LINNEY CONFIRMED
AFTER MUCH DEBATE
* N. C. Republican State
Chairman Lands Job as
District Attorney
Washington, Aug. 10.—Frank A.
Linney needs now only to take the
oath of office in order to be the dis
tric attorney for the Western District
of North Carolina. Goal was kicked
for him today by the Republicans of
the Senate after a long-drawn-out
contest in which there figured pro
tests of North Carolina t negroes,
the suavity of**‘Link” Johnson, the
Georgia negro, who is a member of
the Republican National committee,
the opposition of Republican Sena
tors who finally faced about and put
him across the opposition of Senator
Simmons who was joined by Senator
Overman, to whom Linney owes his
deliverage from a political lynching
at the hands of Republican Senators.
Death stepped in to delay the final
settlement of the’ matter when Sena
tor Ernst went to Kentucky with
the body of A. Tobias Hert, Republi
can National committeeman; sick
ness in the family of Senator Over
man tocfk him also, both absences
causing a delay.
But this afternoon the Linney star
was in the ascendancy, and by a vote
of 31 to 17 his nomination was con
firmed. It camje after more than
three hours of debate about the mat
ter, the Senate going into executive
session on the case at 3 o’clock, this
continuing till after 6 o’clock. There
were speeches for Linney and speech
es against Linney, but the vote tells
the result. It was a small vote, just
half of the membership of the Sen
ate, and had the Democrats not been
led to understand that there would
not be a vote this afternoon, there
would have been a larger vote against
confirmation, though it never ap
peared but that Mr. Linney would be
confirmed. From th(e inception of
the contest that has been the indi
cation, as I have repeatedly stated.
With the Senate in executive ses
sion, the line-up of the vote was not
officially obtainable. This the Senate
declined to give out, and it also re
fused~to be allowed to be made pub
lic the testimony given at hearing of
the protests of the negroes. An effort
was made at the beginning of the ex
ecutive session this afternoon to have
the session an open one, the motion
made by Senator Pat Harrison, of
Mississippi, but it failed by a vote of
45 to 8, both Senator Simmons and
Overman voting against the open
session. The eight votes cast for it
were by Senators Harrison, Borah,
Fletcher, Heflin, Hiram Johnson,
Shepard, Trammell and Watson, of
Georgia. When the nomination it
self was taken up there was speaking
at length, among those in opposi
tion being Senators Borah, Simmons,
Overman and John Sharpe Williams,
while upholding Linney were Sena
tors Ernst, Knute, Nelson, Sterling
and Glass.
The votes against the confirmation
were cast by Senators Jones, of
Washington, Borah, Hiram Johnson,
New, McCormick, Sutherland, Stan
field and McNary, eight Republicans,
the Democratic vote against confir
mation being cast by Senators Sim
mons, Overman, Fletcher, John
Sharpe Williams, McKellar, King, of
Utah, Watson, of Georgia, and Shep
ard, eight in all. The name of one
Senator voting against Linney is not
given, as it was not possible to as
certain it, or whether the name is
that of a Republican or Democrat.
Two Democratic Senators are known
to have voted for the confirmation.
Senators Glass of Virginia and Tram
mell, of Florida. Senators Harrison,
and Broussard, of I/>uisiana wfere
paired and were against Linney.
Senator Swanson, of Virginia, Heflin,
of Alabama, and Pomorene, of Ohio,
had left before the vote was taken,
stating as they left that they did not
expect the vote to be taken till to
morrow, this being th£ general re
port. Senator Heflin stated that he
did not like the way in which Linney
“had truckled to the negroes,” while
Senator Borah is said to have stated
in the course of his remarks that he
would have thought more of Linney
if he had stood squarely up to the let
ter that he was charged with writ
ing to the women of North Carolina.
—Edward E. Britton in News and
Observer.
FEDERAL TAXES
WILL BE REDUCED
Repeal of Excess Profits Tax
—Higher Income Surtaxes
And Other Taxes
Washington, Aug:. 9.—Reductions
of approximately $600,000,000 in tax
es and 520,000,000 in government ex
penditures this fiscal year were
agreed upon late today at a confer
ence between' President Harding, Sec
retary Mellon and Republican leaders
of the House, including members of
the ways and means committee.
Specific tax reductions on which it
was announced agreement was had
included:
Repeal of the excess profits tax,
retroactive to last January 1, $450,
000,000.
Repeal of one-half of the trans
portation tax, effective next January
1, $130,000,000.
Repeal of the higher income sur
taxes, retroactive to last January 1,
$90,000,000.
Repeal of the so-called nuisance
and clothing luxury taxes, $50,000,
000.
As an offset against this cut of
$720,000,000, it was agreed to in
crease the income tax on corpora
tions by probably 2 1-2 per cent in
stead of five per cent as heretofore
proposed, effective as of last January
1, to yield an additional $125,000,000
Decision was had, it was said, to
abandon all new taxes suggested to
the House committee last week by
Secretary Mellon, including a license
tax on automobiles, a bank check
stamp tax and an increase of one cent
in the first class postage rate. Repub
licans of the ways and means com
mittee are to meet tomorrow to draft
a new revenue bill on the basis of
the revisions agreed upon and leaders
said it was hoped to have it ready
for a confereftce of the House Repub
licans next Monday. Hope for its
passage by the House on August 20
was expressed.
' Under the agreement reached at
the White House conference, govern
ment expenditures this year would
be reduced from the previous estimate
of $4,554,000,0,00 to $4,034,000,000 and
the income from internal taxes
would be cut from $3,670,000,000 to
$3,075,000,000. The total income from
all sources was estimated at $4,035,
000,000, including $370,000,000 from
customs, $490,000,000 from miscellan
eous sources including $140,000,000
more than heretofore estimated on
the sale of war salvage, and $100,000,
000 additional from back taxes.
Cuts in expenditures proposed in
cluded $350,000,000 for various gov
ernment departments (and agencies
and $170,000,000 on account of the
public debt. Departmlental cuts in
cluded $50,000,000 War Department,
$100,000,000 Navy Department, $100,
000,000 Shipping Board, $25,000,000
Agriculture Department, $25,000,000
miscellaneous and the estimated pay
ments of $545,000,000 to the railroads.
The $170,000,000 previously esti
mated as necessary to retire War Sav
ings securities and Pittman Act certi
ficates will be taken care of through
refunding operations, it was stated,
the treasury retiring /these securi
ties by borrowing in the open mar
ket.
Japan Satisfied With Date
Tokio, Aug. 8.—Japan has agreed
to November the 11th as the date of
the conference regarding disarma
ment which has been fixed by the
United States. This information was
published in newspapers here and was
confirmed by statements of Baron
Uchida who informed Edward Bell,
the American Charge that Japan was
entirely satisfied with the date.
$6,000 in Scattered Coins.
Atlantic City, Aug. 8.—Street car
traffic in Atlantic avenue was tied
up half an hour today when Andrew
Highbee, employed as a messenger
by the Atlantic City Street Railway
Company, Jalighted from a ^nolley
to deposit Sunday’s receipts in a
bank.
Highbee carried $6,000 worth of
coin in a bag. The bottom fell out
of the bag, paving the street with sil
ver. A corps of detectives was sum
moned to protect him during salvag
i ing operations.
JOHN RAIFOKI) MASSEY
MEMORIAL FOR JNO. R. MASSEY
Body Brought From Overseas, In
terred In Family Plot. Rev. J.
A. Campbell Conducts Service
The body of John Raiford Massey,
who was killed in action in France
on July 31, 1918, was brought home
last week and interred in the family
burying grounds near Princeton.
John R. Massey was one among the
first young men of Johnston county
to give his life in the great world
war He was a son of Mr and Mrs
J. T. Massey, of Boon Hill township,
and was only 24 years old.
He was a graduate of Buie’s Creek
Academy in 1915, and had spent one
year in the University of North _Car
olina when he answered the call to
enlist.
He was a favorite at Buie’s Creek
Academy, and Rev. J. A. Campbell
conducted the memorial service last
Sunday.
Mr. Massey was a bright young
man with a brilliant future who laid
his life on the altar of his country.
Orders Investigation of Prices of
the Golden Weed
Washington, Aug. 9.—The Federal
Trade Commission was directed, un
der a resolution adopted today by the
Senate, to investigate conditions of
the tobacco trade, including prices to
producers and consumers.
Senator Smith, Democrat, South
Carolina, author of the resolution, told
the Senate that here was no market
at all for tobacco of some grades aim
farmers, he added, were using the to
bacco for fertilizer. On the other
hand, Senator Smith said, prices of
cigars and cigarettes were at “their
war-time peak.”
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Camp Bragg Forest Project
Washington, Aug. 8.—Col. W. B
Greeley, chief of the bureau of for
estry will be asked to pass upon the
125,000 acres bought by the govern
ment for Camp Bragg as a national
forest project. Representatives Ham
mer, Representative Lyon and others
will urge the government to make a
long leaf pine reservation of the
Camp Bragg site.
The ozone of the North Carolina
sandhill pine has worked wonders at
Pinehurst and Southern Pines and it
is believed that the beautiful country
near Fayetteville would prove a valu
able and interesting investment for
the government. Joseph Hyde Pratt
has asked members of Congress to
take up this proposition.
Representative Bulwinkle returned
from the state today. He thinks the
conditions there are improving now.
The people are in better spirits.
Some society ladies are works of
art.
Beekeeper’s Meeting
There will be a beekeepers’ meet
ing held at Mr. L. Parker’s Apiary
at. Peacocks’ Cross Roads on Thurs
day August 18th, at 10 a. m. Mr.
C. L. Sams, Federal Expert in Bee
keeping will be present to lecture on
bee culture and to give a number of
valuable demonstrations. He will be
assisted by Mr. Parker whose work
in producing Italian queen bees in
this county is worthy of special at
tention.
This meeting will be well worth
the while of any man who is inter
ested in bees. A trip to Mr. Parker’s
Apiary is well worth while in itself
because of the splendid work that
he is doing. It might also be said
that Mr. Sams is one of the leading
bee experts in the South. Don’t miss
this meeting if you are interested in
bees. ,
Will appreciate the cooperation of
every one who reads thife in getting
the notice of this meeting to every
beekeeper in the county.
Very sincerely,
S. J. KIRBY, County Agent.
Sanders Motor Co.’s Canvass
The Sanders Motor Company be
gan their county wide canvass Wed
nesday, August 10th. At p!rlesen.t
the work is being done by Messrs
Everett Stevens and W. B. Knowles
but others will be helping next week
The plan is to see every family in
the county for the purpose of calling
attention to Ford products. They will
carry reading matter advertising
Ford tractors and Ford automobiles.
This is one of the biggest tasks ever
undertaken in the county and it will
require several months to complete
the canvass. Johnston is a large
county and thickly settled. The can
vassers will be more and more im
pressed with the bigness of the task
as they go along.
Important to a Girl
The things considered most impor
tant in a girl’s estimation have been
investigated by a professor of philos
ophy in an Iowa co-educational school.
One level-headed girl who signed,
“Sylvia,” wrote this list: .
1. Pleasing their parents.
2 An ideal home.
3. Young men. Then studies,
friends, education, business career,
personal appearance, dancing.
This is like a breath of the 19th
Century. Either Sylvia hasr a fine old
fashioned mother, or Sylvia is a f;ne
old-fashioned girl, or after all. girls
haven’t changed so much. But how
many 20th Century girls would put
No. 1 first? And what do the young
fellows think about being third cho
ice?—Capper’s Weekly.
GOVERNOR ARRESTED
BY ILLINOIS SHERIFF
Charged With Defrauding
People of $2,000,000
While State Treasurer
Springfield, Aug. 9.—Governor Len
Small, of Illinois, after resisting ar
rest on indictments charging embez
zlement. and conspiracy for three
weeks on the plea of executive im
munity or “that the King can do no
wrong,” as stated by his counsel to
day finally submitted to Sheriff Mes
ter after the latter had besieged the
State Capitol with deputies for sev
eral hours.
The Governor protested his arrest
until the last, charging persecution
and asserting his innocence, but the
sheriff of Sangamon county, was
adamant and insisted on taking the
Governor from the executive mansion
to the court house where Abraham
Lincoln Used to practice law, before
accepting th^ bonds. There the Gover
nor gave surety for $50,000 and went
his way to await trial on the charge
of defrauding the people of the State
of some $2,000,000 while state treasu
rer through alleged failure to turn
over to the state proper interest on
State funds.
It was a dramatic day in the capi
tal of Illinois and the whole city was
at wiiitvj neat lor iiuurs as trie climax
of the long contest between Governor
and county officers drew near. After
the Governor had refused yesterday
to yield to service of the three war
rants held by the sheriff, the latter
had told him he would serve the pap
ers today or as soon thereafter as
possible, either quietly or with any
necessary effort.
When the sheriff went to the Capi
tol to perform his duty as directed by
Judge Smith, of the county court,
Governor Small, attended by several
advisers was in his office and refused
to come out at the sheriff’s request.
The sheriff then placed deputies
around the building to block any un
deterred egress of the Governor and
sat down in the lobby to smoke until
the chief officer of te commonwealth
should decide to emerge.
As the shadow of Lincoln’s monu
ment in the Capitol yard grew long
under the declining sun, the chief ex
ecutive finally sent out word that he
would surrender to the County officer
at the executive mansion at five o’
clock, if it could be arranged to give
bond at once. The capitulation was ac
tepted by Mester wno withdrew un
der the truce with his troop of depu
ties.
At 5 o’clock the sheriff with his
warrant, somewhat thumbworn from
long handling, drove to the Governor's
house.
“Governor, I am here with the war
rant,” he said when he met the Gov
ernor. The sheriff then read the war
rant, and said:
“Governor, you are under arrest.”
“Very well, what shall I do?” ask
ed the Governor.
G. B. Gillespie, of the Governor’s
counsel, then produced a bond which
had been prepared and asked the
sheriff to take the sureties in the
mansion, but the latter declined.
“You must go with me to the court
house,” the sheriff declared.
The Governor entered Mester’s au
tomobile and went to the court house,
where bonds were signed by Roy and
Harry Ide and C. H. Jenkins. The
Governor then returned home.
Governor Small was indicted by
the Sangamon county grand jury July
20 on charges of embezzlement of
$500,000 of State funds, and conspir
acy to embezzle $2,000,000. The acts
of which he was accused took place
while he was State treasurer.
Following his indictment, Governor
Small came to Chicago, for a confer
ence with his advisers, including
Mayor William H. Thompson. Later
the Governor notified Sheriff Mester
than he was willing to be arrested in
Cook county. The sheriff replied that
he would wait to serve his warrants
until the Governor’s return to Spring
field.
Governor Small then began a tour
of inspection of the State highways,
during which he declared he was will
ing to be arrested but not in Sanga
mon county. He finally retur ed to
Springfield Sunday night.—News and
Observer.
THE ROCK QUARRY
BOTTOM IS BARED
Barrels of Gold Fish Were
Only Things Found After
Water Was Drained
Answer of the pumps is “Nothing.’*
The Rock Quarry is empty, save for
a few putrid gallons of black water,
a few bewildered crawfish, a few
discomfited terrapins, some thousands
of battered, rusty tin cans and kin
dred species of junk. No drowned au
tomobiles, no secreted cases of liquor,
no grisly dead bodies. Nothing .
The bleak, can-studded walls of the
pit gave no substantiation of evil fore
boilings as the water shrunk inch by
inch down their sides in the week that
the pumps spluttered away at the
south end of the hole. If there were
evidence of crime there, it has been
swallowed up in the maw of the deep
debris that has accumulated since the
quarry fell into disuse.
Wherefore everybody is delighted.
Solicitor Norris is delighted that noth
ing developed to further complicate
the situation that was evolved out of
the finding of two drowned automo
biles in the quarry three weeks ago.
That matter he will bring before the
grand jury when it next assembles in
the middle of September. Probably
not before then will there be further
sensation with its genesis in the quar
ry.
Goldfish came out of the inky res
idue of the seven million gallons of
water yesterday. Barrels of them
came out in the seines of sundry fish
ing enthusiasts who went down into
the pit after them. Thousands of citi
zens came from near and from far,
citizens who would have spumed the
idea of owning a goldfish a week ago,
and fought for fish, begged for them,
bought them, stole them.
The hole will be filled up. This
morning the convicts will go back
out there and begin that job that will
take a month, maybe two months.
The mountains of junk will be tumbled
down into the deepest reaches of the
hole. Over it will be thrown the earth
that has silted down the cliffs of the
quarry. The level will be slowly
brought higher, to a point where nat
ural drainage will be feasible. Never
again will this generation see the
place filled with water.
A charge of TNT was rammed into
the east bank of the pit and set off
after the workmen had ceased their
week’s labor at the pumps. Not much
happened, save for a few rocks that
were hurled across the quarry and
very nearly upon the heads of spec
tators poked out from behind the in
cinerator. It will take a vast expen
diture of high explosives to move that
inert mass of mud down to where it
will hide the assembled tin cans.
Teams with shovels will likely do
more.
Eventually the quarry will be fill
ed entirely and the State contemplates
selling its lands there. Survey of the
holdings has been completed, but the
absence of Colonel Grimes from the
city has held up action on it. About
8 acres of land has been discovered
to which the commonwealth holds
title. An acre or more of it is in the
hole, but the rest of it will make
reasonably good building lots for any
who may want to live in so noted a
place. There is talk of “hanW and
such thereabouts.
The secrets that the quarry holds
will never be fully disclosed, 'lhe
engulfing mud has swallowed up ev
erything but the more recent accre
tions to that junk heap. When it was
abandoned, it was very much deeper
than drainage disclosed. The dirt has
slid in, filth has collected until it
is half filled up now. There are nc #
springs at the bottom, and it is un
likely that anything but heavy rains
will increase the water.
What further sensation the public
will get out of the Rock Quarry is
for the future. Neither the insurance
companies, who held the insurance on
the two automobiles fished out of the
hole three weeks ago, nor the solicitor
at whose request the State pumped
the hole ,has been made any public
move toward court action in connec
tion with dumping automobiles into
the quarry. Solicitor Norris indicates
in his statement issued yesterday that
he will lay the results of his investi
gations before the Grand' Jury in
September, but until then it appears
the public must wait.—News and Ob
server, August 10th.