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THE WEATHER Fuir and continued cold, with fiowt tonight J -Tuesday wann. -LmJ ' N-" IL VOL 29 NO. 85. 1'JMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS HIGH POINT, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL lli 1921. INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS FIVE SESSION VllL WAIT FOR HHI'S VIEW Oil PEACE QUESTION Present Seuion Is Likely to Con tinue Until Fell Is Mark- ,. Mng Time Today FLOOD OF BILLS ALREADY Congress to Wait Upon the Presi dent Before Offering Any Peace Resolution 1 WASHINGTON,- April, 11. The 7th congress assembled promptly at soon today at the call of Presl den Harding and it la expected now the session will continue until fall. Except tor the reorganization of the house the naual flood of bills presented, today's meeting was some what perfunctory, congress marking time until the receipt tomorrow cf President Hardlng't message outlin ing his views on the many problems that confront .the administration. , This congress Is the first controll--,ed by republicans to meet under a republican administration' in a de cade. The senate previously, had been organized at its special session, which began March 4, but the house proceeded by re-electing Frederick H. Gillett, of Massachusetts, speak er over Claude Kltchin, of North Carolina, the democratic candidate. The vote was strictly along party lines and Mr, Gillett was overwhelm , ingly elected. Representative Mondell, of Wyom ing. was re-elected republican leader of the housCand Mr. Kltchin became the democratic leader by virtue of his nomination for the speakership. He succeeded the late Champ Clark as democratic leader. Nearly all of the 435 members were present tor the opening. A crowded house filled the gal leries to overflowing and the crowds broke into applause when Miss Alice Elwell Slayer? j l I'l l Li IV i 'r -v' A l ST) ( fx v 1 " ' ' X Mi 1 " i SSI FORMER EMPRE IGERMANV DIES FROM P Williams Convicted of. Peonage Murder End Came at Doom, Holland, ; After Year's Suffering of " f Heart Afflirtion. " rORMER KING AT BEDSIDE Death Came As Shock As Em- press Had Shown Some Im provement in Recent Days DOORtfr Holland. April n For mer Emprees Augusta Victoria, of Germany, died here at 6 o'clock this morning. By a grange coincidence the end came Just e year after she suffered her first attack cf heart disease. Former Emperor William and Prince Adelbert were at her when the former empress arris Was Stalling BUFFALO. N. Y., April 11. Con vinced that Roy Harris is telling the truth in repudiating !i!s "confession" of complicity in the murder of Jo seph B. Elwell in New York last June, former Governor Charles 8. Whitman and Capt. Arthur Carey, of the New York police department, to- Robertsonv republlcon. of the second dayjioUlled District Attorney Moore and Police. Chief Higgins that , then Oklahoma district, the only woman member of congress, came on the floor. She carried a huge bunch of '.red -roses; Fully a thousand bills and resolu tions) many of which were lntroduc- mA mt tha laaf cam fllnn ra mq t)iprtn into the hopper . lohg berore ' "the! ltIiOw19grtrtWtaror the Elwell house got under way. " There was I case except what he had read in the Interest in the prisoner had ceaned. Harris (showed plainly, said Mr. Whitman after his Interview with Harris, that he had not the slightest no peace resolution, this being held back to await President Harding's message expressing his views on the subject. . . Right at the top of the list of bills was the Fordney emergency tariff measure, vetoed by Mr, Wilson at the last session of congress. The bill was brought In in precisely Its old form, except that it Is to become effective In six instead of ten months. It is expected the resolution will be called up Wednesday under a re publican program and probably will be put upon its passage. Legislation to put "teeth" in the labor department's efforts to con ciliate labor disputes was urged to day by Secretary Davis. Both sides ahpuld be compelled to live up to , any agreement reached by arbitra tion they have accepted, lg the way Mr. Davis put it. - A bill to abolish the railway labor board, now functioning under the transportation act, and to place its , duties under the Interstate com merce commission, was Introduced today by Representative Tincber, re publican, of Kansas. Adjustment of the disputo be tween the United States and Great Britain growing out of the San Remo oil agreement concerning. Mesopo tamia, has been suggested informally to the United States, if, was learned today officially. The plan proposed ' ,. was in s memorandum to the state V department. The seating of Richard E. Bird, I as republican representative from newspapers. . ' Above is Roy Harris, who con fessed, when arrested ill Buffalo, N. Y., for forgery, that he and another man killed Joseph Elwell, (lielow) bridge whist expert and racehorse owner, in New York city several months ago. Police are Investigat ing his story. He said he and his companion were paid by a mysteri ous blond woman who gave the name "Mrs. Fairchild." bedside died. The death came as a shock to the dwellers of Doorn castle, as, last wk the patient seemea in less se rious condition than for some time. Last night she was only semicon scious. She was kept from suffer ing by frequent hypodermic injec tions. As the day brcke breathing be came more difficult and her pulse grew" weaker. It was then evident to the physicians that the end was near and Dr. Hesner warned former Emperor William and Prince Adel bert of its approach. The ex-em- became unconscious and at 'clock left her frail bodV I The ex-emperor stood at the bed- aide with bowed heaa as death came to his consort and he remained in the room until some time afterward. Born October 22. 1858, at Dolzig. AugiiBta Victoria" was the oldest Jaughter of Grand Duke Frederick of 8chleswig-HolRtein - Sonderburg Augustenburg and ranged as a prin cess of Schleswig-Holgtein. Her early chiihood was spent at Kiel. She was married to the then Prince Wil liam of Prussia on February 27, 1881. They had six sons and one daughter. WEIR1NGEN. Holland, April 11. Crown Prince Frederick William was informed early today pt ' the death of his ; mother . He prepared Immediately to go to Doorn, await ing the arrival cf Dutch authorities to accompany him. rX ' i- r-i 3gSc?, J'a J j v A. ,k T' 1 ;. MUMlim,Wmm- U ' " IQ1 ft IliKiEI LED STATE IN TOBACCO SALES FOR SEASOH btal Sales for North Carolina Exceed Federal Estimate by .Fifty Million Pounds ' , SLUMP IN INCOME TAX These phctos ; show scenes and principals of the peonage murder trial at Covington, Ga.. where John B. Williams (center), wealthy plan tation owner, was found guilty of the murder of negro peons and sen tenced to life imprisonment. Mr. Williams (right) broke down and sobbed aloud when the verdict was returned, but Williams was unmov ed. Left. Judge J. B. Mutcheson who pronounced the sentence. Low er right, defense attorneys, W. H Key (left) and C. C. King, who ask a new trial. PiEKIN TO GEORGIA CITY of Pointers Meet Augusta Club Sally League in Exhibition Game There Today. V Accompanied by his gang of pom- Islng ball players. Bill Pierre, man ager of the High Polnte Furnitur Makers, left yesterday afternoon for Augusta, Ga.. where the team will meet the Sally league players rh a series of exhibition gnmes. the lirst to bo played there thin afternoon. From Augusta Pierre's men will go to Snartanburr (or a series of three games. It Is also probable that LONDON. April 11 Funeral serv ices over the bodv of the late Ger man empress will be held at the house of Doorn tomorrow and will be attended bv only ,the members of her family. The remains will then be taken to Potsdam and on Wednes day another funeral service will be held there. Donald O'Callaghan, Lord Mayor of Two Months in VHicK to United States by Davis eave hbuse by Representative Flood, dem ocrat, of Virginia. As his own sug gestion Mr. Bird stood aside until the other members had been sworn Nearly $400 Paid Here Today they will play Columbia herore re- the eighth Kansas district was pro-turnlng to High Potyt. However, no ested today on the floor of thesgme" n Deen scneauiea ny me io- ca( pilot, wnen ne lert for me ueor. gla city. In the Opinion of Manager Pierre the exhibition games down south will give him a better opportunity to de termine Just how his men stand. He is expected to issue several releases before reaching the Furniture City and It is likely that the team will be picked while on the southern trip. There were several weak spots in thn lasm tar Vt An tha tAAtf am tha Nearly 1400 were na Id in fines and I t. ...... ,. . u j j.a a . iiw lutciuauuuaig uere mat wren. costs by defendants appearing before The fani reaiixed. that. Pierre knew rm.u .'p it and he is determined to iron out court lousy, .wore esses worn aocn. ' eted for trial this morning than have been recorded doring any ses sion of courf for the past several f5;t '5. D.'.-t... Lf..M. months. . None of the cases created DID OllTtOn tlUrt more than passing interest. , -"U. 8. Greer and Bryan Gibson were lined $25 and the coats each for In terfering with an officer In the per . formance of his duties. Earle John - son. convicted of a similar charge, paid a fine of f 10 plus the costs. Bur ley Below, who was also indicted un der the lame charges, failed to sp- pear In court when his name was called from the docket and his bond , wan ordered forfeited. ' V - Twelve defendants faced the Uectiou . of court on charges of being drunk and! Greets the, wrinkles. The trip south help him do it, he believes. will In Auto Accident Rib Burton, well - known High Pointer, Is a patient at tuo OuOford General hospital suffering from in Juries received Saturday night when an automobile In which he was riding was struck by a machine driven by Mrs. . Charlea , Hamlin, of AsUmro. The accident occurred at the inter- South Main and Taylor Cold Snap Holds On in the South WASHINGTON, April 11 Snows or light raing have fallen during the last 24 hours in the middle Atlantic sjates, southern New England and the upper Ohio Valley today's weath er chart shows. Temperatures have been decidedly lower in the Atlantic and Gulf states, with frcesing tem peratures as far south as Western North Carolina. Continued low temperatures are forecast for tonight in the states east of the Mississippi and light frost tonight l expected as far south as northern Florida. Haywood and Others Must Go To Prison WASHINGTON, April 11. The supreme court today refused to re view the conviction of William D. Haywood and seventy-nine other members of the Industrial workers of the world, charged with having tried to obstruct the war activities of the United States. Refusal of the supreme court to in terfere closes the long flght to save aywdod and bis associates from a prison term. Only a presidential par don now can prevent them from go ing to prisonH. Clay ton to pace Trial for Murder FAYETTEVILLE. Anril 11. The arann Jury of Cumberland county sunerior court returned a. true bill iralnit Thomas R. Clavtnn for the killing of M. M. Blue, a deputy sher Iff. in this city Januarv 28th. last Blue was killed when h attempt ed to place Blue under arrest. Clay tqn Is at present in the state peni tentiary at Raleigh. Th trial was set for Wednesday morning. TvASHINGTON. April 11. Under orders issued today by Secretary Da vis, of the department cf labor, uon ald J O'CallagHan, lord mayor of Cork, who arrived in this country" last January may be deported by em migration officials ny June &. snouiu he not leave before that time. The Irish official, who came to tho Uni ted States to testify before tho com mission of the committee of one hundred investigating conditions in Ireland, is given sixty day in which to leave the country by the decision of the state department handed down April 6. In a fornial statement dealing with O'Callaghan. Secretary Davis said he accepted the ruling of his predecessor in office that O'Callag han was a seaman and as such was entitled to reasonable time in which to reship from this country. ROTAfflANSTtTGO Great Chorus of a Thousand .Voices Is Heard in Serai-Sacred Concert at Auditorium- 10 NORFOLK disorderly , Flans of Reaching- Ajrrcemeat. J LONDON, April il. British mine owners and their striking employes conferred for au hour this morning A at tha board of trade on the contro y versy which led to the walk out of the miners last Monday morning. The conference ' adjonrded until -4 o'clock , this afternoon. Robert S. Home, chancellor of the exchequer, resided, - : ! , According to information concern lug the wreck, Mr. Burton was In the net of turning his automobile around after having driven down South Main street when Mrs. Hamlin drove her car Into Mr, Burton's machine. He received several cuts and bruises about the head and face, but It was reported at the hospital this after noon that Mr. m Rurton's rendition was not regarded as serious and that he would recover. The antoinob'Je was badly damaged,' .'. . t- ; Will Leave on Special Train To night to Attend District Conference. Body to Lie in State in AshevOle Church Many Messages of Sympathy. PROVES A DELIGHT . V . ederal Tax Paid .by Tar Heels for 1920 Total $162,000,000 Will Decrease This Year; Eighteen HlKti Point llotarbns several of them accompanied by .heii wives, will leave tonight at 11:07 o'clock on a special train for Nor folk to attend the seventh district conference, which will be held Tues day. Wednesday and Thursday oi this week. Between 1 .500 and 2.000 Rota rians, representing 48 clubs in North Carolina, South Carolina and irgin it have already parked their hag and will be off tonight for Norfolk tr attend the meeting, which is expect ed to be no only tho largest attended gathering ever held In the Virginia city, but one of the most enjoyable Rotary conventions everheld in this district. In the opinion of Ropers W.iDavis. of Charlotte, former dis trict governor, it will be the great eat gathering of Rotarlans ever held in the southeast.' High Point Rotarlans have secured a compartment car and will leave on the "Rotary Special," which is scheduled to depart from this city at 11:07 o'clock tonight.' The local club members will carry with them descriptive literature of High Point and expect to give the Furniture City no little advertising. WASHINGTON, April 11. A per- rh following will attend from mlt for the operation and malnten- High Point: Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Ter ance of the Western Union cable be- ry anj Mrs. Charles Hauser. Mr, tween Key West, Fla., and CoJIma, ahd Mrs. S. H. Tomllnson, Mr. and Cuba, was revoked Dy president wit- Mrs . Frank Wineskle. Mr. and Mrs son at the reports that the Western Harry Raymond. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Union would use this line to connect Farrlss. Ed MilUa. J, J(. Adams. John the Barbados,' south American, i Peacock. Carter Dalton. Mr. and .Mrs. cable with American shores. It wat j0gepn cot. Wr C, Idof, J. T Ryan, disclosed today by the government i Robert Ragan, er. W A. Lambeth, brief tiled in the United States su-l Randall Mann.' Dr. W. A. Hayes snd preme. court, 1 v.,; v Robert Walker, y y . A thousand voicos blended in a great volume of harmony sit the zclioc! auditorium Sunday uftemoon when Hirh Point-citizens gathered tc give expression to the comniunlt) spirit in an hour' nrogrnm of song It was a community sing In which the co in in unity rlly sang and the orrnuion points to a splendid spirit of co -operation and fellowshlr through the medium of music. J Oliver r.rlson. national community service son k leader, led his forte vith vigor and precision ;ind his en thusiasin fairly rudhited throULli tlx .ludieiicf. Folks who never bellevec they could slni,' at all found them selve;. joining in the grand choruset of "Nearer My (iod to Thee," "Old Black Jo. ." "lODR, Long Trail,' "Dixie," "The Sur Spangled Ban ner" and others equally well known. It w s :i performance in which the chorus ' st-irred." . The presence of the Klks' band, under Dr. J. Fred Tesh's direction, contributed largely to the success of the sing. Hand selections opened and closed the program and the music fitted In well with the singing jf the huge community cliorus. The band accompaniment to the national iiulhem was Indeed a tilting conclu sion to the afternoon's program. Mr. Rrtson delighted his hearers with a solo, ' The Voice of the Wtl- ler.less." by John Prlndle Scott. The song served to display the fine qual ity and range of Mr. Ililsons won ! dorfully musical i tenor. A quartet composed of Messrs. Prison, Hriggs CiKiiniinns unci Thunniin was a pleasing feature. The voices blended 1 well and tn .luartet sang with good expression. A vote by the audience gave hearty approval to the sing nad was taken ' as an expression for another one in the imnvraiate future. ASHBVILLE. April 11. With a oroclamation from Mayor Roberta requesting all business in Ashevllle to suspend for ten minute at o'clock Tuesday afternoon, this city together with several smaller cities In western North Carolina and east ern Tennessee will puy tribute to the. mcmbory of Judge Jeter C. Pritch ard. of the United States district court for the fourth district, who died here yesterday morning. Prom inent citizens from Greensboro, Ra leigh, Richmond, Va.. Charleston, W. Va.. Washington and New York are iirouto here to attend the funeral to be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the First Baptist church 1n this city, of which the deceused was long a prominent member. Interment will be in Riverside "omctery, this city, where also rest the remains of a distinguished North Carolinian, Zebulion B. Vance, war governor and for twenty-five venig senntor from North Carolina, Judge Prltchard succeeded Mr Vance as F. S. Senator from this state Messages of condolence continued today to pour in from all sections of the country. (BY MAX ABKR.NETHT.) . RALEIGH, April 11. - Uncle Sams expertg missed North Carollnas tobacco sales by fifty million pounds for the season, the total 430,000, ; 000 pounds netting an average of , about twenty-one cents. ' - - March sales likewise exceeded the ' figures guessed at by the statlstjcans of the government. ' The total sales reported made by Tar Heel farmers were twenty-one. and a half million , pounds, averaging $14.17. Approil mately 85,000 pounds were not re ; ported. :- . The Wilson market is creaiteo , with the record of the season's sale with 62,607,021 pounds, surpassing any other .market in the state by,, over two million pounds, k- Dnring March the Winston-Salem , market led with 4.749,086 pounds sold, averaging S13.61 per'hundred pounds, of which 3.991,364 pounds were sold by the farmers themselves. Wilson was second with 3,3js,st3 pounds. The average price for the Wilson sales was $15.20. two and one-half million pounds being: first :, hand sales. Roxboro averaged the highest price at $19.67 on Us total of 392,870 pounds. These figures are compiled oy the co-operating crop reporting"' service which reports that one two-tenths or one per cent . of the sales have fall ed to be reported. The bordering markets conservatively estimate that sixteen million pounds of North Car olina's farmers' tobacco' is sold tin "djolning states In excess of that brought In and sold. The tout pro ducers' . season's sales reported , 11 f H"nont: KAa -Mftbo t t-i i 1 4,0 uQ.C P 9 , pounds. ; - March prospective 'plantings Indi cate not less than- a forty per cent. decrease In acreage Jn North Caro lina, but with the decline In fertiK lzer prices and gradual loosening of financial condltidns this decrease is ' expected to prove to be too much decline. , Income tax gatherers of the fed eral government, are reporting a de cided slump in their business fiver last year's figures. , Which Indicates to the mind of the taxation experts and students that revenue raising will be nothing like as easy In 1921 as In 1920. The business or lack of It. of course. comes Into the discussion, but there are other features that annoy. It ls not that the tax gatherers ' think there has been a sudden determina tion of the paying public to hold out on their Uncle samuei; out so lar the returns mean the same thing. Last year North Carollna-low. illiterate eld Tarheelia hanging up record in moonshine liquor mak ing startled the union by dumping into the federal treasury more than one hundred an'd sixty-two millions In taxes. The 1921 receipts are go ing to fall far under those figures unlets all signs fool everybody.', Insurance Commissioner Stacey Wade's war on the International Pe troleum company of Texas because undertakes to sell unlicensed Cable Permit Was Revoked by Wilson Prominent Negro Dies At Raleigh RALEIGH. April 11. Col. James H. Young, age 62. for years one oi the most prominent negroes In the state, died at his home here today. Col. Young was deput revenue col lector for the eastern North Carolina district for many years and served one term in the lower bouse of the state legislature. During the Spanish-American war he was colonal of the Third North Carolina regiment of Infantry,, composed of - negro troopj, . '. :..:. ;,.-.:'.. ASHEVILLE. April 11. Funeral services for Judge Jeter Conley Prltchard, cf the United States clr cult court of the fourth district, who died at his home here Sunday morning, will be held Tuesday after noon at 3 o'clock. Fellow Jurists of the federal bench and other men of prominence in the state and nation will attend the funeral In a body. The bodv of Judge Prltchard will lie In s'ate at the First Baptist church Tuesday between the hours of 11 and 2 o'clock. Judge Prltchard was 64 years of age. having been born in Jonesboro Tenn.. April 12. 1957. He had been an active figure In the life of North Carolina and for a number of yearB had been on the federal bench. For several terms he served in the State legislature. He began his career shortly after Identifying himself Jl'lth the republican party. He Ir survived bv his widow. daughter, wife of Thomas A. Rol lfns three sons. Dr. Arthur T. George M and McKlnley Pritchnrd and a sister. Mrs. J. T. Harris, all of Ashevllle. Telegrams of sympathy were re celved from all parts of the country last night and today. Among those1 received was the following .from President Harding: , v "I have learned wltlt deep regret of the death of Judge Prltchard. whom I held In groat respect and high regard. Please accept assur inco of very genuine syqipathy and know that many of his eoantrymen feel a share In the great loss his death bring to his state and coun try." . . Ex-Congressman James J. Brltl will deliver the memorial addreM at he funeral of Judge. Prltchsrd to morrow, , j ' it stock in North Carolina through the United States mall continues while Roland F. Beasley and Presi dent Wllllums. former North Caro linians, send the word back ' from San Antonio that they . have ' not knewingly violated any law but If they have the federal government knows where to find tbem. The insurance commissioner . re calls that North Carolina folks, farm ers particularly, were fleeced by the hundreds in 1919 and 1920. He hopes through publicity of the Texas company to . enlighten the public to save meir money, ine auacK, u HTnlln wait riirATtad ( tha Inter national company rather than at tho officers. Beasley and Williams. Publicity in 1919 and 1920. bow- ever, cf the widest sort - raiiea to keep North Carolina money In Tar Heel pockets when smooth-tongued salesmen visited. The Insurance commissioner remembers this..1 but goes after the "wild-cat" because of "an earnest desire to protect the peo ple of North Carolina sgainst a re petition of the disastrous financial results that followed the big stock exploitation campaigns, In 11' 0( mo.".' ' r vYV::y.,1 Market Improves On Foreign Cables ' NEW YORK. April U. The more favorable British labor newg was ac companied by a' sharp advance in Liverpool and tb rotten market here opened at au advance of 21 to SO points oa covering. Thers was some southern sad New Orleans selling on the rally, Msy contrsrts running to 12.09 and lvf to list but the Offerings were well ' :, ed at reactions of 10 to 15 , ' from the best. , Cottou futures op. 11.00! July lt.6; ' : . December 1$.J; Jj-' ry i ; ,