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"» ■ ■ ■■ KinUBB B FEDERAL RESERVE RANKS WIN BEFORE M SUPREME COURT Suit Brought By the Georgia and the North Car olina Banks Is Lost Before the f Highest Court - . „ washinoton j U m 11— The hu **•»♦ court today la cuts b roue tit state beaks of Georgia and North defined Uw power or Fed •f»l IfMrr* banka to Inaiat upon par claaranca and collection of check# It hold that the awthoda need by the Atlanta Reserve bank 'isere lawful hut that a atata could modify by leg apounon lav rule, which require pay neaU of check* In caah to provide that banka could uae eirbutr In pa yin# check* drawn upon them It w»a contended by the American Snnk and Treat Company and oth ara of Oeor*ta that the Atlanta iw aerre bank had Intended to accumu late larpe quantities of check* drawn ■PM banks which made collections or clearance chargee and to present them at the paying teller'* window with a demand for par payment in onnb. This and other method* which the Georgia banka not belonging to the association asserted had been de cided upon by the federal rearere hoard la its par clearance campaign would have the effect they contended as driving them out of business la disposing of the case brought against the Atlanta bank, the court declared the evidence disclosed that Up bank wma not Inspired hr us ul terior purpose to coarea or Injure aep member banka which refused to naan at par nod 4M not sustain the charge thnt the fbderal reserve hank Woe ekaretaing its rights so M to hr Jure or oppress the Mats hank* - .w. Interafcttonal Conference Meet ing In Deportment of Agri culture «t Washington WASH 1 NOTON. June 11.— (By the Associated Press.)—Th* International conference to determine what adjust ments ar* necessary In the foreign trade In American cotton as a result of (It* new cotton standard get held two kascutlve sessions today at the department of Agriculture hut reach ed no definite conclusion The con ference. which will continue mmar row. is the reeuM of S request of British cotton Interest*, that tbay be permitted to present their view* to Secretary Wallace before the final adoption of regulations for enforcing ike new regulations Secretary Wallace. In opening tbe conference, brtefiy outlined the new Uw find bl* responsibilities In enforc ing It. He pointed out that be- bad agreed with American exporter* to permit them for the pieaeeit cotton, nee of which is made mandatory by the new law beginning Aug 1 on the terms of He express ed hope thfc 4b* conference reeult in mutuilly a satisfactory ar rangement In with the new Uw. ATLANTA. June 11.—A bill to re neal tbe Qeorgta "bone dry profctbl tton Uw approved U will be Introduced In tbe neat legislature by Representative Arnold of Lumpkin county, according to an announce ment made by Mr. Arnold here lodny TREASURY TO STAND PAT ON LIQUOR LAW D V / WASHINGTON, June 11. The | Ire usury will sUnd pat »n Its da | termination to snforca rigidly the rt Supreme court decision bar beverage liquor from territorial waters of the United States. It so' Informed custom officers In nrw In structions tonight Issued, and offi cials declared, that further misun derstanding with foreign governments may be avoided. The French government through Its embassy here had suggested to the treasury during tha day that each o THE GOLDSBORO NEWS Wttk regard to tke charge that large Juantltie* of checks were be ing accumulated for presentation With demands for cash, the evidence Judge Braudels, who delivered the opinion, aasrted, did not sustain the allegation. The Atlanta reserve bank bad disclaimed any Intention, he ■old. es demanding payment In cash when presenting checks at tke baits but was willing to accept payment In drafts, collectable at ar drafu on any solvent bank. "No adequate reason is shown," Justice Braudel added, "why the con current findings of facts by the two lower courts should not be accepted | by us. That the action contemplated by the federal reserve bank will sub ject the country anks to certain losses' Is clear."' t In the case brought by the Farmer* and Merchants Bank of Monroe. N. (’.. and others against lbe Richmond Re serve bgak. the court reversed .he decision of the North Carolina *• preme court which bad hid uncon stltution the act of tbe state legisla ture In 191 enultting tbe payment of checks In exchange. Explaining that tba stale statue bad arisen out of tbe efforts of the federal reserve hoard to latro/udu universal par iterapc In th ceifeciton us check# Justice prandei* said it was evident offer rillTumk* Inducement adequate He obt. r tkfr (on-.ht to par cixt* ance. ' HNEST FIRES OUSE Mfflt LITTLE LOSS Report Saya Wnyoe Not Co-Op erating With Geo. Survey in Preventing Lmrm The report on forest fires In North Carolina for th* year 1922. In most counties based chiefly on - Informa tion from voluntary correspondents: ho*’ recently been made public by tbe Geological and Economic Sur vey. The nature of the replies sent Is precludes the possibility of any great accuracy, but tbe results are at least conservative. They show a total for tbe sUte of 1227 fires whleh burned 190.737 acre* and caused a damage of (643.442 (0. Reports from Wayne county show that In 1922 this county bad 16 for est Area which burned over 146 acres snd caused an estimated damage of (620. Usually only the larger fires are noticed and It la more than likely that tbe numerous small fire* In the county did as much damage as the fires mentioned In tbl *re port O Only five of the twelve township* In Wayne county reported on forest Area. Ten of the fires occurred In Ptkevllta township, three In Fork township, and three tn Brodgen town ship. Hunters started nine of them, smoker* three, the railroad two and two were of unkuown origin. It Is probable that numerous other fires •scaped tbe notice of tbe correapdon onle. Wayne county is not cooperat ing with tbe North Carolina Geologi cal amt. Economic Survey In forest fire prevention. I . pmmmmrnmm member of the crew of the llnei France In New York harbor should lx allowed to have hts wine ration* of one half a liter a day as required by the French taw Inasmuch as tbs ship bad left ber borne port prtoi to June 10. the effective date of th< regulation Krnfeaahy officials took the position, treasury officials said that after the liquor stores of ves sels had been sealed by custom au thorities. the former practice of open ing tha store for Issuance of the wine ration should he followed on this trip. • -«»V« six run SITE DHKENBI in wit , REPOPTS TO HITIS . Roritw of Different Reports 1 *Bhew ViolathtOM of Vol gtootl Ait DfferMstiiK MANY ARRBBTS WERE MADE DURING YEAR WABHINOTON. June 11.—A sur vey of "dry" America was laid be fore tbe public today by Prohibition Headquarters which gave out a sum mary of tbe annual reports of State Prohibition Directors coincident with an annual review prepared by (Yunmiealoner Haynes himself Tightening up of prohibition en forcement work, witji Increased re sults lu securing obedience u> tbe prohibition amendment and the Vol stead Act was reported generally, and ( onmrtsaipner Haynes declared the national situation as n whole moat satisfactory. 0 Reduced withdrawals of spirit ignis liquors was reported almost uni formly. Tbe atata directors alto, with the striking except lon of New York, reported Increased coopera tion by local officials In enforcament I work. There was a wide disparity In tbe number of arrests and con victions, however, some ill rector* re porting Urge increases while others said Increased Uw observance bad I resulted la decreases in prosecutions. A large number of states reported that substantial percentages of tbe arreela made were of aliens or per sona or foreign nationality. Defalls of tbe seizure of thousands of stills and "worms" and large quantities of mesh, moonshine li quor und beer together with the ctoeing of many distilleries and for mer saloons were related by the stale directors. The Tennessee di rector declared Ihpl 90 per cent of prohibition vioUter* now were “ll- UUtfStg and disreputable pexauu#. whersas before tbe prohibition Uw* became so effective moonshiners /am* from a class considered hon est and respectable In every other respect.” Tbe "figures on arrests, convictions, fines, and setsure* given In the reports were not uniform or complete, however, making It InipOs aible to strike comparisons among the atatea. In many caaes the di rector only recited statistics which had bOqn published previously. , The report on enforcement condi tions In New York, prepared prior to repeal of the Mullen-Oege elate Uw. emphasised lack of co-operation from local officlaU and alow progress In prosecutions In both federal aud, state courts. In 1922 outside of New Yorfi city the number of per sons convicted in state courts was 2,(42, with 1,172 more lu federal courts, la New York (Tty criminal courts, prohibition convictions de creased from 1.023 in 1921 to 937 In 1922, and flnea from (96.(14 to (70.- 3(6. New Yorfc|e repealed enforcement law, tbe report aaid. was enforced by state troopers, sheriffs and city police. "The state troopers baye not con centi'ated their special effort upon the enforcement of tbe elate prohi bition act," tbe report said. "Tba sheriffs sad deputies made arrests up-state outside of cities In seversl hundred cases, hut mostly when | complaints bad been made as to ' open, flagrant or notorious vlola j tlon# Tbe sheriffs ord|HurlTy-,do not I consider It their 1 dUtyTto do E»V po- I lire or sleuthing work lu i with prohibition rases / although 1 many sheriff* are peraonanjt and of ficially strongly In favor of enforce , ment. Nearly 90 per cent of all ar . rests made under tbe state probl ' bit lon act have been made by tbe i police departments of the cities of tbe state.” Tbe New York report added that while only about 10 per cent of per sona arrested In New York City for alleged liquor violation* were held for grand juriea. the percentage up state was 76. It was said that about | . half of the defendants In prohibi tion cases In New York city were ’ aliens S Tbe report for MasaaCnuaetts, which also baa no local euforcehient taw. said that while there were about tbe same number of prohibition pro-! secutinn* during the last three year*, since January 1. laat. tbe number j ' "Increased to a marked degree." Convlcttoos also Increased, and there, i was said to be Increased cooperation ' from local officials. "The niaaaea of tbe population are obeying tbe law." said tbe M»**n . elm set l* report. “The hostility against the present administration baa been reduced The Connecticut report aaid that M per cent of prohibit!— prosecu tions were agalnat alien* ,i (Continued on FWffe Three) - „ UOLIMBORO, I. Co Tt KnDAY k&SISh, 41 JPfifi urns home is , .rh min ; PHUT HMDI Engineers Say Tfiffl Should Be , Made of the Befit Hefere It b Ufied TRIP WILL BE MADE TO SOUTHERN WATERS WASHINGTON, June 11.—Presi dent Harding waa said today to have given formal approval to pinna for the Voyage after reports of naval constructors and other expert ship ping men had town presented to him by Chairman Lasker. These repprt* were said by shipping board officials and officers of ship under service conditions could be forecast except by a try-out under similar condition* It was especially desirable, the' engineers held that n test to he made •f the auxiliary equipment, such as tbe supplementary motor*, circular tag system and rlevxtora the vessel was used In traus portal 100 of passengers. Installation of oil burning power generators In tbe pltfce of the coal boilers used by tbe former German owners, and rplacement of the rud der and propeller equipment at ikm ton. were said by board officials to have Injected vital unknown qunu *ft lea Into the handling of the Leila-! than which could only be kacertalo-! ed by actual trtal. The effect of 100,000 horsepower upon the 56.000 ton mass also could be considered only n theory, the experts bald, un-; til reduced to explicit formulae by the operating force. Selection of the South ren route for the trial waa made. It waa said I la order to give circulating equip ment as difficult n test as possible ’ Ordinary sea watjg I* used for con-' denalng and It waa decided that If' tbe leviathan'* machinery function- i ed In tbe warm latitude there could' be a little possibility of failure on! the more favorable Math Atlantic , route »*» Tbe presence of a large number of persona on board would be desira ble. tbe engineers also reported In order that equipment designed to serve the Individual passenger might be thoroughly tested but It was with the recognition of th (possibility of minor in I sirups that the tnvtlatons were restricted to men. fj ■ , ■ i "T-n. Colonel Hutchinson / Talks Interestingly , » On Most Everything * —■— ——J] H* M. H. rtrims While President Harding was giv ing the glad hand, perdctp the Amer icanism please, to the rest of the , ' ■» ... (r.«a. iimulu u» inv recent press convention at Atlantic t ity, our favorite Upldsboro morn ing paper was being entertuined by Colonel Oraham Scion Hutchinson. Major Pierce brought the dlatln gutebed Kiigllsh soldier and news paper man down to the office last night and It devolved on tho new managing editor to play host. Now the managing editor has always en joyed hearing the lion roar, and Inat night was no eaceptlon The Britisher la a young blond beaded chap who talks with a de lightful Kugllsh accent and at tile same time talks good American. He knows the newspaper game and there the talk started. Gradually H drifted to many tblnga and Anally to the South In partlculn-r, "Now Colonel, how do you like the South, how does It compare with the North r "Do you |pnt me to be very frank r "01 huh." "Well. It seems that the South la the place where the hard work of America la done Up North they do swift business Most of them up there are hangers-on or parsqltes." Then came tbe' Inevitable ques tion. “W hat Impresses you moat about America T’ Tb*-.reply came quickly. "Tbe fri« ..olliusa of everybody. Why your business men bave scraps, and then Pnl "» out of the ofllce and are the boat of friends. Everybody Is frlend ;ly. | “Os course the general topic of 1 conversation now la the 'l*oote‘ ques tion. One never UUks for any length of time without having the liquor question come up. I wouldn't mind j seeing tjie prohibition law applied |to England' so far as spirits are “What do yon moan by spirits ( I and brandy GUMKHTHER GETS lUBMIFW : PEff STITT M 1 , 0 ' ♦, i Ha* Twelve GrendchiMren and B. a Degree Te Her Credit at IT WAS A WIDOW FOR Ij TWENTY-THREE YEARB STATE COLLEGE. Pa., Jufia 11.— i A grandmother of twelve children la .to be graduated from Pennsylvania [ State College today. She is Mm. Sarah Shoemaker Kubv of fiwartk -11 more. Pa., and has ’beViT'bertifiad for i a bachelor of actauce decree In tke i ‘ botany course by tke college senate . alter three aud oue-half year* of study: She was peat fifty years of lag* when toy stytpd studying la , the four year courqe in bortktullure. She was but of college (of fiver a 11 7**r and later became a special §Tud ent. electing to apeclalSe la the stedy of botany due to her love for outdoor life. Twefiktkr,* hft> Mr*. Farley waa *,ft a window In moderate mean# with four young children to rataa and educate. Shk saw three boy* graduate from col lege, two of them from Pennsylvfiala State and sent her daughter to Kwarthmore College After the mar riage of her children the decided to (Continued on Page Tree) PRESIDENT NEARLY GETS HEAD BUMPED WASHINGTON. June 11.—(By (he Associated Press.)--With the return o( -President Harding's fiarty, it was i learned that the Delaware Irljr j ‘■am# s near reaulting In a **- rloua accident early yesterday at , lavn. Arriving at the dock there the j party waa placed on a band-propelled car for tbe trip out to Uw and of (fig pier. Just aa tke oar waa getting vo der way nna as toe aeeret aaiTfgfi mm I wag struck oa tke head Iff a efill} stretch arrow the pier Ilia Presi dent. standing Juat behind him. saw tbe cable JUet In time to avoid it by durklng bia head. Secretary Chris tian and Mrs David Todd, of Youngs town. a member of thw party, also were struck but were not Injured as 1 tbe car waa moving slowly. f that p roll I bit lon I* the veaaral dte-j mm of drtnk. You'can't legislate' morala into a people, It baa to grow. "It mwint to we. that you In Amer lea have much the Mine problem that Knaland baa In her douUt AfH> can colonial and ber other terri torial poeeeeilona. You are Just In Ihe great atage of development and '*o are the colonlea. And It eeema to me your great commercial future ila trade with the Kngltah colonlea. That la particularly Irua with re gard to cert. You Awerlcaea make cart and we Kngliah make heavy ' care. How the American could well I afford to lom money for a while put ting cars Into the provlncee end H eatabltab a trade there. The heavy Kngltali car la not aultable for the colonlea ami In my mind there la. one of America's great commercial •eld#." The colonel thumped bia cigar out the window and took out a cigar ette. He a looked one o( North Caro liua'e prides and It. J.- Keynold'e particular pet. We would recom mend to the Colonel that he try ChesterAaldg. they eatlafy. “I'll tell you something 1 am really keen on. and that ts co-operation between America and Knglaod. 1 want to Bee U amona all tbe net lona, but at present It looka Impossible with France acting, like ehe la la the Itliur." , “Wbat do you think of tbe Hbur (Continued on Page Two) > ' " ... ' . 14M01.1K 4 WISH CMAMM»rTKMVII.I.K, June It#- Haltnea frvm Ike t. <*f M. ('. pounced upon Welland r Ilia maddv Meld here lodaj, -f collected 14 bilk and wan thy , «aa»e 111 to g f The learn* will meet again I lemerrww al Chapel Hill. Nceret N. C. If rna*. 14 bWa, , • error*. Ilrgiala S reus 1 kit* and • error*.- Hatlrrte* Jtrjkoo and Worri*i Holland «4mi VmtiUh. t ,m a I ■ ' - j * r •*** MX PAG Eh •* v ' » Six Persons Believed i To Hove Lost Lives In Sweeping Waters WITCHITA. Ran.. June 11 «t* persons ar* believed to ham lost their Uvea tn the fiood waters of the Nlnndacah Elver near WltchtU. (e - cording to report* reaching hem this > afternoon The water ta aaid le be > sixteen feat deep over th* entire val . ley at that plane Timothy Shea, his wife, and two eons and two email children of Mika i Cane are believed to ha the victims. > Nothin* has been heard as then* since Uw waters swept oVer the vkl ' ivy although neighbors ham bean > searching for hours for them. The northern hair es Ok interna virtually is covered with water, with tba loss running into million*. Homih IfcjliilfJ Resident* la th* low lands of the 1 Trinity Rimr at Poitb Worth. Texas, early this morning earn prepaying to abandon their honuu after heavy i rain* in west Tela* caused the rimr to rise twenty-seven feat with It con tinued rise of seven laaiw*. Kansas <*ny sad Winfield. Kansas, suffered greatly from tka Hoods. Three thou oaad person* ware declared hoaw leas In Arkansas city ip an appeal sent by Uw mayor for outbids aid. He estimated the fiood damage them at ffl.ooo.Md. . Both the Arkansas aaJ Walnut Rivera era out their hanks there and a large reeldediial seettea la Inundated. One thousand persona war* marooned last eight ta a school boasa aud other buildings. Winfield reported several hundred families homeless Early today ea ter from Walnut River waa running through the center of the city. The water naJ tight plant them, on wall JJ £££££** *•*!* **“ •“» SMITH MD BUI STILL MHXING« MEW QUESTION Al Smith ami 818 Brvan Are Still Affatec Voi- AI.BANY. N y„ Jua* ll.U’Uti , rrjtulNilnn the ptnoMl conduct of > the individual have only boon sue-, manful whan they have paralleled a Irtvlne commandment" and Ilka “In herent diabeneaty of tha Voletead Act taada to promote dlahoneaty In an*; forcemeat." Coventor Smith aatd la a itatemant aneoerln* Sva question* on prohibition naked by the Maw York Ttmea and anawarad by WH llaoi Jennlaga Bryan Is which ha criticised the Ooversot-'a attitude on tha liquor and atate right* question "The Near Tart Tima# has ra qneatad me to anawor William J. Bryan'a article In IU edit tod of fiun dayi June IS. wherein Mr. Bryan aa dartook to reply to Sva qneetiona auhmtttad to him by that aewepoper," aatd Oovarnor Bmlth. # *> “Tha Brat question ha aaked la 'will prohlbltloa be a leddiag laane la the next Democratic coo vent ton Hun nine true to form, hp naaa a thousand word* In replying and aaya nothing “No living peradna could dnawar tha aecond quaatlon, ‘what . atreagth will tha wet* and dry a be able In command r Mr. Bryan attempts M aad aaya laaa than ha did about the Aral quaatlon. “Mr. Bryan could aanwer the third quealton. 'Do you be aa . aertloa of state* rlghta In conaee | lion with hla action** Tha Great ) Commoner rlsea lo tha helghta of ab- I aurdlty. According to Mr. Bryan j there la apparently no such thing aa | atatea rlghta. If that la not a fair ! Infereaee In taka from bla remark* I one mual take tbe only other poeal ble. and that la. that Mr. Bryan him-1 aelf doea not unde rata ad what stata (.Continued oa Page Two) [MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS - .. n. y 4 _ | K* porta from *lmhagn am, were that fannera dwelling in the lowtanda of Arhanana. Caagdtea and llllnota River* ware met In a their famlltoe In the hllla .thrnniened by tha rapidly rising tend water*. Msay were attempting In drive their Mve aadeooahr —a . a n. ... ■tors Miort mm. • Near Webber* mils, vufctrn lit throe riven oca verge. flip fggmgra *•« “Iggtag ihir Minin evape yrn tarday. racing with tha mamfm. -w** .J i J **um m up i J,.| ’UN Creak, which fiowa hy huaka. Oklahoma, wag rising Mk •aahea an hour ft l:*g a'eteeft mjL mornlM. gad was only Cgay Itat from ihp lop of the levqe vhikll BTo* tecta the city Should M ' v«a+>e levee top the city wonid hg •ddiA There le no Mannar of idaßTst !i , .r*-!:» , .. , “r! | y.» » < y. u ‘“~ i "yvS rising. The Km* In y«MttSd Mm around Topeka and fiflud* am tagJq# along the upper parts at thd A| Train* generally an nfprtud Bfcb time today, with tho i 7||lmi 1 dlatrtota of Kansas, thorn paaalag I h rough tf* •# Train, hi Taipei h peka. and Santa m train by Sood water* neer wSBhCTS removed Ist* tact night In rnaTlMg til 1| rpllitf lpftlli awMS awed *a* City. .. ' T-GEfrafa Tha OUsatf ftoek l«taad. M I'adllc Railroad la«t stag* anemtaM-g. I fl 0 GIFT TO fiSft and Dgmgim. white robed KnlghU of Ihe Ku KhTa ed silently lata the ItUle “r*|--|)-| mtoeina at Yam* ffnaday' Htsmsmi and handed ta the B«V. Jang* Cook, archdeuon of Ihto dteanao, whn wa. conducting aervtann titan, gg eg. velope entatatag iso agd a hsfigf affta aeklag that the money fe| end Ini 1 (he beet late recta of the to tacit itoved that tha Klaa*WM 'trying do Ood'* work, that M tat "Ight Rev**< omTtald «mS» JSrS# alee tatd es the work of thd miasma duct aervtaoa. Tho (Mngi«|B|f||| than only numbers 14 or 11. hh gMto tdt B has recently rained Mflldlgßi WBMf nleb it. Much aplendtd wash to suing on In that aaettan. ha Igjpl W~, la Ipg m ) : Th. donation frop fhS fp Ail that It vsald ho uaad for Uta WUer ment of tha comma**. T