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LEAK.SVn.LE NOtOH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MARCH. 1, 1923. 2 CENTS PER COP MRS. L. W. CLARK ON PACIFIC OCEAN .WRITES LETTERS TO GAZETTE Telb Whet Wes Seen in Cube Sen Francisco, end Ceii el zone. SHE TAKES FRENCH lessons Aboard ship Feb. 14th IMS. Pacific Ocean— My dear Mr. and Un. Murray. I hear from Leaksville that you have had snow since I left. We pould not realise how in 8 days from New York with its harbor filled with ice cakes; we could be in Havana, Cuba with its mid summer of glorious sun shine and tropical flowers. I wish it were possible for all Americans to see whit General Wood did for Cuba in sanitation—running water, screens etc. He laid out miles ..of wide hard surface roads one way roads with a parkway of lovely flowers between each driveway. The canal cone is a mounment to Ameri can genius for all time I Fortunately huge swamps breeding pests from alligators to -flies existed—Now the towns'are like any city suburb, with the houses all screened in—wide hardsurfaced drives, a golf club, tennis courts etc. for our soldiers, who live there to guarq tne canai. It was thrilling to stand in the cen tre of the canal and see a large Eng lish vessel passing thru toward the Atlantic Ocean, and at the same time a French beat was going to-the Pacific—a six hour trip instead of six weeks by the southern route no man was in sight to operate the huge 1,000 feet locks into which a vessel goes—A tall tower operated hy elec tricity is at either end of the locks. It was almost uncanny to see a huge locks open all by itself-*-take in the big vessel and raise it up 6 if feet, » plewly, until it was «n the level for the lock, when that we«M open end the boat pas# on. Old' Panama WW of Interest frith its old smugglers dungsons in the sea wall."The clhnate in the can al sons was a great surprise to me. Aftho ^ was aronnd 90 in the sun the trade wlnda beep everyone cool, then thf aidewolka are covered by arcades which we e pert of each building. These arcades keep a chopper protected from the sun and any showers. I was mnch pleased to find San Francisco had rebuilt after The "Fire*^ as every orte there calls .the quake they had! ‘The buildings are so handsome now. Think of the courage required to build handsome marble buildings kntwing that at some moment another quake might tumble them into pieces like a house of cards! “Palo Alto” and "Lieiana sanaiora university «»vc always been familiar names to me— but I never expected to see the real places. Then the generosity- of a friend of Mr. Clark's. Mrs. Morse, who is with me. and l had his car and driver for an all day trip to Palo Alto. We drove along the, top of the mountains going down the peninsular and returned by the fam ous ocean drive. California climate makes one feel young—so sunny and invigorating. I heard of one man who wrote back home to his friend that he was growing so young in California—in .fact he felt Uke a kid! His friend felt*old at home so he decided to pome to California. He inquired for hi* friend on his ar rival and war told ha had died— “Why he Kvrote me he had grown young—Pek like a kid.” "Well, he died of infantile paralyse*” We knee * daily Promk claw on board many lectures lor college man and plenty of amipement*. I hope yog and Mr?, ^fmrray keep well. Kindest regards— Mrs. I*. W. dur*. ^TRY dated Proas) WASHINGTON? Mar. 1.—Farm credit* bill proposing to establish two new banking systems, one gov mment end the other private *«• meet the financial needs of agricul tural industry Aes* pa*sed by the house and now goes to conference. BUSINESS SHOW AN UPWARD TENDENCY Wholesale and Retail trade Trade shows marked • " Improvement LABOR EMPLOYED (By Associated Press) .RICHMOND, Mar. 1.'—Continued gradual improvmeetn in business conditions in the filth Federal Res erve bank district is noted in'the 'monthly review. Labor fully em ployed while wages show tendencies upward slightly, ftnd good weather permitted outdoor work to.progress unusually well for winter season. Cotton prices have continued up ward and Tobacco prices arc con siderable above those of 1922. Tex tile mills continue full operations, some new mills are being built in North Carolina and other mills are adding new units. The retail trade is better than a year ago and the wholesale trade is picking up rap ly. Building operations continue all break Records for the season. COUNTRYMAN HELD IN NEW YORK FOR PAPERS. NEW YORK, Mar. 1.—Car! Ccrnn tryman, of Leaksville, N. C., who' de scribed himself as a lecturer on pro hibition, was arretted 'today as a fugitive from justice in Rockingham county, North Carolina, where he is under indictment for embezzlement from the Bank and Trust company, of. Leaksville. Police said they found letters adr dressed to members of the Ka Klux Klan of Hobroken, N. J., in Country man’s possession. The Gazette Was informed this morning by the Boulevtjrd 'Bank that papers are being secured aj speedily as possible for the extradi ction of Countryman. It was said he was willing to return to Stone ■viBe and face that charge, but de> dined to come to Leaksville, * NATIONAL RIGHTEOUS ACTION PEOI'LE CALL ON MR. HUGHES WASHINGTON, Mar. 1.—Seere-, tary of State Hughes was presented a petition yesterday by a delegation from Danville, Va., urging officials and legislators to accept spiritual guidance in the transaction of nation al and international affaiis. The del egation headed by Rev. M. S. Tay lor, rector of a Danville Episcopal church was introduced by Represen tative J. Murray Hooker, of Virgin ia. Mr. Taylor said the secretary evinced interact in their mission, which is a part of a national move ment to bring Christianity to the fore in the legislative bodies of the country. Copies of the petition, lie added, will be sent to each congress man. FREDERICK THE GREAT FOR A FREE PRESS (By Associated Press) , BERLIN, Mar. 1.—Frederick the Great first took censorship off Ber lin newspapers' in 1740, and the Berlin press recently commemorat ed the anniversary of that event by printing* Frederick’s order, which marked a new epoch in German newspaper-making. The order, given out over the name of Cjount Podew ils, reads as follows: "The journalists of the Berlin newspapers shall have unlimited liberty to write whatever they like without censorship, in articles con cerning what happens here at pres ent. His Majesty says these articles amuse him. But, on the other hand, foreign ministers should not com plain if-they find articles now ana then in the local papers which can not please them. I took the liberty to hint that the Russian court is vejy sharp about such, things. His majesty answered that journals must pot be c-nislrain ed if they are to be interesting.”^ Phone the Garotte when misseu by the carrier Boy. SIX ENLISTED MEN BURNED TO DEAtH Explosion In Boiler Room qff Hulburt the Cause (By Associated Press) MANILA', Mar. 1.—Six enlisted men on the United States destroyer Hulburt of the Asiatic fleet, were burned to death in an explosion in the boiler room caused by the flare back of oil. No others Were in juried 200 SHOTS FIRED AT P. O. SAFE BLOWERS (By Associated Press) , WINCHESTER, Va„ Mar. l.-f More than two hundred shots war* fired at th'ree bandits who attempt ed to rob the postoffice at Berry*: vile and although one was wounded all escaped. The front door had beep broken open and dynamite set off ip,; the safe. The explosion aroused the neighborhood and more than one" hundred citizens engaged in th<* shooting. Mrs. Andrew Tuttle and daughter Elizabeth spent Saturday with Mrs. Tuttles mother, Mrs. George O. Jolies, Ridgeway, Va., SAVING MILLIONS IN TAXES IN TWO MONTHS (By E. Conomy). I was talking to a big highway en gineer out in'the state of Ohio two days ago and he jarred me pretty hard by some of the things he said. Perhaps they’ll jar you. I hope so, and that’s why I’m passing along a few of his more important remarks. We were talking about the approach of spring. He said: “Yes, it will soon be here ana the people of this fair country can save millions of dollars in taxes— or waste them—-depending upon how they use their improved highways during March and April.” Naturally I asked “why” and, ; "how eome” and got-the following in reply:-— “By keeping off the cheaper types of pavement with heavy loads dur ing that period when the frost is coming out of the ground and the spring rains are converting the soil into mush.” Then he went on: Every spring we do untold dam age to our weaker types of pave ments by cutting them up, wearing holes in them and badly cracking the more rigid kinds because their support-—old mother earth—is- soft and unstable. “Why, do you know that last year in Ohio we spent more money to repair,’ resurface and reconstruct old pavements fthan woxdid to build new ones?” I said I did not. Then he’ gave me some actual figures for 1921. “We spent $2,284,137.41 just for resurfacing alone”, he said, “ to say nothing of the millions we spent for maintenance, repair and recon struction. -We- had to resurface 91 miles of erne cheap type, 24 miles of another and 32 miles of a third. Of course the higher types stand up. They cost a little more in the : ginning, but you can use them ev ery day in the year, you don’t have to resurface • them every couple of years and they last 25 or 30 years”. And then he said something that has made me think a whole lot the last^two days. It was this; “If people only realized that “cheapness” and “economy” don’t mean the same thing. They buy one type pavement because it is cheap or has a lower "first” coat. It waarfc out before the bonds "arc paid off. They spend hundreds of dollars each year to keep It In repair, more hundreds of dollars every few years to ^resurface it or surface coat it. That is the way. it goes on— a continued drain on the tax p.urse, Whereas, if*'they had bought that higher type of payement that the., turned down, simply because of its higher “first” cost they would have saved hundreds of dollars in the end. “The cheap road is the most ex pensive in . the long rum That goes for pavements the same as it does for automobiles or a suit of clothes” ' \ SITE WHERE FAMOUS YACHTS WERE BUILT TO BE RESIDENCES Marblehead Mwj. Shipyard Will undergb change It is said BEEN YACHT PLANT EVER SINCE 1905 .. (By Associated Press) MARBLEHEAD, Mass. Mar. 1.— The shipyard at the edge of the Mar blehead cliffs where many famous yachts were built, and aircraft later were manufactured, is to be changed soon into a residential site. In 1905 W. Sterling Burgess, a naval architect purchased' the land and erected a yacht building plant. He constructed a marine railway, and the rock was blasted to prepare ■ a channel which would accomodate vessels with a draft of 11 feet. An other adjunct to the yard was the Ox, a 50-foot steamer designed for Rowing. JMr. Burgess carried both pilot’s and engineer’s licenses to op erate the ship. Later Mrs. Burgess was granted pilot’s papers, and came into prominence as the only woman pilot on the coast. ine nrst D«at to taKe snape was .the Pontiac, for George Silsbee. Many yachts followed, some of ^ which were successful in champion ship races in Boston, New York, New Orleans and other racing centers. In 1907 the 110-foot gasoline pas senger bpat pineland of 300 horse power was one of the first vessels to be propelled successfully by motor. Airplane construction was begun in 1909 and the first completed craft was tested in February, 1910, by Mr. Burgess, A. M. Herring and Norman Prince. This flight was the first made iiwNew England. In the summer of the same year, Mr. Burgess opened a testing and flying statioq at Plum Island, near Newburyport, and the product of the Marblehead factory was taken to the station by the Ox. Claude Grahame White, British aviator, made the first flight over the city of London in a Marblehead built airplane. In 1911 Harry N. Atwood attained fame by his flight in a Burgess plane from Marblehead to Washington. During the fall of that year another of these planes was fitted with pontoons and pilots succeeded in making it alight on and take off from the surface of the ocean, heralding the now fam iliar seaplane. MRS. MCMULLEN TO MARRY H. A. LEE (Bv Associated Press) NEW YORK, Mar. 1.—Mrs. Nora Mary McMullen Mellon forty -four divorced wife of Andrew W. Mellon of Pittsburgh, secretary of Treas is to be married to Harvey Arthur Lee, Fourteen years her jun or and reputed of little means. Their mar riage license was obtained yesterday Both are reticent concerning their plans. Lee said they met eighteen months ago here and described it as love at first sight. w. burkeTgochran DIES IN WASHINGTON (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Mar. 1.—Repre sentative W. Bourse Cocxran de.n ocrat New York died suddenly tc day. JUDGE LANE COMPLAINS AS TO FISHER JURY VERDICT ASHEVILLE. Mar. 1.—After the jury at Slyva returned a verdict of nol guilty In the ease against Walter Fisher, charged with the murder of George Revis, Judge Henry P. Lana stated that they had returned a ver diet which in his opinion was shock ing to the people of the county and of North Carolina hy disregarding the greater weigt of unimpeachah'e testimony -and expressed the hope when they were discharged in the case “it would be forever from the court.” Fisher was released from cus tody, after having been held with out bond since the fatal shooting |U«t election day November 7. ANOTHER BAD FIRE IN NEW grlean: f3v Associated Pre~s» NEW ORLEANS, Mar. 1. -Cap tain Fred Smith was probably iat olly injuried and sever.il other fire men slightly hurt v-h'-n a brick wall collapsed during a fire whi | rar tically destroyed the Hitk- building at a loss estimated at between a quaiter of a million and three hun dred thousar. J dollars. ROLA,ND ANDREWS IS SAID TO BE MURDERER (By Associated Frees) RICHMOND, Mar. 1.—Rolan Andrews was arrested on a war rant chargyrg' him with the murc-J of James Newton, grocer, who dice several days ago after drink:n, whiskey which he told the authorit ies was given him by some frien i -Andrews was released on fifteen thousand dollars bond. Coronet Whiteleld reported he found poi* on in Newtons stomach and the ;".r» reported after an inquest that *hf grocer came to his death by poison. COL. MEBANE REAPPOINTED ON BOARD OF EDUCATION RALEIGH, Feb, 28.—Two hours of ascrimonious debate tonight over the subsittution of B. Frank Meb ane’s name as member of the board of education in Rockingham county for E. D. Pitcher’s resulted in Mr. Mebane’s choice over the most pas sionate protest yet made in the house. AUTO SKIING BECOMES POPULAR IN NORTHV/E.O Within the past few weeks “au skiing,” as the latest winter sport is called, has become immensely popular throughout the Northwest. This new form of athletic diversion was suggested By the former stunt of surf-riding which eonsists of riding a plank behind a rapidly traveling motor boat.. Those who have tried “auto skiing” state that it has no equal for super thrills and certainly is far more hazardous. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED IN MEMORY OF THOS. W. BICKETT The resolution under which both houses stood in silence in honor of Governor Bickett reads: The joint resolution to memorial ize the birthday of Thomas Wal or Bickett reads as follows: “Whereas the twenty-eighth day of February is the anniversary of the birth of that beloved and dis tinguished citizen and .governor of this state, the lamented Thomas W. Bickett, and | “Whereas both his administration of the office of governor and his en tire life were characterized by such a sense of justice, such broad and deep human sympathies, such an a biding passion - for the welfare of his state and of its people that in & very real sense he typified and em bodied the best in the life of North Carolina, and - “Whereas as governor of all the people he led his state to honor in war and along the paths of progress when peace had come again, and “Whereas it is fitting that the state he loved so well and served and led with such distinction should on this, his birthday, pay its tribute of love and of esteem to what he was and what he did, now, therefore, be it ' "Received, that the getter*! **h sembly of North Caroline enpM.'i its sense ef great loss which the state has suffered by hia untimely ing, and reoords at the same tlm* its sense of gratitude to the giver of all good that North Carolina wa? so blessed by his life, and be it fu ther “Resolved, that as a token of the grateful remembrance of his state for his life and services the general assembly do at the hour of high noon suspend its business and stand for the time of one minute in silen ce.” EASTER MESSAGE FROM OTEEN HOSPITAL TO THOSE WHO LISTEN SCO Patient* Will Look for f covers so “Go quickly” the Message fays MONEY MAY BE SENT INSTEAD ASIIEVILl.dE. Mar. 1.— Ouv East er message to you. the same that the angel gave to Mary about two thousand years ago when she visited the tomb of Jesus that first Easter Morning is: “Go Quickly” and tell the story of the risen Lord and His love. If you cannot GO and take the message, SEND the message. In the great U. S. Veterans Hos pital at Oteen there are about 900 patients, our boys and girls, with broken health as the result of the most cruel and unnecessary war the world has ever known. They are making the same heroic fight against the Grim Monster, but at far great er odds, as they did in the battle fields of France, Many of them win the fight and return to hom, loved ones and active life; others succumb. Flowers are God’s messengers of His Great /Love, their fragrance and beauty emboding the highest and inost perfect Love. A potted plant in fldwer, and bunches of flowers. God’s Messen gers of Love, will be placed at the bedside and in the hands of every one at this hospital and in the Red Cross by the Baraca Philathea Un ion of North Carolina for Eaigte^ and at frequent intervals through out-the year. This has been done and will be continued, by the Baracas and Philatheas since "he establishment of the hospital) May we feel it a sacred privilege to know each of us—all—everybody —have had an opportunity to send flowers to these boys and girls, our heroes and heroines, who have sac rificed health, home, family and life ' itself for freedom, for you, and for me. Funds in any amount are solic ited .for the “Flower Fund” for the patients at Oteen. Acknowledge ment will be made of each amount received and used for this purpose, .v and each person or organization given proper credit for this gift of Love. Send check, money order or draft to Mrs. N. Buckner. COTTON INDUSTRY HOLD CONFERENCE (By Associated Press) NEW ORLEANS, Ma-. '.--Cot ton industry from producer to spin ner was represented when delegate from the spinning interests, cooper ative marketing associations, grow ers and merchants from the cotton belt and a delegation from the cot ton exchanges gathered at confer ence called by New Orleans cotton tfchange to discuss subjects relat ing to sale, shipment and various other problems affecting this stapl?" MAN CLAIMS HE LOST $62,000 ON TRAIN (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Mar. 1.—Louis Fichandler of New York reporter to the police he had been robbed of sixty two thousand dolars while sleeping on a train from New York and Washington between midnight and seven o'clock this morning. Ht said the money was taken from u* der his 'pillow. V3£00ND PAVa'SlON day? sessions o,f the general assem bly saw both houses get down to real work the senate taking up a motion to limit legislation to be con-, eidered at the extraordinary gess< ion, while in the house discussion on the road financing question got under way. Resolutions requesting information as to the progress of road work for state highway depart ment was approved by the house. Phone your subscription to Gazette.
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