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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI ms OF LA SALLE STREET’ VICTIi OF PARALYTIC STROKE John Whitehouse Worth ington, of Chicago, Dies in the Federal Peniten tiary at Atlanta. ESCAPED~THE LAW FOR LONG TIME He Returned From Exile In Mexico and Then Sur rendered to the Federal Officers. Atlanta, Ga., March 2.— UP) —John Whitehouse Worthington of Chicago, known as the "Wolf of LaSalle Street, - ’ (lied at the Atlanta federal penitentiary today where he was ser ving a term for .using mails to de fraud. Death was caused by a stroke of paralysis. Worthington was brought to the penitentiary on last October 10th to serve two years. He was suffering from diabetes and a former paralytic stroke and had been carried into the penitentiary. During his six months confinement he was kept in the prison hospital and given special treatment for diabetes. His condition was thought to be im proving. Funeral arrangements will not be completed until word has been re ceived from relatives. Jane Allen, actress, is Worthington's daughter. After charges were made against him in Chicago he. fled to Mexico where he remained several years be fore returning voluntarily to face the accusation. Due to his physical condition, spec ial efforts were made to obtain com - mutation of the sentence. A futile nppenl was made to the l'. S. Attorney General to save him from the prison sentence. "I would rather be th prison in the T’nited States than be free in Mexico,” Worthington stated when he sur rendered to Chicago authorities on his return from Mexico. A few days ago he filed an appli cation for commutation of the' sen tence with the Department of Jus tice. / ' Worthington's operations are' esti mated tot have netted him «'more than At one" rime ite was head of a cha n of banka in Atacama. then he became a confidence operator and piled up a- fortune from speculative ventures which eventually connected with the government and caused ills flight to Mexico. Making his will before entering the prison here, Worthington directed the bulk of his fortune to go to his daughters. Mrs. Allen Pika, of Chica go. known in moving p’etnre circles as Jane Allen, and Mrs. John Rodgers of New Rochelle, Long Island. An other $200,000 was bequeathed to his grand-daugbter. Mass Helen Rodgers, and $25,000 to rtr. Roald. ROWAN MAN SUDDENLY DROPS OUT OF SIGHT Two Deaths of Rowan County Folks. —Miss Annie Lee Stewart, of Davie, Passes. Salisbury, March I.—Relatives of George Melchor are very much con cerned because they have no news of him since he suddenly disappeared from Salisbury a day or two after new year’s day. Sir. Melchor is about 23 years old and was employed by a local plumbing firm. He left bis boarding bouse without a word as to his destination and left his work clothes and his watch in his room. Relatives thought at fire he had gone to see his mother in Cabarrus county but he had not. and she is very much distressed over his disap pearance. A brother. Ray Melchor. is with the North Carolina Public Service Company of Salisbury, and he is trying to locate the missing man. Mm. M. A. Goodman died early Sunday morning at her home in Prov idence township after an Illness of a week or more. The husband and two sons survive. The funeral takes place Monday afternoon at 1 o’clock from Union Church. Henry Moses Troutman, aged 86, died at the home of a eon, George W. Troutman, on ' Park Avenue. The funeral fakes place from St. Stephens Church, in the county. Miss Annie Lee Stewart, 44 years old, native of Davie county, died here and the body was taken to Jerusalem Baptist Church for the funeral and interment. A sister, Mrs. Mary J. Pickier, and a brother, J. R. Steward both of Davie county, survive. W. J. Hannah Candidate for Judge. Waynesville, March 2. —Since the recent announcement of Judge T. D. Bryson, that he would not be a can didate to succeed himself as judge of the superior court of the 20th ju dicial district, the friends throughout the district of Judge William J! Han nah, of Waynesville, have prevailed upon him to become a candidate on the Democratic ticket in the forth coming June primary. Early this week Judge Hannah publicly an ncunced diis intention of seeking the nomination. Helen Wills, the American player whom many propbeay will be the world’s tennis champion within an other year, will be 21 years old on October 6th next. The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily Caught Sniper C. Bruce, lailway section fore man at Bartlet*. la. recognize! Frank Carter. Omaha's sniper, as the latter walked along the tracks near Bartlett, and brought about his capture. He will receive the SIOOO reward that was offered for Gaiter’s arrest. G. O. P. IN TEXAS TAKES FIRST STAND AS PARTY Primary Law Giving Trouble to the Republican Party. Dallas, Texas, March 2. — UP)—Pe culiar quirks of the Texas primary law are giving trouble to t'ae Republi can party which, for the first time in its history, is planning to hold a par ly primary in this state. The first primary is next July. The law requires that any party polling 100,000 or more votes for gov ernor shall hold a primary. In the last general e’eetion, George C. Butte Republican candidate for governor against Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, re ceived 300.000 votes, three times the vote ever polled by a Republican can didate. A dispute has arisen ns to which party is to have the use of the ballot boxes, voting booths, and guard rails. The law provides that these supplies may be used by the party easting 100,000 votes in the last preceding general election. A formal demand from t'.ie Repub licans for the supplies placed coun ty commissioners’ courts in a quand ary. Some counties have met the sit uation by purchasing double sets of boxes, booths, and gyards rails, while others have attempted to evade the jUfanuHl.' - One of the chief differences between the Texas_law and the primary laws of other states is that the former does not provide for a joint primary. If more than one party comes under its provisions, the parties hold separate primaries on the same day at differ ent polling plaees. The Democratic party is the only one which has ever functioned under this law, and Republicans are charg ing that it is a Democratic law, made by Democrats for Democrats. Unlike the joint primary operated by the state, with the same officials at the general lection and in which voters of both parties participate, using ballots of different color and design, the Texas law provides for partisan primaries, conducted sepa rately. Each has election officials selected by the party county chair men and with no official responsibil ity to the state for safeguarding the primary or protecting the count oth er than a possible appeal to the courts after the primary is over. The primaries are financed by the candidates, the chief burden falling on candidates for county and precinct offices. These candidates are as sessed on the basis of the pay at tached to the office they seek. Candi dates for state and district offices are assessed about SIOO each. 1 The Republicans declare that this is in effect purchasing the office, and that it is a peculiar hardship on them, because it is almost impossible to induce a candidate to contribute to a hopeless cause. Heretofore a Republican candidacy in Texas has been an empty honor, with here and there an exee'ptiob. The law provides that every hour un election judge must go to the door of the polling place and announce in a loud voice the number of ballots east up to that itime. It forbids any one to transport voters to tbe polls in any vehicle, except cripples and those otherwise disabled. Orphanage Work Was Held Up. (Durham. March, 2.—(A>) —The con troversy between the state and nat ional boards of the Junior Order Unit ed American Mechanics, which held up work on the large orphanage being built near Lexington for some time, has been settled and work will be re sumed, M. W. Lincke, of Nashville, state councilor, reported last week while on a visit to R. M. Gantt, of Durham, junior past councilor. The building is expected to be one of the best for brphanage purposes in the state. Shoots at Preyhor ln Pulpit; 18 Greensboro, March I.—Ben Brocks, negro, of this city, who plead guilty in Gufiforff superior court today to a charge of Shooting at o negro preacher while the latter was ex > horting from his pulpit here recently, was sentenced by Judge <J. C. Lyon ' to serve eighteen months on the county roads. Brooks said he was drunk. Not go much talk] heard among New York baseball fans this Spring about > getting ready for a world series be tween the Giants and Yankeea. CHAPIN'S COUNSEL PREPARING UPPEAL TOSUPREMECOURT Counsel For Noted Crim inal Appears Before the Court and Arranges to File Papers Soon. CHALLENGES THE PRESIDENT’S ACT Argued That President j Cannot Pardon Prison- ; er so the Latter Can Be Electrocuted. Washington, March 2.— (A 3)—Coun sel for Gerald Chapman, convicted of slaying a New Britain, Conn., police • man and who is under sentence to be executed April 3rd, completed pre liminary preparations today to direct in the Supreme Court a petition ask ing an appeal. Ray M. Wiley, of Springfield, Mass.. representing Chapman, visited the court today and arranged for the fil ing of papers within the next few days. "\ t The petition argues that the Pres ident had not the constitutional au thority to grant Chapman a commu tation of sentence from Atlanta peni tentiary over his protest. Another ground for asking the ap peal is to have determined whether a federal prisoner undergoing a sentence from the Federal court can be lawfully seized before his discharge and taken into state court for trial. Chapman’s counsel insisted that this was done in violation of constitutional provisions. Counsel for Chapman asserted to day that he had a long line of decis ions by the Supreme Court to sustain him in his contention that the second circuit court of appeals was in error in holding that Chapman could be forced to accept from President Cool idge a release which would have the effect of placing him in the jurisdic t’on of Connecticut for the execution of the death sentence. The petition as prepared assert that constitutional questions are rais ed which give the Supreme Court jur isdiction to act, and that the lower Federal Courts decided a question of Federal law which is new and has nev er been passed upon by the Supreme Court. CHABLOTTE-GABTONIA ROAD WORK IS BEGUN Wilkinson Highway Will Be One of Finest in State.—Engineer Fogus Laid to Rest. Charlotte, March I.—Work on the Charlotte-Gastonia highway, referred to here as North Carolina's million dollar highway, has been started,'ac cording to J B Pridgen, es this city, sixth district highway engineer. The road, which will be forty feet wide, will be one of the finest high ways in North Carolina and the en tire south, necording to road officials. Grading contractors have assem bled their equipment on four divi sions, according to Mr. Pridgen. The highway has been officially designated as the “Wilkinson highway’’ in hon or of W. C. Wilkinson, of this city, sixth district highway commissioner, through whose efforts the road was made possible. The road will be paved for a width of twenty feet and will be graded an additional twenty feet, making it possible to handle, the incessantly heavy traffic on this highway with a minimum of inconvenience and danger to the public. Mr, Pridgen said that as as grading is completed bids *will be asked for hard surfacing and complet ing the road. He expects to have this work well underway by the mid dle of the summer. The new road will cut the distance between Charlotte and Gastonia four miles and all grade railroad crossings ' will be eliminated. Funeral services for O. O. Fogus, 63. veteran Southern Railway engi neer, who died suddenly Saturday night were held this afternoon at the home of North Poplar Street. Rev J. F. Ligon, pastor of Tenth Avenue Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Fogus was a member, officiated. In terment was in Elmwood cemetery Funeral services and burial was in charge of a local Masonic organiza tion. Held on Charge of Stealing Cigar ettes. Salisbury, March 1. —Three young white men. E. E. Sanders, of Con -1 eord; Shad Sanders, of Kannapolis, and Rry Spry, of High Point, have been sent, up to superior court by > Magistrate Dave Julian who found . probable cause when they were charg , ed with having stolen a large quan , tity of cigarettes from freight cars in transit ot Barber’s in western Rowan. Bonds of $2,000 were re quired. In two recent robberies the ® Southern lost a total of S9OO worth of cigarettes. ' W. Y. Hockley Dies in England. 0 Oxford, England, March 2.— (A 3 )— a W. Y. Cleckley, of Augusta, Ga., died suddenly 1 from heart disease last «ve ’ nlng while returning from the Oxford 1 University sports in which his son, * H. M. Cleckley. a Rhodes scholar, 9 competed. v Oliver C. Russell is today moving t his family into the J. B. Sherrill house - on Marsh street, next to N. A. Ar chibald’s and Chief Talblrt’s. CONCORD, N. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1926 Hangman Wins In Race With Spy Who Hurried To See Convicted Son OR. CHASE DECIDES | TO STAY IN STATE | Tells Trustees He Will Not Go to Oregon to Be- j ' come President of State j University There. Raleigh, March 2.— UP) —Dr. Harry IVoodburn Chase, president of thp University of North Carolina, will re tain that post, At a called meeting of the trustees of the University here today Dr. Chase informed them that tip had decided to decline ihe offer of the presidency of the University of Oregon. Dr. Chase addressed the trustees aftor a sub-committee ap pointed to confer with him on the matter made its report. Dr. Chase's announcement of his decision followed the unanimous pas sage by the 53 trustees pres nit, of a motion by Walter Murphy, >f Salis bury, that Dr, Chase be requested to decline the offer of the University of Oregon, and remain at the held of the North Carolina institution. The Oregon offer came some time ago, and Dr. Chase recently returned from ttint Institution where he conferred with of ficials with reference to the offer. A committee composed of A. H- Price, of Salisbury; It. O. Everett, of Durham, and Josephus Daniels, of Raleigh, then informed Dr. Chase of the board’s action and asked him to appear. His appearance was greeted with applause and the announcement of his decision which was made shortly after he began to speak, brought forth more applause. At the conclusion of Dr. Chase's re marks stating that he would remain at the University of North Carolina. Governor McLean, presiding over the meeting, on behalf of the board ex pressed pleasure at his decision, and the governor’s sentiments were for mally given unanimous approval. CHURCH IS TO RAISE FUND FOR PASTORB Will H. Hayes Is Named Choi mum Os Presbyterian Committee. New York, March 2.—Will H. Hays, chairman of the layman's com mittee of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, today announced the opening of a nationwide campaign to raise $15,000,000 for establishing a ■ service pension fund to care for aged Presbyterian ministers, mis sionaries and educators. Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury, is treasurer of the committee to direct the campaign. The pension plan, Mr. Hays ex plained, is based upon insurance prin ciples and will amplify the church's present pension system, i “The service pension fund which we have started out to raise this year,” said Mr. Hays, “will provide a reasonably adequate pension for all servants of the church based on the average daily salry paid the minis ters, missionaries and teachers of a period of thirty-five years. This de ferred compensation—as Chat is what it really means—will commence when the servant of the church in what soever field he might have been en gaged. reaches the age of 65 years, or before at a slightly lower rate if he or she is disabled. Provision is also made for orphans and widows on a rate much higher than the pre vailing system.” Oppose Appeals of John VV. Thompson Washington, March 2.—(A*) —The government in the Supreme Court to day opposed the granting of appeals to John W. Thompson, St. Louis con tractor, and Chas. R. Forbes, former director of the Veterans Bureau, who were convicted at Chicago of a con spiracy growing out of the Veterans hospital construction. Reviewing the grounds advanced by Thompson and Forbes for asking a review, the government declared the trial of the men was legally conducted and l that the evidence supported the vrdiet of the jury. Thinks Differences dan Be Adjusted. Washington, March 2.—UP)—Pres ident Coolidge sees no reason why the controversy between the Un’ted States and Mexico over retroactive and con fiscatory provisions of the anti-alien land and petroleum laws cannot be satisfactorily adjusted. I Southern Railway to Spend $4,000,000 i On Its Lines in the Southern States , Atlanta, March 2.—Four millions of dollars will be spent by the South ern railway system for improvements on six of its southern lines. Approximately 1.000 miles of track- I age will be constructed to provide better passing facilities and roadways I and structures will be strengthened to permit ttie use of heavier and more ’ powerful locomotives. ’ The lines affected by the improve ment program are: Chattanooga to Maeon via Atlanta; Bristol to Chat- I tanooga; Chattanooga to Memphis; e Richmond to Danville; Winston - Salem to Charlotte; Selma to Suggs vllle, Ala. ). Ignatius Lincoln Executed; In England for Murder ; as His Father, Banished M. P., Races to England, j FATHER SPY IN THE WORLD WAR; i! ! Served With the German Forces in Various Coun ’l tries and Was Later Ban ished by the British. . London, March 2.— UP) —A notor , ions spy's race with the hangman was lost today. Ignatius Lincoln. , alias John Lincoln, was executed for murder without having seen his , father Ignatius Tribich Lincoln, ex iled Member of Parliament, who had , started from the Far Bast when he . heard of the death sentence. He wanted to bid his sou good-bye. The father arrived in France yes , terday, but had not appeared at Shep ton Mallet prison when the time for the execution arrived. The son. a 20 year old artilleryman, convicted of killing a householder named Rich ards during a burglary oil Christ mas Eve, left a letter for his father. The authorities refused to delay ex ecution as sought in a petition of 50,- 000 persons. Lincoln who was a member, of the Royal Horse Artillery, invaded the home accompanied by lan Stewart, 20 years old, to rob the premises. Richards was shot when lie return ed home and found the young men in lrs home. Htew'art was acquitted. In a letter to his sweetheart from jail, Lincoln admitted that he fired the fatal shot. The full name of the executed man was Ignatius Emanuel Napthli Tribich Lincoln, enlisted in the Royal Horse .Artillery as John Lincoln. Tribich Lincoln, tile father, work ed for the German cause during the world war, playing his role of spy in England, the United States and Ger- Many, Hungary-Austria. He was orig inally an Austrian subject, but later became a naturalized Englishman. He was extradited from New York to England in 1916, tried by the Rrit jfeli on a charge of forgery, and upon ' 'conclusion of a brief prisoa sentence was deprived of his British citizen ship and deported from England. Later he went to Germany where he was in charge of the censorship un der the short-lived Kapp regime. Flee ing to Austria upon the collapse of the Kapp government, he was expelled from that country in 1921 for treas onable activities. He was in Colombo. Ceylon, when news reached him that his son had been convicted of murder and sen tenced to death. Filled with remorse he is reported to have written the son. “My sins seem to have been visited on your head, and I pray you will forgive me before, you die. If I had been a better father this might not have happened, and ,1 am filled with terrible regret for my past.” Beautifying Home Grounds. Currituck, N. C„ March 2.— UP) — Farm women in Currituck county are taking the lead in beautifying the home grounds of the county. Last week, Miss Rachael Everett, home agent, reports a beautiful cedar was qet out on the courthouse lawn and two more were added the end of the week. Ten cedars were planted at the teaeherage and the Currituck women's Club is taking orders for pecan trees to be planted over the country. The farm club women are also planning to plant one new vegetable each in their gardens this year. British View Explained. 1 London. March 2.—( A *>—The Brit ish government has already termed its attitude anent increasin']} the num -1 her of permanent seats in the league of nations council, it is stated in well ; informed quarters. It opposes granting Poland, Spain or any other country other than Ger many a permanent seat at present. ' leaving the question of a possible in- I crease for future discussion. Rowan Minister Goes to Church in Hickory. Salisbury. March I.—Rev. G. W. ■ Cobb, who for several years has been ' pastor of Salem Lutheran Church, i near Salisbury, preached his last sermon there Sunday. He has re- II signed to take up work of a pastorate ’ |at Hickory, where he is moving this | week. On the line betwen Chattanooga and Macon, an important section of the Southern's route to Florida from the west .electric automatic signals will be installed, together with tele phone train dispatching circuits. The improvement between Winston- Salem and Charlotte will give an al ternate line of heavy capacity be tween Greensboro and Charlotte. Those between Selma and Suggesville will increase train capacity between Selma and the port of Mobile. Those on other lines will work for general improvement of the service, the an nouncement said. Clarence Saunders Signs Bond j Mr Clarence Saunders, deposed head of the IMggly Wiggly chain stores, and now owner of a similar chain, appeared before l\ S. Commissioner John Walker at Memphis, Tenn., and signed a $7500 bond to appear March 21) 1 to answer charges of using the mails to defraud. Photo shows Saunders on < the left and Commissioner Walker on the right. J “ - ■ —— ■ ~ - - ] NEW REVENUE ACT WILL ! SAVE THE STATE $2,500,000; Approximate Figures as to Savings Furnished Simmons by Treasury Expert. Washington, Mach 2.—The total net reduction of taxes in North Car olina under the revenue act of 1926 was $2,430,000, according to figures prepared for Senator Simmons by Joseph S. McCoy, actuary of the treasury department. 1 This figure does not include the $0,000,000 reduction in the estate taxes to be paid by the hospital sec tion of the Duke Foundation. Ap- . parently Mr. McCoy regards this re duction as applicable to the State of ] New Jersey, where the late James , B. Duke maintained his residence ami citizenship. The total gross reduction in the , State is $2,930,000. but the increase j in the corporation income tax which was made by the Republicans over tlio protest of Senator Simmons outs , that reduction down by $500,000, the increase in that particular tox. i The greatest reduction to North Carolinians was in individual income and surtax rates, which slice amounts to $1,500,000. The repeal of the capital stock tax which was put through by Senator Simmons in the finance committee will give corporations a reduction of $975,000 as against the $500,000 in crease in corporation income laxes. The estate tax reductions, not in cluding the big reduction to the Duke Foundation, amount to $350,000. Reductions in miscellaneous in ternal revenue, which includes al 1 other reductions under the bill, will total around $105,000. Senator Simmons had , the figures compiled at the request of J. H. Vaughn, of the Stokesdale big*; school. All of the figures are merely ap proximate. FARM RELIEF MATTER IS AGAIN POSTPONED Will Bo Tomorrow and Possibly Thursday Before Hearing Is Start ed in House Committee. Washington, March 2. — (A 3 ) —The long anticipated opening of hearing on farm relief legislation by the House agriculture committee failed to mater ialize today. A last minute shift of plans by farm organization lenders led to a postponement until tomorrow or possibly Thursday. The committee will use the inter val to dispose of several nvnor bills, and thereby clean its legislative slale of all matters except farm relief. The change in plans grew out ii part of a conference last night of th farmer leaders at which a number of members of Congress were present. I' was announced additional time wa desired to give the finishing touches to the program the farmers’ representa tives will presenht to the committee Home For Aged Farmers in lowa Has Had Few Tenants. Davenport, lowa, March 2. — UP) — A home for the relief of ag ‘d farmers that has virtually gone begging for tenants for thirty-four years is lo cated here. | It is the Fejervary Home fer Old Farmers, Hungarian pntriot and ex ile, whose love for his adopted coun try prompted him to leave a good share of his fortune for the relief of aged farmers. Count Fejervary thought there might be many old farmers who would want to enter the home under stipu lated conditions—that they he farm ers of American birth who had farmed here in Scott county for twenty years. There have been on ly a score or so who filled the re quirements. Just now the home, a fine struc ture, has one inmate, a farmer 72 years old. His presence during 1925, the trustees reported, cost $3,450 Living in his solitary state he was cored for by a matron, a superin tendent and men and maids. Ttie home has lacked residents principally because a large propor-j tion of lowa farmers are foreign born and because many men who have farmed for twenty years own their own homes. | Order Special Term. Charlotte, March. I.—A special; term of Mecklenburg county superior court was ordered today, to be held j April 19« i to 24th for the trial of j Jim Knotts and Oscar Martin, charg- j ed with attacking and robbing an; aged woman near here. | MOVIE STARS MI ST KEEP AHEAD IN DRESS STYLES < To Merely Keep in Style is to Bo Old < Fashioned. Hollywood. March 2.—(A 5 )—To ' merely keep in style in Hollywood is 1 to be old-fashioned. 1 Why y ' Because here the movie stars’ ap- 1 parel must predict the mode for at 1 least six months in advance. Long 1 has it been recognized that many women look to the screen for their > fashions and this is one reason why the players must depict what is to 1 come in the way of clothes. < In costume pictures, the question * becomes one of turning backward and this is not so much trouble. But in the modern, up-to-the-minute photo- r plays the actors sometimes are hard ' put to accomplish the feat of being 6 exquisitely and pre-modishly gowned. To find their fashions, the stars | 1 turn to the different sources: their * own genius and flair for clothing, the * famous designing experts who have brought their art to Hollywood, and s the salons of Paris. For example, when Marie Frevost * was given the lead ill Warner Broth- 1 ers "The Caveman,” she learned from ? the script that she was to be a so- ' phistlcoted, smartly-gowned woman of 1 cosmopolitan society. She then con ferred with Director Lewis Milestone and it was decided to consult a lam- 1 ous designer. *aU * After a set of sketches, complete as ( to color, material and style, had been f submitted and approved, the tedious j process of fitting took ten days of Miss Prevost's time before everything £ was ready for her to dress for the , picture. Irene Rich, on the other hand, de- t sighs a’most every freck she wears , and with the aid of expert modistes in her studio achieves effects distinct y individual For her next photo play, Miss Rich designed ten gownt j and the Warner dressmaking staff! 5 was kept busy on entire week. Paris supplies Patsy Ruth Miller with most of her gowns. She buys them from importers in Los Anse’es ■tan Francisco and New York. Often tlie stars buy their clothes in advance for pictures while they are in Paris, j Dressing for picture work is an ex- ‘ pensive and gigantic task, but one which most of the stars like. 1 GEORGIA PEACH SAYS HIS AVERAGE SECURE , Ty Cobb Has Growth Removed From . Eye at Johns Hopkins Hospita’. i Baltimore, Md„ March 1, —Ty C bb. manager of the Detroit Ameri can League baseball club, underwent a successful operation for removal of i a small growth from his left eye to- i day. Dr. William Holland Wilmer. who performed the operation ot the ; Wilmer Eye C’inic of Joins Hep kins Hospital, pronounced the Geor- I gia Peaeh’s condition satisfactory. Cobb who expects to join the Tig ers for spring training in a week or ten days, said he never felt better and that the operation was a precau tionary measure. The growth had not seriously effected his sight, lie said, but *.ie considered tHis an oppor -1 tune time to have it removed. “Removal of the gro#th will re sult in my maintaining my batting average for u.good many more yearh,” he declared. With Our Advertisers. The Yorke & Wadsworth Co. has iust received another car of 29 gauge 5 crimp heavyweight roofing, price $4.75 per square. Go to the Kidd-Frix Co. and hear the latest Charleaton dance records. See C. H. Barrier & Co’s, last call for 20-cent hens. He wants them by Thursday at noon. The Citizens Bank and Trust Co. officers will be glad to give you ad vice in regard to investing your mon ey. Volume production and efficient methods of Goodyear tire manufac turers make high quality possible. Yorke & Wadsworth sell them. Held For Court For Motor Fatality. Charlotte. March l.—S S. Wil liams, of Marshville, former resident of Charlotte, driver of the car that | crashed Saturday into the bridge over Briar Creek, with the result that l Thomas H Dunn, another occupant ■ of the ear, was fatally injured, was [ i held Monday for the Mecklenburg ■ I grand jury by a coroner’s jury. Wil ■ | liams was remanded to jail in de i fault of a $5,000 bail, charged with i manslaughter. THE TRIBUNE 1 PRINTS TODAY’S NEWS TODAY I NO. 49 GIBA WON IN ONE CASE GUT LOST 011 1 T “ r SECOND COUllf • Judge Holds That He Was Not Guilty of Blasphemy But That He Was Guil ty of Sedition in Speech. APPEAL NOTICE GIVEN BY BIMBA ; Court Says Man Not Guil ty of Blasphemy Merely Because He Said He Did Not Believe in God. 1 Brockton. Mass., March 2.—'/P>— -J Anthony Bimba, who was tried for J blasphemy under an ancient Massa* ’;f! ehusetts statute, and for sedition, won and lost in Plymouth County district a court there today. Judge C. Carroll J King, who presided at the trial of the young Lithuanian editor last wcpk, J| today found him guilty on the sedition M count but not guilty on the blasphemy -a charge. A fine of SIOO was imposed on the sedition conviction. The maxintjiß fl penalty under the state law is a fine if of ,SI,OOO and three years imprison- ill meat. An appeal was taken by Harry J Hoffman, counsel for the defendanse, if and Bimba was released on SSOO it bond. The charges were based on utter ances at a meeting here January 20th. t| The eourt stated that in making the finding of guilty on the sedition charge, it took into consideration the £ fact that in the main portion of his speech. Bimba bad kept within the limitations of the sedition statute, 3j but that his crime had been committed-- j in answer to “biting questions” put g by the audience. “It was shown in the evidence that ' the defendant said lie himself did t not believe in God,” Judge King said in dismissing the blasphemy charge. % "It is not certain he said more. It i seems apparent to most of us that ; there was no sense in his bringing ,] this statement in protest against the ' Lithuanian government, but appai> 'I ent’y it resulted from the fact as al- i leged in testimony, that the Lithuan- 1 ian government is clerical. "Mr. Bimba somewhat naturally touched upon the religions aspect of A that government frith the intent to «hrow 'tftemr up. ‘ eertninlj' > jealous in this He attempted to diow the hypocritical attitude of that gov ernment and to show it acted irrelig- •") iously. “I do not hold that his statements as to personal religion played any f part on this case. I am content to ’eave it at the defendant’s declare- t lion of personal belief was perrais- '§ sib’e.” TNDAY SCHOOL MEET OPENS AT CHARLOTTE j Methodist Delegates From All Over Western Carolina Attend.—Ends Wednesday. Charlotte. March I.—Sunday school superintendents, teachers and other officio's representing a majority of tin- Methodist churches in western i North Carolina were here tonight for ‘ he opening session of the eighth an nual convention of the Wesley Bible Class Federation, which this year brings together a general gathering f Methodist Sunday school work- : cr' More than 100 out-of-t-own delegates were here for tonight's ses sion and by tomorrow the attendance i is expected to be above the 200 mark. An Rddress by D. F. Giles, of Ma ion, was the principal feature of s his Evening's pr-gram Mr. Giles urged the officia’s and teachers to be more diligent in their duties this year J and discussed problems confronting Sunday school workers of the present day. Rev. A. L Stanford, pastor i of Tryon Street Methodist Church, | at which the deference is being held, i welcomed the visitors and Rev. J. H. | Armbrust, of Wadesboro, responded. 7 The conference is sponsored by the Sunday school board of the western North Carolina conference of the j Methodist Church, Sessions of the : conference will be held tomorrow and % Wednesday. Mrs. Goodman Dies at Home Near Salisbury. Sa'isbury. March I—Mrs. M. A. Goodman died early Sunday morning 4 at her home in Providence township after an illness of a week or more. The husband and two sous survive. ; The funeral took place Monday af ternoon at 1 o'clock from Union Church. Tennis, now generally recognized as “b’g stuff" in the sport world, was thought to be a “mollycoddle” pamima .1 not so very many years ago. "S BAT’S BEAR SAYSt Partly cloudy tonight, colder in the | east and central portions; Wednesday fair Strong west and northwest 4j winds.
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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