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GAZETTE PRICE: TWO CENTS LBAKSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1924. ■efttally III” Day order Committee - (By Associated Press) Chicago, Aug. 2.—Richard Loet was “mentally ill” on May 21st when he and Nathan .Leopold, Jr., kidnaped _ and murdered Robert Franks, it was testified on jactjss examination by Doctor William White. Judge John Caverly sustained an objection by Walter Bachrach of de fense counsel, when States Attorney. Crowe tried to learn whether the ex pert thought Loeb was insane. The > same opinion was given as to Leopold. The scsion developed a sharp spurring match between the witness .and prosecutor. Sometimes Crowe’s question elicited a smile from Doctor White, again he complained they were meaningless and at othertimes insisted upon going into lengthy explanations wheh the States Attorney asked for “yes or no answer.” v GOLD BASIS URGED UPON GREAT BRITAIN FOR WORLD BENEFIT * PRESIDENT HARDING’S • * LAST WORDS WERE COM- • * MENDATORY TO WIPE • « __ • * As in life, so is Harding in * * quiet dignity 0f death, calm, com- * *■' posed, and of peaceful mien. In * * a gray-draped room far above * * San Francisco busiest street all * * that was mortal of /America’s • * twenty-ninth President reposed. * * Death in coining had left no mark * * upon his countenance. So sud- * * dely had the end come that his * * face, but for its pallor, might * * have been that of a man asleep. * * But for the closing of eyelids by * * loving fingers it was as it had * * been a moment afterthe Presi- * * dent, pleased by what Mrs. Hard- * * ing was reading to him said: * * “That’s good; go on, read some * * more.” His body was dressed in * ‘-white robe for burial, and lies * * upon the bed where the President * * made his losing fight for health.— * * Prom Gazette, August 3, -1923. * * * (By Associated Press) London, Aug. 2.—“The fate of the gold standard is so much depedent up on British monetary policy, that England is simply bound to take the lead in the restoration of the world’s monetary system. It is impossible fot England to wait and see..” Thig statement was made by Pro feasor Gustav Casel of Stockholm University, regarded as one of the -— greatest authorities on world mom. tary condtions, in the course of —e lecture to the Institute of Bankers. If the pound sterling, he asserted, were again put on its old gold basis, the whole world would feel that the gold standard had regained something of its old reliability, and the doubts as ta-^ss tfuitworthiness would no longer gfaMtbi tKb way of a'return to ft. 'Yet England, the speaker said, \ hesitated to take the decisive step.j There was a general fear in *he pub lic mind in Europe that there was likely to be a new rise of prices in America. He contended that this doctrine must be rejected. The con clusion must be that iorae rise in America wa* ossible, but by no meant necessary. Professor Casel said it was very much against the financial interests of the United States to allow the value of the United States to allow the Value of old to be seriously depressed by an internal inflation, and still more by such a violent measure as the prohibition of gold imports. “If the United States really feel gold import! a nuisance,” Professor Casel added, "the easiest and most natural means to avoid them is to do •way with the highly protectionist tariff which prevents 'Europe froyn .paying her debts In commodities. With free trade* America would get more of useful commodities and less of.non-ueeful gold.” Treasury authorities here are in clined to believe there will be no re turn to gold currency at leeat before 192ft. It is pointed out there is a new price level sinee the war, far more money Is In circulation, and there is not enough, gold bullion end reserve here to meet the requirement* of a reintroduced gold currency. TWO OF AMERICAN FLIERS ON WAY JO ICELAND ITS SAID Commander Smith Strikes Fog Bank Had To Return “ (By Associated Press) • K twatt, Scotland, An*. 2.—Lieu tenant Eric Nelson and his me chanician, Lieutenant John Harding, Jr., were believed here to be raafcig a lone attempt toreach Iceland, in the first leg of American world filers trans-Atlantic flight. The attempt of Lieutenant Lowell Smith fight commander, to lead the fliers, was frustrated when he and Lieutenant Leigh Wade were trapped jn a fog bank, only 60 miles from here and were forced to return to their base in Houton Bay. ADEPT FLYERS KEEP LIGHTS BURNING FOR MAIL PILOTS (By Associated Press) Chicago, Aug. 1.-—The U. S. Air Mail “puddlejumper," -go named be cause it gets in and out of pastures and other small areas to fix the air way lights, finds favor with Tex Marshall, veteran pilot. “One of the first official ships,” Marshall says, “to carry a typewriter is this plane. The electrician holds it on his knees while it flight, observes what needs to be done to some of the Kght3 as seen from above, types the industructions .wraps up the neces sary materials along with the mes sage, with a long white tall attached, and drops the packet overboard to the waiting caretaker- below.” PASSION PLAYERS’ U. S. TRIP DIVIDES OBERAMMERGAU (By Associated Press) Obersmmergau, Barvaria, Aug. 1. —Oberammergau is not the peaceul village that it was before Anton Lang and his wood carving companions went to America early this year. Local opponents of the trip to the United States have gained reinforce ment's since the return of the Lang I party some weeks ago and the town hat divided Into bitter Lang and anti Lang groups. The anti-Lang forces assert that the American visit of the Oberammergau players was an attempt to commer cialise the Passion Play, that tile trip was a financial failure and they have threatened to sabtage the next pro-1 duction of the performance scheduled for 1982. \ Anton Lang himeelf baa held aloof from hi. critics thus far and refuses to answer them, contending that the charges are unfounded, and aver# SUSPENSION BRIDGE AT PHILADELPHIA NEARS COMPLETION i By Anoclsted Praia) Philadelphia, Aug. 1.—ConatTOC tion work on the greet Delaware river ■^•pension bridge, according to oft cials of the eoumiaeion directing iu erection, is keeping pace with the schedule *«t by the. engineers who designed it, making it probahle that Joy 4, 192ft, te sesqui-centennial of signing of the Declare don of lade idmce, will see the new artery of fficc - nned between I Km Jersey. >, witha spa. towers, eecorawg w be the Isrgeet' of it* More than • mile length, ita towers, 385 feet above i river. STANLEY ON OWN POWER PROCEEDS TO ILOILO Steamship Sta ley Reported With Brtko.i Engines j M . ves On i~ ' -'-ini !?■• •> j Maniia, Aug. 2.—otcamship Stanl ley, whose engines broke down several days ago, while she was off .Palawan Island, is proceeding to Iloilo under her own power, said a wireless mes sage picked up here. ♦ TWO CASWELL COUNTY MEN BOUND OVER AND TWO ARE ACQUITTED U. S. Commissioner L. J. Shelton has of late had several liquor cases before him, among the number J. L. Harris and H. R. Millner, both of Cas well county. They were both bound over on charges of receiving. They were rep resented by Attorney Custer of Dan ville, Va. Federal Inspectors Riddle, Faddie and Robertson lodged the complaint. N. C. Hodges, of the s*me county, was acquitted on similar charges, os was Butler Shelton. MOVE TO REDUCE COST OPERATING RADIO SETS (Special to the Gazette) New York, Aug. 1.—The first move to reduce the eost of operating radio sets came today with the announce ment of National Carbon Company of a sugstantial reduction, effective to day,in the prices of its radio “B” batteries. James R. Crawford, general sales manager, states that the popularity of various multi-tube sets that re quire additional battery power has made their operation more costly. As one of the leaders in the manufacture of dry cell “B” batteries, his company is in position to relieve maintenance costs for the country’s millions of radio sat owners by reducing the cost of batteries. Development of additional and im proved manufacturing facilities, cou pled with the growing demand for radio equipment, enable the company to make this reduction. CURTAILED OLYMPICS SIMILIAR TO ANCIENT PROGRAM PROPOSED (By Associated Press) Stockholm, Aug. 2. — A radical change in the programs of Olympic Games to a pattern more resembling that of the original Olympics in ancient Greece, involving a reduction of the number of contests to 29, is urged by Erik Bergvall, Director of the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm, and a well-known leader in Swedish athletics. FOUR PRISONERS IN HENRY COUNT? JAIL MAKE ESCAPE Danville, Va., Aug. 1.—A jail de livery from the Henry county prison in which four men serving short terms escaped was reported from that place today. The men were occupying a cell on the first floor which is rarely ''d but which has had o be occupied owing to the large number now con fined there. They succeeded in sawing two bars covrting tEe window and then twisting them so as to make an aperture. Some years ago these same bars were cut but they had been rewelded, and were thought to be secure. The men missing are Edward Pulliam, serving six month for violating the liquoi law: Charles Jester and Spen cer Brouptsn, with 90 days each for the same offense, and Wiliam Gray, held in default of-the . payment bf a fine. "r TALLEST SUSFLOW ON RECORD, IT IS STATED Mr*. B. H. Dyer, Boone Road, has the tallest «unfl owers in her yard of any ever seen by this writer, even outranking the famous Kansas sun flowers. One 0f he tallest measured from 16 1-8 to l7 feet Several other (talks are nearly as tall. Any person who doubts this, can coma and do their own measuring, but If any should do this, they better do It hew, for tomor row or the next day they will be still taller. TUB GAZETTE IN EVERY BOMB HDN. 'GEORGE SHIRAS, FORMER JUSTICE U. S. COURT IS DEAD Was Associate Justice From 1892 To 1903; Dies Pneumonia :: luizas was t 92 YEARS OLD 'Ey ssocia’td I’rccs) Pittsburgh, George Shiras, Junior Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1892 to 1903, died in a hospital here from pneumonia, which developed after he had fractured his leg in a fall at his home here five weeks ago. He was 92 years old. George Shiras, Jr., served as Asso ciated Justice of the United States Supreme Court from October, 1892, to February,1903, when he retired on pay under the general voluntary re tirement act, at the age of 71 years. He was one of the few justices that had not held public office prior to his appointment. He was practising law in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he had been born on January 26, 1832, when Presi dent Harrison invited him to a seat on the supreme bench. His collegiate education was obtain ed at Ohio University and at Yale. He remained on enthusiastic college man throughout his life. On one oc casion it is remembered how jubilant he felt when, on leaving the Supreme Court one day he was told that Yale had defeated Harvard at foodball. “Won't I rub it into Shorty Gray!" the distinguished jurist exclaimed, re ferring to his associate, Justice Gray, who was proud of his Harvard train mg. Justice Shiras lived a quiet, retired life after leaving the Supreme Court, spending his winters in Florida and his summers in Maruette, Mich. He attracted some attention in 1913 by announcing in an iterview that mem ers of the court, when receiving $12, 900 were paid enough. At the time, Congress was considering increasing the salaries,which was done. A 30n of'Justice Shiras is George Shiras, Thijd,.a former' member of Congress and noted as an amaeur photographer of wld animals. WAR ENDED IN 1815 COSTS $12,000 YEARLY IN PENSIONS Washington, Amt. 2.—Thirty-three widows of soldier? who fought in the War of 1812 are still on the pension rolls of the government, although 109 years have elopsed since the close of that conflict in 1815. Eight of the women pensioners died during the year ended June 30. There have been no names of soldiers of the War jf 1812 on the pension books since 1905, when Hiram Cronk died in Ava, New York, at the age of 105. j The oldest of the 33 widows receiv-' ing pensions, which average $30 a month, or about $12,000 a ear, is Mahala Huff, Aura Route No. 2, Lousa, Ky., who is 105 years old. The records of the Pension Bureau also show that Daniel F. Bakeman, who died at Freedom, N. Y., in 1869 at the age of 109, was the last soldier pensioner of the Revolutionary War,' andEsther S. Damon, widow of Noah Damon, who died at Plymouth Union,1 Vt., in 1906 at theage of 96, the last' name to be scratched from the Revo-, iutionary pension lists. YEAR BEHIND THE TIMES Down in Mississippi a blushing bridge of only 76 summers had her hair bobbed to please her best man,; who is only 96 years old. This is the J bride's eighth venture upon the matri-' monial sea. By the way, Sunday’s! foreign fashion notes tell us that the' bobbed hair devotees in. Paris and London are going into seclusions, like the peacock who has been plucked of his fine feathers, until their hair grows out so that it can be handled, Dame Fashion having decreed that bobbed hair is a has-been fashion. We feel sorry for some who have had their hair bobbed but maybe by the time i will be unfashionable to bobb hair in this country their locks will have grown to the proper length. The dames in this country are gen erally about a year behind in adopting the fashion set by “Gay Paree.”— Madison Messenger. Chief Clark has been rounding up a ring of chicken thieves. He claims that a bunch of colored boys have been stealing chickens for some time. Today he hailed a number of them to court Premiers Settle Dawes Plan On Experts Failed MORE RECORDS FROM COMMISSIONERS* BOOKS BORROWING FUNDS On June 2, 1924, the minutes reads: “On motion of W. W. Hampton, seconded by G. E. Barber, it was ordered for Clerk to advertise for bids on $450,000 School Bonds to be sold July 5th at 10 a. m. at Went worth, N. C., 6 1-2 per cent bonds.” “JULY 21, 1924,—It appearing that certain notes will fall due on August 1, 1924, in the sum 0f $250,000 and that the County w 11 not have sufficient funds to meet said notes, BE IT RE SOLVED that the Commissioners of Rockingham County borrow the sum of $260,000 for six months to take up the said notes at 3 3-4 per cent inter est, interest payable in advance. Both interest and principal payable at the National Park Bank, New York City. “BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Board of Commissioners of Rockingham County borrow the sum of $250,000 for necessary expenses in anticipation of the collection of taxes and that all of the said notes be sold by Jas. R. Martin, Chairman of said Board, and executed by him in the name of Rockingham County in such denominations and such dates as in his discretion seem necessary.” {iiy Associated- Press) London, Aug. 2.—A complee pro gram for launching the Dawes repara tion settlement plain, wa3 agreed upon by the interallied confei"* oe during an half hour plenary session at the foreign office today. ' i • Allied Premiers and American Am bassador Kellogg took up the technical points with which experts had vainly struggled in two all-night sessions and after modificaions, which Premiers MacDonald and Horriott ac cepted the compromise, the settle ment was reached. ~ 4 CIRCUS MONDAY; SUNDAY UNLOADING; PARADE NOON- AUG. 4 Monday is the day when juvenile dreams come true and the old become young again. Show day, the day of all days for the kiddies, is reckoned about on a part with Fourth of July and Christmas. Sunday morning about the time that the milkman is making his rounds, the Christy Bros. Trained Wild Animal Exhibition will make its appearance in the railroad yards and i na short time after the arival the tented City will have been erected and theday of pleasure begun. Monday’s festivities will start with a street parade. It will be on the streets at noon. It is a revelation in •treet cavalcades and one that will surpass anything of the kind ever seen here. A big herd of elephants wll tread the route, and of camels, zebras, zebus, sacred cattle, yaks and other “led” anmals there will be legion. Dozens of open cages will disclose their jungle inmatfes and trainers. Hundreds of equimes, rang ing from the powerful plumed craft and Percherons and Clydesdales, thoroughbred chariot racer sand ring horses to the sturdy Shetland ponies, ever dear to the hearts of the children, will display themselves, and there will be a myriad of other interesting and thrilling features. The performance this year of the Christy organization is the best and most novel yet conceived by these progressive showmen. Novelties and original features predominate. In the newly trained animals will be seen two elk, two buffalos and a sacred ox workig together. It is said to be the most novel exhibitio nof trained animals ever seen. Two dogs, two sheep and two lionesses compose a sextette that work in harmony in the same arena. A double somersaulting dog 0n the back of a swift moving pony. This dog is said to be the world’s greatest canine acrobatic wonder. The football horses is an other feature. These beautiful steeds play a game of football and it is just as exciting as a college event. A woman wrestling a lion is a new added feature and there is an abund ance of smallerand entertaining train “Wenthforth, N. C., “July 21, 1924. “Hon. Board of County Commissioners, “Rockingham County, “Wentworth, N. C. “Gentlemen: “Con.cerning your proposed $750, 000.00 issue of schools and roads bonds, beating interest at the rate of 5 1-2 per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, to be 'dated as of the 1st day of themojith when issued and. the maturities to be later determined j but shall be of an average maturity of 20 years. “We hereby make the 'following proposal. “1. We will furnish you such affidavits, resolutions ,amd such other papers as are required to authorize the issuance of said bonds. “2. We will supervise and advise the various steps which are required by law. “3. We will furnish the legal of t lion of a reputable and recognized Bond Attorney as to the legality of said bonds. “4. We will print said bonds with interest coupons attached.. “Our charges for all of these ser vices will be $6,200 which amount is to become due and payable to us on date set for sale of the above bonds In the event that the bonds are not authorized there will be no money due for services rendered. “In addition, we agree to make a bona ftde bid on the day of the sale cn the above described bonds of par and accrued interest, plus $15,000, otherwise we shall'' forfeit whatever compensation is due us under this con tract, provided that the above bonds shall be sold on or before October 15, 1924. “Braun Bosworth & Company, “Caldwell & Company, “Drake-Jones Company, “By W. B. McCollum. “The above proposition is hereby acceped by the Board of County Commissioners of Rockingham Coun ty, this 21st day of July, 1924. “JAS R. MARTIN, Chairman.” QUAKERS UNITE TO HONOR FOX ed animal events. The pening feature of the show this year is a beautiful and original spectacle, called, “Noah and the Ark.’' A most spectacular and pleasng Biblcal event in which nearly 600 people will appear. A number of novelties appear at different interval* and the singing and dancing numbers are all in keeping with the fasciating story enacted. Of course, there will be the usual army of downs with ori ginal and laughable stunts and in all, Christy Brothers Trained Wild Animal Show this year will be bigger, greater and more entertaining than ever before. Two performances will be given— 2 and 8 p. m.—under waterproof canvas. The doors open one hour earlier. A new feature this year is the illumination of all the cages with electric lights so that the animals are * plainly visible at night. The show will take place at County Pair Grounds. (By Associated Press) London, Aug. 2.—The tercentenary of the brth of George Fox founder of the Society of Friends, w»s celebrated at his birthplace, the small village of Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire, July 5. Quakers from America and from all part sof England gathered in the village and took part in the cere monies. A visit was paid during the day to the parish church where there still exists th® font in which Fox was bap tised and wTBch was for many yean used as a village horse trough. i U. S. PASTOR GOES TO. BBRLDt" Berlin, Aug. 2.—The Rev. Ir Ye*worth, ‘ of Baltimore, has called by the American Chu Berlin to be co-pastor with Dr. 1 te senior pastor, and will take duties this month. The Americi Foreign Christian Union, in whi title of the church eats, as apprc the appointment.
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