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FINANCES BETTER DECLARES HARDING GLOOMY FOREBODINGS IN FINANCIAL SITUATION NO LONGER EXISTS MUST PUSH FOREIGN TRADE Although Process Of Readjustment Is Not Completed?Evidences Show That Most Acute Stage Reached Charlotte. N\ C.?Gloomy forebodings of last winter with respect to the banking situation are no longer justified and can be dismissed, Governor Hardinsr, of the federal reserve board, declared in an address here rcntly at th Made-in-Carolina exposition. "The banking situation has greatly improved." Mr. Harding said, "and although the process of readjustment has not been completed, evidences are multiplying that the corner has been turned and that we have passed the most acute stage of the readjustment period.'* Governor Harding said that in the immediate /uture much would depend on agricultural developments and the manner in which this year's crops were marketed. "With proper co-operation on the part of merchants and bankers," he said, "those engaged in agriculture have opportunities and prospects which were not anticipated a few months ago and it is of vital importance that this co-operation be given. "It should be remembered," Governor Harding continued, "that in order to maintain our production we must push our foreign trade. We cannot maintain our foreign trade on the basis of the gold stock of other nations and some means must be devised for extending long-time credits abroad or of interesting American investors in foreign properties and securities in order that the exchange rate which now runs so heavily gaainst other nations may be corrected. "We must continue to buy from foreign countries those things which they can produce better or more cheaply that we can and exchange commodities with them. If we determine to do business with and for ourselves alone it seems inevitable that we must reduce out production to meet merely American requirements." The recent advance in the price of cotton was in no way due to any increase in the loans of Federal Reserve banks or to any expansion in the currency. Governor Harding, declared, but to operatioo of the inevitable la wof supply and demand. Fed eral reserve notes actually in circulation. he said, were about $500,000,000 less than when cotton reached its lowest point last spring. PHYSICIANS TESTIFY AT ARBUCKLE HEARING Evidence At Preliminary Considered Very Damaging To Arbuckle's Defense San Francisco.?Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuekle latest fight was on the sec- I ond line of defense.. The man sat beside his pretty wife, "Miss" Minta Durfee. and listened to his attorneys wrangle and struggle in the courtroom to prevent Police Judge Lazarus ordering him to trial before the superior court on a charge of murdering Virginia Rappe, of Los Angeles, as an aftermath of his Labor day "party" ; in a San Francisco hotel. Fatty's famous baby eyes dimmed and he turned his head away when a big photograph of the body of Virginia Rappe was handed to witnesses for identification. Then he turned to his wife and she patted his hand and clenched his arm a little tighter. Fatty straightened up?he was fighting a life and death battle and his first love, the girl from whom he had been separated for two years, was standing by him. The e\idence at the preliminary Hearing was uauiagiug iu rtruucme s 1 defense. Doctors testified that only one thing?external force?a blow or j a fall?could have caused the death I of Miss Rappe. Miss Stirling Victor In Championship Ottawa.?Miss Alexa Stirling, of Atlanta. recently eliminating Mrs. W. A. Gavin, of New York from the Canadian ladies' open golf championship tournament, 4 and 2, the recent match between the American contestants attracted the largest gallery. Mrs. Gavin, who long has cherished the ambition to vanquish the United States champion, began in brilliant fashion by taking the first and second holes Miss Stirling being weak on the first green and being clearly outplayed on No. 2. Lee Highway Meet'ng At Chattanooga Chattanooga, Tenn.?Official announcement was made here recently that the annual convention of the Lee Highway association would be held in Chattanooga at an early date in a communication from I)r. S. M. Johnson, general director of the or Ionization. It was further announced by Dr. Johnson that a national oh servance of the birth of General Robert E. Lee would be held at the same time. C. H. Huston, of Chattanooga, assistant secretary of commerce, is president of the highway association. Two Cents Damage Awarded To Wife Salisbury, N. C.?Two cents in damages were awarded to Mrs. Melissa J. Woodington by a Rowan county superior court jury here recently in a suit for $10,000 against W. A. Roseman, a grocer, whom Mr. Woodington alleged sold her husband flavoring extracts which he drank, causing him to mistreat her. The husband was a witness for the plaintiff. Roseman also was burdened with the cost in the case. The suit has attraction at/ tention all over the country, especially among prohibitionists. WILL QUESTION WITNESSES It Is Believed Some Of The Arbuckle Witnesses Are Located?They May Be Returned San Francisco.?Seven witnesses were questioned by the federal grand Jury in an attempt to learn the source of the liquor consumed at the affair in Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle's hotel suite here from which resulted the death of Miss Virginia Rappe and Arbuckle's arrest on a charge of murder. "No indictments will be returned until all of the federal departments cooneratintr in the case have completed their several investigations," Assistant United States Attorney General R. P. McComiack announces. The investigation will be returned by the grand jury at once. The latest witnesses were Mrs. Bam| bina Maude Delinont, Miss Alice Blake, 1 Miss Zeh Provost and Mrs. Mae Taube, who were present at the party. John P. Pickett, a bellboy at the hotel, and Miss Josephine Kessler, a hotel maid. : Mrs. Delmont swore to the murder complaint against the film comedian and Miss Provost was the woman whose statements to the police caused Arbuckle to be booked on a murder complaint. Joyce Clark, another member of the party, was subpoenaed, but was not called into the grand jury room. "We simply wanted their testimony perpetuated in the event any witness should leave the city and to prevent conflict of testimony in case any of them should desire to leave before the case might be brought to trial," McCormack said. A telegram to Lowell Sherman, a participant in the party, was sent to Chicago by District Attorney Matthew A. Brady, asking Sherman to come to San Francisco to give his version to the affair. District Attorney Swan of New York also was notiried by telegraph to intercept Sherman if he arrived there and keep him under surveillance. Sherman subpoenaed as a giand jury witness before he left Los Angeles for Chicago. Assistant District Attorney Milton U'Ren said he hoped Sherman would return voluntarily and not cause legal steps to be taken against him. The authorities anounce that they believe May Parsons, another woman who was in the Arbuckle party, had been located at Fort Worth, Texas. Chief of Police O'Brien asked the Fort Worth police to detain her. Law Enforcement Officers Are Jailed Birmingham, Ala.?W. S. Knox and A. F. Crow, state law enforcement officers, and four special law enforcement officers or members of a citizen's posse, are held in the Elmore county jail at Wetumpka on charges of murder preferred by Sheriff J. H. strengm, according to long distance telephone reports from Sheriff Strength recently. The murder charges resulted from- the alleged killing of Lee Paunton in a fight six miles from Electric, Ala. according to the sheriff, who stated that Oliver Dewitt was seriously wounded at the same time. Both men are white. No Violence Occurs In Strike Zone Bakersfield, Cal.?Thus far the boast of Walter Yarrow, head of the Oil Workers' union, that there would be "neither bloodshed nor violence' in the oil fields taken over by the strikers, has been made good. The district is several hundred square miles in extent. So completely has control of the district been taken over by the strikers?in an entirely legal manner, they point out?that clashes were prevented for the simple reason that there was no one to clash with. Spain Announces Morocco Success Madrid.?An engagement between a small Spanish force and a party ol Moors at Tirisa, in the Spanish-Moroccan zone, in which the Spanish scored a pronounced success, is announced in an official telegram received recently from Tetuan. Conditions in the Melilla and El-Arish areas are reported quiet. Southern's Exhibit Get New Industries Washington.?As the result of the exhibit of the Southern Railway svsten at the seventh national exposition of chemical industries in New York, which has just come to a close, prospects are bright for location of several important industries in the South, according to a statement given out by Manager J. C. Williams, of the Southern's development service. Army Hospital For Negro Service Men Washington.?Location in Alabama of the proposed public health service hospital for exclusive use of negro former service men is practically certain, treasury oficials say. Final decision probably will be made soon. Sites for the institution, officials say, have been offered the government by Tuskegee institute and also by the town of Tuskegee. Dr. Robert Moton. president of the institute, has asked the treasury to locate the proposed hospital on the institute irrniinds If will cnat oKmit a million dollars. U. S. Submarine R-27 Safe Arrives O. K. Washington?Safe arrival at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of the American submarine R-27, which, while en route from Coco Solo. Panama canal zone, to Guantanamo, sent out a distress call, i is reported to the navy department. The dispatch reporting the safe arrival of the R-27 says she came under her own power, but gives no details as to the trouble experienced by the submersible and which led to the distress signal. A sea-going tub has been ordered to repair to the assistance of the R-27. Egg-Sized Hailstones Fall In West Anoka, Minn.?Hailstones as large as eggs fell near here on the afternoon of September 20, doing heavy damage to crops and buildings. Reports are that the country for four miles north is covered with hailstones that fell like snow. The wind and rain that preceded the hail also caused some damage. Buildings on a farm seven miles west of Hugo were moved from their foundations and trees uprooted. Severe storm conditions in nearby towns were reported. No loss j of lite is reported. BORAH OBJECTS I TO DELAY TREATY "IRRECONCILABES" REAR HEADS WHEN CONSIDERATION OF J NEW PACT IS BEGUN voices fearTobligations ; Sa/8 Might Entail Necessity of Maintaining U. S. Armed Forcer On Germany Washington.?Reservation may be made to the treaty of peace President Harding has negotiated with Germany. Thy would be designed to prevent American entanglement in the affairs of Europe and are considered necessary by those who led the fight against the treaty of Versailles, notably Senator Borah. A suggested reservation is the same as one Senator Lodge, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, offered when the treaty of Versailles was before th senat. It would prevent participation of American representatives on international bodies created by the Versailles pact, unless the express consent of congress were obtained. Another safeguard desired by irreconcilables i sthat there be a definite stipulation that in ratifying the new treaty, American assumes no obligations to assist in carrying out provisions ox me v ersames ncat>. Senator Borah directed the attention of the committee on foreign relations to these points when it met recently to consider the treaty. He based his objections on the fact that the treaty accepts certain provisions of the Versailles pact. Borah contended that approval of the treaty would entail a moral and probably legal obligation on the part of the United States to baintain troops in Germany. He argued also that unless there were a provision to the contrary, the executive might name American delegates to sit on the various bodies set up to administer the peace of Versailles, notably the reparation commission, to which there was particular objection from irreconcilables. It was argued that American participation in the affairs of the reparations commission would entail involvment in European political affairs for years to come. The reservation of Senator Lodge, which it was suggested might be revived, would forbid the president to name any American representative to sit on any niternational body without consent of congress, and it would require the confirmation by the senate of any person named. Lost Mail May Have Happened Thus Washington.?Immediate inspection 1 of two million mail sacks and four hundred thousand pouches sent to depositories in various cities for storage or : distribution has been ordered by Postmaster General Hays. The order was prompted by information that an average 50 parcels and 20 letters are found daily in mail sacks sent for repair to the shops here. Orders have been is1 sued that postmasters are to be held responsible hereafter to see that all sacks and pouches are emptied. He hopes to make them more careful. ( Ku Klux Enters Debate In Senate 1 Washington.?The Ku Klux Klan and religious intolerance entered into the debate on the floor of the senate | during discussion of the beer bill. ( Senator Watson, Democrat. Georgia, ' ] asserted that religious liberty had not 1 been abolished in the United States ( under the charter granted Lord Haiti- J more while Senator Stanley, Demo- ' crat, Kentucky, insisted that "there ' was only one place in all the civilized ' ' world where man could worship his 5 God at the dictates of his conscience ' and that was in the provence of the i 1 Catholic nobleman. Lord Baltimore." National Milliners To Hold Convention Chiicago, 111.?The Millinery Jobbers and Manufacturers' association at a special meeting of the board of 1 directors unanimously voted to hold ( their semi-annual fall convention in } Atlanta ocmmencing on November 2, for a four day's session. There will : be discussed at this meeting some of ' the most important matters affecting < the millinery trade that have been 1 acted upon in years. i Whiskey Is Cheaper Since Prohibition < Seattle, Wash.?Good liquor is cheaper and more easily obtained in : the state of Washington now than be- I fore national prohibition went, more < or less theoretically, into effect. The I I answer, of course, is greater organ- I ization of the bootlegging industry 1 from wet British Columbia. Perhaps i at no point along the line from Quebec 1 to the Pacific ocean is booze pouring i across the line in such quantities as i here. The strange part of it is that 1 the price is as cheap as it was in the I old days of the saloon. < Senator Wadswr>rth Praises Treaty I Syracuse. N. Y.?United States Senator James W. Wadsworth, Jr., in his < keynote speech as temporary chair- < man of the New York republican state ] convention, recently ..said that no 1 "finer stroke of diplomacy adorns the 1 annals of our state department" than ] the new treaty with Germany. Had tho Harding administration done nothing else, he added, "its achievement in thus untangling and setting aright our foreign relation would justly en title it to fame" ? proving that the ! league of nations was not the only way. i Bobby Jones Beaten By British Champ St.Louis Country Club, Clayton Mo. ?Here's a toast to wee Willie Hun, ter, a stout-hearted little fighter with 1 courage to battle alone and unaided, 1 who doesn't know when he is beaten, and, gentlemen and ladies, a true son 1 of John Bull and a while of a golfer. Hunter, the British amateur champion, fought his way into the semifinals of the national amateur golf championship here recently by defeating Bobby Jonen, the scintillating Atlanta youngste |i II. S. SENATE FACING JAM Ire Of Leaders Aroused By Many Ab sentees On The Opening Day? Sharp Skirmish On Beer Washington.?The senate finds itsell In a legislative jam at the outset o the post-vacation session. Four major matters are before It clamoring for attention? 1. The revenue bill, called up ir the senate by Senator Penrose, chair man of the finance committee, wit! the announcement that consideratior would he pressed. 2. The anti-beer hill, also called ui in the senate, which Senator Sterling says he will push at every opportunity .1, The Panama canal tolls repeal unfinished business in the senate, or which there will be a vote by agree ment October 16. 4. Peace treaties witn Germany Austria and Hungary, immmediate rat ification of which has been asked bj President Harding. The tangle of business creates a sit nation that is taxing the ingenuity o Republican leadership and which is causing considerable concern. Adding to the difficulties is the small attend ance?33 Republicans and 21 Demo crats answered the roll call when Sen ator Lodge, Republican leader, mad< the plea of no quorum. Leaders in the majority are displeased with the largr number of absences. The revenue bill is conceded in a] quarters to be entitled to precedence but it is feared that other matters wil interfere with its uninterrupted consid eration. The intention of leaders is tc "sandwich in" the treaties, resorting to night sessions if this becomes nec essary. If night sessions were held questions not pertaining to the treatj would be rigorously excluded. Senator Penrose reported the reve nue bill as soon as the senate met, anc announced that he would ask for i beginning of discussion when the com mittee's report on the bill had beer received from the printer. Senator Un derwood, Democratic leader, said the minority would require seven days ir which to prepare its report on tht bill. The determination of drys to push the anti-beer bill means that it maj bob up to provoke debate at any time Senator Stirling called it up, and start 9d a sharp parliamentary fight. Sena tor Reed, enemy of the bill, made a motion to adjourn, which was defeat 2d. 33 to 107. Then Reed argued thai It was unfair to insist on consideration 2f the bill, when many senators whe wished to oppose it were not present because they had thought the senate would not be in session. He said there was no filibuster against the bilf, bul that one might develop if drys were Insistent. The dispute ended when Senator Curtis moved for an executive session. At one time Stirling persuad 2d the senate to send the sergeant-at irms in search of absent members be tiause there was no quorum. 33' Mason In Mississippi Goes Hence Meridian, Miss.?Oliver Lee McKay 33", grand secretary-recorder of Mississippi Masonic bodies; president ol the Meridian board of trade and Me ridian cotton exchange; vice president 3f the chamber of commerce; past ;rand master of the Mississippi grand lodge of Odd Fellows, and executive jeneral agent of the Mobile and Ohio ind Southern railways in Mississippi lied here after a brief illness. He was Identified with numerous public enter prises. I Horrible Crime Laid To Maniac's Door Dowagiac. Mich.?A blood - stained L-lub, nail-studded and a bloody fingerprint were the clues by which the au horities hoped to clear up the mur ier of three persons and the serious in jury of another, a child, in their home lere. William Monroe, his wife and :heir 17-year-old daughter were found aeaten to death with the club; in the same room was found Ardith Monroe 10-year-old daughter, who had beer jeaten on the head until unconscious The little girl was made blind by the Mows. Joyful Welcome Greets Gen. Pershinc Paris.?Acclaimed joyfully at Havre vhere he land, amid a wild civilian lemonstration and with an impressive nilitary greeting, Gen. John J. Pershing was happy to step ashore tc :he welcoming handclasp of Gen. Fran ;lies Desperey, who, in Pershing's own .vords, "introduced him to the world tvar." Serman Town Wiped Out By Explosion Mayenee, Germany.?A great explosion at the chemical products plant ol :he Iladische Anilinfabrik company al Dppau, on the Rhine, wrecked the iown and spread death and destruc [ion on every uauu. me numuur ui killed and wounded in variously esti mated at from one thousand to fifteen hundred. One report says that three [housand men were on the spot at the moment of the explosion, and it is be lieved about half of these were killed More than a third of the houses were completely destroyed, Ledoux And Police Reach Compromise New York.?Urbain Ledoux, whose activities in behalf of New York un employed have been combatted by the police, announces that he and the po lice have arrived at a compromise. He has promised, he says, to ahandor plans for holding a modern "slave auc Lion" here, and the police have agreed Lo aid his efforts to feed the jobless Carrying out the terms of the corn pro mise Ledoux appeared in Ilryant park kvith a police escort and began distrib uting tickets good for breakfasts in restaurants. Highway Improvements; Tax Rate Cul Athens, Ga.?Improvements on the "No-Where," Newton-Epps bridge, anci Jefferson roads, will be made by the Clarke county convicts and employees it was decided by the county coinmis sioners at the meeting held recently it the county court house. Other matters handled by the commission at theii meet was the adoption of the tax lev> in Clarke county, which reduces countj taxes from ten to eight mills per thou sand dollars, one of the few counties in the state of Georgia which has con Bidered a reduction in taxation. 1 IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER r ? IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIJ t AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN l - THE NEWS OF THE S0UT1 i 1 What Is Taking Place In The South r land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs ! Foreign? Miss Alexa Stirling, of Atlanta, re cently eliminated Mrs. W. A. Gavin, o New York, from the Canadian ladies ' open golf championship tournamenl 4 and 2. Owing to the dumping of Russia] ? diamonds on the Dutch and Belgiai 3 markets by the Lenine government ' more than 4,500 local diamond worl * ers have been thrown out of emploj ' ment. General Evangeline Booth, head o 3 the Salvation Army, is making a tou 1 of fifty Swiss towns to strengthen th 3 organization. Penetrating the fog of poisonou ? vapor which still hovered low ove Oppau, scene of the greatest explc 1 slon disaster in German historj " rescue corps, gas masked, recentl 3 fought for the lives of possible sui ' vivors, while reports came toack tha * the death roll would total at leas 1,500. Five hundred bodies have bee: 7 extricated from the shattered ruin about the synthetic nitrate plant o ' the Badische aniline works, near Luc 1 wigshafen, which was destroyed tc 1 gether with the little town of Oppat by a series of terrific explosions. 1 Immediate intervention by the ai lies to prevent the Serbo-Albanian dis ' pute flaming into a new Balkan wa 1 was asked in a note addressed to th * powers of England, France and Ital; by the council of the League of Na 1 tions recently. The threatened confla gration in Middle Europe's powde box, where the slightest flare cai start another of the interminable Bal kan wars, may be averted by th 1 council's action, but the league itsel ' has been split into two factions by th introduction of the dispute betweei 1 Albania and Jugo-Slavia in the assera * bly, Sir John Foster Fraser has added an ! other chapter to the criticism writtei ! and spoken by Englishmen of Amer ' ica's alleged prohibition, in an artich ! in the London Daily Chronicle. "Th< 1 whole situation is pernicious; the Unit ' ed States is dry and will never be we again, but the growing disrespect fo all law constitutes a super-evil," h< says. Charles B. Warren, the new Unitei States ambassador to Japan, arrivei s at Yokohama, Japan recently with hi; , wife and three sons on board th< . steamer Golden State. P ?? ! Washington? | Reservation may be made to th( treaty of peace. President Hardini has negotiated with Germany. The; would eb designed to prveent Amer ' ican entanglement in the affairs o Europe, and are considering necessar; bv those who led the fight against thi treaty of Versailles, notably Senato Borah. The tangle of business in the sen [ ate cerates a situation that is taxinj the ingenuity of Republican leadershi] and also causing considerable con corn. Adding to the difficulties is th( small attendance?33 Republicans am 21 Democrats. I The determination of the drys t( I nush the anti-beer bill in the senati i neans that it may bob up to provat< , debate at any time, i The department of justice is con sidering whether federal action shal i be taken in connection with the ac tivitles of the Ku Klux Klan, Attor ney-General Daugherty said recently. I Carl R. Tabb, an American employe* of the Mexican petroleum company ' j was shot and killed recently "by Me* i ican soldiers" in the oil fields nea 1 j Tampico. the American consul a Tampico reported recently to tin > state department. It is claimed th< shooting was accidental. China's dual government?the rec 1 ognized regime established at Pekir ' and the unrecognized authority center ed at Canton?affords the forthcom ing Washington conference a possibh guardianship problem second only t( that in caring for the rights of Russia The Russian question has been solvet by a decision among the powers an nounced by the state department re cently, to establish a moral trustee ship in protection of legitimate Rus sian interests. What will be the fina course of the conference toward Chi na, if the two governing bodies now es tablished there cannot co-operate tc their common interests, is a delicat* and difficult question, a solution o! which, for the moment, cannot be accu j rateiy iorecasi. , ! The Ku Klux Klan and religious in , ! tolerance entered into the Jebate or j the floor of the senate during discus ! ; sion of the beer bill. As the result of the exhibit of th? Southern Railway system at the sev i enth national exposition of chemica I industries in New York, which ha.' ! just closed, prospects are bright foi | location of several important indus : tries in the South, according to ; statement given out by Manager J 1 C. Williams of the Southern's develop j nient service. i ! There were 36.617.5S4 cotton spin , dies in the United States at the be i j ginning of the cotton year, August 1 ! the census bureau announces, i Immediate inspection of 2,000,00C mail sacks and 400,000 pouches sent tc i depositories in various cities for stor age or distribution has been ordered by Postmaster General Hays. Four major matters are before the senate clamoring for attention?the revenue bill; the anti-beer bill; the Panama canal tolls repeal; peace trea ties with Germany, Austria and Hun Kary. Recommendation* on the question of a pardon for Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader imprisoned at Atlanta for violation of the war laws, may be | sent to President Harding soon, Attorney-General Daugherty said recent1 ly. Location in Alabama of the proI posed public health service hospital for exclusive use of negro former service men is practically certain, treasury officials said recently. Final decision will be made very soon. !The safe arrival at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of the American submarine R-27, which, while en route from Coco Solo, Panama canal zone, to Guantanamo, sent out a distress call recently, was reported to the navy department. The tax revision bill will be sent to the president by the latter part of October, Chairman Penrose predicted !- recently in announcing that the senf ate finance committee had formally 5' approved the house measure as amendt, ed. Announcement of the names of n thirty-five men and three women who n have accepted President Harding's invitation to take part in a national r. 1 *. A la KAI.1 uunenipiuynieui tuuieieute uc uciu ' in Washington at an early date, was made recently by Secretary Hoover. lf The treaty with Germany probably r will be submitted to the senate by e President Harding very soon after congress reassembles. The submis3 sino may be accompanied by a brief r message, but it was indicated that there was little probability that the president would appear before the senate in person to urge ratification. Southern farmers will be interested in knowing that the retail price of potatoes increased 24 per cent during the month of August. '[ Chairman Lasker of the shipping |. board announces that the board is now getting in sight of the end of the need , for asking great sums. The board, ' under the Harding administration, has i already drawn three and a half billion j. dollars. r The senate finance committee failed e to reach final decision on the Smoot tax y simplification bill, embodying a manul facturers' sales levy, and on Senator L. Calder's proposal to impose a tax of r $6.40 on all alcoholic liquors withn drawn from bond other than manufac[. turing purposes. e Oil is so plentiful in some sections f of Bolivia that natives take it from e surface holes in buckets for local use, a according to department of commerce i* information. The accumulations result from natural seepage, and are most in i- evidence in the country lying east of a the Santa-Cruz-Yacuiba trail. 2 Domestic? ? Good liquor is cheaper and more 1 easily obtained in the state of Washr ington now than before national pro2 hibition went, more or less theoretically, in to effect, according to a 1 United News Staff correspondent. 1 United SStates Senator James W. 3 Wadsworth, Jr., in his keynote speech 2 as temporary chairman of the New York republican state convention, recently said that no "finer stroke of diplomacy adorns the annals of our state department" than the new a treaty with Germany. | y Official announcement was made y at Chattanooga recently that the an - nual convention of the Lee Highway f association would meet in that city y at an early date. a Two cents in damages were awardr ed to Mrs. Melissa J. Woodington by a Rowan county superior court jury i- at Salisbury. N. C., in a suit for I $10,000 against W. A. Roseman, a [> grocer. r The evidence at the preliminary 3 hearing of Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle. 1 at San Francisco, was damaging to Arbuckle's defense. Doctors testified 3 that only one thing?external force? 2 a blow or a fall?could have caused 3 the death of Miss Rappe. | Willie Hunter, the British amateur golf champion recently defeated Bobby 1 Jones, Atlanta golfer at the St. Louis Louis Country Club, Clayton. Mo. The Millinery Jobbers and Manu5 facturers- association at a special meeting of the board of directors unanimously voted to hold their semir annual fall convention in Atlanta at t an early date. i Gloomy forebodings of last winter ? with respect to the banking situation are no longer justified and can be (lis missed, Governor Harding, of the fedt eral reserve board, declared in an ad dress at Charlotte. N. C., recently at j uie Aiaue-in-i aruiiua expusiuun. 5 Urbain Ledoux, whose activities in ' behalf of New York unemployed have been combatted by the police, announc: es that he and the police have arrived at a compromise?he promising to abandon plans for holding a modern slave auction and the police agreeing ." to aid in his efforts to feed the jobless, Due to a heart affection, Oliver Lee McKay, 33? Mason, grand-secretary- I j recorder of Mississippi Masonic bodies, > died recently. f Clarke county, Georgia, has gone on . record as having reduced the tax levy from 10 to 8 mills per thousand. Engineer M. S. Bennett of Louisville, i Ky., was killed, four persons severely -1 injured and several others less seriously injured when Pennsylvania passen- 1 ; ger train No. 327 en route to Indian- | . apolis from Louisville, went through a I bridge into Blue river, Indiana. The nation, from president to hum! blest citizens, paid tribute to the mem nrv nf sixteen brave men at New Vnrir - September 17. These were American i otficers and men of the ill-fated dirigi- ! . Lie Zlt-2 whose disastrous plunge into I - the river Huber put two nations in mourning. A twister windstorm hit the business - section of Zanesville, Ohio, and damaged the main business section, damaging business houses into the hun> | dreds of thousands of dollars. > Fields of corn were washed away, homes were flooded in the lowlands I of McMahon Creek Valjey, Ohio, in ! a near cloudburst. ; A blood-stained club, nail-studded, - i and a bloody fingerprint were the clues by which local authorities hoped to clear up the murder of three per sons and the serious injury of another . in their home at Dowagiac. Mich NEW IRISH CRISIS CAUSE Hie LLOYD GEORGE'S LATEST REPLY PORTENDS MOST SERIOUS DEVELOPMENTS. | POPULACE IS STILL HOPEFUL Lord Randolph Churchill, Speaking to An Audience at Dundee, Scotland, is Pessimistic on Situation. Dublin?Kamonn de Valera was re ! ported to have received a oommunij cation from England wnich portends ' important developments in the Insn peace situation. That a new and grave crisis has developed, which is causing much anxiety, is apparent. The populace is hopeful that the crisis will pass without a recurrence of warfare, but if is admitten that the I outlook is now very black. Winston Churchill, speaking on the . ! Irish situation to an audience in Dundee, Scotland, declared he saw no foundation for hope. "The Irish position is still uncertain," he warned. "An Irish republic means inevitable civil war." "I am profoundly disappointed at de Valera's rejection of home rule," 4 he said. "Our offer is generous and sincere, but we must insist on allegiance to the king, whether he be the king of Britain or Ireland." Shrinkage in Income Taxes. Washington.?A shrinkage of more than $1,000,000,000 in income and excess profits taxes this fiscal year was reckoned upon by the senate finance committee in revising the house tax bill. Doug. Fairbanks Off to Europe. New York.?Arrayed in a white hat, white spats and a blue suit, Douglas Fairbanks, the moving picture actor, sailed for Europe on the liner Olympic, accompanied hy his wife, Mary Pickford Fairbanks. Must Revive Employment Service. Washington.?Revival of the United States employment service to aid in finding work for the millions of men now jobless is imperative, Secretary of Labor Davis decided. Another Aviator is Killed. Oklahoma City, Okla.?Lieut Arthur Emerson was killed here while atI tempting to change from one airplane ' to another at the state fair grounds. Rioting is Suppressed. Belfast.?Crown forces gained control of the situation shortly before .daight after fierce rioting between 4 Catholic and Protestant mobs had lasted throughout the day. 69 Cases of Paralysis. ' New York.?Sixty-nine cases of infantile paralysis were reported here during the week. This is the largest number since the epidemic of 1916. Thousands Die in Morocco. Paris. ? Forty-four thousand Spaniards and .Moorish tribesmen have been killed or wounded in a terrific battle which raged ten days in Morocco. Rough on Chicago Policemen. Chicago?Fifty per cent of Chicago's policemen are involved in the illegal transportation and sale of liquor, ' Chief of Police Charles Fitzmorris declared. Sail Boat Capsizes. Eight Drown. ? Sault Ste .Marie, Mich.?Eight persons were drowned when their sail boat capsized in a squall on Lake Superior, about 20 miles from here. British Relieve Unemployed. ? London.?More than a million dollars has been expended by the British government in relieving unemployment since November 11, 1918, Wins- , ton Spencer Churchill, secretary of state for the colonies, told a delegation here. Auto and Tractor Tragedy. Ann Aruur, ivutu.? *?iauaicjr rvci no, of Lansing, and William Graver, of Chicago, students at the University ? of Michigan, were instantly killed when an automobile in which they vere riding struck a tractor. Old Navvies Re-enlisted. Washington.?During the first week of its recruiting the navy obtained 261 recruits and re-enlisted 228 "old timers," the department announced, bringing the strength of the navy 4 proper up to over 114,000. Woodside is Re-elected. Detroit.?Captain Robert Woodside, . of Pittsburgh, was re-elected commander-in-chief 0 the Veterans of Foreign Wars at the closing session of the annual convention. Captain Woodside received 328 votes against 213. May Expect Flood of Huns. Washington. ? Unless the German government discourages emigration, a flood of Germans may follow the reestablishment of American consular offices in that country, Is the opinion of officials of the department of labor. Protest Against Wireless. Tokio.?Japan will protest to China against the signing of a contract with the Federal Radio Companw of America for a wireless telegraph station at Shanghai, it is declared by newspapers here. Japan to Hold Consultation. Tokio. ? Japan will consult with other members of the League of Nations relative to the desire of the United States to receive equal treatment in mandate islands of the Pacific as a feature of the settlement. m