ONIA DAILY GAZETTE
Weather:
Fair
Local Cotton
18 Cents
VOU XLIII. NO. 48.
GASTONIA, N. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 25, 1922.
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
GIST
GASTON COUNTY SUNDAY
SCHOOL C0NVENTI0N IN
OLJjllm HLuL llLAI iTLLtl
Beginning Wednesday, March
1, Will Meet Twice Daily in
First - Associate Reformed
Presbyterian Church Prof.
M. A. Honline and D. W.
, Sims to Be Principal Speak
ers on the Program Con
tinues Until Friday, March
3.
The Gaston County fcJunday School
Convention wil meet in Gastonia next ;
week at the First Associate Reformed
Presbyterian church, March 1, 2 and 3.
The county Sunday School Association
is an affiliated brunch of the N. C. Suu
day School Association .
When tho Association began aggres
sive work, November, 1020, nino counties
were organized; now 49 arc organized
and all hare held conventions in 19-1 .
In these 49 conventions, 972 Sunday
Schools wero represented by 12,723 peo
ple. Among those present were 4S7
preachers, 8a9 superintendents and 3,.
093 teachers. The State Association
furnished two speakers for each of these
conventions.
Eighty-one townships held conventions
in the first half vf this convention year,
reaching about 12,000 people from boO
Sunday Schools
The program follows:
FIRST SESSION.
Wednesday Afternoon, Match l.
.1:30 Devotioual.' Dr. .1. O. Galloway,
Pastor of First A. it. 1'. Church, Gas
tonia. J:40 The Teacher lkfore the Class.
Mr. D. W. Sims, Genera! Superintendent
North Carolina Sunday School Associa
tion. Kaleigh, N. C.
4:10 The Needs of Religious Kduca
tion. I'rof. M. A. lionliu , Associate
Kdticational Superintendent of the In
ternational Sunday School Association,
Dayton, Ohio.
4:50 Period of Business:
Attendance itecord.
Announcements.
5:00 Adjourn.
SECOND SESSION.
Wednesday Night, March 1.
7:;!0 Devotional. Dr. J. Ii. Hendcr
lite, Pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, Gastonia.
7:40 The Weak Link in the Sunday
6chool..Mr. D. W. Sims.
8sl0 1'eriod of 'business: Kcport of
County Oflicers
announeenieuts.
Attendance record undi
8:20 The Place of Keligion in Lduca-j
tion, Prof. M. A. Uonlinc. j
9:00 Adjourn.
THIRD SESSION.
Thursday Afternoon, Match 2
ci.'jrt r. .....I i ah.i i i.... t. srt.nt
ford, pastor f Main Street Methodist ,
i'i,,,.,.h Ccinnh, i
3:30'The Place of Lducatiou in Ke- J
ugiou, i-ror. -vi . a. Jioiiune.
4:"o Problem Solving Period, con
ducted by. Mr. U. W. irjims and Prof.
M. A. Honline. :
4:50 Period of Hu.dness: Attendance '
record, announcement .
5:00 Adjourn.
FOURTH SESSION.
Thursday Night, March 2
I
!
:
i.ilni '
7:31) Devotional. Rev. .1. W.
Marks 'Lpiseopal'
son, pastor of tit .
church, (iastonia.
7:10 The Place of the Teacher- in Re
ligious Education,. I'rof. M. A. Honline.
B:15 I'criod of business; Appoint
ment of commit tees. Record of atten
dance. S;."0 Steps of Progress in Sunday
School Work, Mr. 1). W. Sim.
9:00 Offering for support of the
Xorth Carolina Sunday School Associa
tion .
9:1j Adjourn.
FIFTH SESSION.
Friday Afternoon, March 3
r:,'0 Devotional, Rev. .1. C. Diet, i
pastor of Lutheran church, (iastonia. ;
3:10 Tho Subject Matter of Religious
Education. Prof. M. A. Honline.
4:25 Problem Solving Period, conduct
ed by Mr. D. W. Sims and Prof. M.
A. Honline.
4:50 I'eriod of business: Attendance
record. Announcements.
5:00 Adjourn.
SIXTH SESSION.
Friday Night, March 3
7:30 Devotional. Rev. W. C. Bar
rett, pastor of First Baptist church,
Oastonia.
7:40 Trained Workers Why and
How, Mr. D. W. Bims.
810 Period of business: Attendance i
record. Report of committees and elec
tion of officers.
8:30 The Child as the Object of Re
ligious Education, I'rof. M. A. Honline.
9:00 Adjourn.
Officers Gaston County Sunday School
Association
President, Prof. W. P. Orier; vice
presidents': W. J. Francis, Marshall
Dilling, W. L. Bait his; becrctary, Miss
Georgia Copcland .
Division superintendent: Children's,
Misa Loin Long; Young People's, Mrs.
J . Y. Miller; Adult, H. Rutter; Adunn
istrative. W. II. Wray
Township presidents: South Point,
T tn:. Riv-r Prof. Excell
r i m.. ..(..;.. i n,
l.am; Dallas. Robert H. LrVis'; Cherry, j
vi lln. M I . Min.o.t I t:iKt.oni.i. J. - 11. i
Mauney; Oastonia, J. - H. i
!
Kennedy.
- Mabel Normand Improves.
(By The Aswx-iated l'ress.)
LOS ANGELES. Feb. 25
Con
tinued improvement of Mabel Normand,
film 'actrean, who' i suflfering from in
iluenxa nnd nervous hreakdowu, wtls pro
Uided early, today by her rliybician.
Chicago And
O-
gy Explosion Of Thirty Tons Of
r
uynamite in
Damage Estimated at Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars
Many Thought There Was Concerted Bombing Squads,
Earthquake or Falling Meteor Only One Man Hurt.
WAR DEPARTMENT CLERK
IS GOFESSED AUTHOR
Of DIIPVMMI I CTTCDC
Ul ULftUMIInlL LLI ILIIO
George E. Long, Veteran Em
ploye, Wrote Threatening
Letters to Prominent Wash-
ingtonians Wanted to Help
Poor Children of the City,
He Said.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. George
K. Long, veteran clerk in the War De
partment, ami, according to the police,
confessed author of the blnckmril lit
ters recently received by Henry White,
and several women prominent in Wash
ington society, was tendering to t h e
needs of n seriously ill wife and his three
fiiiltli-pii tit their finmc tjul.'iv which lie
1.nililt,,, to r,.turil ,ninutos
afu). tl(, uu,Ketl confession (ra
: f , t M headquarters yester-
day. .No complaint had been lodged a
gainst him today, for sending the letters,
and the police said none would be hied
unless those who received the letters
j showed a disposition to press the case
'against him.
Tho authorship of the letters was
traced bv a peculiarity in the hamlwrit
ing and by a water mark used in the
war department stationery. Long,
whose reported confession followed two
hours of (piestioning after he was taken
into custody at his home yesterday, ae
cording to the police, said: "I don't
know why I wrote the letters; but I was
anxious to see the children of the city
provided for and I thought these rich
people miirht help. " He added that jie
j never v.ent to the places where he had
(directed the money to be sen, and
i " would not have touched it."
WANT GUARDIAN FOR
LOS ANGELES MILLIONAIRE
. , , . .
i.Ub A.XUtl.l-, rec. M . 1 - U -
turn for the appointment or a guardian
for William F. Wendt, Los Angeles mil
lionaire, once known as tho "Iron
King" of Buffalo, X. Y., was on file
in the probate court here today. The
petitioner is his wife, Mrs. Mary Wendt.
.She asked that their daughter, Miss Mar
garet Wendt, he named.
Wendt disappeared for scvera hours
Wednesday wun cunency, siocs uu;
bonds
, valued at $7o0,U0 ) m his posses-1
while olbeers were looking tor nn
a warrant charging insanity. They,
si on
with
locatd
him Wednesday night and placed
iiim in the psycopathic ward of the
countv hospital pendinir a hearing bc-
tore 'the Los Angeles county lunacy -
)t .,,..--... 0.,1,.),,,,l.i .
On Monday there also is scheduled to
come up in the superior court here the
! suit of Wendt airainst his daughter for
su,r 01 " V" . '
Mtendancc ' recovery of I5,000, which lie charges
1 she 'drew from a bunk wtihout his con
j sent .
recovery o. .T -i, v, ".V"" .
I he petition ior a guaruiau aucgen
Wendt is suffering from dementia and
ia no longer capable of handling his own
affairs. A Buffalo court declared him
incompetent last December.
....,. .. I
NORTH CAROLINA MifcTi ,
NEWBERRY TEAM TODAY ;
ATLVNTA, OA., Feb. 23. Tho'
meeting tonight b.'tween Vanderbilt and ,
Oeorgia, old rivals in all forms of col- '
Icl'C sport, was looked forward to as
one ot the ehict events ot the second
! round of the Southern college basketball
tournament here.
! Thc contest .scheduled between Kcn
' lucky, last year's champions, and Mer-
cer, promised to be another feature of
1 Hie second round. The game between thc
' Chattanooga quintet and Tulane will
complete the evening schedule which fol
iws three contests during the afternoon
These bring together South Carolina and
Wofford; Mississippi College and Ten
nessee, and North Carolina and Ncw
Iwrry. Alabama and Goorgfa Tech were
passed into the third round by failure of
opporcnts to arrive.
HULL CALLS IN LEADEff
OF DEMOCRATIC WOMEN
TULSA, Okla., Feb. 23 -Mrs.
Kuiily Newell Blair, of Joplin, Mo..
Democratic National Committee woman
for her state and prominent in politics,
received a message from Oordcll Hull,
chairman of tho Democratic, National
Committee, ast night, requesting her to
come to Washington to confer concern
ing eadersliip of the National Demo
cratic woman's organization.
Mrs. Bair returned to Joplin last
week and will go to Washington Tues
day. Mrs. Blair had becu prominent in na-1
tional suffrage work many years. Her
husband is an attorney with officers in.
Joplin and AVashington. i
INTEREST SUBSIDES IN
STORY OF H. M.
FIELCS
LOS ANGELES. Feb. 2. Interest
I resulting from the "confession" of
yc '":r f?
.'?" ""egeci ueians ot ine mur icr u ,
William Desmond Tay!or, film director,
" ' today. 'ithn.,t out-j
1 , ,' j is- i i i i a , "
disbelief In Fields' statements.
' . ". "T". """" :u "
! declared they had been tinable to sub-!
. .utiAtit i tii j it-iuB Bmtviui'iiw). in j i
Thai, I A
stantiato any of the allegations Fields ;
made to the Detroit authorities.
t'i. . : : Ai i e l....nlt- !
1 i. : a . .1 , t t : A I
anjrij- into a n'sumiiiion ot me iuuctt
of running to. ground the "tips" niysM
tery that were said to be reaching the!
various officials as during the tlaya af :
tcr'Fcbrunry 1. .... !
Suburbs Shaken!
I
o. ,
oione vuarry
(By The Associated l'ress.)
CHICAGO. Feb. 23 Chicago and
dozens of iU suburbs today found out
just what caused the explosion which
literally shook them to their foundations I
( -au"t :i frenzy of excitement last;
) night. Thirty ton of dynamite let go
I in a stone quarry southwest of the city
shortly before nine o'clock and hundreds
I of thousands of alarmed residents went
to bed not knowing just what hud hap
pened to shake them up, damage prop
erty and give rise to rumors and reports
1 01 eoucertcrt niombing squads, nn earth-1
! quaxe, a railing meteor, and disaster to.
koiiic of the major manufacturing plant
For an hour after the blast, Chicago
and its suburbs were in furore. The
smashing of glass in thousands of win-1
(lows, the shaking of the buildings and'
the noir of the explosion gave rise to
reports that bombings were occurring!
simultaneously in many parts of tho city.
While the police and newspaper of -
ti ... a l.. i l t l.. I.,
uct's ncn uuotieti mm iniiiurcus ui ,"
cjnines ana thousands or rrigtitoncit per
sons were trying to find the sauxce of the!
blast. The Associated Press, tlirongh a
crious coinriden.e, wms able to give the
first authentic cause of the explosion.
A Mono railroad signal tower at
Dyer. I ml., received a definite word of
the blast, and this was relayed to tho
! Mono dispatcher t Lafayette, Ind.,
' whence it was transmitted to a Lafayette
newspaper and the word of the explosion
on the edge .of Chicago came back to
the city over The Associated Press wires.
In spito of the large area, affected by
the blast, only one man was seriously
injured, (though scores were cut by
glass and shaken and bruised, some of
them living milca from the scene. Al
bert Kendle, the injured man, was op
erating n crane some distance from the
explosion and sustained a broken arm.
Heports that hundreds had been killed
proved groundless.
The McCook quarry of the ( onsuiners
Conmanv. nbout 11 miles from rihicairTi .
downtown district, contained two powder!
' magazines where dynamite was stored
i to thaw out and dry. In each magazine!
;K()0 f.;1SeM of dvnamit( were store, each
containing fifty pound of the explosive.!
The causo ot the explosion probably
never win oe Known, ji is possmie niai
a case of tho dynamite fell on another
case or that a rafter fell on a case.
" ! The damage caused by the explosion i"
. nutSttinti.fi tit- liiiii.lrit.la rtf t liniis.n nilsi of
j dollars. There is little to show the ef-
fwt of (ho j)ast J(t ,,u, SJ1()t wl(,r(1 it no.
, a (treat hole in the ground some
fif, fo(1, wid(, .,
thc ,.lc0 where v
sloo,i
L'OU feet long marks
terdav the powder
magazines stood
Workmen at. the qua try today
working at the edge of thc crater
( tGQQJ gAMARITANS" ROBBED
NEW YORKERS 0 F$153.O0O
(Bv The Associated Press.)
XKW YORK. Feb. 2o. Police to
rdav were seeking
Good Samaritans" j
' who relieved two New York business men
' tnli mi n r irnniB .lllil l'l rri'lU'V 11 IIIOII II I 1 w
to morn than $133,000, when they
... -
unconscious in fainting spells.
Leo Sherman, .Manhattan diamond im
porter, fainted in the Times Kquaro sub
way. When he he awakened in Hellevue
hospital sometime later, he announced he
lmd bopn T,h)H f .lij.monds which he
snj,i wt.rt worth $7.-1,000.
me name or tne second victim nas 1101. ;
l""1'" known. '1 ho police say he,
suffered an attack of vertigo after leav ;
"'"""k' 1"'M
inir a brokerage ollic
j withdrawn $7OU0. Passers-by carried
I him into u doorway and he was revived.
One of his "benefactors," police way,
made away with the money and a dia
niond cravat pin when the man was un
conscious. : NORMAL TEMPERATURE AND
RAINY NEXT WEEK .
(By The Associated Press.)
. WASHINGTON. Feb. 23. Weather!
i predictions for the week beginning Mon- j
day are:
Middle Atlantic States: Temperature,
near normal: snow or rain Tuesday or;
) Wednesday, otherwise fair. '
South Atlantic and east tJulf: Normal I
'temperature; considerable cloudiness ;
rains first half of week. 1
Dead at Age of 94.
The Kings Mountain
Her;jld of the'
2rd says: Mrs. Aunio Reichel died at conditions in the Near Last are arriving
her secluded home Ix'tween Bessemer , daily at the Cituuis National Bank.
City and Liuwood college Monday. The Flint Mill, 13.10; Arlington Mill,
remains were brought to Mountain Rest j 3.5 . 70 ; Myrtle Mill, $11. fin. An ad
cemetery tor interment Tuesday ami ' (iition.il check for $7.01 was received
Rev. H. B. Schacffcr conducted the ' from the McAden Mill this morning, in
funcrnl. She was born in Germany ill J creasing the gifts of McAdciiViKe U
years ago and moved to this country with! 37.S.01.
her husband who died in 1911 at the'
age
of 7. She is survived by a son. i
Will, and two daughters. Mrs.
and Mrs. Finn.
Bomby
Cotton Market
CLOSING BIDS ON THE
NFW YOH
NEW YORK MARKET
(By The Associated Press.)
NEW YORK. Feb. 2.". Cotton fu-
mies ctom ti ltlt t,t .
1..
March 18.4H; May 1S.22; July 17.57;
October li.S7; December 16.70; binits
IS.ho.
TODAY'S COTTON MARKET
Strict to Good Middling
ISC
.SIC
Cotton iced .
G1 coSnofkInsas
shb n viti Rrni
so
SHE CAN KILL BLUE LAWS.
Miss Helen Pettigrew, auburn haired, i
I blue eyed slender, pretty and only 20
! .., nn hi latest nnl'tir.il nmhUm
i J ' -. r r
m Kansas
She is running for governor
f thr rra stt trrarHitiu m n.u.
paper reports from Kansas City, Miss
Pettigrew includes in her campaign plat-
form opposition to all blue laws, and
favois the cause of light wines and beer,
rbiie believes that women should Have Uu
right to dress as little or as much as
they please; ii in favor of Jazz music,
and says women have the constitutional
j rieht to emoke
BOLD BURGLAR ENTERS
H.
Scream8 of Young Lady ArOUS -
ed Household But Unidenti-
fied Man Gets Away.
A burglar entered tin
, home of Mr.
Long Avenue,
morning and
the household
not secure anv-
! H. hchneider, Jib Lust
at
n early hour this
frightened members of
but, so far as known, did
thing ot value. Arous.d by the screams
i f .jss Dora .S hnieder. who awoke to
And the man standing over her bed with
, his haml on her arm, Mr. i-v-hneidcr
"ushed to his daughter's room and as he
,, I so the burglar escaped. Kfforts to
;t. : "'I the electric lights revealed the
j fuel to, ! the burglar had taken the re-
I caution
unsvreiv every lirht bulb it:
the house. Miss Charlie lluss, at the
Huss home next door, awakened by M'.vs
Schneider's ;-.ere;nns. looked out of her
window and saw the man running. j!
is not known whether l.e was white or
colored .
The police department wns notified at
once ami members of tho force were soon
nn Ho. frrollllil loit wi fn r no elilo h:i4 lieeri
,(.V(.(ll.,i as to tnu identity of the per
petrator of this ci'inn
i i. i - t p .. i.
Mr renaeiuei is oi 1 lie opiino'i vna-. i
I the man secreted hiinsef ui the housr
: early in t!ie evening while ail members
I of the family were absent. He was the
first to urrive at home, reaching there
'about it oY'oi-k. While reading a iicv.k.
j paper he thought he heard someone a
I the house and made what, lie thought was
1 a thorough search which convinced him
)u, w,s j,,!,,,.,.,,.
As a r,.slllt ,lf h,,r in,.n,
bllI.K.,r M i ss Dora Sehneid. 1
r with I ''K'
si.n' r.-.: .,
1 co . ei in-
severe nervous shock Out i
from tne elicits very uiceiy.
ACTIVITIES FOR THE
NEAR EAST RELIEF
WEST SCHOOL FLIES THE
NEAR- EAST SCHOOL BANNER
West school, under the i'lic'nnt and
effective leadership of Superintendent
Aboruothy, has sent in a check to Near
Ksat headquarters for $ I :i'.t . '.m, nine
teen dollars more than enough to care
for two orphans for a vcar. "And a
little child shall lead them. "
COTTON MILL OPERATIVES
STILL CONTRIBUTING
Checks for thc relief of distressing
OKtAllK LUKAY .
i A committee of Loray ladies are mak-
ing an active lanvass of the tir"uter Lo-
ray community today. Tho canvass be
j gall yesterday and early in the lifter
j noon 1,00' i envelopes had been distribtit
i ed and a caM sent in to headquarters
' for more. Lorav holes to hoist the.
Near Fast banner for single mill contri
butions .
ENCOURAGING REPORTS.
Reports of Near East Relief collec
tions from Dallas, Bessemer City,
Iiowcll nnd other county points are most
encouraging and all of them will do
more than tpiota a portioned them. A
number of places in the county an' yet
to be heard from and nil are requested to
remit collections at the earliest possible !
convenience to the Citizens National
Bank (iastonia.. Tomorrow ia the last!
day of active campaigning, but cwntri-l
bution begladly received at "y '
time. The new' is always with us. '
I CSV J y
it V K i
ill nY ?v
i 1 K lvf
I;ir v f API "il
bonus! proposition is
(again in hands of ways
'and means committee
Sub Committee Fails to Pro
vide Any Way to Finance
Soldier Bonus After Reject
ing Sales Tax Prooosal
Look to Harding to Offer So
lution. M'.y The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON', Feb. 25 . Failure
of the spieial tuhcotiiiiiittcc uf republi
can uicmU rs of the Huns'' Ways a n d
Verms roiiiinittce to approe any provis
ion for liii.'iueiiig of the soldiers' bonus,
.t:'ut 1 1 i -i-1 nf tin sales 1 ;i x proposal by
ml.' of 7 lo 2, had placed the question
a. i in loorn in the bands of the entire
iiiajuriiy ineiiibersliip of the committee
lor tnrther studv of the ituation. Jn
addiiion to the vote nirninst the srihs
tax. tli" sill inniillee wns innlel stood
to have uoue on record yesterday, o to -t.
in frivr of i. po'tiiq; out a bonus bill
ii'liiii! any piopositiou for raising the:
revenue.
Tie majority members ef lh" commit I
tee " - 1 1 rot in, el again until next Tiles ;
day, li;:iiii; ao.iounie.l vestevday after
rt'ceixing the report of the sub-eonunit I ce !
to permit time for study of the whole
que I inn bid ore reaching a decision on'
its rei'iimmemlat ions. The sentiment of I
i the ma.joiity. numbers wns said by j
! of
Milne to t.nor rat ilieat Ion ol t lie aid loll i
b lomniitlee, bariiiiL' unforeseen
dev. lopan nts In to:,,
I Some nppor: i- ,.i'
in.wew.r. m pnmin
Tuesday .
the riles tax plan,
their hopes iod.ty
to the po tii.it President Harding
li:l);lil aain take a hand in the si I iint imi,
believing that it was the present inten
tion of the committee to report out leg
islation b;;sed on pioeeeds from tne re
fiinde.l foreign bonds, a plan of Uhich,
liny said, tie' President had expressed
disapproval . Those who favor a bonus
bi'l without any revenue provision, sriid
tin - i iiuld be followed by another nieas
are piiniilini; for the us of the bond pro-
i ,-e.-., ulib-li should be available they be-
Mrewd, in pait, at least, before th" cash
j I'.a.Min nts to former m-rvice men would
i ''"
i ii-
: COTTON COMMISSION
MAKES rXvOMMEN DAT IONS.
( I'.y
The
Associu,ti
d Press.)
ORLKANS. Feb. 23. Com-
mitt.e ehairiiieu arc today piitting into
loi-in tor pri'seiitation to the governors
of tin' cotton growing states the reeoin-
iicndaiioiis ndoptetl by the cotton stales
cotniuis'-iou, wliich cinicluileil a two-day
se-sion hire late yesterday.
Among the nunc important objects of
the roiuinis inn is the formation of a
permanent eottou commission whose
membership will be composed of three
commissioners from each state in the cot
Ion belt, one of whom shall be an officer
of his stale's department of agriculture.
The objects of such permanent orgntii
zitinn would lie "the control. of in.ect
pes's, the bittci meiil of living condi
tions for farm dwellers, the establish
meiil of adi-(iiale and uniform ware
house systems, reduction of the costs ot
iiiaikeling. the financing of the fanner
.lining periods of depression and mar
k'ling and other problems of like char
nder. ' '
Pending the organization of the per
manent cominirsion through the action
of the governors the organization which
,
fori I here this week with the elec
tion of 1!. (). Kverett, of Durham, -N .
C.. as chairman, will continue to func
tion and wiil make every effort to secure
tin- iidoptii f the plans formulated
i. 11 bv the several states.
BEGINNING INQUIRY INTO
THE ROMA DISASTER i
. ., . 1
I By Th.
XOUI'OI.K,
inquiry by an
vssjciaieu icw.i
VA.. F. b. 25. Formal
army investigating ari
1 into the
rounding
' ble Jioma
hilling .' t
ters of th
a uses an. i el rcumsiaiucs ior-1
he di-aser to the semi-ilirigi
it annv supply base, I uesday
men, was begun at hoadquur
supply base here this morn
; ing. Preliminary investigations have
I been made both by Langh'.v field officers
and olliecrs especially detailed by ihe
, War Di partmeiit, and these will be sub
mitted to the board.
The inquiry is in the nature of a coro
ner's inqmst and it is th' inttnti'Mi of
th-- board, acting under inst i u.-t ions
from the War I 'eon 1 1 ment. lo bring out
eveiv feature of tiie i rash before the re-
pol l is inritle.
' Caplaiu i. B. W. st, medical ofiicer,
who ixamined 1 he bodies as they Were
, removi 1 from tie- wreck of the airship
'. . lest rib. . I the nature of the burns' suffer
ed bv imiv one of the victims. tne
i ths.-iiptiou did for all. for the bodies
were cooked and seared alike, he fold
th" board. It i understood that medi
cal ollieers testilied that the majority
met death from burns, some having been
j asphv xiated, and other being crushed toi
: death by the steel girders and suports. ,
Following Captain West, rrfheers and'
attache of Ihe army base testified as to
I the 'position of the li.ima n the air when
! s-be was first seen approaching the r'-ser -i
vation from a northeasterly direction.
S"er:il described their impressions
when tiiev fiist s.'iw the airship and all
lagged that they thought she was in
! trouble.
Statements as to the rudder supports,
apparently giving away on the h ft hand:
!de. throwing tiiose on the light into a'
vertical jiosition, were practically the
same as those made on the afternoon of
the tragi dy.
The memb'-rs of the board are Majors
!. Johnson, ' H. Jouret. and J. Mc-i
Murnev, all stationed at Langley field.
GEN. CARR BETTER.
(By The Associated Press.)
Ttl'KH AM. N. C Feb. 23. The
con.lition of General Julian S. Carr,
fominander in-chief United Confederate j
Veterans, who has boon seriously ill
with Influenza at his home here since
Sunday, was much improved this morn-
ihe. t was stated at the uflke of hi9
secretary, '
liNDRU, FRENCH BLUEBEARD,
PAID LIFE PENALTY ON THE
GUILLOTINE EARLY TODAY
Maintained Until the Last Air of Indifference
and Cynicism Stoutly Refuses to Confess
Faced the Executioner's Axe Without a Trem
or Crowds Gather to Witness the Execution.
PARTY OF SCIENTISTS
WILL INVESTIGATE WE1R0 '
NOVA SCOTIA GHOST;
Many Have Visited Haunted
House Onlv to Flee in Ter-
ror Tell Tales of Being
Slapped by Hands Flying'
Around Loose in the Air.
(By The Associated Press.)
HALIFAX, N. S., Feb. 23. A
party of inquisitive ncicntist now
threatens to break in upon the (piiet
of the Antigoiiish ghost wluxse fame
grows with each new thrill it cause.
The exclusive wraith will make the
acquaintance of a small group of dis
tinguished men. if pans being dis
cussed today are tarried out. Dr.
Walter Franklin Prince, director of
tho American Institute for Scienti
fic Research, New York, has de
clared his intention of calling at the
haunted house if he can nrrange a
leave of absence.
The Antigoiiish ghost has gotten
to be quite an international affair
since first heard of a few months
ago. The haunted house is the homo
of Alexander MacDonald, near Cale
donia Mills, in 11 little inhabited
valley deep in the mountains and
woods. Mr. MacDonnld, his wife
and their adopted daughter, fled the
place in terror in the dead of win
ter, with weird tales of ghostly
cattle tampering and a series of in
expli"able tires.
The talc obtained wide credence,
and the provincial police sent a de
tective to the place, lie was accom
panied by a newspaper man, the two
taking up their residence in the
MaiDoiiald house for three nights,
fleeing it, finally, with nn eerie
tale of being slapped in the night
by hands that didn't nooiii to be at
tached to anything in particularf
Now comes the cnlL for scientists '
investigation.
I BROTHER DECLARES THAT
j SMYTHE TOLD TRUTH
(Bv The Associated Press.)
I CH ICAOO. Fob. 23. Robert M.
I Smytho, Jr., brother of Lieut. Clifford
j Y. Smythe, onu of the victims of the
I Roma disaster, today reiterated his
j statement made ust Weduesday that ho
I had seen letters from his brother in the
air service, declaring the Roma unsafe.
I ' The letters were addressed to my
I father or my mother, who gave them to
.me to read," he said today, following
j tho reported denial 0 tho statements
I credited to Lieutenant Symthe by his
! father, Robert M. Smythe, in Hampton,
I Va., yesterday.
; "I don't r. call exactly what they said,;
I except that ihr motors were working .
I poorlv and that Lieutenant Hmvthu re-'
turned from Hie- lloinri tnur trip' by
train. I lune every reason to lliink that
I Dr. Nicholson
in. v;..i...M,.v ... ... 1,..
I Was ;
very close friend of the family
rre.spon.led with my brother regie
un,i ,
;irv. '
jj wa:J ,-
J. M. Nicholsjii who gavi
out what he said was the text of Lieute
nant Smythe 's letters expressing the
opinion that tho Roinn was unsafe.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Smythe. Sr.,
will arrive in riUieago tomorrow at'te;.
noon with the Lody of their s ui.
WANTS INSURANCE FOR
AUTO INJURED BY BULL.
(By The Associates Press.)
TtM'I'K A. Kas.. Feb. 2."). Fred
Kniidson, a farmer, today appealed to
the slate superintendent of insurance for
aid in collecting collision insurance on
lis automobile. Kiuulsoii in Ids com
plaint states that he painted his automo
bile lid, that a bull at a public sale at
Orion attacked it and that the insurance
company refused to even consider his
claim .
PLAN TO STANDARDIZE
ALL JUNtUK CULLt-liJii ter 10 o'clock were treated to a very in
MLMPH1S, TF.NN., Feb. 2o. .foresting concert given by the Detroit
Plans for the standardization of juni.r ; Syihphony Orchestra sent out by tho IV
colhgis in the Cnitcd States, based on! ''"it New Radio Station. This wonder
a committee report providing a currieii-! ful orchestra which compares favorably
lum covering two years for such institu- ""''' the Boston Symphony Orchestra
tions. were under discussion at today's ":ls miiril so clearly that it could easily
session of the second annual conventi' n ' understood and the applause of the
her- of the American Association of ; audience in the theatre iu which the pro
Junior Colleges. gram was given was clearly heard. A!- .
Z j so. one of the special features of the con.
HARDING THINKS NAVAL i cert program was the solo of Miss Me-
Fnprir. nirr.HT to re an rum Neeley accompanied by a violm and
AVASHINGTON, Feb. 2o. Presi
dent Harding is umh'rst'iod to have told
republican mcmU-r of the House naval
committee at a White House conference
today that while he felt some reduction
should Ito made in. the naval personnel
the total number of enlisted men ought
not to be out under 80,000.
PATDOLMAN SHOT I
FOLLOWING BIG EXPLOSION f
CHICAGO, Feb. 25. Patrolman Mi
'cliacl Forgan, ot Argo, Ilia., was proba
bly fatally wounded early 'today when
he was allot through tho bead while stand
ing guard in front of the Summitt State
Bank, the windows of which had. -been
shattered by the explosion of di"auiit
iu McCook quarry, nearbjv .
( By The Associated Press.)
VL'RSAILLKri, Feb. 23 Henri De
sire Landru, "Blue Beard of Gam
brnis. " convicted of the murder of ten
women and one youth, gave his lifo this
morning in exchange for the eleven ho
had taken. The trianiful.tr knife of
, the guillotine fell at (i:03 o'clock, twenty
'v minutes after the time originally set
",r U1L' execution, me ieiay causinc
many lo express tlie erroneous opinion
that Laudru was making a confession.
Mysterious until death, Laudru resented
Father Loiselles' query as to whether
he had any confession to make.
"It is an insult to a man like me."
( was his reply. "Had I any confession
lo make. 1 would have inudo it long
ago," but never did he utter tho word
("Innocent" as he had failed to utter
during his "4 months of imprisonment
and the twenty one days of his trial.
j He ref used the sacrament, but con
versed a few moments with the priest.
"I shall bo brave, never fear," ho told
the clergyman.
Vlthouirn plans for thu execution had
been kept in utmost secrecy, crowds be
gan to gather about thp old Versailles
jail a little after midnight. Tho clatter
of cavalry horses along Georges Clemen
ceau slreet. in which the execution took
idace, was plainly audible in Landrtt'a
ceil, and when he awoke he heard the
sounds1 of hammers as workmen erected
"timbers of justice " by the flickering
light of two square, old fashioned candlo
lanterns.
The guillotine was erected only a few
feet from the uiain entrance of the jail.
At 0 o'clock the doors of the prison
opened slowly, revealing in this court
yard the procurator general, the warden
of the prism and Iaudru's two lawyers,
M. Moro GiafTeii and M. D. Dutrcuil.
Then Laudru apeared clud in dark,
trousers and white shirt. Ilia beard,
which was one of his most striking char.
ncUristics. and which had become fami
liar to thousands through jmlilication of
his portrait during tho trial, had been
trimmed, his head was shaved, and his
neck and face were deathly pale. He
walked exriitly live steps before the
executionist ' assistant caught hiitt
around the waist and levelled him on tho
table, which was immediately upended;
the heavily weighted knife alid down,
aud the whole affair was over in less
than twenty seconds. 1-nndru never
faltered from tiie time he apjiearcd in
the door: lie gave the guillotine onu
look, suu.-ircd his shoulders nnd walked
erect, uttering not a word. s
The crowd, which had been kept at
such a distance that it saw nothing of;
ihe details, uttered no cry, and the lil. '
ence was only broken by tho bugles ;
tounding reveille in the nearby barracks.,
and the anelus bells. The platoon of.
cavalry with sabers bared, saluted as tho
"nivstcry man" went to his death.
Then the hundred or so newspaper cor
respondents and the few officials whr .
had witnessed the execution left the
scene, while outside the lines of cavalry
the citizens of Versailles and many
from Paris were asking: "Is it ail
over . "
There aeetned to be more pity than
bittern ss. anil never a word of invective
against the man who had just paid the
pcnaltv for a series of the foulest mur
ders in the criminal history of France.
CIVILIAN GUARDS ARE
REPLACING THE MARINES.
WASHINGTON".' Feb. 25. Replace
mi nt of marines mail guard by a spe
cially recruited force of men from the
Department is now being carried out by
the PostoiTice Department, it was stated
i today by postal officials. Officials said
it was expected that within a short time
all marines now engaged in guarding the
mails won!. I be withdrawn. Thc civilian
guards are being carefully selected and
will fin in a permanent service, it was as
serted. Since the murines have been on duty
robberies have decreased and postoffiec
department officials have been highly
plea-ed with the result.
Heard Detroit Orchestra.
Visitors who lingered tit the Radio
room of Michael & Bivetis last nislit af-
flute. Besides hearing Detroit, tho vis-
, itors were able to hear" Pittsburgh, Chi
cago aud Washington, D. C. .
Died From Injuries.
GREENWOOD, S. C. Feb; 25.
D. T. Kinard, president of the Cam
bridge Bank of Ninety Six, who had both
legs broken and was otherwise injured
by a falling wall while lighting a tiro
which destroyed three atore buildings st
Ninety Six Wednesday night, "died at B
local hospital today.
THE. WEATHER
North Carolina, cloudy tr ,;'.t and
Sunday, possiMy rain in south portion,
no change in temperature,