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THE NEWS-RECORD, MARSHALL, N. C. 3 P Is: i v A , Discarded Auto Tires Now Worth " - i S& z Th iudden rise In rubber values has given a new lease of life to thousands of old automobile tires wmch are melted up and made Into various rubber products. A large Industry In tire sulvage hns sprung up on the Pacific coast, nd a recent steamer sailing had old auto tires as Its entire cargo. A few of the thousands of old tires are seen on the dock at Los Angeles harbor ready to be loaded onto ships for transportation to the east coast Siren Type of Crook Ouatdone Recent "Killings" Upset Popular Idea of Adventuress Brains Real Lure. New York. There are two types of women who wind men around their lingers. There Is the fascinating, lren type, very numerous; But, atrange to r,ay, the women who walk off with the biggest money prizes are not lovely to look upon, as a rule. .Within the last few weeks the In dictment of two women In New York one on a charge of forging the name of a millionaire to a note, the other In connection with alleged stock swindles has turned attention to the capabilities of women in one field of "high finance." In these cases, as In many others In past years, the ques tion has been raised: How can hard headed business men of caution and experience be victimised by women who Jack the first elements of- femi nine charm? Ask an old-time detective who has handled a few such cases and he will say , that brazenness Is .the women's outstanding characteristic. Take his word for It, and you will believe that the woman who relies merely on sex appeal plays a game in which the com petition Is extremely heavy, while the plain woman, with no bodily attrac tions worthy the name, develops her brain as compensation and thus takes the lead. The Case of Madame Humbert. Conjure up a woman from .a French romance, willowy, languorous and the rest of It, with personality and mag netism added to her beauty. Well, Madame Humbert was the opposite of all that, yet she held swny over law yers, money lenders, merchants, states men and artists, and lived In comfort for years on the most preposterous of hoaxes. She was a fat peasant woman In appearance ; neckless, roly poly, yellow-skinned and purple jowled, and she waddled when she walked. But the whole pageant of Balcac notabilities filed through her drawing room, and sh' hns her place In history as the outstanding example of the woman who profits enormously by hoodwinking canny men of affairs. Bhe Is exhibit A In support of the de tective's analysis. Consider Ellen Peck, In whose vir tues hundreds of friends believed -staYichly long after the had served her first term -In prison. -Ellen Peck's last exploit, securing a sum in four figures from an Impressionable Cen tral American, was . accomplished when sheiwas eighty-four years old. Look at Bertha Heyman, a classic example from the records. In 1883 she gave two hard-boiled Manhattan brokers a package which she said con tained $87,000 in securities; and they gave her . - considerable sum on : her say-so. She claimed ' to be worth $8,000,000, but the $87,000 bundle held only newspapers. And Bertha's picture Is one of the least attractive In the police records of that day. Those who watch such things pro fessionally declare that success goes to the woman. who most nearly ap proaches the manner of men who have the same goal. In the , most recent cases one of the defendants Is said to be forty-seven years of age. From an expensive hotel suite, she was direct ing $5,000,000 project when arrested, charged with forging the name of a millionaire to a promissory note for about $25,000. According to the prosecuting officials, she obtained from $75,000 to $100,000 In all.. ' Three details appear aaln and again In the history of women who have v nefariously Interested business men ' In projects of one type or another. On is the locked box, need most sue cessfully by Mine. Humbert Another s Is pathological delusions. The third Is a profusion of husbands. Lures Hard-Headed Business Men. The third element is notable In the case of Mrs. Genevieve Paddleford. known to New York as Mrs. Ben Teal, a figure In a much-talked-of di vorce case of 15 years ago. A year ago she was . arrested in Europe, cNirged , with getting goods worth if JV ,.4 T W ) - 7 - 500.000 francs from merchants In Paris, Vienna and Switzerland. Last March she was" again arrested In Los Angeles, accused of obtaining $15,000 worth of goods by false pretenses and selling them. Her alleged victims In Europe and America - were business men of the conventional hard-headed type. Her success explains why credit men grow bald early. Originally she was reputed to be a niece of a railroad magnate, and was said to be related to n sugar king of San Francisco. She mnrrled the mag nate's secretary, a man named Toomey, and they were divorced In 1905. She at once sued a doctor In St. Paul for $50,000, alleging breach of promise. Then she married Ben Teal, theatrical manager, and In 1008 was sent to Blackwcll's Island for a year on her conviction on a charge of suborning perjury. It was alleged she arranged falsely to show that the millionaire defendant In the divorce suit was seen coming from the room of an actress. . Mrs. Paddleford, or Teal, won a new trial after serving part of her sentence, and the case was dropped. , She married again. The new hus band was reputed to be .a millionaire, Dr. George Paddleford of Hollywood. He has sued for divorce, alleging she married him under an assumed name. In April, 1022, she and her daughter went to Europe. Mrs. Paddleford took; a suite at the Hotel Crlllon In Paris, ordered many gowns, kept the dressmakers' samples, and when asked for money threatened to cancel her orders. The hotel presented a bill, so she moved and had the second hotel pay the bill of the first. To all In quiries for money she referred to her millionaire husband. It worked. When she was arrested In Vienna the police found in her rooms 11 trunks filled with costly furs. But Paddleford sent no help. Delusions annear In the case of ' Mrs. Emma Richardson Burkett of In dlana. whose career was short, one was sentenced in 1921 to three years' Imprisonment forforglng the indorse raent of Theodore Roosevelt to a note for $69,900 which she presented to his estate. She said an uncle of hers went to Alaska and brought back a trunk which he told her not to open till he was dead. In it she found $70,000. This, she. said, she loaned to Roose reit at the time of the Bull Moose convention In Chicago In 1912. At her trial an Illinois prosecutor testified that In 1919 he Investigated a charge that she had attempted to get $18,000 from another estate than Roosevelt's. Once she served 30 days for using the malls while running a matrimonial, agency. Her husband, Burkett, was her fifth. At her trial she refused to let her lawyers plead insanity. . ' 'V , Mme. Humbert's Scheme. , . Mme. Humbert, who was tried in Paris In 1903, inherited any delusions she may have had. Her father talked for years of a mythical estate. As a girl she got a trousseau from a dress maker by asking for It, although no marriage was In sight. She married the son of a former min ister of Justice, a person of impor tance. They set up In Paris. She let It be known she had two rich uncles In America, named Crawford. Tha.t was not their real name, but one. had been mixed up In 1870 with a notori ous bit of treason. They gave her a tieasure worth ' millions, but forbade her to open their treasure box until they were dead. In proof she showed the safe. 8he brought raits for the right to open the safe at once. Oth ersdummy men sued her. She won. they won. Appeals were taken. A whole background of rights and per sons was manufactured by court pro ceedings.' "" -Meanwhile the ' Humberts floated 700,000.000 francs In notes. . Much went for Interest and refunding, but the net profits were 60,000,000 francs. Meanwhile Mme. Humbert's one daughter was kept In seclusion and the whole family, according to the governess, became genuinely hyster ical with grief when the little girl told one tlar nttle-alrl fill. t . T " t : i . "" ? fit. A Good Money rrr"i f .... One day the Humbert suits were shifted from the civil to the 'criminal courts. The next day the gendarmes opened the safe. In It were a button and a pile of old newspapers. The Humberts fled to Spain and were caught. Their trial advanced from a simple case almost to an affaire, with political connotations. Wife and hus band got short terms. But Mme. Hum bert still stuck to the tale of the Crawfords. Diss D Bar Carter. Diss De Bar, who specialized In the occult, used the locked box motive more than once, and Is such a fine example of plentltude of husbands that toward the end of her career her full name was Ann O'Della Lollta Montez Saloman Dessart Messart Diss De Bar McOowan Jackson, not count- lnr professional titles, such as A-Dlva Veed-Ya and police sobrlquettes, sach . laborers to the North ' has seriously as Fat Annie. i handicapped construction In the State, She ws a Kentucklan, daughter of' and this condition still prevails to a a German professor and his Southern large extent. In several sections of wife. She came to New York In 1870 the State road work has been sus and announced herself as the dough-1 pended at times on account of the ter of Lola Montez and Lndwljr I of Bhortaee of labor. This situation still Bavaria. A millionaire lawyer In New York, Luther R. Marsh, once associate of Dnnlcl Webster, thought Adelaide Nellson was his spirit bride. Diss De Bar. already a medium, got Adelnlde on the line In the spirit world, and eventually Marsh's ramuy got tne po- lice to Interfere. , Diss De Bar Doastea mat gne maae $150,000 a year out of her successive cults. Men were Just a side line. In 1895 she married William J. McGow nn, a rich Chlcagoan. Later she was Mrs. Jackson. ' She and Jackson were sent to prison In England on the test!- t rnno Tutr IIHIII.Y 111 Kill limiJIIJIOi J vrvfc turn. Lillian Hobart French opened the Mahatma Institute at 32 East Thirty third street. Diss De Bar was In the background, on a throne. And. to re turn to the analysis' of the experi enced detective. Diss De Bar was no beauty. Once whjle In Jail she added 50 pounds to the 200 she took In with her. Ellen Peck Made a Million. Ellen Peck was another type, and a successful one although she went to Jail three or four times. Once 28 civil and criminal actions were pending against her and a single diamond transaction produced 25 Indictments. She was ff devoted wife for 40 years, raised a family of honorable sons and (was mother-in-law to a clergyman, but despite the faith in her manifest ed by many friends, even after she had been convicted, she regarded rich men as fair prey. In 1887 she got Dr. Jason Marks to Invest $20,000 In one of her projects. In 1894 she posed as the 'lfe of a Danish admiral and got many thousands of dollars with which to press a claim for millions against the American government The late Thomas Byrnes, chief of detectives, said she piled up $1,000,000 during her career. ' Her first exploit was buncoing a soap manufacturer. That was In the eighties. He had been robbed. She posed' as a detective and got $19,000 to follow a fake clue. Then she trimmed a patent medicine man and In those sdaya. the patent medicine business was .not unsophisticated. Ellen Peck had a sense of humor ; she liked to trim criminals. She trapped Julius Colurabanl, un ex-con vlct, who, when she advertised for a loan on diamonds, gave her bonds -chics she found had been stolen. And many a time she approached big men In the business world, giving as ref erences the names of equally Impor tant business men whom they knew. She became New York's oldest convict In 1909, when, at the age of aeventy nine, she got $2,000 from a real es tate Ann by getting a loan on a title which had been Invalid for 60 years. Mme. Humbert looked Uk'e a char woman. Diss De Bar was plump and plain, and Ellen Peck had a face llk a man'a, New York Time. ; Splinter Penetrates Brain. Mexlcall, Lower California. Chop ping kindling for his kitchen stove. Lee Chuck. Chinese merchant ef Mex lcall, knocked a splinter of wood Up ward that penetrated his eye art brain, killing him instantly. Lays Three Eggs In thirteen Hour. Geneva, N. Y. Robert P. shr has 1 Buff Orpington hen which laid thret eggs, breaking all record. , The firs) waa laid at 8 a. m, the other two a! S aiMl R:15 n. m. TO RESUME ROAD . LETTING HE 15 MORE THAN A 8CORE OF PRO JECTS AGGREGATING 126 MILES TO BE LET. 55' MILES OF HARD SURFACE V Migration of Negro Laborers to North Hasv Seriously Handicapped Con- struction. , Raleigh. After a lapse of .nearly three months the State Highway Commis sion will resume the letting of new contracts for road construction on June 27th when bhls will be opened on more than a score of projects ag gregating a mileage of 'approximately 125 miles. The tentative list of pro jects gives 71.18 miles of gravel road and 55.22 miles of hard surface. Further letting o f contracts was suspended indefinitely several months ago on account of the shortage of materials, the shortage of labor, and the congestion of transportation. Contractors found they were unable to keep the work going and the Com mission determined to call a halt temporarily until the situation clari fied. Slowing np of construction work In many parts of the country on account of the advanced cost will make It pos sible for the Commission to secure sufficient cement to build roads in volved In the letting, it Is believed. Railroads are In somewhat better position to handle business, and Chairman Page believes that.it will be possible to get new work under way. i Migration of thousands of, negro leaves much to be desired, but the chairman expects a return of many ot tne negroes before fall. irne tentative list of projects to be iriHp(i in the letting may be re- v,ge(1 before the actual letting of the contract8 Dut on the basis of present intentions, the list follows: First District. Project 141,. Halifax 18.15 miles gravel road. Project 146, gravel road. Hertford 6.42 miles Project 168, Northampton 16.81 . J . ' d nines gravel ruitu. Project 189, Pitt Bridge. Second District. Project 213, Craven 10.43 miles hard surface. Project 230-293 Extension ot pro left 189 into Greene and Wilson counties, 8.99 miles hard surface. Project 295, Wilson Reconstruc Mnn of three macadamized roads leading out of Wflson, 8,26 miles. . Third District. Project 3(12, Bladen 1.25 miles of gravel road. 1 Fourth District. Proiect 438. Harnett 3.81 miles hard surface getween Dunn and Duke, Project 464, Person 11.64 miles gravel road. Fifth District. Project 606, ; Alamance 31' miles hard surfaced link of Central High way in Burlington. ,, Project 57, Alamance 4.03 miles of hard surface. Project 541, Guilford 4.31 miles penetration macadam. Project 556, Montgomery Troy to Mt. Gilead, 3.07 miles macadam. Sixth District. Project 608, Anson Six miles grading. Seventh District ' Project 702-B, Alleghany 6.36 miles penetration macadam. Project 750-B, Stokes 8.68 miles gravel. . ' Eighth District. Project 802, Avery 5.67 waterbound macadam. ' Project 837-B, Henderson miles 5.38 miles hard surface. . Ninth District. Project 930-A, Graham 2.92 miles waterbound macadam. Ricaud Did Not Seek Clemency. ' Governor Morrison has telegraphed A. G- Ricaud, Wilmington attorney, acknowledging error In the statement which accompanied the communta tlon of the death sentence of Clyde Montgomery that Mr. Ricaud, who was acting solicitor in the prosecu tion of Montgomery, had recommend ed commutation. New Corporations. The Williamson Mills Company, of Haw River, was chartered by the Secretary ot State with $700,000 auth orized capital and $300 subscribed by F. L. Williamson, Burlington: W. T. Brooks, Haw River; and J. O, Cobb, Durham. a r:-. Riverside Park Company, of Wash ington, with $25,000 authorized capi tal and $2,100 subscribed. Amendment was filed to the char ter Ot the Cllffslde Lake Company changing the nam of the concern to the Winston Salem Amusement Co. Spend Mllllee en School Plant. The plant oi the new State School for the Blind win be worth approxi mately a million dollars when it la completed and When the students move in to the ner buildings next year they will ge homed in an in stitution which has, it 1 understood, only one superior for tie purposes In the United States, according to Col. Joseph E. Pogue, chairman of the board of trustees. "As a matter of special Interest to the blind children of North Caro lina and their friends, I may be per mitted to refer briefly to the noblo generosity ot the people of the State, expresses through the Legislature in the face of the enormously Increased demands of public Institutions in North Carolina In voting the several large appropriations ' unanimously to meet the requirements of this insti tution, in the building of the best and most up-to date school plant for the education of the blind in the Southern States, totaling well up to the million dollar mark," said Colonel Pogue, In a statement on the new plant. "This should stimulate the trustees to their best efforts to apply faith fully and intelligently every dollar In providing Just what is Intended, the equal of anything anywhere with the most modern equipment, and every facility needed to develop the mind and body and train the Intellect and soul for the best and happiest cit izenship possible, and I hope and be lieve you will find at the new site where the pupils will be housed after the summer vacations all these blessings carefully planned and to follow as soon as time can be had to adjust the school to the new condi tions and surroundings. , ' "While sentiment and tradition plays a part in every heart and mem ories of the 'Old Camp Ground' will haunt us for many days all must he delighted with the change from the old to the new site, providing as It does the now universal approved modern cottage system of housing and teaching the blind, which Is here typified In its highest sense, with its family groups as it were In cottages numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, about 30 to a cottage, with the house mother and teachers, the kindergarten building, administration building, power house and laundry and the cold storage, in dustrial building, gymnasium an bahlng pool, now under contract, It all I believe an even dozen buildings, all of the best modern fireproof con struction, artiatcllly grouped upon a beautiful plateau of land of about 70 acres, the campus proper of which being the area sheltered and under the spell and charm of the spreading branches of scores of both arlgtnal and new growths of native oaks we all love so well.' , "I know that all will enthusiasti cally cooperate in making the move and setting this beautiful house In order." V . Income Tax Figures Show Decline. A total of 44,161 persons in North Carolina filed Individual income, tax returns from the calendar year end ed December 31, 1921, showing a net Income amounting to $127,992,951 and paying a tax of $3,760,499, according to figures made public by Gilliam Grlssom collector of revenue for North Carolina. As against 8.23 per cent falling. off from the year before in the number of returns and a decrease of 17 62. per cent in the net income and 33.08 per cent in the tax as shown in the figures for the United States, North Carolina federal Income tax payers In 1921 dropped off 6.72 per cent in number while the reduclon of net in come amounted 21.8 per cent and the reduction in tax to 60.91 per cent A comparison of figures for the five year period beginning with 1917 shows that the numger of returns Jumped from 22,977 in 1917 to 47,342 in 1920 and then dropped to 44,161 in 1921; that the total net income Jump ed from $84,220,131 in 1917 to $163. 799.837 in 1920 and dropped back to $127 992,951 in 1921; that the average income for each return -Jumped from $3,665 in 1917 to $4,346 In 1919 and dropped during 1920 and 1921 to $2, 898; that the total tax Jumped from $2,747 673 in 1917 to $10,010,348 in 1919, declining to $3 760,499 in 1921. Forest Fires Cause Big Loss. . The report on forest fires In North Carolina for the year 1922, in most counties based chiefly on information from Toluntary correspondents, has recently been made public by the Geological and Economic Survey. The nature ot the replies sent in pre cludes the possibility of any .great accuracy, but the results are at least conservative. They show a total for the State of 1,227 fires, which burned 190,737 acres and caused a damage of $642,442.80. Reports from Wake county show that In 1922 this county had six for est fires which burned over 47 acres and caused an estimated damage of $200. Chatham Jail la In Good Condition- The report ot the Chatham grand jury, which states that after an In vestigation the Jail and county home there are In excellent condition and inmates have been treated humane ly by officials, has geen made public by the department of public welfare. Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, commis sioner of public welfare, also made an Investigation ot the , two Institu tions, and on her return to Raleigh made the same report as the grand Jury. "MASTERS OF MEN" by MORGAN ROBERTSON The graatett story of the ever icreenedl A thrillinf film story ef he-man who vein run hot with red fighting bloodl A blunt, vigorous yarn of a boy's Sght upward against overwhelming ddt, where fight means a hard fist and prime muiclt, hgh courage aad a ready wallop I Shanihaiad! Druaaed by crimps and flung insensible into the hell hole forward, Where sweating, brow-beaten men live like beasts scourged to their tasks with curses and belaying pin. The seal The flavor of salt In the nostrils; the odor of pitch in the air, the snapping of wind-swept canvas crackling like a machine gunf the creaking, singing -wood straining as she rides the high waves I All magic and lure of adven,rire, the Spanish Main and sailormenl Love! A timid boy's unspoken dream of his heart's desire) a girl too old-fashioned to offer love unbidden m lad's sacrifice of youth's dearest pos session honor to protect her from the shame of another's crimei the confusion of bitter misunderstandings that threaten life-long broken hearts! Uncle Sam's bluejackets! The fighting men of the greatest nation la the world, aad what they think and how they live their loyalty and cheer . and youth, eternal, living, fighting youth! The careless devil-may-care "gob," incorrigible, loyal inpudent nd loveablel Romance I The sea spells romance. Red sunset turn green wve to crashing mountain of btood noen suns spread gold upon the hoses of the sea, gold that beckons and calls to youth to gather its richest never ending mirages of goldea bowls at rainbows' and. And, the sea five ne richest only character and manhood, bitterly squeezed out of its cold, hard business. Wholesome, clean, healthy! A boy's life of adventure, free from tawdry conflicts and sex illusions, based on fact gathered by one who served among men, who loved men, who admired men and who wished young America to so live that ha might become a man I The trash of illy, social temptation has ao place in this ccreen tory of a boy who be came th master of the man. Here is a story of the making of nent men who acted and argued later. Shifty-footed men, with a right and left punch and a keen eya and a high ens of honor and gut to go the limit I Dick Halpia i th lad you wanted to bet aad I wanted to be! H' the fellow w dreamed of, whoa fighting courage w envied. He's th boy that assumed another' petty crime and van iwm to sea to live it down, that th girl b loved might not be shamed and humiliated by th revelation ef her brother's weakness. He's th fl- ' low yon and I used to talk aboutt that lad of strength and honor w built with boyish imaginations ap in th haymow, or while idling with a home-made fishing rod down by th creek. He's your kind and my kind and because we had fathers and mothers to make our way easier w never managed to be him. but we wanted to and we'll live our dreams ' again with Dick Halpin in this vivid liv ing motion picture, "Masters of Men." A master of men wrote this great ea tale. A maa who life was as hard as th diamonds he cut and who never wrote a line until he had lived beyond an average man's age a maa who took a beating at th hands of a brutal second mat with a smil, and who administered a beating with equal cheerfulness a man who knew ' the sea and a sailorman's life) whe ' criticised Kipling rightfully and who wrote hi first aea tale to prov that a man who knew th sea could writ a batter story of th seat a maa who I earned little by his pen aad who I starved while he wrote j the greatest ! writer af sea stori in all literature. I Moraran Robertson, a master of men, wrote the last word in thrilling ea stories when he wrote "Masters of Men." VIAODADO ALBERT C. SMITH secsiocwr n 1 lev tl V VII I CD rucro Atrrwmna UHIOI in MLLLII ATTRACTS AND BULLS iUi n-uss. INK, elsa,nuiMat!,wa- MBWnt, iirfit, thtip. atl ml, n't WW f mrt will Mt ssi til M natal. OnsnntMd ff-cti. Bold . bi dwltti. r maiiL SI J7 HABOU)BUsUOU.lMIJUB)Am,Braakl?a. N.T. 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