North Carolina Newspapers

Greatest Sounding Board in the World Is Tested I M?*re t an ,000 persons were present in the immense natural amphitheater at the sheer side of Stone mountain, thiMta. i?a., the other day to hear a theater orchestra test and prove the adaptability of the site for producing 7 r 1:1 mlisi(* or audiences of great size. The perpendicular pile of granite, several hundred feet high, forms the ;;s grea s a ura sounding board, according to the musicians. The test precedes the construction of an amphl r.T Which Will be terraced to accommodate an audience of 100,000 persons. To Make Dash Across Arctic ?t. Joe Bernard of the Teddy lear Projects Nome-to-New foundiand Trip. IDS TO FRANKLIN RELICS fiptain Bernard Has Covered More Mileage in Arctic Than Any Man Living ? Finds Wooden Leg Made by Eskimos. I New York. ? A Non^to-Newfounil 5i?i trip through the Arctic will be Lit* this year if his plans go through, Ivord ng to Captain .foe Bernard of ie Teddy Hear, who is in this city a trip East to arrange for the exhl |r i< 'ii ??f relics of Sir John Franklin's 1 fa: i d Arctic expedition and arche ipuiral material from prehistoric 12s i i i ? ? graves in Victoria Land and in forth Siberia. John B. Burnham, resident of the American Game I'ro ?<tivf association, is assisting in the rt to organize a west-to-east expe Itii t through the Arctic. < >ii?* of the relics of Sir John Frank expedition consists of parts <?f a ? ;? boom from one of his ships rh.v; was found in possession of an t>k on Adelaide peninsula, which [ ri point about three quarters of II, journey fro?n Bering strait, on he I'arilic side, to Baffin bay, on the ulantic. Another relic is a wooden ?r. u l>o\ made by Kskiiflos from "i.j from a ship in a relief expedition ^?n: after Franklin, who perished in IMS. Another strange relie <?f early J'.r/.'sh expeditions reported by Cap i r.'.Tiiard was a bit of applied ;!i-e. It was a wooden leg manu fred roughly for himself by an ?kiifio on Adelaide peninsula, his tors having learned the trick fr members of t lie expedition of Sir Ross, who explored in the lAr cric in. 182S. A Veteran Arctic Trader. * , ' "ij'tain Bernard lias been trading iinii making urcheological and anthro I " '? 'i.'ii-.ii collections among the Eski Cj"> f < ?r L'O seasons, He is said to have ec. more mileage in the Arctic thai, any man living. His greatest col nu inhering pieces, is in t museum of the University of Penn sylvania. Other collections nmde by J-i:;: are in this city at the Museum of tlie American Indian, Ileye Founda t."n ; at the Loyola college at Ottawa aiul elsewhere. Edward Arnold of Montreal has a large private collec ts a containing many Arctic treasures h ?rered from natives or excavated by ptain Bernard, who is by a wide ' the greatest individual huntei of material of this kind in the North His most interesting recent collec n contains weapons and utensil: } ancient graves on Victoria Land Arctic. These are believed u 1 ?? that t lie early Victoria Land In - belonged to the Chuckchee tribe ' ? 1'cria, who also bury their dead in ? ined graves with heads pointing ea>:. ' . ? ?{?tain Bernard hopes to make up a Parry of three or four sportsmen and ,,:-e Jnot Ion picture man for the pro ;?'*(?(! Xoin^-to-Newfoundland trip. The w;*st !o-i';ist passage of the Arctic has ?'ver heen accomplished. In the other liiect i,,ji the passage has been made b. ,,n.. inan ? Amundsen. Tlie water "ite ih rough the Arctic north of Can '? i was discovered by Sir John Frank llh, but he perished'on the trip. Two Alternating Trips. The Arctic pilot mid that he was *e?dy to attempt the trip in either one ,Jf two ways ? a quick dash with the h'lrjiose of completing the trip in one cannier, or a more leisurely journey, Wintering on Victoria Land or some "then pnrt of the Arctic, hunting polar r while the light lasts, taking mo- j n pictures and listening to music, j n,'u's and bed-time stories from WJZ, l'"' radio broadcasting station at New- j ar*. N. J. s "If conditions are favorable, It w'"ilii be possible to leave Nome on 15 to reach Newfoundland in the laf(fcr part of September or early in October," he said. "If we started in duing xo make the trip in one sum- , Lady's Shoe Explodes; Manufacturer Sued Parkersburg, W. Va.? It was cold the other day when Mrs. Hugo *Moats of Hurrlsville sat down before an open gas lire to warm her feet. A few minutes later she was startled by an explosion which, she says, tore off the tip of one of her shoos. Her toes were so badly injured that amputation was necessary. Mrs. Moats fil:?d suit In Cir cuit court here for $5,000, charg ing that the manufacturer used celluloid instead of leather in the inner lining of the snoe tip. mer. I think we would have about an even chance of getting through. If ice conditions were bad, ;is they were last summer, it would be necessary to go into winter quarters. The expense of the short trip would be about $15,000. If we staved over all winter and made our way out the following summer, the cost would be all of $20,000. "I would take one native on the trip, and the passengers could not number more than three or four. They would have to act as the crew and do their share of work." The party would have to live largely <>n the country. Their diet would vary, according to the position where they located. Fat reindeer is the best meat in the North -ind thin reindeer about the poorest, according to Captain Ber nard. Next to fat rcindPbr the high est living in the Arctic, he said, was wolf, whose meat was lean streaked with fat, having the flavor of fine lamb. Varied fare ol' this kind would be possible if the party camped on the coast of the continent, whereas polar bear would be the mainstay if they wintered on Melville island. Relics Sent to Ottawa. The brass gooseneck boom with the "H. M." remaining as the fraction of the lettering and the wooden box have been sent to Loyola college, Ottawa, where Captain Bernard is preparing for the expedition. The most extraordi nary memento of the early expeditions, however, Is the wooden leg. which was '?Ited bv the explorer as one of the best evidences of the accuracy of Es kimo traditions, because it shows an exact preservation of information which came to the tribe originally at Vdelaide peninsula nearly a century ?i go. "The leg was . most ingeniously ?Made," i?e said. "It consisted of more ?ban 20 pieces of wood. There Is no timber from which a solid piece could be obtained in that part of the world, and the Eskimo had to rely on drift wood. Each small piece was pierced. Strips of seal rawhide were put 1 through the holes and they were, all lashed together. A piece of wood which projected forward, as a substl- i tute for the ball of the foot, was tied on the bottom. There was not a nail in the whole thing. The leg was off below the knee. It was lashed on above the knee, about as we would do it. ' ? "I asked the Eskimo how he had learned to do this. He said his father had told him. The father told how he - had learned by word of mouth from the ' elder of the tribe of the time when white men visited this part of the world. One of the Eskimos then had lost a leg, and a white man who be- j longed to the party I. ad showed him , how to construct one of wood and hpw to harness it on to the stump. The exact manner of doing this, all the tricks of leg-making, had been retained in memory. "When I returned to civilization I looked up the account of the Koss ex- j pedition and there this incident, which occurred in 1S28, is described in d3- ; tail. The names of the Englishmen j and of the Eskimo was precisely that given to me by the faiher of the one legged man." *" Captain Bernard said that if ice conditions were normal this summer, the party organized by Stefansson , which raised the British Hag on VVran- j gel 1 island, might be rescued. lie said that experienced Arctic men could easily live the year round on the island, having polar bear as the chief article of diet, and that there was no reason to be pessimistic about the fate of the party. FURNITURE AGED BY WORMS: Manufacturers of "Antique" Goods in f France Have Developed New *ij? Departure in Faking. ? Paris.? Trained worms instead oi ' bucks) ot are now being used by <v r- ? tain manufacturers of antique furnl- j f:re to give it the venerable aspect j brought by age and decay in the real j old product. The new departure in this industry is due to the Ingenuity of a gardener living near Dijon. Noting that cef vain wood worms which had been kill-, Ins; his trees reproduced with rapidity, he has gone into the business of sell ing them to antique dealers. ? Before delivery he trains the worms to the work required, so that the furniture maker has only to turn them loose in a room empty save for the new furni ture. Champion Pork Rai&6r. Madison, Wis. ? Wisconsin's cham pion girl pork raiser is Miss Vev* Divas of Monroe. During ihe last sea son she won nearly 100 ribbons and gathered in more than $500 in cash prizes by showing her "six little pigs" j at the county fairs. Radio Enables the Deaf to Hear * ?' i *?* ? *?? t . *. , By means of powerful radio amplifiers, deaf and dumb children In the pi He schools of Cincinnati are hearing the human voice for the first time ir tin lives. The radio waves have opened up tremendous possibilities in the tea< ing of these children, according to Walter Aiken, supervisor ?>f music In scholia 1 wuo is In charge of the new undertaking. Mr. Kllgour, radio expert, is show* j here talking to a child who had never heard a sound befora, j a Mies lose. LIES IH USE WEST WING OF THE MANHATTAN 8TATE HOSPITAL SW&PT BY FLAMES.; V , 5.336 WERE GOHD THERE Some of Inmates Laughed and Cried ?* Out fn Glee at the Siflht of Flames. New York. ? A teirific blast, set by dredgers in Hell Gate, rocked the buildings of the Manhattan State hos pital for the insane on Ward's Island, in the East River and set the 6,338 in mates cowering and wailing with a sense of impending doom. Attendants calmed them and got them to bed before morning, the doom fantasied by the disordered brains had come true for 22 of the maddest. They had been burned to death in a fierce fire that swept the west wing of the main building. Three heroic attendants died with them, striving to the last to rescue them. Hospital authorities and City Medi cal Examiner Norris, who rushed to j the scene said that in all probability ! the blast had been the immediate cause of the fire. According to their theory, it caused a break in the in sulation of electric wires in the attic of the huilding. A short circuit, they think, did the rest ! The fire was discovered by Mich ael Campbell, an attendant in ward 43, in which all the fatalities occurrde. His calm, heroic work, and that of James Hill, attendant in charge, and Patrick Billigan, of Hartford, Conn., George A De Emo and George Preiss, the three attendants who were burned to death, prevented a far greater holo caust. Campbell manned a hose line and fought ba?k the flames, while the others, directed by Hill, ran up and lown the 200-foot top floor oorridor, rousing the patients with the cool order: "All up for breakfast" As far as the maniacs ? declared t>y Supt. Marcus B. Heyman to have,\>een the most dangerous on the 1a land ? could be marshalled from thjftfcr rooms, 'hey were marched in orderly proces sion to the fireproof rfnlng hall, far from the scene of tfe? fire. r Seventy of thef ninety-two inmates of Ward 43 fcrtf,it>een led or carried to safety when huge water tank in the ' lazing attic, 'crashed through thp ceil ing completely blocking the corridor that led t? safety, and filling th|e hall with flaipies and sraake. City firemen, fgh^ing their way past the bllazing bqTr1er{ brought out several struggling, screanfting maniacs, and several who *?nd -Vic^n overcome by smoke . while for the "breakfast." Most of were found in the room sand beyond the fallen tank. Sev evu were bel'oved to have been bur ledl ihettnath the debris when the floor gavt way. While the rescue work was being rarf-led forward, the flames burst through the roof o? the balding and Jipitted np the entire island. Sbreams of ?ha terrified patients nearest the fla?ie roused the entire population of ?he madmnn's isle, and in a twinkling every window framed a maniac's face, y Some lauded and eriert but ;n ?le<? at the sights of the flnmei Oth ers staled moodily. Others wrench ed with maniacal strength at the bar windows of th^ir cells, and pcream in anguished fright for rescue, /^ttencants in buildings far remov from the danger zone had almost strenuous a time preventing mad a's and mad-women's panics as e at the actual seme of the blaze red ed ed 9M v J. Building Bocm Continues. latfcd during the week of an accelera tfofc in the pace of the business re vival Although anxiety still exists over ? h?) potentialities of the European ,!t uatJot , the reeling has prown thi it tbis country can enjoy prosperity, foi ? some! time at least, without re<*ard any Imnrovoment abroad, i Sime lir es of business alreadv have been *t?|rmila*f?d as a result of the French t'on of the Ruhr. Steel trices have Pt'ff^ned Tharkedly within tbe nast week. Much of the "resent buying is due to a desire to o* tain t.uoH'es a^mst 1***1* Vi^her ^tices, as the tr>de is berrihning to fejir that the market may get out of ??Hd. Losses are inevitable when re ar t*on comes, as It must sooner or la :er. Activity in steel has contributed 'a "rrfclv to maintenance of record rail "t ad traffic for the season of Ijhe year. . < ? ? * CflOOOO Mortqane For Power Co. i**d?n, S. C. ? A morftra*e for <15, fin the property of the Yadkin Fewer comonuv has been receiv here for reco^t'ng bv county offi ft became knfcwa. Tbe mortgage M*d February 6, is in favor of the Olnnv Trust comnanv as trustee, MMfa *0 years and boar five r c*nt interest mor^aire also will be re 1p DavUngtou, Florence. Lee, a?d Marlboro counties in P| sHte, and Scotland county, North Hn. I m *?< 9 CONDENSED-NEWS FROM THE OLD NORTH STATE ? I wm?mmm SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST TO CAROLINIANS. ^ ... j A' i ^ Asheville. ? For one hour the Boy Scouts jelieved all traffic officers in the city and directed traffic with the utmost ease. Lumberton. ? Brack Prudie, a negro, shot and instantly killed Metco Horn, .white, at Horn's home about seven' miles north of here. Two shots were fired by the negro, both taking ef fect. - X Statesville. ? City public school teachers of Statesville have adopted a Resolution favoring liberal support for state educational institutions and opposing any change in the present certification of teaccers. The resolu tion will be sent to the general as sembly in Raleigh. Winston-Salem. ? The campaign be ing conducted by the First Baptist church to raise funds for a $400,000 church plant, is pr pressing satisfac tory. It is announced that over $300, 000 of the amount need has been secured in good subscriptions. Rocky Mount. ? Two negroes were killed and two others injured when Atlantic Coast Line train No. 81, the Coast Line's through train known as 1 the "Everglades Limited," struck an automob b in which the four negroes were riding in Halifax. Washington. ? Three hundred thous and dollars school improvement bonds, voted by the city last fall, have been sold to an Ohio concern at a premium of $3,180. The bonds will bear an interest r^te of 5 per cent. Kinston. ? Tobacco board of trade officials here advised the planting of a crop "not to exceed 22 510 000 pounds," in this immediate district; an increase of not quite 7,500,000 pounds over the 1922 crop. A greatly inreased acreage and production might have a tendency to weaken prices. Winston-Salem. ? In a fire, in Wau ghtowp, a suburb of Winston-Salem, Melisaa Grant, negro woman and. negro children, Moses and Mary Smith, were burned to death. Belle Lindsay, a negro woman, was burned and'^fed while being hurried to. the hospital. The building caught fire from a heating stove and being a lisrht frame structure, was wrapped in flames before help could be sum moned. N Oxford.? Wiley Perry, negro, charg ed with the killing of Roy Aiken, of Creedmoor during November, 1921, was convicted of first degree murder in court here. The jury was one hour and twenty minutes in bringing in their verdict. Judge Bond sentenced him to be electrocuted March 9. Wilmington.? The Wilmington Dis patch, local afternoon newspaper, sus pended publication as a result of the closing of the Commercial National Bank. A deed of trust in the sum of $45,000 was held on the paper by the defunct bank, which is now in the hands of a receiver. Durham. ? A. F. Morrisette of Nor folk, Va., and Dr. G. H. Finch, of Boyd ton, Va., have been named as the judges for the first annual puppy trial of the Piedmont Field Trial associa tion to be held here this spring, ac cording to announcement made by Secretary Hugh Whitted here. Dunn. ? Seven whiskey stills were captured and six men arrested by A. B. Adams, federal prohibition agent, with in a radius of ten miles of Dunn dur ing the past week. Approximately 2,? 000 gallons of beer found about the stills, six of which were copper outfits, was destroyed, together with the stills. Gastonia. ? Twenty-five thousand spindles will be added to the local plant of the Jenckes Spinning company here, it was learned following receipt from Pawtucket, R. I., of news that a contract had been awarded' for the third addition to the mill within the last 12 months. Winston-Salem ? C. E. Bauguss, a brakeman who had fceen in the employ of the Norfolk and Western railway for several years, his run being be tween this city and Roanoke, Va., fell from a freight train near Ferrum, Va., and sustained injury which resulted in his death. Durham.? With the appointment of a building committee headed by R. L. Baldwin, it was announced by officials of Trinity Methodist jchurch in this city that plans are being made for a $250,000 new church building to re place the one destroyed recently by fire. Granite Falls? Miss Ida Jolly, daugh ter of John Jolly ,of North Catawba, killed a large hawk by "stamping" it to death. Miss Jolly heard the hawk . after the chickens, and when she went I out she found him dragging off a full grown hen. She did not hesitate, but jumped on him and soon sent him to the happy hunting ground. The hawk is said to be the largest ever killed In that vicinity, having a spread of four feet and two inches. Asheville. ? A memorial to Sir Ed gar Buncombe, for whom this county was named, will be erected on the courthouse lawn by the local chapter ? of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The county board of commiss'oners has vfeted to co-operate with the organization in the Projej? Winston-Salem.? The Clyde Boiling post of the Amerir-n Legion now has a membership of 450, according to an announcement by. Adjutant Carlyle h gain of 200 since the membership drive in this city was started. He also reported a surplus of $4,000 ?? the post's trttefc-ry. i ? .fSL ?JfW. Fruit Often Overlooked Because of Previous Failure or Selection of Wrong Soil. It is very difficult to find anyone wh6' does Dot like nice fresh strawberries and even in fairly large quantities. At the same time how many have all they want? An average sized family of five can comfortably consume five quarts daily. Figure on the home patch fur nishing them for 20 days which as a rule would cost 35 cents or more per quart. That would mean $35 for straw berries in one season to say nothing of the surplus that could be sold or pre served in some form. Very few fam ilies buy $35 worth of berrfeS in one season, so it naturally appears that the only solution is to have a home * patch. There are several reasons why we do not have more |iome patches, chief ly among which ate: 1. Some previous failure due to Im proper selection of soil, wrong variety or poor culture. 2. Simply neglccted putting out a patch. Sometimes people think th?t a rich soil is necessary and proceed to manure the soil very heavily. This is a mistake as frequently an excessive amount of manure, in decomposing, may cause the plants to rot. Agatn rich soil stimulates an excessive plant growth at the expense of fruit pro duction and also where plants have made a heavy tender growth of plant early In the spring they are more apt to suffer from drought when dry weather sets in. - - Select a good clay loam soil, capable of retaining moisture and of only me dium fertility. It Is surprising to see some of the successful strawberry patches In the Ozarks, where from a superficial observation It would seem that <Jhe plants are growing in a mass of small rocks. Select a perfect variety, that, is, one which does not require another variety to furnish the pollen, generally termed a variety to fertilize the imperfect variety. The Klondike and Aroma are good standard varietles-*and each one is a perfect variety. Set your home strawberry patch In late February or March. Mark off your rows at least three feet apart and set plants two feet apart in the i 1 Quart Box of "Fancy" Strawberries. row. Keep the roots moist. Make the opening plenty large and deep enough so the roots may be spread out and not doubled up. Set the plants to the crown, but be sure not to cover up the termiltal bud. Keep the plants cultivated from 'he time the plants are set out until the fall rains begin. The Ideta is to make a good growth. In case the plants try to bear th? first spring, that is. the same spring they are set, pinch the blossoms off and throw that nourish ment Into plant production. As the runners start, train them In the direction of the row and in thl^ way a solid mat in the direction of the row will be formed by the end of the growing season. This system of train ing will establish what is known as the matted row system which is best adapted to Oklahoma conditions. k Secure two hundred plants of one of the above named varieties, set them out in March in n clay loam soil, cul tivate well and have plenty^of straw berries for the berry season of 1924. ? D.C. Mooring, Extension Horticultur ist, Oklahoma A. & M. College. BIG IMPORTANCE OF SPRAYS Demonstrations by Extension Work ers Have Resulted in Many Orchards Being Treated. Demonstrations <by extension work ers in the methods and importance of spraying fruit trees have resulted In farm orchards being sprayed on over 37.000 farms In 1921. according to re ports to the United States Department of Agriculture. NATIONAL FORESTRY POLICY Nothing Can Be Done Until More la Known About Growing Timber in Many Sections. A sound national policy of forestry cannot be perfected until far more ts known about bow to grow timber un der widely varying conditions, what onr economic and Industrial require ments are, and by what methods of use these requirements can best bt met, says the forest service Units* States Department of Agriculture.