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Max Doankokk Denkt-n -- VOL. 34 PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1923. NO. 4Z HARDING IKES TWO ADDRESSES TWO MEMORIALS ARE DEDICAT ED IN WASHINGTON BY PRESI DENT. SHRINERS IN CONVENTION Good Roads and Bettor Homes Are Discussed By President Harding. Washington.—Two memorials, one signifying the nation’s progress in highway construction and the other devotSM to the promotion of better homeslj, were dedicated in Washington by President Harding. Ceremonies incident to the dedica tions were attended by thousands of Shriners here for their convention and had as their feature addresses by the President. The highway memorial took the form of a block of granite erected on the mall south . of the White House through the efforts of the Lee Highway association and destined for use as a “zero milestone" or basic mark for the measurement of high way distances throughout the country. The other memorial was a reproduc tion of the boyhood home of John Howard Payne author of “Home, Sweet Home,” built in Sherman square, by the General Federation of Women’s clubs to further the move ment for better homes. In dedicating the “zero milestone’’ the President directed attention to the need for construction of better Tural roads, inter-linking the main lines, both as a means of strengthen ing “the ties of mutual interest and Interdependence which unites all our I secwps” and the facilitate mobilize- ' tionv1ror national defense. Improvement of homes and advan cement in the mechanical appurten ces of the home, Mr. Harding said in his other addresses, would bring about “real emancipation of women” and allow the home-makers to take a . “new, a larger and vastly more signi ficant part in those great determining activities of life.” The milestnoe ceremonies were al most halted by a squadron of naval planes which circled over the assem- ; blage drowning out the voices of the speakers. The whole squadron ap-. peared to the embarrassment of Sec- I retary Denby, one of those on the speakers’ stand, while the monument was being presented to the nation by j Dr. S. M. Johnson, general director of 1 the Lee Highway association. The look of embarrassment on the naval ’ secretary’s face became * one of con sternation a tew minutes later when of the planes returned and flew low over the crowd while the Presi dent was speaking. Remembering the disturbance in of ficial quarters a year ago when an army reserve avaitor by his flight re peatedly interrupted the President’s address at the Lincoln memorial ded ication, Mr. Denby left the ceremonies WWt to the navy department and is gapd a general order forbidding naval or marine aviators from flying over Washington except on his own person al authorization. Gives Away Large Sums. New York.—Material aid to the progress of medical science through out the world in the former substan tial monetary grants totalling millions of dollars to medical schools hospitals and individuals was furnished by the Rockefeller foundaton during 1922 said a summary of the annual report of the foundation, made public. The scope of the work embraced virtually every civilize l country, where either perosnal representatives of the foundation assisted in public health surveys and educational pro jects or local boards administered ap propriations dedicate-, to individual research and in-escigat 'U’., the re port shows. In the United Ft^r s the'foundation pledged 1,125,000 toward new tui.d ings for the college ot medicine at the University of Iowa, co-operated with state boards of health in main taining institutes and instruction for health' workers, shared .n malaria control, re-surveyed centers of hook worm infection in southern slates, and took part in pro noting full tim-> health service in 13 states of the -union. - j^The outstanding work ot the foun Llffiition in foreign countries consisted rof assistance to pre-medical education in china by monetary appropriations to schools and nosp.tals; the granting of two million dollars toward the building of a school of hygiene in Loa. don. » TWO-THIRDS OF NEW HAMP SHIRE TOWN DESTROYED. Canaan, N. H.—Two-thirds of this town was wiped out by fire which caused the death of one man, probable fatal injuries to an other, and rendered 200 persons homeless. Forty-two buildings were burned to the ground and it was believed the loss would be more than $500,000. Only a few buildings in the en tire community remained intact when the flames had been brought under control or had burned them selves out, despite the fact that Are apparatus from all the nearby cities and towns was called to aid. DIED IN WILSON HOSPITAL WIFE, CHILDREN AND BROTHER AT BEDSIDE WHEN END CAME. Had Been a Member of Congress More Than Twenty-Two Years; Remark able Career. Wilson. — Representative Claude Kltchin, formerly minority leader in the lower house of Congress, died at a hospital here after a long battle against various ills. Mr. Kitchin, whose death had been expected hourly for the last few days, began to sink shortly before midnight and the end came peacefully. He had been in a semi-conscious condition since Monday, but rallied and a spark of hope was held out for his recovery At the bedside of the former demo cratic leader when he died were Mrs Kitchin, Mrs. Lewis B. Suiter, daugh ter, Mills Kitchin, a son, and Dr Thurman Kitchin, a brother. They had been with him throughout the night. The body of the statesman was re moved to a local undertaking estab lishment, where it was prepared for burial. Accompanied by members of his family and scores of friends it was carried to his old home at Scot land Neck, where the funeral was held. Dr. C. A. Woodard said Mr. Kit chin’s death was the culmination of complications which developed after he had suffered a slight stroke of paralysis in April, 1920. He had never been in good health since. Dr. Woodard stated, although the turn for the worst did not comeauntil about three weeks ago. Americans generally associate the name Claude Kitchin with the demo cratic leadership of the national Con gress from the inauguration of Wood row Wilson! as President until the republican party won the elections of 1918, and organized both branches of Congress. Mr. Kitchin went to Congress from the second North Carolina district i» 1901 and had served in Congress from the fifty-seventh to the sixty-eighth Congress. Mr. Kitchin became majority leader of the house in the 64th Congress, in 1915, upon the retirement of Repres entative Oscar W. Underwood, of Ala bama, who was elected to the senate, and continued in that position throughout the 65th Congress. When the democrats lost the house, Speaker Champ Clark stepped down to the minority leadership with Mr. Kitchin as ranking member of the ways and means committee, but the North Caro linian again assumed nominal party leadership upon the death of Mr. Clark. He was ill at the time, however and Finis J. Garrett, of Tennessee, was designed as acting leader. His career as the democratic leader in the house during the Wilson admin istration is characterized as brilliant and spectacular. In those early days of the war, after he had voted against the declaration, his relations with President Wilson are said to have been strained because of his position against the administration merchant marine. Those differences are said to have been smoothed over and it is understood Mr. Kitchin and President Wilson were on friendly terms when the former left Washington. Hurl Flowers at President. Washington.—Eight thousand school children gathered in American League park to serenade President and Mrs. Harding, as a feature of Washington’s music week, broke away from their teachers before the program was con cluded, and rushing good naturedly, but wildly, across the deld, laid down a barriage of flowers on the presi dential party. What had started as a quiet sere nade was turned into a wild rush of eager children, when each, anxious to present either the President or Mrs. Hsrd*ng a' bouquet, took the short course of hurling the flowers at Mr, and Mrs. Harding. SLOOP CARRYING UP SUM GLEN BEULAH OF BRITISH REG ISTRY RAMMED BY AN UN IDENTIFIED STEAMER. TEN MILES FROM NORFOLK Crew Is Saved By Coast Guard Cutter; Members Are Held at Norfolk. Norfolk, Va.—The 50-ton sloop Glen Beulah, of British registry, with a cargo of liquor was sunk when she was rammed by an unidentified steam er 10 miles southeast of the ,.Cape Charles lightship. The nine men of the Glen Beulah’s crew were rescued by the coast guard cutter Yamacraw, which was anchored about 200 yards from the rum runner when the col lision occurred. The sloop sank 15 minutes after the crash. The members of the crew of the sloop were brought to Norfolk and turned over to federal prohibition en forcement agents. They were com mitted to Jail technically as ship wrecked crew of a foreign craft, to be held for the immigrantion authori ties. Federal authorities gave orders at the jail that they were to be allow ed no communication with the out side, even with newspapers men. Coast guard officers believe the ship that rammed the sloop was an other rum runner, pulling alongside for the purpose of taking over the sloop’s cargo. Seen in silhouette in the glare of the cutter’s powerful searchlights, the steamer was said by coast guard officers to bear a striking resemblance to the Istar, flagship of the rum fleet, which dis appeared from off the coast May 25. Captain George Kelly of MatypJs Fla., master of the Glen Geulah fur nished the coast guard with the fol lowing list of his crewr: Martin Lu ther Gibson, first mate, Miami; Joe McGee, second mate. Savannah; C. B. Tutan, supercargo. Savannah; Steve Carey, chief engineer, Miami; Elisha Culmer, second engineer, Lion Park, Miami; Carl Digman, seaman, Ft. Pierce, Fla.; Adolphus Hall ne gro cook, Miami, and Harry Benson, seaman, Miami. All except Hall are Americans. Hall claims to be a British subject. Not one of the crew of the sloop had time to dress after the crash. They reached the Yamacraw in the sloop’s skiff, with a single oar, clad only Jn their underclothes. Captain Kelly upon clambering over the cut ter’s side contended that it was a government boat that ran his sloop down. Coast officers denied this. Liquor is Barred. Washington.—The treasury tossed on the international doorstep its new regulations carrying out the supreme court decision barring all beverage liquors from territorial waters of the United States after 12:01 a. m. June 10. No loopholes have been left, ac cording to a treasury spokesman, and the court’s recent construction of the dry law will be rigidly applied. Having failed to find any way by which conflict with foreign laws could be avoided, the treasury based its new ship liquor rules on a literal reading of the court’s opinion and prepared to let come what may. Its only hope of alleviating a situation, which most officials agree will be embarrassing to international commerce, was said to lie in remedial legislation from the next Congress. Hampshire Town Razed By Flames. White Rover Junction Vt.—Two men wrere burned to death and a woman is missing in a fire which vir tually wiped out the village of Canaan, N. H., 18 miles from here, according to railroad officials here. The fire started, it was reported in a barn in the center of the village near the railroad. Children playing with matches were believed to have started the blaze. The first build ings to go were the freight and pas senger station of the Boston and Maine Railroad. Canaan has a pop ulation of 1,200. Pulled-Tongue of Balky Mule. Salisbury.—Because he pulled a mule’s tongue in an effort to make the animal pull a load, Robert Mesimer, wb' e, was sent up to court from a magistrate’s court on a charge of cruelty to animals. A surgeon found ’t necessary to cut off six inches of ♦he mule’s tongue in an effort to save the animal’s life. The tongue had become Infected on account of in luries infl’cted by Mesimer. TWO YOUTHS ARE DROWNED WHEN BOAT TURNS OVER. Baltimore.—Harry Ledley and -John Reese, both 17, members of the Arial Rowing club, were were drowned when a row boat turned over. Three others were , saved. sMiss Sadie Keating, a Red Cross worker, made a desperate attempt to 3ave the young men. She jumped overboard brought both bodies to the shore and worked on them before pronounc ing them dead. ' ^ ; - The drownings and< seyer& heat prostrations marked ^j&eifering hot day. It was the sg^Mdi.Jw. of a heat wave, the therjRmetiSr' reg istering 90 degrees. To * » \ i ? y GENERAL PERSHIN$taDS _ -Jfi i WOULD HAVE U, S. fTO’- Dd! ITS PART TOWARD MAKING WUr IMPOSSIBLE. * President Visits Tomb of “Unknown Soldier” and Places Wreath Upon It. Washington.—Standing in Arlington memorial amphitheater and facing the wooded slopes where rest thousands of the war dead of the nation, President Harding uttered a prayer that the United States “do its full part toward making war unlikely if not impossible.” “We have already proved that we can have less of armament” the Presi dent declared, “let us strive for the assurance that we shall have none of war.” Scarcely had the applause from those assembled in the great national cemetery for the annual memorial day exercises died away when the chief ex ecutive coupled with his prayer the hope that should war again come to America “we will not alone call to ser vice the youth of the land—but we will draft every wealth, and make com mon cause of the nation’s presenta tion.” Several minutes passed before the applause which greeted this pronounce ment allowed Mr. Harding to continue and then he asserted: “It will be a more grateful nation which consecrates all to a common cause, and there will be more to share the gratitude bestowed. More there will be a finer conscience in our war commitments and that sublimity of spirit, which makes a people invinc ible.” The prayer and the hope were the high points in the President’s address, delivered at exercises which in their impressiveness and spirit had a simil arity to ceremonies in many parts of the land. The President was accom panied to Arlington by Mrs. Harding, who sat in a box to his left during the exercises. Gathered in the marble amphitheater were a scattering of sur vivors of the civil war, hundreds of veterans of the war with Spain, and many more of those who participated in the world war, including their com mander-in chief, General Pershing. The setting was as impressive as the exercises. The amphitheater was draped in flags and the hills of Arling ton under an overcast sky were in the deep green of spring. Just outside the ampthitheater the tomb of the "Un known Soldier’ was buried beneath a mound of flowers, and the President before returning to the White House placed a wreath upon it and stood for a minute at salute. Mrs. Harding visited the cemetery an hour before the exercises in the amphitheater and at services held under the auspices of the Disabled American Veterans, assisted in the planting of an American elm, turning over the earth around the tree with a French shovel which has been used in France. At the request of Mrs. Harding no advance notice had been given of this ceremony and only a few were present. Greece Decorates Five Americans. Athens.—The Greek government an nounced the award of the war cross post-humorously to five Americans who died in the service of the near east re life during refugee evacuation from Asia Minor. They are: Lester J. Wright, Waukesha, Wis., killed at Alepo by bandits while con voying orphans. George J. Williams, Foxburg, Pa., who died of pneumonia at Marsivan while escorting refugees. Robert E. Wilson, Morning Sun, Iowa, who died of typhus at Mersina. Mrs. Olive N. Crawford, Boston, who died of typhus at Trebizond. Charles Flint, of Syracuse, N. Y., who died of typhus at Constantinople. An official government statement says: “This is a roll of honor without precedent. The American effort in be half of the refugees of Asia Minor is the most outstanding act of organized altruism in hiatory.” V 95 INDICTMENTS III WAR FRAUDS GASES RETURN OF MILLIONS TO THB GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN SECURED. OTHER JUDGMENTS ARE WON ■» Daughtry Say* Report of Accomplish ments Before Harding; 500,000 Appropriated. Washington. — Attorney General Daugherty laid before President Hard ing a report showing that in the past 3%ar the war frauds sections of the department of justice had secured the return of 13,198,385.19 to the govern ment, had been awarded judgments for $1,225,919 more, and had obtain ed 95 indictments. Scores of addi tions! civil and criminal suits are now awaiting trail. The $500,000 appropriated by Con gress at his request for the war fraud work, the attorney general pointed out, had been returned many times over by these recoveries despite the “most stubborn interference on the part of those personally interested and involved, and on the part of those who are used, often innocently, to in terfere with the efforts of the govern ment.” “It will take a long time,” Mr. Daugherty's report continued, “to complete this work as it should be completed in the interests of the gov ernment and in fairness to those who may be innocent of any wrong doing and who honestly served the govern ment in the time of its greatest dis tress." The attorney general organized the war transactions section personally and has devoted much of his atten tion to its work. , The larger collections in the last 12 months included the Derby Man ufacturing company, $610,000; Lin coln Motors, $1,550,000, and Du Plan Silk company, $185,000. The largest judgments secured were: Dusenberg Motors and Willys corporation, $639, X48; United States Fidelity and Guar anty company, $45,710 and Cleveland Brass and Copper mills, $515,588. The attorney general’s report list ed in detail the funds recovered and judgments secured by the govern ment, together with scores of persons indicted, but did not disclose -details of hundreds of cases now under in vestigation. * Black’s Bid For Ships is Highest. Washington.—A thorough investiga tion has convinced the Shipping Board, Chairman Lasker announced, that ther is no prospect the bid of more than a billion dollars made by John W. Slack of Silver Creek, N. Y., for the board’s merchant fleet would ever be executed if it were accepted. An Inquiry on the subject was con ducted by the shipping board in con junction with other government de partments with which Mr. Slack has had business transactions, with the result, Mr. Lasker said, that the offer had been degnitely classified as a “summer dream.” This conclusion will be communi cated to the special committee of the Shipping Board now sitting in New York and before which Mr. Slack has been invited. The Silver Creek bidder will be free, the chair man said, to appear to give any fur ther details of his proposal and back ing that he may desire. Spanish Cotton Planters Ask Aid. Madrid.—The government is consid ering a request of farm interests that it aid in the establishment of cotton plantations in Andalusia. It is be lieved the government will ask the Cortes to appropriate 10,000,000 pese tas. 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