North Carolina Newspapers

frR ILL, Editor and Publisher t B- - 1 fcpMEXLVH-__ S® I® BLUER f| ASSURED B¥ f«[ IE PROGRAM „f Best Horses in the f„n rv Have Been Sign up for Local Fair When It Opens in F aH. ,rr FEATURES WILL BE NEW ishowsVMidway Will L New Also—Officials of Je Fair Are Now Prepar % Catalogue. •• ■.• !,].l i;i : year by tin ;v Association was f ril ' t , | ~f bigger and better • •••ill- h! E ,v plans already adopt s lU 'f,'":e<l'foi' tie fair which will !u !i* 'vear. M*ii familiar with | opinion that the Ca -1 ]. r .t year was one of the best tii in the'Stats, but present plans the city this year an event V a,.** iii everv detail the fair N Speneor. secretary of the j 1 one «*t it' moving spirits, has perfected enough details to as ' r(t ... r( ] breaking event next fall, fr*, entertainments and horse races nv.i of the bailing events at fcjrand the program for these events Itenl fair tire such as to banish , u. as ro rim kind <>f event that is p -raged here. r i:-n rani is much more attract i, n tI|H „ n o offered last year, even #t at that time some of the best tory- in the rountry were present, mtry !i-t. e\eeiit for three special , ha- already been closed, and a sur j-i.ivv- the character of the races be ebj.>ye»l here during the coming I 1 ,:,- in ilc amount of SI,OOO are ip uJkml for all of the principal j. iL j f,, the tlir.M- special races ; be offered in each, hrttertainments id In* offend at the liii br entirely different from the idbml last year. This will be true cu tin* midway as well as fr* icrtctiotis. Fr;t nk West & Co., h 2T» high class -lmys. will be on the «j ami At following free acts will ofrm. ad afternoon and evening the gntsd'M ad : '“"U Troupe, rcurv.stiutiiijl. lifictnf both ancient and modern < fcEarl Sisters, in double flying lad tKi’joy 4 <V. a novelty act. hFerrU Wheel tiirls. in aerial work ■M platwl revplving Ferris wheel. Ihip’s Performing Elephant. ( hf. John A Park, balloon ascension, feriiagwrlh Fireworks. 1 Bftrfinnitig riie fireworks displays he fair I»r. Speuccr stated that double W it.: „f money -]»* nt for this sea -s tuir ha- been appropriated for k'Ure 1 hi- year. r.Sjiencer i- mw. preparing the cat tr ■( the fair. The .copy for the U- will 1m- given to the printer None loth and the catalogue will f*r distribution not later than (pis. of the catalogue will be sent to talk every home in the county, idditinca! copies will be sent to oth- in thi- and other states. Inter -16 fair is n..r centered in North -■a alone, it i- pointed out. for the' •'tractive premiums offered. and ,lll ht manlier in which they were * ' Mai - E' ilv, “ attracted the atteu- Ji" r '"n- in other States. *'*['• die fair want to get the *• Pv,, ry home by July first so *' uiii liecotup familiar with the ar -1,1 "inch jiremiuins will be offered ” a sue their goods to be n- |, t*tiy li.-t f,,r the various races to during the fair followsF: _ .dO Tint. Purse SI,OOO. ‘"fid. IVnny llros. Stable n-jcr,, \ , > j r Han e-ter, P.rook Farm, Chester, pj;,.! r E-- Pitman Stable, j ' *'■ Pitman Stable, Trenton, Lfrrd ,; a! j Eyson Stable, Newark, k, [m i ' f ' i Tyson Stable, New l. ! ' A> ’ 1 ,; arth. Huntsville. q. l' 1 '"* 1 . Monroe. Wis. 0. " ln - -I- -Morrow, Tole .X. V 111 hd'N Stable. Potighkeep- K l I) ( !i'! , ir ' K ; ,u Moline, 111. Pa. E'». Jermyn, Scran .Tmf' , *"'se SI,OOO. : Miiord Fn,iK-cr°r\N-c --te-V V. K. S,a --i Hi«!n\ • a E Mm. Mings, Paris, ><*. a,, Mo . t. E f ?! Newark. Del. -Nett mgham. Read- v *Pa. • E- N'ertiugham. Read- L**>ha. \v m ' • la 'kle.v. Higginsville, Cation, j Mahoney, St. Paul, ST. ' Evep. • -Morgan, Elma, Purse SI,OOO. - on p 4 -’s r -’-tree.) THE CONCORD TIMES I**************;* S NEW HIGH SCHOOL - | building to be open to i * THE PUBLIC FRIDAY. * T!,p n(>w High Stdiool Building * j * will be oj>en to the Public on Fri- day afternoon, May 30th. from 4 I to 6. ! M e had hoped to have the build | °P° n in the evening but the light fixtures have not yet been * placed except iii the hall and in the %■ 1 audkoHum. The School Board and the Faeul fk ty of the High School will be at & rk home at that time to their friends. ik the public, and everybody is most & •k cordially invited to come and in- ik ik spocr the building. * A. S. WEBB. * * TRINITY COMMENCEMENT Governor Momiscn to Bring Greetings Errm Stat?—Commencement Porgram. Trinity ('ollege, Durham, May 2P.— Governor Camercn Morrison,, chief ex ecutive of North Carolina, will bring and deliver greetings from the State at the seventy-second annual commencement of Trinity College beginning Sunday, • June Ist. and ending Wednesday, June -Ith. Governor Morrison's address will follow that of Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond, president of Union College. Seheuectady. N. Y.. who is scheduled to make the annual commencement ad dress at 11 a. in. Wednesday. June 4th.. Detailed arrangements for the largest | attended commencement in the history of the college have been completed. I/et ters from alumni and friends from this and other 1 states have been pouring in lately announcing their intention of at tending the exercises. The graduating class of 1J)24. composed of 117 members, is the largest the college has yet turned out. and this fact is causing the college authorities to prepare for an unusually tremendous crowd of friends, patrons, and alumni. The annual Alumni Day, Tuesday, June 3. will be featured by the class reunions of the following classes: ’74. '7O. ’s4, ’BO. *O4. 'OO. 'O4. ’OO, 14. ’lO. '2l. and '23. Oy this day there will be clasi-v stunts on the beautiful wood land stage near the East Duke building, and a large alumni parade in which members of the various reuniting classes will wear the dress typical of the years from 1800 on down to the present day. The program in full follows: Sunday. June Ist. 8:30 p. in. Baccalaureate address— Dr. Edwin Mims, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. Monday.- June 2nd. 10:3ft a. in. Annual meeting of Alumi Council. 3:OQ p. an. Annual meeting of Board of Trustees. B:3ft p. m. Graduating orations and awardings of medals. 0:45 p. m. to 11:15 p. in. Reception in honor of the graduating class. East Duke building. Tuesday. June 3rd. 11 a. m. Commencement sermon— The Reverend; William Learoyd Speery. I). D.. Harvard University. 12:30 p. in. Annual parade. I :ftft p. m. Alumni dinner, alumni memorial gymnasium, alumnae luncheon, Southgate Memorial building. 4 p. m. Reunion class exercises, Wood land Stage. 8:30 p. m. Alumni exercises, moving picture of college life, formal opening of the Alumni Memorial gymnasium. Ad dress by Dr. Plato Tracy Durham, 'OS, Emory University. Wednesday. June 4th. 10:45 a. in. Assembling of board of trustees, members of the faculty, the graduating class, and members of classes holding reunions, in front of Woodland Stage. II a. m. Graduating exercises. Commencement address—President Chas. Alexander Richmond. LL. D., Union College, Schenectady/ N. A'. Greetings from the State —Governor Cameron Mor rison. 7:23 p. m. Lowering of the college flag by the graduating class. Railroad Pays Damages For Serving Bad Meats. Washington, May 28.—Dr. D. D. King, of Greensboro, and his wife, Mrs. Dora Bristow King, whose -honeymoon trip to New York city on December 3ft. mil), was spoiled because of tainted veal served to Mrs. King in a dining car between Washington and New York, were awarded a total of $0,500 damages by a jury today in circuit court Number One here- The suit was directed against the United States railroad administration. Dr. King and his wife both contended that she will be affected mentally and physically for the rest -of her life as a result of ptomaine poisoning. Mrs. King was made violently ill after eating one mouthful of the veal. Mrs. King was awarded $5,500 and her husband was awarded SI,OOO for the loss of his ser- vices- Ford to Referee Auto Raee. Indianapolis, Ind., May 20. Henry Ford, pioneer automobile manufacturer, will take up a new job this afternoon. His new vocation, good only for about 24 hours, will be that of refree of the annual 500-mile automobile race to be held at the Indianapolis motor speedway tomorrow. Hungary Paws Debt to U. S. Washington, May 2ft.—The Hungarian government through its minister here to day delivered to the Treasury sl,93ft,oftft in 62-year bonds, the negotiations fund ing that country's debt to the United ’ States. The centenarv of the Monklaud and Kirkintilloch Railway, the first public ’ sail way in Scotland, is due this year. The raihvay was authorized iu 18-4, op ened in 1826, and amalgamated with the North British Railway in 1865. l Can She Pick Her Child? Fannie Lockwood. 17, St. Louis. Mo., must answer this question; Can a mother pick out her own 4-month-old baby if she has not seen it} since it was a week old? Her baby was taken from her when U was U| week old and. abandoned, 'it is alleged by a man now under arrest, tliej baby wound un in an orphanage. There are three babies at the orphan-* age. One of them is Fannie Lockwood’s. But can she pick it out at'ted four months? The court has given her the chance -J WAR PROSECUTIONS TO BE TAKEN UP AT ONCE Attorney General Stone Wants to Rush the Cases to Completion as Quickly as Possible. Washington, May 2ft. —The many pending prosecutions growing out of war time transactions are to be pressed to as quick a conclusion as possible under a revised Department of Justice policy, an nounced today by Attorney General Stone. The efforts of the war transactions sections of the department are to lie co ordinated under one man stil lto be se lected. Paul S. Andrews, of Syracuse. N. Y.. has been appointed head of the aviation unit in the war transactions section as the tip* step in the re-arrange ment. The Attorney General said it was his desire to have the war cases disposed of in a general clean up. He wants either to briug them to trial or force a final de cision as to what shall Is* done with them. Some of tlise eases which involve a to tal in excess of ssft.ftQft,ftftft, are no long er subject to court action because of tin* statute of limitations. Others have only a few months longer before they, too, will be outluwed by the same statut. FELLOW-CONVICTS PUNISH MAN WHO ATTACKS WOMEN Negro Near Death as Result of Beating in Arizona Prison. Florence. Ariz.. May 2ft.—Hovering between life and death as a result of a beating at the hands of fellow-convicts, William It- Ward, negro, confessed slayer of Ted Grosh, college athlete, was today replaced in tin* death cell at ■ the State prison here, from where he will be led to the gallows June 2ft. Following an attack on two women, who came to the. State penitentiary at the negro's request to baptize him, Ward yesterday was severely beaten by fellow-eon victs who were restrained from lynching the negro only by the pleas of Warden R. B. Sims. The women, Mrs. J. E- Wright and Miss Stella Martin, an evangelist, came to Ward’s cell to conduct baptismal services and were attacked by the negro, armed with an ice pick. Mrs. Wright, the more severely injured of the two women, will recover. Preceding the attack. Ward submitted a 4ft-page confession, in which lie told of the killing of Grosh near Globe, Ariz.. last December. BELIEVED NOW TAX BILL WILL NOT BE VETOED Secretary Mellon Is Preparing Recom mendation*. — Expect Action This Week. Washington, May 2ft.—Secretary Mel lon’s formal letter of recommendation on the tax bill is nearing completion, and President Ooolidge may be in position to act on the measure before, the end of the week. Although the secretary takes excep tion to some features of the legislation,! some of those in his confidence do not believe he will recommend a veto. He feels that in some respects the measure is an improvement on the present law. i v l Dogs in Alaska Stampede When Planes Roar Overhead. Nenana. Alaska. May 27. —Mushers on the Nenaua-McGratli overland trial are experiencing difficulties with their sled dogs since the advent of the mail plane iu interior Alaska. When the plans fol lowing the trail appears overhead, tjie dogs stampede. The dog mushers are pe titioning to have the air route changed to avoid these weekly canine riots They often put half the rolling stock of the dog trains out of commission, and leave freight scattered along the trail for • miles. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1924 FOLLIES BEAUTY CAUSES I ARREST OF COMEDIAN i Frank Tiuney Is Alleged to Have Beaten MLss Imosene Wilson and Also Her Negro Maid. New York. May 20.—Arrested on a warrant sworn out by Imogene Wilson. 1 beauty of the Zeigfield Follies, Frank Tinuey, comedian, wfU broght to New York today from in Mineola,, ii is Long Island home. Miss Wilson yesterday appeared be fore a magistrate with her head and body bruised, the result of a beating she said was administered by Tinney while she was being interviewed by a reporter concerning her life story as a Broadway ; butterfly. Miss Wilson said Tinney had also chastised her negro maid. The maid appeared in court with baudages. Miss Wilson said Tinney was jealous. Tin ney Is married ami has a six-year-old son. THE COTTON MARKET Opening Steady at Unchanged Prices to Advance of 7 Points.—July Advances to 2970. Ne.w York. May 2ft. —The cotton mar ket appeared to be more importantly in fluenced by the continued bullish aver age of crop and weather news than by the relatively easy Liverpool cables dur ing today’s early tradings. The open ing was steady at unchanged prices to an advance of 7 points, and active months sold some Ift to 20 points net higher. July advancing to 21).7ft and Oc tober to 26.51) on covering. Wall Street and commission house buying. The i South was a moderate seller here on the advance, however, and after initial buy ing orders had been supplied, the mar ket eased off a few points from the best , under lealizing. The Opeuing prices were: July 20.50: Oct. 26.38; Dec.. ! 25.6 ft; Jan. 25.52; March 25.5 ft. TRUCKLOAD OF PEASANTS 1 PLUNGES DOWN MOUNTAIN Three Dead. Dozen Dying. 42 Injured In Bavarian Accident. Rosenheim. Bavaria. May 2ft. —An automobile truck carrying 52 men and women who had attended the peasants’ annual festival at Übersec. today crash ed down a mountainside into the Mazer bach River, three of the occupants being killed and 42 injured. Twelve of the in jured are expected to die. All of the occupants of the car, at tired in native costumes, were return ing to Reitimwinkel after a two-day celebration when the chauffeur lost con trol on a steep grade. The auto rolled down a half-mile embankment into the river. Seven of the occupants who es ; caped: injury jumped just as the car left the roadway. . - Nine Auto Accidents Recorded In Davidson. Lexington, May 2S.—A summary to day discloses that no less than nine automobiles were wrecked in Davidson County Sunday, with one or more near the city Saturday night and the wreck of another car and the death of three people witfhin sight of the county line not counted in. The Laundrymen at Columbia. Columbia, S. C., May 27.—Addresses by A. W. Cummings, of Dunkirk, N. Y., President of the Laundry Owners Nat ional Association, and C. N. Brown, of Asheville, N. C., member of the execu tive board of the national organization, submission of reports, and election of officers, were on the program here today as members of the Carolinas, Geirgio and Florida Laundry Owners Association op ened the final session of their 18tli an nual convention. MEANS MAKES MORE CHARGES RELATIVE TO LIOUOR PERMITS Says Jess W. Smith Told Him Back in 1922 Secre tary Mellon Was Going to Issue Batch of Permits. v WANTED MONEY TO PAY FOR CAMPAIGN Money Secured From Per mits Would Be Used to Meet Republican Deficit, Means Was Infpr*ngct. j Means the Senate Daugherty eom- I luktcU today that he received from Jess jW. Smith in 1J)22 certain documents pur porting to show that Secretary Mellon agreed to issue a batch of whiskey with drawal permits in return for money which was to go toward the payment of the de ficit of the republican National Commit tee. The alleged arrangement, the witness said, was with a man named Rex Shel don, who was to have received the per mits apd pay over the money. He qdd ed that according to the story. Senator Bursum of New Mexico, and Fred Up hani, treasurer of the Republican Nation al Committee, went to Mr. Mellon's of fice in regard to the matter. Later he said, Senator Budsum de nied that he had any part in such a plan, and said he had sent Sheldon to the Treasury Secretary, “just as lie would send any other caller,’’ and with out, knowing his purpose. Secretary Mellon. Means asserted, himself told H. L. Scaife, a former Jus tice Department man, about the arrange ment in September, 1022. Afterward, the witness went on. lie got a confession from a man narfied Stevens, a bookkeeper for the Lamontngnes, in New York “in volving Mr. Upham and the whole whis key ring.” Had the brothers stood trial when they were caught in New York, instead of pleading guilty, the witness declared, the whole story would have come out involving both the Re publican and Democratic administra tions. The nnrftey. for this investigation, Mean saidt YCas furntshed* him by Jess Smith, who in turn was making the in quiry at the request of President Hard ing. Smith’s immediate objective, how over, the witness declared, was to dis credit Mr. Mellon and get control of the whiskey permit system himself. “Our constant drive was to attack the Treasury Department, to force the whis key business into the Department of Justice,” said Means. “Jess Smith told me that when Mellon first came to the cabinet he had no influence with Hard ing. ut that as time went on lie had grown up to an equal footing with Attor ney General Daugherty. That was the root cf the jealousy and - the antagonism.” C. F. HEATH IS BEING HELD IN LOUISVILLE Police Officers Believe Heath Was Impli cated in the Murder of Robert Franks. Louisville, Ky., May 20. —O. F. Heath, a Chicago druggist, was found in an un conscious condition at a rooming house here today and taken to a hospital where he is said to be in a critical condition. Police said the man was suspected of being implicated in the kidnapping and slaying of Robert Franks in Chicago, basing the statement on information from the hospital that Health had confessed. Inquiry at the hospital revealed that Heath had made no statement concern ing the ease, the authorities apparently having misunderstood the message. Disappeared From Chicago. Chicago, May 2ft.—Charles F. fDatli. a former druggist, watched in a Louisville. Ky., hospital as a susi>eot in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Rob ert Franks, disappeared from a hospital here last Monday sifter ho had apparent ly attempted to end his life. Detectives were seeking him when he vanished. Heath had swallowed a sleep producing drug on Sunday, but when detectives sought him the' next day he had disap peared from the Hospital. He formerly had a drug store less? than two miles from the Franks home. HOFFMAN SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON Found Guilty of Second Degree Murder For I>eath of Mrs. Mamie A. Bauer, of New York. Nw York, May 2ft. —Harry L. Hoffman, charged with slaying Mrs. Maude A. Bauer on a lonely Staten Island road, was found guilty today of murder in the second degree. County Judge Tiernan imposed sen tence of 2ft years to life imprisonment in Sing Sing. Hoffman, on his way to a prison van after sentence had been passed, passed within a few feet of District Attorney Each, and shrieked: “Now you and your lying witnesses can divide up your reward. I am inno cent, and you know it. ( Later Hoffman collapsed in his cell and wept. Hoffman, a motion picture operator, is married, and has two children. Pierre Paul Cambon Dead. Paris, May 2ft (By the Associated Press). —Pierre Paul Gambon, former French Ambassador to Loudon, died at bis borne here last night. Pretty big catch for a small boy, you’ll have to admit. But this is the time of year salt water herring run near Pembroke, Mass., an(U even a ‘‘tiny tad” can bring ’em in. CHARLOTTE MAN IN TROUBLE IN ROWAN Joe Rraniiing Sentenced to Road Fos Running Car While Drunk. Salisbury, May 28.—Joe- Brauning, a white man of Charlotte, formerly of Salisbury, is iu serious trouble as a re sult of two charges against him in Row an county court. In one ease he was fined SSO and costs and sent up for four months for operating an automobile hwile drunk. The sentence is suspended pro vided he pays J. 1,. Shaver for damages to his car which was run into by Bran ning, and refrains from running a car in Rowan for six months. Braun ing was also taxed SSO and costs and his ; car confiscated and ordered sold because he was found guilty of possession of whiskey. If he fails to pay up in this case he gets two months on the roads. MARRIAGE LAW CHANGE PROPOSAL IS DEFEATED Method isi ’Conference Kef uses to MafcU Drastic Cliange in Law Governing Di vorce Persons. Springfield, Mass., May 2ft. —A pro posal for a drastic change in the divorce law of the Methodist Episcopal Church was defeated by ten votes at the clos ing session of the gpneral conference. The vote was 3ftft for adoption to 31st against. J The present law forbids ministers to marry a divorced person when the hus band or wife is living unless that per son be the innocent party in a divorce for adultery. The change would have legalized all marriages except those of guilty parties in divorces for adultery. Washington Shriners to Visit Charlotte. Charlotte. May 28. —Almas Shrine Temple of Washington, I). on their pilgrimage to the* 50th f imperial council session of the Ancient Accepted Order Nobles of Mystic Shrine, Kansas City, Missouri, June 3-5, will stop in Char lotte Thursday and be guests of Oasis Temple. The special train bearing the Shriners, 221) in number, of which 175 will be in uniform, headed' by Harry F. Cary, Il lustrious Potentate and a band of sft pieces, will arrive over the Southern Railway at 2:25 p. m. and will be met at the Southern passenger station by band and patrol of Oasis Temple and Nobles of the local temple They will I parade to Masonic Temple, where auto mobiles will be waiting to take the party to Gastonia. A visit will be paid to the North Caro lina Orthopaedic Hospital where bands will combine and give a concert for the benefit of the crippled children. Returning to Charlotte the visitors will be driven about the city until 7 p. fn.. when the band and patrol of Oasis Temple will give a dinner at the new Hotel Charlotte to /the Washington Shriners. Oasis Temple will give the visitors a dance at Hote Charlotte. COTTON MILL MEN MEET AT ATLANTIC CITY Prepare to Agitate for Higher Protective . Tariff on Cotton. Atlantic City, N. J., May 27.—The American Cotton Manufacturers’ Asso ciation, iu convention today, prepared to agitate for higher protective tariff on cot ton. Importations have curtailed op-1 erations in domestic mills, the delegates declared. The goal toward which the associa tion is working is to make the cotton in dustry in the South independent with 'its own dyeing, bleaching, fininshing and mercerizing plants, and even with its own facilities for manufacturing machin ery. McDonald Is Ready to Fight For His Government. London, May 2ft (By the Associated Press). —Prime Minister MacDonald, in a speech in the House of Commons to day indicated that if his government should be defeated tonight on a test vote, it would go before the country in a gen eral election. Pope Designtes 1925 as Holy Year. Rome, May 2ft (By the Associated Tress). —Pope Pius today issued a bull proelaming 1925 a Holy Year, Jj>2.oo a Year, Strictly in Advance. NIKE KNOWN TO HI PERISHED IN STORMS IN OKLAHOMA ALONE 24 Per . < sons in Oiuw*wji and Two in Town. PJ*H*ERTY LOSS IS VERY HEAVY Storms Were Felt in Other States, Where a Number of Persons Were Killed or _ Badly Hurt. Oklahoma City, Okla., May 2ft.—Nine known deaths, more than a score injured, and property damage estimated at lftft.- 00ft was the toll paid by three eastern Oklahoma communities swept by n tor nado yesterday, the second within 24 hours. • • «r jjy At Wetumka, an oil town of 2,500 in habitants, 7 persons were killed when 3ft homes were destroyed. Three are unac counted for. At Warner, a small farming center near Okmulgee, two persons were killed and most of the town's business section destroyed. Checopah suffered considerable damage from wind and torrential rainfall. TWO .AMERICANS TAKEN PRISONERS IN CHINA Were Captured Wlien Chinese Bandits Captured Motor Boat Owned by the Southern Baptist Mission. Peking, China, May 2ft (By the Associ ated Press.) —Oulver B. Chamberlain. American vice consul at Canton, has gone to Wuchow, in Kwangsi province, to urge action by local authorities to obtain the release of two Americans and their 22 companions, taken captive recently by pirates who captured the motor boat Roanoke, owner! by the American South ern Raptist Mission at Wuchow. The Roanoke was captured near Chen ping on the Po River. The American prisoners are: G. Miller, member of the Christian°Mis-;«. sionary Alliance, and Rex Ray, of the Southern Baptist Mission. Two Englishmen named Jaffray, and Came, also were taken prisoner, along with 2ft Chinese. All were blindfolded and taken to the nirates’ mountain strona i*' Twirl. ~***G&m%*y*)***** KING HAD NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH King Ferdinand Had Narrow Escape When Explosions Occurred in Ammu nition Depot. London, May 2ft.—King Ferdinand of Roumania. is reported by the Bucharest correspondent of the Daily Express, to have narrowly escaped death during a se ries of explosions in the Central Ammu nition depot yesterday. The king, the correspondent says, approached so near the arsenal that an attendant was obliged to drag him away, and a shell fell and exploded on the spot where he had been standing. The correspondent says it is believed several workmen were killed. A girl's school nearby caught fire. Some of the children escaped, but the fate of the others is unkonwn. Many resi dents in the western part of Bucharest where numerous buildings were damaged, fled to the eastern section of the city. JAPANESE PROTEST HAS REACHED WASHINGTON Owing to Its Great Length It Will Take - Several Days For It to Be Decoded by Authorities. Washington. May 2ft.—The Japanese protest against the new- immigration law' reached the Japanese embassy here today by cable. Because of its great length, some time will be required to decode and study it before it is formally presented to the State Department. Meantime, Ambassador Hanibara will make no appointment to see Secretary Hughes for the purpose of presenting his government’s views. Embassy officials appeared doubtful that the communication could be put in to shape for presentation today. They declined to discuss the contents of the note in any way. It was described by them as “very long.” Famous Pearl Neckles For Sale. Paris, May 20.—The jx-arls of Mme. Thiers, widow of the famous statesman and fiirst President of the present Re public, which he left to the Louvre Museum in 18H0. are to be sold at auction here next month. The necklace, one of the most famous in existence, consists of 145 p<*arls, weighing 2,130 grains, London and New York pearl merchants have made known their in tention of attending this important sale. In America there are now about 200 women ordained to the ministry. WHAT SMITTY’S WEATHER CAT ' SAYS Unsettled, with probably showers and thunderstorms tonight and Friday; cool ! er Friday. _ no. 9r