North Carolina Newspapers

g SHKK HILL. Editor and Publisher vfif.lJME XLVIH. BOSS HELD IBM! HIGHWAY , j oins Coleman and wimc D. I'el.ong Way id ~n Hoad and Killed by ohbers. . pTi v| I.AW HAS PROCLAIMED , W ore On Wav to Paris u i London to Join Rela ve. —l'nknown Persons onimitted the Dime. y 7 | i;ihi> Associated n " '7 • j j ! ;IVV luis proclaim "' ' '',' ri fallowing the murder of ! ’ . . „ 'jiicrcii.iiii'. waylaid on t lio iiitlmav. according to ail k' ' \ |f,;Jl,i;llt xntliv*'* today. A stefatii Agency. which j rut- last night, said i ' : were named < ’ole t .V li. lLilt gives no purl icu v nnir-lewd 'Americans i t,y- iin' American embus- Coleman of San ■ o .‘ ~,,i t;,*, \\; d**Long of New 0,. \\'aj to lanvdnn and Paris. i \ April i. —George B. de \, A York, and Robert Louis a . „f San Franeiseo. who were ,i iniitd<'red on an Albanian nu their way to Paris ami ;| trip through the Medi an. Hiihaid Lenttsbery. son of j jilmig declared today. | ii.l mg and Mr. Coleman left hero rurv oilth. and were on their way ii Mi-, del.ong and her son in Lon a tiii l!*i'* of this month. i,,| ~,1 ? i„ a sun of Senator de ,r' C.iiifori.ia. atid up until seven •jo,, v;l -. ~ resident <>f that, state, a- in u. i-s uni; and a retired real London Report. id n. April 7— The Albanian press l in London today reeeived the jug dbpateii from Tirana, dated, J : pi o'clock Sunday morning two [■an merehant- were killed by un-! jiersons on the Tirana-Sentari j s; a ,sa«if 4u kilometers from jV Albanian gi.venffhenr ft rid irana population are profoundly by the crime whieh they deeply i 1- the tirsf occasion on which I crime ha-'beeii committed in Al "twre foreigners have always been Eject ~f r j !t , greatest hospitality and Ithy on the part of the popula- 1 The Albanian g< vernnfent is eon- I that the crime was committed 8 Mhii-al aim with the intention tin* Albanian state in the if tie- world. Tiie government im f* v t<»ok strung to secure the :t!l! nunishment of the culprits.” M l NOT FOR THK RICH. Alntt In IP fire That Happens,” -i>s President AugHl. ftieo. April —Yale will never be i man - college, for we'll shut tip r ' ,; " happens.'' President .lames mi Ai,ge]|.-of the Lniversity. told iitiHii advisory Imard today. He nl- I" 1 '""! "I’tituisni about the young "1 tnday. ! arxt ‘ •‘■timber (1 f our students are 'rnjovn expense." he said. "About* J ! ' ! 1,1 ’he undergraduates are ‘s t< part or whole of their ex '' 'have the high school boys '' !, iohll** west. \Ye have not al ’"'il muting them, but we are get how. ’ all that is said against the Reiteration. I believe that most ! n people of today are better '•u parents. I concede that to 1 iu - v °wii offspring and I sus- Pm ‘on say the same of yours. ( <t‘C better psysical specimens and '•a nned io think they are Itetter i"< niieus > though of that 1 am Minn, \ of So | {are p '• 1 ;d.. April 7. —The recent ■' "hile or albino deer, seen I, urn brought statements from 1 albino doer were not so ■' ''!•«•• generally believe. ( ; M Iloopn reservation have accumulation of white F * ! :*W Pay large sums to ac t j \ “ is l ' ,r Us, ‘ as ceremonial r , ' ' ' a 'd to have provided an •titive for the destruction | | i: 111 this region of 'ufornia. x " I nun Farms in 1923. s.—Continuation ri,.. u ' . un ‘ avor:l,, l° conditions on !ll ‘ s result, in a general American farmers, >,,, , Ms s,, '*er»l farm organ i t ’'"‘ay in an open- let l"-i | !“ni and Congress and i “ 1 niti'd States.” k , j, '* tni ‘ced from their . ' - : ■ ti,«. rate of 100.000 ' ' ' ‘ ,- Oer said. ! I'j S|| I>cr Submarine. i! j;.., .; i:!V -AN orld Magazine for if it : :t j»i»ar a full descrip ;!v .!(<•„' f aii,|< * re • a V A a ’-"ted scientist. Ac -ad , t ;~ ’ u ‘ famous ba»tleshin i 1 ' "1 tlie sea may play _J ri !l “\ next war. A ~F~a ~ ‘ting r ,f “ I will be hostess at a a ’' ls «t 7 -‘io s daughters this ’ I.tiien'-'j 0, ' n< 'k at her home on THE CONCORD TIMES In Probe fpß» * Captain W. F. Volandt. involved n testimony of Thomas F. Lane, 'ormer legal adviser to the aircraft ,-ervice. Lane claims that papers searing on government overpay ments were rifled from his desk md that Captain Volandt refused ■jo return them. MR. (iREEX’S FUNERAL HELD IN CHARLOTTE Death in Fire Recalls Tragic End of Ilis Young Sister Near Asheville- Charlotte. April 7.—The funeral of John P. Green, who lost his life in the lire which partially destroyed Broad Oaks Sanatorium at Morganton, was held this afternoon at Tryson Street Methodist church, of which deceased was a member, the pastor. Rev. Dr. Hardin, officiating. Interment was in this city. Mr. Green was born and reared ftear Asheville. He is survived by his mother, who lives at Buena Vista, near Asheville: bis wife, who was from Charlotte, and three brothers, all of Asheville. He lived for a while in Wilmington and had an important part in building the new SOOO,OOO custom house on the water frnnL For several years he had been in had health and had been under treatment in two other sanatorium*. His death recalls the tragic death of his young sister, who. while in her teens, waft-shot and killed by a pas senger from a Southern train near Asheville. Tjje girl was standing near the t thick!.’ * KlftYT-t ttisOflire frt»tn lift home, looking at the train aft it parsed. A passenger drew a pistol and fired at the girl, killing her instantly. Her death was a terrible shock to Mr. Green and one from which he never recovered. KING OF BELGIANS IS ILL WITH GRIPPE Paris Report Says He Is Seriously 111, But Brussels Report Indicates It Is Minor Trouble. Brussels, Belgium. April 7. —King Al bert is suffering from the grippe, and his physicians have directed him to re main iti the bed. Paris Report. Paris, April 7. —A dispatch to In transigeanf from Brussels says King Al bert is seriously ill. He lias been forced to give up his projected review of the garrison of tlm capital tomorrow and will he forced to spend the day. which is his 4!'th birthday, in bed. THROUGH HELL AND BACK TO BE HERRICK’S THEME Oklahoma. Again Seeking Congress Seat. Promises Revelations- Perry. Okla.. April 7. —“Two ears in Congress; or. Through Hell and Back Again.” will be the subject of the open ing campaign speech of Manuel Her rick, who has announced his candidacy for another tern, in Congress as a Representative of the Eight Oklahoma district. Herrick formerly served a tem pestuous term in Congress, during which he conferred on himself the title of “Aerial Dare Devil. At his first, speech, to be delivered here April 12, Herrick has promised “sensational revelations.” With Our Advertisers. Running shares in the Cabarrus Coun tv Building and Loan Association cost 27 cents each week. Prepaid shares, $72:25. worth SIOO a tmaturity. ! The Citizens Bank and Trust Co. in vites hanking by mail accounts. Handsome new suiteft-of diningroom furniture at Bell & Harris. XX*hat is better for Easter gifts than jewelry ? Choice of many beautifu things at Starnes-Miller-Parker Co. Charming indeed are the new* hats for Easter wear at the Specialty Hat Shop. Automatic and Baldwin refrigerators at Concord Furniture Co. The Citizens Bank and Trust Co. in vites the business of farmers with the confidence that its service will meet their needs. Take some shares in the Cabarrus County B. L. & S. Association and pre pare to scud your son or daughter to college. You can get a Buck's blue flame or a New Perfection oil stove at the Concord Furniture Co. See the window display. Volley Ball Game Friday. Salisbury business men will send their representative volley ball team to Con cord to play Dr. Rankin’s 'team on Fri day evening. April 11th. at 8 o clock. The public is invited to visit and watch the fun and skillful playing of both team*. ... . , r Air. .Tones Pharr s team will play Air. Denny's team on the same evening and some real entertainment is in store for all who love sports. There will be the. regular meeting of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce tonight at 7 :30 o clock. BOY OF 12 YEARS STARS ANOTHER L\l> TO DEATH Tells Police He “Wanted to See How Far in Knife Would Go.” New York* April 7. —Paul Rap-unv skie. 12. stabbed to death a 12-year-.dd hoy Ik never had .-ten before “just to see Low far in the knife would go." He later told police that he and a friend had stolen tin* knife, a butcher's h'ade 12 inches long, in robbing a shop alter they had failed- to obtain money willi which to attend a motion picture then ter. Wandering down the street lie came across William Clifford. .lr., who was strolling beside his father. "I wondered how far the knife would go into his b.jtck," the bo.v told th'> police, "so l walked puietly behind him, and stuck it iij his back.” The Clifford hoy died on his way to a hospital. The father captured his soil’s UftsaLauf. FASCIST I GAIN SWEEPING VICTORY IN ELECTIONS Sunday’s Preliminary Elections in Italy Shewed the Popularity of Fascisti Leadei s. Rome, April 7 TB.v the Associated Press). —The overwhelming manner in which the fascisti swept Italy in yes terday's parliamentary election is indi cated in the latest compilation of re turns which assures tile fascisti party* ,'{.7(5 out of the 7.‘>.”» deputies. Fifteen of the (5(5 provinces gave t lie fascist! JJ0.140 votes against 115,i)41 for till the opposi tion parties. Partial returns from other provinces demonstrated that tin* election proved a complete ■ defeat for all. the opposition part ies. POLICE CHIEF' WELLS. OF WOODBURY. GEORGIA, DEAD Died in Atlanta Hospital at Result of Wounds—Negro, Lynched as Alleged Assailant. Atlanta, April 4. —Chief of Police Al bert Wells, of Woodbury. Ga.. died at a local hospital this morning of pistol wounds about the head. Beach Thrash. 17-year-okl negro boy, was lynched yesterday afternoon* after he had been taken from the Woodbury jail by a mob. where he was being held charged with shooting Wells. XV ells was said by witnesses to have been ar resting the negro hoy when he was shot. Another Big Winter Resort to Be Es tablished. Fayetteville. April J.—Plans are be ing made here for the establishment of another winter resort in North Carolina similar to Pinehurst. according to a statement made here by Percy Rocke feller. of New York. Mr. Roekeweller has an estate. Overkills, near here, and the general plan upon which he is work ing. it was said, will be to lay out the resort between Fayetteville ajnd this es .f: *Btfn tinue his prelirrmfftry pfhnTrrhg’and prob ably would have a definite announce ment to make in a few days. Pinehurst haps come to be one of the leading winter resorts of the country. With several golf courses, polo, tennis and other winter sports, it yearly draws hundreds and thousands from all sec tions of the country. Many of the winter residents of Pinehurst have been going there for several years and are well known to the North Carolina in habitants of the town. To Observe Thomas Jefferson Day. Raleigh, April 7.—A. T. Allen, State superintendent of public instruction, has issued a statement to all principals and teachers of the schools of the State call ing upon them to co-operate in the hold ing of exercises daily during the pre paratory to the observance of Thomas Jefferson Day on Friday, April 11th. A number of schools over the state have alrendj signified their intention of car rying the proposed program of essays. taiks v and history readings. On Friday volutary collections will he taken to go toward the funds for the Memorial Foundation and the purchase of Montieello. Jefferson’s home, as a perpertual shrine to the man. the life, and the work of the organized of the Democratic party. • Mr. Allen also advised the principals and teachers to request that pastors of the churches in their communities as sist in carrying out the program and making the foundation fund a success. Can’t Sit in Coolidge’s Chair. Cleveland. April (5. (By the Associated Press) —Although the management of the Cleveland public all is making elaborate preparations. including ex tensive remodeling, to place the hall and its complex equipment at the disposal of the Republican national convention here in June, one article of furniture will be withheld. No delegate. . no in the councils of the party, will he al lowed to sit in a certain leather-covered arm chair. It is the chair which Calvin Coolidge occupied at a bankers’ con vention held in the hall, which he was vice president. The state manager of the hall had the chair taken from the stage to his private office.; where lie vows it will re main vigilantly guarded. "Anyone who wants to sit there will have to fight to get it.” he avers. Methodist Women tV> Meet In States ville, Statesville. April 5. —More than 300 delegates are expected to attend the Woman's Missionary meeting of the western North Carolina conference which will be held with the Broad Street Methodist church here April 20 to May 2. Mrs. Lucy 11. Robertson, of Greensboro, president, will preside over the conference. A feature of the pro gram will he addresses by some re turned missionaries. The meeting is ex pected to be one of extraordinary in terest. All delegates who ex peet to at tend the conference are requested to notify Mrs. J. L Sloan, chairman of the entertainment committee. Statesville. N. C* One of the longest pugilistic matches on record took place near Melbourne in : 1855, when Australian Kelley defeated • 1 Jonathan Smith in a contest that last -led tix hours and 15 minues. PUBLISHED MONHUfS AND THURSDAYS CONCORD, N. C., MONJj&Y, APRIL 7, 1924 NOTHING NTH BY OIL COiITTEE IT SESSIJ TODAY Another Session Held While agries of Oil Deals Were by the Committed FOUR WITNE&S OFFERI^pETAILS Most of the Evrance, How ever, Along the Lines Brought Out In the Hiring. Washington. April Wiftt-The Senate oil committee .devoted awjiber featureless session to its inquir.vvSjgro stories of oil deals and oil contributjHjßS in the politi- Four witnesses t'nlldWK'J one another in quick succession at ;the big commit tee tableland none' added ma terially to lit? 1 inforj«#ian which pre viously had gone into f#e record. \\ i lbur XV. Marsh,JWiio, former treasurer of the 1 leipperat io National Gommittee. testified th&£lie must consult the committee's hooks‘before he could tell how much E. L. contributed to the democratic fund fn li)20; XX’. L. Kistlor an Oklahoma Mp man, disclaim- ed any connection whn the republican campaign collections year; J. B. French, of Oklahoma Ufjf, told the com mittee that Jake Hamo)s had informed him of expenditures oR j 5400,000 in the 1020 election, and of $55,000 to pay the hotel expenses of the BRmling convention headquarters* in I’hiotgO 1 and Robert F.. Wolfe, publisher of the Ohio State Journal at Columbus, insisted under re peated questioning that he had no first hand information about the famous 2 o'clock hotel conference on Harding’s nomination, and never' bad heard until recently of an attempt to make an oil deal for the nomination of Leonard Wood. TWO KILLED, MANY INJURED IN RIOT BETWEEN KLANSMEN Eleven Citizens anil Three Klansmen Injured in Fighting. Lilly, Pu., April men were killed, another belifveii.lgtally wound «d ami a score of Jrthjfe were more or less loft!sly httWwrrmt mg Satur day night between townspeople and members of the Kit Klux Klan, a close check-up by state police and deputy sheriffs disclosed today. Four resi dents of Lilly were being held by state (*olice upon charges of rioting while at Johnstown 27 men, said to be Kliins men. were being~held by Sheriff 1/Ogan N. Kellar, pending an investigation. The rioting occurred when the stream from a fire hose was turned upon the Klansmen aft they were boarding a spe cial train for Johnstown. 11l miles west of here, after having paraded in the darkness through the town from an ad joining hill where a ceremony attended by some 600 Klansmen had been held. Firiug began immediately, and when the special train pulled out 30 minutes lat er several wounded men had been taken aboard while Phillip T. Conrad and Floyd Paul, both of Lilly, lay dead oh the street. Eleven of the injured, all declared to he residents of Lilly, were taken to the Altoona hospital, the most seriously hurt being Frank Miasco, whose recovery physicians declared was doubtful. 1,400 $1 BILLS GARB AIAII) Notes Found Sewn in Garments of Vio lent Biltmore Employee. New York. April G. —Several patrolmen a hotel detective and a Bellevue Hospital physician yesterday afternoon took from an ambulance a heavy bed blanket and carried it into the psycopathic ward. In side the blanket was y woman's outer clothing. Inside the outer clothing was underclothing. Inside the underclothing and sewn to it were 1.400 51 bills. Miss Nellie Kane, fifty, a chambermaid at the Biltmore, was iuside the bills. Aiiss Kane became violent, in the maids' dormitory at the hotel. The po lice had to roll her in a blanket and tie her there. The .$1,400 were not discovered until Aiiss Kane was placed in the psycopathic ward in Bellevue. Sentence of Runely Commuted. Washington, April 7.—President Cool idge today commuted to one month the prison sentence of one year imposed upon Edward A. Rumely, former publisher of the New York Mail and S. Walter Kauf man and Norvin R. Liudheim, convicted of violating the trading with the enemy act. Mr. Blanks in Hickory. H. AV. Blanks, secretary of the Y, spoke on “Community Work” to a large gathering of business men at Hickory, preparatory to the opening of Y. M. C. A. work at that city. The meeting was very successful, the business men of the community responding most lib-, orally in a financial way for the sup port of the work. Cannot Compel Railroads to Abolish the Grade Crossings. Washington, April 7.—States cannot compel the interstate railroads, the Su preme Court declared today, to join in the construction of union, stations, and cannot compel them to abolish grade crossings. Have Copy for Change of Ad. in Office by 10 a. m. Our advertisers -will kindly remember that all copy for change of ads. must be in the office by 10 o’clock a. m. for f insertion the same day. Mr LEAN CARRIES BAILEY’S ! HOME COUNTY OF WAKE McLean Forces \yin Derisive Victory in Democratic Precinct Confesls in Wake. Bre.ck Barkley in Charlotte Observer. Raleigh.* April 7. — Wit Ii the XX’ake county precincts electing an overwhelm ing number of McLean delegates to the county convention, the McLean forces. i tonight were claiming the utter rout of jibe Bailey forces in the rather sharp contests developing at the day’s precinct* meetings over the personnel of the'dele gations. Returns gathered tonight showed that I 11)0 delegates supporting McLean were elected to the county convention from B 30 precincts ais compared with OS dele gates supporting Bailey elected from three precincts. Two precincts split i between McLean and Bailey delegates! while 17 had not been heard from. In the 17 not reporting are (50 delegates, so that should the Bailey supporters carry all of them the McLean delega tion would still have a majority of 7(5. As the result of the precinct elections, delegates supporting McLean would be in the majority at tho county convention in .Xlr. Bailey's own home county. Mc- Lean's local friends have been claiming XX’ake county all along, and they point to today's precinct meetings as over whelming support for their claims. In Mr. Bailey's own precinct, where his father-in-law. James H. Bon. also lives, a solid McLean delegation was eleefed. That is Second ward, second precinct, and it is sending 21 delegates supporting Mr^.Bailey’s opponent to the county convention in Mr. Bailey’s home county. Cary, home town of Herbert G. Gul ley, (.no of the Bailey campaign man agers, also elected a solid McLean dele gation; while House Creek township, lo- I cation of Mr. Bailey’s single claim to kinship with the soil through owner ship of a f).3-acre farm, elected a solid McLean delegation. XX'ake Forest named a delegation composed altogether of men supporting McLean. Both the city of Raleigh and the rural sections of XVake furnished majorities for the McLean delegates. Local friends of Mr. McLean who crowded McLean state headquarters here tonight, were jubilant over the strong support given the Robeson county can didate in the home county of- the op position. The precinct meetings passed off quietly in spite of the reported con tests. A number ol' women participat ed. McLean was not a candidate in his home precinct at Lumberton for dele gate to the county convention, but the McLean forces carried that precinct over whelm.ngiy, according to a long dis- Idnce telephone call to the Associated Dress. * J FIRST RESULTS *N WARRANTS FOR MANY Twenty-Four Men, Alleged Members cf Klan, Charged With Murdrt*. Riot and Carrying Weapons. Johnstown, I’a.. April 7.—Carrying concealed weajxnis. murder and riot, were the charges made against the 24 men said to be members of the Kit Klux Klan, by District Attorney I), P. Meimer here this afternoon before Alderman E. L. Levergood. The prisoners arrested in connection with the fight between the vis iting klansmen and townspeople of the village of Lilly. Saturday night, during which Lilly men were killed, will he giv en a preliminary hearing later. In the event they waive for court, the alderman syTd In* would hold them with out hail. The informations made by the District Attorney charge that the men met to gether "to disturb the peace aud to riot.” The murder charges named Philip Conrad and Floyd Paul as the victims of the fight. They were shot to death in the riot which started when a number of men turned the fire hose on the.**KJans men. MAYFIELD CONTEST CASE SHOWS MAJORITY FOR HIM Senate Committee Is Making Recount as Result of Contest by George B. Peddy. XX’ashington, April 7. —The recount of ballots cast in the Texas Senatorial elec tion in 1922 was practically completed today and on its face shows a substan tial majority for Senator Mayfield, dem ocrat. At the office of Senator Spencer, republican, of Missouri, chairman of the committee which is handling Geo. E. B. Peddy’s contest of the election, it was said a number of contested ballots would baVe to be passed upon by the commit tee as the counters were without author ity. Incurable Aliens Can Be Barred From Country. XX’ashington, April 7. —Aliens afflicted with dangerous contagious diseases and incapable of naturalization, the Supreme Court held today, can be debarred from admission to the United States. The question was raised at San Francisco by Shung Fook, a native born citizen of Chinese parentage, in behalf of the ad mission of his wife. W. A. Graham in the Race to Succeed Himself in Office. Raleigh, April S.—XXL A. Graham, formally announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for com misftioner of agriculture in a statement issued here tonight. Mr- Graham has been commissioner of agriculture for the past several months, having been ap pointed by Governor Morrison to fill out the term of hist father. Major XX. A. Graham, deceased. Senior Hi-Y« Luncheon Tuesday Noon Miss Helen Dayvauh, Frances How ard, Mary Boger and Sarah Crowell will serve a delicious lunch to the boys of the Senior Ht-Y club at the X. Tues day at noon. This will be the first of * a series of business lunches to be served by these young lgdies. Early seedings should be transplanted now to thicken them up and develop root system. Tomatoes, peppers. egg plants and other seeds started last month will need transplanting to give more room and to harden them off. Starts Quiz! Thomas F. Lane, whose testi mony turned Senate inquiry from oil and Daugherty into the U. S. Aircraft Service and thence into the XX’ar Department putting Secretary of XX’ar Weeks under fire. Lane had been legal adviser to the aircraft board and was dia missed. WAS WILSON ONLY A “TiIINKING MACHINE”? Daniels Says He XXas “High-Spirited as a Race Horse. “High-spirited as a race horse,” is how Josephus Daniels describes XX rood row XX’ilson in hix new Life of the XX T ar President, published by The John C. XX*inston Co. Daniels says that “the dominant force in XX’ilson was the in herited spirit of ‘the Scotch Covenanter, mellowed by the saving grace found in appreciation of the humorous, the ab surd, the strange. In duty he was the Covenanter. at one time of his inherited traits XX’ilson said: 'So far as I ran make out I was expected to be a perfectly bloodless. thinking machine —whereas I am perfectly aware that I have in me all the insurgent elements of the human race! I am sometimes, by reason of long Scottish tradition, able to keep these instincts in restraint. Tin* stern Covenantor tradition that is be hind me sends many an echo down the years.’ " According to ox-Seoro.tary Daniels. XX*iison belonged to that small, but superb nation, fhe TwooiTT which is bred in disciplined poverty, nourishing the body on porridge and the soul on predestination. He had all the qualities, all the sensitive and angular impulses of a ’thoroughbred. He was high-spirited as a race horse. By a pedigree religious rather than royal he waft an aristocrat and lie knew it. THE COTTON MARKET Opened EAsy Today at a Decline of 36 to 44 Points Under Realizing and Selling For Reeation. New York, April 7. —The cotton mar ket opened easy today at a decline of 30 to 44 points under realizing and selling for a reeation, which was promoted by easier Liverpool cables and reports of better weather in the South. The ad vances of last week had evidently left futures in an easier technical position, .and prices yielded readily to the early offerings with May declining to 29.80 and October to 27.10 or about 47 to 70 points net lower on the active 'posi tions. Cotton opened easy. May 30.10 to 29*97; July 28.77; Oct. 27.20 to 25.10; Dec. 24.05; Jan. 24.40. Police Rounding Up, Bob Haired Sus pects. New York, April 5. —Two bob haired blondes and live tall, dark and hand some” men were captured by detectives in an upper west side apartment today in the first of a series of raids to be launched upon suspected gang head quarters in the search for New York's notorious girl bandit and her male ac complice. The apartment was leased by “Mr* and Mrs. Nelson." According to the detectives, "Mrs. Nelson" is Flor ence Quirk, a dancing teacher, who is separated from her husband- She was held on a technical charge of possessing dangerous weapons, two largo oalibrp pistols, and many rounds of “dum dnm ' ammunition having been found in a bag •suspended from a bedroom window. Sunday School Sets New Record For Attendance. Salisbury, April 0. —’Hie • Smoot Baraca class of First Methodist church set a new record for Sunday school at tendance this morning when they re corded an attendance of 320. The at tendance was partly due to intensive work on the part of several of the mem bers and resulted from a challenge one of the members offering to give *a turkey supper to the entire class if the at tendance should reach 227 within a month. Recently anothe'r member of the class gave a turkey supper when the attendance reached 150. Ford Sold 21 Cars a Minute in Last Ten Days of March. Detroit. April 7.—On the basis of an eight hour day, more than twenty-one cars a minute were sold by Ford dealers during the last ten’days of March. An announcement by the Ford Motor Com pany today says retail deliveries of Ford cars and trucks for March totaled 205,- 735. Sales during the closing ten days averaged 10,804 daily.* Call For National Bank Statements. XXlashington, April 7.—The Comptrol ler of Currency today issued a call for the condition of all National bank* at the close of business on Monday, March 31st. * s£.oo a Year, Strictly in Advance. ME FACTS ABOUT MILLER BROS, LAND «r .JO CASE HEARD Bundle of Letters From the Justice and Interior De partments and Individuals Read at the Hearing. FALL’S NAME IS MENTIONED AGAIN While Secretary of Interior He Tried to Stop Prosecu tion of Case, It Is Said In One Letter. Washington, April 7.—Dry details of the Miller Bros. land fraud ease in Ok lahoma were reviewed today by the Sen ate Daugherty committee. A bundle of letters passing between the Justice and Interior Dpartments. and va rious individuals, were read into the rec ord. and several witnesses were cjuestiou ed as to why criminal prosecution of the case resulted only in the imposition of lines, and why no civil suit to recover the land ever was tiled. One of the letters showed that Albert It. Fall tried while he was Secretary of the Interior to secure a postponement of the trial, but the Justice Department, re plied that the criminal action must go forward. Most of the letters were pre sented by Edwin S. Itooth, who served under Fall as Interior Department so licitor. Senator Harrald. of Oklahoma, made a voluntary statement to the committee disclaiming any jKilitical interest in the prosecutions, and saying he only had urged action because he felt everything should be done to protect the interests of the government. He had learned to his surprise, he said, that the Justice Department had asked for nothing but lines against those found guilty, and had made no move to recover the lauds, which were a part of the 101 Ranch. THREE WARRANTS ISSUED AGAINST WALTER TYNDALL Anbury Park Printer Charged With Perjury in Complaints Made by Three Business Associates. Asbury Park. X. J., April 7. —Three warrants charging perjury were issued tjoday for |he arrest of Walter G. Tyn 4Udl, .JiPcal printer, and active church member, 6y City Magistrate Borden. The Avarrants were issued on the com plaint of three local business men who were alleged in an affidavit written by Tyndall to have attended a dinner last Thursday at which city officials indulged in drinking and witnessed new dancing. Tyndall's affidavit Avas submitted to the ei\uc church league. members of Avhich preached against the alleged im moral conditions in this .city from their pulpits yesterday. * EXPLORERS LOST IN' CAVE Party Fails to Return After 134 Hours in Arizona Cavern. Tucson, Ariz., April 7. —Fear was ex pressed today for the safety of a party including AleX Kerr, an . Austrian ex plorer. which had entered the colossal cave. tAventy-tive miles east of Tucson, ■and failed to return to the entrance at the appointed time yesterday afternoon. A rescue jrarty was og rani zed last night, but no \yord -had been received in Tucson this aftprnoon. The exploration party, in addition to Kerr, included Dr. Herschell Hibbard of the University of Arizona and Fi-auk Schmidt, lessee of the cave. On en tering the cave the explorersjarried pro visions for 110 hours. The period was up last night. CLAIMS COMMISSIONS MAKES NEW RULING Germany Not to Pay For Ships Used to Figiit *Her When They Were De-* stroyed at Sea. Washington. April 7.—The mixed ’claims commission decided today tliaf , Germany is not obligated to compensate •. for ships operated by the United; States at the time of their destruction during the wag. for purposes directly in further ance of military operations against Ger many. Thirteen cases submitted as a test were decided by the commission. Germany was held to be obligated, however, to pay for nine vessels, in the case of three steamers the commission decided that Germany was not obligated to compensate the owners. Clark Howell and His. Brid- in New Orleans. New Orleans, *La a April o.—Clark -Howell, editor and publisher of The Atlanta Constitution, and bis bride, formerly Mrs. Julian S. Carr, Jr., of Durham. N. C, who Avere married in Concord, X* C., last night, arrived here tonight on the first lap of their honey moon. The couple will remain here un til Wednesday when they will sail for Havana. . WHAT SAT'S BEAR SAYS. N •// % : voj [ - <» \ ■ . Fair tonight and Tuesday, little change in temperature. NO. 78