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MM:BA TV A, Local Cotton' 171-2 Cents VOL. XLIII. NO. 47. GASTON IA, N. C, FRIDAY ATERNOON, FEBRUARY 24, 1922. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS Weather: Fair I 1 -.Tf i ALL BUSINESS HELD UP DURING THE FUNERAL OF ROMA DISASTER VICTIMS During the Service Airplanes; -Will Fly Over Grounds,, Dropping Floral Tribute on i ; Flag-Draped CasketsAm-, - erican Legion to Assist in ,. Funeral. j (By The Associated Press.) j ' ' NEWPORT NEWS, YA.. Feb. 24. i All business here and at Norfolk amL other suh-ounding communities will be ! suspended, today, during the public fun-' erat services'" bo held here for the .14 j victims of tho disaster which befell the , army dirigible Roina. During the brief; services to. be conducted by army chap-! Iain"5tnd several of the local ministry,; airplane from Langley field will fly over , the grounds of Casino Park to drop floral tributes on the row of Has; draped j caskets. They will also bear tributes; from the city, 'the state and the Ameri- j can! Legion as well as from friends and: relatives. ! The state of Virginia will be repre- j aented by Attorney (leneral .lolin R. Hauudcrs, who will deliver one of the brief tributes which will close the cere-; mony. t ! D.uriag the services the bell of old St. Johns church, whose nncii'iit thoat crack j ed years ago after a century of death! knells, will speak again the sorrow of the t town wliese people felt most keenly the pall of the disaster. , There had been some last minute lis- cushion of a change in arrangements whereby the funeral services would bo I bold ove only one of the victims us' representing all the otheri-i f this wasde- j eided unon.it was mid the body of Cap-1 tain Dale Mabry. commander of t he j Kama, would be selected. I Meanwhile the army board pressed its investigation Into the caus of the dis-1 'aster today, hearing more witnesses be j hind: closed doors, irfnl was expected to I be ready to report its conclusions to the! Nvaf Department within a few days. MORRISON SAYS HE WILL NOT SEND WITNESSES.!!) CANADA' FOR BULLOCK Declares He Will Not ; Try North Caro-1 (Una's Honor .and Integrity Before Any j Court in Any Foreign Country Gov-! " ernor Morrison Writes Under Secre- ' tarv of State Fletcher Refusing to i Send Witnesses to Interior Court. Canadian ' KALEKill, N. C, Feb. '4. (Jovermu J Morrison today telegraphed acting Secio-j tary of State Fletcher at JVashington , utotln,. Ih.it Iw, M-ill lint Uf.lwl Willi, KHe4 1,1 n.aK.,, ..v.. ... .... ... - , 'testify at the extradition "trial of Mat- j thew Bullock at Hamilton, Ontario which was suggested in a message from! the acting secretary yesterday. Bullock i wanted in this State on a charge of uttempted murder in cyunection with u race riot at Norlina, N. C. I "North Carolina will not make an Appearance through attorney in any! Canadian court," (loveiuor Morrison; boid in his telegram. "It will not send; wifnessrs Jo have a Irral before any; court there, I "If Canada will not honor our requi,-1 aition in the. regular way ami you can l eot tlirouah diplomatic channels convince .them they should do so, then I hope you will not hereafter request North Carolina or any other self-respecting state of the Union in any way to honor a from Canada. "If trenty relations with Canada are not such as to "gun ran tee tho return to this country of desperate criminals' like ' Matthew Bullock without, the states of this union tieing subjected to the humilia tion of having to appear before .Homo judge in a petty judicial proceeding in Canada it is certainly a distressing situa tion. I am not going to try North Caro lina's honor and integrity before any judge in any foreign country." "If there is any error in form or reg ularity of application for the extradi tion of this fugitive from ustice." said the Governor, "I will be glad to havei it corrected as rar as correction can oej made in truth." . . . i HAMILTON, ONT., Feb. 21. Un less North Carolina witnesses appear Ix fore next Friday to testify against Mat thew Bullock, negro, who is wanted in -.Norhna N. C. , on a charge of attemj.ted murder, he Will .unconditionally H leased, Judge Snyder declare, today in granting wiiai- J"- a..i ,wu,u w remand in the case, The week's postponement was graiited at the request of the 'United States con sul -here, who explained, that tlK delays in the presentation of evidence against Bullock, were due to tho long time neces sarily taken by the legal and diplomatic formalities involved. The, consul was in formed that witnesses must apjM'ar iu H-rson aud that affidavits unless support ed fey original evidence, would not be ac cepted. . ' ' ' , NEGRO CHAUFFEUR PAYS , LIFE PENALTY FOR CRIME ' (Bv The Ahsociated Press.) BALTIMORE, Feb. 24. Samuel Smith, negro chaff er, was hanged at the Baltimore eouiity jail at Towsou today for attempted criminal assault upon a Gloucester College student .aud volunteer j settlement worker. ; On October J3, lust, 1 no young woman; wa attacked bv ft neero dnver or on? automobile who oTTered to liring her" to Hal'tiinofe from the Rosewood Training School. She was shot several times and left supposedly dead in the road. Smith was identified by her sud ound guilty. WIRELESS TELEPHONE : PROGRAM FOR TONIGHT 7:30 p. m. Music and Uncle Wig gily's Bedtime Story. : . -J . 7:45 p. m. Oorernment market report and a report of the New York Stock Exchange. 8:00 p. m. -"Better Architecture" by Henry Hornbostel, Prof, of Ar chitecture, College of . Fine Arts,; Carnegie Tech, Designer of Soldier's, Memorial and many bridges including the East River, Manhattan and Hell Gate bridges in New York, 8:30 p. m. Music. 0:00 p. m. News. 9:05 to 9:30 p. m. Music. 9:55 to 10 p. ra. Arlington tiras signals. , Music Selections. Piano solo Country Dances Nos. i, 2 and 3. Bethoven, Miss Eleanor Shaw. Violin solo Old Refrain, Kreisler The Duo Reproducing the playing of Rudolf Ganz, St Louis Symphony Orchestra. ' Baritone solos' (a) Lungi Del Caro Bene, Secchi. (b) Invictus, Huhn. Mr. George L. Kirk, accompanied by H. H. Fleer. Piano solo (a) On Wings of Song, Mendelssohn-Liszt. (b) Hungarian Dance No. 5 (arranged for four hands,) Brahms. Miss Shaw at the first piano, the Duo Art reproducing the piaying of Harold Bauer, (c) Bagatelle No. 1. Miss Shaw playing alternately with the recorded playing of the Composer as reproduced by the Duo Art. (White "On Wings of Song" is being played, radio opera tors will be asked to guess when Miss Shaw is playing and when the Duo Art is in operation.) Baritone solo (a) At Dawning, Cadman, Mr. George L. Kirk accom panied by Duo Art reproducing the recorded playing of Cadman. (b) Ishtar, Spross. Mr. George L. Kirk accompanied by Due Art reproduc ing the recorded playing of Shauffler. Piano solo Romance, Frank La Forde, Miss Eleanor Shaw. Piano solo Orientale, Amani, Miss Eleanor Shaw. Piano solo Scherzo E. Minor, Mendelssohn, Miss Shaw playing al ternately and with her own recording on the Duo-Art. ERNESTJURWELL GETS . wf R0M0TI0N FROM FORD Goes to Spartanburg as Ford Dealer in Much Larger Ter ritory Has Larger Contract Has Made Good in Gasto nia and Moves Up a Notch Takes Up New Work Mon day. F.rncst Burwell, who has for tiie yast i mont hs been connected with the bur well-Parker Motor Company, leaves this week for Spartanburg where he takes the agency for the Ford automobile and ,r..tor. Tnis nl0ve s a distinct promo j- llw" ter Mr. Burwell, and he is receiv ing the congratulations of his friends at this recognition by the i'ord people of j his ability. The fctyartanburg field offers ereater opportunities than did the hicaT! territory. It is a much larger agency than the Onstonia territory. Going with Mr. Burwell to Spartan burg ore Messrs J. R. Crawford, who will be assistant manager and Mr. C. L. Lewder, who will Ije in charge of the sales department. The name of the firm in Spartanburg will be Krnest Burwell. Ford dealer. The Burwell-Parker Com pany will continue under the same name in Custom.'. Mr. B. II. Parker will 1;e manager. Mr. Burwell came to Gastonia from request : Charlotte a year and a half ngo. Dur ' ing his stay in Gastnnin he iias made good. He has been an important mem ber of the civic and business life of tho city. He has aligned himself with every movement for the betterment of the community. Ue is secretary of the Kiwanis club. The Spartanburg Kiwnnis club has created a special classification, 'purveyor of aluminum Kli.abcths, " for Mr.' Burwell. Mr. Burwell succeeds in Spartanburg as Ford dealer Mr. K. F. Bell, who has retired from business. The agency will bo located in a handsome new four-story buildup- on the corner ot Alain and Morgan streets, OPlKisite the Cleveland cfpi. ' ! HAD HIS WINE AND 200 CROWNS TO BOOT. (By The Associated Press.) MUNICH, Feb. 21. The a, i. i.,-,i;.,.. riite ()f tn Kurn(n. brini; .,, some himiorou, transactions. Recently m Klli?1,s)uil.(11 0 his W!lv from Germany ( ,Swjtz,,r.,n)1 ,iurt.hased a bottle of wine for oUU-rowns in the Austrian ly rol. After drinking the wine, he kept! the bottle, and when he passed t'.ie Swiss ' frontier, sold it for fifty centimes. A j Swiss centime piece is worth 70(1 Aus- l trian crowns, ro that the Englishman not only had his wine without cost but gain ed "200 crowns: Cotton Market at a twt MARKET . CLOSING BIDS ON THE 1 NEW YORK NEW YORK, Feb. 21. Cottoa'f u-J tuies dosed ;teady: -March 18.17; May , cenier ..oxlwn. . dmiAo . . mm nmib U7.87; July 17.2.".; October 10.56; gpata 13.55 Strict to Good Middling Cotton seed .li. ...Sic STATE SENATOR EVERETT HEADS COMMISSION TO PROBE COTTON INDUSTRY Permanent Organization Ef fected Committees on 1 Production and Marketing to Present Reports Today. (i!y The Associated Prcsu.) NKW 0RLKAN8, Feb. 24. With permanent organization effected and designating as it objects enactment of uniform l,C-iulti t n ml al,,ti,.. tf problems of production ami marketing' UI It AM) 1-eb. 24. It is unfair tor of cotton, delegates attending the con-1 av one .to think of illiterates as ignor fw..m... Iwn. I... ( :,..,.....,., ..,..! ant. Dr. A. r.. Winship. of Boston, told ton producing states at the invitation of Govurnor Cameron .Morrison, of North Carolina, were ready to take up many important questions affecting the indus try at today's session. State fcjeuator K. O. Kvcreit, of Carolina, was selected Thomas B. King, of Memphis, Tenn., secretary, at a meeting of the committee on permanent organization named at the opening s ssion of the conference. The name chosen for the organization was the'Cotton States Commission. The conference will continue through Saturday. Committees on production and . market ing were expected to present their reports at today 's session. 1). R. Coker, of Hmith Carolina, presi dent of the' World Cotton Conference at London, 'last year, was ninoni; the dele gates attending the meeting here. Agree on modified form of four-power pacific treaty (By The Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. Feb. 24. A modi fied blanket, reservation to the four pow er Pacific treaty, said to be satisfactory both to President Harding and to a ma ority of the members) of the Senate For- i eign Helations committee, was debated liy tne committee today and an agree-j inent readied to vote on the treaty it-1 self and all proposed reservation!? at to-! I morrow 's session. , I The new reservation was laid before! the committee by Senator lirandegec, j Republican, of Connecticut, after a con- ferenee with President Harding. The i Connecticut Senator was said not to have' represented it as embodying the Presi dent's views, but the understanding of committee members was that it would In acceptable to the White House. The text of the reservation follows: "The United States understands that! under the statement in the preamble or under the terms of this treaty there is no commitment to armed force, no alliance, no obligation to join in any defense." 'Although apparent 'y acceptable to most of the Republican and Democratic reserv.'itioiiists on the committee, the res ervation, according to today's discussion, will not receive unanimous committee approval. Senator Johnson, Republican, (;lliforui'Ui wll8 mill to ',),; shown on- position during the meeting and it was generally expected that Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, who was absent would j take a similar- position. j The committee comprise reservation is i t more direct and .shorter than the origi nal Brandrgee blanket proposal to which a majority of the committee members previously had indicated their support. Under the original reservation the L'ni ted States wguld have set forth in detail that it. was to' assume nxj "moral or legal" obligation under the treaty or any adjustments resulting from it with out "the consent of Congress." Particular referent to the preamble of the treaty is said to have been made in the new draft because the preamble states that the agreement is made "with a view to the preservation of the general peaec and the maintenance of the rights of toe? signatory powers." The word "maintenance" does not appear, how- ever, among the commitments of the! treaty power. , I Great Hritain and Ireland there are INCORPORATORS OF CARUSO . forty nine clubs, and other Rotary cities ASSOCIATION ARE NAMED ! include Paris, France; Madrid, Spain; (Bv The Associated Ires. I ;Y",,k,i,n'1 Wellington, New Zealand;' NKW YORK, Feb. 4 Walter I MHhourm- A,ls,r:il,:l Joliannes.mrg, t Damrosch. musical conductor; Antonio i "ltU 4 ,r""'I ,i",nos A,r,s' Argentina;. Scotti. singer; Otto II. Kahn, financier, Montevideo, I rugua.v ; !nn Juan and j and GeorKe W. Wickersfmm, former Uni-! I,,ort" R"0; Panama ity and ted States Attorney General, are among I i,0,"'.. :"'!;n,a .; 1"',n,U ;""t J '"V the twenty men and women named a9 ! Hawaii ; Manila. Philippines; Tokyo, ; incorporators of the Caruso American j Jnl" ; rl"":l .'"' l aleutta Memorial Foundation. Justice Bi (nr. of 1 In,l,;'- At the present time there is, the State Supreme Court, has approved "'"r' !',,v1llv among the business and) the incorporation ! professional men of other coimtr.es seek-! A fund of if 1,00(1,000 will be raised,1'"8 ,0 "rganue clubs chiefly in Brazil.: the inenrm.rr.tor-, s:.v " t,. .,...r.. h,. ! Chi le. Peru, Denmark, Sweden, and: musical education of students and artists ' for the purpose of developing the highest ! musical talent," by aiding students oft with sexes. SOUTHERN BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT IN ATLANTA ' fBv The Aoruciated Press.) ATLANTA. GA., Feb. 24. The con troversy that has raged since early fall as to which Ss'the best college basketball team in the south was up for final set tlement, at least for a year, with the opening lu re, today of the joint tourna ment oi the Southern Athletic Confer- i enr-e and lh I. A. A. '.- Of the twenty four feains entered, not ! a oite but has been downed, at Ifast, by another Dixie- quintet, but with the 'ehampionsliip tournament on-Jiand, all urp claimants of the honors except pog. sibly two. The Georgetown (Ky.) col- lege team came with tiie avowed purpose ot settling a statu an air by another meet mg with Kentucky- university ana tne Oglethorpe five, made up of freshmen, entered not because they thought they had a chance to win, but out of civie pride as the meet is being held in its, lw....A -T!,n' l,.,.lr nt tlu.-" itnai home town. '.The' luck -tt ther' draw brought the 'two Kentucky' rivals to gether in the first round. : ., .. MUST NOT THINK OF iil2DEAD AND MILLIONS MOUNTAIN ILLITERATES AS IGNORANT PEOPLE Dr. A. E. Winship Says That j Carolina and Tennessee j Mountaineers Are Not Ig-J norant Even if They Cannot 1 Read and Write W e r e j Worth Much to Army in World War. (By The Associated Press.) lelctrateg from 14 states attending the; Illiteracy Conference of Middle West : and Northern States, meeting here, to- ; day. i "Kvery illiterate from the mountains1 North'0' Kentucky and Tennessee ami the, j l arounas was mnniteiy better smiled to , shoot and dodge shots hi the world war i t linn Cuited States Senators and univer-i i sity presidents," he said. "Kvery one1 of Uieni was worth 'more to the army; than all tin ir critics when it came to i handling firearms or facing firearms. The keynote wits htruck when it was. , said that they could not write their fund-' ; lies, ami, if they could, their families; couldn't read what they wrote. j i "In the mountains on the east ofi ! Kentucky, and Tennessee, and on the I west of the Carolinas, there have been as good native brains as in Wall Htreet.i I Harvard, Va'e and Princeton. , The I I mountains have been lull of' men of purej blooij brains. 1'hilatb Iphiif and Chicago, New York and Sau Francisco, have been as illiterate to the brain messages of mountaineers as they-are to the Sunday school syndicate lessons of William J. Bryan. "The mountaineers' can teach gradu ate students much that it would do them good to learn. The outside world needs to have" these natives illiterates adults learn so that they can teach the outsido world some of their wisdom." ROTARY CLUB HAS DELEGATES FROM TEN FOREIGN COUNTRIES Weekly Meeting Featured by j Visit From Rotarians in Oth er Countries - Irish Delega tion Scores Biggest Hit. The weekly Rotary luncheon held Thursday evening at the Country Club at bt.'IU o'clock, was one of the most enjoyable meetings ever held by the club, 't was in celebration of Rotary 's Ifth j thday. Delegations' from ten conn- 1 1. Mere present. Manv of these dele- : i gaiiui, I cos. us were dress d in the picturesque f their native lands. . The, Chinese de.egation headed by Kd Sivil- zer, was arrayed in typical Chinese dress, j with queues, opium pipes, ocher colored faces, etc. The South African outfit, in charge of Zim Wagoner, presented a sea of black faces. The Japs, under the mobilization Pf Ah Myers, were irr.v(,,l l lii Kimonas and white caps. Otlu r dele gatuins were present from Scotland, New Zealand, France, India, Ireland, etc. Thej latter named aggregation carried olT the: honors of the evening. Headed by Go . ! Cocker, the delegation consisted of Kelly! Jackson, Parks Huffstctler, Arthur Dixon, F.hner Spencer and Will Clifford.' They were dreased in overalls wearing a mashed beaver hat. with a. sprig of J shamrotk, and each carried a shillalah. ; Throughout the evening each Telega-! tion presented stunts characteristic of the' ; country represented. All the members1 ; were introduced by names typical of the , several countries. .Marshal rorh, .micii j net Collins, Li Hung Chung, Kamonn de ! Valera, Gunga Din, Baron Matsu, Clem : eneeaii, Bobby Burns, Watanobe. Akuno, win of Swat, and other famed ecle brities were present by proxy. I The whole idi a of the evening's pro ' gram was to show the world-wide dis semination of Rotary. Talks were made! ' by Jim Kennedy and P. W. Garland on j thei international scope of Rotary. There are now more than one thousand, bibs in twenty-five countries. In '''"'i .ilr0 i-roceM of organization in 'stranm, Norway, and Amsterdam, Holland. HAMILTON NEGROES HELP BULLOCK !N HIS FIGHT Canadian Negroes E m p Counsel to Help Fight tradition of Matthew lock to North Carolina. 1 o y HAMILTON. ONT., Feb. 21. llum- ilton negroesare ready today to wage a strong fight in resistance of renewed ef forts of Norlina. NV C. authorities to extradite Matthew Bullock, a nero, on a charge of attempted murder. Counsel has been retained by the combined negro forces to defend Bullock, who is a!so bc-J ing given the assistance of the tSociety for the Advancement of Colored l'eople, j an American organization. I The Norlina authorities recently failed ' Beard of Gnimbis," as had been ieti to extradite Bullock on a charge of in-i tinned bv Landru's counsel, it was au- citing to riot, the negro-pleading that ho.! 1,a f.,t o...P,1n,l him .l.n i feared the fate accorded his brother, who j was Jynclied following the rioting for! which ho is' wanted; PROPERTY DAMAGE IN NORTHWESTERN BLIZZARD Entire Nprthwest Enveloped in Storm of Snow and Sieet No Funerals in Green Bay, Wisconsin, For Two Days on Account of the Storm Cold Wave Moving Eastward To day. 1 (l!y The Associated Tress.) ("Jilt A(i(). Feb. 2-J, The northwest I today was beginning to recover some- i what from tin-, blizzard which sent spring-J time li iniM rature to zero ami below and scattered heavy tails of niiow ami sleet over a wi.lt area of Montana, the Dako ta. MinntMota and Wisconsin down into tin' northern part of Texas, Arkansas! an. I (Ikahoma. j Nurtliwi M wh -re the f.orm was great-1 est, according to dispatches received f Here, reported a death till of twelve audi mi. lion of dollars damage to property.! Five person met death in a train wreck: near Minneapolis when a passenger train I crashed into a snow plough, four men were frizon to death in Minneapolis ami, St. I'anl, a woman was frozen to dentil! near Lnngfurd, South Dakota., a woman' was electrocuted near Koehestcr, Minn.,' and a man t'r.izcn at Dilmore. Minn.i Only little damage was reported from the! southwest, where ss.akiu? rains were fob ; lowed by sleet and snow with low tem-1 j (erat u res. In the Deep 'reek and Milluagan see-1 i t ions of Montana, wolves in droves were! driven by the heavy snow to populate districts and attacked domestic animals, Se.enty head of cattle were reported kil'ed af one point. Wisconsin was battling with an en veloping mantle of snow tA restore nor mal conditions. Railroad service has been jiaralyzi d by heavy snowdrifts and damage estimated at several millions of d 'llars done. The arrival of the cold weather, however, brought relief from I the Hood peril which in ninny localities had been the most dangerous aftermath of the storm. N'o funerals have bi-cn held in Green Hay for two days because of the deep snow drift's. Nebraska felt n thirty mile wind ne- rompnnied by sleet which put L'0,000 I miles of telephone lines out of commis- ! sion, while South Pakota dispatches said that heavy damage had been caused in I that State by wind and sleet. The cold wave was moving rapid ly eastward today. THINK WOMAN HAD STAGED ANOTHER HOLD-UP (Hy The Associated Press.) FI;I:!:H0I.D, N. J., Keh. -J4. Af ter the alleged coiifesion of Mrs. Sarah I.. M. Huberts m that she staged the holdup at her DchI beach home last Sat unlay night, the police tmbiy were seek ing to learn if k)ic is the same woman who a year ago secured 1 0,000 from an ) ic reputed theft t insurant -e eoliierii lor the rei of gems in Columbus, Ohio 1 lie police last night recovered .Mrs. Itobel tsmi 's jewels, which were suppos ed to have Is en taken by tin "robber. " She ga.e the authorities u note to the person in whose custody the gems were, and they were turned over without fur ther ado. Two of the pieces recovered, the police say. correspond exactly to de scriptions of gems alleged to have been stolen from Mrs. Robertson in Colum bus . According to the Ohio city's police, Mr.. Itobertson was robb d while visit ing t!o holm of a friend there. Among the gems she reported as stoeil was a I large lunc h studded with diamonds and j with pearls. One of th,' pieces recover ! el is of this description . The S(lice ;.v she included in ber con fission a stat.meat that she was driv en to desperation by emhnn assnients iu her real oi 'te bii-iness and that she ha planned, in addition to t ie "fake"' rol bery of herself, two real robberii s New York friends, owners of bi( ,j of l uel collections Pro editor Scton, to whom the alleged eon lession was mad" de manded that sin' detail step l.y step t lie manner in which sic had planned the Saturday nilit robbery. '1 he r'cnetil jewels are -aid to be worth lion, although Mrs. Kobeitson claims their value to be worth ifsO.OPO. They were insured with Lloyds for 17", (Kill . I MISS McCORMICK'- WEDDING TO TAKE PLACE IN MAY ('.v The Associated Dress.) ZrUH'll. MVJTZKRLAND. Feb. 21.: The welding of Miis Mailable Mc-1 Cormick, tne Hi year old daughter of Harold i". Md 'oi uiick, president of the. International I la i ester Company, to Max (l-er, a riding master of .Ulich,; will take place in May at the MeCormick country mat mar Chicago, according to present plans. j User, who is si ill absent from Zurich.' has accepted to conditions under which the MeCormick family gave their con sent to the luat'b, which v-ere that he take up his residence in the I'nited Htates and become a citizen of ttiat , country. User's fa'her was u cavalry riding master of Basle, who lost most of his fortune by an adventurous expedition; into Africa. Later he founded the Basle j rnivcrMty riding vhool The mother be-; longed lo a good Basle family named Mangold, was not of German 'origin. j Oser has a married sinter in Kouth Africa, and a brother who is farming in; Argentine. HENRI LANDRU MUST , GO TO THE GUILLOTINE. PARIS, Feb. 24, President Miller-. and has refused to commute the aeu Blue tcuce of Henri Ijindru, the uouneed this afternoon. At I .n.lni sa .,.r,l The guilliting tff Laudru for t'ae murder of ten women and a boy was sometime ago set to oe 'cur Ihis week. ELOPED WITH STEP-MOTHER TWICE HIS OWN AGE ST. JOHN, N. B.. Feb. 24. Frederic Brooks, 20 years old, -who eloped with his stepmother from Ban gor, Me., to McAdam, N. B., has brought his bride to St John. She is more than twice his age. After the elopement they tried to return to Bangor, but were refused admission to the United States by the immigra tion authorities. The bride had been divorced from her present husband's father. RADIO THEATER PLANNED V BY LORAT BOY SCOUTS Troop No. 4 to Open Theater Where Latest Wireless Tel- ephone News Will be Re ceived Have Fine Bowl ing Alley. At their regular meeting last night, Troop 4, Bov Scouts of America, located at. l,u ray, derided to open a Radio theater and establish an up-to-date Radio telephone equipment. The theater will be open on stated nights each week and financed throucli a Radio Club formed mining the scouts of the troop and other persons of the city who are interested. All members of the club paying the yearly dues will membership can be admitted on their A small admission fee will be charged to all others. A com mittee from the troop is now in touch with' various radio authorities, and full announcement of their plans will be fur nished in the near future. The theater will be purely a scout enterprise, the scout gyiiiuasiuin being all ideal location for the purpose. The troop asks that it be dearly understood that they are not es- taidishing this enterprise for the purpose of making money. They are expecting to get the very best equipment, hence! club dues and admission fees will be; necessary. Any one in the city who i.C intended should get in touch with the. j scoutmaster, of the troop, Rev. Roswell" , C. Long. I Through the courtesy of the Lornyj Mills, the thirty scouts of this troop have( the use of one of the finest, bowling al-1 ! in the south. The alley is located at scout headquarter and is open to thej scouts every, meeting night. Mr. J. D.j Harrison, formerly of Troop 5, was last; Thursday night elected as an additional Scoutmaster in this troop, which now has three ii Hi slant gcoutumsU'rs BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IS COMMUNICABLE Declares Head of Veterinary Department of Purdue Uni versity Humans Can Get Disease From Cows. (By The Associated Press.) ' INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Feb. 24. -"Bovine tuberculosis is commiiniciibl 10 ""' unman inniiry,. according to exaci experimental results obtained by a nuiii- j Per or physicians not only iu ths conn- try, but iu Luglaud and Scotland,' do-, clared Dr. L. C. Kigin, of the Veterina- 1 ry department (f Purdue University, in I ' speaking before the annual meeting of i ! the Indiana Tulierciilosis Association, here toduy. "Too small a number of people realize that tulierciilosis may In,' ' contracted by a human Is-ing esiccially ; n child drinking milk from a cow . uf ; fering with tuberculosis." I Dr. Kigin presented reports from sev- 'cral noted physicians, showing that they i found, from lo to 70 per cent of the tu- j ' berciilosis cases among children derived i ! from the bovine baccili. Some rank ns ! high as ild per icnt, and the average was I considerably above half, showing eon j I clu ively that tuberculosis iu cuttle f re- j jquently is transmitted to human beings I through the drinking of milk from in- j 'fisted anmals, he-declared. "Uy eradicating tulierciilosis in cattle ns we are trying to do iu Indiana, t .iroiigh the Indiana Live Mock Saintnr.v iPi.ird and the liureuus ot .Miiuial jikihs i t iv, we are taking a lug step in eradieat ing tuberculosis iu human beings," said Dr. Ki(;iu. He asked for co-operation of the State associations in this cum pnijjii and declared that "unless a uni lied effort is made to stamp out this dis ease its final eradication is impossible. CRAWFORD GOES FREE ON PAYMENT OF COSTS Judge Ray Declined - ductor Who Had Name. To Imprison Con Defended Wife's BALISSBI'K Y, Feb. 2.:. Captain R. I'. Crawford, .Southern railway conduc tor, who last week submitted to a man slaughter verdict iu superior court, went free today upon payment of costs. Craw ford wa charged with the slaying of Engineer D. !S. Hintun iu the Young Men's Christian Association Itlllctl rOOlll at "Spencer. December 5, and was iM'ing tried for necond degree murder, several speeches bavin been made to when Judge J. Bis Ray stated would charge the jury to find of manslaughter. Then, following a conference attorneys, Crawford submitted diet of manslaughter. loday Judge Kay uispoe. ot the ease, try allowing the defendant to go upon' payment of costs, his honor saying in cf-j feet that he could not get the consent of: his conscience to imprison Crawford for ; his action nnder the circumstances dis-, closed by the evidence. i According to eye witnesses Crawford j assaulted Uinton when he heard the hit - ter making uncomplimentary, remarks a bout Mrs. Crawford, and injuries inflict-: ed by him caused Uinton 'a death in sev eral hours. . , , - -..'.'. . THE WEATHER North Carolina, fair tonight and orday, colder tonight and in east south portions Saturday. , Sat-! MABEL NORMAND, FILM STAR REPORTED SERIOUSLY ILL AT SUBURBAN HOME Since Funeral of William D. Taylor She Has Been Confin ed to Home Report Is That She Has Lost Use of Mus cles Was One of Last to See Taylor Alive. y (By The Associated Press.) l.OS ANfiKI.EK. i-vh. -u Th., ..mi. ditioa of Mabel Normainl. film act reus reported critical! v ill by her physician, unchanged this the most reliable . last night, remained morning, according to ; ":"'"" obtainable h Miss Normand, who secluded herself .'oiiietiine ago in a residence in Altadena, ,.i suburb of Pasadena, is said to be euf ! feriag from an aggravated case of influ J enza. She moved to the Altadena resi dence shortly after the funeral here of William Desmond Taylor, who wag slain in his apartments on the evening of Feb ruary 1 . i Although her condition last night wa regarded as heriou;, her physician said he had hope she would recover. Miss Normand, a close friend of Tay lor. and one of the last persons known .to , have seen him alive, collapsed at the ! funeral services and at the time it won stated she iva ; on the verge of a nervous breakdown, j Deeply affected by the mysterious shooting of the director, the film comc : diaiinc left her Los Angeles a part incut j shortly after she was niiewtioned by the j district attorney us to any clue she might be able to give to aid iu the solution of ' tiie crime. ' Then, s'tduded ill the foothill residence where he today lies in a serious condi- 1 t ion. Miss Normand suffered a nervous collapse, according to her physician, tho result of continued depression over the tragedy in which she had ployed one o the leading roles. At one time it was reported Mis Normand and Taylor were engaged. But the actress steadfastly has deueid that, there was ever any affair of the heart between her ami tho slain director, maintaining they were merely the. best of friends. " . . ' - Miss Normand visited the director ear ly in the evening of February I, Sho went to his apartments to borrow St book from him, she said. While there, alio "'"ted, she chattel with Taylor for ft rew uiiuutej and then tno director cs- ! corted her to her car and waved good-bye.-j to her as her limousiau sped down tho j street. Tayior then . returned to his a partments where fhe next morning his; body was; found by Henry 1'eavey, his ' house man . ', , . ! Miss Normnnd'e story ot her last visit ! to Tnyl ir's npartmeuts was eo'rroborut I ed by her clmuffeur, William Davis. ! Although Miss . Normand 'g physiciun ! refused to be quotedjither than as saying I that, Miss Normand was ',' seriously ill 'with influenza," friends of the actress j were .aid to have declared that for a pc ! riod of 12 hours yesterday she suffered I partial loss of the use of her muscles. This report, however, could not bo cou I tinned today. ; OFFICIALS DO NOT PUT ' . ' ANY FAITH IN STORY TOLD BY HI M. FIELDS Do Not Think Man Held in Detriot V Know Anything About Murder of ' William D. Tsy lor -Has Told Too Many Conflicting Tale. - LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2. Growing disbelief iii the story of tho murder ' of ' William Desmond Taylor here February I, ii'lated in Detroit within the last three das by Barry M. Fields, in custody there, was expressed early today by Losl Angeles officials investigating the case. ; They pointed out two charges FiehU made iu his original story. One was of a if I, (li mi bill to a $100 bill in connection with his statement that he was paid ' !hiu for having driven a Chinese, a whito woman ami a white man to the Taylor a partmeiits. Tin other was his changing the loca tion where he .said the pistol with which Taylor was shot wonld.be found. The., officers said they found it at neither place lie named. , A bank teller was found here, how ever, who told of a man enteriug a bank with a 1,1111(1 bill and acting suspicious ly about the time Taylor was slain. In addition, Thomas Green, deputy Tinted states district attorney here, was (ii"ted as having stated a man he be lieved was Taylor had sought his aid a, year ago in stamping out the drug traf fic. This later was pointed fo as a partial proof of Fields' statement that the film director was killed because of his alleged ' interference with the drug traffic. The officers learned, also, that ft Chi-, nese named Wong Let the name Fields . said was borne by the. Chinese ill the al leged murder party had left Los An geles Chinatown three days ago when it f;rvt int iril:it,.,l I'otilq tiilfrtit to.vn i,n. portaut informafioii coiicernini? th cas; Thev sail. however, thev liad notbintr to the jury , eonms t Wong 1-e with the Taylor mur that he',(,r .lu,i recalleil Fields bad said the Chi a verdict ; nes.- in his party went east with him. i The officers said they were unable to with his earn anything of the white woman and to a ver-j uaite mau, whom Field named as Jen-' nie Moore and Johunie Clark, or any ucr- sons who knew anything of them, , DF.TROIT, Feb. 2!l.v Authorities here withheld decision tonight as to tho value of purported confession by Harry , Fields, that he was implicated; in. the murder of William Desmoud Taylor, Los Angeles film director. Sheriff Irving J. Coffin, to Whom Fields made a number of statements concerning the crime, aaid bo had communicated details of the murder a related by Fields, to tho Los Angeles authorities and was u wait ing farther ad vices. -. Fields today held steadfast lv to his story ef the killing, Sheriff Collin Utei, and furnished additional details. Ho toM the sheriff a Chinese fired the shot andfthat killed Taylor, buried the pistol neag i (C'-.r-tiuue-l 03 i , t
Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.)
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