ME L, i
(IfflttD
iIURT WHEH
I SHIPS CRASH
i rprrv Boat Col-
Jsvdney Harbor-
V a d Bodies Have
Discovered
® o ve?the BOAT
Manv Childrens,
Water.
V«r South Wales, Nov. 8.
' , L» nine persons were
“ ] t Bniish liner Tahiti
*Y« crowded ferry boat in
L todav. while fears were
the number of dead
** fifteen.
tons, passed over
£ which sank within three
cloud of steam,
« peU* including many
Siren, struggling in the
* had been recovered tills
find search was continuing
Jr eight others missing,
firch the hull of the
V% it is lean* that
Jens «?re trapped in the cab
tms thirty persons in a
were taken to the
|AP<% SE4SON TO
OPEN IN' DECEMBER
p Be Offered One Month
(Han Usual This Year.
The Tribune Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
* Nor. B.—Craving of Tar
indents of other states for
eonsidered one of the sea-
Etcies, will be appeased one
fijer than previously planned
Kuoha- opening being set
Ktr 1, according to an an
it today by C’apt. J. A. Nel
pm Commissioner.
Bi{ of the season for one
m authorized by Cnpt Nel
if g. Worthy, chairman of
on commercial fisheries,
i* coder special authority
ird to suspend the operation
ct r.d.uona warrant
ni Core Sounds in Carteret
!B one of the only three large
producing centers in the
Stites, the others being Long
ted and Virginia waters,
ij ia Long Island sound is
iirery limited this year, and
hi season does not open un
ary 1, This will leave North
waters furnishing the bulk
n&ops supply, at least for a
to surveys of the escallop
hthe North Carolina waters,
iy is more abundant than for
E* opening of the season in
1 siade possible because of
ircpjly and it is expected to
i benefit to the industry,
tested by Captain Nelson
Kmate’.p 2,000 men and
c« Knployed in the escallop
which is one of the most
Son die coast.
ft! SLASH OF
AT LEAST $400,000,000
Chamber of Commerce
fomnittee to Make Big Cut.
#». Nov. I.—OP)—With
•oendation of the Treasury
& reduction bo held to a
"" maximum before them,
{ f the House ways and
toittee vrero urged today by
•i States Ohamber of Com
tote a tSx slash of about
K- Mt'Coll. speaking for the
S6 ;d that "it is common
1 at in reeent years the
I^us baa greatly exceeded
ltd,’’
*®nltaneously with his ap
® the witness stand Itepre
r!W. of Texas, ranking
011 the comm it tee, issued a
totalling thf* Treasury for
its forecasts of sur-"
wvocating a reduction of
if® from IP, 1-2 per
Pfr o-nt. or possibly 10
shad of the 12 per cent,
’secretary Mellon.
USED IN
Major of'eration
T\l Repl;u ' PS Anestehtic in
Ijj Jn ? Wou.an in Chicago
i N’or 9 tr
id i n r i “'"Hypnotism has
? f hn anesthetic
ft HoJu7 i< :ii 'dotation at
«°;'pital here.
Hta n on a
dij f B S r ? be removal of
* abdomen, and was
Utml C ' vas under
Sber 0 » ”|° re th;:n an hour.
!% .l r ie v Luke’s staff
N to »;' rt t|l,e operation
55port s J VP asserting
*ouH T IS s< ‘ iontific and
*toHa]„ prepared for
avsooiations.
at Delk’s.
" r, ‘ is nfferin *
-e new
whos f ,IPn ' Jersey
’% s j!' 1 -' tdor.mer? and
•rices lower
ctnany’s half
[*Qtf r f "
i L'Ch roof of
s rhandeli er
v human bonaa.
THE CONCORD TIMES
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
CHARLOTTE RANKS
WITH THE LEADER
IN AUTO BUYING
Fort Worth, Texas, Nov. 3
(A*) —Fort Worth has a greater
purchasing power for automobiles
than any city in the South with
the exception of Atlanta and Char
lotte, N. C., it was revealed today
by statistics gathered by Matthew
F. Crowe, of Atlanta.
Crowe, with assistants, is con
ducting a survey of Fort Worth on
the number of persons owning au
tomobiles.
MRS. GRAYSON MAY
ENLARGE HER PLANS
J
She May Try Four-Continent
Flight Some Time* During
Next Summer.
Old Orchard, Me., Nov. B.— (A 3 )
■—T* l ® “ more ambitious project”
which Mrs. Frances Grayson said
she was considering at her pres
ent Long Island headquarters was
believed here to be a four-donti
- nent flight During her three
weeks stay here wfiile engaged in
an attempted flight to Denmark,
it became known that she con
templated such a tour.
It was learned that she was
endeavoring to obtain the services
of Bernt Balchen as pilot for an
expedition next summer which
would have a program similar to
that carried out by De Pinedo, the
Italian aviator This would in
' volve crossing ‘of the North At
lantic, a flight to Africa, then
across the South Atlantic and
north to the starting point in the
United States.
REPORTS ARE HEARD
AT CONFERENCE
Western N. C. Conference oL-M. E.
Church, South. Opens at Asheville.
—-Much Progress.
Asheville, Nov. 2.—Featuring the
opening cession of the Western North
Carolina Conference, Methodist Epis
copal Church South, in Central Church
this morning was the address of
Bishop E. D. Mouzon; reports of the
eleven presiding elders; the superan
nuation of eight ministers who have
heretofore been on the effective; the
introduction of visitors to conference
and reports from the preachefs of the
Asheville and Charlotte districts.
Promptly at nine o’clock Bishop
Mouzon called the conference to order,
and his prayer followed.
The Bishop announced that the
morning talks during the conference
would be based upon .the book of
Mark. He said that it is only in recent
years that this hook had come into
its own high position among the
gospels.
At this point Bishop Mouzon took
a fling at some newspaper reporters
who had been prophesying that be
would bring some “giraffes” into this
conference from other sections of the
church to fill some of the leading ap
pointments. He declared that some of
the reporters seemed to treat the con
ference as a political convention, and
emphasized the fact that there are
enough capable men in North Carolina
to take care of any pulpit in the State.
Immediately after his address the
Bishop asked that Rev. W. L. Sher
rill, the veteran secretary of the con
ference, call the roll. This was the
thirty-third time that Mr. Sherrill
had performed that duty. More than
three hundred ministers answered to
their names at the first call and nearly
a hundred lay delegates.
Mr. Sherrill was unanimously elect
ed for the thirty-fourth time as secre
tary of the conference. He nominated
as his assistants Revs. E. P. Billups,
W. F. Sanford, W. G. McFraland, and
E. M. Jones.
Rev. D. M. Litaker, for the pre
siding elders nominated the standing
committees who are to serve during
the session of conference and also
vacancies In the various boards.
Rev. M. T. Plyler, the new, business
manager of the North Carolina Chris
tian Advocate; Dr. J. W. Johnson,
representative of the general board of
church extension, Louisville, Ky.;
T. R. Wolfe, of the Holston Confer
ence, were introduced to the confer
ence by the Bishop. •
Rev. Z. Paris, presiding elder of
the Salisbury district stated that this
had been a year of progress within his
district. Many of the chargee had paid
all claims in full, new churches had
been erected and several hundred ad
ditions to the church had been made.
Bishop Mouzon called the names of
all preachers who have been in the
supernumerary and superannaute rela
tions, their charters were passed and
their names referred for the same re
lation. These are: J. P. Nicholson and
A. H. Whisner for the supernumerary
relation, and for the superannaute, D.
Atkins, W. M. Boring, J. J. Brooks,
A J. Burrus, J. J. Gray, S. S. Hig
gins, G. A. B. Holderby, R. M. Hoyle,
A. W. Jacobs, J. Bong, N. M. Modlin,
J. C. Postelle, D. V. Price, W. F.
Sanford, Albert Sherrill, C. F. Sher
rill, R. D. Sherrill, J. T. Stover, J.
W. Strider, J. L. Teague, J. E.
Thompson, M. H. Tuttle, M. H. Vestal,
T. E. Wagg, E. K. Whidden and B. A.
York.
FIVE ASHEVILLE PEOPLE
TO SHARE IN ESTATE
Will Get Part of Money Left by
Thomas Robinson Who Left Estate
of About $175,000.
Santa Anna, Cal., Nov. 3. UPi
When the $175,000 estate of the late
Thomas Robinson, of Newport Beach,
near here, is divided under court order
tomorrow, five residents of Asheville,
X. C., are expected to share in the
money.
Robinson’s body was found several
months ago at the beach where he had
been employed as an inspector. In
vestigation of his death indicated sui
cide.*
Miss E. C. Bennison, Mrs. C. C #
Meriwether, Mrs. C. T. Randolph and
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Barrier, aU of
Asheville, N*. C., are heirs to the es
tate.
COLONEL GOEBEL IS
PUNNING 1 TRIP
ACROSS THE OCEAN
Says He Will Be Guided by
Radio Beacons Such as
Aided Him so Much in
Flight Across the Pacific
MENTIONED AS
GRAYSON PILOT
He Discusses His Plans at
Banquet and Stresses the
Importance of the Radio
Beacons For Fliers.
&ew York, Nov 3.—OP)—While
Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson’s am
phibian monoplane Dawn waited for
a pilot to guide it on its fourth start
for Copenhagen, a new entry in the
trans-Atlantic air adventure appeared'
in the person of Colonel Arthur C.
Goebel, winner of the Dole derby from
California to Honolulu.
Colonel Goebel, who had been men
tioned as a possible pilot for the
Dawn, told a banker’s club luncheon
of his plan to fly to Europe in a
multi-motored plane to be directed by
radio beacons, located along his route,
possibly in New Foundland and Ire
land. He said the plane would car
ry two or three engines, and be built
according to his own designs.
Ascribing the success of his Pa
cific flight to the help of radio beac
ons, Colonel Goebel said the latest
improvements in this regard would be
placed at his disposal by Captain Ed
wards, director of signal corps opera
tions at Wright Field, Dayton. He
is seeking to obtain the services of
Lieutenant Slattery of the naval air
station at Hampton Roads as navi
gator.
THRIFTY YOUTH GETS
SENTENCE REVOKED
Tells Judge He Slept in Subway to
Save Rent.—Added Savings to His
Bank Account.
New York, Nov.^2. —Young James
Moore’s story of sleeping ,in a sub
way station because he was thrifty
and wanted to save room rent satisfied
three judges of the appelate court to
day and Moore will not have to com
plete a theee months’ term in the
workhouse.
Moore, 19 years old, was arrested
as he slept on a bench in the 181st
street 'subway- wtMtiete. He-aafd he
had worked aa a cement mixer by day
and a dish washer by night, sleeping
in subway stations to save room rent,
and adding his savings to a bank ac
count of S6OO. Publication of his sen
tence brought a reputed wealthy man
to his aid and the youth was released
on bail.
The three justices of the appelate
division ruled that the magistrate’s
sentence of three months was ex
cessive.
Believe BooTleggers Kidnapped Boy.
(By International News Service)
Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 3.—Police of
two states were today seeking a local
vendor of illicit liquors for the al
leged kidnapping of Billy Galbreath,
14, who was said to have been lured
away by stories of easy money in
the rum running “business” by the
bootlegger.
J. P. Atkinson, stepfather of the
boy, appealed to local police for their
assistance in apprehending the ali
leged kidnapper, whose identity was
not made public.
Polish Diet Dissolved.
Warsaw, Nov. 2.— OP) —The Pol
ish diet and senate were dissolved to
day by Vice Premier Bartel amidst
a great uproar, to prevent the oppo
sition from airing its dissatisfaction
with the government policies.
THE STOCK MARKET
Reported By Fenner & Beane.
(Quotations at 1:30 P. M.)
Atchison
American Can 174%
Allied Chemical ll7
American Smelting 1G3%
American Tel. & Tel. l7o^
Atlantic Coasb Line lBB%
Baldwin Locomotive 256
Baltimore & Ohio 117%
Bethlehem Steel 51%
Chesapeake & Ohio 209%
Chrysler 54%
Corn Products 59
New York Central 161%
Dupont -- 309%
Erie 62%
Fleishman ( 67
St. Louis-Francis. RR. 109%
General Electric __ 126%
Gold Dust __ 66%
General Motors 130%
Gen. Ry. Signal llB
Houston Oil 144%
Hudson Motors 67%
Mo.-Kansas & Texas 41%
Kennecott Copper 75
Kans. City Sou. Ry. 59%
Liggett & Myers 120%
Lorillard 36%
Mack Truck l6O
Mo.-Pacific Pfd. 52%
Montgomery Ward B3
Nash Motors 84%
Packard Motors 4B
Phillips Pete 42%
Producers and Refiners 27%
Reading RR. 105%
“B” Rey. Tob. Co. 148
Rock Island RR. 104%
Sears Roebuck 74%
Southern Ry. 137
Std. Oil of N. J. 40
Sou. Pac. RR. 120^6
Studebaker Corp. 55%
Tobacco Products 99%
Union Carbine 134%
Vicks Chemical 56%
Wabash RR. 64%
Westinghouse Elecfl. So. 80%
West. Myrd. RR. 46%
Yellow Cab and Truck 28%
Woolworth lBl%
U. S. Steel 135
Oca-Cola 122
CONCORD, N, C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1927.
Kansan throws his hat in ring
j|j^
Ek ||j|
BhHbHbl BBiiw
f HHjßllia. jjS
Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas is the first of the
dark horses to come out in the open and announce his presi
dential aspirations, Curtis has served in the Senate since 1907*
Tension in Woman’s Club of
Raleigh Due To Grow Tighter
The Tribune Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Nov. 3. —The tension be
tween the two groups in the Raleigh
Women’s Club is due to grow even
tighter this afternoon when the regular
club members meet to hear the state
Federation president, Mrs. Thomas
O’Berry of Goldsboro, and a General
Federation director, discuss the pres
ent method of club government, and
the relationship of individual clubs to
the State and National Federations.
Tomorrow night another meeting will
be held of club women —but not in
any way sponsored by the Raleigh
Women’s club as a dub—at which the.
legislative policies of the National
General Federation will be discussed,
as well as the question of local self
government for individual clubs.
A division amounting almost to an
open ruction hae existed in the Ral
eigh club for some time, and lately has
developed decided feeling among some
of the members with regard to the
present form of government in the
dubs affiliated with the General
Federation, and with regard t<* the
legislative policies A of the General
Federation.
The loyal club members, who are
in agreement with the General Federa
tion, maintain that unless all the
clubs affiliated with the federation en
dorse its policies and program entire
ly and work for these as clubs, that
the efficacy of the Federation, as
far as being a medium for the expres
sion of the 3,000,000 women in the
confederated clubs is concerned, would
be destroyed. In other words, a house
divided against itself cannot stand, so
neither can the General Federation
stand, unless it has the support of all
the associated clubs.
Consequently Mrs. John Sherman,
president of the national Federation,
ruled that clubs as clubs may not
work in active opposition to the poli
cies as laid down by the various clubs
through the various State Federations,
and finally through the National body,
but held that individual members were
in no sense bound by the action of the
SAYS THE METHODIST
CHURCH DEMOCRATIC
More So Than the United States Gov
ernment, Says Bishop Mouzon.
Asheville, Nov. 3. —G4 3 )—The Meth
odist Episcopal Church Soikh. is. a
more democratic institution than the
government of the United States,
Bishop Edwin D. Mouson of Charlotte,
declared here today, speaking to the
700 ministers and laymen assembled
for the annual Western North Caro
lina Conference.
“There is nothing autocratic about
the Methodist Church,” the minister
declared. “It is more democratic* than
the United States government. W-hat
have you to do with selecting the
President of the United States, or even
a governor of North Carolina? Why,
you say ‘after he is nominated I vote.’
Yes, after he’s nominated.”
There is a freedom about the Meth
odist church, the Bishop said. Preach
ers and laymen come in of their own
free will and accord, and they, are
privileged to go out the samo way.
“Wherein is this autocratic?” he ask
ed.
Wrecked Train to Have Some Fun.
Walnut Ridge, Ark., Nov. 3. —“We
wanted some excitement. We just
wanted to see what would happen if
we wrecked the train.”
This statement was made by Theo
dore White, 17, of Hoxie, Ark., fol
lowing his arrest on a charge of at
tempting to wreck the crack Kansas
City-Florida special, according to rail
road detectives.
The pair, it appeared, said detec
tives, were trying to re-enact a mo
tion picture thriller seen at a local
theater.'
The sheep population of Ashe coun
ty has been increased 33 per cent dur
ing the past year and the animals are
high in price and hard to buy.
club, and that individuals might take
any course they might choose —but
only as individuals.
And this ruling by Mrs. Sherman
was sustained by approximately all
of the 2,000 women delegates to the'
convention, only 13 votes being cast
against the ruling.
However, there is a dissenting
minority, "both in the Raleigh club and
in others, who believe that a« a re
sult of this ruling that the General
Federation is assuming a too dictorial
attitude towiyd the individual clubs,
and through it is trying to coerce them
into supporting policies, and especial
ly legislation, to many of the in
dividual members of the clubs are op
posed. They also feel that because of
this ruling, those who oppose theee
principles are being denied the privilege
of studying them and expressing them
selves freely—within the club, at
least. This minority, however, does not
contend at all that the clubs should
oppose these things as clubs, they
maintain.
It Is the minority in the Raleigh
club that is sponsoring the meeting
here Friday night at which Mrs. At
wood R. Marti®, of the Louisville Club,
which was expelled from Kentucky
State Federation, and later from the
General Federation, because of it»
active opposition to the policies of
these organizations, will speak.. This
minority in the Raleigh club insists
that it in no sense desires to forment
factionalism or to oppose the main
tenents and polices of the state or na
tional Federations, but that they as
individual members want to hear both
sides of the question.
Consequently it appears that as a
result of all that has transpired mem
bers of the club, generally, both
minority and majority, are going to
have a great deal more information
given them today and tomorrow on
these topics than ever before. It also
appears that what threatened at first
to become a permanent rupture in the
ranks of the club may be cemented to
gether again as a result of a better
common understanding of the true
state of affair^.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Steady Today at an Advance
of 2 Points to Decline of 8 Points
New York, Nov. 3. — UP) —The cot
ton market opened steady today at
an advance of 2 points to a decline
of 8 points. Buying was reported on
unfavorable weather in the south
west, and relatively steady Liverpool
cables, but the volume of demand
seemed to disappoint holders of con
tracts, and there was considerable
realizing.
Prices eased off, December selling
down to 20.67 and March to 20.88, or
about 19 to 29 points net lower, and
the market was rather irregular in
the early trading.
The market became quiet later. The
disposition to take profits on recent
purchases was probably increased to
some extent by unfavorable trade re
ports from Manchester, and the easier
ruling ofthe later Liverpool cables.
Offerings were comparatively light,
however, and were well enough ab
sorbed on declines of some 18 to 22
points, to give the market a fairly
steady undertone. At midday Decem
ber was selling around 20:73 and
March 21:95, or 7 to 8 points up from
the lowest, and about 12 to 14 points
below yesterday’s closing quotations.
Cotton futures opened steady: Dec.
20.88; Jan. 20.92; March 21.02; May
21.17; July 2101.
Tom Tarheel says being a Master
Farmer is about to work him to
death.
WATHER!
Generally fair and colder tonight,
probably light frosts in west portion ;
Friday fair, eojder in extreme
portion. • Fresh northwest am! west
winds.
FALL F'tS THAT
HE SOI t TTO GET
JORi»I HIS SIDE
• l -
Says He 1 .lIU vFS Nothing
About Anything Detec
tives May Have Said to
Jurors Sitting on Case.
PROGRESS, IS .
BEING MADE
Several of the Jurors Have
Been Questioned by Of
ficials Who are Making
Inquiry into Charges.
Washington, Nov. 3.— UP) —Rami-
fication of the grand jury investiga
tion of charges of efforts to tamper
with the Fall-Sinclair oil conspiracy
jury spread today with increasing
rapidity.
New paths into which the inquiry
led caused court officials to defer un
til tomorrow sending the dismissed
members of the trial jury before the
grand jurors, but district attorney
l'eyton Gordon and some of his as
sistants conferred with eleven of the
jurors for more than an hour.
A surprise witness before the grand
jury was Mark B. Thompson of New
Mexico, one of the counsel for Albert
B. Fall, who was a co-defendant with
Harry F. Sinclair in the trial which
ended so sensationally yesterday when
Justice Siddons cleared the jury box.
Fall, who leased the Teapot Dome
naval reserve to Sinclair, the act which
brought the indictment of the two, in
a statement issued on his own behalf
yesterday had denied any knowledge
of the activities of Burns detectives
who the government charges made ef
forts to obtain contact with the jur
ors for Sinclair.
Edward J. Kidwell, slender shock
haired juror No. 11, also went again
before the inquisitorial, body to re
fute further charges made by a street
car conductor and a newspaper re
porter that he freely discussed the
case against the court’s orders, ai)d ex
pressed the hope of soon having an
automobile “as long as this block.”
PARIS READY TO ACT
AS TO TARIFF RATE
Willing to Restore states in Effect
Prior to August 30th if Agreeable
- Wltk 4he United States. 4
Washington, Nor. 3.— OP) —Restor-
ation by Franco of the tariff rates on
American goods which existed prior
to the decree of August 30th which
precipitated the tariff conversations
between the two governments appar
ently awaits action of the State de
partment on a tariff note received
from the Pari* government last night.
The French note has not been ex
amined in detail, but indications are
that while it may contain some state
ments not entirely satisfactory to the
State department,, these are not seri
ous enough to prevent American ac
ceptance of the modus vivendi out
lined as the basis for discussions on a
treaty of amity and commerce.
DUCKS AND RABBITS
CAN BE SHOT NOW
Seasons For This Game Opened in
North Carolina Today.
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Nov I.—Thousands of
sportsmen are rejoicing today with
the opening of the season on two of
the favorite species of game in the
state, ducks and rabbits.
One of the best known locations
for ducks, geese, brandt and other mi
gratory wild fowl, the coast section of
North Carolina is visited every year
by thousands of devotees of hunting.
These gunners come from many dif
ferent sections of the United States
because of the especially good shoot
ing that is found in eastern Carolina.
The new state game law does not
cover migratory wild fowl on the east
ern sounds, and the federal regula
tions govern this variety of hunting.
Under the federal statutes, the sea
son which opens tomorrow extends
through the month of January, closing
the last day of that month.
Federal regulations fix a bag limit
for one day of 25 ducks, 8 geese, and
8 brandt. Legal hours for hunting
extend from half an hour before sun
rise to sunset and with a gun not
larger than 10 gauge.
Rabbit hunting, one of the most
popular sports in the state, will ex
tend from tomorrow through four
months, closing on March Ist. No
bag limit is set by the state law, the
number killed being left to the indi
vidual hunter. Conservation depart
ment officials 'believe that with the
opening of the new seasons tomorrow
that there will be a large increase in
the demand for hunting licenses.
With Our Advertisers.
New autumn coats and daytime
frocks of silk in charming, distinctive
and inexpensive models at the J. 0.
Penney Co. Coats from $7.90 to
$39.50 and frocks from $4.98 to
$19.75. See new ad. in this paper.
A trade mark on~the boxes from the
Starnes-Miller-Parker Co. speaks vol
umes. See ad. today.
You can buy a Firestone gum-dip
ped cord time, size 30x3 1-2 for only
$9.65, at Ritchie Hardware Co. See
ad. todav.
Specials are being offered in the
shos. department at Efird’s. See prices
in ad. today.
The attention of hunters lfl called
to the ad. of the Ritchie Hardware
Co. Guns, ammunition, and every
thing.
Church bells are tuned by chipping
the edge until the proper note is ob
tained.
From the time of St. Peter down to
the year 1153 all the Popes of Rome
wore beards.
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance
Greek President Shot
Admiral Kondouriotis, presi
dent of Greece, will recover
after being shot in right temple
by a waiter in Athens, as the
executive was riding through
the streets in his car. , <
ROUMANIAN STAMP
WILL HONOR KING
New Stamp Will Bear Pic
ture of Young King Mich
ael Instead of Ferdinand.
Bucharest, Roumania, Nov. 3.
—Little "King Michael’s likeness
will soon appear on Roumanian
postage stamps, replacing that
of the late King Ferdinand. The
portrait shows the 6-year-old sov
ereign in a simple white shirt
waist of American design, with
turned down collar and silk tie.
The government la following the
Roumanian precedent in having*
an engraving of the reigning osv
ereign appear on the current
postage stamp.
Collectors are offering prem
iums for tho new issue.
PERSONAL INCOME TAX
RATE IS DISCUSSED
This Phase of Tax Rate Problem Is
Taken Up by Committee.
Washington, Nov. 3.—(/P) —— IConsid
eration of the tax rate on individual
incomes was taken up today by the
House ways and means committee,
which received a wide variety of rec
ommendations, many of them of a
purely administrative nature.
The whole day was set aside for
discussion of this phase of the tax
subject, a number of requests to be
heard having been received by the
committee which has given little indi
cation that it would seriously consider
revision of the individual income levies,
except pobsibly in the higher brackets.
Some little time was lost at the
outset, the committee permitting Nath
an WilEgm MacChesney, representing
the National Association of Real Es
tate Boards, to conclude an argument
begun yesterday on the advisability of
revising a number of provisions in the
real estate tax law,
L. A. Lecher, of Milwaukee, Wis.,
representing a law firm of which he is
a member, was the first witness to dis
cuss the individual income tax pro
visions. Practically all of his rec
ommendations concerned revision of
statute administrative features and
technicalities in the phrasing of the
present law.
VIGOROUS DEFENSE OF
DAWES PLAN OFFERED
Georgy P. Auld Says the Plan is Prac
tical and Will Not Break Down.
New York, Nov # 3. — UP) —A vigor
ous defense of the Dawes plan, both
as to its fairness and its practicability
is made by George P. Auld, who was
accountant general of the reparations
commission, and also assistant to
Owen D. Young, co-author and first
administrator in installing the plan In
1924. ' In his book, “The Dawes Plan
and the New Economics,” to be pub
lished tomorrow, Auld ridicules the
predictions of J. M. Keynes and other
economists that the plan will break
down in 1928, flouts the idea of Ger
many's incapacity, says American
loans to Germany should continue, and
describes that much-discussed'transfer
problem as a “bugaboo.”
The author says that the success
of' the plan is dependent on public
confidence in American investments
abroad, and he opposes the cancella
tion of reparations, asserting that “the
only drain on Germany resulting from
the payment of reparations is the
drain on the German taxpayer. There
is no capital drain whatever on a
debtor country.” Arguments to the
contary he says are meaningless.
JARDINE TALKS ABOUT
COTTON CARRY-OVER REPORT
Says Department’s Estimate Not Of
ficial in Strict Sense of the Word.
Washington, Nov. I.— UP) —The De
partment of Agriculture’s cotton car
ry-over estimate of about 7,800,000
bales, as of July 31st “was not of
ficial in the sense of having been en
tirely compiled from data gathered
under government supervision,” Sec
retary Jardine in a statement author
ized said today.
The statement followed a conference
between the secretary an official
of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. -
There has been considerable con
troversy over the ’estimate made pub
lic September 15th, which was fol
lowed by a drop In the price of cot
ton.
Labor Chief to Speak at State Uni
versity.
Chapel Hill, N. 0., Nov. I.—T. A.
Wilson, of Winston-Salem, president
of the State Federation of Labor, will
deliver anraddress here Thursday even
ing, November 3, under the auspices
of the University’s School of Com
merce. He will speak in 112 Saunders
Hall as 7:30 o’clock. His topic is “In
dustrial North Carolina and the Wage
Earner”. The public is invited.
MISS ELDER GIVEN
GREAT WELCOME IN
AMERICAN COLONY
Some 300 Masculine Mem
bers of American Colony
in Paris Hail Her as the
“Darling of Columbia.’’
WELCOME MADE
THE GIRL BLUSH
She Was so Moved by the
Great Reception That
She Could Not Speak
When Called on.
Paris. Nov. 2.— UP) —Some 300 mas
culine members of the American Col
ony in Paris today gave Ruth Elder
a welcome which brought a blush to
her cheeks and made her semi-speech
less with pleasure.
Hailed as the “lovely, daring darl
ing of Columbia,” Miss Elder, accom
panied by Captain George W. Halde
man, was guest of honor at a luncheon
at the American Club, where she en
joyed the delightful position of being
the sole woman on whom the eyes of
the great room full of men rested ad
miringly.
The American girl who blushed and
squirmed through a speech of lauda
tion, was unable to answer when she
•was forced to arise.
“As a speech maker, I am a total
flop,” she murmured.
Then mumbling her thanks she sat
down to a roar of cheers.
During the morning Miss Elder
and Captain Haldeman managed to
slip to the Le Bourget, where they
made a flight over the environs of
Paris, circling Versailles and Fon
tainebleau in a springlike sunshine,
REV. S. W. TAYLOR
JDONFERENCE HEAD
Rev. L. W. Gerringer Preaches Ser
mon at Opening Session at Ashe
boro.
Asheboro, Nov. 2.—The election of
conference officers featured the af
ternoon session of the Methodist Prot
estant annual conference, which was
formally opened here this morning with
Dr. A. G. Dixon, of Greensboro, re
tiring president, presiding. •
Rev. S. W. Taylor, for seven years
pastor of the First Methodist Prot
estant church at Burlington, was
elected to the high office of the con
ference on the first ballot, receiving
probably the largest majority of any
president of the conference in the past
score of yeans. In a very happy speech
Rev. Mr. Taylor spoke words of ac
ceptance, pledging hie unfailing loyalty
and devotion to the work of the con
ference as its executive head.
Other officers elected inclmle Rev.
C. W. Bates, of Asheville, secretary;
Rev. H. F. 1 Surratt, of Charlotte, sta
tistical secretary; V. W. Idol, of High
Point, treasurer; Rev. C. B. Way, of
Lexington, reporter; Rev. J. E. Prit
chard, of Asheboro, historian. In the
election of a lay member of the sta
tioning committee several ballots were
taken without an election, the final re
sult being the election of W. L. Ward,
of Asheboro. Election of standing
boards and committees was also held.
Preceding the election of officers the
conference heard a masterful address
by Dr. Thomas H. Lewis, of Wash
ington, D. C., president of the general
conference, whose address was heard
with keen interest by the large
audience of ministers, delegates and
visitors.
During the afternoon session R. R.
Ross, of Asheboro, layman of the
local church, made a brief speech and
presented the newly elected president
of the conference. Rev. S. W. Taylor,
with a special gavel for use in pre
siding over the conference.
Rev. C. P. Coble, of High Point, and
Rev. C. 0. Smith, of Asheboro, Pres
byterian ministers, were introduced to
the conference.
The annual conference was formal
ly opened at the Methodist Protestant
church here this morning at 9:30
o'clock with Dr. A. G. Dixon, the
president, presiding. Opening exercises
consisted of a devotional service, led
by Dr. Dixon, during which the old
gospel humn, “Crown Him Lord of
AH,” was heartily sung, followed by a
fervent prayer offered by Dr. T. M.
Johnson, of Gibsonville. Dr. Dixon
read a scripture lesson, the ninety
first psalm, and Rev. Lawrence C.
Little, of Concord, general secretary
of the board of young people’s work
of the denomination, led in prayer.
THE? STOCK MARKET
Prices Were Again Headed Upward
at Opening of the Market Today.
New York, Nov. 3.— UP) —Prices
were again headed upward at the op
ening of the stock market today, with
some of the motors in the lead. Hupp
Motors opened up 2 1-3, at the year’s
highest, and Mack Trucks was a point
higher. Brooklyn Union Gas had an
overnight gain of 5 1-4, and Dupont
2, while Houston Oil, Colorado Fuel,
Chesapeake & Ohio and American
Sugar opened a point or more above
yesterday’s close.
Teachers Undertake to Correct Injus
tice.
Charlotte, Nov. 2.—Teachers in the
Charlotte schools today set in motion
plans to correct what they consider
injustice in salary system, whereby
a teacher is carried for ten days when
ill but salary ceases. A com
mittee of the teachers association will
investigate the practice in other citigs
in such matters and see if the local
school board will remedy existing con
ditions.
Onions are unusually rich in vi
tamines B and C, the two elements
for want of which sailors and other
people forced to live for a long tlmo
without freeh vegetables contract;
beriberi.
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