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iffilOL BOOKS
In Books in T^'^-
E re to Be Made Ll-
I in North l arc
■lt Is Explained.
livf; TO BE
| HEI-I) TONIGHT
I Out of the h ive
lichers Have Already
| d to Make I‘rices
■orm.
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Bwth Carolina will ••Ijanffe
tets m make the retail
Bfj.rm with rims.' n>.w in es-
ami wlnVi in some
Bower than in this state
Bother twn eemi-ames will
Bjout for the existing con-
Bthe slate may have to sue.
Bhl today by those familiar
Eatioti. though no member
E jj, Klr ,l of cdiieation would ;
B o u the situation, iiemlingj
Eof the board tonight at N I
■ representatives of the va-j
Bj„.rv The publishers have j
E instriteted hy wire to 1
Bifpreseiitatives full power (
Bjeii! at the meeting to-J
Bit is stil! hoped by some of j
Bp of.the .■board that all will |
Efc, the Tennessee contraet j
E V o in North Carolina, and |
B will he made to t'nis end. j
■ifoiivof die publishers <lt‘- I
■tils.'the board is convinced j
Em excellent case and wi.l
Eio bring suit to compel
B*tbn "1 tiie Tennessee
B in this state.
Ejnl'y developments have
Bof ;Le textbook situation
B few days:
Be board of education is!
Wit according to its con-!
E publishers. school chi!-j
Bril (’aroliiia arc entitled j
Bjr texi hocks at the same!
B| Tennessee children pay!
B;some other minor
in the form of the ]
every effort is to be |
school I’.ii'dren the j
Bklower prices as soon as ,
■ ' efforts are being made i
Bt Tennessee price lists ef-'
Briiateiy. 7 ‘ I
Bm.ioh it is hoped that it !
Bwtssary to go into court, j
Bt publishers will agree vol-1
B Put the new ]irices into I
Birth Carolina immediately. !
Bj final action on the part I
is almost demanded J
Bo? tonight.
B 1 a number of factors in !
situation that have j
B*ke it one of considerable
Hn.according to A. T. Alien, j
Bu.endeiit of public instruc-1
W* appeaied to in ah effort
■ salient facts hi the case.
Ewnsidera'ted in the matter •
Bwce in tiie form of the |
B Wlth Nl 'fth Carolina and
■ T.:e eon tracts for books
■ Carolina stipulate only the
B to the individual school !
| finai retail price. I„ Ten- i
■ sont nut quotes two prices,
■ price, it t which the
■ M by the publishers to
a ' s " ifit'e retail price
■ ''‘ books are sold to the
And these retail!
one cent to seven-1
| per book than the
■ n 'fb the same books are 1
I, , ~ ,hil,l|T » in XorAi i
■ ' "ogb m the majority of i
■ ‘Ms are the same under
the method of dis-'
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|r ten- an< tlle dealers in
I thev n ' , am * c ‘ t ‘ , ‘ s order
I T from these de-
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THE CONCORD TIMES
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
MISSING CARD NOW
, IN POSSESSION OF
i STATE PROSECUTOR
1 ■ ______
- Card Was Taken From the
Body of Rev. Edward
-! Hall and Bears Finger
• Prints of Importance.
seekinjgTbail
I FOR TWO MEN
y! Defense in Hall-Mills Case
Contends Evidence of
; the State Will Be Easily
Overcome.
\
Soinervi’le. X. J.. Aug. 26.—OP)—
A card which was on f.ie body of the
Ilfvv Edward W. Hall when it was
i found with that of his choir singer,
Mrs. Eleanor Mills, September 16,
1!)22. is in t of the State,
and finger prints on it correspond to
those of one of tlfe three people held
| for the murder, aocording to Special
I Prosecutor Alexander Simpson. He
the finding of the card
I u’nich had been reported missing, at
j a hearing before Justice Parker this
morning for the admission to bail of
Henry Carpender and Willie Stevens,
j held for the murder.
Airs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow
! of the slain rector, cousin of Carpend
er and sister of Stevens, and the third
person charged with the murders, is
already out on bail.
| At a preliminary hearing last week
. County Judge Cleary ruled that a
! prima facie case had been made cut
against Carpender and Stevens ami
held them without bail,
j Defense counsel appeared before |
I Chief Justice (Junmere at Newark on
Monday to apply for bail, but he de
clined to hear the application on the
ground that it should be made to
Justice Parker. Justice Parker came
here from Northeast Harbor, Ale., to
hear the p ea.
Justice Parker ruled that no further ■
evidence could be submitted by either 1
| tiie prosecution or the defense. He j
added that the evidence already in his j
) possession was quite sufficient.
| Robert H. McCarter, of defense I
counsel, in his opening statement de-!
j dared that he intended tt> show that j
J “jyuofs in this case are so flimsy and !
i absurd that in our judgment it will
not stand the test of the rule.’
Refuses to Allow Pair Bail,
j Somerville. N. J., Aug. 26.—OP)—
; Supreme Court Justice Parker today
i refused to admit to bail Henry de la
j Buryere Carpender, and Willie Stev- j
i ens, held for the murder of the Rev. j
Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor!
Mills.
J The two were held by County Judge )
| Cleary after a five-day hearing.
- - - -
THE COTTON MARKET
I Opening Steady at Decline of 4 to
j 7 Points, With October at 17.88.
New York, Aug. 26. — UP) —The at
! tention of the cotton trade appeared
j to be divided between the fear of pos-
I sible storm damage to the eastern belt ■
j crop, and prospects of clearing and |
i more favorable weather in the south- j
I west during today’s early trading in 1
' the market here. The opening was j
I steady at a decline of 4 to 7 points !
| under realizing, southern and local;
j selling, promoted by relatively easy j
I early cables from Liverpool, and the 1
forecast for fair weather in Texas ‘
and Oklahoma. October contracts sold ‘
off to 17.88 apd January to 17.62, net
declines of about 6 to 10 points, but
the tropical storm threat along the
Louisiana coast brought in some buy-
I ing and the market soon rallied. By
; the end of the first hour October was
j selling 18 cents, with the market i
about 3 to 6 points net higher.
Cotton futures opened steady. Oct.
17.03; Dec. 17.92; Jan. 17.97; March
1815; May 18.24.
i
' Total consumption of ice cream in
| the United States last year was 322,-
! 729,000 gallons, or more than two
gallons for every man, woman and
child in the country.
, i .
not want to make these changes in the
North Carolina contract is because
they have similar contracts in South
Carolina, Mississippi and Arkansas,
| and the minute they consented to
change the terms of the contract in
North Carolina, these other three
I states w’aich have contract identical
j with those of North Carolina, would
! immediately clamor to have their con
tracts changed—and of course, they
would have to give them the same
terms.
Thus it is that the publishers main
tain that the ’higher prices charged
in North Carolina are justified be
cause in this state they are parties to
the distribution of the books to the
school children, and maintain that
in Tennessee this is not the case,
their responsibility ending, as far as
distribution is concerned, when an or
der has been tilled and delivered to the
carrier.
But a careful reading of the Ten
nessee contract does not bear out this
contentiou, first, because both whole
sale and retail prices are quoted, and
because specific mention is made of
distribution and delivery of the books
to the individual school children, as
in the North Carolina contract.
So it is that the board of education
is most hopeful that the majority of
the publishers, if not all of them, will
voluntarily consent to make the prices
quoted in Tennessee contract the
prices effective in North Carolina as
■ well.
VALENTINO LYING IN STATE
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I Photo shows the body of Rudolph Valentino as it appeared lying in state in the Campbell Funeral Par- '
lore. Eva Aliller is praying at the side of the dead man.
SUNDAY SCHOOL MEET
IN MONTGOMERY. ALA.
t
Fifth Annua] Conference of Southern
Methodist Church Opens August
31st.
(By International News Service)
Montgomery. Ala , Aug. 26.—The
j fifth annual session of the Alethodist
. Sunday school conference for the 600
j Alethodist Sunday schools ‘of central
and south Alabama and west Florida
null meet In Auburn, Ala., August
31st to September 2nd. according tv
the announcement made here by' Sun
day school officials.
The attendance is expected to total
I. Sunday school workers.
I Prominent visiting churchmen from
j over the southern states are to ap
j pear on the program. Bishop Hoyt
I AI. Dobbs will deliver the principal
j address at t’ae opening session Tues
j day night, August 31st. Other prora
j inent visiting speakers will include
1 Dr, John W. Shackford and L. E.
I Sensabaugh, of Nashville. Teun.; Ilev.
John R. IVpper, Memphis, Tenn.; l>r.
S. T. Slatou,*Biriningham. Ala.; Mtf.
J. M. Henry, •Bfrre*-ep«H r*H. (kr Litkt*-
bin, Nashville, and Miss Alary Skin
ner, Talladega. Ala. *■
There will be a special celebration
!of Southern Alethodism’s 25th anni
i versary of its training program which
! will be held at Wednesday night's ses-,
I sion of this conference,
j Special tribuates to Dr. H. AI.
i Hamm ill, first teacher-training super
! inteudent of the denomination, will be
j paid by Rev. T. D. Sanford. Opelika,
Ala., and John R. Pepper, Memphis.
Dr. Mammill was a native of Auburn
and a member of the Alabama con
ference.
The conference will bring 1,000
workers to the ‘‘village of the plains”
where boarding houses and college
! dormitories will be used to provide
; ample accommodations.
J. T. Ellison, attorney, Centerville,
! is president of the Sunday school con
j ference.
J. W. Andrews, banker of Pensa
| cola, is first vice president} having
: served as president in 1925.
Both will be at the conference and
a new president is expected to be
elected.
Ellison has not announced whether
he is a candidate for re-election.
WIFE ARRESTED ON
' HUSBAND’S REQUEST
Greensboro Man Says Mate Assault
ed Him With Deadly Weapon.
Greensboro, Aug. 25. —Mrs. O. C.
Penny was arrested here this after
noon upon complaint of her husband,
O. C. Penney, charged with assault
with a dealy weapon. The weapon
was a pistol.
Mrs. Penny, young and composed,
even when brought to the police sta
tion, inquired of the officers what they
though of a husband who would have
his wife arrested. They did not ex
press an opinion, but were kind in
helping her to arrange bond, one going
to the home of her mother, Mrs. \V. J.
Moorefield, in order that Mrs. Aloore
field might be secured to go on the
bond which was for SIOO. This was
arranged and Airs. Penny was not de
tained long at the police station.
She said that Tuesday night at
about 8 o'clock she drove up in front
of the place where her husband was
employed and her husband came out
of the car. It was her brother s car
and she told her husband that she
had just been riding about. * She said
he asked her where she was going and
she replied “home.” Then he saw a
pistol, also belonging to he? brother,
on the seat of the car and endeavored
to take it. She tried to prevent him
from taking it, she said, but he took
it. The pistol was not loaded, she
said.
Helen Wills Will Continue Amateur.
Beike’ey, Calif., Aug. Helen
Wills, national tennis champion, re
turned home today, not to face a
reception as could be accorded to
America's queen of v the courts, but as
a modest young school girl returning
to her studies at the University of
California- Only a few friends, her
father, Dr. C. A. Wills, and a delega
tion of her Kappa Kappa Gamma
sisters met the racquet star at the
station.
Salmon produce 1,000 eggs for ev
ery pound of their weight.
CONCORD, N. C~ THURSDAY, AU GUST 26,1926
VALENTINO'S BOD!
BIRRED TO PUBLIC
TO AVOID TROUBLE
Disorders Had Arisen
Among Thousands Who
Flocked to the Bier of
Screen Idol.
ITALIANS CLASH
OVER FAVORITE
In the Future Only Friends
and Associates Will Be
Allowed to View Body of
the Screen Sheik.
New York, Aug. 26. — (/P) —Rudolph
Valentino’s body was barred from pub
lic view today to avoid further disord
ers among the thousands wtio have
1 flocked to the screen idol’s bier, and
also to avert clashes between rival
groups of Italian admirers.
“Normal decorum and dignity now
prevail at the Frank E. Campbell
funeral church,” says an advertise
ment in today’s papers. Attendants
had said the occasion was being trans
formed into a “three-ringed circus.”
Plans for n public funeral Monday
have been abandoned, and the cere
monies will be attended by iyvited
guests only.
“From now on,” said S. George Ull
man, friend and business manager of
the star, “Valentino’s body will be
viewed only by friends and associates
under my personal supervision. The
lack of reverence, disorder and riot
ing since the body was first shown
f nave forced me to this decision.”
A queque resembling a football
snake dance was formed for six blocks
along Broadway and side streets yes
terday under police supervision after
the near riots of the day before.
Cross-town traffic was blocked by a
line four or five abreast that crawled
along Broadway and in and out of
side streets until it was reduced to a
single file near the undertakers’ es
tablishment.
One woman who stood in line five
hours made three rounds of the ac
tor’s bier, fainted each time, and was
ordered by police not to return again.
A weeping girl was found to have an
onion in her handkerchief . Girls plied
powder puffs and lip sticks as they
neared the casket. Women fainted
and became hysterical. Twenty mount
ed police, 112 patrolmen, 12 sergeants
and four lieutenants were required to
handle the surging mass.
Eight More Years of Life Possible by
Correct Diet.
AVilliamston, Alass , Aug. 25. —By
drinking more milk and eating less
meat, man could add eight years to
t’.ie “part of his life worth most to
himself and to the world,” H. C.
Sherman, professor of chemistry at
Columbia University, told the insti
tute of politics today.
The adequate diet determined by
recent research work in nutrition, he
said, prescribes more milk and less
meat to increase individual efficiency j
and vitality. The public health move-'
ment promises to augment the life
spaa by eight years and this increase
could be doubled, Professor Sherman
thinks, by a universal Suiift in diet.
Displeased With Court Action.
Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 20.— Of)—
The release in North Carolina of
George Farley. a white man, charged
with the murder of a negro fellow
worker by the Waynesville. N. C.,
court on the eve of a scheduled extra
dition hearing, was reported to Dis
trict Attorney Arthur K. Reading
today by an inspector sent south for
the fugitive.
Farley was released on a writ of
habeas corpus without notification to
the Massachusetts authorities. Mr.
Reading said. He character .zed the
, action as “high handed.” <
j PRISON WALLS CANNOT
CHANGE COUPLE’S LOVE
! Marion King and Ernest Strait Still
Hope to Live Normal Lives.
I (By International News Service)
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 26.—Love
| that has carried them Uirough a ca
.! reer of crime, culminating in their
j marriage in the shadow of the peni
-1 | tentiary, still flourishes behind gray
■j prison walls and now promises to be
j instrumental in obtaining their re
| lease from prison on parole.
L Pinning their hopes of happiness
. | on the action of the parole board at
, I the next meeting, Memphis’ bobbed
! ! haired bandit and her bandit husband,
| now content themselves with seeing
I one another once a week at the State
J prison at Nashville.
They are Marion King, Mississippi
i ! heiress, who held up and robbed a
1 down-town cafeteria for funds to re
! lease Ernest Strait, her bandit lover,
i | from jail on bond.
J Ernest and Marion were schoolday
! j sweethearts. T.ieir childhood days
| were spent on adjoining plantations in
’’{Mississippi. Marion’s fosler parents
died when she was young and she was
! taken to an orphan’s home.
I When she became of age, a large I
plantation had been left to her by the {
will of Jim King, who had adopted
her as a baby. King was the sheriff
at Tupelo, Miss., for many years.
But when she returned to the
scenes of her childhood, Ernest had
gone. She sought him. He had
i fallen from the “straight and narrow”
and was leading a life of crime in
Memphis.
Marion went to Memphis and found
him in jail on robbery charges.
ing only of him and the S2OO needed
i to buy a bond that would release him
from jail, she obtained a big pistol
I and held up a cafeteria and obtained
1 the money.
I That night Ernest was free.
But the police were hot on Ma
; rion’s trail. She was arrested qml
identified as the pretty bandit.
From her cell in city prison she
sought legal advice. Half of her
plantation was sold and Lier release
on bond obtained.
A few days before Marion’s trial,
they were married. At one of the
hardest fought legal battles in this
section a jury sentenced Marion to
servo five years in the State peni*-
tentiary.
Witnesses identified her by her big
blue eyes and her pretty bobbed hair.
Ernest wanted to go where she
went. He pleaded guilty and also ,
was sentenced to the penitentiary.
Now they are both eligible for pa
role. Their applications 'have been
filed with the parole board.
Once a week they are allowed to (
see one another —through a steel
screen.
For one hour each week they plan
their future.
Marion still owns half the planta
tion.
When they are free, they will settle
down on fae little plantation and fol
low the “straight and narrow, ’ thej\
both say.
Old Money That’s “No Good.”
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Aug. 26—Although their .
better judgment tells them it is worth- ;
less, people Who still have “old <
money”, sometimes Confederate and <
.sometimes of State issue, still hope ;
that it may be good and are continu
ally sending it in to Raleigh, either to <
I the State treasurer or to the auditor,
] asking if it is “good.”
Today Baxter Durham, State audi
tor, brought in a handful of old, faded
and much soiled money, issued by the
State of North Carolina in 1862, and
asked State Treasurer Ben R. Lacy
if it was any good, but it was not.
“They .still hope, though, ffuat by
some hook or crook it will be ‘good’
someday, but there isn’t any chance,”
said Mr. Lacy.
The Jordan Valley, more than a
th usand feet below «ea level, is one
of the lowest spots on the earth’s
surface. The fish and vegetation
there are characteristic not of Asia
but of Africa-
The Red Swastika Society is an
attempt to replace the Red Cross in'
k China. .. .
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor ancj Publisher
BABE LEFT DURING
NIGHT IN BOARDING
HOUSE IN CONCORD
Was Found When Cries
Awoke Mrs. J. S. Laffer
ty in Whose Home It
< Was Deserted.
i
! LAUNDRY MARK
IS ONLY CLUE
Mark “J. N. H.” Found
i in Several Dresses Left
With Baby Now at Con
cord Hospital.
A precious babe in swaddling
clothing is being cared for temporarily
at the Concord Hospital while local
officials endeavor to trace its parents
and locate a home for it.
The baby, a boy about three weeks
or a month old, was left at the horae_of
Dr. J. S. Laffexty some time during
the night, its CL ,: es arousing the house,-
hold at 4 o’clock this morning. Up
on being awakened Mrs. Lafferty lis
tened for a few minutes to the cries
of the youngster, being unable to real
ize that he was inside her home.
When the cries continued Mrs. Laf
fert.v went into the living room and
there found the babe resting comfort
ably on a davenport. To insure hie
safety the person who est h : m there
had propped pillows about him, leav
ing nearby a bottle of milk and a
bundle of clothing.
It is through the clothing that, of
ficers hope to trace the parents. Sev
eral baby dresses, all showing signs
of having been worn and laundered
several times, bear the laundry mark.
"J. N. H.” and the clothing was wrap
ped in the heavy craft paper almost
universally used by laundries.
Mrs. Lafferty notified the police of
her find and officers on duty carried
the babe to the Concord Hospital,
where already he has won his way
.into the hearts of the nurses. He has
been given a basket in the baby's ward
and this morning was quietly enjoy
ing the benefits found at his new home.
The nurses at the hospital insist that
liis name is “Jackie.” and they use
that name in addressing him.
The management of the Concord
Steam Laundry stated this morning
that none of their regular customers
has the mark “J. N. H.” Several
ago a man at Harrisburg had
j the mark but he has been dead several
I years, .it was stated, and all of the
j laundry lie sent in was apparel for
men.
Officers here, it is understood, have
notified police officers in other cities
of the case and have asked that in
quiries be made in their cities to as
certain if anyone there has the mark
found on the babe’s clothing.
So far as the officers can learn no
one saw the person or persons who
left the baby at the Lafferty home. It
may be that the youngster stayed in
the home some time before crying out,
so it is impossible for the officers to
know the hour the home was entered.
Officers also are unable to know
whether the babe was left at the Laf
ferty home on purpose or whether the
person who deserted it entered the first
door found open.
Due to the fact that many boarders
stay at the Lafferty home the front
door is never locked and it was easy
for entrance to be made there. Police
are inclined to the opinion that the
person who left the baby knew the
Lafferty home is a boarding house and
that the front door is always open.
One opinion expressed by officers is
tht the babe was left by some one who
for a day or so at the
Lafferty home and knew the kindly
deposition of Mrs. Lafferty.
In the bundle of clothes left with
the boy are various sorts and sizes of
garments. At the hospital this morn
ing the youngster was wearing a light
weight flannel shirt, diaper and petti
coat that boasted of pink ribbons
across the top and a bow on one
shoulder. He had been dressed in
clean clothing after reaching the hos
pital and it was stated that he was
wearing a dress as well as the other
garments when found.
All of the dresses had the mark “J.
N. H.,” but the other clothes were not
marked. There was one apron-dress
in the package, several petticoats and
about two dozen diapers. Some of
the dresses are large enough for a
two-year-old child and all show that
they have been worn and washed
many times. The clothing is not tom,
and everything in the package un
doubtedly had just been returned from
a laundry somewhere. Nurses who
examined the clothing expressed the
opinion that only one of the gar
ments was hand-made.
The baby shows no outward sign
of mistreatment. He is plenty plump,
his skin is fair and his eyes grey or
blue. When police officers went into
the ward to examine his clothing he
uttered not a sound when he was
picked up and carried to a window
where the marks could be more easily,
read. When he was placed back in
his basket and covered with a blan
ket he seemed entirely happy with the
world. He bad been fed after reach
ing the hospital although the manner
in which he held his fist to his mouth '
indicated that be might have been
hupgry again.
Until officers have had time to make
theic investigation the bab> \xill be
left at the hospital. If they fail iu
their efforts to locate his parents it
is probable that they will try to get
some couple here to adopt the boy.
The case has aroused unusual in
terest here, many persons expressing
horror that anyone would be mean
LEAVES GUARD FOR
MITE AND FJ!;
1 TO SHOCr AGAIN
jIJ. V. Vickers, of Monroe,
■j a Prisoner at Raleigh,
t, Uses Old Ruse to Make
| His Getaway.
j GUARD WAITED
2 FOR HIS RETURN
l Vickers Was in Charlotte
t For Examination in Ef
fort to Get More Govern
ment Money.
r Charlotte, X. C., Aug. 26.—. T. V.
\ ickers, of Monroe, now serving a
penitentiary sentence at the state
i pr son at Raleigh for manslaughter.
escajied on a down town street here
i this morning from a guard.
Vickers was brought here yester
day for an examination by the IT. S.
T eterans Bureau in connection with
. an effort to obtain additional compen
sation for disabilities said to have
been incurred during the World War.
The man was sent to prison after
conviction for the slaying and rob
bing of Ellison Y. Rogers, of Mon
roe on the old Tuckaseege road last
October Bth.
Within 15 minutes after his escape
word had passed through the street
crowds causing a sensation as the
reputation of the man as a ‘'killer'’
had accompanied the reports of his
dash. B. S. Jenkins, guard at the
state farm at Halifax, had Vickers in
custody when he effected his escape.
The getaway was made after the
guard and prisoner had gone to a
physician’s office, and find : ng that it
would be some time before they could
be admitted they decided to go for a j
stroll. Stopping at a confectionery i
store. Vickers asked permission to go
to the rear of the establishment for
"a minute.” which the guard granted.
When he did not return shortly a
search was instituted. Jenkins said
he granted Vickers permission to
leave his sight because he had acted
in such a “model way” at other times.
The "two had been here since Tues
day. They spent two nights together
in hotels. Jenkins said he had not
been permitted to handcuff his pris
oner. - * ’
TROPICAL, STORM fB
LESS VIOLENT NOW
One Death Reported in New Orleans
as a Result of the Storm There.
New Orleans, La., Aug. 26.— UP) —
One person was known to be dead and
several others injured as a result of
a tropical storm which swept New Or
leans last night.
The storm's full force did not strike
New Orleans. Weather Bureau of
ficials said the maximum velocity of
the wind was 44 miles an hour, and
the force of the storm had diminished
rapidly after it passed inland from
the Gulf of Mexico. It was reported
central today between Shreveport and
Vicksburg.
Theffinst death from the storm came
when a lineman was killed as he came
in contact with a live wire. Other
injuries reported early today were of
a minor nature. -
Dieting May Become Method Used
For Preserving Teeth.
Philadelphia, Aug. 25.—Dieting,
instead of dentistry, may be a future
method of preserving the teeth, dele
gates to the seventh international
dental congress were told today. The
discovery that dental ills may ne
remedied through scientific selection
of foods is only recent, according to
Dr. Bernhard Gottlieb, of the uni
versity of Vienna, who added that
the full import of the relation of
food to teeth has not yet been realiz
ed. But within five or ten years, he
said, teeth defray may be prevented
by eating certain foods.
“We have found,” he said, "That
weight giving food which builds up
the body tissues does not feed the
teeth. We have been working along
the most advanced scientific lines in
an effort to isolate goods which will
directly feed the teeth. It is too early
to say that we are successful in this
matter but experiments with sea
foods have encouraged us to believe
we are now on the right track. ’
Cabbage, brussels sprouts and
spinach were other foods named by
Dr- Gottlieb as valuable “tooth
builders.” Such foods as these,
which do not contribute to bodily
issue, nevertheless, contain lime salt/
that basis of tooth's namel.,
1
Cohen Gets 40 Years.
New York, Aug. 26.— (A*) —George
Cohen, of Chicago, who had pleaded
guilty to participation in a $75,000
jewel robbery in Maiden Lane last
month, was sentenced today to serve
40 years in Sing Sing prison.
Cohen admitted taking part with
Sol Brofman in hold : ng up the estab
lishment of Abraham W. Faigin.
Brofman also pleaded guilty, but
sentence was deferred.
*
Three-fourths of all the women
Deaf children exclusively will be
taught in the handsome new Gal
laudet School which the board of
education of St. Louis, Mo., is erect
ing at a cost of $600,000.
.. —' . r— *-,i=.. :ra>/grr-!;
enough to desert a helpless babe.
“Dumb animals won’t desert their off
spring,” one man stated in expressing
the hope that the* persons responsible
for the fate of the child can be found
and convicted under the law.
DEMOCRATS DENT I
. RESIDENT GAVE
NATION ECONOMY!
* Sharp Differences of Opin
ion About Government
Economy Shown by Tw6 1
i Party Members.
MADDEN STATES
ECONOMY HELPED
Democrats Charge Repub
lican Policy “Saves at
, Spigot and Leaks at tht I
Bung Hole.”
| Washington, Aug. 26.—C4*)-*-Djf»
Iference of opinion about government
economy and other political toplca
were brought into sharp contttnt I%'
! day with 'the publication of view* «t
--pressed by the Democratic XtHottll
Committee and by Chairman MatMe*
of the House appropriations commit
tee. and Representative Wood of lit- j
diana, chairman of the repub)fofttt
Congressional campaign committee*, P
Citing figures to show that com
parable peacetime appropriations w«f% ‘
greater under the Coolidge than un
der the Wilson administration tlm \
Democratic committee concluded that
“constructive economy is evidently the
sort that saves at the spigot I
j wastes at the bung hole.” Mr. Mttl-
I den after conferring with President
| Coolidge at l*aul Smith's, N. Y n Ott
j government finance, estimated thit,
the proposed expenditures for the fis
cal year 1928 would be perhaps a
quarter of a billion dollars less than
actual expenditures in the current fis
cal year.
Representative Wood, who also con- ]
ferred with the President, strmwd
j prosperity as the issue in the off-yfrat
elections, and calculated that the Re
publicans would wind up with a work
ing majority of at least 25 in th#
House, compared with 35 at present.
Democratic leaders have predicted Con
siderable larger gains for their forces.
FIGHT OVER LIFE
OF DOG PROMISED
Attorney Contends That the Cottrt
Can’t Order a Canine Killed.
High Point, Aug. 25.—Promise of
a tight in the courts for the life of a
dog was given today when Judge Don
C. Macßae indicated in municipal
. court that he would order to be shot
a canine which is alleged to have bit
ten several people. Attorney T. ty r .
Albertson, representing the ow yjtf
the dog, jumped to his feet tfre
declaration that the court had np au- ;
thority to take the life of the dojf
lie would fight any such attempt. A.aj
Witnesses testified that a number
of people have been bitten recently by
a vicious dog owned by Grovejr 4-
Kerr, who was on trial for alipwipp
the dog to run loose in violation qj i** 1
ordinance lately passed. Mr- Kerr
was arrested when a little boy was !
bitten; both Vie dog and boy are yn- \
der examination of Dr. S. S. Coe and ' g
Dr. C. A .Jones to determine whether <
there is danger of rabies.
If the dog is definitely killed, the : j
case gives promise of an interesting
legal battle deciding whether a police
court has the authority to demand
such penalties.
Mr. Kerr’s is the first case of it*
kind tried in the local court sin,cy
several hundred dogs were slaughtered >;
a few months ago. immediately after ’I;
the passage of a dog ordinance resyJt- jj
ing from a mad dog panic * which *
gripped the city.
BLAMES HICKORY FOLKS j
FOR REPORTED DRIVING j
Mayor of Town Says Drunkei * Per
sons He Saw Lived in HiekofV.
Hickory. Aug 25.—Respoik&lUty i
for the heavy drinking reported **r- I
ing the American I,egion convepßpp jg
here Monday and Tuesday, was piac- 1
ed on Hickory citizens tqdsjr jbf •]
Mayor S. I. Whitener and not Oh I
the visiting legionnaires. -.»■
In a statement to Vie press today *
the Mayor said:
“There may have been too much ; ;
drinking at the Legion convention, *
but it is my opinion that the Legion- |
naires are not solely responsible. I |
understand that there was perfect I
order at all meetings of the Legion j*
convention and that the drinking was 1
done outside of the assembly hall. 'ln J
justice to the Legionnaires, in view *
of the criticism they have leceived.
I deem it my duty to state that the |
drunkot persons I saw duriug the 1
convention were Hickory citizen*.”
Mayor Whitener was of the opin- j!j
ion that there were a number -of *
Hickory citizens who used the con
vention as an excuse to -“tank up”
and blame it on the visitors*
• .a
Spain Wants Tangier District. jj
Paris, Aug. 26.— UP) — The French
government has received a memoran- f
dum from Spain expressing the de
sire of that country that the intern*--::!
tional district of Tangier to.be at- p
tached to the Spanish zone-in Moroc- fi
CO. . ' v’** 1
r— -iJgjM
The following declaration will
take the place of the oath formerliy
sworn before notaries public! ‘ l Thi* l»
is a true statement, made umer the
penalties of perjury.”
THE WEATHER
Cloudy with occasional shower* to- *
night and Friday. Slightly cooler
on the coast tonight. Moderate north
i ast and east winds.
NO. 17