North Carolina Newspapers

dudding ready to GO TO BAT Want* Investigation Dudding »• E**«ni»o Wlt" mmm, Manning to Ro^ms ant Prison Wa*hlngt«n. Apr" !«.—President I. B. Duddinf, of the Prisoner*' Re lief society. today '• '•ady 10 to to the bat with Corner MOrri 1* and see who ha* the fart. h« the cruelty charge against penitent!# ry employ** «* *»»•««»* "I expected my charge* to ha de nial," ««ld "I h"v* »worn affl" davit* to hark op my allegation*, and will gladly preeent th«" 10 *ny committee named for an inveetiga Hon J *ugge*t that the governor appoint a commltte composed of new*paper men and other* willing to dir a little for the troth. "In my handa I hare affidavit* that would startle the rovernor. One of the** affidavit, la signed b* » white men In pri*on in the *tate. letter* backing me up are com In* from various part* of the state. "To *et at the troth let the *ov ernor order an inve*tlgatlon and per mit me to examine witne*«cs *nd let the penitentiary people be represent ed by the attorney genral That 1* *11 I a«k *nd it *eem« fair." Duddin* U » nervous exciUble man. who wa» mistreated in a West Virginia pri*on. where be *erved a term for slaying a man. He tall* of hi* offenae, claiming »elf-defense, and hi* punishment. in a kooUrt. There 1* no secret about hi* life; he I* frank about everything. He ha* done a great deal of hard work for e*-pri*oner». Many men and women were aided by him when other* turn-, ed them down because of pri*on re But He is too ready to accept ex aggerate* *tatementa. He ha» *tlr-| red up loU of sensation* in the la»t, few year* and dona *oa»* real good, but many of HU charge* have ** panned eut. Ha mean* wen, Ms ke <|u*intanca* here believe, bat goes >40 far sometime*. | Dodding ha* many letter* par-, porting to be from men and women, m the North Carolina penitentiary. He will not permit the use of the j name* of the writer* or the affidavit maker*. He promises to (five these J a hearing li ordered. Dudding ha* been after the Vlr, uinia penitentiary authorities. A halfj facen state* have been inve.tiR.ted I ny him and hi* a»*i*Unt* in recent ; months. He ha* been instrumental •o having warden* fired. 1 Dudding claims to have proof of graft in one or more instance* in North Carolln*. He will present hi* evidence to show crookedness if the inquiry i* launched. TV accuracy •»f this charge i* seriously doubted by Morth Carolinian* here. But there is a feeling that he should be given an opportunity to »how hi* hand on thi* and other charge*. That i* w*at was done in Virginia and other state*. I BANKER MUST SERVE THREE YEARS Supreme Court Says All Operative Cases Will Be De ckled as the Jesses Case Raleigh, April IS.—Per car ism an-1 louncement by the Supreme court to-j •tay that *11 tobacco co-operatire ssas which are now before the tribu nal will be decided as the Jones case 'rom Nash last week automatically ■nds the litigraions and the state ment la of as much interest aa any i4 the several handed down today, nmong them Basil Hedgecock of Guil *ord, in which the bank cashier must < •erve three years for false entries. The Hedgecock case is decidcd inanimously, Chief Justice Clark *riting the opinion. The bsnksr •ested his hope of s new trial on al-1 first ions of s fstsltty defective bill of ndictraent, but Judge Clark finds n0| merit in the several exceptions.' The Hefendant ssked sn arrest of judg nent on that ground and contended 'urther that at the tims of ths of fense the bank was not called a bank D the proper definition of the stat-1 ite. Chief Justice Clark holds that the Home Banking company "is s cor poration incorporated under the laws > if the state of North Carolina,' quot mg from ths bill of indictments, and that "ths defendant had ths fnDsst knowledge that the Hoige Banking nsaspany st the time of the all egad iffenae was engaged in the banking fceslasss." I ISLE or RUM DISCOVERED Prohibition Agmt Rinu hto FIm( of Rum SoniiUri New York. April It.-A government Itxprdition **t out from N»w York to day to diacovrr the Isles of Rum. It returned tonight ■uceuful. with ill caae* officially charted off the Jer sey shore, 12 mil** southaaat of An. brnae channel. When the Associated Pr»M several month* ago flrat reported extensive liquor smuggling off Highland*. fed eral prohibition offiriaJ» (were \ rlined to scoff at tha presence of a siaeahle liquor fleet. Today, however, Palmer Cornfield, new federal prohibi tion director for New York, derided to get flrat hand information and took a band of newspapermen with him down the harbor on the roast, guard cuUer Manhattan. Although he did not see a drop of liquor, ha< returned convinced there »»< plenty under the hate he* of the foreign craft riding at anchor outalde the three mile limit. | Canfield critically inspected the fleet, which had *hrunk from 17 vea-1 *e!« to six; declined an invitation to hoard the flagahip l*tar, wa» "aassed" by one of her officer*, and on the way home frankly denounced the rum craft a* ocean buzxnrd* pluafcing at the heart of the nation. He held the fleet accountable for the smuggling n*horv of 100,000 ca*e» of liquor a year and declared that, to combat the smuggler* it wan absolutely nece* •ary to hnve an adequate water pa trol supplemrnte-l by a sufficient land force. Mr. Canfield, acermpatiied by Han ford H. Cohen, assistant United State* attorney, found a ncorr of newspaper men awaiting him when he boarded the Manhattan. At the cutler (steamed down the bay she passed anothar government boat tow ing two dories which had been cap tured. The rum fleet finally was sighted. The crews displayed no anxiety and little curiouaty aa the cottar, pow erless under international law to board tha alien craft, hove to. Her form, the former giving indicationa of strict diacijline—lined the raila and waved affably to the Manhat tan. From a distance the Is tar. with her graceful tinea, stood oat as a queen among beggars, but as the Manhattan approached, those aboard the cutter could see that the black paint had been chiseled off thr Tatar's side* by the wave*. The fundamental red showed through here and there, giv ing the craft a pock-marked appear ance. Her *uperstructur« wa* a din gy gray, her bowsprit was gone, and altogether she looked as diurnal as a summer ramp in winter. The Manhattan came next to the schooner Catherine M., of Yarmouth. Alongside her was a Sandy Hook mo wr Doai. The cutter's skipper. Lieutenant I'ommander M. J. Ryan, sharply in quired what the American craft was doing. Two men in the launch— which wax equiped with an engine capable of 20 knots an hour—replied that they had broken down outside look last nlyht and that the wind had blown them oat If miles along side the Catherine M. "Odd wind," Commander Ryan com mented, but standing in the Manhat tan's bow he could see that the open J boat had no liquor, and there was| nothing to be done. The Catherine Marv, of Nassau, an other schooner, was the next rraft encountered. She was a sorry look ing vessel, with auto tires hung over the side for lumper*. The schooner Mary Conner of Naasau. was next passed and then the biggest of the. fleet was viiitad. She was the 3,0001 ton tanker Wamxawa out of London. Then the Manhattan ran upon an old friend, the M. M. Gardner of Lunen-: burg. N. S., vhose capture by coast eHarris a year ago led to the treasury department rulkifr that no foreign sWtp must be seized outside the three mile limit. Finally the cutter returned to the Istar and an amusinp repartee oc curred on the hich seas. Captain Reed, addressing the ex-, yatch's commander exchanged a num-< her of question* and Canfield, who had declined to go aboard after the Istar had barred newspapermen, con-; versed through a megraphone with' the ship's punier. The purser was far from the conventional picture of a rum craft'* officer. He waa nattily dreaaed in bhn with glaaaca strung around his neck, and chatted from the bow of bis veaael with indisput-.ble British accent. Hi* diction waa that of a varsity man. HARD TO TURN DOWN MERCY PLEAS Path*tic Appitli of the Con demned Relative* Trying an • Governor Raleigh, April -Another pathe tic rhsptun- wan a<kM to the his tory of appeals for executive clem ency t<*lay when the wifr of Milton Nohlrijk nf Columbus rounty, eol lapwd upon hearing (Jovernor Mor rison announce he could not interfere with the nentence. Tuesday Kan been wl a* the data for Noble*' rlwtnni tlon. Thr woman appeared at thr rim tivr offieea unannounced thin mom ing and *» one of thr flint to *ee thr governor. She wan unable to of fer any anrummt for thr lifr of hrr huxhand and ventured on a tearful appeal. Thr governor called for the paper* and looked into them care fully. They were accompanied by nrvrral paper* of petition*, about equally divided for Noble* and those who w. rr in*i*tent upon hi* execu tion. When told that thr verdict of the court could not with juxtirr he chanc ed. thr woman awooned in her chair and became unconoiou*. The rov rrnor. who wa* alonr with her. nought to revive her. and assistance came from the secretary's office. Regain ing ron»iou*ne*» Mr*. Noble* wa* placed in the governor'* automobile iwi'i sent to her room in a local hotel. This afternoon *he wa* reported a* i-ompoKed. The,appeal* of women and children for relief for their husband* and father*, or of mothers for their sons, make up a aerie* of almost daily inci dent* in the governor's office; and the recognized constitutional intent for the exercise of clemency with legal or circumstantial justification frequently conflict* sharply with the heart-breaking appeal* of those vic tim* of criminal acta. A wif« or mother** appeal in • capital case comes infrequently only because the number of thaee eases in United. Almost eve17 eWctrocu tfa* h preceded by a personal ap peal to the governor by some loved one and the mere fact that the elec tric chair continues to put in Ha dead ly work is evidence of the ordeal through which a governor must go. This morninr's appeal of Nobles' wife so effected Governor Morri«or that he wa* forced to leave hi* office and go to the mansion for rot. Familiarity with the way of the court* und the observance of the daily proeeiwion of pathetic appeal* for clemency give* u clear contrast of the impersonal grinding out of iu*tice in the one and the personal, heart touching search for mercy in j the other. In capital canes, the de fendant goe* before the Jury of his peer* in superior court, and those who love him most silently sit by and exert their impressions upon the jury without the opportunity of1 speaking. Usually, the case is car ried into supreme court, where attor-; neys for the condemned man make their appeals to the five justices who ran look at the evidence from the purely legal and circumstantial stand - point; the wive* and children or mo thers are not there. Hut the poor fellow*a case is brought before the governor with the wife nr mother unburdening their souls to htm, and, frequently, with a flock if children sending up their appeal thmugh their own victimized inno- j -rnce, and the ovemor muat look at the n« an the court* have viewed it while those whose hearts are burst-' inif plead for their loved one's aal-; avation, whatever his crime may have l)ccii. In Nobles' case, the supreme court was not called upon to pass upon the court's sentence. Not had an appeal previously been made to the governor, although the date had been set once before and posjoned because of the illness of the warden's wife. Mr*. Nobles must have seen the futility >f her hope nnd reconciled herself to her husband's fate, until today the lieiperately decided upon one tragic appeal because she -wanted him to live. Nobles killed Henry Nobles Inat •v-pt ember. There had been a "grudge," as the court reported It, of long standing The dead man was SS years of age, and his murder left two orphans. The f&mih of the «l-iin man have persiatently fought executive clemency, and petitions > timed by people of Columbus coanty insisted upon electrocutk>n, although a !arg* number of altfMtvr** wer» placed to • paper that aaked commu tation to life imnriaonment [FORD INTERESTED IN ! NORTH CAROLINA ROADS Financier Soaks Water Outlet For HU Kentucky Mian Bow* Road Could Bo Uaod Raleigh. April 13. Senator J. R Hinrlt, of Harnett county, came to Raleigh today with a story of Henry Ford's interest in a railroad running through North Carolina to the Ma and connecting with coal mines Ha ha* acquired in Kentucky. Ford | wanta a means of conveying coal to (ha coast for aufplying steamers and ha recently offered ninaty mill kin dollar* for tha Virginian railway, the llarnatt senator reported, expressing cartainty that ha had received a piece of nawii that came straight from tha automobile manufacturer. Mr. Raggett ia interested in a rail roads project himaelf, and it waa through this enterpriae that ha haard of Ford's Interest. Hi* road ia tha proponed Carolina Cantral. routad to run from I.lllington to Jnckiville and Swanaboro on the roast; and ha an notircad maturing plan* for actual construction work. Tommon «trick to the amount of ttittO.OOO ha* already bean subacribed for hi* pfnject, chartered by tha gen eral assembly in 1911, and twice that amount will run it through the 110 miles of level country between Lil inrton and the coa*t. Surveyors arc it work now, and next April i* art n« tha likely time for putting the, < (instruction forrea to work. The Harnett man wax up hare to report hi* ntwi to Governor Morriaon and inquire as to tha advisability of getting tha itate ship and water t ran* porta t ion rommisaion to look into harbor poaaibilitiea around Jack aonville and Swanaboro. Swanaboro, by the way, at one time waa consider ed the greatest coaling station in the world Ford, according to Mr. Raggett could be brought down here to con sider the possibility, at awttla* o railroad through this state. Rag gett seas wonderful potentialities in connecting link* with Tam Bowie's railroad, the line running from High Point to Aberdeen and his now pro jected railway starting SO miles east of Aberdeen and routed to the form er site of the world's greatest coal ing station. Ford, be pointed out. h*« a road I running south from Detroit in the direction of his Kentucky coal mines. And a road from the mines through North Carolina to the coast would give the financier some several hun dred miles of rails forming a half t.toon. The deal for the purchase of the Virginian was declared by Mr. Rag gett to be dependent upon terminal facilities at Norfolk, Va. Would Fir* Tucktri of Evolution Theory Zebulon, April 16.—Resolution* re questing the trusts** of ell Baptist educational institutions of North Ca rolina to dismiss all member* of faculties and recall all missionaries of evolution," have been passed by the Baptist church here, following the delivery of a sermon on the sub ject by Dr. C. A. Jenkins, past ir ves terday. "Evolution in some form '« an old a* the race." Dr. Jenkins Uld his congregation. "It pulled ita first 1 stunt in the garden of Eden and tin* devil was the first evolu'onlst. ; Ever since, he has borne the name of a heast, a serpent, lion or dragon." < The theory "makes myth of the Bl-:' hie, turning its most sacred teachings ' in sbsurb allegories," and pictures 1 Christ as "a mere man destroying i Hi* cross and Hi* crown." he con tinued. The resolution* will be sent to hoards of trustees of Baptist educa tional institutions and to the foreign , mission hoard of the church. Rich mond, Va. ; i Ford Ha* Only $200,000,000 ' la Cash ( New York, April It.— Henry Ford's i rash balance still exceeds >800,000,- i 000 in spite of his recent numerous | large purchases of coal properties. I timber lands, water sites and other i investments, it was declared today i in the Wall Street Journal, which < published the Detroit cspitalista tele- j I graphic answers to a questionahre < recently sent him by the newspaper. 11 The manufacturer added he had no ■ present intention of going Into the I I market to Iwnsw money ' I ENGLAND IS ALL READY FOR BIG SOCIAL EVENT I T-1*— Horaolf U Bedecked I 'W- I Bride For Um Royal Wedding. I-ondon, April »- Not «ince the ■lay SO yrtn ago when King George V, u the Dukr <rf York, lad hi* royal briil* to the slur ha* England pre pa rod herself for *urh a gal* wed ding f*te a* will be celebrated Thura ■lay neit when Prince Albert, Duke of York. next In iwtwion to the Britiah throne after the Prince of Wales. weds I July Kliuhfth #«•'" Lyon in Westminister Abl>«> All plans for the great Mtukm art completed and it remains only to put the finishing touches to the scenery for staffing Oil* royal pageant Ix>n<k>n herself will be bedecked like a bride h» all the finery of her ■ilken flag* and banner* and almost everybody in the United Kingdom. *o It Mtnu, will bo hero to Join In the festivities. Those not able to romo to Ix>ndon will he regaled with the wadding story told by wireless broadcasting. Hundred* of thousands of poople are expected to line the route of the wedding procession to and from the ahhey. Stand* have been erected near Wrutminister for spectator* and wry building slong the route will he turned into a bannered pevillion. The window* of office*, "hop* and pven private houses have already Keen rented. Some place* of vantage are bring-. ing high prices and many Americans »re among the lucky bidder* One, South American financier paid 100 ruineas for two windows in Pel He ment street. A stand accommodat ing 800 disabed veterans of the great ear ha* been constructed near the Horse guards. To hstdle the erormou* a <a.-m • »lage there will I*: en duty 7..W) foot, police 200 mounte-l ir.on snd l.U«K> ipecial*. The ceremony in the abbey will last throe quarters of an hour. In .he nave 600 privileged gu.»ta wiTl Koupy tiers of *eat* especially huilt ind 2.000 other seats will be placed n the nave and transcepts. The abbey bell ringer* who will play a peel of Steadman's triples, consisting of *ome of the 8000 ■hang**. The bridal couple will proceed to Buckingham palace after the cere mony and late in the afternoon will eave by train for the first stage of .heir honeymoon in Surrey. Various reception* have been ar-; ranged at Buckingham palace at which the gueste will be privileged to 1 tee the wedding present*. Public interest in the wedding is ially becoming more intense and (very detail is eagerly read. The, atest is a description of two gowns >f Lady Elisabeth'* trousseau. One s a chic navy poplin day gown of limple straight design, rather high iround the neck. Opening down the ■enter, the bodice is outlined by an inuaually pretty gold embroidery crminating at the waist In a gold • ■mbroidered ornament of Egyptian lesign, beneath which the fullness of he bodice drape*. The sleeve* are ong and open at the elhow and sirni arly embroidered with gold. The ikirt is slightly open from the hem j ipwards in front, revealing an under j Iress of black satin. One evening dress is of shot silver ! ind rose fulguarantc. The bodice is jerfectly plain and -leeveless, and iver the skirt is arranged, somewhat ifter the old fashioned hu*Ue style, •ery handsome pink lace, with silver1 ace insertion fixed diamond-shape on | t. the lace hanging well down. Judge Let World War Hero Off Light StatMville. April 17.—Kdrar M. lallyburton. workl war veteran, the irst American soldier to be made iriaoner hy the German* was up be ore Judge E. Yates Webb in Federal ourt yesterday charged with trans i>rtinjr whiskey. The eridencc show d that the young ex-soldier was rith another man who had In (Mr km session forty gallons tof liquor, loth had a hearing before the local uthoritien and bound over to the Ipril term of Federal court which onvened here yesterday. Rally urton"s conspicuous part in the rortd war, his good character' and , he fact that he had nerer faced a i imilar charge before waa greatly in ik feror, the presiding Jedg* tot ! be off with a fine of «1U. \] BUDDING FEARS IDENTITY MAY BE KNOWN Officials, hU Baliev.a, M.gkt PmuIIm I M Complainiag Wn«hington. April tft.—A fwlinf ef uneasiness w>a ackkowledged today •t the offtw of Ihr Priaoner*' Aid aoriety. It « fnml that the state priaon authority* will yet diarover the namen of the convicts *lM have complained of Ihr Imtm'til xnnM them, a* penally the nan s of the tf whit* man who appealed to the ao riety here R K I>u4dinr p red dent of th. «<xiaty, aald today it wt ba borna In mind that tha priaon otfkciaia not only have tha powar to punish, hut to reward, and thay weta alaaoat certain to And oat who some of tha romplalnanta war*. especially tf there is to ha no investigation. Inquiry hy una walfarr officer aaya Dodd ing. will probably amount to vary lit tle. Ha aald: "Thar* are walfara offteera aad charitable organizations in all tha atataa: but prisoners do not receive humane treatment in all tha atataa Doubtlasa thara are a great many people in Florida who think thay ara engxred in charitable work. To real ly ret at tha fart* surrounding any penal institutions one mutt first rain the confidence of the priaonara them selves. and rive them ahaoluta and positive aaauraneea of protection af ter the haarinr. Very people understand juat how thia is, but some kindly disposed ruarda, as wall aa the priaoner* understand it.' To make ciaar what ha maant Dad dinr produced a latter which ha had juat received from one of tha ruarda on duty at Ralatfh. Tha latter indi cataa what la apt to happen to a ram plaining priaoner. Tha letter waa to thia effect: "I am a guard at the state priaon at Raleigh, N. C. I hare been read ing with intereet ol your efforts to improve conditiona at this prison, which la certainly badly needed. "I am writing thia tetter far the express purpoae of aakinr yea to not show any human being the letter that you received dated April 5, and sign ed by 28 convicts fn the priaon. I know aa no one else could know, ex cept a guard or an official of the prison, what will happen if it is found out who wrote the letter; it will he held against the men as long as they are in the priaon, and even after they nre discharged. A pardon, I under atand. has been offered to any man that will supply the officials with the name of one man who signed the letter. "I am sure that with your knowl edge of priaon doing*, that you real ize how very serious a question it is. If some one's name has got to coma out let it be mine, as 111 be glad to lose my job to protect the fellows." Raleigh, April 17.—No investiga tion of the charges of E. E. Dudding. president of the Prisoners* Relief so ciety, Washington, D C, to the effort that inmates of the state prison, Us .eigh, have been trvzt^l inhumanly, will be made, the board of director! announced toniifhi ifter a Ion* eon ferem-c with Oovi-rnor Cameron M«r i i?<>n. The board's official *tau*mcm de .lares, however, ihat J "atiy s«Hci tor, grand jury welfari romabiioit rr, or any other officer c.f the law, •■ant* to make any investigation of any act or anything dene at the state prison under our management, it wCI be the pleasure of the superintendent am) other officers in charge to expe dite and assist in the examination." "Duddinjr is not a citizen of this state, and ought not to be hoard in interference- with our governmental affairs," the statement assert*. "Fur ther. his record is notoriously bad. We are of the opinion that no inves tigation should be made for the far ther reason that each and all of as know his statement to be untrue and •currilous." Seven whippings have been admin istered at the central prison daring he past two year-, or since the pres ent board assumed control, H is stat ed, and these were inflicted in strict ■onfnnwance with the law. The pri son physician and witnsaan were wwest at each of theae seeording to he statement. Indigestion aad < •mtipatWa 'Prior to using Chsmberisln's Tab eta, I suffered dreadfully frsm Indi rest ion Nothing I ate agraad wtth ne and I lost flash aad ran down Is walth. Chamberlain's Tahteta itrtngthensd my digestion aad cored no of unati^ation. writes Mrs. Gm. ttswup. Bohray, N. T