- rj SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher. Tni IME XLVIII. PLAN -t-s^sss , re( i Sunday, Before Eng jaß(j Mate Latest Proposal. nil \TION is NOT | * UI to BE CHANGED ■; . I I'iitil British Note is Re-: reived by I'rance —Copy of Reply to B e f° the Tnited States. . j,• | j{y th,> Associated 1 1,1 |.. .;• address at ) ■ :l lucre reiteration'' '!•>, ~-i' -...'••iiiiiuMit 's policy and j , : r , iM i«.,l a> a rrt»l> to went j 1, „f Priiue Minister! ' ' ' . \p':iitied iiL official eir- j The cm ire address, • ' ' ' n~f a few paragraphs, j (. i fie ipremier spoke, ’ i", V i-uiisidereil in official circles, it t iliMt tic sitita'tion between) rVit itritaiii and Hrancc tip to tbe time j . , I’.iiti'li note is received! 1 t„. ■'!> tic >anrc- that obtain as January. | Not \<» tpled Favhrahly. j , ,|i|!\ lii t l’.\ ‘the Associated ' Kijiish ii''pi -of assuming tbe n:,,,! ic;i,lctship in the negotiations for |V , , v-i •:1.-im-Mt with Germany i. <| here t< > have, had a seri , ~-k ilu.riiii tbe week-end by - : of rite spcccii which Premier Poin- . ~f I'yiiici 1 , delivered at Senlis Sun \, v jtlicl* the British officials • ret i tit ted t" Downing Street early : u in iv-ume the task of drafting a pm to 11,»* latest (lerinair offer were L „ ... mat the situation was" as' ... .... a- tin' new- from Paris seemed hcLiii'lHe ii, i'.ritisli attitude as reflected in of t, ,fi-p.-l.— t- iiiat the l«*ast said about ■ p address, the better. It is i .. • that ilie atnt'isphere of tbe j V..: Mu.,, tai in,veiling was not a suit- I i,' ■ iae r,,i the anuotuieetneut of any .. Ffi'iich (Nilicies, and the fact P.-I, it' l’oitnare merely reaffirmed ~if Tigni f teuch viv.vs without making r'it t.ti •U'ni:gi'f offered some little sat i-:. i'mi ami eiteoiiragemeut. Tin- I’.Mt Mi. It is indicated, will pro mil ui’ii tin' work of drafting the note !• r Miliiinttcd to tin* allies' and the 1,, Sa''just a- if M. Poincare-had ! i. : \ '-k'i,i> mind. WILLS KM) RKl'l.V T.O i Hi: t M I L!) STATES •‘’ib-Mi Reply to (■eriiian Reparations Note W ifi He Si nt to American Gov- TimiHif. I-otidoii. July It! iI tv the Associated I’naii' Minister Baldwin an 'i"l "1 in the lbiuse of (' uiimons that !" v- l oild eoumiunicate to the I'nitcd 'ail- fur it- infoi'ination the draft of n re.jdv In- \vji- preparing u> the Ger ,|, ii rep.irations note. Mr. Baldwin's Is .1. Ramsay Mac li"h:‘dd, llitj li'adi rof tile labor opjMisi iidii'pri jo the latter's question. • -- *t'. reply to I’oUltmtmli'f ,||>S.. Keuwor ai.i"!iot opn-tioicr’. tie Prime Miu !'"sud ill,- ivcent (lecman note on " :i| i.. added to the I'nitcd ail id goventitieiits. but there '"'lit iv i-at- lotiveisati ms between " i the British and the ' ’■ ■’c ii regard to- repara i;' "i tin- presiuit F.ui'i!|H'iui situation. ■KH'MtIM. lor ILAKI) CONTEST IN COURT ‘ ll ' "C Mike I-awson. .Itdin 'Ciu'lietli and -lule Brogden Will lie kttt loimirrow. ' "’*• 'Cd> O'.—.Vltorneys and s preparing- for one of - - fougltt and hardest legal bat •l:s "i\ o', tfie count\ when Mike dgepet!i and J ul.e Brog i:l:li '"tnotfow mi charges of 1 •"'l kidnapping arising from \ J J"---iig of Mis. Mary Wat , ' ' ' ' * Ci:; ie 1 ‘tin is a t 1 ‘roetor ■' |:; M April. ' anaved imposing legal ' "' l «!•« :"•*! «f* *»0 \\ i I nesses has ,i . j of ji 1.. Taliaferro, x ' hvlan agent has added ' l,:,i ii to tln* affair. •'■ r "ing p, Intensive Farming. ' 'he \ssoi'iiiieu Press.) ■ I*>. A Remarkable i . Ij;i ‘ u ti'iisive - agriculture in !. , *’>' a special study of . ; , 111,11 V'Bntrf , just completed c ' ! !" 1 "1 agriculture. .. " :,s than oiMKXKOOO v(| ’ "dii their families, com ’"';ii I"' 1 ' J'ent. of the nation’s n - hf a total area of M. , acres, of land, " /•'"•d acres are under cul ..y ’y ,n S C:.(Mmi.(hk» acres of ’ ui ; p-.' f’" l- rice produc i fVi j j •*' 'es ot gramlens '■ "lehards e, ;‘ U ddtks ti,. sl , t|l ."'‘tries t , *' "“s a rneultural iv,., h ' 1 ■’ ''ion of rice, tea. gl ‘ a ' n Horgiiams, the /"N St *' '' l ' only to the w !."at i,. i ! ): “’eo and possibly ' »=• n «lso. On ,I„ J. Z J" 5 '-“"on for ' Auction Jf , E *? pt and ’ ln ‘ , ' ' :1> British lndiT n “ ar!y ‘ * "rjde „f believed that a [!** .“f relLvii* 1Rf ‘ ' lf a bail the “ * ui *igat»M| , ' s . < r "!‘ s . which were THE CONCORD TIMES. Hi AV\ RAIN VISITED THE CITY SATIRDAY EVENING Was First Real Electrical Storm of Year. —Certain Parts of County Also Had j Rain. Concord had its first real electrical 'storm of the summer Saturday night, and while no serious damage is reported .v. tin* city tts a result of the storm, some damage was suffered by the telephone company-and the city's electric company. In certain parts-of the county damage to crops was reported as a result of the water. ' The downfall of rain in Concord was thi‘ heaviest in many weeks. Beginning shortly after 7 o'clock the rain fell in s..eeis for some time. A slight let-up recurred, and then the downpour be came more violent and continued until j aider 10 o'clock. ! Several severe crashes of lightning 'caused many people to think their .resi liences or nearby houses had been struck. ! but so far as reported only one home was ■ damaged by the lightning. The city's lighting system was put j>ut of conimis j sion in several parts of the city, however, and linemen spent* most of the night re luiiding the lii.es. Several downtown stores were thrown in darkness when one line in the business section was put out of commission by the lightning. t tin* farmer living between Concord and Salisbury, in the northeastern part of the county, declared the water caused siime damage to crops in his section. Cirn fields were badly washed in some sections, and cotton was also slightly damaged by the downiMiur and also'by running water caused by the rains. Some telephones in the city were put out of commission during tlie storm, but only slight damage as a whole was suf fered by the telephone company. Cooler weather which usually follows) a severe electrical storm \\*as conspicu ous iicrc Saturday night and yesterday by its absence. There was only a slight drop iu the temperature immediately fol lowiitff the storm Saturday night, and the temperature yesterday was about as high as Saturday’s. DELINQI ENT GROUPS FAVOR EASY FIFE Too Little‘Sleep. Too Much Play. Not Enough Study. Too Much Leisure. Evanston. liul., July I<>. —Too little sleep, too much play, not enough study, too much leisure: fast eating and diver sified thinking are factors that devitalize students and are responsible for the "de 'linquent groups" found in every univer sity. according to a report made public by Professor Del ton Thomas Howard, of Northwest University. In Northwestern alone, out of l.tk'Ci students in the college of liberal arts. Professor Howard has found a "delin quent group" of 2Td» composed of KW men aiid PD women. In other words, he points out. IK out of every 100 stu dents do not "pass. But delinquency does not necessarily imply lack of in telligence. tin* professor found. "No result of our study, the North western professor writes, "is more signifi cant and interesting than the discovery that the average intelligence of the so called delinquent group is., quite as high as that of the general student-body." Students found to he «|*linquent are put on probation tit Northwestern and have to make good or be dropped from the roster. "The probationers,” the investigator reports, "devote more time us a whole, by tlieit -own confessions, to athletics, social activities, outside work, leisure, than do the freshmen; less time to sleep, camruis-activities, meals, classes and studies.” Among the total group of men inter viewed. 1.1 were though to be handi capped by "mental immaturity." t'om men ting on this Professor Howard re marks : "There are boys who have, for the most part, been reared .under easy cir cumstances and who have never been required to view life seriously. Such students have a distinctly childish atti tude towards their classroom work, have no intellectual interests, no definite am hit ions .no sense of responsibility. Tn most of these cases, as might be ex pected. high school preparation has been superficial and inadequate." Illness, family troubles, and financial worries are among other causes leading to students being put on probation. , Professor Howard drew attention to the comparatively high percentage of delinquent students, using his figures to illustrate 'The serious situation in American University life today.- Twenty-nine Daily Afternoon Papers and Ten Morning in the State. Raleigh, July 15. —Twenty-nine daily afternoon papers tire published in North Carolina and 10 daily morning papers. One hundred and sixty-four weeklies, lit; semi-weeklies, two triweeklies. JO monthly publications, six semi-monthly, Id quarterly, and two annual publica tions bring the total publications of the state to 2MB. In 1 S!)4, 219 publications were issued in the state. Eight of these were morning dailies ami 13 afternoon dailies, the balance being divided among the the other types of publications. j In 1901 the combined circulation of till publications was 012.230. In 1922 it had increased to 1.421.482. The circulation increase of the morn ing daffies for the past decade was 120 | per cent, and that of the afternoon dad ■ ies 82 per cent. | I Tllp value of plants owned by the pub ] Ushers themselves in 1922 was $3,414,- 14 40 with an annual payroll of $2,38a,- 1,207 to 1,730 persons. Eighty newspapers and periodicals ' are printed by contract. I Two hundred and forty t.vpsetting ma i chines are in operation in tbe newspaper j shops of the state. Reformed Church Classis to Buy Salis bury Normal. < Salisbury'July 15.—The North Caro lina Classis of the Reformed Church, at ta special meeting held in Salisbury, de cided to buy without delay the property of the Salisbury Normal and Industrial Institute to which school property it is ■ proposed to move Catawba College from ‘ Newton. The school will be raised to an A grade college and will open in its new quarters for the 1924 session. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS MUSSOLINI IS GIVEN VOTEOFCONFIDECE ON ELECTORAL BILL Bill Will Change Manner in Which the Members of the Chamber of Deputies Are to Be Elected by People. PREMIER GIVEN MARGIN OF 163 Made Fiery Speech, as is His Wont, and His Speech Was Greeted by Depdties and Visitors in Galleries. Rome, July !(».. — (By the Associated Press').—Amid scenes rarely enacted Premier Mussolini last night won a vote of confidence from the Chamber of Depu ties, with a margin of 163 votes, on his electoral reform hill. Before the vote was taken he had I angered the deputies in his accustomed style. His fiery address was punctu ated with outbursts of applause*'both fy'om the benches and the galleries. The emotional wave swept his authors into stormy and wild demonstration. The vote was 303 to 140, seven not vot ing. The hill changes the system under which the present chamber is chosen, abolishing the plan of proportional rep resentation, and giving the party receiv ing the most votes two-thirds of 305 seats in the chamber. While the pro portional system would end. as now used it would still apply to the minority par ties. The effect is to make one con stituency instead of 55 out of the entire country. SUTAINIXG POSITIONS ASKED FOR THE DEAF Mr. Robertson Appeals to the Pastors of All Churches in the State, Raleigh. N. C„ July 15.—J. M. Rob ertson. Chief of the Bureau for the Deaf if the State of Labor and Printing has sent letters to the pastors of all churches in the state asking their assistance in solving tlu* problem of plac ing deaf persons in "sustaining posi tions.” "You have employers of various classes under your charge.” said Mr. Robertson in his letter to the ministers. "Will you kindly get them interested in and willing to employ the deaf? Many of the em ployers know nothing about the deaf, and. therefore, are afraid they cannot use them to advantage. You know deaf people are handicapped in some ways, but they can do many things as well as their more fortunate workers. "It is a deplorable practice on the part of some employers who hire deaf persons, on finding them inefficient, to discharge them on the assumption that they represent the dead as- a class. It is manifestly unfair to appraise the qualifications of the deaf as a whole by the short-comings of a few'. This prac tice entails unnecessary hardships on the deaf. “Please impress upon your members the fact that one unsatisfactory deaf person does not represent the deaf peo ple as a whole. Furthermore that the deaf dislike to be given employment for charity’s sake. All they ask is a fair show. Ask employers to exercise pa tience iu handling the deaf on giving them work, considering the handicaps this class of employees have to overcome. As a rule the deaf are quick to take hold of new work and with a little time and effort can master the tasks assigned them and soon give good service. "You can be of great help to this Bu reau. By arousing in your membership and congregation a sympathetic interest in and an understanding of the deaf, you will help put me in better position to I make employers more willing to listen when I call on them in the interest of the d£af workers.” Mr/ Robertson calls attention to the fact That the 14th census of the United States showed that the deaf-mute popu lation of the country is engaged in agri culture, forestry and animal husbandry, extraction of minerals, manufacturing and mechanical industries, transporta tion. trade. Public Service, professional service, domestic and personal service and clerical occupations. PHILIPPINE POLITICS ARE WAXING WARMER All Departmental Secretaries Except One Are Said to Have Sent in Their Resignations. Manila. July 10 (By the Associated —Political differences in the Phil ippines, reopened yesterday with the res ignation of Secretary of the Interior J. p Laurel, waxed warmer -today, when, according to reports in official circles, j a n other departmental secretaries except Vice Governor Gilmore, notified) Gov | ernor-General Leonard Wood of their in ! tention to quit. I Over Thirteen Million Motor Vehicles in the United States. New York, July 12. —A survey just completed showing 13.048,128 motor ve hicles registered in the United States on July 1 of this year and indicates that over six billion gallons of be supplied for automobiles alone this 'year, according to the weekly summary of the American Petroleum Institute. The gain in the number of cars is 2,440,- 000 over 'July 1, 1922, and 683.751 over the high mark of December, 1922. The estimated gasoline consumption by motor vehicles last year was over five billion gallons. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Culcleasure have returned from a visit to relatives at Co-, .lumbia, S. C. CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 16, 1923. 1 PASSENGERS HURT IN ELEVATED WRECK Two Coaches Were Tele scoped and Crushed When Train Crashed Into Car of an Empty Subway Train. New York. July I(s.—Two wooden coaches of a crowded elevated train were telescoped and crushed, injuring sev en passengers today when it crashed in to the rear of an empty subway train in the Bronx. The collision occurred opposite the. Interborough parking yards where the ‘levated and subway trains travel on tho overhead structure. Transportation con pan ,v officials at tributed the accident* to the failure of the switchmen to mow the subway train which was being groomed for its first morning run. and to rain which caused r he brakes of the elevated to slip when :he motorman rounding a curve, was •onfrouted by the standing train. LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE IN THE VERY SAME PLACE Severe EleHricaJ Storm Plays an Un usual Prank at a Home Near Hesv deson. Henderson. July 14. —Since the mem ary of man runneth not to the contrary it has been said that lightning never strikes twice in Hie same place, bat this has just been disproved. During a severe electrical storm last 'week, Bennie Farrell was killed by 'ightning when it struck the home of his fa-ther in Warren county. 12 miles north of this city. Y'oung Jarrell was standing tit a screen loor when he was killed. The lightning burned a big hole in the screen door and Mu*i. Jarrell covered the opening with cloth a few days ago. This afternoon another terrific electric storm visited this section and a holt of lightning struck the screen door of the Jarrell home, setting fire to the cloth which had been placed in the holt* creat ed when Bennie Jarrell was killed. Mr. and Mrs. Jarrell came to Hen derson today declaring they would not return to the ho true until they had found something to safeguard them front lightning. ■THE COTTON MARKET Was Irregular and Unsettled Today Dur ing the Early Trading. New York, July 16, —The cotton mar ket was irregular and unsettled durinb today’s early trading. The early weath er news did not indicate any actual break iu the southwestern drought, hut there was a prospo t for showers which evidently rendered the market a little more sensitive to the poor Liverpool cables. As a result the market opened bit roly steady at a dec ine of 25 to 31 noints, and the active positions sold about 33 to 37 pointy net lower during the early trading."" Cotton futures onened fairly steady. July 27.00; Oct, 23.90; Dec. 23,40; Jan. 23. 14 ; March 23.08. Would jDall a Halt cn Summer Furs, Washington. July 16. —Fashion’s de cree that women shall wear furs the year round has aroused great apprehen sion among naturalists, says a Bulletin of the National Georgraphie Society, whose (Officials believe that some of the animals that tire abundant tnd&y may soon be in the (das of the aifk and the dodo. "It is only by educating the American public to the need for periods of protec tion for these animals.” the bulletin says, “that we will be able to preserve one of the country's most valuable as sets for the enjoyment and profit of fu ture generations.” Recently the society sent an expedi tion to an island off the coast of Lower California to try to find specimens of the great seal colonies which used to inhabit the island, but not- a single ani mal was seen. It has been estimated that America spends yearly SIXK>.OOO.OOO for X' ll ' gar ments, and the society declares that the beaver, marten, skunk, muskrat and other animals are not only paying with their lives, but with the threatened ex tinction of their kind. _ w ... Tension in Strike Areas Increased. Sydney, N. S., July 16.—The tension in steel and coal strike areas was in creased today when authorities revealed that a rail had been removed on the Sydney & Louisburg Railroad shortly before the passage of an express, And that a hoy had been arrested for jam ming a switch with a bar of iron. INTERESTING ITEMS ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA. (By the Associated Press). During the last twelve years the furniture industry has grown to he one of the most important in the State. In 1910 there were 83 factories in the State; today there are 107.- The value of the output of these mills in 1910 was sll,- \ 232,000 annually, in 921-22, the value was 330,288,761. Guilford, Davidson and Caldwell counties lead in this industry while the city of High Point is the acknowledged center of the industry in the State. In 19Hi the total number of wage earners employed bv the industry was 6,383; today there are 8,697. The wage scale has kept pace with the industry for it has advanced 89 per cent, during the decade. Capital invested in the manufactories in 1910 was $3,- 283,246 and in-1922 had increased to $6,525,102. 'Flic annual payroll a decade ago was 5i,618.150 while in 1921-1922 it amounted to $5,467,614. \\ ages in these plants are paid weekly and semi monthly. ASKS If LEVIATHAN WILL CARRY LIQUQR In London It is Reported the Ship Will Carry Liquors For Her Guests on Trip to America. London, July 16 (By the Associated Press McNeill. Parliamentary foreign under secretary, told a question er in the House of Commons today that he had no information regarding a re port that the American steamship Levia than had contracted in Great Britain to take on board liquor for her return voyage to the United States, hut said lie would make inquiries. So far as lie is aware, it would not he a breach of American law, as suggested by the ques tioner for the United States ships to take liquor on board, for consumption on the high seas. The portion of pie question to which the under secretary replied came from Sir William Davison, conservative from Kensington, who asked whether the Le viathan "in breach of American muni cipal law, had contracted in Britain to take aboard large quantities of spiritous liquors Toy consumption on the retnrn journey to the United States sl> she would not be handicapped in competing for passengers with British ships." KLAN OFFICERS HOLDING MEETING IN ASHEVILLE For Fitj|f Time Women of Klan Auxil iary. Are Attending the Meeting of Officers. Asheville, N. (\. July 16.—With I)r. 11. \V. Evan, and other imperial officers of the . Knights pf the Kit Klux Klfen present, a three days' conference be tween the Grand Dragon and Great Tit tins of the Invisible Empire opened here today. The conference is attended only by the men mt the head of the Klan in the various states of the country, about forty states being represented. This is the first important conference of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan at which the women of the Ku Klux Klan recently chartered as a Klan auxiliary, have been represented. Mrs. Lula Mark well, of Little Rock, Ark., grautf com mander of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan ami her Official staff are present. The conference, which, under the new constitution and by-laws, adopted at At lanta last November, is the annual all air, is the first of its tq be held. Plans for the activities of tip* Knights, of the Ku Klux Klan in the various realms of the Invisible Empire during t’’“ coming will he discussed in de tail ; at the sessions, all of which are ex ecutive. NUMBER ARE REPORTED KILLED IN EPLOSION SrVrral Buih’Biigs Damaged. Also. When A.'lillery Animun’tit n Near Be grade Explodes. Belgrade. July 16. —A number of per sons are reported U> have, been killed and others injured and considerable dam age caused to buildings, through the ex plosion yesterday of a large depot of ar tillery ammunition at Kraguyeyatz, 60 miles southeast of Belgrade. The dis aster proofed to have been due to spon taneous combustion. With Our Advertisers. (’line's Pharmacy will give $5.00 to the person writing the best letter sug gesting the ways this store can serve the public better, $2.50 for the second best and SI.OO each for the next two best letters. See particulars in the new ad. today. The July Clearance Sale at Fishers is now* on, and will run through July 31. (\ H. D'rier & Co. have a nice lot of Peach BloO.n seed Irish potatoes which they "are selling at sl.<‘> a bushel. The Ritchie Hardware Company tLinks it is an injustice to close their store on Thursday afternoon. Instead this store is in favor of early Saturday night clos ing. See ad. You can get the highest measure of safety for your important papers, etc., in the “loss-proof" vault of the Citizens Bank and Trust Co. Chambers’ Fireless Ga* Range cooks with the gas turned off. Sec ad. in this paper. Indict 22 Men. Chicago, July 16,— Twenty-two men were named in indictments returned by a federal grand jury here today charged with conspiracy to transport 1.000 cases os liquor from the Old Grand Dad dis tillery at Ky„ iu September 11920.' COMMISSION SAYS FRENCH | BATTUE SCARS ARE VAN' France Is Making a Magnificent to Restore the Ravages of War. 1 London. July I(s—France of today, like the France of 1871, is making a magnificent effort by hard work to re store the ravages, of war, according to an official report of the British Depart ment of Overseas Trade. The report is the work of rhe Commercial Counsellor of the British Embassy in Paris. J. R. Cahail, and is painstaking and exhaust ive. The general conclusions of the re port are; i The present economic position of France is strong. I Her industrial population is fully" em ployed. and her output is most fields of production is only limited by shortage of man-power. j The industrial reconstruction of the devastated areas is fast approaching completion. I - The report states that the destroyed or I damaged coal mines are increasing their output with improved technical equip ment. The great woolen and cotton works are kept going to the full extent of the labor at their disposal. The great agricultural areas of wheat and beet root, the chief crops of northern France, will soon approximate the pre-war areas. Ports, waterways, railways, and roads have been and are being improved. Wat er power, the report continues, is being systematically turned to account. New resources in- ores, coal, potash, and oil have been developed. There has been advance in industrial organization in a marked fashion i« the chemical, elec trical. metalurgical. engineering, alumi num, and other industries, discevnable tl rough French industry as a whole. French foreign trade in weight ha> al ready surpassed pre-war figures. Fine results have been obtained by hard work in the-devastated regions. Os 8,166,684 devasfated acres.*, 7.447.297 have been cleared of projectiles, trench work, anti barbed wire; 19,920 rector ies have been rebuilt out of 22,160. Os nearly 4,941.000 acres of devastated ag rieultdf'al land, more than 1,235,000 have been put under the plow. The main railway system has been re paired. nearly all the waterways nave been made navigable, and of the 36,450 miles of devastated roads, 10.743 have been restored to traffic and 8,671 have been improved. SALISBURY IS AFTER RAILROAD UNDERPASS Aldermen Pass Ordinance Requiring An Underpass Near Present West InnLs Crossing. Salisbury. July 15.—The ‘Salisbury aldermen have passed an ordinance re quiring the Southern Railway to «on- Struct an underpass near the present grade crossing on West I unis Street. The State highway commission is build ing several miles of improved road out from the city and this new road is to go through the underpass. The rail road is given until September Ist to fin ish the work after which time a penalty of SSO per day attaches. Mayor Henderlite. of this city, and the’state attorney general are not in ac cord in regard to = the new railroad stop law. The mayor, however, states that city policemen will not arrest any one who crosses at the North Main Street crossing of the Southern without stop ping. He feels that the flagging of this crossing is sufficient guarantee against accident. However, the mayor's guar antee does not extend beyond the action of the city policemen and offi«ers repre senting the county or the railroad may make arrests for violations of the law at this crossing. SYKES GIVES BOND Former Bank Teller Charged With Em bezzlement, Release*! on SIO,OOO Bond. Raleigh, July 16. —John D. Sykes, Jr., former teller of the First and .Citizens National Bank of Elizabeth City, ar rested two weeks ago ,in Montana on a charge of embezzling about $25,000 of the bank's funds, today was released on a SIO,OOO bond furnished by friends in Elizabeth City. Young Sykes was brought hack to North Carolina by two Montana officers, arriving here last Fri iny afternoon. As soon as Sykes was released front *mil he hastened to a local hotel to see his mother who was waiting for him. It was an affectionate meeting between mother and son. Neither desired to talk to a reporter, declaring they would like to be left alone. It is understood that Svkes accompanied by liis mother and a few friends will leave for Elizabeth t’it.v this afternoon. 1 Syke's surety* for his * Appearance at the October term of Federal Court in Elizabeth City for trial reached Raleigh yesterday, hut Assistant District Attor ney Briggs did not authorize the re lease of the prisoner until he had had time to examine the document this n*>rn ing. The bond was signed by eight prominent citizens who qualified with a total . of $42,000. % Home Made Invention for Poisoning the Weevils. Monroe. July 14. —While the farm demonstration agents from all over Piedmont and central North Carolina were gathered on the court house lawn Wednesday, Randolph Redfearn, a Mon roe citizen, created quite a bit of interest by exhibiting a boll weevil destroyer of his own invention. The outfit consists of a barrel with pump attachment placed on a cart from which caleium arsenate-molasses mix ture is sprayed over three rows of cot ton at a time, making it easy to cover a large field within a short time. The invention appears to work perfectly and may come into general use in spraying with the molasses-arsenate mixture. Strike Begins in Dublin. Dublin, July 16. — A strike on tbe docks of the Irish Free State ports was begun today. James Larkin, the Irish labor leader recently deported from the United States, apparently is directing the operations of the striking element. Miss Kathleen Wilson has . returned from |3lue Ridge, where she went to at tend a meeting of home demonstration agents. $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. -r.l hok congress FOR COMPENSATION TO EX SERVICE MEN Disabled Veterans of World War Draw Up Program Which Will Be Presented to the Next Congress. AID FOR DISABLED IS ALSO PROVIDED Program Adopted by Recent Convention of Disabled Calls for Changes in Man ner of Pay for Wounded. Washington. July 16. —A legislative program calling for adjusted comi>ensa tion for world war veterans and affect ing their rehabilitation, hospiitpl enjre and insurance will be pressed upon Con greun when it reconvenes in December by disabled American veterans of the world war. The program based on rec ommendations adopted by the third an nual convention of the organisation held recently at Minneapolis, was announced here today. The pro]>osals provide a rating of to tal permanent disability for veterans who have been given hospital care for twelve consecutive months and all veterans so . rated and those being treated at home . shall receive the same family allowance as given at veterans bureau trainees. An effort also will be made to have all vet erans recommended for permanent total disability rating carried on this roll temporarily pending tiual award. To tal liability ratings will be sought for men entitled to training which has been declared not to be feasible and a rating of 50 per cent, permanent disability will be asked for men discharged from the hospital with diagnoses of arrested or quiescent tuberculosis. Amendment of the civil service laws will be proposed to place disabled veter ans who attain passing grade at exami nation at head of eligible list. The program would make woman vet erans who are ill or in need eligible to enter any home maintained by the gov ernment, or veterans with provision for a separate home for them when their number warrants. MAKE THKBAT KILL - WEEVIL DEMONSTRATOR Dun District Planters Don’t Believe in Trying to “Beat tJ*e Almighty.” Dunn, July 15. —Defying .threats of certain and immediate death if he did it, W. Bruce Mabee, entomologist in charge of the local government boll weevil field station, gave u cotton dust i'ing demonstration on the .1. H. Pope plantation, near Dunn, Wednesday night. The threats against the life of the man who went into the field to put poison on the cotton, were made by two ten ants who had sub-rented the lands from Ellis Goldstein, of Dunn. Fear of be ing poisoned themselves and belief that in dusting cotton one was trying to “get ahead of the Almighty,” were some of the reasons advanced for the serious ob- ' jeetion. Mr. Goldstein was just as much de termined to have the cotton dusted as the tenants were that it shouldn’t be. Threats on the part of the tenants to bring a “good gun” into play, and that the first one who entered the field to apply the poison would have to be car ried out, failed to halt the demonstra tion. > Quite a crowd of'farmers and busi ness people gathered to wintess this, the first dusting demonstration put on in this* immediate section. For a time it appeared that they might be called upon to witness a killing of men instead of boll weevils, but the 10-acre field of cot ton was dusted and no shots were fired. PETERS CASE IS AGAIN BEFORE GRAND