ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878 Congress Galvanized B\ Approach of Day Os Stern Accounting Today DISASTER RELATIVELY MILD POPULATION GROWING GIGANTIC “HOOK-UP’’ INDIFFERENCE TO CRIME By ARTHUR BRISBANE The bursting of a dam, part of Los Angeles water supply in San Francisco Canyon, cost hundreds of lives. Reasons are given for the dam giving away, but no adequate excuse. “Water, seeping into the earth at each end of the dam, weak ened the hold of the great concrete wall.” It should be someone’s busi ness to learn why the dam was built that way—and what danger there is at other dams. Why fragments of! IToken concrete crumbled in the! fingers. i Compared with familiar disaster, by flood, California’s accident is i fortunately mild. There was the i big flood that drowned all but Noah and his family. The rainbow guaran- ; tees against a repetition of that kind i of calamity, but small floods have j wrought havoc. Five hundred years ago in Hoi- j land 100,000 were drowned and at Kaifong, China, nearly three hund red years ago 300,000 lost their lives; 200,000 were drowned at Bengal, in Indi£, fifty years ago. j Many times in history eruptions of the sea, river floods and similar dis-; asters have taken 100,000 lives and more at a time. This country can ! congratulate itself upon the fact that | the Mississippi flood of last year, de- ( stroying hundred of millions in prop-1 erty, cost only two hundred lives, j That was due to admirable - work be- ( ing done by the army and navy, and ! to prompt scientific direction of Her- j bert Hoover, chosen by President ! Coolidge in the emergency. The Census Bureau says United j States population on July Ist next; will be 120,000,000. At the end j of this century, if births, deaths, im migration and health run alon©- as at present, the population will be 260,000,000. If the larger per cent of that number know how to think it will be quite a nation. In the last eight years population has increased 14,302,832. The an nual arrvial of babies exceed by one million the number of deaths. That is good news for the editor publish ing an up-to-date paper. Bill Cur ley, formerly of Chicago, now of New York, used to say, “Every birth is a new reader for my paper, every death of an old man means a reader forever lost to the opposition.” And it was true. A gigantic “hook-up” of radio sta tions will enable 8,000,000 American people to hear all that goes on in the Democratic and Republican conven tions. From the first announcement of Alabama’s choice, to final howling when the winner is announced, every thing will be heard. However, sad to relate, many of the 8,000,000 that might listen to the convention will not listen. They will tune in for jazzy music, sad heart-rending songs or daily dozens to keep thin. In this nation, where only half vote that might vote, there is little deep in terest in politics. Speaking of slush funds, bribes, etc., you should read the book writ ten by Judge Kavanaugh, of Chi-' cago, after thirty-three years on the bench. Three hundred and fifty thousand individuals make their liv ing, partly or entirely, by crime in our happy country, he says. Last year they contributed 12,000 mur ders to the nation’s news items. Public indifference is to blame, says the Judge. Each country gets as much crime as its indifference deserves. Judge Kavanaugh favors use of the whip because: “No crime leader retains the respect of his gang after he has win ced under the lash. Th P moron and racketeer fear that cat o’ nine tails more than prison. Our 350,000 crim inals steal yearly enough to build the Panama Canal.” They steal more than that. And public gambling at racetracks, an other form of crime, legalized by grafting politicians, takes from the public each year enough to build the Panama Canal three times. have some millions of farm ers that would like to run this coun try, partly, but they don’t know how to go about it. No real organ ization for one thing. Next fall they will get wonderful promises and then think it over four more years. TLo Chatham Record O Mississippi Flood Bill Passes Senate in Short Order— House Committee Approves Farm and Flood Measures. $325*300,00 FiOOD RELIEF Millions Out of Employment Makes Talk—Big Tax Col lections But Little Cut Is Probable. (By William P. Helm, Jr., Washing ton Correspondent of The Record.) WASHINGTON, April 3.—Con gress saw a ghost last week. Gaunt and grisly, axe in hanu, it trod with softened footfall the marble floors of House and Senate. It floated eth ereally into the holy committee room and leaned on the annointed of the people. It snuggled close to Repub lican leaders and mocked in wraithful pantomine their foes, the Demo crats. It stalked the corridors, a living fear of a day soon to come when congress must go back to those j whence it cam eand give a stern ac j counting of its stewardship. In other words, the politicians on 1 Capitol Hill cocked their eyes to ward the calendar and said, “Great | grief, here it is nearly four months I since we got to Washington and we haven’t given the country even a smidgeon of what it pants for. Pri maries are just around the corner j and election day around the block. | Get busy.” ! The ghost of election day promptly | prodded the legislative loiterers to , action. The idlers stopped idling, i the workers got busy, the boys down ! in the engine room got the signal | and the old ship of Stat P began to 1 j pick up speed. ; i Having loafed for a big slice of four months, the Senate suddenly j shucked its coat and vest and in ( something like an hour passed a 1 j flood control bill authorizing the : government to shackle the Mississ- i I ippi and its kin at a cost estimated ; | to be not less than $325,000,000. It I was one of the most surprising things 1 i ever done by that prize surprise, the i i Senate. The gallant Senators charg | ed up to the Capitol in their lim- 1 ousines at noon and along about 4 ] ' o’clock they charged out again with j ' the bill passed and flood control shot 1 ! through on greased skids. i Hardly a mother’s son of the < princely tribe had dreamed at noon : that such a thing- would come to i pass. In away, it was like being hit on the head by a falling- brick. Nobody was looking for it and it was ' over in a twilkling. And now flood i over in a twilkling. And now flood < Read committee, busy as a flea- ] bound pup with its own program, has 1 reported out a bill somewhat siini ' lar but authorizing $473,000,000 for i the job. ] Here is what the Senate bill pro- I vides for, in the main : ( The building of floodways and spillways and raising th P height of 1 the levees to keep the Mississippi in ’ bounds between Cairo, and the Gulf, 1 surveys looking to control of tribu- i taries; a re-survey of the Tennessee i with a view to levee construction; 1 the creation of a commission to car- : ry on the work, and federal control 1 of the program in its entirety as 1 well as federal assumption of the entire cost. i While $325,000,000 i s authorized, < the cost probably will be much great- 1 er. The Senate is minded to spend 1 whatever is necessary, no matter how i much. ! Over on the House side, the ghost 1 walked along the corridor leading to j the farm relief deliberations. It j will b p recalled that the House com- : mittee has been considering farm re- 1 lief for many months. It suddenly ' swung into action last week by re- 1 porting to the House a bill which < seemed to tickl P pleasantly almost < ' everybody on Capitol Hill. The bill, described by Chairman < Haugen as “the best farm bill ever : reported to congress,” has plucked ; out every single eye-sore to which ] Mr. Coolidge objected, save equal ization fe P machinery. It would au- i thorize a 8250,000,000 appropria- < tion for loans to co-operatives (the i Senate bill provides $400,000,000) would include all agricultural com- ; modities and would give the Presi- i dent a fre P hand in selecting the proposed board, except for confirm ation by the Senate. There is little doubt that the bill will pass both Houses, although the dollar difference is to be adjusted, and trot up smilingly to the White House. Washington is now engaged in guessing whether it will be given a kiss or a kick when it gets there. These two great problems, flood control and farm relief, have been dragging alonp- ever since congress met. They would still be dragging along, hopelessly mired, if somebody hadn’t looked at the calendar and there seen the shadow of the ap proaching primaries. Both programs have been loaded with political dy namite and bunk. It has taken the nearing- approach of elections to get action. There were other doings and cutting-ups on Capitol Hill as well. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY. THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1928 Shipman Announces Former Commissioner of Labor and Printing Wll be a Can didate Again. M. L. Shipman, who for 16 years was commissioner of labor and printing, but; was ousted from the position two years ago, has again announced his candidacy. He asks for a comparison of the administration of th p office under himself and Mr. Grsit, and suggests that the comparison is in his favor, as it rather unquestionably is. He quotes the figues of the for mer first primary and accounts for his defeat in the second primary by the absence of many friends of his who did not vot P because they thot Grist could not overcome his lead of more than 11,000 in the first pri mary. He seems to have G. A. Moore as campaign manager, who states that Mr. Shipman will use the newspapers to bring his cnadidacy to the at tention of th e people rather than re sort to barn doors, telephone posts, etc. As the race will probably be three cornered, it will be interesting- to watch the outcome. This and the rac P for the position of lieutenant governor will probably be the real contests of the state primary. Oth er state officiels have not yet met with any opposition. Mack Opposes Pou Raleigh Man Throws Hat In to Ring Against Veteran Congressman. The Record is in receipt of an an nouncement of Paul W. Mack for nomination for congress in this dis trict against E. W. Pou. Mr. Mack has been connected with the cotton association for sev eral years, but has resigned to give his full time the next two months to his campaign. He comes out as the friend of the farmers and as a business man, as opposed to the usual lawyer for the congressional post. The News and Observer states that he is secretary of the Raleigh local Ku Klux Klan. If Mr. Mack is known in this coun ty, it is on a rather small scale, we presume, and whatever his merits he will have uphill work to win against the veteran Pou, who is linked with this county by a Pittsboro wife. Mr. Pou had already announced that he would support the Farm Re lief bill, which he opposed last con gress, but now r favors because of the impossibility of bringing the far mer upon a level with the other in dustries ithrough removal of the favoring tariffs and other govern mental favors. Years ago the popular puzzle was “How old is Ann?” Now it is “How many people are out of a job?” Mr. Coolidge’s highly efficient Labor De partment dripped honeyed words last week in explaining- that really there wasn’t anything at all to this hard times talk becaus P only 1,847,000 people were out of work, and any how there were always about 1,000,- 000 that way, even in boom times. The Democrats jumped on that with both feet and bawled it out. They have got some good figurers, too, and they figured that the un employed were about 4,000,000. And there you are; take your choice. It would seem that the best way to settle the question would be to count the poor devils, but so far nobody has thought about that. Mr. Coolidge screwed up his face a little tighter last week when Un cle Andy Mellon told him about those tax returns. It seems that the returns are coming- in big, but that the boys up on Capitol Hill are spending the family substance a bit too fast. The result, Mr. Mellon announced, more in sorrow than in anger, “was that taxes could not safely b P cut as much as he had thought they could four months ago. Two hundred millions seems to be the limit. At this the Democrats emitted loud guffaws. They point ed out that Uncle Andy has always uncorked several hundred millions of excess surplus at the end of each fiscal year and they began to ex amine his figures to see where the money is concealed this year. This tax business is regarded by som P observers as a lot of humbug gery. They have put it down in their little notebooks that there isn’t going to be any tax cut this year and they probably are right. Too many other things need attention. Farm relief, flood control, the army, the navy, public bui^dil^^ge , , better pensions and other similar gadgets require financial polishing: off. The Federal Reserve Board, whist ling as it passed the cemetery, said nervously that business was getting much better, oh, dear, and of course, everybody engaged in business quit worrying at once. Meantime, the House heard what a fine fellow Mr. Frank Lowden is and the Senate laughed at a caricature of Herbert Hoover, drawn by Mr. Neely of W. Virginia. Lindy continued to fly over Wash ington. He has sent almost the en tire membership of congress up in the air on 110 flights and, accord ing to latest rumors, is planning a good-will flight around the world. Cap-setting mammas of Washington went after him again, but failed once to get him in their nets. The Cape Fear Gives Up Body ot Woman | German Flyer j Xy!; vlv -IvX; “ jfcjxx&x • : igSSx ••• ;X;XXv *x:v.;X;X;: v.: X vXvX\_. > vxfeiw •••.'; -s&fit £ ••••••••• m&m&m ! Friedrich Loose, one of the Ger man flyers who set out on a trip across the Atlantic on their Junkers airplane, the Bremen. The start of the trip was veiled in deep secrecy since the German government has frowned on transatlantic flights in view of the many fatalities so far. j Fine U.D.C. Meeting The Winnie Davis chapter of the I United Daughters of Confederacy | met at the home of Mrs. Arthur Hill j London on March 15, 1928, with j Mesdames London, W. B. Chapin and ! E. B. Hatch hostesses. There were j 26 members present. Mrs. J. M. Gregory, our new pres- • ident, opened the meeting with the j Lord’s prayer repeated in concert. This meeting was, indeed, a sad ! one, as our beloved president, Mrs. | Walter D. Siler, had passed away i since the previous meeting. Mrs. j Henry A. London, president emer itus and mother of the Winnie Da vis Chapter, read a beautiful tribute to . the life of Mrs.. Siler. Motion was made and carried that we spread a copy of this memoriam on the min utes, send a copy to the family and ; one to the Chatham Record for pub- ! lication. In the absence of the treasurer, i Mrs. C. C. Hamlet was asked to col- i lect dues. The state tax has been ; paid. The sum of $124.10 has been ; paid out for various causes since the last meeting. Mrs. W. B. Chapin, chairman of relief committee, reported flowers sent to Mrs. W. M. Eubanks who has been ill in the hospital, also design for Mrs. Siler’s grave. Notes of ap predation wer p read from Mrs. Eu banks, Mr. Siler and Mr. D. L. Als ton. Repo rt on sick veterans. Mr. Clay Clegg continues about the same. The chapter received note of thanks from Mr. A. D. Burnett’s family expressing- thanks for oran ges. O ur president read a note from Mrs. Manning, State president, U. D. C., sympathizing with the chapter in the loss of our beloved president Mrs. Mannnig stated she would no tify us later in regard to the exact date of the district meeting which is to be held in Durham in April. This chapter is entitled to four dele gates at this meeting. We hope to hav P at least twenty present. A very interesting letter was read by Mrs. James H. Cordon, former member, at Selma, Ala. This com mittee is asking for a donation of $5 from every chapter so that a mem orial can be built marking the site of the arsenal where so much of our ammunition was made during the war. A letter was read from Miss Mar tha Haywood, suggesting that we give pictures for the chapel at the Soldiers’ Home. Motion was made and carried thta we put pictures of Generals Lee and Jackson and Pres ident Davis in the Chapel—size of these pictures to be decided on af ter we have seen the Chapel. Invitation was extended to the chapter by Mrs. Arthur London from Mr. D. L. Alston, to meet with them at their lovely country home in Hickory Mt., once each year. The hostess presented our new president. The hosteses served delicious ice cream and cake. JUNIOR-SENIOR PARTY One of the most charming affairs of th P commencement season was a i banquet given Saturday night, March j 31st, by the Junior class in honor j of the senio rclass. The guests were ; received at the door by Mrs. Jonnie 1 Bell. The ninth grade room was j turned into a reception room, and ; was charmingly decorated with the j class colors. A salad course was j served and the program was thor oughly enjoyed. Miss Clairene Mims president of j the Junior class gave a toast to the Seniors which was responded to in behalf of the seniors by Miss Cleo Cotton. The program was closed by a piano solo by Mrs. Bell. 0 Victim of Midnight Assassin Identified as Mrs. Annie Terry, of Durham—Body Is Discovered Monday Morn ing. The mystery of the midnight cry and plunge into the waters of the Cape Fear at A vent’s bridge was partially solved when the body of Mrs. Annie Terry was discovered three miles below the bridge early Monday morning, after nearly nine days within the red waters. The discovery of a woman’s hat with blood upon it a few miles from the scene of th p tragedy was the I first real clue to the actuality of the crime, and led to the identification of Mrs. Terry as the owner of the hat. It was positively identified by her children in Durham after read ing a description of it in the daily press. The daughter of Mrs. Terry was confident that her mother, who had been missing since the very eve ning of th p tragedy, was the Victim of foul play. It is stated that it was Mrs. Terry’s habit to spend the week end away from home occa sionally, and she had started with her son to meet the bus when she excused him and went alone. He had a date which he wanted to keep. The most intelligible clue to the | perpetrator of the crime led to the | suspicion of a man supposed to live ! in South Carolina. On the strength j of this information Sheriff Blair and * Deputy Desei'n scurried away to lo i cate this man if they could. They | returned Sunday night without any : developments, at least any that they i would make public. It was upon the j heels of their return that the word | came that the body had been found I Monday morning. Hundreds and thousands had visi | ted the scene of the murder during the week since the news of the crag ! edy had been broadcast over the | state, and an immense crowd from ! all quarters was there Sunday. But all the while there were men on the . look out, as there was offered SIOO | reward for the discovery of the body. ; Lennie Buchanan was the discov erer of the gruesome evidence of the midnight murder. The body had floated down the stream for nearly three miles to within a short distance of the Buckhorn dam. Just above the dam a cable is stretched ! across th P stream just at the water ; level to stop drifts from reaching the j dam. Early Monday morning, Mr. i Buchanan saw an arm sticking above i the water and caught by this cable, i The body had, as predicted, risen I within the nine days, and was dis covered afloat with an arm hooked ed over the cable. It was nearer the Chatham side than the Lee side of the river and the body was brought out upon the Chatham side. Accordingly, the Chatham coroner, Mr. George . Brooks, went down and held an in quest. The following gentlemen composed the jury: R. M. Connell, A. T. Ward, J. D. Mclver, J. R. Poe, E. E. Williams, N. J. Wilson. After a view of the body and its identifi cation by the daughter, the inquest adjourned to Pittsboro, where it was completed that afternoon. The ses sion at Pittsboro was held behind closed doors, with the desire, pre sumably, to prevent the circulation of any revelation as to th P identity of the murderer before his capture, providing that identity should be ni dicated, but they got no evidence as to the perpetrator and rendered a verdict of death at the hands of an unknown person. The body was described by one who saw it as swollen and the face badly bruised. However, there seem ed to be no broken bones, and the fact that the woman could cry so loud when straggling with her mur derer and could be heard calling for help after beine- tjhrown into the stream from a height of possibly 15 feet, indicates that, despite the pres ence of blood o nthe bridge and upon the hat, sh ewas not very seriously injured by whatever blows were struck before the plunge into the red waters of the Cape Fear. The body was taken in charge by a Durham undertaker and carried to Durham. The burial was at Char lotte. Th P body was not allowed to public at Durham. Yet to be revealed are the per petrator of the crime and his motive. But Chatham county officers are working upon the clues, and if the arrest of the fiend is possible will in good time bring him to taw. stM BCnofteicp shrdluetaoicmfwypn As the middle of the river is the line between Lee and Chatham and as there is a question as to which county the crime was committed in, the Chatham county commissioners, accompanied by W. P. Horton, coun i ty attorney, went down to the Lee ! court house Monday afternoon to j consult with the Le P county com ; missioners upon the matter oi juris- I diction and the question of the cost | of the case from its incipiency to the final conviction of the perpetra j tor, if that ever happens. It was ; felt that it is a matter for the co operation of the two counties. And | yet the crime belongs rather to the I state than to either county. Nei ther the murderer nor the victim be longs to Chatham or Lee, it is very evident. The crime took place within just a short distance of the shooting of VOLUME SO, NUMBER 29. REPUBLICANS HOLD CHATHAM MEETING Delegates to State And Dis trict Conventions Low den Endorsed The Republicans of the county held their convention for the elec tion of the delegates to the state conventions Saturday, March 31. AU the townships except Gulf and Oak land were represented. There was a right good little bunch of repre sentatives out. The convention was called to or der by S. W. Willett, of Bear Creek township, chairman of the executive committee. Mr. L. L. Wrenn presid ed over the convention and Mr. D. W. Smith, of Hickory Mountain, ser ved as secretary. The first business transacted was th P selection of delegates to the state convention, which meets in Raleigh, April 11. The following were chos en as delegates and alternates: Albrights, John F. Duncan, Fred D. Jerry Baldwni, W. F. Norwood, R. S. Smith; Bear Creek, S. W. Will ett, C. P. Phillips; Cape Fear, I. H. Hearne, T. H. Windam; Center, C. M. Matthews, A. M. Riddle; Hadley, W. S. Thomas, G. M. Clarke; Haw River, C. D. Wilkie, W. B. Moore; Hickory Mountain, Jas. M. Perry, N. J. Dark; New Hope, W. D. Beckwith, F. M. Holleman; Matthews, J. J. Jen kins, 1. D. Stout; Williams, J. W. Carson, A. J. Riggsbee. The foregoing were nominated from the townships represented and the following were chosen by the convention to make up the full allow ance of 14 delegates and alternates: Delegates, L. L. Wrenn, W. D. Smith, C. C. Routh; alternates, W. P. Mor gan. J. L. Glosson, I. W. Farrell. Congressional Delegates The following were named as del egates to the Congressional conven tion: J. F. Duncan, Ray Riggsbee, S. W. Willett, L. N. Womble, C. R. Hearne, W. F. Jones, C. D. Wilkie, Ernest Brewr, L. L. renn, Robert Seymour, Joseph Morgan, L. P. Dix on, J. T. Johnson, J. C. Gregson, Al ternates, F. D. Terry, J. H. Norwood, B. P. Phillips, R. C. Ross, D. W. Wil der, J. T. Self, W. B. Moore, M. B. McMath, I. D. Stout, J. P. Harwood, J. G. Bennett, W. F. Crutchfield, G. F. Siler. The same gentlemen will also rep resent the county at the senatorial convention, which is to be held April 10 at Raleigh, the day before the state convention. Resolutions The following were a committee on resolutions and offered several recommending- greater economy in expenditures, etc: L. P. Dixon, M. H. Woody, L. N. Womble, J. R. Matthews, N. J. Dark. The following were appointed an executive committee: S. W. Willett, chairman; D. L. Smith, J. R. Matth ews, Walter Morgan, J. J. Jenkins. Possibly the most significant trans action of all was the instruction of the delegates to support Lowden. However, there was quite a bunch of Hoover men present, but they made no objection to tihe instruction for the “friend of the farmer.” DID MURDERER VISIT SCENE OF HIS CRIME? Mr. Younger Farroll, who lives near the scene of the Cape Fear murder, is confident that the man who threw Mrs. Terry into the riv er was among the crowd milling around the bridge the day follow ing the crime and also passed across the bridg P on Monday and Tuesdiy following. Someone who crossed the bridge just before the murder reports see ing a Chandler car with yellow wheels on the bridge. A man in a car of that description was there the next day and was asking what the stir was about. When Mr. Farrell told him, the fellow said that it was probably someone drowning puppies and that his wife was with him and cried out when the puppies happen ed to get crushed against the bridge, and that the sack of puppies might be found in the stream but nobody. Mr. Farrell remarked that the car was just like the one driven by the stranger and that his tires would fit exactly the tracks left by the murderer’s car. Thereupon the man stepped upon the gas and highballed it. The fellow also had a South Caro lina license, which is said to be the kind of license borne by the car of the man suspected of taking Mrs. Terry from Durham. BYNUM SCHOOL The contract for the building- of the Bynum school building was let last week to Mr. Stout of Sanford. Thp county borrowed $34,000 from the state for the purpose of building this school. the Lee county sheriff at a distillery a year and a half ago, the trial of which case cost Lee thousands of dollars. Lee had another murder committed only a day or two after the bridge crime, when a naged lad'- near Broadway was ravished and killed by some fiend. Thus the two counties with the automobile gang of outsiders to b** tried at Pittsboro, the bridge case of outsiders to be worked up and determined by this or the two coun ties in cooperation, and the trial for the murder of th P aged woman in Lee, will have much court, big crowds, and big expenses.