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j ESTABLISHED 18 80 MOUNT AIRY, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. MARCH, 22nd, 1A2S. 8 1.6.0 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE WANTS TO WRITE LIFE'S HISTORY J •rry Dal ton, UwUr Death 3—t— cs, Tallu About HU Cm* l*M|k March IS.—J•rry Dalton, tinder NnlMM to be electrocuted tat alajrlnf hia sweetheart and a Frank lin county man, today praaontad ths problem of Dr. Jekyll and Ki. Hyd| la a statement laeued at tha state "The old Jerry Oalton I* dead," •aid the (layer In his plea for a com mutation, "and the new Jerry Dalton, who has worked and tried to vain to forget hie act of violence and who ha* Buffered the tortues of tha damned, now estate." Dalton la in prison awaiting death to the electric chair because he read • birth announcement to California. Twice he waa convicted of murder and aentenced to die. After his aec ond trial, he made a aenaatk>n*I es cape from the county Jail to AiSe ville. He lived a model life in Calif ornia for many months, according to statements, and he) I a good posi tion. One day he read the announce ment of the birth of a child to an aunt, who had moved to San Diego. The longing to see his relatives and tc hear from hia mother prevailed. Oalton resided with the family until the latter decided to move to an other state, t The aunt told "Dalton's aecret to her "beet friend." Tie "beat friend" told her 'beet friend," who happened to be the wife of a deputy sheriff. Dalton was arrested and returned to this state. Since khan a nAmber of persons have become in terested in his light to save his life. "I have lived a new life for throe years," said Dalton. 'I have becr^ sober and hard working and honest. "If ray going to the electric '.nair tomorrow would bring back to life and health the lives I took in a mom ents'* passion, 1 would be wiP'.ig to go. Rut that csnnot b? ami *Im state of North Carolina should be willing to give a reformed man s chance. "I hare shown the people I want to do right. I was <>nly an ignorant kid when 1 pot into this trouble. I know court, and I thank God for sparing mv life an lone »* He hits. He h<ui mm* piirr>n«o for it ? know, and my hope is that my rcr.tencc trill bo chaiiKtil mi Llial I uti W a to my stj»te nnd «« that I c»n write n book en try psst lif". "This book would b« a groat help to the young men of today, ft would tell of the suffering and torture I have b»on through during the past fire yearn. No criminal blood dwells within me. I never had it in my heart to kill—and God knows I am telling the truth. "I had the chance of being one of the worst criminal* that aver walked through the west. But I never had a thought of leading such life. -I have recommendations to show that I work ed in a man's office in San Diego where 1 could have gotten away with hun dreds of dollars, but 1 never thought of taking one Ave cents. "My reason for speaking of this U that when a man is called a criminal, when a man happens to a misfortune ax I have he is called a criminal, or a murderer. But T am not at heart and never was," he said. Dalton killed Merrill Angel and Maude Grant, described as a fasci nating widow," In Franklin county in 1919. His case attracted nationwide attention. Dalton said, in a recent in terview, that he was drinking at the time of the scooting. He said: "When I came upon Anrrel and Mrs. Grant riding together on a road to Franklin, she wanted to go with me. This sneered Angel and the quarrel started. He reachcd for his gun. I pulled mine and the trigger caught tn my clothing, discharging and kill ing the woman. I then shot Angel In self-defense." Dalton also recently expressed him self as being In favor of capital pun ishment when "a man wilfnlly kills another." But because he killed Mrs. Grant through accident and Angel In S«Jf defense, according to his conten tions. be does not believe he should be electrocuted. Billy Sunday Se«s Elocution. Columbia, 8. C.. March 17 Jake Tort, Hampton county negro, was electrocuted at the state prim hers Friday tsr the sturder of another UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OPPOSE NEW BUILDING Thay Vote #37 to 173 Against • Womu'i Building at Cfcapal Hill. Chapal Hill, ^areh 1».-Th« Ita lian ta of ths university have been holding • at raw vote on whether or not there sha.ll be a women'* building hare, and the count shows 937 against j and 172 for. Ths canvas* was made andsr the I auspice* of the college newspaper, ! the Tsr Heel Printed ballots were circulated at the University eating hall, the postoffice. and other gather ing places. J. 0. Harmon, president | of the student body, was one of the most active in distributing and col lecting ballots. During the last few days the cam pus has been all stirred up over the argument. First the women students passed resolutions calling on the trustees to allot funds for a women's building. Then the men Undents had s meeting to discuss the mstter, snd declsred sgainst the project. The currant Issue of the Tar Heel devotes almost its entire front page to the ; pros and cons of the question spread j across the top in heavy type. "Shall the Co-*ds Have Dormitory Built ■ Here?" There are statements against the women's building, on the front page, by the president of the student body, the president of the athletic aMocia j tion, and class president. The lead j ing editorial, entitled "Women Stu dents Not Wanted Here," refers to these opinions and concludes: "The university could make no greater \ mistake than this step, and we have confidence that any such movement will be checked now, next week and we'pray to heaven that It will be stop ped for all time." The editorial says l that co-education, to the extent of bringing as many women as men students, "would turn the grand old institution into a semi-effeminate college." The paper publishes the women's resolutions and also a statement from Miss Jane Toy championing the idea of the women's building. Miss Toy tails of the gradual growth of co education at the institution, and gives the names of a number of woman alumni who have distinguished them-, salves. "The coeds of yesterday," «he »»y«, "are looking for great thing for the future of co education at Carolina. Their spleni'id record of achievements lead* thi- way to even master attainments which sre to he the tasks of the women students of tomorrow." About Time To Spray Apples. Raleigh, N. C. March 19.—Wh»n the pink of the unfolded apple bios-, soras is beginning to show and just before the blossoms have opened is the time to spray for "apple scab," suggests G. W. Fant, extension work-1 er for the State Collego and Depart ment of Agriculture in the control of plant diseases. Mr. Fant states that those apple orchards in which the scab has been bad in previous years should receive a cluster bud spray as a means of keeping this dis ease in check during the coming sea son. A spray given at this time is the most important that could be giv en in the whole season. Mr. Fant states that scab lives throughout the winter on old leaves found beneath the trees. It spreads from these leaves back to the new leaves and fruit buds just as the blos som buds have separated from each other and are in the cluster stage. He suggests that these buds must be watched carefully to tell when the spray application should be made. It may be five or si* days before the full bloom period or longer, depending on how the weather warms up. Ini most cases the county sgent can ad/ vise just when it is time to make this spray. I As to the proper treatment to be given. Mr. Fant says, "Spray of the summer strength must be used at this time, since the winter spray if too strong for unfolding leaf buds and blossom buds. When using liquk) lime sulphur, apply at the rate of 8 quarts to AO gallons of water, plus one pound of dry arsenate of lead or two pounds of arsenate of lead paste, j If aphids were severe last year, add Vfc pint of Black Leaf 40 to every 80 gallons of water. If spray material other than liquid lime sulphur U used, ; apply at summer strength according io* recommendations furnished by the manufacturer." Spray calendars girta^ all tbsee I TARIFF REACHES POCKET OF MASS Coimuimt Musi Now Pay Tax on Many of Life' i Neccaaittoa Washington. Marrh 14.—The Kurd ■ ney-McComber tariff aft. described by Senator Simmon* as tha profiteers' own, has already romm«n<-ed to raach into tha porkata of tha msssas. Groat quantities of sugar ars coming in, and everybody most pay aithar tlJO (tha rata on Cuban sugar) or 2.25 par hundred pounda, tha rata on all other. The dutlea on toys, cutlery, and other things that paopla most have an rak ing tot tha doagh. It la estimated by treasury officials that tha act wit! bring ia more than a half billion dollars tha first year, and that win be many millions In excess of the original estimate when the legislation was under considera tion. Tha principal reason for this Is that tin- United is the only country able to buy freely and liber ally, and in spite of high duties the products of other countries are com ing this way. It wa> pointed out that Germany Austria, France and other countries in tha world war zone are hard press ed for money, and the United States ran buy and is buying; it would not be taking much more if it hsd free trade. Conditions are described as absolutely abnormal. While imports are Increasing ex|«rta are going down. Other nations are taking some of tha trade built up during the war. This is especially noticeable in milk and milk producta. The new tariff went into effect the laat of September. A great rush of imports were coming then. Tha re cord for August was very large. Im mediately after the Fordney-McCum ber rate* went into effect large quan tities of wool which had been In bond, were brought out. That helped to raise the revenue. Ttiis Wool was sent to this country for tha emerg ency tariff duties, but a controversy with tha classification held it up, and and it was dumped In later. Enormous quantities of sugar are imports from Cuba and other coun tries. Treasury exports charge pro hibition with the incrrn!M>d demand for sugar. People are eating randies, ice cresm and other sweets to re lieve the thirst for alcohol. We are prtting sucrar at the rrte of 10 to 12 hillion pou"d« the year TV" duty is $ 1 .hi) a hundred on Cuban •<u(rar* and $2.2R on all others. Import duties were running j.hout a million dollar* a il iv u:i to last Au trust, when the total fir the month reached $5S 000 000. Sinre that time they hai-e been oring ahout $48, 000,000 monthl The last few dava of the old tar ff law—the Underwood Simmons art V-w York customs of fice took in approximately $10,000, 000, The United States tariff commis sion, fiver much lanrer powers un der the Fordney-McCumher act, has not been able to actually function -monthly on account of a little row inside the body over the memting of the provisions authorizing chancres tn tariff duties under certain conditions. Th«' fjexihurtv clause In the tariff Be* enable/the President upon the re commendation of the conn mission, to rnise of lower imoort duties within the linft of 60 per cent. New York H«» Severe Snow / Storm Niw York, March —Three per son* dead, one dying and s^v« ral in fused Is part of the toll cxactcd here by a snowstorm which lasted from v^sterday forenoon until this morn Two of the victims were fnnntf dead hi snow banks. The third slipped from an Icy platform and wa« killed by a train. Six and a half Inches of snow fqll, and traffic was greatly Impeded. A force of nearly 10.000 men worked alt day to clear the main arteries, while no attempt waa made to attack the drifts in aide street*. Elevated train*, running all night, kept traeka open. Subways In Man hattan were not affected, hut tn Mo tion* in Brooklyn, where underground line* traverse many open cut*, drift ing snow hampered service. Marine tr*IW waa aerioualy dis rupted. captain* of incoming liner* preferring to remain at quarantine , until Ike atom abated INCOME TAXES INDICATE PROSPERITY IN COUNTRY Incomplete Returns Shew Re ceipt. of $400,000,000 Be tween March 1 end 15. Washington, March 16.—Evidence of prosperity almost nation-wide, was riven in the last income and profits tax payments to the government, treasury officials declared tonight, basing their statement on flguree which, although incomplete, support their earlier estimate of receipts of WOO.OOO.OOO between March 1 and 1ft. One of the reasons given for the view that business conditions improv ed throughout last year and are con tinuing «n the upgrade was that al though' the general level of federal tax rates has been lowered as com pared with the rates upon which last year's payments were based, treasury figures indicste the aggregate amount of taxes collected during the first half of Msrch this year far exceeded the collections for the same period last year, when they totaled about 1334, 000,000. Reports to the treasury to night showed this amount had been exceeded probably by 150,000,000. Officials also delared there had been an unusual number of payments for the full year, although the law permits payments in four installments This, it was aaaerted, ahowed that taxpayers with sdlall incomes had ready money and had disposed of their obligation to the government prompt ly. Most of this class of tax payers, it was figured, paid their taxes, which were on last year's incomes, out of earnings of the current year. It is yet too early, officials explained, to forecast what percentage of the large taxpayers had paid their taxes in one installment. Income and profit taxes paid to the treasury in March, 1922, amounted to $398,000,000, and that figure baa been j acreepted as properly representing the quarterly tax payment since only * negligible percentage of the pay-; ments for the quarter are made in advance of March 1. K«r the present month, however, thera |« every indi cation. accord.nc to those who watch the government's in/ome, that the to-1 tal will t-e grtiifr, ilihough n>nr would hazard a giic.n as to the tx tent. Shall A Woman Be a Chattel I Morynnton Ne«>-Herald Fdited byl Miss IV ;tr»ce Cobb.) Kew people know that it is the law of this State that if 'or any reason a woman finds it intolerable to live with her husband and leaves him he may, if he so wills, forbid anyone to give her food or shelter. I*robably the rea son that the law is not very generally t.nown ia that it is a rare case when a man takes advantage of it It is a shame when he does. The statute r quirea that he publish a notice to the effect that rnyone who "harbors" the wife does so at liic or her peril. Twice in the last six years the mat ter haa come in a definite form to the attention of The News-Herald, ■ but «o Jar we have avoided the ne cessity of publishing a notice carry ii't out the requirement of publica tion. Tn one instance forces were set to work that effected Anally a recon ciliation. This week *n inquiry came in the mail as to the cost of a nitice of this kind. There's just this about it, so far as this news-japer is concerned—un less some 'rood lawyer can show us that we ourselves are breaking the law to refuse to print such a notice our space is not for sale for such j urposes. We do not propose to be party to such prop«*Kire, If we can help it, • It really doe* seem that in tM* day of enligtenment we should have advanced beyond a stage where a wo ran can be considered a chattel in the eye* o* the law; when a man has the right, because she ia considered hia property, to issue order* that she cannot he given food or shelter, should 'she see (It to leave him. A law that allow* such a Condition should he changed. A Potato Chock. Itfnchbury, Va., Mir** 7.—Mr*. W. J. Crowder, of this city, white peeling a potato yesterday found a not* fat it r*adi»f: "1 got 84 c*nts par bush el. What did you riveT" It wma sicmd 0. r. Beardatey, Stanton, Mich, a ad sraa dated January 19. Mia. (Ywhr mM abe paid M eents a twefc V* t'w i ft'V-ea. IOOVER SUGGESTS HALT IN FEDERAL BUILDINGS RwoBwindi That GoTtmmml Projects Be DaUyad Uatil TW» U a Slump. Washington, March 18.—Govern mental building and ronMnictioi work now under way should bo (low ed down and the Initiation of new projects delayed. Secretary Hoover recommended to President Harding in a letter made public today in order that they may be pushed forward at some later period when there U leas private construction activity and need for alleviating or preventing unem ployment. The commerce secretary ia a re port made at the Preeidept's request ■acgested that state and municipal governments consider the adoption of a similar policy, which accords with suggestion! resulting from the nation al unemployment conference of 191) that government projects of all sorts be utilised as an employment reserve, so far as possible, both which demand Cor labor and materials might be thrown into markets during periods of depression. Mr. Hoover said that a survey of the situation in the construction trades had brought out several fun damental conclusions which he listed as follows: The year 1922 was s yesr of very large employment and activity in the construction trades and at the end of the year stocks of construction ma terials were very much reduced. Since the beginning of the prepeat yaar there has been even more ac tivity than in the same period last yesr snd the contracts let in the past few months sre of larger volume than any hitherto entered into ia a similar period. Advance orders for construction materials sre upon a very large scale. Labor in the construction trades and in the manufacture of msterial is not only at full* employment hot there is actually a shjriage in many directions. Transportation .V.c'lities svsilsble for the building materials are fnllv loaded and almost constant car short ages sre complained of with conse quent interruption in production. "Mv conclusion." said Mr Hoover's letter, "from nil this is thst at least for the next several month*. the trades will be fully occupied in pri vate construction, all of which is •••n^rally needed by the country. "For the government to enter into .-ompetition at the present moment will (five no additional employment to labor and no additional production of materials but must in the broad M'nse in the end displace that much private construction. The (govern ments, nationally and locally, are in a much better position to hold con struction work in abeyance than arc private concerns, and are in better position to speed up the times of leu demand as we did in the last depres sion as the result of the unemploy ment conference. We can by this means contribute something to • more even flow of employment not only directly in construction work but in the material tnyles. "I would recommend, therefore, that you direct the different divisions of the government to initiate no new work that is not eminently necessary to carry on the immediate functions of the government and that tbere should be a slowing down of work in progress so much as comports with real economy in construction, until ofter there is a relaxation in private demands." Virginia Voter* To Pats On Road Bond* Richmond, Va., March 14.—Hie lmu%e of dele.-ates of the Virginia general assercbly late today passed the Brown-Honley referendum bill, submitting the question of the state's highway financing policy to a vote of the people. The vote was 66 to 2S. The measure simply provides for the submission of the electorate at the general elections in November the question of wh ether the road sys tem of the state shall be financed on the "pay-aa-yoa-go" plan or through the issuance of bonds. Efforts of delegate R. Holmsn WU-1 lis, of Roanoke, to amend the bill so as to make the referendum statewUi instead of by sensorial aad house dis tricts, met with failure. The last hope of final adjournment of the extraordinary seieiea Wy the end of this week was dashed cpea the forks today when the aajato adapted a reaohstka setting the htohwe* Patter too Murderer Cmu DmA r«whr CrMiubon, Mar It.—Ths self cw fssssd murdmr of W. D. Pstterssa, formerly of Greensboro. who— pa rents, hn.thera and (later*, lira haw now, has been convicted of morder in tha first degree and sentenced to bs hanged April II, at tha Idaho stats penitentiary, Boise, xvordlnf to In form* t ion reaching namban tha family here . Tha man's name ia Davd L. Haaf land. Ha killed Mr. Patterson Oe tober 14. near Caacada, Idaho, wfceta Mr. Pattern* had been lirta* W years. Mr. and Mr* J. A. J. Patteraon, who live on Jefferson street, are pa rent* of tha dead man. R. L. and J. D. Patteraon, of thia city, an brothers, Mrs George 0. Fowler and Mlaa Mollle Patterson, are sister*. Mrs E. H. Wrenn. of Mount Airy, I* another sister. The killing of Mr. Patterson was unusally brutal. Re went to his barn early in the morning to feed hia itock. Waiting for him there waa the man Hoagland, who had a grudge against Mr. Patterson on account of an alleged difficulty oear land. Ha shot Mr. Patterson from behind, vtr tually from ambush, killing him aa he lay helpless on the ground. The trial attracted great interest in that part of Idaho and newspaper* from that state carried long stories. Six days were required to got a Jury and two more for the actual trial. It started February 9 and a verdict was given February 17. aight day* later. Bertram S. Varian sentenced Hoag land to ba hanged. The jury In ad dition to finding him guilty of mur der in the first degree, recommended that he be hanged. A plea of insanity waa entered by the defenae, it being claimed that Hoagland had not been In his right mind since he was hurt in the head in November. 1917. An appeal was entered after the verdict. Old Jew Make* Pathetic Choice New York. March 9—Faced with a problem that prohably would have taxed the wisdom of a Solomon, a bearded old Russian Jew sat on a 1>en<-h at the Ellis Inland immigration «Mtion today, praying for a discern ing heart. His frayed derby hst sat on the back of his head; prcjpiration dripped from his wrinkled forehead; tear* welled in hia eyes; he stroked hia beard. In one hand was a telegram which had been aent to him by im migration officials. "Request to know what i* your de cision regarding your family," it reed. In another part of the station were his wife and two daughters. TTc had not seen them for years. Ha had worked and slaved in this country and finally had seen his way to brfaff them to him. In response to the telegram he had come to the station to learn that hia youngest daughter was feeble-minded and would be returned to Russia. Either hi* wife or the other daughter must return with her. He was to de cide which one was to stay. The feeble minded daughter is (of fering from pneumonia in the immi grant hospital. Upon her recovery the deportation ia to take place. The old man pondered hi* problem for perhaps an hour. His life and tie wife's perhaps, were nearing their end. The little remnant of happineaa left with her probably dangled be fere hi* eyes, a tempting morsel. But he would sacrifice it; sacrifice it for the sake of the daughter, still young with life and happlnea* in a new land be fore her. He announced hi* decision. The wife will visit him until the feeble minded daughter is recovered frees pneumonia; then she will return. The other daughter will stay. Poultry Popular With Dunn District Faraaora Dunn, Marcrt IS.—That poultry la one of the weapons with which the farmers of the Dunn district will Affbt the hell weevil la will—«< by tSe te le rest show* ia the aew v'lsaiesa. Many of the fssaiws are turning their attention to poultry-racing. On the farm of t L Howard, near Dm, 1JM0 young chick* ate beta* knlihll •eery tee daya two ■ hartsts? atf