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WILSON, N. C, Friday, March 3, 1922
WORK NAMED
AS HEAD OF THE
POSTOFFICE DEPT
E
RAL ELECTION
RESIGNATION
OF LLOYD GEORGE
WAS NO SURPRISE. POLITICAL CRISIS ON.
This Leaves the First and Sec The Leader of the Conservative
BE
GIN TRIAL 0
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BANK PRESIDENT
FOR EMBEZZLING
PRELIMINARY HEARING
end Assistant - Postmaster
Generalship Vacant as Mr.
Shaunnessy Died from Knick
erbocker Disaster, no Names
Stiff es ted.
Washington, Mar. 2. Dr. Hubert
Work, present 1st asst. postmaBter
general, will suceed Will H. Hayes as
head of the postofflce department it
-was learned definitely today at the
White House.
Dr. Work, whose home in Pueblo,
Col., will take over the postofflce port
folio Saturday when Mr. Hayes gives
It np. The resignation of Dr. Work
Is expected to be sent to the senate
Bhortly. Final announcement of the
appointment came as no surprise, his
name having been connected with the
office since the announcement that
Mr. Hayes would resign.
The elevation of the Coloradian to
the postmaster generalship will. leave
the position of first and second assist
ant postmaster to be filled, E. H.
Shaunnessy who was second assistant
postmaster, having lost his life in the
Knickerbocker theatre disaster.
Dr. Work conferred with President
Harding today over the two assist
ants but it was indicated no decision
was reached.
Secessionists has Behaved in
Such a Manner that the
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Prime Minister Demands His
removal or Lloyd George will
Resign.
MARY PICKFORD
WILL NOT PAY.
.London, Mar. 2. Either an early
general election' or the resignation of
Lloyd George will be the upshot of
the present political crisis it . is be
lieved. The apparent widening breach in
the conservative party with the con
sistent gain of liberals under former
Premier Asquith and the laborites as
evidenced in the recent bi-electlons
have forced these alternatives on the
Premier.
Mr. Lloyd George is understood tf
have served notice in his letter to J.
Austin Chamberlain that Sir George
Younger, leader of the conservative
secessionists, who recently attacked
the Premier in the House of Com
mons must go or he will step down
from office.
j Sir George Younger's actions have
met with disfavor among a consider
able section of the party especially
with Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Chan
cellor Burkenhead the latter publicly
voicing his disapproval in a recent
'speech. In this connection some sig
nificance is attached to the report that
Younger may resign from the house
and be elevated to the peerage.
Treasurer Lacy, Who has Been
Seriously 111 in New York for
Ten Days, is Gradually Im
proving; Construction Work
is now Under Way for 800
Additional Miles of Road.
(By Max Abernethy.)
Raleigh, Mar. 2. Preliminary
trial of R. G. Allen, former president
of the City Bank of Raleigh and mors
recently the Central Bank and Trust,
Company, who is charged with mis
appropriation, misapplication ' and
embezzlement of the bank's funds be
fore the doors were closed 10 weeks
ago by the State Banking Depart
ment is underway before a magis
trate's court here today, having be
gun yesterday.
Chief Bank Examiner Clarence
CANADA ASKS FOR
RECIPROCITY
I
RAD RELATIONS
WITH
UNITED
r
STATES
The United States Passed a Re
ciprocity Agreement in 1911,
but at That Time Canada
Blocked Such Proceedings
Between the Nations; Can
ada Now Has Different View-
Vol. 27- No. 5
MERCHANT MARINE
SHIPS MIGHT FLY
RESERVE EMB
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(By David Lawrence.)
(Copyright 1922 by The Dally
Times.)
Washington, Mar. 1. Canada to
day made her-first move to forestall
unfavorable action by the American
congress in tariff relations between
fhe two countries. W. S. Fielding,
Canadian Minister of Finance, and
one of the men who negotiated the
ill-fated reciprocity agreement of
1911, has taken up with the Depart
ment of State here through the good
offices of the British Embassy the
Latham was the State's first witness question of arriving at an under-
and he told that Allen's account was
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ANOTHER MAIL ROBBERY.
Kaukakee, 111., Mar. 2. Four reg
istered mail pouches each filled to
capacity and believed to contain re
gistered mail was stolen today from
the Illinois Central baggage room.
New York, Mar. 2. Mary Pickford PLAYED TRICK ON
does not have to pay Mrs. Cora Wil-; SUSPECTED BANDIT.
kening any part of the $108,000,
which Mrs. Wilkening said was due t Goldsboro, March 1. J. D. Smith,
her for getting the film star a raise a' traveling salesman, was in this city
in pay to $10,000 a week. This was Monday afternoon and stated to some
the verdict of a federal jury return- friends that he was leaving last night
ed last night and unsealed today be- njn his car for Wilson. A young man,
fore Federal Judge Mack. ' ' one of the class that dress well and
Neither Mary nor her husband," always have money, but never work,
Douglas Fairbanks, were in court overheard the conversation, asked
when the verdict was announced. Her Smithy to let him ride with him to
counsel rushed to the telephone to W,ilson. Smith agreed and told the
acquaint her with the verdict. stranger that he was leaving at
Counsel for Mrs. Wilkening filed 8:30 p. m.
CONGRESS WON'T FAVOR
RECIPROCITY ACT.
Washington, Mar. 2. Wm. S.
Fielding, who came to Washington
several days ago in the interest of
a general tariff reciprocity agreement
between Canada and the United
States has been advised that Con
gress does not look with favor upon
such an arrangement.
, Mr. Fielding has been in conference
on the subject with Chairman Ford
ney of the house ways and means
committee who today expressed un
alterable opposition to a putting into
force of the 1911 reciprocity act.
notice of an appeal.
A friend called Smith aside and
told him that the young man's mo-
EAlliniinil itive in waitinK t0 was to rob him.
I A MM All N 1 Smith told him alright, that he was
UMI iIFMIlII iw,se to such and at the ap
pointed time went promptly on tneir
way. Reaching a point about seven
.miles from this' city, Smith stopped
his car and directed him to get out of
the car, and walk back to Goldsboro,
which the stranger did in a heavy
downpour of rain. Smith returned to
Off Florida Coast Make Hid- the city and went in a different dir
ection. The stranger had to foot it
back to Goldsboro and has not shown
his face on the streets today.
ON RUM RUNNERS
It is Stated that Shallow Waters
ing Place for Liquor.
COTTON.
New York, Mar. 2. Cotton fu
tures opened barely steady: May
17.95, Oct. 16.45, Dec. 16.33, Jan.
16.20.
New ' York, Mar. 2. An opening
decline of 13 to 16 points in the
cotton marked today was due to li
quidation and scattered selling pro
moted by easy Liverpool cables. Act
ive months soon showed net losses of
14 to 23 points with May selling at
17.86 and July at 17.10 but there
was considerable buying for trade
and New Orleans accounts which
caused rallies of several points.
WEATHER,
For North Carolina, rain this after-
Washington, Mar. 2. Prohibition
enforcement agents are being tran
sferred from various states to Florida
lor a concentrated campaign against no(m and probaMy toalght Bomewhat
liquor smugglers along the coast of colder fln the coggt Fr,day
me reninsuia u was siaiea uy our
cials today.
GENERAL NEWS
generally fair, colder in southeast
nrvrtlnn fresh nnaslhlv strone shifting
mgn treasury on.cia.s aec.area . wlndg Decomlng northweBt.
aimcuu pruQien. was lacing me gov
ernment in connection with rum run
ning on the Florida coast. One diffi
culty lay la the fact that great ex
panses of shallow water along the1 A resolution has been introduced in
coast made it possible for smugglers the house by United States senators
to hide liquors on the bottom of.the and representatives from Virginia
set on the approach of officers. This urging the United States to purchase
practice was followed to such extent "Monticello," the home of Thomas
it was said that the Florida shallow Jefferson, and the 700 acres of land
waters were almost carpeted with surrounding It.
whiskey and rum. c ' I
PLATINUM
-",v Governor Morrison of North Caro
lina was the first guest at the Vander
bilt Hotel in New York to receive
IS STOLEN 0De 0t tnlfl n08telry'9 newly quipped
suiies wun ine raaio leiepiuiuu.
Davidson, Mar. 2. The chemical
laboratory at Davidson college was The people of Durham are support-
entered Sunday night and robbed o In a project whereby the towr will
MARKETS
N. Y. COTTON OPENED.
Mar. 18.20, May 17.95, July 17.13,
Oct. 16.45, Dec. 16.33.
N. Y. COTTON CLOSED.
Mar. 18.30, May 18.09, July 17.37,
Oct. 16.69, Dec. 16.50.
12 O'CLOCK MARKET.
Mar. 18.27, May 18.09, July 17.28,
Oct. 16.64, Dec. 16.48.
Spot Cotton Wilson market 16 l-2c.
WHEAT CLOSED
May 146 1-4, July 122 7-8.
CORN CLOSED.
May 69 3-8, July 69 7-8.
OATS CLOSED.
May 42 1-4, July 43 7-8.
platinum apparatus used at analyti
cal work valued at $1,000 it was an
nounced yesterday. According to col-
lave a handsome new. hote . Accord'
!r.K to the plana the new hotel will
cort 1350,000 and wil! bo a modern
lege officials the lntrnder was appar- Ulldlng calling for 200 rooms with
ently familiar with the laboratory, baths. . .. v
STOCKS.
New York, Mar 2. A few special
or selected Issues were substantially
higher at the opening of today's stock
market but leaders retfected further
selling pressure. Chandler Motor rose
1 3-8 and General American Tank
and Hartman averaged 1 point ad
vances but secondary steels, equip
ments and foreign oils eased fraction'
ally with tobacco and motion picture
shares.
standing on reciprocal trade.
Mr. Fielding himself does not dis
cuss his visit preferring to make his
inquiries informally and without pub
lcity. But the situation which brings
Mr. Fielding here is of the greatest
importance to the relations of the two
countries and is comparable indeed to
the events of 1911 when President
Taft following the precept of another
Republican president, William Mc
Kinley, offered Canada the hand of
friendship through a reciprocity trade
agreement. The American Congress
ratified that agreement, passing a law
providing for reciprocity but through
a series of misunderstandings inside
Canada, the Canadian parliament fail
ed to do its part.
Inasmuch as it was Canada which
blocked reciprocity in 1911, the feel
ing of the Liberal party which has
just come in power at Ottawa under
MacKenzle King is that Canada
should make the first move in show
ing her willingness to go through
with the 1911 agreement.
Curiously enough the act of 1911
was never repealed and remained on
the status books of the American
Congress. The House of Representa
tives once passed a bill proposing a
repeal but it never passed fhe Amer
ican Senate. So if Canada should do
now what she failed to do in 1911,
the reciprocity agreement would
promptly go into effect between Can
ada and the United States.
But under the terms of the original
understanding, each country was to
pass concurrent legislation and it is
hardly likely that the Canadian par
liament would take action if it ap
peared that the American Congress
might repeal the Reciprocity Act as
indeed is now proposed in the Ford
ney Tariff bill. That bill would auto
matically repeal all previous tariff ar
rangements but would empower the
President to negotiate new recipro
city agreements with any nation.
Canada's viewpoint is that it would
be far better to make an exception
of the act of 1911 and leave it on
the statute books so that the Parlia
ment at Ottawa might put it into ef
fect than to negotiate a new agree
ment involving the reopening of all
sorts of questions.
The desire for reciprocity in Can
ada is now intense. The farmer group
and the Liberal Party go hand in
hand on that issue and together they
control a majority in the Ottawa Par
liament.
But the viewpoint of the agricul
tural bloc In the American Congress
is bound to be influential. Senator
Capper of Kansas, leader of the agri
cultural bloc, told this correspondent
today that he had not had an oppor
tunity to study the effects of the re
ciproclty agreement .of 1911 but it
was likely there would be some op
position from the border states on
the northern boundary.
"The wheat growers of Minnesota
REORGANIZE RESERVE.
Would Establish the Naval Re
serve in Three Classes, the
Fleet Reserve, the Merchant
Marine Naval Reserve, and
the Voluntary Naval Reserve,
Tentative Bill Ready.
Washington, Mar. 2. Complete
reorganization of the naval reserve is
proposed In a tentative bill prepared
by the navy department and forward
ed to officials of the naval reserve as
sociation by Secretary Denby for com
ment before submission to Congress.
Included in the proposed act is a pro
vision for the merchant marine re
serve section and certain merchant!
ships to fly the reserve emblem.
The bill would abolish all existing
naval and marine reserves and estab
lish the naval reserve as a "comple
ment part" of the navy consisting of
three classes, the fleet reserve, the
merchant marine naval reserve, and
the voluntary naval reserve. A separ
ate faction provides for representa
tives of the present marine corps re
serve in conformity with the new
plan. It would have two classes cor
responding with the first reserve and
the volunteer reserve of the naval
establishment.
THE FIFTY DOLLAR
SERVICE MAN WILL
GET CASH BONUS
ACCORDING TO PLAN.
Other Service Men to Receive
Adjustment Certificates on
Which they can Buy a Sum
Equal to Fifty Per Cent of
the Total Adjusted Service
Pay on Dollar a Day Rate
MAYOR'S COURT.
Abel Leonard was charged $31.75
for assault on his wife.
Floyd Flowers was charged $9.25
for being drunk on the street.
K. Batts was charged $24.25 for
disorderly conduct.
Adline Batts was ordered to pay
back $3.00 to Mollie Thomas the
latter alleged the Batts woman had
taken from her.
Henry Pearce was charged 19.25
for disorderly conduct.
Claude Bynum was given sixty
days on the road for taking some
articles from the back porch of Mrs.
Joe Taylor. Mrs. Taylor heard the
man on the back porch and called
Mr. Louis Smith who rooms at her
house, and Mr. Smith ran after the
negro and caught him.
INCREASE IN
PUBLIC DEBT.
Washington, Mar. 2. Increases of
more than ninety million in the pub
lic debt during February were an
nounced today
On February 28 the total debt
stood at $23,478,667,789 as compared
with $23,388,544,236 on Jan. 31st.
The increase in the debt was largely
accounted for officials explained by
issuance of approximately $610,000,-
000 during the month while govern
ment securities retired approximated
$511,000,000. However officials be
lieved continued quarterly reduction
would go on during March when in
stallments of income and profits tax
were due.
Washington, Mar. 2. Unanimous-,
agreement to eliminate the cash fea
ture of the soldier bonus except la
the case of men whose adjustment
service pay would not reach $50 was.
reached by the sub committee from
the Republican members of the house
ways and means committee.
In lieu of cash for the other ser
vice men it was agreed to add a new.
provision to the bonus bill in which
the men accepting adjustment certi
ficates could buy Immediately on
those certificates a sum equal to 50
per cent of the total adjusted service
pay computed at the rate of $1 per
day for domestic service and $1.50
for foreign service.
This official statement of the agree
ment of the sub committee was re
ported by Chairman Fordney.
"The sub committee consisting of
Chairman Fordney, Messrs Green,
Longworth, Hawley, Treadway and
Compley has tentatively agreed upon,
and prepared a provision to be sub-,
mitted which In substance contains,
the following.
"The elimination of the cash fea
ture of the bonus bill where the
veterans are entitled to more than
$50 adjusted service pay but adding
a new loan provision to the adjusted
service certificates title which will,
enable the holder to borrow from
any national bank or bank and trust
company incorporated under the laws,
of any state 50 per cent of the sum
of the adjusted service pay prior to.
Sept. 30, 1925. This date was fixed
because after that time the bill as.
originally drafted by the committee
provides for a larger percentage of:
loans by the government and has not
been changed by the sub committee.'"
Chairman Fordney said this plan
was expected to meet with general ap
proval since it enabled the soldier
that may be in need to obtain cash
immediately after the issuance of cer
tificates; would relieve the treasury
of, any large cash payments, and
would place no additional tax burden
upon the public.
Ships in Asiatic Waters and the
European Destroyers Force
Would be Only Ones not
Affected.
INVESTIGATE DEATH
OF MABEL DIXON.
Danville, Va., Mar. 1. Harry Ber-
man, who has been investigating the
death of Mrs. R. M. Bliss, whose
stage name in New York was Mabel
Dixon, has asked the district attorney
of New York to have rearrested Mar
tin J. Ryan, who drove the dying girl
to the hospital, also for the deten
tion for interrogation of Mr. Bliss
who has not been heard from since
his wife's death. Berman says he has
also asked for the Indictment of "a
relative of Mrs. Bliss by marriage."
SHIP SINKING.
Boston, Mar. 2. The Norwegian
freight steamer Grontoft was report
ed sinking about 500 miles south
east of Cape Race In radio messages
and North Dakota," said Mr. Capper, I received here today. Her life boats
111 want protection. They have , had been smashed the steamer West
been asking for It as against Canada J Kebar reported I and , the Westonls
(Continued on Page Bight) was proceeding to her assistance.
NAVY CRUISES MAY
SOON BE STOPPED
Washington, Mar. 2. Ships in the-
Asiatic waters and the European de
stroyers force will be the only vessels
excepted from the order contemplated
by the navy department temporarily
stopping all cruising should Congress
insist upon limiting the naval fuel de
ficiency funds to the $6,200,000 sug
gested by the house appropriation
committee in the pending deficiency
bill.
Every other war craft and, trans
port or other auxiliary with the ex--
ception of those vitally neoessary in
supplying food for the men. would be
ordered to remain at anchor or at
dock until further notice, .
WILL PROBABLY REDUCE
AKMY T MS.OOOV
Washington, Mar. 1 Reduction of
the slse of the regular army to 118,-.
000 enlisted men has been tentatively
agreed upoa by the sub committee
which Is drafting the army appro
prlatlon bill. The strength Is now alH "
proximately llt,M men.
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