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amwt: NEWS 16 PAGES NIGHT EDITION TODAY AND EVENING CHRONICLE GREATER CHARLOTTE'S HOME NEWSPAPER" , rnini-OTTE NEWS Established, Dally, 1SS8; Sunday, 1910 :R vkViXO CIinOMCLE Established, 1003. Tin CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBURAY 11, 192X. THE CHARLOTTE KEWS f Consolidated PPTr"T? 17TVT? "iTXTrpo THE EVENIAfc CHROX1CLE Slay S, 1914. JMXjlJ JP 1 V Hi LJDiN 1 C. Til TORNADO'SDEATH f TOLL 30;01HLRb EXPFOED. TO DIE it NOOn uy ivinauu. Which Did Much Damage n Feb. 11. The death toll ocon 1 " Vt.jJtfl'l'i'J lv""' ' ,-. e. art naiv in through incd today at aoout su. here the dead naa oeen seni vo Many c. ,o;;1ts and scores of the injured ncarW cnitals at Tennille and San- vcre m and. there was no way of ob- dersvllle accurate information as to the trailing ..rt nurrmer The list or fatalities 6! OOU al l" . ... , , .v.. of negroes dux a numua ui ic score negroes, were expected .. Tii,f hns been sent from Atlan ta f'e-.IV: towns and the injured ana w'1'-' aTwj v,w and hnmpless were u v....v.v j rpd Cross and civic organizations. tlH' I(U,nUncau ascertained that, in sff uu r,,;ro families had been some casvs, VThf. region visited by the tornado was inirtefv devastated. It is an area cpm? lfi I iles long and a half mile. rM stretching from Gardner almost to The chief property damage Toomsboro. t nf thfi Cleveland- nconee Lumber Company, where most T, e victoms of the disaster were em 1 -d. A large part of the plant was de- r0ved and millions of feet of lumber fcattered for hundreds of yards in every cli-I0"vin(l played many freaks. A lool building, in which there were S"htv chUdren. was destroyed but all f the pupils escaped with no more in jur than bruises. Bodies of some of the victims were hurled through the air for cre t'5istances and badly mangled, scores of houses were razed and giant t-ees were twisted off and boards and n-hir objects were blown about as if l,r Tv.-,m n srun. Most of the bodies were found in an open field where they hid been carried by some ireamsn whirl of the wind. Cars were blown from the railway tracks and fowls stripped dean of their feathers. Torrential downpours of rain accom panied the wind and all rives and streams were reported at flood and still rising early today. Among the dead is Benjamin Frank lin Orr, fourteen-year -old youth, who was decapitated. His head had not been found. . The only other white' person who met death is the three-year-old daughter of E. L. Minor, manager of Shepherd's commissary at the plant of the Cleveland-Oconee Lumber Compnay. Ten minutes after the tornado wiped out the Gardner settlement, a Central of Georgia local freight train, running from Savannah to Macon arrived on 'he scene. W. O. King, of Wadley, con iuctor in charge, viewed the bodies scattered about the ground. The conductor ordered his locomotive Jetached from the train and, with his crew hastened to Tennille, eleven miles way, for aid. Coaches, were comman deered from the Wrightsville and Ten nille Railroad and four doctors and forty-six persons were obtained in the relief party. The train returned to Oconee as speedily as possible. Doctors found one negro boy with a board driven into his forehead. They re moved the board and gave temporary sid. It is believed that he will live. The body of a three-year-old negro Infant was found at the roots of a tree, the top of which had been twisted off. The child's head had been crushed in, having been carried head foremost from its home against the tree. One negro's body was cut in two. A negro man and his wife were found more than a hundred yards from their konie, lying side by side in the road, wth dead. The bodies of several small negroes 'ere found in trees, out of the path of the tornado, being suspended on the limbs by their clothing. The bodies of grown negroes were thrown into the field in a semi-circle and in the center of the group was a goat, who stood like a statue, too frightened to move for hours after the storm passed. Six fine oak trees, along the railroad at Gardner, were snapped off at differ ent heights. On top of one of these stumps, twenty feet from the ground, as a pillow from the. bed of one of the wrecked homes. According to residents of the com- raunity, the clouds lowered just as the employes of the lumber plant left their ttork for dinner. The atmosphere be came extremely hot and, because of the Qarkness in many homes, lamps had D(n lighted when the tornado broke. One person on the outer edge of the stornvswept path, which escaped injury -.iarea he saw a string of box cars moving toward him. Then, as suddenly, aL vared' the box cars were reversed, Kan he l00ke(l a second later, he h a! ,ey were again coming toward ' ,nese cars were found to have i biown from the rails. . Itiv, y ever related in connection day. a tornado are being told here to- One Statp Iv "t wiLiieseeu tile stuiui stpn he saw two ne&ro women th 'V-rom the door of their home as carr; ,nd struck the. town. They were air I several hundred feet into the the says- and dashed to death upon away a few hunJreds yards this ' Ul ine town ana -vicinity usLmornln? brought to light an un- anv Y- j- .uon- ot a fowl or bird of toiWInd ,s t0 be found. When the saw 1- ftruck the town, inhabitants cmckens carried far into the air todav Iipearfrom 8lsht. The tow-1 less One fif-d int y DI 12 years was car- earth Vhc air and later dropped to "U' hilars V. j -. i an anelo "e waH iouna Daaiy icnf',-,A Physician brought back to llfo into th hoy's form, only huS later UtUe 'fellow dle a few which hi, . r loday stated that a missile, aPpparerl t t ln the yard of his home at . , v m. j auu wi etnyJ i 110 a few minutes after the te. Sandersville is 13 milc3 "ay. Wind of great violence. Feb. 11. An eye- arrivwi u e tornado at Oconee, who 8uid thu tiQ with some of the injured, carrier! I l , bodies of ten negroes were Btorm v ,.alf mlle from the path of the The beinS lodged in trees. Sa'd thlf was of 8UCh violence, he l"at one negro's body was cut (Continued on Paee 2J Thomas A. Edison, 74 Today, As Robust As Man Of Forty V. W .. ., Jf A v jr ""'" ) ' : ? sls. Thomas Alva Edison is seventy-four years old today. The famous inventor was born at Milan, Ohio, on Feburady.ll, 1847. Today he is as hale and hearty as the average man of forty. He is working just as hard as he ever worked. In the following story Charles Grant Miller tells the real story of the life of this famous, man. , , - BY CHARLES GRANT MILLER. - Copyright, 1921, International News Service. New York.-Feb. .11. It is time of the embryo Edison he tells it hunself that the first time he ever saw a goose setting on eggs and found out wliy, he disappeared to be found after many hours set ting , on a'l the eggs h con''1 gather. If a goose could hatch eegs. why couldn't he? If the steady heat of application and perseverance in a goose cpuld produce life, why was it not : worth while to try out the same qualities in himself? This is the first problem Thomas Alva Edison remembers to have confronted, and he says it is not so very different from some of the latest problems upon which he is at work. ; ' - Nor has he changed much except: to grow. It 4s strikingly ' a . case of the child-bemg athr to -the .manrTStich refusal to take accepted facts of itith and such . Impulse to test thetruth Out for himself were the life formative cells from which the amazing career has tak en shape and strength. The spirit and method of that child are the spirit and method of the wonder-wizard who has harnessed the lightning to fill the world with light and heat . and power and voices, and quickened insensate matter to sins in perpetuated . music and to dance in pictured motion. Since tho day he might have hatched the eggs, RESIDENTS NEAR PARKSIGN They Protest Against Use of Independence Grounds for School Purposes. Nineteen owners of property ad joining park land in Elizabeth, which the city wants to use a site for : a new High school building, have signed a petition ' protesting against the ' use of thi9 land ; for 1 other than ; park purposes. Circulation of the petition followed the announcement by Chairman Plum mer . Stewart that an effort ' would be made to - secure a release, on . the part of the .'donors of this land from, the provision in the deed that the property can be used only for- park purposes. - - ' - ; The paper has , been turned , over to" E. Li. Mason,' of . the Charlotte Park and Tee Commission, and 'he- is kepeing it as ' ammunition to use in the fight of the ; commission against the efforts of the school board to secure park land for a school site. The protest , of . the property owners refers specifically to - the use of land on the north side ; of Seventh street, and touching Suhnyside -avenue. .This particular property does not connect with the Independence Park . lands, but it is the . purpose of the park and recreation - commission eventually to construct a subway under Seventh street and thereby connect the two park plots, -Mr. "Mason .said. The petition ; specified ; that ' in ' the event the plot should be used . for other than park purposes .the property owners would consider that their prop erty had been damaged, and that they, therefore, would be entitled ' to dam ages. . ' - The. school board first proposed the erection of the new -high school build ing on a portion, of the Independence Park lands. When the Park and Tree Commission fought the proposal, the board suggested the use of park lands on the north of Seventh ' street. The petition of citizens owning property adjoining this plot is recognized as the most formidable weapon brought against the board to prohibit it from using any of this plot. Both the main Independence Park (Conl Inued on Page 2.) Charlotte and Vicinity: Fair tonight and Saturday; little change in tempera ture. Moderate west to southwest winds, North Carolina and South Carolina: Fair tonight and Saturday, cooler to night. . : - - . " . . if-his folks had let him,, by the. same application and perseverance he has wooed ten thousand secrets from the inner soul of reluctant nature, .and; if he has not created life;.'he at least ,has miraculously transf ormeconditions of human existence, f . : Next "learnlng,rthaTseldlitv: powder "la a gas and that; gas Is lighter than air, the alert child mind conceived that if one would" take enough of it ' one could fly. Edison says he would have taken it himself, but wanted to retain the de tached attitude of a scientific observer, and so permitted a Dutch playmate to try it. ' There was swift enough ascen sion but only of sauerkraut and howls. When the unpromising lad was old enough to comprehend that the sparks (Continued on Page 7) ALUED: DEMANDS ARE IMPOSSIBLE Germany Can Pay But 150 Billion Marks According to Special Informant. -Berlin, Feb. 11. (By the Associated Press) The ministry : of finance has reached the' cpn elusion that the utmost sum Germany Can ; pay' in reparations is 150,000,000,000 marks," this including all she7 has so . far! "paid :. in . cash and goods, according to information which -The, Deutsche - Zeitung, says -4t -has re ceived from a "special"; source. ::This;150,000,006yOOO: marks would be paid off in 30 years under, the plan out lined by the ; newspaper's informant, who j also is quoted , as declaring; that the proposal . to pay v it would be sub mitted to the authorities : at -. Paris for the purpose . or learning . whether the coming London conference ; on repara! tions . will.: permit of its ,- consideration along with the allied, proposals adopt ed at the. recent .Paris . conference. Refusal ito allow consideration of the German, counter ' proposal would result in Germany s "absenting herself from the. London conference,., set for March 1, 1 the . newspaper declares it has learned,'- - :-:'-Y-'.::f - . - It adds that Germany would then suggest that the "United States be call ed in as an arbitrator for the purpose of . preventing the- entente from adopt ing measures such as-- an invasion of the'' Ruhr district,- . which ; it " declares would ; be looked, upon by- Germany as an v act of war which ; would positively destroy the treaty, of Versailles. The suggestion ' that the Unit3d States be invited to' mediate fails to arouse: enthusiasm; in : the conseryative, industrialist organ Die Post, which ex presses fear that ' the -American ver dict, fn such a case, while deciding on a sum between that submitted rby Ger many v and . the entente 'figures,1 would be more !. likely to incline . toward the sum "the entente is demanding.; SOUTHERN TO ISSUE BONDS. Washington; Feb. - Ill The- South ern ', -'Railway.' Company was ' authorized today ; by .the . Interstate V Commerc-j Commission I to issue and sell ; $9 5,000 of first . consolidated 1 mortgage bonds, maturing July 1, 1994, for the, purpose of retiring a like amount of the Vir ginia Midland : serial mortgage v bonds maturing. 'on March 1. ; -v: -.... NAVY; LIEUTENANTS KILLED. Washington,: Feb.. 11. Lieutenants John Henry " Heitz Menken; and John Frederick Wolf er, VTJni ted States navy, were killed : near vGuantanamo, Cuba, yesterday, by " the - wrecking. - of . their airplane . while , on, ' a practice flight for radio instruction. ; " ,.. :-. NUMBER OF NEW CABINET DRIVES NOW UNDERWAY i Four of the Ten Cabinet Portfolios Appear to be Still in Doubt. j ; i Washington, Feb. 11. (By the ! Associated Press.) Former Gover nor Ijowden, of Illinois, has been offered and has declined the post of Secretary of the Navy under President Harding, according to some .of his friends here. By ROBERT T. SMALL. Staff Correspondent of The News. Copyright 1921, by News Publishing; Co. St. Augustine Fta., Feb. 11. With the inauguration ' just three weeks away, President-elect Harding still has a number of cabinet problems to settle. His indecision? as to certain posts has led to a number of new drives 'for and against certain individ uals and, at the present moment, it would appear there are four of the ten cabinet portfolios still in .doubt. These are -Secretary of , the Treasury, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of Labor. Mr. Harding has men in mind for all four places and r it seemed a week ago that all four places definitely were filled, but various contingencies .have arisen to upset some of the earlier plans. It is rather positively reported for instance that former Governor Frank M. Lowden, of J Illinois, will decline the Secretaryship of the Navy if it is offered to him. There has been doubt all along as to whether Governor Lowden could be induced to accept. Visitors to St. - Avgustine, who re cently talked with Governor Lowden, gained the impression that he would decline and this - intimation already has been conveyed to Mr. Harding. Governor Lowden was under consider ation for a time as Secretary of the Treasury and, in the kaleidoscopic changes which are going on respecting the cabinet, he may yet be offered that position. It is the general im pression here he would accept it. Mr. Harding, of course, has Andrew W. Mellon, of Pittsburgh, definitely in mind for the treasury portfolio, but this decision is not final by any means, and he still is listening to advice on the subject. Mr. Mellon has such extensive business and bank ing interests, it is realized it would be difficult for him hurriedly to dis associate himself from all the corpora tions in which he has large holdings. If Mr. Harding wants Mr. Mellon in his cabinet, it will be necessary for him to commit himself without delay. Charles Dewey Hilies, of New York, who has-been urged by many persons for the treasury chair and who is in St. Augustine at . the invitation of Mr. Harding, is not a candidate for any cabinet position. Mr. Harding has so stated himself. Mr. Hilles is an old and valued personal friend, dat ing back to the days when . Mr. Hard ing first was in the Ohio legislature, and. :his ; advic. iSias -3S?on fought by the -preiJent-elecir -on s Member.: of topics. "Mr. Hflles has just built up ans extensive business in New York City ' and to . leave ; it for four years, would be too . great a personal sacrifice for him to make.' For Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Harding had John Hays Hammond, of Washington and Gloucester, in mind and a particularly strong drive is being made for the distinguished engineer. The president-elect has refused as. yet to commit hirnself on this position, and if the pressure to appoint a Southern man in the cabinet becomes so great that it is heeded, Mr. Ham? mend, despite the high qualifications he has for the place, may have to give way. Mr. Hommand also has ex tensive land holdings in Mexico and if it should be considered necessary for him to give these up in order to accept a cabinet post, it is virtually certain he would not do so. Mr. Hammond's holdings are in the Yacqui Valley country on the western coast of Mexico and he and Harry Payne Whitney and several other associates have undertaken an irrigation and re clamation scheme oil a tremendous scale. - . . It has been supposed that " John J. Davis, of Illinois and Pennsylvania, head of the Loyal Order of Moose, would be Secretary of Labor, but it seems now that this post also is open to further consideration. More, telegrams have come to Mr. Harding urging the ap pointment of Mr. Davis than have been received respecting any other cabinet aspirant. There are something like a million Moose in the United States and most of the million seem to have the price of a telegram. Efforts to dislodge Henry C. Wallace, of Iowa, as Secretary of Agriculture, ap parently are doomed to failure. The friends of former Senator Marion Butler, of North Carolina, still feel encouraged however, to make a fight iri his behalf. Mr. Harding knowslMr. Wallace person ally and has a high regard for him and the impression is gaining ground that he is one of the six certainties in the cabinet. Senator Philpps, of Colorado, has been in St. Augustine playing golf with Mr. HarQing and urging the appointment of Clayton C. Dorsey, of Denver, as Sec retary of the Interior. Mr. Harding met Mr. Dorsey and unquestionably was impressed by his qualifications, but there . is every reason to .believe the in terior post definitely has been promised to Senator Albert F<, of New Mexico, one of , Mr. Harding's intimates and a recent guest on the houseboat cruise. The cabinet decisions which appear permanent at the moment are Hughes for state; Weeks for war; Hays for postmaster-general; Wallace for agriculture; Fall for interior and Daugherty for attorney -general. DOUGHERTY IS SELECTED. Philadelphia, Feb. , 11. Archbishop Dennis J. Dougherty of Philadelphia, will be raised to the cardinalate, it was announced today. The archbishop will leave for Rome within ten days, the exact date depending upon steamer-accommodations. -. SUPPORT SENTRY'S CAUSE. . Tokio, Feb. 10. Formation of an aa sociation to support the cause , of Toshigoro Ogasawara, the Japanese sentry who shot and killed Naval Lieu tenant Langdon of the United States cruiser Albany at Vladivostok, late In December has been decided upon by a group of army reservists here. : ROBBERS GOT SMALL SUM. Marion, S. C., Feb. 11. Robbers, who refrained from ; taking small change arid stamps, entered the post office here sometime Wednesday night and escaped with a small sum after falling' in an effort to blow open the vault with, nitro-glycerine. , - - i Exaggerated Importance Has ? - een Given Geddes' War Talk MODERN? FARMER SHQPS BY RADIO Raleigh, Feb. H. The modern farmer shops by radio sometimes. E. A. Turpee, living seven miles from here, happens to be an ama teur wireless operator. In urgent need of medicine last night and with the 'phone wire down, he un called that a drugstore" clerk in town also belonged to the radio fraternty arid rapped out .an S. O. S. and had his order filled prompt ly. TRAIN BILLJS NOT WELL LIKED Attempt Made to Take Winston-Salem's Through Ser vice Awa Defeated. BY JULE B. WARREN. Staff Correspondent of The News. Raleigh, Feb. 11. The senate com mittee on railroads Thursday after noon voted to turn in(an unfavorable report on the bill introduced by Sen ator Walter Woodson "to protect the interests of the state in the North Carolina railroad, by having through traffic from Goldsboro to Charlotte pass exclusively over the lines of this road." More briefly the bill is known as 21-22 bill. The result, if not the purpose of its passage, would be to make these two trains go through Salisbury to their destination rather than through Winston-Salem. ' Senator Woodson, Walter Murphy, A. E. Tate, of High Point; E.'B. Jeff reys, of Greensboro; Archibald John son, of Thomasville; Senator Menden hall and others spoke for the meas ure. Some contended that the resto ration of these trains was necessary for the accommodation of a larger number of people than were now be ing served by these trains. Others put their arguments on the ground of protecting the interests of the state in this railroad and others based their pleas on the necessity for aiding in the establishment of through east and west trains in order to reach the big terminal points in the middle west. Senator Sams had not thought it necessary to bring a delegation down to aid him in getting an unfavorable committee report. He followed Senator Mark Erwin, of Asheville, who first opposed the bill, on the ground that Asheville liked the present arrange ment better. It was of better commer cial advantage to them. Senator Sams punctured the argument of the oppo sition that the state should protect its investment when he called atten tion to the fact -that the bill merely aelated to passenger service, when everyone know that .freight was the Frying trnd;' of " raHroaaTfig. - He ." admit" ted that the ' corporation - commission was the creature of the legislature, and hence its decisions cOuld be Over ruled by - the' legislature, but he also said that inferior courts . were the creatures of the legislature, but no one would argue that their decisions should be reviewed by the . legislature. No section of North Carolina is so well served by through trains as the towns who are asking that' the only through train Winston-Salern has be taken away from her. As to the number of people served, Senator Sams said there were more people in the city lim it of his town than were in all the towns represented in the adveacy of the Woodson bill. Grant, of Davie, followed with an appeal for his section of the state. The northwest, he said, deserves consider eration at the hands of the legislature in the matter of train ervsice. The peo ple of these northwestern copnties helped to pay the tax to build the road but would get no benefit for it unless these through trains were kept on their present route. Representative Cox, of Forsyth, added a word that the people of Winston-Salem did not believe the legislature would do such a foolish thing as to pass this meas ure and hence had sent no delegation down here. , Following the three-hour discussion, Senator Nash of Richmond" in mak ing the motion to report the bill un favorably, said that it was a matter that should be handled by the cor poration commission and not the leg is lature. A minority report will be filed. FIVE TAR HEEL FIRMS SEEKING EXPORT LOAN By PARKER ANDERSON. Staff Correspondent of The News. Washington, Feb. 11. North Caro lina export firms are : taking a keen interest in the revival of the War Finance Corporation, Director McLean, said today, since the corporation was revived, 33 applicants . for loans have been made, including five from North Carolina, Rocky Mounty, Durham, Farmville, New Bern and Wilmington having asked for ; loans. '' Y Oo CHARLOTTE'S POPULATION. That the population of Charlotte, according to the United States census report of last year, was 46,338? , That Charlotte is the 27th city in size in' the South and 154th in the United States. That the population of Charlotte is l-216Cth of the United States? That Charlotte is the second largest city in Noith Carolina and the third largest in the Carolinas? ' . That the value of real and personal property in Charlotte is $93,000,000? That more, than 100 trains , run in and out of the city daily? . That Charlotte has 72 miles of paved streets? " , v ' That it' has more than 100 miles of cement sidewalks? That it has .six hotels with a total of 793 rooms? That it' has five libraries with over 25,000 Volumes? That it has more than 100 miles of domestic and storm sewers? - That Charlotte's "white way" extends more. than 14 blocks? .That the actual commercial 1 or trading section of the city takes in forty four city blocks? That Charlotte has six hospitals and sanatoriums? . That the street railway tracks cover 37.4 miles? " ' . .. That the city has "eight apartment houses? ' - That Charlotte has 14 public schools, one woman's college, one negro college, one industrial institution, two business colleges, one parochial - school and two private schools for boys. ; - - .That Charlotte has 11 wards? (Compiled by Brock Barkley.) r ... . By DAVID LAWRENCE. Staff Correspondent vof The News. Copyright 1931, by News Toblishins Co. I . ) Washington, . Feb. 11. Whatever passed between the American corre spondents in London and Sir Auckland Geddes in their confidential talk relat ing to the possibility of a war between the United States and Great Britain, ! all Washington is sure that, an ex- aggerated importance has been given I to the incident and that, if Sir Auck land has anv idea, that the relations between this country and England J have reached a critical state, he has perhaps been misled into taking se riously many of the anti-British dem onstrations in the United States. There is no denying the existence of an anti-British feeling right here in congress. There is no denying that our government departments have frequently had friction of a more or less disconcerting, kind with British officials. Moreover, there is no deny ing that British public opinion is building false hopes if it thinks the Harding administration will feel any more kindly toward a cancellation of war debts than did the Wilson ad ministration. Sources of controversy exist but anybody who takes the. trouble to go beneath surface here will find first of all that government officials . as well as members of congress consider an other war of any kind in the present generation an absurdity, if not an im possibility and that they look upon the published suggestion that America and England are treading the "path leading to war" about as - accurate reflex of the true situation as the statement of future conflict between America and Abyssinia. But, aside from such absurd con sequences as war, there are unques tionably factors of. growing impor tance in the relations between the United States and Great Britain which Sir 'Auckland Geddes recognized while he was here and ; which, in the inter est of friendship between the two countries, are not being camouflaged wherever Anglo-American questions are frankly discussed. First and foremost in the situation in Washington is the influence of the Irish question. Englishmen resent American criticism on this subject, but so long as there are Americans of Irish descent in the United States, just so long will there be speeches and bitter feeling on the part of mem bers of congress representing districts where those Americans of Irish origin reside. As for a precedent, these Irish sympathizers point always . to the fact that, at a time when America was -in the throes of Civil war, Eng land went further than America has ev,er gone in the Irish controversy when she recognized the belligerency of the Confederacy. .What is happening on the Irish ques tion, isn't particularly new to the pres. ent generation either. It is not so long ago since the democratic national con vention adopted a plank expressing sym pathy with the aspirations of the Bwjs, in their conflict with, the mother coun try;- :': The records are full of American expressions of sympathy with liberal and independent movements m all parts of the world. The cause of-Ireland will continue to be agitated in the hope that moral force will persuade the British government to - give ' Ireland autonomy but the . suggestion that the United States may some day employ physical force for any such, purpose is charac terized as ridiculous even by the most active of the Irish sympathizers in our government. To read dispatches about the building of an American navy "at least the equal of any other power," the far-away observer might think the general board of the navy and the committees of con gress were really aiming at Great Bri tain, but that isn't true. The naval policy of the jfepublican and democratic administrations is tending to coincide in the sense that all parties agree America must enter a disarmament conference with just as powerful a hand as any body else in order that reduction of ar mament may be really begn. Hereto fore, the powerful nations have refused to reduce armaments and naturally the nations of lesser strength have followed suit. There is nothing in the discussion over armament which threatens good relationship between the United States and Great" Britain. An agreement on naval armament is fully expected by the leading men of our government as an initial example to all other nations. Irritations ver trade and such things as cable communication will no doubt continue but nobody here considers the suggestion of war between the two English-speaking countries as anything but the remotest contingency and certainly no issue thus far has been presented which is in any way susceptible of such a serious consequence. GO AFTER MACE GDDDENS. Sylvester, Ga., Feb. 11. Deputy Sher iff E. J. Hancock, of Worth county, and Chief of Police J. A. Adams, of Sylves ter, left this-morniner for Crown Point, Ind., to get Mace Giddens. negro charg ed with the murder of Deputy Sheriff W. P. Giddens, and whose extradition was yesterday granted by Governor Mc ray, of Indiana, following investigation and report by a commissioner sent to Georgia, which convinced the governor that the negro would be given an im partial trial. ' TIGKERADICATION HELD CENTER OF ASSEMBLY STAGE Reduction of Property Ex emption Led to Tangle That Baffled Cooper. By JULE B. WARREN. ' Staff Correspondent of The News. Raleigh, Fed. 11. Tick eradication Thursday, held the center of the stage in the North Carolina eneral assem bly. Walter Murphy secured g, recon sideration of the vote by which the tick 'eradication bill was killed in the house on Thursday, over the protests of Matthew, of Bertie, while Harry Stubbs in the senate secured a post ponement of action by that body after two-hours discussion and apparent victory for the tick eradicators, until 1 the house has acted. The senate is now waiting on the house, and the house is waiting on the senate. The house has this advantage ,that the Stubbs' , motion carried with it the provision that the matter will come before the , upper chamber - on Wednesday. He understood at the time the motion was made that the house would vote again on Tuesday. The senate worked four hours, finally forcing an adjournment at 3 p. m., when protest was made to third read ing of Summer Burgwyn's proposal to reduce the exemption on personal prop erty trom ?300 to ?25, which was later amended to $100. So the whole matter will have to be threshed out again on both these propositions, but it is pos- J sible that the votes may be secured later with less oratory. During the discussion of the reduc tion of property exemption, which came ' up as a minority report, the senate got itself into such a parliamentary tangle that the lieutenant governor was absolutely helpless. He did not know what was happening and did not know how to get out of his troubles.. He did " the best he could, but that best but served to still further tangle the mat- ter, and points of order were being constantly, made and motions to ad journ voted on and discussed. The senate passed eleven local bills, heard the inaroduction of seven new bills and debated tick eradication. At the close of routine business, there " was a motion to postpone immediate consideration of the special order, tick eradication, but to wait until the house had disposed of the matter. Swain, of Tyrrell, renewed his assaults on tick eradicators, offering an amendment which exempted the seven counties in his district, on which he orated some what along the same line of his speech against the stock law. The senate paid little attention to his speech and voted the amendment down. At the close of the debate, Harry Stubbs made a speech calling on the senate, to postpone con sideration until the house had acted. His speechwas , so'effeQtive.UhaU-he,.,,. turned what seemed to be certain vic tory for the tick eradicators. The vote QCJpotpori.srric,r.t.,tir!til .Wednesday , v T" "26 to 20." f . - ; ' : ' V,. - ... r-' . " -Following-the passage -'of . a m ruber . of loial bills,' Burgwyn called, up the minority report on his,, bill : to reduce. .. I ! uw treiooutti u uyexiy exemption irom $300 to $25. Luns Long opened the debate for this bill, , calling attention to the fact that, when the prfoperty ex-, emption was raised to $300, it was in tended to aid the farmer in taking care of the crops he would have on hand as a' result of listing property in Jan uary instead of in May. The special session changed ;the listing time "back to May and there was no longer an ex cause for the high property exemption. L. R. Varser objected to the bill be cause the democratic executive com mittee had sent out literature and the campaign speakers had used this high property exemption as a party pledge during the campaign. He did not be lieve it should be violated now, since it would ( amount to a party pledge. . Reduced to the minimum, the debate from this point on revolved around the point of whether or not the niggers and loafers of the eastern counties would be made to bear their proportionate part of the taxation burden, or wheth er j the cotton mill operatives of the Piedmont section, who had no more than three hundred dollars' worth of property, should be made to pay on that small amount. The parliamentary tangle came near, the close of the discussion, when Nash, of Richmond, tiring of the wran gle, ' moved to adjourn. After much discussion of whether or not the mo tion made in connection with adjourn ment that consideration of the pend ing measure be taken up at 10 o'clock Thursday morning, or whether there could be discussion of a motion to ad journ, the vote was finally taken and the easterners won out. Lieutenant Governor Cooper wag un able to straighten out Burgwyn's mo tion for the previous question, and more wrangling started. Luns Long, president pro-tem, finally aided In get ting the question properly stated, and the senate voted to vote on the main (Continued on" Page 7) Mrs. Till ord Moots is confined t' her home by an unsprightly liver. Hen Pash, who - wuz arrested f er ; tryin' t' steal a car Tuesday, wuz tried this mornin' an' '11 be given another chance, . ' t '
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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