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PRICE: SEVEN HANDIWORK OF RECENT TORNADO Copyright Underwood and Underwood Above picture shows terrific force of tornado that swept from Texas to Georgia several days. ago, and its effect. in a residential section of Birmingham, Ala. The edge tornado swept Birmingham, and the photo shows how trees of more than a foot in diameter were uprooted. The tornado or series of tornadoes caused a death list of more than 100 and destroyed property valued at millions of dollars.

MARKED DECREASE IN FOREIGN BORN Foreign Born Population In United States In 1920 Totalled 13,703,987 Washington, April foreign born population of the United States in 1920 totalled 18,703,987, an increase of 358,442 or 2.6 per cent over 1910. The Census Bureau, in making this announcement tonight, cited the 30.7 per cent increase in the nation's foreign born population between 1900 and 1910 and ascribed the marked decrease to the almost complete cessation of immigration during the war period and to considerable emigration during the war. The foreign born population listed by country of nativity was announced by the bureau as follows: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, mark, Belgium, France, including Alsace Luxemburg, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Ozecho-Slovakia, Ruthenia, Russia, Finland, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Rumania, Turkey in Europe, other Europe, 541; Asia, Africa, Australia, Canada, French, Canada, New Foundland, 239; Cuba and other West Indies except Porto Rico, Mexico, 676; Central America, South America, Atlantic Islands, 003; Pacific Islands, at sea, 275, and country not specified, 3,657. GREAT BRITAIN STANDING PAT ON REPARATION TERMS Lympne, England, April is Great Britain's intention to abide by the provisions of the agreement ar rived at in Paris last February with regard to what steps should be taken to coerce Germany into meeting her reparations debt. She agrees that failure by Germany to meet her obligations in this respect should be met with further pressure.

This became known in the course of today's meeting between Premier Briand and Premier Lloyd George, who came here to confer on the situation arising from Germany's stand on the reparations question and what is to be done if she continues her recalcitrant attitude. Briand, at his own request, explained to the British Prime Minister at 8 conference, which occupied the best afternoon and evening, the French proposals for setting up an economic administration in part of Westphalia, including the Ruhr coal basin, should the Germans fail to pay the reparations due May 1. The proceeds of this administration, such A8 taxation on coal exports and excess profits duties levied on German industrial establishments, would, under the French plan, be placed pool out of which the reparations would be paid the Allies. GREENVILLE TO VOTE ON ISSUING SCHOOL BONDS Greenville, April pace with other extensive developments in educational circles of the State, Greenville public schools have called an election for June 14, for the purpose of issuing $200,000 in bonds for the general improvement of the school system of this immediate district. The election was authorized recent meeting of the city council and since that time, interest has been rapidly forming every part of the eity, and particularly among the women, who promise to be the most hearty supporters of the issue when it comes up for all expression of public sentiment.

Honor American Dead. Namur, Belgium, April boats carrying the bodies of American soldiers who fell at St. Mihiel passed. Namur today. They were covered with fewers thrown by people living on the Meuse.

The bodies will be taken to Antwerp, where they will be placed on steamer and taken to New York, WATCH LABEL on your paper. Send renewal five days before expiration in order to avoid missing single copy. BOOTLEG WHISKEY CAUSES SHOOTING OF TWO OFFICERS Four Negroes In Automobile Chased By Posse From Lumberton To Fayetteville LUMBERTON POLICEMAN MAY BE FATALLY SHOT Another Member Of Police Force Wounded By Negro When Officers Attempt To Remove Liquor From Auto. mobile; One Of Negroes In Party Shot By McGill Lumberton, April McGill, of the Lumberton police force, was shot and dangerously wounded and J. B.

Boyle, another member of the police force, was shot through the arm by a negro about 5:00 o'clek this morning. One bullet struck Officer MeGill in the abdomen and penetrated the small intestines in three places, and a second bullet passed through his left arm but missed the bone. The negro was in an automobile with three other negroes and there was about four gallons of liquor in the cur, it is stated. The officers were in the act of removing the whiskey from the car which was stopped on Main street in front of the municipal building when the negro began firing. The policeman returned the fire and one bullet from his pistol struck the negro, who did the firing in the negroes left on the car imrediately after the shooting and a posse from here followed in hot pursuit, and all were arrested in Fayetteville at 9:30 o'clock this morning.

They said their home was in Florence, South Carolina. The negroes have been brought here and it is reported that they were carried to Raleigh. While several here to people await gathered arrival about the of negroes, there no evidence of this violence. The wounded officers were rushed the Thompson Hospital, where medical attention is being McGill's chances for recovery are doubtful, it is said, while it is not thought Boyle was seriously injured. Policeman McGill is a young unmarried man and has been on the local police force for several Policeman Boyle is probably, 50 years old but is unmarried.

a native of Ireland but has been in this country for quite a while. He was employed on the police force at Maxton, Robeson county, before coming to Lumberton several years ago. Both are fearless and valued officers. NEGROES MAKE LONG TRIP ON RIMLESS AUTO WHEEL Fayetteville, April negroes charged with shooting two policemen in Lumberton early this morning, were captured here four hours after the shooting by a posse of police and county officers. They were taken back to Lumberton by Robeson officers, leaving here in automobiles about 10:30.

Immediately after the two officers were shot down in Lumberton authorities there telephoned to Fayetteville as well other towns throughout this section asking that a be kept for the fleeing negroes, Lumberton old Buick car. Abont 9 o'clock both the sheriff's office and police hendquarters, here received 'phone message Tew at his store on Ramsey street that two strange negroes were in a car at the store of Charlie Williams, negro, in that neighborhood. Sheriff N. H. MeGeachy and Deputy Al Pate immediately drove to Tew's store to find that Policemen McQuage and Callahan had already arrested the two negroes.

The negroes informed the sheriff that another negro, who had been shot, was in a house in the country near here. Sheriff McGeachy and Pate took the negroes in their car and rode to the house, seven and a half miles out on the Linden road, and brought the three men back to Fayetteville. In the meantime Assistant Chief of gro in the Standard Hardware on Police McLeod arrested the nefourthe Person street, where he was purchasing some automobile The officials from Lumberton traced the fleeing negroes to Fayetteville, their ear having been run on the rim a tire was cut out. The officers from Robeson, who arrived here in time to take the men back to Lumberton, were Chief of Police Barker, Deputy Sheriff Arch Prevatt, Policemen Pittman, R. H.

Crighto1 J. E. Walters and Ed. Glover. In addition to the officers there were a number of deputized citizens in the party.

The negroes captured are James Williams, shot in the thigh, James Grice, Spencer James and Bennie Rogers. They all claimed that they worked Florence and were on their way there when they got lost and went to Lumberton through mistake. The story told by the negroes is that they were held up by the Lumberton policemen. The officers from Lumberton, when asked how the shooting occurred, declared that they could not say and were unable to learn, who fired the first shot. NEGROES NOT BROUGHT TO RALEIGH FROM LUMBERTON The four Lumberton negroes arrested for, the been shooting of two the police officers not brought to State prison early last night, it was stated by officials in charge of that institution.

HOLLY SPRINGS WOMAN DIES IN HOSPITAL AT DURHAM Durham, April George Utley, of Holly Springs, died Friday morning at Watts' Hospital. She had been a life-long resident of Holly Springs and was greatly beloved. Her only surviving relatives are one brother J. D. Hobdie, of Lynchburg, and several neices and nephews.

Funeral services were held from the Methodist ehruch there Saturday, condueted by Ber. C. D. Norris, a personal friend, FLOOD OF GOLD POURS INTO NEW YORK FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES New York, April flood of gold that recently has been pouring into this country was augmented today by the arrival of several ship. ments of the valued at nearly $12,000,000, from Colombia, India, Sweden and other points.

The steam. Drottingholm from Sweden brought the largest shipment, consisting of bullion valued at 000. The steamship Nieuw Amster. dam, which from Holland and stopped at British ports, brought in another bulk. valued at $4,000,000 $500,000 worth of gold bars rived from Calcutta on the Trafford.

Smaller amounts came on steamers from Colombian ports. All the gold was consigned to New York banks. POSSE SEARCHING FOR NEGRO RAPIST Unknown Man After Assaulting Pitt County Woman Attempts To Rob Home Greenville, April authorities and citizens are tonight instituting a vigilant search for an unknown negro man, who last night entered the home of Charlie Dail, white farmer residing about two miles of this city, and after criminally assaulting his wife, threatened to instantly kill her and her baby if she didn't surrender every bit of money in the House. The neighborhood in which the crime was committed has been considerably wrought up over the affair, but 80 far all attempts to locate the negro have been without success. The story of the crime as told by Mrs.

Dail immediately after it occurred is one of the most horrible that has been perpetrated in this section of the State in some years and has arroused such indi that it is probable the culprit will be dealt with severely if caught. Demands Money First. The negro made his appearance at the kitchen door while Mrs. Daily was cooking supper. There was no one present except a little child which had been moved from another room and placed in a cradle by the mother, so she could be in nearness to it.

Horrified at the appearance of the negro, the woman grabbed her baby and started to run out of another door, but proceeded only' a few steps before he grabbed her and forced her back to the center of the room, declaring if she made another movement, it would be her last. Fearing harm would come to the child, the mother placed it back into the cradle, and as she did SO the negro grabbed her, and demanded the money. She told him where it was but instead of going to the place she indicated, he declared he wanted something else. The mother was thrown forcibly to the floor, and when divining what the negro really meant to do she attempted to cry out sistance, she was strangled and again told if she made another effort to attract attention, she would be killed. Woman Retains Consciousness.

By an' a almost superhuman display of strength, the woman maintained consciousness and when released jumped from the floor as quickly as possible and faced the brute. "Now where is the money," he demanded of her. He was again directed to the place, where the cash was sup: posed to be put away, and when he turned to gain possession of it, the mother snatched the baby from the cradle and fled through the front door to the home of neighbors who live about two hundred yards from the Dail home. Mrs. Dail was in a fainting condition when she ran panting into the home of the neighbors.

A posse scoured the surrounding woods for the negro, but he could not be located. Every effort is being put forward by county officials tonight, to bring about apprehension of the negro, but SO far all efforts have been without avail. Mrs. Dail is about 23 years of age, and today is reported in bad condition from treatment which she reccived at hands of her assailant. PROBABLE CAUSE FOUND AGAINST EARL M'CASKILL Fayetteville, McCaskell, son of John McCaskell, of Gray Creek township, was bound over to the district Federal Court by U.

S. Commissioner W. S. Cook this afternoon on a charge of violating the national prohibition act, after a hearing marked by heated arguments between opposing counsel. The charge by against the young MeCaskell was brought Grays and order league and is another step in the fight and against that organization.

Five, members of the league were recently bound over to the Superior court on a charge of assaulting McCaskell with intent to kill. TITO LIGI IDENTIFIED BY NEW YORK LAWYER Scranton, April identification of Tito Ligi, arrested here last Tuesday on suspicion of complicity in the Wall Street explosion last September, was made here today by Thomas J. Smith, of Brooklyn, employed in the legal department of surance company, having offices in the New York financial district. Smith picked out Ligi from a line of six prisoners as the man he had seen arguing with the driver of the death wagon shortly, before the that plosion. few He newspapermen a moments after the blast he saw Ligi rushing along Cedar street, near Nassau street and Broadway, urg.

ing two companions to hurry out of the neighborhood. WANT VERMONT TO GET EXTRA MEMBER FROM THIS STATE Scheme To Keep South From Increasing Representation Discussed By G. 0. P. AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL PLAN, LAWYERS HOLD Plan To Base Increased Representation On Increase In Per.

centage Instead Of Gain In Population, As Constitution Requires; Judge Boyd Uses Smoke Screen On Visit News and Observer Bureau, 603 District National Bank Bldg. By EDWARD E. BRITTON (By Special Leased Wire.) Washington, April is talk among some of the North Carolina members of Congress of a plan that is to be in the minds of Republicans keep North Carolina from securing an extra member of Congress based upon its standing under the 1920 census, if the membership of the House is held at the present number, 435. With the continental population of the United States being 105,667,000 and the 435 membership being continued the basis for each member would be 913, and this would give North Carolina 11 members, as its per quota excess over the basic number would be nearly 140,000. The Republican proposition is understood to be that Vermont should have the extra member, that the excess in that State while but 55,000, is a larger per cent of the total population of Vermont than is the North Carolina excess to its total population, This was the trend of testimony given recently in a hearing on this matter, but it is clearly an unconstitutional position, for the constitution states explicitly that the representation in the House is to be based on population.

North Carolinians are awake to the situation and if it ever develops any strength they will resist it to the uttermost, and they will have the' support of every representative who is guided by the constitution. "Smoke that has been very effective has been thrown about the visit here of Judge James E. a Boyd and R. L. Blalock, clerk of the Western distriet court of Greensboro.

"On no particular business," was the answer of the two to newspaper men seeking information, but then there became talk that the purpose was to see to it that Blaylock kept tight hold on his present clerkship to so shape things that Judge Webb would find that Blaylock had a cinch on it. Then there is talk also that Judge Boyd and Mr. Blalock were taking soundings to see what chance Blaylock would have to land as United States Marshal of the Western North Carolina district. But the Moreheadslate has Brownlow Jackson, of Hendersonyille, written on it for that job. But the Republicans find that fodder-pulling time comes mighty slow, and that Democrats are still browsing around in the fertile pasturage ed by the government pay roll.

Where at the Republican office chasers are not pleased, for President Harding has been in power for seven weeks now and time flies. A. D. Watts, the State revenue commissioner, here. for North Since his Carolina, arrival is he still has been paying visits to Senator Simmons, to whom he was secretary here for quite a while, to A.

W. McLean, of the War Finance Corporation, Democratic National committeeman for North Carolina, talking with the former Director of the Census Sam L. Rogers and various members of Congress, newspaper men and others. It is just a personal visit, says Mr. Watts, and he will be kept busy when he gets back to Raleigh making the appointments that are to be made for his new office.

Despite the fact that the announcement of the selection of David H. Blair, of Salem, for commissioner of internal revenue is now many days old, there talk here among Republicans 'about "how come?" The latest is the big' cotton, tobacco and facturing interest were behind him so strong that this was the final factor in turning the trick, that the support of Stuart W. Cramer, of influential in big cotton manufacturing circles and a letter from him to the President was the winning card and that the fact that his father-in-law is one of the most successful and wealthiest cotton manufacturers in the country helped wonderfully. All these no doubt contributed, but the big things in his favor was tite fight among the supporters of other candidates, 1 their final position being that they preferred Blair to win than any of the men supported by any of the special groups. And then the Democratic support that Mr.

Blair received was given a warm welcome by the President and Secretary Mellon, among those who had good words for the Winston-Salem man being Senators Simmons and Overman, Representative Stedman, A. W. McLean and Clement Manly, of Winston -Salem. These were asked by the administration officials. some of them by the President himself, about Mr.

Blair and their good words helped him to win. Hon. A. McLean of Lumberton, of the War Finance Corporation, though he no longer carries the title, is performing the duties of secretary of the Treasury. His resignation was accepted by President Wilson on March 3, but at the request of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, he 18 holding on till his successor is named, though he is an overworked man in positions he holds.

Under his direction as assistant secretary of the Treasury is the Internal Revenue Bureau and the matters of customs. He is expecting an appointment of a man to take over the extra place in a short time. That Mr. MeLean has been called upon to hold over in 80 important a position is tribute to the efficient manner in which he has carried on the office, and (Continued on Page Two.) FARMERS TO URGE EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER TARIFF LAW American Farm Bureau Federation Formulates Its Legislative Program TO ASK FOR ADEQUATE CREDIT FOR AGRICULTURE Federation Will Also Recom. mend To Congress Repeal Of Guaranty Section of The Transportation Act and Re.

duction In Railroad Rates; Outlines Tariff Needs Washington, April of the guaranty section of the Transportation Act, reduction in railroad rates, equal protection for agriculture under the tariff, and adequate credit facilities for agrieulture was announced today as the legislative program which the Amer. ican Farm Bureau Federation will recommend to Congress AS an aid to farmers. The program was formulated by the executinve committee of the federation after two-week's conference here. Strong opposition was expressed to any sales tax, to repeal of the excess profits tax, and to any tariff on lumber and fertilizer. Another recommendation proposed the submission of a constitutional amendment prohibiting the issuing of all tax free securities as "more than $16,000,000,000, in securities now escape a federal tax." The federation reaffirmed its stand for regulation invested in the Department of Agriculture and oppopacker, sition to any federal excise tax on land.

Facts as to Tariff. The attention of Congress was called to the food "important and differing factors Amer- affecting products from the ican farm in their relationship to imports of like products from foreign countries," in considering the labor cost in making up the tariff law. Attention of Congress also was directed to the "center" of food production of the United States 88 being "somewhere" in the Mississippi Valley, while the center of consumption is in the populous areas of the East "many hundreds of miles away." Ocean freight rates from competing countries to the consuming centers were declared to be much lower "than the exorbitant and increasing freight rates from our farms to our own consumers." Financial Program. After setting forth "recent experiences" have shown that the farmers are "not adequately financed" and that their welfare jeopardized when they avail themselevs of the present shorttime commercial credits, the federation recommended legislation to provide credits secured by proper insurance features. It also asked that profits from the Federal Reserve banks be used as a revolving fund to provide working capital during the interim between refor money and the sale of the debentures.

Recommendation was made that suck debentures be made eligible for sale in Federal Reserve banks or on the open market. Increase of the maximum amount which may be loaned to a single borrower from the Federal Land banks from $10,000 to $25,000 was suggested. Announcement was made that a committee consisting of John Brown, Indiana, W. Jamison, Colorado, and Chester H. Gray, Missouri, had been named to study the Muscle Shoals, hire engineers for the renitrate project.

The committee, wili port their findings to the executive committee. ENDS LONG FUNERAL TRAMP A FROM FAR NORTH Plainwell, Mich, April Barker, exhausted from the hardships he endured on his fifteen hundred funeral tramp, arrived here day with the body of his brother tor law, J. Warde Brown; who died of pneumonia two weeks ago at a frontier trading post in Northern Canada. Refusing to part even in death with his companion submarine fighting during the World, War and in gold prospecting and trapping in the Far North, Barker remained seated in the express car beside the rude casket during the last lap of the trip. Barker collapsed after reaching here with the body.

He refused to discuss the perils he faced during his trip through forests, down rivers filled with rapids and along trails in the Far North. Funeral services for Brown will be held here tomorrow afternoon. PLENTY OF WATERPOWER AVAILABLE FOR DUNN Elizabeth City, April C. White, engineer, has completed his survey of the McQueen power site on Lower Little River and pronounced it ample to supply the quantity of current promised by the company. He is now engaged in surveying the plant owned by the town.

After this survey is completed the Board of Commissioners will decide whether it is best to accept the proposal of the McQueen Company or that of the Carolina and Light Company. The latter company desires to purchase the municipal plant and retail power and light current to consumera here. The McQueen company would supply current wholesale to the town, which would distribute it as it is now distributed. OLDEST CONDUCTOR ON THE SEABOARD DIES IN RICHMOND. Richmond, April G.

Shannonhouse, who is reported have been the oldest employe in point of service on the Seaboard Air Line Railway, having been a conductor a long number of years, died here today. His body will be taken to Rockingham, IN, for burial tomorrow, VOICE OPPOSITION TO PROMOTION OF GENERAL EDWARDS Senate Committee Recommends Confirmation Despite Democratic Objection NEW ENGLAND OFFICER ONLY ONE UNDER FIRE Democratic Members Of Com. mittee To Carry Fight Over Edwards' Confirmation To Floor Of Senate; Military Leader Was Relieved Of Command By Pershing, HENDERSON CHILD IS ELECTROCUTED Mrs. W. C.

Clopton, Mother Boy, Severely Shocked By Current Henderson, April Clopton, eleven year old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clopton, of South Henderson, was accidentaly electrocuted this morning while playing.

The Clopton boy and Tom Collins, about the same age, were playing near the Clopton home around the pole that supports the heavy wires running from the The Clopton boy seems to have taken hold of the ground wire which came loose from top of pole falling over on one of the feed wires, carrying sixty thousand volts which killed the child instantly. Tom Collins, his playmate, who was near him, Was knocked down and severely shocked. He was so frightened when he got on his feet that he ran away without finding the trouble. Mrs. Alice Clopton, the Clopton child's mother, hearing roaring of the heavy current going into the ground rushed out to find the trouble.

Seeing the pole on fire, and at the bottom lay her little son, she dashed to rescue the helpless child and when within about 10 feet of the pole the current was 90 great it knocked her down, rendering her unconseious and for several minutse she and her son lay in the power of the deadly current. Her neighbors were unable to go to her until someone could run to the substation about three hundred yards away to have the current cut off during which time the ground wire had tripped the switch in Raleigh and the switch was thrown in again. Not knowing the trouble the switch was thrown in a second time in Raleigh, sending the sixty thousand volts through the child's body a second time and kept the neighbors who stood by, from going to their rescue. Mrs. Clopton's' physician says her condition was painful but not serious and while in a very nervous state she is doing nicely.

Mr. W. C. Clopton is an employee of the Carolina Light and Rower operating the sub-station in South Henderson. Mrs.

Clopton is 37 years of age and the mother of seven children. BLAIR MUST DECIDE ON REGULATIONS FOR BEER Fixing Arbitrary Limit On Use Of Beers and Wines Will Be His Job Washington, April arbitrary limit of 4 7-8 gallons of beer and three gallons of wine as the maximum a physician may prescribe at any one time has been set in new prohibition regulations, which await the approval H. Blair, the new commissioner of internal rev. enue. In making this announcement to.

day, Prohibition Commissioner Kramer, said that while under Attorney General Palmer's recent opinion the amount of beer or wine prescribed, by 8 physician over a given period could not be limited, it was believed that the amount of individual prescriptions coalin.be. limited to a reasonable It would not be practical, he said, to require a patient for whom two or three bottles of beer a day might be prescribed, to obtain a prescription for each day. Issuance of beer and wine regulations, Mr. Kramer emphasized, will depend entirely upon the decision of the new internal revenue commissioner. Regulations as prepared for his approval, he said, were merely tentative.

TWO CABARRUS SOLDIERS LAID REST AT CONCORD Concord, April, 23. -The bodies of Lieutenant Fred Y. McConnell Private Harly L. Tueker, two Cabarrus men who made the supreme sacrifice in France, arrived in Concord this morning from Camp Jackson, where they were sent from Hoboken for shipment home. members of the Fred Y.

McConnell Post of the American Legion had charge of both services, furnishing pall bearers and an honor guard and firing squad for each burial. Washington, April some Democratic objection to Brigadier-General Clarence R. Edwards, the Senate military committee today voted to recommend confirmation of the twelve major and fourteen generals nominated recently by President Harding for promotion. General Edwards, who commanded the Twenty (New England) Division overseas until relieved by General Pershing and returned home, was the only nominee on the list under fire. The committee vote on his name today was reported to have been 12 to 8, with three Democrats opposing and three others voting fer his confirmation.

Those said to have opposed General Edwards' included Senators Hitchcock, Nebraska, and McKellar, Tennessee. Senators Robinson, of Arkansas, and Myers, of Montana, Democrats, were reported to have joined the Republican committee members in supporting him. Senators Sheppard, of Texas, and Fletcher, of Florida, the other Democrate the committee, declined to indicate their action. Fight to Go to Senate Democratic opponents of General Edwards, whose name hended, the list of nominees for intimated they would carry their fight to the Senate floor. No filibuster, it was said, would be waged, but a record vote at least, it was declared, would be demanded.

Republicans predicted that the entire list of general officers' would be ratified promptly by the Senate, thereby paving the way for a dozen more promotions to the rank of brigadier, many other promotions down through the whole service and for seleetion of a chief of staff. Members of the Senate committee expressed the belief that General Edwards would not be chosen staff after today's meeting, at which chief Secretary Weeks was called in again for further discussion of General Edward's record. Major-General Harbord, according to opinion of prominent Republican senators, will be selected chiefof-staff to succeed General Peyton C. March. Information submitted today by Secretary Weeks regarding General Edwards' record was given in executive session.

Members of the committee said that it disclosed existence of differences between Pershing and General Edwards over the latter's course in commandthe Twenty-Sixth Division in France. Secretary Weeks, however, was reported to have declared emphatically to Democratic senators opposing General Edwards' promotion that a thorough search of the War Department files had been made without finding any record of such charges as Democratic senators said they had heard were on file. Pershing Non-Committal Secretary Weeks, according to committee members, was said to have testified today that after opposition developed at yesterday's committee meeting against General Edwards, he had talked over the case last with General Pershing. The latter, was said, told Secretary Weeks that he had not recommended General Edwards for promotion and if called on to act again, would not now recommend General Edwards for a higher rank. Secretary Weeks was said to have stated also that General Pershing did not now disapprove or oppose General Edwards' confirmation, desiring to refrain from intervening in the matter.

Information given to the committee today by Secretary Weeks, according to committee members, was to the effect that events which led to relief of General Edwards from command of the Twenty-Sixth Division, October 22, 1918, had their inception during the ous July. The order relieving General Edwards from command came, was said, the day before his division went into action. The committee was told, it was said, that General Edwards had criticized decisions regarding strategy emanating from general headquarters. Another circumstance said to have been was that of harwards in executing plans of the cammonious co of General Edpaign involving the division. Democratic Contentions The element of reported difference between General Pershing and General Edwards, was said not to have been held paramount by Democratic opponents of confirmation.

Democratic senators said the issue raised was whether the Senate should confirm for promotion an officer whom General Pershing had relieved from command, virtually on the eve of battle. The nocratic opponents were said to have taken the position that under these circumstances the administration was not justified in striking the name of Brigadier-General Omar Bundy from the list of officers, for promotion and substituting General Edwards. ELIZABETH CITY SHIPS FIRST CARLOAD PEAS. Elizabeth City, April City shipped her first carload garden peas Wednesday, April 20. They were shipped in a refrigerator car.

The were shipper was consigned R. C. to New Abbott York and the City. peas There were 347 baskets in the car and they went on sale on the New York market Saturday morning. Growers will anxiously await the result of sale.

South Carolina peas sold on the New York market this week for $4 to $4,50 a basket If local growers get as good a return everybody will be happy..