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CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1921.
THE CHARLOTTE NEWS
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THE EVENING CHUONICI
RECALL OF ' RAIL STRJfZt
ORDER IS DISPATCW'D
TODA YB Y UNION 0FS
Vote
Came
An
Ending the Strike
Last Night After
All-Day Session.
1TKTHER WAGE CUTS
Cannot Be Alade for Nearly
;i Year and Must Have
Approval of Board.
( OXVINCEDBYHOOPER
IV.hl if Member Railroad
Labor Board Persuaded
Union Chiefs to Act.
Oct. S. (By the Associated
Tl'c official recall of the rail
;i i s issued by the switchmen,
. ".. conductors, engineers and
was dispatched today when
:' t " Big Five'' flashed code
- - t their general chairmen.
' j-.rn will submit the mesages
.i's and the official order re
strike will thus permeate
,;ry in a few hours.
. i!- orders probably will be dis-
it uav l:v the telegraphers or-
. :u ii. the only other union that
to participate in the strike,
. ;' a to bpin Sunday and which
; - ;atened to tie up the nation's
- . rtAtion facilities.
-.' these orders are being eircu
: he United States Labor Board,
lil.iyed an important part m tne
'( i -i.-ion of the unions. M ill today
::.v its iindings as a result f the
hearing Wednesday, at which
-uuers and railroad executives
- i. This declaration, it was ex
would analyze the situation and
; - :: -vac the Board, according to
- , . ir,i .-r . reeling the matter was
.-v.; of it? hands.
V the .mouncement this morning
o'neial resolution calling off the
v r.'- I'r.'.T. union leaders summoned
:: ;: Labor Board's hearing'and
i named to take the action end
. -..- threatened strike, were per-
.-..- iii dr-nart for their homes.
vote ending the strike came last
after all-day sessions of the tin
-. : i s. Eearly in the day. general
'--.:;-. n of each of the five organiza-
:.- inferred separately. In the af
- . a ioint session was held which
i.Mressed by Ben W. Hooper, of
Labor Board. Mr. Hooper's ap
;,,:.r? before the Board is said by
. . leaders to have marked the turn-
. . Mint which led to the final decis
M VTS FOR A YEAR.
; Hooner is said to have stressed
F.i arri's anouncement that no furth
- cuts for any class of employes
I'.insidi'ied until working condi
.'a that class of employes have
; r:led. He is also said to have
:'':..:mz -d the announcement of the
a.' x-' utives made at Wednesday's-.
'?": that no changes in either
"sc I-"- working conditions will be
- J?: t '-xcopt through the Labor Board
s vidc-d by law. Union men said
- ,'i r.s'iued Mr. Hooper's remarks
iting that nearly a year must
'ore further wage cuts could
effective, even if the roads
- o ;' : 5-:,!.iv for them at once and the
i'carr should eventually aprove them.
B'-rh ticints are said to have been
' j'r.'v instrumental in determining the
r '.:: i- .--ion of the union men who ad-
,urr-i (ii'- afternoon session to hqld
a '.or night meeting.
;v; the vote bv organizations Was
n!-3 v have been ' unanimous, union
- -s' li' d todav that the vote in the
arif.;. - '.pious was close and that the
fr-mi-M in particular, long remained
obdurate.
VLI, FACTIONS PLEASED.
Ti final decision seemed pleasing
i;:..'n men, rail executives and the
La -...- Hoard alike. Union leaders
p-ir.y.i uut that they had determined
'!;a rh - could not strike without op-
r sir- i r ih the Labor Board and the
Aiminii-t-ation. while they asserted
fir :-;.! quarrel was with the rail
I. AND G. N. JRIKE IS
NOT YET CALLED OFF
tiucago. Oct. 28. It was learn
ed today that the code word calling
off the railroad strike has not vet
hern dispatched to the Internation
al and Great Northern trainmen,
who went out last "Saturday. The
calling off of their strike was de
ferred ptnding determination of
their opportunity to return to work.
There was doubt here that the rase
oi tne international and Great North
ern Trainmen would be taken ur for
mally by the Railroad T.ahor Tioai-rl
because of statements made at the)
v.v-cuo nraiuis cu ine siriive tms
week, indicating that carriers nn.ior
receivership might be regarded as ou;
side the Board's jurisdiction. The In
ternational and Great Northern is un
der ri-ceivershm.
There were indications that individ
ual members of the Board would inter
est themselves in the case of the 600
Texas trainmen and try to obtain a
settlement of the case without resort
to official action.
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.-.trs
d executives expressed satis-vi-i-
the decision while mem
r Labor Board characterized
a one the unions will never
1 which has averted incon
iiardship and in internal in--;::(
on the eve of the in
;i! conference at Washington
'''n of armament.
f'r.ifftalns today aserted that
ion of yesterday marked the
i danger of a strike as the re
strike vote taken by the
'' walkout now being effective
"w vote is taken. No plans
roade fpr a new strike vote,
. i liief of the trainmen, said.
01 THE STRIKE
' i-ion of the United States
n't on July 1, authorizing the
u reduce wacvs of their em-
' i average of 12 1-2 per cent
'U;!it in the series which led till
iv ocirrs for a general strike by
uraoi.f,.
1 fr"n a?, this decision was render-
-ijority of the rail unions voted
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PENED HERE
JANUARY
HOUSE CENSURES
TEXAS DEMOCRAT
Blanton Collapsed After
Speaker Gillett Had Pro
nounced Censure.
Washington, Oct. 28. Representa
tive Blanton, Democrat, Texas, in a
letter to Speaker Gillett read today
to members of the House, apologized
for inserting in the Congressional
Record words considered objection
able, for which he was censured yes
terday by the House.
of a crushed
conclusion of
he had heard
bitterly ar
his expulsion
then for more
v.
Jff.i
I": i i r y t v in favor of a strike
un nr c( pt a wage cut, although
: iit'-s, luilably the Pennsylva
" i'.itc divisions where groups
voted not 1o strike.
b.!aK of the ballot .itself, how-
i' l ed some signs of friction
unions. G. Lee, president
i'rf)t!,yrhood of Railway Traina
' ' out a separate ballot to his
' ' 'i.f other tinionse included
1 ''l ots such questions as rules
conditions. Mr. Lee held
anything
ag
..it
' i'
0:j;.i
'''m;,j
'".in.
'Tm
illegal to vote on
"'1'iionzed wage cut-
!s of the Big Four, trainmen,
r-'r. engineers, and firemen
''"Hao to decide what action
i,( ''k'ii. On October 15, it was
'''"1 formally that a walkout be-
''li'obcr jo amj extending pro
"'"' ui four distinct movements
nu-iiiy every road in the counthy
1 ' ' f-vf red, had been authorized.
n"i' n s I nion of North Ameri-
Four, while B. M. Jewell,
" h railway employes de
', the American Federation
s"ieh. comprised of the
' unions, publicly arinounc
"would light tooth and too
Washington. Oct. 2S. The censure of
the House of Representatives, as pub
licly pronounced by Speaker Gillett in
accordance with a unanimous vote of
its members, rested today upon Thomas
L. Blanton, a Democratic member from
Texas. Retaining his seat by a bare
margin of eight votes under the neces
sary two-thirds when the House yester
day voted 203 to 113 on the resolution
of Representative Mondell, of Wyom
ing, the Republican leader, proposing
expulsion of the Texas member for in
sertion in the Congressional Record of
a document described as "unspeakably
vile," Representative Blanton a few
minutes later heard his colleagues vote
unanimously for a resolution propos
ing that he be publicly reprimanded at
the bar of the House. Twenty-six mem
bers, 22 Republicans and four Demo
crat?, voted "pjwRentV.. on the censure
resolution offered by Representative
Garrett, of Tennessee, the Democratic
leader.
Giving every evidence
and broken man at the
the ordeal during which
Representative Mondell,
raigning him, plead for
from the House and had
an hour fought to defend himself from
the charges, the Texas member brought
the scene to a dramatic conclusion
when, on leaving the chamber after
the Speaker's reprimand he collapsed
to the floor. He quickly recovered,
however, after being picked up by col
leagues, some of whom had voted for
his expulsion, and later was observed
hard at work in his office on a pile of
correspondence.
In censuring Representative Blanton,
Speaker Gillett said:
"Mr. Blanton, by a unanimous vote
oi tne Mouse, tne ayes 293, the nays
none, I have been directed to censure
you because, when you had been allow
ed by the courtesy of the House to
print a speech which you did not deliv
er upon the floor, you inserted in it
foul and obscene matter which you
knew you could not have delivered on
Lhe floor, and that disgusting matter,
which could not have been circulated
through the mail in any other paper
without a crime, was transmitted to
thousands of homes and libraries
throughout the country to be read by
men and women, and worst of all, by
children whose prurient curiosity Would
be excited by it. Because of that, I
have been directed to pronounce and
I hereby pronounce upon you the cen
sure of the house."
MAJOR COWART HELD
IN JAIL FOR MURDER
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 28. Major Lee
H. Cowart, retired army officer, was
arrested on a charge of murder and
placed In jail here following the death
in an Atlanta hospital last night of
A. B. McNiece.
Major Cowart, who was in Colum
bus on bond following the shooting
of Mr. McNiece several weeks ago in
Talbotton, Ga., had previously an
nounced his intention on learning of
the man's death of going to Talbotton
and surrendering to the sheriff.
Neither the former officer nor Mr. Mc
Niece, who was superintendent of
schools at Talbotton, would discuss
the cause of the shooting.
STORM NOW CENTRAL
NEAR THE BERMUDAS
Washington, Oct. 28 The tropical
storm, which swept portions of Florida,
has continued to move eastward and
is apparently central this morning be
tween Bermuda and Turks Island, the
Weather Bureau announced today.
A disturbance over Kansas, the
Bureau said, will move northeastward,
attended by rain within the next 36
hours in Tennessee and the east Gulf
states, while generally fair weather
will prevail in the Atlantic States un
til Saturday night and temperature
changes will not be important.
on p St-o
UNSE.TTLEP
Charlotte and Vicinity: Partly cloudy
cloudy tonight and Saturday; not much
change in temperature. Gentle to
pioderate northeast vinds.
North and South Carolina: Tartly
hudy tonight and Saturday, litth
hange in temperature; moderate U
resh northeast winds
COMMANDER OF
ALLIED FORCES
GIVEN OVATION
Industrial Loan and Sav
ings Bank to Begin Busi
ness January 1.
CAPITAL OF $500,000.
Eddie Jones and Ivey Stew
art Are Behind Latest
Financial Enterprise.
The Industrial Loan and Savings
Bank of Charlotte has been organized
with a hapital s'.ock of $500,000 and
will begin business January 1.
Interested in the organization of
Charlotte's latest financial institution
have been Eddie E. Jones, cashier of
the Independence Trust Company, and
Ivey W. Stewart, assistant cashier of
the Commercial National Bank.
The stockholders represent more
than 100 of the most prominent busi
ness and professional men of the com
munity. Among them, in addition to
Mr. Jones and) Mr. Stewart, are J. H.
Wearn, J. H. Cutter, R. L. Gibbon,
Dr. Hamilton McKay, J. M. Oldham, J.
A. Jones, S. B. Tanner, Dr. J. P.
Matheson, Harvey H. Orr, R. Horace
Johnston, A. M. Whisnant and T. C.
Guthrie.
The new bank proposes to begin
business the first of the year with
a paid-in capital of $200,000, which
will be increased up to the maxi
mum of a half million dollars as the
demands of the institution's clientele
are developed.
The gentlemen who have been instru
mental in the organization of the bank
have acquired tentative options on two
centrally located buildings, one of
which will be selected, it is understood,
in the next few days.
The understanding is that the stock
holders will be called to a meeting
within the next two or thr:e weeks to
determine upon the directors to serve
the institution, after which the direc
tors will elect officers.
Mr. Jones and Mr. Stewart will con
tinue in their present positions of
trust and responsibility at the Indepen
dence Trust Company and the Commer
cial National Bank, respectively, where
both - have had long connections. How
ever, they will probably have intimate
relations with the future management
of the new institution, which has "come
into being largely by virtue of their
individual efforts.
TO DO INDUSTRIAL BANKING.
The Industrial Loan and Savings
Bank is the fourth institution of its
sort to be launched in Charlotte. It
will do a species of industrial banking
which in late years has become pop
ularized throughout the country. The
plan of operation is to make loans on
a basis of weekly savings, which are
returned by theb orrowers to the bank
negotiating the paper, the long-time
element of loans featured by the usual
commercial banking processes being
eliminated. This character of banking,
it is explained has proven exceedingly
popular for the smaller borrowers who
need outside capital on some basis
other than that which requires them to
take up their paper for the full amount
when it falls due at some stipulated
period.
The Industrial Loan and Savings
Bank wrh:oh has just been promoted
will take rank with any in the city for
the sizeableness of its operating capi
tal and the fact that such a large
number of the more prominent busi
ness and professional interests of the
city have been drawn into it as stock
holders is regarded as an omen of its
instant success.'
Both Mr. Jones and Mr. Stewart,
who are behind the proposition, are
among the most popular of the city's
young bankers. Both have arisen
swiftly in their profession.
Mr. Jones came to Charlotte from
Virginia some years ago to accept a
position with the Charlotte National
Bank and was acquisitioned by the
Independence Trust Company when it
was later organized, being given a re
sponsible position at the outset of this
company's launching into business. He
has successively been promoted until
he is now the cashier of the institu
tion. Mr. Stewart is a native of Charlotte
and has been with the Commercial Na
tional Bank during his entire business
career. Gradual promotions have
brought him up to his present position
of assistant cashier of the Commercial
Marshal Foch, of France,
Arrives to Be Guest of the
American Legion.
GREETED BYTERSHING
Destroyers and Soaring
Seaplanes Escort the
Paris to Quarantine.
New York. Oct. 28. A mighty bom
bardment of. cheers greeted Marshal
Foch when he steamed into New York
today on the liner Paris to sit with
his American "buddies" at th:ir Le
gion's convention in Kansas City.
Tumultuous thousand.-? lined the wa
ter front to welcome the gray-haired
little .man, soldier of France and cit-
Railroad Labor Board Made
Effective By Tke President
Support Given it by ' Administration in Crisis Will
Make Its Decisions Respected; Strike Issues,
However, Not Yet Settled.
:arouna leads
IN VOCATIONAL
TRAINING WORK
CANDY JAG BECOMES
REAL "HOOTCH" RIVAL
Washington, Oct. 28. Announce
ment of a contest in which prizes ag
gregating $1,500 will b given for the
best developed human back was made
at the opening session here today of
the mid-Atlantic Osteopathic Associa
tion. Dr. J. C. Muttart, of Philadelphia,
one of the speakers at the meeting,
in discussing the automatic manufac
ture of alcohol in the body during the
digestion of confectionery, declared
that the "candy jag" had become a
formidable rival pt "hootch" "and
threatened to supersede it entirely.
Osteopathic physicians and special
ists from Maryland, Virginia, North
Carolina and the District of Columbia
were in attendance at the meeting.
PRESIDENT HANDING
IS BACK AT CAPITAL
Washington, Oct. 28. President Hard
ing returned to Washington from his
Southern trip at 11 a. m- today, his
special train completing a run from
Atlanta, Ga., in two hours less ,than
the scheduled time of the Southern
Railway's limited.
The Presidential special, which left
Atlanta at 6 p. m. central time yester
day, made no stops on the way except
to change engines.
Immediately on his arrival, the Pres
ident motored to the White House to
take part in the regular Friday Cabinet
meetings. The Cabinet members had
gathered for the meeting before the
president arrived.
liyi Imp1!
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Staff Correspondent of The Nvs.
Copyright, 1921, by Xews TubHsLIng Co.
Washington, Oct. 28. The railroad
strike may have been averted, but the
issues which threatened have by no
means been settled. Most everybody in
the Government realizes that a truce
has been made and nothing more. Fur
ther wage cuts are up in the air, so
are further freight reductions. The
status quo will be maintained for at
least nine months more.
Meanwhile certain points have been
cleared up in the present controversy
which will have the effect in the future
of diminishing the area of dispute,.
r, : i 4. tt a: i . ,
i i raiueiii rc timing na.s, HO to speaK,
put the United States Railroad Labor
izen of the world, who held the Al
lies' cards in the great game of war
and turned the trick.
Up the harbor he came, escorted by
fleet destroyers and soaring seaplanes
to the boom of guns from forts
guarding; th. harbor's mouth, great
blasts" fr'dm wnistles afloat and ashore
and resounding" cheers- for the "'"Yian
who had out Napoleoned Napoleon as
a tactician.
To greet him at quarantine wras the
navy cutter Vigilant, bearing Ambas
sador Jusserand, Assistant Secretary
of the Navy Roosevelt, Alton T. Rob
erts, of the American Legion, and of
ficials of country, State and city.
PERSUING WINS VICTORY.
General Pershing meantime won an
other victory. Time was the van
quished. Racing into port on the liner George
Washington, the leader of America's
forces in the World war reached Quar-'
antine about 11 o'clock, in ample time
to greet Marshal Foch, who followed
him several hours later into the har
bor on the steamship Paris, escorted
by American destroyers and seaplanes.
As in the dark days of the war,
General Pershing owed his latest vic
tory to men below him, in rank, who
had taken up arms just as gallantly
in defense of their country. For it
was due to the ex-service men in th;.
fireroom of the George Washington
that General Pershing was able to get
back in time from his trip to Europe,
where he conferred the Congressional
Medal of Honor on the ' '.'unknown sol
diers" of France and Great Britain.
Responding tc a wireless appeal from
the American Legion, which is enter
taining the marshal on his visit to this
country and bringing him to its des
tination at Kansas Citj" next week, the
fireroom forces raised additional pounds
of steam.
After receiving an official -welcome at
quarantine. General Pershing took his
niace in the great ranks of Americans
who had risen early today to pay their
tribute to the little gray haired man
who had led 10,000,000 soldiers to vic
tory in the greatest struggle of all
time.
FIGHTING PROFESSOR.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch might well
be called the fighting professor.
One of the foremost lecturers on
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Leading Them All in Work
of Vocational Training
Schools.
merely irritate and get nowhere, more
progress would be made in solving
labor quarrels.
THEORY AS TO NATIONS.
Curiously enough, the manner in
which the . railroad strike has been set
tled is exactlv the formula that Presi
dent Harding would like to see applied LINK POWER PLANTS.
in pi c t;iiLnig ne ueiievca luxi
agnst an offending nation, the people Make Arrangement Where-
ol Liie uiLeiiuiuu coiimiy win. causti
by Power is Made Avail
able to All.
BY JULE B. WARREN,
Staff Correspondent of The R'ew.
Raleigh, Oct. 28. North Carolina is
leading the list of a dozen Southern
States in its accomplishments under the
industrial and trades division of the
North Carolina has 163 units
: sisted upon striking simply because of ts credit, while the next highest
la reqaest of the railroad executives tato' Texas- with vastly larger area.
for a second wage cut, Mr. warding . u,fiSU ji"i.auUn, no
was ready to use the full powers of onJLy, 10s "nll-s to its credit.
Ther' comes a time in ever' feller s
life Trlien he must decide whether t'
dye his hair or git a plaid suit. When
'Sqnire Marsh Swal!o-.v heard that New
Mexico had gone R'publican, his fa-e
brightened up like lie-l found a parkin'
their Government to recede from an
aggressive stand. Woodrow Wilson be
lieved the League of Nations would al
ways furnish such an intermediary.
Mr. Harding thinks the group known
as the Supreme Council can do the
i same thing.
Board on the map. Its authority was l The theory back in Mr. Harding's
challenged, its powers as a mediating mind in the railroad controversy was
lir1 ' T'cvk r, :iM. tnr-,l V , , - -v-i-;! trt full nriD rf tli Ai-ninrh onrl rrYY tv! o "f o inveati-
support of the Chief Executive, the i gation of the merits of the dispute by board of vocational training, according
United States Railroad Roard annroach-: the properly constituted agency. So " .JU L 5.eui . l,u "."""
d Tlrntlipr hoods in mgton.
:t is responsible morally to the Presi
dent for a thorough examination of alii
the issues and for a just verdict.
iKI1SL AAL U1T "EK. I The Government to explain to the The trades and industrial division, of
Both the railroads and the labor j American people the error of such an lhe W0l k " the vocational education
unions now see the United States Rail-1 attitude. The Railroad Labor Board bnard. of which T. E. Brown is the
road t.oard as a tribunal with real j aid jn effect
power. In an emergency, the President no second wa
showed that he was ready to back up (before next
the Board in its decisions. It was more- the docket of cases was too crowded
over to he used as an important lever!-. tVo ,i,- thn ix--c-t Tl-io l-nil-
in swinging public opinion, and the! roads" may or mav not have had some or evening classes or other federally
labor leaders themselves now have j assurance that their revenues would lP'"ed educational work in trades
admitted that, with public opinion; not in the meantime be diminished
against them, they could not hope to! through reductions of freight rates.
win tne strke. They confessed the; That's something which only the In
value or public opinion, lhis is a source; terstate Commerce Commission can
of much gratification here, for it means i answer but the 'prevailing view her
that the missing teeth in the transpor- js that the Commission and the United
tation act have been found. I states Railroad Board now are work
The way the United States Railroad inc together and a decrease in income
Board, assisted by President Harding, i will not be forced without some un-
ttmctioned in the present crisis con-1 derstanding about diminished costs
vinces officials -that, if in all labor dis i thousrh to be sure, the statisticians may
putes an effort were made at once j find in the next few months railroad
to go to the root of the trouble without ' earnings increased through a genera!
trying to settle imaginary issues that . business revival
guarantee the unions that superintendent ior iNortn uar-
ge cut would be considered '" ha? he1 wrked UP. George
.Tulv bv announcing that - Coggin, who is supervisor of this
division. Isorth Carolina started out
with four unit's, that is four part time
MAYS REFUTES I STATE WANTS TO
CHARGES MADE PUT OFF HEARING
Committee of Baptists
Makes Examination and
Exonerates Preacher.
Asheville, Oct. 28. Rev. Dr. Livings
ton T. Mays, corresponding secretary
of the Southern Baptist Assembly, at
Ridgecrest, was exonerated of charges
of immorality and sedition by the com
mittee" rep-uresenting the Southern Bap
tist Assembly in its report made public
here.
Dr. Mays, accused by counsel for J. T.
Harris, who was executed at Raleigh,
October 20, for the murder of F. W.
Monnish, of gross misconduct at El
Dorado, Ark., Thomasville, Ga-, and oth
er cities, is vindicated by the committee
which examined affidavits for and
against the minister and declared the
attacks "originated in and were instigat
ed by a malicious spirit".
The committee commended Rev. Dr.
Mays for "his efforts and activities for
moral righteousness and to uphold the
civil law, and especially to uphold the
enforcement of the prohibition law at
Ridgecrest, and that, and that he only
did his duty as a citizen of the State,
and that he was required by law to do.
in answering the witness summons and
giving testimony in the murder trial
of J. T. Harris, and we are convinced
because of the facts brought out in the
investigation, and which developed in
Of Habeas Corpus Proceed
ings Instituted to Get Bail
for 0. G. Thomas.
Gastonia, Oct. 28. Judge Bis Ray
this afternoon postponed the Thom
as hearing until next Tuesday,
when it will be held in Charlotte.
Hearing in habeas corpus proceedings
instituted by attorneys of O. G. Thoma s
Charlotte automobile salesman, charged
with the murder of A. J. Allen at Kan
napolis Friday night, will probably be
held in Charlotte Saturday night. At
torneys for Thomas presented the peti
tion to Judge J. Bis Ray at Gastonia
Friday at noon, but H.! F- Williams,' rep
resenting' the prosecution, asked tor
more time to prepare arguments against
and industries. The work was started
n 191S and the following year only one
.dditional class in this particular line
was started. In 1920 the work got
well under way and at the close of the
year .here were 73 of these classes in
the State. But the big gain came this
year, and up to the time the report is
tiled there are 163 classes of students
in North Carolina who are getting ex
pert training in various branches of
trades and industries.
This work is supported in all of the
States by a Federal appropriation. Un
der the bill which authorized the ap
propriation the money is spent in ev-
ry huite vvnere tnere is tne initiative
ro work up the classes and help some
with the part time schools for the
working people, either adults or chil-
!ren, who cannot devote all of their
irne to schools, but Who do want to
increase their efficiency in their chos-
i, trad or industry.
Dr. E. C. Brooks. Superintendent of
Public Instruction. has been very
;iuch pleased with the fine enthusi
asm of the people in taking up this
work, and with the efforts of the su
nervisor in n-jftin" North Carolina at
he head ok' the procession. Georgia is
more nearly m line with INortn uaro-
iina in population and other conditions;
but in this State there are only 7
classes " in this particular division.
South Carolina stands fourth in the
list with 73 units, Tennessee 67, Flor
ida 56, a decrease from 1920, and the
inly State showing less than the year
'. ( fore; Alabama has 47 units, Virginia
38, Oklahoma 30, Arkansas 18, Missis
sippi 6 and Louisiana the same num
ber that it started out with in 1918,
that is only four.
BUY POWER IN ALABAMA.
Through the efforts of the officials
of the Carolina Power and Light Com-
nanv and other hydro-electric com-
nanies in the Southern States physical
the motion to allow Thomas bail. The connections have been made between
court also received a telegram from the various power companies so that
Solicitor Hayden Clement of Salisbury, ;
State's attorney in the district in which
it will be possible for the hydro-electric
company in Alabama to help out com
panies in North Carolina when there is
the alleged murder took place, asking j a -shortage. This will not be accom-
the continuation of efforts of Judge I before he adjourned court for
Frank Carter to secure the commuta
tion of the sentence of J. T. Harris,
that the attack originated in and was
instigated by a malicious spirit."
In the report the original affidavits
plished by the actual transmission of
power from Alabama to North Carolina,
for the experience of these companies
so far indicates that it is lmpracti-
Judge Ray heard the attorneys just cable, to transmit electric current over
fiucn a lone instance. J mo, it ib !jc-
that the heabeas corpus proceedings be
heard later as he was unable to be pres
ent at Gastonia Friday
introduced by Judge Frank Carter de- night
dinner
and told Mr. Williams to get in touch
with Solicitor Clement over the tele
phone and report to him at three o'clocl
whether it would suit the solicitor to
have the hearing in Charlotte Saturday
rogatory to the character ot Rev. Dr.
Mays are presented- Also the evidence
offered by Rev. Dr. Mays to refute
chages by Judge Carter and those mak
ing affidavits against him are presented
in the committee's report in full, in
which Rev. Dr. Mays presented a long
list of testimonials in the; form of affi-
lieved. is a development of the imme
diate future, but has not been worked
out on a practical basis so far.
What will be done will be the
transfer of power from one company
to another. An illustratron of the re
lief to be secured at the present time
will eive a better idea of what is
The atttorneys for Thomas presented
no argument owing to the fact that the mpant bv the transfer of power. With
State's attorneys and prosecution rais- bought conditions in the State it has
ed the point at once that they were un- tQen impossible for the Carolina Power
prepared at this time to argue the case. am- jjght Company and some of its
Mr. Williams stating that he had just subsidiaries to supply current to the
been brought into the prosecution and hundred or more mills around and
wanted further opportunity to inquire SOuth of Raleigh. There is plenty of
davits from prominent people and old j into the evidence. power being developed in Alabama, but
citizens of the towns in which the The attorneys for Thomas are Arm- it has been impossible for the local
charges were made against him, which field and Maness of Concord who went I companies to avail themselves of this
are highly complimentary to the secre-1 to Gastonia prepared to present to up to the present time
tary. I Judge Ray their reasons for granting I Through an agreement all of the
In so far as the charges against ! bail to the defendant, who contends that I companies in the Southeast have been
Rev. Dr. Mays are concerned, the ex-: he killed Allen when the latter stepped tied together so that when North
on the runnine board of his car and I Carolina is snort of power, the A1&
he thought that he nurnosed to attack bama company can furnish its surplus
and rob him. Thomas, who knows the I to a Georgia power company. Thi.
murrifrpii man wpII and has had hnsi-1 will enable the Georgia concern to
ness dealings with him. declares that release as much current as it re
when be fired the fatal shot, he had coives by connecting with the lines of
a eainst the character of Dr. Livingston I no idea who the man was who had tne Southern Fower company, wmcii
T. Mavs. and in order that the brother-1 annroached his automobile in the dark, in turn can release tnat same amount
' i- m. - - i ., . i i
hnrvt ntiH rmhtin mav lrnniv the fnntc nf Thnmns was aoeomnanied to Gastonia to the Otnei Companies 111 tne Oiaie.
F-ridpv morn ins- bv Dpnntv Sher ff Pes- 1 nis arrangement win nutuiuzc uis
perman and bis attorneys.
ecutive committee making the investiga
tion and report gives the following
to the press:
"Because of the widespread publicity
given to the charges made in the affi
davits, and by Judge Frank Carter,
the affidavits against Dr. Mays and of
the affidavits and testimonials presented
to the executive committee by Dr. Mays
in rebuttal and refutation of the Carter
affidavits, we believe it our duty to give
them to the brotherhood and public
through the press, that an intelligent,
truthful and impartial judgment may
be rendered by them."
MRS. WHITLEY GETS
SENTENCE FOR LIFE
power supply in all parts of the South
east at all times, it is pointed out.
The chances of a complete drought
hitting all of the Southeastern coun
try at the same -time is not likely.
Some of the streams from which the
hvdro-current is developed will have
Snow Hill, N. C, Oct. 28. The trial vater even when others are drv. The
of Mrs. Sarah Whitley, charged with facilities for the transference of sur-
fiot -"1 1 1 miiwlar in r c . n 1 r .r1 in,") u-lt Vi I - , , . , . n . , A .
SEARCH IS CONTINUED j the killing of her husband, by Wright olber win prevent tne necessity for
j?rT "VTl?TtlT?"l7'TCrM7' XTrVXT A 1 Rouse- a negro, was abruptly ended afrain having to close down mills and
i UiV x?lliTlIIliIVO wT lYVJii J i this morning "when the defense entered f;.riorien in North Carolina so Ion 2
as there is plenty of power being de
veloped in Alabama or some other
distant State.
START STEAM PLANT.
In connection with the announce-.
a plea of guilty of accessory before
Jacksonville. Fla., Oct. 28. Search the fact and accepted a sentence of'
was continued today along the beach i ufe in the State penitentiary.
in the vicinity ot the mouth 01 the: Rouse, who was found guilty of first
St. Johns River at Mayport, and up!degree mUrder, today was sentenced by
the river itself, for bodies of members ; irip Daniels to be electrocuted .i,inu-
of the crew of the auxiliary yacht ! arv 9 The trial of Thomas Haves 1 1 ment that these arrangements had
Aund, a -iuii 'i, 1111.1. icn.-: Iormer tenant on the Whitlev Larm,
ed on the jetties Tuesday night or ; also under a charge of first degree mur
Wednesday morning during the tropical j der 5n connection with Whit'ey'u death
. , , ... ... will take place here in December.
The body of a negro, with a life pre- (
server attached to it, bearing the name 1 . OTVkTVTT A Tfk IT A TT?
"Kona, of Roslyn," found on the beach liAOlUlNlA lJ xl A V Cj
near
evidence
that vieinit-. The wreck of the Kona
was found on the end of the south
jetty.
A report was current among marine
men last night that a vessel with a
cargo of liquor had been wrecked off
Mayport and that quantities of bottled !
The Kona, which was built at Balti
more m 1909, was only 29 feet long,
nowered with a 20 horsepower motor,
and shipping records show that the
neen completed, tne local companv,
which furnishes power for cotton mills
and other industrial enterprises i:i
scores of towns in North and South
Carolina, announced that beginning
Thursday night it would begin operat
ing its auxiliary steam plant near
Mayport yesterday, was the first! TVin'nF'RlV PRFAMFRY Method, and would keep it in constant
ice that a wreck had occurred in ! lUVJ-LfJUXVii yjiixarwii jx 1. o,erati0n from now on
This is possible not because of an
Gastonia, Oct. 28. Gastonia now has i n crease in the water suoplv available
a new industry and one of especial in- from the city for the Raleigh water
terest o surrounding farmers, it is situation is worse rather than bettei
a modern creamery plant just installed but because the company has made
by the Gastonia Ice Cream Company. I arrangements to haul water in tank
The company has been purchasing cars from Crabtree creek, where a tern-
contraband had been thrown upon the whole milk in large quantities for the I porary pumping station has been
beach. It was not established whether past year, vv ith their newly installed I completed. Crabtree runs north ot
the reported cargo was aboard the machines they are now able to turn out 1 Raleigh ana has a much larger wa.
Kona. ' 600 gallons of cream and 600 pounds of ti-rshed than do'ea Walnut creek which
vessel carried a crew of four men. It j from Chester, York, Clover and othftj
is believed the entire crew perished, i stations, nearby.
butter daily. Also they will have a pas-1 supplies the city with water. Thei-
teurizing outfit, which treats the milk I has been an abundance of watr in;
with steam and neutralizes it. lhe I Crabtree creek all during the drv spell.
company is buying its raw material I Trains of water will be hauled to thei
t Continued on rase Mae-