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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN THE WEATHER WASHINOTON. Jan. M. Porec.it far North Carolina: Fair and cooler Mondavi Tutsday unaattlad, followed by rain. I L TODAY "DEDICATED TO THE UP-BUILDING OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA" League will not discuss present TROUBLE At First Decided to Pre sent French Occupa tion to League. BUT POINGARE IS OPPOSED TO IT Near Eastern Conference to Adjourn Without Set tling the Disputes. if tit tfKoru rto rnr.'t , P,RIS' u8n- Tonight there Is little chance that the subject of the occupation or the Ruhr d lull- ct will he discied hv the coun cil of the League of Nations, whlrh will meet tomorrow hi the resi dence of Ieon lioiirgeois. HJaljnar Kranting. the Swedish premier who announced before leaving home that ho would bring up the mention, hut who told The Asso ciated Press today that after a talk with Premier Polnrare, he did not think the question would h,. broached In the- council. "I Khali not bring It ui" said M. Branting. "ir after consulting niv colleagues on the council 1 And It will be disagreeable to any iihe chiefly Interested countries. J hope, however, that the council jeeept the mission to arhl uyie the Mosul dispute, notwith Mmding the great difficulties in volved." M. Bran ting was reticent re garding the talk he had with Pre mier Polnrare. but The Associat ed Press is able to say that the Trench prime minister made it dear that the Ruhr question was not considered by the French Government, a proper subject for discussion for the council of the "League of Nations. The French Government does not consider the reparations ques tion generally now to be in such shape that league Intervention could bo useful; and M. Polnrare holds that under the resolution adopted by the assembly of thV league September !7, regarding the eventual discussion of repara tions by the counril of the league, it was expressly stated that Inter vention by the council could use fully take place only on request ol I he power directly interested is the question. One of the - first things that will be placed before the council tomorrow will be l,ord Curzon's Eric Drummond, secretary-general to the League of Nations, railing the council's at tention to the Mosul dispute. LAUSANNE. Jan. 28. So far apart have the Turks and the Al lies drifted that Lausanne is con fronted tonight with the proba bility that the Near, Xaatern con ference Will WJoum .'without radchlng any agreement. Such, at lcajjt, is the view voiced by prac tically all the delegations. With their traditional tenacity. .'Jaw British are clinging to the Hop that the Turks will sign, but in this they stand alone. Ambas sador Child, by conferring with l.smet Pasha and Lord Curzon, is contributing his bit to saving the conference from collapse. The French Premier has acted in no uncertain manner in this new crisis which threatens Europe; he has telegraphed to Mustapha Krmal Paaha at Angora earnestly counseling moderation in the In terest of Turkey and for the good of all hurope. Working on the assumption that ft least temporary adjustment is in prospect, the conference leaders already are laying plans to pre vent what the world might call t rupture of the conference. If I ranee Is beset with the Ruhr .problem, Italy is deep in internal questions of great importance and Italy, like France, wants no more war in the Near East. Marquis Di (iarronl, head of the Iialian delegation, spent today al most frantically seeking to pre vent new complications 'and to in duce Turkey and England to come to an agreement for this long struggle at Lausanne is es sentially a battle between Turkey and England. Ismet Pasha said tonight that he wanted a peace, luit, his people demand an honor able peace which wll recognize ami sanctify the sovereign rights ofiTurkey'. OtXDERS DAY AT HAMPTON CELEBRATED HAMPTON. Va.. Jan. 28. An nual founders day was celebrated at Hampton Normal Institute to day with Dr. Samuel A. Eliot, -of Cambridge, Mass., as the principal speaker. Among members of the Jboaril of trustees in attendance was Chief Justice of the United Stater Wm. H. Taft. Dr. Eliot in h!s address declared Hampton In stitute since 1868 has been "the creator of opportunity" and he paid tribute to the founders of the Institution as men and women who "could see clearly, think in dependently, Imagine vividly and will nobly." Hampton Institute was created for the education In useful trades and pursuits of Indians and ne groes. CHAMBER WANTS THE SHIPPING SUBSIDY PASSED WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Com mercial organizations will begin this week to fotyis upon Congress urgent demand for the enactment of the administration shipping bill, according to an announce ment today by the Chamber of Commerce of the 'United States. Before adjournment of the pres ent session, it was declared, a Senate vote must be obtained to settle national policy towards the government investment In war time shipping and .the whole iner rntile marine question. Elliott 'Wt Goodwin, resident vice-prcsl-deT pf the chamber, summasjzed aain the arguments, which, it was said, have led business bod ies forming its constituency to favor enactment of the pending bill. CHARLIE cnAPLIN TO WED POLA NEGRI; DATE UNKNOWN DEL MONTE. Calif.. Jan. 28. Charles Chaplin and Tola Negri, motion picture stars announced 'heir engagement at Pebble Beach lodge near' here today. They re cused to say when they would be Married. S ABROAD ESTABLISHED 1868. Debate Will Open This Week On the uovernor s Bill For Shipping Line j- f7'S issnrut n pm, HA I, Kit ill. .Ian. '.'8 Nearinc the half-way maik. the session of tlie General Assembly of North t'.irnllnii, with the road bill only through the house, the tax bill yet to come, the titles farm loan bill in the hand of a stib-cnni-mittce for favorable report and s stream of local legislation pouring In. faced a busy week of law making tonight. The week, to come was expected to develop the first open debate on the floor on the Klate-owned ship hill which members of the Senate appropriations committee were expected to report out Tues day. The chance tr the bill passing In Its present form, ac cording to members who are throwing their full support to the measure, was said to he vague. That a compromise i certain. Is the consensus of legislative opin ion. Amendments will doubtlessly be attempted, proponents say, at least in the House for the general opinion points to comparatively certain pa.ai of the measure in the Senate. . The tyouso finance committee is waiting to receive the general tax bill, Chairman It. A. Houghton, of the finance committee, has pressed earlv preparation of the bill that It might be left for the last minute rush. The bill to Dr. Grant Prefers Soap Box On Corner To Any Pulpit In Which Sermons Are Censored One Dead And Two Seriously Hurt In Train-Auto Wreck CHARLOTTE, Jan. 28. C. M. Steele, 29, formerly of Lan caster, 8. C-, la dead, Mansel Shaver, of Lancaster, S. C, is believed to be fatally Injured, and J. J. Sapp, of Lancaster, is seriously. Injured as a result of a collision between an automo bile and Southern train No. 38 at West Third Street crossing here tonight. The automobile is said to have been proceeding Weat on Third Street when the accident occurred and was practically demolished, the men being hurled some distance from the tracks. Mr. 8anp..-was -delving the car. - - ' ' . . The three men were carried to the Mercy Hospital, Steele surviving only a short while after being examined. Shaver sustained a fraotured skull and a broken hip, and Sapp was badly cut and bruised, and It is believed Injured in the back, jut not fatally. TROOPS ARE SENT TO COLUMBUS TO Negro, Held at White ville, Is Reported to Have Been Threatened. WILMINGTON. Jan. 28. The Wilmington Light Infantry, a unit of the. North Carolina Na tional Guard, will leave here at 9 o'clock for Whitevllle, having been ordered there by Assistant Adjutant General Gordon Smith, of Raleigh, because of the threat ening attitude of citizens of Co lumbus County toward Bob Wil liams, Wilmington negro captured there last night and held for the murder of Chief of Police Bradley Crlbbs, of Fair Bluff, Thursday night. Request for the troops was made by Solicitor Woodus Kellum, of this city. The order was re ceived for dispatching the troops about 7 o'clock and-Captain' R. L. McClellan, Commander, Immedi ately Issued a call for the men and arranged for a special train to take the troopers to the Co lumbus capital. Solicitor Kellum at midnight said that three officers and 40 members of the Wilmington light Infantry had reached Whitevllle, and that they would be retained as long as necessary, tie was unwilling, however, to Intimate how long he considered it would be necessary for them to remain there. Mr. Kellum stated that condi tions In Whitevllle were tense, but confidence was expressed that the soldiers will be able to prevent ... ..-.Aval nf Via nrlsoner from th. jail should an attempt be made. Large but orderly crowds have surrounded the Jail throughout the evening. An attempt to remove Williams from the Jail was made by the mob about 10 minutes before the arrival of the troops but local offi cers succeeded in holding them off until the arrival of the Mi dlers. WILLIAMS WAS NOTED OUTLAW IN THE EAST WILMINGTON, Jan. 28. The ar- VL'lltlamft C.hAClted for the time at least the career of one who la described by officers as the most noted outlaw In Eastern Carolina history since ' the bowery gang of "construction dsys In Robeson County. From larceny and pistol wfiifmfML officers say. quickly graduated Into the ranks ef the highwaymen. Atresiaa ror daring holdup In New Hanover County, Williams was sent to the roads. His escape followed quickly. Transferred to the State prison he again escaped. Back on the county roads, he once again mads a sue-; ceasafut getaway, and a month later, aliegeo to nave terrorized Brniuwirk County community y PREVENTTROIIBLE provide a railroad through the "lost provinces" is another mea sure huh I looked forward to. The cautions planning of the framers, however, indicated that the hill may not come to light until early in February The Hroughton resolution tin the House for an Investigation of the State tuberculosis sanitarium will he brought up tomorrow night or Tuesday, or the early appointment of the commission, which the dno. ument asks for is expected thit the report might be brought in before the last minute rush. A compromise on the bill to re peal the Cherokee County charter of the Tennessee-Carolina Water Power Company, the bill to re strict the sale of drugs and medi cines hv others than licensed druggists, the measure to make the giving or a worthless check In payment of a debt a mlKde meanor and several county mea sures were expected to come ouv by Thursday. While the House almost cleared every' calendar except those which carry the State. wide bill yester day, the finance commit tee's re port loaded down the local private and public calendars for a starter on the coining week. Few Senate bills, however, which have been out of committee remain to be disposed of. Episcopal Rector Does Not Recant, but Stands by Former Statement. RECTOR CALLS FOR THE REAL BELIEF "Picketers" Appear at Church With Printed Signs Rector Speaks. NEW YORK. Jan. 28 (Br the As sociated Pre.) The Rev. Dr. Percy Stlckney Grant under fire for al leged heretical utterances charged in his sennnrl at the Protestant Episco pal Church of the Ascension todav that the light against him was In spired bv CaDltatistlr Interests u-orlc. Ing under the surface, rather than by any true religious Seal to,, purseftlie Still awaiting the next mora of Bishop William T. Manning, . whoe demand for a recanting of Dr. Grant's previously avowed stand on the deity oi unrist or am resignation, the rector answered with a letter restating hla views and making no gesture toward resigning. Dr. (irant referred to his tneoiogical views today only to say they were ihe same views he had been expounding unmolested for 40 years. He indicated broadly that he In tendsd to continue preaching his con ception of a "humanletlc" religion even If he had to exchange his pulpit for a comer soap box. While he voiced his plea for a church that could "talk to mankind everywhere'' - before a congregation that packed his church as It seldom lias been packed before, nine unem ployed "sandwich men," marshaled by I'rban Ledoux the Mr. Zero of the 1921 unemployment crisis parad ed In a driving snowstorm hefore the edifice with placards about theil necks calling on the church to es pouse the cause of the unfortunate. "Bishop end rector." read one placard, "why quibble about th garments? Both unlrock and give us the naked truth." Another, with the text of Dr. Grant's sermon. "Under the Sur face." emblaxoned In big black let ters across the top, read: "If thou woiildst he perfect, go sell that which thou hast and give to the poor." "I was a stranger and ye took me not in," read another. "Solution ol the economic problem. Try Christ's advice to the rich young man." said still another. Dr. Grant's incorporated the pick ets In his sermon, referring to them as "those bitter minds that have come to walk hefore this church, from no one knows where." "Dr. Copeland, i:nitH states Senator-elect, told a gathering of bankers the other day I that tnere was a grei a.i m un rest beneath the surface of American life tnda.v."-ha said. "It would not be hard to collect a million men any time to rive expression to It. Is this a time to give up the church a great commission of love for discussions of theology? , These fellows outside say we asked for, bread and you gave us il,l'ln ore llkelv to V them more by shutting up the churches and silencing voices inai are aireuieu c yond the churches?" . nr c.mni heean his sermon with the assertion that it seemed worth while to call attention to "other sides of the present Interesting dis cussion than those one sees in the newspapers or gets irom ecclesias tical persons." "There is a great deal below the surface of ,Ufe", he said "but some people seem to live on tne wuriace. They are noi always iiiiwniciw they are sometimes, t.atve some times not aware of what is going on below the surface." "Wave got 10 live more djt ins laws of reality" Dr. Grant sain. We've got to get at the trutn. we can't go on camoufllng. Take the matter of marriage and divorce. There la a play on Broad way dealing with that subject. It keeps the audience laughing because of the absurdities of the subjects Will the church be able to with stand that laughter indefinitely? "Women are rising, demanding a change in the marriage ! They wouid broaden and unify the divorce and they are the ones Interested, for two-thirds of the divorces are grant ed at . the request of women, "You can't stop the stage "rom saying what It thinks. You can't stop these two millions or more of educated women. Why stop the voices in the church that are elm ply pointing'out that we are living In a bunanistio age that we are trying to prepare for life and that we want to find ut how to live before we die? "There Is no danger that science will overthrow religion." Dr. Grant declared that since the controversy over him had risen, he could not walk a block on the street "without having people come up and say pleasing things." "This Is time of wonderful-liberation" he said. "I don't regard my self as only a protestant Kptscopal minister. I ran say alt I want to say on a street corner. "Yesterday. I noticed 'some boys ,lCmnt rs r ASHEVJLI,NC., MONDAY FIVE PEOPLE MEjFRENCH WILL GO DEAD AS RESULTlTO BERLIN NEXT, OF LOVE AFFAIRS Roanoke Girl Who Re-.Unless German Passive fuses Man's Wooinc IslResistanr.fi fifiaflM Warn. Shot-Expect Recovery, i wu Ait, u&au in TENNESSEE TOWNj Funeral Services for Dur ham Man and the Sweet heart He Killed. MEMPHIS. Tenr... Jn. 28.--Mrs. Until McElwaln Tucker, 20 yearn and. and Duncan Waller, 1. n traveling salesman of Maylield. Ky.. wero found shot to death early today on a lonely road sev eral tnllea east of this city. Mr. Waller's body was found seated In an automobile with two bullet wounds In his head. The body of Mrs. Tucker was found In the roadway about 20 steps awuy from the car. So far as can be ascertained to night, thn police are without a definite clue as to the identity of the slayer. Mrs. Tucker is said to be the wife of Ellis Tucker, Frank tin, Tenn., and before her marriage four years ago, was a resident of Murfreesboro, Tenn. According to Information obtained by the police, Tucker and his wife wero separated spveral months ago. Police tonight were working on two theories robbery and Jeal ousy. According to investigating officers, money which Waller was believed to have carried and Jew elry worn by ' Mrs, Tucker, were missing. The couple was last seen about 9 o'clock Saturday night when they motored to a suburban soft drink stand. Mrs. Tucker, who lived with her mother was said to have been introduced to Waller only a few days before the couple met death. Her father is confined in the Western State Hospital, near Hopklnsvllle. C. E. Walier. of Mavfleld. Ky., the young man's father, reached Memphis yesterday. He and his son had planned to leave here to day on a business trip through Arkansas. Waller's body will be sent to Mayfleld for interment. tfllls Tucker, husband of the young wo man, is In Franklin, Tenn. They had been separated for three jears according to relative, but neither had obtained a divorce. Mrs. Tucker was rendered un conscious about a week ago when the automobile In which she and a your g man were Mlns;. jeft thej4f"f Qermsinr. whaj she irujk ",t;5f road. nVws wrecked in a "ditch. SHOOTS GIRL, POLICE COME, KILIjM HIMSELF ROANOKE, Va.. Jan. 28. Nor man N. Balwyne, who shot and seriously wounded Miss Ethel Brown here last night, shot him self through the heart and died instantly at Princeton, W. Va.. about a hundred miles west of here, about 8 o'clock this morn ing. According to Information from the chif of police at Princeton, his men had been asked to watch incoming trains for the fugitive. An officer watching trains from the East in the Virginia Hallway yards, skw a man alight from a caboose of an incoming freight train, aicordlng to the Princeton police rhlef and 'as he accosted Balwyne the latter ran a short distance and shot himself. The lady, according to Under taker Q'itt at Princeton, who an swered . long distance telephone Inquiry, was Identified by receipts found ir the clothing. The body. It is sab, is being held for dispo sition, n i orders regarding it hav ing boet received. At tie hospital where Miss Brown i a patient it is said to night thit she is resting comfort ably andjit Is thought she will le cover. J Miss Brown's home, where the shooting (occurred, ia not far from the Vlrggilan Railroad yards here. It la supposed that Balwyne made his way immediately to the yarda and bonded an outgoing train. freight runs to Princeton are comparatively slow and It is evi dent th4 fugitive caught a train soon aftlr the shooting here. Infornlatlon received from a railway (telegrapher at Princeton Is that the officer covered Bal wyne witi a pistol when he alight ed from it he train, before coming close enlugh to handle him. It was then! according to report that Balwyne (backed away, drew his own gun land shot himself. Young IBalwyne, who formerly was emptiyed here as an adver tising sok-ltor, and who recently returned kere after an absence of some wedts, called at the Brown home laei night about 8 o'clock. Miss Blown refused to talk to the vlsitol except In the presence of her nfcther. The three con versed sokietime and Balwyne Is said by tie girl's mother to have made a pjnposal of marriage. This the girl rijected and told Balwyne irsnuM mi reie rwoi D-L vi Dfx r r-. Dvui-iaii ouuei is Laiesi Intention Of i WASH1 IdTON. Jan. 28. Work , Of army elperts since the war has produced 1 new bullet for use In rifles andsnachine guns which Is expected jo add enormously to the effect leness of these weapons In any fisure conflicts. Tne net, bullet Is known as a "boat-taili because of a -six de free taperlat the tall. Exhaustive tests by th) army have shown that the chanfc in shape has given wings to te bullets, adding 1.400 yards to e maximum range at- tained an flattening the trojec tory or ari of flight at 1.000 yards approxfmafcly 80 per cent. In add on the army experts have worldd out a ne jacket for the bullet that' virtually elimi nates foufig of gun barrels. It Is a to neqrent copper and 10 ier cent sine bm position that leaves the rifling Jlear of clogging; metal and will 1 crease the accuracy. life of rifls and machine (tins. MORNING, JANUARY 2ft, SIMQNDS II j burg Will Be Occupied. i KANCE PREPARED TO ENLARGE MOVE French Plans Have Been Made With a View of Go ing Further Into Germany By FRANK H. SIMONDS " ASIIINQTON, Jen. -HThe Preurli win noW u,, , Berlin, iinle--tiierc In a M,f, nr uor-xpiclcd rriimpiiiiB- nf ijerman rcsiNinnee. Th eill c t,, Uamhiir and to Krrrn-n. which means that lliev wl" complete theh lrancle limit upon the e.-cliomic syMeni f C.Tmnn.V. Tie decision to scud to the Itiihr ..rieral Wetgand. Marshal K.h-Ii's aoluvt lieutenant. the man lio iiiook-o- tne kiismhi, drive on War 's. Is a Hnl evidence of the fajdl- Imi tn wVich the FTf.nch Government lion meaivi to fluht I lie new war. I'rnm te.i outset nf the pre-ent crisis tVre have heeu many Frenchmen v'io have believed that the nieri-h en Berlin nould he wiser i ha ii the at. tempi to occupy the. Hnlir. hut Ihe one hits -not excluded the other pos-i-lhllity. and now that Oerman re sistance has taken Uh surprising de velopment and tiii resistance is be lnr directed from llerlin, French ac tion Is not difficult to forecast. To go to Berlin, however, means the mobilisation nf a portion of the French army; H will he necessary to call from one to three classes to the colors, end thts call cannot be Issued until such lime as French public opinion Is unmistakably roused to suptort such s drastic course. But no one can read the dispatches which are now comlna from Paris without perceiving thai public opinion Is rap Idly reaching the necessary pitch there. Iiitorvemtlrm Expei!"! The French view Is obviously that German resistance Is based not upon any mistaken hope that Germany alone con long hod out without pre elnitatlng a national prostration, but rather upon the calculation that ne rehlatence. hotieless in Itself, will In a brief time lesd to Intervention by some other nstions and nartleularly hv th Fnited States. Mr. Hushes New Haven speech and the sudden recall of the American troops on the Rhine have been Interpreted by Oer mans as a promise of American ac tion. Meantime, the French strategy Is plain. While the resistance which hns come was not expected, on the other bsnd French p'ans were made with a full appreclf.tlon that it might arrive, Frnnce can moblllte with lit tle delav all the rallwav men neces sary to run such of the Ruhr rail ways as may te neoe'sary. Her problem will not be to find coal fip meet the needs in the occupied area. In tne Ruhr and in rTance ano jurv. Every arrangement ha been made for the nrovlslon of money; tills was done very lonff ago. and in all prob ability new currency will be put In circulation without delay. Provision has alreadv been made also, a kn time In advance, for the feeding of those of the miners who work: for the others of course there will be no food, and t'.ie fight will b waged on the naslf of no work, no food. For a brief tlmti. measured at most by days, the Oermans can tie up railways by strikes, but It will not take very long to send In railway men (mm France and from Belgium who will he moblllxed just like other soldiers and have been trained fir this work by the lonr experience of the world war. In addition, much of the transnort can he done by the Rhine and the canals. Had the Germane not rrslnted. thai nrst phsse of the Ruhr . ipation i nileht have proved the last and It I might have been possible to gel the rrencn our or rne K'tnr without too much dislocation of Oerman indutrv Bi t now it Is a fteht to a finish. Within two weeks France can put st least a million perfectly trained and equipped troops Into CJermany. and nothing can prevent a march to Ber lin and the selxure. In company n navsl operations, of the ports 1 of Hamburg and Bremen, which would seal uo Germany almot completely, for Poland and Oxecho-Slovakia mn stand In with France In any crisis. In the new phae which we ere en tering, then, one of two things Is llksvr to happen: either the Germans will shortly see that their hops of aid from the outside Is unfounded and that they must meet French con ditions, or, till relying upon this nope, they will stick to their d:- sive resistance and then we shall se a complete or partial French mohill- sauon end. If there is a new mohlH ration, the French troops will not he demobilised until they have entered oernn. Tt Is a great mistake now to he Ileve for a moment that there Is any thlnr. short of Oerman surrender or forcible Intervention hy the United States and fireat Britain, which can mive French to abandon theh campalgn. Matters nave gone so far now mat no international eonrarenee and no friendly auggestion could com mand even a respectful hearing in Paris. If the French fail now either to obtain a Uermen surrender or complete dislocation nf Oermany, po litically and economically, they will nave lost the world war just as com pletely as ir tney had been over whelmed at the Marne. Every day and every hour of Ger man resistance now Intensifies French determination and Increases the tense ness of the whole situation. Just as long as the German resistance is pas sive there will be no actual conflict, hut It is man rfest that there are lim its beyond which passive resistance Ctntimmrd Pool Tiea A rmy Experts It also will permit the accuracy of fire with small arms to be as great in actual combat as in peace time target work. Tests st the army infantry school have fixed the maximum range of the new bullet at 4.800 ysrds as compared to I.4S0 yards with the present ammunition. It also has bean demonstrated that at 800 yards with the new ammu nition It Is possible to put every shot Into a circle the else of a teacup as the "boat-tall" bullet Is less subject to wind current de flection. The srmy has in reserve a wast store of war time rifle ammuni tion which will be used up before any project of equipping with the new "Model 12J E" boat-tall bullet ammunition la undertaken. It Is expected, however, that the greater accuracy of the new am munition will play Its part In fu ture lnt erra tlonal rifle matches IKS IMS. Prominent Diplomats Promised : Two Per Cent Interest Rate On British Debt To United States I Trenc fafe QvCT Railroads, While Germany's Telephone Operators In Ruhr Quit Work i s rr I'.wrnrm rnrf) ft:.V.SZ. .Ian. I' 8 -Tw o hattal -Ions of Fri-m-li engineers have taken over the r.i ilw n s and one through train to Paris was sent out tonight. The French st ite they will be able to operate the railways for military purpose", hut not for civilians The tracks, bridges, switches and depots are heavlh guarded. The railroad workers declared tonight they would not return to work un til th" l-'rench troops have left foblen.. an other stations. Their leader. Frederick Knit, denied It was an official strike, notwith standing Ihe fact that the men knocked off five minutes after Ma -.ior-Uenrral Allen handed over command of the gone to the French. CATHOLICS OF liEHM V IN Dili 1 1 KM OM NTH ATION i rut As'i nrri ri;fss I!"KSSKI.mKF, Jan. IS. "Da profudis." was the prayer that went forth from milllona of per sons assembled In the Catholic Over Million Gallons Of Liquor Smuggled Into U. S. Each Year From Bahamas, Rogers Charges Massachusetts Congress man Attacks Govern ment of the Islands. islands"described as america's oasis Rum Runners Off Jersey Coast Have Started up Business Again. W-AHHBNOTON. Jan. 18. 4Iq- iiqt Is, now. betn nj l"1'. the United States frofii rhe-IU'1 hama Islands at the rate M l.zuu, 600 gallons annually, while the Government and population of the British colony, getting "rela tively immense revenues from the traffic," are absolutely Indisposed to sympathise with efforts to check It, according to a statement Is sued today by Representative Rogers, Republican. Massachus etts, based, he declared, on oift clal data furnished him by the State department. From the duties on whiskey alone, Mr. Rogers said, the islands are deriving an Income three times as great as their government revenues from all sources In 1918, while -the estimated profits of those Interested In the traffic in- cludinir members of the eiectea iPeHistive body, are said to bo en r" "e,,1,Bi .i..- .v.. ci.t, Mr. Rogers declared the State Department report "read line a book of fiction" in describing the mushroom growth still contlnu lng of what he classed as "an eatahllahed nrartlce. with great fcapltal and organised procedure of rum running liquor into in United States Into the screen erected by prohibition enforce ment amenta. I In to lilt. Mr. Rogers asserted the annual imports of liquor from the Bahamas were 50,000 gallons, while for 1923 they amounted to i '.'nil non rations ' 'The Bahamas are certainly the oasia of 'dry' America," his state ment said. "To the last quart, I am advised, the liquors are ship ped to the United States. All told 2,000.000 gallons havs found their way Into the country, all the way from Norfolk. Philadelpnia ana New York and as far East as Boa ton. AVhen the smuggling first began, some vessels would He off ih nort of Nassau, would be secretly loaded and would depart without papers. Other ships would be cleared In ballast, but subsequent to clearing would be loaded with liquor. Clear For France. The nractice la different now that the Illicit trade has been fully organised. The vessels, near ly all flying British flags, will clear for the J' rencn pore oi di. rmn Mimielnn. or for Tamplco, Mexico In the first Instance the vessels really unload their cargoes off New York or some other North Atlantic port; this was the case of the ships which kept tho 'dry navy' so busy beyond the thrte mile line off New York a wek or two ago. The second Instance that of Tampico clearances '-he actual destination Is New Orleans or some Oulf port. "As a matter of fact, tjie ships never proceed to the ports for which they have cleared, but lie oft the American coast and are met by pre arrangeoient outside the three-mile limit hy small but speedy American motorboats. "My Information Is that serious co operation In checking the traffic can not ba obtained from the Bahama Gov. ernment. The Bahamas ere a eu- governlng eolonywnn an eieciea leg islature, some of the members of which are colored end almost llllter. ate Its executive counvii is com posed of officials and local residents, of whom one has made great profits out of whiskey running. Tha mer chants who nave enricnea imnmivn are held In increasing respect and there 'la no public sentiment against the practice. The officials are Brit ish, who have, been promoted from colony to colony. I sm sasured that they are absolutely honest, but with out incentive to take a strong stand! on moral grounas in any uiv which would materially Injure the colony." ' RVM RCNKfcRS AGAIN AT WORK OFF NEW TORK HIGHLANDS, N. J.. Jan. II By the Associated Press ) Rom runners JCmli m an rail PRICE FIVE CENTS churches of the Rhltieland. and the Itubr. today, in compliance with a their prayers with passionate fer vor. Many persons from surround ing towns along the Rhine who went id Cologne to sttend the serv ice proceeded afterwards to the rallwav station where they found the railway strike so effective they were unable to leave the city. Hun dreds were stranded at the station as night cams on. In t'oblenx the rallrond strike la also complete. Likewise al Bonn, not a wheel Is turning. There was a huge demonstration by the stu dents at Boon this afternoon, but no clashes of a serious nature took place. The train service Is para lyzed between Duesseldorf. bula biirg. and Essen. There was only one train run today between May nice n ml I Inesseldorf. No mail has ai rived here from Paris or Berlin In two days. pastoral letter from Cardinal ffchiilte. The cardinal himself officiated In the Cologne cathedral, where the service was a most impressive extoMi4 es r TV) Youth Dies As He Is Initiated In Sigma Fraternity TUSCALOOSA. Ala., Jsn. J8. Olenn Kersb, aged 18, son of M. K Kersh, city clerk of Tus caloosa.. , died today front psychlo effects nf excitement following an Initiation at the Sigma Nu ' Fraternity house upon the campus f th UnU versily pf Alabama.Jhere,, ic cording a verdict of a d -ro imjf vsuvu m .in, vamng man with 1 others, wasninill ated into the fraternity and s few minutes after tha cere monies ended, he suddenly died according to the authorities. A number of wltnessee vailed before the coroner's Jury, sev eral of whom had taken the In illation just previous to Kersh and their evidence showed that there was nothing done that could have caused death from bodily injuries. The medical examination made of Kersh's body showed no signs of violence, the physl Jlnns testified. The doctors stated that death was prob ihly due to a weak heart and !o psychlo etTects from the ex iltement of the Initiation. Much Interest Is Shown in Wedding Of Judge Parker fSsfetffl flfl'iw.IS Tkf jlfftrnei PUUml NEW YORK. Jan. 28. The re cent wedding of Alton Brooks Parker, former Judge and presi dential candidate, has caused na-tlon-wido comment. The wedding was a surprise to all except a few friends and relatives who attend ed. The bride was Miss Ame lia Day Camp bell who dlvorc ed Edward Bur ton Styles In 1902. Judge Tarker who Is ssventy, has been a wid ower since April . 117. He ti no" a member of Parker, Mar shall. Miller Auchlncloss, o f New York, and" is generally con ceded to be one ALTON TKPABKIS of the greatest American Jurists and lawers. He has bsen a member of tne oar for nearly half a ceptury, ana nss h.i a leader In Democratic na tional politics for about thirty-five years. He has been a delegate to nearly all national Democratic conventions since 1884. At the time of his nomination for the Presidency against Roose velt, on July 9. 104, he was Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of New York State. He was counsel for the Impeachment managers at the trial of Oov. Bulzer, In 1918. end has served several terms as president of the American Bar As sociation. DYNAMITE GOES OFF; THKJ-IE HCXJVTS AKE DISAU MIAMI, Flaw, Jan. 28. Three Boy Scouts were killed and sev. eral Injured In a dynamite ex plosion in the Everglades lsst night, according to a telephone message just received here. The troop had gone on a camptno; trip, it Is understood, and Is billeved to have accidentally touched off a quantity of explosives left by stump blasters. The names of tha victims have not yet bsen jeurnrd. FORESTRY CONGRESS WILL MEET IN MONTGOMERY MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Jan. 28. More than 300 delegates Are ex pected to be present tomorrow morning when the fifth annual Southern Forestry Congress con venes here at 10 o'clock. The Congress will be in session for three days wlfh practically all the leading lumber men of the South present. f, BRITISH CERTAI I AGREEMENT WILL NOW BE REACHED Press and People Are Di vided as to Proposal of U. S. ENGLAND DESIRES TO SETTLEMATTER Baldwin's Statements on Return to Island Cre ates Sensation. fv THI itsociiTlB rntiM) LONDON, Jsn. 28 The frank and plain spoken exposition made by Stanley Baldwin, Chancellor of the Exchequer of what he con elders the reason for the allure of his mission to Washington In an endeavor to arrangs for the funding of Great Britain's debt to ; the United Htates, comes as an unpleasant surprise to the British public. Ths publio has been led by semi-official utterances to believe a satisfactory adjustment of the matter would not be dliflcult, hence the question is agii.i to the forefront, of publio attention and Is considered to present t the new government of Andrew 13onsr Law, which was elected on a pol icy of economy and retrenchment, a very awkward problem.- " Acceptance of the American terms, and as Mr. Baldwin puts the esse, there is no alternative to acceptance, will mean. It is said, a yearly burden of more than 80,000,000 pounds sterling on the British exchequer for the next 80 ' years. Ths government . la con fronted with demands from the well-to-do classes for reduction tn the Income tax, and from la boring classes for the reduction of the duty on beer. How to meet these demands while payinu !. 000,000 pounds annually to the United States is the government dilemma. -. It la clearly evident from etsts. -ments pablteaed here1 during the " leweesyend that the finish. nwoeca-. men he anticipated ( being able to fund the debt on an Vlntedest basis nearer two per cent, than three per.' cent or 20,000,000 pounds annually. Aooordlng to thefe , statements an In formal promise was made by twir imminent American diplomats at a uncheon party given at No. W " Downing Street, the British prime minister's official residence last Summer, that tha funding would be carried out on that basis. It Is as serted that Mr. Bonar Law was present, at this luncheon. American diplomats are not nam. ed, but tbey are said to have been , "of the highest standing." There la no suggestion mat tne British gov ernment regarded these Informal promises in any wise blrifn. tt im admitted that any iuoh hopes as sd- vsnceu Dy ins American diplomats were vnaiierea immediately - Mr. Baldwin reaohed Washington, but there evidently Is great disappoint ment that better terms than MV Baldwin offered were not obtainable. The cabinet Is said to be divided on the subject. Some of ths ministers. end It. Ia reported thus Include tha prime minister, favor accepting ths American terms, but others Incline to delay In acquiescence to them. The press slao is similarly divided. Advocates of acceptance point ta the good results prompt acceptance would have, fleet, In clearing away a uiijeot oi contention Detween Great Britain and the United States, thus making for better relations and , second, as likely to have a good er- -feet In In duo I iw the American gov ernment to take a more active la- -terest In the present Ruhr crista, HEARING ON RAILROAD - 18 OONT1NTED AGAIN fOeeUi ParrasssM r .tkeesl. OiMnsI OREEN6BORO, Jan. 28. A Su perior Court order that was ex pected Saturday to decide whether ' the Carolina and Yadkin River Railroad would be Junked or not, was postponed Saturday because of the illness of Judgf A, M. Stack, who Is confined to his room at a hotel here with a severe cold. His physician refused , to allow Mm to preside at the hearing, al though he was anxious to do so. - A big delegation of the business men of High Point. Thomasrville . and Denton were on hand for the hearing, armed with an affidavit to show that they can take ths road and make It pay. They want to buy It. but tt la evident that they do not consider the un let price, $200,000, fixed by Judge v. r. ruiraing, as proper. Tnev say that they are willing to pay a -rair price. - . At tnat thev de clare that they are animated by a desire to see the line continued. NOTHING' MORE IS HEARD FROM DR. J. W. PEACOCH TALLAHASSEE. Fie.. Jan. 18. There were no developments to. day In the capture of Dr. J. v . Peacock, whom Governor Hardee last week decided could be extra dited to North Carolina, where he Is wanted tor escaping from the insane department of the State prison. 1 Dr. Peacock was heard from last at Lakeland more than a week ago. It is not known hers wheth er search for Dr. Peacock is being made. GRANDSON OF PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON DIES GREENVILLE. Tenn.. Jan. 18. Andrew Johnson Stover, 8. . grandson of the former President of the ' United States, Andrew -Johnson., was burled In the Na tional cemetery yesterday after noon. Mr. Stover was a member -of the White House family during tha administration of President Johnson, being tha son of Mary Johnson Stover, who acted as hos tess at the White House daring Mrs. Johnson's illness. - . v - -' f ' '
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