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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN "DEDICATED TO THE UP-BUILDING OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA" THE WEATHER West North Carolina WASHINGTON. July K. North ana South Carolina: Partly cloudy Monday and Tuesday with acattarad thundorahowera. (nod Roads. Climate) and Kcrnrry Insarpssted. Tha Nrarrwt Plsygronnd to Twenty Million People ESTABLISHED 1668. ASHEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1922. PRICE FIVE CENTS 'ASKS GOVERNOR FOR TROOPS AT ROCKY MOUNT I e Special Agents Are Kidnaped By Mob, Six Of ThemStill Missing; Governor Will Act This Morning SOME CAPTURED Two Men Slain One Badly Hurt In Shooting Sunday; Special Deputy Arrested WALTER BROOKS -I R ENOERS TO NTY OFFICERS Emory Lance and Laur ens West Instantly Killed in Tragedy. PRICE SUMNER IN BILTMORE HOSPITAL Coroner's Investigation Is Set for This Morning At 11 O'clock. Culminating: a dispute said to have arisen laut spring, Laurens West, 20 years old, and Emory Lance, 14 years old are dead and Price Sumner lie's at the Biltmore Hospital In a ''critical condition, Vavhlle Walter Brooks, guard on the fetltmore Forest development, and fspeclal Deputy Sheriff is locked in the County Jail, pending; an Inves tigation by the County Coroner. As a material witness,. Fletcher Fiady is being held while all ef forts to locate Carl Murray, sa:d lo have been with the party, up u an early hour this morning had rolled. The shooting occurred sev er! nunared yards sou in or ins luloh cats to the Biltmore Ba ft on o. road oft the Biltmore forest company aooug -it o ciock Munday night. . Both West and Lance were killed Instantly, the former receiving a wound in the forrehead, while Lane was shot through the back. T;ia bodies were searched by ithe coroner but no pisotls were found. According to officers who inves t gated '.he- case, the five boys drove up to the spot where th t -agedy took place and Brooks ani Jim Taylor went to investigate why they had stopped so near to the gate When Taylor and Brook arrived one of the five men In the cur Is said to have shouted, "We ai e goinr, to beat the h out of you! Vo are going to take - th's Place!" It was then that the shooting nejan, Murray andFrady ..disap pearing into the thick patch of woods nearby. Sumner is said to h ive screamed as he dragged hlm aelf after Murray and Frady. After the shooting, Brooks drove his car to Biltmore and went to a telephone. He notified the sher iff's department and the police de partment. Deputy Sheriffs Dil lingham and Ducket, Captain Wil liams, of the police, and other officers hurried to the scene. At Biltmore they were hailed by Brooks, who then Informed them of the details. Arriving on the scene, the offi cers placed Brooks under arrest, and It was not long before they learned that Frady had been with the boys. They then placed Frady under arrest, he having returned tdthe scene. As John West, fath er of the dead youth, Uves not far fmm the place where nis son was killed, Frady ran to the house and Informed the family. Brooks told the officers he be lleved Snmner had been hit by one lot the shots he fired. A search of the vlcinltv was made by the off! I cers with their flashlights, but they failed to locate him. Later It was learned Sumner was in the hos pital, but It Is not known how he a-nt there. neniitiea Investigating the case said there had been hard feeling be tn..n MIA nf the, boys and Brooks, because the guard Is said., to have klileri rtno- belonging to one of them. It is alleged Brooks stated the dog was chasing a deer at the lime and It was his Job to protect them. Brooks, it Is charged, took II the hlame on himself and declared that his companion, Jim Taylor, was not JmDllcated In any way. The vounar men were riding In a small cut-down car, and the body of West was found about 10 feet away. As he fell mortally wounded, the body of Lane was caught between the wheel and the front axle of the machine. A pathetic scene occured. while the officers were awaiting for the cor oner to view the bodies and ordered them moved. The father, John Wes, paced to and fro, half sobbing. He begged the officers to let him take the body of his boy to his home as he knelt and looked into the oca face of the slain qouth. ''Oh! God, he murmured" time and time again. The father was told the body would have to be taken to town after It was examined by the coroner. The bodies were removed to the undertaking establishment of Hare and Reynolds, where the Inquest will take place this morning at 11 o'clock. Lance ts the son of Mark Lance, school committeeman, who Is surviv ed by his mother, two sisters and four brothers. Funeral arrangements have not been made. OVERMAN READY TO REFOTE G. O.'P. y ECOWOM CLAIMS Will Prove That Adminis tration Has Been Extrav agant This Week, HARD FIGHT MADE AGAINST PROGRAM Simmons Has Battered Tariff Bill" Past All Recognition. WAIHINOTOM BnaiAO tHI AlHBTfLf.B OITIZBN (BY H. M. C. BRYAST ) WASHINGTON. July 16. Sen ator Simmons and Senator Over man are making a hard fight aitinst the Republican program. Mr. Simmons has battered the old tariff bill until it does not look like its former self. Senator Over man this week will present figures to show that the Republican claim that the Harding Administration has saved millions of dollars Is raise and prove that It has been extravagant. He is ready with real facts to refute their campaign talk of economy. The tariff bill is In a bad way. 'If It passes the Senate at all." said Senator Overman today, "it will be the last of August, and then it will take two months to get it out of conference. It will not become operative before the No vember election." Senator Simmons supported this prediction today. He thinks snow will fly before It will be effective. Senator Simmons said today that the defeat of the embargo on dyes would not change the program of the Democrats. "We are fighting for a tariff for the people," said Mr. Simmons, "and the victory of Saturday encourages us to keep up the discussion. We are not con suming as much time now as the other Bide, which is on the de fensive. But we shall demand and exact a fair and full debate on the schedules yet to come. We . . 1! I JUST SAW WOOD j By BILLY BORNE j rMMaKMMKiKHBaBaBaM - I SB SB Moo bill. That Is not our purpose. We want to defeat or modify the profiteering schedules." - Senator Simmons was asked about the prospects of passing the bill this session. "The fate of the bill depends on the attitude of the House mem bers to the Senate changes," said he. "Of course, If the Senate lead ers ever get the measure to a vote, they may be able to pass It. But befpre they reach that stage the recalcitrant Republicans may offer ameidrrents to the House provis ions not amended by the finance committee. That Is what the lead era fear; We are now considering committee, amendments. They cov er about a third of the measure. House rates have been increased. After trimming the committee amendments, the recalcitrants may turn in and cut down the House provisions the Senate Committee saw fit not to change. I think that all of the important commit tee amendment '-will be reduced hut not as much as the cotton amendments were. "i think the members of the finance committee have made up their minds that they cannot pass their bill with the amendments proposed, and they will offer some concessions to hold the Republi cans In line. They are greatly discouraged over the situation Senator Simmons was asked If the Southern cotton manufacturers and others did not resent his fight to defeat the cotton duty. No " said he. "they are with me. For instance, If the seven cents on Egyptian cotton went through, the cotton manufacturers of Great Britain would have seven cents the advantage oi ine Amer ican manufacturer on his raw ma terial. VALERA AT FIELD F HEADQUARTERS 0 IRREGULAR Ai Provisional Government m Manifesto Reaffirms Its Position. DUBLIN. July 16. -(By The As sociated Press.) The publicity de partment of the Jrish irregulars to day announced that Eamon de Valera is at field general head quarters, serving on the staff of the directors of operations. It is believed that headquarters has been transferred from Mallow to Limerick. have, no UK,uh-f - delaying mi i PTOvawonafc-governnienprre- kiii Th.. i. . ,, ,,.... 117. airirma its determination nnT. ururw MTT7T IN THE CAPITAL CITY THIS MORNING WASHINGTON, July 16. (By The A..n,.intri Press.) Bituminous coal mir. nnaratora who met here to r,icht to consider their answer to Tnrient Harding's offer of arbitra tion in .the coal strike controversy sdjournea until 11 a. m., tomorrow without action. auiwi . i. i - th. nn.rttnrl OfroUD. eunii m 1 i,. ,b, 4. hoen found neceal 8d ry for the' employers; representa tive to caucus separately by the districts from which they come, be fore trying to get a joint expression of opinion. President Harding's letter dcf.nlnr th terms nf the original arbitration offer had raised some new points and occasioned some disagreements It la reported by the deputies that 'among the operators as to iu mean a small quantity of whiskey was ing. Mr. Ogle added In VMriUUB u ......... - .. . found In thv machine by them. OFFICIALS SWAMPED WITH REQUESTS FOR TRAINING! letter declining arbitration had raised issues which caused some of the em ployers to reconsider their conclu sions. , - ' WASHINGTON. July 16. Reports BLAKE COVERS ANOTHER fom the nine army corps areas show that young Americana are eager for military training, applicants for ad mission to the summer civilian mil itary training camps having swamp ed officals. - In some areas appli cations are no longer being, counted, the number received by - June 10 fhotving that the quota would be far exceeded long before the camps open in August. Indications are that mora than 5. lx0 young men will seek -admission to the camps this year. LAP ISf WORLD FLIGHT LONDON, July 16. Major W. T. Blake has covered another lap In his attempt to circle the globe by airplane. A Times dispatch reports that he arrived Saturday night at ISarra, in Asiatic Turkey about 170 miles South of Bagdad. He expects to continue his flight today, starting for Bushlre, on the Persian gulf. UNIONS WILL DEBATE THE STRIKE IX TEXAS to sup press the revolt. In a manifesto addressed to Commander-in-Chief Collins and the men of the Na tional army, it says: "You have been entrusted- with supreme command of the Na tional army and, with General Mulcahy and General O'Duffy, have been constituted a general war council to direct the military oper ations now in progress The gov ernment's action is dictated by a determination that the splendid valor and devotion of the army shall be Inspired and directed to yield its full fruits for the salva tion of the nation. "The army which recently freed the 'country from foreign tyranny must not again resist the attempts of an armed minority to force their dictatorship upon the peo ple; Jhe Irish army Is fighting for the same principle as wneu " fought the British, namely, the right of the Irish people to be mas ters In their own country. . . "The irregulars" method of war fare is destructive of the econo mic life ot the nation. Sheer brigandage la a fair term to apply to it The fight is for a revival of the nation, for free expression and eective- execution of the peo ple's will in other words, for the etsablishment of all the signs by which the nation Is to be held worthy of consideration among tho states oi the world." The manifesto is signed by all member? of the government General headquarters has issued .1 hulletin conrming the capture of Dundalk with 300 irregulars and a quantity of arms and equipment the freo staters aunering no lostren. The lirregulars rae reported to have seized a quantity of shipping '.- Cork harbor, looting the ves sels of iarge quantities of stores. At Limerlt-k the Irregular activities ate runn'ng business. Many of the principal places of business hv. hnen seized or looted, includ lr.g flour mills . and bacon curlns ftctorie. rendering many -workers idle. Chemical Fixm Refuses to Give Up Its Property NEW. YORK, July 16. The Chemical Foundation, Inc., has' declined to comply with the re quest of Allen Property Custo dian Thomas W.. Miller that It return to the government the patents, trade-marks and copy rights assigned to the company, a letter written by Francis P. Garvan, president of the Foun dation, made public today, dis closes. Another letter, from Mr. Gar van to President Harding, avers that the Information given to the President about the case "has been furnished by Ger man agents to an ex-German spy and Interpreted by lawyers, whose sole- knowledge of the war and Its lessons is derived from association with Gsrman clients." The President Is urged by Mr. Garvan to seek "other counsel" the letter declaring that he had been "grossly mis led by the Attorney-general both as to the law and the facts of the case." AM . VA1M0ERBILT ED CHAIRMAN DURI1ESTIVAL Committees Selected for Work of Handling Music Details. SOVIET RUSSIA WILL ACCEPT BID TO RESTATE CASE ,Moscow Will Probably Speak Before New Nego tiations Take Place. AVIATOR AND TWO PASSENGERS IXCINERVTED WACO, Texas. July 16. A call fcr a mass meeting of members of all the sixteen standard railroad un- lOI ANGKLK3. Julv 16 W. hJ tn Texaa to be Held here Tnes- rtil.lnsru .vinin- n.i !-,. i day t conscder the strike situation sengers. were ' burned tu death here I ' ls'ued today fallowed a meeting tonight when the alrnUne In whloh j here of. SW representatives of the bey were riding caught Are and tell. 1 unions. VATTON ALTSTS CAFTTOE DLNDALK. 800 PRISONERS BELFAST. July 16. (By Thi Associated Press.) Dundalk is In the hands of the nationalists, mort than 30u republicans paving been taken prisoners. Between four and ve o'clock in the morning t na tionals virtually seized the -town. only tw- casualties resulting two irregulars, one killed and another serlousl" wounded. Yesterday Dundalk was Bern oy the republicans. During the night free state forces commanded by General Hogan descended upon the town by road and Immediately be gun an enveloping movements In quick 'succession they Mixed the county prison and the county hospi tal In the South end of the town, the Bridare Street barracks In the North and the postofflce and .several business houses In the center. The occupants of the Anne Street barracks, the republican headquar ters, learning what was happening, set the barracks afire, left explosives in the mattresses and tried to escape. They were called upon to halt, and falling to comply were fired - on by the nationals who were In possession of the railroad platform. If was here that the casualties occurred. About to men were taken prisoner, all without weapons. The military barracks was cap tured without a shot. Nationals entering from both sides overpower ed the sentry and disarmed the guard. In fact, a majority of men were In bed and they found them selves under arrest when they wre aroused. The republican, guards at the railroad atatioa and prison wre also disarmed and arrested. The group of Irregulars coming from a dance at Blak Rock. Louth, Jao were made prisoner. THE HAGUE, July 16. (By Tho Associated Press.) Soviet Russi-t will accept Europe's Invitation to re-slate its case.' This Information was conveyed tonight to The As sociated Press by the soviet spokesmen. Whether that re-statement will result In a revival of T.ie Hague conference, nobody, e i of all the Russian delegates, dirt's predict. Maxim Litvinoff, head of th? Soviets, has communicated with Moscow, and Russia's answer to the' communication sent to the Russian delegation yesterday, which was virtually a bid for new declarations from the Russians. ma be delayed until Moscow has lis ay. In tho meantime, further down the storm-swept dunes of Scheven lugcn, the non-Russian delegates, continued their work of prepar ing reports of the three sub-commissions which will show why they failed to reach an accord with the Russian delegates on the vital questtor of property,- debts and credits W-netner these reports will be presented and adopted at a final plenary session on Wednesday a open as on toe nature of the so viet answer; on this Litvinoff. Kraasin and Sokolnikoff labored iiiroughout Sundav. "We hope," said the soviet rep resentative, "that our new state ment will be deemed a basis for ro newed negotiations, but that is for tne not'-Kusaian delegates to de cme. vo win try to make our position clear." Europe' attemnt ta rnrltte The Hague conference is regarded nere as aaanional proof of the seriousness of the general econo mic summon. The-Hague has be comme sort of barometer for Eii rope as a whole. The exnerts assembled here have been instruct ed by their home governments to exhaust every possible means to reach an hecord. or the beginning cf an accord, with th. Rn.i.i.. because It Is believed that any ad vance made In the solution of the Russian problem will contribute greatly to a betterment of thj economic situation as a whole. MAY WANTED I MIAMI ARRESTED tS MEXICO MIAMI. Fla.. July If A l.tt.i- from Mexico City was received here today by county officials saying that Ludwlg Kohlwelse. wanted In Miami as the suspected slayer of Captain James Pin. February tt, 121. was noer arrest mere under the name rtnr nui riacner. Announcement was made yei terdny by officers of the Asheville Music Festival Association of the personnel of the ladies' committee which will have important parts to perform In the promotion and conduct of the scvent concerts to be given here Music Week of Au gust 7-12th. . .J&-S. J. George W. VfcndeVbllt, whose admirable! service for t.ie Festival last season remains a definite Impression, is named as general chairman and the follow ing women as members of the va rious committees: Program Committee, Mrs. W. B. Mason, Chairman; Miss Loughran, Miss Elizabeth Chapman, Miss Reynolds. Miss Whiting and Miss Blood. Automobile, Mrs. Carl V. Reynolds, Chairman: Mrs. Alan McDonald, Mrs. Charles E. Wad dell, Mrs. J. G. Deshler and Miss Rose Byrne. Decorations, Mrs. Cameron Waddell, Chairman; Mrs. Tench Coxe, Mrs. Thos. W. Raoul, Mrs. Thomas Cheesebor ough, and Miss Bessie Reeves. Box Committee, Mrs. Arnold Vander hoof, Chairman; Mrs. C. S. Jor dan. The sale of season tickets at Goode's will begin tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. The price list has been reduced and that in spite of Increased musical attrac- Hons so that tickets are one third less than they were lasV, sea son. s REACHING RALEIGH CAUSE ANOTHER FLURRY Workers Learn That no Non-Union Men Answer Ads for New Labor. INJUNCTION GIVEN TO SEABOARD LINE Will Be Effective Against Interference in East ern Carolina. oiTitaM ir stmsui T.iBiii'Hail Hnrai. I Mr BROCK HHKI.KV) KALKIGH. July 16. The ar-, rival hre at 6 o'clock this morn- lng of t'.n men. classified as "spe cial officers." three Raleigh strik ers into a flurry again, and they i spent the day watching the Sea-, board i.hops for the activities of p.iKslbln non-union workers A crowd reported at 300 mjt the "special officers" upon their arrival. No disturbance occurred, i thf striken, contenting themselves wlih congregating at points where the street crossed the railway trucks near the shops. Seaboard officials said this aft ernoon no men had responded to their advertisements for non-union wr-rkers The strikers aro claiming the men brought In this morning are. "fellows from lite county, seeking a few extra dol lars nfter laying by their crop The Benlioard officials insist thi-y me special policemen to guard llielr property. TIME LIMIT UP TODAY WHEN MEN HOLD SENIORITY Many Fnll III When Men Eat at Yards In tiiUwgo. CHICAGO, July 16. A daily Inspection of every railroad yard where men are being fed and housed were ordered Inlay by Herman Hundesen, Health Commissioner, following re ports I hat 1(1 workers ami sev en policeman had been added to the lint of about ",3 who were made 111, after eullnir food served at the Chicago, Milwau kee and St. Paul yards. Tho laborers and policemen were taken 111 afler the midday meal today. Health authorities at tributed the Illness to foreign substances In tho milk given the men. Samples of nllk ire being analyzed and a report is expected tomorrow. Many railroads attached much importance to the num ber of shopmen reporting for duty tomorrow, as ;he time limit for men to return to t.-ork and still retain their seniority and other rights expires Monday. Bf MOD Hi ED OF PHYSICIANS All Available Men in Edgecomb County Are Placed on Duty. METTS HURRIES TO SEE THE GOVERNOR ROADS MUST NOT REQUEST EXTRA SERVICE OF MEN Will Confer When Adju tant General Reaches : Raleigh. r ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. July 1. Six of the IS special agents and guards of the Atlantlo Coast Line Railroad who were kidnapped ear L "r moo oi alleged striK ers and sympathisers were tilt missing tonight. Four of the men were located during the day at Kim City and three at Wilson. ev 1 ersl of the rescued having been so roughly handled by their captors) as to require medical attention. The guards were seised In a local restsurant which was raided by a crowd estimated to comprise about too men. After being stripped oi their weapons, they were forced J Into waiting automobile which' at once dashed out of the city. , Mayor G. L, Gray, addressing a, mass meeting which was called aa soon as the raid became knownj publicly, warned that further dlsW Is Only Thing Which Can'.order would """J1 '? " tor i J, ,r,S V r a troops to control the situation. rTecipiiate jmaimen- un Jof POLICE START OX CIH'E IN SEEKING MURDERER BALTIMORE. July 16 Follow ing the Identification of the body at the city morgue as that of Bella Leman, Fairmont, W. Va., Bailtimore police today took their first positive action in running down the murderer of the woman found dead Thursday on Rolling road, near Catonsville. They arrested Mrs. Angelina Milon as she left her apartment on East Baltimore street. She says she is the wife ot Charles Milon, who was a close associate of Miss Leman In Fairmont. They also ordered the arrest of Milon in a : nearby city. According to the police, Mrs. Milon told them where he could be found. - Further search was Instituted for the murderer, leads pointing toward five separate men. Final Identification of the body as that of Miss Leman was made by John C. McKlnney, Jr., a Fair mont detective. In Fairmont meanwhile, police believed the murder was a blackhand Job and had been planned in Fairmont, INJUNCTION IS Git ANTED THE NEA HOARD AIR LINE fy TUB iBBOCUTHD rRBCs) WII.SON, July 6. Temporary tlunctlo is restraining striking hopmer In eastern North Carolina from any interference with train os employes of the Atlantis Coast (itlih Railroad, was signed bv Fed eral Judge. Henry f Conner early today. The order Is made returnable at P.alelgh on July 25 and specifically restrains strikers from any mau-n-r of Interference with trains of tho complainant company, or with employe, or those who desire to bucome employes of the company. Named as defendants Individually and as members of the union, In the Injunctions are C. P. Clilpman. and W. I). Kicks of the machinists; F. Hutchinson and O. A. Plott, of ance Strike Now. the bollermakers; W. S. Cooper and C. W. Dauae of the blacksmirh; T. W. Weaver and J. tf. Arnold of the carmen; A. T. Moore and O. L. Wallace of the sheetmetal workers; W. W. Miller and C. II. Williams of the electrical workers; G. D. Rosaer, president and C. R. Otterburg, sec retary of the A. C. L. Federation of DETROIT, July 16. (By The As sociated Press.) Railroads must cease their reported efforts to compel maintepanco of way work ers to perform the duties of striking employes, or the Main tenance of Way men will be -called nut on strike, E. F. Grable, International president of the, Maintenance of Way Brotherhood, declared here tonight. Mr. Grable Indicated that In any event, no strike action by his or ganization could be expected be fore Thursday, the date he has set for a meeting here of the broth erhood's grand lodge, which In cludes the general chairmen of all divisions and members of the ex ecutive council. ' Mr. Grable stopped over here tonight enroute to Chicago from Washington, where yesterday he Conferred with President Harding on the strike situation. He plans to meet the Railroad Labor Board in Chicago tomorrow or Tuesday, to; enlist the aid of that body in stopping the reported practice of the railroads of shunting the du- Shop Employes; F. W. Brown, chair-' ties of strikers to maintenance of way men, he said. When the shop workers' strike began, Mr. Grable said, he rail roads assigned .some of the strikers' duties to shop employes belonging to the maintenance union. The men , protested to headquarters here and the matter was taken up with the roads, with the result that most of them agreed to desist. Within the punt few days, however, reports have reached him, Mr. arable contin ued, that some roads again were Insisting the shop duties be per formed by union men remaining in their employ. So far as the Maintenance of Way men are concerned, the union president deciarea, tne wage con troversy is not now a point that mii,hr Immediately develop walk out, tho roads having agreed i nrn.niut nf a strike now, he tn arbitrate the question. The on emphasized, lies in the controversy over strikers' duties. man of the shop committee, Wil mington shops: Hugh M. Pace, sec retary of the Federated Shops Com mittee, at Wilmington and J. Prause, chairman of the Rocky Mount shopa. After reciting the fact that the complainant la engaged In the carry ing of Interstate commerce and the United States malls and a continued Interference of the company's busi ness will result in erreparable dam age, the order declares that no in terference with either Interstate com merce or the carryings of United States malls will be tolerated. The-injunctlon la aimed to proteot the .shops of the company at Wil mington and Rocky Moun. ALIENISTS EXAMINING CALIFORNIA WOMAN LOS ANGELES. July 16. Mrs. Clara Phillips, charged with the mur der of Mrs. Alberta Meadows here last Wednesday, reached Los Ange les today In custody of Sheriff Wil liam I. Traeger. She was taktn to the Sheriffs office and examined by alienists to determine her mental condition. Mrs. Peggy Cafee, eye witness of the hammer slaying, after being taken out of town secretly to meet the train, also arrived with the prisoner. The meeting of Mrs. Phillips and her accusers aboard the train Just before It reached Los Angeles was staged carefully but the sudden en counter failed to ruffle the equan imity of the woman charged with what police described as the most brutal murder In the city's history, ATTEMPT IS MADE TO DYNAMITE RAIL BRIDGE FAIRMONT, W. fa., July 1--An attempt to dynamite the Baltimore and Ohio railroad bridge at PricKxtt's Creek on the Connellyavtlle division, near here early today, results! In alight damage tn the traeks ap proaching the structure. The dam age was hurriedly repaired without delay ta train earvtre. Bloodhounds tonight ware attempting to pick up a scent. - DELAYED TRAINS ONLY INDICATION OF LOCAL STRIKE Guards Remain on Duty to Protect Property Of Railroad. Several hundred strikers were said to have been among those who heard the mayor. . - Every available deputy sheriff lit the county was called to duty to day and preparation made to aug ment thla force. The sixteenth day of the strike of shopmen passed on the Ashe ville Division without any notice able change in the situation. Trains were delayed yesterday onjy to a slight extent and these were mostly on through trains, as the Carolina Special from Cincln natti to Charleston. Local trains, however, left on time, it Is stated. Strikers continue to have details In the vicinity of the shops, It is reported, but these have remained off of the property of the railroad ana nanaiea themselves in an or derly manner. The outbreak Thursday night has been the only cloud on the horizon of the strike in the Asheville shops, it was stated. Deputy marshals and deputy sheriffs continue on duty to protect the railroad property, but-it was reported last night that officials are confident of no further trouble. United States Marshal Brown low Jackson stated yesterday that he is in touch with the Depart ment of Justice and the situation throughout the Western part of the State is such that he is confi dent no trouble will be exper ienced. Just what steps the Southern Railway will take to have neces sary repairs made to rolling stock in order to keep equipment tn the beat of condition is a matter of speculation and it is not known as to whether workers will be im ported. muitv t lUVB DECLARED ' . . . . r i.i nnri) ENDED, IN SlKuat .uliw JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. July 16.-a- , nrfktil bv his father-In law today brought an end to the do mestic squalls of William Copeland, 32 according to the story related by th. father-in-law. Marion A. Klce, ,-, v.r old Montgomery County, t.a I farmer who was held lit the county tall on a charge oi muroer. Rice bmvs he stabbed Copelani 10 tin,.. ,m, thn ice olck when tbe latter advanced on his wife with a r.rvim knife as she lay 111 abd. He had been summoned to the noma of his daughter last week, he said, because of her brutal treatment at the hands of her husband. Last tirht acenrdina to Rice he was seat ed at a table In a room adjoining the sick room and turned to see fnneiand advancing on his wife s I bed with an upraised knife. He I grabbed the ice pick and cllncned i with rhe man. Copeland finally 1:11. fatally wounded nut managed 10 crawl Into another room. UN calmly shut the door behind him and did not know that Copeland had uled until neighbors Informed him. The couple has four small children. ONe KILLED IN GANG FIGHT NEAR BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, July It. A man waa killed and at least seven others wounded early today In a gang fight and robbery at Belle Grove inn, a resort on the Annapolis road a few miles out of Baltimore. The dead man has been identified sa Michael Cadora, 133, One Hnudred street. New York; as Moots DtlJon. New York, and as George Jenkins of Baltimore At a late hour tonight the police failed to secure a positive Identification. Thirty-three persons men and wo menare la Annapolis iaiL pending further; lBVargsojp. efhopilnjr; OFFICIALS POM TWO ' " COUNTIES ASK TROOPS , emsBS saws snui ; v TAsaoaooaa aoTat, -f t sHOCa imur "RALEIGH, July 1. Reporting? the strike situation beyond thelm control, requests for Stat troop for guard du(y at the Atlantlo Coast Line shops In Rocky Mount was made - of Governor Morrison, tonight by the mayor of Rocky Mount andfthe sheriffs of Nash and! Edgecombe Counties. The Governor immediately called Adjutant General Metts-from Campj Glenn for a conference. Following) an Investigation Into the situation early tomorrow morning, he wilt determine the wisdom of using the troops. ' . . ... : ': Reports to thev Governor Indi cated a delicate situation at that Rocky Mount shops that is rapldlyj growing worse. Seven workmen were attacked last night, he waa Informed by city and county offi cials, and other shopmen cannot be located. ' '- The two sheriffs and the mayor1 of Rocky Mount said they had! done everything within their power) to maintain law and order, butl that conditions were rapidly ap proachlng such a state as to make their efforts Ineffective. The Uvea of citizen are in danger, they re ported, declaring the n,eed foe troops to be imperative. This Is the first call for troops to be made of Governor Morrison during the strike. Reports . oC growing possibilities for trouble in other railroad centers makes th situation over the State one of um certainty, and the thousand and, more ot National Guardsmen inj camp at Morehead City may find, themselves on duty longer v than was expected when they began their summer training period. The Governor declined to com ment on the strike situation at. Rooky Mount or elsewhere In th State in the absence of offlolal re- ports. These he expects early to morrow morning, and on them will depend largely his decision as to furnishing troops. If they should be sent. It would be as a precautionary measure. Troops never bother the men liv ing within the law, and their presence would be not for a part In the strike, but merely to see that the law Is upheld. NOTORIOUS ENGINE bs I. N. WRECKED SUNT) AT KNOXVILLE, Tenn.. July II. Louisville and Nashville passenger locomotive No. 230, known to rail road men as "The Killer." because of the lives lost in accidents In which It has figured, lies on a sidetrack here today, a crippled hulk of twist ed steel. Pulling the Southland, an all-steel passenger train, from Cincinnati to Jacksonville. No. 230. thla morning burst a cylinder head above La Feyette. Tenn. The driving beam wrecked the engine before it could be stopped. With the driving beam piercing 1 IP cab with almost every revolution. John Tummlns, veteran engineer, re- - malned at the throttle and brought the train to a stop before it left the rails. It waa battel en the brink of a precipice. SHIP GOES DOWN WITH FOl'R OF CREW ABOARD SKATTLK, Wash., July 16 Four- seafaring men lost their llvei and the steam schooner Henry T. Soott and the freighter Harry Lurkenbachj crashed together lit collision in a pail of smoke and tog. The Lurkenbach was not serlousre- damaged. AU those who lost their lives were residents ot Paclno coast cities and were aboard the Scott, a l.COO-ton steel boat bound from San' Francisco to Seattle. The Luck en. bach waa bound from Seattle to New York via San Francisco. Both ves sels had full cargoes. The Lecken bach, after picking up the ttrvtvoxa.1 ul.pacMQ-lhiA Porta-
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