V - -
i;::.
C, Th'; :
i. una
kocin .1. coopli: i nn;o
in it killlm; senator
f AEMACK IS .mi-rocked
Na hviHe, T mi,, Ah.
'obm J. ('(Mijirr, a Na Ii
t1 ; h' )', H );i , tl ':... fi f t, fil
ing of former t'ii.t''I St.ttt Seti
Jdor V. Carma.-k, dm ing the
t (till, late J pistol dl'l between
hlS father, Col. 1). II. Cooper, iilii
ft-- Carmaek in I'.XH attracted coun
try wide att"iiti( .n l.a - l.( .mi mur
dered hv iv mirier my-te' ions ir
cumstanoos. Cooper's body .h
taken fioui Richland Cnk in
day soon after his 1.1 Kd booed
automobile hail be- ii found on a
li i!k' in ar hi., l.'. i in tin
fashionable R..i!" Me.id ' paikc
s-'tion. The skull h; d been
rru he l, hut tli w "!-. evi
dences that a violent s-t.uggle
!:al ta'a-n plane before th" fatal
Mow was struck.
A coroner's inqU'Vt I.:?-- toda)
d- ! il no tines to t!i( mur
derer or murderer.-, hut the po
lice are proceeding i n th theory
that Cooper was lured from hi.-;
4. home ly person-! determined to
itjj him. This th'ory is based
largely upon evidence that
Cooper had drawn $10,000 from
a hank a short tint' before he
disappeared bet Thursday
night.
The authorities assume tliat
the your.? lawyer was lured
from his home to the secluded
bridge over the creek and there
done to death. The condition
of his clothing indicated that he
had leen dragged some distance
Ik? fore he wa. thrown into the
j water. Physicians w ho examin
ed the Imdy said the small
amount of water foun'l in the
lungs was evidence that Cooper
was dead when dropped into the
creek.
Mrs. Cooper, who is a daugh
ter of Milton J. Smith president
of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, has been visiting rela
tives in Iuiisviilo and her al
sence accounts for the fact that
the disappearance of her hus
band did not ln'come known until
today.
Theie ws no evidence that
the Cooper home had I en rob
U'd after the murder and some
doubt has been expressed that
the murderers could have ex
pected that the lawyer would
hae great sum on his person.
His empty pocket lxok, however,
was found in the lottom of the
automobile.
Governor Roberts ha.s offered
a reward of ?."O0 for the arrest
and'eonviction of the murdiwers
of the lawyer.
This later was supplemented
by offer of a similar amount by
the family. The police admit
that they have nothing on which
to work in .solving the mystery.
The Carmark tragedy, the
most notable in the history of
Tennessee, grew out of the C.u-matk-IVtU-i
son laco for gover
nor in liMW. in which Col. I. R.
Cooper, father of Robin .?. Coop-
cr, was one of Patterson's closest
advisers. In the fatal encoun
ter, which occurred on an up
town street of Nashville Novem-
r her 9, 1918 the son fired the shot
which ended earmark's life and
& in the shooting was himself
wounded. Father and son were
convicted of murder in the sec
ond degree in the lower court.
but on the appeal of the case to
the supreme court the verdict
was reversed as to the son.
judges standing three to two.
r- The verdict a.s to Col. Co'p'-r
was sustained, tliio to two, but
before leaving the capilol the fa
ther was pardoned by Governor
Patterson. The case against
Robin J. Cooper when it came up
again in the Davidson county
criminal court was dropped.
MUHUKKS FA UK U AI) IN
SOUTH CAROLINA COUUT.
Grecnvill, Aug. .",0. Three
convictions for murder, carrying
death sentence in as many days,
is the record of court of general
sessions for Greenville county,
which today closed a fourth
njOjii'Vjiial. with sixteen homi
cide cases" TeiiitriRir on the
docket.
II. T. P.ramlett, of Greenville,
a building contractor, who shot
and killec! his mother-in-law,
Mrs. L. C. Mcllugh, and serious
ly wounded Ms sister-in-law,
Miss Leora Mcllugh, is schedul
ed for trial in sessions court hen
Tuesday. Solicitor r.lartm an
nounced today.
NOT A SKLN OF E'MIAhlM'
DEAD! OCR AT I! Kill POINT
High Point, Aug. '?.'), No
change 'vhatevr is noliecab'e
toil.1., in the controversy b--twi
iii manufacturers and em
ployes that will ci.tcr upon its
h.UIi deadlocked Week Monday.
Piiion nu n are maki: g prepara
tion, lor a thorough observance
of Labor day, the first one a ma
jority of them have ever pa;d
any attention to, hucc their
iiiemle iship with organized la
bor is biief. Plans aie as yet in
a tentative rtato, but it is assert
ed that there will In' speakeis of
con iderahle lenown in the cily
Monday to address the vcoikeis.
The u-u.d band concerts and pa
rade. uill (on. litote the lemain
der of the program. Thousands
of v.oi kers u ho are now idle be.
caiiM' they joined the union v ill
participate, since there is little
eUe left for them to do. Practi
ci lly all factories, except the six
or .-even operating as "open"
shops are closed and the "open"
ones will be shut out of defer
ence to union Jalor on Monday.
The po.4offi:e and freight sta
tion .. operated by Uncle Sam,
will follow suit.
Rumors of varied hue and ex
tet.t filled the air today, but dili
gent digging failed to reach any
substantial foundation for any
of them. One wa.s that the man
ufacturers at a recent meeting
of reopening their plants on the
open shop system and that the
result had been oO-oO. This yam
was aired to a manufacturer,
owner of a closed establishment,
and he asserted that it wa.s made
up pure, unadulterated Ush.
Another rumor that refuses to
Ite either downed or verified is
that some of the plants will at
tempt to resume operations dur
ing the coming few days. It is
further intimated that the em
ployers will seek and demand
protection for the;r loyal em
ployes from the pk keters repre
sent in the unions. Ju .t wheth
er the manufacturers really con
template putting things to a test
at this time or letting them jog
along as during the past five
weeks with these able to survive
the longest on the least to eat as
the w inners can not stated.
Relief Cards Ik ing Sold
Relief cards were leing sold nt
various places in the city today.
The prcceeds are used to streng
then the determination of the
unionists to win their contention
that to join a union is not any
cause for ejection from a payroll.
Financial bulwarks at places
that might l' weakened by lack
of funds is the intention of union
leaders, and there is a unani
mous biliif in labor circles that
the relief cards will do the buri
ih'ss and, further, that their sale
will not have to be continued in
definitely. There is as yet absolutely no
indication that the manufactur
ers care to talk over the situa
tion. They are saying just as
much as their plants are run
ning. In the meantime, drays
carrying l)ouse furnishings, eor
tectly tagged, are seen on the
streets bound in the general di
rection of the two freight sta
tions. 1' .ndreds of workers
must have left town, and dur
ing the past three or four days it
appears as though the men with
small families are beginning to
go. Residents view the proceed
ings with manifest concern, for
they fee! that with the local dis
pute settled. Hie single man who
onlv nas to Milton his coat to
move would return, but the man
ivith a biinily and household
p. periy is not so strong i ot
moving. When lie locates else
where, he is generally there for
keeps.
1 lie number or workers leav
ing the city is not having a de
pressive ell'ert on these remain
in";. "They'll send us back
enough to hold up our end and
see us through" is the way they
put it. In other words, the
unions have two irons in the fire;
the one here that cannot got hot
because of the lack of work, am
the one elsewhere that can get
Tieal-H-jiough to divide with the
other.
laim'ier Shortage Closes Plant
The number of plans operat
ing as "open shops" . was reduc
ed by one Friday afternoon
when the Snow Lumber com
pany, employing perhaps the
largest number of - workers of
"A!R!uG
Ai .rt HiU nil!it tn n t
tlrnt'H, tut It Id rciilly a J hnierriil '1. Hini'l"-! froin iIih ftjfttt if' t ot Mm V. S. S, (khilmmH, hliiiwliig th 'K'iIk" llin't
up for "IfUV.ui drill," vlilii' mloniUiif lln ri'M soi t s. n j'm t-il'Hiij .f tin nallnm ihi.-i in ! frt.li lr.
my wood working establish
ment in the city, closed down be
cause of an accredited "shortage
of lumber by demoralizing ship
ping conditions." The Snow
plant took in numlx-rs of expe
rienced workers who lost out
elsewhere iK-cause they joined
the union md its closing re
moves one splendid source of in
come and employment from Jh"
unionists. Ofl'cils of the com
pany, however, stated today
that it was hoped that it would
le possible to icsiime operations
by the ndddle or latter part of
next week. Much of the lumber
used by the company comes
from the eastern part of this and
adjacent states and shipping
conditions have been greatly de
moralized during the past week
or so, it is asMTtd.
The plants operating1 at this
time are the Purham Hosiery
mills, the Myrtle Desk company,
the .Noith Carolina Wheel com
pany, the Hill Veneering com
pany, the Stehli Silks cor? .ora
tion and jKissibie one or two
others. Pa tween '.)') and b
plants are not ojMrnting Uvause
of their operatives enrolling
with the unions. Recent esti
mates are that there are 7,"(i0
workers in local plants, and. ac
cording to this figure, at least
l.oiX) or 5,000 must be out today.
It is believed the unions have ln
tween .",,000 and 1,000 mem
leis enrolled, although officials
of the organization are not yet
ready to make a definite state
ment of progress.
Monday brings the sixth week
of the controversy and the two
Ics are H-emitijr'y just
far
k "
apart now as at the otitM when
the positions were stated; that
the employers would not work
any man ai'liiiated with a union;
that the employes beheved they
had every right in the wot Id to
join a lawful and law abiding or
panizntion. Suggestions are
coming from many sources t )
have steps taken to get the dif
ference; nviu'd out, o 1 ; tin
stepper i me so far consp cjus
by their i.bsenoe. The ft si pul
pit attempt to bring harmony
will be made Sunday morning at
11 o'clock at the first Reformed
church when the pastor. Rev,
Roy 11. iAinb.uh, will deliver a
special sermon to both manufac
turers and workers. Neither
text nor his theme h.u been an
nounced, but a capirvn eon-;ie-gation
is expected to h'ar li ni,
WHEAT AM) FLOUR MEN
TOLD TO i!KT LICENSES
Washington, Aug. 31. An
other move in the government's
camapign to 'combat the high
cost of living was made today by
Wheat Director Julius H. I lames
in warning all dealers in wheat,
(lour and other product deiin
quent in taking out of federal
licenses to obtain them at once
under pain of prosecution by th:
department of justice.
The license requirements un
der an act of Congress of last
March and a presidential pro
clamation of last June, will be
rigidly enforced. Director
Rai nes notified the dealers. The
only exceptions to the regula
tions of the wheat directors are
bakers consuming less than .10
barrels of wheat Hour monthly,
retailers, farmers and farmers'
co-operative association -i.
DAY" 01 THE U. S. S.
7
n-j'rrwni M'u .,
nr-li fiio
License control under tli'.
w heat director is made neies
sary, Director Raines said in li
statement today, as one of the
steps in tarrying out the- juice
guaianteo for th.? 1919 wheat
crop, and to protect the govern
ment again 't undue enhance
ment of its liabilities thereunder.
Another CiTcct, he said, of the
licensing of wheat aid its pro-
duets cou'd be to prevent
hnartlin;; a.u- , route, , mg m
these commodities, hiI petnut
regulation of profit.;.
"Not only is it ',. criminal of
fense to eng.tg" in business re
quiring" a license without such
licen e," Director llsrnes' state
ment said, 'but ai aj one of the
important conditions upon which
licensees hoM their licenses is
that they will not engage in
busines with envoi.! required
to obtain a licev-a' ho has not
obtained mch ;t la eh.-e."
Forty Italian Soldiers Pardoned.
OWENS REPLIES 10
SPEECH OF LODGE
Wash, ng ton, Aug. ."'.O. Re-
phing in the senate today to ar
guments presented by Chairman
Lodge, of the foreign relations
committee, against unreserved
ratiiicatioiiof the p.e;e treaty,
Senator Owen, Democrat, of Ok
lahoma, declared Ml. IlgC had
been blind. -d by pat tisar.-diip and
by a distrust tf jpl.u in dilu
tions. Referring to the committee
man"? paiii'Iel U'twifs; the Lea
gue of Nations and the iii-fUia d
1 1 1 v Alliance," Mr. Owen raid
the agreement had oerioM'.i
the intrigue and autocratic sel
fishness which sin rounded the
ance.
"The f;at that war follow
the treaty of the Holy Alliance,"
he continued, "was bctwvn this
treaty was between military dy
nasties, made by muiuuchial au
tocracies each controlled b in
trigue. The senator from Mas
s.e hu-etts believes that the
promises of these royal scoun
drels may be justly compared
with the promises and aspira
tions of the honest organized d'1
nHKiacics of the whole world.
"The trouble with the senator
f I om Massachusetts is that he
really believes in the rule of the
few- over the many. He does
not briieve the people- ought to
have the lU h! to :'.V. !:s
they w,iit or Veto laws they d
not want. He looks upon them
with less confidence than he did
tiHn the military autocracies
for the seirttov favored a lea
gue in 191 ."i when the autocra
cies were in full (lower.
"Th:? galleries always applaud
when a senator ftrikos an oi'a
torical pose and thunders forth
his sturdy Americanism. Hut
the senator's Amei icanLni did
not prevent him from making nn
Argument at Union College in
1915 in favor of a league of na
tions. Am I going loo far if 1
appeal from Philipp drunk to
Philipp sober','"
"He is not, as he things, wag
ing a war again-1 Wood row Wil
son, lie is waging a war against
the desires and the he,v., of all
mankind. Let him beware of
throwing himself and his blind
ed partisans across the path of
the righteous judgment of mankind."
OKLAHOMA
- rliiK Uk- ili.in.'i-r iluilhg uhi
ROYSTLU AM) MTN( II
prmsi; polk i: l ORCi;
Charlotte, Aug. ".-It is
lieved the final chapter in the
events of the week in Charlotte
are cmliodiod in the following
: tatement given out by Mayor
Mr-Ninth tonight:
"Whatever other questions
way remain with us for settle-
mnitipla, jo0 m. K;V(,n 1SI1 ,ln.
n)i.,t:iVu,,;e m to lhe
Senge of lawlessness, mid what
ever division of sentiment there
may be among our people as to
the issues involved, there i no
division whatever among our te
ponsihle citi:un-hip in their de
tmnmation that mob law shall
i ot prevail, but that h'V stud or
der tdi.ill be supieme in this toni
mrn.lv. "Conditions i.re rrpidly im
pro ing and we feel a s ured that
there will le no futther seiious
outbreaks of violence, but if it
should come w e at e even In Iter
prepared to meet it than licieto
fore. I urn sure all law-abiding
citizens aie conscious of their
debt of jo atitude to the. local po
lice force and the state militia
and likewise to the large ImmIv of
citizens from 'all ranks of life
who so quickly responded to the
call of duty and le-toivd law and
order.
"I want to again express our
appreciation of the voluntary
action of the Central Iiio!
union in postponing the Lu'hu'
day parade cc! .'rat !!, Such
.u Udli
M hig
1,1.
comm''Tvfa!!e
and will doubtli s contribute to
veard stabili.ing condition in
this community.
Adjutant Ocnertd Royst,r in
ctmversation willt .uavor .mc-
Ninch today highly compliment
ed official' and police of Char
ctte for determined manner in
which they had met and put
down mob violence.
Cars Operated And No
Disoide at Chailotte.
Charlotte, Aug. "0. Follow
ing a cor.feieiue here today with
Mayor MfNhidi and other offi
cials with reference to the street
railway strike -dilution. Ad.w
tant Cejtcral R. S. Roy-der re
turned to Raleigh. Lieutenant
Ciovcrnor O. Max Carner also re-
ii t iifI tt) his home at Shelby af
ter spending ii dav and night
here investigating the situation.
Cars manned by strike break
ers and new i.ii. n in tnihsing
were operated - throughout t lie
day on the city lines of the
Southern Pubhr Utilities com
pany and there wore no demon
st rat ions,
Cily officials nnd citizen's gen
erallv e orossod considerable re
lief tonight that a quiet night
and day had passed since the re
niov.il of the six companies of
troops who were on duty here
four days and the belief is more
general that there will be no fur
ther at tenants at violence. The
cancellation by the local laUu
unions of their plans for cele
bration of Labor day has remov
ed the fears of many that trou
ble might occur Monday. .
The (00 citizen guards oragn
ized s-neral days ag" still main
tain I heir organization ready foi
immediate dutv.
moors Ti:iN m ihni: i
(.I N ON AIOIPI) PPM KS
Nnoxviile, Aug. :;o. Folhnv
u"c trii iiiing of the Knox enmity
lad Saturday night by a mob.
beet oil reaching Maurice M.ivos,
a negro, arie-ted early in the
day in connection with. the mur
der of Mr.R-rti... Li-...ey, a
lace riot of serious piojiniieu
t.-rted ..hortlv after midnight
Sunday nnming. So'die - m
the Fourth National Cm -d t -: i
(I a mach'i.e gun n a c r d o
: . nied negroe at Vine -wo Cen
ti al Avenue , after a !.(;,. be
I'.'cen c hit o 4 j. rid m'Twiei in
Whiill lUO lleglue tt.TO k'.l.'.l.
Foil!' lieglT)", fell rod V th"
i i .'':i e gun fire. Fo'ing ( n
bn'os and p j.s inipo si,.'- to ie'1
Ii w many have hi en t,,!l. d o.
uoiiiel 'd, Sr-ven mm ul w lute,
ion
d in local ho: pit ai s a
the re nils of the tumble at tin
jail and .-nbveipient rioting.
Lieut. Maguey and Private
Henderson loth of the machine
gun company Fourth Tennessee
National Ouard. -.were killed at
12: lo, a, m. It i.v said both were
slain by mistake by bullets from
their own command. All hard
ware stores and pawn shops'
have been looted to secure arms.
Knoxv ille. Tenn., Aug. .",().
De-pitc assurance, that the pris
oner had been removed to
Chattanooga and inspection of
the jail by three separate com
mittees of citizens, a nmb to
night stormed the Knox county
fail in seairh of Maurice F. Mays
juil search for Maurice F. Mayes
i negro w ho had been arrested as
a suspect in accordaiiee with the
murder of Mrs. Katf Pel tie Lin-1
Ley early this morning. In a
series of fights U-tween deputy
sheriffs, K)lsce officers and mili
tiamen and members of the mob
in the jail corridors and outside
the building, several nun were
wounded. In the confusion, all
were taken a' ay U-fo e their
identity could Ik' learned, except-'
ii z the' national guardsmen who
were beaten, but not seriously
hull, and w ere able to remain on
luty. One man was carried!
iwny by his friends inuon-cious
rnd sufroring from w hat npjM-ar-
d to be a serious wound on the
iead.
Most of the window glass in
the jail was shot out; one front
window and the main door were
battered in and all other exposed
windows broken during tin dis
order.
F.aily in the evening it become
.ipiKirciit that the deputies and
policemen on duty at the jail
would be unable to cope with n
situation and n call was sent for
soldier trom the Fomth Ten
nessee Natiomd Ouard which is
holding its encampment here.
Two squads were ribhed to the
jail in a motor truck. The dis
order reached its hoighth with
their arrival and fi-t fight were
numerous and promi -.cuous
shooting outside the jail began
The guard men were soon stren
gthened by the arrival of a full
company and it became possible
then to clear the j nil corridors
and the yard.
Mrs. Lindsey was shot to
death in her home at 2:"0 Satur
day morning as she was prepar
ing to leap from a window to es-
i
capo a negro, nor niece wno
was sleeping with her was threa
tened by the same negro. The
two wonnn were alone in the
house. The negro Mayes, who
has been arrested ten days ago
for piowiimr alsout a house oc
cupied by nneiUier wlntc family,
was taken into custody in con
nection with the murder an hour
after the crime was committed
He had bevn home only a short
time. Mayes denied his guilt.
rearing possible violence.
Sheti If Cate look Mayes to
Chattanooga by a roundalout
way this evening. Crowds be
gan gathering alwuit the jail ear
ly this afternoon, the first com
crs In ing allowed to look thru
it to satisfy themselves that
Maves was not thereabout. The
crowd increased steadily and at
11 o'clock still numbered possi
blv 1,000 men although '.he sit
nation at that time appeared to
lie under control of the police
and militiamen.
Ciattanooga, Aug. I'.O, When
informed that the Associated
Press had carried a story from
Knoxville that a mob was on the
way here, Sheriff Rob Pass, af
ter calculating tho probal
WILSON TO CALL (A I'll A L
LAT.OU MLI'IINt; SOON
Wa.diington, Aug. "L Piesi-m-nt
Wilson, in a Labor day
message to Auiciicaii workers
today, announced that he would
call in the near future a confer
ence of representatives of labor
md industry "to discuss funda
mental means of bet taring the
whole relation.1 hip of capital and
abor and putting tin; whole
p.iestiun of wages upon another-
looting."
The President said he was en
couraged and pleased with the
results thus far of the govern
ment's elloi ts to bring down the
co;,t of living and expressed con-
hdeuee that substantial results
w'taild b accomplished in the
solving of this problem. Patience
ami vigilance, however, he said,
must be exercised and the gov-
,ininents ellorts must have tho
co-operation of every citizen.
He Appeals to Citizens.
Presumably referring to the
existing lalxir tinress and threats
of strikes, the President appeal
ed to every citizen to refrain
from doing anything that would
torn! to increase the cost of living-,
but instead to do all possible
to promote production.
Hie President expressed par
ticular gratification at the at
titude taken by the representa
tives of organized lalxn in nup
poiting the kovcniment's pro
gram to meet requests for addi
tional wages through a lowering
of living costs and said he hoped
that the workers themselves
would "move with the govern
ment instead of again it in the
olution of this great domestic
problem."
The Lalrf-r day message us
made public tonight at the
White House follows:
"I am encouraged and grati
fied by the progress which in be
ing made in controlling the cost
of living. The supjiort of the
movement is widespread and
confidently look for substantial
results, although 1 must counsel
patience as well as vigilance, be
cause sut Ii w ill not come instant
ly or without team work.
Wants Production Incrcus.
"Let me again emphasize my
appeal to every citizen of the
country to continue to give his
personal support in this mat
ter, and to make it as active a
possible. IM him not on'y re
frain from doing anything which
at the moment will tend to in
crease the cost of living, but let
him do all in his power to in
crease the production; and and
further than that, let hsm at the
same time himself carefully
economize in the matter of con-
impiion. P.y common wet ion in
this direction wc ."hall overeom
a danger greater than the dan
ger of war. We w ill hold .steady
a situation whii.ii is fraught
with possibilities of hardship
and "suffering to a large part of
our population; we will enable
the pieces' es of loduction to
overtake the processes of con'
sumption; and we vviil speed the
restoration of an adequate pur
chasing power for wages.
"I am particularly gratified at
the support which the govern
ment's policy has received from
the representatives of organized
labor and I earnestly hope that
the workers pern-rally will em
phatically endorse the position
of their leaders and thereby
move with the government in
d)i I of Muain&t it in the solu
tion of this gieatest dome tfC
problem.
"1 am calling for as early a
date .s practicable a conference
in which authoritative represen
tatives of labor and of those w ho
direct lalwr will discuss funda
mental means of bettering the
whole relationship of capita! and
lalmr and putting the whole
questk ii of wages upon another
footing."
number in the five ti ticks, re
marked; - "All right; let 'em come. I've
got room for that many in j.iil."
He added that he could handle
the situation here without any
assistance.
Rome, Sept, 1.--Forty Italian
soldiers, sentenced to long per
iods of imprisonment during the
war, were granted mrne- ty to
day by King Victor F....aur.ue!,