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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
KELLYTON. —Ellis Thomas is
- shot in back and instantly killed
' while talking to Rev. Burns here.
• Doyle Niblett. World war veteran,
and Abe White, negro, and two oth
er negro men and one negro wom
an, named Bell, are arrested and
Jacked up at Rockford, charged with
jSqrurder.
MOBlLE.—Sheriff Paul G. Ca
-«alas resigns on eve of hearing of
'impeachment proceedings against
Trfm before supreme court at Mont
gomery.
HUNTSVILLE. —Several homes
J .on Monte Sano, near here, are
»/<Xhreatened by forest fires.
TUSCALOOSA.—New $150,000 ed
ucational building of First Baptist
church is formally opened, with ad
dress by Dr. L. O. Dawson, of How
ard college.
SHEFFIELD. Muscle Shoals
’’ Bailroad and City Development eom
pany sets aside SO acres of land on
Tennessee river, near Ford City, for
one of finest aero fields in south
land.
MONTGOMERY.—Under code all
state officers are required to take
oath that they will not engage in
"diiels.
CENTERVILLE.—As result of
forest fires 400 bushels of corn be
longing to John Potts is destroyed
by fire.
FLORENCE.—Fish for Wilson
lake, great body of water formed
by Wilson dam, will be furnished
by department of commerce.
SHEFFIELD.—Rev. W. H. Car-
* son and wife, returned missionaries
>. from Africa, are guests of First
Baptist church.
« MOBILE.—BeIIe Metcalf, former
roadhouse proprietor, indicted 13
times for prohibition violation, is
t* given six months and twenty days
in jail.
MONTGOMERY. American Le
. gion plans drive to enroll as mem
., hers every ex-service man in Ala
; ‘/fbama. _
ANNISTON. —Judge R. B. Carr,
■ circuit judge, sets aside verdict in
case of Bud Thompson and his son,
Irvin Thompson, convicted of mur
dering Lawrence Curd, and gives
‘ five years eacK
AUBURN. Annual mid-winter
■? conference of extension service and
* farm bureaus will be held here be
ginning December 29.
< GODHILL. William Sanders
' and Susie Sanders, negro children,
are burned to death when home is
€ destroyed by fire.
CULLMAN. Many new rural
school buildings are being erected in
■ county. Buildings at Welti and Hui-
■ aco, costing $9,000 each, are near
ing completion.
CORDOVA. Many new homes
are being built here. There is not a
vacant house.
CULLMAN. Cullman county
has ginned 24,281 bales of cotton
this year against 14,761 bales last
, year. This year’s crop is worth ap
proximately $4,000,000.
SHEFFIELD. Water coming in
, contact with phosphorus causes
; great volume of smoke to issue
from government nitrate plant. Eire
company responds, but finds no
blaze.
TALLADEGA. After examina
tion of cave-in of Talladega’s new
2,000,000-gallon storage reservoir, H.
F. Wiedeman, of P. H. Norcross &
CJb., Atlanta, Ga., says accident was
due to lime sink.
MOBILE. Sternwheel river
; packet, Peerless, arrives from Mor
• gan City, La., and will be put into
service on Alabama river.
GADSDEN. ■ — Funeral and inter-
■ ment of Capt. W. P. Beason, wealthy
■ farmer, who died at home of his
daughter near New Orleans are held
| at Duck Springs.
AUBURN. Mass meeting of stu
, dents of Alabama Polytechnic insti
tnte vote full confidence in Dr.
Spight Dowell and express regret
at agitation started by alumni to
have him removed as president of
institute.
MOBILE. Development of bet
ter terminal facilities at Tuscaloosa
; and Birmingport and attempt to
eliminate switching- charges between
Birmingport and Birmingham, wilt
be among next ventures for improve
ment of Warrior branch of Inland
Waterways corporation, according
to Brig. Gen. T. Q. Ashburn, direc
tor.
T. Cham
bers, 80, believed struck by unknown
| automobile, is found on highway
E, near Gate City in serious condition.
He dies later in local hospital.
■ MOBILE. —'Capt? Leon Schwartz
ex-service man, of Mobile, is an-
, plicant to fill vacancy caused bv
resignation of Sheriff Paul Cazalas.
t BIRMINGHAM. Jefferson coun
ty board of revenue receives offer of
• $1,000,000 for old courthouse, but
| postponement of sale for increased
I ; price is favored. New $1,500 000
| ; courthouse is to be built on site al-
| ready purchased.
TALLADEGA. Talladega, con
i tinues to use its water plant, despite
I . eave-in of 2,000,000 gallon storage
rcNMrvoir.
SELMA. - Miss Sybil Eliasberg.
high school girl, is thrown from sad
dle horse and badly injured.
| MONTGOMERY. Miles J. Bray,
of Montgomery, dies from injuries
received in automobile accident. Mrs,
bray was killed instantly in same t. -
| cident.
GADSDEN. Barney Hood, of
VV horton Bend, wins gold watch as
first prize for best farm work among
71 members of Etowah county bovs
| farm clubs.
TUSCALOOSA. Miss Nettie
Llnebaugh, 79, dies at her home
after long illness.
MONTGOMERY. One death re
sults and several builiiings are burn
ed. as result of carelessness of hunt
ers is setting woods on fire in Ala
bama, according to Chester B. John
I ’ son, state fire marshal.
HI NTS\ ILLE. Grand theater,
badly damaged by fire, will be i?■
paired. Over $4,000 insurance is
carried.
COLUMBIAN.? First ear of
high grade cattle ever brought to
Shelby county is received here. Cat
tle are selected bv A. A. Lauderdale.
| farm agent, and distributed among
members of county dairy association.
MONTGOMERY. Federal aid to
amount of $19,500. to be used in pre
, , venting forest fires, will be available
fc ’’l Alabama in 1925, according to
Major Page S. Bunker, state forester.
FORT PAYNE. First National
banks of Fort Payne and Collins
vHle purchase three terracing outfits
• and place them at disposal of Glenn
'Riddle, county farm demonstrator.
MONTGOMERY—TTeorge Pou. su
perintendent of North Carolina state
prisons, will soon commence orgar.i
-ration of southern prison association
composed of prison officials of south
ern states, he announces here.
’ HALEYVILLE. Crumpton’s
ytore. three miles cast of here, is
;tot*l loss from forest fires.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
SOUTH CAROLINA
COLUMBIA. —Georgia's new law,
requiring couples contemplating
matrimony to post notice of such in
tention five days prior to date of
marriage, results in Georgia couples
coming to South Carolina to get
married, it is said. For years Geor
gia has been place of retreat for
couples in this state desiring divorce.
CAMDEN.—George S. Higgins,
prominent brokerage merchant, dies
here.
FLORENCE.—Nine prisoners who
sawed way out. of county jail here
night of December 5, are still at
large, all negroes.
CHARLESTON—Governor Mc-
Leod is speaker at people’s com
munity service in St. Paul’s Episco
pal church here Sunday night.
COLUMBIA. —United States Sena
tor .1. Thomas Heflin, of Alabama,
is announced as speaker for De
cember 23 meeting of Focus club, of
Columbia, organization of World
war veterans.
COLUMBIA. —Walter E. Duncan,
state comptroller general and editor
of paper in Aiken, announces plans
to begin publication in January of
new statewide weekly newspaper,
the Gazette.
COLUMBIA. —Over two hundred
lumbermen of North and South
Carolina, gather here in convention
of Carolina Retail Lumber Dealers'
association.
M’COLL. —Election for Decem
ber 16, on question of issuing SIOO,-
000 of school bonds, is announced
by school board here.
SPARTANBURG.—One hundred
and fourth Baptist state convention
opens here, with Dr. A. 1- Jamison,
of Greenwood, presiding.
COLUMBIA. Fire Proof Build
ing Material company, newly or
ganized, purchases site at Cayce,
a suburb, and plans erection of large
factory. D. G. Zeigler is president.
SPARTANBURG. While serv
ing six months term for prohibition
violation, John Gossett is pardoned
by Governor McLeod of previous
conviction.
MANNING. Market bureau here
ships six thousand pounds*)! pecans,
bringing approximately $1,700. F.
M. Rast, manager of bureau, handles
shipment.
MANNING. Manning Light and
Ice company sells plant here to
South Carolina Light company.
COLUMBIA. Columbia high
school football team defeats Gaffney
team, and gains championship of
state.
WAGENER. C. R. Lybrand,
prominent young man of Wagener,
dies after three days’ illness with
diphtheria.
COLUMBIA. - — John Henry Liv
ingston, white, is lodged in jail here
charged with killing Hilliard McCoy,
young negro. Livingston admits
killing, but claims self-defense.
COLUMBIA. -^- Pacific mills op
erate part of plants here at night,
to take care of increased demand,
according to W. P. Hamrick, super
intendent.
GREENVILLE?—"w. G. Querry,
•chairman of state tax commission,
accepts invitation of chamber of
commerce to come to Greenville and
discuss taxation against banks.
ANDERSON?—Max Barton, 15,
son of Dr. D. J. Barton, is instantly
killed when bullet from .22 rifle, with
which he and other children were
playing, pierces heart.
ANDERSON. Rebecca Rice,
negress, is killed by Joe Wright,
white, who wls under charge of
crime against woman at her home
in Abbeville, where both had former
ly lived.
CHESTER.—Frank McNich, young
white man, is in serious condition in
hospital, suffering with fracture of
spine, caused by collision of his au
automobile with another.
DILLON.—South Carolina Meth
odist conference, covering lower half
of state, adjourns here, after hear
ing pulpit assignments for coming
year.
I’ LORENCE.—Edward Pearce, son
of Mr. and Mrs, E. B. Pearce, is se
riously, probably fatally, injured
when struck down by automobi*
driven by Benny Joseph, colored,
who is arrested.
COLUMBIA.—Dr. Richard T. Gil
lespie, of Louisville, Ky., accepts
presidency of Columbia Theological
seminary, here, and plans for re
moval of institution to Atlanta in
fall of 1927 are launched.
M 111 I'MIRE.—A. R. Erwin, school
principal, sees fire, during night on
mot of Airs. Berlowitz’s home, across
street from his, runs to door and
knocks it down, awakens Mrs. Ber
iowitz, seizes two children and
tushes with them to safety.
FLORENCE.— James Forte, svear
old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Forte,
dies at hospital, after being run down
by automobile said to have been
driven by William Mitchell, colored
who is arrested, but who claims to
know nothing of accident.
DARLINGION. Bink Brown,
white, and Jim McDonald are back
in jail here, completing roll of five
who escaped four days before. Brown
and two of others who escaped re
turn voluntarily.
< H A R RESTON.— Case against for- I
mer Mayor T. T. Hyde, charged with
violation of national banking laws,
goes to jury. He was president of
uetunct Commercial National.
1 I.MMONSX ILLE. —• Negro peers
into window at night at home of Mrs
AL C. Moore and angry mob gives
chase. But cooler heads prevail, and
negro is placed in jail to await trial.
I OH MBIA. —Bottlers' association
Os state meets here with hundred or
more men, from all parts of state at- :
tending.
, SOX tX)b 1 EGE.—(’lemson’s
19_a football schedule is completed
with games with Presbyterian col?
lege. Auburn, Kentucky, University i
of South Carolina, Wofford, Florida,
Citadel and Furman.
, *'W. Seagle is in
nospitla tn serious condition as re
sult of asphyxiation, caused when he
breaks gas main under house in at
, tempt to install gas heater.
‘ s| Ab 1 ? Nl 'URG.—Solicitor Ira C.
I Jdackwood, in annual report to at-
I torney general, shows total of 334
convictions in three counties com
ic using his district, approximate!v 91
per cent of cases tried.
GREENVILLE. Banks of state'
will probably combine to fight tax
| assessment imposed bv state t?x
commission, J. W. Norwood, presi
i dent of First National bank here de
clares, stating that assessments
against banks are higher than those
i against other citizens, and court rul
ings prohibit this, he savs. Nor-
I wood's bank recentlx reduced capi
tal stock as method of fighting al
leged exces.jve taxation.
Admiral Jellicoe Retires
LONDON, Dec. 10.—The admiralty
announced today the retirement of
Admiral Lord Jellicoe. effective De
i eember 5 last. The retirement of
ltbc*adm :al became effective on his
05th birthday.
NORTH CAROLINA
WINSTON-SALEM. —Damage va
riously estimated at from $25,000 to
$50,000 is caused by spectacular fire
destroying interior of Ideal theater
building. Origin of fire is unde
termined. Attorney J. W. Hollings
worth, sleeping in apartment above
theater, is rescued by firemen.
WINSTON-SAI.KM. Sale of
Smoot tannery, valued at $1,000,000,
pit North Wilkesboro, to Jnternation-
I ;il Shoe company, of St. Louis, Mo.,
lis announced by Secretary C. C.
: Jones, of C. C. Smoot & Sons Co.
I New owners take charge January 1
land will continue large-scale manu
facture of leather, employing several
hundred workers.
GOLDSBORO.—Campaign to raise
$25,000 to complete World war he
roes’ memorial building is begun un
der direction of Frank Sprill, of
Rocky Mount.
KINSTON. Tremendous ship
ments of Christmas holly and mistle
toe are being made from points in
Pender, Duplin and neighboring
counties to New York and other
large eastern cities.
SHELBY.—LocaI branch of Co
operative Cotton Growers’ associa
tion ships several carloads of Cleve
land county cotton to Genoa, Italy..
SHELBY. —On return of Ben Cur
. tis, prominent local contractor, from
automobile trip to Michigan, Cana
dian and Florida points, during
which he was accompanied by Miss
Lillian Curtis, adopted daughter, and
Miss Vada Pearson, daughter of
neighbor, Miss Curtis claims she
was told at start short ride would
be taken. Curtis is arrested, charged
with variety of misdemeanors.
DUKE—Eugene New, 27, is in
stantly killed when he loses con
trol of car, which plunges over em
bankment. New’s skull is crushed.
George Guion, companion, escapes
with minor injuries.
CHAPEL HILL.—AH walks of
life at this university town are rep
resented at funeral of Colonel Swain
Pendergraft, widely-known pioneer
citizen.
CHARLOTTE.—T. P. Quarles, 83.
native of Abbeville, S. C., prominent
retired business man and cotton
factor, father of T. P. Quarles,
wealthy life insurance man, of Char
lotte, dies at Spartanburg, S. C.
GUILFORD "COLLEGE. Mrs. J.
Russell Winslow is informed of
death of her husband, of Cleveland,
Ohio, in battle with shark off coast
of Porto Rica.
RALEIGH. Corporation com
mission, in statement, defends Clar
ence Latham, chief state bank ex
aminer, who has been severely criti
cised in press for refusal to disclose
information relative to bank failures,
particularly that of Citizens Bank
and Trust company, of Wilmington.
HENDERSON. Drum and corn
er corps of Georgia industrial home,
Macon, gives concert and following
night singing class of Oxford or
phanage, of Oxford, N. C., is heard.
BURLINGTON. J. Hardy Daly,
of Louisville, Ky., is dangerously,
perhaps fatally injured when car,
occupied also by his wife, is struck
by train. They were en route to
Florida on pleasure trip. Mrs. Daly
escapes unhurt.
ASHEVILLE. Six months on
roads if he enters movie show or
public dance hall within two years
is sentence imposed on Joe Brooks,
of Biltmore, after conviction on
charge f insulting young woman at
theater.
RALEIGH. Prohibition party
received seven votes in North Caro
lina in November general election.
CHARLOTTE.” Officials of St.
John’s Baptist church announce
SIOO,OOO building fund has been
raised and that construction work
will be started within few weeks.
RALEIGH. —Approximately $200,-
000,000 is value of output in 1924 of
1,735 miscellaneous manufacturing
plants of state, according to biennial
report of M. L. Shipman, commis
sioner of labor and printing. These
plants represent investment in cap
ital of $161,520,000; value of plants,
$84,129,000; employes number 43,-
242.
CHARLOTTE. Representative
Bulwinkle, of Gastonia, N. C., en
charge of insulting young woman at
of incompleted dreadnaught Wash
ington by navy department has in
fluenced him to oppose granting any
increase in appropriations which may
be asked by Secretary Wilbur of
short session of congress, which Bul
winkle says will be “do-nothing” ses
sion.
GOLDSBORO.—Mrs. R. L. Hill,
mother of ten children, is fatally in
jured when run down by automobile
driven by Clifton Gurley, who sur
renders to police and is released on
bond. Eyewitnesses say aeci lent oc
curred when Mrs. Hill dodged an
other car.
55 INS ION-SA IjEM. —F. Ray Nor
man. 51, well-known business man
for twenty-five years, dies ot pneu
monia after short illness.
WINSTON-SALEM?—Charley Hyl
ton and Bolsom Boaz are instantly
killed and Henry Hylton is danger
ously injured when truck, occupied
by ten persons and driven by Fleet
Boaz, goes over embankment when
driver turned to speak to those in
■ rear of truck.
POINT.—Henry C. Kearns,
Sr., 85, perhaps oldest citizen one
of principal stockholders of Kearns
I* ut nit ure Manufacturing company
and prominent in business, religious
and civic affairs; dies after pro
longed illness.
WINSTON SALEM?— Chairman J.
K. Dixon, of state fisheries board
ennourices receipt of first order of
: nsh eggs, including 1,000.000 rain
i bow trout and 6'25.000 brook t.nut
i eggs, which have been distributed to
foui state hatcheries.
: OXFORD.—Elizabeth Pruitt, aged
j four, daughter of Mr. and M-s
George Pruitt, is fatally injured bv
automobile driven by John E. Mavs
Sr., of Oxford. Witnesses say chi’J
ran in front of car.
GASTONIA.—Hum of 1,136.593
spindles in Gaston county will soan
be in operation, as only small num
ber are still idle after long period of
severe depression in textile industrv
Many of county’s plants are running
day and night. Mills operating are
: employing 16,684 persons and >vse.<-
I ly payroll is $198,000.
I CHARLOTTK-Zfa?able property
; valuations increased nearly sß.imo,ooo
■ in this city during past year r.iis
j :ng total to $103,000,000. ’on which
<‘tv plans to levy total of $1.059 000
in taxes.
t HARLOTTE.—Forty. two contrac
tors submit bids for construction of
three new schools, first contracts to
>e awarded in city’s new $2,000,000
school system building program.
CH A R LOTTE.— Women’s club’s
efforts to obtain new passenger sta
tion for city are suddenly ended
when Fairfax Harrison, president of
Southern railway, here on inspec-
I lion ’our. says city "does rot net 4
j ami has no chance of getting one.’’
c
MOUNT AIRY—Joe Pell is patient
at Martin hospital, suffering from
bullet wound in abdomen and wound
on head supposed to have been in
flicted ly Sheriff Mayos, of Patrick
county, Virginia, in altercation. Pell
may die.
SALISBURY—John M. Brady, of
this bity, prominent business man,
dies suddenly on train in South Caro
lina while returning, accompanied
by Mrs. Brady, from pleasure trip
in Florida.
DUNN. —This town is holding po
sition as loading wagon cotton mar
ket of state, with, total °f 19,000 bales
delivered here this fall.
HIGH POINT.— Program of older
boys’ coinference here with about 250
in attendance, includes address by
Mrs. T. W. Bickett, widow of former
governor.
WILMINGTON.—About 1,500 ne
gro teachers from all parts of .state
attend three-day annual convention
of North Carolina Negro Teachers’
association.
I
SEUPLfINE CRASH
IN WHICH 5 DIED
15 NAVY’S WORST
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Dee. 11.—Five
officers and enlisted men attached
to V. F. Squadron Two, aircraft
battle fleet, were killed and three
others probably fatally injured Wed
nesday when the huge twin-motored
H-16 type seaplane in which they
were engaging in aerial target prac
tice, nose-dived 1,200 feet into the
sea. The accident was the worst in
the history of naval aviation.
Search was continued today for
the bodies of Lieutenant Roby and
Wieczk.
Witnesses said the plane went out
of control al 1,200 feet. Either the
controls jammed or the aileron wires
snapped, naval aviators said.
An official report was to be heard
before a naval board of inquiry ap
pointed today by Captain Stanford
E. Moses, commander of the air
squadrons attached to the battle
fleet.
The three injured men, Davenport,
Mussingill and Pautz, now in the
naval hospital, will testify.
The <l6ad:
Lieutenant Gioehrino Variui, pilot of the
plane; survived by wife, Mrs. Minnie Ma.>
Variui, .17 North Spring street, Pensacola,
Kin.; body recovered.
Lieutenant Kilburn H. Koby, assistant
pilot; widow resides in San Diego; body not
yet recovered.
Lieutenant Arthur H. Thurston, assistant
pilot; mother, Mrs. C. IC. Thurston, Orange,
N. J.; body recovered.
Fred D. Cruell, aviation chief machinist
mate; widow resides in San Diego; body re
covered.
.1. Wieczk, radio man first-class; mother
resides in Oswego, N. 1.; body recovered.
Gravely injured.
Hayter r. Davenport, aviation machinist
mate, first-class; mother resides ut OOJ
State street, Bristol, Va.
J. D. Massingill, aviation rigger firs l .-I
class; mother, Mrs. Tarrole Massingill, |
Knoxville, Tenn.
K. Pautz, aviation machinist mate firs.-
elass; wife, Mrs. Lavina Pautz, San Diego.
“Peach Credit” Bank
Plans to Be Mapped
At Meeting m Macon
MACON. Ga., Dec. 10.—The first j
meeting of the directors of the new
Federal Intermediate Credit bank,
organized to aid the peach growers
in financing the 1925 crop, will be
held here Friday night.
The bank is to have a capital
stock of SIOO,OOO, but it will be pos
sible for the growers to borrow more
than this amount, if it is needed to
finance the crop.
Steps are to be taken to secure
legislation regarding the crating and
shipping of peaches according to va
riety and £ize. This is expected to
greatly aid the situation. The Geor
gia Peach Growers’ exchange is be
hind the bank movement and it is
believed a program will be worked
out between now and February 1,
that will mean thousands of dollars
to the growers during the coming
j ea r.
The directors of the new bank are:
W. B. Baker, president of the At
lantic Ice and Coal < orporation, At
lanta, chairman; C. B. Lewis, presi
dent of the Fourth National bank,
Macon; C. E. Martin, vice president
of the Citizens bank, Fort Valley;
J W. Frederick, president of the
Citizens bank, Marshallville; C. H.
Neisler, president of the First Na
tional b?nk, Reynolds; T. K. Glenn,
president Atlanta and Lowry Na
tional bank, Atlanta; A. B. Sims,
president Atlanta Joint Stock and
Land bank, and T. Ras Turner, pres
ident of the Bibb National bank,
Macon.
American Biography
Will Be Financed by
New York Publisher
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The
New York Times, as a gift to the
nation, has agreed to advance $500,-
000 for the preparation of a diction
ary of American biography under
the auspices and direction of the
American Council of Learned So
ciety, it was announced Wednesday.
I The work, it is said, will stand upon
a unique level of authority, scholar
ship and literary quality, comparing
with tlje British "dictionary of na
tional biography’’ and the German
“allegenteine deutsch biographie.”
The New York Times will not
I make or publish the dictionary, and
pvill assume no control over it. the
I foundation of the Times being sim
| ply thta of making it possible.
: through its publisher, Adolph S.
I Ochs.
I day.
’ Franks Case Reward
Divided Among Eight;
Reporters Get $1,500
CHICAGO. Dec. 10.—Eight person
today shared the $6,000 rewards of
fered for the solution of the murder
of Robert Franks -or vyhich Richaro
Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., are
serving life sentences.
Alvin H. Goldstein and James W.
Mulroy. Chicago Daily News report
ers. received $1,500 each.
The others who shared were
Robert- Minke, who found the body
under a Pennsylvania railroad cul
vert. Paul Korff. who found Leop
old’s gla-ses. John Koleska. and Wai
.ter and George K:-::e'. ni'-ml'prs of
a railroad sicnH crew, and R■ t
• Hunt, a watchman.
I
i RALEIGH.-—Paroles granted by
I Governor Morrison include those for
Luther Foy, of Craven county, ar
son, two years; Frank McLamb, Har
nett, year, wife-beating; Jeff Burke,
Alamance, four months, violating
prohibition law.
SANFORD. —Fred A. Dimmiek,
well known business man, dies, aged
61.
KANNAPOLIS. —Wesleyan Meth
odist church's annual state confer
ence, at closing session, votes Io
meet next year at Hendersonville.
Resolutions adopted urged federal co
operation with other nations, for
world peace and more strict observ
ance of Sunday as day of religious
devotion.
WILMINGTON.—It is learned
Federal Judge Connor, shortly be
fore death, indorsed proposal for
third federal district in state. Sen
ators Simmons and Overman are re
ported in favor of proposal, advanced
by District Judge Webb.
RALEIGH.—Last big job of state’s
$65,000,000 highway program is con-
Confessed Liquor Law
Violator Freed Because
Held Without Warrant
VALDOSTA, Ga., Dec. 10.—Jess
Broome had pleaded guilty to viola
tions of the prohibition laws when
Judge W. H. Barrett, in federal
court, today learned the man had
been arrested without a warrant.
The judge ordered the plea recalled
and the defendant dismissed.
A warning to prohbiition agents
who search, seize and arrest without
warrants then was delivered by the
jurist. He declared his decision was
not merely his own, but also was
that of the supreme/court.
Reports that many persons had
been stopped on highways recently
by dry agents searching for liquor,
resulting in many complaints, led
to the lecture, it was stated.
The judge showed no mercy to
violators properly arrested and found
guilty, giving several straight prison
sentences.
Hungry Man Spent
Dime Coolidge Lost,
Now He Returns It
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Presi
dent Coolidge was described during
the campaign by his running mate,
Charles G| Dawes, as “one who
watches the nickels,” but a letter re
ceived today at the White House
showed that he does not always
watch the dimes. The letter, ad
dressed to the president, and dated
Racine, Wis., said:
“Dear Cal:
“Wishing you a merry Christmas
and a happy New Year.
“You do not know me but one day
before you was elected I was walk
ing in back of you. You dropped a
dime but y OU did no £ notice it. I
picked it up and kept it because I
was hungry. It got me a hot cup of
coffee and two rolls. Well I. have
plenty of dimes now so I am return
ing one in the place of yours.
“Yours truly,
“A FRIEND.”
Government Islands
Off Florida Reserved
From Settlement
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—All gov
ernment-owned islands in the waters
off the coast, or in coastal waters
of Florida, estimated to number be
tween 50 and 100, were reserved
from settlement in an executive
order issued today at the sugges
tion of Secretary Work, in order to
prevent their acquisition by private
individuals for land speculative pur
poses.
Recent growth of Florida as a
winter resort has greatly enhanced
the value of the islands, which for
merly had been regarded as worth
less. The withdrawal, however, is
subject to any valid existing rights
on the islands. The interior depart
ment announced the islands will be
classified and that new legislation
may be proposed to guide the man
ner of their future disposition.
Motlow Is Acquitted
In Conductor’s Death;
. Wil! Return to South
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 11. —Lem
Motlow, wealthy Tennessee distiller,
Mho last night was found not guilty
of murder in connection with the
daeth of Clarence T. Pullis, Pullman
conductor, in circuit court, today
was reunited with his family. With
Mrs. Motlow and his 12-year-old
daughter he spent the night with
friends, planning an immediate re
turn to his farm home near Lynch
burg, Tenn.
Only one ballot was taken by the
jury.
The state charged that Motlow,
while intoxicated, shot the conduc
tor, who had sought to collect his
ticket. Motlow based his plea for
acquittal on self-defense and acci
dent. declaring he had been attacked
by Ed Wallis, negro porter, and
that he shot to save his- life.
Tombigbee Boat Goes
Over Dam; One Drowns
DEMOPOLIS, Ala., Dec. IL—Jes
sie Kirkland was drowned and
Captain Ben C. Kirkland and John
H. Davis injured when the govern
ment launch Sherwater, connected
with the dredge Blackwater, went
over the dam at lock four on the
Tombigbee river near here Wednes
day.
The launch was preparing to en
ter the locks when the engine went
dead. Swift water then carried it
sidewise over the falls. The keeper
of the locks and two other men in
rowboats rescued Captain Kirkland
and Davis. The two Kirklands lived
at Andalusia, Ala.
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RALEIGH. —Supreme court sends
I number of bridges in 19 projects to
I cost $1,155,000. Legislature in Janu
l back for new trial famous tobacco
I tax case of W. S. Markham. Durham
| searcher for unlisted property,
against Liggett & Myers. American
Tobacco company and city and coun
ty of Durham, finding error in that
no notice was given defendants of
approximately $13,000,000 increase in
taxable valuation of leaf tobacco
stored in Durham county.
L AITRINBU va Whitting
ton, of Laurinburg, aged 17, who had
served 10 days of 60-day jail term for
misdemeanor, attempts to commit
suicide by taking poison. Ernest
Lane, youth, is held for investiga
tion. Girl may recover.
RALEIGH— Rev? R. L. Davis is
i re-elected superintendent at annual
i meeting of board of directors of
I North Carolina Anti-Saloon league.
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MfflSMfflCSEi.
ffIMHY BELIEVES
BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER
(By Radio to the Atlanta Journal and the
Chicago Daily News.)
BERLIN, Dec. 11.—-The decision
of the cabinet to resign is taken here
to mean that Chancellor Marx’s days
are numbered. His most probable
successor is Herr Stresenjann
whose candidacy is said to' be the
only one acceptable to President Eb
ert.
Other candidates are the center
deputy, Stegerwaid, organizer of
Catholic labor bodies and leader of
conservative Catholics, and any one
of three nationalists.
It seems fairly certain the new
cabinet will be formed under na
tionalistic colors based on the Na
tionalists, the People’s party, the
Catholic center and two or three
smaller groups, leaving out the Dem
ocrats, the Social Democrats, the
Communists and the remaining
handful of super-patriots. This
means a conservative government in
which will be represented men who
are wholly unsympathetic with the
fulfillment policy.
Chancellor Marx wishes to resign
immediately and leave this conserva
tive group to deal with the difficult
nroblems which is pending but
Stresemann demurred. He was not
willing to induce his conservative
friends to hang themselves with the
first fibers of the new policy, hence
the decision is left in Marx’s hands.
The old cabinet will not resign until
the riew one is formed. The con
servative majority will be slight. Its
tenure of life wil Idepend on keeping
the Catholic center.
ICopj'ritfht, 1924, by Chicago Daily News.)
Porto Rican Vote
Protested at Capital
By Christmas Cards
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Hun
dreds of Washingtonians in places of
prominence found in their mail this
morning a holiday greeting of an un
usual character. Neatly printed in
old English on card of the kind ap
proved by the best stationers was
this inscription:
“Merry Christmas and a happy
New Year from the people of Porto
Rico.
“The Porto Rican elections held
November 4, 1924, are the greatest
outrage upon American citizenship
ever committed:
“Fraud, violence, corruption,
wholesale robbery.
“When the time comes and all the
facts are laid before you please help
to right the wrong.
“PORTO RICAN ELECTIONS PRO
TEST COMMITTEE.”
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Board voted to hold next annual
meeting of league membership at
Raleigh, January 22-23.
SA LlSßUßY'—Calvin Cruse, 73,
well-known farmer, drops dead while
riding in wagon.
Andrews
society, New York body composed of
leading business, men of Scottish
birth, invites A. W. McLean, North
Carolina. governor-cleet, to deliver
principal address at 168th dinner.
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former Congressman John G. Shaw,
State Senator E. R. McKethan and
Judge Duncan Shaw. •
RALEIGH. North Carolina
Christian church annual conference
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ference,annually instead of disband
ing it, but administrative and legis
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divisional bodies.
SALISBURY.—Board of trustees
elects Rev. Charles Weiller, pastor of
large Reformed church at Baltimore,
Md., vice president of Catawba col
lege. He formerly was acting presi
|dent of this institution.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Presi
dent Coolidge received through sen
ator Harris, Democrat, Georgia, to
day an invitation from the Augusta,
Ga., Chamber of Commerce to con
sider that city in any plans he may
make for a winter or spring vaca
tion.
The president, in response to the
invitation, said it was hardly possi
ble that he would leave Washington
for any extended period until after
the adjournment of congress and his
inauguration, March 4, but that in
any plans he might make after that
date he would consider the Augusta
invitation.
Senator Harris, in presenting the
invitation, called Mr. Coolidge’s at
tention to the vacation President
Harding spent in Augusta two years
ago and his previous visits, and also
to the various visits Chief Justice
Taft had made to that city both
while president and since that time.
President Coolidge sees slight pos
sibility of his being able to attend
the celebration at Nashville, Tenn.,
in February of the centennial of the
George Peabody College for Teach
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Senator Harris renewed today the
invitation recently extended by the
trustees of the college, but was
told by the president that govern
mental affairs, including matters
arising from the session of con
gress, undoubtedlj) would prevent ac
ceptance of the invitation.
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Bill Providing Increase
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—A bill
to increase and adjust postal rates
so as to permit a $68,000,000 advance
in the pay of postal employes is be
ing drafted at the postoffice depart
ment at the request of Chairman
Serling of the senate postoffice com
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