North Carolina Newspapers

.... ,, .... t : ' . . ol "Too Writer Gives Some Interesting Facts in Connection With 1 Recent Aviation Feats. OF LITTLE SC1EHTIFIG VALUE Attempts i Ready's to Go Hlaher Than Mao- Record-Breaking Flight Would Not Be Productive of Worthwhile Results. Washington. The "top of the world' till waits to be reached; -Lieutenant UacReady's record-breaking fly to a height of nearly eight miles left the "ceiling of the earth" still at least tforty miles away. How near the aviator may comedo what is practically the upper limit of the atmospheric layer surrounding the earth we may not know in this genera tiOn. But the meteorologist and the astronomer tell' us that both Major .Schroeder after his flight of 38,180 feet and Lieutenant MacReady after tils 40,800 were speaking only figura tively when they spoke of having at tained the "top of the earth." ; Layer Fifty Miles Thick. ' The layer of atmosDhere manv say. is. at least fifty miles thick. Aviators now have the means of taking sufficient oxygen along with them for their engines and for them selves, and the heat that keep's their bodies from freezing. They lack only denser air to fly upon at great heights. But this, of course, they will never have. ' Yet there Is another solution? ThA faster plane .capable of rising still higher on an ever-thinning ocean of air. v It will be a problem fpreyer Increas ingly difficult. The higher man rises, the thinner will he find the air upon which heNmust depend for buoyancy. Indeed the air gets thinner even in greater proportion than the increased height of the flight. For though Mac Heady had risen through but one-sixth 'of the air cushion that cloaks the earth, he had left behind him four. fifths of the air. 1 From the surface of the earth, where the total pressure upon his body was fifteen tons, he had. risen to a height where the pressure was but three tons. And had he gone three times as high he would have reduced the pressure to 80 pounds. . No interest at Poles. Any higher airplane flights than those that have been taken bv fhpse two men will have little scientific yalue. Their observations will give scarcely more information than that to be had from a balloon sent up with 50 Miles. Popocatepetl Is Becoming Dangerous if " i airpmne pnoiograpn of Popocatapetl, Mexico's famous volcano whI?h Js just now becoming so vigorously active that the inhabitants of the Tillages at its base have left their homes. The mountain, composed chiefly of porphyrltlc obsidian,' rises in a cone 17,720 feet above sea level about ten xniles southwest of Mexico City. ' T?f .A- 1 . A. Virginia Boyv 7 Years Old,' Arrested as Horse Thief Roanoke, Va.-RuFseJl Srnlth seven years old, was arrested recently 6n a charge of stealing a horse. The boy was turned over to I. E. "Watson, probation officer. This Is the youngest of fender of the law who has been arrested here in 20 years, it was said.;. . .' .Gems Kicked About Street. rittsDurgn, Pa. Diamond rings worth $5,000, tied In a linen handker. chief were kicked about the -street ana trampled by ; esidents of Taren- tum tvo days. before Joseph DeNanze s , . . . . - . . I 1 w,c uuuuie iw n iZtZu nSrZrZj'i" qSI;. rf . VL x ureuium one Monday morning, when she was shop ping. The. Jewelry Was turnprl nvitr n. .. - . - vvr fh nnrnor hr Tlzi XT. . m. " - "wquM, Mrs. iueln had offered $300 reward. Wodti. 99 various pieces of recording apparatus. But neither did the poles of the earth have great' scientific interest. Yet men sdught and, ' attained them. And so long as the astronomer and the meteorologist make known the exist ence of an ocean of air beyond any sailed thus far, there will be a strug gle to fathom Its depth. v But for, the present: that fathoming will be done only from observation and deduction to be made upon terra firma. Among the best of the methods ' that are used to determine the upper limit of the blanket of ; air , about the earth is called the "twiiight method." Twilight has been defined as the time after sunset when day seems to be continued Into the night because of the sunlight that still shines upon the upper air. -t: . ! ! V- It has been determined that twi light lasts until the sun is about eighteen degrees below the horizon. Land with this as a known value and the radius of the earth given as 4,000 miles, it Is not' difficult to solve, by the methods of trigonometry, at right trl- Stewart's Speedometer Man Really Was Terence O'Brien, One-Time Clipper of Horses. ALSO WAS MINING PROSPECTOR Litigation Over $5,257,343 Estate Left! by Manufacturer Leads to Bar ing of w Family Skeleton" Eccentric About Money. Chicago. Litigation over the $5, 257,343 estate left ' by the late John K. Stewart, founder and president of the Stewart Manufacturing company and thd Stewart-Warner Speedometer company, bared a "family skeleton." Search of records of the Surrogate court In Rlverhead, L. L, in ' which one of the two wills made by the Chicago millionaire was filed, revealed that his ' name was really Terence O'Brien. Under this name he had been a mining x prospector In the West, al ways without much success. From prospecting-O'Brien turned his hand "to clipping horses, following Lcounty fairs. In Seattle he met Arthur and Michael Conlonl Together they In- Away .Romance WILL STUDY SLEEPING SICKNESS : ' - : - ; . - First Organized Investigation of Disease to Be Made. Expedltlon Conducted by Four Physl ; clans and Two Veterinary Scien- tists Will Study Sickness in ., Tropical Africa, London.-An expedition' formed ''by the Tropical Diseases , Prevention as sociation soon will leave to make the first organized attempt to investigate on the spot the treatment of sleeping sicitness, as distinct from the question of. the mere transmission of the dls- eas. rite expedition will be conducted by -..wm v . ft u- V Ioar pnysicians and two veteiitarv nusis, ana-It is expected the work will occupy two and a half-years. It Is sought to carry out the work In dlf f erent centers wdth the sanction and support of the governments interest ed, aud It is hoped that It wiU . result (ft I t t t T, I I I t 1 1 it tm Woman Justice to i V f; ; Kiss; B rldegrporns Atlantic City, N. J.-Mrs. Ce c cella! Champion of; Somers Point,, newly elected a Justice of the t peace, announces she will go the marrying! parsons one better. Where the parsons have made It a point to kiss the bride, Mrs.1 Champion says she will kiss the bridegroom. "Mrs. " Champion' Is considered handsome and is al most thirty years bid. angle that gives 48 miles as the height of the air still dense enough to reflect the twilight rays of the sun after It has set. On the other hand, another method gives a different result. The presence of "shooting stars" in these fall nights, calculated often to be at a height of 200 miles, would seem to indicate that there must be air even at that height, for it Is the friction of the air that heats the meteor as it rushes toward. the earth. Chester E. Tucker, in Chi cago Post. There are two vipers in India, one about 20 inches long and the other about four feet long. Xife .Barrel. vented a horse clipping machine. This contained a flexible shaft, which served as the basis of future automobile ac cessory appliances. j Soon Brings In Big Profits. , Thishaft was patented for O'Brien by a lawyer named Stewart and soon it began to pay large profits. It was placed on the market as the John K. Stewart speedometer, the name of the lawyer furnishing part of the title and that of a race horse, "John K," furnishing the remainder. O'Brien later decided to adopt as his own the name of the device he had placed on the market, and from that time on was known as John K. Stewart. With the acquisition of his fair fortune O'Brien, njw known as Stew art, left the West and moved to Chi cago, introduced the speedometer and soon his wealth grew to great propor tions. He purchased a residence at 3217 Sheridan road and bought a man sion at Center Point, L. I., to which he later moved with his wife and two daughters, Marion and Jean. He was In his early forties when he died, leaving an estate of five to seven millions. Both Stewart and his widow, who died nine months after him were ec centric in handling money. First a clerk In the office of the Speedometer company discovered some deposit slips on Chicago banks calling for $J,800, 000 which it was not known that Mr. Stewart possessed. This money was found In six banks and turned into the estate. Shortly afterwards Lean red H. La Chance, now chairman of the board of directors of the Stewart- Warner 1 Speedometer company, and trustee of the Stewart estate, received a bill for $7.50 for the rent of a safety deposit vault of which he knew noth ing. Daughters Get Estate. " - In the safety deposit vault $250,000 more was discovered. At another time a suitcase which Mrs. Stewart, who died in Aiken. S. C had left In a hotel there was opened and $690, 000 In currency. In $5,000 and Sin - 000 gold certificates rolled out This suitcase also contained $290,000; In certified checks. - The suitcase had been carried around the country with out more than the usual care. The fortune left by Stewart was orig inally divided between his two daugh ters, but Jean died October 10 last, while still a child.' Marion married Robert B. Honeyman Jr., of New York City, and Inherited the ' entire estate. It was her action in filing, through her father-in-law Robert B Honey man, a New York lawyer, a suit charg ing lucompeience ana general mis management of the estate, that led to the discovery of the romance of her father's career. in a general system of vaccination whereby all individuals arriving m a danger zone will be Inoculated an'" so gradually, rendered Immune. The expedition will first work In Uganda. It will probably proceed later to the Belgian Congo, and it Is hoped to extend the work to Rhodesia and the Sudan, where there is a Diz epidemic of the disease. V The sleeping sickness has been nreW ufiwuB me natives of .West Af. I S? t . iWears- " ,s generally at tributed to a parasite mrrioH k- - species of the tsetse fly which Infects J cattle. The disease hna . I -w v. ,,w 2X mortality among the, natives of , the Congo and Uganda for many yearSf and is greatly dreaded by Ern'oDMn, n . . m ea ; j".uovi iicuvj I m the parts of Africa where it mJ its origin nas been the subject uv" uinii researcn. :i Sulphite turpentine gas civin when wood 18 bftUM In I off U used in making tkt " "lluan REPORTS ARE RF.CEIVED FROM COTTON; MILLS,, 18 LUMBER PLANTS AND OTHERS. ' HOUSING SHORTAGE IS LARGE Report of Kree Employment Bureaus Also Shows Some Improvement Over Previous Weeks.?, Raleigh. That there is a general improve ment in the industrial and employment situation in North Carolina is Jhe opin ion of the '"Industrial Employment Surrey Bulletin' ; published by the Feder&l employment, service which has been making a study of conditions In all parts of the country.1 The "Bul letin" draws its conclusions from re ports received from 186 cotton mills, 40 tumber plants, 18 fertilizer manu facturing concerns and a number of other Industries. ( ' The publication runs about a month behind and it is reasb'nableto presume that conditions are somewhat better now than they were when the copy was prepared. The following notes about the different towns show that there is a large housing shortage in nearly all of the larger towns with the exception of Winston-Salem. Char lotte reports a very marked increase in building activity during the past few months with better prospects for meeting the housing1 shortage. . A number of the cities report that the letting of road contracts has prac tically absorbed all of the common and unskilled labor in their sections, while building operations are giving employment to a large number of car penters and other skilled wood work ers. The additional lettings of con tracts since the reports were sent in will help conditions in other sections of the state. The report of the six free employ ment'bureaus for the week also shows some improvement, over previous weeks. The bureaus ' found Jobs for 326 of the 365 who were referred, wnich was about 95 per cent. Regis trations of those seeking jobs during the week was 40 per cent more than this number, however, there being 513 applications or registrations with the different bureaus. The number of women seeking work this pas't week was larger than usual, 112 reg istering with the six bureaus. Thlre were requests for help for only 301 people. 8. A. L. Starts Injunction. . The Seaboard Air Line, seeking-to reduce .the assessed value of its prop erty for taxation in North Carolina 22 per cent, filed injunction proceedings in United States district court similar to the action already started by the Southern, Atlantic Coast Line and Norfolk Southern. It probably will be heard in Greensboro with other similar cases January 1. Two Sentences Commuted. The sentences of J. L. Sutton and R. B. Ward, of Jackson county, sen tenced to serve six months for illict trafflcing' in liquor, were commuted from six months on the v Haywood county roads, wherex they were as signed by Judge Harding, to'six months in the, Jackson county jail, to be worked on the courthouse grounds. Engaged in Galnf uf Pursuit Forty-eight and six-tenths, or 895, 852 of the total poulation over 10 years of age, 1,744,673 in North Caro lina, were engaged in gainful occupa- tions In 1920. according tn th rmoim bureau. Seveaty-five and five-tenths, or 6S3,15e of the males over 10 years, were so engaged, and 21.9 or 202,700 of the. females. C. E. Waddell on Health Boardr v Charles E. Waddell, of Asheville, succeeds Col. J. L. Ludlow of . Winston-Salem as a member of the state board of health, according tn n. nouncement from the governor's of flce Asks to Abandon Short LHe. The North Carolina corporation commission, acting for th( interstate commerce commission from the Nor folk Southern railroad asking permis sion to abandon its branch, line be tween Carthage and Pinehurst, a dig. tance of about 12 miles. Its failure to produce sufficient revenue to "in :et operating expenses and the avilabihtv of nthr Hn, Atnrir , .i- th,se clt! WTamSn; rrT'L;, advanced, for the desire for,abandi; ment. Na one appeared to oppose the petition. : C ; ".. Allege Illegal Rates. Alleging that the East Carolina RaIhraT company and the Washington and Vandemere Railroad are owned and operated by the a. m i . . M m mm . - ' - - . lantic i Coast Line and are charging freight rates in excess of allbwed by the commission generally in North Carolina, the North Carolina Traffic association has filed complaint with the state corporation commission for relief from overcharge. Th lantic Couit Line and, the two short !""c w defendants. No The BIM In 'Public Schools. ' Questioning nothing save the j pro vision to increase the initiation from one dollar to two dollars, rais ing resolutions, amendng the coasti tion, and electing Dr. Charles E. Brew er president ,and Miss Elzabeth Kel - ley vice president in routine fashion. the North; Carolina Teachers' Assem bly concluded ItsC business" session and adjourned after listening to ad dresses by Dr. Louise Arnold, Dean Emeritus Simmons College, and Dr. C. t AJphonso Smith,, head of the Depart ment of English U, S. Naval Academy. Unanimous endorsement of the pro gram: of the State Board of Educa- CIJCDPV IIUIT inniir tion,,the program of the governor, the LHtnU I UN IShllF omnlnvmont a full the teaching of the Bible in the regu lar course of study In - all nubile schools, , and changing the" time of meeting from5 Thanksgiving week here included in the resolutions that were passed during the afternoon session. Resolutions offered by Dr. W. L. Po teat commended President Harding and Secretary Hughes for their work toward disarmament. College Must Measure Up.- Ttie people jot North Carolina, ;both through theif denominational agencies and through their legislative organi zation,' have answered the demand for the colleges, both state and denomi national, for, more adequate support and it Is now up to the' colleges to re spond i with service ' commensurate with the benefits .they have received,, in the opinions advanced at the meet ing of the higher education depart ment of "the Teachers' Assembly.' New Trial In Ross Will base: ' The supreme court,. ordered, a new trial in the Ross will case, of Union county, and affirmed the Springs will case of Mecklenburg. . v ;. 'uo uyoo tii wbc, wmcn atiraciea state wme attenton wnen it was heard 6U1U 1CBCIve me treasury, u in Union county superior court some 'wouId be backed by the imperishable months ago. was the outgrowth 'of the and inexhaustible energy of the Ten bequest by Maggie Ross, an aged . nefs river. white woman, of her ancestral home 'Engineers say it will take thirty and other property worth over a hun- million more to finish the job." Mr. dred thousand dollars to a negro wo- Ford said, "but congress is economical man and her father. . and doesn't want to tax the DeoniP tm State Answers Complaint. The state's answer to the complaint in the Southern railway suit against Revenue Commissioner A. D. Watts and state taxing powers for porperty valuation reductions was made pub lic. It sets for an array of material to support the taxing authorities in their contentons as to the .valuation of the plafntiff's property, and prays to the court that the complaint be de nied "and that .the same be dismissed at the cost of the plaintiff." President, Primary Teachers. Miss Annie Workman, of Roanoke Rapids, formerly rural supervisor in Wake county, was elected president of the Associaton of, Primary Teach ers. Miss Mary Graham, Charlotte, was elected vice president and Miss Rosa Abbott, Greensboro, secretary. School Superintendents Meet. - The association of county school su perintendents convened in annual meeting, a day in advance of the open ing of the regular sessions, of 1 the teachers' assembly. The superintend ents are taking up the major part of their program with a discussion of technical subjects-in connection with the operations of county schools. Two Escaped Convicts Taken. Two of the six white prisonetrs who escaped from the state prison farm, were, captured by prison guards near Morrisville and it is believed that the other four, who Were reported to be together and several miles ahead of the two recaptured convicts will soon be in custody again. ' Prizes Awarded Students. Merchandise valued at nearly $600 donated by 1 local merchants and out- of-the-state dealers as premiums and prizes, has been awarded to the prize winners at the state college agricul iurai rair. Competition dents. was limited to stu- Country Child Gets Attention. The country child is getting more attention than any other problem dis cussed at the teachers assembly this year. The educational thought of the country,' it would seem from the pro gram and the sentiment of speakers here; is turning to the problem of Im proving the educational . facilities for the children in the rural communities. Bids .Opened for Hgthwaya. Bids for . approximately a - million and a' quarter dollars of hard-surfaced highway, and bridge construction work In Mecklenburg,-. Gaston, Iredell and Catawba , counties, were v opened by the state highway, highway com mission. v - . : UVn' lf;-?"M,.t?? ruction w 1"ltC3 Ul aspnait roadway in S!?. "-85 CaUwb ill rtu in xreaeii and 8 1-2 miiM tM Gaston. That t - portion - in ? t Mecklen burg and Irdell la tbetweta J Charlotte and Statesville. ... Avalanche of Moral Slips ' ; An avalanche of , moral slips reanit ing In ,tbe bringing, of charges at ab dHction, assault, carrying concealed weapons and embeislement against Jonathan Bennett of Jackson county, sends thU mountaineer, back to the penitentiary under a revoked pardon y6ars fter ihe comxnlsion of the crime. Governor k Morrison noti fied tho Jackson county offioiala of hia action, and Bennett, .will s bo brought' back to , the penitentiary to nerr the remapping fourteen years of a fifteem year senttnee fe; mantiattjMer. " f tea INSIDE FOR PLANS ARE 0 THE TAKING E' HKEAT NITRATE k pUNT. SI 1 ' ,WWUL "The Government First Gave M tm J Credit men Must Pav p.- .. What It Gave 7 wl U Florence, Ala.Henrv . m first time, gave the in, : u' Ior th fJry of wwuiti pian to take over .. government the gigantic nitrate i 6 at Muscle Shoals. planta 1 Mr. Ford expects through hi, erationof the war plants to P(Zi way to the rest of the world Z manent peace. This is how T Per' do it. nrovidPd J ! ow he m nim the properties. sell3 Instead of the bpnds for the 000,000 sUl, n 2 iu complete the nitrate riants Ford t)ror,nSpH tw ants r ""gress authm. Mil A'ouu'00 20-dolla, bills for a new form of currency. This flUToniw nfnn , . w wu,uu nOt be ha ur any recognized monetary unit. It-would be based J a unit of energy which would be fi, ured out and which would be equivf lent to one dollar. This enerev vn T "-mi iuteresi !t would' i r no ums uacKea bv tho it. The United States, the greatest government in the world, is forced to go out to borrow a pesky thirty mil lion dollars as the end of thirty years The government not only has to pay back the thirty million but it has to pay 120 per cent interest, literally has to pay back $66,000,000 for the use of $30,000,000 for thirty years and all the time it is the government's own money the money sellers never created it, they got it from the government orig inally. 'The government first gave credit and then must pay for the use of what it gave. Think of it! Could any. thing be more childish?" New Turn in Poison Case. Augusta, Ga. As a sequel to the recent tragedy at Beldoc, S. C, when the wife and three children of J. W. ,Lee died, suddenly of a mysterious malady, and strangely connected with that case, nine persons lie desperately ill at a boarding house at Martin, S. C, a few miles from Beldoc, all claim ing they were stricken immediately after eating biscuits made from flour taken from the Lee home. Fire Destroys Cotton. Greenwood, Miss. Over 7,000 bales of long staple cotton were destroyed by fire of undetermined origin which broke out in the' warehouse of the Greenwood Compress & Storage com pany here. Babe Ruth Suspended. Chicago. Babe Ruth's share of the world's- series profits in 1921 werede clared forfeited and Ruth himself sus pended until May 20, 1922, by Com missioner K. M: Landis. Replacing Striking Employes. Chicago. Plans for the immediate replacement of union packing house employes who obey the strike order were being carried, out at the fifteen packing centers in the middle west affected by the walkout. "The Big Five" packers declared the organized workers represented less than' five per cent of the total. Lloyd George Undecided. Ljondon. Prime Minister Lloyd George, has not definitely abandoned his trip to the Washington conference norj has he definitely decided to go, according to a statement made at his official residence.. The situation re garding his proposed trip is un changed.1 To Meet In Memphis. ; Memphis. The annual convention of the officers of the Epworth league 6f the Methodist Episcopal church, Souths will be held in Memphis Janu ary j 16 to 19,, It was announced here. k Mobs Kill Three Nearoes. - Watkinsville, , Ga. Roy Grove and Wes. Hales, negroes, were taken-from their;hornes near Snow Mill, in Oconee county,' and lynched, and Aaron Fird spng, who is alleged to have shot and wounded two white men, was shot and killed by, a posse. ---.v f Coliege President Resigns. Tam"pa$ iFla-Dr. Oeorge Morgan .Ward? nresldent of Rollins college, hasreslgnedaccording to an n nouncement by Mrs. Ward. She re-. fusedAto' discuss: the matter furtner or to Indicate Dr. Ward s plans. '. W :-7i " ; . ' ;Viv6pporafle Cuts. OiiCagor-Forty-five thousand unwn , throughout ' the -country will tnltVv. . proiesi-against; wage reuu-" M eraging 10 per cent, authorired w plant ' assemblies. PRQPQ