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HERR ILL , E dit or and Publisher .v; CMC NL\ 111- ibsence of Witness Is Halting Oil Committee _ covers Have Been So to Wahl erJ. Former Secretary to I j\ Sinclair. II 11-WS TO 11 testify later icerninsT Giarges That L.jair Furnished Secun- J,;, Cover Debts of Re- Shlican I’arty in 1920. i. Jii—The Senate puaporary set -11 , i :"«•!< to inquire j| . v I Sinelair Innl \ i iif securities , . ii v aml Will i:< . h.-i inian of tin* reptib ■ ■•.,. in help wipe ihviirred bv the m.paign of lf>2o. i . I ihat so far ~ locate <>'. D. . secretary to t<> have taken t lie 1L witness in the : . Mr. Hays lias i | am! Sinelair prob- 1 i , (U ,.-tiii.*H-»? n-morrow. ~i, -f|;e. committee Wuhlberg testified that i IlVl , r sj.'iiuiit in Liberty 1 .j ] [,. He did not ,1. ami the eoinmit .: f, , mi hi' statement. i . , \V;!i'li 'ait! it was re \\ :ptl!'< ' - was iii Havana. i!k> » iinmittee had ,im to attend. As Uo-, |j.j< |w«- 1 . Mimnn'iied to tesri- Ms that ii'i further , ~<; Wahlberg. |,ad planned to take up |. lv ~t a -pin tl at Sinelair share- of Sinclair Will Hayami tin* Attorney ! . ( i ~;,! vcipe nut ;ln* republican litter ilcic. . i j;,. -in National Committee ' I'.rjn r.unpaigM with a i • iti*ii at si..'iiHi.(HHt. but an-| hi't >ymmer that ! iiijniilati'il. What part. if .um wa' intiil "ff through the ,i H k - not quite clear which ' rear lied the com* lh iiri 'ci.tativf Tlt.os. .1. Ryan, i *A Vciii-. vnlittiotrily "took the wit -I,'thri :,t ll of ib.if I\'.i- the Ihuir*-- it« in til** reeiii'il< (if oil stock iciMti' laid before tin* committee, L".i- F. ISnini. tin* cuuimittee’s in* j jt'.r. followed him to explain how • bntieatimi had Ini n made, and to >r explain his report on stock rti'itis of others. I p «1 again about Attorney Gen* I'austerty's stock account, Rond file tirst trati'aetion was a sale of hares of Sine la ii i misnlidated. a mi ni vas an outright purchase of the taiinher of shares. t. - ■ ■' "ii stin k trairsaetions of Jess ft "id of the Attorney Gen - . v.-n by Bond, showed a net r Smith amount. Bond said, was J. "AY. W. Spaid No. 3" while >' linieral I'augiierty had an ac “> "'V. AY. Spaid No. 4." Spa id is k:.' .• of tiie rirm of Hibbs tk Com- ithoiir iitariiiir any other witnesses J wiiiuitnv acij'UiriK,i until I<> o'clock lr "' laoming. Will (j;n“s{ian \| Jennings. Mi.h i, i'll. A1 Jennings, : us Main i'iihlH*r of < tklahoma, 3 ' ' iiiiiiumkm! 1.. Washington l»y tin* tniiiiitt j tih|»it>na for Jennings, I " ; o'ii aid ho u Mild he qlUfi ■uiiootiim with the rumor tlint "ti. forinor 1 i«*],ubli«-an nation* iiiiMiiToo ina i, fOklahoma. under? I’ l1 ’ , i ! | >ugli an oil deal at the liat *"iial convention in Chi ta UrJu. i Hoisp Pill; Almost Crosses Tape. ,v Mar. lit.—A man regist a| t ‘ i ' l '‘tiiifnril Hotel here under M.U" nt j; a. Blair. Xew Orleans. ' J' a f'i'l designed to nuike a ' f H > lastcr and strenuous Meians were necessary to '11,,, ’’gift fast" tablet had I hefu'm and digitalis it a jM)\verfid v drug was given him poison and he snf- P'H.Ufi nations. ( ■ took the pill by mis the continuous ring -1 bell from his room to 1 ' while attracted the at ee clerk- The intui managed ‘ 1,1 i'ei l iver from t lie hook. J*hel. a Crawford Married. Ha... March 20. —.7. St. Petersburg pub ,U|1 ' 1 ii"ha Crawford, evangelist '■! of Broadway,” and jej ' ' : "" r eelehraled women in i aT 'laietly married here yes "HAT SAT’S BEAR SAYS. rn "''' foih'o t 'I 11 '*. l ? rohal >ly Friday i n * :, ' r Friday; slight ‘*asl Portion Friday. THE CONCORD TIMES McADOO SWAMPED SEN. UNDERWOOD In the Georgia Primary, Held ; Yesterday.—McAdoo Gets 322 Votes in Convention. Atlanta, (la.. March 20.—\V. G. Me- Adoo's overwhelming victory over Oscar \V. Cnderwood for the Georgia Presiden tial prefereiice was indieat<*d today when returns from yesterdays primary gave McAdoo .‘>22 votes out of the 412 that will compose the slat e* convent ion which meets in Atlanta April 22 rd. Cnderwood nil the same returns had 72 convention votes. Reports had been read from I.KI- of the I<‘><t counties. Four counties did nor bold primaries, tJo it man County reported the vote tied. 4N to 4S. with two precincts missing. McAdoo on the returns this morning bail carried 12ft counties, and Cnderwood 21. The state convent-ion will select, the 28 delegates from Georgia who will sit in the Democratic National Convention in New York bcginiwug June 24th. NEW PROPOSALS FOR BOM'S BILL SUGGESTED Keptihlicans and Democrats of Senate Finance Committee Want Changes. Washington. March 20. —Amendment of the House soldier bonus bill appeared certain today with both Republicans ami Democrats of the Senate finance com mittee advocating the new proposals. Chairman Smoot yesterday introduced a proposed amendment to increase slight ly the value of the life insurance policies provided for in the bill and t » make them payable only at death rather than at the end of twenty years, and to. elim inate the borrowing feature of the in surance clause in the House measure. At the same time Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, raking democrat on the committee, announced he would seek adoption of a full cash payment option such as was advocated by the House democrats. Bonus Will Gel Priority. Washington, March 20. —Prediction that the bonus bill will b«* given pri ority in the Senare finance committee over the tax measure, was made today by Senator Watson, of Indiana, a Re publican member of the committee. He said it was likely such a proposi tion would he made to the committee by u (hi . or two apd work <- t arled • e MEN ON SUBMARINE DESCRIBE EMOTIONS Men Are Trapped on Submarine Ami Are Being Slowly Suffocated. Tokio. March 20 (By the Associated Press). —Graphic description of the emo tions of eighteen mene facing a slow death from suffocation are being receiv ed by underwater telephone from mem bers of the crew of the Japanese sub marine 43. resting on the sea bottom off Sasebo harbor, according to dispatches today to navy officers here. Through the underwater telephone communication, which has been estab lished. it was determined that 24 men and 2 officers, one of them the command er. jierished when the forward compart ment colhltpsed as a result of the shat tering of the conning tower an the col lision yesterday with the warship Tat suta. Two engineeer officers and 10 men are still alive, and by means of the telephone vivid stories of their sufferings are being heard by rescue workers on the warships standing by. Ten divers were striving to attach chains by which the submarine could he pulled tip with heavy winches. Rotarians In Meet in Raleigh. Raleigh J March 20—The annual eon forence of the thirty-seventh Rotary dis trict. which is composed of North Caro lina and Virginia clubs, will be held in this city on April 3 and 4. next, it was announced here at the weekly meeting of the Raleigh club. There are 3!) Rotary clubs in this district and reports corning from 22 of them indicate that approximately 600 Rotarians and 10( women will attend the meeting. At the last meeting of the Raleigh club plane were laid for the entertain ment of the visiting Rotarians and their guests, the Raleigh club acting as host On Thursday afternoon, the first day of the convention, the Raleigh Kiwanis, Oivitane and Lions clubs will escort the visiting ladies on an automobile ride through the city and the surrounding country, pointing out all the places of interest. Upon returning to the city, the ladies will be entertained at the Woman’s Club' at tea. Friday will be the day on which receptions will be giv en in honor of the visiting ladies h.v Mr. and Mrs. Josephus Daniels and Dr. and Mrs. Hubert Royster. Mr. Caldwell to Arrive Tonight. Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Caldwell have been advised that their son, M. H. Caldwell. Jr., Las arrived in New Orleans from Honduras and will arrive in Con cord tonight for a visit. Mr. Caldwell arrived in New Orleans yesterday on his first visit tot the States since he went to Honduras last spring. Coolidge Won in North Dakota. Fargo, N. D., March 20.—Calvin Coolidge was conceded a victory in the Republican Presidential preferential pri mary in North Dakota last Tuesday in a statement issued here today by the State headquarters for ‘Senator Hiram Johnson, one of the President's primary opponents. Call for Another Investigation. Washington, March 20.—A resolution calling on Secretary Weeks for full in formation regarding the sale of arms to Mexico was adopted today by the Sen ate. • ALONZO WHITE IS BEING HELD IN COUNTY JAIL Kannapolis Negro Is Charged With Kill ing Ilnyy Davis, Another Kannapolis Negro. Alonzo White, Kannapolis negro, is being held in the county jail here as a result of a shooting scrape last night in j Tineup, famous colored suburb of Kan napolis. White was charged by a coro-! ner's jury with fatally shooting Henry ] j Davis, another negro. > Whitt* was lodged in the county jail following an investigation by Sheriff Caldwell and Coroner Hartsell. The j shooting occurred about 10 o'clock and the officers went to Kannapolis as soon j as a report of the affair reached this city. 1 They found White near the scene of the I killing and he was immediately question ; ed. A jury summoned by Coroner Hart sell ordered the negro held after hearing his testimony. No one seemed willing to tell much about the shooting, officers reported upon I their return from Kannapolis. Many | negroes were questioned, but all declared I they knew nothing about the affair. ! White, according to his story, did not know how Davis was killed. He ami Davis. In* admitted, quarreled in a case when he asked Davis for 82.00 which lie had loaned him and Davis 'cussed him for demanding payment before the crowd in the case. The light thou started. White said, and Davis drew a gun. When Davis pointed! the gun at him. White said, lie knocked! the barrel of the gun down and was shot | in the foot. lie ran then, he said, and' so far as he knew only the one shot was tired. Other witnesses told about hearing J three shots and officers later found three \ empty cartridges. These were examined and officers say tl ev lilted a gun which was identified as White's. The gun showed it had recently been tired, the officers declared. Davis was shot behind one ear and in one shoulder. He lived only a short time} after being shot. An autopsy was per formed on the body This morning by Cor oner Hartsell. who was seeking to find tint two bullets. PLASTER PARIS PANCAKES GIVE EATER NO TROUBLE) W ife Mixed Batter With FBour By Paperhangers. Corning. N. Y. March 10.—Plaster paris pancakes wan the menu Samuel L. Smith, prominent Corning contractor, had for breakfast a day or two ago. and despite tin* fact that In* ate four, he suffered no ill effects. .Mrs. Smith, in mixing the batter, dip ped into a bag left in the flour by pa peril anger recently, and the mistake was not discovered until Mrs. Smith's daughter noticed the peculiar taste. By this time, Mr. Smith had devoured four. He went to a physician as a precau tionary but hvjjAmt yet lw< o ifmr.rred* rrr* irnr mri idea** ***-'-- - SUBMARINE SINKING WITH 44 MEN ABOARD Vessel Part of Japanese Navy and Was Damaged During Maneuvers. Sasebo, Japan, March 10 ( By the As sociated, Press.) —The HOO-tfm subma rine 43, of the Japanese navy, collided to day with the warship Tatsuta during minor maneuvers and sunk with four officers and forty men in 20 fathoms of water, 10 miles outside of Sasebo har bor. Several hours later tin* navy of liee ascertained that while attempts at rescue were proceeding, there was little hope there would lx* any survivors. The submarine went down suddenly after the collision. The 43. constructed two years ago. is the second submarine of the Japanese navy lost in the past seven months, an other having sunk off Kobe last August. DISORDERS REPORTED IN PERSIAN CAPITAL Anti-Monarchist Demonstration Led to Disorders Tbrouglioiit Capital Yester day. Teheran. Persia. March 20 (P>y the Associated Press). Ant i-motiarckist demonstrations led to disorders through out Hie capital yesterday. Fiery speech es were delivered by tile leaders of the opposit iton to the Shall, but the people remained apathetic. Business was sus pended while .the meeting was in prog ress. When the business houses at tempted to reopen, rioting started. Conference for Social Service. Charlotte, March 10. —The twelfth an nual meeting of the North Carolina Conference for Social Service will be held in this city March 25.-26 and 27, it has been announced here. Among the principal speakers will be: John J. Tigert. IT.l T . S. Commissioner of Education, who will talk on “Educa tionand Public Welfare. Dr. Alva Tay lor. secretary of the Board of Temper ance and Social Welfare of the Chris tian Church; and Dr. Worth M. Tippy, social service secretary of the Federal Council of Churches. A number of well known North Caro linians will also speak, among them Dr. William Louis Potent, Dr. E. C. Bran son. and Commissioner Kate Burr Johnson. A whole morning will be devoted to the discupssion of the church and social service with the Rev. Louis Taylor, of Roanoke Rapids, presiding. At other meetings industrial social progress will be discussed. There will be considera tion of prison problems and of the coun ty as a unit for social work. Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, of Asheville, is president of the North Carolina Con ference for Social Service, and Miss Minnie E. Harman, executive. Churchill Defeated. London, March 20 (By the Associated Press).- —Winston Churchill, standing as an independent and anti-socialist candi date, lost his fight in the parliamentary election for the Abbey division of ■West minster to Otho Nicholson, conservative, by 33 votes. Against Naval Base at Alameda. Washington, March 20.—Plans of the Navy Department for a naval base at AJemeda. Calif., were disapproved today by the House naval committee. The vote was 6 to 13. 1 PTTm.TSHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1924 clusion that the originator of the sub ject must have felt that it. was needful for his hearers to bo reminded again that Christ is a living Christ. "And I have chosen this same subject for thiri sermon,” Bishop Penick con tinued, “to remind rc again that we Worship One who dW3>*du ihi‘ Cross but ever livoth." Saul, the persecutor, the man dreaded by the Christians, was on his wa.v to Damascus to arrest and put to death more Christians when he was called by Jesus, Bishop Penick pointed out i.infx* plaining more fully Ids text. Saul was a learned man. versed in language of the laws of his country, atul he must have b(*en influenced by the behavior of the Christians he had seen put to death, men and women who died calmly and courageously. "While riding along.” Bishop Penick continued, “Saul suddenly had a revo lutionary experience. There came a blinding light about him and he fell to' the ground listening to the voice tliati said, ‘Saul, Saul, why perseeueth tne?' | "And the reply to Paul is the sum | and substance of religion. ‘Who art I thou?’ he asked. The word Svho’ gives the keynote to religion. Paul did not say 'What is it?' He felt a powerful presence. He knew some living pres ence was near. He -said ‘who.’ "The faults and troubles of the world today are due to the fact that to a majority of the people God means about as much as the law of gravitation. It is not a question of 'who' but ‘what’ with most people. "The world is hungry for God Himself but society is seeking a panacea some where else. Man's home rightfully is iu the heart of God but he docs not recognize it. Society is organized into all sorts of clubs with high sounding names, into fellowships, fraternities and societies and all are trying to find a solution to the problems of the day. , Any one can get a following if lie springs some belief for people want leadership and yet they do not know they need God. "There are local. State, national and international societies but all are miss ing the mark. Wars will never cease, men in business will never quit cutting the throats of competitors, politics will never be free from scandal, homes will not escape disruption and young people will not escape pitfalls until God comes into the heart, the home, the State, the nation and the world. All th eeffort of society is lost montion for the only tiling that will inspire is the unifying spirit of the Holy Ghost. “Many persons arc trying to save the world by a system of ethics. Without [ God these are no good. System is not i what the world needs. What is the . one thing you want loved ones to possess I above all others? It is not system. . You do not want them to belong to . system. Such is a pitiful ideal for man who was fashioned in the image of God. Final Service of Local Mission Held Last Night Bishop Edwin A. Penick, of Charlotte,, Conducted All of the Sessions of the Mission. “LIVING CHRIST” TEXT OF SERMON Fact That God Does Not Mean Anything to Aver age Person is Cause of Troubles of the World. A living Christ was pictured ns the world's greatest need at All Saints Episcopal Church hi st night by Bishop Edwin A. Penick. of Charlotte, who at ■the service concluded the mission which has been conducted in tile local Episco pal Church this week. Bishop Penick was heard by a congregation that, filled every seat in the church and utilized chairs placed in the aisles and he de livered a masterful sermon with the conversion of Paul as the basis of hits tex't. Before beginning bio sermon Bishop Penick discussed at some length modern ism and fundamentalizm, subjects that have caused worldwide interest within the past several months especially. Bish op Penick declared that he was a funda mentalist and also a modernist and he declared that it was possible for every one to believe in both^ 1 Fundamentalists, he explained, accept the Scripture n,s infalliby correct. Mod ernii-ts see in nature new truths as giv en by God. There are extremists in the latter school. Bishop Penick declar ed. that go too far, but he declared that every one should thank the scientists and not condemn them for pointing out new truths as revealed in nature. A portion of the fifth verse of the ninth chapter of Acts furnished the text for Bishop Penick’s sermon: “And He said. Who are Thou. God?" Some time ago. Bishop Penick said, he was asked to address a gathering of men on the subject, "The Living Christ." The subject, at tirst puzzled him, the speaker said, because he could conceive of no other Christ than a living One, bur af ter more thought he arrived at the con- "There is only one home for man. That is in the heart of Clod and there will he lonesomeness and homesickness until man gets back there. And the truth of life as shown by Jesus Christ will take man back there. Man does not need a thesis; he needs God. He does not need a system; he needs the power of God. "There come times, usually in some great crisis, when one can feel the pres ence es God. and this presence drives away fear. The nearness of God ie so close. that it seems a reality, standing near with His strengthening power. If such an experience comes to you, build around it. It is a mythica lexperience (Continued on Page Six.) COTTON CROP* TOTAL GIVEN Entire Crop Was 10,128,478 Bales, Which Was Increase Over Last Year’s Crop. Washington, March 20—. The total cotton crop wok 10,128.478 equivalent 500-pound bales exclusive of linters last year as shown today by the Census Bu reau's final ginning report of the sea son. That includes 15.204 bales, gin ners estimated would be turned out af ter the March canvass. A crop of 10,081,000 bales was esti mated a Ist December by the Department of Agriculture. Last year's crop was 0,702,000 bales. The number of running bales was 10,1. >0,408. including 242.177 round bales counted as half bales; 22,420 bales of American-Egyptian; and 78." bales of Sea Island; compared with 0.728,.100 bales, including 172.182 round bales. .12.824 bales of American-Egyp tian. and ">.12." of Sen Island in the 1022 crop. The average gross weight per bale for the crop was 408.5 pounds compared with 501.7 pounds for the 1022 crop. The 102.1 crop in equivalent 500- nonnd bales for North Carolina was 1,017.125 bales. PRISONER OF THE VATICAN. Dispute Between Pope and Italian Gov ernment About to Be Settled. London. March 20.—Much attention has been attracted by the publication of a statement to the effect that the dis pute between the Pope and the Italian. (4averment is about to be settled and that in cosequence tin* Pope no longer will consider himself a prisoner of the Vatican. Few expressions are at once so true and so misleading as that, of '“the Prisoner of the Vatican”—a reference to the fact that since 1870 none of the reigning Popes, from Pius IX- to the present Pope. Pius XI. has left the pre cincts of that great palace of a thou sand rooms. So true, because the Pope is a prison er : but so misleading because his ‘■im prisonment" is unlike that of any other man: it it a self-imposed seclusion, adopted and maintained to vindicate a principle. Tt was brought, by the follow ing circumstances: Fore more than a thousand years the Pope wits not. only the spiritual sovereign the- Chtholie---4%«reh. but] also a temporal ruler, a wiehler of governmental power over territory which became known as the Papal States, These Papal States included nart of what is now the kingdom of Italy, among other places the eity of Ronirt itself. The last of the Popes who ruled over the Papal Stales was Pius IX.. who was elected in 1846. In his region the political movement, for a united Italy developed, and the end of the temporal power came on September 20. 1870, when the Italian troops entered Rome, which was afterwards, in spite of Papal protests, proclaimed the capital of the Italian Kindgoni. Pope Pius withdrew into the Vatican, and never left it again until his dead body was borne to its last resting place in the church of St. Lawrence. Nor have any of his four successors—Leo XIII., Pius X., Benedict XV., Pius XI. —set foot, as Pope, on Italian soil: for (he Vatican is “extra-territorial,” and therefore no part of Italy. OSCAR OF THE WALDORF. Famous Maitre de Hotel Has Rpen Made Chevalier r in a French Order. New York. Mar. 20. —Oscar Tschirky (Oscar of the Waldorf) has boon made a chevalier in the Ordre Merit'' Agri cole. The honor comes from the French Government in recognition of Oscar s unfailing courtesy and attention to hun dreds of French travelers who have boon guests at the Waldorf and have par taken of the dinners prepared under Oscar’s supervision. Oscar is befittingly grateful for this latest, honor bestowed upon him, but it is not likely to inter fere with the customary routine of his everyday life. Receiving such honors is no new experience for CXsoar. He al ready possesses a long list of “decora tions” given him by grateful members of royalty who has been his guests. Oscar Tschirky is the highest paid maitre d’hotel in the world. Several years ago he signed a ten-year contract with the Waldorf-Astoria management at a fee said to involve almost $500,000 Oscar joined the Waldorf on its open ing night. March 0, 180,1. The story of how he rose to fame and wealth through the tips of Wall Street men is too well known for repeating. Aside from just one vacation of more than the week-end variety, he has been on the job every day. personally attend ing the supervising the dining rooms with the personal toueh and correctness that only Oscar knows. It is said that he has handled more social functions of! importance given to world prominent men and women that any other man in America or Europe. Week-end Sale at Eflrd’s. Tomorrow, Saturday and Monday Efird’s will conduct an 88-eent sale and I for the trade event many interesting i and useful articles will be offered. 1 The company in this paper carries • a page ad. announcing the sale and ! pointing out some of the many fine bar | gains to be offered during the three days. , It will be to your advantage to read the ad. carefully. The proportion of polygamous mar riages to the total number in Turkey is now less than one to a thousand. THRIFTY COLLECTORS OF POSTAGE STAMPS Stamp Collecting Now One of the Hob liiies of the Rich. New York, March 20. —Stamp collect ing can now be lisied among the hob bies of the rich. In the opinion of prominent New York col . dealers, the stamp hobby b %tat* lAW supplant tine paintings and « works of arr in the estimation of those who make ejlleetions for collections’ sake. One reason advanced for the change that is taking place is the modern liv ing condition <|o not afford space for bulk collections. Whereas a collec tion of valuable canvassers requires spa cious balls and corridors, with proper lighting, a very valuable stamp collec tion can be carried in the vest pocket. Even the largest and most valuable col lections are contained within a few volumes which tit into a bookcase. Stamp collecting first became a real ly international hobby, dealers here say, in the early nineties. From 1891 to 1900 the hobby had a great following. Then it died down until 1912. since when the ranks of stamp enthusiasts have been steadily augmented. Today there arc in the United States alone 50 or more collections which are worth be tween SIOO,OOO and $200,000 each, deal ers say, while there ‘are almost any number of collections valued from $25,- 000 to $75,000 each. The most valuable stamp in the world is said to be the British Guiana stamp now owned by Arthur Hind, of Utica, N. Y. He competed with the Kisg of England for this stamp and won. At the present time it is valued by dealers at about $.18,000. About five years ago stamp collecting received a great impetus, since when prices have advanced greatly, placing some issues entirely out of reach of any but wealthy buyers. This has driven many - collectors into the field of post cards and envelopes, but. prices on these tco, it is said, are advancing rapidly. Lately, there has been a big demand for stamps of the Confederate govern ment, issued during the war of the re bellion. Old ramshackle buildings on the lower East Side have produced many rare stamps of the early days of the United States. ' # Collectors say that the craze has ex tended to Europe, especially in Eng land. where there is a particular de mand for stamps of tin* United States. Hardly day passes in which there is not a stani]> auction in New York. The same is true in London, and in Paris there is a regularly established stamp exchange. CAROLINA COTTON MILL FAR AHEAD OF ENGLISH Head of Big Liverpool Cotton Firm Amazed by Conditions in Milages. Charlotte. March 18-—The worker in 'EfTgtfstr yorrmr Tfirret- Trmror^ofrutftve working conditions so nearly perfect as prevail in cotton mills of North Carolina, according to E. H. Blackburn Sr., president of Alexander. Accles,and com pany of Liverpool, the largest and one of the oldest cotton firms in the world. Mr. Blackburn, E. 11. Blackburn, Jr., .T. W. B. Blackburn, all of Liverpool, Louis M. Bourne, of Dallas. Texasiand Ben J. Humphrise, of Memphis. Ameri can partners of Mr. Blackburn, are mem bers of a party of textile capitalists now in Charlotte on an inspection tour of the cotton mills in this section. “I really do not know to express my self when I look into the happy condi tions surrounding your cotton mills and the operatives," Mr. Blackburn declar ed. “and I can’t imagine workers being hostile to mill owners who have taken so much trouble to create ideal condi tions for workers to live in. The Eng lish mill worker could not understand it, so much better are the conditions l ere than those obtaining in the big textile centers of my country, “The milt owners seem to have taken every opportunity to make conditions idcai for l Ik* workman. The workers ought not, it seems tto me, put. any ob stacles in the way of the operators.” Mr. Blackburn was_ especially struck by tin* sanitary condititons found at the mills visited by his party, declared that the arrangements here to guard the health and general welfare of the opera tives is far above the standard obtaining in English textile communities. The party visited Albemarle and Kannapolis and were high in their com mendation of the situation there. “There is nothing in all England.” Mr. Black burn said, “like that village of Kannapo lis with its swimming pool, club rooms and neat homes especially built for the mill workers’ needs. I did not go through the mills but from what I am told and from outside appearances there is little tot be desired in the way of con veniences and comfort of the operatives. With Our Advertisers. The Bell & HJarris Furniture Cov, buys in car load lots and therefore can sell cheaper. See ad. today for inter esting Tacts about, the business of the company. Name-on stationery at very reasonable prices- at the Specialty Hat Shop. Because of its exceptional facilities, conservative policy, experienced manage ment and complete organization, the Cit izens Bank and Trust Company is quali fied to serve most satisfactorily in the transaction of any financial matters. Will Not Unseat Moore, Washington, March 20.—R. Lee Moore, democrat, is entitled to retain his seat in the House from the first Georgia district, an election committee decide today, dismissing the contest of Don H, Clark, republican, Moore's opponent in the 1922 election. Two Buncombe Farmer* Only Pay In come Tax Asheville, March 17.—Only two farm ers are Included in the list of Buncombe county residents who paid State income tax this year, according to Mark L. Reed, deputy commissioner of revenue for this district. Germany takes a census every five years: the United States and Great Bri tain every ten years. $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. TEX RICKARD TELLS imi'T MONEY Pi “ i u uRR AND OTHERS Fight Promoter Called Be fore Daugherty Investiga tion Committee in Connec tion With Fight Films. PAID MONEY BUT GOT NO RESULTS Says He “Got Bunked” When He Arranged With Muma, Orr and Others to Get Film Protection. Washington. March 20.-*-Tex Rickard, fight promoter, told the Daugherty in vestigating committee today that lie “got bunked” when he arranged with .Tap Muma. Will A. Orr. and the mysterious Ike Martin to exhibit motion pictures of the Carpeutier-Detnpsey fight, with immunity from prosecution. “They never did anything at all for their money.” Rickard told the commit tee. adding that Muma had told him lie could get. a law passed legalizing the showing of the pictures, but failed to do so. Emphasizing that none of them claim ed any influence with Attorney General Daugherty. Rickard maintained that ex- 1 peeting passage of a law to legalize the showings, he went ahead and got lined in stead. When he found they were not "delivering The goods" he revised the contract on a basis that contemplated Orr’s influence iu "fixing it” with the New York State board of censorship. Some results were obtained there, Riek ard said, and as the contract finally was revised, he testified that Orr got a little over $4,000 for hisslrare, and Martin and Muma each got a little more than $.1,000. “1 never thought there was any con spiracy," Rickard said. After hearing Rickard, the commit tee turned to verifying the statement of G. (). Holdridge. a Department of Jus tice agent. Holdridge in previous testimony to the committee quoted Muma as having said Attorney General Daugherty haft told him (Muma) that if the deal went over he (Muma) ought to get a big cut cut of it, at least 50 per cent. me ittmra'.iffr viTr” “nWrreslu.V Ttiffirf* as Spellacy, a former Department of Justice agent, as "absolutely true." The committee got Spellacy on the stand today and he confirmed some of Holdrige's testimony but made a change in Holdrige's account of Muma's report of the alleged conversation with the Attorney General. . L "As I remember Muma's statement.” Spellacy said, "it. was not that Mr. Daugherty suggested a 50 per cent cut, but that he thought Muma was interced ing for Tex Rickard, and that Daugh erty said Muma ought to get an inter est for that. Muma said he told Daugh erty he was going to get an interest. Spellacy admitted on cross examina tion that he had never checker! up ou Muma’s statements to Holdrige. District of Columbia About 300 Per Cent. More Drunken Than Paris, Says Tinkham Washington, March 20.—The District of Columbia is 300 per cent, more drunk en than Paris atid 2,000 more murderous than London. Representative Tinkham, Republican, of Massachusetts, declared in a statement giving comparative fig ures. Statistics on arrests here as reported by the police department, he said; "dis close a civil depravity and social disin tegration under present conditions and laws which are both appalling and un believable." Foremost as excuses 'for these amaz ing and pretentious phenomena of the American social decline,” Representa tive Tinkham said, are the “loss of con fidence in and respect for present con gressmen. and therefore, for laws pass ed by them.” and the "abdication of cer tain sects of the Christian Church from their spiritual direction and leadership and their assumption of political and leg islative domination.” Divorces in the United States, he said, had increased 100 per cent, in the last ten years. London, with a population of 8.000.- 000. Mr. Tinkham said, had 28 murders in li>22, the latest year for which sta tistics are available, against 38 in the District of Columbia with a population of less than 500,000. In Paris, he said, with a population of 3,000,000 there wkere 10.000 arrests for drunkenness in 1921 against more than 8,000 arrests for drunkenness here. The Bloodhound Vindicated. Salisbury, Mar. 18. —Friends of the bloodhound as a tracker of law-break ers claim another demonstration of the unerring instinct of the animal. Deputy Sheriff Brown, of Rowan, was called ou to bring his dogs down into Cabarrus to track a murderer or murderers. A negro boy about ten years old had been shot and killed and two other negvo boys said they saw somp white boys do the shooting. These negro boys were helping the sheriff look for the white boys when Deputy Brown put his dogs down for the trail- The dogs failed to take up. any trail except one that led to the sheriff’s party. This aroused the suspicions of the officers and one of the negro boys aged about 17 was searched and a pistol was found on him. He and the other boy were arrested and he is said to have later confessed that be shot the boy but claimed that it was an accident. A called meeting of the Cabarru* Chapter War Mothers will be held at tha home of Mrs. Jno K. Patterson Friday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. No. 73.