THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, C, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 26, 1921.
ter In the new effort to conciliate Ire
land. -. .
News that the government was about
to make fresh peace proposals had evi
dently percolated-to lrelandbefoie the
premier's-letter to de Valera was made
public. .
The Dublin correspondent of The Ev
ening Standard predicted that "some
thing more than a mere, gesture to
the restoration of peace was under
way". The-- dispatch added, however,
that there is no indication that the
government will relax its extreme pre
cautions. The government will take no
chances, if, as all desire, a peaceful solu
tion is reached, all will be well. -On the
other hand, if the conference fails, the
British military authorities will still be
in a position for powerful action.
Heretofore, peace moves have been
accompanied by a tightening of the
military grip upon Ireland, as the moves
always failed.
The new offer comes upon the heels
of a strong reinforcement of the Bri
tish army in Ireland and imnrviiately
following the announcement by Lord
Birkenhead that fiscal autonomy to Irff
tand would be refused
Heavy troop movements have been
under way for upwards of a week. The
Daily Express was authority for tb.v
statement that 15,000 more troops were
beiner sent into Ireland.
. TILE SLNX FEIX.
THE SINXFEIN.
London, June 25. Premier Lloyd
George's invitation to "President" da
Valera to a peace conference is the last
possible offer to the Sinn Fein, The
Sunday Times declared today.
The Times stated that the information
was authoritive. Sinn Felners cannot
realize their hope for a republic the
newspaper declared. "A republic is im
possible," it said, "but peace is e3sen.
tial. '
"The premier's offer does not indicate
any weakening ln the fight against
Sinn Fein." it declared. "The govern
ment is determined to subdue the ex:
tremists. but that determination does
not conflict with a desire for settle
ment. I
"If de Valera does not accept he
invitation, the government will not
shirk its duty. The resources of the
empire are not exhibited, in fact, they
have not been yet. It is to be hoped
the invitation will be accepted in the
spirit in which it was offered."
Fried Eggs on The
Steps of Capital
Washington, Jun 26. "You win,
John!" gasped K&presenitative Jo
seph C. Pringey, of Oklahoma, as he
moped his brow and lost a wager to
Congressman John XV. Langley, of
Kentucky. .
Langley bet that it was hot
enough to fry eggs today on the
steps of the capitol.
Pringey said it couldn't be done.
Langley. secured a pair of eggs
from the House restaurant and
started his culinary task. The fry
ing was slow, but when Langley
flipped the eggs over and spoiled a
"sunny side up," Pringey admitted
he had lost.
OFFICERS 'QUELL'
A NEGRO CONVICT
CAPTAIN KIDD IS
NOT GUILTY MAN
ENTENTE MAY BE
(Cntinaed From Fax One.)
Communistic propaganda, since, ac
cording: to all conssrvative opinion.
Communist influence :n France at pies
ent is pitifully weak. The writer
heard M. Bathou himself declare just
the other day that the violent Com
munistic agitation against the Ruhr
mobilization a few weeks ago produc
ed a negligible effect upon the moraie
of the army.
One can only surmise that ' it may
prove handy to have such a law on
the books if it should become neces
sary to use the army for internal dutv.
Such a contingency is as ye: remote?
but a .violent shock easily may resu't
from efforts to shift France to a
sound economic basis when the diffi
culties of collecting from Germany
without ruining France become apparent.
John Barley Corn is Behind
Mysterious Disappearance
of U. S. Ships.
Washington, June 25. Not the eerie
figure of Captain Kidd but that of
John Barleycorn not piracy, but
booze, is behind the mysterious disap
pearance of so many ships off tho
South Atlantic coast during rtcnt
months, leaving no trace behind them,
according to the , latest theory ad
vanced here in the "case of the miss
ing ships."
Of all the theories advanced by hun
dreds since the ships began to fads
off the sea. the "booze theory" js be
lieved by some of the government's in
vestigators to be the most plausible.
It was pointed out as significant to
night that practically all of the shir-3
which have disappeared are small ves
sels, and that they have disappeared
for the most part in the same vicinity
which is within easy striking dis
tance of Cuba. Bermuda, the Bahamus.
and other wet spots contiguous to tho
United States.
According to the theory advanced,
the ships have simply gone to sd-i.
had their names painted out. juggled
their rigging to alter their appearance,
and took up the business of catering to
the great American thirst. This would
explain the absence of wireless calls,
which has been one of the puzzliifr
features to government investigators.
Naturally enough, ships engaged n
contraband booze running are not
sending out wireless calls.
There are many plausible things to
the booze theory, government investi
gators said tonight. One is that the
flow of contraband liquor from outside
the United States has greatly increas
ed in recent months, which is borne
out by the Prohibition Enforcement
Bureau. Another is that the profits
offered in the illicit traffic in booze
would make Captain Kidd's profits look
like the contents of a child's toy bank.
Bud Abernathy "Starts
Something at Ball Park,
But Could Not End It.
Bud Abernethy, negro trusty at one
of the convict camps, started a disturb
ance during the Saturday ;game at
Wearn Field, but Special Officer J. T.
Paxton and Detective G. M. Riley end
ed it. so to speak.
Bud took a leave of absence from the
chaingang camp, either with or without
permission, and, with some liquor
aboard, went to Wearn Field to take in
the ball game.
The licfuor did not hit Bud exactly
right and he chose Officer Paxtqn as a
target for pouring out his wrath, which
was a fatal mistake for Bud. Whence
officer interrupted, the negro "clouted"
at the coy. But that is all he did. Pax?
ton brought his 200 pounds, more o
less, of muscles into action and in a.
moment Bud was willing to submit to
anvthing. -
Detective Riley left his seat to quell
Bud's riot and the two officers trans.
ported him and his liquor to police head
HOOVER VETOES
FARMERSRELIEF
Disagrees With Agricultur
al Bloc of Senate on Re
lief Legislation.
By J. BART CAMPBELL
International News Staff
Corresopndent.
Washington, June 25. Secretary of
Commerce Hoover has split with the
senatorial "agricultural bloc" on the
basic principle of the so-called farm
ers relief legislation
This was admitted tonight by those
identified with the coalition of republi
can and democratic senators from
Southern and Western agricultural
states, following Hoover's expressed op
position to any further effort to -"engage-
the government in business" be
fore the Senate agriculture commit
tee. Senators Norris, Nebraska, and Ken-
f,owa' reP"bhcan leaders of the
"bloc," favor government regulation
and control of what they term "life's
necessities." They do not agree with
Hoover that the creation of government
agencies to assist the produer and the
consumer are "nater nalistic."
SUPPORT DEPENDED OX
Hoover's fiat ditar.nrOval nf tho v.
n,rtr, Rnri will snnr,( the time there Fls t create a $100,000,000 Federal
until recorder s court Monday when his i corporation to export surplus agricul
absence from the convict camp will oe Jural product. ' a Wowo toe hdpw
investigated
VETERAN LEADER
(Continued From Pat Onn.)
Bud is a long-termer at the convict
camp, the police said. He has been cul
tivating the habit recently of running
away and a couple of times he has
been brought back tc his pick and rocks.
He was supposed to have been given a
leave to come into town Saturday and
got in connection with the liquor during
the day.
Severa'. saw the disturbance and the
report was out Saturday night that a
man's eye had been knocked out. No
tell-tale scars appear on Officer Paxton,
but Bud has several signs of rough
treatment, although he still has both
eyes, if he can't use them for the time-being.
STILLMAN'S RIGHT TO
PROPERTY CONTESTED
Brownsville, Tex.. 'June 25. The
right of James A. Stillman, New York
banker, to sell his property in Browns
ville, conprisea mostly of the original
town site,' was contested here today
by Mrs. Susan B. Hale, of Washington,
D. C.
Mrs. Hale contends in a contest filed
that the $325,000 worth of property that
Stillman recently sold to a local real
estate man, is still partly owned by
heirs of Judge W. G. Hale, the former
partner of Charles Stillman, the bank
er's grandfather.
She published a notice in local news
papers warning that title acquired from
Stoillman will not be valid. She is con
testing a claim that Hale sold his in
terests in the property to Stillman and
another party.
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ana uesires of the "bloc" whlnh n
dorsed the measure, and had depended
upon administration support for it.
Hoover cited the Shipping Board at
today's hearing on the Norris bill as
a "terrible example of the failure of
government operation." He said it was
doubtful if a "$100,000 a year man,"
a business man capable of conducting
the 'activities of the proposed corpora
tion, would be willing to sacrifice his
personal and private interests to give
the government his services for such
a purpose. He referred to the serious
difficulty President Harding experi
enceed in his efforts to secure that
kind of a man for the chairmanship of
the Shipping Board.
ARE "UP IN THE AIR."
The agriculture "bloc" had depended
on Hoover. He attended a. recent meet
ing of its members and the Kenyon's
and Xorrisses believed they had won
mm arouna to their advocacy of gov
ernment regulation and control of agri
cultural products.
His frank statement at today's hear
ing that he did not agree with them,
left them "up in the air," they admitted
as to the fate of the Xorris bill and
other pending measures sponsored by
them. The defeat of the Xorris packer
control bill, which they supported, was
the first setback their plans received
and the opposition of Hoover to one
of their pet bills has further lessened
their chances of successfully carrying
out their legislative program.
MANTIS HELD FOR
BRUTAL JMURDER
Police WiirXlso Attempt
to Link Man With Two
Unsolved Mysteries.
Mineola, X. Y., June 23. An ef
fort was to be made here tonight to
link Lawrence Kubal, alleged self-eon-fessed
slayer of Mrs. Minnie S. Bart
lett,' widow of a" wealthy oil man, with
the murder of two young girls, whose
slayers have never been apprehend
ed. Kubal was in the Nassau county jail
here following his arraignment in Lyn
brook today where he entered a plea of
not guilty to a charge d murder in
the first degree.
Detective Henry J. Zeneff, of the
New York homicide bureau, was ex
pected here tonight to question Kubal
concerning the death of 17-year-old
Mary Elizabeth Riddell, of Richmond,
Hill, who was brutally murdered two
years ago, and Rine Hoxey, 19, who
was murdered in her home in Manhat
tan in February, 1920.
Kubal was taken into custody last
night after he had told his wife that
he. was the murderer of Mrs. BartletV
who was found dead in her home in
Hampstead last Wednesday. Mrs. Ku
bal told her brother, Marion Jurtofsky,
of her husband's alleged confession.
Kubal told the police he had beaten
Mrs. Bartlett to death with a chisel af
ter she had refused to jrive him $500
He led police to the spot where he had
tnrown the chisel and alsc helped them
recover most of the jewelry he had
taken.
Kubal told the polide he had never
seen Mrs. Bartlett until he called at
her house, where she lived alone, Wed
nesday. He had not contemplated kill
ing her, he said, until she refused to
give him the money. Then, Kubal said,
he attempted to force his way into the
house and, in the struggle that followed
he struck Mrs. Bartlett with the chisel.
Kubal said he washed his hands in the
bathroom and walked home. Police
had been scouring the" woods around the
Bartlett home in the belief the murder
er was hiding there.
The grand jury is expected to return
an indictment Wednesday against Ku
bal charging first degree murder.
DEATHS FU NERALS
ARTHUR DEARMOND.
Knoxville, Tenn., June 25. Arthur
Dearmond, 47. former president of the
Theatrical Mechanical Association :n
the United States and Canada, diorl r
his home here too"ay following a brief
illness. He was widely known among
show people. He is believed to have
left a considerable, estate.
MRS. C. R. SLEDGE
Lexington, June 25. Mrs. C. R
Sledge. 273 West Fifth street, Friday
afternoon at 6 o'clock. Funeral services
will be conducted from the home Sun
day afternoon at 4 o'clock. She leaves,
beside her husband, two children, Mrs.
F. L. Perrell and John Sledge, both of
Charlotte.
sweeping program of industrial democ
racy ever produced by organized labor.
Under Instructions of the convention,
the executive councir will aid the rail
road unions to draft and publish this
program, which proposes the application
of the principal of government own
ership and democratic control to all
basic industries and sets forth the dec
laration that labor shall have equal
rights with capital in industry.
Another feature of the convention,
which will have a far-reaching effect,
was the coalition of the coal miners
with the railroad unions. Alt'iouga tn
railroad unions did not give Lewis olid
suppcrt in the election, the coal miners
stood behind them in every part of the
program.
SERIES OF OVATIONS.
The election consumed most of the
closing session of the convention. Gom
pers, who received a series of ovations
before and after the balloting, hurled a
challenge at Judge E. H. Gary and
William Randolph Hearst in his elec-
uon speech.
"I can say to you that my election
will bring no comfort to either Gary or
Hearst." he said.
"I will speak as to the demands of
labor on society; I will indulge in no
minor key whether it is to a Gary, or a
politician or the President of the United.
States or any ' newspaper.
"Our trade union movement isunitsi.
It is prepared to be aggressive in dr.
fense of the rights of the toilers. It
will not be swerved from its cours"."
Lewis won admiration and a dem
onstration when, after the results were
announced, he said:
"I, too. have been a victim of scur
rilous lies but I have waited until elec
tion to stand up and answer them. I
have used no dishonorable methods in
this campaign.
.1 have had nothing to do with the
wearst papers, but I know that I have
been attacked in other publications n
torious as capitalist and labor-baiting
newspapers.
OFFICERS REELECTED.
ine ioaowmg officers were re-elect-
ea:
President, Samuel Gompers; first vice-
president, James Duncan, Quiney,
Mass.; second vice-president, J. F- Val
entine, Cincinnati, Ohio; third vice
president, Frank Duffy, Indianapolis,
Ind.; fourth vice-president, William
tureen, Indianapolis, Ind.; fifth vice-
president, William D. Mahon, Detroit,
Mich.; sixth vice-president, Thomas A
Rickert, Chicago; seventh vice-president,
F. X. Noschang, Indianapolis;
eighth vice-president, Matthew Woll.
Chicago.
Daniel J. Tobin, of the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters, was r
elected treasurer and Frank Morrison
was unanimously re-elected secretary
of the federation.
The following were elected fraternal
delegates to the British Trades and L:i-
l bor Congress; William J. Spencer, ln-
manapoHs, secretary or tne Building
Trades Department; James J. Forres
ter, Cincinnati, railway clerks; Peter
J. Brady, of the New York City
Trades Union, was nominated but re
fused to allow his name to go before
the convention.
The veteran leader of the federation,
his face showing plainly the relief he
zeit tnat the trials of a tense twi
weeks were over, talked as he direct
the final work of the federation's
nuai convention, tie cnewefl a cijra
vigorously as he emphasized his words
and his hands toyed with ' a box of
American Beauties, the gift of tho
stenographers union in recognition of
his success. There were 71 flowers
symbolic of his age.
PROUD OF MOVEMENT.
"I am proud of our movement. "
Gompers spoke feelingly, "and my
life shall be given to it in the future,
as it has been for these many year?."
Gompers said the result of the elec
tion arid the work of the convention
"fills me with satisfaction, gratitude
and pride not for myself, but for the
labor movement.
"There is a great satisfaction in- tha
results of today's election," he contin
ued. "Our trade union movement has
demonstrated that it will not submit
to dictation from the foes of corpora
tion or greed that neither the Hearsts
nor the Garys can chart our course cr
select our leaders.
"Our movement is prepared to be
aggressive in defense of the rights of
the toilers. It will not be swerved
from its course.
"It will be a sad day for the aspira
tions of the working people of our
land when corrupt and intriguing in
terests can either divide our movemant.
change our course or destroy its lead
ership. The vote today has demon
strated to the world that we have not
5ret come upon that day.
"The whole work of the convention,
the resolutions adopted, the policies
indicated, mean for the future a united
progressive movement, following upon
a progressive, fruitful and militant
past."
At 5:50 p. m. the American Federa
tion of Labor adjourned.
WICTT MLARRV STEPFATHER.
Xew York1; June 25. In fulfillment
of a vow made at her mother's death
bed, Miss Isabelje Gordon, 21, will mar
ry her stepfather next Thursday at
their home in Richmond Hill, Long Is
land. The stepfather is Alexander
Taylor, 31. The girl's mother, at the
time of the death, made Taylor, her
second husband, "proniise always to
care for Isabella and never leave her."
MUCH BEER IS SEIZED.
Xew Orleans, June 25. Thousands
of barrels, and cases of bottled beer
were seized in - six premises, which
were raided thi$ Afternoon by govern
ment "agents, who were brought here
from all over the country. The. pro
prietors, directors and all connected
with the breweries will be arrested.
Their plants probably will be seised.
M'GAXKOK FOUND GUILTY.
Cleveland. Ohio. June 25. William
H. McGanpon former chief justice of
the municipal court, was tonight found
guilty of perjury by 4 jury in Judge
Florence E. Allen's court. The jury
returned its verdict at 6:05 o'clock after
having deliberated since 2:37 o'clock
yesterday afternoon.
SOCIALISTS AGAINST
MOSCOW AFFILIATION
Detroit, Mich., June 25. The Social
ist party, in annual convention here,
today rejected a motion to affiliate with
the Third Internationale of Russia.
A resolution, adopted by a vote of
31 to 10, said that the party considers
its foremost duty the formation of a
strong revolutionary Socialist organ
ization in this countny. It therefore,
it said, declines to affiliate with any
other organization. ,
Morris Hillquit, who was elected
chairman, Victor Berger and othevs
made speeches against affiliation. Hill
quit declared the so-called Russian in
ternationale to be "imperialism in dis
guise." The fight for affiliation was led bv J.
Louis Engdahl. He favored joining the
Internationale on Moscow's terms. Vic
tor Berger, declaring he had had all
the dictatorship he wanted, fought the
motion.
The party voted to send a telegram
of sympathy to Eugene V. Debs in the
Atlanta penitentiary.
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boxing this afternoon before a crowd
of about 2,000 persons at Airport. H.
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and Jack Renault for two rounds
each. His workout with O'Hare, who
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SIX DROWNINGS.
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drownings in th epast 48 hours is Del
aware's record tonight. All six of the
deaths were due to inability to swim.
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