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THE CONCORD TIMES
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
Worldly
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Because Clyde Martin. ex-liigh
school principal at l'aly.vra, I-isl., built
a community house and organized a
] basketball team and an amateur dra
matic society among the students.
|he is being tried by #the Church of
Christ. of which lie is a member, for
being "worldly and nnOhrisrian.” If
i convicted he faces expulsion from the
I church.
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MOKE COMPLICATIONS
IN INHERITANCE TAX
Time Limit to Determine Matter is
Intent Held to Be Unconstitutional.
Columbia. S. (\. March 3. ; —ln- |
rercst attaches in South Carolina to J
the decision of The Cnited States'
supreme court Monday, in Washing- j
ton. upsetting that part of the Wis- •
consin' Ktate inheritance tax law
which would tax a gift made within
six years of death as if it wen* made
in eontcmidatkm of death.
The South Carolina law now pro
vides that where a gift is made with
in five years of death, it is regarded
as made in contemplation of death
and is therefore subject 'o the in
heritance tax-
The legislature !a>‘t year parsed an
act changing thin limit from five
y«*K* to one year. Senator Carter, of
Bamberg, being author of the meas
ure. Governor McLeod vetoed the
act and sent his veto message to the
legislature early in the present ses
sion. The senate over-rode the veto
and tient it to the house. It is now
on the house calendar awaiting ac
tion of that body.
The United Staten supreme court
held that an arbitrary time limit in
such cases is unreasonable that the
matter to be determined must be the
intent of the donor.
SOUTHERN TO DOUBLE
TRACK TO ASHEVILLE
—
Time and Half For Sunday and
Holiday Work Is Effective
Over the System.
Salisbury. March 3.—Representa
tives of the shop crafts of the South
ern. returning today from Washing- j
ton, where they had been in confer-j
ence'with the road officials, brought
rhe good news that, beginning as of
March the men will receive time and j
a half for work done on Sundays j
and holidays. For several years !
straight time only has been allowed
on Sundays and holidays. An in
crease in pay of two cents per hour
affecting all shop crafts is also re
ported.
The Southern hits just put aoout
a hundred men at Majolica, the first
stop west of Salisbury on the Ashe
ville division, to .double track tbe
roadway toward Salisbury. It is
-;aid this force will be increased to
three hundred soon, and the double
tracking between Majolica and |
Salisbury will be pushed as rapidly >
as .possible. This is the first link in j
the new .double track scheme be
tween Salisbury and Asheville.
Hat bought Fifty Years Ago is Paid
For With Interest.
Wilmington. Mar. 3. —The Thomp
son orphanage, Charlotte, is to re
ceive &><) "conscience money.” Check
for that amount is now in the hands
of Capt. „Thomas D. Meares, treasur
er of the East Carolina diocese of
the Episcopal church- "
Fifty-six years ago a man whose j
name is not given ■fought a $9 hat :
from the grandfather of J. N. By- i
•num, of lielhaven. The hat was paid 1
for a few days ago, a check for SSO, j
principal and interest, having been 1
given Mr. Bynum by the purchaser
jof the hat. He in turn forwarded it
to Captain Meares with a request
I that it be given the orphanage.
! In forwarding the cheek to the
diocese treasurer, Mr. Bynum, a
prominent' member of the Episcopal
church, says that efforts to locate
all the heirs d{ his grandfather’s es
tate in order to divide the check
equally had proved futile and he had
decided, with the debtor concurring,
to turn the money over to the or
phanage.
Quake Reported to Have Killed Many.
Sofia, Bulgaria, March 4.— UP) —An
earthquake in‘the Pelopenesus with
a heavy loss of life in reported by
a courier arriving here from Greece.
A cliff shaken from a mountainside,
rolled down into a valley crushing a
train, he reports. Three of the pas
senger cars were caught in the ava
lanche and many of the passengers
, were killed.
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I b; x suppers, etc,, to which an Jfc!
4$ admission fee is charged, or at 4*: j
4$ which anythin i* 4 s, >ld. w«ill be as 40
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4t Five cents a line will be charg- &
4$ <*d with a credit of 5 lines of 4$J
j4E readers for every inch of dis- I
i4 k play advertising used. We will 4C
4S also give erqtlit on the account jfc|
Sfc far all tickets to such entertain- |
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TAYLOR CASE UP?
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Rumored District Attorney
Keys Has Gone to New
York in Connection With
Murder Mystery.
New York. March 4.—(*>)—Dis
trict Attorney Keys of 1 «os Angeles,
who is in New York today refused to
say whether his visit had any connec
t:o« with the unsolvable murder of
| William Desmond Taylor, motion pie
j ture director.
Mr. Keys through a spokesman as '
serted that his visit concerned con- j
siderablf official business, but that he
was not at liberty to tell its nature. I
Taylor was slain iu his bungalow at
Los Angeles in 1921, and the investi
gation of the case involves the names
of a number of prominent motion pic
ture act ora. Although no suspicion
was attached to them. Mary Miles
Minter and Mabel Xorinand, favorite
| stars at that time, both were qties-
I fionrd because of their friendship with
| the man.
Both now are in New York and ru
i mors that the case might be reopened
had connected Mr. Keys' visit with the 1
possibility of their being questioned.
NEW HEALTH LAWS ARE
PASSED IN CHARLOTTE
City Health Officer's Recommenda
tions Are Approved by Conunia
. aionrrs—Other Charlotte News.
Charlotte. Slardi 3.—A standard
milk ordinance, prohibiting the sale
of adulterated and misbranded milk,
and defining of handling dairy milk
to be sold in Charlotte, an ordinapee
against keeping of cows within a dt*s-1
ignated gone, and ordinance rcgulat-j
ing the building and leasing of tene-1
ment houses hair been adopted by the!
city commissioners.
The three ordfnanees were drawn
at the request of Dr. A. W. McPtiaul, !
city health officer, and according to
Dr. McPhaul constitute a market! ad
vance in the interest of public healths
in this city. Dr. McPhaul said the
ordinances were drawn after careful l
consideration nnd after the best au
thorities on the subject had been
consulted.
The milk ordinance will become ef
fective six months after enactment.
| the housing law sixty days after pub
! lication and the anti-cow law thirty
days from date of publication.
The standard milk ordinance, ac
cording to Dr. McPhaul, is sponsored j
by the federal bureau of publiq health
and lias been approved by the North
I Carolina board of health. The ordi
! nance, he said, will prove lienefieial j
not only to consumers of milk but to,
j the dairymen as well. j
The keeping of cows in certain j
j portions of the city now is allowed j
but under the new ordinance prnctic-!
ally the entire city is in the restricted .
area now.
The tenement law provides" that all
places of residences must have light,
proper plumbing and drainage facili- j
ties, the floor must be dry and the
buildings must be maintained in n
state of cleanliness and wholesome
nes« at all times.
The milk ordinance covers every,
detail of handling milk and inilk pro
ducts and provides for publications of
j tests of the various grades of the
j milk.
Dr. Hasting H. Hart, noted social [
reform leader and an official of the
Russell Sage Foundation, of New
York, will come here March 15th for !
several addresses in which he will i
diacuss prison reform. Dr. Hart is
president of the National Prison Re
form Association.
After deliberating for nearly 30
hours a Mecklenburg Superior Court
jury returned a verdict acquitting
Augustus Odom, negro, charged with j
manslaughter in connection with the j
i death of Miss Lizzie Lawrence, aged |
' white woman, who died of injuries
! received when hit by an automobile
'on South Tryon street recently. The
jury ttas unable to agree on aver- j
diet in the case of J. L. James,,
white man, in the same case and a!
i mistrial was ordered by Judge W. F. \
i Harding.
During the trial James contended
i that the death car was driven by
! Odum while the negro contended that
’ James was the driver.
BriHoant Reception to D. A. R. Visi
tors at Charlotte.
One of the most brilliant and
charming social events of the sea
son was the reception given by the
five local chapters Daughters of the
Battle of .Charlotte, Liberty Hall,
Signers and Halifax Convention yes
terday afternoon from 5 to d :30
o’clock at the handsome and specious
1 new home of Mr- and .Mrs. W. H.
Belk, on Hawthorne Lane,. Charlotte.
■ I Among those in the receiving line
- was Miss Jenn Coltrane, of Concord,
i Daring tbe afternoon between five
and six hundred Daughters called.
CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1926
HILL HEADS GROUP
SEEKING CHANGES
: TO VOLSTEAD LAW
j
The Unofficial Committee
of the House to Have
Open Hearings on Last
Day of Month.
WANT CHANGES
TO PRESENT LAW
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Private Citizens as Well as
Congress Members Win
Be Asked to Appear Be
- fore Committee.
j Washington, March 4.— ( A 3 ) —With
Representative Hill, republican, of
Maryland. unanimously re-eleq.‘ed
chairman, the unofficial House com
mittee for modification of the Volstead
Act will hold its own open hearings
on March 31, preliminary to drafting
a bill to revise the prohibit'on law.
The modlficationists have instruct- j
ed Mr. Hill, who has led them in i
Congress for some years, to up|>oint !
a "temperance board” of five to 'con
sider questions on that subject, and j
to outline a program for the commit-,
i tee. )At the hearings all members of
I Congress and private citizens will be
g ven op|K>rtunit.v to express their
j views regarding modification. The
1 committee hopes then to be able to
whip these opinions and suggestions
into a bill for presentation to the
House.
The subject of prohibition not only j
was brought up in the House yester
day, but it entered recesses of the Sn- i
preme Court, where John W. Davis
and Assistant Attorney General Wille
brandt debated a legal quesCou aris
ing from the provisions of the law un
der which permits to sell distilled
spirits are used. Wayne B. Wheeler,
general . counsel for the Anti-Saloon
League, added a statement to the day’s
discussion, declaring the suggestion of
Senator Edwards, democrat, of New
Jersey, for a national referendum on
prohibition to be illegal and impractic
able. '
HIGH POINT LEADS
IN AMOUNT OF BUILDING
Was More Than Three Times tl»e
Amount Than That cf January, i
1
Raleigh. March 4.—OP)—High !
Point had a larger percentage of in- j
crease In amount of building during
January over January 1925 than any
other of 28 reporting cities in the *
fifth federal reserve district, with tfie
single exception of Parkersburg, W.
Ya. January building in High Point ‘
was more than three times as large
-tu the amount involved ns January. I
1925.
This is shown by figures compiled :
by the fifth district Federal Reserve j
Bank, in its Monthly Review, the cur- >
rent issue of whitli has just been
received here.
High Point’s percentage in bui)d->i
ing operations is placed by the Re
view at 270.9. The territory embraced!
Maryland. Virginia. North i
Carolina. South Carolina and the Dis- 1
trict of Columbia.
In the matter of increase in build-j
ing operations North Carolina cities ,
also hold third, fourth and sixth ;
places. Wilmington, with a gain
of 220.2 per cent., stands in third j
place. Durham i« fourth, with an j
increase of 142 per cent. And Wins-!
ton-Salem’s gain of 124.2 per cent, j
places that city in sixth place in the !
district. |
Gains were also shown by Ashe- j
viile and Salisbury. Raleigh showed •
a dcrease over January, 1925, of 50.9
i per cent, Charlotte had 37.5 per cent.
, less building in January than a year
ago, and Greensboro showed u de
! crease of 5.8 per cent.
In the actual amount of new con
i struction work for which building
permits were issued during January,
fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, nnd
1 eighth places were held by North,
I Carolina cities. Permits involvingl
I larger amounts than those issued in ,
Winston-Salem were issued in Janu
' ary to only three cities, Washington,
j D. C., Baltimore and Richmond.
! The total amount for which» per
mits were issued for new construc
tion in Winston-Salem was $6.)7,88.i.
Asheville, with authorizations to
spend $350,375 on new constructions,
stood fifth in the list. Sixth place
I was held by Raleigh. The permits
> for new construction in this city to
talled $261,900. Seventh place was,
j held vby Charlotte. The total for
Charlotte was $261,925. And in High
Point, which manked eighth in the
district in the total amount of new
I construction for which permits were
I issued, had a total of $219,050.
1
Partial Victory is Won By J* B.
Williams in Arson Case.
Charlotte, March 3. —J. B. "
liams, 45, Charlotte contractor, this
afternoon won a partial victory at
his preliminary hearing on a charge
of arson in connection with the r
cent burning of the home of G. t •
! Cox, on Statesville avenue- Af>ei
some argument the charge -against
Williams was amended to a charge
of an ‘’attempt to burn a dwelling.
Williams then waived preliminary
i examination and was bond over to
Superior court under $5,000 bond,
which he gave. He had been in jm
since his arrest several weeks ag°-
Williams also is facing a charge
of stealing SBO worth of furniture
from Cox, officers contending that
he removed the furniture and set
fire to the building.
Ir^Race
j J gorge J. Danforth, above attorney
i t Sioux Falls, S. D., will oppose
j lenator Peter Norbeck in the Re
sibllcan primaries this summer. He
rill base his campaign on attacks
n Norbeck’s record as governor ot
South Dakota, he promises.
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THE COTTON MARKET
Opening Advance Accepted as Fur- 1
j tlier Readjustment of Tecnnioal Po
sition.
New York, Marchi 4.— UP) —An op- ;
cning advance of 10 to 15 points on |
the cotton market today was regarded j
chiefly ns a further readjustment of j
the technical position. News con-'
; corning farm operations, weather con- j
j ditions and other influences affecting
! sentiment seemed more bearish than |
j otherwise and aside from covering or-.
; tiers there was not much important j
{ buying iu the first Iwur. The advance j
seemed to meet considerable . cotton j
from Wall Street sources and some of
yesterday’s local buyers. After May
had reached 18.71 and October 18.39.
reactions of 8 or 9 points occurred.
Seven notices of intention to deliver
on March contracts were issued today,
makiug 15 notices thus far this month.
Liverpool, the West and New Orleans |
interests were buyers on the opening !
while'there was moderate hedge pres- 1
sure from the South.
Uotton futures opened firm : March 1
1924: May 18.65; July 18.00; Octo-1
ber 17.34; December 17.07.
WILL REFUSE OFFER
OF TEN MILLIONS I
Cap! Emerson Offered That Amount
i For Dnig Manufacturing Business.
Baltimore. March 3.—'The offer
by Edward C Unyrington. a director,
of the J. 11. Lyon company. Albany, ■
N. Y.. and president of the Hutehin- 1
son Film 'Corporation with head- I
| quarters at 122 South Mitchigan
Avenue. Chicago, of ten million dol-
I lain for the plant of the Emerson |
, Drug Company, will be refused it |
was said today by Joseph F. Hiuds, j
'president of the company.
The Emerson Drug Company was
'founded by Captain Isaac Emerson, j
i native of Chapel Hill. North Caro- |
jlina, who owns three homes, ore in j
Baltimore, another in Georgetown,
i South Carolina, nnd another at Nnr
( ragansett I’ier. Rhode Island,
| where he also is the owner of the
j Cacino and the Hotel De La Place.
Mr. Hindis today said that t!he
! Emerson Drug Company is not for
! sale.
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With Our Advertisers.
At I’nrks-Belk Company’s grocery
I department you can get the famous
j wineaap apples for only 25 cents a
! dozen. 65 cents a peck, $2.50 a bushel.
I Regular two for a quarter grapefruit
, only 10 centß each or 3 for 25 cents.
I Rome beauty apples for cooking, too.
l Phone 138.
Victor dance records for March at
the Bell & Harris Furniture Co.
The duel ignition system is pro
vided for Ford cars. Rond about it
ill the new nd. of the Reid Motor
Company today.
The Yorke & Wadsworth Corqajm.v
has just received a large shipment oL
ail kiends of field seeds. j
| Don’t forget Oliver Day at Yorke.
| & Wadsworth Co.’s next Friday. J
j March sth. Ten per cent, off o n all
farming implements on that day on
ly. Free lunch will be served.
Students’ ideas in the suit for
spring, at J. C. Penny Co. s, and the
.price is only $19.75. English model
su : ts that make a hit.
See I'att Covington's ad. today.
Store back of city hall.
Dog Catcher of Asheville Fired.
Asheville, March 3.— Discharge of
C. It. Searcy, city dog catcher, es- j
fective at once, was announced to- .
day by Commissioner of Public Safe- .
t.v Bartlett as the result of Searcy’s
action in clubbing to death a big
stray dog the city hall Monday
afternoon.
Commissioner Bartlett announced
that he had deferred action until to
day in order that he might investi
gate the dog catcher’s case thorough
ly and hear the full story from
| Searcy as well as from others
j "I am convinced that Searcy made
I a mistake in killing the dog on the
j street nnd believe he acted hastily in
j striking the animal a« perhap" many
I others might ha\*» done under the
I same circumstances. However, I feel
that I am forced to guard against
j any similar case which might arise
iin ‘the future,” Mr. Marlett stated.
The only large technical trade
school conducted by any labor union
in the world is the school maintained
by the International Printing Press
man and Assistants’ Union of North
America at Pressmen s Home, Ten
[ nessee.
THIS PRESIDENT
WILL APPROVE 1R
DEPARTMENT PUNS
Chairman Morin Has Talk
With Coolidge About the
Plans For Aviation Serv
ice of the Army.
|TO havebill
READY FRIDAY
Tells President That De
partment of National
Defense Does Not Seem
Probable at Present.
Washington, Marcli 4. — UP) —After
| a visit to the White House today.
1 Chairman Morin of the House mili
tary committee indicated that Presi
dent .Coolidge would approve legisla
tion carrying out the five-year aircraft
program submitted by the War De
partment.
1 Morin reported to the President
the action of his committee yesterday
in rejecting a bill providing for a de
l partment of national defense and other
i proposals designed to change the oper
l at ion of the army air service.
He said lie would have ready for in-
I troduct'on tomorrow a bill to carry
out the aviation program which, in
; addition, would provide for the ro-cs-
I tnblishment of the council of national
I defense which functioned during the
j world war.
GREENSBORO PARTIES GET
CHIMNEY ROCK PROPERTY!
1 Acquire the Mountain View Hotel
Property' With 30 Acres of Land.
Chimney. Rock. N. C.i March 5.
: Greensboro parties yesterday acquired
the famous Mounta’n View Hotel
property together with 30 acres of
land facing on the Charlotte Lake
Lure Asheville highway. This js the
largest hotel in this region located at
the foot of the toll road leading up
Chimney Rock Mountain, arid in the
i very shadow’ of Chimney Pock, the
i giant monolith an nnd which there
I has arisen tremendous interest, since
: its sale two weeks ago for six hun
| dred thousand dol’ars.
The purchasers are not revealed but
j negotiations were carried through by
l John Atwell and Ted Koenig, both of
! whom are identified with the Jefferson
Stamford Life Insurance Company, in
the main office at Greensboro. The
purchase price was not made public, j
bus if is thought to be in the neigh
borhood of three hundred thousand
dollars. The Mountain View Tnn was
; established 28 years ago by J. M.
Flack and has been the foundation of
a large fortune he has accumulated
I durtig his long residence here.
Mr. Flack is not only one of the
j largest property owners here but has
! lately identified himself with banking
and real estate matters to such an I
I extent that he could not give personal
| attention to f.ie hotel which has been
j kept open all the winter crowded with
people from all parts of the country
attracted here by the large develop
ment operations going on. Mr. At
well about a month ago purchased for 1
his syndicate a large tract of land
just below the dam on the Ruther
fordton road at a reported price of
one hundred thousand dollars. At
that time it was thought to be re
mote from develqpments in hand but
since then activity in that vicinity j
has greatly enhanced its value and j
the same is true of the Mountain I
View property which is within a j
stone’s throw of the new bank build
ing, a new apartment house nnd other j
large improvements announced this
morning. Atwell and Harty left this
morning for headquarters at Kenil
worth Inn, Asheville.
“Ham and Eggs” is Popular Meat
Dish on Dining Cars.
Chicago, March 3. —The old stand
by of "ham-and” is the most popti
. lar meat dish on the dining cars of ;
145 leading railroads of tbe United |
! States and Canada, it was found in i
j a survey made by the National
Livestock and Meat Board.
A questionnaire sent out by the
department of agriculture on meat i
consumption in the home, showed a j
preference for beef, but the Live- I
stock Board's vnding disclose that ’
dining car patrons prefer pork, each j
of the roads investigated serving ;
ham and bacon.
Roast beef was the most popular |
beef dish with sirloin steak a close .
i second and lamb chops in equal!
| favor with the 6teaks.
| Dutch Soldiers Killed in Fight With
Chinese.
Ratavia. Java. March 4.— UP) —Ten
Dutch soldiers were killed and six;
wounded in a fight with thirty Chi- j
nese who attacked a Dutch patrol
near Achin, Sumatra, yesterday The
patrol lost seventeen rifles to the
rebels whose losses are unknown.
Dutch reinforcements are proceed
ing to the scene from Kaltaraja.
Another Bank Merger.
New York, March 4.— OP) —A mer
ger of the National City Bank of Nets
York and the Peoples Trust Co., of
Brooklyn, bringing together two in
stitutions with combined resources of
$1,291,000,000 and deposits of $89,-
430,000 was announced today. The
consolidation strengthens the position
i of the National City Bank organiza
tion as the country'll largest bank.
San Antonio had its first big snow
i in more than thirty years. The peo-_
• pie devoted two days to enjoyment
of a snow festival.
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
President
Ik
Me*t the president of America's new
est baseball league. In other words,
we present Mr. Fred M. Nye of the
Utah-Idaho Class C organization. An
Ogden business man of prominence,
Nye has long been interested in t&e
diamond pastime. He expects the
new circuit to get away to a goal
start.
ELECTRIC MONOPOLY
NOT fiEING PLANNED
*r
The Possibility of Linking
. Companies in Eastern
Half of Nation Does Not
Mean Monopoly.
Atlanta, March 4.— UP) —The idea
of a super power system in the east
ern portion of the United States, a
forecast of which was announced yes
terday, was ascribed to Sidney Z.
Mitchell, president of the Electric
Bond & Share Company, of New
York, in a story published today in
the Atlanta Journal.
In his interview with The Journal
correspondent Mr. Mitchell denied
charges in some quarters that an elec
tric monopoly or trust was being
formed. On this subject the Journ
al's story says:. “When these inter
connections are complete, it will be
possible for power generating stations
on the Canadian border to come to
the aid of power generating stations
on the Gulf of Mexico and vice versa.
The surplus power in Minneapolis
can be utilized to meet a shortage in
Pensacola, and the city on the gulf
| can in turn send electrical help by
way of Atlanta to the city in the
northwest.”
ERVIN ANNOUNCES FOR
DISTRICT SOLICITOR
Understood That Mr. Huffman, of
Morga.nton.Has Decided Not to
Run Again.
Morganton. Mar. 3. —First among
the local political announcements to
be made is that of Sam Ervin. Jr-,
who aspires' to succeed R. L. Huff
man as solicitor of this district. It
is generally understood that Mr.
Huffman will hbt be in the race
I again and that fact has brought out
a candidate in a’most every county
' in the district. However, the present
j solicitor has not yet made a definite
! annoiiheement either way and
i whether he runs or not there will
{ mostly likely be seveial candidates
|in the race. ~
Sam Ervin. Jr., is a member of
the Morganton bar. the son and
partner of S. J. Ervin, Sr., who has i
practiced law here for many years.
Young Ervin is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina, the
University Law school and Harvard
Law school. He represented Burke
j county in the last general assembly,
: where he was a member of many of
j the important committees. Since his
j admission to the bar he has taken
I an -active part in local politics. It is
j conceded that he will make a storr.g
| race.
First Inauguration in Washington.
Washington. D. C., March 4.—The
! interesting fact was recalled in Wash
j ington today that this is the 125th
; anniversary of the first presidential
inauguration held here. The inaug
! uratiton was that of Thomas Jeffer
! son, the third President. The cerc
inony was very simple. Jefferson, as
1 a simon-pure Democrat, had resolved
! that “no pageant should give the lie
ito his Democratic principles.” al
though the great day might well have
had a deal of pomp and ceremony.
! inasmuch as it was virtually the ded
j ication of Washington, the nation’s
new capital. # Chief Justice Marshall,
for the first time in his memorable
career, administered the oath to the
new executive, a solemn duty he per
formed many times after.
. >
Anti-Smuggling Treaty.
Havana. Cuba, March 4. — (A) —The
anti-smuggling treaty between the
United States and Cuba was signed
here today by General Enoch H.
Crowder, the American ambassador,
and Secretary of State de Cespedes.
- i
Canada to Aid in Belgian Fund.
Brussels, Belgium, March 4.— UP) —
The newspaper Neptune says that M.
Dupont, Belgian consul general in
Quebec, who now is on a special mis
sion to Belgium, bears offers of Can
adian participation in Belgium's
$150,000,000 loan.
NEK OFFICERS WILL
BE ELECTED TODAY
I » T n ‘ T MEETING
„ l^ ats
-oiliest Between Mrs.
Spencer and Mrs. Van
| Landingham Arouses the
Greatest Interest.
meetingT closes
! DURING NIGHT
Mrs. Edwin C. Gregory and
Mrs. Carl Vrooman Were
Heard at the Wednesday
i Night Session.
Charlotte. March 4.— UP) —lnterest
of the North Carolina Society Daugh
ters of the American Revolution to
day centered in the election of officers
which was scheduled for the sessioh
th : s afternoon.
Most important probably of those to
be named was the choosing of a vice
president general, an office sought by
supi>orters of Mrs. Ralph Van Land
ingham, of Charlotte, and Mrs. W. O.
Spencer, of Winston-Salem.
Today's gathering was the last of
’ the convention. Delegates say that
f the prlsent assembly has been one of
the moat outstanding in the history of
the organization in North Carolina.
Speakers last night were Mrs. Ed
win Clarke Gregory, of Salisbury,
dflughtdt of Senator Lee S. Overman,
and Mrs. Carl Vrooman. of Illinois.
Mrs. Vrooman addressed the couven-
t s on on “The Treaty of Locarno.”
Mr*. Gregory’ urged a full-hearted
service on the part of the organization
to the state and nation rather than
being content to honor the “glorious
history-Isf the past.”
Mrs. Spencer Elected.
Charlotte, March 4. —(A*) —Mrs. W.
O. Spencer today was elected as a
vice president general of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution by
the North Carolina Society in con
vention here.
The Winston-Salem candidate won
by a majority of a single ballot, the ,
count being 69 to 68.
Mrs. Ralph Van Landingham, of
Charlotte, was the defeated candidate.
Following an address of acceptance J
by Mrs. Spencer, the morning see-""
sion of the society was adjourned .at
1:45 p. m. after several .active hours
of pre-voting discussion.
NEGRO AID IN SOUTH
SPREADING TO WORLD
Foreign Interest Shown in Work
For Better Racial Relations-
Atlanta, March 4.—Work in the
South for better relations between
the white and Negro races is attract
ing worldwide attention and in sev
eral places the actual plan is being
followed.
“The 12.000.000 Negroes in this
country are but a small part of the
world’s colored population, anu the
relation of the races here is only a
segment of a world-wide problem,”
said Keniieth MacLennen, Secretary
of the , Missionary Conference of
Great Britain ami Ireland, who has
just made a study of the southern
plan. “You may feel encouraged,
therefore, to go forward with your
efforts, seeing that they mean so*
much to millions in -other lands.”
Having met members of the indus
trial Commission, composed of lead
ing white and negro citizens of the
South, Mr. MacLennen learned t'hat
the organization, which had its start
here large'y through the efforts of
the late John J. Eagan, had been
extended into many Northern com
munities. Approximately- a- thousand
committers lare at work promoting
i the best interests of the two races.
The basis of the plan is consulta
tion and co-pperation. Conditions are
discussed frankly and decisions
reached s that the leaders may
work ' toge her for a mutual ob
jective.
South Africa and India
are showing special interest in the
commission’s work, said Slirewood
Eddy of the Young Men’s Christian
Association, who commended efforts
to eradicate lynchipgs. Similar com
mittees are being organized in -
British South Africa, he said.
Big Values at J. C. Penney Oo.’s
You ’Will find in The Times today a
full page ad. of big values at the store
of J. C. Penney Co. Everything this
firm sells must make good. Penney
has nearly’ 600 stores, and of course
buying for so many the buying power
is great. This assures you the very
lowest prices consistent with stand
ard quality and market conditions.
Read the full page ad. and no doubt
you will find a number of things you
, want.
Chinese girls are betrothed at a
very early age and. in recognition of
the fact, wear engagement bracelets.
SAT'S BEAR SAYS*
‘
! Fair tonight, warmer in extreme
. west portion ; Friday increasing cloud
i iness. Moderate north and northeast
winds.
NO. 69