VOL. XV. FINAL EDITION ELIZABETH CITY. NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 21. 1!>25. SIX PAGES. NO. 243.
NEGRO'S ARREST MAY SOLVE
WEEKS VI LLE MURDER MYSTERY
AFTER MORE THAN TWO YEARS
General Jacobs, Picked Up By
Washington, N. C., Police, Held
In Connection With Slaying of
Nehemiah D. Pendleton, Elderly
Merchant, More Than Two
Years Ago.
Vehemently protesting hi.Hj
innocence, and asserting a
confession he made in Wash
ington, N. C? last week was
wrung from him by threat ol
violence. General Jacobs, col
ored, apparently 25 to 30
years old, is in jail here await-!
injj preliminary hearing on a
charge of clubbing to death
Nehemiah D. Pendleton, eld
erly Weeksville merchant, on
the night of April 9, 1923.
The negro wrb arrested by tin*
Washington notice after they ha<1
been In communication with Sher- '
Iff Carmine, of Pasquotank, and
the Pasquotank County Hoard of
Commissioners, and had been as
sured that a reward of $100 would
be paid for the capture of Pendle
ton's slayer. Sheriff Carmine
brought Jacobs back from Wash
ington Saturday, and he probably
will be given a hearing before ?
County Judge Sawyer in the nextl
day or two. '
Pendleton, who was 63 years |
old. and a small, frail man. was j
struck down with a club while on
his way from his ?tore- at Old
Weekaville to the home of his
nepbew, C. L. Pendleton, where he
was a boarder. The home Is scarce- j
ly 200 yards from the store,
around a bend In the road which
paasea through a narrow swamp.,
He had closed the store for t h?* ?
night, and carried his day's re-J
celpts with him.
C. L. Pendleton's home Is next ,
to that of M. C. Stanley, who ran I
a store next door to that of Nehe-j
mlah Pendleton. Mrs. Stanley'
heard some one groaning and j
called to C. L. Pendleton, fearing i
that her husband had bwonic ill :
and had fallen in the road. Mr. J
Pendleton, Mrs. Stanley and Mrs. |
Mary Jackson, a neighbor who j
happened to he visiting In the
Pendleton home, ran out into the
road and discovered Mr. Pendle- 1
ton lying where he had been
struck down. It was then about J
8:45 o'clock.
Mr. Pendleton had been struck
two terrific blows, one on each |
side of the head. He was taken
hastily to the Klltaheth City Hos
pital and died there next morninu
Without having regained cons
tfloUsneBH Until the arrest of Ja- 1
coba last week, no clue to his slay
er had been found, and the tra?
edy had lonji boon relegated to th*- i
umbo of unsolvable mysteries. J
The negro In Jh II here charged !
with the murder says he can ar- i
count for his movements durlnu 1
the entire month of April. 1023.
He says he left here on Easter
Sunday. April 1, and went to Nor
folk,, where he obtained employ
ment at the Southgate terminals. !
H? claims he left here on the train
with one Mary Carter, colored Ef
forts were beln# made today to
get In touch with the Carter wo
man.
Jacob* declares he worked with
. th? Routhgate company until May
9. and left the following day for I
Jeraey City. New Jersey. Retting ?
Job In the roundhouse of the Penn
aylvanla Railroad, between Jeraey >
City and Newark, and remaining
there until about June 20. Th<- .
company physician ordered that '
he be discharged, he aaya, on ac- 1
count of an aching In hla aldea. He
claim? to have returned to Nor
folk. ami to hav? remained there
under h doctor's care until July
I. when ho returned to thla city.
Jaeoha nay* h" remained In Kll*- j
?b*h City until early In February
of thla year, when he went to 1
Washington. North Carolina. He
contdnda emphatically that he can- 1
not Understand why he was n Treat
ed In connection with Pendleton'*1
death; that he knew nothing of
the murder until he waa told of It
by the Washington police; andi
that he never apent any time ??'
Old Weeksvlllc when he
waa serving tlm? on the convict i
road force of Pasquotank County ;
The negro clalma that after hla
arreat In Washington, he waa aub
mltted to the severest of third de
gree methods; that pistols were
thruat Into his ears iind nostrils,
and that he waa told that they
would blow hla blankety-blanked
brains out If he didn't confess. He
Aaya ha was frightened to death.
jKid would have confessed to a ni
ching. One of the Waahlngton
Vrileaaien, he ssaerts. told him
Continued on Pi?4 _l
DHY OFFICERS MB
/' I IK ir ITU LIQUOR
Nahluil with *J."l khIIiiiin of
ll<|uor In ii Ford coupe dii tin
(rtiirgr \V 'n?hington Highway
Saturda> night at IO o'clock,
l?> Federal "Prohibition Agenta
M. A. king and <\ W. Baker,
llcnnie Sclgal, whllo, and Wil
liam II. Johnmm, colored. both
giving I heir home nddrcaacM mm
Norfolk, were brought to Iht*
city to await a hearing before
lulled Stale* t'oiiimltwdoncr T.
It. Wilaon.
The agent* Nxbl they ordered
the driver of the ear to halt
hut he kept on, and they *uc
ceeded In puncturing a rear
tire with a well placed hullet.
In attempting to turn the car
about, or to evade the officer*,
the driver ditched It a few min
ute* later, and he and bin com
panion were arreated.
The preliminary hearing be
fore ( 'ommlHaioner Wilaon had
not been held up to 2: AO
o'clock Monday afternoon.
CITY WATERSHED
MAY BE DAMMED
Representative of War De
partment Here in Con
nection With Project
In order to make* a preliminary j
InvrMlRallnn of the foanlbtllty of i
building a dam across Knobba
Creek, aw a safeguard for the city
water supply, W. T# How**, a rep
resentative of the War Depart
nient, stationed at Norfolk, paid a
visit to Elizabeth City Monday,
railing upon Secretary job, of the
Chamber of Commerce, while here.
Accompanied by City Engineer
tletta. Mr. Howe inspected upper
Knobbs Creek Monday afternoon.
The Utilities Commission proposes
to build a dam across the creek at
a point between the stationery
bridge at the Foreman-Blades
Lumber Company*! plant and the |
bridge at the Newland hlRhway
crossing. War Department sanc
tion of the project is nereasarv be
cause the dam would block what
Is regarded technically as a nav
igable stream.
A dam of the type proponed, ac- ;
cording to engineers who have ex- !
amlned conditions, would prevent i
the influx of salt water at low ;
tide, and thus would serve to kerp
the water in ^ potable condition !
at all times. Approval of the pro- ;
Ject by the War Department Is
expected to prove merely a rou- 1
tln?? proceeding.
Incidentally, some on** conies
along with the suggestion that til"
city water supply already has been
dammed with a good many varia
tions by folks who were depend
ent upon It for drinking and wash-.
Ing purposes.
Mitchell Relieved
From Active Duty
Run Antonio. Sept. 21. ? Colonel
William Mitchell, air service crit
ic. wna relieved from active duty
September nineteen by order of
Major General Hindu. H became
known today.
MEMBERS OF MOB AT
ASHEVILLE INDICTED
Ashevllle. Sept 21. ? Indict
ment of leader* and members of
the mob that stormed Buncombe
county Jail Haturday night for a
negro charged with assault wan or
dered today by Judge Ogleeby In
Superior Court when he charged
the grand Jury.
MISSION COMPLETES
TEXT OF PROPOSALS
Aboard Steamship Paris. Sept
21. ? Finance Minister f'alllaux
and bin colleagues of the French :
m Union to the United State* today I
completed the text of proposals
which they will lay before the Am-1
eiicsn debt funding commlnnlon.
YOUNG SOCIETY
GIRL LOSES EYE
IN GOLF MISHAP
!Mi?h Margaret McChIk- Ac
cidentally Struck by Ma
nhie in Handx of Girl
Companion on Course
IS SISTER OF MAYOR j
Operation Performed at
Kli/alieth City Hoopital;!
Kept Composure Thru
Nerve Wrac kin? Ordeal
Struck in the left eye accident
ally while (the was playing golf on
the new Country Club course near
thla city Sunday afternoon. Mlaa
Margaret McCabe, daughter of
Mr. and Mra. J. T. McCabe. and
sister of Mayor Aubrey G. McCabe,
sustained an injury which necea
altatnd the removal of the eye
Sunday night at the Klizabeth
City Hospital. Memoera of the
family naid she was reating as
comfortably aa could he expected
Monday.
Mlaa McCabe, Mlaa Lucille Le
Roy and R. M. Cotter, aouthern
manager of the North American
Life Insurance Company, were
playing golf together. The girls
had only been playing about two
weeks, but both were fond of ath
letica, and were mastering the
new game rapidly.
The party had Juat made the
alxth bole, and Mr- Cotter ba>l
driven off for the aeventh. He had
gone 60 yards or ao In the direc
tion his ball had taken, when he
heard the crack of Mlaa LeRoy's
atroke as ahe drove out the ball.
A second later, and while h? was
watching the course of her ball,
he hesrd Miss McCabe cry out
that she had been struck in the
eye.
While Miss I^eRoy was prepar
ing to make her atroke. Mr. Cotter
says Mlaa McCabe waa atooped ov
er, fixing a little mound of aand
for her ball. Nobody knows ex
actly what happened next, but ap
parently Miss McCabe straight
ened up Just sa Mlsa LeRoy struck
her ball. They were standing close
together, and the golf club, tech
nlcslly termed a maahte. swung
around and caught Mlaa McCabe
acroaa the eye, cutting amall gaah
ea on the bridge of the noae and
Juat below the left temple, and
injuring the eye Itaelf ao badly
that Ita removal waa neceasary.
Mr. Cotter ran back to the two
girla, arriving Juat In time to
catch Mlaa McCabe aa ahe foil. He
had neglected to provide hlinaelf
with a handkerchief before going
on the field, and tore up his shirt
for Improvlaed handagea to
atanch the flow of blood. The girl
held her nervo In marvelous fash
ion. and walked over to the auto
mobile of Mr. snd Mrs. Howard
Kramer. They carried her hur
riedly to this city snd thence to
! the hospital.
Arriving at the hoapltal. Mlaa
McCabe atlll remained aa calm aa
ever. She alighted from the car.
refusing to be carried and walked
upstairs. Dr. W. W. Sawyer was
aummoned. and membera of the
family were notified, all arriving
In a relatively short time. After
a conference, if waa decided that
there waa no hope of restoring
1 the Injured member, and Dr. Saw
yer removed It with the assistance
of Dr. M. 8 Bulls.
Mlaa I^eRoy waa In a atate of
hyaterla after the accident, and
had only partially recovered Mon
day morning. She waa dlatreeaed
beyond meaaure by the accident,
which all the membera of the
party described as unavoidable
As a matter of fact. It la ex
plained. neither girl reallaed the
other waa ao close st hsnd at the
time Roth are highly popular
members of the younger aoclal set
here.
Judge Says Noel
Is Sane Enough
Newark. N. J.. 8opt. SI. ? Har
rison W. Noel, Montelalr youth
charged with kidnapping ilx j^if
old Mm v Daly tod trilling Ray
mond Pltm, negro chauffeur. In
?anf enough to plead to the In
dlctmenta. Judge Caffray ruled to
day.
The court fixed Thuraday aa the
dato for the opening testimony
on the qu eat Ion of whether Noel la {
aane enough to atand trial The
piiaoner rtffuaed to gnawer In .
court today to tha Indictment* and I
the plea of not guilty traa entered'!
In hla Hehalf
MYSTERY Sl'HROl NDS THIS BABY
Only A Smell But
Enough Convict
Mary James, colored. Factory
? street, Sawyertown, churned with
possession of liquor for the |?ur-'
pose of sale. whr let off
under auapended sentence of two
'month* In Ji^ll on rondltlon that!
; ahe pay a fine of $f?0 and roiiuj
In recorder'a court Monday morn*!
Inn. Willie, alias drown Sou.
Smith arrested on the same
; charge, wan aet free for lark of
j evidence, though circumstances
'tended to show that he lived at
j the house where the liquor whs
! found and sent Mary and her sls
j tar warning that officers were on
'the way to raid the house.
It was significant, also that,
when court had pronounced sen
tence. "Grown Son" went out and
I came hack with the money to pay
i Mary's fine
Undoubtedly warning had
reached the occupants of the house
from some source, for both Mary !
and her alster were busy as been
, when Police Officers Anderson
; ahd Twlddy reached the scene
8omehody had poured liquor out
of a window and both Rlrla were
busy washing the containers, one
i at a pump and the other at a lard
atand of soap suds. The smell of
liquor was still strong on Mary,
however, at the window where
, some had been spilled on the1
floor when a container was emp- ;
tied, and outside the window
where the liquid had been poured
on the ground. County Judge
Sawyer held Mary guilty on the
evidence, and Intimated strongly
that he would have held her
younger slater, whom Police Offi
cer Anderson. In charge of th*?
raid, thought It not worth while
to arrest.
The raid was staged between
11 o'clock and midnight Saturday
night.
' A skin aame over the negro
cafe, corner Oreen and Shepard
? streets, broken up by the police
Saturday night, brought no less
than 1ft colored defendants Into
i court oil a charge of fcamhllriK.
J These were Charlie Thomas. Wei
don Sutton. John Rlddlck. Amos
Oreen. Ilrad Williams. Den Lee.
Wesley King. Dick Ferebee. Mel
vln Jones and Willie l/je,
The defendants offered a i?l?a
of guilty and were let off with
i fines of 95 and costs each
Weldon Sutton was also up for
failure to list taxes snd was fined
taxes and coata. Other defend
ants. all colored, to whom the
same Justice was meted out were
Dennis Spencer and I?onnl? Alex
ander
Up for carrying a concealed
waapon and for dlaturhlng reli
gious worship. Willie Franklin.
Body Road negro, waa fined 96"
and coata In each caae. or given his
choice between paying the fine or
taking a sentence of gfl days on ,
. the roads for each charge At
last account* Willie wffa busy try- ;
Ing to ralae the money to pay the
fines. 1
! Evidence
NEA
f>*trolt police an- InvcHllKalliiu
whether Mr* Margaret White k t?1 ?
tnla baby. She iirwfntfil
the child to her h unhand hk h?T
nmn. Hut under queatloninp nho
paid she adopted the baby in Hain
lllon, Ont.. and railed it h?>r own
In order lo ke??|? the lov?- of her
husband, arlon of a prominent
NaKhvllle T< nueMoe family.
LONG PROBE STARTS
DIG INTO CHARGES
OF COLONEL "BILLY"
W'HNhlnicton. Krpt. 21 ? Much
invMllgHicd nit* ilpfrnw of the
nit l ton wnit Mlwrtofl on another
long |>rt>hr imlny with the I'nu
Mrnt'n Rprrlnl air hoard Inher
it lug nil the controversial hark
ground of art-uaatlon Mini crlt*
IcIhiii In N(?rtliiK out to flinl
fMi?.
Actinic wrptJir) of War lla
vlii Iimm brrn rnllcd hk flrnt wlt
nrw.
This Man's Wives
Die Mysteriously
Richmond. Sept. 21. Tin' body
of Mra. Herbert K. Itlchardaon.
Jr., wuh found In bed at her apart
ment hor?' Ihln morning when her
huaband. nufTfrlng with r aelf-ln
fllcted hii lift wound, told hoapltal
attendant* of hla wlf?*'n d?ath.
Rtchardnon'n Aral wlf?- wan Mr*.
Thelma Himm Hlrhardaon. for
whoae murder two yeara a
Thomaa f'ollard. local r?-al rntato
operator, waa acquitted.
NO ARRESTS FOLLOW
LYNCHING OF NEGRO
New Albany. M IhhIhk I p . Hept.
21. ? No arreata had heon made
early today In ronnectlon with thr
lynching of .1 P. Ivy. negro, who
waa burned at the ntake In a farm
( In* locality near here yentorday
t The negro waa charged with aa
< naulf .
CHAIRMAN DIRECTORS
I STANDARD OIL DEAD
New York. Hept. 21. ? Alfred C.
Bedford, chairman of the hoard of
director* of the Standard Oil Com
pany of New Ji>rney. dlod ihla
morning at hla home In Kant Nor
w|ch. Ixtng Inland Ife waa 11
yeara old.
MADE-IN-CAROI.INA
EXPOSITION OI'ENS
Charlotte. Kept. 21. Edgar
W. Pharr. upeaker of the |yiw?r
llouae of the General Aaaembly.
opened (he Madc-ln-Carollnan Kx
poaltlon here today.
Governor McLeod of South Car
olina la attending and Governor
McLean will b* here neit wwk.
THKKK HELD FOR
DEATH OF WOMAN
Waukegan. 111,. Sept 21.? Ar
thur Holt, aged f?ft. and hln daugh
ter. Mm Clara Hllf. of CbletfO
were charged with murder of
Mra. Arthur Holt, wife and moth
er of the acruned In warrantn |h
nued today, and Albert Harq. aon
In law. wan under arreat.
HOY RRKAKH ARM
Shlloh, Sept 21. ? Roland God
frey. 11 year old aon of Charlie
Godfrey, broke hla arm Sunday
while cranking a car.
COLONEL BILLY
TO GET ENOUGH
OF LIMELIGHT
Inly Stormy IVtrrI Ever !
Scheduled to Appear a?
Star Aetor in Three Hiii?
( 'iron*
OUMIT IO WKAKEN
By the Time the Colonel
Keaehe* Court Murtial j
Ordinary IVrwm Would
he All In
H) KOHKin r. NM.U.I.
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Washington. Sept. 21.-- Colonel
Hilly Mitchell is K"inK In get
his Ml Of the limelight he scdu
oiialy Iinh sought. He is going to i
tried" three times. If this Is '
not enough. there will I... M grand
llnal "review" |>y 1 h,? President of
tm* I'nited Siatint.
There have been other "stormy I
petrels" in l he Army and the Navy ?
in l he days Kone. hut Colonel MBII-|
ly" is the only one ever scheduled
appear hk star actor In a three)
litiR circus, mII going on at the j
"a me time. Colonel Mitchell (hut
recently a brigadier). Is to he tried
by :
Tin- Shenandoah naval court of
Inquiry.
Tin- special commission on avia
tion established by President Cool-1
Wise.
A "hard-boiled'* Armv court -
martlal.
Of course, the hist two trlbun- ,
a l? have no power to punish. They
piohNhly will have "Itrst go" at '
the story colonel and then pass
the ?remains" on to the court-'
Qinrtiul to do its worst. Ry this:
time the colonel ought to he in a
weakened condition. The ordinary
mortal, even the ordinary colonel,
would be. hut Colonel flllly ap
pears to thrive on talk and con- 1
troversy. and the court-martial'
may find him litter than anv of1
the tribunals and Just keyed up to
Ihe highest flKhtlni: pitch.
The naval officers constituting
the Shenandoah board want to
grill the colonel on what they call
(the "loose charges" he uttered
down In Texas while the bin alr
nhlp lay a twisted mass of silk and
metal In the Ohio storm country
a thing of doom to H of her
faithful crew The Navy does not
beiiove the colonel knows any
thing about dirigible management
or policy. The Navy believes It
can show to the country that the
colonel had no basis of fact for
(lhe blast he sent from San An
tonio. In any event It Is going to
.call on him to "put up or shut up."
It will ask him to substantiate bis
charges.
The Shnnadoah board will be
the first to call the colonel to the
bar of public opinion and his fu
ture HtandioK with the people will
( depend largely upon his showing
J before the Naval court. It will be
a hostile court, unquestionably,
for the colonel has called the Navy
many things besides incompetent
and Inefficient. He will be cross
examined In fullest detail
As the schedule goes, the naval
court will turn the colonel over to
the civilian aviation commission.
The colonel wanted that commis
sion. The commission formally
has Stated that the colonel will he
Kjven every opportunity to "make
his case." Here again Colonel
"Illy Will be on trial before the
public.
And then at last the court-mar
Mal. with Ita power to dismiss and
disgrace The Colonel says he
fully expects to be convicted. His
friends say he wants to be. F?r.
however, from considering dlamls
hhI In the circumstances a dis
grace. they say the colone) will
consider It an honor He Is a sort
of second Nathan Hale, sorry that
he has only one commission to
give for his country, only two
ahoulder straps to sacrlflce upon
the altar of "public service. "
Naturally Waahlngton Is look
for a political "nigger In the
woodpile- no me where Some of
the Mitchell enthusiasts already
visualise him running for Con
gees*. or for the Senate, while as
keen political observer ss Vic
Hens, former Representative from
ii! ,"7,,nr? ?? ???'? belief with
-Lit ...y*r v"1,,r*n* hscklng Col
onel limy may aspire to the Vice
p residency m With a still
lilKhnr ohjfrt In vlpw. "Vlr" In a
vl.-ran hlnmott and know,
Ihlnit of I tin u-mimr of liln "bud
' ?S"T,rf ,h" ??"''?"?l?"m
hi M"eholl adhtTt-til. m?y bp
dlinm-d t,y ih? fact thai ih. col
oi..| ?? horn In Franc ,ln.
?!<-r a nut row ronntruetlon of ih?
? otiallliitlon might not h? ?i|giblr
mil I V"",' ero?trt"ney folonol
"Illy h?a ?|,.?, y h(l
Iv'wm i"n ih;* * n",r ,nr
!i I"'*hl r"rr>' him far In
M>" imtltlral whirl At any rat
Warhlnnlon know, tiy now l hat h
will tf?r a hit of watrhinn.
CHTTOW MAIIKKT
New York. R*pt 21 -flpot cot
ion flowed quint, middling 24 SO.
h d#?c||n* of 16 point* Puturea.
Ion In* hid Oct. 24.03. Dec 24 40.
Jan 21 76. March 24.01, May
24 2R
N#w York. Kept. 21. CotUM
future* <>p??ned today at thw fol
lowing Mv?Ib: Oct 24. OR. Dw.
24 r.2 Jan 23. RO. March 24 11,
May 2 4 35.
TYPHOON Sir ftps
THREE SAILORS
FROM THEIR SHIP
Mm it 1 1*. Krjrt . 21. ? .% ty
phoon, (trw-ribnt by officer*
?i Mini Cnltnl Htatrw ilcatroy*
rr* Funl nml l'Ulnbur> an t hr
wnnl of Ihnlr pipfrlrni r, hwtjh
t h rr ?? tailor* ovrrhoanl off
T?ln|, Tmo, China.
Two wfrr druwnnl, II. T.
Nlrwiinl h nil M. I'. O'Hulllvan,
both of Koutli t'arollnn.
STRIKE SHOWS
LITTLE SIGN OF j
BEING SETTLED
Apparently In Being lined
A* (Hull to Readjust Situ
ation in the Bituminous
lliial Field
MINERS HAVE MONEY
Fay for Their Lant Two
Week*' Work Not Yet
(>one and Worker* Not
Yet Tired of Holiday
Ily J. V, ROYI.K
(CwrrtHI. IIII. 1M AMIN)
Scran ton, Pa., Sept. 21. ? There
In a growing feeling here among I
business men who glean their pro- !
flta from the anthracite Held and !
ItM activities that an attempt la
being made to use the present
strike aa a club in an effort by
union officials to readjuat the sit
uation in the bituminous mines.
Little talk la heard here from eith
er inlnera or operators of a prompt
agreement despite the recent con
ferences held by Governor Plncbot
with executives of the rival fac
tlona.
It la too aoon for that. The mln-i
era still are jingling In their |>ock
ets the pay received for the last
two weeks' work before suspen- !
sion. That pay waa larger than
inany of the men ever made be
fore In a similar period, aincc both
sides turned every energy toward
productloa of coal In the laat days
before the suspension of work.
I Merchants who are In a position to
know say that few contract min
ers received leaa than $ 1*0 each
I for their laat fortnight's labors. .
Scores of foreign born workera
have left for Europe with tickets
both ways and not less than $500
, In ca8h on their peraon. Mer
chants In some caaea have already
'curtailed credit, not because they
J thought the miners were out of
| cash, but to get as much of that
cash as poaalble. The suspension
; of credit, it waa felt, would dis
courage trlpa during which the
money would be spent in other lo
| calltiea.
Consensus of opinion here is
j that mediation efforts on the part
of the Pennsylvania governor have
, little chance of success. This is
based upon the belief that the
mine workers are extremely anx
ious to have the Federal Govern
ment take a hand In the dlapute In
aome way. f
If the President took action 'in
. the anthracite atrlke, Scranton
1 residents aaaert. he could scarcely
| refuse to do likewise In event of a
bituminous strike. Predictions
that President Lewla ofthe mine
workera would call a bitumlnoua
strike as soon as winter set Its
grip on the country were freely
made today by many operators,
business men and miners.
It has alwaya hern contended
by union executive that the Gov
ernment. In a roundabout way.
was a party to the Jackaonvllle
agreement fixing wages In the bi
tuminous mines Bituminous
mine owners have shown algna of
| falling away from that agreement.
; Home companlea are operating at
the 1917 acale and their former
! employea have gone back In no In
considerable numbera at the old
wage rate. Reporta come from the
weafern part of the atate that only
continuous preaaure from union
'?x'Tiitlven Is keeping the western
I Pennsylvania bitumlnoua miners
| In line.
It waa Indicated unmlatakably
? In atatementa emanating from
Kwampacott that so long as pos
sible President Coolldge would
; take no action and that, If he did,
Hiirh action, In all probability,
would be confined to expediting
ahlpment of fuH auppllea. But
union officials are not relying
alone on his Intervention. They
feel confident that even If the
President declines to Juggle thw
hot embers of a coal dlapute In
event of s softfeoal atrlke. Con
gresa. whlrh wIR convene about
th? |la? fold weather makes it
appearance, will conalder aome ac
tion which will Inject the Federal
Government Into the altuatlon
through an enabling act giving
pow#?r to a Federal Coal Commla
slon or by some other meana.
Many feel that the calling of a
bituminous strike will depend
largely on the amount of reaerve
eoal piled up In the next two
months Kxperts here say be
tween A 0,000,000 and 11,000,000
tona of aoft coal are being mined
weekly. They place conaumptlon
around ft.SOO.OOO tona and declare
reaervea are approaching 50.000,
000 tona. Government offlclala
have declared 30,000,000 tona la
normal reserve and that the dan
j ger point la not reached until
latocks are depleted to 10,000,000
tona.
EDUCATION IS
NECESSARY IN
ENFORCING LAW
Thr Final Installment of
the Kr|M>rt of Federal
Council of Churches Is
Made Public Today
NEW OPPORTUNITY
Crisis Call* for Frank Fac
ing of Facts and a New
Assumption of Responsi
bility, Says Report
I Br Tti* Ataor-urM I'r*" >
W?nhlnfcton. Sept. 21. ? The
fact that a Imtro part of the pub
lic remains "unconvinced with ref
erence to the liquor traffic" coup
led with failure of the Federal
Government to make any "ade
quate effort" at enforcement and
delinquency of the churchea In
continuing temperance education,
were held responsible for the pres
ent prohibition situation In find
ings made public tonight by the
Research and Education Depart
ment of the Federal Council of
Churches.
These conclusions were an
nounced by the department In
making public the taut Installment
of Its h pedal report on the aoclal
consequences of prohibition, com
piled after an exhaustive investi
gation. Other (tortious of the re
port have been made public pre
viously during the paat week.
In view of the government's re
cent enforcement reorganisation,
the prosent situation whs declared
to present "an unprecedented
challenge" to the churchea and
schools. The "delinquency" of
the former In carrying on the
tomperance work begun long be
fore prohibition was described mm
"perhaps even greater than thftt
of the Federal Oovernment."
"A new opportunity Is at hand''
concluded the report. "The crista
that has developed In the enforce
ment of prohibition calls for a
frank facing of facts and a new
assumption of responsibility."
"The Federal flovernment haa
announced a right-about face on
enforcement policy. This Is the
government's task. It Is not Ita
task to change the minds of the
people. Religion and education
must do that. Nothing but ener
getic and sustained educational
effort can atone for past negli
gence
With regard to the attitude of
the public, the report presented
(he results of a number of polla
under vsrlous elements of Amer
icans. but commented that fig
ures could form little basis for
definite conclusions.
"It may be said with a good
deal of assurance" the investiga
tors continued, "that many pop
ulous sections of the country
would now reverse the verdict If
they had the chance, but there la
much reason to believe that moat
of the states, taken ss a whole,
would still vote affirmatively.
The attitude of the smaller com
munities and the rural sections la
difficult to discover. The moat
recent evidence of the trend of
i popular opinion was the approval
I by referendum In Massachuaetta.
November. 1924. of a law similar
to I he Volstead Act. The ma
jority was small, but It reversed
a considerable adverse majority
of two years before
"Two facta, however, need to be
kept In mind Ho much stress la
put upon the moral Issue Involved
In prohibition that It is highly
probable that many persona, and
especially legislators, vote for
| prohibition laws against their
preference, because they cannot
j 'stand the gaff of moral criqclam.
Furthermore. It Is now sufficient -
! ly clear that mere majorltlee. In
the case of so hotly contested an
issue as prohibition presents, are
of little permanent significance."
One of the polls recorded In
the report was taken at the Cltl
1 tens Military Training Camp at.
Fort Kthan Allen In 1924. Of
r.97 men enrolled, only 104 re
corded themselves as fsvorable to
the oxlstlpg prohibition regime,
i While not accepting this reeolt aa
sn sdequate teal by general opin
ion. the report remarked that "ad
long as It Is possible to get from
repreaentatlve groups of cltlsena
such s response as this, the tank
of establishing prohibition Tlrmly
In the country Is manlfeetty far
from compete.
Out of PJO editors who took
psrt In snother roll. 10* reported
the sentiment of their respective
communities as fsvorsble to pro
. hlbition In lis prsent form. Of
169 business men whose names
sppesr In the New York Cltjr Di
rector of Directors. 51 were for
prohibition as It now exleta, and
all the others favored some form
of modification or repeal. A se
ries of polls among laborers ted
the Investigators to the conclusion
that "industrial labor la hostile to
prohibition."
The view was expreeeed that
unlet? the new Federal enforce
ment < ampatgn succeeds the t*ak
will devolve upon state and muni
cipal agenctee" In which caee the
Immediate future In aeveral statee
Is dark."
"The fact which mu*? he keft
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