Partly Cloudy Wednesday FOUNDED A. D. 1867.—VOL. CXI.—No. 205. 100 per Cent American WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1923. STRICKEN NEW YORK DAILIES WILL GO TO SIXTEEN PAGES With Out-of Town Pressmen Ar riving, Combined Papers See Some Hope ADVERTISING may * ; BE INCREASED SOME Outlawed Union Head Fires Charges Against Interna tional Chief XEW YORK Sept. 24—Publishers as sociation officials arranged Monday nisht to increase the six of New York’s combined newspapers to 16 pages to morrow, ase the striking pressmen re mained adament, and George L. Berry president of the International union asserted union pressment from other cities were arriving and on the way here-in a “hearty response” to his ap peal for men to fill the vacancies. , It was expected that increased de partment store advertising would ap pear Tuesday after a limited amount of display space re-appeared in the combined papers of this morning and atfernoon. A publisher’s committee was appointed to see that sufficient news print paper got to the various plants tonight for the. biggest edition since the strike began a week ago. Conflicting Statement* Conflicting statements came through out >b.e day from officials of the in ternation and the headquarters of . the local union, which was declared dis solved afte rthe international held the strike illegal. Spokesmen for the strik ers insisted no union men from other cities had gone to work on affected papers, asserting any men who had been aded to the depleted press room forces were neither piachinistw nor members of a pressmen’s unop. They said their own ranks remained as solid as they were Friday when the publish ers asserted a ’’few” strikfers had re turned to wort. •• ... Simmons' junrtir'Omgrt. £ David Simmons, head of the outlaw ed local, sought to answer the charges of Mr. Berry yesterday that the ad ministration of the local had failed to turn in to the international *888 monthlv in dues for 444 members. He asserted he had used the dues of new members to pay those of older mem bers who were sick or out of wook. He aded the charge that Mr. Berry was facing an accusation of missa proriation of *165,000 in union funds in the federal courts. He also asserted he had sent three men from a detec tive agency disguised as common la borers and that they had been issued working cards as pressmen in the m ternation unon. Minor disorders were reported in Jersey City and Bayonne, N. J: by newspaper delivery wagon drivers from New York who told the police thev had been forced to throw large numbers of papers into the water, bix men’who were working in an after noon paper’s mailing room Saturday when George Davis, an employe, was fatally hurt, were questioned at police headquarters. ^-v Underwood’s Visit To Charlotte Meet Causes Much Comment By H. E. C. BRYANT WASHINGTON, Sept. 24-.—The prom ised visit of Senator Underwoo/I to Charlotte tomorrow, and the banque for him, is causing keen interest among politicians here. Robert W. Lassiter, of Oxford, former private secretary oi the late Col. W. H. Osborn, of Greens boro, while he was commissioner or internal revenue, says that there is a very determined faction in. the state for the Alabama senator for the demo* cratic nomination. He is boosting him wherever he goes. It is plain from re ports received here that Mr. Under wood’s friends will demand a portion of the North Carolina delegation to the national convention. ' • :/ Japan's Ambassador Lauds i Spirit of Red Cross Aid, In Addressing Convention Hanihara Says Japanese Will no More Dwell on “American Aggressiveness” COOLIDGE FORMALLY DELIVERS FIRST SPEECH Organization Officers Tell Gath ering of Earthquake Relief Fund’s Success WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—America’s open handed sympathy in Japan’s sor est need Will forever drive from the Japanese mind all thoughts of “Ameri can aggressiveness in the Far East” Ambassador Hanihara said here to night in an address before the opening session of the American Red Cross an naul convention. He spoke from the same platform where President Cooli dge, head fthe society a few hours before had extolled the work of the or ganization as one of practical ideal ism “helpful, reassuring," and “re vealing the fundamental strength of civilization." ^*‘It will henceforth be difficult in deed" said the Japanese ambassador “for professi nal jingoes to terrorize an ignorant public opinion to the point where it will contenance policies of military aggranrizement, on the group of i ireparedness against fancied Ame rican threats. The natural reaction of a Japanese to mention of America will be a thrill of gratutude and warm friendliness. Ia Stirred by Memory. “I find,” he said, "that I can not neter this great room without pro found emotion stirred by memory. For as you all know, it was here that the Washington conference had its dra matic beginning nearly two years ago and right here, a few months later, that conference bore its precious fruit in the signing of the Washington treaties, by the representatives of the great nations which marked, in my opinion the? greatest practical advance toward world peace that had ever been made. • "And now I find myself here again, in different circumstances, it lsp.bso lutely Jmposible -for me to expres&i'Jjo' you so that you will'fully understand the depth of my feetlnsc,-ttr-faaing yqwi the active represntatives of the Red Cross. For events have transpired that may well prove to be more far-reach ing in their importance than ever the Washington treaties. America Did Net Fail. "The metropolitan area of Japan was torn to shreds by the forces of nature. The first flash of. that dreadful news aroused in your country a universal manifest!tatlon of genuine human sy mpathy. In the very moment of our sorest need you did not fail us; “Of course Japan will be grateful. Never—for we, have long memories in my country—never shall we forget your sympathy in this hour of our national distress. What seemed at first to he bn unmitigated and horrible catastrophe will leave—i nsp ite of the awful tole of deathl and bereave ment for Japan at least one bright spot The earthquake is in a sense a supply ment to the Washington conference. The conference and its oonsequences showed Japan’s sincereity to American, the earthquake revealed to Japan the, unstrained quality of the mercy in i America’s heart.” Other* Adress Session John Barton Payne, chairman of the society; Dr. W. F. Lorenz, director of the Wisconcin psychiatric institute; Director Hrnes of the veteran’s bureau and Joe Sparks of the rehabilitation committee of the American Legion also addressed the meeting. Mr. Payne spoke particularly of the succes of the organization’s relief work in Japan, but the other speakers devoted a large part of their time to a discussion of the welfare of world war veterans. Declaring there were 30,000 veterans confined in penal institutions, Mr. Sparks said the legion believed their crimes were committed under the handica pof mental incompetency re sulting from the war. L>r Lorenz detailing the result of a survey, he had made, asserted the gov ernment was wasting $6,000,000 annou ally in paying $80 a month to mentally incompetent veterans, many of whom had no close relatives. He advocated a reduction. Tobacco Growers Affirm Policy Of Holding Landlord 's to Account For Crops Grown by Their Tenants (Special to Tie Star) RALEIGH, Sept., 24.—The directors | the Tobacco Growers Cooperative association at their monthly meeting Monday reaffirmed the policy of the association in stating that they wilt hold all member landlords liable for the delivery of all tobacco grown Up on their land, according to M- O, Wil son, secretary of the board. The tobafcco association’s directors decided today to make no further de ductions from landlord members bpV cause of deliveries by non member ten ants of tobacco grown upon their larid to parties other than the association until the supreme court of orth Caro-; 'ina passes upon this question. 'PeJ ductions will be made against all members who have failed to deliver their entire crop to the association if' and when the supreme court sustains the opinion of the association director* in their interpretation of the coopera tive contract which calls for all the tobacco produced by a member .directly or indirectly as producer or landlord, ’ This decision of the elected directors °f the Tobacco Growers -Cooperative "" jty ,;L iittra association was taken because of the desire to treat all and uniform manner following the.re cent rulings by three circuit judges preventing the association from de ducting damages from landlords for de liveries outside of the association by their tenants in the cases of about a dozen members, according to an nouncement of the board. _ The policy of the association to re quire delivery 'of all tobacco from the 1 lands of members as set for then the contract Was - reiterated last year ina statement sent to all members of the tobacco association in its . m0?v“y publication for December 19®2 and has, since been repeatedly members in- the Carolina and Virginia at meetings of the local and county units of the tohacco cooperative ac cording to Secretary Wilson of the association. ' . . . An immediate appeal will, he taken to the supreme court of North Carolina bj* the tobacco association in these cases a'ccordlna to tedayB statement of Secretary Wilson of the board of directors, j > f*''r LEADS TROOPERS Col. 'William S. Kay, national guard , officer is in command of state troops which guard Oklahoma City Sector while state is under martial law. CLINCHFIELD LEASE GOMES UP BEFORE COMMERCE HEARING; Henry Walters Appears in Be of Atlantic CoastJAne ’ ■;'* Befote L G. G. , - - ■ By H. E.VxH®tXSrt,r-i'*••..• ~ WASHINGTON, 0. C. Sept., 24 Henry Walters chairman of the board of the Atlantic Coast Line, which has applied jointly with the Louisville and Nashville to lease the C. C. & O., the "Cllnchfield,” told the Interstate com merce today, “The development of North and South Carolina has been phenominal in the last fifteen years, and it is going to go on.’’ With reference to the spread of this growth over the south he stated that Georgia, among other states of the section is embarking on an era of great j development, diversifying her crops as she is doing. Mr. Walters said that the opening of a new through route from the west would afford a supply fo coal competing with that already coming in for all sections of the south and for export through its ports and would also open the way for greater grain shipments through Spartanburg, a new southern gateway. He inlsted that Coast Line intends to treat all ports fairly and has no plans ror pre ferential treatment of Wilmington, Charleston or Savannah. He hoped coal for instance, would be sent wherever there is a market in the south or southwest. The hear ing was not concluded today. Tomor row opponents of the plan, lead by John Skeleton Williams, former head of the Seaboard Air Line and comp troller of the currency during the Wilson administration, will appear. .They revealed1 today a new plan of contest which has not appeared in the hearings conducted in the Carolinas and other’ Slates concerned. It is that the Seaboard would like to be permit ted to join in the application for leas ing the “Clinchfield.” MAN IS BLOWN TO PIECES JOHNSON" CITY, Tenn., Sept. 24— Brown Bowers, 40, was blown entirely to pieces late Monday afternoon by the accidental discharge of dynamite in a rock quarry being used for supplying road material, 14 miles south of John son City. Bits of his body were picked up about the quarry, but darkness in terfered with the search before his head or any Of It" could be located. PEANUT SUIT DIES; AGREEMENT COMES OUTSIDE OF COURT Three Million Dollar Action Set tled for $30,000, is Confirmed 'V ■ I - NORFOLK, Va. Sept. 24—The *3,625, 000 damage suit of the Peanut grow ers' association against 15 cleaning and shelling concerns was dismissed by Judge Groner in the United States district court here Monday under agree ment by counsel for both sides. The agreement,' reached , through a series o conferences held since the adjounr ment of .court Friday, carried with It, It is understood the payment of *30,000 to the plaintiff.. No mention of any amount Involved the 'compromise; was mentioned in the court order, and counsel for both sides declined to state the amount Clients oft both sides, however, confirm e<i the amount of settlement as *30,000. GERMANY ABANDONS PASSIVE RESISTANCE INJotR Stressmann Urges mption of Jpl Ac tivities.®,'' 1ER&- ARE ASKED TO BEGIN OPERATION Government Announces no Policy ' Regarding Next; Moves in Situation BERLIN, Sept. 24.—.(By Associated Press).—Chancellor Streseraann an nounced Monday night that the gov ernment had decided to.ahandon passive resistance immediately- and Uncondi tionally. f v’f. ’ -' In his statement the chancellor anT nounced that the government 'had de eded to abandon the' policy of passive resistance in the Ruhr- and Rhineland and ordered resumptionof activities in all lines at once. The government’s decision is not made- conditional on the previous return of ■ departees or the release "of imprisoned nationals, these and other disputed; points, being left to subsequent negotiations with the occupying powers, -s '' The chancellor urged the employers to resume operations at-, their plants ind mines imrrtediatelysjlha advocated uniformity in this ao to avoid in lependent action which Blight be detri mental to the restoration of economic normalcy in the Ruhr And Rhineland. Policy Not Outlined No announcement was .forthcoming regarding the method which the Strese-' mann government will employ to ap prise the occupation posters of its de cision to call oft the passive resist-1 mce without having obtained the con cession which was designated as' in iispensable conditions in previous ut terances. The chancellor may confine himself to a brief declaration. in the Reichstag, which would also be con sidered as notification tpi- the outside tvorld that the government had, reached its decision,' despote failure to secure n advance aiiy conclusion from France >r Belgium, thereby Virtually making m unconditional surrender. Rtunor of Third Power There; was a rurabf jd diplomatic lirtdes* tod*rr«**t*=* thM pou«rr had Sfteiftd the gOvernmeidMRs guod of ace» in the-direcUonog'lOuchsaflng. It a formal adJustmeSS^bf. Jhft^puJy^ conflict which would not impose hu nlliatlng cbndrticna,.ln. the nature of a signed capitulation or formal admis sion of responsibility for its policy >f passive resistance. Whether the chancellor definitely in iormed the partielpante in today’s con Jerence that the government.would un conditionally call off paesive resist-;1 mce could not be established and the Irst indication of its resolve came late this evening when the Berlin news papers were given a cautiously worked communique in which the * significant iecision was hurried in a cursory re port of today’s decisions with the, rep resentatives, of the Ruhr and Rhine Weeks May Address Durham Memorial Meet By H. E. C. BRYANT WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Secretary Weeks will see a committee from Pur ham Friday morning to receive an le vitation to attend the ceremonies of the unveiling of Bennett place me morial. Mr. Weeks has dates prior to October 12, but hopes he can get to North Carolina. R- O. Everett has written Frank A. Hampton to make the arrangements. FIVE LIVES LOST IS TOLL OF RACE FOR BALLOON GUP Two, Americans Are in List of i Casualties Reported in 111 Fated Contest BRUSSELS, Sept. 24.—By Associated Press)—The international balloon race for the Gordon Bennett cup has de veloped into an international disaster. Already five men have lost their lives, one' is -believed to be fatally injured and no fewer than six balloons were destroyed or badly damaged. Lieutenants Olmsted and Shoptaw of the United States army 3-6, are among those who ■ perished, . but the United States navy A-6699 made a safe landing at Putten-, Holland. Some of the contestants have not been heard from, they may l>ave es caped fury of tlie storm or-met'the same fate as the British, balloon Mar garet, the latest to be reported, which fell into the sea off Penmark. , Her crew was saved. A general protest against the offi cials in charge of the*-James -Gordon Bennett cup race for not postponing the start of th6 balloon* Sunday in the face of the adverse weather con ditions was raised by the evening newspapers Monday. The president and vice president of the Belgian Aero olub declared the rules cf the race are positive and once the day'and hour are agreed upon the start must be made at that time. The president said, he oould hardly under stood why some of the pilots had made complaints “as they were uhder full liberty to cancel their engagement If they considered the weather condi tions-too dangerous.*' -■* • Weeks Sells Gorgas Plant, 'ord’s Pet, tor $3,500,000 ToAlabama Power Company BATTLES KLAN Governor J. C. Walton who has pro claimed war on Ku Klux Klan, In Oklahoma. He has been a storm cen ter since he took office. GOVERNMENT CHARGES CONSPIRACY IN CASE OF DYE PATENT SALE Charges Are Made Against Wil son Administration by '■ );.•*•«. - ___(■ t - ''r!W^SHteiaTON, Sept.,- 24.—Tho Bale of enemy-owned patent?'fevtjwrfc®*** cal Foundation, Inc., by the alien pro perty custodian wa? accomplished through a "combination, scheme and conspiracy", the government charges in a brief filed Monday in the federal district court at Wilmington, Del., in its suit to set aside the sale. Former Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, Francis P. Garvan, former alien propery custodian and now presi dent of the foundation, and others are assailed in the brief, which is signed by Attorney General Daugherty, Henry W. Anderson, of Richmond, Va., special assistant to the attorney general and other government cousel. The evidence- adduced at trial of the case before the same court at Wil mington some months ago is reviewed and authorities quoted at length to support the major contentions of the government which are: “That-President Wilson could not delegate Assistant • Secretary of State Polk to order a private sale of seized enemy property. “That President Wilson of February 13, 1920, did not attempt to ratify the orders of Mr. Polk authorizing private sale of the property. “That the sales were invalid be cause of the combination of substanti ally all of prospective purchases into one organization. “That the sales were invalid because “purposely made in' such manner as to destroy in whole or in part the val ue' of the property. “That the sale was illegal and void ’•on account of the relations of the parties conducting the same to each other and to the subject matter. “That the-sales were illegal and void, for the reason that the price paid was arbitrary arrived at and grossly inadequate. “That the transactions of alleged sale and assignment were unlawful and void since in effect they constituted an effort on the part of alien property custodian to confiscate the alien prol perty and to give or donate the same as a bounty, in .the aid of certain pri vate authorities.” FIRE OF REVOLT FLARES OVER ALL BULGARIA, IN WAR Ring Boris Offers to Quit His Post But Resignation Not Accepted' XiONDd’KT, ‘Sept. ’ ii.—The revofutlon in Bulgaria .has. burst. Into. full flame and the whole country Is In the hands of rebels, according to a despatch to The Morning Post from Belgrade, dated Monday. The . dispatch adds that Sofia is blockaded.' King Boris has offered to resign but his* offer has not been ac cepted. ; The insurgents are said to have destroyed all meats of communication and the government has lost connec tion with - the' provinces. • The situar tlon in the . capital is critical. It is blocked both it), a military and eeono mical sense, lsjshort of provision* and Is threatened with attack. This Part of Muscle Shoals Prop erty is Bone of Con tention FORD MAY REVISE BID FOR OTHER PROPERTY He Once Stated, However, He . Would Have to. Use Gorgas ■ f Plant With Remainder WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—(By Asso ciated Press).—Henry Ford’s much controverted offer to buy Muscle shoals was wholly upset Monday when the government sold to the Alabama Power company the Gorgas Steam plant, a part of the property, at a price of approxi mately $3,500,000. The development forecast a revised offer from Mr. Ford)if he wishes to bid for the remainder of the project. He previously had informed congress that unless the Gorgas plant was in cluded in the sale, his bid did not hold. Political observers who have professed to see some connection between Mr. Ford’s offer for Muscle shoals and the presidential boom which bears the manufacturer’s name, predicted today that the next development would be reverberations in the coming of con gress which possibly'might develop into something bearing a relation to the coming pre-convention campaign. Ford Was Notified Some time ago the war department notified Mr. Ford that the department of Justice and the judge advocate gen eral of the ramy had held valid its contract with the power company which requested the government to either move the plant from the power companies’ land or sell it to the com pany. Monday was the last day,! under several extensions of time, in which the government could make a decision. ! Ford’s engineers in Detroit wired the war department a request for another extension, which • the power company declined to grant and Secretary Weeks came to the decision that under the circumstances it was mode advantage ous to the government to sell than to move. The actual"price was $3,472,487.25, um afgreedTupoii^ by.'HfeJ^ariittitSh^NJ vision of the war department. The war-time construction chit was $4,750, 000.’ Secretary’ WeeksjSound that If 1W *{Sv*?ntBei4ir,-;W»re ,’*to remove the plant it would reatlae .only the jun,k value, and that, in the meanwhile there would be economic loss and injury to industries using power in Alabama and other southern states, whereas a sale to the company meant the government would recover almost the original cosh Weeks Invited Revlsd Bill When Mr. Ford was summoned to Washington some time ago and in formed of the contract with the power company, Secretary Weeks left the way open for a revised bid to exclude the Gorgas plant, and Mr. Ford was given to understand that the war depart ment would credit him with the pur chase of the sale and thus reduce his initial payment of $5,000,000 to ap proximately $1,500,000. Some doubt was Some doubt, was expressed as to what view congress might take at the pro posal to sell the remainder of Muscle | shoals property for that sum inasmuch as the junk value of the whole project had been estimated by army engineers to be $18,000,000. ' ; The power company ’ deposited its payment in cash with the finance of ficers of the war department, in New York, this morning, 1 and Secretary Weeks signed the deed this afternoon, waiting until the last minute for a revised offer from Mr. Ford. Mr. Weeks issued the following statement: “The secretary of war announced to day that the United States had sold to the Alabama Power company the Warrior extension - and appurtenances at Gorgas and power transmission line from the plant tq Sheffield, Ala., for $3,472,487.25 cash, and the deed had been delivered. Government’s Use Was Temporary “Under the contract of the Alabama Power company the government ac quired the right to use temporarily the land of that company upon which the government erected an addition to one of the company’s steam plants and a transmission line from "that plant to Sheffield at a total war-time cost of (Continued on Page Two. , “SHOOT TO KILL,” IS ORDER ISSUED TO HALT LAWMAKERS Oklahoma’s Governor Plays Hia Cards oh Legislative • Meet • - — DENIES HE WILL LOOK TO FEDERAL COURTS State is Able to Fight Klah Alone, Walton Tells News papers OKLAHOHA CITT, Sept. 24.—(By A« soclated Press) Adj. Gen. B. H. Mark- V ham Monday night was ordered by Governor Walton to use "all force of arms necessary” to prevent the ses sion of the lower house of the Okla homa legislature called for noon Wednesday., With Issuance of the military order all doubt was removed as to the execu tive’s determination to prevent the house session, which hae been called by his legislative opponents to con sider »his impeachment. The adjustant general was ordered to use all military forces of the state if necessary to disperse the assembly. I Governor Walton reiterated hi* | charge that the proposed meeting ' wpuld be an unlawful assembly* ■ ["dominated and controlled by the so-* ; 1 called invisible empire commonly (known as the K. K. K.” | Meeting Is Unlawful I He declared* that since the Ku Klurt 'Klan was proclaimed an enemy of, th*> ’state of Oklahoma under his mart fa* I law proclamation of September 15th | the session therefore would bo int deflence of laws of the state and art attempt to break the peace. "The troops were ordered to shoot to kill If that Is necessary to prevent - the aeeembly,” Governor Walton told newspapers. “I hope however, thaw ' no such extreme measures will bit V necessary.” ~ ' . ■' % Will Not Go to TJ. 8. Court The governor denied ho Intended taking action In. the federal court to determine the legal status of tho pro posed meeting. . He likewise denied that he had sought federal aid in hie war on the . Ku Klux Klan. ■ , : . “Whenever the government steps Ijfc’v thd- iSsne is t«birs,»-tltiroxtcpOvie •**- ~ 4 serted. "I would like for them to take over this light, because it Is a bear . on my hands, but until they do, tho .«f#te Of pklajioma is fully capable of j looking ftfter’tt. -' - , - . I>e*i»V*tors Await Guns , A majority ot..the. members of, ^ lower house of tfie legislature were • - gathered In Oklahoma City awajting the hour of Wednesday noon whin they i;:. expecSj to face guns and bayonets In! their attempt to convene and consider ' the Impeachment of Governor Walton, That guns and bayonets In the hand* : . of national guardsmen posted before the doors of the house chamber at the ' [ Capitol .will be waiting the legislator* ' That house members will go peace ably to the state house and attempt! to assemble, offering no /eslstence In' case their way is blocked, was the de- V, elaratlon of Representative W. B. Mc Bee.who Is In charge of the session plans. ’ ' Markham is Silent ‘ Three or more persons constitute* a mob within the meaning of Oklahoma statutes and the executive Indicated r that all groups of three or more per sons gathering around the entrance to the house chamber wpuld be dispersed. Whether arrests wlll be made was hot revealed, the matter being in th* hands of Adj. Gen. B. H- Markham, who is maintajng silence a* to hi* plan of action. ' indicating his determination of pur* pose, Governor Walton gave the news* paper correspondents a friendly'Warn*' ing not'to congregate'in groups whei^ they go to the capltol. The house members do not plan ,to go.to the captol in a body and in thla was seen tonight the possibility that, there would be no wholesale dispersion' by the military. If the legislators wilk .singly or by twos, to the house, cham ber and, finding their way barred, de part, It is not expected that the mili tary will Interfere. Pla* for Conrt Action This. procedure, It is suggested, would establish, without a ‘ collision (Continued on Page Two) Fall Food And Fashion Show Becomes Reality Tonight When Curtain Raises On Spectacle Wilmington’s third annual food and fashion show will become a matter of the present instead of the future at 7:30 o’clock tonight, when 'the doors to the city audltoroium will be thrown open. The curtain will rise at 8:S0 o’clock for the initial parade of fashion models, and Wilmington's greatest style festival will be underway. Eleventh hour surveys by the vari ous committees in charge last night showed that nothing has been left un-. done that will tend to insure the suc cess of the event. - The big city auditorium where the show is to be held has donned a some what oriental garb for the Occasion and is wearing the most beautiful ai>4 complete decorations in its history. The stage settings and accessories are really things of beaut# and the flnal. touch of living. models will make-it a veritable fairyland. ■, Legion Band Will Play , The American legion bind will give a concert at the opening of the *how • i ■ y v anil will furnish music at intervals throughout thd- performance. in ad dition thcro-^wlll he an; orchestra to. render music. during the fashion promenade and style review, which, will, be the big feature of the enter tainment. . '- • •> »>■.-vV; ' The festival this year will,be en tirely different from jmything in thl* line ev^r before attempted in Wilming ton, and-a .different performance will be staged every night. Mrs. Hattie Taylor Schiller, whose, onhse of tho artistic is air eadywejl, known to Wtl mingtonians, haa .excelled herself la the selection, and’ arrangement of the models and-their costuming. Mqyehants Flay Important Fart ' practically every merchant In Wil mington will have tt hand In the show* The attendance Is expected to run well into the thousands with hundreds of out-of-town people here for the event. Perhaps 300 people visited the audi torium last night, to lnpect the decora tions of tlie. building, which were ar ranged . under the direction of Will Rehder add CL W. Pol vogt * ’> « » ' , . < f ' • ’ v •> i % . y •• > ' <: . > ' . ... L * ..... > ■ a *

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