North Carolina Newspapers

Freak Band at American Legion Convention r l'^ Music from jugs may be the big feature of the nutlonal couvention of the American Legion at San Francisco when this band will compete for honors. The only regulation Instrument Is the banjo, played by the leader. Will Ryan. The others extract weird rhythm from Jugs, tin cans, cigar boxes, tin whistles and kazoos. The band was organized at Bloomlngton, 111., by soldiers of the late war. Curious Morguae Kept by the U. So Heirlooms and Treasures of Americans Who Die Abroad Held in Government Vaults. Washington.—Supplementary to his multitudinous other activities, our resplendent Uticle Samuel maintains an extraordinary undertaking establish ment down in the neighborhood of Eighteenth and E streets —a curious morgue of dead men's shoes where the pergonal effects of American citizens and soldiers who die abroad are stored in safety vaults pending the appear ance of the heirs and claimants of these trinkets, keepsakes, Jewelry, treasures and —whatnot. Thousands and thousands of care fully sealed parcels, ranging in size from a little package inclosed In a stout manila envelope—legal size pa per—to containers larger than the big gest shoe box are being held In this novel port of unclaimed legacies. If these mute, inconspicuous parcels could but talk, what tales they could narrate —stories of battlefield bravery and conquest, accounts of American adventurers and explorers who dared unknown perils to add to our scientific or practical knowledge, intimate sto ries of the human triangle and Its va riegated Issues, experience stories such ns never were written In novel, muga elne or newspaper. Belong to Next of Kin. The origin of these articles, which belong to missing "next of kin" Is any where on the world map. From the Scorching sands of the Sahara, from the forest fastnesses of the Congo, from the mines of Siberia, from the skfrlands of the Alpsj from trading posts on little Islands of the Seven seas where ven turesome Americans Journey and die, their personal effects are returned to Washington to be held by the Treasury department until the relatives can be Uiund twho are the rightful heirs of the property. When an American citizen passes away on foreign soli, the American consul In the nearest district is notified. Immediately he takes chnrge of the personal effects of the deceased. If there are relatives at hand, the official transfers the articles to their keeping. If the man has no close relatives In that latitude, the consul communicates with the secretary of state in Washing ton, advising of the death and cither giving the address of American rela tives to be notified or else requesting that the State department locate the lawful heirs of the dead man. Ordinarily the American consul se lects two local merchants who aid hlin in Inventorying the estate. All the out standing debts are paid arid moneys due him are collected and credited to his estate. Thousands Oie Abroad. The American consul Is allowed a modest fee of 1 or 2 per cent of the value of the estate for his services. The duties which the consular service have to cover annually in these fields are extensive and widespread, as the last reports of the State department show that between 3,000 and 4,000 American citizens die each year while visiting, traveling through or living In foreign countries. After the consul has converted the estate of the dead man Into cash —un- less legal claimants appear as legiti mate heirs—he forwards the funds and personal trinkets to the treasurer of States. The consul has-su pervl&ion over only the personal prop erty of the deceased rjtlzen—all the real property Is governed by the local laws of the foreign Unii. In the case of ar American citizen wliot dies on the high seas, aboard a United States or foreign ship, the Unit ed States consul a) the port where the ship next docks takes charge of his effects unless he is accompanied by relatives. In case the consular officers can find no evidence to show the Iden tity of the deceased man's relatives and their whereabouts, they cable the State department at Washington to advertise in the American newspapers the news of the death. Postmasters and police officials in different ports of the United States are queried If the estate Is large, and every effort Is made to locate the rightful heirs. Articles Held Indefinitely. The American consul holds the keep sakes and effects of decedent Ameri cans for one year, during which search Is made by Uncle Sam In all parts of the United States for the missing or unidentified relatives. If the heirs can not be found the effects are sent to the Treasury or State department In Wash ington. There they are audited, sealed and sent to the r deposltory lockers In the civil division of the diplomatic and consular service, where they are Weld indefinitely until claimed. All the cash funds from these ex traordinary estates are turned Into the treasury of the United States, where they are credited to the relatives of the dead Americans under the decedent trust fund, a federal financial account which now amounts to many hundreds of thousands of dollars. If ever after ward any legal claimant or relative of the dead man appears, the money is turned over to such person when he establishes his Identity and relation ship to the satisfaction of Uncle Sam's banking representatives. The sealed parcels containing the trinkets and keepsakes have to be held indefinitely by the State department until either congress by special act authorizes their sale or the missing legatees appear. The last sale of these curious and unknown treasures, on hand for two years or longer, was held In 1911 by special confirmation of the national legislators. Pens, photographs, rings, watches, pistols, wishing rings, curious charms, lucky pocket pieces, foreign coins, medals, trophies and many other trinkets and keepsakes were sold on that occasion, the pro ceeds of the novel auction amounting to $570. Since that time the dead men's shoes have been accumulating In the State department storerooms. If an American soldier or Navy de- HARDING STAMPS READY JißSlk Jgygl The Harding memorial stamps are now on sale. The photograph shows Dr. George T. Harding, father of the late President, holding a sheet of the stamp*. * • % Sea Monster Caught % on Hook and Line + ? Hampton, V'a. —Probably the T i most remarkable deep-seu crea- S * ture ever landed In this section T J was cuught recently by hook and 5 + line off Ocean View. J 1 The creature has a body like 5 T a flounder and wings that nieas- * | ured an even six feet from tip * T to tip. It has a head like a hog, J X with a sharp, long bone protrud- j T Ing from the snout and a whip- % t like tall that measured 65 Inches T T from the body to Its tip. At the % * end of the tall two bony horns T 2 extend from each side. i «► The body Is 11 Inches thick. J partment sailor dies on foreign soil or water, the military and naval authori ties supervise the settlement of his es tate and the disposition of his personal effects. In the general accounting of fices in Washington there Is a special tomb room, a vault where the Jewelry and trinkets, treasured photographs, Bibles, love letters, fountain pens, gold pencils, rings, watches, stickpins, cuff buttons, charms and curios of deceased soldiers are held in storage awaiting the arrival of relatives to take charge of the property. Five large steel lock ers are full of approximately 1,000 sealed and Indexed parcels, envelopes and packages containing the personal effects of Civil war soldiers who served in the Union army. fight ers either were killed on the field of battle or died In camps or hospitals. Their missing heirs have never claimed the personal possession?. Uncle Sam has held them in his safekeeping now for about sixty years. Unless congress authorizes their sale, the War depart ment authorities will have to continue to act as their guardians. In this same morgue of dead men's heirlooms and treasures are eight addi tional strongboxes of steel crammed to capacity with other parcels, the effects of soldiers of the Spanish-American or World war who died In the national service and whose relatives have never come forward to claim their keepsakes. Approximately 3,500 of these unclaimed estates rest In Uncle Sam's keeping be cause the kith and kin of the deceased boys In khaki have not advised the War department of their whereabouts. Relics From Many Battlefield*. What tales of courage and sacrifice these keepsakes could tell. Many of them were removed from the bodies of soldiers who were killed on the battle field. With reverence and respect, the writer examined the contents of sev eral of these packages which had been opened officially. One contained a dozen or more bloodstained, rusted coins, mostly French money, arid a fountain pen with which, perhaps, the soldier lad had written to his sweet heart only the day before the battle In which he lost his life. In another enve lope was a shattered watch of gold. It looked as if It had been wrecked by n bit of shrapnel or a vagrant bullet. It was blotted and splotched with stains. It was owned by an American soldier killed In France June 13, 1918. These prized possessions of some of our bravest American soldiers are rest ing almost forgotten In storage when they should be treasured keepsakes of the relatives of the soldier boys who gave their all that posterity might live and prosper. Uncle Sam has exhausted his resources In trying to find the heir* of these relics, which have been res cued from dozens of different battle fields. It would be better to bury these trinkets in some special national tomb with official ceremonies or to distribute them over the country for display la public museums, rather than to ever offer them for public »ale, If they are not claimed. Must Stoke Up. If you Itave ambition without ene.- gy, you will get abont as far as a loco motive without steam. —Boston Trma script. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. C. ALLEGED BURGLAR GETS HEW TRIAL , COURT HOLDS THAT DRUNKEN NEGRO COULD NOT HAVE NEC SARY INTENT. OPINIONS OF SUPREME COURT ! Case of Bank of Varlna Against N. L. Shearon Goes Bock For New T rail. Raleigh. Omission of degrees of guilt in the court's charge to jury brought an or der from the supreme court for a new trail for James Allen, 18-year-old I negro sentenced to the electric chair in Franklin county superior court last May for first degree burglary. Justice Stacy, writing the majority | opinion for the court, finds reason to i justify a lighter degree in the case jof intoxication and Chief Justice I Clark, dissenting vigorously opposes I this attitude. "Without the ulterior felonious in- I tent," writes Justice Stacy, "the crime j of burglary as charged would not be complete, and if the prisoner, without any prior criminal intent, were so j drunk at the time as not to know i where he Was or what he was doing, and had no intention of committing a felony in the dwelling house, as al leged, whatever his ofTnese, he would not be guilty of burglary in the first degree because of the absence of an assential ingredient of the crime." Chief Justice Clark declared, on the other hand, that If drunkenness "were a valid precedent as a defense, it would leave our women unprotected in their homes at night at the mercy of any brute who will testify, or even prove, that he was partially intoxi cated." T»p court sends back for a new trial/ the case of the Bank of Varina against N. L. Shearon, which Is simi lar to several cases now standing for trial on the calendar of the Wake County Superior Court. In this case the bank secured judgment for $2,500 on a note originally given for stock in the Cumberland Railway and Power Co., now defunct. The court holds that there was error on the part of Judge E. H. Cranmej in, excluding certain testimony tending to show collusion between the bank and pow er company. There is also a dissent Jn this case. Justice Etavy holding that the question of fraud was fully determined by the jury. The following opinions were hand ed down: Carolina Power Company vs. Hay wood, et al, Chatham, aiffrmed. Dill Cramer Truitt corporation vs. Raynolds et al, Onslow, reversed. Overland Garage Y». Hardee, Le noir, no error. State vs. Allen, Franklin, new trial. Richardson vs. Egerton, Franklin, modified and affirmed. Ferrell vs. Southern railway, et al, Wake, no error. Bank vs. Sherron, Wake, new trial. State vs. Oliver, New Hanover, af firmed. j Blue vs. City Wilmington, et al, 1 New Hanover, reversed. Layton vs. Godwin, Cumberland, ap peal dismissed. Horton v». Horton, Durham, revers ed Jones vs. McKeel, Greene, judgment affirmed, without written opinion. Suggs vs. Oakley and Cannon,, Pitt, judgment affirmed without written j opinion. To Investigate Pension Frauds. State Auditor Baxter Durham and j Treasurer Ben Lacy have been sub poened to place before tho Sampson county grand Jury certified records of the list of pensioners and pension funds paid out for that county, it was | learned. The Sampson grand jury is | investigating alleged irregularities in the administration of the pension fund, follwing up reports to State Auditor ; Durham several weeks ago that pen i sion checks for Confederate veterans | dead for three years had been endora ' ed. Following the discovery of evident Irregularities j)n the administration ! of the fund in that county. Major Dur | ham ordered a checking of the vital : statistics records for the county on | file In the state department of health. J This work is reported to have reveal ed the names of a number of deceased veterans whose names had been re tained on the county list and for whom checks had been regularly Issued, these checks later being endorsed and cashed by some parson not designated. Governor Comimsslons Notaries. The following notaries of the public have been commissioned recently: L. P. Benton, Evergreen; J. L. Rob inson, Whiteville; Horace B. Blanton, Maiden; L. V. Connor, Chadbourn; H. L. Embler, High Point; R. O. Ferrell, Asheboro; W. J. Armfield, Jr., Ashe boro; J. J. Friday, Worth; Miss Blanch Hancock, Selma; Fred Beiss ler, Salisbury; Miss Marie A. Link, Salisbury;; B. H. Salis bury; T. B. Van Poole, Salisbury; W. 8. Lyon, Greensboro; A. 9. NewccaU' Pinehurst. Many Apply For Motor Title# Approximately 10 per cent of the automobile owners registered in North Carolina have complied with the new State law, effective October 1, for the registering of title, according to J. E. Sawyer, motor supervisor for tho Sta(e Department. Complaints, criticisms, many of thorn of a facetious nature, and soma of them born of misunderstanding of the purposes of the act, ar« reaching the department, but not in number* impressive enough to cause alarm to Secretary of State W. N. Everett, who believes that the act will do much to protect automobile owners from theft. The anti-motor theft act, introduc ed In the last General Assembly by Senator Charles U. Harris, of Wake and passed without substantial oppo sition, provides for the registration of automobile title with the Secretary of State at a fee of $1.50. Certificate of title furnished tho owner of an automobile when application properly filled out with the descriptive matter called for by the act, is good for the life by the car or as long as it is the property of the holder of title certificate. Upon the sale of the ve hicle so registered, the seller endorses the title card over to the purchaser, who files it with tho Secretary of State, and in return for the regißra tion fee receives another card certify ing to his own title. The old card is filed by the Secretary of State and will permit a trace of title of any automobile. Under the new law, no application for automobile license tag will be hon ored unless the applicant can show title. And the real complaitn against the new law, if there is to be any substantial opposition to it, officials believe, will come when the depart ment is forced to wtihhold certificate of title. "Who would think of driving up a two thousand dollar piece of real estate to the curb, if such a thing ia imaginable, and running off to leave it to the whims of any passing thief, without so much as a deed to show ownership?" asks Joe Sawyer, who can see no reason for opposition to the law. Power Petition Hearing Nov. 12. Ten o'clock on the morning of Mon day, November 12, was announced bjr the North Carolina corporation com mission as the hour and the date for the beginning of the hearing on the petition of the Southern Power com pany for permission to Increase Its rates to an extent allowing " a fair return on the capital Invested." The petition of the power company was presented to the commission by a representative of the company fol lowing a statement by J. B. Duke, president, at Charlotte, that he was through with the development of power plants in this state unless per mission to increase rates on hydro electric power was granted by the corporation commission, which, follow ing a hearing in 1921, set the maximum rate chargeable at 1.25 cents per kilo watt hour. An increase in rates of af%ut 10 per cent Is asked in the Southern Power company's petition now before the corporation- commission. Notice has been given to consum ers of hydro-electric power of the state of the Southern Power company'* petition and persons opposing the re quested increase In rates will be al lowed to appear before the slon at its hearing here beginning November 12. A committee of citizens from Hick ory, headed by J D. Klliott, president of the Hickory Chamber of Commerce, and H. W. Link, secretary of the chaber, appeared before the commis sion and presented a resolution adopt ed by the directors of the Hickory commerce body endorsing the request of the Southern Power company for permission to increase its rate to such an exten as will enable it to "pay a fair and adequate return upon the capital Invested." s The corporation commission also "received a copy of a resolution from the Marion Kiwanls club, Marlon, fav oring the granting of permission to the Southern Power company to In crease its rates If an Increase Is nec essary to the further development of power plants In this state and permit a "fair return on the capital invested." Report of Board of Health. The state board of health Issued Its second quarterly eight cents In the earning on the dollar invested In county health work in 22 counties, co operating with the state board. For the second quarter, th# average earn ing per dollar was given as $1.54, as compared with $1.45 for the quarter previous. The earning is estimated on a basic of work accomplished during a given period with reference to the costs. Cabarrus county lead the list of the counties making the largest earn ings with 12.24 per dollar invested. New Corpoartion*. ' chartered by the Secretary of State: Clinard's Art and Oift Shop. Inc., Winston Salem, with SIOO,OO author ized capital and $1,250 subscribed by R. ft. Cllnard, Mrs. Theodore Clinard and W. H. Clinard, ail of Winston- Salem. Potter Tow Bot Company, of Wil mington, with $50,000 authorised caj* ital and $5,500 subscribed by L. D, Potter, Walborg L. Potter and David H. Scott, all of Wllmlneton. 8 cfhe Kitchen jj | Cabinet jj ittiU, Weuleru Newnimi/ttr culua.) No man lias a right to leave the world as he found It. He muat add something to it; either ha must make Its people better or happier, or he must make the face of th* world more beautiful or fairer to look at—Edward Bok. MORE SEASONABLE GOOD THINGB Cream cheese Is such a good food and In cool weather Is found plentl fully in the mar ■ r~I3vB Cream Cheess Ba "*- —Work one Br fio. cream dieese un- KvJL*I til smooth with one-half tabie spoonful ol cream, six chopped, stuffed olives, three table spoonfuls of chopped walnut meats, one-half teaspoonful of salt and a few grains of paprika. Walnut Deceits. —Add one-fourth of a cupful of olives stoned and chopped to one cream cheese, add one-half tenspoonful of salt and a few grains of paprika. Shape into bails, roll In sifted cracker crumbs, flatten, place half of an English walnut opposite each other on each piece. Arrange on a dolly-covered plate. Canton Cream.—Soak one table spoonful of granulated gelatin In one-fourth of a cupful of cold water, add to the custard made from one cupful of milk, the yolks of two eggs, one-fourth of a cupful of sugar and a few grains of salt. Strain, chill In a pan of Ice water, add one table spoonful vanilla, three of ginger sirup and one-fourth of a cupful of Canton ginger cut Into small pieces When the mixture begins to thicken, fold In the whip from two and one-half cupfuls of thin cream. Mould and chill. Potato Salad. —Mix two cupfuls of diced cold billed potats»s, one cupful of flnely-mlnced celery, one chopped hard-cooked egg. three-fourths of a tahlespoonful of finely chopped pars ley and one small cucumber or a Uttte chopped cucumber pickle. Moisten with a cream salad dressing and sur round with lettuce on n dish. Bisque of Oysters.—Clean, pick over and parboil until the edges curl, one quart of oysters. Brown three table spoonfuls of butter, add three table spoonfuls of flour, and pour over grad ually, stirring constantly the oyster liquor. Season well, adjl the oyster* and Just before serving add a cupful of cream. When friends are at your hearth side met. Sweet courtesy has done Its most. If you have made each guest forget That he himself Is not the host. WHAT TO EAT Wipe, pare and core six sour apples a'hri n,rrange them In a baking dish. Mix one-half cup bßß ful of brown cu- gar, one tahle —— ■ IV, Tr~ spoonful of curry -, ji f/\ powder and one "SPjH *i. tablespoonful of «Jh9| VS. J melted butter. % Fill the cavities with the mixture, pour three-fourths of a cupful of chicken stock into the dish and bake until the apples are soft, basting every six minutes. Keswick Pudding.—Bring three fourths of a cupful of sug.tr and x one cupful of water to the boiling point. Beat the yolks of three eggs slightly and add one-fourth of a cupful of sugar and a few grains of salt. I'our on the boiling sirup and cook until the mixture thickens; then add ose and one-fourth tablespoonfuls of granulated gelatin soaked in one fourth of a cupful of cold water, and one-fourth of a cupful of lemon Juice. Stir until the mixture thickens. Turn Into a mould (Mid chill, (inrniah with whipped cream, sweetened and fla vored with vanilla. Nut Prune Souffle.—Sonk one cupful of.prunes in two cupfuls of pold water, then cook In same water until soft. Itemove stones and cut prunes Into small pieces. To the prune liquor add water to make one and one-half cup fuls; then add one cupful of sugar, two Inches of stick cinnamon and the prunes; cook ten minutes. Dilute one third of a cupful of cornstarch with cold water and add to the mixture. Cook ten minutes. Itemove the cinna mon, ndd whites of two eggs well beaten, one-third of a cupful of broken walnut meats and one tablespoonful of lemon Jtflce. Bake In «i moderate oven until let. Serve with cream If desired. Caramel junket.—Heat two cupfuls of milk until lukewarm. Caramelize one-third of a cupful of sugar, add one third of a cupful of boiling water and cixjlwuntll the sirup Is reduced to one third of a cupful. Cool and add the milk slowly to the sirup, powder one Junket tablet and mix wlrh a little wa ter to dissolve; add to the milk, flavor with a little vanilla and add a pinch of salt. Stir nfttll well blended. Turn Into small glasses and set away In a warm room to become set. Then chill, cover with whipped cream, sweetened and flavored, and sprinkle with chopped nuts. "KctUt IfYi^vfOSL KveryMea^ K Have a packet in your M E pocket for ever-ready j Soothes the throat. E For Quality, Flavor and i Compliments Exchanged. Prison Chaplain (lo prisoner, who has Just served his time) —"And now, Millbank, | hope yon will turn over a new leaf, and become a useful mem ber or society." Prisoner (deeply touched) —"Thank you kindly, sir; same lo you, sir."—Pearson's Weekly, London. GIRLS! HAIR GROWS THICK AND BEAUTIFUL 85-Cent "Danderine" Does Wonders for Lifeless, Neglected Hair. ly follows a genu- Itching scalp and the dandruff la corrected Immediately. 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