Newspapers / The Concord Daily Tribune … / Nov. 13, 1923, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
9 ASSOCIATED I * PRESS I 9 DISPATCHES i $e « « VOLUME XXIII ' MEL TROTTER WINS HEARTS OF HEARERS WITH FINE SERMONS Rescue Mission Leader and Homer Hammontree, Song Leader, Gain in Popularity as Revival Really Starts. MORE LOVE OF JESUS IS NEED World Has Enough Churches and Enough Organizations, But It Still Needs More of the Love of the Savior. Men and women of Kannapolis who heard Mel Trotter the last two nightß, were impressed with the intense earnest ness of-the man. He is a very swift speaker. Having come from a life of Hesene Missions he uses slang freely and illustrates his points so no one though he or she may not like slang, fails to get his meaning. If you saw him, you saw a man who is powerful, built very elose to the ground, whose massive shoul ders look os if he could relieve Atlas of his world-holding job. He unus ually fast and is intense. Homer Ha m mon tree, Mel Trotter's leader, is also of some proportions him self, weighing 250 pounds. He won im mediate isipularity with his audience, as he led them in old songs and new Hamnioutree hails from Tennessee and is every inch a Southerner. The peo ple of Kannapolis welcome him to their town. Hammontree lias with him Mr. Her manseu, "Herm." they call him. He is from New York City. This young musi cian as he sat the keyboard from the very first, drew no little attention to himself ns he ran up and down that keyboard, while Hnmmontrcie led the large audience and choir in “Revive l"s Again," and many other of the old lively tune's*. He is playing on a Hteimvny and says he likes tip*.-instrument. With, Trotter to talk. '•Ham" to sing and "Herm" to play we predict for Kuuuapolis something new in the way of evangelism. Isist evening at the Y. M. <‘. A. the evangelist took for his text, "Why could not we cast him out?" "The Lord Jes us Christ came into the world to seek and to save that which was lost.. When -vwu here ssr-ehts eu,4h «.et> -t i er. were demon possessed the same as they are today. There are men right here in your town who have the devil iu them bigger than a woodchuck and the only way to get him east out is for Jesus to come in. He is the one who overcame the devil and every time the devil sees Jesus he takes to the tall and uncut! If the devil does not hate you, my friend, its because you are uot lined up in the forces that oppose liim. Yoi\ try to win a soul for Christ and you'll find out all hell ih against you. There are men and women in this audience tonight who don't know whnt I'm talking about because they have never tried to win souls for Christ, but there gire others who know what it is for the devil to try to down them. Oftentimes the church is isnvcr less when she ought to Is* powerful. What is the matter? Men nnd women all about us who are devil possessed mid as the disciples asked Jesus 1 want to ask you tonight, 'why could not we east him out?” Why can’t the church east out demons? \Ve have the power of (lod at our disposal if we will but use it. The disciples had it nnd lost it. Where did they lose it? I'll tell you. my friends, they lost it when the refused to bear a cross. “We don’t need more churches, we have enough now. We don't need more organizations, we're organized to death now; we don't need more schools for we have enough; what we need, * men and women, is more of Jesus Christ in our lives that will make us live before odr unserved friends in such away that they'll want our religion. Faith and prayer can do anything. Let's give our selves anew to God and .claim casting-out power." Post and Flagg’s Cotton Letter. New York. Nov.—The extent of the initial break served to uusettle confi dence of buyers to some extent though the heavy offerings in tlie way of liquidation were well absorbed without causing any 'actual weakness. The tone, however, was slightly nervous with, rather sharp fluctuations which promise to become more marked around these or higher levels- It is said and -it is probab ly correct that cotton can be bought on a tenderuble basis in some sections of the south but shippers for delivery will need to act carefuly if (hey are to avoid rejections which would taki the cream off such an Operation. Somiyof the older bulls are quoted as thinking prices high enough and that the technical position is unsatisfactory. There is some basis for that but others t think that market has quite thoroughly! liquidated itself repeatedly within a few points of every new high that has been reached. If re ports as to the volume of selling at such times have been based on acts there would seem to be good ground for such a belief. No one appears to egpeet any large permanent decline but fluctuations at. this level are bound to be violent and some dip may go further than expected or warranted by facts. It looks, how ever, like,a genuine bull market, where purchases *on any Sharp dip are the best. POST AND FLAGG. John H. White, colored, of No. 10 township, won first premium’ at the col ored fair last week on his collection of home-made knives. Wavy-haired girls are usually popular at school; they are optimistic and high > spirited. ' ~. C', !The Concord Daily Tribune i Rare Ape ■■■■Hrir For the first tlnn in 40 years’ two Bleeding V baboons, have arrived ut th* : >1 Zoo. “Sam,? shown here, . photographer busy for hau i.ur before he FORBES DENIES ILL CHARGES OF FRAUD Says He is Not Guilty of Anything and Quit the Bu reau Because He Did Not Like Sawyer. (By the Associated Press.) Washington. Nov. 13.—"A conspiracy to encompass my destruction by means of perjury, subornation or perjury, rtud the suppression of material facts and documents," was charged by ('has. K. Forbes, former dim-tor of the Veterans' Bureau, in testimony today before the Senate veterans' committee. Taking the stand in Ins own defense before the crowded committee rodm, the fanner di recto- entered a general sweeping and absolute denial of the many charges which have been made against him during wholly* i>a SSL.-V y*- "Long before the President filially de cided to issue his second temporary or der stopping the delivery of gbods at Perryville," the former director said, "I frankly tqld the President that I could not continue to serve if General Sawyer was to continue in my office, and it be came simply a choice between Sawyer and myself, and I relieved the President of any possible embarrassment by ten dering iny resignation." The denial was directed, the witness said, against every charge, statement, innuendo and insinuation which in any manner whatsoever reflected upon tin honesty and integrity of my official or personal or official conduct while I occu pied the office as director of the War Risk Insurance." Most of the deficiencies in the admin istration of the laws providing for the relief of disabled veterans he declared, "had been due to politics and Sawyer." He was referring jo Brigadier General Clias. F. Sawyer, personal friend and physician of President Harding. Forbes then flatly denied the statement made before the' committee by Dr. Sawyer that he had been dismissed by President Harding for insubordination iu connec tion with the sale of Surplus property at Perryville, Md. At the outset. Forbes read a prepared statement in which he earnestly request ed the committee members to question him searchingly as to all matters with in the scope of the investigation, and of all the testimony heretofore given and which he was to give. • "I feel I Tannot refrain from express ing to the committee at this time,” Forbes said, "my growing belief finally resulting in conviction on my part which I expect by testimony of disinterested witnesses to establish that an nttempt has been made to mislead the commit tee. and a conspiracy is on foot, to en compass my destruction by means of per jury, siiburonation of perjury, attempted subornation of perjury and suppression of facts ami documents bearing not only on my personal conduct but also official conduct of my affairs and subordinates. *‘l deny generally and shall hereafter deny specifically and in detail the utter ly false and groundless charges of official and personal neglect, dishonesty, graft, liquor drinking, loose conduct, and any and every other derelection of duty, of ficial or personal, which has been ascribed to me either by she witnesses Mortimer or Williams, nnd other, or charged against me by the counsel of this com mittee.” In the battle of life there is no hiring a substitute. WHAT SAT'S BEAR SAYS. a ’ - i,t Cloudy tonight, probably rain on the coast; Wednesday fair; no change in temperature. DRY AGENTS BEGIN CAMPAIGNS IN TWO STATES OF SOUTH Most All Agents From Ala bama and Many From New York Sent to New Orleans to Help in Campaign There ALABAMA IS ALSO GETTING ATTENTION “Izzy Einstein,” Most Noted of All Dry Agents, Among Those Sent South to As sist in Big Campaign. , (By the Associated Press.; New Orleans, Nov. 13.—Virtually the entire force of federal prohibition agents from Alabama and reinforcements from Washington, including "Izzy Einstein”, were here today for wlmt was planned to be the biggest liquor raid in New Orleans since tlie prohibition amendment became effective.- Raids were predicted on toe fact thut flit* city was virtually "wide ifp len." They were scheduled for today, hut a half a dozen hud been made this as leruoon. Working in Alabama. Also. M obi Ire, Ain.. Nov. 12.—Fifty-two gov ernment officials swooped down on alleg ed liquor law violators here today and as a result a great quantity of liquor was seized and United States marshals are this morning serving humerotis warrants against persons eh.Trged with violations of the prohibition laws. Government forces here include Izzy Einstein, govern ment operative, and according to the statements made by those ill charge of the raiding squads, disclosures will be made here rivalling the recent liquor traffic ex pose at Savannah. Large Fcree on Hand. New Orleans. Nov. 13.—Virtually the entire force of federal prohibition agents from Alabama and reinforcements from Washington were here today for what planned to be the biggest liquor raid in New Orleans since the prohibition amend ment became effective. The raids which are predicted on the fact that the city was virtually "wide open." Hallowe'en night was schodulcdc for today but half a dozen had fyeen'mmle this forenoon. ."ST BJEUTB GMT PHYSICIANS’ ATTENTION Public Health, Medicine and Surgery Discussed by Southern Medical Asso • elation. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Nov. 13. —The consider ations of the National Malaria Commit tee and sectional meetings of Medieal Education, public health, medicine, sur gery and other special subjects, today oc cupied the physicians attending the Southern Medical Association. The Southern Association of Anaesthetics and the Southern G’usti'o-Enterological Asso ciation, also held sessions and a number of special features had beeu arranged. Woman members of the organization, a number of Whom nre attending the i*on vention, ,liad a separate meeting schedul ed late in the day. and the association members met at luncheon. Senator Copeland, of New York, ad dressing public health sections, declared he "would rather be a health commission er of New York than President of the United States.” Citing figures on in fant mortality showing that relatively fewer babies die in the congested sec tions of New York than in the more af fluent pAjrts of the city Dr. Copeland, who was health commissioner there be fore being elected to the Senate, said this condition is due to the training of poo# mothers in the proper care of chil dren. VETERINARIANS CHOOSE OFFICERS FOR YEAR Dr. A. L. Hirletnann, of Atlanta, New President.—Meet Next in Richmond, tßy the Associated Press.) Greensboro, Nov. 13.—Dr. A. L. Hirle munn, of Atlanta, was today elected pres ident of the Southeastern. State Veteri nary Medieal Association, and Richmond, Va., was ehosen as the place for the 1024 convention over-Johnson City. Tenu.. and Atlanta, On., by a vote of 20 to 0. Other otjjeeiK elected by the secretary-treasurer easting the convention vote were Dr. R. R. Parker. Gastonia, first vice presi dent ; Dr. .1. G. Ferueyhough, Richmond, Va., second vice- president; Dr. J. I. Neal, Sanford, N. C.. third vice-president; and Dr. John Handley, of Atlanta, was re-elected secretary-treasurer for the fifth time, the president casting the ballot. Clock Loses Second in Three Years; Scientist Looks For It. / Clevelnnd.* ; Nov. 12.—Cleveland pos sesses one of the most accurate clocks in the world. In a series of international tests, the clock in the physics building at Case School of Applied Science has won its title. According to Dr. Dayton C. Mil ler,' professor of physics at Case, the clock has lost one second irf three years. The dock is so delicate that it must be kept in a room in which the tempera ture and air pressure are unvarying. Dr. Miller is devoting much of his time to an attempt to correct the one second error. Frank N. Fisher Takes Own Life. (By the Associated Press.) Paducah, Ky., Nov. 12,-t-Frank N. Fisher, president of the Ohio Valley Fire & Marine Insurance Co,, and ex-presi dent of the Ohio Valley Trust Co., which closed its doors after an announce ment of insolvency last week, shot and killed himself at his home hen* early to day. He was said to have been deeply despondent after the failure of the bank. concord, n. c, Tuesday, November 13,1923 At the Funeral Item led members of the K. K. K. attended the funeral of W. S. Coburn, killed recently. DEATH THIS MORNING OF MR. L. ( . CALDWELL Former Resident of Concord Died at His Home in Statesville.—No Funeral Ar rangements Announced. Mr. L. C. Caldwell, one of the most prominent members of iln* Statesville I bar. and a feriuer resident of Concord. \ died this morning shortly after 11 o'clock j at his home iu Statesville. Announce- \ ment of Mr. Caldwell’s death was made in a message received by relatives here, i Mr. Caldwell had been critically ill j for several days. Relatives here were advised Saturday that his death was ex- j petted hourly and no hope had been en- 1 tertallied for hi* recovery. Mr. Caldwell was town and reared in j Concord. He wits a brother of the lute i D. (>. Caldwell and the late J. 15. Cald well. who served ns Mayor of Concord. } Mr. Caldwell moved to jMtalcsvillc a num ber, of years ago and had been promi-.j nently identified with the I ; f<* of that' city. Mrs. J. B. Wohihlo and Mrs. J. j c. Willeford, of this city, nre nieces of j Mr. Caldwell. •No - funeral nonneed in Ihe message received here by ! relatives. “HANDS OFF” POLICY FAVORED BY PRESIDENT Policy of United States Is to Allow Coun try to Have Any Government It De-j sires. fßy the A«Moofnte<T Ptpm.) Washington. Nov. 13 —President Cool-1 idle believes the traditional policy of the American government would preclude it; from joining with the allied governments ’ in protesting to Germany against the re turn of Crown Prince Frederick -Wil liam or his father, the former emperor., or in measures to prevent the reestablish- j ment of a monarchy. The chief executive feels that the Unit ed States should abide by its long estab lished tenant that any nation is within its righto in establishing whatever form! of government it desires. He ha.s told vis-j itors lie believes That the policy should' be followe'i with respect to all European country, although in South America the principles of the Monroe Doctrine form-) ing upon the establishment of monarchies | should be the guide. The allied govern ments in the view of officials here have a right nnd a duty tinder the treaty of Versailles to protest and take such meas ures as they deem desirable. The Unit ed States, not being a party to the treaty, l is under no such obligations. FEEL CERTAIN WILHELM WILL NOT ‘‘COME BACK” England Assured by Holland That the Former German Enqieror Cannot Es cape. London. Nov. 13 lily the Associated Press).—British government officials re iterated today that they were entirely satisfied with the adequacy of the assur ances given by Holland that ex-emperor William will not be allowed to leave Dutch custody. They say that up to this moment they have no reason to suppose the former wtfb lord proposes to decamp; and if he had such an intention they are now confident the Dutch government will frustrate the attempt. No new represen tations therefore have been made to Holland Not Authorized to Return. Berlin, Nov. 12.—1 t is officially denied here that former ‘ enqieror William has been authorized to return to Germany. McAdoo Confesses He’s No Politician. Chicago, Nov. 12—William Gibbs McAdoo. here for a short visit on his way to bis home in California told re porters today that he was a “poor poli tician" and explained his statement. When he was secretary of the treasury, he explained, a friend said to him. "You’re a pour politVinn, for you don't !>ass around any cigars.” “I took the hint and la hi in a box,” snid Mr. Mc- Adoo. “but it was no use. I never re membered at the right time to offer the cigars to anyone. You see, I don’t smoke myself: somehow never learned. And I am still, as you see. 'a poor politician'." Southern Bonds on Market, (By the Associated Press.) New York, Nov. 13. -An issue of $20.- 000,000 six per cent, development and general mortgage bonds of the Southern Railway Company was offered to public subscription today. The bonds mature in 1966 nnd were offered at 90 1-2 to yield approximately 0.26 per cent. NORTH CAROLINA’S RECORD IN PUBLIC EDUCATION Increases in Expenditures of $950,317.47 in 1920 to $23,090,000 in 1923. Raleigh. N. (’.. Nov. 13 (By the As sociated Press). —jl’rom an expenditure of $950,317.47 for education in 1920 the State to a. total of $23,009,000 in 1923: a gain of approximately 2300 per cent .; such is tin* record of North Carolina in public education according to figures com piled here tonight from records of the Department of Public Instruction . In dicative of the awakening sentiment for education in North Carolina is the fact that in 1910 the appropriation for educa tion had reached the total of only a lit tle over three millions of dollars but in 1022 had jumped approximately 700 per cent, ami was more than twenty-one and a half millions. The expenditures for education, accord ing to the figures, are spread over every phase of the matter. New schools have been'built, additional and better trained teachers have been employed, teachers' salaries hive increased, and values of school proiAvtics hove been greatly - wv creased. The result has been that■ illiter acy has decreased, the number of build ings poorly equipped has decreased and the State is prepared and is continuing to prepare to handle its educational pro gram along the broadest and most gen erous lines consistent with real progress. In 1900, the expenditure for new school buildings was 840,711.47. In 1922, it was $0,118,887.49. The operating ex pense of the entire school system of the state in 1900 was less than a million dol lars; in 1922 it was more than fifteen and a half millions. The value of school property in North Carolina in 1900 was 81,097.054.00: in 1922 it was greater than thirty-five millions. Not alone has the total increased ns regards permanent improvements, but the value of each schoolhouse has multiplied from $150,00 in 1910 to $4,523.40 in 1922. Teachers’ salaries along with the other items have increased . In 1!H)0 the av erage salary of a white teacher was $24.79, while in 1922 it had increased to $102.15. For negro teachers the average increased for the same period from $20.4S to $02.44. The old log schoolhouse, so common iu every section of the state twenty years ago, has almost disappeared. In 1900 North Carolina's 100 counties contained a total of 1,190 log schoolhouses, most of them being of crudest construction and hardly* worthy the name schoolhouse. But in 1920 the number is down to only 71 and of these but nine are for white | children. ' From an average school term in years [ of actual attendance of 73 days in 1900 ; the school year has been lengthened among | the white children to 141.1 days while the I total population has increased corre spondingly from 657.949 in 1900 to 889- 400. Os this population, which includes i all children eligible for school attendance. ! 400,452 attended- school in 1900 and in j 1920 752.695, nearly twice the number | attending twenty years ago. In percent age of population sixty per cent, of the children was enrolled in 1900. while in 1922, eighty-five per cent, was enrolled. Iu 1900 North Carolina had approxi mately thirty high schools. In 1923 the number flras 475. The enrollment in tlie high schools during the same period in creased from 2.000 to 48,831. Another phase of public education which has been included in the present day school work is the public rural library. In 1900, the idea had not been thought of appar ently and there were no such libraries but in 1910 2.420 had been established nnd in 1923 the number was more than dou bled. Perhaps the most outstanding figures of tin* comparison between 1900 and 1922 are furnished by the permanent improve ments appropriations and the mainten ance appropriations of the two years for state institutions In 1900 SB,OOO was allowed for permanent improvements for a two year period but in 1923 by act of j the legislature $7,044,000.00 is available for tlie two year period for the same purpose. In the maintenance of state institutions the allowance in 1900 was $47,000 while in 1923 it had increased tc $3,49(5.750.00. , Thinks America Can Do Nothing Now (H> the VicmL Washington. Nov. 13.—Although tin door still is open for American helpful ness in the reparations problem, Presi dent Coolidgc regards the latest move ii that direction us having come definite to an end. Won D, S. C. a Pyj lil "BiH” Lovett, Brooklyn bandit and gunman, is dead. He was mur dered by former pals, police say. Strange to say thi3 “bad man” was a hero during the war, winning the Distinguished Service Cross for ex ceptional bravery. 1 PEACE WARRANT FOfl | EVANS IS DISMISSED Action Taken in Atlanta Court When Agreement Was Reached by Both Par ties in Klan Problem. I By the Associated Press.) Atlanta. Gn.. Nov. 13.—The peace warrant against Imperial Wizard H. W. Evans, of the Ku Klux Klan. was dis • missed today by Judge T. O. Hitehock in municipal couct here after Walter Col quitt, attorney fer Dr. Feed P>. Johnston, chief of stuff Tor Emperor W. J. Sim mons. who swore out the warrant, asked I that it bo dismissed “for the best in terests of all concerned.” HCans. ac companied by !rs attorney Paul S. Ether idge. was in tile court room, a* was Dr. Johnston. Relpying to till* statement of Dr. Johnston’s attorney. Mr. Ether idge said Dr. Evans was'in court and _w#a, to go into the trial of the peace warrant proceedings, and he asked court to either conduct a hearing or dismiss the case. Judge Hitehock said he would dismiss the cast in view of a statement from the prosecution, nnd since the defendant offered no objec tion. 0\ ER HALF BAPTISTS OF WORLD IN SOUTH North Carolina Ranks Fourth—One to Every 5.7 Persons in Dixie is a Bap. tist. Naslivillee, Nov. 12.—Mare than half of all ' the Baptists in the world re side in the territory of the Southern Baptist Convention., according to a sur vey which lias just been completed by Dr. E. P. Alldredge, secretary of sur vey and statistics.of tlie Baptist Sunday school board. North Carolina ranks fourth among she southern states with a Baptist popu lation of 575,911. The total Baptist strength of the world is approximately 11,600,009 and of this number 6,476,759 reside in the south. This indicates, it was stated, that there is one Baptist to every 5.7 persons of all ages in the south. The distribution of Baptist popula tion by states is given as follows in the survey : Alabama. 552.717: Arkansas 258,076: District of Columbia, 48,701 : Florida. 169.845; Georgia, 907,071: Southern Illinois (which co-operates with the Southern Baptist ConvenCon), 70,374: Kentucky, 405,788; Louisiana, 225,501;. Maryland, 41.025: Mississippi, 679.247: Missouri, 270,896; New Mex ico. 8.786; North Carolina, 575.911; Oklahoma, 182.879; South Carolina, 409,812; Tennessee, 453.881; Texas, 640,978: and Virginia. 503,712. Mississippi heads (he south in the pro portion of Baptist strength to the total population of the' state, there beiug one Baptist to every 2.6 persons, Georgia 4s second with one Baptist to every 2.9 persons, and South Carolina is third with one to every 3.8 persons, according to the survey, THE COTTON MARKET Opening Was Steady at a Decline of 5 to 3(i Points Under Scattered Liqui dation. (By the Associated Press. > New York. Nov. 13.—The cotton mar ket was nervous and unsettled during today’s early trailing because of easier Liverpool cables, a denial ;>f yesterday's reports that the British government hud offered a large loan to the Lancashire cotton trade, and unsettled foreign po litical conditions. The opening was steady at a decline of 5 to 36 points, under seattred liquidation and Southern anil local selling. Orders were almost, evenly divided at the decline, and there was more or less irregularity right after tlie call,, but the bulges seemed to meet considerable cotton, with tin* market rul ing around 33:15 for January during the first hour, or about 20 to 30 (mints net lower. | Cotton futures opened steady. Deo. 1 33.47: Jan. 33.10; March 33.33; May | 33.40; July 32.88. Favorable Trade Balance. (By the Associated Press.) 1 XX’ashington, Nov. 13.—Exports from the United States during October amount ed to $402,000,000. compared with im ports of $303,000,000, leaving a favorable balance of $99,000,000. TODAY’S NEWS TODAY NO. 269. LLOYD GEORGE AND READY TO POLL TOGETHER NOW They Conferred Monday and Announced That They Had Reached an Agreement to Stand Together. asquithtolje LEADER OF PARTY Which Will Enter Candi dates in General Election to Be Held in Great Britain —Both Are Men of Power. London, Nov. 13 (By the Associated Press). —The British parliament will be dissolved Thursday and a genera] .elec tion held Wednesday, December fith. The Asquith and Lloyd George factions of the liberty party sank their differences this morning and reunited to present a solid front against the protectionists ns well ax the labor party in the election. The' Evening News states that. Mr. Asquith will lead the reunited party. It is re called that Mr. Lloyd George in answer ing interviews when he landed at South ampton from his American visit last week, said he would work with anybody who would serve the country faithfully. The reconciliation was effected at a meeting of the former premiers Asquith, and Lloyd George, Sir Alfred Mond and Sir John Simon. Arrangements were made for a united campaign by all the liberals. There had been a great ele ment of doubt as to whether the two bitter political antagonists, Asquith and Lloyd George, could be brought together. Therefore the announcement of the re union furnished a sensation. Ramsey McDonald, leader of the laborite opposi tion, told at the meeting of the parlia mentary labor party and national labor executives today that Prime Minister Baldwin had informed hint of his inten tion of appealing to the country on n policy of unadullerate protection. Dissolution of Parliament Soon. London. Noy. 13 (By the Associated Press). —Dissolution of the parliament before the coming week-end was forecast by Prime Minister Baldwin at the open ing of the session today. He had advis ed the crown to dissolve the parliament as qyicklv jm ja«ti(iUly..n«il by difl uaJUium why the date sttolild not be next Friday. The Premier made only a brief state ment in which he said the general elec tion was always disturbing element and should be gotten through with as quick ly as possible. Mr. Baldwin said he was thoroughly convinced a protective tariff was necessary in order to solve the em ployment problem. JEALOt'S HUSBAND SHOOTS AND KILLS TEASING WIFE Tragedy Follows Finding of Cigarettes in Poeketbook. Clarksburg, W. Va„ Nov. 11.—When pretty Luelln Mae Hedge, bride of five months, refused to tell last midnight how site came to have a package of cigarettes in her poeketbook and in stead, laughed teasingly. her husband, Okey Hedge, shot her dead in their home in Broadway. East Clarksburg. The bul’et pierced her heart. Hedge then tried to end his own life, but only suc ceeded in inflicting a slight wound in his head. lie snapped the trigger of hist revolver three more times, but the cartridges failed to explode. A police man who bar heard the shots rnshen in to the house and manacled Hedge while the latter was reloading the weapon. “I shot her because I loved her and because she was teasing me continually and driving me frantic with her refer j enees to flirtations with other men,” explained Hedge today in his cell in the county jail. The murdered Wife was 118 and Hedge is 23. : Hedge said he was maddened last [ night when, finding a package of cigar ; ettes in the girl’s poeketbook. and. ask ' ing her where they eamc from, she* . laughed at him tauntingly. His girl wife was a daughter of John D. Sethey, a 'chemical worker of Union Heights, and prior to her marriage she worked' in a local printing office. Hedge was employ ed in a marble factory. THINK WOOD HAS BEEN CAUGHT IN WEST VIRGINIA Man Wanted in Greensboro is Connec tion With Death of A. W. Kaplan. (By the Associated Press.l Greensboro, Nov. 13.—-Officers were expected to leave here for Princeton, IV. Va„ to identify a prisoner suspected of being Otto Wood, one-armed outlaw, charged with the killing of A. W. Kaplan, of Greensboro, upon receipt of advices from Governor Morrison at Raleigh that extradition papers alive been issued. The prisoner was said in telegrams to police officials here to bear a marked re semblance to Wood. He was arrested Saturday night at Freeman. W. Va., while in possession of a motor car said to be the property of the sheriff of Dav idson county, N. C. With Our Advertisers. Another new one at Ivey's—a black suede with medium heels, trimmed in pat ent lenther, only $9.00. See ad. Patriotism as taught by Washington will be discussed ut the I’. O. S. of A. meeting at the court house Thursday night, November ’ 15th, at 7:30 o’clock. See ad. in this paper. You will find home furnishings that insure lasting satisfaction at Bell & Har ris’. Convenient terms, too, if you do not want to pay cash. Style and service are combined with grace and beauly in Hoover's clothing. Try a box of Cline's cold capsules— don't suffer with colds.
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Nov. 13, 1923, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75