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" 4? 8 PAGES TODAY 4 THE WEATHER . T'AIBf TONIGHT AND SAT ' CJLUAY. NO CHANGE 'IX , .';' THE TEMPERATURE FOUNDED 1676. NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 20, 1922. PRICE.- FIVE CENTS 1 ; ;' j "Mln. M. Omsly Is New Commander Of Legion : ' .K ' t v , : : ZZZi. ri . r - IffllBi' legiomI .-. A .j , . jfr Alvin frl. Owsley j of Denton, Texas, Nam- . ed To Succeed Han "ford MacNidre as the I Head of the Ameri i can Iiegion Forces.- ''. Vote ; For the New ; Lead 3r Was Over- - whelming. i. NEW bRLEANS. Oct. 20. Alvln' M.;Owslcy, of Denton, Tex., Avas todiy elected National Com-' ' moudct of the Amerciaa Ix-glon. f The .vote for. Mr: Owsley .was ; pTerwbelniins. :' ' v . 'Mr. -Owsley Was introduced by " Hanfo i MacNJder. . ' PU se r accept my '.heartfelt . : eralitt.deH Owsley said.""for the jreaiet honor that could come to . -one..vho'erYed in the war. . i. i'W'a. pledged fa . America that t ere her defenders . We must . , - now pleadpe even-greater service. There are four principles up - -on vlich ve resti , i - , ' 1 f Jv'IlospltaJizailonr , f i - - IlehablUtatioH. I .r-Adju&4 compensation. - . Ani(ricahl2asro",'- t "I tplede the .best' energlea of.' .tay iftjinhood and tuy sacred hon or." - With '"fadge Kennesaw Iandis . between them.- the, new and old -commanders posed '.for a picture.- Plans Being , Made 1 For Call- AV National Confer- '? ence kt Washington " -iOVlSYllLB. x 0it. 20. Arrange tnentd have been fcompleted for a meeting here with ? Judge Robt. W. Bihgham Monday and Tuesday of a cottunittee representing the leading cd-doeraUve s imarketinsr aasociation of - the ' United ( States. Discussion of plans for the celling of a national conference of ; co-operative - interests to be held In. Washington ' was the purpose of the. meeting! Monday. .-'LOXJISViLLE. ;,Ky. 0ct. 20. Sug gestion' for Suchv a ' conference was said to have ,come front Senator Cap- . pet, of1 Kansas. .Th-purpose of the conf erehc.e -''will J be' to discuss rural credits and string reeonvmendations to .congress regarding niatters of im- portan6&-to-the cooperative market ing .bodies.." ' f - Members of vine corinmitte who will met' Wih;udge.;- Btngham. include Aarpn Sapjfo. f general' counsel, Carl Williams president pi . the Cotton OrswertiV Exchange, of'. Oklahoma . City a$d 'B.JW.Kifeore,' director of Nfews Angle Brought To Light In New Brunswick Mur . . ; VCder, Mystery NEW, BRUNSW1GK, N. J., Oct. 20. Authorities Investigating the Hall . Mills murder ,mystery today were . checking, up details; of new informa tion Vhich they say dove-tails with ill SOOi IT iSlEi facts, previously obtained and point to a so'lution pf theL case which baf fled officials.",'- .. They are sad to be weighing care fully' a story ito the.' effect that Mrs. Krances NY Hall, Widow of the late Rev. Ef. W..Ia!It who: with Mrs. Elea nor Mllif was V murdered, quarreled with Mrs. Iall , shortly before the " '' Halls'left 'NewvBrunsyu:k for a vaca Hort Tast'sutnmef 'and.the ill feeling was pronounced -after .their return. ' ' l ' ' Vr ' i OR. HI PITS TO USELESSNESS OF SINFUL LIFE A Remarkable .. Dicoursev on "Amiuement" Heard by Throne Which - Attended TcJdays Meeting at the Tab - ernacle . Tent. Evangelist Begs Girls And Mothers To Abandon Certain Methods. The morning service at the tabernacle was again largely at tended and those who went heard ,. "i a mwt remarkable discourse on . :,AmasetncWs.""''Mr.' Hainbore r' down i haiavrlX.Ww,tnt - : for tlieir amusements' these days. If all of the Sunday golfers and .- fishermen could have, been there " they would have had a mirror . projected Jnt their very beings and ; would have heboid ' tlemT selves as they really are. . He pointed out ": the fallacy of the life that the folks are lead ing in their mad - rush for the .: light and frivolous and told them -of the joy that they jcould obtain by a life of wholesome service rin the work that is to be done to comfort and save lost humanity. He touched on bridge and other card games and begged the young life and the mothers to get away from all such. A large number stood and by doing so .said that they wfere through. ' Tonight the .', evangelist will speak on "Overcoming" -.and a large crowd will be on hand. The meeting is fast nearing the end and all who can are urged to at tend these last ones. "Sell Is Myelf? Not Hardly,' Sentiment Expressed By Girl Wife Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 20. "Sell my- eelf into virtual slavery? Not hard- iy.' This was the sentiment expressed by Mrs. Elizabeth Hall of Atlanta, a bride of only a few days, who despon dent because she was unable to find work, attempted suicide late Wednes day. , Her husband is shipping clerk for 1 a ! cal concern but he stated that the;, were "unable to live as they should on his earnings." "Yes, I read about several women wanting to sell themselves and their services," she answered when ques tinoed on this subject. "1 was willing to work and I can work, but slav ery: doesn't appeal to me. "Slavery of any kind is abhorrent aftd financial slavery seems worst of all," she continued. "That5s what Hall and myself were, financial slaves. Thinking about this is what caused me t oattempt to take my life." Mrs Hall was taken to Grady hos pital late Wednesday night. She told physicians that she had swallowed 8 5 -grain tablets of permanganate of potash. Prompt work on the part of physi cians saver her life and she was de clared uot of danger by the hospital authorities today. !'I don't think I will bo so foolish as to try a thing like' that again," sne saia. it may oe nara to be a slave, of any kind but it's a lot hard er to be dead. "I've had my lesson," she concluded. Tino travels with 225 trunks, but we'll bet even then his wife sticks things in his pockets. Steinrnetz says four hours is a day's work. The boss1 says it is hard to get a man to work that long. THIS WOMAN NOT READY BE SLAVE "Siamese" Twins of Frisco Police Force Add Another To the Long String of Captures . . . . - ( sftv Ail - j& T?y-; if if Vl Phil Lin'decker ' (with pistol) jf the San-Francisco shot-gun auto defective squad. poHcenVen ; on . the same day and have always been same detail., iast weeK tney irustraiea a $io,uuu jioia-up 01 two oflicials.of the Dairy Delivery Company and "brought in" three of the four bandits, punctured with buck-shot 'and revolver bullets. They ilsO. haye.to their' credit the recovery of 1,009 stolen mPtB in the past 3ve years and the capture of half a. dozen notorious ' bad men.' When they are off duty they. go to picnics together, pals on duty and off. cU&U Toll Bridge To Ocean At Morehead Planned J.' E. . Woodland, proprietor of the i Woodland Hotel System, a corpora-1 ion which operates the Beach Hotel it the ocean, across the sound from .Morehead City, stated yesterday that i causeway would be built as soon is possible from the mainland at Moreahed to the beach, so that cars ind people ' may pass across it. The bridge, for. that is what it will be, will be a toll affair and a ' nominal and small charge will be made xt or cross .ng. It is. figured that in this-; way the expense.wiU be gotten back in a short number . of years. The bridge will help Morehead City enormously and will practically make :he Eastern end of the state the great est summer and winter resort seeond to none in the whole country- With a hard-Surfaced road leading from Raleigh straight through to More head City, ; branching out at Have lock, and another from that point to Beaufort, with a bridge from More head t,6 . Beaufort to carry the Nor olk -Southern ..-'tracks and a roadway projected for the near future, East ern Carolina will come into its own and the Two Cties by the Sea will TAG IKEARECORO Win First Honors In Canning x Contest. May Go To Europe (By Associated Press) j ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 2 0 Two girls i from ; Jackson, Mich., Misses Ruby j Trigg and Willie Scribbling won first 1 honors in the canning club conduct- '. ed at the southearn fair in awards i announced today while a Georgia ! team won second. - These four girls will go to Chicago! in December to compete with ipht other teams at the International J..ie; Stock Show of a trip to Fra-ice j where the winners will enagog in j educational work1 for a brief period i followed by a sight seeing tour thru ! the battlefields of that country- ! Third honors fall to a North Car olina club team composed of Louis Howard and Ya Grantham of Ala mance, county. jDartmouth's president jmay he right ahout too many going to col lege. Out. of thousands only elevun make a football team. ATI msm and Charlie Dullea, with pump-gun, hey started ai ssigned to the thrive over night. The whole section will benefit and North Carolina will have a playground for winter and sum- mer that will draw the tourists of the North in' the winter and summer and the people of the south in the summer especially. In fact, there is no limit to the developments that will then be possible. In the past the trouble at More head . City has been the means of transportation and communication at the ocean beach. With telepfhone telegraph and other means of com munication available on the ocean front, success on a large scale will be a natural and inevitable result. Mr. Woodland, who is planning to ptat this proposition over shortly, is the organizing figure in the Woodland Hotel System, and it is due his efforts that the Beach Hotel last year wa? success. This coming year a great er success is inevitable. Improvements will be made at the beach and the fu ture holds forth more plans. The toll bridge, however, stands out as a turn ing point in East Carolina summer and winter resort history and its opening will effect the entire state. UNDERCHARGE Bankers And Newspaper Said To Be Implicated Bond Thefts Men In MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 20. Twenty-six persons residing here, including bankers and bond salemen and newspaper men, have been indicted charged with impli cation in nation-wide bond thefts, JLaFayette French, the district at torney announced. When a girl wants a man to save his money he is going to need it. ALVIN M. OWSLEY ELECTED HEAD OF AMERICAN LEGION (By Associated Press). NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 20. Al vin M. Owsley, of Denton, Texas, was elected national commander of the American Legion here today. PROMINENT MEN EXPLOSION IN MINE FATAL TO 8 MEN; FOUR ARE INJURED (By Associated Press). Mccurtain, okia., Oct. 20.- Eight men were killed and four injured in an explosion of gas in the Progressive ' Coal Company mine, near here this morning. RATE REVISION FREIGHTS IS T Virginia, North Carolina And Part of South Carolina Make Pleas (By Associated Press). ASHEVILLE, Oct. 20. What was expected to be the lastysession of the I. C. C, here Was marked by develop ments of Charles E. Bell's plea that Virginia, North Carolina be regarded as a separate entity in the construc tion or a new rate structure. j The majority of the attendants up on the commissioners sitting left for their homes today. Commissioner Maxwell in discussing the Bell proposal with a reporter said: "Nearly all the testimony adduced by the Virginian thus far supports the theory of the corporation commis sion that material factors make for lower transportation than in other Southern states." RE NOW HEADY I SELL HERSELF 'It Is Not Fun This Thing", She Says As Awaits She DALLAS, Tex., Oct. 20 Rose Pal mer, would be "bond girl", sat up in her bed at her cheap boarding house today and eagerly awaited bids In answer to her offer to "sell" herself. Despite her weakened condition, brought on by an attack of dengue fever, her pretty face was flushei 1 with anticipation. "Do you think someone will make an offer for me?" she continually asked those seated around her bed side. "I thought at first that this was terrible selling myself but it is not; it's fun, so far," she smiled. "But wouldn't it be terrible if no one offered to buy me? It would be awful for Bill and Mabel," she said, referring to her jobless half-brother and his sick wife, ''and then it would kind of hurt my feelings." Rose offered to sell herself to the highest bidder when her half broth er found it impossible to secure a job after he gave up the one he had to take his sick wife to her people in Illinois. The couple, who always cared for Rose, has become practically penni less, Palmer says, and although he hates to see Rose sell herself he de clares that "we certainly need the money." Rose is willing to "sell" her self for a period of years or for life or get married, she declared. LIFE OF BISHOP Work Done During Long and Useful Career Commented Upon (By Associated Press). MONROE. Oct. 20. Resolutions praising the life work of the late Bishop John C. Kilgore were adopted here today by the Western North Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Eleven candidates were admitted and Bishop Denny impressed on them the importance of personality while the Rev. R. II. Dennis pleaded to ad hemoe to the cardinal truths of the Bible in the pulpit. No coal i sign of a h the cellar winter. is one sure The best alarm clock is ham and eggs cooking in the kitchen. El N G T KLGOR PRAISED IE W llEIlffi Marquis Curzon and the Earl of Derby, 'Two of England's Most . Influential1 Men, Have Agreed To Become Members of tlu? Cabinet Being Formed. PLENTY OF GOOD TIMBER New Leader Is Said To Be In the Best of Health And Ready To "Buckle To" the Task Which Faces Him. -Some Apprehension Is Felt In Some Circles'. : " ' ' . A rv' (By Associated Press) : . , . -ILONDQ, Oct. 20.--ii4rew,Bohar Law appear- ed.to be making progress today in forming a cabinet a to replace the coalition government. This wax tvidarie. ed by the announcement that Marquis Ciirion and the ' Earl of Derby, both men of influence and experienced -1 ' cabinet ministers have agreed to serve under him. Bonar Law cannot officially announce the formation of the ministry until he is elected headf of the Unionist ' party to succeed Austen Chamberlain. Although the split in the Unionist party tanks has ' ' deprived him of such cabinet material as Chamberlain, ', Lord Birkenhead, the Earl of Balfour, political experts believe he will find plenty of timber among the younger ) members of the party who have shown promise in the political field and are marked for advancement 'at a ! favorable moment. - t" . " The Premier-designate was busy seeking eligible " ' today. His secretary said he is in good health ; and ready to "buckle to" the work which is before him. Certainly he is giving eviry evidence of his old energy though whether he is strong enough to stand the strain is problematical. .--v : OLIVER J. SANDS GOMES TO MAKE ADDRESS HERE Executive Head of Co-operative Marketing Association Visits New Bern Mr. Oliver J. Sands, executive offi cer of the Co-operative Marketing Association, came down to New Bern this afternoon from his home at Richmond for the purpose of mak ing an address t olocal business men and farmers at the court house. Mr. Sands spoke at Kinston this morning, where he had a large and appreciate audience and made an address whioh, according to tele phone reports, was most interesting and thoroughly enjoyed. A tour through the eastern part of the state is being made by Mr. Sands for the purpose of telling the tobacco and cotton growers of the work being done by the association and stimulating interest in their part. GOVERNORS WILL ATTEND BANQUET MT. AIRY. Oct. 20. The gover nors of North Carolina and Virginia and the highway cormrissiorers will be guests of honor at a ba-iquet here to? ight and be speakers at a good ro:ds rally here tomorrow at noon. The purpose of the rally js to fa o'uvr.t a better linking up of hili way boiwten Virginia Jnd Neriii Ca" c'.ra. I Some Anxiety la PeAt J !' LONDON, Oct.. 20. The een crally accepted belief , that Bon ar Law will he able to form il ea binet has been discounted to day on the stock exchange wlre the price movement of British gilt but edge issues were -"narrow upward. French " loads aftd the railway securities ' recovered well. ' . Inquiry Into Conduct) of U. S District Attorney's Office Shows Grafting . '. (By Associated - Press) . f. CHICAGO, 111., Oct 20.-;-Special in vestigators authorized by the depart ment of justice to inquire into the re cent conduct of the office of - the TJ. S. district attorney at Chicago today reported that "there Is not the slight est doubt that since the passage of the eighteenth amendment there has been traffic in liquors organized on, a large scale and protected by bribery in corruption. i- - I Eats For First Time in 2 Weeks i (By Associated Press). ' NASHVILLE, Tenn., - Oct. 20. "I ain't so hungry, but I ain't -full yet,"' said Owen Pardue, . nine years old, when he had consumed a square meal yesterday for the first .. time in two weeks after having been fed On nuts, , .milk and 'possuga, INVESTIGATION i i nnmnn rnrtTii r HH N h H H Ulllll W U I W If I II
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