■IUME LI
liiiohai Falls As The
lantungese Flee With
rheComingOf The Foe
■eached Shanghai To
■ When Vanguard of
■ to nese Entered City
Mb Little Opposition.
■lG\ TROOPS
■iK' RIVEN POSTS
K-ed About Interna
■ Settlement to Os
■ protection to For
■er, Quartered There.
21.-OPJ—The
8L',,,, t ,, siiiMijiliiii, The van-
BJ'|'.,l «• :: muy entered
'~j , rhjv. morning. The
tied their approach. '
trikfi without light- ;
■ !!; ;,vv eomicil declared n 1
8.,. r5 ,. i .-;.. and landing parties t
Hj.miiliti**' represented in the
Ait!*-marines, disem
■ "dot Viol 'll" foreign settle-
B in>t [- ; v:t -it'ii from w ithout,
■ from within.
i. -fiious disorders was
■by the cm 11 ing of a general
■ workers to celebrate
t|„. ,-ity to the southern j
Hj lk .j, now hold virtually all
■south of the Yangtze River,
deleiulers ashore total
pmu of whom are holding
defense line, while others
■<!,.- streets of the foreign
marines are patrol
■northern and western mill
trouble is most likely
■ mit. owing to the general
B| tiw gathering of crowds
landing party, also
and the French Italians,
and Spanish like-
Ki strong detachments. The
lane numerous forces*
districts of Xantao and ■
the scene of trouble alii
B There was incessant ritie
gun fire, and the occa-
Biu artillery throughout
BtK>r,.
|H|ie rmn between the nn-
districts were closed
B[v» . The foreign de-.
■ a> ' l!tltles
pujiibi trooper was
tw)i were wounded by
tlie Imrder of the interna
B injured by bricks thrown |
of a building.
and ( I
March _l. (A 3 ) —French j
the furthermost border '
gnu'll chiicessiun in Shanghai-
B-i. with a small detachment
B troops this afternoon. Shots :
mid the Chinese were
in French Concession.
Bi. March 21.— (A 3 )—A few
|H into the French concession
There were no cas- j
authorities do not know '
eatne from. .
Troops for Shanghai. ;
B'd.g. March 21. CP)—The 1
Bliuii of the Devonshire reg- j
arrangements today to !
|
Reigns in City.
March 21.— (A 3 )—Chans
■ Shanghai tonight after the j
city the Cantonese this j
|Bntn lose in the native quar-
Bh and tonight a band of |
presumably attached j :
northern army, broke ;
barrier to the north of the *
settlement and began (
B armored car rushed up in |
a police call for aid. The I
to continuous nia
■ lieutenant Newman,
and two soldiers were i
B'oreigners Killed So Far.
Bn. March 21. — [A 3 )—Up to !
the forces defending the
■“ttkmetiN from the rioting
■“'- su^''n,, ‘ T%v °lve castial
-1 n ’ K two killed and ten
Bnjabi soldiers of the British
B r billed by snipers. The
comprised live punjabis, a
B u ‘ ,, d“au. and four British
B^ il] differ Protection.
BJ!" 11 ' March 21. — -{A 3 ) —The j
B" American marines in
lv m accordance with the
|k f ,‘ wn '>y Secretary Kel-!
W" tinio of the original diet-!
■; n ,Ui " on the approach
They are to be
B m ,' *" r l'fo'cction of Amer-
K 1 " b* l ’l '** ll y within the in
|B SHt h'inc ;1 . boundaries.
a,lli - In : u ,n,lv: wore assem
■V, ,1K ,:u 1!i ttpprehension of
the transition period.
Biw!i 0r , tw lw Hun By
B F‘rsonaliv.
R. A.— Donald
|Ki- ti May view
■ that' ,io‘ :h:i1 "’ M-,ir ' on - said •
rnV' **'■ ' v 'li give,
■ j t tu the manor, !
■has n,' 1 ' : ; u ' tly tnulerstood j
■ v ‘ wu'cd hi s connec-j
Rtd to U M U "" k h,^] - I
|■aid that tk ; ° W Inanor * Mr -
Rome. L the " au « be
IB be u ljot . materially,
■to the SlVr ' * Particular
■ and the
THE CONCORD TIMES
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
♦
* EDITORS WILE MEET
AT MOREHEAIi BLUFFS
State Press Association to Hold An
nual Convention There July 20. 21
j And 22.
| Morgauton. March 10.—The*. 1027
convention of the Xorth Carolina Press
association, will be held at Morehead
Villa. Morehead Bluffs. Wednesday,
| Thursday and Friday, July 20. 21
and 22.
i The time and place for holding the
convention was selected at a meeting
'of the executive committee of the
| association held in the lobby of the
Morgauton Xews-Herald last night
! with the following members of the
committee in attendance: Miss Bent
rice-Cobb. Morgauton. secretary-trea
surer; B. Arp Lowrance, field secre
tary ; .f. W. Atkins, Gastonia; Lee
I Weathers, Shelby : J. W. Xoell. Rox
; boro, and A. L. Stockton, Greensboro,
j The committee heard the field secre
tary detail the results of his investi
gation into accommodation, rates, etc.,
and accepted the invitationof the man
agement of the Morehead Villa to meet
there in July.
The executive committee went some
what into details relative to the pro
gram and authorized the secretary
and president to prepare a tentative
program for approval by the executive
, coinmitte at a meeting to be held
I sometime before May 1. It was the
sense of the committee that the morn
ing hours should be devoted to busi
ness sessions with geueral discussion
of topics and problems having to do
with the pulishiug business in Xorth
Carolina ; that the afternoons be giv
en over to recreation such as boating,
bathing, golfing, etc., and the evenings
to addresses and talks dealing with the
newspaper business in general. This
general outline may be changed to
some extent when the program is
finally approved, but the committee
felt that it would be wise this year to
pattern the convention somewhat after
the plan of the- Southern Xewsimper
Publishers association and devote the
afternoons to recreation.
Prior to the meeting of the com
mittee the members of the executive
committee were the specially invited
guests of Miss Cobb at the Kiwanis
dinner, which was greatly enjoyed
by the visiting newspaper men.
SAYS WAR VETERANS
WITHOUT ATTENTION
i... ■-
Flftem Insane Former Soldiers Un
able to Obtain Hospitalization.
Char’otte. Mar. 21 —Fifteen Xorth
Carolina insane veterans of the
World War are unable to obtain
hoepitalizatiou because of lack of
personal funds. Paul founts, Com
mander of the American Legion,
stated tonight, and it may be -made
an issue by the Legion. Its policy is
to obtain hospitalization for every
insane veteran.
The government is treating cases
where it is definitely established that
insanity was the result of service.
Steady increase in insanity among
veterans is noticeable, a Veterans*
Bureau official stated-
Woman’s Legacy to Cats Ends in ,t
' Court Battle.
(By International Xews Service.)
Bath, X. Y., Mar. 21-—Eight pet
cats, who were the only <\>m pan ions
of Mrs. Lewis Bennet of Lind>y
during her last years of life, will
have their legacy cut off if relatives
are successful in a suit which seems
imminent.
In her will Mrs. Bennett directed
that the money she has received
from her husband’s estate' was to go
to his relatives and the money she
got from her deceased father was to
he put iu trust and'the proceeds used
for the care of her pet cats. The
trust property is estimated at $7,-
000.
THE STOCK MARKET
Quotations by Fenner & Beane.
(Quotations at 1:30 P. M.)
Atchison 177%
American Tobacco B. , 125
American Smelting 140%
American Locomotive . 111
Atlantic Coast Line 183
Allied Chemical 139%
Baldwin Locomotive 186
Baltimore & Ohio 113
Chesapeake & Ohio 158
ThiPont 209%
Frisco HI
General Motors l7B
General Electric 84%
Hudson 71%
Standard Oil of New Jersey __ 37%
Kennecott Copper 62%
i Coca-Cola l9l
Liggett & Myers 95%
Mack Truck - 104%
Maryland Oil 50%
Pan American Pet. B. 62
Rock Island - 86
R. J. Reynolds 109%
Southern Railway 124%
Studebaker 1 49%
Stewart-Warner 59
Texas Co. 48%
Tobacco Products 106%
U. S. Steel 162%
Westinghouse 74
Wool worth 125%
American Tel. & Tel. 161%
American Can 46%
\ Allis Chalmers 94
Dodge Brothers 22
1 Great Northern 85%
, Gnulf State Steel <- 59
I Lorillard \27%
Montgomery-Ward 66%
Norfolk & Western 173%
Overland 21%
Republic Iron & Steel 71
Vick Chemical 53%
New Steel—VV. I. 118%
SAYS LOVER KILLED
HUSBAND ANDTHEY
PLANNED TO MARRY
i
|New York Police Say Mrs.
Ruth Snyder Told Them
Her Husband Was Killed
J in Home by H. J. Gray.
GRAY SAYSTALE
IS NOT TRUTH
I Arrested in Syracuse, Gray
Says He Has Not Been
to New York City With
-1 in Past Several Weeks.
Syracuse, X. Y.. March 21. — 04 s ) —
Henry Judd Gray, 31. of East Orange,
X. J.. cornet salesman for a Rochester
{firm, was arrested at the Onondaga
Hotel here early today in connection
with tho murder of Albert Snyder, 45,
art editor, in Xew York yesterday.
Gray was arrested after the Syra
cuse police received a long distance
telephone call from John J. Gallagher,
of the Long Island police district.
When detectives went to Gray’s room
he was found sitting fully clothed in
his room. *
Gray denied any knowledge of the
killing, saying he had been in Syra
cuse since Friday.
Gray, who had been registered hero
since March 18th. said he has not
been near Xew York City for two
weeks.
Xew Y’ork detectives are due to ar
rive here at 2 p. m. today. The de-1
teotives who arrested Gray said they
found a pinch bar and a pair of rub
ber gloves among hin baggage.
liuq>eotor Gallagher, in asking the
Syracuse police to arrest Gray, said
his information was obtained from
Mrs. Ruth Snyder, wife of the victim.
Mrs. Snyder was found bound and
gagged. She obtained a good view of
the murderer’s face, it is said.
Couple Wanted to Marry.
Xew York, March 21. — (JP) —Mrs.
Ruth Snyder today asserted in a
statement to the police that Henry
Judd Gray now under arrest iu Syra
cuse, had murdered her husband Albert
Snyder, art director of u magazine,
in order that she might be free to
marry him.
Press dispatches from Syracuse said j
H r. <*r ay .was In
According to the alleged confession j
Mrs. Snyder said that Gray was con,- 1
cealed in their home iq Queens Village !
when she, her husband and their nine
year old daughter. Lorraine, returned !
early Sunday morning from a card
party.
Gray, according to the confession,
beat Snyder to death and then wound
a picture wire around his throat.
After the murder, Gray bound Mrs.
Snyder in order to throw au aspect
of burglary over the crime.
Police said Mrs. Snyder had told
them she had known Gray for two
and one-half years, and that she want
ed her husbaud out of the way in ox*-
der that she might marry him.
SAY PRISONER’S WIFE
ABANDONED HER CHILD
Mrs. Carl Talley Claims Prominent
Attorney Is Its Father.
Greensboro, March 20.—Mrs. Carl
Talley, wife of the man who ia in
the Sate penitentiary serving a life
term for murder of Officer MeOuis
ton here some years ago, was ar
rested here today on a charge that
she is the mother of the infant,
which was found abandoned on a
South Forbis street home last
month.
Mrs. Talley was released on recog
nizance to appear ip court on Tues
day morning. She is charged with
abandoning the child by leaving it
on the porch of a home along with
a letter asking that it be cared for
and saying it was born out of wed
lock and that the father, is a prom
inent attorney of Virginia.
Mrs. E. Royal is also under ar
rest for aiding in. the abandonment
of the child, the police claiming K
was born at the home of Mrs. Royal
and was placed in a basket at her
house, she knowing it was to be left
on the porch where it was found.
The police say the father is not from
Virginia, but they suspect he is an
attorney from a nearby city and if
the other will talk, a warrant will
be secured against him.
Charlotte Planning •Military Cele
bration.
Charlotte, March 2^. —The great
est military celebration in Charlotte
since the hectic days of the world
war, when 70,000 soldiers at one
timo were quartered temporarily at
Camp Greene, will be held here April
4 in connection with the joint an
nual * inspection of the three local
units of the National Guard, it was
learned today.
Supreme Court Rules Against Carroll.
Washington, March 21.— (A 3 ) —Earl
Carroll, the theatrical manager, must
serve the sentence of a year and a
day imposed upon him for perjury,
as an outgrowth of his famous bath
tub party. The Supreme Court re
fused him a review today.
He may delay commitment by ask
ing a rehearing, but such requests
seldom are granted.
Dennis Denies Charges.
Washington, March 21.—C49—Flat
denial that he had ever been instruct
ed by the State department to work for
the designation of Adolfo Diaz as
president of Nicaragua was made here
today by Lawrence Dennis, former
American charge in Managua.
CONCORD. N. C- MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1927
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SALM DROPS SUIT
AGAINST WIFE AS
PUBLIC EXPECTED
Xew York. March 21.— (A 3 ) —At-
torneys for Count Ludwig Von
Salfn today handed to the clerk of
the Supreme Court n stipuation and
[ proposed order to discontinue his
separation suit against las wife,
the former Millieent Rogers. The
action was forecast a few days ago.
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lj TIIE COTTON MARKET.
|! -
1 Opened Firm at Advance of From 26
| To 54 Points on Active Covering
And General Buying. ,
| Xew York, March 21. — (A 3 ) —
j cotton market opened firm today Jt
[ aji advance of 26 to 54 jHtints JPH
j active covering and more or less gen
eral buying inspired by the Census
j report which showed a ginning of T ,-
l (687,607 running hales, counting roui 1
as half for the season, equal to V .-
; 010.258. equivalent 500 pound bales.
These figures which compared with
the December crop estimate of 18.-
618,000 bales, were evidently below
expectations and active months so|d
• 53 to 59 points net higher before efid
of the first hour, May adducing to
1 14.43 and October to 14.70. A gohd j
1 many stop orders were uncovered on I
• the advance. After their execution j
the inurket was quiet, but held w’ithln j
a few points of the best.
Xew York! March 21. —(A 3 )—Cotton I
1 futures opened firm. March 14.65, j
May 14.10 to 14.23. July 14.40 to j
14.50, (October 14.60 to 14.6 T, Deoem- 1
• ber 14.80 to 14.84.
MRS. HUTCHINS FORCED
TO ABANDON LONG HIKE!
Burnsville Woman Is Stricken Witlij
Appendicitis and Is Forced to Post-1
pone Hike Now.
Asheville. March 21. — (A 5 ) —Strick-
en with a ruptured appendix and fight
ing against a fever of 103. Mrs. Cbas.
Hutchins, of Burnsville, who had
planned to walk to Asheville, 43 miles.
March 25th, in competition against
long distance walking records, held by
Mins Eleanor Scars, of Boston, today
cancelled her hike nntil later in the :
summer. Mrs. Mutch ins was strick
en Friday while on a twenty-mile
walking journey for two days to evade
a surgical operation, but today was
brought to a local hospital for medical
attention.
THE STOCK MARKET.
Irregular Price Movements Char
acterised Opening of Market—Some
Rise, Some Fall. - •
Xew I{ork, March 21. — (A*) —Irregu-
jlar characterized tjyj,
V to«'-?iwlhy’s stock * v fmt rU>?!'|
I I-ending Industrials showed confififßng j
j trends on initial sales. United'States I
j Steel improving slightly while General
j Motors was off.
Baby Falls Into Tub of Water in
Union. Drowning.
Monroe. March 19.—Little Keith j
Bingham, aged 20 months, »ou or
Mr. and Mrs. J. X. Bingham of lie
dian Trail fell into a tub of water
and was drowned.
Mrs. Bingham, the mother, wai
sick iu bed and, the little fellow was
playing about the house with the
other children and for some moments
was not noticed by other members of
the family until he was pulled from
the tub by a young brother.
A physician was called and every
effort was made for his recovery but
it was soon found that assistance
was too late.
Woman, 75, is Beaten By Men.
Raleigh. Mar. 20.—Wake county
officers tonight were searching the
countryside for three men, alleged to
have beaten Mrs. Fannie Davis. 75,
at her home in Barton's Creek town
ship today.' The woman sail she re
fused to cook &>me chickens they
brought her j that she was beaten
about the face and head, her own
chickens taken and her homo badly
damaged by the men.
Mrs. Davis said the men became
enraged when she refused their re
quests. She said they broke down the
front door of the house and “turned
everything in it in a topsy-turvey
order and left.”
Pictures on the Clouds.
Xew York, March 19.—Successful
experiments in projecting pictures on
the clouds, recently carried out at
Jena, Germany, may result in the sky
being used as a giant advertisement
board. By means of this invention
pictures may be thrown, giant-size, on
the clouds, and during the recent ex
periments pictures came out with
great clearness. It is thought that
in the near future it will be possible
to show moving pictures in this waj\
Which is something for the motion
picture theatre proprietors to think
about.
Two Young Girls Smother to Death.
Water Valley, Miss., March 20. —
Two young girls were smothered to
day when their cave playhouse col
lapsed- Evelyn Hunter. 12, a ltd Edna
Earle lot, 6 were the victims. Evelyn
was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Hunter, and Edna Earle was
the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs.
J. G. Lott, of the first Baptist
church. The cave-in was the result
of recent heavy rains, and came
without warning.
With Our Advertisers.
The Parks-Belk Company is having
a special offering in Spring caps,
dresses, coats and hats. Dresses worth
up to $18.50, on sale at $9.50 to
$12.95, says the ad. today.
Fisher’s is introducing a smart new
mode* in hats. Prices are from $3.95
at $9.95. See ad. today.
Outstanding values in bed room
• suites at the Bell & Harris Furniture
i Co’s, store.
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• Nothing is so easy to hear as youri
neighbors’ troubles. I
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F . SINTCPAIBS, *
GEORGE 3S. *
Jiarry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, was to be, tried March 7 for
contempt of the Senate in refusing to answer questions.
Admiral Sir Roger Keyes was mentioned in England as next i
Lord of the Admiralty. The Supreme Court ordered rein-i !
statement of an appeal taken by George R. Dale, Munciei
Ind., publisher, who was charged with contempt of court
during a fight on the Ku Klux Klan. The Senate absolved
Senator Arthur R. Gould, ot Maine, of censure for his Dart !
in an alleged SIOO,OOO bribery case.
LEGION GLEE CLUB
WILL GO TO PARIS
Mrs- Cora Cox Luca.s Greensboro
Will Be in Chatge.
...Lexington, X. (\. M>u;, 2L —The
’-Amerirffn AuxiliarL anP^tuak
j big plans for a iftqmrfjnen* Glee
I (Tub to be organized, to go to the
Paris Convention. The voice.-; will
be ad acted from the members ot the
Auxiliary attending the Paris Con
vention. and will be under the di
rection of Mm. Com (’ox Lucas. De
partment chairman of Music, Mrs.
Lucan is from Greensboro. Each unit
has been given a list of patriotic and
war time songs to use at unit, meet
ings. the same to be used by the
Xorth Carolint-Paris Glee Club.
Mrs. Lucas includes in her list,
first the recently adopted state
song.’"Old Xorth State.” then “My
Country ’Tiw of Thee.” "American :
Beautiful.” “Star Spangled Banner," 1
“I>ixie,” "Smiles.” “Old Black Joe."
“Long .Long Trail," "Over There."
•‘Keep the Home Fires Burning.”
‘"Pack Up Your Troubles." etc.
At the State Convention in Wash- !
ington. X. C., August 15th and 16th,,
the voices will be assembled and
final arrangements made.
The Raleigh Auxiliary have made 1
a fine membership record this week,
by sending in on one day, dues for I
a hundred and five members.
COOLIDGE LIK ELY TO
TAKE ASHEVILLE TRIP
President Being Urged To Rest From
Work For Week Or So This Spring.
Washington. March 20. While
Xorth Carolina is out of the question
as the seat of the summer White
House, there is a distinct possibility
that President and Mrs.-Coolidge may
go to the State for a spring vacation
of two or three weeks it was learned
today.
* Close friends and associates of the j
President, it was learned today, hare j
been urging him to rest from the work
of his office for a few weeks and get
away from the heavy strain of the J
Presidential office. Mrs. Coolidge, it |
is understood, is heartily in favor of {
the proposal that- the President take ,
a short vacation this spring.
Florida and Asheville are the two J
places which the President has been
considering, it is reported. Because
of the lateness of the season,, it is
believed that the President will not
undertake the Florida trip, which has
been urged by George F. Bean, Repub
lican National Committeeman from j
that State. This helps the chances in
Asheville.
President and Mrs. Coolidge like
Asheville and often refer to happy
times spent there when they visited
the mountain city just before his
inauguration as Vice-President.
An invitation from Governor Mc-
Lean to the President to make a brief
visit to Asheville was personally con
veyed to the President last week by
Mrs. Lindsay ~Patterson, Republican
Committeewomnn from the Sfate.
No More Shaving!
London, March 19.—1 tis possible
that before long men will no longer
need to shave every morning, and
women will have no more worries with
bobbed hair. As a result of experi
ments carried out by an English nat
uralist, the growth of the hair can
be regulated. During experiments a
strain of mice were produced whose
heads became bald in sixteen days. A
few days later they lost the fur on
l their backs, and a little later all their
I hair had gone.
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[no ARRESTS UNDER
OLD SUNDAY LAWS
South Carolina’s Fifth “Tight” Sun
day Quiet; Relief BHI Before Gov
* eriior. /. L
T l Wun>brh, 8. U.. March 20,—South
Carolina's’ fifth “tight” Sunday,’
brought about by the rigid invocation
of the state’s century-old "Blue Laws"
by Governor John G. Richards, hekl
grip over the state generally today.
The day appeared to have been of
n less exciting nature than the pre
ceding ones, with no arrests having j
been reported for alleged violations,
j Meanwhile, the Governor indicated
that he would announce his decision
as to signature or veto on the Sun
| day law bill tomorrow. The measure, . -
passed by the General Assembly -this
week, would legalize sale of gasoline 1
, and other necessities on the Sabbath,
: and also allow the playing of golf ]
i and other non-cofninercial sports on 1
!that day. _
Playing Golf. i
At Aiken golfers were protected by I
i injunction and constable allowed the I
j game to be played at Florence, in an t
adjoining county, unhindered. Sheriff (
Barnes, of Florence, said yesterday i
he would not interfere with those going
I to links as long as play was allowed
unmolested in Aiken,
j An aviator arrested at Florence last
! Sutiday for using his plane to trails- (
! port passengers continued to carry
passengers for hire today. A court
order issued by Judge E. C. Dennis
yesterday protected the aviator, How- (
ard Stark, until he could be given a ,
hearing tomorrow.
Others Lay Off.
At Camden and Sumter, where ar
rests were made last Sunday of J
golfers, none went to the course today, 1
having generally agreed not to play t
or otherwise test the ancient statute j
pending definite settlement of the sit-
uation.
Columbia experienced a quiet day,
j with no arrests. The Governor was
! again “out of the city,” as he has (
| usually been on Sundays -when his
, office and home were tried for com- j
i ment.
| His office staff yesterday announced
ihe would be in “seclusion” during the |
t day.
j Greenville, likewise, reported no vio- '
(lations of the Sunday- law, while at 1
i AndersoH where no complaints weie 1
; made, a hotel seryed cigarettes free 1
with the Sunday dinner and a hot- (
tied soft drink was on the menu with .
coffee,’ tea and milk for the table
d’hote meals.
State Income Taxea.
The Tribune Bureau 1
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, March 21. —Collection* of
state income tax for this year have
reached more than a half a million
more than for the same period last
year, according to a. statement issued <
today by the department of revenue.
Collections through today, according i
to the statement, amount to $5,452,- :
554.89, while the same period last i
year showed a total of only $4,908.-
153.12, putting this year in the lead >
by $544,401.86. The collections in '
each instance ranged over the period 1
from the latter part of July of the
preceding year to the same date in
collection year.
A warning was issued today to be
J on the watch for a large liver-spotted
! dog which is believed to be suffering
'from rabies. The dog was seen, early
today on Loan street and in the vi
cinity of the White-Parks mill, but
disappeared before It could be shot.
1
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
AMERICANS LIKE COFFER;
DRINK 500 (TPS EACH I
<By International News
' Washington. March- 21
can coffee drinkers ha**
in 1920 with a per<
tion of about 500 K ✓
to Edward H. Monffc, chief
of the foodstuffs division of the
commerce department.
The per capita consumption was
about a pound heavier than in
1925.
Imports for last year amounted
to 1.500.000.000 pounds, establish
ing a new record. The value of
imi»orts was approximately $323.-
351.000 with retail sales of coffee
probably double that figure. •
Seventy per cent, of the foreign
purchases of eoffee came from Bra
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COUNTY ACCOUNTANTS TO BE
APPOINTED BEFORE APRIL 1
Comity Commissioners Notified That
This Is to Be Done.
Raleigh March 21.—(INS) — It is
up to every one of the 100 counties
of the State to appoint a county ac
countant on or before April 1.
County commissioners of the coun
ties were notified of Ihis today by Dr.
E. C. .Brooks, chairman of the County
Government Advisory Commission.
The county government reform bills,
enacted at the 1927 session of the
General Assembly, provide for the
appointment pf n county aiccouutnnt,
among many oth<*r things.
Five outstanding “fusts” are;
1. Appointment of a comity account
ant —which may be the county auditor
—on or -before April 1.
•2. That a county budget be made
before July 1.
3. That an estimate of the needs
of each governmental department be
made on or before June 1.
4. That the budget must be adopted
by the fourth Monday in July.
5. That taxes sufficient to produce
the amount of revenue necessary to
the first Wednesday after the third,
meet the budget must be levied by
Monday in August. - .
NORTH CAROLINA TO BE
FISHERMAN’S PARADISE
i Streams Being Restocked While Ef
fort Is Made to Preserve Present
Stock.
Raleigh. March 21.—(INS) —North |
Carolina is soon to become a fisher- 1
man’s paradise if plans now under
way by the Department of Conserva
tion and Development are kept up,
yearly.
According to an announcement from
the department today, lingerlingw for
distribution from Xortji Carolina fish
hatcheries during tbe will
equal the number sent out during the ,
entire two preceding years.
The announcement was madp by
|J. K. Dixon, chairman of the Fisher
ies Commission, which will be merged
with the Department of Conservation
and Development on Atfril 1, under
the provisions of a bill enacted at
the 1927 session of'the state legisla
ture.
It was estimated that the number
of lipgerlings available this season
will be something like 3,000,000, while
for the. two preceeding years there
was a total of 2,847,539 fingerlings
raised in the five state hatcheries and
the co-operating Eden ton hatchery.
The report of the Fisheries Com
mission for 1926 showed the distri
bution as follows: brook trout, 1,570,-
971; rainbow troitt. 380,458; lake
trout, 27,400; steel-head trout, 35,- -
000; large mouth bass, 154,450. The
total for the year reached 2,177,179.
ADVERTISE CAROLINA
AS INDUSTRIAL FIELD
Opportunities For Business in Pied
mont Section Will Be Broadcast
By Duke Interests.
Charlotte, March 19.—A campaign
of considerable magnitude to adver-.
tise the opportunities for industry
in the Piedmont Caro'.inas has been
planned by the Duke Power com
pany, owners of the Southern Power
company and the Southern Public
Utilities company, the first adver
tisement being scheduled to appear
in publications selected on April
first or the first issue after that date,
according to information given at the
offices of the Duke interests yester
day.
The campaign as planned will
probably be by large odds the most
ambitious effort of its kind ever un
dertaken in the Carolinas. Nearly a
score of nationally circulated publi
cations will be used, including maga
zines of general circulation, textile
and other trade papers, and business
and financial journals. Among the
most outstanding of the publications
selected are Literary Digest, World’s
Work, Nation’s Business. Textile
World, American Wool and (Jetton
Reporter, Manufacturers' Record,
Chicago Journal of Commerce. Bos
ton News Bureau. Wall Street Jour
nal, Industrial Management, Fac
tory, Manufacturing Industries,
Brick and Cay Record.
Escapes From Welfare Department.
Charlotte, March 20. —Dave White,
of Shelby, fifteen years of age. former
inmate of Jackson Training School
at Concord, made a getaway today
from the third floor detention. room of
the city welfare building that left wel
fare officials gaping. The boy was
arrested on charge of automobile lar
ceny and put behind a locked door, but
lifted it from the hinghes and slid down
to the ground.
Work of Inter-Allied Commission"
Paris, March 19.—During the seven
years it was functioning, the Inter-
Allied military commission paid 33,-
400 visits of inspection to Germany,
and ordered the destruction of vast
stores, including over 14,000 aero
planes, nearly 30,000 trench mortars,
and over 100,000 machine guns.
Nj 0,258 BILES H
(4 COTTON PICKED
SAVS FINAL REPORT
The Total Was Less That!
Expected in View of the
Forecast of 18,6184*10
■ Bales Made in December
MILLION BALES
IN THIS ST4fg
_ ———
Report Shows 1,204,496
Bales Ginned in N#}s{|
Carolina.—Figures 707r
-000 Bales Not Yet Picked
Washington, March 21.—OF)—The
1926 cotton crop, the largest ever
grown, was placed at 17.910.258 jjgmy
alent 500-pound bales today ip thfi
census bureau's final ginning reppr), »
Since the department of agrtcpl
(ure.’s final estimate of 18,6)8Jj(J(j
bales was made last December, tbgrp
i has been much uncertainty as to the
amount of the crop which would hfi
picked. The low price of cottQj) and
the scarcity of labor, the department):
thought, would influence many fitt
ers to leave the low grades of cojt£pp
unpicked in the fields-.
Since that time the price has td)pwu
an increase, however, and the atpqtypt
of unpicked cotton therefore, ms prob
ably smaller than it would have beep,
the apparent amount being arpupd
707.000 bales.
Ginnings include; North Carolina. 1
1,204.496: South Carolina, 99T.|j$i<’*,
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MISSING BOY FOIM*— ’ toMti
ON UNION CHAINING
Bennettsville Youth. Who DisapßMMfl
March 8, Was Serving Term F<B?
Hoboing.
Monroe. March 19.—Mecklenburg 1
rural policemen, who reported that
M. H. Leviner was seen near Charlotte
on the Salisbury road yesterday, are
i in error, says ,T. C. Winchester, sup-
I eriiitendent of Union county chaln
i gang, for the 15-year-old BeniiettsviHe
youth was at that time building roads
along with other convicts in Union
county and was released late last
night in the custody of his father to
return to his parental roof.
The Benuettsvi lie lad left home on
March 8 and his parents had ■ adver* <
; tised for him far and wide. They
j had offered SSO reward for informa
-1 tlon ns to his whereabouts and had
spent most of the time since his de
parture in search of him.
J. W. Spoon, Monroe chief of police
read in the daily papers the advertise
ment for the boy and, from the des
cription given, recognized him as the
one arrested in Monroe on March H)
for hoboing™ He communicated with
his father at Bennettsville, and he ar
rived in Monroe late last night ynd
identified the young convict as his
missing son.
Going to the convict camp, the fath
er found the boy asleep on his bunk.
He took him by the leg. awftkfe him
and said, ‘Come on, son, and let’s
go home." U?* :,’ ■
The boy replied. “I cannot go. fatbr
er, until my time is served out on
-the gang.’’
But the father had provided fop his
release. He had gone to Recorder
W. O. Lemmond and secured the order.
METHODIST EDITORS ‘’■ 38
DEBATE ON DANCING
Memphis Church Paper Takes Ex
ception to North Carolina Article,
Greensboro. March 21.—last
issue of “The Southern Methodisf.’
published at Memphis, , Tenn.; de
votes two columns of regular apacg
and two of editorial space to recent
statements of Rev. A. W. Plylgf isl
"The North Carolina Christian Ad
vocate,” which he edits. The* state
ments of Mr. Plyer were’ denials
that a leading editorial paragraph
of two weeks ago in the
condemning dancing and the cj&apey
oaes of dances was an attack oh ttte
dance given at Duke University $n
February 11.
The Southern Methodist quotes the
last editorial in, the Advocate in
eluding a reference lo the 'distant
city of Memphis. This reference to
"The Southern Methodist" get* ttye
editor’s dander up and what started
up as a discussion of modern dgae,
ing seems in a fairway to become
a verbal battle between the two
Methodists.
The Memphis man says vbrsE
plainly that Mr. Plyer has made
specific exception’ of Duke University
from his dance criticism lest he give
offense to the power that be at
Duke.
Tower on Mount Mitchell to Be
Opened This Spring.
Raleigh. March 20.—Plans arc
being made by the department of
conservation and development for
the formal opening of the etope tow
er in Mt. Mitchell state park on the
summit of tae mountain this spring,
probably about the middle of May.
The tower is a combination public
and forest lookout, presented by lid.
C. J. Harris, of Dillsboro; Construc
tion was started last summer and
completed in the fall.
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Rain tonight, probably clearing
Tuesday morning; colder. Fresh south
west winds.
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