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g SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher OL'-'ME XLVMI. m his I POLICE DUTIES pflfE Ell OIL I y u , R . sent to Teapot 1, H .„ (,i Drive Trespas ||S‘i'(o!i! Oil Alter L,se Was Signed. J ELT I sEXTTHE.M THERE I Did So at the Request of hi. He Testifies. —Five L; i\ t .,( in Policing the L Oil Field. I \[ ; m 13.~ I low Am *ri-1 I T'.ip-’t I>.»iu<“ ofj i i r nil iesrrve had j ■ ii : 1 Sinclair was d<*- I 11, up'.iit I I j. .!<• tin', onmmaiidant ~i~ the first wit- I i j,. ,A- i: i•; u try. lie said or- I .;, r , U c!i' is>iici! by Tlieo- I j. j,, • Ai'tirg Secretary of L , \> a' < a 11<•« 1 i • lost i- I ~1 . 1322. ti “. (leneral I , | v slmN-r. thru a cap- K \l;tt*i!.*■". Vl' ed after a ■ s.' - tar\ Fall to corn ■ i „ :ii ■* to Teapot. Four I Vi , , . .. r«. 1 r,i accompany I Ti>-a-ttrcr of Now ■ •, .•,•«! ,hjr-A mjjii of ■ i>< c(;.)>on. Iho ■ .., ; i' t" avoid trouble. I r< i oil A11.4 asi -4 that I i, i,„,i lict-a a.-retr jMsjcd. Later ■ |. v ; . roriuiibialiiig Shuler ■ I Vv ionh* r !:< did tail regard this ■ ..'.; rt „;aHi;:ir\ u-<* of the Marine ■ t!:e tinr nil sain b" -lid not «m- Bbat iriiiit .!' tt ! lie simply (tbey- I |;||:; s* civta r> 'lt ><»evi*lt testi- Kat the ;rqtir' T f-T clearing of Tea- I from Fall who was B as sa\iug that hr and the I'resi- Branteil the squatters ejected, as Bwere aF’tit to tak" out oil oil B;! * gi v.: nri'i.t would get no roy- B Fid liiui. Roosevelt said, that Hj r y /tanieis lad taken such ac- Roosevelt did not retail any- - clearly about a j to test from ■ iVfrnrf of W\■uning against etn force to remove trespassers. B llynirka Sttl>|K>enaetl. B March 13. —Rudolph Hy ■ repuidii.l n uatii mil committee- Hfroii; did', ua- today ■ oil coiniiiirtee. ■:-.i*ii.v- a!.s' wont out for Harry ■nine. ait ached to I ’resident Cool ■ t'liirago f-amii.-iisrn heaMiiuarters, B'>r Tiffin Gilmore. deputy secre- Bf the State of Ohio. Norman .!. B F' Now Vi ik. and Charles H. Bit. of Columbus. < »hio. also were Buai-il. B live are to be questioned in eon- Bt with Hie story cf Leonard Wood, ■bear an attempted oil deal in the Bitriin national convention at Fhi ■ I'l-Jti. ■ Mill Pri/hahiy Hear McLean. B^biugt 'in. March 1 ft.— Howard B.* ■tiii.t::' \\ a-hiugton publisher, prob |"T ho i-alled as a witness in the ■ov Itatighi vty investigation. W I'attglo i: s.' hrotiier of tl*e Attor ■o-n.-ral. also will be called. Both B tidied about references to them in-, P"i'\ o{ |{o.ie Stinson. I RK!t iISTAt, DISSOLVED P T *li< ii by President Ebert to .'i on il |:; ißyti e Associated Fla-rt dissolved the • Ills action is in cou 'he determination of the so ii'i't on revision of the spe -•rseiiey ordinances promulgated gn\• . mdably the tax reg (onteniplates Leasing of XiM-foHi and Western. 1 ht. Pa.. March 12.—Reports* s ylvania railroad ccntem-i '* H ‘ Norfolk and Western; v- ‘h'finite form today when ij,,| ' "extern announced that, j,. a eominunu-ation from , ■'C'v.tiiia suggesting the advis- M "' !l :i >, eu. 'A committee confer with a similar p V 01 Pennsylvania. and Western directors 1 I meeting today announced "‘port to the stockhold- P!'*' ‘Ved. With reference [ j. reetors in a statement li on terms which would f, : operating identity of the ” !ill W est, m " I,AT SAT ’S beak says. 0 6 0 d coau ' f'ditO'-'s followed by rain ' r ' r late toii:"’ rfl ' n sn ow in the in ’ ;! >:li, l . (,r Friday; no change ■tp I.- * r,, sh northwest winds THE CONCORD TIMES tills I'OYKLL CASE TO BE HEARD IN CONCORD C.t Vina- Ma n Who Struck Little I turn" Is-by With Ilis Car With Fatal : i: : u ts. Kannapolis. .March Tl.—-The case of | Mr. Otis Powell, the driver of the car I - 1 idaj afternoon when little seven-year oH Mary Louise Irby sustained fatal in juries on her return from school at a pi ;nt between here and Midway where jthc read narrow and sharply eurv | <d. is the subject here of much disrus ! sion. It ms ms tint the opinion that he j did irn sr«,p prevails among many, but this is erroneous, as lie took the child uat.-r. assisted- in carrying her to her home nearby, remaining until the end came, perhajK-: ah.tuf half an hour later. Mr. Powell i- awaiting preliminary trial in Concord. He is IN yea sos ;l ge in stead of 2-T. as previously stated. He is a mode! young mau. maintaining a good reputation, unobtrusive and modest in demeanor, and. until this occurrence, has never been wanted by officers of the law. had never beeen required to answer charges of any kind whatever. For a number of years his home was at the Barium Springs orphanage. Ids father having died. When his mother remar ! ried lie leturned home. Ilis opportiwii ' ties being quite lniited. lie lias lieen for | two or three year taking advantage of j courses offered him at the Kannapolis V. M. <\ A. during vacation months, be ing occupied at the V at night and spare' hours in the afternoon.— also, during, school months. By steady application to business and unremitting effort Mr. Pow ell has been "making good." Otir peo |oc all deeply sympathize with the par ents and oilier relatives of he child which met death in the accident, and Mr. Powell also, has the sympathy of those I who know the circumstances which plac-* cd him in the embarrassing -position in which l c now tinds himself. STEAMSHIP SANTIAGO SINKS Gees Down Sixty Miles Sou'll of Cape Hatteras. Charleston, S. March 12.- The steamship Santiago has sum 00 miles south of Cape Hatteras. according to a radior message intercepted today by fix Charleston Navy Yarl station. The wireless message smir by ibe Nor weigau steamship Cissy, reporte 1 picking up one of the lifeboats containing eleven survivors. The message was receiv'd as follows: "Picked up lifeboat six sailors. four firemen. on<* ■•arpenter from the Steamship Santiago wiiieli sank sixty miles south of Hatteras. No other lifebiuits have been seen. Pro ceeding to Baltimore." Signed Captain. The Cissy ’message was snid t<, hu\< been routeil via Savannah to Morehead City, X. C. No other informal ion was available as to the accident. KII.I. - -- »> REVISED. SAYS MELLON In Order to Prevent a Treasury Deficit.— Would Mean $450,000,000 Loss of Rev enue. Washington. March 12. —Revision of the revenue bill passed by the llou.se must be made to prevenft a treasury defi cit. Secretary Mellon today fold tlx* Sen ate finance committee. The House will would mean the loss of revenue of alwmt JjMotUlOd.OOi), .Mr. Mellon said, against an estimated sur plus of $m~» f 0n0.000 for the fiscal year 1 !)2f, uuder the existing law. SOME VICTIMS OF THF: MINE EXPLOSION BI RIED Rescue Crews Are Still at Work and Few Additional Bodies Are Found. Gawtle Gate. Utah. March 13.—A day and night of fighting fire, the burial of seven victims and the finding of a few additional bodies is the story of the rescue work ill mine No. 2 of the T tali Fuel Company since early Wednesday. At an early hour this morning 130 bodies bad been taken out of the mine in which 173 men were entombed on Saturday. Patient German Captures Glow Worms of the Sea- Hamburg. Mar. 13. —A lot of per fectly good noctiluca. a sort <d salt water "Lightning bug" which is one of the commonest causes of plmsphores eneo in the sea. have been captured alive by Professor Kurt Ilamdcrf, of Hamburg. Cooped up in a bottle and taken into a dark room, they glow ju-st like fire Hies and glow worms. It was only after several months of patient endeavor that Prof. Hamdorf succeeded in capturing the noctiluca in the North Sea. He is .using them here for experi mental work- So much interest has been aroused by the professor's captives, that scientists from various parts of Ger many have come here to look at the marine iridescence. Advertiser Is Insured Against Rain by Paper. Tile Blackwell. Okta.. Tribune, edited by C Robert Bel’atti. is attracting con siderable attention from advertising agencies throughout the I'nited States since it recently began insuring its an vertisers (against rain. The Tribune claims to be the first paper in the coun try to try the idea. The Tribune insures *its advertisers against rainfall of one-eighth on at inch , over should it fall between the shop ping hours of 0 to 12 o’clock noon, on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Hie only condition is that the advertisement be 50 inches on Sunday or 20 inches on other days. ' Twice since the insurance was} started the first of the year The Tribune has paid insurance to advertisers. With Our Advertisers. The Bell & Harris Furniture Co. have been compelled to enlarge their space in this, paper in order to tell you about the many beautiful lines of furniture ihov carry. The new Selby style slippers in pat ent and camel's kid at the S. S. rown Shoe Store. , , ~Y c fin Friday and Suturdsvv of tl.s week Sprotf Bros, will sell '™ ton * Rugs at prices ranging from *»> *° Nil f>s. See three-column ad. on page seven today. Paper. ! ert -Mgr V « mam*. i WmST W. F. Friedman (above), ciphei expert of the U. S. Signal Corps, translated code messages, according [to testimony before Senate Invest! Committee, sent from Flor liHo hv EL B. McLean, publisher. CONCORD TO OBSERVE MUSIC WEEK IN ISPIIIL This Important Movement is Sponsored by the Na tional Federation of Music Clubs. | WEEK WILL-RE FROM _AJ'BIL 2aTH..T0.47a , H i Interesting Programs Will Be Rendered Each Day.— President Coolidge En dorses the Movement. The reaimar to observe Music Week was sent to the cities of North Carolina by Mrs. Flujis. B. Wagoner, ehainuaii 1 of Music of the State Federation of Women's Music Flubs. This movement j is sponsored by the* National Federation | of Music Flubs, also the National Bu-1 lean for the advancement of music. Concord has fallen in line and proposes! to join with the other cities of the Cnit-i ed States in observing Music Week. April 20—Faster Sunday, has been se lected as the date for tl:e beginning 'A' this beautiful custom and throughout the entire week splendid musical attractions I will be presented, and music stressed in I many different forms In order to successfully carry out this; plan an organization was effected, with Mr. P rioe Doyle as president, but owing to the |M*es of work. Mr. Doyle found it 1 necessary to resign. Then a new organ-; izatimi was formed with Mrs. F. B. Wagoner as director. Mrs. W. 1». Pern-' berton president, Mrs. Hinton McLeod vice-president. Robert Ridenhour, dr., secretary and Jones Pharr treasure,*. Music C’oinmissicn of Concord. Mrs. Fhas. B. Wagoner. Director. Mrs. W. I>. Pemberton. President. Mrs. Hinton McLeod, vie-* preo.lonr. R. F. Ridenhour. Ki*cr»*i Jiy. Jones Pharr. Treason r. Mayor J. B. Woinble Music Week Committee. J. Archey Fanndn, chairman. Mrs. R. S. Young. Mrs. Wm. H. Gorman. Mrs. L. D. Foltrane. Mrs. R. A. Brow r. Mi's. Joseph Cannon. Mrs. H. S Williams, Mrs. J. M. Odell, Mrs. J. P. Cook. Mrs. Earl Brown. Miss Elizabeth Gibson, Miss Jenn Coltrane, Mrs H. W. Blanks, W. R. Odell, E. F. Rarnliardt, Sr.. Fhas. Cannon. Fhas. I, .Wagonc, A. S Webb. J. P. Allison. T. H. Webb, A F. Man sell. Ij. D. Foltrane. E. Sauvain. F. W. Swink. J. B. Sherrill.Paris Kidd, Rev. Wm. A. Jenkins. A. 11. .Tarratt. It. P. Benson, Dr. B. R. MacFadyon, (’lias S. Smart, A. (i. Odell, Rev. L. A. Thomas, E. T. Cannon, F. L. M. Smith, Alex R. Howard. W. W. Flowe. Richard Gibbon. Maury Richmond. Fhas. Ivey. Geo. \Y. I’atteron. B. F. Harris. Cameron Mc- Rae. F. W. Byrd, I)r. W. I). Pember ton. Fhas. F. Ritchie. A. E. Harris. Fampbell (’line, A. F. Goodman, J. Lee Fro well. Jr., John Young. 11. 1. Wood house. Jno. Oglesby. IL L. Fmberger. Dr. Joe Hardsell. F. A. Wolff, J. F. Haywood, W. G. Caswell. Jacob Stirewalt. F. F. Niblock, Mrs. G. B. Lewis. Publicity Committee. All details of publication in connec tion witii Music Week —Jn >. B. Shcr rill, J. L. M. Smith. Jno. M. Oglesby, W. M. Sherrill. Prof. Wolff. Program Committee. In charge of assembling material for official program and its publication— Mrs. 1. L Davis. Mrs. Wm. H. Gorman, Mrs. J. B. Womble, Miss Nell Herring. Mis. V. A. Means. Mrs. H. G. Gibson. Mrs. F. F. Ritchie. Mrs. Earl H. Brown. Mrs. Richard Gibson. S. Kay Patterson. Dr. Hampton Stirewalt. Price Doyle. ,T. B. Sherrill. Arrangement Committee. Seating, decorating, lighting and ush t(included on Page Two.) PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1924 GRANTS MICTION ! TG STOP WORK AT ! TEAPOT DOME f !ELD j Judge Kennecjy Grants Re quest of Federal Govern ment After the Hearing at Chyenne Today. TWO RECEIVERS WILL BE NAMED Appointment of Receiver Was Not Opposed by the Counsel For the Sinclair Companies. Fheycnm*. Wya.. March 13.—Two re j ceivers will be named to t ike over con j tr«:l of tire Teapot Dome oil reserve. I Judge T. Blake Kennedy ruled after j hearing arguments of opposing counsel, j Rear Admiral Jos. Strauss, of the F. jS. Navy, ins lx on .‘equested by the . government counsel as receiver, pending tin* outcome of tin* litigation, and A. E. Watts, vice president of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation, had Ih*cii named by the defendants. Judge Kennedy granted a temporary injunction halting further development work by tin* Mammoth Oil Co. on the Tea|Kit. Dome oil reserve. No date was sot for further hearing ; in the case. Opposition counsel stated! that on tic ■mint of the involved nature, of the action, it would be impossible at j 11'is time to state when they would be ready for further hearings. Judge Kennedy granted the defend ants thirty days in which to plead an • answer to the government's complaint. j Details of the injunction and receiv ership will be set forth in an order re-' quested by counsel for the government, t and which will be signed by Judge Ken- { nedy after its revision in part. Affidavits signed by Acting Secretary! Roosevelt and Secretary Work, of the! Interior . epartniem. setting forth that tin injunction halting development work, and a receivership were necessary to! protect the interests of all parties con-j corned, pending litigation over tin* lease, wore filed in court. The affidavits set forth that the daily production of oil from Teapot Dame re- ■ serve is 3.!>70 barrels. Fnder the terms of. lie order request-! ed by the go vearftine'in;'“fhe 17 crude oil ' storage tanks of f.,e Sinclair Crude Oil, Dun-basing Fo.. however, ami pipe lines and equipment of Sinclair Bipe Line Fo. would not be placed under control of the receiver without further orders. "We are not here consenting nor ob jecting to the appointment of a receiver." J .W. Lae.v. representing the Sinclair in terests said, after Owen J. Roberts had made the government argument. * Fheyenee. W.vo., March 13 (By tin* As-, seriated Bress L —The tight for annual-j ment of tie Teapot Dome Naval oil re-J serve to Harry F. Sinclair entered its! legal phase today. With an imposing i array of counsel, representing the plain- j tiffs and defendants. Judge L. Blake Ken- ! nedy of the Federal court, was to open! at 10 o'clock the preliminary hearing on i the government's hill in equity to set I aside t lie lease. Tlu* Mammoth Oil Fo.. the Sinclair j Crude - Oil Burehasing Fo.. and the Sin el air Bipe Lines Fo. are made defend- . ants in the complaint which alleges ! fraud and illegality in granting of the j lease and which was filed at the open- i iug of court by Atlee Bomerene and Owen J. Roberts, special goverenment counsel. The complaint also asks the court to grant a temporary injunction and to ap )H)iu! a n*c(*iver to take charge of tin* properties |H*nding the outcome of the litigation. The procedure to he followt*d hy tin* defense remaim*d :t puzzle at the hour s«-t for tin* preliminary hearing :iD pro(U'hed. Attorneys representing Silt- 1 clatr. who negotiated the Teapot Dome lease on behalf of the Mammoth 1 >il Fo. had refused to indicate the defense, al though Sinclair had announced that the suit for annulment of the lease would be fought to the end. "We suggest a joint receivership in which A. E. Watts would represent the j Sinclair interests in accordance with a j government representative." Pot of Gold Unearthed on North Caro lina Farm. Dunn. March 12. —A farmer wh-> j lives in Johnston county n few mil' s . north of Dunn recently plowed up a ; pot which contained $2,300 in g ild, ac • cording to reports. The gold was buried j in a field which had been cultivated for several years. Fp to this year tin* far- ; mor had used a plug niu’c and had only ; broken his land very shallow. 'I his ; spring lie bought, a new mule and plow and starred deep breaking. Ilis plow ; struck the pot of gold and unearthed d- according tor the report. Man and Woman Toss a Coin to See Which Should Shoot First; He’s Dead Fhicago, March 12— A bizarre wager by the terms of which the toss of a coin was to determine which was to play first shot at the other with a pistol, was related to a coroner s jury today by Mrs. Belle Gaertner, pretty divorcee, the jury recommending that she he held on a charge of murder in connection with the death of Walter T>aw, automobile salesman. Law was found early today slumped over the wheel of Mrs. Gaertner’s au tomobile with a bullet through his head. Two blocks away, the police found Mrs. Gaertner puneing the floor of her apart Vacation! j ilili { This is Mrs. Thyra S. Winslow, writer. wlu> has decided with hei nusband that niter 12 years of mar ried life, each deserves a vacation. They will separate I'or a year, hut both will live in Greater Xeu York City somewhere. iiSESEIZE TWO i SINCLAIR OIL IN I Men Were Planning to Make Surveys in the Northern ; Section of the Island of j Saghalien. JAPANESE !NOW CONTROL ISLAND ! Newspapers Think Seizure , of Americans May Lead to i Grave Issue Between the I Two U - Tokio. March 13 (By the Associated Bress). —Japanese military authorities have frustrated an attempt by J. B. Me , Fullogh and D. F. MacLauglilin. Amer ican surveyors, representing tin* Sinclair oil interests, to enter the northern sec tion of the island of Saghalien. 1 The authorities have taken the two im a gunboat from Saghalien to the port of Atom in Hokkaido, it became known | today. They are believed to have gone j to i'eking. The Americans, accompanied by a Rus ! si>an guide, enter Saghalien from the ! Siberian mainland. They were stopped *at Alexamlrovosk by military officials I who declared a determination not to per ! niit representatives of an* American com j pany to coiuiuct Purveys under conces j sions from the soviet government, which ] Japan dues not recognize. ! Japanese press took occasion to com ! ment on the possibilities of a grave is i sue between America and Japan over the i valuable oil fields. ! Northern Saghalien normally is Ru>- ■ sian territory, but now is under Japan ese military occujiivtion. Powerful Jap anese interests are plalining oil exploita tion there under tin* auspice's of tin* Japanese navy. WILL CLARK AND WALTER COOK ON TRIAL TODAY Arc Being Tried in Connection With Flogging of Marvin Bobbitt. 1 Rocky Mount. X. ('.. March 13. \\ ill (’lark and Walter F>ok. today were to go on trial in Nash circuit court on the charge of being implicated in the (log ging on January 27th. last, of Marvin Bobbitte. A jury was selected yester day afternoon. The grand jury on Monday afternoon j returned indictments against six men. ; but the proiecut ion yesterday dismissed | the charges against T. X. Ross, mayor ' of Nashville. Pell Batchelor, Roy Hayes | and V. 11. Hamlet. The Army Appropriation Bill. ! Washington. March 12. —Maintenance I for another year of the regular army ! at the present strength of 12.000 com missioned officers and 12. _ >,000 enlisted men is recommended in tlu* army ap | propriation bill. As reported today to ; the House the measure carries $325,224.- i j)()3 (> r $1 (>.224.203 less than last, year's i appropriation. The starts are fixed in space, while {the planets travel. ment and sobbing hysterically- Che cur others jury decided that Law. married and the father of a baby, came to his death by a bullet fin'd by Mrs. Gaertner. According to Mrs. Gaertner? stoi.\ the police. Law and she had been to a cabaret and on the way home started to argue about their marksmanship. Mis. Gaertner said she had a pistol and the> agreed to toss a coin, the one who won to have one shot at the other. If the winner missed, the loser then was to take one shot, the process to he continued until a hit was scored. ;j SOUTHERN DIVIDENDS ' Fc.r First Time Since ISB4 Dividend on Common Stock Is Paid. New York. I March 13.— -Directors of tin* Southern Railway Company today declared an initial dividend of $1225 on the common stock. This dividend is the first to be paid > n the I,2(M).(K)<) com mon share* since re-organization of fi. road in IS<)4. Beginning in lSt)7 di\ (lends on preferred stock have range from 1 per cent, vo 5 per cent, annually. Directors also declai'<*d t.-day the regu lar semi-annuai dividend of 2 1-2 j»er cent, on the preferred stock. Jt was officially announced that the purpose of directors hereafter is to give consideration hereafter to the 'matter of preferred as well as common dividends. Today’s dividend was announced as a quarterly dividend on common stock. SIX CATS IN BED WITH BODY OF PRI M A DONNI Eugenie Bonner Fuiind Dead After Years of Poverty. | New York. March 11. —The body of i Mme. Eugenie Bonner, once km v n in | this country as a prima donna, was i found in a two-room- East Side tenement ; j today. Physicians said sin* had die I of i ! heait ailment. Neighbors asserted that ! she had lived for years in poor circum stances. alone with her pet cats, six of which were on her bed when the body .was discovered. Mme. Bonner came to the Foiled j States 25 years ago at tl e invitation of 1 I the late Oscar Hainmerstein, to sing in j : grand opera. She previously had ap peared in Amsterdam, Prague and Brc- J men. Newspaper clippings and a letter of introduction to Ganna W.alska were I found in the rooms. i THE COTTON MARKET. I • —— j Opened Firm Today at Advance of From l 9 to 23 Points. New York. March 13. —The cotton ! market opened firm at an advance of I) to 23 points, and sold about 23 to 40 points net higher during the early trad ing on covering and fresh buying in j spired by unfavorable weather reports j from the southwest. According to these advices it was snowing in Oklahoma ; and parts of Texas, with rains in other ! sect ions. , May sold up to 23.70 after overnight selling orders hud been absorbed and Oc-, | to her advanced to 25.55. I Fit ton futures opened firm: March i 2i3.25; May 23.50; July 27.75: October. ; 25.50 : December 25.10. MRS. ROXIE STINSON IS GIVEN ANOTHER HEARING She Makes Startling Insinuations at (lie Opening of Daugherty Inquiry. | ’Washington. March 13. —Mrs Roxie | Stinson, divorced wife of Harry M. Daugherty's close friend Jesse Smith, (day was the star witness before the j Daugherty investigating ooinuiitte** Senators not only sought to draw out j details of her story of yesterday, which ; included sane startling insinuations • Smith and Daugherty hut made an cf -1 fort also to establish new lines of inquiry j involving liquor eases and other matters j that were pending in the Justice De partment. Fraternity Buildings at Davidson Col ' lege. The situation of fraternities at Dav idson College has become much brighter. J following the recent action of the board of trustees, who passed an action per mitting fraternities to build chapter houses either on or off college property, j Tl\e facility committee on fraternities! work out lln* details of the plans,) which are then to be appro vial by the i executive committee of the board of: trustees. This action will greatly elleviate the 1 acuteness of the situation in regard to better acconimondations for fraternities, i The following fraternities have chapters at Davidson: Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Phi Gamma; Delta. Kappa Alpha. Pi Kappa Alpha.! Kappa Sigma : Beta Theta Pi, Kappi 1 'lii (installed into I'i Kappa Phi tit a recent date). Phi Alpha I’i (to be in stalled into Theta Fpsilon Omega on May 2). and Delta Tliata Chi. At least one local farternlty is under or ganization at present. Mills in Southern States Show Increas ed Cotton Consumption. Louisville, Mar. 13.—Cotton mills of southern states consumed 4.273.231 bales of cotton during 1323. or <54 per cent of the total cotton' mill consump tion of the United States, according to R. L. McKcllar. foreign freight traffic manager of the Southern Railway sys tem. This was an increase of 238,033 bales over last year and was due. Mr. Me- Kellar declared, to a larger number of mills in the south and the expansion of the sales of cotton goods in foreign countries, particular in Latin America and the Far East. Colonel Wood in Grave Condition in Hospital. Asheboro. March 12. —The manv friends thrOngheot the state of Fj.l. 4V. P. Wood will regret to know that his condition is uniinpi veil- lor *wt:il weeks Col. Wood has been at the High Point hospital in a grave condition. Fol. Wood is a Confederate veteran, and is commander of the local camp. He is also a former state auditor. Suspension of Marine Act Lifted. Washington. March 12. —The Inter state Commerce Commission announced today that it had lifted suspension on section 28 < f the merchant marine act! .which makes lower joint freight rates for commodities moving oil American ships. In the first match game of baseball ever played in New England, which took p’ace on Boston Common. September 8. INSN, the home team was defeated by a team from Potrlund, Maine, by a score of 47 to 42. "Tom. what is period furniture?” "Search me! The only thing I can think of in that line is the electric chair.” ‘•Why do you call that period furni , turo?" “Because it end* a sentence.” $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance, GIRL DECLARES SHE : STAMPFn ON FATHER liE IS 01 J Eva Winchester Calmly Tells About Taking the Life of Her Father, J. C. Winches \ ter, In Florida. j MOTHER DIRECTED HER IN MURDER They Declare iTo Police the Man Was Killed As An Offering—Girl is Only 18 Years of Age. Tampa, Fla., March 13.—"1 stamped 1)1 m to death with my feet.'* This was the unemotional statement, made today by Eva Winchester, 1 S-ycar ol <1 daughter of the dead man. J. <\ Winchester, 65 years old. formerly of ■ (Tas-tonia, X. C\ His body was found this morning at the home in Heffner, a village ten miles east of here. The girl implicated her mother in the statement in which she said she was or dered 'to kill her father by her mother. Both are in the county jail here, charg ed with murder. j A story of membership of the family ' in a religions sect was told by the girl, j She said her father hail suffered two | strokes of paralysis recently. She, her mother and father visited a gathering of the sect at St. Petersburg last Sunday and returned home last night. The father, according to the girl, was so hen efitted by attending-the meeting that the mother felt an offering should be given the Ix.rd for the benefaction. The kill ing of father was decided on as the offering, she told the sheriff. The aged man was led 150 yards from the home, killed, and .the body dragged i hack to the house and left lying on the doorsteps where it was found later by authorities. | This morning 'the two women walked three miles west to Mango, from their home, and calmly told a school teacher of their act. He in turn notified Sheriff Spencer here who went to the scene, recovered the body and arrested the women. * YOUTH FACES DEATH AND Sf\(iS WITHOUT HIS FACE Clyde Bowen. Age 23. Falls on Circle Saw and Looses Face But Remains Cheerful. Waycross. Ha.. March 12.—Clyde Bowen. 23. with his face and the front part of his skull, from his mouth up ward. e >mplete!y severed from his head by a circular saw against which he fell while working at Scott Kendricks Hum ber company near here Tuesday after noon, placidly sang and later to’d his comrades v of the whereabouts of rela i fives as they waited expectantly for him to die. | At noon today however Bowen was resting easily under influence of stimu lants although said to he in a semi conscious condition. During the endless moments when he awaited arrival of an Undertaker from Waycross. Bowen kept up his singing ■ and talking. He even asked for water with which to wash his face, seemingly I unaware that it was gone. He remained I conscious for some time after the acci dent. Physicians hold out no hope of re covery for the unfortunate youth. His relatives live in Mcßae and have been ; notified. DEATH BLOTS OFT FAMILY OF FOLK IN FEW HOI KS Tabes Strange Course Through Tome in Southern Italy. Rome. Mar. 11.—A family tragedy ri valing those of the ancient IJ reek plays occurred yesterday in the city of Bnlti paglia in southern Italy. The entire family of a rich farmer Hiannatasio. consisting of four persons, died within a couple of hours. The grandfather, dying of heart fail ure. was the first to go. Before his body could be placed e*» a bed from the chair into which lie fell the bady grandson was smotheml to death accidentally by the mother, whom the shock killed. The husband, returning home at night to find the three corpses, blew out his brains with a sporting rifle. Memorial In Japan to l nited States Uenercsity. Washington. March 12. —A permanent memorial hospital will be built, by the Japanese government out of part of tic* funds contributed through the American Red Cross for Japanese earthquake relief as a monument to American generositv in Japan’s hour of need. The. Red (Voss today authorized the American embassy in Tokio to draw on the organ ization for $3,000,000 of the $11,000,000 subscribed in the United States. Half will go for the construction of the hos pital and half for its maintenance. Action Against Two Congressmen. Washington. March 13.—Brand jury proceedings were begun here today in the case of the two members of Con gress referred to in the recent, Chicago grand jury report as having improperly accepted money. One of the witnesses called was Elias H. Mortimer, who was the central figure in the Veterans’ Bureau investigation here and wiio also appeared liefore the Chicago grand juiy. Rev. M. M. Kinard Dead. , Winston-Salem. March 13.—Rev. >l. M. Kinard. for three years pastor of ti-e Augsburg Lutheran Church, and presi dent of the local Ministerial Association, died of pneumonia at a local hospital this morning. lie was 65 years old. No. 71
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