The Monroe journal., 1922-06-02
COLUMN NEWS GATHERED
FROM DAILY DISPATCHES
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For the Convenience Of Busy
Readers of The Journal
BIG STORIES OF IMPORTANCE
HANDED OUT IN A NUT SHELL
Tragic. Pathetic and Heart Rending
Things of Interest Are Here Briefly
Recorded

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The house soldiers bonus bill,
amended in several important parti-
culars, but with the much discussed
bank loan provision retained, was ap-
proved by the senate finance commit
tee by a vote of 9 TO 1. Chairman Nc
Cumber proposes TO report the meas
ure To the senate within few days
and said he hoped to get action on il
before the passage of the tariff bill.
Frost was reported from several
points near hinSton Tuesday. the
latest known in the section for
many years. The temperature, almost
of the overcoat kind. may have estab-
lished record for the last week of
May. Farmers reported no material
damage from the frost, which failed
TO penetrate to sheltered spots, but
said the cotton and tobacco crops
would be "set back" by the chill winds.
The crew of the Coast Guard sta
tion at Cape Lookout Tuesday picked
up and towed into Beaufort a SUBJ
chaser Of about ~ tons which had
broken down east of Cape Lookout
Shoals. The boat had no name and
carried none Of the usual ships pa
pers, according to members of the
rescuing crew, but the Captain claim
ed to be from New York bound fol
Palm Beach. The sub-Chaser's cargo
consisted of 2l7 gallons of gasoline.
II expect to live to see q woman
Governor of North Carolina and there
are many Of them who would do a
better job of it than some men have"
declared Mr.. Josephus Daniels in his
address at MaXton recently at the
Carolina College commencement.
Whatever man is put as candi-
date for any political office, by what
ever party, if his private life is un-
clean, | want the time to come when
he will be Immediately blackballed
at the polls by the women voters of
the country" he continued.
William A. Sydnor Of Wilkesboro,
NC, who was graduated Wednesday
morning from the Langley field pho
tographic school, was killed late the
same day while flying over his uncle's
farm four miles from Richmond, his
single-seat army plane going into a
nose dive and bursting into flames
when it clashed. Identification was
made by the uncle through a ring on
Sydnor's finger. His face was charred
beyond recognition. Early reports
from the commandant at Langley
field declared that young Sydnor had
been reported missing by other plains
that had made an afteroon flight and
returned.
Washington, May 31.-Maximum
fair prices for spot coal in five dis
tricts were announced Wednesday by
Secretary Hoover after reaching
agreements with committees repre-
senting these fields, under the plan
adopted at the general conference of
operators from producing fields for
preventing the runaway prices on
coal at the mines during the strike.
II was determined that in the Ala
bama district the fair price should be
20 cents below the final Garfield
SCALE" or maximum of 1920 a ton
to $3.50 a ton. On the Harland and
Hazard fields of Kentucky, the south
ern Appalachian fields of Tennessee
and Kentucky, and the Pocahontas,
New River, Tug River, and Winding
Gulf field (smokeless coal districts Of
West Virginia) the maximum price
was fixed at $3.50 ton.
Declaring the United States is dis
graeed the world over "on account of
the mob law prevailing in many
states Representative Dyer, Repub-
lican, Missouri, in a letter today to
Chairman Nelson Of the Senate Judic-
iary committee, protested against
further delay on the part of that
committee in acting on the anti
lynching bill passed by the House.
The House judiciary committee, the
House itself and the Attorney Gem
eral have all gone on record as Of
the opinion that the pending bill is
constitutional, Mr.. Dyer said, but he
suggested that if the Senate com.
mittee held otherwise, it proceed to
pass a BIZ which would meet the situ-
alton. Il. is beyond dispute" the
letter said, that states are unable
to protect citizens of the United
States resident in the respective
states where lynchings are going on"