HAYNKS PR A IS £5 "DRY"
SLEUTHS AS PATRIOTS
Washington, Nov. 5.—Praising the
bravery and vigilance of Um fiaM
agenta of the prohibition Milu,
Major Roy A. Haynea, Mml prohi
bition commiaaioner, directed anothor
character! atic broadaide hara today at
A# buctllmiii um) moonshinevi And
<*arg»d that they have now taken to
UHlnff revenue arsnts whan thay can
not ha brlbad. Listing fatalltlaa In hia
Carta, Commissioner Haynaa mentions
tfcs slaying <sf J. H. Koaa while en
gaged In a raid hi Swain county,
North Carolina.
Commissioner Haynaa' coramant on
the bootlaggsr and tha moonahtnar la
aut of tha ran of tha ordinary official
atataaasnt*. It came from Haynaa'
awn office and through hli own pub
licity agent, and waa not cleared
through tha offlea of Pa rid Blair,
oommlaalonar of Intamal ravanua and
tha Imndlnti ehlaf of tha prohibition
director. Major Haynea accuses boot
laggsn of aalng high voltage electric
al deviraa, bribery, ahotguna, bull
dog, and other weapons and thing* In
Mr war on hla agenta. Mad of tha
flald forca, ha aaya, are offarad fabu
loua bribaa and a faw yield to tempta
tion. Hia agenta are also shot at
and chawed up by bulldogs, obeervea
tha new commissioner of pnhlbitlon,
who haa recently adopted several un
usual publicity methoda.
Hair IkaaaaH Approve.
It is known hare that Commiaaioner
■lair haa not altogether approved of
Mr. Haynaa' campaign. The prohibi
ten commiaaioner goes about tha
oMintry giving interviews, ihaei I lli|
raids, attacking tha Uqoor-aading
gantry and sometimes saying where
ha propoaee to hit next. Hit statement
and methods at* rather startling in
the official eire'ss In Waahington and
seldom. If aver, haa a government of
ficial been so peppery and Informal.
It la understood that Coouniss toner
Hair apraelatsa the ash) of Ma ehlaf
Mho to aaa Major Haynaa ton* down
hia publicity stoats It la known her*
that Commissioner Blair haa indicated
hla daelre to Major Haynea, but the
latter continues to issue red hot state
menta through hia own publicity ahop.;
However the aituation ia aaid to be,
righting itaelf gradually.
Meanwhile, Prohibition Commis
sioner Haynes' attack on tha bootleg
gara today makaa entertaining read
ing. Bootlcggera, he aaya, now in
clude ex-convicts, criminals, common
ceooka, as well as the men of unlimit
ed wealth and no acruples. Afterward
ha liata instances where hia agenta
have been shot down In the mountains
ef North Carolina, Georgia, and Ala
bama and other placea, while in quest
sf illicit liquor operations.
Pace Tempts tie* and Death
"These nan," aaid Commiaaioner
Haynea, referring to the field foree,
%sve faced death, acorn and tempta
tion to do their duty. Some newt-,
paper and public officials have joined
ia with the violators in defaming these:
"It 1* true mm tin fallen by the
wayside froa temptation, but we hav«
teday in the eervlee man of character
and calibre, who aarre from the mo
tive of patdotiem and are aleeplaaa in
vigilant*, unswerving in loyaltjr. faar
laaa in doing their duty and who face
their daily tailu in the aame manner
tn which the Engliah ting of their men ;
who advanced in Handera: they go ai1
Switching from the field* of Plan-1
dera to the bootlegger and his bulldog
Mr. Hayne*, reauming condition* in
the revenue service, aaya that the
commiadoner "in tht* connection re
lated an instance of a bootlegger act
ting a bulldog on the agent Ha auf
fered almoat faUl injury, one lag be-'
tag horribly mangled. Before taken
amy, police arrived, but the agent re
fused to permit the arreet of the boot
legger before morning on account of
the eerie os condition of the bootleg
g**i ,
It is added that prohibition agent*
take most extreme risks because
Sauy of thoae engaged la the IMett
liquor traffic arc ex-convlcU, crimin
ate and coraaMM crook*: alao engaged
ia the traffic are unscrupulous men
of unlimited meana, who hecitate at
as maps or Method* to asdace/msnts
with offer* of gain far la exreas of
teeir iliajn
"But reocRtly twn agents in New
To** cRy teraed down aa offer of
»w> wo each, with prom ice at double
salaries for An TMn or MM."
u*«f umiim
Pimm tha records of Conunla
•toner Haynea' of fie* for the put
ywr the following r«u»i of violence
to prohibition i|wti «ii made ap
today:
Klrby Frun, fatally ahot whtla die
mantling a *1111 at Perry.Okla., tha
uwimt of tha pro party daHbeintely
firing at htm.
Agents C. A. Wood and 8. B. Beck
ott murdered at Mlland, Taxaa, by a
»sr,g of boolleggere, fttantion B.
Walaa, ahot under similar elrrum
atancaa In Long county, Okla.
Agent Jo* Boalb, fatally ahot from
ambuah naar Hunte villa, Taxaa, whila
In aMrek of a still. In Adama county
Colorado, agente narrowly eacaped
daath In a bootlegger's, shad whila a
box of dynamite waa planted for thalr
destruction.
"Repeatedly," aayt tha Haynaa
statement, "trapa arc sat for agents
and stills are protected with high
voltage electrical devicee. In cortain
sactiona of tha country aganta taka
their llvaa Into thalr own handa whan
venturing Into so callad moonahlna
territory."
Agent W. D. Doraey, waa fatally
■hot in White county, Georgia, whan
in search of a still.
Agent J. H. Rosa, aitibuahed and
killed In a raid In Swain county,
North Carolina.
Agent Griffin, fatally ahot by
moonshiners naad Gadaden, Ala., while
investigating illicit liquor aalaa.
B. W. Jackson, fatally ahot by own
er of a still in a raid In Taylor county
Georgia.
Ernest W.Walker, agent, mortally
wounded near tha International bound
ary Una in Taxaa by a bud of wkiaky
smugglers.
Age.it Jaoob P. Green, shot about
seven miles north of Biehton, Mlae
isalppi, whila raiding a atflL
John Wataon, ahot and killed hp
bootleggers one mUe south of An
thony, Now liexieo, whila aUipllag
an arreet.
Carroll Nawa, Not. 8-21
Skaggs Brothers of Burnsville, N.
C. are planning to build an electric
plant which will servj Hills villa Va.
and the surrounding territory. This
will be marked improvement and will
revolutionise lighting.
Skagpa Brothers have bought of J.
G. Crockett and Georga F. Blank en -
ship, for the building i* the dam. Th's
dam is to be about 800 feat in length
with a 80 foot head and will be of
•olid concrete construction The ap
proximate cost of the entire develop
ment la about 120,000. They expect
to etart work at once, and tf their
preeant plana are carried out, light
and power for praeent demands will be
available by January 1.
They are experienced hydro-electric
engineers and will own and operate
tha plant themaelvea. They have met
with the hearty support and co-opera
tion of tha patrons In the town and
community in tha promotion of the
project.
Saisa a Saw Mill mmI 1504UI
Urn Still
Richmond, V»., Nov. 4.—Prohibi
tion officer* In Bedford county havt
made • report of operation* near
Smith mountain of a raid that they
made a few days ago that appears to
have been out of the ordinary. Tfiey
went to a place opeaated by Jess*
Brammer, where there wai a uw mill
and a corn mill. The officer* made
an iiupeOtion of the place and dis
covered that in the cellar under the
sawmill waa a *till of 150 gallons ca
pacity, the engine and boiler of the
mill furnishing the power lor the
operation of the still. They made a
further investigation and In the house
they found thirty-five gallons of li
quor. The officers appropriated the
still, the engine, the boiler, the corn
mill, the sawmill and all the appara
tus used In connection with the still,
the sasfte being part of the liquor
making outfit Brammer wa* arrest
ed and taken to the county offices.
The still was a complete affair in
every particular.
The oldest harp ia the world is pre
served at the Louvre ia Paris. It la
r early 4,000 years old dkd was found
tn an Egyptian tomb. Harpers were
held la such high regard by the an
cient Celtic racea that they war* treat
ed with veneration, their persons be
ta* sarrsd aad their Wads being free.
. MOUSE CHECKS ONI Of
CHIEF HEROES OF WAR
Washington, Nov. 6—III honor of •
world *li hero whose exploit* bat re
i-onUy became generally known, the
' house at repreeentatlv** today geve,
wag to om of Ha periodical dmon
ntratlon* and emotional tribute*,
The eenler of It all *at a modest
unohstrueive fallow -who *at Ik tha
galleries and expected nothing of tha
kind. Ha I* Sergeant Samuel Wood
i fill, possessor of the congrea*tonal
medal of Honor and other decorations,
| and deaignatad by General Pershing
a* the on* American veteran entitled
to be tha body bearer for the "unkown
dead" soldier who will be buried in 1
> Arlington cemetery on Armiatioe day.
A member from Sergeant WoodfllCa
own *tata, Indiana, aroee and aald thatj
he waa In tha galleries. Tan day ago'
the announcement would have meant,
nothing except poaalbly for "home
consumption." Today tha entireJ
1 membership of the house itood up and j
applauded and yelled. Sergeant Wood
1 fUl, with face reddening, under the In
! fluence of ovatton, arose In the gal
leriea and with soldierly bearing gave
a military aalute.
And ao the lower body of Congreaa
today gave ita tribute to a soldier
about whom the war department haa
Juat aald that "hi* heroism la practi
cally unknown to the people of thai
United Statea." Following the read-,
Ing of the citation of hla heroism.
Repreaentativa Boy Woodruff, of |
Michigan, one time commanding offi
cer of Sergeant Woodflll, awoke thai
house to renewed applaoae whan ha
related how Woodflll had aarved t
him and said never a word about hla I
heroism In stdhnlng three Oarmaaj
machine gun neeta and killing
capturing mm* than aseore of tha|
enemy.
In the ward
of tha
During the house debate today it|
waa forcefully brought out that al
though Sergeant Woodflll was pro
moted to lieutenant and then captain
because of his gallantry, today he is
back tavthe ranks of a sergeant in the
army re-oriranimtion that took from
ao many officers their wsr time rank.
Representative Woodruff said ha
would offer a bill to give back to Ser
geant Woodflll the rank he won by
heroism in the war. ,
After Representative Ben ham, of
Indiana, had caused the house to
break into stormy acclaim in honor of
the Hooaler veteran, who is here to
he the chief mourner of the unkowa
dead—an honor to which General
Pershing believaa he peculiarly la en
titled—Representative Woodruff, fre
quently interrupted by applaoae aald:
"It Is a mater of regret to me that
I could not have been Lieutenant
Woodfill's commanding officer whan
he earndd the distinction that was ac
corded him in the general order of the
army Just read to the hoiae. My as.
* nation with tha now Se^eant, and
then Lieutenant Woofflrtll, came after
the signing of the armistice.
n i mi hi • xvw Mjn aiter in* iijn
ing of the armistice I ni sent to the
Bordeaux embarkation camp for duty
along with some 160 other officer*. I
wa» assigned to certain duties, among
them being commanding officer of the
different casuals coming through the
camp. They were coming in and
leaving continually, getting their re
cords straightened out, obtaining
equipment and so on before going to
the United States. A • commanding
Officer one of the companies was
then a Lieutenant Woodfill. He serv
ed under me there four or sis weeks,
allowing the same efficiency and devo
tion to duty he showed In the Ar
gonne.
"Lieutenant Wodfill was a man of
becoming modesty. He was with us
five or six weeks and no one among us
ever had the slightest Idea that daring
the war ha had done anything out of
the ordinary. By no word or aet did
he attempt to call the attention of his
comrades to anything he had done
himself. • *
"Ond day he walked into my offtoe
and said he had to go to Chaunaont. I
J said, 'All right,' and asked him haw
1 long he wanted to be gone. He rsphad
'three or four days.' He went and re
| turned. A weak or 10 days after hie
1' return 1 happened to see general or
der Mo. it. which cited the Uenteaqrt
In the way m have Just heart and
, than I learned that ha had bans or
tiered ib CiWtiBont to rwhn Ik* m»
fMiioiiAl bimUI, Um hifbcit AiMfi*
cm* 4*cor*ttoa.
"Up to that Um nobody at twp
knew why ha bad gaee to Ckaumont
So, not totting Mai taw that I kM
»een Um gaum) order, 1 mU to kim:
" "Lieutenant. have yoe mm any ac
ttoa tn this wmr?'
"H* mM that ha bad.
" 'Have you killed any of tha
mmmyV
"Ha replied affirmatively I aakad
fniy know of IV ha replied, and
I aakad him, 'How long vara you tn
action?'
• 'About two boar*' waa hte modaat
reaponse, and really, tha way tejakl
it tod ma to baltora ha raally fait ha
should hava don* better than that
"I am glad that ha baa bean given
tha great diatinction of being the
chief pallbearer for tha unknown dead,
hot I learn al*o with regret that tha
then Lieutenant and later Captain
Woodfill waa now a mere sergeant In
the army. I notify the house today 1
■hall offer a bill that would gtv* to
Sergeant Woodfill tha rank that ha
earned on the battlefield* of France."
Tha war department citation of Ser
geant Woodfill show* that h* ' • Ingle
handed demolished three machine
gun neata, killing thoae hi the last
neat with a pick, when hi* gun rafOaod
further to work .
Holiness Conference Meets at
Burlington
Burlington, Nov. t.—The 11th tee
lion of the annual conference of the
International HoHneaa churrh, south
ern district, met In Burlington HoH
neaa church at Burlington at I p. a.
perintendent C. C^Jtowa, op Mid tha
conference with aa tmpreeetve Bible
toaaon and a few coeunenta en prayer.
The dtotrict *uperintendent, S. M.
Mhetoether, then took charge, and ap
pointed all tha neceoaary coaunltteee
to properly take ear* at the bnabnaa
the *eaag*ilt>r service at 1:S0 p. m.
Rev. C. C. Brown preached.
Conference opened at 9 a. m today.
The devotional *ervioe waa conducted
by Rev. Henry T. Roddy, of Albe
marle, who read a portion of Malachl
8, and made a few befitting re
mark* on tithlnj. At th* roll call 42
ministers and M delegate! responded
with more to rome.
Mystery Woman Dim at
Lenoir Man'* House
Lenoir, Nov. S.—Mrs. E. Z. Smith
•lied hers last night at the home of
Calvin Triplet, Where she has been
boarding for the past several weeks,
after a brie/ illness from pneumonia.
When she first came here she si1 small
much avers* to letting any on* know
who the *as, where she was from and
her buslMM. She kept her affairs a
secret as much aa possible. After
•h* became ill, those with whom ska
was boarding asked her if she had any
near relatives, and ah* replied that
she had none, and the day before she
died she insisted that she had no near
relative*.
However, an envelop addressed to a
party in Florida waa found, and a
message waa sent to the siidrtos. Im
mediately a reply waa received Baking
for more information, which waa
given. As a result on Saturday a
slater, daughter and niece of the
woman arrived frdm Alabama. The
deceased had requested T. J. Stone to
make her a cheap pine eoffln, and
after she was dead to let no one see
her. On arrival, the sister said that
they had not heard from Mrs. Smith
in several years, and they did not
know whether she was living or not.
After her death a Hickory under
taker prepared the body, and it waa
taken to Alabama for burial.
■ * i ■ —
Harding M Years' Old
Washington, Nov. 2.—President
Raiding celebrated his M0i birthday
today quietly at the Whit* House, ae
special program having bos* arranged
for the occasion. Scor*a of congratu
latory letters aad Ulsgiams were re
ceived throughout the country, and
many from abroad.
Hull-less oats have been raised Oy
the South Dakota Agricultural Col
lege after four year*' work. The new
oats chi* year yielded M bushels to
the toe. The erdfcary white oats
with holla yielded sely U beshoU to
the ears The aew grain 1* eaaep
Uonally valuable for hog food.
AMERICA TO ONTO PLANS
TO REDUCE ARMA
Nvil
Waehlngton, Nov. Sh—'The polMaa
and pro*ram of the American
ttaa to Um wiwnt twrfirimi w#
beginning to unaa definite outline
*n<f if th« expectation a of official
Wuklaiton in realise^ the opening
days of the conform** wtll m i
of development* mMtkhi
Ilk* thU:
Praeentetlon, at tho outeet, of •
concrete American plan for for reach
ing reduction of naval armament.
Consideration, alone with thia plan,
of inch troublesome pwbli <K Um
far mat aa mar nato rally project
I Oiemeahraa into tho picture.
Meantime, an effort by the United
Statoa to keep tho negotiationa In the
' open ao that pnhHc opinion may exert
tta praaauro toward practical
pliahmeat.
1 Salient faatarea of th*
1 naval armaments propoaal already
i have been established, and although
' detail* Remain to b* fixed, there la
i reaaon to bollov* th* reduction* sug
' gested will b* sweeping enough to
eon vine* tho whole world that the
United Statoa meant buiineaa when it
called the power* into conference.
It would caua* no aurpri** if thw
leading naval power* found It necea
aary to submit th* plan of thl* gov
•rwwit to long and careful itudy be
fore they determine on their course of
action. Should tho redoctkma propea
ad prove unacceptable, it la believed
likely that tho American dalagatea.
having onoe taken the Initiative, would
invite the other power* to pnmi la
their torn aome cone rat* counter pto
All tko evidence |
conference of th* American big font
with their naval adviaan have
to inctaoioa of a aet of
figurea in^tha plaa to he laid
■Mil— to uveal any
dataila of thaaa fignraa, bat there has
bean apparent a fain to lay bar* at
the very outaet of the negotiation*,
the fall extent to whieh the United
Btetea would bo willing to go in seal
ing down the world'a naval armament.
The impression that auch a method
may not lead to an Immediate agree
ment haa been given color by the ap
parent Intention of acme of the pow
er* to pursue a directly opposite
courae and enter the conference let
ting a high figure aa the meamire of
the naval armament they consider re
quisite to their national aafety. Japan
already ha* indicated that *hc would
auggeat the neceeaity of maintaining
a navy equal to any which might enter
her sphere In the far aaat; a propor
tion which naval experta aay ia welt
in exceaa of h*r present power.
It is conceivable among American
officiate that aome of th* far eastern
problems may be brought sharply into
isaoe aa aoon aa repliee are mad* to
the initial propoaal of thia govern
ment for naval reduction*. Naturally
tit* oth«r powers will deetra to aet
forth their nmrii for the attitude
they tab on thia propoaal, and in tl a
consideration of thaaa reasons tba
confaranea may nring entirely away
from the question of armament, for
the moment and addrees itself directly
to the caasee tor armament.
The determination of the American
government that thaaa exchangee
thai! be kept aa tor aa poeaible from
the realm of underground , diplomacy
waa reiterated today in highest ad
miniatration quartan. Official• nay
'their plan la tor giving publicity to
the proceedings if the conference aa
complete aa to aaaun> to the praaa the
fulleet Information osr»Satetit with
public policy and give public opinion
ample opportunity to w intelh
gent part in shaping the dacMora of
the delegates.
Re*. Tom P. Jimiaon Gnta
Fix Wakerna at pgr
Spencer. Nor. 6.—Eev. Tom P.
«f Central Methodiat church, haa ar
rived hi Sfweeee and haw been given
a cordial welcome by the congrega
tion. Ha and Ma wife, tflth a young
•on. are domiciled In the Methodiat
parsonage hare. He/ Mr. Jimiaon will
occupy the pnlptt of the Methodist
church Sunday morning and at night,
theee being hia flret aervioee hare aa
pee tor. Ha in recognised aa one of
the lendhw thtnkera and moat font
ful preachers >n theWoatera^ Nortt
REPUBLICANS TO tACK
AWTt-LYNCH LAW
.. il Warrant ami AalmiM t
to Ow Sratoa ««
Waahington, Oat. SI—WiM; mm
flic tin# viewa oa Dm anti-lynchtag
bill, now btfon Cuagrni, wm pra
aeflted In the Houae today In majority
and minority npoita from the JtoM
ary committor.
Tha bill. introdaced by h>mrti
live Dyar, Republican, Mlawt.
would undertake towlpe ou« lyneWee
by haary penaltlee to ba impoaad aa
peraona participating aad officer*
charfad with enforcing tha peace.
Countiea In whiah paraana art pat to
death by nob* alao would be aubjected
to heavy fine* In the Federal Court.
Citing ttia demand In the platform
adopted by tha laat Republican Na
tional convention to end lynching, tha
plea of Preeident Harding la an ad
draM to Congreea "to wipa oat tkla
barbaric »Ula," and tha appeal at
Preeident Wilaon In ltll to r!%!■—a
to help atop mob law, tha majority re
port, prepared by Mr. Dyer declared
that tbaae and almllar eppeeli "have
If one for naught and lynching* con
tinue."
Want faagraaa to Arf.
"Congraaa muat provide the raeaaa
for ending thia cowardly crime," the
report continued. "It la in puniihtog
thoae who taka part In It or who par
mit It.
"Tha prevalence In many Statoa af
tha apirit which toleratee lynching,
accompanied too often with iahaaMm
enmity, aad tha Inability er un wfl
Hngneaa of tha public authortUaa to
poniah tha peraoea gaiHy ai tUa
crime, thraataa vary aartaaaly tha fii
tare peace of tha aatha. LyaaWag
biota our fab name aa a nation for wa
atantly fursUhlng fvroh eaamplaa."
The report added that while H tod
been loipoaait'le to got accurate fig.
urea, available racorda ahuWad SJM
peraona had l«en lynched In the laat
80 year* of aklch number 1JSX1 ware
nagroea. #
Declaring the bill unconatitutionai,
the minority report preaented by Say.
reaentative Svmnera, Democrat, Tana
contended it would tend to daatzay
the aenae of locai! reeponaibility with
out adding to proteifton of the pee
ple.
Without C'«n»titutWiB»l WirruL
"Thi* bill, in the judgment of tk«
giinority U without constitutioMl
warrant" Mid the report. It U de
finitely >nd directly antagonistic te
the philosophy of our ayiteaa of gov
ernment and within the limit »f iU
effectiveneaa If ft ihould be held ooo
■titutional, would be deetractire of