North Carolina Newspapers

THE concord times. f B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher. VOLUME XLVIII. Meant No Reflection On South, Armstrong Says SerrOai} of National Health Uounril Answers Recent Criticisms of His Speech Or. \V. S. Rankin. HIS MEANING IS NOT UNDERSTOOD Ho Was Talking* in General, (Jiving illustration by Hy pothetical Conditions, He Tolls l)r. Rankin. O', .. April ft. — "Tim Snuih has i, , : «>U' and cowly problems ilmi li.-hl than in sum * oilier il'i* country and is facing . .. j \ ; _ Mien) with murage Vnd ivi.'ii. ill <*!’ this trading in make this ( i •filer and safer place ini , ,1, i,c. and a more advantage- j .. -,r, r j. -ii for ilie development of in-I ,s ;\ I»f aid 15. Armstrong, seere- I ; ihf National Health Council. I ~ i it: a coimiuuiication to In\ W. | s. i; ; nkiii. North Carolina Ifealth Of-j ,■ cspl.-iiniiig that an "er-j ,ii>, iiiii-i jii eialion” had b<*eii gic-! ~, j)i< if, ini address before the Bos- ' i luiinhcr of (’omfneree. 'ir. vnnsjroiig in his Boston speech} \r ;l » ts having asked: "lu the} iiriiiiuctioit of cotton goods, for in >. a nee. i> ir hotter to pay high high! wage< to a group of'workers. 2 per! rent. ,if whom arc ill at any one time, ‘ , • is it bettor to take a chance with ! fry wages in malaria and hook worm I snjii.m with lb per cent, continuous; sicknoss rate and the coincident low! piiHliu-iifii in etlieiency and time lost V*’i hi answer to his own question, he' v.as quote! -a- having said that "if j ;he health inde'i i< at all a safe guide, the former represents the better in- i tcstmetik The message to the young New Kngland business man today, til j lease until Southern hygienic eondi-j Tiotis improve. might well be—voting man. stay North.” l»r. Armstrong's letter to Dr. Ran- t kin in part reads: • j The suhjert of the talk was ‘Health ; ami Industry." and I endeavored to! i ’iii'-;' "itt the economic importance of tiisetise prevention and the dirag which lameessiry illness places iqion pro-, diiftioii In making this point I- used a timi.her of ijlustralions, one of which im oh eil ilie setup of COpt'“iSf f(J_ hV- i t*offietbnt rtrrifTTtloirs where cevfhih f theoretical figures were used to bring '••nr divergent conditions of illness , prevalence. "! also wished to emphasize the im- j I'ethnice of the partially ineapaeitat :tr. r illtasses in decreasing efficiency ;i •rim';is infnrtunately used the ••\ctuples of hookworm and malaria. It v,:| ' this aspect of the paper that the} Ne« Kuglaiid press exploited. eliciting ;l fraction in New York City and ‘else- [ Where. "Iticidentally. it litis been a lesson to me to be a lit tle more cautions in umking remarks of any kind.” The Secretary of the Council said he Me imr speaking officially for the or- Mtii/.ation at Boston, hut that in or- « • 'f to "counteract the unfortunate im iiMssioncleared in certain quarters as a fsiilt ot .misinterpretation of mv re -I‘j ' it was ml vising till interested I' fi i ' as to the real conditions in the I N>nrh. HKVKY FORI) ASKED TO VISIT GREENSBORO | tnued (ontmercial Travelers Ask De- ' r,| it Manufacturer to Address Them. bi" t,-. , i t M. April o.—Hendy Ford. ■•}• “in-diii.. manufacturer, has been in- T 1 to deliver an .address' here dur ;iiiriiinl meeting of the Conn-j } ! ! " ' 'al'olin United ' Commcr-1 . 11 hi - in ,|mie. The invita ■ ‘ hefroiter was fordarded i i( J" '• i by members and op j ' dw Greensboro eiumcil No, i’Oft the coming convention} Kl " s " , *non stage Big Parade at Dallas, Texas. . U H ' Px - April 7. —The (town- , , lt V M ! v: ; ot Dallas were jammed! t , ' , !f)( V tonight, traffic was ar a ' P! :in (l ix>l ice reserve were I nv.i; 0I ;U. aI intervals, w-nlle. ;county criminal courts 1 ’ U. mp| »bers of 'the ‘•American | ■‘*n reported as being a auxiliary F ‘ 't ,\ Klux Klan in Texas, as-j PlaVi 'A i° ! h' a >' a de. the first to pel U '.'U' 1l ' V ie ' vonien ’s order siiiee’j - uuzaunn about a year ago. t, hatmde at 8; 15 o’clock, led by | tin,'V'. £)m - Un ' itDronsJt. carrying e !n ‘ ! : ,in the Lone Star dag } I;,, !,.*' ' :,! i r< .''public, and the Ameri-! pU-p '" , " : followed by a 75-1 Chpt ,■ ,ln '' paying “Onwarl i V' tail Soldiers.” 1 theU.A m,OD - ' n h»ng lino following ii lL , j" ! ’Q relied two abreast, wear ! 0 D'bes with red crosses J hmk,.i : ! They wore aj nere'V- ‘i l wiln :l rof * tassel and Um,, (!jaiip*> Being Investigated.! Gi.n’it.V.Ui'’!' 1 ' A, ' vil An investiga-j i s v lU'oprn*ty and reasonable-' rm ; ,; Ils 't , / I , ‘‘**jsv*iit surcharge' placed | 1 ' ■ “"T 1 s "'ko use Pullman ' hie (!*• ./,.' '. in(i * nSo the general sched- j '■•l-,. ,I ;U charged for Pullman car R'crsp U Ins t^ f uted today by the bam* ,[ Commission. The ,ltl Jissr'i,,,] best rings will j An (‘iHeitir ~i • h.i- ‘ } information service •' i p|;,|; n „ V ."t '"('"motive engineers in '■'llt-i' t sons an d daughters to IlroiU,, U, l "}" 11 established by the • ’ d el' Locomotive Engineers. !♦ PRESIDENT HARDING ♦•RTS BACK to work Chief Executive Was Greatly luvigo rated by His \neation Spent in Florida. Wn slii ngt on .April ft.—lnvigorated by jins hvc»-weeks vacation President i llarding went to work energ-etieallv today on a variety of problems awa.it j ing his attention. Arriving at his office shortly after j S ii clock, the Chief Executive went i over a high slack of papers piled on , desk, called in hjs stenographer -and <lid a lot of dictating, bad a eon jl'eieiiee ~f more than an hour with lliighes. (iisciiss( , .t tlit*- sugar J price situation and other things with (Secretary Hoover, had brief talks wiih Senator .Nelson, republican, of Minnesota, and former Senator Page. i vepubiicau. \ ermont. and rtx'cived from Senators Curtis and Capper, republi cans. of Kansas, separate reconnnenda j lions l'or file "dirt fanner" vacancy on jtbe reserve board. Secretary Hughes declined to discuss | his conference with the President, hut il Was assumed he took up a large ac- J cumulation of department matters. (Secretary Hoover aeijuainted the Jixec luifive with the lntesi developments in j the sugar situation, and the latest ef i forts el bis dejairtment in dealing with i it. including the inquil-y now under i way in Cuba and Porto Rico, I ! For the Reserve Board vacancy j created during tile President's absence by the death of Mini I). Campbe.U, i Senator Curtis reconunended A. IL Denton, of Arkansas City, Kans., who ; i>» both ;i farmer and banker; and ! Senator'Capper, presented lo the Pres ident \v. H. ChapiHdl. of Chanute, Kansas, a fanner, and urged lirs :ip ! ijoinfment. i ' MI C H LOC AL INTEREST IN RECENT RI LING OF I. ( . ( . /Order Compels American Express Cotn ; lumy to Send Express Direct to Cra jolina Points. ; 'Much local interest was manifested in the recent order of the Interstate • Commerce Commission directing the (American Railway Express Company to send express direct from eastern j points to Southern points via the (Southeastern Express Company. The order came after a lengthy litigation lief ore the commission,. and Concord, along with other cities in this section or the country, had made protest to the cominissbni of conditions as they have existed for some time. .-e»cihi' months ago tiie T.x-al *yßn l ?" chants Association sent to Senator Ov erman a letter pointing out. condi tions as they existed here, and asking ! that In* exert his influence to get more direct express routes from eastern cit ies to This city. The letter charged that instead of-sending express matter over the Southeastern company via Wnsh'ngton, tin* American company would send the matter over other lines on which il operated, thus delay ling the shipments to this city. Sena tor Overman received similar appeals from other cities in this State, and he has given the matter much attention recently. The new order means that express .hereafter will come from eastern cit ies to Washington, where it will be gi\en to the Southeastern company, which operates on the Southern Rail way. In this way the express can reach Concord direct, instead of coin ling via Richmond, Hamlet, Charlotte over the Seaboard and then to Con cord over the Southern, or via Ralti- I more, Roanoke. Winston-Salem. Lex l ington over several routes and then from the latter city to Concord over the Southern. Union County Farmers May Turn to Tobacco. iMarshville, April 8. —Some agtta | tion for tobacco growing as a means |of combatting the ravages of tbo boll i weevil ill Union county is being mane. Many farmers and business men be lieve that tobacco may lx* profitably grown irt tbs county, recu ling a time when it was grown to some ex tent in Lanes Creek township. Twenty-five or thirty years ugh the late Captain T. E. Ashcraft, of Lanes Creek, built a large, tobacco : barn and grew the we(*d for a tew years, but abandoned the pursuit, oe i cause of the fact that cotton proved more easily grown and gathered. Many now believe that if the boll ! weevil should invade the county to the extent that cotton growing oe ; comes unprofitable, the tobacco m jdustry will take on new life, es i pecially s.'nce the co-operative mar jketing plant makes it easy to market | tobacco, although there is no estab ! fished market in the county, by snrp | ping to warehouses in the tobacco soc | tions. Gets SIOO,OOO For Risking His Life | E. R. May. an insurance man of San Francisco, Cal., lias received a I check for SIOO,OOO from United States j Senator La wrence G. Phipps of | Colorado, for saving the lives of Scna -1 tor Phipps’ two daughters Dorothy and Helen, in 1904. On June 5, 1904, May was^ walking (down a street in Denver when he (saw a team of runaway horses draw | inc a careening buggy. In the buggy (-were the Philips girls. Risking his Life, May seized the reins of the I horses and rescued the girls. Senator and Mrs. Phipps were in Europe at the time, but on their re turn they hunted (May up and gave I him $5,000, with the assurance that • lie would hear from them again. He j has, this time to the extent of SIOO,- 000. . In Paraguay they have a very small cat, three pounds in weight at maturity, which never caterwauls. PUBLISHED MONDAY ROME’S ROYAL "WEDDING Il.t Eve.xt a Demonstration of Inter national Peace. Rome, April ft. Primers Yolando. eldest daughter of the King and Queen of Spain, and Count Carlo Ualvi di Berguio, officer in the Jtalian army and member of a family of the. old nobility Were married with all the rites i»f the Roman Catholic Church shortly define noon today in tin Pauline Chapel in the Quirinal I’al ace. The presence of representatives of nearly all of the royal families aiu. 'cwrnments of Europe made the event a demonstration of international pence. While tin* short -formal' civil mar riage ceremony was taking place tin guests who were to attend the solemn religions service had assembled in-tln •hape], i he interior of which had he.ei uiade beautiful with artistic floral dec orations, softened bv tin* judicious lsi of palms, ferns, and other plants which con I reeled nicely with the col >rs of tin* ladies’ toilest and with tin uniforms of the military guests. -\i tin* conclusion of the civil cere monv the bridal procession was mar shalled into fine by the imperial court •haniln rlain, and then proceeded near ly tin* whole length of the. rambling dd palace, through a long series ot | Mate apartments, to-the Pauline Chap , el. It was led by tin* Opuple the Princess' train being borne by tin youthful nephe.w of tin* bridegroom Count di Bergolo wore his full dress military uniform.. After them cam* King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena, with the parents of the bride groom. Then followed the Duke and Duchess of Aorta, the Count and flu [Countess of Turin, and other members of tin* Italian royal family, together with tin* delegated representatives ot the royal families of England, Spain Belgium. Norway. Sweden, and othe.i •auntries. a special delegation repre senting the French government, and tin* ambassadors of other nations who, together with their wives, form e.d a company of several hundred .Members of the Italian nobility also were in attendance, as well as liigl officers of the army and navy. I*re mier Mlssolini and other members of the cabinet, and a deputation repre senting the two houses of Parliament The royal bride was attended by hei sisters, the Princess Mafalada and Giovanan. Degli Angela, tin* royal chaplain, performed the ceremony, as sisted by several eminent prelates and a number of priests. At the conclu sion of the ceremony the chaplain de livered the customary brief address of advice and admonition to tin* bridal couple. As the rings were exchanged before the altar a baQerv of artillery stationed outside the palace fired a > royel salute. Then tile bridal couple, with tie 1 . . (If ; l.r. one. Qi the state drawing rooms of the pal ace.. where they received tin* congratu lations of the guests, who filed past them making profound hows and cour tesies. The populace of Rome observed the day as a gala day, the streets being filled with people, including many whe lad come from a distance to catch a glimpse of tin* wedding pomp and pageantry. As tin*, hottr for the cere mony approached the plaza surround ing the Quirinal was alive with poo pie watching the constant arrival of the many royal personage# and their brilliantly uniformed attendants. Va cua ll.v every house in Rome was hung with flags and streams, while bright ly colored flowers had been placed in flic windows and on most of the bal conies, everything forming a most es fective display. REV. R. L DAVIS ISSUES STATEMENT IN. DENIAL Os Charges That Dr. Strecker IK Spreading German Propaganda. Raleigh, N. C., April 4—R.-L. Davis, state superintendent of the Anti- Saloon League, tonight issuted another statement in denial pf despatches from Greensboro to the effect that Dr Reinhardt Strecker, speaker of the World League Against Alcoholism, had not had his speaking. (engage ments in North Carolina cancelled as a result of American Legion's pro tests to headquarters. ‘'Lot me say that Dr. Strecker is not an Anti-Saloon League speaker hut a speaker or the World League Against Alcoholism, escorted through this state by me ” said Mr. Davis. “No one that heard Diq Strecker—atm his audience at Goldsboro Sunday night, March 18, -was estimated at 1000 per sons—has alleged that he was spread ing German propaganda. "Dr. Strecker and I fil ed every ap pointment, nine in all, that we were originally scheduled to fill, beginning March 18 and ending at Spring Hope, March 25. “This report insinuates falsely that I am untrue to Americti, which many liquor advocates seem to believe. “Dr. Strecker, after filling all en gagements, left the staf" Monday, March 26. and I suppose has heard othing of all this ‘tempest in a tea pot’ begun by one Mr. Moore, of Spring Hope. Is all this liquor propo ganda to stop the move for world prohibition? If so. let the wets make tin* most of it —th3 great majority of the American Legion, I believe} are in favor of it.” he asserted. The despatch from Greensboro stated that Dr. Strecker’s speaking engagements in the state ltad been cancelled following protests by the American Legion on the ground that the speaker was an alleged propa gandist. The protests, it was stated, were carried to national head quarters of the league the state superintendent had refused to act. Imports in January Show Increase. Washington, April <J.—Preliminary estimates of the commerce department today valued imports of the United States during January at s.3lft.ooi>,ooft, or $102,000,000 more than the imports in January, 1022, and .$20.000,000 in ex cess of imports during December. CONCORD, N. C„ MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1923. Rally Meeting for Lenoir College - Proved Very Successful Occasion , L “North Carolina is the greatest State in the Union and is the State with the greatest possibilities,” Rev. C. P. MacLaugblin. D. R., of pitt-’ burgh, stated here yesterday after noon at the rally in st. James Lutheran Church in the interest of the fISnO.oOU cam]align for Lenoir College. Dr. MacLaugblin at present is pastor of a Lutheran Church in Pittsburgh.' but he was pastor of St. James Church ' here for a number of years and has! xept in close touch with tlie wonderful progress off the State. His statement.! ic said, is further backed up by the •onvi.ction of business men with whom he has come in h-ouluct. The State is lot tally great in the development of ts resources, but in its educational irogvess and religious feeling, jis well. I it has scarcely been touched with the : foreign spirit, he said. (Witii this feeling, Rr. MncLnughlin ' dated, the Lutherans of this state lave an opportunity that those of no it her section of the country have. With he big heartedness of one man, Mr. D. fi. Rhyne, who has invested an addi tional $5100.000 in the educational pro gram of this Synod, then* came a chal-| engc to the church, the like of which ' io other Lutheran College* in America! aas ever had. He said that tin* hour; >f trial for Lenoir College had passed,; hat sin* came out pure gold, that she md been placed in tin* balances and neasured up to the required standard, >ut that tin* Synod of North Carolina j was on trial. Rev. Prof. E. J. Sox, I). R., of the, 'ollege, was emphatic in his statement ; if tin* needs of enlarged equipment of j Womble Got Nomination In Democratic Primary Sapp, Flowe, Wilkinson, Ivey, McEachern, Hullender, Hartsell and King the Successful Candidates Who Entered Democratic Primaries Held Saturday. Josiah Baileyy-Womhle, now serving, iiis first term as Mayor of Concord, will be (he Democratic nominee for liis office in the May election, he hav ng been nominated in the primary held >.v his party in this city Saturday af ernoon. Mayor Womble enjoys the listinetion of having carried every ward in the city in the primary over iiis opponent. Jacob O. .Moose. The to tal vote in tin* primary for this office was Woipble 5572. Moos-e IIS. Jii addition to .Mayor Womble, tlie| /allowing candidates &\vere nominated •tfttu rdfty ffr the WflTOvTa Ist Alderman at large—J. T. Sapp. T T n-| ipposed. i Alderjhan from Ward one—W. NY. Flowe. Defeated John J,. Petrea. Alderman from Ward two—W. A. Wilkinson. Unopposed. Alderman from Ward three—C. M. ivey. Unopposed. Alderman from Ward four—J. G. McEachern. Defeated R. C. Litaker. Alderman from Ward live—K. A. Hullender. I Yiopposed. School Commissioner «it large—J. L. 'llartsell. Defeated Robert Cook. School Commissioner from Ward me—la T. Hartsell. Unopposed. School Commissioner from Ward four—Dr. R. M. King. Defeated V. L. Norman. All of the candidates named above, hot Ii the successful, and unsuccessful, were announced candidates except Mr. Cook. It was not generally known that he .was in the race until his tickets appeared at the voting places. .Mrs. li. J). Coltrane. who rumor stat ed was going to be a candidate for school commissioner, but who never announced her candidacy, received sev eral votes for commissioner in her ward. The largest vote was polled by Mr. Rapp, who was voted on in each ward and who had no opposition. Mr. J. L. Hartsell carried every ward in the city except Ward five and Ward one. box 2. „„ Mayor Womble received a vote that was surprising to many. IK* carried Mr. Moose’s own ward, thus showing strong backing in every part of the city. The candidates nominated Saturday will represent the Democratic party in the municipal election to be held on May Bth. Since the Democrats have 1 been carrying the city by large major ities in the past several elections, the nominations practically assure elec tion. v Republican leaders have not an nounced whether or not their party will enter a ticket this year. Ward live usually gives a Republican ma jority, and for that reason a candidate for alderman from that ward may be entered in the election. One Republican who takes much in terest in polities intimated that the G. O. I*. will enter a full ticket, but he would not discuss tin-matter fully, and refused to suggest any probable candidates. The vote in tlie primary Saturday was light, as had been expected. A number of women voted, but they did not show the interest they have shown in regular elections and are expected to show on the <Sth of next month. The full vote follows: Ward one, box one —Womble 148; Moose 237 Sapp lflft: Flowe 17ft; Re trea 12; Ilartsell, J. L. 153; Cook 3; Ilartsell, L. T., 17ft. Ward one, box two —\N omble 21, Moose 12; Sapp 29: Flowe 20; Pe trea 11; Hartsell, J. L.» Hi Cook 25. Ward two —-Womble 03 : Moose 14. Sapp 71; Hartsell. J. L., 51; Cook 20; Wilkinson 77. j Ward three —Womble Ift: Moose 13: Ivey 31; Sapp 31: Ilartsell. J. L., 28; Cook 1. i Ward sou 72: Moose 31; McEachern 72; Litaker 34; Sapp 02; King 81; Norman 10; Hartsell, J. L., AND THURSDAYS 1 all denominational institutions to keep .pate v/th the standards of. requiiv j merits. With tendencies of merging in jjerests on every hand there must be (preparations made to measure up to the necessities. He spoke briefly of the } stfiet educational demands that the i present age is making and of tlm need ; for the college to meet this condition. 1 Mr. Heffner, a student at Lenoir. | spoke of tin* students’ activities in the present effort to raise .$850,000 sot the college. ! The rally meeting was well attended with much enthusiasm for the cause and m determination to secure the amount so! nut for by tin* Synod evi dent. The canvass will open on the 22mi of i lips month. In the morning Dr. MaoLnughlin I preached for St. James congregation. ! The large church was tilled notwith standing l In* constant downpour of rain. Hi* spoke on the charter of the church. This sermon was tilled wiih inspiration and was listened to with the closest attention. This large con gregation bespoke tin* high esteem and ! love for him while here as pastor of ! I liis congregation, i , . Special music (or the morning ser , vice was rendered by the choir, which I repeated the Easter anthems which they sang on last Sunday evening.; These included two anthems, with so lo parts by Miss Helen Patterson, Miss j Macey, and Mr. Sam Goodman. Mr ; Goodman also sang a tenor solo “I i Know That My Redeemer livetli.” The i choir was assisted in the service by (the members of the junior choir. O HIGH POINT AHEAD OF DURHAM’S POPULATION High Point’s Population by the Fed eral Census Takers as 2,271). High Point, April 7. —The result of the-census-takers’ recount of the pop ulation of High Point, to which there was added new territory by an ex | tension election several months ago# j announced today, gave the city a pop- I illation of 22,27 ft. * | These gtlicial figures nuke. High ‘Point the sixth largest city in North | Garniinu and at present the largest .city in Guilford county, the popula tion being larger than that of Greens boro. and also Durham. According to the 1920 census, there are at present only live* cities in North Carolina with a larger popula tion than that of High Point. These are: Winston-Salem, 48,395; Char lotte, Wilmington, 33,372: Asheville, 28,504; Raleigh, 24.418. That High Point has enjoyed re markable growth during the past 20 years is shown in the official figures. In 1900 the city had a population of only 4,103, Imt in 1910 it grew to a city with 9.524 inhabitants. High Point continued to grow and in 1920 the federal census gave the city a pop ulation of 14.302. Last year the voters of High Point decided in a special election to extend the corporate limits of tlie city. Fol lowing the election, Mayor John IV. Hedrick requested the census bureau to make a new count, of noses in High Point. The mayor's request was com plied with/and the enumeration have High Point a large increase. v Woman Sets Fire to Self and is Burn ed to Death. (Miami, Fla., April B.—Crazed with pain of a long illness, which ttiref operations had failed to alleviate -Mrs He en 'Simms, 46. of M'.ami drenched herself with kerosene last night, lit a match to her clothing, screamed once and burned to death. Police,at first worked on the the ory that the woman had been mur dered and because of her smallnesc of stature believed her to be but 16 years old. ' The woman’s husband later was found and he identified her as nis wife. He said she had been dement ed over her illness. The couple came here from Wellington, Colorado in October. Gets Full Sentence of Turlington Act. Greensboro, April 0. —Kelly Safe right, young white man. felt the full effects of the Turlington act in Su perior Court here today when he was sentenced to six months on Guilford county roads by Judge T. B. Finley, of North Wilkosboro, presiding over a j special term of court. Saferight was (arrested in the central part of the city j two weeks ago and was found to have; (something less than a quart of corn ! whiskey in the. pockets of his over alls. ~ Ready to Score Kitchens. j Women in the county who have on ' tered tin* “Better Kitchen” campaign being conducted by Miss Kathleen ! Wilson, home demonstration agent. | whose kitchens have not been scored i at all, are asked to notify Miss Wil j son, and she will score them at once, j A number of kitchens have been | given the first score, and Miss Wilson ! is anxious to make the first score for all of them before giving the sedbod score to any. 84. Cook 15; Mrs. L. D. Coltrane 1. 1 Ward five —-Womble 4ft; Moose 25; Sapp GO; Hullender G 6; Cook 65; Hart sell J. L., 0. DRY AGEHTS FIRING (OH WOMEN WILL HOT ! BE TRIED IN COURT Misses Rosalie Bowen and Mary Gwynn, Y. M. C. A. Workers, Were Fired on by Prohibition Agents. SEVERAL BULLETS STRUCK THEIR CAR Rather Than Get So Much Publicity, They Will Not Take Their Case to Court, It Is Decided. Asheville. April ft.—Officers of tlie Asheville Y. W. C. A. will advise Miss es Roslie Bowen and Mary Gwynn, members' of the Y. \Y. C. A. staff here, whose automobile was tired upon by Federal prohibition officers in Green ville Gounty, S. <’., yesterday, nql to institute legal i>t*oceodings against tin* officers, they said today, because of tin* publicity they would be involved in. Tlie young \yomen~ are expected to return to this city today following an inspection of the Greenville. Y. W. G. A. According to information received here the automobile in which they were riding near Travelers’ Rest, was tired upon by L. T. Queen and other prohibition officers after the young women had disregarded an order to halt. The occupants of the car said they feared th,e men were highwaymen. A bullet penetrated a tire of their car. another struck a spoke in the wheel, and a third penetrated the right fender. The punctured tire caused tin* car to go into a ditch, where tin* offi cers searched through the car and the young women's, effects. Then they were released with the explanation that their ear had been mistaken for a rum runner. THE COTTON MARKET Finn Tone at Opening, First Prices 11 to 21 Points Higher. New York, April ft.—Relatively firm Liverpool tallies and rather unsettled weather conditions in the South gave the cotton market a linn tone at ihe opening today, turn! Jirct prie<*s were 1 1 to 21 points higher on trade and com mission house buying. The advance attracted considerable realizing which caused some irregularity, but she un dertone of the market was steady dur ing the early trading with July hold ing around 29.10 and October 25.75, or about 10 to 22 points net higher on the general list. Cotton futures Opened firm: May 30.00; July 20.10: October 25.70; De cember 25.25: January 24.98. METHODIST C HURC H / GETS SBOO,COO LEGACY ■J. W. Higgins, Fatally Hurt in Auto Accident, Leaves His Wealth to Church. Johnson City, Tenn., April ft. —.T. W. Higgins, who died in a Marion. N. C., hospital during the past week as a re sult of injuries sustained by being struck by an automobile driven by Elias Hensley, a 10-year-old youth, est SBOO,OOO in cash and realty to the Methodist Church. He was president of the City Batik at Yancy. N. (’., and one of the outstanding financiers of the western section of the state. lie was; ■>l years of age, and childless. He left i farm valued.at 810.000 to a nephew Joe Higgins. Higgins was a member of the South ;*rn Methodist Church. Case of Conscience Or Case of Fright? [ Dunn. April 7. —John Bennett Pope, Harnett county farmer, who} lives near Dunn, passed through an | unusual experience/ this week. Rcb >ers broke into Ins smokeshouse at light and took every piece of his home-raised meat, and he had quite x supply. The following day Mr. Pope put out the word that he had j secured sufficient evidence to convict I *nd the word was narrated around ‘ 'hat the men whir took the eat had 1 best return it. The next morning Mr. Pope was very much surprised and nore greatly pleased when he founl :hat every piece of his meat had been returned and left on his porch. With Our Advertisers. The Ritchie Hardware Go. has screen doors and screen windows and all sizes of screen war. Let them show you. The Specialty Hat Shop has all the latest shapes, colors and styles in lad ies’ hats. Visitors Arriving in New Orleans For the Annual Confederate Reunion New Orleans, La., April ft.—Visitors to the 33nl reunion of the United Con federate Veterans which ojions on Wed nesday. continued to pour into the city today and it was predicted by copven- Hon officials that by tomorrow night tie greatest crowd that has attended i reunion since 1893 would tie here. The arrival yesterday of large del egations from Tennessee. North Caro lina and other nearer points, took the convention headquarters by storm. •We wanted to be in plenty of time,” ‘hej- explained. A little group thajt arrived together $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. CHIEF WATER ROUTE ii'„::;:- ci HAS BEEN BLOCKED i i ’c Locks on Dortmund-Ems Canal Destroyed by Dyna mite and Traffic on Canal i Now at Standstill. t FRENCH SAY ONE CANAL IS OPEN 1• * . This Is Most Serious Case of , Sabotage Reported on the * Waterways During the Oc | cupation Period. „—— . Essen, April 0 (liy the Associated Press). —The explosion of a tiin<* bomb destroyed the locks of the Dortmund- Ems canal near Hearnev early today. The canal was blocked, seriously in terfering with the complicated inland ' waterway traffic in the Ruhr. This is the most serious case of sabotage yet reported on the Ruhr waterways. The lock was near the junction of the Dortmund-Ems canal with the 'main canal that runs down to the Rhine at Diusburg and Ruhrort, where the largest inland port in the. world is located. The intention of the dynamiters was not only to block the canal, but to drain the water from the main Rhine- Herne canal, which is the main water way artery of the Ruhr, but the. French saj - this main canal was not, interfered with as the locks on both sides of the one which was dynamited were closed immediately after the ex plosion. The Dortmund-Ems, canal, itself an important waterway, is blocked. Guards have been placed at all junc tions and locks as a measure for pre vention of further damage. FEAR OF KMJUKERB PAUSE OF SUICIDE West Virginia klartsrnan Worried Over Telling Secrets Takes Own Fife. Clarksburg, W. Va., April 8. —Worry over the fact that he had divulged to his own father a plan which the Wal lace Ku Klux Klun had to whip two WaP?e» bc>it.lbt • Kent Ogdeii, wealthy Wallace oil and gas man, and himself an officer in the k an, to a mental state where death , seem art easier alternative than the consequences which his mind pictur ed. according to a story which ap peared in the Clarksburg Exponent Sunday morning. This is regaled in statements writ ten just before death by Ogden, who, on Tuesday of this week, placed a pistol over his heart and pulled the trigger, and in signed statements oy his father. James Ogden, his widow, Mrrs. Dellis Ogden, and F. S. Estlake, Wallace undertaker, who is one of the men whq H is said the k an planned to whip. Mr. and Mrs. Ogden and ‘Mr. Estlake each prepared statements for the Clarksburg Exponent, and the father turned over the one written by his son just before he took hi.s own life.; Thirty-Seven Thousand Hear Sunday ■ ‘ in Farewell Sermons. Columbia, S. C., April S.~Thirty seven thousand people heard Billy Sunday in four services in the taber nacle, From 7 o’clock to 0 the big pine temple was a teaming scene of activity. One audience would be let out at" one end of the tabernacle and another let in at the other, so that there was a minimum of duplication. The trail hitters at tin* four services numbered 4.440, of which 2.154 came* at Ihe night serviees. It broke* all records for Mr. Sunday's 27 years of evangelistic work. Mr. Sunday was escorted to the train at in o’clock Icy the son ushers of the t a berm cl e organization. The men drew Mr. Sunday’s car through the street to the station with rophs attached to his car. and along the streets stood delegations from the. public schools, the university and the two colleges for women and many citi zens. who sang songs of the taber nacle and shouted and waved goodbye to the evangejist. At the tabernacle* tonight the mem bers of the Sunday party were called to the platform and the 10.000 wor shippers applauded .and waved their handkerchiefs, and them spontaneous ly broke into a volume of song. “God. Be With You Till We Meet Again.” Cotton on the local market today is quoted at 2* 1-2 cents per pound; cot- . ton seed at GG cents per bushel. consisted of .7. A. Smith, of Chatta nooga, and ,7. M. Cook an<l W. 8. Gris som. of Gaston County, X. C. Mr. Cook is 83 years old and boasts of the fact that he has Id children, 40 grand children, and 22 great grand-children. lie was a member of Ransom’s Urig ade during the war. For bravery at Sharpsburg he was appointed color bearer for his regiment for the re mainder of the war. As spry as ft man half his age. Geo. W. Nberam. 83 years obi Confederate Veteran, walking from Barnesville, Ga., to attend the reunion, arrived last night. He left BarriesviUe March Bth. NO. 79.