\ I ? "v ' \ ' tI&ml ? p?'-rrfiiwP^ Y' - ' ?? ^ ?? BIG GOV. PLOT 1 Hairy L Doherty Charges < Attempt to Set Up Sepa rate Government; A Few Big Men Would Run the United States ! Washington, Feb. 11.?Charges were made yesterday by Henry L ] Doherty, the oil millionaire, that h Chief T'istice-deaignate Charles Evans h Hughes and President Hoover were , linked in an alleged plot to impose a I ] super-government on the United j States. I ( Doherty's charge was made in a letter to the Senate judiciary com-!, mittee considering Hughes' nomina- m ? :* Uf+la I . -ion. VH6 commiHse uwwv ? ^ weight, for it voted 10 to 2, Chair- I j man Norris and Senator Blains, Re- ^ publican, Wisconsin, dissenting, to ap- i prove the nomination. I ^ Brought up in the Senate a few j hours later, opposition to Hughes j spread som^rhat Senator Blease, the j irrepressible Democrat from South e Carolina,, blocked Senate Republican f ] . Leader Watson's request for imme- j diate action by an objection. .[ 1 Blease announced he has called upon physicians attending William Howard < Taft, who resigned as Chief Justice a j week ago yesterday, for a statement { as to his physical condition. Blease c charged Mr. Taft has not been as ser iously ill as represented. Blease said { he expected a reply tomorrow from J < Dr. Francis Hagner, one of Mr. Taffs t physicians, and would not agree to! Hughes' confirmation untfl he receiv- t es this information. -I t "I cant do it," Blease said, "until e I receive some documents and ctertifi- i ? ?' 99 1 cates I expect to get m me monuag. c Senator Norris opposed the no mi- v nation in a speech, and Senator Glass, a Democrat, Virginia, interjected to ask Norris if he kn;w about Hughes1 fam- v ous Supreme Court decision in the c Shreveport case, "where the last f rights of the states were extirpated," c This decision held that the Federal government had paramount control i; over interstate commerce. L Blease's objection put the nomina- p > tion over to the regular calendar, 1 I where it may no? be readied for sev that Justice Taffs resignation was, t "procured under peculiar circumstanc- s es," and that the change, announced c a week ago was "made with unseem- C ingly haste." , . l "There are rumors afloat," Doherfy* r said, "that a huge and uncontrollable' ? political machine has been or is being i built up whereby the governmental 1 control of this nation will be lodgedTn p the hands of a few men, and, with the [ confirmation of Judge Hughes, this c control will not only embrace each o. t the three coordinate branches of the Federal government, but will extend 1 as far as possible to a control of the r separate states." The Senate should investigate these rumors, he said, "if for no other reason than to assure the public against need for alarm." "I have heard," he added, "that J this is only the first disclosure in a series of political maneuvers which is probably aimed to give political control of the entire country to a small otyutd of man, and it is ffnmmon report that already President Hoover's r Hughes, Jr., the Governor of New i supporters are at work to make Mr. g York. g , 1 CONDEMNS BIG WEDDINGS c We thoroughly sympathize with ! Mrs. William Jeffries Che wrung, who, as Margaret Cousins, elopti in order t to escape big weddings, which she de- * dared "are messy.** 2 Without advising young ladies a- < boot to commit matrimony to elope t we call their attention to the argu- 1 meat of this yamg lady against big ! ! weddings: i 1"With a regular church wedding it i is necessary that the engagement be < announce several weeks ahead of time 1 and all your friends, out of kindness of their hearts, begin giving parties < and risers* and other things in your i honor, with the result that by the ] time the dkte of the wedding has ar- \ rived, you are utterly worn out." ] This paper has observed just such i proceedings in our own county and i the result is just as stated. However, } if there are young ladies in our ball* ] wick who insist upon big society wed- : -?-? *\^oxr oTvtoil Mid 1 in the newt and ; our society eolomn . will t*IL your friends about them. j : '- r 1 The same folks who were hoping a couple of yeazs ago that Iindy would 1 make some fool break that would give 1 them a chance to threw mod at him I are the ease that are now chuckling - because ft looks as if Admiral Byxd ;! would be atudt in the Antarctic iee for another yeas. There is a perver sity about muRfcreaaful people which ? makes them hats saceere and gloat ^^ tk0ee GIGANTIC BOOTLEG RING IS EXPOSED CITY OF CHICAGO Government Furnishes Alco hol to Bootleg Ring Oper ating on Jjaige Scale In $50,000,000 Coast to Coast Business ?j ? - ~' ? * . > Chicago, Feb. 11.?A 150,000,000 bootleg liquor ring, described by the government as the largest to quench Illicit thirsts of Americans since the advent of prohibition, was broken up a ere today when a federal grand jury indicted 31 corporations and 156 in dividuals. In Springfield, HL, indictments were returned simultaneously against he Corn Products defining Company md the Ffeischmanw Yeast Company, nationally known food concerns, while in Philadelphia a group of dis allers and former prohibition agents were indicted on charges of diverting $1,000,06 worth of alcohol there. Specific charges were suppressed n the Springfield indictments* Unit id States District Attorney Walter Provine said the indictments were the !irst of their kind and that they would le pushed as test cases. The accusations named only the ;ompaiues and did not involve any n dividual officers. Pro vine said a 110,000 fine was provided in case of onviction. The Corn Products Company manu actures syrup while the Fleischman Company produces yeast Both are 3 >a ?f hnpr loCtt HI MIC V* ??? - In Philadelphia, three officials of he Glenwood Distilling' Company, hree former Federal prohibition mployes and a "mystery man" were n dieted by a Federal grand jury on harges of conspiring illegally to di ert 115,000 gallons of alcohol valued it $1,000,000. Operations ;of the ring against ?hich indictments were returned here entered in Chicago and extended ram coast to coast, the government harged. The indictment cited law violations n New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleve and, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Minnea iolis, St Paul, Los Angeles and North lergen, N. J. More than 7,000,000 gallons of alco d into the speakeasy and the "bob led in bond" traffic during the last even years with total business of the onspirators ranging from $50,0007 00 to $60,000,000. The name of Anastassoff Sreben, ?ysterious Bulgarian chemist who ras reputed to have disclosed a sec et method whereby denatured alco 10I could easily be rendered non loisonous, was mentioned repeatedly n the 96 closely typewritten pages if the indictments as being head of he syndicate. PREPARE EARLY FOR THE WEEVIL Orders Are Being Received For Dusting Machinery ami Poisons Cotton growers are beginning to ealize that control of the boll weevil s a regular part of the routine in trowing cotton and that to continue trowing the crop at a profit, provis on must be made for this work. We aye receiving hundreds of re (uests from all parts of the cotton trowing section asking for definite oformaSon about the boll weevil, says he entimologist at State College. Manufacturers of dusting machinery tnd poison tell us that they are re viving orders and indications are hat a number of dusting outfits will >e sold throughout the State this sea ion. those who buy these expensive mplemeats must keep in mind one mportint fact. Dusting must be done acactly right or no results will be ob ained. ? . In most farm operations there is no ??-* Mm rtincm. One must ?MP VA UVAM^ ? T ise his own judgment within certain ftnits about how he shall plow, cul tivate, apply fertilizers or harvest; ait, when.it comes to poisoning the weevil by dusting, there is only one say and growers should not jump into svevil control without being adequate ly equipped and fully informed. Much money has been -wasted in tip past because poisoning has not been done right Yet the methods have been standardized since 1917 and are both, practical and efficient : * ' There are a number of North Caro lina cotton growers who have poisoned successfully and have produced good crops of cotton despite ravages'by the weevti. ; Mr. Branson at State col lege offers to and detailed inform ation about how this is done to any grower who will write him for the ii* fnwhNnn, ^ 1mmmmmmmf""?'.. ; -1' Of DflMST ^BhkroHHaH^^fsp^t by Matthew Gibbs,'32. ; The student ire toethMing in the auditorium every morning this week at 8:55 to listen in on the radio to the talks made by state officials. The talks are very inspiring as well as have deep ffle&rttTTgg. As this is live at home week in North Carolina we are going to try to do our share of ! work, in the public schools. Some of the speakers We have heard and will hear are Governor 0: Max Gardner, Or. R. T. Allen, state superintendent at public instruction, I* E. Browne, director of vocational education, Dr. J. Henry Highauith and Hiss Rebecca F, Cashing. The entire school is grateful to Mr. Wheel er and Sir. E. A. Joyner for securing a radio for the school to enjoy such a program. ? ? ? ? The senior class will present ."The Chann School" in Perkins Hall, Feb. 27 at 8. o'clock. Hie admission will he 25 and 35c. The seniors are going to give something worth the price. ? ? ? ? Reverend Burns made a very inter esting talk in chapel Friday morning, after which Serena Turnage played several piano selections. ? ? ? ? The fourth year history class com memorated the birth of Lincoln by several reports on his life, of every day, during the presidency and a characterization. . - * ? ? ? ? ? NOBILITY True worth is in being, not seeming, In doing each day, that goes by Some little good?not the dreaming Of great things to do bye and bye. For whatever men say in blindness And spite of the fancies of youth, ?? * 1_ V ' Tliere's notmng so Kingiy as mildness And nothing so royalas truth. : ]\ ? ..- J'*'- .Y{ ." v. ? '?< We get dur mete as we measure, We cannot go wrong and feel right, Nor can we give pain and feel pieas ure, For Justice avenges each flight SSmtixJozJbe wing of the sparrow^ The huh for the robin and wren, But always the path that is narrow * And straight for children of men. Tis not in the pftges of story, The heart of its ills to beguile, Tho he who makes courtship to glory Gives all that he has for her smile. For when from her heights he has won her, Alas, it is only to prove 1 That nothing's so sacred as honor And nothing so loyal as love. Thru envy, thru malice, thru hating 1 Against the world early and late. No part of our courage abating? Our part is to work and to wait And alight is the sting of his trouble Whose winnings'axe less than his worth, | For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortune or worth. ?Alice Cary. ? ?-? ? Who's Who in F. H. S. The text below describes a young man who's identity will be published next week. See if you can guess who ' he is. He is one of the most popular boys ' of the school and especially among the fair sex. He is tall and blonde with bewildered blue eyes and a look of having recently been washed am! ' combed by his mother. He is an ath lete and also a good student One may easily recognize this person by his walk, it ia not exactly a walk that one might expect a young man of his appearance to possess, but he is stead ily improving it ? ? * ? The local team won their fourth ?me ID rne noruiHuiuini uiiuerenw Friday night by defeating Elisabeth City with a score of 17 to 8 on the losers' court. The gam* started slow with each team getting two field gOalr in the first quarter anrfthe half end* ing with Farmville in the lead with five points the score was 9-4. Thi sec ond half was faster thtooghout with both teams air tight in defense. The scoring was less and the game more interesting. Guarding erf both teams featured the game and especially the work of Barrett being high scorer with 7 points while Smith was next with four. Johnson and Davis were the outstanding players for the losers. ? ? ? ? .Friday night also, the "Baby Dev ils*' engaged in a game with th? Greenville Juniors. The score indicates a closely fought game with the a 16-18 decision over the Devils. No outstanding player developed in either team, hut both teams worked brtt* _ V* ' ' ^Februs^ld the ^^viliaad^e SM. J fSWp * *. "tstfrunc" frtjn ?.j||^Ppfound|and to run up the coast 100 miles to NjrwK*fc They ran into a pie. which blew them across the Aduk anat sea narrowly escaped shipwreck on the shores of Salt ! t T^^niaySCUCd b> ^c hghthwtt tcndtf "Hesperg?< CS Was Appointed to Sncceed the Lata W. A. Pierce who Served wtree Years " I?: John T. Thome, of Farmville, t?4s elected Vice President of the North Carolina Co^tm Growers Cooperative Association at the last regular meet ing of the Board of Directors. THe election of Mr. Thome-fills the vac ancy causedjby the death of W. A. Pierce who lad served as Vice Presi dent for thi& years. 0 Mr. Thorpe has served the Third! District as director for seven years] and his sound business judgment and experience ire recognized by the! members of the Board. He is not onliy one of the leading businss men in his ' county but he is one of Pitt Chanty's: leading fuitfers as trail. He is Presi dent of the Citizens' Bank of Farm ville and& ability and integrity have nev?*\hee|t questioned It hjfeero been truly said that taTthe lilghl UVU U?*V WWM i type of men whom they have Selected to direct the operation of their Asso ciation and Mr. Thome is a fair rep resentative of the type.?N. C. Cotton Grower. LOOKING AT HAITI 'I' No one questions the fact that the control of Haiti by the United States has materially benefitted our country. Order has been better, business has improved, and, it was hoped, some start made towards a stable govern ment - On the other hand, no informed person doubts but that the American occupation has brought some abuses with it Some of these may have been unavoidable under the circumstances but that does not alter t|he case. Ar bitrary and autocratic authority had to be asserted at times. Americans should getr back to' the fundamental idea that we do not need subject peoples, either as colonies pro tectorate? or any other way. The sooner we get out of other countries the better for us and them, unless we mean to take permanent possession in which case lets do so and be done with it. We should prefer that each little republic managed its affairs for itself; On the other hifod, however, it can not be denied that as the big nation' adjacent to these little states, we must assume some responsibility for their oonduct or allow some other big nation from abroad to do so, which we wbuld not allow and which the Monroe Doctrine forbids. We might share our responsibility with other Pan-American states, though, and re lieve ourselves of suspicion and some ill-feeling. ? President Hoover will soon appoint ? committee to Take an investigation of Haiti Its turbulent history is well known, nearly all its presidents have been run out of office or shot out. The committee may find some satisfactory solution, but, if it does, it will have to be . original andwiee. WHICH? t?> ?kan vmi and " O UU^C . ^VW| I *TMVM ^ , ? Rastus were married, didqt you a gree to be one? Mandy: Yessuh, yo' Honor, but we been scrappin' to fin' out which of us wus de one! : ? i i ii ? i ??p?????? much since the .game, with Parinville Jul 16 and a hard fought game is looked Inf. ^ ? ? * ? CHARM! CHARM! CHARM! You wfll see plenty of it on Pebru ary 87, in "The Cham School* to be presented by the eenior class at Par ens Hall at 8 o'clock. Tho adnrfeiion wm be Wf m ? You'll miss a treat if yeq miss the TWO THOUSAND IS TAKEN FROM SAFE , - .. t 3^ I -K .. J Yeggmen Make a Big Haul from Lancaster Furniture Co. at Rocfcy Mount s * : ? - J ... ? Rocky Mount, Fob. 10?Checks and money totaling $2174.96 were found missing from the safe of the Lan caster Furniture Company at NoPlQ? North Washington Street when the firm opened its doors for business this morning. The safe had been looted during the night, presumably after the visit 'fcf Manager W. P. Holding, who went to the store on business at 9 o'clock last night and found everything in order. I The safe had been opened by a I master cracksman, who can work com binations, or else by some parson who knev- the combination. It was found closed, and only the small Iron door to the cash drawer was broken. It had bew pried open and thto cash that the person robbing the store fair price. The Farm Board came to the rescue last fall and steadied the market by advancing 16 dents per pound on cot ton when the price otherwise prob ably would have dropped much lower. ^1980 is^niisanwre "Hog and Horn: iny" and as much of our food supplies as possible. MANY CHINESB DIE. New York,?Five successive and almost complete crop failures, follow ed by tl|e coldest winter in decades, have caused the death of two millions of people in Shensi,. according to Gro ver Clark, officer of China. Internat ional Famine Belief Commission. FIVE ARRETED IN DOG SCHEME Federal Agents Get After Grafters for Using Mails To Defraud A shevi lie, F>b. 1?,.?E. Ray Moody, formerly of Heber Springs, Ark., was arrested by federal agents today at the filling station he operated near Hendersonville, charged with being a member of a "hound dog" mail fraud ring which, it is alleged, cleaned up considerably more than $100,600 dur ing the two years that it operated on a nation-wide scale.' v.' Moody is the fifth man arrested in connection with an investigation be gan at the request of J. F. Russell, a wealthy Lon Angeles sportsman. Once under way, the investigation re vealed frauds in many states, accord-' ing to officers. The other four men held are Paul DaVis filling station; operator of Charleston, Mo., Robert Finley, an employe of Davis, Mack Lyons, of Bee Branch, Mo.,, and J. R. Pierce, an Arkansan, and said to be held principally as a witness against the others. Lyons was arrested Sat urday in Arizona, while Davis, Finley and Pierce were arrested about a week ago. ? All face charges of "conspiracy to commit a crime in violation of the [ United States postal laws by using the mails to defraud." Moody is also to face a charge of violating the Mann white slave act since he wa? alleged to have been living two miles f east of Hendersonville with a 29-year old Heber Springs girl, having aban j doned Hs wife and seven children in V?i?iwVv njwirriinor officers. h Moody is to be takento Little Fock, * "eCoraril, of Fayetbevilk, Ark, a post office in- - ??-?, ?!- ?>? ? 'i'? ; ward his present exalted post. As the Chief Justice of the United States he ? > above, and removed from .party strife and there -rill be few, if aoy, who will not. ooncede that in naming iostrious Americans who were his pre decessors, President Hoover has made m**t posrilda ehefefc ^ fe-; ~~ _ JRaleigh, Feb. 0.-~Mo? midnight assaults by masked banda^of young meU at State College wtene unearthed by college authorities yesterday as they continued their investigation of the attack on Charles Kiellenberger, Jr., Greensboro aophmore, who is now at home and, according to his mother, being treated by a physician as the result of a brutal beating with a blade jade early Saturday morning. R. C. Pleasants, freshman from An gfer, L. A. Massengill, freshman of Four Oaks, told Dean- E, L. Cfoyd I il?1 iU V jcsbviuajr UIM uwtr ruoffl WIS WttW* eb by a masked band about two o' clock Saturday morning' and that each of them had their hair cut with dip pen. This incident was removed from the category of usual hazing, in it self illegal, by the fact that one of the intruders blacked Massen gill's eye as he left the room. Both wen braised in the struggle. ?' ' F. A. Shore, a sophmore who lived in the same building with Kellenberg er, told the dean that a masked bind knocked on his door eaxiy Sunday morning, one of the members saying he had a telegram. When he opddcd the door, said Shone, he slammed it at once and grabbed something which he believes the intruders thought was a gun. He then opened it again tad the masked men ran. The fact that two of the four nam visited by the masked bands were sophomores gave rise to that a group of Freshmen, their feel ings aroused by the sophomore's bp position to abolishing the freshman cap, were doing a.little hazing on their own part Dean. Cloyd, however, does not hold this view. Kellenberger, in addition to his bruises and alleged black jack injuries . had his hair cut as did the two Fresh men. snore peneves mat tne group visiting him came; with the intently of eotting his hair. He is a eopott baiter his' hair at' night. He put a challenge on tift bulletin board offering his hair to anyone who could come and get It R. A. Harkey, who started Kellen berger's car for him about four o'clock Saturday morning and saw the young man start his 80 mile drive to Greens boro, told Dr. E. C. Brooks, president of the college, and Dean Goyd that he did pot think Kellenbergter was seriously injured as was indicated in the boy's mother's report to Den Cloyd and in Greensboro rteWs dis patcher He added that Kellenberger told him he was going home because his hair had been cut Harkey and the janitor that cleans Kellenberger's room, both of whom visited it early in the morning, said that there was no signs of unusual disorder. Other students in the dor mitory, however *aSd the? had hsofd some disturbance <41 "We intend to get at the bottom of this thing,, was the statement mads by both Dr. Brooks and Dean Qoyd. The State College Student CoUftdl, head of the student govemnamr which outlawed hazing and made it an offense for which a student is ex pelled, is also making an investiga tion. EYES BIGGER THAN BELLY How did you like the party, Jackie? Awful! You said I could eat as much as I liked and I couldnt do it Uncle Si Tinklepaugh says heV K heard about these Chinese eggs that they fcrt? for ten years before dating 'em. Be had some in a lunch wagon over at Bingville the other day,' but they'd been dug up about nine yean too soon. Merchants here want you tc pat ronize them. Perhaps if they would advertise you would know they had something to sell. _____________ You can pay your subscription any day this month, we are not scrupu lous about taking it in advance. "? '? '?'?''[rZ ? A man's face may not be his for tune but some acquire a fortune on their faces.A ;?>' Any school boy can tell you what ? a t. . ? m ' < M . a. i. . a teiepnone is zor unui yon cry to get central to hurry. i ?'< i ? ' i il' > .i? : spector who trailed him to this section and along with Deputy Marshal Jim Pwfeiti made the arUest He wairud v preliminary hearing befotfv fthuted States Commissioner Vozrno L. Gudg a? and w?*.held -Writer $8,000 bond The arrest are alleged **&, prtacipaHy trained coon^^nds. & ?- - -? ? * -m.?iV. . .... j - ?i not tnST