VOLUME LI ■E REPORT SHOWS lasi 7 bales lIIEBIOMI6 Bureau Report To innings to Same Bale Last Year Totalled ■U99.893 Bales. H\( E SIZE OF CROP pj AY i 5,618,000 BALES m Lncertain What Part BE (Vop Will Be Left in ■iekis in View of Low [■rice Prevailing. |H .I:i 11. -4. — (/P) —Cotton r.iL’ii nop ginned prior to Jnnu -I<>.<;<>!>.sl7 running VnuPing <‘>11.052 round bales H ;| |and excluding Outers, 11 announced today. !,. that date last year to ll running bales, in- ; > > ;{t;.!i!ls round bales. |H department of agriculture, in estimate of produc on December Ist contli piaicd the crop at 18,618.000 oiin pounds gross weight, the ~r , ,p raised. At IMat large amount of cotton still to be picked, and it was un- as to what part of it would in the in view of the |H r jcc prevailing. Until the final ginning report is issued |^H;i rr h 21>t the exact size of the will remain doubtful. |K-h Carolina ginning* were 1,- bales. ■t.l KKAISI.K CONDITIONS” Mi I I 1,1 D IN WAIF’S HOME |HI Served to Inmates Cost Only ■ Ten (tuts a Day. Internatioinii News Service! |H t irleans. 1.a.. Jan. 24. — The for the inmates { S^K t > former Waifs Home, now ■, as the Municipal Boys Home. |H 40 to AO youths between 11 and "f age. have been living under HHIC .1 W. Newman describes as conditions", begins to- Jhiil. well known welfare ||Bnmui >;c.d that the food served about ten cents a day individual during the past For breakfast a beverage e.'tTie and bread was served; • f b ans and rice, and bread and <\rttp. Sanitary were said to he appalling; ;.i\vCs i,r wash basins; one week; dried themselves on BHii: of umlri-eli,thing. The med- u'ding to Mr. Ball. maniiy of castor oil. |HI says that the conditions will improved under his man- of sale ljj| n " 1 U'» to Pigeon Hole Bill. ■ Jan. 24.—DP)—The H 1 ’ “lay Carried their tax lloor of flip house, where |H : Barrett, of Tennessee, b-ader. placed upon the Yu',, a Petition to take the ■ / tax reduction ways and means com- H| '"publicans voted more ago to pigeon hole it. I® U '""i!‘“'d to Lift Chaplin In- H , " !,n “ Tax Liens. IHY; ’■ . -lan. 24.—DP)—Attor- HB ! *' Chajjlin today asked to lift its income tax H ! , v held in the banks by H r "t 'hr' fire department |H . '"‘fly Sunday after -888 l; " Ini ' °f Carl Honeycutt, ;. !t l Ihe fire was extin- K ' a l 'bort time and firemen PH I,J, ‘ loss at atvout SSO. THE CONCORD TIMES $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advancp. Opposition to the Budget and Appropriation Bill Has Disappeared I Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel BY J. C. BASKERVILLE. Raleigh, Jan. 24. —With virtually , all opposition to the budget and ai>- propriations bill having disappeared and with committee hearings proceed ing uniterruptedly, the outlook is favorable for both houses to. receive these measures from the joint com mittees possibly during this week. Os course there will probably be' some flare ups here and thejre as the bill is taken .up on the floor of the general assembly, but those in closest touch with the situation say that the op position has dwindled to a mere hand ful and JJiat neither the budget act nor appropriations bill are in any danger. There was a sporadic attempt made soon after Governor McLean had pres ented these measures in behalf of the budget commission, to make it appear that the budget act endangered the legislative authority of the gefteral assembly, in that it gave the Governor as director of the budget the power to scale down appropriations when it ap peared that the revenue would be in sufficient to pay for the appropriations. It was also made to appear that this amounted to a virtual veto power on the part of the Governor over the acts of the legislature. However, when it was made clear to the members of the general assemb ly generally that this was an emerg ency power vested in the execu tive director of the budget to protect the state against a deficit, and that it could not be invoked except in ap propriated than needed, opposition to it at once disappeared. REPORT OF THE STATE EDUCATIONAL COMMISSION Is Being Awaited by the Legislators With Expectancy. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel BY J, C. BASKERVILLE. Raleigh, Jan. 24.—The report of the state educational commission is being awaited by the members of the general assembly with expectancy, esi>ecially its recommendations with regard to the advisability of the eight > i months school term and other matter ! relating to the needs of the state’s school system. The report is now in the hands of the printers and it is expected that it will be possible to deliver the report to the members of the general assembly early this week, according to Governor A. W\ McLean, who announces that he will release the report Jo the presto when it as* iteuaWW!" WnBK fegtslahire.** It is already known in a general way what the report will contain re garding the eight months school. The entire commission agrees that the eight mouths school term is sound in principle. But the majority holds that many sections of the state are not ready for the longer term, and that the cost of establishing it for the state as a whole at the present time is prohibitive because of the additional taxation it would entail. Thus the majority report will propose that the . eight months term be held in abey ancy for the present, and that in the meantime efforts be directed toward building up the present school term to a greater degree of efficiency, grad ually lengthening it into the eight mouths term as conditions warrant and as ways and means to finance ifc f become available.. The minority* report,* on the othei* I hand,'favors the immediate adoption of the eight months term, on the grounds that it is necessary and should be provided even if it does boost taves. The' three women mem bers of the commission and the two school men make up the minority. So far the only proposal that has been made for the raising of the ad ditional revenue necessary to finance the eight months term has been by the Raleigh Nfcws and Observer, suggest ing that it should be raised by increas ing the income tax on larger incomes, by increasing the tax on public service corporations, such as railroads, by increasing the tax on insurance com panies. It is also suggested that the proposed license tax on automobile drivers be diverted to securing the eight months school instead of for a state highway police force. These sources suggested will not provide enough of the necessary re venue, the suggestion is made that soft drinks and cigarettes might be taxed. However, the sentiment of a large number of the members of the general assembly seems to be in line with the stand of the majority report of the educational commission, to the .effect that the cost of the eight months school would be too great at present, that, the sections where it would go into effect are not only not prepared for it but are opposed to it, and that the best thing to do now is to increase the efficiency of the six months school, looking toward a gradual turn over k to the eight months school. A number of experienced legislators have not * hesitated to say that if the question of the eight months school were sub ' mitted to a vote either in the legis . lature of the state today that it would “ be overwhelmingly defeated. Not that ‘ most people do not approve of the i' theory, but because the expense at • this time does not seem to be econ -1 omically justifiable. And as to the various methods sug gested for increasing the revenue, - there is almost unanimous agreement that it would be unwise to increase - the state income tax beyond its present 1 graduations, and a tax on cigarettes, c tobacco and soft drinks has always r been unpopular, and there is little evidence of change. The public ser vice corporations and bottlers are al t ready objecting to the present revenue - bill on the grounds that the tax rate is too high. So while the advocates of the eight a months school argue that ‘‘where there is a will there’s away,” indica- , In the same manner the elnim that wak made by the few who opposed the j budget that it gave the budget director • iMiwer to transfer appropriations from ■ one institution or department to l another, was effectually chloroformed ■ when it was brought out that not only i was this not the case, but that the 1 provision whereby department and in • stitutional heads could request the ; transfer of allotments from one use ' to another was included in the act at [ the request of these institutional heads, I and not on the recommendation of f i Governor McLean, although he ap proved of it, since it would react to the benefit of the institutions, 'jl'he ; 1 director of the budget is not empow- I ered to re-nllocate funds from one to I another, though a part of the same appropriation, unless the head of the I institutions or department makes specific request that it be done. Several members of the general as sembly who were believed to be waver , ing in indecision ns the result of these ' reports misrepresenting the real intent of the budget act, have since come out solidly in favor of the budget and ap propriations bills, as the result of . messages from the “people back home” i who have refused to be misled by the | anti-budget propaganda which has cminated chiefly from Raleigh. As a result of the almost solid ap proval being given the appropriations bill, with the exception that, many members of the joint committee think that a number of the estimates are too high, attention is rapidly being transferred from the hearings before this committee to the hearings on the Revenue bill w'hich are pust being put | before the joint Finance committees. SENTIMENT FOR A DECREASE IN TAXATION If Revenue Measure is Revised Downward. the Appropriations Will Have to Be Materially In creased. The Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel ' By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Jan. 24.—Apparently not satisfied that taxes have not been in creased except within a few* brackets • in some of the privilege and franchise classifications, it is becoming increas ingly apparent that a determined ef fort is to be made in a number of different quarters for a substantial i decrease in the taxes now being im- j posed. Notice has already been served on , the joint finance committees that a * number of different clgases desire to n classification timrf chief among these being the soft drink bottlers, ice cream manufacturers and similar industries who are maintain ing that the tax now being imposed on them is too high. At the same time a vigorous demand j is being made on the part of chain- 1 bers of commerce all over the state j for a revision of the laws taxing cap- j ital on the grounds that the present laws are so severe that capital is either being driven from the state into other states where the tax rates j on money invested in stocks and bonds ! is not so high, or that it is being j driven under cover. The commercial j bodies in Charlotte, Greensboro, Wins ton-Salem and other cities are urging Governor McLean to act upon Lie suggestion made in his message and appoint at once a commission to in vestigate taxation in v the state from this angle, so that it may report be fore the present general assembly ad journs. Whether this will be done and a report : niftde in time foi* con sideration this session has not yet been determined. However, there is a growing senti-! meiit not only against any increase in taxation, but towards a definite de crease, and of the three major ndmin i istration measures before the general assembly, it is not at all improbable to hazard the guess t’iiat more changes are likely to be made in the revenue measure than any other, although if it is revised downward, as now seems probable, the appropriations will also have to be materially reduced. THE COTTON MARKET Report Shows 16,609,517 Bales Gin ned.—Prices Rallied. New York, Jan. 24.—DP)—The cot ton market opened barely steady to day at a decline of 9 to 12 points in response to easier Liverpool cables, but rallied almost immediately. The report of the Census Bureau showing 16,609,517 bales ginned prior !to January 15th, was evidently no ' larger than expected, and failed to j create any selling pressure of conse j quence. On the contrary it appeared ( to, bring in covering, while there was also good trade: demand, and by the end of the first hour prices were about 12 to 15 points net higher, March sell ing up to 13.58 and July to 13.98. Some stop orders were uncovered on the advance, and after their execution ; trading became less active, but prices . held within 4 or 5 points of the best. Private cables reported hedge selling ■ and some local liquidation in Lover -1 pool in advance of the ginning report. Cotton futures opened barely t steady: January 13.23; March 13.35; ; May 13.55; July 13.75; October 13.95. Wilmington Theatre Quits Chaplin Films. , Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 24 t i George Bailey, proprietor of the Roy al Theatre, motion picture house b here, states that no more Charlie , Chaplin pictures would be shown at i the Royal pending the outcome of ; the martial trouble between the - comedian and Lita Grey Chaplin. £ ——————— ' i tions are that the general assembly is not going to provide the way to fin t ance the longer term until the will e for it is much more strongly expressed - than it is at present. CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1927 ..l—T-mi 1 -”. | Fought For 1 * Mrs. Janet Beecher Hoffman,; New York actress, was awarded funds to continue her fight for custody of he? son, Hichard Hoffman, Jr., who was awarded to his father for nine months a yeai after a separation action. tlaimUiMii] V.- DR. OSCAL HAYWOOD HAS MORE BLUE LAWS COMINCH Plenty of Inspiration Comes FYond . His Constituents. The Tribune Bureau B Sir Walter Hotel ft Rnleig’ii, resentative Oscar Haywood seems t year in advance. i This offer may be withdrawn at i any time, so we advise you to pay your subscription as early as possible. SEEK A THOROUGH mm INTO THE MEXICAN SITUATION ! Promise of Another Con -1 gressional Resolution of ! Inquiry, Public Appeals by Labor, Etc., Today. GALLIVAN MAKES SPEECH TODAY Representative Says That Insidious Propaganda Has Actually Reached I the Floor of Congress. Washington, Jan. 24.—DP)—Prom ise of another congressional resolu tion of inqquiry, public appeals by la bor, church and college groups in the United States, and a mass meeting in Mexico' City at which the Washing ton government was denounced for its ■imperialism” and “invasion of Nicara gua,” all served to keep the Mexican- Nicaraguan controversial pot boiling over the week-end. In a resolution prepared for intro duction today, Representative Galli vau, democrat, Massachusetts, seeks a thorough •* inquiry into the Mexican situation, asks the State Department to disclose the financers of “pro-Calles propaganda now flooding this country” and declares “we cannot sit tamely by while the red fires burning up Mexico are creeping closer to our border.” Gallivan asserts in the preamble of his resolution that “insidious propa ganda has actually reached the floor of Congress,” and that “at least one piember of the staff of the State De partment has been discharged follow ing complaint by Ambassador Shef field that there existed a leak from the Department to the Mexican em bassy,” here. The American labor hopes the Unit ed States will “not play the part of an imperialistic autocrat in its rela tions with Lafcin-American countries, but will prove itself to be by practice and precept, an advocate and propon ent of the ideals of self government and democratic freedom,” is an asser tion made by William Green, presi dent of the American Federation of Labor in an article appearing in the American Federafciouist. arlmVnintrfl fi vf* JL lixrwrarm 11 iqitwtx Vv vorirni * V't *. xti inr Federation Council of Churches de clares in a statement that the present situation in Nicaragua and Mexico should “lead our government to form ulate a clear policy for our future re lations with the peoples and govern ments of Latin-America.” INVESTIGATION OF GRADE CROSSING ACGIDENT Will Be Held Within a Few Days.— Statement Made my M. P. Officials. Austin, Tex., Jan. 24.— UP) —An “extraordinary investigation” of Sat urday’s grade crossing accident which killed ten Baylor University students, will be held within a few days at Round Rock by Missouri Pacifis Rail way officials. This statement was made*>today by Milton Morris, passen ger agent here, after he had talked with J. T. ' L. Brooks, of Palestine, superintendent of the Palestine Divis ion, in which Round Rock is located. Th£ train that crashed into the large Baylor University bus which carried the Baylor Bear basketball squad, was the “Sunshine Special” crack train, of the International Great Northern, one of the Missouri-Pacific Lines. MEXICAN DELEGATES ON ARBITRATION APPOINTED For the Arbitration of the Land and Oil Dispute With the United States. Mexico City, Jan. 24.—UP)—Excel sior publishes an unofficial report to the effect that the Mexican delegates to The Hague court have already been appointed for arbitration of the land and oil dispute with the United States. The paper claims to have learned that Mexico will suggest The Hague court for settlement of the controversy if arbitration materializes. The per manent court of international justice cannot be used for the purpose it adds, bbecause Mexico is not a mem ber of the league of nations. j i TRIAL OF FALL AND SINCLAIR POSTPONED Will Be Held April 25.—Postponed on Account of Fall’s Illness. Washington, Jan. 24. — UP) —Trial of Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, and Harry F. Sin clair, on charges growing out of the lease of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve, was postponed today until April 25th. The postponement was granted because of the illness of Fall who is convalescing in New M|xico from pneumonia. The trial was to 'have started February 2nd. Mitchell Convicted. Will Die March 11th. Pittsburg. Jan. 22.—Pearle Mitch ell, negro, tonight was convicted of first degree murder for slaying Wil liam Fogleman, aged man, in the store of M. V- Gheek, at Ore Hill, last Saturday night. He was sen tenced by Judge W. C. Harris to be electrocuted March 11. Atwell & Fryling is a new firm I opened for business in rear of Fisher’s store. They do acetylene welding, : locksmithing, general machine work r and electric repairs. See ad. in this , paper. J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher Chaplin Today ] lift -1 fct * ';. x _ u 4. l||s| f| Bfflr 181 l Charles Chaplin appears hag gard and worn and not fully recovered from his recent col lapse in this, his latest picture. >bwMU. I MOURN DEATHS OF BAYLOR STUDENTS Ten Young" Men Killed in Crossing Tragedy—Messages of Condolence. Taylor, Texas, Jau. 2.3. —The torn bodies of seven young men, victims of Saturday’s tragedy when an Inter national and Grea't Northern train demolished a h ll * 1 at « grade crossing at Round Rock, left here today. Ten ffrere killed in the crgsjv dll Saylor University students. irttludiug mem route from Waco to Austin to play the University of Texas. Five of the bodies sent from here today were bound for Waco, one for Ennis and one for Fort Worth. The bodies of William Winchester and Bob Hanna were taken today to Waco from Georgetown. They died in an ambulance Saturday en route to Georgetown from the scene of the tragedy. The other of the ill-fated ten, Ivey R. Foster. Jr., of Tyalor was buried here today. Physicians reported the five injured in a Taylor hospital to be improved, though the life of Fred Acree. of Waco* is despaired of. Acree’s back is broken. A short time before the crash young Foster was given a seat inside tfye bus, after ridiug for miles on the running board because there was not seat for him inside. Ed Gooch, who stood, gave Foster his seat and escaped with a dislocated shoulder.* Fo. er’s father collapsed -yesterday in the baggage ear of the train that brought the bodies to Taylor when he lifted a blood-stained blanket and saw his son. The cream of Baylor University’s athletic talent was wiped out when a fast International-Great Northern railroad train crashed into a motor bus and took the lives of ten and in jured five, one of whom is not ex pected to live. Six of the party of twenty-one escaped injury. Coach Ralph R. Wolf and his bas ketball players were scheduled to meet the University of Texas Longhorns at Austin. They had completed all but 22 miles of their trip from Waco to the state capital in the Univer sity’s parlor bus. The driver appar ently did not see the train until it was practically upon the bus crossing the tracks. The big machine was turned, but too late, the locomotive crashing into it amidships and drag ging and tossing bodies of the dead down the tracks. ■.— ■ CHARLOTTE C. OF C. ONCE MORE AT PEACE Board Re-Elects Kuester Business Manager—Thanks Kirkpatrick For Swices. Charlotte, Jan. 23. Harmony reigned t,oday in chamber of com merce circ'es following last night’s business session of the newly elected board of directors at which they re elected Claranee Kuester as business manager for the ensuing year. This action set at rest speculation that has been rife here since last Tuesday when Mr. Kuester was left off the board of directors and there was a question as to whether or not he would be reelected. Election of a president was de ferred, although vice presidents and other officials were elected E. C. Griffith was elected first vice presi dent and R. M- Pound, second vice president. R. A. Mayer was re-elect ed treasurer, he being one of the three members of the board re-elect ed to the present board. The directors adopted resolutions of appreciation so the splendid work done by Col. T. L. Kirpatrick, retir ing president, who also was not re elected to the board of directors, and the unselfish activity on the part of # Mr. Kuester in behalf of the or ganization. SITUATION AT KIN AIG IS RAPIDLY GROWING SERIOUS French Consul There Has Been Arrested—Mob Vi olence Endangers Life of Sir Francis Aglen. - i MOBS ATTACKED THE BUILDING Where He Was Conferring With Finance Minister of Cantonese Government. —lnvade Corridors. Paris, 'Jan. 2.4 —( A *)—The Hong Kong correspondent of acifio agency says the situation at Kitt Kiang on the Yangtse River is rapidly growing more serious, aud the French consul there lias been arrested. The situation in the Yangtse ports is critical, he adds. Renewed Mob Violence. * London, Jan. 24.— (A)— Renew*® mob violence endangering the life til Sir Francis Aglen, inspector general of maritime customs in China, broke out in Hankow on Friday, Dispatches received today say Chi nese crowds attacked the custoins building where Sir. Francis was con ferring with Finance Minister Sootig, of the Cantonese government. The crowds invaded the corridors and at tacked Soong’s bodyguard, but tvere finally dispersed by Cantonese troops. Prepared to Leave for China. Scarborough, England, Jan. 24.—-* A) —The fifth armored car has been ordered to prepare to le&ve for China on a few hours notice. Nationalist Government Invites Pow ers To Join It. Hankow, Jan. 24. —( A ) —The nat ionalist government in a manifesto is sued today proclaimed its ability to enforce its will in nationalist China, and invited the powers to join it in negotiating new treaties with eco nomic and territorial integrity as their basis. # “HIGHWAY ROBBERY” Boy Sent $3.00 For a Box of 300 is. . J Oranges “Prepaid.” (By International N«~£(vi» Atlanta, Ga.. Jan. 24.—Hatred har bored by a 13-year old boy against grown men who fbvindled him out of $3, earned by dragging a bag of cotton under the hot Oklahoma sun rises from pages of a letter which District Attorney Clint W. Hager will read to the federal grand jury today in seeking indictment of D. W. Nichola, H. D. Gaines and J. G. Grimes on postal fraud charges. Details of how 4’ue 13-year old boy stayed out of schooj to pick cotton so that he might buy clothes and school material fbr his brothers and sisters and otherwise aid in support ing the family are given in the letter. Thinking that a box of 300 oranges 'for $3, express prepaid, would provide away of earning more money by sell ing the oranges at a small profit, so he could buy ’ais family a Christmas present, he sent the three dollars, but did not receive the fruit. Speaking of the case, he said; “I consider it worse than highway rob bery. . “Probably when I am older,’* the youth wrote, “ Iwon’t have such bitter hate for them. Maybe then I’ll have more mercy; but now, when I think of how I worked from sunnp to sun down in the cotton fields, dragging a heavy sack with my back aching atid sore, I (jaqiiot think that they deserti any mercy whatsover. I wish they would have to pick eottoq like .1 have •had to.” , { The boy’s name has not been re vealed as yet, sot the reason that 14® government does not want to give iti case away. 4 Question lor a Solotnan. Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 22.—IN®.—* Whether the second wife of a paatt should pay his former wife the all* mony granted to her in an old divored decree was the basis of a suit being heard by Chancellor D. W. DeHaven. Mrs. Birdie W. Going had filed suit against her. former husband, L: Clyde Going, for $13,000 alleged to be due her under the terms of a divorce de cree granted in 1919, which awarded her $l5O a month for her support. Going, a former attorney, was ad judged non compos mentis in probate court three weeks ago. His present wife, Mrs. Verna K. Going, was ap pointed his guardian. The first Mrs. Going charges she did not receive the money awarded her, and demands that her successor pay it out of Going’s estate, which , consists of an allowance of SIOO a i week from a disability insurance pol ; icy. ’ '- v , . The present Mrs. Going alleges that , her predecessor received $25,000 in property from her husband when the > divorce decree was granted, w r ith the understanding she would never de . mand the enforcement of the alimony 1 claim. News has been received in Concord i I that the mother of Mr. E S. Towery, •of this city, w T ho lives in Atlanta, Ga., » is still in a serious condition. Mr. and Mrs. Towery were called to At lanta several days ago by the illness of , Mrs. Towery. WEATHER FORECAST. [ t Rain tonight and Tuesday. Colder ■ tonight and in west portion Tuesday., Moderate northwest winds. NO. 59