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Presidential Campaign To
Begin Second Week August
Contrary to l'*uul (luslom Dfinocrals Will Take ( MlVnsivc
and ('oolidp- S|imli of Acceptance Will Follow In
stead of Precede that of Democratic Nominee
lly DAVin lAWllKNCK
ICinrtyit l>2? Th# Ad>?nc?)
;JH^w?m?)ftot,;Jti)yl5. The
begin in. earnest until after the
President CoolidKe's speech I
of aeceptance_i?hich oriyinaiiy;
? was to have preceeded that of
the Democrat ic iiorniMeeTas per1
custom has been postponed and 1
the reversal of the order niav
have some bearing on the wayi
the campaign will be unfolded.'
'v""a''5' Hepubilcans hold tht-lr i
coiiv^-nUon first and notify th.-ir can
didate before the Democrats do
bw!VeanS that "-'Publicans
blaze .the way and take the offensive ,
so to speak. This year it will be'!
different. John \V. Davis will deliv
riipt 1 speech Of acceptance at ?'
Clarksburg West Virginia within u 1
fortnight a id will laydowi, The fnn*
damentala.jf the campaign ? his con I
o ption of ;?hat the .hould be" I
The two keynote speecKeit ? n,.: (
-lli.el. , ,Senator 1 at Harrison of
v ,?h "P f- -""'-Democratic rn".
mention, reflect to a certain^?, .?T
the argument that will be used on
a conslruc'ti neith"r s'",ech *ave
a constructive program.
-Mr. Coolidge has not had an m> ,
porlunlty since the adjournment if|
Confess to make a comprehensive
be if hi" l . What h'9 s will
wuitrv .nHKlV"n th" the
u " , a,nd a sym pathetic Congress.
He will have a chance to digest I
whatever thoughts are expressed by!
Democratic nominee and in a ,
sense make a rejoinder.
The Democrats are anvinuo ??. I
take ttfe offenaive. John w. Davisl
* conferring Just now with all the
whaf l*??:n ?Ul h,s ideaa of |
wnat the Democratic Droemm
?hould be have been formed during ?'
?ion i'r".V yeaw from cl0,<' "bserva
never PoHtlcal scene, while he
never was an active candidate he
l^f^ni0^"111 t0HCh ? what!
"H*? '""ue of ,h,> campaign
effective In """ """" 1
nrnn.V '"tarrying out campaign
promises. The Republican party has
*Z1 S c?nlro1 of Congress ever
since the election of 191S. The ex-'
ecutlve branch or the Government
has been in Republican hands ^fouij
D,"r'"E ,hat ,lrap ?he Repub-|
lican party has been split Into an '
Eastern and Western wing and In
the last session of Congress an in
surgent Republican movement was
"-W- Ul 'h?? Important pieces
legislation were passed by a coali-l
tlon of insurgent Republicans and
??r,er. wlh the President's sup-'
porters In the minority in both 1
I'v Mellon tax plan pro
opsed by the administration was de
feated and so was the will of the
farm rJJLf " ""* 8oldl,'r bonus. No
Til .*! . p:ogram was adopted.
who win . i ??ifor ,he Democrats
D.Hv l M " ,hat ,h" Democratic,
party Is better constituted to be ef
Is !hTe? neCa,Kn of "a mh""lon than
u?. ?pPuWcan party and that
while Calvin Coolldge himself is
the0MuntJhanffhl". Par,y throughout
thP country, effectiveness doponds on'
team work and a united partv. |
To all thia the Republicans are
preparing their answer. Thev d<
clare that President Coolldge' took
"ration of T,'rtM ?f "" a'lmlnls
? i h an?ther. that he has not i
y<l had a vote of confidence from'
the people enabling him to make his
own appointments to office nnd that
w7s"hc.W"i. nmr" "hedlent to l
than It has been. *
. Probably no new thought or for
mulas will be divulged In either
speech of acceptance for the necessl
We'st' 5 have "h"a"0V r"1"'Cla,,y ln "he;
west have been plain to legiKiator* '
for some time. Everybody, fa? l?
stance, was agreed that agricultural
relief was needed this year s?rt u!
still necessary but no program that ?
Insured relief was evolved Ho also '
J I hr7PTl V" f"r"ll:n which
SJrt i^1'1 "" v,n''rlcan ex
port trade. ThP principle* of the'
hour are not going to be a matter
HALF CHINESE CITY
DESTROYED BY FLOOD
Peking. July If. ? Kalgan. the1
liirKeat commercial center north of
Peking, has been destroyed in parti
by a flood along the Yang Ho. river, j
according to word received here last
flight, Th? damage to the city It
unofficially reported at a million]
dollara.
Washington. July II. ? A flood at I
Kalgan. China, recently la reported j
here aa having deatroyed half of the
city with Immenae property damage
Tha loaa of llfa la not believed to be
great.
Presidential? cnmp;iini' w ill nut
second week in August.
LIKELY RECOVER
TROUT EXPOSURK
Girl Who Endured Hard
sliips That Brought Drath
to Two Men h Struggling:
Back to ('oiiiicioufiiess Now
By M. S. XEWTOX
C*?yriftit. 1124, ki Th# Alum
tire chin Out., July 16. ? Sixteen
year old .Margaret Murchisun is
slowly struggling back to conscious
ness today after a soul-trying bai
lie for life lasting 72 hours in the
waters of Lu4ie Siincoe, during whico
her two men companions succumbed.
Only thi moil rtmtrlnMc vitality
determination and courage could
have carried her back to safety in
the face of storm exposure, blister
ing sun and hunger after one of th>
n,t*" who lei out with h t las'
Thursday from Big Bay Point in a
sailing cano?- had drowned and the
other, veteran of the World War. had
died in her arms of heart failure.
Verging on total collapse from her
harrowing ordeal during which she
clung for three days and nights to
the drifting canoe, clad only in a
bathing suit and sweater, and terr.
bly sun blistered, the girl was found
struggling through a belt of reeds at
Concord Point near here by Harry
Grant of Toronto. She is now un-i
der medical attendance at a cottage
here and is expected to recover fully
unless pneumonia sets in.
Dazed and semi-conscious. MUs
-Vturchison sobbed out the main de
tails of her story to Grant, who
related them to the writer today.
"1 was out In a row boat Just off
Concord Point, when I heard faint
cries for help." flram ?qih ?.v
wnat nrst looked like a little child,
struggling through the reeds. I
rowed ashore and, to my surprise,
saw that in reality it was a young
woman apparently of about seven
teen. clad only in a bathing suit
and sweater, and bent almost double
from exhaustion, dragging herself
along- 4*y the aid ttT"TI "aFldk. " ? "
She was horribly sun burned and
so weak she could scarcely ' apeak,
but when 1 asked her who she war,
she gasped out that her name was
-Margaret Murchlson. and that sh
lived at Big Bay Point. Then I
renHzed that she was one of th?
three people who had been missing
since last Thursday. As I helped
her toward the nearest cottage sh?
told me her story.
"The girl, her brother-in-law,
Edgar Smith, and Wilbur Hoskin>,
went out from the Big Bay Point
Thursday afternoon. Intending to gj
to Barrie. They were In a Sponson
canoe equipped with a nail. This
type of canoe is built with air cham
bers running along either Rid'', and
is practically unslnkable. It will
turn over but will right itaelf again
"They had scarcely started when
a sudden squall sprang up. and
tipped the canoe over, plungin^
them Into the water. The lake was
so rough that the people ashore
apparently couldn't see that they
were In difficulty.
"Wilbur floskins citing to th*:
overturned canoe Tor a short time
but his strength finally gave out and
he went under. As the canoe
righted Itself Miss Murchlson pull
ed her brother-in-law Edgar Smit'i.
Into It. Again It turned over and
again she helped the utmost ex
hausted man bark to safety. a
third time and Smith collapsed, dy
ing from exhaustion as she hel l
him.
"Realizing that he was dead tht
girl, who was wearing only a bath
ing suit, put on his sweater. Willi
the next wave that struck the canoe.
Smith's body was washed over boa id
and sank, but the girl retained her
hold.
\ "From Thursday afternoon to
I Sunday evening, nhe t<Vld me. sh"
i was drifting in the canoe or clinging
; to Its keel. How she held out so
J long Is difficult to understand."
i HKKK BKMOVK MI'IU'HAIUJK
OS INTRAHTATK THAVKI.
Richmond, July 1? ? An order d!
j recti ng the removal of the fifty pe r
I rent Ptilman and paTlor car Mir
charge In Intraatatr travel will he
entered Boon by the Virginia evapor
ation ('nmmlBxIon Chairman William
I Rhea announced yeaterday
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GRAIN GROWKRM WII,I,
CONTROI, AM, KIJCVATOItS
Chicago, July 1?. ? A tranaartlon
j by which grain grower* are to ac
quire control of all eleratora of flv?
at tha largeet elevator companies it,
the United State* It reported coci
pleted.
BltOkK \lt>RLI)'S KKCOISl)
Robert LeGendre. of the Newark (N^ j7> Athletic Club, who
broke a world's record at the Olympic games by jumping a ur??at??r
di? tanc" than any human had ev?T jumfr-d hefoin. 25 '? tnrtua
Is shown In action while Inset Ik Harold Osborne, Illinois Athletic
Club, who hung up another record for America by shattering the
high Jump record.
Point Winner
% De Hart Hubbard. the ncirro ath
letic wonder from University of
Mlchlfcan. who helped run up
America's ecore at the Olymplo
*ame? by tftklnr the broad Jump
'honor*.
SHOT HER FIANCE
TO END SUFFERING
French Woman (lould Not
Ke?i?t Pleadin# of Polish
Lover Who Was Victim of
an Iiicurahle Malady.
Paris. July 16. ? Slowly dying
trom an Incurable malady Jan Zoz
noskl. well known Polish writer. ha?
repeatedly begged friends and at
- tHiidaiits- at the sanatorium here to"
put an end to his sufferings.
Today his fiance, Mantemoiselle
Stanislawa Cnleuska. visited him and
was so overcome at the sight ofjhi.'i
agony that she could not resist hl.f
pitiable pleadings.
She shot him In the head and ho
I The girl collapsed and is at the
| sh iui tor iu in where she had been a
constant visitor to her fiance's sick
I room.
GEORGIANS STUDY
HIGHWAY METHODS
Atlanta. July 16 ? In order t(?
study highway methods of noarby
states. 21 members of the General
Assembly will leav?? here Thursday
for a motor trip through North anil
South Carolina.
ItHVIVAfj AT Kl'ltKKA
A meeting will be held from July
30 lo August i" ai Eureka Church
near Slmonds Creek. Dr. and Mrs.
K. T. Adams and two songsters of
Wllmore. Kentucky, will help tj
make this meeting a success.
Water Cycling Is Season's Fad
THa watar Mcrete to al? tK* r??. at Ailnnilc City (1il? ?Maon and
W^M Mart* Dwto aaama la b? havioc a Vot s< fun at U.
STItANGE GHOST UN
COIIU llorSK GitKICN
Ifcllil Headed Colored Man in Wo
man'* llathliiu Suit liUtniho
I oik Tue*da\ i:\t-niiiu
A bald head-d n?Kro in a woman.;}
I l?:ii li intr siiir is n,n a sin lit c:i lfiil.it - j
? il in h-ave one in a soother slat ?
of nerves. when ??nroiint'* r?-tl on the
court house green near midnight.
On encountering the man or wo
man attired us lor a swim Tues
jtlay night youn>; Albert Itrighl
I faccil the oft discussed problem
; w-htrt- lo do-- mi- ? e*?ml-ng ? -face t? face
jwnh a lunatic, fur it is believed (hat
insanity rather than '' intoxication
was responsible for the actions of tuc
mysterious negro.
Young Bright was crossing tli?
Innw* ?u|;;nr?? when lie became
a war" of the presence <?f someone
in a bathing suit walking along
ahead of him and .muttering. He
followed and noticed in better ligr.t
that it was a woman's bathing suit
and -that its occupant was black bu;
with a bald or. shaved head. .
The negro walked toward the
Hright home on Matthews and Kl
li ot t streets and approached lb
front gate. Following somewhat
closely to bo able to take steps to
protect his home the young man
was suddenly seized by the arm. At
the same time he felt some instru
ment in the supposed lunatic's othe**
hand rake the flesh of his forearn .
"Now I've got you. You stole my
alligator" cried Ihe strangely attired
l?enro iw.n\? at attack.
In a moment It was all over and
the negro passed around the corner
of Klliott street toward the canal.
Albert Hright watched him until he
passed between Ihe gai'llge 01 A. 15.
Houtz and the llel Air Apartments,
then he ran hack to town in search
vf an officer.
On reaching the corner of Main
street and *McMorrlne without seeing
a policeman the young man. remem
.bering that the negro was wander
ing about in back yards in the vi
cinity of Elliott and Matthew r
streets, retraced his steps and rouse .1
some of the residents of that neigh
borhood.
A search was immediately made of
the yard into which the negro _ wa?
seen to come. A short time later a
call was made to the police depart
ment and two officers responding
?carried on the search until one
o'clock. No trace of the strange ne
gro was found.
| Young Mr. Brlght's arm w?s
I found to have been cut with some
ronghi?lnst rument such as a frng
? ment of granite and not with a knife
las he nt first believed. A series of
[deep scratches were found on his
,arm resembling the marks which
might be made with a needle if
drawn roughly over the skin several
^times. Iodine was applied to the
place by a neighbor t ?> prevent pos
"&lbl? Infection.- ? ? ?
After the fruitless search was
'abandoned residents went somewhat
nervously back to bed and the Iden
tity of the strange bald headed ne
gro In the bathing suit Is still un
solved. /
A n?'gro ' man or woman, bald
headed and with a short skirt mid
way unstockinged legs, was seen on
a down town street one day tills
week.
Mgroit ON* JOY ltll>K
Hit T 'K>1 1\ TltOt'lll.K
Thirty days on the roads and u
fine of |5 and ciwls was the sentnni.
Imported in police 'court Wednesday
morning on James Harrington and
I'ruden Banks, both colored as a r?*
suit of drinkm* frolic on an auto
mobile parly Monday evening. I in n km
was charged with belnu (trunk and
operating a car while under the in
fluence of liquor while ItarrlnKto.i
wan charged with being drunk am;
with carrying a concealed weapon
lioth men were arrested were well
lit up. The case was to have com*
up Tuesday but Hanks failed to show
up.
The last flu)* of grace on the secu *
i n k of llccnKeM for automobiles ex
pired Monday and KcveraT defendant*
were in court Wednesday for fail
lire lo g?t their Urease on time an !
continuing to operate their car*. W
A. Kogerson. i'anqnotaii k County,
and Willis Wood, truck driver fot
C. D. Itundy, were taxed with the
roKtft on tliin r hn r ??? Wednesday.
W. K. Hailance of Currituck sub
mitted to charge of being drunk and
pair! a fine of $5 and costs. *
Walter King, colored, wax re
quired taxes and costs for failure to
list hi* property for taxation.
Isaac Jones, colored. Tuesday was
taxed with the costs for operating
h motor car With defective llpchtx
and let off with a lecture hy thv
court for giving an assumed name
to the officer who made the arrest.
Isaac played Into had luck on the
a sm iim?*(l name Idea. for somebody
panned and hailed him ax I^aac Jiift
after he had told the County traffi .
officer that whk Henry William*.
William Jloggard and f?ont.le
Heckstall were two more negro de
fendants before the recorded Tues
day, each ax participant In an affray.
They drew fine* of $10 and cost*.
Mr* H. H Hopkins, bronght be
fore the court on a charge of exces
sive force in administering punlsii
m*nt to a six year old child was re
ferred to the juvenile court.
MONKY IN HTltA WIIKItltlKM
Houston. July 14. ? (Special ? ?
Net profits from strawberries shipped
from this section averaged over $400
an acre.
MEET TO DISCUSS
THE DAWES PLAN
IVnnirrs Open (ionlVrnicr
W ilh MacDonahl W rlcom
in^ Drlr^jihs and American
Ambassador Making lt??|?l\.
(By Th? AMcwutfd Prm)
London. July 16. ? The Inter-Al
lied Conference for the purpose .>:*
making effective (he Dawes phyi fo ?
German reparations today assemble,:
at the foreign office here.
American Ambassador K? Hoc
and Col. James Logan. Jr . American
observer with the Reparation* Com
mission. were present with four ad
visers and a iiiinnier of secretaries.
Formally welcoming the delegates
Prime Minister MacDonuId noted
that the Americans wore not pres
ent as full del'-Rales but he took
their presence as indicating the rooiI
will and co-operation of the I'nited
States in "an effc?rt to tnak?* the
Dawes plan effective.
Ambassador Kellog replying said
that the American government and
people believed the adoption of th '
Dawes report would be the first
great step toward the Htabilizatlon of
Kurope.
London. July 16 ? 'Hie conference
of premiers to decide on methods of
putting the Dawes plan into opera
tion met here today.' at midday.
DOK8VT YKT l.KT HOKNK
IJYK IN HOrSK WITH HIM
That the day of the horse is pass
ion one day this week when one of
the remaining horse owners of the
city ordered some feed for Billy Hoy
and the truck driver deposited the
hales of hay and the bans of oats
on the side porch, coming in by the
front entrance instead of going down
the alley and leaving the feed near
Hilly Hoy's headquarters.
Hilly Hoy's master saw the deliv
ery man coming and went through
the back yard to receive the mer
chandise, but there he waited in
vain, and finally went back on the
front porch to see what trad "trap
pened. When he saw. he came near
swearing, though he is known for
his moderation of speech. Hut he
didn't swear. He merely told his \
friends that he thought a lot of Hilly
Hoy and wasn't yet enough of a
"modernist" to give him up for any
sort of motor driven vehicle on
earth, but that ? lie didn't let Hilly
Hoy sleep in the house yet, and be
sides, he couldn't help being a little
rebellious when he had to sweep
that porch.
WOMAN THINKS SHE
SAW lYIAJOIt McLEAKY
Norfolk July 16 ? A woman tour
ist arriving here yesterday told of
seeing three men, one In uniform
and apparently unconscious, near
Knfleld, North Carolina, and later
seeing two men carry a burden into
the woods but the third man had
disappeared. She said she thought
it must have been Major McLeary.
Asheville. July 16 ? The search
for Major McLeary is continuing
without success.
REPORT ON CAUSE
TURRET EXPLOSION
Washington. July 16 ? Tho turret
explosion on the battleship Mississ
ippi which took 47 lives wuk due t
Insufllclent air pressure in cleaning
the horn of tho Mr Run. the Naval
Hoard reported yesterday.
FOI' Ml IN in :i>
WnahlnKton, N. C., July 16. ? A.
T. Summerlln. who wan engaged In
the mercnntllc business at the corner
of Fourth and Ft eapifRff streets, was
found dead In bis bed in the rear of
Ills store Tuesday about noon. Ho
bad been dead for several days ax
decomposition bad set In.
From information gathered the
last seen of Summerlln was last Sat
urday. Since that time he lutd been'
missing. Thin morninu passers by
the atore noticed a peculiar odor. In
asmuch as the store bad been closed
for several day* It was thought beat
to notify the police. Chief of Police
Hamilton, after being notified, wont
to the store and broke open the door
and on going In the bed room found
Summerlin dead and swollen almost
beyond recognition. The body was
In a terrible condition. The condi
tion of the body Is such that Inter
ment had to be made at once.
The deceased was about 40 years
of an*' and unmarried. For the past
six years he bad been In the grocery
business. There were no evidences
of any foul play and the surmise Is
be died from natufpl r<*?iwa.
COTTO* MA VIKCCT
Nnw York, July 1? ?Cotton fu
ture today at the followltiK
lev*!: July 29. ?G, Oct. 2S.OO, Dec
24.92. Jan. 24.16. March 24. SI.
New York, July II. ? Spot cotton,
rloaed ateady, Middling 31.45 an ad
vance of 40 polnta. Puturea, clon
ing levela: July 30.41. Oct. it. 78
Dec. 14.10, Jan. 14.lt, March 21.00.