North Carolina Newspapers

g SHKRRILL, Editor and Publisher. VOLUME XLVIII. Umillion dollar Iffll TEMPLE II ALEXANDRIA, Vft. Corner Stone of Memorial to George Washington is Laid Todav \\ ith Impressive Ceremonies. PRESIDENT and CABINET ATTEND Official Personages and Rep resentatives of 17,000 Blue Lodges and Other Organi zations Participate. Alexandria. Vu.. Nov. I.— The eorm-r a four -million dollar Masonic n afioual Masonic memorial to Washington and a shrine of Am ";(. a “ Freemasonry was laid here today " impressive ceremonies. President fLlidgr. members of the cabinet, a large Jrra j of oflieinl personagi*s and repre- Jntatiyes of 17.<MM» blue lodges and other Masonic organizations participated. The :fll pl e which is Greek in its architecture in’l be known as The George Washington National Masonic Memorial. The building will rise 2ftft feet above voters Hill. <oi the outskirts of this' ,-T which Thomas Jefferson and James ]btdisou proposed for the site of the rtpitol of the Tinted States. It will re (offr> of aneieat Greece and Rome from eu>se nimtiiit- permanent burning flares idiifd mariners at sea and. in the words ( H. w. (V:beM. one of its architects, ■nil! represent to the world the guid -4 spirit of Washington in statesmau ami his revered precepts which for jjj time will set an example by which tin* Ship of Slate may direct its course.” In the memorial will he 1 1lie resting place of many priceless relics of the lather of His Country which have been isreftilh preserved by the Alexandria- Washiiigton Lodge. No. 22. of which Wellington was the lirst Worshipful Master. Located equidistant between 'the natitii’s capital and Mount Vei;non, tlie home of Washington, the memorial ... become the meeea of many Visitors vdo maiio pilgrimages to Washington's tomb on the Potomac. The original trowel used by General* Washington on September 18. 1798, in iying the cnrnerstoqe of the cauitol killing of the Tnifed States and xvafc used again today in the laying of the cornerstono of the memorial. Silver rp plieas of the trowel were ' presented to rtirh visiting Grand Master who used them in spreading a small quantity of mortar for the cornerstone. The eere moiii**' conformed to the laws of Mason n as in use in Virginia and were under the auspices',.f the Grand Lodge of Vir ptia with Charles 11. Callahan, deputy ptid master of Virginia, in charge as a tribute foi his lifelong study of Wash ington. Coi. Louis A. Waters.of Scran- Pa., jiresideut <<f the George AVash- Won Memorial Association; William Hwanl Taft. Chief Justice of the Unit* w Stati*s. and Ja nit's 11. Price, grand nsstre of Virginia, assisted. The cere locirs were preceded by a parade from '» old lodge room to the new memorial in which marched Masons from every Gem its .enmmaiiding position over ling the l\»tnni«r Valley from Wash •tften to Mmint Vernon, the memorial V: G a h-ndmark. It will have a set* f of Ml! acre- and he survound(*d by landseapeo. Broad walks and' tCr stops ascending through seven ter [■'l' w ’iii lead to its entrance. The budding it self will he 23ft feet deep, 1(>(I T W:t G and tower upward 200 feet. Lr main masses of the- building will t'-nipriy a base in which will be located s-eat U a-hington Memorial tSall.* various Masonic rooms where may be in imperishable forru 'the -■cuiorj and achievements of the men • distinguished services to Kreenias '-h "‘erit particular and lasting re *"?'• The Memorial Hall will be an im rRS a trinin. 7«» feet wide and 100 '* “’-T*- In it a statue of Washington !,f Placet!. This hall will be 04 high, rising by a clerestory above i: ’-g portion of-the building. L" ! - flanked by great lonic columns l w ' high and surrounded by a num j rm.ins devoted to Masonic inter v ' UK >' V the roof of which will be lights, h,|; ' X " , himn portion of pure Greek t> ' l ' s ' gn Ttrming the entrance to toV '-tig will he a marked contrast unbroken walls of the ex j 'he Masonic rooms. Above the s.\,- |, HS( . u ,|j , j S( , a j,,wer-lilct* strue a, 1 'Uialler dimensions. Directly (1 . 1,4 ‘in..rial -Hall the second story f, r j', " ,WHr will fount ;i museum room \\ l ,r, ‘>ervati >n of relics of George tere st , , UKtOll , au< l his time, as well as in t,,,, v “ K r,, ‘ics connected with Washiug d r j 1 "" a • Master of the Alexan t|,jj.(| 'higfon Lodge. There will be a abov-p ,i' ! smaller dimensions an ,v, aoiseiun loom and above that litth *' v, ‘* with structure a «i|] “ I ll s ' / -*‘ from which visitors t e, VI , i ' 'e\v the country from \V.,q i' 1 ho lding at Washington to the s ” h-uia stead at Mount Vernon. *;;••{, ~»■' .V 11 na 'T s i.|, all four sides of • t'm-er.i;. * I,ree levels forming the h-auty ( ' !,u|, ' Mlr, ‘ wiil add to the are p lH " 'Memorial. The architects S. Euee"- C ' - * New York, with - ,^Bood ' Detroit, as consult line, r - Olmsted Brothers, Brook w 'th Carl" R 81 " 6 an(^sca PC architects The n ... v ’' I<T barker in association, fsllying Gate, a l -i f "° r asons of the Uuitec being q f "Oier countries in additior P rp Positor.v for the many vnl oil Cage. Two.) JCHE CONCORD TIMES. THREE KILLED AND OTHERS DDR! WHEN ACCIDENTS OCCUR The Men Killed Were on Reading Railroad Milk Train Which Struck Open Switch and Fell Off Trestle 75 INJUREdIn WRECK ON B. & O. Train Was Derailed Near Or lando, West Virginia.— Four of Passengers Were Seriously Injured. Philadelphia, Nov. L—j-Thrce men were killed early today when a Reading railroad tnilk train struck an open switch and pluiiged twenty feet over a trestle siding here today. The dead, all of Reading, Pa., were: L. L. Williams, engineer: A. ('; Folk, fireman : and H. W. Yeicher, brakeman. The accident occurred on a spur of the railroad run ning from the Porth Richmond coal wharves at Wayne Junction. The train whs moving at a fair speed when il hit the switch and ran out on the trestle siding. The weight of. the train was too great for the trestle and one side ctdlapwed. * Many Passengers Injured. Orlando. W. Va., Nov. 1. —More than seventy-five passengers were injured, four seriously." when the Baltimore & Ohio train No. t»2, a local, running from ('larksburg to Rielnvood was derailed near here today. Two coaches crowded with passengers jumped the track and rolled about forty feet into a field wheuf they came to a stop upside down. The injured were brought to a'hotel here. LLOYD GKOKGK IS HACK IN \LAY YORK AGAIN Has Made 6.ooo*Mile Tour of the I'nited States and Canada Since Arrival. New York. Nov. 1 IBy the Associated Press). —David Lloyd George' Britain's war premier, has ended his ti.O.'H) mile tour of the I'nited States and Canada. He arrived in New York lasi night, and went to the jiome of John W. Davis, for mer ambassador to the Court of St. James in Locust Valley. L. 1., and made final'preparations for his two final ad dresses in this country. The first will be delivered as the Lotus Club tonight and the second at the Metropolitan Op era House tomorrow night. Mr. Lloy 1 George, although free from any public engagement until tonight, will not rest today. He planned to pass the morning attending to personal affairs, and lan'r if lie could spare the time, to visit the grave of Theodore * Roosevelt at Oystei Bay and (till upon Mrs. Roosevelt at her home there. He expressed his desire to make this trip on the way from Scran ton, Pa., but declared he could not defi nitely decide whether he would be abE to go. SV-YS GERMANY RUINED FOR BENEFIT OF FEW This Is Cliarge Made by Premier Poin care. Who Says Grance Must Be Pa id. Nevers. France, Nov. 1.1 rennet Poincare, speaking today at the inaugii rati m of a- soldier's memorial here, stat ed that Germany had been forced into a systematically organized bankruptcy and that certain classes of the population have been reduced to misery for the sole benefit of the wealthy industrial ‘ and commercial leaders. For this reason he dwius it necessary, lie said, to hold Ger mam's pledges until France is paid in full ’ and pointed out the progress made in the Ruhr during the French occupa tion toward resujnption of economic ac tivity. .METHODIST PROTESTANT COMMITTEES MEETING Preparing Reports to Be Submitted to the 98th Annual Conference. Thomasville. N. Nov. 1. Ihe stand ing committees of the 08th annual meet ing of the North Carolina Methodist Protestant conference being held here spent the larger part of today in pre paring the reports that they will submit, to a later session. The morning session adjouwied at 1 Ift:4;> to allow the con ference to break into the highly import ant* committee groups. Cannot Grant President’s Request. Washington, Nov. 1. —Railroad exec utives representing nearly all the tiunk lines in the United States notified the Interstate Commerce Committee today that thev would be unable to grant a vol untary reduction in freight rates on gram for export, which President Coolidge re cently asked of them. A whale skull, so large that it had to be sawed into eight pieces for handling and crating, has been found on the Alas kan coast. WHAT SAT’S BEAR SAYS. Fair tonight with frost; Friday in creasing cloudiness, somewhat warmer in west and central portions. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS # s&Rgjpk r .. jP Hf yio; jdßgK jßßgjfife* x That’s the cry in Germany today. Food riots, cables.tell us, are occurring in many cities of the country. taken recently shows a riot in progress in a Berlin market place. Green police tried to maintain order, but their efforts were not very effective. MELTING AT THE “Y” TONIGHT AT SIX-THIRTY 'Annual .Meeting Expected to Be One of Best Ever Held.—Directors to Be Chosen—Speakers to Be Heard. The membership meeting scheduled for tonight at the Y. M. C. A- promises to be one of the successful in the history of the local association. Tick ets can be secured at the "Y” by mem bers who have as yet failed to secure reservations for the dinner. A most interesting program has been prepared by the program committee. J n vocation. I >iuner. Introduction of Mr. Webb, Toastmast er. by Mr. A. G. Odell. Thing—Prof. Price Doyle. Report of President, Mr. F. C. Nib look. Statement of Treasurer, Mr. W. G. Caswell. Election of Directors. Address by Dr. H. E. Rondthaler. Benediction. The meeting will begin at 6 :.’»() o'clock. WALTON DENIES THAT HE • IS MEMBER OF KLIN Says He Never Applied for Membership and Did Not Get Cert ideate of Mem bership. Oklahoma City. Nov. (By the Associ ated Press).—Wm. Joseph Simmons, em peror of Ivu Klux Klan. conferred life membership in the Klan upon Governor I. C. Walton “in just recognition >f your constant loyalty.” according to a letter to Walton dated September 10. 102.‘>. Governor Walton declared in a state ment issued today. . Tiie Governor said he requested the certificate of member ship he not mailed to hincus In* was not in sympathy with the Klan ideals. Gov ernor Walton reiterated that he had nev er applied for membership in the Kn Klux Klan and denied the statement of Imperial Wizard Evans of Atlanta, that he is a Klansman at large. "I would rather be right and work in a ditch than to be the highest official of the Invisible Empire and dwell in the palace of thy king." the Governor declared. RHINELAND REPUBLIC GROWING IN STRENGTH Tills Assertion Made by Joseph Matt lies. Chief of the Provisional Government. Coblenz. Nov. 1 (By the Associated Press). —The Rhineland republican nicvement is making far nipre rapid suc cess than its organizers hoped for at first. Joseph Matthes, chief of the pro visional government, told the Associated Press today. "It will take time to perfect our task.” lie said. - "The republican of the United States was not established in a day." "Lloyd George's assertion that wo are hacked by French money is ridiculous,” he continued. "If the French had help ed us we would have been in control of the entire Rhineland by this time. Many of my loyal supporters have sold then pianos, automobiles and diamonds to aid the movement and we are gaifing strength daily everywhere.” BLOWN INTO BITS BY BLAST OF DYNAMITE Premature Explosion in a Stump Re sults Fatally For Road Construction Foreman. Greensboro. Oct. -41. —H. B. Shields, aged 4ft. of near Sanford, was killed by premature explosion of a blyst of dyna mite six miles south of here, on the Greensboro-Randleman road today, his body being blown 2ft feet and horribly i a til til a ted- Shields, a road construction foreman, was preparing to set off a blast of the explosive in a stump, but. it went off before time, just how. is not known. Other road workers, some distance off. heard the blast and saw man and stump go hurtling through, the air. Hats were blown off heads for hundreds of feet distant. Shield's arm was b'own off. a leg blown off and other mutilations. , , May Oppose New Rum Pact. Washington, Nov. I.—Although both the White House and the State Depart ment appear entirely satisfied with the practicability of the arrangement worked out in London to combat rum running there are indications that legal objec tions might be brought forward by other branches of the government, and may play prominent part when the treaty conies up for Senate ratification. Miss Mary B. Grossman, a prominent member of the National Women Law yers' Association, is a candidate for municipal judge in Cleveland. CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1923 Food! Food! Food! Opening Was Steady at Advance of 15 to IS Points.—Market letter Eased Off. New York. Nov. L- The cotton mar ket opened steady at an advance of 15 to IN points, on unexpectedly firm ca bles and better reports from Manchester. was encouraged by reports of rains in the southwest, but did not show much snap, kvliile the advance evidently met further realising 'or liquidation. Prices eased off after the opening, with January se ling down from MO.2N to 50.15 or mil Lin 10 points tit .vc-;ier:ln.v's (dos ing. Cotton futures opened steady. I >ec. 50.7-5; Jan,. -40.2-5: March 50.2-5; May 40 24; March 20.70. JACKSON. MISS.. SCENE OK DAMAGING BLAZE Lumber Company. Ice Plant and Other Buildings in the City Destroyed. Jackson, .Miss.. Nov. 1. —The plant of he Enoch Lumber Manufacturing (’<>., one of tin* largest in the Misaissitv.u. the Morris ice plant.. 1 and a score of small frame buildings were destroyed 1 y fire of undetermined origin here early today. The loss is estimated at one million dollars. In addition to the two plants, ji half dozen small buildings were, consumed before ' tin' blaze was brought under control at .4 o'clock. The fire threatened to spread to the Gulf Refining Company's plant in which stood a large gasoline tank, but was checked before reaching' there. WOMAN LEAPS FROM ROOF WITH BABY IN HER ARMS Infant Girl Killled. Mother Dying. After Six-Story Plunge. New York.- Oct. -sft. —With her 15- months-old baby. Trinita. in her arms. Mrs. Struzzio Ramos today leaped from the roof of the six-story Bronx tenement house in which she lived. The infant was killed and at the hospital to which the mother was taken surgeons said she was fatally injured. She said she was lonely and melancholy. Mrs. Anna Vermache. 55 years ol ' prepared lunch for her husband, then jumped six stories to her death. She had quarreled with thj* landlord earlier in the day. 2,000 POUND PREJECTILE HITS THE BULL'S EYE Gunners in the Dreidnaught Maryland Write New History in Naval Gun nery. Aboard the United States steamship Maryland, San Pedro. Calif.. Xov.t. —A new chapter in the history of naval gunnery was written in floating targets by projectiles from the super dreadnaught Maryland's 10-ineh guns fired yesterday for the first time in actual battle prac tice. Gunners of the Maryland cele brated the initial tiling of the big guns by hurling a 2,000 pound projectile straight through tin* hull's eye of the distant target, their second shot snlit ting tin* raft squarely in the middle. Ford Will Not Accept Any Nomina tion. His Secretary Writes. Savannah, Ga., Oct- -50.—R. .A. Ful ler. a secretary of the Ford Presidential Oub, has received a letter from H. M. Cordell, one of the secretaries to Henry Ford, relative to the candidacy of Mr. Ford for President. Mr. Uorde'l refers Mr. Fuller to magazine articles as ex pressing Mr. Ford's view on the Presi dency. The letter conclTudes : v "This may be summed up as a de termination not to accept any nomina tion whatever. He feels that he will be able to accomplish much more through his present, and projected activities." The Ford-for-President Club is pre paring to write Mr. Ford again express ing the belief that his candidacy for President is essential at this time. Big Sale of Clothing at J. E. love’s. Forced to raise 81 ft.ooft. J. F. Love, the clothing and gents' furnishings man. offers his big stock of ’clothing, hats, shirts, shoes and men’s furnishings for ten days at a big saving. The stock in cludes Society Brand. Styleplus and Cur lee Clothes, Eagle shirts and Florsheim shoes, and other well known brands of goods. Sale begins tomorrow morning at 0 o'clock. See full page .i<V in Tie Trib une today. Asheville High vs. Bingham. Asheville. Nov. I.—Asheville II gh ; School and Bingham Academy, it b*- lieved 'will be the major contenders for, the championship in football of the West-1 ern Conference. Neither team ha* yel been defeated. I THE COTTON MARKET SELLING DIPLOMAS SHOULD BE CRIME Heavy Punishment Allocated For Fraud on Public Washington, Now 1 (Capital News Service). —Educators in the Nation’s Capital are heartily in favor of the movement to increase the punishment nietted out in the several States for that offense against their laws which consists in selling to a person not entitled to it. a bogus diploma, which purports to have been given the purchaser by an educa tional institute. A confession lias just been made in St. Louis by a man who tells of having sold more than a thousand high school certificates to people who needed them (jo fulfill the requirement of alleged vol eges." which later sold them medi cal diplomas. The various State medical hoards’ and their examinations can he depended upon to eliminate the spurious and un qualified medical fraud, but if a man can sell high-school diplomas to one class of young people, he can to another. As Washington educators point out the worth of a certificate from high school as regarded in the college, depends al together upon its sincerity. If high schools graduate pupils honestly, those pupils are honest’y entitled to go for ward on their certificates. If sycli cer tificates can be bought, then the colleges of the country will soon refuse admit tance on a certificate. "Selling a school diploma is a fraud on the public, ns bad as selling a gold brick or making counterfeit money, said one teacher. "The law should he made more drastic, and those who fat <•ll themselves at the expanse of the education honest young people work so bard to obtain, should lx* drastically punishrd.” Trial of Gov. Walton Continued. Oklahoma City. Nov. 1. (By the As sociated Press).—J. U. Walton, suspend ed Governor, was given until I:4ft p. m. today to enter his plea to impeach ment charges preferred by the House when his counsel asked for a ten-days extension of time for preparation of an answer today. The Senate ( ourt <>f Impeachment then recessed until that hour. Governor Walton appeared personally accompanied by his five auditors who sought to delay tin* arraignment. Ihe House board of managers urged an im mediate plea. Counsel for the execu tive said ah effort would be made to dis qualify some of the members of the Senate Court of Impeachment and t> squash four of the articles in the im peachment hill. Leo Caldwell Memorial Fund. Winston-Salem, <Xvo. 1. —I.ieo I Cald well. star football player of the W inston- Salem high school team, was/ killed in a recent game with the Charlotte High School. To perpetuate his memory a move has been started here to raise a fund to he known as the T/co Caldwell Memorial Student Loan Fuhd having for its purpose the aiding of needy students in completing their high school education and in getting through college. A foun dation will direct the movement. Says Chicago Hotel Rates Were Unreas onable. Washington. I). (’.. Nov. 1. —Chairiqan Adams, of the Republican National <'mw mittee. declared today that Chicago "lias no chance" of being selected for J lie 1D24 Republican National Conventi m unless assurances are giren that hotel rates there will be more reasonable than in tin* past. Blue Nose Again Winner. Halifax. X. S.. Nov. 2 (By the As sociated Press).—The Lunenburg schoon er. Blue Nose, today defeated the Co lumbia out of Gloucester in a 40-mile race and retained the champion ship of the North Atlantic Fishermens' Fleet for another year. Mrs. Stokes on the Stand. New York. Nov. 1. —Mrs. Helen FI -1 wood Stoke.,• today took the witness stand in her own defense at tin* re trial jof W. E. I). Stokes’ suit for divorce. Supreme Court Justice Mahoney, who has frequently reprimanded onposing counsel when they clashed during the tria'. threatened during Mrs. Moke*' 1 testimony to declare a mistrial if her lawyer. Mr. ermyer. did not cease j sisobe.ving the court's rulings on objec- I tions. | A b'mquet containing 25.ftftft flowers anil large enough to fill a room about , thirteen feet by seventy feet, was reeent- I!y presented to Miss Anna A- Gordon, 1 president of the Woman’s Christian J Temperance Union. Succeeds Harvey staie Llbi I 1 ■k JIPSt £\ HJPII KKk JL \ M BNplj M Photo is of former Senator Frank B. Kellogg. Minesota, slated to get George Harvey’s pest as ambassador to Great Britain. OVER TWO MILLION A MONTH IS SPENT ON ROADS According to Figures Made Public in a Revieiv of the Situation. Raleigh. Nov. 1. —Over two million dollars per month has been spent byrthc Stat > Highway Uoinmiss'on during ' (lie months o* June, July August and Sep tember, according to figures made public here tonight in a review of the general road situation. Os this amount more than SBOO,OOO per month has been paid back into the State treasury through the collection of the gasoline tax of three ■■cuts per gallon. The construction has been divided over the entire State and no effort lias been spared to make the roads which have been completed the most modern of their kind and they are built to stand tin* traffic of many years to come, pr >vi led proper maintenance is continued. For every mile in the State road system there are 87.0 automobiles and to each of these cars there are 12.4 persons. That is there are one-eighth as many au tomobiles in North Carolina as there are people. Though the license tax "in tin*- State various for each type and model of car. according to the figures of the commis sion the average fee for the first 22ft. lftft automobiles registered this year is 814.84. Over every square mile of territory in the State, if the State were to b* np portioned off to its auto owners there wrtuUl be four automobiles to operate: An answer to the employment qttes ion in North Caro’ina has been given by the commission during the past two years when the labor surplus has to a large extent been utilized in road build ing. At the present time then* ate 18.- ftftft men engaged in construction through out North Carolina. Though the average of road building iy the state lias been high since th * pres ent commission got well under way. it is now operating at a maximum speed in completing roads. During the months of June. July and August, Bft nfides »,f hard surfaced roads were complete 1 each month. In addition to .this work there has been an average of two miles of topsoil and sand clay roads completed each day so that the approximate month ly average of completed roads, readv for the public to use has been 14ft milts i month. Roads completed are being kem up by the State which has a completely ot ganized maintenance system. The high ways are inspected by patrolmen at reg ular intervals and places which need repairing are cared for at once. The maintenance system, which has been or ganized from the time the new system of building' roads became effective, is count ed as one of the most important divi sions of the commission and is perform ing a most valuable work. Eleven Million L'ves Lost in World War. Paris. Oct. 81. —The late war result ed in greater loss of life to the world than the eighteen wars which occurred between INIS and 1018. the number of dead. including those who di<*d of wounds and illness, being given in round figures as eleven million, accord ing to statistics compiled by the Academy of Mora 1 and Political Science. To this must be added the diminu tion in the birth rate if a fai.lv correct estimate of the reduction in wor’d popu lation is to be reached- Bonar to Be Buried Monday. London. Oct. 81. —The body of An drew Bonar Law. the former Prime Minister will be buried in Westminster Abbey at noon next Monday. The funeral service will 1 be a full choral service condhcted by the dean. It is believed the body will be cremated before, the funeral and that the grave will be somewhere in the Abbey. Lutheran Synod Will .Meet In Char lotte November 6-9. The 12ftth annual convention of the j United Evangelical Lutheran synod of i North Carolina will be held at St. ' Mark's Lutheran church in Charlotte November ft-!)- About 2ft<) delegates and ministers from the Lutheran churches of this state and Virginia are expected to at tend. Tobacco Held October Ist. Washington. Oct. Bft.—Leaf tobacco held by manufacturers and dealers on October 1 aggregated 1.562,225,182 pounds compared with 1.457.439.814 a |year ago. and 1.(>07.844.445 on July Ist this year, the Census Bureau announced this today. Chewing, smoking, snuff and exj>ort types totalled , pounds, compared with 903.308,177 a year ago. and 1,106.445.884 on July 1, year. 12.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. TAMPA RESIDENTS ” „J WHIPPINGS DURING THE NIGHT At Least Three Men Were Were Carried From Tampa in Night by Other Un known Men and Whipped. WARNINGS GIVEN TO SEIZED MEN All of the Warnings Were Signed “Que, Que, Que,” and All of the Men Were Seized About Same Time 'larnpa. Fla., Xov. 1. —Unmasked men last night took at least three residenets of Tampa into the woods six miles from here, whipped them and left them wound ed and bleeding to find their jvay back to the city, according to reports made to Chief of Police Williams today. Leo Isaacs, restaurant proprieteor. under the care of physicians as a result of the lash ing he got, told newspaper men four men seized him and carried him into an au tomobile and then took him to the woods about six miles from town, where they gave him a whipping. Isaacs said he lost considerable skin and his body was covered with welts and discolored. He haid his assailants handed him a letter warning him to close up his business in ten days and not to open it under a threat of death. He had been arrested many times on Federal Warrants, charg ing li(|iior law violations, said the au thorities. The written warning said, “if the officers cannot handle you. we can and kill." Enrique Rosa. head waiter of a well known Spanish case here, was spirited away by a band of men to woods near Oldsmar. l.» miles west of here, where lie was lashed and left to make his way ljome. Andrew Williams, a negro res taurant proprietor, was taken to a point near Myrtle Hill eemetere.v, five miles north of here, and beaten. Both men received written warnings similar to those given Isaacs. They were signed "Que (}ne Qm\V The seizures took~ place about the same time. The seizures took place about the same time during the height of the Halloween celebration, and their cries for help brought no assistance. STXV TRY COOPERATIVE EDUCATION SCHEME Work and Study Plan to Benefit De partment Clerks. Washington. Xov. 1 (Capital Xews Service). —The educational plan tried out by several schools and colleges in the Xation, by which students who must earn their way through college are enabled to do so while using tlnit earn ing as a part of their education, may be tried in tlx* Government departments in tlx* Capital City. Where this plan obtains, two stu dents secure u position and work as a unit, one filling the position for a cer tain period, usually six weeks, while the other attends school. At the end of that period the students change places. Positions are secured for such students so that the work they do to earn their living has some bearing on tlx* course they take thus, a young man studying an electrical engineering course, secures, with his partner, a position in a fac tory. one studying banking . gets a clerical position, etc. A F'ni versify in tin* <"apital City is endeavoring to make sueli an arrange ment with the Government by whieh one clerkship could be filled by two students. The salary, of course, would be equally divided between the two. who would thus not only be enabled to earn their living, but would gain prac tical experience n tlie course of study they pursue. It is contended that no greater chance for the spread of such an edu cational idea exists than in Washington, where the TTiited States (lovernnient offers all sorts of clerical, financial, and scientific experience, and where shops, laboratories, and desks in all lines of tivity afford a wide range of choice for students- METHODIST PROTESTANT CON FERENCE MEETING In Opening Session President Dixon Con demned Substitution of Ragtime For Gcspel Hymns. Tbomasville. Oct. 111. —Addressing the opening session of the 98th North Caro-' lina Methodist Protestant Conference this morning, Rev. A. G. Dixon, of Greens boro. president of the conference con demned what he described as the substi tution of ragtime tunes for old Gospel hymns. He urged a reform of the ten dency toward the jazzy in church music, and a return to hyrnns sanctioned by other generations. About 100 ministers were in attendance for the opening of the conference, and an additional .100 dele gates an* expected to arrive. The con ference is being held in the church here of which Rev. R. S. Trexler is pastor. To Re-open Consulate at New Castle-on- Tyne. London. Oct. .'sl. (By the Associated • Press >. —A settlement of the controversy over the American consulate at New Castle-on-T.vne has been reached between Foreign Secretary ('urzon and American Ambassador Harvey, and according to Mr. Harvey the consulate will be re-op ened within a fortnight. , With Our Advertisers. The Ritchie Hardware Co. bought a big supply of cord tires, all sizes, at the old prices, and have not advanced the Shoes for men, women and children at Parker’s Shoe Store at less than replace ment values. , NO. 34.