PRymnentl^oDle
William E. Hull, Good Roads Advocate
Congressman William E. Hull of
the Peoria district has been selected
by President Coolidge to represent the
United States at the International good
roads conference which opens next
October in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He has wired his acceptance. It Is
expected" that every nation on the
globe will be represented and the lead
ing engineers of every nation will be
asked to appear upon the program.
South America Is planning an ex
tensive program In road construction.
Last summer a delegation from the
continent spent several months going
over the roads of the United States
and studying methods of construction.
Considerable time was devoted to
Illinois and the party was entertained
by the state highway department and
a number of cities located upon the
principal bond issue hard roads. The
October international conference Is
the sequel to this tour.
As fnr back as 1910, when most of the farmers and land owners and many
city residents were lukewarm or openly hostile to hard roads, Hull risked hla
political existence by advocating the bond Issue for concrete highways.
Augustus Lukeman Succeeds Borglum
Augustus Lukeman of New York
has been employed as the sculptor of
the Stone Mountain Confederate me
morial by the executive committee.
He succeeds Gutzon Rorglum. Mr.
Lukeman Is a native of Richmond,
Va. A statement Issued by the com
mittee said that Mr. Lukeman wan
highly recommended. It continued :
"Mr. Lukeman Is a member of the
National Sculpture society, and wa?
formerly secretary and a member of
the council of the society. Mr. Luke
man began his education for sculpture
as a boy eleven years old, when he se
cured employment In the studio of
Launt Thompson, a noted sculptor of
New York. He learned casting In a
bronze foundry as an apprentice and
as a molder. He learned granite curv
ing by mastering the trade and work
ing at It. With his earnings he paid
his way through the National Acad
emy of Design of New York and a
course In architecture at Columbia university.
"When the World's Fair at Chicago was under construction, Mr. Luke
man was studio foreman for Daniel Chester French, the renowned sculptor
who had charge of the sculpture."
In Charge of Federal Women Prisoners
A departure In federal govern
ment methods In handling prisoners
will take place with the completion
of the federal Industrial institution for
women at Alderson. W. Va. Congress
has appropriated $1>09,100 for the
prison and government architects are
preparing plans for a cottage system
under which prisoners will live in com
munities. Its capacity is 500.
A farm of 200 acres already has
been obtained, and negotiations are
under way for an additional 300 acres.
Federal woman prisoners are now be
ing sent to state Jails, and the states
are protesting.
L>r. Mary B. Harris, who will head
the new institution, is the daughter
of T?r. John Howard Harris, president
emeritus of Bucknell university. She
Is a graduate of the University of
Chicago. After several years spent
in teaching and foreign travel, she be
came superintendent of women at the
workhouse on Blaekwell's island, N. Y. She was made superintendent of the
New Jersey State Reformatory for Women in February, 1918. During the
war and until 1919 Doctor Harris served as assistant director in the section
of reformatories and detention houses In the law enforcement division of the
camp activities. She then assumed the superintendency of the State Home for
Girls of New Jersey, until January, 1925, when she became field executive
secretary of the International Association of Policewomen.
Julius Kruttschnitt Will Retire at 71
His retirement necessitates a
management of the system.
Julius Kruttschnitt, closely asso
elated with E. H. Hairlman In an j
epochal railroad development and
since 1013 chairman of the executive
committee of the Southern Pacific
railway, will soon quit the ranks of
active railroad men under the pension
plan of that road. After forty-eight
years of service he will retire on the
eve of his seventy-first birthday, which
falls on July 30. Mr. Kruttschnltt
once belonged to that host of Ameri
can boys who have found a locomo
tive whistle the sweetest of music. He
was born In New Orleans before the
Civil war and learned the scale of
railroad whistles on a plantation near
the Mississippi levees. He began
work as a rodman on the old New
Orleans & Great Western railroad,
which ran from New Orleans to Mor
gan City, La., 80 miles away. Now
the Southern Pacific has a capitaliza
tion of nearly $800,000,000.
iplete reorganization in the executive
Dollar Purchase of Five U. S. Ships
Here Is an up-to-date portrait of
It. Stanley Dollar, head of the Dollar
Steamship line, whose purchase of the
five President type ships from the
United States shipping board has cre
ated so much excitement. These five
ships have been operated in the Cal
lfornia-Orient service by the Pacific
Mail Steamship company, which ob
tained a temporary Injunction against
the transfer In the District of Colum
bia Supreme court. In the shipping
board the vote for the transfer was
4 to 3.
Under the contract, as made pub
lic, the terms of payment provide that
the certified check for $140,625 which
accompanied the Dollar line bid for
the ships shall be retained by the
board as the first installment on the
purchase price of $5, 62ft, 000. The
final payment must be made not later
than May 1, 1D37. All deferred pay
ments bear Interest at 4% per cent.
Immediately afteij the next arrival of the vessels at San Franci^o, Lh#
board is to dry dock the ships and repair them.
Silent Adieu to,
Noted Matador '
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Mexicans Pay Tribute to
Greatest of Bullfighters
on Retirement
Mexico City.? YVlth 40,000 specta
tor* paying a silent tribute of admira
tion while the memory-stirring notes
of "La Goiondrina" ("When the Swal
lows Iteturn") sounded over the
hushed arena, Ilodolfo Gaona, matador
par excellence, made his last bow in
the bull ring recently. At the feet of
the gaudily arrayed figure lay the final
kill of 20 years, a huge animal with
a mortal sword thrust through his
shoulders. The death struggle had
brought the bull's head to the feet of
his conqueror. For a few seconds
Gaona stood spellbound, then stooped
and lightly caressed the once cruel
horns. It was his farewell to a life
of bewitching peril before he strode
Jauntily out of an existence which had
won him fame the world over. Tears
were shed freely by those assistants
who had fought near him for two
decades as the gate closed on the last
march from the field.
It was a fitting climax to the end
of one of the most remarkable public
careers of any entertainer of modern
times.
Probably no American film star or
baseball player can lay claim to any
thing like the height of glory Gaona
has reached In the eyes of the Mexican
people. Gaona fought bulls perfectly
and the Mexicans love bullfighting
better than any other diversion. Gaona
is a Mexican and In the estimation of '
many International critics the best in
his profession, either In Spain or
Mexico.
Begr.n Life as Bootblack.
Gaona's career has been a remark
able one. He started life as an un
educated bootblack. lie Is more popu
lar in Mexico today than any Presi
dent and has a fortune estimated at
$2,000,000. On one occasion he was
presented with a blshop'j tiara after
be had displayed extraordinary skill
and courage and had killed his animal
with a single thrust, a difficult teat
On the recent day of his retirement
I seats which ordintrlly sell for from
| $2 to $5 went for $25 to $100. The
performance started at three In the
I afternoon. At noon practically every
BRIDE FOR WALES?
seat In the arena was taken except
those reserved. It began to rain, but
through It all there was music and
the spectators prayed that Pluvlus
might cut off the water In time to al
low the performance to begin. Five
mlnute3 before the Indicated hour, as
, If by m .glc, the dark clouds cleared
and, as the clock at the top of the
amphitheater chimed three o'clock, the
sun broke through and perfect weath
er prevailed. A mighty roar rose from
40,000 throats.
"Caliph of the Arena."
Gaona, the "Caliph of the Arena," as
he Is termed, the unequaled, appeared
and the fight was on. He played and
fought his first enemy with all cun
ning and kll!ed the beast with a single
thrust. His second victim suffered a
similar fate. His third animal was un
controllable, known to bullflghtdom as
"tame." The beast did not lend him
self to art and gracefulness on the
part of the man. The multitude roared
for an extra bull. Gaona, the spectac
ular, turned to the Judge's stand and
asked that the request be granted. It
was.
The substitute bull turned out to be
all that the rules of the game required
and "obeyed" the red cape to perfec
tion, making it possible for Gaona to
display the best In him. Within Inches
of the sharp horns, he played with the
brute, caressed his forehead, knelt and
turned his back to the sharp horns, j
touched the dangerous pofnts. Like a
hypnotist he controlled the animal.
He "threw" himself "into the kiy," bis
sword struck home clean through the
shoulder blades to. the heart
The animal gave up the struggle,
the last note sounded from the band.
Gaona bowed his head and moved to
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Princess Martha, niece of the king
of Sweden, according to reports cur
rent In London, Is to become the bride
of the prince of Wales, the engage
ment to be announcel when the prince
returns from his trip to South Amer
ica.
Scientists Revise Theories
After Studying Recent
Total Eclipse.
Washington. ? A summarization of
scientific knowledge gathered from
the sun's eclipse January 24 has led
the bureau of standards to three main
conclusions. These are:
That the sun's corona, which is the
scientific term for the radiant mantle
of material stretching to great dis
tances frcm the main orb. Is In part
composed of solid or Uquld material,
and not entirely of gas.
That the existence of an element In
the sun, provisionally dubbed "coro
nlum," which has never been encoun
tered on the earth's globe. Is fairly
well established.
That a new method of timing
eclipses, based on the phenomena of
light, can be worked out and applied
on June 28, 1927, when the next great
eclipse of the sun, visible in Europe,
Is due.
Dr. George K. Burgess, director of
the bureau, end his staff of experts
who made a variety of Investigations ;
during the few moments the sun was
veiled, reacned these conclusions at
a meeting at which they brought their
preliminary compilations together.
They are continuing comparisons with
the findings of other scientists.
Coronium Signs Detected.
Dr. C. G. Kless, who took a spectra
observatloa from the airship l*>s An
geles, detected again In his photo
graphs the green and red lines which
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN IS NOW
ON TO PREVENT DROWNINGS
& ?
8afety Council Plant Comprehensive
Effort to Reduce the Annual
Toll of Uvea.
Chicago. ? "Help to prevent drown
ings."
That Is the slogan which will be
broadcast throughout the country this
summer by the National Safety Coun
cil In a comprehensive effort to reduce
the toll of lives In accidental drown
ings.
Approximately 6,500 persons were
drowned In continental United States
last year, the council estimates. Mod
ern educational methods and public
ity on the subject have reduced the
annual toll from 8,800, the number
drowned In 1911. A large part of the
credit for this reduction Is due the
American Red Cross, which has pro
moted life-saving activities of various
sorts In communities large and small.
This summer the National Safety
Coaxed King to Adopt
St Patrick's Fete Day
Honolulu.? Believing March 17 was
the best day in the year for birth
day celebrations, no matter In whose
honor, a young Irishman, nearly 100
years ago, drifted to the Hawaiian
islands and upset the records of local
history.
The Irishman became the boon com
panion of the king of Hawaii, Kame
hameha HI., and learned to his dis
tress that the king was In the habit
of celebrating his birthday on the day
he was borq, August 11. He explained
to the king why this should not be.
and advanced colorful arguments for
a change to March 17. The friendly
king consented, and keot up the prac
tice as long as he lived.
Preparing a set of tableaux for pres
entation next June, to honor King
Kamehameha, Hawaiians found con
flicting records ; some set forth he
was born August 11 and others March
17. Archives finally fixed the date as
in August, and then some old timers
came forward with the story of the
roving admirer of St Patrick.
ConncII will add the organized effort
of 60 large cities having a total popu
lation In excess of 30,000,000 which
have affiliated community safety coun
cils.
The safety councils of these cities
will exten 1 the campaign Into the pub
lic and parochial schools, Into the
homes and Into the Industries. Swim
ming posters will be displayed the
country over In an effort to Interest
people In learning how to swim. The
prone-pressure method'- of resuscita
tion, recognized as the most efficient
system or restoring breathing In the
apparently drowned will be taught
along with ways and means of rescu
ing helpless persons from lakes and
rivers.
Thirty of the country's largest radio
stations will broadcast talks on the
prevention of drownings.
"There Is no doubt but that the abil
ity to swim is of first importance If
LEARNS THE BUSINESS
Fowler McCormlclg son of Harold
McCormlck and Mrs. Rockefeller Me
DAISY CHAIN GIRL
Because of tier attractiveness, Miss
India Pickett of Waterloo, Iowa, has
been chosen as one of the students
to carry the annual Daisy Chain at
Vassar college, Poughkeepsle, N. Y.
There is a move now to abolish this
beautiful college ceremony.
the exit from the arena. The multi
tude, sorrow choked, uttered no sound
whatever. Generally when "kills" such
as Gaona had Just registered take
place there is a roaring cry of ap
proval such as only a Latin audience
can emit
Arab Fashion on Links
Paris.? Chiseled leather coats, edged
and lined with wool, are to be the
fashion for women's wear on the golf
links and tennis courts this spring.
The idea comes from the skilfully
worked saddles of some Arab chiefs,
and the delicate leather work is be
ing done by Moorish artists.
Sun Not So Hot,
3,000 Above Zero
are believed to denote the existence
of "coronium."
The contusions as to the solid and
liquid matter in the corona rest large
ly upon the experiments of Drs. H. T.
Staetson and W. Coblenz, aimed at es
tablishing the exact temperature of
the sun. Doctor Coblenz, using better
Instruments than his predecessors,
found the corona temperature to be
3,000 degrees above absolute rero, In
spite of the fact that previous observa
tions have indicated the temperature
to be about 0,000 degrees. The differ
ence la the two temperatures gives
ground for the inference that the
corona is made up in part of dense
matter, because if it were all In
candescent gas, the temperature
would be higher.
In measuring the time of the eclipse,
or rather the time of duration of ob
scuration, I. G. Priest, another bureau
expert, sought to give astronomers
better data for calculrting the move
ment of the moon.
"everal Seconds Out.
There is a gap in proven data which
makes the time of the coming tl
eclipses uncertain by several seconds,
and although this . circumstance Is
philosophically accepted by ordinary
humanity, it is annoying to scientists.
The burear also was concerned In a
general attempt to establish the In
fluence exerted upon wireless trans
mission by the sun's obscuration, but
Its decisions on that point await the
assembling of a very large number of
observations.
the drownings In this country are to
be reduced," says W. F. Cameron, man
aging director of the council. "Every
one, youn,$ and old, should get out
this summer and learn how. Espe
cially should children be taught be
cause swimming becomes harder to
learn as the person grows older. Be
sides, swimming is wonderful exercise
and develops the muscles and tissues
of the tfody Into a suppleness not ac
complished by most other forms of
recreation."
Ban Billboards
Harrlsburg. Pa.? Senator Clarence
Buckman appreciates beauty In all
forms, but he fears that billboards
which display in parish colors and
alluring pose, hosiery and underwear
models distract the attention of mo
torists. Accordingly he has presented
a bill in the senate prohibiting the
erection of billboards on state high
ways.
An inventor in Australia has per
fected an electrical device for measur
ing the depth of water in wells.
Cormlck, and heir to the control of
the reaper industry founded by his
grandfather, is working as a common
laborer In the Milwaukee plant of the
International Harvester company,"
having started at the bottom to learn
all the details of the business.
Greatest Lighthouse
in World Is Started
Paris. ? What is stated to be the
most powerful lighthouse in the world
was Inaugurated on the summit of
Mont Afrique 411 Burgundy for the
purpose of facilitating night trips on
the Paris-Marseilles air line.
The lighthouse has eight lights, with
a total ef 1,000,000,000 candlepower.
If atmospheric conditions are favor
able its powerful rays will be seen
from Lille, Brussels, Frankfort and
Milan.
Despite the heavy expense incurred
for building the lighthouse, which
cost the government over $100,000, it
is expected that four more will be put
up during the year In order to enable
the air lines to run day and night
services throughout the countr*
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Goldsboro. ? F. V. Newman, an em
ploye at the Virginia Box and Lumber
company, had a narrow escape from
serious injury at the plant when he
was caught in a revolving shaft and
whirled around until almost dead.
Winston^Salem. ? Mrs. Wilmouth
York, widow of the late Dr. Lewis
Yortf, of Booneville, died at the home
of her granddaughter, Mrs. C. T. Essie,
in this city.
Durham. ? Glee singers from Guilford
college won the second annual inter
collegiate glee club contest held at
Duke University. The Quaker har
monists won both the cup for the best
quartet and the one given for the best
specialty.
Wadesboro. ? Chickens raised in this
county and shipped off brought more
than five thousand dollars into the
county last month. The raising of
poultry for the market is becoming a
most profitable industry in Anson
county.
Rocky Mount. ? General Albert Cox,
of Raleigh, was the principal speaker
at a Memorial day program which was
carried out at the First Methodist
church under the auspices of the Iieth
el Heroes chapter of the United Daugh
ters of the Confederacy.
Wadesboro. ? Much cotton has had
to be planted over in this county on
account of the unusually cold weather
which followed a hail storm in this
section. In some sections cotton has
already been weeded once, but much
of it i? not yet up.
Wilmington. ? The giant dirigible
Los Angeles, homeward bound to Lake
hurst, N. J., passed over the city head
ed due East. Later she swung norih
and headed toward Norfolk.
Salisbury. ? R. Lee Wright, local at
torney, was sworn in as emergency
judge, the oath being administered by
Judge T. J. Shaw, who is presiding
over the present term of Rowan su
perior court. Judge Wright's commis
sion from Governor McLean came sev
eral days ago. Hit first court will be
at Albemarie.
Wilmington.? John R_ Han ?
V J Sullivan charged by the Lnitea
States Treasury Department w.th hav
ine defrauded the government through
alleged incorrect income tax returns,
are to be tried before Federal Judge
I.M. Meeklns during to?-'
sion of Federal Court, which lb to
convened here.
Oxford. ? Furman Bailey accused
elayer of Lawrence Davis, of bout -
ern UranviUe, was given a Pre^ary
hearing here. Bailey was found
Texas where he fled following the mur
der Court ruled that there was pro j
% cause of guilt and the pnsoner
was placed in jail without bail. Se
eral eye witnesses to the murder were
-rpepnt at the hearing.
Mount Airy. ? The county commis
sioners decided to enter suit again"
tormer county treasury VVan.' = ;
shortage wbich auditors claim is due
the county by Mr. Marion. The com
missioners have had Mr. 1 j
accounts audited by two auditors
workikng independently offsac o
and each report is said toindicatfe
shortage of more than $12,000. !
Laurinburg. - Hugh A ?re
aged 69, was buried at the Mclnt>re
graveyard three miles south of town.
He was of the old original Scotch o
this section. And was considere ,
oce of the best farmers of this section
although not a large planter, butvery
intensive in cultivation, farming on the
pay as you go plan. J
Wilmington? N. Porter, of Seag te,
near Wilmington, vras seriously injur- ;
ed when he fell from a 30-foot pole at
Wanonish while working on
transmission lines / being installed by,
the Tidewater Power company. He ,
was hurried to Wilmington and car
ried to the Walker Memorial hospital
where it is expected he will recover if ,
internal injuries do not develop.
Ralefgh? R. P. Kendall a whie man
arrested as a hobo was Saturday given .
a term of 16 months on the roads by
Judge Frank A. Daniels, in Wake
County Superior court for carrying a
concealed weapon. The long road sen
tence was imposed for an ofTen&e
which usually draws a fine because of
the fact that Kendall was found with |
a quantity of jewelry which was shown
to have been stolen in Lynchburg, Va.
Tarboro.? It was learned here that
George Pittman, a farmer living about |
four miles from Halifax, killed a bald
eagle that was attempting to kill j
some pigs. The eagle had already kill
ed several pigs before he fell before
the farmer's gun. It was seven and
a half feet from tip to tip, being one
of the largest eagles ever seen in this j
section. The bird was sent to Wash
ington city to be mounted.
? High Point.- ? Officer R. L. Myers,
of the local police department, had
judgment suspended upon payment of
the coats in Davidson superior court
at Lexington after he had entered a
plea of guilty of assoult with a deadly
weapon upon Reid Moore, Thomasville ;
white man.
High Point? Reed, Dougherty and
Hoyt, of New York, bond attorneys |
for the city of High Point, have been
requested to give an opinion on the
charter provision which caused a ques
tifn to arise as to the legal right of
Mayor-elect H. A. Moffitt and Council
m*n-elect R. E. Snow to serve.
Hickory. ? Contracts have been con
ditionally let for the building of the
new eight story hotel here, the con
dition being that an additional $60,000
already subscribed. Two thirds of
that amount have already been under
signed, .it was said by officials of the
company.
Hickory? Joe Bass, a traveling sal
esman with headquarters in Morgan
ton, was fired at several times, two
bullets barely missing his head and
crashing through the windshield of his
touring car, as he drove from Lenoir
to Morganton, according to a story he
told Morganton officials.
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