VOLUME 41
SMITHF1ELD, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1922
NUMBER 51
LAWYERS MEET
AT WILMINGTON
Address by President John
A. McRae; Governor
Morrison Present
WILMINGTON, June 28.—With
four members of the supreme court,
the governor, and a number of lead
ing barristers of North Carolina in
attendance, the 24th annual conven
tion of the Noith Carolina Bar asso
ciation convened at the Oceanic hotel
last night with more members in at
tendance th in lias ever attended an
opening session of any convention
previously held by the state lawyers.
The convention was called to order
by President John A .McRae of Char
lotte, and the president was greeted
by the applause of over 250 men and
women as he called for attention and
introduced John D. Bellamy, presi
dent of the New Hanover Bar asso
ciation who delivered the address of
welcome.
In his address of welcome Mr. Bel
lamy assured the visitors that they
were in a section that boasted of its
hospitality. He called upon them to
enjoy the section and its surroundings.
The night, one that was programed
for speeches, finally resolved itself in
to actual business and what took place
will perhaps prove one of the big
features of the convention.
Frank Thompson, of Onslow, threw
the real interesting thing into the
session when he introduled a resolu
tion calling for judicial district org
anizations, organizations that would
have power to recommend members
and function as a subordinate part
of the state association. Mr. Thomp
son’s amendment to the constitution
and by-laws would eliminate the
necessity of action by the state asso
ciation as regards a great number
of matters except insofar as endorse
ment or adoption of the action taken
by officials of that judicials district.
The resolution was referred to a com
mittee composed of E. S. Parker,
Graham, H. F. Sewell, Carthage, L.
R. Varser, Lumberton, Col. Harry
Skinner, Greenville, and ex-Judge J.
Crawford Biggs, Raleigh. This com
mittee wjil make its report some
time this week.
The president announced that A.
Mitchell Palmer, former member of
the cabinet, who had been invited to
deliver an address, had advised that
on account of his health he could not
be present and Governor Morrison,
who was to speak this morning, had
been asked to speak this evening at
eight o’clock.
A resolution was offered by J.
Crawford Biggs placing the associa
tion in favor of encouraging the pub
lication of the Law Review, recently
started at the University of North
Carolina.
Committees on nomination and pub
lication were named by the president
as follows: Publications—J. C. Smith,
Greensboro; J. H. Cook, Fayetteville;
Frank Nash, Raleigh; Nominations—
Z. T. Curtis, Asheville; L. T. Hart
sell, Concord; John G. Dawson, Kins
ton; Frank Thompson, Jacksonville,
and H. McD. Robinson, Fayetteville.
—Wilmington Star.
MINISTERS OPEN SUMMER
MEETING AT HIGH POINT
HIGH POINT, June 28.—The
Preacher’s Summer Conference of the
Methodist Protestant Church opened
at the Children’s Home Monday eve
ning with the largest delegation in
the history of the conference.
The address sounding the keynote
was delivered by Rev. Lyman E.
Davis, D.D., LL. D., editor of the
Methodist Recorder, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dr. Davis, who was a representative
of his denomination to the Ecumeni
cal Conference at London, England,
last year, took for his subject: “The
King’s Highway.” He was introduced
by Rev. J. E. Pritchard, of Hender
son, president of the pastors’ con
ference.
Thursday will be a red letter day
for the Methodist P otestant Church
for the cornerstone of the main
building for the new college at High
Point will be laid with regular serv
ices. In the afternoon of the same
day the cornerstone for the boys’
dormitory of the Children’s Home
will also be laid. A large crowd of
people from various parts of the
State is expected to be in attend- j
ance.
FORTY THOUSAND SHOPMEN
TO WALK OUT SATURDAY
Will Strike, As Ordered by Big Vote,
Unless Wage Cutting Or
der Is Stayed.
CHICAGO, 111., June 27.—A strike
of the 400,000 railway shop men of
the country will be called for July
1 unless the railroads agree to
stay the $60,000,000 wage cut due the
shop workers on that date and to
restore certain working conditions
formerly in effect, it was made
known tonight through a telegram
from B. M. Jewell, head of the shop
crafts, to the Association of Railway
Executives.
Decision to call a strike came late
today after a lengthy discussion by
the executive committee of the six
shop crafts unions, based on the
strike vote of the men thus far tab
ulated.
Should the rail heads arrange an
immediate conference, agreeing
meanwhile to continue present wag
es, restore working rules modified by
the railroad labor board and discon
tinue farming out railroad work,
however, a walkout can be halted, the
telegram said. Otherwise “a sanc
tion of withdrawal from employ
ment July 1, 1922, as voted by the
employes, will be unavoidable.”—As
sociated Press.
AMERICAN LIVES AND PROP
ERTY IN MEXICO IN DANGER
Forty American Employes of the
Cortez Oil Company are Be
ing Held for Ransom.
WASHINGTON, June 27.—
Forty American employes of the
Cortez oil company near Tampi
co and destructible property
valued at a quarter of a million
dollars are being held by a rebel
general until a ransom of 15,000
pesos is paid according to a
message today from the Ameri
can consul at Tampico to the
state department. The dispatch
was dated yetserday and said
the rebel general Corozabe had
seized the company’s property
and was holding it with 240
well armed men.
Prompt instructions were sent
to the embassy in Mexico City
to urge the Mexican authorities
to take immediate action for the
protection of American lives and
property.
The consul reported that Coro
dabe had demanded payment
within 48 hours from yesterday
morning when his forces seized
the property. The message also
said there were. no Mexican
federal troops there.
MEXICO CITY, June 27.—
Manuel Barcena, Mexican law
yer, who was kidnapped together
with A. Bruce Relaski near Cuer
navaca on Sunday, has been re
leased and news is momentarily
expected of Relasskir’s freedom.
Late advices said Mr. Bilaski
was safe.
Negotiations for Bilaski’s re
lease are being carried on by
friends, and the ransom is be
ing paid on the order of a New
York company of which Mr.
Bilaski is the head.—Wilson
Times.
BIELASKI SET FREE
BY MEXICAN BANDITS
WASHINGTON, June 28—The
state department was officially
advised in a message from
Charge Summerlin at Mexico |
i City late today of the release of
| Bruce Bielaski. Mr. Summerlin
1 said he had received a telegram
' from Puenta Ixtla. near where |
i Bielaski was captured by band- j
j its, stating that he was there j
“safe and sound” and that he i
was expected to arrive in Mexico I
City tonight.
i..—»
Visiting Rev. and Mrs. Tuttle
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Tuttle and lit
tle daughter, Mary Wescott, of Golds
boro, arrived in the city yesterday
to visit their parents, Rev. and Mrs.
D. H. Tuttle.
Spending Sometime Here.
Mr. B. Mark'Tuttle, of Wilmington,
is spending several days here with
his parents, Rev. and Mrs. D. H.
Tuttle.
Asheville is to put a million dollar
hotel on Haywood street. Jitney
fare from there to the postoffice, a
couple of bli/<ks away, will probably
be reduced to a mere fifty cents.—
Charity and Children.
HARDING CALLS
FOR CONFERENCE
_
i Coal Operators and Union*
Leaders Invited; Accept
ances Expected
! WASHINGTON, June 28.—Invita
! tions went out from the White House
j today asking the leaders of the strik
ing miners and the representatives
! of the employing coal operators in
i both the bituminous and anthracite
fields of the United States to meet
President Harding Saturday “to de
vise methods upon which negotia
tions for the settlement of the coal
strike can be initiated.”
The communication made evident
that careful and complete discus
sions with spokesmen on both sides
of the industrial struggle had pre
ceded the meeting call and prompt
and ready acceptances are expected.
John L. Lewis, chief of the United
Min Weorkers, who remained in the
city after a personal interview with
the President, accepted at once in
behalf of the union.
The wording of the President’s
message was interpreted as demon
strating the desire of the adminis
tration to hold the meeting above the
controversies which have deadlocked
the unionized section of the indus
try since April 1. Official, but in
formal comment emphasized it was
the intention that the conference
should be held merely to discuss
ways and means for a settlement,
and not to take up the miners’ de
mands for continuance of war-time
wage scale, nor the operators’ de
mand in the bituminous field for
separate district wage agreements
supplanting the semi-national wage
contracts that have heretofore been
made.
It was fiully expected, however,
that when the meeting assembled,
the President or his cabinet mem
bers who have participated in the
.)< liminary efforts would have a
program for continuation of the
settlement attempt to present to
the assemblage. There was no hint,
however, as to the line such a pro
gram might follow.—Associated
Press.
HAGUE DELEGATES ACCEDE
TO RUSSIAN REQUEST TO
CONSIDER CREDITS FIRST
There Appears a Determination to
, Go the Limit for
Conciliation.
THE HAGUE, June 27.—Determin
ed to go to the limit of conciliation,
El rope’s delegates acceded to the
Russian reque : to discuss credits
first, and at ihe initial joint meet
ing of the conference today. Russian
proposas were heard and an unequiv
ocal reply was made to them.
The former Bolshevik request for
an arrangement for loans or credits
was met by the pronouncement on
the part of the allies that before
there could be any thought of credits
the world must know the exact sit
uation in Russia and what the soviet
intended to do with the credits.
Moreover, the Russians were in
formed that capital could only flow
to Russia in proportion to the re-es
tablishment of confidence and confi
dence largely depended upon what the
Bolsheviki did about private proper
ty and debts. All three questions, it
was declared, were inter-dependent
and inseparable.
Maxim Litvinoff, head of the sovi
ets, agreed to supply detailed infor
mation. The Bolsheviki resumed
their communique habit, begun at
Genoa, by issuing tonight a copy of
a letter sent to President Patyn of
the central commission, demanding
to know where France and Belgium
stood, and whether they intended to
adhere to their attitude of aloofness
adopted at Genoa on the question of
the restoration of private property
confiscated by the soviet government.
—Associated Press.
I
Mr. J. F. Harrison Resigns.
At a called meeting of the town
commissioners last Friday night Mr.
J. F. Harrison City Superintendent
of the Water and Light Department
handed in his resignation to take ef
fect at once. Mr. N. G. Rand who has
been at he head of the City Street
Maintenance Department will be in
' charge for the present in Mr. Har
rison’s place.
WARFARE GOING
ON IN IRELAND
^Fighting in Dublin; Provis
ional Government Handl
ing the Situation
LONDON, June 28.—The Four
! Courts in Dublin was still held by
[ the irrepulars at 10 o’clock tonight.,
according to a dispatch to the Times.
The Irish labor party is reported
to disapprove of the action of the
provisional government in attacking
I
the building, but the provisional
government, once it decided to sup
press the revolt of the irregulars,
acted immediately and took efficient
ly all the usual war measures.
It is handling the situation en
tirely alone, without any assistance
from British troops who are still
in garrison in Dublin.
A feature of the operations today
was that, even within a short dis
tance of the scene of the fighting
business proceeded normally and
though in the afternoon there was
some slackening of the traffic in
the streets, a visitor might have
noted nothing unusual beyond the
sound of artillery and the rattle of
rifle fire at intervals, often in un
expected places.
Citizens lined the quays and
bridge to watch the battle and a
large holiday boat load of excursion
ists from the Isle of Man watched
the spectacle.
Military activity was apparent
from midnight; thence on the mili
tary movements were continuous.
The Four Courts district was cor
doned and the occupants were clear
j ed from the houses facing the
courts on the opposite side of the
‘ river to make way for official troops.
The temper of the irregulars was
manifested twice during the day in
| attacks on officials cars or lorries, one
being fired on in Camdon street and
another, containing ofiU • rs, on th
Leeson street br’dgo. Three >f the
officers in the latter car and two
privates were wounded.
Rory O’Connor issued a manifesto,
intended to recall memories of Easter
week when Sinn Fein troops under
command of Eammon de Duggan, now
home secretary, were bombarded in
Four Courts by British troops. But
the complete absence of British
troops o ; this occasion, destroyed the
parallel and the belief is generally
expressed that O’Connor does not
ree”y intend to hold out for any
great Icncrtb of time. The determina
tian of the Irish government, backed
by the electorate, to govern is more
strongly expressed by the free state
officials than ever and their appeals
for public support have been cor
dially received.—Greensboro News.
DOG SAVES MASTER AND
WIFE FROM DROWNING
TACOMA, Wash., June 27.—Rex
today is basking in the sunshine of
his own glory which has made him the
most talked of dog in the State, fol
low his heroic rescue of his master
and mistress, Mr and Mrs. A. G.
Smith, as they were near drowning in
Spanaway Lake yesterday.
The Smiths were bathing together
when Smith stepped into a deep hole
and became confused. His call for
help brought Mrs. Smith and he
clutched his wife in a hold she was
unable to break and her cries were
added to those of the husband.
The dog heard his master’s calls
for help, swam out and brushed
across Smith’s half submerged face.
Smith caught at the dog’s collar, got
a firm grip and the canine started for
shore, snorting and struggling hard
to prevent Smith’s weight from drag
ging him under. Freed from her
husband’s, grasp the wife was able
to swim back to shore alone.
Rev. Mclnnis at Selma.
Rev. Neill Mclnnis will preach at
the Selma Presbyterian church Sun
day morning at eleven o’clock and at
Community Church in the afternoon
at four o’clock. Mr. Mclnnis, who
recently lesigned the pastorate of
the PresDyteriar church here, will
remain at Smithfield during the
summer months. He will have charge
of the Selma and Community church
es and po"s;i)!.v other county work.
Tact and talent make a strong
team.
SENATE ADOPTS HOUSE PLAN j
FOR MUSCLE SHOALS WORK
Army Measure Carrying Provision
For Work Upon Muscle Shoals
Dam Ready for President
—
WASHINGTON, June 27.—Presi
dent Harding’s signature was all
that was required tonight for autho
rizing the appropriation of $7,500,
000 for new work on the Wilson dam
at Muscle Shoals. The army bill con
taining authority of Congress lo
spend the money on that project, ef
fective October 1, next, was passed!
today by the senate without a change
in the language already provided by
the house and before the conferees
of the two legislative bodies.
During final senate consideration,
however, the measure at certain
stages was threatened with being
sent back to the house for further
conference, Senator Norris, of Ne
nraska, chairman of the agriculture
committee, moving that the senate
disagreed with the house provision
delaying expenditure of the money
until October. He was finally over
luled by the senate on a vote of 28
to 32.—Associated Press.
BIRTHS AND DEATHS AS
REPORTED BY UNCLE SAM
Bureau of Census Issues Vital Sta
tistics for Year 1920; Infant
Mortality on Decline.
WASHINGTON, June 29. (Capital
News Service).—The Bureau of the
Census has isued its annual volume
of birth statistics for the year 1920.
It includes figures for more than 32
per cent of the United States, or
what is known as the “registration
area.” From its pages the informa
tion is obtained that “in the birth
registration area of the United States
in 1920 there were 1,508,874 live
births, whch represent a birth rate
of 23.7 per 1,000 populations, as
against 1,373,438 live births reported
in 1919 with a rate of 22.3. Of the
1920 births, 776,322 were males and
733,552 were females, or a proportion
of 1,057 males to 1,000 females.
“The total deaths in the birth reg
istration area in 1920 numbered 836,
134 of which 438*201 were males and
397,933 were females. Of the 129,
531 deaths of infants under 1 year
of age, 73,737 were males and 55,794
were females, or proportion of 1,322
males to 1,000 females.
“There is a marked excess of
births over deaths in ever state in
the birth registration area. In Ver
mont the figures are lowest, the ex
cess being 1,873 for 1920 against 1,
947 for 1919. A marked excess is
also shown for nearly every city and
wherever the deaths outnumber the
births the excess is usually among
the colored population. The mortal
ity rate of infants under 1 year of
age per 1,000 births in the birth reg
istration area is 86, ranging for the
states from 62 in Oregon to 116 in
South Carolina. In 1919 the infant
mortality rate of the birth registra
tion area was 87, ranging from 63
in Oregon and Washington to 113 in
South Carolina.”
REPUBLICANS DISPLACE
THREE NORTH CAROLINIANS
These Were Deputy Marshals for Dis
trict of Columbia. Retire Sat
urday—Their Plans.
WASHINGTON, June 26.—Three
North Carolinians, Ed Coghill, of
Charlotte; Elijah Bennett, of Mor
ganton, and Ed Beam cf Rutherford
ton, who have been deputy United
States marshals in ‘.l.e District of Co
lumbia for several yeais will oe suc
ceeded by republicans July 1.
C.gbill will remain here. He has
secured a job vith a bonding house.
Bennett, who has several children in
the government service here, will
stick to his farm in Virginia nearby.
Mr. Beam has not decided what he
will do. He used to be sheriff of
Rutherfoid county—Associated Press.
Mass Meeting at Kenlv.
There will be a mass meeting at
Kenly Saturday afternoon, July 1st,
at 3.80 o’clock. Everybody who is
desirious of hearing Co-operative
Marketing of both cotton and tobac
co discussed and explained by Dr. J.
Y. Joyner and others, is invited to be
present. At this meeting plans will
be considerec; for making Kenly a
receiving point for cotton and tobacco.
TWO MEANS OF
AVERTING STRIKE
Possible Loopholes to Stop
Strike; Union Ultimat
um May be Rejected
CHICAGO, 111., June 28.—Two pos
sible means of averting the threat
ened rail strike of 400,000 shopmen
suggested themselves to railroad cir
cles tonight followed by what B. M.
Jewell, head of the shop unions, term
ed the “last word” to the railroads in
the union ultimatum, sent to the As
sociation of Railway Executives last
night.
The executive, by coincidence,
were scheduled to meet in Chicago
tomorrow afternoon and local rail
road executives today said the shop
men’s proposal of a truce pending
further negotiations on wages and
working conditions would undoubt
edly receive attention.
President Jewrell’s telegram last
night to T. Dewitt Cuyler, chairman
of the executives, left little leeway
for avoiding the strike, it was felt
by the railroad officials today.
The certain rejection of the union
proposal, therefore, left in the opin
ion of railroad men, but two possible
loopholes to avoid issuance of the
strike call.
One was that a conference be
tween the union leaders and the ex
ecutives might be called tomorrow
and if no agreement was reached a
technical dispute might be an
nounced, over which the railroad la
bor board, acting under authority
of the transportation act, could take
jurisdiction as it did in the Big Four
brotherhoods’ strike last year and
act to prevent a walkout.
The other was that if the strike is
called, the board could also take
jurisdiction under the act, on the
ground that the strike would inter
rupt commerce, and order the men
back to work.
Ben W. Hooper, chairman of the
board, refused to comment on these
two possibilities tonight. The ac
tion of the board in the threatened
strike last October was interpreted
as representing the board’s position
on the first possibility and since the
board has never had occasion to act
in any strike of consequence the
chairman declined to state what the
federal body’s interpretation of
transportation act on that point
would be.
Among phases of the strike situa
tion which received considerabe at
tention tonight was the fact that but
19 roads are involved in the practice
of contracting work to outside firms,
one of the points on which the shop
men cast their strike vote. Among
the 201 railroads themselves, there
was said to be a decided split on the
question of contracting and there
was said" to be some doubt as to
whether the majority of the roads,
which have refrained from contract
ing, would support the minority
which has held contracting to be
their legal right.
Chairman Cuyler and the heads of
the larger roads of the country, were
to arrive in Chicago tomorrow morn
ing for a meeting announced as a
conference on contracts with the
American railway express company.
Numerous other subjects, however,
would be discussed, it was said.—As
sociated Press.
ANNOUNCE NAMES OF
RATHENAU’S ASSASSINS
BERLIN, June 28.—The police of
ficially announce that the murderers
| of Dr. Walter Rathenau, Foreign
Minister, wore Ernest Werner Tchow,
of Berlin; Fischer, alias Vogel, a
Saxon, and Knauer, alias Koener, of
Kern, of Mecklenburg.
AH the men aie said to be members
of the monauhists organization and
former members of he brigade of
Captain Ehrhardt, who last year
planned to overthrow the Ebert gov
ernment and whose name was men
tioned in connection with the assas
sination of Mathias Erzberger.
The police also announce that sev
eral persons have been arrested
charged with complicity in the
assassination of Dr. Rathenau.
Several persons were taken into
custody today in connection with the
assassination.—Associated Press.
Leisure is a beautiful garment
but it will not do for constant wear.
—Washington Post.