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LEAK8VIIXE. NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JANUARY 17. IMA ■pp '■JM » V WAS DRIVEN HELP LESS UP gWfcCOAST (By Associated Pwm) Washing*©*, Ian. 17. -r _ Jtiew who hare had! about using the Shenr i for the projected point flight appeared to be com pletely oAarwied bv the oe> formance of the bia ship, in riding out la*t niaht's aale after being tom from her mporina mast at Lakehurst. Secretary Danby teleparaphed congratulations to her crew today. Lakehurst, N. I.. Ian. 17.— Shenandoah, the largest air ship in the world poked her nose into her hanger at the naval air station at 4:24 o’clock thi* morning, after completing Ore most remark able flight any ship of her type ever wade. *FKe flight was a fight against wind that blew at seventy-two miles an hour at jUfawe. Hus gale twisted the craft from her towering teeth of the storm and the 5dgg|t wa® maneuvered back to W home sta’ lam* Not one **man in her crew of twentv vtwo was injured. Hasty in fection show.:1 the front gas bags had collapsed when the Shenandoah was tom away by the wind, and, her node was •battered and she was some what scratched. Covering of an upper fin had been stripped off and wrapped around the rudder, making the craft ex ceedingly difficult to steer. 1 KENTUCKY WOMAN SENT TO PRISON FOR LIFE (By Associated Press) Paducah, Ky., Jan. 17.—Mrs. Emms SkiUisn was sentenced to life im prisonment on a charge of being an aecessoryto the murder growing .out of the killing of Mrs. Rosette Warren and her unborn child here last April. The State haring charged she con spired with Mrs. Henriette Wagner, to plant ten sticks of dynamite under Mm Warren’s bed. JLBAK8VILLE HIGH SCHOOL DEFEATS REID8VILLE HIGH IN TWO GREAT GAMES On Tuesday night before an enormous crowd, the Leaksdll* Nigh school girls’ basketball team defeated ReidsviRe High in an exciting contest by the score of 21 to 5. White the Leaksville players outclassed their opponents throughout the ' game, ReidsriUe showed moch strength, and the contest was thrilling from start to finish. ; On Wednesday night tha^Leaksvllh High school hoys trimmed the sails of t|e strong ReidsriUe High school qaint by the score of fc to 20. The Retdsville lads got the surprise of their lives when the Leaksville High played them off thoir feet during the jiiWdf of the game. The score at the end of this period wof: Leaksville, .10; JMdsviUe, 5. Leaksville took the lead? from the moment the referee’s whistle started the game. The visit mabs-mewting'm cIujd MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4TB (From the ReMsvOle Review) Wentworth, N. C., Jen. 10,—To th« people of Rockingham County: . Your MUMHMmi appointed by , a prevent the expenditure of public funds in the election of a bridge across Dan Alter at Fishing Creek, pursuant to Its dutjkjhgreta to re port that ott Monday, January 1, 1924, late in the. Afternoon just *e fbre adjournment, ih utter dtsrag|*d of the people’s requesf-to decide by vote whether of not |hi* nidge shoOd be buBt, and qviir,U,stif®dg protest from Commissure Bather end Martin, Commlaafcmefq, Pratt, Me CM'.um, Pruitt, at tijiif. B*gge*tion of Commissioner Pthblt, MM strongly ad vocated by representsif special Interests, opened Up the bus filed Mix months ago and signed home pager undertaking to make a lfcitract for the bnilding of this bridged be paid for out of the people’* money. The chairman of yoUr committee wrjte T. R. Pruitt, chairman of the board.of commiaktoUier*, on the 2dth day of December, 1923, and asked Mm if they expected to take any action on this matter on the diet Monday in January. His answer wee go mislead ing aa to k*ep your cogfifalttee from notifying the peseta in time to be at I Wentworth on Monday, the day they took such action^ Commissioner Bar ber, supported by (Commissioner Mar Commissioners Bhrber and Martin and acted in direct opposition to the wishes of the people as heretofore deftaltdy expressed. x our coimnru.ee snares wan you surprise, disgust sad constematoin that servants of the people should de fiantly trample the people’s wishes and requests under foot, and disre gard their solemn promise and as sume tht position of arbitrary mas ters. The solemn promise to reduce taxes made by some members of the board before their nomination has been utterly disregarded and a large increase has been added to our tax burden instead of h decrease. Your committee feels that there are yet orderly ways to prevent what the people deem an unnecessary ex penditure of the large sum of money necessary to complete this project. (Do. not be misled by the figure*, given out as the cost of the bridge, this is only a part, perhaps a small part.) Notwithstanding the attempt -to let the contract foe the baMge, the manner and method pursued in doing >o is open to sprious contentions. It was therefore, unanimously decided by your committee to net only sug gest but earnestly urge that every, ■itizen of this great county, who be lieves in government by the people, who believes that officials are ser vants and not masters, who believer 'n the expenditure of public funds in i discreet manner, for the public good, to be at Wentworth on Monday he 4th day of February, 1824, at 11 Vclock, to discuss this matter and ake such action as may be necessary; rnd proper to protect t)m rights oJ the taxpayers of the county, and pre vent the expenditure of this large sun if money to build a bridge and opei » road in two milea or less of tw< other bridges over Dan River and or end through the land of a corporation which has alreedy.becn the hsneflci srjr of much herd surface roads, anfi streets, at a heavy cost to the trees ury of Rockingham County. Your committee pledges its best services to this end. and hopes to have some definite program to pr* sent to the people et this meeting Net only are your present rights la votved bnt the right# of chil dren. No issue of such moment has aver confronted the people of Rocfc ingham County. Now is the, time t« and for your rights in the future Iter for yourselves or your f’-”J— Let every citisen come, needs you? presence end CITIZENS ‘ ■ ♦ ---— Old Debt Had Much to do With Convention Place [Damocralk Committee b In Debt from Let Compuum. $158,000 J.tr- -o*:' (By Made W. Sullivan) Washington Jan. 17.—Tho question of railing money. That la why tho amount of Money offered by the variola cities was Important. Tho Democratic national organisa tion Is today $168,000 in debt. This debt is a relic of the campaign of 1920 and is now, therefore, more than three and a half years old. Dur ing the 1920 campaign the Democrats had far fewer rich supporters than the Republicans. - At all times the Republiran 'organization was ade quately Onanhed. But at no time did the Democratir organization have as much money as they could have used legitimately and advantageously. At one time during the 1920 campaign it was a question whether the na tional headquarters would not be locked up within twenty-four hours for lack of money to pay the rent. In the course Of various emergencies that arose during that 1920 campaign the committee borrowed $240,000 from banks on tbe security of notes endorsed by the following Democrats of national prominence! Timothy T. Ansberry, of Ohio;, John Barnett, of Colorado; Bernard ( M. Baruch, of New York; Thomas, Chadboume, of New Ymffc; Homer, 3. Cummings, of Connecticut; Francis, P. Garvan, of New 'fork; Joseph' Guffrey, of Pennsylvania; William! Jamelson, of Iowa; Vance M Cormick, of Pennsylvania; A; Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania; Joseph P. Tumulty, of New Jersey. of d the, wi# r th* Convention city by Cpae sNtional Committee subordinate to the mutter U. S. MOTION IN BRAZIL TO PAN. Press) 17.—American supreme in repeated efforts to sub luctions, which one-half the refuses to favorites who y. here during (By Associai Rio De Janeiro, Ji motion pictures Brazil. In spite of the local thcal stitute European can be obtained at cost, the public give up its Ai leaped into popt the world war. Statistics censorship' show a both the number American films Brazilian theaters.., number of films ii of which 923 came States. In 1922 of whi h the Am 1,058. In the first the total was 712, of which 588 came from the United S One of the most el picture men in Bi ciateri Press that have done more td Pan-Americanism factors combined, official increase in percentage of in the 1921'the total ted was 1,296, m the United tal was 1,341, share was months of 1923 fenced motion told the Asso .merican films reate practical Ulan all other Be said that the Brazilians now know more about the United States and the Americans than they do about dhy other country or people, perhaps including theii own, all due to the urjconscious props ganda effect of the Aknerican films. Motion picture Ofln declare that one of the mosfP attractive features of the American films ity the eyes of the public is the fact tMit they point a moral. The statistic .show that in 1922 only 4 per cent of American films were altered toy the censors, while 50 to 60 persfent of the films from some Enropean sources were cut by the censors-." ’ During 1923 about $65,000,000 worth of diamonds were imported into the United States. Great Strengtn at Democrat Meeting ALL CONFIENT THAT DEMOCRATS WILL WIN Opposition to McAdoo Fol lowing Favorite Son Plan; Campaign Arguments (By David Lawrence) Washington, Jslt 17.—“It’s going to be the greatest campaign since 1886," said William Jennings Bryan, is he gosjiped with his friends in the lobby of the hotel where the Democratic national committee was meeting. And the atniosphere of expectancy which envelops the gathering of the Democrats certainly does give the impression of a real fight ahead. The dissensions within the party are in tense—the Preeidtntial nomination seems ever so much more desirabli to the groups fighting for it. The confidence that the next President of the United States' will be a Democrat reigns supreme. This is not merely i reflection of partisian sentiment nor a wish that father to the thought. In their ^private talks the •oinmitteemen make the most plausi >le arguments about the future. Men like WiHiam Jennings Bryan, or instance, view with satisfaction he coalition of the insurent Re publicans and the Democrats and say history will repeat itself—that a iplit in the Republican party will igain swing the independent voters to the Democratic, standard-bearer as in 1812. - h "Naturally the contest over the selection of a convention city fur nished the principal business of the Democratic national committee’s meeting, but back of the conference of Democrats here was the discussion Of the* respective candidates. Significant in the development of the contest thus far u the surpris ing strength of William Gibbs Me Adoo, former Secretary of the Treas ury. It is unusual for a candidate to have such an aggressive organisation and with to many States committed to him-thin early in the game. The opposition to McAdoo it developing. anti-McAdoo forces for the time Items Right Off the Telegraph Wires (By Associated Press.) Steamship Latouche, via St. Paul Island, Alaska, Jan. 17.—The inhabit ants of Belkofsky and vinicity report ed a severe earthquake occurred Tues day morning at southern edge of Pav lof volcano blew off. Belkofsky is in the Alaska peninsula. The shock lasted seven minutes. Pavlof since the edge blew off has been emitting dense steam and smoke. People. in Belkofsky left their homes in safety. fBy Associated Press) v Ashland, WIs., Jan. 17.—Fire which in six hours caused a damage esti mated at $2,500,000 before it wds brought under control by firemen of three cities last night, destroyed three-fourths of the 1,700-foot long dock of Chicago and Northwestern railroad here. Local firerpen were aided by companies from Ironwood, Mich., and Superior, Wis. LEAKSVILLE SOLDIER JOINS THIRTY-FOURTH JOINS 34TH INFANTRY (Special to the Gazette) Fort Eustis, Va., Jan. 17.—Among the soldiers who have recently joined the Thirty-fourth United States in fantry is Private Jessie J. Hundley, <& eLaksville, N. C. He enlisted at the United States Army recruiting station at Danville, Va. Private Hundley has been assigned to Company "A” which is. known in the regiment as “DairviHe’s Own’’ due to the large number of regular army soldiers in its ranks from Dan ville and the towns In the vicinity of that city. The Thirty-fourth Infantry la the only regiment of infantry of, the regular army which is station perma nently in Virginia and a large num ber of soldiers from that State and North Carolina have enlisted in its ranks during the past two months. The LeaksvHle soldier is under going instruction in the special platoon for newly arrived soldiers, BRITISH RAILWAY ENGINEERS TO STRIKE ON SUNDAY NIGHT (By Associated Press) London, Jan. 17,—A strike of Bri , tish locomotive men who have refused to accept a reduction in wages au ; thorized by the railway wage board, will begin Sunday midnight. PYRAMID OF KEUFU WEIGHS ABOUT SIX MILLION TONS Mew York, Jan. 17.—Originally the great pyramid of Keufu near Cairo was smooth faced. The exterior cas ing of smooth limestone was remov ed long ago and used in building streets and mosques in Cairo. It is estimated that this pyramid contains 2>800,000 blocks. The aver age weight of these blocks is two and a half teas. This would make the weight of the pyramid 6,760,000 tons or 11,600,000,000 pounds, says Dwight, L. Elmendorf in The Mentor far aJnuary. FORD MAY STATE HIS POSITION ON MUSCLE SHOALS - (By Associated Press) Washington, Jan. 17.—Prediction that eHnry Ford, within a few days, will make a definite statement as to whether he would be .willing to take ove rthe government’s nitrate project at Muscle Shoals, was made by Chair man Kahn of House Military Com mittee. At a hearing on the ques tion he gave no details. RECEIVES CONFIDENT VOTE (By Associated Press) Paris, Jan. 17.-t-Chamber of dep uties expressed confidence in the gov ernment by a vote of 394 to 108. SELLING NORTH CAROLINA TO THE ENTIRE WORLD It is a laudable undertaking that Mr. Clyde Tuttle, of Greensboro, pro poses for the purpose of selling North Carolina to. the world. Most of the newspapers ofthe State have been doing their best along that line, for the last two or three years especially, with increasing effectiveness. But the greatest achievement of the State’s newspapers along this line has bpen to “soU North Carolina to North «BMIWaris,^«IBWglr thtfh effort* have been effective to an extdnt in advertising fhe greatness and prog ress of the State to the people beyond the borders of the Commonwealth. The State itself has done more than any other agency in advertising itself to the outside world. Every million dollars it haa Invested in high way construction and in extension and permanent improvements in it* educational facilities during the last three years has been a million invest ed indirectly in advertising the State to the outside world. The great program of progress has attracted the attention of newspaper and mag azine editors and writers abroad and the result has been many columns of the best possible advertising of the progres of the State and the ad vantages aid opportunities it offers to the newcomer and the prospective investor. We doubt seriously that anything can be done to improve upon what the North Carolina newspapers have done and are, doing in the way of “selling North Carolina at home." What is needed is a means and method of advertising North Caro lina throughout the country more effectively^ than it has been done or is likely to be. done without organized and skilfully planned effort, backed by resources. Thus far nobody has come forward with a specific or definite plan for getting the story of the wonderful progress and develop ment of the State, its advantages and opportunities, told effectively to the people ox the Nation through the newspapers and magazines which they read. Perhaps such a plan might be evolved out of the meeting of the State’s leading manufacturers, editors, social welfare workers and others which Mr. Tuttle proposes, to be held in Raleigh at the call of Governor Morrison. But until a definite plan is worked out to ac complish the definite purpose of getting the story of North Carolina told in the newspapers of the East and the North and elsewhere, not very much wiH be actually accomp lished along the line of advertising the State abroad more than has al ready been done. And to get the story told effectively through the publications that reach the Nation’s millions of readers will require not only money but skilled and expert talent in preparation of the matter ; to be published and in “working the wires” aa'necessary to get the story published. Sending matter to outside newspapers to be thrown in the wastebaskets will do the State n« good. And it must be remembered that publications outside of Nortt Carolina do not have enough of Nortt Carolina pride and love for the State out of their way to boost Nortt *«*!p f°F tyt #1 Industry Is G— New South N. C. Prosp Forty-Eight Million Invested in Mill Property Alone in 1923 16 Persons Hurt; One Is Killed in a Train Wreck (By Associated Preu) Louisville, Ky., Jan. 17.—Sixteen persons were injured, one fatally, when an interuitoan car crashed into an Illinois Central freight train at a grade crosing, two miles from here. C. H. Sauer, interurban motorman, was crushed between the stop and seat, and died soon after the wreck. LEAKSVILLE HIGH BOYS DEFEATS REIDSVILLE HIGH BOYS 25 TO 2l> I Last night at the Central “Y” the Leaksville High boys defeated the Reidsville High boys 25 to 20. The game started with a thrill when the Leaksville boys fought hard for the ball and succeeded. The first half ended in a score of 19 to 5, in favor of Leaksville. In the second half, Reidsville score be gin to tally, but the good work of Baughn and Barksdale held them in check. The line-up: Leaksville (25) Reidsville (20) Reynolds.R. F.Minor Chambers.L. F.Pettigrew Baughn.C.Miller Barksdale.R. G.... Montgomery Jones.L.' G.Irvin Field goals—for Leaksville: Rey nolds 5, Chambers 2, Baughn 1, Barks dale 2, Jones 1. Foul goals: Reynolds 2, Chambers 1, Jones 1. • Field goals—for Reidsville: Petti grew 2, Miller 5, Minor 1. Foul goals: Pettigrew 2, Miller 2. „ . Theatres AT THE BOULEVARD TONIGHT Under the title of “His Children’s Children” we’re all of us walking the ight rope—every man jack of us. The ines who have learned to keep their balance go right along as a matter of course—no danger at all! The others fall off. If you’ve got the sort of ideals and stick to them, you never get into any trouble—never have to worry — you’re safe. If you haven’t you’re in danger every minute. This is the central theme of the Paramount picture, “His Children’s Children,” coming to the Boulevard Theatre for two days—Wednesday and Thursday. It’s a remarkable production. COLONIAL TONIGHT Weather beaten men return from hills—actors are battle scarred after making big picture. After finishing the Vitagraph special production, “Flower of the North,” which be shown at Colonial Theatre Thursday, the actors returned from the moun tains of northern Oregon tanned and weather beaten. The production is based on James Oliver Curwood’s famous story of the same name, and is a splendid ex ample of the combination of the great factors necessary to a success-' ful motion picture play: a capable cast headed by distinguished stars; a gripping, worthwhile story by a world famous author and a skillful, experienced director. The super excellent cast is headed by Henry B. Walthall, who was the hero in “The Birth of a Nation,” and who has since had his own company, and Pauline Starke, whose work in “The Courage of Marge O’Doone,” another Vita graph production by Mr. Curwood. “Salvation Nell,” and other big pro ductions gained her wide recognition and Immense popularity. COLONIAL THEATRE Real Indian fight staged in film There is an exciting battle with In dians in Vitagraph’s special produc tion, "Flower of the .North," which will be shown at Colonial Theatre to day. The picture was made by David Smith in the northern part of Oregon. The combat is not at all like the old Indian flghte shown in the earlier motion pictures. Instead of showing the pesky redskin biting the dust in the conventional manner of old, the light is staged in a most logical .manner. They are Twentieth Century Indians who, as a usual tiling, are orderly and law abiding, bat whc in this ease have been goaded into sugar and sullenness }■ ' * tag im* CLASS AND CASTE LINES ELIMINATED By A8HMUN BROWN (Washington Correspondent of the Providence Journal) “Manufacturers’ Avenue” they call the main highway through the Pied mont section of North and South Car olina and Georgia, that wooded up land stretch of country reaching from the southern line of Virginia through the western tiers of counties on to Atlanta. This highway extends 177 miles in North Carolina alone; and in that distance the front doors of 12S cotton mills open upon jt, an average of one cotton mill for each 1.38 miles. But the story is not one to be told by figures alone. It is a vitally hu man story. At the bottom lies a change in the southerner’s attitude toward life. 1 > These Southern States contain no newly discovered material resources that prompt a rush for development. It isn’t the upbiulding of new and ex tended systems of transportation that has made possible the Increase production of goods for the country’s and the world’s markets. The ex planation lies in the fact that the South has ceased to dwell in tee past. There was a day, not so long ago, when the descendants of the men who fought the lost cause, the best blood o fthe South, were content to subsist largely on tradition. It was not in keeping with that tradition for the scions of families that once constitut ed the aristocracy of the South to en gage in any activity outside of the learned professions. Today, however, the best blood of the Carolinas and Georgia—and of other States of the nlchCewfadaiwy, t« a lmsi have cast off the ancient conventions, - and with a virility and an ability equal to that displayed by their Revolutionary ancestors, have plung ed into industralism. An inquisitive westerner, familiar with the boosting methods and the constructive community spirit that has built the cities and States of the Pacific Coast, wandering through the Piedmont ’hot long ago, was amazed at what he observed. In all his western experience he never saw a finer spirit of progress than exists in Charlotte, Spartanburg, Greensboro, Gastonia, Winston-Salem and other ancient towns, that have awakened overnight into modem, energetic centers of acitivity. And in Another aspect, the social, change is still more marked. Once, in the long and somnolent period that followed the Civil War, the South, a region then of clearly defined social distinctions, contained practically no middle class. Politically and other wise the aristocracy ruled. At' the other end of the scale was the great negro population. In between but negligible as either a social or an economic factor was the “poor white” class—tenant farmers always in debt to the planter; mountain dwellers, re mote, aloof and primitive, "our con temporary ancestors,” as Walter Hines Page once called them. N*w Living Conditions Prevail Today the poor whites as a class have almost disappeared. The factory has lured them from the tenant farm and from the mountain. The mill village, with its schools, its churches, its community life, its moving picture show, its visiting nurses, it resident physicians, has taught the primitive folk What the world has learned of the art of living. Keaa tne result in the health statistics of these Southern States. Disease is being controlled, life is be ing prolonged, infant mortality is de creasing, sanitation and personal hy giene are becoming common and not exceptional. The public health au thorities have a ready explanation. The piill village, patemalistically dominated, if you will, has led thl way. Industry, in short, has brought " enlightment and civilization to a great boly of Americana. The cracker and mill-billy are be coming extinct. The factory and the ^ mill have made them over into mod- • ern Americans, standardized them on a 1928 model, maybe, but with a broader, more comfortable and richer life than they or their ancestors ever knew. Industry has opened to dkeMt^ *^: and their children the door of oj* portunity, a door which they the«e selves once held shut. .ni&gjgi
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