GASTON
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Weather
Unsettled
Local Cotton
224 GenU
VOL. XLIII. NO. 247
GASTONIA, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 16, 1922
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
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DAILY
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CATTLE AWARDS ABOUT
EQUAL BETWEEN THE TWO
RIVAL JERSEY COUNTIE
V List Of Prizes In Livestock
Department Shows Tttat
, Catawba And Mecklenbarg
Ran Neck And Neck
Competition.
Honors were about evenly divided e
tweeu Catawba and Mecklcuburg e
ties in-the Jersey cattle competition
tlie county fair last, week.- Announce
incut ol awards show tliat there is
very little difference between the
lremiums won. .
Of interest to Gaston county cattle
men is the fact that Howard Khyne,
young sou of O. L. Khyne, bent his
father in two or three entries in Uueru
Bey cattle. ; Young Hhyues entries
were club Cows.
The list .'of . prizes in the cattle en
tries is bs follows:
Jersey .Open to the World.
Dull under 0 nionths First, Meckleu
, burg Jersey Breeders ' Association ; sec
ond, Carl Kobinson, Ciastouia.
Heifer under 6 months First, Slu
" ford & .Bollinger, Newton; second an. I
. third, Mecklenburg Jersey Breeders' As
sociation. . ;
Bull C to 12 months First, Shuford &
Bollinger; second, .Mecklenburg Jersey
In
ouu-
Breeders Association.
Heifer 6 to 12 mouths First,' Meck
lenburg Jersey Breeders Association;
, second and third, tfhuford & Bollinger.
Bull 1 to 2 years First und secuud,
Shuford & Bollinger; third, Mecklenburg
Jersey Breeders Association.
Cow 1 to 2 years First, V. T. Me
Lean, Belmont.
Bull 2 to 3 years First, Fred liliyne,
Ciastouia; second, 'Mecklenburg Jersey
Breeders Association; third, tohuford
: Bollinger.
Cow 2 to 3 years First and second,
&huford & Bollinger; tihrd, Mecklenburg
Jersey Breeders Association. ,
Heifer 1 year to IS -months First
and second, Shuford & Bollinger; third,
Aleckleuburg Jersey Breeders Associa
tion. Heifer IS mouths to 2 years First
and second, Shuford & Bollinger; third,
Mecklenburg Jersey Breeders Associa
tion. " ,
Bull It -years and over First . uiid sec
ond, Mecklenburg Jersey Breeders Asso
ciation; third, fcjhuford & Bollinger.
Cow :i years and over First and
'third, Shuford & Bollinger; second,
. Mecklenburg Jersey Breeders Associu
tion. Kegistered Mill, any age First, Meck
... lenburg Jerey Breeders Association ;
second, Shuford & Bollinger; third,
Fred liliyne.
Registered cow, any age;First and
second, Shuford & Bollinger; third,
. Mecklenburg Jersey Breeders Associa
x tion. ' ' ' .
Kegistered aged herd First, Jliuford
& Bollinger; second, Mecklenburg Jer
. Bey Breedrs Association ;third, C.ir)en
ter & McLean, Belmont.
Registered young herd First and sec
ond, tihuford & 'Bollinger; third, iuvk
' lenburg Jersey Breeders Association.
Registered bull and his get First and
second, Shuford & Bollinger.
Guernsey.
Calf either sex under 1 year First
and second, Dr. A. M. Whismmt, Char
lotte; third, Seholtz & Mc 11 vane, Char
lotte.' '
Bull 2 years and over First, O. Ij.
Khyne, Gastonia.
Cow 1 to 2 years First, Howard
Khyne, Gastonia; second, O. L Rhyne.
Cow 2 years and over FiiNt, Scho'.iz
& Mcllvane, Charlotte; second, O. L.
Bhyue.
Heifer over 1 year and under 2
First, Howard Khyne; second, O. L.
; Khyne; third, Scholtz & Mcllvane.
Herd, bull and 4 or more females
-- First, Scholtz & Mcllvane.
Registered bull any age First,
'--rVholtz & Mcllvane; second, O. L.
Khyne.
Kegistered cow any age First, How
nrtl Khyne; second, O. L. Khyne; third,
hcholtz & Mcllvane.
Kegistered herd, bull and 4 or more
females First, Scholtz & Mcllvane.
Holstein.
Calf, either sex under 1 year First,
second ami third, 1). W. Mitchem, Low
.. ell. -
Cow 2 years and over First and sec-
ond, 1. Mitchem. '
Kegisetrcd bull any age First, D. W.
Mitchem. r
Kegistered cow any age First, D. W.
Mitchem.
Dairy Cattle, General, Gaston County.
Family cow", breeding ami age consid
ered,, also most satisfactory evidence of
profitable animal First, "W. T. McLean.
Sweepstake? Dairy Type. -Registered
bull under IS months
First and second. Shuford & Bollinger;
third, Mecklenburg Jersey Breeders As
sociation. Registered btill over IS months First
and second, Mecklenburg Jersey Breed
ers Association; third, ishuford & Bol
linger. Cow First, third and fifth, fcjhuford
& Bollinger; second, Mecklenburg Jer
sey Breeders Association; fourth, W. T.
Mrlenn.
Herd First, R. L. Shuford; second,
L. M. Bollinger, Newton; third, Cnrpen
' ter & McLean. .
Herd entered liy county Jersey breed
ers Association First. Mecklenburg Jer
sey Breeders Association; second and
third, Catawba. Jersey Breeders Associa
tion. RIGA, Oct. 16. (By The Associat
ed Press.) It was announced here
todav that Leonid Krassin has resign
ed as Russian soviet minister of ;
trade and commerce. t , j
DULUTII-, Minn., Oct. 16. Wil
liam Wright, 59, well known in base
ball circles throughout the country,
is dead here following an illness,
GREENSBORO KIWAN1S
CLUB IS ENTERTAINED
HERE AT BREAKFAST
farty En Route Td Ahevilld
Gets Early Meal Here
From Locals.
DISTRICT CON VENTIO
Wealth Of Wit And
Feature Program
Country Club.
V This' morninir tho Gastonia Kiwanis
Club entertained a narty of "35 Kiwan
inim mill Kiwaniettes from Greens
l.oro at breakfast ut the Country Club,
The Greensboro party was en route to
Asheville to atteud the district meeting
iu session there this week, and speut
lust, niirht in Charlotte. Air. V. so..
Jones, nresideut of the Gastonia elub,
accompanied by Mr. C. W. Guuter,
i.i,ir..,l tn Belmont this morning to
tiux.t tin., imriv - A "liuee sign "Wel
come. Greensboro," greeted the visi
tors , at Belmont, and similar signs
along the road pointed the way to
Gastonia. At the turn into the New
Hope road thy party was weicoined,by
Mr L. W.. Kellner. and here the
"Make it Snappy. Kiwau-
ians, Coffee's getting cold. " The
n.;., I lemlinir to the club house was
.marked with a sign, "Boys,-How do
vi.ii vviintr vniir eirirsJ" and here the
fun lii'PMil.
Tables for breakfast were arranged
in the assembly room of the club which
was briirht with a wealth or charming
Iv arranged Hallowe'en decorations.
Mr. K. G. Kankin presided over the
nn.iriijm ami srrace was said by .Kev
i VV (; .lohuston. Before the
-uii-tv was seated the Gastonia Kiwau
ians' favored the visitors with a breezy
,.nr' "VVp Hate to Get Ui in the
wliii-h a cordial wel
f. AltlA WHS extended them by Mayor n.
u. neuj .
Greensboro Kiwanis Band together with
a group of club singers gnve a numuer
of humorous selections. The baud
trrntesmie clown costume and
proved themselves royal entertainers.
A mind reading stunt by Messrs. Geo.
A. Gray ami Dumeron Villiams was
the occasion of much hilarity, and the
Gastonia Kiwanis quartette added much
fn tl,o ulensiire of the morning with
their i)arody on "Home Sweet Home,"
which brought forth an eiithusiastie en
core.
Mr.1 "Bill" I'ryor, president of the
Greensboro club, voiced the pleasure
f.f his nartv at being guests ofc the
Gastonia club, and Mr. E. G. Michaels,
also of Greensboro, spoke brieny on
Greensboro manners as compared with
Gastouia manners, he beiug in charge
of the manners of the Greensboro
party. After breakfast hosts and
iriipsta ioined in singing "Till We
Meet Acain." and in a burst of band
music and hilarious song the Greens
boro party were again on their way.
A group of Gastonia Kiwaniettes in
cluding Mesdames B. M. Jones, D.
II. Williams. Lester W. Kellner, K.
Greee Clierry and T. M. Brockman,
were present to welcome the Greens
boro ladies.
; The following is the program pre
sented und the menu, as it was not:
The iienu
Spup, Maxim Silencers will be f ur-
gratis bv Ken Gless who was
forced to use them by his loving
friends.
Water, regular wet or 'gar-den variety.
Ham, grown in our. own gardens
ri;ht. here in Gastonia.
Eggs, we intended to have them
fried, but thru error they were
brought out iu it Ford, hence will be
scrambled.
Hot Cakes, strongly woven and guar
anteed to stand up under the hardest
wear.
Coffee, "Save the surface and jqu
save' all." We think this is the best
varnish on the market.
Nuts, everybody is, of course, ex
cept yourself.
y0te The management announces
that it is not responsible for the loss of
cut glass fruit jars, or other articles
of like value unless cheeked in the
cellar. We will have the rest of Gas
tonia there (if they hear about it) to
see that nobody else gets the likker.
We ask you to bear with us while
the following happenings hapen:
Presiding Elder, R. Grady Rankin.
Invocation, Cautey Johnston,
Song, "We Hate To Get Up In The
Morula ", Everybody.
Welcome to Visitors, R. Gregg
Cherry.
Song, Quartette.
Stunt A marvelous display of Mind
Heading Ability, Mesrs. Gray v and
Williams.
Three Minute Talks, including a
joint discussion by Buck Merriman and
Chas. (.old on "The Future Develop
ment of Bootlegging."
Song, "Till We Meet Again," Every
body. So Long Greensboro, Here's Hoping:
Your gas holds out
' Your tires hold up
. And you hold in,
' " v "On to Asheville. "
COTTON MARKET
V ' ' ' .
CLOSING BIDS ON THE
NEW YORK MARKET
NEW YORK; Oct: 16. Cotton fu
tures closed barely steady. ,
Ortober . 22.18; Derember 22.42;
January 22.27; Marhh 22.41; July
22.18; Spots 22.45, five points sown.
GATOTUA COTTON.
Receipts Today ...51 Bales
Price ;L..- 2ty Cents
Conscience is a still mall voice be
cause it doesn't talk enough.
7
jollity
At
Some Animals That
Can Go By Mail
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. The
old barnyard rooster cannot travel
by United SUtes mail but day-old
chicks, according to a postoffice de
partment announcement today, still
may be shipped from place to place
provided their journey may be com
pleted within 72 hours. Moreover,
these chicks may be insured against
loss, but not against death.
Harmless live animals, rated as in
offensive, and not requiring food or
water in transit, may go by mail,
along with baby terrapins, soft shell
crabs, blood worms and chameleons.
Under new regulations, live alliga
tors up to 20 inches in length are
the only live alligators Uncle Sam
will handle.
SPECIAL PROSECUTOR :
FOR HALL MYSTERY
Private Detectives Announce
That Murders Were Caused
. By Jealousy Pair Were
Lured From Home By Tele
phone.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. lu
Supreme Court Justice Charles W. Par
ker was expected to announce today a
special prosecutor to take charge of the
inquiry into the murder of the Rev. Ed
ward Wheeler Hall, rector of . the I'rot
estant Episcopal Church of St. John the
Evangelist, and his choir leader, Mrs.
Eleanor Keinhardt Mills. He is expect
ed to name Attorney General McGran,
but it is thought unlikely that McCrnn
will personally look ufter the nivestiga
tion. Mr. McCran is expected to desig
nateau assistant to handle the matter.
Private detectives working on the case
declared yesterday that their investiga
tions have convinced them that the mur
ders resulted from jealousy. Julius A
Braun, employed in the interest of Char
lotte und James Mills, daughter and hus
band of the-slain choir singer, said that
Miss Florencec North, a woman lawyer,
representing Cnariotte, nas in ner pos
session a packet of letters showing be
yond a doubt that the rector and Mrs.
Mills were in love.
Braun expressed the belief that the
love affair became known to some mem
ber.- of the congregation, and that the
pair were lured from their homes by the
telephone calls known to have, been re
reived about 7:30 p. in. on the daj-' on
which the- were killed. He advanced
the theory that the rector nud Mrs. Mills
were confronted with each other, slain
and then taken to the spot Under the crap
apple tree on the Phillips farm, where
the bodies were found two days later.
He pointed to the fact that -the rec
tor's eyes were closed as in sleep w hile
those of Mrs. Mills werejeft open, as
indicating that the murder was a" crime
of passion. - '
TRANSLATING 50 SHEETS
OF OLD HIEROGLYPHICS
Pennsylvania University Prof
essor Sets Himself To Job
Of Deciphering Old Papyri
Of Egypt.
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 10. Transla
tion of fifty sheets of papyri, dated in
the reiiru of Ptolemy, ot Philadelphia,
but perhaps written many years earlier,
was to be begun today at the University
of Pennsylvania museum by Ur. Na
thaniel Reich, formerly of the Univer
sity of Vienna, said to be oue of the
only three living scholars capauie oi
reading demotic, which was tho short
hand of hieroglyphics.
Tho sheets were fouiid in sealed cylin
ders or jars iu the forecourt of a tomb
at t Thebes, by Dr. Clarence totauley
Stanley -Fisher, ami Egyptologists have
been waiting impatiently for nearly a
year to learn the secrets ot ancient
Egypt hidden in the mystic writing.
Demotic, it was explained, was useu
for officieal documents and other rec
ords in which a shorter and more com
pact form of writing than the hiero
glyphics which were useit,for inscriptions
nn monuments.
Enough deciphering has been done oa
the sheets to ascertain that they contain
nformation as to how taxes were levied
i ud collected iu Ptolemy 's reign. Mod
ern economists are particularly interest
ed in this, as the system was saia to
have lieen so evenly distributed that it
brought in tremendous revenues with no
apparent hardship to any ciass.
CROWDS VOICE DISAPPROVAL
OF NEW TRAFFIC RULES
XKW YORK, Oct. 16. A crowd of
nearly 1,0)0 iersons in limes bquarc
last niKht booed their disapproval or
traffie regulation whichc prohibits the
holding of street meetings in th theater
district, when a patrolman took into cus
tody Captain Hheba Crawford, Salvation
Army worker, on a charge oi dsoruenj
onduct.
tseveral attempts were made to take
the woman from the .policeman. J no
throng followed them into the stoiion
ind it whs necessary to call the reserves
o drive them to the street, where they
stood for more than an hour snouting
their disapprovah-
One man was held on a encarge oi dis
orderly conduct. :, ,
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16. The
army transport Thomas, bearing- pas- j
sengers of the in-iatea ity oi Hon
olulu, anchored outside Los Angles
harbor early this morning. A quar
antine officer was expected aboard
about 5 a. m. and it was expected the
passengers would disembark between
6 and 1 o'clock. . -
' Twins Arei92J
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Mrs. Jane L. Ball (aboveJMtl
Pleasant, la., and Mrs. R. C. Hack-'
enburg, Decatur, 111., twins, have,
lust celebrated their 92nd birthday. '
They hope to reach the century
mark. J,
MR. GEORGE WRIGHT IS
INJURED IN AUTO WRECK
Car Driven By Alex Haynes
Crashes Into Mr. Wright's
Car On Franklin And Broad
Corner Wright Badly
Cut. t
Mr. Ceorge L. Wright, of McAdcu-
ville, was painfully cut about the
head und eyes Sunday ufternou at 1
o'clock when the automobile which he
was driving was struck by one driven. by
Mr. Alex Haynes, of the Osceola Mill, at
the corner of Franklin aml Broad
streets. Mr. Wright received three cuts
in" the forehead und nose from a broken
windshield. The most serious wound is
above the right eye.
iroin testimony in police point tins
morning, .Mr. Wright was going down
hast Franklin ou the right side of the
street. Haynes was coming iu the oppo
site direction and when in front of the
& X. station veered to the left, struck
Mr. Wright's car and knocked it up on
the sidewalk directly in front of the
Standard Oil Company's Hilling station.
Mr. Wright was knocked from the ear.
Haynes was ulso knocked from the car
or else got out and walked on down
broad street. He was under the intlu-
eu-p of limior and was arreted by Sher
iff Carroll and Officers Hord and Elliott,
At the trial today in Municipal Court
before Judge Jones, he was placed under
: sfoOO bond for his nppenram-e in court
Monday morning, October -'!, when
judgment will be-passed, pending the
outcome of Mr. Wright s injuries.
Radio Caused Arrest
Hero Wireless Operator
SAX FRAXCISCO. Oct. Hi. Ifadio,
which saved the life of Leslie Deney At
kinson hist Thursday, when the liner
City of Honolulu burned at sea, yester-
ay turned against him, and caused Ins
arrest. Today he was in custody on the
charge of leaving with army funds from
the post exchange at Pearl Harbor, near
Honolulu. Atkinson's experience was
recited in a copyrighted dispatch pub
lished bv the ijan Francisco Chronicle
oday.
According to the account, Atkinson
left Honolulu aboard the City of Hono-
ulu, and when fate placed him on the
rcsi-ne ship, the transport Thomas, ma
rines identified him. Radio communica
tion between the Thomas and army of
ficers at Pearl Harbor resulted in the
order for his arrest.
Passenger on the City of Honolulu
descriled him as the "life of the ship
wreck." They said he was jwrtistently
cheerful.
THE WEATHER
North Carolina, unsettled, probably
showers tonight and Tuesday; little
change in temperature.
- STORM WARNING.
WASHINGTON. "Oct. 16. The -fol
lowing advisory storm warning was is
sued today by the wwither bureau:
Storm warnings down 10 a. m. Mobile
to Cedar Kevs; disturbance over north-
PaMtrrn r.ulf'.f' Mexico has decreased in
intensity and in now apparently central
about twenty miles north and SI west
and moving slowly west or northwest
aard; disturbance over northwesterti
Caribiean sea central north-northeast of
Swan Island aud moving slowly north-.
westward. , -
AMERICAN LEGION'S FIRST
TO DISABLED SERVICE MEN,
SAYS IN
New Orleans is
Festive Tread
Thousands Of Former Service Men From Every State In The
Union Gather For Big Meeting California Wants 1923
Convention Old Memories Are Revived.
NEW OKLEAXS, Oct. 10. (By the
Associated Press.) The Americuu Le-
giou opened its fourth national conven
tion here today. Meeting iu a converted
warehouse, on the Mississippi river front.
decorated wth flags of the allied nations
und red, white and blue bunting, the Le
gion heard the reports' of its national
commander and udjutant.
The Legion has in no way diminished
in enthusiasm, judging from the cheers
and activity which last night pervaded
.New Orleans.
Clad in uniforms, civilian clothes and
the costumes adopted bv state delega
tions, the veterans of the world war
made merry, held impromptu street
dances and generally enjoyed themselves.
Practically every state in' tho miimi
was represented when the national con
vention met this morning, us well as a
number of territorial possessions, and
representatives of posts of the Legion in
foreign countries.,
California, outstanding contestant for
the 192:1 national convention, arrived
here dad in broad brimmed black hats,
red shirts and kuee boots, the costume of
the '4l)ers.
''See the west," was the slogan of
the Paci lie coasts delegates, and they
were making themselves seen and beard,
distributing yellow poppies to delegates
and to their women folk.
A dozen medlies, reminiscent of. the
war, floated through the hotel lobbies of
Xew Orleans last night. From ''The
Star Spangled Banner" to "Hail, Hail,
It's A Strange Story i
Here From South Bend
SOUTH BEND, MICH., Oct. 16.
A story of how he occupied the
same house with his wife Harel .Mc
Nally, before and after the time he
charges she gave birth to twins, and
yet he failed to ever see them, will
be told in the Hammond county
court Thursday by Frank McNally,
of this city, who charges his young
wife with the murder of the babies,
said to have been born last Decem
ber, he announced through his coun
sel last night.
Mrs. McNally has been arrested
on a murder charge on a warrant
sworn out by her husband and
taken to Hammond to face trial.
The infants were said by McNally
to have been born December 8 last
year and not to have been seen alive
since. A search, however, has failed
to reveal any records attesting to
the birth of the children.
Mrs. McNally is said to deny
ever having given birth to twins.
IOWA OCTOGENARIAN
FOUND FOOTBALL ROUGH
NEW YORK, Oct. 10, " 'Pears
to me, now I've seen the first game of
my life, that football is pretty rough
stuff," said Mrs. 1. X. Richardson,
Mi years old, great grandmother, who
brought 25 relatives from Davenport,
Iowa, to see her Iowa boys win their
big game against Yale Saturday.
Mrs. Richardson is staying over in
Xew York a few days 1 1 fore returning
to Iowa in tho private car bhe charter
ed for the trip.
"I wanted Iowa to win, because my
boys and girls atll ivc around ine in
Iowa,' she said, "but when 1 saw
those young .'players stretched Hat
every once in a while, ihy heart just
went out to them . Seems to nie some-
flllllflP tMttP tf.,1ll.l litivo Iwii.rt flB
them but just douse them in the face !
with a wet sponge. They needed moth-, j
ering and. I wanted to give it to them.
1 forgot all about the score.
Mrs. Richardson and her party plan
a round of theatres and dinners during
their brief stay iu Xew York.
"I'ni curious to L see your town
again, she said, explaining that her
last visit was in 1-S92.
"Styles and feminism?" she repeat
ed. "Well you can take a good look
at mo and guess how much 1 care for
these new faiigled ideas. I in a few
months or so past the stage now
where I'd take up a lot . of faucv
stunts. "
LACK OF FOUR OUNCES
CAUSED LOSS OF RACE
PARIS, Oct. 16. Lack of four ounces'
n the weight carried by Dauphin in the
municipal council stakes at Long Champs
Saturday cost the horse's owner. Cap
tain Jefferson D. Colm, 2:!S,450 francs in
stake money, and a little more than
200,000 francs in bets, Dauphin being
disqualified.
Jockey harpe had weighed out cor
rectly, but Dauphin's girth snapped, and
wag replaced. The substitute, girth was
found to weigh 120 grunts less than the
original. Dauphin, which was quoted at
odds of. 11 to 1 in the unit ue Is, led from
start to finish," winning in a cauten
ANNUAL REPORT TO MEMBERS
Gay Under The
Of Legionnaires
tho Gang's All Here," none of the old
favorites were forgotten. The veterans
lapsed from English into French with
joyous abandon.
Xew Orleans, ancient center of French
civilization in the Xew World, resound
ed to the tramp of young men 's feet
also the-feet of the young women who
served in the navy and the army nurse
corps during the war, a well us the
women' old and young, who "kept the
home fires burning" four and five years
ago and are here today as delegates and
visitors to tho convention of the Ameri
can Legion auxiliary, composed of moth
ers, wives, sisters, and daughters of vet
erans of the W'orld War.
Early today the veterans and their
women folk were en route to the conven
tion hall, under the sudden, Hushed dawn
of the tropics.
A uight of excitement, dancing ami
music had not decreased their enthusi
asm, and during tho baud msiiie which
preceded the opening of the convention,
the first session of which was attended
by members of the auxiliary, there were
frequent interruptions of handclapping
and cheering.
The legionnaires had not arrived in
such large numbers on the first day, as
were in Kausns City last year.
But their "zip" and "go" were in
no way abated. ,
They were youth incarnate, ready to
enjoy a holiday, and ready nt the same
time to work for what they conceive
their right and proper dues from the
country for which thev went tp war in
1917. ''.' O ' '
WORKING GIRL HAS IT
OVER PROFESSOR'S WIFE
Wife Of California Professor
Says Poor Working Girl
Has More Money For
Spending Than Average
College Man's Wife.
BERKLEY, CALIF., Oct. 10.
Tho "Poor Working Girl", has
it "all vcr" a college professor
in the matter of allowances made
by employers for subsistence, ac
cording to Mrs. Dorothy Hurt
Bruce, wife of II. L. Bruce, of
the faculty of the University of
California.
1 In a letter published in the Uni
versity Chronicle, a faculty publi
cation, Mrs. Bruce takes issue with
tho budget for household expenses
for faculty members recently an
nounced by the board of regents.
Mrs. Bruce said that the profes
sor's wife must "choose between
childlessness or the anguish and
humiliation of many years of debt
drudgery," if she expects to live
on the salary of her instructor
husband. She said eight other
wives of faculty members agreed
with her.
Mrs. Bruce said a budget issued
recently by a San Francisco teach
er of home economies stated a
working girl .needed $290 n year
for clothes to apiear well dressed.
"That allowance," she declared,
"would look big to a professor's
wife whose allowance for clothes is
fixed at the pitiful figure of .0. "
In tlm opinion, of Mrs. Bruce at
least $350. a month is needed to
provide tho bare necessities for a
faculty member's family if he lias
a wife and three children.
CHARGE THAT TELEPHONE
HAD BEEN TAPPED
XKW BRUNSWICK, X, J.. Oct. 16.
(By the . Associacted Press.) A charge
Ihat the telephone belonging to Mrs. Ed
ward, Wheeler Hall, -whose husband was
slain with Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills,
a choir singer in the church of which ho
was rector, had been tapiied was the lat
est development today iu the investiga
tion of the double murder.
This licarge was made by Rally Peters,
who lives iu the Hall household." She
said no important calls now were being
made over it.
County and state investigators pro
fessed ignorance o fany wire tapping.
Investigators today claimed to have
learned that shortly-before the murder
the shun couple had spent a day at Man
hattan Beach near Coney Island. As
tending to prove that an affection exist
ed between Mrs. Mills and the rector, u
letter alleged to have been Written him
by the choir singer was made public to
day. This letter, nnnprently referriug
to the Manhattan Beach outing, read in
part:- .
"Yesterday I was liiiupy, in a way. !n
the lioat and iH the water; but on the
way Jiome I was thinking hard.
Oh, my darling liabykins, what a nindJh
we are iu. But I will be content, I
will." ' N
DUTY IS
MNBER
Just Started To Fight WitK
Regard To Adjusted
Compensation.
THE MEASURE IS RIGHT.
National Commander Outlines
Program For Next Year's
Work. !
JCEW ORLEANS, Oct. 16. A do.
calartion that the American Legion re
garded the interests of the disabled ser
vice man as Its first responsibility, and
that "with regard to the adjusted com
H?usation act, we've just etrated to
fight," were outstaniung points in then-port
of Ha n ford MacXider, national
commander, delivered before tho fourth
annual convention of the'Lcgian at it
opening session hero today.
"With regard to adjusted eotupensa
tion legislation" the report declared,
"we've only just started to fight. The
adjusted compensation legislation is
right we know it is right nud right
always prevails in America. A great
well-financed attack by interests which
we cannot help but feel are sordid
and selfish lias given us one little set
back. But those who represent the
people in Washington are with us by
great majorities. Xo one man, un
touched by the war. without kith or kin
those who served no one group, finan
cial or otherwise, can. stand between
the wishes of the American people and
the futillment of what they believe to
be a just obligation. y
"The American Legion is gathered
here in conveution assembled to build
from its four years of experieucea its
platform for the legion year which lies
ahead. The legion 1s recognized as
the voice of tho men and women who
served with the eolors during- the great
war a wholo generation. It must lie
our duty to so build it that its tremens
dous power and possibilities may be di
rected that it shall be as it was dedi
cated, to the highest . service to our
Uod and to our country,
"Every eligible man aud woman
must be made to realize that if their
best effort is not in ' the legion they
are just as much slackers as those
who hid when the country's life was at
stuke. To avoid that duty is to be
tray our right to citizenship.
"Never before in the history of
America has such a great force in
our national life appeared never has
such power and prestige been granted.
I quote to you the words of one of
the greatest soldiers of modern times,
' The -American Legion is the cradle
of the whole future of, America.' -
"In relating hero some of the en
deavors and nets of the national or
ganization, there is no thought of per
sonal pride in accomplishment.
' ' V hat has beeu accomplished, yoil
have accomplished.' -
'This year started auspicously. The
receptions ! for our distinguished guests
at Kansas City und all over the United
States constituted a tremendous under
taking splendidly performed. The
loch tour as a public service not only
to our country but to our allies grip
ped and held the public mind.
"Starting a year of memberslun
during one of the greatest industrial
depressions America has ever exper
ienced, the American Legion has grown
in membership. Its post active and
functioning in 49 departments in this
country aud 23 others scattered over
the globe number eleven thousand
two hundred odd.
''I am well aware that the very de
finite stand which has been taken in
earning out your commands has not
aided in recruiting or holding those
who place financial gods as their gods,
or who are not willing, as good Ameri
cans, to forget their personal prejudices
to help serve the whole. Those men -have
lost the best thing the1 service ever
gave th conception of their duty to
, serve those who served with them to
i stick with the lad who had not had
! their advantage, who labors under an
j unfair handicap. He was the finest,
'man under adversity and hardship that
uou ever ereatecr just the average
young American service man. He gave .
all he 4iad and always will the man
on whom this eountry must always de
pend the fellow who carried the pack.
''While in the early years -of legion
activities men joined, some only out of
curiosity or because others joined, be
cause in the great wave of enthusia.-ni
it was the thing to do-r-the member
ship now, in this fourth year, is the
solid, substantial actual fighting gang,
who intend to stay with it, to carry va
through all the coming years, that this
legion of ours shall be the greatest out
standing symbol of service to all -America.
"Thousands of posts have built
themselves so well aud so deep into
their communities that their examples
alone guarantee to the United States
an asset for good, '
"Forty per tent of the legion's
membership is iu towns of under
2j00; tlie highest type of American
citizenship.
"Our efforts in a national way wilt
be covered in the report of the Na
tional Americanism commission, nation
al education week, our activities in th
boy scout movement, and the national
(mv contest.
"The reports of 'he chairmen of th
various national committees, will covrf
their respecti-" achievenu-uts. Ti '
have been far reaching eoiiictt i.i
deuce of rsl axompIih:mits, in
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