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BURNED TEXTILE BUILDING AT A. A M. COLLEGE : GALLANTRY SEIIATE HOLDS-UP CANAL TOLLS BILL FIG T IS PL1IED REPEAL MEA8URE IS REFERRED TO 8ENATOR O'GORMAN'S COMMITTEE. NO UNNECESSARY DELAY Spectacular and Heated Debate li Expected Wneii Measure Is , Introduced. Washington. The administration i C S -"v. J? lit TO SECURE BANKS DECISION OF COMMITTEE CAN BE REVERSED ONLY BY THE RESERVE BOARD. MAY INCREASE THE NUMBER Federal Reserve Board Cannot Be Ex pected to Reverse Itself, However. ' Where Banks Will Be Located. Hh Washington. The cities se- lected for regional banks are: Boston New York Philadelphia Cleveland Richmond Atlanta Chicago St Louis - Minneapolis Kansas City Dallas, Tex. San Francisco. 1 Washington. There was every Indi cation that the announcement of the reserve districts and cities by the re serve bank organization committee had given the signal for" a determined struggle upon the part of several cit ies which were disappointed to over turn the committee on the decision and bring about a redistrlcting of the country, or at least a change In the reserve cities named. Under the law the decision of the organization committee is not subject to review except by the federal reserve board. This board probably will not be named by President Wilson for sev eral weeks, but In the meantime it is believed that those disappointed with he committee's announcement will bend every effort toward paving the way for changes. It was pointed out that both Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and Comptroller of the Cur rency Williams of the organization committee, are ex-offlcio members of the reserve board, and hardly could be counted upon to reverse themselves. The president has given no intimation as to whom the other five members will be. The committee's plan was criticised in congress and there were reports of keen disappointment from several cities which were in the race for re serve banks and which failed to se cure them. Three members of the senate banking and currency commit tee, two Republicans and a Democrat, found fault with the plan. , , - 1 REBELS TO ATTACK TAMPICO Admiral Fletcher Predicts Federals Will Abandon Gulf Port Washington. Following closely on official advices from George C. Caroth ers, American consular agent at Tor reon, of the flight of the federal troops from that city, came a prediction from Rear Admiral Fletcher that the im portant gulf port of Tamplco proba bly would be abandoned by the fed erals without a fight Administration officials made no comment on the Torreon result and official sentiment is not likely to crys tallze until more is known of the bat tle itself and Its effects in Mexico City and elsewhere. Mr. Carothers' report of the fall of TorreOn lacked detail, particularly with reference to losses sustained on both sides and the movements of the retreating federals. Torreon, Mexico. Torreon, strewn with victims of a six-day battle, was occupied by Villa's rebels while the federals fled. The capture marks the climax of the first campaign of the revolution to oust Victoriano Huerta from Mexico City. It givea the Con stitutionalists virtual control over the whole northern tier of Mexican states. The fighting began and was almost continuous. At first Villa attempted assaults on the strong federal posi tions in daylight but these proved too costly, so the days were spent in cannonading and the nights in as saults. Positions were taken and lost time and time again. Several night at tacks sent the federals scurrying from strong positions, but at daybreak the federals evacuated. :. v A Gunmen to Be Given Reprieve. Albany, N. Y. Unless Y Governor Glynn changes his mind, a reprieve for the four New York gunmen, under sen tence to die in smg sing aurmg ine week beginning April 13, will be granted. If granted, the stay of exe cution will be until after the second trial of Charles Becker, who, with the nin-men. was found guilty- of the mur der of Herman Rosenthal. District At torney Whitman has said he intends to trv Becker a second time as soon as possible, but it will be from three to six months hence. Monroe Doctrine Not Obsolete. Philadelphia. The principle of the Monroe doctrine is just as alive now as it ever was and President Mon roe's declaration is not an "obsolete shibboleth," according to statement at the annual meeting of, the American Academy of Political and Social Set ence. Speakers with few exceptions were in agreement upon the general principle of the doctrine. Rear 'Ai- r 'ral Chester urged a concert of ao t. a among American republics in. a - cf "America for the Amert- CASHIER ACCUSED OF THEFT MAYOR BROWN OF GALLATIN, TENN, IS ARRESTED BY U. 8. MARSHALL. Employee of Tennessee Mining De partment Arrested as an Accom plice In Bank Robbery. Nashville, Tenn. The arrest of Will B. Brown, mayor of Gallatin, and as sistant cashier of the First National Bank of Gallatin, on a charge of em bezzlement and the arrest of Herbert B. Jackson, of Gallatin, an employe of the state mining department on a charge of conspiracy and aiding and abetting Brown in embezzlement came as a sensational climax in the re ported robbery of the Gallatin finan cial institution .on the morning of Fri day, March 20. The warrant on which the arrests were made was sworn out before Unit ed States Commissioner Harry Luck at Nashville by Edward J. Brennan, special agent of the department of justice: The warrant charges Brown with embezzling more than $30,000. Jackson was arrested in Nashville by a federal officer. He was taken before United States Commissioner Luck, and his bond was fixed at $5,000. Brown was arrested at his residence at Gallatin by, United States Marshal Will Jones and Detectives Kiger and Jacobs of Nashville. He was brought to Nashville in his own automobile. In January he was elected for a sec ond term as mayor of Gallatin. This is said to be the only public office that he has ever held. Brown is mar ried and has two children. CRITICIZE DIVORCE LAWS Chicago Judge Says Juvenile Courts Are Related to Divorce Courts. Chicago. No divorce ahould be granted any person who has a minor child, unless the child shall have been provided for to the satisfaction of the court, is the conclusion of Adelor J. Petit chief Justice of the circuit court, in an analysis made public of the first annual report of the new municipal bureau of divorce and marriage sta tistics. The close relations between divorce courts and the juvenile courts as in dicated in the number of petitions for the care of dependent or delinquent children, is the outstanding feature of Judge Petit's analysis. Juvenile court records since July, 1899, showed 60, 358 petitions for the care of children. Of these, the report indicates that ap proximately 33,750 cases were the di rect result of divorces or the neglect of parents through drunkenness or desertion, which would have constitut ed sufficient grounds for divorce. Bigamist Records His Crimes. ' Oakland, Cal "Sir" Harry West ward Cooper, bigamist and forger, has been beguiling his prison sentence in South Africa by making a list of as many of his crimes as he can remem ber. ' A copy of this received was re ceived by Chief Petersen of the Oak land police . department who has be gun : proceedings to have Cooper brought here to answer, a charge of bigamy. An outline of Cooper's auto biography fololws; Three bigamous marriages; five elopements which did not end in marriage. . Hlnes Wins $15,000,000 Suit -Jackson,' Miss. Contentions of the' Edward Hlnes Lumber company in a suit involving 115,000,000 worth of timber lands In this state, were upheld in a decision of the Mississippi su preme court here. The state attorney general brought suit against the com pany to enforce a law providing that corporations could not hold more than $2,000,000 worth of land in Mis sissippi. The supreme court held the law constitutional, but decided it aSeet 1 1 only 'domestic corporations. . FREE TOLLS J.0SE IN HOUSE MAJORITY FOR REPEAL LARGER I THAN WILSON SUPPORTERS EXPECTED. 220 Democrats Stood by the President and Only 62 Voted Against Measure. Washington. The national house of representatives, after one of the most spectacular legislative struggles in the history of the nation, voted to repeal the provision of- the Panama canal act exempting American vessels from the payment of tolls. The vote on the repeal bill was 247 to 161--a majority of 86 votes in support of the personal plea of Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States. This verdict on the issue which has absorbed congress for many weeks came at the close of a stirring day, made memorable in the annals of the house by a party division which found Speaker Champ Clark, Majority Lead er Underwood and other Democratic chieftains lined up in open opposition to the president on an issue which the latter had declared vital to his con duct of the nation's foreign policy. On the final vote 220 Democrats in the house stood by the president giv ing him in "ungrudging measure" what, he had asked "for the honor of the nation" in its foreign relations. Twenty-five1 Republicans and two Pro gressives also voted to sustain the Dresident Fiftv-two ' Democrats fol lowed Speaker Clark and Leader Un derwood to defeat ' NEGRO WOMAN IS LYNCHED Mob at Muskogee) Okla., Hanged Ne gress to Telephone Pole. Muskogee, Okla, Marie Scott, a ne gro woman who killed Lemuel Peace, a young white man, by driving a knife into his heart, was taken out of the Wagoner county jail and hanged to a telephone pole. The mob, which was masked, overpowered the jailer, a one armed man, threw a rope oven the woman's head and dragged her out of the jail. . T - ' The county attorney of Wagoner county has started an Investigation. A knock at the jail door aroused the sleeping jailer, alone in the office. A voice outside said an officer was there with prisoners. The jailer opened the door and faced twelve revolvers. He was bound quickly and his keys taken from him. ': He then was thrown in the corner. . ! , The mob pulled the screaming wom an from her cell, tied a rope about her neck and dragged her to a tele phone pole a block from the jail. An hour later the sheriff cut down the dead body. $100 a Month Willed to a Dog. V Boston. "Pete Crafts" will continue to enjoy luxuries uncommon among dogs. The probate court approved the will of his late master, John Chan cellor Crafts, which provides a fund of $1,200 a year for the upkeep of Pete. Relatives who had been cut off without a cent contested the will, al leging "undue influence." At the bear ing witnesses told how Pete had pre sided at the head of the table at "birthday parties" given in his honor and that his master considered the dog a greater friend than any man. Clarke- New 8enator From Arkansas. Little Rock, Ark. Figures received from the primary election of last week show that Senator James P. Clarke has won in the senatorial race over Judge William F. KIrby. The official vote of Poinsett county; as given by the chairman of the Poinsett county committee, gives Clarke a majority of 1,181 and in the state of 720. The total vote of the state, official e t from Poinsett which comes frci t chairman of that county's central mittee, is: Clarke, 3,415; Klrl . 745." bill to repeal tolls exemption for all American coastwise ships in the Pan ama canal, which passed the house amid spectacular ncenes reached the senate and was referred promptly to (he committee on inter-oceanic canals without debate. " Senator O'Gorman, chairman of the canals committee, who is marshaling the anti-administration forces, an nounced definitely that he would call a meeting of the committee for next Tuesday. Until that time, no rormai consideration of the repeal measure or proposed amendments can develop. Al though friends of the president nao. hoped to have the canals commit tee meet earlier, they decided to make no effort to induce Senator O'Gorman to change his plans. They will insist, however, upon, action within reason able time after the committee gets down to work. Senator Owen of Oklahoma, major- itv member of the committee, who will lead the fight in the committee for the administration, visited the white house and conferred with the president. Later he made the emnhatic declaration mat friends of the repeal bill would not submit to unnecessar delay in pre- liminarr consideration of the bill, and flatly declared that the gauntlet of committee discharge would be hunea should an attempt be made to impede the progress of the measure. That some members of the commit tee who oppose exemption repeal de sire to have public hearings on tne bill has become apparent, but adminis tration senators insisted that such hearings were entirely unnecessary and that there could be no other rea son for them except deliberately to cause delay. "Public hearings on this issue are unnecessary,", said Senator Owen, "and would unnecesasrily prolong this con troversy, which is a clean-cut issue and thoroughly understood by every senator. We are entitled to get away, from, congress early this time, and intend to do it if possible. ' ' ''" ' NEW CHIEF OF U. S. ARMY Wotherspoon Appointed Chief of Staff Succeeding General Wood. - Washington. Maj. Gen. William W. Wotherspoon, now assistant1 chief of staff of the army, has been selected to succeed Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood as chief of staff at the end of Gen rl Wood's term. April 22. Brig. Gen.- Hugh L. Scott, commanding the troons at Fort Bliss, Texas, win m assistant chief of staff. General Wood will assume command nf the Eastern department with head quarters at Governor's Island, New York. ... Thn unnolntment of General Wother- spoon to be chief of staff.had been ex pected, as it was in accordance witn the m-actice of promoting the assist ant chief of staff to the first place. So the interest of the army centered in the selection of an assistant chief of staff who might in turn succeed Gen eral Wotherspoon when the latter re tires on account of age next Novem ber. - A short time ago it had been about settled that the position of assistant rtilef should be tendered to Brigadier General Tasker H. Bliss, in command of the Southern department with head onarterg at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Later a report was current that this tender was declined by General buss, und within the oast week It began to appear that the choice would fall on General Scott The latter made a la vorable Impression on the administra tion by the dispatch and thoroughness with which he personaly settled the recent Navajo uprising. $100,000,000 Capital for Reserve Banks c Washington. The new federal re serve banking system will start -business with a total authorized capital of about $100,000,000 for all reserve banks, no matter how- many institu tions the organization committee de cides to set" up.- This fact became ap parent when figures were made public from all national banks responding to the last call of the comptroller of the currency, made March 4. 1 The state ment giving these figures will be, the last of the kind issued. Mississippi Bank Officials Indicted. : Natchez. investigation into the af fairs of the First Natchez bank,which closed its doors on October 30, 1913, resulted in the indictment here by the Adams county grand Jury of -A, G. Campbell, president; S, H. Lowenberg, first vice president and R. Lee Wood, second vice president of the defunct i i :tution on the charge of accepting C T-'Aa aflt-r tV.e 1 !.k was insolvent Z i f-H J.;ry 13 live "rating the i C r t tf I" e lank and : f 3 ' ' i. ' -"-, What was left of the Textile Building of A.' ft M. College at Raleigh which burned recently. The contract has been let for its construction on a larger scale to be completed by August 1st, and manufacturers of textile machinery are being Invited to again donate machinery for its equip ment. The equipment for the burned building was donated In this way in 1901.' , . ' ' "'.'V V"' ' ' GREAT DEBATE AT THE UNIVERSITY WIN3TON-8ALEM TEAM WINS THE HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE FOR THE NEGATIVE. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark " the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple Gathered Around the 8Ute Capitol. Raleigh. The distinction won by Charles Roddick and Clifton Eaton the two 15-year-old boys of Winston-Salem, who representing their school in the second annual contest of the High School Debating Union of North Caro lina held in Memorial Hall, at Chapel Hill, recently successfully defended the negative of the query, Kesoiveo, That the' Constitution of North Caro lina should be so amended as to in clude the initiative and referendum, is greater than 16 apparent on the sur face. 1 They were awarded the Aycock memorial cup it is true but more than this, the analysis by the lads, neither weighing 100 pounds, of ' a problem vitally affecting the life 'of the state and nation has been the best offered by any; two students composing a team in a contest which included 150 schools and 00 debators, who on the, night of March 20 spoke to approxi mately 40,000 people. The victory was hard though clean ly won. Against the Twin-City team in Memorial Hall, filled as in com mencement time, was pitted the strong team of Graham High School, Michael Kernodle and Miss Flonnie Cooper, and the appearance of the latter as the first woman ever on the stage in Memorial Hall, marked an epoch in the history of the ' Univer sity. ', Miss Cooper received an ova tion and deserved it Her speech was consistent clear cut and well deliver ed, her enunciation being exception ally good, while she entered into the spirit of the occasion with zest. Acting President E. K. Graham, who presided over the debate, in stat ing the object of the gathering, stated his opinion that it was the most sig nificant meeting ever- held In the state and in the light Vf the number of people affected by thXconest from its inception through, thereliminar ies down to the final contest this declaration seems'.a simple statement of an apparent fact Improve Mount Airy 8tatlon. The corporation commission made an order recently, directing the Southern Railway Company to make improvements bxthe Mount Airy pas senger station festlmated to cost 4, 000, in accordance with plans - and; specifications approved. , 1 r Agents Shoujld Have License. .Insurance. Commissioner James R, oang has called attention to the fact that all agents & North Carolina who solicit insuranceXof any sort must have license therefor, and that it is a violation of the laV it this is not done. Information has neon received by the commissioner that certain companies are making a praictlce of sending out agents without providing license for them. Colonel ; Young says' that any company indulging In this ' practice will have its license revoked, and will be prohibited frcpa doing business. " Instruct Militia 47 Charleston. A joint encampment of Instruction for field training of the regular army and the state mjilltia of South Caro lina, North Carfalina, : Georgia " and Florida has beemordered by the war department to behield in the vicinity of Charleston, S. C, from July 1 to August 15, according to orders re ceived recently ,by Adjutant General Moore, of South Carolina. Each state has a federal appropriation of $18,000 for the expense (of the. campaign. Not more than threeregimenta will be en camped at one trpe, it Is stated, , Winston's Portrait Given to State. Patrick , Henrv Winston, lawyer. orator, statesman and t distinguished citizen of the Republic, found place in the legal hall of fame a few days ato when the nortralt chosen by his children was presented to the state by Governor Craig and accepted oy Chief Justice Clark.' ' The ceremonies in the - supreme court room were brief. The court room was filled to standing and then, overflowed. The interest would have been creditable had there been an . unveuing occasion ana a iaro u um ber of prominent citizens not resi dents of Raleigh attended the . exer cises. ' In the group of kinspeople were two of the n-eat lawyer's remarkable gift ed sons, Judge Francis D. Winston, district attorney, or Windsor, ana Judge R. W. Winston, of the RtAelgh bar. Mrs. Frank R. Spruill, of Rocky Mount, a daughter; Miss Martha Byry Spruill, a granddaughter; Mrs. Frank B. Webb, . a granddaughter, of Dur ham; Miss Amy Winston, a grand daughter, of Raleigh; and many Ral- elgh friends of the family. Dr. George T. Winston, the eldest of the sons, was not present. . The portrait, a beautiful oil paint ing, stood in the rear of the room and was not plain to view until the exercises were over. Chief Justice Clark announced a recess of a few tation and the resumption of court work. The people inspected the work of arTthen.' Many prominent women of .Raleigh were there. To tbelr taste for the beautiful in art it especially appealed. ' ' Rural Community in Sampson. , Representatives of the state de partment of education and agricul ture are back from Salemburg, Samp son county, where they took a hand hin the establishment of the first "ru ral community" under the plan being promoted by the departments. The organizers express themselves as delighted with the organization ef fected. The organisation consists principally of committees on agricul ture.' health, education, church and morals, social and woman's work, the latter being subdivided ' into six de partments of Community endeavor by the women. A little later it la ex pected to- establish a division of co operative marketing. As yet there Is no arrangement as to financing Commencement Day In Wake. Commencement day for the public schools turned out in long lines of marchers along with throngs of well ordered children from the schools out in the county, making the day one of especial significance and enjoyment There were Wore than three thousand school children from Raleigh in line besides as. many more from the coun ty schools , inarching through the principal Btreets to fhe big auditor ium. ; ' .. ,.- . Many Join Corn Clubs. - . ' There ' are 8,866 boys enrolled in ' corn clubs ' this year, , according to Prof. T. B. Browne, of Raleigh, in ohnrcA of corn club work in the state - and new enrollments are being made all the time. - , ' v . May Apply Express to 8tate Traffio. Officials oi tne uoutnern express Company were in conference a few; days ago with the corporation com mission for consideration of (he ad visability 'of applying the schedule of express rates promulgated by" the In terstate Commerce Commission , for interstate business, to the intrastate business. No announcement is yet made as to. this matter. The commis sion Is especially Investigating as to whether the change would reduce the rates generally, making a saving; to the people and how much. . ; ? , ' Raleigh Opens New' Hospital. ' The Mary Elizabeth Hospital - on Peace and Halifax streets ' had lte house warming a few nights ago from 8 to 10 o'clock with hundreds of vlsl-j tors who 'came, Inspected the instltn" Uon and met the otffcers Drs. H. W. Glasscock and A. R. Tucker. The hos pital opened next day and has al ready received , applications for a number of patients who were entered on the first day. It is a building of ca pacity for twenty-five patients in an emergency and twenty who can be norm ally accommodated.
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