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ASSOCIATED ' PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI fIATTIi TO CENTRE MOUND THE STATE UMDI The Commission Has Met With Opposition If Not; Actual Defiance With Some Departments. CREATEDBYLAST GENERAL ASSEMBLY; Hoyle Sink Defends the Commission Which Was •%' Appointed With View of f Eliminating Waste. Raleigh, Jan. 20.—0 V) —Although the next regular session of the North Carolina general assembly is n year away, it already appears likely that one of the battles of the session will center around the state salary and wage commission, created by the last general assembly, a year ngo. The commission has met with oppo sition, if not actual defiance, from some department heads; W. H. Neal, representative from McDowell county, has declared that the commission; has exceeded the powers the legislature in tended to confer upon it; aud H. Hoyle Sink, executive secretary of the commission, in a statment issue in defense of the body, declared that members of tile general nssembly had told him of being approached and re quested to use tfieir influence to have the commission abolished at the next session of the general nssembly. Mr. Sink indicated in his statement defending the commission—“for the purpose of keeping the actual facts before the puhlie”—that the matter would come before the legislature. He not only referred to efforts totmve the commission abolished, but pointed out that the commission “expects and will be prepnred to give the next leg islature a full report of the work done by it, ami welcomes a thorough in vestigation of its acts. ..” And he added that the commission was of the opinion ‘that the legislature may be able to obtain some useful informa tion from the material gathered” by the commission. The salary and wage commission was created with the authority to classify lyositkins aud fix salaries with >jjr flrstieport wnsmade, dt i fixed, among other things, the work ing hours, vacation leave, holidays, etc., of state employes. The first difficulty arose Over the question of holidays. The commis sion provided for the employes to have holidays on only six of the twelve legal holidays fixed by the legislature, on the theory that employes in most private business do not cease work on every legal holiday. November 11, Armistice Day, was not included in the list of holidays recognized by the commission. Shortly before Armistice Day, Frank D. Grist, commissioner of la bor and printing, and closely allied with the American Legion in this state, announced that his office would be closed on Armistice Day. At a meeting of the commission, a ruling was sought of the attorney general, and he ruled that the commission had no authority to require state employes to work on legal holidays. The com mission then modified its position to allow Armistice Day as a recognized holiday, and announced that it would probably cut the two-weeks vacation period in half, to make up for the ad ditional five days holiday on which employes would be not required to work, by virtue of the. attorney gen eral’s .opinion. It later adopted this ruling, with one proviso. It provided that the vacation leave should be one week, but that each of the six holidays not recognized by it on which Btate de partments remained open and at work should be added to the vacation leave. wj ; The first of these holidays not-rec m ognized by the commission to occur wns General Lee’s birthday, January 19th. On that date, State Auditor Baxter Durham announced emphatic ally that his department would be closed. Two other departments, those of the state treasurer and the adju tant general,, also closed on that day. Mr. Durham later issued a statement explaining hie action. He was con-, gratulated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy organizations and private individuals on his stand. Mr. Neal’s statement, among a num ber on the subject, followed. The Mc- Dowell county •representative de clared that the commission had great ly exceeded its authority. And, fin ally, came Mr. Sink’s statement, in which he reviewed the actions of the commission, and charged, that “cer tain parties” in Raleigh were attempt ing to discredit everything the com mission did, and that “propaganda” P’ against the commission was emanat ing from Raleigh. The statement also referred to his conversation with legislators who, he said, had told him of being asked to attempt to have the commission abolished, and to the con templated report to the general, as sembly when it meets. Cripples Made to Walk. Atlanta, Ga.t Jan. 25.—More than (1,000 crippled children in the United States and Canada have been “put upon their feet” by Shriners hospi tals for crippled children, reports to the board of trustees, revealed here today. / , W In Australia every schoolboy is W taught to swim before he takes up any other branch of sport. The Concord Daily Tribune £ Poisoner^ jPUf 4jHgk ' Wf Mrs I-aura Christy or Boat Liver pool. o„ wus arrested and charger With murder In the death or her fifth husband. Rov IVllHam Christy Three of Mrs. Christy's five husbandi *re deud. She is said to have con .esaed poisoning Rev. Christy be muse he suffered from Indigestion arid asked Iwr to t:»c u to hit* HUMMELL'S DEATH ENDS A SENSATIONAL CAREER Marks Passing of School of Criminal Lawyers Who Went to Any Ex treme. New York. Jan. 20.—The death in London, England, of Abraham H. Hummel, which became known last night, brings to n close the career of one of the most seanxational divorce lawyers that this country ever has known. It marks also the passing of a former school of criminal bar risters who went to any extreme to gain their enses. Hummel was a disciple nnd partner, as well as former office boy of Wil liam Frederick Howe, known during the Civil war as “Habeas Corpus Howe" because of his success in free ing drafted men. As partners, tbe firm gained mcuh notoriety in defend ing more than 650 murderers. From 1870 to 1900, Howe and Hummel were retained in almost every criminal, divorce or theatrical case of any consequence. The walls 6f their dHmary office on Cente# street were! JiaetL wlth ajitogrtotol pictuyeg, of, JWhiTffll actfesseSTiWHe the Tffiri always yvas crowded yvtth waiting clients, private detectives and process servers. The firm of Howe and Hummel was feared by all men and women who burned the candle at both ends and lived tbe life that leads to the divorce court or who were involved in in trigues that were apt to result in breach of promise or alienation suits. It was said that the “butter and egg” men of that day feared the Howe and Hummel imprint on a letterhead worse than any other result of their excur sions along the primrose path. The partnership was unusual in many ways. In their office was a safe which was used to house the of fice bucket. The partners, with %he ] young attorneys associated with them, would meet each evening and pile their fees for the day in a common pool which then was divided accord ing to each person’s interest in the business, They kept no books. Howe died in 1902. Hummel’s nemesis was the same District At torney William Travers Jerome who convicted Harry K. Thaw. Jerome had characterized the Howe and Hum mel firm ns “for more than twenty years a mennee to this community.” It wrfs he wbo finally sent Hummel to the prison on Blackwelder's Island for a year on conviction of conspiracy and subordination of perjury in the notorious Dodge-Morse divorce case. As sensational in defeat as in vic tory, Hummel! gave a grand farewell dinner at bis mansion at 52 East 72nd street, just off Fifth Avenue, attend ed by many friends. He served his prison sentence and then expatriated himself, keeping bis self-composed exile in Europe with tbe exception of one or two brief visits to the United Btates until bis death. Between 1900 and 1905, before the Dodge-Morse expose It was said the firm brought abost many large settle ment in society scandals that never found their way to the courts or the ' press. COOLIDGE MODIFIES ' MITCHELL’S SENTENCE Suspension to Stand But Officer to Get $397 a Month. ■ Washington, Jan. 25.—Official an nouncement 1 was made late today at the tVhite House that President Cool idge bad modified that court martial sentence of Colonel William Mitchell. The five-year suspension from mili tary service was approved, but the President ruled that Mitchell should receive all of the allowances and one half of his pay tluring that period. The findings of the President were , summarized in this paragraph, con cluding a lengthy statement: “The sentence is, approved and will be duly executed, except as herein after provided. The secretary of war reports that the preseht monthly pay of the accused, without the spe cial pay. allowed to those who are actually engaged in flying, is $483.33. His allowances for rental and sub > (listener are $156 per month. If he ■ bg granted his rental and subsistence and one-half of hi* pay the amodnt is understood to be $397.67,” i ■- Any time is n good time to start carrying out a good idea. WILIAM MITCHELL BEGINS SERVING HIS SENTENCE.TODAY Stripped of His Rank as Colonel in the Army Air Service.—ls Suspended For Five Years. HE IS TO RECEIVE $397.67 A MONTH Mitchell Says He Will Have No Statement to Make for the Present — Visits the Capitol. Washington, Jan. 26.-40 W—-Stri pped of his rank as colonel in the army air service, Wm. Mitrliell today began serving his sentence of snspens on from the army for five years. Contrary, however, to the decision of the court martial which convicted him under the 96th article of war for insubordination in connection with his determined fight for a unified air service, Mitchell will receve half pay and certain living allowances during the suspension. President Coolidge in affirming the verdict stipulated yesterday that the sentence be exeeeuted as ordered ex cept ns to the provision depriving the former colonel of all pay and allow ances. T'nder the President’s decis ion he will receive $397.67 monthly "during the pleasure of the Presi dent.” During the morning Mr. Mitchell visited the office of Representative Reed in the capitol. He said he would have no statement to make for the present. Resolution to Revise Law. Washington, Jan. 26.—(A I)—lnves tigation of the Mitchell court martial posed today in a resolution by Repre governing military courts was pro case with a view of revising the law penjtatSve Oonnelly, Democrat, of Texas. “The recent trial and conviction of Colonel William Mitchell for vio lation of the articles of war,” Mr. Connolly said, “have raised very se rious questions in the minds of a great many as to whether or not the articles of war-ami court martial pro-, cedure in tha, army and navy are tit 4 1 ~-vl.vv' aim ivriehiii■ b> Oov gress.” PRICES OF CRUDE RUBBER AFFECTED By the Campaign Against High Cost Non- Going On. ' Washington, Jan. 26.—(/P) —The prices of erode rubber have been greatly affected by the campaign against the high cost now going o;i in the United States, in the opinion of Secretary Hoover. On December 10, lie said, when lie asked for the co-operation of the Am erican people in an effort to meet the situation by conservation aud pro visions of independent supplies, spot rubber was selling for sl.o!' a pound and rubber for delivery within three months wns $1.05. The spot price yesterday, he said, was OS cents nnd rubber for three rnonthe de' very was about 64 cents. With Our Advertisers. If you are going South, visit Fish er’s nnd get fixed up for the trip. You will find there a smart collection of coats, dresses and headgear. The White Auto Co. will give 500 California tour votes for every SI.OO purchase of gas and oil for the re mainder of this week. The spring hats have arrived at the J. C. Penney Co.’s—silk and straw combinations at $4.98. The January Clean-Up Sale at Ivey's will continue all this -week. Shoes at almost unheard of prices. Bob’s Dry Cleaning Co. will give 500 votes for every hnt sent there from Wednesday, January 27, to Wednesday, February 3rd. Phone 787. H. B. Wilkinson is giving 20 per cent, off on Simmons’ new graceline beds this week only. Stores at Cons cord, Kannapolis, China Grove and Moores ville. Big 88 Cent Shoe Sale at Efird’s. at 88c SI.BB, $2,48, $2.88. See ad. on page two. One-fourth off on beautiful pottery at Kidd-Frix Co.’s all this week. Five hundred votes for every SI.OO pur chase. Get an Atwater-Kent radio from Yorke & Wadsworth Co. The January Clearance Sale of shbes at the Markson Shoe Store , continues. Prices run from SI.OO to $4.95. Death of Judge Billingsley. Washington, Jan. 26.—UP—Form l er Judge J. L. Billingsley, of Miami, ■ Fla., died here today after an illness . of more than three months. He had > been undergoing treatement by Mayo ■ brothers in Minnesota eight weeks before coming hfere where he entered 1 the Washington Sanatorium. Mrs. Billingsley safd the death of f her husband came as a shock since l he had shown evidences lately of im - proving in health. . Resume Flight From Spain to Argen tine. > Las Palmas, Cahary Island, Jan. • 26.—(/P) —Commander Franco and t two other Spanish avltors today re sumed flight from Spain to Argentina. They hopped off for Cape Verde Is-' t lands at 8:20 a. m. in the plane No Pius Ultra.” North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily CONCORD, N. C„ TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1926 Martin Durkin’s Second Wife j - Jr 'iMMmm m WLW ; gap l '}? JBSPr:/ VHHH * HBHralßr™ JHBSbfa,.- This is Mgrtin Durkin’s see&l‘wife—Ruth Fiebnck. of Chicago, whom he married in 1922. As be ga* never obtained a divorce from her. it is believed that his most recent Carriage, to Irma Sullivan, is illegal. 1 —=-! .10.- NO ACCOMPLICES, SHELTON ASSERTS Man Who Robbed Bank Tells Exactly Hotv He Accomplished the Deed. Greensboro, .Tan. 24. —John W. Shelton. Danville man, today could not be budged from his declaration that lie had no accomplices in robbery of a strong box in the American Ex change Bank here. It was learned that the contents of the box were SSO in cash, $110,105 in checks, insur ance policies and negotiable papers and a pad of 100 cashier’s check*. Everything but the SSO in cash has been recovered. Shelton said that a week ago, on last Sunday evening, he went into the bank, with some of the employees, saw the pad of cashier's checks on a desk, and that night secured the pass >ev c; « H. Brinson, an employee -«■s - the bank, and entered it and accom plished the robbery. He had the cashier's check with him when arrest ed in Charlotte Friday afternoon nnd brought back here. He needed Ihe money, he said. He had formerly roomed with Brinson in this city, and was able to get the pass key to the bank door, otenling it from Brinson. How the box was returned to the bank after warning had been given that it had to be returned or prose cution would follow has not been learned. Police are still working on the case. Shelton, who is a married man, said that desperate need of money drove him to effect the robbery, and that' no other person had anything to do with it. He went so far as to call W. H. Spradlin, Jr., an officer in the bank, Tuesday by telephone and ask him to meet him at the post office building, and told Mr. Spradlin that he knew where the box was and who had it, and seemed greatly surprised when told that the box had been returned. He hurried away from Mr. Spradlin nnd went to Charlotte. Mrs. Shelton came here from Dan ville today to see her husband. She went to the police station and talked a while with him, but she returned to Danville tonight. It could not be earned when Shelton will get a hear ing. Urges Removal of State Fair to Greensboro. Greensboro, Jan. 25.—Since the directors of the North Carolina State fair are considering a change in site for the annual event, a suggestion is made by Bariad Daniel, president of tbe Central Carolina Fair Associa tion, that the State fair be transfer red to Greensboro the coming fall. Mr. Daniel is confident that the directors of the Central Carolina fair will extend the free use of the spac ious grounds in this city as a place to hold the State fair. In event the present backers of the fair do not wish to continue to support it in event it moves to Greensboro, Mr. Daniel states the local organization can guarantee an equal premium list and equal or better attractions in comparison with those obtaining at the State fair in Itnlcigh in any year. The Raleigh directors of the fair, which is not State supported, have announced they are looking for a n»>w site since the present grounds are iadequate and represent too great In investment for the return received. It is Mr. Daniel's sugges tion that it would be well to move i the fair to an already established ground in this city than to attempt ' to build up an entirely new ground ’ with equipment on new land near Raleigh. The Greensboro grounds are . ample for the State fair or any other ' exposition of the kind. Tbe building ' here are a!so ample nnd represent the best fair outlay in the State, it is believed. Arrangements have been completed whereby the Franklin Mill band of • 22 pieces will furnish the music fan I the Pet nnd Hobby Show which is ■ to be held at tbe Y. M. C. A. Sat • urjlay night. This band has played •' on several previous occasions nnd ? was greatly enjoyed by those who heard it. CHARLOTTE ANNOUNCES GRAND OPERA SEASON Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association Back the Undertaking. Charlotte. Jan. 25.—Charlotte, for the first time in its history, is to have a season of grand opera presented by a company of opera stars appearing with able supporting casts in three of the notably popular operas, it was announced yesterday. Charles T. Hesser, special represen tative of the Manhattan Company, of New York, completed details Satur day in conference with Gordon & Com pany, manager of the Auditorium The atre. with the approval and com mendation of representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and the Char lotte Merchants’ Association, to pre sent "Madam* Butterfly,” l, The Bar ker of Seville,” and "La , Tr*viata” here during the first week in Febru ary. The company will contain the fam ous Japanese prima donna, Madame Tamaki Miura. who will sing the title role in Puccini's operatic masterpiece, “Madame Butterfly.” It will also contain Ricardo Martin, the noted tenor, who comes from Hopkinsville, Ky. and who won the plaudits of audiences in many of the capitals of Europe prior to the World War. The program of grand opera will open here February 2nd with the pre sentation of "Madame Buatterfly" on the night of the second. There will be no opera on Wednesday night, but on Thursday the company will pre sent the famed operatic masterpiece, “The Barber of Seville,” at the mati nee performance. At night they will present "La Traviata.” ROUTE 10 TRAVEL IS HEAVIEST IN DISTRICT Traffic Census Taken While Terri tory is in Ice King’s Throe. Greensboro News. As usual, travel on the Greens boro-High Point road was heavier than on any road in state highway district number five, according to traffic report for January. It hap pened that the census was taken on January 13 when the whole district was in the throes of the last snow and a material decrease in number of vehicles is shown. On this day 1,527 vehicles passed a point seven miles east of High Point. Os this number two were horsedrnwn, two were motorcycles, 1,275 were passenger cars; 52 busses; 195 trucks; four were trailers and 118 were foreign cars. The largest number of foreign cars passing any one point in the district was registered at Ruffin on route 70, 138 pawing there. The largest number of horsedrawn vehicles pass ing any one point in the district was registered two miles of Haeford on route 24, 70 passing in one oay, Traffic on route 00 registered near Guilford college station was almost as heavy on this particular day as on the High Point road, 1,403 vehicles passing the census taker. McCRAY REPORTED TO - BE IN ILL HEALTH New Petition Must Be Presented Be fore President Will Consider Clem ency. Washington, Jan. 26.-y-(4 > )— Before President Coolidge would be inclined to consider clemency for former Gov ernor McCray, of Indiana, now in the Atlanta penitentiary, it will be neces sary of McCray to submit a new pe tition pointing out that ill health jus tifies release. The attitude of the President was shown today at the White House where it was pointed out that the pe tition for clemency also submitted and on which the Department of Justice looks with disfavor did not include the health of the prisoner ns one of the grounds for commutation of his sentence. ■ ' McCray is now reported to be suf fering from high blood pressure. An investigation of his condition was re cently ordered by the department of justice. He is serving a sentence for tiding the mails to defraud. STUDENTS’ CONDUCT AT UNIVERSITY AT ; THE PM TIME Is as Good as That of Any Preceding Generation in Its History, Dr. Chase Tells Trustees. THE UNIVERSITY LIFE IS SOUND The Institution Is Sending Out Men Who Will Mean at Much to State as Any of the Past. Raleigh, Jan. 20.—(A I )—The con ' duct of students at the University of North Carolina today is as good as if not better than that of any other pre ceding generation in the institution's 130 years of history, President W. H. Chase told the board of trustees at their winter meeting here today. The life of the University is sound. Dr. Chase said, and the men it is send ing out into North Carolina will mean every bit as much to the State as those of the past. Conditions on the campus arc fine and clean, the influ ences surrounding the students are as constructive and as helpful as at any time in its history. He emphasized in his report that "the University is being operated on a budget system and has done so for years. The system followed is the one that is being followed by the lar ger Universities nil over the United States. Every one of the approxi -1 mately 35 departments and adminis trative divisions of the University has at the beginning of the year a definite allotment of funds with which to car ry out the work for the year. It re ceives a monthly statement as to the condition of the funds and does not exceed its total in the annual expendi ture." The report pointed out that it has been disclosed "that the percentage of students who fail is not greater now than it was 20 years ago although the institution has grown much larger in size.” BIBLE BEING ATTACKED; SIMPLE FAITH DERIDED Davidson Minister Appeals to Chris tians to Rally For Repairing Breaks in Wall- Davidson, Jan. 25.—Dr. C. M. Richards in his morning sermon at the Davidson Presbyterian church made a challenging appeal to the Christian people of his community and of the state and nation in gen eral “to rally for .the repairing of , the breaches in the wall that en circles and protects the liberty and security of the country.” “Openly the Bible is being at tacked and simple faith in it as nn inspired book is scattered, ridiculed and derided,” Dr. Richards' declared. "Witness the attack of Luther Bur bank in his infidel utterances. Along with it all we are developing here in America in the literal sense of the word the 'continental' Sabbath.” . “The Christian by his very creed cannot doubt that the principles aud the teachings of this inspired Book must finally triumph, but God uses human means, and unless those that are true to the faith shall put on the armor and attempt to combat and to counteract the evil jnfluencces that are bold aud daring and audn cioius in their attacks upon the Bible, as an inspired Book, and upon what they are pleased to term the Puritanical and absurd narrowness, dnrk days are in store for those who are the followers of Christ. “No one can prophesy as to when the day of doom will come, but come it must, unless the Christian 1 forces of America shall raiiy to the call and denounce and combat this ‘ destructive attack upon the Chris ' tian religion and its principles.” Dr. Richards based his remarks on a passage in the Book of Nehe miali concerning the rebuilding of ’ the walls of Jerusalem bythe pro phet. He drew an interesting and in -1 structive comparison between that ' work aud the work that must be done in America unless the founda -1 tions of the state, and after it those 1 of the church, are to be destroyed. FOR “DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENSE” Gen. Patrick Says Time Will Come When It Will Supplant War and Navy Departments. [ -Washington, Jan. 20.— UP) —Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the . army air service, repeated before the . House Military Committee today his prediction that the time would come . when a “department of national de [ sense” would supplement the War and . Navy Departments. . Pending this “more perfect” or . gnnization he favored an air corps . with the independent stutus of the . Marine Corps. 11l reply to questions he sa : d none i of his "basis recommendations" Bo ■ the President’s air board had been - adopted and embodied in legislation I sponsored by the administration. t _ Secretary of War Davis recalled for * further questions, said he did net f think a separate air corps would solve ! the problem. “I don’t believe In the plans for - changing our schemes for military pr i ganization," he added. f -Thirty-four per cent, of all the worn r en in New York City are wage earn ers. B,v< ______ Ponca City. Okla. will have one ot the finest museums in the southwea as a result of the generosity of E W Marland. president of the Mar land Oil Co He is donating a *260. 000 building that will house relict and mementoes of the pioneer days MARSHALL NOW CONFESSES Not Only to Cutting Up Miss Die trich’s Body But to Killing Her. Philadelphia, Jan. 25.—David X. Marshall. Philadelphia chiropractor, tonight confessed that he had strangled Miss Anna Mae Deittrich to death be fore dismembering her body in his office last Tuesday night. Marshall said he had killed the woman after an argument which, he asserted, followed an attempt to ex tort money from him. He made his second confession late tonight in the office of District Attorney Fox after being under a severe grilling almost continuously since 6 o'clock last night. During the questioning Marshall, who kept steadfastly to his or iginal confession that he had dismem bered the body but did not kill Miss Deitrieh, suddenly flushed and turn ing to the district attorney, cried: “I’m lying, it's all lies. I'll tell the truth now.” A stenographer was called and Mar shall started making a ntw confes sion. Marshall, who is married and the father of a 12-year-old girl, said Miss Dietrich had trieel to obtain money from him under threats of exposing his double Njfe to his wife. He told how he had been out with her and later went' to his striae of offices, where the quarrel started. There, parts of the latest confes sion as given out by the police said, she repeated her demands for money in the women's retiring room. Seiz ing hep by the throat, he strangled her, he went , on, until she dropped unconscious on the floor. He then carried the body into another room, placing it on the operating table, and went to his home. He returned the next day, dismembered the body by cuttiag off the head and legs and took the parts in his motor car 'to the outskirts of the city, where they were found the next day. CLIFF-DWELLERS MUST BE HAVE LIVED IN STATE Prof. Collier Cobb Examines Strange Rock Formation in Blowing Rock Section. Chimney Rock, Jan. 23.—Collier Cobb, geologist of the University of North Carolina, left here today fhr his home at Chapel Hill after com pleting examination of strange rock formations existing in this part of western North Carolinn. to which his attention had been called. Today he ascended Chimney Rock mountain, scaled the dizzy heights, accompanied by two guides familiar with that region, gathering scientific data. Upon the return journey the party explored an underground passage or subway through which it was pos ■ sible to reach the opposite side of i the mountain overlooking Lake Lure. En route. Prof. Cobb scanned at a distance what appeared to be the per i feet outline rock formation of an ancient village of cliffdwellers. The emienent geologist expects at an early date to return with scienti fic instruments and cameras outfitted for a week’s journey examining the ! sheer granite walls which today ex cited the party asthey had made a > discovery which nifty turn back the pages of established history of this region prior to the days of the In dians in Western North Carolina. , This is the same region scanned last year by members ofthe Chicago geographic society brought here for : exploration by the Southern Rail way. , Roaring Gap Hotel to Be Ready by June Ist. Winston-Salem, January 25. —An- ’ nouncement is made today by the owners of the summer resort develop- J ment at Roaring Gap, in Alleghany county, that the first unit of the modern hotel being constructed there ’ will be opened about June Ist, this being earlier than first expected. Leonard Tufts, of Pinehurst and Southern Jinee fame, will manage the ' new hotel. > ____________ 1 Duke University has had so many 1 first page positions that the article about that university in McNaught’s ” Monthly for February by Louis I. t Jalfe deserves careful reading. Mr. * Jaffe, who is editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, speaks from first r hand information for he is a - graduate of Trinity College which ia now Duke University. In Paris it ia now the fashion for - women to have the ritn* of their spec tacle* colored to match their -gowns. THE TRIBUNE 'MI PRINTS TODAY’S NEWS TODAY NO. 19 f simeiliM T JFLiOfl ' RING ARE INDICTED Among Those Indicted by Federal Grand Jury in New York City Are Men* ; bers of Coast Guard. ■ william'dwyer jl ALSO INDICTED It Is Alleged by Federal Authorities That H e Was Leader of Gaftf Operating on Rum Row. is - n <i|aH New York. Jan. 26.— UP) —Thirteen, members of the const guard and 48 1 other individuals were indicted today by a federal grand jury investigate ing the alleged syndicate headed by "Bill" Dwyer, former race track own er. Nine of the coast guardsmen named in the indictment ore still in active service. Three separate imlictipenje , were returned charging the 61 defend- * ants with violation of the federal tiro- ji hibition law and conspiracy to vio late the law. The grand jury has spent six in investigating the alleged rum ring which is represented by the federal authorities as having controlled 18 ocean steamers in the rum running business. Dwyer and more than a score of confederates were arrested in December and since then four boats supposed to have been in the trade have been seized. The syndicate, federal authorities believe, was responsible for bringing in millions of dollars worth of liquor to this country annually. It was considered the "backbone of rum row.” A suit of offices was main tained in the East River Savings Bank building and headquarters were s in Lexington Avenue. Dwyer, whose full name is William V. Dwyer, was named in the indict- | ments together with his higher up con- 1 federates and members of the ring of seagoing vessels. The coast guardsmen were alleged to have been in his pay. Papers seized in possession of the I? first men arrested in the roundup- in December showed that there was con fusion between some members of the | coast guard and the federak -si authorities said. Codes for an elab orate system of signals for communi cation between the alleged confederate guardsmen and rum ships were found f among the seized papers, S Nicholas Brown, boatswain and commanding officer of coast guard cut ter No. 126, one of the men arrested -I in the initial roundup, was indicted. Papers seized after the arrest of Philip J. Goffey, alleged “pay off man” j for the ring, contained a notation | showing that $8,400 had been paid to 1 Brown by the ring. THE COTTON MARKET yl Opening Barely Steady at a Decline | of From 5 to 14 Points. J New York, Jan. 26.— UP) — The cot- | ton market worked lower in today's early trading owing to renewal of near ’ month liquidation with some south- $ ern or local selling inspired by rela tively easy Liverpool cables. It op- 1 ened barely steady at a decline* of 5 to 14 points and active months show- ? ing net lossis of 9 to 13 points by the end of the first hour, March sell ing off to 20.09 and October to 18 15. Houses with Liverpool connections were moderate buyers here coupled with a little trade buying and cover ing but support was limited aild the easier ruling of the near months had rather an unsettling effect on senti- , ment. Private cables reported hedging and * continental selling in Liverpool with a fair spot demand from spinners and | exports and considerable cloth inquiry from India. Cotton futures opened barely steady, g March 20.13: May 19.56; July |j Oct. 18.14; Dee. 17.95. EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS ' J What Is Called “Catastrophic” Quake Occurred Early Toddy. Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, Jftn. 26. UP) —The seismograph instrument at i geographical institute at 1:57 this 'J moruing registered what was termed ■ a “catastrophic” earthquake many miles away. The shocks continued • for some time. Registered in France. Clermont-Feraud, France, Jan. 26, —UP) —Earthquake shock «f consid- -j arable violence was registered on the sejsmograpb of Puyde Dome Observa-* ,;? , tory at 12 55 this morni-i The * shock continued for 3 seconds. Its center was estimated .o have been , 1250 miles away. i SAT’S BEAR SAYSI *■ > F Cloudy tonight and Wednesday; im| so cold and 0.-ntra) and west portiogfe r tonight and in central and east pag-J - tions Wednesday. Moderate to freab southeast shifting to west wind*. W