North Carolina Newspapers

FORD WILL NOT GET MUSCLE SHOALS NOW V & Washington. May fT.~Alt ■4 lolmying that Ford's hid for Hoar la in the House MM to Jar H km today fmm the lianata Com mittal on Agriculture, which voted It into committee oblivion by 11 to a. That was the second and final com mittee blow, but tha Ford barker* will make one I sat effort to save It. Thay will try to pt H vp on some ■lotion or aa a ridar to aoma ponding Mil In tha Senate. However. surveys of sentiment ahow that It la doomed to defeat if It raarhaa the stage of • vota on tha floor. The Agriculture Committee voted Instead to report favorably Chairman Norrts's hill railing for Government control and operation of tha nitrate pianta and development and sale to pnblir utilities of the hydro-electrii power generated at Muscle Shoal*. A *ub-eommittee la to perfect the Morris bin and report it in the nest day or two. ft la doubtful If I* will pass tha Senate and indications are the up ahot will he adoption of a measure providing for a detailed study of the problem and formulation of a definite policy, with a view to offering the whole enterprise to public bidding un der specified condition* and terme. Senator Norris's bill author!*** the Secretary of War to complete dama No*. 2 and 9 on tha Tenneaeee River. It aeta op the Federal Chemical Cor poration to make fertiliser for direct aale to farmer*, and would permit es tablishment of aetling agencies through the country. A Board of Three Director*, ap pointed by the President, at sals-I e* of 17,500 a year, won Id he In akargp. One elaaae of the meastrre provides a II.MX) fine or six months hi fail if a director is convicted of letting poli tics dominate his acts. lite corporation would sad such for tha Army and Navy or fertiliser to Stataa. Counties and municipalities retaining the right to tx tha price at which such power eras resold to con The Norris bitl aa perfected, will pat nitrate plants Nos. 1 and 2 under euperriaioa of the Nitrogen Research laboratory of the Department of Ag riculture. Chairman Norris pointed out this afternoon that the committee action meant the elimination, at this session of Congress at least of the other of fers for Mueclee Shoals. He empha sized that Ford's is by t\r the urorst hid from every public standpoint that has been submitted. Administration Attitude AmIM. In the majority report, which vu prepared by Chairman Norri», the ad ministration wan assailed for its at titude towards Ford's offer and in par ticular the plan to replace the Gorgas steam plant sold to the Alabama Power company for M.472,487. The report declared that Ford became angry when the plant was sold and 'condemned the secretary of war, and throoirh him. the administration in unmeasured discourteous terms." "To appease his anger," the report ■aid. "a vacillating administration publicly announced that the amount received for the Gorgas plant would ha credited upon the ftve million dol ->rs which Mr. Pari agreed to pay for Muecle Shoals la case his bid was accepted by Congrats." "Thl. kindly favor, perhaps super induced by other eoneideratious," the report continued, "so pliand Mr. Ford that his anger at the adminis traftisa was not only turned Into lova and admiration but he became so vio Isntly friendly that ha himself with draw aa a candidate for President and announced his euppoft of the execu tive who had made auch a liberal eon cf ion H Would Create Giant Trust. TW ray art declarvd that if Muscle fThaah was leaaed for 100 years aa prsvtdid la the Ford bid and the gov to (hi its would ha as cold I or wnyi in the history at Fort', offer hi Ivw of th« other, the report Mid, I "It it not known that Mr. Fort him-1 »«lf U ■ part of thia pro pagan A it would seem that a man of Ma | I nance ought not to (tend idly by j while In Ma name misrepresentation* | are bdnf spread.'* Now Law Upeats Washington, May 30.— President Coolldge's approval of the immigra tion hill haa thrown into confuaion thousands of a liana waiting in Euro pean porta for the annual July 1 ruah. Arrording to repnrta reach in* the de partment of labor, ateamahip eonrpen laa have gathered a vaat number of' immigrants for tranaportaiton when j the new quotaa became available, not J anticipating the quota changea or na regulation!. Labor department officials aaid to- | day that although the Russian quota ia only 1.700, there are 8.800 Ruaoians awaiting traaportatinn in German porta. Similarly large number of other nationals are anxioua to come to the Cifited States. The new law aril! cause hardahips, in that many must return home and others rauat stay In Europe until the machinery neceeary under the Iegielation can be aet up. Immigration authorities predict the peak of the first ruah under the new quotaa win not be reached until Aug ust. Certificates moot be printed and sent acroaa the Atlantic. They will he in the form of qneetionaires and information which the alien givaa In luhmiting them muat be cheeked. AO thia, according to the labor de partment. win cauae delay. Immigration officiate anticipate ■month operation of the new Iso lation and removal of many causae for delay and misfortune to immi grants after they -reach American porta. It waa pointed out that there will bo no further separatiaw of fam ilies and fewer deportatioaa for causes which fan be determined on the other side. Thia win obviate much of thaf routine appeal work. jt The American consul aril! be ex^H *d to examine the information given on questionable and weed oat appli cants srho are feeble minded and arhoee prison records make them un I r «4fr the Inni of the lav the labor department will iaeoe only enough certificates to cover each na tional qu ita. If an alien obtains a certificate and later change! hi* mind about emigrating to the United State* hi* place cannot be taken by another and he will be keeping some one else from coming. Labor department and immigration officials are enthosiaatie over the leg islation and feel it will solve many of the problems which worried them under the old act. y iitniHTi. ip> J by Gov. ■aid Um situation In this in varying throughout Um Sooth. Dr. W. W Lone, director of Um a< Clemaon in pointing oat the BMd Car • State-wide iimrty, Mid vnM an "alarming situation," I which flarm lands were being ad and their oocirpanta leaving Um tttata, aa many aa 9,000 whita families lea via* Um farma in ana year. Fac lori playing a part in Um doctian In nambor of famu war* giv «n by him aa Um advent of Um wmtII, which reached Um peak of it* dominance am Um cotton crop is Sooth Carolina during tha throe yaara in qfueation and tha raaulting migration to tha North of both whit* and nagro (laborers. Tha rural situation aa affected by agricultural conditions waa steadily growing woraa, Mr. Long aaid. It waa fait that it would be impossible to pat private capital to undertake to pot colonisation schemes into opermtloif, unleaa the State lad the way. The Land Settlement Commission \ first went to California and Wiscon sin where the problem waa diacoaaed j with the coouniaauma of i Later a toor included Utah and other Statea. The policy of California, •ttrartad Um aapocial Intaieat of the commiaaiuaars. Under the California plan, Mr. Manning stated, farmers wen eetab liahed in grnope resembling small townships where they sm given the benefits of efficient superviaion and advice on agricultural atattara aa well aa long term eradHa with which to finance their farma. Social contacta. tty houasa. diversions, schools were provided for ( 1804 IUtm* «■ U. S. Arc interested over the reported diX, cowry hi Lanoanter, Ohio, of an 1804 silver dollar, a coin known inon; col iKlon aa the "Kin* of American Rarities," and variously valued at from $8,000 to <12.000. This is one of the eight coins of that particular issue in existence, and with J* discovery the owners of all eight are now known. Tlie rarity of the 1804 dollar and the interesting history which attaches to it makes it the moat notable and valuable silver piece ever coined ill the United States. It is said that the scarcity of this dollar was due to the sinking of a China bound vessel, which had on board almost the entire mintage of the 1804 dollars in lien of the Spanish milled dollars. ^ COOLIDGE AND G. O. P. LEADERS PULLING APART World Court U Cauaa of Split in Party Policy. 1 Washington. May St.—On* of tha io«t unusual situations la Aaariean «Utial hlatory 4mloH hn» to nifkt over the nation'* foreign policy Aba oat on tin res of Um Kapubli ran national ronvantion. President Cool idea and the Republican leaders J tha will ara at luggartiaadi orar tha aaOwd of adherence of tha United States to tha panaanant court of In tarnationa1 juatica. while tha Demo rrata have jumped into tha breach to uphold tha President's view*. If this was not • campaign yaar. I tha sit nation would not he ao aaihar-! raaatag to tha admtniatratioa. Bat In a faw days tha writing of the foreign relations plaaa; of tha fcapablican platform at CWveland art!! bring tha | illfgwi views of Um hnUn §m41 then cannot remit but la a victory for on* or the otW, and the prestige of cither the President or the leaden of hit party in the senate moat suffer. As late as Friday, Mr. Coelidge de clared his insistence upon the Hard ing-Hughes plan for American sn ranee into the worid court set up by the leagne of nation. The Bepohti can iwbers of the senate foreign re lations comaslttee are Bghtiag far the' plan of senator Pspper of Pennsyl vania. which would take the United States Into a world court divorced en- j tfrcly from the league. To emphaatae the widening gulf ha- i twean the White House and the I*-; publican majority at the ca|dtoi, the i Democrats presented their world court plan in the eenate thia after-1 noon. It was the old Harding plan, with the Hitghee iaa«i lalluaa, and as WlnstonSalean. May «D—Tfca wiR of the lata In. Iirtwlm Mtk Johnston waa Mad for probata to tha oAaa of the dark of the sapertor court i«r aid1 w*h£rv*££ tha eatate In North Carolina, ami Mr. Johnaton and tha Safe Depoett and Trust company of Baltimore ara nam ed joint eveeutora of tha aetata out side tha atata of Worth Carolina. Tha arlll directs that tha reaidenee of Raynalda, with tha eurrounding -r'iund». Inrludlng golf Mnka and laka, known aa tha hotna place, la to ha ra ta inad In truat far tha oaa of har hpe hand and children an til har youngeet hild hacomaa tl years of age. Aftar 'hat time tha b^Mida Soma may ha purchased by mamhara of tha family. Tha will further proridaa that tha remainder of tha Reynolda property may. In tha dlarratlan of tha tiuetoe, ha aold. A part of thla proparty la already brine developed aa a raal rlrntlal aaetlon and it la preeumed *ist tha Uuataaa will continue tha da velopment alone tha tlnaa planned by Mra. Johnaton. Number of Legacies By har will Mra. Johnaton cava rha following legacies: To George W. Orr. mtniifiT of Mra. Johnaton'a •atata, 110.000; to A. C. Wharton. *upMntendent of Reynolds, Inr.. $10, 000; to Mlaa Blanche Gunn. secretary to Mr. Orr, 12.000; to Miaa Kate War reschke. Ktenojrrspber. 11,000; to Mra. Emma Howl eon. kouaekeeper. $B00. To rartain of her household serv anta who had haan in her employ for aoaie time, Mrs. Johnston made tha following bequests To Plum* Wslk er, rbsaffeur, 11.000; Cleveland Wil liams. tl.OM; to Jno. Carter, fl.000. To other* who had not been In her employ for so lone • time, bequesta of <800 ware made. Theae servants are, Almeta Eaaley. Mattie Duffy. Marjorie Carter and George Greer Aaaaltlaa Provided. To har father and mother, Mr. and "r*. Zarhary Smith of Mount Airy. Mrs. Johnston provided for tha pay in est of $2,000 each, per annum, dor in( their respective lives. Ta Miaa Henrietta Dan den-Berg. • none who had been in her employ far sonm time, Mrs. Johnston provid ed far the payment of II.000 per an num daring her life time. Mrs. Johnston gave to the Reynolds Preahyterisn church the house and Vt known aa the Manae. Share Eqaallr. The rest of the ratal*, according to the terms of tho will, go** to her husband and fiva children, in equal shares. The share of the huahand ia to he delivered to him immediately and without any condition* attached. The sharea of the children are ta be held in trust for them daring their lives. In providing for the payment of the income from the estate ta hat ildren. lfra. Johnston specifies that ->ne-tenth of this income may he ex pendad hy the trustee for religious -ind charitable purposes. I Charity Faad. The tan per cent of the income from the estate which is designated for charity and religious purposes, and ta ha administered hy the guardians of the children, will be in the hands of W. N. Reynolds and Mr. Johnston, guardians of Richard J, Mary lath •^ine. Nancy 8. sad C. Smith Rey nolds. and J. Edward Johnston, solely, of J. Edward Johnston, Jr. Roth the executors of the will and guardians of the children have qual ified before the tloih of the superior mart for the sdmtatstmtioa of the win. i resident upposcQ to Post Office Building Washington. May tl.—Correspon dence between Seotetary Mellon and Sena toe Duncan Fletcher, Democrat, of Fldrida. revealed today that Prsai Hent Coolidgs for the prssit is op-1 posed to any legiststlaa, evea of • MILLIONAIRES' SONS EcONFEB 70 MURDER lay SI. Jr., and Richard Lotb, two "Intellec tually «■ and pa tad" students <rf the Onlveraity of Chicago, and Mwa of | prominent families, to-day an nf esesd that they deliberately murdered lt> yawr-old Robert Frank* for adventure,! Far lava* month* they had ned to kill some neiffhb< r*« boy, the parannaltty of tha lioy being a matter o# no coaaaqurnce to them. For seven month*- thay had four tentative vie timii mlcctod. Tha pair are tha youngest, moat brilliant and aucceaaful graduates of tha univeraity. Post-graduate cotirae* in tha Univeraity of Michigan and in their Alma Mater added to their reputation. Leopold la • Ph. B.. t>>eh an A. B. Chisel ia the Weapen. Thay killed Robert Frank* within fifteen minute* after they pirked him up in an automobile near hi* home. May 21. A chieel, which Loeb had obtained, and gaff saturated with acid finished tha hoy. Than followed •tripping of the body, burn in* of the clothe* and a wild rid* with tha eorpae beside them t» tha lonely nwamp where thay fnroad ft into a water filled rulvaxt in the firm belief it would not ha fatind until decomposi tion had removed all chance of identi fication. The loat apactaclea, tha one else followed peraiatently by Aaaiatant 'tate'* Attorney Savage, at laat Srourht about the arraata and eon feaaiona. The father* nf all prtncipala hi thia affair are millionairea. They are •monf the first Jewiah famlliea of Chicago. Nathan Leopold. Sr.. waa for yearn a commanding: figure ia T-ake tranaportation and ia now in •he bo* manufacturing huainea*. Rear*. Rashath OfRrial. Albert H Look, father of Richard, a rice president of the great mail order faoaae of Sear*. Roebuck 4k Co He ia Julius Roaenwald's right am. Jacob Frank*, father of the murdarad Hoy. ha* million* in real aetata. Though in poaaea^on of a dozen automobilea between them, the plot ter* used a rented machine* They had carefully constructed balling alibis by poeing in many part* of the I ity under assumed namea and reg istering in hotels under them. Leo pold was a 'traveling salesman" in two hotels. There waa a looae brick or two in tha walla of alibis. The brie that eauaed the walla to crash was dug out this morning. Leopold and loco nna asserted they wrrr oat W«h«i)«y nijrht. May 21. in Leopold's WiIlv»Kni|rlrt ear. Swn England, tkf Leopold chauffeur ■aid the car wa* in the garage for repair* that day and waa not taken oat With this breach in the defenw the prnaecotors and police pressed hone their advantage until Lock sh< red signs of collapse. It was T o'clock this oiominr after SO hour*' pressure that Loeh made hi* confession. Leo pold. the wary, alert logician, who smiled and smoked and answered every question with apparent sin cerity, held oat until confronted hy his stricken chum's confession. Then he too gave op. Leopold, in the coarse of his con fession, said lw had planned to go to the t yhrcrt the mt day and as* that "ererythlay wm all right." Discovery of the body prevented this. He did go td a police station and giro the police a map of the marshland and the culvert, with which he aald ha waa familiar. Re draw the map., told who he waa. a«4 departed A "We did it (the marder) foe t* tmrnaeiauu iL-^-L _ _ M . •"jprrimf*, t nroojn ■ wpinx or rvvvq* tore." hoth declared. Preei tutor and paliee oAcers famil iar wltk ' __ greed gad the real1 at alyaiat as the enly one who to*rte of •till In their I ■ 1 . — ,rjL. .: then they had Hinllt am Ml% aa4 they picked on nontar "Who haa not tha—ht of aew mltting murder? Who ha* net aaM Un» murh b«tt«r t «tmM do tl| they'd neree aatah «•?'" Tha rkoltfMi a ah ad. and placed tkt ■todenta In thia category. TMa woe th«- HHf«ra»vr» with their type at mind*. and bettering thamMlrag rreater than aociety, apart fra» H, they vara able to carry tha thine through. mind upeetallat* aay. Why the kidnapping and the de mand for mnaoai? W*y a million. ' In'i aon inirtead of tha child of aew por<r quarter* Tha need of money might have ha* omnething tn do with it, bat utrawgar than thia wan the viaion of *eeing a vhola Hty In turmoil, the "yrat minda" aloof on their *elf mnnfrurtad pedental were faint! tn watch the -tH mimb" tan about trying to a«l** thia marniftrent ritldle nf a dead boy hidden In 'the water of a ditrfc. So Robert Frank* waa killed. • Slim Ctea. The only floe on which tha a« 'horitie* had to work waa a pair of apectacla* with tortoiae ahell rtaae ind of peculiar make. Identiileatiaa of the owner of the giaaaea in a city of three million aafumed tha propor 'iona of looking for a needle in a hay «tark hut the police, realixing that their only hope of a-.lving the myatety lay in Anding the owner of the glial aa. aet to work canvaaeing every optician, optical supply and manufac turing houae in Chicago, eventually extending their aaarrh to othar ritiaa. After a week'* hunt a Brooklyn Arm waa foond which aaid it mad* •he apectoclaa and ita Chicago afM riaa were then canvaaaad. Thouaanda of recorda wera carefully arrutiniaad until one waa found which tallied ex actly with that of the glaaaes m qoeation. Such a record waa found by an ep 'irian Wednesday night and tha trail lad direct to tha Leopold howa. a few btorka from that of Frank*. Lao pi Id and Loeb, hia boeoa friaad, were a it a at ed at oaet. •PAY-AS-YOU-GO" ROAD BUILDING A FAILURE Ugiivfllc, Ky., May V,—When tha " pay-as-yoo-jpo" ijitm r—M la few roads, roads of faulty construe tioa. patcM roads and tmsattabis bridges in North Carolina, that stats voted W5.000.000 hi road Winds, Gov ernor Morrison said hers last night, and Srr built what I better* is ths finest system of highways in the ra pablir" Governor Morrison spoke it b bin* qoet of the Kentucky rood rands aa sociation. which concluded a ounvsn tion st which an organisation waa formed to work in the interest of • proposed t7S.0M.0M state bond iaana to be inhmitUd to Kentucky voters for ippsnl in November. North Carolina's road si ilsn waa Silk, the rerenwr said, by mum nt'nvwj rrom motor vwicif*, 'niwn* M»(r paid and a sinking And iTsal H without the plai'lnf of "one dollar of tax on property." After outlining benefits which ho said had attnnd to «K Hthwiy of North Carolina, from pod roads, tha cf the educational uystsm and tha stataV charitable and penal laellla tions through an isaue of IH IIMW' of stata hands.