PAGE FOUR
rhe Concord Daily Tribune
I J, B. SHERRILL
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( * RAILROAD SCHEDULE
In Effect Jan. 30, 1926.
Northbound
i No. 40 To New York 9:28 P. M.
> No. 136 To Washington 5:05 A. M.
No. 36 To New York 10 :25 A. M.
j No. 34 To New York 4 :43 P. M.
! No. 46 To Danville 3:15 P. M.
No. 12 To Richmond 7 :10 P. M.
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Southbound
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No. 35 To New Orleans 9:56 P. M.
No. 29 To Birmingham 2:35 A. M.
No. 31 To Augusta 5:51 A. M.
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; No. 11 To Charlotte 8:00 A. M.
I No. 135 To Atlanta 8:37 P. M
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| No. 37 To New Orleans 10:45 A. M.
: Train No. 34 will stop in Concord
; to take on passengers going to Wash
ington and beyond.
; ITrain No. 37 will stop here to dis
, charge coming from be
t yond Washington.
* Ail trains stop in Concord except
No. 38 northbound.
y^ Blß^l[lloUGtrr ‘f
; for TODAY—I
II Bible Thoagrht* memorized, will prove a |gt
[1 jiricelesa heritage in after years l^|
Man’s Appeal:—O. Lord, revive thy
* work in the midst of the years.—Hab
akkuk 3 :2.
TREMENDOUS EXPENDITURE
FOR AUTOMOBILES.
The American people, to meet the .
demand to ride in autos, pay about ]
$14,000,000,000 a year, it is reported
by the Bureau of Industrial Technol
-5 ogy.
6 This stupendous figure was attained j
| as a result of a survey of data ae
cumulated by the Bureau, by the Nat- ,
ioinal Automobile Chamber of Com
meree. by the Motors and Accessories ,
Manufacturers’ Association, by asso
ciations of tire producers, insurance
jb companies, labor organizations, gaso
lne and oil distributors.
The survey reveals that, the automo-
S] tive industry is now the biggest busi
& ness in the United States. The na
tion’s annual retail investment in au
v tomobiles is greater than the total
|| value of our farm crops. It is more
than twice as great as our total in
s vestment in the construction of new
a building.
»■ “Production of automobiles now pro
ceeds at the rate of 4.000.000 *a year/’
the Bureau reports. ‘‘The average re
-0 tail value, with accessories, is SI,OOO
per car. Not all of this represents
v. American investment, however, for
the value of automobiles we export
% in a year has mounted to $250,000.-
F 000.”
# The last annual registration of au
tomobiles was approximately 20.000.-
gs 000. The Bureau of Industrial Tecft
£ nology concludes that it costs the av-
A erage automobile owners somewhat
J over S7OO a year to own and operate]
ft his car. But if each man. woman and I
■S* child in the nation would help pay the ||
bill, the annual pro rata assessment j|
would be sll7.
m To demonstrate “where the autorno
bile dollar goes,” the Bureau made
■m public the following table representing
f- the annual national expenditure on
M investment and upkeep :
S Cost of cars, acces
% sories $ 3,750.000,000'|
Insurance 500,000.000 \
% Upkeep, repairs 2.000.000.000 '
Depreciation 2.500.000.000 1
# Tires 018,000.000 1 :
H Garaging 900.000.000
jm Interest on _invest
jE ment 500.000.000
» Gasoline 1.200.000.000
S: Drivers' wages 1.600.000,000
Oil 300.000.000
m Taxes 025,000,000
H Total sl-1.293,000.000
■K “The development of tills great i'l
air tlustry has brought correspondingly
I important traffic problems," the Bu-,
E reau reports. “Every city is grap- j
[ pling with purking plans designed to
K, relieve street and highway congestion
[ and eliminate accidents. The widen-
Ev -lug of thoroughfares, the estublish-
Ri’ aaent of public garages and parking
K: fjiaees. und-tlie introduction of signal
| towers are among the paeans being em-
B ployed.
I Wine of the countless direct results
a" of the great development of the auto
fc mobile industry is the enormous rond-
H: building program now in progress in
■L- this country, calling for the expendi-
; ture of about $1,000,000,000 a year, to
say nothing of the enromous up-build
ing of all suburban communities.”
STILL SUPREME.
As a textile center, North Carolina
continues to lead the rest of the
United States. Having assumed the
leadership several months ago Tar
Heel manufacturers are unwilling to
give it up and figures just made pub
lic for February show that during that
month this State remained supreme.
Although Massachusetts has a big
lead in the number of active spindles.
North Carolina leads • that State in
the number of active spindle hours by
nearly one hundred and fifty million
hours.
With 8,661.080 active spindles,
Massachusetts cotton mills had a total
of 1,618.929,421. North Carolina with
only 5,816.274 active spindles ran up
a total of 1,766,643.667 spindle hours
during the month of February, thus
holding her lead over the Bay State,
established for the first time a few
months ago.
South Carolina with 5,291,248 ac
tive spindles also led Massachusetts.
The active spindle hours in South
Carolina was 1.628,386.767.
In Massachusetts the average num
ber of active spindle hours per spindle
: n pliace was 140, as compared with
291 n North Carolina and 305 in
South Carolina.
SAYS PROJECT WILL BE COM
PLETED.
Tlie Stone Mountain Memorial will
be completed, says one of the leaders
in the present campaign to sell the
Memorial coins issued recently by the
government.
Despite rumors to the contrary, this
official says the memorial is certain
to be completed, although years and
years will be required.
Concord has been asked to purchase
1875 of the coins, valued at 50 cents
and be’ng sold for SI.OO. The profit
goes to the association seeking funds
for the completion of the figures being
carved on the side of the Georgia
mountain.
The campaign date has been extend
ed until April first, and Concord per
sons should not delay the purchase of
the coins. Stone Mountain is plan
ned as a memorial to the women and
men of 'the Confederacy and Concord
should be eager to subscribe to such
an undertaking.
RANDOLPH MAN IS
A GLOBE-TROTTER
Becomes Vaudeville Performer and
Tours Civilized and Semi-Civilized
World.
Charlotte. March 22.—The Fates,
yhicli play strange pranks with hu
man beings, have turned a peculiarly j
weird trick with Clifford Jennings. ,
a lad who Was born in Cedar Fall*. 1
Randolph county.
The average boy born in Cedar i
Falls, which is not a great way from |
Charlotte, probably goes to church
and Sunday school and then into
business cf farming or some other
profession. But Clifford Jennings has
bad a different career.
When he landed in Charlotte it was
as a vaudeville, performer scheduled
to appear for a half week with his
partner and wife at a theater here.
He has been all over the world since
the last time he was in Charlotte
when he was a small boy. a junior
member but an able catcher of a
baseball team.
Since that time, the small Ran
dolph county boy has been over prac
tically the entire civilized and semi
civilized world as a vaudeville per
former.
The Tar Heel boy. who had won
rapid fame both as a bicyclist and
a juggler on the vaudeville stage in
this country and had traveled over
the United States several seasons with
the leading minstrels, was in Vienna.
Austria, with his act in the summer
of 11)14. when that historical shot
was fired at Sarajevo, in Austria,
which felled Archduke Ferdinand and
precipitated the World War.
Playing at the same theater with
the young North Carolinian was .a
young English actress, noted as a
beauty as well as a performer, and
doing an act similar to the one pre
sented bv the North Carolinia. Ac
quaintanceship quickly ripened into
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i friendship and into love. They were
. married in Vienna.
' The young English woman was
Miss Mona Gray, typically English
in rosy complexion, athletic ability,
and as a linguist, with a great repu
tation on the English vaudeville
stage. -
The itinerary of the team of Clif
ford and Gray, which was formed in
Vienna, and which has been on the
road as a big time vaudeville act since
1014, shows the couple has been in
several South American countries, in
the Balkans, in Egypt, in Portugese
East Africa, in China and Japan and
other countries.
Mr. Jennings is a brother of E. O.
Jennings, formerly of the Piedmont
and Northern Railway Line, now a
yarn merchant in Charlotte and Phil
adelphia.
The former Randolph county man
at once looked up J. L. Howard, of
the Seaboard Air Line Railway staff,
when he arrived in Charlotte. Mr.
Howard being one of the few ac
quaintances Mr. Jennings had here.
Mr. Howard was one of a number of
American soldiers on leave in London
shortly after the World War armis
tice was signed in 1918. He was
visiting the Eagle Hut. a popular vis
iting place for American doughboys
in London, when he met Mr. Jen
nings. Each found the other was
from North Carolina and the friend
ship developed rapidly.
ONE BOUND OVER IN
STANLY MURDER CASE
Theodore Grey Admitted to Bail; j
' John Grey and Sweat Still in Jail.
Albemarle. March 22.—Theodore
Grey was placed in jail several days
ago in connection with the murder of
“Dad” Watkins, was given a prelim
inary hearing here today, and was
bourn! over to Superior Court and al
lowed to give bail.
Theodore Grey is charged with hav
ing burned the arms and head of
“Dad” Watkins in the furnace of the
Wiscassett school building, where he
is janitor. This charge is preferred
by John Grey who with Carl Sweat,
is held without bail for the murder
of Watkins. Theodore and John Grey
are brothers.
According to Detective Nichols,
Jc’jn Grey made to him a confession
in which he told the entire hideous
story of how he and Carl Sweat lured
Watkins with a bottle of liquor into
the country and after making him
drunk, struck out his life with an old
rusty ’hatchet and robbed him of his
money. John Grey, according to Mr. I
Nichols, admitted that he himself was •
the one who planned the murder from I
beginning to end. He stated that his 1
motive was to get Watkins’ money. |
Carl Sweat cpnfessed and told a |
stovy something similar to the one i
related by Jo’hn Grey. Sweat stated <
that he helped John Grey to kill Wat
kins and to burn his body in the barn.
According to the confession of John
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* Qrey they chopped off the arms and '
f iead and got Theodore Grey to bum *
i them. i
1 Mr. Xicho’s would not state the
. amount of money which John Grey ,
■ and Carl Sweat took from Watkins.
■ but he said that it was a rather large
sum. i
According to Mr. Nichols, Grey and \
1 Sweat both admitted that tCiere was .
no ear used in the affair as was rum
‘ ored but that they used an old blank-
et to carry Watkins’ body to the I
barn. \
The “Dad” Watkins murder has j
caused state-wide interest and stirred ,
up more local feeling than any crime
committed in this section of the State '
for many years. The whole murder '
was prepetrated in the most savage <
and barbarous manner that has ever <
been known.
John Grey was supposed to have
been one of Watkins’ best friends ■
and “buddies,” according to Grey i
himself, yet he proved an even worse \
friend than did Brutus to Caesar, if i
Detective Nichols* story be true.
According to Chief Deputy Joe
Lilly, he and the officers were up all
night working on the case. Mr. Nich-
ols was completely exhausted Thurs
day morning and was in a rather
nervous way. {
Superior Court convenes in Albe <
marie here next Monday and this case \
will likely be tried at that time. ,
Post and Flagg’s Cotton Letter.
New York, March 22-—While it 1
I looks as if prices could be hammer- '
ed lower without any great difficulty i
the experiment doet< not appeal {
1 strongly to any as yet since the mar
ket (suggests that to get the con
tracts back at a profit would present '
a somewhat series problem. There i
i»< no pressure from spots in spite of
the s’ack demand and the character
of the weather is not good enough
to inspire any great degree of con
fidence that such pressure is likely
to develop as a result of an early and
promising start for the crop as a
whole. !
Some sections are better than oth- '
ers but there has been a good deal I
of delay in parts of the belt and |
more or less apprehension is felt that ,
the weevil will be more in evidence
this season and more difficult to
cope with. If there is to be a further '
material decline enabling shorts to -
cover freely aud comfortably a much ,
better assurance of another crop
practically ns large as this one is
essential and so far about the only
suggestion for that lies in the be
, lief that planters will turn a deaf
I car to all arguments and persuasion
aimed at a reduction in acreage and
I will plant practically as much as
] over. . 1
I What the weather ami insects will <
do to the crop remains to be seen (
l but Lfc' may be plenty and the market
t will be sensitive to any development 1
(pointing to a decided falling off in <
the yield. The marked has submitted
to being kicked around a whole lot
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Writer Still Claims Charlotte as
Home.
Charlotte, March 22—John V. A.
Weaver, rising young star of the
American literary firmament, still
claims Charlotte as his place of ori- .
gin according to an article tn the I
February number of "The Blue
Book."
r The young author has several
llns-people in Charlotte, including
| an aunt, Mrs. Caswell Tate. He
i spent a considerable part of- his boy
i hood here and is well known to a
number of Charlottenns of the yollti
, grr set, who have followed his liter
ary career with keen interest. He at
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Is a prescription for
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5 Bilious Fevtr end Malirie.
It bills th* germs.
y
tended the Charlotte public schools
in bis yonth and then went with bis
parents to Chicago, where hie educa
tion was continued.
“The Blue Book,” of February,
has a full page picture of the young
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