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(By Special' Leased Wire.) , " , Washington, D. C, Jfov. 29. "Farmer Bob" Doughton, returning to the Cap itol today for the abort cession of Congress, gave hi. promise to support the proposed natumat bine law, with the,, proviso that tire asms ahould be te ciniprcbcnf1ve a ta?' bar work - by rr.eui'ueii ef Congress on the Sib biith. Mr. Doughton wa one among sev- . Washington. Henatof Henly- U Mycel ef Montana, said that ss a direetor;of the lntornational Reform Bureau had glvcn careful consideration Sunday observance and thought proper legislation to safeguard the American Sunday should be enacted at the com ing session. "I shall introduce a bill to that end said be. "I am not in favor of stop ping the trains or Interfering with reasonable outdoor sport", but 'I would cut the commerce out of Sunday per formances. There is no necessity for moving pictures, t.'ieatres and the like on that day. ' ' "We should eo back to the good old Babbafh Day of Missouri ' country dis tricts of forty snd fifty years age, I do not advocate a New England Pur itan or a blue fiundsv. In the bill to be intrMnced, I shall include every' thing possiblfi in the way of Araerl can territory. . ' Proposes Amendment. "Farmber Bob" Doughton proposes to offer An amendment to stop the ele vators in the papitol and ig the House and Senate office building t rent run ning on 6undays-whe the blag law 1 Introduced. v . .i11 "Congressmen, when they start out to legislate for others, should also, include themselves. he said. - "They . should be forced out or their offices, on 8a dsy and thea they eonld attend anarch services. w The declarations made. in'TUMeh yesterday by Rev.- $aat Small aroused some Interest here today, as Mr; Small is to bs one -of the principal speaker t the reform rally next month. At the same time it was "made plain today that the program of the Interna tional Beform BureauJ as it deals with vies raids ia Southern cities, i met per ss a part of the blue law ernsade, The same organization; nowever, js in forested ia the strict observance of the Sabbath as outlined in the resolution recently adopted by the North Caro lina Methodist conference, . Criticises Congressmen. Dr., Wilbur F. Crafts, leader of ths movement and superintendent of the reform bureau, 'issued- a warning to Washington, today that those 8eaators and House Members who think that they will pass nothing but arpropris' tiosTbllls this session are reckoning without their reformer eonstitutents. At a meeting of the Washington. Pas-j tors' Federation, he etrtielsed ftnder x - his rights "as a American eitisen .Senator Lodge and Beptesentatlve -Mondell, Oillett and 3ood, v who have stated that only supply measures will be enacted during the 'short session. -. He said that appropriations are -some tunes closely "related to inn. ... "The short sessioB," said he, U a y basanally favorable time for Congress . to sks it harder to do wrong.- or axamDle. the orohibition laws ean be strengthened to make " it harder for bootleggers sad rumrunner to do bus iness an to actually 'prohibit the trans- peTtatioa of Whiskey Ja ana out or ana sboat our eoujitry a it Js done bow ' ly perjurers, forgers snd liars." Senator Kenneth McKelhw, :of Tes , sessee, said today that h is stUl of the opialoa , that tba -Suaday law re - formers ahould eome with , the back- . ing of the churches and; the people ''back home" when they dekarfd drastig ' legislation for observance- of Sabbath, ; Be declared ' that he had ' not sees .a single 8enator f avoraW to the law to atoa trains. BewsraiBers tna-wanie generally -s.v m,i. ....ijj, -CeL-Albert U Cot, of Baleigh, presi dent 'of ths Old Hickory Association, Thirtieth Division veteran, ha ssked . Senator Simmons te tai up with tne War Department the matter of. the proper loeatloar-of-oae -of ths four American semetenes at eeiueoun, vtoint where the Thirtieth' broke ' ' Hindeaburg line. The .Twehty-Sereath wants it st Bony, where they 'claim - to have doaa the smashing. ' There has bees : continuous ef- t fort." CoL- Cox-writes- Senator-; Sim. nnna.-oa. the Bart of the people of 'JJew Tork state to sjtra to themselves sad to the soldier ia France who rep v reaetited them, the -entire credit ' for breaking ths Hindenburg line. I Boties ow that aa effort is, being made to ' locate , ens ot '- the four American cemeteries in . France at Bpnv, ,to be knows as 'Flanders rwld.' The loca tion of such, a cemetery should by all means" bs asBellicourfc ..- :, "Pleasa be good enough to ; bring this matter to the attentioa of ths War Department ia order that proper credit may bs givea to the mes whojwere (CoatJaweeT ea Page Two) .; . !? " i MM Hi i M mm , i . 4 v - , fi . r: 'I mil iStr s "V .'a.U ' Oa November 11, the iftietb anniTenair of the foondinf of the French repablic, the beart ef Leoa Gambetta, "Father of the Republic, waa in tailed in the Pantheon, Franee'i hall of fame. The heart of the great patriot waa placed In a gold urn and carried in a es Shot Mrs. Davis and Mrs.hadrick Both of Near Wake Forest, VV Shot By Husbands y BOTH CRIMES TRACEABLE T0. DRINKING OF WHISKEY v. 1 - K Davis and Shadrick Are (Held Without Bail, In Wake f County Jail Three hour after Charles . .Davis, prominent New. ight farmer (hot and fatallyiwounded hi wife af their home yesterday morning at four o'clock, 8am P. Bljndrick, farmer liviag near-, Wek Forest, seven fcile from ths Davis home, Mut and killed his ewniwife, Both mem sic ia the Wnke County JaiL Daric mousing . slowly t from drunken stupor, and fiha4rlck, ' recent inmats ot the SUts Hospital fog the Insane, apparently unable to under stand the crime which he haa.".oo mitted. - . The women were found at their re spective homes1 with . brains' ooslng frm their heads.. Mrs. ShadrieVs skuU was shattered by a charts ilred from a shot-gun asd she died , instantly. Mrs. Davis was wounded by three bullet from a largo calibre revolver, all of which entered her bead. Dr. U- U rVhna who attended her yesterday, de clared that there were so hopes. for her recovery.--. mi , " - i b. v Traceable to Whlakey. Each crime is traceable to5 whiskey hand insaaity-will be the plea of the de fense in, each cass. Davis. who owa the most pretention heme in Hew Light township and has always been a ftignjy respected citizen of-his commanity, was curried to the WM county jail yester day morning ia a drunken stupor, from v-hich ha did ot begin to arouse until fl o Clock yesterday evening and rrom which he had not fully recovered at late hour" bttt night. Shadrick. who has need on a rami, a mile and a half, north of Wake Forest for the past Sire or six, years, was re garded as aa industrious snd useful eitinen until' erlv this year whea he developed a stieag of insanity. He was conflned to the State hospital for tn Insans in Jury, where hisleoadiUon was diagnosed as ths result' of addiction to whiskey, bromo seltxer aael other arags. He was' released 'on October .8, appar ently cared but ia ths opinion1 of Coro ner 3..Z. Owens, who yesterday com mitted him to Mil foV. murder after an inquest,, h was Badonbtedly In mentally .irresponsible condition. xotn.Qi iu women, oacn ox .n was between o ana o years oia,' dots . . . . .... anusually high, reputation for propri- ty snd industry in their retpeetivexcom munities. Mrs. Davis, a woman 'Of some cultuie, was before her marriage a Hist O'Neal and waa the sister of W. Nile O'Neal, another prominent -Sew Light farmer. She had spent all of her life in the community in ,w men sae fliea, There ha been no uggeetion of Jtutifi- eation for her husband's set.' "' .' t ' Mrs. Shadrick was " originally i from Mullins, B. 0. She has two anmarrisd sisters living 'in that !pt andi three brothers, all of whapt" are tarmars liv ing near Mullins. -I At the inquest yes terday.' Coroner Owens Iaouirel'specl fitsJly into her character aad each of the wita esses epok af her. in the highest terms. Among those testifying wss Mr. George W, Davis, the -owner of the farm OB' which Ue Shadrieksl lived, t r No' plausible theory1, has i been' ad vaneed for aitHer crime -other thaa that the men lqgt entire, control of j their senses. Basancc - was Mtie gnowa- in Wake Forest, but W; O. Brewer, chair man of the Wake eeanty board of eom- missionera, 'who interested himself ia securing Shadrick' 'admission to -the 8tnte llespital last summer, proaouneed Shadrick and his r wife 'both as indus trious sad useful citizens, pfficisls at the Stat. Hospital czpre4 great sur nrina unon learainr oz the traaredr. Though eleaaed .upon prqhation Shad rick was regarded as cured and had never, been considered dangerous. "While 'here he was -never considered dangerous, but was of ths exactly oppo- te type, and seemed depressed all of the ime," said Dr. B,' K. Adams,: phy sieioa oftheJiOBTiital, laet .Bieht.; Ue (CeaUaaed ea Page Two) ' ' x'-t .airiloywJ-y-v-"AiiSii)g.y''gy',.y'r:'r V5f'y.-a?..7.- arvg tl-x-- -".w'OTBKrTJr'-r?'"' " v ... . J I resented- Franca: 'instead 'of t Tlnn.-1 system which -starves thousanda while sossinn of ths North Carolina Confer- control, to . . . . . . . m j - j w . i i - i . . i i - J1 ; fr Ti J -, if '':':. . f ; 7 V" t' y filial ' w . . ir-n -. . ! procession, through the arrests of Pans. Dora In Homes Fl BIG MURDER CASE Mrs. Annie E. Cutts Held In Connection With Death of N Georgia Peach King Macon, Ga., Nov. 29. Mr. Annie Cutis, socially prominent in Abbeville and Fitzgerald, wis arretted hUe to day, at her home tn Fitzgerald on warrant charging murder in connection with, the death last June of Fred D. 8hepaM, weelthf Houston county peach grower. The arrest of Mrs. Cutta was ths foartn a ths Ycsult ef a verdict by coroner's Jury' st Fort Valtay Saturday that -Shepard? death was caused .by poison. Others now teing held on the charge of murder arsWra. F. E. Elmer, of Jacksonville, Fla former wife of Shepard; MrcMoas Henry, of Perry, Oa sister of V Mrs. Jnaer, and raet llopsoa. sob of Mrs. Elmer by a former marriage. Shepard, wno Oied in a hospital is Una citv. waa takea violently ilUthree day before nis aeatn while vfaiting with his wife at ths homo ef Mr. Hearr. Doiieitor uarrett made no statement concerning- the nrrest of Mrs. Cutts. She formerly resided in Abbeville, ths lorma nome of Airs. Paulino Hopsoa before "T or msrringo-Nto Bheoard. and according to the authorities was aa-ia- timsto friend of Mrs. Elmer. Mrs. Cutts was brons-ht hv autaau. sue rrom ritzgerajd, where the . arrested, and arrived at the- asuntv jau sa 8:a tonight. ,6o waa aecom imnieu ea ue trip oy aer asmand, wao ia a mwyer. Dr. F. E. Elmer'a arrival her thla morning sad hi effort to etade- aews papeKmea and the events im which he figured following his arrival were im portant features of the dny.t -Dr. Elmer employed former Brig;. uenerai -v alter A. tt arris, of this tv. as hi leading eouascL A petitioa for bail for. Mrs. Elrder was nraeentad to Judge ST A. Mathews, of Bibb Bsperios court, eariy um eveaing. ' Judge Mathews set the case for hearing ea December T. , Judge Joha P. Boss, rep reeeating the intereeU si Mrs. Ions Henry,. and! Ernest Hopos,,aljo asked that baa bs nxed for his elient. This case also -was est for hearing oa 'De cern ter 7. -1 - - . State Tan Agent J. F. Bobezts, whs arrived, hers Suaday at" ths -direction ef Uovernor Hugh M. Dorsey, entered into .eoaferenoes with, lawyers, repre- senung ue vranaau ana onepara in temu .today., Mr. . Roberta said . the tat would endeavor, to collect $176, 000 back C taxes oa penoaal property or Alfred Hheparo. th rather of Fred D. Shepard,, drering a period seven year.i He Charged that the' elder Shepard had placed loan : in .flftoen fates ef ths union, giving Georgia aa hi 'residence, and -oa this personal property, bs declared the. stats "has peea. uunois so una . wnere a.cenn, IS taxes' has - beea paid." Ths conferences which, will be, resumed 'tomorrow' will attempt to-nV the "liability" of " ths Shepard scute,. Mr. Boberts said. No attachments on property had . beea is sued np ts) lata toaightil : ' WIDELV-KNOWN COTTON C , M AN OF. SOUTH DEAD Macon, Ga Nor. 29 Captain Bobert X. Haxelharot, Goorgisr representative ef the Taylor Cottoa Company ot Uv crpooL England, sad one of the most widely Anown cotton men in the Sooth, died this ) morning- after an illness pf asveral week., Death was due to pneu monia, which set in following ah opera tion which Captnia iiaxelhurzt under- wens Severn -oays ago. 7 , Captain Hnselhurst, who was SI years ! age,x was a veteran of the Spaalsh ericaB war aad for numr years, was One of ths outstanding figure ia the national guard of ths South. v' a t f ' Edinburgh Homars Dr. Belt. ' Edinburch. Scotland. ' Nor. E. Ths freedom of the city. wss conferred today upon Alexander Graham Bell, investor of the telephone, whe is a -native af, .dinhurgh, V " OURTH ARREST IN FOR FIIIAL ACTION To Remove Mandates Commis sion As Far As Possible From Any influences TO APPOINT MEMBERS ON PERSONAL MERITS Doldd That Uetoben of CoWmlnlon ShSOL Kot Op ttff foaitioa ot Deod no Vp6n Cfdt.tnmtati; 8aB.Ootaitaitt ; 6a Block. adt ,Watl Commlnioa Oewera, Jfor. t9. (By The Associat ed Vss.J Beaioral ef the maadates eommissiosi' as far as possible from goveraniental ' inflaeace waa the task andertakea by " the council ef the Lsegae ef Natiae today. It was de cided that the 'atembejrs of this com mission shall be appointed by the council en personal merits and com petency and that they shall not occupy any position involring dependency up on their go .eminent. The mandate qaestiom eeeireied al- to Paris, and 8'igaor Trittonl also was replaced as his return to Borne for few days wss imperative. The French govern meat will be in vited to arrange for tCc transportation sad sustenance of th . league military expedition to Vilnai - V Penoaaol of Coaasnittee. The mandates eommiasion will in elude one member named by the in temational labor organizations, who will attend all the meetings in an ad visory capacity, only when questions-of interest tn .labor are discussed. Maa da to airs will be acquired to submit an anal reports through duly anthoriaod representatiroa setting forth, the aitu ation tn - the territory under their jur isdiction. The reports will be exam ined by th mandates eommiaaioa, which . will decide whst point therein shall be called to the attention of the council. The mandate '"Commission will sit la Geneva Blockades Commiestesl The sub-committee oa blockade to day passed, a resolution psoposed by Lord Bobert Cecil, dslegnta for Soath Africa, that ths eonaeu.pt asked nam aa iaternaiioaal commission aa blockades wanes duty it shall b to re port to ttha assembly ths measure it lads ' meosssry to put aa , economic blockade into effect -This ia regard ed aa quite likely to put off a desalts solution of ths blockade until the next meeting of the aaaembly. KmsscvPoUsh Matters. Delegates to 'the meeting of the as sembly are - awaiting with keenest ia Ureas -th probable discussies of mettoxt promised by George - Nieoli Barnes, of Croat Britain, regarding the conflict netweea Poland and Buaain. Ik bv-reported Mr. Bams may attempt to pnt the league la a poeUion pt do fending its activity, la- that war, but there is, a dispositioa onfjthe part of us deKgates aot ao pernnn us aun- ieet to rosea any decisive issns. For th dast two days Euxoiamn dele gates have been dividing their, atten tion between th session of the aasem blr here and the meeting of Premiere Moyd Gcorgn aad Leygees in jbondaa. The decisions f Franc and England regarding Greece and the Near East is awaited' - with much concern. Many delegates continue to discus th prob ability of Greece losing its .place on ths council of ths league if Coastaa- Una return to th throne. ' , As To Wilson's Reply. ' Most ef the ' delegates have the im pression that the irft reply of Presi dent Wilson to the council 'a note rem tiso to Armenia will bs. perfunctory not committing the JDaited States in aajr way nor definitely 'rejectiag the offer.- Mr. Wilson's s newer . is ex pected to arriv within th next few days. v ;t PRESIDENT TO DEVOTE HIS TIME T0: WRITING Chfe Execatire TO Make His Home la.Washinjton' After March ronrth Waehington, Nov." . Although it ha been, generally understood .that President Wilson after he leave the Whits House on, March 4 will devote his tinM -to writing thU ; fact became known today with a degree of flaaiity, It also, became known toat Mr. Wilson will make his boms in Washingtoh, bat thus far h ana aot : obtained n resi denes. . - - Johepk' P. Tumulty, the "President secretary, als plans kk remain ,j ia Washington sfter March 4, and ts in tends to writs soma books--about ths President, witBkwhom ha haa beea oa- odntedJfbt th past 10 years.. Mr. Tumulty has Jwea offered .a. place oa the enstome court of appeals, -but be has reached ns decision as to accepting 'the appointment. -." - ' v ' V - Annseecs Wage JUdactio - Biehmdnd, va. Nov.- z9, Anaouaee- ment was- mads by. the Buhmoad Cedar. Works, today of a reduetioa af 15 perceat ia ths wages of all of, its 800 mea employed.' in- its pfaat her. Ths" reduction ie effective nt once. .,' . ..... . Bread Prices Slnmp. '.' Xiehmoad, Va, Nov. Bread prices took a slump throughout the city today.' One big bakery that had beea selling IS canes loaves for, IS cents is now charging 10 v cents for them. Other bakeries have ' also re duced : prices of bread snd ars selling dozen rolls lor S3 seats. X. . . I most the entire session and neeessanlv I sent his position. r.(... I Young Charles Garland De clines To Accept Million Left By His Father RELIGIOUS CONVICTION FIGURES IN REJECTION Declares He Will Not Accept .Legacy- Because Honey Is Not His ; Would Not Waat To Handle Fortune To Do- Good For Others; One brother Takes His Share Busxards Bay, Mass., No. 29. (By ths Associated Fres.) harles Gar land, the young maa who has renounced his right -to a million dollar legacy left him. by nis father? James A. Gar land,' who was a wealthy clubman and yachtsman of Boston, today mad the formal statement of his reasons for rejecting the money. His statement, be said, was due to the fact that the many reports of his failure to accept the legacy trad failed properly to pre sent his poaition. A system which leaves n sick woman helpless and offers its services to a healthy man condemns. Itself. It is snch a system that offers me a million dollars," he continued. "It is blind to the simplest truth known to every child, the truth that the hungry should be fed end the naked clothed.- I have had- to choose between the loss of private jrroperty and the law which is writteVln every human heart. I choose the one which ( believe to be true." Religions Conviction. Garland, who has stated that he re nounced his claim to the million dol lars because he thought Christ would have done the same, continued: ,I believe I eonld do ao good with the money, ft is th man who gives food to th hungry who doe good, noht the dollar given in exchange for the food. I would he happyrto be the man if I had the food to give, but I cannot lend myself to handling the money-thai is not 'mine even though the good that might be done ia possibly greet.'' Many people havs , wrlttea to tell him what sould be done with tb money, he said. They seem slmort preud to point out th powers that have In my band, but it js th most pitiful thing there could point to Ton cannot serve God and mammon.1 So many people ready to serve the dol lar, so many, less to serve God. There re great opbortunitie to do good bat they ore in men' heart, not in my check book. A preach ed in the name of Christ nid this million should have been turned to good. He - thinks that God' work ia paid for in dollar God's work will never be don nntif men see that thi theory ia untrue." Is Teong Man. Mr. Garland' statement was mads from his homo here, a former Ina of stage coach days. The young man, who is 3 years of age, Is living at the house with bis wife and infant dangh ter as the guest of his mother, Mrs. Marie Tudor "Green, whe supplies them with a maid and keeps their larder full, He plans to go to work eventually, he said, but a year at Harvard College, which he left to get married, and pre punitory schooling in this country and in cngicina xiixeu nun ror no were ready at hand, and be said he thought it would be spring before be , found anything. His wife joined with rfm In his rennneiation of the million. Gar land said. His mother, although not holding th same views, has, told him th do what he thought right Brother Takea Share. In another house on th estat .lives Jam A Garland, Third, a brother of Charles Garland, who ha accepted his hare ef his father's estate, made lar ger by the fact that, the mother of the bey abandoned her rights' in order te marry Francis C. Green after the death of her first husband. At Harvard Col lege is Hamilton Garland, - a third ton, who Jacks severs! month ef reaching hi majority. Hi brother Charles ssid today that be - understood Hamilton lo was considering refussl to take hi share when he became 'of nge. Their ideas on the subject were somewhat similar; he said, although, ,th Influences of education and environment were not identical. r ,. 1 Garland Indicated that bit refusal to.take.tha money was not based on any question attached to th orrUn of the Garland fortune, saying h - did noli know front, what source it wa derived. put believed rt came down from hi grand-fnther. : ,; . i . ! . t LARGE INCREASE IN 'C . EXPORTS OF COTTON Export For October Nearly Double 'Those In' October T V of tart tear Washington: Nor. SS-rCbtton last month 'wese nearlv don Ale those of October, 1919, the 'total lost menth be ing 53,725- bales, sained at t91AOT.498 compered with 35231 bates, valued at nw,73S,8o7, id October, UUiT it was an- aouneed "today at the department of commerce..; . .- .:i -v rh Exporte, of cotton seed, oil amounted to 7,45813. pounds valued at ia October' as compared ' with .aearlvt deunis we amount in October last year. Exports of eottod.' seed oil for th tea months endinsr' with ' October were B2,(W0,0OO 'pounds less than - for the same period last year, the differ. eace "ia dollars being more than SIO.- JUDGE PSITCHARD ILL AT A8HBVILLB HOSPITAL Aenerllle, Nor. 18-rFriends here are worried abeat the condition of Judge J. Cf prltchsrd. presiding offleer of the United States Clrcait Court ef Appeals for the foarth clrcait, who wae teday removed to" tne Miasloa Hospital Judge frit. chard has htea III for sometime, bat sufficiently recovered to be able te get oat hntil a week ago, when he wae agsla conflned to his bed. Wkc. kia mbiIIIIam mmm ann. he waa taken teethe hoeplUl. It was stated at 4he .heepiul tonight that ho to rssUag easier, -hat It Is aader stood that he is very sick. Tl .P. E Annual Session at Enfield Comesjo Close; Was Pro- enec of the Methodist Protestant Church came to a efose at 10 o'clock this morn ing, with reading, of the 'report of the stationing committee. The ninety-sixth (ession of the conference will convene a Burlington next year at the call of the president of the annual confer ence. This was by far the most progressive conference in the history of the Church. All financial and numerical reports were above the average. .The conference took an advance step in) the employing of a whole time field secretary for the young people's work in the conference. Miss Juanita Hammer f High Point was ap pointed' to this position. The school of method and the denominational young people' 'convention will .doubtless be . - - etmsolidati Children's summer. lidnted and will be held at the a Home near High Point next The following is 'the report of the stationing committee: .Alamance, v. W. Holema. Albemarle, T. A. Williams. " Allisons Grove, J. F. Alexander. Anderson, J. H. Trollinger. Asheboro, h, W. Gerrlnger. , a.i..ii. S ir ti...aI A V"' Asheville, T. M. Johnson.1 Bnnroanbe. C. Ia nnencer. Burlington S. W. Taylor. t Be Chap, C. E. Phillip. . : Charlotte, G. U Curry. - . v C1reland, J. J. Morri. x ' ' Concord, A. D. Shelton. . Creaswell, B. L. Hetheo. ; Davidson, A. B. Haywood. Denton, j. B. Trogden. Faliston, A. L. Hunter. ' Flat Bock, J. B. Button. Forsyth, W. F. Kennett Glbsonvills, 3. H. Abernathy. Graham, J. C. Auman. Greeuaboroi Grace. K. C. Stnbbln West End, N. M. Harrison : ' St. Ptfbl M. Morgan. Greenville, L. 8. Helms. Granville, C. W. Bates. ' Guilford, A. M. Hamilton. Halifax, N. G. Bethe. Haw Biver, C. J. Edwards. Hnderson, J. E. Pritchard. High Point : First church, Geo. B. Brown! Lebanon, Edw. Suits; Welch Memorial, J.'H. Mo ion. ' . UtUeton, I. M. ixy. Jjenoir, W. P. Martin. Lexington, D. A.- Braswell. Mebane, C. U Whitaker. Mecklenburg, Atlas Kidge. Midland, J. h Alexander. Moeksville, C. H. Whitaker. Mt Herman, to be supplied; Mt Pleasant J. A. Burgess. N. Davidson, W. B. Spain. Oak Bidge, H. L. Isefy, ' Orange, H. L. Powell. ' - Pageland, J. W. Quick. ' PinaeM, W. C. Lassiter. KandJrmaR,E. O. Lowdermilk. Raadolph, yf. p. Aahbura. Bicbland, to be suppliod. Boaaoke, D. B. Williams. , V Rockingham, J. W. Jenkins. J Beecrta Stition, J. T. bisk. Beldsville, 'H. F. Foglcman. -Saxnpnhaw, J. M. Bidenhonr. Shelby,' J. A. Ledhetter. Siler -City; J. D. ' Williams. , Spring Church, J. B. O'Briant , Stanley, W. D. BeM. . Uwharrie, Bobert ighort. 4 vance, W. H. Neese. Tnomasviue, a. .. Trailer. West -Forsyth, B, M. Williams. , Whitaker, H. F. Surratt Why. Mot, ..W. Hulin. - ) : Winston. B. A. Hunter. . . Union -Grove, .0. H. Whitaker.. . Yarbprough, T. E. Martin. Left, in the hands of the president D..A.Tishelr Alfred, H. 8. B. Thompson, -"W. L. Carson,. E. A. Bing ham, J. F. Minnis, A, O. Lindley, JK H. Bowman, W. M. Pike, J. D, Hardy, i. W. Bell and B. A. Andrews. . Sapcrnnnaate:,. T. F. MeCulloch, G. (Coatlased on Psge Two) NOTED X-RAY SPECIALIST OF FRANCE PASSES AWAY Paris, 'Nor. 19. Dr.XJhsrlc Infroit, famous nr-ray specialist,' is dead, accord ing to an announcement - ' e One of Dr. ' Infroit bend ' became infected id 186 as a result of his con stant use ef th xray, and an opera tion wa performed. Sin. that time he boa aadergon 4 epcrntions, Tt of which were performed in the hut ten yssrsvi'-s jJ -a r ' ::--: 3 f ; Ths last- wa ea August I. whea "hi isht arm and left 'wrist were amnu- tafed. : His annonnreltent in .1919 in tk .MAMi Af mmH t.in. r9 Pans .fiat he bad extracted1 a 'shrapnel bullet from the heart of a soldier was read with interest , throughout the world, j . .. .. APPQIN BENTS BY CONFERENC :- , North Carolina Congressman s Witnesses Realization of Part of Dream of In- . land Waterway NORFOLK PAYS HONOrV ? TO MAN WHO FATHERED PLAN OF .WATER ROUTE Mayor J. Hamptoa Moore, of Philadelphia, Alsoy Onest rf Virginia City, Pays TrioaU . To North Carolina Bepresea. tative; Exercises Held at Great Bridge, On Site Fa mous In Bevolutionary His. tory; Party Visits Nary Yard, Inspecting: Great Bat. tleship North Carolina, Now Under Construction; Guests of Chamber of Commerce at Dinner " By JOHN A. LIVINGSTONE (Staff Correspondent.) " ' .v .?.jr..vV',?tw?'' ifciiwi inaw KtMwi i-i-!w Afbemarle Sound, a dis- distance of sixty, sir miles, known as the Chesapeake-Albemarle Canal, which was formally opened today with exer cises at' Great Bridge, where wa fought one of the Drat battles of the Revolution. This canal is a part of i the Norfolk Beaufort -inland waterway, which, when completed, will furnish a minimum depth of twelve feet for the entire distance of two hundred miles between the two place. Already shipping drawing not over eight feet of water can traverse the entire distance .to Beaufort through the Croatan and Pamlico sounds and with dredging bow underway, a mini mum depth of twelve" feet will be ee- eqred within n few months, which will be used pending the completion of the inside route via a canal of tweaty-tws miles ia ' length through Hyde eoaaty , and several rivers and creeks connect ing Albemarle aad Pamlico sound- , The .third link of the Inside rents, which a the advaatags of being pro tected" from coastal (tons from Adams Creek by canal to Core Creek aad theaee to Beaufort, waa dredged to a depth of ten feet eeveral years ago - and if now being sunk te a depth af twslrr feet, - ; SmalP Gaest of Bteaoc ' Congressman John H. Small, tb father of thi inlaad waterway, was th guest of Norfolk today and Mayor 1 3. Hamptoa Moore, of Philadelphia, came down to help the Virginia city pay him honor. s "I regard this SS John H. Small Day," said the Philadelphia mayor to- day to the little crowd that gathered about the marble shaft erected ts Us memory of the Virginia heroes sf ths Revolution st Great Bridge, tie told of having found Congressman Small when he entered Congress fifteen years ago and of how they: joined hands to msks , real their dream- or an tainaa waterway from'New England to ths South. - He Was proud indeed to know that it had been possible to mak real a part of that dream. Hampton saeere The Republican mayor talked for aa hoar this afternoon to a Democratic audience -at a dinner tendered by the Chamber of Commerce nnd waaTTs quently applauded aa he drove thorns the necessity t closer eo-operattoa b: tween the North snd ths South.. . Hs lambasted Uhcle Joe Cannon because ih.t s-oiitleman had sat down OB the inland waterway proposition nnd thrust pleased the Democrats might ily. ' .Congressman Small emphasised th importance of utilising the inlaad water way afid urged the building of muaiet pal terminals and Socks ns th uxt important thingw H would" hava Bean- fort,, Washington. N. ; O, New Bern, ... Elisabeth City and last though as did aot tell his Norfolk audience c Nor- 1 folk build munieipally-swnsd docks. - connect them with the rail reed .by a beft Mn and haul freight from fhU- ' adelphiaiaad Baltitaoro b. water to -these coastal eitre and by rail into interior point in North Carolina, i . j Small Outlines Kates. : The North Carolina Conirressman bad ineoruo rated in the Esehama.'-xa bill. turning the railroad over to their awn ers, a provision i to enforce r through rates where the water haul is mads by responsible parties and proper, termi- nai facilities are provided, which he , is anxious ' for North Carolina eitiee ' to take advantage of. With the Inland, waterway completed, he see n reason why good stiould not be carried from " Northern ports via New Bern or Waah-; ingtod to Baleigh, for instance,, en a single rats just ' goods are bow ihipped -over several rail line oa aa 1 rate. However, thi cannot be does ua-k til municipal docks and belt lines are ; built st the North Carolina porta. , Accompanied by city' officials and business men, the party boarded aa army motor boat for Great Bndg. ar teen mile below Norfolk, this mora- - ing, snd after th exercises returned to the Navy Tard where the spent a TJT , short whue. Admiral SJ. H. Burrage, ,- commandant of the Nary Yard, a mem ber of the party, showed them ths mammoth - battleship North Carolina, , now in course of construction, and Cos- gresamaa .Small was- particularly Im pressed with the big hull, which, is six hundred and eighty-six feet la magta" and one 1 hundred - and nis feet 'wide. Forty-tw thousand ton sf steel will be used In its construction and it will be one of the biggest ships afloat Its rest will be forty million dollar aad this furnished a text for Mayor Moor la hi speech. Hi compared this witg T (Contlsned Page Two) V