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PRESS
DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVI
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Ml DAUGHERTY
FKSritTTK
SMITH GOT MOHEY
In Case Against Daugher
ty and Miller Govern
ment Would Show He'
Had Hand in Fraud. j
DOCUMENTS ARE
OFFERED TODAY!
Letters, Telegrams, Checks!
and Travel Vouchers In-)
troduced as Evidence byj
the Government.
New York, Sept. 17.— UP) —The gov- J
eriunent toiliij- placed on record doc- [
umentary evidence tending to prove
that Harry M. Dang .city wax in New
York on September 30. 1021, when
’J homas TV. Miller gave Richard Mer
ton, German metal magnate, cheeks
for $0.453,1)70.07 at a champagne din
ni r in the Ritz-C’arlton Hotel.
Daugherty and Miller are on trial
(lmrged with conspiring to defraud
the government of their "fair and un
prejudiced" services as government of
ficials in permitting the release to
Merlon of assets of the American
Metal Company impounded during the
war. At Pont time Daugherty was
attorney general, and Miller alien
property custodian.
United States Attorney Ilnckner
placed on record travel vouchers, rail
road and Cullman records, showing
that Daugherty and Jesse IV. Smith,
"his man Kridny" returned from a
trip to Ohio on September 2!>th, and
their expense accounts were shown to
prove that they were still in New York
on September 30th.
In the previous days of the trial
twenty witnesses have been examined
and some ninety exhibits had been
thrown into the legal forge. These
exhibits —letters, telegrams, checks
and travel vouchers—the. prosecution
had promised to link into a connected
chain of evidence proving the guilt of
the defendants.
Charles K. Stewart, administrative
officer in the dtqiartmcnt of justice
•since 11)14, was today's first witness
and he said he met Smith for floe first
time at) the Harding inauguration.
He saUh'tjttt Smith came to his office
in the/department of justice building,
iijtrwhice4-Mm«elf: TKe' Vrtftftx*s
said he saw Smith a "good many
times” Eater “here and there, around
the deiwrtment in his owh office, in
Mr, Dmig’.icrty's office, mid elsewhere.”
With Our Advertisers.
The poultry market is now improv
ing, and C. H. Barrier & Co. want
to buy all your chickens and eggs.
See new ad. for prices.
New arrivals in autumn millinery
at Kfird's. Smart felt sport hats,
$3.05.
Final reduction of prices at the
Markson Shoe Store.
The Crystal Damp Laundry wants ;
to do your washing the “soft water |
way.” They use only pure soap and
the softest water. She ad. ; n today's
pniier and phone (532 and give them ,
a trial.
The very best steel is used in mak
ing the knives sold by the Ititcbie
Havdwure Co. See new ad.
The five big Dollar Days at Parks- ,
Belk Co. began this morning, and ,
will; end next Wednesday. A watch
will be given free with every boys'
knee pants suit for $3.9S and up.
See new ad. today for many attract
ive prices.
Many Dollar Days specials in the
grocery department of the Parks-Bejk
Co. See list in ad. today.
The Concord Furniture Co. will sell '
you a ten-piece suite for $130.00, fin
ished in brown walnut. This is the ~
last suite at this, low price.
New shoes from old' at the Shep
herd shoe Hospital. Phone 431.
Campaign Against Home BiW.
(By International News Service)
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17.—A state
wide campaign against “home-brew”
is now being launched under the di
rection of Federal Prohibition Agent
C. D. Fentress.
Fentress, in the meantime, is mak
ing a test case here of an arrest of
salesmen of caps, cappers, bottles and
jars.
„ A few days back Fentress arrested
two salesmen after he purchased com
plete outfits from them and was given
a receipt for making home-brew by
both.
"Selling of jars, caps, cappers and
bottles is not against floe law,” said
Fentress. “But when the salesman '
knows for what purpose they are to
be used and even gives a receipt for/
the violation of the state laws I think 1
he is libel to prosecution.”
Old Age and Youth Don’t Get Along
Together.
<B," International News Service)
Knoxville, Ten., Sept. 17.—R. H.
Clabaugb, 23, was granted a divorce
from hi*H wife, whom be (liarged was
his former foster-mother here by .
Judge 6rTmm of circuit court.
His wife was 45 years of age and
married him when he was nineteen,
after she had cared for him since
his mother’s death when tie was ,
twelve years of age, according to the
testimony of Clabaugh.
“My father moved to her house af
ter mother’* death and we boarded
with her until she proposed to me,”
testified the young man. Mrs. Clk
baugh admitted taking care of the boy,
said she was not yet 45 years of age
and denied proposing.
The Concord Daily Tribune
North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
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Paris flight By Lieutenant L. W. Curtin, new navigator. Aq
tompanying on the Sikorsky plane were to be Charles Clavier
French radio operator, and Jacob Islamoff, mechanic.
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ENGLISH SWIMMER IS
Victor over channel-
Nonr.an Leslie Dereham Swam From
France to England in 18 Hours, 50
Minutes
Dover, England, Sept. 17.— (JP) —
Norman Lelise Dereham. of South
End, England, today finished n swim
auross t*4* English Channel from
Cape Gris Ne*.
Ills t£u« «*♦* j;t hours uad 5a
minutes. He left Gris Xez at !)
o'clock last night and landed in St.
Margaret's Bay this morning at 10:5(5
o'clock.
The record for the swim is 11 hours
and 57 minutes, made by the French
baker, Georges Michel, on September
Ist.
By his performance Dereham wins
the prize of 1,000 pouuds Sterling
offered by the News of the World for
the first British born subject to break
Gertrude Ederle's time of 14 hours
and 3(5 minutes.
Dereham used the breast stroke
most of the way but changed to the
back stroke toward the end. He was
given a rousing reception when he nr- j
rived on the English shore. After
walking the beach he sat down and 1
smoked a cigarette, later going to a
'aotel for a rest. |
It was his third attempt this sea
son. His second, a few weeks ago. I
was abandoned when a dense fog de- j
scended after, he had come within two :
mi’.es of Dover.»
THE COTTON MARKET J
Opened Steady at Decline of 3 Points
to an Advance of 2 Points.
New York, Sept. 17.— UP)—' The cot
ton market opened steady today at a
decline of 3 points to an advance of
2 points, most of the active mouths
being lower under overnight selling I
by the South and realizing. |
Initial offerings appeared to be
readily absorbed, ntid the market soon
steadied up on covering promoted by
relatively steady Liverpool cables and
the uncertainty of the tropical storm
situation. December sold up from
16.40 to 16.57, the general market
flowing net advances of about 6 to 1)
points at the end of the first hour.
Much of the buying was supposed to
be. based on the market's technical
position following the decline of ap
proximately two ceuts a pound the
past week.
Private cables reported trade call
ing and buying for, a reaction in the
Liverpool market.
Next Crop Report October 11th.
Washington, Sept. 17.— UP) —The
Federal Crop Reporting board has
changed the date of the general crop
report to be issued in October to
Monday, October 11. at 3 P- m. in
stead of Saturday, October 9, it was
announced today.
The report will contain a pre
liminary estimate of production of
spring Wheat, oats, barley, hay, dry
edible beans, 'Hina beans, peaches,
prunes, broom flux, and hops-
It will include figures on the con
dition of corn, buckwheat, falx, rice,
grain sorghum, timothy seed, clover
seed, alfalfa seed, pasture soy beans,
peanuts, cowpeas, velvet beaus, ap
ples, pears, grapes, oranges, lemons,
grapefruit, limes, figs, olives, ul
monds, pecan*, walnuts, potatoes,
sweet .potatoes,. tobacco, sugar cane,
and sugar beets.
British Missionaries Held.
Hankow, Chine, Sept. 17.— UP)—
The Chinese military authorities at
Wanhsieu have occupted the head
quarters of the China inland mission
in that town and art holding tlirev
British missionaries captive.
PERRYS PLEAD GUILTY
cv OF BEATING TEACHER
i Agreement Is Reached by Which It Is
I Understood They Will Pay Miss
Lewis $2,000.
Tribuuc Bureau
' ' Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Sept. 16.—Further de
i tails of how an irate father aud moth
er brutally attacked a frail girl, the
E school toaeln-c-wbo Jmul poJiiUoix-fcicL)
' daughter, and how they almofet beat
her to death, so float the physicians
attending her were not able to remove .
her clothes until six days after the
attack, because of the condition of j
the bruises on her body, are expected j
to be related today in the trial of'
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Perry, charged i
with assault, on Miss. Blanche Lewis!
near Wake Forest last March, where |
Miss Lewis was teaching school.
Tile I’erry pair threw up (heir
hands today and pleaded guilty to a
(-barge of assault with serious dam
age.
Mrs. Perry says that she did all
the fighting, and that her husband
j tried to pull her away from the school
teacher. But Miss Lewis and other
' witnesses insist that both Mr. and
Mrs. Perry participated in flae at
| tack, the man blacking the girl’s eyes
with his blows, while the irate mother
j scratched and choked her.
I Tlie mother accused Miss LewiH of
. whipping her child out of spite, whic'.i
Miss Lewis denied, after which the I
melee began. Miss Lewis was seated
lin a chair when Mrs. Perry first at
| tacked her, trying to choke her, her
1 husband following up the attack in
, shock-troop order. After it. was all
'over, one of the witnesses for the State
said that Miss la>wis looked “as is she
were almost dying.” The defense on
: the other hand, claims that Miss
j Lewis was not "hurt bad” as one of
| the defense witnesses said, and that
she was hurt most when she "rural
back and fell on her head.” referring
tq when she fainted after the attack.
MELLON TALKS WITH
REPORTERS OX RETURN
Declined to Discuss European Affairs
Wfcen He Landed in New York
From Trip Abroad.
New York, Sept. J7—-VP)—After
unusual precautions had been taken to
shield Secretary of the Treasury An
drew Mellon from reporters and pho
tographers on his arrival today from
abroad, the Secretary himself broke his
rule of declining interviews and talked
to newspaper men.
He decl'ned to disc uss European af
fairs, and said his trip n'croud had
merely been a pleasure and vacation
toyr. At no tjme had he discussed
issues of national or international
character, he said, although he met a
number of distinguished statesmen in
cluding Premier Mussolini of Italy.
The Secretary arrived on the Beren
garia. He was taken off the liner- at
quarantine on a special revenue cut
ter. i
Church Built by One Man.
. (By International News Service)
Luray, Va.v Sept. 17.—This is uot
a story of a house that was built in
a day but a church that was built by
a single man.
Elder Thomas H. Painter, a min
ister, bought the land for a new
church iff this county. He then made
excavations for the foundation alone.
He planned the building, laid the
foundations and done all the chr
■ penter work.
With the church completed, E’der
■ Painter now has arranged for the
i dedication ceremonies.
He will officiate'at this service and
open a revival at the new church.
CONCORD, N .C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1926
FIMTEME
. THIS! FOR CHOPS
WORTH WON
Only Recession of River
i Can Prevent Destruction
of Crops in the Green
j Bay Bottoms.
6,000 ACRES IN
AREA THREATENED
Levee Has Given Way ®e
j spite the Heroic Ejfajlts
i Made to Check Running
j Water.
I Burlington, la.. Sept. 17.— UP) —
'On y recession of the Hood waters of
; Skunk liver can prevent destruction
of crops in the Green Bay bottoms, j
j north of here, valued at more flinn
| $1,500,000.
Six thousand acres of crops in the!
1(1,(MM) acre area apparently Were'
doomed today as watft- continued to j
pour through three breaks in the le
j vecs and inundation of more of the
1 lowlands seems certain if ruins send
i the river higher.
| A large force of men including con
| victs from the State penitentiary are
; trying today to save part of the le
vee by strong.'.cning it with timbers j
| and piles of saud-ti led bags. '
' Damage since the water first broke i
through yesterday is estimated a:
SIOO,OOO.
As the water advanced in the bot- 1
terns slowly, there lias been no loss
of life . Livestock, house furnishings
and personal effects of farmers in the
lowest sections were moved to higher j
ground before the flood arrived.
MORRISON ANNOUNCEMENT j
CREATES ONLY A RIPPLE j
, A Number of the Planks in IDs Plat- j
form Will Be Popular.
Tribune Bureau, i
Sir Walter Hotel j
Raleigh. Sept. 17.—The formal an-1
nouncemeut of Cameron* Morrison,
former governor, that he would be a|
candidate for the Democratic nomi- j
nation for United States senator from
North Carolina in 11)23 failed to fee
ate more than a ripple of interest in [
political circles in Raleigh, as it has '
been" generally understood here fori
) iiwvtbs thirt Morrison would t.tkp-j
this step. However, more t'pan pass
ing interest was shown in the former
I governor’s eight planks iu his pro- j
j gram for the state at the coming:
l session of the legislature.
; It is readily admitted that his ad-1
j vocncy of the State doing a "generous!
j part” in the establishment of file
I Smoky Mountains National I’ark will
| prove most popular in western North
1 Curolina and even in the piedmont
section, but many doubt if it will re
ceive much support in the eastern
part of the state. There are many
who will not favor the appropriation
of a large sum to buy land from which
only the western section will benefit,
as they see it. However, it may re
ceive more support than now seems
likely.
The proposal to issue another $40,-
000,000 worth of highway bonds is an
other moot question here. Disclosure
this week that North Carolina has
next to the highest debt of any state,
has caused many to pause and think,
! and it is not believed that a move
to increase (tie present indebtedness
by $40,000,000 will meet with instant
and state-wide approval at this time.
And as some one waggishly remarked,
even if S4O.(MN),(MM) is appropriated,
will the courts allow the highway com
mission to spend it. or approve the
routes selected?
inland waterway improvement will
meet little opposition, and the move
to increase the culture of sea foods
will also be favored. But whether
Morrison can resurrect his port and
terminals measures remains to be
Seen.
The three proposals!, dealing with
agriculture, l namely enlargement of
the State department of agriculture,
sectional federations for farmers, and
more modern marketing facilities, are
pretty apt to prove popular, especially
in the agricultural sections.
BROADCASTING RIGHTS
OF FIGHT NOT GIVEN
Rickard Says He Has Not Leased the
Rights to Anyone So Far.
New York, Sept. 17.—(A > )—Al
though denying that he had yet leased
the broadcasting privileges for t lie
Dempsey-Tunney match at I'hila
delphia, September 23rd, Tex Rickard
told the Associated Press that any
contract he signed- would bar news
papers from broadcasting wire re
ports of the bout.
Rickard, reached by telephone at
his Philadelphia headquarters, flatly
denied that a radio contract hud been
closed in spite of a telegram received
by Editor & Publisher, signed osten
sibly by the promoter, and,worded as
follows:
“The broadcasting rights have been
contracted for, and it will be an in
fringement on these rights for news
papers to use wire reports of the con
test.”
■ No DecMMi Now in Saeco-Vanzrttl
Onto.
Dedham. Mass, Sept. 17 .—UP)—
■ Judge Webster Thayer today took un
der advisement the motion for a new
• trial for Niloca Sacco and Bnrtolo
■ meo Vanzetti. convicted of murder.
At the conclusion of arguments he
said he would require several weeks
to reach a decision. I
j *
Call to Hasten Development of
Practical Cotton Picking Machine
Raleigh, Sept. IT.—G4>) —A fall for
cooperation aiming southern states in
!| hastening: the development of a prne
jtic.il critic,n picking machine was
j sounded in a statement issued here
tonight by William A. Graham. corn
mi ssioner of agriculture for North
! ('arolinn.
p A*th< ugh the federal deportment of
! agriculture has advised him flint
* though it is interested in the perfee
l ticin of such a device, it is not now
in n position to participate actively in
the experimental work that will be,
necessary. Commissioner Graham.
(however, states that he is not dis-j
i ' couraged in his conviction that the
•picking of cotton by machinery is on
y a matter of time,
■ T.c commissioner wrote sometime
, i ago to the depar‘ment of agriculture
i at Washington presenting his views
'land was told the matter would be
■ taken under advisement. In a let
i ter just received from Acting Kecre
j tary C. F. Marvin the opinion is cx
, J pressed that the development of a
j practical cotton picking machine will
be a "gradual process involving much
I costly experiment.**
“That may be true and probably
, is." declared Mr. Graham tonight,
"but the sooner these ‘processes* are
; hastened, the sooner i’.ie South will
i have solved one of the biggest prob
'eins that confronts its farmers and
the sooner an expense will be elimi
nated that now cuts into the profits
of these farmers to an enormous de
gree.
"When the talk of «a practical cot
j ton gin was started such a device was
i regarded by some as nil improbabil
j ity. It is needless to go into details
j as to the development of the fotton
I gin, which was invented by Eli W’.iit
| ney, up to Hint time an obscure north
jerner who, following his graduation,
j visited a southern relative and eon
' ceived the idea that later revolution-
| WATCH YOUR BRAKES
| This Is the Slogan the Carolina Motor
| Club Hopes to Inpress on All Driv
ers.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh. Sept. 17.—" Watch your
brakes!" ia the slogan which tile Car
olina Motor Club hopes to impress
ill Kill all automobile drivers in the
state by the time Its present brake
testing campaign hns been carried in
to every city and town in North Car
olina. And as a result it expects to
see the number of automobile acci
dents diminish.
The club has been carrying on Its
' brake testing campaign in Raleigh tar
several days, and hundreds of motor
ists have taken advantage of this free
service. The results have shown so
far that 52 per ceut. of the brakes
on all the Cars tested so far have been
faulty—and most of these cars have
been of the heavier type,
“Records in this and other states
show that the majority of automo
bile accidents are due mainly to eith
er faulty brakes or glaring head
lights. As there is no standard head
light law in this state at. present,
there is little that can be done to
ward regulating that danger source,”
said Edward Thornhill, district man
ager of the Carolina Moton Club, who
is assiting the Raleigh police depart
ment in conducting the free tests.
"But we are trying to do what we
can to educate the people to see the
value of always keeping (heir brakes
properly adjusted, because if a mo
torist's brakes are in good shape, he
may be able to avoid an accident that
otherwise might prove serious. .The
abilit yto stop quickly has saved many
a broken neck.”
The club has already conducted
these brake testing "clinics” in a num
ber of other cities, although all of
these have been experimental in nn
ture. Now, however, the club has
decided to hold them over the entire
state, owing to the success which the
few tests so far conducted have met
with.
These tests are but the beginning
of a state-wide safety campaign which
the club is going to launch and in
which more stringent brake and head
light laws will be advocated as well
as a law requiring licenses for all
drivers.
Telegraph Rate Hearing October 20th.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh. Sept. 17. —The hearing of
the petition of the Western Union
and Postal telegraph companies, in
which they are asking to increase in
tra-state rates, set to be held before
the State Corporation Commission
September 20th, will not be final, due
to the decision of the commission to
employ expert statisticians to examine
the figure presented by the telegraph
companies, but will be left open for
either side to present any additional
information which they may desire to
offer, it is announced by A. J. Max
well, of the commission. It is ex
pected that both parties in the case
will avail themselves of this oppor
tunity and present additional ma
terial.
Another Invitation to Queen Marie
(By International News Service)
Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 17, — An in
vitation to Queen Marie, of Rumania
and her daughter. Princess Illeana
to visit Knoxville and the Smoky
Mountains when they arrive in the
United States for a tour next month,
has been extended by the local Cham
ber of Commerce.
The Smoky Mountain park associa
tion is co-operating with the Cham
ber of Commerce in an effort to havs
the queen and princess visit the moun
tains.
Should the invitation be accepted,
elaborate receptions would be ar
ranged for the royalty.
ized the cotton manufacturing indus
i try.
"Whitney’s invention was patented
1 in 1774 after which time he visited
the leg! s’attires of the cotton growing
states and urged .',iejn to buy the pat
ent rights for use in their respective
states. The South Gindina legis'a
ture purchased the right for that
state, paying $50,001) for it; and in
INO4. the legislature of North Garo- j
linn bought the right for this state (
for which it paid $30,000.
I "Os course, -t*.ie fostering influence j
I* of the United States department of;
agriculture is much to be desired, i
However, i: seems to me that the cot- j
ton states them selves would do well to j
get together on the profiosition of Jiur- i
eying up the work of perfecting a cot- }
ton picking machine.
“There are several cotton picking
machines now in use. Inventors of j
some of these claims that they are
practical and can be economically op- |
crated. While I ’.iave not made an j
exhaustive study of the feasibility of j
any of Hie devices already in use, there
can be no doubt but that, in time, j
there will be one perfected that will f
meet the Smith's need.
"The SouHi will be the direct bene
ficiarry, and. that being the (use, I
see no reason why fiere should not
be co-operation among southern states.
Representatives of these states could,
with little or no expense, study the I
matter. None /if the states would
be ob’igated to go as far as the south-'
ern legis aturcs referred to went in
putting the coftr.n gin into practical
operation within their borders, per
haps,, but the findings coil’d at ’east
be reported and assembled for study j
and there would no doubt be indi
viduals and farmers' organizations
whou’.d be g ad to take a hand if some
thing approximated 100 per cent, ef
ficiency could be perfected.’*
NORTH CAROLINA MOVES UP
IN EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS
Goes Ahead of Seven Other States.—
Made More Progress Than 43 Other
States.
Raleigh, Sept. 17.— UP)— -The State
of North Carolina moved up ahead of
seven other states of the Union in
educational progress in the fourteen
years preceding 11)24: using 100 as a
basis of perfect, the State advanced
from 20.00 per cent, to 42.81 per cent,
of maximum in the fourteen years
and its progress was greater from
1020 to 1022 than any other two-year
I>eriod of the fourteen years These
facts are published today in State
"School -Pacts. fmWinrtion of rise- de
partment of public instruction. The
issue is devoted entirely to compari
sons of North Carolina's work along
educational lines with that of other
states. *
Chief among the facts shown are
that at the close of 1924. the latest
figures available. North Carolina rank
ed eight among file 16 states classed
ns tile South and forty-first among the
states of the Union in educational
progress when all factors entering in
to education were taken into consid
eration. In 1910. the state ranked
fiifteenth among the southern states
in education.
The issue quotes the American
School Board Journal to the effect
that since 1018, North Carolina hns
shown a 51.1 per cent, improvement
and increase in educational matters
and takes rank as tiie fifth state in
that respect. In other words, in
the span of years from 1918 to 1924,
North Carolina made more progress
in education than forty-three other
states of the Union. Those states
which made more progress in that
period than North Carolina are Cali
fornia, 56.2 per cent.: Maryland.
55.4; Delaware, 55.2; and Nevada,
52.3 per cent.
PAYMASTER STRUCK
AND ROBBED TODAY
Passengers on Liner Saw Hold-Up
Men Make Attack on Docks in Phil
adelphia.
Philadelphia, Sept. 17.— (A*) —In
full view of passengers on the deck of
an arriving coastwise steamer, Clyde
B. V'alkenstein, paymaster for t'.ie
Merchant & Marine Transportation
Company, was black-jacked and re
lieved of a bag containing $6,139 by
four masked men.
The steamer Howard was drawing
, Into a dock today and the passengers,
as if from the balcony of a theatre,
looked down on the holdup.
Faulkenstein had just returned from
’ a bank and parked his car.
i ” 1
A letter to Gov. McLean.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Ralejgh, Sept. 17.—Many and va
• rioux are the requests made of Gov
ernor A. W. McLean in the scores of
i letters he receives daily from people
from all sections wantiiyt all sorts of
things and the governor admits that
- he often gets many a good chuckle
from his morning mail. Below is a
letter he received from q man in
Rowan county asking n pardon, stat
ing that his “mother is on the way to
the grave” and t’.iat she wants him to
come home and “help her to gather the
crop.” Evidently the grave must be
some distance off. It was addressed
to “Mr. Governor McClan”, and fol
lows ;
“dear governor,
with good kind inovation, wishing a
ffoM word from you, would be glad
(or yon to send me a pardon. iam
not hardly bel to work and my poor
old mother is on her way to the grave
and wants me to come home and to
help her to gather the crop. i have
four mqnths and got half of its baitt.
think my poor old friend and say you
wHI, hoping to hear from you soon,
good bye.”
[ “Mrs. X.” |
j
MRS. VERLA KIMBALL, o!
Oakland, Cal., was identified
ass “Mrs. X,” the woman who
figured in Carmel cottage in
cident in the disappearance of
Aimee Semple McPherson,
evangelist* .1
J WANT DEFINITE METHOD
I » OF LICENSING DRIVERS
! Ctmmissianer Doughlon Speaks cf the
Grave Dangers That Exist.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Sept, 17.—“ Certainly some
means must be devised to prevent per
sons who are unfit to operate an auto
mobile. either from temperament or
lack of the proper responsibility, from
constantly endangering the lives of
others on the highways of the state.”
said Commissioner It. A. Houghton, of
the department of revenue, in coin
menting on North Carolina's automo
bile accident deaths for the montfi
of August, when fifty-nine were killed,
only nine of these being accidents at
railway crossings. Some definite meth
od of registration or licensing of driv
ers will undoubtedly have to be de
vised, the commissioner said, although
he was unwilling to advocate a law
requiring ail operators of motor ve
hicles to be properly examined, both
as to their ability to drive a car and
as to their character and reputation
and subsequent licensing, if the ex
amination meets''Hide requirements
The majority of other states have such
laws und it is regarded as a certainty
by many that a similar law for North
Carolina will be proposed in the next
legislature.
Such a law, if proposed, will stir
up a fight that will be heard from
one end of the state to the dther, all
agree. The principal opposition to
it is expected to develop in the rural
districts, but on Cue other hand, it is
pointed out that considerable opposi
tion will also develop in the cities
from concerns employing large num
bers of truck drivers and from indi
viduals as well. Especially will it
meet with the disapproval of the sliced
fiends and reckless drivers, upon whom
it will act as a curb.
There is being heard some talk of
even a more drastic measure to stop
excessive speeding and recklessness
and it is hinted that consideration
may be given to a proposal to require
governors oil ait ears that will auto
matically shut off the power when a
certain speed is reached. Some states
have sut'.i laws, which are applied
principally to trucks and busses, but
in some eases other cars are also in
cluded. In the larger cities, firms
that use big fleets of trucks equip
them with governors to prohibit speed
ing.
There is still further agitation in
other quarters for a system of State
highway police or patrol force, mount
ed on motorcycles, to patrol the State
highways and compel observance of
the laws of t’.ie road on motorists who
at present disregard them. This plan
is being especially advocated by the
highway commission, which is becom
ing increasingly concerned- with the
mounting number of accidents each
week.
Commissioner Doughton agrees that
such a police force undoubtedly would
reduce the number of accidents and
greatly increase the safety of t'.ie high
ways. It would also assist the au
tomobile theft‘bureau, Which is a part
of the department of revenue, ill halt
ing tiie theft of automobiles and in
tracing stolen ears. But the com
missioner is extereinoly doubtful to
whether such a low will be given se
rious consideration by the next leg
islature, although it is pretty certain
Chat one will be proposed.
It is pointed out that there are a
hundred different details that must
be worked out dealing, with how to
finance the plan, who would admin
ister it, and so on, all of which are
bound to prove troublesome.
Those opposed to the highway po
lice system hold that Caere would be
danger of its deteriorating into a fee
grabbing organisation, and that inno
cent and law-abiding motorists would
be subject to constant inconvenience
and possible persecution as a result.
But the question is bound to come
up and the legislature is destined to
have a merry time trying to solve the
best method of dealing with the prob
lem.
diaries R. Huntley Dead.
Lancaster, N. Y., Sept. 17.— UP) —
Charles R. Huntley, nationally known
paper magnate and president of the
Buffalo General Electric Company,
died suddenly at his home here to
day.
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TODAY’S NEWS TODAII
NO. 220
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QtfflflUSLY !LL ANDI
HEARING POSTPONE!*
Mrs. Aimee McPheraotll
Became 111 Wednesday .3
and Collapsed During a m
Service Thursday.
ABSCESS CAUSE
OF HER ILLNESM
Physician Sas It Will Bern
Three Days Before
ger Is Passed—Abse«®f;?J
Close to Brain. 1
Isis Angeles. Cal., Sept. 1 ~
With the arrest of five persona HfhWjjfelH
l tiled by District Attorney Aso Ketwydß
and statements of new witnesses adlflP'iM
ing to the mass of evidence in Airtgtriijß
Semple McPherson's kidnapping itfi'jJß
vestigation. the serious illness of t«f
evangelist threatens to delay the thllS®
inquiry into her five week's
pearance. :fl
Reports of the evangelist's rlineifljH
Wednesday were followed by hdr SWCSB
lapse at an Angelas Temple servfiHß|
yesterday -and tiie subsequent
nomicement of her physician I(iat
dangerous infection might, catfgff
death if compilations develop. I
The illness was described as an ah- M
xeexs of the nose dose to the brain.-Jp ■
Physicians said although her tediOH
nerature had dropped from the Wnßsßi
mark reached last night it would be
three days before danger is passed. .3 1
District Attorney Keyes sand
terday lie laid prepared
charging five persons with eonsplf'-i .1
aey to defeat justice. He named SifSSjj
Mid ‘l l -- t son, her mother. Mrs. Mamjd *4
Kennedy. Kenneth G. OrmiStd(E;|jß
friend of the evangelist and form® 3
Angel us Temple radio operator, •Tm9|9|
Doe Martin, and firs. Lorraine
THREE OF SIX ESCAPED 1
PRISONERS ARE C-APTtKXIM
Men Sawed Through Bars of
Jail to Gain Freedom at Night. ; I f
Asheville. Sept. 17.—OP)—Three of t®
the six prisoners who escaped lakt
night from Buncombe County
were reported captured at
viile this morning by Sheriff J. F.
('jibe, of Haywood County. I.atc tlyULj9
morning Sheriff E M. M tcliell
Buncombe County was hurrying 7 *!
there to bring them back. According
to Sheriff Cube, the three men w*r* .9
walking on the highway near
Junaluska and started to ryn v lie* 4;
officers approached them. He said jH
they were easily captured. I
Today county workmen werg busy*
with acetylene torches repairing fbefiaß
bars on the fourth story~
through which the six men sawed d»
their way to freedom lust night, I
The three taken in Wayne*vi|S
were R. F. Probe and Fred
held on charges of forgery, and J,
Blackman, charged w : tli ciiibt-'/zlcinentc
No n»si of tiie arrest of the othei*
three, among whom is Edward Ah<J«Afßp
son. wanted for murder in New York, 1
had been received this morning at tbtLjß
sheriff's I
WANT DEMOCRATS TO ;!■
MEET IN DES MOINES M
Democratic Leader Thinks lowa Cap- I
ital Would Be Strategic Center. 3 1
Chicago. Sept. 17. —t/P) —Clyde L. '.-J
Herring, lowa Democratic leader, was
represented by the Chicago Daily I
News today as launching a campaign.
to hold the 1928 national convention JBj
The newspaper quoted Mr. Herring
as saying ’he had had favorable M&Sfl
spouses to his proposal from
and Tennessee. It is said Otpahir jfl
Denver and Louisville also are
der consideration. I
The article represents ant i-Smiti)
Democrats as opposed to New
as not “neutral" ground,
wise to Chicago, because of the
deuce here of George E. Brennan; who 1
has been a leader of the A1 Smitfe-Am
forces. Proponents of I)eg Monies *3
are also said to recommend it as at-Jfl
strategic center of tiie “agriciiltnrdsJ|H
unrest movement." I
Would Deport “Faith Healer." 1 " ®
Charlotte. Sept. 17.— (A 3 )— lhdiosi- J
tions were today that the city would a
bring s-'!isatiou») chargee »fnhrimj|
“Bishop" (’. M. Grace “faith fiealer/tyfl
at the injunction, hearing before
Judge A. M. Stack in Mecklenburg 9
Superior Court. Saturday. 1
Reports apparently well founded rig
were in circulation that the assistance
of federal authorities would he xongnt'wjg
in lodging deportation
against the Portugese "bishop.” 1
Lew Cody and Mabel Norman Maftdj
Ventura, Calif., Sept, 17.—GWeeasS
Lew Cody, film actor, and MjatfeJ-Jj
Norinnnd. screen actress, were married ■
at 3 o'clock this morning by Counfjgljfl
Recorder Thomas Neilamlt, hr asylH
nouneed today . They nrouMg titli®
county clerk and obtained a licensoiß
at 2 o’clock and awakened the re*AS
corder and had the ceremony, peCvjSl
formed an, hour later, %e announced.;®
Greece has experienced seven'
lotions in the last ten years. i
THE WEATHER j
Fair tonight and Saturday.
- to moderate north and northeast I
increasing somewhat Saturdajr;' ’ • 1