day of the three day meeting will be delivered by Judge C F. Moore,. of New Yortt. RAID WAS PLANNED IN INmATION BY KLANSMJW LOS ANGELF.S. April 26 (The midnight raid resulting in ths kill ing of Constable M. B. Mosher ttel urday was arranged in a meecltv Friday night in which Btalts . 8ha.mbeau. traffic officer of In-tls-" wood, was initiated Into Ut K11 Klin It la 11, Blm.mheau law I fled the 'inquest bare todr Into deeAh of Oomstsble
Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.)
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