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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD
ALABAMA
CARROLLTON.—D. B. Miller,
former cashier of defunct Pickens
County State bank, is dead with two
bullet wounds, supposed to be self
inflicted.
DEMOPOLIS.—Jesse Kirkland is
drowned and Capt. Ben C. Kirkland
and John H. Davis are injured, when
government launch shearwater goes
over dam at Lock 4 on Tombigbee
river.
BlßMlNGHAM.—Disclousures in
trial of officials of defunct Walker
Consolidated Petroleum company
here show that Alabamians invested
$2,000,000 in that company, includ
ing $1,000,000 in city of Birmingham
alone.
CARBON HlLL—Extensive street
paving: program commences here,
under supervisions of D. F. Gibbs.
SHEFFIELD.— Commanding offi
cer announces that 232 buildings at
government nitrate plants Nos. 1
and 2 will be sold at public sale to
highest bidders at early date.
ANNISTON.— L. C- Longshore ‘s
elected commander of Anniston post
of American legion. _
SELMA.—Alabama Power compa
ny commences survey of second high
power transmission power line from
Lock 16, on Coosa river to Selma.
BIRMINGHAM."—~Thomas Meigh
an, Lila Lee, Wally Berry and other
Hollywood players engaged in mak
ing moving pictures here, gave bene
fit performance at city auditorium
for community chest and raised
$7,000.
SELMA. J. V. Gardner, negro
doctor, graduate of University of
Pennsylvania, is fined S3OO tor whip
ping wife. He is jailed in default of
payment of fine.
ALBANY. Robert C. Miller,
fifty-five, dies at local hospital from
injuries received in auto accident.
NEWTON. Newton Institute
holds home-coming. Attended by
several hundred former students and
friends.
TUSCALOOSA. -?~Mrs. D. E. Mc-
Ghee, sixty-three, dies at her coun
try home near here.
MONTGOMERY. Nine forest
ranger districts have been establish
ed in Alabama, Major Page S. Bunk
er, state forester, announces.
— Bids for finish
ing three and one-half miles of hard
surface road from Big Cove moun
tain to Huntsville city limits will be
called for soon.
SHEFFIELD. Chamber of com
merce and Colbert County Medical
society are pushing movement to
build $75,000 hospital to serve Shef
field, Tuscumbia and Florence.
CORDOVA. Large garage oper
ated by Kirkpatrick & Morrow is de
stroyed by fire. Loss $1,200.
DECATUR.—C. M. Harwell, coun
ty game warden, announces that 585
hunting licenses have been issued
in Morgan county.
Hartselle.—S. H. Evans, well
known Hartselle merchant, is found
dead in bed of heart trouble.
ASHVILLE. — Judge Sam High,
owner of Whitney cotton gin recent
ly burned here, announces he will
rebuild gin.
MOULTON.— Election will be held
second Tuesday in January at Moul
ton, Town Creek and Landersville,
to vote on school tax of 50 cents on
each SIOO assessed valuation.
MOULTON.—Heavy wind storm
wrecks Stephenson & Alexander cot
ton gin and does considerable other
damage.
GADSDEN.—C. E~Stapp, county
farm agent, says he wants 100 farm
boys to plant two acres each in cot
ton next seasom
GADSDEN.— Coosa river which
has been almost dry here is now
rising because of heavy rains.
HAYNESVILLE.—Two carloads
of turkeys are shipped from here,
bringing 24 cents per pound on foot.
GENEVA.— A. H. Carmichael, of
Tuscumbia, wil make race for gov
ernor, according to his nephew, A.
A. Carmichael, state senator, of this
place.
BIRMINGHAM. According to
state, county and city officers much
Christmas whisky is being seized
in Birmingham and Jefferson county.
SALEM.—J. Fred Johnson, depart
ment commander American Legion,
with headquarters at Montgomery,
delivers address here.
forces
find and destroy 800 pints of Ca
nadian whisky in abandoned automo
bile on Whitesburg pike near here.
MOBILE United States en
gineers’ dredge Pascagoula arrives
her* for work in this district.
ALBANY.— William P. Hampton,
state enforcement officer, recently
accidently shot by other officers
while on whisky raid, remains in
serious condition in hospital here.
DECATUR.— Rise of one foot in
Tennessee river causes steamboat
traffic to resume between here and
Chattanooga.
Talladega. sensation is
caused In investigation of death of
W, D. Smelley when son-in-law, Le
land Haynes, and brother-in-law, Will
Farmer, are arrested.
TROY.—W. M. Henderson is killed
In attempting to stop runaway mule
hitched to wagon in which his chib
dren were riding.
SELMA.— WiII Dozier kills alliga
tor seven feet long and weighing 150
pounds on Alabama river above
Selma.
CULLMAN.— A. A. Griffith, prom
inent attorney of Cullman, is in hos
pital at Birmingham suffering with
serious case of appendicitis.
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pleaswd with it. I don't think
there is a better premium
than this bag. 1 remain, with
many thanks to you,
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Hazlehurst, Ga.
Tri-Weekly Journal
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ered postpaid to any
address for only
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There could be no better
Christmas present tor a mem
ber of the family or a dear
friend.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
HAMlLTON.—Commencing Jan
uary 1 Marion county will collect
1 cent per gallon on all gasoline
sold as wheel tax, and road hands
will be required to pay $lO road tax
annually, according to new law.
MOBlLE—Mobile county Repub
lican executive committee indorses
Judge \V. I. Grubb, of Birmingham,
for appointment to fill vacancy on
bench of United States court of ap
peals for Fifth district.
EVERGREEN.—Fi.st co operative
hog sale is held here. Tot il of 138
hogs are sold, weighing total of 20.-
500 pounds, and furnished by 15
farmers. Price paid is $8.40, $7.40.
$6.65 and $.5-65, making total of
| $1,662.71 paid for lot.
MONTGOMERY.—riegist ration in
I Alabama for October, just released,
shows 4,997 births and 1,927 deaths.
GRE EN VILLE. —J esse Die kerson
is perhaps fatally wounded, Dan T.
Stallings and Frank Stallings arc
I slightly wounded, in gun battle with
i negro farm hand, whom they try to
J move from one place to another.
ANNISTON.—Attempt to burn
; schoolhouse at Mechanicsville, near
. here, is nipped by early discovery of
' blaze. Gasoline was used.
j HUNTSVILLE. Glenn fowler,
convicted of second degree murder
in 1923 and given 14 years, is paroled
by Governor Brandon.
SOUTH CAROLINA
COLUMBIA. J. D. Fulp, state
high school instructor, calls meeting
of high school superintendents and
principals of state, to be held at
University of South Carolina Decem
ber 29 and 30.
COLUMBIA. Edwin Farnham
Greene. president of Lockwood,
Green & Co., of Boston, owners of
Pacific Mills here and at Winnsboro
and owner also of industrial prop
erties in Piedmont, section and in
Georgia, visits plants in this section,
including three Pacific cotton mills
here.
SUMTER. Number of citizens
circulate petition to revoke city-man
ager-commission form of government
here, with return to old aldermanic
form. If sufficient signatures are
secured, election will be held.
ANDERSON. Nick Floridas,
manager of Greek case, saves life of
ten-year-old boy and narrowly es
capes death himself when he pur
posely drives car into ditch in order
to miss boy who runs directly in
front of car. Car turns over and
Floridas suffers severe bruises.
SPARTANBURG. Sunday, De
cember 21 ,is set asied by Baptist
state convention of South Carolina
as day for final payment of all
pledges to Baptists’ $75,000,000 cam
paign, remaining obligations totaling
$250,000.
ANDERSON—Robert McCrider, B.
Grant and Connie Wright, are held
by coroner’s jury as accomplices with
Joe Wright, father of Connie, in kill
ing of Rebecca Rice, negress.
ANDERSON.—Postmaster John R.
Cochran announces plans of govern
ment to build addition to postoffice
here, doubling capacity of building.
COLUMBIA.—Week of December
15-20 is set aside by South Carolina
Cotton Growers’ Co-operative asso
ciation as “Delivery Week,” when
members will be urged to send in cot
ton readj r for delivery.
BISHOPVILLE. Cotton deal of
unusual size is made here when J.
M. Hearon sells 1,000 bales to R. L.
Hearon, for account of May bank
company of Charleston, deal i'nvolv- i
ing approximately $115,000.
GREENWOOD—-Raymond Pruitt,
of Greenwood, is killed when run
down by automobile in Augusta. Ga.
Car was driven by S. L. Smith, of
Lincolnton, Ga.
CAMDEN.— Case against Melton
Owens, charged with killing J. K.
Smith, farmer, at Waterew river
bridge, where Owens was keeper, is
called in criminal court here, but
postponed to next term of court.
GREENVILLE. Congressman J.
J. McSwain, who has been in hos
pital in Washington, suffering with
ptomaine poisoning, is able to return
to office, according - to advices re
ceived here.
COLUMBIA.—Thirty-two miles of
state highways are surfaced and 45
miles are graded during month of Oc
tober, according- to report of Chief
Engineer Charles H. Moorefield, to
state highway commission at meet
i ing here.
GREENWOOD—Mrs. Angeline Lo
max, only Greenwood woman receiv
■ ing pension from Mexican war, dies
| at home here.
i ( HARLESTON. —South Carolina
[division, United Daughters of Con
federacy, indoses Mis. S. J. Allison
'Lawton, of Charleston, for presiden-
Icy of United Daughters of Confeder
acy. Mrs. O. 1). Black, of Johnston,
jis elected state president.
| CAMDEN. —Policeman Hilton, of
.Camden force, is alive because pistol
.which negro held to his breast failed
to go off when the trigger was pulled.
'Officer was attempting to arrest the
| negro, and he did it.
I SPARTANBURG?—Baptist state
'convention ends here, after select
ing Columbia as place for 1925 gath
i ering.
I DILLON.—Mrs. Sue Peterkin,
head of prominent family, dies at
| home here at age of 70.
COLUMBIA. “Past Masters’
i Night is held by Masons of state
here, and feature of exercises is pres
entation of grand master’s jewel to
Past Most Illustrious Grand Master
John M. Graham, of Columbia.
1 CHARI. ESTON?— Dr. Charles H.
I Mayo, of Mayo Brothers’ clinic,
Rochester. Minn., is among surgeons
attending sessions of Southern Medi
; cal society here.
JOHNSTON.—Fireworks in win
dow of Halford & Maxwell’s store
catch tire, starting blaze which dam
' ages window.
G REENVII ,LE. —Furman univer
sity, here, was admitted by unani
i mous vote to Association of Colleges
; and Secondary Schools of Southern
I States, at recent meeting in Mem
phis, according to announcement
here by Dr. W. J. McGlothlin, presi
dent of institution.
SPARTANBURG?— Charges of
misconduct are brought before new
legislative delegation against Rural
Policeman W. R. Wright and Mag
istrate W. C. O’Shields, of Tucapau,
; relative to their alleged connection
with reported disturbance at
Moores Station in November.
MARlON.—Coroner J. J. Dozier
i and Rural Policemen Allen Edwards
and S. P. Lewis are exonerated of
charges o fmurder in connection with
i killing- of Percy Brigman, negro,
near Smithboro. Coroner’s jury
, finds that officers fired in self-de
fense.
COLUMBIA.— Richland county leg
islative delegation, headed by Sena
. tor T. B. Pearce, calls meeting to
I discuss plans for new half million
: dollar bridge between Columbia and
' New Brookland, spanning Conga tee
and connecting Richland and
Lexmgtotn couties.
A
PROSPERITY.—J. A. Domiick is
re-elected intendent of town of Pros
perity in municipal election here.
ROCK HILL?—-Edward Washing
ton Comer, prominent planter, dies
at home on Saluda road, near here.
YORK.—York county sells half of
tw,o million dollar permanent high
way construction bonds to Trust
I Company of Georgia, of Atlanta, at.
| rate of 4% per cent interest and
I premium of $2,210.
NORTH CAROLINA
j RALEIGH —Ralph Duffer, attor
i ney .of Raleigh, is sentenced to six
months in Wake county jail after
J trial in city court on charge of
i drunkenness. Duffer appeals an,d is
released on bond.
DAVIDSON.— President Martin, of
Davidson college, one of beneficiaries
of $40,000,000 trust created by J. B.
Duke, says, after visiting Duke at
Charlotte home, that he is particu
larly impressed that Duke, business
man, should center his donations on
church and quotes Duke as saying:
"Well, after all, the church is the
thing.”
RALEIGH.—Offer by J. B. Duke
of $40,000,000 endowments to vari
ous charitable, religious and educa
tional institutions, including South
ern Methodist church in Carolina,
wil] “hang crepe on the noor of
North Carolina Methodism,” says
Rev. W. R. Bateman, D. D., pastor
of First Baptist chuch, Asheville, de
livering- keynote address at state
Baptist convention’s 74th annual
sessions. “There is not a word of
Jesus Christ in” offer.
RALEIGH—J. B. Duke, donor of
millions to institutions in Carolinas,
is praised for his spirit and service
to others by alumni of Wake Forest.
(Baptist) college in resolution, pre
sented by Dr. G. W. Paschal and
commended by President W. L. Po
teat, adopted at annual banquet.
ASHEVILLE—CIarence Beck, 17,
dies in hospital few hours after be
ing injured when automobile and
youth's motorcycle meet in collision.
SANFORD—Automobile, driven by
Hugh Talley, Jr., of Jonesboro, goes
through railing of bridge over 40-
foot deep Seaboard railway cut, but
hangs, suspended by rear wheel, as
fast passenger train passes below.
Talley manages to climb back onto
bridge.
STATES VILE—John Warren, G 5,
of Bethany township, fires twice at
and wounds John Harkey, 30, of
Turnersburg township after argu
ment. Warren, arested, charges at
preliminary hearing that Harkey
caused Mrs. Warren, 19, to leave
home. Warren is held for superior
court.
CONCORD— D. Hallman Fink, 42,
well known, dies after ten months
of illness.
WAYNESVILLE—Judge Garland
S. Ferguson, prominent jurist and
Confederate Veteran, who served 20
years as superior court emergency
judge, dies after prolonged illness.
■GREENS BORO? —Mrs. Isabella
Garrett, 95, invalid, is burned to
death when home of son. .John Gar- i
rett, located 14 miles south of here,
is destroyed by fire.
RALEIGH. Suit is started in
federal district court for eastern
North Carolina to prevent collec
tion by state of North Carolina of
$55,000 in inheritance taxes from I
estate of Angier B. Duke, wealthy [
sportsman, drowned year ago at 1
New’ York. Complaint says estate is |
valued at $11,123,446.84. Executors
admit tax of $21,833 is due.
FA YETTE VILLE. Group ot!
business men offer by telegraph to j
trustees of Duke fund tract of 250 j
acres near here as free site for pro- ’
posed Duke university, in event j
Trinity college, at Durham, does '
not accept terms of $40,000,000 trust j
fund created by James B. Duke.
NEWTON. Marvin Yount, 22,
son of J. M. Yount, is horribly
burned in explosion of can of gaso
line as he carried it by hot stove.
He may recover.
BO( KI MOUNT. Wide search .
is made for Bennie Womble, 22, son 1
of G. W. Womble, Nash county [
farmer, who disappeared after leav-1
ing wife at home of aunt, Mrs. ]
George Robbins, near Nashville.
Father fears son is victim of viol
ence, as he had $l7O on person when
last seen.
DUNN. John L. Thompson, Jr.,
19, of Dunn, meets horrible death
when he. is pinned tinder his over
turned heavy car and is burned be
yond recognition. Evidently car had
tun over rabbit and skidded, going
into ditch.
WILMINGTON. Representative
T. E. L. Wade, member of state con
stabulary inquiry commission, "says
commission probably will recommend
to legislature meeting early in Janu
ary creation of state constabulary
force but probable details of report
I to assembly, as developed at confer
j ences, are not disclosed.
RALEIGH. Section of elm tree
under which George Washington
stood, July 31, 1775. to take oath as
commander of army of United
Colonies, is presented to Nort h Caro
lina. hall of history by city of Cam
bridge, Mass.
RALEIGH. Governor Morrison
declines plea for pardon for Whis
nant McGill, serving 20-year sen
tence for murder in Forsyth county
- m 1917. J
RALEIGH. lncrease Os one
cent per gallon in state gasoline tax
| and maintaining present automobile
I license rate will be necessary, says
i Frank Page, chairman of state’ high-
I way commission, should commission
request next legislature to authorize
! additional $35,000,000 highway bona
i issue, which commission seems to
; favor.
RALEIGH. - .\ll previous rec
ords of State Baptists for contribu
lions to Thomasville orphanage were
broken in 1924 when $224,566 was
I given this insthution. report shows.
RALEIGH. <• . (1 c .. p
I tary .Middleton reports Baptist de
nomination’s 64 associations m
; state, having 2.291 churches, received
i 21.565 new members in 1924, setting
I new record and bringing member
■ ship to 317,(60, which is increase
of 96,367 members in five years.
CHARLOTTE. Two ten-room
brick veneer dormitories, to cost
; $17,000 each, are authorized by of
fii-ials of Thompson .Episcopal) or-
I phanage. Construction will be start
! ed immediately.
CHARLOTTE.—Board of trustees
of Queens (Presbyterian! college an
i nounce plans to conduct campaign,
starting early in January, to raise
$300,000 endowment.
KINGSTON.—SchooI board begins
preparations to start reconstruction
|of Grainger school, recently de
{ stroyed by fire with loss of SIO,OOO.
New structure will cost from $200,-
000 to s22s.o(J&**‘
GREENSBORO.—FederaI District
Judge J. E. Boyd, 79. who has been
j ill and absent from office for year,
returns to office for brief visit. He
i« e'ow’y recovering strength follow-
I ing serious operation.
I ASHEVILLE.—Two men and two
women are arrested, charged with
murder several days previously of
William Da.'ds, 24, who died of ef
fects of poison whisky. Prisoners
are J. H. Milam, E. J. Jones, Miss
Lillie Payne and Mrs. Shope. Davis
died in cell after arrest on charge of
drunkenness.
LENOIR. —Lawrence Pipes, 18, son
of Wade Pipes, of Darby, is instant
ly killed when car driven by Clar
ence Crotts goes into ditch and over
turns several times, Crotts escapes
with minor injuries.
GREENSBORO. —Progressive ne
gro farmers of state are called to
attend annual session of state negro
farmers’ conference at A. & T. col
lege, here, January 21-22.
CHARLOTTE?—A~mos M. Beaty,
72, well known, dies at home near
here following stroke of paralysis.
CHARLOTTE. —Miss Maude Little,
named by Mecklenburg county com
missioners as deputy sheriff, is be
lieved to be first woman to hold such
office in state.
RALElGH.—Sentence of Leonard
Ormond is commuted by Governor
Morrison from 20 to 30 years to 15 to
25 years, and that of Jesse Silver
thorn from 20 years to 10 to 15 years.
Roth are Beaufort county men an<T
are serving terms for second-degree
murder.
RALEIGH. Governor Morrison
paroles W. C. Mitcham, in poor
health, who was sentenced in Wayne
county to six months imprisonment
for larceny.
ELIZABETH. ClTY.—County com
missioners are engaged in vigorous
discussion over responsibility for
bills amounting to $3,286 incurred
by Joe Swindell, shot and dangerous
ly wounded while in prison by J. D.
Farrior, of Wilson. Swindell is tin
der 30-year sentence for attacking
granddaughter of Farrior.
LEXINGTON.—John and Shirley
Lowman, brothers, ate sent to roads
for nine months for attempted rob
bery of Robbins’ store.
BADlN.—Kendrick Garrett, 18,
son of Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Garrett,
is perhaps fatally injured when
piece of machinery falls upon him
at, Badin dam, where he was em
ployed in construction work.
GREENSBORO.—City government
announces central fire station will
be constructed at once at cost of
$50,000.
GRE’ENSBOR~67— M?s. Ellen B.
Hunt, 76, one of best-known women
of community, dies at home of
niece, Mrs. Thomas Wakefield, at
Guilford college.
RALEIGH, —Chapel named in hon
or of James Dinwiddie, president of
Peace institute 17 years, is dedicated
at school at exercises addressed by
Dr. W. L. Poteat, president of Wake
Forest college.
GREENSBORO?— Stretch of
Southern railway between Greens
boro and Salisbury handles heaviest
traffic of system and probably will I
be first to be four-tracked, says Vice
President H. W. Miller.
GREENSBORO.—GasoIine price i
war ends abruptly after raging two ’
months when one large refiner j
(Fulf Refining company) raises |
price two cents per gallon to parity
with others.
CHARLOTTE. After obtaining
contract for construction of two
school buildings on bid of $119,000,
Brown-Harry company. Gastonia
contractors, announce finding $30,-
000 error in estimates and seek to
(Gulf Refinihg company) raises
defers decision.
WILMINGTON? Judson Ei*gi
neering Co., of Georgia, enters suit
for $92,000 damages against Bruns
wick county board of commissioners
alleging violation of contract for
road construction.
WILMINGTON. Boydice com
pany, of Delaware, begins conctrdc
tion on $300,000 ice plant which will
be placed in operation March 1.
Company has contract for icing re
frigerator cars of Fruit Growers’ ex
press.
WINSTON SAJ?EM.—Dentist’s rec
ord and shoe indicate that human
skeleton found in well on Boden
hamer farm near Teaguetown is that
of Bruce Snipes, who disappeared in
November, 1922. Some teeth are
rnising, and Bodenhamer’s brothers
are searching in bottom of well for
them, at request of Dr. R. O. Apple.
ELKIN.—J. T. Innskeep, superin
tendent of big construction project
at Roaring Gap, suffers several
broken bones and other injuries
when car speeding at 50 miles an
hour goes over mountainside and
tumbles to bottom of precipice.
GREENSBORO~— Total of $350,-
865 is involved in indictments
brought in federal district court
against J. D. Norwood, chairman of
board; President J. K. Doughton, and
M. L. Jackson, director, in connec
tion with failure in June, 1923, of
Peeples’ National bank, of Salisbury,
which resulted from immediately pre
ceding collapse of Mecklenburg chain
of cotton mills.
GASTONIA. —With sale of several
one-teacher schools by Gaston coun
ty, which have been replaced by
large consolidated schools, only four
one-teacher schools remain in county
and officials expect to close these
next year.
SMITHFIEI?!).-Thomas S. Rags
dale, well-known tobacconist, for 25
years one of prominent citizens, is
found dead at residence with gaping
wound in face and shotgun by side.
He borrowed gun from son on pre
text of going hunting.
ROCKY MOUNT.—Seaboard Medi
cal society, in annual convention,
elects Dr. W. H. House, of Golds
boro, president. Wilson is selected
as next meeting place of Fourth Dis
trict Medical society, meeting with
Seaboard society.
Prison Warden Faces
1 rial After Analysis of
Hanged Men’s Skulls
FLORENCE, Ariz., Dec. 15.—The
skulls of Theodore West and Paul
V. Hadley, who were hanged here
for murder, were sent to the Wistar
Institute of Anatomy and Biology,
Philadelphia, for scientific purposes,
R. B. Sims, warden of the peniten
tiary, said today. It previously had
I been given out that the skulls were
shipped to the Carnegie institute,
Pittsburg, which Sims said was in
correct. Reports of an examination
of the skulls are on file in Governor
George W. P. Hunt’s office, Sims
asserted today.
Sims’ trial on charges of aiding in
"the mutilation of the d p ad bodies
of two human beings” is set for
Thursday.
Investigation of the skulls formed
an important addition to science,
i full reports having been made by
scientists of the institute without
the knowledge of the identities or
' records of the two men, Mr. Sims
said.
Examination of the West skull
, by the scientists, without the knowl
edge of the criminal's record or
i identity, resulted in their opinion.
■ as expressed in the report, that it
was possible the subject had been
; an asylum inmate and had been in-
IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
i WALLACE. Resolutions indors
ing proposal that state issue addi
tional $35,000,000 in bonds to com
plete state system of hard-surfaced
highways are adopted at meeting of
South Atlantic ’oastal Highway as
sociation, attended by 150 members,
who are addressed by number of
prominent men of state.
DUNN. Rudolph Bass, 20. of
Sampson county, dies at hospital of
ire Sons
WILSON'S MEMORY
IN SOLEMN SERVICE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. Con
gress paused in its round of activity
today to render honor to the memory
of Woodrow Wilson.
The chamber of the house of repre
sentatives was the setting for the
memorial services, with Dr. Edwin
Anderson Aiderman, president of his
old Alma Mater, the University of
Virginia, pronouncing, from the ros
trum where the late president reviv
ed the Washingtonian custom of de
livering in person his message to the
congress, the eulogy of his life ana
achievements.
Dignitaries of state, political per
sonages of past and present, close
friends of the late chief executive
and invited guests made up the
gathering for which all space on the
floor and gallaries had been reserved.
Avast, unseen audience, too, haul
been remembered in arrangements
for radio-casting the ceremony
through a wide r-haln of stations.
President Coolidge and his cabinet,
supreme court justices, the repr®
sentatives of foreign governments,
governors of states, members of the
Wilson cabinet, and high officers of
the army and navy were among thu
joining with members of the senate
and house to commemorate the
who sleeps ’neath the toworing cathe
dral spire within distant view ot' Hit
nation’s capitol.
Simple But Impressive
The program was a simple one.
Early the great white capitol ga
evidence that it was a day ai>nrt. Its
halls were hushed and the machinery
of legislation was stilled. In the;
morning only members and thjce'i
having urgent business within were I
admitted. Half-past ten was the tin i
set for opening the east doors lead-[
ing to the rotunda, to admit those
accorded the privilege of a seat with
in the chambers.
Both the senate and house were
called to convene a little before .he
noon hour, the time of the ceremony,
members of the senate, after pray
er, recessing to go to the housj
chamber. The marine band was se
lected to furnish music, assembling
in (he house wing just before noon.
With Senator Cummi as jiresi
dent pro tempore of the senate, oc
cupying the speaker’s chair, the cer
emonial program opened with prayer
offered by the Rev. James S. Mont
gomery, chaplain of the house. In
troduction of Dr. Aiderman by the
presiding- officer and his address in
eulogy of the late president, follow
ed with the benediction by the Rev.
J. J. Muir, chaplain of the senate,
closing the program.
Leaders had planned to adjourn
both the senate and house after the
exercises out of respect to Mr. Wil-i
son’s memory.
Three of Family Present
Three of the late president’s imme-l
diate family—Mrs. Wilson; hisdaugh [
ter, Miss Margaret Wilson, and his[
brother, Joseph R. Wilson, of Balti-’
more—were present for the cere-’
mony. His other two daughters,
Mrs. William G. McAdoo and Mrs. [
Francis B. Sayre, the latter being s
abroad were unable to attend. John!
Randolph Bolling, brother of M>s.
Wilson, and secretary to his brother-’
in-law when he retired to private?
life from the White House, also
joined Mrs, Wilson in attendance.
Missing from among the associates’
of the late president attending were[
former Vice President Thomas R.!
Marshall; General Pershing, who is|
on a South American diplomatic I
mission, and William G. McAdoo,'
his son-in-law. Mr. McAdoo, in wir-l
ing his regrets, characterized Mr.'
Wilson as ‘‘one of the most notable]
of American statesmen and the lead
ing humanitarian of the modern'
world.”
Galling the session to order, Presi-'
d;nt Cummins, of the senate, said:
“The two houses of congress with J
their invited guests are assembled to
r-nder tribute to the memory of a'
great man. a great president, a ]
great patriot, a towering figure in ;
the history of mankind.”
Mrs. Wilson, clad entirely in black, I
save for a narrow white collar, oc-j
cupied a seat in the reserved gal- |
1' ry. r lhe other members of the'
family were seated near her.
Chief Justice Taft and associate- !
justices of the supreme court occu- I
pied the first row of seats on the j
floor with cabinet officials of the
Wilson administration behind them. !
Those in the group included former
Secretaries Bryan, Lansing, Houston,
Daniels, Payne. Redfield, and Wilson,
and former Attorney-General Palmer.
Also seated near the speaker’s
dias were Governors Ritchie, Mary- i
Ifind; Baxter, Maine: Trinkle, Vir
ginia; McLeod, South Carolina; '
Trapp. Oklahoma, and Morgan, West I
Virginia.
President Coolidge and his cabinet
entered just before the hour for be- I
ginning the services. Mrs. Coolidge
was seated in the executive gallery.
Scutari Captured
By Albanian Rebels
LONDON’. Dec. 15. A party of
Albanian rebels invaded the Turkish
border Monday and after an advance ;
which met strong resistance, cap- ’
tured the town of Scutari, according
to a Central News dispatch from Bel
gi-ade, .
sane, according to the warden. That
opinion, Mr. Sims said, coincided
with the facts. West having at one ;
time been an inmate of an insane
asylum.
In the Hadley case. Warden Sims
said, the scientists reported the
skull was unusually well developed
and might easily be that of a promi
nent statesman, or one active, in af
fairs of government.
The West skull, due to the strik
ing agreement between the findings I
and the recovery of the subject, has
been used as the subject of lec- >
tures in New Jersey and through
the east, he declared.
Both skulls are now on rxhibi- !
in in th* ins’itme and are identi
fi«’d only by number, Warden Sims
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1924.
injuries received when run over by
log train operate’’ by Tilghman Lum
ber company.
AHOSKIE. Doom of Hertford
county fair is sounded when asso
ciation’s holdings are sold for s6ll
under execution of judgment.
CHARLOTTE. Albert Smith, 72,
of Gastonia, brother of A. T. L.
Smith, well-known, of Charlotte, dies
after suffering stroke of .paralysis.
ATTACKS ON WILSON TRIVIAL;
TIME AND HIS GREATNESS TO
ERASE THEM, SPEAKER SAYS
Washington 7 and Lincoln Had Their Faults, but Who Re
members. Them? Dr. Aiderman Asks Birth of
Ideas Assure Their Renown
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Wood
row Wilson sought to give the twen
tieth century a faith to inspire it
and to justify the sacrifice of mil
lions of lives in the great war, and
if there was failure it was human
ity’s failure,” Dr. Edwin A. Aider
man, president of the University of
Virginia, declared at joint congres
sional memorial services for the war
president held today in the chamber
of the house of representatives.
“To make him, the one undaunted
advocate of those hopes, the scape
goat of a world collapse,” Dr. Alder
man said, “in to visit upon him in
justice so cruel that it must perish
of its own reason.” '
Speaking in the place where Wil
son delivered the address that car
ried his country iffto the world con
flict, the University of Virginia
president declared he could not en
visage Wilson as a failure as he
came back from the Paris peace
conference bearing the covenant of
the League of Nations and the “im
perfect” treaty of Versailles.
Pictured as Conqueror
“I envisage him rather as a vic
tor and conqueror as he returned to
America,” he said, “untouched by
sordidness or dishonor, unsurpassed
in moral devotion, and offering to
his country leadership in the broad
est and worthiest cause in all the
story of human struggle for a bet
ter life.”
Dr. Aiderman said it was not for
him to undertake the task of ap
portioning “with nice justice the
responsibility for the cauldron of
heat and ‘sweltering venom’ of dead
lock and indecision, of partisanship
and passion, in which for weary
months this largest question of mod
ern times boiled and bubbled.”
“Other ages will make that sol
emn appraisement,” he added. “I
may be permitted the reflection that
something less of malice in the
hearts of his enemies and something
more of compromise in his own
heart, and something more of politi
cal genius and firm purpose in the
hearts of those who kept the faith,
and there might have been another
world.
“It is commonly said that the
historic rank of Woodrow Wilson is
wrapped up in the destiny of the
covenant; that if it fails, his rank
will be merely that of one more
radiant spirit whose reach exceeded
his grasp, and if it succeeds his
apotheosis in history is secure. I find
the forpiula too glib and automatic
for the forces and ideas it presumes
to envelop.
Idea Keeps Name Alive
“Apotheosis anj immortality are
weighty words that ill-fit our poor
flesh, so foredoomed to the iniquity
of earthly oblivion; but surely the
fame of Woodrow Wilson does not
rest upon an instrument the orderly
growth of which into final useful
ness may so change its structure
and modify its form as to cause it
to become another and an even bet
ter instrument. It depends upon an
unconquerable idea, so greatly con
ceived and set forth, that it must
continue to grow into newer and
finer form, and his fame must grow
with it into whatever bright renown
it may attain.
“The world use to be full of peo
ple busy in discerning, imagining
and cataloging the faults of Wood
row Wilson. Dogmatist and hermit,
rhetorician and pacifist, egocentric
and ingrate, dreamer and drifter,
were some of the milder coinages of
his more civil and restrained ene
mies. Well, he had his faults. Some
of them were protective devices to
conserve physical strength, and oth
ers lay buried deep in the impulses
of his blood; but inhibitions born of
pride and courage and high ambi
tions are such as nations learn to
forget and to forgive, and eVen to
love and cherish. Posterity is in
curious about the minor faults cf
its heroes.
“His countrymen do not tattle
about Washington's blazing pro
fanity at Monmouth, but see his
statel.y figure riding into the storm
o f battle beneath the tattered flag
cf a new nation he would fain bring
into the world. They do not whis
per about Lincoln’s choice of com
panions or his taste in anecdotes or
bis cunning in politics; but they read
incised on white marble walls the
sacred poems which his literary gen
ius has left to posterity; behold him
in the night watches correcting his
mistakes and using even his hu
mility as a sword -with which to
carve out the victory of his cause.
And so it will be with Woodrow Wil
son in the long perspective of the
years.
Bis ambition to serve his coun
try was as intense as Cromwell's.
It was not easy for him to forget or
to forgive. The pride of righteous
ness sometimes froze the more genial
currents of his soul, but he was
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WADESBORO—Woodrow Wilson's
vision “yet will save the world from
war.” declares Josephus Daniels.
Raleigh publisher, secretary of navy
in Wilson’s cabinet, in address at un
veiling of memorial to Anson county
tnen who died in World war. Dan
iels says “drifting world, competing
in armaments, yet is fearful of or
ganizing for peace.”
willing to die, and did die to guaran
tee to humble men a fairer chance
in a juster world, and therefore the
savage assaults of his enemies will
shrivel into insignificance.”
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WAS-HNGTON, Dec. 13.—Navy
air experts have disclosed to con
gress plans for a 6,000,000 cubic
, feet capacity airship which would
dwarf the 2,6150,000 capacity Los An
geles and be much larger than the
two new 5,000,000 capacitj' ships or
yred by the British government for
commercial use between England and
At stralia.
Such a- ship could carry 22 tons
of “pay load” Read Admiral Moffett,
chief of the naval air service, told a
house committee, it was disclosed in
reports of the hearings made pub
lic today. On a schedule of eighty
single crossings between New York
and London, he added, the ship
would show an estimated profit of
$4,856,000 a. year.
The proposed air liner, Admiral
i Moffett said, would be 787 feet in
length compared to the 658 foot Los
Angeles, have a larger diameter of
122 feet, compared to the 90 foot
girth of the German built craft. The
cruising radius of the big ship would
be 7,150 nautical miles without re
fueling at a standard speed of 50
knots compared to the 4,525 miles
radius of the Los Angeles and the
2,300 miles of the Shenandoah.
'Phe highest estimates for building
such a ship would be $6,000,000, or
$1 per cubic foot, the naval air
chief said. The British claimed
they would build their new 5,000,000
foot shio at 25 cents a foot, the com
mittee was told, but the admiral said
he did not credit it.
Admiral Moffett estimated that the
cost running the big ship from New
York to England on weekly voyages
would be about $30,000 against a
cost for the Los Angeles of $21,400.
Figuring on twenty passengers a
trip for the Los Angeles at SI,OOO
each and 2.4 tons of mail or freight
in addition to be carried at a rate
of $4,300, Moffet placed pos
sible receipts at $24,300 per trip, or
a net profit per trip of $2,900. The
Panama run, he said, should permit
the Los Angeles to make 80 trips a
year.
Savannah Unveils
War Heroes’ Tablet
SAVANNAH. Ga. Dec, 15.—A
large outpouring of parishioners,
the entire membership of Savannah
Council Knights of Columbus and
representative delegations from
('hatham post, American Legion, and
Francis Bartow camp, Sons of Con
federate Veterans, attended the un
veiling ceremonies of a tablet bear
ing the 264 names of ,n»en and wom
en who participated in the World
war at the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist, yesterday afternoon.
Right Rev. M. J. Keyes, D. D.,
bishop of the Catholic diocese of
Savannah, delivered the principal ad
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