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VOL. 34 PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1923. NO. 38 CANNOT LAWFULLY BRING LIQUOR IN THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HANDS DOWN DECISION. EFEECTS FOREIGN VESSELS Congress Has Right, However, to Prohibit U. S. Ships From Serv ing Liquor Anywhere. Washington.—Intoxicating liquors eve'.f under seal, cannot lawfully be brought in American or foreign ships within three miles of the shores, the United States supreme court held in a decision which declared, however, that outside the three-mile limit American vessels can legally sell in toxicants to passengers. The fight of foreign ships to do so had not been questioned. The opinion; rendered in 10 cases brought by foreign an<J two by Amer ican steamship companies, was deliv ered by Justice Vandevanter. With out expressing his views, Justice Mc Reynolds dissented. Justice Suther land In a dissenting opinion agreed with the majority of the court in ref erence to American ships, but declar ed foreign vessels had the right to in lug iiquurs liiiu Aiiicrititu yurts uu% dor restrictions adequately guarding against leakage ashore. The effect of the decision was to affirm that Federal Judge Hand in New York insofar as it sustained the opinion of Attorney General Daugh erty that intoxicants could not legal ly.be brought into American ports ana to reverse it with regard, to tho right of American vessels to have liquor aboard on ehe high seas and in foreign porta. The court pointed out specifically that Congress has the power, if it sees fit to exercise it, to forbid all ships flying the American flag to car ry and serve liquors outside" the three-mile limit. This view of the court resulted in predictions by “many dry leaders,” after the gist of the decision had become known. Sweeping in its scope the decision left administration officials some what at sea as to how they would proceed as a matter of permanent policy. Chairman Lasker of the ship ping board announced that for the present, at least, the ban on liquor would be kept on all shipping board vessels. The treasury it became known intends to begin at once to re draft its prohibition regulations to make them jibe with the decision. Indians Filched on Fortune Story. ' Washington.—A replica of the fa mous “Spanish heir” fraud is being operated among Southern Indians to the great inconvenience of the Inter ior Department. Persons, as yet un identified hsfve been busy in Georgia and South Carolina seeking descend ants of Elias Saunders, a member of ‘ an Indian tribe residing in Maryland more than 100 years ago, and relating to these the rosy tale of a $3,000,000 fund held by the Government for dis tribution to them. The department announced that no claim has ever been made in behalf of the Maryland tribe now long ex tinct, that if filed such claims would have no standing since the tribe was under state control, and, finally, that no such fund is being held. t Dry Director Under cnarge. Philadelphia—A girl clerk tesified that William C. McConnell, former Federal prohibition director for Penn sylvania, on trial in the United States District Court charged with conspir acy in the fraudulent issuance of liquor permits, had ordered her not to keep any more records of permits sent out. Twenty-eight other men. some of them members of McCon nell’s staff when he was prohibition director, are also on trial charged with conspiracy. The Government alleged that Wolfe sanctioned a forged permit, made out in the name of the Munyon Homs Remedy Company, of Scranton and that the permit was used by alleged bootleggers to distribute 3,000 cases of whiskey in the western part of ' this state. Scranton was not in ma jor Wolfe’s territory. Mrs. Devlin identified the copies of the permit blanks in the name of the Munyon Company as having been sent out by her. She said she had seen McConnell - In Wolfe’s office but three times dur ing August, September and October, 1921, when the offenses are alleged to have taken place. BOY SCOUT IS KILLED UNDER TRUCK WHEELS Lexingtonk — Henry Dickerson, Boy Scout, met almost instant death here when he fell beneath a moving truck which he was at tempting to board. One wheel of the truck, loaded with crushed stone, is said to have passed over the boys head or neck, and he died before he could be removed to his home nearby. Young Dickerson was one! of a band of Scouts on their way to make inspections of yards follow ing a spring “clean-up" campaign. Several other Scouts caught the rear of the truck, which v(as driv en by John Green, well known known young white man of this community, but Dickerson ran around to the side, and when he attempted to step on the running board he slipped and fell on the pa^ed street. NOT TO SPEND ANY MONEY NAVY DEPARTMENT WILL ABAN DON ITS PROGRAM FOR PRESENT. Question of Interpretation of Wash ington Arms Treaty is Involved. Washington.—Modernization of the older ships of the American flet will await specific authority of Congress, Secretary Denby announced, and the navy department will abandon for the time being the program which it con siders may\ have been approved under a misapprehension of the situation. The secretary’s decision, which was said to have the approval of President Harding, was regarded as closing the incident created through the protest of the British embassy against state ments made before congressional com mutes when the department was seek ing appropriations for installing post war improvements in the battleships. Navy officials then asserted that no criticism of the work could be made as contravenfcig the five-power naval treaty since Great Britain had com pleted similar alternations. This was denied by the embassy. As a result of discussion the $6,500, 000 appropriated by the last Congress for gun elevation will be left- in the treasury and refunded at the end of the fical year as “unexpended money.” With official opinion in the navy from Secretary Denby down holding unanimously that the modernization program is permissible under the treaty drawn up at the Washington arms conference and essential to the American naval standing, it was re garded as certain that the matter would be presented anew to Congress during the December session. The de partment's recommendations, however, then is expected to be based on the technical necessities of the situation without regard to what any other na tion has done or may do. While the immediate problem was removed by Secretary Denby’s state ment, naval officials declared that a large question of treaty interpreta tion remained which ultimately would have to be answered. Among the five signatories of the Washington naval convention. Great Britain has indicat ed specifically she considered changes in gun elevation to come within the provisions prohibitng lateraton of de sign of main batteries. France has taken the opposite view, several bat tleships now being in dry dock for such improvements. 4 Dry Laws Being Investigated. Washington. — Proh'bition troubles from bootlegging to ellqgations of bribery in several states accumulated here and engaged attention of high officials of at least three federal agen cies, the treasury and justice depart ments and prohibition enforcement headquarters. There were indications that facts developed from the several investigations in progress might ulti mately come before President Harding for action. Charges of fraud among former and possibly present prohibition agents caused orders for an investigation by the bureau of internal revenue. An other investigation, along similar lines, involving alleged tenders of bribes for "protection” to former prohibition of ficers already is under way by the de partment of justice, whose agents are making inquiries among "bootleg” cir cles in a number of cities. The internal revenue bureau’s i vestigation also was said to extend into several states, involving the per sonnel of several state prohibition staffs. JUD6E DENOUNCES HOUSE OF OH CALLS CULT GIGANTIC FRAUD CLOAKED BY RELIGION AWARDS $15,000. PERJURY HID IMMORALITY Finds Girls Were Forced to Conceal Truth About King Benjamin’s Holy Rites in Michigan Sect. Grand Rapids, Mich.—The Isralite House of David has been found by United District Judge John E. Sater i of Columbus, Ohio, to be the gigantic | fraud alleged by John W. Hansel and his family of Nashville, Tenn., who spent eight years in the Benton Har- ( bor colony. Based on his findings, Judge Sater gave to the plaintiffs a verdict which will amount to upward of $15,000 as pompensation for their services from May, 1912, until Dec. 20, 1920, when ^ they alleged they were expelled. They had sued for $80,000. The court decision, filed here, de clares Benjamin Purnell, head of the nAlAnw "lino rlnUKorotalir and avcfam. atically taught utterance of falsehoods f and the commission of perjury.” - t Benjamin, also, he finds, has so i taught his religious creed as to cause t some of the female members of the 1 colony to submit to improper relations with him as a roly rite. r < The colony, despite its “low moral 1 tone, fornication, adultery, attempted : ra,pe, if not rape, and petty theft” has 1 gone unpunished and in almost all i cases unreuked, Judge Sater said. i “In political matters, the members i of the colony vote solidly for the per sons designated by Benjamin," states I the decision. ' < Benjamin, it is declared, has, in hiS* i writings, made statements of no other c rational interpretation than that if an ’ investigation of the colony be had, its S members should answer untruthfully, i The evidence, it is pointed out, dis- < closes that on other occasions Benja- < min avoided and sought to stiffle in- i vestigations “concerning Benjamin t and the girls.” ( The court ponders as to the reasons i of “Queen’’ Mary, wife of Benjamin, i for failure to take the witness stand i at the Hansel trial, despite “evidence e which cast a doubt, at least, on her virtue,” in an attempt “to vindicate e her honor or to shed light on transac- e tions in which she was said actively c to have participated.” ' c 1 Convict Brutalities to Be Aired. c Tallahassee, Fla.—Additional re- 1 ported convict brutalities will be air- £ ed this week by the joint legislative <■ committee investigating State and 4 county prison camps. State Senator 1 T. J. Knabb, former owner of a pri- c vate lease convict camp, and John 3 Roddenbury, his alleged whipping boss, the latter now under an indict- r ment. will be the principals in the r coming inquiry. ■ Counsel for Paul Revere White, of J Washington, D. C.,_who is alleged to have received bruital treatment while 6 serving a sentence in the Knabb J camp, telegraphed the committee that his client would be unable to c leave his home in Washington to ap pear before the committee. An affi- j davit made by white together with * the records of the Department of Ag- e riculture relative to his case will be J introduced in his behalf. a White ,a 19-year old youth, was ar- . rested while walking on the highway, g near White Springs, Fla., it is alleged, and after being arraigned in a justice of pea^e court, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in the Alachua county jail. He was charged with vagrancy. He was later leased to State Senator Knabb, who operated a turpentine camp near Macclenny. White contends he was put to work scraping turpen tine boxes and “because I could not do as much work as the negro hands” his affidavit reads, “I was whipped the third day after I arrived. I was kick ed. beaten and whipped practically every day during the time I was there.” 1 i t t I t s i t l ( i 1 Methodists Name Conference Dates, s Nashville, Tenn.—Dates for annual conferences fixed by the Methodist Episcopal college of bishops, south, in session here, include Virginia, Oc- c tober 10; Western North Carolina, s October 17; Upper South Carolina, t October 31; Norths Carolina, Novem- < ber 14; South Carolina, November 28, < Kentucky, September 5; Louisville, < September 26 and Baltimore, April t 21, 1924. 1 -V- . rr: —■11 1 *. 1,846,293 GERMANS SLAIN DURING THE WORLD WAR Berlin.—Germany last 1,846,293 dead in the World War, according to official statistics, just brought up to date. The number of de pendents left by those who lost their lives is fixed at 1,945,000. Of the dead, 56,138 were officers and officials, 212,069 non-commis sioned and warrant officers, 1,572, 523 enlisted men and 5,568 men whose ranks were not reported. The dependents comprise 533,000 widows, 1,134,000 children who were left partially orphaned, 58,000 orphans, 38,000 parental couples, and 162,000 parents who were al ready widows or widowers. The statistics u e been submit ted to the Reichstag by the Min ister of Labor. JWGER TAX ON CICARETTES SOVERNMENT COLLECTS THIS MUCH DURING MONTH OF MARCH. :igures lndicate Healthiest National Business State, Says Treasury* Officials. Washington.—An upward trend of ;eneral business, in the opinion of reasury officials, is shown definitely n detailed statistics on gross federal ax collections for March, which place ne tuiai tor me mourn ai »odi5,o^^,uuu. Vhile some specific items show a re action in returns as compared with darch 1922, officials regard the analy is o£ payments, which was made pub ic, /hs giving evidem e through gener illy increased retv ns from the var ous tax sources of a healthier nation il business state. Proof of a more liberal spending he country over is shown, as the offi cials view the situation, in the in reasu in manufacturers' excise taxes m automobiles and accessories from vhich in March the treasury received 12.173.000, or $5,100,000 more than in darch, 1922. There also was a mark id increase reported in the tax on apital stock of corporations from ^hich was derived $778,000, an indica ion, it was said, of expansion in in lustrial program. The tax is small ,nd an increase of about $150,000, as eported, was declared to represent mportant developments in capital tock additions. Tobacco taxes afforded observers nother evidence, it was said, of great r use by most of the public of the urrent buying power, *taxes on this ommodity aggregating $25,667,000 in larch, as against $21,427,000 for the orresponding month a year ago. The irincipal increase in the aggregate mount came from larger taxes on igarettes, which yielded a total for he month of $15,130,000. Cigar taxes etted the treasury $3,849,000 and hewing and smoking tobacco about 5.000. 000. Documentary stamp sales for the lonth were reported at $3,849,000, al most $400,000 greater than for March ist year and also greater by about 50.000 than in February. There has een a generally larger sale of stamps ach month in the last year as com ared with previous months, except or one or two periods when small de lines were recorded. Theater admission taxes brought' in 6.700.000 in March as compared with 6.284.000 in the same month a year go, while the club does produced 643,227, or about $75,000 more than in larch, 1922. Many other tax sources Iso showed increases, but the major :y were small and inconsequential lLUUUgll nilu«iiu iu Texas Town is Wrecked by Wind. Henrietta, Texas.—Virtually every uilding in Henrietta was damaged nd five residences and six oil der icks at Burkburnett, 30 miles north f here, were blown to bits by a ter ifle wind storm which swept up from h'! southeast. » A fifty mile wind drove large hail tpnes through every window in Hen ietta, and blew in the roofs of the hree-story St. Elmo hotel, several usiness buildings and a dozen resi ences. Hail piled up nearby a foot deep n Henrietta streets, and a torren ial rain which followed the wind tom caused water to fill basements. Methodist Plan $10,OCO,000 Fund. St. Louis, Mo.—Plans for the raising f a $10,000,000 endowment fund for uper-annuated ministers and widows nd orphans of ministers of the South rn Methodist church, will be present d to each of the thirty-eight annual onferences of the church for approval his year, it was announced by the ioard of flnSnce of the church. Vi TWELVE OIE III TENEMENT FIRE SIX CHILDREN AND SIX ADULTS BURN TO DEATH IN SUDDEN FLAMES. FORMER PUGILIST ASSISTS A Hundred Women and Children Pass ed Down Rusty Fire Escape to * Safety. nfew York.—Flames that suddenly enveloped a five story tenment In east 109th street killed 12 persons, six of them children, and led to injury of more than a score of other tenants. Two hours before daybreak Harhis Vogel, from his home across the street, saw flames burst suddenly from every floor of the building. He called Patrolman John Halone and ac companied him through the flames to the second floor of the burning tene ment. They shouted, broke down doors and made their way to the first landing of the rickety fire escape. Above them women and children screamed. Malone tries to drop the ladder to the side-walk. Rusted with age. it stuck. A taxi-«tb, driven by Mannie Friedman, a fottner pugilist, pushed throueh the hvfterical crowd until It was directly beneath the fire escape. A hundred women and children were passed down the tire escape to the top of the cab and were saved. Meanwhile, on the top floor, the family of David Mandelbaum, painter, was trapped. Mandelbaum’s son, Hy man, crawled with his family to the fire escape and was saved. Mandelbaum tried to go back for his wife and six other children, rang ing in age from one to sixteen years, but failed. In the apartment adjoining that of the Mandelbaums an entire family perished. Aaron Kuxis, his wife,, their daughter, Bertha., 21 years old, and their 18 year old son, David, were found on the floor near the open door. Bertha was engaged to be married. She would have been saved but went back to get her wedding dress. When her body was found a bit of scorched lace was clutched in one hand. Mrs. Isaac Brownstein, who lived on the third floor, died in a hospital from burns. Announce New Gas Price Cuts. New York.—The Standard Oil Com pany of New Jersey announced 'an other cut of one cent a gallon in the price of gasoline throughout its domes tic territory with the exception of a few points where varying adjustments were made. This is the second cut within a week and is due, the com pany states, to a surplus production of crude oil and a consequent lower ing prices. The Standard Oil company of Louis iana, a subsidiary of the New Jersey Company, also has reduced the price of gasoline one cent a gallon in Louis iana, Arkansas and Tennessee. The Texas Company and the Gulf Refining Company also announced re ductions of one cent a gallon in the price of gasoline in their territories. Robbers Take 20 Barrels of Rum. Louisville, Ky.—Fifteen men held up guards at the \V. B. Samuels distil lery, near Bardstown, Ky.. and carried away twenty barrels of whiskey in a stolen truck, according to reports re ceived by Federal prohibition officers After overpowering the guards, the robbers fired more than 150 shots, ap parently for the purpose of preventing interfrence, the report said. Soon after receiving a report of the robbery, P. Green Miller, chief prohibi tion agent for Kentucky and Tennes see, left Louisville, at the head of a posse of Federal agents and police, armed with riot guns. The posse members were to block roads leading from the scene in an attempt to head off the robbers. Amnesia Victim Drops Off Map. Baltimore.—As mysteriously as h» appeared in; Baltimore the amnesia victim from Charlotte, N. C., disap peared a few hours later. Before dropping out of sight he visited several of the leading hotels and examined their registers for several years back. 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