North Carolina Newspapers

2 VICTOR LAYING PLANS FOR MEET President Wilson's Birthday To Be Utilized In Foun dation Movement A great mass meeting for Wednes day, December 28, the birthday of Pres ident Wilson, is being planned to in augurare the campaign in Mecklenburg county in the interest of the Wilson safe reliable skin treatment 6ooihinq &nd HeAlinq Resinol Soap gently cleanses the clogged pores. Resinol Ointment heals the inflamed spots and blotches Try them, cv. week, find wectcK your skirv. improve Foundation, Chairman Victor announc; ed Wednesday morning. AVhiio the nation-wide campaign does not start tor this movement until Jan' uary !6, Mr. Victor and associates In the enterprise argue that it, would be fitting to have an observance of the birthday of the former President util ized as a time for starting the move ment, locally at least, and that is the plan he is working upon now. It is practically assured that Mrs. Josepn-js Daniels will be one of the princioil speakers on that occasion and Mr. Dan els will use his good of fices in getting a nationally-known speaker for the occasion nere. ThP nlan of Mr. Victor is to have a meeting that is thoroughly represen tative of both the city and the county, nno that will fill the City Auditorium to its beams and to have such addi tional features other tnan aduiesses oy tromint?nt men and women which will be attractive and add to the enjoy ment of the occasidn. . Charlotte is expected to raise a min imum of $5,000 of the allotment of $35,000 of Noith Carolina. In' other citk-s of North Carolina, the movement has taken shape. In Wilmington, James Sprunt is at the head of the or ganization and that city is planning to subscribe liberally to the Founda tion fund, Mr. Wilson having at one time ueen a resident of Wilmington. The fact that Mr. Wilson was also at one time a student in- Mecklenburg county, attending Davidson College, adds a local touch of color to the en terprise and Is serving, Mr. Victor said, to stimulate interest in the move ment here. Mr. Victor indicated that he hoped the city and county would go far beyond what i3 expected as a minimum for the reason, he declared, that n no community in the whole country is the former President hel3 in siK'h uniform esteem and love aa in this particular county. LAZY PAIR FUSS BELIEVE DUPRE, ABOUT A CHAIR, GUNMAN,-IS HERE FUNDS ARE EXHAUSTED. , Washington. Dec. 21. Exhaustion of funds has halted negotiations look ing to the purchase of the Methodist hospital at Memphis, Tenn., by the Government, it was said today at the Treasury Department. Purceirs Women's Garments of Quality Purcell's Days Left To Buy FUR orWHerGristmas New Lot Chokers Stone Marten single skins, $29.50; double skins, $49.50 and $59.50. Kolinsky Chokers, double skins, $35.00 . Fox Scarfs Fine, glossy, well selected pelts that will make the classiest of gifts. Round styles $22.50, $35.00 and up. Flat Fox Scarfs, $29.50 and up. Kayser and Van Raalte Black Silk Hose, the gift de luxe,' $2.25, $2.50 and up. New lot fine Wool Hose, handsomely hand clocked, choice of black, brown, navy and heather mixtures, $3.00. Silk and Wool Hose, very "sporty' and "givey," special at $2.75. Gloves Long and Gauntlet $5 and $5.95 Hand kpnrh ipf r $9.50 Quality Pearl Beads - $5.95 Fancy Colored Beads 50c, $1 $1.50 Regular $1.00 Japanese Hand kerchiefs reduced to 75 cents. Handmade Handkerchiefs, in cludrig most exquisite Madeira designs, $1 and $1.50. SPECIAL Little Girl Gingham Bloomer Frocks with Dolls dressed to match, $3.98. z i naerie ffc Gift "Delia fitful . Hanu-maue Gowns ana Teddies, fine .Madeira designs $2.98 and $3.98 r,rwJfhi,Prlnt Corduroy Bathrobes priced for holiday selling at $5.00 and $5.95 Silk Umbrellas Beauties at $5.00 and up Two Soup Dispensers Open ed Hostilities in Midst Of Their Torpor When "Roy Duncan and Harry Young, African soup slingcrs in a lo cal restaurant, fell into a pitched bat- AMERICA IS LEADING jHUB TEA PARTY OF MODERN DAY IN MAKING OF PAPER Daly of News Staff Certain He Found Man on North Tryon Street A little drama that might have been transformed into an exciting episode and that had J. A. Daly, of the adver tising deartment of The News, and tie Tuesday afternoon the laziest ex- j Frank B. Dupre, famous jewelry store hibition of polemics in years was de scribed by Daney Green, likewise a shady soup slinger, when he took the stand in the police court Wednesday morning. Duncan and Young were fined 510 and costs each for the fra cas. Living in a realm of beef hash and delicacies galore, Duncan and Young had lapsed into a condition of laziness that reached its climax Tuesday after noon. Young was the overseer of the pantry, while Duncan maintained a po sition in the kitchen. They both con fessed that they ate more food than they sold, and readily acknowledged their indolence. In recent days both had become so lazy that they consid ered it utterly lmpossioie 10 remain on their feet. In manoeuvering about anions the potted ham and baked spuds, they reached the point where they were forced to hold on to the shelves as an amateur sailor might do on a rolling vessel. Duncan could have gone to sleep in an electric chair. Disaster only could be the destiny of such torpor, apd it came Tuesday afternoon. But not like a bolt out of a clear sky. It took almost an hour for Duncan and Young to com mand the energy for hostilities. And naturally the bone of contention was the only chair behind the restaurant scenes in which they could rest a weary shank. The chair had been in the pantry, where Youns: had Svorn out several trouser seats on it. Duncan had eyed; the luring throne fori weeks, and Tues day afternoon, in spite of his laziness, he seized it while Young was leaning on the refrigerator. In about 30 min utes, Youns, slowly turned around and gave vent io a hissing sound as he i discovered the loss of his greatest treasure. In 13 minutes he had reached the kitchen. He woke Duncan up and pushed him out of the chair, sitting down himself. Duncan regained his feet by catching hold of the table and turned upon his assailant, tie snook Young, who finally sprang up, half awake. After scrambling for the chair for several minutes Duncan seiz ed a wire poker and tapped Young in the region of his cerebellum. They then clinched and fell to the floor, where they struggled a moment and lay still. At his point Green, who had wit nessed the whole affair from his perch in the window, summoned the police. It was hard to say whether Duncan and Young were asleep or simply es- i hausted when arrested. Anyway, they both ,;avc a sigh of relief when they sat down on the witness stand in court Wednesday morning and appear ed to be entirely contented, taking as long as possible to answer the ques tions 'he solicitor put to them. MANNERS SHOWN BY TRAIN BANDIT Robbed Passengers On An Observation Car in the Heart of Chicago hold-up man as the principal dramatis person ae occurred on North Tryon I street Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock. jur. JJaiy, who is widely Known as a newspaper man and whose eagle eye for news has not dimmed since he for sook newswriting to write advertise ments, was casually reading The At lanta Journal Tuesday afternoon about 4 o'clock. On the front page of the paper was a two-column photograph of Frank B. Dupre., who last Thursday snatched a J2.500 diamond out of a tray in the Nat Kaiser jewelry store on Peachtree street, Atlanta, in broad day light, shot Irby C. Walker, Pinkerton deteciive, dead and badly wounded City Comptroller B. Graham West, of At lanta, afterward getting away. j There is, a $2,000 reward for Dupre's apprehension. Daly was on the ataff of an Atlanta newspaper back in 1914 nd, having a remarkable memory for names, faces and facts, at once saia to himself as he was reading The Jour nal story and looking at the picture. 'Why that's the man they arrested in Atlanta in 1914 for working some kind of a confidence game with a circus." The former reporter made mental note of the facial peculiarities of the want ed jewelry store gunman and noted there was $2,000 offered for his arrest. An hour later when he passed the Andrews music store on North Tryon street, a crowd was standing on the sidewalk listening to music from a phonograph amplifier there. Daly had forgotten all about the bad man in At lanta and the $2,000 reward, but all at once came face to face with the exact face pictured in The Journal. The meeting was so unexpected and the identification of the stranger by Daly so sure in his own mind that he was startled. He not only recalled the man i as the one held for the confidence game charge back in 1914. but saw the face tallies! txar-.tlv with that in Thf Journal The man also started at seeing hej was recognized and touching a pal on the arm walked rapidly up the street toward Ivey's department store. Daly asked a bystander to keep his eye on the pair while he himself rushed across to the police station to see if there was a physical description there of the man wanted in Atlanta and of how he was supposed to be dressed. In the lapse of time, however, th man supposed to be Dupre lost himself in the crowds and nothing more was seen of him by Daly, who, with a com panion, looked for him for an hour or more with the detectives at the police station. Bearing out the positive" identifica tion which Mr. Daly made of the want ed man, an episide occurred Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning at the Garibaldi & Bruns jewelry store on South Tryon street. A man whose description tallied with the man seen in the crowd at Andrew's music store had been in the Garibaldi & ' Bruns store Monday afternoon. He came inside and inquired the price of ruby rings. A companion remained standing in the door and watching the street. Mr. Garibaldi of . the firm him self waited on the customer. He was not impressed by his looks and the un easy way he kept his eye on the door and his companion there, and Yrought out a tray of inferior ruby rings. Te man finally bought one. Tuesday morn ing he was back again, under practi cally th,e same conditions but did not buv anything this time. From the two incidents, it is regarded as certain that Dupre w as the man seen here and that he made a quick retreat from the city Tuesdy afternoon when he saw he was recognized. Washington, Dec. 21. America has become the leading paper manufactur ing country of the world and to maintain that place the industry must have protection against cheap foreign labor and the depreciated foreign cur rency, Henry W. Stokes, of Philadel phia, chairman of the tariff commit tee of the American Paper and Pulp Association, said in a brief filed today with the Senate Finance Committe. The American paper-making industry is now a billion-dollar one, Mr. Stokes declared, with 818 paper and 322 pulp mills. During the business de pression of the past year, there was a considerable falling off the amount of paper manufactured, he said. Some are now back to 75 per cent of normal, but ncny are still below 50 per cent of normal production. ROMA REACHES WASHINGTON. Washington, Dec. 21. The dirigible Roma arrived over Washington shortly before noon today on her first long distance flight from. Langley, Field, Virginia. COLUMBUS BANK ROBBED. Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 21. Five arm ed bandits held up . the Steelton branch of the Citizens Trust and Savings Bank today and escaped with $10,000. Republican Dinner to the Governor Mentioned in Prohibition Raid Boston, Dec. 21. Prohibition enforce ment officers, under the lead of Harold D. Wilson, raided a room in the Quincy House last night, directly above a room where Governor Cox was being enter tained at a dinner of Republican leaders, and seized twenty bottles of cocktails and four bottles of whiskey. State Prohi bition Director Elmer C. Porter was present at the' dinner. According to the officers, several of th dinner guests were in the room where the liquor was found. Ernest J. Goulston, understood to be the host of the dinner; J. J.- McCarthy, one of the proprietors of the hotel, and Harold E. Kern, who lives at the hotal and in whose room the liquor was seiz ed, were suirfbioned to appear in ederal court tomorrow in connection with ihe seizure. At Mr. Wilson':- office, it was -aid that Kern way $d."tn a permit yester day, approved by Director Potter, to move a quantity of liquor from K"x bury to his resiijnco in the Quincy House. The prohibition agents .--aid Kern nan a i nr.ie i unit h t . the liquor there two days l''r l;'l;"n received the permit. Th v U(i'(i 5 when they entered the room, ii!. m atraiuon to me nquor, two h M on which were 200 twelve empty water bottles. bottles UJUl MRS. FINGER SHOWS 3IUCH IMPROVE wno whs . Fi'0i A 1, ;t hc-r Mrs. D. F. Finger, cl. Saturday night by Adam Miller, two negroes . AT A 1 ., t 1 1 . ... . , whose recovery physician:- .'Y, some doubt after first .a';17;." l-Pti recovered sufficiently Ty'i1' .ernoon to be taken from ;iV, ' 1 tal. Mrs. Finger went i ,';,' cf a friend in the city. ft. highly nervous state u: intensely from the bruisr-s body and head which were irg her fight with the ny- physicians reported that i ' s as rapid as could be xp. .,.,' -T..1 Miff, A Thunderbolt Drama'. "WHAT DO MEN AVAST?" See it at Hip B-li O A D W- A Y Thursday Friday Saturday 0t that lasts! n Chicago, Dec. 21. Police today inves tigated a report that a well dressed bandit with exquisite manners, who, I single-handed, held up observation car j passengers on the Baltimore & Ohio i night flyer for Washington in the heart ! of Chicago's southside last night had escaped in aji automobile driven by a woman companion. Children skating on a pond at Sixty-seventh street say the robber made his getaway in a car which had been parked beneath the railroad viaduct. The bandit boaided the observation car at the Sixty-third street station and forced the passengers to stand in line. M. D. Taylor, a Baltimore & Ohio passenger agent, was first in line. He gave up his pocketbook. Three other men contributed, then the robber reached Mr. and Mrs. "Her- These wonderful Player Pianos offer you the op portunity to make it a Gift that will please not only one person, but a number of persons. A Gift of this character will not only bring Happi ness and Cheer to your immediate family, but also to your many friends who visit your home. It's the Gift that Lasts! It will last for years. At very.modest initial outlay, you can have one of these beautiful and smoothly-toned instruments placed in your home as a Christmas Gift to your Family. Won't you step in and talk it over a little further you are under no obligations to buy. The Ampico (Foot Power) in the Franklin $850.0( Charlotte Home of the Victrola The Ampico (Foot Tower) ia the Haynes Bros. $1100.00 DEATHS FUNERALS MRS. NANCY JANE QUICKER. The funeral of Mrs. Nancy Jane Quickol. of Lincoln county, -who died at the Tranquil Park Sanitarium Tues day morning at 9 o'clock, were to be conducted some time Wednesday at Lincolnton. The remains were taken to Lincoln ton Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Quick-zl came here December 8 for treatment. She was 69 years old. The deceased is survived by several sons, one of whom is Dr. T. C, Quick.?l. who was here with his moth er when she died. H. A. Quickel. of this city, is also a son. MRS. CATHERINE ROEDIGER. Funeral services of Mrs. Catherine bert L. Stansbury, of New Mexico, and j Roediger. widow of Carl Roedigcr, who their tnree small children. Idied at the home of her daughter, airs. "Ma3am," he said, "will you please J.- P. Sherrill, 206 West Sixth street, take the children to the other end of j Tuesday evening, will be held atthe the car. I am not interested in any valuables a woman may have, and I do not want to frighten children. If you please." "Not much, but you look as if j'ou could well afford to lose it, else I wouldn't take it," the robber told F. W. Williamson, another Daltrmore & Ohio ticket agent. As he continued down the line of passengers, the conductor appeared at the front end of the car ready to col lect tickets. The bandit regarded him coolly. "It's quite posisble." he told his vic- ! tims, 'that the conductor is armed. If he isn't, he can caLll men who are. . That would mean shooting, and some ' ! of you might get hurt. I don't want mat to nappen, so l win leave you home thursdav morniner at 11 o clock Interment will follow in Elmwood ceme tery. Mrs. Roediger had been ill of heart trouble for several weeks. She was a native of Germany, having been born at Ilessclkossel 76 years ago. She came to this country in 1868, living for two years in Baltimore, Md., where she mar ried Mr. Roediger. She has been living in Charlotte many yearrs. During her long stay in Charlotte. Mrs. Roediger had made a great number of friends and was noted for her devo tion to them. She was a woman of ex cellent traits oX character. Besides Mrs. Sherrill she is survived by three sons and one daughter. They are George Roediger, of Winston-Salem: Herman Roediger, of Greensboro, and Story & Clark Player Piano, $625.00 We Have The Favorite Music Rolls Evenings Until 9 P. M. ANDREWS' Music Store, Inc. The Qldest in the Carolinas 211-213 N. Tryon St. Phone 3626 . Iff ft e.:W tfjga'v'W. ! lb i r Mn i I T inn l ili 1 rrTT n-jrT. ITT Til r IT gun, he Jerked the emergency bell i K" 0(S?' of nw! ,a rope. oacKeo. tnrougn tne ODservation : - - " --- ! platform door and. as the train slowed down, taped over the rail and rtisap peared down the embankment. IMPORTERS SEEKING TO HOLD UP PASSAGE Washington, Dec. 21. Charges that importers, through misleading propa ganda, were attempting to "delay or defeat" tariff legislation and to accom : plibh this end were entering an attack on the American valuation plan, were j made today in the House by Chairman tordney, of the ways and means com mittee, who declared that American valuation was the "logical solution of the present day economic conditiohs." "Opposition to the pending tariit measure is readily traced," asserteS Mr. Fordney, to the man who produces abroad and the man whose chief in terest is in bringing the product o:.' cheap foreign labor to the Americat. marked She is also survived by 11 grandchil dren. Mrs. Fischesser has been at the bedside for the last two weeks. SHOPPING CARNIVAL IS GREATEST KNOWN New York, Dec. 21. Fifth avenue is in the midst of the greatest Christmas shopping carnival it has ever known. Long before noon it is an eddying tide of traffic, pedestrian and vehicular, tht overflows curbs and extends from wall to wall. Traffic police, bus and taxi drivers, department store carriage starters all agree there never was a season like it. Regulated by the avenue's "stop and go" towers, a total of more than 200, 000 people are estimated by the police to cross Forty-second street daily, while transit commision figures, with returns incomplete, indicate a flow of almost twice that nubw. MRS. BEADIE DEESE. Mrs. Beadie Ann Deese died Tuesday afternoon at her home, 700 East 14th street. She was 75 years old. Funeral services will be held in Union county, the birthplace of the de-. ceased, Wednesday afternoon upon ' the " arrival of the body, which left Charlotte , Wednesday morning. Besides her hus- band. Hugh Deese. a carpented, she is survived by several sons, most of whom live in Union county. JAMES W. CANNON. Concord, Dec. 21. Prominent men ! and women from all parts of North ; Carolina and other States attended the funeral here this afternoon of ; James W. Cannon, textile manufac-1 turer, who died here Monday evening. Services were held from the First Presbyterian church, conducted by Dr. J. M. Grier. Interment vras made in Oakwood cemetery. y re Relief FOR INDIGESTION sSM2F2S 6 Bell-ans JUtod Hot water Relief 12) 25 1 and 75$ Packages EvwvwHr 1922 Christmas Savings Club Now Open JOIN TODAY and you will have MONEY NEXT CHRISTMAS (gpr.OO CLASSRequires a deposit of $5.00 each DO week for the next 50 weeks. OnDecember 5, 1922, you will receive a check for $250.00, plus interest. CO.OO CLASS Requires a deposit of $2.00 each wee D for the next 50 weeks. On December 5, you will receive a check for $100.00, plus interest. IJ- .00 CLASS Requires a deposit of $1.00 each veeK Vl for the next 50 weeks. On December 5, you will receive a check for $50.00, plus interest. 0 CLASS Requires a deposit of 50 cents each 0Js week for the next 50 weeks. On December o, 1922, you will receive a check for $25.00, plus interest. OCn CLASS Requires a deposit of 25 cents each LdO. week for the next 50 weeks. On December v 1922, you will receive a checfc for $12.50, plus interest- The Commercial Nationa Corner Tryon and Fourth Sts. Capital, Surplus, etc., ' Over $1,100,000 00 Bank