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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 17,. 1920.
NINETEEN,
COTTON MARKETS
vrV VORK COTTON
J Dec 17. Liverpool cable
Veff "p-rectations and the
er narket here opened at a decline
-ttcn ?? ooints under scattering liqui
if1 10 Thp more favorable average of
jtion-. tA oorts from Southern spo..
It! I further reports of progress
arketsana ing export business
- nlans ir " . . . t th Erlee law.
-Aor tnf f . fui f urns n nwpvpr
features, however,
cere t""" " vct soon turned steadier.
the nwi tQ 1580 on a renewal
uaSr3 covering and Liverpool buy.
rfl-II i-iter months showed net ad-
en1-""' .
ul. , in Toints wnn .aiarcn
sauces oi December was rela
ting at.Jand easv ruling a few
lively auj last night'S closing quota-
jons.
mained very quiet during
the
little i"'"1" QMnd 15.64 and
?1 T-muary
- i ii ii " t -
around la
.45 or about 10 to 15
ft-nV remained very quiet later in
'TraaJ1 L ... palmer off un-
enl0J!!d realizing or liquidation.
ier , " a seller or Jury, dui
hiverpw were no special trad-
khenvi L :he decline which car-
.ifd Januao " . t t
nii5 or aouui. -
J 1J-4I, i0rrflm from Texas report-
mrer.
- - . j that fa rTVi
weatner auu saiu "
4 "mn.r freely.
but there were
w'er .J' om cotton received here
3Dors. " .tWpst recently for deliv-
tn:.:..,t had been rejected be-
Uv on cum--- f rrfldPr eauire-
Vuse of failure w .
Uents. . Vnrk Futures.
"npV. 17. The cotton
et'
Von,- louivn-.
-jrUet closed easy:
High
15.60
15.80
lo.65
15.70
Low
15.35
15.43
13.S5
15.40
15.45
Close
15.40
15.43
15.37
15.40
15.45
Spot
Ml,
ir-j
Dec ..
'an.
jlarch
May ..
15.I.T
W Vl- Snot Cotton
Ve York. Dec. 17.-Cotton:
uiet: middlin
J. D.VU.
f
NEV ORLEANS COTTON.
v?w Orleans. Dec. 17. Estimates of
1
Lumber ana iow w"'"
, rt. than ina m
price oi uuiiun u . , X:
losses m tne iusl .
I May to 15.00, thus showing declines
U 16 points
i nnvate oureau it yuit
. ". ..1 oon nmi H-iloi npainst 9.396.
nine at ju.o-"."vv o
I j4S a year ago anu iu..ohoj -" j"a
h"0 indicating prouucuuu
liJ S3?.fl00 and 710.000.
I1"""' - hotter ennt
I Reports OI a suuicniii.
feaand locally caused small reactions
limine ueciiue unu. ai ax - v-'y" .v-o
here at declines ot b to 10 points,
lactations of small mill takings pre
epted support trom Decommg aggres-
sw- -
Hill takings ot only Zoi.uuu Daies or
imf"ican cotton for the week against
h:,m this week last year caused fur-
ler moderate selling, in tne traamg
$ to 1:30 o'clock active months .were
sent 21 to 25 points under final prices
i Yesterday. January touched 14.60
ad' July 15.00.
New Orleans Spot Cotton.
New Orleans. Dec. 17. Spot cotton
Iseady and unchanged; sales on the
I spot SOS bales; to arrive 2,837.
Close New Orleans Fnturrw-
Xew Tork. Dec. 17. The cotton mar-
Iket closed steady at net decline of 24
I ) J6 points:
High
Low
14.26
14.58
14. SO
14.91
14.96
Closa
14.30
14.58
14.80
14.92
14.96
I:k 14.45
la 14.80
larch 15.02
lay 15.12
.'iv 15.16
LIVERPOOL COTTON.
Liverpool, Dec. 17. Cotton: Spot in
sited demand: prices irregular,
hoed middling . . . . . . . .
12.83
12.08
10.5
S.33
6.08
middling
Middling .. .
Ur iliddling
jod ordinary
Lranarv .. .
5.33
Sa!e 4,000 bales, including 3,200 Am
;-.can. Receipts 19,000 bales, including
5-300 American. '
Futures closed quiet and steady.
fcember
10.32
10.96
11.10
11.17
11.20
11.05
amiary
T
J .
ob?r
NEW YORK PRnvisinvs
Sew York. Dec. 17. Butter firmer;
tggs steadier; fresh gathered firsl3
Cheese irregular; average run 2425.
rOlLtry. live, irrpfrnlar- nhintano
ight 25; by express 2538; fowls 24
!. turkeys 45. "
Poultry, dressed, firm; western chicle
t fc! 2842: in barrels 2433;
di-0-28: turkeys, young C056;
Chicago, rw 17 t " j.
ern white sacked 1.351.50.
,f Tork, Dec. 17. Raw suear
-Sued ampf 7 orr. o i;
s. ,AVAL STORES.
r'nan, ua
id 001 j.,. imjjruuiw
rio f (, oai wast, saie govern
.V'ft:A21 i): receipts 448: shhoments
Vt la,S77.
mfmf. no s.aIes: receipts 1,523;
QnotP- "c
TV 11 00" u L 1 H 1 K M N WO
'St salp x- . - .
" "mtmqer j.a at H.UU.J
JinvcT- ' '
Se York ?VHANGE
P 7VC- 17-Prime mercan-
S4- ""U115, sterling by aay
3 4commercial 60 da' bills on
i- rt0 uuimerciai 69 day hills
demand o cni, . .
rrano u-J-"2; caDies s.bo'i.
T
a irancs, demand 6.38; cables
ft!L!ei?and 31.42: cables 21.52.
Harks ;Udna 3-54 bles 3.56.
W d!mand 1.39; cables -1.40. .
15 Per o J-nange on Montreal 14
5oni;i ent dlscount.
easy; railroad
Una 1-
;u-
" lirm: 60 days and 90 days
1 m .onths 77 per cent.
P4a"ey steady; rulinar rate 7:
,ey
ith
W tJffERTY BONDS
d: 0rk- AJec. 17. Lib
Liberty bonds
first 4iroK4s 85-50 bi3: second
elP
"jOO; victory 4s 95.00.
tS?Wxsebd oil.
' clos 1 Dec 17. The cottonseed
5.20fi)R " ,T yeI1w nominal; prime
3;rIa8J(81?; January 8.95; Febru-
as.
aBi.""i' 8-69.
vo ,ou. , .. . .. .
M A RKE T S
WALL STREET
New 1ork. Dec. 17. Price changes
at the opening of today's stock mar
ket were very confusing. Mexican and
Dutch Oils rising 1 to 2 points while
Houston Oil fell 4&. Crucible Steel
was heavy, probably as a result of the
failure of the directors to declare more
than the regular dividend, and Hide &
Leather preferred also reacted on ru
mors affecting its dividend prospects.
Rails, notably grangers, also lacked a
definite trend, St. Paul preferred rising
1 point and Northern Pacific making
a corresponding decline. In the gen
eral list fractional recessions ruled.
Passing of the common and preferred
dividends on Santa Cecelia Sugar pre
cipitated an extensive selling move
ment in the sugar group at losses of
2 to 8 points. Houston Oil extended its
decline to fi Xi.
Tr;U!' ,7, 0f the afternoon and there eased although Southern Pacific and
v-ir"lt nhansre in prices Readins were pomnarativdv Arm
prices j Heading were comparatively firm.
The closing was heavy. Sales ap
proximately 650,000 shares.
NEW YORK STOCK JJST.
(Last Sale)
Ains unaimers
American, Beet Sugar ..
American Can
American Car & Foundry . .
American Hide & Leather pfd..
American International Corp. . .
American Locomotive . . . . . .
American Smelting & Ref. ..
American Sugar
American Sumatra Tobacco . .
American T. & T
American Tobacco Sec
American Woolen
Anaconda Copper
Atchison
Atl., Gulf & W. Indies .. ..
Baldwin Locomotive
Baltirriore & Ohio . . '
Bethlehem - Steel "B"
Canadian Pacific
Central Leather
Chandler Motors . .
Chesapeake & Ohio 1
Chicago, Ma. & St. Paul ..
Chicago. R. I. & Pac
Chino Copper i .
Colorado Fuel & Iron
Corn Products
Crucible Steel ..
Cuba Cane Sugar
Erie
General Electric . . . . . .
General Motors . .
Goodrich Co. .. .. .. .. ..
Great Northern pfd . . ....
Great Northern Ore ctfs . .
Illinois Central
Inspiration Copper
Int. Mer. Marine pfd . . .
International Paper . . . .
Kennecott Copper
Louisville & Nashville
Maxwell Motors .. .. .. .. ..
Mexican Petroleum .. .. .. ..
Miami Copper
Middle States Oil .. .. .. ..
Midvale Steel
Missouri Pacific . . ....
New York Central . . . . . .
N. Y.. N. H. and Hartford . .
Norfolk & Western . .
Northern .Pacific
Pure Oil
Oklahoma Prod. & Ref.
Pan-American Petroleum, e d . .
Pennsylvania ..' '....v..
People's Gas
Pittsburg and West Va
Ray Consolidated Copper, e d . .
Reading . . ....
Rep. Iron & Steel ... . ...
Koyal Dutch, N. Y
Shell Trans. & Trad. ..
Sinclair Con. Oil ... ,. . ..
Southern Pacific ... .
Southern rRailway ..... ...
Standard Oil of N. J. pfd.
29 1-8
39 1-4
22 1-2
122 .
36 3-4
86 1-4
81 3-4
39 7-8
84 1-3
69
98
61 1-2
35 3-3
79
107 1-4
87
32 51 1-2
112 1-2
35 1-2
73 1-4
55 3-4
26 1-8
25
18 3-8
26 1-2
64 1-2
41 1-4
17 1-2
12 1-
119 1-8
13 1-8
33 7-u
72 1-2
26 1-4
82 1-4
29 3-4
48 3-4
48 1-S
16 3-4
98
2 1-2
160 3-4
15 3-8
12
30 1-4
17
68 1-4
16
96 1-2
76 1-8
32 1-4
3 1-4
76 1-2
39 5-8
35 1-8
28
11 1-4
8o
59
58 5-8
39 1-4
23 1.2
97 .5-8
20 5-8
103 3-8
40 1-8
7 1-8
42 3-8
17 3-8
50
7 1-8
114 7-8
18 8-8
51 3-4
63 1-2
61 3-4
78 7-S
48 5-8
b4
5 5-8
85
20 3-8
30 1-8
7
b47 1-4
198 1-2
30 1-8
6 1-4
112 3-4
Tennessee Copper
Texas Co
Tobacco Products . .
Transcontinental Oil . .
Union Pacific ...
U. S. Food Products ..
U. S. Retait Stores ..
U. S. Ind. Alocohol . .
United States Rubber ..
United States Steel . . . r
Utah Copper, e . d ....
Westinghouse Electric . .
Willys-Overland . . . . . .
Atlantic Coast Line . .
Coca-Cola .. ..
Gulf States Steel ... .. ..
Seaboard Air Line
Sloss, Shef. Steel & Iron
United Fruit
Virginia Caro. Chem. ..
Amrrican Zinc
American Tobacco . .
Midvale Oil .... . .
CHICAGO .GRAIN
Chicago. T?c. . 7. Active buying on
the part of houses with seaboard con
nections brought about a material ad
vance in wheat rices today.
Opening quotations ranged from 1
cent lower to 2Yz 'cents advance.
Wheat closed firm, 5 to 6 cents
n-t higher.
Corn closed firm, 1 to 3 cents
net higher
Corn opened unchanged to higher.
Oats, influenced by the strength of
other cereals, started on to up.
Provisions reflected advances botjito
grain and hogs.
Chicago Grain and Produce.
Open. High.. Low.' Close.
WHEAT
March .
May . . .
CORN
May . .
July . .
OATS
May . .
July . .
PORK
Jan. . .
LARD
Jan. . .
May . .
RIBS
Jan. . .
.1.59 1.64 1.59 1.64
1-59 1.52 1.58
68
69
46
47
71
72
48
48
68
69
46
47
71
72
48U
47 ?
.22.62 22.80 22.62 22.80
. .13.30
..13.47
13.42
13.67
13.27
13.47
13.42
13.65
, 11.S0 11-53
11.90 12.05
11.37 , 11.45
11.90 12.02
May
f!fifo4ra fash- Grain.
Chicago, Dec. 17. Wheat, No. 2 red
2.03; No. 3 hard 1.79.
Corn, No. 3 mixed 66; No. 3 yellow
7014 (ft) 7 4
Oats, No. 2 white 4748;,No. 3
white 4747.
Rye, No. 2 1.55.
. Barley 669lr - PA
Timothy seed 5.50 6.50.
Clover seed 15.00 20.00. ,:
Pork nominal.
Lard 13.42.
Ribs 11-0012.50. ...
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK.
Chicago, Dec. 17. Cattle: Trade un
even: all classes around steady; beef
steers 7.60 11.60; about 300 Canadians
on sile- bulk vealers 9.00 9.50; can
ner cow's mostly 2.75 3.00; demand for
bologna bulla narrower.
Hogs: Active, lights 25 cents to 35
cents higher; others 15 to 25 cents
higher than, yesterday's average; tot,
one load 9.50; butchers 9.15 9.35 ; pigs,
mostly 15 cents hither: ftbulk desirablo
90 to 130 pound pigs 9.40 9.50
Sheep: Fat Umbs 25 to 50 cents
lower: top 10.75 to outsiders; sheep 16
toTs cents lower; good ewes 4.35; yearl;
ings 75 cents to $1 lower; choice 9
Sund yearlings 8.00; no feeder sales.
SILVER.
New York. . Dec. l?.-pBar silver. -do-mestic
99; foreign,.
; Mexican dollars
MEMBERS!
WILL BETALKED
Republicans to Have Cau
cus Tonight on Re-apportionment
of Congress
, men.
Washington, Dec. 17. Reapportion
ment of membership in the, house of
representatives to correspond with pop
ulations changes as reeorded in the 1920
census win be considered by republican
members of the house at a caucus called
for tonight.
Nearly half a dozen reapportionment
measures have been presented since
the convening of the present session.
The principal one, submitted by Rep
resentative Siegel. of New York, chair
man of the census committee, provides
for a house membership of 483 as com
pared with .the present membership of
43.5;
Representative Hull, democrat, of
Tennessee, has proposed a- constitution
al amendment which would fix 450 as
the permanent maximum membership
of the house. The only bill proposing-a
cut in the present membership was of
fered yesterday by Representative Blan
ton, democrat, Texas, who suggests
that the size of the house be cut to 304
members.
One of the measures bearing on reap
pointment, which majority leaders plan
to consider at tonight's meeting, was
offered by Representative Tinkham, re
publican, Massachusetts, It would di
rect a congressional investigation of al
leged negro disfranchisement in the
southern states and a corresponding cut
in the representation of those states in
the house.
JEFF HELMS HAS
A DUALTHEORY
Druggist ' Can't Decide
Whether Its Helms or
Himself Who Mixes
Figures.
Jeff D. Helms, a druggist, has sprung
the dual, personality theory on , his
friends. When , he couldn't make a
freight bill for holiday stock add up
right Friday night, he said it was him
self and Helms who was wrong, he
didn't know which.
Mf . Helms came from Union county
where voting in time past was a mat
ter of putting bundles of ballots in the
boxes, with weak stimulants as coaxers
to the unwilling, and where everybody
kills a fat hog the day after-the first
heavy frost.
Satisfied that he was too big a man
for Union, or that Charlotte was too
big a place for the men already on the
fireing line backed up by cash registers
firing a determination to get all of the
"root of all evil" that they could grub
out of the old town. Mr. Helms put his
220 pounds aboard a Seaboard train one
fine morning 25 years ago, and reached
Charlotte for supper, which he had to
bring from Union, restaurants being in
their swaddling clothes and too unat
tractive then to draw men like Mr.
Helms. He had supper between the
Seaboard passenger depot and the old
Cornwallis building.
"These figures won't conduct them
selves like figures I usgd to handle on
a slate back in Union, when the win
ter wind swept through the little school
house and made the kids work hard
to get out early."
Then they went home and after a
square meal a fourssquare meal Mr.
Helms calls it, they got to work again
with determined parents armed : with
later autumn branches as supervisors
of playgrounds. The cornfields and
tho ground a-ploughing were the classic
stadia on which the Union county men
learned, to amuse themselves. " Plum
mer Stewart, Johnson McCall and many
others, with Judge E. Little as a fine
specimen of the output. .of specialized
Union county recreational grounds, are
other men who ghow that Union was a
great place to be born in. if one's par
ents would only be as considerate. The
Union county parents were usually so
considerate, and sprang a race of
great men.
But Mr. Helms doesn't know vet
whether it was Jeff Helms or "myself,"
wno got the figures tangled. A big
heart has kept "him from letting the
idea lodge in his brain that the error
might have been there when the freight
or express bill came in. Anyhow he
gave 60 minutes to the task and then
swung his huge overcoat over his left
arm,, grabbed a hat that belonged to
somebody in Blake's drug store, and
started home ;at 10 o'clock. People
up North Try on street way. following
the old custom, said to have started in
Germany, set their watches by Mr.
Helrns, 'He takes his time, but never
loses any of the most valuable thing
that a business man owns outside his
stock bought on. a fast climbing market.
But those figures again Mr. Helms
claims that he never makes errors, tut
he says those long lines of ocmbinations
of 0 to 9, taken (together, have him
guessing.
'I'm large enough to be two men," he
groaned as he gave up the job Friday
night when the city hall clock was
banging the first , hit in a ten-strike.
"Maybe I'm afflicted with that dual per
sonality business, and hanged if I know
whether Helms or myself is trying to
add up these twisted figures."
'If it's Helms, then I shall handle
that gentleman with rough soap and a
long, brisk walk, sort of dog-trot, one
thing that does go against my personal
wishes any day in the year, for I never (
JB l W4U vv ai ill.
"If it's me instead of Helms, who has
bungled up this here row of duplicat
ed flgures.with that useless dollar sign
in front of every figure, then I shall
call - myself a sad, but not hopeless,
case' and I shall get Jeff Helms to pull
myself out of this- trickery of the im
agination, whatever it is.
"I want to tell, you that I-fielteve
Helms is too Straight and sure to get
bowled out by a handful of kerosene
light looking figures and I'll never take
that horn of the dilemma Into consid
eration; I'll never think about it: but
if it's just me and not Helms, I'll try
the contorted figures once more, and
if they won't do their duty, I'll see a
doctor, and tell him what to do for me.
I've added figures all my life and Helms
has always make 'em come out right,
and myself, too, has always . made 'em
come out right. :. , . "
"By the whits swan's death song, If
I'm Helms and myself too, I want to
know it. Helms weighs 220 pounds
and is a man, and the other fellow
looks exactly like him. Maybe some
of these fellow with baritone voices
and stethoscopes and white enamel ta
bles in their offices, an give Helms
and me some light, -but I'll not stand
for anything agin Helms, let that be
advertised."
TRAFFIC DISCUSSED.
Washington, Dec. 17. Discussion of
proposed emergency tariff legislation to
check imports and the decline In prices
of wheat and wool, with the possibility
6f its extensidft to cover scores of oth
er commodities, was the purpose of a
joint conference today of members of
the senate, finance and the house ways
and means committees-
HOUSE
GEORGE SHUTS
IS TURNED LOOSE
Man Who Killed Terrence
Melton Held Not Guilty
of Murder.
"Not Guilty" was the announcement
of Foreman Robert J. Small of the su
perior court jury Friday at 10:35 o'clock
in the case of the state against George
Stutts, after the jury had been locked
up since 5 o'clock ; Wednesday after
noon unable to agree on a verdict.
Stutts' was charged with murdering Ter
rence .Melton.
The pronouncement from the fore
man of the Jury .which turned 22-year-old
Gorge Stutts loose as a free man
was uttered in the mist of a death
like stillness in the court room and
during the interruption of a speech by
Jake J Newell, representing the state
in asking- for a conviction of Tom Kelly, 4-
negro, butler at the Z. V. Taylor hhie
on the charge of murdering the cook
there ten months ago.
The Stutts jury came into the court
room early after convening of court af
ter havipg been quartered at a hotel
Thursday night, the second night since
they took the case. Foreman Small
told Judge Webb they were still unahli
Ito agree. They had said this once or
twice before and Judse Webb, appar
ently taking the position that, since
they were already in possession of the
case, they had "just as welj deliberate a
little longer, told them to go back and
try it again. ,
Court attendants had l6nr since con-1
eluded that it would be a .mistrial arid
that it was only a question of ho V
long J udge Webb would keep the jury
together before dismissing it. Sudden
ly there was a loud rap on the door of
the jury room and Deputy Sheriff Vice
Fesperman, wh6 is on duty in the court
room this week, pushed open the doo?
expecting the jury was ready to re
port again that it was unable to aeree.
, He came out and reported to Judge
cuu luai cue jury was ready to file
into the jury .box. ; :. A hushed wav, of
tense expectancy swept over the court
room as the twelve men having George
Stutts fate 4n their keeping filed Out of
the jury room and into the" jury box,
where they remained standing. Numr
bers of people looked across to -the farr
side of the court room to wnere sat Mr.
and Mrs. Stutts, father of the defend
ant, and his sister and an aunt. Their
amotion was apparent, Mrs. Stutts bow
ed her head for a moment. The sis.
ter, an attractive young woman, looked
at the jury, then at her brother, the
defendant and leaned over with her
arm on the mother's shoulder. The
father's features were twitching slight
ly but were less mobile than those of
the three woman who had sat in the
court room hoping, and dreading fOrtwo
and a half days to hear the verdict.
Deputy Clerk of the Court j. M.
Yandle had gone out of the court room
for a moment, not expecting the jury
would report for hours. Deputy Sheriff
Fcrperman , had - been dispatched down
stairs to bring Deputy Clerk J. A. Rus
sell to take Mr. Yandle's place for the
moment. h
Jake ' F. Newell, who had -been ad
dressing the jury in the Kelly cask
with great vehenence, stopped short
and took a seat near the jury box. The
jurors in the Stutts , case stood still
while Clerk Russell came into the court
room. . A pin falling on the floor would
have startled Vie spectators, so tense
was the stillness.
- "3entlemerrrave you agreed?" askecf
Mr. Russell of the jury.
"We have," answered Foreman
Small. -
"What say you?" asked the clerk. '., '
"Not Guilty," said the foreman. h
Miss 'Stutts, sister of -the-defendant,
impulsively clapped her hands, but some
one sitting near her said "s-shu" and
laid a hand on her arm. . Judge Webb
ignored the incident, evidently appre
ciating -the'"youfigv woman's feelings,
and, turning to the jury, told them
they were excused from further duty.
Young Stults, not realizing that the ;
verdict automatically released him from
custody and that he was as free as any
man in the court "house, hesitated . a
minute and was motioned at by PlQm
mer Stewart, one of his counsel, to
come on across the court room. Deputy
Sheriff Fesperman nodded his assent to
Stutts, when the latter looked at him
Questioning whether he should obey Mr.
Stewart's signal. He went over to
Mr. Stewart, who laid his hand on the
young man's shoulder and led himside
in the lobby. Mr. Stewart congratulat
ed the young man on having attained
his freedom and Stutts thanked his at
torney with words and a tight hand
clasp. ' ' .
He went down the steps leading from
the court room, three at a time, to tell
some friends waiting outside of his good
fortune. His father and mother, sis
ter and other friends who had been
in the court rooni were with him in a
minute and there was a joyful family
reunion.
The father and mother and other rel
atives stopped members of the jury as
they were leaving the court room and
warmly clasped their hands, thanking
them for the verdict. Several of the
jurors took handkerchiefs from their
pockets and surreptitiously wiped their
eyes.
It is understood that when te jur
ors took the case, after receiving the
charge from Judge Webb last Wednes
day afternoon at 5 o'clock, that four of
I them stood for acquittal, while the oth
er eigni ravorea a. veraici 01 secona de
gree murder or manslaughter. The
four who originally stood for acquittal
gradually brought eight around to their
viewpoint and the final vote of the
twelve men was that the defendant was
not guilty of murder. .
DARING ROBBERY
IN CHAPEL HILL
Thieves Swept
Dormitories
Through
Hfolrino -
iuHi"
Away With Watches and
Money.
Chapel Hill, N. C Dee. 17.-In tha
most daring robbery ever known here,
burglars last night swept through five
dormitories at the University of North
Carolina and took from students rooms
more than 30 watches and several hun
dred dollars in cash. In "nearly every
instances the watches and money were
taken from rooms in which two and
three students were sleeping." Several
times the students woke up while a
man was in their-room; but when the
stranger explained that he had blun
dered into the wrong room in the dark
their suspicions were allayed. The rob
bers escaped in an automobile.
NIGHT SCHOOL GROWS.
The night sehool for employed negro
men, women and girls ct the South
Myers street graded school has grown
to the extent that it has been neces
sary to add another teacher. M- -B.
-r, m W tr o tu.
ro rt t -mi Wirt whn foiinflM f Hp
night school, in connection with the
Charlotte Y..M- C. A ... , ..
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Observations Uiea tt . m., 75ta raeridl&B time. Air pressure reduced to se& level, isobar; (continuous llassVptss throvglj points
of equal ir pressure. Isotnerras (dotted lines) pass through points of equal temperature. O elr: partly cloudy; O cloudy;
rain: (D snow; report missing.
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TEE WEAHpR.
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December 17, 1920.
The northern disturbance is moving
slowly northeastward, a small secon
dary development having apparently oc
curred over Virginia,, resulting in mod
erate gales on the south and millde At
lantic coasts.
Fair weather prevails in nearly all
districts, light show or rain having been
reported only from a few stations in
the 16Wer ' Lake district, tipper Ohio
valley and on the north Atlantic coast.
The western high-pressure area" has
decreased in strength, extending this
morning from Montana and the Dako
tas to the Gulf.
The weather has grown colder in
southern . Florida, with temperatures
ranging from 16 to 24 degrees below
normal, light frosts having . occurred
tia far south as Miami. It is also, coider
in Montana and North Dakota and
somewhat colder in the Plains states.
There has been a tendency to warmer
in most of the southern states, except
Florida.
Fair weather will continue in this
vicinity over Sunday, with little change
in tempenature tonight and- Saturday,
THE WEATHER.
Weather liircau Office
Charlotte, Dec 17,1920.
Sunrise .. ., .. .. 7:25
Sunset .. .. r. 5:14
Moonrise . . .. .. 11:44 a. m.
Moonset C.J, . i 1159 p. m.
Moon phase First eVuarter oh 18th.
TEMPBATCRE.
Dry Bulb.
8 a. m. .
10 a. m.
Noon. . .
36
45
49
S a. m..
Noon. .
32
40
Highest yesterday .. .. ..
Lowest last night ......
Mean, yesterday ; . . . . .
Normal. . . . . . .N
Mean same late' last year. . . . .
Excess for montji . . i..
Deficiency for year . . i .. . -Highest
Of record fon December
Lowest of record for December
43
36
40
43
35
37
251
76
5
- PRECIPITATION.
Total f or 24 hours ending 8 a, m.
Total for month to H a. m. , .
Normal for December. . , . ..
Excess for year .. ..
0
2.27
3.S6
1.05
HUMIPITT.
8 a. m
66
45
Noon
G. S. LINDGREN, Meteorologist.
DEATHS FUNERALS
COL, JIM STORY.
Mineral Wells. Texas, Dec. 17.--Col-onel
Jim Tom Story, one of ;ie oldest
active newspaper men in the south
died here today. Colonel Story at one
time was employed by the New Orleans
Picayune. He served in the Confed
erate army as colonel of a Louisiana
regiment. . He was 80 years old.
MIS MARY D. HAWKINS.
The funeral ' of " Miss Mary Davis
Hawkins, sister of T. W.- Hawkins, of
Charlotte, was held Thursday at her
home in Granville county.
Miss Hawkins was 75 years old, and
was one of nine born children to Dr.
Peter Hawkins and his wife; Elizaheth
Williams Hawkins. The fuieral was
held Thursday in Warrenton. Miss Haw
kins ancestry' took a leading part in
the settlement and development of Gran
ville county, Philemon Hawkins, her
great grandfather being a Revolution
ary colonel and one of the first settlers
in Granville. .
Surviving her are T. W, Hawkins,
brother, of this city, and Misses Annie
ana Lucy Hawkins, sisters.
Miss Hawkins was a member of the
Episcopal, church,
JESSE F. CAUDLE.
Jesse F. Caudle, resident .of Char
lotte for two months, died at. his home,
916 East avenue early Friday morn
ing, following a three-year period of
illness beginning with paralysis. t
Mr. Caudle was born in Anson coun
ty, June 16, . 1848, being 72 years old
when he died. He was 1 engaged in
mercnanaismg in ciuw, .
1 summer, when ill heaitn iorcea nun
i fVP nn his worK. -tie came tu vno.
i Jg. jth .g
Alex Phifer of Marsbville, also sur-
vives
The funeral will take place Saturday.
It has not been decided whether the
interment will be in Charlotte or in
Monroe, where Mr. Caudle once Uvequ
HAWTHORNE LANE LEADS,
At the end of the fourth .-week, or
at the half-way point of an eight
weeks contest between the Business
Men's Bible class of Hawthorne Lane
Methodist Sunday school and the Wes
ley class of Trinity Methodist Sunday
school, the score stood 1,056 to 95o in
favor of Hawthorne Lane, when the
committee met Thursday at the Y. M.
C. A. '
E3D3EZZLEjipSNT CIWRGED
Wilmingtoji, Del., Dec 17. William
Bush, - secretary and treasurer of - the
Wilmington f- Savings ' Fund Society,
nrrefttpd today on:; a warrant
charging Wm "with embezzlement of
,nt t owned bv the society valued
1 at . 1200.000. At B. hearing before a
I magistrate brwas heJd in UOO.000
bail for genfiraiiieaeioTi court. -
U. S. DepariaKBt of Arricnllart. Weafter Bare.
CHARLES F. MARVIN, Chief. ,
OAILY WJBATHEfc MAtV
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Arrows fly witb tbe wind. Shaded areas show precipltation'of 8.01 inch or more in past 24 hours.
RACE TROUBLES
QUIETING DOWN
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Kansas Mob Failed to Ma
terialize Its Plans to
Lynch Negro Murderer.
Independence, Ka., Dec. 17. Mem
bers 'of the home guard and American
Legion were patrolling the streets here
today as a result of race disorders last
night in which a white boy and a ne
gro were killed ,and four white ' men
wounded, three critically.
Other home guard members and le
gionaries, sworn In . as deputy . sheriffs,
were on duty near the county jail,
where, according to Chief of Pqlice E.
H. . Hall, Noble Green, a negro, whose
alleged action in killing R. R. Whar"
ton a White grocer, yesterday, precipi
tated the trouble, is confined. . Reports
were current late last night that
Green had been taken to the state pris
on at Lansing for safekeeping, but they
were denied by Chief Hall, who said
he "had an agreement with them"
that no attempt would be made to
lynch Green. "Them," Hall explained,
"means a number of men who are in
town." , Threats of lynching were made
late yesterdilfy after Green had been
captured at his home by a posse.
The ' local officials were without in
formation this morning as to whether
national guardsmen would be sent here
as a precautionary measure. While the
disorders were going on, the request
for troops - was telephoned to the gov
ernor's office sJ-Topeka. JUatejc theiau-J
thorities, assisted by home guardsmen
and American Legion men, were , able
to get the situation under control and
the town was q.uiet this morning.
According to officials, the trouble
was hot unexpected and had been
brewing air day yesterday. ' The cli
max came when Mayor John L. Wad
man, and Chief Hall accosted a "crowd
of armed negroes on the street and
urged them 'to go home. The r"jroes
refused. While they were talk..ig, a
group of artned whites came up. Ac
cording to witnesses, ; Arthur Harper,
negro, without warning , shot dead
Lawrence Clennan, ; a white boy. Be
fore Harper could lower his weapon
he was riddled with bullets The. shoot
ing was a signal for a ; general en
counter. Both , sides were soon rein
forced and the firing spread rapidly,
the combatants taking refuge behind
whatever shelter they could find. It
was then that the officers summoned
aid, but it was more than a hour -and
a half before the streets were finally
cleared. Theaters closed and citizens
were warned to remain indoors.
The negro, Green, was captured at
his home while in bed with his clothes
on, the authorities said. The posse
which went in pursuit after the shoot
ing, arrested five . other suspects, but
all but Green were released. A shot
gun containing one empty shell was
found in a barn behind Green's house.
Requests were sent to Coffey ville
and Weodesha near here for volunteer
members of the American Legion to
assist in patrolling the streets. Seventy-five
men from Neodesha respond
ed, arriving shortly after midnight.
They were Immedltely sworn in by the
police and began guard duty.
Officers at the jail announced that
they feared for the outcome if . identi
fication should be made complete.
Major Robert Lewis, a 'veteran of
the world war, organized the J50. mem
bers of the-- American Legion here, as
soon as word was received from Topeka
that no state troops would be sent here
today. The veterans are patrolling the
streets and watching all street cars
and interurbans. '
LEAGUE HEADS IN
IMPORTANT MEET
New York; Dec. 17. The annual
'meeting of the American League here
today, whose most important business
was ratification of the new baseball
agreement, marked the last of a series
of important baseball gatherings In this
city. It also was the first plenary meet
ing of the American League since three
of its members temporarily seceded last
month to force action on a genercd re
organization of the sport.
An unusually placid atmosphere hov
ered over early conferences of mana
gers, contrary to recent American
League tradition at annual meetings,
and little, if any, disagreement was an
ticipated. The majority of the mana
gers predicted the new constitution
would be ratified "without a ripple."
Selection of managers for the Detriot
and St. Louis teams was expected to
be formally announced. It was consider
ed a certainty, that Ty Cobb would be
chosen to manage the Tigers, and Lee
Fohl was generally mentioned as St.
LoUis selection.
Other matters included setting a date
for beginning the 1921 race for the pen
nant, which probably will be April 13,
and discuccions regarding rules for fu
ture world's series games.
THE GIFT WITH A LIFT -365
days of satisfaction to giver
and boy. ATM. C. A. member
ship. Under 15 years, $5 Over
15 years, $7. Physical, educa
tional and Bible training. En
tertainments, meetings, swims,
etc. Ask the boy. Phone 159.
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MRS. M. C. CROWLEY, of. Los An
geles, who says Tanlac completely
restored her health after everything
else, even a change of climate, faileu
to help her in the least. . .
"I came to Los Angeles " trying tr
regain my health, but I didn't get an5
better, even in this wonderful climate,
until I began taking Tanla," 'said
Mrs. M.' C. Crowley, who lives at 1041.
South Hill StM Los Angeles, the othei N
day,
"I was so weak and broken down
that' I was hardly able to get about, ai
all. '-i' suffered terribly after my meale
on :aecount of 'my food souring , and
gas forming on my stomach, and I
would, feel so tight that I could hardly
get a good breath. My appetite left me
and I was so nervous, .that I couldn't
stand the least'noise and I never knew
what it was. to. get a good night's
sleep.
"I tried dieting for more than two
years, but that didn't -help me any, for
I was continually" getting worse all the
time and actually ... lost twenty five
pounds in weight. .
"All the different treatments and
medicines I took failed to do me the
least bit of good, and I finally came
to the conclusion, that my condition
would never be. any . better.
"I know, front my personal expe
rience with it that Tanlac is .a good
medicine, for as socn as. I began ' tak
ing it, I began to improve, v. Why, it
is perfectly wonderful the. way I. hav
gained in strength, weight ; and f very
ether way, and I now feel liK a differ
ent woman entirely. " 1
"I have a fine appetite and my .nerves
aie in such perfect condition that I
sleep soundly every- night. I never
suffer from sour. stomach and gas form
ing after meals and, in; fact, all my
troubles have just gradually disap.
peaped since taking Tanlac.
"I feel so thankful over my improves
ment that I am glad to have the op
portunity to recommend Tanlac to
everybody." '.
Tanlac is sold by the leading drug
gists in. every town.
WAR CORPORATIONS
DRAW ALLOWANCES
Washington, Dec. 17. More than $12,
128,000,000 has been- paid out . by- the
treasurer of the United States up to
October 31, on checks,, drawn by " the
six government corporations and the
railroad administration against their
accounts, on deposit With the- treasury,
according to a report of these transac
tions made public by Secretary . Hous
ton. Nearly half of the total checked
out was on the account of the Emer
gency Fleet Corporation. ' .
. Checking accounts were established'
by the government corporations with
the treasury1 in 1918 insteid of depos
iting their funds with private banks.
The results of their transactions up to
October. 31 as reported by the secretary
showed that the Emergency Fleet. Cor
poration had checked out $5,964,931,879
and ' had. a 'balance' of $83,939,66; th
war finance corporation had. checked
out $2,997,964,687 and had a balance of
$371,809,520; the United States housing
corporation withdrew $135,282,058 and
had a balance of $2,959,446; the federal
land banks withdrawals amounted to
$15,313,261 and their balance - $1,359,
950, and .the ; railroad, administration
checked out $1,811,786,554 and had a
balance of $28,774,524. The Russian
bureau of the war trade ; board closed
its account in September laf ter having
withdrawn a total f of $13,333,773. ;
"The plans evolved by 'the treasury
for handling the accounts and disburse
ments of these agencies have been op
erated to the entire satisfaction of all
concerned." Secretary Houston said.
The funds have been assured absolute
security, and appropriated moneys runi
nlng into ' large amounts have not been
withdrawn from the treasury until
needed to pay obligations of the govern
ment, thus reducing the amount of gov
ernment borrowings, with the conse
quent saving in interest charges."
CHORAL CLUB TO SING.
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Next Sunday afternoon's Y. 51. C.-A.
meeting at 4 o'clock will be featured
by the presence of the J. B. Ivcy
Choral Society, which will render a
program of Christmas -carols with or'
chestral " accompaniment. The . speaker
will be Dr. W. L. Poteat-of Wake For
est College, and his subject will ba
"Arvatclor or Christ."
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