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. (
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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.
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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.