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VOL. XIV. NUMBER 70.
FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION
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I RECORD OF HANGINGS IK
By The Associated Press
Washington,- Jan., 10. Chief Prohi
Lit ion Agent Yellowley is on aa in
vcstigation tour of the South, which
Commissioner Haynes said will result
hi nicnvtscu uiivu uii moousumers
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jiud bootleggers.
WEATHER REPORT
FRANCE CABLED TO THE
CHILD ATTEMPTS liAMAGINC
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TRIAL I i THE
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DAI
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COHON GINNED
4 MILLION SHORT
Washington, Jan.: 10.
of ?' Richmond, testified
-Charles : Fox,
before tlie
For North Carolina: Probably rain'or(is of Ame
n night
night.
wind?.
and Wednesday,
increasing East
Warmer to
to South
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 10 Complete rec
rican soldiers hanged in
(By Associated Press.)
Cmmitt)ee investigating charges
against Major Opie, that he saw Major
j Chicago, 111., Jan. 10. Eussel Muei-i0 shoot soldier in the back near
ller, aged nine, is suffering from ciVei?hm in nineteen and eighteen.
France after court martial were cable 1 1 self inflicted bullet wound as a result
immediately to the War Department, of grief over the death of a pet dog. town -Va" who' was gased, said that
(By Associated Press.)
Richmon, Va., Jan. 10. Harold Gor
don Blundon, former President of the
Commonwealth Bank, of Reidsville.
Va.4 charged with embezzlement of
"X trial in
fifty thousand dollars, is
the Federal Court.
SAME REACTIONARY LEAD
ERSHIP DOMINATES
CONGRESS
Colonel Bethel, Assistant Judge Ad
vocate General, testified before the
committee investigating Senator Wat
son's charges. He said that the names
were not given out to -the press in con
sideration of the men's families. He j
said that the records showed that j
Benjamin King, of Wilmington. N. C, J
was killed in action or died of wound-?
Egyptians Hate
Europeans
he saw Opie shoot a soldier "in cold
iblod. ' ' James E. Carlton, of Rich
mond, said he saw Opie shoot a sol
die in October nineteen and eighteen.
.5-
LEAGOE OF MilNS
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 10. Cotton gin
ned prior to. January first amounted
to seven million, eight hundre d and
ighty-four thousand, two hundred
iand seventy two bales (7,884,272) com
pared with eleven million five hundred
and fifty-four thousand six hundred
and forty eight (11,554,648) last year.
Washington, Jan. 9. The regular
session of the Sixty-seventh Congress
has just begun, and it can truly be
s;iid that the same reactionary leader
ship which dominates the regular ses
sion as it dominated the pecial session
phe no indication that it intends to
in any better or wishes to day any
Letter in 1922. .
The Senate Finance Committee is
folding hearings on the Tariff bill, j
(By Associated Press.) M
i
London, Jan. 10. Fanatical hatred j
and no evidence shows that King was j of Europeans by Egyptians is one of j
killed by "Hard-boiled" Smith's or- j the causes assigned by a military court
ders as previous witnesses testified. j for the lioting- in Alexandria in May
PULLMAN CO. TO
ISSDE SIXTEEN
ELEPM
9k
-lS BIRTHDAY INDIA RESISTS CONSTIT
UTED AUTHORITY
(By-Tssoc?ated Press.)
New York, Jan. 10. The League of Calc!ltta Ta- 10. Mahatma Gaud-
Nations will be two yers old tomor. i as 1Ssue(l a statement depreciating
violence and resistance to constituted
authority, and eplaiiiing his theory of
row.
On
this anniversary, the claim i.j
jset forth by its admirers that the resistanee b non-violence. The statu-
THE PRESIDENT'S
NEW YEAR'S RECEPTION
Washington, Jan.
7
Demoeracy ' '
Shad its day under a Renublican Ad-u:
,!,;,), iho TTmiso -nns :,t n srp5nl i mmisiration Avnen on JNeAv Year's;
last which resulted in 79 deaths. The
Court has found, after an investiga
ton, that the outbreak was provoked
by adherents of Said Zagloul Pasha,
Nationalist leader, who are said y
the court to have been determined to
reap political advantage by forcing the
j government to shed the blood of Egyp- j
iMILLIONS OF
t NEW STOCK
League has "demonstrated that na-
itions can cooperate without losing
ment was issued as a result of the
'Bombay rioitng upon the arrival of
j their sovereignty, without using force ,the Prince of Wales, in which seven
and with mutual advantage, to all." jwere killel and 200 injured. Gandhi's
The day also is important from a
'statement says:
-The
Inter-
League point of view because the 16th1 "The hope of reviving mass civti
annual meeting of the Council of the .disobedience has, in my opinion, onre
League will be held tomorrow, at more been dashed to pieces. The at
Geneva. The Council is composed o" mosphere for mass civil disobedience
representatives of Great Britain, is absent. It is not enough that snci
WhshiTirrton. Jan. 10
. , Prpsirlpnt inl ATrc Horfin . 1 me iugvptian view or tne case is ; . , s . . , i'ranee, xtaiy, -tseigium, uraai, spam uiinospnere is to De round at 5ardoli,
section in such unsatisfactory shape rtsicient ana jNlrs- -larding threv i I t ate. Commerce Commission has grant- ' fo ' , ' 1 , .
i-uat tne riots were causea dv rreeKs , ; . rn nTr UXAU v.uiu:i. amx mureiure n may go siue dv sine
that it will have to be redrafted in open ' ibc doors of the White. House
its entirety. President Harding is j
king foi sole authority for the exe- thousands of their countrymen,
!to the public and shook hands with ifirnS 011 peaceful .demonstrationa,"
as
;the court states in conclusion. ' y The
vtitive to determine the tariff rates as
conditions may require, thus admitting
they passed in line. This time-honor- ;iemonstrarions were not peaceiui anu
ed custom was abandoned bv former ltnerc is no evidence that the Greeks
to purchase the property of the Has
kell 'and Barker Car Company by is
suing new capital stock of sixteen j
It will consider the protest of the .with violence in Bombay. This is im
govcrnment of Lithuania concerning possible, neither Bardoli nor Bombay
jthe elections organized to determine can be treated as separate unconnected
millidn five hundred thousand dollars.
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. . . . , PvuiPIit w?ifm nin-n ai,oir started tne trouDie. oy iirmg.
t mi ni-i hi iTi- rf Ilia T-l rtf tA fi-omo t .v.uv..i ' ' nj '"laif P'uauiv , - -
sitisfactorv tariff measure. if rom personal contact with great crowds "There is no doubt, moreover, that:
of reot)le. The "Whitn TTous funi't.if
X-f i K T)0mfifrQfa in Cnn mnaa i.-oro i people.
A 1 1 !!!. V--llWA 41 S.. VVHlUOiJ VIVA I
The White House functions jthe hm0)8- had a ve.,; defiait .OTffan-
- . " r x- , .'7" ' , 'are. alwavs popular in Washington, llnzation. The court has found no evi-
xnspired only by a desire to make pol- , J 1
... , ., ' . . . . 'but the New Year's reception is the dence as to what this organization was
itical capital for their party in the ( . r
i -n nionly one in which everybody can join, i or by. whom it was directed. The
enactment of a tantf bill they would " J I ,
i., . -rT -.. iA bright newspaper reported in de-'court draws attention to a very jm-
give President Harding the authority j te r 1 1 i
4.1 scribing the reception at its close ns-jportant fact. Always there ha exis
he asks and also armrove the American 1 r
. . . , ed the following rather clever deserro- ;tcd in Egypt at any rate among -txio i
valuation clause contained in the act j 0 j
, ... . . ition: "The Presidential hand is wearv lower elasses, a fanatical hatred c.z ,
imder which no importer will know j " . ' j
. - -,.,14! land languid tonight from the eordial Europeans. It has shown itself again i
what duty he has to pay and will fre- . i : . .. . 1
duty snaea ot -TaDinet oiticers, supreme. ana again.
ritlEHTHf
RADICAL
vnrr
(By U. S. Press)
Washington, Jan. 6,
(whether the Vilna territory shall bo units. They are a part of one great
Polish or Lithuanian, the methods de- undiversable whole. It. was possible
vised for the division of Upper Silesia to isolatt Malabar. It .was 'also pos
between Poland and .Germany and j sible to disregard Malegaon, but -'.t
questions affecting ' mandates over '.was not possible 'to ignore Bombay.
! backward peoples. . . , "We were, under the pledge, bound
"The League has built up a flex- to protect, the person of the prince
Jxfya structure for international co- from any harm or insult, and we
V
j operation, ' ' says an estimate of its broke that pledge inasmuch as any
'i accomplishments issued today by the one of rs insulted or injured a single
League of Nations News Bureau. "It European or any other who took part
Son limitation of armament was "indi- .between nations and established the responsibility. I
lne conrerence rhas solved several serious conflicts in the welcome. I can't shirk,' my own
am more last rumen -
Muenin ne pacing a auty on auty. . . ited" by a grand jury in the Inter-ra- ;machin?rv for solving others that mav tal than any other in bringing in
But the Democratic leaders will eon- j fo 1 j This outburst :n Alexandria hap icial League's "court of public ses-
.. , .. J mats, Oldest Inhabitants- of the Di3-; i . - 4, , , A . .."
tmue to otfer constructive amendments. . ... inenRa W.anaa thft nnnlp thouo-ht. the sions ." o nthe crround that "it has
, . i. , . itriet of Columbia and just plain citi-,' i, . ' . .
with a view of making all legislation
arise.
not
It has begun the creation of a spirit of revolt. 1 find myself
new kind of international law; has fully capable of controlling Vand din
tqiicj tn anno L- r tho tixrT Tro l- i . .. i ' -
;r leueiii to tne people. :and that the authorities dare not act ; .frustrated their hopes." The "mdlct-, 0-ecta and nas provided a broad! "The working Committee will have
,i il , t -i -i n ,.,,.iness derived trom frequent twistings v t - . - , . ; t -
The so-called Railroad funding bill ; . . '! against them. They took two day i ment" was returned by a "grand jforum or international conference to devote its attention to the situation
j i , d-nn ftrmnnn into the position required by the fra- , . I. , , i !
to provide another $o00,000,000 lot , if or preparation and then the long pent 'jury " whoe members were drawn wnether on general or technical ques- and consider in the light thereof wheth-
Hifl -. Urto ria hr,o hfinn annr TTk tn Jr " i a i o t- t a. ' j. Ta9 it t Z H.-mZZn4 AL. ...ltA ' . i . .
the
! hatred of Europeans burst but. If this indiscriminately froni an audience tions
er mass civil disobedience can be at
citizen-representatives Creation of the Permanent Court of all encouraged until we 'have o'btaln-
' flio Tv"ni oi to nf "PirfViifia fTifi Tifivol fir 1
scrsp-heap, but the big funding bill . ' i is not the correct view it is' difficult composed of
Xliy : ItA iTTi9nrfliaTirl whv thp T)nli ftnnnrl !ff SOulft OT the liatlOnH (USSatlStiea 1 xf f l.ol .Tnc4;.n To tpttp(1 in in oii mr.1o .nntrnl nvflr ti mflfiwa.
' - . - - j t-v - X ; lltLrHI.J .lUlKU i uancv- x. . . v ; vu v vww v .
tlie war debt funding bill, which in
oringinal form gave the Secretary of
the Treasury the power to make any
ii'-rangrnient he pleased in the funding)
ed with important and beneficent se-j
thave joined in, or why the soldiers of 'with the four-power pact, and by rad- tnjg statement as the "greatest sin- I have, personally, come deliberately
crets. If George Washington
had
the Third Battalion, Egyptian Army, icals and
1 progressives, ' '
who
COUi-
:gle triumph of the League. Dec-la 1-. to the
who War! arrived from Cairo onlv tho -nosed an audience which had gathered u04 ti, T.o-jrriw.' -first tnsk is to nLprlioncd i-annnt. h Htnrted for
of the 1 1,000,000,00-0- of indebtedness, ; Iday before, should hav
'.s still to be dealt with. The sinister; sthmr liseinline and used their arms! Thv .'charges against the conference u- -disnntes threatening world u-omlm-t tlie camnaign to a successful
i ' i 1 - - i
oiiclusiou that mass civil di-
the
i --er ;
e lorgOTTen. tommies Tne proceedings. i prevent war, the statement . adds: "Ai- present, L confesa my lnaDiaty v
character of this bill in its original
c , ... , President Harding has the strength
rorrn aroused general suspicion ana j " -
M;prchrni-iou and it is certain, that the j p ' IfepHno- will always, manifest itself in, eastern : republic, Persia, the Phillip-jtwo are -in negotiation. Procedure the people."
Democrats will undertake to invest it appropriations, but the Congress has jthe future, as it has done in the past, pines, the "Republic of Mount Leban- lwh0Hy new in diplomacy has been ns- n tlie presidency of Bengal, the non-
aeross-the Potomac. It's a wonder
to shoot down Europeans in the streets. 'were based on its handling of tlie peace have been brought befote !t. "issue unless, completely, a nou.vio-
" Given similar circumstances, this cases of China, India, Korea, the far iffhree have been settled finally and t;uce atmosphere is generated among
v.itli Hvcry safeguard for' the . financial found "it necessary to constantly
iatf-re.t of the nation and not permit jucc his estimates.
ro jiaid a very long period of time must on " and Haiti.' The conference
has
ed on several occasions but
! elapse before this feeling can be era-
it to be become a mereinstruraent for
fiie benefit of international bankers.
It is vrnd-Tstood that President
Hauling will oon send to the Congress
a plea for a ship subsidy in connec
tion with the American Merchant Ma
which is certain to arouse acrimon
ious debate. A ship subsidy at a
commerce is con-
What in store in the way of de-! .Heated.
force jcooijerati on movomeut has been sup-
dotie uothing to lessen by a fraction j never j pressed upon a notification issued by
of 1 per cent the chances of war," j "Tne disputes referred to ar?. 'the governor in council, making ille-
fieiency appropriations can at this The Italian, French and Greek con- thp. indictment asserted, adding that ltnat et.ween Sweden and Finland gal all non-cooperation organizations,
time only be surmised. Already there j s,j9 gave evidence. They solemnly ithe four-power Pacific- treaty would over the Aland Islands; the Polish- such as the Bengal Non-Cooperation
have been two deficiency bills passed 'protested, states the report, against ; only "insure disturbance after drstur- I Lithuanian dispute over the territory ; Volunteer OwiSps-, Central Mohamme
befone the fiscal year was half over, the treatment of their nationals, and i banco. ' f 0f Vilna, seized by General Zellowski, dan Volunteer Corp and the Congress
foreign
declining is another Bepubli-
ART
HUR GRIFFITH
amounting to $154,000,000 and the j stated that they could never consent -Navy
Department has asked for $27,-1 to their being protected by a force!
000,000 deficiency. j composed exclusively of Eg'ptians.
Wih respect to deficiency appro- j ';
,! i. .
priations, the follwing prophecy of
Representative James F. Byrnes of
South Carolina, Democratic, member of
the Appropriations Committee, is
worth keeping in mind: .
" I i-all attention to this because I j
make the prediction now that we will j
have at least two or three more de- j
ficiency bills, and unless there is a '
great change in the executive depart- j
ments the deficiency bills ot this C on gress
are going to amount to almost j
as much as any Congress prior to 1908 ;
i
ever spent for all government pu- j
puses. ' '
A good deal of publicity has
given to these findings,
cials in Washington insist that
affair is not significant.
the
SUCCESSOR TO
DHL
ERA
AMERICAN LEGION TO
fPHLTOCOM-
DIES
IBCIaLOO
'mc when
:nii!y
:ti anomaly.
It is proposed also to reopen the
vrhoh- ..icstiou of internal taxatioa,
vhi!. ;,), iave only for its purpose
furlier relief of the multi-million-''i'f-
mt profiteering classes by furth
er rv.iuction in the maximum surtaxes,
''!'i result in. further confusion and
'itinrtivinty in the business world.
Tlte i,iiropr?ations bill will be a
Mttnc of the regular session and in a
'A will be a test of the budget sys
1,1 iu : ;t least as it is administered
"u!i'i t.ieneral lawes. Heretofore the
ucral's recottimcndAtions have not
Tm! very respectful consideration at 1 there is not any pending that of far 'followers walked -out while the -vote compensation- for ex-solciiers
'' hands- of Congress.-He- was-ap- !reiief OT even amelioration of existing 'was being taken in protest. Michael .the Chamber of Cowtneree of
?ojted for the i)Hrposo of reducing jppnditions. ' Collins was chosen finance minister, -city.-
(By Associated Press.)
been lJlt tne n?ad of Pollsn troops; the div- ; Committee Corps.
i it.- hotu-m.n l-'nlftn?! . r Thw waif i-'ollfiwH hv- n snries of
but the offi-ilslu" Vv - !'"
and Germany; the Jugoslav invasion ;rauls by tne ponce in uixiereni pari-s
iof Albania and the three cornered , of Calcutta and suburbs. Ihe police
IcontrovMsy between Chile, Peru and '; searched four Congress .and three Khil
j Bolivia over. Tacna and Africa. afat offices, seizing a large number
I The statement summarized also the -of documents, papers and books and
iwork accomplished by the various -removing them to the central police
i whib-sil organizations or commissions .station. No arrests were made.
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i subordinated to the League of Nation, ,
L.w.i,-oB thnt. 'wflminiHtering the Saurl COTTON MAMBtJ
.?UIU f n m . . .
Vallev. ihc
L'anizationsi and others
r.7
hinder the direction of Br
iNausen. 400,000 war prisoners, ninuv May
mf, i .
international health or-: TODAY'S MARKET
Tt states that Januarv 18.04
Fri.lt iof March 18.01
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Chicago, III., Jan.
of whom have been in exile for fiv July .
10. The Araeri-; or six years, have been returned o October
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Dublin, Jan. 10. Arthur. Griffith jean Legion National Commamier mc-j their homes. iwirruai a mai
raa mmnimftimlv pIpiI PrwulMif. iNifier. has instructed all Legion posts Assertion is made that the League January . 18.54
In the legislation yet to be enacted, 'by Dail Eireann. DeValera and his i to presents their case for adjusted has "achieved least success in the re- March
before duetion of armaments" but that prnr- fay
every, ress -concerning preparatory, work m ;nly
that direction has been accomplished. (toJ'er
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