J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher. /
VOLUME XLVIII.
1110 REDEEM 'LOST
PUCES' OF STATE
L
\\ Ikinuc Prepared Now, and
Probably Will Be Ready
or Action by Last of This
Week, Framers Declare.
W VST RAILROAD
THROUGH DISTRICT
WiW Will Provide for Railroad
Line Through Ashe, Wau
tisiiga and Alleghany Coun
ties, All in West.
i; , u ii. .I:in. 22 <By the Associat
-1 .s'. Pi i piuntion of tin* Bowie
redeem 1 111* “lost
, Wtauga and Alleghany comi
• • ;li»> erection of a through lino
._,|)were going forward hore to
i tho absence of a morning ses
s ! < !.c General Assontltly. and it
, V: , : i i mmooil liy tho framers of tho]
_ ;i. n that an offort wajs lieing j
, ro have tiio hill roady If of | >r<»-
.. •nt I*> tln*.end of tin* week. Tho
~ ! prejKiring it. however, has
, l ahmg oantiously. tho from
, . :.i!<>!Ui<-od. l«H-auso of the numhor
iaiiMirtiint matters involved.
1 1 : : 111 •• 1 1 discussion among legisla-*
assembled in tho House tills j
. !tiuy . look after routine matters'
; ri .i ■ < nticern. turned to tho eon-1
: ; • ot shift lino committee hoar- '
h will lie rosuniod Wednesday
t,,| Hmation of the printing de-
In the commission provided
i,. : I.v p. • Yea l hill which will swing
v > • tii toiiiori ow night,
i: . . iffccting the state insurance
| ; ..s< ;ind sponsored by the State In
- • department were cxpedeil to
.■: ■ 1m 1 at the short session of
ti . tonight, hut in* real work
i> icukcil for until business on the
. r is resumed tomorrow morning.
Printed copies of the Senate medi
cine act were on ihi3- desks of the
>, aa:cr> this morning, but no disous
ji was held relative to the b 11. But
a t w Senators were left in the ci.ty
!\ rs tin* we k end.
INDIANA TOWN ORDERS
ITS NEGROES TO LEAVE
Decree Follows Assault of a White
Girl. 11 Years Old by a Negro.
bland lord. lin 1.. .Jan
. n leaving this mining town early
i - aitiitonioon. folhtwing the warning
'-ail hy white residents to he out of
fhi- imvn hy 7 o'clock tonight if they
■ • nimble to produce the unknown
' win* criminally assaulted a 11-
"U! "lil whit*- girl last Thursday »*v
• Ihe girl is said t«* be in a
. ••iii- condition.
vi; available, automobiles, operating
Bland ford and Clinton. Ind..
■ • i. ipicd by negro passengers and
i amber of trucks were filled with
-l iinhl goods. Early this evening
i -i'i in- dashbs had been reported.
T >■ ultimatum, ordering the negroes
1 a: nt :..'.vii, was adopted at a mass
c* • !il' of white miners this morning.
M vi- nan 40ft attended the meeting,
it u !•- said *
W V. Saitc.rlce. prosecuting attorfie.v
T"! rliis i Vermillion> county, visited
hkiniifurd this a Item win and addres
>'<l a scries of meetings at which lie
advised the men to let the authorities |
! ; anillo the situation. He latex left
f‘•)' Hinton.
Between 15 and is negro families.
ituTiuling about To persons, live in
Bus o.ituimmity, it was stated.
DM I If It Kit WAS BUSY
MONTH FOR BUSINESS
Sal* in Dh tinker of Two Large .Hail
Dais Order Houses Totalled $32,-
Kl.eiMi.
.fan. 21a —Exceptional i
' v B • in all lines of business for
1 -in month of 1922 is shown
; ; 'i‘ V i*y of domestic business
• In hi msued today by the de
! : ' ;yii of commerce. A new record
l: ' -’a in pig iron production, a
" Tut' pH of co;C and coke, heavy
-"a,dings, a December record for
'' Ci: activities, a market inciease
.‘ n hyeipts of foreign goods and a
> '"liuinrption of silk, together
? ii heaviest volume of retail
vi'r- iv. r recorded are among the
• factors shown.
‘ * d orders of the United States
( '"ration fell off, ;but offi
''l > ff’imider this an indication of
; ’ > ■ production and better de
| Steel«ingot production de
' ! lightly. Production during
; h ' 1 ' otaihd 3,178,000 tons, com
-3,:!u3.0f>0 for .November,
ii December of two of the
> ! oider houses in the
- - .ailed $32,185,000, or $3,-
; than in December, 1921,
,; ” <*".'» more than in'December
of large ten-cent
1'" ' . < ins to*•*lied $43,447,000 in
"' 11 1 r. < omparrd with $37,532,000
j 1 ; »ib-r, 1921. and $35,574,000
v ' month of 1920.
1 idles l*ay C'hurch Debt. 1
, ! ' ''"-uibers of the Isixties Aid So
, ' I he Methodist Protestant
Bave ree*>ntly had matured
(| , ! - ;, "d Boan stock to the amount
N l cun which they used to pay
( •; 11 0 of that amount on the
j. ojH-i ty. Tlu* meuilters of the
: of this church are now
Building and Loan to the
5 2,000. the money being usexl
' luenis on the parsonage and
Property.
i !l ! Mrs. E. W. TeagtfP, of
i ' : io. are visiting Mrs. Ben
1 ' : l.‘*r home on White street.
THE CONCORD TIMES,
BUDGET COMAIISSION
MAKES BIENNIAL REPORT
In Addition to Budget Needs the Re
rT!errt* Conditions in
ltaleigh, X. (!., Jan. 22 (Bv tho As
-1 s °ciated Press). —Appropriations for
, ‘State expenses for the two fiscal vears
beginning July 1 1023, and ending
|i .1 une 30. 102.*. ot .$10,205.37*0. an in
crease of approximately $.">,000,000 ov
er the budget two years ago, was
| recommended hy the budget commis
' sion's second biennial report submit-
to the general assembly.
The recommendations of the budget
commission in addition include ss,-
7i‘».oon of bonds for the program of
i j permanent improvement of state in
j stitutions during the ensuing two
I years. r rius is in excess of the *7.
1 250.020 maximum 1 o whi< li the com-
J mission sought to reduce iis in'oposals,
jtheiehy making a total of $14,000,000
tor the four years ending June 30.
102.1. hut it also represents a sealing
downward hy the body of the re piesis
lmm institutions affected for a grand
total of $14.!>53,843.
1 he commission Is composed of (!ov-|
ernor ' (’ameron .MTtrrison. ex otlieio ,
-j chairman ; former. Senator li. S. Me-i
<’oin. Henderson: Senator L. It. Var-i
ser. Itol*eson county ; former represen- I
Dative W. X. Everett, now secretary of j
state. Richmond Founty: It»‘pr«»senta
tive It. A. I .'<*ught on. Alleghany, and]
jit. A. Hewer, Fherokee. the oniy re-j
t publican memlter of the body.
The proposed increase of bonded in- 1
debtedness of SIS.(KM>.(KK4 for road j
eonstnietion will enable the state high-j
way commission to continue their;
i present construction program for two*
I years from January 1. 1P23, and it is*
| believed with the increase of two!
| cents per gallon on gasoline and tin*]
'revenue received from a tax on public j
j service automobiles and trucks using
Jthe state roads for hire, retaining the
present license fees on automobiles,
taking into, consideration the normal
yearly increase and consumption of
gas. will enable '.lr* state liighwav
-commission upon this income, to pay
interest upon the S<»S.OOO.<MHI bonded
indebtedness, maintain its organiza
tion. have ample funds for mainten
ance of tiie state road system, and to
set aside at least .$250,000 per-year for
a sinking fund to’ retire the road
bonds when they mature.
The commission’s survey of the gen
eral condition of. the state follows: j
"First and fundamentally, the vol- j
lime of brand new wealth created in
North Farolina in 1922:
"It amounted, all told, to more than
one and a third billion dollars at farm
and factory prices, as follows: Manu
factured products, $832.009.000: crops,
livestock and livestock products, .$410.-
000.000: woodier ayd forest products.
.$70,200,000; mines ami quarries, $2,-
dfciO.oooV iisii anti offerers, s2.<x*d.oo;h
The total is more than three times
that of 1915. In a single year. \ve cre
ated more than a third as much j
wealth as we have accumulated on
our tax hooks in 250 years. It aver
aged nearly .SSOO per inhabitant in
.1922. counting men, women and chil
dren of both races, or .$2,000 per fam
ily. No other state in the south be
gins to approach North Farolina in
the per capita production of now
wealth, and only seven states of the
union stand above her in out
put of new wealth.
"Second: Despite the drop in mar
ket prices the total farm wealth pro
duced in the state in 4922 is more than
twice the total of 1910—.5410,200,000
against $175,000,000. We produced
75.000 hales of cotton more than in
1921, and climbed to the fourth place
in the cotton belt south. The average
advance of cotton and tohjicco pxicts
throughout the season gave to the
farmers, the merchants, and hankers
of the state sixty million dollars in
cash more than the year before. As a
result. North Farolina is paying hack
the eight million dollar loan of the
war linn nee corporation faster than
any other state in the union.
"Tlirid: The mills and factories of
Ihe state have been running on full
time almost without exception. Fac
tory prices are less hut the volume ot
manufactured goods is greatly in
creased and the volume of wages is
scarcely lessened. New tnills are be
ing-built all over the state. The de
mand for labor in the factories, the
building trades, and in highway con
struction has -been steady and at no
time has unemployment been a serious
problem in North Farolina as in the
great industrial area, north and east,
and in the boll weevil area of the
south.
"Fourth: These are the fundamental
facts that explain our $397,000,000
hank resources, our $110,000,000 hank
account savings, our investment of an
additional $30,000,000 in motor cars
in 1022. our ability to own $140,000,000
worth' of automobiles and^trucks and
to buy gallons of gasoline in twelve
. months. They explain the greatly in
crease of our building and loan asso
ciations. and the erection of residenc
es. warehouses, factories, hotels and
office buildings everywhere. They al
so explain our ability <<> pay $122.-
000.000 into the federal treasury in
j 1922 as taxes on profits, incomes and
inheritances. These are large figures,
(and they have given the state a large
(place in the mind of Hie tradespeople
and credit institutions the country ov
er. .Traveling men talk them far and
wide, and the hankers of America do
not hesitate to take out public bonds
at a premium.
j "Fifth: But even more significant is
I the deep and abiding impression these
; facts have made upon North Farolina
! herself. Not natural resources, hut
'men make a state. The abounding
| natural resources and possibilities ot
B North Farolina were all here in Gov
i ernor Drummond’s day: hut only with
in tlu* last forty years has the state
' j begun to cash them in—and mainly
I within the last four years. The best
| evidence that a state believes in lier
; self lies in her willingness to invest in
’ public education, public health, and
, public highways are indispensable
foundations of commonwealth progress
PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURS DA Y S
■ CURTAILMENT ORDER
] *
Southern Power Co. Says It
Will Have to Cut Down
Power Supply Beginning
Next Wednesday.
Charlotte, Jan. 22. —Curtailment of
power to mills and other plants served
by it in North Farolina and South
Carolina will be resumed Wednesday,
tho Southern Power Company im
j muiiKed here today. Lack of rainfall
has lowered the water in the streams
which feed iis hydro-electric plants,
the .company said, and has again made
necessary the curtailment schedule
which was in effect t'#ir a short time
last autumn.
i The plan calls for division of its
power subscribers into five zones, ac
j cording to locality and having the
j plants in each zone shut down for one
j day each wook. The schedule will
jstart, it was announced, with the
mills in Gaston County, constituting
I zone three, shutting-down. It was ex
j plained that this would he renewing
| the curtailment wl/crc it was left off.
i The company's announcement said it
| was not known now when tin* full sup
-1 ply of power could be resumed, as it
I depended on the rainfall.
: FIVE PERSONS Are
BURNED TO DEATH
I
In a Fire Which Destroyed a
Hotel at Homestead, Pa.,
Near Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh. Pa.. Jan. 22, -Five per
sons were huVued to death in a lire
which destroyed the Davies Hotel, in
Homestead. near here today. The
property loss was $15,000.
The- dead are: Mrs. John Winnie,
her twin son. aged <>, and her daughter..
Catharine, 13 years; and Thomas W.
Davies, proprietor of the hotel.
The cause of the fire lias not been
determined.
BENEDICT ( ROWELL
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
To Charges of Conspiracy in Connec
tion With Construction of Army
Camps.
Washington. I>. F.. Jan. 22.—Bene
dict Crowell, wartime assistant Sta-r* 4 -
tary of War. pleaded not guilty in the
District of Columbia Supreme Court
today io tho imiietmont recently re
turned against him and six others
here, charging conspiracy in connec
)tion with the eonstnietion of army
camps. j
In a public statement issued upon
his appearance in court, the former
Assistant Secretary declared ho had
been given no oportunify to present
"the facts" in these cast's t*> the grand
jury which indicted him* and added
that such a proceedure hy giving con
nection to a false, charge had consti
tuted a wrong against every Ameri
can citizen.
Henry' L. Stimson, win* was secre
tary of war in the cabinet of President
Taft, appeared as counsel for Mr.
Crowell, and also issued a statement
in which lie declared the charges
brought against his client were "pre
posterous.’’ It would be a sorry prece
dent. Mr. Stimson 'added, if the war
work of men like Mr. Crowell were re
warded hy "suspicion and dishonor."
NAVAL BILL SIGNED
BY THE PRESIDENT
Did Not Alake Any Public Comment on
the Request For Another Confer
ence.
Washington. Jan. 22. The annual
naval appropriation hill, which in
cludes a request lH' Congress Hint
President Harding negotiate with the
other powers for further limitation of
naval armament, was signed today hy
the President. '
The President simply afiixed his sig
nature to the measure without making
any public comment on the limitation
request, or indicating whether he
would have anything to say to Con
gress later on the subject. He is left
free under the provision to decide
whether he will comply with the re
quest; and it has been indicated in ad
ministration circles that he does not
regard it as advisable to do so.
Nicholas von Horthy, Regent of Hun
gary'. broke with family traditions
when he entered the Austrian navy, as
his father was a country gentleman.
Mr. Partes, of the Southern Rail
way force, spent ' yesterday with
friends in Greenwood, S. C.
and prosperity'. In public health
work, we rank among the twelve fore
most states.of the union, and we have
moved forward in this field faster
than any other American state.
"In public highway building, we are
surpassed by Pennsylvania alone. Dur
ing the last eighteen months, we have
built 1374 miles of hard surface and
other types of dependable roads, and
have spent for this purpose $18,932.7(50.
In public school support, we have mov
ed up from six million to twenty mil
lion dollars in ten years.
"At last. North Carolina is estab
lishing her stt>te institutions of chari
ties and correction, higher learning
and technical training on a basis of
adequacy.' Which is to say. North
Carolina is at last minded to base her
future on the intelligence, the] skill
and the character of her people. If is
! those alone that can make a great
i state. The steadfast belief of North
[Carolina in herself is far more import
■! jint than the applause of listening mtil
; titudes in other states.”
CONCORD, N. C„ MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1923.
I STRIKES OF USERS
| IH PROGRESS TODAY
Strikes Were Ordered Yes
terday in Private Mines,
and Orders Were Strictly
Obeyed Today.
j STATE MINES ARE
OPERATING AGAIN
i
i -
Troops Were Taken Away
From These Mines.—Talk
ot the Rhineland Republic
Meets Opposition.
Strikes of miners in the Ruhr Valley
called yesterday by the labor eomer
ence at Ess;n. werfe in progress at
various pits throughout the Valley to
day.
The strikes, compile to or partial,
wore in the privately-controlled work
ings, whose directors were 'arrested by
the French last week,
Withdrawal of the-occupying troops
from the stat<-owm-d ,r.'in<j* properties
hat had been seized .was fo.lowed hy
resumption of mining in these work
ings, although on a • scale reported
somewhat reduced. 'V
While no news of a general railroad
strike order has appeared. Ruesseldorf
advices report only about 10 per cent,
of the trains mini highly the reopening
of the Duesseldorf branch of the
Keiohsbank. The Ksson branch and
the private hanks ofHhat that city re
mained closed.
It was from Mayanee
that' the court martial trial of Fritz
Thyssen and the other industrial mag
nates arrested wouhKl»e held W<*dnes
day. with the proceedings completed in
one day.
Revival of the ta(|k of proclaiming
a Rhineland republic which would
form a buffer statef’iietween France
and ..Germany met with, editorial com
ment from Rome that such a move
would not he tolerated hy Germany's
creditor nations.
Frame again delayed presentation
of her new reparations settlement plan.
'Phis, it was believed, was due'to the
continiKHl uinertaingjF of the German
situation brought aHfrnt by the Ruhr
occupation.
Germany Withdraws Participation.
Paris, Jan. 22 <By tpe Associated
Press).—The Germaydjgqvernnieiit has
formally ceased pflTTDTpntion in the
Franco-German arbitration tribunal
because of "the present political cir
cumstances." Notice to this eff«*ct was
served today as the hearing was about
to open in a hanking 'ease handled by
a Franco-America ii legal linn.
‘ No Compulsory Military Training.
Berlin, Jan. 22 (By the Associated
Press).—The report that the German
government was contemplating the re
introduction of compulsory military
service, which is forbidden under the
treaty of Versailles, was officially de
nied today.
UNION ORGANIZERS ARE
TO INVADE THE SOUTH
Thomas F. McMahon Says Three Or
ganizers Have Been Ordered to the
Southern States.
Manchester, N. 11., Jan. 22. —Presi-
dent Thus. F. McMahon, of the United
Textile of America,*at a
mass meeting of textile workers liere
last night, declared that in ten days
three organizers would proceed to the
South to begin the work of unionizing
the cotton mill workers there. He said
the locality where this work would lie
gin was being kept secret for fear the
organizers would he denied quarters
lor offices when'they arrived. Presi
dent McMahon cautioned the textile
workers not to take seriously the
threat that the Northern cotton mills
would Jake up locations in the South,
declaring that the* water there was
not lit to use in the manufacture of
cotton cloths.
STATE Y. M. (. A. MEET
WILL START TOMORROW
'""I 1 "*
At Least 150 Delegates Expected to
Attend Annual Convention in Char
lnotte.
Charlotte, Jan. 22. —Delegates to the
North Carolina State Y. M. C. A. con
vention, which will he opened here to
morrow morning, began arriving to
day, and it was expected that includ
ing seventy-five delegates that the at
tendance would run about 150 or 200.
The report on last year's work re
viewed by the state committee with
recommendations for the coming year
will be presented for tlu* opening ses
sion. Morgan B. Speir, of Charlotte,
president of the State Association, will
preside.
A number of well known speakers
will address the convention.
TESTIMONY STARTED
IN THE DALLAS ( ASE <
John A. Raynor, a Flagman, Was the
First Witness Called in the Case.
■Wilmington, N. (\, Jan. 22. —Testi-
mony in the trial of Herbert E. Dal
las, former Atlantic Coast Line yard
master, charged with the murder of
Joseph Southwell, a Coast Line
neer during the rail strike last sum
’ . vas starred here today with
John A. Raynor, a flagman, as the
msi witness.
Democrat Keeps Seat.
Washington, I>. <\, Jan. 18.—The
House Elections Committee reported,
today that Dan Parillo, a republican.
who contested the seat held by Repre
sentative Kunz, democrat, of the
Eighth Illinois district, had failed to
comply with the provision of the law
governing such cases and “had no case
which can be legaJly considered.”
’ GRIT READY TO BE
TRIED EOR HERESY
Will Make Formal Reply io
Bishop Manning, Who Ob
jected to An Utterance in
a Recent Sermon.
New York, Jan. 22 - —The Rev. Percy
Stickney Grant, rector of Protestant
Episcopal Church of the Ascension, ex
pects to he tried for heresy. He de
clined today to indicate when lie would
make formal reply to the dltimatNm of
Bishop Wm. T. Manning thal lie either
I recant pulpit utterances that "Jesus
did not have tin* power of God"-or re
sign. He said .that his sermon yes
terday in which lie reiterated that
Christ was human while on earth and
was not possess* d of miraculous pow
ers should not tie construed as his re
ply to the Bishop.
"I shall make my reply to the Bishop
formally Jn the, manner he addressed
me," Mr. Grant said. "Those things
must he done deliberately and care
fully.’’ /
Dr. Grant's stand was condemned in
a number of other sermons preached
in New York yesterday.
EFFORTS TO LOCATE
GRISSOM BODY FAIL
Searching Parties Work in
Water Where Car Was
Found Without Success.
Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 22 —Further
efforts to find tlx* body of 11. A. Gris
som, of Greensboro, N. <’., druggist,
were unavailing last night, and those
engaged in the search believe unless
it is pinned to the bottom of the. creek
where liis automobile plunged Thurs
day night, it will rise to the surface
today. Tin* hope that he still lives
is held hy a few who point out that
lie might be on the north hank of the.
creek lost in the dense swamp. No
trace of him has been-found.
THE COTTON^MARKET
Weak and Unsettled at the Opening
Due to the European Situation.
New York, Jan. 22.—The cotton mar
ket was weak and unsettled as tlu*
opening today owing to increased ner
vousness over the European situation,
lower Liverpool cables, reports of
rains in Texas, and the easier ruling
of foreign exchange. There was heavy
general liquidation at the start, and
after opening weak at the decline of
25 to 47 points, active months showed
yet losses of some 40 tot 50 points,
with March selling at 27:82 and May
at 27:12.
Cotton futures opened weak: Jan-,
uarj 27.02: March 28.05: May 28.20:
July 27.00: October 20.30.
GERMAN REAL ESTATE
IS SELLING VERY CHEAP
Fine 5(1-Room Castle on the Rhine Can
Be Purchased Now for SI,OOO.
Coblenz. Jan. 22 (By the Associated
Press). —A'fine 50-room castle on the
Rhine opposite CoblcnZ, together with
its furnishings and 15 acres of vine
yards. is advertised for sale for SI,OOO
F. Moehau, of Chicago, an army of
ficial. who will depart with the Amer
ican troops, lias just bought for SOS
for his wife’s father, a farewell pres
ent of an apartment house at Mavcnce.
consisting of six 3-room apartments and
a plant of land. There were two pre
war mortgages on the house for 43,000
marks, or the equivalent of SIO,OOO.
Moehau paid off the mortgage for $2,
the present equivalent of 43,000 marks.
THOMAS JOANNIDES
EXECUTED BY TURKS
Wits Charged With Giving Money to
Greek Patriotic Societies in Synir
na.
Athens, Jan. 22. —The execution of
Thomas Joannides, for ten years a rep
resentative in the Near East of large
American milling concerns, is report
ed in messages from Smyrna.
Joannides is said to have been
hanged hy Turks with seven prominent -
Greeks after having been convicted
of giving money to Greek patriotic
societies in Smyrna.
American official and unofficial ag
encies have been making urgent ap
peals to the Turks in Joannides’s be
half for the past fortnight.
EXPULSION OF JEWS
IS OPENLY ADVOCATED
At Demonstration Held Yesterday in
Vienna Before the City Hall.
Vienna, Jan. 22 (By the Associated
Press).—Expulsion of the Jews was
openly advocated at a demonstration
hehl yesterday before the City Hall.
Speakers asserted that efforts to re
generate the German people would not
succeed until the Jc\ws were ousted *
from the dominant position in econom
ric life. art. the stage and the press.
A heavy police guard was present,
and only a few minor collisions occur
red.
Make Important Arrests.
Dublin. Jan. 22 (By the Associated
Press). —The staff of the first south-j
ern division of the irregular military,
forces together with all its records for j
the last six-months has been captured,
hy a column of national troops opera-1
ing from Macroon, County of Corn.
Van Swaringen Plan Not Opposed.
Washington, Jan. 22. —Plans of O. j
P. Van 8 war ingen of Cleveland, and his
associates, for taking Control of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad were!
laid before the Interstate. Commerce
Commission today and no opposition
'to the design was presented from any
, quarter. s
MAKE ARRANGEMENTS
FOR S. S. INSTITUTE
Institute for Cabarrus County to Re
Held Here February 7,8, and 9.
Arrangements are being complet
• for the Concord Sunday School Ins
tuto to be held in St. James Lnthera
Churt-b, Concord, X. (\, February .
8 and 0. 1923. The com mitre*? on ar
rangements is sending letters to the
pastors, superintendents and other
Sunday School workers inviting them
to attend the sessions of the institute.
Three noted Sunday School experts
have been secured to take part in the
program. Mr. E. T. Albertson. General
Secretary Indiana Sunday School
Counmii of Religions Education. In
dianaiiolis. IntU, Mr. I). W. Sims, the
well known General Superintendent of
the North Carolina Sunday School
Association, who needs no introduc
tion to Sunday School workers in Con
cord ami Cabarrus County. Mr. Sims
attended an institute in Concord
about a year ago and pleased the peo
ple with liis practical and helpful ad
dresses.
Miss Daisy Magee, who is tin out
standing Children’s Division worker,
will he on the program and will deliv-'
era series of addresses dealing with
tln j religious education of children and
young people. Having had years of
practical experience and training. Miss
Magee is. considered' well qualified for
the work she is to do.
The Cabarrus County Sunday School
Association, under whose auspices the
institute is being held, is one of the
units of the North Carolina Sunday
School Association and is a co-opera
tive effort of workers from different
denominations to extend and improve
Sunday School work in North Caroli
na. The—Association stands for those
interests that are emmon to all Sun-|
day School workers of all denomina-!
tions.
GUILFORD MAN
* • MAY BE DROWNED
Gate City Druggist Probably in Auto
Wreck in Florida.
Greensboro, Jan. 21.—The automo
bile hearing a Greensboro license tag
No; 307 and North, Carolina license No.
40,73.* found submerged in water 20
miles from Jacksonville, belonged to
H. A. Grissom, a well known druggist
in this city . Relatives of Mr. Gris- j
sum tonight expressed the fear that the j
Greensboro man was drowned when his I
automobile went into the creek at the I
e.nd of a “blind” road Thursday night. J
It was stated tonight that Mr. and
Mrs. Grissom and small child had been
in Florida for two weeks, Mr. Gris- j
som left Jacksonville Thursday night j
at 7:30 o'clock, after purchasing a rail- 1
road ticket for Mrs. Grissom, who. with j
the baby, was returning here by rail.
Mr. Grissom was to have wired liis
relatives here, wlieii lie "reached Atlan
ta, Ga. Mrs. Grissom and child ar
rived in Greensboro last night but no
word lias been received from Mr. Gris
som.
Il was stated that some of Mrs.
Grissom's clothing and some of the
child's .clothes were in the car. Mr.
Grissom was alone, in his car when
he left Mrs. Grissom at Jacksonville.
(Mr. Grissom formerly lived here, I
where his father was a pastor for a
number;of years Ed.),
Bill Fetzer Gets Write-I p in the Dav
idsonian.
Davidson College, Jan. 20. —The cur
rent issue of The Davidsonian, the
Davidsoir* College weekly student pub
lication. contains a striking tribute tit
Bill Fetze.r, now head coach at tin*
University of North Carolina, a sketch
of liis brilliant athletic career and
closing the article with the words
“Here's to Bill Fetzer- —one of the
greatest athletic mentors in the coun
try.”
Fetze.r graduated from Davidson in
the class of 1900, having made three*
letters in football and three in base
ball. During Fetzer’s regime as coach
at Davidson the Wildcats experienced |
one of tin* most successful football j
seasons in tin* history of the institu
tion. “
'The following is from The David
sonian: “ W. McK. Fetzer. of Concord,
stands out ns one of the most, papular
players and coaches who e.ver served ,
the red and black. Entering David-;
son in the fall of 1902 he played half j
on the football team which beat Geor-j
gia Tech 7-”>. and coaching - ;at liis alma |
qua ter in 1917, he led the only team !
that scored upon Tech when the Gol-1
don Tornado was the undisputed king ,
of the southern football world and a |
strong claimant for the national chain- j
pionsliip.
“During the four years of his regime !
on the gridiron the Wildcats scored j
points to 280 for their opponents j
in 31 games, winning 17, losing 11, and i
tying three, against representative i
southern schools. The victories in- j
eluded decisions over Auburn. Caro-;
lina, V. M. 1., Washington and Lee, M. J
P. I. State and Clemson. Only three j
times were the Wildcats defeated by
a margin of over two touchdowns, once
by the Navy, once by Georgia Tech
and once by Carolina
“From 1919 to 1921 Coach Bill
Fetzer was at the North Carolina State
College, where lie. won the South At
lantic football championship. Fetzer
has been at Carolina since the fall
of 1921 and his success may lie mea
sured by the fact that twice Virginia
lias been forced to bow to Carolina on
the gridiron and last spring was beaten 1
in basketball and shutout in three suc
j eessive contests on the diamond,
j Yale was the only tejaem to win a vie- j
! totry over Carolina in football this
fall and the'-prospects are blighter for
winning teams in other sports.
“Here's to Bill Fetzer —one of the
greatest athletic mentors in the. conn- J
try.'* .
The Thomas Dry Goods Store, opened
on Saturday morning at its stand on
Ihe National Highway opposite the
Hartsell Mill. Mr. J. P. Thomas has
moved his stock h°re from Fort Mill,
S. C., and will conduct a business in
i dry goods, shoes and clothing. |
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
NO. 57.
IRUiRS OF BREACH “
»»81 HARVEY
|
Ambassador From the United
States to Great Britain
Says He Does Not Differ
With Secretary Hughes.
STATEMENT SENT
BACK BY RADIO
To An American Magazine,
Which Said Reports Had
Ambassador and Secretary
Hughes at Difference.
Washington. Jan. 22. —Secretary
Hughes today received a copy of a
radiogram sent by Ambassador Harvey
to tli<* North American Review, denying
published reports that he and the sec-,
retary are not in accord on questions
of foreign‘-pplicy. The message, suit
in response to a query, was transmit
ted from the steamer on which Mr.
Harvey is returning to his post.
The Ambassador's message said :
“A radio dispatch conveys to me the
informal bar tiiat reports have been
published To tin* effect that sharp dis
agreement with respect to the foreign
policies exist between Secretary
Hughes and myseliy-nnd that I indi
cated such diversion of opinion while
i in the United States.
"1 wish to deny in my name any
such statements or intimations. They
are absolutely false. 1 am in full and
complete accord with Secretary
Hughes, and 1 have not uttered a
word that could by the wildest stretch
of tin* imagination he construed to the
eont rary.”
A similar denial was authorized by
Secretary Hughes.
BOLL WEEVIL CAMPAIGN
WAS VERY SUCESSFUL
; Expert Who Toured State Was Satis
fied With Results of Campaign.
Raleigh. N. Jan. 22. —The series
jof thirty-three meetings recently held
in as many counties by tin* Agricul
tural Extension Service for the pur
pose of helping to offset Doll weevil in
j jury in Jhe territory next season was
! "very successful.” according to a re
; port filed today by IJBruce Mahee. ex
tension entomologist]
"A large meeting has been held in
each-county and-the best mnil)££Ls- -nt-.
growing cotton and comhattihg the
weevil have been carefully explained
and recommendations for the coming
--season put before tin.* growers.” he
said.
"Some of the larger meetings were
at Shelby. Charlotte. Smitldield and
Goldsboro, with hundreds of growers
in attendance.
“Many counties are taking-steps 4o
make cotton in spite of tin* weevil and
are ordering dusting machines and
calcium arsenate by tin* car load. In
Mecklenburg county, a committee of
fifteen edit on growers, headed by K<>ih*
Elias, county agent, is preparing a
definite /plan to put before The plant
ers for /ordering dusting machines and
to poison co-operatively.
“At the Cleveland county meeting,
forty growers, including Max Gard
ner. former lieutenant governor of the
state ;; Charles'Young and others, plac
ed orefers for machines and calcium ar
senate. They are preparing to dust
their cotton thoroughly.
"This dusting, with pure, dry cal
cium arsenate, which is the best and
most ijVaeticnl method of poisoning the
weevil'.; was done in Scotland county
last ye;ir at a complete average cost of
I s."».r*3 *.*.- acre, yielding a net profit of
! 824.2 r» per acre, according to the di
vision of entomology," lie said.
M. r. <’. I. Not Closed.
Health conditions at Mount PleaSr
{ant Collegiate Institute are about nor
land again,' one of the protestors in
j th«i, school stated this morning, fol
| following a week of general illness.
"There was an influenza epidemic In
j the school last week." tin* professor
j stated, "hut work was never stopped
land the school has not been closed.
I Rumors broadcasted from some source
(stated that health conditions liecame
j so bad that work was stopped and the
j school closed. These reports are not
! true. Work has not been stopped and
! tin* school has not been closed. The
| health conditions today were about
1 normal again, -und we think the epi
| demie is over.”
Woman Anarchist Kills Newspaper
Man.
j Pariis, Jan. 22 tßy the Associated
Press tl —Germain Berthon, 20-year-old
woman anarchist, entered the offices
of tin? royalist newspaper l’Action
Fr.mcaise today, and fired two revolver
shots, killing Marius. Plateau, one of
the officers of the paper. She then
turned the weapon on herself, and
was taken t<> the hospital with a.
wound in her breast.
Truck Driver Who llit 70-Mile Ex
press Duplicates the Feat.
1 Cape May, N. J., Jan. 18.—A week
ago today the driver of a motor truck
ran info the. Reading night express
j when it was traveling at seventy miles
an hour. When the train crew went
. hack to look over the damage they
found the truck driver sitting on the
wreckage smoking a cigarette.
At tlx* same crossing thur morning
; the same truckman drove another truck
into the Reading morning express, also
going seventy miles an hour. Engi
neer Louis McLean applied, his emer
gency brakes, hut I~could not step in
time. The train crew went hack and
found the truck driver, uninjured, un
loading fepd from the remains of tin.*
1 truck to a wagon.