BI.UME LI
■JhESCOLLFGE
HIT MUST BE
Ip.E TO GET CASH
I rTuggins, of N. C.
RtLt Board of Educa
■ Says Colleges and
■ools Need Money.
EH SPEAKERS
KISCUSS SUBJECT
Beard at Meeting of
■them Baptist Educa-
K Association Being (
■d at New Orleans.
K)rl> :m>." La.. -Tan. 27. —G4>) —
■ : s fin* demand for money in J
Hos today tliat the College
H, ••must be a man who can
■ o-aine' " although it is desir
■ Sr'lje a scholar. M. A. Hug
■rre-lpoiHling secretary of the
■ Hoard of Education, Raleigh,
Bold the Southern Baptist Ed
■Associat ion here today.
H u is addressed the Associa-
K session given over to dlseus
-8,-illcl'c tiunueing, during which
■ Furry, president of Shorter
9 U 'luc. <i a . : H. E. Watters,
Br „f I*n ion University, Jack-
Bun.: Allen H. Bissell, of I
■l, Ky. : and J. M. Wood,
■t of Stephens College, . Co
■ Mo.. told of their experiences
Butional financing.
Broblem of tlie college is more
Blr. Huggins said, in the case
■mailer denominational college
■th the state schools.
Bems far easier for a state in
st to secure adequate funds
■ legislature than for a denom-
Id college to secure funds which
■olutely necessary, even from
Bui. to say nothing of the de
■ ion in general."
■ HAT THE! THINK.
Bt (iirls Appear Beautiful But
K In Eyes of Paris Visitor.
■ York. .Tan. 27. —"American
■ve bodies more glorious than
Belt women, but faces less in
■ is one comment on American
B ways by a visiting mademoi-
I Paris, writing the ‘‘Diary .of
B French Girl" in the Februa-
Be of McCTr r<*Y Magazine. A-s
■
■turn French girl must guard
■. because not every man can
■ mouth shut."
■oman of tasfe should never
■ men’s kisses overlap, or she-
Bd out how little they mean.”
Boman always returns a man's
Bmetimes because it is worth
■usical shows : "They are pan
■ : beautiful but dumb.”
I distinct type of American
1 "Ossie loves my youth and
Id chic, my alert .mind and my
Isa ire. But of my hopes and
I. of my work and development,
I personal ambition and aspira
|e cares nothing, nothing, noth
jt'ompany Directors Will Meet
I On Friday,
pnarle, Jan. 27. —Albemarle
■ are awaiting with interest the
■meats which will take place
■ called meeting of the directors
I Kfird Manufacturing Company
I city, which will be held at the
■ffice of that company here on
r i nlay morning. A directors'
|g was held on last Tuesday but
Iceting is called on account of
lath of J. S. Efird, which occur-
I' following day. - Mr. Efird was
pi of that company.
|t (J. Efird, former viee-presi-
P : the company, now holds the
r> of president, but, whether
Pi continue to hold that posi
pa‘ not he said until the re
p this directors' meeting is made
Pral changes are exacted, how
ami Albermarle is- anxiously
|ug the outcome.
lohnson Plans to Stick "in Game;
ims Landis Playing “Fool.”
ITMI ' City, Jan. 26. —The Kan
ity Star today quotes Ban John
•rcsideiit of the American League
'■lanug he is not going to get
'f baseball.
have no desire to get out of
•d at this time and I am going
■ v the end," declared Johnson,
'rrived this morning at Excelsior
Missouri.
am til years old but after this
* 1 fed like I am 16.
uidis making a big fool, of
■* . ami when I get back to the
I !‘ uu league offices I'll start
ung,"
v ’ !|s quoted as saying that
" ‘d go hack to Chicago Monday
>I;n " - s t lightening thhis thing
ster Denounces Sex Appeal
Stories.
"• 26.—Rev. Herbert
Ci'tsgli. pastor of Myers Park
1 ‘ 1 ’ 1 ''* lun 'l> here, today denounc
,l ‘ Tories printed in news
'"‘uils. and also attacked
" l s at news stands.—He
: ~ a; a meeting of the
’ ' augh poked fun at news
*l j‘"‘ : ju’esent at the meeting and
* to publish criticisms of
' ' lined "infectious and con-'
, ' - manner in departments
ni/i ' He referred to
, ‘ i, ‘ atul newspaper filth” as a
-Us growth.
THE CONCORD TIMES
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
STATE WIDE BILLS
START BUTTLES 111
j THE LOWER HOUSE!
I Haywood’s \ “Immorality” s
Bill and Measure Carry
-1 ing Aid for Park, Open
| Big Guns.
HAYWOOD BILL
NOT ENDORSED
i Author Says He Was Giv
en “Raw Deal.”—Minor
ity Leader: Moved to
Table the Bill.
State Capitol, Raleigh, Jan. 27.
049 —B : g guns boomed in the House
today on debates over Rev. Oscar
Haywood’s anti-immorality bill, and
the first intimation of a fight over the
proposed state appropriation for a
national park in the Great Smokies.
Debate touching the boiling point
raged over the Haywood bill, for half
an hour of the two-hour session after
it had been reported "unfavorably” by
the House health committee.
The Montgomery “purity crusader”
openly accused the committee of giv
ing him a “raw deal” in refusing to
hear him, and demanded that it be re
referred.
Representative Grant, of Davie, the
minority leader, moved that the mo
tion be tabled, /and it was carried, but
was later recalled and referred after
several members had expressed them
selves as opposed to the bill, but not
in favor of the minister carrying the
impression that he had not been treat
ed fairly. The bill would prohibit the
sale of alleged immoral devices and
provide a jienalty of "not less than one
year in state's prison for violation.”
The forestry issue was brought in
the vote on a joint senate resolution
that would invite Congressman H. W.
Temple of Pennsylvania, chairman of
the Southern Appalachian Park com
mittee to' address the assembly in
joint session.
The resolution was presented by
Harry Nettles, Buncombe. Judge
Winston, Bertie, arguing against it,
moved that it be reterred to the com
mittee, instead of put on immediate
passage by suspension of rules. His
motion was voted down, as was au
amendment iie offered later,. that
would eliminate the joint and
make the invitation to "address'lfhem
bers of the assembly and the general
public.”
Representative Wilson, Pasquotank,
injected first suggestion of fight with
the query “Is it the custom of the gen
eral assembly to invite outsiders to ad
dress the body on pending state legis
lation”?
Half a dozen representatives replied
in the affirmative.
OFFICERS ARE ARRESTED
DURING LIQUOR RAIDS
SherifT, Five Deputies, Seven Police
men and Number of Citizens Ar
rested During Raids.
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Jan. 27.
LA 1 ) —Sheriff Paul C. Bryan, of Brow
ard County, all of his five deputies,
seven Fort Lauderdale policemen, and
a number of citizens were arrested
here last night in a series of arrests
and raids conducted under the direc
tion of R. E. Tuttle, of Savannah
prohibition administrator for this dis
trict.
Federal dry agents who had con
centrated quietly in this vicinity for
more than a week, said the arrests re
sulted from a "mammoth” liquor con
spiracy.
Most of the men are charged /with
conspiracy to violate the prohibition
law, and were arrested on warrants
drawn on indictments returned at the
December session of the Federal grand
jury at Jacksonville.
Endorse Position of Senator Overman
in Frank L. Smith Case,
Washington, Jan. 27. —Commission-
er of Revenue R. A. Dougliton, of
Raleigh, has written Senator Lee S.
Overman, congratulating him on the
position which took in the Senate
debate on # the exclusion of Frank L.
Smith, senator-designate from Illi
nois.
Judge George Rountree, of Wilming
ton, v and Col/ A. H. Boyden, of Salis
bury, were among nlany others from
within and without the state who have
endorsed the Overman view.
The Senate voted against the Ov
erman position by a vote of 48 to
33.
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THINKSCANTONESE
FORCES CUN SEIZE
S SHANGHAI AT WILL
Bishop W. N. Ainsworth,
of Southern Methodist
Church, Says Cantonese
Are Powerful.
HE IS REFUGEE
FROM CHINA NOW
Bishop Thinks Agreement
Between Cantonese and
Manchurian Forces Will
Be Made Without Delay.
San Francisco, Jan. 27. ♦ —Belief
that the Cantonese forces are power
ful enough to take Shanghai any time
they choose to attack it was expressed
here today by Bishop W. X. Ains
worth, of Macon, Ga., a missionary of
the Methodist Episcopa.l (’lnm'ii,
South. Bishop Ainsworth was among
a party of refugees who arrived on
the liner President Lincoln from
Chinn.
Bishop Ainsworth declared an agree
ment between the Cantonese and Man
churian forces is imminent. At pres
ent the Manchurians comprise the
greatest force operating against the
southerners.
THINK “PETE” MURPHY
HAS SOMETHING UP SLEEVE
No Doubt He Is Getting Ready to
Go into Action.
Tribue Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
: BY J. C. BASKERVILLE.
Raleigh. Jan. 27. —There are rumb
lings in the legislature, principally in
the house, with rumors that the calm
which has so far pervaded the sittings
of the general assembly is about to be
broken, aud that Governor A. W.
Melvenn, the budget act, and various
and sundry 'other things to which
certain persons have taken exception,
are to be the chief objects of the ver
bal barrage. This attack on the part
of the “insurgents” has been purposely
deferred until after the meeting of the
board of trustees of the .University,
held Tuesday, and until after the ap
pearance of President Harry W. Chase
before the joint appropriations com
mittee is going to do with regard to
the requests of the University, the
article* ktii be lei lo<*se„ it,la Under
stood. i u r-
There have been a number of “signs”
that point to this conclusion, acording
to those who have been long familiar
with the situation.
First, Representative “Pete” Mur
phy has made his first speech, got it
off well, and as a result, he is unlim
bered and ready for action. It al
ways takes “Pete” about three weeks
to "get going,” the old timers say,
and so far he has had nothing to say
—that is, in the house sessions, though
he has talked considerably in the lob
bies. But Tuesday he spoke in behalf
of the Australian ballot, and was
vigorously applauded by the large
number of women present, although he
did not pledge himself to any of the
existing Australian ballot measures,
saying merely that there “were cer
tain features” in some of them which
he “would favor” if brought to a vote.
Then Wednesday afternoon, Mr.
Murphy was conspicuous among the
two or three members of the general
assembly who had the temerity to at
tend the afternoon reception given
by the State Federation of Women's
Clubs, in connection with the opening
of their headquarters in the Sir Wal
ter Hotel. Mr. Murphy sipped punch,
talked politics aud was generally lion
ized by the club women. He spent
nearly 30 minutes going down the
receiving line. He was affable and
listened attentively to what the women
had to say.
"Look at Pete” said one of his col
leagues, observing from the lobby, "he
is sure doing some politicking, he has
something up his sleeve, all right.”
So there is no doubt that Murphy
is getting ready to go into action—just
what for or what about, no one seems
to know exactly, except that it will
be against something, principally Gov
ernor McLean and the budget act.
Strong support is beipg given the
“insurgent” element from Raleigh, and
it is generally conceded that Josephus
Dauiels, and his newspaper are stand
ing shoulder to. shoulder with the
‘‘aiiti” bloc that is out after-the budget
act, especially those sections which
they claim give to the Governor too
great power as director of the budget.
Outside of Raleigh, however, the sen
timent seems to continue to be in favor
of maintaining the present economy
program as instituted two years ago
finder the executive budget system.
Hence, if the present rumbling break
into open battle, the ensuing contest
between the administration forces and
the anti-administratiou bloc promises
to be of more than passing interest.
John D. Out on Links Each Day in
Florida.
Ormond Beach, Fla., Jan. 27.—-De
spite occasional wintry winds that visit
Florida in the wake of blizzards and
snow storms in the north and west,
John D. Rockefeller, Sr., was seen
regularly ou the Ormaud golf links
here.
Wearing a wool sweater under his
coat and soft gloves to protect his
hands, he appears each morning on
the course, usually with General Adel
bert Ames, his close companion, or
some member of his own family.
In point of continuous existence
the Denver Cooks Local No. 18, or
ganized in 1869, is said to be the
oldest union of cooks in America.
CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1927
| Chaplin Forces Old Smile jfe
Not because he was happy, but for the sake of the plcturt
Charles Chaplin, now being sued for divorce by Lita Grei
Chaplin, produced this smile. It is his latest picture, takei
in New York at the home of his attorney, Nathan Burkan.
V.wull
DR. HAYWOOD SAYS MONKEY i
T , BILL WILL NOT PASS’
*3
Most of Those Who Do Not Vote For
It. He Says. Will Be Influenced by
Their Constituency.
Tribune Bureau,
Sir "Walter Hotel- £
Raleigh. Jan. 27. —Although the
evolution bill still has a long journey
before it has a chance to become a
statewide law, if a vote were takau
on it tomorrow it would probably
not differ much from the vote tbij|t
is ' taken on it eventually if a TotOf fc
n— nany believe. The InVliibkfii
ers, like the proverbial Scotchmen
,hnve made up their minds and they
“kiuna be changed.” No amount or
oratory or lobbying is likely to do
any good, and few nfinds will be
changed, according to those most
-losely acquainted with the situation.
The committee on education to which
this bills has been referred, w’ill no
doubt discuss it from all i.nglre, and
many new and enlightening views on
evolution will come out as a result..
But none of these discussions are ex
pected to materially affect the final
vote on the bill.
"I hope the thing won’t come up
in t-he house at all" said Representa
tive (’’em Wright of Guilford, when
asked for an expression on the
measure. And he thus expessed a
general view that is held in common
by many members of the general
assembly, who feel that much bitter
ness and feeling will undoubtedly
arise if the measure is discussoil
openly on the floor.
Although few of the legislators
profess to know just what evolution
is, or just how such ,a law could be
enforced, should it be enacted, no
bill coming up in this session of the
general assembly has aroused more
interest. ~~The mere mention of the
“monkey bi’l” ns it is general spoken
of. brings forth a resjionse. -Every
one is interested and it is often the
subject of discussion wherever legis
lators are gathered together.
When a Scotchman and a superin
tendent of a Baptist Sunday school
Great Work Being Done By
State Orthopaedic Hospital
. The Tribune Bureau ol
Sir Walter Hotel i
Raleigh, Jan.' 27.—“ The time will i
come when North Carolina ( can re- I
joiee that practically all her citizens j
are erect ami full of vigor, and furth
er rejoice in. the fact that she has
built and maintained an institution of
physical reconstruction and restora
tion second to none, if she continues
and enlarges the work at the State
Orthopaedic Hospital,” states Mrs. Ed
ith Reeves Solenberger, of the United
States children's bureau, in an article i
included in the biennial report of the
hospital, which has just been issued.
The report was prepared by R. B.
Babington, president of the board of
trustees, and Dr. Oscar L. Miller,
surgeon of the hospital.
“There is great need for additional
beds at the hospital at
writes Mrs. Solenberger. “Those work
ers who constantly handle crippled
children agree that 75 per cent, to 90
per cent, of all crippled children could
ben made free of. disease and qf serious
deformity so that they could look for- j
ward to self support instead of being j
a burden to their families or to clpir-1
ity. j
“The people of North Carolina can
find satisfaction in the fact that their j
hospital for crippled children is efii- ‘
ciently and economically administered, j
The cost last year for those fortunate!
children who were treated at the State
Orthopaedic Hospital 'was $2.86 per
child per day. This figure is dis
tinctly lower than usual in a hospital
get together, there is likely to be a
j Crisis. This was the situation when
j Representative M. H- Mcßryde, of
Roekingham county, a physician, and
Representative J. M. Shipman of
Oolumbuß county, were engaged in a
discussion of Darwinism, “monkey
ism.” evolution and what not. short
ly after the offering of the bill.
a fundamentalist, Dr.
Mcßryde had no idea of letting the
modernists find him napping, so he
tpd prepared for his stay in the
legislature by reading much ou both
sltaEice and religion. His arguments
"trgafust the passage of an - evolution
bill were unavailing when used in
argument with Mr. iShipman of
Columbus, one of the most venerable
members of the house, well up
toward three score years and ten.
These two men were typical repre
sentatives'of the elder and more
modern thought—Mcßryde, say. be
tween forty and fifty, clean shaven
and keeping up to the minute; Mr.
Shipman with long white beard,
representing the older generation,
and the bulwark of fundamentalism.
“I am a good Baptist Sunday
school man,” said Mr. Shipman, “and
I am opposed to anything that would
discredit or detract from the teach
ings of the Bible," who produced the
bill and read from its excerpts of
which he particularly approved. To
further refute Dr. Mcßryde’s argu
ments. he quoted scripture freely.
Open opposition to the Poole bill
is expressed by Rev. Oscar Haywood,
who has been dubbed the "fighting par
son for the blue laws.”
“The bill will not pass,” said Dr.
Haywood. “Few of the members of
the legislature are really in favor of
such a bill,” lie says and the majority
of those who vote for it will be influ
enced more by their constituency rath
er than by their own individual be
liefs.
All of which is but a small cross
section of the thought of the different
members of the legislature on evolu
tion and the bill designed to prohibit
its teaching in the state.
if this sort, since it ie common for
the cost to reach $3.50 or even $4.00
in such hospitals,” writes Mrs. Solen
berger, who has made special studies
in the care of crippled children, in
the United States.
The report is well illustrated with
pictures showing the deformities cor
rected at the hospital, and to look at
them is to see the positive proof of
surgical miracles. During the bien
nial period 443 children were dis
missed in an improved condition, and
only twenty in an unimproved condi
tion. The waiting list is contantly
around 250, thus making it difficult
to accommodate emergency cases.
More and more the beds are being
taken by children with chronic tu
bercular conditions, which need often
yearn of institutional care to effect a
cure.
Gratitude for several gifts, as well
as the large number of kindnesses ac
corded the institution, is expressed in
the report. Special mention is made
of the gift from the Edwin D. Latta
Estate, and the gift from B. N.Duke.
I of a ward for the treatment of negro
crippled children. The ward was
i opened in March,. 1926, and already
many children have received its bene
! fits.
1 Mention is made of the need of an
| industrial vocational home, in which
■ those children who need extended care
and training might be able to stay for
a long period, thus making the beds in
the hospital available to those in need
of hospital care.
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
COBB AND SPEAKER
CLEARED DF CRIME
IH LANDIS REPORT
Famous Diamond Stars
Cleared of All Charges
That Might Keep Them
from Game Hereafter.
DUTCH LEONARD
STARTED TROUBLE,
' %
He Charged That Speaker
and Cobb “Fixed” Games
and Then Wagered on
the Outcome.
Chicago, Jan. 27.— (A P)—Tyrus Cobb
and Tris Speaker today were cleared
of all charges that might make them
ineligible for participation in profes
sional baseball in a decision by Ken
nesaw Mountain Landis, and given
permission to rescind their withdraw
al from baseball and return to the
retired lists of t’iie Detroit Tigers and
Cleveland Indians, respectively.
Cobb and Speaker-appeared before
the commissioner of baseball Novem
ber 27, 1926, and were informed that
Dutch Leonard, retired pitcher, for
merly with Detroit, had turned over
letters to the American league stating
that the game of September 25, 1919,
between Detroit and Cleveland had
been lxed. Cobb. Speaker and Joe
Wood branded the charge as false af
ter they learned that Leonard had in
cluded them as parties in Uae agree
ment.
THE EVOLUTION BILL
Is Known as House Bill ,263.—8i1l
Was Written by Bowie.
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Jan. 27. —There was a
tenseness in the house until after the
introduction of the bill to prohibit
the teaching of evolution, presaging
the seriousness of the fight that is
sure to break should the bill be fav
orably reported by the committee on
education of which H. G. Connor, Jr.,
of Wilson, is chairman. It is now
known as “House Bill 263.”
It. appears that Representative'
Poole fully intended to be the first
man recognized and to be the first
to present a bill at Wednesday's ses
sion, but Judge Francis D. Winston,
of Bertie, managed., to get the floor
first, with another one of fois economy
measures, to amend the house rules.
However, Mr. Poole was on his feet
before Judge Winston relinquished the
floor, and as soon as the other mem
bers saw him rise there was an audible
stir in the house with many whisper
ing : * |
“Here comes the monkey bill.”
Mr. Poole made no reference to the
nature of the bill, merely saying:
“Mr. Speaker, I desire to submit
a bill.”
Ralph Simerson, former chief page j
of the house, but this year a commit
tee clerk in the senate, acted as page
for Mr. Poole, carrying the bill to
the clerk in the speaker’s stand, where
the title was read.
But the bill entitled “An act to
prohibit the teaching of evolution in
state supported educational institu
tions” is not the evolutionary off
spring of the mind of D. Scott Poole,
although it bears his name, and was
introduced by him. For he is but
its synthetic parent, inasmuch as *
bill was written chiefly by Tam Bowie,
former member of the legislature from
Ashe county and who w r as selected by
the North' Carolina Bible League as
its “good, Christian attorney” to draw
t’ais bill and lobby for its passage.
For a while it was thought that the
bill might be jointly offered by both
Representative Poole and Represen
tative Z. V. Turlington. But while
Turlington has announced he will sup
port the bill on the floor, he declined
to participate iir its parenthood.
While the clerk was reading flie
title of the bill one of the members
of the hoyse sitting near the press
tab.le, chanted audibly : i
“Onward Christian soldiers, marching
as to War,
“With Tam Bowie, Christian lawyer,
“Marching on before!”
A titter circled that section.
Tire bill was referred immediately
to the committee on education and
for the time being the “monkey bill”
was forgotten in the stream of other
new bills.
At least, Tobe Connor and the oth
er members of thfe committee on edu
cation have something to talk about.
The betting odds on the “ayes” and
“noes” in the committee for and
against the bill have not yet been de
termined.
Tall Negro Surely Knows How to
Run.
Charlotte, Jan. 25.—Jesse Clausen,
negro, is seven feet and nine inches
tall, and he’ll tell the world that
he can run, especially if some one
is shooting at him. He gave a dem
onstration to the Charlotte police.
He ran two blocks to telephone the
police that he was being shot at. Then,
while the cops were doing two blocks
in a Ford, |je made a half-mile flat
and met them. They swear to it.
Say the detectives: “That fellow
ought to go out for track.”
Says the negro: “What you gwine
do but run when er black man shootin’
at yer?”
The shooting followed a quarrel be
tween Jesse and a fellow workman,
Ed Maxwell, at the Southern railway
freight station.
Men who hang about waiting for
something to turn up should begin
with their own sleeves.
ROBBERS KILL ONE,
WOUND TWO OTHERS
IN RAD ON IP 1
Night Clerk of the Hotel
Charles, in Harlem, Kill
ed in Battle With One of
Two Robbers.
TWO OTHERS SHOT
BY THE BANDITS
Taxi Driver and Guest At
tacked the Robbers But
Were Driven Off by the
Pistol Shots.
New York. Jan. 27.— UP) —Two rob
bers who held up the dozen men and
women in the lobby of the- Hotel
Charles, Harlem, early today, shot
and killed the night clerk, and wound
ed two men guests when they met
with resistance. The men escaped
with $143 and a diamond pin.
Miss Adele Strauss, 22, an actress,
leaped in terror through a closed win
dow on the second floor when the
shooting begau, and suffered n frac
ture of the skull and possible internal
injuries.
The robbers had lined up the men
and women when Samuel Lipschitz the
night clerk edging close to one of
them, suddenly leaped at him. He
pinned the man’s arms to hie side,
and they rolled to the floor. Harold
Perlmutter, 28, went to the clerk's
aid. The man fired and Perlmutter
dropped wounded in the leg. Lips
chitz, who lost his hold with the firing
of the shot, attempted to renew the
struggle, when he was shot and killed.
Meanwhile Michael Montforts, 25,
a taxi driver, attacked the other rob
ber, who clubbed him in the face with
his pistol and shot him in the leg. The
two men then backed from the hotel
and escaped.
THE COTTON MARKET
I Opened Steady' at Advance of 1 Point
to Decline of 2 Points.
I New York, Jan. 27.— (A 3 ) —The cot
j ton market opened steady today at an
advance of 1 point to a decline of 2
| points. There were substantial over
| night selling orders on the market fol
| lowing the easier tone of late yester
| day, but offerings were well abdbrb
|ed by buying inspired by relatively
firm Liverpool cables. Brokers with
trade connections were buyers of May
around and October at 13.80.
which helped\ to check the early de
cline. Orders were fairly well divid
ed at these figures and the iparket held
within a point or two of the lowest at
the end of the first hour.
Private cables said that calling
with local and American buying had
absorbed hedge selling in Liverpool.
It was also reported that a leading
thread manufaetpring concern had
placed large orders for yarns made of
t Egyptian cotton for deliveries extend
ing into 1028.
Cotton futures opened steady:
March 13.20; May 13.41; July 13.61;
Oct. 13.83; Oec. 14.00.
With Our Advertisers.
Efird’s Annual January 88 Cent
Sale will# begin Friday, January 28,
and continue for three days only.
The Ritchie Hardware Co. has just
received a shipment of galvanized
roofing in all lengths.
Efird’s is now offering newest milli
| nery, recently purchased in New York
jby the company’s millinery expert,
i Prices $2.88 to $4.88.
Living room suites especially fea
tured and excellent values at Bell &
Harris Furniture Co.
“Stay Home at Night” is Judge's
Order to Girt
Asheville, Jan. 27.—Hereafter
curfew will ring at 7 p. m. for one
girl in Asheville.
‘■Swap your lip-stick and powder
for a cake of soap and wash-rag.
and don’t under any circumstances,
let the police catch you on the
streets of the city after 7 o’clock in
the evening,” Judge Mcßae told
Mary Blackwell, of West Asheville,
arraigned before him in police Ci»urt
recently on a charge of vagrancy.
Newspaper Bans Browning Trial as
* »' “Insanitary.”
St. Petersburg, Fla., Jan. 26.—The
S. Petersburg Times tomorrow morn
ing will announce that it will publish
no more details of the Browning di
vorce , hearing i now under way at
White Plains, N. Y.
The editors in making the annouce
ment said it was not so much a moral
question as a “sanitary measure.”
Investigate Pittsburgh Election Re
turns.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 27.— UP) —
The Alleghany County grand jury in
vestigating alleged irregularities in
the election of November last, today
recommended that information be
made against 32 persons, including 30
election board officers, a voter, and an
alderman.
Fight at Union Meeting.
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 27. —04*)—A
fist fight between Powers Hapgood.
of Presson, Pa., Harvard graduate,
and son of a prominent Indianapolis
manufacturer, and a sergeant-at-arras,
temporarily disrupted today’s meeting
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica in convention today.
Cook county, Illinois,- in which
Chicago is situated, has 67 full
time assistant state's attorneys, and
several score of occasionally employ
iri special assistants.
DEMAND OFFICIALS
STRP V OBSERVE
11 Demand Made in Platform
;l Adopted at Conference
of Woman’s Christian
1 Temperance Union.
DRY LAW GIVEN
CREDIT FOR WEALTH
1 Women Would Stop Man
ufacture and Sale of Hip
• Flasks and Stuff Used by
Moonshiners.
Washington, Jan. 27. —C4*>—Strici
personal observance of the prohibition
1 law by all government official*, gov
ernors of states, and public servants
who have sworn loyalty to the consti
tution, was demanded in the platftrritt
adopted today by the mid-winter con
ference of the National Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union.
The platform also calls for increas
ed penalties for violations of the pro
hibition law, and demands that boot
leggers be held responsible for shy
ness or death resulting from the sale
of poisonous or contraband liquor.
Suppression of the manufacture and
sale of hip flasks as well as utensils
and ingredients employed in the mak
ing of drinks was asked on the ground
such practices were in violation of
1 the law.
The platform designed prohibition
' as the best method of dealing with
’ the liquor question and mads a
' broad appeal for co-operation by cit
izens, newspapers, magazine writShl,
’ public entertainers, and society leadc.
' ers. Disregard of the constitution, it* 1
said, should be looked upon as bad
' form.
1 Prohibition has added $6,000,000,000
to the nation's wealth, end has made
for better homes, better schools, greet
er efficiency, and productivity of the
American working man, as Compared
f with those of other natitons of the
world, the platform asserted.
1 TWO CHILDREN PERISH
IN CHASE CITY FIRE
' Pool Room, Barber Shop and Apart
ment Destroyed by the Flames.
Chase City, Va., Jan. 27.— UP) —
Two children, Levinia Tisdale, six,
1 end Robert - Hmnkftr*. -nine, were karned
to death here early today in a fire
’ that destroyed a pool room, a barber
shop, and the apartments over those
' places. Property damage was esti
• mated at about $5,000. *
• The parents of the children were
not at home when the fire started at
• 12:45 o’clock, and it is believed the
' children arose to make a fire in a
• stove. The buildings were of frame
> construction and were soon burned to
| the ground.
To Meet at Noon Every Day.
Raleigh, Jan. 26.—(IN’S)—Start
! ing Tuesday, both the House and the
’ Senate wil meet at noon every day.
Monday, however, is an exception.
After adjourning over the week-end,
it has been customary for years for
the Legislature to convene again
1 Monday night.
The change in the time of meeting
: was made in order that committee
• I meetings could be held In the mornings
as well as in the afternoons.
The noon meeting hour became es
: fective with the Senate on last Fri
• day. However, the House will not
start meeting at midday until after
' the Monday night session.
School Chastisement Is Upheld
Courts.
i Norfolk. Va., Jan. 27. —An instruc
tor in the public schools takes the
' place of a parent during school hours
■ and is justified in inflicting moderate
chastisement if the occasion warifenta,
' Judge Herbert C. Cochran, of juvenile
. court, held today in dismissing- a
. charge of assault, preferred by; C. (3.
• Carper, father of Jack Carper,' aged
i 15, against Eliott B. Graves, 22-year
I old physical training instructor at
• Blair junior high school. < s3f
t The warrant was sworn , put bjr
Mr. Carper when his son returned
from school Friday with a report that
i the instructor had slapped as wall as
c’aojted him.
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- 65c'Work Shirts For Only 25 Centk
i New specials are being put. on ev
■ ery day in the Big January Clearance
t Sale at the Parks-Belk Co.’a. For
Friday and Saturday you will find
- many unusual offerings. Ten cent
1 value bleaching is one of the many
specials. Friday and Saturday morn
ing at 9 o’clock and also in the after
.. noons at 3 o’clock they will sell 65
cent value blue ehambray work shirts
_ at only 25 cents each, only two to a
. customer.
a
r Death of Sanford Wilson.
e Sanford Newton, son of Mr. and
[) Mrs. Roy Wilson, died at the home of
a Mr. Clarence Newton, on Beatty Ford
street. . The deceased was born Jan
uary stb, 1924, and was therefore,
aged three years, nineteen days. TJhe
funeral was held at the home at 2:30
I. Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Rev.
>. G. H. Hendry, pastor of the Method
s ist Protestant Church. Burial was
(> made in Oak wood cemetery.
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WEATHER FORECAST.
h Fair tonight and Friday, not so cold
[1 in the east and north portion except
d at Hatteras tonight; rising tempera
- ture Friday. Diminishing northeast
and east winds.
NO. 60