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Gluk DREI-Mk DER-III VOL. 35 PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 9, 1923. NO. IS VIEWS OF FRENCH BEFORE SECRETARY AMBASSADOR JUSSERAND RE TURNS AND COFERS WITH SECRETARY HUGHES. I THE OFFICIALS ME SILENT Hughes Put* Question Before Cool 1 Idge; England, Italy and Belgium to Invito Ameriea. Washington.—.Views of the French government on reparations were laid before Secretary., Hughes by Ambassa dor Jusserand, ‘.just returned from PafU- Their talk in the secretary’s olnfce lasted an hour and forty, minu tes. Whether . it resulted In any change in, the situation that has thus far prevented final agreement among the allied governments on the expert inquiry proposal was not disclosed. Neither Mr. Hughes nor the ambassa dor would make any statement what ever with respect to their conversa tion. Before Ambassador Jusserand sought his appointment with Secre tary Hughes, Information had reach ed the state department that Great Britain, Italy and Belgium had reach ed an accord on the form of an invita tion to the United States to partici pate in the inquiry. As the situation then was understood by Washington officials, it was said authoritatively, French insistence that the experts be limited to an Inquiry into “the present capacity” of Germany to pay alone pre vented the final agreement. The hope was expressed by the government spokesman that France could be in duced to Join in a full inquiry, but no Indication was given of the course the United States would pursue if the hilled nations found it impossible to £each an agreement. To what extent the conference be tween Secretary Hughes and Ambas sador Jusserand may have influenced the course of events was the subject of wide speculation in the absence of any word of explanation from any source. Shortly after the conference, Mr. Hughes went to the White House and informed President Coolidge what had transpired in his talk with the ambassador. The White House also was Btlent as to developments in the situation. 100,000 Negroes Leave South. New York.—Surveying the present migratory movement of negroes to the north which has stirred students of sociology, the national industrial con ference board, an organization affiliat ed with many largfi manufacturing concerns, issued a report asserting that this year about 100,000 negroes had left their homes in the south. The present movement, the report set forth, “is almost wholly industrial anil has been to a considerable ex tent induced by th€j,shortage of com mon labor in the north." The board found that the normal annual movement was about 10,000. During 1916 and 1917, however, it was estimated that, in a'wave of hysteria, approximately 400,000 negroes left the 1 south, as “whofe communities, entire r streets of people and even church con gregations, headed by their pastors, moved north and located as units in the Important industrial centers.” Discussing the present movement the board reported that negroes had. been induced to come north either by employers sending into southern states labor agents, who, in turn, em ployed local agents, ,or by migrating friehds who either voluntarily or upon request had spoken or written to friends in the south urging them to move. v* Plana to Dispose of Shoals Plant. I Washington.—Outlines of a now pro posal disposition of the Muscle Shoals project, contemplating a duplication of the Gorgas steanu plant, recently sold to the Alabama Power Company, and its inclusion in ^ the properties, was presented to .President Coolidge by Chairman Matjjden^ of the House, appropriations committee. Mr. Madden proposed that the Muscle Shoals question be disposed of by Congress ejjftjr? in the forth coming session and the President was understood to hare approved the pro posal. . * , ' The proposal wouldr embrace the building of a new power transmission line from the hew plant to Muscle Shoals proper. Mr. Mhdden express ed the belief that a revised offer bas ed on these proposals could be obtain ed from Henry Ford. Under the plan outliqpd the Govern ment would built or authorize to be built a nfiwlffihdt:at dams 15, 16 and 17, locatajfc^Sftout iO miles southwest of GorgaX*- ''* KUAN ATTORNEY SHOT TO DEATH BY PHILIP E. FOX. Atlanta. Ga.—Philip E. Fox, pub licity man for the Ku Klux Klan. shot and killed W. S. Coburn, At lanta attorney, and counsel for the faction fighting Imperial Wizard H. W. Evans and other officials of the order.i Fox is held at police headquarters without bond under a charge of murder. Coburn, a former official of the klan, and later legal representative of what is called the insurgent fac tion, was shot five times as he sat in his office on the ninth floor of the Atlanta Trust company build ing. He toppled over dead. Mrs. W. A. Holbrook, stenogra pher for Coburn, said that Fox came in while Coburn was talking to a client and began flreing when he was told to come back in about an hour. She said five shots were fired. Three of them were said to have taken effect. • PRESIDENT BE6INS WORK BLUE LODGE OF MASONS DEDI CATES GREAT MONUMENT TO WASHINGTON. Spreads First Mortar ifyflth Washing ton's Trowel; To Be Greatest Memorial. Alexandria, Va.—With solemn vrltu al, in the presence of the nation’s high est officials and one of the largest gatherings of Blue Lodge Masons In history, the cornerstone, of the lofty national memorial which will be erect ed by the Free Masons of America to their (revered craftsman, George Washington, was-laid. When completed, the structure will be one of the largest monuments ever erected in hongr of an individual. Standing on the crest of Shooter’s Hill, the massive granite pile will rise in columned dignity 200 feet above the stone set in place to com mand a perpetual view -of the vast estate once owned by Washidgton, the capital of the republic he helped make possible, and the quaint old town of Alexandria where he presided over Masonic meetings. Not far away lies Mount Vernon, where he spent much of his life, and died. President Coolidge, though not a member of the fraternity, silently spread the first m'otar with the trowel his llustrious predecessor used in lay ing the cornestone of the first national capitol and the first Masonic temple erected her. Chief Justice Taft fol lowed him, using the same relic, which then was put away to be guarded until, about five years hence, it final rest ing place is ready in the shrine that was consecrated. After the President and the chief justice had performed their act of homage, Charles H. Callahan, deputy grand master of Virginia, and the grand masters of every jurisdiction in the United States or their emis saries, swith a number of past- grand masters, conveyed as members of the grand lodge of Virginia, each in turn spread mrotar wtih a silver trowel destined to a place among the treas ures of their grand juristiction. Mr. Callahan presided over the cere mony at the request of James H. Price, the grand master of Virgina, in recog nition of his service for the’ advance ment of Masonry in the United, States and because the erection of the me morial was his suggestion. He was attended by the full, grand lodge, two past grand masters bearing the Holy Bible and three others carrying the lesser lights of Masonary. Fears America May Back Out London.—The news of the grave impression created at Washington by Premier Poincare’s speeches reached London too late to find officials at the government departments, but It is cer tain to cause intense disappointment when it becomes generally known. So many efforts have been made to induce the United States to come to the assistance of distracted Burope, and so many hopes have been built upon even an attenuated conference 'under the reparation commission, which was all the French government would sanction, that, should Washing ton refuse to be a party to ksuch a strictly circumscribed inquiry, disap pointment will be redoubled, since it is feared that failure of these negotia tions will only serve to aggravate the already desperate situation. One of the first effects of Washing ton’s possible withdrawal, it i$ believ ed, is almost certain to be the fall of the German government, whose ten ure of office is only held* by'a thread, and it seems hardly likely that it can survive the realization that nothing is to lie hoped for from the Uniteti States, if that government’ remains aloof. TWO IMMIGRANTS BE SENT BACK IMMIGRANT COMMISSIONER CUR RAN SAYS SOME QUOTAS FILLED. TWO THOUSAND BRITISH May Be Returend to Home Country Unless Allowed to Enter Under Special Ruling. New York.—More than 3,000 would be immigrants, including 1,300 who came on the Leviathan, which arriv ed from England, face deportation, it was announced by Commissioner .of Immigration Curran, who said yearly quotas of several of the countries had been exhausted. Quotas of 11 countries, including Great Britain, have been exhausted. Commissioner Curran said he had been informed by telephone by Com missioner General of Immigration Husband, of Washington. Mr. Curran said he expected about 2,000 British subjects would be sent back unless some of them, along with subjects of other countries,-were allowed to en ter under special rulings. Russia also has exceeded her quota by 500, Mr. Curran said, while the other immigrants likely to be deport ed come from Greece, Egypt, Africa, Albania, Turkey, Palestine, Portugal, “other Europe” and* “other Asia,” un der which several smaller nations are listed. More than 10,000 immigrants are on ships in the harbor awaiting ex amination at Ellis Island, the com missioner said. He characterized the influx as one of the "worse jams” that the department ever faced. In addition to the 1,367 on the Leviathan there were 523 on the Majestic, 548 on the Belgenland, 158 on the Cleve land, and about 40tf aliens bit otnei vessels who were In excess of quota; Most of the British were said to be on the Leviathan. Commissioner Curran declined to say whether the aliens would be de ported at once, declaring the dispo sition of their cases would be settled by Washington immigration authori ties. He attributed the exhaustion of the British quota partly to the unusual rush of British immigrants across the Canadian border and also to the great influx in aliens from Great Britain to American ports in the past few days in order to enter before their allotment was filled. __A Lloyd George Sails For Home. New York.—David Lloyd George, war premier of Great Britain, is on his way home in1 a flower-fllled suite on the Majestic, confident that his plea for tho linking of the United States and the British empire for world peace had been well received on his extended tour of panada and the United States. The little Welshman sailed with a final word on the reparations crisis. The effectiveness of Anglo-American co-operation, he repeated in the golf ing phraseology of his last address at the Metropolitan opera house, depend ed upon whether America “followed through” the proposal of Secretary Hughes for an international commis sion to settle the sums that the de feated allies could and should pay. Prance, he was confident, would heed the advice of the United States and Britain regarding German repara tions. "Prance would have been a vassal country but for your country’s and mine,” he said spiritedly. To‘Honor Hero of World War. ' Washington—With full military honors the body of Private George Dllboy, of Massachusetts, who has been recognised by the war depart ment as "one of the oustanding he roes of the world war’’ will be buried November IS at Arlington cemetery. Army officers and former comrades of the lad who posthum usly was awarded the congressional medal of honor will Join in paying tribute to his memory. Dllboy lost his life at Belleau Wood His body was sent to the home of his parents at Alachata, Turkey, where, it has been, charged, Turkish soldiers broke open the casket, stripped it of the American flag and desecrated the body. Spencer Tanner Killed in Crash. i Charlotte, N. C.—His neck broken | when he was thrown front an auto immobile in which he was riding to Fort * Mill, S. C.. with J. K. Dowd, Jesse ! Spencer Tanner, of Rutherfordton, ' son of S. B. Tanner, prominent textile ! manufacturer, was killed on the n«w I Charlotte-York hardsurfaced road. ONE KILLED; SEVEN HURT IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT. Mebane, N. C.—Miss Ruth Rip pey, daughter of Rudy Ripply, of Haw River, 14 years of age, is dead, and seven other persons are receiv ing . hospital attention in Burling ton and Haw River as a result of being run down by four negroes In a big touring car a short distance east of Haw River. The injured are: Mrs. Janies H. Neese, fractured shoulder and severely shocked and bruised. May James, 12 years old, lacerat ed face and scalp and shock. Lillie Thomas, rendered uncon scious, and braised, no bones brok en. Alice Rippey, sister of the dead girl, knocked down and bruised. Two Neese children, bruised, but not seriously injured. Only one Neese child of the party of nine escaped lnjurey. ALSO FAULTY NAVIGATION BOARD FINDS WRECK OFF HONDA POINT CAUSED BY BAD JUDG MENT. Commend Highly the Moral Shown in Third Period Which Comprised Time After Ships Struck. Washington.—Bad judgment and faulty navigation on the part of three officers caused the loss of 23 lives and of naval material to the yalue of |13, 200,000 in the destroyer accident on Honda Poine, Calif., September 8, the board of inquiry declared in its final report to Secretary Denby. On the recommendations of the board Captain Edward H. Watson, the squadron J- commander, Lieutenant Commander Donald T. Hunter, com manding the Delphy, flagship and lead er of the nine dstroyers Arhlch ground ed and Lieutenant Lawrence F. Blod em >***«ba charged before a general court martial with ‘‘culpapbie inefficiency in the perfottnance of duty”-and negligence. Eight other officers, including the commanders of as many destroyers which figured in the catrastrophe, will face charges of negligence in per formance of duty. The report was declared by veteran naval officers here to be almost un precedented in its sweeping condem nation of those alleged to be respon sible for the disaster. | “In the ppinion of the court,” it said, “the disaster is, in the first in stance, directly attributable to bad errors of judgment and faulty vaviga tion on the part of three officers at tached to and serving on the Delphy, vis.. The squadron commander, the commanding officer and the navigat ing officer. Their responsibility is complete and the court sees no extin uating circumstances.” Commanders of the other destroy ers must be held responsible in a measure, the board found, for having “too blindly followed the judgment of the squadron commander” and in fail ing to check the position of their in dividual ships against that ascertain ed for the Delphy. , Dividing the fatal cruise of the flotil la into three periods, the board declar ed the first two “reflect no credit upon the navy" but commend highly the morale shown in the third period which comprised the time after the ships had struck. . Rail Executives Make Statement. New York.—Presidents and other executives of every grain or coal haul ing railroad in the country drafted what was unofficially reported to hare been an unfavorable reply to Presi dent Coolidge's recent proposal for revision of rail freight rates on ship ments of those two commodities which were destined for export. A committee of the presidents was named to submit the drafted reply to the president at Washington by Thurs day. While the contents of the draft wene withheld to await the wishes of Pres ident Coolidge In regard to publica tion, several of the executives who helped draw it said it was based on a conviction that lowering rate on grain for export would not chreate an in creased market for wheat in Europe and therefore would not help lift the American farmer out of the slough of over production. The rail executives were chary about revealing their attitude toward the president's reported proposal that freight rates on coal for export be raised to inor^ nearly the level of rates on coal for home consumption. When the conference opened, however, It was generally agreed that the traf fic vice presidents of the biggest East-* ern roads had stated the case in ses sion a week ago when they declared that coal freight rates had been as nearly equalized as wajr plausible. ^ AVIATOR FUES 259 MILES HOUR LIEUT. BROW MAKES FASTEST SPEED ANV MAN EVER ATTAINED. SPECTATORS HOLO BREATH Staticiant Figure Out That Brow's Engine Made 2,800 Revolution# Per Minute. Mitchell Field, N. Y.—The faeteat speed ever attined by man was made by Lieut. H* J. Brow, navy aviator, who flew over a three kilometer straight away course tour times at an average speed of 259.15 miles an hour. On one-leg pf the course he traveled at the phenoinlnal rate of 265.21 miles an hour. Bow’s record was attained in com petition drith Lieut. A. J. Williams for mer pitcher oh the New York (Hants baseball club, and winner of the Pulit zer race, both men flying Navy-Curtla planes. Brow was second In Pulitizer contest. Brow went up first and set a pace of 257.42 miles an hour, and Williams was soon in the air, intent on beating that record. When his plane reached the ground he found he had flown 258.61 miles an hour. As he was be ing congratulated by army officers and others who watched the speed trails, Brow ran to his plane. "Whirl the propeller, boys,” he shouted to his mechanics, ‘Tm going after it." The spectators held their breath as his plane shot through the air, and the thrill of the day came on the sec ond leg when, flying with the light wind that wafted over the army post field, he sent his machine at the breath-taking clip of nearly five miles a minute. _ “It was almost unbeliearable,” said Major William N. Hensley, command ing officer at Mitchell field, who was in direct charge of the contests. The speed tests had been postponed several times because of unfavorable weather. The wind declined to about three miles an hour ealy in the after noon and there was a slight braese thus cutting off the glaring sun which has often bothered the aviators. Brow’s first trial, in which he flew at the rate of 257.42 miles an hour was approximately 21 miles an hobr faster for three kiolmefers than the speed of 236.87 miles an hour which Lieut. Russell L. Maughan, of the army air service, made in an Army Curtiss races at Dayton, Ohio, on March 29, last, Statisticians figured out after the trials that on Bow’s fastest leg his engine was turning over at the rate of 2,800 revolutions a minute. The propeller hub, going at this speed sent the propeller through the air so fast that it was describing a seven foot circle at the rate of 1,100 feet a second. These were declared the fast est times either a motor or propeller ever had turned without flying t* pieces. Germany Needs Assurance. Washington.—Reports of an official nature have reached President Cool idge Indicating strongly that the pop ulation of Germany may soon need as sistance in the way of foodstuffs, but the American government thus far has formulated no decision as to steps It might take. . The reports hare told of a lack of food and of an inability to supply considerable portions of Germany’s population with the food that is avail able. The President has had the reports under consideration but so far has not determined from what quarter the at sistance may be best given. The suff gestion was made at the White House that undoubtedly France would be able to take care of the needs of the population in the occupied districts and that charity from other countries might furnish sufficient funds to satis fy the necessities of other sections of Germany. Broadcast Speech By Ex-President, Washington. — Arrangements have, been made to broadcast by radio the speech Woodrow Wilson will deliver at his S Street home on Armistice Day, when a group of his admirers are to call on him to pay respects. The subject matter of the address has not been disclosed but some of those concerned with plans for the occasion believe’ the former President man discuss current public questions including the international situation. Should their expectations be borne out, it would be Mr. Wilson’s first extended effort to lay his views before the country since he left the White House,,1 W. J. JACKSON A SON (■stabllahod l»i) Plymouth, N. C. UNDERTAKERS AND PUNERAL DIRECTORS A'lll Arrango for Embalming Up** Request Matar Hoars* Sanrl— D. B. MIZELLB DENTAL SURGEON In Plymouth ov*ry Tuesday amt W*dn«oday prepared to do all kM| *f MODERN DENTAL WORK. MUSIC SHOP MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS PIANOS Baldwin, Hamilton, Howard SHEET MUSIC Duality Lin* Thr*ugh*ut D&. W. L. 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