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J ? Ke-enncting the Battle of Concord Bridge during the celebration of the one hundred ?nd fiftieth nnnlver sary of the beginning of the Kevolution. 2 ? Opening of new headquarters of the American legion in Paris In barracks provided by French government. 3 ? Capt. Edward II. Campbell, appointed judj;e advocate general of the navy with grade of roar admiral. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Wheeler's Fight for Honor and Toga ? Dawes Again Hits Senate Rules. By EDWARD W. PICKARD SENATOR BURTON K.WHEELER'S trial In CJrea' Falls, Mont., moved swiftly toward its conclusion last week and it appeared probable that within a few days he would, know whether he was to retain his honor and his official position, or lose both because he was convicted of misusing the latter. Largely the government's case rested on the truth or falsity of the testimony given by George 1?. Hayes, a New York attorney, who swore that on March 16, 1923, lit the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. New York, Senator Wheeler sought to get him to represent the Gordon Camp bell land cases before the Department of the Interior in Washington and of fered to split profits, which he said might run into miliiorfc. Hayes said his attention was called to Wheeler and *he Campbell case by Edwin Booth, then solicitor of the Department of the Interior, whom he had known i for years. Booth, he asserted, called | him up by long-distance telephone. Under cross-examination Hayes said:! "Senator Wheeler and I both went ; on the assumption that Booth had : made the offer of fees. I think he said to me: 'Booth may have suggested that I will split fiO-oO with you.' I re plied that was satisfactory. I think he stated It would run into a very sub stantial figure. I think he mentioned millions, the same as Booth did." Senator Walsh, senior counsel for Wheeler, said he would show that no long-distance call was put in from Booth's office to Hayes' office during Martch, 1028. A. H. Furr, former secre tary to Booth, admitted there was such a call, but could not remember the date. Booth, on the stand, swore the dis cussions with Hayes over the Campbell affairs were entirely on the question of getting new capital Into this Montana I oil field. Wheeler took the stand in his own defense Wednesday and deuouncqd as false the testimony of Hayes and sev eral other government witnesses. He swore that he never met Hayes In the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, and never had seen him until Hayes appeared in the Daugherty investigation, when the law yer was subpoenaed as a witness. As to his agreement with Gordon Camp hell, he said there was no discussion of permits at any time except once, when he was called Into Campbell's office to hear the story of H. J. Cole man, who had a controversy with Campbell over the Lincoln well permit. Under cross-examination, however, Wheeler admitted that after be had been retained by Campbell he was told about a certain government permit and that he also had defended the Steven son receivership complaint, which re cited seven doubtful permit cases. He admitted that he told Campbell that after he got to Washington he would take up the permit In question and that he probably told him he was go ing to take it up with Booth ; but he asserted he was taking it up as his senator, not as his attorney. VICE PRESIDENT DAWES, being invited to address the members of the Associated Press at their an nual luncheon in New York, found an excellent opportunity to renew his tight on the rules and general conduct of the senate, and took full advan tage of it. The editors present cheered him, and so did probably a vast majority of the uncounted thousands who heard the address through the radio. Mr. Dawes plead ed for nonpartisan aid in the accom plishment of the reform he urges. .Said ho: "The issue Is this: Shall the senate continue unchanged Its existing rules which admittedly make possible, at times, the exercise by a*minority or even one senator of power to block the purpose of a majority of the sen ate to legislate? "Of what material relevancy is the claim that this power of blocking leg Jadge Speaks Unkindly of Women Litigants II. T. Waddy, for many years a I.ondon police magistrate, has written a book on his experience in police courts. He is uncomplimentary re garding women of the lower class, writes u reviewer for the Philadelphia Bulletin, lie writes: "I admit an In creasingly unfavorable opinion about female witnesses. As a class I find them more malicious, more untruthful, And much more clevfr g^ea, isiation desired by the majority, act ing under its constitutional rights, is sometimer. a chock to mistaken legis lation. if that check involves the use of power the existence of which is not contemplated by the Constitution and is inconsistent with the principles of representative government? Of what relevancy are the claims that be cause tiie power of unlimited debate in the early days of the senate with its small membership was not abused, this power with its consequences should have existed then or should ex ist now?" Later he said: "This reform does not men., that the right to he heard at length upon any Important question shall be denied any senator. The pur pose is not to prevent senators from fully debating a question but to make impossible the prolonging of debate to prevent a majority from settling a question. The purpose is not to de prive a minority of the right to be heard, but to bestow upon the ma jority t he full right to legislate. Th_? purpose is not to interfere with the protection of all proper rights of a senatorial minority, but to prevent the ftnproper use of a minority right under the senate rnles from render ing the senate Itself impotent. It Is important that these rules give every senator a square deal, but it Is im perative that they give the American people a square deal." Klsewhere the vice president was a conspicuous figure last week, for he was one of the distinguished guests, with (Jeneral I'ershlng, at the celebra tion of the l.r>Oth anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. Be fore those historic, battles were ! fought over again, Faneull hail In Boston was rededlcated and both ( Dawes and Pershing made eloquent j and patriotic addresses. Then they , jjent out and saw Paul Revere and ' William Dawes, great-great-grand- i father of the vice president, start on their famous ride, heard the "shot j that was heard around 'the world" fired, at Lexington, and saw the em battled farmers rout the Bed Conts at Concord bridge. Incidental^, Mr. Uawes spoke before the merchants of Boston and told them what he thought of the senate rules, to their great delight. IN THE four years since the war some six millions of foreigners have been kept out of the United States by the restriction of immigra tion and that policy has proved of such benefit not only to this country but also to others that It probably will be permanent. Such in effect was the statement of President Coolidge to the Daughters of the American IVe volution, assembled In Washington In their thirty-fourth continental con gress. The President warmly praised the organization for Its educational and Americanization work. Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, presi dent general of the D. A. R., devoted much of her address to the dangers of pacifism and the need of prepared ness. THAT the attempt on the life of King Boris of Bulgaria and the bomb explosion In the Sofia cathedral which killed some 200 persons and mangled scores of others were a part of the Russian plot to establish a Soviet republic In Bulgaria Is scarce ly to be doubted, despite the angry denial of Tchitcherin. Russian minis ter of foreign affairs. Some of the conspirators have mnde full confes sions, telling how the whole affair was planned In Moscow an<l^ directed from there. Under the vigorous command of Premier Zankoff, himself wounded in the cathedral, the Communists are being run to earth and so many of them have been summarily executed that some observers call the condi tion there a "reign of terror." Three Labor members of the British parlia ment were iu Sofia at the time of the explosion and they are severe In their condemnation of the ruthlessness of the Bulgarian authorities. It is likely that other nations, ex cept Russia, will look complacently on the measures adopted by the Sofia government, for it Is realized that If the Bolsheviks succeed in their aim In Bulgaria, they can easily crush Rumania, and later seize Macedonia and Croatia in both of which the Com munists are strong. The alleged wholesale executions In pulgarla are said to have caused the spread of "More than half of the total appli cations for summonses, if such formal matters as Income tax or rate sum monses are excluded, are made by women against other women, and arise out of idiotic quarrels about Idiotic trifles*. Such an applicant Is often the actual aggressor, tahose only object is to fetch her antagonist into open court and there defame her. It is the process known in the vernacular as 'getting your own back'." One case Mr. Waddy recalls was that of a working woman who asked for a , peasant revolts and there is a report that Kin;,' Boris contemplates leaving t tie count-y until the storm is over. Jugoslavia Is mussing troops on its borders, ostensibly to preserve pence on the frontier but actually to be ready for intervention if the Com munists gain the upper hand Th? council of ambassadors in Paris au thorized Bulgaria to increase her . armed forces by 7,<H>0 until the end of May. This action was largely due to the message from thfc Jugoslav cabinet asserting the menace was ?n international one and that the Buigars should be aided. SITTING silent and unmoved. Joseph Caillaux, exiled as a traitor during the war, the recent recipient of am nesty, and selected by Paul l'ainleve to be minister of finance, heard him self abused to the limit by the right wing of i he French chamber of dep uties. Then, after hearing the min isterial declaration of l'ainleve, the chamber accepted his entire cabinet, the vote of confidence being .'MM to J 18. The new premier declared the government would pursue the execu tion of 1he Dawes plan simultaneously with settlement of the Interallied debts, but he ga\e warning that It would not accept the Luther-D'Abernon ?ecuri;\ pact to which Germany was to have been one of the five signa tories. He pledged reduction of France's armaments as soon as her security was guaranteed. What meas ures are to be adopted to relieve the financial situation M. l'ainleve did not say. but lie Indicated they would be strlncent and would require heavy sacrifices. M. Caillaux, who spoke but brietly. said he did not Intend to in crease advances from the Bank of France nor to force the consolidation of bonds which would be harmful to the state. In June, he declared, would come an Important monetary opera tion to rehabilitate the country's finances. Next day the deputies elected M. Herriot president of the chamber after a fierce battle in the course of which the acting president was knocked down and kicked and .he ballots were strewn nlf over the floor. PORTUGAL'S government under President domp'-, tins survived an other i.ttempted military revolution. This one was short-lived, for within 24 hours the rebellious troops had been shelled into submission. Official statements from Lisbon said the/ dead numbered 15 and the wounded 200. WHATEVER the outcome of the German presidential election, the cause of monarchy in that country re ceived a big boost last week when former Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria came out agafcst Marx and In favor of Von Ilindenburg. This despite the fact that Rupprecty and Marx are both Catholics and the field marshal is a Protestant. The Ba varian Is head of the Wlttelsbach dynasty, rivals of the Hohenzollerns, and- his announcement goes to prove the truth of the report that he and the former Crown Prince Frederick William have reached an agreement whereby the return of the Hohenzol lerns to power would mean the plac ing of Rupprecht or the throne of Bavaria. German royalists are re joicing over this evidence that the two great dynasties, have buried their dif ferences. Announcement is made by the State department that an agree ment has at last been reached with Canada on the program for official In vestigation of the cost, practicability and feasibility of the St. Lawrenco waterway , project. At the same time Secretary of Commerce Hoover, Aalr man of the St. Lawrence commission, appointed by President Coolldge, said he had Instructed the American mem bers to begin work at once. Another special board is studying the feasibil ity of Dullding a canal from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic via the Hudson river. GEN. CREG^RIO FERRERA. de feated candidate for president of Honduras, Is conducting a revolu tion down there thut has resulted In several battles. To protect foreign lives and property, a detachment of 165 officers and men from the United States cruiser Denver was landed at Celba, where there had been fighting. summons against her fourteen-year-old j daughter for "willful damage." . 1 "It turned out that she had smashed rather more of the crockery of the home than is permissible even to a girl of fourteen. I tried to dissuade I the applicant, and said that I thought a summons 'would do no good.' Whereupon the woman retorted, '1 think it would do a great deal of good, sir. When she gets the summons, that will be a shock to her and It will be> a farther shock when she cones hire and sees rau'* ?hi. tr mf" ' . DOINGS IN THE I TAR HEEL STATE f NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA ^ ? TOLD IN SHORT PARA- \\ I GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE \ | T ? Wadesboro.-Offlcers made s. O. Nlven and J. D_ piace a raid on a still on GutM0? : ? near Morven and cap,ure d Roy and the stiller, .anegro named RJ Streeter. A quantity of <1 beer was taken. Wades boro^? Cotton Is ??S up In this county hut the ?ea cot. dry for the securing of a stan I ton: It is thought that ran is very i much needed to bring up the seed 1 centlv planted. ! Wilmington.-? Shipments of from Wilmington from April i included: April 16. six cars AprlHJ; twelve cars: April 18. tweWe^cars, April 20. 29 cars; April 21. t* ca , . April 22. 15 cars. | Troy.? Another modern house of worship '0L.T^0?aT8rl^yCMeZdls; | went^on record approvln^the ! construction of a $60,000 chur i erected at once. High Point? Erected at a cost ?' ap" ! proximately $200,000 and described a i one of the most beautiful edrficea i In ! N? rth Carolina, the First Methodist Protestant church of this city orm ! opened with elaborate ceremonies. Concord? Mrs. Anna Belle Boat Talblrt. wife of T. Hayden Talbirt'Jas found dead in her home near the Jask boh Training School and a coroners jury wihch investigated the case found that death was caused by suicide. I Hillsboro.? A large still with a hun dred and sevent-flve gallon capacity was seized several miles northeast of Hillsboro. in the Little River section. More stills are captured in this sec , tion of the county than any other sec ! tion according to L B. Lloyd, sheriff o ? Orange. j i Fayetteville. ? Governor Thomas C. , McLeod of South 'Carolina will be i among the prominent men in attend ance on the meeting of the Scottish J ! Society of America in Red Springs on May 5. it was announced here by Miss Eolise McGill, secretary of the society. Dunn? An unusual case was aired | in the Dunn recorder's court when A. ! c Barnes, local citizen, was found i guilty by Recorder M M. Jernigan on two charges of slander. The indict ments were brought by a sister of the ! defendant. one charging slander against herself and the other charging slander against her 13-year-oM ! daughter. ?Wilson. ? Henry Marshall, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Marsh I all. was fatally injured when struck by ' a truck driven by Andrew Cameron. ' colored. The lad was on his way to j school when struck by the car. He ptarted across a street not knowing I the truck was bearing down on him. I His skull was fractured in two places and other injuries were sustained. Warrenton.? A poison manufactur ing outfit, making a product sold as j Carolina corn, was spiked by W. C. ; Ellington. R. O. Snipes, deputy sherifTs, and Major Pope Powell in Nutbrush i township. A tar-Uned oil barrel as the j newest wrinkle in hootch making was found with an enamel cap, an inch and ft half iron galvanzed pipe and a lard i tin boiler to complete the 60-gallon equipment. Officers brought the still to Warrenton. Dunn. ? If it required a brave man to set up and operate a big copper whis key-manufacturing plant in one s front yard, then Romie Dennis, negro, who ! lives in Grove township. Harnett coun ty, may be classed as such. Officers aptured a copper still of 75-gallons capacity in the front yard of Dennis' ! home. The plant appeared to have been operated on the night previous to its capture, according to the officers making the find. Fayetteville.? Governor Thomas C. McLeod, of South Carolina, will be i among the prominent men in attend anfee on the m?eting of the Scottish Society of America in Red Springs on May 5, it was announced here by Miss Eolise McGill. secretary of the society. -Hickory? In the first dual debate between Guilford and Lenoir-Rhyne colleges held at the two institutions, Lenior Rhyne's affirmative team, com posed of. Frank Cauble and Dillon Shepherd, defeated Guilford's negative team, James Howell and Gilmer Sparger, in this city, by a two to one dtvision. j Wilmington.? Following receipt by Governor McLean of a letter from ! Rev. W A. Stanbury. of Raleigh, pro testing againft capital punishment, and the governor's terse statement that he believed in capital punishment in extreme cases. Sheriff George C. Jackson, of New Hanover county, in an interview made publiic here, strong ly concurred in the position of the governor. Benson. ? Benson now has under construction five handsome grick store buildings. Two hive been completed in the last few weeks. There are be tween 20 and 30 homes under con struction, 12 rooms anded to the j school plant and an ice plant now un der way. Chapel Hill. ? The program of the j second Dramatic Institute of the Caro lina Dramatic Association, which will coneven here on May 7, 8 and &, was announced by the Bureau of Commun ity Drama of the University Extension Division, under the auspices of which it is to be held. Greensboro ? American Legionnaires have finished securing the quota of $7,600 set for Greensboro in the endow .ment fund campaign of the Legion for children of disabled and dead service men. This $7,600 is part of the $60,000 sought in the sta*e. . Wilmington. ? Local Pyhians had an '| elaborate ceremonial here compliment ary to Harry M. Love, supreme keeper of records and seal, of Indianapolis, nd , who is makfng a tour of the sdtith eastern states, accompanied by Capt, T. K. Meares and son, R. L. Meares, both of whom are prominent Pythians of Wilmington. I Stewart Returns to the Limelight hi nnmnm 1 1 m mi i mmMiw When the federal government's Teapot Dome oil case against Sin clair \va*8 on recently, Col. Robert W. Stewart, cliuirman of the board of di rectors of the Standard Oil company of Indiana (portrait herewith), Just couldn't be found anywhere. It now appears that he wasn't reallj missing; he was simply on a business trip to Mexico, taking a look at the Doheny oil properties. And as soon as he came back he was very much In evi dence through the purchase from Do heny of his control of the Pan-Ameri can Petroleum and Transport com pany. The deal covers f>01.000 shares of the voting stock and amounts to something like $38, 000,000, according to current market quotations. The consolidation gives the Standard Oil company of Indiana control not only of the Mexican properties of the Pan American Petroleum and Transport company, its pipe lines and refineries, but also its tanker fleet of 31 vessels and the company's California properties Stewart will act as chairman of the purchased company's board. Fie now bulks large as one of the biggest figures In the oil business. The combined assets are about $584,000,000 and their securities are valued at $787,000,000. U. S. Grant's Granddaughter to Marry MtMMlMtHIM " ,M tWWUHHItW Ml I John Hays Hammond at 40 and at 70 Announcement has been made In Washington of the engagement of Princess Bertha Cantueuzene, a grent granddaughter, of Gen. U. S. Grant, to Bruce Smith of Louisville, Ky.. by her parents, Prince Michael Cantacu zene and Princess Cantacuzene. The date of the wedding has not been < fixed but It will be . this summer. The Princess Bertha's brother, the Junior Prince Michael Cantacuzene, I and his wife, who was Miss Clarissa Curtis of Boston, made their home In Chicugo. During the autumn r?f T01 7 the junior prince escorted his two sis ters, the Princess Bertha and the : Princess Ida from Russia to the hos pice offered by the home of their | grandaunt, the late Mrs. Potter Palm er. A coterie of nurses chaperoned I the three children, "the long way round by Siberia." The Princess Bertha maintain* the reputation for beauty for which her mother's family ? the llonore family of Kentucky ? has long been celebrated. ; Mrs. Frederick Dent (J rant, formerly Miss Ida Honore, and widow of Gen. Fred- j erick Dent Grunt, a son of U. S. Grant, is her maternal grandmother. Mr. ; Smith is a sou of Mr. a::d Mrs. Thomas Floyd Smith. The seventieth birthday of John Hays Hammond came around the oth er day and found him comfortable in a mansion that dominates the Ro<^ Creek park, Washington. Pretty easy, that, for a man who in 1896 was under sentence of death in South Af rica ! Hammond's experiences have covered the earth and at forty he was a genuine soldier of fortune. The year 1895 found him in the employ of Cecil Rhodes, the "empire-builder," and in charge of the great gold mines at Johannesburg, South Africa. The Vit hinders (foreigners) had few privileges under the Boer president, Oom Paul Kruger. They were goad ed into a rebellicfti of sorts, which re sulted In the "Jameson Raid." Cap tured by the Boers, Hammond nnd three others were condemned to death for high treason and sentenced to be hanged. It was only after desper ate efforts and the payment of a fine of $125,000 each that the four regained liberty. Since then Hammond has done important engineering Jobs all over the world.. He has lectured at half a dozen of the leading American universities. He has been abroad as special represen tative of the government several times. At home he has been president of Pan ama-Pacific exposition commission, chairman of the United States coal commis sion, president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and what not. He is a leading spirit in several movements to promote Americanism. Pinchots to Go to Congress Together? the three-cornered fight In prospect Keystone state Republicans have sti , The Plnchots will make their joint campaign on a "bone-dry" plat form, with prohibition enforcement as the bulwark of their battle. Governor Plnchot's decision to enter the sena torial race came as a result of Repre sentative Vare's determination to run against Senator Pepper, It is said, and expected to be one of the liveliest the d In several years. Gov. and Mrs. GlfTord Plnchot of Pennsylvania are ambitious to be the first "family" to go Into congress to gether, according to reports In Repub lican political circles. .This has been current gossip In Washington for some time and now the same story comes from Pennsylvania. Governor Plnchot is planning to enter the race for the United States senate against Senator Pepper and Representative William S. Vare. Mrs. Plnchot, It is reported, will seek the seat In the house of repre sentatives now held by Representative Louis T. McFadden of the Fifteenth district. W. J. Stannard, Leader of Army Band Washington has three very excel lent bands ? marine, army and navy. The fame of the Marine band Is as Aide as that of the marines them selves ? and there's nothing! wider, since the World war. The Ariny band Is the newest of the three, but its ad mirers are loud in praise. It dates only from 1922. General Pershing started it when he became chief of staff. Ninety musicians were selected from the service bands of the army and were organized at Fort Hunt, Va. Capt. R. G. Sherman is the command ing officer and Sergt. Willie 9. Hogs is drum major ? he was drum major of "Pershing's Band" in France. Warrant Officer W. J. Stannard is the Army band leader. He was se lected by a board from many appli cants. He entered the army at eight een. In 1911 he won a scholarship to the Institute of ^fuslcal Art, un der the direction of Dr. Frank Dam roach, and graduated after having completed a four-yeara' cooree In two yaara. 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