1 ? Olive Davles, picked as Queen of Ked Beauty at meeting of Blood Indian tribe* at Fort McCloud. Al berta, Canada. - ? Christmas trees cut In Vermont, Illustrating a practice that certain organizations are try ing to curb. 3 ? Hindus of Ceylon rolling 29 miles over dusty roads to fulfill vows or regain caste. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Egypt Likely to Lose Her Independence Because of the Murder of Stack. By EDWARD W. PICKARD EGYPTIAN nationalists who assas sinated Gen. Sir Lee Stack, sirdar of the Egyptian army and governor general of the Sudan, brought about a crisis for their country and deprived Jt of much of the limited liberty that had been granted it by Great Britain. Lord Allenby, Britisli high commis sioner, promptly presented to the Egyptian government an ultimatum from London and British sea forces began moving toward the land of the Nile. The note from the British re quired that the Egyptian government should: 1. Present ample apology for the crime. 2. Bring the criminals, whoever they are or whatever their age, to condign punlsliment. ' 3. Henceforth forbid and vigorously suppress all popular political demon strations. 4. Pay forthwith to his majesty's government ?f>00,000 ($2,300,000). 5. Order within twenty-four hours the withdrawal from the Sudan of all Egyptian officers and purely Egyptian units of the Egyptian army. Notify the competent department that the Sudan government will In crease the area to be Irrigated at Ge- | zira from 300,000 feddans to an un limited figure as the need may arise. I 7. Withdraw all opposition In re spect, hereafter specified, to the wishes of his majesty's government concerning protection of foreign Inter ests In Egypt. The two last demands were the hardest for the Egyptians to accept, and Premier Zagloul Pasha rejected them, yielding to the others. The in demnity was paid at once and the Egyptian troops began withdrawing from the Sudan. Then Zagloul re signed and was succeeded by Ahmed Ziwar Pasha, who formed a moderate ministry. Meanwhile the British had occupied the customs at Alexandria and followed this up with Impressive parades of troops through that city and Cairo. The British cabinet held up further measures to give Ziwar a chance, and London believed there wag no danger of serious trouble, for the population of Egypt seemed quiet. The Egyptian chamber of deputies protested to ail countries of the world and to the League of Nations, and for a few days the French talked excited ly of laying the affair before the league, but It was quite evident that; Premier. Baldwin and Foreign Minis ter Chamberlain had laid out their course and would not be diverted. The Laborites In England and in milder degree the Liberals attacked the gov ernment for what they termed its hrutality and oppression, and It was generally believed the result would he the resumption of the British pro tectorate over Egypt. At least, the Egyptians have lost all chance of en forcing their claims for Joint control of the Sudan, and also the British will now be free to divert all the Nile wa ter they desire for the Sudanese cot ton fields throueh the Gezlra irriga tion project The British ministers strongly resent the obvious compari . son of their action with that of Aus tria after the Sarajevo assassination, pointing out that they have only put into operation powers that were ex pressly reserved In the grant of Inde pendence to Egypt They assert tfie affair Is not the business of the League of Nations, since Egypt is not a member of the league. SECRETARY WILBUR In his an nual report sets forth a lot of facts and figures that are discourag ing to those who believe In having the nation In a state of preparedness to resist attack hy a foreign foe. Mr. Wilbur declares that owing to the nig gardly policy of congress In the mat ter of appropriations for repairs and replacements, the navy Is steadily and rapidly deteriorating; that th* ships , Tell Harrowing Tales a of Soviet Cruelties Mobile. ? Officers and crew of the Greek steamer Margarita, arriving here 40 days out from Pita, Russia, on the Black sea, with manganese ore, tild tales of cruelty and outrages against the people of the , state of ^ Georgia in the Soviet empire. The vessel touched at Pita ten days after wholesale murders of Georgians, popuixtion gf that find their machinery are wearing out faster than they "can be renewed, and that this condition has been responsi ble for numerous accidents. Of the eighteen battleships we retain under the Washington treaty, six are so anti quated and out of condition that they cannot take part in fleet operations. Those vessels, he says, must be mod ernized if our ratio of naval strength is to be maintained. Our navy also is outranged by the guns of the British and some of the guns of the Japanese navy. That, however, is due not to the attitude of congress, but to the refusal of the ad ministration to permit elevation of our guns In the face of the British view that such procedure would be a violation of the treaty. There Is a shortage of officers and men properly to man the ships. The enlisted personnel Is limited to 80,000. Though officers are needed, congress has reduced the capacity of Annapolis to turn out (officers by limiting appoint ments of dadets to three Instead of five for each senator and representa tive. It is costing $70,000,000 to scrap the ships we are obligated by the treaty to destroy. One of the vessels in this class was the partly completed dread naught Washington, the hu!! of which has just been sunk off the Virginia capes where it was made the target of ships and bombing planes. It with stood the shells for several days, and the navy officials Intimate that much was learned in the process of destruc tion. -3, OUR huge Gennan-built dirigible, sailed from Lake hurst down to Washington lust week and, settling down on the landing field of the Anacostla naval* air station, was christened "Los Angeles" by Mrs. Coolidge while a big flock of homing pigeons was released from its cabins. The airship was then formally placed In commission by Rear Admiral Ben jamin F. Hutchinson and made Its way serenely back to Lakehurst. TN PURSUANCE of Its determlna * tlon to settle the question of publi cation of Income tax returns, and probably to expedite the repeal of the publicity clause of the law the De partment of Justice has obtained the indictment of the New York Tribune company, publisher of tt*e Herald Tribune, and also of Walter S. Dickey, owner, and Ralph Ellis, managing edi tor of the Kansas City Journal-Post. It appears most likely that congress will make quick work of knocking out the publicity clause, for Senator Pat Harrison says he favors Its repeal, and some other Democratic leaders are known to agree with him. UAN CHI-JUI, Aiifu leader, Is now both premier and dictator of China, having been Installed at the head of the new provisional govern ment In Peking by Chang Tso-lin. The government Is regarded as conserva tive Qnd has strong hopes of harmon izing the Mukden and Yangtse fac tions. At Chang's request none of his adherents Is in the cabinet, and Done of Feng's men Included. Indeed, the elimination of Feng Is complete. He announced that he would resign his command and retire from the army and would make a tour of America or Europe. Charging by Implication that all po litical disorders In China are caused largely by missionary education, the China Educational conference in Kal feng passed resolutions demanding close government regulation of all in stitutions of learning operated by American and other foreign mission aries in China and that all teaching of religion by missionaries in China be stopped. OPPONENTS of President Musta pha Kemal of Turkey have suc ceeded to the extent of forcing the resignation of Ismet Pasha, his pre mier, and the appointment of FethI Bey, who formerly held that post. In Italy, too, the opposition has scored to some extent, for Premier Mussolini, in order to avert a parlia mentary break with his friends, prom ised in the chamber of deputies to prosecute sternly the Faclstl guilty of excesses against the population, and also to moderate the utterances of the ' Fascist!, beginning with himself. He country Is said to be beneath the heel of Red Russia. A famine is predicted In parts of Russia this winter. Members of the crew who went ashore at Constantinople reported that city rapidly declining. The ancient city of Byzantium, at ojpe time the largest foreign center In the East, Is being abandoned by all except the natives. The Greek seamen of the Margarita reported the Russian Reds are con ducting ? campaign of extermination . ... '-I wii'.v ?" -A ' * 1% ' .-f ;.i i. ! apologized to parliament for the events of November 4, when Fascist! attacked the war veterans v c o demonstration, and admitted that tl country was deserting the Fa8C;8"* nut he warned the chamber that If he were overthrown, the government would revert to the Communists. He was given a great ovation and later a vote of confidence. WILLIAM J. FAHY, long consid ered the best thief catcher among the postal Inspectors, was convicted In the Federal court In Chicago of complicity In the $2,000,000 mall rob bery at Rondout, 111. James Murray a small politician, rflso was found guilty. Six others implicated had con fessed. All eight face long terms In the penitentiary. .Fahy still Insists he was "framed" by other members of the postal inspection force. Anoth ?r alleged Chicago criminal has been caught and must stand tria He is Leo Koretz, who is charged with swindling many of his frIen?8 out of sums amounting to several million dol lam by a bogus oil land scheme. He was found In Halifax, N. S., disguised by a full beard and cutting quite a splurge In society with his Ill-gotten money. ONCE more the American Federa tion of Labor voted to adhere to Its long-time policy of nonpartisan ship In politics, rejecting almost unani mously two resolutions, either of which would have committed its mem bership to the support of a new party. The committee report against the resolutions, which was adopted, said: "Our nonpartisan political policy does not Imply that we shall ignore the existence or attitudes of political parties. It does mean that labor pro poses to use all parties and be used by none. "Your committee unequivocally rec ommends full approval and Indorse ment of the attitude and activities manifested and engaged In on the re cent presidential and congressional political campaign. We rejoice In the results achieved in the congressional elections and are inspired by the fu ture opportunities presented to Amer lea's wage earners.. "Labor having succeeded In elec tions where congress, and congress alone, was the issue, the effort was made In this recent election to recon quer congress under the guise of a presidential election, declared to be of paramount Issue. Our nonpartisan po litical policy withstood the test and Issued forth triumphant with Its forces Intact. The opponents having played their strongest Card and hav ing failed, the future belongs to labor and progress." Samuel Gompers was elected presi dent for the forty-fourth time, and Frank Morrison was re-elected secre tary. Atlantic City, N. J., was select ed as the convention city for 1923. THERE will be at least three elec tion contests for the senate to de cide in the next congress. Daniel F. Steck, Democrat, who was defeated by Senator Brookhart of ?Iowa by 755 votes, thinks ballots that were thrown out may give him the seat. Senator Bursnm of New Mexico, Republican, and Senator Magnus Johnson of Min nesota, Farmer-Labor, will contest the elections of S. C. Bratton, 'Democrat, and Schall, Republican, respectively. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE settled the matter of a secretary of agricul ture by appointing Acting Secretary Gore to hold the place until he be comes governor of Maryland on March 4. Middle Western Republicans ap pear dissatisfied with the representa tion of that part of the country in the cabinet, and some of them have rec ommended that M. E. Greenebaum. Chicago banker, be given a portfolio*. They also hope John L. Lewis of In dianapolis, head of the mine workers, will be given the post of secretary of labor on the retirement of Mr. Davis. Florence kling karding, af ter a brave fight but a losing one, lies at rest beside her husband, the late President, in the vault at Marion. Ohio. The death of this beloved wom an brought expressions of sorrow from people of all part* of the coun try, and her funeral was attended by many notables, including representa tives of the administration. against the Georgians. A huge mound Just outside Pita bears mute testimony to the massacre of 450 Pltans, who dug their own grave at the point of Red guns, and then were executed. The Russian government will derive 55 per cent from the profits of the Margarita's cargo, and the owner 45 per cent. This is the result of the Soviet confiscation of 55 per cent of all manganese deposits, a step toward complete nationalization of the man ganese mines, a source of wealth to the tiny Georgian republic. x|> *T% it i t fri ill ? ' I DOINGS In the I TAR HEEL STATE | NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA ! I X TOLD IN SHORT PARA- J! J GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE Z Salisbury. ? Locke Rex. 33, son of J. H. Rex. of Salisbbury, was killed in New York and body will be sent, here for interment. The brief mes sage telling of the death gave no par ticulars as to how it occurred. Oxford. ? Liming tobacco land with ground magnesium limestone before fertlizing and setting the tobacco plants has proved a profitable practice on the tobacco branch station near here, finds E. O. Moss, director of this station. Spencer. ? Yard Engineer John W. Miller, aged abaut 50 years, was fa tally scalded when caught with a sideswipe by another engine on the Spencer yards. Death followed in a hospital two hours after the accident. Concorn. ? Lewis Earnhardt, truck driver for the Standard Oil company here, ws killed near Midland, 10 miles south of Concord, when an automobile in which he was riding turned over. Earnhardt was in the car alone. Rutherfordton. ? Flames that origi nated in a kitchen flue destroyed the Seaboard Hotel at Bostic. The fire was discovered after midnight and had gained such a headway that the hotel and contents were practically all lost. Hendersonville. ? Designed by Char lotte engineers, and under construc tion for the past 16 months, the Tur ner Shoals station of the Blue Ridge Power company is nearing completion, and the 7,300 additional horsepower which it will create is expected to be available in about six weeks. Durham. ? Bernard O. O'Mary, 65, mill worker, died in a local hospital as a result of injuries sustained when he was struck and knocked down by an automobile operated by L. T. Guth rie, of East Durham, just west of the Edgemont railroad crossing. Wilmington ? Letters announcing the extension of the date for the inland waterway hearing from December 1, to the 10th of the same month have been sent to inteersted persons from the office of MaJ. Oscar O. Kuentz, U.S.A. district engineer, before whom the hearing is to be held. Laurinburg. ? "Lard! This car is on fire." With these words on her lips, Nettie Green, colored woman, and a daughter of Sar Pankey and wife of Laurinburg, jumped from a moving au tomobile on the highway just beyond the depot at Laurel Hill, and broke her neck, death resulting almost in stantly. Wilmington. ? Three fishing boats operated by the Consolidated Fisher ies company, whose plant is located at St. Phillips, on the lower Cape Fear river, landed approximately 80, 000 barrels of menhaden fish off the North Crolina coast, between Cape Fear and Beaufort inlet, Friday. The value of the catch is estimated at |70, 000. Smithfleld. ? S. P. Honeycutt has ju?t received a check from the Sandhill Fair Association for $75 this being the amount of the first prize given the Johnston County Singers at the Sandhill Fair October 29. He has also received a blue ribbon which belongs'' to the County Union Singers and sig nifies that this county won the first prize. Asheville. ? Miss Azalea Rector, l5? year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Rector, of Mashall, eloped with James Rector, prominent resident of the Madison county seat, and the couple were married In Greenville, Tenj., several days ago. The groom is 45 years of age, and is the father of eight children. Tarboro. ? Charles Pollard, who was returning to the Penny Hill section, where he Is engaged in farming, was Instantly killed when his automobile turned over on the dam alongside the river in Princeville. His body was badly crushed by the car and he was dead when parties arrived on the scene of the accident, which ws caused by the radius rod breaking. The machine became unmanageable, but did not leave the high embankment. Wilson. ? According to a patient who has just recovered from a very stub born attack of hiccoughs, there are a number of similar cases In the city. Some of the patients suffering from the trouble are in bed, due mainly of nervousness and loss of sleep. Smithfleld. ? Henry Byrd, prosper ous farmer of Elevation township, died as a result of burns sustained. Mr. Byrd ws cleaning the spark plugs of his automobile using gasoline. A gasoline tank nearby become ignited when he struck & match and in the explosion Mr. Byrd was so badly burned that he survived only a few days. Wilmington. ? The water pressure tank on the farm of John F. Klein, in East Wilmington, one mile from the city limits, exploded with a report that could be heard throughout the neighborhood. It narrowly missed dealing death to Miss Lilly Klein. Two buildings were wrecked. Cahrlotte? Only a third of the World War veterans In North Carolina ntit.^H to adjusted compensation have made application for the "soldiers' bonus," according to information re ceived here by Lieut. P. H. Kohloss, Instructor of national guard engineer ing units. ' . ; ? Goldsboro.? Normon Parker, a young Ooldsboro man, while returning from a hunting trip stumbled upon siv Unit- | ed States mail bags near the asylum ! for the negro insane bordering on the little River. The bags had been rifled of their contents, three of them having been slit open, the other cut open near the locks. , Gastonia. ? Lester Willis, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Davie Willis, of Cramerton, was burned to death In Bast Gastonia while filling the empty tank of *an automobile, the gasollnte having caught fire when a match was itnak to turmrid* Nek* far tfca tarts ft viiii Colorado's New Governor Makes Plans Colorado has a new governor as the result of the election, Gov. William Jl. Sweet, Independent Democrat, be ing defeated for re-election. The new executive of the Centennial State Is Clarence J. Morley, Republican. He Is firty-flve years of age, an attorney admitted to the bar in 1897 and a judge of the Denver District court since 1918. Highlights in his plans In clude the following policies to be placed In effect under the new admin istration : Continuation of plans for the 1920 Golden Jubilee celebration In commem oration of Colorado's fiftieth birthday as a state and the completion of the Moffat tunnel in 192G. Economy in government and reduction In taxation through abolition of useless boards and bureaus. Possible elimination of the advisory pardon?i board and adoption of a rule to grunt pardons buf rarely. An outstanding legislative move of the new executive will be the adoption require every voter to register as to pai election electors be given the ballot of nected. Under this system electors cou affiliation at any time prior to election. 41?11 of a new primary law, 'which would ?ty affiliation and that in the primary the party with which they are con- | Id change their registration of party i Rainey Advocates Outdoor Recreation Senator McKinley's Gift to Students Hfcnry T. Rainey, representative from the Twentieth Illinois congres sional district, believes in outdoor rec reation and nature study as an anti dote for many of the manifold Ills of our modern civilization. So he has fixed up his 320-acre farm and thrown It open to the public. Twelve years ago Mr. Rainey had the opportunity of buying a farm>a mile from Carroll ton which had been a show place since before the Civil war. He and his wife always had wanted to construct an estate to their heart's desire without the aid of a landscape gardener. "We have no children of our own," explained Mr. Rainey. "And there was no reason why we should try to make money off our farm,': explained Mrs. Rainey. "Why should we not share it with the children of other people?" This was the Inception of Walnut hall with Its gardens and parks. Mr. Rainey has built two small lakes, has opened a tract of 165 acres of natural prairie and woodland and has built a wading pool In the front yard for the smaller children. Visitors and motor ists from a radius of 100 miles come dally, winter and summer. Wllllaitf B. McKInley of Illinois is one United States senator who gets into the limelight because of some thing outside of pontics. At Chicago the other day gifts for five Presby terian colleges In Illinois totaling $1, 366,000 and ,$150,000 for St. Luke's hospital in Chicago were announced. Senator McKinley contributed $340, 000 and $750,000 came from the $1, 500,000 in land which James A. Pat ten and Mrs. Patten of Evanston con tributed to the community \rust. 'The Pattens' gift will be In the form of income from the land on which the University club stands, at Monroe street and Michigan avenue. "The largest beneficiary of Senator McKlnley's gift will be the student cen ter at the Illinois State university at Champaign-Urbana, which receives $200,000. Senator McKInley contrib uted several years ago $60,000 to erect a Presbyterian church for the students and that was the beginning of a student center. Colleges which will share In the Patten gift are: Blackburn college, Carlinvllle; Lincoln college, Lin coln; James Millikin university, Decatur; Illinois college, Jacksonville, and Lake Forest college. Lake Forest Senator McKinley served seven terms in the house and was elected to the senate in 1920. F. M. Sackett, New Kentucky Senator ; ;; ? ^ - Kentucky will have two Repub lican senators in the Sixty-ninth con gress, Senator A. Owsley Stanley hav ing been defeated in the election by Frederic Mosely Sackett, Jr.. of Louis ville. "Who's Who" tfves the sen ator-elect's occupation as that of finan cier. He was born In Providence, R. I., hi 18(58 and is a graduate of Brown university (1890) and of Harvard law school (1893). He married Olive Speed of Louisville in 1898. He prac ticed law in Columbus, Ohio, and Louisville until 1907. Since then he has been identified in an official ca pacity with various gas, lighting, coal and cement cdmpanies. In the World war he was the federal food admin istrator for Kentucky. He has served twice as president of the Louisville Board of Trade. He has been a mem ber of the state board of charities and corrections. He has been a di rector of the Louisville branch of the federal reserve bank of SI. Louis since its organization. He is a member of the Kentucky State Bar association. He is a Unitarian. Duchess of Atholl Wins in Election The duchess of Atholl is one of the successful contestants in the Eng lish election. She is the wife of John George Stewart Murray, eighth duke of Atholl, who has been In parliament since 1910. She Is the daughter of Sir, James Ramsay and married the duke in 1899, when he was the mar quees of TullibanJ*ne. The duke has served with distinction in various parts of the world as an officer in the British army, including the Nile ex pedition of 1898 and the Boer war. The family seat is Blair castie, Blair AtholL The estates include something like 200,000 acres. The election was a pretty lively affair, according to all accounts, "heckling" being the mildest feature and fist fights the usual thing. In many instances the disorder was so great that the speakers failed to get 1 a hearing. Even our American Lady Astor bad her troubles, ? though she was returned to parliament. Former Rrime Minister MacDOMj|?fl|jfllr \f f Via l atiAn from the leadership of tbt Labor part*. even fee tard It K^SSSS* srwteS JPnuns sore muscks ^?*iJ plains, frost c r] f , -;s; br^ <" may p* --. J^e ?n mildc/^S babies and ?n, n r?>U ** 'or Children', foSS 3ocandCc janw^S I lni.-lii.v, >,j- wvu |,^<-i,??i..piM,''\w!;"ts I "W^TatU!;,!,. l(. Klandanls taMty i if ;i ? ' ," r>? CIoIm*. Hall's CatarJ Medicine^ 1 t i . - HQS* local and internal, and has bte & ful In the treatment of CatirA fc, forty years. Sold by all drjga F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, ( A Leader A si mi 1 1 town dealer ^ h?>\*'s "f stationery in !.;< loll? that tlicv cliaii;:H r..'^ pletely. Tin* iriivelin,: >a'.?->uaa <j his attention tn this. "When 1 placed tlit'tn with year," pointed "tit tli*? trav^m "they were <>f u smart lwii Now tliey arc ??f a ;reen l,x" "That's all riuht." cM L nonchalant dealer. ^I set the styles annual lwre tafl Kansas City .hmrna The Same Old Bacbdfl Does every day bring the laj backache? Do you drag i!omi your back a dull, ucceasjsf i Evenine find you "all rirjj < Don't be discouraged! Kaiajtj merely a 6ign you haven't tuai care of your kidneys. Tia % easier for a while and help neys with Doan's Pillt, i a diuretic to the kidneys. fha&i ache, dizziness, headache, tiriqpj and other kidnev trouklad^j Doan's have helped tboani ail should h.?lp you. Ask yovifl^M| A North CarolimCm Mrs :il * Water ville, X. c. W "My bic'i utf and I tirdr?d? and seec^'JjS out corr.p.ea? had diu? P?i when fptcbid my eyes b.-^i sight. My fcd*| were too r action IMS -vJbe?er TJLtltrnf *a box of I?| Pills and two more boxes ton?l trouble from me." DOAN'S. STIMULANT DIURETIC TOM Fotter-Milbum Co., Mfg. QxauM**. "Equinoctial Storm In IxmIi Europe :iwl Anient* t lis an old belief tliat ;i sever* M the so-called "ifiuinnctiul "equinoefij'il pile"? is due iMl date of eltlier equinoj. t/uf is . M 21 or September L_\ a *^*1 St. McJiolas. Tlic fiilliirv ..fitti eonsisfs in iiletififyn;' liny >1"^ occurs within ;i week. ?r ** weeks, of tin* equinox us tlittrf tfal storm. Statistics show flu" is no maximum of storm fri" close to the dure of either eiji-iK' Course s(orm> do occur iiM^ dates, just as tlicy occur utotbffd of the year. I5ut no nwn id.r'" should occur at tli?*?|uJn<'\estft to meteorolit^isfs. A torpid liver prevent." proper : Hon. Tone up your liver with "r'f - Vegetable PIIIh.' 372 P<*rl St. -N Anybody \\1fli liis Ik'ht bushel may he (lining (lre.nl/uRf , somebody to find it. Sure Refill 25# AND 75<t ELL-ANj s?? tp Use Culicura M And To Heal Sore ^ PATENTS?^ Booklet FRBB. r??"'U -j BK1 EaraSs "sn

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