PRICE:
Protected Trusts
When in Office
Southern Yellow Pine. Aee’n
One of Thoae He HM
Portected
SUITS STILL
IN STATUS QUO
(By Associated Press)
Washington, April 22.—Chairman
Hnston Thompson of the Pedcrai
Trade Commission laid before the
Daugherty investigating committee
further evidence to support his testi
mony that anti-trust cases Were Pot
cropertly prosecuted under Attorney
General Daugherty, after facts war
ranting legal action had been devel.
aped by the commission and turned
over to the department of justice.
He related he and his cot'eagues
uncovered “price fixing and coercive
measures” among lumber producers
la aa investigation beginning in 1919.
Hie results he said, wer, laid be
fore the justice department before
Daugherty took office. Action against
«he Southern Yellow Pine Association j
waa instituted in closing days of the
WHaoa administration, he declared.
But, “has remained in states quo ev
er since and now rests in district
court at Kaqsas City.
DOROTHY DALTON TO MARRY
ARaHUR HAMMER8TET>
(By Associated Press)
Chicago, April 29.—Dorothy Dalt^
motion pieture actranr
Hamm<rfehi, theatrical
previously mirrlad three
to be married here today.
Hi la the fanner wife I
ony son «f the late,
amln and father of
THAW WOWS SIGNS
OP INSANITY IN COURT
(By Associated Press)
Philadelphia, April 22.—Just as
Harry Thaw sanity trial recessed for
luncheon Thaw rushed to the press
table and. burst into excited denun
ciation of William Gray who had
been addressing die jury in opposi
tion to Thaw’s release. When he calm,
ed down Thaw said h« had not been
excited because of Gray’s speech but
was nervous because of danger of
losing the jury if certain records were
introduced. x
COFFINS AND A FAMILY VAULT
ROOMS FOR VAGABONDS
(By Associated Press)
Gersdorf, Silesia, April 19.—Two
vagabonds recently chose a gruesome
rendezvous i nthe cemetery near this
city. The sexton noticed tracks in the
snow 'ending to a family vault. He
found the vault door open and in the
dim light could see two be-whiskered
men lying in coffins from which the
lid* been removed.
The men were snoring and covered
with blankets so the sexton said. But
after he had asked the guards to help
him arrest the men it was found that
they had gone. However, the skeletons
in the coffins, which were the remain
of persons who had been deed for
over 80 yyars, ware broken into bits
and the coffins Were filled with leaves
and
KNUTSON ANI> HULL INDICTEb
Washington, April 22.—Represen
tative Knutson of Minnesota and Le
roy Hull arrested on serious charge,,
recently on a Virginia road were in
dicted by an Arlington county grand
jury. j
Their bail of three thousand do’,
lars each was continued for their ap
pearance at trial 'April 80th.
LEARNING YOUR PART
(By Wiokes Wamboldt)
A very estimab'ewoman said to me
the other day, "At times I grow com
pletely discouraged with myself.
Sometime* it seems to me that rt
gardless of the legth of time I have
lived in this world and the experinces
I have had they have taught me
nothing. Again and again I find my
•elf wondering if when I leave this
world I shall know any more than
when I entered it.”
The *tate of mind expressed by this
woman i* not peculiar to her. A'mosi
any thinker who is not an egotist ot
a Pharisee feels the tame way about
it. It is a mighty hea thy way to feel
too. Which type of individual do you
admire the more—the one who feels
he is not all he should be and it striv.
ing to improve jn goodness; or the one
who thinks he it just about right and
it merely waiting for the summons to
tit on the right hand of the Almighty
and Judge the world T'Lord deliver us
from Hie latter class! They keep more
people out of church than all the
I#her adverse influence*, put together
A prominent man to d me be quit
h because, h*tgaid, "I got
1 couldn’t stand
to see oUnfoe
there jn lie
pretsion on his face.” Of course this
man was wrong, about that He should
not have let his personal prejudices
keep him away from what was good
for him. He had there a weakness to
overcome. I’ll wager he would no;
have let o'd Joe McLaughlin keep him
away from the dining table.
Yet, people who have not stopped
growing are a'ways taking stock of
themselves and ' finding plenty of
room for Improvement And the fact
that they find thing* should encourage
rather than discourage. It is a sure
sign that they have not atrophied
mentally and spiritually.
Usually people who are getting
ready for any great test doubt that
they are ready for it. J wonder if any
actor qver approached a first night
performance without this question
tormenting him. 1 have seen a num
her of plays rehearsed. Up to the
dress rehearsal one might wonde*
what the final result would be. To. the
uninitiated there wotf'd seem plenty
of grounds for wondering if the van
ous players knew their parts. Yet
when the performance was put on ev
•rybody went through swimmingly
and often the most dubious were th*
most successful.
And'so it will probably be with all
of us when we pass from this life intc
the next. We shall find that we have
W*i»d a Fr-s>t deal more than, we
think we have learned and have our
lines better titan we imagined.
But keep up tha good work of tak
ing stock of ourse ves. And remember
no man is a failure until he is
with himself. , ^
WOMAN AMD HUB***© PU<
before Iw» **
in custody of t
El ward Cooney, t*. mh
rU'KB ApAftfB. N^GftO
ijjj J.YNCHE1
COLORED RACES
MUST FORM UNION
JAPANESE CLAIM
U. S. Senate Mamed ■for Mak
ing Union of Colored
Races Inevitable
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(By Associated Preas).
Tdliio, April 22.—The Hoch editor,
ially declares that the action: of thr
United States Congress., in aeluding
Japanese from immigration.. jnevita
b’y fosters a union of the {Colored
races. - V
This union it says, must tabs some
time to develop, but it is absolutely
necessary it declares,' that far the ‘
consequences of this union the A;n '
erican senate must take the responsi
bility. • r ft
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Read Year Connty's Daily PaperjFirst.'
SCHOOL TEACHERS STRIKE
RESULT IN CLOSING
CUMBERLAND SCHOOLS
(By Associated Press)
Cumberland Ciurt House, Va., April
22.— Ma y on district schools, are
closed today as'a result of a teachers
strike said to be the aftermath of the
Garrett-Pierce murder case.
Teachers demanded back pay to.
December 1st, which it is alleged !»
being held up by a dispute in the
county school board in which Larkin
Garrett a member and county super
intendent of schools Tisinger are prin
cipals.
Tisinger sought to close the Stiny
Point school for failure to meet the
state aw and the Ga'rrett faction on
the board refused to sign the payroll.
Read Your County’s Daily Paper First.
A TALE OF A TOWN
(iSeries No. 1)
The'Danville fit Western Railway Co., is playing
"Horse’ ’ with the town Board and the business inter
ests of Leaksvi]le. ‘
Several years ago the Railroad Company took off two
daily passenger and mail trains without asking a soul
in the town whether they could get along without them.
What did they care?
Whenthis writer protested in the most vigorous man
ner, he knemi«J)QW the Genera! Manager blamed it on
the railroad employees by asking that we await the out
come of a strike due to begin the first Monday in Septem
ber. "Whenever that strike is settled, we shall take the
matter up and have it settled" the genial Major Parker
told your Editor. But no word came, for three solid
months. V
But we never got thi trains and never will. Now we
do not expect them, add are not even asking for them.
However, we are asking for something else, and we will
come near getting it if we play the right cards.
We now want a place to load and unload freight.
Some people call it a Depot, some a Station and other a
Dump. Well, we think any one of the three would be
better than what we have. The town of Leaksville has
spent nearly a half million dollars in public improve
« ments. All proF®Fty,holdetiM?aid their share and.joined -
£ iri tKe ivork witK a willingness that meant something,
except the Danville fii Western Railroad Company.
'They alone are: blocking the plans. They even have the
nerve to tell the Town Board it should not widen
Boone Road or build a sidewalk along this street near
the little mousetrap station over which George -Henry
Clark predominates.
All the freight coming into this station must be un
loaded on one side and then on ground sloping outward
and too narrow for trucks to turn arund when loading
and unloading. And part of this narrow strip belongs to
the city. The city has decided to cut into this bank and
put in a sidewalk from the station up to the junction
cf Washington and Bridge streets. When this is done
there will be no room for trucks between the walk and
the freight den.
ft
Now, if you don t believe this story just look at it for
your own benefit.
The Leaksville Depot turns more money into cash
c-rawer of the old D. &'W. than any other place on its
system. But this will do us no good on God’s green
earth as long as we are such infernal fools to think wc
can get a square deal where there is but one railroad.
When we were knee dee pin mud and no way to even
get to Draper or any station on the D. & W. to Danville
off comes pasenger and mail trains,and all this time the
business was increasing about 25 percent a year. Has
anybody in these parts ever in their lifetime ever see a
railroad reducing their train service where their business
was increasing in leaps and bounds?
They just throwed away -ttieir opportunity. As soon
c.a bus lines could be organized they started carrying
passengers to Danville, Ridgeway, Stoneville, Reidsville,
Martinsville,’ Fieldale and Draper?
Of course die D. & W. lost their passenger business .
but it was their own fbult and nobody is shedding any
tears. When the hand of monopoly on the throat of a
victim shuts off the wind the victim dies, to be sure, but
than the hand that oppresses sow becomes paralyzed
and the power that would dastmggli itself destroyed.
*h we oWmtf a Chamber of
MeWS V*r* ah the run hire
,.... , .,V£r- that body was given tftm«
knafckout drops and Ml an the d***#tip« of the peed
Daughters ef the ponfedesaey to nurse bach to Ufa. ail
the kipdly pdpiftratioas they could possibly rande*. (ail.
«d la revive die dying patient, and than the railroad
rronopoly began again to disregard the needs of Leaks
i ills and reduee the train service, ?Q tjjat today n«t a
man in town knows when a train will arrive.
We hope the town Board has the nerve to tell the D.
& W. to go to Halifax, or s^me other high temperature
and all our. towns people join hands with the people of
Stoneville and get a line built from Leaksville to
Stoneville where we can connect with the Norfolk and
Western Railroad.
Chapter Two will outline a {dan whereby this can
easily be done. If the people of this town is going to
continue to fool with what's left of the hit and-miss D.
and W. you better stop investing money in new en
terprises, ~ l
Two ytate Ago
Commerce here,
•vtrp dap ar tyro,
President Hopeful
Dawes* Report Will
Make for Peace
GILETTE EXPLAINS HOW
FRIEND’S TRUNK
CONTAINED LIQUOR
(By Associated Press)
Washington, April 22.—Speaker
Gillette appeared at the Daugherty
committee hearing yesterday and
questioned H. L. Scaife as to his
statements that liquor seized in
Washington by prohibition agents
oome year8 ago, went into Gillete’s
office. Scaife replying to his ques
tions said he got most 0f his infor
mation from Representative Wood
i-uff, Republican, Michigan, and in
sisted his original testimony “needed
no correction” to his knowledge.
He reiterated that his question and
information was that the Speaker
got liquor for "constituent”. Gil'ette
under oath told the committee, that
!he trunk from which the liquor had
been removed had been sent to his
office fir a constituent in 1919. The
Speaker said he was out of the city,
at the time his secretary arranged to
obtain the trunk and clothing it con.
‘ained, but not the liquor and ship it
to “Mr. B.” in Springfield. Gillette
said his friend who owned the trunk,
was a “very distinguished citizen of
Springfield’” whi had been on a fish
ing trip and had six bottle of liquor
in the trunk.
FROM PERSIA COMES REPORT
OF HEALING BY PRAYERS
New York, April 19.—A case of
apparent efficacy of prayer in cur
ing an ailment declared by five phy
sicians to be incurable, has been re.
ported to John W. Lethaby, general
field secretary of the Society of the
NliMtliir Jiitk -afllsa hi AAcVffle,
N. C., by J. II. Linton, bishop of Per
sia with residence in Isfahan.
Last July, Bishop Linton declared,
his wife was found by five competent
physicians who performed an explora
tory operation, to be suffering from
cancer in so advanced a stage that
an operation was said to be impossi
ble.
"The Persian Church on August 11
had a day of fasting and prayer at
which comp ete healing was claimed
in faith,” the bishop said. “Frienda
all over Persia as well as in England
and elsewhere joined in claiming
healing on the promises of the Holy
Scripture.”
That day, he continued, Mrs. Linton
showed marked improvement for the
first time and shortly thereafter, was
found on examination by physicians
to be completely restored.
Associated Press Editors Hear
President on the World
Outlook
(By Associated Press)
New York April 2$.—President.
Coolidge announced in an addres* at
the annual luncheon here today of
the Associated Press that with Arm
establishment of a settlement of the
German reparations question he
would favor steps looking toward the
ca'ling of another world conference to
consider further limitations of ar.
maments and the codification of in
ternational law.
Disclaiming any ability to announce
a formu'a that would guarantee the
peace of the world, the president de
clared there were, however, certain
definite things which should be done
to relieve the world “of much of the
burden of military armaments and
diminish the probability of military
operations.’’
The Washington conference did a
great deal to restore harmony and
good will among the nations, the pres
ident said, “another purpose of a
conference is the further limitation of
competitive armaments. Much re
mains to be accomplished in that di„
rection.
It would appear to be impractical
to attempt action under present con
ditions, but with a certain and defi
nite settlement of German repara
tions firmly established, ' I should
favor the calling of a similar confer
ence to achieve such limitations of
armaments and initiative plans for a
codificatiin of international law,
should preliminary inquiries disc'ost
that such a proposal would meet
jpith *> sympathetic response.
The United States, the President
said stands in a position to take the
lead in such an additional move to.
wards world peace because America
holds the respect of other nations and
out position is such that we are
trusted and our business institutions
and government considered to be
worthy of confidence,
Mr. Coolidge hailed the work of the
Dawes Commission as unsurpassed in
importance by anything that had
transpired since the Armistice and
declared there appeared "to be every
reason to hope that the report offers
a basis for a practical solution of the
reparations problem.
I trust that it may commend itself
to all the European governments in
terested as a method by which, thro
mutual concessions, they can arrive
(Continued on Page Four)
L ouis S. Jones Laid to
Rest in Spray Cemetery
Louis S. Jones, freshman at the 1
University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, the ont'y son of Mr. and Mrs. M. <
H. Jones of Boulevard and Glovenia !
Street, Leaksville who returned to his
home Friday night intending to spend
Easter with his parents and 3 sis.
lers and who met his death about 5:30
Easter Sunday morning in an auto,
mobile accident one and a half miles
beyond Stonevllle on the Stoneville
Madison road, when the Essex Coach
he was riding in left the road on a
curve and With terrific force struck
t I'arge stamp, killing the young man
with him, was laid td f*st yesterday
and injuring tWe others in the ear
eftehtoen in ‘he new Spray Cemetery.
ft seefei ihit m .IStuMiy night
the three mid ifcU.4 U ga j* WM>
a.mm
Hsd diWittUH w Wild! tU
hie fethtf M flWhft *f» W*
1'*i r*. ‘‘Flew* »e«t»a lit di* W •
’« said explaining he trt.St |«Sh
‘he Motaviai^ service. Hltj parjijts
finally consented §ik| tht; y.ot)ng 'p*p(n
darted on the fatal til^. It is no
clear as to what "time th»y starty
’rom Winston halam on tjie home
ward trip, foe there seems t*be a
iifference of opinion over the hour $f
he accident some saying it b^RPCOed
ibout 5:30, others say it pra§ six oclqck
or ’ater.
It is very reasonable to suppose
that the driver was driving en
tirely too fast because the car left the
-oad when making a curve and Was
entirely demolished when it came in
■ontact with a stump on the roadside.
Parties passing after the wreck oc
:urred carried word to Stoneville and
5tonevilie parties hastened to the
icene. Word was also sent to Leak*
rille and Doctors Matthews and Tut
;le with a number of friends were
oon on the way to Stonevi'le.
Mr. Godfrey and Krants reached
jeaksville about nine oclock and the
>ody of Louis Jones was taken to the
Floyd Kill Undertaking rooms about
1:30. There the body was dressed
tnd placed in a casket and later tak*
>n to the family residents. ^
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Uu)msity.
" ITh« bow^t. bearers the Witty
jSchoil graduates of 1923 of wbicty tyty
was a member, ^ujong the J}H»be|;
were Misses Bessie Clark. PorftthJt
Hodges, Ru|h Moore, L«la Walker^ '
Rebecca gmith, Kate BeHart Lillfe
Gillie, Catherine Warren, Bertha Zig.
’er, Aklon Hobbs, A. B. Martin, Al
ton Robertson.
The floral contributions were beau
tiful.
Interment was made in Spray Cem
etery. A large concourse attended tbs
burial services. *_