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LUME LI | lirV P;m«l Before ■f(>e Will Bo m ■of Indictment. W ill |rawn. Too. E&jRISTj Jill Hear Evidence ■ t Mrs- Hall and ■ Kinsmen Charged 1 the Murders. I 77. - '••• - (/P) ■ u-iu r:iml jury will be ■7 hr <»ph'[- of Supreme ; ■jlfnr fleering the twen-’ to whom will lie sub- Kidctice on which Mrs.; ■ L Hi'i Willie Stevens. | Cari'eislcr have been R. t h, murder four years t K.hvani Wheeler Hall ; R, :i ,i,i- Mills were received Kgutv •liiilf brank I>. j R jury panel before which 1 ( be Tri»‘»l in the event of j R u .j|; !,»■ drawn at the same | Rf„r the trrainl jury drawn j Rfiti, nr.itained l--» names, j ~t!iers. four wom ;u'n members of Lie 1 tw tin* e,unity treas- j jR~ fanners, four physi- eight municipal and one umlertak i E a grand jury will be j -s- meeting of this body ; MfOTTON MARKET at Decline of 1 to 10 l iter Held \\ ell l|» to ; H Close. K. v '.». — f/P) —The c »t --■ i.irne,i steady today at j points. Active I showed net losses of i v j.iiii.: s under southern; :: '- and local offerings 1 H t.. inspired by rel- j ' 'V cables, reports ■ Hev'i 'be l\g\i)tian mar- ; L lierr.-r weather inf m 1 |R- -of. turfher showers! in some buying, ■i ;i:'t>".' the initial offer- j ab'.'i’hed the market Bering. lie.ember sell- by the end of the H bh" marke' at that time prices holding well Ri'h 2or points of Ves uvius quotations. opeij.sl steady. Get. ■ h.V .lan. 17.!i4: March B lH.2fb Bahpmk bandits ■ 'll. to MARK ESCAPE to Haiti. Mud ami ■ footing Sheriff After ftti. 11. Sent. It. —MAO — j ■jT Clacago bandits who j diatinin.l merchants of I R" n doihir.s worth of jewel- j ■liliimis t ’outru 1 train near j ■ugli:. were captured in a H'U'U" Kllckley. 111.. this victims to the rain aml ■nid a straight shooting ■"Dtral. 111. ■ miles north of ('ham-j rubbers were surrounded held after they had ■ w'Mif >; x mil, - through R i!!! I.oila, where they had analnb>ti ;iji nverheat ■ runmmiideere.l after tiiey fbe train. B, II1H " f°hl capturing of bad hidden tlie jew- B“ ;l, nl Ihiekley. 1 )ep- R. t ‘ nr . v T.nnen, of Iroquos Wl , ' ll , ipf "f Police Louis R , kl ”- v - win, directed the 1 " ‘"' k _ b> find the jewels ir<l prisoners were start ■<ni)aign farmers assisted in ■Vi , « r "'! Il< * lll!! tlie men > n ■ T ! na ‘‘. v ‘'"inpelling their lit ti "c" ,ak "» refuge m tllp field. ■*"' '.f Injuries. J ■ s !>?. '•*.— (A 3 )— B w \ yn,lhalll ( 'f Wilson Be s (1 r :,rl >- today of B M a "! wl *" an automo- K iT Uy "* l " «» ihe BiiilhaniV I '," 1 '‘‘‘f-'iomp. Bmbor of , 11 hruu « ht to y u< at « rosuit B ' i"" ! J; :iU lH ‘ ar few ■ k:,, VyHdliam’s mother ■ rou„ t IM t! "' ■■“■-“lent in B- wi,i ~ ,Wa m Wd fa- J] ,w<l ln ' Ml were t*"'* l ' machine ■ C J l .'!', «» Atlantic l - ak( ‘ erogs- ' ,e ". ■ Sept. 7,1 ?' Vs Service) Pal and „ . lln *' n K together pill be ?[ I<,lltura! aspects ► h ,"r Re of the ■ the tp ,!: laboratory in |**ool at s< ' h ° o1 and ag- I dt t* l - state college P| l ! M 'i l ,' t '' <ll ! Mri ' ,i : "«1 agri- B*tlnct. sepa- THE CONCORD TIMES $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. WORLD COURT ISSUE I GEORGIA SHOWS PEOPLE FAVOR PLAH Senator Walter George Nominated by Demo crats at Primary Held Yesterday. CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR CLOSE With 208 Units Needed, Dr. L. G. Hardman Was Leading Three Oppon ents With 136 Units. Atlanta. Sept. 9. UP) —Georgia Democratic voters upheld .the world court stand of United States Senator "Water F. George at the state-wide primary yesterday by returning him to office with a sweeping victory over his opponent, R. B. Russell, chief jus tice of the supreme court Incomplete returns early today gave George a popular vote of 39,428 votes against 20.737 for Russell. In unit votes Liis gave George 229, and Russell 40. . 208 unit votes are necessary for a choice. The Democratic nomination in Georgia is equivalent to election. In the race for governor. Dr. L. G. Hardman was leading his three op ponents with 130 unit votes. John N. Holder was second with 114; George Carswell third with 76; and Joe Wood fourth with 8. This indi cated 29 counties for Carswell. 51 for Hardman, 43 for Holder, and four for Wood. Congressman E. E. Cox. Charles R. j Crisp. W. C. Wright, Sam Rut’aer- j ford. Carl Vinson, AV. C. Langford i and W. AV. Larsen were unopposed ! for renomination. ~ - AA\ D. Vpshaw, congressman from the fifth Atlanta district, was defeat ed by Lester j. Steele, of Decatur. Ga., Mayor AA\ A. Sims, of Atlanta, ran second, and Upshaw third. Upshaw Defeated. Atlanta. Sept. 9. —c /P) —AVilliam D. Upshaw, ••jrreconciliable” foe to any thing savoring of wetness, appears to be the only incumbent defeated for Congress in yesterday’s Democratic primary, but the race had no tinge of the prohibition issue, for he went ddwn in a three-cornered fight against two other avowed drys. L. J. Steele, of- Decatur, an attor ney. on the face of today's tabula tions won by a majority from Mr. Upshaw and Mayor Walter A. Sims, of Atlanta. The Georgia Democratic primary is handled on the ‘‘county unit system”, each county having twice as many votes in the Slate Democratic convention as it has sen ators and representatives in the leg islature, and today's returns gave Steele 10, Upshaw 6. and Sims 2. Senator Walter F. George, who voted for United States entrance into the world court, won by a large ma jority from Richard B. Russell, su preme court justice, and world court opponent, by 229 to 40 county unit votes. RALEIGH WANTS LANDING FOR AIRPLANES Department of Commerce Assisting City in Obtaining Such a Field. (By International News Service) Raleigh. Sept. o.—Supported by the j Chamber of Commerce and Gov. A. j W. McLean, the city of Raleigh has taken steps towards the immediate ! acquisition of an nadequate landing I field for an airport For commercial j and mail planes, so that when the ; southern air lines are started Raleigh will be in position to assert its rights as a point on the line. The United States department of 1 commerce is assisting Raleigh in ob taining such a field and is helping as a result to see that Raleigh is in cluded in prospecting southern air mail routes. R. H. Horton had a conference with members of the Chamber of Commerce of Raleigh and as an outgrowth of the conference announced that he was working at present on plans to estab lish a commercial air route dowu through the southeast. “People are ready to fly, willing to fly and even anxious to fly, de clared Horton. “As soon as the air routes can be established and financed, Hying will be common in this sec tion.” . “Air- express lines will soon cross the entire nation. A runway of at least 2.500 feet should be provided for the lauding field and it shou.d ,be located as near the heart of the city as possible.” FINED FOR DISTURBING - MUNICIPAL ELECTION Two Men Tried to Vote By Force in Recent Election'in Salisbury. Salisbury. Sept. * 9. —04*) —W. H. Booe and Floyd Satterwhite.- two white men of this city, were fined $25 each and costs in the Rowan County court this morning for d’sutrbing and interfering with the municipal elec tion here August 24tli when the vot ers were passing on whether or not this city was to have a managerial form of government. The offense took place at the North Ward polling place, and was precipitated because their name** were not on the registration book. They used threatening language and a forcible rush was made toward th<> ballot box. Both plead gu : lty. Mexico City is one of the most beautiful of the world's capitals. m LEAGUE GDES FORWARD WITHOUT HELP OF AMERICA j Sir George Foster, of Can ada, Says Despite Amer ica’s Attitude League of | Nations Is Success. MILLIONS FAVOR LEAGUE’S WORK ; Speaker Says That Amer ica Has Not Tried to Hamper League.—Sees Support From People. Geneva. Sept. 9.—C4>)—Millions of I citizens of Lie United States have “sympathetic hearts and minds which approve the great work of the league of nations is carrying on.” Sir George Foster, of Canada, declared in an hddress before the league as semb'y today. Sir George said the league’s first great disappointment had been depriv ation of the active co-operation of the United .States. Marly skeptics had thought the absence of the United States spelled Lie end of the league; that without the United States it would be impossible for the league to do effective and continuous work. “Despite that,” lie remarked, “we ! have continued and have made our | way forward step by step. AA’e have I done that without opposition from the United States.” Insisting that taking the population | as a who'e and as individuals “mil-1 lions parallel us in approbation of the league’s work,” Me added, that despite the fact that the I’nited States does not officially belong to tlie league “we are not without help and comfort from that quarter.” He declared amid applause that seven years had proved that the league had entered the present era in world history as a great beneficent, endur-1 iltg organization. Nowhere in Lie j world did any doubt exist among j thinking poeple concerning the futurej usefulness of the league if jt were ! wisely managed. THINKS REPUBLICANS SAFE IN CONGRESS Representative Tilsen Tells Presi dsofr Republicans WW Win at Polls in November. Paul Smiths, N. Y., Sept. 9.— UP) j —-The Democrat* will not win con- ! trol of the next Senate in the fall j elections, while the republicans will retain their present ruing majority ! of 35 in the House, Representative | Tilsen. of Connecticutt, director of j the eastern headquarters of the joint j senate and house republican cam- | paign committee, predicted here to- j day. Political and legislative questions were discussed with President Cool idge by Mr. Tilson, who is a’so the republican floor leader of the House. Prosperity, the Connecticutt repre sentative asserted, is widespread in the and cannot be erenied j while the republicans will be delight-I eel to meet the democrats this fall on the issue of changing the tariff. As far as the legislative program of the short session of Congress be ginning in December, he said it would be “quite enough” to pass the appropriation hi'ls, complete some of the measures such as rivers and harbors, left pending when Congress adjourned in July, and stand guard over the treasury “to preserve the | program of economy.” j Catawba College to Open Monday. Salisbury, September 8. — The opening of Catawba College for its J second year in its new home at Salis i bury will take place Monday morn ing, September 11. The indications are that the enrollment for the year will be approximately 250 or double that of las year. This marks a rate of increase with which the officials jof the college are very much pleased, j There will be a small senior class i and twom ore years will be required before the first freshman class will be graduated. By that time it ap pears certain that the college will rank as one of the largest institu tions of the state. “Dry” Minister Shifts Over to | Anti-Prohibition. New* York, Sept. 7. —Dr. Henry Knight Miller, who was campaign worker for the anti-saloon league in Ohio and New Jersey for five years, today announced he had shifted his support from the prohibitionists to the ans-prohibitionists. His actiion, he said, was taken as a consequence of bis conviction that prohibition “instead of solving the liquor problem has intensified the very evils which those who put pro hibition over were trying to cure.” With Our Advertisers. Get Armstrong's linoleum for your floors at Bell & Harris Furniture Co. The Southern Railway announces special round trip excursion fares to Atlanta and Birmingham Thursday. September 16th. The round trip fare from Concord *to Atlanta is $7.50, and to Birmingham $9.50. See ad. in this paper. The smarest of smart dresses at F'sher’s. From $9.75 to $39.50. A church in Fayette, lowa, is to hhve a fireplace made of 105 rocks, which is the number of times that rocks are mentioned in the Bible. The rocks are to be sent by Metho dist missionaries from all parts of the world. ONCOKD, N. C.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1926 In the News Spotlight . - • t ■ ;.i ■. : j mil I b TKCMA? V. MIOER HA-R-R-V M JDMJGHERrY she name of Tom Taggart. Indiana politician, was to be deleted from a book by Edna Ferber in which she described him as a gambler. He threatened to sue. Colonel Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custodian, and Harry M. Daugherty, former attorney general, were to go on trial in New York on charges of conspiracy to defraud the Gov ernment in the 37.000.000 American Metals case. ~. —J WANTS NEIKHBOR’S HENS AND ROOSTERS MUZZLED, How Many Times May a Rooster Crow Before 8 O’clock A. M.? (By International News Service) Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 9.—Gity fathers of Little Rock will be asked at their next meeting to place restric tions on the number of times a rooster may crow before 8 o’clock in the morn ing. They also may be asked to regulate the frequency with i\’.iieli a hen can tell the world of her accomplishments. A woman.* who appeared at police headquarters and demanded that some thing be done to keep "her neighbor’s chickens from a,wakening her at 5 o’clock in the morning, declared she would go before the mayor and the meeting of the city commission. “It is awful the way those hens and roosters carry on. Something must be done. One lien seems to be hysterical. The roosters wake me I by 5 a. m. when I would like to sleep ! until 8.” Police informed the woman that | they , were powerless to nruzzle the chickens. The woman insisted that chickens j had no place in the city and that | noisy chickens had no place anywhere. S’.ie said that if something was not | done about the early crowing of her I neighbor’s roosters she would move to another neighborhood. But first of all, the woman said, she wanted the mayor and the city officials to know of the nuisance and she was going to tell them at the next meeting of t’he city commission. No Kick on Mecklenburg Convict Food Charlotte, N. C-, Sept. 9. — i/H) Lodgers at Mecklenburg's county« jail may kick against the State Board of Health for foisting night shirts on them but they haven’t any visible complaint about the food, Jailer Crenshaw declares. Seldom does a prisoner in the Mecklenburg jail without putting on a few extra pounds of fiesh, the jailer avers. “Steady mea's, same hours and no dissipation does the work,” he said, adding that the prisoners get corn j meal in the morning and beans at night and from 10 to 12 hours of sleep. Charlie Ross Writing Checks Now. Charlotte, N. C., Sept. 94 3 ) Charlie Ross has been lon* lost, bur bank cashiers in North Carolina needn’t be surprised to find his check poked at them any day now. It has already happened in Char lotte. and despite the fact that the negotiable instrument was of the certified variety and apparently good in any bank in the county, the name was questioined. A call, how ever, to Denver, N. C., revealed that the check was good as gold and Charlie Ross bad an account there since he went north as Julius Colo, -man Dellinger and returned fully convinced that he is really Charlie Ross, and has gone by that name ever since. Robbers Shoot Officer and Steal sll,- 300. East Orange, N. J , Sept. 7.— ( 4>)— Six bandits today shot Terrance Gun ning. a motorcycle policeman, and es caped with a payroll of $11,300 which was being taken from Ampere Bank to the plant of the Hard Baking Com pany in I ourth Avenue. Gunning was shot twice in the shoulder and was in a serious condi- I tion. THE ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL Only Two Children Dismissed Unim proved in AAhole Year. Tribune Bureau Sir AA’alter Hotel Raleigh, Sept. 9.—^Only two chil dren were dismissed from the State Orthopaedic Hospital in an Unimprov ed condition during the past year, ac cording to the fifth annual report of the institution made to the board of trustees, a copy of which has been sent to the commissioner of public welfare by R. B. Babington, president of tlie board. The hospital wliich cares for indi gent crippled children under sixteen, is doing a most effective kind of pre ventive work, in taking small children who are handicapped by some physical defect and as far as possible giving them a chance to correct it. In a majority, of cases, the correction largely removes the defect, but in practically all the cases, their condi tion is vastly improved, and the chil dren are trained to care for them selves. During the year ending July, 1926, the hospital cared for 329 children, and dismissed 237, in an improved condition. One .death occurred, two were dismissed unimproved, and six who had been jidmitted were not treated. The number of hospital days to talled 24.546, with an average daily cost per child of $2.89 for care and treatment. There were 562 opera tions and manipulations performed during the year, and 1,071 minor pro cedures. Four hundred and sixty nine X-ray pictures were made. A wide interest has been taken by the people in North Carolina in the ' hospital, and gifts of many kinds are ' constantly received. The annual re -1 port notes donations amounting to two thousand dollars. Examinations of 858 children Were made in various clinics, 254 of these being new cases and 603 old cases. Three hundred and twenty-four ex aminations were made at the weekly clinics, held by Dr. Oscar L. Miller, the chief surgeon at the hospital on eaC.i Tuesday. Greased Bandits in Memphis. (By International News Service) Memphis. Teim., Sept. 9.—Fort Pickering—southwestern section of this city—has two errors now that po lice apparently are unable to appre hend. A “sheik bandit”, a youth dressed in the height of fashion, has been staging an unchecked series of street robberies of pedestrians and a naked burglar has been robbing homes for several days. “Petting parties” in Riverside Park are victimized by the “sheik bandit while residents are awakened in the wee '.lours of the morning to find a nude thief prowling in their homes. Two residents have seized the rob ber but reported to police that his skin lmd been greased and they were unable to hold him. Many Auto Thefts in Ashoville. (By International News Service) Asheville, Sept. 9.—A large floating population and ease of access to the states of Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia is assigned as the cause of an unusually large number of auto thefts in this city lately. Leland Harris, director of the loca'l police auto theft bureau, says that Asheville is at present in the grip of a band of auto thieves and that autos are disappearing with great rapidity. BEWARE OF FRANCE SAKS BLANKS BACK FROM VISIT THERE French People Very. An tagonistic to Americans, Says Director of Euro pean Tours. SPAIN AND ITALY ABOUT THE SAME Does Not Advise Tourists to Visit Those Countries Now.—Praise for Au stria and Germany. Beware of France. Italy and Spain is the advice brought back from Eu rope by H. W. Blanks, director of the Concord Y tours which returned on the Leviathan Liis week from an ex tended trip through Europe. Ameri cans are none too well received in Eng’and, Mr. Blanks added, but there the feeling of hostility is not so pro nounced as in France and Italy. “The American Legion should not attempt to hold any reunion in France," was Ml*. Blanks’ answer to a query regarding the advisability of the Legionnaires going there in 1928. “The French are antagonistic, they are jealous, selfish and exceedingly ready and anxious to get money in any possib’e means ” Serious dis orders would arise during a conven tion in Paris. Mr. Blanks thinks. The rank and fi’e in Italy did not show such hostility as was seen on every hand in France. Mr. Blanks said, but there was an undercurrent that could not be mistaken. “And in addition to this feeling against Americans,” he said, “there is an other objection to Italy—women are never sufe unless with escorts. Men in Italy will follow women any time and Uny place.” Mr. Blnnks paid his first visit to Spain while in Europe this summer and while he marvelled at the beauty of some of the cities, he was not favorably impressed with the country. “Some of the larger cities,” he said, “are among the most picturesque and romantic in all of Europe, but there are so many evidences of poverty, dirt and ignorance that I was not im pressed with the country.” Through out the interior of the country, he said, *iie saw no evidence of progress. “I went for miles without peeing any evidences of a house built dhring the past r>oo years.” he added. Admitting that most tourists are attracted to Europe by old buildings and different conditions, Mr. Blanks explained that Spain was the only country he saw r that showed no signs of progress. In one town in England the Con cord party had some trouble getting accommodations' although their reser vations ’had been booked far in ad vance. “The manager of the hostelry told us without hesitation that he did not care if we had no place to sleep and nothing to eat,” the director of the tours stated. “Later in the night we were almost insulted by some aris tocrats in old tuxedos who frowned on us because we w T ore the raiment of tourists.” While Rotary clubs have, been es tablished in England they are not as popular as they are in other coun tries and notably the United States. “I attended a Rotary meeting,” Mr. Blanks stated, “and there a fellow Rotarian told me he had tried to or ganize a club in a city in which he formerly lived. He said he asked a prominent manufacturer to. join, ex plaining that a hardware merchant and a grocer also had been invited. The manufacturer was astounded that he had been asked to sit and eat with a hardware man and a grocer. I was told that such a spirit still prevails in all parts of England, with class against class and jealousies dominat ing them all.” This spirit of intol erance, Mr. Blanks thinks, causes most of the trouble between the Eu ropean nations. Asked the country which impressed him most Mr. Blanks pnswered em phatically “Austria.” “Although the Germans made Aus tria bear the brunt of the war, I found there the happiest people and the most prosperous looking people I saw in Europe. In Vienna I saw’ well dressed people and while' if is a fact perhaps, that in the smaller towns and rural sections there is some poverty, one does not see many evi dences of it in Vienna.” Mr. Blanks added that he was cordially welcomed everywhere he went in Austria, the people apparently being determined to seek the tourist crowds. Germany also impressed Mr. Blanks and in this connection he stated that a straw vote taken on the Leviathan on the return trip found more of the tourists aboard favorable to Germany than any other country visited. “The German people apparently have no grudge against Americans and during the week I spent there I received nothing but cordiality and courtesy.” Mr. Blanks said that another poll was taken on the Leviathan in regard to cancelling the war debts. There was an overwhelming majority, he said, against giving Franee anything. “Many of the people who voted in the poll thought the debts of some of the other nations could be cancelled, but the vote against France was prac tically unanimous. This was brought about by the evidences of robbery and thievery we experienced in France, where the people showed every, dispo sition to hold us up everytime we sought to buy anything or do any (Please Turn to Page Five) J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher BREAD HKD WATER DIET RESULTS 111 BROTHERS' CLP John H. Chatt Denouncv Brother Who Puts Li quor Violators on Bread and Water in Prisons. WILL TEST CASE IF NECESSARY Going to Carry Food to Prisoner and See if Jury Will Convict Him if He Is Held For Act. Oakland. Neb.. Sept/9.—OP)—As-1 -ailing his brother. County Judge; Jhatt, because he sentenced Burt coun- 1 y I®"’ violators to a bread ami water j diet, John H. Chatt. 45. Bancroft j farmer, today took the initiatve in a 1 legal fight to free Roy Carson. 3S > years old. Bertha farmer, who in Her- i ving such a sentence for liquqr law violation. Chatt. a lifelong friend of Carson, who is on h's second day of the mea gre diet, said that if legal steps fail to alter the sentence, he would at-[ tempt to bring food to Carson at the jail in Tekamah. “Then we will let a jury try me for i the offense.” he sard. “No twelve! men ever would convict me. There ire no twelve men in the state who would let a man starve to death.” Judge Chatt. in Rochester, Minn., where Mrs. Uhatt is ill. ha« used the bread and water sentence here for some I tiniQ, but Carson and Thos. Nelson, j 50, another farmer, attracted atten- 1 tion by making an unsuccessful ap-1 peal to the state supreme court. While some physicians said the diet j will not harm them. i)r. Isaiah Luk- j ens . former county physician, and mayor of Tekamah. declared they could not stand the strain. Nelson had not been taken into cus tody. but is expected to start sentence the latter part of this week. Chatt’s' first steps to save Carson were to employ Richard Hunter. Ohaha attorney, Harry B. Grund, Pes Moines attorney, an avowed wet, also telegraphed to offer his services. The action to be taken has not been decid ed upon. The Bancroft farmer describes the sentence as the “dirtiest deal I ever heard of.” Chatt’s deaunciaGon of h’s brother brought a sharp exchange of words with county attorney Rhodes, who defended Judge Chatt’s | action. ■ . ——— VETOES PROPOSAL '; V That State Prison Farms Be Con nected With Dairy Farm. Raleigh. N. C., Sept. 9.— UP 1 ) Governor McLean, for all his en thusiasm over the progress of the dairy industry in North Carolina, has vetoed the proposal that one of the state prison farms be converted into a dairy farm. “It requires intelligence to oper ate a dairying industry,” the Gov ernor emphasized, “and ninety-five per cent of the etnte prisoners are totally unfit for it.” He said that it might be possible to entrust dairy farms to prisoners in some of the northern or estvrn states, because of the higher men tality and training of the majority of the inmates of those prisons, but re garded k as extremely impractical to attempt anything more complex than raising cotton with convicts in North Carolina as long as their number is made up so largely of negroes and untrained white men. The Governor, however, is doing all in his power to 'push dairying outside prison walls. He is schedule to go to Alamance county Friday and deliver a speech at a farmer’s picnic where dairying will be the principal topic under dis cussion. He stated that he had pre pared no speech for the occasion, but would speak on the promotion of the industry in the state, and tell of some of his observations of the dairying industry in Wisconsin, where he spent his vacation. Mecklenburg Opens County Hospital Charlotte, Sept. 7—The realiza tion of a dream of many years dura tion came from Mecklenburg's lead ing spirits in public health work when the county’s tuberculosis hos pital, provided at a cost of SIOO,OOO fommlly was opened Tuesday aftter noom The sanatorium located two miles from Huntersville, was the scene of informal exercises notable because of the significance of the occasion marking, as did the beginning of a new and well-supported phase, campaign here against the white plague. Col. Bingham 88 Years Old. Asheville, Sept. B.—( A *)—Colonel Robert Bingham was 88 years old Sunday, and he had quite a party Colonel Bingham is known far and wide as the superintended of a boys’ school here; More than a score of guests at tended the birthday party, among whom was Judge J.<D. Murphy, who toasted the coTonel as an “‘examplar of youth and the prince of Southern educators.” Slight Earthquake at Lisbon. Lisbon, Sept. 9.— UP) —A slight earthquake was felt here early this morning. No damage was done,-and there were no casualties. It was ex ceptionally hot here yesterday and great damage to crops resulted. MERTON TESTIFIES ABOUT ntALS WITi 1 ; ui OFFICIALS Took Stand Yesterday in Case Against Harry M. j Daugherty and Thortias Miller in New York. TRIAL IsIHALTED DURING THE Hit Judge Mack Declared Hol iday in Recognition of Jewish New Year Whtejt ] Began Last Night. i . : Jk New York, Sept. 9.— UP) —A, Ger man copper magnate who is said to' -1 have received $<5,500,000 of American 1 government money, delivered to him at a champagne dinner here in IQSI will resyme testimony in federal c6«rt J tomorrow. Trial of former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty and former Ali en Property Custodian Thomas W. Miller was interrupted today by Judge Mack, who declared a holiday in recog nition of the Jewish new year. Richard Merton. German magnate and former captain in I .German army, took the stand jte- | ter lay after Federal Attorney KmoiFy R. Buckner outlined his case to file jury. Buckner charged that Daugh erty personally had destroyed i norim- * inating bank records. The German capitalist testified thgif « he came to the United States in 1921 to attempt collection of s7,ooo,f)ifrQ for German-owned stock of the A'm£f ican Metals Company which had been freed by the government. A swiss corporation lias hern organized to col- * lect as a neutral owner. MIDDLE AGED COUPLE DIE IN SUICIDE FACT Bodies Found in New Willard Hotel in Washington—Poisoned Gartdy Also Found. Washington, Sept. 9.—(4>)—The 4 * bodies of a man and woman who had registered as Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Doyle, of Brooklyn, N. Y.. were found today in a room at the New Willard Hotel, under circumstances indicating ' suicide by poison. The bodies were discovered when hotel attaches catered the room after having received word from Brooklyn inquirying about the occupants. They discovered candy which they said was I poisoned, letters directing that the j bodies be cremated, and the money to j pay for cremation annd hotel ei j penees. The bodies were fully clothed. The j woman had died while lying across I the bed. The man was seated in a l chair nearby. It was estimated that j they had been dead about six lwtfrs [ before discovered. The couple was about middle aged. I American Girls’ Kisses Are ft*rawher ries Says Wiim Mair. 5 - * | Los Angeles. Sept. 9.—American girls are the sweetest kissers in the world. s . ,'^j Nils Cbrisander, noted foreign di rector, here to do a series of pictures for Cecil K. DeMille, does not etelm to be an international Dan Juan, yet lie ventured the proceeding Observa tion after a limited experience .in the United States. Chrisaiuler is an authority on lover and kisses for he has directed and aet ■, ed in every important country and I language. % For the convenience of travelers his observations are summarized as follows: German girls—Suggest the taste ot alligator pears. Matter-of-faef. \ French girls—Sound like a boiler works, but suggest perfume of crushed violets. Lips too wet. Eager aid active. Swedish girls (Chrisandjpr ' * Swede himself) —Are rather uiwrs -for kissing purposes. once you get them they’ll remirtd\yOtt of blooming nasturtiums. American girls—Ah! Strawber berries! “Os all,” he observes, “the Ameri can maidens are the most perfect kissers, and they are much more ex pert even than the French-. They (have a motive behind each kiss and a different kiss for each motive.’ Dr. Murphy Sells Land to Satisfy ' Mandelos. Asheville. Sept. 8. —Notice of sale of 82 acres of Buncombe county land j belonging to W. C. Murphy, former county school superintendent, at the courthouse on October 4, was pub lished yesterday by Sheriff E- M. Mitchell. The puriioee of the sale, it was explained in the notice, is to satisfy the claims of Dr. N. A. Man delos, former staff - physician ot Oteen, charged. Mr. Murphy with alienation of his wife's affections. j The longest word in literature is honorificabilitudinitatibus— i-twenty seven letters. It occurs in the first ' scene of the last act of Shakespeare’* I “Love’s Labor's Lost.” * * Emeralds improve in color on ex posure to the light. THE WEATHER M ■ ■ * Showers tonight, cooler in west and north central portion; Friday mostly cloudy and cooler,, probably shower* in east portion. Gentle to moderate south and southwest winds becoming northwest and north. NO. 21