Max z« DIE-Takte Deacon
VOL. 34
PLYMOUTH, N. C.( FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1923.
NO. 50
MING CLOSES
VISIT IN ALASKA
MARINE TRANSPORT HENDER
SON STEAMS R VANCOU
VER ANI) SEATTLE.
EXPRESS REGRET IN PARTING
President’s Party Enjoyed Stay! Na
tives Appreciate Publicity Di
rected to Territory.
Sitka, Alaska.—President Harding
Concluded his visit to Alaska here ex
fetly two weeks from the day he first
stepped on the soil of the territory
and the marine transport Henderson,
carrying the Presidential party,
steamed out of the harbor bound for
Vancouver, B. C., and Seattle.
The chief executive and also Mrs.
Harding expressed a deep feeling of
regret as they said farewell to the
citizens of this little town, where oc
curred the ceremony which trans
ferred the territory from Russian to
American rule, and through these
citizens good-bye to Alaska.
The two weeks spent in Alaska
have given the President and his
cabinet advisers accompanying him, a
new vision of the territory and, as he
has said, a new determination to do
' all in his power to bring this vast
areas to its fullest degree of develop
ment.
Great as was the regret of Mr.
Harding and other members of his
party at leaving the territory where
they have been welcomed so cordial
ly, such feeling obviously was shared
to the fullest degree by the people of
Alaska.
A Whatever the government may do
to aid Alaska in the future as a re
sult of the President’s visit, the peo
ple of Alaska declare much already
has been done because for two weeks
more attention has been directed to
wards the territory than at any time
since it was purchased by the United
States in 1867.
The residents also believe Mr.
Harding’s visit has served to enlight
en people of the States regarding
Alaskan resources and to dispel the
old ideas derived from the early des
ignation of the territory as an ice
box.
The President during his two
weeks’ stay has visited 11 towns and
several little settlements, has made
several trips into the interior and
has sailed along more than 1,000
miles of coast line.
Escaped From Prison 32 Years Ago.
Newton.—Dan Brinkley, “Little
Dan” Brinkley, as he was known 35
years ago to distinguish him from his
father, was arrested in Claremont,
seven miles from this city, by Dep
uty Sheriff H. C. Hicks on the charge
of escaping from the State peniten
tianry 32 years ago. He was con
victed in Catawba court in 1888 of
robbing the dwelling house of an old
man named Smith and sentenced to
10 years in the penitentiary. Three
years later he escaped and had en
tirely dropped out of sight.
Rotary Leaders Gather for Caucus.
Chicago.—Rotary leaders from all
sections gathered here for a four-day
caucus on the platform and program
of the new administration, installed
recently at the St. Louis convention.
President Guy Gundaker, Philadel
phia, devoted most of the initial ses
sion to an outline of the new year’s
International program to the board
of directors and district governors
from some 40 provinces. A code of
ethics for every line of business was
mentioned by Mr. Gundaker as one
aim which might enlist a prominent
place on the Rotary activity for the
year.
Codes of conduct, he said, reduced
costs, eliminated destructive compe
tition, maintained high standards of
trade relations, protected the public
from irresponsible business men, and
tended generally to the elevation of
business principles.
Slaughters Family in Melancholia.
Columbia, Tenn. — Mrs. Dugger,
aged 36, her two children, a boy of
four and a girl of two, are dead and
Ohir Dugger, the husband and father,
is dving in the Kinfr’s Daue-hter’s hos
pital here as the result of a sudden
tit of melancnolia on tne part ot Dug
ger.
Dugger, according to the sheriff,
who made a personal investigation,
used a razor to cut the throats of his
wife and two children and then turn
ed the weapon upon himself, inflict
ing wounds from which ha is dvina'.
LEVIATHAN COMPLETES
FIRST AMERICAN VOYAGE
New York.—The Leviathan com
pleted her maiden voyage under
the American flag. More than
7,500 persons were at the Hudson
river pier where the giant “Sea
Palace” docked.
The running time from South
ampton to New York was five
days, 12 hours and 11 minutes,
with an average speed of 23.09
knots an hour. Her speed from
Nantucket to Ambrose light was
25.07 knots an hour.
The longest day’s run was 605
miles. On another day 601 miles
were covered. Ten stowaways
slipped aboard at Cherbourg and
Southampton. They were turned
over to Ellis Island authorities.
MADE 110 MILES PER
TANK LEAK CAUSES FLIER TO
ABANDON HIS ATTEMPT TO
CROSS CONTINENT.
Officer Suffers No III Effects From
Oil Fumes and May Attempt
Flight Again.
Rock Springs, Wyo.—Forced down
by a new leak in the oil cooling tank
of $his plane, Lieutenant Russell L.
Maughan was forced to abandon his
attempt to cross the continent' be
tween dawn and dusk. He landed at
th^( air mail field at 5.03 p. m.
A hurried examination by two air
mail pilots who were the only men
on the field when Maughan descend
ed, convinced the transcontinental
flier that it would be impossible to
repair the leak in time for him to
reach the west coast before dark,
and he called off the flight.
The leak was around the edges
of the portion of the tank •which
had been soldered at Cheyenne when
Maughan was delayed for an hour.
Maughan passed over Rock Springs
at 4.58, apparently bent upon con
tinuing the flight despite the leak
but he turned bac1r a few minutes
later and landed.
“It would reouire from 3 to 4
hours to repair the leak,” Maughan
told the Associated Press, “conse
quently the flight is off.’’
Lieutenant Maughan went to a
hotel here after waiting at the air
field while the two pilots, Harry
Chandler and Jack Sharpenack, ex
amined the tank.
He was greatly disappointed at the
second failurg which had greeted his
attempt to cross the continent and
his demeanor plainly indicated dis
gust as he walked away from the
field.
The aviator was smearing Green
river when the oil tank began leak
ing badly, he said, resulting in his
decision to abandon the flight and
return to Rock Springs.
Lieutenant Maughan said he felt
no ill-effects from the nausea which
nearly overcome him at Cheyenne
as the result of fumes from the es
caping oil. He said he felt “fine”
and was going to “take a good sleep ”
Asked whether he would make an
other attempt to span the continent
between dawn and dusk, Lieutenant
asserted: “That is up to Washing
ton.”
He added that he “naturally”
would be “glad to try it again.”
Maughan made the trip from Chey
enne to Rock Springs. 245 miles, In
one hour and thirty-two minutes, or
at a speed of approximately 170
miles an hour.
Decrease Shown in Crushed Seed.
Washington.—Cottonseed crushed
in the eleven-month period, A-ugust
1 to June 30, totalled 3,226,915 tons,
compared with 2,983,272 in the same
period a year ago, and cottonseed -on
hand at mills June 30 amounted to
13,768 tons compared with 19,767 a
year ago. the Census Bureau an
nouncd
Cottonseed products manufactured
during the epriod and on hand June
30 included:
Crude oil produced 93,759,429
pounds, compared with 923,242,369 In
the same period a year ago, and on
hand 11,733,463 pounds, compared
■with 12.109,848 a year ago.
Refined oil produced 899,054,659
pounds, compared with 832,092,575
and on hand 191,665,862 pounds, com
pared with 211,114,057.
Cake and meal produced 1,480,752
tons, compared with 1,344.461, and
on hand -84,646 tons, compared with
83,526.
Linters nroduced 601,548 bales,
compared with 394,388, and on hand
40,767 bales, compared with 67,025.
Exports of linters in the eleven
months totaled 37,777 bales, compar
ed with 122,927.
BAPTIST MEET
in mm
REPRESENTATIVES OF t& NA
TIONS ON HAND FOR GRP AT
CONFERENCE.
ARF WELCOMED TO SWEDEN
Greetings Read From President Hard
ing and Former Prime Minister
Lloyd George.
Stockholm, Sweden.—Thirty-six na
tions answered the roll call at the
opening of the third congress of the
Baptist World alliance and after a
welcome from the Baptists of Sweden
by Dr. J. Bystroem, president of the
Swedish union, and Premier Trygger,
greetings were read from President
Harding, and the former British prime
minister, David Lloyd George.
President Harding’s message, pre
sented through the Rev. W. S. Aber
nethy, of Washington, his pastor, was
as follows:
“I should be glad if you will find
an opportunity to convey to the Bap
tist World alliance the greetings of
a fellow Baptist and express for me
the hope that we shall have through
out the world a continued growth, in
that religious devotion which makes a
finer brotherhood of men in a con
scientious worship of God. I believe
with all my heart that nothing is more
needed today than the practical appli
cation of the spirit of Christ.”
Mr. Lloyd George’s message, con
veyed through Dr J. H. Shalcespere of
London, secretary of the alliance,
said:
“Please convey warm greetings to
my fellow Baptists gathered in Stock
holm tor the third world congress. VT
trust their deliberations may promote
the cause of peace among nations, so
that they may see on time the rocks
upon which civilization is being driven.
May a new faith and determination
enable them to face the problems of
the future.”
Representatives of the free churches
then greeted the congress, to which
the Rev. G. W. Truett of Dallas, Texas,
responded. In the roll call of nations
the representative of each spoke
briefly. The Rev. G. S. Shank, of
Seattle, responded for the Northern
Baptists, the Rev. A. C. Cree of At
lanta, for the Southern Baptists, and
the Rev. D. S. Klugh of Boston, for
the negro Baptists of America.
The European delegates, excluding
the Scandanavian countries, number
nearly 300 and these with the repre
sentatives from North and South
America, Asia, and Africa bring the
total to several thousands.
Robeson Trio Freed By Jury.
Lumberton, N. C.—Fifty minutes
after' the fate of three Robeson
county men had been placed in the
hands of the jury here the defendants
heard the words, "Not guilty,” which
exonerated them of participation in
the whipping of two white women by
hooded raiders near Proctorville, N.
C., on the night of April 24.
And five minutes later the trio—
Mike Lawson, chief of police of the
village of Fairmont, and Johnson
Hedgepeth, a farmer, and Jule Brog
den, a mechanic, both of Proctorville
i—were free men, for Solicitor Thomas
A. McNeill promptly nolle prossed the
! indictment for first degree burglary.
Cotton Spindle Activity Drops Off.
Washington.—The department of
! commerce anngunces that according
to preliminary figures compiled by the
| bureau of census, there were 37.374.S76
| cotton spinning spindles in place in
| the United States on June 30. 1923, of
| which 34,843,421 were operated at
some time during the month, com
pared with 35,390,137 for May, 35.515,
791 for April, 35,500,518 for March,
I 35,307,707 for February, 25.240,853
; for January, 1^3. 32.499,324 for Au
gust, 1922, ai*i 31,882,542 for June,
1922. £
The aggregate number of active
spindle hours Reported for the month
was 8,384,582. During June the nor
mal time of operation was 26 days,
compared with 26 1-5 days for May,
24 2-3 days for April and 27 for March
23 2-3 for February, and 26 1-2 for Jan
uary. Based'ion an activity of 8.74
hours per dajv, the average number of
spindles’opejBted during June was 36,
I 897,371 or a™ 98.7 per cent capacity
[ on a single shift basis. This number
; compared wfth an average of 40,192,970
i for May, 40,759,'979 for April, 40,389,
029 for March, 40,847,845 for February,
40,008,203 for January, 34,041,028 for
August, and 33,655,212 for June, 1922.
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TWO MEN MEET DEATH
AT CRASH OF PLANE
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Detroit.—Howard Neal, proprie
tor of the Detroit Photo company,
and a man believed to be Eugene
Ranchard, an airplane pilot, were
burned to death when an airplane
in which they were riding burst into
flames 1,000 feet in the air and
crashed in the western part of Sand
wich township, Ontario, about 12
miles southwest of Windsor.
The bodies were badly burned
and death is believed to have come
almost instantly.
Identification of Neal’s body was
made by his wife, who flew to the
scene of the crash in an airplane
piloted by Eddie Etimson, a com
mercial aviator. After viewing
the bodies, Mrs. Neal collapsed
and was removed to a Sandwich
hospital.
PERMIT POLICIES TO LAPSE
CONGRESSMAN THOMAS OF OK
LAHOMA SAYS COMPANIES
GET MILLIONS.
Would Give Them Full Protection
Under All Insurance Policy
Contracts.
Washington.—Asserting that in
surance companies have confiscated
millions of dollars because of lapsed
payments by policy holders Repres
entative Thomas, democrat, of Okla
homa, announced he would introduce
a bill in the next Congress, seeking
to guarantee to the public “the full
benefits under all insurance policy
contracts.”
The money held by he companies,
Mr. Thomas said, consists of funds
which rightfully belong to the estate
of unfortunate persons who permit
ted their policies to lapse after mak
ing a sufficient numbetr of annual
premiums payments to give their
policies a paid up or extended in
surance value.”
Failure of the companies to fully
advise policy holders of the value of
their policies, Mr. Thomas said, is
responsible for the condition. Many
who have permitted their policies to
lapse, he said, do not know such
policies have a value if they have
been in force for more than three
years,, “and the insurance companies,
taking advantage of this ignorance,
fail to notify them of such value.”
Mr. Thomas said he had madq an
investigation of the subject which
showed that “during the past 21
years, hundreds of thousands of
policyholders have permitted insur
ance aggregating ten billion dollars
to lapse and through failure to make
claims for the surrender value of
their insurance have permitted the
companies, in effect, to confiscate
hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Plan to Raise Price of Wheat.
Chicago.—Urging the housewife to
buy a barrel of flour, the general
public to purchase individually 1,000
bushels of wheat for future delivery
and everybody to eat one more slice
of bread daily, a plan to combat drop
ping wheat and flour prices, has been
endorsed by George E. Marcy, pres
ident of the Armour Grain Company,
and is advocated by commission
houses and grain men here.
July wheat tumbled to 3-8 here.
Flour dropped 15 cents a barrel 'with
Spring patents in the retail trade
quoted at $6.85 in small lots and
Winter wheat flour from $5 to $6.
The sentimental effect of the pur
chase of 1.000 bushels of wheat by
100,000 persons would tend to stabil
ize the market and restore the fallen
confidence ef gram operators, gram
men declared, advocating that feat
ure of the plan as the most import
ant. Another 100,000,000 bushels
might be disposed of to manufactur
ers of farm implements and automo
biles, whose business to a certain
extent is affected by the prosperity
of the farmer, the plan propsed.
The healthful advantages of in
creasing daily bread rations by one
slice for each persons in the United
States would augment the psycholo
gical effect on the market caused by
the increased demand for bread, pro
ponents of the plan expalined.
Roomer Shoots Up the Household.
Buffalo, N. Y—Paul Cherenke, 2S,
j shot and killed Mrs. Pauline Justin,
i in her home at Lackawanna, and then
shot down her husband Summar
Justin. Justin was taken to a hos
pital, seriously wounded.
Cherenke left his victims lying as
they fell, went to his- own room in
another part of the Justtn home and
shot himself. He died instantly.
The shooting was said to hftvje
been the result of an argument; ip
[which Mrs. Justin wa? involve^, j
SLAIN IN MEXICO
MIGUEL TRILLO AND THREE
MEMBERS OF ESCORT ASSAS
SINATED WITH HIM.
SECRETARY IS EXONQRATEO
He and Villa Both Shot at Same
Time and Instantly Killed; Assas
sins Unknown.
Mexico City, Mex.—General Fran
cisco Villa, one time noted bandit
leader, and his chief of staff, Colonel
Miguel Trillo and three members of
Villa's escort werii assassinated in
an ambuscade on the outskirts of
Parral, in the state of Chihuahua.
About a half dozen men comprised
the band of assassins. They fired
upon Villa and his men from a house
they were passing and are reported
to have made their escape from the
scene.
Villa was driving an automobile
on the way to Quanajuato.
Immediately the news of the assas
sination reached here orders were
sent to scour the country side adja
cent to the ambuscade in an endeav
or to round un the guilty persons.
The body of Villa is lying in the city
hall at Parrel where thousands of
persons have viewed it.
President Obregon has ordered an
investigation into the assassination.
Major General Eugenio Martinez at
Chihuahua has sent to Gen. Francis
co Sarrano. secretary of war, an offi
cial report he received from Col. 3.
Felix Lana, commander of the garri
son at Parrel, in connection with the
killing of the former noted rebel
leader. The report follows:
“Villa, Trillo and three members
of their escort were killed shortly
before 8 o’clock with premeditation
while Villa and his companions were
driving in an automobile, which Villa
personally was piloting toward Guan
ajuato, a suburb of this city. The
shots were fired by six or seven men
costed in a house on the roadway.
“I immediately ordered an investi
gation in co-operation with the civil
authorities. I have learned that three
men, armed with 30-30 rifles, fled
from the house on horseback in the
direction of Santa Clara, through the
hills.
“I had no cavalry ana couiu noi
pursue them. The most I could do
was to order the various detach
ments in this sector to be on the out
look for the assassins. The city
authorities have ordered a detach
men of rurales to begin pursuit."
Official telegrams received at mili
tary headquarters confirm the death
of Francisco Villa near Parral and
exonorate his secretary, Miguel Tril
lo, of all blame for his death, earlier
telegrams having said Villa was kill
ed by his secretary.
Excitement here is intense.
7-Year-Old Boy Enjoys Autoing.
Gastonia.—Plato Coleman, the sev
en-vear-old youth who recently was
hailed before Clerk of the Superior
Court S. C. Hendricks on charges or
stealing a Ford automobile, is again
the possessor of someone else’s Ford
and when last seen was in the hills
of South Carolina around York coun
ty vicinity.
He took a Ford touring car belong
ing to L. A. Bradford, of this city
The car had just been repaired and
painted. The front fenders were not
on the car at. the time it was missed.
Chicago Police Block Bomb Plan.
Chicago.—Police won a "race"
with the lighted fuse of a bomb in a
tenement here when they were sum
moned by Benjamin Angoni, a resi
dent of the house, who told them he
had been awakened by a man who
placed the exnlosive near his door.
After lighting the fuse the man fled,
according to Angoni, who ran to a
corner drug store and called the offi
cers, who extinguished the fuse. The
bomb contained six pounds of explo
sives, the police pnid
Fifteen Hurt in Bus-Car Crash.
New York.—Fifteen persons were
injured when crowded municipal bus
was demolished in a collision with a
street car at Third street on Avenue
A.
All of the injured, including several
women and children, were in the bus,
which, overturned, showering victims
with glass.
The street car motorman who es
caped injury, was arrested for as
sault" 'it being charged that he failed
[to heed a "stOD” signal at a crossing.
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