North Carolina Newspapers

Monday, April 23, 1923. good ROADS \<i<lrev. Today Before the (wiiitioH l >> Cengrwi- MfSwam* 31 v. c.- April IS. —A plea : 7 at i iiilir unifies to the ' .j„. country, as well as t l '!;' ntried highways paral- J * ul i’.-pi ' v;i> hero t(x *ay by ' .! .j U . .[ .i. Mt-Swain in an ad n~r! i tin- joint convention of ■' '* V <;,iod lioufls Associu -1 iii.akhead Highway Asso "• . , ..niaii had as his sub jP V. im... v < * •,> Feeders to Jlail -7,A dcciaml roads should f ‘ ‘j M : , ias connections tp transportation lines • enabling “people and iroin tile remote dis ' ,-lie railreads. 7 7 n:«‘iit of hundreds of liiil - demands that their i‘ioiis shall l»e considered -cited. “Iu doing so to relate them to exist “,i .■ ~i -transportation. j ' :.r that when the interur v- came into existence, they >i> of population al* . i by steam railways •"•77',,it-:; laded the existing a gen- • • ~i'i l; ! !j jiii, at ion and transporta- i • . ~.1 -•>. t«, a certain unavoid-; u - ,-7j,t tlii-' is true of the high— -7cu-r. ia.contemplating and 7 ti;o highway system as' a 7 the stales and country, we 7 ivuH"d or that the railroads " ,-7lic < eoatry many billions of 77 ;.-i that this lost, directly or At!' inn-' coiii; 1 from the pocket just as surely, though ,7n! divided, as ,!<* the taxes l 77j dislnirstsl for improve , t! ‘- ponple always pay , 7 i.jic in ii it if-, though private <*np - 17 T j.,. iH-uimiing made the invest • 'fiu'iciorc. ir would be unwise ro ,i,,li!ic to develop all our J ' :; -itch’ position as to con «7tiictn exclusively as competitors 7- railroad-! the transportation and freight. ti.o inevitable growth arjd tle ,,f oar conn fry in popula ! 7;issiry and commerce. if is cer for oyr existing steam rail j.-evi*!in- we do not unnecessar tri'iv rail'': highways, without kg highways at right angles, to B-wnil’-.v. to the railroads so'. as\ 7 . j.. c and freight to come juthc■ ivinoic districts t othe rail jl„track has come to stay. Isk*t said, and for distances not isslitig leu miles is indispensable, h imriiways su constructed as to |r t into remote >e;-tions to gather ,infill,-:> of the field and forest-antl iPdlii? them at the railroad, a rail hi ini: i • »,nt- virtually' .at every ffi > mx • * / Tiiis ;is|ie"t of highway construe b !in>? meivc immediate and ear st considenit ion- from friends of the JivjiV'. lie continued, .adding that hv the millions invested In roads h !»• paid and the highways .worn, rn: i oth *r millions raised to r<'- t«f them, it mast go possible to show tv*!. m,; - jaid dividends in add- Talws for land, and rendered mar taJ-V no},' hitherto practically irtllle-" BMHkADE “HOOTtH.” idrrii liquor May Not Kill Man Bet It’s Mire Death tc Hogs and Buzzard^. finston-Salem. April 18. —Although m may drink modern b ockade ntfii" ar.d survive, a hog amt ji Bar! canntH -iund its deadly quali -1 according p> a discovery made a r days ago by a Forsyth deputy Biffin the Lewisville section, .vtr. itoser. the officer, was out looKmg rasuonskine i>iants »\vhen he ian Ka small one made out of a nve **iwl can with a half gallon lard fct for a cap. The other fixtures just as enid-\ Around the still old . fish tubs, in which had hteii made. The fish K.ftmibiao.] with that of the <le 'till r'fuse, created a terui 'as,'f. ay- the deputy. Loading Sfr'iin the still through a wheat K.tr office;' unf.-ed a path wn.cli wreil- to have been traveleu by ® ,• itigs and hogs. Fol hda path, Mr. Wagoner came dead lieg, while close by lay ,| - a ' 1 The deputy figured hbi t)v had visited the sti'.l dn.‘ refuse and that before very far away sickened K ™' (i in Us tracks. The deurn of i attribmed to its feed-' .b* -of th bog that nad 7 !lr \cnr -S, Imlarsiup Available. 7 ■ ■ < April IX.—Dr. E. C. 7,7 ' ,U:n ' n’vndent of public in l;,s- available for one well : imih school graduate 9 islrip, valued at 5250 t-7 ; h < olorado 1 School ol v-y',.i' l ‘ tn ' *Jiloradb. it was >h «• *7w-'-’ ! 7 ' .superinterment ipplj, :,! -de to him ana the h«- graduated in tne 7;,/, ,i ‘ " '*! ointment. If app.jint li■ ; ’h" successful* student' aji.'f,.' 1 ' graduates and oaist ; iuir'‘inents for admit l:r(,7';' ''"Editions. The senorar • ; r ... •'warded for a period of \11 7'' ' ' 'cunts the holder " ]f "it Laboratory ie,°s. hi Lends Fouiml in Mis - j souri. H: April lf».—Two ini’- 7 ol * l*onds' and 1 hoiij.,.,’ I | 7' 11 lot taken in an ' )! Ub»red mail truck bv j r , ‘ 7. -, " l 1 p recovered late to -1,1 Louis county Tii e ,7,7 h " 1 "T dhis city. fV;j!ii " 7 1 - nr red in the home XmJi 1 , 1 ' - Bering, v t;- >77,'‘7 -ids of the St. Louis '* Abi,-!, 7. s : - ’'iniU of otlier paper. !rer ' 7 1 v -utgtmable, ' the robbers. rfo. r!lre ’“ H | > l'«rtefl KUIcmI. kiiii-i .“ t hree uien re- nearly 15 others iu -77' in 7'jV n 7 v - i° an explosion ‘ r.^7.7' ! ! . :t bir.v of the Corn c < "inpan;- at Ar^o. FORWARD MOVE BY 5 ( J SENATOR D. F. GILES *• / ! Must Help Make Fanners by Encour aging Laud Ownership. New Bern, N. C., April 19.—“ Mi xing the human element in the soil ! only can be accomplished by soil j ownership, “Senator. D. v F. Gi.es, 1 (Marion, chairman of the state farm’ j loan commission, declared today In Jliis address before the North Caro lina Drainage* Association. “Eastern North' Carolina needs most of all drainage of lands *nd farm owners.” he asserted. “Since me organization of the North Carolina Drainage Ass<Ktiation, more than ten years algo, we have been justified In believing it will ultimately ac complish it purpose. It is therefore in-- cumbent on some organization to ‘make’ the farmer. “Theie is such close relations be tween the man and the soil that pro duction will continue to increase in proportion to the ‘increase in popula tion. regardless of the bpll weevil or any other modern plague. “But in order to-give the greatest income that can possibly come trom ■the man and the soil combination, we l must put the human element in the I soil. (Mixing commercial fertilizer wtfh j the soil is'directed by the expert, but j the-work can be done by‘any wage earner. Mixing the human element in the soil can only be accomplished by soil ownership. And this after all is the ultimate purpose of the North Carolina Farm Lean Commis sion. “The 24b building and loan associa tions in North Carolina have done for the towns und villages just what must be done for the rural com munities. “Thousands of citizens are peaceful and law abiding home owners be cause of these. bunding and loan as sociations. When we have created in North Carolina an organisation by the state itself that will do for the tenant farmer in the country just what the building and loan associa tions have done for the laborers in cities and towns, we will have put OUI- state on a direct line of progress and development. “This will ultimately class us with Denmark. Sweden and other great agricultural countries of western Europe. That this may be done, co operation is needed from this and similar organizations, lalwiring in North Carolina for. our state's pro gress and development. * "The commission in North Carolina is not interested primarily in the two factors which ultimately our agricultural salvation in eastern. North Carolina —these two factors being increasing the ■>deld acre and reducing the east of production. “Both -will come in their proper way and time if our state wi 1 take -another progressive step and create and provide for a'strong helping band for the tenant farmer of today and tomorrow.” CHEATHAM ACQITTED Was Charged With Second Degree Murder fir Shooting Douglass Dun ham. Statesville, April 20. —11. 11. Cheat ham. Federal prohibition officers, was acquitted by a jury in Federal District Court here today on a charge of see .oiid degree murder as a result of the shooting of Douglass Dunham in Sal isbury/ October 14th. 1022. The jury deliberated 1”> minutes. While the prosecution termed the killing intrtitional. the defense eon tended Cheatham accidentally dis charged his pistol while searching the premises where Dunham worked. Stanly Landmark Passes Away. Albemarle News-Herald. Mrs. Sophrona Moss, widow of the Mr. Frank Moss, of this county, died at the home of her son. Mr. J. C. Moss, near Stanfield, at 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, at the ripe old age of ninety-five. Mrs. Jdoss had been confined to her bed for tlie pasp two months. T'p until a short while ago she was able to be up and about, but two mouths ago she fell and suffered a broken hip. since which time she has been confined to her bed. The funeral services were held at the borne of bet* sou yesterday, con ducted by Rev. P. G. Hartsell, of Dig Lick, and the body was buried in tlie old family cemetery, located on the oUKMoss homesteady in Western Stap *P*Thp|%£3lyised was one /of the».beßt knowlowoinen. in the county. Having J siH-nt much of her time in Albemarle during the past several years, with li>r children and grandchildren, she was well known here. A large crowd attended the funeral yesterday. j. W. Almond Home Burned. Albemarle News-Herald. Shortly after 10 o’clock on Saturday night the home of Mr. J. W. Almond, which was located on the extreme 'out skirts of East Albemarle, was discov ored to be in a blaze, and before .any thing could be done the building was a total loss, together with all house hold and kitchen furniture, with the exception of one desk which was saved from the fire. ' The city fire 'alarm was turned in when the blaze was discovered, but as the building was located far beyond the city boundary line, there was no water hydrant in reach, amt, of course, the building was so nearly a mass of flames that the chemicals used by the city fire de partment were of no avail. Mr. and Mrs. Almond were not at home at the time. Officials Expect Agreement Soon. Washington. April 21.—The long con troversy between the United States! and the Ohregon government in Mexi co has -reached a stage regarded in some official quarters as forecasting early complete agreement. Renewed assurances regarding the 'protection of the lights of foreigners j in' the southern republic, all along the ! chief stumbling block in the way of !recognition of Ohregon by this govern- > 1 mcnL have been sent to Washington' land apparently haveiieen received by officials here as an important step in the right direction. The Chinese believed when telegra ph v was introduced in their country that foreigners cut out the tongues of children and suspended them, on insulators to transmit the from pole to pole. BLAIR DENIES HE - IS GOING TO Ql PF \ Persistent Rumor Has It He Intends to Give Time to Personal Matters. Washington, April 18. —-A rumor on the rounds here that refuses to be downed is that David H. Blair, Com missionery if Internal Revenue, will shortly quit his post and retire to pri vate life. So inistent and apparently well authenticated is the report that it is said that Resident Harding is now looking around for his sueessor and Ims gone so fir as to make a ten der of the position to a Western Re publican. And The News Jk Ol fervor correspondent has it on the authority of a well kuown man here that the Western Republican ot v*hom the posi tion has been offered and who has it under consideration is Carnii Thomp son, of Ohio, defeated for Governor, a strong personal and political friend of ■President Harding. The rumor grew insistent with the recent absence in Atlantic City and XortTf Carolina of Commissioner Blair. But he came back to Washing ton today and "denied that-rhe was planning to resign, despite the report that he had made up his mind to quit, and had so notified Secretary Mellon and President Harding. The reason for bis prospective resigna tion to be that he considers the affairs of the Cannon estate in North Carolina, his wife a daughter of the late cotton mill king, require liis personal attention and that in order to give this he would give up liis present position and do whole time work for tlie Cannon estate in terests in place of looking after it by occasional visits to North Carolina. The" report here bad it that Mr. Blair would have resigned some time ago but that be would not quit under fire. Now, that the firing lmsceased, now that Elmer Dove and the politi cal bushwhackers in and out of Con gress are no longer camping on his trail, finding" himself in undisputed control of the field, the report went That lie was ready to lake his lint from the official head. go back to Winston-Salem and personally direct affairs which Imve to do with the many millions of the estate of liis late father-in-law, which are In part in his keeping. But the word from Commissioner Blair is that there is nothing to the report. GARDEN WEEK TO BE OBSERVED APRIL 22-23 To Be Observed in North Carolina as Well as Throughout the V. S. Raleigh, N. (*., April 39. —Governor Cameron Morrison today-'designated April 22-23 as North Carolina Garden Week to cons irm with the dates an nounced for observation of garden week throughput the country. The governor is expected to issue a pro-' clamation during the week in con nection with the program for tlVe gar den campaign. “Each town sh-eu'd adopt some irce, shrub, of flowers particularly adopted to its locality and a determined and united effort to encourage its planting and use should be* made. The planting of uniform variety of trees in die city, street or the plnating of. one good variety of flower in an exten sive manner is possibly the best, ad vertising a town can have. “Why not make North Carolina dis tinctive as the land of the Leaf Pine by planting this tree along «»ur highways? The ldbholly and yellow pines might be used where the long leaf'variety will not grow. "The vegetable garden should be a continuous one. With careful pian ning "fresh vegetables may be serv ed direct from the garden each da of the year. The spring garden will consists largely of (he salad and root crolls: the summer garden is made no largely of vegetables fruits and the edityle seeds; the fall garden of roots, salads and vegetable fruits, ana this winter garden will b'* composed larg ly of roots and salad crops,' he said. STORY OF~SI FFERING ON ISLAND DECLARED FALSE Edward Horn, One of Supposed Sur vivors, Admits His Story ,Was a Hoax. Xorthport, Mich., April 21.—Edward Horn, one of the three men who risk ed tlieir lives to travel across tlie slush, ice and open water early this week and who reported nine men and a woman -oh South Fox Island were iir danger of starvation, resulting in six airplanes being rushed to «his part of the state to relieve the supposed pnfferers, today admitted to newspaper'* men that his story was a hoax. 92 OIL PROMOTERS INDICTED BY JCKY Are Charged With l sing th© Mails to Defraud. Fort Worth, Texas. April 2£). —Nine- ty-two oil promoters were indicted lic're today by (be federal grand jury on charges of using the mails to de fraud. . The f>il companies involved have taken in over $7,000,000 in cash, and into three of the companies were merged 458 companies which bad sold 813?),000,000 in stocks. United States District Attorney Henry Zwiefel de clared the Investigation showed. Call For Mr. Diogenes- -an Honest Man is Found. -x Salisbury, April 13. —W. L. Ray, a" loca’ magistrate, bus received fc dol lar from a man at Hot Springs, N. C.. in payment of a dsbt made 40 years ago while Mr. Ray was con ducting a store jkxu 1 Hot Springs. When Mr. Ray wen? out of business the man denied the debt, but now. at the age of S 3, he says be could not stand the idea of dying without pay ing th? debt, and so he sends the dol lar with the statement that at the time he denied the delrt he knew he owed the money. Decrease Shown in Rail Car ShoHage. Washington. April 20. —iLiilroads on April 7 were short 58,237 cars of hav ing enough equipment to satisfy ship pers’ demands, the car service divi sion of the Americtftu Railway Asso ciation reported today. This was a decrease of 10,7-49 curs as compared with the shortage total one week pre vious. Most of the% unsatisfied de mand was for l»ox cars and ears suit aids for carrying freight. On April 7 a total of 15,108 ears were scattered over lines at points w here uo demand for them existed. THE CONCORD TIMES Q£?nnznCgSjL HOE-#®! // H/di Stable manure is growing scarcer and scarcer, and more and more ex jieiisLve. Save your leaves ahd vege table refuse for a compost heap this spring. This compost with commer cial fertilizers has to take the place of stable ninnitre. Bone meal i&- good fertilizer for everything. Aw lays have •’some, 'of it handy. Buy enough seeds the first time so you won’t need to wait when you are ready to plant. Get staples by the ounce and half ounce. Did you know that tomatoes have two kinds of leaves? One is fine cut. The otlier is “potato” leaved. The po tato leaved kind is hardier than tlie other kind, and stands dry weather better. Oeier.v cabbage, or Be Tsai, dbesn’t smell like cabbage when it is cooked. The reason is easy; it isn’t cabbage, but a mustard. If you haven’t grown Pe Tsai or Wong Bok. you have mis sed something. Nothing better for a 1 fall salad, as delicate as lettuce and better flavored, and it always heads, if you try. It is best eaten raw, but very good when cooked. The government has come. to the rescue of asparagus growers with a rustproof ’grass.” If you are start ing an asparagus patch try the new Washington variety. It lias the gov ernment <>. K. for flavor, size ami growth. Soak your beet seeds over night if it is a dry spring. Save celery tops and dry them for soup and stew flavor. They give more flavor dry than they do fresh when cooked. Pflt this in your note book : If ma ture beads of cabbage start to split this summer pull* them enough to loosen the roots in the soil without breaking them. PRISONERS' SATISFIED .WIT U THE CONDITIONS » Scribes Interview Numiber Men in! State Prison; No Foundation For; Reports, Raleigh, April 19.—The nip through the prison made by Ru'cigh newspaper men today resulted in unanimous report of .men imprisoned that Superintendent Pou's administra tion is marked by the utmost gentle ness and tenderness,^many of mem declaring t lie conditions to have im proved for years with present treat ment the best of all. All men interviewed declared that they-had never heard jmy -foundation for the reports t<> which Dudding re- | ferred and that if 25 prisoners sign- | : 'd any such statement no represents- i tive of that delegation of jfT-otest had J been found. i And tin 1 newspaper men expected to hear nothing else than this lauda tion and panegyric. offuiam si n Sold Ulernertn Newspaper Has Been Bur-' chased by the Fayette vile Publish ing Company* N Durham. April 20.- The Durham San, afternoon newspaper has tj«*en pureUcsed by tlie FayetteviC© Publish ing Company, lue., repres >nted by A. P>. doMesquita, it was announced to day. The change in ownership De fame effective today. The new opners contemplate a num ber of changes in the editorial and re porto’ial departments, it was amumac- 1 xl. H. P. Gadbury, formerly of the Birmingham Age-Herald and die Indianapolis News assumed duties to day ms business manager, .and manag ing editor of the Sun. Manv -tinprove n-onts in the mechaniciTl departments also will be made .it was announced, 111 politics the Sun wi 1 be “absolute ly independent,” it was stated. GILLETT FAVORS THE* WORLD C OURT PLAN Says Misunderstanding Alone Respon sible for Opposition to the Plan. Washington, April 21. —President Harding’s proposal that the United States enter the international court set up by tli" league of nations was given unreserved endorsement today by Speaker Gillett, who declared in a formal statement that a misunder standing was responsible for the op position voiced by Representative Woo'd, chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee and others. Mine Disaster Reported. Charlotte. April 21.—Reports re ceived here today wTre to the effect that a talc mine mvnrfl by the Stand ard Mineral Company in Moore Conn- 1 tv. had caved in and That six lives are believed to have been lost. The mine is near Ilemp. X. C. Only Two Nations Haled By Women. Only two important countries are sKtua ly ruled by que' lls Holland and Abssinia. Queen Wiihelintna as cended the throne of the Netherlands thirty-three years ago, while Watzeru Zauditu was crowned at Addis Ab.-ba in 191 G. Waizeru Zauditu who 47 years old. has an empire containing about 8.000,000 persons unci vorn- j prises an ar"a twice as large as j Turkey of today. “Tim” Plmrr Accepts Davidson Col lege Call. .Davidson, April 20^—Announcement was made in chapel .this morning that Rev. J. T. Pbarr. cln«s ot 'l2. now pastor ,of Renick, West -\ir giia. son of Mr. ancrMrs. Jas. Pharr, ■of Charlotte, bc*ter known on the campus in eollego days as “Tim Pharr, has finally accepted the ap pottmeut. here as general secretary to the Young Meq’s Christian associa tion of the co'legc. Much sat sfaction is expressed over this decision of Mr. Pharr. Town Wiped Out: More Than 1,000 • Homeless. Bluefield. W. Va. f April 20.—More than a thousand persons were render ed homeless and property valued at av million dollars destroyed late today by a fire which wiped out the town of Burke, McDowell county. 20 miles west # of Bluefield. . I HENRY FORD’S CANDIDACY IMPRESSE CAPITAL CITY Story Says Hearst Will Dark Ford ( if Mr. Harding Gets. His Court ; Through. Washington. April 18.—Washington i is taking seriously the candidacy Os Henry Ford for the Presidency in | j almost daily lauding of Ford in the , Hearst newspapers. Together with i t,lis *8 a story going the rounds that | Mr. Hearst sitting at a public din ner alongside of Robert t Cecil said | that if President Harding succeeded 'in having the international court of ; justice accepted by the Senate he i would put all his money and all his organs of publicity Ford for the Presidency. * OO, an unusual number of politicians from sections of the west i have brought in reports of Ford’s j strength in their states. The slirewd ! est Democratic politician from Ne j bra ska was in town a few days ago tand was asked whom he favored for the Democratic nomination for Presi dent. “'There are a lot of good men,'’ he replied, ‘“but what's the use of talk-' ing. Somebody will enter Henry Ford in the primary in Nebraska anil he*!! win the delegation iu a walk.” Similarly a supporter of President Harding in Ohio said : “Harding ought to win the renomi nation without a contest and he un -rdoubtedly would if it were not for the Presidential primaries. Suppose for example, that Ford is entered as a candidate in the Republican pri mary in Ohio. He would attract all the dissatisfied elements regardless of party and lie might raise the devil.” Ford's shadow lies t across both the regular parties and as for a third Party iT depends u]M>h what Ford means to do. (ini' of the progres sives who is favorable to the nomi nation of Senator La Collette discus sing the possibility of « third party movement said: "M hat is- Henry Ford going to do? Everything depends on the answer to that question. If lie runs ns an in dependent (fmdidate LaFollete and all the others may as well give up. He would get enough of the •indepen ; dent vote to spoil the chance for any ' one else.” j As for Ford’s intestions Mr. Hearst i may know tb it they are. IJnt the chalices are that lie does not and is merely displaying the name of the au tomobile maker prominently for the purpose of frightening President Harding out of'supporting the league court. Many politicians have talked to Ford about 1024. Ford listens in silence to alt each visitor has to say and then remarks ‘“lt’s in the laps of the gods. , That is libs stock reply. A dozen persons have heard exactly those words from him. , • .Fust as when he ran for Senator from Michigan against Truuuyi New berry he will probably be a candl j date in the Presidentiifl 'primaries |of both parties. If he has any politi cal leanings it is toward the Repub lican party but they are not strong j (‘nought to ■ keep him from standing tor President as a Democrat. And it is in the Democratic convention that he will cut the largest figure. However, he is not likely tq obtain 'the Demiepitic nomination. \MKS. PHILLIPS SAID TO BE IN HONDURAS NOW Government Probably Will Ask That She Be Held For l'. S. Agents. Washington, April 21.—As a pre liminary to a formal request for ex tradition. the State Department has decided to open negotiations with the Honduran government to establish the (identity of a suspect residing in Tegu cigalpa. and believed to be Mrs. Clara Phillips, convicted hammer murderess, who escaped from jail in California. The Department's decision was reached as a result of a request from Governor Richardson, of California. The first step will be to request the Honduran government to hold f ile sus peef pending extradition. Such a re quest. it was said today, will bo made of the Tegucigalpa authorities by the American minister there. SEN. BURTON WHEELER ARRIVES IN MOSCOW Will Stay Among the Soviet For About Ten Days to Study Conditions. Moscow, April 21.—Senator Burton Wheeler, of Montana, accompanied by his wife, arrived here Ibis afternoon for stay pi \ten days. He was met without ceremony at she railway sta tion by oik* official of flu* foreign of fice. While‘here. .Senator and Mrs. ■Wheeler will reside i t 1 he' mansion provided by-the Soviet government as a guest house for distinguished visit ors. Senator Wheeler is the first of a number of members of the American Congress expected to visit liusisu this 1 yea r. Carrttthers, Wanted in Salisbury, Be trayed by a Friend. Macon, Gii., April 20. —J. M. Car nit her, of) years of age, who told the police tlutt he has been living here for 17 years jinder an assumed name, was taken into custody today in connection with an alleged conspiracy to commit murder in Salisbury. X. C., in 1905. Carrntliers married twice here, his first wife dying, and he has reared a j family jjf children. He was known ! here as .Jim Mcßae. The jrolice I stated the arrest was made following a tight in which Carrntliers and an ac quaintance lTom North Carolina par ticipated. Carrntliers got the better of the fight, it is stated, and the for mer friend is said to have tipped off the police that Carr ut hers was wanted in North Carolina. It was announced at police head quarters late tonight that Salisbury, j X. C.. officers are on their way here to get. Carruthers. Carrntliers refuses , to discuss the history of the alleged crime in iiis native state. Was Serving Sentence at the Time of His Escape. Salisbury. April 20. —Jim Carruth ers, who was arrested today at Macon. | Ga„ was serving a four-year seuteuce | for conspiracy to commit murder. ! when he escaped 17 years ago. A brother convicted on the charge also escaped ut that time but was captured two years ago. Officers left here today for Macon, to return the escaped convict to this state, , . ~ s WANTS BOLL WEEVIL Franklin Sherman Wants the Real Thing, Not Something Like It. Raleigh, N. C., April, f 20.—Franklin Sherman, chief of the Division o? Entomology, wants a boll weevil. In a statement issued today, he as serts lie has received "all kinds of bugs thi£ year, among them being p ne-weevils, cockle-bur weevils, dick weevils and others, .but, so far, in The many insects received. there nave been no genuine liVe boll weevils” sent in since last November. "May is about here and soon cotton will bi* coming up,” Mr. Sherman soys. ” so I want to have the very first boll weevil found <*oming out of hibernation quarters to suck the juices of the young cotton plants. ‘Tt is very easy to make mistakes nbeffit the wintering and spring emergence* of the boll weevil because every winter, along with numerous samples of insects supposed to no cotton boll weevils, there comes re ports of finding them in rotton logs, in old stumps, in all kinds of incon ceivable places and even out in the cotton fields before the plants are up. presumably waiting for them to peep above the ground to begin operations. However, most of the specimens sent in with these reports ifre* not boll weevils. f ‘The last genuine boll weevil was sent in November 15 from Charlotte, in the west, and Edenton. in the east. On March 31, several dead weevils ca-mo in from Anson county, but these had been dead tfor some time. The first live weevil last year was received from Robeson county on May 23. ' “I \fant tlu* farmers to keep a sharp look out this year and forward, me the first weevils’ discovered.” he said. MSMIis~MOTION To Dissolve Injunction Served on Com mittee of General Assembly of -Tennessee. n Johnson City, Tenn.. April 21. — Chancellor Hal 11. Haynes., this morn ing in Bristol dismissed the motion to disssolve the injunction sorted on the committee from the General Assembly of Tennessee here to investigate Pres- | ident Henry C. Gilbreath, presidut of East Tennessee State Normal. / The committeemen with the excep tion of Senator Butler, returned to Nashville yesterday. Attorney Gen eral Thompson, representing the com mittee, states the matter will be taken j to the Supreme Court. The opinion is expected here by “noon. i Birds T’ly Long Distances. Falling exhausted to the ground, a swallow was picked up by a native lad in a province in Soutli Africa. On one* leg of tlya bird was an" alum inum band with the word, “Winther bv. High Holbein, London. J. M. 53.” j The aluminum marker was given to a missionary who discovered that a . bird lover in England had marked swallow in January. 1922. It was in January, 1923, Lhat the bird was pick ed up in South Africa. It had flown 6.000 miles, demonstrating the re markable flights made by birds. This man. Harry Forties Witherby and his assistants, have marked more than 100.000 birds with aluminum bands around their legs. Not many are heard from again. But there is a ! record of six swallows having beep i marked in England and later found 'in South Africa. An Old-Fashioned Flower Gflr<V?n at “White House. An old-fashioned flower bed is to bloom in the sputh grounds of the- White House to please the eye of Mrs. Harding this Spring.N \ It is the variety that used to grace thousands of farms and homes in the days when mother was a girl, j (Mrs. Harding said rhe tired or the j 'highly cultivated hothouse plants and ‘ would like to have a little garden of her own made up of pansies? morning-1 glories, forget-me-nots, asters, snap dragons, foxgloves and daises. » i She is especially fond of hollyhocks / and lilies ©f the valley and two beds of these are being set out in auoition i to the others. AM Dancing Record.** Broken. Cleveland, Olilo, April 19. —AT ! world’s endurance records for danc ing were broken hero tonight h.v Miss j June Curry, who finished 89 hours of j continuous dancing at. 8 o’clock and was still going strong, according to j an attending physician. This breaks j the record of 88 hours and 18 minutes j established early today by Annul* Howard Klein. Scientists believe that all salt, wlier- j ever found, has coiue originally from , the sea in some way or other. ■ < STATEMENT THE CABARRUS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANC E COMPANY, i Connot'd, N. 'Condition December 31. 1022. as shown by statement filed. Amount of ledger assets December ,31st of-pryvious year. $3,001.88; Total $ 3,001.88 Income —From Policyholders, $2.728.1*8; Miscellaneous, $100.75; Total /. 2,833.80 Disbursements—Tul Policyholders, $1,517.75; Miscellaneous $835.55, Total 2,353.30 Fire risks—Written or renewed during year $78,075.00 in force 1.450.447 00 ASSETS Deposited iu Trust Companies and Banks on interest $3,482.38 Total $3,482.38 Total admitted assets _ _ g;» 482J18 LIABILITIES ’ ~\ ” Net amount of unpaid losses and claims i $—375.00 Total amount of all liabilities except capital $ 575. OW Business hi North Carolina During 1022. Fire risks written $78,975; premiums received 728.93 Losses Incurred —Fire; paid ' i, 1.517.75 President J. V. Allison; Secretary, John K.sPattersou, Treasurer, Jno. K. Patterson* Home Office. Concord. X. C. ' - Attorney for service: Stacey W. Wade, Insurance Commissioner, Raleigh, * C ’« / (Seal) t STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. 1 INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. 1 " ‘ Raleigh? March Iff. 1923. I, Btacey W. Wade, Insurance Commissioner, do hereby certify that the above i$ a true and correct abstract of the statement of the Cabarrus Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of Concord. X. C„ filed with this Irepsrt merit, show ing thr condition of said Company, on the 3Lst day of December. 1922. * Witness my bund and official seal, the day and year above tVritten. STACEY W. WADE. Insurance Coauajsidc&er. 19-2 t. . ; PAGE FIVE FORD STILL HAS , A SIZEABLE ROLL Detroit Manufacturer’s Cash Balance $200,000,000 Despite Purchases. New Ycjek, April 20.—Henry Ford’s cash balance still exceeds $290,900.- 000 in spite of h's recent numerous : large purchases of coal properties. : timber lands, water sites and other investments, it was declared today in ; tin* Wall Street Journal, which pub * lished the Detroit capitalist's tele graphic answers to a questionaire recently sent him by the newspaper. 1 The manufacturer added he had no 1 present intention ongoing into the market to borrow money. Among other things revealed by : ‘Mr. Ford was that the first step taken fly him. in the development of nis ; coal distribution was the letting of : contracts for doubling the River Rouge coking ovens. He s?aid he was urging the advisability of putting *n coke ovens at all his coal properties, 1 that he may take advantage of numerous by-products of coal. He added that the installation of coke ovens at Akron. Ohio, was under " construction, with the plan of ultimately supplying the city with cheap coke and j;as. LIPSTICKS AND ROUGE BOX CONQUER BARN-DOOR PAINT Kansas City Methodists Deride Girls Are Eentitled to Sifiear Flues. Kansas City. Mo., April 20.—Lip sticks and rouge were given approval last night at the Central Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Tenth street Central avenge, Kansas City. Knns. The verdict in favor of cosmetics was handed down b\* judges , of a debate in which six members of the‘<*hurrh engaged, preceding regular Wednesday night prayer meeting pro gram. ‘ A debating ream composed of Dr. J. W.“ Scott. pastor of the church, with I. Martin and Mrs. 11. L. MeJuukin, endeavored to uphold the question, “Resolved, That i»aint belongs on luirns rather than on women's faces.” However, after the negative team was through eulogizing the much-crit icised cosmetics, the judges handed down a decision indorsing paint as ;i [necessary adjunct to milady's dress ing table. “It is a woman's duty to appear at her best.” said John McGuire, member of the negative team. “If paint im proves her beauty or deters a prema ture old appearance, then it. is her privilege to use rouge.” Fanners Profit Through .Selling Corn Steels*. Washington. r - ‘ April 19.—Illinois, lowa and Nebraska corn belt, farmers average 35 cents a bushel more for the corn they fed to steers during last, winter than they would have received fir it-frt local market prices. Cost figures compiled by the De -1 partment of Agriculture show feeder steers . veraged $7 per 100 pounds in cost. A margin of $1.20 per 100 pounds was necessary on the average to pay for feed, labor, interest, equipment, and marketing charges after certain credits. The finished cattle sold on an average for $8.87 'per 100 pounds, so / that the feeder made a profit T 67 cents per 100 pounds. “Returns in individu 1 instances | came perilously near to the loss col* i umn due—to bad markets and otuer ; causes,” says the department, but the average farmer more than the market price for his corn am, eii -1 joyed a, small profit which in some measure should retrieve his losses of two or three years ago. The steers made unusually good gains in weight because of the extraordinarily fav ourable feeding weather in the corn belt during the fall and winter up to March Y. The average gain in pasture, stalk /fields and feed lot was 2.13 pounds a day, which cost 13 1-2 cents a pound. Th? average weight of the j 1.600 steers sod was 1.286 pounds; thus' - each animal showed a profit of $8.62.” . # Prohibition Bill Debuted. i London, April 20 (By the Associated (Press). —For the first time in history the House of Cofhmons today debated a prohibition bill, and at the end of ar gument killed the bill. 210 to 14. The bill was that recently introduc | ed by Edwin Scrygour, of Dundee, who lias devoted his life to the cause of j prohibition. Sarcasm. ‘'Can you let me have a flive-r till i tomorrow, o il man?” * ! '“Better make it the day after. So many of my friends have promised to pay me tomorrow I’ll be swamped with money.” < he Nile River has a fall of but six j inches in the lust 1,000 miles of its. •course. , Hf.fl 3,001*88 2,833.50