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■ ■•■■■■■ Ml— Imm , • Fair Fr'day; Sal inlay ehme.’jr; tin fi'jlavvcd li) u. * % V,——,i , ,i i. VOLUMK THREE; NO J7 „ __ * & REPRESENTATI VE LANGLEY INDICTED REPRESENTATIV OF HOUSE INDICTED FOR CONSPIRACY . » 4 ] * 11 • I* o . . . -- - . -I t* T— -110 Wl»h Four Others ate Charjr* id With C<Mi|g|dracy to Inter* fare With the Opera ton of the f internment. Six Men Who Were Implicated Were Not In dicted h> (he Grand Jury Rp cauHc They Had Testified Her fore it. Washington. M,<r. 27.—In'MHmrnt charging Ropr-wntallv© John W t itßlrv. Rrinihlicnn Kentucky; Mil- I *r.l F. Wort, a former dep’ty c m inlsconcr of Internal revenue. and to*r ether- w"h conspiracy to inter fere with the oiaratlon if the gov ernment were returned by a federal grand Jury. Langley alone yax nam ed In Ibe Indictment Another wan attaint t him with Hu owl M Fackelt 1 a prohibition agent In Penn.: Men 1.. Muse* and Harry Hattleer eo-partnera ' trading as the I’rilon Driig to . o: Pittrburg. and Sidney Rein, described pa a procurer of liquor In large quan tified. 1 * The conspiracy of ;he criminal rod* fMrcrHim ' punlrbinent of not i k re thi n two year* Itoprlwootnent or n fine of not more than *IO.OOO of <; ,>tb. lamgley fev chairman of the Ihm-c lbibllc Buildings and Grounds , onimiitee. •> Reference was made In the Grand Jury rep' rt to John F. Kramer, for mer prohibition camm Isa loner, Villas || Mortimer, who was star witness before the Chicago Grand Jury; Ar thur McKean, ltalph Clepp*. Herman G’ Gellieller and Donald J. Deluny. All six the Grand Jury charged tvere It. veil ved In the wins pi racy, but were not indicted because tbdy testi fied before It. U>e Indictment charged that the arrui ed men and other* conspired to pay SIOO,OOO to Mortimer, Geltsetler. and Delnny .to secitr* the purchase, nlhdrgwtl and transportation by Atoges and ttaUier of whiskey from a distiller) to th* Inlon Drug Co., In Pittabw* - P Daugherty Retirement Being Considered _—— Wash nc on, Marc h 27 (My the Associated Freest Retirement of At torney tic.ersl Daugherty fr in the Coolldge c abinet ha ag iln been brought under serious consideration, and Indlrat ons today point to devel op'uents in the near future. Two c nfergnres hfdd by the Presi- • den with his Att- rney General ve to day ura understood to have been devoted hugely to a ronsidoration of | ijpa subjec' and to have hrouxht the m tter nearer to. a head lhan it tv r hnd Vieen before, ‘ President Coolldge has almost. If ikv entirely, cmne to agreement with titanv of his eloaert ndvfsers. that *iilt charm t piling up da ly against Mr Du .uthcr yV administration of th-* j Department of Justice, continuance of vt reV' General In office I* more of g load than -atty administration Oj*|.-tly tan be called ution to bear. Jn«|o'rlr« made bv the president are ii' der-tood to have failed to ronvlnr" lit in ili.»' the rut rent bu*lt»< -e* of th" pnnnriment I* being administered elth the expedition the country has s right t;> demand. This circumstance believed t i have weigh'd more he a ‘ ellv w ith Ms (' lolldgf than any eth er faetor. OTlenry Memorial tire* nalioro. March 27 A tablet of Pi,,-,,, mounted cji .' granite -l ib now m-uk* the site of the birthplace of Will! tm Kldn/y P r»«r. better known ,1 OH-rrv. famou* short s»orv writ , r ,n Ve, ' Mark I I sir <t between ' t'deewnr'.h end K i|cn« street's. 'The l«| lrt e-'rohesed bv the DHenrv Me nu rial S „ leiy of this city, was iin %«(} ,| ihi - afternoon hv little M(*> Ch.irtolie Harris Porter aged »lx - . «!,o.f >ther. Clark P rter. I< a 1 r ■ ' „io|s of OTI* erv fir w I* »*> ill l/«*lm'il pltfymat" . n,l , i Will I’orb r as obi r resldenv* kn w him made the rrln 'tnst mtilre-m this afternoon, while It ’> |* uslas ti prC'. ,t»d Til" taldet I."a I s the inserlntlon , "At thl* she O'Hrnrr (Will Pnrteri t.o-n Sep ember 11. Ik*'#* 111 t ' " a drug c lerk ii'iil th" . « ' I. l\ h" » orlc, d I- * . gtttt • ~t,- •• •,1 ‘till do'ng the srsiii- Pile c>r luisln »*, . On s-eunot of ibe serious condl •Con of the h"slth of firar* r K-'ulev. end-'ip, - '»|r,'s of honorabl, phv«i an' ■ «r, Bar i fleer and th" M"»,,,, *,l > ton of Jauler I*i"I"v I hereby pardon ihe prlsotr r\lur H’lrtt >* " p,-» e- n>,| |1..,S I *t|| fur iher cotsslder his petltlen for un ex* tended pnrt»le,” THE GOLDSBORO NEWS ■ GOING KID FOR EXPOSITION KinMton Affair Will he One of the Kincat Staged in E!abtern (ivrolina. tobacco ware house, occupying a huge pyrt of a square In the renter of the will be converted Inn :i ,glgan tk a xhlbltlon hall for the recopd an nual Vasttfn Carolina Kspusltlnn. to be ringed here the week of Ajtrll 7, ur. It r the auspice* of the sectional chaii'oc r of Commerce, and rtisny bus Irn-ss concerns. manufnOnrers. etc., c>«<> crating'with the commercial or gp. *! ilon p■'i le to make the sh w th m cress ’hat the ). moters h c®<s I r :c bed It shall be This warehourc (■ one of the Inrgnrf |r he leaf b"lt l! h;c.- *c Poor apiece of nearly 80. bit 1 feet One side of 111" big building will he given up to exhlhl's. Hpcee Is going «ipldl). , , A big temporary stage will be er ected Before this will be auditorium spare for thotpuridft of people. ( The whole structure wjll !«• converted In to a fairyland for the Exposition A week before the , pining date the city will taken on I s holiday attire. The balmy spring will have -come, and April in Plneland, Is all thal could be desire In the way of rllmaty,» Music will he a feature of. tjje ex position entertainments, which will he varied. Besides a brass band and errhes'ra. Anna Case will sing on Monday night, the 7th. Cervone no ted Pittsburgh conductor, will bring hia band here for the week- Cervone has Ken heard at a number of state other big events. The exposition. It was staled today, should att rue large numbers from out vide the 46 K.ist'«rn Carolina eoun !||es. It Is ba*ng extensively adter-. | Used In otheV states. "We hope muke It a concentration of Ideas of what Hast rn Carolina*!* and what It will he Ar.d wha|ll *lll he no man* lean begin to predict." was the usser-- Go of Newell (1. Barllel*. who as sec retary-manuger of the Kastern Caro lina Chamber of Commerce Is manag ing tjie exposition. » STATE NEWS Wilmington, March 27 Hear Ad miral Kdwln A Anderson, a native of Wttmington. and now commander of j the Charleston Navy Yards will he retired on March 31. It has lieen offi elally announced hy the Vfcavy I)'part n. nt The Admiral has s rv, <1 .I", years In th" nn\y H" I >ok "ini' in and of the Charleston Navy Yards ta«t S ptember. afier having coni- Ims lid of the Asiatic Fleet. • The re tirement was made at the request of the Admiral. The old Anderson home in Green ville Hound. Just mtlaelde of Wilming ton will he oecuplfd hy Admiral An dersoif upon his retirement t 01.. HOl.Lt* M’t U> l\ IIAI.I M'H Raleigh, Mar, h 27 Colonel l."m tu.l Boll*, cf N w York City, who has tic en the executive head of the Ami r can laPgl, n for nearly Pi" years, wHI he the principal sicnker at a meeting of the Raleigh Post of the American l-egton on April 2. it was announced by the pb“t officers In Halcicll. Col-j cni l Holies w ill Iw the of Jo n phuu Daniels past cciqjuander of th, local po.-t nd al-" csf G" I-lon - club «nd Major Gordon Hnftth. ns slslant rd iota nt of Norih IVrollna c lone) It Me* will <peak to the |iub- II,■ i,: the Wake Count) Court House In the evening ** DIM Kill I M 7 Halerno. Italy, March 27 (Hv The A*‘(Minted Pres* i lh" gravity of ibe landslide In the vicinity of Amal. vesterday. V row t hourly list I,nates bare place the deaths In the villages along tin- roast ut fifty., but many of these places are <UI off fr in both •ad and win roiunmnlcatlon-* and the exact number of victims Is un krow n , The chief village's iffected. are Vet lira, where the hulk of the victims are reported; Mullnl. Furote Praia no end Aiiaiii (A Rome dispatch (net night said there were at least rpe hundred iboid at Vetth a I The u verntnefd Is rushing all pos , slide aid to the scene There Is a po -IDtllty that a number of Amerl • cans are affi'cted j- a large convoy I of cour, i* lef) for Amalfi vesterdaT The sea is now the onlv approach • ho Ihe ii <<n« and lishermen’s Imgts - 'are h'r :*irg til the gUOOCf o( the Vic'ims with supplies. COLDHBOKO. N. C, . FRIDAY J •- * v J lit “LIVE 111 HOME" PROGRAM MERITS II HEARTY SUPPORT Is Filtered bv Extension Ser vice of, the Stalj? foileue and Department of Agriculture. ' lUleigh, Jtirth 27 The “Live Home" pri gr.im fostered by the Kx tenaion Service of the State College, j and Department.of Agriculture fa re-1 garded by many persona and business I organisation* a* that merit* hearty i rapport In a practical way. accord- j lug to many commendation* and pledge* of co-operation received by Hse Kxtension Service office. The 4> plan i* to encoiifgsge the farmer* of North Carclliin to farm during thl* year and the year* to come. In auch a wav ns will enable them to “ll4b a; home." that la to produce all the food and feed needed for. their faufl llt* and stock. The farmer* who promise to co operate tn the program sign a pledge and tho.o who fulfill their pledge to do at least seyen ten required thing* will be entitled to h rortlflrate of honor, signed by the Governor of North Carolina, the presidenj of state r'-lhge. the Slate Superintendent of Public I ii*! met ion and the director •of the Extension Service. In carrying out the belief that the program *hould rcrclye praclleal sup port. a local hanking Institution has offered a prize of $25 to Ihe farmer In earh of 20 reunites who shows the nvbst progress made din-lug the seas on under the plans of the program. The report I* to bo made In a written article of not more lhan 600 word*, but the actual progress and not the article Itself will be Judged, It was stated. Kmphanl* Is laid upon the fact that the prlie will not necessarily go to the farmer who has the beat p«|>er. on the "Lire At Home" program, but to the fanner who actually makes the best record under the *f.l\j At Home’ program during the seneon ArcSrdlng |o the rules of th" con teat drawn up jointly by the office of the Extension Service nod the local banking Institution, the farmer him self may write his, 600 word record of his |,jr gresa undar the program of he someone else write It toe him The nrticlc must be sub mitted no! later than December 1. 1024 td the three Judge* of the rrth'"- te*t In each County who wiU be nam ed and announced later hy the bank donating the prizes. The story, found hy the Judges, that tells the greatest progress made under the plan dur ing the year, will be published In the county papers. The 20 best stories, one from each county, will he submitted to a com mitter coneposeil of Dr ClaremaJ? Poe, l)r. B. tv Kilgore. Director cjf Exten slon Service, and Commissioner of Agriculture, W A Graham. The best story of the whole 20 will lie se lected and published extensively. The prizes , f $25 each will be mulled to the Vinners about Decem ber 20 In thi* way the officials of the bank stated, they hope to have gome hand In adding to the prosperity of Nor;}} Carolina and In lessening th enormous tax paid for Ihe production of food and feed-stuff* that should be produced In our state. The 20 counties from which farm ers are entitled to enter the contest are- Buncombe. Madison, Fergyth, Yadkin, Hurry. Stoke*, Buckingham. Guilford. Davidson. Mandolph. ' Ijow j an, Iredell, Cabarrus, Wak<*. Durham, Johnston. Franklin. GraYville • and j' Harnett. Premier PtwncareH Efforts to Solve Cabinet Crisis . I'atl- Mar'll .7 t ll\ th" A-.e ~ ed Pi »* > Pic,filer Poincare's first . offers, today t>, solve the cabinet cri , *l* growing >mt of yesterday's *ur prise defeat In the Chamber appear i ed from all outward sign* not tu hare i glv, n him mm h trouble. All hi* <- ill era came with smiles arid left With i equally pleased expression All i voiced cole fide u, e that the Ptepiier would Mir, O'd In reaching a solution of the difficult le* »hie h involve not < illy t,'« finding L! Ministers, m w or i old, but to hiul" up ih< g'u rnnientsl • family, but nlso the ilfs"»very of a i way out of the blind alley Into which I the p.irl'.iii.i 1,1 w.t',l,'l !■> 'he Cham her'* action on th" pension hill* The I*re»ler’il task ha* been facll i hated by a dr nr react lob In th» • Chanil*er from the action taken yes* I terdav which i au*«d the downfall of thecahlnet. Groups representing i iiore than 4po deputies, neurly two Ahlrds ol lit low,. Hnuee baV" pas*' ■ ed resolutions expressing their con tiijetne in the governgin'Bl. JOHNSON wins 011 NOSE OB POES. COOUOOE -J w ■ ■ lit* I tilt'd RduritN Give Johnson u Lend of Only Thiriv-ftve Volf* in (he Stale of Dakota. — —— ' 4 - ,5 Klociw. Falla, March 27 Rounding Into the stretch, senator Hiram' John kon led President Co lldge hy a nose j today In tielrited returns from Tues day'* Republican freridenllal prl mary. The California Henator for* led Into the lead last night as rural 1 prec inct* reported, but one of th closest contest* Soutli Dakota hks known 1.361 precinct* of appruxl Ynately 1.700 | n the Hf.ite gave him { a lead of only thirty five vote*. The i vote —Johnaon, 36,468; Coolldge 36- 423, Man Held in Greensboro On Bijaramv ( harffe Admits Identity GrcenwhiYfo. Mstr 27 James F.ast wood Hcholefielri Is the correct name of the inan being held In Jail here for bigamy He Is a former official of the United Hl,vt,-s FcwHbtill A‘'HCC'ia llon, a soccer oriranliatlon. and he ha* told acquaintance* here tlmt he came to this country from F.ugland soon after the war, It was then lie was connected with the football or ganization. Aa to Jumping a bond |K>«t, .1 In an engbe/zlc rnent ease, the prison* r hua nnftilng to way Th* man wax known here as John EogMgOOd. he having changed hi* first name and dropped his family name, Ht came here several month* otro and at Ibe time of hit arrest was ncc<mutant with an automobile con cam. ember he married Ml*h Nipa Fulton, well known yonmj Greermboro - ironian. Tuesday Mr*. Ruth Archie \ Hcbolelield Identified "John Kaatw-ociß" as tho man site mar ried In 182 J nxhj who d<!*vrud her a yoar Ibter. It ww* then h«i dlsappewr ed from the offices of the football a social Jon Here is hbc story: “When f not Mrs Htlholefleld Fw.i* •eentary of tljn FnHed;Htata* Foot ball Aaaociuffoo/' he explained. "I went to New York In connection with my business and got in fast company. I absented myself from my office for a considerable time and there was an Interval of *»vrrat day* tlml I don't rcwnertxlier anything «!x>u|. Wlmn I came to myw ls l *«, stranded In Rhode Isl.md .iThe country at that time was In such a condition that It was practically'' liit)to**lhlc to , gel work I was down and out My Idea Glen was (bat I had lont in) .occupa tion and wouldn't be cf any use at home, so • 1 dr elded to wait until I got on my feet ixdore I made my whereabouts known." be paused, us if In reflection before coot I nil tug. Taking up the Uiread ed hi* story again. Scbolefleld said that hv wcoked ht* way south by easy stall os. "It was several months before I go! a sleri at Mil.'* he continued ‘ I was engaged by the St, I vat ton Army us manager and worked in Ismvllle, Staunton. Sinicin. Cumberland and Fredericksbur* Va* raising funds I raised alsmt sl.oou u Week 'while 1 was doing that work for almost a I year receiving nothing hilt my ban expense- It was* a work of Jove I plunged Into religious work, visiting Juib vl-ltinsa tlnw-'ick ,nd doing tin relief work that Salv .ctlon Army officer* are called on to do.” It was about tils time that Hcliol*- ficld Iswatne Identified with ttie't'haln | lici of ('oniuierc« ill Fredericksburg Gl" there I i*ut on Salvation Army drives and Iteil ('rest* drives and (ltd other philanthropic work without any final,i i.,1 return I then left Fred ericksburg and came to Greensboro” When asked why he left Frederbk*- bufif. Hi bob-field - staled 'ln*' Ills o ily I reasons wa- that h, w.i- <1 satisfied and de< "led to go to aitne other place. 1 35 801 l Weevil Stations Assured • A c oidr.,' ' Inn L* *ii i 1 'I w nil ,hr \m ( "it hi As-oelal n. f'>r at* i i (rust thirty-five 801 l Weevil GoOtrnl I slations In the forty six cyunlle* rov i er-cf !>' tb" I.astern < arnilna t'ha'n i tier of Fomnierc e These Math ns will I he apportlmied out to the various r , an ave .Ig ■ I f litiout five 1! to the , minty. The ervic, will In • dude field men In supervise the prn x i ps-r culture and poisonlni' methods. at the proper time. Any hanker or mere bant Interested In ’ getting one of these field stall ns for hl« iii: tom, rs. ’* should com inimical, with the Bust ertt Karolina Chamber of ('emmetcc f at once This Is going to he a win r derfut k*'lp in the way x*f vetting th-w o, proper kind of Informal! n to the '• fanners *1 th* right time. These field • | testa will furtrlsh the ve?y te st kind of l!ife,»rtnaHon possible. JAKE HAMON WAS PAID MILUON FOR THE HAKDING NOMINATION, SAYS AL . I HEASOTOK l \FUJ I.FTTH II $s I’M | MtiM V Washington, Mar. 27 Senator latFolbUte, of Wteconslia has de veloped pneumonia Senator I-uFotlettc's office at the y-apltal Koday Issued the following l phyalclati'n, bulletin. "Heiiator Is,Koilellg lias ofied piiemnoula. His proaeut con- dltloii I* sullsfuctory " : COOPERS 10 GET 1 ( SPECIAL Home: —* " ( ( ju»e Will, lx* Aired in Special Term of IT. S. Court. w 0 "" 1 Wllnilnglou, March 27 Lieut. Gov. i " B ( cHipc'r. Thomas E Cdopur and I Horace f'ooper and Clyde W. l.*»*lt*r ’ all of whom 'are charged with viola tion of the national banking law*, In connection with the failure of Ihe Commercial Nntlnrnl hnnlc, nre not t> N> tried at the npprnac'hing May It rm of ihe Foiled Hiate* lil-etrlct court. It wua slated by Federal Dis trict Attorney Irvin B. Tucker.'* *ia- Itor In the city yekterday. The defendants In Ihe (cveraf ca ses will not iie called to appear at the next term for the reason that their trial wifi lake up much time: more time, in kart, than thjy spring oeulon'bere will nfford for the hear ings, said thd district attorney Asked if. he thought an additional week or ten day* might be added to ! the coming session that the case* of | the Coopers and Lassiter might be , tried. Mr Tucker- answrred no. and explained Gut the spring sessions of bcleral c url In th* .ea-tern ellsliict of North Carolina bxd already been arranged, and bec ause of thi* Judge II G Connor can remain In, Wilming ton only for the regular session. Mr }. Tucker is sure that' a aperlal *e»- | slon will he railed later In the sum mer for the trials. Stewart Will Not Talk About Smith’s I Disappearance Tampa, March 27 Severe grilling by pAllcc officers bud failed today to elicit any Information from Frank-V., Stewart, regarding the ilisa|i|H-aranre : f S E. Hmltbf High I’otnt. N. C , h'»-. • tc-l man, who last heard from en i route to Orlando from Tampa", Jan- 1 uary 23, last It I* understood Stewart will be held on rharga* -of obtaining money under fulse pretense unill a thorough Investigation U made. _ A Mellon Co. Receivcsl Rebate *3,775,000 Tax lliram Johnaon Makes (irave Charges Against Own Party b ______ Hi Ixmil*. March 27. Sengtor HI- 1 19m Johnson of California In u slut* ni'-nt here tmlrfy commenting o;i> Hie Smith Dakota I*V* .-IdeniUl prefer*,n I i.,l pi In,at Ili 1' -• 'I that " un effort was made to Imy un *■!•*' tlon, It ban been .done In that state." OVIK Jtt« M.I.H 101 M* IN MM KlnatniK, March 27 Two hundred ami nlght'-Sta,. egg* In a final'’ I.' • . - farm of 1O li v between lln ii» 11 iOnifM count) lino. I2v*ry not prov ed In be Ircah They were lull In Mack mlnorc.i hen*. The neat was 'hidden under .1 dairy building on the fur in ", A year ago the neat ««i discovered, 'lit, c win- 117 1110 l)i It lit tha: time They were removed and simple mean* taken to eradicate the nest Uni # diort tfine airn It wm discovered 1 hut ’ liens were again fr» »i«n-nttnor th«,»pot 1 and In veat taut inn *omade plunk i »»* Tipped out of the floor "f the 1 dairy building. and more than Ik doz- 1 en select white rgg< revealed to View, “ ii ll Jn the same *ted Member* of the family are miindcrlny wh.it; I would liuve hap|n ned had one of the I In n < le come dim «ei| w“’h lit me it lon of retting, Jt nnimrs. One Time Train Rob- U*r in OklnhomU' Hnd I’erson ul Friend of I.alt* Oil Xuvnale Testifies Thai Hamon Kven lua’lv Intended to Huy the Presidency From the Manor He Mould Make From •Prom ised Secretaryship. J _ ... ■ L Washington. Mar. 27 Al Jennings if California, aim became licit,irloin years ;>go u* a train revldier and serv ed time In Gl* penitentiary, uowr at evudgrlUl and politician, was betdrr she Senate oil c-ommhtee today, Jennings In his testimony told the committee thui'he was simply passing on to them what he was told by Jake Hamon, at the National Convention In Cbic.igo In 1920 who was nuh<c quently shot»to tL.ctli by (%ira Smllk Haoam. » Jennings told the committee Ulat, Hamon told him that he paid one million dollar* (or Harding's nomina tion In the National Republican Con-' vet lon In Chicago. He ,«std Hamon told him that Okla homa's v(t« for Hurdlng cost him tSbil.ooo; that he paid the late Sena lor I’enrOse $250,.000; that he paid Harry M Ityuaherty $25,000: that he (Mild WIIViIkJbJJIAIiA aml mention ed several other* ■ whose names 1 do' not ' rs-call to whom he paid $26,000 each? mb- name 1 think was Manning. Hamon said In r<d urn for this he would b> in*etc Secretary of the In ! lertor find would get It Imek out of puiidlc land*. f(< said the democrats, had gotten moet of the public laud* hut he would get whgt was. left, and would make enpngh •' money out ul them to buy thd presidency for hln|- 1 self. 71 told Hamon that I understood 'that Mr Dwogberty «u In favor.cf AR*'rt FMII for Secretary of the In -1 tc-rbir " lie aid, “yea hut that liu* *ll been set tied." ■ u Ih> you think *ll thl* Information turned out with the name degree cf cx-rtalnty as did the Secretaryship of I they Interior?- u»ktd Hcnnlwn Spencar "That wid the whole deal, a* lla i mon related It to me," said Jennings "and he expected to gel In on It." |“llxm«n said he wantewt me to head one o( hi* com |utnie*. t>ut I did not like Humon’s method* “Hamon said It ‘coni him like hell i to get the New York delegation'." I’.VID $41,1 MM! IX BKIHF.H l' New Yprk. March 27 Danjicl J Shields, described •« a liquor deal er, of Johnstown, I’h , was arrest'd tnejay hy Federal agent*, charged with conspiring with Jams* F Johnson, an attorney of the legal division of the obtain' Itquor penult*, and with pay ing $6 win in' bribes to « clerk la the prohibition unit, to furnish c pie* ul prohibition agent*' r*pori». An Official of Ihe Internal Rev enue IVureau Statew That He Know* of No Other Case Where Such Allowance Was Made. WaNhtngtnn, March 27, ~ The tax recorda of the Gulf (Ml companies, a "Mellon Co proceeds were lrn|>ooml ■ d today by tin s|e < I.ll* Si il-de 1 om ,mitten luvcidixating the Internal Un real), The committee action followed tes timony to the effect that the Corpo ra tlon had allowed "lo*** depletion” reduction In the settlement of Its taxes for HM7-I* IS. made In Yebru ary, and by which it wn* credited net "excessive payment” for the three year* In the amount of $3,775,000. Senator Couzcns, Itepuhlii an Mleh ; lg»n, whose reaolution almiil the In vi-stlaation nbUlasil from A C. Krnst, ,Cleveland. Ohio, accountant, whose Him worked up the consolidated re turns for the Gulf a state ment that "leasee depletion” allow ance had Iteeli grant'd hi the hit U on tl| I**2l Gulf Go. settlement. Turning to s M. Greenage, a bu -1 rent) oftclnl told Senator Cotue.na that i Kccrelary Mellon did not approve the Treasury fegnlallon granting "leaaee allowance” on oil well depletion In I fit. Greens*;* wild he knew of no other • caec In which the allowance had been (rallied prior lo 1922. and add , ed Hint the regulation effective in 1 1921 wre to the contrary. MEMBER Otf ASSOCIATED PRESS PKICE FIVE CENTS TELLS AUDIENCE OF MUD'S. M. WO MIT IS KvaniftltsE Cross at .Christtan Church Tells of Many Inter wtlan lackknts tlw4 Should Apply to our Lives. * • Who built the Ark *” I)r. Croon united a group ot children last night during hl» sermon. -Noah.'’ nmr the answer. “Who told 'you!" continued Dr. Cron*. • The Bible." answered the children In cbdru*. "Right,-. j ' “You are sate whan yon aa f thn Itlhla.” wai Abn assurance Dr Croaa gave the children. ; Dr. Croaa spoke laat nighl to an other appreciative audience on a snb jed that should appeal all. "Noah's Ark. and Where la and today those who heard him *re better In formed aa to the Ark and where It ta. Continuing. Dr Croaa said-. “Noah was commanded hy (tod to toulld one Ark out of one kind of wood which he proceeded to do and when complet ed the Ark wna poliaesaed of three things: 0 Salratlon, fdfid. peaco and light When a peraoh la aared thay hare salvation. • “I do not ask you to believe what I am telling you. hut I do aak yon lo read your Bible' and learn these ihlnga for youi'self and things that* were found In the Jitk should be found in the church, and na Individ uals I plead with you to do roar do ry by setting tbe right example end let the other person aldne. The church Is made of one material hu manity snd we are all on ona level ..ami at the tame lime we are a arleat .if God ts we believe, repent, and are hurled with Him la Baptism Hun dreds of years before Christ the church was planned la tbs building of the Ark. and today tba Ark la. or •should ha In yon and L “In th* building of the Ark there was only on# window, the only mean# Noah Red to get llghtjand today tba Bible Is the one and only mails of salvation for tie sinner The Bible says His Ron does not it wall In,hous es made by man. but In hornet made by find -which la you and It" "When the ark was finished N»ah was commanded to take Into tba.Ark the clean snd unclean animals. The . clean animals represented the Jew, ! and the unclean animals represented , the Oentllea—you and I. la the days nf Noah the Jew was coaeldered the clean animal; hut such la not tbe case today, ss tbe Jew la waaderlng around In sin. but a day la coming when gie will regain himself. Tbe meetings continue to grow In Interest add tonight Dr. Cross wilt «pesk on a rather odd subject—"Tbo Devil's Barber Shop" . Senator b Walsh and * Silencer Have Row VtsaMnstnn. Mar IT—After Jen nings concluded his story Senators Walsh and Spencer had a row over a statement credtted to Hwowtor Spen cer. In a dispatch from Saw York laat night The Missouri Senator was quoted aa having said Aha oil Inquiry was accomplishing very little; that tht people *rre weary of It; and things Juat as bad had happened un der Interior Secretary lanes admin istration aa under Hocratary Kail. Senator W alsh said, be would pass liver the "Impropriety” of a member of the cmimlttce commenting on Its work In that way and would aa'c Senator Spencer on what 1 normal too he baaed the statement utxmf ttecic-' tary latUe’a udndnlslratton so th« ' committee could Investigate It. Sen ior Hpeiuerqyeplled be would produce his facta to "good time" after he had made further Investigation “Do you Mieve (be truth of yonr statement7" asked Senator Walsh "I do not deny it.” Senator Spencer returned Then Senator Spencer said therw was. a report that Senator W alsh bad vtailed K. 1,. Ikiheny on bis private jr to ascertain to what be would tes’lfy. ‘ l* the S tutor asks me about thu'’* -t-’iu'or Walsh Interrupted ”1 will tell him I never talked with Ikhciiy Indore h* appeared here, and nner ow hi* private car.” Koxie Stinsfin May Be -Asked to Name Men in $33,000,000 Deal Washington, March 27.- The Sen ate committee investigating Attorney General Daugherty went Into execu tive sesalon at 9: JO o'clock this mor ning lo consider whether Urrife Strh- I son Hbould ti/askcil to name Ike "tv* tneu” she said Jess Smith had told II her were Involved In the 133.M0 Sin clair oil *to<k dcgl, 7 • -4
The Goldsboro News (Goldsboro, N.C.)
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March 28, 1924, edition 1
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