STINNES DIES CURSING
SPECTRE OF AREDHORDE
•villi, April It.—H«fo 80* nee I*
Rlaintr hw ronqaered th» ikrlrtl
ted fram i of At miffhty induatrtaliat
and at »:» o'clock tnnirht ph/alntena
entered the mIdd adjoining hia M
room hi ■ faahtnnabl* Berlin aanator
iam to ahlapai to the waiting family
and treated alda of thr man a Viae
turn* M gatfcerad white Germany
11 umMail. that ha who hnaw an de
faat hi tha ralantlaaa purauit of wnrM
yuan had lotit It.
Tha wafrd. Oriental-fared f\n&9
who dominate tha houraaa of Can
tral Eur op#, who defied Goremmenta
and aoaght to outwit armiea by tha
cunninr af hia manipulation* fought
• bitter atnwrb to tha teat moment.
A (iifhwa deltuHon aeised him aarly
In tha rranh*. A aitaaaa of hia teat
momanto deacrlhad It aa feltewi:
"Ha n mniid to aaa a Communlat
horde advancing upon him. Hia far*
waa contorted and hia volea ahrill
aa ha (mat lint they had coma to taha
away hia pnaaaaalowa.
"It warned aa If they advanced
nearer and nearer until he felt their
handa about hia throat, and he fell
hack rxhauated, breathleaa, in fearful
a*ony He recovered for a moment.
Then he recited hia enemiaa with ter
rlble rnraea.
"Suddenly the mood paaaed and In
a barely audible voice he aaked for
a (tear of water and thanked me
courteously. Rut again the fever
poaaeaaed him. ind again ha waa
warrinir wtth the Coaamuniata. Than
ouddenly he waa—iftl."
Sthmaa'a carr ica a reaction
into aimj leeway af German Mh
trial and political life. No other one
man la Europe concentrated in hia
own handa the power that lay hi
atknw.'
Now no one la prepared to wiold
that power u he did. H* Mnr took
any one, hi* children or Ma iinrittM
arifficiently into hia confidence for
'h«n to mi)i on with the kail enter
priaaa he had ImlK up or abaorbed.
WORLD'S RICHEST MAN. WAS
RTTNNMPS BOAST
When Uuflpo Rtinnea read Aoatria'a
ultimatum to Serbia in the •ummer of
1914, he hurried to hia home in
Moehlheim. and lockad himaeif in hia
telephone cell, from which ho did pot
emerge for fourteen honra.
By that time all hia varied antar
prlaea were on a war footing, and
, thua he atarted the multiplication of
a fortune which rrew from a 1914 ea
timate of about fT.ftOO.OOO to a aum
ao larre that he waa aaid in 1VX1 ta
hare spent tl.280.000,000 in the for
mation of a auper-truat for Gorman
industry and to hare enough left to
own everything he wanted.
Alone or with associates he owned
mine*, furnaoea and baaic manufac
turea; he had fifty newspaper* in
different parts of Germany, which
he had acquired to rulde a bloc of
public opinion in support of law and
order and for the promotion of tn
duatrial and commercial efficiency.
He hourht a acore or more of the
lartreet hotela in Berlin, Hamburg and
Bremen. Control of the iron and
coal indnatry waa shared with An
irust Thvaaen and a few others. Moat
of the hi* ocean shinpinr enmpaniea
were directed by him. He owned the
potash depoeita of Central Europe.
A prospect of the extension of
Stinnes interest* to the United State*
waft snrrested in dttober. 1988, when
Hojfn Stinnes Jr.. arrived in New
York. Harry F. Sinclair waa hia par*
■nnal escort to the oil fields of Texas
and one of Mr. Sinclair's arenta
showed hha what he wiahed to see
hi Oklahoma. His insvection of some
rlasa work* ta New Jersey waa alto
reported.
He sailed homeward in December
without dieelosinir anything of the
pornoae of Ms rtatL
of hia poaaeeaions. On that snbject
he weald talk at length, with eery
little niumpUiit He boaated to a
French htHthwr that he was the
rtrhmt mm to the world, saying he
ewned practically all ef Qermanv. and
eft peeled to time, ta paaaees Anatria
and perhapa Htmnry "They cant
fat atnnr wWhont me." he naively re
11)1 m of Hugo Htlnnee aad grand
worked for * time hi Utt Wiethe (M
Uny, In order to pt practical knowl
rdfa of mMiw. hi UM IM altiadad
• enurae of inatrvethm In the Aca
demy of Mtnhic, Berlin.
hi IBM he entered Mm firm Me
rrandfather had (tawM. Two years
latar ha started a Arm nmkr hla own
nama with a capital of flSJM, whieji
hi* father supplied.
Prom dealing in coal ha became tha
owner of amnl mines, a makar of
hriqpatUa and othar kinta of fMI.
and ha acquired see gulag, craft and
rirar barges. Ha dmlopd an Inter
national bueineas in coal, with afeam
<r» of hia own trading in North San.
Rattle, Mediterranean and Black flan
porta.
DIXIE ORIGINALLY LAND
OFTEN SPOT
Na*a Cmmm Frmm Vmpmr Man
my Naw Qrl—na Bank Print
ed in F ranch
New Orianna.—The passing of a
famous Southern banking inatitution
through consolidation haa drawn at
tention again to tha origin of the
term "Dixie" aa applied to tha South
land. The claim that the word came
from the name of a man who once
lirerl in Now York aaama to he art
at rert hjr tha records of thia insti
ution tha Citixen's Bank and Truat
Company, which haa been merged, af
ter ninety-one years of eontmuooa
operation, with the Canal-Commercial
"mat and Seringa Bank.
Some authoritiea have attributed
Hhh" to the name of one Dixie, a
large landholder and kind-hearted
■lave owner who Maided on Manhat
tan bland during the latter part of
Orleans they take mo Mock in rack a
story and point to old tknaklw of
ftho Mississippi Valley and to the rec
ords of the bank to disprove It.
In the thirties America waa flooded
with "wild ait" moaey, and counter
feit in* waa ao common that suspicion
became fixed on almost all vapor
money. Through it all, however, the
bonk notes of the Citizens' command
ed the respect of the whole of the
Mississippi Valley and the remainder
of the country as well.
In the days before the Chril War
the Citisens' notes were printed in
French as wall as English. The most
common denomination was the 110
note, and it bore the Roman numeral
"X" and the Arabic numerals "10".
But also, in the middle of the back
was printed the French word "Dix"
amid other lettering in French.
The Mississippi River then was the
rreat highway of traffic between New
Orleans and the North, and, in the
argot of the river, when a man was
headed down South into Louisiana on
a trading expedition he was going to
"come back with a pocket foil of
Dixies." From "Dixies" to "Dixie'
| was an easy step. And the South,
oartirularly Louisiana, became known
as "the land of Dixies" or. more
| briefly, as "Dixie Land."
It was then that Daniel Emmett,
1 blackface minstrel, wrote his /nglinc
song "Away Down South in Dixie."'
Incidentally the song was first puM
lished in New Orleans, and br a muf
; i<- housi «-hlch stW Is in Husinesj on
1 Canal street.
Residence Wrecked by Ex
plosion of Boiler
Pttteboro, April 8.—An AO-h<>r»e
1 power beiler exploded nttr the de
pot this morn in*, wrecking a near-by
residence. Bricks ftm the boiler
end other debris were thrown 100
I yards, land in* in i field of M. T.
! Williams and badly damaging his
residence and others situated nearby.
Twelve or IK men were at work on
the yards nearby, of whom several
•ustained injuries. tfobedy was kill
ed. Sherman Alston, colored, was
struck by a flying brick bat >00 yards
fmm the scene. A Man on the yard
in 4 trock had part ef the steering
wheel be holding knocked off and
his windshield broken, bet he was not
! Wart. Windows were broken In homes
several blocks away. It b said that
I the boiler was in bad repair, and this
jia Mdud aa the mmm a# the as
K—9 *MWT, of Lowftp, now
a; t^sr
iy MM Into p of. • ford
touring xr and, wttk tw a of hi*
frtw* am iimpanyiag Mm, 4ww it
half way ay the Lawpi antm
how h» wm prnfrtMliif.
J not M h* wm about to mfca tho
turn tat tho rood at the Wf branch in
tho Mountain he loot eowtral at tha
car and it failed to follow tlta curve
hat pitched off down tha wrlna turn
in* over several tim*« on rt» way.
The party in tha kadi seat ww
what wm aboHt to hspptn and jump
ed before tha ear mad* it* plunge,
j hot Rmmt and hi* companion froaa
I to their poeition and rolled with the
| car. After the duet had cleared away
j to their aatoniahnent, they found
; themselves piled in the hack seat. To
, thia day they cannot explain how th*r
made the exchange daring the tum
M*. Neither ncrupant suffered any
injury and the ear wm little hurt
except the winshWld* and top ware
deetroyed. After mule* had pulled
tha cpr front the bottom of the -urine
the hoya soereoded in cranking it up
and proceeded on down the moon tain.
The laat Keen of them they were look
in* for a more appropriate road to
learn on.
Main Street Buatwew PiapiiU
Md
At an auction sale la»t Friday
held hy Linville-Ball-Hndge Land Co.
<>n* of the old homeataada of thia city
will be removed—the little brick re
sidence on North Main atreet now oc
cupied by W D. Haynes Marble Co.
Thia property has a frontage of M
feet waa sold at aurtioa and brooght
153.00 per front foot and wm owned
hy The Weat-Hill Co„ wholeaale tro
car*. W. H. Marion bought 44 feet
and C. H Hayne* 22 feat Mr. Haynea
purchased far an mveatment. stating
that he had never loet anything hay
ing Mount Airy raal aetata. Mr. Mar
ian expect* to aaa his prepeity for the
erection of a moving picture houae
soma time in tha future.
i n* Hi* «7i inn property nroujni
to the memory of J. L. Harrison, of
thia city, t little history of thia plan
of valuable land. Ha say* kis father,
J. F. Harrison. pQlthAMd thin piece
of land. which the* measured MO faat
on Main street and 400 feat deep,
from Robt. Gilmer for ten dollar*.
Thia was in 1874. and soon thereafter
hia father built the little brick house
that now stands on the same pro per -
11jr. This little house was also sold
jand will be removed from the prem
1 iites.
The Fiddlers to Fiddle
If all the plana of Dr. J. R. Finney,
of Boonville, and C. R. Strange, of
I*>beon, go through to a successful
termination the old city hall of Mount
Airy will vibrate and rr vibrate with
the sounds of fiddles, banjos, guitara,
mandolins and French harps. Tfceae
two admirers of the old school of
music are planning to inaugurate one
of the biggeet fiddlers conventions
ever held in thin county which will
take place in the city hall, juat below
i The News Office nest Monday night.
Handsome prises will be given for
thoae moat accomplished in the al
most ancient art of fiddling and banjo
, picking.
I
MfcCreary Company Uradka
\7r Lebanon Street X
J A large force of bands and severiM
| teams of main are m| iftd in mofinf
I dirt on Lebanon street preparatory
j to hardsurfarinryA'her* will be about
l 900 yard* of-4m to ki moved which
| will require more than a week'*
• time and then the force Will begin
| pooring concrete. The granite ia be
ing piled along North Main (treat far
i thia job and the contractor! hope to
! go right along with the work without
! any delay for the lack ci material* or
labor. As for labor the formnan aaya
he haa applications every day for
more-men than he coeld poeaibly uae.
A L Tas
The County Commiaakm&r* of gur
ry have named A. L. Bunker, of thia
eity, to again supervise the listing
of the. tax. Mr. Banker will name
hi* aaaiatant* for the various town
! *hip* in a few day* and have every
thing in readinee* to begin Hating *T
| May 1st. The Coaamlssioeer* mad*
no older of revaluation and all
will he Hated a* of last
tha property «f L t. Iwh and he
a«read to ht Km M| mM mm
pnny have than far • Month ta aaa
hi (Mr orriMH aftor which thay vfll
ha hauled hack to (Mr fui am how
where the are i»|itto< to gwthar a
j Mr crap of wwaawl honey in July.
Many know that tha baa ar mm
nthar inaaet la eaaantial to tha produr
, Han of fruit. Many amy know thia but
ara doubtful of tha nwaaaity of tha
, itapa takan hy tha M( uri hard yao
| dftl flffhiHt tri vtll Mtabliabid tbty
hava it all figured oct ta a definite
certainty joat how Many colontoa of
I haaa ara aaeeaaary to an aera of ar
c-hard It to known to ha aa aeeaa
aary to haaa tha haaa praaawt whan
tha flowara bloom aa to aproy tha
fraaa at the proper time thia to. If
frait to to ha produced.
ft to a fart, what her it i« generally
known or net. that tha Maom it noth
'?.» hot nature'* flag giving rot ire
tn itaecta that thair preaenej to da
*ired. and to make tha rffit attrac
tive to the inaert nature ^aa provided
a drop of nectar aa a reward for the
via it. Thia nectar to later uaed for
food by tha inaect that gather* it and
man haa turned robhar and takea thia
prepared nectar away fraM tha baaa
and uae* it for hia own food. But
tha whole prooeaa ia baaed on tha
fact that tha tree that prodocaa tha
frait to not able to (at along wltiwt
tha aid of the inaect in properly fer
tiiiiing the flower* that art later to
produce tha frait. Tha baaa help to
complete tha proceaa. It to for thia
raaaon that the biff orchid wBI keep
tha U enlaatoa of baaa far a month
or until tha fruit bloom to over. In
mm aactiona of tha country tha ap
ple bloom yield* a large amount af
honey, bat bare in oar aection bat 1H
tla Mora than a living for tha tow
while thay ara working tha apple
bloom to ever eecared.
uner on id* sparger *jrrnsra com
pany will build np a email apiary ef
their own so that the haaa will be
present at all time* to meat tha needs
of tha treea.
SIMMONS FILES FOR RE
ELECTION
If Sana tor Simmons ia Success
ful This Time He Will Have
Completed Thirty Year* ia
The U. S. Senate
Washington. April 8.—Senator F.
M. Simmons today filed formal no
tice of his candidacy for r«-election
to the United States Senate with
the State Board of Elections f t North
Carolina, and sent to the board the
entrance fee required by the statute.
If renominated and elected the
coming term will be Senator Simmon's
fifth term in the United States Sen
ate and will complete for him 30
years in that body.
He is now the senior Democratic
member of the U. S. Senate In the
length of service. There are only two
R publican Senators, Lodge and War
ren, who have served longer than
Mr. Simmons. He was at first elec
ted to Congress as a member of tha
blouse of Representatives in • 1886,
^ years since.
$13,500,000 Woolwortk Build
ing U Sold For $11,000,000
New York, April 2.—Control of the
Woo (worth Building paaaed from Um
heirs of P. W. Woolwortk. 6 and 1ft
cent store merchant ynttnUy
the world'• tallest office baildta|
■old for $11,000,000 cask to the Wool
co Realty Coal pan jr. 11m IIIjMJM
ultimately will bo -
th* hairs. The '
The original cost of the building,
completed in 1911 was *11,800.M0
and Ha assessed Tain* is fll^SOJW
The building has boon of)
the market for some time and $11,• j
000,000 I* absolutely the highest i
price H can command. The sale
doe to the naessatty of baring the
assets of the estate in tiqatd form.
The entire WooHrorth estate kl es
timated at $46,6001000. The helra are
Mrs. Helena McCann and Mrs
CANDLER ARREST COSTS
CHIEFS JOB
rUMMDrr MEN Off
ON MKT TRIP
■V
try Par Faa4 awl
la the Arc
tie Ofth and Mm pall of mi on-1
•ettled, on know* regies, ■ party of
tha United States Geological Ian
handed by Dr. Phillip I. Smith, la
hound for the naoto Colville llnr
Thto probably to the m
ana mission ever iindartaban by thto
branch of tha On man
Tha pnrpooe to to OB a big
•pot aa tha may af Atoeba,
in* n/m square mile* of
ed wilderness. and alao to determine
by miner*logical testa tha aeopa of aa
oil hearing stiucfaire known la axtot
Ut»ia» Point Barrow, an tha Arrtto
Coaat, and tha CoMlk basin.
According to Gerald PitsGerald.
topographical engineer with tha party
tha barren stretch to uninhabited as
rapt along tha Arctic ■ Korea.
isolated handa of Eakhnoe aha oat •]
try to devoid of timber hat overlain|
by tundra noaa tare wb«
rat tha structure and reveal coal
and oil laapain.
It to a territory calculated to teat |
tha stamina of tha moot hardy ex
plorer. PitaGerald baa penetrated far
enough to tha direction to learn that
rsme apparently to negligible, except
an occasional colony of beaver and
WHhoat timber the party will be
compelled to rely on exposed coal for |
fool and lacking that, an tha msag
supply of gasoline and alcohol they j
wion iMTinf nere. ncnu;, ur.
Smith asid he txpacMd to enn oet
of tfc» wUdtracoi by way of the Col
vill Khrtr to the Arctic Omi. Ho
explained that tho party would htn
to depend on being picked op by a
■tray whaltng vessel and nwwH to
the r*(iil*r line* of *toamer travel at
Nome. tf no whaler appear*, tho ex
plorer* will cast their lot with the
KiMnoi and IHr* along the cnant un
til relief la aent.
The region to be explored i* be
lieved to contain east deposit* of oil.
A lake filled with hittnaen ha* been
discovered near Point Barrow, and
the survey party will try to determine
the origin of this oil and it* commer
cial importance.
The expedition was organized with
the ear* of a Polar Journey. No «ur
r>lu* wa* carried, either in men or
material*.
Besides the doten dog teams,
knockdown canoe* were taken to be
assembled and used when the streams
are free from ice.
TANKS BRING PEACE AT
• KENTUCKY MINE
Week'* Warfare is Quelled by
Guard*met>'* Use of Army
Machine*
Plneville. Ky.. April 11.- Two ar
my tank* from Covington today occu
pied commanding position* of »he pro.
pertj- of the Liberty Coal and Coke
Company at Straight Cieek, the *cer.e
of a weak'* warfare between soldier*
and persons who would prevent oper>
ati«n of the mine.
On* of th« tank* la atop a larjr*
pile of slat*, wh*r* tb* jrunners with
in cnnmand • foil sweep of 11m coun
try. To the right ia the spot where
a miner mi els In last week, and with-1
hi *asy rang* to th* *mmif whM
sUetth of mountain ahkh had coo
caaM maifamm who intaralttaatljr
haw been firing into th* rlllac*
H*r*tofor* laardnaaa win at^ia*
rftilto direct rlfl* fir* wUb stand
hW beside their posts at morhtna fain
With th* tanks Hi portion ham am.
th* man cm ait safely wttkfci and
control th* sil»aM*a. 1W tank to
shrapnel ran h* scattered Into «ay
point on the moontaia with great ae
rmey aeMfdlnr to Major J. K tMI
tn th* «Mftp where it mm ha le uaght
He vit found not guilty of • i
count. srhich charged Mm vMfe
tat procuring mMmm far *
raw in connection with (kt arruat af
Mra. Aas G. Ciaiir, wife of Um arij
lionaire aoft *hmk maaufarturer. Im
laat F»hroary.
OuirfM wn flM iflftlnM Bmvhi
March 25. ami tha trial began laat
Monday night. Mia
•0 tha third tea 1
poeed during Ma 11 yaars aa CMaf
thirty-fW* yaars. On tha itaiW Mat
night ha ocnpiad
ing a general denla* of
Um story of Bea»ar* part hi tha
of Mrs. Candler and two BMB
in an apartment mi upiod by a weas
an friend of Mra. Candler «m teid
to tha rr.nmittM by Fan*
prominent Atlanta husmes* man.
aaaawad tola mponaibility for
Candler's arraat.
Ha darlarsd that hscaue* of Mb
nut tha latter*' knowledge ha
ed aiewben of Ma offlea itaff la
•hadow Mra. Candler, and obtained
the promt** of Beaver* to conduct tha
raid which reeulted in her arraat.
"1 raapectad Mrs. faadler of Mat
ing W J. Stoddard (one of tha aaaa
with whom aha waa tahan bite aaa
tody) and I wanted to find out If tMa
waa true," ha txplataed hi a deposi
tion.
At tha trial Beaver* cited tha find
ing of liquor tai tha apartment aa jaa
tifieation for tha arraat of Mra. Caa4
ler. who in Bacordar** court waa ac
quitted of a chart* «f occupying •
Eipirti SmIi Cart far Cotfc
Tfcat Grip* IUn>inn
New York. April 10.—In mi effort
to dimrar the nan and tlerkia *
rare for Um ipring muck and frar
that annually grip Mat of th* twa
vMir-old racial honaa in this coon
try. it waa hantri yesterday. aria*
tiau of th* Rockefeller Inatitute art
at work m their laboratories at
Princeton, It. J„ on dluies taken
from the tkroata <' .nfertad am mala
at Belmont Park.
For more than thirty yeara the aaya
teriooa diaeaae haa defied veterinar
iana and trainer* and coat owner* of
racing • tables many tbouaanda of dol
lars. Frequently horaea affected in
the • print are unable to train all
numaMT, and the death of more than
one valuable animal haa been ti seed
to thia source
Drs. Frederick S. Jones and Una
both Smith. Rockefeller veterinariaaa
have begun a atudy of all r*«piratory
diaeaaea of hPraia; H waa annoonc*4
at the inatitoto yesterday, and hop*
to isolate the germ of thia malady.
U. S. Warm Church** mmd
Klan to Qui* MmMUm a
I j||n«r ITnfii
Buffalo. April *—Tha Federal Om-M
eminent today intervened in the Kb
Klux Klan and ProMut Chnreh
campaign for Prohibition enforcement
in Erie Coonty
Dry Chief. Michael A. Stapietea
openly rebuked individual* aad or
raniiation* for tryfnc to take the
law la their own haa* and called