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H s - mmmmmmmmmmmmmimmma " " 11 11 " mmmmmmmmmmmmmm in nm i r 'ii r mm n , , , ... THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN THE WEATHER WASHINGTON, Dee. 14. Foreoaat for North Carolina: Rain Friday! WATCH THE LABEL On your paper. It will tall yau whan your aubacrlptlon enDiree. Rene flva oaya before expiration, and you won't mlia an Issue. colder in west portion; Saturday fair and coldtr. DEDICATED TO THE UP-BUILDING OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA'' ESTABLISHED 1868. ASHEVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1922. PRICE F;,VE CENTS A FT EVIDENCES EEP IMPRESSION IDE BY POTEST Spillman Again Heads State Baptists Next Meeting at Gastonia. PLANS FORGREATER MEREDITH MADE Two Years' Full Collegi ate Work Will Be Added to Wingate High. I yp'riil Corr'itponirttr Tho Aihovillo Vllittn) WINSTON-SALEM, Dec. 14. Tim first evidence of the deep ln piession made by the address o t I i . Win. L. Poteat was brought to i In. convention tonight when it was announced that a gift of $2,500 l.ftdJheen made to the loan fund fordie lieneflt of ministerial stu dents. This gift was proposed last ear by a "brother and sister" who uro members of the First Rapti.it liimh of High Point, but because )i- the donate concerning watte lKist College, the gift was with--M,..d until today. The donors wlth- ni-pn 1.100 1n U'ako V'nv . "' nd $200 to Meredith Collet,- fj y the name of five grand children. .Jktev. l. R. J. Rateman, of the L pFxxl Baptist Church. Asheville, ad- ' t ujuwcu Lire Luiiiniuri III . inn inrerey.r nr iercoirii n uoen X 1 IA his opening remarks he crUi jl died tho newspapers for nominat- ., 'foes" and specifically found fault dith an Asheville newspaper which said had editorially used uc4) liguage. "Dr. I'oteat had no iijea," said Dr. Bateman, "and if ...you newspaper reporters Bet noth ing more from my speech, I insist you get this and print it." Speaking of the college, Dr I'.nteman urged the education of (he women in view of the influence they will exert. Educated woman hood will save the state and the nation. "Give us educated women and ve will fili the pulpits with conse crated men. Give us educated wo men and we will build a founda tion for a bright tomorrow;. Give us educated wpmen and we will i evolutionlze commerce." fonunlttre of Seven lo Plan A Greater Meredith Dr. C. R. Brewer, president of Meredith College, speaking for the hoard of trustees asked for the appointment of a committee of even tn cn-nnnra f a i.ttU Yia v.n.v..,t ilri making plans to build the stealer Meredith. The convention t"Jo instructed tho trustees to pro--rfre plans to be presented to the u vr.nvention at its 1!)23 session. f Oxford Colleen Infitxl rw. nl. Js ?3 years old and has been Yharge of President P. B. Hou Koold for 43 years. Tonight a resolution wag adopted requcstlvuj She Board of Education to con older the wisdom of adding- Oxford to the Baptist school system and report to the next convention. Notwithstanding his request that he be relieved of tho presidency, Hew Dr. B. W. Spillman wa unanimously re-elected president or the North Carolina Baptist State Convention tonight. Dr. Spillman ill preside at the 1923 session a: Clastonia. One of the absolute certainties about a Baptist State Convention K that no man can foretell events t'nder ordinary circumstances when the convention appoints a "Ommiflee. the ronnrt- nf liaf tnitteo is ildnnle,! l-.ii I. 4a i n'ways so, and by a narrow mar trin of six votes, pretty close, the convention this afternoon adopted a committee report. Tho selec tion of a. location for 1923 session i!' the convention caused the sen jjtion. It was the hour of ai- fjVirrirnenr, the sun was setting. Vfany delegates were gone for their soppers, vhen the committee re ported Gastonia as the meeting place In 1923. Immediately Rev. W. L. Griggs, pastor at North Wllkesboro offered a- substitute and In support of his proposition made a forceful and really master ful appeal, and he made an im pression. He captured the con vention and If it had not been for the fact that the next convention should go to the east, the earnest, eloquent preacher from the moun tain town would have overturned the committee report and even tnen Gastonia only von by six vrtes. The convention in 1SI3 meets in Gastonia, Rev. L. R. PrMetle. Of Ninth Avenue n.nli.l ;urrn, i nariotte, will preach tho ytv e"-nii. nev. j. r. ivmene of Rocky Mount Is the alter- t.-'Ue 8' f me I "nil Co selectlon. The convention meet on Tuesday, Dec. 1. CofJeirlate Two Years Added to Wingate. The board of education wag authorized by the convention to srrange with Wingate High School, located at Wingate, in Union Coun ty, to add to its present four years of high school work, a course of two. years of full collegiate work, tlius becoming a Junior college. Principal C. M. Beach has worked to this end for over a year. Plans have already been made to en large the equipment for laboratorv work in the department of science. Rev. Dr. O. E. Bryan, secretary or enlistment and evangelism un rler the Home Mission Board of tfce Southern Baptist Convention, Atlanta, (ia., was the first speaker tonight during the discussion of the work of home missions. Dr. Bryan reminded the convention that North Carolina stands at the head in .contributions up to this rtate and urged that the Old orth State hold the place. Home ml- sions need more money to do the growing work and this is not the tinie to retrench. Rev. Dr. A. E. Brown, of Ashe ville, superintendent o Mountain School work under the home -board, told the convention of the "iXork of the schools. Dr. Brown Jas reminiscent. Twenty-eight (years ago the first mountain achool 1 -a a AntrihlinheH IVrt nHrflll angeg nave come in those few ars- In every section of North .CT3.?UllIla IJ1T:1Q Xl V IJJVII BIIQ WU- tn who oegan meir lire prepara tion in the schools under control sf the home board. The convention elected the fol lowing: Board of Education: J. H. Highsmith, J. R. Hunter. W. D. I'rivott. T. I.. Johnson, T. D. Ma nes. R. L,. McNeill, .1. J. Lane. R. 1. McMillan, G. N. Cowan. Knd-s URGES PROBE OF STATE PRINTING CONTRACT SOON Clark Flays Errors Said to Be in Supreme Court Report. WORK OF RALEIGH CONCERN ATTACKED Ship man Will Insist Printing Body Conduct Investigation. oitizbm ewe d.40 T.aoioDaa auiBL I OCI tAUKLLf) l; l.i:iiH. Dec. i4. Printing Comiiiissioner M. I. Shipman will insist on the State Printing Com mission conducting the Investiga tion into the printing contract of Edwards and Broughton as re quested by the local establishment yesterday afternoon. He looks on the move as an ef fort to retrieve the loss on a bad job of printing, and he wants the commission not only to look into the present controversy over Su preme Court reports but to take cognizance of a string of difficul ties arising from Edwards and Broughton handling of state print ing Jobs. The present controversy results from the refusal by the commis sion to accept Volume No. 132 of the North Carolina Supreme Court reports on the ground that It con tained multltudious errors in proof. In support of his refusal to- accept this Job, which is said to have resulted in a loss of about $3,500 to the printing house, Mr. Shinman today made public the following letter from Chief Jus tice Clark, dated March 31, 1922, and containing the first complaint on the class of work turned oui: "I have looked over the Volume of 132 N. C, and I do not think that the State ought to accept it or let It go out to the profession and the public. Claims Words Are Misspelled, Omitted. "I do not know how It hap pened that a reputable house, as the publishers are, have let It be printed in its present form. 1 have never seen in my entire life a volume that so completely swarms with errors of .every kind. Not only words are misspelled or substituted but they are omitted, the paging is faulty, the spacing is unequal and irregular and so are the margins. "I do not wish to be critical but as a lawyer I do not think that the volume should go to the pro fession and it would be a dis credit to the State to put so faulty a book on the market. "Certainly the work ought to be reprinted and the present edition I neetf.Jrfdt point out to your department the errors la this pub lication for there Is scarcely a page that' It without them. Alto gether it is the worst Job I have ever seen. The errors will speak for themselves. It should not go out to the public as a volume of the reports of this State until it is reprinted." He also made public copy of the State's contract with Edwards and Broughton which specified that the work should meet certain standards and that failing to do so. the commissioner of labor and printing could refuse ths work or deduct from the contract price for a faulty Job. Edwards and Broughton, in CgaHnni PW THE DAY IN WASHINGTON The census bureau reported that cotton consumption in No vember was the greatest in any month since October, 1917. Hearings on oil and gasoline prices were resumed by a Senate Manufacturers sub-committee with W. C. Teagle, President of the Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey, as a witness. Senator Brookhart, Republican, of Iowa, offered an amendment to Vi administration shipping bill for payment of a subsidy to Amer ican industrial and agricultural producers, while plans were con tinued for displacing the measure in the Senate for farm credits ies islatlon. Secretary Wallace in tesf-fnony hefnrn the Interstate Co Corfclrce Commission supported the dtppll cation of Western. States for lower transportation rates on nay ana grain. President Harding; In a letter read at the" National Council of Farmers' Co-operative Marketing Associations endorsed their activ ihbji ma an effective means of pro vlrtln relief to agriculture. Sec retary Wallace also endorsed them. Two Senate committee hearings on various farm credit proposals continued, with Eugene Meyers, Jr.. Director of the War Finance Corporation, among the witnesses urging enactment 01 reuei la-tlnn. ' A resolution was offered in the House by Representative Newton of Missouri, endorsed by 20 other Republican Representatives for a 70-million dollar appropriation to relieve famine conditions in uer many and Austria.- The House, beginning considera tion or the naval appropriation oiu was told by Representative Line berger, Republican, California, that President Harding had been engaged with the question of ne gotiating with other powers for a limitation in construction of smaller craft. Representative Kel ly, Republican. Michigan, in charge of the measure, said the Navy Department had recommend ed a, construction program cost ing 1331.000.000. Representative Keller, Republi can. Minnesota, refused to proceed further before the House Judici ary Committee with his Impeach ment charges against Attorney Uenerai Daugherty, declaring the proceedings were "a. comic opera." He was summoned to sppear be fore the committee tomorrow to give testimony under oath as to his charges of high crimes ana misdemeanors against Mr. Daugh- rty. ' Turks Conciliatory On Christians9 Protection; Would Deport Patriarch I.Al'SANNE, Dec. 14. (By The Associated Press. ) Although Tur key vas conciliator today on the great q'teMion of accepting imrc form of supervision from without on the general treatment of ! ha Christian populations lnhabitim; Turkey, .-he proved adamant in in sisting upon the deportation f i n:n Constantinople of the supteinw patriarch of the Greek aorthndnx churi'h. This is one of the most impor tant issues of the Iausannn con ference. Around It surge all the historical and religious differences i.c'ueen ( hrisHanity and Moham medanism. Mnce the Turks rnn siri i- Constantinople their sacred city they resent that its Midi fr-hc itlil s.'rve as the permanent seat of the pontiff of the Greek Chris tian church: they maintain thai Athens or Rome or some oth1! fivoivedly Christian center should be i hosen as his place of tcm- At the meeting of the sub-eonr mission on the exchange of popu lations ln.s afternoon, the Allied d e 1 e c a somewhat diffidently iiroiiRht. hp ths question of the Creek patriarch', knowing full weuf,nn Christian populations in Tur the dangers surrounding any dl ; c.nssion of this delicate religious problem. Immediately the Otto man rem rrentatives aroe and in sisted that the patriarch must go. because ho had been mixing in politics, 'n the detriment of the Ottoman state. A debate of considerable asper ity ensued. The Greek delegate warned the sub-commission that Greece would never agree to the GERMANS FACING ECONOMIC FALL CAPITAL HEARS Commons Told England Cannot Pay America Un less Germany Pays Her. WASHINGTON. Dec. 14. (By The Associated Press.) Informa tion reaching t,he American gov- ernment through trade channels, it was said today, tends to bear out the statement of Premier Bo nar Law that an economic col lapse is threatening Germany. In fact, it was declared, (lermany appears to be approaching the point where sh,e will be unable to import, food in sufficient quantities to feed her people. .o estimate was made, however, as to when her food supply would be exhaust ed. So far as the Allied debt situa tion was concerned, officials main talned silence. The position of the United States, however, has been repeatedly stated as one holding the debt question to be distinct from reparation questions Germany . normally produces only about three-fourths of the food she requires, it was said, and the Information received here In dicates she now is 2,000,000 tons behind on her normal annual im port of cereals alone. The credit situation was said to indicate that there Is little if any money avail able to buy extra food required from the outside while to this la added the complication of the low state of the mark- The basis of the whole situation was declared In high administra tion quarters to be predicted upon the reparations problem. Solution of that question, one official as serted, would go a long way to ward tiding Germany over what was regarded as an impending crisis. Lack of an agreement by the Allied powers as to the amount Germany will eventually have to pay and how she will pay it was declared to have slackened the whole of commercial Germany with the result that unemployment has markedly increased the last few months and those who have money are partiripajting In the "flight of the mark." ENGLAND Mt ST COMEOT TO PAY DEBT TO V. S. LONDON, Dec. 14. (By The Associated Press. )-Prime Minis ter Bonar Law emphatically ar gued In the house of commons to day the Impossibility of Great Britain paying the American debt while receiving nothing from Ger many, France or Italy. He said he was convinced such a policy would reduce the standard of liv ing In this country for generations. It would be a burden upon Great Britain of which those sug gested it now have no conception, he believed. The prime minister said public opinion abroad "assumes that we are able to meet our obligations and help our friends." "In reality." he insisted, "we are in no such position. We are paying 100,000.000 pounds yearly to the unemployed." Germany Is very near to com plete collapse, tiie Prime Minister 4-told the house of commons. Ho iieclared that this was the only ir.formatlon he could give the house on the subject of repara tions. : The prime minister said there was almost no hope of a solution of the reparations question unless Great Britain and France acted together. The British government, he de clared, could not look with equan imity upon any action by an ally which would have the effect, not of reducing reparations but of making it more difficult. If not impossible to obtain them. This was taken as a. reference to ttie French proposal fr oocupation of the Ruhr. QVEEX CTTY MAX GETS FEDERAL RESERVE POSITIOX WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. A Charlotte man. Robert Lassiter. has been appointed the federal rs- srve board announced today, as m Class r, director of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank. He suc ceeded James A. Moneure. of Balt. more. whose term will expire Jau- deportation o' the patriarch, an 1 would pri'lmlily refuse to sign n;v. treaty hu h authorized such a step, 'I'hi' niee'lng va. somewloi' hastily adjourned, hut another at tempt to i each an agreement wi.. be mad' in a day nr two. Although there are tivfi nrthorim patriarch In the Orient, it is to" tatrlai ' h In t onsta ntinople w h has always heen given the rank o I rlmato. because he has resided for centuries In the ancient a pi: il of the Itxzantine empire. When the probable return of Constantinople to the Turks uu announce ! at Athens' as the in I'vitahlo outcome of the Greek de feat In Asia Minor, the greatest e ritement arose among the Atben inns. who foresaw the possibility of the aii,arch'R deportatio ,i "Former Premier Venizelos has re i eived countless messages from dc vout Greeks imploring him :o mnke no .surrender of the Issue uf the patriarch. By announcing today her inten tion of joining the League of Nn -lions as sonii as peace is Rigncd a' Lausanne. Turkey virtually arl- ""llr(l M"" ,v"1"1 -cept til i l-eague of .Nations supervision ovi key Tho RUh-conimlssinn' for tl e study of the future administration of the Straits of the Dardanelles and the itosporus is steadily mak ing progn and today's develop ments, despite, the Turk s Implaca bility on tho question of tne patriarch and the exchange of populatiOTr has created the im pression that peace really will be signed at Iusanne. TENSE AUDIENCE HEARS WITNESSES TELL OF RIOTING Three Defendants Identi fied as Being Armed on Day of Tragedy. MARION, 111., Dec. 14 (By The Associated Press.) The march of several hundred armed men driving before them through the streets of Herrin, six blood stained prisoners and the finding later of 20 bodies was described to the jury by several witnesses today at the trial of five men held in connection with the riots of last June. r Before a tense audience which packed the sombre court room to the doors anl overflowed Into the stairway leading to it and the corridors below, witnesses for the State pointed out three of the de fendants as men they had seen with weapons in their hands the morning of the tragedy. Six of the bodies, according to the testimony of J. Marshall Lentz, a Herrin real estate dealer, arid T. N. Lenin, his brother, who Is a blacksmith and a member of the United Mine Workers of America, were bound together with a single rope about their necks. Fourteen other dead or injured victims were found just outside the Herrin city cemetery on the outskirts of the town, they testified. Marshall lntz, the first or the two to take the stand, testified to seeing a crowd of several hunlred men passing before his house in Herrin earlyt in the morning of June 22, the day of the killing. He said the crowd was shouting and singing and looked like a mob and that "about six prisoners with bloody heads were being driven ahead." Later, he said, he had gone with his brother through the woods at the edge of the village. "What did you see In the woods?" tie was asked. Fourteen Men Shot Down and Some Armed Wore Seen. "Fourteen men who had been shot down and some armed men." He added that he had then gone toivarl the city cemetery. "What dVrt you see there?" ask ed Delos DutVj State's attorney. i found six men In the middle Continued on Fogo Kine ! EFFORT TO LIMIT SMALLER WARSHIP nnnnnimii irnnT rnubnum nruu Announcement Discloses j Parker Says Prohibition World Negotiations Been Is Flat Failure - Is Al Under Way for Months. most a Farce. WOULD BE LARGE ASKS WHEN KLAN SAVING OF MONEY, ADVANCED JUSTICE Lineberger Authority for Statement New Confer ence Would Be Called. WASHINGTON. Kec. 11. P11 iilcnt llardini;. aocoi-diti to a Matemenl made in the House lo ' day, "has been engaged tor sov 1 oral months" with the inics:ion of negotiating with the hi louvers ahriuul relative to limiting the I construction of warships under ' 10,000 tons, which ho Is requested i to do under a provision of tin ; naval supply hill, i This information as to the re I ported attitude of the President was given hy llepi csentath o I.ine ; berger, liepuhliran, Califoi nu. ; during a brief Hurry of deli, no, while, Chairman Kelley, of the stih i committee, in charge of the nici . .-ore was seeking to explain the reasons for the request. It was admittedly a surprise to the com mittee, wliiih had not consulted the President prior to prt'seiitation of the hill. Mr. Kelirv had just declared that while the arms conference had afforded net savinK of $ 1 2 K, 000,000, I lie general staff of the navy had recommended a project ed program, under the 10.0011 ton limitation, entailing the expendi ture of 1331.000,000 w hei Mr. l,ineberger interrupted. "The Bentl.etnan Is requesting the President of the I'nitod States to do something which we and every one knows that he lias been engaged in doing for several months past," said Mr. Lineberger, "Would It not he much belter verbiage lo approve that which the President is now doing rather than to request him to do some thing that he has been doing for months ?" The only other reference to the President was made by Represen tative Byrnes, South Carolina, ranking Democrat of the sub-committee, who said he had not known what Mr. Lineberger told the house, that "the President w now at work upon some plan for the calling of another conference for the limitation of armaments." "I assume the gentleman has the Information from the President," Mr Byrnes said, "and I am de lighted to know this is true." Many questions were directed at Mr. Kelley as to what the other nations had done In the matter of naval reduction. MITCHKIX 1IKADS SIRGEONS GRIFFITH Mu D K MHMBKll MEMPHIS. Tenn., Dec. 14. -Dr. James V. Mitchell, of Washing ton, was elected president of the Southern Surgical Association In session here today, and While Sulphur Springs, W. Va,, selected as the 1 928 meeting place. Dr. F. Webb Griffith, of Ashe ville. N. C, was elected to mem bership. The association Is one of tho most exclusive in the country, the membership being limited to 200 and inrluding such men ns Dr. Mayo, Dr. Finney, Dr. I'rile and others prominent In American sur gery. FI V K CH A RTK RAL A I THO RIZ MR Ti V THr mvr'nirrAnv rie ktitIi1 I P.ALKIGH, Dec. 14. The Secre tary of State has granted the fol lowing charters and amendments to charters: Durham Exposition Company, of Durham, to operate an amusement and recreation park. Non-stock. Terrell Machine Company, of Charlotte, to Increase Its capital stock from $25000 to $100,000. E. A. Terrell, of Charlotte, was nam ed as the principal agent. Motor Sales and Truck Company, of Leakesvllle, capitalized at $6, 000. with all paid stock paid in W. H. Smith, of Leakesvllle, M. I!. Helner. of Spray, and E. fcl. Emer son, of Spray, are the incorpora tors. 1 TOO VALUABLE TO LOSE BY BILLY BORNE fca GOVERNORS HEAR DRY LAWS AND ii mi nriinimprn I rtLrllil ULIaUUIiliLU Governor 0 1 c 0 1 1 Chal- lenges Klaiismen to Un-1 mask Budcet Described.! mask Budget Described. WtllTE SI I . I 1 II ' It SPHINtiS, W. Vs.. lie,-. 1 I Prohibition ami the Ku Klux Klnii wei, (-on'id-erej prom irieni iy at the 1 4 ( 1 1 an nual ( Oltt cr euci" of Kiivpt nors ,1 sessions tuilay .nol louiiiht. Governor John M. Parker, of Louisiana. In an address late lo day declared pi h Hut ion was a flat I failure and denounced the Ku Klux Klan. lie was Joined In his atlaik on the secret o t a u i .a I io n hy Gov ernor Ben w oh-ott, of Oregon, who referred to tin- Klan an address tonight ,is a uatn nai incii- ace. The Louisiana governor Mid he referred to the subject of prohi bition because of the intention of President Harding to call the gov ernors In conference next month, "regarding the matter of prohibi tion enforcement.'' Declaring that prohibition was almost a fan-e, he said it was infinitely belter to abolish the saloon, -permit light wines and beer to be sold, and have the. government regulate the nianuL'ture and distribution of llquil with penitentiary sentences for those who dolled clear and ex plicit liquor laws, l'h the prohi bition question and the Ku Klux Klan. Mr. Parker said, wero black clouds threatening law and order. The Klan, he continued, was spreading over the United States and working under mask and cowl, was rising supreme to law and order. He asked that the governors put themselves on record at the conference as advocating that America should be ruled by her Judiciary and dot by an invisible klan; that no masked men should be allowed to parade the streets; and that Felleral legislation be enacted requiting secret organiza tions to file semi-annually with the Department of Justice sworn lists of their memberships. 'The boast of the Ku Klux Klan," said the governor, "is a boast of 100 per cent American Ism, but not once has the Klan offered assistance to the Depart ment of Justice or tendered In fornrnt'on to iiftlne' e-ijfui win law stiff opder." s '!- Governor oleott challenged the Klansmen to unmask. "U Is largely a political organi zation," he said, "founded for cer tain objects and purposes. Let It be siwoinc. Let it ihrow down its gauge of battle In the open lists, so the tournament may be fought under the eyes of all mankind." Governor E, Lee Trlnkle, of Vir ginia, was another speaker at to night's session, lie described the operation of the budget system In his state. Short 1 ybefoi adjournment of the evening session t midnight, Gov ernor Morrison, of North Carolina, rose and declared he could not let go unanswered cover uoi challenge lor an exorrsoion ... conference on prohibition and tho Kit Klux Klan. The conference, he said, was no place lo launch on attack on either. Inasmuch as it was not In r.,u,.,ier lo ailont resolutions com mitting the body as a whole lo an expression of opinion. Speaking for his own State, (lov. ernor Morrison denied that prohibi tion was not being enforced there and criticised Governor Parker for objecting on one hand lo the alleged lawlessness of I he klan and on the other "yielding In the lawlessness of persons who violated the prohibition laws." Although the klan, he said, was at tempting to unfurl the flag of re ligious Intolerance. It could not lie legislated out. of existence but could onlv be effectively opposed hy argu ment. Governor Ivllby, of Alabama, at. this point asked how It would ha possible to argue with masked men. As the session ended Governor. Parker denied that he was surrender ing to lawlessness In any form. ' m "Bare Faced Attempt" Jo Whitewash Attorney " HUKWUsniuuTney n 1 uenerai, iveuer oays HARDING OKAYS COOPERATIVE MARKET SCHEME President Knows of Nothing Prontixinq Greater Aid to Farmer. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. - En dorsement of co-operative market ing was expressed by President Harding. Secretary Wallace, of the Department of Agrlculi ure, and Dr. Julius Klein, chief of the bu reau and foreign and domestic commerce of the Department of Commerce and member of repre sentative farmers' orgnnlzai Ions, at tlic first meeting today of the Na tional Council of Farmers' Co Operative Marketing Association. National nrgnnlntinns marketing major conn Iitios were represent ed by several hundred delegates from '111 States. A message greeting, read by Sen ator Ernst, of Kentucky, the Presl d"nt declared he knew of no single rnocement that promises more help toward the present relief and the parinanent betterment of agricul tural conditions than the co-operative m ga tii.atlons of farmers to market their products. The system, Secretary Wallace said, should net to avoid glutting markets with farm products and at tho same time to obviate periods of scarcity, thus preventing both ruinously low prices and produc ers" und high costs to consumers. IS HOUR GRILLJHURSDAY LaFollette Sets Aside For mal Statement W i 1 1 Probably Be Filed. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 Facts and figures in' endless array con cerning the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Its control, Its oper ations and, to a certain degree, Its policies, .were presented by Walter O. Teagle, t president, to a Sen ate mauufacturv' sub-commltte today at the resuwln of tjjs Bepf ate direct taUlrAftf riV'e fj4 conditions in the oil industry. Appearing as the first of the leaders In the American oil world, which the sub-committee has sum moned, Mr. Teagle, over a period of four hours, was closely ques tioned by Gilbert E. Roe, of New Yo.rk, counsel for the sub-committee. The questions concerned the minutest details as to the opera tions of the company and were di rected toward bringing out the ex act cost of the major oil products and the extent of competition In the oil industry brought about by the Supreme Court dissolution de cree of 1911. Mr. Teagle for most, rf these questions had ready answers and if some question of minor detail with which was unf'imillar was put, called on a large stuff or as sistants who had accompanied him to Washington, bringing vol uminous files. The St'.ndarJ of New Jersey president ,'it the mart offered prepared statements but was cut short by Chairman La Kollett, who announced the sub corn mi I tea had decided lie should be question b. the commutes at torney, o.ue.juons asked by Mr. Koe during the course of tho hear ing, however, resulted in th'j plac ing of most of the statement.! into the committee .record und Just be fore adjournment Mr. Teugiu ob tained from Acting Chairman Jones tentative permission to file I he statements at the conclusion of hi testimony, probably tomorrow. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. In vestigation by a senate manufac turers committee into oil and gas oline prices arid into the oil in dustry generally was resumed to day lifter an intermission of three months with Walter C. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, as the in it it I witness. Mr. Teagle had prepared a statement for presentation to the committee by Chairman LaFol lette ruled that tho witness in ac cordance with procedure decided upon by tho committee must first submit to questioning by (tilbert K. Koe. the committee attorney. Qutsfions put by Mr. Roe, how ever, were answered by Mr. Tea gle in such a way as to cover the major points in his prepared state ment. The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, under the supreme court's dissolution decree by which It was cut off from Its former cor porate holdings, as a "final- ex pression of the public will on the subject of monopolistic control," has conducted its business "under the conditions of free and active I competition," Mr. Teagle declared in the statement. ! Unlllff e.ltuil.llval,, Int., ....nWcl , lions which have arisen in the In dustry since the dissolution do rie, with paitjcular relation to i the New Jersey company, whose ! bui-lness and organization he re-i viewed at length. Mr. Teagle de clared his .company had observed! the decree "in good faith both in I letter and spirit," adding: "I want to say with all empha-; sis that the Standard Oil Company j of New Jersey is not a party to ; any combination, agreement or ar rangement to fix or maintain the selling prices of Its products." Protests Been Grouped With the Standard. : Mr. Teagle said he wanted to "protest against the characterisa tion of this company as one of j the 'Standard Oil group' as if the old association of Standard OH' Companies existed today, or as if this company constituted a part i icmna m Ttw twl OIL MAGNAT v 11 a REFUSES TOGO D WITH THE -PROGEEDIM Is Summoned to Appear Before Committee and Tell What He Knows. STEP BY KELLEK BRINGS UPROAR Volstead and Keller Stage Dramatic Tilt, Insult ing Says Former. WASHINGTON. Dec. 14 Reprs senlalive Koller, of Minnesota, re fused late today to participate fur ther in the hearings before ths House judiciary committee on the Impeachment charges brought by him against Attorney-Ueneral Daugherty. Characterizing JLhs , liearlugH as a "comic opera per formance," he declared he would be untrue to bis responsibility as a member of Hie House if he assist ed further In "a bare-faced attempt to white-wash Harry M, Daugh erty." Immediately after he announced his withdrawal, the committee in open session and without leaving Its pla.ee, voted to go on With the hearings; to subpoena Mr. Keller as a witness, put him under oath and question him as to the basis for his charges of high crimes and misdemeanors against the attorney-General. Later he was sum moned formally by the House ssr-geant-at-arms to appear before the comniitiee at 10:30 a. m. to morrow. -' This turn in the proceedings came with dramatic suddenness and was attended by a tumult and uproar seldom witnessed in a Con gressional committee room. After absenting himself much of the day, Mr. Keller appeared with a type written statement In his hand and announced he desired to read it to the committee. He was refused the opportunity, but later made public the statement, which dealt In detail with his reasons for re fusing to go on and embodied a, demand that ths commutes favor Wy rtDOrt his resolution to thai :' tHOUs M that h Might present his evidence " to an unbiased commit t. in -the pr,opii Way." - . HHtrTatns He Is In Vomtmhm . Of Ample Evidence. "I reiterate now," the statement said, "that I am In possession of evidence ample to provs Harry W. Daugherty guilty of all of the high orlmes and misdemeanors with which I have charged him." Mr. Keller came Into the com mittee room after a brief suspen sion of the hearing, requested by Jackson S. Ralston, counsel for Mr. Keller, so that he might con fer with the Minnesota representa tive. When Mr. Keller asked to be heard. Paul Howland, counsel for Mr. Daugherty, demanded that the committee proceed with ths hearing In the regular order agreed upon unless Mr. Keller de aired to give testimony, In which event he should be sworn. Announcing that he did not have to be sworn, Mr. Keller said his statement had to do with tho "con duct of this hearing," and he de manded the right to read it. "Is it your object to lecture the committee," Inquired Representa Gondykoonta, of West Virginia. . "I may. was tho response. There followed a general hubbub Into which Chairman Volstead broke with a direction to Mr. Kel ler to "sit down." "I refuse to sit down," shouted the Minnesota member. - "1 want to read tl i is letter and I submit it to you now," he went on, as he strode rapidly to Mr. Vol siead's de.sk, upon which he laid the letter. "Look here," shouted the chair man, "you haven't any right to control this proceeding; the com mittee controls It." As Mr. Keller Insisted upon be ing heard he again was ordered by Mr. Volstead to take his seat. "Do you refuse to hear me?' shouted Mr. Keller. "Well, we will have you sworn i you can't bully rag this commit tee," the chair returned. "It Is Improper for you to say that," rejoined Mr. Keller. "I will say to you now that If I cannot bs heard on this statement I refuse to proceed any more In this hearing. Nor do I expect to present any more evidence. I am through with you unless I can present this state ment." "That it Just exactly what ws expected from you from the start," declared Volstead. "Mr. Claik, give us a subpoena for Mr. Keller and let the sergeant-at-arms serve it. on him. He is Insulting this committee and trying to run it to suit himself." Attorney Ralston then announc ed that In view of the contents of the letter submitted by Mr. Kellor. Cle!jn4 on Post Tkbtoon) FORWA 1M : '