North Carolina Newspapers

p SHERRILL. Editor and Publisher. . VOLUME XLVIII. IP IITCHi DIEO ■ fill] TODAY AFTER LiEIG ILLNESS n H o(h Occurred at 6:14 A. 1 q jn Wilson Hospital, Where He Had Been Un- Treatment. funeraiTto be held tomorrow w ill Be Buried in the Family Graveyard Near Scotland Neck.—Prominent in Con t'ress for Many Years. gr \j ;i \ ::i (|!) tin* Associated I:•; i.'-••i- 1 ati\«* Claude Kitchin. t,j \cii iii Carolina district. leader in the House of - in it local hospital ,- i, H ti.'s tiM.rniiiS. yr'Kihliin- vvjioM* death had beeu ex ' , f,, r the last three days. : . ijr shortly h.fore midnight • ;JtJ ,i the end came peacefully r ' r _ niitrniiig. lie had been in a -...n5. i. us l ondition since .Monday. , ]|;„] yesterday at'term»»n and a i.f linjte was held out for his re- Zn la>* i!„. iicd'iile of the former Dennt- rniiie leader wiieh lie died were Mrs. y\l|. r.euis !’•. Suiter, a dattgli- K . Ijiri, a son. and 1 *r. Tbur ... Kitfliin. a brother. They laid been bint throughout the niglit. Tn** b*Kly "f the statesman was remov al fir ]y today to a local undertaking es ijhli'lmiein wlieie it was prepared for I, ,; u A"-em|«init*(l h\ members of his !..| stores of friends, it will be r/rje: ilii-- inot'iiiug to his old home at 5,..:.au«l Nee’k. where the funeral will held tomorrow afternoon. P r Woodard said Mr. Kitehin's ,|. was the culmination of eomplica- whi.h developed after lie suffered ~}' |.:iraly>is in 1020. He had t r wr |.o>-t, n g »otl health since. I)r. WVijmtl stated—although the turn for r!.• worse ili«j not come until about three I< tring the long months of suffering. 'I; Kae.;iti always maintained that ! .a,; cheerful and courageous dispom ii which characterized his more u-:irs on ;!ie floor of Congress, til t/.c inoiiieiit lie eiitel'eil the hospital here hi;: a-wis of friends from , near and far visitwi him and lie greeted them all (•"idialh with a warm handshake uud a bread 'mile —a smile whlon had made Inn one of the most beloved members of Mr. Kitehin suffered, a slight stroke of ’ ralw sin pro. few minutes after he Lei delivered a most impassioned speech I ire resolution. He was quicUj from tin* Capitol to his Wash ing'oii hoiio- lie was accorded a most I‘iitlnis.iistie ovation when he returned to fr\; months later. Mr. Kitch -111 del not retain his s,.;it long, however, i" dim s| »■!ls began to Im.flier him. and n> again was forced to retire. 1,1 ihe advice of his physicians, Mr. 1 entered a hospital tit Albany. N» '• where he underwent an operation, lejierts' from Albany were to the effect taat - the o]H*ration was successful, and •'h. Kitehin's friends tlmugji lie would s '"'" aMe to resume leadership in Mouse. Shortly after his return ; A oanv t,. Washington Mr. Kitehin ' in attacked-with dizzy spells and Li' o,i| home at Scotland Neck ''l take a rest. i(L Scotland- Neck last winter •' l ' K;-e..!i, eoiitraeted influenza, which l i" , d in.to pneittnouia. Little hope Uas held out for his recovery. This ill ‘:r him with a stomach trouble, gradually worse until it re ’l ”■ l!l Lis d<*ath here today. 1 u tier aI. Tomorrow, s Vii.iml May 3‘l (By the As f"' lV ' ,v " lh»- funeral servi<*es ■' 'le-entative t Maude • Kitehin, who ( , a ' 11 ’Le \\ its ,|, hospital early to he held from the Kitehin resi at .i o clock tomorrow aftvr , ' ' iiarle. Anderson, pastor of of which Mr. Kitehin C- ' ■ officiating. it was an- ITe burial will take plot iii the • Baptist] mile from Scotland Tlie ..... . liter r • W| M be L. B. .\ t,.' ‘ .fames Shields, S. s N ' n Tlnglan .. 1/ H. Kitehin, '• :l William Leverton. -L,.- riii ' ' :r > I>all hearers has not Aas a mark' f ,• " f Sir. K". I• " '" : 1 tn^niArjr ' I ! 1 dir- schools here will h’laorrow " 1,,n • a, ter tin* funeral Ip the *>»i „ Hmise „f iii' services in the .'‘•irs as ' niatives. including four during demor-ratic i-- t,., t ' hit* never once los't ""tun .j,.},.,, 1 °f bitter and f: “' alw.-ijs ~ *’ig. round, red . •• ll< ‘’shted with a smile - Hrjmhii,... '* s a,l shtered tlie enemy,” k*'!'t 'sm’l' ‘ that “" 111 h,f,, r , , " :! ~ ;,s be operated on . Hark j -j- ' "Uutry.” ,'. ru kglino Vl( ' f ' "'lion lie was a "bill's " ! ’ t 1 ' rolina lawyer. J'I'l 1 'l 11,III:, a L',;. ,'' as ,lk '‘ rt,:,t of a >r " ‘ i: *> a eountrv "/"r f L '' x !"' , ‘ y ' s *‘<l it. against 11 ittstice decided up the , , :i " Kitfhin .started .;•£ tnouicp it was. an ex m djp]] • . lH T "i'l frieni i nly 0< purred to t., hirer,* “that if I %tM“* :,,i aml a’ bnd’ I>,lt sce linVr lt,n ati <l there I t “"i 111 / t()n«uo > Ket tnad with 'h'l'ulcd 1 would Uur; ». Mans 111ii,,,;' , t,ran represen -1 ’ uh,J often crossed, THE CONCORD TIMES, FTVFRY SCHOOLHOI SE IN STATE TO BE INSPECTED Mr. Wade Says tlie People Are Thorough ly Ar; used to the Situation. Raleigh. May 31. —Asserting that the Cleveland. S. tire', in which seventy j six persons lost their lives, has aroused the- interest of citizens in school build ings. Stacey W. Wade, commissioner of . insurance, today announced every school I building in North Carolina will be iu ) spected by officials of his department and where changes are necessary orders | issued for them to be made issued be fore the beginning s os the fail terms. The inspection will be started next week, the -eastern section of tlie State being visited first by the inspectors, op | crating under a state law. a large part jof which was written by Mr. Wade, | covering all classes of buildings and giv ; ing the commissioner full authority to i make changes in tlie interest of protec tion. "While 1 do not believe we have any buildings in North Carolina similar to the one in which the Cleveland tire or iginated. I intend to find out whether changes are necessary in any of them. The people are thoroughly aroused to ! the situation and I am sure we shall | have their co-operation. 1 have writ j ft ii the county superintendents and mem bers of county school boards, asking j their assistance. j "Ks’iecial attention will be given -to ; tlie number of exits and lire escapes. | We have some of the best school—build j ings in the South and even in the small ones I know of no instance where kero | sene lamps are used for lighting pur poses. “We, intend to leave nothing undone to see that each school building is put into property shape before the fall terms 1 begin." lie said. Fire Marshals Brockwell and Can , nady will start the inspection next week. I ■ words with Kitchin in the House, de clared on the occasion of the latter’s retirement as democratic leader, that he was vicious in debate because his at tacks, like brick* in a towel, were wrap ped in smiles. Kitehin’s greatest .tight with his legis lative conscience came when the House was called upon to declare war against the German government in 1 !>l7. Con gress was widely excited. Word passed back and forth among members that the majority leader would vote against it. Later. on tin- afternoon of April 6. mem bers of the leader’s family and some of his. most int imate friends were in his of lice. For once the leader had lost his smile. He was weary and fagged from loss of sleep. He told the group that he could not bring his conscience to the point of voting for war, that his right of leader because of it would be chal lenged. but that he didn’t care because his heart spoke against it. Then lie went to Abe house chamber —with.every seat tilled and a vast throng in the gallery—ftnd during a tease and dramatic moment, took his stand against war. But once war was declared Kitehin threw his support, wholeheartedly into the tight, and championed every move by the government for victory. There were times, it was said, when he was j at odds with-President Wilson at White House conferences, but his political en emies never doubted his patriotism after the weight of American arms had bden thrown on the side of the Allies. ]-u the early days of 1 DID, Kitchin, when a Republican house, elected the preceding fall was waiting to come into power, went to the front as the party leader with the biggest war revenue bill ever framed by an American Congress. He put it through. Kong a member of the ways and moans committee which framed the bill. Kitchin had every fig ure at his finger tips. Fordney. of Michigan, who succeeded him as chair man of the committee, fought him at every step. , It was during tlie revenue bill debat#, while the House was considering a Tux ury on shirts, that Kitchin. standing be fore hundreds of well dressed fnen, de clared lie never paid more than $2 for a shirt in his life. His plea for sim plicity in dress while the country was burdened with the big cost of war was taken up by the press, and two dollar shirts were urged. Not long after the big revenue bill fight Kitchin was stricken. For a long time lie lay in bed. trying to get well, but it was not an easy thing for a man. so long in public life, to shake off the old habit. Feeling better, he went back to the old grind, only to be stricken again. A new party had come into power. Champ Clark, stepping down from the speaker’s chair became minority leader, with Kitchin as ranking member of the wavs and means committee. M hen Champ Clark died, Kitchin was made minority leader but beiing ill then at his home in North Carolina, he asked that Finis ,T. Garrett, of Tennessee, be designated as acting leader, in the ef fort to hold the dwindling ranks of the Democrats in line. Claude Kitchin. who was born March 24. INfifl. first came to Congress in 11H11, serving" continuously thereafter. On the closing night of that Congress—the 57th —he attracted attention by' a fiery speech against French spoliation claims. From that day his reputation as a House debater was made. He was born in the district he represented. He was the son of a Congressman arid his broth er. William W. Kitchjn. served five terms in the House prior to his election as Governor of North Carolina. ] During a hot political campaign in his ( district in. 1808 Kitchin attracted pub- ; • lie attention by taking an active part | in what w-as known'as ‘‘the red shirt. I movement.” a revival of Democratic- tac i tics in some Southern states in recon struction times. It was organied by tin* wihe people, chiefly- Democrats, for | tlie avowed purpose of eliminating the ; negro in politics and office holding. But i its purposes were peaceful. Thousands rode to the first public meeting in Kit chin's district in red buggies, on horses draped with red, wearing red shirts, red j hats, some even digging up the old red i trousers of fox hunting days. The j speech made by Kitchin put him in line for the Hotise, and he won the first time up. . i PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS Definite Plans Made For Auto Drawing to Be Held Saturday Definite plans, for the drawing for tlie prizes to be given away fluring Trade Week have been mapped out. by the Advertising Committee of the Mer chants' Association, which has had gen era] supervision over tlie conduct of the trade event. The plans were announced tliis morning. Heads of all business houses will c ose tlie coupon boxes in their stores at (» o’clock Saturday niglit. As soon as the boxes are closed the heads of the business houses will collect the coupons and report wit’ll them not later than t» :30 at Central Graded School. At i o clock all oL the coupons will be placed in otic large box and the draw ing started. The coupons will be drawn from the- box by a disinterested person, who will be in such a position that he cannot see within the box. and cannot see any of the coupons. Tlie first number drawn will be for tlie (Mievrblet touring car, the first prize. If tlje person holding the corresponding number to the one drawn is not pres ent, another number will be drawn. As ATLANTA EXPECTS 50.000 *. ELKS AT JULY GATHERING Fifty Thousand From All Parts oi the Country Are looked For. Atlanta. May 31. —Not less than fifty thousand Elks from all parts of America are expected to be present at the annual convention of the grand lodge of the order which meets in At lanta July 0 to l(i. The gathering will assemble delegation* from Maine to Hawaii, with present indications pomt | ing to representation from a large nia- Liorit.v of the 1.000 lodges in the coun try. This is the first time that a conven tion of the grand lodge of Elks has ever been held in the Southeast, and the first time in ten ears that tlie order has come south. The Atlanta lodge is comp’etmg pre parations to entertain a minimum of 75.000 visitors. The hotel capacity will be enlarged by July .1. college dormi tories will be operated as temixmiry hotels, two vast pullinan cities will 1 be set up in the heart of the city, min the grounds and buildings of the Svuth eastei|i Fair will be converted into a monster, tourist camp to n.-ooinooate several thousand southern lodges which will make the trip by outomobile. Thousands of private homes will also be opened. A special railroad rate of a fare and a half for the round trip, under the identification certificate plan, will be in force over practically all lines. MEMORIAL DAY FATALITY Firing Squad Cuts Electric Wires in Saluting .the Dead. Martinez. Calif.. May 3(1. —A horse I was killed, a grass fire started, and more than 1.00(1 lives embittered here today when a firing squad using ball ammunition fired over the graves of the soldier dead in a Memorial Day cere mony and cut down two electric power wires, each carrying 11.000 Volts. The wires struck the horse, killing: it. and fell on many of the hundreds! of automobiles parked outside the cem etery. .While the lire department was responding to the alarm sent in when the tall grass started to burn, there was | a panic among the 1.000 spectators and many were slightly injured. Volunteers held the paniekly crowd j back until the current bad been cut off. ! How it happened that ball ammunition j instead of blank cartridges was used had not beeu explained tonight. CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL DESTROYED BY FIRE All (liildren *in the Pittsburgh Hospital Were Carried to Safety. Pittsburgh. May 31.—The Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh was destroyed by fire today. More than 100 little patients, most of them crippled, were moved to the maternity hospital nearby. So far as tin* authorities were able to determine, there was no loss of life. Detroit Tent Colony Grows as Rents Continue to Rise. - Detroit, Mich.. May 31. —Detroit has seen, during tlie last fortnight, the growth of its tent colony in the t>rand Rfver subdivision district from a hand ful of open-air-residents to a small city containing hundreds of ofamilies. w.-io have taken (his means of fighting the home shortage and attendant high ren tals here. Rents in many parts of the city lravi almost doubled within the last month. This ospecia’ly is true of modest work ingmen’s houses, according to officials of the city welfare department, who daily are being besieged by scores of persons ejected from their homes be cause they could not meet the rent ad vances of $35 to $75 a month. Refusal of the landlords to rent th"ir places to families with children still further complicated matters, welfare of ficers say. Efird’s Chain Sale. The big Efird Chain Sale will begin on Friday morning. June 1. at 8:45 o’clock 5 and will continue through the entire month of June. During this sale every thing will be included, and the price re- j ductions will be drastic. , The store was j closed today at 12 o’clock to mark down | goods for this sale. This great sale is j not onlv going on in the Efird store here | but in all the 33 stores- of this great chain. Read the big double page ad. in today's Tribune and Times and see some of the hundreds of reductions that will be made during this sale. Sav Tar Heel Lest at Sea Had SIOO,OOO. New York. May 2J).—lnvestigation in to the mysterious sinking of the rum lugger John 'D. Wright, off Vineyard Haven, Mass., with a loss of nine lives early in April, has revealed that James \ Craven, of Lynhurst. N. C., one of the victims, had SIOO,OOO in his posses sion when the ship sank, federal author ities said tonight. The money was missing when Craven’s mutilated body was washed up on the beach. CONCORD, N. C„ THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1923. soon as the winner of the first prize is determined, the drawing fo* the second prize will be started and conducted in the same manner as tlie first. Heads of the business houses which have co-operated in the event and which have erected boxes for the coupons, are urged to have their boxes at the school building not later than (1:30 Saturday night. By getting all of the coupons the school house by that time, the committee will havs to get final plans for the drawing into* 1 effect by 7 o’clock when tin* numbers will b«» drawn. The winners of the prizes must be on hand when the .drawing takes place. For that reason hundreds of peop’e are expected to be at Central Graded School when the event takes’place. Just two more full days- of trading before the bargain event doses. The stores will have mftpy fine bargains. And th<> numbers yojit ge< today, tomor row or Saturday for your purchases are just as likely to determine the winner a* any number already given. WASHINGTON IN GALA ATTIRE FOR CONVENTION L —f j Shrine Hosts Gather in the Capital For an Overflowing- Week. 'Washington. May 31 (Capital News Service). —Although the official program .of the Shrine convention does not srarl I until next week. Washington is already | filled to overflowing with .thousands of (visitors, who have taken complete pos session, of the city and„ niade it their town. Never has the Capital shown a iair er face: they decorations are most elaborate and sitcetaoplar, at night, when fifty thousand many-col ored bulbs make of Pennsylvania Ave nue and tlie "Garden qf Allah.” m front lof the Treasury, White House, and ! State. War and Navy Departments a ' bower of rainbow-’ike beauty. I A most elaborate program nns been j arranged, which includes literally linn id reds of concerts by the many visiting bands, drills by patrols, a water carni val and pageant, three monster parades, : one by day and two by night, several i fireworks displays, a 6uge dance two miles long on I‘ennsylvilnia- Avemi * with j music from two bands broadcasted by I amplifiers, the dedieatib nos tlie Zero ; Milestone, in which the President will take part, trips to Mount Vernon, / a (•wild west show, a massed band concert of five thousand musicians, led alter nately by John Phillip Sousa aim Wil liam C. White, chief of the Army Music i School, botji of whom have wmU'n marches in honor of tjie occasion : dances, balls. dmners v baseball games, water sport meets, ; any visitor who Jinds time hung heavy on his hands, with five places to go for every hour of tlie day. must indeed he hard to please. All government buildings will be open j to all visitors, in itself an entertainment which travel many miles ft» see. The i most careful preparation has been made i by tin* police for the comfort and safety lof all. and housing and feeding the j multitude is a problem which is solved. ENGINEER MALE SHOT BY MRS. BESSIE GREY I After Shooting Male Mrs. Grey Takes Bichloride of Mercury. Raleigh. May 28.—Mrs. Bessie Grey, j widow, who hit <»<>(> with a, pistol aifned jat Engineer H. H. Male this morning, i will get well from her suicidal swallow | ing of bichloride tnb’cts. and Male will , recover from the two serious shots which went through his face into his j neck and into his shoulder. At police headquarters tonight there was no doubt of tin* recovery of both. The officers know little about the* cir cumstances lending up to the shooting this morning. Engineer Male, who run§ a Seaboard train, and Mrs. Grey seem ed to have been lovers. They were plan ning, policemen say. to be-Tnarneq soon. They have gone for enough to get their house. Mrs. Grey, after taking bichloride of mercury tablets, four in all. told the story of their quarrel over finances which ended in Male’s visiting tin* Grey house where he had his trunk. She said to the police that Mali's sis ter had recently come to Raleigh and this broke into marital arrangements. Mrs. Grey says Male threatened to take two of her diamond rings from her and fol lowed her to tlie trunk. She warned him not to come into the room and failing to stop him she used his own pistol, on him. Engineer Male, who had told friends that he was soon to go to Asheville for lung trouble, surprised todav in the hospital. He had been X-rayed by Dr. R. P. Noble, who found one bullet in his neck and the other in the should er. The plate showed a strange fiight of tlie ball that struck in his face. Male has not opened up much for conversa tion. ; - He was defendant in a divorce suit brought by his wife last year. Mrs. Grey has lived in Raleigh only a few months and is said to have two children in Richmond. The shooting occurred just outside the corporate limits on the ( oun try club road. t Small “Bell Weevil” Airship is Launched. Hammondsnort. N. V. May 21k—-The country’s tiniest dirigible, the I . S. M. 8.. especially equipped to war on gypsy moths, boll weevils, and other insect [ pests from jlie air. " ill off here i Memorial Day for Concord, N. H.. on l its first official fiight. watched bv mein (bers of the FnPed States Air Service. I the Department of Agriculture and the i Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. The dirigible was built at the re quest of the Department of Agriculture, for use in spraying insect infested re gions. The air method of. attack was first tried from airnlanes. bill proved un satisfactory, officials said, due to exces sive speed at which the plunes were forced‘to fiy. The dirigible has a gas bag capacity of 50.000 cubic feet and is callable of maintaining itself in the air for 14 hours with three passengers. It is equipped with two motors, placed on outriggers. J. W. Howey, a self-taught artist who earns a livelihood as a collector for a gas company, has had one of his paint ings accepted for this year s exhibition of the R<Syal Academy in London. BUSINESS IN FIFTH RESERVE DISTRICT SLOWED UP IN APRIL Many Thoughtful Observers Think I the Expansion of Industry and Construction Lines Has Been too Rapid. FEDERAL RESERVE MONTHLY REVIEW Part of the Decrease Was Seasonal, a Dull Season Naturally Following * the Pre-Easter Weeks. Raleigh. May 31 (By the Associated Press). —Business in the fifth reserve district slowed up during April, and J many ‘‘thoughtful observers believe that] the expansion in industry,” trade and construction lines has been too rapid,/ac- ! cording to the official monthly review of the Kichnnhid Fedcrrfl Reserve Bank made public here tonight. "Part of the decrease was seasonal, a dull period naturally following the pre-Eeaster weeks, but there tire signs that the slowing up was partly based upon a hesitancy and uncertainty about' business prospects.” the report reads. Advancing prices of labor and many commodities have not only caused con-1 cern, it is stated, but have resulted. in delaying some construction plans. "The experiences of 1 HID and 1!)2!L have not been forgotten by either sellers j)v buyers." the report asserts. "The first determined resistance against mounting costs appears to have beeu 1 made in the building industry, in which advances have been greater, perhaps, than in other 'lines. The resistance lias taken tlie form of indefinite post ponement of the erection of a number of buildings that doubtless would have built if prices for labor and material had not advanced so rapidly and to such high levels. "How far this resistance will spread cannot be anticipated, nor to what ex tent if any it will flow over into other fields in addition to tlie building indus try.” Reports to the Richmond bank show seasonal increases in outsandiug loans o customers, decreased deposits aud in creased rediscounts. These usluaUiuns are the result ot needed aeomum(stations during this season of tlie year by cus tomer. it is stated. "Savings in commercial ,banks show a slight decline for the first time in many j months, but savings reported by sav- , ings banks show a continuation of the steady increase that has been in evi- { deuce in 11)20.” the .review reads. "The Federal Reserve Bank’s redis. count for members rose during April, j while the note circulation declined, re- j suiting in lowering the reserve ratio to 77.03 per cent, on May 1(5. Debits to I individual accounts in clearing house! banks in twenty-three of the district's leading cities showed substantial in '•reases during the , four weeks ending May oth of this year in comparison with the preceding four weeks, and the cor responding four weeks of 1022. "Business failures in the fifth district in April were 41.0 per cent, fewer in number than during April 1022. and 20.0 per cent, less in the aggregate of liabilities involved. The April, 1023. number of failures was the lowest in the district since September, 1021." Owing to what was termed tin* un settled condition of the cotton market, the textile industry, in which North Car olina is more interested than any other state in the district, is at the moment marketing time, the report states: "Fp to about the middle of March a sellers' market appeared to exist, and the mills were receiving all the orders they cared to accept in tin* face of ris ing prices of raw cotton, but during tlie latter part, of March the situation re versed itself," tin* report reads. "Cot ton prices began declining, and mills be came , wiUing to commit themselves far ther in nte future, but tlie buyers also were watching cotton pjdees, and with the decline orders to the mills slackened and in many cases ceased altogether. “Since the situation came about there have been no further developments, and there the matter stands as we write. The mills are'continuing full time, oper ating on orders previously placed with , them, and they are going on with ad ditions to present plants and the con- - struction of. new ones, thus showing! that the owners believe the present slump to be more or less temporary. "Many authorities believe that tlie textile industry in the South, and es pecially in the fifth district, is just be ginning to come intb its own. Ihe present conditions in the industry call for skillful management but the mill-au thorities appear to believe that basically the industry is sound, and very few of them are disturbo dover (In* out'ook. “There have been comparatively few Cancellations of orders, and mill stocks j have declined only a few points since I the flow of new business ebbed two months ago. With labor fully and profitably employed, large consumption of cotton goods seems assured, and the mill managers, appear to think that or ders they are not receiving now are merely being temporarily withheld until j prices settle, a condition which in the i •end may work to tlie advantage of the , mills as well as the buyers. Not much i change is looked for in the industry un- 1 til this year’s cotton crop advances far. enough to give a reasonably safe basis for estimates of this season’s produc tion.” North Carolina mills consumed 104.- 004 bales of cotton during,April. Rad-. ing the South. The amount, the re-j \Y. G. BROWN NAMED AS COFNTY ROAD ENGINE Has Been Connected Fo*' With State Highway \ Ready -to Begin New s _ -let’e. Members of the County iiighwaj* Com mission of Cabarrus County have secur ed Mr. W. G. Brown as engineer aud general superintendent of road work' in this county. Mr. Brown arrived in Concord yesterday and by the first of the week will be in position to take ov er the management of county roads. Mr. Brown lias beeu with the State Highway Commission for some time, and comes to Concord from Scotland Neck, where lie had his headquarters He has had much exjterience not only in road construction work but also in the management of road construction forces and camps, and was highly recommend ed by officials of the State Highway De partment. In addition to locking after road mat ters in the county Mr'. Brown will have general supervision over the county's convict camps. Mr. Brown plans to move his family to Concord as soon as he can secure a house. Highway Commission of ficially begins its duties tomorrow, June first. It was created under an act of the last General Assembly of thhe State iand is composed of T. H. Webb. John W. Cress and G. S..Kluttz. It will have ! general supervision of all road matters. | and as the commissioners are named in | the bill creating the commission, its per sonnel will not be affected by any politi cal changes that take place in the county. PILLOW IS DEAD FROM . EFFECT OF HIS INJURY Ilis Two Daughters Killed and His' Sou Fatally Hurt in Autoaiobile-l'rain Accident. Greensboro. May 30. —I. C. Pillow, ! aged 75, Reidsvil’e man, injured when a | train struck an automobile in which he was riding in Rcidsville yesterday even ing. died at a hospital here at 10 o’clock tonight. His son, John Pillow, also of Reids ville, also hurt in the accident, is still alive at the hospital, but is in a critical 'condition. Mrs. Thomas Mitchell, also of Reidsville, who was also in the car, suffering injuries, who was brought here for treatment, will recover. She is suffering from shock. Pillow’s two children. James, aged 14. and Birdie, aged 16, were killed out right by the train, their bodies tossed with the automobile high in the air above box cars on a siding, which are said to have obstructed the view at the street crossing. WILL FIGHT EFFORT FOR MILLS RECEIVER Salisbury’ Syndicate Owning String r»f Cotton Mills Claims Inferior Cotton . Wits SqM- ... .* Salisbury. May 30.—The Aleckleuritirg Manufacturing company will fight the petition to name a receiver for their mills, according to Walter H. Woodson, one of their attorneys. Officers for this string of mi’ls live in Salisbury, although none of the mills are located here. Mr: Woodson says his clients will con tend that the Memphis concern suing the mill company and asking for a re reiver furnished inferior cotton and this is reason their bills were not paid. The m ills company also contends that the Memphis concern has redress iri"the law and is not entitled to an action ii* equity. METAL WORKERS GET 50 PER CENT. INCREASE Will Return to Work, Although All of Their Demands Were Not Granted. Essen, May 30 ißy the Associated Press). —The strike of metal workers throughout the Ruhr, which involved more than 500.000 men. was ended to day. the men resuming work. They were grant'd the 50 per cent, increase in wages for which they went on strike, but were refused their additional demand of a lx>nus of 150,000 marks each. Instrument That Detects Frauds. New York, May 31. —A wonderful in strument that serves to bring science more on n level with everyday com mercial affairs is the si**ctroscope. which has been modified in such away that it can detect adulteration in per fumes, alcohol, and so on, in a far more effecient manner tfiari can the more generally used chemical meinods. Should a sample of some particular stuff he needed for analysis, the spectroscope can perforin this opera tion by 'dissecting a ray of light from it, or a ray of light that has passed through it, at no matter whfft distance. Nor is it confined to such experiments, for its detective properties are strong. A tiny stain on a suspected mans clothes can be analyzed and designated as paint—or blood. A bottle of wine of professed vintage may be derecteo as fraudulent. The instrument has for a long time been used to test the com pound steels of modern metallurgy, and it can even detect a single drop of aniseed in eight gallons of alcohol. port continues, for South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia totals 203.680 bales, 35.3 per cent, of the to tal American consumption for April, which amounted to 577.300 bales. “Tobacco markets closed during April, only a litt’e low grade tobacco having remained to be sold that month, the review reads. "The new corp is being planted, but cold weather has damaged plant beds to a considerable extent. "Nearly all crops are getting jl late start this year because of unseason ably cool weather, and it is yet too early to form any opinion as to the crop pros pects. “New construction work for which permits were secured in April broke all previous records for both number of per mits aud estimated valuation, but many projects have recently been postponed because of high costs, and the outlook for the building indstry has become un certain. “Retail trade.was good in April, con sidering the date bn which Easter fell, and wholesale trade was considerably ahead of the April, 1922 business-.” $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. "iIRSIPIS : ASKED FOR KNIGHTS OF THE MU Petition is Filed in the Su perior Court of Fulton ( County, Georgia, by IX M. Rittenhouse and Others. MISMANAGEMENT IS CHARGE MADE Evans and Simmons Charged With Collusion in Settling the Recent Controversy Regarding Control. Atlanta. On.. May 31.—Receivership for the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (was asked in a petition tiled in Fulton County Superior Court today by David . M. Rittenhouse and others, of Philadel phia. who charged gross mismanagement to W. H. Evans, imperial wizard. The petition also charged that the imperial Wizard and W. J. Simmons, grand em peror. entered into a collusion in set tling the recent controversy involving control of the organization. Judge Humphreys signed an order tem porarily restraining the use of any Klan funds and citing the defendants to show cause before him June Oth why the peti tion should not be granted. Judge Humphreys also restrained the Klan money to pay the expenses of the meet ing of the Kloncilium called by Imperial Wizard Evans to meet in Washington June Ist and 2nd. The defendants likewise are temporar ily enjoined from removing headquarters of the Klan from Atlanta. Twenty oth er Klansmon are named in the jH'tifiou in addition to Dr. Evans and Col. Sim mons. The petition also charged Dr. Ev ans and Col. Simmons' with having vio lated the patriotic principles and with having tried to convert the Klan into a purely money making machine. Those named as defendants besides H. W. Evans and Wa J. Simmons included Henry A. Grady, Clinton. N. C. Judge Grady One of the Defendants. Raleigh. May 31.—Judge Henry. A. Grady, of Clipton, N. C., judge of the Sixth North Carolina Superior Oourt District, mentioned as one of the de fendants in the receivership proceedings ngajnst the Ku KJu* KJajl. tileij jii- At- in recent weeks has “repeatedly declined to answer questions as to whether or not he was a member of the Klan. according to a story published by the Raleigh Times this afternoon. NEW BERN BOY KIDNAPPED. Nephew of Hon. ('has. R. Thomas Stolen but Is Later Recovered. New Bern. May 31.—('hash's Thomas, 30 years old. grandson of former Rep resentative Charles H. Thomas of this city, was kidnapped by an unidentified man last night about 9 o'clock as he was leaving St. Paul's school, Beaufort, after commencement exercises, but quick work on the part of citizens of the tawu resulted in the recovery of the child and the arrest of the alleged kidnapper, ac cording to a message received here from Beaufort by Mr. Thomas. An effort was also made to kidnap Frank Thomas. 4-year old brother, but the attempt was frustrated, it was stat ed, and the would-be kidnapper was ar rested. Both men are being held in the county jail at Beaufort. When arrested last night neither man would give his name but one admitted to the police, Mr. Thomas was informed, that they had been "hired” to kidnap the boys. Litigation was recently brought by Mrs. Mary McNeil, of Greenville. S. C.. grandmother of tin* children, to obtain the custody of them. The case was tried before Judge Devin in Wilmington, and he decided in favor of the father, Charles R. Thomas. Jr., of Chicago, who had placed in the children in school. Former Representative Thomas left this morning for Beaufort. DRYS. WETS AND NEITRALS FLOCKING TO ALBANY Trying to Influence Governor Smith in Regard to Mulllen-Gage Bill. Albany. N. Y., May 31. —Dryg, wets and prohibition neutrals marched on the capitol today primed with last minute arguments with which they hoped to in fluence Governor Smith's action on the legislative bill for repeal of the Mullen- Gage state prohibition enforcement act which lie must sign, veto or kill by fail ure to act. between now and midnight Sunday. Numerically the drys got the jump on their opponents beginning to pack the Assembly Chamber where the public bearing on the repealer was to be held, more than four hours before the time for the Governor’s appearance. tHE COTTON MARKET Opening Barely Steady at Derline of fl to 11 Points Due to Easier Cables. New York. May 31. —Cotton traders evidently found no s|>eeial incentive in the over-holiday news and the market here was eomparativelyi quiet during the early trading. The ojicning was barely steady at a decline of (» to 11 points be cause of rather easier cables and some what more favorable weather map than ,ex|>ected. Cotton futures opened faiHy steady: Julv 27.28; October 24.75; December 1*4.20; January 23.98; March 23.91. An India mother has hit upon an i excellent plan for getting her daugh ters home at a satisfactory hour at night. She requires the last one In to arise first and prepare the family i breakfast. NO. 94.