■■ME Li
■ty To Join City In
la For I. C. C. Hearing
ET A
("itv and ( oun-
K Given to Inter
■inmerce (. oniinis
■’hariotte.
■\ES TO
»OME TO CITY
M Hearing Local
Kyili Attempt to
m\w Lines Should
■h rough Concord.
!i;i> joined with
H ll( v'n! in w:'gi»S a vig
■ ill** lim's of tin*
hern Railway
and at a-
E'/,- I’.nanl <>f Cnu'n
■,,'L it*i<i Saturday as-
H at tlit* Court
■ , ~f (d'mmissiouors
■ which will be pre
■ (leai-iiig of tilt* Intel—
H | . r ('tiinaiissioii. which
■ i„ charlotte, makes a
■' c.iuntv of Cahamis
■ t „ intervene in the
Hci'iane a party thereto.
H |, a>M 'd Saturday af
■prcM'iited t i the Inter
('einmission. along
■icn of the City of (’on
lp |,a<--d Friday night
■ (l s city Aldermen, at
B the hearing of tin* In-
Bcri'c i ‘ounnission which
Hjccn City for the pur-
Hc the application of the
■ Northern Railway Com
■s the completion of cer
■„f its lines and for a
■ public convenience and
■onnectioii therewith.
■ of Cabarrus County is
B* Leave to Intervene.
■ your petitioner. County
■ml says that it has an
■ matters in controversy!
■utirh'd controversy, atul
■event* in and become a
■ proceed : ng. and for
lpro|i is*'*l intervention.
Btitioner. County of Ca-
I~f the duly organized
|e State of North Caro
*
lit says that it has an j
I completion of the lines!
Imt and Northern Rail-)
■ : that the completion of' t
li* necessary and will be
lenienee to the present j
Iplfare and development
■of Cabarrus and its cit
lii] County lias a popu-1
800 people, has a large
Itile and other manufae- •
■sliments. and that said
Ine agricultural section :
lify is now served by on-
I«1 and that the service
laid railroad is not ade
pt the needs of the com- t
Is not transportional ser-
Bounty and its people are
■ to: that the County is
■ need of additional trans
lilities. and particularly
■ the iilterurgan railroad
Ihe constructed by the
■ Northern Railway Com-
I
pr says that the railroad
■noted should be con
pgh or immediately adja
lounty seat, the City of
It said City, with its im-
Bons has a population of
Ire. lies to the West rath
|e East of its centre, and
I shipping point and pas-
I large territory of each
■Stanly and Rowan Coun
|re<t railnad point East
I'venty-five miles distant;
|r prays that the Pied
fcrthern Railway Company
I to construct its lines,
r‘ rei|uired to so construct
jto run through or imme
l' H nt to the City of Con*
[• said County of Cabar
lave to intervene and to
P" a party thereto, with
I have notice of and ap-
Itaking of testimony, pro
pss-examine witnesses and
I person or by counsel up-
I at the oral argument, if
p ; s granted.
N, day of June, 1027. •
RV OF CABARRUS.
[. r A. JSENHOUR,
of the Hoard of
II ounty Commissioners.
PdOTT..
P Hoard.
[inns of the City of Con
r ' abarrus County for a
r l ' 'oattor to be discussed
ptao* Commerce Commis
prnteii to the Commission
f, o<, ' ,K 'h by Frank
r \\ Hlackwelder, at
■»r* sentiiicr the City and
r iri, "i f° r a hearing is
[attorneys are prepared to
L n,t \ I lr, ‘l*ared to present
P 'issmn members to show
p * t(M)s ’ lo n of the
r 'pain s lines is a neoes
| U ' H w, ‘ifare and growth
[i 111 ' ‘iharrus County,
r make til? plea that the
" n coming by Con-
L ’ s ' ( ‘ at convenience to
Ibarrm'L < it,V ° f C ’ onoord
ImJ • ° unty ’ aml that
its UtAT 1 b - v tbe railroad
l it T Concord, is
L r houl(1 b( ' n»d not what
T&p «re justly enti-
VZJ'r is l )ar ticular
1 r 'uhan railroad pro
l-Vih U ' ,,H bv thp Pied
'"r" Railway Com-
THE CONCORD TIMES
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
‘ THREE-POWER NAVAL
CONFERENCE AT GENEVA
Special Conference Limited to Three
Powers Elects an American Sec re -
j tary. *
i Geneva, June 20.—(/P)—The con
vocation by the United States of the
three-power naval conference at Gen
eva and. as it was afterwards nrrang
led. on the property of the longue of.
Nations, of which the United States
) is not a member, opened delicate ques-
Itions touching the organization of the
conference.
J Great Britain and Japan as mem
’, bers of the League formally requested
' facilities for the conference, and Sir
Eric Drummond, secretary general of
, the League promptly offered all fac
ilities that-vhe conference thought they
! would need.
_I As this was a special conference
limited to three power. 4. it v\as finally
( decided by the three nations to select
. I a secretary general who would he a
citizen of one of their countries. The
j choice soon fell triton Hugh IL AVilson.
j who hail 'been appointed American j
i minister to Switzerland only n month i
i before the calling of the conference, j
Since 1924, Wilson had been chief !
i of the division of current information j
at the State Detriment in Washing- |
ton, where he was in daily and some- .
times nightly touch the scores !
of newspaper correspondents Wilson 1
was born at Evanston, Illinois, in j
188T>, is a graduate of Yale, took post- I
graduate work at Paris and began !
his career in business life at Chi.eago. |
His diplomatic life was inaugurated '
by serving as private secretary to the
American Minister in Portugal. Then
he became secretary successively at
Guatemala, Buenos Aires, Berlin.
Vienna, Berne and Tokyo. . In Japen
he was in close touch with the lead
ing Japanese of the day. including
Admiral Baron Saito. who is the chief
Japanese delegate to the conference
which opened today.
BAPTISTS WILL SEEK
FI ND OF $1,500,000 j
This To Be Distributed Among
Uhnrch’s Schools in State. Mere
dith Gets Millions.
Charlotte, June 20.—One million j
five hundred thousand dollars will be i
sought by the general board of the
j North Carolina Baptist convention in !
! the memorial fund campaign, it is an
j liouneed here. The general board at
! a recent meeting in Raleigh voted to
increase the sum authorized from
$600,000 to $1.5000,000.
j The fund is to be used for educa
tional institutions as follows;
Wake Forest college. $250.000;
'Meredith college, $1,000,000; Mars
Hill Junior college, $85,000; Wingate
Junior college. $60,000; Boiling
Springs high school. $40,000; Camp
bell college. $40,000; Chowan college,
$20,000.
The remainder will be used to de- !
fray expenses of the campaign.
:
THE STOCK MARKET
Speculators For Advance Regain Con
trol of the Price Movement.
New York. June 20.— UP) —Specula-j
tors for the advance regained control j
of the price movement in today's stock
market after an early period of irreg
ularity, but trading was rather dull on
the rally. Uncertainty over the
change in brokers loans last week, the
total of which will be made public by
the Federal Reserve Bank after the
close of the market, tended to keep
trading in check.
The close was firm Sales were 1,-
800,000 shares.
The early offerings were readily ab- I
sobbed by covering or scale down buy- ;
ing. which appeared to be partly for I
the trade. July rallied from 16.501
to 16.68, and Decefniber from 17.08 to j
17.27, or about 6 to 8 points net high
er. but later months were slow to fol
low the bulge.
Eastern Carolina to Back P. and N.
Extension Plans.
Goldsboro, June 10. Eastern
North Carolina is making plans to
day to add its voice to those urging
the granting of the application of
the Piedmont and Northern railway
for light to extend its lines to Win
ston-Salem. One hundred manufac
turers and dealers of the section will
be represented at the hearing before
the Interstate Commerce commission
examiner, which begins tomorrow in
Charlotte, by W. I>. Thornton. Jr., of
Wilson, secretary and traffic mana
ger of the Carolina Shippers asso
ciotion, incorporated.
pany. . ! '
The meetings of the Boards of City
Aldermen and County Commissioners
were called here Friday following the j
receipt of the report that officials of
the Piedmont and Northern Railway
Company had decided that the propos- 1
ed extension of its lines would not
come through Concord but would go
about six or seven miles west of the*
City.
The rumor circulated on the streets
of the City Friday was that the Rail
way officials had known for some
time that the route would not include
Concord and that they had not made \
any mention of it when represents-i
* t : ves of the officials held conferences \
■ here and urged individuals and enter- j
» prises to write letters to the Inter-
I state Commerce Commission urging
that the proposed extension be grant-
I ed on the grounds that it was neces
< sary to the growth of the community
l and would also be a convenience. Ov
er 100 such letters were sent from the
• City and County urging that the r;ght
- to make the extension be granted,
- the local pebple thinking that the
- lines would come through Concord.
GOV. RICHARDS IS
FIRST WITNESS AT
: P. 8 1 HEARING
Pointed Out the Advan
tages of the Completion
of the Electric Line to
the Two Carolinas.
STRONGLYURGED
THE EXTENSION
The Governor Says That
the Line Serves the Most
j Thickly Populated Sec
tion of the Two States.
Charlotte, June 20.—OP)—-The au
thority of the* Interstate Commerce
Commission to pass on the plans of
the proposed Piedmont & Northern
| Railway extension today was again
1 questioned when a hearing on the pro
! posal opened here.
| Hackell C. Davis, examiner, oon
i ducting the hearing, was informed at
| the opening by Mark W. Potter, of
i New Y'ork. representing the electric
| line, that jurisdictional questions
brought up in the case would not be
; waived by the company. He asserted
I that the proposed construction was not
j in the nature of new lines, but in-
I stead, a completion of lines already in
; operation.
Governor Richards, of South Caro
lina, was the first witness in the hear
ing which is expected to last a week
or more, with a final decision probably
several months distant. The Palmetto
State governor pointed out what he
said were the advantages of comple
tion of the Piedmont & Northern to
the two Carolinas, and asserted that
it was required “as a matter of pub
lic convenience and necessity.”
The governor said that the line
j serves the most thickly populated sec
j tions of the two states. He forecast
! a much more rapid development of
| the Piedmont section of South Caro
j lina if the lines are extended, and
j urged that tin* requested authority be
j granted.
“South Carolina is in the midst of
| its greatest industrial development,
and our i>eople will be greatly disap
pointed if the commission does not
permit the completion of the Piedmont
A Northern which will be a great fac
tor in promoting that development,”
said the governorin closing.
Governor Angus W. McLean, of
North Carolina, followed South
Carolina Chief Executive on the stand.
He told the examiner he was acting
in his official capacity, and that he
had no desire to antagonize the rail
roads opposing the petition.
The development in the section
j through which the electric line oper
j ates. the North Carolina governor said
! “has been phenomenal’* and comple
tion of the proposed extension in this
state will take traffic from existing
lines for a time, but he forecast that
the anticipated development' of the
territory would soon produce traffic
' that would more than counteract the
j loss.
“We must not think in terms of
the present." he said. Urging the
examiner to visualize the needs of
25 years hence “when this continuing
ami abounding development will have
had oportunity to go forward.”
Sam Blense. chairman of the South
Carolina railroad commission, advocat
ed the granting of the petition. He
said the freight traffic in South Caro
lina's piedmont section “already is
j great,” and that that section “is un
dergoing an intensive development"
! which makes imperative the comple
| tion of the electric lines so there will
! be a direct line from Winston-Salem,
to Greenwood. South Carolina.
The Piedmont and Northern and as
sociated interests. A. Maxwell
shaking for the North Carolina cor
poration Commission said, “have made
wonderful contributions to the sec
tions they serve.” Further indus
trial growth, he continued, “will be
stimulated by completion of the pro
posed extensions.”
Mr. Maxwell commended the ser
vice supplied by the Southern Railway
and declared the Corporation feels
that competition that would be afford
ed by the P. & N. completion would
“materially benefit and promote the
the development of the section.”
IDEAL WEATHER
GREETS THE GOLFERS
Southern Amateur Golf Players in
Special Match at Charlotte.
Charlotte. June 20.— <A>)— Ideal
weather conditions greeted southern
amateur golf players as they teed off
this morning in the special 18 hole pro
amateur match, preliminary to the an-
I nual tournament of the South Golf
Association.
Amateurs alone occupied the courts
this morning. The professionals will
* have the course to themselves this
afternoon. Because of this it will be
late this afternoon before any results
of the preliminary events wilj be avail-
I able.
) As the first amateurs teed off short
ily after 0 a. m. today only a
dozen or more persons were in the
I gallery. It was expected that this
I number would be greatly augmented
before noon, as admirers of the vari
ous players carrte out to watch their
favorites.
A total of 18 pro-amateur teams
* had been formed when the first teed
; off this morning. Managers of the
tournament said this would be aug
' mented before the last got away from
the No. 1 tee.
CONCORD, N. C„ MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1927
I : : ; Av
WILLIAM G. McADOO
Who will appear In the Hearing for
the Extension of the P. & N.
in Charlotte
PUBLISHERS WILL
MEET IN ATLANTA
Josephus Daniels to Make Address
At Southerners’ Convention.
Atlanta. Ga., June 20. —Newspaper
publishers from fourteen Southern
states will assemble here on July 4,
5 and 6 for the Southern Newspaper
Publishers Association convention.
A program touching all phases of
newspaper publication has been ar
ranged and elaborate entertainment j
features planned. I
Monday, July 4, has been designated
as “Editorial Day;” Tuesday, “Cir
culation and Mechanical Day,” ami
Wednesday, "Advertising Day.”
Josephus Daniels, publisher of the
Raleigh News and Observer, and form
er Secretary of the Navy, will speak
at memorial services Monday after
noon.
A golf tournament will be played
Tuesday with medal scores to count,
according to plans. Bobby Jones, win
ner of the Walker Cup last year,
and former national and open cham
pion, will be official referee.
John A. Park, publisher of the
Raleigh Times, president of the as
sociation. will preside over the busi
ness sessions.
NEGRO WOMAN IS
KILLED ON HIGHWAY
Husband and Child Hurt.—Hit By
Car Driven* by Sylvester Taylor.
Salisbury, June 20.—(A 3 )—The wife
of Ed Peeples, negro, was instantly
killed on the Salisbury-Mocksvilje
highway, several miles across the
er in Davie county last night. The
husband was painfully hurt and its in
a Salisbury Hospital, and one child of
the couple received minor injuries
and was taken to Cooleemee for treat
ment, this taking place when a large
roadster driven by Sylvester Taylor,
young white man of Salisbury, ran
into the party, the members of which
were walking along the highway on
their way home from night services as
a negro church nearby. Taylor was
arrested by Davie 5 county officers
shortly after the accident, and taken
to Mocksville to await a hearing.
Monument To War Heroes To
Be Unveiled on July Fourth
The Tribune Bureau
- Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, June 17. —Commemorating
the deathless deeds of North Carolina
heroes in three wars—the Cherokee
Indian war of 1761, the Revolutionary
war and the World war —the monu
ment which has been erected at Gill
espie Cap, near Little Switzerland by
the North Carolina historical commis
sion and others will be formally dedi
cated and unveiled on July 4th, at
what is expected to be one of the big
gest celebrations ever held in western
North Carolina.
After devoting months to the formu
lation of the program, the complete
roster of the day's events was made
public today by Justice Heriot Clark
son, of the Supreme court, who has
been the motivating spirit back of
the erection of the monument and in
the planning of the exercises which
will attend its unveiling. The bronze
tablet, sunk in the face of the monu
ment, and which tells the dramatic
story of the state’s heroes in three
wars, was donated by Mr. and Mrs.
W. C. Niven.
The exercises attendant to the dedi
cation and unveiling of the monument
will open promptly at 11 o’clock on
the morning of July 4th and will be
completed in sufficient time to allow
the thousands of people who are ex
pected to be present to enjoy their
basket dinners by noon. There will
be but two speakers, former Governor
Cameron Morrison, who will speak
on “The Heroes of King’s Mountain,”
and General John Van B. Metts, ad
jutant- general of the State, who will
speak on “The Accredited Fact”—fthd
tell how the Thirtieth division, made
up of North and South Carolina and
Tennessee troops broke the Hinden
burgh line in the World war.
The guests of honor will include
Governor A. W. McLean and all the
State officials, the members of the
State historical commission, old sol
diers of all wars, and the members
of ftll the various patriotic and his
torical societies, members of the State
Supreme court, the general assembly
United States senator, congressraei
and district judges. The public is
also invited.
The monument proper, built of na
tive mountain stone, is ten feet square
at the base and 25 feet high, and ii
located on a plot of land 70 fee'
square on the line between Mitchel
and McDowell counties. The plo
SHOEvS SELL AT SI,OOO
IN PARISIAN SHOP
Paris. June 20.— UP) —Rumors
that an exclusive snoe designer
recently sold a pair of shoes for
25.0JM) francs or SI,OOO are caus
ing squeals of astonishment in the
dress world.
The shoes, said to have been
purchased for a foreign client, had
heels of real gold with a rich en
crustation of semi precious stones.
Paris quotes this as tin* highest
price paid for shc.es without prec
ious stones on them.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Lower. But Later Rallied
Buying on Rains or Shower Re
ports.*
New York, June 20. — (A*) —The cot
ton market opened easy today at a
decline of 5 to 9 points under liquida
tion and local or southern selling, ap
parently inspired by relatively easy
Liverpool cables.
* Some buying on rain or shower rfc
ports from the South rallied prices
back to about Saturday’s closing quo
tations, but offerings increased on the
bulge, and liquidation of July con
tracts seemed to have rather an un
settling effect on sentiment.
July sold off to 16.50, a net decline
of 12 points: while December declined j
from 17.19 to 17.08. or 11 points net
lower, but the end of the first hour.
Cotton futures opened easy: July
16.55; Oct. 16.92; Dec. 17.12; .Tan.
: 17.19; March 17.68.
|
FOUR INJURED TODAY
IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH
Driver Had Fallen Asleep, and Ma
chine Crashed Into a Tree.
Raleigh, June 20. — (.A*) —Four per
sons were injured, one seriously, early
this morning when the automobile in
which they were riding crashed into
a tree on the Raleigh-Smithfield high
way, at Auburn 10 miles from here.
Miss Nannie Riggs, a business col
lege student here, was seriously injur
ed, while W. R. Trull. Miss Sina Riggs
and Chauncey M. Jones, all of Ral
eigh, suffered cuts and bruises.
Jones said that Trull, driving, had
fallen asleep on the long week-end
trip home from the Bayboro section.
DR. HICKS CHARGED
WITH SHOOTING YOUTH
Case at Hickory is Continued Until
Next Friday Morning.
Hickory, June 20.— (A 3 ) —Dr. F. B.
Hicks, prominent dentist of this city,
fwas brought (before Judge W. 8.-fUoun
cil 'in Hickory recorder's court fhirf”
morning, on a charge <rf shooting and
slightly wounding Everett W. - Fin
cannon an Oakland Heights youth,
last Saturday night.
The case, however, was continued
until Friday morning.
The particularly brilliant shade *.f
red paint which decorates the store
fronts of the oldest and largest sys
tem of chain grocery stores was the
distinguishing feature of the original
store of this system, which was open
ed in New York City nearly seventy
years ago.
was donated to the historical commis
sion and the State by J. Qunice Gil
; key, D. E. Hudgins, George W. Cbap
i man and Ed. Ballew. The bronze tab
? let bearing the inscription telling of
r the noble deeds which the monument
- commemorates, is sunk in the side
-of the stone shaft.
The inscription on the tablet is as
" follows;
' “On Friday, September 29, 1780,
a large part of the American army
passed this spot* under commande of
1 Colonels William Campbell, Isaac
Shelby and John Sevier, on their
■ march to the Battle of King's Moun
-1 tain, where the British and Tory
1 forces, numbering 1,187, on top of the
■ mountain under Colonel Patrick Fer
* guson, were killed and captured and
t their leader slain on October 7, 1789.
1 The American volunteer patriots, un
-1 der Colonel William Campbell, Ben*
i jamin Cleveland, Isaac Shelby, John
■ Sevier, Joseph McDowell, Edward
c Lacy, James Williams, Samuel' Ham
s mond, Joseph Winston, Frederick
* Hambright and other daring leaders
in the war for American independence
' surrounded and went up the mountain
t and thus defeated the British and
1 ' Tories. With the defeat of King’s
; Mountain began the downfall of Brit-
v ,j ish rulfc in America.
"' “The only regiment intact in the
j Carolinas, eas of King’s Mountain at
this time was the ‘Marion Bridage’,
l i famous in song and story, commanded
„ by General Francis Marion. In the
war with the Cherokee Indians in
j 1861, 30 men under the command
! of Marion, were sent to dislodge the
J 1 Indians at Etchoe Pass, so the main
army could go through. Twenty-one
I men under Marion were killed by the
l ' first fire of the Indians. Marion was
unhurt. The heroism of the early
e patriots should never be forgotten.
e i The conduct of Marion and his men
e ] at Etchee Pass almost equaled the
* heroism of Leonidas and his brave
* band of Spartans at the Pass of Ther
mopylae.
e “The highway leading to Marion is
,j named in his honor —Etchoe Pass,
is i “It was the North and South Caro-
I lina and Tennessee troops (30th di
i-! vision) in the World war that broke
•e ! the Hindenburg lin£.
is i “Erected by the North Carolina His
*t I torical Commission and Heriot Clark-
II | son, W. C. Niven and Reid Queen,
>t committee.” «
CHAMBERLIN AND
LEVINE ARE GUESTS
Os AUSTRIAN PEOPLE
Completed Fortnight Stay
on German Soil After
Their Momentous Trans-
Atlantic Flight.
THOUSANDS WERE
READY FOR THEM
When Order Was Partially
Restored Someone Came
Forward and Offered a
Stein of Beer.
Vienna, June 20.— UP) —Having
completed n fortnight's stay on Ger
man soil after their momentous trans
ocean flight from New York. Clarence
I). Chamberlin and Chas. A. Levine
were guests today of the Austrian
government.
I "Guten Tag wien” (God day, Vien
na). with these words Chamberlin
greeted the Austrians when he and
Levine stepped from their plane Co
lumbia on their arrival from Munich
last night. Notwithstanding a pour
ing rain, thousands of Viennese were
gathered at the Aspern air field to
greet the Americans who were imme
diately surrounded and carried on
the shoulders of admirers. Wives
came a few minutes later as passen
gers in one of the half dozen escort
ing planes.
After shaking hands with cabinet
ministers and other officials the party
was driven around the field through
dense crowds, the band meanwhile
playing the American anthem.
When a semblance of order was re
store and a path made for the ma
chine someone stepped forward and
offered the flyers a stein of beer.
It was the second great welcome of
the day, for when they arrived at
Munich from Berlin in the afternoon
all of Bavaria apparently had turned
out in their honor.
WILD NEGRO DRIVER
INJURES FOUR PEOPLE
Victims in Critical Condition. —Ac-
cident Occurred Near Clyde Sunday-
Night.
Asheville, June 20.—0 P) —Four per-,
sons were in critical conditions 'sif
Asheville hospitals today, the victims
of the wild driving of a negro on the
Waynesville highway near Clyde last
night. Three others were in hos
pitals severely injured and at least
five others were recovering from minor
wounds.
The accident occurred at 9 o’clock
last night when the automobile driven
by Julius Whitmire, 17-year-old Can
ton negro, plunged into a crowd of
fifty persons assembled on the highway
to watch a wrecker pull on automo
bile from a ditch.
Whitmire and his two male com
panions in the automobile are in Bun
combe county jail held for Haywood
county authorities, who Sunday night
rushed the men to Asheville when
they learned a mob of more than fifty
men had formed in Clyde.
Will Farmers Take Worm? Borah
Asks.
Washington, June 20. —In further
comment on President Coolidge catch
ing trout in the Black Hills of South
Dakota with worm bait, Senator Bor
ah, Republican, Idaho/ declared today
that the questiob now was whether
the farmers also will take the w r orru.
“It is evident that the fish have
taken the worm,” he said. “The ques
tion now is will Ae farmers take it.”
“ THE STOCK MARKET
* Reported by Fennere & Beane
(Quotations at 1:30 P. M.)
Atchison 179
American Tobacco B 135
American Smelting 150%
American Locomotive llO%
Atlantic Coast Line lB5
Allied Chemical 141
American T. & T.
American Can 53%
Baldwin Locomotive 226%
Baltimore & Ohio llB%
American Brown 12%
Bethlehem Steel 50%
Chesapeake & Ohio lB3
Corn Products 54%
Chrysler __ 40
Coca-Cola 11 6%
DuPont
Erie 52%;
Fleishman j.*_ * 40
Frisco __ U 5
General Motors
General Electric 103%
Gold Dust 55%
Hudson
Int. Tel. 138
Kennecott Copper 62%
Lorillard 32
Liggett & Myers B 118%
Mack Track 117%
Mo.-Paeific Pfd. 107%
Mo.-Pacific 57%
Norfolk & Western— 184
Stand. Oil of N. Y.
New York Central 153%
Pan American B 59%
Producers Refiners 20%
Rock Island 116
R. J. Reynolds 136%
i Seaboard Air Line 37%
Southern-Pacific ll6
Stand. Oil of N. J. 36%
Southern Railway 126%
Studebaker 50%
Texas Co. 47%
Tobacco Products 100%
■ U. S. Steel 121
■ Vick Chemical 50%
, Westinghouse 122%
| Western Md. 61%
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
Nations Open Battle Os
Peace A* r enevaT oday
NEED FOR P
SCHOOL Estate
Need for Schools
and How to Provide Them.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERYILL.
Raleigh, June 20.—A question that
is likely to become the chief issue in
j the 11>20 general assembly—the ques
tion of additional normal schools, and
how to provide them—is to he the
dominant prolblein that is to be dis
cussed in the annual conference on
Elementary Education, to be held in
Chapel Hill July 14 and la, under
the auspices of the State Department
of Public instruction.
For while all phases of elementary
instruction will toe considered, the
major part of_ the program will be
given over to a discussion of the suit
ply and demand for trained teachers.
And this discussion will focus atten
tion upon the present exceedingly in
adequate teacher-training facilities in
the state, and bring to a crux the
necessity for expanding the normal
schools of the state if the in-state out
put of teachers is to keep pace at all
with the demaud.
But esjiecially is there a need for
better trained elementary teachers in
the schools of the state, and it is for
the purpose of discussing the problem
of how to obtain and to make plans
for a more adequate supply, that the
conference on elementary education
is held each year. But it is expected
to have more signiticance this year
than ever before, largely because of the
report of the State Educational Com
mission, calling attention to the great
lack of teacher training facilities in
the state, and its recommendations
that these existing faciliies be en
larged.
All of which means that the next
general assembly not only will -be call
ed upon to materially increase the
appropriations for existing normal
and teacher training schools, but will
also be called upon to set up one or
more new normal schools. Which in
turn _ will mean considerable local
competition on the parts of sections
and cities to secure the new schools.
Te Educational Commissin, in its
report dealing with teacher supply
and demand, set forth two major
principles.
First, that any year in a child’s
life should be considered as equally
important as any other year, and that
hence a child of six years <rf age
! deserves an etficietintly trained teach
er just as much as the Child of 14
years of age.
Second, that although the high
school teacher must be specialized in
one or two subjects that are iierhups
more difficult than the subjects taught
in the elementary schools, the ele
mentary teacher, on the other hand,
must have a more highly diversified
training.
But with 22.641 teaching positions
open in the state in 11126, and with
the annual supply of teachers froiq
all the state institutions amounting to
but approximately 1,000 annually,
both white and colored, and state can
not possiblely hope to keep up with
the growing demand for additional
teachers, unless it greatly expends its
present institutions, and provides new
ones.
In making a survey of the teacher
needs in the state from 1025, to 1050,
the rejmrt of the Educational Com
mission says:
“At the present time the annual
output of the in-state institutions is
approximately 000 white elementary
teachers, and about 750 white high
school teachers. Their training var
ies all the way from one to four years
of college work. *
“If the (present supply figures are
maintained, by 1930 the supply of
white elementary teachers trained in
in-state institutions would toe only 25
per cent of the demand and toy 1050
only approximately 21 per cent of the
demand. If the present supply of
white high school teachers is merely
maintained, the supply would be only
88 per cent of the demand by 1030,
and but 47 per cent of the damnd by
1050.” %
The figures for the negro race are
equally illiminating, and show even
a greater deficiency.
The commission, in summing up its
findings, came to the conclusion that
the untrained teacher is costly, and
inefficient; that the teaching standard
must toe raised, that the well trained
teacher cannot afford to work on a
six months basis, and that existing in
stitutions for training teachers are
“insufficient to meet the demand.’’
All of which means that the next
general assembly will have more to
think about than a larger equaliza
tion fund, or even an eight months
school term.
In China there is only one quali
fied doctor to every 740,000 in
habitants.
[ CAN YOU SCORE
TEN ON THESE? |
1— Name the Minnesota city where
Captain Lindbergh was reared.
2 Who was Fitzhugh Lee?
3 What office did he hold during
the first McKinley administration?
4.—What happened in Havana bar
during Lee's term of office?
5 What followed?
6 Who invented the typewriter?
7 How many thundershowers oc
cur daily on the earth?
8— What is the most thundery reg
ion of the earth?
9 Where is thunder rarely or nev
er heard?
10— What is Absolute Zero?
NO. 104
America, England and Ja
pan Open Discussion on
, Naval Disarmanent at
Geneva.
OTHER COUNTRIES
WATCHING MOVE
i Extension of 5-5-3 Princi«
pie of Naval Strength
Proposed Today to the
3-Powers Conferem*#,
Geneva, June 20.—04*)—Extension
of the 5-5-3 principle of naval streugttl
to cruisers, destroyers and submarines
of the United States. Great Britain
and Japan was proposed today to the
three-powers naval limitations confer
ence by the American delegation.
Opening the conference, called hy
President Coolidge, Ambassador Hugh
Gibson, the chairman, proposed th[*t
vruisers be limited to tonnage of 250,-
. 000 or 300.000 tons for the United
Staten and Great Britain, and 150,000
or 180,000 tons for Japan.
Destroyer total tonnage would bp
restricted to 200,000 or 250.000 tons
for the two lurger powers, and to 120,■»
(MX) and 150.(XK) for Japan.
Maximum tonnage for American and
British submarines would be 60,000 to
90,000 tons, with 36,0(H) to 54,000 ton*
fixed for Japan.
Gibson presented his proposals af
ter a brief address in which he pre
sented an expression of gratitude to
the powers from President Goolidg#
and declared that “the United State*
is prepared to accept a general prp«
gram providing for as low a total ton,
nage’’ as acceptable to the other pow
ers. *
He expressed regret that France and
Italy were not active participant* iu
the conference, and urged Jaimu and
Great Britain who with the United
States are the powers “which now lead
in naval armaments” to assue “all
responsibility for initiating further
naval limitation.” “If we are not
prepared to limit,” he said, “we could
not expect others to do so.”
It was understood that under the
Gibson proposal the United States
would be obliged to scrap approxi
mately 62.000 tons of cruisers and
destroyers, mostly of the latter class,
and 80,(MM) tons additional upon com
pletion. of cruisers now building.
Old shijw virtually obsolete, of
which the American navy has many,
would be scrapped to make room for
the new ones. ,
Under the plan it was expected that
Great Britain if she completes present
building program would scrap approx
imately 58,(MK) tons of cruisers and
Japan 40.000.
While neither Japan nor Great
Britain would be required to scrap
submarines under the proposal, the
United States would have an excel*
of about 3.800 of the submersible* to
be scrapped.
THE FLOODS IN ARKANSAS
Waters Now Within Two Feet of the
Highest Stage of First Flood.
New Orleans, June 17.— (A*)— The
continued rise of water in the Little
River section of Arkansas has brought
the level to within two feet of the
highest stage of the first flood, re
ports from Blytheville, Adk., to the gen
eral floor relief headquarters of the
Red Cross said here today.
Reports from Vicksburg also said
that the new rise was bringing about
a serious situation at Tallulah, La.,
where relief forces were considering
the establishment of a concentration
cainp to which they would withdraw
Marison parish refugees from Vicks
burg. Delhi and levee camps.
Water was reported receding in
Lake county, Tennessee, and replant
ing was again proceeding in sections
of that area. In the neighborhood of
Hickman, Ky„ however, the flood still
covered all farm lands and most of
the homes.
Drunken Driver Held For Deaths.
Asheville, X. C., June 19.—Two
or three persons were killed and
about fifteen injured on a highway
near Clyde, Haywood county,, tonight
when an automobile driven by a
drunk negro swept through a crowd
of more than 1(M) men. women and
children, according to meager reports
received from Canton tonight. The
npgro, according to available infor
mation has been apprehended and is
being held in the town jail at Can
ton. but owing to feeling in tbs
community he likely will be rushed
to Buncombe County for safe keep
ing.
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You can get all your vacation needs
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i ad. today.
It
m™
Fair tonight and Tuesday, except
. possibly showers in extreme west por
j tion. Fresh . northwest and north
! winds.