Tluk « Dankt-km Denk-mj
NO. 10
VOL. 35
PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 26, 1923.
INVESTIGATION OF
VETERANS’ BUREAU
FORMER DIRECTOR F O R 8 E 8
COMES THREE THOUSAND
MILES FROM SICK BED.
MAKES SHARP OBJECTIONS
Sharp Clash Occurs Between General
John F. O’Ryan and the Former
Director.
** Washington.—Sharp objections by
Charles R. Forbes, of Seattle, former
director of the veterans bureau, mark
ed tse opening of public hearings be
fore the senate committee investigat
ing the operations of the bureau. Mr.
Forbes declared he had come 2,000
miles and from a sick bed to assist
the committee and to defend his in
tegrity, which, he said, is under at-,
tack and insisted that he should be
given the right to be heard in reply
to statements concerning his admin
istration as they are. made.
“This matter*is going all over the
.cnpafU’k,” he said, “and unless I can
make*reply It would be assumed 1
am sitting here without offering any
objection.”
Senator Reed, republican, Pennsyl
vania, chairman of the comittee of
three senators, told Mr. Forbes that
neither he nor any other particular
individual is “on trial” and' that the
proper time he would be given ample
opportunity to “explain, object to, or
contradict” any statements _ presented
In the hearings. The former director
interrupted several times during the
day, however, and there was a rather
stormy scene near the end of the ses
■ton.
^/Brigadier General Frank T. Hines,
retired, present director of the bureau,
has testified that Francis B. Smith
had been employed apparently as a
consulting architect in connection
with the Livermore, Calif., hospital
project, at a salary of $4,800 a year
and that he had performed duty for
only a few hours. His services ter
minated on April 3, 1923, the director
said, after his attention had been call
ed to the matter by Major General
John F. O’Ryan, of New York, general
counsel for the 'committee. “Who
employed Mr. Smith,” inquired a mem
ber of the committee.
“I employed him,” shouted Mr. For
bes from his seat at the end .of the
long counsel table. “He was a con
sulting engineer making $25,000 a
year and was consulted in numerous
occasions.” • f >•' ?
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& Begin Revolution in Greece.
Athens.—Some two thousand men,
letf'by th® royktist, General'Metaxas,
have revolted against the removal of
Premier Gonatos. t
.The proclamation announcing the
revolution signed by the Venezelist
Generals Leonardapolous and Garga
dJtis and Colonel Giras, was publish
ed in the 'apposition newspapers and
also scattered over the capital from
T an airplane. The military government
' immediately took measures to quell
the revolt, which in government cir
cles is declared to be of not great im
portance. Some arrests were made
during the day and it was reported
that the rebels had been dispersed.
The police confiscated newspapers
which printed the proclamation of
the revolt, which it is rumored here
v is receiving support from abroad. An
■:% -encounter occurred at Chacis between
mutineers arid regular troops but
! everything is quiet in Athens.
The generals who are leading the
outbreak-'no longer are on the active
list of the army. In some quarters
they, are . represented as leading the
’movement with the object of mislead
ing the Greek army. The revolt had
as its object the bringing abodt of the
resignation of the present revolution
ary ^ovpfnment in order that strict
impartiality would be shown the vot
ers at the approaching election.
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Maspto Meet In Charleston.
- *‘Washington.—The supreme council
33d degree Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite southern jurisdiction,
decided to hold its next session in
Charles,tom South- .Cafolfna.
Tn announcing r‘th§t tne 1924 meet
ing wod’ld be held in Charleston, the
)V council said that “a sentimental in
terest attaches to thiinchoiee because
, 'the supreme council of tne southern
jurisdiction, which ' is the mother
council of the world, and by recognit
ion thereby all other supreme- coun
cila receive their Vegularity, was or
ganized at Charleston, S. C.
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FIVE PERSONS DIE
IN AUTO ACCIDENT.
Memphis, Tenn.—Five persons
were killed and two injured, one
perhaps fatally when an automobile
in which they were riding was
struck by a 'Frisco Railroad pas
senger train near Winfield, Ala.,
according to advices received here.
Those killed-were Reverend P.
F. Lucas. 40. his wife and two-year
old daughter, of‘Winfield; Rever
end William J. Otts, 45, of SuHl
gent, Alaa.. and Reveren Max
Hankins, of Fulton, Miss.
B. A. Carter and Rev. Owens,
of Fulton, Miss., were injured. Mr.
Owens-, was reported in a critical
condition.
ELEVEN ARRESTS ARE MADE
DOUBLE-BARREL CHARGE FIRED
INTO NEW YORK WET FOR
CES BY FEDERAL GUNS.
Alleged Conspirators Declared to Have
Used $80,000 to Bribe Prohibiiton
Agents.
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New York.—The federal government
fired a double-barreled charge into wet
forcea alleged to drenching New York
and New Jersey with illicit liquor.
With one charge federal reserye
agents working under direct ..orders
from Washington, brought down a
batch of 11 alleged conspirators who
were rounded up in the Hotel Penn
sylvania and elsewhere, are alleged
to have been using $80,000 to bribe
prohibition agents not to stop the
brewing of real beer in New Jersey;
not to interfere with the converting
of industrial alcohol into strong
liquor; and to block the flooding of
New York and New Jersey with beer
from rival vats in Pennsylvania.
With the other barrel, the govern
ment fired a broadside ii^to the first
of several thousand saloon keepers
alleged to be running wide open in
New York city since the repeal of
the state prohibition enforcement
law. Fifty-four suits were filed in
federal courts to padlock these al
leged speakeasies under provisions
of the Volstead act, and United
States Attorney Hayward added that
more actions would be brought as
soon as complaints could be type
written.
It' was stated that a regular weekly
bribe of $4,500 was accepted by one
of the agents before* making the ar
rests.
The men arrested were J. Harry
Foley, former secretary to Senator
EdwardS, of New Jersey, when the
latter was governor,' and now state
superintendent of weights and meas
ures; Herbert Katz, of the Paterson
Brewing and Malting company; Ed
ward Butler of the Peter Breidt Brew
ing company, of Elizabeth, N. J.;,
Harry Kuller, of the Hygeia Brewing
company, Passaic, N. J.; George Seeb
er, of the Rising Sun Brewing com
pany, Elizabeth, N .J.; Henry Green
field, a prohibition agent; Emmanuel
Elfenbein, a truckman and warehouse
man; Herman J. Goldman, Theodote
.1. Schwartzman, of the Herman Chem
ical company Brooklyn, N. Y.; Wil
liam Nathan, of Hoboken, N. J., and
Dr. Leo ZakarofT.
All were charged with conspiracy
to give bribes to -influence the con
duct of prohbition agents. Specific
charges against Goldman, ScBjwartz
man, Elfenbein. Greenfield, Nathan
and Zakaroff involving giying money
to permit the transpiration and sale
of alcohol to be rectified into whiskey
and other alcoholic beverages.
a'^ Germany Faces Crisis.
Berlin.—With the situation in the
Ruhr and Rhineland rapidly approach
ing a condition of an acute social and
economic crisis with Saxon’s socialist
communist ministry continuing its de
fiance of the central government, and
with Bavaria having severed diplo
matic relations with Saxony, Chancel
lor Steressemann’s coalition cabinet
is confronted with issues which will
afford it an early ,opportunity to make
use of the dictatorial authority voted
it by the reichstag in the emergency
power bill.
While these are the outstanding
’issues which harbor elements of im
mediate danger the internal situation
in its entirety, especially with respect
to the financial cataclysm toward all
classes of the population are heading
through the further depreciation in
the value of the mark, is automatic
ally constitutiong itself a contributory
factor which is destined to have a de
cisive bearing on the furher course
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VISITS BIRTHPLACE
OF "JOE” LINCOLN
LLOYD GEORGE PEERS THROUGH
CHINKS IN THE WALL INTO
RUDE CABIN. ,
WENT OVER ROUGH ROAD
He Inspects Monument pf His Idol;
School Children Sing "God Save
the King.” t
Louisville, Ky.—The birthplace of
Abraham Lincoln at Hodgenville In
western Kentucky was visited by Da
vid Lloyd George, the former British
premier. Evidencing the greatest in
terest in the log cabin in which Lin
coln is said to have been born and
all landmarks on the old farm, which
is now a national park, the distingush
ed visitor trudged about the place
and asked a running fire of questions
concerning the early life „of the man
who is his ideal.
Mr. Lloyd George last week visited
the tomb of the martyred President
at Springfield, 111., and eagerly arrang
ed to visit the birthplace during his
week-end stay here as the guest of
Judge Robert W. Bingham, publisher
of The Louisville Times and Courier
Journal. Although at first intending
to go by automobile, the former pre
mier made the 60-mile run on a spec
ial train furnished by Judge Bingham.
Members of the 6fficial party and sev
eral residents of Louisville accom
panied him on the trip.
At Hodgenville Mr. Lloyd George
was met by a crowd of several hun
dred " Kentuckians, all of character
istic pre-revolutionary American stock
who still live in a region hiti" sparcely
settled and who habitually ’refer in
conversation to the great President as
“Abe.” ^
Proceeding to the public acquare
the former premier stopped 'fn frcftit
of the old courthouse to inspect, the
monument of Lincoln by A| A. Wein
man and was received by citizens and
school children, the latter singing
“God Save the King,” as the disting
uished visitor stood before them bare
headed, and the presenting him with
flowers. ?
Over a rugh country /oad Mr.
Lloyd George from there 'w’ent by
automobile tp the farm with its old
log fence surrounding it and with sev
eral hundred residents from the vic
inity about him, entered the granite
memorial building to inspect the log
house within. Carefully examining
the small structure of logs and clay,
built without the aid of nails, he peer
ed through chinks in the wall, stood
at the open doorway to be photograph
ed and then signed the visitor's regis
ter. From there he descended the
elevator on which the memorial build
ing stands to the spring, which, half
hidden in a rock cave, supplied water
to the Lincoln family more than 100
years ago. Later he walked about
the farm, examining alK objects of
interest.
Coal Commission Makes Report.
Washington.—Wholesalers in the
coal industry during recent years
have been taking profits at a rate of
more than 200 per cent over their pre
war margins, the coal commission re
ported, while retail coal dealers, in
spite of increasing costs, have been
taking less? The commission’s stud
ies of coal distribution resulted in it3
recommendation to President Coolidge
and Congress that the federal govern
ment be empowered to regulate fuel
distribution in times of shortage, but
that the retail handling of coal be
left chiefly for local treatment.
Though the commision ceased its
work September 22, the text of its
report on coal distribution became
available in complete form for the
first time. The conclusions advanc
ed were unanimusly adopted by its
membership,- including the chairman,
John Hays Hammond, Thomas R.
Marshall, Clark Howell, Dr. George
Otis Smith, Edward T. Devine and
Charles P. Neaill.
Governors Wfll Call Conference.
Washington.—Formulation of pro
hibition enforcement programs by the
various states will come as the next
step in the campaign of the federal
government to make the dry laws
more effective.
Governors of two-thirds of the states
of the union, who attended the con
ference here with President Coolidge
on enforcement of tbe immigration,
narcotic and prohibition laws, left for
their homes pledged to call two kinds
of cenferenc.es.
SPINNING ACTIVITY
IN SEPTEMBER FALLS.
Washington.—A slight decrease
in the activity of cqton spindles
in September, as compared with
August, was shown in the month
ly report of the. Census Bureau.
September's total was 7,482,060,995
active spindle hours an average of
>200 hours for each spindle in place,
compared with the August total
of 7,569,061,615 active spindle
hours, an average of 202 hours of*
each spindle in place.
Spinning spindles in place in Sep
tember totalled 37,491,706 compar
ed with 37,430,195 in place August
? 31. Spindles active during Septem
ber totalled 33,929,885 compared
with 33,708,667 in August. The
average number of spindles operat
ed during September was 34,941;
•76, or at 93.2 per cent, compared
with 32,075,013 or at 85.7 per cent
capacity in August.
HEARD BY LARGE AUDIENCE
REVOLUTION IS NO WAY TO GET
REPARATIONS, SAYS WAR
TIME PREMIER.
Declares it * Fatal Mistake to Drive
The German Population to Des
peration.
Chicago.—The blindness of force
and violence is the alternative to a
policy of determining through careful
examination the capacity of German)
to pay reparations, David Lloyi
George, the war-time premier of Greal
Britain, declared in an address at the
Intenational amphitheater in th«
heart of the stock yartJs district. Ii
Germany is refusing to pay, he added
the allies can by such means deter
mine that point and then force pay
ment by marching together in an:
enterprise that is necessary.
' Keiteratirif his endorsement -of 4h<
proposal of Secretary Hughes for ai
international commission to ascertaii
Germany’s capacity to pay, the formei
premier declared that this was the
only way to settle the troublesome
question. ■
Discussing the situation in Europe
with its exhaustion after the war and
the reparations question as the mOSI
acute phase of the situation, Mr. filoyc
George declared hat it was a fata
mistake to drive the German popffla
tion to despair.
“We want reparations,'' he added
“and revolution is not the . way to gel
them.” ■ ,
“I shall claim your indulgence
whilist I dm giving a calm, unemo
tionable and unrhet.orical, and I trust
strictly and unbiased, view, of the
position in Europe.
“The condition of Europe is of im
portance to every great business com
munity throughout the world and
the greatest business community ol
all, the United States of America, is
no exception. You can afford to put
up with these disturbances better
than we can, but I have had some
evidence since I reached these hos
pitable shores that they are prejudi
daily affecting some important sec
tions of your producers and in the
end it will reach all. Representatives
of your farmers have informed me
that they are suffering very material
ly because of the serious impairment
of the purchasing capacity of Europe.
The European need of your product is
as great as ever. Nay, it is greater
than ever, but the capacity to pay and
therefore to purchase is less than it
has been for many a year.
“Europe is like a ragged man stand
ing in front of the plate glass window
of a well stocked store. His need ol
clothes is infinitely greater than that
of the well dressed man who is mak
ing extensive purchases inside. His
need of food is more urgent than that
of the well fed gentlejnan who is com
ing out after a good meal; for he can
buy neither food to satisfy his hun
ger nor clothes to cover his naked
ness.
“Until European prosperity is re
stored, that continent cannot be ra
iled upon as a customer for world
products. ' •
Will Consolidate Five Trade Routes.
Washington.—Decision to consol!
date the live North Atlantic-United
Kingdom trade routes and to eliminate
entirely the managing agent system
now in use upon them was announced
by the shipping board.
The place of the agents will bt
taken by one or more “loading agents’
and supervision of the ships will bt
taken over directly by the b03rd.
JOHN H. QUINN
TO HEAD LEGION
IS ELECTED NATIONAL COM
MANDER ON THE ELEVENTH
BALLOT.
jTHE CONVENTION ADJOURNS
Thurman Mann, of North Carolina,
One of Five Vice Commanders
Elected.
! Ran Francisco.—A tired hand* yield
! ed Hie executive management of the
| American legion to a newly efected
| national commander when Alvib Owt
! ley. retiring commander, turned'ovar
to John R. Quinn, of California,^_tj»e
responsibility of guiding the deattoffes
of the legion for 1923-24, at the close
of the fifth annual convention of the
organisation here. . , . '
O^dey^eary from his year's strife,
his 65,()00 .miles of traveling during
his administration" on behalf of the
legion, and/ showing a |»r,s of 25
pounds, smiled a wan smile as he
took Commander Quinn by the hind
and said:
“I turn you over to the mercies of
the newspaper men, the photogra
phers and the public.”
A far different type of man took
up Owsley's burden. Quinn, cowboy
and a typical westerner of the open
plains, immediately announced he
would dedicate his administration to
conducting a vigorous campaign to
obtain immediate passage of the ex
service men’s adjusted compensation
act, and a close and human contact
between the disabled veterans and
the government agencies in charge
of rehabilitation and hospitalization.
Quinn was elected on the eleventh
-. ballot. His total vote was 502, com
pared with ' 342 for James A. Drain,
. of Washington, D. C„ 80 for Clarence
' Edwards*, of BBston, and 54 for
Wilder S. Metcalf, of Kansas, with 15
, absent or not . voting.
The following national vice com
manders were elected:
Ryan Duffie, Fond Du Lac, Wls.;
Thurman Mann, High Point, N. C.:
William B. Healy. Wilkesbarra, Pa.,:
S. M. Stoddard, Arizona, and Lester
I Albert, Idaho.
The only other elective officers in
the legion, that of national chaplain,
was filled by Ezra C. Clemans, of
Minnesota, who was elected by accla
mation.
While the convention was officially
closed until next October, when It
will convene at St. Paul, a grand ball
was held here as part of the official
program. Four bands furnished music
for the dancers and 2,000 San Fran
cisco girls participated.
Governors Endorse Dry Laws.
West Baden, Ind.—Scrapping a con
ference tradition of 15 years standing.
a majority of America’s 52 state
and territorial governors, took their
first record vote of history jn unani
mously passing a resolution endorsing
national prohibition .and pledging
President Coolldge “our fullest co
operation” in the enforcement of the
Volstead apt. The action came as the
climax of a three-hour session of fiery
debate, parliamentary tangles and
perplexing maneuvering in which
three governors fought throughout to
block the vote.
Setting forth that only the Federal
authorities have control of liquor im
portation, the governors declared that
the national government should exer
cise its “full power and authority” in
dealing with rum fleets and border
smuggling.
An a viva voie vote in which no
opposing voice reached the chairman
or official reporters, the resolution
was formally reported and “unani
mously adopted.”
With this ruling by Governor Per
cival S. Baxter, of Maine, presiding,
the prohibition question, which was
thrust into the conference at the
opening session by Governor C. A.
Hardee, of Florida, in his response to
the address of welcome, was dispos
ed of at the final session of the con
ference.
Flood Ruins Area in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma City, Okla.—With six
persons known to be dead, several
missing and property damage estimat
ed in the millions, Oklahoma watched
a recession of flood waters which
have inundated many sections of the
state for nearly a week.
As the crest of high water passed
gradually eastward, reconstruction
i measures took shade rapidly.
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