rw c". French Use Black Troops in the Ruhr This photograph proves the use of black trodps by the French In their occupation of the Ituhr. One black and two n. n commissioned officers in a French company nre pictured above at Werden, in the Iluhr. Bitter complaints lu, made against the use of black troops in the Ruhr. fpend AH in Hunt for Baby I anishing Infant, Vanishing Wife and Vanishing Mother Com plicated Five Lives. Memphis, Term. ? A tiny pink scar on o riulit cheek has cleared up the v.stfry ??f the vanishing baby. i'.ahy Graham's fate was decreed , when -Judge Camille Kelley, lilting in the Juvenile court, listened the ::iii mother, Mrs. K. C. Graham, iweniy, "schoolma'am" of Cybur, liss., tell of this slender identifica ioii. "She must ->e your baby," the court after having held the rioted In f;. lit in legal custody for more than week. The story 0/ the vanishing baby Is the -;tr:mgest ever told in Memphis court records. When I.etitia I *gerett, (laughter of I". \\\ I.eggett, a well-to-do farmer, of seminary, Covington county, Miss., was teaching school at Kelby Creek, In the same county, she was courted l-y K. C. Graham, twenty-three, son of L. A. Graham of Sanford, Coving ton county. Mr. Leggelt objected Ft renu her. After Mrs. Jenkins left the Natchez hospital, the health of Mrs. Graham Je-an to improve. Her husband had returned from California an! renewed the quest for his wife. They were re united the early part of last Decem ber. "We then hired detectives," Mrs. Graham told the juvenile Judge, "and traced Mrs. Jenkins to Cary, Miss. At first she attempted to deny she ? ver had met me. Later, under se vere questioning, jhe broke down and admitted she was the woma i to whom I had given* my tab;-, but she would not let either* my husband or myself 4>ee the infant. "We did not have an officer with us s nd could not force the woman to turn over the child. When be finally ' ;td obtained the* services of an officer and returned to the Jenkins home In BmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmwitX Dog Burns to Death Hunting for Baby | i Van Nuys, Cal. ? A dog owned j by A. V. Sastian lost its life i while searching a burning%barn c for its master's baby, safe in the ? house at the time- The dog had | been taught to search for the J child when asked the question, i "Where is baby?" ? Some one J asked that question while the i tlames were destroying the barn, J and the dog dashed into the I burning building. i ? -- ? Cary she had gone, takfng my baby with her. "We traced her to Vicksburg," Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Burns, who con duct a nursery at 8S7 Ivney street, now come into the narrative. "On Jan. 24 last," they said, "a woman, who gave her name as Mrs. Dorothy Brown, brought a baby to our house. She saidtshe could not work and keep :ier baby, but she would pay for its keep. No\^ enters T. M. Jenkins. Advertises for Wife. Mr. Jenkins came to Memphis In quest of his missing wife after a search of three months all over the South. lie decided to advertise and offer a reward. ? Down in Cybur, Miss., Mrs. R. C. Graham, the mother of the baby, iden tified the picture of the missing Mrs. Jenkins in the newspapers. They got into touch with Mr. Jen kins. Then Jenkins, Graham and Burns got together out at the nursery. Mr. Jenkins identified a scarf left there by "Dorothy Brown* as belonging to his wife. Graham telegraphed his wife and she came on to Memphis., "That's my long-lost baby," she said. "I know that little red scar on her precious cheerf," and she grabbed up the baby, overwhelming it with caresses. "I've already spent my last dollar, even to selling my little home, to ob tain funds with which to hire detec tives," Mr. Graham said. "Hut we don't regret it, do we?" put in Mrs. Graham as she stood close .to her husband with the baby cuddled up in her arms. Russian State Bank Veritable Gold Mine Moscow. ? Ton million dollars' worth of gold, in Russian rubles" and glis tening ingots of bullion, are heaped up in 'the treasure vaults of the Rus sian J^tate bank, the results of one year's activities of this soviet finan cial Institution. # ? Twelve months ago It started doing business with a capital of depreciated paper rubles. Under the management , of old-time Russian bankers, who never hesitated to take - big profits, artr. William R. Smith, a graduate of Cornell, with the class of 1919, sewed up the heart of a young negro stabbed ?ti a brawl in Avlnnta. The operation, characterized by At Junta surgical men as one of the most remarkable in their experience, is be ? ievpd by them to have been the first ^:ture of the hea^t attempted Since 1596. ' ' ? As a result of Dr. Smith's daring operation, Glehn Freeman, a young nepro boy, Is now at Grady hospital here on the road to recovery, filn heart was lifted out of its normal po#l a ragged knife wound sewed up J and the heart replaced in 'its normal position, with flow of blood unhalted. The day after the operation, per form ed late In the evening. Dr. Smith predicted that the boy wouK. recover and would suffer few If any ill effects as a result of his close scuffle with death. , As soon as Freemu . feU, with a gash in his side that ceemed certain to prove fj^al, he ..as rushed to Grady hospital and placed on the operating table Li the negro ward. Dr. Smith resident surgeon at the hospital, was called. Dr. Smith made a triangular In cision over the fifth rib, removed three Inches of the rib and mad* an inch and a half incision in the pericardium, the fibrous sac that surrounds the heart. Then he pushed the heart qp through the incision In the pericar dium, sewed up the gash in the right ventricle and replaced the heart in Its showering curses on them for being 1 uncloan. Obviously, promiscuous love ' meets with little encouragement." The divorce In ? of Arabia, the . writer explained, makes it necessary i for the wife to watch her steps through the sand. When a man cj n divorce RIs wife by simply clapping his hands and re peating three times, "I divorce you," the wife is sure t-> be careful, Mrs. Forbes declared. i To satisfy the curiosity of the na tives, who have a deep dislike for strangers, and i o allay their hostility, Mrs. Forbes passed as a woman bound for the liarem of a wealthy sheik, In one village, however, a mob sur rounded the wo nan explorer and pulled her from her horse. A tall, good-looking Aran came along, beat off the mob and took Mrs. Forbes to his harem, where he treated her with chivalry. ti ? ~ ? t Billion Nickels Are \ .! Collected in Year ' i New York. ? A billion nickels i \ were paid Into the elevated and J - ' subway turnstiles of the Inter- t { w borough Rapid Transit company J < J during 1922. - A report showed # 0 that its mileage had more than \ 4 doubled since i905, and that its ' 1 passenger traffic had" tripled dur- \ i ing the same period. i ':1 v *.i ; ' ' ' ? / ? '? ????'?? ' normal position. Five stitches were taken in the heart And after each was sewed, Dr, Smith ha lishment and Maintennace" of Merchant Marine. Washington. ? Notice was served on all concerned after a two-hour confer ee at the , White House that the American merchant marine is to be maintained as a going concern, either under private supervision or under a straight-out policy of government ownership and government operation. The statement was made at the White House that President Harding and members of the shipping board who met with him to consider the shipping situation were unanimous in their opinion that "the chief end to be sought is the establishment and maintenance of the American : mer chant marine." "The statement from the confer ence," said Chairman Lasker later, "means simply this: American and foreign shipping interests may be as sured that so far as this generation can see ahead there will be adequate American tonnage to carry any cargo offered to any sort of the world." With the conviction that private opertion has not yet been relegated to the list of impossible things the conference determined upon one more attempt . to turn over established routes to private ownership. . As an initial step, the forty existing routes will be consolidated to insure more economical and efficient operation, and then will be offered for sale as going concerns, practically at auction but with the stipulation that: only "Justifiable" bids will be considered. A condition of all sales will be that the vessels concerned be kept on their present routes. The consolidation is expected to re move one of the principal handicaps under which the board has labored in its dealings with government oper- i ators. An example was cited in the j case of certain routes out of New York. An operator running sjiips to ^Amsterdam, it was pointed out> might have an outward cargo and the op portunity to pick up return freight at Rotterdam, but would be unable to avail himself because of the existence of a separate route from NtW York to Rotterdam. The consolidation will combine routes to adjacent foreign parts under a single head with the | yiew of handling the same amount of business with less ships. vIt miist be understood," he said, "the board does not contemplate sell ing only the 'cream motes' and leav ing the government stuck with un productive lines. If sufficient routes are not purchased to insure success of private operation, the government will proceed to hold them all, elimi nate the agency system entirely, and embark upon a program of aggressive operation iself." New Schedules of Pay May 1st. ? Washington. ? New schedules of pay for civilian employes at navy yards and other shore stations have been approved, Assistant Secretary Roose velt announced, to be operative from May 1 to the end of the calendar year. Coputed on the basis of pre vailing rates for similar work in the same locality, the new scales are ex pacted to effect a net increase in the navy's payroll, although there will be some instances of reduction. / A new wage board will be organiz ed in the fall, Mr. Roosevelt said, to recommend wage scales for 1924. It will operate under revised regula tions, one modification from the pres ent rules being the prohibition of the board considering any confidential data from private establishments. The department feels, Mr. Roosevelt explains, that the employes should be given opportunity to scrutinize all such data and to protest again con sideration of wages obtaining in any establishment which they do not con sider representtive. The present rates ? which are" uni 'form throughout the service ? were established during the war emergency with the announced purpose o? stabi libing the ship building and ship re pair industries. It was found ii\ prac tice, however, that pay for certain trades greatly exceeded that of ott ers requiring equal or even greater skill. The "Radio Church of America." Sacramento, Cal ? Instead of people going to church on Sunday or any other day, the church will be brought direct to the people by radio under a plan proposed by the Radio Church of America," which was incorporated here under the laws of the state of California. Headquarters of the church is to be established in ?an Francisco, branch es will be established, according to the articles of incorporation, wher ever and whenever a radio broadcast In* station is Tillable. {condensed news from THE OlD NORTH STATE /j SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST TO CAROLINIANS. Greensbor0.? IjfOcal property of the I Arctic Icq /sad Coal Company in the ? f ? / ' . V 5 hands of the receiver for the past three months, lias been sold to B. B. Tatum, local business man for $155,000. The sale was approved by Judge T.-'B. Finley. Wilson. ? Sixteen out off the fifty- j six raijroad mail clerks that have been stopping over at Rocky Mount for the past several months, have been trans ferred to this office that they may have more time to work up the in creasing mail matter going north. High Point. ? With nearly $40,000 having been subscribed during the day, High Point went over the top in its campaign for $125,000 with which to erect and equip a modern Y. M. C. A. building here. The amount sub scribed was $126,783.80. Statesville.i-The board of directs ors of the North Carolina Merchants' Association met here to arrange a program for the next convention of the association. The convention will take place June 19, 20 and 21 at States ville. The members of the board were entertained at a banquet. Hickory/ ? Resumption of operation of the shirt factory at Grante Falls has begun. J. W. Hartsfield, well known overall manufacturer of Hick ory, having purchased the plant there from its owners. The factory has 26 i machines and will turn out 600 work shirts a day. Thomasville. ? J. A. Gardner, of Charlotte secured the contract for the new mill to be erected at the Ama zon p'lant, the work already being un derway. The main building is to be 488 feet in length ahd 132 feet in width. Half the length is to be two stories. Durham. ? Announcement was made to the effect that John McTyere Flowers lecture at Trinity College will be delivered May 2, 3 and 4 instead of April 10, 11 and 12. The date was postponed on account of the slight illness of Dr. W. W. Keen. Greensboro. ? Twenty high schools from the central part of the state have entered teams in the annual invitation track, field and declamation meet at Guilford college to be held this year Saturday, April 21. The declamation contests will take place Friday after noon and evening, April 20. Elizabeth City. ? Nehemiah D. P%n- I dleton, a Weeksville merchant, died in a hospital here from the effects of a blow delivered when he was robbed. -He wag found lying in a pool of blood between his store and boarding house and presumably was robbed of cash he was taking home after closing the store. ^ Lumberton. ? Mary Bunn, three-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Lewis, of Fairmont, died in a local sanatorium as the result of burns re received Thursday, March 26, at the home of her parents, while she was building a fire in the backyard. In trying to extinguish the blaze about her daughter, the mother suffered pain ful burns on her hands and arms. Greensboro. ? Fire of an undetermin ed origin caused damage estimated at $50,000 in the Doggett Building on South Elm street in the heart of the business section of the city. The loss chiefly falls on the Gate City Candy Company, which occupied part of the building. The Hub Shoe Store and Neese's Jewelry Store also suffered from fire and water. Southport. ? The. new bank here, Peoples' United Bank, has given the necessary bond and become permanent receiver for the closed Bank of South port. This receivership will be hand led without %any commission, only actual expenses. It is proposed by the new bank people to liquidate as fast as possible 0n the collaterals turned over *o it from the old bank so that depositors may get some divi dends as early as possible. Hickory.^-A report from Bridge water since the recent heavy rains gives the water as 24 feet below the spillways. At one time during the winter the water was 65 feet below and It is estimated that the rains be tween now and July will fill the great reservoir, from which the power plants on the Catawba river will be fed during th^ summer and fall, Durham. ? Cilrtis Tyndall, small son of Mr. and Mrs. E. R* Tyndall, of Cleveland street, this city, was fat ally injured when struck by an auto mobile driven by W. T. Hammett. The accident occurred near the boy's home while he was at play In the street. He was rushed to the hospi tal, but died before receiving medical attention. Sylva. ? Fire which threatened to wipe out the entire business section of Sylva destroyed the Commercial Hotel and three other buildings before brought under control. The damage .was estimated at $50,000 partially covered by insurance. St. Pauls. ? The St. Pauls Cotton mills and other industries here recent ly entered Into a contract with the Carolina Power and Light company to establish a 60,000-volt transmission line from Hope Mills to St. Pauls, the total requirements of the mills to be something like 1,500 horsepower initi ally. LIME-SULPHUR FOR SPRAYING Comparatively Easy Matter to Make . Solution ? No Expensive Equip ment Is Necessr.rv. IPrepareif bv the United States Department ; of Agriculture.) ; The making of lime-sulphnr solution for spraying fruit trees is comparative ly simple, and any fruit grower who is equipped with the proper apparatus can readily prepare lime-sulphur con centrate for his own use. No elaborate *or expensive equipment is necessary. A first-class concentrate cao be pro duced in an ordinary Iron kettle sus pended over a wood fire. A new Farm ers' Bulletin, 1283, Lime-Sulphur Con centrate, by E. H. Siegler, entomolo gist, bureau of entomology, and A. M. Daniels, mechanical engineer, bureau of public roads, describes the prepara tion of this spray.' The uses for it are described in this bulletin, which in cludes drawings and designs for plants suitable for orchards of various sizes and locations. In the first part of this bulletin will be found formulas and suggestions for the making? storing, and diluting of lime-sulphur concentrate. In the lat Lime-Sulphur Cooker in Operation. ?1 ter part suggestions are given on the building of several types of cookers of different sizes, ranging f/om a very simple 25-gallon kettle to fteain plant? in which 800 gallons of the concentrate can be prepared in one cooking. Lime-sulphur solution Is probably used more extensively than auy other compound, since it is both an insecti cide and a fungicide, it is jsed during both the dormant and the growing sea sons. Lime-sulphur is comparatively cheap, and can be combined with many other compounds, such as arsenate of lead and nicotine, for the simultaneous control of chewing and sucking insects and certain fungus diseases. Its chief disadvantage is that it is disagreeable to use, owing to its causticity-. The lime-sulphur described in this bulletin should not be confused with the so called self-boiled lime-sulphur, which is a mechanical mixture of lime and sulphur, whereas lime-sulphur concen trate is a chemical combination. CONTROL CHERRY LEAF SPOT Disease Lives Over Winter in Dead Leaves on Ground ? Turn Un der All Possible. Clean cultivation is a valuable fao tor in controlling cherry leaf spot Since the disease lives over winter in the old dead leaves on the ground, methods that tend to desti-oy these leaves before the "winter spofres" are discharged are to be recommended. Studies have shown that the first dis charge of spores takes place about tlfe time that the blossom buds begin to break. While it is not practical to practice sanitation with such thorough ness as to make spraying unnecessary, It is possible greatly to strengthen the spray schedule by turning under as many of these old dead leaies as is feasible, prior to the first discharge of spores. PLAN TO PRUNE FRUIT TREES Severe Cutting May Delay Fruiting, Says Ithaca Expert ? Let Young Trees Alone. In dlscussiag the pruning of fruit trees, Dr. \V. H. Chandler, of Ithaca, said that severe pruning may dwarf the tree and delay fruiting: His ex perience indicated that much pruning should be delayed until the tree is large enough te bear a crop. In tests the young unpruned trees, especially peaches, gave much larger yields than pruned trees. He thought tLere was no advantage In shaping yotmg cherry trees, and he would let Burbank plums go without pruning until ten years old. He woiftd never'eut trees whan young, except for good reasons. Cultivating Wet Soil. Cultivating the wet soil about the roots of the tne*s Is Just as damaging as plowing the \vet soil about the roots of corn or potatoes for the time being, and certain weeds are difficult of erad ication in the orchards where 11 is too wet to work the ground. . Small Orchard Pump. An ordinary barrel pump, gWing a pressure of 5 pounds, equipped with a good spray hose, extension rod and disc nozzle. Is ofnaHy sufficient to oar* for small farm orchard!.