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MRS. ALEXANDER BELL IS DEAD IN WASHINGTON Widow of Famous Inventor Passes At Daughters Home After Long Illness (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell, widow of the famous inventor, died litre last night after a long illness. She was 63 yeajs of age. Mrs. Bell was Mabel Hubbard, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gardirn^ Greene Hubbard, of Cambridge Mass., where she was bom in 1869. The Hubbard family traced its an cestry far back through a line of American pioneers to the early kings of England. Although throughout her life she was a leader in her own small social set and acted as her distinguished husband’s business manager and aided him in his work, she lived under an affliction ef total deafness that followed a severe attack of scarlet fever in her childhood. Through the devotitf!* of her mother, however she learned to speak and to read the lips of oth ers and her teachers in a private school in Cambridge, where £he was the youngest pupil, declared her mentality was higher than that oi the other children, despite her dis advantage. In 1895, she wrote ah ar ticle on lip reading that was pub lished in many foreign countries. "Mrs. Bell’s father was deeply in terested in Dr. Bell’s telephonic in ventions, backed his scheme and be came .the first president of the Bell Telephone company. She married Alexander Graham Bell in Boston, in 1874, after she had studied at his school for voice culture. It was said that she was his inspiration for the invention of the telephone, for which he is best known, because his hope that he might find a means of enabling her Jfi hear, led him into his atudy and Mrs. Bell is survived by two dau ghters, Elsie May Grosvenor, wife of Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society, and Marian Hubbard Fairchild, wife of Dr. David Fairchild, of the Unit ed States Department of Agricul ture, and by Grace Hubbard Bell, her sister, wife of Charles I. Bell, president of the American Security and Trust company of this city. MECHANICAL ENGINEERS ADOPT CODE OF ETHICS fBy Associated Press) NEW YORK Jan, 4—-Adoption ■of a code of ethics, governing Tfe membership of approximately . 20, 000 , was announced today by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. It is expected Cnat ulti mately this code .prepared by. a joint committee of the national engineer ing societies, will apply to the entire engineering profession, embracing more than 200,000 professional en gineers. The mechanical engineers are thb first to take this step, which is re garded as marking an advance in en gineering ideals and, in respect 'fb the government of its members as a whole, as placing the profession in a position analogous to the profess ions of law and medicine. The code commands loyalty to eoun try personal honor, fairness to con tractors and workers,' and interest in the public welfare, Betrayal of pro fessional confidences, undignified o.r misleading advertising, and question able professional associations and practices are prohibited. Mrs. B. Frank Mebane at the Al ' umni banquet last Thursday night at Spray subscribed $100.00 to the revolving fund to be loaned to des erving students of this county to attend ahy college within the State of North Carolina. Mrs Mobane did P<: this in memory of her father the late .Colonel Morehead. The necess f- ity has. set a . goal of $1^000 to be raised,15» !§23^&i|e half of ni, vale outside. mm&Mm FRANCE FEARS NON WAR PACT AS ONLT TROOPS REMOVAL, Premier Poincare cables Jus serand to see Secretary Hughes THINKS SCHEME TO CLEAR RHINELAND (By Associated- Press) PARIS, Jan.4.—Premier Poincare cabled Ambassador Jusserand ftt Washington asking him to see Sep* retary Hughes in connection wigi the statement by Baron Von Rosea* berg, German ‘ foreign minister dit the German truce proposal, whigt Poincare contends, showed the prin cipal object of the non-war pact p*o posed by Germany, was to obtain the evacuation of the Rhineland without payment of reparation*, Poincare read at the Premiers don ference, what amounted to virtual ly an ultimatum to the British to say yes or no, to the French repar ations proposition, .or else discntln ue the cnference according to a Brit ish delegate. Shortly before tlmt for the second session of the day, the Italian delegation deposited fresh propositions- in a final attem pt to save the conference from a break down. WOULD CLEAN UP NEVER DO- WELLS Proposes Sterilisation as Remedy For Socially Inadequate. (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Jan. 4.—Sterilization of men and women who may be par ents of “socially inadequate” chil dren as determined by experts in eugenics is advocated in a volume issued by the phyohopathic labora tory of the municipal court, Chi cago. A model law to carry out the purpose which may be introduced in the legislature, defines socially inadequate ter twehrde' paupers, ^fir phans, blind and sufferers of certain chronic and infectious diseases a^> well as criminals, inebriates feeble minded and drug addicts ardrever do-wells. LOUISIANA NEGRO LYNCHED _ (By Associated Press) SHREVPORT, La., Jan. 4.—Les lie Leggit a negro was lynched by a party of men. His body was found in the southern part of the city rid dled wit.h bullets. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FLOOD THE UNIVERSITY CHAPEL HILiL, Jan, 4.—The flood of students from the high schools of North Carolina is threat ening to swamp the University and the colleges of the state. At the University there are 239 more students than a year ago and ' 437 more than two years ago. The most conservative estimates place the total attendance two years hen ce at 2, 500. The chances are that it will be greater than that. E. C.Brooks, State superintendent of public instruction, told the exe cutive committee of the Trustees the other day that the number of grad ■ nates from North Carolina high I schools next June was expected to be 6,000. More than half of thes, are ambitious to go on from high school to college, and the high instl ' tutions are hard put to find room for them. Three new dormitories for men are the chief features of the two year building program which the University Trustees are seeking to ‘ get legislature ta provide for. They are needed to take care of the stu dents that are sure to come iir wiftr ; in the next two years. If they are not built there will either be uii , healthy crowding or applicants will have to be turned away, j Another item on the program is a woman’s building, This was pro posed to the 1921 legislature, hint | the deririon wgs to postpone it. * HereYhoping the General Assem bly will use its taxing power with discretion and a bit of charity. PERCY PAGE ACQUITTED OF WILLIAMS MURDER CASE * (By Associated Press) NORFOLK, Jan. 4.—Percy A. Page the wealthy business man was dismissed of murder charges in con nection with the death of Harry Williams Jr., wealthy uutomohile distributor and son of owner of the Hotel York, New York City, and Rufin Lambert, Chauffer was held on a charge of manslaughter. Wit nesses said Williams jumped on the taxi while intoxicated and Lambert pushed him off, Williams head strik ing the curb, causing his death. ONTARIO’S PEAT BOGS MAY BE EMPLOYED (By Associated PreSs» TORONTO, Jan, 3.—Fuel can be manufactured in commercial quan tities and at reasonable prices from Ontario’s peat bogs. This statement is made in an interim report of a committee appointed seven years ago by the Ontario and Dominion governments. Operations under the observation of the committee have been carried on near Alfred, Ont., and as a result it is stated the committee will re commend the construction and op eration of a perfected peat-produc ing plant. The committee estimates that a plant producing 10,000 short tons during a season of 100 ten hour working days can turn out fin ished fuel at a cost of $4.48 a ton, or at $3.50 working on a 20-hour day basis.- The cost delivered to the consumer will be about $10 a ton, the committee estimates. Anthracite costs from $15 to $20 a ton deliv ered. The committee reports that a good market has been developed within economical shipping radius; of the bogs, and that the demand for peat fuel is growing. Mr. R. E. .Price has been confined to his home forr a few days with sickness. CUBAN WOMEN ORGANIZE FOR EQUAL RIGHTS HAVANA, Cuba. Jan. 4.—Cuban womanhood will be called to the colors soon for a camoaign to secure equal rights. The opening gun will be fired at a National Women’s con gress which is being organized by a committee from the National Feder ation of Femine Associations and, although the date has not been fixed an extensive program consisting of ten official themes has been arrang ed. It follows: 1. Women’s Rights. Constitutional reforms to secure civil and political equality. 2. Social Mission of Cuban Wo manhood. Action through public speaking aitff the press. 3. Women’s Work. Protective leg islation for feminine workers and expectant mothers who are bread winners. . 4. Protection for the Cuban Home Reformation of legislation affecting property rights of wives and child ren. 5. Moral and Physical Welfare of the Race. Campaigns against social evils and diseases, lewd books, white slave trade and habit forming drugs 6. Child Welfare. Assistance in fighting infant mortality and im proving the moral And physical standards of Cuba’s youth. 7. Social Welfare. Study of arts and sciences, summer colonies, in ! struction in civil- rights. ! 8. Woman suffrage. Constitution al reforms. 9. Women in Business. Their ac tual status and means of improving it. 10. Women on the Farm. Farm classes for women and means of in . stilling a love for flowers and the j beautifying of homes. T.He executive committee for th« | congress is made up of Mrs. Pilar de Menendez, president and eight vice j presidents; Mrs. Manuela Berriz tfe Valdes, secretary dnd five assistant secretaries; and Miss Hortensia La j mar, treasurer. MEN DRESSED IN FRENCH UNIFORMS KIDNAP CHAUFFER Mifin is beaten into uncon sciousness, told to leave SlffePECT MEN FROM FRENCH CRUISER (By Associated Press, BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 4.— PoliQe in Mississippi towns border ing'the Memphis and Baton Rouge, WAway are .looking for five men drwed in uniforms of French mar ines, who last night kidnapped Jos eph Dantonio of New Orleans a chauffeur and beat him into uncon sciousness bound and tied and brought him here where he was re leaped and told to return to New Orleans. Police believe the men are from the French cruiser, Joanne D ArjC now in the harbor at New' Oi lcans. ADMINISTRATION WILL CONSIDER ROBINSON BILL (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan, 4.—Assur ances of immediate consideration for a resolution by Senator Itobin sop of Arkansas, proposing Ameri can representation on the repara titans commission was given by the administration senate leaders after chairman Lodge of the Foreign re lations committee conferred with President Harding and Ambassador Harvey at the White House. BRITISH DEBT TO THIS COUNTRY LIKELY SETTLED (By Associated Press, .WASHINGTON, Jan. t.—Belief that an early agreement will be reached as to funding the Biitish debt to the United States was ex pressed at the Treasury, where it was denied that any thought had been given to , any change ir. the tdibt funding law:. . , / KILLS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN THEN SUICIDED (By Associated Press) MUNCIE Ind., Jm 4.--William Miller aged th'rh,’. shot and killed his wife and three children and then suicided t* .* pi.'ice said. The crime was dheovaiei) by his neigh bors. Mrs. C. J. Darlington spent yes terday in Danville shopping. CALL FOR CONVENTION TO AID LAW ENFORCEMENT RALEIGH, Jan. 4.—The call up on Temperance forces in this hour is to mobilize their influence to aid in the enforcement of the laws pre venting the manufacture and sale of intoxicants. North Carolina was one of the first commonwealths to put a ban on the saloon and the still by ppular vote of the people. Having outlawed the legal manufac ture and sale of liquor, it behooves us to be vililant to prevent the an nulment of the law by law-breakers. What can the temperance people do to end the machinations of the boot leggers and the clandestine making of intoxicants? We must do any and all things within our power to hold what we have won. Let the temper ance forces take counsel one of an other, agree upon the best plan, and in unity battle to secure the enforce ment of the prohibition laws and the Eighteenth Amendment. A one day’s convention of all the Temperance forces in North Caro lina is hereby called to meet in Ral eigh January 16, 1923. This is the anniversary of the going into effect of the National Prohibition Amend ment to the Constitution of the Unit ed States. Let there be a great gath ering in Raleigh on that day to high ly resolve that the law shall not be flouted. All lovers of law, all friends of temperance are invited and all chur ches and other patriotic organiza . tions are requested to send delegat es. Distinguished and eloquent speak ■ ers have accepted invitations to be J present. i ' ■ V : DR. DEAVER OF PHILADELPHIA TO HOLD CLINICS AT HOSPITAL Dr. John B. Deaver, of Philadel r>via, one of the outsanding surge ons of the nation, will hold a surgi cal clinic at the Presbyterian hos pital January. 5‘. at Charlotte. Letters of invitation to attend the clinic have gone out to members of the local medical fraternity and to doctors in many of the surrounding towns. They have also been asked to bring one or two cases for treatment and operation by Dr. Deaver. All of Dr. Deaver’s work will be without charge and the only cost will be the actual hospital expenses, it was said. Cases which will be presented to Dr. Deaver should be in the hos pital by January 2 in order to allow ample time for indiviual study and necessary laboratory examinations for Dr. Deaver’s benefit, it was an nounced. Dr. Deaver prefers herias, ap pendices, gair bladders and pros tates as subjects, but will gladly operate on any abdominal cases. Dr. Deaver stands among the na tion’s greatest surgeons and is espe cially noted for the rapidity and ease winch' he moves in his opera tions. Doctors who visit the hospital, wil be able to watch the operations with the greatest ease, it was announced because the hospital has two large operating rooms with stands, like the Mayor clinics at Rochester, Minn. The stands will accomodate a large number of visiting doctors. Members Vt the local medical so ciety deem it a rare privilege to watch, Dr. Deaver work and many surgeons of the city are contemplat ing attendance on the clinics. They say the committee which secured Dr Deaver.s services should be con gratulated for bringing so eminent a surgeon to Gharlotte. The program committee is com posed of Drs. J. Bush Shull. John P. Kennedy, and James W. Gibbon. Miss Mary A. Thornton and Wm. D. Mabes both of Spray were mar ried at Reidsville, Wednesday, Dec. 27th. Mr. C P. Smith who has been at home for a few days with a cold is improving. Misses Mary Marshall and Lucile Reid have returned to Salem College to resume their studies. WILL CONCRETE AND ASPHALT BE MADE SKID PROOF WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—How to make te -modern highway skidproof is an engineering problem to which the National Motorists’ Association is going to direct its attention this coming year. The number of auto mobile accidents accompanied by fatilities which can be attributed to slippery pavement surface has been sufficient past years to make sol ution of the problem imperative. An announcement just made public says in part: “Thus far the problem of con structing and maintaining a smooth non-skid road has baffled the skill of the engineer. The only non- skid pavements in the country today ar* those constructed of brick, or blocks or granite. “A concrete roadway can be made non-skid by sacrifying or roughening the surface before the top finishing hardens, but experien ce shows that it will not stay non skid. Eaxth, waste, oil drippings from traffic, all fill up the crevices in short order with the result that the road is soon without the non skid feature.” Feeling that the time has come when tlie utmost in skill and scien ce should be brought into play ir building American highways, the National Motorists’ Association in tends to co-operate to the fullest ex tent. A study will be made to de termine whether concrete and as phalt surfaces can be made as skid proof «s brick or granite block. BRIDGE LOADED WITH TRAFFIC FALUS INTO RIVER BELOW IT 100 Persons, 1 truck, 10 au tomobiles fall with bridge In to Cowlitz river EIGHT PERSONS KNOWN MISSING (By Associated tr<-ce, KELSO, Wash., Jan. 4.—The names of eight mlissing persons are known while estimates of the nuiti her lost ran as high as thirty, when rescue parties resumed a search of the wreckage strewn by flood wat ers of the Cowlitz river into which the old suspension bridge bearing scores of men and women collapsed last night. From fifty to a hundred pedestrians and one truck and at least ten automobiles were on the bridge when it fell. Many persons were picked up by boats or swam ashore. The structure gave way in the midst of a traffic jam caused by a stalled automobile.. ANOTHER CATHOLIC INSTITU TIION IN CANADA BURNS DOWN (By Associated i re*s) QUEBEC, Jan. 4.-—.The eleventh fire to sweep a catholic institution in Canada in a year, razed the Goj.1 Shepherd Convent of Saint George Debeauce. Miss Evelyn Darlington entertain ed a party of eight girl friends on Tuesday, at two tables of games. Among those pdesent were Misses Minnie and Catherine Price of Wins ton-Salem. SCIENTISTS AT WORK TO DEMONSTRATE EINS'RZIN DOPE (By Associated Press) , SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 4.— j Down in the basement under the | dome of Lick Obsevatory, near here astronomers recently opened a box of huge photographic plates, taken at a far-away Australian outpost during the September eclipse of the sun, ar.d started developing them to prove or disprove Dr. Albert Ein stein’s theory of relativity. Dr. Einstein thinks the pictures ! will show the correctness of his the S ory, which is that the sun attracts | or bends the light of nearby planets | Dr. W. W. Campbell, director of the obsevatory and head of the W. j H. Crocker expedition, which took ; the pictures, will make no statement until the plates are developed and in finitely delicate measurements and comparisons are made. Several weeks will be required for this work Forty eight photographs of the skies were taken by the expedition. Eight of them were in connection with the Einstein theory and the oth ers were of the stars and spectrum and corona of the sun. Four ‘‘Einstein cameras,” design j ed and constructed especially for the eclipse, were used by the expe dition. They required plates 17 in ches square and a quarter of an in ch thick. The plates were made ol plate glass and weighed 7 pounds each. The sun’s corona was photo : graphed with a camera 40 feet in ’ focal length on plates 14 by 17 in ches in size. The plates recently arrived here from the south Pacific with eighty four packages of scientific instru ments used by the party. The ship ment was sent to the observatory v.’hich is on Mt. Hamilton, in bond by truck and the packages were op ened with a government customs inspector present. The package of plates, carefully packed, weighed 600 pounds. During their journey across the Pacific great care was taken to see that the plates arrived intact. j The Crocker Expedition was for tunate in that Eclipse Day was bright and clear. A German expe dition to Thursday Island, headed by Dr. Einstein, reported failure be cause fog hid the sun when the el lipse occurred. Dr. Einstein was quoted at Kobe, on his way home, to the effect that he thought <?ie Campbell plates would prove Tits the o it' correct.
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