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ASHEVILLE CITIZEI THE WEATHER North and Smith Carolina: Fair Tuee.. Wad. Ineraaalng cloudlneaa, prebably ahowere by nlqht nt por tion, IIHIa changa In temperature. 16 PAGES TODAY DEDICATED TO THE UP-BUILDING OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA" ESTABLISHED 1868. ASHEVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1922. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE Governor Calls For -Continued Progress, I, nuns Achievements SPEAKS STATE'S UPON THE Morrison Addresses the Graduating Class at Cullowhee Normal. GOVERNMENT UPON MODERN IDEA BEST fi.ro of ftAVArniYiaiifal ajaU VU V V V V 4aV WW turn to People of State. ( BpMtal Cmrtrpmime, Tk4 AtkevUlt CitUfnl WEBSTER, May 8. Speaking .on the affairs of a modern, pro gressive government before, the graduating class ot the Cullowhee Normal school at its 33rd annual closing exercises here today, Gov ernor Morrison declared that "no private business in the world is run upon such a small overhead coat, and no other state govern ment in the union is conducted at such a small overhead or adminis tration expense" as the state gov ernment ot North Carolina. The executive confined his re marks principally to- state affair, relating the methods ot operation of the government and its pur pose in this day, emphasizing the point he wished to make clear with this declaration: "A modern government organiz- 3d to do something for the peo je.more than to prevent them 'om robbing and killing each -..u... -.m . - . i uLiirr w4u juijuiiu a kicuiqi in vestment than the old government performing only the duties of the Judge, the sheriff and the coroner, and an intelligent citizen under stands that the taxes paid for such a. government are the best invest ment he makes, and will return ,a greater yield, If not for himself, certainly for his children, than any he can make individually tor them"; His addres s in part was- as fol lows' . "North Carolina must continue to progress. "We must not only progress, but we must do so at an ever Increasing rate of speed. Difficul ties overcome being taken into ac count, our progress for a quarter of a century makes a splendid story, and yet our national re sources considered, North Carolina ought to be ashamed that we are not a richer and more efficient -people than we are. Our natural resources and advantages com are (most favorably with any state of like area in all the world, and if we had, even 50 years ago, com menced to'educate all the people of the state and to make them efficient in Industry, we would eas ily have been many times stronger and richer than we are. "The course of North Carolina thmnnVi h mreo boa been its un willingness to spend money In nec Jsary development of the natural Tsources of the state, and in train ing and making efficient the great mass of the people. For many de- r i-i aa -n-a wora 'npwtr!i in wuuu end drawers of water"for tno oet tr trained and more efficient sec tions ot our own country and of the -world. "We have in the recent past made notable progress, past his tory considered, but we are far from performing now the proper functions and duties of a great state. The true way to reduce tax ation is to -educate, not only cul turally, but technically, the youth of the state and make them more efficient In industry and varied in capacity to create wealth, in order that there will be more wealth created to bear the- burden; to take care of our defective and unfortunate in order that there will be fewer defectives and un fortunates to take care of; to guard through governmental agencies tne dealth of the people oi tne siaw, i enforce the law and in every hper way discountenance vice d prevent crimes "W must have a modern aim up-to-date government, not only doing the old-iasmom-", i ' ' -u-. -A..nmpntfl did. DUt tnings mm. K one which realizes that the bene- - m ..fAnmant la AS trUlY expressed through the school hou s the court nouooi ;v .ntelligence enough toward h sanitary ana neauu -farm demonstrator as ot nml t nlty and importance with the sher iff and policeman A modern gov ernment organized to do w,'in for the people mora tlu" i to prt vent mem from robbing and kill ing each other will require a great er investment than the old on ment performing only the duties of the jpdge, the sheriff and he coroner .and an jtlliBont citi zen understands that the taxes paid for such a government Is the best , - i nnd will re- turn a greater yield, if not tor Mm- self, certainly vox- "";r"' than snv he can make Indivldu- xaJly for them. lore Saving Collectively va1ian Individually. . i nm Bituwiiic,. - . rarollna is more economical in the, - - .1 V. ilitnwi payment ot taxes him i - K do collectively man . the things we do as individuals. If we practiced a small part of the economy in our individual and private Uvea that we demand in the state' affairs, we would pay Our taxes and yet soon, possess very great accumulations. We can never get ready to make true prog ress untill we cease to think of taxation In the old way as a mere contribution to a few officers who did little else than keep order and protect us from robbery and other crimes. We must realize that tax ation In the town, county and stade largely goes to the education -of our children, the protection of our K4&.li, L1IO MUUU1I1& UU. lwU"i the Improvement of agriculture nJ other Dirtiness-- nit' ! -rfmnir RECORD AND OPPORTUNITY U.S. Would Agree To Commission On Mexican Problems Some Suggest International Commission to Study ' Issues Involved , WASHINGTON, May 8. Ap pointment of an international com mission to consider all the Issues Involved in American recognition of the - Obregon government in Mexico has been suggested in some official quartern as a solution of the continued failure of the Unit-? ed States government and Mexico City authorities to agree on a re cognition program. Although the United States will Insist that a positive guarantee against confiscatory provisions of the Mexican constitution of 1917 must precede recognition it was in timated today that a commission to continue the negotiations would be agreed to here if It were sug gested formally by General Obre gon. No such request has yet been received. . Withhold Action Regard. ing Charges Against - Their Countryman. WASHINGTON, May 8. British embassy officials indicated tonight that any action the embassy may take in connection with the kid nippiiu: charges ot Alexander E Robertson, British war veteran, vjfmiri rier.end on the information tPi-plvid tomorrow from Itobert- b'-'n who plans to come here and lay before the embassy the whole mailer growing out of, so he "barges, his affection for Mins Mary Cu'-bcrson. 21 year old daughter of Senator Culberson ot Texas. Officials Ht the embassy were plainly inclined to suspend Judg ment in the matter until after they had heard ltobertson. Senator Culberson . . hcciMt.fcliinf ... i ocnatur Culberson throughout the day continued the silence h !i.ia maintained since the matter was given publicity. He refuaed-j to see newspaper men in connec tion with the case.' Mrs. Ctilber B'Hi w,i said by friends of -the fKinily to bfe nearly prostrate a trie C'ulbtrson apartment on Sl f;enth street, Hiss Culoersori could not be found Jn Washington ,vid at Helton Arms, the fashion able finishing school where she has barn a student, it was said sin iwd withdrawn soma time ago. .Robertson's charges that the de tectives who attempted to get him out f the country representel themselves as agents of Hie de- Dartmert of Justice brought this statemeiii during the day from William .1. Burns, chief of the de partment's bureau of investigation: "If this is found to be the case 1 would prosecute tfiem; But as fnr as we can learn this Is not the c;.se." The charges made by ltobertson alio brought a statement from t. W. 1 Anderson in charge of the Washington office of the W. J. Burns detective agency. Mr. An derson said operatives of the agen cy had been employed to shadow the. Urltish war veteran but would not say for whom they were aot- Injf.f Ke denied the kidnapping charges and declared there was no truth In Robertson's declaration that the detectives fcid instigated a move to send the Britisher to Aigentina. ' "As a matter of fact the propo sition emanated from ltobertson himself," t-aid Anderaom. "He said he wanted a chance to make good bifd that he had friends in South America who could help him, H-s selected X.nston as the port of em barkation as it was from that plu that the first ship would sail to b Ing him to his destination. "Sevcrfil trips were made be tween Eloomfiold, N. J., where Robertson was staying with his a,tnt at Newark, to make arrange ments. On Friday night, April 21. while awaiting the midnight trai.i for Boston, Robertson and his aunt were left alone in the dining, room of the .Robert Treat hotel fur more thnn an hour. It is during this time I . understand that h claims he was being kidnapped., If he wanted to get aid all he had to do was to call for" it. from the lfinny diners- nt tables thereabouts "The ship was to sail irom BosKvi, Saturday, April 29, Kobertaon, John p.-Kills, Oh detective wlwse nr-est on the kidnapping chara nas been caused by Robertson) and tlio other operativo were In Boston from Sat urday, April 22, to Monday night, April 24, Then having heard of the visit of Mrs. Andrews, the aunt of Robertson, to Washlngtch we drop ped the case and broke off arrange ments. Kills and the other operative accompanied ltobertson to ?.cw Wis, where they ahook hands In entire good spirits and left him." "On Tuesday, April 25, Kill re slsrned from tliia office. His resigpa tlon was entirely because of his own personal reasons and nothing that grew out of this caae caused It. A few (lavs later the other operative resigned. -Kills' action after thai were outside of onr Jurisdiction. We were out of the case. If he saw fit to make any arrangements for any other party on his own Initiative or to return te New Jersey It was none of our business That's aa far aa wt know anything about the case, Al'CTIO.V RAILWAY AT MAOOV TOT MACON, Ga May I. The Haw. klnsville and Florida Southern rail way will be offered for sale to the highest bidder at the Eb county courthouse here tomorrow morning The railroad will be offered on the block aa a going concern and tha sale will b conducted by Receiver It. B. Pecnam annninted by tne court as mrnn tsafoner ewnduetthe' -preeeett BRITISH EMBASSY IS INVESTIGATING KIDNAPPING CASE AVER PERSON SCHFMF FOB FRFF UW 1 1 Im1 II u i w 1 1 i 1 1 u w RIDETOCONGRESS Again Seeks Mandamus to Compel Listing of Stocks for Tax. SAME ALLEGATION AS PREVIOUS ONE State Revenue Commis sion to Appear May 22 and Reply to Person. TiRROIim'r.H KOTIfj (tV IKOCK tUUKt.KY) HAT-EIGII, M.vv "CaplUliaa tlofj of a .fanatical but catchy idea for a free ride to congreo,", was the characterizntion placed , today o.n Colonel Willie M. Person's for mal application for a writ of man damus to- compel the listing of stocks for' taxation by the state revenue commission. f After arranging a bond of $200 to insure the ravenu commission against loss in the event of a de--clsion adverse to the complainant, the opponent In the fourth district wf Congressman Ed Pou late Satur day aternoon filed hi complaint before Judge Kerr at Laurlnburg and summons subsequently waa is sued and served today, citing the commission to appear before Judge Calvert In chambers here May 22 and show caueo why a peremptory mandamus should not lie against It compelling. the listing for taxa tion of all stocks, capital, common and preferred. Colonel Person sought a writ several days ago rom Judge Devin. in Wake superior court, but his allegation that legislative- en actments governing the .. ...existing prinvlples of taxation are uncon stitutional was not sufficient' to ln-te.-eeit his honor. Same Allegation Made Previously The same allegation is contained In the complaint filed before Judge Kerr, -which ie brought by Colonel Person "for himself, for the tax payers of Franklin county and th state of North Carolina.' The comalaiiic scarcely created a rlppie of excitement among In terested state officials today, they consider his movement so feeble and unreasonable despite Chief Jus tice Clark's frequent advocacy 6f the scheme In times past, as to make ft undeserving of official cog nizance beyond the bare necessity for defense before the courts. . Tax Commissioner Watts' only comment were that "I've been sued for levying taxes, but this Is the first time I have been sued for not levying them." Corporation Commissioner Alien MaxwelU,. credited, with, having Tratned the tneasurefl i .'providing for the state's existing system of taxa tion, said that "Colonel Person Is bringing his action against the wrong parties; he ought to man damus the general assembly which passed the law and not the revenue department which merely collects the taxes." Mr. Maxwell, who some months ago fought a heated newspaper dual witfl Chief Justice Clark on this subject, insisted that the legis lation governing taxation is sound and safe, in keeping with constitu tional requirements and as modern as the tax laws of any state in the union. . The property of the corporations Is Taxed under existing laws, and to tax the stocks, which merely represent the corporation's erop crty would be double taxation, easily detectable, taxation authori ties contended. Preferred stocks are taken cgre of in the excess profits taxes, so that the "billion dollars of stock," which Colonel Person would collect under his mandamus, are already heavily taxed.; ' View Anil-Tax Move As Political One. Although It is generally recog nized here that the fourth district congressional candidate's latest "anti-tax move" is a political one, considerable public interest Is ex pected to be attracted because o Chief Justice Clark's coutmentary on ths subject in? his concurring opinion on the court's decision as to an Income tax for the judiciary and because of the indirect advo cacy of the principle in the farmer-labor questionnaire rooiintly ... CMKd M PM J-imJ THE FLOWERS THAT, BLOOM IN THE . cwzz47s, constable T'Ma TilfWa tlc., .. 1 SPosse Is Searching i Far Addnna Slaver ar Washington Member of Tobacco Com- I pang Is Killed In His Of- t net After Argument j t .S,!ix-, Je7i Tnomas Tobacco company, win; s.'iot and lulled in his office tonight j and n l ss-e of citizens with xhot j euns is starching the countrysld) f.ir Ton'r.ie- Uibhs, a negro who was I employ d by the company anc wii-i -is believed to have done the shoot-.; ing after an uigun.ent mm u-, don. A chi.d who was in Addon's of ' fice at the; time of the shoolim(! told thf 'police iie was shot when! tile nefcro resented an order Ad-1 don hi.d (.tven him. There afcj more than 200 citizen In thai posse tench's ng the woods for! Giobs. BYodhounds were sent out U track him. and this little town Is Irt an uproar of excitement over ilit sluoung. Seventy Thousand Made H o m e 1 e s s by Floods Along Mississippi. NATCHEZ, Miss., May 8. (By The Associated Press.)- The levee protecting the old portion of Jonesville, La., about two-thirds of the town, broke today. The new section Outside the levee was already- flooded. The water is re ported to be from two to four feet deep in t it) streets ot the town. Jonesville is in Catahoula parish on Black river and has a population of about 1,500. Following the crevasse in the Mississippi levee above Feridey, Ia., s hard fight was made at Jonesville to build up the private levee protecting the main portion ot the town ahead of the rising waters which have been coming up at. the rate ot four inches a day; Sacks and flood fighting ma terial were rushed from Rhine hart, the nearest point of railroad communication and every available man was put to work. Residents of the town had been apprehensive for several days that the dyke could not be held. Send Supplies To Marooned nefugem Arrangements have been made to send a steamboat with supplies sufficient to last for two weeks to the 429 refugees hiaiooned at Art. onlah, Miss. When- a survey of con dltlons was made at Artonlah it was found that Immediate relief was essential. '-..-. ' Jtatlons have been distributed to approximately 5.P00 people from the barge of supplies sent to Fer riday. La., to gi,ve aid to those in the Immediate vicinity of the ere varso. , B. C. Brown, president of the Concordia parish police jury. left today tor Baton Rouge to make an urgent appeal In behalf of the fioJd sufferers in other sections of the parish and also for the lower part of Tensas parish. Practically all of the people who are willing to leave their homes have been taken out of the area inundaited by the Weecania cre vasse. Ths Mississippi fiver is still on a stand here at a stage cf 53 feet. The gap in the levee caused by the crevasse has not widened to any great extent for -several ..days-end the swiftness of the current going through has greatly decreased. At Ferriday nnd other points in Concordia parish the Kee ot back water has decreased to about one tenth of a foot a day, OHGAXIZATIOXS BKC.IV CAMPAIGNS FOtt HEMF.I-' N13VV ORLEANS, May 8. Offi cial announcement was made today by relief organizations that; approx imately 70,000 persons had been rendered homeless In Mississippi and Louisiana by the floods along the Mississippi river. Forty thou sand of these are being cared for by various relief agencies and 30. 000 others are scattered throughout "' IPmtinuti m root fwij NEW BREAKS ON tlSlLSS Bv BILLY BORNR ELIMINATE WilGenoa Echoes With Rumors E CREATE N Eli! ONE General Conference Methodist Episcopal Church in Decision." SMALLER STANDING 1 ARMY IS FAVORED Want Chaplains Given Equal Basis With All Army Officers. . HOT SiMMNGH. Ark., May One -annual Conference was ellml. nikij Hi-.d n new one created in th? r'r westu-n by the action of the genT.-il conference of the Melho J'xt Episcopal church, south, in session here todiiy. ' The. state of Arizona was erected Into district coiii rem-'! and the los Angelc. distri -t of what was formerly the Los AngeU-s conference, was made a part - of the Pacific conference. Tne . Lr.s Angeles conference thus cms! s to exist and the entire siaii of Calif i tula with the exception ot the town of Needles, goes Into the Pacific conference. Needles goes to the now Arizona 'conference. In crder to mlopt this legislation li was necowary to suspend the rule which provides that a concurring report of b committee, must remain on the calendar for 24 hours. The recommendation became a law Wy Uiia,iinvii.s vote and without dis cussion. This Is the second piece or Im portant legislation enuctetl by thu general conference, the first. bcln (lie admission of the president of the woman's missionary society to niombci.hip in a local quarterly confercdce. -.: -. One o." i he most hented debates ol the tntire conference was wit nessed on the floor today on the import o; Ihe revlsals committee. Tiie majority. report recommend i non-concurrence in a resolution from il,e east Oklahoma confer ence wl,,ch provided that the en should sit in the local quarterly the membership of the church conference which is the governing b'dy of the local charge in Meth cdism. The minority report was submitted and the proponents of thu change insisted that It was .1 democratic measure and therefore should be adopted. At the pres ent tlm the rank and file of the Methodist, membership have no i-oice in church government. They do .not i-ven elect the stewards, Sunday school superintendents or other olllcers ot their own congre gation. The fight on behalf of the pro gressives was led by Dr. 8. P. Baft cock, of the Eaat Oklahoma con ference, while Rev, W. W. Scott, of the North Alabama conference, represented the conservatives and contended for the status quo, After a spirited debate thel majority re port prevailed and the legislation was defeated. . A telegram was read to the con ference from Hon. Richmond Pearson Hobson, 8panlsh-Ameri-can war hero, who is now secretary of the Alcohol Kducatlonal associa tion. Mr. Hobson desired to pre sent the conference, with copies of his book on "Alcohol and the Hu man Race," and .the conference voted an acceptance of 400 copies. One of the resolutions of the day vvafl recorded as presented by the war work commission, which me morialized congress to put chap lains on an equality with all other army officers In the matter of com missions and retiring allowanc?s The conference favored a resolu tion of the reduction of armaments and a smaller standing army, Methodism will "soon have its own mutual church Insurance company, according to the terms of a ieport suomittea today by the chur:h ex tension bureau which recommend cd concurrents In a memorial from the Virginia conference, '.'.'he me morial provides that the board of church extension shall establish and ooerate a mutual Insurance company for the benefit ot the Methodist churches of the countiy A memorial askinj that the Ken tucky territory now in the Mem phis conference, be transferred to the Louisville conference, was not approved. The committee on Itinerancy re ported on the memorial dealing with the right of unordalned pastors to administer the sacrament which was SPRING, TRA LA! FERENG P Of Dissolution Of Conference And Breaking Up Of Entente Defeated Troops Chang In China Completely Out Ut Control In Retreat TIKN-TS1N. May S. (Uy the Associated Press.) -The war between the forces ot General 'Chaug T.-0-LI11 is over as far as Tien-Tsiu is concerned. The Inst tu-ga-nifced body elf Chang's troops, the second cavalry division, surrendered and gave up its arms eight miles from Tien Tsin early Monday morning. The defeated men were given now clothing and $n each. They also were allowed to re tain their horses nnd were promised transportation. lo . their homes. Two trains left here today for 1'ek.lng. The British vol unteers were demobilized to night and all extraordinary precautions were relaxed. General W11 having assumed full responsibility for the pro tection of the city, WASHINGTON, May J; Scenes of complete, rout among the defeated troops of Gen eral Chang In China were de scribed In a report today to the state department from American Minister Schurman , : ra FIRST BAPTISnO ERECT L Four-Story Structure on Spruce Street Will Cost $40,000. A four story Sunday school building, costing around 140,000, will be erected by officials of the First Baptist church, at the rear t'f the church building where the Sunday school rooms are now lo cated, it was stated lat night. The building will have an entrance from Spruce Street 'and will be a part of the building program re cently cutllned by officials, calling i ir a new Bundii bcIkToI and church building. The hoard of deacons, in session last night, appointed a special committee to have charge of ar ranging for plana for the new trunture and as Boon aa these plans uic completed, It Is stated a-call'' meeting, ot the board of deacons will be held and bids for tne - building will nrobably bo wiled for. , Members of the special com mittee are: C, S. Davis, W. O. ftid- dick, John Parker, It. .1. Lewis, J, 11. Grbgg, George Brown and Weaver Wilson. ' Tne I ulldlng will be of brick, with class room accommodation for at least 1,000 students, the piesent enrollment being In excess 4 000 members. It was recently imnounccd that a building pro gram of several hundred thousand dollars would be launched by th 3 church membership and the new Sunday school' building will be the tlrst of (he actual work, it is Mated. It w. reported at the meeting ot me ncaru mat the home In Nor wood P.irk, recently purchased for the pastor, ha been sold at a pi ice satisfactory to the committee in charge. The pstor now occu p.cs the former Mark Brown home on Spruce street, the ' Norwood Park- property being considered i-jo tar from the church. SEALED VERDICT IN ORANGEBURG CASE AUGUSTA, G., May 9. Infor mation irecelved here early this morning was to the effect that the jury in tne ease of Jesse 8hu er. .charged with gollcitlng and urging I on others, to assault and battery and attempt to rob and now on trial at Orangeburg, 8. C-. Had re tired for the night and would de- liver a sealed verdict this morning according to Instructions from the judge. The other day men in the ease were. sentenced late yesterday aft ernoon for their active share in the holding up ot K. L- Bull of Oranga burg, and the attack upon him af ter they had engaged him to drive the trio on April 6 to a nearby town The men were Steward Coy and John Itoblnson. Coy was sen tenced to six year and Hoberson to nine, The former" was from Penn sylvania and the latter a native of Minnesota. BROTHERS GIVEN PRISON SENTENCE 8TATBSlHnO, N. C. May I -rt- n ey and Gary ltowe, brothers, and W. n Lewis, cliarged wltii murJer of Watson Allen, a Jenkins coun'y far mer, entered pleas of guilty ,f nian f'aughter before a jury In the Ku1 !bcii Superior court tier today. They were, sentenced to serve from on to 12 years in ihe slate penite.itlary. Roscoe Chance, ton of ft, F, Chance who wa convicted hern ml week, -as,.rteclsril ,not...ulll.v .by. .t he ..coui-t.. fi. l-l, Chance, now under lire en inc. .filed motion for now trial the! dais for hearing not Ming et. The Chances.-. Kokce and l-ewis are aliened to have gone tn the Alien home on Dn-irmas day to kill the fatnier because of him issuing ordets for them to keep oft hl land. SPRING SURPRISE IN MURDER TRIAL IjOS ANCIKLKS. Iiffiy Two sur prises were sprung today by tii de- fens in tne trial ot Artnur 1;. nurcn fop thn murder of J Be ton Kennedy. rm was la the nature of alibi for th prisoner, the other was an at tempt ft fcbow some one else had ben mtaM SUNDAY GOO BUILDING murder. Of General at Peking. He declared that 11)1 to yesterday 21 trains pnokr ed with retreating troops had. passed through Tien-Tsiu and tlmi railroad traffic. In thai section had been greatly con gested because of the effort of Ihe defeated forces to es cape. The- soldiers of the routed, aniiy were said by the Amer ican minister to be .com pletely "out of control." Many nf them, he added, appeared 'half starved." Cpim repre sentations from the Chinese office, the diplomatic council at Peking released 5300,000 in customs revenues to feed stranded Feng Tien troops. The minister also reported that although there was no Intimation of General Wu's next move, both Peking and Tlen-Tsln appeared to be out of danger with conditions re turning to normal. the American marines sent as reinforcements to Peking and Tlen-Tsln were said in the dbpatch to have been "a valuable factor in military protection especially In Tlen Taiu." OLD CONFE NITER I WE E2 ERE ON JU Colonel Pratt Expects at Least Two Members of Cabinet. The dates for the Southern Waier I'ower conference have been decificd on as June 20-21-22 and tl;e place will be Asheville, la the lnfoimatlcM given the .. AshevllW Chamber, ot Commerce last night by Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt state geologist nnd director of the North Carolina Geological and Economic survey, , Thla conference, plans for which were announced some time ago excluilvclv in The Citizen, Is re- g'trcSed ty Colonel Pratt as one of tha mcst Important ever held In North Carolina, since it will have a definite bearing upon the devel opment of water resources' of the whole atnte. It Is not to be a con vention he points out, but purely a conference by Invitation, al though the meetings will be open to the public. Official invitations are being sent out this veek to Individuals repre senting various interests, It is expected that Secretary, of Wat John W. Weeks, and Secre tary of 1h Interior A. R. Fall. Washington, D. C", will be present, while a bpeclal invitation has al r ady benn extended to Wilbur A. Ji'lson, - Tf nnessee stsle geologist, vim has also signified his Inten tions of attending the conference, MeeretM ft- nt War -- Weeks is cliairmviri of the Federal Power commission, while Secretary Fall o; the department of Interior, will cj-opetale in making the confer etice of the greatest value In de veloping Information ss to value of Wiiter powers, tholr location,, de velopment' and 'use to the people. Col, Pratt plans to keep t ho A.ihovilie Chamber o( Commerce prated ns to developments In con nection with the conference and has been nssured of every co-oper-ntion in file way of entertainment for the distinguished visitors that will be present and to make the water, power discussion a success. ASSOCIATES LAUD UNCLE JOE' CANNON ''WASHINGTON...' May Tears cam to the eyes nf "Uncle Joe" Cannon in the house .today as mem bers, referring to his Sflth birthday yesterday, told of the regret occa sioned In congress by Ills retirement next March. Representative Wendell, the repub lican leader, aaid that while Mn Can non would not be In. -the - nouse In person sfter that time, "he will be with us In spirit and In. the embody merit of that snlendlrl influence he e long exerted In this body and the country." . ' t touched down In hl at nnd tnk ing no part In the brief coremnnv, "Uncle Joe" smiled Just once when Representative Garrett, Timssae, the democratic - leader declared - the. entire inmhershlp regretted his t'ecl. slon to retire, from tne lumse in the bloom of his youth." Ropreaentatlve Alice Ftohcrtson, re, publican, Oklahoma, ohjetlid to e reference to "Uncle Joe' as An old mail snd expressed the hope thu "Uncle Joe" might be willing .to run again after a rest up of two years. howaYdroker LOSES HIS SUIT TAl.TAllASSKIi, Kl, , Mn t -The supreme court; of Klon.la todav affirmed the decision nf tliu circuit court for Palm fteech county in which the late Richard t rnker. sr was -declared - to he competent ' 10 handle his affairs.' The c.ik, Involv ed a. suit hrnuglH bv llowiii l Cn-kti-, a son seeklriG to annul ih. in.nn ths father in. turning nis nrnnertv over to bis wife known as. the ."In' dlan Princess." BRITISH VISITORS T0 VISIT COUNTRY I-TN'cnBlTRO, V.. May t TnrA nn i-.tiy Astor lert this morning for Vrrn from whence thev win m Greenfields, tha Albemarle county home of Colonel W, II, Unghnrne. fur a visit. From there thev will go to Mirador, th sain county, (or a brief stay at ths old Langhonie home there and then 'go on to Chlrago, whera f.ady Astor Is sehtduled tu inafic"an ad'ftrts Tale 'frtis week. " LLOYD GEORGE IS ALMOST ALONE Little Welshman Smiles Most Delegates Have Not the Heart. PROPERTYCLAUSE MAY HASTEN CLOSE Steed Maintains Grave Statements Made by British Premier. GENOA, May 8. (By The Asn- elated Press,)-Optimlsm was still professed tonight by Premier I.loyd George. The little Welshman was still smillna. but most of the delegates no longer hae the heart to smile. "Many difficulties more than this have been passed and we shall pass this one," said Mr. Uoyd George to the correspondents to night after a frantic day, In which ' he conferred with nearly all ths leading ngurea at the conference. "We have come to Genoa .to over come such difficulties; otherwise, why have the conference?" Genoa echoed with all sorts ot rumors about the breaking up of the entente and the Imminent rtis solullon of the economic confer ence. The French and Belgian stand firm In their opposition to' the property clause of th memo randum to the Russians and Insist that failure of the Russians to ac cept the memorandum will mark the end of the conference. The Russian delegates, after con ferring With Premier Lloyd George Issued a statement denouncing the French and Belgians for their at tempt fo break up the conference and calling attention to the fact that these two Kiuntrjes are trying to make it appear that everything hinge on the Russian reply, white ' they themselves have not endorsed the very document they are discuss ing. , .. Both Mr. Uoyd George and th French delegation denied rcpor In the British papers that the in terview between th British prime minister and- the French foreign minister on Saturday was a stormy One and terminated with the de-. claratlon by Mr, Uoyd George that this disagreement meant the end of the entente, , The Russians' attack on the Bel gian position created much discus slon among the French and Hel gian delegates, and apparently they will not reply. filgnor Sthanzer and other Ital ian representatives labored all last evening and today trying to recon cile the disagreements, but seem ingly with no success. : OPTIMISTIC FKEMIKH DENIKS REPORT OF BREAK WITH FilE-VCn GENOA, May 8. (By the Asm- U elated . Press.) Premier Lloyd George himself ppeared this af ternoon at a meeting which had been arranged -for the British and American correspondents appar-. etly for the purpose chiefly of de-'. nylng reports appearing In British and French papers that Mr. Lloyd George and M. Barthou came Dear ths breaking point Saturday, and that the British prime minister had virtually announced that, the en- tenle was finished and that S'ranct and England must go their sepa rate ways. Mr. Uoyd George declared that the differences between him and M. -Barthou In no sense' constituted a break between the allies and that the stenographic record ot their conversation did not disclose any : such statements as attributed to ' him. '..'.' GRAVE STATEMENTS WERE -MADE. STEED MAINTAINS ; LONDON, May . Henry Wick- v ham Steed, the Times' representa tive at Genoa, says he Is entirely ; unmoved by Mr, Lloyd George's denial to Austen Chamberlain, the government leader, of the grave statements he mad to M. Barthou Saturday. ' "It eati only be a matter of form." adds Mr, Steed, "There is not -loubt r whatever that the premier clearly. fave M. Barthou to understand that nasmuch as France had pruferred ; Belgian frtendshlt to Brltsin'k he must not be surprised If Hrltaln re garded the entente as at an end and considered herself free to puraus and -conclude other friendships. H appears that M, Barthou 'n duly bo-iiml telegraphed immed-aftlv to Premier Poincare " that Mr. Llnv.1 r Georac t 'employed language of ex ceptional gravity,' ... There is no shorthand report of Interviews like ...... Saturday's. The persons present tU notes or make minutes from mammy, in wliloh the spirit of the statemrni' made often disappears and actual ntii uses are sometimes toned down, t do not hesitate In affirming tuat ;ht substance of Mr. Llovd George s wente on Saturday . was aa I nave 11. anJ he afterwards repeated his slat omen it to others. -Indeed, he has repeaiwllv made analogous or identlciti s-1 t -.- . ments both privately and officially during the conference.",. ' The flf til week of the Cleno coo. ferenre, opening today, will see t!i -end of the conclave, it -is believed, An atmosphere of gloom pervades conference .'u.'tts ,t: of thu apparent. IrrecoiviHabil ty r the peahlons of Knglssd on om nai.d-. ami l)"rne and Heiaium c-n i ' other, on the terms under which the -reconstruction ot Russia would be iin-1' i-i-'k v. Admirers of. Mr. Uoy.,1 (irtiiKl be Item lie. may l .' s-on nunHt -n . Card "In--reserve, but In o'her quaf-- - tei-s no such hop" is felt, uli.iotuth It. Is conceded that several ilradlotka have been broken when dusi'tumm seemed certain. Among the repot t clrcnl.-teil -e that Mr. Llcyd Genig" will proinit direct governmental loan to the 11 i terms set forth in th alln-i in) slievlKl it tnev agree 10 htcih 1 randuno- Another Is that ihs con ence will n coniimien, eveit Kranc ami. Belgium drop out lit j lest Atsinst the renoKnitinit. hodlsd in the allied memoiandtu Kuaia a i-ialit to hold (or prenerty aenusstrated tinder soviet nstlonatlssatlofi peofclem Those predict a hresknp tnf Ing .
Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.)
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