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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N O, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1921.
FIRST TRAIN OF
FOOD AT KAZAN
Relief Work Begins at Ka
zan; Soviet Officials Are
Co-operating.
By BESSIE BEATTY.
Kazan, Russia Sept. 22, Via London,
Sept. 24. Conditions in the famine dis
trict of Kazan have begiln to improve
as the result of the shipment of for
eign relief supplies.
The hungriest boys and girls I ev
er saw in my life sat down today to
a meal of American food less than one
month after the Russo-American agree
ment was signed at Riga. The first
kitchen has just been opened up here
and within, less than a fortnight hun
dreds of others will be doing business.
RECEIVED QUIETLY.
Our relief train slipped into the new
Tartar republic of Kazan during the
night. There were no flags, although
the Star and Crescent is common
enough normally in the day time. There
were no crowds in the streets. We saw
no signs of distress until day broke and
the people, began to come forth looking
for bread.
On the day following our arrival Pre
mier Meuhtaov held a meeting with his
commisars to help the American relief
workers.
Vernon Kellog and Elmer Burland,
of the American Relief Administration
had appealed to the soviet for office
room, living quarters, feeding kitchens,
trucks and interpreters. They said, they
were anxious to get started at once and
were in a Hurry. The officials of the
Kazan republic thought they could
show a little speed, too.
OFFICIALS HELP.
While the government officials Were
meeting agents were sent-out to get
the stuff required by the Americans. By
the time the conference was over offices
and living quarters had been secured
and two trucks with an interpreter
were waiting the pleasure of the re
lief agents. By night soup kitchens
had been instituted, seals had been
broken from the doors of food ware
houses and the feeding of the stricken
populace was under way.
The first food was distributed out
side of the city in the country
tricts where suffering was keener than
in town. Many persons were actually
dying of starvation in the rural dis
tricts. Dr. Kellog, was greatly impress
ed by the co-operative measures of the
government. The officials put "pep" in
to their relief plans in a manner that
surprised the Americans.
The conditions in the city were im
proving owing chiefly to the . evacua
tion of refugees from Turkestan. The
children are being fed first and the first
train that) came in brought enough pro
visions to feed 25,000 young ones tem
porarily. .Another train is on the way.
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captor, Raisuli, Moorish bandit.
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METHODISTS ARE
TO TALK PLANS
Dilworth ' Congregation
Wants to Put Up $300,000
House of Worship.
Plans for uniting the Methodists of
Dilworth . irito one congregation and
erecting a $300,000 edifice on East Boule
vard property recently acquired at a
cost of $25,000 will be laid before .the
church members and Interested citi
zens of that community during the
morning servides at Dilworth Meth
odist church today.
The movement launched last spring
for the union of Methodists residing in
Dilworth and the erection of another
strong Methodist church is expected to
reach a climax at today's service when
definite plans for carrying out the un
dertaking will be launched.
A great deal of work has already
been accomplished by a committee
which has been directing the move
ment. A lot facing 400 feet on East
Boulevard with a depth of about ou
feet, directly opposite the home of E.
D. Latta, has been bought at a cost of
$25,000. Nearly 100 members of up
town Mthodiest churches have trans
ferred their memberships to the Du-
wrti-tii TVTothnrHst church, and an addi
tional hundred have pledged to transfer
their memberships at th end of the
church year. This will give the Dil
worth church an aggregate membership
of 600, making it one of the strongest
churches in the Western North Caro
lina Conference. -
Not only the members of the Dil
worth church but all Methodists re
siding in that community have been
urged to attend the Sunday morning
services, when plans for the erection of
the $300,000 building will be laid before
the congregation. A special musical
program has been arranged, including
selections by Miss Mary Peasley.
A house-to-house canvass among Dil
worth Methodists will be launched fol
lowing the morning service, the pur
pose being to discuss personally with
interested residents the proposal to
fh hniirHner. Committees have
been appointed to canvass, completing
their work before the night services be
gin. These committees were named as
fTeam .No. 1: S. A. Hunter, Sr., cap
tain; J. E. Clark. Mr. Meggs.
Team , No. 2: J. L. Redwme and T.
VeamNo. 3: G. A. Elliott, captain;
Dr. C. C. Keiger. Miss Gertrude Rells
and Mrs. J. T. Pascal. o1.
m a. rt r Dos-eett. captain,
W. E. Bacon, M. H. Courtney and C. .
Shuman. . . .,.
Team No. 5: J. l- vviggins. l-"'.
H. O. Miller. C. L,. Watts, Mrs. C. L.
Watts and Mrs. J. Lester woiie..
Team No 6: J. tester wum-,
tain; W. L. Harris, E. M. Pattilo and
Mrs G. A- Elliott.
Tpam No 7: C. F. Robertson, cap
tahv E. S. Bee and R. K. Babbington
Team No. 8:. C. H. Clark captain;
C B. Pendleton, Mrs. M. D. Berry and
MaJm J. O. Webber. Mrs.
W G. Thompson and Marvin Helms.
Team No. 10: Allen Hunter, Frank
Graham and S. D. Lambeth.
THOUSANDS CHASING
ALLEGED MURDERER
Newport News, Va., Sept. 24 A
party of 1,000 armed men, including
200 members of the Ku KIux Klan are
searching in the woods north of here
tonight for Carlo Meeks, a half breed
Indian and negro, who is accused
of killing Robert de Korte, a Pce of
ficer The Klan announced- publicly
tonight that its members would take
part in the man hunt.
The searching party is said to be
the biggest which has taken part m
a similar expedition in the Virginia
peninsular in 50 years.
One member of the Ku Klux, Fred
Livesay, was shot and killed by a far
mer, who thought him a highwayman,
according to an official announcement
tonight by Chief of Police Campbell.
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-Five years ago thoughtful laundry owners foresaw the day when they
would be called upon to do the family washings of the nation. The evi
dences then were slight, but none the less unmistakable.
So they set to work to meet the situation to render as good a service as
they have for years given on shirts and collars.
Today they are giving that service, and, planning ahead, as they planned
ahead five years ago, they are right now developing plans that will
make for even better service. "
Every week witnesses the accuracy of their foresight. Every week
housewives are turning away from the unsanitary and unsatisfactory
washwoman service, and are sending the family bundle to the laundry.
There .could be no other answer for the modern woman must safeguard
the health of the home and family, and there is no better health insur
ance than that furnished by a MODERN UP-TO-DATE LAUNDRY.
DR. BUTLER MAY
BE A DELEGATE
Has Returned from Mission
Abroad and is at the
x White House.
By RAYMOND CLAPPER. ,
Uiiited Press Staff Correspondent.
Washington, Sept. 24. President
Harding is considering adding Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia
University, to the American disarma
ment conference In event the com
mission is increased to six, it was
learned today.
Dr. Butler, who has just returned
from a mission to Europe, is spend
ing the week-end at the White House,
giving President Harding a complete
report on the views of European
statesmen relative to the disarma
ment conference.
Few Americans have a wider ac
quaintance amongst statesmen in Eu-
Jrope than Dr. Butler. He has can
vassed European opinion thoroughly
in the last few months and it was
pointed out here that he will be an
advisor at the conference.
Butler is understood to have found
a general sentiment in Europe favora
ble to disarmament. In government-
jal circles there, however, he found
numerous disturbing questions which
must be faced when the nations
gather about the council table here
next November.
Information obtained by Butler in
Europe indicates, he believed, there are
three difficulties which must be solved
before a general limitation to arma
ment can be reached there are:
1 The desire of France for security
from land attack, especially by Ger
many. 2 The determination of the British
empire to keep the seas open for
movement of her food supplies in time
of war. '
3 The demand of Japan that she
have an outlet for her growing popu
lation. France will never agree to reduction
of her land forces, until she is, guaran
teed security against attacks, Dr. But
ler believed.
British statesmen, he was informed,
will consent to no naval agreement
which might interrupt the flow of food
stuffs into the British Isles. He point
ed out that England raises only about
25 per cent of the food she consumes.
In the absence of any other arrange
ment, Great Britain will insist upon
maintaining her supremacy of the
seas, believed.
Japan, according to the view of
European statesmen, given Dr. But
lef, will come to the conference pre
pared to insist upon an arrangement
wherebyer nationals will be permitted
to find relief from their overcrowded
homeland and where industrial expan
sion r can be carried on without incur
ring the opposition of other powers.
MANIAC SHOOTS
UP COMMUNITY
Kills Four Neighbors Then
Himself; One Member of
Posse Killed.
PACKER CONTROL ACT
TO BE RECONSIDERED
Washington, Sept. 24. The Depart
ment of J ustice today definitely de
cided to consider proposed modifica
tions of the famous Palmer consent
decree, forcing the big packers to con
fine their business to the meat in.
dusetry.
At the request of Attorney General
Daugherty, a conference of the lead
ing law officers of the Department of
Agriculture, Commerce and Justice
and those in charge of enforcing the
packer control law will be held next
week to discuss suggested changes in
the decree.
Montevista, Calif., Sept. 24. Six par
sons are dead here tonight as a resuit
of a maniac running amuck. Suddenly
becoming insane, L. A. Bailey, a ranch
er, shot and killed three men and a
woman, all neighbors ,and terrorized
the countryside with a repeating ritie.
Run to earth by a posse, he killed
himself. During the chase, a Mexi
can boy was accidentally killed by the
posse. ,
The maniac's victims were Mr. aid
Mrs. A., Skroh, Edward Heilman and
Paul Bagley, all ranchers.
Bailey had been a rancher here f.r
many years. He was always sober and
an industrious farmer.
Seized by his maniacal passion for
murder, he first went to the Skroh
home, adjoining his own'. He shot down
Mrs. Skroh in the presence of her three
children. From the house he walked
to a nearby field where Fred Skroh, a
neighbor, was working and fired again
without warning. .Skroh died instant
ly. .
With two victims laid to his fury,
Bailey mounted a farm horse and rode
to the home of Edward Heilman, an
other farmer. For the third time with
in less than an hour Bailey's rifle spat
out sudden death. Heilman was slain
in the yard of his home.
The shooting of Skroh and Heilman
was witnessed by a number of far-n
employes, but the men were afraid to
interfere. They notified the sheriff of
Montevista when Bailey fled, heading
for the Rio Grande river. At the
sheriffs request a corps of National
Guard cavalry were ordered out on
Bailey's trail.
Just before the posse cornered tho
maniac Bailey shot and killed Paul Bag
ley, a neighboring rancher. When sur
rounded in a cabin, . Bailey opened fire
on the posse. After exchanging a
score of shots, he finally turned his
rifle on himself, committing suicide.
During the battle an unidentified Mex
ican, volunteer was slain.
Bailey, Skroh and Heilman were closa
friends. They had been together tho
previous day and all appeared happy.
The dead men were all married.
FEDERAL JUDGE HOLDS
RIPSTEIN NEW YORK
New York. Sept. 25. A writ of ha
beas corpus preventing his extradition
to N&shville, Tenn., was granted to
Mayor Ripstein today by Federal Judge
Garvin in Brooklyn. Rlpst eln' ia wont
ed by the Federal authorities: n anta
on an indictment charging .
ceipt of platinum stolen from a govern
ment munitions Pt tor-vin e-ave
At the same time Judge Garvin gave
the government thirty days in which
to prepare an appeal from his ruling
and ordered Ripstein surrendered by his
. , v. iirnitin nni as
bondsmen, aecianng
sume the risk of HiPstemdi1!apP,fI
ing before the appeal could be filed.
Ripstein has been under $30,000 ban
on the Nasnviiie lntuuuucui
i-3wviov. returned in
UUU UI1 ixlL inuivuiiviiv
Brooklyn, charging conspiracy, to de
fraud the government.
In granting the writ Judge Garvin
declared that the government had tail
ed to make out a case.
FILMS THAT SPEAK
HAVE BEEN EVOLVED
London, Sept. 24. Speech films differ
ing radically from the "talkies that
were shown on the screen in America
have just been evolved oy a Bweuisu
scientist, it was announced here to
day. The invention is said to be the
most revolutionary since the inception
of moving pictures and probably will
result in a great advance in the pro
gram of film production.
The investor is Svenaison Berglaia,
who has been experimenting with
speech films for 12 years. His inven
tion is called phototone and ' synchron
izes photographic records of action and
a gramophone record of sound. A spe
cial double camera with two reels re
volving on a common shaft is used for
photography of both sights and sounds.
The key to the success of the process
is the use of selenium, which trans
forms pictured sound vibrations into
resonant vibrations.
HALF OF POLICE ARE
DEALING OUT LIQUOR
Chicago, Sept. 24.--Fifty per cent of
Chicago's policemen are involved in ille
gal transportation and sale of liquor,
Chief of Police Charles Fitzmorris de
clared tonight.
A thorough clean-up of the depart
ment with a view of ferreting out the
guilty parties, was ' ordered by the
chief. Immediate removal of officers
found engaged in illicit booze traffic
was promised.
RAIL SITUATION
GETTINGBETTER
Bankers Taking Trust Cei.
tificates, JVlaking Money
Available.
Washington, Sept. 24. Rapid
ery of railroad credits and sn
salutary effect on affiliated jru
reeov,
'qualiy
was forecast tonight by officials f0i
lowing the announcement that hank?!"
in New York had offered to purchas'
large blocks of equipment trust cer'w
cates now new uy me railroad acini;,,
istration. Money thus made avaiiabv
is to be used by the War Finai cf.
poration in funding the Indebtedness o
the railroads to tne govern mnnt, er
abling the carriers thereby to USG ' , '
m -1 11. T- ntrn 4-
iunas mtrv iijvy a.vc iu pHT current
debts and for additions and
1 improve.
- i t inminiin
menis in men vnuuuo piuiktuos.
When all of the equipment trust cer
tificates now held by the director gen-
erai oi rauroaua iitv ueen disposed
of through these channels.
approsi.
mately $.5UU,vuu,uvvj win nave teea
placed in the hands of the War Financ".
Corporation to be used in putting the
steam lines n their feet. Practical!;-one-third
of the certificates held l,y tjj",
railroad administration have now'bn
sold, the total sales to date being $94
000,000. Securities aggregating $4;'.
000,000 remain to be disposed of.""''
Officials predicted tonight that if fu
ture sales of these securities are mafr
at the rate of those registered durine
the past week, the entire amount wj"
he marketed before the close nf v"
vember, and possibly much earlier
Bankers and financiers look upon thee
equipment trust certificates as rankin?
with the best of . securities. ,1
railroad administration, acting in Con.
junction with the War Finance Cor
poration, has experienced no difficulty
in selling them.
The plan now Demg ronowed hy th
government in extending financial aid
to the railroads is the sam proposed
in the so-called funding bill, recom
mended to Congress by the President,
oriri whirh is now nendine in the son!
AiiV4 - . .11-
ate. The President 'was given author
ity under the Esch-Cummins act to dis
pose of these securities, and to use the
mpney for funding me maenteanes? of
ha faiii-nnrJs to the government. Tha
Winslow-Townsend bill would authorize
the War Jb inance uorporauon 10 exter.j
credit to the steam lines to the extent
of $500,000,000.
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