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j p, SHKF-RILL. Editor and Publisher VOl-L-ME XLVIII. m h oiyen III«REGARD TO t m TODAY \ ( vn Sensations Sprung if ji(! Nothing Else is Npc *ted \ ntii Committee [ e ets On Monday. [itNFY HEARD. ; BY C OMMITTEE K e s U lt< of Conference ; 0 t Disclosed—Still De land That Daugherty Re i‘n From the Cabinet. ‘ ]'(•!;_ ill.- <KTieial and mi >••l in anticqTatc i , nil iiwj u*ry and iis f 0.1111(1 no 11I*W. -• . i for today. but 1 W i >■ House, and On 1 , , t . , {.■ i in force Ai toruey j !, t ~| ..i j v ii.oil ilie. cabinet is 11 . l_‘n \ lie Wliil llcy. ! ; lla.ri F. Sinclair. . , , : til.i >. t lie coinniii ,, i.ulicalion th.Hl ii , , ' *||C : i ii resume* the court proceedings sos '"me days is imlicat j . !' ■ am! (Kven J. Hob- ; . H r.;:i*" : counslf who j • i*a nil I!jli'ssi !o with . r ..'iry work found ~ ; a (Icneral I>a«Kb-1 . , .• *. ■ i**i I at the on pi- i «.f ! In- conference • ~'vo'" ■ lie I ’ii's’iiieijt ami Sen- j j I'cjiper Isad- not been j or at'lla* While • v ; . n\\ ev.er. were made , .... conference, that the -. n; the President . .u: .i'. c, be called up ore Charges Against Daugherty. iiigoiii. F''b. 'il illy the _..Asso i A ‘•|.o;i that Attorney i haiijrlicriv ini' bought and sold dr nil stock is under investigation i Senate oil eonnuitt's*. Snell a. i \oi' 'iilunirtol by :i sjieeial in f;i*. r ami c.i- ihml before the e un .•v ecu rive sessiofk A «(. of brokers'. hooks to establish hr this i> true m.\v in progress, cun miw he ilis.-iosed that this in hit's formed the subject matter of Suuda\ ~ conference between Ghair -1.-iiriMii and Si nami'* Wheeler ami ?. of Mm)iana. ami At I<m* Pome- I sp.-i-1a! government c iiiii'cl in oil nr.’or \Vm*i •■)•. democrat of Mon authnr of The revolution prnpos j;r: "ii of M: Daugherty's ad !tta•*.»!. slid today that he under i.ifd: inti m iude ating that the At ' ( i> end Ii d deal' in Sinclair - i.ad been hi.; before the Presi !*lli.iiil m cjtiiie to me through "ii.d a.rev;igatcr." -aid Senator I ' l t*l <"• a ' hat Mr. I >augber ile.-)it in Sinclair oil stinks, and 'Tfs'Xnd that those facts were laid e the 1 h'evideiit i - 'itgrowth of these discussions, seiiiiiiii's In Id a eonferen(-e aid s"nator Lodge and Sent-, v\"i" d b-gated to inform the i ibe opinion of tlie re -11 i‘ •. gai.i/at ion. Mr. I tatigli- I I'tire from the cabinet, _ Ah ' ,w 'lidge replied is not rc h l’"' : :. Mr. Lodge and Mr.. Pep lined ;o discuss even the long conference with the u !louse officials re > :1 ' it has reached the seita in"esirnents were com '. and resulted ultimately 1 '■ ~r >he Mock at a loss. PRKSKYI M IN K DUPRE AT WASHINGTON 1 >rr\e«| t ive Terms in House Knwn New Orleans District. T"h. Jl. —Representative i Dupre, of Louisiana, died - home here. A stroke 'pM ' ! 'j ■ d about teu days ago, !ii‘-d -lightly after being improvement was of 1 ■ Dupre was serving his 1,1 ’ Ihuise from a New lie was a democrat »tpeioii'as, La.. July 2^, J‘""tniiiMn| |lemorrat Re I'nseated. ~ ' r-h 21. — I’nseating of 1 rat, as a member of the Nineteenth New . reenmmended today . , ' immitfee which in ' i s d' fraud in connec ts 4 ! ‘ •'tioii. ' VHXT S A I S REAR SAYS, r - i " — J •' centraT ' 1 i«l:iy ; colder in ens i. t| ,l '’ "" !ls tonight rising tern ' ;1 '‘ ‘Vest portion F.iday THE CONCORD TIMES HOUSE IS HURRYING 1 i CONSIDERATION OF : TOE REVENUE BILL i ' I Leaders Are Lining Up Their, Forces For Second Show Dow n in tho Income Rate Sections of Bill. STUBBORN FIGHT SEEN BY ALL | Some Insurgents Who Voted With Democrats at First Expected to Support Bill j at Next Meeting. Washington, Feb. 21. 21- The House ' hurried along with eonsideratton of tin*, revenue hill today while leaders lined up I their forces for a second show down on, ; the incomes rate sections when (he hill is up for final passage, j Stubborn contest over ineom • rate. voteil Into the hill by democrats and re- I publican insurgents appear^certain, with 1 Representative Longworth. republieji'i leader, claiming a defection in : lit* ranks of the T7 republicans who voted for the .(lamer sdn-deule. Some of them. ha* said, had-made.overtures, indicating they would like to vote for a republican meas ure. Leaders are studying the parliamentary ! strategy involved in such a enures*, ami ! organization republicans are centering their efforts to obtain a record vot«* o:i the compromise suggested Tuesday by Mr, i Longworth calling for a maximum sur j tax rate of 27 1-2 per cent., and the nor | rnal income rates recommended by Sec retary Mellon. The democratic schedule I raised riie minimum surtax from the j proposed 2o per cent, to 44 per cent., out normal rates, and increased personal ex emptions. A solid majority vote on sev eral parliamentary decisions as well as pi) the recovery vote will he necessary , for displacement of the democratic rates. Administrative sections of the bill wen I read today and Chairman lireen of the ways and means committee in charge of { the discussion, expressed the hope thn. tjie estate and excise tax sections might be reached by tomorrow at the latest. Among other sections yet to he taken up is the provision for a 2o per cent, re duet ion in 1M22 iiseomc taxes, jmyable this year, and democratie leaders have said \vinild seek to amend to ■ tvmke tnc income tax '■ Inslule alrNoT adopted retroaeti-e as of 1M22. Ruling Effects Profits in Stocks. Washingt >ii. Feh. 21.—The Ht>us«‘ to-j day tightened the provisions of the reve | nue bill relating t>» profits on corpora tion stocks, with the adoption of tin amendment subjecting the earnings to jirofit s in liquidation proceedings, to regular income rates, rather than to the 12 1-2 per cent, capital gain tax. An -amendment proposed by Represen tative Dickinson, republican of lowa, proposing to make the farmers and mu tual insurance <-oini>anies exempt from tax also.-was adopted by viva voce vote. An amendment exempting benevolent life, insurance companies not operated for jrpofit then was adopted to S7. YAXDERLIP ANSWERS TO LIBEL SI IT CILARGES Stiys He Welcomes tlie Suit and Is Ready For it to Re Fought Out in Court. New York, Feb. 21. —Frank A. \ ander ]ip. in a reply today to the JSIMKMhH) libel sum filed against him yesterday by th** owners of the Marion Star, declared he welcomed the suit, and expressed the hope that 1t would be’ the fore-runner of “court proceedings that would make pub lic some of the news that .lie great news papers do not see fit to print. "I a r m prepared to spend quite as much as has been asked for in these court pro ceedings in an effort to make public this news.” the statement says, adding that “there is nothing this country needs so much at the moment as some court pro ceedings initiated by grand juries and pressed by incorruptible prosecuting at torneys.’’ With Our Advertisers. * ■ Beautiful showing of new hats at the l Specialty Hat Shop. Two specials in shoes for s2.!>o at the Parker's Shoe,Store for Saturday. W. B. Smith will have an auction sale ; of horses aud mules at 11 o'clock a. m. on Saturday. February, 23rd. at Midland. See big ad. in this paper for full partic ulars. There will Ik* a special sab* of Spring t woolens at I’arks-Belk Co.’s Friday, Sat , unlay and Monday. Aon will find there a wonderful line of plaids for skirts and dresses. See new ad. on page two. j. Paris Skirts Are to Be Both Short and , Long This Spring'. . Paris. Felv. IK. —The length of skirts worn by fashionable women this spring will depend somewhat upon personal preference judging from sty es exhibited at the opening of. the racing season at Longchamps yesterday. * Some Os the modest xvho -paraded in the bitter breezes wore skirts falling only* three or foiilr inches below the kins*, whi’e others were alsoit the same distance from the ground. It was re markable that the new short- skirts are a little wider Ilian when the vogue was at. its height. Senator (Ireene Slightly Improved. Washingt >u, Feb. 21. —"Slight im provement"'was s!i wn in the condition of Sena!oi Frank L. Green, of Vermont. ar noon today/ it was said by his muses at the emergency hospital. He has taken pome nourishment.. The National Federation of Business st and Professional Women’s Clubs is to i- hold a convention at West Baden, In y diaua, next July. SEEMS TO BE THE WHOLE SHOW WOMAN PON’ZI HELD ON FORGERY CHARGE Claim She Defrauded Society Patrons With Mythical Coal Pool. New Lirk, Feb. 20.—Described by tin* police as ‘a girl with the financial wiz ardy of a I’onzi or a Lindsay," Miss Hel en L. Beckett, a stockbroker, was im prisoned today on complaint of socially - prominent patrons of a Ffth Avenue cor set shop that she had defrauded them of $50,000. I Khe was charged with forgery' Detectives reported that Miss Beckett. | after establishing a partnership with Robert Law and opening offices in the downtown financial district, haunted the! corset shop, inspired its wealthy patrons j with faijh in her as a financier, and in duced them to invest in a mythical “pool" j which, she claimed, had inside informa tion about the shares of New York's big gest coal corporation. One of her first victims was alleged to have been her business partners* aged father. Others were said to have includ ed a society woman now at Atlantic City, whose attorneys report she lost $25,000; a prominent woman doctor, whose losses were put at $15,000; a man, identity undisclosed, who invested $5,000. The girl, according to |K>liee, started as "eiptomcrs' man" for a Wall street stock brokerage firm that failed in 1022. She then became an outer office habitue of a long established firm of brokers, where police report, she met Ikiw and induced him to form a partnership with !uv. The forgery charge is based upon com plaint of Law's father that he turned ov er to her to be sold of Standard Oil, Edieott-Johnson, New 'York Central and American Telephone and Telegraph stock, representing his life savings; that she sold them. and. receiving a cheek drawn to Law's father, forged his name to it and pocketed the cash. Under similar circumstances, it is al leged. Miss Beckett sold sugar stocks for Arthur Keinstein. an official of the West Indies Sugar Finance Corporation and forged his name to the check. England to Build War Ships. London. Feb. 21 (By the 'Associated Press). —The McDonald government, in view of the unemployment situation, has decided to proceed with the laying down of five cruisers and two destroyers as soon as parliamentary sanction is given, it was announced by Charles Ammon, parliamentary under secretary to the ad miralty in the House of Comons this af ternoon. Sisters Die in Fire. Andalusia. Ala., Feb., 21.—Miss Edna Donaldson, 21 years old, and her sister, Miss Maude Donaldson, 25. were suffo cated today in a fire that swept the Standard Telephone Exchange in the Knox building here. Miss Edna Don aldson. sacrificed her life in turning in a fire alarm. Iler sister, who was her guest, died by her side. Tax Cuts Proposed in Rival Bills Washington. Feb. 20. —The Democratic income tax substitute- adopted today by the House provides: Normal taxes of 2 per cent, on incomes below $5,000 ; 4 per cent, on incomes be tween $5,000 and $N.OOO; (i per cent, on incomes exceeding S<S,OOO. A graduated surtax scale beginning at, 1 per cent, on incomes between $12,000- and $14,000 up to a maximum of 44 per cent, on incomes exceeding $02,000. Exemptions of $2,000 for single per sons and $3,000 for heads of families. Existing Law Provides. Norma! taxes cf 4 per cent, on incomes np"to $4,000 and 8 per cent, above SB,OOO. Surtaxes beginning at 1 per cent, on inconii*)* between SO,OOO and $10,f)00 anil graduating progressively to 50 per cent, on incomes in excess of $200,000. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1924 SINCLAIR ARRIVESVROM EUROPE ON THE PRESIDENT HARDING Poses 1% Photographers and (Yavku I Oily Jokes With the Reporters. New York. Feb. 2<h —Harry F. Sin clair arrived on the liner President Harding today, tsmilingly willing t/» dis cuss the weather, international i>olitbv and horse races, the gasoline business in the kingship of Albania— everything but oil and 4he Teai*ot Dome’. | As his ship. alreiHfe* flayed by bliz- I zard and heavy seas, reached (piarantine and lay there for several hours wait ing for the rain to lift and the fog to settle, he met reporters and photogra ! pliers who swarmed aboard with hand -1 shakes all around and a prepared stfltc j mont. I The statement was several hundred jwt rds long. It began : I “During the year 1024 American pe troleum products xvill be in greater do | maud in Europe than ever before" and i went on to tell what Mr. Sinclair had seen during his three weeks in France, Belgium, Germany and England to jus tify sudi a forecast. The statement concluded : “On account of my absence from | home for several weeks I am not en j tirely familiar with what has happened in connection with the Senate investiga -1 tion of tkc granting of naval reserve j No. ,'l to the Mammoth Oil Company. I Until such time as 1 may be able to familiarize myself with what occurred | I do not wish to make any comment.’’ i “(if course I'll got to Washington." jMr. Sinclair said later. "I'm here and ready if they want me. I'll have to go !if they ask me to.” He had been fully j discharged after his last appearance be fore the Senate committee hut was quite ready to believe reports reaching the ship that proeesK servers awaited him at the docks. He was ready for them lie said. J. M. COX AGAIN IS A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT l letter Declares Democrats of Indiana i Also Unitedly For the Ohio Man. ! Miami, Fla.. Feb. 20.—-Former Gov ernor James M. Cox. of Ohio, tonight told a representative of The Miami Herald that lie had authorized the use of his name as a candidate for President on a declaration of candidacy received at the head-quarters of the Cuyahoga county democratic party. Mr. Cox said that a few day* ago lie received a letter from former Governor James E- Campbell saying that the democrats of Ohio were united in their desire to present his (Cox) name to the convention as their choice for Prosi • (lent ' Miss Wan Piroshaw. a Filipino girl ' i who served her educational apprentiee- I ship in American hospitals and training J schools, has been placed in charge of the ' i first public health nursing center which j has been opened in Bangkok, Siam. Exemption of SI.OO for single persons and $2,500 for heads of families. The Mellon Provision Eliminated Pro posed : Normal rates of 3 per cent, on im-'-nit’s up to $4,000 and (i per cent, on incomes exceeding $4,000. Surtaxes ranging from 1 per cent, on iiV-omes between SIO,OOO and $12,000 to 25 per cent, on incomes exceeding SIOO.- 000. No increase in personal tax exemptions. The Freer Amendment Rejected Proposed Cutting normal rates in half with .-nr taxes continuing at their present Icvle. No change in exemptions. The Madden amendment voted down differed from the Mellon schedule in Hie maximum surtax rate which it sough! ;<> have fixed at 25 per cent. MARION STAR FILES SLANDER SUIT AGAINST YAXDERLIP 1 Claim Financier Has Connected Them With Oil Scandal.—They Also Charge Libel. New York. Feb. 20—Roy D. Moore and l/ouis H. Brush, joint owner* of The Mari< n. Ohio. Star, today filed suit in federal court against Frank A. Yanderlip. retired banker, for SOO,OOO damages* alleging slander and libel a&l the result, ofjhe banked* ni* terances in an address at Ossining on February 12. Three separate causes of action ask ing $200,000 damages each were cited 1 in tlie papers served on Mr. Yanderlip. The action was taken, according to tlie papers, on account of Mr. Vnnderlip's alleged statements in which ho “im plicated the sale of The Marion Star in the oil scandal." The first cause sets forth that Mr. Yanderlip "wickedly and maliciously charged Brush and Moore with bribing Warren G- Harding, then President, of the United States, to fail to perform certain of his official duties as president, and that the bribe consisted in the pay ment to former President Harding of $550,000 in the purchase of The Marion Star, which was more than twice its fair value." The second cause action was based upon tin* charge that Mr. Vander’ip caused his speech to be printed in The New York Tribune. The third cause is based upon tlie ad mission of Mr. Yanderlip before the senate investigating committee that lie approved the copy of the speech which was presented to him in his office in New York on February 13 by a repre sentative of the Associated Press, and which speech after was delivered to As sociated Press members. THE COTTON MARKET First Prices 1) to 28 Points Higher After Firm Opening—May Up to 30.47. New York, Feb. 21.—The cotton mar ket was firm at the opening today on covering* and Liverpool buying follow ing reports that the British dockers’ strike had been settled, ami relatively firm cables from the English market. There were some overnight selling or ders which caused rather irregular fluc tuations after the call, but the buying continued and tin* market held general ly steady after (lie early trading. First prices were !> to 28 points higher, and .May contracts sold up to 30.47 or 48 points net higher, while October ad vanced to 2fi.45. or 35 points above yes terday’s closing. Cotton futures opened firm: March 20.80; Mav 30 10 to 30.25: July 20.30 to 20.42; October 20.20: December 25.75. Col. Springs Purchases I femes For His Employes. Chester. S. C.. Feb. 20. —Col. Leroy Springs, of Lancaster. S. president of the Springstein Cotton mills and Eureka Cotton mills, of Chester, has bought 325 modern houses for his various mills. The contract for the building of these houses has been let to the Minter Home* company, of Green i viOe. S. (’. Fifty of these homes are to be erected at the Eureka (Vtton mil’s in Chester. 1200 houses at the Lancaster Cotton I mills and the other 75 will he erocted at I F„,.t- Mill Manufacturing company. The houses’are to be erected a- early as possible, and will be well equipped in every inrd‘*rn respect. Another 88 Cent Sale at Efird’s. On Friday. Saturday and Monday there will be another of those big 8S Cent Sales at Efird’s. This is always an im portant event at Efird s. \nu will tinn many bargains at 8* Tents during these three days, as Avell as hundreds of other big bargains. Read the full paso ad. in today's paper. COTTON SPIED IN JANUARY GDEATEL. THAN IN 7 MONTHS: Spinning Activity Greater j Last Month Than in Any! ; One Month Since Last May, Report Shows. INDUSTRY SEEMS ON BETTER BASIS. During Month Spindle Hours Totalled 8,448,247,467. Average Number of Spin dles Operated 36,476,177. Washington, Feb. 21.—Cotton spin ning activity-was greater in January .than j in any mouth since last May, tin* Census j Bureau's spinning report today indicat-J id. The number of active spindle hours for the month was 1 ..*J<M>.<HM>.<MMI more! than in December. Active spindle hours for January to talled 8.448,247.4(57. or an average so 224 hours per spindle in place; compar ed with 7.13D.371.H47, or I!M> hours per spindle in place in December: and !•. 2(>(5,2P0.fi()4 or 24!l hours per spindle in place in January last year. Spinning spindles in place January 31 totalled 37.740.454. of which 33,330,800 were active at some time during the month. The average number of spindles oper ated during January was 3(5.470.177 or at 0(5.7 per emit, capacity on »a single shift basis. FRANCE REMEMBERS MIRABEAU To Celebrate 17(5f!i Anniversary of This Dramatic Figure. Paris. Feb. 21.—Paris is preparing for an observance early next month to mark the 17<5th anniversary of the birth of the Count de Mirabeau. one of the most dramatic figures in tlie stirring events that immediately piecede dthe French Revolution. Historians give Mirabeau a place | among the greatest orators and states- j men that l-Vance has produced. He was perhaj** the most conspicuous fig ure in the brief period between tin* na tional protest in France in 17KJ) against the misrule of the Bourbon power aud the outbreak of the Devolution in 1702. j When, the .bio- JJSiffiiJWg »i‘Volu tibn were enaerFug Mirabeau had been dead a year. The belief has been ex jtressed that if he had lived the revolu tion might never have occurred, and its ( worst certainly would have been I avoided, while France might have ob- j tained ti constitutional monarchy and j gradually secured i>eacealsy all (those • jicJitica! vightts which the revolution sought in a sea of blood and failed at last to find. Mirabeau was only 42 years old when he died. His young manhood had been spept in tlie wildest and his life until lie was beyond 30 was irregu lar in the extreme. He was a man of ( the greatest intensity, and his diversions as well as his labors partook of this characteristic. He seemed ulways. how ever. to cherish the loftipst political ideals and to keep unstained his personal honor in politics, king and ttlie assembly. He never* denied nor attempted to conceal his belief that a stable government could not be performed and maintained with out a firm head and that it would be better to reform the king than to abolish him. To this extent he was not a Re publican. although he dominated by his eloquent arraignment of political evils the assembly which had convened to re form the abuses of the old regime. Mirabeau was the scion of an an cient. distinguished and once wealthy family, the son of the Marquies de Mira beau, He was in exile in Holland, England afterward because of the elo quent expression of opinions that dis pleased tlie French authorities, and ar -times he lived very precariously. He was able to return to Paris a few years before iKMiis XYT. in 17$!l felt constrained so convene the states gener al .to find some way out of *the financial difficulty in which France was plunged. Rejected by the nobility of which lie was a member, he secured election to the assembly as a member of the third es tate. There he immediately sprang into fame as an orator and a statesman. Ibe ikng sought his aid, and the queen at [ tempted to bribe him. but while he was ready with his advice, he would n>t forego his privilege of criticism. He drew up for the king a plan for royal policy in which he pointed out that ab solutism wA« outgrown and adherence to it men tit only destruction. At the same time lie pleaded with the revolu tionists against the policy to pull down the throne. Finally, when the crisis for the king dom seemed rapidly approaching, he gave to the king advice at once so b >ld and so prudent that bad it been followed the revolution might have been stayed. He told the king to go to Ly ii*. and from there to issue a manifesto embodying practically all tic* principles of fin* enn | stitntiou that the assembly was con j sfnietihg. then to appeal t> the iieople |as the surest and safest reformer. Ink ling the ground from under the revolu j rionisis and making his own position j impregnable. But diod l>e ] fore this advice could be followed. Lulls XVI. then surrendered to counsel less wise.' and the revolution came. SIOO,OOO For Oil I>ease Persecution. Washington. Feb. 21. Without dis ! mission or a record vote, the Senate to j day adopted the House resolution at* proprinting SIOO,OOO for prosecution of oil lease eases. In 1808 Cincinnati put in the field the first salaried baseball team in the eoun ' tr J'. $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance NORMALCY IS ABOUT 0 IN MOST f CHS OF CAROLINA Normal Conditions Rapidly Being Enjoyed Following the Storm Tuesday Which I Caused Much Damage. COMMUNICATION IS RESTORED TO CITIES Winston-Salem Can Talk Again to Outside World as Can High Point—Electri cian Killed at Reidsville. Charlotte, Feb. 21.—Central North Carolina and Southern Virginia today were slowly emerging from isolation caus ed Tuesday night by the heaviest sleer and iee storm in jnany years, and whieh caused at least one death and moretor less inju ies. Telegraph, telephone and power companies -today had repaired their wires to some extent, although communication still is uncertain to. some extent. j O. <!. Crenshaw, of. Reidsviller an elec trician. was killed yesterday when he came into contact with a high voltage power line. Winston-Salem, which yesterday was isolated with nota single telephone or telegraph wire in operation, was recov ered shortly before midnight last night. (High Point, X. C.. and Danville, Va. f were connected to the outside world by means jof uncertain telegraph wires, but with facilities badly crippled. Other points in the area were still cut off. Public utilities companies and tele graph and telephone companies were the heaviest losers, but no estimate of tin* damage could be had. it was said, how ever. the losses run into hundreds of thousands of dollars and probably will exceed *14100.000. Twin City Recovering. Winston-Salem Feb. 21. —Winston-Sa- lem today is recovering from the worst sleet storm In its history, but Ht will be days before the Southern Public Futil ities Company and the Company ami the Bell Telephone Company will be able to restore full service. It is estimated that fully one-third of the telephones in lhe city are out of order, white till the street | lights were dark last night, as well as 4 rrsMent-f'S In ifeeftafrmf tfc* e-tyr - I Wires were still down on many of the • principal streets and broken trees tire to jbe seen on every hand. Street railway j system was able lo operate most all of | yesterday. \ 1 ADVANCE REASONS FOR THE MCDONALD MIRDERS Agnosticism. Atheism and Radicalism Caused Boy to Kill Ills Relatives. St. Petersburg. i ,T la.. Feb. 21. —Agnos- ticism, atheism and advanced radicalism caused Frank McDowell, confessed mur derer of his father, mother and two sis ters, to commit the crimes that removed th&tt from his path ami to make plans for the removal of another girl, Mary Hirdsey, of Forsyth, (la., a beautiful young college girls whom lie believes stands in his path and defeats bis prog ress toward becoming a world power, according to the police here. According to the story told by young McDowell in a cell today to the St. Pet ersburg Independent, he knows that he is abnormal, but tirmly believes that the day of the super-man is close to baud, and that if it were not for his birth, he would be the first real sU|M>r-inaii. Peupty Sheriff Bert her said tinlay he would ask for'a commission of three doc tors to investigate the sanity of Mc- Dowell. If declared insane Mi'lhnvell would be sent to a state asylum. Woman Wrestler. Greensboro, Feb. 21. —Virginia Mer cereau, the woman whestler who is now in the city, is now considering an offer to referee a wrestling bout in Danville. Va.. it has b«en announced. The offer was made to Miss Mercereau by L. C. Moody, athletic proiuotor of Danville, through her manager. Misss Mercereau has achieved a rep-u tat ion within ,tlie past 20 months as a . wrestler, having grappled with •!<** J Shimkus. and .John Kilonis. She has | expressed her willingness to meet any j one within her weight which is IW> I pounds. She is said to be very povver ! fill. No pioution. however, was made of Miss MVrcereauV appearance In Danville as a wrestler. So far the arrangements have only l»een contem plated as being to referee the bout. Three General Truths to Remember About Cancer. First, cancer usually develops from previous ami continued irritation. Second, if the cause of that irritation be removed in time the cancer will be averted. Third, if the development of cancer be determined in the early stages the. patient can probably be cured by op eration. but not by any other method, j Heme, it follows that the issue de i pends primarily upon the patient. She i must diagnose her own case to the ex | tent of saying "This is suspicious. I need expert advice.-’ The public must learn to interpret lhe danger, signas with the same intelligence. Tri-State Medical Convention. Greenville. S. C., Feb. 20.—Physicians from Virginia and the two Carol inns ’were here today for the 26th annual meeting of the Tri-State Medical Asso ciation. which got underway this morn ing for a two-days’ session. Indica tions were that the attendance would ex- Iceed 300. No. 65