North Carolina Newspapers

ASSOCIATED PRFSS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXIV PKSIDEIT KEPT AT WHITE HOUSE ROOMS BY SLIGHT HUES Has Contracted Slight Cold and It Was Deemed Advis able to Keep Him Quiet During the Day. CONDITION IS NOT AGGRAVATED He Has Had Cold For Sev eral Days and His Recov ery Has Been Retarded by the Frequent Rains. (By lh» AHorlatrd Proud.) Washington, May 17.—Because of n slight wild, President Coolidge oonrdM his engagements for'today, and remained away from his office. It was said at tt:e White House that he was not confined to bed. but bad decided to spend the day in his room on the advice of his physi cians. Brigadier General Clins. E. Sawyer. White House physician, after a call the White House, said: "The President is indisposed with a cold, and it is deemed advisable that he' remain in his room and keep quiet until he can return to Lis duties without lia bility.” Mr. Coolidge contracted a cold several (lays ago, ami his recovery hns been re tarded by the unusual succession o£__Mny showers which have kept the capitol en veloped in dampness almost continuously. On Wednesday when the weather was chilly, but comparatively fair, the first of the season's garden parties at the White House took place, and the Presi dent stood bareheaded on the lawn for two hours in the late afternoon shaking hands with the long line of guests. Yesterday he consulted a throat spe cialist to whom he hns made periodical visits since he entered the White House. At the executive office it was said that no alarming symptoms had been noted, and it is possible that he may go to his office this afternoon to attend to some correspondence. It was the first time since he became President that Mr. fool idge has been kept away from work by illness. lIKIRKSB RETURNS T(4 . .. JHER NEW YttREHGMK Daughter of Col. and Mrs. Henry H. Rogers Is Not With Titled Husband Any lsmger. (By the Associated Press.! New York. May 17.—Countess Ludwig Halm von Hoogstraeten, formerly Milli eent Rogers, is at home today with her parents, Colonel and Mrs. Henry H. Rogers, after I four months of married life. Neither Mrs. Halm, as she was listed among the ship's passengers, nor her father would talk regarding her marriage to the titled Austrian. Post and Flagg’s Cotton Letter. New Y'ork, May I(l.—Although there is a fairly strong feeling in local trading circles that the market, position is dis tinctly less strong and that, resistance to pressure if ftpplied would not be br.oad or vigorous enough to prevent a reaetion of some importance there ap pears to be a good deal of reluctance about engaging in such an undertaking unless it is supported and based upon a pronounced change for the better in weathe for a longer period than a day or two. Already doubt is appearing if with the extensive replanting which ap parently will be forced the acreage will show even as much increase as the very modest recent estimates by private authorities and it is also felt that even actual improvement in crop prospects should be followed with enution in view of a possible later complete reversal through July and August weather and insect damage. Th'ere are many who would like to sell and who will take a elianee on that side with any moderate encouragement but who realize that taking profits on short cotton may be attended with difficulty through trade competition on any de velopment that served to bring on a de sire to cover. Statistics are increasingly bullish with exports holding well above those of last year and merchants confronted with no small difficulty in filling en gagements unless helped out by the privilege of dipping into domestic mill stocks. Further advances are largely contingent on the weather but on any good reactions purchases of new crops look advisable for a pull. The July position is not a subject for opinion but is capable of almost any development. POST AND FLAGG. Dr. Hoty B. Rowe Wes at Mount Airy. Mount Airy, May 16.—Dr. Henry B. Rowe, aged 38 years, died of tuberculosis this morning about 5 o’clock. He is survived by his wife, one little son, two sisters, Mrs. Frye, of Bryson City; Miss Eugenia, of Asheville, and two brothers, of Nashville, and Claude, of Chicago. He was the son of the late Dr. J. C. Rowe, of the Western North Carolina Conference, M. E. Church, South. He will be buried here Sunday afternoon. May Economy Clearance Sale at Fisher’s On next Monday the May Economy Clearance Sale will start at Fisher’s. The reductions will be from 10 to 50 per cent, off, and will aply to all merchan dise —nothing will be reserved. All Spring Udies’ suits will be sold at ex actly half price* a» well as all Redfer* and Warner gorgets. Millinery 25 to 50 per cent. off. Read the big ad. on page four today. The Concord Daily Tribune BOUSE PISSES THE BONOS BILL OVER (RESITS VETO Party Lines Wer e i Forgot ten as the Supporters of the Measure Piled Up Comfortable Margin. VOTE ON MEASURE WAS 313 TO 78 Galleries Were Filled as Vote Was Taken and Great In terest Was Shown in the Voting. (B.v the Axsnclnted Frnu.) Washington. May 17.—The bouse today passed the soldier bonus bill over Presi dent Coolidge's veto. Party lines vanished ns superiors of the measure piled up a comfortable mar gin over the two-lbirds majority required on such a vole. The vole was 313 to 78. or 52 more than a two-thirds majority. Enactment into law. or final defeat of tie bill, now is up to the Senate, where a closer result is expected. Thy House came to its decision after an hour’s debate, during which some of the party leaders on both sides of the chamber argued that the position taken by the President should be upheld on economic as well as moral grounds. A(J voentes of the bill not only denied it would place a serious burden on the Treasury as contended by Mr. Coolidge. but assailed in unmeasured terms the language employed in the veto message with reference to former service men. Th enthusiasm of those who argued for repassage of the measure now and again swept the floor, and the crowded galler ies into bursts of cheering nnd its the de bute went on. there were cries of “Vote, vole.” in increasing volume from mem bers who wanted to see the President ov erridden without any appearance of de lay. The present plan is to ask for action Monday in the Senate, where the bonus bill at. Inst session finally went on the rocks after President Harding had ve toed it .anil it had been re-passed by the House. The bonus advocates still claimed today that they had three or four more tjtau enough votes J*# .pretfnt, measure a law. f HOUSE IS ABOUT READY FOR BONUS BILL, AGAIN House Agrees to Re-Vote on Measure and Two-TMdds Majority Is Predict / ed For the BilL (By the Associated Press.) Washington. May 17.—President Cool idge's veto of the soldier bonus bill was put to its first test today b.v the House agreement to vote on a motion to re-pass the measure. Proponents of the meas ure have confidently predicted its re-pas sage by the necessary two-thirds major ity. and little debates expected. THE COTTON MARKET Renewed Liquidation anti Scattered Sell ing Caused Further Declines During the Early Trading. (By the Associated Press.) New York. May 17. —Renewed liqui dation and scattered selling, promoted by good weather in the, South, also reports of an easier spot basis, caused further declines in today's early trading in the cotton market. The opening was easy at a decline of 11 to 28 points, and active months soon showed net louses of 28 to 34 points. May selling off to 30.95 and October to 24.85. Opening prices were: May 31.05; July 28.05; Oct. 24.95; Dec. 24.25; Jan. 23.93. Closing prices were: May *30.79 to 30.80: July 28.51 to 28.56: Oct. 24.07 to 24.99: Dec. 24.33 to 24.35; Jan. 23.98. DAWES FRIENDS START CAMPAIGN FOR HIM Want Him to Be Selected by Republi cans as Candidate for Vice Presi dent. (By the Associated Press.) Chicago, May J7. —The first public booming cf Brigadier General Charles G. Dawes, former director of the budget, and chairman of the committee 'of ex perts of the reparations commission for the republican nomination for Vice Pres ident has been started here. Thousands of placards bearing the likenesses of President Coolidge nnd Dawes have been mailed. Fh-st Annual May Bargain Festival at Robinson’s. Beginning Monday morrtiug, May 19, at 9 o’clock, Robinson’s store will in augurate the first annual May Bargain Festival: Every article offered will be from the regular high class stock of this store. Coats, capes and suits will go at exactly half price. Silk dresses in georgette, rashrnhara, flat crepe, and satin will go at 33 1-3 per cent off. The selling begins Monday morning at 9 o'clock and runs through Saturday, May 31, twelve dliys. Read the full ]utge on page five today. Bandits Get (30,000. (By the Associated Press.) Detroit, May 17.— Two armed bandits overpowered two employees of the Fort Street branch of the Bank of Detroit to day anw took $30,000 in currency. They escaped in an automobile. v Rev. Paul E. Scherer, D. D., of New York City, a former Concordian, spent this morning in Concord on bis way to Mt. Pleasant, where be will deliver the baccalaureate sermon at the commence ment exercises of the two institutions. CONCORD, N. C, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1924 Tuned in on the Milky Way ■.•aK Here’s one way of keening the loud speaker silent, parents find. It’s the radio crib, and Baby Rosalie Sherman seems to enjoy it Immensely, i She may know nothing of hetrodynes but she certainly is a superdiner. GOV.MORRISON DEFENDS STATES’ EXPENDITURES Referring to Bond ' Sales He Says “State’s Credit is Not Quite Exhaust ed.” Durham. May 10.—Fresh from a day of bond selling in which .$15,000,000 of North Carolina state bonds were sold at a rat? of interest of three' and one half per cent. Governor Cameron Mor rison delivered one of the best addresses lie has ever made in this city this after noon at the final meeting of the soeia l service department of the Woman's club for the season. The meeting was held in the home of Mrs. T. E. Cheek on East Trinity nvenne. The Governor's speech was one of de fense of the state government against the criticisms that have been aimed at it by people in various sections of the state because of the large amount of money which lias been expended b.v the state during the present administration. His subject was. “What North Carolina is doing in social service work.” "I hope my being late has not in convenienced you ill any way." lie be- MaJli* J*** (to I**fv dneed by Mr. Newsom. - But 1. have been busy all day negotiating a loan for the state for some $15,000,000 which, I am hnpfiy to say. we borrowed at the rate of three and half per cent. The state's credit is not quite exhausted nl -though we are charged with spending a large mount of money. “Social service must be defined better than ever before,” the chief executive stated in getting down to his subject. "Some jieopie have the idea that it is for charity, that it is but a manifesta tion of the spirit for social service. To day an important thing is to try to provide good government, nnd religious and helpful influences so that there will be fewer of those coming after us who will be in need of charity. “Just a while back We bail more illiterate white jieople in North Caro lina than any other state. * * * This resulted in many weak and incom petent people. We had nearly 2.000 in sane people with no room iu the asylums for them." Here the governor pointed out that nil the insnne are now being cared for. ns also are the weak minded children. He told of crowded conditions in the institutions of higher education when he became governor and reviewed the im provement. that have been, and are being made. “This year over 8.000 children wi’l leave the high schools as compared with not over 1,600 when 1 was inaugurat ed," lie declared, “We pay interest on the money taken to pay for it. Always there is somebody bouncing up with a cry of a deficit. We show them that there is no deficit but they cry out that it will b“ in the future. We haven’t bail one deficit, yet and I donjt think we will have one at any time. We collected the taxes. The brethren say we will have a deficit next year. We pay the in terest. As to the bonds, they say they are terrible things. They don't think about the federal bonds. There is only $102,921 a year to invest nnnunlly to to meet, the bonds 40 year from now. North Carolina can get rid of the debt easily. Some people are dissatisfied. They have a right to be. for this build ing should have been done all along so that we couldn't get into this fix.” With Our Advertisers. Efird’.s Removal Sale in going right on, with specials for Saturday and Monday, See their change of ad. in this paper. Now is the time to buy a refrigerator, and H. B. Wlkitison ims them. Take a look. The Beaver Grocery Co. fat Orchard I‘reduce Co.'s old Stand) lias all the groceries. fresh and canned, good to eat. Rhone 130. Used and rebuilt organs, S2O up, at the Kidd'-Frix Co. The Automatic refrigerator is an ice saver. Let the Concord Furniture Co. show you. The price of coal is cheaper now than it has been in several years. See new; ad. today of A. B. Pounds. The Citizens Bank welcomes deposits of SI.OO or more. Two Young Men Shot to Death. (By the Associated Press.) Harrisburg. Pa., May 17.—Harfy Gan ater, 21 years old, president of the .sen ior class of Marysville High School, near here, and Vera Ellensberger. 18, of Holt lidayßburg. were foutfd shot to death in an automobile near Hogestown early io day. REP. SWING TESTIFIES ABOUT PROPOSED DAM Admits That He Worked for Company That Would Be BenAitted Most by j Construction of Dam. (By the Associated Press.) Washington. May 17.—Representative Swing, republican, of California, author of the Swing bill for government con struction of tile Boulder Canyon Dam on the Colorado River, testified under ques tioning before a House committee today that lie was employed last summer as counsel at $25 a day by ilie Imperial Valley Irrigation District, which com mittee members declared would benefit by the proposed construction. ”1 am a man who has to live on my salary,” he said, ‘‘and 1 was glad to ac cept employment during the recess of < 'ongresu.” He added that the services terminated with the end of the Congressional recess. BAPTISTS REFUSE TO DISCUSS MODERNISM Effort to Inject Question Before Baptist Convention D?(i»iveiy.Defeated. (By the A<UMl«(eil Press.) Atlanta. Ga., May 17. —The Southern Baptist Convention today decisively re . jeeted an attempt b.v C. P. Staley, of Oklahoma City, to again inject the inod | ernisin fundamentalist fight into the con vention's deliberations. Mr. Staley introduced a new resolu tion on the subject, and sought to keep it out of the hands of the resolutions committee which yesterday adversely re ported similar resolutions b.v himself and i Dr. R. K. Maiden, of Kansas City, by | a suspension of the rules under which it would be acted upen directly b.v the con ! vention. I The convention, however, refused to I suspend the rules, and the new resolu tion was referred to the committee where | it undoubtedly will die. j PRESBYTERIANS MAY MEET IN VIRGINIA Little Stone Church in Country’ District May Get Next Convention of Church. (By the Associated Press.) I San Antonio, Texas, May 17.—A little ) stone church in the country district of j Augusta County, Virginia, may get the next meeting of the General Assembly of I the .Prdsbyterian Church in the United I States, which went into the third day of its 64th annual convention here today. A desire to strengthen country church es of the denomination hns turned the at tention to the question of holding the national meeting in a rural church for | the first time in a century. A pressing j invitation has come from the Old Stone I Church of Augusta County. Va.. for the I 1925 meeting. It was urged by Rev, W. H. Mills, of Clemsou College. N. C. The edifice is said to be large enough to ac commodate the propable alteudnacc. . Jubilee of London’s City Temple. London, May 17.—American preaeh j ers are to have a prominent part in the l celebration of the golden jubilee of the City Temple, which has always been a popular place for worship among Amer icans in London. I Rev. Harry E. Fosdick of New York has been selected to preach the jubilee sermon tomorrow, when the Lord ! Mayor of London and other civic digni | taries will attend in state. Subsequent 1 preachers will include Rev. Lynn H. Hough of Detroit. Rev. A. Z. Conrad of i Boston, Rev. Dr. Klielton of Pittsburgh, and Rev. Dr- Mac Coll of Berkeley. ’ That now meeting in the City Temple is the oldest Congregational Chureh in the city of London, the fellowship hav ing been formed in 1640. The present church edifice was erected fifty years ago, under the leadership of the late Rev. Joseph Parker, who made it famous throughout the Englishspeaking World. , Unitarian Anniversary Week Begins. Boston, Mass., May 17—Beginning tomorrow nnd Continuing through the following ' week, the Anniversary Week program will be carried out in Boston by the American Unitarian Association and its allied organizations. On the pro gram are the names of John W. Weeks. Secretary of War; Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard -University; Rev. T. Thonda Williams, noted English liberal, and others of : prominence. The anniversary sermon will be preached in the Arlington Street Church tomorrow evening by Rev. Maxwell Savage, of Worcester. COMMITTEE SEEKS CANCELED CHECKS OE GEORGE REMUS Will Take Matter to Courts as the Checks Will Show Wether or not Remus Gave Jess Smith Money.' REMUS WILLING TO SHOW PAPERS Says Cancelled Checks Will Verify the Statements He Made to Committee About Liquor Dealings. (By the \M«oclnt n I Pros*! Washington, May 17.—The courts will be asked by the Senate Daugherty com mittee to help it secure Mho cancelled checks of George Remits, Ohio liquor; operator, which he has testified will tend to verify his story of large money pay ments to the late Jess Sntith, companion of former Attorney General Daugherty, After a conference with Attorney Geu for ‘•protection." oral Stone, the committee held an ex ecutive session to arrange for legal pro ceedings. There was no friction between Mr. Stone and the committee. Chairman Brookhart said, but court action was considered necessary because Remus is serving a term in the Atlanta peniten tiary. Remus testified yesterday when brought to the committee from Atlanta that his check records of millions of dollars in liquor transactions would throw addi tional light on his assertion that he paid Smith between $250,000 and $200,000. He is still under guard in Washington, and desires to go to Cincinnati himself to get the papers. AUDIT OF CORPORATION’S BOOKS GETS UNDER WAY The Contempt Proceedings Against President of Concern Dropped. Charlotte. May 10.—Contempt pro ceedings of which J. R. Cherry, secre tary and treasurer of the Southern States Finance Corporation, has been the center for the las-t ten day*, were automatical ly stopped yesterdny, when the direc tors of the corporation formally advised Clerk of, the Court J. At. Ynndle that_ public accountants were auditing trie books and records of the company and invited him to have an accountant par ticipate in the audit. An auditor representing minority stockholders immediately proceeded to the company's office. Air. Cherry had been under bond of SSOO for several days, by order of Judge Harding, pend ing final decision on his appeal from the judgment of Clerk Yandle last week holding Cherry in contempt of court be cause he refused to obey an order of the clerk instructing him to permit inspec tion of the company’s records by an ac countant representing eleven minority stockholders who signed an affidavit charging mismanagement, waste and mis representation. The clerk ordered Mr. Cherry held in custody of the sheriff until he submitted the books for inspection. Cherry ap pealed to Judge Harding, who ordered his release on SSOO bond. Air. Cherry alleged conspiracy to wreck the corpora tion. State Merchants Convention to Be Great One. Says Leonard. Statesville, Alay 15.—Returning from a visit to Alorehead City where lie' and other officers of the association went to arrange for hotel accommodations, State Secretary Paul Leonard, of the North Carolina Alerehants" Association, an nounces that plans for the 23rd an nual convention of the association to be held at Alorehead City June 17. 18 and 10. are rapidly maturing, and he is confident that this is to be the biggest convention in the organization's his tory. Additional speakers are being added to the convention program, but it is stated that much time is going to be devoted to open forum sessions during which the merchants themselves will discuss their many and varied problems. Arthur C. Port, of Winston-Salem, sales manager of the P. H. Hanes Knitting Company, who has already gained quite a reputation in the state ns a speaker on business subjects, will address the convention on salesmanship and adver tising. Alartin L. Pearee, of Canton, Ohio, known throughout the country as a speaker on btisinem subjects, who is now head of the sales promotion depart ment of the Hoover company, has agreed to make two addresses at the conven tion. Dun’s Trade Review. New York, May 1(1. —Dun's tomorrow will say: Adjustment of production is tending to ’steady certain markets, and some prices have stiffened because of a bet ter demand. Yet the main condition is still one of limited buying and declining prices, with most of the tests by which busiuess trends are measured showing a contraction of activity. Large deal ings and price recovery in the hide trade, and to some extent in leather, have come only after a prolonged period of quiet, while curtailment of output, rather than increased transactions, accounts for a firmer attitude among sellers in some textile lines. The restriction of manu facture has reached the point in some industries where pressure of spot offer ings has been lessetned, but supplies of goods are expected to be available as needed and nothing indicates, an early change from the policy of confining pur chases chiefly to actual requirements. I Weekly bank clearings $7,100,548,000. HOME .MISSION ACTIVITIES OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH The Advances Made During the Past Year Are Encouraging. (By the Associated Press.! Atlanta, Go., Alay 17—While the presence of a heavy debt has made neces sary the curtailment of certain phases of home mission activities during the past year, the Home Alission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has ex perienced wine advances during the year that are encouraging, according to the report to the convention here tonight, presented by Dr. D. B. Gray, correspond ing seeretary. In no previous year of the hoard’s existence has there been such an advance in the direction of self-support on t lie part of both mission fields and churches, Dr. Gray reported. This- tendency, he said, is relieving the. board of heavy burdens in the support of old fields anil frees the board to go into fields that are in need of urgent help. The ten dency to self-support is particularly marked in Cuba and among the Spanish churches in Clorida. the report shows. Another encouraging phase of the years work is the increased number of volunteers for Christian service and their better equipment, Dr. Gray stated. Alan.v scores of the most capable young men and women of the South are ap plying for work in the home mission field, he pointed out. and only lack of adequate fiuaneiaoi resources has pro hibited expansion in a very marked de gree. Indicating the growth in home mis sion achievements during the past year over what they were for the year of lfllil when the convention met last in Atlanta. Dr. Gray pointed out that in the latter year there were 1(56 baptisms in Cuba while this year the number is an increase of 100 per cent. In lltlll the Cuban churches made contri butions of $7.00(1 while this year the contribution was SII,OOO, an increase of over 50 per cent. In 101!) the two lending mission sehools in Cuba, one at Havana and the other at Santa Clara had 100 pupils while today they have 400. Cuba is calling for a half dozen new workers and as maiiv chapels Dr Gray said. GIRL'S BOTTLED MESSAGE RIDES WAVES 42 YEARS Thrown in Sea Off Ireland in 1882. Just Lands on Rorkawa.v Beach. New A ork. Alay 17. —A dark green bottle, tightly sealed with wax, was picked lip at Rockawa.v Beach a month ago. Inside was a penciled note which indicated an 18-year-old girl named Kinoh, with whimsical romance in her heart, had cast it into the seat at Kings town, Ireland, on December 4. 1882. hoping "some nice boy finds and re turns it to im*." ' There are very few authenticated' cases of such kind oil"record.' but today there came apparent proof that the bot tle actually did ride the waves of the Atlantic for 42 years. It is vouched for by the girl who wrote the note that winter day in 1882. Airs. Willis in Ryan, who comes from Kingstown, remembered that she once knew the name "Kindi” although she is much younger than the writer of the note. Out of curiosity she wrote a let ter to “Elizabeth Kindt. Pave Lane. Kingston,” telling here of the finding of the bottle. Airs. E. Kindi Refine, now 60 years old replied, saying she was the writer of the o’d note, and Hint eight persons in this city had written her about it. SOCIALISTS DEMANDING MILLERANIVS RESIGATION Give Notice They Will Take Part in No Government That Does Not Ask Him to Resign. Paris. Alay 17 (By the Associated Press).—The exeeutive committee com prising forty members of the Republican socialist party, of which Aristide Rriand, former premier, is a member, today re solved to refuse to participate in any government which does not promise to realize the first point of which is the resignation of Printer Alillerand. Provided With New Eyelids. London, Al*y 17.—A wonderful operation performed in a Liverpool hos pital has brought relief to a man who ’ost both eyelids-while employed among chemicals, and who for six years lias been unable to dose his eyes. The man, a chemist, came to England from California during the war to join the British army, but was sent to Gretna munitions factory and put to work in the chemical laboratory. In the early part of 1017 he was handling a tube billed with sulphuric acid when the phial burst and his face was badly a plashed. The left eyelid was burnt away, and the other was partly destroyed, the skin being burnt off one side of his face. The man’s agony was intense, and when the torture oftlie burns diminished it was only to give way to another— that of being unable to dose his eyes. At an Edinburgh hospital the first attempt was made,' without success, to graft new eyelids. Finally he entered a hospital in Liver|>ool. where a prominent surgeon undertook to per form an operation for grafting, regarded as one of the most difficult in surgery. Skin was taken front the patient's own arm, and now eyelashes have even grown across the rims of the lids. Man ami Wife Held on Robbery Charge. New York, Alay I(s.—An indictment charging Hurry Lesser and his wife, Lillian, said to boa former movie actress and daughter of a wealthy Californian, with the robbery of Mrs. Howard John son. wife of a musical comedy lyricist, was returned by a grand jury today. Lesser is already under indictment on a charge of binding and robbing Mrs. Mildred Monroe, former Follies beauty. Mrs. Lesser told Assistant District Attorney Garrison that it was “per fectly ridiculous” to link her husband’s name with the slaying and robbing oi Louis Lawson and "Do” King. Police are checking similarities between the Johnson and Monoo robberies and the Lawson and King murders. ( • TODAY’S m • NEWS m • TODAY m NO. 115 AVIATORS ON TRIP , AROUND THE WORLD CROSS-fc^ Their Passage Was the First That Has Been Made Over The Pacific by Air—Three Planes Across. 1 HAZARDOUS TRIP FOR AVIATORS Pilots Made Jump of 878 Miles and Had I to Fight Way Through Chilly Arctic Winds and Snow Storms. Paramashuri Island. Kuriles, Alay 17 (By the Associated Press). —Blazing a trail through skies never before invaded by an airplane, the three United States army world fliers reached this ice-fringed remote bay, bordering the Arctic, this morning, thereby gaining the distinction of being the first, to have crossed the Pacific by air.. In negotiating the hazardous jump of 878 .miles from Attn Island in the Aleutian group, the pilots, Lieutenants Smith. Wade and Nelson fought their way through chilly Arctic winds and snow storms that whipped their faces with lacerating icy grains. Two of the planes landed in Kashi wabnra Bay, and the third descended to the water off the nearby islnnd of Shim slut. DISCUSS RELATION OF SHOALS TO AGRICULTURE Witnesses Say Solution of Fertilizer Problem One of Great Importance to Country. (By the Associated Press.) Washington. Alay 17.—Solution of the fertilizer problem lies in the manufac ture and sale of concentrated fertilizer ingredients for mixing with filler. .Wil liam t’allan. vice president of the Arathie son Alkali Works, Inc., of New York, lold the Senate agriculture committee at today’s Alnscle Shoals hearing. He is an advocate of the associated power com panies bid for Afttscle Shoals. Farmers could save 55 per cent, of the presW cost cf fertilizer by using concentrated fertilizer mixed by a co -operative mixing plant, tie said. ; --.-r -—V -e—^-4 y ' OWSLEY MAY RUN FOR DEMOCRATIC OFFICE If Endorsed by Texas Democratic Con vention He WHI Seek Nomina ton For \ ice Presidency. (By ’the Associated Press.) Kearney. Neb.. Alay 17.—Alvin AI. Owsley, attorney, of Dallas, Texas, ami past National Commander of the Amer ican Legion, will seek the Democratic Vice-Presidential nomination if he is en dorsed by tlie Texas 'State Convention, according to advices received by the lo cal legion post today. Humor Follows Otto Evan Into IDs Ceil. Raleigh, May 16—Otto H. Wood sent back his first breakfast served him since his return to Raleigh and this morning ordered his waiter to return to Warden Bitsbee with the message to "take his breakfast and go to hell with it.” . f • Air. Worn] was much peeved the first day of renewed energies. He sent Cap tain Bnsbec word to put “on your damned fighting clothes" and to give battle. Warden Busbee is considered a nervy man lint wasn't expected to ac cept the invitation to fight. The warden will watch his charges, but if they ever break out again anti go to Roanoke the prison man is going on the train. He wont run a Packard over Virginia roads. North Carolina Birth Rate Slightly Higher. Washington. May 16.—A summary of birth figures issued by the census bureau today shows that. North Caro lina had n slightly higher girth rate in 1022 than in 1023. The rate per thou sand people was 30.0 in 1022 and 30.0 in 1023. The city rate was 28.2 against 28.0, while the rural rate was 3L3 against 30.3. Asheville had 20.0 in 1022 against 26.2 in 1023. Charlotte 28.6 against 28.7. Durham 23.5 against 26.6. Gastonia 43.2 against 41.8. Greensboro 20.fi against 28.8. Raleigh 26.4 against 28.2. Wilmington 30.3 against 27.8. The North Carolina death rate was the same for the two year. Senator Harrison to Be Temporary Chair man. New York. May 17 (By (he Associat ed Press) —Senator Pat Harrison, of Mississippi, today was unanimously chos en temporary chairman of the Demo cratic National Convention in New York next month. WHAT SMITTY’S WEATHER CAT SAYS Fair tonight and Sunday; warmer in the north and west portions tonight.