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VOLUME XXVI
COW DEATHS :
HAVE RESULTED IN
AN INVESTIGATION
Attorney General of Ala
bama, Upon Request of
Several Persons, Starts j
Rigid Investigation.
GRAND JURY MAY
GET FACTS ALSO,
J. W. Taylor Started Desi-1
nite Action When He ,
Asked For Facts About
Death of Son.
Tuseumbin. Ala., Feb. 17.—(/P)—A
general investigation into recent
deaths of convicts in Alabama mines
operated by convict labor is being
conducted by Attorney General Har
vell Davis, following the filing of
complaints.
J. IV. Taylor yesterday asked that
an investigation be conducted into
the death of liis son “Putc," who died
at a convict camp after serving eight
days of a ten years sentence.
Announcement by the Attorney
General also indicated a grand jury
invest'gntion will be asked into the
death of Janies Knox, West Virgin
ian, who died in a convict camp in
August, 192-1. He said efforts had
been made to frustrate his inquiry in
to the case.
Mr. Taylor in his complaint filed
with Sheriff Henry Cobb of Colbert
County, charged that his son was beat
en to death by two negro trusties who
had been ordered to punish him. Pris
on records show that Taytbr died of
heart trouble but Mr. Taylor said his
sou had never been troubled with Ills
heart. He requested an exhumation
of the body to determine if possible
what caused his death.
The Taylor case is similar to that
of Knox, who, reports said, was scald
ed to death when he failed to dig his
share of the coal. The Attorney Gener
al has been investignCng his death
but has not given his reports, which,
he said will be voluminous. Prison
records state Knox died from poison,
self-administered.
WOMAN’S METHODIST
MISSIONARY COUNCIL
Sixteenth Annual Session to Be Hety
at Raleigh March 10-17.
Raleigh, Feb. 17. — Ost —Addresses
by men and women of note and the
quadrennial election of officers are ex
pected to feature the sixteenth annual
session of the Woman's Missionary
Council of the .Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, which is to be held
here March 10th to 17th.
Preceding by only two months the
meeting of the general conference of
the denomination in May, it is ex
pected that the council will formulate
recommendations for legislation by the
general conference.
Session* of the council will be held
at Edenton Street Church, of which
Rev. W. A. Stnnbury is pastor.
Among the speakers who are on the
program for the meeting are: Dr. J.
11. Mntthcws, professor of Old Tes
tament at Scarritt College for Chris- ;
tiari Workers and former missionary,
who will be in charge of the daily
noonday Rible hour; Dr. Daniel J.
Fleming, of New York, a Presbyterian
minister who has been a missionary to
India, and who is an author of books
on missions j and Dr. Charles R. i
I.hnister, executive secretary of the i
City Federation of Churches, Pitts- <
burgh, Pa., who will speak on “The :
Church in the Community.” 1
In the council meeting North Caro
lina will be represented by Mrs. W. A. 1
Newell, of Winston-Salem; Mrs. C.
H. Early, Gatesville; Mrs. H. C. 1
Bouey, Rose Hill; Mrs. Lucy H. Rob- 1
ertson, Greensboro, and Mrs. A. H. 1
Dunham, Asheville.
Among the visitors expected at the 1
meeting is Miss Sse Vong Pau, for '
many years president of the Woman's 1
Missionary Society of the Chino con
ference. Miss Sxe will'llot only rep
resent her conference at the council
meeting in Raleigh, but she has been
elected an official delegates to the gen
eral conference meeting in Memphis,
Tenn., in May.
The Woman’s Missionary Council
has a membership of approximately
200 delegates, representing every sec
tion of the church’s territory, and a
constituency of approximately 300,-
000 women, members of missionary
societies. Through this organization,
women of the denomination are doing
missionary work in Africa, Brazil,
China, Cuba, Korea, Japan and Mex
ico, as well as at home.
LET CONTRACT FOR
CITY IMPOUNDING DAM
Work Will Be Dene by R. J. Patter
son. of Charlotte, at Cost of Ap
proximately $54,000.
Meeting here Tuesday to receive
bids for the new impounding dam for
the c’ty, members of the water and
light board heard various offers and
let the contract to R. J. Patterson, of
Charlotte.
The cost of the dam will be ap
proximately $54,000, and work will
be March first. The company plans
to complete the work In 120 working
days.
The new dam will have a storage
rapacity of 343,000,000 gallons and
once It is filled the city will have a
water supply of 2,000,000 gallons dai
ly.
The English derby is considered the
greatest racing event in the world.
The Concord Daily Tribune
====r _______ North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
N<^gte ars
Mr*. James Wire of Kountze. Tea.
“* «w«ya been proud of her hair.
Now. she say*, she wont bob It, aa
natter what the flappers do.
MINERS TflfiG if
CLOSE MINES FAIL
Union Members Dispersed
by Police When They
fathered Near Mine Us
ing Non-Union Help.
Evansville, Ind., Feb. 17.—(/P)—Un
ion sympathizers who have been con
ducting a campaign to cljsc non-union
mines in the Indiana coal field were
dispersed by police and deputy sher
iffs when they visited the Sunnyside
Mine near here this morning. Non
union men entered the shaft unmolest
ed.
The visit to the Sunnyside Mine
followed calls on three mines in War
rick County yesterday during which
some disorders developed. Lee Gor
bet a non-union miner, stabbed in
fighting between factions at Newbevg
yesterday, and brought to a hospital
here, is recovering.
N. C. COLLEGE FACULTY
STRONG FOR DR. CHASE
Endorse Him as Friend of Toleration
and Freedom In North Carolina.
Greensboro, Feb. la—Members of
the faculty of the North Carolina
College for Women here, meeting to
day, pased a resolution that de
clared if President Harry W. Chnso,
president of the University of North
Carolina leaves the University, it
will be a distinct loss to the State
and endorsed him as the friend qf
toleration and freedom in North
Carolina. They expressed the hope
that he will not leave the University
to accept the presidency ofthe Uni
versity of Oregon, which has been
offered him. Pledge of support of Dr,
Chase in his stand for educational
and moral progress was made. The
president of the college, Dr. J. I.
Foust, attended the meeting and aid
ed in the passage of the resolution.
And he wired Dr. Chase now in the
West, of the action taken.
Three Changes That Interest Caro
linians.
Washington, Feb. 16.—1 n addition
to the changes Senator Simmons
needed in making the tax bill in the
Senate, already printed in this
paper, there are three others which
he deems of importance nud specinl
interest in North Carolina. They
are:
1. Repeal of the 8 cents per pound
tax proposed by the House on the
sale of leaf tobacco by dealers to the
consumers.
2. Restoring the S3OO building and
loan exemption which had been cut
out of the bill, and which Senator
Simmons had put back in.
3. Defeating the efforts as re
flected in the House bill indirectly to
tax farm loan and joint etock laud
tank bonds and other public securi
ties- Senator Simmons knocked this
out in the Finance Committee.
Give Young Men Hearing Today.
Morganton, N. C., Feb. 17.—OP)—
The preliminary bearing of the four
young men charged with the murder
of Frank Butler, Burke county man,
on the night of January 30th, Which
was continued until today, is schedul
ed to begin at 3 p. m. before Justice
of the Peace George H. Battle in the
Burke county court house. The young
men charged with the crime are
Charles Kendrick, Wells Green, Roy
Hill; and Otis Jolly, all of Gaffney
8. C.
CONCORD, N. C. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1926
imrisiK
| FOLLOWING SEVERN.
WSOFSffIESS
| Went to His Office Today
But Soon Returned to
! ! White House Because of
11 Very Heavy Cold.
condition!^
NOT SERIOUS
Resting as Precautionary
j Measure Since Cold Has
Been Hanging on Sev
eral Days.
Washington, Feb. 17. UP)—Pres
ident Coolidge after a br’ef stay to
day in his office returned to his liv
ing quarters in the White House to
seek relief from n heavy cold.
The I*resident conferred during the
morning with Chairman Madden, of
the House appropriation committee,
and received a call from Ambasador
Riano. of Hpain. He then cancelled
other engagements for the day.
The President appeared at his desk
at tile usual time and transacted bus
iness demanding his immediate atten
tion. He has suffered for a long time
from a nasal trouble and lias taken
regular treatments for if.
White House officials did not con
sider the cold as serious. They su’d
it could be more quickly dissipated
if more rest is afforded the Presi
dent.
J. D. NOi.WOOD FILES
A FORMAL APPEAL
Former Bank Official Will Fight
Federal Prison Sentence.
Greensboro, Feb. 16.—Attorneys
for J. D. Norwood, former chairman
of the board of directors of the Peo
ple’s National bank of Salisbury,
which failed June 8. 1923, today in
the office here of the clerk of ’ the
United States court, western district
of North Carolina, filed formal ap
peal from verdict of guilty brought
against hm in the court here last
December 19 on chage of violation
of the banking laws.
He was sentenced by Judge H. H.
Watkins, of western South Carolina
federal district court, who presided
over the trial, having exchanged
courts with Judge E. Yo to- Webb,
of Shelby. The sentence was three
years in federal prison in Atlanta.
Appeal is also taken from the sen
tence imposed.
The attorneys base their appeal
for one thing upon the refusal of the
judge to direct a verdict of not
guilty, before the jury retired, as he
did in the case of J. K. Doughton.
who was president of the bank when
it failed. He and Norwood were
tried on joint indictment, of six
counts, charging misnpp’iention of
fundß of the bank. Doughton was
cleared by order of the judge.
The district attorney has thirty
days in which to file answer to the
exceptions noted by the defense at
torneys in their appeals, and the
matter then goes to the United
States circuit court of appeals, sit
ting at Richmond. Va.
Norwood, who was formerly head
of the Mecklenburg Mills company,
a chain of four plants, with offlffices
at Salisbury, is now engaged in busi
ness in Birmingham, Ala. He is out
on bond of SIO,OOO, which was fiyed
when he gave notice of intention to
appeal from the verdict and the
judgment imposed. Clyde Hoey,
Shelby, and A. L. Brooks, of this city,
are his attorneys.
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Your garments made germ-free and
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See “Town Topics” in the new ad.
of Fetzer A Yorke today.
Now iB the time to get your awn
ings from the Concord Furniture Co.
Terms to suit your convenience.
Dancing lessons each Saturday af
ternoon from 2 to 4 o’clock at the
Merchants and Manufacturers Club
by Miss Dorothy Mallard.
“The Early Bird,” J. C. Penney
Co’s, spring Waverly cap, only $1.98.
The newest spring hats at Efird’s, a
rich and varied collection. Prices,
$2.95, $3.95 and $4.95.
Stetson and No Name hats for
spring at the Richmond-Flowe Co’s.
At the Broadway Theatre in Char
lotte February 18, 10 and 20 the pre
mier southern showing of “The Sea
Beast,” with John Barrymore and
Dolores Costello will be given. Per
formances at 1, 3:10, 7 and 9 p. m.
Its a Warner classic of the screen.
Special stage prolog with scenic and
lighting effects. See ad. e’.Bewhere.
If you would benefit by the special
terms now being offered by the Con
cord and Kannapolis Gas Co., note
1 that the sale ends next Saturday.
Read the ad. on last page today.
All prices reduced on winter goods
at Pnrks-Belk Co.’s. The goods are
priced low to clean them up quick.
Everything is now on new spring rner
. chandise in all the latest styles. Phone
■ your grocery wants to 138.
1 Ellison May Be Next Mayor of Char
-1 lotte.
Charlotte, Feb. 10.— Developments
’ in the mayoralty situation Tuesday
' indicated that Ernest Elison, well-
I known Insurance man, may be the
‘ next mayor of Charlotte. He has
been a resident of Chartotte lor 19
years and is prominent m many
phases of the city's life.
_ A Tragedy o( the Night Air Mail
, fill tfuit is left ot tn£ Hjrpiniiu iu which Ait Smith,' veteran pilot, crashpd ns he was making a
insht flight on the airmail route between Chicago ami Cleveland. His plane struck a tree, fell to the ground
aud burst into flames near Bryan, O.,killing Smith and leaving only the charred wreckage for the rescue party.
FOiIMK
FOLLOWING WRECK
Six Others Hurt, Three Se
riously, When Two Boats
Collided in the East Riv
er Today.
New York, Feb. 17.—OP)—Four
men were missing after a oollis’on to
day between a New York Marine
Company's tug and the Fall River
Line steamship New Hampshire fn
the East River near the Brooklyn
Bridge. Six others, three of whom are
in a serious condition, were taken tp
Breekman Street hospital suffering
from submersion and exposure. All
of the crew of tile tug boat wen
thrown into the icy waters by the
force of the collision. Nine men man
aged to cling to floating ice cakes un
til rescued by the New Hampshire,
nitd. scveraMngs which tvcqt to tsff*
scene. A ihree-liour search failed to
locate the four remaining men known
to have been on the tug.
The tug sank immediately after ihe
crash, only the top of its smoke star!
remain’ng above the surface of the
water. The New Hampshire with a
damaged bow, proceeded to her pier'.
TOO MANY INOUIRIFS
TO SUIT REPUBLICANS
Methods By Which Inquiries Can IF
Halted Discussed at Conference.
Washington. Feb. IT.— UP) —A move
to put the brakes on the Senate inves
tigations was launched today by a
conference of Senate Republicans.
To discourage adoption of the res
olutions of inquiry at the request of
one senator, the conference went on
record in favor of referring such
measures to the standing committee
which has charge of the subject mat
ter of a proposed investigation.
This committee would conduct a
preliminary survey, and if a favora
ble report were made the measure
then would go to the committee on
audit and control for its approval.
Cotton Seed Fgures.
Washington. Feb. 17.—Cotton seed
crushed in the six months period
August Ist to January 31st totalled
3,508,697 tons, compared with 3,248,-
452 tons in the same period a year
ago, and cotton seed on hand at the
mills January 31st totalled 1,099.371
tons, compared with 900,899 tons a
year ago, the Census Bureau today
announced.
says: i
If a girl doesn’t walk (
around with her eyes on the
ground and her mind on the
Lilies people think she's got a >
date with the devil. ,
Watch Hits paper lor fur■ f
ther nevm ot Joanna' i thrill
ing love ttory. )
What Would You f
Do With a
Million Dollar*?
GENERAL PATRICK
MUST WOVE NEXT
What Is to Be Done With
Officers Who Oppose Air
Service Plans Now Rests
With Air Officer.
Washington, Feb. 17.—UP)—“Nec
essary disciplinary action” as a re
sult of the War Department’s inves
tigation into the reported air service
propaganda aetivit ; es has been left to
Major General M. Patrick, chief of
the air service.
General Patrick, who made the in
vestigation at the orders of Secre
tary Davis, submitted his findings to
day to the Secretary who immediate
ly delegated to him authority to take
the proper steps.
This statement was issued by the
Secretary:
“General Patrick submitted to the
of War this morning the
report of the investigation undertak
en lo determine the parties respons : -
ble for the unauthorized attempts to
: nfluenco legislation affecting the air
service.
“The matter of the necessary dis
ciplinary action has been left by the
Secretary of War in the hands of Gen
Patrick.”
Officers Will Be Reprimanted
Washington, Feb. 17.— UP) —Majors
H. H. Arnold and H. A. Dargue,
army air service, have been found re
sponsible for “objectionable” activi
ties in attempting to influence air
service legislation and will be repri
manded.
The findings resulted from an in
vestigation ordered by Secretary of
War Davis following distribution of
eirclars urging suppbrt for air service
legislation favored by Major General
Mason M. Pattrick, chief oto the army
air service.
Major Arnold is information officer
in General Patrick’s office and the
general who has been given authority
to administer the discipline found him
most cuplable and announced se would
be sent to duty outside of Washing
ton. Major Dargue is chief of the
war plans division of the air service.
General Patrick in announcing his
findings issued a statement replying
to intimations in Congress and else
where that lihe investigation was real
ly intended by the war department to
force him out of the service. In his
belief, he said, “there was absolutely
no foundation of fact for any such
nonsensical statement.” v
In the course of the investigation in
his office. General Patrick closely
questioned every officer on duty there.
“The investigation,’ the statement)
said, “disclosed the fact that only two;
officers in this ojee were concerned
in an attempt to influence legislation
in what I regard as an objectionable
manner. Both of them will be repri-;
manded, and one of them no longer
wanter in my office, will be sent' to
another station.”
Color Gravure.
The Color Gravure section of next
Sunday’s World on the first page will
lmve three beautiful pictures suitable
j for framing. Portrait of George Wash
ington by Rembrandt Peale, N. A.;
portrait of Stephen De Lancey by
John Smilbert, Stephen De Lancey
Was the original owner of Fraunces
Tavern, and a magnificent reproduc
tion of Wadsworth Thompson, N. A.,
“Passing the Outpost,” Your news
dealer’s supply of Sunday World is
limited to advance orders. Order a
copy in advance.
Approves Air Service Program BHL
Washmgton, Feb. 17.— UP)-— The
House naval committee today report
ed a bill to carry out its new five
year building program for the naval
air service at a cost of nearly SIOO,-
000,000.
Miss Isabel Craig Bacon, an agent
of the United States Board of Voca
tional Education, is g<vng to France
at the invitation of the Paris cham
ber of commerce to aid in establishing
a permanent school in the French
capital for the training of young
• women for store service.
Mwdivis
POSTPONES VISIT
Will Not Leave the Cap
ital Until the Countess
Cathcart Case Has Been
Settled.
Washington, Feb. 17.—OP)— Sec
retary Davis postponed his departure
for Florida on a vacation trip today
in order to give further personal at
tention to the case of the Countess of
Cathcart, who has appealed from the
decision of immigration authorities at
New. York barring her from the Unit
ed States on grounds of moral tuhpi
tude.
Mr. Davis first had planned to
leave early today but he decided this
morning to stay in the city until to
night that he might struggle with
problems described as of "semi-legal"
nature involved in his decis ; on con
cerning the Countess who has been
"vein(led on grounds in connection
with her elopement several years ago
with the Earl of Craven.
WANTS MONEY FOR TESTS
AGAINST BOLL WEEVIL
Senator Ransdel] Wants Tests Made
of Poisoning by Airp’anes
YVashington, Feb. 17.— OP) —An ap
propriation of $250,00 was sought to
day by Senator Ransdell, Democrat,
of Lonisiana, for experimentation in
methods of poisoning the boll weevil
from airplanes. He rebuested the
appropriation committee to permit the
appropriation for use at the Tallulah,
Ala., experiment station, where it al
ready had been demonstrated that the
operations were practicable.
Declaring that the boll weevil
caused annual damage of $300.00,000
to $500,000,000, he declared the whole
country would benefit by cheap cot
ton if the experiments are continued
He declared the boll weevil can be
controlled if dusting by airplanes is
continued on a large scale throughout
the Soutth,
SPARRING PARTNER OF
JOCK DEMPSEY SHOT
Police Not Able to Determine Whet 6
er the Wound Was Accidental.
Richmond, Feb. 17.— OP) —Ralph
Brooks, 28, sparring partner of Jack
Dempsey, was found shot in the head
in his room at a local hotel shortly af
ter noon today.
He had come here to prepare for an
exhibition match with the world’s
heavyweight champion on Saturday
night. It has not been determined
: whether Brooks’ wound was accidou
j tal. He was taken to a hospital and
after a superficial examination physi
cians stated he had a fight chance to
recover. Brooks’ home is thought to
; be in Wichita, Kansas.
75Y'ear-01d Woman Weds; Mother
Dies Os Shock.
Durham, Feb. 16.—Shock and dis
pleasure because of the marriage of
her 75-year-old daughter is given as
the immediate cause of the death of
Mrs. White, 102 years, at her home
in McDowell county last week, ac
cording to information received by a
great granddaughter of the deceased.
Mrs. G. S. Justice, of Durham,
whose husband is a member of the
local police force.
Mrs. Moffit, the daughter, and
her mother had been living quietly
in the mountain county for a long
time, but when the mother was in
formed of the daughter's marriage
on Tuesday of last week, her dis
pleasure and the shock were too
much for her and she died soon after,
the meager message to her great
granddaughter said.
After the funeral and burial of
Mrs. White, the daughter and her
husband left on a bridal trip to
Arkansas and other states in the
west, it was learned. The name of
the bridegroom was not learned by
the Durham relatives.
Japan's first railroad wasn't built
until 1872 or 42 years after the Bal
timore and Ohio, the first railroad
in the United States, began its ser
vice.
NO. 38
FIRE PROVES FATAL
TO YOUNG MOTHER
AND SIX CH!Lr r
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Teale
and Six of Her Children
Trapped in Home in Cen
tral Bridge, N. Y.
ONE CHILDWAS
ABLE TO ESCAPE
The Father Also Escaped
But He Suffered Two
Broken Arms.—Preach
er Burned During Fire.
Central P>ridge, N. Y'„ Feb. 17. —
! C4 3 )—Mrs. Elizabeth B. Teale, 29. and
six of her children were burned to
death when fire destroyed their apart
ment over a barber shop early today.
Tlse father, Edward Teale. escaped
wit'.i two broken arms and the eldest
child, a daughter, was uninjured.
Rev. Harrison Black, pastor of tile
Methodist Church, was severely burned
in attempting to rescue the victims.
The clergyman saw the flames, heard
cries of members of the Teale fam
ily and made his way to the - second
floor where Teale, unable to force
his way through the flames to bis
children, was trying to drag his wife
to safety. Mrs, Teale, however, strug
gled successfully back to her children
and perished in the blaze. Flames
forced the pastor and Teale to jump
from the second story window.
CHECK-FLASHER POSES
AS UNIVERSITY AGENT
Charged With Falsely Declaring |
Himself Duke Representative.
Durham. Feb. 16.—Posing as a i
representative of Duke University
in search of new students for that
institution, a young man in touring
several of the Southern States on a (
check-flashing trip, according to
word received here by University of
ficials. Numerous inquiries have been
received concerning checks given by .
him.
Georgia merchants have been the ,
greatest sufferers at the hands of
the impostor, according to informa
tion received. In August, he made 1
,away witli a considerable sum of
money. There he is raid to have in- 1
terviowod high school f students re- '
yarding their entrances- into Duke '
University. In this manner he es
tablished himself among the people '
and . proceeded to cash cheeks 1
amounting to hundreds of dollars. 1
The checks were on a local bank- (
,— t
Mere Consumers Fastidious in !
Taste.
Mnxton, Feb. 16—Deputy Sheriff J
Smith reports a rather dull period in '
rapturing stills—he has only cap- s
tured three stills in the past two '
weeks. One of these was a brand new 1
copper outfit, newly made and new- I
ly set up, just ready to run. It sat '
along the side of a galvanized tub -
outfit, both being captured on the j
old Purcell place', near Daniel Me- >
Eachin’s bouse. The operatives were '
not captured but the assumption is i
that to whomsoever the old outfit v
b longed lie had found ou that the i
pub'ic demanded a copper distilled
quality and that liis customers no I
longer would tolerate a cheap brand
of liquor, hence the up-to-date out
fit. ]
The other still was located south
of town on Alford Smith's place. The <
offender was found and is now under ]
bond for trial. The trial was delayed i
because of bis having contracted c
pneumonia frpm the exposure- The t
outfit was a cheap affair.
- i
Hickory Protestant Asks For Re- s
prieve. <
R. O. Abernethjv of Hickory, who
refused to work the city streets or to <
nay a special street ttax, has asked ’
for a reprieve of his 30-day sentence 1
in jail in order to present his case I
to Governor McLean. He appealed !
from the sentence of the lower court '
to the Supreme Court and lost. He
maintains that the city of Hickory 1
lias not the right to force him to
work the streets or to attempt to
collect a special tax after having
provided for a street tax in its regu
lar budget of taxes. He has con- ■
sistently fought the special street 1
assessment as a matter of principle i
for which he is willing to suffer, be- 1
lieving it to be unjust and improper,
but be wants to present his case to ‘
Governor McLean, and has been 1
promised a hearing by Pardon Com- 1
miasioner H. Hoyle Sink.
Match Toters Develop New Disease
of Skin.
Berlin, Feb. 17. —“Matchbox in
flammation” is the name given a
newly diagnosed skin disease. Phy
sicians of the University of Berlin
clinic say it is caused by carrying
boxes of mntchcS in trousers pockets.
Hundreds of eases of what ap
peared tp be eczema pn the thighs
of men led to an investigation. It
was found the phosphorous sandpaper
on the match boxes vaporized under
the heat of the body and penetrated
the skin. The inflammation is painful
and slow to heal.
Ready to Race at Tampa.
Tampa Fla., Feb. 17.—With several
hundred horses already here and many
others en route, the initial mid-wint
er race meeting of the new West Coast
Jockey Club will open tomorrow, to
continue until April Brd. A number
of the. most prominent stables in the
country are represented and the club
officials are optimistic over the out
look for the success of the meeting.
THE TRIBUNE
PRINTS
TODAY’S NEWS TODAYJi
ANTHRACITE MINES ;
WILL RF OPERATED
TOMORROW
“
After An Idleness of More
Than Five Montha Min
( ers Will Go Back to
Work in Hard Fields.
j GETTING~TRAINS i
READY TO MOVE
Some Will Be Sent From
Mining Towns When the
Breakers Quit Work To
morrow Night.
Scranton, Pa., Feb. 17. — OP)—An
thracite production will be underway
tomorrow.
After 5 months and 17 days of idle
ness, men and boys will wend their
way through the snow-clad valleys tp
the mines. After tile breakers quit
for the day in many sections, coal
trains will be on the way to the con*
sumers.
At a miners convention final ap
proval was given late yesterday to the
peace pact arranged in Pliiledelplria
last Friday by the representatives of
the operators and miners. The agree
ment is expected to insure five years
of peace and prosperity in the anthra
cite fields.
The agreement will be signed by op
erators aud union leaders here late
today.
Tile convention discussed provis
ions of the new contract for four
hours.
Not until the miners were fully as
sured that there is no compulsory ar
bitration in the new agreement did
the men from the pits cease quea- f
tioniug the mine leaders. V 3
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Today at Decline of 1 to 4
Points But Lower Prices Brought
Covering.
New York, Feb. 17.— OP) —The cot
ton market opened today at a decline
of 1 to 4 points but the lower price*
brought in renewed covering by near
month shorts and some trade buying
in later deliveries.
After selling off to 19.98 at the
start, March rallied to 20.04 while
October sold up from 18.11 to 18.15,
the market showing advances of about—
-1 to 3 points at the end of the first 1
hour. Selling of new crop months
deve'oped at the opening of the week- *
ly report of the weather bureau iudl- ’
rating good progress with plowing and
oilier preparations for seeding cotton
ami corn in the southwest. * I
Liverpool was relatively steady,]
private cables reporting that buying
for a rally had offset hedge and
straddle selling, also stating them j
was a good business in cotton cloths
with India. The market was com
paratively quiet but generally steady
iter in the morning. Demand for
March contracts around the 20-cent
level at the opening made favorable
impression on sentiment, and that de
livery sold up to 20.07 during the j
middle of the morning on covering 1
while October advanced to 18.17 rep
resenting net gains of 3 to 6 points.
First D-gree Murder Charged >
Against Van Dyke.
Gastonia, Fob- 16.—Jesse* Vaa-
Dyke, alleged Cherryville bdd ’ man,
confined in the local jail oa, charges
of murdering Chief of Police A. L.
Fainter, of that place, will face first
degree murder carrying tl}e death
sentence, So'icitor John G. Carpen
ter stated today. -
“We will call the case Tuesday
morning March 9,” Mr. Carpenter
stated. "Jail cases will be triad Mon
day.”
A special venire will probably be
ordered by Judge C- C. Lyon, who
will preside at the special term. A
list of men. ranging in number i
from 50 to 100, will be secured from :
the county outside of Cherryville :
township.
Report Lutheran Missionary Has
Been Killed in Far East.
Mtfnesipolis, Fob. ,16—Rev. Dan
iel Nelson, 08, missionary of the
Norwegian Lutheran rkurch of
American, who was reported killed in
China, was shot February 8, accord.-
ing to a message received at kead - -
quarters of the mission here. $
Dispatches representing ais death
said lie had been killed accidental?
but Rev. J. It. Birkeland. secretary
of the mission snid that a code mes
sage received yesterday declared that
the missionary had been shot.
It gnve no details. He had been a
missionary in China 30 years. j
The late Pancho Y r iUa was the first
Filipino to win a world's pugilistic
title.
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SAT’S BEAR SAYS I
Increasing cloudiness tonight, fol—-j
lowed by rain late tonight or Thura- i
day. Rising temperature. T -mnii|
ing southeast and south winds.