Tluk Doanoke Denk-m
VOL. 34
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1923.
NO. 49
ILL PROPOSE
A 12-MILE Llll
SENATOR STERLING SAYS CON
GRESS CANNOT LIFT LIQUOR
BAN.
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HAS AUTHORITY TO SEARCH
Plans to Revive Bill to Increase Sea
Zone For Prohibition Enforce
ment.
Washington.—Congress is power
lessi in the opinion of Senator Ster
ling!) republican, South Dakota, noe
of the dry leaders in the senate, to
lift the ban on the carrying of liquor
on foreign ships within American ter
ritorial waters, but it has ample auth
ority to give government craft the
right to search and seize rum runners
12 miles from shore.
Senator Sterling announced that he
would revive his bill to establish a
12 miles prohibiton enforcement limit
at the next session if the state de
partment menatime does not negotiate
a treaty to that end with maritime
powers. At the same time, however,
he expressed the opinion that no re
lief can be extended through legisla
tion, amendmending the prohibition
enforcement laws, t0 foreign shipping
companies forbidden by the recent su
preme court decision to bi'ing liquors
within the American three mile limit,
“The supreme court based its de
cision on the constitutional amend
ment Itself and not on any act oi
Congress to enforce it,” Senator Ster
ling declared. “The only avenue oper
to change or in any way modify th€
s\yeep of the decision must therefore
b^ by the repeal of the eighteenth
amendment. In my judgment anj
such action is of such remote conting
ency that it need not hS-.-considered
It is a situation which we can not at
feet by legislation.”
The South Dakota senator predict
ed an attempt would be made to pul
through a law prohibiting Americar
vessels from having intoxicating It
quors aboard while on the high seas
Arrest Members Leviathan's Crew.
Southampton.—Twenty-five members
of the crew of the American steamship
Leviathan were summoned in police
court on charges of deserting other
ships, including the Berengaria, Aqut
tana, Olympic, Mauretania, Megantic
and Homeric.
Firemen Courtney, alleged to have
deserted the Aquitania, proved he had
never been on the ship and the case
against him was withdrawn with the
allowance of one guinea for costs
Two other cases not instituted to em
barrass the United States but with a
view to vindicating the rights of Brit
ish shipping companies to maintain
discipline aboard their own vessels.
The Cunard line has lost 600 men
through desertion in four months and
the White Star 500 men. All the de
fendants before the court returned
here as seamen on the Leviathan.
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Disabled Veterans Urge New Program,
Washington.—A legislative program
calling for adjusted compensation foi
world war veterans and affecting their
rehabilitation, hospital care and Insur
ance will be pressed upon Congress
when it convenes in December by the
Disabled American Veterans of the
World War. The program, based on
recommendations adopted by the third
annual convention of the organization
held recently at Minneapolis, was an
nounced here.
The proposals provide a rating oi
total permanent disability for veter
ans whci have been given hospital
care for twelve consecutive months,
and that all veterans so rated and
those being treated at home shall re
ceive the same family allowance as
given veterans bureau trainees. An
efTort also will be made to have all
veterans recommended for perma
nent total disability rating carried o>
this roll temporarily pending final
award. Total disability ratings will
be sought for men entiled to training
which has been declared not to .be
feasible, and a rating of fifty per ceni
permanent disability will be asked for
men discharged from hospitals with
diagnoses of arrested or quiescent
tuberculosis.
Doctors Endorse Liquor Ruling.
Chicago.—The recent decision ol
Federal Judge George Bourquln, at
Helena, Mont., holding unconstitution
al that portion of the Volstead act
limiting the amount of alcoholic liquor
that may be prescribed by a physician
Is “absolutely correct” and will have
the endorsement of the American mod
toil orofessor.
JOHN R. EARLY, LEAPER,
ESCAPES FOURTH TIME.
Washington. — John R. Early,
whoSe detention as a leper caused
a country-wide sensation some
years ago, has escaped from con
finement for the fourth time and
has paid a visit to his old haunts
around Washington.
Having completed his call here,
he reported to the District of Co
lumbia health authorities, who or
dered him sent to the National lep
rosium in Louisiana. He said he
had been living at a down town
hotel. He left the leprosium three
weeks ago, he told the authorities,
and since then also had visited
Chattanooga, Tenn., Asheville and
Tryon, N. C., Chicago a«d Milwau
kee.
THE PRESIDENT TAKES OATH
HARDING TO SAIL ON S. S. HEN
DERSON INSTEAD OF PRESI
DENT HARRISON.
Ship Ploughs on Across Gulf of Alas
ka as He Tells Wife of Arctic
Brotherhood.
Aboard U. S. S. Henderson, With
President Harding.—President Hard
ing will make the trip from San
Diego, Calif., to New York via, the
Panama Canal and Porto Rico on the
marine transport Henderson, instead
of on the shipping board steamer
President Harrison and American
legion.
Deflinite arrangements for the use
of the Henderson were jd&cided, an<*
announcement was mad#' 'that the
schedule for the return provided for
the arrival of the presidential party
at New York August 27. It was con
sidered likely that the President
would deliver an address there be
fore procee'dinc to Washington.
The Henderson continued on her
course across the Gulf of Alaska en
route to Seaward. After a short stay
there the party will go aboard a spe
cial train and start over the Alaskan
railroad for anchorage and Fair
banks.
Routh weather expected in tne uun
of Alaska, did not put in its appear
ance and the entire day’s sailing was
over comparatively smooth seas.
President Harding has bound him
self by an oath never to mistreat
either a dog or a horse.
The obligation to be kind to both
of these animals was part of an oath
taken by the President at Skagwa,
when he became a member of the
Arctic brotherhood. He today con
fided the oath in part to Mrs. Hard
ing, who in turn informed members
of the presidential party. The chief
executive from boyhood has loved
animals, and his enthusiasm over the
brotherhood’s purpose \ to protect
them caused him to tell his wife
about it.
The brotherhood was organized in
1899 on the steamer Seattle by gold
prospectors whose use and love of
horses and dogs in the north is said
to have caused inclusion in the ritual
of a clause requiring kindness to
these animals.
Motor Vehicles Number 13,048,128.
New York.—A survey just complet
ed showing 13,048,128 motor vehicles
registered in the United States on
July 1, 1923, and 683,751 over the
high mark of December, 1922. The
estimated; gasoline consumption by
motor vehicles last year was over
five billion eallons.
Nine years ago motor cars and all
other consumers of gasoline called
for the manufcature of less than one
and a half billion gallons of gasoline.
The gain in output, involving multi
plied refining facilities, has also been
accompanied by a growth of market
ing equipment which makes gasoline
more readily available to the motor
ist when requirements were on a
smaller scale, the Institute says.
The daily average gross crude oil
production of the United States de
creased 11,200 barrels for the week
ending July 7. totalling 2,199,150 bar
rels as compared with 2,210,350 for
the preceding week, according to the
weekly summary of the institute.
Five Killed In Accident.
Birmingham. Ala.—Five men were
killed and 35 were injured, seven ser
iously .when a train of trip cars
carrying the morning shift to work
parted in slope mine number one of
the Sohloss Sheffield Iron and Steel
Company, near Bessemer, Ala., ac
cording to reports complied from hos
pital lists and morgue* where the
•lead and lniured were all negroes.
WIFE ON FIREMAN’S SEAT SEES
HIM DO IT IN FIFTY-ONE
MINUTES.
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GALLED A GOOD ENGINEER
Stewart Disagree* When President
Stops Tra|n and Breaks Dinner
Dishes.
Tajkemtena, Alaska. — President
Harding as head of the government
drove one of his own locomotives over
his own railroad. He and Mrs. Hard
ing had as much fun as two young
sters on their first train trip.
When the train arrived at Wasillaj
on the Alaskan railway Mr. and Mrs:
Harding went up to the engine and
climbed into the cab. The chief exe
cctive, after brief instructions, took
the throttle and drove to Willow. He
was in charge of the engine for 28
miles, which was traveled in 51 min
utes. Mrs. Harding occupied the fire
man’s side of the cab.
The engineman said that Mr. Hard
ing was a good engineer. But the din
ing car stewart disagreed. This func
tionary pointed out that in stopplp^
the train the piolt had jurked soh eav
ily that 11 cups were broken in the
diner.
While the engine took water the
President visited with some section
men at work nearby. He helped them
paint a new bunk-house, wielding the
brush vigorously. He discovered that
Leroy Harden, son of the section boss,
was born on the day the people elect
ed Mr. Harming President., The emin
ent traveler gave the lad a.,dollar bill.
The Hardings while gothg to Fain
banks, the northern treminus of the
railway, from Seward, the southern
end, his been spending much' of thtdr
time in a speeder. This is an auto
mobile with flanged steel wheels fit
fine the rails. Traveling in this b»
hind the trai nis much better thai
staying in the presidential private cal,
Mrs. Harding assured members of th
party.
Six Desperate Criminals Escape.
Philadelphia.—Six of the most des
perate criminals at large in the United
States—men who escaped from the
eastern penitentiary in. a sensational
jail delivery—were being hunted down
by police and prison guards who had
orders to “shoot to kill the despera
does o nsight.”
Afoot and in automobiles the offi
cers of the law, armed to the teeth
with rifles, shotguns and revolvers
scoured the city and countryside for
miles around in the greatest man hunt
in the history of Philadelphia.
The convicts, characterized by the
police, as expert gunmen who held
human life valueless if it interferred
with their liberty, were armed with
revolvers that had been smuggled to
them in prison before they escaped.
They had played at 12 hours of “hound
and hare” with the hare in the lead.
Authorities admitted that the trial
had grown cold and the last clue they
had was when the convicts staged a
depredation at Ogden, Pa. At this
small town they bound and gagged
Anthony Smith, a farmer, and his fam
ily, robbed the man of money, clothing
and firearms and fled.
Cider Approved in Dry Opinion.
Washington.—Home-made cider for
summer beverage purposes, was given
further stamp of approval in an opin
ion drawn by Judge J. J. Britt, coun
sel for the prohibition unit of the
Treasury Jiepartment.
Britt injade clear just what consti
tutes cider within the meaning of the
Volstead, law.
Britt’s''legal interpretation of the
word cider said. “The word cider
shall mean the expressed juice of
whole, rtesh, sound, ripe apples, exclu
sive of any extraneous or foreign mat
ter, anjl without regard to the fermen
tation hr alcoholic contents thereof,
unless otherwise indicated by the con
text.” !
It wft«t held that cider may be pro
duced fdr use within the home and
may be retained without permit, and
even may be sold after it develops
Into vinegar.
Other clauses of the opinion dealt
with commercial manufacture and
sale of preserved sweet cider, under
permits duly issued by the Govern
ment.
The Government, the opinion said,
has no purpose of requiring persons to
take out permits for making cider and
fruit juices within the home, unless
they are sold commercially.
MISSISSIPPI DROWNS
THREE AS SKIFF SPETS
Memphis, Tenn.—Three persons
were drowned and another is be
lieved to be dying as the result of
overturning of a skiff which car
ried a party of nine attempting to
croS3 the Mississippi river just
south of this city.
The dead are: Louise Perry, 18,
Elizabeth Perry, 10, Granville Elk
ins, 8, all of Memphis.
Mrs. Tom Perry, mother of two
of the victims, was taken from the
water unconscious.
Miss Donna Smith and Miss Jen
nie May Smith of Hickman, Ky.,
Carrie Perry, Frank Perry and O.
L. Malone, other members of the
party were rescued by two negroes
•in the skiff.
EXCEPT NOTICE DEPOSITS
COMPLETES STEPS .NECESSARY
TO PUT AGREEMENTS IN
FORCE.
How Long It Will Take Ratification
Deposits to Arrive in Washington
is Unknown.
Washington.—The French senate's
ratification of the Washington naval
treaty and the four power pact com
pletes the steps necessary to put the
sagreements into force except for the
deposit of ratifications by all the sig
natories in Washington.
How long it will take for the French
formal notice of ratification to reach
Washington Is not known nor it is
certain how much time will be requir
ed for all of the other powers to send
here all the papers necessary or the
final act of putting the Washington
conference agreements Into effect.
The mehtod of deposit and announce
ment of the effective date of the
treaties is provided for in the docu
ments themselves. Article XXIV of
tjie j#val treaty says:
“The present treaty shall be rati
fied by the contracting powers in ac
cordance with their respective con
stitutional methods and shall take ef
fect on the date of the deposit of all
the ratifications, which shall take
place at Washington as soon as pos
sible. The present treaty shall re
main deposited in the archives at the
government of the United States, and
duly certified copies thereof shall be
transmitted by that government to the
other contracting powers.”
Various provisions of the treaty
take effect at prescribed periods of
time calculated from the date of the
deposit of ratifications. Vessels of
war to be scrapped must be render
ed incapable of further warlike ser
vice within six months, and the
“scrapping shall be finally effected”
within 18 months. The replacement
program for capital ships, however,
is not dependent upon the date of
ratification but is set forth in a chart
fixing the year in which replacement
keels may be laid down for each
such ship.
It is provided in the final article
of the four-power treaty that the
agreement shall be ratified as soon
as possible aqd shall take effect on
the deposit of ratifications, which
shall take place at Washington.” On
the same day, under the terms of the
article, the Anglo-Japanese alliance,
long looked upon with suspicion in the
United States, will terminate.
Lightning Kills Three Soldiers.
Baltimore.—Three members of the
fifth regiment, Maryland national
guard, in camp at Saunders Range,
Anne Arundel county, were killed
when a bolt of lightning struck in a
group of men. Fourteen soldiers were
reported injured.
The men were lounging about camp
at the time watching a severe thunder
storm that swept over that section of
the camp.
The dead are: Privates John
Tracey, Russell Fowble, and Arthur
Rutherford, all of Baltimore.
Five Killed on Crossing.
Terre Haute, Ind.—Five persons
were instantly killed and two serious
ly injured near here when a motor
car which was stalled on the track of
the Big Four railroad was struck by
a passenger train.
The dead are: Jack Ellis, Mary
Ellis, and a daughter, Lillie'Ellis, 16;
Margaret Dunlap, 13; Ernestine Dun
lap, 14.
The injured were. Mrs. Fred Stechi
and her daughter Dorothy, 8. Sam
Sterchi, 18-months-old son of Mrs.
Sterchl, escaped injury in the wreck
age of the car which was hurled 100
feet.
Members of the train crew declared
that the engine died as the car reach
ed the crossing. The automobile was
not moving when it was hit.
FIRE DESMS
FEAR !S FELT FOR THE LiVES OF
TOURISTS ON YELLOWSTONE
TRAIL HIGHWAY.
1,000 PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS
Forest Fires Are Sweeping Up West
ern Slope of Bitter Root Moun
tains.
Spokane, Wash.—The mining towns
of Mace and Burke, east of Kellogg,
Idaho, are reported destroyed by for
est fires sweeping up the western
slope of the Bitter Root mountains.
Wire communication with the fire
swept district is down.
Fear is felt for the lives of tour
ists on the Yellowstone trail highway,
which is understood from meagre re
ports to be in the path of the flames.
A thousand persons are reported
homeelss in the two towns. Mace is
destroyed. The business section of
Burke is in flames and little hope Is
held of saving what remains of the
town. Loss was estimated at between
$300,000 and $400,000 and the progress
of the fire was said to be unchecked.
Attempts to block the fire by dyna
miting homes, business houses, and
mine structures proved futile because
of the high wind.
With the business section of Burke
completely gone and a large portion
of the residence section burning, firs
fighting efforts centered a short dis
tance up the canyon from Burke,
where the large hotel of Hercules Min
ing company, together with the min
ers’ recreation center, was threatened.
Alj miners of the rich silver-lead
mines of the district, estimated at
several thousand, had tcrned to fight
ing the fire. -r t
It was reported that all the exterior
workings of Heckla mine, one of the
largest lead-silver mines of the world,
have gone. The machine shop was
blasted. The other workings burned.
The Bunker Hill-Sullivan, said to be
the largest lead-silver mine in the
world, and the Hercules, of compar
able importance, are in the district.
They were protected by divisions of
the Canyon, however, and were not
immediately threatened.
Lady Astor’s Measure Passes House.
London.—Lady Astor’s bill restrain
ing the sale of intoxicating liquors to
persons under eighteen years of age,
passed Its third and final' reading In
the House of Commons by a vote of
257 t0 10.
While Ladv Astor had the satisfac
tion of seeing her temperance bill
passed by a substantial majority the
opposition came not only from mem
bers supposed to faver the liquor in
terests but from Borne who might
have been expected to support the
measure.
Edwin Scrymgeour, of Dundee, the
sole prohibitionist in the Commons,
spoke agains tthe bill. He said it was
a licensing, not a prohibition, measure,
and was “treachery” to the cause of
temperance.
On the contrary Captain Viscount
Curzon, Conservative for Battersea,
described the bill as a stepping stone
to prohibition.
He asked Lady Astor if she favored
prohibition, and she replied: “Pro
hibition has nothing to do with me.
It is for the people of the country to
decide. I have been called an alien
attempting to impose my will on a
free people. I may be an alien, but I
am not alien to the needs and wishes
of the women of this country.’
American Leads Below the Gulf.
Kansas City.—The Unitel States
in commerce in South and Central
America, Francisco Yanes, of the Pan
American Unit, asserted at a dinner
given in honor of the 19 South and
Central American diplomats here.
“Your country predominates in com
merce in the territory below the Gulf,”
he .said. “Specially in the lines of
machinery, farm products and chemi
cals. In advertising development the
United States easily ranks first.”
Drowning Woman Pulls Down Man.
New York.—A young woman, uni
dentified, leaped from the East River
retaining wall at Carl Schcrz park,
and, when two men dived to her res
cue, locked .her ^'*aa>ms t-* afccwt' t?he$r
necks, pulled one of them, John Dunn
down to death with her.
The bodies are believed to have
been swept away by the swift cup
rent from Hell Gate. Theodore Mom
kelly, the survivor, wa^ rescued by
park guards.
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