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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-10
RACE QUESTION FRANKLY
DISCUSSED At SAVANNAH
White and Colored Speakers Heard
by House Of Southern
Governors.
EXECUTIVE SESSION is HELD
"oEcrnor Beckett Declares Short
Sighted Policy Not to Help Negro
Race to Orderly development.
Commercial Congress- Program.
EXECUTIVE SESSION is HELD
iRv Aesnciated prcYs.l

,N.,... pS, issoclateu IFcSs.i
ne S;nTi " n Ga. Dee. s;I,onsstions
IONS between the two faces in the
south were discussed In executive SEES
SION by the House Of Southern Gov
Srnors. meeting here today with tho
southern Commercial Congress.
although the proceedings Of tho
was stated that the utmost frankness
was evidenced by the speakers. who
included prominent persons Of both
Great frankncss is said TO have been
evidenced by tho speakers. and be-
cause OF the. proceedings being in
be ,iiadc public at his time.
Jackson. lawyer, Of Richmond Va !:
Rev. NJ. w. Itcddick, OF Amcrlcus. Ga:
Crank II. liailion: or the National
Negro Business League. Richmond.
Va: rev. l.; l.. Baskerville. OF Charles
ton. =. g.: Dr. X. r. Motion OF Tus-
kegcc Institute. Ala; DR.. r. r. Wric M
q Georgia; Professor benjamin l..
Hubert. Of OranRcburg. S. 9.
The apeakcrp of the white race were
pr j. T.. McculiouCh..-Df WASHINGTON:
y. j. Tcrrans. sawmili operator. OF
Ncwbcrn. y. c.: W. Woods White or
Atlanta. Ca Governor Beckett or
North Carolina. and Governor Coopcr,
Of South Carolina.
Should Help the Negro
At the meeting OF Tho House Of
Governors Governor Eickctt, OF North
Carolina. presided over the fertilizer
section. He spoke on tho necessity of
building up the manhood Of a State
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-10
DR.. E. C. LEVY TO SPEAK
Public Welfare Director to Address,
Richmond First Club on MuniciaRt
Problems.

DR.. Il. G. Levy, Director of Public
Welfare. viii be the speaker at the
monthly meeting OF the Richmond First
at o'clock. DR.. Levy will talk on
the operation of his department and
tho relation il bears with the city gov
crnment.
After consenting TO address the club
On CITY Finance" Comptroller II. C.
cofor yesterday notified Secretary W.
g. King that he would be unable to be
present because Of the heavy work now
being done by his office on account Of
tax collections. Mr.. King AT once got in
touch with DR.. Levy and secured him as
the monthly speaker.
The club was formed TO promote con-
siructivc citizenship. city and state
officials viii be on the program from
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-10
Eagle and Altman
Meet in Contest
Encounter Takes Place
High Above Pyrennes
at Early Dawn.
!By Associated prcss.r


LONDON, Dec. 9.--EaGic and air
men have met in contest for the
supremacy of the upper air, and the
eagle has been defeated. The encoun :
ter occurred high above the Pyrennes.
In the half light of early morning re
Gently, when British officer wa
piiotinS Il single scatter machine from
Paris TO NJ .drii The nirman was
nying at rate of about 100 rnileY
an hour, when big eagle scared up
TO meet him. ~
1t was as If the eagle had thrown
me challenge" says the airman. "hut
the laughter died on my Iips when !
thought that Dcrclance a lucky div q
by the bird or maybe a collision in
midhir would send me crashing tn tho
rocks beneath
The eagle Numbered around me a,
about ninety miles per hour and
throtticd down to tho same pace while
we took stock of each other The mir
by thcn was crystal clear, and I could
sec every feather OH him as we circIc,,
about. for all the world like two an
tanoGiSts above the western front
Tine eagle started to climb. and
went after him yard by yard Unable
10 resist any longer, opened the
throttle. put my nose down and loopcd
right over him. He made ono grea
cnort to catch up, and with it his
strength failed.
His wings gave a feeble beat. and
win every appearance of a shot plane
he nose Owed to earth. followed him
down good Loo feet ana saw him
nattened out and land near :, village
in the foothills. completely exhausted "
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-10

ness in the western part Of the city.
WAS fined SO In the Police Court this
morning for doing business on Satur-
day, while he WAS conducting sun
Miss Katharine HAYES. chairman Of
the south AtlNntic field committee of
the Young Women's CHRISTIAN Asso-
cation. delivered an address ut the
High School auditorium this evening.
which was largely attended by the
members of the y. w. &. ~
Petersburg Post No. .. American
Legion. has launched a membership
drive In an effort to u;akc this post
40 n.y. ,arSc Gi,, ItnH ~ me STATE; w
NJ Ruckcr. II. NJ. Clements and James
Mel. RufTin IL committee 10 carry out
the Instructions Of the fuel admins
tration. and to conserve In every pos
sible way tho fuel and lighting inter-
cSts Of this city.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-10
Brief Petersburg Items.

Funeral services were held at the
grave in Blandford Cemetery this
morning over the body of Miss An
drcwetta Bunch. a former resident or
Petersburg. who died yesterday in
Norfolk, aged eiEhty-two
Frank Reed. the negro who shot
Detective y. T.. Eanes and Captain
Walter l.: Peters. on tho night Of No
vcmbcr 30. was this morning arraigned
In Police Court for trial. but due 10
the inability OF the wounded officers
TO be present the hearing was post
pOncd until December ~
NJ. Starr. Il merchant doing busi-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-10
PETERSBURG CURRENT CUT
OFF FROM RICHMOND
Means. IL lis Snid. Closing Down of
Several Plants In Coc<ade City
VIII lie ANcrtrd.

tSpccial to The Times. Dspatch.l
y PETERSBURG, VA. Dec 9-Otiicers
OF the Virginia Railway and Power
Company in this city are confident. IL
their action in cutting of the current
furnished here TO Richmond meets with
the approval OF the regional Pocahon-
tas coal committee at Roanoke. tho
closing of several manufacturing
Tho current to be cut off from Rich
mond is furnished here by the sole
generating power of the hydro plant
on the AppomattoX River, and this
power was cut OF today from what is
called the Richmond current
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-10
GouId's Divorce Decree sn.taincd.

PARIS. Dec. 9.-Thc decree of divorce
obtained by Frank j. Could. of New
York, from his wife, Edith Kelly
Gould. was sustained In judicial pro-
ceedlngs hero today. The court over
ruled Mrs. Gould's plea that il had no
Jurisdiction because Of her being q
resident OF tho United States
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-10

ASHTABULA, OHIO. Dec. a,-Two
bandits were killed and third seri-
ously wounded at orwell. twenty-five
miles south Of here, when Sheriff F.idred
and five deputies surprised them enter
ing the building occupied by the orwell
Bnnklns Compnny carly today.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
Republican Discord
All in the Mind of
Hearst, Says Clynn
State Chairman Tells Central
New York Leaders Editor
Is Probably the Only Man
Who Seeks to Depose Him

SYRACUSE, y. Y, July 5.--Chair-
man George A. Glynn, Of the Republi-
can State Committee, who conferred
here to-day with central New York
Republicans, both men and women,
asserted that William Randolph Hearst
is the only man. as far as he knows,
who is desirous of his stepping down as
head Of the state party.
"If any one cared to investigate the
source Of the rumors Of trouble, they
would probably run right into the Of
fee of William Randolph Hearst" Nr.
Glynn declared. "That seems TO be
the only place where there Is any de-
sire for change at the present time.
THE talk of change in the chair
manship seems to be confined TO per-
sons outside the Republican party
persons who are anxious 20 arouse
trouble and make the rank and file
Of the party think there is battle in
progress"
Glynn discussed campaign organiza-
tion with the men and women leaders
for this section of the state, suggest
ing complete womens committees in
every county He favored the selection
Of party nominees by the county com.
mittees and then submission Of the
recommended slate to the voters al
the primaries.
Glynn also told the conferree that ht
favors amendments 20 the direct prim-
airy lawsto provide for official state
conventions. 1t is likely that another
bill seeking this will be introduced al
the next. session of the Legislature.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09

Of the United States Of America and
at the request of the Judge of the Cir
cult Court. This, it is believed is in
tended to prevent collusion.
Senator Nelson said to-day that he
cannot unqualifiedly support the bill
as it stands, but he had introduced it
upon request.
"The judge of the United States Cir
cult Court in the zone wrote up to the
Department of Justice, and said his
court had been granting divorces. but
he was not certain these were being
granted under the proper laws" Mr..
Nelson said. $50 he thinks it best
that Congress fix the rules and regu-
lations governing divorce in the Canal
Zone. the Diii which he drew up was
sent in to the Department of Justice
and was asked to introduce it.
81 noticed in reading the bill that it
provides for the service by publication
on a defendant by an insertion for
three weeks in Panama Canal Zone
paper This, should think. might be
changed TO include United States
newspaper, as no one up here would
see the publications circulated down
there"
A petitioner for divorce must esde
in the zone for one year before he or
she can enter suit for divorce. Among
the causes for a severance of the mar
rage contract to be recognized by the
government in its Canal Zone courts
are infidelity. failure to provide, cruel
and inhuman treatment, habitual
drunkenness and abandonment for one
ypar
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
Kings Republicans
Dra,U Platform Plank
On Rent PrOfteering

Attacks on Bolshevism, the extrav.
agances of the Hylan administration
and exploitation by profiteer landlords
and lessees were made at the meet
ing Of the platform committee of the
Kings County Republican Committee
last night.
The greatest evil in rent profteer-
ing. it was unanimously agreed, wa.
due TO the so-called lessee. After dis
cuss!ons led by Mrs. Travis II. Whit.
ney, John J. McGuinness and ex-Sena.
tor Alfred J. Gilchrist, the following
two planks were proposed:
That leaseholds of entire tenement
houses or portions thereof, in excess
of one apartment, IL for a year or
more, shall be taxed as a separate
property.
That assessments on improved
property shall be based largely on
rentals.
Jacob A. Livingston and Aaron l.
Squiers proposed the following planks
That no salaries of city employees
be raised excepting when the bud
get is made up. and that all accruals
shall revert to the city treasury.
That the Board OF Estimate shall
have full control over the salaries
of all officials. excepting those in
the Department of Education and
those holding elective office.
That the election machinery be
simplifed with view of economy.
That there be no camouhaging on
tax rates by holding down the rate
and increasing the assessments on
property.
That the Republican party declare
itself unalterably opposed to Boil
shevism in all It's forms.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
Robbers Use Car as
Battering Ram; Hit
A Ford; Get $1,000
Masked Men With Big Ma
chine Butt Little One
Into Ditch, Stun Paymas-
ter and Escape With Swag

Two highwaymen used their big
touring car as battering ram in
STRIKERS Lane, Coney Island, last
night, and got $4,000 thereby. They
drove full tilt into the Ford in which
James j. Hardcastle. superintendent of
the Borden milk station. was carrying
$4,000. knocked the lighter machine
down the bank. held up the half
stunned. bruised occupants, and es-
capped with the $4,000.
Hardcastle. accompanied by three OF
the company's drivers-Salvatore Car
rita. Henry Lehman and Thomas
Adams-left the milk station at
Gravesend Avenue and Avenue w at 6
o'clock with the days receipts in a
leather bag.
they were driving through Strykers
Lane toward Avenue X when they
heard TIE roar of another car coming
from behind. Hardcastle pulled out to
the side of the road, but the speeding
machine rammed his car in the rear,
throwing it down a bank. The two
occupants Of the big automobile
fsaped out and aimed revolvers at the
fcns dazed men.
Soti had handkerchiefs bound about
their faces. One gripped the bag, threw
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
Fake ''Major" Fined 500
He's Now a Private In Cross.
Country Motor Corps

William Weizhtman. said to be a
member Of wealthy family in Phila-
delphia, who was arrested last month
on a charge Of illegally wearing tho
uniform Of Major IN the Air Service,
pleaded guilty yesterday when ar
raigned before Judge William Robert
Smith and was fined 500.
According 20 Assistant United States
District Attorney George Winship
Taylor. Weightman passed a number
Of checks that we're repudiated before
he was arrested.
At the hearing it developed that
Weightman had enlisted in the Gross
Country Motor Corps as a private after
his arrest. An officer OF the corps
pleaded that Weightman was rendering
good service and Weightman explained
his checks were returned because he
had overdrawn his account.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
Canal Zone Would End
UncOntested Divorces
Bill Introduced at Request of
Court Provides l.. S. At.
tOrnev Handle Defence
New York Tribune
Washington Bureau


WASHINGTON. July s.-A bill in
troduced to-day by Senator Nelson. of
Minnesota. to determine the divorce
laws of the Panama Canal Zone car
ries a clause that marks a new de-
parture in divorce legislation. The
proposed bill provides for the defence
of an undefended divorce petition by
the United States District Attorney in
the Circuit Court of Panama. This
defence is never provided for in the
United States, and is now proposed,
Senator Nelson believes, to prevent the
Canal Zone from becoming a divorce
colony, as petitions could be filed down
there against defendants in this coun-
try, and, being undefended. might be
granted without proper chance being
given the person sued to defend him
self or herself. The bill makes it man.
datory on the district attorney to de-
fend such undefended suits in the name
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
Government Rent Bills
In Capital Cut S356,576
Further Reductions Promised ;
Senator SmoOt Calls War
Risk Bureau TOpheavy
Ncm York Tribune
UCshir0fon Bureau

| W GSntOtOH DuIfuu
WASHINGTON, July s.-That Con-
gress is determined to reduce the ex-
lenses of running the government was
indicated to-day when Senator Smoot,
of Utah. chairman of the Public Build
/ ings Commission, reported 10 the SEN
ate that more than one-third has been
Topped from the rent bills since
March !.
When the commission began its
work in March the government was
approximately S1,000,000 year for
buildings to house executive depart
ments. BY July l these rentals had
been reduced s356,576, Senator Smoot
told the Senate, and he added that
further reductions will be reported
later.
Even more important from an econ
omy stand was the declaration OF Sena-
tor Smoot that Congress is calling on
various bureaus and divisions of the
executive departments to reduce the
number of employees.
Senator Hitchcock. of Nebraska, who.
in the absence Of Senator Martin OF
Virginia, is Democratic leader, urged
that Senator Smoot's commission ex-
tend its work to study of the num-
Der of employees needed in the various
departments, and also inquire into the
subject of efficiency.
enlarge the commission and give
US power 10 order clerks fred sug-
gested Senator Swanson. OF Virginia,
Democrat, "and we will get results
"While there have been some re-
ductions in the number of employees
since the war ended Senator Smoot
said, there are bureaus that want
more clerks. For instance. one of the
chiefs in the War Risk Insurance Blu
reau asked room for 5000 more cler rks.
told him Congress never would per
init the employment of that many addi-
tional clerks. Instead of trying TO get
more help told him ne had better dis
charge some of those now on the pay
rolls"
Senator Smoot said that at enc time
the War Risk Bureau had nearly $4,000
employees. mostly inexperienced girls.
He declared that the work accomplished
by them in seven and one-half hours,
a government day, could have been done
easily in an hour and half by a COM
petent person.
CLERKS were so thick they were fall
ing over each other" he added. "Onc
girl told me she had been in the de-
partment n month, and hadn't done
two days work"
Fully twenty in that bureau ap-
pcaled to me 70 get them transferred
to some other department. so they
would have something TO do Senator
Pomerene. Of Ohio, interrupted.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09

also for Alaska, Porto kies sal De
Philippines.
That many revenue agents sad At
taeh(s now operating under esllsstsss
Of internal revenue wers - b dis.
missed was made plain BY o6iesss Of
Collector Roper's division vhs An en-
gagged in reclassifying all smplsyss IN
the field service. While agents vhs are
under civil service regulations afs net
to be disturbed. those whose appoint
ment in the collection Of income taxes,
are to be required 10 pass . mental
and physical test In order to demon
strate their fitness.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
the scheme now being worked out by

the scheme now being worked out by
the Collector.
The reorganization is made neces-
sary by the curtailment OF revenue du-
ties brought about by nationwide pro-
hibition and extension Of the service
into many cities and states BY reason
of revenue legislation providing for
collection Of income. luxury and excess
profit taxes.
Whether the change will affect the
six revenue districts of New York
State has not yet been determined. It
was admitted st the Treasury Depart
ment, however, that q survey Of all Of
fcers in the state was TO be made and
q reduction in the force may follow.
The reorganization will mean . con-
solidation Of offices in the Bourbon"
states and the creation Of new Offices
in states which have not previously had
revenue collectors but whose govern
ment taxes were collected by field agents
from other states. Among the states
where new offices will be opened will
be Arizona, Delaware, Idaho, Maine,
Mississippi, Nevada, South Dakota.
Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont and wyo-
ming. Collectors may be appointed
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
Shoots Woman, Kills Self

When Mrs. Mary Savella refused 10
leave her husband and three children
and elepe With him, Ferdinand Bar
relic, Of 1911 Roekswsy Avenue, Breet-
lyu. yesterday went TO her home st he
same address and fired three shots st
her. He then walked to the street and
fred two bullets into his heart. He
died immediately.
The woman IL in . critical esnditien
in St. Mary's Hospital, Brookiyn.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09

1t into the tonneau of the car. and
with a warning for the four victims
not to move, the pair jumped into
their machine and sped away toward
Ocean Parkway.
Hardcastle was so dazed that he was
unable to use the revolver he had in
his pocket, but Lehman picked it up
and fired several shots after the van
ishing car, none of which apparently
took effect.
The four men were able to give de-
tectives good description of the auto
mobile and the two robbers.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
Jersey Hires Tax Counsel

TRENTON ~. j., July s.-Attorney
General McCran announced to-day that
John w. Griggs. of Paterson, former
United States ATTORNEY General, has
been engaged in the proposed court
proceedings to set aside the provi-
sions of the New York State income
tax law, in so far as it applies to resi-
dents of New Jersey.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
Burlcson Denies Report
Wilson Has His Resignation

WASHINGTON. July s.-Postmaster
General Burleson to-day declared there
was no foundation for reports that he
had sent his resignation TO President
Wilson.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
Surely 1t Is Not Because
OF What We Have Said

An that you have heard about the Essex
b what others have said for it. We have made
no CLAIM for it. We have published no descr'p-
tons. We have not said it is better car
than any other. We have not even insinated
that its performance excels the performance
Of other cars. But on all sidcs you hear IT
compared to cars you know favorably and IN
most cases to the advantage Of the Essex:
There csn be but one explanation for that and
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09

The occasion Of Postmaster General
Burleson's denial was the publication
Of story yesterday afternoon 10 the
effect that when President Wilson
reached New York he would have the
resignation Of the Postmaster General
in his possession.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
i. S. Revenue Force
To- Be Reorganized
To Collect Taxes
Offices To Be Consolidated,
New Bureaus Opened
and Employees Not Under
Civil Service Topped Of
NesC York Tr{bsrs
Woskin0fou Bvreou

Warrington Bvress
WASHINGTON. July s.-A sweeping
reorganization Of the field forces Of
the Internal Revenue Service has been
ordered by Collector Of Internal Reve-
nue. Roper and will soon be made ef-
fective. Consolidation Of numerous Of
fees will be made ana creation OF new
Offices will be ordered, according to
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
Its Sales Now
Prove It

Essex sales have been in excess OF deliveries
from the very day the car was announced.
The production now approximatcs 100 Gay
but does not begin to meet the needs. Ask
any Essex dealer. If what others arc saying
carries the same conviction to you AZ 1t docs
70 others, then you must sooncr Of later want
ON Essex 1t is best to decide early.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
Whv Is The Essex Bought By

that is tie Essex must through sheer merit
have won the admiration Of those who have
secu and ridden in it.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-09

Coal consumers have failed to buy TO
during the coming Fall and Winter. TT
has proved impossible to keep coal m
from the mines, and production in conseq
has badly slumped.
Available mine labor has been reduce
the departure of miners to Europe.
than forty thousand already have arrs
to leave.
Motive power and cars are waiting fol
TRANSPORTATION now. Soon the nations
crops of grains and other products will
eest the rails and glut the terminals. l
lows that coal transportation facilities
be sharply reduced and coal deliveries
suffer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-17
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET
Features Of the Days Dealings in All
the leadina Stocks
mayl7dlt

New York. May 1s-The further
strength Of today's stock market, espe-
cially the demonstration in rails. SEEM
ed to imply that Wall Street looks for
ward with confidence to the cOnven!ng
of Congress in the coming week.
At no period since the inception OF the
bull movement, now some three nloEtHS
back, has the accumulation Of tra.:s
portations been so COMPREHENSIVE, or 80
course Of today's very active session.
ganized" properties which recently
comma nded the bulk Of speculative at
tention. interest centered largely in m
Icstrnent issues which are expected to
derive substantial benefits from Cot-
structive federal Legislation. Gam
amnGg Paciiics, granger coalers ana
cotton carriers ranged from l 10 >.
points, but secondary ISSUES We're not
~ ertooked Texas Il Pacific. Missouri
Pacific, Chicago sGreat Western, Rock
Island. and Southern Railway. Fries
and Pere Marquette making substantial
issues.
Profit taking cut heavily into the rails
during the last hour. when trading was
diverted 70 various siecialties. includ-
ing motor specialties. food~and tobacco
shares and utilities at extreme gains CT
2 to 8 points.
Other strong stocks Of the day en-
braced American INTERNATIONAL allan
tic Gulf CASTOR Williams. Royal Dutch
domestic and foreign. Texas COMPANY.
virtually all the metals. United states
Rubber Industrial Alcohol and Amer:-
can Wooden
United states Steel he'd only a small
fraction OF its extreme advance of IS
points and other metals and equipments