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IThe Concord Daily Tribune fin
VOLUME XXIV
Wilson to Be Buried as
Plain Citizen, Role He
Played When He'Died
With Only Two Brief Ser
vices War President Will
Be Laid to Rest in Vault
High on Hills of Capital. !
MILITARY RITES
TO BE SIMPLE
Body Will Be Born by Sail-,
ors, Soldiers and Marines,
But There Will Be No
Other Ceremonies of State
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•By the A..arlattd PrtM.*
Washing!on, Fob. 5.—A fringe of folks '
on the street before the Wilson home
waiting to see the\great ones who came
and went, and the'guardian police who 1
turned unnecessary traffic from the steep
narrow street, alone mnrke,d outwardly
today preparations for honors to the
dead war I‘resident. No marshalling of
troops for parade of sorrow was needed :
no setting of lines that thousands might
pass beside his bier, for he will go to his
•long sleep tomorrow in the character in
inwhieh death found hint —a plain Am
criegn citizen with the days of his place
and high dignities put aside forever.
With only the two brief religious ser
vices to mark the eutombment in the
vault beneath Bethlehem Chapel on the
hills high above the stricken-home ■ there
was little that official Washington could
do to show its respect and admiration
for the life of the deiid man. Hud Mrs.
Wilson willed otherwise, unstinted hon
ors would have been poured out to mark
the nation's mourning. Kven as it is.tin
every military and naval post beneath the
Ktnrs and Stripes, last honors will be
paid in full, with the booming of guns
sounding a knell beneath half masted
colors. For the 30-da.v period of nat
ional mourning already declared. Presi
dent Coolidgc has thrust aside all social
activities at the White House.
Very few of the many who would
come to express their feelings at the ser
vices, if they could .find place, can be ad
mitfed either to the private exercises at
the home or the* later public ceremony at
the chapel. At the home only the family
and a little group of closest friends can
find standing room. For the plain folks
as well as himself. President Oooltdge
will go to the house with Mis. Coolidgc
1 and foltew t»e
ttmitupent. In the public ceremony, how
ever, he will be surrounded by his cabi
net in the last honor the finvbrnmont enh
pay to a dead lender.
The family circle will be completed
only a few hours before the casket is low
ered in the marble vault deep beneath
the cathedral. Mr. and Mrs. Win. G. 1
MoAdoo will reach Washington some'
time Wednesday morning. The private
service at the home will- t.-ike place at 3
p. ni. followed by the elm pel service at
3 :3rf aud the entombment.
War Department officials today sought
to make the most of the little share that
was left for them in honoring the com
mander-in-chief under whom the war •
arrtiies fought. Kight non-commissioned j
officers of the army, with eight sailors and
eight marines of similar Ank and record
will form the little guard of honor about
the hearse on the brief journey from the
S Street house to the chattel. They I
alone will touch the casket of the man j
under-whom all of them served gallant-!
ly in the wur.
Still today there was a demand on j
many sides that a last moment change
be made, and mare elaborate 'ceremonies
mark the funeral. There were many like
Senator Swanson, of Virginia, who be-1
lieved that this dead son of Virginia, the I'
mother o.f Presidents, should go back to
sleep in Virginia soil. It was this feel
ing that prompted suggestion that en
tombment should be in Memorial Ceme
tery at Arlington. Some felt that the
permanent resting place of Woodrow Wil-1
son. war president, and himself struck
down by the war as surely as any of
the dead who sleep on the hillside be
neath the Unknown’s resting place,
should be within that stately enclosure,
sacred to the memory of those who died
for the flag.
The offer of a sepulcher in this hal
lowed circle was promptly made. Per
haps there is a. legal barrier, since the
law says no monument or vault shall be
placed within the memorial structure un
til him to whom honor is done shall have
been dead a decade. Secretary Weeks
made it plain that no narrow legal con
struction would stand in the way of op
ening the last haven of patriotic Araeri
enus to the war President since no man
could doubt that Congress would approve
in such a case the disregarding of that
restriction.
Mrs. Wilson had her way, however,
and the marble vault under the great
phurcb that • looks down on the house
where he died, will hold her husband's
honored casket until the form and man
ner of "his final resting place can be de
termined.
Stock Exchange to Close.
New York, Feb. s.—The New , York
stock excliange will be closed at 12:30
o'clock tomorrow ns a token of respect
for the late« Woodrow Wilson. The New
York cotton exchange will close at noon
and other commodity houses will also
cease the usual activities.
Guard of Honor.
Washington, £eb. 8 (By the Associat
ed Press). —Woodrow Wilson's final
guard of honor which will convey his
body from the scene of his last activi
ties aud death to the place of entomb
ment will be representatives of the three
fighting arms of the nation.
Might sailors chcsen from the crew
of the President's pacht Mayflower will
symbolize the great armanda of Ameri
can fighting ships that went to war un
der the dead President; eight soldiers
iIEMORIAL SERVICE
i WILL BE HELD M
' Public Meeting Will Be Held!
I at Court House So That
I City Can Pay Its/Last Re
| spects.to Woodrow Wilson
I Concord will pay formal tribute to
! Wcodrow Wilson tomorrow when a me
morial >oi vice will be held in the court
house. The service has been Called by
Mayor .1. B. Wamble, who asks that
! business in the eit.v be stilled from 3:30
to 4 o'clock in the afternoon while fun
eral services/ are being, held in Wash
ington for the war President.
The service here will begin at 3:30
o'clock and will continue for hulf an
hour. The funeral of the former Presi
dent will begin at that hour in Wash
ington and it is fitting that Concord pay
hemnge to the dead leader at the same
hour.
Mayor Womble asked Major W. A.
Foil to arrange the program for the me
morial service here and Major Foil al
ready has mapped out an appropriate
program. Short talks will be made by
several ministers and laymen of the
city, and special music will be rendered
by a choir which wil! be composed of
the city's, best singers. Prof. Price
Doyle, teacher of music in the city
schools, will direct the singing at the
Aerviee.
The court house bell and church' bells
of the city will be tolled at 3:30 to
morrow and as the bells are first tolled
business men are asked to close their
places of business.
i The public is invited to attend the
| service at the court. house, the service
being arranged so that.every oiffi will
have opportunity to pay homage to that
man who led this country (hiring the
trying day* of the war.
Officers of /lie American Legion Aux
iliary are anxious for each member of
the organization to attend the service
at the court house. Members of,the %f
--gnnizntion are asked to meet atathe dourt ,
itoinvfrjMprar
MEMBERS OF WHITE
ARM)’ TO BE KILLED
Must Pay With Uvea for Revolutionary
Movement Started in Siberia.
Moscow, Feb. 5 (By the Associated
Preps).—General Pepelinyev, former com
. mander of the Siberian white army, and
20 of his followers have been sentenced
to death by the military court at Chita
for their counter revolutionary activities
in Siberia after Kolchak's defeat. Fifty
seven others were given prison terms.
The sentences Imve not yet been carried
out as the General has asked for mercy,
, which it is thought will be granted.
I Noted Confederatte Veteran Dead.
(By the Associated Press.)
Wins'tofi-Salem, Feb. 5.—P. T. Leh
man, a Confede/ate veteran, and for
I more \ than 30 years a justice bf the
j ]>ence, died at 8.30 o'clock this morning
!at the age of 82 years. While his,health
had been failing for some months he was
able to be at his office nearly every day
until last week.
Escaped Convict Captured.
I '(By the Associated Pr -ss.)
1 Little Bock. A Jk., Feb. s.—Poses sent
to Redfield, Ark., today to search for
three men who robbed a store there last
night, captured one man who is said to
have been identified as Joe Sullivan, who,
with two other men, escaped from a
death cell at the Arkansas penitentiary
last Friday.
will perform their final ministration to
the name of this militant millions that
had their places in the war • army of
which he was commander-in-chief; and
eight marinw will add to his entomb
ment a fresh memory of the glories of
far battlefields like Belleau Wood. From
among these twenty-four will be select
ed those who actually will carry him
from the house, and"will lower him at
last into the crypt of the great cathedral.
Among those chosen from the marines
will be Paul O. Moyle, sergeant Elm
City, N. C.
Brunos Aires Also Pays Respect.
Beunos Aires, Feb. 5. —The flags on
the public buildings, fortresses and nav
al vessels in Argentina will be lowered
to half mast tomorrow, the day of Wood
row Wilson's funeral, as a sign of pub
lic mourning, it was announced.
Panama to Pay Homage.
Panama, Feb. o.—President Porras
has issued a proclamation decreeing Fri
day a day of national mourning for
Woodrow Wilson.
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'WHAT SATS BEAR SAYS.
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Cloudy and colder tonight, probably
local rains or snow in west portions;
i .Wednesday, generally fair andcoldeW 1 11" 1
CONCORD, N. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1924
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, * Vincent Richards, Internationally known tennis star, was married a ‘
few daya ago at Greenwich, Conn. He’s shown here wkh the happy j
young woman, formerly Claremont Gushee. They will fxoneymoon la !
Palm Beach.
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DEMAND FOR ALIMONY
RESULTS IN SUICIDE
•
Chicago Man Shoots Himself When
Wife Phones Court Order.
Chicago. Feb.. 5. —Edward Nadle, 40.
killed him.self today when his wife tele
phoned to tell him that the Court had
ordered his immediate appearance for
refusing to pay her S2OOO alimony al
lowed under a .deeree of separate main
tenance.
"All they'll get is my dead body.”
Xndle shouted through the telephone in
anwer to his wife.
A shot was heard over the phone, and
the Judge stopped proceedings while
Air*. Nadle went home to investigate,
she found here husband dead.
Filipinos to Get Bibles in Their Native
Tongues.
Manila. Feb- 5/—The earthquake and
fire in Japan last. September were the
cause of bringing to Manila the largest
individual typesetting and printing
order ever undertaken in the Philippine
Is'ands. The job is that of putting into
(type every word, of the Bible in seven
(Philippine. diobK/s for the American
t tjtPT tVotlMv
Prior to the earthquake the printing
for the American Bible Society in the
Philippines was done iu Japan, but the
plant, at Tokio was destroyed.
The contract for the typesetting,
which requires about 24.000,000 ems,
was signed tdday by L. C. Moore, mana
ger ofl the Sugar News Presx.and R<jv.
G. B. Cameron, manager of the Ameri
can Bible Society in the Philippines.
The Work will be done on a single
linotype, which will be operated 1(1
hours n day by two men working eight
hours a, day each. They will be busy
for the next year and nine months.
More than 21.000 Bibles are included in
the first order.
The seven Philippine dialects ate lo
ca up Pangasinan, Pampangan. Tngn
log. Bieol, Panayan and Cebtrnn.
Aged 05. Bobs Her Hair.
Salisbury, Feb. 4.—Airs. Amanda Mc-
Laughlin. aged 95, living in the western
section of Rowan county, has bobbed her
hair, saying she did si "just because she
wanted to.” Failing’ to get relatives
to bob the hair Mrs. McLaughlin did
the work herself and made a good' job
of it. Despite her age Mrs. Alelmugh
lin is very spry being able to do her own
cooking, milk the cow and do other
household chores. A movie photogra
pher is going to Mrs. McLaughlin's
home this week to get a picture of the
world’s oldest "flapper.”
Thieves Sunday night broke into First
Methodist Church and St. Lubes Episco
pal Church, at Salisbury, and ransacked
the premises, prizing off doors and alien
ing drawers evidently on a look for
money which they found nit.
Airs. F. A. Overcash, who wai! killed
in an automobile wreck in Davie county
Sunday, was taken to Enoeliville Alon
day afternoon and the funeral and in
terment took place there.
Bobbed Hair Remains in Favor With
Originators.
St- Louis. Feb. 4.—Bobbed hair re
mains in favor and is a prime con
sideration of milinery originators who
for spring fashions have provided small
halts of cloche, small poke, and a close
fitting shape with brim upturned in '
front, the Millinery Jobber’s association
announced today.
Shapes taken from the Directoire
period of France will be fpatured, the
announcement paid, ttioxe effected by
milady being provided for young girls
and the bobbed haired misses, and those
more mannish styles inherited from
milord being taken for the mntron's
toque.
Wlii’e for the moment the predomi
nating mode is declared to be the black
milan crown with black taffeta brim,
spring’s styles will be colorful under the
influence of thp fnr east.
Bandits Let SB,OOO in Cash.
y Ike A.-aaetated Press.)
Pawhuuka, Okla. Feb. s.—Two un
masked bandits held up the cashier of
the First National Bank at Shidler, near
here, today and escaped in an automo
bile with $3,000 in cash.
Monroe Enquirer: Messrs. C. O. and
Jesse Griffin, of Concord, visited their
mother. Mrs. Kills Griffin, at the old
homestead at Maple Springs, Marshville
township, yesterday. Mrs. Griffin is
helpless, and Is 89 years old. Mr. and
' Mrs. J'. H. Smith, son-in-law and daugh
ter of Mr. C. C. Griffin, also werein the
party. \ •
TRIES TO END HIS LIFE
when Near capture i
William Montgomwk Negro. Leads'
Two Salisbury Pblieemen a Merry I
Chase. r
Salisbury. Feb. *—William Mont
gomery, a negro drivfcg a large Packard
' car bearing a New York tag, gave Chief
of Police Cnllimore and Alotoreyele
Cop Smith the .chase of their lives this
morning and ivhert ho saw he was about
to' be taken threw himself in front of
a passing car evidently with suicide in
tent. The negro drove off from a filling
station north of the Yadkin river with
out paying for gas and when Salisbury
officers were advised by telephone and
attempted to flag Hie ear the drive step
ped on she N 'gas and went through the
business section of the city at a ripid |
rate. Officers and Smith I
mounted a motorcycle and the race was !
on. Several miles north of Concord the I
negro had his way blocked by an un- !
finished rnirond underpass and desert- j
ed his ear. Before Hie officers could
overtake him as he wan lie threw him- !
self in front of a Stjldebaker. driven by
T. and _ re
ceived injuries that, apparently render
ed him unconscious. He was brought
back to Salisbury and his ear is being I
held. While if bore a New York tag i
there was a Nortli Carolina tag No. |
40144 in the car and it developed this
afternoon that the ear was stolen at !
Durham last flight.
SEVEN PERSONS FATALLY
POISONED IN OREGON CITY
Death Followed Eating cf Beans Which
Spoiled After Being Preserved.
(Hr the ANH>-«lal«(t CrftM.l
Albany. Ore., Feb. sU—Botulinus poi
son in home preserved beans caused the
death yesterday and early today of seven
persons, and affected three others so seri
ously that little hope is held for their re
covery. The beans, which had s’poiled
after being preserved, were catch at a
.family dinner Saturday at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Iteinhold Gerber.
The. dead are: Airs. Paul Gerbig. 34
years old; Hilda Gerbig, 19; Alarie Ger
-1 big, 7; Gottfrie'd Rubbling, Airs. Gott
-1 fried Ruphling, AVerner.Yunker, 10 years
old. and Reinhold Gerber.
1 The seriously ill are Paul Gerbig. Es
ther Gerbig, aged 13 months; rfnd John
Kiichling, aged 2.
With Our Advertisers.
Extra fancy juicy California peaches
at a bargain at Dove-Bost Co.
The Southern Motor Service Co. will
give you good service for your car. See
new nd.-»
Robinson is in New York to select the
choicest things the market offers.
Final clearance sale this wppk of all
winter suits, overcoats, sweaters and
dress shirts at W. A. .Overcnsh’s.
Yon can get quick service at Con
cord’s new dyeing ami dry cleaning
plant, The Eagle Company.
The rendition of "The Holy City.” to
be given in the Firsi Presbyterian Church
next Friday evening should create much
interest and command a crowded house.
laying Mash and Scratch Feet! at !
Cline & Moose's. Sold under a guaran
tee*.
Parker’s Shoe Store Is having a special
sale of shoes at $3,95. values up to $6.45.
H. B. Wilkinson lias just received a
large shipment of Wilton, - Axmiuster j
and Linoleum rugs.
The Standard Kuicb Co. has secured;
• the services of Air. W. H. Pemiinger, j
who will handle its. used car sales.
: Phone 363 or 480 L.
Texas University Bars Professors Who j
Deny Deity. '
Austin, Tex.. Feb. s—Texas " which |
has a law prohibiting the teaching of |
evolution "as a fact." now has a further j
regulation which bars from employ- i
I ment in its State university any person
who does not believe in God-
This anti-atheist legislation is in the (
form of a resolution adopted by the
Board of Regents. The President of the
- university, Dr. William Seneca Sut
! ton, himself an officer in a a Christinn
■ church, strongly advised against the
• adoption of the resolution. But it was
adopted by a i vote or 7 for and 1
against.
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Conviction of Arnstein Confirmed.
I Washington, Feb. s.—The conviction
of Jules, alias Niok.v Arnstein, and four
< j other men convicted in 1920 cf bringing
I stolen Will I Street securities to Wash
• j ington for hypothecation by local banks,
“ was confirem today by the District "of
1 Columbia Court of Appeals.
Industrial Survey of
. Cabarrus County Made
Survey Was Made by North
Carolina State Child Wel
fare Commission During
Month of January.
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
VISITED BY EXPERT
Renort Shows Favorable
Condition in This County.
—County Welfare Officer
Prajsed in Report.
The North Carolina State Child Wel
fare Commission during the past month
completed an industrial survey of Cabar
rus County. The survey was under the
j immediate supervision of E. F. Carter.
Executive Secretary of the North Caroli
! na State Child Welfare Commission.
| Mr. Carter was greatly pleased with
. the work of Cabarrus County as he was
intimately connected with the industrial I
life of this county for a number of years, i
Not: only was he a factor in industrial life I
of this county but he was ( also a leader in *
the social upbuilding of the county. Mr. I
Carter was president of one of the first
| industrial Y. M. ('. Acs and was a lead-1
er of other community organisations. I
I Since leaving the county to assume the
directorship of the industrial life of the
state. Mr. Carter has endeavored to stress
I the necessity of the powerful combination
of health and education, for the upbuild
ing of the public welfare of the child
within the state. These forces show the
great results not only in Cabarrus, but
also in the state.
Twenty-three cotton and textile mills
were inspected; also several of the stores
and manufacturing firms. Several days
were required to complete this survey.
Three hundred and two children were
found working in Cabarrus County be
tween the ages of fourteen and sixteen.
Os this number, all were certified ex
cept twenty-three of them. These twen
ty-three were removed from work untii
certificates were issued.
The Commission is greatly pleased with
the spirit and altitude of the manufac
turers of Cabarrus County. Every cour
tesy and help was extended to the mem
bers of the Commission. With such a
spirit manifested in this county, the chil
dren employed will receive the necessary
vocational guidance and adjustment which
wiH of rhe^feigtjesf
Too much credit cannot be given to
Mr. J. H. Brown. Superintendent of Pub
j lie Welfare of Cabarrus county. Through
j his untiring efforts, child labor in this
j county is being well supervised. Five
hundred anil nine certificates were issued
| during 19221-23. Sixteen of these certifi
| cates were issued last summer for vaca
tion employment for boys. Three hun
dred and ninety were issued to fourteen
year old children and one hundred to
fifteen year old children.
These statistics show that although a
great number of children go to work im
mediately when they pass the compulsory j
school age, they return again. Not quite
one third as many fifteen year old cliil- J
dren are certified as fourteen year old '
children. Approximately fifty per cent,
of the children return to school after
stopping and working for a season or so.
Statistics show that. 234 children cer
tified were born in Cabarrus County.
Two hundred twenty-nine were born out
of the county in this state, and 43 were
born out of the state. There were ho
foreign born children working in Cabar
rus County. Thus, the problem is a lo
cal and state one. On that should be
regulated from a local and state point of
view rather (ban from a national point
of view. Child labor should be dealt
with as each local problem presents it
self by the representatives of n state
government, which realizes and appreci
ates the economic, social, and moral prob
lems of one of its own communities. This
is the solution of the child labor problem,
not only in North Carolina, but in ev
ery State in the Union. No central gov
ernment at Washington can efficiently
regulate or solve the child labor problem.
It calls for a deeper motive than a pure
police enforcement of the law.
The four years executive and legisla
tive functioning of the North Carolina
State Child Welfare Commission has dem
onstrated beyond a doubt that the act
creating the Commission and the child
! labor law was soundly conceived and
I founded upon correct principles for child
l labor supervision and inspection of in
| dustry.
The act provided for the combining of
; the three great forces of education, health
j and welfare for the executive control and
I systematic supervision of the children
| employed in tins tate. It designated the
i Superintendent of Public Instruction,
I Secretary (if the State Board of Health
and the Commissioner of Charities and
' Public Welfare as ex-officio a Hfate Child
I Welfare Commission. It provides that
it shall be the duty of this Commission to
! make and formulate such rules and regu
■ lotions for enforcing and carrying out
I the provisions of the laws—as in its
I judgment it may deem necessary. The
I Executive Secretary is charged with en-
I forcing the laws under the Commission.
! It further provides that no child with
in the age limit of the law shall be em
ployed in any of the terms used In the
law, "except in cases and under regula
tions prescribed by the Commission." It
will be observed therefore that the rule
passed by the Commission have the force
of law. The rules of course luting for
mulated always within the limitations of
the terms used in the law.
The power delegated to the Commission
bv the General Assembly through legis
lative act to pass rules governing child
labor and industrial work lias been well
sustained by decisions of the Supreme
, Court upon cases of other Commissions
(Continued on Page Five).
1 GERMANS REGARD Wll .. .
AS PRIVATE CITIZEN ONLY
[ No Flag Has Flown Over Embassy In 1
Washington Since His Death.
Washington, Feb. 5 (By the Associat
ed Press). —By direction of the Berlin
government, the German embassy here
i has refrained from making any display
of mourning for Woodrow Wilson.
No flag has flown over the embassy
; at any time since Mr. Wilson's death,
although ether embassies and legations
■ have had their colors at half staff since
• the official notification reached them be
fore noon on Sunday.
Baron I-eopold Plessen, third secre
tary at the embassy, made this explana- 1
. ticn:
i “The German government considers
I the late Mr. Woodrow Wilson a private
(citizen, and therefore has instructed the
i German embassy to refrain from any
I official display of mourning."
When Mr. Wilson died the State. De
partment. following tthe diplomatic cus
tom in such events, notified the French I
ambassador, Jules Juxserand, who is
I dean of the diplomatic corps. The am
bassador promptly notified all his col-
I leagues, and flags on diplomatic missions!
I were at once displayed at half mast. I
. Failure of the German embassy to show |
| its colors in mourning was not at first I
noted. When lack of a flag was ob-1.
served, and inquiry as to the reason i;
I made at the embassy. Baron Plessen '
I made his statement. The State De
partment officials would not comment.
SEEKING TO FORCE
A PURCHASE OF LAND 1
Stanly County Mail Says Commission
ers Promised to Buy.
Albeiparle. Feb. 3.—Superior court
convenes here tomorrow with Judge
Shaw presiding. A number of minor
eases are on the calendar but the ease ’
of S. S. Hearne against the Commission- ,
e.rs of Stanly county is attracting the
greater part of the interest. Mr. Hearne ,
brings his action to compel the now '
Democratic commissioners to purchase
a lot which he alleges a former board of
Republican Commissioners agreed to \
buy for the purpose of constructing
thereon a new courthouse.
The question of a new courthouse
was voted down in 1922 and now a (
somewhat partisan politieal question
has become a matter of the courts.
Several Albemarle people , attended
the funeral of John M. Cook which was
held in Concord this afternoon among
them being J& Mj* A. L. Pat- ,
- sjeftfeif. Me. Msl Mrs. 11. Xr
Miss Nell Hearne.
Billy Sunday is to be in Albemarle ,
on next Wednesday to deliver an ad
dress. His address will be at the new
I Presbyterian church. His ' coming is at
the instance of a number of ' Albemarle
people who are paying the expense and
a large crowd is expected to greet the
evangelist as this is his first visit. ,
Many Albemarle people have visited the .
Sunday tabernacle at. Charlotte since
Mr. Sunday has been there. ,
FINE CONDUCTOR FOR
TRANSPORTING LIQUOR (
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Another Norfolk and Western Conductor
' On Trial in Greensboro.
Greensboro, Feb. 4.—C. T. Snow, tried
on a charge of transporting whiskey on
a Norfolk & Western passenger train,
while he was conductor running between ,
Roanoke. Va„ and Winston Salem, was
today fined .SSOO in Federal District ,
Court here. Evidence was introduced
in an effort to show that 40 gallons of
whiskey were found on train No. 33
reaching Winston-Salem at 10 o’clock at
night. Judgment was continued until
tlie June term of court in a similar case
in which the charge was maintaining a i
nuisance.
The case against B. F. Powell, nnother •
conductor on the same road, eharged j
with transporting whiskey on a train, (
was not completed thi safternoon.' It j
was charged by the prosecution that ,
whiskey was earried in the negro coach, ]
but tlie conductors declared that if such
was the ease they did not know it.
TAKES GRAIN OF CORN
FROM LUNG OF CHILD
Raleigh Physician Performs an Opera
tion Equal to Those Performed in
Philadelphia.
Raleigh. Feb. 4.—Dr. John B. Wright,
of Raleigh, performed an operation said
to equal the widely advertised opera
tions performed recently at Phila
delphia hospitals. With the aid of a
special surgical instrument, he drew a
grain of corn from {he lung of the four
year old child of Mr. and Mrs. John
Craft, of Kinston. The child stood the
operation successfully and will be re
leased from medical care within the
next three or four days.
HlHy Sunday Adds Tribute To the
Memory of Mr. Wilson.
Charlotte, Feb. O.—A beautiful tribute
was paid Woodrow Wilson this ufter
. noon by Billy Sunday at the men's meet- ■
ing at the tabernacle when 8,000 or more
; men were present.
He said: "Woodrow Wilson was a
. Christian. It was what Woodrow Wil
son put into his life that caused the
. flags to stand a half-mast today. Wood
row Wilson gave his life for principles
. that, echoed over the moonlit hills of J
. Judea, 'Pence on earth, good will to
: men.'
. "Woodrow Wilson was a Christian.
. The words of Wilson last night when
. lie said he was ready proved this. Trag
r ically beautiful wus the expression to
which he gave utterance to his physi
, cian. Dr. Grayson, ‘I am a broken ma
. chine.’
1 "I thought I heard heavenly music
1 at 11:15 this morning. It was the
, angels greeting Woodrow Wilson.”
* Straw hats are always cheaper at the'
wropg time of the year. i
NO. 27.
COLD WAVE IN WEST
If"!! THREE WHILE
fllY OTHERS SUFFER
Weather Ran Gauntlet From
Mild Temperatures to
Drifted Snows in Michigan
Cities Covered With Sleet.
ILLINOIS IS ALSO
VISITED BY STORM
j In That State Storm Center
ed About Chicago.—Tele
phoneand Telegraph Wires
Are Down in Parts of West
<Br the Associated Press.)
Detroit. Feb. s.—Weather that ran
the gauntlet from mild temperatures in
sections of lower Michigan to drifted
I snows farther north nnd sleeted streets,
i wires and rails, brought a toll of at
I least three dead, damage roughly esti
mated at upward of a million dollars,
and demoralized traffic and eommunioa
[ tion in many places.
I Telegraph and telephone companies re
port the havoc to their wires centered in
an area of about 40 miles around Chicago,
but the arms of the storm extend in ev
ery direction from that center. The
worst blizzard in years, according to re
ports, damaged telegraph and telephone
lines in the vicinity of Milwaukee to the
extent of $1,000,000.
Several trains in Wisconsin are re
ported stalled in snow drifts. Banks of
snow in some parts of Wisconsin are
said to be 10 feet deep.
Another radius of the storm extended
south and southwest from Chicago
through Illinois, Missouri and as far
south as Texas. A tornado, accompanied
by rain and hail, caused damage placed
at $109,000 at Huubstndt, Ind. The
storm reached gale force in Missouri.
Chicago was cut off from the east.
Service was being maintained from Chi
cago to the east byway of Denver,
where news was relayed back to St.
Louis and thus to New York.
CLARENCE LATHAM FIRST
WITNESS AGAINST COOPERS
Hearing of Evidence Began After Read
ing of Indictment Against Two Broth
ers.
~-TOfcniyton- N C„ Feb. 5 (By the .
.ttisuuifitcii TAufifim,
Raleigh, chief state bank examiner, was
■the first witness introduced today in the
trial of Lieutenant Governor W. B.
Cooper nnd his brother, Thomas E.
Cooper, on charges of conspiracy in the
United States District Court.
The actual hearing of evidence began
after the reading of the indictment which
charges the two brothers with various
alleged criminal acts in connection with
the faitlure about a year ago of the
Commercial National Bank of Wilming
ton, of which the Coopers were the chief
officers. Reading of the indictment re
quired more than forty minutes. Gov
ernment witnesses- to the number of 42
were introduced and sworn. The de
fence offering no witnesses at this time.
The court room was crowded when
the scission opened for introduction of
the first testimony in the case. In ad
ditional to the principals in this trial,
Horace Cooper, son of Lieutenant Gov
ernor, and C. W. Lassiter, who also are
under indictments, were also in the ctourt
room.
Rear Admiral Selfridge Dead.
IBr the Associated Press.)
Washington, Feb. s.—Rear Admirat
Thomas Oliver Selfridge, retired, is dead
at his home here today of heart disease.
He would have passed his eighty-eighth
birthday on Wednesday. He was sec
ond in command cf the Cumberland when
it was sunk by the Merriihac, served
under Porter on the Mississippi,' and
later commanded the naval battery at
Vicksburg. He also commanded the
gunboat Osage in " the Red River cam
paign, winning the unique distinction of
commanding sailors in a successful bat
tle against Confederate cavalry.
THE COTTON MARKET
Yesterday’s Sharp Advances Followed by
Considerable Realizing at Opening.
(By the Associated Press.!
New York. Feb. s.—Y'esterday’s sharp
advances were followed by considerable
realizing at the opening of the cotton
market today. Tlie cables were lower
than due and after onening barely steady
at declines of (1 Ho 27 points, active old
crop months sold 22 to 29 points net
lower, with May declining to 34255.
Tiiere was trade buying around this fig
ure. supposedly to fix prices, nnd the
market steadied up 10 or 12 points from
tlie lowest during the enrly trading.
Cotton futures- opened barely steadv.
March 34 30; May 34.55; .Tuiy 33.28 •
.Oct. 28.50; Dec. 27.96.
County Commissioners Sue KeidsvUlo
Paper.
Reidsville. Feb. s.—Suit has been
brought by T. 11. Pratt. W. F. Pruitt
and J. E. McCollum, members ,of the
board of county commissioners, against
, the Review C ,v, Inc., and a dozen or
more alleged members of a citizens com
mittee appointed at one of the mass
meetings h?ld at Wentworth last sum
mer to protest against the building of
the Fishing Creek Bridge near Leaks
ville.
Each of the three commissioners filed
separate suits against the local paper
and other citisens asking 725,000 each
for alleged false, defamatory and libel
ous statements published against the
| plaintiffs. Defendants are summoned to
appear before the clerk of the Superior
court on February 18th to answer com
i plaints.