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on TTTT -1 i i! A CHAMEOTTE NEWS N A I N A AND EVENING CHRONICLE EDITION EDITION lw3 LARGEST CIRCULATION IN CHARLOTTE PUBLISHED AFTERNOONS AND SUNDAY NEW? Establish Dally. 18SS; Sunday. 1910. I Consolidated rs AVxin- chronicle Eatabiljhed. 1903. CHARLOTTE, N. C SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23. 1922. PRICE FIVE CENTS May 8. 191 TEN PAGES CHRISTMAS IS WITNESSED IN fARIOlS SIGNS Holiday Crowds Surge streets and Into Stores of City Merchants. EVERYBODY MOVING Loose Ends Are Being Gathered up For An other Celebration. With "weather in prospect Vi'thfiocJ5 of shopping- behind, S--'ctV Saturday stood on the o: another Christmas. We "-.cioiiunt weather of early .-, t'f 9 n--k changed to the usually v--v sunshine, characteristic of v Sunny ?outh. and Friday and SQ'urday "Tre ' -rowded days in the ::9 PV h-r.rfd? of Charlotte elti--? wh- 'n::med to the shops for "nnnut jurohases. Christmas spirit was more in r-enc" ir. the shops and on the "thar. at any other time of he shopping period. Crowds were p--orvvherf. justling to and fro. Cf'ir'rff from j-tore to store and to-n 'counter to counter, making selections and scurrying- on, Jaded Vltli Christmas packages. Tiere vas rood humor in the ",-.-,vd "the real Christmas spirit wemed t be in the hearts of all. i'nries wreathed their faces as they T.aVd the streets. evidently b'oiisht there by the feeling "deep (iori the inside" that they would iri'r.r cheer and comfort to some cr.'"'V:-.ev love. srand avalanche of humanity c,i're.1 the city. In spite of the i-'sual warnings of "shop early" and 'r-: i! far'y" the crowds, which have tee.i u?ua:iy heavy during the week irere augmented with thousands of ether? Saturday. The stores were not the only croTdei places. The postofnee and sab-stations were flooded with anx ious persons, eager to get their pacitasp? into the care and keeping e'Vncie Sam. for delivers to friend or relative. MAIL IS VERY HEAVY. "employes of the postoffice were working with might and main to Kt the packages to their te .!& ::ori c-r.d were preparing to ntake the fr.a! rush of delivery Monday. F.elief organizations were gather ing 'jp loose ends in their effort to provide Christmas cheer to needy fanities. Seme baskets were dis trusted Saturday and others will h uken cut frtinclay and morning. The Salvation Army and Associated Charities, the r'-irieipal charitable organizations were swamped but Tcrker? were on the job, hurry ing to get food and comfort to the dty's poor. Kind hearted individ uals trere doing the same thing. jlany of the Sunday schools of :ce city had their Christmas enter tainment? for children of the school? Friday night. Others will be held Saturday night, still others Sunday and Monday. Choir choirs were putting the final touches to their Christmas pro grams, to be presented at special musical services Sunday. Pastors "fre poring over their Christmas ??rcor.s in order that they might " fully prepared to stand before w?ir congregations Sunday morning vA bring a message of the New 5-m Kins. Withal. Charlotte was expectant : a cheerful Christmas. Chlldm ere all a-tremble in anticipation "'the visit cf Santa Claus and anx ious of what he will bring in his samoth knapsack when lie comes fexn the chimnev Christmas Eve X:;'at. BOLD BECKER IS GUILTY OF MURDER Bronx Man is Convicted of Killing Wife, Sew York, Dec. 23. Abraham tecier was declared guilty of first Mgree murder in a. verdict returned today by a jury in the Bronx uaty court. The penalty for the c-Jne m xfeW York state is electro. iuuon. Sentence will be pronounc uesaay. He was convicted of fg n:s wife Jennie last April by lJr?i? her over the head with an IT4 6atr ar-i burying her in an ash UL iIocths later, when neighbors iZZ EUsPicous and Becker had "-a arrested, her lime-encased bod h-Y? 1R the' shallow pit in the patent to Reuben Xorkin's ga- -.rfnia 3150 'as indicted for mur taxirav 0Wner &nd operator of a April th w; .lr V1? P""ce ln thpr C wue nacl lctt him and foul to, i ?,hero were rumors of somed ,1 the timo and when, n it iater- he Plad the chil er aantable institutions' and toW-v? vth JIiss Anna E1Ias fee ..!Uf?-teii & arrested both e deCw,NorWn- The latter, yo eh-i Ta Brians a tatmsnt Mri. bL?5 tari 151311 Ith killing J?ie: t orkln stood watch en fro-n ved ln court clothing by tbniy as having been Iibaed 'T?.Becker- The jury de hoUr and ten minutes. rramSI0N BURNED. The aam, sln- a t.-f.T;! f Henry S. Denni- ce director 'in the poat- ??x &Lt ?vaa turned early - i H ; toon 5 ?'S.(.-00. v.""!. ,J- lfJSs estimated at intninVo;r.;rnnifeon is in Wash .bers ct-r'n th his duties. ;w,- in w -r Ti!r,lly had no diffi- Lr; d1? thr' house after th ' ksowr'0- The cause is iCVnei rj no,? ru arr,5n G- Elliot v!.handlP.j iv , j;golnS letters L M:,-, t,i le local postoffic- parcel post :r-!. tha T- , :ea her- 8tl11 moan Be:ite. flP'-l conieBaion stated. i cr.:ei that tv, f for .23 Postal bust- ; 'm f iK1s m exceed MaTyarly forty per Administration TVT TTI1 10 u lancre Admitted, However, that it Cannot Longer Delay Co-operation With Europe; Economic Reasons Most Powerful Fa ? in Policy Change. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Special Correspondent of The ? -5- v Copyright, 1022, "ews Publish! .r "Washington, Dec. 23. A' s foreign policy is develor ot changing. The most inter -i." at titudes are being assume' Aoee who fought for and ' vho fought against a so-called lation ist" policy. No less a person than President Harding himself taboos tho word "aloofness" in referring to the scope of American policy in the future. Is this a break with the "irre consilables?" Is it inconsistent wirh the movement which killed ratifica tion of the covenant of the League of Nations by the American Senate? The answer given by Administra tion people is a nemphatic negative. And as proof of their contention they ask the people to go back to the round-robin of March; 1919. sign ed by approximately 40 Republican Senators under the leadership of Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts. That document anounced opposition to the covenant of the League "in the form now proposed" but under no circumstances did it denounce the principal of international coopera tion. In fact it urged that peace be tween the Allies and Germany te concluded and "that the proposal for a League of Xations to insure the permanent peace of the worl.'! should then be taken up for careful and serious consideration.' It went on to say that it is the sense of the FARM STUDY IN S. C.SCH00LS Increase cf 700 Per Cent in Students is Recorded in 5 Years. Columbia, S. C, Dec. 23. The study of agriculture in the public schools of South Carolina has ht creased 700 per cent in the last five years, according to a statement to day by Verde Peterson, director of rural school education in South Carolina under the State Superin tendent of Public Instruction. From the enrollment of 378 is: 1917-18, the first year that any con certed effort was. made . to introduce the teaching of agriculture and kin dred subjects, the work has expand ed until last year tfiere was an aver age enrollment of 2,658, the records show, according to Mr. Pettrson. The work was carried on the first year in sixty schools in eleven coun ties under the direction of fourteen teachers; in 3 921-22, the last year fcr which complete information is available courses in agriculture were being given by 124 schools in thirty counties by a staff of ?H teachers. Although statistics for this sehol astic years are not yet available, Mr. Peterson declared that his office had reports indicating that the sum mary at the end of the year's work in June would show a healthy in crease over the record for 1921-22. In discussing the growth of the work. Mr. Peterson cited' the figures for each year, giving them as fol lows: 191S-19 23 counties: 73 schools: 46 teachers: 763 enrolled. 1919- 2028 counties; 96 schools, 70 teachers: 120 enrolled. 1920- 21 29 counties: 101 schools: 72 teachers: 1,571 enrolled. 1921- 22 30 couMies; 124 schools; 96 teacl ers: 2,658 enrolled. The students are classified accord ing to three groups. Mr. Verde con tinued. The first of these is the high school group, in the work of which are comprised practically all of the group in th3 work of which is included rractically all of the rural high schools of the Stat:. Then, comes the "junior projects" courses, in which are enrolled pupil; of the fifth, sixth and seventh grades of the rural schools. "The third group is, in some re spects probably the most important and interesting of the three." Mr. Peterson declared. "It is composed of part-time students. "These part-time students," he explained, "are boys from fourteen years old and up who have been forced to remain out of school to at tend to their farm duties, and adults who desire to learn the latest meth ods of conducting their agricultural activities. The classes are given at night or in the day, according to the circumstances at each place. We find that this feature of the work is -growing in every county where the agricultural instruction ccurees have been inaugurated." In the high school groups, the students are given ninety minutes a day of classroom Instruction, five days a week, Mr. Peterson said. In the junior projects department, the classroom work consist of from two to three periods a week. The class room work of the students who are not enrolled for the regular work varies according to circumstances. The Instruction ln agriculture, that Is carried on under the super vision of Mr. Peterson Is not confined to classroom study, how ever. Every student is given prac tical Instruction, the farms of the vicinity of the school houses bein& used as "laboratories" for this class of work. In the case of the part time students, they are given advice on their own farms and the teach ers demonstrate the methods they have taught in the classrom. Practically all of the teachers em ployed in South Carolina are gradu ates of Clem son College, according to the State director, who added that the Smith-Hughes act, under which Federal funds are made available for carrying on of this work in agricul ture, requires that teachers who are paid with the aid of United States appropriations must be graduates of some recognized agricultural college. HEAVY FIRE LOSS. Council Bluffs, Iowa, Dec. 23. Fire of unknown origin early today destroyed two four-story brick busi ness structures down town with a loss estimated at $250,000. Claims Attitude in jenate "that the Xations of the world should unite to promote peace and general disarmament." Among the signatures to the round-robin are Warren G. Harding of Ohio, Senators Hiram W. John son of California, and William E. Borah of Idaho and Frank Brande gee of Connecticut. Every move the Administration has male in foreign policy has been cosistent with the doctrine, it is contended, and there is a distinct tendency nowadays to argue that the purpose has always been the same though admissions are made that the Administration was not so inclined to work out its policy a year? ago as it is todayj SWING GRADUAL. In other words. The swing cf rhe pendulum toward an interest in the affairs of Europe and the world generally has been gradual. The need for an export market the hope that farm products will get higher prices if European purchas ing power is restored, the natural expectation that higher farm prod ucts will remove the principal causes of discontent in the Middle West and take away the chief thorn in the side of the Republican Ad minitration today all this has made the foreign situation seem as impor tant as a domestic problem. Incidentally the attitude of the League of Xations supporters is not (Continned on Page Five) MEXICO SIGNS GRANT TO OIL Los Angeles Syndicate Acquires Control of 11,000,000 Acres. Los Angeles, Dec. 2o. The Los Angeles Times today reported an announcement from the promoteis that a group of Los Angeles man ufacturers, bankers and oil opera tors, has obtained from the Mexican Government what "amounts to a blanket concession on all govern ment lands in the cil districc of the east coast." "It is by far the biggest oil transaction . in -- Mexican liistory," The Times" said, "and probably the most important deal of its kind in the world, for it involves 11,000 000 acres of land adjoining rich work ings ofthe oldest established com panies in the Tampico and Tux pam districts." The paper further declared "the transaction also has important po litical significance, coming as it does after the extended contro versy between the Obregon Gov ernment and the American oil com panies, in which the United Scatos Government has been as yet an unsuccessful arbitrator." It is announced the Los Angeles group will go into the Mexican oil district and operate according to the Mexican Article 27 and under a Federal concession on the same royalty basis which established com panies have declared confiscatory. The concession, it is stated, per mits them to drill on lands imme diately joining the richest wells in Mexico. The announcement came after the return here from Mexico City of W. W. Wilson, G. E. Moreland and George J. Bushmiller, who stated they obtained the concession after an interview with President Obregon. who personally went into the details of the enterprise. " j Mr Wilson said the lands desig nated comprise virtually ail .Fed eral oil lands extending along the Gulf coast from a point north of Tampico to Tuxpam, close to hold ings of the Standard Oil Company the Doheny interests and other prominent oil companies. Two years are given for explora tion and the concession runs lor 20 years with provision for renewal. The exploitation will be financed entirely by Los Angeles capital, it is announced, and plans already are well advanced for the selection of center for the active work of tiie undertaking. Mr. Martin and Mr. Moreland are expected to return to Mexico City to put the plan into operation as soon as possible, it is said. WRECKED CREW 5S PICKED UP AT SEA New York, Dec. 23. Xearly 1 - 000 miles off the Atlantic Coast, the freighter, Menominee, plowing iis way through " heavy seas toward New York, found a lifeboat contain ing six men half dead from fatigue and lack of food, according toa wire less message received from the Mlen ominee. The! men, members of the crew of the fishlnsr schooner Gordon Rudge of St. John's X. F., abandoned their craft after a long and bitter strug gle with storms on the return trip from Torrevlega, Spain, with a car go of salt fish. The Menominee 13 due to arrive herei Tuesday. QUARANTINE IS RAISED. Havana, Dec. 23. Raising of all quarantine regulations against ves sels arriving from Galveston, Tex , today gave unrestricted entry to shipping from all American ports. Deratization measures which have been enforced against ships from Galveston were the last of the pre cautions taken as a result of the re cent appearance of Infected rodenta in the Mexican gulf ports. ACQUIT CUBAN LEADERS. Havana, Dec. 23. Sebastian Gela bert, former secretary of the trea sury, was acquitted today by a di vided opinion of the Supreme Court of a charge of contempt of court. The ex-cabinet member was tried for failure to comply with a court order to replace a discharged treasury '.f ficial. PROGRESSIVES WILL RECEIVE AID OF LABOR A. F. L. Secretary is Sure "Wall Street" Will Be Hurled From Saddle MEET IN PORTLAND Biggest Problem is Un employment, Hence, Ob jection to Immigration Portland, Ore., Dec. 23. Or ganized labor will make a concerted effort to seat Progressive candidates in Congress during coming elections. It is confident the majority of del egates in the Senate and House a, the next session will be sufficiently Progressive to guarantee public in-, tcrest and unsaddle Wall Street from power. These statements were made by Frank Morrison, secretary of the' American Federation of Labor while conferring with local labor of ficials on plans for the American Federation convention, which will be held here beginning October 1, 1923. "Defeat of rnti-labor leaders par ticularly Beveridge and iJoindexter, was decidedly satisfactory," Morri son said. "Labor will be prepared at the next campaign to solidly back Progresive candidates. '"Labor's biggest problem is un employment. The 3 per cent immi gration law aided in cutting down unemployment in America, but ' la bor favors complete stopping of im migration. There are 1,500,000 un employed in the Country. todajr." Morrison asserted that "Judge El bert Gary and Charles Schwab have been leaders in stressing a shortage of labor, while, he evars, Depart ment of Labor statistics do- not re veal even a shortage of common labor. "Such propaganda is part of a concerted plan to destroy unions. It has been the most vicious effort to discredit labor unions. "The Harding Administration has been against labor in every parti cular. Xo legislation has been pass ed to relieve unemployment. Attor ney General Daugherty is one of the thorns placed by the Administra tion in the side of labor. If Daugh erty were to serve the best interests of the public he would resign." Morrison declared there is no just ification for reduction cf wages be cause Government figures show eirj ployes should receive $1.70 for -every dollar received in 1914. He hSs been secretary of the American Federation of Labor for 2C j-ears. Previously he was, em ployed as a printer. LITTLE CHEER AT THE WHITE HOUSE Illness of Mrs. Harding . Precludes Festivities. Washington, Dec. 23. Christmas at the White House will lack much of the usual spirit of times gone by because of Mrs. Harding's illness. There wllr be no house guests and no Christmas tree. Neither the President nor Mrs. Harding has made any holiday plans. She may come downstairs in her wheel chair and preside at the table for Christ mas dinner, but otherwise the day day will be like any other since she was taken ill. To add a little cheer, the White House has Yuletide wreaths in the windows, and there will be a pro fusion of flowers. As a Christmas present to the thousands of governmnt employes, President Harding issued an execu tive order closing the Government departments at noon today, and at that house most high officials as well closed up their desks and went home. The Senate, too. joined in the early beginning of the Christmas season, holding only a short session, but the House went ahead with its consideration of appropriation bills. All but two members of the Pres ident's cabinet will spend Christmas day with their families in Washing ton.. The family reunion at the heme of Secretary Weeks will oring together for the first time for Christmas all of the Secretary's grand children, and he said tcday when he closed his ofice at noon that he did not intend to return to it until Tuesday. Asked whether he would play Santa Claus, the War Secretary replied that he fully in tended to "go the whole route." The two cabinet absentees over the holiday will be Secretary Mellon, who left today for his home in Pitts burgh, and Secretary Fall, whe de parted for Port Conway, Va. to be present at a Christmas reunion at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Brant S. Elliott. CLERGYMEN ILL WITH INFLUENZA Wilmington, Dec, 23. Seven Epis copal clergymen and two laymeji who took part ln the recent city wide preaching mission conducted by the Episcopal Churches in Wil mington are ill with the influenza. They are Bishop Thomas G. Darst, the Rev. W. E. Hoe, execu tive secretary of the diocese of East em North Carolina; Dr. William H. Milton rector of St. James Church: the Itev. Archie Boogher, of Favet teville; the Rev. George W. Lay, of Beaufort; the Rev. Theodore Par trick, Jr. of Plymouthr George B. Elliott, chancellor of the diecef-e and Thomas D. Mears, diocesan treasurer. None of those mentioned is ser iously ill. HUNDRED IIURt 2Nr WRECK. Madrid, Dec. 23. Reports that eight soldiers of the Vizcaya regi ment had been killed and more than a hundred Injured in a rail way accident to a military train, were received here today. Details, including information as to the scene of the catastrophe, were lacking. Gruesome Retold By Leading legal figures at the trial. Above, at left, State's Attorney Delos Duty. At right, Circuit Judge D. T. Haitwcll. Below, defendants counsel, A. C. Lewis, left; Angus AV. Kerr standing, and George R." Stone. The gruesome details of how the mob at the Herrin mine riot shot down its victims along the road from the mine to town and in the cemetery! there are being told by eye witnesses to the shootings at the trial of five men in connection with the massacre. Tha trial is be ing held at Marion. 111. State Attor , . t, MILLION ASKED IN JONES' SUIT Head of Lancaster Bank I Alleges Springs Plot K ted to Cause His, Ruin. Lancaster, S. C, Dec. 23.' Anoth er chapter in the series of litigations involving C. D. Jones, president of the First National Bank of Lancast er, and .Leroy Springs, cotton mill magnate, was written in the filing by attorneys for Mr. Jones in Cir cuit Court here of a suit for one million dollars against Mr. Springs, John T. Stevens, H. R. Wright and William J. Shectter, National Bank examiner. Mr. Jones alleged in his bill of charges, filed yesterday, that the defendants conspired to bring financial, social and professional ruin. The suit appears to be an out growth of litigation in which Mr. Jones and Mr. Springs- are princi pals, over the affairs of the bank rupt Lancaster Mercantile Company, of which Mr. Jones formerly was president. Mr. Springs and Mr. Stevens were large stockholders in that concern. Three weeks ago a stormy hearing was held at York before Judge Peurifoy on Mr. Jones' motion to discharge the receiver of this company, John T. Roddey, of Rock Hill. ln the lengthy bill of complaint filed by Mr. Jones, it is asserted that the bank examiner entered into an agreement to provide Messrs Springs, Wright and Stevens with information of a highly confidential nature regarding the plaintiff, which Mr. Shector gained in the course of his examination of the affairs of the First Xational Bank. Mr. Jones fur ther alleged that the examiner's re port contained information that was false. Mr. Jones also declared in his complaint that Mr. Shector certified falsely against him at the trial here last March before Judge Bowman. In the course of the hearing De cember 9 at York, arguments by attorneys for Mr. Jones included in timations that counsel for Messrs. Springs and Stevens, members of the former partnership, had entered into collusion with their clients to "embarass, harass and humiliate" Mr. Jones. At the same time, at torneys for Messrs. Springs and Jones declared Mr. Jones had brought himself Into financial diffi culties through speculation in the cotton market, and that, when the price of the staple went down, he had sought to make the now bank rupt Lancaster Mercantile Company, of which he then was the president, the "goat" in sustaining losses per sonally. The attorneys for Messrs. Springs and Stevens also stated that profits from any speculations in which Mr. .Jones had engaged had not been credited to the defunct com pany. The legal contests have been in progress about two years, and each hearing has been fought by brilliant line-ups of counsel for each side. It was learned here today that the de fendants, in the conspiracy suit ex pect to enter full denial of the Jones allegations and that a bitterly fought effort will be made when the suit is heard to refute the alltgations. The prominence of the parties in volved is expected to attract a pub lic interest in the new legal fight between these principals equal to or greater than that evidenced in the former battles over the difficulties of the mercantile company and the subsequent developments of that col lapse. MRS. FORD RELEASED. Detroit, Dec. 2;:. Mrs. May B. Ford, arrested a fortnight ago- on a charge of attempting to engage a professional gunman to kill her hus band, X'. J. Ford, farmer, of Dear born, a suburb, was released from the county jail early today undor bond of $15,000. . Mrs. Ford, who was in a highly nervous condition when she appeared in night court, collapsed vhen Judge Charles L. Bartlett anounced her release. Details o Witnesses ney Delos Duty has active charge of the prosscution. A. C. Lewis cf Harrisburg, 111.; Angus AV. Keer of Springfield, and George R. Stone, of Marion are defending the miners accused. Circuit Judge D. T. Hart well is presiding at the trial of the men. The defense called seven, witness State Prison Citizens Committee Sug gests Changes to Im prove Penal laws. Raleigh, Dec. 23. (By the Associ ated Press.) Recommendations foi legislation to be introduced at tht 1923 session of the North Carolim. General Assembly, increasing anc establishing the rotation system in the board of directors of the Statt prison, placing the -State prison un der support of governmental fundi and returning proceeds from the in stitution to the State treasury, total elimination flogging and making oth er changes, have been decided upon by the committee on policy and pro gram of the Citizens Committee of One Hundred on Prison Legislation. Abolition of the convict lease sys tem in the State, establishment 01 a colony for women offenders at the State prison farm, compulsory educa tion for prisoners at the State prison in addition to a system of industries, and abolition of the State hospital for dangerous insane at 'the institu tion are among the other changes to be fought for by the organization. Announcement of the program was made today by officials, following conference held here during the week. Dr. J. F. Steiner, Chapel Hili A. M. Scales, Greensboro; Dr. ,T. H. Pratt, Chapel Hill; Mrs. Kate Bun Johnson, commissioner of public welfare; Mrs. T. W. Bickett, Raleigh Roy M. Brown, Raleigh, and W. B. Sanders, Chapel Hill, participated in the conference. SUMMARY OF MEASURES. An official summary of the pro gram follows: - - "1. That at the session of the Gen eral Assembly for 1923, the Secretary of the State Board of Health and the State Commissioner of Public Welfare be made ex-officio members of tht board of director of tha State Prison, thus increasing the member ship of said board from five to sev en and that at the expiration of the term of the present board, there shall be elected by the General As sembly, upon recommendaion of the Governor, .five persons, who, with the two ex-officio members mention ed above, shall constitute the board of directors of the State prison. "Af the" 1925 session of the Gen eral Assembly, all five of these members shall be elected, two for a term of two years, two for a term of four years, and thereafter, the of six years, and thereafter, the term shall be six years for all, pro- ( Continned on Page Fire) Go-Getters THE LITTLE LOST PUP. I'm just a lonesome puppy That's strayed away from home; I'm longing for my fam-ly No fun at all to roam. I wish they'd write a want ad And tell folka how I look I'll bet I'd soon be back in The place that I forsook. Program Is Prepared ine Riot n Stan es Friday to support its previously announced -contention that the slay ings wrere justifiable homicide. It attempted to show that extreme pro vocation resulted from importation of armed guards and non-union min ers during tha coal strike. Witness es also told of the shooting of throe unior miners at the mine on the af ternoon of June 21. BIG DROUGHT HITSSTATES Haynes Warns Dry Ad vocates to be Not De ceived by We t sT t Washington, Dec. 23.- "Be of good cheer," was Prohibition Com missioner Haynes' Christmas mes sage today to "friends of the Eight eenth Amendment,' in which he do dared the success attained in pro hibition enforcement gave "every .-eason for hopefulness, gratification md congratulations." "Do not be deceived nor dismayed " said Mr. Haynes, "by a Nation-wide program of misrepresentation, con stituting as it does the most pre tentious, most pernicious propagan da to undetermine enforcement since the enactment of the amend .nent. "Admitting, of course that there ire violations of the Volstead Act unfortunately by some who hold themselves above the law the fact cannot and will not be con scientiously denied that the past year has been marked with rapid strides toward the same degree of onforcement of this law as obtains In respect to all other laws, none of which are enforced 100 per cent." Citing the abolishment of the open saloons as sufficient reason in itself for "good heer" other rea sons Mr. Haynes said were an "awakening on, the part of high of ficials, Federal, States, county and municipal" resulting "more impar tial observance of the law and great er respect for the Constitution by all classes;" greater activity of State and other enforcement agencies; re duction in the available . beverage supply of bonded liquor and in li quor smuggling, and the fact that the "home brew fad is taking finai rasps." "Furthermore, the fact is self-evident," said Commissioner Haynes "that real liquor is almost impossi le to obtain at any price, and when drinkers fully realize that the aver age bootleg product is dangerous to Mfe and health the law will, to an ncreased extent, enforce itself." CHINESE HONOR MISSION LEADER Portland, Ore., Dec. 23.-vMrs. Alary Berkey lies buried today in that squalid and fenced off . acre " of ancient Lone Fir cemetery, which is set apart for the graves of Chinese. It was by her request, made just before her death two days ago, and the request of tne Chinese among whom she had la bored aa a missionary, that her final- resting place - was among graves mostly headed by wooden boards marked with Chinese char acters and frequently decorated with . cooked foods and Incense sticks. At her funeral ln the First Bap tist church several staid Chinese merchants were among those who wept perceptibly. Mrs. Berkey was 70 years of age and had done missionary work among the Chinese here since Port land was a small town. The Chin ese have arranged to place a mar ble monument over her grave. NEW YORK BREAKS SHOPPING RECORD New York, Dec. L3. Holiday bdy ing; in New1 York has broken all rec ords and $230,000,000 has been spent by shoppers here, it was estimated today in business quarters. This sum represents an increase of from 15 to 20 per cent over last year. Nearly every line of Christmas trade has reported an increase in sales ai.d more persons than ever have b:n required to hhrdle the business. In the 5,009 dry goods stores t-Ione nearly 20t,09 people have been employed. O ARREST SOON MANY MEN Hi HOODED BAND Mutilated Bodies Cast up From Lake Thought to Be Band's Victims. SEND MORE" TROOPS Louisiana Attorney Gen eral Takes CIarge of Prove at Mer Rouge Monroe, La., Dec. 23.- Attorney General Coco has set January 5' as the date for the Morehouse Parish open hearing in connection - with fthe Morehouse kidnaping case, it was learned here today. The Attorney General and a spe cial train with two companies of Louisiana National Guard arrived in Bastrop this morning and the mili tary men pitched camp on the court house square. IDENTIFY B0DD3S FOUND FLOATING IN THE LAKE Mer Rouge, La., . Dec. 23. At tempts to positively identify the mutilated bodies of the two men cast up from the bottom of Lake LaFourche yesterday morning by a heavy charge of dynamite placed there by unidentified persons will be made today. Relatives and friends after viewing the bodies yesterday expressed the belief that they were those of Watt Daniel J and Thomas Richards, mysterious ly missing since the night of Au gust 24, when they were kidnappod by a hooded band together with three other prominent citizens of this town. The partial identification of the bodies were made by means of the belts worn by the two men and a few shreds of clothing. The heads, arms and portions of the leg3 of both were missing, believed to hava been torn off when they wero loos ened from the bed of the lake. The torsos were bound with heavy wire. Mrs. Anna Garretson, of 'West Monroe, mother of Richards, v. ill arrive here this morning and view the bodies. Before leaving Monica she said she would be able to iden tify her son. Company A, Louisiana National Guard of Alexandria, and a ma chine gun company from New Or leans, ordered to proceeded t Morehouse Parish, were due to, ar riye here or at Bastrop early today.- It -was not definitely knovrn at which place they would be sta tioned. Attorney General Coco, who ia to take charge of any legal proceed ings growing out of the kidnaping accompanied the New Orleans militiamen. The Attorney General ia said to have stated that, the additional troops would be used to protect those engaged in the investigation of the kidnaping and to prevent a possible clash between opposing e ments. Two pathologists from Ke Or leans will arrive this morning and hold an autopsy on the bodies to determine if they were killed ocfora being thrown into the lake. DEFERS THE INQUEST. Dr. Fred Patterson, coroner, view ed the bodies late yesterday but de ferred the holding of an inquest. It was stated that it would prcbably be held today. A troop guard will be maintained over the bodies un til the completion of the autopsy and inquest and an exhaustive ef fort at positive identification ha 3 been made. It was generally believed that arrests of at least 20 persons in Morehouse parish and the Mer Rouge neighborhood, alleged mem bers of the hooded band, whose names are said to have been se cured by department of jsLIc-i agents, will follow if the bodies of the two men are identified as those of Daniels and Richards. Prominent citizens of the parish are said to have been involved in the investigation. The arre3t of eeveral others in Arkansas and Mis sissippi is anticipated. It was officially stated that no one connected with the search of the missing men in an official ca pacity was involved ; in the dyna miting of the lake. It is believed by the officials that those respon sible for the dynamiting became frightened and fled before they dis covered that the bodies had risen from their watery grave. Another attempt will probably be made today by a diver to locate the heads and other missing por tions of the victims. An effort was made yesterday to find them and tho weights that have held the bodies on the bed of the lake but coj-.ditions there were found to be too dangerous to complete the work. The bodies were further Identi fied this morning when viewed by Richards' widow; J. L. Daniels, aged father of Watt and a score 'of other relatives and friends. Identification of at least Watt Dan iels is complete, according to author ities, because of the Initials "F. W. D." found on a belt buckle and which buckle Daniels is said to have worn at the time he was spirited away. The inquest probably will be held late this afternoon, according to a message received here this morn ing from Dr. Fred Patterson More house Parish coroner, who returned today to Bastrop. Dr. Patterson said no effort had yet been made to official identify the bodies. He said he was await ing instructions from the Attorney General as to how to proceed. Charlotte and' Vicinity: Fair to night, Sunday and Monday; some what warmer tonight. Gentle soutn west and west winds. North Carolina and South Caro olina: Fair tonight and Sunday; slightly warmer toiTSght. J ii i 1 - r t