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GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1923 Famous Mysteries WOMEN AND WRITINGS IT. AUSTRALIA'S DEBT IS DISCUSSED IN PARIS OFTf LS French Do Not Hold That All Wo The Man Who Vanished men Arc Natural Enemies i of Books. , What became of Rlohurd Ashurst? Wa th postmaster of Philadelphia murdered and his body hidden some vhire along the seacoaet'or did he disappear of hie own Million? If the latter, how waa be, a cripple, able 0 completely to cover all traces of his subsequent movements These are- the queetions which still remain Tinsolved after 11 years .of searching by the police and private agencies, for the vanishing of Rich ard Ashurst at Atlantic City on. Janu ary SO. 1011, ettll remains one of the most puzsllng problems that evrj preseniea 11011 ur uiuuvm . At thtlme of his disappearance, Mr. Ashurst was 7J years of age and one of the leading lawyers of Phila delphia, being vice-chancellor of the Law association and prominent In a number of other legal and social bodies. The most minute examina tion of his life' failed to reveal the slightest reason either for his suicide or his voluntary retirement from public life. In fact, on the very eve sling that he was last seen, Mr. Ash urst wired from Atlantic City to the assistant postmaster at Philadelphia that he Would be "back In the office tomorrow'' and at the same time he telegraphed his wife that he had gone to Atlantic City unexpectedly, that he would return by the first train In, the morning. As investigations afterwards de veloped, Mr. Ashurst left his hotel about 1:45, secured a rolling chair and gave the negro "pusher" Instruc tions to wheel him up the boardwalk to the Million Dollar Pier. He reach ed the pier at 9 o'clock. . paid the chair man ' and, leaning heavily on his cane, walked through the entrance toward the fat end of the structure. Nothing more has ever been seen ui nun iiurn uim uy tu iiitv wtiu only clue ever found was the cane, picked up five days later, at one side of- the pier. Shortly after midnight on the night that his father disappeared Mr. Ash urst's son became alarmed and re quested the police to make an Imme diate search of the city. Every hotel and boarding house was supplied with a description of the missing man. every railroad station was watched . and every avenue, of escape from the ally carefully a-uafded-for the nolice PLUS INTEREST If You Want An Attractive Bungalow on Almost Unheard of Terms, Don't Delay Several houses; just completed and now ready for the pmv chaser to move in, will be sold at the above price, and on the easiest terms possible to offer. These houses will rent today for more than the monthly payment. People who are paying high rent can divert present rent money; to this easy payment plan and at the rate of $30 per month, plus interest, will pay, off thej entire cost in 10 years. And in the meantime enjoy all the priv ileges and the joy of home ownership, as well as the realization that money that was formerly going for rent is buying a horn and helping to create an estate. These houses are located near the Asheboro Street School and. right at Douglas Park. Newly paved streets on each side. All have live rooms, with large bath room completely equipped, city water and electric lights. The lots have 50 feet frontage. This section has developed as much as any section of Greens boro. within the past year. Paved streets, sidewalks, etc., have helped in its growth. Doaens of new houses built within a radius of two blocks during the past year. - i You'll DVohahlv nnvpr oet an nnnnrnrrlfir rn ki - ana comfortable the city limits at terms. rffinJ m i. A. B. JOYNER jl worked on the theory that Ashurst had either been murdered or that he hid been kidnapped and was being held for ransom. Five days passed without the slightest lndlcationof the missing man having been found and, during this time, local, private and federal detectives, had searched every inch of the pier, while lite guards had dragged the water In the vicin ity. In spits of this, on the morning of the fifth day. Mr.- Aahurst's cane, dry and untarnished, was found on the beach beside the pier In a spot which the authorities had examined soores of times. This served to strengthen the kidnapping theory, for the police felt certain that the walk Ing-stlck had been placed on the beach during the previous night, for it was practically Impossible for It to have been there during the time that the search had been carried pn. The police of Philadelphia and oth er cities, as well as the postoffice in spectors, secret service operatives and coast guards, all joined in looking for the missing postmaster, but to no avail. Rumors were heard that the Ashurst disappearance was due to private worries, While others main talned that the affairs of the Phlla delphla postoffice were not in the best of shape. All of these, however, were definitely and Anally disproved and, when the case was at last dock eted as "Unsolved." no one waa able to advance the slightest reason fo the voluntary disappearance or sul clde of Mr. Ashurst, while after weeks had passed without any demand for ransom, the kidnapping theory w also shelved. The members bf the Ashurst family declined at all times to make any comment or statement about the af fair, beyond the fact that, 17 days after the disappearance, they Inserted a notice In the Philadelphia papers to the effect that the postmaster had died In Atlantic City on January so, the day on which he vanished. ., lOavriiM, 1H. by la, Wheeler snavste.) PHtakargk Got- tat CenaraBtinoBl Washington, Nov. S. The cruiser Pittsburgh, flagship, of Vice Admiral Long; In command of American naval forces In Eg ropes o waters, has left Gibraltar for Constantinople "for eventualities," the navy department announced today. Chatmto home with all modern conveniences and within such a low price. And certainly not on such Just a Limited Number If You Quit Paying Rent and Be the See Me At Once. .. (Cwrapondmce AjMdatel tnml . Paris, Oct. 20 As the "women of Paris recently, have been beating the men In competitions for places as librarians, a discussion has arisen over women's attitude towards books. Writers In general seem to agree that woman Is the avowed enemy of books. This view, which will seem strange to Americans,' is accepted by the French as a fact not necessary to discuss. They seek only to show why, and how greatly woman Is hostile to hooks. . One of the principal publishers Is quoted as saying that In the retail trade women constitute only one per cent, of buyers in France. Others dilate upon the difficulty their men friends have in keeping a library of fine books and In adding to the col lection. Men's love of books, and women' dislike of them, are cited as having caused the break-up of many homes. M. de Bersaucourt author and booklover, holds it to be the duty of a bibliophile to remain a bachelor. He cite the cases of men who have to bur books secretly to avoid" outbreaks of wrath from their spouses, and others who keep books hidden. I OAe Parisian booklover. says M. de B. smuggles home purchases under his coat or in his pooket, meanwhile disarming his wife by holding out cake or candy to her at the front door In order to gain time to sllp'ths volume oh to the shelf unnoticed. . -4 Moscow Covering- Up Scars Left By Bullets of Rebels Moscow, Oct. . Putty and cement by the ton are being used In Mos oow la an effort on the part of the government to blot out trtfCes of the 1817 revolution. There Is scarcely a house In the soviet capital which waa not bullet marked, more or less. In the fighting, and some 'of the larger buildings were peppered with' lead and steel from rifles, machine guns and shrap nel. With the last few weeks hun dreds of workmen have been engag ed In the task of filling the bullet holes with cement and putty, and In many instances the walls have been painted, thus wiping out the visible sears of the days of terror which swept the Rplshevlkl Into power. ome $30 Month Wart to Owner, "Mortality" In School Attend; ance Worked Out By the State University. SWAMP STATE COLLEGES (Bpedal te Daitr Ne ) Chapel Hill, Nov. I. The probable "mortality" In high school attendance In North Carolina that In. the pro portion of first-year students drop ping out before the course Is con cluded Is being worked out In con nection with the university's inquiry Into secondary education. Of the boys and girls who entered high schools In North Carolina Ifl 1918, 55 per cent dropped out be fore graduation time in 1922. Or, expressed another, way, 45 per cent stayed, through. ' Now, there were 14,400 high school freshmen In the high schools last year, 1921-1922. If this same ratio of 45 per cent holds, then In 1926 there will be 6.4S0 graduates. Of course the ratio may be higher, since all through the state efforts are being made to expand high school facilities. It Is pretty safe to assume that It will be no lower and that the 6,480 la a minimum figure. This means an Increase of 1,480 over the number of graduates this laat June. . ' The university's main purpose In compiling forecasts about the growth of secondary schools Is to And out aa accurately aa possible what demands are to be made upon Itself and upon other higher educational Institutions in the state. Those who are charged with developing the educational sys tem -legislators who approprlats, trustees who direct, those who seek gifts and those, who make gifts for educational purposes can obviously do their parts with greater efficiency If they work In the light rather than by guesswork. The results of this are obvious to anybody who la In terested. It appears from the facts In hand that the Institutions of higher edu cation both state-supported and de nominational are going to be hard put to It to take care of the young women and young men turned out by the high schools. The oppor tunity for passing from high school to college In North Carolina might be compared, for purposes of illustra tion, to the sudden narrowing of a thirty-foot highway, its whole width continuously filled with automobile, into a ten or twenty-foot highway. There Is not room for all the travel er to go on. More than half of them have to abandon their ears by the roadside, get what comfort they can from thinking of the ride they have already had, and soatter across country on foot. Of course not all the young men and young women who end their edu cation with the high, school do so because there Is no room for them In the colleges and the university. Some do not want to go on. But an Increasing number do enough to threaten to swamp the colleges. Daniel L. Grant, who has been in charge of the Inquiry for the uni versity, obtained from 2900 high school graduates last summer an swers to a question about their am bitions. He found that among the boy 80 per cent, among the girls 72 per cent, wanted to go on from high school to college. The average for bothr sexes was about 76 per cent. On this basis,, to 1925 there will be 4,(80 high school graduates desiring a oollege education, or 20 per cent more than the estimated 8780 who had the same desire this year. G. F. Duryea Pinned Under An Auto With Dead Man For Hour (Special to Dall 'Mm) Kinston, Nov. 3. G.. F. Duryea, who with Benjamin D. Taylor was pinned beneath a capslsed automobile at Stonington creek, five miles northeast of here, Monday night, Taylor being killed, spent an hour or two under the car, which was partly In the water, before he waa rescued. Numerous automobiles passed over the highway within a few feet of where he lay with the dead Taylor. Duryea called for help frequently. No person heard him un til long after the accident, when negroes rescued him. Duryea was in bad shape. His nerves had been 'torn to pieces by the experience, it appeared to Coroner Eugene Wood, who arrived at the creek at 10 o'clock, just after the body of Taylor and the severely shocked Duryea had been' taken from beneath the car, a small machine of a popular build. Duryea waa conscious all the time that Taylor waa dead or badly In jured. Hla attempts to get his com panion to speak brought no response. Duryea's fee) were In the water. The engine rested upon Taylor's body. According to the off total veraion. Taylor and Duryea had been to Craven county on business. Return ing to Snow Hill, where both men lived, their lights went out at a bend In the road near Stonington bridge. A moment later the car and men had gone off the road. Taylor, the coroner said, must have died In stantly. His breast waa crushed. His skull was fractured. There was an ugly wound on one side of his face. Taylor, who was 48 years of age, Is survived by his mother, broth ers and other relatives in Greene oounty. Duryea, a contractor, was driving the car, according to the corner's Information. Imperial Prince Meese May Attend D. O. K. K. Ceremonial (pedal la Dallr Hess. I Ilocky Mount, Nov. 8. Additional Interest and significance to the In stitutional ceremonial of lsa temple No. 248, D. O. K. K., which Is scheduled to take place hero Thurs day, wss given In the announcement made by local Dokle leader that Ous Meese. Imperial prince, of Sijokane, Wash., may be In attendance upon ths) ceremonies. Mr. Meese,' who Is making a tour of the country, was called over lung distanca telephone at Norfolk and advised member of the local committee that he had an engagement at Bluefleld. W. Va, that might detain him but that ho would get here to the oeremonlal If possible. In ths meantime all arrangements for the affair, which Is expected to bring approximately 600 visitor from eastern Carolina to the city, have been completed by tho various com mittees In charge. More than 126 candidates are to lake the Dokle de grees, while many prominent offi ciate of the order are expected to be present. Enrle McCaueland, Past Grand Chancellor and Past Imperial Prince, of Charlotte, has been named as Instituting officer In charge of the ceremonies here. The ceremonial wll be put on by the newly or ganised divan of Zlsa temple. - A Dokle drum corps haa also been or ganised here and will make it first public appearance In connection with the day program. MK.DIIIM BROWN HAIR look beat of all after a Golden Ollnt Shampoo. Adv. 11-18 ex 8t Mo. SHOWING AN INCREASE National Debt Is Over Three Bil lion Motto Now Than Before the World War. iCetreamaeiiee Auoeuuo tmi Melbourne, Australia. Oct. . In his annual, speech to the house of representstives, Federal Treasurer Bruce, of Australia, disclosed that the Australian national debt on June 80 totalled 84,210.000,000 as compared with a pre-war debt of 81.895,000,000. During the course of his speech Mr. Bruce said: "The estimated revenue for 1922-23, totalling 8818, 591,250. Includes 8140.000,000 customs and excise; 378,250,000 Income tax, and 349,250.000 poet office, telephone and telegraph receipts. "The estimated expenditure Is 3310,- 118,405 showing an estimated surplus Of 32,472,785. "Of the accumulated surplus, estimated at 334,614.935, 816,000,000 will be used In the reduction of tax ation and the encouragement of agriculture and manufacture. "The proposed remission of taxa tion Includes the Increase of the gen eral exemption from 8620 to 81000 for all taxpayers." Mr. Bruce announced that legisla tion would be Introduced In the near future to reduce the salary of mem bers of the house of representatives from 35000 to 34000. Speaking on the national debts Mr. Bruce declared: "The gross Common wealth debt totalling 32,080,362,546, shows an increase in the year ended June 80th amounting' to 871,762,420. "The total national debt of Australia, Including the common wealth and States Is 34,210,000,000, compared with the pre-war debt of only 31,696,000,000." Indigestion and Its attendant Ills such as dyspepela, heartburn, sour stomach, griping pains, dysentery, diarrhoea, colic; cholera morbus, chronic constipation, gas, etc., and even sick, nervous headaches are directly traoeable to disorders In ths digestive organs and can now be quickly relieved with new cordial called '"Anti-Ferment," originated by a druggist and rscommsnded by physicians. The food sours before It Is fully digested, thus putting into solution toxic poisons that are absorbed Into the systsm, Irritating the Intestines and setting up inflammation. To avoid thia, you simply have to pre vent fermentation by using Anti Ferment. Anti-Ferment neutralises the acid condition of the stomach, cleanses and sweatens the bowels, soothes and heals the Inflamed Intestines and In creases the flow of gastric juices, giv ing quick and certain relief. Get a bottle of Anti-Ferment from your druggist with a guarantee of satis factory results or money returned. It will improve your appetite, give you restful sleep and make you feel better than you ever felt In your life. Advt. hd. BLACKHEADS GO QUICK BY THIS SIMPLE METHOD Blsrkhesds bit Miff or little om art arm bus oocf m anjr pert ef the 1wdy, a qtrick b t risque skumI teat Just tbaorrai una. Te ee tali art about te ouscea ef eeloalta poweer frea yew SnuTlit wrtnkl, a Utile N 1 U, tt iMa tat or tbt Metkbeeei briiklr for s far me end with ef. you'll vopStr worn Iks Maekbeadi beee too, Naeblnc Mi equeeatsc tlaekheaaa oely opn the sorer of the rU sail Inn Una lira, and s ttiMIr veil, the Hmto apaHeatlea ef ealeelte povder sue UN water dtaaolia leas) riffat est. lee Inc the akia eafl end the pern la their lateral eon dllloo. at This Boy "Built For Service" AMERICAN EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK I Greensboro National Is Worth a Who is the boy? It is YOUR boy. You would refuse a million dollars for him several times over. What are you doing for that boy? Are you saving for his higher education?" Are you saving to help him get started in business? ARE YOU TEACHING HIM TO SAVE? This bank has hundreds of children maintain regular savings accounts. We want these accounts; some day these little fellows will be our big customers. Open an account for that boy ; send him to us; we'll teach him how to transact his -banking business. -BRANCHES AT- Walt Mason On "FLOORS" "The Eskimo has floors of ice and probably he thinks them nice, and strictly up to date; but if there ever came a thaw they'd be the worst you ever saw, and that's as sure as fate. "The Arab has his floor of sand; I have no doubt he thinks it's grand, a floor beyond compare ; but sand is full of bugs and ants, and they climb up a fellow's pants, when he sits in a chair. "The Mexican has floors of dirt, and floors of that sort will not hurt, so long as weather's dry; but when there comes a season wet such floors are not the one best bet, which no one can deny. "In olden times men built their homes with battle ments and towers and domes, and ornaments of ajrold; but all the floors were made of stone, and they made people sigh and groan, they were so hard and cold. "And then with rushes they were strewn, to make them warmer to the shoon, and also to the feet; and those stale rushes would decay; their scent would drive the folks away, in agonized retreat. "It took uncounted years of toil, and planning by the midnight oil to dope out modern floors; the floors on which we dance and walk, and sing and cuss and wildly talk of hoarders and such bores. "The floors on which we spend our lives, and train our kids, and beat our wives, are surely handsome things; be they of color light or dark, we proudly view them and remark, 'They're good enough for kings.' "Your mansion might have jasper walls, the finest paintings in its halls that artists can produce, and onyx stairs and marble doors, but if it had no modern floors 'twould be a poor excuse. "Good hardwood floors make life a pome ; they beautify your happy home as nothing else can do ; your lumber dealer has the best; the year's have given it the test that means so much to you." Oak hararvee4 floora are aftt esaastslve. la a rooeee 14x14 feet (key east only aaft Juat eXUVd at era tkaa) rlt plae. Phase 2318 or 231T or write as at Oreeas fcoro, N. C Million Dollars (With Apologies To the Current "Literary Digeae') S who and South imam nil Four Per Cent Interest Com pounded Quarterly and United States Govern' ment 15 Greensboro 1 ElllJIIUIlllIllllllllllOlllllIlJlJJJllJlliJ 1 1 in 1 1 minimi iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiii'iiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiniiiiniin llllllllllllllllllllllimilll88llllllllllllllllllslllll8lll88lllllll888llll8lltllllll8lllllllll88llllilM8IIUIIIIIII8l8III88l8llllll8l8MIIHMUlliitllia , ' -
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