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■■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. With Our Advertisers, Extra special in cane panel and : bow-end beds at Bell & Harris Fur i niture Co. See ad. j Every boy wants an Iver-Johnson I bicyc’e. You can get one at the I Ritchie-Hardware Co. for a small pay > inent down, on weekly payments. You can get all your vacation needs at very low prices at Belk's Depart ment Store. See illustrations in new i ad. today. It m™ Fair tonight and Tuesday, except . possibly showers in extreme west por j tion. Fresh . northwest and north ! winds.