PRFW * U
DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVI
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But He Had
Killed Her.—Says She
Took Poison Because
She Was Jilted.
TOOK POISON
IN HIS OFFICE
Says Marshall.— Confes
sion Made-in the Office
of District Attorney Tay
lor, of Media, Pa.
C Philadelphia, Pa., Jan .25. —OF)-*
Dnvld L. Marshall, chiropractor, con
fessed early today that he dismember
ed the body of Anna May Dietrich,
but sobbingly denied that he murder
ed the 35 years old Norwood milliner,
declaring she took poison in bis office
because she was “jilted" by a wealthy
New York man.
Half an hour before he broke down
and confessed Marshall had been oyer
and looked into the disfigured face of
the woman in the Media morgue, and
i said:
[ “I wish she could speak; she would
1 tell you lam guiltless.”
The confession wns made In the
office of District Attorney Wm. Tay
: lor. -of Media, and came tumbling in
coherently after an examination of
four hours. j
He was takeb to Media from hia
home in Bywood Heights, which oyer
looks the ravine where the young
woman’s head, lodged under a rail
road trestle was found Saturday and.
i where searchers came upon the re
mains of the clothing bought by her
lgte Tuesday, tbe day before she. dis
appeared to be worn at a dance the
following night.
Marshall had glibly answered num
erous questions in the district attor
ney's office, in his home, in his office
and in the presence of the mutilated
body in the morgue.
Marshall had been left alone with
District Attorney Taylor.
(•“Mr. Taylor,” he began after a ton
minute’s silence, “l want you \ to
promise me one thln<; that you will
take care of my Wife and chUdi” Theyi
. there was another pause. , 1
“1 did it,” he cried suddenly. „
MHHKttr wrmrmmy or w
womah's death and She dismembering
dnd disposition of the body.
“I met the girl Tuesday night out
side my office on 17th street In Phil
adclphia,” l 'fie 'begnn. “She said she
did not feel ohry well. 1 ‘proposed
thaf she go up tyy 1 my office. I told
her the door was -trtflocked and to He
down: I said'l was going out To get
fidirtethlng] to egt:-” ■’ :l '
“I was gone about ah hpur. When
I came back I went' ft)’the office but
did not see Miss Dietrich. She was in
the bathroom. '
“I sat down and read for ten or
fifteen fninntes. Then I knocked on
• the. bathroom (loot; and when I was
not answered , I pqslied in the door
which was fastened wifi) a catch.
“I found Miss Dietrich
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) further. The reason is evident, he
- adds, for there is nothing so) graceful
- as a pretty leg. -
“ A spokesman for Jenny's in the
« Champs Elysees, the trend is townrd
? shorter dresses for evening as well as
ordinary wear. Another designer Raid
• that when/ America shortened its
i dresses too far. Par’s resisted, and it
- will be the same .now.
t “We do net dress women en mase,"
t he said, “but singly, and we advise a
( shorter Or longer robe according to
the womnn's figure, especially the
■ of her legs.”
i • , The'only dissenting note came from
. Paul Poiret, who said dresses arc too
: short, and that if an eighth of an inch
l mbre is cut off they will be hopeless
■ ly exaggerated.
Several midinettes who Wear short
. skirts and also help make them, came
, -right out for the abbreviated mode,
i one declaring, if “American girls had
i as beautiful legs as we have,, they
i ( woitld not want to hide them.” Sev
i eral, however, hoped the skirts would
get no Rhorter, admitting they are al
, ready somewhat awkward to manipu
: late in tramways and omnibusses
where tjie seat* are rather high.
MADAME SNOW PAYS
5 STATE HER SECOND VISIT
i Greensboro Reports Three Inches.—
Covers Southern Section of State,
Charlotte, Jan. 25.—OF)—The mod
[ este lime. Snow paid her second visit
i of the season to North Carolina last
■ night nnd today.
• Her design woh cloak elaborate bnt
more charming than the first. Its
- border of sleet was missing but in
-1 stead it bore n peeper softness with
a flake-like veil over it.
| The southern section of the state
: was clad in a new garment at day
break with the fleecy downpour still
; continuing. At ChaHotte the snow
was an inch or more deep at 8 this
| morning with no sign of letup.
Greensboro reported oße .account' of
, three inches of snow with more still
. coming down. It is not unusually
" cold at the Gate City.
; One inch was reported from .Salis
, bury and still snowing. Winston-
Salem, In the most northern part of
, the state, put the fall at 1 1-2 inches,
. melting as fast almost as it struck.
Gastonia measured the fall at three
\ inches at 8:30 this morning with more
. descending.
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INTEREST SHOWN IN
PET AND HOBBY SHOW
' . N
) Exhibit of Dolls Exported to Be Most
Unique Play—More KxMblta
- • Uss-HnTi fy ••• ■ -jll
‘ Much Interest is'bOhtg exhibited >n
I the PM and Hobby Show, which is to
■ be given next Saturdffy at the Y. M.
1 c: A - ,
• More exhibits qre expected than ev
■ er before an tk-e officials, to prevent the convic-
J tlon of certain persons and to obtain
j tbe removal of evidence files 'froiq the
department.
, In his petition, Felder claimed he
- had not been confronted during the
- trial by witnesses agaist him; that
, the indictment had not charged any
. crime; that the government had
II made improper usp of grand jury
- minutes in examining witnesses and
[ that tbOre was lack of proof to con
, ect him with the offense charged.
MORE OPPOSITION TO
THE CARAWAY BILL.
New Orleans Banker Enters Protest
With the Senate Agriculture Com
mittee.
Washington,'Jan. 25.—0 F) —Furth-
er oppoaition to the Caraway bill
which prohibits trading In cotton and
grain futures was heard todaj by the
Senate sgriqulture ocmmlttee.
Charles Deb. Claiborne, vice presi
dent of the Whitney Central Bank of
New Orleans, toM the committee that
the- passage of the measure would
compel' the banks to withdraw credits
from the cotton trade for cotton
would be an unsound Security with
out the insurance against loss made
, available with the hedting privilege.
IHe said if ttie bank credit is jrith
drawn the costs would so back to the
consumer. ....
i The condition of K. L. Craven, who
has been seriously ill at the Concord
Hospital for several days, la reported
today as being encouraging. Mr.
Craven rested weU .lsst night and was
a little better today.
The victory of Ivan Phddubny over
• Stanislaus Bybszko puts the giant
Russian In line for a match witti
Joe Steebar tor the world’s heavy
weight wrestling championship.. , j
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CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1920
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A party of anglers from Fort Wogth. Tex., made what they believe a
record catch of Osh when they dropfaed their lines off the Sabine light in
Che Gulf of Mexico. They landed 1| "Warsaw" fish, a variety of deep sea
oaaa, weighing a total of Moo pounds. Part of their haul Ls shown above.
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RANKIN PRAISES
SIMMONS’ WORK
Duke Hospital Fund Director Re
joices at Inheritance Tax Adjust
ment. A
Charlotte, Jan. 25.—Dr. W. S. ;
Rankin, director of the hospital and
orphans sections of the Duke Endow
ment, has written Senator Simmons
expressing his gratification at the sen
ator’s effective efforts in behalf of n
satisfactory adjustment of the inheri
tance taxes which carried without
amendment haye rested very heavily
on the hospital funds of the Duke En
dowment. Dr, Rankin calculates that
the income from the millions saved;
the Duke Endownment together with
supplementary income will mean 25,-
000 people provided annually with |
hospital care. His letter follows:
“As I wired you yesterday, X am
elated and profoundly grateful for
your interest and effective effprts in
behalf of a satisfactory adjustment
through the new tax bill for the heavy
inheritance taxes which, under the
law of 1924, would have rested dis
tressingly heavily upon the hospital
funds of the Duke Endowment. ,
“While human values, such as the
avoidance of unnecessary grief and
sorrow of parents for children and
children for parents, relief from in
terest and zest in the ordinary tasks
of life and increased happiness, be
weighed in the scales of personal ex
perience, certain farts stand out
which, though falling far short of in
thg far-reaching effects
your, successful efforts to amend tht>
new tax bill in the way it has been
agreed upon, vaguely indicate how
large and, fine a service you have gone
far toward accomplishing, i .- - i
“To save the sum of siX' or onents of the World Court in the
conference today decided to propose
that limit of debate on the "world
court issue begin March Ist.
This is wholly unacceptable to op
ponents and a vote on eloture at 1
p. m. is regarded as inevitable.
LOST CHILD THEME
OF NEW ORATORIO
“Guardian Angel” Is Title.—Deals
With Colonial Days in North Car
olina.
Lawrence. Kou„ Jan. 25.—The
legend of the child lost in, the forest
and protected from wild beAste ns by
a guardian angel is the theme of an
oratorio, "he Guardian Angel." writ
ten by Prof. Charles Sanford Skilton
of the University of Kansas.
Its premier production will com J
this sirring at the meeting of the
Kansas Federation of Music Clubs.
Into the oratorio is woven much of
(lie religious spirit of the Moravian
settlement of 1705 at Salem. N. C.
Many quaint customs of tin Morav
ians are brought out.. Prof Skilton
learned the legend while teaching, at
the Women's College- Saleiu, soon
after completing' has musical educa-i
tion in , Europe.
The Moravians jiad juovtsf south
wartp from their earlier , settlement
at" Bethlehem, Pa., and bad endeavor
ed to make homes in the miljs of
North Carolina. ’lt wAs’ (heir cqs-'
tom to divide church' congregations'
into ' choirs.'' ohe of which wAs' com
posed entirely of children.'At stated
seasons Of'thh'j’ea'r' each choir held
a love feast. The ohi Idrep observed
this custom on Christinas Kv>, when
they sang a song beginning, “Jesus
makes' my heart rejoice.” 1
This song furnishes -the cMitrnl.
thread for the oratorio, whrdh is di
vided into three sections. In the'
first section a group of children seeks;
permission tp, play in a meadow'
>vhcre mefl ,qre : working, . near a
forest. The story is told in a dialogue
of one child with. ,jts mother. The
mother demurs, but upon consulting
the “text book" and finding' the text
for tije day, "He shall ■ give His
apgels charge concerning thee,” con
sents to allow the child to go to the
meadow opt into the forest. The
child, however, is tempted by bright
blossoms at the .edge of the woods,
nnd wanders deeper into the timber,
becoming'lost and falling to sleep.
In thq second section the child
awakens, hears voices -of its play
mates and attempts to answer their
calls but con not. The child is held
down as if by a great band, the til*
sealed by the fingers of the hand
Gradually the voices die away and
the child is able to make its way to
thi edge of the clearing where it is
found. The searchers discover the
tracks of a panther end their pious
belief that an angel sent from heaven
to prevent the child crying out, and
thus attracting the animal.
The third section takes up the re
covery of the child, and the music
returns to the colonial, simplicity of
the opening chorus. The middle sec
tions, however, are developed along
modern musical lines.
The production on Ms for five seJo
voices, a children's chorus of 500, a
mixed chorus of 300 voices and sym
phony orchestra. The libretto is by
Abbie Harwell Brown of "Boston,
writer of children’s stories and
poems.
‘"tbe point of view of the orn
torlo,” said Prof. Skilton. “is to re
produce the piety of the founders of
America, both ns represented in the
New England colonies and in some
parts of the South. -It is truly
American in its production and in its
characters. The writing of . Ameri
cans, in their own way, is, I be
lieve, the only way to develop a real
American music.”
Government’s Request Denied.
St. Louis, Jan. 25.— OP) —The gov
ernment’s application to advance the
Teapot Dome oil lease rehearing was
denied without prejudice today by the
U. 8. Court of Appeals here. The
court said It would hear further gov
ernment application if counsel were
unable to agree before Februnary 10
on the advancement.
Forty-four cities in the United
States now have public golf courses.
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Coming Over
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I jraji
H B n si.
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crossed through town, the detective
following .him and 'finally catching up
with him after he had taken off his
ovegcoat. . •
He. shojved resentment when ac
costed by the detective, according to
the officers, but wh£n confronted with
a recital of his utmsual movements
ar-Hind town and the-attempt to cash
the i check he rcmnrked according to
the officer:
“You’ve .got the goods on mi 4 ' I had
ns well tell all Uknow.”
Brady Simpson is Wanted -on Crim
inal Assault Charge.
Charlotte, Jan,. 23.—Rural and
city police today were continuing a
search for Brady Simpson, 35, Thom
nsboro white man, who is alleged to
have committed criminal assault
while with the girl and Knox Brown,
1 (1-year-o’.d white boy, on a wild ride
i Wednesday night. Brow is iu jalt
i here and the girl, Sarah May Hicks,
12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Hicks, of Lakewood, is iu the
custody of lice r>arents.
The Hicks girl was missing from
: tier home Wednesday night but was
found Thursday afternoou- She told
; her parent# and officers that she had
been persuaded to go on an auto
i mobile ride by Simpson and' Brown.
Simpson is alleged to have criminally
assaulted the child during the night
after taking her to Kannpolis nnd
, other nearby towns. He left her dur
ing the night with the Brown boy,
according to her story. The Brown
boy faces charges of stealing an
automobile and df having had im
' proper relations with the girl. He
■ probably will be tried next week.
ReAieiug «Infant Mortality.
Gaston!*;- N. C., Jan. 25.—OP)—
Reduction-of the infant mortality in
Gastonia from 00.4 per- thousand in
1024 to 54.4 per thousand, in 1025,
nnd of the number of cases tit contag
ious diseases from 548 in 1923 to
07 in 1025, wa attributed to the qual
ity of the milk supplied by the dairies
of the county by City Manager D. L.
Struthers at the dairymen’s annual
banquet here.
“This fine record is due solely to
the good quality of milk produced by
these dairymen,” declared the city
manager, “and to the fine spirit of
co-operation they have shown through
out the whole campaign for better milk
In this county."
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THE TRIBUNE
PRINTS
TODAY’S NEWS TODAY
NO. 18
FEWER DEATHS IH 1
SOUTH LAST WEEK
FROM ACCIDENTS
■ i
Thirty-Three Persons Kill
ed in Eleven Southern
States in Traffic Acci
dents, Survey Shows:
FLORIDA LEADER --I
DURING THE WEEK
Alabama Free From Traf
fic Deaths.—Six Killed
and 32 Injured in This
State During Week.
Atlanta, Jan. 25.—C4>)—The traffic
toll in eleven sum hern states for the
week endiing last night was thirty
three persons killed and 257 injured, ,
it was shown in a survey made by the
Associated 1 ’rose early today. - • '
This shows a distinct fulling off,
especially in the number killed. .
Florida held the record for the week
in the number killed and the number
injured. There were eight deaths
and 49 injuries in that state. Ala
bama reported no deaths from traffic
causes.
South Carolina reported the fewest
injuries, but five having been re
corded in the Palmetto State. 1
Virginia followed Florida a close
second with 40 injuries.
There were no outstanding acci
dents during the week, the toll repre
' senting the general run of casual- ;
ties. A tabulation by states includes:
; North Carolina, six deaths and 32
injuries; South Carolina, four deaths
I ami five injuries.
. COTTON WAS QUIET J
NEARLY ALL OF WEEK
t One Burst of Activity Followed Pub
lication of Ginning Report—Prices . %
Lower-
New Orleans, Jan. 24.—The cot- t
. ton mai'ket was quiet all last week
, with the exception of the burst of .
' activity wljieh. followed the
| tion of the census bureau report on
! ginning* to January 1(5 on Saturday, s '
In anticipation of a total of about
. 10.000 bale* or more the market hail
eased off from the slight advance
with which the week opened, until <’
March contracts had 1 traded down to s ?
19.47 on Friday, a loss from Mon
. day’s high point of 53 points.' As
. soon as it was known that the offi
cial ginning total was only 15.488,-
, 230. the March position rallied 42
profits, or to within five points.-** the
. week's high. >v 1
The advance to : 20.00 for March on
Monday was the culmination of an
advance due to short covering in the
.pear months owing to the strongly
uttrepebed .positions of those holding,
the long end' of Jamjary.anjJ.lifcwcb.
From that high point the, market
gradually cased off, largely because a
good part of, the spot interest had
developed weakness although tjhe. im
pression which had been created by
large private ginnings estimates bad
helped bring about an easier tone.
A contributing influence in bring
ing about the decline was the falling
off in’ the spot demand and the
lighter eiports'. Owing to the di
minished'exfiort'mofeiftent, the total
exports for the season to date, which
earlier in the fall had exceeded last
years exports by more than 400.000
bales, have now shrunk to an excess
compared with last year of about
33,000 bales nnd even that small
1 gain promises to disappear altogeth
-1 er early this week- . •
Although some of Saturday’s ad
-1 vance following the ginnings report
was subsequently - lost, owing to
profit-taking, the week closed With a
better tone prevailing, me market
being beped not only by the smaller
ginnings then looked for but,also by
the improvemet in the manufactured
I goods trade. Fall River sales of
( print-cloths for thq week totaled
200.000 pieces, the largest turnover
, in a long while.
TRACE LOST OF BRITISH
FREIGHTjER ANTIbiO®
Trace Lost by the President Roose
‘ velt in Heavy Snow Squall.
. New York. Jan. 25.—(A*>—The
liner President Roosevelt wirelessed
i the U. S. line today that she lost
i trace of the British freighter Antinoe .
I after answering an S. O. S. call from
I her yesterday in mid-Atlantic. The’
- President Roosevelt was alongside tile
. freighter for several hours but trace
■ was lose in a heavy snow squall.
i All of the freighter's boats were
I gone, the message said, water was in
- ,the fireroom and her radio was put
, out of commission. The Antiuoe sail,
i ed from New York January 14th for
i Queenstown with a cargo of wheat;
The higher we soar the smaller w»
appear to those who cannot fly. £ V
BAT’S BEAR SAYSt
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Rain tonight. Tuesday partly
cloudy with rain in east portion;
northeast and east winds, shifting
northwest Tueday. «