Thursday. May 17, 1923.
HITS ILL KILL
(fTIIK UNLESS
Ifllffi ARE MET
. Diplomatic Repre-
in China Must
Guarantee That Govern
ment " iH Mcct Terlns '
•ITIMAITM IS
'GIVEN BY BANDITS
£ndits Sav Word of Chinese
Officials Means Nothing to
Them.—^ Must Have Guar
3nlee of Foreign Diplomats
: \|. lV 1.1 ißy th<‘ Assoc 1-
" inlcss the'.foreign dip
r,. ‘i<'si iftotivcs in Fliina guar*
•'it' I ~|i .in that the Chinese gov
lElt"'r- will carry out the terms lix-
I'leaese bandits in the Shan-
t’hc foreigners held captive
’ KU - "n' i'„> killed. Father Win. Len
“t| j ] i l’ics t who c< infer red
‘m'int' l'ailit chieftain Sunday. re r
f;: ;' t j M . .vines iran consul tit Len
fiw!*iv
tL r ~i ' ' !-•> iC'**:-" descrihed the eliief-
F:|M ; 1 I ( „, w.Hig. ;is “a young man.
c l , 've, il ilrt wearing eye glass.
•• Tie- priest persuaded Wang to
HC .I;the limit of his ulti
which iimi 1m en fixed at two
Sunday.. Wang told him
I . l it . i.lcilgc< of Chinese officials
,j,,rhinu I" the bandits, and
f‘,‘ •!],■ word of tin* foreign diplo
" m n>t he given.
(Viniuamlvi- Wang drafted his terms
■'j,j ( .|, ( ii,i mit demand money, lint
that the Peking government
; |i the ha ltd its to* the status of
J :1: , soliiie; s with the pledge that
, Vll „]d no reprisals—and
t't-,.; i.ciifcrs arriving in Lineheng,
iniiinm'i';.id*- hardships, present
f,'' IV; i,g> letter to tile, American COH
l’fßnmi That Railways Be Guarded.
Vcshingteii. .May 11.— A demand
1.. tin Cliiia’M”. go\u*rninent- take im
iii+Hiiat' Meps to guard the principal
"Mvs'tiita'in railways, especially the
T:,iit-iii-l’iik'iw. and the I’eking-Han
-1.. iiiitN. lias been made bv the dip
fctaatic mri-s in Peking.
A .'niiiuiission of foreign military of
f,ir,N juts heeu created to protect life
|u;,; MoportA. The commission will
iivestigaTt* me; sores taken by the
pi’kiig go.cnmienr to protect the Chi
nry‘riiihvii} > from a recurrence of
otunigc' similar to that at Lencheng-
Antr-riran Troi‘|i'< Ready to Guard Rail-
Tii-nrsi:i. .May 11 ißy tin* Assuciat
mii’risvi -American troops here were
die rally Sunday morning to he
pc,,m] to guard railway property
foi'ovms reports m-eivtHl tit Ameri
ca! headquarters‘of ;k buttle
in progress ’netween Chinese troops alid
i. at TsiirgshaiL 50 miles west
m' 1. .rMen . the IVking-Muldeii rail
>ELL IJKK 1\ MAKING
MACHINERY TO SPAIN
Spaniard Brians Spansfi Dirt to Stat
esville for Experiment.
Statesville. May 14. Francisco l’a
fi\ df Barcelona. Spain. left last
tw-k for New York City after eon-
Ketiag seine experiments with brick
.ttking machinery at the plant of- J.
1 Steele k Sons. Spanish clay was
nf forth • experiments. which re
*’/"■ sitisfaetori.lv. Mr. Padros pur
''i'"l a carluail of the company’s ma
anil will have them exported to
when- he will make brick and
U-Niic tile. . (
-'h I’iidriis was held by the immi
>rFi(in officers at F.llis island until
' '■lie.! l»y the New York corres
,,*ii(ient hf ,i iSteele A Sons that he
c.i.i '-"mi" ni | ;1 coniinereial mission.
, hiterpiM't it accompanied lii.n here
‘f*'!!' \e\y\ork. Mr. Padros not speak-
Ftigii-h. There was B(H) pounds
k't <-1 < lay Drought over with
~!M m Strap to Main* Convicts
Work.
, uv: ,, i j, \j av 14. —'Dm* strap
.y r liM 'to enforce work and dis
lM tli' Guilford county convict
• *' F.nishee. (-ounty eominis
j, I ’. ll ' ''Large of the convicts, stat
!' - toiluwing a mcctiiig of the
u-Mmiers upon ways a*d
. ' h : down a sort of spirit of
:; g tin- prisoneiy. Some of
v . I".'.' ‘' lately refused to work, it
1(| / 1 :ni " •' ve been "tlisrespeetful”
Cj ,j ‘‘c’ deports~that they cuV
;,j ' 1 : 're denied. ;ilso reports
..F.., k ; - : ari —. camp boss, had re
• Qftlt’ a ~of Lseing allowed’ to
t,.;. , 'I 1 "' punishment in order to
' work. All other
Sir v "''"d before the strap.
"Cnee . 1
1 ’•tusfrrrcd to Federal Court,
s S { - V.
* ;i r < ll ji.., ‘ :, : t for eastern South
iii u>,. ~ :I V assumed jurisdiction
jii Mi, , il * l ‘ lour Fnired States
>?at*. ,I'eers. charged in the!
"irh ii t ;,., A L assault and battery
iiavtj,. Lili..as a result of their
"f . S, ".’ ,s into the rear wheel
•'dll'.V; : oeeupnHl by two
•hi'k, \ v ; 1 'i- '' •c. a. workers,
'"i s,, , ' i'NUed a writ ol’ cum
‘Lr ~j (l( ■' lli| ig the cases from
LeaV*' 1 y' i, ' ' l " t Silow at RotmeV
5 n0.-. ; ‘ ! L IP-Several inches of
' '’njij,! Tuesday morning
■e d b. Dougherty «no
111. v. ~./'l,' ‘ ;i . v - Show also tell
*; n M. ;| nd in some places
1 "<-'j "f the ridge it had
‘ nches ile3p.
‘ innv„i , v nseil to generate
'' 111 iniatare engine re
'X"v Vork | IS "' ,u *d successfully in
""T'wi.'ti,, , ! ' ,u ' ai, °lie copper mirror
, v " !l a test-tube full
' : L tks.- t-' 1, d v Rlicifcut steam to
i DAMAGE OF MILLIONS
BY FLOODS AT HOT
SPRINGS MONDAY
City Trying to Extricate It
self From Debris and Ruin
Left by Flood, Fire and
Wind Monday Night.
NO LIVES LOST
IT IS THOUGHT
Splendid Marquette Hotel Is
a Pile of Ruins, — City Is
Without Street Car, Elec
tric or Gas Service.
Hot Springs. iMay 15.—(By'the As
sociated Press) —Hot Springs at noon
today .was endeavoring to extricate
itself Horn d?bris and ruin left by
flood, fire and wind which last night
wrecked the business district of the
city with damage to property which
is expected to run into the millions.
Several persons are reported to have
been killed but thus far reports of
fatalities have not. been verified. It
is not expected, however, that the
deatli list iwill exceed three or four
persons.
\Yhile the monetary loss is roughly
figured in the mi ions. no accurate
estimate is available at this hour.
' The Marquette Hotel is a pile of
charred bricks and stones, represent
: ing a loss in excess of $150,000. The
only building left -in iMarquette block
is the Citizens National Bank.
The city is without street car, elec
tric or 7 gas service. All utility
plants, including the telegraph office
. were, flooded and put out of commis
sion.
Marquette Hotel Burned This Morn
ing.—No IjOss of Life.
Muskogee. Okla.. May 11 tßy the
Associated Press). —T'p to four o’clock
this morning there had been no con
firmation of reports from loss of life
at Hot Springs. Ark., the Southwest
ern Bell Telephone! Exchange at Lit
tle Bock advised the company’s ex
change here this morniug. The Mar
ipiefte Hotel at Hot Springs was de
stroyed by tire. This is the only fire
reported. Water stood six feet deep
in the telephone company's office at
, Hot Springs.
No Lives Lost.
Memphis, Tenn., May 11.—A tele
gram received from tin* Western Cnion
■ manager at Hot Springs at 10:10 this
morning said so far as is known no
Jives had liecn lost, lmt that the Mar
quette Hotel and a number of nearby
buildings bad been destroyed. No ac
curate estimate of the property dam
age was available at that hour.
Flood Sweeps Down oil Hot Springs.
Memphis. May 11. ( l>y the Associat
isl Press.) —Hot Springs. Ark., famous
resort and city of many disasters, was
stricken last night by a flood which
swept down the sides of the three
mountains which form tt triange about
the city, and by tire which broke out
in the wreckage.
Commencement at Greensboro College.
(Jreenslxiro. May IB. —The com
mencement season sit Greensboro Col
lege will open Saturday. May I’Bth.
and extend through Tuesday, May 20,
having as its principal speakers I)r.
Franklin X. Parker. Emory University:
Rev. G. Ponnshell. Nashville, Tenn.,
and Dr. Harry Chirk, of the same city,
according to the program announced
today.
Forty girls are in the senior class.
Saturday evening, the school of ex
pression will present a program of en
tertainment. The following morning
at 11 o'clock. Dr. Parker will deliver
the baccalaureate sermon, and in the
evening the anniversary of the Young
\Vomeii's Christian Association will he
observed, Mr. llounshell being the
speaker. On Monday afternoon, tile
,Alumnae Association will hold its an
nual business meeting, followed by
class day exercises. At six o'clock, the
aliimuap-student dinned will be serv
ed just previous to tin* annual con
cert. Dr. Clark will deliver the lit
erary address at the graduating ex
ercises Tuesday morning at 11.30
o’clock.
John A. MeCufobiiis,
Salisbury, May 15.—John Absolum
McCtibbins, aged 72, of 'Mill Bridge,
died in a Salisbury hospital last
night following a stroke or para
lysis which he suffered whi'e attend
ing the state convention pf Patriotic
Order Sons of America in the first
session of the annual meeting in the
community * building. Mr. McCubbips
was a widower and is survived by
four children. Grady, who lives at the
old home place. Clyde, of Bethsadie,
Maryland, Mrs. William Longstreert,
*o.f Trenton, New Jersey, and Mrs.
Myrtle L. Crabb, a Presbyterian
nrssinnary in China.
Gov. Trinkle to Speak in Greensboro.
Greensboro.^May IB. —TJov. E. Lee
Trinkle, of Virginia, has accepted an
invitation to deliver tin address here
at noon Saturday, June 30. before the
council of the Carolina#, Lnited Com
mercial Travellers at that time. Ac
ceptance of the invitation to visit this
oilv and deliver the address, was re
ceived today by officials of Greensboro
Council U. T. C. in charge of arrange
ments for the eon vent ion.
Firpo and Willard to Box.
New York. May 15.—Luis Firpo, of
1 the Argentine, and Jess W illard,
j former world's heavyweight champion,
today signed articles to box for Tex
[Rickard in a match to be held in the
vicinity of New York not later than
July 7. The winner of the contest will
be matched against Jitck Dempsev-
for the world's title.
I The first elevator of a modern type
was exhibited in New A ork in 1813,
but not until twenty years later were
elevators used for carrying passeu
gers. ,
A W ——
No New Prison Inquiry In This
County Expected at the Present
It is very probable that another
investigation of prison conditions in
tlds county will not be made, though
J. F. Day vault, chairman of the hoard
of county commissioners, is expecting
daily a letter from Attorney General
Manning asking that lie co-operate
with the solicitor of this district in
investigating conditions in the camps.
The commissioners last week institut
ed anti complefqd a thorough inquiry
into life in ftie camps of Cabarrus, and
in view of this fact it is probable that
Solicitor Long will accept the report
made, by the commissioners last Hsjt
nrday and not ask for another investi
gation in this county.
Chairman Dayvnult this morning
stated that lie had not yet received the
letter from Attorney General Manning,
but he is exacting it today. Press
dispatches from Raleigh Monday stat
ed that Mr. Manning had prepared
letters for every solicitor and county
chairman in the State, asking that
they make the investigations or assist
in making tlnfin.
Solicitor Long, whose home is in
Statesville, this week sent a letter to
Mr. Dayvanlf, commending the hoard
of for their prompt ac
tion in investigating conditions in this
county, and assuring the -commission
ers that he would assist them in car
rying out any recommendations they
might want to make now or latqr.
COWS BROUGHT INTO THIS
COUNTY ttIST BE TESTED
Law; Passed By Legislature Will Be
Enforced—"R. D. Goodman to Look
After This County.
R. D. Goodman, county farm agent,
states that cows cannot be brought
into this county now except for im
mediate slaughter, uness they have
been tested for tuberculosis. The*
county Commissioners recently in
structed Mr. Goodman to check up on
the county and to prefer charges
against persons who willfully bring
untested cattle into this county.
“There is a State law against this
practice.’’ (Mr. Goodman said, “and I
am going to enforce it as i can.
This county recently spent several
thousand dollars aving its cattle in
sisected, and this money will be wast
ed if we allow oersons to bring un
tested cows here and possibly infect
our cows.”
Persons who purchase the cows will
be held responsible. Mr. Goodman
stated. The cows must lie accom
panied by a certificate, signed by the
proper authorities, stating that ( she
has bee tested and does not nav:
tubercu'osis.
LVtrj Goodman is having a number of
placards printed now. . pointing out
the law on this matter, and these will
be posted at prominent places
throughout the country so that the
public generally will become familiar
with the law,
NEW $1,000,000 COMPANY
FOR C OUNTY C HARTERED
C'annon-Robert Interests, Inc., Granted
C harter by Secretary of State.
Raleigh, May 11.— I Capitalized iit sl.-
(KHMHX). and having as its incorjKira
tors M. L. Concord. .Tolm M. Robinson.;
Charlotte, and L. W. Robert. Jr.. At
lanta. Ga.. the Cannon-Robert Inter- j
was granted it charter today
by Secretary of State \V. N. Everett. J
The company is given permission to ■
promote manufacturing and other in- j
dustrial and commercial enterprises.
The principle offices of the concern :
will lie iit Kanapolis.
\0 MORE CONVICT
WHIPPINGS IN FLORIDA
Bill to Ban Punishment Has Passed
Both Houses cf the Legislature.
Tallahassee. Fla., May 15.—Final
passage of a bil to ban corporal puni
shment of convicts in this state was
effected today when tit? senate by it
vote of 15 to lu refused to reconsider j
its action of yesterday in banning Its l
whip. i
The action of tin* Senate means that j
it bill requiring the state officials-to j
elimitiats whipping from their calen
dar jbf prescribed punishment
goes to the Governor.
Encampment Week For Woodmen of
the World.
Salisbury. May IL—The Week be
g'nning July 13 will be encampment
week for 1.200 members of the Uni
form Tank, Woodmen of the World, of
the sixth district, including North
and South Caro ina and Virginia* and
Salisbury has been chosen as the site
for the camp. That the camp win be
held at the local fair grounds is the
news from E. B. Lewis, one of the
managers of the soverign camp of
Woodmen and chief engineer on the
stsiff of General Frazer. The camp
whs held here several years ago and
the fair ground was found to be tin
ideal place for it.
Lord Ash field, head of the London
underground railways and omnibus
services, spent his youth in America,
where he started his career at the age
of eleven as a messenger boy.
RESULTS TELL
Tlibi’e C an fee No Doubt About the Re
stilts in t’omord.
Results tell the tale
All doubt is removed.
The testimony of a Concord citizen
Can easily be investigated.
What better proof can be hud?
J. A. McEacliern. Mgr., street car
company plant. 31 X. Xliite St., Con
cord. says: "It has been several years
since I used Doan's Kidney Dills but
they did me a world of good at one
time. My kidneys troubled me an aw
ful lot. My back was tame and nett
ed almost continually* and I couhqFt
do any stooping or lifting on account
of the severe pains throughftlie small
of ruy hack. My kidneys didn't act
right. Doan's Kidney Pills were re«-
oiumemled and 1 used them. They
'soon gave n#e relief and 1 continued
using them until 1 was free from all
kidney complaint.’’
Price title, at all-dealers. Don't sim
-1 ply ask for a kidney remedy—get •
Doan.'s Kidney Pills—the same that '
Air. McEacliern had. Uoster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, X. Y.
THE CONCORD TIMES
Mr. Long also staled in the letter
that he would visit the camps of this
county when he comes hack to Con
cord for the next term pf Superior.
Court, and as he did not intimate that
he would lie here sooner, Mr. Day vault
believes that the solicitor plans to ac
cept the report made by the commis
sioners last Saturday as a final and
satisfactory one fqr this county.
In the report the commissioners de
clared they could find no evidence of
prisoners being cruelly treated. f Some
of the prisoners had been flogged, the
report said, but there was no evidence
that the floggings had been brutal, and
they had been inflicted after the pris
oners disobeyed orders or refused to,
work. The report also stated that the
superintendent, of the camp had been
instructed to give his men plenty of
wholesome food and not to work them
in the rain or under other”unfavora
ble conditions.
The commissioners in s preparing
their report visited the chain gang
camps and gave every prisoner an op
portunity to make complaint if he had
a complaint to make. They went into
the matter thoroughly, and as the re
quest from the Attorney General is
expected So soon after the investiga
tion was made, it fk very probable that
no new inquiry will be made now in
this county.
McBRAYER INVESTIGATION
* begun at Raleigh today
By Special Legislative Committee Ap
pointed at Last Session.
Raleigh, May 11.—Investigation of
charge's of mismanagement against
Dr. L. B. Mcßrnyer. superintendent of
tlie State Sanatorium for tlie_treat
ment of tuberculosis, was resumed
here today by the special legislative
committee appointed by the 11)23 North
Cavoliim General Assembly.
A session was held at the eapitol tit
10 o'clock but a recess was taken un
til 2 p. in. in order that attorneys
might confer with witnesses and make
other arrangements. Dr. Mcßrnyer
was expected to take the stand in ins
own defense, while Dr. W. S. Rankin,
I secretary of the State Board of
I Health, itlso was scheduled to testify,
j Approximately fifty witnesses, it
| was reported, have been summoned by
Representative L. Broughton, of
Wake, who brought the allegations
against Dr. Mcßrayer.
•SAYS WOMAN REALLY
IS MRS. CLARA PHILLIPS
I. •
So Says Jesse Carson, Who is Posing
as the Woman’s Husband.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, May 11.
Jesse Carson, who posed as the hus
band of the woman held by the lloii-
Idurnn authorities as Clara Phillips, the
California hammer murderess, told
newspaper men today that the woman
in reality is Mrs. Phillips.
Carson, who sis also being held by
the authorities, asserted. liowever. that
Mrs. Phillips \fas not responsible for
tiie (lestill of Mrs.’ Alberta Meadows,
for which she was convicted, the-real
slayer, according ». to his story, being
another woman. In.view of this, lie
j added, lit* would light sigainst the cx-
I tradition of Mrs. Phillips, spending
$10,(H!0 if need he in her defense. !
NAPOLEON’S MARE FOUND
l Englishman Half Bought Animal and
Had Hide Stuffed.
Paris. May 11. —The hay mare Na-
I poleon is supposed to have ridden in
the Battle of Waterloo has just been
discovered among tlit* odds and ends
of the Louvre Museum.
After the of Napoleon the mare
was bought by an Englishman, who
kept her until sin' died and then had
her stuffed and presented to the Man
Chester Natural History Museum in
1842. From Manchester the stuffed
animal found its way to the Louvre,
no one knows how, and was relegated
to a dusty corner, where it was for
gotten until tin antiquarian unearthed
it the other dav.
% *
KILLED IN EXPLOSION.
R. A. Webb, of Bridgewater, Loses His
Life at Great Falls, S. C.
Chester. S. (\, May IB.—R. A. Weld),
of Bridgewater, N. C.,.was killed, and
Benjamin-Lumpkin, a negro, of Great
Falls, S. probably fatally injured in
tin explosion near Great Falls today,
according to reports received here.
They are said to bo employes of Scott,
Stuart & Jones, contractors.
DR. RIVKIN ARRESTED.
Had 100 or More Engraved Plates for
Counterfeiting U. S. Currency.
Chicago, May 10.—I)r. Felix Rivkiii,
it dentist and,artist of New York and
Chicago, was arrested today its he
stepped from n train at the Union sta
tion. aud 100 or more engraved plates
for counterfeiting I . S. currency of
various denominations were seized,
according-to Federal authorities.
Sanatorium Probe to Be Expedited.
Raleigh, May 15. —With the re
sumption of the legislative com
mittee’s investigation of Superin
tendent L. B. 'Mcßrayor’s conduct of
the state sanatorium, the committee
this afternoon served notice on ioun
sel for the complaintants and for Dr.
(Mcßrayer that it proposes to tx
pediate ths matter with all speed?
The annoucement of the committee
followed a session broken into by
failure of Witnesses to appear afld
was) accompanied by adjournment Un
til Wednesday morning at 9 o ciock.
d. M. Robertson Special Agent L. S.
Department of Labor.
Raleigh, May 12-J. M. Robertson,
chief of the Bureau for the Deaf, lias
been appointed special agent of the
United States Department of Lahof.
Free Employment. Service Division.
M. L. Shipman, commissioner of labor
and printing announced toriSy. * I
Dancing instructions will be given j
by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Houser at the (
American Legion HnlU starting today, i
See ad. in this issue.
What woffid happen if a community
should give the same thought to the
development -of the character of its _
boys and girls that it does to the de
velopment of its commerce?
! MILLS t NABLfe TO I
KEEP DOORS OPEN
Fall River Cotton Factories Can’t Com
pete With Southern Mills.
1 Fall River, Mass., May 14—The tex
i tile industry of this city with twelve
of its largest cotton mills closing their
doors tonight for an indefinite j>criod
and more to take similar action as the
weeks go by, while the remainder are
to operate but three days a week, is
facing ruin. The closing of the Tecuh
seh, Granite, Cornell, Flint, Barnard,
I’ocasset, Troy and other mills brought
about by the inability to compete with
Southern, competition is but the ini
tial move in the transfer of their op
erations South.
More than 15,000 hands are effected
by the ! ''shut down. Most of these con
cerns have completed their contracts.
The move, though sudden, was not un
expected for ever since the granting
of a 12 1-2 per cent, increase in wages
in this "city, business has been on the
steady decline while orders have fall
en steadily. The condition of the cot
ton market coupled with the attitude
of buyers in the cloth market has been
such that tin* manufacturers have re
fused to place goods in their stortf
houses and has hastened orders few
and far between, have been filled ac
cording to reports from authoritative'
sou ices, at a loss.
Manufacturers and brokers declare
that it is impossible to attempt to
compete with the cotton industry of
the South, especially since the last in
crease in wages granted the employes.
“Frankly we are up against it,” de
clared an official of the'Fall River Tot
ton Manufacturers Association tonight.
“Conferences arc useless, we can op
erate only at a loss and if we are to
remain in business there is hut one
tiling we can do, follow the general
move to the South, to the Carolinas.’
TWO TIMBER TREES THAT
ARE NEW TO SCIENCE
Discovered by H. M. Curran, of State
Agricultural Extension Service.
Raleigh, X. (\, May 12.—Two tim
ber trees new to science, discovered by
11. M. Curran, farm forestry expert of
the North Carolina Agricultural Ex
tension Service, while he was engaged
in forestry investigation in Brazil,
r have just been named by I)r. S. F.
Blake, of the National Herbatium.
Smithsonian Institute. One of the
species will have as its name - "Bros
iinuui Columbianum,” while the other
will be called "Brosimopsis Diandra."
These trees were discovered by Mr.
Curran during his investigation of
tropical forestry in Brazil and Colum
bia and arc closely related to the com
mon mulberry of this country.
"I found one of them on the coast
of Brazil and the other in the flood
plains of the Rio Magdalepa River.”
Mr. Curran said. “I believe they are
destined to play an important part in
solving future forestry problems both
in this country ami South America.
“They are large timber trees, grow
ing ton height of 125 feet or more and
with a diameter of three feet or over.
From fifty to seventy-five feet of the
bole can be used for timber and the
wood is pure white, very .hard and
tough and is a good substitute for hick
ory. The ‘flivvers’ of the future' prob
ably will be equipped with spokes made
from the wood of one of these trees—
the Brosimopsis Diandra.”
A complete description,of both trees
is found in Volume 55 of the. Biologi
cal Society of Washington. Both spe
cies were studiefl at the request of
Dr. S. J. Record, of Yale University,
who is engaged in the study of koods
of this family. Dr. Blake states that
the trees will be of great commercial
importance.
PftlSOX BOARD TO MEET.
Governor Morrison Notifies Board to
Meet in His Office Thursday.
Raleigh May 15.—Governor Mor
rison tonight notified members or the
state prison board to meet in his of
fice Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock
at which time it is expected that
material modification of the prison
board’s position in investigation of
the institution will be made both by
the board and by the Governor.
Chairman Leake’s letter not a cen
tury ago indicating his satisfaction
with commissioner Kate Burr John
son’s investigation and even welcom
ing such an inquiry, is discussed
whether there is any such now or not.
At any rate, the prison board is not
going to meet eajly.
What. Governor Morrison lias in
mind to Tnake an ideal prison he has
refused to say, but it has been known
a while here that he has asked the
attorney general to find if possible
some way by which the warden’s
present duties of electrocuting may
Ue taken from that office so that the
mender of broken lives will not be
the same man who ends them. Wheth
er there is any law >bv which these
functions can be divided, the attorney
general apparently has not sa.d, Diit
this is believed to be one of the
things which his- excellency has in
mind.
Attendance Double Previous Conten
tions.
Salisbury. (May 15.—The state con
vention of the patriotic Order Sons
of America meeting hers today in an
nual session had double the attend
ance that had been at any other of
the state meetings during the 13 years
of the association's history and the
interest - manifested indicated that
the Jn a flourishing condi
tion. The net gain in the state during
the past year was around 1,000 mem
bers and the financial reports showed
several thousand dollars more in the
treasury than any previous report j
had shown.
This order conducts its own funeral
benefit assiciation with
in Salisbury and reports from this de
partment were very gratifying.
Bryan Can’t Be at Montreat.
Montreal. N; C.. May 10. —Dr. Char
les Goodell is scheduled to deliver the
principal address at the Wednesday t
;evening. pre-assembly session of thei
{Southern Presbyterian church here, j
having been substituted for William
Jennings Bryan, who notified officials
he would not be able to attend the
meeting this year.* The following j
morning, the initial session of the six- j
ty-thinl session of the*General Assem
bly will be held, . Dr. R. C. Reed, of
tho Columbia <S, C.t Theological Sem
inary, delivering the opening sermon.
ORDER IS RESTORED
OUT OE CHAOS AT
ROT SPRINGS, ARK.
Stones of Remarkable Res
cues as Told by Eye Wit
nesses Increases Wonder
Many Were Not Killed.
PROPERTY LOSS MAY
REACH TWO MILLION
Along Line of the Flooded
Streets Stores Were Crush
ed and Merchandise Ruin
ed or Washed Away.
, /
Hot Springs, May 1(5 (By the Asso
ciated Press). —Merchants reopened
their doors today after/ a midnight
through which crews of men worked
in tireless efforts to remove the
wreckage and debris left behind the
flood and fire late Monday when tor
rents from a mountain cloudburst
dashed down the slopes to form a
raging current in the principal streets
while flames enveloped the buildings
in an entire block.
Central Avenue, Hot Springs’ main
thoroughfare and the chief waterbed
of the whirling flood 3(5 hours earlier,
again is open to traffic, though the
working squads were able to clear
away but u small part of the jetsam
which the current piled against every
stationary object. From this thorough
fare as a base, street and sanitary
forces today are working out gradual
ly in the rest of the damaged area.
• Normal activities of the city have
returned in all instances. All public
utilities —gas. electric lighting and
I street ea-r service—which were put out
of order by the elements, again are
functioning/
Mrs. Kate Christianson,/ the only
person known to have been injured in
the disaster, is in a hospital in a se
rious condition, as a result of a crush
ed skull which she suffered when she
was caught in her automobile by a
Central avenue torrent and swept*along
for three blocks.
Stories of remarkable rescues, as
told by eye-witnesses today swelled the
wonder that many lives had not been
lost in confirmation of the early be
lief.
Property loss still is undetermined
today though estimates place if be
tween one and two million dollars.
Along the line of the flooded streets
stores were crushed and merchandise
ruined or washed away.
TO PROTEST AGAINST THE
ATTACKS ON SUGAR TRADE
Secret Meeting Held This Morning on
Floors of New York Exchanges.
New York, May 15. —Plans for a
mas meeting to protest against con
tinued attacks on the sugar trade by
government officials were understood
to have been discussed at a secret
meeting held this morning on the floor
of the New York Coffee and Sugar Ex
changes.
It was reported that the meeting
would he held tomorrow in the Wall
Street district. >
Barring of newspaper men and even
messenger hoys from the floor caused
a flurry of excitement in the trade. At
the office of the superintendent of the
exchange it was said no announcement
would bo made as to the nature of the
secret session.
BOND .STILL IN JAIL
Charged with Killing with His Auto
mobile Five-Year Old Child of State
Capital.
Raleigh. May 15.—H. W. Bond,
young printer, who was arrested ear
ly today charged with runing over
with an automobile and killing John
McKt*e Horton, 5-year old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Z. V. Horton, here last night,
was still in jail this afternoon bavirfg
been unable to furnish SI,OOO bond.
Bond did not stop the automobile
after it struck the child, according to
the police. The little boy died in a
few minutes after reaching a local hos
pital. Bond told the police he was too
frightened to stop.' He was arrested
at the Union station where lje had
taken some friends to a train six hours
after the accident.
THE COTTON MARKET
Showed Renewed Firmness at Begin
ning. First Prices Being 11 to 42
Points Net Higher.
New York. May 15. —The cotton mar
ket showed renewed firmness at the
begining today, first prices
to 42 points nef higher on overnight
buying orders, further covering atid
scattering demand promoted by high
er Liverpool cables, more encouraging
reports from Manchester and contin
ued crop complaints from the South.
Cotton futures opened firm. May
2(5.50: July 25.30; October 23,20; De
cember 22.87 ; January 22.41.
SIO,(MM) REWARD OFFERED
Fbr Information That Will Clear up
ti»e Mystery of the Death of Leigh
ton Mount.
Chicago, May 1(5 (By the Associated
Press). —-A reward of slO,l (00 was of
fered today by the trustees of North
western University at the request
Dr. Walter Hill Scott, president of the
institution, for definite information
that would clear up the mystery sur
rounding the disappearanee of Leigh-,
ton Motuit. a freshman, who disap
peared September 21, 1021, after a
class rush.
(Serious consideration is being
given to the'construction of a uertv
iriferoeeauic canal, either at Panama
or the Nicaragua route. ■The
Panama Canal cost in round numbers
$400,000,000. The gross revenue for
the fiscal year of 1922 was $i1.197.-
000. In six yteArs the canal has in
creased its business almost 300 per
cent and it is increasing yearly.
PAGE FIVE
GUILFORD COUNTY
CONVICTS OPENLY
DEFY THE GUARDS
Superintendent of the Cen
tral Camp and of the Road
Gang Tender Resigna
tions.—Situation Serious.
PRISONERS WILL
BE GIVEN LASH
Prisoners Take Advantage of
Agitation Over Prison Re
form to Shirk Their Work,
It Is Reported. :
Green sltoro, May 15. —Guilford coun
ty eommissldners were marking time
today pending completion of investiga
tion by County Attorney John N. Wil
son into Guilford’s convict camps,
where, according to the county coiu
i missioners, prisoners are shirking*
• their work and in some instances open
ly disobeying and cursing the guards.
The commissioners’ decision to em
power the county attorney to conduct
an investigation with a view to find
ing some solution of a situation at the
camps which is described by the com- '
mUsioners a s serious, followed a spe
cial meeting late yesterday afternoon
at which time Martin Burfis. superin
tendent of the central camp, and
Charley Andrews, superintendent of
the road gang, tendered their resigna
tions.
Both men reported to the commis
sioners that prisoners had taken ad
vantage of the agitation over prison
reform in this State during recent
weeks and are shirking their work,
many instances of flagrant disrespect
toward the guards being
Pending the report from the county
attorney. Giles Foushee, commissioner
in charge of the convicts, announced
today that the lash will he applied ns
a last-resort to maintain discipline but
only according to 4a\v.
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HOME missions with
’ y SOUTHERN •PRESBYTERIANS
The Committee Is Now* Greatly in
Need of Funds.
The call to members of the South
ern Presbyterian church in the Synod
of North Carolina for the cause of
home missions during the year la-gin
ning April 1, is $78,000 for svaod’a
home missions and $07,000 for pres
bytery's home missions; the first of
these figures is 10 per cent, of the en
tire budget. The home mission com
mittee of the synod and of the presby
teries are greatly in need of funds for
their work and are handicapped in the
work because of lack of funds with
which to meet the pressing needs de
volving upon them. In order to con
tinue their work, the home mission
committees of several presbyteries
have been forced into heavy debt be
cause of the fact that the churches •
are not contributing their apportion
ments for presbytery's homo missions.
In the\ Synod of North Carolina the
home mission field is white unto har
vest. and with a sufficient number of
workers and sufficient money to meet,
the needs of the work there would I>h
a great ingathering of souls during the
coming year in this synod. The fol
lowing Distances illustrate the crying
need of this work: Only recently a
white man 87 years of age was found
in Edgecombe county who never had
heard the name of Jesus Christ, until
he was told the gospel Story by the
minister who found him and who led
him to Christ. One Presbyterian min
ister aloiie has established recently
five Presbyterian churches in the
northern part of Johnson eoifnty, thus
changing the entire condition of a
huge part of the county. Some home
mission pastors have the care of five
or six churches because the hodic mis- ■
sion committees have not mbney to
provide for the support of a 'suffi
cient number of missionaries. There
is a great need also for church build
ings for congregations now worship
ping in sclio<j-houses, and a need also
for a manse Tor many pastors.
The total budget for synod's and
presbytery’s home missions for the
coming year amounts to only $175,000,
which is but a small sum when com
pared with the,mere tithe of thy in
come of North Carolina Presbyterians,
which is not less than $4,100,000 each
year. The fact that the (55,870 Pres
byterians "In this synod have a total
ineoirie each year of not less than $41,-
000,000 is sufficient to insure that they
will not allow the call of the home
missionaries for financial support to
go unheeded, esiweially when their -
gnat work stands for Christian educa
tion and evangelization. R.
death of*’ geo. j. gDuld
Dies in France Following ah of
Pileuinonia.
Mentone, France, May 1(5 (By the
Associated Press). —George J. Gould,
the American financier, who has lw*eii
ill at Cap Martin near here, died at .'{
o'clock this morning.
Mr. Gould was stricken with pneu
monia at his villa oh March 20th. For
several ♦days his condition remained
critical Hut he then rallied, and on
April 3rd was said to l*e out of danger.
Three weeks later, however, he suffer
ed a relapse, and on May 3rd took st
turn Dir the worse. ,
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West Concord Baptist/Revival.
There was p packed house to greet
Rev. E. G. Ross Monday night in his
opening service at the West Concord
Baptist Church. The ringing was in
suring and was eh joyed by everyone
present. Mr. Ross used for his text.
Judges 20:11. Subject "Christian
Training.” This was indeed a great
message. Subject for tonight, “Look.”
Come and be with us.
PASTOR.
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You will be sorry if you don't help
the ”IV* _ . .