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PEICEj two. fftlDAT. FKBEUAyr », rtM. • A (■y Associated Press) Washington, Feb. 16.—Frank Van derlip told the Senate oil committee ho had 00 tacts whatever te go on Who* ha ip**? «w»mht the name of Prulijagi Harding Into the oil Mandol in his Ossining speech asking far an inquiry into the circumstances ■mounding the sale of Harding's Marion Star. Sr Mid it was made because he thought Jt a “public duty’’ to call at tention to current rumor* so as to stop them. “I don’t even know the price the paper sold at.” Vanderlip said. “The current story was 1560,000.” He regarded the rumors, he paid, as akin to the “whispering campaign” that marked Last month of thd Hard ing campaign in 1920. “I had full basis for what I said,” ha eoatipued, “that these were cur rent rumors. I bad never hclrd any that the money pa^ for came from oil interest*. I that my statenaoka would us the truth and kill those rumors.” Questioned about his statement that the committee had nht dared to nosh the questioning of Albert Fall, Vanderifp said it was an Impression be got from the newspapers. The witness admitted he had not read in the newspapers that Fall had claimed constitutional immunity, al though the story was published prominently by practically every paper in the country. The Star owners submitted a state meat and then the committee turned its attention to other matters. Thomas Johnson foreman of Fall’s New Mexico ranch, made a Hat denial that he ever received $68,000 from the Sinclair interests. Reports of such payment had been brought to \ the committee recently by Archie -,x~ Boeeeweh. In th meantime President Coolidge rent to the Senate the nomination of Owen Roberts, of Philadelphia, as special government counsel in place committee had found unacceptable. TURK DIES AT It* Vienna, Fob. IB.—Yussuf Maca Mobenjettan’s dead at Yagoubitsa, Juge^Slivia, at the age of 120, ac eosding to a Belgrade dispatch.- Yus tnf married thrice, and one of his surviving sonis only 17 years old. He neither- drank nor smoked. His only beverage was Turkish coffee. VALENTINE PARTY GIVEN AT * BURTON GROVE SCHOOL (By Stella Smith, 7th Grade) A Valentine party was given on February J4,m4,by the people of Hair Leaksville community for the v1T)jrf* of the Burton Grove school. ^people came from all parts apd seomd to enjoy themselves. Pies, cakes, candy, Sandwiches and wein ri were sold at 6 dents each'. T&a money is goiitg to be spent in buying books and. other needful things for the school. , • Other parts of the program were a fortune teller, Prince Mohamidn. who would tell the fortunes of any-' one who wished it. She alto gars * picture of your intended. There was a negro minstrel which was greatly appreciated by everyone; also a little girl blacked up as a negro who imitated one in a dance. # This article was written by a girl in the Seventh grade at Burton school. Several boys and girls in the ■ school wrote accounts of the party, ■it jjtclla Smith’s received an en dorsement expressed by vote. * MoVaRD CARTER TURNED - \X AWAT FROM TUTS TOMB (By Associated Press) Luxor, Egypt, Fri>. IB.—Howard Carter presented hhnseif at Tutank hamen’s tomb and waa refused ad mission by the Chief of Police, who presented a wjitte norder . from, the Carter then retired. BULGARIA AND RUMANIA MOVE TO PATCH UP fTA*. • TIME BREACH flPf riif-, Bucharest, Pet*. 15,—Negotiations •re in progress herd' whieb, It U hoped, will remove the feet obstacle to friendly relations between Bulgaria and Rumania, broken off as a result \ Bulgarian operations hi Rumania during the World War. One of the meet important prob lems has been solved, in prinkipte, by Bulgaria agreeing to pay AppyetaU raateiy 150,000,000 leva for itaeaM ef the Bpmpnia claim on the properties of Bulgarian dtisens seised here after the war. The question of reetttotfon tBulgaria for war requisitions ip uuiia during the war is stUI pend ing and proving more difleaR of EDUCATOR* GOING TO CHICAGO Iffy Associated Press) ..." Chicago, Feb. 16.—Pnuqtfon of the interests of the Americgfl'.^fobHc school, centering in a theme of recent developments and next for ward steps in public education, is the general aim of the meeting of four teen allied departments and organisa tions of the department of. superin tendence of the national education as ociation, which opens here February 23 and closes February 28. Several thousand teachers and superintend ents from all parts of the United' States will, attend. The program will be optimiatic and constructive, it is said, and indi cations are that the meeting will.be the largest in the hiatory of the de partment. SH EM WELL PAROLED FOR THIRTY DAYS Raleigh, Feb. 16.—Through inter cession of Bishop J. M. Horner of the Asheville KptsoopgLdiocese, and Paul Raper of LosingtOn, Baxter Shem estor _ m vd; Shemwell in isheville. Bishop Horner was doubtful that executive clemency could come soon enlugh to aRbw Shemwell to see Mrs. ShemweH living. The. wife of the prisoner is; critically. til. .The parole ir good tot 80 an a'senteltce of 30 months, slight ly, tpore'than one-fourth of #hieh has been served. The visitors- told the povfruor that Shemwell is A deeply contemplative and- greatly changed man. Htspenda his Jail hours in residing the Bfrlt dad reflecfton upon a .misdirected life. Ms CHINESE GIRL WINS RIGHT 5 TO CHOOSE HER HUSBAND ■ Peking, Feb. 15. — Miss Chiang Chin-yin, an 18-year-old high school ipirl who recently disputed the right acknoWlalged through thotuwnds ol generations of a: parent to-give his daughter's hand in marriage without tor consent has scored a noteworthy triumph. Not only has she Converted her father and mother to h# Modern Viewpoint, hut her elder brother as well has renounced his right to a Voice In the selection of hh sister’s life partner. Mias Chiang made.known her de termination to defy parental author ity by inserting, an advertisement in various '^Chinese newspaper* notify ing everybody interested that she re fused to recognise a betrothal agree ment made.by her elders with the father of young Hsiang Pao-chi. The parents have now resorted to the same means of acknowledging their ^quiescence in the girl’s rebellion iKd agreeing to eanceUation-of the The. incident has aroused great in terest among young Chinese ma ideas who ‘pre becoming rapidly modern ised. The conservative older genera tion, however, thoroughly condemns the innovation as incompatible with dm teachings of Confuduy and a threat to the ages-eM authority of parents which must not bo ---, g --1 ENORMOUS DEMAND FOR STAMPS (By Associated Press) Washington, Feb. «, — Approxi mately lMM.OOO.QOO postage stamps will be required by tbs people of the country during the homing year. Penal serrice experts calculate there has been an increase of 7 per eeht annually fe rthe last thirty years. U costs S cents a 1,000 to manufacture ordinary postage stamps and IS cents a 1.0B0 for special delivery stamps. It is' estimated $1,800,000 will he required to manufacture these stomps at 0m bureau of engraving and printing tore. / ' Nonet TO fRort*nr OfP ON MOI* SfaBir HAMILTON ST&ECT AND FACTORY State atf North Carolina, ■*#*»•■ cowty. ~ ft Leaksville. Js hereby riven that at the of the Board of Commis sioner* of the Town of Leaksville, ipjd at 4» Washington Street, the tom* fto* f*r the aeehing of the li£t Board of Comnisoionoto on the I^th day of February, 1824, the fol Iqwing resolution was unanimously apd Bldg yleed and adopted: keroas,-'*?. W. Norman, Clerk of , ‘Board, has submitted to* the __th**e petitions: First, being * petition of the majority of the abut* Utg property owners on Moir Street ftrthe Town of Leafcsville, between Spring Street and Church Street, be ginning at the intersection of Spring Street and Moir Street and running thence to the northwest intersection of Moir and Church Streets, and designated as District No. 5. Second, a petition from the majority of the abutting property owners on Hamil ton Street from Dan River to the northeast intersection of Washington Street, and designated as District No. 15. Third, a petition from -the ma jority of abutting property owners on Factory Street, in said Town of Leaksville. from the northeast inter section of- Bridge to the Southeast intersection of Glovenla Street, and designated as District No. Id; and, WHEREAS, the said J. W. Norman, Clerk of this Board, has lodged his. certificate showing that he has in vestigated said petitions as required oy Chapter-M M«s Um of and amemltnrjttstlrtf 4 to (ConaoHdat ed Statutes 2708, St. s*q.), and that said petitions in aH respeetscomply with the requirements gLsaid Cop ter 56 of the Publle Laws of 1815, and amendments thereto fConsdttdab ed Statutes 2708, et. tad;), and the fetttibm *fe torch* detrained, tojm rJTthe p^visWs ferred to, to-wit: Cluster 56 of the Public Laws, of 1916 and amendments thereto: therefore, >e it - • RESOLVED," that the local street improvements ss deaignatadaa Dis trict foo. 6, between Spring Street and Church Street, beginning at the intersection of Spring • Street and Moir Street, and running thence to the northwest Intersection of Moir and Church Street* be paved with sheet asph*It,6ltuHtbic or bttuminous concrete laid’on solid foundation, not less than 25 fast wide. That the local gtrdet Improvement* is designated as District No. 18, to rit: Hamilton Street, from Dan liver to the northeast intersection of Washington Street be paved with heet asphalt, jtitullthic or bituminous oncrete laid on boIM foundation, not ms than 25 feet wide. That the local street improvements as designated as Piptrict No. H to* wit: Factory Street, from the norths east intersection of IBridge Street t» ■ •• i-x.— <y^raBig Street- bo pavod. wftb-.a bitulithic or bltumlnofc* , on solid foundation, net' )#■ feet wide. v||J9| That all of the aforqaald4 provements arejto^lfe- don# el selected by thra'Bbap#'ifel? “f speciflcatione as made by, sue* engi neer, and appro vedhy tSi* Bee##,. . BE IT FURTHER 8*88119®, and ft'is hereby,fleered, that the owners..of property abutting- on saw stagsts herein set forth and described aa Districts Noe. 6,1* »«• t*» *«• *® be'paved as . herein ordered, shall be assessed upon ssM abutting property on said streets 60 per cent of the cost of said street improvement (exclusive of stseet intersections). Said assess ments shell be payable in ten equal annual installments, *nd shall bear interest at the rata of tbper cent j per annum from the date of the oon i formation of thc as^ssment roll, and shall he payable «m,tbe date other taxes an to be paid I The foregoing resolutions adopted by the Board of Cospsslsaioners of «e £ Town, of Ueaksville, North Carolina, BAT ASIA +0 VOTE ON QURATION OF RESTORATION OF MON ARCSV (By iNoehM Prow.) Munich, Feb. 16.—Residents of Bavaria are to be afforded oppor tunity to eftfircM themselves at the palM y».to whether 0r not they favor restoration «f a monarchy aa part pf the program of the People’* party, It waa'aapounee^l recently. Front present Indication thirteen parties wilt Save candilate* in the field at the ’ election which it la planned to hold some time next fail. HOLLAND’S QUEEN RELITES DISTRESS OF THE NEEDY CHILDRBN —*-“,iithe*i with lata had Which were lacking (Bp Associated Press) Schwartsburg, Thuringia, Feb. 16. —Queen WHMimlna of Holland and her consort, Duke Henry 0# Hecklen berff, ere cerise for tnhiiy heady chil dren in the fSchwertaatlrg district They havibefc instrumental in haw, ing many pope Thuringian children aent to Hollani for summer vacations with well-t'Mftatttch families which could other in Gerataay. *! Doha Ilsigy rently visited the Prince ef Schwartaburg at his eaatte in this tittle health resort, where Queen WOhehaina passed much of her eUldhoo% The little Dutch princess, before she became of age, regarded SehWartzburg as her second home. Her Mother, Princess Emma of Waldeek-Bgnnont, left the child hergig the mjahtaina while she ruled Holland M rsgynt. Mrs. A. D. (vie was in Greensboro today. Miss Catherine Morehead, of Char lotte, spent two hours yesterday with Mrs. W. O. Jenkins. Miss Morehead and her mother, Mrs. John Morehead, were on their -way to Denver, Colo., where they wit spent n month. IE8 ASKED DY BEAL F^CTS A8 TO LUNACY (Ry Associated Pntt) Londoa, Feb. 16.—In order to them, in their work, certain magistrates wtU attend lectures on lunacy four days a week commencing In March. The course has keen or ganized by the central association of mental Welfare and. after their les sons in the morning, the magistrates will visit certified tactuations for de fectives, prisons and remand homes. Sir LssIIe Scott, chairman of the welfare association, says It has boon felt that some such practical course might Vo of interest and help to magistrates in a part of their work; to iMk so much attention has re been drawn. At present a override an expert that a person is A mental defective, “We have ar te bring the two together, in that they will the better under ftpad the others' point of view.” CHEAPER TO ATTEND COURT THAN KEEP THE ROME FIRES BURNING (By Associated Press) Jessnits, Dermaiqr, Psb. 15.—'The nost common-piece Civil esses in the iessnitx courts have attracted un precedented crowds this winter. There iv*» such a jam of men, women and shjldren on several occasions, when bhe thermometr was hovering about die aero point, that the bailiffs had ;0 close the deers. Questioned, tg court officials the ipectators admitted frankly that they lad not the slightest interest in the egsl proceedings, often even being >ored by the sessions, especially shen masses of technical documents sen being examined. However, they ouad that it was much cheaper to at tend court and get warm than to keep ho fires going at bonrt during such levere weather. v^w^rllwwlll^|f>iwyvwvvvvvvww^fl/tfwwwwwn^"^^^^^^ | f ■ *‘~x I AT* of a Bride* *• (Series, No. 5.) T HERE was a great howl sent op ever thfc * $|9,675 Fishing Creek bridge a* if dais was the riasea for a high tax rate injh w year of oat ■■-T.ridPp^BBaspi this tax-rate fixing business. % It is the duty of the CoUlity Commissioners to fix the tax rate each year. This rate is sup posed to be fixed so as to meet tbe running ex penses of the county, including the schools and payment of interest on bonded indebtedness. The County Commissioners can not fix*ke tax rate until the County Board of Education files with the Commissioners an estimate of what money they will need during the year for school purposes. Whatever the Board of Education asks for must he granted. The Com missioners must comply with their request and fix h tax rate high enough to bring in the money. From this there is no apparent escape. For several years the tax fate has not yielded enough money to' meet the county’s obligations, and, before the year was over, money had to be borrowed from the banks on short loan notes, and of course, as everybody knows, these short-time notes carries higher in terest rates than is usually paid by county bond buyers. So it can be seen that it is poor busi ness to fix a tax rate insufficient to pay the actual obligations for that year. When this ss done for three Ur four years : in succession, the amount of these short leans ~ with high interest rates, increases and rite condi tion steadily grows ^varse. When two at three hundred thousand dri&urs is carried ni Bus way, the innocent voter, unaware of die deceit prac ticed on fcfap, walks up to the polls and votes er straight” aid then goes around telling his political* opponent* about it. He is llappy now. mad later, He does not know the Commissioners have been “holding out" on him, and that later on he must meet a higher tax rate to meet tike several deferred debts and accumulated interest that should have been provided for in the tax budget of two or three year* before. Any man who will investigate this matter and will spend the time it requires to unearth tbe fact, can teH you that this is what has been done, iuid let me say something more, it was done for political effect, which I will show be fore this series of articles end. HALP MILLION PEOCIT ATTEND INDIA* GREAT BATHING FESTIVAL (By AimMM ferns) Allahabad, Fab. IS,—India’s great bathing festival. AA Kumbh, hejd •vary six yean, recently attracted 600,00 piiyflr to the sacred spot at the jultdfiaft of the Oangee anl Jumna rieitS* Government authorities had elected barriers restricting the area for bathers because of the shifting of the river bed, but Hindu extrem ists pulled down the fences apparently with the idea that pilgrims should drown if fated to do so. Two million pilgrims mere expect ed to bathe in the rivers during the festival, which lasts a month. A GOOD WOMAN PASSES Mrs. Mary Hege Robertson, wife of the late Robert H. Robertson, died at her home in Stoneville Satur day iftemoon after a lingering ill ness, which was borne with true Christian fortitude. Mrs. Robertson would have been 84 years old had she lived until nest month, aa#since early girlhood had been a consistent and faithful members of the Baptist Church. She was a loving mother and faithful wife; a good friend and neighbor. She ia survived by seven children— J. C. and & R. Robertson, Madison; W, A. Robertson, Stoneville; Mrs. E. W. King, Mrs. Fannie Barnes and Mm. J. M. Vernon, Stoneville; Mrs. H. F. Comer, Americus, Ga. There are also 26 grandchildren, and 5 great-grandchildren. She also leaves two brothers and one sister—J. S. Hege, Texas; Neal Hege, South Caro-1 Una, and Mrs. L. C. Paschal, who lives near Madison The funeral services were conduct ed from Providence Baptist' Church Sunday afternoon by Rev. Mr. Everett, of Spray, a large concourse of sorrowing relatives an^ friends be ing present to pay tribute to the mamery of one ae universally es NBW DEVICE TRANSMITS 1,000 WORD8 A MINUTE (By Associated Press) London, Feb. 16.—Striking evidence ef the -advancement made in inven tion dsohmr 1923 ia found in the recent exhibit -m .Oilsgi aphic and other in struments at the British Imperial Collage of Science end Technology. The moat notabla development is in teleprephy; delay in submarine cabl ing has been lecgdy eliminate by utlliiiiif tbs action of light on selenium, which responds so rapidly that the sugnal cent out Is recorded oven before the fuU current has pass ed over the wire. A magnetic telegraph'c drum re corder is shown, capable of speeding up messages to 1,000 words a minute. This is effected by the current of the incoming signal passing through coils contained in a rapidly revolving iron drum and turning it into a magnet for o brief space, thus attracting a slight piape of iron, shaped like a brake shoe. This operates a fine syphon tube charged with ink, causing it to record the signal on the paper tape as Ms flies past it Another exhibit is an “undulator,” or an instrument used in high speed wireless telegraph, capable of print ing on an endless slip of paper up to 300 words 0 minute. Another device which appealed both to laymen and professional is the complicated photographie apparatus for taking motion pictures at the rate of 6,000 a second. (By Associated Press) Whitesburg, Ky., Feb. 15. aitd Sam Bates, brothers, reside the troublesome creek section ed in a .45 calibre law to set quarrel over the sett! estate left by their father, both are dead. They met on a mountain trail i terday, drew their heavy weapons i fired and both dropped fat wounded. Fall Would Hav< Disposed of Our Alaskan Secretary President (By Associated Press') Washington, Feb. 16. Fall and Secretary Denby were de dared in a letter laid before Coolidge by John Ballaine, Alas railroad constractor, to have entered^ into negotiations in Jaiy, 1921, for 1 transfer and lease of the rich anuska coal reserves q! Alaska, the same lines as were later followed . in the Teapot Dome Oil leases. The Alaskan lease was not exe cuted, but the letter said the navy de partment had assiduously refused ever since to permit the use of Alaskan coal by the navy. the along 1 TRIED TO BUY BACK MARION STAR AFTER PRESIDENT DIED: Columbus, O., Feb. 16.—Minority stockholders of the Marion Star, of which Mrs. Harding is one, offered to buy back the newspaper from Roy D. Moore and Louis H. Brush, after the death of Mr. Harding,', at the price for which it was purchased. Hoke Donithen, Ohio manager of %i Coolidge campaign, said here yester day. , SHALEOflTr^b MAY CLOSE (By Associated Press) Glasgow, Feb. 16.-—The Scottish shale oil industry, employing ll men, it is feared, will have to f down in a fewe months because I longer is profitable. The situatil attributed to the large quantity crude oil being obtained elsewha LOCALS Miss Orene Fagge spent yesterday in Greensboro shopping. Our basketball girls will play Winston-Salem at that place tonight. Mrs. A. Gibson has returned from a visit to her brothers at Mt. Airy, - Mrs. Dan Taylor will entertain the bridge club tomorrow afternoon. Miss Elizabeth Simpson, County Welfare Worker, was in town today. James Fagge, of the University, is in town to spend the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Fagge. Misses Bertie Patterson, Rivers Ivie, E. B. King and J. Fitts attended' a play in Danville last night. Robert Ivie, of Rotboro, is strend ing the week with his daughter, Mrs. Robert Stocks, on Patrick Street. House Destroyed by Fire Was Used for Tobacco Storag PENNY SOCIAL WAS A SUCCESS ' Last Bight the ladies of the First Christian Church gave a penny social. It was a success in every tray. Every one had a good time, both old and young. Many thanks are due Mrs. W. W. Matthews and Mrs. Frank Japes tar the splendid program an| alee the logics that jbad charge Yesterday a seven-room house be-, longing to York Price, but rented By D. M. Murphy, caught* fire about 11:80 A. M., and burned to the ground. The house contained 2,000 ponnds of tobacco belonging toytrthui:. Murphy; also corn, three plant bed clothes, three scythe eradlcMtiwia gun belonging toTSonny Price jjkhfch had been in the house fifty yn The loas of th house . u.boeeO
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