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WILMINGTON MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. C.,. MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1922.
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NORTH CAROLINIANS
1 PAID LARGE AMOUNT
FOR FEDERAL TAXES
Bill For 1920 Exceeded Staters
Educational Costs For
250 Years
North CMollha's direct federal tax
bill for 192P was J162.667.320. or sev
eral million dollars more than the
state's total expenditures for education,
higher and lower, public and private,
for the 250 years -existance as a colony
and a state.
This "plainly indicates that vast
amount. of money is spent every year
for Juxurles in North Carolina, and
tliiao IntmatoH in the aiivanccmfnt of
education In North Carolina are of the
opinion that mere -money should bo .'
spent in this state-to raise North Car- j
olina's educational system to the very
highest degree of efficiency.
It is pointed out, however, that a
great amount- of money has been ex
pnded . during recent years, certainly
more proportionately than In a much
longer period prior to the later im
provement' in the state's educational
system.
The following expenditures for 1020
reveal in a Startling' degree the vast
sums of money that were spent in 1&U0
in the United States for luxuries: -
For face powder, cosmetics, perfume,
etc.. $750,000,000; soft drinks. jSOO.OOO,
000; toilet soaps. 9400.000,000; cigar
ettes, JSOO.000.OUO; cigars, $510,000,000;
tobacco and snuff, $300, 000,000; jewelry,
JoOOOOO.UOQ; luxurious service. $3,000.-
races, J3,oao,00a.000; chewing erum,
au.uvu,-quu; ice cream, jotf.uvu.ouu; lurs
200,00,000.
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Princeton Triangle Club -Has
Tons of Special Scenery '
of Its Own
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Morehouse Parish Passes
Quiet Christmas Eve Amid
Startling Investigations
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was turned upon them and 150 shots
fired.
The men escaned. Two guards rush
ed on foot many miies and reported the
events to the commanding officer at
Mer Rd"ug-e.; ""The entire company was
rushed to the scene of the skirmish, but
investigation after daylight revealed
nothing-.
While the- troops were rushinx to
L,a"ke Cooper. Masting' was in progress
near the - ferry landing on Lake La
Fourche, 23 miles away. The concus
sion shook the houses In the vicinity.
(Tnldefltlfled men had set off at least
1.0T0pounes of dynamite, experts have
since declarer!. .
TTTe next morning, when the ferry
man went to" board his ferry, he found
It had been released from the spot
where tied and was drifting along the
IrT' He"aW a portion of the bank
blown In And' "hundreds of dead fish
floating on the surface of the water.
Among the fish he' saw two headless
bodies .wire bound and In a bad state
of decomposition. It was believed the
dynamiters had attempted to steal the
bodies.
The bodies were" permitted to float on
the wifer until sunset, during which
time relatives and friends of the Dan
iels and Richards families recognized
bits of clothing remaining on the men.
With the first object in the program
Attained, Governor Parker immediately
Inaugurated the second phase, arrests
ni suspects or trie crime, uuring rn
lav an -4frv frrrnnv at Alptan
3ria and a machine fun company at
New Orleans were ordered to entrain
for Bastrop, the parish seat of More
house. Accompanying the machine pun
company went the attorney general to
set tne legal macninery o,r the state in
motion, anu awo two eminent patnolo
gist -of. New Orleans.
Yfrsterdav. the first of th manv ar
rests promised by the attorney general
was rr;ule when a former deputy sheriff
wa j: il-d . and charpred with murder.
Two tiiUional truard companies estab
lished camp on the grounds occupied
by the courthouse and jail and trained
machine Runs on the jail. The attor
ney preneraj set January 5 as the date
for tl': opening hearings. An inquest
wa h id after pathologists had exam
ined the bodies and announced the men
had b een beaten and some bones
broken before they died. The identifi
cation of the bodies was pronounced
Fatisfactory to the authorities and were
turned over to relatives for burial.
Miss Chadbourn Gets
Radio Message From
Boat Nearing China
Christmas radio greetings were re
reived yesterday by Miss Serena Chad
bourn, of this city, from her cousin,
John Lea Itorison, who is aboard the
steamship President Grant, enroute to
China. The President Grant, at the
time the message was dispatched, was
approaching the coast of China.
The wireless was received by the
radio station at St. Paul. Alaska, and
relayed to Puget Sound. Washn.. from
which point it was telegraphed to "Wil
mington and was received in this city
Von the same day it was dispatched
v The message follows:
"Miss Serena Chadbourn.
"Wilmington, N C.
""Loving Christmas wishes.
' "Romsox."
T. J. Newsom Does
Suddenly at Home
i. Many friends will regret to learn of
the death of T. J. Newsom. 77-year-old
: Confederate veteran, who died sudden
ly, last night at 10:30 o'clock, at his
home, 520 Princess street
It Born in Wilsojn county December 2"
,1845, the deceased has resided in Wil
mington for some time, lie i survived
.by one eon and five daughters, as fol
lows: J. F. Newsom, of Cape Ilenrv
Va.; Mrs. M. Z. Hlnnant. Mrs. s D
Hurst, Jr., Miss Elizabeth Newsom' and
. .Miss Virginia Newsom, of Wilmington--Mrs.
J. A. Miller, of Waycross, Ga.
Funeral services will be conducted
probably Tuesday at Wilson, but den
nits announcement of arrangements for
J the obsequies will be made later.
AUTO CRASH FATAL
MACON. Ga, Dec. 20. Charley Thax
'ton, of Cabiness, Ga, is dead and his
brother. Ernest, is in a .local hospital
the result of a head-on crash of au
' i.tomobiles near" here tonight, "w. l
i Lovelace and W. C. Richardson, occu
4 pants of the other automobile, told
, the police, thai; the Thaxton car had
7. And she brought forth her first
born son, and wrapped him In swad
dling clothes and laid hiru In a manger
because there was no roomor them in
the inn.
8. And there were in tho same coun
try shepherds abiding in the field, keep
ing watch over their flock by niht.
9. And lo. th antral r.f tVi. iv.j
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upon them, and the Klory of the Lord
shone round about ther :anj they were
azraia.
10. And the angel 8& iri unto rhAm
Pear not: for, behold, I bring you good
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tidings of great joy, which 6hall.be to
all people.
11. For unto us is born this day in
the city of David a Saviour, which is
Christ the Lord.
12. And this shall be a sign unto yo;
Te shall find the babfe wrapped in
swaddling clothes, lying- in a manger.
13. And suddenly there was with the
angel a multitude of the 'heavenly host
praising Ood, and saying:,
14. Glory to God in the highest, and
on earth peace, good will toward men.
15. jAnd it came to pass, as the. angels
were arone away from them into
heaven .the shepherds said one an
other. Let us now go even unto Bethle
hem and see this thing which is come
to pass, which the Lord hath made
known unto lis.
16. And they came with haste. and
found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe
lying in the manger.
17. And when they hadseen it. they
made known abroad the-.sayinr which
was told them concerning this child.
18. And all thev that heard it won
dered at those things which were told
them ,hy. the eh?Phrds. - -
Harding Pledges Aid of Nation
To Disabled 1 Veterans of A. E. F.
286 ARE GIVEN JOBS
BY FEDERAL AGENCY
Emergency Employment Office
in New Bern Sets a State
Record
(Special to the Stnr.)
.NEW HERN, Dec. 24. W. H. Vauw
superintendent of the state-federal em
ployment office at Charlotte, who has
been engaged in. the establishment of a
temporary employment office here in
order to relieve unemployment after
the disastrous fire of December 1 an
nounced today the' nlamnt r
laborers since he arrived here Decem
ber 9. This, he said, was a record for
North Carolina employment offices in
the period cited.
Mr. Vause goes back to Charlotte
leaving the local office in the hands of
Alfred Gerrans who has been receiv
ing training in the work of the office.
The Charlotte superintendent does not
expect to return to New Hem unless
some urirent matter nrinei in v. i i
situation, lie said that -he felt sure
.vew nern would be given a permanent
uiuce as soon as the necessary arrange
ments could be made.
Senator F. M. Simmons, who arrived
home for the holldav vio,,
lag was in a lengthy conference during
u v , lin UT- E- Miller, U.
o. un service man, who is here in
charge of emergency sanitation, rela
tive to the establishment of a central
milk pasteurization plant here. Sena
tor Simmons Indorsed Dr. Miller's
view of the advisability of the move,
expressing the opinion that it would
safeguard health and at the same time
stabllze the local milk supply.
. In discussing the progress of agri
cultural work in the county. Senator
Simmons told C. C. Kirkpatrlck, chair
man of the Craven agricultural com
mittee, that a "curing plant" should -be
provided to take care of any surplus of
pork that the farmers might produce
before they were encouraged to in
crease pork production.
2,000 SCIENTISTS
TO GATHER IN HUB
Secrets of Nature to Be Discussed
CAMBRIDGE. Mass., Dec. 24. Se
crets of nature and of man divulged by
the mst recent sclentlfia Investigate
tlons will bo discussed at a gathering
of two thousand scientists from all
parts of the United States and Canada
here this week.
The Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology and Harvard will act as joint
hosts to the members of ths American
Association for ths Advance of Sci
ence, at its annual meeting opening
Tueadav evening
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. President
Harding, in a Christmas messac-e to
disabled war veterans, made public
tonight, declared they were "entitled
to the utmost assurance that a grate
ful people stands willing and anxious
to do, and will continue to do every
thing possible for them."
The greeting of the President, which
the disabled American veterans through
its national officers hereVsent out to
its members follows:
"It is deemed especially fitting that
at the Christmas season, the gratitude
of the nation ghouM v.a cvfr,H,i ,
the sick, disabled and maimed men of
the country's military service. These
men are beyond all others the most
sorely tried victims of the armed ser
vice In which th
uphold the national securitv and vindi
cated the national honor.
our obligation has prompted the na
tion to a very considerate dealing with
them, which, it is honri hm ,,
some measure at least, commensurate
with the debt owing to them For
ucn misionunes as have come to
thousandn of them there can be no
compensation, no adequate requital;
but they are entitled to the utmost
assurance mat a grateful people
stands willing and anxious to do, and
will continue to do everything possi
ble for them.
"That the comlner vear mw brr a-
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mem in iunest measure a restored
fortune, health and prosperity is the
earnest wish of the entire nation."
Mexicans Seek Amnesty
For Political Prisoners
Educational League
To Hold First Meet
In Raleigh Jan. 16
First annual meeting- of the North
Carolina Educational league will be
held in Raleigh, on January 16, accord
ing- to announcement made yesterday
by Charles J3. Newcomb.. executive sec
retary. The league was founded tnr th ,,",-
pose of providing: means whereby the
organized efforts of nrlvstn
mav work effectively in co-operation
wnn me school authorities and thus
accomplish for the public schools what
individual citizens or school
ties working separately or alone might
aaxal ui tuuiu not ao.
A. B. Andrews, of Raleieh, is presi
dent of the league ,and William A. Mc
Girt. state highway commissioner of
this city. Is president.
The Princeton ,Trianrle' club, per
formance here December .ao will offer
one of the- biggest musical bowa ever
piayea in Wilmington-. Itls an organ
ization requiring" a speoTar train of six
cars, to carry Its 76 men, scenery, cos
tumes and elaborate equipment.
"The Man' From Earth'" has-been pro
nounced the beet show of the season by
critics in Wilmington, Del., Baltimore.
Pittsburgh, XTincinnatir Nashville and
Memphis, where the club has already
played. ', ,
The Baltimore Sun, of December f 20,
says, amonj other thing's: .
"But with a little touch here and
there from some hard-boiled profes
sional producer. 'The Man" From
Earth' would'; stay ' Quite, a while on
Broadway tickliOK the folks from uo-
state and' around.. The professional
could not do much more with .the scenic
effects; these Princeton men had dope.
aa much with ilijrht and color as any,
one could. He couldn't do much more
either, with W. H. tknith, '24, -who is-p-out
as close to being an artist in
irlesque as a good many pf . the men
who get , paid for - thinking-, they are.
Whenever they, gave the historic ball
to W. H. Smith, 24, last night. Smith
made first down with it. He was a real
scream' ' . . .
This is an. "amateur' show merely
because the artists receive no compen
sation, but it is "professional' enough
to have sold all of the 7,000 seats for
the January 2 performances at the
Metropolitan Opera House, New York,
nve weeKS in advance.
Wilmington has -never before seen a
show before its appearance- in New
York, nor has it ever seen one large
enough to play at the ''Metropolitan."
Hope For Recovery
Ut Miss Holmes Gone
Br H. E. C. BRVAXT.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. Miss -Margaret
Holmes, daughter of Mrs. Joseph
A Holmes,. is critically ill at her moth
er's home here. All hope for her re
covery is gone.
Miss Holmes was at Cornell, taking
a special course when she became ill.
one naa tne influenza and never recovered-
Mrs. Holmes was a Miss Sprunt,
of Wilmington before her marriage to
the late Dr. Holnxes for years State
Geologist of North Carolina, and later
head of the U. S. Geological anrvov
The .stricken daughter is 20 veara nii i
the youngest of four children and very
auruuuve.
Miss Holmes is well-known in wu
mlngton, having visited here on num-
wrous occasions.
"Christmas again! Christmas -again!
With its holly berries so bright and red;
They gleam in he wood, they grow by the lane
- Oh, hath not Christmas a joyful tread!"
Thanking you for your past patronage and that we
may continue to serve you in the future,
We wish for all a' Happy Christmas
United Shoe Repair Shop
.402 North Front Street
Ideal Shoe Repair Shop
25 North Second Street
I We hope that Santa Claus
remembered every horne in
the land.
IWe hope that today, and
every day the children will be
'happy.
SI We especially hope that all
the friends of this institution
will enjoy to the fullest the
joyous spirit of Christmas.
77& JSTomo of Good foes"
2.02 N. FRONT WILMINGTON.N.C.
PERSHING STADIUM
0 IS NOT IN DEMAND
City
of Paris Cannot
Give it Away
Even
PARIS. Dec. 24. Nobodv -cc-a r,t .
.t-ersning stadium, the city of , Paris
cannot give It away. The union of
reaeratlons of sportine societies. tr
whom tAe municipal council offered the
eiauium recently, refused to accept it.
uniess ine city guaranteed the 100,000
francs necessary for its yearly upkeep.
inis tne city is not prepared to do.
claiming tne unions refusal was
prompted by spite because the city fa
vored the Pershing stadium for the
Olympic games and voted a subsidy of
only a million francs for the Colmbes
stadium In connection with .the. 1924
Olympic, meet. . :
The municipal council now has ofi
fered Pershing stadium to the sporting
federation of the labor unions.
TCG BELIEVED L.OST
CLEVELAND, Deo. 24. With three
tugs searching Lake Erie tonight and
another due to join them in the hunt
tomorrow morning, fear was expressed
here, that the tug Cornell, which left
Cleveland Thursday and was due in
Buffalo Friday, may have gone down
with its crew of eight.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 24. (By The
Associated PreBfi). A mnneit Va
I amnesty be granted all rebel prisoners.
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iuv.iuui uiuoo uireaay inea ana tnose
awaiting trial, was contained tn a bill
sent to the chamber of deputies last
night by President Obregon. -The pres
ident urged immediate passage of Ah6
measure so that it might become effec
tive January 1. v
Wholesale pardon for all revolution
ists against the central government are
provided for In the measure, whih as
sures the chamber of deputies that in
troduction is prompted bv tho knowl
edge that all Mexico is at peace and
that the release of the rehel nrlsnnArn
Will not disrunt national nrilnr. ThA
bill points out that the federal armies
everywhere are triumphant; that ex
peditions orlerlnatlntr In "the TTn!t1-
States have been suppressed and their
various leaders either have died in bat
tle ' or before . flrln Hnnads! and that
Hency should be shown the prisoners
because "either they had at false con-
eption of loyalty or were merely striv
ing to keen promises which they could
not break." .
TORECAST BY STATES
tuSHI,NQ,TON' Dec" il Virginfa:
Mostly cloudy Monday, probably be
coming unsettled in northern portion
Tuesday fair, little change -in tempera
ture. North and South Carolina, Georgia
extreme northwest Florida, Alabama'
Mississippi, Florida: Generally fair
Monday and Tuesday with mild tem
perature. Tennessee. Kentucky: Fair with
mild temperature -Monday and Tues-
EMBASSY IS OPENED
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 24. The
American embassy building at the ex
position grounds and also the Ameri
can industrial exhibits building were
iormaily opened yesterday.
GEORGLA MAX SI,ATV
FORSYTH, Ga., Dec. 24. Charley
carter was snot and killed near here
early today, following- a ouarrpl ho
said to have engaged iif with Gwin
jvmg. nis employer. J.- v. Kinjr and
Gwin Klnsr surrendered to the sheriff
snortiy arter the shootins. They are
Deing held, on the charge of murder.
We Wish a .
Most Happy Christmas and a
Prosperous New. Year
To All
James & James
; Insurance
Southern Building;
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With best wishes for
Merry Christmas
and a verv
Prosperous New Year
Progressive Building & Loan Association
, v. H4. load, becretaryTTrea.surer r
218 Princess Street
RUMOR IS DENIED.
SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec 24. X rumor
in circulation , that the date for the
meeting in March of the Pan-American
congress had been changed is declared
to be utterly -without foundation.
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I JUST THE SAME GOOD , OLD-FASHIONED WISH.
A MRRY CHRISTMAS
A HAPPYNEW YEAR
Closed .Todaydhristmas Day
GOOD LUCK TEA ROOM
ouo jorin jf ront Street
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Greetings-- .
I can not clasp your hand, old pal
'But within this friendly rhyme'
There s a heap of goodly wishes V
1 m wishing you all the time.
Sparkling; diamonds, glittering gold
To you I can not send 'A -
BUvl!1ot!0riny tand the test
When I say that I'm your friend.
Mernry
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