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VOLUME XXIII,
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ELECTFOL WIZARD.
DIES IT HIS HOI
Death of Scientist Caused
From Physical Breakdown,
; Following Recent Trip to
the Pacific Coast.
WORKED WAY TO
HIGH POSITION
Could Barely Speak English
When,He Arrived in New
York City—Consulting En
gineer for Big Concern.
(By the Associated Pma.i
'Scjienectady, X. Y., Oct. 2(l.—Dr. Clms.
Proteus Slcinmctx, electrical wizard, (lied
at his home here today after a physical
breakdown due to a trip to the Pacific
t oast from which he recently returned.
A recent feat which attracted atten
tion to tile work of the electrical wizard
was the production of an artificial indoor
thunderstorm, including a bolt of light
ning. The thunderstorm which Dr.
Steinmetz both produced and controlled/
bad all the characteristics of its natural
brother, except the thunder, clouds.
The American career of Charles P.
Steinmetz. A. M.. Ph.l>„ chief consulting
engineer of the General Electric Works,
Schenectady, N. Y„ had its beginning in
Xew York in 1 S'.IS where, penniless and
able to speak but very little English, he
arrived from Zurich. Switzerland. He
was accompanied by a young American
who had been his fellow student at the
Zurich Polytechnicimn.
,At the time of his death Dr. Steiu
metz was regarded not only as one of the
foremost authorities on electrical engi
neeriftg but one of the greatest mathe
maticians in the world. Strangely
enough, one of his greatest difficulties as
a child was in learning the multiplication
table.
Born in the city of Breslau, Germany,
on April i), 1565 and educated at its fam
ous university, young Steinmetz early be
came interested in socialism at a time
when vigorous steps were being taken
against it by the government. An issue
of a socialist publication in which the
students were interested und in which
Steinmetz bad several articles, was con
fiscated. the publication suspended and
the editors arrested ami imprisoned.
Steinmetz fled from Germany and found
.ref'J&Uß'iMt « f'LmJ, ». clergyman, .near,
the Austrian border. Front there lie
went to Zurich.
Two weeks after landing in America,
Steinmetz obtained employment in the
mamifacturiug establishment of Hudoiph
Eiekemeyer at Yonkers, X. Y.. as a
draftsman. At that time the company
was making a few electric motors and
generators and ltad just taken up work
on tile problems of the electric street
car, jointly with Stephen D. Field. All
tlie designs for the experiments with the
electric cars passed through his -hands.
Quarters for a laboratory were obtained
and he begun to specialize on magnetic
testing. His writings on electrical sub
jects began to attract attention, his dis
cussion of the lay of hysteresis eliciting
much interest on tile part of electrical
engineers.
11l 1892, the General Electric Com
pany bought the electrical manufactur
ing business of the Eiekemeyer Company
except the making of motors for eleva
tors, which the Otis Company took over
to its own plant, and Steinmetz Went to
the Lynn, Mass., works of the General
Electric Company. In January. 1893,
he was transferred to the Schenectady
works, and has since that time made
Schenectady his home. In 1912. lie was
appointed president of the Board of Ed
ucation of Schenectady, and in 1915,
was elected president of the Common
Council of that city on the Socialist tick
et. He never married.
Dr. Steinmetz served for many terms
as the president of national and internat
ional societies connected with the elec
trical industry. Harvard honored him
with the degree of Master of Arts and l'u
jon College made him a Doctor of Philos
ophy. Since 1913, he had served fuiou
College us professor of electrical engi
neering and electrophysics.
Dr. Steinmetz’s special field in which
he was most expert, included magnetics,
symbolic method of alternating current
calculations and transient phenomena.
FIGHT PISTOL, Dl ftl, WITH
HANDS LOCKED TOGETHER
Norwood Huckuby and Charles A. Wil
liams Participants in Grim Tragedy,
tßy (he Associated Press.)
Teague, Tex., Oct. 20.—1 n a little
room in a barn at Young, in Freestone
County, shortly after dusk Wednesday
night, two men stood toe to toe. their
hand# locked together, and fought the
grimmest pistol duel in Texas history.
Norwood Hucknby, member of a promi
nent Freestone County family, and Chas.
A. Williams, until recently a resident of
Navarro Couuty, thus shot each other to
death.
Rankers Council to Mee* in August*,
ißy the Associated Preaa.)
Augusta, Ua., Oct. 2(l.—Official an
nouncement was made today that Au
gusta has been selected for the annual
meeting in 1924 of the executive eouu
oil of the American Bankers’ Association,
which will be held here front March 28
to May Ist.
Aaron Manheim Killed.
(By the Associated Press.)
Hawkinsville, Ga., Oct. 26. —Aaron
Manheim, shot early last night by Hollis
I*. Poliick, poolroom proprietor who used
a shot guh loaded with buckshot died
this morning at 4.'SO -o'clock. Pillock
has not been arrested.
ITbe Concord Daily Tribune
si
STATE METHODIST
PROTESTANT CONFERENCE
T.i Meet at Tliamisvlllc October 31 to
November sth.
i«T «he associated errn.l
Th minsville. X. C„ Oct 26 —With
much important business to transact,
the North Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Protestant Church wi 1 con
vene here Wednesday, October 31. for
its 98th annual session. The conference
will continue in session through No
vember 5.
Tlic attendance is expected to number
betw/'y 150 and 29ft. with about 75
active ministers, and eqtinl number of
lay delegates and a number of special
conference visitors present.
Routine Work of the eonferenee ses
sion will include the reading of reports,
flection of officers, ordination of
ministerial candidates, supp’ying of
pastors for vacant charges, the superan
nuates. financial matters and the
selection of six pastors and six lay
representatives to attend the quadren
nial meeting of tile general conference
to be he’d in May. 1924.
Special matters to be considered in
clude the opening of the New Methodist
Protestant Co’legc at High Point, the
work of the Chi'dren’s Home located
here and the needs of the board of
church extension.
The new common'tv church erected
by C. F. Finch as a memorial to his
late wife, will lie the center of the con
ference session, Dr. A. G. -Dixon. of
Greensboro, as president, will preside
at all meetings.
Local committees rapidly are com
pleting plans for the entertainment of
ministers and delegates who will attend
the conference. Ail of the delegates and
the ministers; will be placed in private
homes, it has been stated by entertain
ment committee members.
Other officers of the conference be
sides Dr. Dixon, the president, are Rev.,
W. Bates, Henderson, secretary: Rev.
X. M- Harrison, Jr.. Greensboro, as
sist ant secretary; Rev. S. W. Taylor.
Burlington, treasurer; Rev, H. F. Sur
ratt, Whitakers, statistical secretary;
t\ p,. Way Thnmasville, conference re
porter.
WANT MORE DATA ABOI’T
FIGHT AGAINST WEEVIL
National 801 l Weevil Convent if n Favors
Federal Government Giving Fuller Co
operation.
(!•▼ the Associated Press.)
New Orleans. Oct. 26. —Federal de
ment of Agriculture was asked in a res
olution presented today to the National
801 l Weevil Convention in session here
to issue at tile earliest possible date "in
a very large edition." a bulletin or series
of bulletins giving in detail knowledge
regarding the boll weevil and methods of
control, and to arrange for wide (listri
bution in order that cotton growers
might better conduct warfare against the
pest, l.tespliftiulis .that .all business qr
gatilzafions aim the press of tlie country,
farm organizations and other agencies be
called upon to co-operate in tlie work
of combatting the weevil, and that col
leges and the Federal Department of Ag
riculture. representatives ami senators bo
asked to lend their support in obtaining
legislation and funds that will aid the
campaign, especially with regard to the
enlargement of research work.
HICKORY CHILD DEAp
• FROM GUN GOUNDS
John A. Iseiihour. Wounded While Play
ing With Number of Children Thurs
day.
i«x the Associated Press.)
Hickory, Oct. 26. —Joint A. Isenhour,
Jr., eight year-old son of former sheriff
ami Mrs. John A. Isenhour. of Conover,
died at a Hickory hospital this morning
from a wound in the’ stomach sustained
yesterday afternoon when the child was
shot with a 22 caliber rifle. The child
was playing with a number of children at
the time of the shooting and today liis
parents could not give any defiuite in
formation as to the shooting.
With Our Advertisers.
The “Own Your Home" series of the
Citizens Building and Loan Association
will open November 1. Loans will be
made promptly. Go in the Citizens Bank
and get some shares so you can build
a home.
The Durant open and closed models
are on exhibition at tlie .1. C. Blume
Garage.
See ad. in this paper of the "Silent
Smith" typewriter.
A sale smashing all record is now go
ing on at James H. Earley’s store. You
can pay a small sum down and make it
small payment each week and get what
you want at this store.
Parker's Shoe Store is offering unusual
values for Friday, Saturday and Monday.
A free cliai.cc at the Studebaker with
every dollar purchase.
Debs Against Ford.
New York. Oct. 26. —No man is less
fitted for the Presidency of the United
States than Henry Ford. Eugeut l V.
Debs, several times socialist candidate
for President, told newspaper men last
night upon his arrival to open his cam
■pnigii for the Socialist party.
Hunger Strikes Futile. *
Dublin, Oct. 26.—(8y the Associated
Press).—The Free State government an
nounces no prisoners have been released
in consequence of a hunger strike, and
that none will its, although freedom
might be granted on other grounds.
WHAT SAT’S BEAR SAYS.
: '
Fair tonight and Saturday; little
change in temperature. v
SO FAR, SO GOOD
AERIAL FORTS A NEW
TYPE OF DEFENSE
Aerial Battleship to Be Operated With
out a Living Person on Board.
London, Oct. 26.—A chain of forts
high above Loudon—forts unmanned, but
controlled by a master mind far beneath,
and bristlihg with guns that weave a
curtain 'of death through which no enemy
can penetrate!
j While this seems like a fantastic
dream, many may live to see it realized,
I aud marvel anew at man’s ingenuity. The
| aerial forts may consist of a number of
I helifhopliyirs. which are to ordinary
I planes what the modern express locomo
tive is to the engines used in the etrfl.v
days of the railroad. They will do things
which only a few years ago seemed utter
ly impossible.
Invented by a Frenchman, who has
liven in England for twenty years, the
helithoplane can move forward, rise ver
tically to any height, maneuver, hover,
and descend gently to the ground. Aud
it can do all this without carrying a pi
lot. It can bo controlled from the
ground.
Thus far the method of control is by
nieans of wires. But now that menus
has been found of running, for seven
hours at a stretch, a battleship without
a living person on board, it is confident
ly believe,! that the same means
less control—can be applied to an ae
rial fort.
The sea miracle took place recently ten
miles off the Isle of Wight. In the trials
the battleship Agamemnon maneuvered
in amazing fashion, going ahead, swerving
to port or starboard, zigzagging at vari
ous speeds, sometimes dropping to ten
knots, at votliers rising to fifteen knots,
and nil the time the human hands that
controlled her movements were never
nearer than a mile from her. 1 It was a
wonderful wireless installation that en
abled the feat to be performed success
fully. Tlie experiment dvas in many re
spects similar to that conducted by the
American navy with tlie old German bat
tlesh it) ()stfriesla ud.
The success of these experiments is be
lieved by experfs to have brought war by
wireless appreciably nearer. No longer
need ships be manned by heroes be sent
on those forlorn hopes which, while they
redound to their country’s glory, leave
in their wake a number of widows and
fatherless children. No longer need men
go to certain death that the cause in
which they belieVe shall intimately tri
umph.
How different might have been the
story of Zecbrugge had wireless naviga
tion reached its present stage a few years
ago. Ships, manless, but well pfimed
with high explosives, might have been di
rected to that iiort, and the same results
accomplished with the loss of so many
heroic lives.
Scientific experts predict that war in
tlie air can be carried on by wireless as
well as war on the water. As a com
plete helithoplane, fitted with an engine
of 1(H) horsepower, capable of lifting a
ton weight and of rising tff any height,
could be built for from $12.0(H) to 15.-
<HH), if would cost only comparatively
small sum to make them in sufficient
numbers to put an aerial ring around
any city. If these machines were con
trolled by wireless—and, having regard
to the successes at sea, that seems well
within tlfi l bounds of possibility—no ene
my could get past such forts. The prob
lem of ctefenbc against air attack would
be solved.
Called to Pastorate of Charlotte Church.
(Br the Associated Press.■ t
Gastonia, N. C., Oct. 26.—11ev. .1. T.
Pharr, a native of Charlotte, but now a
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
Iteuick, West Virginia, has been called
to the pastorate of the West Avenue
Presbyterian Church of this city recent
ly made vacant by the resignation of Rev.
R. C. Ldng to accept a position with the
Assembly’s stewardship committee.
CONCORD, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1923
FUNERAL OF MRS. E. K.
KELLKRBBKHGER SUNDAY
Body Will Arrive in Concord Tonight on
Train No. 30—Funeral at 4 O’clock
Sunday.
Relatives here have been advised by
telegraph that tlie body of Mrs. E. R.
Kellersberger, who died Tuesday in Tex
as, will reach Concord tonight on train
13(1.
Under present plans the funeral ser
vices will he held Sunday afternoon at 4
I o’clock at the home o’ .Mrs. E. H. Brawn,
isister of the The.services will
be conducted-by Rev. J. <’. Rowan, and
interment wilt be made in Oak wood cem
etery .
FORD FAVORS PRESIDENT
COOLIDGK. IIE SAYS
Wants to See the President Exert Full
Influence to Get Dry Laws Enforced.
iHr tile Associated Press. i
Detroit, Oct. 2(l.—Henry Ford favors
•President Coolidge. but lie is more strong
ly in favor of a strict enforcement on tlie
Volstead Act, lie made it known yester
day. In a statement, the automobile man
ufacturer, asserted that he believed the
President could dry up the country if
he wanted to.
“If he does’ I’m strong for him," Mr.
Ford declared. "The President knows
it is the tight thing to do. He also
knows the women of the nation are go
ing to have a lot to say if he doesn’t
act.”
GOV. PARKER PLANS TO
DISCUSS KLI KLUX KLIN
Will Deliver Address Monday Nigh!
Which is Expected to Deal-With the
Klan.
IBy the Associated Press.)
New Orleans. Oct 26.—Governor Par
ker, of Louisiana, whose light on Ku
Klnx Klan has attracted nation-wide at
tention, has rented the Atheneaum, the
largest auditorium in New Orleans, l’or
Monday night and will dAliyer an ad
dress to the people of New Orleans which
the New Orleans Daily State says will
include what he knows about the Klan
in Louisiana aud its relation to the pres
ent state campaign.
Masons to Conduct Educational Program.
IKt the ANsoolitted **Tres.»
Asheville, X. C.. Oct. 2(i.—Ten thou
sand dollars will lie expendel during die
next year by! North. Carolina Scottish
Rite Masons on a State educational
program, it was decided jit the confer
ence at Washington, according to local
Masons who attended tlie conference.
1-odge Boosts Coolidge.
# Montpelier, Vt., Oct. 2ti.—“l can see
no man on the political horizon of either
party Who compares in fitness with the
man now sitting in tlie President’s chair,"
Senator I-odge, of Massachusetts, de
clared in an address last night.
The “Own Your Home” Series
Will ln-Rim with the CITIZENS BUILDING AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION on November Ist, and we can
make loans promptly upon approval of application—no
Waiting necessary.
/'
Our November Series awaits you—come in and talk
the matter over with us.
CITIZENS BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
(Office in Citizens Bank)
j THE COTTON MARKET
i Showed Renewed Activity Owing to Con
i tiuwl Had Weather in the Belt.
(By the Asuoduted Pren.i
j New York, Oct. 2(>.—The cotton inar
j ket showed renewed activity and strength
I early today owing to continued bad
I weather, reports from the South, rela
tively firm Liverpool cables, and a fur
! tlier broadening of commission house de
i mauds. The opening was steady at an
advance of S to 24 points, and the active
positions' soon showed net gains of 211
to M7 points, making new high rec:»rris
tor the sdason. December contracts
sold at and M a roll, at ttO.rttj. A
I private report issued today estimated the
crop at 10.000.U00 bales.
Dolton futures opened steady. D«v.
Mll.s2r.lan. 20.22; March 20.27: May
MO..'*s ; July 20.50.
INDKRYYOOY BUSY WITH
HIS TEXAS CAMPAIGN
Leaves Dallas For San Antonio.—Has
Eight Addresses to Deliver.
<By the tMorlated Prew.
Dallas. Tex., Oct. 20.—Senator Under
wood, of Alabama, who is touring Texas
in the interests of his Democratic pres
idential nomination, leftf Dallas early to
day for Sail Antonio with eight plat
form addresses scheduled en route.
Tomorrow the Senator will go to
Orange and on Sunday will visit cities
in the Sabine district. At a press dinner
lasi night the Alabama man spoke sym
pathetically on the so-called conservative
citizens in American political life as one
who desires to live his own life as peace
with his neighbors.
A. 11. Newsom, of Salisbury, is Dead at
.Morganton Hospital.
. Salisbury. Oct. 2(l—A. II- Newsom,
of Salisbury, died at a sanatorium at
Morganton Wednesday after being in
bad health for some time. Mr. Newsom
was 7ft years old and a native of Rowan
county. He is survived by the widow
and six children- The children are: Mrs.
Dora Goodman, of Cabarrus county:
Mrs. Clark Baity, of Winston-Salem;
Mrs. Hattie Doby, of Salisbury: Dr. 1».
I. Newsom, of San Antonio. Texas; Dr.
0. C. Newsom, of Griffin. On.: and T.
N- Newsom, of Salisbury. Tlie body was
brought to Salisbury through the coun
try and the funeral will probably take
place Frida*’, provided the son from
Texas, gets here by that time.
| Annual Sale of Christmas Seals.
' Sanatorium. N. C„ Oct. 2ft.—The an
nual sale of the little red cross Christ
mas seals under tlie direction of tlie Nat
ional Tuberculosis Association will be
gin in towns and cities throughout North
Carolina on Thanksgiving Day, Novem
ber 20. and continue until Christmas. De
cember 25, according^to an announcement
by officials of the North Carolina branch
of the National Tuberculosis Association.
CONSIDER MEANS TO COMBAT
THE "GREAT WHITE PLAGUE"
C.nfnem-e <; n Tuberculosis to Be Held
in Durham October 30-31.
,B\ Hi-* Associated Press.,
Durham, X. Get. 26.-—To <•■■*■
shier means of combatting the \
plague" in this State the North
lina Conference ou Tuberculosis will
meet in this city October 3ft and 31. An
attendance 1(H) or more dec-gates is ex
lieeted.
A number of prominent specialist.-!
have been invited to address the con
vention. Among those who have accept
ed are Dr. Linsley R. Willis, managing
director;, of the New York Tuberculosis
Association. New York City, and I)r,
IV. 1,. Dunn, tuberculosis specialist of
Asheville. X. C.
l)r. Wdliams will address tlie con
ference ai its opening session the night
of Tuesday, October 3ft, and again tlie
next day.
Dr. Dunn will speak on the subject
"Shall We Desert the Tuberculosis Ex?
Service Man?", probably during the
second day of the conference. On ac
count of the widespread interest in tip
work of earing for men who fought for
tlie nation during the World War who
left t4te army and other branches of
the services disabled, this address is ex
pected to be one Os the principal eventh
of the meeting.
Officers of tiie North Carolina. Confer
ence on Tuberculosis Association are:
Mrs. Gordon Finger. Charlotte, presi
dent : Mrs. Charles R. Whitaker, South
ern Pines, vice president; and Dr. L. It.
Meßrayer, Sanatorium, managing direct
or and treasurer.
FINDS RACE OF WHITE
LIGHT HAIRED INDIANS
American Explorer Discovers Strange
People in Panama -Jungles.
Rochester, N. Y.. Oct. 2(i,—Discovery
of a race of white Indians with flaxen
hall- in the almost impenetrable jungles
of eastern Panama was reported today
by Richard C. Marsh, of Hrockport. an
explorer, just returned from tile isthmus.
Marsh, the first white mail t> advance
into that unexplored region of Central
America since Balboa, brought, back with
kiln photographs to substantiate his
claims.
Tlie story of iho discovery is told by
the Rochester Journal and rlie Post Ex
press in a copyrighted article.
"I was in a native vil’uge when I no
ticed three girls passing into tlie jungle,"
Marsh said. "They had bodies as light
as a sunburned white girl, and decidedly
light hair—a startling and incongruous
sight among these black and rag-clad
negroes.
"It was then 1 was told they belonged
to a white race living up the Chtieanaque
River. The negroes told me these whites
all had light brown or yellow hair and
were wild and warlike.
“The skin of the girls’ faces was tan
ned. tint free from that enlorefl pigment
so distinguishable iii all Tmiwii and dark
er races. The features of tlie eldest girl
were of a high oval face, thin lips, well
shaped chin and aquiline nose. They
spoke no Spanish.’’
STOLEN KISS COSTS
MAN Sl’M OK *3.000
Woman Smacked in Hallway Asked
Damages of Ten Times Amount.
New York. Oct. 26.—A price of *5.000
for a stolen kiss was fixed by a Supreme
Court jury in Brooklyn today, when
Louis Cootman was ordered to pay this
amount to Mrs. Alice Mercer. In her
suit tlie woman asked for damages of
$50,000.
Goodman. Mrs. Mercer charged, stole
tlie kiss from her while they were in the
hallway of her apartment during her
husband's absence from home. The de
fendant. who is married and the father
of two children, denied the charge, point
ing out that Mrs. Mercer admitted she
made no outcry and did not summon as
sistance.
FOUR CHILDREN DIE
WHEN HOME BURNS
Parents Severely Burneil When They
Tried to Rescue Tlieir Children.
(By the Awaocfnteil I*ren*.»
Dillonville. Ohio, Ootfl 26.—Four of
tlie five children of Frank Abdrejkoi per
ished in tlieir beds when fire destroyed
their home last night. The parents were
severely burned when they vainly at
tempted to rescue tin- victims who were:
Alex, aged 5. Jennie. 7. Lottie 9. and
Stanley 12. The fire was well underway
when neighbors' shouts aroused Abdrej
koi. Although partly overcocme by
smoke, he succeeded in carrying his eld
est son and wife frfoui the house.
FORBES DENIES CHARGES
MADE BY MORTIMER
Former Director of Veterans’ Bureau
Says Statement Is “Utterly and Abso
lutely False."
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Oct. 20.—-From bis place
of seclusion here. Charles Forbes, former
director of the Veterans' Bureau issued a
statement today denying as “utterly and
absolutely false” the story of Elias I’.
Mortimer, of Philadelphia, before the
Senate investigating committee of alleg
ed bribery and corruption in connection
with contracts for Veterans' Bureau
hospitals.
Killed in Auto Accident.
(My ilie Associated Press.,
Augusta. Ga.. Oct, 26,—A man whose
coat bore the name of It. 1,. Suggs, Co
lumbia. S. (’., was instantly killed about
4 o’clock tills morning lien a huge, high
powered automobile driven by him col
lided with a telegraph pole at “Dead
Man’s Curve,” near Ban Howies' place,
just outside of the city l . Tlie driver's
body xva« thrown sixty feet. ,
?
Rowe to Meet Cook in "Ten-Round Fight.
IIIJ the Associated Press..
Charlotte. X. ('.. Oct. 26.—Crayton
Rowe, Charlotte high school boy. who
has won quite a local and state reputa
tion as a boxer, has been signed to meet
Eddie Cook, of Savannah, Ga.. in a ten
round fight here Friday night, October
27. Cook recently fought Lukie Tenner
in a hard clash here.
t TODAY’S i
l NEWS i
> TODAY I
NO. 254
SEPARATISTS HOLD
nnoiT-un uiiirnr
. .uiiu Unttlt
THE) WE STRONG
The Movement Seems About
Where It Was Thursday,
and Leaders Are Holding
Their Own With Difficulty
PEOPLE OPPOSE
NEW MOVEMENT
This Is Opinion of Chancellor
Stresemann, Who Says the
French and Belgians Help
ed Separatists Leaders.
< V.blenz, Oct. 20 (By flip Associated
Press). —Tlte new Rhineland republic
movement is much where it was yester
day. The separatists maintain with
difficulty their hold on Aix-la-Chapelle,
Weisbaden, Bonn, Duisburg, Duran and
(.'refold, while the strength of their po
sition in Coblenz which they re-entered
late last night, remains to be seen.
People Oppose Movement.
Berlin. Oct. 2(l.—Chancellor Strese
mann in a speech at Hagen yesterday
said the separatist movement in the
Rhineland was against the wishes of the
German inhabitants who would have put.
it down speedily but for the support of
the French and Belgian bayonets.
France Gives New Reparations View.
Paris, Oct. 2(j (By the Associate I
Press).—The French government is will
ing that an international conference of
experts to be named by the reparations
commission be called to consider the
question of reparations in conformity
’with the treaty at Versailles.
Germany Cannot Float Loan.
New York. Oct. 2(i.—Germany has no
change to float a loan in this or any
other country until the reparations ques
tion has been settled. Otto Wiedfeldt,
German ambassador to the Fnited States,
declared today on hi* return from Ber
lin. The German government will make
no attempt to float such a loan, lie ad
ded. until the reparations matter has
been straightened out.
Will Hold Conference.
London. Oct. 2fi.—France, Belgium
and Italy have accepted the British in
vitation for reparations conference with
the understanding it shall take the form
of a committee of experts under the au
thority of the present inter-allied repa
rations eoinmiftsfon; '
SNAKK SWALLOWED EGGS
WITH CHICKENS INSIDE
Reptile Killed and Baby Fowl Hatchett
in a Few Seconds.
Goldsboro, X. ('.. Oct. 20.—Jonah and
Jonahette are the distinguished names
given by a farmer's wife near here to
two of her chicks which have passed
through an experience hardly less har
rowing than that of the prophet in the.
belly of the whale.
One of the farm’s best laying hens
began acting queerly. The hen reported
at feeding time, but refused to lay. An
outhouse was examined, where it was
suspected the hen had a uest. The nest,
was found, but in it was coiled a large
black snake.
The snake was killed and on examina
tion was found to have several large
knots protruding along its body. On
cutting the snake open these knots were
found to be the lien’s eggs which the
snake bad eaten, preparatory to curling
up in the nest for tile long winter‘d
sleep.
A few seconds after the eggs had been
f-ul out of tile snake's body a feeble
■ peep” surprised tile farmer and his wife
that they had hatched. Both the, chicks
anil the mother hen are doiug well.
C. E. CONVENTION TO
BEGIN DURING DAY
Thousand Delegates From All Parts of
State in Greensboro For Meeting.
<By the Associate'! Pleas.
Greensboro, Oct. 2(l.—One thousand
Christian Endeavorers from every section
of North Carolina have registered for the
Quarter of a Century Jubilee Conven
tion which convenes this afternoon at 3
o'clock for a three days’ session in the
First Presbyterian Church. Dr. A. E.
Corri, of Kinston, pastor of Gordon
Street Christian Church, will be tile prin
cipal speaker at the evening session which
will be presided over by Paul W. Raw
lins, president of the State Christian En
deavor Union, of Greensboro. The
North Carolina Junior Christian Endea
vor Ciiion is also in session. Miss Ma
mie Jene Cole, all-South Junior Field
Secretary of Chattanooga, Tenn.. and
Frank I*. Wilson, of Danville. Va., field
secretary for North Carolina and Vir
ginia. are two of the principal speakers
for tlie Junior Christian Endeavor meet
ing.
19 Hurt in Train Wreck.
<I»F the \f»MOi'lntt>il Press, I
Montreal, Oct. 2(l.—Nineteen people
were injured, four seriously, today when
eight coaches of the Canadian Pacific
Vancouver-Toronto express left the track
through a broken rail near Sanmina, On
tario. Tlie injured were in the colonist
car on the train, according to advices
reaching the head office of the road here.
Demonstration For Firpo.
IST Ue Associated Press.!
Vallao, Peru, Oct. 20.—Luis Angel
Firpo, who arrived from Colon yesterday,
was gretted by a demonstration such as
is seldom accorded distinguished visitors
iu Peru. Cheering throngs lined the
docks and main thoroughfares as the box
er left the steamer.
When u woman forgets an injury, she
j keeps forgetting that she has forgotten