North Carolina Newspapers

'-"" ji .!,' THE WEATHER WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. Poreeast for North and South Carolina: Fair n4 cooler Saturday: Sunday falr no thing in mni.i.i.ii. THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN JJABLISHED 1868." OSTOF ECT NEW BIG PROGRAM FDR CE SITE'VETTEA "DEDICATED TO THE UPBUILDING OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA HEVILLE, 7Cc., SATURDAY MORNI PRICE nVE CENTS WORLD'S MARKETS, - - - . '! Th afy Sunday tn Weetem ' Carsllna vukllahlnox full market ra-,' . pert la Tha Aahavllla CMtxen. , Wmibh a eepy today. , j . A FOR ASHEVILLE Mountain Metropolis Heads List of Cities for New Offices. OFFICIALWILL BE IN CITY MONDAY Appropriation Bill Ex pected to Be Introduced in Congress Soon. PRISONS GETS UNDER M Committee of 100 Names Sub-Committee to Pre pare New Bills. SENTIMENT FOR A CHANGE STATEWIDE Broad and Humanitarian Scheme Is Called for by Gathering. How George Vanderbilt Hotel Will Appear Upon Completion GREKNSBORO. Nov. 24. The A new postofflce and federal building for Ashevllle Is beginning to loom ns a definite posHlbility. committee of ono hundred, charped with J. M. Geary. Superintendent at the meeting of the North Caio of Tubllo Buildings, on the staifl Una Social Service Conference held of the Supervising Architect of thai j here last March with investigation Treasury Department, sehedulued j of the prison problem of the .state, to arrive In Aahevllle Monday met here toduy, rendered reports morning, for the purpose of con- on every phase, of the quWlon and ,rulering the present building and ! authorized a rinmittee or five to 'tes should It be decided to erect sift the reports, digest them and a new building. 1 prepare a program of bills to be Mr. Geary is at present in . submitted at the next session ..i4 (reensooro, wnere ne is consider ing a similar question for that city nnd word has been received bv The Citizen, from Its Greensboro orreapondent, that he Intends leaving Tor Ashevllle Sunday n;ght to consider the federal buildiint etropolis of Caro ippears Obtain that an appro prlntion hill for pyic buildings will race congress beroTvJ adjourn ment of .he session scheduled toj vi:vu tn i.mui;iiiuc-r aim iieprcspn- tative Zebulon Weaver recently stated that Ashevllle Is s.t the head o' the JiKt for a new building, vhould an appropriation be al lowed. Representative Weaver has made repeated efforts to obtain appropriations for a new federn. building for Auheville and several other places in hl district. In the event an appropriations bill for lublic buildings comes up it is certain he will press the claims of the cities of Western North Caro lna for adequate federal buildings, j W U File Itcpnrt Following inspection Here According to Information from '..reensboro, Mr. Geary went to that try unoer the Legislature. I'" committee of five will sln report back to the next meeting of ! the full committee, to he held at the meeting of the Social Service Conference at Raleigh next Janu- itiy it anu is. With something concrete to be ! presented to the Legislature the 1 committee will be in a position to urge, with powerful emphasis, an the sentiment of every mm o the : State, remedial measures for con- i anions described In many cases to- uy as aisgracerul. Betterment of Prisons Sole Aim of Meeting. nuiviura or a various natuse but all directed to one "end bet-' terment of prison conditions, State and countyfilled the day. Be ginning with an outline of the alms sought, made bv Dr. Jesse F Steiner. of the University of North Carolina faculty, other addresses followed. . B. Sanders, secretary of the Social Kerviyc- Conference, spoke on prison conditions ln gen eral in the State, his address be- I . 52'eu on Personal i report, recommend . suiin mewiing - a new postofflce and J morning s work tn rend , inn , aeter of ii lu,n;nen followed, with ed that 1 1,?'PhrR'S' of thc national ; , ' n,l,tp " Pons and prison " mi ..- .speaking. .More with R. S. lllVMtivi roft Williams. fnrm , Mr. Geary went to that , retnry of the South Carolina Board instructions to file wtrh of Wlf .u . ? 7 ,la uoard th-RunrvtaJnfi- Ar.hit.. k.. .i .;"v' Prison condi- ...mw'iA .-";";." " re- ""I men the ing a site for- fderal buildii ,......,., t .Mi c-i.viujnriiuation a a inn,.,. , to size needed- and character of 1 nAheon fweU, . .,, . IJ,, ii ill mini's nr y r-uiiaing tnd n is believed that ! V . nanonaj com pi isuns and nrlsnn l fpeaking. .More rnnnn. . ' omnvendatfons were made In the" afternoon, and the meeting came ,is erPecte4 to. be faced with !' th marked by atllTJ7 approBrlation. blll an In that bill B. John. ,?"e!..b.y .rr?- Kale will be included an annronrlaUon ; of Chariti' . 'r,T"mteaent 'forttt new Fed)erl Building In ( other addresTon "vei,V- - 1 anQ treatment of PHa. The action of the TreasjDe- t oners,", made by J. p. Byers Ken artment ln ohtalnini? ffi i ha. tucky Commisslnno nr d..i ... ' lieved to mean that this Depart- i "JHutiona. ment is optimistio over the oros- I lveJLto I Mcasdrca Am pects or success rot the measure. . i iwuaea My All. i-' ;. " . . vv ! sf' if-.,: ". H J; .- r i UK , I At-Tt TSI s '" " . 'Ml ft ' Mtkfi'f K, "wk i . i-J .--in-fTfi- lis--. .hv..,Kh.',Ui;i?4, TIGER'S AIMISreAfl For All TO L UKAW AUSAiMN U. S. TO E MEET Frankly Admits the Mo ! tive of His Visit to America in Boston. j DENIES ACCUSATION I OF MILITARISM Klansmen In Federal Posts To Be Sought ERfSITUATION WILL EM Official Proof Produced' j Germans Make Guns by Hundred Thousand. AND VE1M1ZEL0S VERBAL CLASH BE AIRED W H EN CABINET MEETS BO.STt, Nov. 24. (Bv Thai ttlBu,v theTigTr'of "r'nu,'.' i Opposing Claims Are Laid Reported Meeting of Klan turned from tha abstract to the speclflv tod-iy, answered his critic "imilar action will be take (Ui.ru to v-hevllle. The regular aesslon of Congraaa, which will assemble in December, Thia Is the first photograph of tha George Vanderbilt Hotel as It will appear facing Haywood Street Tha hostelry will rep resent an investment of approx imately one million dollars and be among tha finest in tha South, director of tha Cltizena' Hotel Corporation have sueoaaafully fi nances the mortgage and tha lease, selected an Ideal aita and T)in oy a 10 rain oat hotel arcbl. The conference was featured by tle,tirt7 8nd taken the re- r " r"'cuiai measures must i-ui j 11 lurce. A general nubUo buildines bill f this character has not been passed since J91J, the World War " temporarily halting work of "this . character. The Ashevllle Postofflce is work ing under crowded conditions and the , records of the office for the p:ist 20 years will nrobahlv he considered by Mr. Geary upon his I Prisons, State and county, homes arrival. Dan W. Hill, Tostmaster. , of detention, road camrw. and the The srhnl. no 1 . .omru vi unuiuiugj ana near-crimfnol-ogy was treated in those reports and the" Investigators spared no reelings in pointing out serious de- 'r"s i" aamtnistratlon of th. stated last night that the Postal Department has been watching the growth of the business In Ashe ville and the needs for larger treatment for boys and girl. rtoiong tne recommendations made was one declaring for more sanitary jails built according to quarters nave oeen evment ana 1 , '"""V j"""s ior tne segrega te will he tn close touch with Mr. I 'J"1 of prisoners into live classes Oeary during his stay in the city, which will probably be for sev eral days. lodge Webb "Heartily In Favor of Proposal. Judge E. Yates Webb, of United 1 States District Court, when Inter viewed by a representative of The Citizen, following the receipt of imuuxn nnyatcai nnd ,,.,., amination of the prisoners, neces sity of some place of detention o: boy between sixteen and Uvt-nV years of age other than the coun ty jails. Road camps were ii. cla.ed to be In many cases tinfi for human habitation and it wn st'esscd that the guard Is often ;1. word that the Washington official 1 01 a low lyPe u,i-'l I wrll visit Asheyjllo. declared that nav.e char"e r anybody, he Is heartilv in favor of a neW Compensation for prisoners w; Federal . Building, and will person- I woca t d twenty-flve conta a da take any steps necessary to prisoners, to, acoum,, 1 securing a building, on a. lo- m, "-t-- tleir discharge or n that will serve the best in- ' turned c-ver for the support ' . r ih. Pnatnfflcn in,t the oreri-dHtils. The necessity ., ng. and win person ally aid ln cation that will serve the best " nt' OT n support of terests of the 1'ostonrce ana tne -'' ..;.? nocessuy o. a courts convening in the citv. ' L' l".fn "eia P"lc Judge W'obb ca'led attention to the svstem was pointed out. and inde- heavy traffic on all three sides of terminate sentences except for verv frHnm- m fiwl -rVtMimu fag, Tro No Redistricting Of North Carolina Is Afoot Just Now WABIITSnTOS BrnF.An THE AflHEVtM.E fUUkS ( r II. U. C. tie .AT 1 WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 The last election convinced North Carolina Democrats that the plan to re-organize the Con gressional Districts and put all of the Republican counties in one and making the others safe for Democracy, Is not a good one. The big majorities of Representatives Weaver, Dough 'on and Hammer make such a oroposition seem absurd. South ern States adopting tha "one Republican District" plan stif Vr In national elections. It has riven Kentucky and Tennessee o the Republicans once, if not -ftener. It is understood that the next egislature will not be asked to "district tTie State. If an ad 'ilonal Congressman Is allowed e will be Congressman-at-irge. If two are allowed there ill two at large. ILL REM CIDERS FACES ATTACH PROPERTY filNG SQUAD OF f SH FREE STATE Drastic Penalty Paid for Unauthorized Carry ing of Pistol. DUBININ, Nov. 24. (By The As aor.ia.ted Press. The extreme pen alty of military law was paid this morning by Erskine ennaers, onj of the leading spirits in opposition to the provisional government of the Irish Free State. Chlldere was sent to his doom at " o'clock, presumably, at the hands of- a firing squad, ln the Port Lellow barracks, h'ere, after con viction by court martial of havimf I'ossessed, without proper author lty an automatic pistol, ln violation of the oder ofVne constituted gov trnmcnt. Childe.-s had been brought t? trial November 17, but when th-' verdict was rendered and he wa. totdemnel to death efforts 'were n,le In a civil court to overthrow h findings of the-military author and save his life. Por several days arguments ir "aoeas corpus proceedings wer ard before the master of th- fOlls. hill !h. mnalBf.n THllraria Nfjeclded that he had no Jurisdiction I. Although appeal to a higher cdui rs immediately taken. Richar. Ulcahv. th m in tutor rtf dnfn.- OJlnArenllw nA . ... lA k- . . J .u V. 11 1 J . . V V. ... flsion of the master of the roll; vl conn.-m the court-martial. ,lfth sentence he official record of the execu 1 Wna n 1 a ..i, ... i.A... ftter Chlldera had met death. 11 not . 1 . v. "ion wa .n-.... k... t. Uy uined Chllder was ho. Ctiqiwm tm Fit 7a2 , WHEN LVOMEIV N CASE NOT FOUND Several Say They Gave Credit to Patent Medi cine Promoters. With the recent attachment of furniture and other possessions left behind by officers of the Caro lina Medicine Company upon their departure from Ashevllle about a month ago, leaving behi.ad no for warding address and numoroui creditors, reports are " being- re ceived that Indicate a number of suits are pending. Chief among those who are eon wernid in recovering laie sums of money alleged to be due them is C. D. Stowe, proprietor of the Owl Drug Company, at the South; ern station, who patented Dlv-O-Kids as a medicine and who re cently, he asserts, sold the lights to this preparation to the Carolina Medicine Company for J5.000, of which he has received only $1,000. n addition, he claims, he is crea tor for 100,000 pills of this brand vhich he prepared for the com any after ha withdrew as preai- lent. The : officials of the company ho left the city recently without v-aving a forwarding address, are Jlsa Mamie H. Flowers and Miss U Nettle Catletf, who had an apartment for some time at the t. B. Buchanan home. 59 Ashe iand Avenue. They had been liv ing In Ashevllle for the past five or six years. ' Yesterday the penal effects of the Medicine Company heads were attached by the landlady, after a month of silence; on the MEMORIAL FRIDAY FO PA I L YIUC II IU HELD THE SDN' Bronze Tablet Unveiled at Wake Forest and Hom age Paid Ex-Student. WAKE. FOREST. Nov. 24. Just three years from the same oc casion that Belvin W. Maynard, Flying Parson and noted air pilot, spoke to the visitor at Wake For est, society day, back in 1919. a bronze tablet two feet by one and a half feet was presented to Wake Forest College here today bearing an inscription to the world fa mous pilot that lost his life, Sep tember 7, 1922, when his plane fell to earth, destroying pilot and ending the career of Maynard. Described by President William Louis Poteat as having a brief but brilliant career as a cavalier of the clouds, the memory of Wake Forest's foremost airman lives in the hearts of his college acquaint ances and for 30 minutes of an af ternoon of home coming celebra tion, the undivided thoughts of the Society Day attendants were directed to the commemoration of Belvin. W. Maynard's heroic and notable record. Society Day was celebrated at Wake Forest In grand style, the annual Junior-Sophomore debate was held ln the afternoon at 2:10 o'clock. The query for debate was "Resolved, That All later-Allied Loans Acquired for the Prosecu tion of the World War Be Cancell ed," which subject was In Jteepln with the occasion of the presenta tion of the Maynard Memorial. C. 8. Robinson and LeRoy Mar tin of the negative side of Ahe de bate won the Judges' decision over Guy Davis and K. E. Wliford. of the affirmative. Both sides pre sented strong argument on the . . . 1 . I J J . nrall. EaSS snd oealt "tSS TbJ ' - " "le' nd ll OTisMM Sjaa mwg saiuunii Vciiib a-. LARGE FIRE LOSS IT IN PISGAHjOREST Some of Finest Spruce Pine in State Will Be Wiped Out by Flames. HOPE T0C0NTR0L THE FIRE TODAY 500 Acres of Timber De stroyedDamage "Esti mated at $20,000. SptrM CtHTttimtitm Th A,rtnls CiUen)' PISOAH FOREST. Nov. 24. After burning over about 2.600 acres or cut-over lands In Hay-j wood County, including -a camp, ! four houses, several trestles and ' valuable logging skidders of the Suncrest Lumber Company, with damage of approximately $10,000, ono of the latgest forest fires of the season is still raging ln the heart of valuable spruce timber ln Pisguh National .Forest, with at least 500 acres ln the preserve already burned and damage esti mated at between $16,000 and $20,000, .with some of the finest spruce timber In Western North Carolina destroyed. The flames aire raging at the head of Davidson River, on lands under lease by the Carr Lumber Company, and a force of at least 500 men from the lumber mills, headed by Verne Rhoaues, Super visor, United States Forest Serv ice, are taking turns In fighting the Are, which had not been plac ed under control at midnight to night. The fire has been burning for several days, starting ln Haywoou County, near the camp of the Suncrest Lumber Company and crossed Into the National Forest in Transylvania County, late Thursday ; afternoon. It Is be tween, the plants of the Carr and Suncrest Companies, about 14 miles jfdm the 'hiajn mills, and officials are confident that the mills will not be in the path of the flames, should they be placed un der control during the next - 12 hours. However, according to word re ceived from the Are area by. B. L. Fink, Forest Ranger at Bent Creek, those at the scene were hopeful of placing the tire under control by early Saturday. Th nlanl nf th. Carr Lumber Company, , at Plsgah Forest, de spite pressing busln ed this afternoon at the entire force, approximately 390 men, were dispatched to fight the flames, which were then be ing tanned by heavy winds. At least 200 men are on hand from tha Suncrest Lumber Company and the men are,' taking turns In fighting the fire, which at mid night had been burning for 10 hours on the Government lands. Camp No. 12 of the Sunereat Lumber Company was destroyed, by the flames and logging operrj. tlons on the Big East Fork. In Haywood County, will be halted ttct and tha stock will go one sale upon a plan whereby aub. scribers will have an aseurad in come from tha start, guaranteed by a heavy bond with extraordi nary accruing value to the stock each year. A Washington Press Foresees Simmons Minority Leader 1UH AftfftVIM CiTUE iiv u. f.. c: iu tr WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. The Washington Star of toduy Siiid: ' "Senate Democrats, at a num ber of private conferences yes terday, talked over the selec tion of a leader to succeed Senator I'ndnrwood. of Ala bama, who recently announced that, l-ecause of ill henlth, ho would not be u candidate for the leadership when the Slxty F.ighth Congress meets afte-.-March 4. "The outstanding mimes in their discussions were Simmon, of North Carolina, and Robin son, ot Arkansas. "Senatur Harrison, of Missis sippi, declared he would not be a candidate for the leadership. So did Senator Walsh, of Alassa chusetts. It Is expected that the leadership will eventually go to Senator Simmons." CON T N OF at Washington with liuVhed phrase. and declared that what he really came to America for was to seel: to draw the United States Into th conference at liutanne, for the settlement of the Biistern crisis. Speaking In Treinont Temple before a fashionable audience, ( 'It incm-eau said he had not In tended to tell Americans how to run their own business. "Hut they have asked me to go further." he said, referring to the I assertions of Senators at Washlng i ton that his addresses were too , vague. "They also dared me. 1 alii ready todiy, in Huston to go la little further. Ill give you not I an advice, but what I think. It is the very simplest thing In the world. There la at Uiunnne a conference where England and France are supposed to agree with Italy, which might meet with some dlfhYultl-is. lot the Yankee come and say "Good day, gentle men; Is there a seat for meV They will give him an arm chair. "Never were circumstances bet ter. Do there and you will meet the lOastern question which is troubling the world for the Inst 600 years. And you will do more you wljl settle It, liecaune you can do It. because the presence o America in Europe again will tell the Germans that they won't go farther than certain limits nnd be cause everybody will understand that there is a moral and material power which is to take possession of the world, not for domination, but fox freodom. "Let my conclusion be this: lot us unite, .ot us be good. Let UK be free." The aged war premier, looking a til Me worn, but full of enthusl e,s1ii, spoke for more than an hour. Earlier in the daj- he had grant ed his Hrst American Interview, In whluh he answered caustically, the criticisms leveled at him and his counta-y In. yesterday's debata po the Senate Jlonr- at ;Vai5ilngto:.t tk-natora Hltchoock a&.rEi launching bar tied sanies at both. I some of which were so hot that j he later asked that they be strlck I en out. ! Changes Fiery Replies to I Those of Itrproarh. 1 He paid i again from however, using tbelr names. And his defense of himself and of ,' Fiance, against charges of "mlll- ! tarlsm" and "Imperialism" horo were couched In terms of reproach rather than In fiery sentences. "Today" ho said "I hear. I am an 1 imperialist because the Trench have military service or is tnontna. "Well, I hope Jf we are not too early surprised by a new war that this time of military service cn bo slua-tened. I hope that the French midget of war can be lessened. Hut I am not going to moke any promises about- it. 1 do not concede that Kng :aml and America have the right to complain, because they left me and obliged me to defend my country In such a minner. I am not going to complain of you because you organise your military and naval defenses as you see best according to your laws snd decisions of Congress. There fore, why should you complain of me? Don't you think It rather hu-nJMatlngT- "I would Ilka very much to hear from anybody at what time we turn ed militarist. It was not when wo were fighting, because we never had Before Lausanne Con ference Friday. TURKS WOULD TAX FOREIGN HOLDINGS Oppose Any Missionary Institution Not Teach ing Turkish. LAtTSANNK. Nov. 24. (Dy The Associated Press) Eilptherlo VAnlieelos, former premier of Greece, and M. Stambnullaky, the Bulgarian prime minister, faced each other at today's aeswion of the Neai Eastern conference, when an effort was made to reach an Agree ment on Bulgaria's claim to an outlet ln the Aegean Sea. Both men showed groat emotion. Staaiboullsky was holding out for the actual possession by Bul garia rit the Port of Dedeagatch. t-ontenrllng that In no other way could Bulgaria he guaranteed free commerce. Venlcclns opposed this propositi In an Impassioned speech, j holding! out for a free port at I)e-1 aeagatcn under the control of a mixed commission. "The temper of the spoech of M. Venizelos alone Indicates what dif ficulties Bulgaria would have ln dealing through a port which Is not actually In her possession," M. SUimboullsky retorted. This clash did not give weight to the rumor's of a Balkan en tente, to Include Greece, Bulgaria, Rumania and Jugo-Slavla, which rumors have been circulated In Lausanne for the past few days. Bulgaria today made reservations on the decision to give her the use of Dedeagatch as a free port and Turkey made reservations on the plans for demilitarizing the neutral sono along her Western border without giving her any guarantees that neutrality would be respected. . Thus Lausanne seemlna-lv l. ready r -yettm -te tni..jeu!i cpiifoewTTch w hiore notable for the TeaervaCtons the powers made than it was for definite agreements arrived at without Reservations. ' - Ismet' Pasha todar wanted . ciear understanding in the treaty wnicn tne lAusanne F! Alleged to Be Operating in Conflict With North Carolina Law. WILMINGTON, Nov. 24 A tem porary injunction was today grant ed the Fisheries Products Com pany, of Wilmington, restraining the North Carolina Fisheries Com mission from confiscating the properties of the plaintiff concern on the grounds of alleged violation of the law prohibiting any firm. Individual or corporation, all of whose stockholders are not resi dents of the State, from manufac turning fish scrap or fls holl, or catch menhaden fish In the waters of North .Carolina. ' The injunction was signed at Whlteville this afternoon by Judge G. W. Connor in Superior Court and Is made returnable at Wil mington, December 4. Members of the commission were served with the order today. The Import ance of the Injunction Is far-reaching. In view of.the fact that If the law la held valid it will force ev ery scrap concern In the State, any part of whose stock Is held by non residents, to suspend operations. ior a number of yesrs the S'ate STAID BY COURT VAST RECOVERY SUITS BROUGHT BY GOVERNMENT Want Over $20,000,000 Al leged Wrongfully Spent on Camps.' his respects to them frames that the powers Will guar tlte platform without, j antes the neutrality of the lone wnii.n rurkey requests shall be created from the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, He asked that a belt of territory 0 kilometers wide be laid out. 30 kilometers on each side of the frontier between Turkey and Bulgaria and between Turkey and wrtiece ainng tne marltza River, whloh forma natural boundary be tween Eastern and Western Thraco. The plan to hold two distinct conferences on the Near Fast ern question, one for re-establishing pence between Turkey and Greece and between the Allies and Turkey and the second to fix the status of the Straits of the Dardanelles, has been abandoned, It was stated todny, and tha problem of the straits has been merged Into the general conferonce. Turkey's spokesmen at the Laus anne conference, hearing of the ar rival of American missionary rep. resentatlvea here, expressed the hope that American philanthropic and educational Institutions would not be needlessly ulnrmnH . . v... lrfla nn..l Wm IUE1 -.lllta.l.M .J. . . " ."7 W1U i. .... i.iiM.m. . Bawm or ine new regime ln Tnr because we saved th whole of the key. The Keninll.it ur.n. world from the German dominating ,d ,hat the 1- t 1? expeot undertaklngT Was that militarism? f HV," , r WM, " .cHsposltlon Was that militarist because our men ;? arlv" out Americans, especially had to fall and we had to find men I t9'M1? engaged in educational and unaruaoie ujraertak trigs. It was pointed out. however, that Turkey saw no reason why foreign Institutions whether educational, or Industrial, should be dealt with differently than Turkish Institu tions, and that If Turkey's schools and factories paid taxes then for eign -establishments should also. The Angora delegates declare there should be no special privil eges for foreigners ln Turkey and Insisted that It should be also un derstood that all schools, whether, foreign or Turkish, should teach I the Turkish language. The prob lem of Thrace and the Western to follow until you could come? "Well, can't I say something tn . (CmJIumS eft Jocr Two ess, was clos-'law has permitted resident fisher 2 o'clock and j men and domestic cornoratlona to "h for Menhaden In North Caro 'na waters, but an amendment to hU law was nssd at the last Tstslatur. prohibiting onerat'ons bv pomnanles, any of whose stock holders are non-residents of the fae, and providing" for the eon oscstion of their tironerty. The Flher' Products Company Lalleired has invented $.0.0nfl In Its vsrl- . tract Ins Comoanv snent an mis Plants, annroximatelv 11.100.- 'of $0,500,000 ln building i 0 belne- invested In North Caro lina, with other plants scattered alon the Atlantic cost. Its stock owned by 7,000 stockholders, of who 5.000 are residents of North Carolina, y WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. Civil suits to recover more than $20, 000.000, alleged by the Govern ment to have been fraudulently expended ln the construction of Camps Upton, Jackson, Sherman and Funston, were Instituted to day by the Department of Justice against the contractors of each project. The suits were said ln official circles to be the initial step In a legal campaign against war-time contractors who are suspected to have gone beyond the intent and purpose of the authority given to them by Federal department:!. Additional actions are in pros pect, it was said at the Depart ment of Justice, as soon as com plete reports have been made by tha special force of auditors which has been engaged for 15 months in an analysts of construction rec ords. ' Unofficial estimates place the total which' might be expected to be recovered from all th con struction cases at between $70. 000,000 and $80,000,000. In the cases filed today the- Government that the Hardawajr Con- excess Camp Held Under Capitol Domo Creates Big Stir. G0THAMP0LICE CLEAN-OUT ORDERED New York and North Car olina Will Endeavor to ; Halt Masking." " ' ' - i . .. wuaiHero rma sa AHrn.ia orraaH fy . a. o. ir y t WASHINGTON, Nov. 24, De partment of Justice officials have had men inside numerous Ku Klux Klans In North Carolina and other southern states and hava gathered a list of Federal officials who be long to the order. It looks now as there would be a number of new Jobs for Republicana throughout the country for the President will be asked to declare vacant offices held by Klansmen. Several hun-. dred names iiave been listed by the department and among those scheduled to go. are a down Or mora North Csrplinlans. t j. the next meeting of the cab inet. Attorney- General Daughertj will go over the entire Ku Klux Klan matter ln the hands of hla department with the President. Reports to his office give tha name and" addresses of Government em ployees who belong td local Klan throughout the country; It I be- i lieved that the President will -agree that the men who belong to t the Klans should be fired from '. tholr position. Attorney General ! Daugherty holds- that this country 1 no place for the person who works behind a mask. His atti tude toward th Ku Klux and -their claim that they are out to enforce th law. Is that th Fed- e.ral Government doe not need th support of nran who conceal their identity behind false face and robe. s , Poatoffle Department officials, ' William -J. Bum. ert rvi-. .- man, and fh Oovei-bi -imt t4 Clp fcav collected iik ot.a on th Ku Klux Klaii -apdi It so- , Uvitios. For more than) a year, -obi of th clever defective in the Federal service have bean investi gating the Ku Klux and have col lected thousand of name and quanUtlea of Information for a round-up of th order when tha word 1 given. It has been found that number of small fry politicians In many States ar co-operating with th Ku Klux leaders. These man hav taken advantage of the movement "to Interest themselves In govern - men job, president Harding will be told that In two or three West ern State Ku Klux Klansmen hav used tholr secret organisation to 1 frighten applicants for postofflc and other Federal Job out of com petition with, brother Kluxes. From ". many communities letters hav come to the department detailing . questionable activities of political workers known to be member of : tha Klan. In this way by a cam -palgn of Intimidation th leaders 1 of the Ku Klux Klan get their own associate In government position. Department of Justice official -are ready for a clean up as far as Federal office holder ar concern- I ed. Their policy i to dron from 7 the pay roll every serson wha hold a membership in the Klan, 1 Approximately BOO of thee hav .i been located and listed. It Is be- lieved. It 1 believed that tha Pres ident will agree to this program. A local paper here today Carried a story to the effect that Klan leaders tn Atlanta had assertaj that on the 14th of hla month Dio CCsWw. a rati rjl SEVEN HOURS fi DEBATE STAGED) ON SHIP HASH 17X7'" i K h Republican, day. The sub-commission of the full commission on territorial milt, tary questions, comprising-! group of experts, was wrestling With the boundary question. THIXKS CONDITIONS IX PIUSOXS EXAGGERATED Ohio, Attacks Subsic in Lower House. COLUMBIA. B. C. Nov. S4 Doubt that conditions in Souih Carolina- nrlsnn ..a m. i,tiin.ii m n report of an address nude In I ? lt tna had gone before', had (ireenshoro, ST. C today by Dr. O wAnnmwi-uN, jxov. r urn- t tng along through peectnl a ! Ihn lnphnl.nl .i.. 1 . i it - - i.fc iup i .1- pi iiar bill held It own in ihi Bius t today as friend sought iHxi ; its voyage and- enemies : -ug'tt to i ' sink it by th head. , f - Whether seven solid hnssi ari debate, topping off a whol-f day -r Jacksdn. S. C; th Thompson etarrett Company, $6,000,000 at Camp Uptpn, N. T.; A. Bentley and Sons Company, $6,000,000 at Camp Sherman, Ohio; and George ICwmm I m f ra-l n. Williams,, were as bad a indl rated was expressed here tonight by Governor Wilson G. Harvey. Jt harsh treatment were general, the governor said, the condition would have been reported to him and he would have taken steps to alleviajte Dr. Williams recently resigned s secretary of th South Carolina board of public welfare. BUTLER WILL ACCEPT HE WIRES PRESIDENT MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. Nov. 14. Pierce Butler, of St. PauL -nom inated yesterday by President ocrat iiwuing to w an manuciaie justice of the Supreme Court, will accept )he appointment, according to a telegram received from him by the Minneapolis Morning Tribune. Mr. Butler is in Toronto. Th message snld: - "Answering your wire, nun only say am greatly honored and will accept." changed many votes, leade-to de cline J to say. Representative Mon dell. Republican leader, At tha White House, assured the Presrf- dent the measure would pass oo Thanksgiving eva. - - Fourteen member debated the bill today. Two broke cut f party line. Representative Kan. Ohio. Republican member of ta mer chant marina committee, which framed it, declared he would not vote with the Republican. H said the bill had bees Jammed through the committee). He sa-ldj the same Republican Jdrsfi' that waa attempting to pas the measure cost bim hi at in tha recent election. He told the Deny It would be to then- ad vantage to let It pass with thv v.rtsln.ty that It would mean th crushing" of th Republican oppoa -tion two year hence." ' Representatlv O'Connor. Den oc rat, Louisiana, aupported tb bill. - - The principal attack was mad by Representative Davis of T- rn