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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
HUNTSVILLE.—Thomas G. Rid
dle, vice president of defunct Bank
of Madison, is sent to Kilby prison
to commence term of eight to ten
years for forgery.
MOULTON.—Di\ Fowkes and
Gerard Fowkes, of Smithsonian in
stitute, Washington, I). €., examine
Indian mounds near Moulton and
Oakville and intend to excavate
there soon.
DOUBLE ‘SPRINGS—H. Cecil
Shaddix, of this place, is appointed
assistant engineer’ in charge of sur
vey of United States forests in Wyo
ming. He is graduate of Auburn
an«i Georgia Tech.
SHEFFIELD.-■“■JTancmse tn:
cle Shoals Gas company for furnish
ing gas to Sheffield and Tuscumbia
is revoked. Gas plant is located in
Florence, and owing to Wilson dam
being built across Tennessee river
company can no longer use gas
lines crossing river here.
SHEFFIELD— t7”r. Glenn, Sr.,
aged resident, is found dead in bed
at home here.
MOBILE.—-City commission names
Commissioner Harry T. Hartwell
mayor, succeeding R. V. Taylor.
GADSDEN.—Jury awards Mrs.
Dora Goodwin $20,000 damages
against Alabama Power company.
She was seriously injured in street
car collision at Alabama City, De
cember, 1020.
OPELlKA.—Opelika Sewer com
pany is placed in hands of receiver
ship by Judge Henry D. Clayton, of
United States court. Company owes
$125,000 to bondholders.
GADSDEN. Plant of Birming
ham Slag company, which was de
stroyed by fire during August, is re
built and ready for operation.
ANNISTON. City purchases
new park site on Gurnee avenue for
$40,000 Council creates park board
to have jurisdiction over all city
owned parks.
CATHERIN. Abner D. Ald
ridge, porminent Wilcox county
farmer and former postmaster here,
is dead.
MOBILE. Chamber of com
merce plans state wide campaign in
interest ot amendment to constitu
tion to allow sale of bonds to build
15-mile bridge, across Mobile hay
here. Amendment will be Voted on
at November election.
COLUMBIANA. John Lutz
charged with assault with intent to
murder, who escaped from Shelby
county jail ten years ago, is arrest
ed at Boothton.
MONTGOMERY. N. H. Brown,
chief of division of markets of agri
cultural department, issues warning
to cotton warehousemen against car
rying insurance with unauthorized
companies.
ANNISTONY William White,
Anniston High school student, is se
riously burned while experimenting
with chemicals.
NORTHPORT. Stores of Holley
brothers, A. J. Deason, and W. F.
Koster are burglarized and several
hundred dollars in cash and goods
are stolen.
SPRINGVILLE. Ward Forman,
prominent banker, is named member
of St. Clair county board of educa
tion, succeeding Conley Merchant.
ASHEVILLE—M. G. Ashley, of
ihis place, is appointed register of
federal Farm Loan bank at New Or
ieans, La.
MOBILE.—Jere Austin, local at
torney and for several years United
States commissioner here, is re-ap
pointed commissioner at expiration
of his term.
MONTGOMERY—Ted Cottrell,
special agent of state department of
Same and fish, with headquarters
it Birmingham, is appointed chief of
game wardens.
BIRMINGHAM—E. M. Gallemore,
30, branch manager of Timken Rol
ler Bearing Service and Sales com
;any, is dead, and Albert J. Womack,
cashier of same company, is serious
ly injured, when front wheel of au
tomobile in which they are riding
comes off near Hamilton.
MONTGOMERY—J. M. Moore,
commissioner of agriculture and in
dustries, returns from meeting of
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ture at New Orleans, La. He says
opinion of commissioners is that
present crop will fall below govern
ment forecast. He declares “inter
ests inimical to farmers have ham
mered price of cotton.” He says
staple should bring much more than
lat present.
GADSDEN.—Grady Hale, of Mur
rycross, comes to Gadsden searching
for unknown man who ran a Ford
car into building which houses his
grist mill, completely wrecking his
| mill.
GADSDEN.—ReveI Moragne, 21,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Moragne,
Icf Gadsden, dies at Orlando, Fla.,
from injuries sustained when tank
[of boiling asphalt exploded.
UNIVERSITY. Rammer-Jammer
is name of new Alabama university
magazine. Robert Matherne is edi
tor-in-chief.
BESSEMER. —Sheriffs office of
Bessemer raids 30 stills during Sep
tember, seizes 84 gallons of whisky,
41,070 gallons of beer and arrests 13
men at stills.
MONTGOMERY. Congressman
Lister Hill will deliver number of
speeches in Kentucky for national
Democratic ticket.
BESSEMER—T. M. Wilson, 00,
dies at home here. Remains are
sent to LaFayette, Ga., for inter
ment.
MONTGOMERY.—-Alabama. Power
company asks permission of public
service commission to purchase elec
tric properties in Fayette from J. A.
Richards and C. B. Matthews.
JASPER. United Farmers of
America will shortly begin organiza
tion work in Walker county.
TUSCALOOSA. As result ot
movement started here by American
Legion to have business houses dis
play United States flags on all prop
er occasions, more than 150 business
houses place orders for steel flag
staffs and flags.
MONTGOMERY. Six hundred
and forty-three brands of feed stuff
are registered with department of
agriculture in one day. During year
approximately 2,000 brands were reg
istered.
MONTGOMERY. Third annual
fat cattle show opens here with over
3,000 head of cattle entered from
Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi.
BIRMINGHAM. Hugo Black.
Birmingham attorney, is appointed
special assistant attorney general to
carry on impeachment proceedings
against Sheriff Paul Cazales, of Mo
bile.
TUSCUMBIA.—J. T. Kirk, of Tus
cumbia, and N. O. Redd, st Florence,
are building new hotel here.
SHEFFIELD—R. A. Fuller, 45,
is killed instantly at Cherokee by
auto driven by Hogue Sherrod, of
Cherokee.
MOBILE.—Gen. B. M. Houghton,
commander of Alabama division of
United Confederate veterans, will
wield gavel made from keel of Con
federate battleship, Merrimac, at
opening of annual session of Ala
bama Confederates here, October 22.
FLORENCE. R. N. Martin,
young man employed at Wilson
Dam, loses his balance and falls 100
feet, causing instant death.
ANNISTON. —Horde of hungry
rats plays havoc with gold fish
colony in artificial fish pond by side
of city hall.
DECATL’R.—A? J? DeWitt, 85,
Confederate veteran, is robbed of
$182.50 while at Union station
here. Two negro women who as
sisted him in getting cup of coffee
are being held.
HUNTS VILLE.—AIma B. McCul
lom, 31, well-known farmer of
Moore's Mill, is dead.
IRONDALE.—M. S. Jones, 39, of
this place, dies in hospital in Bir
mingham, from wounds received
during raid on still near here.
HL’NTSVI LLE.—Prof. Alfred W.
Hodges, prominent educator of Madi
son county, dies at his home here,
at age of 60.
GREENSBORO. - M. Currie dies
at local hospital from typhoid fever.
His wife died few months ago.
FAIRFIELD. Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad company will
build new billet and sheet mill here,
and will turn out 12,000 tons of cot
ton ties annually.
MOBlLE.—Warrior river barge
line is bringing much Birmingham
steel here for shipment to foreign
ports.
ALBANY.—Some of departments
in L. & N. shops here are operating
day and night. Total of 1,800 men
are now employed in these shops.
SOUTH CAROLINA
SPARTANBURG. Thousands of
dollars’ worth of damage is done by
fire which rages all day, starting
in gasoline tank belonging to Black
burn Oil company.
COLUMBIA.—E. A. Davis, mer
chant, is robbed by gypsy, who
tries to tell fortune, but chase is
made and entire gypsy band is ar
rested at Aiken.
COLUMBIA.—StaIe charter Is
granted South Carolina Conserva
tion society, with James Henry Rice,
of Wiggins, as president.
CHARLESTON. • Four sailings
weekly instead of three are inaugu
rated between Charleston harbor and
Boston, New York and Jacksonville,
and weekly sailings between Charles,
ton and Miami are also instituted.
M AI.TERBORO.—WaIter Drawdv,
Jr., six years old. is killed, his body
being horribly mangled, by automo
bile driven by Miss Ida Folk, school
teacher. Little fellow ran in front
of car.
COLUMBIA. Southern railway
wins in law suit for SIOO,OOO, brought
by Mrs. Nellie Faust, whose husband,
John Faust, was killed when auto
in which he was riding driven by
another man, ran into freight train
at city crossing-.
COLUMBIA.—State convention of
men of Lutheran church vote to aid
in erection of new Lutheran church
at Rock Hill. Dr. George D. Cro
mer and Dr. S. J. Derrick, both of
Newberry, are elected delegates to
I nited Lutheran convention in Chi
cago.
SPARTANBURG.—Henry T. But
ler, prominent- cotton and fertilizer
dealer here, dies at winter home in
Orlando, Fla., age 70.
Bishopville;—d7-. John m
, Rhame sells thoroughbred coon
: hound to Mr. Miley, of Orrville. Ala..
' for what is said to be largest price
■ ever paid for dog in this state, figure
not disclosed.
COLUMBIA.—AII churches of city
tender receptions to young people
of state university, two colleges for
, women and two theological seini
i narles, totaling approximately three
1 thousand.
COLL MBIA. Seventeen mam
state highways are made impassable
as result of recent rains and are
closed to travel for weeks.
S\V\NSEA.-\v'r Hast, one of
Swansea's most prominent men, dir 8
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
while on hunting trip on Savannah
river. He was 63.
ROCK HlLL.—Helen and Wymojo
cotton mills resume full time opera
tion after part time schedule cover
ing weeks.
LEXINGTON.—.James E. Smith,
convicted of murder of F. R. Ma
son. traveling peddler, on Colum
bia-Lexington highway, appeals case
which resulted in life sentence.
Smith is former soldier.
CHARLESTON—Re v. Alexa nder
Rich, rector of St. John's Episcopal
church; Albert B. Brown, railway
conductor, and G. Fernandes, grocer,
while out fishing in boat, in Breach
inlet, are thrown into water when
boat careens against trestle. Brown
and Fernandes swim to shore, and
Rev. Rich is left clinging to boat
and later is rescued.
COLUMBIA. Baptist state, “com
mittee of 35” allocates funds to-be
raised by Baptists of state next year,
$1,100,000. Fifty-five per cent is al
located to state causes, SIOO,OOO to
state missions; $20,000 to B. Y. P. U.
and Sunday schools; $45,000 to Bap
tist hospital; $145,000 to Connie Max
well Orphanage: SIO,OOO for aged
minsters’ relief; $9,500 for Baptist
Courier; $39,500 for conservation ac
tivities: and $248,000 for educational
institutions.
AIKEN. Plans are made for an
nual convention of South Carolina
Asparagus Growers association, to
be held here October 9. with M. C.‘
Kitchens presiding. Last year, with
thirty members, association handled
$370,000 worth of asparagus.
COLUMBIA.—Judge W. H. Town
send hears and takes under advise
ment petition of fire insurance com
panies doing business in state for
permanent injunction against State
Insurance Commissioner J. J. Mc-
Mahan, to prohibit enforcement of
his order for discontinuance of
Southeastern Underwriters associa
tion and abolition of its rating bu
reau in Columbia.
SPARTANBURG. State Con
stable Sam Henry swears out war
rant against Joe Wilkerson, garage
owner, age 24, charging him with
housebreaking and larceny, in con
nection with rifling of safe in store
of Jess Brown, at Landrum.
GREENWOOD. —Sirs. E. S. F.
Giles, who died suddenly at home in
Clinton, is buried here, her former
home.
SPARTANBURG. Voters ap
prove bond issue of $1,350,000 for ex
tension of water system.
GREENWOOD—CI if for d O wdo m,
prominent, citizen of Meeting Street
section of Edgefield county, shoots
and kills Frank Logue, state game
warden, in Owdom’s stole, and is
released under $1,500 bond, ponding
trial. It is alleged Owdom’s life
was first threatened.
GAFFNEY Walter Childers,
fourth of six convicts to escape
from county jail here, is captured
in Cherokee Fails Manufacturing
company store, at 1 o’clock in morn
ing, discovered by night watchman.
COLUMBIA. Governor McLeod
makes public appeal to voters of
state by William J. Bryan for full
vote at November 4 election.
CLEMSON COLLEGE Regis
Princess, Jersey cow, proves re
markable producer, with 704.93
pounds of butter fat and 14,901
pounds of milk in 365 days.
OLAR —Mrs. Mary Rebecca, Hart
zog, 72, one of leading women of
community, dies at home of daugh
ter, Mrs. B. B. Langley, in Laurens.
TIMMONSVILLBI~- R. Keith
Charles, local insurance agent,
makes world record in number of
policies written in month, with total
of 235 policies, amounting to $410,-
000.
SPARTANBURG—W. S. Barstow
interests, recent purchasers of utili
ties here, restore street ear service,
after several months of motor bus
transportation.
COLUMBIA Humbert Gamble
and Joe Johnson, negroes. begin
serving long sentences in state peni
tentiary. Gamble 30 years for mur
der, and Johnson 40 years for at
tempted criminal assault. Both are
from Clarendon county.
CONWAY.—Philip H. Arrowsmith,
of counsel for state in prosecution
of Edmund Bigham, charged with
murder of mother, brother, sister and
sister’s two children, calls Mendal L.
Smith, of defense counsel, liar, and
blows follow. Court fines each $25,
and reprimands them.
ESTILL. I —PIant of Estill Enter
prise and Fertilizer company is de
stroyed by fire, entailing loss of
$200,000.
ROCK HILL.— People’s National
bank here publishes estimate that
South Carolina cotton crop will not
exceed 600,000 bales this year. Last
year’s state yield was 793,600 bales.
GAFFNEY.— W. A. Kennett, re
cently jailed for operating car with
out license tag. is tried on charge
of stealing auto plate from car
owned by Yank Sarratt, colored, but
he is acquitted.
COLUMBIA.—South Carolina Cot
ton Growers’ Co-operative associa
tion increases initial advance on
short staple cotton from 12 cents
pound to 15 cents.
’ OLUMBTA.—Dr. W. D. Melton,
president of University of S. C.. is
named chairman of state committee
in charge of “Golden Rule Sunday”
of Near East relief.
SP ART ANBL’RG.— Announcement
is made that Textile Industrial insti
tute will he sold at auction October
to satisfy indebtedness of $307,-
NORTH CAROLINA
RALEIGH.—New requisition pa
pars, with warrants charging escape
fiom criminal insane ward and as
sault with intent to kill, are sent to
California governor by Governor
Morrison in effort tn obtain retun
to this state of Dr. ,T. w. Peacock,
slayer, formerly of Thomasville.
LEXINGTON. —Davidson county's
annual four-day fair is cancelled as
result of incessant rainfall, which
r<nderefl roads of county almost im
l>assable.
RALEIGH.—Low bids amounting
to about $1,454,344 for construction
of nearly 100 miles of roadway are
submitted to state highway commis
sion, 52 firm.- biddins: on ten proj
ects.
GREE N S BOR O. —J a mes Wa ycast
er, of Reidsville, steel worker, and
Fritz Deitrick, of South Richmond.
A a., bricklayer, are instantly killed
when they fell 225 feet from top of
smokestack of new heating plan:
at North Carolina College for Wom
en. They had volunteered tn place
bronze ornament on top of stack
just completed
M ILSON.—Bernard P. Vaden, Jr.,
of Richmond. Va., is drowned near
Rocky Mount when thrown from au
to into swollen stream in Johnma
Fee swamp. Car struck abutment
of bridge that had been washed
away.
GOLDSBORO.—Southern railway’s
steel and concrete bridge across Lit
tile River, one mile west of here col
lapses under pressure of flood wa-
ters. carrying with it three cars
loaded with coal and one with stone,
this being the first large bridge of
railway to give way in early Octo
ber flood.
GOLDSBORO. Damage mount
ing into many thousands of dollars
is caused in Wayne and other neigh
boring counties by Hood waters of
Little river and Neuse river. Oper
ation of trains between Goldsborj
and Smithfield issuspended.
ASHEVILLE. —Plans for inaugu
ration of bus service auxiliary to
street railways in numerous towns
of this state and South Carolina ate.
discussed at conference of public
utility companies’ officials, who ad
mit auto bus has become important
competitor.
EI.ON COLLEGE. —Carlton library
building, representing gift of SIOO,-
000 to Elon college from Carlton
family, is dedicated. Dr. Louis R.
Wilson, of Chapel Hill, delivering ad
dress. Donors of building are P. J.
Carlton, Richmond, Va.; Herbert
Carlton, Raleigh, N. C.,; Luther
Carlton, Kinston, N. C.; Mrs. T. E.
Parrott, Newnan, Ga., who were
present.
MADISON. —Thousands of acres of
corn in fertile bottom lands of Dan
river are destroyed when river rises
higher in early October flood than
at any time since 1912.
GOLDSBORO. —Neuse river rises
to 35-foot stage, washing away sev
eral bridges on Atlantic Coast Line,
and trains to Wilmington are routed
byway of Wilson and Fayetteville.
HENDERSON— T. S. Kendrick,
negro, is arrested at Greystone, near
here, on bench warrant charging
murder, sworn out by Sheriff J. C.
Plunkett, of Augusta, Ga.
CHARLOTTE. Action is insti
tuted in Mecklenburg county superior
court by American Trust company,
of Charlotte, against Thomas J.
Payne, former industrial bank offi
cer and realtor, whose whereabouts
is unknown, to recover $17,650 due
on notes and $5,200 on dishonored
checks cashed by Security Savings
bank, of which trust company is re
ceiver.
GREENSBORO.—Mrs. Mary J.
Kellam, 65, dies at home week aft
er suffering stroke of paralysis.
ASHEVILLE.—Dr. Morgan P.
Moorer, former chief of surgical serv
ice at Oteen veterans’ hospital, is
chosen health officer for Buncombe
county, succeeding Dr. R. G. Wilson,
resigned.
LEXINGTON. —American nation
is “being ruined by office-holding
oligarcy,” says United States Sen
ator Overman. Democrat, of North
Carolina, opening party’s campaign
in this section. He says there are
175,000 more federal employes now
than in 1915 and salaries have been
increased by $168,000,000 annually.
WINSTON-SALEM. Business
property occupied by Fletcher Broth
ers is sold to H. E. Fries and asso
ciates for SIOO,OOO by L. M. White
and others, of Greensboro.
DUNN.—Historical pageant depict
ing life and progress of this part of
state from time of settlement of Roa
noke Island in 1587 will be presented
at Four County fair here, October
7-10, and is expected to be unique
feature in annals of fairs in state.
Miss Ethel Theodora Blackwell, of
University of North Carolina univer
sity extension division, is author.
RALEIGH.—Program of legisla
tion to lie advocated before 1925 ses
sion of legislature, developed at joint
conference of representatives of sev
en women's organizations of state,
include eight-hour day for children
14 to 16 years of age, privacy in
voting; farm colony for women crim
inals; publication of “marriage
plans’’; and amendments to educa
tion laws.
ELKIN. —Robert L. Poindexter, 62,
one of town’s best known citizens,
dies after several weeks’ illness. He
V.as building contractor and brick
manufacturer.
WlLSON.—Tobacco board of trade
formally all important buying
companies to send additional buyers
here, owing to tremendous offerings
and inability of buyers present to
meet demands. Sales daily, however,
mount above 1,500,000-pound mark.
RALEIGH. —Investigation of “bad
heck evil” discloses that one large
b <nk reported handling of average of
200 bad checks daily.
WINSTON-SALEM. Representa
tives of Southern, Norfolk & Western
and Southbound railways, in confer
ence, pass on architect’s plans for
city’s new SBOO,OOO union station,
three-story structure. Plans will be
submitted to contractors and work
started as soon thereafter as pos
sible.
CHARLOTTE.—Ford Motor com
pany begins construction of $500,-
000 electric power plant, equipped
with oil-burning turbine engines,
which will provide 2,500 horse-power
of electrical energy for $1,500,000
manufacturing plant recently placed
in operation. Southern Power com
pany, meanwhile, is furnishing pow
er.
WILSON.—With average price of
$21.20 per hundredweight, total sales
on Wilson’s tobacco market reached
14,087,892 pounds on September 27,
new high record for season to that
date, according to compilation of rec
ords. City holds record as world's
greatest tobacco market. Indica
tions are sales for this year will ex
ceed 1923 total.
CHARLOTTE.—FaiIure of New
England textile industry in former
years to provide against undesirable
living conditions for employes, re
sulting in influx of foreign labor, is
important factor which hastened de
velopment of textile industry in
south, favored by homogenous pop
ulation, says D. M. C. Crawford, of
New York, editor of Daily News
Record, in address.
G R EEN’ SBO RO.- W. N. Everett,
of Raleigh, secretary of state, ac
cepts invitation to deliver address at
Founders’ day exercises at North
Carolina College for Women. Octo
ber 5, Dr. J. 1. Foust, president, an
nounces.
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’ LINCOLNTON. —Carl Lippurd, no-'
■ torious bootlegger, wanted in Cataw- ■
! ba county, where it is alleged he was !
j involved in sensational contests with '
I officers, is arrested here after his !
| car collides with one driven by Sher- [
i iff Abernethy, both cars being de- '
molished.
RALEIGH.—Audrey Trent, aged [
11, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W.
Trent, is fatally injured when auto- |
mobile being towed by wrecking
truck breaks away and crushes her
against curb, where she was stand
ing awaiting opportunity to cross
street. William Gibson, negro, is
arrested.
ROCKINGHAM. — Richmond coun- '
ty's old court house is sold for sl. to [
B. F. Palmer, highest bidder. [
Building must be removed before De- I
I cember 2, when construction of new
$250,000 court house will be started.
BURLINGTON. Noah Smith, |
! young white man, and David Day,
i negro driver, are seriously injured'
when motor truck is demolished by
passenger train.
| FRANKLINVILLE. Lew i s
[ Franklin Fentriss, 60, postmaster,
formerly connected with textile in
dustry, dies after long illness. He
I was for 26 years master of Masonic
lodge here.
MURFREESBORO. — seven-
I tv-seventh session of Chowan college !
j well underway, plans are being rap- !
idly developed for celebration of
founder's day, October 16.
GREENSBORO. —Berkeley Hum- !
! pbries, 20, of Virgilina, Va., is i
‘ crushed to death against tree by I
i truck cranked in gear at construe- *
' tion camp near Randelman.
RALEIGH. —During five-year pe- [
| riod, beginning in 1918, North Caro-1
WILBUR SPILLED THE BEANS ]
ABOUT THE ARMS PARLEY,
JOSEPHUS DANIELS ASSERTS
Secretary Can’t Be Blamed, Former Cabinet Official
Says, Because Conference Results Left Such a
Gross Inequality The y Couldn’t Be Hidden
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BY JOSEPHUS DANIELS
(Secretary of the Navy in Wilson’s
Cabinet.)
RALEIGH, N. C., Oct. B.—Secre
tary Wilbur let the cat out of the j
bag.
The prize conundrum of last
month was: Why was the secretary
■of the navy summoned from the
: Pacific coast post haste by President
’ Coolidge, the summons being so im
j portant that the secretary made part
' of the trip in a flying machine?
For some days there have been ex
planations that do not explain- It
J was first reported that Wilbur had ;
j been talking too much about the
; Japanese and he was to receive a
j rebuke. That may have been partly
responsible because, after talking at
i length of the Japanese he said:
j ‘‘The navy is of particular impor
j tance to the Pacific coast because
i of the belief that the last acts of
i the drama of civilization will occur
j in and around the Pacific ocean,”
I and ‘‘marching hosts of two civiliza-
I tions stand face to face across the
Pacific,” adding that the basing of
, a. fleet in that ocean ‘‘would be a
i deterrent against hasty, passionate
! and ill-advised attack and conflict,”
and he closed his address, after
I pleasant reference to the Japanese,
'by saying: “There is nothing so cool
! ing to a hot temper as a piece of
; cold steel.” As a matter of fact, since
; the Washington conference by an
■ agreement not to fortify any Ameri-
I can territory in the Pacific the Far
East has been turned over to the
i Japanese. There is no hope of keep
! ing the open door or any other pol
icy in the Far East, and a. navy
I without bates would be worth little
: in the Pacific.
The formal statement given out
was that the hurried flight of the
secretary of the navy was to discuss
: the “budget.” There is some truth
■ in that, but I doubt if the public
really understands the significance
■ of the "budget” discussion.
Wilbur Spilled Beans
The domestic reason Wilbur was
called to the capital was that he had
j “let the cat out of the bag’’ prema
turely. President Coolidge recently
i told us that the ’Washington confer
! ence was “sublime" and for months
the people have been fed up on the
j miracle worked by that 5-5-3 caba
listic gathering. If the Washington
conference was a failure, to which
other achievement could the adminis
tration point?
Mr. Wilbur's estimates disproved
the rhetorical claims for the Wash
ington conference and showed that
all the big pretensions of the good
it had done were mere bunk. Oh, no,
the secretary did not say so. On the 1
contrary, the day before he received '
the Come-At-Once call he had praised I
the Washington conference because ,
it had saved $220,000,000 by junking I
the dreadnaughts under construction.
’ That sounds like a big pile of money.
I But if he had told of the millions
‘ required to make the American navy
! come up to the ratio, the saving
I would have shrunk.
He dia not tell the people that
i the United States had by the Wash
' ington conference done three things
Jof which no American should be
proud. The Washington confer- :
ence—
1. Surrendered the supremacy of I
! the sea to Britain. The British navy j
was left with large battle cruisers '
when the five being built for the j
United States were scrapped. We I
have none. The British far outnum- j
ber us in light cruisers.
2. Surrendered the supremacy of I
the air to France. France has 174 j
air squadrons while the United States j
has 25. France has over three times |
as many as Britain and her superior- j
ity in Europe was 5 to 1.
3. Surrendered the supremacy of '
the Far East and the Pacific to 1
Japan.
Nobody-was allowed to speak about I
the navy in the Washington con- i
ference except Secretary Hughes. I
who does not know anything about !
it. He believes, and his proposal i
proved it, that the standing of navies ■
is represented by the dreadnaught. I
The secretary of the navy was not j
even allowed to serve on any com- '
mittee at the Washington confer- ;
ence and the naval officers with I
knowledge were muzzled. Hughes •
was the whole business when naval ;
matters were discussed. The navy '
department was swallowed up by the ;
state department. Everybody ex- |
cept Hughes knows that naval ,
strength depends upon various units, '
aircraft, submarines, fast cruisers |
and others as well as dreadnaughts.
Indeed, there are able naval states
men who believe the dreadnaught is
more of a liability than an asset, and
yet it was the only naval force that ;
received any consideration at the j
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 0, 1924.
i lina. has increased standard high
j schools for both races from 78 to
[409; enrollment from 23,665 to 75,-
[681; number of graduates annually
, from 2,040 to 8,829; teachers from j
11,172 to 3,265, and, for negroes, high I
■ schools from none to 14, according I
to review by A. T. Allen, state su-’
I perintendent of public instruction.
LUMBERTON.—Grand jury in- '
| quiry of alleged improper adminis-i
tration of convict camp results in j
resignation of Camp Foreman H. L.
Hatchell.
SANFORD. — While playing with
group of companions, daughter, aged
13, of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Matthews
| is sliot in neck with small rifle, bul-;
■ let causing painful but not serious!
| wound.
GREENSBORO—Ambrose Allen, •
I instructor at. negro agricultural and I
'technical college, dies in hospital of!
i injuries sustained in automobile ac-1
I cident.
ASHEVILLE.—Mrs? Anna M.
Chisholm, 85, dies few days after
being injured when automobile, skid-1
ding on wet pavement, knocks her!
to pavement. Police declare accident ■
unavoidable.
ASHEVILLE. —Establishment of i
branch laboratory of state board of I
health in western North Carolina, ■
■ recommendation for training of mid- j
| wives and election of Dr. Louis G. i
■ Bell as president, are principal ac- '
tions of Tenth District Medical so-1
ciety in semi-annual convention at i
i Black Mountain.
GREENSBORO—North Carolina I
! executive committee of La Follette-!
! for-president movement begins sale i
!of “emancipation bonds” in denomi- [
■ nations of from $1 to SIOO, as means |
[of raising campaign fund for inde- :
(pendent ticket. I
Washington conference. Since then i
1 the United States instead of being !
j on a 5-5-3 ratio, is as to most units ;
| below the British navy.
How did Wilbur let the cat out ot
j the bag? He and his naval advisers I
i had made estimates for money to ;
[ bring the navy up to equality with ■
the navy of Britain in sea craft, ■
up to France in aircraft and up to !
Japan in fast cruisers. That esti- j
mate if it were animate would speak
and say. “The Washington confer
ence gave supremacy over the United
States to other nations. You must
have all the money you claimed to
have saved to bring us up to equality,
or advertise that the claims made
were not based upon facts.”
Ot course neither Secretary Wil- [
bur nor his naval advisers wished !
to get in bad by proclaiming the in- j
creasing comparative weakness of i
our navy, particularly during a po
i litical campaign when the leading s
[ claims of their superiors was that [
I the Washington conference had per- '
! f ormed wonders. But the law required
[ the estimates to be furnished to the ■
i budget committee. The law had to .
1 be obeyed.
I It is probable Secretary Wilbur
I did not know' his estimates would
be published during the campaign,
or if published would become an
issue or create a campaign sensa
tion. But he could not do otherwise
than ask for the money to equip
the navy so it would be the equal
of any other. He was very con
servative. If the navy of the United
States i« made equal to that of Brit
ain’s on the sea and France in the
air, we must spend the $220,000,000
the boosters of the Washington con
ference say we have saved. Even
with the inferiority, the United
States is spending today twice as
much on its navy as Wilson spent
in 1915. The only way to really re
duce expenses for navy and army
is an international agreement to re
mit national differences to an inter
national tribunal. The attempt to do
so by such half-baked arrangements
as were made in Washington will
prove ineffective.
Wilbur Is Right
I wish to take up the cudgels in
behalf of Secretary Wilbur if he is
in danger of getting in bad for let
ting the cat out of the bag. As sec- ’
retary of the navy it was his duty
to make estimates to make our navy
as good as that of any other navy
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RALEIGH. —Minister Forrester, of
British department of agriculture,
visits headquarters of Co-operative
Tobacco and Cotton Growers’ •asso
ciations. Coming unheralded, For
rester says his visit is solely for pur
pose of studying, co-operative selling
methods.
ASHEVILLE—L. C. English is
arrested after car containing 75 gal
lons of liquor is seized and officers
begin search for Jack Reed, recently
paroled by Governor Morrison as too
sick to work on roads. Reed is son
of former federal prohibition agent
and has rum-running record in
courts.
KINSTON. —Temporary injunction
! to prevent sale of tobacco on open
I market by number of Kinston and
! Trenton merchants is dissolved by
! Judge O. H. Allen, who criticizes Co
! operative Tobacco Growers’ associa
! tion, plaintiff, as apparently endeav
! oring to “hold up and cripple” rather
■ than to be seeking to promote prof
‘ itable or timely sale,
RALEIGH. Nathan Holleman,
■ seventy-five, of Apex, visitor, dies in
i judge’s room at Wake county court-
I house few minutes after blood ves
i sei in brain is ruptured.
WINSTON-SALEM—LocaI central
' labor union falls in line with state
! and American federations of labor
! when candidacies of La Follette and
j Wheeler, independents, are indorsed,
i Vigorous campaign in behalf of this
! ticket is launched.
SOUT HPORT.— Docket of Bruns
! wick county superior court term
[ opening September 29 includes cases
[ against C. W. Stewart and son, El
[ mer, charged with murder July 29
I near Phoenix of Detective Leon
! George, of Wilmington, and Deputy
I Federal Marshal Sam Lilly.
|in the world. If in so doing he
[ dispreved the big claims for the in
. effective Washington conference, he
! should not be blamed. The fault is
i in the failure of the conference to
I secure the equality of which it
■ boasted.
As a matter of fact, in suggesting
i another conference on reduction of
! armaments President Coolidge and
! the Republican convention admitted
that the Washington conference had
1 failed, at least in jYart. And in his
estimates Secretary Wilbur only gave
figures showing what all naval ex
perts know.
But “letting the cat out of the
i bag” in the midst of a political cam
, paign required that he be muzzled
i for a time —at least.
Glenn Young, Former
Klan Raider, Helps m
Marion Rum Seizure
■ MARION, 111., Oct. 6—S. Glenn
I Young, former Ku Klux Klan liquor
raider, participated in his first raid
in Williamson county in many
months last Saturday, it was learned
today. The raid was led by Consta
ble Frank Roberts, of Herrin.
“Dollie” York was arrested for al
leged possession of “white mule.”
She was taken to Benton Sunday to
I file bond in federal court.
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