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NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 29, 1922. . EIGHT PAGES TODAY PRICE; FIVE CENTS h'U V y u U - FOUNDED 1876 If j tU J I) ml Lml LmJ ' Mmistic Glim DROUGHT Cj.GK FO A'LililllTIOI ... . - V f Governor . Has Mebane Man VT&ken Off Train While" He . Was on Way To Ky. MORRISON HAD HONORED GRAY'S EXTRADITION Changed His Attitude in Mat ter To Enble Gray Td Fight Extradition Proceedings ZlALEIGH, Dec. 29. (By Associat ' ed-Press) After, honoring the re tiufsition of the Governor o Ken tL'cky for' the,, return of W. B. Gray, ci llebane, to answer to a charge 01 obtaining money ' under false pre tn'se. ' Governor Cameron Morrison late last night ordered Statesville of- - f aFa in aVovrtiav frflm si train fl.hr? bring him, back to ' Raleigh in orde. to-: give him a iearing.JT?,B'''' Governor MorrtiOn said "this after School, had appealed to him to give his ion a chance to fight extradition Gray will be given a hearing before the Governor either tonight or to morrow.- : ' . 'j.-- -- . - , ' : Statesville. N. C, Dec. 29. (B Associated Press) William Gray of ' Mebanei in charge of a . deput. Sheriff of Hart county Kentucky, wa . taken' from a train here list night b: Officers on. instructions from' Gover v nor' Morrison. Gray" was .beiflg takei to "Kentucky for obitaining monfy un der false pretenses. V v ! ..:Qray left for Raleigh this morqinj,. in .custody of an officer.-He is charg ed' in Mumf ordsville, Ky.,' with ob laining money from - men of tha town, in payment for' the tuition o their, sons at hie father's school , a : Mebane. He is alleged to have obtain Aed; about $3,000. The Mumfordsvill rrfcen , claimed that Young Gray mis v represented the school to them, de claring it is inadequate for education a'K purposes. '.--. : ' ' -"I simply solicited forV Bigharr Military . School for the, summer o 1&22, ; the jschool itself receiving payments,", declared' Gray this morn ing. awhile at Bingham the boy seemed to- be well pleased '-with th -- school." t . ii n- ( ,: DEBT ALLEVIATION IS . PURPOSE OF BRITAIN LONDON Dec.: 29. 'It, l" am-.feu, tessfyl 5nv peiauading tha Uiitec States government to comu to porm anent settlement terms for .the. - re payment of our debt- of 5v - irrillior ppunds, through the funding and ob taining. of ah easier rat -s of inter.tt I i hope.. that America will also- tak kindly to a- much more - important mission which Premier Bona?" Jaw At shortly to undertake for ii final repa rations settlement." :'r:'-: .-These were the significant -varting words- of Chancellor of the Kxehe . 4uer Sta.nley Baldwin, discussing jfht objects of hiS1 mission ro the iJniteo States, just before boarding the Ma jestic for America today. ' '. v He .undoubtedly-meant tlidt he it hoping: for America's support, of the attitude of the British Premier it the - Paris conference of premiers next Tvsday. -.' ' . ' . ' . Another- J-nVportant ; admission Jhy the Chancellor was, to the entect that he has full powers not only to settlt the debt question, but to. take up, Iht question of calling an economic con ference, which? naturally as a British er, he said he would welcome.' . He further declared that he would see th6 President as soon ; as he can after his arrival at Washington, add ing: . , -(-;A---yv .-"v-; ' "It- is of . supremJ Importance to . Europe that America should have a say in the many perplexing matters " now engaging the attention of states men." ." The Chancellor, like all British publicists; strongly favors Senator Borah's idea of a world economic ' conference, to be held at Washington or elsewhere. . Counterfeit twenties are in circula tion. ' Examine .doseiy the , sma?.; Change a bootlegger gives you. 0 0 - "fct. Paul, Minjhviaya Ja.lm to having the most unique family in the vworId consisting" 11 -'girlK sisters -two- guardians. FifteTi-yeare "ago lheifTfii'efs, Misses Miuna and Henryette, had 4 a spacious and onifortable home that, they did not know what to do withr .They adopted a little German orphan girl ind toupd the experiment so interesting that they adopted three little Scotch girls.' After that one by one other, orphans found la rhome with., the ReifE sisters, until now the little ?family numbers nine girls," rep'fesent ng Gfermany;, France, Scotland,, Finland, Bohemia and Canada, and' of course, the U S . ' ; MUCH INTEREST IS SHOWN IN MOVEMENTOF BRITISH FLEET " (By Associated Press) ; . . LONDON, Dec. 29. The -hasty.-" return of the British . fleet to Constantinople from l&alta attracts 4wjide attention here. Nothing is forthcomiHg from official sources to explain thef movement but the ob 'vious presumption that it is connected with the un compromising attitude of the Turks at Lausanne is everywhere accepted. '..- - l There are still many foreigners in Constantinople and the dispatch of warships is regarded as a necessary precaution; in the event that there is a break-down in. v- the Lausanne "negotiations. -' Blind Boy Hopeful of Seeing Through Transfer of Pig Eye 'New York, Dec. 29. Wha, would oe your Reaction to life in the future if ; for nine 'yeare your nights had been a succession of hideous -night-nares of burning buildings? 'And what 'would be your state of mind, if .there, finally came to- you jome. hope that the ; horrible dreams to be dispelled by a. surgical opera tion which aj; the. same time would restore the sight that had been gone for' nine years? , There are answers to these ques tions. ;They have been given, to the Mew York American by. one who. hae had these dreadful experiences and has come to hope they are nearing their end. - -He is Alfred -Lemanowicz, eigh teen, of No. 31 Marion avenue, Lynd hurst, N. J, He is preparing to sue that township for.; $100,000 because of his condition. This is the story he '.old recently. " - : "My- left eye is' gone, you can .see. And my right is without vision. It happened nine years ago in a boy ish prank. ' "Next May I am to be operated on by Dr. Edward Morgan. He is seventy-one and lives in Paterson. All the other doctors have given up my case as hopeless. They say I will never see again., Dr. Morgan says he will give me sight in the righj. eye. "He is going to graft on my eye ball one-half of a pig's eye. And he says that my nightmares will disap pear. The operation will take only halt an hour, and will require four assistnt doctors. : ' "Nine years ago with boyish en thusiasm I watched s the township's fireworks celebration on the Fourth Here's A Real; MLeague1 of Nations" IS ' ' r J- J- of July. When some of the city em ployees became drunk and left be nind a pile of skyrockets some of us took the rockets home. I didn't take any, it happened. "On July 19 one of the boys brought a rocket frpm his house. It was lighted, but. the fuse sputtered and the rocket didn't go off I bent over it to see what was the matter. There was a terrific flash, then dark- nessi. The ooys ran away. A woman picked me pp. I came to in a hos pital days later. "My reft eye was iso badly hurt it j was removes, i couian t see trom i the right. Since then I have lived the tortures of hell. Night after night I dreamed of flames. Scores of times I have awakened my , family with shrieks. In my sleep I could see the house afire. They would find me, still asleep, groping for the door or win dows while I screamed for help. "All these years life ha ticcn dis couraging, even though kind friends have aided me. I have learned to help myself. "I am an expert at caning chairs and at turning pianos. "I can typewrite. "I have learned to read as many blind people read. "It's an "Hjvusual operation that I am to undergo, but I have nothing o lose and everything to gain. I am fure that' some day soon I will be able to see again and find life once more the rosy prospect it was before that" terrible day nine years ago." Our idea of an optimist is any man who will assert his claim to succeed Sultan Mohammed VI., of Turkey. jilt Family. i I Effi-t Being Made To Bring About A Vote on Measure Before New Year Recess WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.. (By As eoiated Presc) A vote before night on the Borah proposal for a world economic conference, which is op posed by the administration, wat sought, by senate .leaders today while the third, days debate ofthe project proceeded . with increasing iury. His '"'irreconcilliable" colleagues of Senator Borah hurled broadsides at his plan as embodies in amend ment t othe naval appropriations bill, while the republican managers npgootiated kuietly for a roll call be fore adjournment and a recess over New Year's Day. Senator Johnson, of California, who fought shoulder to shoulder against Senator Borah against the League of Nations, open ed today's battle with a two-fisted at tack on the Borah plan. The proposal Senator Johnson was, was worse than the League and would make th United States after 150 years a part of the European system. SAtlSBUR S ASSAULT Victim of Attack and Robbery. Feared That His Injuries May Prove Fatal SALISBURY, Dec.' 2 9. Knocked in the h"ad and robbed by unknown partTos. Henry J. Albright, suburban merchant, was probably fatally in jured about 7 o'clock last night in hin store in Chestnut Hill near here. His assailants had not ben appre hended at noon today although the police are working on several clues. Reports from a local hospital where he way taken after being found in a dazed condition, were that his skull was fractured by two blows on the head and that his chance of recovery was slim. A Now York boy lived three weeks in a water tank and all the other boys will sympathize with hlm TO' VOTE SOON ; ON THE BORAH i AMENDMENT ": . :.r; 7,: ': . ' usiness Department Commerce Gives Out Statistics Relative To ' Economic Situation FINE PROGRESS BEEN f MADE ; IN PAST YEAR Spirit of Optimism Appears To Prevail In Business Circles . . of the Nation WASHINGTON, .'. Dec. 29.-Stock taking o the nation's domestic business ' for the last year gives "a fe-eLmg of satisfaction" as . to the progress made, the Department of Commerce .declared today in an end-of-theyear - trta tement and from, to day's position, it added, ' "there are no venous-obstacles -in ' : sight- which shouid , hinder furtberJ advances" - in the early New Year. . j pptimisim, born cf the .accomplihh- merits of : the :, pa-t . .jtHJttthvVhicrf many officials of the government re gard as a remarkable strengthening jf the economic fabric, is . evident ..hroughout the satisfies and detail.' it the statement which noted ' tha: -.he production of manufactured com -nodities' averaged 50 per. cent largei ;'han in 1921. The farmer received ap proximately 17 per cent more for hit oroducts than in 1921 and the ' tota? value . of agricultural products waf worth a' much greater sum than was that of a year ago. - "The unsettled conditions in for eogn countries,'.' particularly in . Eu. rope, however,, the statement contin ned, "are jstill depressing, our trad' and to some, extent, have no dpub' kept the prices of agricultural pro ducts below the level of other com modifies. But within the past two months this latter condition has been relieved to some extent." , . ; While dealing only briefly with foreign trade the review1 said, 'that American exports had ' dropped -16 per cent as compared with last year, but the' comparison was on the basis of 11 months and, in addition, repre sented a "long climb" from a poor start, - according to officials. - Import? to Septembre 22, when the.inw ta.rif. law was effective, were slightly above las tyear and indications are, it , wag stated unofficially, that the year's to-, tal may exceed last year's imports by a mail ma rgin, 1 K. E. Tilton Joins Ranks of Farmers Who Are Trying To Raise Better Hogs Another step in Craven county's progress toward more extensive hog raising was taken this week' when K.' E. Tilton. of Havelock, purchased a pure-bred Poland-China sow, which in 1921, was Grand Champion of North Carolina. Mr. Tilton is 'plan ning to purchase other pure-bred animals in the near future. He al ready has received many offffers for pigs of the sow. . Quite a 'number of farmers in this section are raising pure-bred hogs and an increasing number of high jrade animals are being imported to Craven County. FAYETTEVILLE MAN. DIED ON PULLMAN PETERSBURG. Va Dec. 29 (By Assodiaited Press) Harris Merseles, of Fayetteville, N. C, died suddenly today in a drawing room which he occupied with his son and daughter on Atlantic Coast Line train, No. 82, northbound. Naturally, a hen-pecked man feels like a worm. I ; The king of Spain banished garlic i from ' his kitchen, so the king 'of i Spain's neighbors are tickledy j..h PUREBREDHOGS BEING RAISED Conditi 1 Joint Session of, the County Commissioners Xnel Board ot Aldermen Was Held This After noon at the Court House. ' $7800 WILL BE Red Cross And State And Federal Departments Will Make Upthe Balance of the Fund ' 4 Needed For the Work. , . The county commissioners and board of Aldermen this afternoon agreed jto a budget of $l-8,b()0 for carry- ing on' public health work in New Bern and Craven coun- ' ty during the forthcoming year; . ' " ' c , - - At a joint session of the county commissioners and Jboard jf aldejmen tliis afternoon at the court-house steps were aken for providing ways and means for putting into effect i county health program, more far-reaching in its scope than ,ny ever attempted by any bounty in this section of the state. Members of the commissioners., and alrtermjeti ,th,or6ugt,Vy iiscussed the matter in allits, ptiases and the'yiews of- bthec'.'t itizens also were submitted. In addition, to the commissoniera 4f Jid aldermen, there were presftntLfut, he meeting -Dr: - Primrose and i Dr.' 'attersn of the p Craven County 3oard '-of Health; Dr." Miller,' of thle J., S Public-. Hearth Service, Senatolr 5ifhmons, Cohgressman - Ab"ernethiy md a number of prominent locail itizens. O. A. Kafef, Chairman of the'com nissioners, presided at the meeting) le clled upon: Dr. Patterson to exf lain the budget -for (health work vhich had been submitted ' to th) oard. Dr. Patterson : called1 attention o the fact that Craven County at the irst of the year would bewithout l a lealth board, as tfie present board xpiied at that time, and that it was absolutely imperative that 'measures be taken to guard the health of the people of the county. ; -. "We are doing our best to recuper ite from the great :' fire disaster . jn Xew Bern,"" said. Dr. Pattersoii.'v"!The ocal hearth officials have received mlendid cooperation; from the state md federal health departments ;and :t is' with the. assistance of these men hat the budget for next year's ex penditures In health work"- hast been prepared. We are not coming before you. today to beg for anything; we are merely here t present the' fact3 ind" to place the burden of responsi bility upon your shoulders." Y . Dr. Primrose also Spoke along the same line and Dr. Miller discussed at length the work ! which was being done and had been done, elsewhere with respect to public health ser vice. " . : ' .---;.' . ';;.- . '.. ; Budget Is Submitted, r ' ; Below is the budget of expfendi tures which was submitted a't the meeting and which will be required to carry oh. the work of the health department: Salary, health officer, $3600.00. , Traveling expenses, $600.00. Office clerk, 1000.00. Salary of nurse for communicable disease control, $1500.00. Salary of nurse for malarial con trol, $1500.00. - Salary-of nurse for instructions in infant and maternal hygiene, $1500. Salary of City Sanitary inspector, $1500.00. Salary. Milk and . Meat Inspector, including expenses, $2700.00. ' Three Ford cars for nurses, $1300. - Dental Clinic, $1000.00. Travel allowance for nurses, $900. Contingent fund, $1000.00. Total $18,000.00. $7800 Contributed Iocally. This budget. ' it was explained, would be raised as follows: State Board of Health, $2500.00. International Board of Health, $2000.00. American Red Cross, $5700.00. Craven County and New Bern, $7800.00. Congressman C. L. Abernethy highly endorsed the proposal and stated that the county and city of ficials would be perpetrating a crime upon the county as a whole if they did not take the proper steps toward guardjng the health of the county. Mr. Abernethy's plea was a mbst forceful one. Senator Simmons also 1 discussed the matter, saying that the I financial loss involved in th fire was a great loss but noly trivial when 7 PAID LOCALLY ( .V. THEATRE OWNERS TO ERECT AUDITORIUM . GREENSBORO, N.j C;." Dec,' 29. r '.: A speciai TjShrmittee was ;named by the- Motion Picture Theatre Owner' Association of North Carolina to de vise ways and means of electing , an auditorium- at either the :: Stonewall Jackson - Training School, near -Con- . -. -ord. or the Orthopadic Hospital .- :p . Gastonia at the final session of th- j-iid.--iYinter meeting here Inst nis-iu. The . niOement 'is started, It ;,vA . ex- . .. plained, purely from & numanXIariaa jtandpoutit. - . , t - : .-'., ' r Resolutions adopted . included 'onj? condemnifljg the "graft ana. ro".-'-' of the musUr tax and the ' hlrftn- ' same and unjlust increase in tky.-ui, privilege tax, I as. well as ! h?;(t.;V , xxK. -dorsfcment of tfte Better If j sociaition." V .'.. r i 11IC 0.S9UVlCLLlUli VJfJ1 ISf, I pil lar 'annual sessiont5T.t'rijVi-t3v-iTf:-. Beach- next summer,, -' '-a - .1-1 :.i i .;'.- '' ' ' -- .- NEW' YORK DETECTIVES SEEK." , L SIiATER OF GIRD; PLAYMATE ". .New .York.. Dec. " ( 29. BroalUyc.s k6enesf" detectives, ' puzzled for . a so lution' of the mysterious 6hooting of Theresa ' McCarthy, . 10-year-old girl,"--In hei; home Tuesday, took' note 'of -the slightly upward course of the .22' calibre bulet that Tiercedher1 heart, discosed by thb autopsy. k.nd today incined more to -the theory that an- other chid of simiar age was fespoh- uibe for the tragedy. '-' . ' i -" The deduction was i,hat the bullet's couree ' would have ' been dowiward. rather tha nupward,? ;'h.ad an older 1 and taller person fired, the shot, i.nd . in this belief ' the ssrch was con tinued for one of- Theresaa- plajf-s.-mates, frightened itnb silence byth tragic consequences.- :-j;,7' HILL'S TO HAVE SPECIAL S1LI Big Merchandising , Event An nounced In V Todays ..Vlssue.;; Special Prices Offered,;- Hill's Clothiers, today announce : the start of their January Clearance Bale,.., in whiish big reductions are Tnade In the ..price " of suits and overcoate. , . . Mr. Hill stated today that hia stock of winter wearing apparel would ba offered at this sale at a great sacri fice. In: a full page advertisement ap pearing in today's lesue he calls t- tention to the splendid values being offered. ! ' l compared to. what might ; follow.-un less an Sufficient corps ot health of ficials was at work here. - ..--..v-'. . step in yqlur face. Get onlyour ear an sone9ii5 wjjV C
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