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The Washington times., 1929-07-30
Two Arlington Lawyers
To Attend Va. Bar Meet

ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, July sO.--Police Judge
Harry r. Thomas. and Common.
wealth's Attorney william c. Cloth
left today for Hot Springs, Va.
They win attend the annual
meeting Of the Virginia Bar As
sociation which convenes tomorrow.
The meeting will continue through
THURSDAY.
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
"a Miners DIE
IN BLAST
Photo by international

BERLIN. July 80 Q.N.S.)-Twen-
ty.four miners were killed and II
injured in choke damp explosion
at thu Niederhermsdorf Mine at
Waldenburg, Silesia, today, accord
ing to information received here.
Seven of the injured are in a
capped with slight injuries.
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Gen. Rivera on Vacation
Will Open Telephones

MADRID, July 80 Q.N.S.l.
ing his vacation at Mondariz. Gen
Primo De Rivera, the Spanish dicta-
tor, will inaugurate transatlantic
telephone services with several
Latin-American republics. exchang-
ing greetings with the national ex-
ecutives
General Rivera will reach Mon.
dariz tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
CLASS RESENTS
'NAGG|NG' BY
CANNON

LYNCHBURG, Va, July 80.
The News, owned by Senator
Carter Glass, today published
editorially a reply to the latest
statement by Bishop James
Cannon, Jr., denying that he
used funds of the Methodist
Board Of Temperance and
Social Service to help in the
election Of Mr.. Hoover. Com
menting under the caption
"Cannon's Nagging," the
News says:
A week ago the News received
with special request to print or re-
turn a communication from the
Rev. Rembert C. Smith, D. D.. q
Methodist minister In Georgia, con-
corning the action OF the Methodist
Board of Temperance and Social
Service in assuming to vindicate
Bishop James Cannon, jr.. in the
matter of certain alleged Illicit stock
speculations and also in regard to
having lent money TO help bring
about the election of Mr.. Hoover
Explains Significance
"Today the News prints Bishop
Cannon's reply to DR.. Smiths criti,
cisms, which includes also COM
ment on publications In various
other newspapers with which the
News had nothing whatsoever to do.
Not content with replying to
DIR. Smiths charges and criticisms,
Bishop Cannon, as on a former oc-
casion, gratuitlously brings Senator
Glass in the picture by saying the
publication Of DR.. Smiths article in
Senator Glass newspaper was In
itself quite significant. Why sig
nificant, and significant of what?
why was it more significant for
the News to print DR.. Smiths com
munication by request than for the
Baltimore, the Washington, the
New York. and numerous other
papers to print 1t by choice. and
anplify the charges made by DR..
Smith?
Printed Vindication
L. not DR.. Rembert c. Smith a
reputable minister in good standing
in southern Methodism? II so. what
excuse could the News have given
for rejecting his communication
when it makes practice every
day Of printing letters from persons
not so reputable. perhaps some OF
which are even mendacious as on
Sunday last and foolishly detamatory
OF the News itself?
''The News printed Bishop
Cannon's 'vindication' by the
Methodist Board. without being
under any special obligation to do
50; why should this paper have re-
fused DIR. Smith the privilege OF
criticizing the acton of the board?
why should Bishop Cannon de-
sire to drag Senator Glass into his
quarrel with DIR. Smith, with which
Mr.. Glass had not the remotest
thing to do? Ii Bishop Cannon for
any reason, good or bad, is impatient
for controversy with MIR. Glass,
the News ventures to think he may
be accommodated without resorting
to, furtive filings"
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
SUNDAYC[OSINGIWORLD FIGHT
| HITS MD. CLUB U.S. TALK|ES
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The whole world has gone 'talkie
crazy" with the result that half.
dozen nations are agog with plans
to combat the tremendous hold Of
Hollywood productions on the movie
patrons in every land, dispatches
to the Department Of Commerce,
made public today. disclosed.
Handicapped by. the fact that
American producers pioneered the
field of sound pictures, America 5
foreign competitors nevertheless are
working In feverish haste to can.
ture what they regard az their
golden opportunity to win their
place In the theatrical sun. Thus
far the American productions are
still dominant.
Russia Produces
Sowkino, the leading Soviet Rus
sian production unit, has ordered
so sound film sets from the gov
ernment electric trust, and also
production of the first Soviet Rus.
sian sound film is under way in
Petrograd. TO forestall American
expansion. Russia has prohibited
imports OF d.film installations.
UFA sound-studios at Berlin have
built a great studio for talking
pictures. and installation of ma.
chinery soon is to begin. The
leading Italian company has in.
creased its capital stock and work
on the first Italian sound picture
has begun. The italian company
also has entered into a comblna.
ton with British producers.
British ReOrganize
Big business in London is back
ing reorganization of the British
film industry to meet the Amer
lean talkie invasion. Because there
Is no language handicap for Amer
lean sound pictures. they have vir-
tually pre-empted the field through.
out the United Kingdom.
Sound films will be heard In
Vienna in the fall, and manufac-
ture of sound-reproduction apparatus
Is under way. All OF the larger
Swiss cities, with the exception of
Berne, plan to have at least one
theater equipped to handle talkies
In the fall.
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District and Maryland
Odd Fellows to Picnic

Three thousand Odd Fellows and
their friends from the District and
neighboring counties in Maryland
are expected to attend the thirty
first annual picnic of Forest Lodge,
No. IL. of Forestville, Md, on
Thursday at Chesapeake Beach.
The arrangements committee is
composed of Howard /. Beall. chair
man: Leroy Pumphrey and jerry
B. Brady.
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
SHANGHAI PLOT
IS F0|LED

SHANGHAI, July 80 Q.N.Sl.--In
series of raids today French
police uncovered what was con-
sidered proof that q widespread
conspiracy aiming at city.wide dis
orders was contemplated here
Thursday by members of the COM
munist party.
After two tons Of seized docu.
ments had been examined, it was
announced that the China party
apparently was the originator OF
the conspiracy. This party is alleged
to be leagued with the Third Inter
rationale.
MOSCOW. July SO.-The soviet
government today officially denied
that any negotiations looking ,oward
settlement of the Sino-Russian dis
pute had begun.
Declaring that only the surface
had been scratched, police con-
tinued the raids after eight persons
had been arrested and a small
amount of arms and ammunition.
in addition to the propaganda. had
been seized.
Great Precautions
Greatest precautions are being
taken against a possible Commun-
ist uprising. Foreign concessions
have prohibited garages to rent
trucks to demonstrators. and have
issued orders warning foreign resi-
dents of China to remain indoors
Wednesday Thursday and Friday.
Chinese authorities have placed
ban on mass meetings and have
ordered the reinforcement OF patrols
guarding factories.
Sino.foreign municipalities are
cooperating in what police declare
to be the most serious outbreak
threatened in years.
HARDIN. July 80 1.N.sl.-The
Harhin Commissioner OF Foreign
Affairs Is expected to meet Boris
Melkinoff. Soviet Consul General at
Harbin, at Manchouli tonight for a
discussion which may lead to media.
ton of the Sino. Russian squabble.
A Chinese member Of the Chinese
Eastern Railway today informed the
board of the railway system of the
proposed meeting. and stated that
Melkinoff bears the reply OF the
Soviet government to the sngges-
tions made by Chinese officials the
day Of his departure for Moscow.
LONDON. July 80 U.N.S). -
party Of White Russians has at.
tackled Soviet border troops at
suifenho PogranichnayaG forcing
the latter to retire. it is reported in
a Central News dispatch from
Shanghai today.
Chinese and Russian troops have
bsen withdrawn from Manchouli,
leaving q neutral zone 20 miles wide
between the two forces,
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
LICENSE ISSUED

ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, July 30.--A marriage Ii
cense was issued today to Chester
A, Atwood, 81. and Mildred l.. Tay.
lor, 21. both Of Washington.
The Washington times., 1929-07-30
AUXILIARY TO ELECT

CLARENDON. July 30.-Officers
will be elected by the auxiliary of
Arlington Post, No. 1ss, American
Legion. tomorrow night at the home
Of Mrs. Marvin Eubank Clarendon.
The Washington times., 1929-07-30

: . InternationaI
HOLLYWOOD'S LATEST HONEYMOONERS
HARRY. LANGDON film comedian and Mrs. Helen
Walton the latest newyweds in Hollywood They were
married at the Beverly Hills home of Alice Calhoun The
brides only attendant her daughter Virginia Is.
The Washington times., 1929-07-30

In following the 1S.day Holly
wood diet. il the menu calls FOR a
vegetable or fruit that one cannot
easily obtain, it is perfectly all
right to substitute another vege.
tahIe or fruit, provided 1t is found
q the same group OF the anove
classified tions.
The HOLLYWOOD diet TO-DAY enters
its fifth lap. If you desire that
slim figure, follow the nenu re-
ltRiougly, eat moderate pcrtinns
VISIT the clinics for re-weishing and
advice and watch the pounds drop
etf.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-10-04
Chapel Hill Chaf

The Mexican morning glories,
on the Coker estate down the
slope toward the Steen home,
make one of the most splendid
floral displays Chapel Hill has
ever seen. Thousands of these
wide-spreading blue flowers are
massed among the shrubs along
the fence and Chamber up the
apple trees. Their beauty is
enhanced by the profusion of
bright golden flowers that bloom
alongside them.
u
Dan Grant has got so much
publicity for the loss of his
,rousers, through reprints of and
comments upon the bit of news
in last weeks issue, that per-
haps | ought to call upon him
for more money for the adver-
tisement, the amount to be
based upon the space in the
state papers. Jonathan Daniels,
in his column in the News and
Observer, narrated the calamity
and did not neglect to set down
the telephone number to be call
ed by the finder of the trousers.
The first among the paragraph
les in Sundays Greensboro
NelOs was as follows: Headline
in the Chapel Hill Weekly says
Daniel Grant Lost Trousers A
wholly unacademic problem in
the academic shades. On Mon
day the Ne10S, fascinated beyond
its control, returned to the sub
ject in a half-column editorial
containing these observations: !:
Daniel l.. Grant Set forth from
Glandon Forest with a pair of
gray trousers over his arm.
when he came to himself the
trousers were not, this Incl
dent, although we hate to say it,
to our mind illustrates the vitiat-
ing influence of clustered shades
on the deniZens thereof. . Re-
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Louis r. Wilson and Edgar
w. Knight, committeeman, have
perfected their arrangements
for the celebration from Satur-
day to Tuesday, October 10 to
%. 1t will begin with the
dedication of the new library
Saturday morning and end with
a campus tour, golf, and a visit
to Duke University Tuesday
afternoon. The program en-
braces the activities Of the
Southern Conference on Educa-
ton, the Southeastern Library
Association, and the North
Carolina Library Association.
At the convocation Saturday
morning in Memorial hall the
presentation of the library will
be made by Governor Gardner,
and the building will be accepted
on behalf Of the trustees by
John Sprunt Hill. Louis X. Will
son will announce gifts, and
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Holt Laden with Food

Lawrence Holt of Asheville
was in Chapel Hill Wednesday.
When he appeared at a friends
house to make a call he held in
his hands a large green
wreathed china plate on which
were half of u meringue-covered
sweet potato pie and six molas-
SEES cakes. lie explained his
cargo by saying that he had
just been to see Mrs. Kluttz.
She remembered his enthusi-
asms of his student days, more
than a quarter of a century ago,
and 80, after giving him an af-
fectionate greeting, she raided
the pantry for his benefit. He
couldn't dispose of the feast on
the spot and 80 took it with him
on his next call. Frank Graham
accompanied him to help con-
sumo the pie and cakes.
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Appeal to Alumni for Funds for the University

A movement which has been
under discussion for several
months, by the University
authorities and leading alumni,
was launched this week when
President Chase issued an ap-
peal to the $4,000 alumni for
private gifts to supplement the
states appropriations. The
idea is to stimulate regular an
nual contributions--from each
man according to his means--to
the Alumni Loyalty Fund.
The project is directed by a
Loyalty Fund council Of twelve.
with Leslie Well Of Goldsboro
as chairman. Large gifts for
equipment and endowments will
be sought, but 1t is the smaller
gifts from thousands Of iRdivi-
d1als with which the council Is
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or a cantata shortly before
Christmas.
An amount adequate to cover
the expenses Of the project will
be raised through a small fee
to be paid by every member.
This detail will be discussed at
q business session preceding the
rehearsal Monday evening.
Anybody who wants to sing
In the chorus is invited to join.
Mr.. Lawrence thinks that there
will be a membership Of between
80 and 100 when the enrolment
is completed.
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OVERCROWDING Is
SERIOUS PROBLEM
FOR THE SCHOOL
Children from Other Districts
May Have TO Drop OF the
Roll in Chapel Hill
HEARING ON THE MATTER

The Chapel Hill school faces
a serious problem because of
overcrowding in the elementary
grades. This overcrowding re-
suits from the attendance ,of
children who live in other dis
tricts and who come here instead
of attending the schools nearer
their homes.
There is no legal sanction for
their coming to the school here.
In the past years they were re-
ceived because they were so few
in number that they made little
or no difference in the teaching
load, but this fall there are so
many of them that they impair
seriously the effectiveness of the
teaching.
A week or so ago Superin-
tendent Hoyle sent a letter to
the parents in other districts
whose children are enrolled here.
telling them that their boys and
girls would have to be with
drawn. The letter was given
to the children themselves to
deliver, and some of them, dis
covering what the message was,
burst into tears. This caused
Mr.. Hoyle great distress, but,
since he was convinced that the
outside children would not be
kept in the school here with
fairness to the people in the
Chapel Hill district, he held to
his decision.
Several of the parents to
whom the letter was sent came
to see him and requested that
the school board have a hear
ing and try to work out some
other solution than the exclusion
of their children. A meeting
.-.- Ill
#aE8 V"FfcU f0F f0Ht zffohdaf eve
ming, but the weather was so
bad that not many of the inter-
ested residents out in the coun-
try could get into town. An
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mainly concerned at present.
"There are two problems re-
garding the maintenance Of the
University" says Mr.. Chase.
"The forst Is that of
provision for it's immediate
needs--its student increases,
maintenance Of buildings
routine increases in salaries
promotions, clerical adjust
rnents, and so on. These
things are the bread and butter
Of the University and they are
being provided for by the state.
Then there is the question Of
University growth and develop
ment. ! do not mean growth In
numbers, but growth in stature,
in quality and standards.
New responsibilities develop.
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Community Chorus Organized; to Give messiah,

More than 60 affirmative re.
plies. in reply to letter Of in
quiry sent out by George Law
renee, assure the organization Of
a community chorus for Chapel
Hill. The first rehearsal will
be held at 1880 next Monday
evening, October 7, in Gerard
hall.
Harold & nunr the ..n... -
fessor OF music in the Univer-
sity has agreed to direct the
chorus, and Mrs. A s. Wheeler
will be the accompanist.
The tentative program calls
for the production Of an oratorio
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merely to ask somebody the
way to Lees home. He ap-
preached a man standing on the
curb, took off his hat, and said
Boss, can you tell me where
Lee Blackwell lives?"
The stranger stared at him
IN amazement, muttered some
thing which Jim couldn't under
stand, and walked away.
Then the old Negro thought
he remembered that Lee had
written something about Jack
son avenue. After several in
quiries of persons all of whom
seemed to be in a great hurry,
he found that thoroughfare.
Then he was sure his search
would end successfully. But no.
Nobody knew anything about
Lee. And jim, discouraged and
saddened, left Newark without
ever seeing him. But he had
another son, Ed, in Washington,
and the thought of that cheered
him.
We'll, I'll see Ed 6n the way
back home," he assured himself
But he had no better luck in
Washington, Nobody there could
tell him anything about Ed.
TOO many people up there"
he told II. r. Totten, "and they
don't pay no 'tention to you. |
asked a lot of 'em where Lee and
Ed was, but ! didn't git no help
at ALL"
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"Shot in the Back
Shot in the bach" !"

A9tAob III I.AC OA(h.
The recurrence Of this phrase,
in the report of the strike riot
at Marion, gives the story the
final sickening touch.
A body of workers, alleging
a violation of the recent agree
ment between the management
and the employees, walked out
soon after midnight. They es-
tablished a picket line. The
sheriff was called on by the
mill management and was on
hand with his deputies when
the day shift appeared for duty,
The sheriff ordered the strikers
to disperse. When they wouldn't t
move he attempted to make
them do so by the use of tear
gas.
AS to just what happened af-
ter the sheriff shot tear gas into
the strikers, the testimony of
witnesses is conflicting. But
the weight of evidence is that
the officers of the law did all
the fatal shaeting and that they
shot at strikers who were run
ming away.
THE dead: George Jonas, 70
years old, shot in the back.
Sam Vickers, 60 years old, shot
in the back. The dying; James
Roberts, shot in the back. w.
f. Black. shot in the back.
Luther Bryson, shot in the
back. e" These lines are
from the report of X. f. Will
liams in the NeUS and Observer.
THE deputies stood right in
their tracks and picked them Off
as they ran," says Kermit Fen
der, a day shift man who was
not one of the strikers.
There is some excuse for
using firearms in self defense.
But does the majesty Of the law
in North Carolina require that
men be shot down when they
have turned their backs in re-
treat?
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Towns Alumni to Meet
Chapel Hin Club Gathering Next
Monday Evening, October 7

The alumni of the University
living in Chapel Hill will gather
for a smoker at $3.50 next Mon
day evening at the Graduate
Club (the Mary Ann Smith
building), All members of the
faculty. whether or not they at
tended the University as stu
dents, are invited. There is no
admission charge for anybody.
President Chase will be the
principal speaker. He will talk
on the present state Of Univer-
sity affairs and on the outlook
for future development. Il Ia
expected that he will amplify thu
recent statement about the cam
paign now being carried on by
the Alumni Loyalty Council.
There will be a short business
meeting, but the program will
be chiefly Of a social nature.
Carl Durham Is president Of
the Chapel Hill club, and Robert
b. House is secretary.
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The Jewish New Year
Rosh Hashanah 10 BE Observed: Sew
eral Stores Here TO Close

Tomorrow Saturday is the
Jewish New YeaE-Rnah Aaaha-
nah--and the celebration of the
festival will begin this friday
evening.
The stores of Jack Lipman,
Sol Lipman, and S. Berman, and
Harry Stern's restaurant here
in Chapel Hill, will be closed to-
morrow. The Jews here do not
have separate congregation of
their own, but many Of them go
to attend the ceremonies in the
synagogue in Durham.
One Of the principal rites at
the New Year is the blowing of
the Shofar, the rams horn. This
comes down from ancient times.
The blast of the Shofar is to re-
mind man Of the significance of
the New Year, of his obligations
to his fellow men, and Of his
duties to God.
This present Rosh Hashanah
ushers in the year, $500 Of the
Hebrew calendar.
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Jim Couldn't Find Son in Big City

Jim Blackwell, the Negro who
sometimes works on the campus
under w. c. Coker and at other
times does odd jobs around the
village, has II children. The
youngest one was born on the
fathers 61st birthday.
One of the older sons, Lee, was
seized with the wanderlust a
few years ago, bade goodbye to
the family, and set out for the
North. He found work in New
ark, New Jersey. And, once
there and tied down by the daily
grind, he couldn't get home
again. The only possible allevi-
alton for his homesickness was
to get a member of the family
to visit him, and he kept urging
his father to come.
A man who has a large fam
lily to support, and is not always
able to get work to do, finds ii
no easy matter to raise the price
of such a journey, and jim Saw
little hope of accepting the in
vitation. But one day last month
Nello Teer, the contractor about
to start north in his automobile,
offered to take him along.
When Jim reached Newark
he was appalled, by the size of
the place, by the crowds on the
streets and the roar of the
traffic. He did not have his
sons address-hadn't considered
lit necessary. His idea had been
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Koch Lectures Oct. IL
To Give Illustrated Talk on Develop
ment Of the Playmakers

Every year young men and
women coming to the Univer-
ty,from others states. having
heard and read so much of the
Carolina Playmakers, evince a
keen interest in the organiza-
ton and want to know more
about it's history and develop
ment.
Several of these students have
petitioned Frederick II. Koch to
tell them the story, and, in re-
sponse, he is going to give an
illustrated lecture at $3.50 next
Friday evening, October II, in
the Playmakers Theatre. First
he will tell of the Prairie Play
ers, the troupe he directed in
South Dakota before he came to
this state, and he will bring the
narrative forward to embrace
the most recent activities Of the
Playmakers at the University
Of North Carolina.
The lecture is open to the
public.