North Carolina Newspapers

9 Monday, Janun r n T B SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher. VOLUME XLVIH. : at at Blanford, Ind., Two Men Shot to Death 1 -- - - _ ' ' ~ I V hile Trying to Straighten j ;it Race Trouble, Officers •sited Negro Dance Hall :<mi Riot Followed. - RFRIFF RECEIVES SHOUDER WOUND \}] the Negroes in the Town \\ ire Ordered to Leave ; -.4 Week, After Attack on While Woman. ! p:. 1 1 : 1 1.. Jan. 29.—An inves ii '<> a report «*f an outbreak i ■ troubles existing here, ra in a rinf willy today, during unidentified men were shot • ii. and Sheriff Harry Newland . . urndeiuitied man worn woviiul i.a a report that [tersdns had i .-*! two negroes. proprietors of a :,•■,**. sheriff Newland gathered a ia deputies and visited tin* a near the store. The officials ! a da nee hall nearby where a n was in progress by a crowd, i'/.refgners, and the Celebmtors ... j hem. Shoot ing"bocnnie gen t of the dance hall patrons -.‘.o' ni death by the .deputies _ seriously wounded. Slier :ii*i was hit in the shotilder by Most ol‘ tin* men in tin* ball, ar.a to the deputies, appeared to .* ,i: * xit ated. \ - -ii:g investigation is exjieoiod -i;. A call for help was sent to -of neighboring towns. Prose- Atterney A. W. Satrerlee vns , ii in arrive here from Clinton i for the coroner's investigation. • : ipbably will take a part 4 n the • a investigation. l- i otibi noi be learned whether any cal action was contemplated by i la r McCrhry, The Governor week orders*!! officials of (lie nat , i g .aid to investigate the race uli* here when all negroes were or .i. .i td leave town. The guard ofli < :,ls. i: was said, had not yet made t,.i*ir report to the Governor. . i;egro«*s were tired upon, • r\\o of the few who did not leave ui lasi week at the race trouble .1 i- said to have l**en a result of • ■L I ci on a yiuijig y bite girl J*v a N\\ \* OFFICER IvIIJ.S HIMSELF ON FLAGSHIP lint. Commander Eugene Douglass Warned Our Disappearance of the Ship’s Stores. Manila. .lan. 29 ißy the Associated *r.— i —l.i«*ut. Commander Eugene 11. J‘ aha-s. paymaster of the Flagship 'll dr. Hi: of the I'nited Static Asiatic coiuinitteed suicide yesterday ■ | .1 the flagship while despondent > i lac disappearance of tin*, ship's '!"!'< *>, for which we has not respon s a' ' oriling t<> a statement issued 1 ' plain C. D. "Steam?. of the j ii a >ii. Captain Stearns paid a high tr l.m> to the dead officer’s de.votiton ti. duty. 'VAM PARLIAMENT TO MOVE I P OPENING j 1» nar Law Will Ise Asked io Call j Parliament Before February 14. J London, Jan. 'J'A ( By the Associated • L• -s The parliamentary labor par-| l’ ti>iia; derided to ask Prime Minis-j ’’ If lair Law to convoke Parliament • ili. r tlian February 14. the date set •b*r its reassembly in order to give ">!>i>i.-ration to Jhe situation which h >i n in the Ruhr valley in conse ' > of the French occupation. I’ "* decision was taken at a meet- 'hi under the chairmanship, qf Li iv, Mjacllonald. Car: I Negri, Actress. L iinont . Calif., Jan. 28. —Charles ' •••: :iii and Poli Negri, motion pie rs. announced their engage- Pebble Beach lodge near i !lt 1 to- ay. They refused to say when ' he married. C u came from Hollywood on a - train to visit Miss Negri, he Lome tonight. The actor’s «-s an hour and a half late.' ! arrived Chaplin did not get if linonte, as a.result a rumor ' ’ lie had come in disguise. !"d he had taken an auto i a nearby point and motored ! i’ hid:. Beach. Later, to assembled erfm-n Aft*. Chaplin said, “Yes, * i agaged.” -n“gri ~iid so 'too, and that ■•'* interview. The actress will P bale Beach several days ' d then return to Hollywood. New ( barters Granted. 1 Is. N. <\. Jap. 29.—The secre ' ••)!«*' has granted the follow , 1 rt'Ts and amendments to char •L. Crave! company, Lilesville, Li gravel: capital stock. $50.- ’’ i ! in .Slo.ooo; Adlai Osborne. O. and T. T. Patterson, Char •l rj Hira tors. ( ’a Steel ami Iron Company, -increasing capital stock n ''".mhio to’ $200,000. Harms Company, Charlotte, ''*al estate and insurance; "k *25,000: \Y. (’. Harms*, ' lv and Amanda E. ■’ K club owners complain about i 1 ! rice of new talent, and then u ions prices against each the services of a minor ■'' ’■ vr. fHE CONCORD TIMES, i ! ANOTHER DOUBLE MURDER MYSTERY Memphis Police Seek Slayer of Mrs. Ruth Tucker and Duncan Waller. Memphis, Tenn.. Jan. 29—City and county detectives still had before them today the task of establishing! the motive and identity of. the slayer of Mrs. Ruth McElwnin Tucker, aged 21), estranged wife of Ellis Tucker, of Franklin Tmm.. and iKtncan Waller, age<l 19. traveling salesman of May field. Ky., whose bodies—that of AVal ler crumpled in the seat of an auto mobile and the young woman in a ne.urby held—were found early yester day near the village of Herclair, a suburb of this city. Both had been killed by pislol bid- ■ b*fs which entei-ed their heads from the rear. EXTRADITION PAPERS ISSL-ED FOB PEACOCK Representative ni Tar Heel Governor Leaves F<ir Parts I’tiktiOwn. Tallahassee, Fla., Jan. 27.—D. C France, representative of the Nortn Carolina governor, armed with extra dition papers for Dt J. W Peacock, utio several months ago escaped from the insane department of toe North Carolina penifiutiavy and came to Florida, left here this afternoon. Mr. France would not divulge h's destination. He intimated he did not kiiiw the present whereabouts of th** jrhysician. whom Governor Har dee decided yesterday could oc ex tradited on the ground that there was a criming; offense charged against him in that he is wanted' for breaking prison. Dr. Peacock recently was declared sane at Arcadia, Fla., and has been quoted as expressing his willingness to Teturn to North Carolina to he tried iis to his sanity. However, his counsel has stated In* now will tight extradit on, because the charges against him are “unjust.” SFPT. GEORGE POE MAKES STATEMENT Says Investigation Was Made of the Thcmasville Reports Concerning Pea cock Escape. Raleigh, Jan. 29. —Describing l>ub ——— i' -- * ■" ( *fcO-i— --viiie to the effect that a prison em ploye on the inside and an unnamed woman friend of the Peacock family on the outside were instrumental in the escape of Dr. I*. \Y. Peacock from the slate prison on the night of Aug ust 29, as a “fabricant out of the whole cloth." Supt. George Pou, of the penitentiary stated today that a thor ough investigation had been made of the “veiled charges of improper man agement of the prison.” JUDGE SANFORD GETS FAVORABLE REPORT His Nomination to Supreme Court Unanimously Favored by Senate Com mittee. , Washington. Jan. 29. —The nomina tion of Judge E. T. Sanford, of Ten- I m ssee„ to he associate justice of the j Supreme Court succeeding Justice Pit ■ ney who recently retired, was ordered {favorably reported today by a unani | moils vote of the. Senate judiciary eoin ; m it tee. “Noah’s Ark” at Pastime Wednesday and Thursday. The Pastime Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday will show another story based on the "Did Testament. The, subject ,of this will be “Noah's Ark. Jt lias been the definite purpose of tin* producers of these st'ories to give to the world a motion picture version of the Bible so literal and so faithful in its adherence to the text that there could not be the slightest chance of antagonizing any sect or creed. That the public is interested in the Biblical stories and want them shown in their favorite theatres is evidenced in the generous patronage of the local theatre which has already exhibited the initial episodes. Sigma \u Initiate Dies From OrO.eal. Tuscaloosa. Ala., Jan. 28. —G.enn Kersli. aged 16, son of M. G. Kersh, city clerk of Tuscaloosa, died today from psychi-effeets of excitement fol lowing an initiation at the Sigma Nu fraternity house upon campus of the University of Alabama here accord ing to a verdict of a coroner's jury to day. The young man, with 16 others, was initiated into the fraternity and a few minutes after ‘the ceremo*nies ended he suddenly died, according to the authorities. A number of witnesses were called before the coroner’s jury, several of whom had takefi the initiation just previous t*o Kersh, and their evidence showed that there was. nothing done that could have caused death from bodily injuries. The whale is worth more money than any other living creature. A single; Greenland whale w*il have in its mouth about a ton of whalebone, 1 which aLon?' is worth from $7,500 ta SIO,OOO. From its blubber twenty-rive tons of oil may be obtained. As wha e oil brings something 1 ke SIOO a ton, this represents another v substantial sum. Another species, Hie ,n.erm vvhaD, not only provides enormous quantities of the finest oil, but ma> also prove to contain ambergris, which worth considerably nroi e than its weight in gold. Chinn has 22- r > inhabitants to each square mile of territory. PUBLISHED MONDAYS ANO THUR SDA Y S CONCORD, N. C„ MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1923. —1 DUST POISON METHOD OF FIGHTING BOLL WEEVIL Has Resulted in Increased Yields, Says Mullciin Just Issued. Raleigh. N. <\, Jan. 29. —Experi- ments with the dust-poison method of combatting the boll weevil, conducted on several cotton farms in North (’ar olina have resulted in increased yields, according to a bulletin issued by Franklin Sherman, chief in Entomolo gy. •The dust-poison method for combat ting the weevil," the bulletin reads, “was developed at the United States Department of Agriculture Laboratory, at Tallulah. La., R. R. Goad, chief. Since about' 191f> it has been gaining rapidly and is now being used in all the southeastern s ates. I "Very briell.v. it consists in apply ing pure dry calcium arsenate in a dust <*loud at night, using r» to 0 pounds per acre, at intervals of four days, giving 3 to «i treatments, with machines made for the purpose. In Southern North Carolina in 1922, the period for. this work was from July 2."» to the end of August. “Mr. Goad has written: ‘The gains to lie expected from this also vary widely.- but usually average on any property ol' considerable size between 200 and 400 pounds of seed cotton per acre.’ "Jt -is recommended more especially for lands capable of one-half hale per acre or better, and is more sure of a profit when the infestation is severe. “After careful study, we undertook a guide a number of North Carolina farmers in this method in 1922. In six cases (Scotland and Bladen comities) fair, accurate check plots (undusted i were alongside with all the treat- 1 meats the same except in tin* dusting. In -addition another test was conduct ed in Unslow county under the coun ty agent. In all these cases, the yield of the dusted and undusted cotton was recorded, and there also was a calcu lation of cost, based on the price of poison, labor and wear of machines. In the state tests, the cost was *2 per acre for tin* season. The result by counties of the state tests: " Scotland —No. farms : average gain seed, cotton per acre 27S pounds. Bladen county —No. farms 1 ; aver age gain seed cotton per acre .»o<> pounds. Onslow county—No. farms 1: aver age "gain ssed cotton per acre 240 pounds. j “Under 1922 prices, a gain of 721 pounds seed cotton per acre would about cover the cost of dusting. Tak ing this as a basis an examination of all 23 tests shows that four fell below that figure while the other nineteen went above it —one only very slightly. Tests were conducted also by private :U“eEH, u < “If wo now avernce all 23 tests we find an average gain of 229 pounds set*d cotton per acre, which gives a very good margin of net profit. “While wo appreciate that the cost of machines, tin* wear and liability of breakage on them, i is an important drawback, yet the whole body of ex perience shows that the dust-poison method in addition to the best cultur al methods for early setting of the crop, is the safest protection now in sight for cotton in the heavily in fested sections.” CALLED TO DOOR AND SHOT IN HIS TRACKS Married Man Mysteriously Murdered By Unknown Persons Who Leave no T^ce. Durham Jan. 28.—Closely tollovv the tragedy occurring at Knap-ot- Reeds, in GranviLe county, late Sat urday qftern'Oon, in which J. ii. Hur sey, of Durham, shot and killed his sweetheart. Miss Blanche Bullock, young Granville county school teach er. Charlie Thompson, Granville coun ty man. living at Creed moor. was ca led from Jais home Saturday night about 9 o’clock and shot to death by a person or persons the identity of whom is not yet ascertained by Gran ville authorities. When found the body was lving in the front yard of the home. Thompson was a married man, and is survived bv his widow and three children. They were away from home when the shooting occurred. The fact that there apparently were no eyewitnesses to the murder makes the affair one of mystery. No clue has yet been found by f-uthorities, but strenuous efforts ar£ being made to trace the murdered. The position of thd body and how Thompson was dressed gave rise to the opinion that he was summoned from the house and shot just as he left the porch. $36 Will Buy Million German Marks Now. New York, Jan. 27.—An over-ntght depreciation of 14 per cent in ine quoted value of German marks car-' ried them today to $36 a million or approximately 27,777 to the dollar. The marks which could be bought to day for a dollar would have cost more than $6,500 before the outbreak of the war in 1914 when marks were quoted at 23.8 cents each. The last statement of the German Reichsbank showed a weekly increase of 10i1,279,276 marks in circulation. Mistrial Ordered in Dallas Murder Case. Wilmington, Jan. 27. —A mistrial was ordered in the Dallas mlmier case here this morning, the jury tail ing to agree after 20 hours delibera tion. The final count stood eight for ' acquittal ’and four for conviction of manslaughter. Dallas was charged avith Kit ing Joe 'Southwell, locomotive engineer, during the rail strike last July. The trial began last Saturday and the case went to the jury at 2:40 Thursday afternoon. WEATHER FORECAST. i Fair tonight; Tuesday unsettled, probably rain in the interior. NEWS FROM RUHR IS VERY HR TODAY French Decide to Censor All Dispatches Sent From Oc cupied Area, and Put Plan Into Effect. RAILROAD STRIKE STILL SPREADING French Trying to Get Rail Men to Work,— Quiet Pre vailed in Valley During the Week-End. Supervision of prefers dispatches from the Ruhr valley, other parts of German territory occupied by the French has been established by the French government. Dispatches re garded by the supervisor as untrue and .likely to cause mischief, are referred to the minister of the interior. News from the Ruhr was meagre to day. The latest advices indicate that the railroad strike w£s continuing ef fectively. with the French keeping up a conciliatory policy toward the rail read workers. The coal output of the valley was f about, two-thirds of normal on Satur day, the last ful workipg day for which reports were available. Quiet' prevailed throughout the val ley during Sunday, Jn WasfiVngton the French embas sy announced" that only about 20,000 French troops were engaged in the Ruhr movement. It vmade public a list of the forces, yjt Wholesale Arrests. Dusseldorf, Jan. 29, — (By the As sociated. Press) —The French occupa tional authorities today began a series of wholesale arrests and expulsions of the highest German state officials, chiefs of bureaus and municipal of services, for refusal to obey orders. Railroad Workers’ Strike Complete Duesseldorf, Jan. 29.—(8y tho'As | anointed Pt-ess) —The strike of German I railroad workers throughout the Ruhr was complete today as was that of the te.egraph employees-. The telephone and postal services are partially af fected. mlMide TO ASSAULT KING? Ex-Soldier Rushes Toward King George, Waving His Crutches, and is Stopped by Police Officers. London. Jan. 29 (By the Associated Press). —What, is described by the Evening News as an attempt to as sault King George was made today by a crippled ex-soldier when King Georg? and Queen Mary arrived at St. Janeras station from Sandringham this morning. The newspaper says the soldier, who had been hiding . dashed toward the royal couple waving his crutch threat eningly, and had gotten within a few yards of the King when stopped by the police. Other accounts by news agencies de scribe tiie incident merely as an at tempt of a soldier to attract the King’s attention, and the soldier him self placed this construction on the af fair. Greensboro Woman is Killed By Motor Car! Greensboro, Jan. 27.—-Mrs. T. E. ‘ Baker, aged 60, was instant y killed, and 'Mrs. C. jf. Overman, aged 40, a : friend, both of this city, was serious i ly if not fatally injured tonight at i 8:30: o’clock by an automobile wnile wait'ng for a street car in front of 1 St. Leo’s hospital, where they na« been to visit Mrs. Overman’s father, ' who is a patient there. Mrs. Overman suffered a broken leg, severe curs and bruises about the head and face and internal injuries. The driver or the automobile, it is said, never stopped i after strik ng the Iddies. Police head quarters was notified and officers io - night are searching for the driver of * the car. Living Costs 69.5 Per Cent. Higher Than in Last Pre-War Year. Washington, Jan. 28.—Final figures 1 announced today by the Bureau of ’ Labor statistics show that in the eoun ! trp ns a whole the cost of living in December, .1922, was (59.5 per cent. l higher than for the same month in * 1913, the last year before the World War; 2.8 per cent, lower than in De cember, 1921, and 1.9 per cent, higher . than in September, 1922. Food costs for December. 1922, [ showed an increase of 46.(5 per cent. . from the average of December, 1913: . clothing an increases of 71.5 per cent.; housing costs an of (51.9 per - cent.; fuel and light an'increase, of * 86 4 per cent., and furniture an in crease of 108.2 per cent. 5 The only monument in the world ’ erected “to the memory of Adam, the I First Man,” is to be seen in Baltimore. 1 In England, as late as the eighteenth century, it was though unfitting for a clergyman to eat mince pie. The-X-rays are now used by mann , facturing jewelers td detect flaws in j diamonds and othey precious stones. NEW BANK BUILDING TO BE FORMALLY OPENED! New Home of Citizens Bank and Trust Company. Will Be Opened on Wednesday. The handsome new building of the Citizens Bank and Trust'-Company has been completed and is now ready for! occupancy, and the Directors and Ofli-i cers of the institution will hold “Open' House,” in their new quarters on Wed nesday evening of this week from seven-thirty to ten o’clock at which time the public is cordially invited to call and inspect the building. From the standpoint of architec ture and construction, this is by far the best business • building that has ever been erected in our city—it is modern in every respect, having been designed, built and equipped for' a banking room. It has all the modern conveniences that make for better efficiency among employees and make more pleasant for customers their transactions With the bank. As a bank gro\Vs with a growing community, it becomes more and more the storehouse of the treasures and valuables of that community. This is naturally true, because from the na ture of its business it invites its pat rons to place in fts care and keeping not only their money, but their se curities and other papers of value. And it is not only proper and right, but. it is a bank’s duty to surround and equip itself with the best that modern sci bence and invention can offer in the way of a building and vault so that it may be able to give its community that high degree of protection and se curity to which it is entitled, and which it expects. The Citizens Bank and Trust Com pany is the projected ideal of its founders, while the new building is the conformation of the idea, or visi- j * hie manifestation which expresses the! I institution. While the building was 1 intended to express strength, safety and security, it was also designed to display harmony, proportion and sym metry of design, for the building is public, and there should be not only impressiveness but something of beau .ty and art where so much of value and common weal is within its care. During the eighteen years of its ex istence the Citizens Bank and Trust Company lias rendered to its patrons a quality of personal and helpful ser vice that laid the foundation for its later growth, ami in its new building it is looking forward to a larger de j velopment of the services which it renders and a greater work than ever Jin building the prosperity and re sources of this section of North Caro lina. The bank building and the banking room is not only , a credit'to the Citi zens Bank and Trust Company, but it is most preditable to the City of Con cord amPthc I THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady at Advance on Cover ing or Rebuying by Recent Sellers. New York, Jan. 29—The cotton mar ket opened steady at advances of 7 to 22 points on covering or rebuying by recent sellers, who were influenced by 1 the relatively firm showing of Liver jxiol and favorable reports, from both' Manchester and the domestic market for cotton goods. May went to 28:12 and July to 27:74. but this bulge met a renewal of liquidation and Southern selling. Cotton futures opened steady: March -27.85; May 28.12: July 27.73 : October 25.2(5; December 24.95. Buncombe County Sunday School As sociation. Asheville, N. C., Jan. 29. —D. W. * Sims, general superintendent of the ‘ North Carolina Sunday School Asso ciation. was the chief speaker on the program of the Buncombe county Siiu k day School Convention which opened here Sunday. Other speakers scheduled to appear ■ W eve E. T. Albertson, general Seere ‘ tar.v of the Indiana Sunday School Council of Religious Education. Indi anapolis, lnd.. and Miss Daisy Magee, children's division superintendent of . the North Carolina Sunday School As sociation. Mr. Sims will .appear at each ses sion of the convention, which will last ’ three days. Mr. Albertson and Miss Magee will speak on special training for Sunday school work, and Bible J class work and Sunday school music. With Our Advertisers. ‘ The Richmond-Flowe has grain and ’ feed soi v sale at wholesale and retail. 1 New ad., today gives particulars. You are invited to. the opening of. the new home of the Citizens Bank and ‘ ; Trust Company, which will be held 'on Wednesday. See ad. in this paper ' | for particulars. ’ I Hats of all kinds at Fisher’s, from f 95 cents up. Don't fail to read new jad. . ; Protect your. valuables by placing ' j them in one of the safe deposit boxes lat the Citizens, Bank and Trust Com- P pany. Harding Wears Carnation. i Washington, I>. Jan. 29. Presi dent Harding and employes at the 1 White House offices today wore carna -1 tions in honor of the memory of I’res - ident* William McKinley. The carna r t j oll W as Mr. McKinley's favorite flow er and the custom of os earing it on * the anniversary of his birth was in * augurated the year after he was as -5 sassinated at the Pan-American Expo : sition. I juler the auspices of the Car r nation League of American the custom f has spread to all sections of the coun * try. The reflector of the. huge telescope at 1 the Mount Wilson observatory is a 1 great disc of perfect glass, weighing no less than four and one-half tons. This mirror is so sensitive that, is a 1 man comes within three feet of it, the r heat of liis body causes it be distorter. Babe Ruth, who is spending the - winter on his farm at South Subbury, i Mass., says he is 15 pounds lighter than he was a year agd. MANY INDICTED BY SPECIAL BRAND JURY j J Fred Lundin and 23 Others **— in Blanket Indictment H T ;y,T°'i Cliicago. V tnte U Chicago, Jan. 20.—Fred j mei\ Congressman, and known as the j sileftt power behind the. political mn | chine of Mayor Hale Thompson and twenty-three others, were named ip a blanket indictment returned in court today by a' special grand jury which Is investigation the school board af fairs. i Vfrtus Rohl, Lundin's nephew, also was among the indicted men, a number of whom were indicted previously by the same grand jury in .connection with the administration of funds and | property. The indictment which contains a blanket conspiracy charge, was re turned before Chief Justice Michael L. McKinev. of the criminal court, tvho set the bond of the defendants at $lO,- 000 each. Lund in is reputed to he in Cuba and Rohn recently was reported to lie in Los Angeles. Rohn is in the insurance business and it was said he and Lundin were partners for a time and did an enor mous business in school insurance. It ! was said to be in connection with the Insurance deals that the grand jury acted against Lundin and his nephew. JENKINS GIVES UP HOPE FINDING GRISSOM’S BODY Thomas Creek in Florida Was Dyna mited but Body Was Not Recovered. Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 28. —L. W. Jenkins, who was associated in busi ness at Greensboro, X, with H A. Grissom, missing since the night of Jan- 1 nary 18, today gave up hope of reeov- I j ering Grissom’s body, supposed to he in , ! Thomas creek, near here, and re- j turned home tonight. Grissom’s automobile was found sub merged in the stream the day after his disappearance. The creek was dyna mited and dragged for se.veral days, but the body was not recovered. Men said to answer Grissom’s de scription have been reported seen at se.veral places in the state since liis disappearance, hut efforts of authorities to find them have proved futile and the supposition is that the missing man was drowned. MANSBL SHAVER IS NOT EXPECTED TO RECOVER Was Injured When Auto In Which He Was Riding Collided With Passen ger Train. Charlotte, Jan. 29.—Mansel Shaver of Lancaster, S. C„ who was injured here yesterday afternoon in a collis ion between an automobile anil South- | ern Railway passenger train No. 38. caster was killed, may not recover, il was said today at the 1 hospital to which he was- taken. J. J. Sapp, of Lancaster, was painfully injured, but was expected to recover. Steele was working ns a carpenter here. mnety iAght WANT TO PRACTICE LAW IN STATE This Number of Applicants Presented Themselves in Raleigh for State Ex amination. Raleigh, Jan. 20.—Ninety-eight ap-; plieants for license to practice law in j this state presented themselves to the examing hoard ten fay. Five of these applied for license under the comity provisions. Wake Forest College law j school represented by fourty-four ap-! plieants, sent the largest group to take j the examination. One woman was in- j eluded among the applicants. Fred Y. McConnell Post to Pull Off a Rig Event. The Fred Y. McConnell Post of the' American Legion has made prepanu-f tions for a big event tomorrow night at the Legion Club rooms, wheh the Legionaires will he hosts at ja big hostas at a big barbecue to the Coun ty Commissioners, the city officials. j the School Commissioners, and the of ficers of the Kiwanis and Rotary i Clubs, as well as all veterans of tin' Civil and Spanish American wars. In vitations have been issued for the oc- 1 casion, which promises to he one of the biggest events ever staged by* the I local post. State Commander, Jim Lockhart, of Charlotte, and State Adjutant R. E. JJenny, of Greensboro will be present at this meeting, and will deliver short addresses. , * » The committee in charge of prepar ations stated this morning to a repre sentative of The Tribune that they are sparing no efforts to make this an unqualified succes, and that they. In tend to have the best barbecue seen in. this city for many a clay. They are planning to entertain several hun dred persons on this occasion. The meeting on Tuesday evening will start at 8 o’clock. Charlotte City Hall Land Sells for Over $300,000\ Charlotte, Jan. 27.—'The city hall property, Trvon and Fifth streets, was sold today to E..C. Friffith, agent for a syndicate composed of J. H. Cutter. VP. ‘ C. Wilkinson, president of the Mer-1 chants and Farmers Bank, J. B. Efird and other leading financiers of Char lotte for $305,100, or on a basis of $3,675 per front foot. The sale was attended with unusual interest. . Two sealed proposals were opened, one from Griffith and one from Galloway, representing John MTrtcott. who bid $290,500. or $3,500 per front foot, the ' figures the commissioners stipulated as j a minimum bid Mr. Galloway raised , his hid by $750, hut failed to nmet the 1 ; last figures of Griffith’s c lients. The' i building was erected in 1891 at a cost of $40,000 on a side that cost $5,000. ; ! p. B. McDowell was major when the t ' hall was built. j J. I>. Stroupe, contractor, is to erect | ; a $70,000 apartment house on North j [ Church Street, near the Charlotte San- J j atorium. ! Carpenters are again at work com ! pleting work on Center Grove Church. - jf, II . - . f N $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.’ ~— r.. . ■■ 1 ■ 1 * ■■■■■ 1 ■ ■- mmm> j* NO. 59. llißUf truty IS~ '■ Uiftl TO DELEGATES i Pact Will Be Submitted to Turks on Wednesday.— Believed Turks Will Not Accept It. 160 ARTICLES IN THE AGREEMENT . . i pj British Seemingly Feel Turks Will Reject Treaty, and More British Soldiers Are Ordered Out. Lausanne, Jan. 29 (By the Associ ated Press.) —A'draft of the proposed >| treaty of pence which is to be sub mitted to the Turks on Wednesday was distributed semi-olficially to ail the delegations today. The documents .’Jj contain 160 .articles to which eight converitiohs are annexed. There was nothing today to show the Turks were more favorably disposed toward sign ing. The eight conventions deal respect- * | ively with the Straits, the frontiers oF j Thrace, the status of foreigners in Turkey, the Albanian declaration re garding payment of the Ottoman debt, i the commercial regime with Turkey, the armistice declaration, and the ex change of populations and exchange 1 of prisoners of war between Turkey 1 and Greece, which last two will he signed tomorrow by these two powers. The atmosphere about the confer ence was tense today, the chiefs of the allied delegations holding lengthy con sultations. The Turkish representatives said the situation was so critical and difficult - that they would make no statement al though one of the secretaries expressed the hope that the speeches brought out by the presentation of the draft in the conference Wednesday would be of such' a conciliatory nature that a rup- j ture would he avoided. London. Jan. 29 (By the Associated Press). —In view of the Turkish at- - •tittitle at Lausanne, regarding the % Mosul district, the British army au thorities in the Irak have despatched a batallion of troops and also a few airplanes to the area between Mosul >and Sherghnt. sixty-five miles south of Mosul, as a precautionary measure, ~/. SPEAK AT EXPOSITION ('anieron Morrison and Ann* I’ttso Otlr. r Headliners For Rig Shaw. Kinston, Jan. 28.—William G. Me- Adoo. former secretary of the treas ury, will sneak at the Eastern caro -I,'na exposition af~ Wilson Tuesday, March 20, if possible “to arrange a hearing of a case in Augusta during the week of the exposition.” Mr. McAdoo has wired N. G. Bartlett, | secretary of the Eastern Carolina I chamber of commerce, that if legal business in Georgia cal s him to the , southeast about that time he will “certainly drop off” at the big snow the commercial organization is pi >- ! moting. This announcement wnsl made : by Bartlett today following a meeting I here of the exposition committees, j Mr. Bartlett considered the chances | for the Presidential possibility’s visit ; to be" good. | Anna Case and Governor Carneion 1 'Morrison will be other headliners | at the exposition, said Bartlett in an nouncin'? the nearly comnletect pro gram. Miss. Case will sing during the afternoon evening of opening day, Monday, March 19. _ Girls Asked to Use Less “Make-up.^ I New York, Jan. 29. —Women clerks employed in one of New York’s lnraest retail stores have been asked by the manager of the concern to use less ! “make-up” during business hours. in explaining his views on the ques ' tion of cosmetics tlie-manager in ques tion says: “The amount of make-up used by young women workers is startling. I am not referring to powder or face j 1 cream, but to rouge, highly colored lip-salve, and eyebrow pencils. Some n of the store girls look like actresses viewed from the front row. Off the stage actresses have too much discre tion to make themselves conspicuous and unattractive by the exaggerated use of cosmetics. “I do not like to interfert with the liberty of my employes, hut I have been compelled to ask some of the young women to restrain their enthus iasm for make-up. Many customers from out of town have been shocked to find such made-up faces in a New P York store.” David Lamar Must Go to Prison. Washington, Jan. 29—Holding that his motion for a writ of ha beau corpus J | for the purpose of delaying his incar ceration was without merit, the Supreme Court today ruled that David Lamar, “the Wolf of Wall Street,” would be required to go to the Mercer county jail and serve the sentence hn- J posed on him on conviction oti the j ' charge of restraint of foreign com | merce. ~ Seattle is the most important dis- Q ' tr.buting center for fresh and frozen fish products on the Pacific coast. As i a fishing port it i 3 exceeded in the I Fnitedrttates only by Boston and - ' Gloucester. | The San Francisco Industrial as ! sociafion reports that apprentice 'plasters taught in - the vocational | •school operated by the association are in steady demand at from $4.60 iu kM a day.