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
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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
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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.