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THE CHATHAM RECORD H A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance lEFllfS NOTES FOR THE BUSY IN MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Parts of World. Southern. With one -mam levee gone, water lapping the crest of the embankments at half a dozen points and several 1 reaks believed to be only the ques tion of hours, Maj. Clark S. Smith, I nited States engineer directing the tight against the water's encroach ment, described the Mississippi river Hood situation as grave. The Reelfoot levee, west of Hickman, K, was. the tirst of the main embankments to go. r,olden Lake, 50 miles north of Mem phis, and the levee on the Arkansas side, eight miles below Memphis, are regarded as in imminent danger. Pit iful cases of destitution have been re lieved in various parts of the stricken section. Thousands of townspeople have sought higher ground, and hun dreds of head of live stock have per iled. Commissioners of agriculture of seven of the principal cotton states, making report to E. J. Watson, presi dent of the Southern Cotton Congress, placed the estimate of reduction of acreage at from 15 to 25 per cent. This reduction is brought about by the working of the Rock Hill plan and the wet season. Former Gov. Charles B. Aycock of North Carolina dropped dead at the lefferson theater in Birmingham, Ala., while addressing the Alabama Edu cational Association on '"Universal Education, Its Necessity and Benefit." He leaves a widow and eight children all minors except the oldest, Miss Alice. According to "Sug" Smith, who lives over Mount Airy way. toward the Carolina line, Sidna Allen and Wesley Edward, the two Virginia courthouse assassins, came to "his cabin and begged for food. Allen came to his door, he said, and Ed wards stood guard. Allen declared neither had taken food that day. They got none from Smith. The pos ses are posting copies of Governor Mann's proclamation, calling upon all citizens to withhold aid from the fu gitive outlaws. Beneath a towering embankment of floral tributes of love and affection. Senator Robert Love Taylor of Ten nessee now rests in Old Gray ceme tery in Knoville. Miss J. Atkins of Atlanta, Ga., has gone to Boston. Mass., to learn to pilot an aeroplane. She is the second woman who has applied for aviation lessons under the Atwood aviation school at Saugus, Mass. She has nev er been in an aeroplane. With a flood of non-partisan ballots, Milwaukee voters swept from office the city's Socialist administration, in stalled a non-partisan mayor, board of aldermen and county board of su pervisors and probably eliminated ev ery national political party from par ticipation in future municipal elec tions in the state of Wisconsin, be cause, as a result of the non-partisan victory in Milwaukee, the state leg is. ature, soon to be convened, is ex pected to pass a distinctly non-partisan city election statute. General. Samuel Drebin, a soldier of fortune, fthose home is in Philadelphia, and who has fought in many revolutions is in command of the rapid-fire bat tery in the rebel artillery at Jiminez, Mexico, and has established himself on Prieta Hill, according to last re ports sent out. Gov. Eugene X. Foss of Massachu setts has withdrawn his name from the presidential preference primary ballot. He says he has learned that representatives of one or more of the avowed candidates for president were preparing to withdraw their, names out of courtesy tc- him. To obviate this he generously withdraws. Calbraith P. Rodgers, the first man to cross the American continent in an aeroplane, who for a week past had been making daily flights at Long Beach, Cal., and had taken up with him many passengers, both men and women, was killed almost instantly when his biplane, in which he had been soaring over the ocean, fell from a height of 200 feet and buried Ir.m in the wreck. Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, commander of the department of the east, is reported to have been stricken with an affliction of throat similar to that which caused the death of his lather, Gen. U.- S. Grant. 80,000 men in the Pennsylvania coke region have just received an in crease in wages of 7 1-2 per cent. Gorham Tufts'Jr., head of a Hindu psychical cult and husband of the former widow of A. R. Rose, was ar leigned in the superior court at Los Angeles on a charge of embezzling approximately $100,000 of his wife's estate. Daniel McReynolds offered any one in a street crowd at St. Louis, Mo., a $20 bill for $15 and $10 bill for $7. No one would buy, but his money proved to be good. The police held him for mental examination. A Massachusetts woman who died recently left her entire estate of $100, 000 to her pet horse. VOL. XXXIV. ..'aaoui joj pB9j uib pus 'papunod uaaq pub papunod oaj ":mSu stqj iuojj Hi jaqjo a'ub jo 'da 3OBiq b jo 'prcs aq ,'ao ajos b a.vBq I Bqj Wli l.uoa., saBDip aouapsuoo siq sb op o pus smq aq Bq.w idoad siq ii o aaaj ajotu siaaj aq 'uazpp ajBAud b sy "aiSuB aiqtssod AiaAa raojj pajBoap aq 'amq aqi Sbm. o 2nio2 si ajj iaAa uqj aapjBq pooj aand joj q2g o Suto3 sj aq 5m piss 'auizBSBK 2atd?aiiasnoqpooo jo aojipa ' aiBpoasB amooaq A"nioqs IBM. oqA pus 'AVijsittiaqD jo nBaanq sajBig paiuo. qj jo jaiqa sb pau3ts -91 Ainaoaj 'AaTiA. 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WAS IN VERY POOR HEALTH He Was a Strong Candidate For Nom ination For United States Senator From State of North Carolina to Succeed Senator F. M. Simmons. Raleigh. A special from Birming ham, Ala., states that former Governor Charles B. Aycock of North Carolina iropped dead at the Jefferson theatei while addressing the Alabama Educa tional Association. Mr. Aycock was 3peaking on "Universal Education, Its Necessity and Benefit." He was about ane-fourth through his address when tie suddenly staggered back a step and tell to the boor so suddenly that those an the stage were unable to reach him in time to support him. Water was hastily, thrown on his face and he was taken to the wings af the theater, but expired at once. Death was pronounced to be the result Df heart failure. He had been in poor health for some months and only a week age returned to Raleigh from Philadelphia, where he spent a month in a sanitar ium fortifying himself for the stren uous canvass of the state which he was to begin Friday, April 12, with opening speech in Raleigh, to be fol lowed by one in Charlotte, for the nomination by state primary for Unit ed States Senator, to succeed F, M. Simmons. Governor Aycock followed Govern or O'Neal of Alabama, who had just delivered an address to the association an "Some Educational Problems." Governor O'Neal and other men prom inent in educational circles in the South were seated on the stage during Governor Aycock's address. Wineskie Case Has Been Settled. The case against Frank Wineskie.. indicted for the embezzlement of $30, 300 from the Standard Mirror Co., of High Point, was nol prossed with leav at Greensboro, Solicitor Gattis an Qouncing his inability to get witnesses Tor the state and institutors of the charge here from Pittsburg. None of the private counsel representing the prosecutors were in court and when the witnesses failed to show up Judge Cook entered fines against them From outside sources it was learned that Wineskie made a settlemeni agreeable to the officers of the Mirror company. Is Attracting Attention. That the selection of Salisbury af the place for the location of the Lu theran Female College is attracting at tention in other states is evidenced in one instance in which Mayor F. M. Thompson received a letter from H. F. Bryant of the Lexington, Ky., Lead er, in which he asked for information In regard to the commission which made the decision and asked for theii names and addresses to get informa tion in regard to the matter and alsc photographs of the members of the commission for use in Eastern and Northern papers and magazines. Before County Commissioners. Col. Benehan Cameron, North Caro tiiia representative of the Quebec-Mi ami International Highway Associa tion, appeared before the board of county commissioners at their regu lar meeting in Durham, and asked that the county put into good condition the parts of this highway that are tc come through this county. On the Raleigh road there is about four miles of unmacadamized road, and on the road out of Oxford there is 3 1-2 mileg of road that will be fixed. At the re cent meeting of the association in Richmond, General Carr and Colonel Cameron got the association to adopt the road by this city, and promised them that the county would furnish a macadam road all the way through. Adopt Preferential Primary. The Catawba county executive com mittee of the Democratic party met at Newton and took a forward step, as Catawba is always doing. This was to adopt the Wisconsin preferential primary for county officers. As is well known this plan provides for nam ing a first and second choice at one time and does away with the neces sity for holding a second primary. It was also decided to recommend the abolishment of the fee system for county officers, and put them all on a salary basis. Education Board Located School. The county board of education lo cated the West Durham school build ing on the new acre lot that has been bought and the erection of the school will begin as soon as the weathe op ens up, The building is to be completed by the beginning of the next term of school. The school board is building this school out of the money borrow ed from the state building fund, and a building fund that is saved over from the surplus of the county school fund each year. The erection of the building will not be by contract. FORMER GOVERNOR AYCOCK IS DEI CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, APHIL-10. 1912. TARGET PRACTICE PRIZES The Carolina Regiments Are to Meet For This Purpose at Gastonia, Goldsboro and Raleigh. Raleigh. There is every assurance that the regimental target contests this spring by the North Carolina Na tional Guard will have especially at tractive special prizes at each of th three contests over and above th grand prize of the DuPont loving cui for . the company making the highesi record and the Royster gold medal foi the highest individual record. Frorr Gastonia, where the first regiment if to contest April 22 to 24, Captain Bui winkle writes that the business mer cf that town have raised $50 for ape cial prizes and three handsome lov ing cups have been off ered , by jewel ers there for the best individua" scores in the regiment. For the shool by the third regiment in Raleigh Maj 3 to 12 the business men of Raleigh are raising a fund that will amount tc at least $50. One well-known jewelei has offered a handsome loving cui and other trophies are sure to be list ed. Goldsboro is also raising a sper cial fund and trophies are being of fered there for the shoot that will b held on the Goldsboro range April 15 to 17. General Leinster also feele confident that there will be arrangec an interstate shoot by the guardsmen of North and South Carolina and Vir ginia and possibly Tennessee to take the place of the annual shoot at Camp Perry with the regulars that is called off by the War Department this yeai on account of the heavy demands of the regular army for duty on the Mex ican frontier, in the Philippines and elsewhere. Accepts Sinclair's Challenge. Some days ago N. A. Sinclair of Fay etteville, candidate for Congress from date a letter was sent to the chairman Congressman H. L. Godwin, challeng ing him to a joint canvass for the purpose of giviug the people of the different counties of the district an opportunity to know just what each candidate stands for, and on the same date a letter was sen to the chairman of the Democratic executive commit tee of the district, asking that a pr mary for the district not be called until the latter part of the summer. Congressman Godwin, who is a candi date to succeed himself, replied to Mr. Sinclair, accepting the challenge but wants the primary called for May 18. Campaign On Orchard 'Spraying. Mr. C. E. Clark, county commision er of agriculture, besides placing Mecklenburg county in the lead of all Southern counties in exterminating tne pine beetle and in every way ad vancing the interests of the agricul tural population of the county, has been conducting an active campaign for orchard spraying. As in the cam paign against the pine beetle Mr. Clarks' plan has been to visit as many farmers as possible and interest them in spraying their orchards. Up to date he has superintended the spraying of orchards in ten different neighbor hoods and between 200 and 300 trees in the best orchards of the county are now being sprayed according to a sys tematic plan. Seaboard Air Line Railway Loses. The Seaboard Air Line Railroad Co. was ordered by the corporation com mission to handle forthwith carload shipments of fertilizer that have been tendered the Seaboard by the Atlantic Coast Line at Sanford after being hauled by the Coast Line from Wil mington. The Seaboard had refused to handle the freight unless full local rates is paid for remaining short hauls to destination instead of a 25 per cent discount required in joint haul freight. The Seaboard's refusal is because the shipments have been made over its line entirely. Want More and Better Bridges. The citizens of Guilford county are making demands upon the county au thorities for more and better bridges and will, in effect, witness the inau guration of a steel and Iron bridge pol icy in the county when the commis sioners meet and open bids for several structures. The severe winter follow ed by the recent floods wrought havoc to bridges and roads and the county will have to expend thousands of dol lars this spring and summer for new structures and in repair work. Appropriated Money for Prizes. The county commissioners in ses sion appropriated $170 for prizes in the Davidson county men's corn con test for 1912. This is $10 to each township. The Davidson County Agri cultural Association will supplement this with a $5 prize in each township, making first and second prizes of $10 and $5 respectively for each township and will also solicit from the mer chants a number of special prizes. This is the third men's contest in the county and great good has been done by them. Settle Is Declared Not Guilty. A verdict of not guilty was returned in the case of David R. Settle, a well known and prominent young white man, who was put on trial for the mur der of Robert Allen, a negro farm hand on the Settle place, nine miles from Greensboro. The shooting oc curred last Septemberr Settle immedi ately afterwards calling up the coun ty sheriff and notifying him that he had killed a man. When the sheriff arrived Settle was in a very nervous condition and was broiyrLt to Greensboro. INLAND THE PRESIDENT IS BELIEVED TO BE FAVORABLE TO TH5 MEASURE. BILL WILL PASS THE SENATE The Propsed Route Has Been Outlined Eastern North Carolina Will Be Immediately Benefited by This Ad Appropriation Has Been Made. Washington. About ten days ago the national House of Representatives passed a bill appropriating a total of $5,400,000" for the improvement of wa terways' in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. The project i3 to develop what is known as the Norfolk-Beau fort waterway, between these twe places, covering a distance of aboul 200 miles. The route of the proposed waterway is to be as follows: start ing from Norfolk, going up the south era branch of the Elizabeth river thence by the route of the old Albe marie-Chesapeake canal into Albe marie sound, thence across the sount to Alligator river, up the river to th head of navigation, thence across Hyde county by - canal to Rose bay thence across Pamlico sound to tin mouth of Neuse river, thence uj Neuse river to the mouth of Adams creek, and through the recently com pleted canal to Beaufort inlet. A depth of 12 feet is to be maintained through out the 200 mile3 of the waterwa from Beaufort to Norfolk. This wii: make it possible for vessels drawing 10 feet of water to enter this water way from the Atlantic ocean, at eithei end, traverse the 200 miles of its length, and pass again into the At lantic from the other end. In addi tion to the project outlined above the bill carried an appropriation of 100,' 000 for the deepening of the channe! ia Pamlico and Tar rivers. From Washington to the sound the depth is to be 10 feet and the channel is tc be 200 feet wide; from Washington to Greenville it is to be 6 feet deep and 200 feet wide, from Greenville tc Tarboro the present minimum of ? feet in depth is to be maintained. Killed by Train at Concord. Concord. Joel Gaddy, a young white man, was killed here by the northbound freight train No. 76. It Is said that Gaddy made ' an effort tc catch the train as it passed the mail crane a short distance from the pas senger station, missed his hold and fell against the wheels of the car. The body was mangled almost beyond rec ognition. The dead man was about 30 years of age. He came here a short time ago and secured work in the Franklin cotton mill. Guilford County For Roosevelt. Greensboro. Reports from Republi can primaries held throughout Guil ford county indicate an almost solid sweep for Roosevelt, it being practi cally certain that 110 of the 124 dele gates to the county convention will come instructed for Roosevelt. In only one township did Taft get a ma jority, that being Friendship. In High Point, Roosevelt made a clean sweep, while the result in Greensboro was al most as unanimous for Roosevelt. Fixed Dates For Two Electrocutions. Raleigh. Governor Kitchin fixed dates for "two electrocutions of mur derers whose appeals to Supreme Court had displaced dates named by trial judges. The governor's order fixes May 17 for electrocution of Brad Bagley. he neero who hot from an bu3h Chief of Police White of W liamston on the' nignt of August 15. He named May 24 for he electrocution of G. G. Wilkins, a negro wife mur derer of Nash county who last fall shot his wife. State Bank Examiner Resigns. -Raleigh. Mr. C. V. Brown , state bank examiner, tendered his resigna tion to the corporation commission and the same has been accepted to take effect May 1. His successor will be named by the commission before that time. John Ross Gets Another Reprieve. Raleigh. John Ross, for whose elec trocution Governor Kitchin had fixed April 12 through a reprieve granted some weeks ago, gets a second re prieve to August 14. - He is the negro convicted of the atrocious murder of John Dixon and wife in Cleveland county last fall. This and the former reprieve both came through special request from the solicitor and sheriff in the hope that there may be devel opments that will identify the accom plices Ross must have had in commit ting the crime. Morganton Is A Very Dry Town. Morganton. The board of town commissioners at a meeting refused to grant licenses for the sale of whis key at drug stores and for the first time since the prohibition election Morganton is strictly dry. .With a law and order league of two hundred of the leading citizens and whiskey pro hibited at drug stores a large number of chaingang sentences at the recent term of court, for violations of the prohibtion law Morganton will get its first taste of real prohibtion. NO. 35. FftOAl THE TAR HEEL STATE Latest General News That Has Been Collected From Many Towns and Counties of the State. Waynesville. Robertson Rogers, a policeman at Clyde, has been brought here under arrest. It is alleged that he killed Lee Wells In the McCracken and-Wells shooting affair. Elkin. A meeting was held in Elkin, Surry county, for the purpose of dis cussing improved methods in the care of the farms and forests of the region and to organize, if possible, a conser vation club. Raleigh. The revenue receipts for this district for the month of March are announced as $356,746.33, a slight falling from February and still less than January. Nevertheless, the clos ing quarter will show a big collection. Raleigh. Charters were issued for the Dixie Construction Company, Bur lington, capital $50,000, by W. N. Thompson and others, for general con structing business, especially roada and bridges, and the Patterson Lum ber Company, Lexington, capital $17, 600, by C. V. Patterson and others for general lumber business. Raleigh. Crazed by liquor, L. D. Ed wards, a prominent farmer of Wake county, shot and dangerously wounded his wife at their home in House Creek township. Edwards was committed to jail here to await the result of his wife's injuries. It appears that his wife did not tamely submit to her husband's attack. He bears evidence on his hands and fingers of the martial conflict that waged at his home. Raleigh. A verdict of not guilty was rendered by the Wake superior court jury in the trial of Oscar O'Neal, well known young farmer of Wake Forest township, for killing . Patrick Earl Hall last Christmas day. The killing was at O'Neal's home in a quar rel precipitated by Hall through in sisting that O'Neal threw an ear of corn and hit him at a corn shucking last fall. The Verdict means that the jury holds the killing justifiable. Salisbury. The Democratic execu tive committee of the eighth congres sional district met here with Chairman Hayden Clement presiding to decide upon a date and place for holding the next congressional convention. Sal isbury was chosen and Wednesday, June 5, named as the date, at noon. This is the day before the state con vention and gives the delegates the opportunity to go oa. to Raleigh from here. Fayetteville. From decelopments transpiring it has been learned that the young man whose headless body was found beside the Atlantic Coast Line track near Hayne was Gradj O'Berry of Fairmont, Robeson county, and that he met his death by falling from the train on which he was trav eling to Wilmington. The young man's body, was brought through here en route to his home at Fairmont by his uncle. Elizabeth City. The indications are that the fishing season in this section is going to be one of the largest and most successful that has been known for a long while. It is true that the dispute that arose between the state fish commissioner and several fisher men of Oregon inlet affected the sit uatio nto a slight degree, but the ma jority of the fishermen had their nets set within the lines indicated by the state law and big catches are the rule. Statesville. George Mason, a young white man who has been conducting a barber shop here for some time, has been placed in jail in default of $100 bond to await trial in superior court. He is charged with stealing a pocket book containing $11, the property of Wade Deitz. He attempted to leave soon after the disappearance of the money but was arrested at Barber Junction and brought back to States ville. Monroe. Lester Williams of Chica go is here for the purpose of organiz ing a co-operative creamery and is meeting with good success among the farmers of Union county Already the stock has been practically subscribed to the enterprise. It is almost certain that before many days the creamery will be on the way to erection, which means much for this entire section of North Carolina. It is a known fact that there are more than three million pounds of creamery ' butter sent into the state every year and the product made at home will find a ready sale. Wilson. Mr. C. C. Benton, of the firm of Benton & Moore, architects, is back from Fayetteville, where fie ap peared before the board of commis sioners of Cumberland county with preliminary designs for a handsome county home, which is to be built about two miles from (Fayetteville. Charlotte. Four boys of Mecklen burg county have been awarded prizes in the last years county corn-growing contest. The winners are Frank Alex ander, son of Mr. W. R. Alexander, of Sharon, first prize; Luthern Moser, second prize; E. vWilson Gibson, third prize; Wade Campbell, fourth prize. Charbourn. The strawberry crop is very promising. The farmers now think the season will not be more than a week or ten days late and the beetle has been put out of commission by the snows of the winter. Wilson. At the regular meeting of the county commissioners the follow ing were appointed list-takers for the various townships: Black Creek, Bar nes Daniel; Cross Roads, Parse Lamm; Spring Hill, W. R. Watson; Old Fields, R. T. Barnes; Taylors, John Thompson; Tolsnot, V. C. Lang ley; Gardners, Cofield Barnes; Sara toga, W. J. Speight. THE CHATHAM RHCOUD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion XLOO One Square, two ktsertioo . $U2) One Square, one month S2JZ) For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will bo made. Tffl THROUGH LEADERS ANXIOUS TO ADJOURN BEFORE THE NATIONAL CON VENTIONS. MANY BILLS ARE PENDING The House Has Finished Its Tariff Re vision Program and All of the Meas ures Will Get Quick Action National Conventions in June. Washington. Senators and Repres entatives are becoming impatient over the Senate's delay on the tariff, appro priation and other important legisla tion, but the leaders, figuring that the way can be cleared quickly on emer gency, express confidence that Con gress cab. adjourn before the national conventions in June. Republican Leader Penrose has agreed with the Democrats and pro gressive Republican leaders that the House steel bill shall be called up week after next, be made the unfinished bus iness and that prompt action shall be taken on all pending bills in order to facilitate adjournment. The finance committee's adverse report on the steel bill already is before the Senate and the minority report, standing for the Democratic House measure, will be framed at a meeting of Democratic leaders in a day or two. The House has finished its tariff revision program unless it should decide to pass a cotton bill based on expectations of favorable action in the Senate on the various tariff bills already sent over from the House. The progressive Republican iron and steel revision bill, which Senator Cum mins is drafting, will make what he calls "quite a reduction" from the present tariff, but not enough to com mand the first vote of the Democratic Senators, who later, however, may join the progressive Republicans on the Cummins proposition. While the House h passed nine appropriation bills with six yet to come in from Committees, the Senate has acted on but one. Charged Exploitation of Indian. Washington. Systematic exploita tion of the Indian by politicians virtu ally was charged on the floor of the House by Representative Ferris of Ok lahoma, Democrat, in defending a pro vision in the Indian appropriation bill limiting drafts on the treasury of the Five Civilized Tribes to the neces sity expenditures for schools. The proviso was attacked by Representa tive Miller of Minnesota, Republican, who declared that it would prevent the Indians from employing attorneys to attend to their tribal affairs and ren der impossible the remuneration of tribal officials. Three Very Destructive Fires. London. Three destructive fires in historic country mansions occurred in one nijht. The first was in Lake House, in Wiltshire, a fine Elizabeth an edifice full of priceless Jacobian furniture. Lake House was occupied by Percy Kolden Illingworth, member of Parliament ,who with his wife and children was only saved from death from the flames by the barking of a dog. As it was the family escaped clad only in night clothes. The other fires were in Rossdu House on Loch Lomond, belonging to Sir Ian Colqu hon, and Gibbstown Castle, near Na van, County Meath, Ireland. Rebels Are in New York. New York. Three representatives of General Orozco, the Mexican rebel leader, have arrived in New York with the object, they state, of starting a campaign to correct the false impres sions which they claim have been cir culated in regard to the rebel cause.' They are Manuel L. Lujan, a leading lawyer of the state of Chihuahua, who is designated as "Minister Plenipoten tiary," Maj. Rafael Mampa, military attache, and Juan Prjeto Quemper, sec retary. They say they will make their headquarters in New York until they can "disprove the statements of the Madero government. . Disputes Are to Be Settled. Washington. A Pan-American com mission for the delimitation of national boundaries on the western hemisphere as k recommended by the American Peace Congress, and a cpmmission and convention by which the integrity of the boundaries so delimitated may be maintained, are suggested in a reso lution introduced by Representative Bartholdt. "I believe the 'settlement v of baundary disputes would do much tof promote the peace of the world," said Mr. Bartholdt. "Most of the differences are over title to territory." Election of Federal Judges. Washington. A constitutional amendment providing for the election of Federal judges was proposed in the House by Representative Neeley of Kansas. The resolution, which would require the approval of two-thirds of the members of the House and Senate and ratification by three-fourths of the state Legislatures would amend 'Sec tion 3 of Article 3. This section of the constitution authorizes the Presi dent to appoint Federal judges for life. The bill would not change the existing constitutional method.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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