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H The Tribune Bureau, ■ Sir Walter HoteL Hre Xov. _.i.—The practice at Ka rogue in, this state those sued for the support torn nut of w edlock would ■ gore the girl’s promiscuity, men testify to having relations with her, has vir ■e broken up as a result of of welfare officers in hav- arrested for prosti- Hiccarcicg to Mrs. Kate Burr Hie! tie State Board of Chari- Ht Jubiic Welfare. Hm beg’m. several years ago Anna B. Lewis, then Htofcst of public welfare in Huk county, turned the tables men who came to Hk tie promiscuity of a girl so Htssot be granted the meagre support of her illegitimate its father —the maximum North Carolina laws. a similar case came county, according to in whioh a young man MjfH 'with having seduced a BEL'src, who was about to be- Huother. Hffidence was decidedly im one man was put on and caused a sensation by he had had improper the prosecuting witness he had met her. The B* knowing him. M** citor upon the conclusion of testimony asked the judge jH ® taken into custody as he B* ls guilty according to his Bnente. ojhfr young fellows wait- along the same lines, B :Kll slams when they were ■! stand." comments the Ht'ews. Hj^° 2 ' p;l l idea that there are B o parties ro immorality, and 50 m ic the other, seems V LOSES m RING TRIAL B* lmportant Point and Loses During Day. lost U!l( j won import s' 111 his murder trial here Wl n . 8ft.,7 L" failed in trying ■£ p fi 'r' who drove mL\ firk "I’e-re he shot and Bh , :nUs (l, ' :f »her Oth, had ■tij 1- 111 H ° office of Chas. M, S Unry I’tosocutor. Judge ■a,^r k L' ard long argu- Bh - . '- "f the jury and Ki ’ r Remus. mSSirr when ,ludse 800 » 1 T'cords so far B. The state ■iii ujj L r °' r ‘ that Remus had tM plan the slaying i'lnn with others ■ ' idea is msan- B ‘-hook v, t' Wive to . !h:lt rhp State ■ if-umstantial ev y? 0 In t Va,ll ‘ I’crry Port. 8 111 . a '"'Ttiee of local B%aro]'7f.' [ nine Iar S <; B Japa„ lvur ihamainura. •liodorA ?! !i; " 6;,me spot B *quaHr,; il 1 ' ! : y first I)Ut iu Btbout , : l , .' ;,rs a «°- A1 ‘ „ U(V * 8 “«*? ‘xpiipment. in °. apturins it o.i. a w,re r °p e - B U Tr *l, ' v< ' ;l for several ■ y caught six others the concord times J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher thanksgiving. This year Thanksgiving Day falls on the earliest possible date November 24th. The earliest harvest Thanksgiv ing in America was kept by the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth in 1621. Congress recommended days of thanksgiving annually during the Revolution and in 1754 for the re turn of peace. Os all the religious festivals of the year Thanksgiving is the only one that is for the people of ail creeds. Since 1863 the Presidents have always issued proclamations ap pointing the last Thursday in No vember as Thanksgiving Day. The first national English thanksgivings were offered at St. Paul’s Cathedral for the defeat of the Spanish Armada, in 1588. President I\ ashington appointed a day of thanksgiving in 1786 after the adoption of the Constitution, and in 1.95 for the general benefit and welfare of the Nation. The earliest Thanksgiving known to have been observed by men oil the American continent was that held by the Popham colonists on their landing in Maine August 9, 1607. FIRE LOSS FIGURES. Building and Contents Fire I.oss in State in October Was $494,243. - The Tribune Bureau, Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Nov. 23.—The building and contents fire loss in North Carolina in October, was $494,243 from 172 fires, as compared with 170 fires and loss of $420. 1 82 for October 1026, according to figures announced- today by Dan C. Boney, Commissioner of Insurance. The loss last month was distributed as follows: Rural fires 35, loss $60,- 115; of which 19 were dwelling fires with $28,000 damage. Town fires, 137, loss $434,000, of which. 75 were dwellings with loss of $89,950, ag gregating a total of 94 dwelling firee. loss of $117,950 against a total of all other classes of property fires of 78 in number with loss of $404,165. Further analysis of the detailed re port shows that there were 18 firee, where the loss per fire was $5,000 and over the total loss reaching $351,500. Os this total, $262,000 resulted from four fires, two at Winston-Salem; Gilmers department store, $208,000; Gilmers dwelling a few days later, $19,000; a chair factory at Stanley, $25,000 j business block at Morrisville, $10,000; total loss for the $262,000 as against $89,500 for the other 14 of this class of fires. The average lose in each of these 18 fires was $19,300, while for the other 154 fires, aggre gating $142,615 the average loss was -$039; - With the exception of Winston- Salem, there was no outstanding loss in any of the towns or larger cities, several getting on the honor roll with no fires in October. Os the larger cities with low records are Charlotte,' $2,- 874; Greensboro, $475; Asheville, sl,- 080; Durham, $1,074; Raleigh, $750; Goldsboro, $420; Kinston, $285; Hen derson, $465; Monroe, $100; States ville, $125; RockyL Mount, $750; Elizabeth City, $520. Twenty-seven towns reported v no fire damage during October as 'fol lows; Nashville, Washington, New Bern, Salisbury, Concord, Southern Pines, Fairmont,- Pine Bluff, Oxford, Ayden. Pinehurst, Shelby, Pinetope, Franklinton, Elm City, Graham, Smithfleld, Plymouth, Southport, Aberdeen, Sanford, Williamston, Burnsville, Farmville, Raeford. There is a tribe in Central Africa among whom speakers in public de bate are required to stand' on one leg while speaking, and are allowed to speak only eo long as they can to stand. ARMS LIMITATIONS STILL HOPED FOR Great Britain Not Ready to Lay More 10,000 Ton Cruisers at This Time. , London, Nov. 23. — (A 3 )—The British government is reluctant to lay down any more 10,000 ton cruisers at present, in the hope that naval limitation may yet be reached, W. C. Bridgeman, first lord of the admiralty, told the House of Commons today. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Mr. Bridge man said that a new situation had arisen owing to the fact that although Great Britain’s proposal for limitation in the number of large 10,000 ton cruisers had not been agreed to at Geneva/ the discussion left the hope that a limitation might be reached.. In these circumstances, he add ed, the British government was reluctant to lay down any more of these cruisers at present. * Ruth Snyder And Judd Gray See Hopes Die When Their Appeal Is Turner Down Albany, N. Y., Nov. Ug.-The exe cution of Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray “probably will be” the week of January 9th, William J. Armstrong, clerk of the court of ap peals, said tonight. Albany, N. Y., Nov. 22.—Ruth Snyder, the blonde New York house wife and mother who denied her guilt to the last, and Henry Judd. Gray, her mild mannered paramour, who told freely how they both strangled and beat Ruth's half sleeping hus band to death, today lost their joint appeal from sentence of death. Both are in the death house at Sing Sing. The date of execution is ex pected to be set by the court of ap peals here tomorrow.. If Mrs. Snyd er dies, she will be the third woman executed in New York State. ; Victim of Shooting \ i. gl. . 'iHlillilli ' • BBS| willy mF h Ax! Mrs. Elsie Holt Snipes, pretty JS*' year-old divorcee and mother of. two ohitaren, was found in her' apartment in Richmond, Va, mys-j teriously ghot through the head.: Her death followed. John W. Fai-i eon, manager of the Hermitage! Country Club, has been held la oonneotlon with the cage. - J TRIBUNE WILL NOT BE ISSUED TOMORROW Following the usual custom, The Daily Tribune will not be publish ed tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day. The holiday is given our employes so that they may enjoy a full day is they deem best. The Tribune will be published as usual on Friday. O’BRIANT WILL SPEND HIS DAYS IN ASYLUM Jury Finds Durham Man Insane and Judge Barnhill Sends Him To Hos pital. Durham, Nov. 22. —Walter O’Briant, self-confessed slayer of Mrs. Sallie Smith Williams, his al leged paramour, will spend the rest of his life in the state insane asyium or until such a day when he shall be ' be declared sane. This was the order of Judge M. Y. Barnhill, presiding over this week’s special session of Superior court for the trial of crimi nal cases. Approximately 15 minute<Tvae re quired for the jury to decide the case which has been on the docket of Durham county since the death of his victim several days after she was shot by a pistol in O’Briant’s hand. Three witnesses were heard, two of whom were for the defense and the third for the state, who bolstered up the contention om,he counsel for the defense, who was J. Elmer Long, lieutenant governor of North Caro, lina, that O’Briant is insane. Sheriff John F. Harward and E. C. Belvin. deputy and jailer, wore the witnesses for the defense, and both of them testified regarding his actions wmle a prisoner in the county jail. Dr. Adams, of the state hospital for the insane, was called as a witness for the state, but his testimony was to the effect that the defendant, who spent all of last week in the state hospital for observation, is undoub tedly mentally unbalanced. WOMAN AT MADISON IS FATALLY BURNED Can Explodes, Saturating Clothing of Mrs. Bryan Wilson. Madison, Nov. 22.—Mrs. Bryan Wilson was fatally burned Monday morning when she attempted to kin dle a fire in the cook stove with kerosene oil. A fire had already, been started in the stove, but Mrs. Wilson, thinking that the flamee had become extinguished, picked up a five gallon can containing about four gallons of oil and poured a small quantity on the. wood. The flames caused the can to explode, completely saturating her clothes and covering everything in.the kitchen. The price of cotton on the local market today is quoted at 20 cents per pound. ' , Ossinging, N. Y., Nov. 22. —When Henry Judd Gray and Ruth Snyder were told in the Sing Sing prison death house today that they had lost their last court fight for life, Gray received the news with outward but Mrs. Snyder burst into tears. “Gray was receiving a call ‘from his mother,” Warden Lajves told the Associated Press, "when the news came. When the keeper told him he just said ‘Thanks’ and bowed his head. “When Mrs. Snyder was told of the court’s action she asked what it meant. Told that it meant that un- Jess there was intervention she would die within six weeks, she gripped the arms of her chair convulsively and then brust into tears.” CONCORD, N. Q, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1927. WEEK OE JANUARY NINTH FIXED FOR DEATH OF COUPLE Mrs. Snyder and Henry | Judd Gray Must Die that Week Unless Governor Smith Gives Clemency. COURTS TO THEM NOW Decision of the Lower Court Upheld and Only The Governor is in Posi tion to Aid Them. Albany. N\ Y.. Nov. 23.— (A>)—' The I week beginning January 9th was fixed | by the court of appeals today for the ! execution in the electric chair at Sing ; Sing prison of Mrs. Ruth ' Brown : Snyder, Queens village housewife and i mother, and her paramour, Henry Judd Gray, for the murder of Mrs. ; Snyder’s husband, Albert Snyder. , Under the provisions of the penal j law, execution must take place not less than four weeks nor more than eight weeks after the date of sen | fence. Ordinarily the court fixes a j time midway between the maximum and minimum time. Clerk Wm. J. Armstrong of the : court prepared the death warrants, I setting the execution for the week of January 9th. These were signed by 1 all the judges of the court, aud then I were forwarded to Sing Sing prison | where Mrs. Snyder and Gray are con. j fined in the death house. |! Fixing the date of execution fol | lowed the court’s unanimous action | yesterday in sustaining the eonvlc ■ tions of the blonde haired Mrs. Snyder and her corset salesmarf companion. The only chance left now to the convicted pair is executive clemency at the hands of Governor Smith. It is considered a certainty that appeals for commutation of sentence to life imprisonment will be presented, bnt the governor, judging by his proced ure in the past, will not give any in timation regarding his attiutde until after the clemency hearing. PRINTING BIDS WILL * BE OPENED DECEMBER 20 New Contract Forms Will Be Mailed to Printers as Soon as Possible. The Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel By J. a.PASpRVILL/ Raleigh, Nov. 23.—Bids wit! opened on the new State printing contract December 20th, and the new contract form will be distributed to the printers just as soon as it can be printed and gotten into form for the prospective bidders to study. The new contract contains 17 different classifications, and bidders may bid on any or all of these classifications, according to their ability and desire to do the work. The new form of contract was for mally approved, and the date set up on which new bids will be received at the formal meeting of the printing commission on Tuesday, when the new contract was gone over in detail and approved with hut a few minor re visions. And with the approyal of this contract, the long drawn-out de lay in the letting of the State print ing contract came to a technical end, though the new contract will not take effect until January 1, 1928 r and will extend to the end of the present bi ennium, on June 30, 1929. The question now remains, how ever, as to how the new contract will be received by the various printing firms over the since it is very different in character from the old contract. The old contract was a blanket contract, under which print ers were compelled to bid on all clas sifications under it, or a proportion ate part of all classifications. Under this new contract, however, a print ing firm may bid on only one or two v of the classifications, if they so de sire, or upon all of the seventeen, though they must bid upon all the work under each classification. This will entail a much different procedure upon the part of bidding printers, since they will have to prepare their bids so that each classification will stand alone, since they cannot count upon getting a share of the work un der all the seventeen classifications. As a result, some seem to think that the prices will be increased slightly all along the line. However, it is generally agreed that the new con tract form will bring about real com petition, and that is what the print ing commission primarily desires. EIGHT CONVICTS AT WILMINGTON ARE FREE Made Escape Last Night Along With Five Others Who Were Captured Later. Wilmington, Nov. 23. —G4 5 )—City and county officers today were search ing for eight of the 13 convicts who escaped last night from the county stockade. Five of the men were re captured during the morning. Two negroes were taken at Faison, and were brought back this morning. County authorities today were in vestigating in an effort to ascertain how the prisoners obtained a saw used in removing the bars. None of the convicts had committed major crimes. THE STOCK MARKET. Prices Headed Upward at the Open ing of the Market Today. New York, Nov. 23.— UP) —Prices headed upward at the opening of the stock market today. A block of 10,- 000 shares of Radio Corporation changed hands at 92, a new top, and several large blocks of other stocks figured in initial dealings. Sears & Roebuck and Montgomery Ward be gan the day at new peaks, and the General Electric was about two points higher at the outset* TRAPS ’EM AUTOMATICALLY Bre’r Rabbit will receive with alarm the news of a rabbit-gum which traps the bunnies in a de ceptive and unique way. J. W. Carriker, well known and success , ful farmer of near Bethel school, Is the inventor of the automatic trap. It’s a sure thing, the rabbit, * once caught, never escapes from this gum. The hare, curious about the contraption, sniffs his way to a juicy pear or apple on the farth er end of a plank, which, after the rabbit has gone a short distance, tilts, trapping the victim. Mr. Carriker says he is going to have the trap patented. GILES GIVES DETAILS t)F NARROW ESCAPE Barely Managed to Cling to Plane When It Went Into Tail Spin During Storm. San Luis, Cali., Nov. 23. — UP) — Captain Frederick A..« Giles, British flyer, who made an emergency land ing here yesterday after taking off at San Francisco for a flight to Hono lulu, declared today that the storm which he encountered at sea put his plane into a tail spin and threw him from the cockpit of the machine. “I managed lo grasp the gasoline feed line overhead, and as the plane fell I worked my way back into my seat, straightening the plane as it fell’’ he related. • “When the spin started I was about 600 miles out. and about 4,000 feet above the water. When the plane had been righted, It was only a short dis tance above the eea. Had I been flying a monoplane it never would have stood the gaff as the terrific force of the storm made the plane creak and groan.” Giles landed here with barely two gallons of gasoline, explaining he had dumped 300 gallons ’at sea after com ing out of the tail spin in order to lighten the strain on the wings. The flyer left for San Francisco early today. He said he planned to ar range for repairs to the plane, and attempt another hop off. THE COTTON MARKET. Opened Easy Today at Decline of 10 to 21 Points, January Selling Off to 19.46. New York, Nov. 23.— (A 3 )—The cot ton market opened easy today at a decline of 10 to 21 points, January selling off to 19.46 and May to 19.87 under liquidation by recent buyers combined with local and southern sell ing promoted by lower Liverpool ca bles and unfavorable trade reports. The latter included further talk of domestic mill curtailment, but the op fening decline seemed to attract con siderable price fixing 'or covering. January soon rallied to 19.57 and other months showed recoveries of several points, with the market about 10 to 12 points net lower at the end of the first hour. Offerings were comparatively light after the early selling had run its course, and the market became firmer on pre-holiday covering and trade buying. Present crop positions recov ered all but 3 or 4 points of their early losses, January selling up to 19:65, while October was relatively firm, selling 2 or 3 points above yesterday’s closing quotation at midday. Cotton futures opened easy: Dec. 19.45 ; Jan. 19.48 ; March 19.73 ; May 19.87; July 19.75. Chicago Can Divert Wafer From Lake. Washington, Nov. 23.— (A*) —Chi- cago today won before Special Master Charles E. Hughes in its fight to di vert water from Lake Michigan into its drainage canal. The former associate justice of the Supreme Court held that the permit of March 3, 1925, for such diversion “is valid and affective according to its terms, the entire control of the diversion remaining with Congress.” Would Exempt Federal Securities From Surtax. Washington, Nov. 23.— (A 3)—Ex emption of federal securities from the surtax will be recommended to Con gress by Secretary Mellon. Billy, the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Cagle, remains seriously ill. He is suffering with pneumonia. THE STOCK MARKET Reported by Fenner & Beane. (Quotations at 1:30 P. M.) Atchison 192 American Can 72% Allied Chemical 1 152 American Smelting 173% American Tel. & Tel. 179% Atlantic Coast Line 192% Baltimore & Ohio 117% Bethlehem Steel 55 Chrysler 57% Corn Products 65% New York Central 163% Dupont 319 Erie 62% Fleishman 69% General Electric 131% Gold Duet 72% General Motors 128% Gen. Ry. Signal 1-4% Houston Oil 162 Hudson Motors 71% Mo.-Kans. & Tex. 43% Kennecott Copper 81% Kans. City Sou.. Ry. 64% Liggett & Myers 124 Lori Hard 41% Mack Truck 109% Montgomery-Ward 98% Nash Motors 90% Packard Motors 53% Penn. RR. 65% Phillips Pete 42 Reading RR. 107% “B” Rey. Tob. Com. 158% Sears Roebuck 83% Southern Ry. 139% Std. Oil of N. J. 40% Sou. Pac. RR. 121% Sou. Dairies Pfd. - 20% Studebaker Corp. 56% Union Carbine 151% Westinghouse Elec. Co. 91 West. Myrd. RR. 51 Wool worth 195% U. S. Steel 144 Coca-Cola —__ 125% No Decision Yet As To Cost of School Books The Tribune Bureau, tally are taxpayers and voters, rather Sir Walter Hotel. than to concentrate it in the hands of Raleigh, Nov. 22. —What price a few who already have a plenty, school books? This does not mean, however, that This question is again being con- the State School Book Depository is sidered by the State Board of educa- to be abolished. But it does mean the tion here today, which is still wrest- beginning of what those interested in ling with questions of “what tvoe of maintaining the Depository are afraid contract shall be adopt' vJ ' ■ding may be the slow strangling to death to Dr. A. T. Allen, Statt end- of the goose that lays the golden ent of Public Instruct be- egg. What the publishers are pro yond which he will ing. posing is a contract that will embrace However, the question in . )on both 9. wholesale and retail price— further analysis, is far n led the retail price to be the price at than at first appears, a ft which the book is to be sold to the really whether or not t %11 child, and the wholesale' price at permit a middleman in ,fl So which it is to be sold to the dealers — collect approximately 10 pt and also a clause which will make it handling the school books, optional with the publishers as to this middleman shall be i O whether or not they will distribute and the saving passed o • their books through the State Deposi school children of the state- • -~*ing tor.v. of something like $25,000 a year. Some of the smaller publishers, It already appears, despite the who do not have extensive warehouse cloak of mystery which the Board of facilities, prefer to use the state de- Education .has attempted to throw pository, and absorb the added ex around all its proceedings, all of pense themselves, rather than set up which have been held behind closed the necessary machinery to ship and doors in the Governor’s office—that deliver their books direct to dealers the Board has decided that the time in all sections of the State. On the has come to eliminate some of this other hand, some of the larger publish “political gravy” and pass the savers, who already have extensive or ing along to the parents of the school ganizations and are prepared to ship children who have to pay for the direct to the dealers, maintain that books. And it seems that a number they can do this at less expense than of the members ’of the Board feel through the state depository. Hence that it would be well to pass this sav- they are seeking this optional con ing along to the parents, who inciden- tract. GuardChildrenT oKeep Disease From Spreading State Expert Says Children Spread Diseases More Than Anybody Else—Gives Simple Rules to Safe guard Lives of the Children. The Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Nov. 23.—The public school is probably the greatest disseminator of communicable diseases that now ex ists, and presents one of the biggest problems which the State board of health has to cope with in its efforts to reduce the number of communicable diseases, according to Dr. H. A. Tay lor, , epidemiologist of the State board of health, and whose specific job is to keep a constant check on the number of cases of communicable diseases, and to devise ways and means to reduce the number. / “Every child with a cough or a cold should-* ■ excluded -from school for at least a week and should be kept out of school as soon as the cough or cold shows up,” says Dr. Taylor, “since a number of communicable dis eases, especially whooping cough and measles, are far more infectious in the preliminary stages than after a child begins td whoop or after he has broken out with measles. “It is unfortunate for us who are fighting these diseases that the age groups attending the public schools are particularly favorable to the growth and dissemination of commun icable diseases, and they afford ideal facilities for exposure,” Dr. Taylor said. “Children from practically ev ery home and every walk of life are necessarily brought together in close proximity to each other for several hours each day. And if there are any of the so-called ‘catching’ diseases in the community or school district it is almost certain tp be contracted by the susceptible children in the school. Thus the school becomes the common trading ground for communicable dis eases, unless proper precautions are exercised. “For every child in the average school is within coughing and sneez ing range of from 25 to 50 other chil dren each day, and in the transmit sion of those diseases having a pa dromal or catarrhal stage, notably measles, whooping cough and scarlet fever, we need not look any further to find the manner ip which these di seases spread.” Next to coughing and snepzing, the common drinking cup is probably the next most prevalent instrument in spreading communicable disease, ac- King and Queen End Christmas Shop ping. (By International News Service) London, Nov. 23.—The British roy al family has completed its Christ mas shopping. Queen Clary’s Christmas gift buy ing may be said to have started about last January, because her great hobby is visiting the shops of antique deal ers and buying presents for her fam ily and friends. All the same, how ever, about two months before Christ mas she generally makes a very thor ough round of shops in search of gifts. This year this practice has been in terfered with by her brother’s illness and death, and the majority of goods for the Queen to make selections from have been sent direct to Buckingham Palace. The Prince of Wales lias struck a line of miniature knights in armor, which be is bestowing on his inti mates _ , Princess Mary has picked jade or naments and valuable needlework as her favorite presents. The Duke and Duchess of York are presenting their friends with many curiosities they acquired in their long world tour of this year. 160 Murders in Four Years. (By International News Service) Clarksdale, Miss., Nov. 23.—Coa homa county is in the grip of a crime wave which has netted 160 murders during the past four years. Public sentiment is strongly against hang ing and the last hanging was fifteen years ago. On this argument, C. S. Longine, county attorney, has made an appeal to the citizens to stop the crime wave in this county. Out of the 160 mur ders committed, only four slayers have escaped. $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance cording to Dr. Taylor, especially such diseases as diphtheria and tuberculosis and diseases of respiratory origin. “Any object touched or handled by a child that' has been previously touched or handled by another cer tainly furnishes a possible route of travel for disease germs from the mouth or nose of the first child to the nose or throat of the other,” says Dr. Taylor. “If every child attending the average public school could leave a different colored stain wherever his fingers touched, what a motley of col ors the school room would be! “Thus if the school nursing facili ties are adequate—and they rarely are—a daily inspection or examina tion -of each child should be made.and any child found with a cough of course should be excluded from school for a*period of at least seven days, of until the condition clears up and all signs of danger are passed. In the absence of nursing facilities, the teacher can and should make this daily inspection of children for coughs and colds part of her routine duty, and the law is plain in requiring teachers to do this. “The aggregate number of days lost by the children in the average school as a result of absences from such dis eases as measles and whooping cough alone and the interference with the curriculum during the average course of a year are appalling, in many in stances resulting in the suspension of the school work entirely. Hence it is obvious that the schools stand to gain by this or any other practical measure for the limitation of con tagious diseases.” Nor will the abolition rof the com mon schoolhouse drinking cup or gourd suffice, according to Dr. Taylor. The privately owned stock of slight ly less common drinking cups should pass also. f lt is very common for one drinking cup to serve all the chil dren from the same family at school. But this practice is just as undesir able. The only way out is to have sanitary drinking fountains, or in dividual sanitary drinking cups. The practice of washing hands before eat ing should also be insisted upon. Observance of these few precau tions would materially- reduce the number of communicable disease cases, Dr. Taylor believes. GOVERNOR DECLINES TO PAROLE BANKER McLean Has Busy Day Before Go ing To Durham To Deliver Speech. Raleigh, Nov. 18.—Governor Mc- Lean had a busy afternoon before de parting for Durham where he ad dressed business and industrial lead ers tonight. He, for the second time declined a parole for Erving W. Durham hanker, sent to the State prison last spring for embezzlement of $21,000 from the Fidelity Bank. He received Wachovia Bank heads in course of their trip of inspection of their trust companies. The Governor conferred with Pro fessor Goodwin of the School for Deaf and Dumb, Morganton, on permanent improvements. The school asked for two more linotype machines. Heads of the Samarcand Institute also conferred with the Governor. Metiiodists Gain In Membership. Memphis, Tenn., Nov.22—(INS) —More than 3,000 members have been added to the rolls of Methodist churches in West Tennessee and West Kentucky during this year. This fact was disclosed by reports at the conference of West Tennessee and West Kentucky Methodist lay men and churchmen here this week. Rev. Horace M. Dußose, bishop, received the reports of the increase in membership of the Methodist de nomination. The district of Mem phis wth 20,000 members showed only a gain of 200 members this year. The business of the manicurists is threatened by the new invention of a new electrical machine, which it is claimed will do in fve minutes tbe work which it takes the manicurist 35 minutes to perform. * PRESIDENT GOING : ON AIR TONIGHT; BIG HOOKUP PLAN More Than Score of Sta tions Will Hookup, to Send President’s Mes sage to All Parts of Land THANKSGIVING TO BE HIS SUBJECT Will Ask People to Ob serve Day Fittingly— First Time any President Has Ever Done This. Washington, Nov. 23.—OP)—Over a radio hookup of more than a score of stations President Coolidge tonight will ask the nation to observe another day of Thanksgiving. - He will speak into the microphone from his study in the White House promptly at 8:15 Eastern Standard time, and it is expected that his voice may be heard throughout the United States and possibly abroad. It will mark the first time a Presi dent has ever been able to reach mil lions of people in a personal appeal to observe a Thanksgiving Day. Mr. Ooolidge will read the text of bis Thanksgiving Proclamation which was issued earlier this month. At the White House itself. Thanks giving Day will' be passed quietly. Just which of the three trukeys that have arrived there as presents to Mr* Coolidge will be served at the Presi dential table has so far not been de cided. It appears that no such in teresting table specimen is to be re ceived this year as a year ago, when Rebecca, the raccoon, made her de but at the White House. Intended as a table delicacy, she won her way in to the President’s heart, and has been his pet ever since. The weather bureau has predicted cold and dismal weather for the holi day. CONTEMPT CITATIONS READY FOR SERVICE Will Be Served on Burns, His Son, Sinclair, Day and Clark. Washington, Nov. 23.—(A*)—Certi fied copies of Justice Siddons’ order citing Harry F. Sinclair, W. J. Burns and four others to show cause here December sth why they should s»ot he punished for their part in the jtlry surveillance scandal, were issued ♦to day by Assistant District Attorney Neil Burkinshaw. Through arrangements with coun sel, William J. Burns, founder of the Burns Detective Agency, and W. Sherman Burns, its manager, and C. L. Veitsch, manager of the Burns Baltimore office, will accept service in the office of their attorney here next Monday. The citations for Sinclair and his confidential associate, Henry Mason Day, will be served on them by Unit ed States marshals at their offices in New York, probably on Friday. Sheldon Clark, of Chicago, another of Sinclair's confidential associates, will he served in Chicago as soon as the order can reach there. Cameo Kirby Smiled And Was No Welcher. “The hand’s dealt —I’ll play it out.” , Cameo Kirby, the Mississippi riv er gambler, pursued by a posse seed ing him on the unjust charge of mur« der, unwittingly seeks refuge in the lair of his enemies. He meets the girl and his daring, adventurous soul causes him to throw caution to the winds until masquerading as the man he is accused of murdering, he has but one chance to escape. Bunce, his confidant and partnei pleads with him to take no necessary chances, but Cameo replies: “The hand’s dealt. I’ll play It out l” It’s typical of the courageous, ro mantic character around whom Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wih*on wove their justly successful stage play which was made into a motion picture by Fox Films, a reissue cl ■ which will be shown at the Stai Theatre beginning today and Thurs day. OFFICER SHOT IN HUNT FOR GUNMEN Pistol of Another Officei Discharged Accidentally in / Hunt For Gangsters* Chicago, Nov. 23.—C49—Active ities of Chicago gangsters in the war for the control of gambling and vice syndicates were respon sible for the accidental shooting of Detective Sergeant Thomas Lynch by another policeman early today.— A green sedan near the home of Tony Lombardo allied with A1 “Scarface” Capone, a leader of one of the rival gangs, attracted the attention of Sergeant Lynch while touring the West Side. Be fore police in a squad car could question the occupants of the se dan, the latter drove off. In a two-mile chase the squad car skidded on a sharp turn, and Policeman F. T. Barnes’ pistol was accidentally discharged, the bullet entering the ‘ sergeant's head. At a hospital it was said the officer probably would recover. The gangsters escaped. mmm Mostly cloudy tonight and Thun* day, probably showers Thursday i| the extreme west and extreme nort| 'portions; warmer tonight* • NO. 41