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CHA V II W N 16 PAGES TODAY JL JOJC NIGHT EDITION AND EVENING CHRONICLE c "GREATER CHARLOTTE'S HOME NEWSPAPER" ru-r flTAHl.OTTTC SRWS Established. Dally, 1888; Sunday, 1910. THE KVEIVlG CHRONICLE: EatablUbtd. 1903. CHARLOTTE, N. C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 27, 1921. THE THE tgrsusssih. lavniai price five cent?, mericsums Held In Russia. V N il ET . MLO NEWS Relets ASKS ALLIES Tl MAKE EFFORT T UTILITIES Head of Turkish National ist Government Would End Greeco-Turk War. TURKS' LOSSES 60,000. Resistance of Troops in Asia Minor is Broken, All Reports Show. London, July 27. Mustapha Kemal Tasha, head of the Turkish Nationalist government , has sent a telegram to Constantinople asking that the central government intervene with the Allies in an effort to obtain a cessation of Greeeo-Turkish hostilities, according to dispatches from Constantinople to the Exchange Telegraph Company. COMPLETELY BROKEN Athens, July 27. Information from all sources indicates the resistence f the Turkish Nationalists in Asia Minor is completely broken, the Greek official news agency declares in a state ment issued here today. The Turkish losses in killed, wound ed and prisoners to date are estimated ;it 60.000. The Greeks, the statement says, are constantly pressing the Kem aiists along the road to Angora. Along the route of their retreat, the Turks set fire to their stores of ma i: rial, which they were unabel to carry with them because of the rapidity of their flight. BANDITS DRIVEN OFF. Constantinople. Sunday, July 24. Circassian bandits appeared today in Karabogha, on the sea of Marmora, 35 miles east of Gallipoli, raided the town and killed the Turkish governor and commander of the gendarmerie. A British detachment assisted the Turkish gendarmes in pursuing the bandits. As a result of this incident, the British are reinforcing the Dar danelles garrison. OBLIGED TO YIELD GROUND. Constantipoule, Saturday, July 23. The Turkish Nationalist Prime Minister Fevzi Pasha told the national assembly last night that, although the Turks had been obliged to yield ground in the face of the Greek advance, the enemy suffered terrible losses. The region be tween Kutaia and Eski-Sehr, which re cently was captured by the Greeks, was covered with thousands of bodies, he declared. . The prime minister warned the as sembly against panic, asserting that every precaution had been taken to se cure a successful continuation of th- struggle, which , he said, was entering the decisive phase. A Greek warship today approached Samsun, on the south shore of the Black sea, with the intention of bom barding the town, but the commander of a United States destroyer, lying off the coiyst, dissuaded its commander from firing, pointing out that such ac tion might endanger the Greek popula tion. The Greek destroyer Panther opened fire today on Trebizond, on the Black seacoast to the east of Samsun, but did not cause much damage. CONSIDER THE GAME LOST. Athens, July 27. Greek Official Official Agency) Advices from Con stantinople to the new,spaper Patris de clare the Turkish reverses have had a depressing effect in Angora, the peo ple of which "consider that the game is lost." It is confirmed, adds the dispatcn, that Mustapha Kemal Pasha has in formed the Turkish government '.in Constantinople) that the gravity of the situation demands that it intervent "to save Turkey" and that the Nation alist leader has authorized the central government to make an appeal to the Allies to conclude peace with Greeco. The Angora government would accept this action, he said. PELLAGRA ACCOUNTS DAMAGING TO SOUTH Asheville, July 27. Declaring that the credit and reputation of the South are being injured by "false and malici ous statements emanating from Wash ington," the Asheville Board of Trade today addressed a telegram to Surgeon General Cumming and members of the North Carolina delegation in Congress inking that the source of information regarding semi-starvation and pellagra f or. jitions be revealed. "Newspapers carrying press dis patches refer to epidemic of pellagra in ' ". South due to lack of sufficient nourishment and insufficient food, giv ing shortage of money as reason and making out conditions very terrible and alarming," reads the message. "Please v'iro quickly if this interview and story authorized by your office and name of Mpresentative furnishing this informa tion." The local trade body has asked mem-'"-rs of Congrass to investigate the v bole affair, maintaining that the re ports were manufactured from misin formation and will inflict tremendous (l;image upon business and industry of 'h South. Other Chambers of Com-int'i-oe in principal cities of the South t'.'.so have registered formal protest. STAY OF JEW IS LIMITED. Vienna, July 27. No Jew shall re pair, longer than twenty-four hours in Kffr-rrling, in upper Austria, accord 'r,r to an edict issued by the com rnunal authorities. The Jewish mem of the assembly have petitioned the government to take action in the 'nat.t -r, saying the edict is contrary to low and also to the minority clause r'f the peace treaty. NORWAY TREATY APPROVED Washington, July 27. The Senate ton jn relations committee approved Tuesday the treaty with Norway, sign "1 -l ine 30, last, for submission to arbi-t.-.-uion of Norwegian claims growing out of vea.ui.sitioning, during the war, 'J ships being built in this country for "i rwegian. The treaty would cre3te '"1 neural tribunal of three members. END HO ' Hun MineSweepers Shot At By Soviets Berlin, Jnly 27. (By the Assc o ted Press) The German r sweeping fleet, which has bee crating in the Kola Bieht t $ -S? i m a special dispatch from Norway, to have been fir oy Russian land forts. The G returned the fire, but no reported on either side. The German fleet, w' helmshaven a week at White Sea of mines unu ieet O 'e is .t Wil- .ear the the pro- visions of the Versailles treaty, his retired to Vardoe to await further 1 developments, the dispatch says. FINDS EVIDENCE NOT SUFFICIENT Judge Threatens to Free Felsch and Weaver in Black Sox Trial. Chicago, July 27. Judge Hugo Friend today informed the State attor- ney in the baseball trial that he would direct the jury to return a verdict of not guilty in the cases of "Buck" Weaver and "Happy" Felsch, former White Sox players, and Carl Zork, of St. Louis, unless further evidence was introduced against these men. The judge temporarily overruled the defense motion to dismiss these cases when the State urged that the defend ants might be incriminated by further testimony. The State dropped its case against Ben and Louis Levi, of Koko- mo, Ind Motions to dismiss the charges against Joe Jackson, David Zelcer, of Des Moines, were overruled. The State refused to dismiss the cases despite Judge Friend's statement. Chicago, July 27. Billy Maharg, of Philadelphia, pal of Bill Burr.? and Abe Attell during the formation and com pletion of the alleged conspiracy for the throwing of the 1919 "world's series, today told his story, of the reported $100,000 sell-out of the eight Chicago White Sox players. Maharg was the final witness for the State in the baseball trial. He was said by Burns to have been present at several meetings . of the gamblers and players where pulans for the al leged game-throwing were made. Maharg began his testimony by tell ing of the meeting he witnessed be tween Burns and Eddie Cicotte at the Ansonia Hotel in New York in Sep tember, 1919. GANDIL WAS PRESENT "Chick" Gandil also was there," said Maharg. "I heard Cicotte say that, if the Sox won the pennant, the world series I could be thrown for $10J),000. Gandil said the players would throw the games rn any order desired. I "After Cicotte and Gandil left, Burns repeated the conversation to me as 1 1 had not heard all of it. He said Cicotte and Gandil had agreed to see that the series was thrown for $100,000. He asked me if I could get some one to put up the $100,000. "When I got back to Philadelphia, I went to see a man named Rossie and I then I went to New York with Burns I and saw Arnold Rothstein. Burns told I Rothstein the Sox had agreed to throw I the series for $100,000 and asked Roth- stein to put it up, but Rothstein re-1 fused. "I went back to Philadelphia Then sot a telegram from Burns to meet him on a train for Cincinnati. I went to Cincinnati, getting there the morning of the first game. I met Burns at the Sinton Hotel that evening. He told me Abe Attell got Rothstein to put up the eiven the players after each game. "That night Attell told me the same thing, explaining that Rothstein had put up the money because Attell saved his life once." Maharg said that, the night before the second game, Attell gave Burns $10 000 from a great pile of bills un- der the mattress. He repeated the tes- timonv of Burns that Burns at Attel's rpmiest asked the players to win the third game to help the betting odds, but that Chick Gandil said it "would so the same way as the others." Maharsr said that in Chicago the day nf the. third erame. he heard Burns teleDhone Attell the message from Gan- dil. He told of an alleged suggestion hv "Bennett" whom he identified as Davis Zelcer. of Des Moines, that the players throw the fourth game for $20,- ' ir - ,ur fiiAttiJis uKAHAiu. Maharg denied that he was "Peaches" Graham former major league catcher, c th rlpfpnse has claimed. He said T!,n Tnhnsnn. nresident of the Ameri- or. T,p:1np sont him to Texas to nur- cMir,i0 Rurnc to testifv. Th0 statP later rested its case in the baseball trial after Billy Maharg, of rhiladelnhia. had given testimony con- cerning much of Billy Burns' story of the alleged conspiracy for the Chicago White Sox players to tnrow tne 1913 world series. CAROLINA SHIPPERS ASK RE-ADJUSTMENT Wnshinsrton. July 27. Shippers in the East, the Northeast and in the Car nlinas conferred here today with repre sentatives of railroada in an effort to complete readjustment of fKt ritps from the North, East and n,Tiii0.w;f to the Carolina territory, rfin inpnualities the shippers declaie -.xrifVi vperarrt to depressed rates to mhPri water competition is a fnntnr as aeainst higher rates to inter- incuic.i. , moved. BULWINKLE TO SPEAK. Wnshineton, July 27 Representa- fi-.ro Rnlwinkle has accepted an invita- ti, in address the farmers at a pic nic at Mount Holly op July 29, an-1 vlro n. sneecn to tne ivn ar.u World war veterans at Cornelius on August 4. HAVE REACHED AGREEMENTS. London. July 27. (By the Associated n cn tv,p dominion premiers have 0oAviwl an agreement on matters nc fecting the Pacific conference, concern t,o- whifh thev previously had differed savs The Daily Mail. It is expected th u an official statement, vvm us Guardsmen and Officers In terested in the Work of the Organization. IS PLENTY OF FOOD. Laziness Only Reason for Anybody to Starve in North Carolina. By JULE B. WARREN, Stall" Correspondent of The Nef-- Raleigh, July 27. Major Gordon Smith, assistant adjutant general, back froni Cami) Glenn. Morpheas Citv. where 1,200 national guardsmen have been encamped for the past 15 days. declares it was the most successful school for the soldiers that has ever oeen conducted in North Carolina. The camp site is in fine shap, the buildings well equipped for the purposes, and the soldiers the best behaved and most in terested of any that he has ever been with at one of the militia or national guard encampments. It was the larg est number of soldiers that have ever been carried into camp for summer training at one time, but despite this fact there was ample work and enter tainment for all of them. The federal government contributed f 35.000 in salaries alone for this scamp Major Smith, as paymaster, had to se cure the money in currency from the Richmond Federal Reserve bank, m or der to pay the soldiers off on the day they broke camp. In addition to this money, the federal government, of course, furnished all of the equipment, ammunition and supplies for feeding the 1.200 men while they were in the school. The guardsmen were so wrell pleased that not a few of them were willing to remain even longer than the camp lasted. Major Smith had a number of applications from officers and men to be allowed to return to the officers and enlisted men's school which will pre cede the opening of the cavalry school there next month. It will be impos sible to allow as many as made appli cation attend this school. It is the first time in Major Smith's long experi ence with the national guard when the men were not anxious to get away from camp at the end of two weeks service. The officers in charge or the camp were a little bit afraid that there would be a reaction from foreign war service on the part of the guardsmen and that they w-ouldl not observe military cour- tesv as thev did during. the war. But this feature of the encampment was even better than in other years. Mill tary courtesy betweien. ofXicers and men when both were out of camp was better even than wrhen the soldiers were in France. mere was mutual understanding between the soldiers and their officers and the spirit of comrad shin and military discipline did not strain to the breaking point at any time Preparations are now under way for the cavalry camp which will be held at Camp Glenn in August, and for the artillery school at Camp Bragg some time in the near future FAMIXB STORIES RIDICULOUS. The only reason a man might have for starving or even becoming hungry in any part of North Carolina is be cause he is too lazy to gather the food J that nature provides, declare members of the official family in Raleigh today J in branding as absolutely too ridiculous for comment the suggestion of Presi dent Harding that the Red Cross inves tigate the stories sent out to the ef I feet that people in many parts of the South, including North Carolina were on the verge of starvation. The ge.i oral warning, sent out by the public health service as to the spread of pe I lagra in the cotton belt is not applica ble to North Carolina. The people of the cotton belt are not especially flush with ready money now, but they have plenty to eat I "Come down and visit us. We have mighty little money, but plenty : something to eat and we buy gasoline 1 on credit if needs be, which was th invitation an eastern man recently ex tended to an uplander, is typical of the I cials and public health officers declare "Pellagra is not a reportable disease in North Carolina and there is, there fore, no way of checking up the nam ber of cases except through the nun ber of deaths reported." declares R. 3. Wilson of the publicity bureau of the health department today. "For the fir3t six months of 1921 there was a de crease of 13 in the number of deaths from this cause m North Carolina," he continued. "A decrease is shown for each month up to June, which month showed an increase of four deaths from pellagra. The total number of deaths reported for 1920 as having been caused by pellagra was 297. The total number reported for the first six SSJSffi (Continned on Pagre Eleven.) HARDING COMING SOUTH Washington, July 27. President Harding is understood to have definite ly accepted an invitation to speak in Birmingham, Aia., late in October at a cweurauuii uummeiuuidimg me oum anniversary of the founding of the city. During the same trip, he may visit sev FAIR Charlotte and vicinity: Generally fair tonight and Thursday. Light to gentle variable winds. North Carolina: Partly cloudy to night and Thurshday; gentle variable -.vsnds. .South Carolina: Partly cloudy to ight and Thursday, probably showerr n extreme south portion; nioderatt jasterly winde. r Surgeon General Is Ready With Report Washington, July 27. 'Surgeon General Cumming, of the Public Health Service, was prepared to re port to President Harding today on the result of preliminary confer ences with Red Cross officials and and others as to necessary measures to meet the reported threat of a pellagra epidemic in a large section of the Southern cotton bslt. Despite protests from eight Southern states yesterday that the seriousness of the situation had been exaggerated in goernment reports, Surgeon Gen eral Cumming said today the Public Health Service still stood by its pre diction that, unless radical relief measures were taken there would be at least 100,000 pellagra victims in the cotton belt this year and that ten per cent of them would die. The Public Health Service head and Dr. Joheph Ooldberger, pellagra expert of the service, held a lengthy conference yesterday with Dr. Liv ingstone Farrand, chairman, and other Red Cross officials, but no an nouncement was made as to the con clusions reached. These wiil be sub mitted to the President today. DEFINITE SPLIT NOW PREDICTED Obregon's Request is Voted Down by Deputies as Sen ate Grants It. Mexico City, July 27. The Cham ber of Deputies last nisht voted down a request by President Obre gon that he be granted extraordin ary powers to adjust article 27 of the constitution, which nationalizes oil deposits. The Senate almost simultaneously voted to accede to the request. Th3 President had requested early in the present month that he be given wide latitude in revising the article, when it became apparent that Congress would not be able to give it adequate consideration before the special session eds in August- STUMBLING BLOCK Article 27 has been long a stumbling block in the relations between Mexico and the United States, the latter gov criimenf characterizing the section as confiscatory and against the principle of American rights and interests obtained in Mexico under proper laws in an official statement of President Harding s Mexican policy, made June 7, Secretary of State Hughes said that Mexico Avas freo to adopt any policy sne pleased with respect to her public lands, but added that she was not free to destroy without compensation valid titles which have been obtained by American citi zens under Mexican laws. tvio nHnn nf rrmcrrM ln5t TiiErht i viVwpfl hv political observers here!01 metucai oeer regulations win De . w. w C - - w O a o a Hofinitp Cr,m htWpn Tros irlpnt f)hrp?nn and his nartv The first mcinw.iB """" w.... indications of party strife were noted nearly a month ago when Augustine . 1 Arrovo was elected president of the Chamber of Deputies by liberal con stitutionalist members. GRAND OPERA TAXED rviTrn rT7 T7VTCTT?XTr,l? v U X vJ-L uaio x xjlv kjxj Atlanta. July 27. Final enactment CL the bill passed by tne ueorgia tiout-e yesterday imposing an annual $2,a00 tax on grand opera means the end di the annual yeek of Metropolitan grand opera in Atlanta, W. L. Peel, presidem of the Atlanta iuusic jc estivai Associa- tion, declared in a statement published sere today. Mr. Peel added tnat tnis year the directors of the association, undor whose auspices the opera is brought here, paid $4,000 out o their own pock ets to make up a deficit rather than call upon the guarantors of the opera fund. RUMORS OF SHORTAGE -rv-rmvTTT7T-k "DV A mTrkTTVT17,'V Urj LEjLJ XJ X XV X luiniui Chicaero. July 27. Rumors of a short- age of from $40,000 to $50,000 in the old organization of the -Chicago Grand Onera Company, due to alleged lax methods in the box office management, were denied today by Redmond Steph- mi. woro nti-ihntori tn the uuiuuiuc uianas" v ...r-:-.v - the theory that he was working in col- lustion with New York and Chicago ticket "scalpers." The discharged em- ploye was saia to nave ueeu "vuiS i oVinvo tVin rfrmitted DV ed t n oTr n n ( . iiii Luiiuiuaivc cviuiiw against him. FIVE POWER PROJECTS GRANTED TO BINGHAM Washington. July 27. Preliminary nermits for construction of five power nroiects. three on the Perdido and cue pa eh on the Styx a nd Black Water rivers. Alabama, have been granted by the Federal Power Commission to Reed Bingham, it was announced to dav Engineer officers of the com- id it was estimated that he ive projects? would develop a tota.' of 4.600 horsepower, which it was ih intention of Mr. Bingham to sell to the HHps of Pensacola and Mobile. The wrmits will be mailed immediately to Mr. Bineham for acceptance and will be formally approved when he has sign ed and reutrned them to the commis sion. NEGRO CONFESSES MURDER. Marinon. Ark., July 27. Following his arrest' for stealing a ride on a freight train, Ossie Ttate, negro, 22, confessed, according to local officials, that he killed the 15-year-old white boy whose body was found at the Arkansas end of the Mississippi river bridge here last February and who was buried after all attempts at identification had mailed. GOVERNOR FIRES OFFICER. Montgomery, Ala., July 27. Conrad W. Austin, chief of law enforcement of ficers, was dismissed from the service of the qtate Tuesday night by Governor Thomas E. Kilby, for insubordination, -i that Austin refused to discharge dep uties who raided the homes of Mobile citizens after the Governor had orderec heir discharge. General Scheme For Taxation Agreed On By Administration PRIORITY GIVEN TO TAXREVISION Senators Virtually Agree to Sidetrack Tariff for Tax Measure. Washington, July 27. Virtual agree ment was said today to have hsen reached at a dinner conference at the White House last night for Senate consideration of tax revision legisla tion before the permanent tariff act is taken up that body. A number of Sen ators were President Harding's guests and the legislative situation was said to have been discussed extensively. President Harding told his guests he hoped both branches of Congress could recess from the middle of August to the latter part of September, or the first of October," but- was represented as opposed to any recess of either body until the tax revision bill has passed the House, leaving the Senate finance committee to work on both tax and tariff measures during the recess. RECESS PLANS PUT OFF. Senate leaders said today that all proposals for a recess would be aban doned until the tax bill came from the House, probably within a fortnight, and making adjournment of both bodies possible about the middle of August. v hite House officials had nothing to ?ay about the conference today and it was understood Mr. Harding him self had forbidden advance announce ment of his plan to consult his former i associates in the Senate. They were said to have advised him that the fi nance committee would not have the House tariff bill ready for Senate con-" sideration short of five or six weeks. and it was on this showing that a con sensus of opinion around the dinner table that tax revision should be giv. en precedence was said to have been disclosed. The President was told, it was said, that the tariff bill would require worx- ing over to a hitherto unexpected ex tent. . American valuation provisions in the bill were discussed by the dine-i and there were reports-today that the President did not favor the policy, but comment on that phase was refused. The railroad question and funding of Allied loans also were talked over I during the dinner as well as summer recess possibilities for Congress. BLAIR'S BEER POLICY IS BEING DRAWN UP W ashington, July 27. Announce ment by Internal Revenue Commission - I ?r Blair of his policy on the question I T 1 1 Ml 1 made in the next few days. Mr. Blair . i i.- jjj :; i ij I 13 11"V 'e"uiLcijr ucviuuig, umuaia oam I , rw J i -.r 1t?V, V.rt V, l'i(Yn l..)iHf r-VifLU ,1 be issued at this time or deferred be - cause of probable early action by the Senate on the Willis-Campbell bill to prohibit the prescribing of beer by doc - tors. The commissioner also is working out the final form the beer regulations I might take which, it is understood, I would provide in general for prescrip tions of one case at one time, but without limit as to the number ot prescriptions. Acoraing to roniDiuon Commisioner Haynes, however, the pro - bability of the eventual issuance ot beer regulations is slight. There was apparently little desire on the part ot brewers, he said, to ODtam tne reguia tions, in view of the pending hostile i legislation. SATISFACTORY WEEK FOR CROPS OF STATE Raleieh.-July 27. There was too much rain in parts of the southeast and west while the weather was too dry in the north-central section of state j for the week ended Tuesday. Tempera tl,rps a.vprfle-pd somewhat below normal and the nercentasre of sunshine was fiather low. Over much of the state, j however, conditions were favorable and j on tne whole, all crops except tobacco I made satisfactory nroeress. The tobacco crop was unfavorably affected, being daiAaged in some sections by rain while I V v, i i a cnm lon niaue guuu iu vj K" o- d , new in excellent . condition in localities and in generally satis- factory shape as a wnole. Q most of i tne State corn, sweet potatoes, soy I . - -t : f,r-t thnurru with nnjino noran p i i 1X1 LUC VV vro L cuv UqU vv iv.u v.v-aa.-v-. -- trouble in curing on account ot ire nnpnt rains. Heavv shipments of pches and melons We used f have V be led int' temp tation, but nowadays we have t' be -..: HGIO.sidU an' oa-ciied out. V e kin alius tell how hard times are by th ort o' fellers that try t sell us a set k 11 1 Df O'Henry. Excise and Surtaxes to Go and Sales Taxes Abandoned. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Staff Correspondent of The News. Copyright, 1921, by Xews Publishing Co. Washington, July 27. Tax programs are like time-tables subject to change without notice. But certain principles have been agreed upon by President Harding and Administration leaders which can be of some guidance to tax payers. Those principles, as explained at the White House, do not necessarily commit the Administration to a cut and dried procedure which will pre vent a change of mind. In other wol1s nothing is final until it is actually in the bill that passes both Houses, but tso far as any one can foresee, indeei the best judgment that can be marshal led at present, leads to the following conclusions: First, the excess profits tax must be repealed. This action will be taken not merely because the revenue from ex cess profits has diminished to such an extent that it compares unfavorably with the immense amount of damage done to business as whole through the restraints placed upon individual en terprise, initiative and expansion. THREE-CENT POSTAGE, Second, the return to 3-cent postage for first class mail. This step is to be taken reluctantly by the Republican Administration for the shrewd Albert Sidney Burleson, postmaster general under the Democratic Administration, took off the extra cent and the fear is that Democratic campaign orators will point to the extra postage as a sign that the poor man's burdens have not been decreased but increased, rviever theless the 3-cent tax is favored as a great revenue producer and as th best means of getting better postal ser vice, will Hays, tne new postmaster general, is trying to produce an effi cient postal service and is making good headway. He finds it necessary to spend money to get efficiency. He has been told by business men to go ahead and incur a deficit but deliver the mail on time. So the price ot efficiency is an extra cent on postage. The gene-al opinion is that the stamp tax will hara- ly be felt. Third, a cutting down of the large taxes. The hardest thing in the worid to explain to the average taxpayer is the why and the wherefore of a surtax The income tax blanks give no inkling as to how the scientific tax experts de vised it and the taxpayer doesn't see any particular scheme of percentages I behind it. The large surtaxes have, how 1 ever- operated like the excess profits I taxes to destroy initiative at the ver i time wnen men oi capital snouia ue I.. e i - 1.1 I t . I using it to promote American enter .. u .... pnscs, giving empiujr mem. iu uic un I 1 J .. .1 ; 1- rt T-rl-, 1 , 1 business and industry on the road to I sound and uninfiated prosperity. That I there will be a dimunition of large 1 surtaxes can now be taken for grant ed. NO SALES TAX. Fourth, all the schemes for sales tax turn-over tax, production tax or con sinner's tax will ero bv the boards That's the trend at present. The Ad ministration has listened to all the va- 1 ri0Us plans proposed and attempted to i no- one . that wouldn't increase the j burden on the ultimate consumer. The I susnicion exists that the idea is un economical and leads in the end to dou ble taxation. This is stoutly denied but the truth is that the Admimstra tion has not been convinced and the tendency is to forget these various sales and consumers taxes and try to raise money by other means President Harding has told callers that he doesn't believe relief from tax burdens can be accomplished by new devices or rather by new tax proposals but by a rigid cutting down of govern ment expenditures. The biggest prin ciple underlyng the whole tax program is the battle-axe applied to the expen dture column. By every dollar tha the exnense bill is diminished tne amount that must be raised by taxa tion is reduced. Mr. Harding insist J "ailr" r 7 is "for th" best way to reduce taxes is for the that when all is said and done the money. The drive for economy mal.es - ArcrProv situation 'ike ?nag or ei "fy "" "2atn inJl linnlne Sard ulture or he shipping board bution in the hope that business incen tive will be restored. Lower taxes for the nation as a whole are still in the realm of conjecture but a rearrange ment of taxes may give business some measure of relief and permit expan sion. JOINT PROBE ENDED IN A DISAGREEMENT Atlanta, July 27. The joint investi gation of conditions at the State prison farm by the Senate and House peniten tiary committees broke up Tuesday night after House members had charg ed that Senator Campbell, chairman (of the Senate committee, who presided, would not recognize tiiem when seeking the floor. Senator John H. Jones, suggested that the House committee make its own in vestigation and, if it considered the charges sustained, put proposals for im peaehment of the state prison com missioners before the Senate, which it was announced later would be done. BAPTISTS TO JACKSONVILLE. Nashville, Tenn., July 27. Jackson ville, Fla., has been awarded the 1922 session of the Southern Baptist con vention, which will convene May 37 and continue for a week, it was an nounced today by Dr. Hight C. Mocre, recording secretary of the convention. ROB JACKSONVILLE BANK. Jacksonville, Fla., July 27. Six ban dits today entered the Bank of South I Jacksonville, across the St. John's river I from here, held up the teller and escap I ed with cash estimated at ?io,uuu, ac JL cording' to police reports. FORMAL DEMAND DELIVERED AT RIGA YESTERDAY Can Be No Thought of Bet ter Relations Until Those Held Are Released. MORE THAN 20 HELD Hughes' Message is Whollj Independent of Hoover Gorky Correspondence. Washington, July 27. Formal df mand for the release of American pri oners in Russia has been made upo the Soviet authorities by Secretary Hughes. The State Department wa advised today that the communicatio had been handed to the Soviet represei tative at Reval yesterday by Consu Albrecht. The text of the communication h4 not been made public. It is understood however, to be a brief insistence th; the Americans be released before the: can be any thought of better relatior between the United States and Ru sia. The action was taken in the nam, of humanity and because all efforts i secure the release of the American made through Dr. Nansen, of the R 1 Cross, have failed. 1 What course will be taken bv t United States if the Soviet authority ignore or refuse to accede to the d, mand was not indicated. The communication was sent to Co i sul Albrecht July 25. The curt demaL made upon the Russian authorities f , the release of American prisoners is ti' first official representation made upc the subject, although Lenine ai' Trotzky and their associates have bat' previously advised informally of tl determination of the United States n P to consider closer relations with Russ! until this was done. t HUGHES BACKS HOOVER. K The dispatch of the communicatij. was timed so it would reach the Rt: sians approximately simultaneous with the message sent by Secreta Hoover in response to the appeal maf. by Maxim Gorky. The State Depai ment's message is regarded officially i Gorky correspondence, although it admitted that it will serve to strengf! en tne attitude taken by Secreta Hoover, who made it clear in his m sage that any relief by the Unifl States for the suffering Russians wol depend largely upon the manner which Americans in Russia are treat' There are now held as prisoners Russia eight or ten Americans. A lard number are believed to be detained wi in borders Russia, some of whom restricted to limited areas. Within thJ areas they are permitted to come af go, but always under surveillance with the understanding that efforts extend their movements will result closer confinement. DETAILED ANSWER TO HOOVER Riga, Letvia, July 27. (By the As ciated Press) An official demand Secretary of State Hughes for the lease of the American prisoners in R! sia was handed by Consul Albrecht t Leonid Stark, the Bolshevik minis here, last night. J Maxim Gorky, it was learned todJ has telegraphed to John Miller, Riga representative of American re,! auiiiiiusLi auuii, saying mat tne C munication of Herbert Hoover, as h of the relief administration, with gard to American relief for the ill i starving of Russia, would be answe in detail. , The release of the Americans fc'i prisoner in Russia was laid down I Secretary Hoover in his recent cf'i tion upon which American relief m ures for Russia would be taken up. TEXT OF NOTE ! was intended for Maxim Litvinoff, chief of the Soviet legations abroad, ' in his absence it was handed to Mi ter Stark. The text of the Ameri'l Secretary of State s communicat read: ' "The American government Is ad ed that, despite the repeated efforts Dr. Xansen on its behalf to secure t release of the American prisoners;' Russia, they are still held in a n serious plight. j "In the name of humanity, t. American government demands of J. .soviet autnorities tnat tnese pnsoi;; be at once released. It is manifestly jj possioie ior tne American autnor:' to countenance measures for relief! the distress in Russia while our zens are detained." TVTORFI TIIA SmRR HTTT.T More than a score of Americans 1 are held prisoner in Soviet Russia, cording to the latest news receivec; the State Department in Washing from that country. Principal ant them are Mrs. Marguerite E. HarrE; of Baltimore, a newspaper corresjr dent; Captain Emmet Kilpatrick? Uniontown, Ala., a Red Cross woi: Royal C. Keely, an engineer; Wil.r Flick, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and fc Weston B. Estes, motion picture $ tographer, and X. B. Kalamatianq Racine, Wis. ACKN0WLEDGEJD2NT EN ROt London, July 27. (By the Associ;, Press.) The reply of Maxim Gorkj the recent cable message sent by jf Dert xioover, as neaa or tne Ame relief administration, stating that ditions upon which American relie: Russia's sick and starving would h. f .was receivea by the London headc ters of the relief administration this afternoon and was forwarder Washington. ' t M. Gorky, it was learned, expr! thanks for the Amreican offer, but' ed that the detailed reply woul made from Moscow by the head o: .Russian central famine relief con tee. Leo Kamenen. ,
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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