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NEWS OF. THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
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NORTH CAROLINA
I GREENSBORO. —Unknown per*
son qualifying as “meanest man”
L breaks into Guilford county Home
■ fot* Aged and steals quantity of food-
r stuffs, including 14 hams.
RALEIGH. Josephus Daniels,
. secretary of navy in Wilson’s cabi
net, replies to assertions of Repre
sentative Longworth, Republican
leader in house, that leasing of naval
oil reserves was made possible by
! policies suggested by Daniels. Dan-
. iels says he made every effort to
• preserve naval reserves for exclusive '
use of navy, adding that “leasing of
nil lands under present administra
tion overturned policy I maintained.”
F RALEIGH. More than 15,000
crippled persons in state can be made
self-supporting by proper vocational
training, but only 125 have beentwo
trained, says H. L. Stanton, supervi
sor of civilian rehabilitation of state
board of education.
■— RALEIGH. ■ — Commander Wiley
I PMC STROKE
WAS KEPT SECRET
/ 81 OWN DIRECTION
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—(By the
Associated Press.) —The real cause
of Woodrow Wilson’s death was a
stroke of paralysis which followed
his collapse late summer of
L 1919. Like Warren G. Harding he
was stricken while on a speaking
* trip in the west.
’ . Up to the time of his collapse the
country thought him a normally
healthy man, but he was far from
it. He entered the White House with
’ a well developed start toward
Bright's disease which caused his
physicians to predict that he never
~ would finish his first term. He was
,■ practically blind in one eye from a
| ' retinal hemorrhage which , came
while he was still at Princeton uni
versity but the country never knew
It. Years before he had suffered a
thrombosis —a blood clot in his ar
teries —but it was in one of his legs
and never developed any serious
” trouble. The same thing in his brain
later on laid him low and led to his
death.
By his own personal directions, the
exact nature of his fatal illness was
E concealed from the world for months
because he feared public knowledge
of it, while he was president, might
lead to a stock market panic, and
possibly far reaching consequences
- to a world then passing through the
stages of post-war reconstruction.
Some of the details came out piece
meal and over a long period of time.
I Others have not been hitherto pub
lished. It is appropriate therefore to
give them now that he is dead.
First Breakdawn
The first indication of serious ill
ness came during the night of Sep
tember 25, 1919, while the president’s
i special train was between Pueblo.
I Colo., and Wichita, Kansas, coming
’ eastward on the return part of his
| ■ ) speech-making trip. The increasing
strain upon his physical resources
had been growingly apparent but
none of his party suspected the
breaking point was so near. There
Vas no truth in rumors that the
presidenJt had become incoherent
rfurtnx;. some of his last speeches al
thougtt it was true that he had dis
played great emotion, which was
pnufeual for his manner of speak
fa ! P*-
; When Mr. Wilson finished speak
ing at Pueblo that afternoon he was
exhausted and covered with clammy
Tierspiration. An examination by
Dr. Grayson disclosed nothing mark
edly wrong and he was put to bed.
Mrs. Wilson remained up with him
■yes he complained of restlessness.
Soon after midnight he complained
of feeling ill and Dr. Grayson found
Kim in a state of nervous exhaustion,
with the right side of his faae twitch
ing, as it often had done before
when he was very tired and worn
out.
But the physician was alarmed
and shocked to note a drooling of
saliva, from a corner of the presi
dent's mouth and also a dropping of
the facial muscles on the left side.
Recognizing immediately that a.
stroke of paralysis was impending. 1
Dr. Grayson warned Mr. Wilson of |
his grave condition: strongly stig
gested that, he cancel the remainder
sis the tour and immediately return
tn Washington; and in conclusion
i that he try and get some sleep.
“I won’t be able to sleep at all I
doctor, if you say I must cancel the
trip,” Mr. Wilson responded. “Even,
If giving my own life would accom
plish this object, I gladly would give
It.”
The physician quieted his patient
ns best he could and took steps to
leaned the remainder of the speaking
engagements and bring the presi
dent to "Washington. Mr. Wilson,
yielding to the entreaties of Mrs. Wil
son, acquiesced and the facts were
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THE AT’ ’NTA TRLWEE’ALY JOURNAL
IC. Rodman, of state department,
I American Legion, launches cara-
I paign intended to obtain adoption in
state-wide referendum of Grist Bill,
providing for slate loans up to $3,000
to veterans .for purchase of homes.
Referendum will be held in connec
tion with November election.
CHERRYVILLE.—Mitoch Parker,
I 102, of near Belwood, dies after long
period of declining health. Parker at-
I tributed his long years to love for I
I his fellow man and his fondness for j
i vegetables and pork. Up to death
| Parker's memory was clear, and he
i often talked of conversing with he
roes of th# Revolutionary war.
RALEIGH. Negro girl, Lillie
Blair, after reading that white boy
and girl, deaf and dumb, were able
to hear radioed music! asks privilege
of testing wireless. She later ex
plains by writing she could hear mu
sic distinctly, which she appreciated, i
nodding head in rhythm with music, I
but explained spoken words she;
heard meant noth'ng to her. I
announced to Ihe country in an of-'
ficial statement which said:
Official Statement
‘President Wilson’s condition is
due to overwork. The trouble dates j
back to an attack of influenza last I
April in Paris from which he never i
has fully recovered. The president’s ,
activities on this trip have overtax- I
ed his strength and he is suffering '
from nervous exhaustion. His con- j
dition is not alarming but it will be |
necessary for his recovery that he
have rest and quiet for a consider
able time.”
'.lt is a fact that up to this time
Mr. Wilson had not suffered a stroke
but the danger of one was recog
nized).
With the announcement the coun
try got its first information that the
president had broken down and on
September 26 and 27th as his special
tiain rolled along toward Washing
ton the president rested and slept
while Mrs. Wilson and Dr. Grayson
. took turns being with him. They
i arrived home Sunday morning, Sep
tember 28th at 11 o’clock.
For the first time in three days
Mr. Wilson rose from his bed and
walked to the sVhite House motor
car which awaited him. He looked
pale and drawn, but he walked with
out assistance and returned the
greetings of a small crowd of trav
ellers whom he passed in the rail
way station. Although there was
no crowd to welcome him outside
the rai'way.terminal. Mr. Wilson, as
his car drove off, solemnly raised
his hat and bowed as if returning
greetings from a great throng, as
he had done so many times in the
past.
'The incident was explained by
physicians as being a case of ab
straction heightened by his ex
hausted condition and suggested by
habit. But it was .magnified into
a rumor that Mr. Wilson had lost
his mind. Subsequent events dis
proved it conclusively but it lived
long and was used freely by po
litical enemies.
Stricken in Bath Room
That afternoon he was well
enough to take a motor ride in Rock
Creek park and for the next few
days Dr. Grayson prescribed a roil
tine of “no work and no worry.”
The coming visit of the King and
Queen of the Belgians to the White
House was postponed and business
of all forms was kept from him.
The regime of rest seemed to be
making good ' progress and on Sep
tember 30, Dr. Grayson announced
that the president Jiad passed the
best day since the beginning of his
breakdown.'. .-He ; was permitted to
sign some TnHs and congressional
resolutions’, nominations and dictate
some brief Ifetters. Everything went |
encouragingly until October 1.
On the afternoon of that jlay Mr. |
Wilson went for another motor ride '
with his wife and Dr. Grayson. I
During the evening all assembled
in one of the large rooms of the
executive mansion and enjoyed a
family motion picture show. Later
in th© evening the president and his
doctor took a turn at billiards but
they did not play long. For the first
time since the illness began, Dr. Gray- i
son did not remain at the White House
but went home. During the night
Mr. Wilson was up and about and
told Mrs. Wilson he was sleepeless.
About 4 o’clock on the morning of
October 5, Mrs. Wilson heard the
president in the bath room calling in
a weak voice. Dr. Grayson was i
summoned and to h's horror found I
Wr. Wilson prostrated on the bath .
room floor. In a semi-conscious con- j
I dition he had fallen as if wounded
lin the left leg, with the member ,
! crumpled under him on the bath ;
mat.
The physician rolled the prostrate
form fully onio the rugs and then j
grasping it by two corners dragged
his burden across the hall into a
bed chamber, and finding himself
unequal to the task of lifting the
president into bed alone, called Mrs.
Wilson, and, together, they succeed
ed. During all this ordeal the presi
dent's wife was cool and offered sug
gestions to the physician.
In Hie Shadow of Death
Once in bed, the president seemed
to regain his senses and murmured
that h© felt sleepy. r. Grayson
made a hurried examination of pulse
and heart and found them very low.
The tell-tale drooling of saliva
from the president’s mouth and the
twitching of the face were there
again. They wrote their own diag
nosis.
Woodrow Wilson had been para
lyzed on his left side and lay in the
shadow of death. With the first
movement of his lips he extracted a
promise from the doctor and his |
I wife that his condition, if seriuos, I
must not become known.
Dr. Grayson summoned from "Phil- I
adelphia, Dr. Francis K. Dercum, a i
foremost specialist and one of the I
only two Americans ever received I
into the Sociste de Neurolglc of |
Paris, the membership of which is j
confined to less than fifty of the I
world’s foremost scientists. He also '
called in Rear Admiral E. R. Stitt, 1
of the naval medical corps, a distin
guished diagnostician, and Dr. Sterl- j
ing Ruffin, Os this city, Mrs. Wil- !
son's family physician.
A two-hour consultation developed I
the agreement that Mr. Wilson had
suffered what is medically known as i
cerebral thrombosis—a blood spot in
one of th© blood vessels in the right i
side of his brain. Its effect was to
I impair the motor nerves of the left
■ side as well as the sensitory nerves
The physicians concluded there had
: been no lesion but .that there was
danger of one. If the clot were a I
hard one end should be swept along '
in the blood eirclation to the heart
an 1 jam a valve the results prob- i
ably would be death. If it were a |
soft clot th’re was hope of absorb
ing it. On that slender hope the
battle for life began. An official bu>
: letin informed the country of a se-
I rious turn in the president's condi- J
tion. but did not disclose the cause, j
For the next week Mr. Wilson
hovered between life and death.
Everything that it was possible to
do was done. The country finding
, for the first time that the president
"as in danger of death fell into a
1 ♦
SCOTLAND NECK.—Civil warn
shell being used as iron explodes,
killing Arthur Smith, aged nine I
years; two of four others in room I
being injured. Room was partially I
wrecked.
CHARLOTTE. Southern white :
man is negro's best friend, says |
Evangelist W. A. Sunday, in ser
mon to audience of negroes, In w’pich
lie urges negro to remain in south.
| ‘‘Paths of peace for negro race exist
I in south, where your sa'vation can
be Worked out with white man’s as
sistance.” he says.
SOUTH CAROLINA
LANCASTER. —After announce
ment by officers that skeleton found
near York was that of George V.
Hamlin, intinerant jeweler, of Vir
ginia, Mr. Hamlin, now living here,
announces he is'very much alive.
COLUMBIA.—BiII in legislature
! would allow state educational insti
! tutions to authorize Greek letter
1 fraternities, now banned by statute. ‘
' gloom. It was reported that Mr.
I Wilson lay unconscious for a week.
I Truth was that he never was un
iconscious at any time during that
| illness. ,It was reported that he
I had become a maniac. Truth was
I that his mind always was active
j and he constantly gave directions
I to those about him.
Responds to Treatment
In a few days there was some
j response to treatment. Mr. Wilson's
spirits rose. Always a lover of
music he wanted some. Dr. Gray
son ordered in a talking machine
which was supplied with the latest
records of lively tunes. Mr. Wilson
wanted to read and could not do it
lin bed with nose glasses so his
oculist was ordered down from
Philadelphia and fitted him with
spectacles.
Mr. Wilson had suffered the reti
nal hemorrhage in his right eye
years ago and Dr. Grayson wanted
the oculist, Dr. George De
Schweinits, to examine it.’
"I want to look at your pupils,"
said the oculist.
"You’ll have a long job,” shot
back the sick president.
“I’ve had many thousands of
them.”
He was thinking of college
days, but the remark was an ex
ample of how he always joked his
doctors even when he was desperate
ly ill. But sick as he was, he
chafed at confinement and wanted
to get up.
“Your temperature is exactly nor
mal this morning,” said Dr. Grayson
on one occasion, soon thereafter.
“My temper -won’t be normal if
you keep me in this bed much
longer,” returned Mr. Wilson.
But anxious as he was to “try
his legs” his physician knowing the
true condition dissuaded him from j
risking it.
. Up to this time Mr. Wilson, in- I
sisting that his condition be kept
secret, had excluded from his room
all but members of the family, the
doctors* and two trusted nurses
from the naval dispensary. The
valet who shaved him was barred
and Woodrow Wilson grew a, beard
and moustache. He hadn’t worn
whiskers for 30 years, not since he
wais a student at Johns Hopkins,
when he wore "burnsides.” He ac
counted it a rather good joke and
used to carefully brush the adorn
ment every day.
Meanwhile the secrecy which sur
rounded the detpilis of the presi
dent’s illness gave rise to some com
plications. Congress wanted to know
whether he had suffered a consti
tutional disability to perform the
functions of his office. Mr. Wilson
and his wife were determined that
I congress should not find out.
Officials Inquisitive
Members of the cabinet found It
I fruitless to ask for an audience in
the sick room. They sent inquiries
in writing and documents for sig
nature' and Mrs. Wilson made the
decisions as to whether the presi
dent could see them. Some members
of the Wilson family suspected that
some of the inquiries transmitted
were designed to test whether the
j president’s mind was working on
public affairs and sometimes these
were gone over in family council
with the object of defeating such a
purpose—if a purpose it were—in
returning the answers.
There were long days when even
I Joseph P. Tumulty, the ■ president’s
; secretary, was excluded from the
sick room, so close was the veil
; drawn, to conceal his rea Icondltion.
I Political opponents in congress who
i wanted to develop whether the pres
l ident was in mental condition to
, consider a state document arranged
I to have sent up to the White House
I some resolutio is which actually re
j quired a signature. Mr. Wilson
signed them, with great effort, but
the pen strokes were the wavering,
wandering lines of a palsied hand,
quit© unlike the positive bold strokes
with which he usually wrote “Wood
row Wilson.” It was reported on
seemingly good authority that some I
of these opponents examined these
signatures with the aid of a micro
scope, compared them with signa
tures on other papers signed in Mr.
Wilson’s health and were undecided
whether they had been signed by
Mr. Wilson or Mr. Tumulty.
There had been no meetings of
the cabinet during this period. Some
of the members who were' not in ac
coi d with the policy of secrecv de
termined to force things a little.
Secretary* Lansing, then at the head
or the state department, called a
meeting of the cabinet and quizzed
in. Grayson and Secretarv Tumulty
about the president’s -condition.
Lansing Dismissed
Mr. Lansing, however, was not
> suppoi ted by some other cabinet
I members as he probably had reason
o expect he would be, and the at-
I tempt to get some information fail
i ed. This incident undoubtedly was
i the principal factor in Mr. Wilson’s
abrupt dismissal of Xlr. lensing
! later when he learned of it, although
| it was not acknowledged in any of
the published correspondence as con
tributing to the event.
Vice President Marshall’s attitude
through all that trying time was
i commented upon as being conspic
i uously correct. He held himself
i apart front it all as \ ice President
i Arthur did during the prolonged ill
ness of Garfield.
But the agitation In congress fi
nally came to n head and it was i
determined to "find out whether we ,
have a President of not” as one po- j
litical leader expressed it. The Mex- I
icon situation furnished the occa- I
sion for passing a resolution which
the senate decided warranted a con
ference of the foreign relations com
mittee with the president. Senator
Fall, of New . Mexico, a Republican i
and administration policy opponent. I
who became secretary of the interior |
under President Harding was named >
as a. member of the special commit- |
tee to go to the White House, and j
Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, a 1
Democrat, a political friend and '
I J
ANDERSON.—Senator Fant an
! nounces that he will introduce and
I push a forty-eight-hour-week law
' for textile workers.
SUMTER.—N. G. Osteen, who still
i rides his bicycle to work on the pa
per of which he is editor, celebrate?'
eighty-first birthday. He has been
in printing game for sixty-nine
years.
COLUMBIA. —Bond issues as only
sound method for state’s permanent
improvements, are advocated by i
Governor Cameron Morrison, of
North Carolina, in address before |
South Carolina general assembly, on!
taxation and roads. Franke Page,
chairman ot North Carolina high
way' commission, also tells South
Carolina solons of North Carolina’s
county-to-county highway system.
FLORENCE. Business men of I
Florence form prayer band, and I
gather daily before going to work,
to pray for divine guidance on day’s 1
i activities.
2 DOOMED YOUTHS
DENIEDI NEW/TRIAL;
APPEAL TO FOLLOW
COLUMBUS, Ga., Feb. 2.—A new
trial for Willie Jones and Jervis
Bloodworth, under death sentence
tor the murder of Howard R. Under
wood in Taylor county, December 3,
last, was denied here late Friday by
Judge George P. Munro.
Homer Beeland, counsel for th©
condemned youths, announced that
the case’ would be taken to the stat©
supreme court. The hearing had
been continued from January 19, the
state being given time in which to
prepare its argument against a
charge of alleged jury Intimidation.
The state Friday introduced an affi
davit signed by all the trial jurors,
i denying there were any irregulari
| ties.
Mr. Beeland offered an affidavit al
! leged to have been Signed by J. T.
Parker, foreman of the jury, in which
it was stated “some one” of th© ju
rors made the statement during the
deliberations that “if we canvict the
defendants and recommend them to
the mercy of the court, the defend
ants will be lynched here tonight,”
and for that reason counsel for the
movants claimed the jurors were not
able to give .fair and impartial con
sideration to the case. Feeling in
Taylor county, also was given as a
. reason for Inability of the jury to
impartially consider the case.
Jones and Bloodworth, following |
I the hearing, declared that they had j
not “given up "nope.”
Coopers Indicted
In Failure of Bank
WILMINGTON. N. C., Feb. 4. —•
Lieutenant. Governor W. B. Cooper,
of North Carolina; Thomas E. Coop
er, his brother; Horace C. Cooper,
his son, and Clyde W. Lassiter, were
indicted by th ’eUnited States grand
jury here Saturday on criminal
charges growing out of the failure
of th© Commercial National bank of ;
Wilmington a year ago. The Coop- |
ers were officials of th bank and ;
Lassiter was a customer.
Rail Strikers Sentenced i
For Arson Are Pardoned
TATTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. l.<—,
Verlin D. (“Red”) Orr, and 1.. A. 1
Wise, former Missouri and North >
Arkansas railway strikers, serving
from seven to ten years in the stat©
i prison here, on pleas of guilty to a ■
charge of arson, were granted par- j
dons late yesterday by Governor T. i
C. Mcßae. * I
league of nations supporter, was j
named as the other.
Much to their surprise the Sena- j
tors were ushered into the sick
room, where the president shook
hands with his right hand, fumbled
with some documents with his' left ;
and discussed the Mexican situation
with marked menta\ agility.
That demonstration exploded the
rnmors that Mr. Wilson was a mani
ac, unsconscious, a prisoner, or so
disabled he was unable to talk busi
ness. It demonstrated, however,
that he was still a sick man showing
a remarkable display of sand.
Satisfies Fall
Senator Fall said publicly after I
the conference that Mr. Wilson was
“mentally alert and mentally able to |
cope with any question with which
he might have to deal.” ’ Senator I
Hitchcock and his Democratic col- ■
leagues on Capitol Hill merely grin ;
ned with satisfaction.
Mr. Fall observed, however, that '
he couldn't tell ■whether Mr. Wil- j
son could move- his legs, and some |
Democrat countered with th© obser- >
vation that "Mr. Wilson didn't deal I
with the’Mexican situation wi*h his ,
legs anyway.”
The inside of the matter was that j
a remarkable will power, careful I
nursing, and skillful medical atten- I
tion had been showing their effects.J
All these served to prolong the sick I
man’s life; th’ey enabled him to walk |
again with the aid of a cane which
he thereafter facetiously referred to j
as his “third leg” and they enabled
him to use his left hand and arm |
to some extent, although when he
appeared in public Mr. Wilson gen
erlly hooked his left thumb in a but
tonhole of his coat and supported
hig disabled arm in that manner.
His disability in walking he later re
ferred to as “his lameness.”
After many weary months in bed. |
Mr. Wilson got back strength enough
to sit at desk, dictate letters, pre- |
side at an occasional cabinet meet
ing, and go motor riding, hut the
constitutional breakdown left their
marks upon him and made him al
most a shadow of his former self.
He left the White House an invalid
whom doctors said might live “min
utes, five months or five years,” and
despite the fact that he had his ups
and downs his tenacious hold on life I
was the marvel of all the specialists {
who attended him.
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who did not support candidates ot I
another political party jn last gen
eral election, and will agree to sup
port Democrtaic nominees In next
1 election, are eligible as candidates
or voters in Democratic primary
this year.
BIRMINGHAM.— Approximately j
1,000 men employed by Southern
railroad shops here are temporarily
laid off. __
BESSEMER. Tennessee Coal, ’
i Iron and Railway company lets con- I
tract for painting its buildings, at I
j cost of SIOO,OOO. It is said to be ,
; largest painting ’ contract ever let j
i in Jefferson county.
BIRMINGHAM. —Estimates show I
that $50,000 will be required to hold I
state Democratic primary election, j
March 11. Candidates may be as- |
I sessed as high as $5,000 each to pay i
I election expense.
I BIRMINGHAM. —Charles Thomas, I
17, is taking Pasteur treatment, I
after being bitten by squirrel.
225-POUND MELONS
DI? GEORGIA SOIL. IS
MLENDDN'S HOPE
A movement to revolutionize the
watermelon industry of Georgia and
put the reverse English on the negro
migration problem at the same time,
has been inaugurated by Secretary
of State S. G. McLendon, aided and
abetted by Claude Eubanks, vice
president of the Georgia Cotton
Growers’ Co-operative association.
Secretary McLendon, who is one
of the widest readers in the state,
noticed a news item to the effect
that one Ali Kheder had presented
the Sultan of Turkej’’ with a water
melon weighing 225 pounds.-
Familiar with the possibilities of
Georgia soil and convinced that no
country on earth can grow larger or
more luscious watermelons than
Georgia, Secretary McLendon imme
diately wrote the American consul
in Constantinople and the embassy
at Washington for a verification of
the report. He received confirma
tion from both sources, and a let
ter from Ali Kheder himself.
Area Is Located
Pursuing the matter further, Sec
retary McLendon asked the consu
late at Constantinople for some of
the watermelon seed for a try-out
in Georgia soil. 'There was some
difficulty in locating the exact re
gion in tvhich the giant melons were
j produced, but with the co-operation
of American missionaries at Tarsus.
Marash and Aintab, and a story told
I by a student at Robert college, in
I Constantinople, the Garden of Eden
j was finally located.
"While traveling through Anato-
I Ha, I saw a camel caravan, with
| each camel carrying two huge water
melons, and staggering under the
load,” the college student declared.
With this tip, R. O. Hall, acting
commercial attache of the American
consulate at Constantinople, located
the home of the gigantic melons at
Diabehir, in Anatolia, and secured '
some of the seed for Secretary Me- I
Lendon. He wrote Colonel McLen- I
don that an American missionary
had confirmed the report that the
melons in that section were fre
quently four feet long.
Secretary McLendon has received
I packages of the seed that produce
the 200 and 225-pound melons, and
also seed of the small or garden va
riety, that weigh only 150 anad 160
pounds. In addition there -were some
yellow seed that appear to produce
cantaloupes of a gigantic species.
Worth Traveling For
“Dock, how far would you go to
get a watermelon four feet long and
weighing 225 pounds?” Secretary
McLendon asked “Dock” Mitchell,
his veteran porter.
“Well, sir, most any nigger would
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
By J. P. Alley
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Asthma Now Often
Stopped In 4 Minutes
New Formula Seems to Check
Wheezing, Choking, Coughing,
Difficult Breathing and Sleep
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Thousands who have suffered from
the terrible gasping, choking, cough
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asthma will rejoice to learn that the
underlying causes of asthma have ’
apparently been disclosed by science. ■
Strange as it may seem, the most
stubborn cases that have resisted all I
methods of treatment now quickly j
yield to a simple home treatment
which is rapidly becoming famous.
The ability to sleep soundly all
night, to stand exposure to stormy
weather, to walk rapidly or run. and
freedom from the terrible tightness
in the chest is often given within as
short a time as four minutes by this
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Webb’s Combination Prescription.
So confident is Mr. VV. H. Webb, 256
Gateway Station, Kansas City, Mo., that
you can be rid of your asthma troubles
that he offers to send a full size Webb’s
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only whatever you think is fair. You ■
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unless vou wish.
Webb's Comhnat.on Prescription i« not
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Tt F.SDAY, FEBIU ARY 5, 1024.
! BIRMINGHAM. Woman’s de
. partment of Stat© Federation of
I Labor, under chairmanship of Mrs,
I Sallie Osborne Cooper, organizes to
oppose campaign of Senator Oscar
W. Underwood for president.
MOBILE. -’Mayor R. V. Taylor
says he considers Alabama Power
company's bid for Muscle Shoals
I better tHen Ford’s, and so told
house committee at Washington, D. I
C. Until recently Mayor Taylor was I
i for Ford.
Senate to Void Texas
Election, Collector
Os Ballots Declares
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. 2.
i Because there were so many viola
i tions of the Texas election laws, in
I the last general election, the United
States senate, which is investigating
the Peddy-Mayfield senatorial con
test, will be compelled to declare
the election void, Hume Graves, dep
uty sergent-at-arms of the senate,
who is supervising the collection of
the ballots, declared here today.
Among the irregularities found by
Mi - . Graves are ballot boxes which
have been opened, others with the
seals broken and the keys left in
the locks, some missing altogether
and other boxes not even marked to
show in which election they were
used.
Mr. Graves also declared he has I
signed statements of election offi- !
cers, who admit that they wrote the.
name of Mayfield on the ballots and?
passed the l t out to voters. ?
The senate is scheduled to take up
the Peddy-Mayfield contest on Feb
ruary 11. Mr. Graves says it will
take him a week or ten days to com
plete his work in the state. Many
of the boxes have already been
shipped to Washington and the oth
ers will be there when needed for the
count.
walk three or four hundred miles
for that,” replied “Dock.”
Mr. Eubanks and Henry R. Du
rand, Atlanta farmers, will try out
the seed, under the most favorable
circumstances.
"Os course, I can’t tell what the
result will be, but if Georgia can
produce four-foot watermelons it
will be a great boon to the farmers,
and the negro migration will cer
tainly stop,” Secretary McLendon
observed.
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SELMA. Dallas county farmers i
contract for more fertilizer than ever
before, and 100 car loads are receiv-j
ed already.
MONTGOMERY. According to
records in warden’s office five out of
every six negro convicts are named
"Willie.”
TALLADEGAT=~WhiIe under epi
leptic spell, J. E. Montgomery, Jr.,
I kills his father, J. E. Montgomery.
, Youth will be placed In sanitarium.
Students’ Stray Shots
Fatal to Woman
STILLWATER, Okla., Feb. 4.
Stray bullets fired by three Okla
homa A. and M. college students at
a target in the back yard of their
fraternity house here, late yester
day. killed Mrs. Mathilda A. Hodges,
aged widow, and slightly wounded
two other women who rushed to her
assistance whe nthey saw her fall.
David D. Zinc, Roy G. Doak and
Earl Nutter, the three marksmen,
all upper classmen and leaders in
student activities at the college,
were arrested shortly afterward,
formally charged with murder and
are to be given a preliminary hear
ing in the district court today. -They
spent the night, in jail.
Lake Jones Is Given
Florida Judgeship
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. Lake
j Jones, of Jacksonville, has been
nominated by President Coolidge, to
j he additional fdeeral judge for the
1 southern district of Florida.
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