North Carolina Newspapers

j. R STTERRTI-L, Editor and Publisher. VOLUME XLVIIT. Taking of Testimony in Thomas Case Concluded I ,4 W itness Was Heard hiring Wednesday After joorTs Session of Rowan :■ iperior Court. ~ n ; WILLIAMS speaker . . 1 ■ - T j o hn J. Parker Spoke This Morning for Defense.— Case May Go to the Jury Y Sometime Tomorrow. * ~ | fi _ .if testimony in (he set- , i ~f (i G. ( Red» Thomas, in j Superior ( unit, was rourlud •>fc;-<!:iy afternoon. after about , v,T:i)*ha o been heard. ■ 11 iC»i 11 s wore immediately start-! f,v i iiinisol. 11. S. Williams, of this J j.;:ikhi£ the first speech for the J y• • j \!i \Yillioms. who math* one of tho j si r j. t i,,nt'fnl arguments delivar«*d at: trial of Thomas hero last j , ■ i.ukr for about an hour and for f ji.ifiut' -1 ' vcsterday and la* was lie .• ..it t’.itulau d today by persons i ii.t.ji ,l iijut. nil tin* excellent and ~! arguments he presented. . ’ .lohii .i Parker s>> this morning, h* i tin* t:r"l of the defense's at • t:.rii« \ - In Speak. ,p ;> i Lii\\ lotitr tin* arguments will continue, is net known here. Then* if. lawyers in the ease, but II , ( j ihcin are not expivted to be i heard. I 'f. I!;irts*‘ll. of this oil’’ will -aimke the rinsing argument for the The following is The Salisbury 1 st*s <tory us the Thomas trial Wed liej.ilaj : j' I'ontradY.riiig tk<* testimony of xev ,; || ~f |in* state's star witnesses Mrs. , : rrie Kimball, young married wo ,,f ('(iji(-ii’rd, declared on the stand, iiiii- morning that she was in the ear ; ',v iii Ait lit' !* Alien on the niglil of Oc lii.ii. i-«iff.. PCI. shortly before the * .! 111 ..tuiir enurred. Her testimony i,.itiji'i I tlie morning session of the) cv nth dav ol tlie trial of O. G. (licit) \ Thomi!- charged.'with murder in eon- 1 i.irtidii with the death »Ts Arthur Al .. ton it Stan*-witnesses, who had preceded i *vf Klmhail on the stand, had testi-1 ,in a fi.;:r tii* y had seen Mrs. U«4u*rt J l.owe in the ear with Arthur Alien! few minutes before the killing. This • i.ioniing's testimony was put. on tin lfimt tfiks evidence. ; I \ mG-hing the sensational was the j lev*i tJim• i,y of Rev. D. 1\ Grout, Metli-j '■<l " n.-irtisu-f. formerly of Kannapo-! !k Asiled t i describe the character j f*f T !i l av. ing. one of the state’s j ' . a- he said it was “lead." j -Why do y.-u say it is had?” he was j ."sked I I <ay it because there was so much ! •a i:iki:.g. shooting and cursing in his j I*l n of !i-:<iiu_s> which was near tin* —i*ti *of tin* shooting. I don’t think, a man of g >od character would harbor tfrci." I*. Drum. H. G. 'h’a-iPi und Mrs. 11. G. Surth, also • <n 'i-ritH"! las character as bad. liiuueilifltc'y, upon tin* reconvening! 1 "in t this morning. Judge Webb. ; t 1""i ig a discourse of somoniengtli ■ by i ii|i->-ing counsel, ruled that certain: • vi,leu,-. t< nding to slum- that Mrs. | I w..* :md Alloa had been together at! *• rrain places. was inadmissable. 1 I is decision was held over during! Git* niirhi. , Atthrucy AViHiams. for the state.' • .in*.i tiiat Alien had been lured m Ma* ><*‘lo* and shot in cold blooded J J- •!. Parker, for the defense. ! mail;!.:h,**d the question for the de hiis,* and won his p» : nt, citing several'! ,;i -s •' alifig with the point and also j \hi; remarks with a brief argil- i •’'TP l I Mrs. JI\ imball’s testimony was all of 1 -a st*ns:|if!ua| character.. She was on b' over an hour and a half and " i- put through a stiff cross exami-I iiiti"ii |»y A.tt(unev Hartsell for the -rim, * s li ( * adniitt<*d that she and her hus -1 v re not living together now. k i\:i- also revealed, during the course •r-test that she had a pt»lice ' id in Concord. i ,- X[l 's. Kimball testified that on the J' i ~ 1 ‘ ! °f the slaying of. Allen, that he ' '• Lad come by for her and had her near the Cabarrus Mill “ die wanted to see P. M. Man- T’ 1 '! 1 ! ' ! ative to a loan of .S6OO slie j 'h* to him sometime previously. Slid g<>r out of the car near the shoot ling occurred, some ►11 I r. told Allen to go on and ask 1 fid: ngiim if lie could meet her * | *r where should she go. ' N '• •> after Allen had gone, she ’ s!i *- was accosted by two persons, dad her vvliat she was doing ‘"'•I die told one it was none of ,l ‘' s ' and tlie other she didn’t 1,1,1 instead pulled her coat hj‘ r head and walked into a } She said she went 1 hi the corn field so as not to by persons who were stand 1 '• porrjh of Lawing's store. Jntigum about 10 minutes later ’«> tin* ear with Allen, she 'b'ir left them there, stating had sonic other business to M. l |°hl the court. K lnhjalrsaid sue didn't find out "iaving of Allen until about that night. . ( ; ’ v h»ng did they have you in , *ll *ordV i, ! , was never in jail in my life. C >i ' l - v °n give bond and skip? 1 l‘v ■ d-outinned on rage Three.) THE TLVIESt - \ : , I>H. ROWLAND SPEAKS TONIGHT-! ; Richmond Editor (o Deliver Address At Forest Hill Methodist Church, j | As announced\ in the week, I»r.! J. M. Howland. \ noted minister, editor; ' I author and w<i*ld traveler, will de i liver nn addrest in Forest IFill Aletl * ■ jotlist Ghmch tonight at 7:iio o’clock. I iLVr. Howland's isubjed will be -My! j Travels in P.ibl \ Lands." Tin* speak- 1 I ( >' * : entireh taViiliar with the-lands j ‘ *,t- Hibie history, as he has made two’ extended visits to iln- e lands v.iihin' ■the past few years. 'the people who hear the distin- j j gu!sh«*d spea'ker tonight will enjoy an j 1 hour of rare entertainment and solid! 1 helpfulness. * i | Added attractions will he several] musical numbers by the Forest Itiii) ! Orchestra, and some selections by Dr. j ! Dr. S. K. Kmurian. a native Armen-j jian now an eminent inistsr oi' Nor-* folk. \'a. . I>r. Einurian is a iMH-uliarly gifted! 1 man. He is an accomplished musi-i j com with a voice of surpassing range; land melody. ELECTION OFFICIAL IS ( HAKOED WITH MIRHER ; Walter Fisher Went on Trial Tiday at Sylva for the Killing of George Davis Last Fall. Sylva. X. ('.. Feb. 22.—Walter Fish- • er. deimxrratic election official at Sylva. * on Last November 7th, who in a quar- | l’.el at the polls is alleged to have shot ] and killid George Davis, merchant) lumberman, of barbers Creek town-1 ship, ami a |e iding politician in that ■ district goes on trial for life this nf-l termnai in Jackson county Superior ! court. Solicitor Gjover .Davis is asking a verdict ol' murder in the first degree. Fisher's said they .will en ter a plea of self-defense. A motion laje yesterday for <f,n tinuance to the next tfcrm of court was denltd by Judge Lane. LAYMEN’S MEETING OPENS IN CHARLOTTE Welcoming Address and Organization Details Before Opening Session To day. j Charlotte, N. ('.. Feb. 1 ing addresses ami organization de- I tails took up the gresitor part of tlie 'opening session lier Cs. today of the [ I Laymen's Movement region confer- j 1 once of ti,e iSourhern Presbyterian ! ! Church,., Du** of the features of the* i program was the address on "The'] Central Task of the Church," by the llev. Wade C. Smith, of Greensboro. ! i \Vomen's parallel im*eting was he- J I ing held separately during the day. I but tin* meetings will he in joint ses |si on tonight an,L again tomororw. Telephone Calls Average 176 at Person. i Chicago. Feb. 22 (By the Associat i 0,l Press).—lf every man, woman and j child in the I'nited States did his ] share of talking over the telephone j t last year, each would be entitled to ] 176 completed calls, according to fig ures coin piled by the Illinois Comniit , tot* on Public Ctilify information. The committee reports twenty bil lion telephone conversations in 11)22 l over the 14 600.000 telephones then in ■ use. To handle the business 606.000 persons were employed by the 66.100 , telephone companies and, the com i mittee impressively adds, the 29,701,- : (HK) miles of wire used would encircle! ] the glove 1,183 times at the equator. ; In other words there is enough of the ] wire to run sixty-two double ware tel ephone circuits from the earth to the j uioon,_nt its mean distance from the ! earth, and still have 90,000 miles or so left over for other purposes. Since Dr. Alexander Graham Bell 1 invented the telephone in 1870 the in dustry, had grown with such amazing [speed, that the United States with 'I only a sixteenth of the world's popu lation. now possesses two-thirds of all j tin* telephones iu use. The 16.000.000 telephone poles in use, says the statistician, would build j a railroad trestle thirty feet high! from Chicago to Buenos Aires, while I the additions ‘ and replacements each j year would oaryy a telephone line twn- I thirds the way around the earth. In 1900, he reports, there” was one i telephone for every 90 persons; in 1906 one for each 64; in 1910 one to leach 16; in 1916 one to each 11. and ! in 1921 one to each eight. Next to Americans the people of j ! Denmark are the most telephonically j ' talkative on earth. In 1920, when j Americans averaged 160 conversa tions per annum for each man, woman and child, the Danes were second with 118. Norway sind Sweden were third and fourth, both averaging above 100 conversations per inhabitant. The best the Germans, in fifth place could do. was 62. The Netherlands and Australia were between 40 anti .*O. Switzerland averaged 60: Great Brit ain 20, France 12: Belgium ten aud ; i Italy eight. The investment in telephone prop erties in tin* United States totals sl,- j 760,000,000. Soldiers Mjay Get Debt Money. > Washington, Feb. 22. Mellon was quoted today in tlie House by Chairman Fordney, of the Ways • and Means committee, as statingMhat L lie had no objection to the use of the r j money received from the foreign debt [! settlements for the payment of a sol j diet s' Itonus after the money was in t hand. House Accepts Senate Amemtments Washington, Feb. 22. —The last ac -1 timt necessary to Congress approval of i the British debt settlement agreement ' j was taken today by the House which without a roll call accept:d the senate changes to the bil amending the alli-xi debt fund.ng act. PUBLISHED MOND AyS AND THURS DA Y S GEORGE PETTI IIS ENTERED CHARGES AGAINST MAYFIELD ,1 j V Defeated Candidate for Sen ate From Texas Says His Opponent Has No Right to senate Place. CHARGES KLAN WAS VERY ACTIVE In the Campaign, and Also Charges Excessive and Il legal Expenditure of Mon- Opponent. Washington. Feb. 22 (By (lie Asso ciated Press). —Sweeping charges against the Ku Klux K!an and its of ficers were made today in papers til ed with the Senate, challenging the right of Earle B. Mayfield to Lis seat iu the next Congress as a Senator from Texas. * The election contest and its accom panying charges wera lik'd by Geo. E. B. Poddy, who ran f/r Senate last No vember in Texas as a republican ami independent democrat, and who accos t'd Mr. Mayfield during a bitter cam paign with being the candidate of the Klan as well as ol* the regular demo cratic organization. Excessive and illegal expenditure's of money by the Mayfield forces, frit mis in counting the ballots, and other irregularities were charged in the contest petition which asked for a recount. It was contended that Mr. Poddy actually was elected, but in tin' event the Senate does not so de cide it was asked in the petition that Mr. Mayfield nevertheless ’ barred from taking bis seat. The Ku Klux Klan was charged in the petition with concealing its real designs! under a cloak ot' patriotic prehensions m order to hide plans to "subject the government of the con stitution to tin* 'invisible empire.’" and with.conspiracy to evade, violate and defeat the Federal and state laws. Ir was further charged that the organ ization had attempted "prostitution of the Uhristian religion’’ .‘tad had resort - ;xl to use of "brute ioj*cq.< intimida tion amt "i.nnuuni ami lawless prac tices." MELLON WON’T GIVE OFT LIQUOR REPORT Secretary cf the Treasury Declines to Abide by Wish of Houve on Embas sy Whisky. Washington, Feb. 21. —Secretary Mellon declined today to furnish to tlie House of Representatives informa tion as to the amounts of intoxicating liquors imported by foreign embas sies and legations in Washington since the prohibition amendment !*•- came effective on January 20, 1920. Tin; information was asked for in a resoluttion aVlopted by the Housi* last Friday after tin* treasury secre tary had refused to give similar <1 ita to the house judiciary committee. r nie resolution was introduced by Repre sentative Cram ton. republican, Micli iban, a “dry” leader, who told the House that publication of the data would furn'sh one remedy for “leakage” of embassy liquor charged by the Washington police after raids in several fashionable apartment houses. “In view of the principles appli cable to international intercourse,” said Mr. Mellon’s letter to Speaeker Gil left, “and the existing immunity to which diplomatic representatives of foreign governments are entitled under international law and other statutes. I am not in a position to trasmit this ’’nfonnation to the House of Repre sentatives for the reason that it would be incompatible with the* public inter est to furnish it.” FUNERAL SERVICES FOR H. E. NORRIS TOMORROW Prominent Raleigh Man Will Be Bur ied There Tomorrow at 3 p. m. Raleigh, Feb. *22.—Funeral services for Herbert E. Nofris, who retired from solieitorship of the seventh dis trict last month, after 12 years of ser vice in the office, and who died at a local hospital late yesterday, will be held at 6 p. m.' tomorrow in the First Baptist Church here. The deceased was 64 years old. His widow and one son survive. State Home Economics Meeting. Greensboro, N. Feb. 22. —Ar- rangements are being made here for tlie annual meeting of the State Home j Economics Association to be held dur ing March, the exact dates to be fix fed later, it was announced today. Dr. 1 H. C. Sherman, an authority on nutri tion, is expected to Ik* the chief speak- I er of the convention. The state association is composed :of teachers, institutidnal workers, ! demonstration and home makers, and is a part of the National Home Eco nomies Association. The organiza tion in North UaroFna is now conduct ; ing a membership campaign, i Miss Katherine Moran, assistant supervisor of home economies eduea ! tion in the state and publicity ehair ; man of the association, is urging eliair ' men of home economics departments of Women's Flubs to attend the con vention in Greensboro. s Follow the thrift example set by George Washington by depositing regu larly with the Citizens Bank and Trust Company. CONCORD, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1923. New York, Feb. 22. service 1 nini began today; drawing in the; strings of a nationwide net, that they’ expect will enmesh ! 1,900 members of an international qonntorfoiting con spiracy that they believe lias its ten tacles gripped on every important city of tlie country. TTYe ring is believed to have manufncfurKl and distributed ! between one and ten million dollars . worth of bogus bills and spurious stamps. Arrests all over the country with' raids centering in . Chicago, Detroit. Fan Francisco and Other big cities, were forecast today by those federal] officers who hist night, completed the jailing of ('*4 allego«I. counterfeiters in . the metropolitan district. Deprived 'of its brains, the sfttnths believe the organization to be incapacitated. While secret service men are tramp ing the trail they' hit upon eight months ago in Detroit, the police of several countries wiif be hunting tin* members of the hand which extended its operations over nations, with amoving cleverness/* Tlie haunta of its principal are known, so the secret service meg) say. ; Twenty-one of til use arrested 'were held in the Tomb» * in bail ranging from $2,600 to ten tlfces that amount, and two others wer<s,held in Newark, r AdTjttton to IWiet TO THE BROWN MILL Seventy-Five Foot Addition, Two Stor ies High, Will Be Erected at Mil in Near Future. Further improvements and additions to the Johnston chain of mills locat ed in this city, were announced today when the management of the Brown Mill stated that it would erect in the immediate future a 75-foot, two story addition to its present mill. The con tract for the work was awarded to Brown & Harry, of Gastonia. The new addition will house a mod ern dye plant which the mill will in stall when the new structure is com pleted. Several days ago tlie management of the Norcoft mill, sister, mill of the Brown, announced the'awarding of a contract for a three-story addition. Work on this structure has already begun. • 1 Recently the Brown Mill erected 21 additional mill houses for its em ployes, and the Noreott management announces tlnvt it will erect eight ad ditional homes, the work to be started and completed at once. I H. E. NORRIS DIES AT HIS HOME IN RALEIGH Retired Solicitor of Seventh District Succumbs After Raleigh, Feb. 21. —Herbert Edmund Norris, retired solicitor of the seventh district, died in Rex hospital this af ternoon following an illness which took him from bis last December court when he left the office which he had filled 12 years. Notwithstanding the general knowl edge of his declining health, the pow erful frame of the victim was expect ed to pull him through. He was 66 years jold in November, but ho had the vigor of one 25 years Ills junior. Promises Surprise Then Tries Suicide. Lorain, Ohio, Feb. 21.—Despondent over the tragic death of h.’s sweet-1 heart, Stella Chapman, 19, killed in a railroad accident at Vermillion, near here February 2, Roy Baker, 21, steel | worker, attempted suicide early today at his home hero by sending a bullet through his body. He is in a l ocal hospital here with ! slight chance of recovery. Baker committed the act In the midst of 24 of his friends summoned to his home last night as guests at his party. Promising his friends a “big surprise” he took pictures of his dead sweetheart from his pocket and after draping them oil'a buffet he pulled a gun from liis pocket and sh >t himself. Want Home Economics Class Rooms. Raleigh, N. (\, Feb. 22.—The state department of vocational education to day announced it would co-operate with architects in the planning and constructing of new" school buildings in the state in order to insure proper home economics class rooms. Offiicials of the department already have furnished a large number of blue prints of home economics class rooms to architects and will continue this service. * Dr. Bernes, the premier of Cezcho- Slovakia. is one of the youngest pre miers in Europe, having recently cele t brated his thirty-seventh birthday. National Capital Pays Respect to Washington ! idly tin- A*Noeiate«l Presto s Washington, Felt. 22. —Federal gov ernment activities in all branches with ! the exception of wore sus- j pended today for the observance of | Washington's birthday. Both the Sen-j ate and House remained at .their task i of cleaning up the legislative jam be- *' fore adjournment qf the session on t March 4th. rfr*. The’official < , oleif:ition of the day here centered in k*romoni.es at the Washington motmnjpftf at which the Governors of all sfrtiQS had been in- j vited i«.» listen in py radio. Laying rr ——: ——— - i Counterfeiters" Plot is ’ I Discovered in Country ! Already Federal Agents in All Parts of the Country Have Arrested 64 Alleged Violators of This Law, and Other Arrests Are Expected Soon. - i — 1— ——.... ..,.— « 9 t of wreaths at the base of the memorial ' |by Secretary Weeks and other high j j govormiK nt offieals, as well a4 rep-! j resentatives of of a number of pa-j i triotie organizations, and the paying. I of military honors to tlie memory pf I I the first President marked the ' menial program tit the monument. j t j Senator Short ridge, of California, j was the principal speaker on the! program of exercises arranged by th * local chapter of ltaughters ol' the Rev jolution at Continental Memorial Hall with other societies participating. SENIOR CLASS GIRLS ARE GUESTS OF ROTARY CLUB ] Young Ladies Were Present in Large Numbers and Put On Attractive 1 Program. • Following its announced program sos devoting t-lic* greater part of its tal ent and time to the youngsters <U‘ the ■ city, the Rotary (Tub at its weekly j meeting yesterday at the Y' entertain- 1 ed the young ladies of the senior class at the High School. There are 65 girls in the class and 61 were present • at the meeting. Tom Webb was in charge of the j program, and with the assistance of the honor guests. He put on a fine [ program. Most of the time was given ; over to entertaining the visitors who | were given a generous share of the program. Tom also read a lipe paper on . “What Rotary Is and Is Not.” The! render copied some of tin’s address. ] which was deliveml recently in. Phil-1 adelphia by Stewart McFarland, past president of the Philadelphia Rotary Club, from the radio address, and later secured tin* entire address. Prof. Hinton McLeod, principal <*f the Iliglr School, operie*’ the 'Ts pro-! gram. He explained briefly what the teachers are trying to do with the students in the school, pointing out; that the pupils are being taught thai, honesty is essential in school as well 1 as in business and that it is as bad to play truant while ti student as it is to be a vagrant later in life. Mary Elizabeth Blaokwelder thank ed tin' club for its invitation to the girls, and she won a place in the heart of each club member. She also thank ed tlie club for its general interest/in the youngsters of the city, paying es pecial attention to the visits of the Rotarians at the chapel exercises at rhe school and the donation ol‘ a cup to the championship girls’ basketball team of the school. A musical selec tion by five girls followed, after' which Mary Hidenhour‘delighted her hearers with <*i humorous reading. A talk by Leorc Long followed and the program was concluded with the sing ing of parodies on different club mem bers. ’ Among the visitors* were Joe Robert son, of the Salisbury Club, Rosey O'Grady, of the Charlotte Club, and Dr. Green, of Star, forinerly connected with the La fir a Sunderland School here. During the meeting the members were given an invitation to hoar "Buck” Perrin, of Spartanburg, who j will open the “Win a Chum” cam paign with tin address at the Y Sun- j day afternoon at 3:60. All men in the city are invited to meet with the boys of the city at tlie meeting. Dr. Bamhariit at Forest Hill Friday Night. A telegram from Dr. J. 11. Barn-j hardt. of Greensboro, N. (’., makes, certain that he will be in Concord on j Friday night( tomorrow) for an ad dress at Forest Hill Methodist Church ! on "The Place of the Church in the! Community.” ! Dr. Barnhardt, a native of this; county, is one of the leading preach ers of North Carolina, at present the pastor of West Market Street Church in the Gate City. The public is invited to hear Dr. j Barnhardt on (his timely topic. Man Who Sent Fi r st Cablegram is Dead. Port Chester, N. Y., Feb. 21. —Cap- 1 tain Robert H. Smith, who sent the first cablegram across the Atlant.e, in 1 1860, for Syrtts W. Fif/d, who lain the j cabl<* died today at* his home here, at the age of 82. During the civil war Contain Smith.-as a military telegraph officer, served for a time as a personal telegrapher for President Lincoln. He worked as a boy with Thomas a. Ed son in Boston, For Many years Captain Smith was chief operator for the Western Union. Helicopter In Air Over Two Minutes. Dayton, Ohio, Feb. 21.—Thomas A. Edison, world famous inventor and electrical wizard, may aid Dr. George Drßothezat. builder of a helicopter, wit ch during an experimental flight toway at McCook field, remained in the air two minutes and 45 seconds and rose to a height of 15 feet, a world’s record for this type of machine. Mrs. Jno. M. Cook. Field Secretary of the Woman's Missionary Society of the North Carolina Synod, will be at Lutheran Church, in No. 4 township, next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock in the interest of the mission orv nrrvvtr CHARGE REMINGTON WAS BOOTLx-r”; FOR SOCIETY FOLK Los Angeles Story Says Wife of Dead Engineer Has Ad mitted That Her Husband Sold Whiskey. RENEW EFFORTS 1 TO GET SLAYER Police State They Found in Dead Man’s Clothes Names of 200 People and Record of His Sales. Los Angeles, Feb. 22.—Federal pro hibition agents today joined the po lice in the search for the slayers of j Earle Remington, electrical engineer.! shot down in his own yard a week | ago tonight. Their entry ‘came, after a declara tion by the police* that tlie widow,, Mrs. Va Lola Remington had told them tin* dead man was a “society) bootlegger", and after tin* police* bad found, questioned and temporarily re*- ! leased a man who admitted having operated three stills for the* enginee*r. j The* pTilie-e also said they had local-' t*d a large* eiuantity of liquor said tot have been in Remington's possession.] but the chief interest of (lie* Feele*ral j officers was believed to rest,in the po-! lice* statement that one of Remington's ! notebooks cemtaining 2tK) names and j records of sales had come into their j possession. I Lav us said that although the liquor; in question was elistilleel by an ama-1 teur, it was sold by persons in high j business and society circles of Los Angeles. The police questioned several men whose names appeared in Remington’s) notebook and stated they, obtained admissions of purchasing liquor from the engineer. I ' . i GRISSOM WILL PROVIDES FOR EDUCATION OF SOX Elat Provides That Expenditure Shall j Be Oelv For Studying ja Protestant • Institutions. , ! 1 Gr/efisboro. ‘Feb"? 2-i«VTfec w-jM .-of,-; Hyatt A. Grissom, druggist of th s city, d: owned in Floridaj on January 18, provides that not one cent of his estate be used for ' the education of h.s son in any but Protestant institu tions. A codicil to the w ll specifica ly provides t,liat no money be' exp-mied in Catholic institutions for th' educa tion of his son. Terms of the will became known with a filing of the document, for pro bate in the office of the clerk ot court of Gu lford county. 'Mr. Grissom leaves bis estate in trust for liis widow and child, a bank, acting as trust officer and ex ecutor. to manage the-estate and. nay the income to the two. When the Doy becomes 25 the eskvte sh-ll be divided between the two, un ess 'Mrs. Grissom remarries, in which case the son gets all. The value of the estate, while not '•et est mated by the executor, ,is known to* be considerable. Mr. Grisson was drowned when he drove his automobiTe into Thomas ; cre**k. 20 miles north cf The body remained in. the water 27 daw. until it was found. BIM AX VISITOR IX XORTH CAROLINA W. 11 Make Address Tonight In Tarboro Under) Auspices of Kiwanis t kiß. Rocky Mount, Feb. 22—Welcomed bv a throng of Kiwanians from Tar- j boro, Wilson and this city. William t Jennings Bryan arrived here early this j he will delver an address tonight under the auspices of the Kiwanians. Governor Morrison and Josepnus nin iels are expected to j in Mr. Bryan I heve and accompany him to Tarboro. During his brief stay here Mr. Bryan ! and visiting K.wunians» were enter tained -by tlie local Kiwanis ( lub be fore which The Commoner spoke on '‘Cooperation, Its Benefits and Perils." Jcy Louise Leeds Gets Vast Estate. New York, Feb. 21. —In a fashion able school for girls, Joy Louise Leeds, nine years old. tqday received her first lesson in long division. During | the same hour the will of Mrs. Louise i Hartshorne Leeds. Joy s foster moth er, who recently met death in a plunge ! from an upper window of her home, was filed for probate at Mineolu, re vealing that Joy had been bequeathei $250,000. a fortune in jewelry and. j upon the death of her foster father, j Warner Leeds, a life income from a j $2,000,000 estaie. ' The fil'ng of tlie will was the second . big event in Joy's life. The first oe ! cur red something more than eight years ago, when a poor woman walk ing through a dark east side tene- j rnent hallway stumbled on a bundle.; It was a baby girl. The woman called J police and the child was taken to: Bellevue hospital. , Bent on a charitable mission, Mrs.! Leeds, kujdhearml society woman. ( . visited the lio.-pital. She became at-j tnchert to the winsome little child and i adopted it. K<> the foundling became J Joy Louise Leeds, heiress. ~ i Mr. A. G, Green, of No. 8 township j had one of his.arms severely* injured la<t Tuesday while working in a sow mill. The wound is being treited In the Concord hospital, and Is respond ing satisfactorily to the treatment. 52.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. S T "TE DEPARTMENT i tit COIERCEJD INDUSTRIES ASKED J • ' Bill Creating Such a Depart ment Introduced During Day in Assembly by Rep | resentative Saunders. EDUCATION BILL j COMES TO HOUSE Bill Came in Form of Substi tute for General Educa tion Bill.—Would Com mend President. > Ruleigli. Feb. 22 (By the Associated Press). —Creation of a department of commerce and industries was asked in a bill introduced in the House to day by Representative Saunders, of Johnson county, which would have the governor appoint a commissioser or Such a department, whose duties it. would he to ‘ collect, and collate” in formation and statistics relating to the various mining, milling and manu facturing industries in the state. % Substitute for Education Bill. Raleigh. Feb. .22, (By the Associat ed Press). —Without 'discussion the committee substitute for the general educational bill passed the House on the second reading, by a vote of !M5 to 1. Representative Cowles, republican, of Wilkes, cast tlie single dissenting vote. The bill wms put upon motion of Representative VJ%vnsend, of Harnett, chairman of the education committee, in order to save a legislative day. The vote waP taken with the un derstanding that any amendment could bo offered when the bill came for third reading. A resolution offered by Represen-, tative Hvergtt, of Durham, endorsing the stand and co-operation of Presi dent Harding in connection with, the cotton conference now being held in Atlanta. Ga., was unanimously adopt ed, but consideration of the public calendar was forced over when re cess until S o’clock tonight was tiiken. Giles Bill iti Senate. Raleigh, Feb. 22 (By the Associat ed Preys Aft or • length? -Hr •**-■ which advocates of the measure urg ed it as a means for the improvement of the condition of the “1,200,000 ten ant” farm people of the state, the Giles bill was allowed to go overt until tomorrow for the vote. Says Sanatorium Conditions Bad. Raleigh, Feb, 22.—Charges that sour milk and rotten eggs, dirty linen and rusty linen were provided in mates of the state sanatorium were made by J. G. Hutchinson, a rehabil itation student at North- Carolina State College today in testifying l>e fore the legislative committee inves tigating conditions at the sanatorium. Hutchinson was ; patient at the sanatorium, he asserted, from Jan uary to July, 1920. He contracted tu bereulosis after having been gassed in France. He was followed oh the wit ness stand by Dr. Ben K. Hayes, of the U. S. Veterans Bureau, who testi lied in favor of Dr. L. B. Mcßrayer, superintendent of the sanatorium. He strted that in his opinion the safiator uim is “ably managed” and added that Dr. McGrayer is "carrying on a great campaign” against tuberculosis. SOUTHERN POWER Wi>S BEFORE SUPREME COURT Mil's’ Appeal is Premature and Frag mentary.,—Business is Int r astate. Raleigh, Feb. 21.—Dismissing ina appeal of the'‘Cannons, Johnstons and Cones group v of cotton tn’ijls from th'* corporation commission’s ordei to try out the Southern Power company’s increase rates before a Cleveland ■> county grand jury, the Supreme court this afternoon htdd the appeal pre mature and fragmentary, and decided substantially all issues with the Southern power. r The cotton mill consumers of the Southern Power’s current resisted the ’ rates made by the commission in July, 1921, and challenged, its juris diction. The commission taking jur isdiction promt gated the rates w xvch. were in excess of those made contract. The mills appealing from the order contended that the Southern Power company’s business is inter, state. The Supreme court holds n-at until more legislation is forthcoming the is intrastate and sondv the action bgck for trials The jury in the Cleveland hearing made a mis trial, Judge Bryson being upheld ry the court today in all ruling*. A Little Chiijjl Burned. On last Monday evening. February 12, about 4 :”>(» o’clock. Martha Mae Drye, little two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Drye, 1 was seri ously burned. It is not known exact ly how the accident occurred, for there was no one in the house except the child and a nine-months old baby. „ Her mother heard her screaming and rushed into the house, where she was, and discovered her clothing all in flames. The mother did everything in her jKtwer until the doctor arrived. Ev erything possible was done for her, but all in vain, for the burns were so severe that she passed into the great beyond shortly after 12 o’clock Wednesday night. Funeral services were held at Old Organ Church Fri day at 1 o’clock, by Rev. M. L. Riden hour and Rev. P. L. Miller. little bodv was laid to rest in the ceme tery. A FRIEND. NO. 66.