Legal Battle for Guardianship
Of Heir to Harvester Million
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Behind closed doors before Superior Court Judge
Deby, of Santa Barbara, Calif., the battle of McCor
mick millions is on. The hearing involves the
guardianship of Stanley McCormick’s $50,000,000
estate. (Upper left) Harold McCormick and his
a ster, Mrs. Anita McCormick Rlaine who seek the
custody of their brother, Stanley, who is adjudged
mentally incapable. (Inset) Mrs. Katherine McCor
mick, his wife, who contends that the guardianship is
her sole perogative. (Lower) View of Stanley Mc
Cormick's home in Santa Barbara in which he is
confined. (Left) Superior Court Judge Dcby, who
will decide the vital question of custodian of the
$50,000,000 estate.
• ntern&tioiuu jNewsrecj
Will Any Of Cleveland’s Gold
Star Mothers Get To Visit Europe
Government Will Give Free Trips
To World War Battlefields To
Mothers Og Boys Killed.
There are around 30 Goid Star
mothers in Clcvelmd county, moth
ers who gave boys who gave their
all for their country in France, who
will be directly interested in the
American governments offer to rive
them free trips in 1930 to the
European battlefields where their
boys were killed. The free trip of
fer is also open to widows whose
husbands were killed, provided they
have not married again.
The New York Times tells of the
offer and the trip as follows:
From May 1, 1930, until October
U3I, 1933, the United States govern
ment will give free trips to Eui ope to
the mothers and widows of Ameri
can soldiers and sailors who dud. in
the world war and whose bodies ann
in cemeteries overseas. Congress has
given its approval to these pilgirm
ages and the war and navy depart
ments are now trying to get in toucJU
with the next of kin of all the sol
dier and sailor dead overseas. AS
soon as the department assembles
this data, a questionnaire will be
sent out to the mothers and widows
to find whether they wish to go, and
if so, in what year. It is estimated
the cost will be about $3,000,000.
The pilgrimages will be arranged
v under the supervision of the secre
tary of war. As passed by congress,
the act provides that mothers or
widow s may be taken care of at gov
ernment expense in Europe for as
long a time as two weeks. It is plan
ned. if possible, to use vessels owned
by the government for the pilgrim
ages. On the ocean trip, the mothers
and widows will have cabin class ac
commodations. The government will
pay for the meals and other accom
modations overseas. Only those wid
ows will be eligible for the pilgrim
ages who have not remarried since
the death of their soldier or sailor
Jtusband.
The cemeterial division of the
quartermaster corps- estimated that
there were 12,684 mothers living in
the United States in May, 1925,
whose sons had found their last, rest
ing place in one of the American
cemeteries overseas. Widows, it is
said, would constitute a compara
tively small group.
Flans For Accommodations.
Five of the eight American ceme
teries in Europe are locate^ at places
*■ not easily accessible. Accommoda
tions at these five cemeteries ate ra
ther meager. Officers of the graves
registration service estimate that the
hostess house at the Meuse-Argonne
cemetery could take care of 35 per
U sons for two nights, while if a arge
party should come most of its mem
bers would have to be distributed in
such nearby towns as Verdun, Dun
Doulcon, Sedan or Stenay. At the
St. Mihiel cemetery, near the small
town of Thlaucourt. accommodations
are available for 25 persons. There is
also a Catholic convent at Thiau
court, which could take care of a
dozen or more. Large parties, again,
vwould have to be sent to such towns
and cities as Metz. Nancy, Verdun,
Coounercy and St. Mihiel, all senj^e
distance away.
For visits to the CHse-Abme and
Aisne-Marae cemeteries, which are
110 kilometers and 95 kilometers, re
spectively, from Paris, it is thought
best to have the parties make the
trip buck and forth to the cemetery
from Paris in a single day by uuto
.jnobi!,. Flanders Field cemetery
> about three kilometers from Waer
eogbeni. Belgium, where hotel ac
commodations for approximate^ 35,
person.i could he found in the own
l
The Somme cemetery is about 17
kilometers from St. Quentin, where
about 30 persons ct>uld be taken tare
of at St. Quentin. Suresnes, outside
Paris, is easily accessible.
To Supply “the Personal Touch.”
The cemeterial division of the
quartermaster corps is now working
on the preparations for the pil
grimages. This division has super
vision over the American cemeteries
in Europe and maintains a small
force overseas. Additional personnel,
it is expected, will be necessary. A
small organization will be needed at
the port cf embarkation, as well as
at the port of debarkation overseas
An effort will be made to see that
the personal touch is maintained
from the time each pilgrimage starts
until its members have returned to
their homes, whether in New York
or California.
The tours overseas will be con
trolled, it is expected, from a central
office in Paris, where a group oi
“traveling agents" will be on hand
who will have knowledge of the
American battlefields and ceme
teries.
James F. Barton, national adju
tant of the American legion, has
asked all pests of the American
legion and auxiliary units to do
everything in their power to inform
mothers and widows of the oppor
tunity awaiting them. Posts of the
legion are asked to report aH rames
of eligible mothers and widows in
their communities to Major, Geo. F,
Cheatham, quartermaster general of
the army.
Preserving Weaklings
Hurting Human Race
Eliminate Incompetents And Breed
For Genius Is Advice In Child
Welfore Work.
New York.—To preserve human
weaklings is to contaminate human
stock. As we become more highly'
civilized it is questionable wnether
such preservation will be tolersted
as it is under the present method
of child welfare work. With this
proposition Dr. Charles R. Stockard,
professor' of anatomy at Cornell
Medical college, started sharp dis
cussion at the ninth annual New
York City tuberculosis and public
health conference in the Hotel Bilt
more.
“We should work for the p*esena
tioti of th3 superior type and breed
for genius,” sjfld Dr. Stockard
“Without geniuses our civiltzatlo 1
would be nothing.”
Dr. Stockard speculated on the in
breeding of families of genius,
pointing out that it finds favor with
breeders of fine animals, and “sure
ly the same physical laws hold true
in the human sphere.”
‘‘Impracticable and visionary,” j
said Health Commissioner Wynne.!
‘‘It Is inherently unsound; inbreed- !
ing leads most often to an exaggera
tion of defects.”
‘‘Such a philosophy indicates a
lack of belief in existing institu
tions. Ordinary people are just as
much needed hi the world as un
usual ones,” said Dr. Henry Chapin,
vice president of the Children’s Wel
fare Federation.
More than 3,500 doctors, social
workers and schol teaches attend
ed the conference. Eighteen welfare
organizations were represented Dr.
Stockard spoke at the child health
session. Another speaker at this
session was Dr. Charles Davenport
of Carnegie Institution, Washington.
Try Star Wants Ads.
Widow Defends Her.
Hubby’s Good Name
.Munich.—The most tridc
widow in Europe today is Frau
Cosiina Warner, second wife of
the immortal German composer,
whose reputation she seeks to
defend against sensational al
legations that he was a liber
tine, a hypocrite, and a heart
breaker, and that she herself
aided him in his deceptions.
Aged, deaf, and almost blind
there is poignant pathos in her de
nials that the official Wagner biog
raphy which hears the composers
own signature and seal, was fab
ricated in parts, and that she do
liberately*£uppress3d and “edited”
letters proving his true character.
So determined is she that Wag
ner’s honor shall be vindicated that
she has decided to make public for
the first time in history the whole
of the great Wagnerian "archieve’
at Wahnlried Villa, which, up ts
now, has been hidden from the ga2e
of all but the Wagner family liv
ing at Bayreuth.
Attack In Book.
The attack on Wagner is made
in a book. “The Truth about Wag
ner,” written by two young Ameri
cans, Mr. Philip Dutton Hum and
Mr. Waverley Lewis Root.
The book is based upon the long
neglected Burrell collection of Wag
ner MSS., which lay for 30 years
undiscovered in a London safe-de
posit before it was stumbled upon
by Mr. Hum.
Bare Legs Matter For
The Girls Themselves
Yorkville Enquirer.
Wc see much In the ffepers in
criticism of the young girls and
young matrons of the country, inciud
ing South Carolina, who are going
about these days without stocking?.
Somehow this editorial writer of
The Yorkville Enquirer can find no
voice of criticism to add to the call
of the mob of editorial brethren. In
a youthful experience it has be -n
our. observation with women that
I they are going to do as they please;
wear what they please and the
more the male of the species pre
tests, rejects, tears Ills hair, struts
and steams, the more milady is de
termined to wear no stockings or
rathfer those decimal or fractional
ones we saw a duo of Yorkville
ladies of eighteen summers, more cr
less wearing this morning.
They were not abashed by their
apparent dlshabile. "We are coal and
comfortable,1’ they said. “We see lit
tle difference between exhibiting
our pink limbs without sheer pink
silk covering and with it. Besides,
we have on socks even as you wear.
In addition pink silk stockings co6t
$2 a pair. They don’t last long
either.”
Looking down at our own shan’ts
we saw we had on no socks and
remembered there were none in the
dresser drawer when we looked for
a pair this -morning.
And looking back at the shapely
shins of the young women without
stockings, we decided that whether
they had been clothed in lisle,,
sateen, rayon, silk or not cold at all
as they were not, we just couldn’t
and wouldn’t.
To produce snake skin articles
about 800,000 snakes were killed fast
year.
William Beer of Monkleigh,
Eng., a groom, has inherited the en
tire estate of Major John II. La
mont, whom he had served for 10
years.
Auto bandits hi Berlin have adopt- j
ed the practice of dressing as worn- i
cn and blackening their far,'?.
■ Lattimore Youth
Back From Meeting
| (Continued from page one.)
and Alias. Katie Mae Toms Sunday
afternotm.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Shytle c*(
Chimney Rock spent Wednesday
night with Prof, and Mrs. Lawton
Blanton.
A number of people from here at
tended the funeral of Mr. J. T. S.
Mnuney at Union Baptist church
i last Sunday.
Miss Donnis Gold who teaches In
Hickory arrived Wednesday to
spend the holidays withTier mother,
Mrs. Georgia Gold.
Mr. L. E. Hoyle has returned from
Georgia where he spent several
days on business.
Mrs. Julia Harrill had her
dinner guests Thanksgiving day Dr.
*and Mrs. C. H. Harrtil of Shelby.
f Mrs. william Davis and ca: cren
of Charlotte. Dr. and Mrs. II. L
Hunt and children. Mi’, and Mrs. J.
S: Blanton and children, Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Harrill and children.
Miss Anna Chaplain of Charlotte
is spending a few days with Miss
Annie Davis.
Mr. Paris Weathers attended the
funeral of his aunt. Mfs. Je flic
Horne which was held near Ches
nee, S. C. Tuesday.
The intermediate B. Y. P. U. !
members were entertained v’i h v j
social at the home of Misses Bee- !
trice and Annette Blanton las*
Thursday night. Hot chocolate and
sandwiches were served. All piesen*.
reported a good time.
Mr. James G. Johnston of York,
S. G. the “one man orchestra" along
with some other expert entu'atn
ers will give a 3 act program In the
auditorium Saturday night at seven
I o’clock.
The children of the elementary
, grades are enjoying the new p-lay
| ground apparatus which was rdded
| to the campus this week.
Miss Mada Wilson arrived home
I Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving
| holidays.
Misses Maude and AUeene Crow
\ der and John Crowder were dinner
| guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Crovv
I der Thanksgiving.
How Long Will
Mull Hold It?
(Continued from page one >
form during the past nine months J
among the most difficult being
those in which he acted as the per
sonal representative of Governor
Gardner during the. strips and in
dustrial outbreaks of the summer
|and fall, it is no secret^ that hit
| duties in connection with pardon
and parole matters have proved the
most burdensome to ^udge Town
send. This was largely because Judge
Townsend is so intensely human and
so sympathetic that When,his mind
cannot permit him to do what nis
heart and feelings would like to do,
a consequent nervous strata has re
sulted. This has been especially true
in capital cases, where he has had
to conduct investigations and de
cide whether or not rtien sentenced
to death should be electrocuted. The
day a her day contact with fami
lies and relatives of prisoner? and
condemned men. Has added to tab
strain.
j So it was that "the ghosts go;
i him,” as the prisoners in the state
prison said of "Crap Thomas when
lie resigned as one of the oificml
state executioners, who became a
virtual nervotfe wreck after he had
pulled the switch that sent some D
or 14 men to their death, and :>s the
‘‘ghosts'* got H. Hoyle Sink, who
was commissioner of pardons in
the early part of McLean's adminis
tration, and as they "got” Edwin
B. Bridges, who followed lifcnic as
commissioner of pardons until
Townsend took over the post. Both
Sink and Bridges voted the job the
most difficult and nerve wracking
in the state and said “never again"
when they resigned from office.
Townsend now joins in the chorus
and makes it a trio.
And now Mull comes along to
take a chancekat the job, to act as
chief shock absorber for the gover
nor and to do the unpleasant Lungs
that governors formerly had to at
tend to themselves, but which they
now pass along to assistants. Not
that the governor does not have
some of this nerve strain, for he
does, and he must make the final
decision. But in 89 cases out of iOO
he follows the recommendations of
the executive counsel, who makes
the actual investigations, talks with
the prisoners and their relatives,
and who bears the brunt of *hese
personal contacts.
While Mull has an affable and
approachable personality, and wniie
it Is true that he rarely gets ruffled
and disturbed by the course of
event no matter what the coarse
may be, many are Inclined to won
der if Mull will not follow .n tas
footsteps of his predecessors and
eventually decide-that the ner
vous wear and tear is too much
even for his steel nerves and andl
cate to the “ghosts” that haunt the
death chamber and the corridors of
the state prison.
John W. Vanderslice, 70, an 'odd
job’ man in Denver, Colo., feii heir
to $350,000 and kept right on n ow -
ing lawns.
American Expedition to Egypt
Discovers Priceless Treasures
The Egyptian expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art nntfet the leadership of Herbert E. Winlock, has
reported several discoveries among the ancient ruins, nearly 4,000 years old. Above illustration shows some of<
the important discoveries to dste recorded st the Museum in New York. (Left) A striking limestone sphinx of
Queen Hat-Shepset, whose rule historians set down as 2,000 B-C. (Upper center) This large kneeling statue,
part of which through a previous expedition, graced the Hails of the State Museum ia Berlin. (Lower center)
With the aid of native labor, the American Expedition is uncovering the ancient temple of Deir El BahrL
l (Right) This majestic granite sphinx of Queen Hat-Shepset is one of the priceless treasures discovered at Deir
• El BahrL The georgeous tomb of Queen Meryet-Amun, also unearthed, ia said to rival in splendor and signifl
j cance that of 1 ut-Ankh-Amen. Metropolitan Museum Qt Art, from International News real
A
N empty coffin, fragments of a
stone statue, a Email granite
sphinx, its expression of
j utter placidity belieing the fact
that it is a likeness of Queen Hat
Shepsut who ursurped the throne
;of Egypt nearly thirty-four centur
ies ago. Such are some of the treas
ures discovered by experts of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, who
are excavating in the tombs of
Thebes, the burial ground of
Egypt’s kings. And there is drama
and romance in every fragment of
stone, in every faded garland of
flowers, in every gilded face that
decorates a coffin lid. For it is by
these things that the story of
Egypt’s past glory is vividly re
vealed to us, for the tomb i!\.« iu;t
chroniclerof Egypt’s royal and great.
One of the meet dramatic and
important result* of the expedition
ha* been the finding of the tomb and
mummy of Queen Mcryet-Amun,
believed to be about three thousand
years old, and rivaling in beauty
! and historic influence the tomb of
! Tut-Anhk-Amcn. Dislodged brick
; work that disclosed a small entrance
; gave the excavators but scant warn
i itig that they were on the threshold |
! of a famous tomb, but a further in
vestigation revealed that such was
indeed the ease. And what a story
of hurried interment, of pillags and
plunder did that tomb unfold. For
it was apparent that the tomb had i
| been wbIM up three separate times, j
i What happened in the depths of j
! the cavernous tomb that houses the l
mmarny of Queen Meryet-Amun
that she who was royal should have
been so carelessly left in an unclosed
inner coffin, with the outer coffins
and their covers in different parts of
the tomb? Were plunderers Inter*
rupted at their gruesome tasks?
The excavators hope by their find
ing to reconstruct the true story of
the burial of the queen, and the
events that later transpired in the
tomb, which it is believed was
plundered in B. C. 1049. Whatever
really happened it cannot heighten
the drama of the figure of a slender
little mummy simply wrapped and
festooned with garlands, which Pro
fessor Winlock reports are stilt
fresh enough to show what color
they were three thousand years ag".
Interaction*) NtninS
Star Job Printing At Cost
A few hours after his release from
prison. Walter Kassels of Chicago
applied to a police station for shif
ter in a cell, saying It waa the only
home he knew.
Cards Of Thanks.
Wc wish to render our sincere
thanks to our neighbors and friends
for all their kindness to us during
the sickness and death of our com
panion mother.
May God's richest blessing rest
on you all 1* our sincere desire. 3
J. J. GAMBLE and FAMILY. '
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MANY ITEMS AT
HALF PRICE
In Paragon’s Closing Out Sale
Shop
Here
Saturday
And
Save
ALL
Blankets V2 Price.
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BIG LOT
Sweaters Vfe Price.
ONE LOT
Silks & Woolens J Price
OUR ENTIRE STOCK
Ready-T o-Wear
Vk Price
DRESSES AND COATS
Bargain Hunters come to the Paragon Saturday. Our Final Closing-Out-Sale if
on in full blast. Every item in the house drastically cut in price. We positively
close our doors Christmas Eve Night. Only a few more days to take advantage of
these marvelous values. Breaking all records Saturday as crowds are expected
from far and near.
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