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X GREENSBORO, N. C„ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1919. VOL. 98. NO. 89
-»TION IS
>, BY SENATE.
THE
Wasu . 5.—The ap-pointment
.epresentative E.
Yates Webb h. federal judge for
the western district of North Caro-lina
was confirmed by the senate
late this afternoon by unanimous
lanta, N«v- *■—In announcing ( vote The news of the confirmation
- southern home in Snelby in a telegram of
congratulations trom Senator Lee S.
Overman. t
It is very likely that Mr. Webb
will tender his resignation as the
representative from the ninth dis-trict
in the lower house to Governor
Bickett tomorrow, and notify Speak-er
Gillett, of the house, that he has
T.TKMK>T ISSUED BY
OiTllKR* REGIONAL COAL
COMMITTEE.
^ointment of the committee wa8 COnveyed to Judge Webb at his
alloTtins coal in the
n of the railroad administra-
^1 to-da". Regional Director Win-
„i| stated that "the situation is
e,l in hand and there is no cause
(or a!"1""'-
There .
wnce with the normal operation
probably will be no inter-eSsential
utilities and industries,
1 Statement added. A survey is resigned.
Deins «de to determine exactly the j Judge Webb ,8 expected t0 pre.
amo" •>' coal avai,ab,e- Seizure side at the session of Federal court
ot c,. by the railroad administra- ] ,n AsnevUle next Veek. Spedy con
,io» «*» orders from Washm8ton j firmation nad been urged ,n order tc
alrf, v has begun. The commit- a„ow the new jurigt to lmmediater
let vhich was appointed to-day, ,y assume his new outles
;0Ho»s: j The oath of office is expected to
K R. smith, traffic ass.stant to ^ uken Jn North Carol,na Dy Judge
Ai r»|ioiK«l director, chairman; S. Webb Re w.„ return tQ Washlng..
L tato5. of Birmingham, represen- ^ dnring ^ ^^ ^^ rf ^
,aIivf of the national fuel adminls- I week tQ c,ose ^ ^ affaira in ^
lraH.r:F.H. Fechtig. chairman of; house The ^ judge wJJJ ^
tinue to make his home at Shelby.
The appointment of Mr. Webb as
MONDAY'S SITUATION IN
THE GOAL MINER'S STRIKE
SUGAR BEING HOARDED
ON SHIPS IN HARBOR
SUMMARY OP THE SITUATION IN SUGAR IS CLAIMED TO BELONG
NUMBER OP THE WESTERN-DISTRICTS.
Washington, Nov. 3.—The first
break among union miners occurred
to-day in the northern West Vir-
TO CANADIAN REFINING
COMPANY.
New York. Nov. 4.—Federal Food
Administrator Arthur Williams,
continuing his hunt for hoarders of
ginia fields, according to a message' and profiteers in sugar, yesterday
from Huntington late to-day to' discovered a Wall Street broker, H.
Washington headquarters of the up-i D. Goecker, who has 13,440,000
erators. In that district 15 mines pounds of raw sugar on ships in
were reported in operation.
,,,«, regional purchasing conimlt-tw;
j. T. King, operating assistant;
Horace Epes. special ass.stant to the an adduional judge wag made UQ.
ftwtor. and C. W. Lamb, staff offl- ; def ^ provlsions of tbe Carlin act
,llintant in the d.rector* of. follow,ng ^ requegt of Judge
James E. Boyd that another jurist
be appointed.
The nomination and confirmation
of Judge Wbb sets a record
So*.
Statement issued.
Tne following statement was is-med
tonight by the Southern re-cional
coal committee:
•In accordance with the govern-ment's
plans to prevent industrial.
.Mlnb and suffering among the *"<* he w held anq a testimonial
' ople as a result of the coal min-!»""s ability.
Government Holding 15,000 Care
Coal.
Pittsburgh, Nov. 3.—No le3s than
15,000 cars of coal were on side-tracks
in the Pittsburgh district to-night,
confiscated by the govern-ment
for use, should the coal strike
continue, for the operation of rail-roads
and essential industries.
Union mines generally were clos-ed,
in spite of the fact that whistles
were blown and the pits kept open
for such of the strikers as desired
to return to work.
Non-union miners held about the
same position in the struggle as
was expected when the strike was
called, it being conceded, that most
of them were in operation with the
usual working forces.
OPINIONS OP SUPREME COURT
IN SEVERAL LOCAL CASES.
Union Miners Solid in the Illinois.
the harbor. 1,000 tons of which he
had offered for sale at 11 1-2 cents
a pound, an illegal profit ot more
than 4 cents a pound.
When Mr. Williams called the
broker on the telephone yesterday
afternoon and told him that he was
profiteering, Goecker assumed a de-fiant
attitude. He informed Mr.
| Williams that the sugar was owned
by the St. Lawrence Refining Com-
I pany, of Canada, and that as it did
(not come under the control of the
I United States sugar equalization
• board it was permissible to sell it
j here at any price.
I Mr. Williams replied that the atj
torney general's office was now de-ciding
what cases consisted of prof-i
iteering and that under the Lever
act it could bring a conviction with [
two years' imprisonment or a $5,-
000 fine, or both.
He advised Goecker to communi-cate
with the St. Lawrence Refining
Springfield, 111., Nov. 3.—Opera- Company, to apprise it of the seri-in
| tors admitted reluctantly here to- j ous sugar shortage here, and to
Washington for speedy actoin, and I night claims of strike leaders that | urge it to sell the sugar at a reason-is
an evidence of the esteem in
>rs' strike, all coal in transit on the
railroads and which may be mined
has been taken ov«r by the United
States fuel administration and will
b» distributed to the public as need-ed
in accordance with the prefer-
CITIZENSHIP IS REFUSED
FIVE FOREIGN MINERS.
Pittsburgh, Nov. 5.—Non-union
coal mines in the Pittsburgh district
• nco list of the fuel administration are gaining in man power daily and
m pft'ect after May 1, 1918. | production reached the 100 per
■Because of the impracticability j cent mar kto-day. according to re-
«! re-establish::,-; immediately the j ports issued tonight at headqnar-tasf
organization operated by the : ters of the Pittsburgh Coal Opera-h'l
administration curing the war. i tors' Association. The operators
•lie task has been assumed, under j also announced that many miners.
ilW authority of the United States j employed in union mines, continued
I (KI administration, uy the director j to secfc employment in the non-
5««al of railroads, who will make union workings.
[distribution through regional com-] union leaders had no figure to
littees in each of the seven regions i Rjve ou to-day. but they continued
into which the railroad operations ; t0 maintain that the striking min-are
divided under government con- ers were holding their ground.
Five striking coal miners appear-ed
in United States district court
here to-day. seeking citizenship pa-pers.
Judge Charles P. Orr refus-ed
to grant them the right to citi-zenship.
He declared that the gov-ernment
had ruled :nat the coal
wmber representing the fuel ad- j strjke is illegal and added that
liaistrator. j "you could not faithfully take the
"Th<. southern region committee , oarh of 8ueB|aace ilnd remain on
«•• appointed to-day by Regional j str|ke nnd^r existing oircum-
Rwtor R. L. Wiuchell. and began j stances."
w function at once.
I ml
"There will be a central commit-
» at Washington which will co-or-
Uinate the efforts of the regional
l»r;anizations. On _*ch of the com-jtittees.
in addition to the railroad
Irepresentatives, there will be a
Monday, the first real test day of j aDie profit.
the bituminous coal miners' strike: Would Remove Sugar.
in Illinois, was a success from the j within half an hour Goecker call-mine,
workers' standpoint. I ed Mr. Williams on the telephone.
No attempts were made by the He said that he hae? communicated
operators to-day to mine coal. No
success attended efforts of the oper-ators
of the O'Gara mine here to re-sume
operations in response to an
order from the quartermaster gen-eral's
office that government con-tracts
be filled.
At a public meeting in the San-with
his Canadian principals and
that they had instructed him to ship
the 13,440,000 pounds of sugar
back to Canada if they could not
get the price they wanted for it.
"I think your duty is to get in
touch with yiur principals again,
and advise 1Wra to put the sugar
cussed.
"This committee will be in almost I'otton Jumps SI5 Rale.
MMinuous session throughout the
aereency, making its headquarters
lathe railroad administrations of-
|bw. I216 Healy Building, Atlan-
|b.Go.
"Actual distribution of coal will
y° conducted throughout the region
p railroad officials on the ground.
|-Ul need* „f private consumers, util-
**ai;l industries should be pre-
'"'•i through Hie local officials of
" railroads serving them." t
"Enuiish coal will be supplied to
immediate needs.
A survey of thfi situation to de-ftnini'
how much coal is at the ,
|»inniit!....'s disposal now and what'
L * may be expected from | conditions and expectation
Schools Closing Account of
Shortage.
Lincoln. Neb., Nov. 3.—Reports
received here indicate a shortage of
fuel in several Nebraska towns. A
letter to Governor Samuel R. McKel-vie.
from Venango, in the western
part of the state, said schools would
have to close there unless a
shipment held up in Colorado is re-ceived.
Schools at Marsland. Neb.,
closed Wednesday.
Shuts Out Montana Children.
Billings, Mont., Nov. 3.—Billings
•lues miiiuing In operation, is in
When that has been com-
•tie committee will be in po-
1!l to proceed less cautionsly
*• 'b work.
**f the present at least appli-
.**» for coal should be made
* by Ihflse utilities and indus-r*
»hich have less than two n*s s«l>ply on hand.
'**' Tobacco at 94 Pound.
^iKhr-rn fines. Nov. 5.—Last
' the Aberdeen warehouse 24
hmfS °f ,<,!,acro grown by J. W.
«... ' "f Ml>nley. sold for $96,
Jf " a pound,
-ure exceeds
New York. Nov. 5.—Ther was a
very active and excited advance in
the cotton market here to-day with
January deliveries selling at 37.50
or $5.50 a bale above the closing
price of Monday and all months
making new high records.
Trade and commission house in-terests
were both heavy buyers ow-ing
to the sensational strength • of
Liverpool over the local holiday,
frost in the southwest and reports j
of a continued scramble for the bet- j
ter grades of white cotton in the
south.
A more favorable view of labor
of in-creased
exports were contributing
factors, but the close showed reac-tions
under realizing promoted by
the higher call money rates. Jan- j establishing "military
uary closed at 37.43 with the mar- I throughout Wyoming,
ket barely steady at a net gain of
59 to 85 points for the day.
gamon court house here tonight | on the market at a fair price." Mr.
government injunction" was dis- Williams told him. "This action is
outrageous, and is not fair treat-ment
of the New York public. Don't
Coal j you understand that you will ap-pear
tomorrow before the New York
people as the worst kind of a prof-iteer?
"Now that you're cought in a
profiteering deal you want to take
the sugar out of the harbor and
back to Canada, although New York
roar'is starvlnB 'or sugar and its lack is
keeping thousands out of work.
"If I can prevent it, you will not
withdraw a pound of this sugar
from the city. I will ask the de-partment
of justice to commandeer
all of it if necessary."
Goecker broke in at thsi point In
the conversation to say that the Ca-nadian
government might have
something to say if the United
States tried to take the sugar.
Broker Angers Williams.
"I don't believe the Canadian gov-ernment
would back you up in a
profiteering deal of this kind," Mr.
Williams replied hotly. "We will
let the people of Canada know, too.
how you have been trying to prof-iteer."
Goecker suggested that he would
Raleigh. Nov. 5.—Forsyth county
rioters and near-Iync}iers who (fid
their devilment in Winston-Salem*
and paid the fiddler for the dance in
Surry, get Supreme court license to
meditate in prison, the appeals to-day
affirming the lower court.
Greensboro College for Women
loses its defense against the Guil-ford
Lumber Manufacturing Com-pany
and others who sought to pre-vent
the college from fixing a $4r-
S00 liability which the college has
paid, on the surety of the contrac-tor
who built a dormitory. The
court reveres the judgment below
for two strong reasons, holding that
the contract was religiously carried
out by the lumber company and the
fact that the college paid a differ-ence
to a third party who did not
turn it over, saddles no liability on
Armfleld, the surety of Holladay,
the contractor. "It cannot recover
for its wrongful payment of the
surety," the court says.
John W. Moon, bigamist of
Greensboro, likewise loss his appeal
which was a plea in abatement up-on
the ground that the bigamous
marriage took place in Buncombe
county where he had the right to
be tried.
The court holds against the con-tention
that gibamous cohabitation
does not itself furnish the offense.
Indeed. Judge Hoke, speaking in an-other
case wherein he is quoted to-day,
declares he "does not see why
the state should not declare that the
coming into the state and the cohab-iting
together by a party after a
bigamous marriage in another state,
a felony and pnishable as such."
The Landis Christmas Savings
Bank selling a Christmas savings
copyright to the Merchants' Nation-
1 Bank, of Winston-Salem, must go
into another trial sifTce the court up-sets
the lower court's judgment
arising from allegations of breached
contract and a sale of a device
which neither was copyrighted nor
even a device.- The Forsyth bank
was to pay $100 annually for five
years.
SOME GOAL MIMES ARE
BEING RE-OPENED
LARGE NUMBERS OF MINERS
READY TO RESUME WORK.
BUT ARE AFRAID.
Colorado Miners Agree to Resume
Work.
Denver. Colo.. Nov. 3—The Black
Diamond, a mine in Boulder county,
employing 50 men, resumed work at
full capacity this afternoon when
operators and mine union officials
agreed upon a settlement whereby
operators will give such wage in-creases
as are later made effective in
eastern fields.
schools will not open tomorrow be-1 |ike to have an interview with the
cause of the coal famine due to the . {ood administrator,
strike of miners, it was planned to-1 .., do„.t want to interview you.
day. More than 4.000 pupils and 120 , Mr Goecker." said Mr. Williams,
teachers are affected. j ..j consider your whole attitude and
that of your principals disgraceful."
Mines Are Under Military Rule.
Sheridan. Wyo.. Nov. 3.—At the
direction of Brig. Gen. D. A. Poore.
commandant of Fort D. A. Russell,
proclamations were posted to-day in
all northern Wyoming coal camps
control"
he added, hanging up the receiver.
UNION HEAD SAYS UNCLE
SAM SHOULD FORCE PEACE.
Woman Sleeping to Death.
New York, Nov. 4.—Mrs. Dora
Cashacton. O.. Nov. 3.—That the
government should compel the min-
I ers and operators to get together
"The proclamation stated that the' and settle the points at issue in the
various instrumentalities of civil nationwide coal miners' strike is the
law and authority will continue in belief of William Green, secretary-operation
"in so far as they may be treasurer of the United Mine Work-able
to exercise functions." «" ot America and right hand man
of John L. Lewis, the acting presi-dent.
"The practical, reasonable and
Laredo. Texas, Nov. 4.—Details common sense way to settle this
were received here of an attack by strike would be for the government
Bandit Robs Train.
Mlntz, who has been sleeping con-tinuously
since October 5, is not ex-pected
to live. Physicians attend-ing
her reported to-day that she I*
constantly growing weaker and that' Mexican bandits on a train en route to use whatever moral and legal
I pric
This phenom-the
unusually
0» ,|
" »t the Comer brothers.
■•Kht pounds at Carthage
a Pound. So far this seems
in
little hope is held for her recovery
from the "sleeping sickness."
-hest price recorded
id no of!
Crowding the Moore county
•• and other market seems
j minister at London has been author- bed.
ized to announce the adhesion of The bandits were
'Chile to the league of nations, the have been commanded by General
! state department was advised offi- Malagon. apparently a newcomer in
I daily to-day.
from Guadelajara to Mexico City power it may possess in compelling
early Saturday near Celaya. state of the coal operators and mine work-
Guanajualo. in which all but 11 of ers' representatives to meet in Joint
the 40 guards were killed, many conference for the purpose of nego-tiating
an agreement." said Mr.
Green this afternoon. "In my opin-ion."
he continued, "this plan would
succeed, and in the interest of the
public welfare it ought to be follow-ed.
Chile For l.i-:i«ue of Nations.
Washington. Nov. 4—The Chilean' passengers wouncted and all rob-declared
to
1 the bandit field.
REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR IS
PRAISED BY PRESIDENT,
Washington, Nov. 5.—President
Wilson from his sick bed to-day tel-egraphed
Governor Calvin Coolidge,
of Massachusetts, congratulating
him on his re-election, which the
President had said was a "victory
for law and order."
The telegram follows:
"Hon. Calvin Coolidge. Boston.
Mass.
"I congratulate you upon your
election as a victory for law and or-der.
When that is the issue all
Americans stand together.
"WOODROW WILSON."
White House attaches said this
probably was the first time in his-tory
that a President had congratu-lated
a candidate of the opposite
party on his election to office.
Administration officers shared the
President's view. They said Gover-nor
Coolidge's sweeping victory
should go far to encourage officials
Washington. Nov. 3.—Official
Washington was firm in the belief
tonight that the end of the coal
strike was near.
There was nothing definite or tan-gible
in the way of actual develop-ments
to justify this hopeful View
ot the situation, but everywhere
feeling prevailed that influence*
were being brought to bear to have
the strikers, numbering more than
400.000, return to work.
Confidential reports to the depart-ment
of justice from its agents in
the coal fields were said to show
many defections from the ranks of
the strikers. Some of the reports
said that large numbers of idle min-ers
had declared they wanted to re-turn
to work, but were afraid.
In this connection officials reite-rated
that adequate protection
would be given. There was no
specific statement as to how this
would be provided, but it was ex-plained
that troops would be avail-able
at the call of any governor who
believed it necessary to preserve or-der
or protect workers.
First Defections Reported.
Scattered reports from the fields,
reaching into 28 states, showed the
first breaks in the ranks of organ-ized
labor in West Virginia and
Colorado. Advices to Washington
headquarters of the operators said
that all non-union mines were
working to full capacity and turn-ing
out considerable more coal than
on Saturday. Some of the opera-tors'
reports said that union men
had gone to work in non-union
mines and that there was growing
sentiment that the men themselves
should have had the ri'iht to vote
on the strike before it was ordered.
This information, to a large ex-tent,
was in line with that receiv-ed
by the government, especially as
to defections. Officials said the
strikers realized public sentiment
was against them, and some labor
leaders also were taking this view.
Attorney General Palmer, hand-ling
the main end of the govern-ment's
case, went to Pennsylvania
tonight, feeling, it was said, that
the crisis might be over before Sat-urday,
the day on which the tempo-rary
injunction restraining officers1
of the miners' organization from ac-tivity
was made returnable. Asked
what the government would do that
day. an official said:
"We will not cross that bridge un-til
we get to it." !t
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REAR HUNTING GOOD
IN LAND OF THE SKY.
Asheville, Nov. 3.—A large party.
composed of several business
men, left here this morning for the
Davidson river section of Transyl-vania
county where they will hunt
bears for several days.
During the past few weeks re-ports
have been received here telling
of the unusual number of bears in
generally over the country who are j that section and several have been
combatting radical propaganda, dis-order
and general social unrest.
killed by sportsmen from various
sections of the state.
More bears have been killed here
in the west this year than perhaps
in any other year for some time, two
having been shot down within six
In the Beech
Got His Gold Bark.
Middletown, Conn., Nov. 3.— j
When the treasurer of the First.
Baptist church was counting the of- miles of Asheville.
ferine after the evening service yes-(section of the county one man kill-terday
a young man approached him ed two bears and in the Reams.
considerably perturbed and explain- | Greek section near Weaverville. two.
ed that he had intended to put a . have been killed this fall,
penny into the contribution box but | The bears' are two wily for traps,
had dropped a $5 gold piece in by however, and those who have tried
mistake instead. He asked if he |0 catch them in this way have been
might not have it back. The treas- unable to land any. One man in
urer demurred. ) the Beech section, finding bear
"I need the money," urged the tracks, camped two days in the
young man. woods without a dog and succeeded
"So does the church," answered i in bringing down two. He brought
the treasurer. . I the skin of one here and it is now on
Finally the young man offered the exhibition in the board of trade
treasurer 50 cents -o exchange for window,
tbe gold piece, and the church offi-cial
reluctantly made the exchange. Boy Killed at Cotton Gin.
Dies of His Burns. Salisbury. Nov. 4.—Paul Castor.
Rocky Mount. Nov. 3.—After be- 12-year-old son of Bert Castor, met
ing terribly burned when his cloth- a horrible death to-day at the cotton
ing caught on fire as the result of gin near Faith where the elder Cas-careless
playing with a box of tor is employed. The boy. whil»
matches. Ralph Blackburn, the two- handling a bag. got it caught in the
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. shafting and was dragged onto the
Blackburn, who recently moved to rapidly moving shaft. His legs and
this citv from Garland, died at the arms were torn off and his head
home of his parents after several badly battered, death being almost
hours of intense suffering. instantaneous. t
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