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THE ASHEV1LLE CITIZEN. ASHEVILLE. N. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 193, Page FOUR in American journalism but also In American What Uther Papers Say CITY WILL OFFER BOARD DF FIVE political Mfe; for above all the other important metropolitan newspapers The World haa consistently leaned to the Democratic party and on more than one occasion has exerted a far-reaching influence. THE Question BOX BE SELECTED TRIBUTES er the meetings of saiC Board.

majority of ths members of aald Board shall corstltute a quorum and the chairman or any two members ma" call a meeting. The members of said Board shall serve without compensation. Section Twelve The Ashevllle School Board and th Superintendent thereof shall be vested with full power and authority i to change or extend the subjects B. be taught in tba schools of said loci i tax district; supervise and provide CHALLENGES (Wilmington Slsr) With enactment of a law that permits divorces to non-residents after a 60-day stay within Its borders. Arkansas makes a bid for the business that has made Reno famous.

There Is no essential difference between the Nevada law and the new law of Arkansas. It would be hardly fair to Inquire into the moral phases of such li.vs. it la noteworthy that Arkansas saves lis face, perhaps its conscience, by saying the 90-tlay clause Is for non-residents. Former Mayor Ended His Life Yesterday With Bullet THE--- ASHEVILLE CITIZEN Published Every Morning, except Sunday, by ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES COMPANY Abbeville, N. C.

ASHEVILLE Published Every Sunday vol. xlvii no. yj Chat A Webb President Don S. EIias Vice-President Robert La than Koitor Arthur Keeney Managing Edlfr Telephone 5500 All Departments (I'rlwiie Hramh Entered at the Post Office. Ashevllle.

N. iccond class matter, under Act of March 3. IB79. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In North a nil I mi Dally and Sunday. 12 months in advance.

7 00 Daily and Sunday, 6 montha in advance 3 75 Where waj General Custer burled? Originally General Custer was buried where he fell, at, the Battle of Bit? Horn. A year later, however, at the order of Grneral Sheridan, his body was transported and buried with due ceremony at West Point. Cotton And Turpentine When James 11. Pou told a legislative committee at Raleigh the other day that "til's business of raising cotton Is as dead as distilling of turpentine." the Greensboro New thinks that lie "made a phrase" which KlmiiJ help to picture to the minds of North Cr-o- Appointive Body Will Have Full Charge Of Operations (Continued From Page OneJ able, and otherwise care for the property and employ nnd fix the for the training of teachers for said schools; assign the teachers to the different schools and for the individual work and change or remove anv grad or class from any school building in said district to another. Sictinn Thirteen Funds for the support and main- I tenance of the -ix school 1 1 Jtnvy C'tockrtt Who said "Be sure you are right, the War of comIenatlon of all the employees mrn gn anean Davey Crockett, 1812.

linians the revolutionary thing that Is happening In this State. The Greensboro newspaper is Itself struck vwlth Mr. Pou's linking cotton and turpenunc. Presumably the old standards atlll exist for those native to Ihe Razorback state, whose marital patha are beset with difficulties. it l.t frankly, then, a business matter purely and simply.

People will have divorces, and will flock to the spot that offers the fewest difficulties. Arkansas hotels will profit. So will Arkansas lawyers. Arkansas court fees will soar. Altogether It Is a rather profitable business.

But the Arkansas divorce law Is not the law of other states. It Is not, for example, the law of North Carolina. Hence the effect la that Arkansas Invites North Carolinians to evade their own law. It would be equally logical for a atate to seize upon some other phase of our national life. It might make all homlcldea committed by or on non-residents Justifiable.

It could invite all these with personal differences to Journey to Its con-flsea and aettle their dispute without fear of consequences, It recalls that a great area of the best cotton land In the State was formerly turpentine land and tells of the destructive methods by which at last the great turpentine Industry passed out of existence. Then the forest disappeared "and the lands were planted In cotton. They have been steadily lmpoevrlshcd. Cotton In North Carolina approaches the point District shall be apportioned and allocated in the same way and manner that said funds for said term are apportioned and allocated In the other local tax districts as provided by law. Section teen If any sjction of thla Act, or any part thereof be hereafter declared invalid by the Courts cf this State, such decree shall not be construed as rendering this entirs Act Invalid but shall affect only the specific part, article or section involved in the decree.

Section Flft-ea All laws or clauses of laws in eon flict with this Act are hereby repealed. 'section si teen This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification. die iiciTwai i or liio pvuitei maintenance, repair and care of said school buildings and school property. Section Five If at any time said Board believes that It is for the best interest and welfare of the schools of said district that additional property shall be acquired for the proper conduction of any of the existing achools In said district or that property shall be purchased or otherwise acquired for the erection of new school buildings, then a resolution to that effect may be adopted by said Board and certified to the County Board of Education. Upon the receipt of said resolution the County Board of Education shall proceed to comply therewith In the way and manner now provided by law.

Section Six That said Ashevllle School Board shall elect a competent, skilled and expert Superintendent of the of aald district for a period not exceeding four years, and said Superintendent of Schools during his or Dally and Sunday, 3 montha In 2 00 Mali Hi AH Other States Dally and Sunday, 12 months )n 0 00 Dally and Sunday, 6 month In 4 7.) Dally and Sunday, 3 montha in 2. 50 By Mall to foreign Count rlea Double the rate to AH Other States By Carrier tn AMierllle and Nearby Tohim Daily and aunday. 1 year In advance 10 00 Dally and Bunday, A montha In 6 00 Dally and Sunday, 3 montha In 2 AO Duly and Sunday, 1 month in 00 Dally and Sunday. 1 week In advance 20 Single Copy. Bungay 10 Single Copy, Dally 03 The Citizen la glad to publlah letters, not too long, on matters of general Interest.

But such communications must be accompanied by the real name of the writer, even when they are to be published over a nom de plume. (Continued From Page One, about 6 fppt from t'ne body. No Papers were found in the coat pockets. A leather p-cketbook, which had ijeen given the mayor by negro Janitors of the citv hall upon his retirement from office, was underneath his body. It contained several cards.

Mr. Roberts left three letters, addressed to his widow, Gorge Pennell and "to the People of Asheville." Letters to Mr. Pennell and the people of Ashevllle are carried elsewhere In this Issue of the Citizen. The letters were found In Mr. Roberta" office by K.

H. Lee. Contents of the letter addressed to Mr. Pennell indicated that Mr. Roberts had taken oare of his personal and law affairs Tuesday.

He appeared before Miss May Jones, notary public in the Legal building, shortly after noon Tuesday and waa sworn to several affidavits which are left for Mr. Pennell. One of the affairs of the late mayor was an accounting of the estate of Sally M. Bishop. He was executor of the estate.

The letter Instructed Mr. Pennell to see that all his affairs of a business and personal nature were administered. Several proofs of claims for deposits of his clients which are In closed Ashevllle banks were also aworn to by Mr. Roberts. Mlaa Jones last night said that she noticed nothing unusual about the actions of the ex-mayor Tuesday in asking that she verify the papers and signatures.

Don C. Young, his law partner last night said that he waa talking to Mr. Roberts about 2:10 or 2:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon that he did not seem depressed or otherwise discouraged. Mr. Young said that he left his office about 2:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon to go to the courthouse and that he went Into Mr.

Roberta' office but found that the former city official had gone. He did not think this unusual and assumed that the former mayor had stepped out on business. Several other persons, Mr. Young said, were in the office during the early afternoon talking to Mr. Roberts.

About 1:30 o'clock Mr. Roberts asked Miss Annie L. Mcrrell. sten Crystal Pulare Vb there a palace made of glass? The Crystal Palace, made of glasj. was erected In Hyde Park London, for the World'a Fair held 1951.

It was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton and was built of glass and irpn, with floors of wood. Iti length was 1.608 feet, and Its 21 acres. Every department of art and science gas represented, and It was viewed by more than 0.000.000 persona. It materials were removed In 1854, and the structure rebuilt at Sydenham, from London, Theie the park and grounds cover nearly 200 acres and a permanent fair Is held. In 1853 a similar but smaller "crystal palace" was erected between Fortieth and Forty-second streets on Sixth avenue, New York City.

It waa used for exhibitions and grand concerts, but was destroyed by fire in 1858. Franklin Is It true that Benjamin Franklin never attended school? Benjamin Franklin attended school for two years between the ages of eight and ten. First Piano When was the first piano made in the United State? The first pianoforte was made In 1775 by John Behrent in Philadelphia. Pa nit When was the first financial. panic In the United States? In 1791, following the boom in business after the (rloae of the Revolutionary war, and because of over-speculation In the securities of the new government and in the stock of the newly organized banks, the first small panic of the United States occurred.

The first great financial crisis was precipltsted by the War of 1812 and after the capture of the capital by the British on August 24. 1814. MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the um for publication of all news dispatches in this paper, end also the local news published herein. All rights of re-publlcatlon of special dlapatches published herein are also reserved. THE PACIFYING KFFKCT OF GOAT'S (Louisville Couner-Journal) Out of tli a simple act of Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, In tending Mahatma Gandhi a Jug of goat'a milk and a banket of grapes a few mornings ago may grow the peace and Independence of India.

"Jug." by the way, la not used in Its common American sense in the dispatch, but In the British tense. We over here would call It a pitcher. The goat's milk and the grapes were for the "holy man's" "breakfast. Fruit, milk and a little rice are about all he eats. The Mahatma had been in conference with the British official whom he calls, "my dear friend." lie had been talking over, unofficially, the terms of the London Round Table agreement and when he emerged lrom the vice regal residence at New Delhi, the little brown nan saldi "I'm satisfied, even optimistic." The seeming right-about-face Is the greatest piece of news that has rome out of India since the "bloodies revolution" was inaugurated.

The Associated Press tells of visits to the Mahatma by 81 TcJ Bahadur Sapru and M. K. Jayakar, Hindu friends, who were Round Table delegates, and the Christian Science Monitor' correspondent at Allahabad credits the Nawo of Bhopal with effecting a distinct advance toward a peaceful settlement, after a long private session with Gandhi. In the meantime commercial Interests are bringing pressure lo bear. It Is not beyond the bounds of possibility tha the conferencea between Gandhi and the Viceroy could result In a simultaneous cessation of the Residents Of Paris Are Delighted With This Section of Impossibility." That Is true and It Is also true that "If the forest crop had been -ared for It would have yielded year for year, mors value than cotton has yielded and the land Itself would be better than ever." Then The News comes to the point.

"There are many signs," It says, "that putting North Carolina lands back to plne-growlng Is moie than the ultimate wisdom, that it Is the inevitable necessity. If that Is so, the sooner tlie better. When will the end come for cotton-raising In the Slate ten years hence, five years, next year? And what then? When will our elder statesmen begin asking this question of our economists?" These aro pertinent questions, for while we do not think that cotton-growing In North Carolina is Impossible we do think that it is Impossible for a large percentage of those who are now attempting to grow It. There Is plenty of land In North Carolina upon which cotton can be produced profitably. There are and always will be farmers In North Carolina who are capable of growing cotton In competition with the rest of the world.

But there Is much land still planted to cotton the yield from which is so low that its cultivation is uneconomical. There are thousands and tens of thousands of farmers In North Carolina who Former Mayor Robert The death of former Mayor Roberts has shocked and stunned the people of this community. That would have been true In any circumstances. It -Is peculiarly now. The tragedy of which he was one of the victims ner term oi omce shall devote his or her time and attention exclusively to the management and control of the schools located In said district.

Said Superintendent shall have the immediate and direct control over all the teachers and other employees of aald school system and shall be directly responsible for the efficiency and good management of said schools, and shall meet with the School Board at Its regular meetings and make a report, oral or written, as required by said Board, of the Work and conduct of said schools together with any recommendations that he or she may have in regard to the conduction and management thereof; that said Superintendent of schools shall be subject Ho removal from office by said Board for Inefficiency or ther cause satisfactory to said Board, and such action sha.ll not be subject to appeal. Section Seven Said School Board shall, from time to time, as It is necessary elect teachers nnd employes for the proper conduct of said schools. Baid teachers so elected to be recommended by the Superintendent of Schools and from a list of such recommendations the aald board shall select the necessary number of teachers and ographer, to give him three enve lopes. He said that he wanted to address three letters and that he would do so in long hand. The stenographer was not in the office Walilngtnn Monument How many stones are in the Washington monument? The number of stones In the Washington monument has been estimated at 23.000.

Government's orders for suppression of the civil disobedience movement and of the movement Itself, thus satisfying pride, preserving honor, and restoring peace. The road to home which began fn Paris. France, for Mr. and Mrs. W.

H. Griffin, crossed the ocean and meandered about through the south before coming to an end In Ashe vllle, but now they are both happy over the prospect of living In the Land of the Sky before the end of this year. Mrs. Griffin, whose-husband Is aa attorney with offices in Paris, ar-" rived In Asheville February 1, and' was shown several beautiful homes In Biltmore Forest and Grove Park by Booth and Company, local realtors. After inspecting several of them, Mrs.

Griffin decided to purchase the Roney Hllllard residence on Klmberly avenue four days after arriving here. She has returned to Paris where she and Mr. Griffin aro busily engaged In plans to come to Asheville some time this year. Booth and Company In cooperation with the Nichols Realty Company last week sold the Wells bloct of business property In West Asheville. Mr.

Booth said yesterday he has received more inquiries from prospective purchasers for homes In the past 30 days than he has had during any like period In several years. He feels that the real estate market in this section 15 one business which assuredly Is on an upward trend. are not now and who probably never will again In position to cultivate cotton with any assurance whatever of being able to get us when he left. One of the proofs of claim showed that Mr. Roberts had 1 17.74 on deposit at the Central Bank and Trust company when that Institution failed to open for business on November 20.

Attached to the proof of claims wss a small piece of white paper with the following notation "George, file these for me, O. A claim also f'ORHEC'TlOV In a recent Issue of the Question much from the crop as It costs them In employes. In making said recommendations the Superintendent of Schools ahall consider primarily the ability, education, character and efficiency of the persons so recommended and such qualifications shall guide the superintendent's actions In making said recommendations. If, however, the said board is unable or and money to make It, revealed that Mr. Roberts had 13.55 Virginia was given as the state I.om which the greatest number of presidents haa come.

This holds true, but the Question Box omitted the name of Woodrow Wilson from the list. He was born at Staunton, Va. Thia gives Virginia eight presidents. Ohio is next in line having given seven presidents to the nation. If there Is anything that can be done with the unproductive cotton lands except put them to growing timber we do not know what It l.v has brought to Ashevllle far more than Its share of trouble and sorrow but nothing heretofore quite so appalling and distressing as that which happened yesterday.

community, sadl divided In many ways, will not be divided in deploring this new grief, it will not be divided In the depths of sympathy with which It will think of Mr. Roberts and his family now and remember him hereafter. The Luxury Tax Probable News from Raleigh that the aub-commlttec of the House and Benate Finance Committees has adopted "In principle" the Hinsdale "selected commodity" sales-tax bill and the Brum-mltt proposal to Include Intangible, value In the franchise tax on corporations Is not surprising. It was predicted In these columns months ago that North Carolina would probably come to (he luxury tax this year and If the State Is to carry the burden of supporting the schools In all counties for six months on a uniform basis It Is difficult to see how this can be accomplished otherwise than, In part, through a tax on so-called luxuries. What revenues North Carolina can expect from such a tax Is debatable.

The North Carolina Tax Commission has pointed out that It a tax on cigarettes, candles, theater admissions and so on Is adopted certain license taxes now Imposed In this State will have to be eliminated and has argued that the adoption of the South Carolina system of a sales tRX on se THAT WHITE HOI SK MAM (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) A dispatch from Washington says that although former President Coolidge officially stopped having his mall sent to the Whit? House IB months ago, dozens of letters still come there for him and members of his family Not only that, but every how and then mall atlll arrives "from some far-removed ea-tlona of the country addressed to a rover Cleveland or Woodrow Wilson." We hadn't thought of It before, but by the same token what of unclaimed mall there must be at Stratford-on-Avon for the late William Shakespeare EUq. Caesar's fan letters long ago must have taxed postal atoraga space at Rome. Wonder what the Athena postmaster does with mail with advice to Alexander the Great and Terlclea of the golden age. The laws of North Carolina will have to be changed to make that possible.

That was oiw of the chief arguments In favor of the rccla I- flcatlon amendment to the constitution whlih was defeated In the general election fall. But what Is to become of the marginal farmers who are being Inexorably crowded off refuse to elect from said list of recommendations It shall request the superintendent, and It shall be his or her duty to furnish other names. Said board shall fix the compensation of all teachera and other employes so elected and shall provide by resolution the requirements necessary for the teacher to have to teach In said schools and shall fix the term of their employment in the discretion of the board. Any teacher or other employe may be removed for lneffeci-ency or other cause satisfactory to said board at any regular meeting thereof and from the action of said board there shall be no appeal. Sect ton Eight Raid School Board shall each year prepare, and transmit to tfhe Board of Financial Control If established land? It seems to us that many of them 'ace BODY OF VETERAN LONG MISSING IS FOUND IN VIRGINIA extinction or exile or the lowest form of peasantry unless Industry can be expanded In the Slate to lake care of them.

Yet, strangely NEWS OF OTHER DAYS From Ihe ritlicn'i Hies enough, some North Carolinians who seem ta have most reason for being concerned about the plight of these people) want to mako It Im possible for Industry to expand in North by law or otherwise to the board, of mayor of Ashevllle defeating J. E. Rankin after a bitter fight. He served four years. While mayor he waa three tlms elected president of the state Municipal association, and elected twice to the presidency of the state Forestry association.

Headed Hoard After his retirement as mayor, Mr. Roberts formed a partnership for the practice of law with Don C. Young. In 1914 Mr. Roberts was appointed chairman of the board of elections for county nnd mnnaged the primary and general campaigns.

He was twice a member of the Buncombe county Democratic executive committee. In May. 1927, Mr. Roberts waa again elected mayor, defeating E- B. Atkinson.

An active church worker. Mr. Roo-erta was nn elder of the West Ashevllle Presbyterian churili, where taught the Men's Bible class for many years. He was commissioner from the synod of Appalachla at El Dorado. and voted for Dr.

R. F. Campbell of Ashevllle as moderator. In 1928. Mayor Roberts was sponsor of the drive for funds for the William Jennings Bryan Memorial for this district.

He had been a life long friend of Brynn's. Frnteri.nl Honors Mr. Roberts was a thirty-second de PETERSBURG, Frt). 35. (fft A body round near here was Identified today by Mra.

William Orover Spang-lcr, of Reldsvllle. N. C. aa that or her husband, a World War veteran, who mysteriously disappeared 18 montha ago. Spansler, who suffered from ahell shork, left his home In Reldsvllle, September a year aso for Hopewell, on a business trip.

He told hla wife, she said, he feared foul play from "enemlea" In the Hopewell vt clnlty. Governor Byrd's Prophecy tn a savings account at the Haywood street branch of the Central bank. The body of Mr. Roberta was moved to the Clayton-Hyer undertaking home in West Ashevllle. Officers had called the funeral coach of another establishment but Clayton and Hyer were called In when the letter addressed to Mr.

Prnnell was opened. New riprejifl Knpldly Newa of the shooting spread rapidly throughout the bus! new aectioii of the city and police found It difficult to clear a pasaway through the throngs which had gathered In front of and along the stairways of the Legal building. Mr. Robert la survived by his widow, a son, Edward Roberts of Albuquerque, New Mexico: a daughter, Margaret Evelyn Roberts, and a brother, J. Roberts of Mills River.

Funeral services will be hrld either Saturday or Sunday depending the arrival of the son. He left New Mexico last night nt o'clock and If proper train connections can be made should arrive here Saturday afternoon. Has Leader Mayor Roberts was one of the leiders of the fight for "Greater Asheville" in the 1020 general assembly. During the time the legislature was tn session, he sjicnt much of his time In Rnleigh, exerting his Influence to have the limits of the city extended. In recognition of this service, he was nominated in December oi 1929 to receive The Times 1929 civic award.

The nomination was made by John A. Goode. then president of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Roberts was born on a farm in Plat Creek township in Buncombe county in 1B7A and was educated in the public schools until he waa 17 when he entered Weaver college.

In the year 1897. then a country boy, he went to Marshall where he worked in the store conducted by J. Redmon. After working for a year ho entered Washington college, smalt Institution In Tennessee, where he remained for a year, working to county commissioners, a budget requirement for the next fiscal year for the operation and maintenance of the schools of said district showing the allocation of the different funds as now required by the school lawa of North Carolina. The superintendent of schools elected by said board shall be Ex Officio Secretary thereof and shall keep the minutes, records financial and otherwise and correspondence of aald board and aa such prepare a tentative budget as above required subject to the approval and adoption by the board.

Section Nine III Yr.AHS A(l) TODAY Three thousand fine cigars will be dropped from the clouds this afternoon. In the business district, weather permitting. The feat was arranged by J. B. Porter company and Charles Hughe, Company.

The airplane has been tuned up and la In perfect condition for the flight. If a cigar la caught by a person on the street It will be Just aa good as If secured from new box at cigar counter. Mr. Will Patterson left yesterday tor a short stay in Knoxvllle. Mra.

C. V. Hampton of Canton recently visited friends In the city. Miss Martha dray spent a ehort while thla week In Spartanburg. Mlsa Julley Johnson Is the guest of her aunt, Mrs.

N. D. Canlpe. at her home In Union Mills, N. C.

Mr. W. E. Roberta of Canton was In the city the first of the week. Little Helen Elizabeth Bradley entertained number of amall frienda yesterday in celebration of her fifth anniversary.

Rutherfordton has adopted an ordinance making It unlawful for any boy under 18 years SEAMAN IS HELD AS FUGITIVE FRQM TENNESSEE JAIL NEW YORK, Persons attending schools In said Feb. 25. pw-Ker-a seaman, waa ar- stein Hanson. .15, district shall be bona fide residents tiT I thereof and said achool board sh.ll 'h uc the request of Warden Mc- gree Mason and was an honorary.be the exclusive Judge of the resl- k- ih Corkle of the state penitentiary at n.cmrjcr or the Kiwanii club for ten dence or any person applying for en trance Into aald achools. However, Hanson, known also as Robert Ar- years.

He was active In the West Ashevllle club, a community project noldson and Hanson Hoffman, detectives said, was alleged to have violated parole by which he was released from the Nashville nrixnn of ace to go or be upon the atreeta after 0 o'clock devoted to the improvement of West Ashevllle, where Mr. Roberts made his home at 134 road. During the World War Mr. Roberts was a four-minute speaker and canvassed this section In the interest of the Lib Lafter serving part of a sentence for Former Governor Harry Flood Byrd told the North Carolina lawmakers at Ralclgli that "with the Democratic party united our success In 1032 Is assured as clearly as any action can be forecast." Senator Moses of New Hampshire, outstanding among Republican leaders. In his article on the Republican party in the March Atlantic Monthly, says pretty much the same thing.

But Senator Moses Is still convinced that Mr. Hoovor will be renominated and re-elected. What he Is counting on Is that the Democrats will not be united and, further, that Ihry will lack leadership to which all wings will rally. The big question Is the finding of a candidate. Plenty of names have been suggested, Including that of former Governor Byrd, but so far the problem remains unsolved.

If a candidate could be agreed upon the division over Issues mlKiil not be serious for It Is now accepted, as Senator Reed and Senator Motes have clearly pointed out, that parly platforms have In actual practice ceased to be binding upon anybody but arc invariably, as soon as they aro adopted, subjected almost universally to individual inlerprelallon. They Stick to Thompson Chicago Republicans have renominated Big Bill Thompson for another term as mayor. The Democrats have nominated the boss of that party In Conk County. It Is probable that Thompson will be re-elected. There Is talk of uuik.o.j.

iju. yvnra ago. ne was said to be keeping an appointment with a girl when seized. er tv Loans. at night unaccompanied by one or both or nis parents or by his guardian, unless he ahall have In his possession a statement addreased to the chief of police, signed by one of his parenta or his gusrdlan.

saying. In aubatance. that he has permission to be out. The Raleigh News and Observer makes note the School Board may admit nonresidents Into its schools under such terms and conditions as.lt may adopt by resolution. section Ten Funds for the support and maintenance of the schools In nnld local tax nchool district shall be levied and collected aa pr.ov.ded by law for tb levy and collection of school nTndi in other local tax districts.

When said funds are so levied and collected by the proper collecting officer of the county said funds shsl) be turned over to the treasurer of the city of Ashevllle or other depository agent designated by the governing body of the city of Ashevllle by written resolution and aald funds RAIDING PARTIES VISIT BROKERAGE HOUSES IN GOTHAM. MAYOR STAYS IN JOBLESS HOME TO STUDY METHODS PHUrADEIiPHIA. Feb. 2i. (TP) Mayor Harry A.

Mnckey. disguised as of the fact that Miss Exum clement reprcaen-tatlve from Buncombe and the only woman member of the Oeneral Assembly, was not ashamed of her age. but "put It down In black S5f pv nis mmon ann expenses, in 1H09 he entered King college at Brls. tol and worked his wav for two yearn by chopping wood and making fires: for board and tuition. While at! King Mr.

Roherts distinguished him- self as a bill player, being the lead- I ing pitcher. He was a member of the debating team also and took part in the oratorical contests nt the school commencement. Taught Mciimtl Mr. Roberts returned to n.incumbe county tn 1901 and taught school at the Sand Hill school. The following year he might nt Barnardavllle, and i and white." Waa that to be wondered at? would anybody expect that a woman with enough kw YORK, Feb.

23. (TP) six brokerage houses were visited and their books and records seized today bv an jmi.iafj.nt hh.u shall be held and kept separate from ablllly to beat two men candldatea for the i-thr fiinria hlnnelni? tn mitt all one of the unemployed, has eaten and slept in the shelter for homeless men conducted by the city committee for unemployment relief, he revealed today. a i I h. Of SeCUDtleS, and shall be applied under such Flfty employes were questioned ctty rules and regulations as the Ashe- snr" Phnlit rnninl m( .11. vtlle School Board ahall pvcscrlbe ilonf, -rt, L'" The executive spent whole nights lected articles In lieu of North Carolina' spres-ent system of license taxes will probably not have "enough bearing on any of the forms of tax now levied to Justify the additional tax passed on to purchasers In the Increased price of their purchases, for the Inconvenience of these penny taxes and the Increased difficulties of administration." However, Chairman Query of the South Carolina Tax Commission has persuaded the legislators at Raleigh that a luxury tax can be counted on to yield at least in this Slate, the yield In South Carolina being about 13,500.000 and the population and resources of this State being more than double those of the Palmetto State.

We do not regard this so-called luxury tax as a desirable method of raising revenues but we have rerognlrd that Its adoption was probably Inevitable. There will be a stiff fight against It but the fact that South Carolina has had such a tax for a number of years and has managed to make It work fairly well, on the whole, at least to the extent of wearing out the opposition to It, Is naturally persuasive with the lawmakers at Raleigh who are hard put to It to find revenues. The disadvantages of the luxury tax have brrn pointed out over and over again but the sub-eommlttee's action Is probably Indicative of the attitude of the legislators generally. The Sale of The World There heve been niimnms regrettable changes In the newspaper field In Nrw York In recent years but none quite so disturbing as the proposed sale of The New York World by the Pulltrers to other Interests. The World came Into posscsiion of Joseph Pulitzer In 1883 and America has never hnd a more virile or a more powerful newspaper than Mr.

Pullticr made It Into. Himself a man of tremendous force, he surrounded himself with strong men, and The World hss strurk sledre-hammer blows In all the great battles of the past half century. No other newspaper In this country saw as early or as clearly as did The World the practical importance of organizing for peace. No other great newspaper In this country has so consistently and ably upheld the doctrine cf human rights as distinguished from property rights. The World has had principles and has maintained them valiantly.

We do not know why It has slipped financially to such an extent that the sons of Jotcjih Pulltter now propose to dispose of It to the Bcripps-Howard people. We do know that It an never be the same under other ownership per- Legislature would balk at telling her age; m-ganton Newa-Herald. III M.Alt Alio TOIIAV The wedding of Mlaa Eleanor Tennent and Mr. Clarence 11. Dickinson occurred yesterday at the Plrst rresbyterlan Church, with Dr.

R. ft excuslvely to the support and main- mnnent the public schools wnance oi The sslrf treasurer nr i me sain vrcnurcr or i said district, sain aisinci. at the institution in order, he said, to get first hand Information concerning the m.mn?r In which It Is being conducted nnd, he intimated, to see thai the Jobless men were be-' mg treated satisfactorily. of ,7 other achool depository shall hold said funds and pay them by voucher lvlty 'n tn Campbell officiating. Mls Linda Schartle had arranged a musical program which added much duly executed in the nay and man- i ner provld-d by law for the execution ni'i- of vouchers of the city of Ashevllle.

GlrtOllC I I'Offmm an Independent candidacy but all the signs arc such vouchers, nowevcr, to do issuca To Be Given Todat) against its success. Thompson was mayor of Chicago from 191 through 1923. He was UNLUCKY 110 AT IS GOING TO AUCTION BLOCK AFTER TRIP BALTIMORE, Feb. 2S. or With the log of her maiden voyago chronicling a near mutiny, the stabbing cf only upon warrant or order of the achool Board.

Said warrants or or-dera of said board shall be held by said disbursing officer aa hla valid authority for the payment of school funda. Beet Ion Eleven The term of aald School Board named In section three thereof was elected, after a year of teaching at narnnrrin'llle, principal of the Flat Creek high school. During those years the young man was rending la at night, and in January, 190 1. he entered the law department of Wake Forest college and the following August was admitted to the bar. Bring without funds to establish himself In the practice of law, Mr Roberts again taught school one year at the Flat Creek school and two years nt the Morgan Hill high school, before opening a law office in Ashevllle in April.

1907. For a short time he was the partner of Samuel Radford, but the partnership soon terminated and Mr. Roberis practiced alon for a year before he was elected countv attorney to succeed Charles A. Webb. In 1910 Mr.

Roberts formed partnership with W. O. Fortune that lasted until 1919. In 1910 Mr. Roberts was elected to the state legislature where he served durlns 1911.

He was msd? In the solemnity and beauty of the occasion. Mlsa Mary Tennent, a sister of the bride, was the only attendant. Following the ceremony, breakfast was served the bridal party at the home of the bride's mother, Mra. Annie Tennent. Mrs Zebulon Curlla entertained with a bridge party yesterday in honor of Mrs.

Basil Valentine, Miss Jessie llattemer. Mra. Valentine waa presented with a bouquet of mauve sweet pens and, instead of the usual prize, a pot of white hyacinths waa cut for by the winner of he game. Mrs. Curtis' new home on Chestnut Street la conveniently arrnned for entertaining and waa moat attractive with its spring-like decorations of hyacinths and daffodils, The necessity for a curfew law haa been A patriotic "Washinirton-Uncoln-Lee" program will be given in honor cf the Edward Buncombe chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution by students of the Southern Workshop in the a.emblv room at Orove Parle achool this afternoon at 4 o'clock-.

The program will consist of storler Jti poems iind a one-act pliv. Music wii fl be furnished by the Asheville high school bsnd with Director Rohnet in chsrae. Officers and members of the Daughtera of the Revolution will be gueata of honor on this occasion. Roy Moody Slightly Hurt In Auto Mishap Roy Moody, 13. of the Newbridge section, waa slightly Injured early last night in an automobile aecl dent on Haywood road.

James Hngan. driver of the auto which figured in the accident, waa arreated by police on a technical strikingly Illustrated during the last few months elected for a third term In 1027. Everybody In Chicago, and everywhere else, knows who he is and what he is and why he is. He Is evidently good enough for Chicago and Chicago is good enough for him. 4 M.mt.ll IT 11 (Charlotte Ohaerverl Incidents) tn an entertalnltiK line nt talk in slert Observer representative gni out of At Smith ss he was leaving the balmy air of -he send and the pines, was a rirrumstanre that will Interest the wearers of the Hrown Derov.

The former governor Is now wearing a blam derby as headpiece, indication that the Brow i Derby, made famous In the campaign of 103. has served lta day. and It la for numbers 31 North Carolina patriots who made investment during the Smith campaign In this Insignia of loyalty and who stored It away rather regretfully after the news of what happened in November vii heard, to now revere It as a oe-Inved relic. There are to be no more Bro-vn Derby campaigns, for something new la on '-he way. The first Impression given Judge Lindsay's maftslne arts alee Is that be has no daughters.

by the prevalence of crime among boys of this chairman of the committee on con-' gressional re-apportlonment by C. begin on the first Monday In April. 1031, and shall extenr1 for a period of two years from and after aald date, or until their successors are elected nnd qualified. The jiovernlna, body of the city of Aahevllre shall on or before ihe first Monday In April 1933 appoint or elect the auccesaors to aald Board, one or more of whom ahall be a woman, and all of said Board shall resldenta of said district and shall be persona known to be in favor of education and Interested In the welfare of the achools and ahall be appointed or elected with the sole object In view of maintaining the efficiency of the achools of aald district and without any partisan prejudice or bias. In caae of any vacancy on said Board the same shall be filled by an election by the governing body city.

The latest outbreak, which had for lta goal her captain nnd the locking of hsr mate in irons, the tea Hopat-cong today faced the auction block. Edcar T. Bell, attorney, who was named received for the ship when she reached Baltimore after a stormy passage with her original deck crew none, announced the intention of placing the ship under the hammer. VA terfrostTfire IN RHODE ISLAND PROVES EXPENSIVE PROVIDlWcRrL7Feb. 25.

The costliest waterfront fire In the city's history had left Rhode Island's State Pier No. 1 in rulna tonight. Damage to the structure and freight unloaded by the steamer Patrla of th Fabre Line was estimated at 750.000. It was believed the fire started near the boiler room. When firemen arrived the entire structure.

600 feet long, wai ablaee. 1 the funds contributed by the achool children to the Nye Memorial Building, haa roused the anger of our people and has brought home to them with striking force the need of some corrective agency. see Mr. J. L.

Page, who for some lime past has conducted the Imperial Hotel at the corner of Dowd or cnariotte. speaaer. Mr. Roberts was re-elected to the legislature in 1912 and served a chairman of the committee of counties, cities nnd towns. In 1914 he waa re-elected ngaln and served as chairman of the committee on appropriations.

At the 1914 session of the legislature Mr. Roberta introduced a bill to give women the right to vote, but the bill was defeated. He waa reelected In 1918 and was a candidate for the speakership but was defeated bv Ui Hon. Walter Murphy. In lsJiSt Wr Roberta waa elected College street and Lexington Avenue, hat given soon aa rec.lcM drlvin.

up his lease for that hotel and will at an early practicable alter tha flral Monday I the "v- date turn it over to lta owner, Mr. L. Blomberg. than that of the Pulitzers. Its passing Into who Intends to remodel and make quite of April.

19.11 and each biennial year ta was disrhsrVert fn, -thereafter said Board shall meet elect a Chairman, who shall preside I pensary treatment. "lvul otntfr tends win fee a major event not only number of Improvements. I.