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Tine Stanly News-Heralc The Albemarle News Established in 1880. ' The Stanly County Herald Established in 1919 Fortieth Year. Albemarle. N. C. Friday, January 7, 1921 $2.00 Per Year in Advance AS CHOSEN TWO TARIFF BILLS CREATE HE WILL ADOPT SEVEN: DR. DUNLAP THOMPSON . i BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF COMPOSITIONS TAKING OF M08VEN. IS A SUICIDEi STATE WIDE INTEREST PRIZES AT OAKBORO FAIR Democratic Caucus Not Femi nistic and Dave Dellinger Gets the Plum. WALTER GREENE ELECTED W. T. Bost, in Greensboro Daily News. Raleigh, Jan. 4. Harry Grier, of Iredell, unopposed for speaker, and Senator W. L. Long, ofi Halifax, by acclamation for president pro tempore of the senate, were chosen by the house and senate caucuses tonight which set moving the machinery of legislation for the opening tomorrow. The senate put through its clerk ships in a few minutes, but the house ran an hour and a half. The contests in the bigger body centered about David P. Dellinger, of Gaston, for reading clerk, and Miss Nancy Wel- bom, of Wilkes, his opponent. The first feminine dash wasn't spectacular for Dellinger took 75 and she 10. Wal ter Murphy, of Rowan, presiding at the house caucus, nominated Miss Welborn in a beautiful tribute to her and her forebears. The lady from Wilkes had chosen her ancestors with great care, but Dellinger had been at work with his colleagues for weeks. Bowie, of Ashe, and Doughton, of Al legheny, implacables even as Mur phy on the suffrage issue, voted with Murphy for Miss Welborn. Ellis Gardner, of Yancey, and Otis Shell, of Harnett, ran a furious race for engrossing clerk, Shell winning on the second ballot by 48 to 36. Then Clem Wright, of Guilford, trotted out Walter Greene, of Guil ford, for sergeant-at-arms. Great ser vice for the Southern armies and tear ing the clock from the wall when it would stop at legislative behest to al low belated legislation' a chance, were arrayed as capital accomplishments of Colonel Greene. Everett, of Richmond, seconded and declared that it took Colonel Greene seven months to surrender following Lee's lead, Marse Bob quitting ahead of Greene more than half a year. "Come out and let 'em see you," shout ed Mr. Everett. Colonel Greene came. Somebody nominated James F. Burk head, of Randolph. Out walked Mr. Burkhead, just a plain mister, dressed in grey dangerously like the Confed erate uniform. "Got our man beat on looks," Everett declared. There were other nominees but the' Guilford man walked off with nearly all the votes. Then Crisp, of Dare, nominated Ma jor E. Woodhouse, of Currituck, aa an inhabitant of a county which hasn't allowed a Republican convention in 40 years; a citizen hailing from an un rewarded section which furnishes su perabundance of watermelons, sweet potatoes, ducks, Democrats and hell. Colonel Peter McWilliams, acrobat of the old Barnura and Bailey show, was asked out after Major Woodhouse of flowing, patriarchal beard came out and stood for the populace. Major Woodhouse had other opposition but ran off with an overwhelming vote. The hell-raiser from Currituck is nominated," declared Chairman Mur phy. The old fellow, seventy-seven, saw his election before it was declared and started the applause. Alex Lassiter was made principal clerk without opposition. After the minor places were settled and the speeches nominating Grier had been made by Dawson, of Lenoir, and Ever ett, of Rockingham, representatives Doughton, Everett and Matthews es corted Grier to the floor. He thanked the caucus without making and pro nouncement of policy. In the senate Frank D. Hackett, of North Wilkesboro, was elected prin- cipal clerk, Joe Mackay, of Raleigh, engrossing clerk and C. C. Broughton, Troy, reading clerk. Dave Gastor, Cumberland, was nominated ser-r.nt-at-arms. republicans caucusing openly, pep S.y tonight, passed resolutions de eding a reseating in the general t.-'cmbly by placing their members in t block thus making conference on im pcitant party votes possible. The caucus made H. Sinclair Wil- rEis, of Cabarrus, minority leader for the fourth time, Representative Hendricks, of Madison, retiring in the Cabarrus man's favor. Senatar Bumgarner, of Wilkes, was c'ested minority manager in the senate. The senate followed the bouse lead 3 to rearrangement of seats and to- Txmyw resolutions will be presented i open house and senate asking that Two Separate Measures Before Senate and House Com mittees Todav. Immigration Authorities Con sent to Temporary Admis sion of Little Ones. WILL CONDUCT HEARINGS MET THEM IN SEBASTOPOL Washington, Jan. 5. The way was cleared tonight for the unusual situa tion tomorrow of two congressional committees, one from each body, hold ing hearings on two kinds of tariff, emergency and permanent. The sen ate finance committee will take up the Fordney emergency tariff bill, design ed as a relief measure for farmers. The house ways and means commit tee will start hearings on revision of the permanent tariff. Chairman Fordney of the ways and means committee announced today he proposed to begin tomorrow with schedule A (chemicals, paints and oils) of the Underwood tariff act and hold hearings continuously until the whole list was worked over. He also announced his intention to have a tar iff bill ready for introduction in the extra session which President-elect Harding is expected to call within a month after his inauguration. The senate finance committee will take testimony on the Fordney emerg ency measure for five days, starting tomorrow. Chairman Penrose said his I committee would exclude other mat ters until the bill was ready to report. Representatives of wool interests will be first heard on the emergency tariff. They will speak for both pro ducing and manufacturing phases of the industry. More than a score other organizations and persons are seeking to testify, including farmers' organ izations, livestock growers, foreign trade associations, importers and tex tile manufacturers. The committee has decided also to call members of the United States tariff commission. TELEPHONE LINE TO CUBA TO BE BUILT Washington, Jan. 5. Having ob tained from the labor department an order for temporary admission to the United Staes of the seven little chil dren he has tentatively adopted, Rear Admiral Newton A. McCully, former American high commissioner at Se bastopol, left tonight for New York to get the children, now at Ellis Isl and, and bring them to his Washing- i ton home. The admiral said he would deposit immediately the $5,000 bond required in the case of each of the children as assurance that they will not become public charges and will re ceive a proper education. Admiral McCulley plans to keep the children at his home here until their right to remain in the United States has been fully established by hearings before labor department officials. Aft erward he will take them to his boy hood home in Anderson, S. C, to in troduce them to his mother who will assume temporary charge of the chil dren while the officers is refurnishing and remodelling his Washington home for their permanent residence. Asked if it was his intention form ally to adopt the children, Admiral McCulley said that such was his in tention if there were no legal bar. "These children are but isolated cases among hundreds and thousands of similar ones," said Admiral McCul ley. "I did not carefully select these seven, but when I came away I de cided that I should do something and I took the first I came to, although in several cases I had met the children previously and had become attached to them. There were three others I wanted to bring but oae has tubercu lar and I knew would not be admitted to thi3 country. Washington, Jan. 4. Direct tele phone communication between the United States and Cuba is to be pro vided by the Cuban-American Tele graph Company, a permit for land ing of three telephone cables from Havana to Key West, Fla., having been granted the company today by the state department. Laving of the cables is expected to be completed in the spring representatives of the company here today said. They wlil be approximately 100 miles long or longer than any submarine tele phone cables yet laid. Of the thre talking circuits to be provided, one will be connected directly with New York, it was said, so that the ring of the long distance operator in Havana will sound in the New York central office. REPORTS CHRISTMAS JOYS. My dear Santa Claus: I liked my baby doll and piano and my ball that sticked out his tongue and I got a baby doll for Christmas and me and sister made it some clothes and it's sleepy-eyed and muvver found a little long dress that just fitted it. Muwer is going to let me save my big pretty doll that you gave me and I am going to play with Ruby. Emily gave a little red chair and I can sit down in it and play my piano. From Marion Mann, Albemarle. Another Thankful One. Dear Santa Claus: I want to thank you for the nice presents you gave me Christmas. We all had a very good time and now we are getting ready for work. Eleanor Mann. LEAGUE COUNCIL MAY SEE HARDING. Paris, Jan. 5. Individual mem bers of the council of the League of Nations have been talking informal ly among themselves the advisability of sending a special intermediary to Mr. Harding immediately aftef his inauguration as president of the United States to present the case of the League of Nations and to urge upon him the difficulties which Eu ropean countries would experience in abandoning the present league and setting up a new form of association of nations. The principal grounds for this contention are that the league cov enant is a part of the peace treaty, which gives the league administra tion ever the Saare valley, the Dan. zig region, and a number of man dates and plebuscites. The view is hold among members of the French ministry that the solidity of the trea ty itself would be shaken if the lea gue part of it were abandoned. Confidence is expressed here that if direct discussion eliminated from the covenant all that is objectionable to the United States, the president elect would not insist upon the aban donment of the organization .already at work which is held to be bound up with so many important European interests. Becomes Despondent Over Fail ure to Secure Drugs For His Own Use. ENDS LIFE AT CHARLOTTE Charlotte, Jan. 5. ;Dr. Dunlap Thompson, 42, physician of Morven, committed suicide in his room at the Selwyn hotel Wednesday morning about 8:30 o'clock by shooting himself in the right temple with a 32 calibre pistol. Despondency over his inability to procure certain drugs to the use of which he was addicted, is avepted as the reason for him taking his life. Dr. Thompson's body was lying with feet under the edge of the bureau, his head in a pool of blood and the pistol near his right hand, and was discov ered by a negro maid. The entrants to the room found a neatly written note lying on the' bureau and address ed to Dr. A. C. Neves, federal nar cotic agent of. North Carolina, with offices in the federal building here. The note read: "Dr. Neves, please, for my chil dren's sake, do not publish my pre dicament. Just say I was despondent from diabetes, which is true. This is best for all concerned. God enly knows the effort I have made. You know only the amount of success I had. I believe you have a heart. Think of my family and in giving out news, think of them all you can. A. G. Thompson, of Charlotte, is my brother. J. E. Thompson, of Wilming ton, is my other brother. Death is preferable to dishonor. My feelings toward every man on earth is good. I went believing that I should have had some consideration, but I am only one among a million. I want Charles to have my shotgun, Joe my pistol and Frank my watch. D. Thompson." Dr. Neves, to whom the note was addressed, said Dr. Thompson came to him Tuesday afternoon, and in the presence of several narcotic inspectors who were here sought permission to use his own forms as a physician to obtain narcotics for his own use. They told him that he would have to obtain his narcotics from Dr. Ross, his physi cian living near Wadesboro, and that he would be violating the law if he obtained the drugs in any other than the regular way. Dr. Thompson reg istered' at the Selwyn Tuesday after noon. He had not .notified A'f G. Thompson, his brother living here, of his prescence in the city. The funeral likely will be held at the old home near Lumber-ton Thursday. Dr. Thompson married Miss Frances Graeber, of Anson county, who, with three sons, survives him. SENATE SPENDS TWO HOURS DEBATING COST OF INAUGURATION Digest of Happenings of Week First and Second Prize-Winners Gleaned From the Files of j From Eighth Grade in Our Exchanges. Oakboro School. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE ARE VERY WELL WRITTEN New Bern, Jan. 5. Twenty-one j In our lagt issue we pubiished tha men out of the four-score or more ! compositions of students of the sev enth grade, Oakboro graded school, employed in the foundry and ma chine shops of the New Bern iron works and supply company, havct returned to work, following t'liair walkout last week, because of reduc tion in wagei, and the plant has re sumed operations. Concord Jan. 5. There are no new developments in the Allman shooting case. No arrest have ieen made since Tuesday, when Luther Sides and Tom Lefler were arrested near Mt. Pleasant, and no questions have been asked to these two men or to Frank Blackwelder, who was arrested early Tuesday, since they were first arrested. Raleigh, Jan. 5. W. C. Nanny, son-in-law of the late Martin Har ris Gilkey, of Rutherford County, has received a signed registered letter containing $135 from a man in Ten nessee, in payment for a horse sto len from Mr. Harris 53 years ago. The repentant horse thief said he sold the animal for $135 in 1867, and since he had become a changed man wanted to return the money. Macon, Ga.-, Jan. 5. President Fairfax Harrison, of the Southern railway, in person today presented bronze medals to 63 employes who have performed more than 25 years' service with the Southern J. M. Holloway, engineer of the "Shoo Fly,' who has had more than 40 years of continuous service, was one of the men honored. The presentation took place in a convention hall of a local hotel. Durham, Jan. 5. Ministers of this city tonight conducted special prayers for improvement in indus trial conditions in Durham and all throughout the United States. The prayers were requested by employes of some of the manufacturing plants in this city, now operating on short time basis. Baptist ministers, at a meeting this morning, decided unani mously to offer up prayers in "jehalf of industrial conditions. which placed on exhibition at the Oakboro community fair, took first and second prizes. We publish below the two taking first and second prizes in the eighth grade. The one taking first prize is as fol lows: A VACATION. (By Raymond Hatley.) This summer I went to Houston, Texas, for my vacation. Houston is a city about 50 or 60 miles north of Gal veston, Texas. Buffalo bayou, which was dug out for a ship channel, runs through the city. The turning basin is a widened place in the bayou where the warehouses and wharves are to be found. The Sunday I was there five ships were in port, Lake Strabo, Lake Girth, Lake Elmdale, St. Johns, N. F., and the Italian steamer Adriatico. Lake Girth was unloading general merchandise from Philadelphia. Lake Elmdale was having her engines re paired, but I think she was also load ed with lumber for Italy. St. Johns was a schooner with fie masts and was loaded with a cargo of bones from a South American port. The Italian ship Adriatico was there to get a load of lumber for Italy. I was on two ships and looked around on some others. St. Johns, N. F., had a pet pig for a mascot and Lake Strabo had a collie dog. On Monday I started home. I stop ped in Atlanta and spent the night. There I saw many fine buildings and took a ride in a street car. Then I was ready to come home. I arrived at Norwood and spent the night with my cousin. I had a great many things to tell him. I told him about seeing the ocean and the cities I visited while away. The next morn ing I came home. I enjoyed my trip very much and am hoping to spend another one as pleasant as this in the near future. The following took second prize: COTTON PICKING TIME. (By Hoyle Efird.) Cotton picking in Stanly county generally begins about Sept. 1, and continues until January 1 of the fol- the minority be allowed to sit to gether. Representative Bryant, of Yadkin, presided over the house caucus and MacGuire, of Surry, was secretary. Bumgarner, of Wilkes, was chair man of the senate caucus and Mac Guire, of Surry, .presided at the joint caucus. The committee which will draft the protest against seat arrangements is composed of Representatives Williams, Cowles, of Wilkes, Grant, af Davie, Hendricks and Owen, of Sampson. MYSTERY COVERS BANKER'S DEATH. Laurens, S. C, Jan. 5. Dr. Hugh K. Aiken, president of the Larens National Bank, and prominent citi zen, died at 7 o'clock tonight from a mysteriously inflicted blow on ths head just behind the ear. He went to his home shortly after four o' clock. When his elder son. Hujjh Aiken, arrived shortly before six o' clock he was told by the aged color ed cook that there was something wrong in the bathroom that she could hear loud breathing in there. Young Aiken hurried into the room, and found his father on the floor pros-' trated and in a dying condition. He was fully dressed, and there was no evidence of a struggle. One theory is that he was killed by a burglar whom he found in the house, when he came home, as no other members of the family were at home at the Kme. The whole affair is shrouded vi'h mvstery. Washington, Jan. Knox's resolution calling for $50,000 to cover expenses incident to President-elect Harding's inauguration en countered stern opposition in two hours of debate today in the senate. After airing such subjects as inaug ural weather, the high cost of living, the care of feeble minded persons in Washington and conditions in Europe the resolution was put over until to morrow. Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, in opposing the resolution, advocated spending only $10 on the inaugura tion. Senator Kardir.g, Mr. Borah de. clared. was opposed to "ostentatious display," and would avoid it if he could have his way. The Idaho for.ator p.-e I'.cted that Congress would be asked to spend s?veral hundred thcusar.d r.iore, and that, with the expenses cf :he states and civic organizations"., the total inauguration cast would run up to $1,000,000,000. This would be a national embar rassment and would have to be "an swered for," Senator Borah declared, adding that with million men out of employment, every economy should be exercised. A senator who has just returned to the senate after a long absence he said has predicted that four million men will be unem ployed by February 1. Senator Knox insisted that the Waynesboro, Pa., Jan. 5 Employers lowing year and some times longer, of the Landis Tool Company, with The weather is generally too hot or shops here and in Greencastle, Pa., i too cold. In fact, there is not any voted today to accept a 20 per cent I weather at all suitable for picking reduction in wages and to work 36; cotton. hours a week. The company sub- Some boys say they love to pick mitted the proposal yesterday. The . cotton, but George W ashington never 4. Senator 'new scale is effective next Monday. said so when he was a boy and he , never told a lie. Athens, Jan. 5. King Constantine j When a boy wants to play bfeseball delivered his message to Parliament j real bad the cotton field is always today, reading it in a halting man-; white and the sun is hot or the wind is ner. The ceremony was unusual in too cold. Any kind of weather will its solemnity. Beside him stood the , do for playing ball, but it takes hrst- Queen, and in a box above were the' class weather to be suitable for pick- pnncesses, in mourning. The meeting of the assembly was made a gala occasion. It was the first time that the king and his fam ily had appeared publicly since their ing cotton. Hurrah! for the gentleman who in vented the cotton picking machine. He is a natural born genius and his name should go ringing down the cor- 1 J.L it TT arrival. Both the king, who wore anaara OI m zn u,ose 01 nenrr mumluiir uniform, and th mim ! Ford. General Pershing, Theodore looked ill and worn. Roosevelt and Jethro Almond. Cotton picking and opossum hunt- Tift ru t, sr t Qmiti, ing come alomT bout tne same time died here last night' from' wounds ! but the ,0ef ch tr0ub,le received in a duel Sunday in which and ny backaches, white one only considers it a pleasure 10 wanuer over the hills opossum hunting. his father-in-law, M. 3. Underwood, was killed. The tragedy occurred as a result of a fued first begun when the two families lived in Oklahoma. Greensboro, Jan. 5. Lumber work ing establishments m this city today annonced a cut of from 10 to 20 per cent in wages, effective tomorrow, CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP It was learned early today that the Albemarle Motor Company, lo cated on East M;.i;: S:r.et had been sold to Messrs. T. P. Smith and G. C. McManus. Mr. I.ijManus will Thp HAx ; i wmfnmofi ,iffc 3e " cnarge oi me couem as man- a cut of 20 per cent announced bvaffer- s is one of the bestuiP the builders' association of the city I ppd and most popular garages in the made a few days ago, and is also i necessary because of the decrease in the prices of lumber, according the lumber dealers. to Triest, Jan. 4. Gabriele D'Annuzio will be the last man of his expedition ary force to leave Fiume, it was learn ed today. Evacuation of the legion- proposed expenditure was customary aries will commence tomorrow and and "decent and appropriate." 'will last several days. known makes of automobiles. We predict for the new owners a large measure of prosperity in their venture. An informal dance was held in the Acme building Tuesday night, Mr. "Baby" Teeter being host. A large number were present, and all ea joy ed the occasion. , V Xi
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