GOP Convention
May Be Tame In
1912 Comparison
n> vl I XANOER R. GEORGE
U NOTON— (A’) —The Re
■ ('(invention at Cleveland
P11"1
lv cii,r of the liveliest political
jo years, but political old
(i,,,,,,-* .in not expect it to rival the
firework' set off in 1912 by leddy”
Usosovolt.
That bitter battle between Roose
Klt admirers and Taft supporters
split the old. powerful phalanx of
Republican votexs, paving the way
t() f.i >■ victory for the Democratic
candidate Woodrow Wilson.
Charging that the Republican
high command had "robbed" him
of delegates. Teddy made a charac
teristic rip-roaring invasion of Chi
cago. .the contention city, to lead
his' own fight for the presidential
nomination.
‘Teddy’ In Action.
Fifteen minutes after arrival, he
appeared on a hotel balcony and
pitched into the first of a series of
fighting speeches, charging the par
tr bosses with "the naked' theft” of
delegations and claiming the prefer
ential primaries had shown he was
the choice of rank and file Republi
cans
The Taft leaders replied that his
unorthodox appearance at the scene
of the convention was “just anoth •
er Roosevelt bluff that had failed.”
Dele ites shout"d that opposing
delegates should be in prison; E'.ihu
Red delivering the temporary chair
mans address was interrupted b
derisive guffaws; speaker after
speaker was Called out of order,
flow Taft Won.
The Taft lines held. With the ma
jority of the accredited flcoseve't
deheat.es sitting in dramatic si
lence. Taft won on the first ballot
with 561 votes to 107 for Roosevelt,
41 for Robert M. LaFollett?, 41 tor
Senator Albert Cummings of Iowa
and 2 for Justice Charles Evans
Hughes.
Some 344 Roosevelt delegates hac
ibstained from voting. That night
“bolting” Roosevelt followe-s held
s separate convention tn a nearby
hall and nominated the colonel for
the presidency. Governor Hiram
Johnson of California was chosen
as his running mate.
Substitute Bill
Drafted To Test
Coal Regulations
By PRESTON GROVER
WASHINGTON — The substitute
Guffey coal bill, to many compe
tent observers, seems to have been
drafted to test to the limit the ex
tent to which the supreme court
rill permit regulation of the <»al
industry.
Before the test is made. It Is pos
sible that changes In tve personnel
of the court may occure, and that
the new justices will entertain dif
ferent views from those held by
their predecessors.
Tlie majority justices held invalid
the labor sections of the act. Th's
vanished, almost entirely, from the
new bilj.
The majority did not rule on com
pulsory fixing of coal prices intend- '
ed to guarantee profits to owners j
and bett >r wages to labor. The’ mi
.npri'.y trio and Chief Justice Hugh
es on the other hand, said it was
permissible under circumstance:;
milliner; in the act—so this feature
®as included in the new draft.
Retain Penalty Tax.
Tn, an to ny aaia the penalty tax
designed to compet compliance was
invalid as employed in the hill.
They seemed not to go so far. how
flfT as utterly to outlaw its use in
fnforcvment of practices legal in
o.her respects. Ho the tax languag
Was retained in the bill.
_ . ..
• iv-Muo vi me measure pit
icj tllat if it passes it inevitably
">!’• bp subjected to a supreme court
te?!- Probably within six months to
* year To some that points to a
Possibility that due tq, the advance';
*f‘Y of several of the* justice,
*-*•'«» m membership may in'er
'rnp ritt»er through retirement or
ceath.
Hie number of five-four and six
decisions indicates matheniat
,hat a complete change in
“* P:r ai’lne philosophy of the
001 ?ht result even from on*
1 x‘ 'ION UP FOR SOIL
I’KOGRAM IN RUTHERFORJi
A F on 1'ST CITY, May 29.—County
* mf E E' Patton announces that
,' J :“rmers of Rutherford county
.:>;npd work sheets of the new
t ‘ r 'Serving program. This rep-J
_ in.;.'; over one-half of the acres'
. !llt count- as a number of larfec
,'■" have filled out work sheet
!;umber of farmers are already
a‘- u'd. having the required num
f r of acres of soil conserving and:
“■“nine crops., orhers are plan-1
to sow these crops in the
■- f S0J and peat after
Cur Heroic Dead—They Have Not Died in Vain
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Driver Of “Old 999” Reticent
About Famous Locomotive Run
BUFFALO, N. Y.—Forty-three
years ago next month Charlie Ho
gan drove “Old 999” at the then
unheard of locomotive speed of
112.5 miles an hour—and he hasn’t
talked about it yet.
Eighty-six now, and still a rail
roader, Charlie always changes the
subject when someone asks to hear
his story of the world-famous run.
Reticence to the point of brusque
ness, his longest comment is sup
posed to have been that "it wasn't I
much; I just happened to be at the
throttle that day.”
"That day” was May 10, 1893 and
Charlie Hogan Was in the cab of
the Empire Express on a New York
to Buffalo run, which the New
York Con t rad' had a nnounced as:
the first high speed distance run In
America.
The Central wanted to beat the
records of Britain's famous trains.
It built 999, added eight-foot driv
ing wheels for extra speed, but 'Ho
gan in the cab and announced an
average speed of "better than 50
miles an hour" "auld be maintain
ed.
Officials of the line, who were
his passengers, were dismayed when
the Empire puiled into Syracuse
naif an hour behind schedule, but
Charlie pr.ih.sed he would pull into!
Buffalo on me. He did.
He drove those 150 miles faster j
than they had ever been covered
before, reaching Buffalo in slight-j
ly under three hours after a stop1
at Rochester. He pushed 999 to a
world's speed record to do it.
On the straightaway between Ba-.
■ tvia and r . ..do he “opened her
i n” am* held ids top speed cf 112.5
!ilne> an hour ior a measured mile
-and became a celebrity in less
li.an.3t second.
Old 95a was retired in 1931, after
i imn t 40 years of service. Five
.. . __ rti’rfprpd !
■vr hooded on the Empire and a fe
ed Charlie to take the throttle.!
When l/'-ta*ught..her into Buffalo j
i.w3 niin .t » ahead;' oT time, he look-:
rd from under his shaggy brows,;
taid simply ‘'good" to drive her
again a fid went back to his de<k as
i • -ger in the department of shop
labor. " I
Last year he went to see the1
Commodore Vanderbilt, the world's
first stream-lined steam, locomo
tive. When he found out he would
have no rest until he said what he
thought of it, he said, “It's great.
KIVER “HITCH HIKERS’*
HAVE 800 MILES TO GO
MEMPHIS. Tcnn., May 29.—Two
18_.vear.old river “hitch hikers”
continued their journey southward
today after a brief stop here.
“No* that we've reached Mem.i
phis,” sa d Joe Simko, “we haven't
mueh farther to go.
“NoJ- =aid Jimmy Neill, “only
about 800 miles -that’s all.'
The two youths, residents of
UniontowT! Pa., are on their way
by canee to Ball's for the Texas
centennial celebration.
Slated'for Cabinet
Iren* Curia Joliot
Paris reports indicate that Leon
Blum is ready to appoint Madame
Irene Curie Joliot, daughter of
Madame Curie and herself a Nobel
prize winner, to a high adminis
trative post in the French Republic.
She would be the first woman ever
to hold public office in France, where
women have not been granted
the ballot.
Artificial Cells
Are Produced By
Laboratory Means
CHICAGO, May 29—Artificial
iiowth of the cells which manufac
ture human blood was announced
Loday in the Journal of the Amer
ican Medical association.
Two University of Oregon medi
cal school men—Dr. Edwin E. Os
good and Alfred N. Muscovite—
said they developed the process by
building a chemical "robot" lung,
tcianey and circulation system.
They reported that cells thus re
produced outside the body lived,
moved and were capable of destroy
ing germs "many days” after the
original cells were transplanted.
Although emphasizing that their
work was only “preliminary,” with
Jet ailed results yet to be announc
ed, the two experimenters asserted
.hey had obtained “material • • *
suitable for any" studies of the
make up of the blood and the phy
ical and chemical processes by
which body tissues are built and
maintained.
In living humans, nature Jarries
out the complex blood building op
eration with characteristic effi
ciency. The red, oxygen bearing
corpuscles are made by the mar
■ow inside the bones of the sgele
cn. and squeezed into the blood
stream as the demand for refusi
ng arises Some of the white, germ
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Colon Blanton Of
OakGroveMarries
(Special to The Star.)
OAK GROVE, May 28,—An event
of interest to their many friends
throughout the county is the an
nouncement of the marriage of Miss
Mary Catherine Ledwell of Lawn
dale to Colon Blanton of this com
munity. The ceremony was quietly
solemnized Tuesday night. May 36,
in Gaffney. Mr. and Mrs. Blanton
are spending this week with the
groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
, C. Blanton, here after which they
i will make their home in Lawndale.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ledford an
nounce the birth of a baby girl.
Miss Lois Lovelace, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lovelace was
taken to the Shelby hospital last
Wednesday where die had her ton
sils removed.
Mr. and Mrs. William Ware and
little son, Billy, of MooresvlUe
spent the week-end here visiting I
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wars and Mr.
and Mrs. Prank Ware.
Mr. and Mrs. William BeU and
children attended a birthday din
ner celebrating the birthday anni
versary of Mrs. Bell’s grandmother,
Mrs. Rachel Harmon at her home
m the Beth-Ware community Sun
day.
Mis. L. I. Eaker and little son.
Jack, and daughter, Helen, spent
several days this week visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mis. Alexander
Costner of Lawndale.
A number of the relatives and
friends of William Watterson sur
prised him Sunday with a bounti
ful dinner celebrating his birthday i
anniversary. Those attending from
out of the community were Mr. and'
Mrs. Garland Borders and Mr. and!
Mrs. Michael Watterson of Shelby!
und Mr. and Mrs. Clemmy Wright!
of Kings Mountain.
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Champion and
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Randall motored
to Lake Lure Sunday.
killing corpuscles , also made here
but most coma from the lvmr-.h
glands.
It was the marrow’s “blood fac
tory" which the apparatus built by
the Oregonians was Intended to
duplicate.
In contrast with the cotnpactne-s.^
of nature’s machinery, the artifi- j
cial plant was made up of about
two dozen glass compartments anti
tubes pf varying sizes and shapes.
One of these compartments, shap
ed like a test tube, was filled with
a chemical medium, or culture In
which marrow cells would remain
alive and reproduce.
CIVIL ENGINEER AT «t
GETS FLYING LICENSE
BRADFORD, Pa., May 28—Paul
P. Lyons, 62-year-old civil engineer,
of Bradford, received his private
pilots license from the United
States bureau of air commerce, of
the department of oommerce.
For some time, Mt- Lyons has
held the rare distinction of being
me of the world's “flying grand
, father*."
Ghosts Of Great Conventions
Led By Bryan, The “Commoner”
By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE
WA8HINOTON.—(If)—The ghosts
of great convention figure* of other
years, led by the silver-tongued
William Jennings Bryan, will march
In many memories as the nation
watches the making of new politi
cal history at Cleveland and*Phila
delphia.
Drama-packed conventions a
both major parties bar* become at
moat commonplace but probably tM
No. 1 thriller of all wae a one-inai
performance—Brjran’a capture o
the Democratic presidential nom
tnailon at Chicago In 1IM.
When the convention opened
young Bryan was given little or n<
cuumcUthI Ion u a oOMiWe uomtnee
Representative Richard P. Bldna
of Missouri, fanner-leader ml the
silver fareas au rated Uh favor
ite candidate and Horace Bolaa of
Iowa wad figured a .second choice.
A arras laigidi
But on the fateful afternoon of
July * “the boy orator of Ow
1 Platte" marched to the platform
i and stampeded the deiecates with
' a torrent of eloquent attack upon
.he gold standard, the Republican
protective tariff and Wall straat.
Twenty thousand listeners sat
• spellbound as that classic, final
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