North Carolina Newspapers

• ASSOCIATED • • * • DISPATCHES 9 VOLUME XXV SENIIEDEEEITSBIL TO THETHEATHES FOR WEEK PENSIONS Reconsidered Vote of Yester day tQ Increase the Con federate Pensions by Tax ing Theatre Admissions. BILL DEFEATED BY VOTE OF 26 TO 18! * . ? This Vote Ended the Attempt to Increase the Pensions Confederate Vet erans This Session. reconsidered the vote by which it passed on second reading yesterday the bill to increase the Confederate Veterans pen sion by taxing theatre admissions, and after a bitter fight defeated- the measure. 20 to 18. This vote ended the attempt to V in crease the pensions for this session. Pinal action was taken after Senator liurgwyn, of Northampton again had sent forward his amendment to substitute the tax on theatre-admissions with an ad valorem tax of 1 cent per SIOO valua tion of property. This amendment was defeated for the second time. The chief argument against the bill today was that the senate amendment of yesterday to exempt all theatre admis sions under 50 cents virtually nullified the purpose of the measure. It was stat ed that without th esmaller admissions the revenue derived probably would not exceed $25,000. Proceedings in the Home. Raleigh. March 10.—Concurrence in the senate amendment to the appropria tions bill which -enabled its ratification featured the morning session of the House of Representatives today. A few local measures went through on final reading. ' However, a spirit of frivolity pervaded the lower branch as it marked time while the senate was digging away on the busi ness before it. - First there was an effort made to re peal the anti-flirting law. This gage rise to a vigorous speech by> Representative . Wakefield of Caldwell County, who dr owned to yield to various members, and wap roundly applauded for his refusal. He declared it had come to him that more than one Raleigh college girl sitting in the gallery of the House the other night while he opposed passage of the bill, had said “Hurrah for Wakefield.” Referring to the young ladies of the present generation the mepiber from Cald well declared gesticulating “If they are not here to be loved, wooed and won, what, I ask, are they here for? The girls in North Carolina are standing on the : r tiptoes and saying please repeal this law, You ore not a bunch of wooden blocks, you are not marble slabs. Yon are men. Then I ask you.to repeal this useless legislation and give ’em a chance.” Some took the matter seriously, others smiled, and when the motion of Ward, of Craven, introducer of the repealer, to sus pend the motion forMmraedinte vpte on the measure there was a lusty majority. Then the repealer passed its second reading, , "If there is no objection the bill will be read a third «me,” automatically echoed the speakers’ll' -„t "I object,” said one. ; “I move the ruies’be suspended,” ehal v lenged another. “Forty-seven to-thirty-tqfo,” announced the speaker, “there not being the re quired majority,, the, motion fails of adoption.” Then oame Mi* JijJia Alexander's bill to rfemove the State capital to Char lotte. ; Representative Erriu, of Burke } who declares, that for the past thirteen days he has gone to the hall of the house de termined to keep his lips sealed and say j nothing, but has broken his firm resolve froin day to day injected an amendment, that it be moved to Morganton, and that the privileges of certain institutions there, exclusive of the pchool of deaf and dumb, and including the State hospital, be extended to members. Local bills passed the. house as fol lows: To protect game in Harnett Coun ty ; to establish a,highway commission in Johnston; relating to salaries in Robe son, MEMBERS OF THE NEW PRISON BOARD APPOINTED Gov. McLean Also Names Four Near ' Members of Board of Agriculture. (By t*e Associated Press! Raleigh, March 10.—The six members of' the newly constituted prison board and four members of the State board of agriculture were appointed by Governor A. W. McLean today. Notice of ap pointments were immediately sent to the senate. The four members of the high way commission hove not been ap pointed, according Jto Governor McLean, but it is expected they will be announced today. * Members of the prison board as an nounced are: Richard Chatham, of Elkin, James A. Leake, of Wadesboro; A. E. White, of Lumberton; Jhon M. Brewer, of Wake Forest; Preston Wilson, of Warsaw, and Ben D. Everett, of Pal myra. Members appointed to serve on the board of agriculture are as follows: Dr. Clarance Poe, of Raleigh, reappointed; Fred P. Latham, of Bejhaven, reappoint ed; P. J. Finch, of Wheatmore, to suc ceed C. C. Wright: E. G. Robinson, of Leicester, to succeed Mrs. Vanderbilt. The word “lady” dates from Anglo-Sax -4v times, when it meant “she who looks after the loaf.” The Goncord Daily Tribune » } ; LEPROSY CURED Four Lepers Discharged as Cured From j - National Institute in South. ' I Washington, March 10.—Four leperc have been released from the National] .Leprosarium. in Carville, La„ their dis-1 [ease having been cured, or, in official j terminology, “arrested,” Surgeon Gener-l I |al Cumming of the public health service I . announced today. They were regarded | no longer a menace to the public health.) “The conditions under which lepers! are released from thus institution are ex-1 , eeedingly rigid.” the surgeon general said. “They require special observa ■ tion for one year, including monthly bac teriological examinations to show that the leprosy bacillus Is absent from the tissues. CPrtiflaotion of cure alsoi is required from a board of three medical officers stationed ,at the li< epital and ex ] perieneed in leprosy, j “The treatment at -Varvllle includes > the use of chnuimoogra oil, special prepa rations of mercury used intravenously. X-ray therapy, surgery of superficial areas of involvinent, hydro therapy and the violet ray. The results of treatment have been sufficiently encouraging at this institution to induce numerous other pa tients, of whom there are believed to be several hundreds iu the United States, to agree to their transfer. “A special car fitted up for the pur pose and carrying a doctor and a nurse urns user] in the transfer last wedk of eleven patients from Florida, and seven hvere brought from California. There are at present 236 leper patients at Car vine.” SENATE THROUGH WITH THE REVENUE MEASURE Passed on Final Reading and Sank to Ok > House. —Machinery BUI Passes, Too. | Raleigh. March !>.—The ■ senate this morning, with 46 members present pass ed the revenue bill on final reading and sent that act over to the house, for Con currence in a senate amendment. W spec- j iai messenger; put the machinery bill through its final readings with two amendments, in which the house will have to concur or delay things greatly; tacked on 10 amendments to the bill appointing the boards of education for the respje’ive counties of th estate; gave Major Heath, of Union, precedence ove# the appropria tions bill and heard him in a li-nrtf-reuTl ing speech for an hour, followed by oth ers ; and at 2:30 this afternoon referred till * o’clock after defeating the Burgwyn- Johnson amendment to the Heath-Nettles bill to levy a cent tax on every hundred dollars of real and personal property in the. state to increase the pensions to Con federate Veterans instead of Nettles plan of an admission tax on moving picture theatres. The administration bill, “directing the methods by which all appropriations for permanent improvements shall, he used hy the institutions to which such appropria tions are made,” also passed on final trading and is now n law, no amend ment coming up in the Senate, and the Mil taking up little time on the explana tion of Senator-Woodson, of Rowan, tliat the bill merely set forth wh'cli needs were most urgent in line with the requests before the appropriations committee by the institutional heads and also would prevent moneys from being expended for items not presented by these institutions. The revenupe bill then was taken up and passed on its third rending, having been passed through second reading lust .week. Senator Williams, of Pasquotank, urged speed so as to send it to the House for concurrence and the vote showed 36 to 4 for the bill. Senators Alderman, Grant, McKeithan and Robertson voted against the bill. The machinery act, relat've to assess ments on property, was adopted as sent over by the house, with two amendments added by the senate. The house placed several amendments in the bill- before adoption in that body. The senate did not like one of these amendments which read: “That the fees provided herein shall be in addititon to any salary paid or now authorised to be paid any register of deeds or auditor in any county where said reg ister of ‘deeds or auditor shall be paid the fees herein in addition to his salary.” Charlotte Wins in Statewide Latin Con test. • \" (By the Associated Press) Chapel Hill, N. C., March 10.—The Central High School, of Charlotte, rep -1 resented by Walter Spearman, won first ] prize in the first annual State-Wide Latin Contest, the winners of which were an nounced recently by the committee in charge. The contest was held under the auspices of the University Extension Di vision and Latin Department in co-oper ation with the participating schools. The purpose of the contest- was to test the students’ knowledge of Latin in’ a simple and direct way by translations ami questions on grammar, thereby aiding in the stimulation :of the study of Latin in the high schools. Ti(e Central High School “will be awarded a trophy .cup given by the Ex tension Division. The committee also announced that an “excellent paper” was presented by Miss Evelyn Josephs of the Charlotte schools while the average of the three papers presented by that school was the highest. ' The following high schools sent in at least one paper whose mark was above ninety: Asheville, Fayetteville, Morven, Shelby, Wilmington, \Vindsor, and Win ston-Salem. A Feet in the State Senate. Raleigh, March 9.—The senate did not know till a few’days ago that there is a poet (n its midst and that the poet is Senator Alderman, of Vance county*, - among the eldest members and a new man in the senate. In hia appeal to give Davie county a blue Sunday law over the pro , tests of Senator Grant, of that county, t},e fence senator turned out this bit of poetry, which may be original: . “Maude Muller on a summer’s , day > Watched the hired man rake the hay; She ladghed right merrily in her glee, When up hia pants leg crawled a bee. ■ Later the hired man laughed in turn, i When a great big grasshopper crawled up ‘horn’.” , I CQNCORD, N. C„ TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1925 -3 j IIIIM INTO K ] SETTLEIHTSTO BE ] RESUMED Ml I -w- By the Special Senate In* vestigating Committee of Which Senator Couzens Is the Chairman. WILL PRESENT CASES BEGINNING MONDAY Tile Hearings Will Be Final* ly Brought to an End on .hme Ist hy the Orders of the Senate. (By the Amocltfted Press) Washington, March 10.—Resumption next Monday of its Inquiry into tax set tlements Was determined upon today by the special senate investigating commit tee. Chairman Cotizeqs said the eommitee made its decision without reference to his charges yesterday in the senate that the* treasury was seeking to discipline him by reopening his 101!) tax returns. “That matter was not discussed.” he .said. “Our staff has been at work pre j paring cases and will be ready to pre sent them beginning Monday. In April the staff will prepare further cases for presentation in May. before the hearings are finally brought to an end on June Ist by senate orders.” Sim-e the Senate will not be in Ses sion during the remainder of the hear ings. the testimony given in secret will not be one available to the public until the new Congress assembles. ) ” THE COTTON MARKET! Near Months Relatively Easy.—Tone of the Market Unsettled. (By the Associated Press) New York. March 10.—The cotton mar ket opened steady today at unchanged prices to a decline of 7 points with 1 near months relatively easy, as a result of liquidation promoted by lower Liverpool cables and circulation of March notices estimated at 7,900 bales. Failure of the weather map to show rain in the south west disapointed some of yesterday’s sellers, and led to covering in new crop months. The tone of the market, howev er. was, rather, unsettled. May selling off to 25.88 and October to 25.48 or about I 1 to 5 points net lower. Privat enables said the weakness of Liverpool had been dune to near month liquidation by spot houses, and there appeared to be some spot house selling of both March and May in the market. Opening prices were: March 25.66; May 25.88; July 20.12; October 25.48; December 25.42. Working on Plana For Mt. Mitchell Hotel. March B.—Plans for the erection of a summer hotel on Mt. Mitchell at a cost of approximately $30,- 000 are expected to be concluded upon the return of F. A. Perley, of the Mt. Mitchell Development - Company from Florida. Announcement of the proposed hotel was made some months ago and per mit hah been requested of the Federal government, asking that the builders be allowed to put up the structure, accord ing to Verne Rhodes, supervisor of Pisgah Forent. The part of the moun tain on which the structure is to stand, is on the government forest reservation. Mr. Rhodes said the government is ready to issue the permit as soon as Mr. Periey’s company meets a few minor re quirements which are expected to be done as a matter of course as soon as Mr. Perley returns from Florida. It is that work on the hotel will stnrt shortly. It is to be located about a half-mile from Camp Alice at « point where a complete view both up and down the South Toe river is avail able. It is to contain 25 rooms and built so additions may be put up at any time. It is to be a combination stone and log structure. , : f Building Program at Duke University. Durham, N. C., March o.—The initial steps in the six million dollar building program at Duke University will be tak en within the next few weeks, it was announced here today. The plans are rapidly nearing completion, it is stated, and tio delay Is expected before actua 1 construction begins. \ The building plans, it is understood, are being prepared by a northern firm of ar chitects and have been under considera tion for some time. At Duke Univer sity. a large office has been set aside and equipped as architects.' headquarters. From this office the building program, will be directed, and it is announced that the work will, require several years. An extensive draining and regrading program is now in progress at the Uni versity grounds. Scores of men are at work on the southeastern terrace. border ing Buchanan Boulevard, grading and re sodding this stretch. Road beds and walks are being re-surfaqbd. ' ■ While on a recent visit to- the Univer sity Mr. Duke, in company with archi i teets, jnspeeted the campus. ,>, ■ Briand WHI Stand for Application Os i Security Protocol. Paris, March 10 (By the Associated ; Press). —Former Premier Briasd, toho is • representing France at the present meet ing of the League of Nations council at Geneva, will stand for application of the security protocol adopted by the league I assembly last September, it wa* said •to day in official circles. * ■ He Will declare that >security is a mat ter affecting aH countries, .and all ainst; < participate in measures necessary to ism aure it. , ■>’ m Sings Oil Loan II ll mtm Hi Miss Kathleen Rating of Wichita Kas,, U on herßMßtq Paris to.etudy under Madame ®Hma Calve, noted French soprano. Mr was glven.i the opportunity to lin this musical oducation by skas Wichita Rotary Chib, which loan# her SSOOO “to be paid back an • I If she.can.” - O’ROURKE ARIHV SIN SALISBURY Is Manager of tin *Balisbury-Spencer > Basebaß Team. (By the Aue ated Press) Salisbury. March !>, -“Patsy O'Rourke, manager of the Sail bury-Siteneer base ball team in the Pied lont League, arriv ed in the city last i trek, and has an nounced that he is ht e to stay until the end of theiseason. “I am here until the new park is built, a team trained and put in the.field. And a hard race given the oth er clubs in the Piedmont League,” be said. , O'Rourke, according to the records, is a ball player of several years experience. He was manager Os the Greenville team in the South Atlantic Is*ague in 1921, coming within a game' and a half of win ning the pennant. Two years ago, as manager of the Bristol Club in the Ap palachian League, he won the pennant and did the same thing with the same club last year. He managed the Augusta team in the Sally League after leaving Greenville and had a -successful season. He also had managerial experience on other league teams. ’ Local officials *tnte®3:ut as •» player manager O’Rourke is- ex;>ected to be able to hold his own with any player in the league. His record shows that he can fill almost any position on the diamond. Work on the local park is being push ed to completion. O’Rourke iN supervis ing the work and hopes to have it com pleted within the next ten days. The park, when completed, is expected to be one of the best in the league. Messrs. Hay man and Moore, of Char lotte. owners of the dub, are liking up players and are expected to release a list of the prospective player#,within the next few days. They report that they ore as sembling a number of players that will make the Salisbury-Spencer club one of the strangest contenders for the pennant in the Piedmont Is-ague. Practice will begin March 25, according to the present plans. Pilot O’Rourke Ims planned a number games to be played here dur ing the training season, as well as sev eral to be played away from home. PARIS MAIDENS FALL HARD FOR NEW BAREFOOT CRAZE Pink Toes Much in Evidence as Made moiselle Struts the Boulevards. Paris, March 10.—The Parisienne has taken advantage of the first sunny spring day to show her pretty pink pedicured toes iq public, shorn even of the trans parent covering afforded by silk stock ings. Barefoot fashion has come. Paris shoemakers, having exhausted their inventiveness- in costly ornamenta tion, . have evolved something which is more than a sandal and considerably less than a shoe. It consists of ap excep tionally high heel and an exceedingly thin sole, and nothing else except a gold en strap around the ankle. The wearer’s foot is qnite free, and al though for the moaientmost women still wear stockings, they are eagerly waiting for the last muddy days of winter to i pass so they may discard silk iiose and ■ display their toes ii* unadorned daittti ness. 1 For 1 the last two summers it has been the- custom for women to go barefoot ■ iin Deauville and' other fashionable re ■ sorts, at feast when their fret were shape ly. But this spring the barefoot craze . is out to conquer the city.. [ The toeles* shoe and unveiled ankles are expected to be the features of semi- I nitie style at the race tracks, at dances • and evejt on the streets. : Tourist Tide Turns, to Load or the Sky. Asheville, March 7. —-Many have ex ■ pressed their opinion that- there are mom tourists in the city now than at any other time in the city’s history at ' this period of the year and reports from other sections of Western North Caro lina are to the effect that many tourists ' are arriving in these sections. Indications are- it was said, that this summer will be the biggest in the his s tory of Western North Carolina as re gards tourist traffic. Audi preparations. I it is declared, are being made for their i entertainment such as have never (been - planned before. t The city administration and the : Chamber of Commerce,,-together, with :, al| rivto organizations, will co-operate in rvaccommodatinf vkhe thousands of visi- I torn wBo are >aapected to-visit the Land -of the Sky this summer. And this .co ll operation will ibe extended it to ievery ' hamlet/ vll'age and towpidn • this entire mountain area, it was'aaid. - . ;«sL.. i PRINCIPAL CLUE TO JEWELRY ROBBERIES IN NEW (01 CITY Is the Pasty (Face of a Gray Haired Man—A Fleeting Glimpse of a Drug Addict Was Caught by Victim. MASK HAD FALLEN FROM HIS FACE Robbers Took More Than $25,000 Early Yesterday Morning From Mrs. Bea trice Perkins, Aged 24. (By the Associated Press) New York, March 10.—Tlie pasty face of n gray haired man is the principal due police have to the latest oi the se ries of jewelry robberies perpetrated up on women who frequent the cabarets of Broadway. Mrs. Beatrice Perkins. 24, from whom three masked burglars took gems valued at more than $25,000 early yesterday, af ter they had entered her apartment and bound and beaten the woman and Milton Abbott, her companion, told the police . that she had caught a fleeting glimpse of the face of a man “apparently a drug ad dict” when his handkerchief mask had fallen. The robbery, similar to those of Dot King, Louise Lawson, Avonne Taylor, Mrs. Wm. J. Fox. and Edith Bobe, might have resulted fatally for Mrs. Perkins’ ns . it djd to Dot King and Louise Lawson, both of whom were killed by robbers who are thought to hnve trailed them from the Broadway palaces of light where they lavishly displayed jewels. • ANTI-FLIRTING MEASURE RIDICULED BY THE GIRLS They Say It Makes the General As sembly Appear As “Body of Old Fashioned Fools.” Raleigh. March B.—“ The general as sembly has made itself appear as “a body of old fashioned fools” was the was, not one girl, but girls at several of the Rnl eiglit women's schqoi expressed them selves on the final passage in the house of the bill- the girls call the “anti-flirt ing and flitting biR.” “It’s a shame they - haven't got more sense.” another girl put ■ It, “for yye don’t want it and the school - authorities can handle any real mean boy without enacting another fool law that can’t and won’t ever be enforced.” “Why can't the legislature leave well enough alone and why must the general assembly mess itself up with trying to - regulate thinking, religion and boys?” - one girl exclaimed. “It’s perfectly dis gusting—dumb.” Talk in the hotel lobbies today was , over probable action by the senate and house on several important matters but, before the conversation ran long on any subject, it got off on the subject of anti flirting bill, as it has been dubbed gen ’ erally by every one. The idea of a member of the house, who incidentally fought the bill, were illuminating. He regards the law now as adequate, with the public nuisance . statute and proper police so-operation, and contends that as the bill passed a young man or other male could be haled into court if he waved at a college girl, home oh vacation, from across his home town streef. or anywhere for that mat ter. The bill, he said, reads against • “willfully” committing such acts and th/P word “willfully” makes every mere male person, who hns waved at a girl, talked or glanced at her in any way i paid any attention to her, guilty per se. ; If a man did any of these “high crimes” I naturally he did it with such intent and ■ following to do so in his mind. “The whole bill is a farce,” he as serted, “and won’t be enforced, can't be I enforced exeept. in ’those rare casek of drunkeness nnd so forth, for which there i are statutes galore already-” i > ' DISPUTE OVER WARREN’S f NOMINATION RESUMED Chairman Cummins Defends Warren Against Charges Brought Against I Him. f (By the A moo luted Press) ! Washington, March I(l.—'The dispute oven Chas.: B. Warren's nomination to be Attorney General was resumed today in the Shnate. ! Chairman Cummins of the judiciary committee, defended the nominee again-st the charges that have been brought against him ’while th? burden of the op position was taken over by Senator Reed, ( democrat, of Missouri. Duke Not After Johnson. Durham, March '9.—Walter Johnson, coach at the Presbyterian College in South- Carolina, is not being conSiered hh a possible football coach at Duke University, according to official announce ment here today, since he is under a five-year contract with the South Caro lina institution. Coach Johnson was among more than two score, candidates who were being con sidered, but owing to his contract with the Presbyterian College he will not be considered as a possible head coach for the Blue Devils. The statement by Duke officials was made following an unofficial announce ment that Johnson had been selected. Dr. Marx Re-elected to German Premier ship. Berlin, March 10 (By the Associated Press).—Dr. Wilheim Marx, former Ger man' Chancellor, And last month chosen Premier of Prusia, was re-elected to the Premiership today receiving 232 out of 440 v«tes cast in the diet. Dr. Mar* re signed late last month aftea failing to ob tain a vote of confidence. ERIE CANAL CENTENNIAL Centennial Celebration to Be Observed Next October. New York, March 10. —Greater use of. •the New York State Barge Canal Apt transportation of foodstuffs and mamk factored materials, as well as the im portant part played by the old Erie water -1 way in the development of the Empire State, will be stressed during the cen tennial celebration of the canal, to be ob served next October, according to an an nouncement from -the Erie Centennial Canal Commission. It is expected that every city and town along the canal, from Albany to Buffalo, will join iu the celehration, which will be concluded with a great meeting and banquet in this city. The earliest history of the State of New York shows that the natural rivers aud lakes formed the first means of com munication between the settlers of the Hudsno Valley and those of the interior, and that the first fortifications built were constructed on these waters. There was only a sparse population in the western sections, not because of any lack of peo ple who wanted to live there, but because there was no way whereby their prod ucts could be brought to a market with out large expense and grest risks. The first canal locks were constructed at Lit tle Falls, by a private company acting under charter from the State. These, finisher! in 1796. could accommodate a boat of 16 tons and their completion * gave great impetus to the agitation for the building of the State-owned Erie Canal, which was started in 1817 under Gov. DeWitt Clinton, and was called, in derison, "Clnton's Big Ditch.” The route of this waterway had been gone over ..and approved by President Washington, himself an engineer and sur veyor. The canal was opened October | 25. 1825. with a great celebration and naval display in New York, and turned out to be the world’s greatest canal. The effect of the Erie Canal was soon felt, not only through the State, but throughout the East and the Great Lakes region. Settlers flocked Westward, for ests gave way to sawmills, villages re placed these, the soil was fertile and more men weie attracted. Prosperous towns were established on the Great Lakes and the splendid chain of cities, which have won for New York the title of "The Empire State,” sprang up along the line of the Erie. Canal. The shipping which once went to Phil adelphia. then the country's biggest sea port. came to New York: the city grew by leaps and bounds and became the commercial center of the American Un ion. In 1841 the exports of New York were valued at three times those of Mas sachusetts, the value of real estate had increased more dapily than- the popula tion, whereas personal property was near ly quadrupled, and manufacturing trebled in value. As early as 1840 there wege five times as many people following com mercial pursuits in-Nese-York a* there werC in 1820, or before the completion of the Erie Canal. The invention of the steam engine and the building of the railroads struck a se vere blow at the canals. Some of them failed and were closed. The Erie and the main branches of the canal system were enlarged from time to time, but htill failed entirely to hold their old popularity. Then came the construc tion and development of the New York State Barge Canal system, consisting of the old Erie canal and three main branches, and constituting together the greatest canal system in the world. But long before the enlargement of the sys tem, as far back as 1882, the old Erie Canal had earned, over and above all its original cost and expenses of enlarge ment, maintenance and operation the huge sum of $40,000,000. DR. MAYO FORESEES CANCER CONQUEST WITHIN FEW YEARS Celebrated Surgeon. Addressing Philadel phia Forum. Says Science Makes Strides. Philadelphia Record. Dr. Charles H. Mayo, of Rochester, Minnn., one of the country’s leading sur geons, told the Philadelphia Forum in the course of a formal address in the Academy of Music last night that he be lieves “cancer will be under contral with in a few years.” “Under control” was his phrase. By it he does not mean that cancer will be cured, nor that it will be preventable. He means that it will be more amenable to treatment, and that its working will neither be so rapid nor so deadly. He bases his belief on two things: That cancer is caused by ar organism, perhaps a germ, and that the test the celebrated Wassermann has discovered really detects the presence of cancer. This test by the promulgator of the syphilis reaction operates in the same way. Wassermann announced this test for cancer several months ago in Berlin. He claims the percentage of success is high. Dr. Mayo said last night this must be confirmed, but that information indi cates the test is practical. If it is so, and if cancer is caused by a definite or ganism. Dr. Mayo thinks the medical at tack on cancer is well advanced. Prohibit Westing of IMaait in Public in State of Texas. Austin. Tex., March 9‘.—A bill pro hibiting the wearing of masks in public was signed today by. Governor Ferguson. It. provides severe penalties for pen so ns entering public buildings, churches or private residences while masked. It was • a Democratic j>ai\ty pledge of the last campaign and resulted mainly from 1 flogging parties staged by masked hands ■ in Texas during the last few years, said i Representative Holbrood, author of the ! bill. ' One section of the law which becomes effective immediately, declares it tinlaw -1 ful “for any secret society or organ iza ' tion or a part of the members thereof, masked or disguised, to parade upon or along any public road or any street or . alley of any city or town in this state.” I Winner of Olympian Championships Dies. (By the Associated Press) t New York, March IQ.—Mjw, Pr*i* t »• stein, IS, former World’s record holder t in the running broad jump, and winner 009000901 • TODAY’S • • NEWS ft ft TODAY « ftftftftftftftfttt NO. 58 \m “him i* im CONSIDERED MOST IIMTMT If Tomb Found Is That of Pharoah Who Preceded Cheops, Is More Important Than Tutankahmen Find. TO YIELD OBJECTS OF PRICELESS VALUE Tut Was a Relatively Unim portant King While Fene feru Was One of Founders of Egyptian Empire. London, March -0 (By the Associated Press). —Egyptologists here agreed that if the tomb found by the Boston Har vard expedition deep down in the rock near the great pyramids at Giza, proves to be that of the Pharoah who immedi ately preceded the renowned pyramid builder Cheops, its importance is far greater than that of Tutankhamen be cause it is some, thousands of years old er, and the Contents may throw light up on that remote period about which very jlittle is known. The Pharoah Feneferu, whose name is variously spelled by English Egyptologists Was the first king of the fourth dynasty; about 4.000 B. C., while Tutankhamen reigned as late as the 18th dynasty, his- of which is fairly familiar. How ever Tut was a relatively unimportant king, while Feneferu was regarded as one of the founders of the Egyptian Empire, and a man of great enterprise and energy. Sir Wallace Budge, who lately retired from the post of keeper of Egyptian an tiquities in the British Museum, told the Daily Express that if the tomb proved to be that of Feneferu, and had not been plundered, it was almost certain to yield objects of priceless value. ' The Cairo dispatches yesterday telling of the discovery, said the sarcophagus was a large one of marble with gold dec orated columns and resting upon what seemed to be the place, was the seal of Feneferu. CO-OPERATION FOR AIR ROUTE DEVELOPMENT Between Great Britain and the United States Advocated bjt dm TBWM|IM»h * " (By (be Associated Press) Pittsburgh, March 10.—Worldwide co operation by the Un ! ted States and the British Empire in the development of commercial air routes was advocated by Brigadier General Lord Thompson, sec retary for air in Premier MacDonald’s cabinet, in an address today before the Student Assembly at the Carnegie Insti tute of Technology.' Declaring that Great Britain is working eastward “because of the necessity of drawing closer together the component parts of the British Empire, Lord Thomp son suggested that “the most beneficial results would follow if our co-operation in this field of aviation were worldwide, we British working east through India to Australia uiid the Far East, and you •Americans westward across the Pacific.” "Thus,” he pontinued. “between us we have put a girdle around the earth.” PRINCE OF WALES ACTING IN PLACE OF KING GEORGE la Presiffing for the First Time at the Medeival Pageant of Swords and Silks. London, March 10 (By the Associated Press). —The Prince of ‘Wales, acting in place of King George, today is presiding for the first time nt a “levee,” one of the medieval pageants of swords and silks, gold braid and gleaming epaulettes; 1 staged by British royalty in accordance with long standing custoina. Ambassadors in all the finer}’ of their full dress costumes joined richly with uniformed military meft of high rank .in making obeisance to the Prince, their gorgeous attire bespangled with medals ’ and decorations brightening the court- • yard and reception room of Bt. James palace with an assembly of color hardly to be equaled elsewhere these days. EXPLOSION AT HERRIN H. O. Fowler's Butcher Shop Dynamited By His Enemies. (By the Associated Press) Herrin, lIK, March 10.—H. O. Fowler, father of Glenn Fowler, one of the prin cipals in the Klan and anti-Klau fight ing here, aud his wife were slightly ’ins jared here today by an explosion which tore oat a corner of Fowler’s butcher shop here. Pol ice expressed the opinion that an explosive had been placed under the shop by unknown assailants. Fowler and his wife were sleeping in the rooms above the store. Glenn Fowler, who was a bodyguard for the late S. Glenn Young, was not at home. A young lady who married recently Jells us she just can’t get over listen ing for the chaperone. WHAT SMUTTY'S CAT SAYS IfHH ft . ’ ' ll '" "