Meekins Tells Wets
To Pour Whisky Out
Federal Judge Looses Tiradr Against
Violators In Jury
Charge.
■Raleigh.—"Pour it out" if you
have it. federal judge I M, Meek
ins said In his charge to the federal
grand Jury, in which address of 90
minutes his honor declared himself
unable to understand how any
"gentleman or criminal, lady or
strumpet, can take a drink of whis
key without violating some law "
The judge has as his foreman the
*on of a Presbyterian minister, and
that added to his honor's observa
tions made the thirsty very unhappy.
Judge Meekins does not think pro
hibition is impossible. To a savage
disapproval of booze Which makes
the Anti-Saloon league minded to
canonize him. Judge Meekins adds
a weakness for trying cases accord
ing to the law. Thus the Elizabeth
City jurist linds himself often in
position to win sainthood, only to
discover that he has been playing
the devil.
Since the judge last wax here try
ing bootleggers and biockadcrs the
Jones law has gone into effect and
he was telling the jury about it In
cidentally, his remarks were over
heard by many people. It was sic
city complete, that admonition to
the Jury, The federal laws are now
so stringent, he said, that he can
not. see how anybody can drink
without running afoul of them.
Even so, there arc strict North Car
olina prohibitions, the judge thinks,
and he found m the Turlington net
nil the kick necessary for troubling
people who violate the law.
The federal court hasn't much
besides liquor business and the
chances are that there will be many
prisoners in Atlanta within the next
fortnight. Judge Meekins explained
the Jones "five-and-ten" art, a re
cent piece of legislation. A sixteenth
century exegesis on hell was not en
tirely unlike his honor's charge.
North Carolina voted for prohi
bition,” Judge Meekins said, jog
ging the juridical memory with the
election of 1908. His honor also had
in mind the legislative ratification
of the 18th amendment in 1919. A
third vote on prohibition was in
1928, Judge Meekins said. He did
not regard the 1928 ruff and ran
dom entirely an indorsement of
President Hoover, but tire judge did
think the wet and dry issue was
uppermost.
The judge in previous charges has
said how badly liquor making nntl
selling breaks down the popular
morale. There are two families In
a community. One of them works
hard, behaves itself and almost
starves. The other loafs and lives in
finery. The loafers bootleg and
blockade and the hard workers get
cynical.
"The thoughtful mail will leave
liquor alone; the price of getting
caught is too high.” he asserted. "If
we can control the thoughtful vio
lator .the vicious violator can be
controlled. All people who now have
liquor In their possession had bet
ter pour it out. I don't know how
any gentleman or criminal, lady or
strumpet, can take a drink of whis
key without violating some law.”
Just because the law for violat
ing the prohibition law has been
made more drastic by passing of
the Jones act is no reason why law
yers and others should believe that
just because the law Is more dras
tic there will be fewer convictions, i
he said, adding that "juries will
continue to convict wherever the
evidence to convict is sufficient.”
Judge Meekins declared that those
who criticized federal enforcement
of the prohibition law are unfair in
ihat they do not denounce the '
methods of state enforcement. Bet- ]
ter enforcement of the prohibition 1
law. he continued, will be accom- :
plished only when federal and state
officers work hand in hand in en- 1
forcing the law.
"If we elect and appoint only of
ficers who are in sympathy with
the prohibition law, then the prolu- i
bit ion law will have an equal chance 1
of enforcement with other laws." he
declared.
Ki.» Thrill Excel.
All A. Heart Exciter
Seattle.—Which causes the heart ;
to beat more tumultuously- a sen
tence of death or a longest ained
kiss?
Believe it or not. the kiss shows '
the greater reaction.
This was scientifically demon
strated in Seattle by a novel and
exhaustive series of tests.
Two beautiful girls—a blond of ia
and a brunette of 23—and two per
sonable young men, of 21, and 2G,
were used as the kissing subjects,
while Dr. Earl V. Morrow, the phy
sician who conducted the experi
ment, used prison data on condemn
ed men for purpose of comparison
The physician had laken the
blood pressure of several condemn
ed prisoners before and after they
entered the death cell, and had de
termined that it advanced an aver
age of 20 points during the ordeal.
But a 10>second kiss sent the pres
sure up 30 points or more on both
men and girls.
It must be understood that the
experiments were made entirely in
the interest of science. Maybe the
subjects didn't find it too hard a
task—but then many ardent scien
tists get pleasure from then work
Giant Zeppelin Braves Atlantic Storms In
| Second Flight from Germany to New York
Captain Ern*t Lehmann, upper ritjht, executive of
ficer of the Graf Zeppelin, center, is guiding the huge
ship across the Atlantic under the personal direction
of Dr. Hugo Eckener, below, left, while Sir Hubert
Wilkinf, upper left, it among the passengers. The
map, below, right, shows the approximate route the
ship is taking.
(International NewereeJ)
R-100 Soon to Be Completed Will Fly Here
■ # m
Abov\ the R-100, new huge English dirigible
as it will appear when it is completed and ready
to fly to the United States this summer. This will
accommodate 100 passengers in perfect comfort
in its luxurious cabin. Photo below shows a
gondola of the monster being fastened to its side
during the course of construction at London,
England. Robert T, Pollock, inset, is the Amer
ican representative of the builders and designers
of the ship, and will be a passenger oil the craft
when it makes its trip to the States.
Unltraauonal Mawsratl)
Banished Man Wants To Come
Back To Carolina After 7 Years
Judge Shaw Sent Homer MeBer
Into Exile Longer Than
Hr Intended.
Raleigh —Judge Thomas J. Shaw's
banishment of Homer MeBce five
years longer than his honor intend
ed. having been brought to the
mind of the jurist and to the ex
ecutive department last week result
ed in Homer's gaining license to
come back to North Carolina.
Judge Shaw had given McBee a
sentence ot two years for violation
of the liquor laws, but offered him
the alternative of leaving the state.
McBee got homesick. He remained
away seven years. Judge Shaw in
tended the banishment to run only
during the life of the sentence. Had
McBee returned to North Carolina
during that time of course there
wouia nave been ground for com
mitting him to prison
judge Shaw sentences in good
faith and rarely arks for any re
ductions once lie has imposed his
judgmrut; But he was willing to
help his prisoner out and wrote to
the governor to that effect MrBees*
seven years separation front North
Carolina er\r him (till appreciation
of the courtship of Jacob
The episode recalls the famous
story of Governor Aycock During
his administration a North Carolina
fellow committed a crime, escaped
prison and of course went to Texas.
The stay was not joyful and the
prisoner wrote back thus:
"Dear Governor—Next Wednes
<4»> i wiU he ui your oilice to sur
lender and go back to my sentence
I would rather be in the pentten
liar.v in North Carolina than out
anywhere" else in the world."
Judge Shaw’s man had something
of the same lusty patriotism. Mc
Gee was a native of Haywood coun
ty.
C OMPLIMENTS SCHOOL
PAPER OF MISS WEBB
Charlotte Observer.
m a recent, editorial on the paper
issued by the Paw Creek High."
The Observer took occasion to re
mark on the improved standard of
the common run of school publica
tions. the typographical appearance
of these papers not only being mar
kedly improved, but the papers giv
ing evidence of care in selection of
editorial staffs, and thought by the
editors to the betterment of their j
own work. Another excellent exam
ple of the meritorious in school
publications comes in The South j
Shelby School News, published by
die English department of that
school, the only standard elemen
tary in Cleveland county, by the
uay. Selma C. Webb is principal of
this school, and Aileen Jones is edi
tor-in-chief of the paper, being as
sisted by a staff of four associates,
while the paper is aided by a school
of reporters. The South Shelby
School News is not only a neatly
printed paper, but it lives up to its
mission in telling about the school
aud its daily activities.
Cotton Market
(By John F. Clark and Co.)
Cotton was quoted at noon today
on New York exchange:
May 19.44. October 18.66. Satur
day's close: May 19.42, October
18.70.
Weather map clear east cloudy,
west, raining at Amarillo 1.04 rain
at Fort Worth .04 at Little Rock, and
Palestine .44 at Oklahoma City.
Forecast Carolinas Georgia, Ala
bama and Mississippi showers. E.
Texas local showers east portion.
West Texas fair. Manchester cable
reports plenty inquiries but buyers
ideas too low few large transactions
recorded. Good inquiry Saturday.
One says sales caught up with pro
duction. New Bedford says move
ment of raw cotton to New England
is speeding up again and is 50 per
cent larger than last year.
Memphis review in Journal of
Commerce says Mississippi valley
farmers must replant much cotton,
cold weather excessive rain and high
winds ruined thousands of acres.
Favor purchases reactions.
CLEVENBURG,
LARGE CROWD ATTENDS
NEW HOPE MEMORIAL
One of the largest crowds attend
ed the memorial and Mother's day
service of New Hope church yester
day, that has been there In years.
The pastor. Rev. J. L. Jenkins,
preached at 11 o’clock and special
music was rendered. A large and
bountiful dinner was served on the
grounds and many visitors from a
OtftJSge pfe^nj, __ J
Twenty Million In
Autos This Year
Ralrigl).—Tar Heels spent
nearly $20,000,000 for new auto
mobiles during the first four
months of the year, according
to figures secured from Sprauge
Silver, head of the motor ve
hicle bureau of the state de
partment of revenue.
The 7,680 new cars sold in April J
brought the sales since the first of
the year to 27,769, a material In
crease over the first four months
of 1928. Taking $700 as the average
cost of each new car. Mr. Silver
pointed out that bills for new cars
would amount to $19,438,300.
January sales totaled 6,029, Feb
ruary sales 7.240. March sales 6,820,
and April sales 7,680 as compared
with r>,340 for February, 1929. This
slate now has one car to about every
six persons. Mr. Silver estimated,
while California has one car regis
tered in the state for every two and
a fraction persons. California leads
the union with the largest num
ber of cars per population of any
state.
Mr. Silver called attention to the
increased foreign market. Hereto
fore the United States has furnished
a market for about 87 per cent of
the cars manufactured all over the
world, but this figure has already
; tarted to decrease and Mr. Silver
predicted the decrease would con
unue. Ten years ago there were in
round numbers 7,000,000 cars regis
tered in the United States, while
this year there are over 24,000,000
with approximately 7,000.000 cars
registered in the rest of the world,
which taken as a whole is ten years
behind the motor registration of the
United States.
Shriner* To Visit
Hickory On May 18
Charlotte.—The members of Oasis
Temple of the Mystic Shrine will be
guests of the Shriners of Hickory at
a festival there the afternoon and
evening of May 18, with R. E.
Simpson, past potentate, playing the
part of official host.
This occasion will be one of a
series of pilgrimages planned for
this year for Oasis Temple by Lee
A. Folger, of Charlotte, potentate.
In the past two months similar pil
grimages have been made to Pine
hurst, Shelby, Rutherfordton, Albe
marle and Concord. A dozen or
more events of this nature are on
the temple's program for the latter
part of the year. After the Hickory
festival, the next trip of the tem
i pie's members and official divan
will be to Los Angeles, Cal., to at
tend the annual meeting of the im
perial council, which will be con
vened early in June. Oasis Temple’s
special train will leave here May 29
on a twenty-day journey over a 10,
000-mile initerary.
The uniformed bodies of Oasis
will make the trip to Hickory un
der the command of Major John
Blythe. These outfits are the band,
the patrol, the drum and bugle
corps, and the guard.
Past Potentate L. D. Sutherland,
executive officer of the temple, and
A. J. Gocking, director, were in
Hickory today making arrange
ments in co-operation with a local
committee of Shriners for the visit
of next Saturday. Past Potentate
Simpson, a resident of Hickory,
though his business officers are in
Cincinnati. Ohio, has informed
Potentate Folger, who will lead the
caravan to that town, that the
Shriners of Hickory and of that sec
tion are planning to make this one
of the memorable events in Hick
ory's history. A parade of the uni
formed bodies, a band concert, and
several social events are Included
on the program. For the wearers
of the red fez, the most interesting
single event of the day will be the
old-fashioned barbecue dinner,
which Past Potentate Simpson has
| promised.
Number Of Homes
Are Traded Here
_
Mrs. Walter Panning lias traded
her residence on S. Washington
street to Ben F. Curtis for the
Prank Hoey house on the same
street. Mr. Hoey has the privilege
of occupying his home lor a year,
so neither Mrs. Fanning nor Mr.
Hoey will move until Mr. Hoey
erects a new home in Cleveland
Springs estate.
Jimmie Blanton has purchased the
Dr. R. C. Ellis home in Belvedere
and Dr. Bills in turn has purchased
the pretty brick bungalow of Mr.
Ray Lutz on the Cleveland Springs
road.
Earthquake Kills 1.000.
London.—A series of violent
earthquakes in northeastern Persia
is reported to have killed more
than 1.000 persons.
Stove Explodes; 4 nie.
Newcastle, Pa.—Mrs. William Ste
vens and her three children were
burned to death when a gasoline
stove In their home exploded trap
ping them In an upper story.
Swallows Whistle.
Albion, Mich.—A basketball game
came to an abrupt halt when Oeo.
Mather, time-keeper swallowed his
w&psUe
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