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!- - ... VOL. XIV. NUMBER 48. FOUB O'CLOCK X5DXTXQXX 0., 7RIDAX SQJSEE 9, 1921 8c pcx-oop '-' nrf-j ' --sii' awti . a-;t -ii. ? ' - ' . . . -- .. L.-.y . -- - - . 1 1 - . .. - -na v ... - Pearaatl! Is Now I DEMDGflA Swamped I TIC SENATOR INTRODUCES II SFIi WJTfinBTHm TO PREVENT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ! TO SLAP FACE OF AN SERVICE MEN IN APPOINTMENTS! ARMY OFFICER EXECUTED FOR MURDER 0F1F With Peanuts E By RICHARD LINTHICUM (Special Correspondence) Thus the veterans preference law, j Washington, Dec. Senator Wat- construed by President Wilson to ap- Washington, Dee. 9. The diserim- ply to presidential charges without son, at a meeting of the senate sub !iaaUon3 Potmaster General Hays was overthrown by the executive or-'t,iat soldierg were hae 360,000 BAGS RECEIVED WITHIM LESS THANHIRTY DAYS, WHICH j11181 exiserviee men in the - matter der of President Harding, and thus atPial in France threatened t wiuiAio uxuivjui xua Aijyjvwy?; - r p- iuwucuui ui pusuuaBteri, ioi- aoor was opened to give Republican jface 0f aa rm officer i th lowing an executive -order- of '-President" Politicians - Treffpen D ATICI P RTI fl W (IP TflfflTY I Terthr0Wing SoUiera' men by making any one of three high-Stroke up in a row & lln I II lUll I lUll UI I IIL.fl I I 'Preference Jaw, which . are coming ; to ' est on the list, eligible to appointment.! WEDNESDAY t colleague, Senator Fletcher, becomes a lican, Tlit director.' of the Peauut Ex change, I i.e., met Thursday at Suf j'ulk V.. the dhector from this section, Mr. -T. U. Alexander, Jr.. being in at- sttifed ct ibe meeting that ieU:!: in peanut market was i.;uch bc:ter, but that it would be a i..- 'naiu pull to bring the price up. ; w;)s reported thri the dealers were i.ov. Laying on the outside at praeti- , ,iv any price offered, but it was rea- .Eireann "Wednesday by Arthur Grif- jand the wives of such, for nomination aturally followed and are beginning desired to summon Cr.; t'tmt this supply would soon be jfith a chairman of plenepotentiarles, as postmaster, and aside from its gen- x come 'to lighi !' -xiKiusie-i Hua incii mt- not as cabinet decision, Jamon JDeva',""1 f1""1" is as lonows: i oenenectaay, rs;. y., Jidwin D. nearly (By Associated Press.) Richmond, Va.( Dec. 9. Dr. Wilmcr Amos Hadley was electrocuted today for murdering his wife by drowning in Jamea river whfle he was stationed at Richmond, during the war as an army surgeon. - f-" vwuv. jiuicau me mgnesi, on ine usi as wasnmgton, Dec. 9. Watson shook J will no longer be possible it a, Uv trader the Wilson' administration, re-'his finger in the face of Major Geo. Stroduced by Senator Trammell, (pem. gardless of the fact of whether the;W. Coeheu and threatened to slap his vH-b wvwawc juiuife was a uemocrai or a xiepuo-jtaee "if ne looks at me again that f Chairman Brandagee deman'1-1 OPIUM ESTABLISHMENT RAIDEDDYGOV (By Associated Pre 1 faw. ,vay. j As a result of President Harding 's'ed that the Senator take his seat or Dublin, Dec. 9. Ratification of the! Souator Fletcher's bill gives prefer-! incrimination against ex-service men 'retire. The officers among the spec treaty between Ireland and Great Brit-,cnce to honorably discharged soldiers, a these executive orders, discrimlna-tators were sent from the rornm. Wat ain will be moved before the Dail saiors an marines and the widows tions by the Postmaster General have . son presented sixty-three names rie INSPECTOR Chi W lid bo able to cocrrol prices. lera announced. ! fl.il TlTOVKinmi ic n o fnlln,.. at- Khornotnrltt "V -T XT' J ! Tl I TV T T- 4 'That when a vacancy exists or Conde was nominated for postmaster JlGV3 A IfCWTtt jiiwrcuxier occurs in the position of .over two ex-service men, one of whom, It was decided not to offer any j i . a. aT-?- ! T I t- r x5 - ' Trr. 1 . x. a ' r . snuts tiirougn tne cxenange ai uu? ; luhuuh, jlcc. y. T-amon ivaiera s pusimaster preference shall be given opani3n War veteran was postmast-: hut to wait Jor a ravoraoij Repudiation or tne lrisn ree taxe to nonorably discharged soldiers, sal!-;er at the time, and the other a major t iuic, marker. :;groement raised the question here a3 ors, and marines, and to the widows in the World War, who was also ? - A committee was appointed to call to the effect resultant eabinet split of such, and to the wives of disabled Spanish War veteran. !i the War Finance Corporation to would have on Dail Eireann's action soldiers, sailors, and marines who' At Peoria, II. as reported by the obtain funds direct and not through and upon the British government 's and themselves are not physically quali- Commander of the American Legion 'he bank. Dr. Johr. D. Bigg?, of Wil-parliament 's attitude. -irnston whs one ci tne comnuuee i (By Associated Press.) 4, 111., Dec. 9.William H. , inspector, with a dozen as- ,-Its, raided the most elaborate Vium smoking establishment ever i found in Chicago. They arrested thir- j v -l11''1 U n. U L V.1 uuu- a ; pi" (By Maxwell Gorman. Raleigh, Dec. 8. The extra session NOTOR OIIS BANDIT GAINS npohited CENTER STAR OFFERED 35.000 FOR SERVICES !iied to hold such positions: and it Post in that eity, a "Republican ward 'shall be the duty of the Postmaster politician" has been appointed acting ! General to submit to the President for postmaster over a veteran who enter- I nomination as postmaster the name of el the service at the age of fifty-eight the veteran or the widow, or the wife who was the son of a Civil War veter- of the Legislature is assembled in Raleigh in pursuance to the call of thej .Governor for two specific purposes, ' C0NTR01 PENITENT ARY (Bv Associated Press) namely, supplemental legislation relat-! Lilt h- Rock, Ark, Dec. 9. Tom ing to the operation of the public Slaughter, notorious bandit, under obtaining the highest eligible rating nn, a brother of a Civil War soldier ; jsa the result of an open competitive and the father of an only son who en : examination conducted bv the United tered the World War the same time he .schools of the state (including the ' death sentence for the killing of a making cf provision for the pay of '-.prison farm guard, escaped with six teachers) and the curing of a defect ' others from the pententiary. Slaugh- Hi- It was announced at the meeting' that o6',000 bags vr peanuts had been! T-ftdved by the Exchange within less j t !it.u three ivc-eks, vpiiioh has necessar-i lly canned some delay in getting out j vheeks for advances to the farmers.! Dallas, Tex., Dec. 9. A contract, -tates Civil Service Commission, un- did. This ex-service man suffered ' I. 1 -m . . X 1 A HP I, 1. . 1 ,1 T , " J 1 str r s-l -w v . -v . . hut it was stated that every effort which is believed to be the highest ,ier sucn rules ana reguiations as may permanent injury in tne service, ac-, 3cnuui ucncu or uu,uuu wjm , of fre0)lom f(j u wa. being erocted to overcome this ever offered a coach, thirty-five thou e promulgated by the Post Office De- eordng to the report, this Republican '.be taken care of through the simple j ' .-sh nd l urry the .-heoks forward sand for five years, sent "Bo" Me- partnient- and the Commission. politician was, given preference also process of a resolution empowering the ' ; . ,: . as "not tn cause embarrassment "or Millan, Center f ootbaE-'star, ' by te a man who f of twenty-five years State- Treasurer -to sell bonds for the ' woi-rv t the inducers and members. Universitv of Dallas Athletic Councit ting Jaw was construed to give pre-Vas chief clerk of the Railway Mail purpose. The municipal finance bill i nthe municipal finance act. iter controlled the prison yard for five hours preceding his escape and MANY RUSSIANS ABE ISSUES A 10,000 ference to cx-serviee men. This was Serviee. is already in shape and actually pass- an act approved March, 3, 1919, giving I Senator Fletcher has cited a case In ed by both branches, )Ut the failure ; preference in appointments to clerical his own state where an honorably dls- of the Senate journal clerk to proper! - 7T T TWT 1 1 TT1 T7 O ' and other positions of the executive charged disabled service man, a Dem-; record its passage in that body in if; CALL FOR STARVING IN TURKEY ; departments and an independent gov- oerat, and acting postmaster, who was final reading (after being reconsidered Cou,d:iutijMple, Dec. 8. The Constan- m ernment establishments to honorable the only qualified eligible in a recent and amended) rendered it worthless Tobacco Growers In Old .North State Committee for twelve months have, isc-harged soldiers, sailors, and ma- examination, was not re-appointed, bu ani he investment brokers would no: Out To Beat Sign TJp Record Of Kentucky , thtoph- Uelief Funl,, which has taken over a large part of the charity work L'lbev'i; done b vtho American Red given freely of their time, thoue-ht rines and widows of such, if thev ?: another examination called so that a buy bonds issued by any cite umier and labor for tlie sucj0Pssful organlza- qualified to hold such positions, which Republican might get the job. its authority. The defect can be cur ' '"S;, addressed an urgent plea to t:on of the Tobacco Growers Coopera- was amended by van act 'approved! Another case reported 'in the news- ed by simply passing the bill over again 1'" Constantinople in behalf RHi-igu. N. C. Dec. 9 Calling for tive Marketing Association, without July 11, 1919 by including the "wives papers would indicate that in some but it will take from six to eight day-: c' thf' ,,0-stltute Tiss'u refugees. ! '"'0 volunteers to help North, Caro- compensation, without reward of the of injured soldiers, sailors, and ma- of the southern states postmast erships to do it, on its " several readings," etc. The Committee points out that there !'!,; 'neat Kentucky in the sign up for hope of reward, except to help to- rines who themselves are not qualified are being given to men who have rc- The lawmakers are in no humor to ,re more than 17,000 Russians within oortatire marketing of tobacco,. Xr. l;a ceo growers to secure a more busi- but whose wives are qualified to hold eently come to that section from nor- stay here a day longer than necessary, the eity who are literally starving and J. V Joyner ha? issued the following ness-like, intelligent, profitable sys- '.such positions." thern states and in this particular cas But during the, say, ten days or Two that to abandon them would be an acT itt?ui?nT on behalf of the state or- tern of marketing their tobacco and! In an executive order, April 13, at Tallahassee, Fla., there is a ques- weeks the session is likely to last rt of the basest inhumanity. The Com umiatii: committee: to promote the general prosperity of 1920, President Wilson declared that tion as to whether the appointee has few matters of general public interest mlttee explains thai the present con Ke.u u-ky has signed up 85 per fhe state by increasing the profitable- "the veteran preference statute shall lived there long enough to qualify. may be taken up. fstitutes the final phase of Russian re "nt ami is well on the way to 90 per "ess of one of its chief industries and apply in the selection of rersons for The present Republican administra- One of these is a proposed amcrd- f);gee relief. Of the enormous number c-ai of Iter tobacco crop for coopera- The prosperity of one of its largest appointment as postmaster at offices tion has been accused" of re-enthroning ment to the Constitution (which, J' of. refugees totaling in all about 200 ivt marketing under five year con- classes of citizens. of the first, second and thlru class." special privilege at Washington, but course, would be "submitted to the peo- 000 who have passed through tn 'acts like cur. 1133 incorporated TIT)- "The movement is receiving the In all appointments to civil service this is the first evidence that carpet- pie for ratification, if adopted by the hands of Allied authorities, there now r the Xorth Carolina Cooperative endorsement and active support of positions President Wilson was also a baggism may also be revived. Legislature., providing for a board of remain some 35,000. Even these it Is M:irkiii,g Act, and the association many of the leading bankers, merchants stickler for the appointment of thej Under President Harding's execu- pardons. But it is certain to be re- hoped to dispose of satisfactorily In ;i! p.-.rd and sell this year's crop or and other business men, even of some highest eligible on the list and this tive order making any one of tne jected, just as several preious attempts the near future. Hurler tobacco. Virginia has alrearty the leading tobacco warehousemen rule was insisted upon and carried out. highest three on the certified list have failed. Besides, the Governor is 1 .in between 60 and 75 per cent f the state. except where preference was given to eligible for appointment, it is obvious opposed to it. -f her .;- and hopes to beat Ken- "The responsibility for the success ex-service men, their wives or widows, that the Republican administration Another measure proposed is for a 'u-k-. i.t-fore -January 1st. JTews or failure of this final three-weeks '' President Harding's first executive will be able ' to put only Republicans state Australian (or "short ballot)-'' There -"-ccuiue. i(,y. at January 17.67 March 17.70 COTTON MARKET VESTERDAY'S MARKET f hfr camnai?n for enousrh new signers to order with reference to the appoint- in the Post Office. law. But it will hardly get by. -'(v.v.-r- uie signing a million pounfle secure the biggest, signup for the co- 'ment of postmasters, issued May 10, The long fight to take the Post Of- is opposition to it, and if it is ' May u r. May Julv that she will have her mln- operative marketing of tobacco in the 1921, abrogated President Wilson's ex fiee Department out of politics and tempted to force its passage the debate ign-np by .January 1st or before, biggest bright tobacco growing state ecutive order making it imperative to to fill the "post offices of the country it would entail would probably leave 1 1 at ,i l - it ii. 1 : j t 11 1 .1 a ..l i? ...-,."1.1,. : L- r. i- 1 -a n i . -t.iaVa n. linn thp t Tn Mil .aroIi!ia, the biggest grow- tu tne nation, rests now upon tne name tne nignest engiuie un me usi wnn me mgnesi, ciass ui men puasiui.- n suauueu w m.ui --' -.old flue-cured tobacco in the, thousands of signers of the contracts cnd provided that any one of the nnder the competitive examination bodies adjourn sine die. That is the Slate, must not la"- behind 'd upon every ohter progressive, pa- highest three on the list should be system will of course have been in opinion expressed Tuesday by legisla- eeemter to . . .... .. . . . , . . . . . . . . , . 1 January ... ,t Virginia and Kentuckv be- triotic citizen interested in tne gener- eligible to appointment, in tnis way, vain it appointments are to maa tors or e.xpenencr , ict -r. j.;,,,,,,-. tf.(i Tim-sTv-ritv and prooress of NortTi if there was one Republican among hi the manner herein described. As to the 1 ... i--u in. un;. 1 L1A...l----1-- -. -----II- J- -,, )ital Julv 17.48 17.0 TODAY'S MARKET - 17.63 17.67 more assured the success Carolina. the three, although he might have Hie much-moot ed The very worst feature of this meth- looking to the abolition ot measure arcl 17.67 capi K-i'itinn, the less the river nf marketing and trie :'u7.f tor the 17.45 17.0:; 9 f rr' on Tri "") n -. ' 'vganiatio;! ("'ommittee lias ';d rui'l inaugurated an inten '"iiin fov not less than 75 per or before January 1st that about 50 million 'On behalf of the Committee, I lowest rating of the trio it would be ,l U the discrimination against ex- punishment it lasn't a chance. One r'l-stlv aopeal to everv one of these made possible to appoint him over the service men. This can be put a stop of the mo-t effective arguments used ,d:.s would not mind going to the pris rowing fanners linkers, business and profes- two Democrats who would have a high- to by the passage of Senator Fletch- against the proposition may be sum- on farms for life or a term of year.-s.i, sional uien to volunteer for active t.r ,dvil s...rvjce rating. er 's bill making it mandadtory for the mod up in these few words, advanced f,m there would assuredly follow a . i ... ... .. M . , , -. - r 1 1 1 ! 1 . . 1..1!..-r-,i-. tr. ll.n nn- 4.4. ' ' - . ' 1 1 1 . . - . T . . -.)vic in semiring signers, let Xot content with tins overtnrow 01 j 'resident and iuostmaster vrenerai ny an nmuniuai """'u m i;ue xie '.m:n;u t?i i.Minim m ;,,1V(, ten thousand volunteers. Get in. f ... ain principle of the civil service nays to give preference to war veter- ,-essity of the death penalty for all Xorth Carolina." lunch wit hvour cennty' leaders, who ;iX- President Harding made a new ans, and their wives or widows, if the four offenses now lifted as capital of course a few minor bills, som- This vill tell ron hoy you can help. Let executive order on Oct. 14, 1921, m veterans themselves are not otherwise crimes, when there is conviction i ot them local, will be passed " net ween more everv signer and every other volunteer wh.x il0 aid that "the appointment oualified. the first degree rape, murder, bur- times," wtile the session lasts, but it The bill has been read twice and re- glory, and arison. Said he: "Remove ean )e sa;, without doubt that any ..d.ricco must be bmod no si"n 11 r at least one unsigned neighbor cf presidential postmasters is ro. . .... . . i n. :.,:t r. i .-1 t i 1, rmH--en nr, Pnct Of- olnf.trii' rhnir fir noose from tlie ottdmnt tn nrpflnitntp n line of rencraJ V,..r. The ,! liim a part m the biggest move- within tne legal scope or uie civn bci- xerreu .i iuc vumnmi.ci. - - t - 1 1 - - r- V.y rt. Tl: A 1 inusr tjt tasl js groat. It UI! ever started for making our viee law and, therefore, matter fiees a nl Post, roads, where it may re- consideration of the 'Gorilla niggers' legislation woulld be killed without favorable action bv Amer- who assault defenceless white womemujlfit 0f clergy. At-most the "cx- w done but it will d..te more prosnerms and powerful by nf law no 'preference' is applicable main unless ork. active cooperation ,:.akin its chief industry-agriculture lhere to." and made the provision that ican Legion Posts and other war or- especially in the country, and two of try" can last but twenty days (with- - ii "1 1 p . n m'iA.a 1 j i i. . 1 , 1 do Tt. n person, who served in the World War ganizations together with a mamtes- the worst results won m out pay;, ana me u.f - should be -iven five points in their fation of public sentiment generally would he a great increase in this most sllort to consider and properly carry shall cause it to be reported out. brutal of crimes (some negroes ot hua. (mt a program 01 mm u.-uauu. "! ! -(.-, w jsacriflce of time from all i,j,"r!js?e.i in this great movement. members of the Organization -more profitable. " T. Y. JOYNER, Chairman Or-gautxotion Committee, rating.
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