DAUGHERTY MUST GO,
SAYS PINCHOT
"Tt r"i«,ill mtk oaiwZ
lmMm, Fk, March M.—11m Ob.
»a»towl of Jmtim, m*m Attorney
Omni Daufhorty, has MM ta to
taak of MtwUn« the public domain,
So declared Gtfford Pine hot, fte
poMtean Goraeaor of Pmaa|l mis
la as addreaa hara tonight. Speaking
at aa opening nrnthif of the Shields
Memorial Bible Claaa of the Cewla
borg Presbyterian Church, the Gev
arnor Mid, "the President hlweelf
a^adal prosecution* away from the
Department of Joatiee ta which they
rightly belong."
"I hare no ^peraonsl qtwrral with
"On more than one occasion ha haa
helped me ta my effort to enforce the
law In Pennsylvania. •
Agreee WMk Pippir aad Barak
"A man doea not belong hi the C«h
Ifict merely beeaoae ho has not boon
eonvicted of crime I Mrrrs with Sen
•tor Pepper and Senator Durih that,
having lost the confidence of the
Praaldent and the people, Daufrharty
haa nn proper place in the Cabinet."
A»»ertinj the Rooaevelt policy la in
dan itt today "front a moat rackleee
and »ham»le« a*>*ult," Mr. Plnchot
said It was hi* dnty" aa a veteran in
the conservative war. Aa the Chief
Executive of a great industrial and
asricnltnral Commonwealth whose
aemrity and prosperity depend not
only upon it« own natural resources
hut almoat equally upon thoae of oth
er Statea," and "aa a loyal Republi
can. Governor for the time being of
the irreateet Republican State,M to
cat) the attention of the people to the
frrn nt attack.
There to nothln* In Amerteaa po
ll t ten 1 history to compare with the oil
scandals," he continued, "T»t had mm
thev are. they sr» merely the sym
ptoms of ■ greater evil. They ere
nothlnr hot the moat recent nam.
pie# of the unremitting effort of cor
rupt combinstion* of peraonal In
terests-to *rab for themselves the
natural resources which belong hy
every H«ht to alt the people."
Tike Common Bandit."
Asserting that "like common ban
dit*. the irrahhem care nothing for
the harm they do," the Governor
went on: _ . I
Tall and hla kind were wiltlntr to
sacrifice the chance* of oar navy In
battle for the aake of their own per
aonal rain. In war time that would
he treason. In pane* tine H to at
'•ast betrayal. \
"Bat her* mast ciyne oat of H all
more than ponlahmeat of the thlevea.
The navy's oil most b* secured that
the conservation policy is permanent
ly safe. We hare had enough of
grafting and grabbing. It is thne
to stop.
Pfnchot contended that the Repub
lican Party "does not stand for
Daajrherty either as an official or aa
a symbol."
"The immediate netd," he conclud
ed, "to to tret back the navy's oil. Next
and moat Important, to to see that
the conservation policy, that great
guarantee of prosperity for the peo
ple of the United States to protected
from its enemies, and that the forests
Am eoal. the water powers, the oil,
bow dedicated to th• people shall ha .
mads and kept permanently safe."
Republicans Nam* State
Tick«t
L V. Meekint. of Ellaabath City,!
•tad for Gorarnor of North
Carolina at the" convention of tM
party ta Kalaich Wadnaaday. Ottu
ara on tha tiekat am:
Uaotanant faramor, Gaorga H.
Ward, at WayaaorllW; .rrrotary of
J. Tataa Xlllian, of CatawW;
ranaral, G. D. Balajr, of
T. Handriek. of
teMtfttf of |*ri>
•paa)s i iiiil«^■■■ of
Naak Wtta. of
Thai than IN ts radio m sletol
sets in Mount Airy "»«7 not com to
the readers of this paper M a start.
ling bit of Mwa, bat thnt this city
new boasts of a knwdrutini aUtion
which has ■ radios of H miles wUI
doubt)mm causa tha mnsehech« to sit
up and tofca notice. If soma night
whan job art twain* in by twisting
the thinausnhub or turning tha what
you may-mll —, and yon happen to
catch thedulcct strains ofa saxophone
that sounds aa if it wars in tha next
room dent ha footed like Herbert
Fey was • few nights ago.
"Coma hare. Myrtle." called Herb,
"this is poeolutely the ftaeat music
I aver heard and it is aa plain aa can
be. Wr must havs the big govern
inmt station at Far Rockaway, or
maybe It'e PDQ at Honolulu." Mrs.
Foy came and they were both en
tranced until tha eloae of the sax
ophone solo, when the announcer in
deep haaa roice said. This la station
IX L, Mount Airy. The Marvelous so
lo you hare just listened to waa by
the inimitable saxaphone artist Ed
Hie Haymore. who Is playing for a^
dance at the Commercial Cluh room*."
Dr. Gatea away ap at the foot of
•he mountain IB miles from Mount
Airy has a radio outfit and haa fre
quently picked op the local station.
The hroadcastir* studio is over Ben
rett's drug store and the amplifier
was made by W. H. Co*. Bennett's
"leetrira! nrixard. To The Newa re
porter it looked like a mass of jumh
H wires and batteries hot it is said
*o have a ware lenrth of 190 and a
xendinc radius of 28 miles. Two arires
extend from the studio, or broad
casting station, ts the Commercial
Club rooms where they are attached
to a receiving radio horn. Next Mon
day night the music dispensed by the
Robert E. Lee hand of Winston-Salem
for the masquerade hall arfll he broad
casted by the local studio. The 2f>
receiving sets in Mount Airy may
bear the music of the band by toning
in to a wave length of around 190.
Last winter there were only three
radio gts in Mount Airy. This win
ter there are 2S, with a half doxen
on the surrounding farms. Elkia has
a number of seta and it la thought
that by adding on a few more calls
to the wet battalias supplying "Juice"
to the sending station that Elkin may
he able to hear Monday night's musi
cal treat. Local radio fans are he \
coming so enthusiastic over the local
broadcasting effort that It is sug
gested that the Kiwanis chib install
a larjre outfit for the purpose at ad-:
vertising Mount Airy.
Elkin The Scene of m Pretty
Wedding
Minn Elisabeth Habbard Wedded
to Ray—d Harris, of
Wiastoa-Salem
Elkin, March 19.—A beautiful wed
ding of widespread intereet wa» aol
emniied here tkU afternoon at 4:80
o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mra.
Robert L. Hubbard, when their young
er daughter, Mia* FHiaabeth Huh- J
hard, became the bride of Raymond
Harria of Winaton-8a1em.
An improviaed altar, wfth, great t
bank* of pine aa a background, and
tall cathedral candles arranged on
either aide, made a lovely setting for
the nuptial ceremony, which occur
red in the living room of the hnsai.
With Mra. A. 8. Kennickell, Jr., of
Wins ton-Salaas at the piano, a musi
cal program preceded the marriage
em lee.
Mra. Oeear Merritt at Moo^t Airy,
sitter of the bride, waaitag a hand-!
■one gown of beige geaegstts and:
carrying Madame Butterfly roaea
The bride who waa given away by
her father made a lovely pUtia ta
her beautiful wedding gown ef white
aiTk filet ever aathi, her heaqaat be
ing Bride reeaa. Aewerad with lfly
of the valley.
Ae impreaaive Hag irmoay waa
•irrformed hy the Mi* paater Rev.
A. T. Ratle*e.
fiMiiitr hicmt rirrc
UMM lVMI MSB
POWICAl SHADOWS
North Dakota the more omin«u« for
him »ffwn Praaident C«i>l>4»«'» rie-1
lory; mm! Um moro the rwtumn frmn
(It*nria arc MM th« worse It Mu
far Omt W. Pitownt
In the ftrat cm* the »ote shows that
the Praatdent haa considerably laaa |
•trmrtl^thsn tha sum atf the
two anti-Coolld«e candidates. Hiram
J.bneon and Senator La FoDatta, and
aa both these war* rnnnlnf oft • pro
teat platform, it la difftailt to accept
tha Administration, reasoning that in
a two-man fight Mr. Cootidca would
have had a ronsiderahle part of thii
nrotest vote. I
Mr Ado* Back Ml lif
Th* Underwood-McAdoo contaat It
Georgia put* McAdoo hack on tha
political map. It ta not nacaaaary to
«r> aa far aa the MrAdoo people do—
they my that the Georgia primary
how* tha n-Swntarr of tha Traaa
»ry aa Mr a figure aa ha wa* before
ha wa» known to ha Doheny'* roun
»cl—but there tk no **raping tha logic j
that tha victory tbara haa heartened
them enormoualy and promhea to
I+ra thf-m a larire proportion of the
Southern delegatlona.
Nothing la aa contagiooa aa thia
«irt of Kneeeea and tha example of
Georgia la likely to ha followed in:
many of tha other Southern State*.
H leavr* retain for Hnderwood
'"thin# beyond Alabama, which ha
won tha other day, Ixvuiaiana and'
Florida. M!nai**fpni fa not now ac-;
-nrded to tha Alabama Senator, and
'he aanguine one* are claiming1 tha
v.>rfhem half «f T rniialana miurt;
him.
The McAdoo folk are even going
<rftar Miaaouri. tha district primarie*
of which recuntty relegated Senator
leed to the background, but faffed
*o do anything specific fur McAdoo
The State Convention, which occur*
the middle of next month, could If
' had a mind to haaa tha delegation
instructed and the effort may he
made to tie the delegate* up.
lOaac lk» Klaa
The primary came when Doheny
feea war* occupying m» newapaper
front pagea, to which «u attributed
the (hying awn1' from MrAdoo. Pra
riooaly it had bea« generally aaaum
ed that If Reed waa defeated McAdoo
would carry the banner, aa none of
the other eandldatea had made any
fiirht there. In any erent the State
Convention ia compoaed mainly of
MrAdoo men.
The Zteorria allowing waa an h»
tenae disappointment to the Under
wood hooatera, after hia handy vte
tory in Alabama. They attribute the
VemjH to the Kn Klu* Klan. which
Underwood haa fought harder than
anv other candidate. Georgia ia Mf
AHoo'a native State, bat ha haa not
Seen Identified with that part of the
■•ountry enough to Juotify conaider
'ng him aa a favorite aon. The Un
derwood people aay the Klan Influ
ence ia counterbalanced to a much
«r»ater extent in the other Southern .
State* by antl-Klan aentiment, and
inalat the Georgian example will not I
be followed.
* In North Dakota the roaiMnad La
Fnllette and Johnson vote wffl craat
ly exceed that of Cool id ye, which h»
dncea tha thoaght on Jotmaonli part
that had tha La winwttn
not made thdr sticker campaltrn tha
President «outd have ban dafaatad.
Tha mart Imnos'.vr 'mIwi' of tha pri
ma rr wm tha hlr La TVIatf* rote,
eonsiderir r thut .-rarrhodr who roted
Vim '■mJ io T-i ete h> h«v nam*.
Tha loyiral aaqoal to thta la that in
tha enaction, La Follatta, running In
dependent. will ha able to Mb North
Dakota away from tha hMltat
Hiram Johnson la srpactad to win
Smith Dakota next Tnsaday, thanks
to a Sanatoria] fight oat tea. Oor
KrMaitar la trying to taka tha Sana
torahip away from Rliilhff and ha
aa wall aa anatial af tha MM* bm
rhinWy. and la for Jahnaon Sa far
tha atiokar rawpalgm for La Matte
haa not aumtfaatad ttaatf la tha Lowar
•akota. aa that oa«tit ta ka a atMlght
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HfROMf If - "9VfR
IIW4D" S0N6 m
Waw York, Hank M.—The
eay of "Khw TWut
Gold" waa nmr Mfffldd for
man who impM It That
Mr*. Harriot Danka. waa buried yaa
terday afternoon. For haTT at leaat
tha loaf trail of unhapjineee that M
*t ran»ly follrvwed tha wrttinr of tha
great lore wn( la over.
All that now remain af tha family
Ion* bean at odds with each other over
tha royaltiaa from thair father's bal
lad.
Mra. Danka waa eifhty-twa. She
died ^rinftdty in ftdufw
ttanres, In a Brooklyn roomjnir I
She was borlad la New Union flald,
after a ilmpk ia»ka in tha baffert**
j Plate Chapol.
In 1*74, when Hart Pease Danka, a
yuan« laiadr^ii and stager and Ma
I wlf# were llrlnr happily together in
' this city, he composed to her ana of
i the tender est love songs of the
| Everybody knowa It:
Darling, I am growing old.
Silver thread* imnnr the gold
Shine upon my brow to-day.
, Life la fading faat away.
But, my darling voa wfll be
Always young and fair to me.
Tm. my darling you will ha
Always young and fair to ma.
Who has not ranr or tried to ling
that old love song.
The wnrda were written hy Khan T.
Rcsford. Dank* composed the mel
>dy. Perhap* the cour*e of hia ttfa
1 would have been different if he never
had composed it.
Tha song aold, proa ferity came,
and with It doflKKtif unhappinea*.
In 1WM an old man wan found dead
in a rooming house In Philadelphia.
Hi* landlady fromd htm kne^lHg at
the like of hia had. where death had
overtaken him. Ha had a ropy of
"Silver Thread* Among the Gold" in
hia hand, and on K was penciled? "It's
hard to grow old alone.". That waa
how Danks died, and hia wMo* died
in circumstance* nearly parrallel.
Surviving him ware Mrs. Danks
two daughters Mlaa Gertrude Danks
nnd Mr*. Alherta Builder, and a son,
Albert of No. 19M Ea*t Seventh
Street, Brooklyn. Mr*. Builder I*
nine* dead.
Tha royalties fron ""'Iver Threads"
piled in. It waa . st (mated the song
brought 175,000 in royalties previous
to 1918. In due course the heir* dif
fered over the 'eatate and became
estranged. The surviving daughter,
fsrho had bean a singer, objected to aa
•"•counting her brother, a* adminis
trator. made In 1931. She demanded
her share, alleging she waa la want.
There was also litigation between the
family and the eatata of H. A. Oar
don. publisher of tne song.
Meanwhile, for years, while the
song which had been written for lore
of her was sung hy lover* through
out the world, the widow of Dank*
grew to feel the pinch of want and
the lonlineaa of old age.
The prophecy of her lover of tha
old day* remained unfulfilled
Grants York Slat* Soldim
_ •
Albany. March 11.—Got. Smith to
day signed the 945,000,000 Soldier
Bonos Bill.
All soldiers. sailors, uisilnsa and
DMhsrs of the Army and Navy
Kurss Corps who ssrrsd daring ths
war and an rssidsnts of Now Task
Stats ars entitled to ths honns,
which ths msssuis gisss at fit
sach month of ssrries. A
of ths bill.
It w« he ft
•mM to Mm |mm
ZTk. ^ ITSLvSFr
FEDERAL OFFICERS MAKE
SPECTACULAR CAPTURE
today to chart the first globe encir
cling airway. Cyaa of H nations wltl
be on tha skies hitwwi now and An
goat aa tha American flier* wbitr
thair way on the W).0OO-«sr<' voyaga
in mi effort to accoMpUak what
French and British airmen failed ta
do. '
The flight startsd at t:M o'clock
(Ms Moraine when Command sr Prad
sriefc Martin l«ft tha (roonil. Ha was
followed hy Limit. Lowell H. Smith
and Lieut. l>sigh Wade. A aeora at
army Mid civilian airphmss followed
, a* an aacort and soon disappeared
I In tha clouds to tha northward.
America's attempt to map tha first
world airway will ha carried out hi'
a series of flights ranging from in
to MO miles. Tha flrat Jump waa from
ClovarfleM, hara. to Mather floM, 8a
rmmento. Tha aaeond, tomorrow wfll
i be from Sacramento to Vancouver
liarrack», Waah., across the Hear
from Portland, 0*a., Wednesday
| to Seattle where pontoena wfll he
installed for marine landtags until
the fllara reach Calcutta, India. The
Harbin in* of the trtp. expected to
| '■» only a four and • half hoars
flight, proved to ha a beginning of;
the many problem* the airmen will
, have to face.
Light rain* fall hare, • wall of
■louds settled down on the Tehach
shl and the Kan Joaquin and Sacra
mento valleys were blanketed Hv
r!-ods. Tt was feared they would
Hnva to eo above tha elooda over Te
hachahi naes. Tf they wars . forced
to a hhrh altitude at the paaa, K
might have meant a istuin to Santa
However, the weather hrohr favor
ably and the aviators were able to
ret over the mountains undrfr the
rlouds.
The cruisers plan to leave Seattle
late this month go through Alaskan
and Aleutian points snd reach Chlc
ignff, island of Attn and of the first
ilvinion. hy April 1.
The second division of the flight
over Japan wfll come to an end at
Kayoshlma. Japan, near Nagasaki.
Anril 26. The thfrd division extends
'long the Chinese Coast through to
Calcutta India, at srhfeh arrival Is
scheduled May J*. Pontoons will ha
replaced at Calcutta hy wheel land
ing gear through the fourth division,
arriving at San Stofano. Turkey,
June 19 Then through the fifth di
vision, the aviators will fly over the
Balkans to Vienna thence on through
Prance and to London. England, ar
riving July 1. TSe sixth division Is
over Iceland. Greenland, down tha
Canadian, coast to Waahhtgton. arriv
ing about August 10. Then the final
ieg 'srill be across the United States
back to Closet field.
"STICK TO IT, BOYS"
Cleveland, March 18.—Two tot
ters urrinjr his aviator friends" all
over the world" to "stick to it..* were
made public today by* Mrs. Kate
Hyde-Pearson of Santa Monica, CaL.
mother of Capt. Leonard Brooke Hy
de-Pearson, World War flyer and air
mail pilot, killed ten days a«o in the
mountains of Pennsylvania near Cur
ensville while carrying mil* from
New York to Cleveland.
The letter addressed to My Belov
ed Brother Pilots and Pals" wen
marked: "To he opened only afteri
my death."
"I go west, hot with a cheerful
heart," one of the letters read, "I
hope what small sacrifice I
made may be of oae to th
"When we fly we are fools,
say. Whan we are dead w4 weren't
half bad fellows. Bet everyone to
this woadsrfal aviation ami toe' to 4»
iag the world tar mere |ood than the
We riek ear
tet stick to to begrs. 1%
mafeh with you all. See yw
pafe FWi bat Omm ie WW*.
UU^id Cipl I
In the cold gnj <* huK TWn«V
morning out oa the lasdy thtga nMt
MW the fltohea-Patrick Una >n4 aaat
of Mount Airy Ftdml Officon, i. P.
Hurt of Mount Airy. Motim Ed
warda of Carrol county m4 Oharlaa
Mifnifkt of Patrick county eaptar
-d |M *a!!oaa of whixkoy, twa
wacoraa and aix head of Mock houad
for Um thtraty Wlnatnn-Salrm marhol
Tho Imur waa three In the —rwl—.
The rum ruwnora had Juat twlw
ramp wWrt they had atoppad to faad
and roat their waary mules and wara
headed down tha Winaton road wtoaa
•ha officers came upon them. In tfca
pitch rlarknaaa a call from Federal
Officers Hart deauadad them to halt
Without stripping their taann aaaaral
mm jumped from the two ama« and
melted away in the darhaaaa. Tha
officers (topped the taaaw hy nrnnhf
out In front of them, hat found no
one Inaide the warona. But they dU
fl nd 38 flva-caHon coal oil earn Ml
of new-made whiahey. ■
Placing Hurt and MeKnight (onl
over the booty, Morgan Edwarda
■trolled down thru the woods 1)1 the
direction taken by tha fleeing titinka
ders. F try fit's rfarkneas enshrouded
' !m and thera wee not tha falntset j
hope In tha vorld that he would rear
find ona of tha fugitives. Hera ha
plumped «<piare Into • tree and thera
ha fell in • hole where an uprooted
free had dor a pit hot ha tolled on,
bruising hi* shins and scrati-htag
hla fare over low hanging lissba.
Down on a little branch Eitwarda
■topped to rent and take hla hearing.
The law faint whlatle aa of a bob
white came to hla ear. And then an
other.
Trained in wtodamft, Edwards
whistled back. Then • little later the
whistle waa again heard, thla Haae
nearer. He kept answering the imi
'ation bob white ontil It came within
W feet of hhn. Then a voice In
pleading tone asked. "Is that yon,
Orand Paddy?" Tea. thla la grand
daddy." simulated Edward*. "Air ye
rare it'i yon rrandpan" asked tha
voice. A rain Aa officer assured tha
midnight darkness that he waa rarely
and truly anybody*! and i iiijliqfly'i
grand daddy. Claaer came the IkrT
'me, catling out at fereqoent mt»r
rah to Into* tf that waa aore enough
grand dad.
When he had approached the offlMr
cloae enough awtfcat his form waf dis
tinct in the darkneaa. Edwards made
a daah for Mm. covering the KTiiaad
In a few hounds. He grabbed tha stal
wart mountaineer »round tha kneea
like a football tackle and threw Mm
on the ground and aat upon hla. Ha,
you aiat mv grand daddy not her."
walled the captive. "Ton air ona o*
them confounded revenue* "
The captive proved, to be a mmm
about 26 yean oM andtaaid his name
was Wheeler, bat further than that
he would tell absolutely nothing. Ha
was taken to Stuart, Va.. and lodged
in jail. The officers made an inven
tory of their captured booty and
found that they had two wagowa. ftvu
mules and a saddle lprse and N> gal
lons of whiskey in one wagon and 100
rations in the other.
Now the sad part of tha story moat
be told. And while the officers are
doing their went H might be weH
for all thirsty readers of The News to
atop right here and take a walk, ft
is so sad that It la feared the telltar
of It will bring tears to tha eyea of