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i'WiThF Concord DAitf "Tribune! ASSOCIATED PRESS t DISPATCHES i VOLUME XXIII CONCORD N r THWSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1023 NO. 45. J! ill LY : :: fl 5 toll clndee Taking of Testimony in Thomas Case Concluded at Witness Was Heard During Wednesday After- noon's Session of Rowan Superior Court. Ha run i uiiq . 3. V IIvLJAiVlH I John J. Parker Spoke This Morning: for Defense. Case May Go to the Jury Sometime Tomorrow. Tho tn klni; of testimony lu the w-e-nn trlul of (t. (!. (KimIi Thomas, in Ibiwan Superior Court, wan cooclod c il yesterday afternoon, aftd- shorn JW witnesses bud lieon Arguments turn immediately start ed by counsel, II. S. Williams, of this liy. making tho first speech, for the state. Mr. Williams, who nmde one of the most forceful arguments delivered lit l ho lirst trial of Thouins here last your, spoke for iihoiji iin hour mid for ty uiiunles yesterday and he was lio iug congratulated today liy persons fwho heard hint, on tho excellent and ll'oreofiil arguments he presented. John J. i'lirker s ' this morning. I ho lioliig the Oral of the defenses at torneys to speak. .lust how loin; the arguments will I continue is not known here. There are ahant til lawyers in the ease, hut nil of thorn are not expected to Ih heard. 1.. T. Ilnrtsell. of this clt" will nnko the closing argument for the Ktnte. The following: is Tho Salisbury Post's story of tho Thomas trial Wed- kosday : Contrnd'etlng tho testimony of ev-. ral of the states star w-ituosses Mrs. riie Kimball, young married wtf- nn of Concord, declared on tho stand Is morning that she was in the car th Arthu. Alton on tno night or ui- i'r ISO, lirji, snorny nerore mo luotliiR occurred. Her testimony n t n red tho morning session of the Ivonth day of the trial of O. G. (Red) liomns, charged wittKhiimlor in eon ction with tho death of Arthur Al- State witnesses, who had preceded lr. Kimlmll on tho stand, had testi- lledithat they had smu Mir. Holierl I-llfte hr the car with Artnnf All.'ii a few niinutea before the killing. This morning's testimony was put on to rehut this oritlenee. Approaching the- sonsatlnn.il was the lestltmony of Rev. 1. I', (linnl. Meth ndlst minister, formerly of . Ktuina po lls. Asked to dt-scrihe tho character of E. K. I-awing. one of the states witnesses, he snitl it was "bad." "Why do yon say il is hadV" he was (liked. "I say it because there was so much .drinking, shooting and cursing in bis place of business wlilcn was near me i scene of the shooting. I don't think a man of good character would harbor neb conduct." (1. P. Dnini. H. iniith, and Mrs. H. Q. Sin'th, also leserlbetl bis oharactcr as had. Immediately upon Jhe ni-onvcning t court this morning, Judge Webb, ollowlng a discourse of some length y opposing counsel, ruled that certain jOOvldenoe- tending to show that Mrs. I owe and Allen had neon together at ertaln places, was inndmlssnhle. 'bis deisiou wns held over during bo night. . Attorney Williams, for I be stale. hi lined that Allen had Iksmi luiisl o the scene and shot in eId blooded nurder. J. J. rarker. for' ihe defense, nalntnined the duestioii for the do- fensc and won his po'nt, citing several cases dealing with the point and also losed his remarks with a brief argu ment. Mrs. Kimball's testimony was all of a sensational character. She was on the stand over an hour and a half and wns put through a stiff cross exami nation by Attorney Hartsell for the state. She admitted that she and her hus band were Nnot living together now.. It was also revealed, during the course of her testimony, Unit she bad a police record In Concord.! Mrs. Kimball tdsttfled that on thof"-" -hc tnl ,M night of the slaying of Alien, that ! settlements for the payment of a ol ( Allen had come by for her and had. CT lK,m,s after ,he monP" wns in taken her. near the . Cabarrus Mill where she wanted to nee P. M. Mnn gnm relative to a loan of fliOO.she hud made to him sometime previously. She said she got out of the car near where Ihe shoottlng occurred, some time later, told Allen in go on aqd ask Mr. Mnngtlm If be could meet her ( Continued on pag Five t HeHcepter In Air Over Two Minutes. Dayton, Ohio, Feb. 21. Thomas A. Edison, world famous Inventor and oleotrical wizard, may aid Dr. George D?Botheznt. builder of a helicopter. wh'ch during an experiments,' flight toway at Mccook field, remained in the air two minutes and 4S seconds end rose to a height of 15 feet, a world's record for this type of machine. Theoppilo Delrasse Dead. Paris, Feh. 22 (By the Associated Press). -Theoppilo DelcaHse, former minister of foreign affairs, died sud denly nt Niece last evening. Mrs. Jno. M. Cook, Field Secretary of the Woman' Missionary Society of the North Oirollnu Sj'nod, will l nl Trinity Lutheran Chnrch, In No. 4 gnd N township, next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock In the Interest of the mission ary work. ki mtion ofi kim is WUwnS Mimm ?KZ g Umvk ui Fait. Svlr:'- N C, Feu. waiter n?!.- or. democratic eleotiou official at Sylvu, I rM at Vbt Dull- is li nc In hud. Im. I I 'and killed. Uraivv Davis, merchant I :i. f Barber Creek town ship, .in. I a loading politician In l hiii district gov on trial for life i!u- nf l t-i)Kii In Jn'lcin MWIIiJ Superior court. Solicitor tirovcr It iris Is asking ii verdict of murder In the firsi fcgiei. Fishers attorneys wi'd Ibex will en ter a plin of writ defense. A motion la It- yesterday fur oon Hanaoia iu iiio novi term of eoiw wa denied lijr Judge I m. LAYMF.VS MEETING OPEN'S IX CHARLOTTE Welcoming Address and Organization Details Before Openine Session To day. (By 1hr Amoriatnl Pre.) Charlotte,- X. C. Kih. Wol.-om-llMt itddrpssos and oiyantwtlon a- tails' took up the creator MM of the . ... ... no ,u i-eilily. who ran Tor Senate Inst .No-I-iymcns Movement regi.ai confer-1 t...,ia... h. Tm.. . ., ,,..ii,., i once of the Southern I'ri-shrtnrlmi I'hnrcli. tine of the features of the program was the address on "The t'enlral Task of tho Church." hy the l!ev. Wade C. Stuilli, of lirecnsiioro. M'omoirs p.-irallel niei'ting was lur ing held separately during the day, hut -the meetings will lie in Joint ses sion tonight and again tomororw. Telephone ( alls Average 176 a Pcreoii. Chicago. Fob. 23 (By the Associat ed foes). If every man, woman and child in the I'nited States did his' share of talking fiver the telephone last year, each would lie entitled to 170 completed calls, nccording to fig ures compiled hy the Illinois Commit tee on l'ublic I'tility Information. The coinmiftcc reports twenty bil lion telephone oonvorsntions iu over the 14,300.009 telephones then in use. To handle (he business 305,000 IM'rsons were employed by tho $8,100 telephone comiamies aud, the com mittee impressively adds, the 2!l.7ll, OfW) miles of wire used would encircle tl- glove 1,1 Kt times at the enuator. In other words there is enough of 1he Wire to niij sixty-two ilonlije wire hi ephone circuits' from tCie earth lo t ii moiui, at ils menu distance: from the eiirfli. and still have !KMK1 miles or so loll over for other purposes. Since Dr. Alexander tirabam Bell inventeil the telephone in lS7li tho in dustry had grown with such amazing speed, tbtit the United States with only a sixteenth of the worhl's popu lation, now possesses two-thirds of all tho telephones iu use. The ln.OOO.OOO telephone poles in use, says the statistician. Would build a railroad trestle thirty feet hiirh fr(Kn Chicago to Buenos Aires, while the additions and replacements each ytar would carry a telephone line two thirds the way around the earth. In 1000, lie reports, there was. one telephone for every !l) persons! in 11H5 one for each 34; in 1!1() one to each 111; in 101U one to each 11, and iu lii-l one to earh eight. Xext to Americans the lieople of Dem,mrk are the mosrtelephonicall.v talkative on earth. In V.KIO, when Americans averaged HHi conversa tions per annuiii for each man, woman mid child, the Hancs were second with IIS., Norway and Sweden were third and foflrtb, both averaging above 1(HI conversations per iuhabitaul. Tho heal the (Jermans. iu fifth plfti-o could 1(, ...(1H w Th.. v0therlands and iistrnlin were between 10 and 00. j Switzerland averaged 30; Groat Brit itin SO, fiance lSJj Belgium ten ami Italy eight. The investment hi telephone prop erties in the United States totals $1. 750,(XK),000. Soldiers yjay Get Debt Money. lily the Ataoidatrd rreiu.li Washington. Feb. U2. Secretary Mellon wa quoted today in the House by Chairman Forduey, of the Ways and Means committee, as stating that he had no objection to the use of the hand. House Accepts Senate Ameiinmeuts I Br Ik Awvdatea i-rc. i Washington, Feb. 22. The last ac tion necessary to Congress approval of the British debt settlement agreement wns taken today to the House which without a roll call accepted the senate changes to I be bil amending the allied debt funding ct. John Drinkwater, author of "Abra-1 mmiU-a Association lo be held diir i. n.i n..... u,.sfi ing March, the exact dates to be 0x- , plays, was an 'Insurance clerk before he took to writing poetry aud plays. BASKETBALL TONIGHT EIGHT O'CLOC Queen City Five . (Charlotte) -vs-a Con cord ' Y" tlli,. ,l t ... -,- ; t. 1 Probably the Last Game of the reason DMISS10N 35c GEORGE PETTY HAS ENTERED KES AGAINST MAYFIEtD Defeated Candidate for Sen ate From Texas Says His Opponent Has No Right to Senate Place. CHARGES Kl AN WAS VERY ACTIVE In the Campaign, and Also Charges Excessive and Il legal Expenditure of Mon ey by Opponent. Washington. Feh. 22 (By the Asso rkrted I'n-ssi. Swnlnu chai-Kos against tho Ku Klux Klnn and its of ficers won' made today in impels til ed with the Senate.' challenging the I right of Hnrlo It Mayficlil to his sent In the next Congress as a Senator from Texas. The MOCtkn coolest and Its accom panying charges were lihsl by tleo. K. lndoHndont democrat, and who aOCUS oil Mr. Maytiold during a hitter cam imign Willi being the candidate of the Khin as well ns of I lie regular demo cratic organization. Kxeessive and illegal expenditures of money by the May Meld forces, frauds in counting the ballots, and other irregularities were olmrgod in the contest petition which asked for a recount. It was contended that Mr. I'eddy actually was elected, but In the event the Senate does not so de cide It was asked in the petition thai Mr. Maylleld nevertheless ' barred from Inking his seat. The Ku Klux Klan was charged In the petition with concealing its real designs under a cloak of patriotic pretensions in order lo hide plans lo "subject the government of fae con stitution to the 'invisible empire,'" and with conspiracy to evade, violate nnd defeat the Federal and state laws. It was further charged Unit Ihe organ ization had attempted "prostitution of the Christian religion" anil had resort ed lo use of "brute force, intimida tion and "immoral and lawless vrae llres.'" . .w ;- (Mtes . iMKI.I.ON WON'T (JIVK OI T LlQl'OR KKI'OKT Secretary of the Treasury Declines to Abide by Wlsli of House on Kmbas sy Whisky. Washington, Fell. 21, Secretary Mellon declined today to furnish to the House of Representatives informa tion as to the amounts of intoxicating liquors imported hy foreign embas sies and legations in Washington since the prohibition amendment be came effective on January '20, 1020. The inforamtion was asked for in a rcsoluttion adopted by the House last . Friday after the treasury secre tary had refused to give similar d.ita to the house judiciary committee. The resolution was introduced by Repre sentative Cramton, republican. Micli iban, a "dry" leader, who told the House that publication of the data would fnrn sh one remedy for the "leiiknge" of oiubnssjllquor charged by the Washington police after raids lu several fafldouahle apartment houses. "In view of the principles appli cable lo international Intercourse," said Mr. Mcllon's letter toSpeaekor (lillett, "and the existing immunity tol which diplomatic representatives of foreign governments arc entitled under international law and other statutes. I am not iu a position to trnsmit this I Information to the House of Repre sentatives for the reason Hint it would lie Incompatible with the public inter est to furnish it" FUNERAL SERVICES FOR H. E. NORRIS TOMORROW Prominent Raleigh Man Will Be Bur ied There Tomorrow at 3 p. m. Br th ahmUim PnM.i Raleigh. Feb. 22. Funeral services for Hcrlwrt K. Xnrrls, wlm rtlr"d from soUcitorshtp of tlie seventh dls trict last month, after 12 yearsof ser vice In the office, anil who died at a local hospital late yesterday, will be held at 3 p. m. tomorrow In the First Baptist Church here. K The deceased wns 04 years old. His widow and out'" son survive. State Home Economics .Meeting. (Br (he Aansla Press.) Oreenslsiro, N. ('.. Feb. 22. Ar rangements are Mug made here for the annual meeting of the State Home 11 wus aunou uceii louaj fL t . Sherman, an authority on Dr nutri tion, is expended lo be the chief speak er of the convention. The state association Is composed of teachers, institutional workers, demonstration and home makers, and Is a part of the National Homo Kco- nomlcs Association. The oi'Kiinlzn- tion in North Carolina Is now conduct- lug a membership campaign. Miss hthei in.- Moran. assistant supervisor of home economics educa - Hon in Ihe state and publicity chair- man of the association, in urging chair- men of home economics department of Women's club to attend the con- ration In (1 reeiishbro. 1 1 (More than 800.000 fan witnessed the lirst rovnd games In the English soccer cup race. ,. NatioiLil Capital Pays R&pect to Washington Ml hmi Washinr i irnmtil nciiiitloa p all branraoft with 'In- . option of ...I.-- wore sun. pondiii today f ItM' olmorrnnoo of 's hirth. v IWh the noii- to and flutist inoil at tbHr task of Hitir.lng up ttaMcMatlve Jnm l lore :i.ijiimim,ii Man h 4th tho on The official tion of the day here (ontited (0 i tiioiues nt thr Vnhuigtoti m it it whkh tho Ooveriiur- nil I had boni in radio. Wiring tit. si in li-ii-n lu Countetrfeiters' Plot fr Discovered in Guntry Already Federal Agents in All Parts of the Country Have Arrested 64 lleged Violators of This Law, and Other Arrests Are Expected Soon. (Br the Pro. New York. F men liognn ti Secret service hawing in the do not that they .800 members of strings of a mill oxis'ct "Will enmesh an international splrncy that they Inch's gripped on of the country. tintorfcttlng con- iove has its tou- ry important city ring is believed to have manufactured and distributed between one and ten million dollars worth of hogus I. ill and spurious stumps. Arrests all over the country with raids centering In Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco and other big cities.; were forecast today by those federal officers who last night completed the ; jailing of (14 alleged counterfeiters in ( the metropolitan district. Deprived : of its brains, the sleuths believe the. organization to be Incapacitated. While secret service men are tramp, j ing the trail they' hit upon eight months ago in Detroit, the police oi reader copied some of this address, several countries will he hunting the .which was delivered recently In. Phil member of the hand which extended I adelnhia bv Stewart Mol'nrhind. nasi its operations over three nations, with i nmnzlng cleverness. The haunts of Its principal members are known, so secured the entire address, the secret service men say. Iiol Ilinton Mcl.ood. principal of Twenty-one of those arrested were the High School, openc' the '-I s pro bold In the Tofflba; in ball ranging K,.iin. He explained briefly what the from $2,560 to ten Utiles that amount. teacher are . trying to do with Ihe and two others werj bold in Newark, I students in the school, pointing out X. J., also under bond awhtion to mm TO III r. K KROWTS MIIiL Seventy-Fire Foot Addition, Two Stor-; JS " g UWI P 'n i re. ie.s High, Will Be Erected at Mil in ! Maj Kl zaheth BfeckweWer thank- Near Future. i '''' ,n0 eu0 i,,r ils invitation to the Further improvements and additions ' girls, and she won a place in the heart to the Johnston chain of mills locat-iof e:lc" niemlier. She also thank ed in this cltv, were announced today i ,lle for its general interest In when the management of the Brown tnt youngsters of the city, paying es Mlll stated that It would erect in the P1, attention to the visits of the immediate future a 7Moot, two story Roturinns at the chapel exercises at fuldlHnn to its inwnt mUl. The con- tract for the work was awarded to Brown & Harry, of Gastonia. I The new addition will house a mod- om rive olnt which the mill will In-1 stnll when the new structure is com pleted. Several days ago the management of the Nomitt mill, sister mill of the Brown, announced t lie awarding of a contract for a three-story addition. Work on this structure has already begun. Recently the Brown Mill erected 21 additional mill houses for Its om nloves, mid the Noreott management nnnounces.that it will erect eight ad ditional homes, the work to be started and completed at once. H. E. NORRIS DIES AT HIS HOME IN BALED. II Retired Solicitor , of Seventh District Succumbs After Long Illness. Raleigh, Feb. 21. Herbert Edmund KAMls. retired solicitor of the seventh district, died in Rex hospital this af- ternoon following an nines wnicn paramount. took him from his last December court i h . Wilkinson is offering excep when he left the otlice which he had tioually low prices on bed room furni lilled 12 years. ture. Notwithstanding the general knowl- you can get. a complete menagerie edge of his declining health, the pow- by cutting out the color pictures in erful frame of the victim wns expect- h package of Butter-Nnt bread, ed to pull him through. He was 03 1 Follow the thrift example set by years old In November, but he bad ' Omhm Washington bv depositing resu me vigor or omt -i years nis junior. Promises Surprise Then Tries Suicide. Lorain, Ohio, Fox 21. Despondent over the tragic death of his sweet heart, Stella Chapman, 19, killed in a railroad accident at Vermillion, near here February 2, Roy Baker, 21, steel worker, attempted suicide early today at his home here by sending a bullet through his body. He Is in a i:ocal hospital here w.th slight chauce of recovery. Baker committed the net In ihe midst of 24 of bis liiends summoned to his home last night as guests at hit party. Promising his friends a "big surpriee" be took pictures of his; dead sweetheart from his pocket and after draping them on a buffet he pulled a gun from bis pocket and sh it himself. Want Home Economics Class Rooms. (Br tk Aworlatad PrcM.) Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 22. The slate department of vocational education to- day announced it would co-opera t with architects in the planning and constructing nt new school buildings in the state In order to Insure proper , home economics class' rooms. j OIHtcials of the department already have furnished a lance numlier of Idue print of home economics class rooms to architects and will continue 'this service. Lord Inchcape. the British shipping magnate, first worked In a rope, and canvaa factory. . of nt.'.ii lis at tlx-11 ao of tho mouiornil hy Si-rotury Wsk ami other hltb x i. !,. ii nnVnbt. as wril as ro;o roMnatativni of of a nuabrr of pi triMic orcaalaatUais. and tho naiing of military honors to tho momorr of the Unit President marked the ewe motial tiruaratn at the montunetit. Senator Shorfridge. of Callfomi.i. wa tho princitial spi-aker on the proginni of oxeri-iaes arrangf.) h lh loeal thaptor of liuughtors of the Roy olntl.m at Continental Memorial II ill with other suoietlm mrti' innting SENIOR CLASS GIRIJ ARE fiCESTS OK ROTARY CUB Young l.adii Were Present in targe Nuinlters and Put Ou Attractive Program. following its niinoiiticisl program ofj devoting the greater part of its tal ent and time to the youngsters of the clly, the Rotary Club, at its weekly mii'ting yisterday at ihe V entertain od the young ladies of the senior class nt tno nigh School. There an girls in the class and SI, wore nreaenl nt the meeting. Tom Webb was in charge of the program, and with the assistance of the honor guests. He put on a tine program. Most of the time wns given over to entertaining the visitors who wore given a generous shine of the program. Tom also road a fine paper on "What Rotary Is and Is Not." The president of the l'hiladelnhia Rotarv (;uib, from tho radio address, and later that ttlie' pnplls are Ijeiii" taught that honesty is essential iu schisil as well as 1ti' -business 'aWt' that tr 1s' n"l had to play truant- while u student as it the school unci the donation ot a cup to the championship girls basketball team of the school. A musical selee- tion by bve girls followed, after which .Mary KHienumir delighted net hearers with a humorous reading. A talk by Leon- Long followec and the program was concluded with the sinn ing of parodies on different dub mem bers. Among the visitors were Joe Robert son, of the Salisbury Club, Rosey Q'Grady, of the Charlotte Club, and Dr. Green, of star, formerly connected with the Uanra Sunderland School here. During the mooting the member were given nn invitation to hear "Buck" I'erriu, of Spartanburg, who will open the "Win a Chum" cam paign with an address at the i' Sun day afternoon at 3 :.".(. AH men iu the city are invited to meet with the bovs of the city at the meeting. Willi Our Advertisers. Go to ("lino's Pharmacy for your mHlical wants. There cleanliness is Dr. Bamhardt at Forest Hill Friday Night. A telegram from Dr. J. II. Barn hardt, of Greensboro, X. ('.. makes certain that he will lie in Concord on Friday night ( tomorrow) for an ad dress at Forest lllll Methodist Church on "The Place of the Church iu the Community." Dr. Bernhardt, n native of this county, is one of the lending preach ers of North Carolina, at present the pastor of West Market Street Church in the (lute City. The public Is invited to bear Dr. Baruliardt on 'his timely topic. Man Who Seat IVst Cablegram is Read. Port Chester, H. Y., Feb. 21. Cap tain Robert H. Smith, who sent the first cablegram across the Atlantic, in 1800. for Syrus W. Fifd, who laid the cable, died today at his home here, at the age of X2. During the civil war Ordain Smith, as a military telegraph ..111. in- tmi.i-.wl fur ii llinn nu n i u.i'Siiliiil telegraphs for President Llnc.dn. H" worked as a boy with Thomas A. Ed son In Boston, For Many years Captain Smith was chief operator for the Western Union. Dr. Homos, the premier of Cescbo- Slovakia, is one of the youngest pre- mlers In Europe.iavmg recently cele- brated his thirty-seventh birthday. CHARG E REMINGTON WAS BOOTLEGGER rnn onoirTu rni H In lh I T H" " i 1 1 . i . 1 1 ai. e VI I UIL II I I v. Ixs Angeles Story Says Wife of Dead hngineer Has Ad- mitted That Her Husband Sold Whiskey. RENEW EFFORTS TO GET SLAYER Police State They Found in Dead Man's Clothes Names of 200 People and Record of His Sales. (By tbr Auorlatrd I1 Los Angeles. Feb. 32. Federal pro hibition agents today joined the po lice iu the search for the slayers of Rarle Rctniiujtnfi. electrical engineer, shot down in his own yard a week ago lonlghl. Their eiilry came after a declara tion by ihe police that the widow. Mrs. Va Loin Remington had told I hem Ihe dead man was a "society bootlegger ". and after the niliee had found, questioned and temporarily re leased a man who admitted having operated Ihrtv stills Tor the engineer. The police also said they had locat ed a large quantity of liquor said to have lieon in Remington' possession, but the chief Interest of the Federal officers was believed to rest in the po lice statement that one of Remington's notebooks containing 2no names and records of stiles had come into their possession. It was said that although the liquor in question wns distilled by an ama teur, it was sold by persons in high business and society circles of Los Angeles. Tho police questioned several men whose names appeared In Remington's notebook and stated l hey obtained admissions of purchasing liquor from the engineer. GKISS0M WILL PROVIDES FOR EDUCATION OF SON l .i! Provides That Expenditure Shall Be Onlv tor Studying In Proiestant Instil ntlofts. Onfpfisbirro, Feb; 2!..- 1e wiif ,r' Hyatt A. Crissom, drttg'sist of this city, drowned In Florida on January 18, provides that not one cent of his estate be used for the education of his son in any but Protestant Institu tions. A codicil lo the w 11 specific:', ly provides that no mone bu expended In Catholic institutions fcr th: educa tion of his son. Terms of the will became kutr.vn with a filing of the document for pro bate in the office of the clerk ot ourt if Gu Iford county. 'Mr. Grissom leaves his estaie in trust for bis widow and child, a tignting conditions at tne sanatorium. ink. acting as trust officer and ex- Hutchinson was i patient at the --cutor. to manaae'th'" estate and nay ' sanatorium, (he asserted, from Jan be Income to the two. When the ooy nary to July.-T2a He contracted ttu Seeames 25 the estata sbVl' b divided 'between th two. tin ess 'Mrs. Grissom v marries :n which case the son gets all. The value of the estate, while not et est mated bv the exeC'ator, is k?ifv;i to be considerable. . Mr. Grisson was drowned when he drove his automoblls Into Thomas reek. 2d miles north of Jacksonville. The body remained in lbs writer -7 iavs until it was found. BRYAN VISITOR IN NORTH CAROLINA Will Make Address Tonight in Tarbom Under Auspices of Kiwanis Hub. I By the Amwetaied Prrs. Rocky Mount, Feb. 22. Welcomed Cones group of cotton mills from the by a tnron,i of Kiwanians from Tar-I corporation commission's order to boro, Wilson and-this city. William ; try out the Southern Power company's Jennings Bryan arrived here early this increase rates before a Clevelan t he will delver an address tonight I county grand jury, the Supreme c.niit under the auspices of Ihe Kiwanians. this afternoon held the nppeal pie Governor 'Morrison and Josepnus uan-; mature nnd fragmentary, and decided iels are expected to lain Mr. Bryan i substant ally all issues with the here and accomoanv him to Tarboro. During his brief stay her; Mr. Bryan and visiting Kiwanians were enter ii Kjwantg c for? which The Commoner spoke on "Cooperation, Its Benefits and Perils. Joy Louise Leeds Gets Vast Estate. . . . . . ... t.. ' ....i,i -now lorK. sen. - ' '' - ah e school for girls. Joy Louise Leeds, , .- " - , I.,.., nine years oni. iiwio n-ii-n.-.i '." lirst lesson in long division. oiious the same hour the will ot Mrs. Louise Hartshorne Leeds, Joy's foster moth er, who rcwiilly mei death In a plunge from an upper window of her home, was filed for probale nl Mineola. re vealing that Joy had been bequeathe! $250.0(1(1. a fortune in jewelry and. upon 1 lie death of her foster father, Warner Leeds, a life income from a $2,000,000 estate. The filing of the will wns the second big event in Joy's life. The (list oc curred something more than eight I years ago, when a poor woman walk-1 ing through u dark east side tene ment hallway stumbled on a bundle.! It was a baby girl. The woman culled nolioe and the child was taken lo Kellevue hospital. J5,mt en a charitable mission, Mrs. Leeds, kindlieiirted s'n-ic ty woman. ..lc.lf...l il,., 1,.,. i.ii.,1 SUm I itwn inn nl-. tached to the winsome little child and adopted it. So the foundling became Joy Louise Leeds, heiress, Mr. A. G. Green, of No. 8 township, had one of his arms severely injured last Tuesday while working In a saw mill. The wound Is being treited In the Concord hospital, and Is reapond- ing satisfactorily to the treatment. iSTATE DEPARTMENT Of COMMERCE AND :jti n Bill Creating Such a Depart- ment Introduced During Day in Assembly by Rep resentative Saunders. EDUCATION BILL COMES TO HOUSE Bill Came in Form of Substi tute for General Educa tion Bill. Would Com mend President. Raleigh. Feb. 22 (By the Associated Press!. Creation of a department Of commerce and industries was asked, in a bill Introduced in the House to day by Representative Saunders, of Johnson county, which would have tho governor appoint a oouimissloser or siK-h a , department, whoso duties ir, would be to "collect and collate" In formation ami statistics relating to the various mining, uillling mid manu facturing industries in tho state. Substitute for Edncalion Bill. Raleigh. Feb. 22, (By the Associat ed Press I. Without discussion the. Pommittee substitute for Ihe general educational bill passed the House on the second rending by la vote of !Mi to 1. Representative Cowies. republican, of Wilkes, cast the single dissenting vote. The bill was put upon motion of Representative Townsend. of Harnett, chairman of the education committee, in order to save a legislative day. The vole was taken with the un derstanding that any amendment oouhl bo offered when the bill came for third reading. A resolution offered by Repres"n tative Everett, of Durham, endorsing the stand and co-operation of I'rosi dent Harding In connection with tho cotton conference now Jicing held in Atlanta, Gil., was unanimously adopt ed. iut consideration of the public calendar was forced over when re cess until M o'clock tonight wns taken. Giles Bill in Senate. Raleigh. Feb. 2L' (By the Associat ed l'l-OKfli .After lenirthv riohnto ill which advocates'- of- the .m(iusiu-.iB(e- ed tl as a means lor the improvement of the condition of the "1,900,000 ten ant" farm people of the state, tho Clles bill wns allowed to go over until tomorrow for the vote. Says Sanatorium Conditions Bad. Raleigh, Feb. 22. Chaises that sour mill; and rotten eggs, dirty linen and rusty linen were provided in mates of the state sanatorium were made by J. G. Hutchinson, a rehabil itation student at North Carolina State College today in testifying be fore the legislative committee inves- bemilosis after having been gassed in France. He was followec! on the wi ncss stand by Dr. Hen K. Hayes, of the U. S. Veterans Bureau, who testl lied in favor of Dr. L. B. MeBvayer, superintendent of the .sanatorium. He si i ted that In his opinion the sanator ium is "ably managed'- and added that Dr. Moflrayer is "carrying on a great campaign'.' against tuberculosis. SOl'TRtUX POWER WINS BE FORK SUPREME COIHT Mil's' Appeal is Premature and Frag mentary. Business is Infastate. Raleigh, Feb. 21. Dismissing ina appeal of the Cannons, Johnstons and Southern power. The cotton mill consumers of the Southern Power's current resisted lbs ii TH- July, 1921. and challenged', its Juris diction. The commission taking jur isdiction promt gated the rates wn cli were in excess of those made under Wract. The mills appealing fro.n 1h f. .,..,,, ,,.,' R is,..i. Ill UUl V.IOI. HHHH l llilv Southern 'Power company s business Is Inter. state. The Supreme court holds that until mora legislation is forthcoming the business !s Intrastate and senile the action back for trial. The jury in the Cleveland hearing made a nils', trial. Judge Bryson being uphen. my the court today in at" rulinsts, iilli v WARNING! Keep Your Daughter Away From Those "Dangerous Paths" Her eis a thrilling, pulsing cross-section of life, filled with, tense dramatic interest and a lesson that will find its way ifltC tlie hearts ot all whd Si Piedmont Theatre LAST TIME TODAY Watch Your Step Is Com I I
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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Feb. 22, 1923, edition 1
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