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1 I , ll NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 27, 1922 SIX PAGES TODAY TCUNDED 1876 PRICE- FIVE CENTS - .... f . - -T . . f f .... , ,'-.. .i ii 71 : ffiffiP Wp'lPl ffllFF 1(1! Iff IPlIf At r .;; i V . - ' ;-., . ',- ..-a: v llLcMnisTayldr-, Native qfMBeDted'Night ' '- i : - : . -.aiimiVILtiO -Wliy. ly!- tMlfM-B TA IS SOEFJE : ; EffiT Til BE :im psw TUPMffiP"! " : refill- RPTI TIWCC .WVMtb I KUU. IU" riKt-N . ,.. i l " hs :-4 : . I Eli J ULu.hiLy UUSdUia u u w uaw - ... . 4 .: . ' - . I ill lit ' Id WM 'yLkW In lor Was Born;1 lew Bern And ' IT rnt His Early Life J TED LAWYER mr si i i III 4. W w rJzed As One of - C.2 Greatest Author- cn International I - r Oil . 1 THNGTOX, D. C, Dec. 27. v AHiated Press) Hennis i-, former U. S. minister, to ,.. 1 and rtxrognized autliorlty ..cii .,;loiuiI 3AW, Iietf -at his 3 here last night after an 111-. . i i s ct a month; v. I Taylor, Mho was born in Ke, Bernj K, C,' 71 years ago, first practiced law hi . Mobile and later here. lie was appointed Minister to Spain In 1893 and. later was cotinsel for the govern ment before the Claims Commis sion, established tinder the Spanish-American treaty and also be- ' 'fore the Alaska Boundary Com mission in 1913. : IV " ; - In additin to hU work, "Inter national Public Iiaw," DW Taylor j was the author of ft number of " other studies1 on legal subjects, including: bis "Origin and Growth, of the British Constitution,, pub- : lished in 1902,' and the "Origin and Growth of the American Con Btitutlon," . ohe of the last works of his life, - which -appeared in ; 1916. Dr. Taylor held - honorary de grees from eight American uni versities, as well as Edinburgh and Dublin universities. ; miii ii nf M fill 111 i E STREET! Large Street Paving Program In Pitt County City Is Now Nearing , Completion Dr. Taylor's j5ath came as a great shock to his ' relatives here. - He was born on . Craven , street i and was a member of one of North Carolina's ' ed. best known families. -Among his rela tives and decendants, living .in New Ben are Mrs.. Delia Whitford, Mfcs Mary Oliver ' the Holllster..-family. Mark deW. Stevenson,, Dr. R. S. Primrose, George S. ' Atmore, Mrs. K. Bishop, Mrs. J. G. Dunn and Miss Hannah Clark ATDEN, Dec. 27. The great pav ing prgoram which Ayden has, been carrying out for the past year, is now nearing completon,. over three hun dred . thousand dollars having been spent on street paving and sidewalks. Ayden cannow tru boatrt of being the first paved town in thek State for its size, eight miles of sidewalks. Be side the fact thatthe state highway passes through the heart - of town making a complete link Of vhard-surr faced road within a few months', be tween Goldsboro by way of Ayden to Greenville and Tarboro to Kocky Mount. " ' Ayden at this time offers the great est opportunities to 'the manufactur ing interests of the state through the fact that it is located in one of the best and richest section in the. state It has abundance, of labor surround In? and is a town which anv work er or other- persons would be proud to live. Ayden also has several of the most desirable factory cites on rail road and hard-surfaced roads to be had anwhere in the slate and at this time the different organizations of the town are getting together and will offer special inducements to any up-to-date manufacturing interest who would consider locating here. : A live Building and Loan Associa tion Jias 'been organized - within the town within the last yea'r and is mak ing great progress in taking care of the housing problem and of the Free Will - Baptist College, which is now under construction and will cost sev eral thousand dollars when complete (By - Associated Press) , ; : GAStlONIA; N.- C, Dec; 27:-Two men were burned to death and stone1 other is ;missing as the result5 of a fire which destroyed tile Underwood Eoarding House and several other buildings at Bessemer City, near here, according to reports received here. v.!. ' , . Two bodies, found in the ruins, were identified later as those' of John G. Hough and his step-son, Mack Hopper, whileE. J- Eddings was missing at the fire. Mrs'. Hough was seriously . hurt in leapfng from a' second story window' and it -was feared the injuries might prove fatal. t ,,The office and cotton warehou.se of the Cambrill and Melville j mills : also were burned, together with about 100 bales of cotton and a onestgry residence. 1 The total loss was estimated at not more than $30,000. It was; understood 'i to be partially covered by insurance. - The trigin of . the ( fire was not known. . I M'Koin Will ''Resist '""Any " Attempt r At Extradition BALTIMORE, t Md.V Dec. 27. (B Associated- Press). A, writ of habeas corpus for Dr. B; M. McKoin, former mayor of Mer Rouge, arrested here today on a oHarge of murder, was ob tained today. ..... The writ,' which was issued by Chief Judge James T Gorter in the 'city court, was made returnable im mediately. 1 V " , , At abdut the same time Dr.l Mc-. Kain waj arraigned.f or a hearing be fore Justice Btanleigh in ' municipal police court but, on request of de tectives on the case, the justice ad journed the., examination until - January- 8. Thi3 was in compliance with a telegram from Governor Parker, of Louisiana, .requesting that Dr. Mc Koin be held for V days and Baying that -extradition papers would be f or- warded.: , , Dr. McKoin was then taken to the office of States Attorney Leach, pre liminary to the habeas corpus hear ing before the judge. Upcu the re quest of Attorney Carmon,; - Judge Gorter postponed the - habeas corpus hearing -until- tomorrow. - . . Former U. S. -Districf Attorney Robert R. Harmon, who is counsel for Dr. McKoin,. said he would fight any effort on extradition on the part of the governor of Louisiana. The former district attorney declared he believed there was no prima facie charge of murder against Dr. Mc Koin, and he expressed the belfef that the Louisiana officials called for his arrest here because they wanted him Jnore as a witness than, anything else. , ! . . BIG; INCREASE MADE IN S. EXPQRT TRADE DR. WILBUR F. CRAFTS DIED THIS MORNfNG WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. Dr. WiL bu F. Scrafts, for 28 years superin- Trw natives of New -Bern have ever ! tendent of the International Reform gained greater prominence than did , Bureau, ;which he founded and wide Dr. Taylor. He visited, here on a r.um-1'y Jcnown because of his activities in . f ..;nni'3ftDr. i3vini mnwrt behalf of .prohibition and similar away and ia weU - ktown to a large ntimbej of local residents. The oc casion of his -last visit was a family re-union here.-1- - ';. t it is not known - what arrangements have been made for the funeral. - movements, died at a hospital here todayof pneumonia.. He was 73 years old. Acting low down is not the propel way to get higher up. v ; " WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. Further increases in America's foreign trade were reflected today in figures com piled v by the ; Department-' of Com merce; showing exports of cotton and linters to have been 857.337 bales, valued at $109,387,719. October ex ports of cotton totalled 798,364 bales, valued at $93,923,760. The November total places the ag gregate exports of cotton for the 11 'months'" ending November 30 at 5, 505,660' bales, vahied at $593,529,727 md approximately $120,000,000 and Treater' than the value of the cotton told abroad hi the same period in 1921. EXPECT TO Ew AHRESTS KIDNAP Ii Federal And State ,Investiga- tors. Are Working on the; Mer Rouge Tragedy -' r BASTOP, La., Dec. 27. There was an air of expectancy here and around Mer Rouge - early today as - depart ment of. Justice agents a"nd represen- tatives of -the state government re newed their activities m the .investi- "gation in the Morehouse kidnapping case, ''and -widened their efforts to run down the persons responsible for the dynamiting of a near-by,lake which gave up the bodies of two men identified as Watt Daniels and Thom as Richards, abducted by the masked mob last August. It was declared that additional arrests were imminent.. .Secret Service-men are repprted to have located th , places - .where the dynamifciwas said to have been-placed Five bundred pounds were sold and ome ot'the men suspected of . being mlicated in the dynamiting, are tin ier surveillance. The investigators -in-Ucated-'tiat-' arre?t3-j;mayr'bes-s;niside Sudan Expects To Have4 One o the Most Suc cessful Mid-Winter Ceremonials In the ; History of the Temple. .. , ALL PREPARATIONS ARE COMPLETED' Everything Is In Readiness To Introduce Candidates Into the Mysteries of Shrinedom Tomorrow. tliC President Seeks First-Hand Knowledge of Development : Needs . of the Territory ALLEGED BANDITS ARE UNDER ARREST NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 27. Iour additional arrests were expected to day as the result of the capture here of Jim Caverty and Mrs. Caverty and George Wilson andrMra. Wilson last night in connection with the hold-up and robbery of bank messengers in Kansas City, December 21, according to Martin W. Williams, manager of the Southern division of ap rivate detective agency. The bandits are re ported to have obtained $97,000. FIVE ARE INJURED IN RAILROAD ACCIDENT Determined Fight Made Oh The Borah Amendment WASHINGTON. Dec. "27. (By the Associated Press. )-- Administration senators, -'under . the leadership of Senator Lodge, began .in the senate today a determined fight-against the! proposal of Senator, Borah, republi can, Iflaho, for a new international conference ',in :Wa5;hlhgton to discuss economic conditions , and disarma Senator Lodge, who was said by bis colleagues to have - ascertained the vjews of President Harding and his administration advisers", obtained his attack' as soon as the Senate began work on the Borah proposal, which is in the 'form of an amendment to the annual naval - bill. requesting the President to call an economic and armament conference.. - The foreign relations, chairman re counted the difficulties of further armament limitation encountered at the Washington; conference a year 'ago and declared" that in view ofv the attitude 'taken.- by. other powers i it would be "useless" to limit land arm aments unless jt were established be forehand that France had changed her position. . ' The fight on the senate floor began after a score of administration sena tors had conferred in Senator Lodge's office and had mapped out a program providing for a resort to parliamen tary tactics if necessary to defeat the move of Senator Borah. A part of the group of senate irreconciliables, who have voted with Mr.-Borah on many other questions of foreign policy, al so was arrayed against the amend ment, while the attitude of the dem ocfatic side of the chamber seemed to be a waiting1 one, with many mem bers undecided . whether to support or oppose the conference plan.- . -' PEACE CONFERENCE MAY SOON BE BROKEN OFF ' LONDON, Dec." 27.-A Reuter's dis natch from Lausanne -says:, -'There is serious danger of the Near East con ference becoininsr abortive if the Turks persist in their present meth MUCH NEW BUILDING TO . BE UNDERTAKEN Orders that have-bavn p.aced here for lumber during the .iast week or two bear out the Ptatement . made sometime ago Telative-to Ntiw Bern's building boom. The Pine Lumbar Company, one of the leading mills in this fection, is making preparations for handling the heavy demand for lumber which al ready has begun to make itself fe't and which. . it is expected, will con tinue to increase rapidly. "I believe we are-going to Kie on unprecedented amount of building here within a very short time," said Mr. Aberly, of the Pine Lumber Com pany, this morning, in discussing tlie situation.-"Contracts for a large nuin ber pf buildings -willo be let shortly." IvAISlHU SETilvS PHOTO OF SELF AND HIS BIUDK TO, AMERICANS FOR $10,000 Doorni v Dec, 27. Former Kaiser Wilhelm was in need of , Christmas money,: He sold a wedding photograph of himself jn a field marshal's uni form', and his ': bride, - Princess' Her- mlne,' wearing her famous v diadem The-ptctUre was disposed of to ' an American agency for -lQtQ0Qf Washington, -Dec- j 27. President Harding hopes to mate his long-de-layed trip to Alaska early next' sum-, mer, it was learned today. ( At the same time he wants to visit the farm ing communities of the middle . and far west. , " , . Detailed plans for the ..trip--., have not been completed, the . President feeling that he cannot " decide .' defi nitely to visit the northwest until his administration program has been cleared up. As last 'summer, when .he planned the trip, circumstances may necessitate .a postponement. For this reason none of the arrangements will be announced until later. The . President is deeply interested in the development of Alaska. , For a long time he has studied conditions therfe It is now his wish to go into the territory . personally ,nd learn how the rich resources of the north west can be utilized more adequitely. PROGRAM "(10 :00 A.4I. ...... '. .-. . Business Session - " , , Masonio Temple. 12:30, P.. M.. ............ . . Parade. - Starting from Masonic Temple ' f it? 1:00 P. M "l4 " . The Monb Each;Noble may be accoi Oyster--Rop- 2:30- Pi M.. 9:00 P M. . Banner W Banner Wa , t The 'bright red fez of,Shrin pearance on the streets of Newi bers of. Sudan Temple., began am vh ceremonial,' which is to be held at thef tomorrow. . ' " '. 1 Hundreds of Shriners are expected t ' . "- 1. n. , -.-..- J ' i and early- tomorrow monrSig. Many 'others w trip - in automobiles. - Every' indication - points to' best-attended ceremonialsythat has been' held heil t - years. , ; . The Divan of Sudan Temple is as around-rosy and Lond WANT SEWING MACHINE FOR A FIRE SUFFERER SALISBURY, N. C, Dec. 27. Five persons were slightly injured this morning when a swinging door on a freight car side-swiped a passenger coach) of Southern train No. 137, run ning between Washington and At lanta, near Thomasville, N. C. Those injuned were treated by local doctors and immediately resumed their jour ney. The injured included James E. Faison, of Faison, N. C. " LEG BONE TRANSPLANTED TO UPSTATE CHILD'S SPINE . Middleton, N. Dec. 27. Edna Avery, of Rockhlll, Sullivan county, has submitted to a remarkable op eration in the Post-Graduate Hospital in New York. For a year ehe has beer, affected with a trouble of the spine which has puzzled physician's. A bone has nbw been removed from the child's lef; and placed in her spine, and it is believed she will recover. EIGHT BELIEVED LOST IN TUG ON LAKE ERIE Has anyone in New Bern a sewing machine which theywll sell cheap? The Red Cross desires to buy one and give it to a colored woman, one of the fire sufferers, who needs a machine badly. If there is anyone who has a ma chine t osell they are asked to com municate with the Red Cross at once. FILM STARS SPREAD CHEER AT CHRISTMAS Cleveland, O., Tec. 27. Mystery surrounding the tug Cornell,; missing 4. days remained unsolved tonight. It was; conceded by t shipping men that the tug with , its crew of ''eight, prob ably - had gone . down. Four tugs, which spent Christmas cruising Lake Erie, failed to find trace pf the .vessel. Los Angeles, Dec. 25. The spirit of charity'and good cheer predomin ated in the cinema colony here today. The' 2 50 inmates men and wom en at the'-county poor farm were cheered by the thoughtfulne&s.'of Mary Pickford. One old woman said: "I would love to have a newspaper every day in the year." She will get it. An aged woman . from the South wanted a corncob pipe. She got it, too. Most of the men wanted tobacco. Miss Pickford personally distributed (the gift.-. The more impetuous Douglas Fair banks, her husband, was solicited by a newsboy to buy a paper Doug ask ed: i "What would you rather have than anything else in the world?" . The boy 'replied: .' "'A bicycle." 1 . . - Doug took the boy to town and bought one for him. follows; John H. Anderson-Illustrious Po tentate.. . ... - ; -).;. ' ' Y n .... .-, f1 -r-i... . . n V . - it oJake T. Lassiter Assistant ! Rab - ban.. " 1 'i'. . '? ' Furman N. Bridgers HighP riest and Prophet.' . f ' - Caleb D. , Badham Oriental Guide. William W.1 - Griffins-Treasurer. . ' Joseph F. Rhem Recorder. -: ".. Alexander B. Andrews, William A. French, James C.Braswell, Joseph F. Rhem - Representatives to the Im-: perial Council. Leroy C. Robertson, Jr. First Ceremonial. Master. Fred W. Ayers---Second Ceremonial Master. . Rev. Frank D. Dean Orators Fred B. Crowson Marshal.1 ' -: Harry S- Storr Captain of Guard. John B-'Grigg8i Outer Guard. Claude iS. Chamberlain Director. William T. Hill Captain of Patrol. Barrett D. Wilson Director of Band, v '." " '.- F. Mercer . Gallagher Drum Mar jor. . , The program will open with regis tration and a short business' seesion. There is much speculation as to held. Washington fe making a strong where the spring ceremonial will be bid for the location and the members of her Shrine Club are coming to New Bern 100 per cent strong to press their claims. Washington fepla that she is entitled to the 1923 cere monial. In an interview today Carl Richardson, one of the leading Shrin ers of Washington, Said "We've' already completed plans tor entertaining the Shrine' next spring. The people of Washington are behind the Shrine Club in; tftls , mat ter and the entire citizenship is an xious to help in showing the Shriners a good time. . " Warehouse in Readiness A staff of workers -.yere at the Banner Warehouse all day today, get tine" things, in shape so ;that the eighty candidates will enjoy themsel ves. Delightful fames, such ag ring; be enjoyed : by " the heoj . ' The oyster roast will able, feature of the day be the' parade,;' provid Weather Man docru't in, day will conclude with the patrol at the Banney which will be followed B Shrjne ball. i ; Stores Are Decor: : Several of the stores be, put, Shrine decorations :tc ir. expected that the" city decorated by tomorrow. R( Rhem is keeping busy get'( in hape for his strenuous l row. Potentate Anderson here this evening.- jr-t V; I LARGE NUMBF.R OI ) ' DODGS CAR. sof Dodge d A large numbervof been sold by the. Blades M during the past- several wets company has received, seyei mnts .and the greater,, part. were sold within several das v their receipt.-. .- I ' The . Dodge i is demonstrating worth to the', new owner?. ,M?, L erts . etated today tnat anotney si.t ment of different models .wppld received here, withrn a short wh?lf. BUCKINGHA3I WILR NOT BE TRIED r DEATII TAKES ' MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec 27 Miles Buckingham .. millionaire insuran,:e man,, dropped dead yesterdayvof heart failure. Buckingham figured lw a sen sational ..court, action In Mississippi last May ' in"' connection .... wltr x the death" of hiswlfe, prominent phis' - society ; leader: and. , chafity worker. Mrs. 7 Buckingham was s and fatally injured while . the Buc inghams were i returnings foi, Mem phis 'from. Biloxi,: Miss, .1 vl an av.to mobile,. 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