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CHARLOTTE, N. C, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1921.
THE CHARLOTTE NEWS
THE EVENING CHRONICLE
1 May S. 1914. f X VCiXI X C
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PS ARRIVE
AT FRONT LINE
F BATTLE AREA
Shooting Still in Progress
as Federal Soldiers
Detrain.
PROMISE TO RETIRE.
Union Leaders Say Men Will
Go Home as Soon as
Troops Take Charge.
Madison, W. Va., Sept. 3. Two pro
visional companies of regular army in-
' fan-try from Fort Thomas, Kentucky, in
command of Captain John J. Wiison,
arrived here last night, after a two
hours run from St. Albans, and left
early today for Sharpies and other
points further up Coal river. They were
the first Federal troops to enter the
disturbed area. At 5:30 o'clock a. m
a train from Camp Sherman arrived
here. It carried mules and field kitch
ens.
W. M. Blizzard, sub-district president
of the United Mine Workers, after a
conference with Captain Wilson, left
shortly after midnight for points on
the firing line to inform the miners
Federal troops had arrived.
Three flat cars were pushed ahead of
the engine on the trip from St. Al
bans to Madison as a protection against
mines or derailment. The train was
in darkness, except for the searchlight,
which shone over the flat cars to the
track ahead
As the first of the troops started for
Sharpies, Sub-district President Buzzard
returned and reported shooting was
still in progress, but that the miners
wished to return to their homes as soon
as Federal troops should come to guar
antee them protection. He said five
airplanes sent ip from Logan county
dropped bombs manufactured of gas
pipe and high explosives over the min
ers' land, but that no one had been in
lured. One of the bombs, he said, fell
between two women who were standing
in a yard, but it failed to explode.
In connection with this statement of
Blizzard it may be stated that five army
airplanes were ordered to make a recon
naissance cf ths disturbed area yes
terday afternoon. They reported ev
erything quiet. The army flyers said
thev carried no explosives. They flew
from Charleston tc the southern coun
ties and beck again.
Early this morning a third troop
train arrived in Madison and the sol
, diets detrained and established head--quarters
with Colonel C. A. Martm in
comand. The town of Madison took
on a martial asr;ct.
That the miners did not expect to
give up the fight until the Federal
troops were ac-ually on the fighting
ground was evidenced here early today
when a string oi fiat cars, alleged to
have been commandeered by army
bands and carrying recruits and sup
plies to the front, preceded the first
troon train up to Sharpes.
Previously, it had carried wounded
miners from the front to their homes
along the line to Danville. At least
two of them were taken to St. Albans.
Immediately upon reaching Madif-on
last night half of the troops were plac-
ed on guad and the other half re-
TR
. " turned to the coaches to sleep,
soldiers are nearly all veterans.
The
ONE MORE KILLED.
' Lnzan. W. Va., Sept. 3 A man
.'whoso name was not revealed, died at
a hospital here during the night from
wm-nris received on Blair' mountain
"vf-sTrdav, it was announced today
' Ar-ording to his story, as repeated by
hospital authorities, he and four com
Tianions. members of the bands gath
,ered in the Clothier district, ran into
.j machine gun fire from the mountain
Hop. He did not know what became
fof the men with him, he is reported
t" ha vp naid, just before he died.
Tf thp couriers and others returnin
"to Logan from Spruce r ork ridge
knew what was happening there they
?riid no talking unless it was to the
:? authorities.
! What official statements were made
i a'lded nothing .to what had already
'Uct told. That firing continued
; here or there was all that was said
I No mention was made of casualties
'i h:n reports yesterday that three Lo
vri county men had been killed at
jCr..-.k Creek were denied by Colonel
I W K. Hu banks. West Virginia national
ffv.KU'i. commanding peace officers and
Cntain J. R. Brockus detailed last
r.cht hv Colonel Jackson n-.old. head
'. of the state police, to investigate re
ports that men in hidden positions
? were firmer between here and Ethel,
; iacl-juarters of the troopers, had made
no report this morning.
WARRANTS NOT SERVED.
i Charleston. W. Va.. Sent. 3. Sheriff
I Milker, of Kanawha ojmnty, of whij1
Charleston is a part, has not yet been
5 sole to serve warrants upo:i District
! 1'resident Charles F. Keeney and Ui
t riot Secretary Fred Moonev. of the
1 I'r.ited Mine Workers, who were In
J 'noted in Mingo county for alleged
i' ' ennention with a shooting in that
ounty several months ago. Neither
official has been at the miners' head
ouarters since the sheriff received
warrants on Wednesday. Efforts are
be made by the United Mine
Workers to have the Senate committee
which will meet on September H to
investigate the mining situation in
lingo county, West Virginia, broaden
scone of its inauiry so as t
ir.ehide the area now being occupied
' '' Federal troops. Piiilip Murray, in
"national vice-president of the uni-.n
stated he will go before the com
ru.'u-f- and ask that it extend its inves
: -oil ion to Kanawha. Boone, Logan
-Dow-ell and other counties where
f'iners have been at odds with the
il
companies.
TROOPS IN POSITION.
Charleston, W. Va., Sept. 3. (By the
As-oriated Press) The remain in';
'f ' l'H ordered into the disturbed coun
of the southwestern part of the
fctHte arrived today and took up posi
'lor.s designated by Brigadier General
jl- II. Eandholtz, in command of the
' scleral soldiers. The first of -.he
'roopg arrived last night at Madison,
fcoone county, behind the lines of th?
aimed bunds further up the mountaUi
CContlnaed on Face Nine.)
FOLIC
E FORCE AT
CONCORD
PLANS
TO GO ON STR
Ten Men Say, However,
They Will Give Aldermen
Chance to Get New Chief.
JOYNER is" ON JOB.
General Metts is on Ground,
But Finds All Quiet and
Has Taken No Action.
Concord policemen will not quit their
jobs because of the election of Harry
Joyner, first sergeant of the Concord
military company, as chief of the force,
a telephone, message to The Charlotte
News this morning stated.
The 10 members of the department
notified Mayor Womble Fridav that.
unless Joyner, who was appointed Thurs
day night, should be supplanted forth
witn. tne necessity would arise for
electing an entire new set of police
men, iney cnanged their minds this
morning, however, and decided to wait
until the board of aldermen holds its
regular bi-ennial election of municioal
employes. They are hoping that the
board will fail to rename Chief Jovner.
If he is re-elected, the 10 policemen plan
to quit.
ao action towards ousting Sheriff
Carl A. Spears, of Cabarrus count v.
has been taken other than a conference
of citizens yesterday afternoon, the
telephone message statd. Chief of Police
Robinson resigned when the citizens
started the movement to get rid of him
but Sheriff Spears refuses to take anv
such step. He proposes sticking to the
joo and fighting any efforts of the citi
zens committee to get his scalp.
TO STAY INDEFINITELY
Everything was said to be working
smoothly in Concord Saturday morning
with Chief Joyner on the job. Adjutant
General Metts is still there watchin
for developments, but no need for troops
nas arisen. Governor Morrison stated
that he will keep the adjutant general
in concord indefinitely, i
The rsorcott mill, the center of the dis
turbances of the middle of the week.
was in operation Saturday with an in
creased force. Officials of the mill said
tney expected a full complement of
workers on the job Monday morning,
regardless of any action labor union
officials might take towards terminating
or extending the strike.
The citizens' committee, taking thm
lead in the establishment of a "gov
rnmentr in Cabarrus county, have
pressed the determination to keep af
ter fenerirc apears until a successor is
named. The committee has been hand
icapped by the statutes governing such
proceedings, the provision being that
before any petition for the removal of
a sheriff for maladministration of office
can be brought to the attention of
Superior Court judge, it must have the
approval of the county attorney and
solicitor of the district.
Judge McElroy is now holding court
m Concord, but doubt exists as to the
possibility of procuring the approval of
County Attorney Williams, who is said
to have been advising Sheriff Spea:a
during the last two weeks, and Solicitor
nayaen uiement, wno is reported as
not favoring the institution of ousting
proceedings.
FILLS ROBINSON'S PLACE.
The new police chief was appointed
Thursday night by Mayor Womble to
fill the unexpired term of Chief Rob
inson, whose resignation was unam
mously accepted by the board of alder
men tne same night, if riday the po
liceman appeared before the mayor and
stated that, unless a new chief, prefer
ably Patrolman Henry Furr, was ap
pointed to succeed Chief Joyner, th
whole force would walk out at noon
today.
Mayor omble promised to give con
sideration to their demands, but las
night he decided that it would be ui
fair to hire a man ana then fire 'urn
before he had an opportunity to male
good, so he announced he woukl
"stick to his latest appointee. The
policemen were mad at first, but, aft-jr
"sleeping over the situation last nighr,
thev decided to wait in patience until
the aldermen assemble next month for
the bi-ennial elections.
MEXICAN LOADEDWITH
AMERICAN GOLD COIN
Los Angeles, Sept. 3. Augustin Au
tunez, 25, who said he was a Mexican
customs officer at Tijuana, Lower Csl;
fornia, and Romero Breton, 25, a clerl:
in the same office, were arresved hr
today with $30,905 in United States
gold coin in their possession. They and
Harry J. Waldrip, 17, chauffeur, vrzve
held on suspicion of robbery.
Autunez, the police said, told th:m
he brought the gold into the United
States ' for safekeeping."
FAIR AND NORMAL
WEATHER FOR WEEK
Washington, Sept. 3 Weather pre
dictions for the week beginning Mon
day are:
Middle Atlantic States: Local show
ers at the beginning of the week and
again Friday or Saturday; warm at th!
beginning of the week and will be. fol
lowed by cooler after Tuesday.
South Atlantic and East Gulf States:
Fair and normal temperature. There
are no indications at this time of a
disturbance in the West Indies.
ELEVEN MEN RESCUED.
a o TTVnn risen. Calif.. Sept. 3. A
lifeboat with 11 men was picked up
f last niht bv the tug Sea Lyon.
The boat was believed to be the one
missing from the Canadian Imports-,
is-.lt Tiro a fmmd 500 miles west or
San Francisco two days ago by the
Canadian Observer, a ""
sage from the Sea Lion did not sjy
where the nreooat was iuu-
FIGHT OVER PAYROLL.
m o tria fipnt. 3. One man with
a bullet in his leg and two others
slightly wounded are in the hospital
ward of the county jail as a result of
Wd i,r,ii,iT in West Tampa
7, rf fnnr men in an auto
mobile carrying he $30,000 payroll ot
STRIPS VOTE
ON iKlESTION OF
fiJii TO WORK
Meetings Scheduled for Va
rious Textile Locals To
day and Tonight.
BELIEVE END IS HERE
Earnhardt and Sloop Un
derstood to Have Cropped
Fight for01d Jobs.
Textile union strikers have meetings
planned for today and tonight to con
smer returning to work in response
to the appeal of Robert W. McWade,
Federal labor conciliator, and the rec
ommendations of their leaders. No; so
much as an intimation could be obtain
ed this morning as to the outcome of
these meetings.
It was not recognized as likelv that
the operatives would make a public an
nouncement whatever their decis;on
might be. If they decide to go to
work, it was thought they would notify
tne management ot the mill m which
they are employed and go back to thoir
jobs Monday or Tuesday.
umer persons in touch with Plans
of the union people were of the opin
ion that the workers would meet uis
afternoon or tonight, the workers or
each mill deciding what course they
will take, and then reporting again to
tneir leaders oefore making known to
mill owners or the public whether
they have decided to go back to work
or to continue on strike.
LONG SESSION HELD.
It was recognized as certain that the
vote will be to return to their jobs at
once. That such a course would be
advisable was the prevailing opinion
among the large gathering of strikers
representatives in the central laboi
union hall here yesterday. These rep
resentatives were in session from 11
to 5 o'clock. No announcement was
made following the meeting, but some
of those in attendance remarked that
it was "quite stormy" at times, out
representatives appeared favorable gen
erally to the termination of the strike.
If the operatives return to work.
Governor Morrison and Commissioner
McWade will use their influence in the
settlement of difficulties existing be
tween employes and employers. A
conference between the two was sched
uled for noon. Governor Morrison was
in touch with the movement to eni
the strike during the morning. He nx-:,o
communicated with Adjutant Genera."
Metts in Concord and was assured
that conditions are quiescent in that
city. The Governor expects to remain
in Charlotte until Sunday when he will
go to Raleigh. He will continue to
keep in close touch with the situation
and if the strike is terminated his ef
forts towards a satisfactory settlement
of difficulties will be assured, it was
understood.
HALF BACK AT WORK.
Estimates obtained Saturday mom
ing showed that virtually half of the
8,000 operatives who were on stride
two weeks ago have returned to then-
jobs. Nearly 4,000 are at work in mills
in Charlotte, Concord, Kannapolis,
Kock Hill and Huntersville
The disagreement between employee
and employers of the Brown and Nor
cott mills of Concord, which precipi
tated the disturbance there of the mid
die of the week, grew out of the re
sal of the management to accept for
reemployment L. M. Earnhardt and
F. J. Sloop, the Concord textile union
leaders, according to information re
ceived Saturday. During the conference
of Concord citiens with Governor Mor
rison Thursday C. W. Johnston, who
was also in the room, declared that if
he gave back jobs to some of the men
me would have his superintedents' res
ignation before night.
Messrs. Earnhardt and Sloop stated
Friday that they did not care for their
jobs back, but they wanted the mill
management to recognie their right
to hold positions as leaders of the tex
tile union. It was said that had Mr
Johnston afreed to take back these two
leaders the workers in the Brown and
Norcott mills would have followed the
lead of Highland Park mill workers
Mr. Johnston has isued no statement
a sto the cause for the failure of Brown
and Norcott employes to go back to
work.
OVERLOOKING INCIDENT
But it is understood that Mesrs
Barnhardt and Sloop have considered
it the best policy to overlook this m
cidont an dto recommend the termina
tion of the strike. Both have stated
that thev do not want to work in the
Johnston mills again
James F. Barrett, president of the
state federation of labor, has taken lit
tle part in the revival of the strike difn
cultv in so far as could be learned Sat
urdav. He went to (Joncord trom nis
home in Asheville following the request
of Concord people for troops. He did
not get into communication with Lov
ernor Morrison or Commissioner Mc
Wade during his stay there. Mr. Barn
hardt said Friday afternoon that the
state president had returned to Ashe
ville. His departure was recognied in
Charlotte as an indication that he con
sidered the strike over and that hi
presence could have no affect on the
situation.
The next two days is expected to
witness the resumption of operation
in all the mills with a full force of
workers on the job. This will be foioiw
prf hv efforts of the governor and Com
missioner McWade to bring about a fair
and just settlement of difficulties so
that a repetition of conditions which
have exicted in this cotton mill center
for tho last three months will ocur,
according to information obtained from
various sources this morning.
RED CROSS WILL
AID RELIEF WORK
Paris, Sept. 3. Part of the reserve
funds and supplies of the American
Red Cross will be turned over to the
American Relief Administration for its
work in Russia, Dr. Albert Ross Hill,
Red Cross Commissioner for Europe,
declared today. He said the organiza
tion will be a large contributor to the
task of feeding the starving Russians.
At the same time, the Red Cross
will continue its work among children
in Albania, Austria, Belgium, Constan-
Mnonle Czechoslovakia, Esthonia.i Fleet; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Scobey of
&r.aZnJ Greece. Hungary. Italy, Lithu- San Antonio, Texas, and Miss Abagail
anja, Puland, Rumania ana Jugo-siavia.
FORD LOOKS LIKE
FARMER BOY HERE
fi' lis
wl h ;r pm
Henry Ford at bis summer csmp.
The camera man caught Henry
Ford unawares at the Ford-Edison-
Firestone summer camp in Mary
land, with the result shown above.
The famous fliwer manufacturer
is seen with his trousers pulkj
high like a fanner boy's. Note
also the suspenders, which are not
being1 worn these days tn stylish
society.
VAST REGION IN
GRIP OF FAMINE
Volga, Don, Dnieper and
Bug Basins Stricken by
Starvation.
Baranowitchi, Russia, Sept. 3. (By
the Associated Press.) Refugees pass
ing through this1 city from districts in
northeastern Bussia declare that the
entire lower Volga basin, the region
through which flows the Uon river,
and the districts'.along the lower cours
es of the Dnieper and Bug are
stricken by the scourge of famine.
In conversation" -with Dr. Roy Smith,
head the American Red Cross medi
cal unit henv' they tell of severe
drought, grata destroyed . v the in
tense heat, and of hunger, starvation
and disease.
The soviet government issued orders
that any person havmg a house should
not be allowed to go to Siberia from
the famine district, and it is asserted
that whole villages have been burned
so that the ownersof houses in them
would have fm excuse to leave. As a
result entire villages are migrating to
ward Siberia, or have started toward
Poland. The government, unable to
secure food for soldiers in the famine
stricken district, has been obliged to
move its troops to more favored lo
calities." In addition to the failure of crops
over all this vast region,- the refugees
say that horses ard cattle are dying
and that there will be little planted
during the coming autumn. This will,
it is declared, result next year in a
worse food shortage than that which
prevails at the present time. The re
gions stricken by the famine are those
which in normal years furnish the
most of Russia's food supply.
WOMAN WORKS ON
BRIDGE AS WELDER
Kingston, X. Y., Sept. 3. Folks who
have been gating curiously at the
structural activities on a suspension
bridge 300 feet above Rondout creek,
were amazed today to learn that a
blonde worker in overalls who is weld
ing cables is a woman, bhe is Mrs
Catherine .Nelson, of Jersey City, a
widow with two children, and is earn
ing $30 a day.
When her husband died she tried
working as a stewardess on an ocean
liner, but found the pay too small and
so obtained a job in a machine shop.
When the bridge contractors asked
a company in Jersey City for its
welder she was sent to Kingston. She
says she never is afraid or dizzy, at a
great height, never had an accidant
and never rejected a task because of
the danger. She hopes to take her
children home to Denmark for Christ
mas, then return and don overalls
again.
HAYNES TO VISIT
THE FIELD OFFICES
Washington, Sept. 3. Prohibition
Commissioner Haynes is planning to
visit personally in the near future the
field enforcement offices in Ohio and
Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia and
Boston.
Mr. ynes said he wished to make
possible the closest co-operation be
tween the Washington office and the
field units in the enforcement of the
dry laws.
Reorganization of the prohibition
bureau, Mr. Haynes said, is rapidly
being completed with only six more
r ederal directors to he appointed m
as many states.
PRESIDENT CRUISES
DOWN THE POTOMAC
Wai'ngton, Sept. 3- President and
Mrs. guarding, with a party of friends
will leave Washington late today on
the Mayflower for a cruise down the
Potomac and Chesapeake bay. The
yacht .'ill retuvn here Tuesday morn
ing. It was announced the party
would not go ashore at any 'point
Those making the trip are the Secre
tary of State and Mrs. Hughes, Secre
tary of War Weeks, Senator Watson
of Indiana and Mrs. vVatson, Repre
sentative Mondell of Wyoming and
Mrs. Mondell, George H. Van Fleet,
manager of the Harding Publishing
Comnanv of Marion, and- Mrs. Van
jnartuns-, me rjcaiuem t oiat
President Gives Voice To
His Fear Of Disappointment
HARDING THINKS
WORLD IMPROVES
Unfortified Boundary Line
Best Testimony of Grow
ing Wisdom.
Washington, Sept- 3. An unfortified
boundary line more than 3,000 miles
long between the United States and
Canada is the best testimony that the
world grows wiser and better, President
Harding said in a letter today to be
read at the dedication of a peace por
tal in commemoration of more than
a century of uninterrupted peace be
tween America and Great Britain.
The portal, to be dedicated September
6, on the international line, was con
ceived by Samuel Hill, of Seattle, in re
cognition of the significance of the oc
casion. The President wrote Mr. Hill
as follows:
"The ancient Romans erected a tem
ple to Janus, a dispensor of peace and
war, and ordered that its gates should
never be closed while the nation was at
war. In seven centuries they are said
to have been closed but three times
You have erected a temple of peace,
whose gates are never to be closed
save in war. Already it stands for
more than a century of unbroken peace
between Britain and America, and w
all join in the hope that in coming
times it may commemorate an era of
peace much longer than the period of
wars for which the temple of Janus
stood.
"Our century and more of peace with
the British empire, our relations of
unbroken amity with Canada, the fact
that a boundary line over 3,000 miles
long remains unfortified these are the
testimonies that the world grows wiser
and better. All mankind looks to this
example, yearns to follow it; and we
are justified to believe that a time is
at hand when it may take a" long step
in that direction. On the occasion of
the dedication of the Pacific peace por
tal, I wish to convey to you personally
my high appreciation of your patriotic
service in providing a symbolic shrine
to international peace; and in doing so,
I would also thank the Pacific highway
association (the builder of the portal)
for the fine co-operation it has render
ed."
MORROW SENDS
NOTE TO PANAMA
Warns Against Demonstra
tions on Labor Day Over
Coto Affair.
Panama, Sept. 3. Colonel Jay J.
Morrow, governor of the Canal Zone,
has addressed a note to the Panaman
government, charging that the project
ed closing down ot all business on La
bor Day as an expression of public
mourning -for the loss of the Coto dis
trict, on the Costa Rican frontier, is
"anti-American propaganda." Gover
r.or Morrow states that this attitude on
the part of the government might lead
to disturbances next Monday through
out the republic.
Proposal that there be erected a mon
ument commemorating the Coto affair
are qualified by Governor Morrow as a
hostile act toward the United States
and one that would engender ill-feelin
between the two peoples." He points
out the strong ties linking Panama and
the United States, and declares it is
necessary to maintain amicable rela
tions. Disturbances, he declares,
would bring about, the policing of the
cities of Panama and Colon by American
forces.
Secretary cf Foreign Relations Alfaro,
in reply, has stated that the Panaman
government is animated by a desire to
maintain amicable relations and that
anti-American propaganda and the
movement for the erection of a Coto
monument will not receive sanction
from the government.
SHOOTING INTO THE
TUG RIVER VILLAGES
Williamson, W. Va., Sept. 3. Firing
from the Kentucky hills along Tug
river nto West Virginia mining vil
lages was resumed this morning short
ly after the removal ot the guard
which Major Tom Davis, Governor Mor
gan's personal representative in Mingo
county, had maintained during 'tie
night. No one was hurt, Major Di-
vis said.
With the withdrawal of the fatate po
lice from Mingo county to reinforce
the "defense army" in Logan, Maior
Davis mustered into the State service a
company of the new national guard.
These men were supplemented by some
BOO volunteers, who have been held m
readiness here for possible eventuali
ties in the coal strike zone along Tu
river. ... . .
Maior Davis said he did not Know
whether Federal troops were to be ser.l
to Mingo, but he leit mat witn nis
present force he could maintain order
in the county.
AMERICANS ARE ALL
RECOVERED BUT ONE
Hull. England, Sept. 3. The body of
only one of the Americans who lost
their lives in the recent z,ix-j disaster
is missing that of William Julius, of
Los Angeles, Calif., The inquests, open
ed today on the four latest bodies to be
recovered including those of J. T. Han
cock and Lieut. H. W. Hoyt, were ad
journed until October 4, the date set
for the inquests for the others.
It is expected that the fifteen Ameri
can bodies already recovered will be
held .here until the body of Julius is re
covered when all of them will be sent
to America together.
Charlotte and Vicinity: Generally fair
and continued warm tonight and Sun
day. Light to gentle variable winds.
North Carolina and South Carolina:
Generally fair tonight and Sunday;
continued warm
Official Washington Already
Minimizing Possibilities
of Conference.
By DAVID LAWRENCE,
Staff Correspondent of The Aw.
Copyright, 1021, by News Publishing Co.
Washington, Sept. 3. False hopes
made people forget the frailties of hu
man nature at Paris and gave the peace
conference an anti-climax which Presi
dent Harding seems determined to avoid
in inu iurin-comir.g session oi me pow
Mr. Harding's speech at the Army
vvitir vuiif was niLtiiutu to unset i
exaggerated impressions that the mil-
lenium could be reached between na
tions through the instrumentality of a
single conference of powers. The
President would rather understate his
hopes and accomplish some practical re
sults than to promise much and find
that international discord made the ful
fillment impossible.
The truth is the intensity of the un-
dertaking is beginning to crop out in
official quarters. The administration
knowei it has tackled a job upon which
it does not dare to fail. Yet the cir
cumstances are not always within the
control of a single nation. Agreements
must be made by unanimous consent.
Any one nation can kick ovf r the traces
and spoil ihe conference. That's why
Secretary Hughes had to proceed with
such caution in the negotiations which
proceeded the individual acceptances of
the American invitation. The burden
has not been lifted by the agreement
cf the powers to send delegations here.
The responsibilities are cumulative. In
saying what shall or shall not be includ
ed in the- program, the nations them-
selves will indicate how far the confer
ence will go toward nractical results.
x iiooc T3AViic;iiKr;o 'L view 1JUW ctl t; 111 I
HOLD ON TO ARMY
Ihe President gave a hint in his
speech at the War College on one
phase of armament discussion. He set
at rest any thought that the army and
navy would be scrapped. It is inevit-
able that the morale of the nation's ar-
..,, vuiv.iik.vi j a
prospect of curtailment. As comman-
der-in-chief of the army and navy the
President expressed the view that the
time never would come when fighting
liicxmnci luum ue anugeiner cispem-ea
wnn. xie iavors "approximate" dis-
armament. Woodrow Wilson exnress-
ed it as "a reduction of armament to a
point consistent with domestic safety."
Mr. Harding has lot yet outlined wheth-
er he wants to go that far or whether county has the longest stretch of road
his idea is that the American military built bv the commission. This road is
establishment shall bear a certain fixed 16.6 miles long. Cumberland follows
relationship to that of other powers, with 13.46 miles of commission con
Any idea that America intended to fa- structed road. Both of these roads,
vor the absolute abolition of armies rind however, are gravel, so some of the
navies was erased by Mr. Harding who other counties getting hard surface
took pains to point out that human na-
ture is unchanged! after 4,000 years and
that the spirit of polemics may be
lamed but is not forever extinct.
EXPECTS MORE WARS
The President expects wars to come
in the futtre. He hopes they will
be humanely fought. He wants to re-
move the sources of friction. One of
those sources it has been argued is the
accumulation of var machinery the use
of which is too tempting when nations
become irritated. If armament pro-
vokes war, then the President hopes
tnt mimaumi win oe sumcient to pre-
vent that from being said again. There
are other causes cf misunderstanding.
Mr. Harding hopes as many asi possible
will be removed. America will do all'
she can to achieve that object. But the
President's speech at the Army War
College is significant of what the en
tire administration view will be to
ward the forthcomn.g conference. It
will not try to do the impossible but
simply as much as it can toward min-
imibing the chances of war.
NAVIGATION OF
AIR REGULATED
Secretary Hoover Studying
Problem of Providing
Rules.
Washington. Sept. 3. Investigation
Jt&SSSSXTl.
der proposed legislation has been be-
gun by the Commerce Department,
Secretary Hoover said today.
Government supervision of air traffic
along Ihe lines of rail and water regula-
tion was recommended, he said, bv u
committee of experts of the War, Navv
and other departments to increase ihe
safety and the more efficient develop-
ment of the new method of transport-
tion.
Enactment of enabling legislation
Mr. Hoover indicated, would probably
result in the creation of a bureau uf
aviation charged with the enforcement
of the rules of air travel similar to
the activities of the bureau of navi -
tion in connection with water carriers.
Federal control of civilian airplane
operation would greatly reduce the With the water situation in Raleigh
hazards of flying, according to an growing gradu9llv worse, and no solu
analysis of aircraft accidents prepared tion of the problem yet offering it
by the Manufacturers' Air Craft Asso- self, the Raleigh township schools, fol
ciation. Government regulation, the lowing the example of the State Col
association declared, would insure pro- lege of Agriculture and Engineering
vision for adequate inspection, proper
landing fields, charted air routes and
nation-wide weather reports aaaptea ic
the needs of flyers.
MOORS OFFER TO
RELEASE SILVESTRE
Madrid. Sent. 3. Relatives of Gen
eral Silvestre, commander of Spanish
forces which were badly defeated
before Melilla, late in July, have re
ceived a communication from the Mo
roccan tribesmen making a proposition
for the general's ransom, says a
newspaper here. At the time of the
Spanish defeat, dispatches from Mo
rocco .stated that when it became ap-
parent that the Spaniards had been
beaten, General Silvestre committed
suicide.
The Melilla correspondent of El
Heraldo cablea a strange story related
by a Spanish soldier who was captured
by the Moors and later released, that
on the day he was set at liberty
Abd-El-Krin, commander of the Moor
ish forces, took him through several
subterranean galleries and showed him
in X heavily barred cell a Spaniard
whose face was horribly disfigured. The
Moorishr commander said:
"This Is a soldier like you, but
you are liberated and he is not." The
correspondent suggests that the cap
tive in the cell might possmiy nave
been. General Silvestre.
COMMISSI
GETTING ACTION
Over Thousand Miles of
Road Completed or Under
Construction.
SMALL FIRE LOSSES.
Raleigh Public Schools POSt-J f
n
POne Opening .BeCaUSe 01 J
Water Famine.
By JULE B. WARREN,
Staff Correspondent of The Xem.
Raleigh, Sept. 3. The highway comi
mission has completed or has under"
contract and construction 1,012.64 miles'
of road at a cost of $14,600,753.12, ac
cording to compilations made in the
highway bulletin this month. Three
hundred and fifteen miles of this work
has alreadj' been completed, and the
remainder will be completed within the
fiscal year of the commission.
The cost of the road work already
completed is $4,040,184, which leaves
something over ten and a half million
for the work still under construction
or contract. Of the work completed
58.58 miles are hard surfaced and cost
$1,947,878, while the 257.22 miles of
gravel road already completed in the
state cost $2,033,081. The commission
has completed the construction of one
bridge at a cost of $59,000.
ONE THOUSAND MILES
--wrt n j
When the projects now under way are
Ll !, . , a a '7.-,
of srravel road, vhich will he denendahle
all the year round. The commission
also has unrlpr ronstru.-Hon thr
bridges which will cost half a million
dollars when comnleted. One of thesa'
bridges is in Wayne county and it will
aUUUl $iU,UUV7. 19 ill LUO
boundary line of Stanley and Montgom-
ery, which will cost about $200,000,
white the third is across the river form-
hng the boundry line of Martin and
Bertie counties. This bridge will cost
over $332,000 when completed, but it
will furnish an outlet for the neonle in
11 the northeastern counties of the
state
Of the work completed Montgomery
have had more money than these two I
counties. Wake, for instance, with its I:
eleven miles of 1 ard surface road, has ,.V
had over $365,000 of the state's money t
spent in its bourdries. I
Pender is leading all the counties in I
the number of miles of road under con- I,
struction, for the commission has under
way there 26.11 miles of gravel road $
which will cost $273,000. Buncombe
county with its 7.8 miles of hard sur- p
faced roads, however, is getting the,
lareest amount of money for work un-x L
der way just at the present time, for fc
this road will cost over $3o,000. ' t
SMALLEST FIRE LOSS
Reports reaching the office of the in-, f
s.urance commissioner show that Aug- t
ust was a record month so far as fire )
losses are concerned, the losses report- jj
ed involving less than $175,000, and the r
indications are that the full return of
reports will show an even smaller loss
thnn 1h; Th ,rnr(1 -nnth hofnm
August was in October, 1920, when the J
loss was $275,000, and the third best j
month on record since the department I
began kcep.ng close tab on the losses ;J
was in May, 1921, when the loss was t
$385,000.
The department finds that over half jj
of the loss from the past month came
from pure and almost criminal care- .
lessness A number of fires were I
started by purnii g trash piles too nar
dwelling houses, several were caused by '
careless smokers, one of these being an L
$1,800 loss caused by a smoker flipping
a lighted cigarette on an awning over
a window. .
ORPHANAGE ASSOCIATION MEETS i
Secretary M. L Shipman of the North
Carolina Orphanage Association an- V
nounces today that the association Will rj
meet in Raleigh on September 15 and
16 for its annual session. An evening i
session of the association will be held in t
the hall of the house of representatives f
on September 16, when the mayor of j
Raleigh will deliver an address of Wei- r
come, which will be responded to by g
President M. L. Kesler of the Associa- jj
tion. j
The other meetings will be held at 1
the Methodist orphanage in Raleigh, i
The program for the meeting- is being l
worked out now, and will be ready tome
1 1 lme in the near future.
WATER SITUATION
and Meredith College, decided to post- i
pone opening of the schools for a Week. I
Meredith College will now open on Sep- J
tember 14, State College on September (
13 and the city school on the 13th.
The Chamber of Commerce yester
day called a meeting of all the heads
of educational ii stitutions, representa
tives of the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs
into a conference on the water situation-
and following the conference a
special committee from each of the
there organizations was appointed to
secure the services of a snecial hv- E
draulic engineer and make ar. investi-
gation of all the possible sources of t
water supply. The committee spent
the day at the Old Camp Polk grounds t
formation cn the three wells
drilled
there by the government when it was
contemplated that 50,000 soldiers would
be seit there. These wells are still in
good condition and will furnish some
water to help relieve the shortage
Heads of the educational institutions
sre urging that the city commissioners
do everything possible to get an a.di
tional supply of water which will pre
vent further postponement of opening
0f the schools. It is pointed out that
postponement of the openings works a
hardship on not only the schools, but
I the whole business interest of the city, ,jj
nrvvpvrrv ttthht Trvrra
TWENTY-EIGHT UNITS
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a cigar factory.