Wife Of Kreiiler Is Doing
Great Work-Among Ger
man Unemployed
Berlin, Nov. 29—Mrs. Fritz Krels-_
ler, American wife of the noted vio
linist, is now “Lady Bountiful” to
thousands ' of hungry Berliners.
Not only is she the responsible
head of the new Castle Kitchen In,
Kaiser Wilhelm’s former quarters,
but she is engaged in charity among
the poor, distributing it with lavlslr
hand.
Mrs. Kreisler’s activities take her
into the haunts of the unemployed,
amid scenes that would touch any
heart.
A few days ago she was taking
an automobile load of bread to the
Castle Kitchen, where middle-class
families are fed. Eh route to the
castle a group of “communists”—she
called them merely starving—halt
ed her car.
Much jabbering ana waving of
gaunt hands.
“Just a moment," Mrs. Kreisler
deanded. “What do you want?”
“Brot—bread,” the ragged leader
replied.
“Has anybody here a knife,” re
plied Mrs. Kreisler as she ducked
back into the limousine to her pile
of bread.
A half dozen daggers were pro
duced.
Soon the half and quarter loaves
were being distributed.
The savage "communists” almost
wept with joy, shaking hands with
the “Lady Bountiful” as they dis
persed.
Another* day Mrs. Krelsler's foot
steps turned to the North End.
There is real starvation.
A group of poor and wretched
stood before a butchershop window.
Mrs/ Kreisler asked one oid wom
an If she'd’ like some meat. The
old woman's eyes filled tearfully as
she stooped to kiss the American's”
hand.
“Tou can all have meat,” said
Mr*. Kreisler simply. “Pick out
what you want." 1
They picked—all but one old man.
“I’ve eaten no meat in so long I
don't know what to take,” he stut
tered. Mrs. Kreisler had to select
a Cut for him.
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Of Thatfksffiving Day With
Churches Holding Special
Services In Morning
Thanksgiving Day was observed
In many ways in Durham Thursday.
Churches held special services in
which to give thanks to the Divine
Creator for his manifold blessings
of the past; hundreds of the people
attended the Carolina-Virginia foot
ball game; the local theaters did a
thriving business; the stores of the
city were all elosed and the calm of
a Sabbath day was felt by the per
son traversing the business district
with the exception of the moving
picture shows.
Hundreds of automobiles passed
through the city on the way to
Chapel Hill to see the annual clash
between the two rival universities.
The day was dreary, with lower
ing clouds and a drizzle, almost a
rain, making the day a bad one but
it failed to keep the people indoors.
STRANGE DISEASES FEARED
FROM JAPANESE QUAKE
Washington, Nov. 29.—Strange
diseases among the people are
feared by the physicians of Tokyo,
as one sequel of the great earth
quake and Are, according to advices
reaching the American Red Cross
here.
Dr. Gato, prominent relief work
er, said that the Japanese doctors
have been puzzled to account for
new and unusual physical condi
tions among many of the people.
"While there are no signs of
emendation among the refugees, no
typhus, and not much typhoid," said
Dr. Gato, "I notice, particularly in
the face of the women, an unwont
ed paleness. They have not the col
or they had before th© earthquake.
We do not know what may lie be
fore us.”
The relief problem in Japan is
still a Mg one, with winter coming
on. There is now plenty of food, as
foreign relief supplies either have
arrived or are en route, and the
Japanese rice crop will be above
normal. For this reason, further
American food shipments will not
be made. But the need Is still tre
mendous for clothing and shelter
against the cold.
There afe no beggars in toKyo,
in spite of destitution of some. A
member of a princely bouse in a let
ter received at Red Cross headquar
ters said that the people have taken
new heart and hope, due largely to
Amrican and other foreign aid
■which came so promptly, and that
the Japanese government is work
ing energetically to provide for all
the needy.
“Things are getting better,” he
wrote.
VAST SUMS LOST YEARLY
FROM FIRES IN OIL FIELDS
Washington, Nov. 29.—Fire is the
greatest Senemy of the oil industry
in the United States. A bureau of
Mines survey covering only the
more extensive fires in a 10 year
period, indicates total losses of about
13,000,000 barrels of oil and niore
than five billion cubic feet of nat
ural gas.
An aggregate loss of about $14,000
000 w-as shown during 1918, 1919 and
1920 through fires in storage farms,
pipe Itne systems and in refineries.
A tank fire at Beaumont, Texas, in
July, 1922, wrought damage estimat
ed at $2,000,000, while throughout
the country during the same month
other fires caused more than $3,
000,000 damage. A recent fire at
Humbly, Texas, destroyed two tanks
containing approximately 800,000
barrels_pf cnule-.Oil
While the survey shows that
lightning probably causes the ma
jority of Area carelessness apd a
lack of suitable preventative meas
ures account for many1 conflagra
tions.
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EH SCIENTISTS
SECURE GOOD VIEW
Good Views Of Solar. Eclipse
Secured By Germans*In
Mexico
Potsdam. Nav. 29. — Professor
-Hans Ludendorff, brother of the
former general is on route home
from Mexico with photographic
plates of the September 10 solar
eclipse which he hopes will develop
Interesting Information bearing out
Einstein's theory of relativity.
The first step of the little expedi
tion of German astronomers—that
of obtaining photographs of the
eclipse—was successful, according to
word Just received at the observa
tory here.
A great element of chance was in
volved in the long expedition, since
a small cloud obscuring the three
minute eclipse would have rendered
the entire expedition fruitless. How
ever, the day was clear and every
second of the short working period
was utilized.
Ludendorff, who is head of the
observatory here, will begin immedi
ately upon his return to work out
as quickly as possible the informa
tion obtained by the experiments.
They realize they must work rapid
ly, as many other expeditions from
France and the United States were
also in the Mexican mountains at
tempting to obtain similar informa
tion regarding the Einstein theory.
Professor Einstein, who is in Hol
land, has been informed of the suc
cessful results of the Ludendorff ex
pedition. He will return to his home
in Berlin soon and will probably
participate personally in going over
the work of the German astrono
mers. However, it will take months
to finish the examination of the
plates and establishment of facts
and theories developed thereby.
Postoffice Department Is
Making Plans For Christ
mas Rush
Washington, Nov. 29.—"Christ
mas comes but once a year, and it
will very soon be here.”
Postmaster General New cjtanted
the old rhyme today as he approv
ed plans for handling the annual
rush of Santa Claus mail and gift
packages.
New hopes everybody will give a
thought to the postman and to the
army of hard worked clerks in post
offices and on mail trains, who
have to handle the tremendous
quantity of holiday mail.
“Mall early,” he said. “You do
yourself a good turn by doing that,
do the recipient of the gift a fa
vor also, and help the postal ser
vice. Gifts mailed early will be
received in good order, in plenty of
time. Gifts mailed at the last min
ute are much more likely to ar
rive in bad order than those mail
ed early, thought we have a won
derful record in the post office for
handling this holiday mail without
loss or breakage.
As to foreign holiday mails, New
has approved an order for separa
tion of foreign mails by countries,
at local post offices, so as to avoid
congestion and delay in New York,
where most of the foreign mail goes
aboard ship.
During the Christmas season,
the foreign malls are particularly
heavy for Great Britain, Ireland,
Poland, Germany, Russia, Prance,
Italy, Norway Sweden and Den
mirk.
LOS ANGELES IS
TAKING ON AIRS
Los Angeles, Nov. 29.—Los An
geles is fast rivalling New York
and Chicago in the matter of as
suming a-superior metropolitan at
titude toward other parts of the
world.
Just as the New Yorker speaks
condescendingly of Hoboken, "Joi
sy" City and "Up-State," and only
longs for a sight of them when he
is in some far distant part of the
country, so Los Angeles citizens are
becoming very superior toward the
outlying territory.
The actual city of Los Angeles is
now referred to by the citizens as
“the- metropolitan area.” The rest of
the 370 square miles in the incorpo
rated city, which is frequently re
ferred to as the. "rural area" be
cause the alfalfa Is very luxurious,
is referred to as “the suburb” or
the "outlying city districts." In San
Diego a similar territory Is more
frankly termed “the back country."
All of the 20 or more cities with
in 0Q or <0 miles radius of Los An
geles, and ranging in population
from 10,000 to 100,000 are general
ly referred to aa the "country
towns.”
The people from out of town who
flock into Los Angeles so liberally
to see the sights of the big city are
being referred to as "the peasant
ry.”
JAPANESE TRADE WITH
BRAZIL IS DECLINING
Rio De Janiero. Nov. 29.—Japa
nese emigration to Brazil has fallen
off during the past two years re
sulting In decrease in commerce be
tween the two countries.
That immigration has direct bear
ing on trade between the two coun
tries Is explained in a report by the
Brazilian consul in Yokohama, who
points out that should Japanese
emigration to Brazil be cut off en
tirely Japanese ships would, more
than likely, cease calling at brazllian
ports.
Japanese navigation to Brazil now
la chiefly for transportation of emi
grants.
PHILIPPINE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SHOW ENROLLMENT INCREASE
Manila, Nov. 29.—There are 43,
265 more pupils In the public
schools of the Philippines this year
than last year, according to the bu
reau of education. This year there
are 917,577 children enrolled as com
pared with 874,312 last year. The
primary courses lead, with' an en
rollment of 717,914. Intermediate
courses come second with 131,358.
Cebu leads the provinces with 60,
514, while Manila has only 52,283.
Mindanao and Sulu, the Mbro prov
inces, have a total of 41,144. Ban
tanes has the smallest number of
students, with only 54, of whom on
• l.v 14 are girls.
r
Leprosy Is Reaching Alarm'
ing Proportions In South
America
Buenos Aires, Nov. 29.—The term
ing spread of leprosy In South
America.and neighboring states, and
the indifference of the government
to plans for stamping*} It out, has
aroused scientific men, and parti
cularly physicians, to take the initia
tive in an investigation of the ac
tual extent of the disease and
methods for controlling it.
A meeting of physicians and sani
tary experts delegated by all the
Ieprlc-infested provinces agreed to
ask the United States for help in
replenishing the meager stock of
specifics here and a cablegram was
sent explaining the situation, and
urging the immediate shipment of
medicines.
It was agreed to recommend the
establishment of a leper colony on
one of the islands in the Parana
River to house the provincial cases.
The only "colony” of lepers In the
state now Is In Buenos Aires, where
about 200 cases are under treat
ment, while a former national health
department official declares 5,000
lepers are living In Buenos Aires.
The more authoritative medical
sources here believe frankly that
unless a comprehensive scheme of
Isote', n is ^adopted in Argentina,
is well as Brazil, where whole vil
lages are known to he leprous, the
plague will assume unparalleled pro
portions in South America.
A physician discussing leprosy be
fore a meeting of medical men here
declared that Europe had eliminated
it by isolating the victims, and that
unless Argentina adopted this means
of controlling the disease the even
tual danger and certain damage to
the national health could not be
over-estimated.
RUSSIAN EXXPORTS OF
GRAIN ARE HEAVY
Berlin, Nov. 29.—Russia, tend Of
famine, is exporting hundreds of
thousands of puds of grain to all
parts of Europe, according to an
agency report printed here.
Between August. 15 and Oct. 1 of
this year the following grain deliv
ery contracts were signed:
To France, 4,662,000 pud (mostly
wheat): to Germany, 4,445,000 pud
(1,679,000 pud of rye and 1,300,000
pud of barley); to Holland, 3,408,000
pud (1,249,145 pud of barley: to Nor
way, 1,240,000 pud (rye), and to Fin
land, 1,990,000 pud (rye).
Including smaller amounts ex
ported to Denmark Belgium. Swe
den, Lettland, Turkey, Italy and
Esthonla, a total of 19,553,000 pud
was exported, of which $6,813,000
pud was rye, 5,677,000* pud was
wheat, 2,671,000 pud barley, 1,560,
000 corn, 858000 oilcake and 1,963,
000 other grains.
PROHIBITIVE BATHS WILL
THREATEN GERMAN CULTURE
Berlin, Nov. 29.—German culture
iB seriously threatened by the high
price of soap. An ordinary cake of
toilet soap costs thirty million marks
which is about 16 American cents
estimated on the rate of exchange
on October 5. laundry soap is pro
portionately high, and the press is
filled with complaints that the av
erage family cannot maintain decent
sanitary conditions in the home un
der such prices. Starch and other
laundry supplies are also soaring.
Public baths are operating only
spasmodically because of the scarc
ity of coal and many of the private
bath parlors have also shut down.
Few apartment houses have any
hot water, as central heating has
been generally abandoned and the
price of coal and gas make baths a
luxury in the average home.
Protest Porto Rican Budget
San Juan, P. R, Nov. 29.—Porto
Rican Sugar growers, through the
Sugar Producers association, have
addressed a letter of protest against
the present $12,000,000 budget and
the $6,000,000 bond issue jointly to
Governor Towner, the president of
the senate and the speaker of the
house. The budget, the largest in
the island's history, and the bond
issue to provide for public improve
ments were approved by the last
legislature.
The growers complain also of the
special tax on sugar, which they
point out will come directly out of
the pockets of the producers 'because
they will not be able to pass the
tax on to the consumer. ■
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CM. COURT
COIEKS MOW
Judge Devin Preside* With
224 Cases On The Docket
Of Various Offenses
Durham county superior court,
for the trial" of criminal cases, will
convene on Monday, the 3rd day of
December, with his honor. Judge W.
A. Devin, of Oxford presiding. The
calendar, as set by the bar, con
tains 224 cases fbr jury trial. Many
of them are appeals from the re
corder's court. This is one of the
largest dockets Durham county has
ever had. As time passes the dock
et of the superior court Beems to
become more and more congested,
instead of getting it anywhere near
In sight of clearing.
The most important cases at this
term may be cited as the charges
of murder against Wm. H. Woods,
which Is set for trial on Wednesday,
the 5th. And State against Charles
Davis, for assault with intent to
kill. The next cases of importance
will be for store and housebreak
ing, larceny, and other various of
fenses against “the peace and dig
nity of the state."
The crimes recorded under the va
rious charges for trial number as
follows: For storebreaking, 2;
housebreaking, 5; larceny, 18; forg
ery, 32; embezzlement, 12; false
pretense, 6; seduction, 2; non-sup
port, 3; assaults, and assaults with
deadly weapons, 18; speeding, 10;
retailing, 4; illegal possession and
receiving- whiskey, 23; injury to
property, 9; disorderly house, 2;
gambling, and gambling house, 3;
manufacturing whiskey, 8; with
other cases scattered along the line
of cursing, trespass, vagrancy, nui
sance, disposing of mortgaged prop
erty, violation of the sanitary laws;
abandonment, robbery, slander, pros
titution^ room for Immoral purposes,
reckless driving, and driving auto
mobile intoxicated. The charges
cover pretty much the whole gamut
of the criminal laws.
The sci fa docket has only four
listed.
REMEMBER OLD BUGGY?
■* WELL, HERE IS ONE
Philadelphia, Nov. 29.—Some
where between Galveston, Texas,
and Philadelphia, Pa., a ranchman,
his wife andthree children are
headed for home, after “buggying”
a year and a half through the Unit
ed States.
Timothy Waugh, with his family,
left his home near Galveston In
August, 1922, driving a two-seated
buggy. They have toured the States
and are now ending a belated honey
moon.”
"The missus and me was married
six year and we never got around
much till we figured this out,”
Waugh explained as he passed
through Philadelphia, “We have
seen the country and have called
the trip our honeymoon.”
“Black,” a cow pony, hauls the
buggy, and the Waughs, with their
equipment, make from ten to twen
ty miles a day. The buggy has had
two sets of new wheels since the
trip started.
“We’ll get home about’June, If
the bronc don’t put his feet through
the wagon. He's an old cow pony
and age hasn’t softened hig dispo
sition none,” Waugh said.
Vandervllle people are making a
lot of fuss over a sea cow that sings,
whjereas we have seen ’em and heard
’em in burlesque for years.
Lame muscles?
treatment
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stiffening up, and you can take
out soreness and ache with Sloan’s
Liniment. Every night stroke it on
gently—you don’t have to rub it
in. Tense muscles relax—aching
stops. Get a bottle from your
druggist today—35 cents.
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HOLLYWOOD BOASTS
OF SLANG COINAGE
Los Angeles, Nov. 29.—Holly
wood Is fast vleing with New York
in the production of the nation’s
slang.
Formerly New York had pretty
much of a corner on the market.
But since the advent of the movies
Hollywood is becoming a real com
petitor.
Hollywood has great facilities for
putting its stuff over. Much of the
slang originates either on the mo
tion picture lots or ts the brain
child of some bright title-writer.
Inasmuch as the latest Hollywood
slang is right at the title editor’s
elbow, even if he didn’t coin it, he
quite frequently picks it up, puts it
in a title and makes it known all
over the country because millions
see it on the screen.
“Wisecracker” was the latest Hol
lywood contribution to the national
slang. Wise cracks was a term tak
en from the movie lots, referring to
the ability of title writers, or pub
licity hounds to put over their gags
in new language. And the state
ment, “He’s another of these Holly
wood wisecrackers” became a term
of great scorn in Los Angeles.
OLDEST WARSHIP IN
COMMISSION STILL
Ancon, Canal Zone, Nov. 29 —
Thirty years ago the armored
cruised New York was commission
ed. The headlines of the New York
papers stated that she was the
"Queens of the Seas,” "Rival of the
win”; that she ran at "a racehorse
clip” and that she “broke all rec
ords.” The accounts stated that the
New York made the record speed of
21.07 knots an described the carrier
pigeon service and other wonders of
another generation.
The other day, thirty years later,
the old New York, now the U. S. S
Rochester, steamed out to make a
speed run rehearsing for night bat
tle practice, and within thirty min
utes after starting worked up to a
fraction under 18 knots under nat
ural draft. In spite of the fact that
she Is now the oldest commissioned
war vessel in the world, the Roches
ter la giving splendid service as flag
ship of the special service squadron.
* The varied duty performed by the
Rochester included the Santiago
campaign as Admiral Sampson’s
flagship, an extended cruise in the
Orient after the Spanish War, and
continuous active service during the
world war as escort for the troop
ships going to Europe.
CONVICTS OBSERVE
THANKSGIVING DAY
Thanksgiving day celebration was
not confined to those moving about
as free members of society, for a
day of rest and added delicacies to
the menu was observed in the Dur
ham county convict camps. Ob
servance was held in the camps in
short but pointed manner. At noon
Ice cream was added to the menu
out of the thoughtfulness of the
Blue Ribbon company.
Named After a Hotel
Liberty, N. C., Nov. 29.—First
borns have been named after great
men, Biblical characters and kin
folks, but now comes one named af
ter a hotel. He is JOhn O’Henry,
the first-born of Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Allen, the father being principal of
high school here. While on their
honeymoon the parents stopped at
the O’Henry hotel, Greensboro,
where they were so kindly received
they determined to name their first
child O. Henry. The ''hotel has giv
en the youngster a silver loving cup
and the parents have promised that
he shall eat all birthday dinners
there.
NOMINATIONS FOR
OFFICE ARE MADE
Kiwanis Club Prepare*
Slate For Election To Be
Held Next Month
Nominations for offices to be
made vacant through the expiration
of the terms of the present officeds,
were named at the meeting of the
Kiwanis club held Wednesday at 1
o’clock at the Y. M. C. A. Much
interest was shown in the nomina
tion of the men tor the various of
ficers and the election to be field at
the first meeting in December
promises to afford still more inter
est on the part of the members
with considerable ‘‘politicking” being
done on the part of friends of the
various nominees.
To determine the nominees the
two men receiving the highest num
ber of votes for each office was de
clared candidates for election. The
following slate was announced at
the conclusion of the count of the
ballots: For president, W. N. Keen
er and Dr. R. L. Felts: vice-presi
dent, Dr. W. T. Laprade and Rev.
Trela D. Collins; for treasurer, S. T.
Rogers and B. W. Rogers; for dl
rectors, Holland Holton, J. L. More
head, R. L. Baldwin, C. H. Liven
good, John W Carr, Jr., V'. S. Bry
ant, Dr. Foy Roberson, C. E.
Boesch, R. W. Rigsby, J. W. Um
stead, Jr., Harper Erwin, Dr. J_ A.
Speed, Oscar <3. Barker, and Marion
B. Fowler.
A talk by Dr. Roberson on foot
ball was one of the interesting parts
of the programs of the day.
Recall Worthless Money
Berlin, Nov. 29.—Germans who
have been paying' 10,000 to 20,000
mark's for the old pre-war 1,000
mark notes on the theory that they
would be redeemed in gold are
doomed to disappointment. The
government has announced that the
notes are worth only 1,000 paper
marks nnd has issued a call for their
return to the Reichsbank to stop
the speculation which has taken on
a serious form. One thousand mark
notes do not circulate in Germany
any more since even a cigarette
costs millions and 1,000 marks wont
buy * match.
The chief drawback against Ford
as a presidential possibility Is that
he never threw out the first ball at
an opening game.
Exasperating
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Don’t Take the Thanks Out of
Thanksgiving By Getting Down
On the Road With Bad Tires.
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Extend Through Many Thou
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