j B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher. VOLUME XLVIII. tfPi BOSS' Os CONVICT CAMP HELD 01 SERIOUS CHARGE falter Higginbotham Charg ed Wiih Murder of Martin Taberi, a Convict Whom He Whipped. GRAN!) JURY ACTS ON MURDER CHARGE And Orders the “Boss” Held on Three Counts—Civil Action Expected by Rela tives of Tabert. Flu.. April 12. —Ai liberty i'll bail ol SIO.iKM. \Vj#lt**i* I jiii'iiiL in. • ;iHi]i "whip t„,... T awaiting triiil for first inmurr i;i connection with the ; i i, i ; Mill lin Tahori. of .North Dn v.l:n. v\ itpesscs was he;;toil i„ lichlft li.v !! igglnbn! li;im. *isicntiiy ihe Madison Cunn .. ;iii • ji;r.\ in session here for tin* of Tiili i rlV Month, iti , Higginbotham on three counts ,L;iririiijr first degree murder. Tin* Ir ;jl n:;i\ come op mi ;i special term of "ii Mil.' I~>. at Cross City. Fla.. n ; e c..ii:it\ sea-t of Dixie County, wien* the alleged b'utihg took place p ‘ i-hniary of I'.*—. c, iji.si■! for Higginbotham sail! they v. ,i!•{ atin-.it the. use of tin* Irish, hut p-:M ate-iupt to show that Tabert's |,nie c liiii»*ii* w:inot so severe that it vi. cause hi- death. Camp offi cii* maintain that Tahert died of nat- E-i! muses. After tin* indictment was returned. :;.sel for Ta bert's family in North >-.■•. announced tlint tis soon ns the rr.al is a suit will he filed in iin I'uiteil States District Court in Iri.ia or Wisconsin against the I'ut i '. I niiiher Co. for sio.tloo dmuitgi's. I!io.\nln*iliaM v.a- employed hy this eeuipaoy at tin- time of Tal»ert*S| whip jin;. . i.*! it also is pointed out an a*;.istneiit existed iietween tin* county :,ir!i‘>r:tii> and the .company whereby lie i:ii!er sc. uted sole it*ase of the pri>.>in> (KTM)KK!) OH. PROMOTERS (JET OVER $100,000,000 I.oct of Texas Swindlers in Five Years, Postal Head Asserts. Washington, I>. (.'., April 0. —Oil stiM-k iimmoters operating in Texas during da* last five years have filched mm" tliati $11)0.1 K>o,ooo from the pub- j he Postmaster General New was ad- ; v ; -,*d tmlny hy John 11. Edwards, so iieitor of the l’ostoffice Department, i mil ( iiit'i Postal Inspector Simmons. v -’i> at - in Fort Worth co-operating f "iihilii* 'Department of Justice in the I insectiti< n of mail fraud cases in- j vUving oil promoters. in making public the report, the | Tetmastcr General also declared the j IVt.iffire Department intended “to | more in the most vigorous and persist- j 111 ; liner possible for the enforce- j ® ,!l! °f both iin* criminal law and the * i'lle.r statutes against the fraud ,il" ll! 'ise of the mails, not only in the fraudulent oil stock,-but all '• ‘ r ' uses involving fraud in the hails." j W.TKRWs postpone ELECTION OF OFFICERS * ! I- Reported That the Klan Has Ee- i iimie Factor in Confederate Reun i ' A* '.v ( h'li-.ms. Anvil 12. —Amid shouts ! '* im railroad the oleetiou crow j s iih ilie rules.' tin* election of offi-■ 1 ' lor ilie Sons of Confederato Vet sciieiluied for this morning was! f ,s tioom*,i until the afternoon session, i delegates were reported sharply! ‘.'li'eii '»ver the Ku Klux Klan issue, ■ m h was said to have been injected ,;|! t!l '*-convention. The Klan and an ' '"' ,l tactions each wt*re reported rpi'Msnriiig tickets. ' ll!r,i * v Young at 9l>, Objects . b> Being ( ailed “Old.” A nril 12.—Joseph Sutton, ' “-J and slil] an active mem- i T 1 1-oil don manufacturing firm, j I V ’ " ‘ho Daily Telegraph pro-! , ‘J-• ii"ie in sorrow than in anger. I ,!! l‘vrs reeent reference to his i 1,1 i.’ee at a public m<*eting. j,.,. jj" " |l(, i'ter who wrote the story de- i 7,77 li!lu as ~ ” !|| > old gentleman.”; ~, ns “ s to remark that lie is lie ; s-*V-' 7 :is be is able to work. i n „ V 1 ;':. 1 "’ * s his desk every morn-: “'lock— and hour earlier Ij v s,| -'"d!(*il young memliers of I't-icH* 1 lias maintained this 111 titt\ -six years. (ii,.7 , !s ,10f hing like work to se -11.,. ,7 I:, i‘l». v and Contented life,” his " ! '•oiiclndes. rKss "V* hakßing W ILL BE NOMINATED r a Oreateg of liiettieieiiej. j It:.high, April 12 (By the Assoeiat jod l*ress) 4 —‘A community must pay either for the. cost of training labor or for the much greater cost of ineffi ciency of labor, and inefficiency of la bor means inevitably general intbis j Dial and commercial inefficiency,'* ■ Herbert Homer, secretary of com merce; declares in a letter to the Fcd er::l Board of Vocational Education, a Cony of which was received todux by T. K. Browne state director. Mr. Hoover calls auemion-to the ■ fact that last year exjjendituies in the. j states under the Federal vocational net amount' d to less than sld.ttttO.tHKt, •*r approximati’ly id cents per capita, of this amount, states and local com munities contributed about $11,000,- ■ <’) and tin* government 54.000.000. "If vocational education is worth while, certainly as a natioii we can afford the price of such education." la* says, ", Mir only concern is to know that it is worth while. If it is expenditure on account of such ed ucation is in the nature of an invest ment which will yield alrge dividends from year to year through tin* pro gressive increase of labor skiil and indusi rial efficiency. “The essential purpose of this act is to extend public school education to provide for the needs of our youth who do not enter our higher tech nical and professional educational in stitutions. “We in this country believe that ed ucation in general pays for itself and is" worth while, and if this is true of any sort of education it is certainly true of vocational education—that it pays for itself. That is the acid | test, particularly of vocational educa tion—that it shall pay for itself. If it does not, it is not vocational educa tion at all. “Men of affairs the country over are being impressed with the fact that the cost of training labor on the jolt is one o? the great industrial costs, but tiny know that the cost of ineffi ciency and lack of training is much greater, and that labor must be train ed wli ilever the cost. If they or the community do not provide such train ing they cannot compete with the foreign producer whose, labor is voca tionally trained at public expense, nor can wc as a nation adequately sup-( plv oiti* own needs for the product of j labor., if wc neglect to provide for the j training of labor. .‘•The. eost of providing this train ing is jus* as properly a charge upon the public revenue as any other form of ndmation. In tin* interests <>f la bor itself sm lt training cannot be de volved upon the employer. <>rgun . ia«**t iftbor is perrectiy right in insist ing that vocational education shill be under public supervision and control, so that the interest and welfare of the worker as wed as of the employer will be taken fairly into account. "The cost of such training certainly , should not be put upon the individual ! worker unless we are prepared to abandon our traditional policy of pro viding free education and equality of opportunity for our youth. We can not in fairness continue to provide sp,claimed education free to tin* few who propose to enter the. professions, while denying education to the many, for the commoner vocations. ‘•Further it may be noted that in so far as -the products of American la bor come into competition with the. products of foreign labor, either iu our own domestic market or in for eign markets. unemployment for American labor is bound to develop in proportion as foreign labor is bet ter trained and more efficient. No American employer can hold bis mar kets and continue to employ labor, if his labor is relatively unskilled or if his costs for training labor greatly ex ceed those of his foreign competitors. Every important foreign country, Eu ropean and American, is providing for the vocational training of its citizens. Having taken the lead in vocational education, we certainly shall not now permit ourselves to slip back because of a notion of false economy." Secretary Hoover is a member of t.lie Federal Board for Vocational Ed ucation and for the past two years has been in close touch with those administering the act. Child's Life Is Restored For 6 Hours By Vd.renalin. Detroit. /Mirh.. April 9.--Life was restored here Sunday to fi newborn babe that passed away within a few minutes after birth, and the infant | was kept alive for six hours by use of I adrenalin, a powerful drug that now j s engaging the attention of the ’ medical world. Death was the victor ; in the end. however. The baity, born in a hospital, was ; pronounced d-ad a few minutes alter birth. Attending physicians decided to employ the drug. The baby’s lungs had. not functioned. When the heart slopped heating the drug was inject i ed directly into the heart tissues, and 30 second later the organ began to function again. By use of a puimotor tire lungs also wore made to function 17 minutes later. LIAM LYNCH CAPTURED BY FREE STATE TROOPS He is Chief of Staff of the Irish Ir regulars, Official Statement Says. Dublin, April 10 (By the Associat ed Press). —Liam Lynch, chief of staff of the Irish Irregulars, has b points on cover ing. trade buying and a fairly active commission house demand. There was some selling for Liverpool and Japan ese account, on the opening advance to 28J58 for July, and 2H.04 for October, but during the early trading prices iield to about 28 to MS points "above yesterday's closing figures. Cotton futures opened firm.: .May 20.3.1: July 28.80; October 2.1.00; De cember 21.40: January 24.0.1. FIVE RAILROADS IN WEST CONSOLIDATED. Change Made Under Direction of Svveiingen Interests, of Cleveland. Columbus, ()., April 12.—Consoli dation of five middle western railroads under the direction of rhe Van Swer ingcti interests of Cleveland, was of ficially consummated here today v.lion incorporation papers for the consoli dated road, which will be known its the New York. Chicago & St. Louis, wore filed with the Secretary of State. Profitable Praying (New York, April 12.—Because a tombstone fell on him while he was praying, at the grave of his father-in law, Samuel Foth, of Brooklyn, won a verdict of SSOOO against the United Hebrew Cemetery, on Staten island, tonight, hi the Richmond County su perior Court. Roth claimed that he was praying on the grave of Ids father-m-iaw. Moses Cohen, with his wife kneeing on one side of him and his daughter on the other, when the tombstone toppled over and broke his knee. One leg. he said, is shorler than the other, i as a result of the injury, and he had i to be in a hospital for 19 ivveeks. Ho asked for $25,00P. Sale of Fine IVwring Apparel at! Efird’s. Friday morning at 8:4.1 o’clock Efird’s will begin a sale of silk dress-! es, slipon sweaters, French voile; Shirtwaists and Blouses. The dress- ■; es are divided into three groups at j $8..10.- $14.10 and $lB.lO. In the 1 sweaters you may take your choice at SI.OO. This xvill be a wonderful op portunity for the ladies of this city and section. See page ad. today. The Ford Weekly Purchase Plan. Only SI.OO deposited in any bank in ! Concord will enroll you i.*i the Ford Weekly Rurehase Plan. Then you se- ! lent the type of Ford you want and arrange to make weekly deposits, which will bear as interest at the regu lar savings rate. Go to any of the banks or to the Cabarrus Motor Co. and they will explain everything fullv to you. Mr. N. J. Sherrill, of Charlotte, was in Concord today on business. CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1923. i Announces Prizes to Be Awarded to | Students at County Commencement With the (inn! examinations in the [ county schools to be held next week and flu* announcement from Prof. ,J. Ik ’Robertson, superintendent'of the coun ty schools, that many interesting priz es, medals and certificates are to be awarded this year, interest in County Commencement, to lx* held tßis year on April Ssh, is increasing daily. Commencement day is always an event of great interest to tlie pupils and patrons of the rural schools, and Prof. Robertson is striving to make the ex '■rcises this year more interesting ail'd beneficial than any held in any form er year. The following prizes will bo award 'd this year: ' The C. B. Wagoner- gold medals in recitation and declamation: Cash prizes of $4.00 ami $2.00 by the Citizens Bank and Tnmt Company in spelling contests: Cash prizes of SI.OO and $2.10 by Prof. Robertson for the best and sec ond best compositions on “What a School and-Community Can Do to Im prove Country Living Conditions;" D. A. it. medal given by Mrs. J. F. Reed to that pupil in any grade in the Contract Let Wednesday For New Bank Building Work on New Home For Cabarrus Savings Bank Will Start Monday, Contract For $250,090 Building Hav ing Been Given to Charlotte Contractors. Work on the now bank and officei building to be erected here by the Cabarrus Savings Bank will begin Monday morning. Mr. C. W. Swink. ashier of the hank, announced yes terday afternoon following a meeting of the bank officials who met to award the contract for tlie modern structure. The building will be erected by T. C. Thompson and Bros., contractors, of Cha riotte. The new building will be erected on rhe property now occupied by C. Patt Covington's store, the Singer Sewing Machine Company’s office, the office of K. L. Craven & Son add the Central •afe. It faces on FnUn Street with an extension, on Means street. "We are going to eiect.'a modern bullning.*’ , Mr. Swink l aid after the meeting. ‘‘The ground' tloor will be constructed in a manner to give us a modern banking home, and the oilier four stories will be constructed so rhey cun be used - by JnmVftTunh>. hns ness concerns or organizations of dif ferent kinds. “Work of tearing down the buildings that now stand on our property will be started Monday morning. The con tractors plan to rush tlie work with all practical speed, and as soon as the present buildings have been razed, ex cation work for the new structure will be started.” The building will be five stories in height, will cost about $210,000, and will l*c the largest building in Con cord. It will add much to the ap pearance of the business section, as rhe stores on the property to be occu pied by the new structure are among the oldest and most obsolete in the business district. Many of the office rooms which the building will offer already have been rented, Mr. Swink stated, and officials of the bank express tin* opinion that the new building will be very popular with business and professional men. PROHIBITION AGENTS REPORT FOR MARCH Report Shows Agents Were Very Busy in This State During Last Month. Salisbury, April 12.—One hundred and seventy illicit distilleries and 128.021 gallons of spirits and malt liquors were captured by prohibition agents in the state during March, it was announced today by A. Ik Col trane. prohibition director at state headquarters in this city. Sixteen au tomobiles were seized. Ninety-one persons were arrested for violations of the dry law, and property valued at $15,231 seized and destroyed. GENERAL ALLEN TO HOLD HIS LAST “REVIEW” TODAY Commander of American Troops on the Rhine Goes on Retired List Tomor row. Washington, April* 12. —Major Gen eral Henry T. Allen, former command er of the American Army of Occupa tion in Germany, held his last "re view” today. Tomorrow he concludes 41 years of active services, reaches the age of Ut and is automatically retired, j AH troops stationed in Washington ! were called out for the review today. Tornado Causes Damage. Alexandria, La., April 12.—Several j persons were injured. 11 houses were ! wrecked, and other damage was done | when a tornado struck Meridian, La., j a sawmill town 30 miles south of here ,j early today, according to meager re | ports reaching here. 1 • W ith Our Advertisers. The Citizens Bank and Trust Com pany will cash your Victory Bonds maturing May 20th. Now is the time to get your gar den plows, garden tools, lawn hose, i etc. A large shipment just received by the Ritchie Hardware Co. ! Fisher’s millinery presents a glor ious collection, and the prices are 1 moderate. The Central Filling Station offers you free parking ground —no use to violate the few by leaving your car on the stieet. “Soap Sud Specials’’ at PatU Cov ington’s will interest you. You can bank by mail with the Cit j izens Bank and Trust Co. rural schools who writes the best oom- I position on some local Revolutionary I history. Certilic.ites will he awarded for al ! tendance, library reading, proficiency ■ in spelling, and graduation. The rules governing the awarding of [the prizes and certificates are. in the i hands of the teachers. ; A number of the schools in the : county already have held preliminary contests to determine'which students ; will represent the schools in the reci tation and declamation contests, j events that always cause, the greatest ■ interest mi commencement d ;y. From present indications and re ports that have reached Prof. Robert ! son. the commencement attejidanee ■ record probably will he broken this year. From every part of the eoun i fy come reports of increasing interest In the eve.nt. and Prof. Robertson and other persons who are assisting him with plans for commencement are de termined to make the day an eveat t fill one for those who attend the ex (creisos. to be held as usual in Central ' graded school here. [GOOD iBKET FOUND ! FOR STATE’S BONDS i Treasurer Lacy Says He Was Well Received in New York City, Where Bonds | Were Disposed of, Raleigh. April 11*. —Approximately $2,000,000 of the $.">.000,000 North Car olina hoods recently purchased by a New York concern at 4 1-2 per cent., already have been so id to private ain’t commercial interests. B. R. Lacy, State Treasurer, announced today. 1 Mr. Lacy, who returned from New fork last night, said he had been well received by bond agents, and that North Oarolir.aYs standing tad a high rating. Another $,1,000,000 n bonds will be sold June 1, he said, aid the same concern buying the last >atch has tin option on them at 4 1-2 per cent.* The Treasurer was lamenting the la mage of a pen with which lie has signed $40,000 bonds in addition to nu merous letters, checks and various documents, having dropped it just be fore returning from New York. J. 15. IVEY REELECTED Charlotte Man Again Heads State Sunday School Association. Winston-Salem, April 12. —An ad dress by Dr. Wade Smith, of Greens boro, on "Little .Tests Telling Bible. Stories," discussions during a "It can he done period,” each speaker being assigned ten minutes, recognition of officers and standing of county organi zations, period of business, reports of committees and election of officers, and an address by Rev. .T. H. Barn ha rdf.. of Greensboro on "A Program of Missionary Instruction in the Sun day School” were features of the morning session of the. State Sunday School Convention. j, B. Ivey was re-elected President of tin* state association upon recom mendation of the nominal ion commit tee. 11. 1». ('row, of Raleigh, was also re-elected treasurer. The convention accepted the recommendation of the executive committee to create four rgional. groups of the state, to be known as the Eastern. Eastern ('mi tral. Western Central and Western.. 1 Each region will have a President, who by virtue of his office shall be a vice-president of the state association. R. B. Peters. Jr., of Tarboro. was chos en for the Eastern -region: D. 11. Dix on. of Goldsboro, for the Eastern Cen tral: W. L. Bn lit his, of Gastonia, for i the Western Central: and T. P. Pruitt, of Hickory, for the Western region. W. J. HIM AID DEAD AT HIS GEORGIA HOME Organized First Cotton Mill in South to Be Run Entirely by Steam. , Griffin, Ga., April 12.—W. ’.J. Kin , caid. a pioneer cotton mill man of the South, and a native of Morganton. N. 10„ is dead here after a prolonged ill . ness. He was 82 years, old. Mr. Kincaid is said to have organiz- Soutli to lie run entirely by steam. lie was a director in several banks, the e'hv Irish National troops in Tipper ry ' today, soys an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Dublin. There are nearly 2550 clocks In Winrt - J sor Castle and more than 100 In Buck ingham Palace. EDUCATION A MATTER OF CONCEERN TO LAW Emphasis Placed, Upon Compulsion of Proper Schools. Washington, Apr. 12. (Capital News Service). —More and more are schools coining under the mandate of t*h*2. voters, and less and less are eunen j tioiui matters being left to rhe vagaries of irrespons.ble boards and i committees. Two laws just enacted by ihe Kan sas Legislature prvide, (1) an eignt montlis minimum term, which pro- J vines state aid for weak school dis t i.riets, so that every school, city and j rural, will have not. lens than eight j fni months of school work every jyear. This becomes effective with the opening of the new school year in September; (2) that children can not work in any sort or gainful oc cupation until they are 14 at ffiast, and must have completed the eighth grade of the school. The age limit was increased to 15 years unless the pupil finish the eighth grade of school. The Roman Catholic Encyclopedia will be taken out of the public schools of Belleville, New York, and placed in the public l.hrary, as a result or an action of the local board of education. Representatives of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, the Daughters of the American Revolu tion, the Royaj Riders of the Ked it he, tho Ladies of the Invisible Em pire, the Patriotic Order Sons of America, and other organizations pro tested against tlie action of ike board in accepting the book for use in the Belleville public schools. .The Oregon public school compul sory attendance law. enacted by the : voters under th:2 initiative last No vember, has not yet been attacked in (the courts, notwithstanding announce i ment made before anti . after the j (‘lection by opponents o£ the measure Ithat such an attack would be made. I AEROPLANE PHOTOGRAPHY As an Aid and Cherk in Estimating Cotton Acreage. Raleigh, N. April 11. —Aeroplane photography as an aid and check in estimating cotton acreage is u> be tried this year by the United States Department of Agriculture, according to information received by Frank Parker, statistician, of the federal and state departments of agriculture, here Photographs of land in cotton and other crops will be made over select ed areas by war department aero planes lent to the "grieultunU de partment for poison dusting opera tions. Tiie novel plan of estimating m-re ages and forecasting crops by aero plane photography this year is an ex periment. it was stated, and will not supercede the time tried methods regularly used by crop estimating forces. The new arrangement, howevei, “is seen to offer interesting possibilities,” R was addrd. Large areas of land can be photographed in relatively short time and the entire cotton* o'elt pictured in about 2000 hours, accord ing to information given i lie statistician. UNION STATION FOR SELMA COURT ORDER Southern and A. ('. L. Expected to Make Plans at Once for Erection of New Station. Raleigh, April 12.—The North (Car olina Corporation Commission today was expecting the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and the Southern Railroad to take steps in compliance with its or der 1o build a union station tit Selma following tin* Supreme Court’s decis ion yesterday, upholding the Commis sion's action. The court affirmed Judge Cranmer in Wake County Superior Court, who. tit the instance of the Corporation Commission directed ihe railroads to build tlie'station, and tit the same time denied tin* motion for certiorari made by counsel for the. companies for tin* purpose of bringing the action in Su perior'Court for review. TO ASSIST DEAF PERSONS IN SECURING EMPLOYMENT Chief of Bureau of Deaf Confers >V ii li Superintendent of School for Deaf. Raleigh, April 10. —James M. Rob ertson. chief of the bureau so the deaf, department of labor and print ing, lias returned from Morgamon, where ho conferred with Superin tendent W. McK. Goodwin, of the school for the deaf with reference to work and future conduct of the insti tution. The official expects to leave immediately on a visit to several cities in North Carolina to get in com munication with deaf persons and to assist in securing work for those m need of employment. “This bureau is not simply an em ployment bureau for tlie deal’,’ he stated. “In addition to finding work for the deaf, we arc helping them in many other ways—at court, .u fu nerals. in seeing that they arc well boused; assisting deaf travelers en route to various destinations; in see ing that every advantage of education r is given deaf children and in ad justing personal matters. “We are trying to prove to many employers that the deaf workman is on an equal footing with his more fortunate brother as to efficiency* and i intelligence. We are anxious to have the co-operation of all employers in ! paving the way toward success ior i the deaf,” he said. !1C Candidates For Mayor and Alder men at Monrce. Monroe. Apr 1 9—Wish 16 candi dates for -aldermen c.nd two for mayor, the democratic primary for Monroe, to be held Saturday. April 14. promises to be one of the must Vn* 1 ? conferred ones ever held in this eitv. The candffia + es are ? 1 g°ort p< n which will help to complicate matters in .Mor" Serious. •Greensboro News. Friends of Col. G. Sam Bradshaw' wi| be distressed to learn that his condition, which has not been good f r ome time, Las been serous since last Saturday. His condition is such i as to cause his family and friends to i feel alarm. NO. SO.