-SHERMLL, Editor and Publisher
1.1M1: XI. IX
abarrus County Day Draws
Multitude To Grounds Os
The Cabarrus County Fair
ISH KEEPS
If 10 Hi IRK
jte Cold Weather Tues-
F Thousands of Interest
persons Paid Visit to
»Grounds.
; SHOW BIG
feature today
Fanciers From Many
rts of State Present for
oW __ Fireworks Highly
By All.
raldiTii* t niiiirv Fair continues
r -I >'!>:iinl" "f visitors despite the
Ht | ;^r ,>f tiie past tliree days, and
l v w l»‘ii Mtvklenburg County
j fnjon County Day were ob
ncirors by the hundreds were pres
rims- nullities to mingle with
„< ( . ft iinty people who had been at
tn the fair.
jtteada:i»'»‘ yesterday. was not as
,„u oiit'iiiui day. as was to have
[]*.}«]. for TuesdayX school chil-
were admitted to the
,fnr of charge, but fully 10.000
injsMsl through the gates yester
,i dM ili**ir hit to break all at
k>:-rentals for county fairs in
* anotlur huge crowd visited the
i for rlii* is Cabarrus. County,
Merchants and Manufac-
Jm In addition it has been des
|Hi.no- Coming Day and the
bsbrought hack to Concord many
n-di'i.N who have been making
fTi:.' in other fields in recent
tech >liow is also being eonduet
f.and this feature has attracted
jfrsfnm all parts of the State,
buomiml that more than 100
•he siitnr. a mi
ll tan are top-notchers in the
A
Wis tiie exhibits, the races, the
rt»inti the. fireworks claimed the
iinf nie't of the visitors on the
k IV atiendance last night was
'tkiHliat nf the afternoon, show-
Mirn;-a;il interest aroused by the.
I
k f-at ;!v nf last night's pro- i
Bs tlic prugrain rendered by the j
Bind of Charlotte. The band was :
n ' !.- Charlotte contingent that |
I -r for M i klenbury County Day I
r;:uveal program rendered just!
’tic* fireworks were shown was
Cv and justly applauded by the
*' : ilia; heard it. The Shrine
; • i f tin* best musical organi
f n X.irrli Carolina and the an-
MiHit that it would be heard at
•if la-t night undoubtedly drew'
"ttidr Inters to the scene.
; •*. continue to hold the in
■ Mn-t of the acts are of a
'"Cer tlian those usually shown at
' :: ' v iiiul the variety of tin* pro
fclfv them appeal to every one.
t F ail is perhaps the most
tin* free acts. Even those
E ' "iio have seen the performances
11: Hus *!h,\v renewed interest when
'•'iii"' dashing through the
'wiimit a driver.
"aid was sweeping over- the
"'k and through the grandstand
rai-. s hai red yesterday but each
j' r ‘ •*''! so closely contested that the
l lose it- interest, Many per
fr«»m I lie grandstand to the
II hni ilioy were careful to keep
i;i' ttnuld nftVr good views of the
1 ' >*usi* was opened through
'^a.v and more persons visited it
"dii" hi lding on the grounds,
at iis an . arranged so they can be
"''•'■ 'ed a d i his splendid ar
"i'.i'v everyone an opportunity
■ l! ' range any chicken that
aj, to },j m L. Sim
■"l * hat:• He. was judge of the
j'i' tear and declared the ex
f- tmt a- large as some he has
■ Wa ' '“lua. in class to the best.
' ’ ' Ml ' find a visit to the poultry
iU|,! livestock houses were
'^j 1 ' r| '"\vds ,»f course. These
~ j 1 i opened since the be
' : h" diir. however. and for that
' a<l create the interest
iii tlk* poultry, which
Tuesdav while Judge
» V:l ' at. work.
i#3y .... . ,
iC '•! tin* business houses
-a ii iif holiday so the clerks
: , ' ' ’ i v -it the fair grounds
jj This is Merchants
i Jr Day and the program
r„ " 1 end in view' of giv
tos , ls 'T one <>f the best pro
k tT'r.r^
1,, r { * *aml. which has fur
* a ; !I|,| sic during the week
1 'h" business district
*bds, f O 'C. a -Her moved to th(
' Presb’' '* .' a nuui bcr of privatt
( -‘unon, of the Fair As
N f, i( , .me parade, which was ar
Nid n ot , 1(1 hf,r, efit of those persons
in tii- °PPortunity to partici
ji b-’t-ade on Tuesday.
*. at the lVlil ch are shown eacl
,ft ai-" 11 * ac^
rj 'ai. ’i i ' l ''' interest and ad
lu'ograni each night i
THE CONCORD TIMES
feature days at fair
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 23R1)
Cabarrus County Day
Stanly County Day
Merchant and .Manufacturers Day
k Annual Home Coming
First Annual Dog Show
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24TH
Rowan County Day
Civic Clubs Day
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25TH
Sales Day
1 Fraternal Orders Day
different in many Respects and for that
reason it holds the interest even of those
persons who were present the night be
fore. Again tonight a new program will
be offered.
Officials of the fair are delighted with
the splendid attendance so far recorded,
j The crowd on Tuesday was unusually
1 large and again yesterday the number
present was not disappointing. The cold
weather has undoubtedly kept many per
sons nt home especially women and chil
dren but despite this the interest shown
demonstrates that the people of the
county realize they have one of the best
fairs to be offered in the South this
year. -
The fair has been so successful as a
matter of fact that idans for next year's
fair are already under advisement.
CHARGE PUPILS PUNISHED
ON AN “ELECTRIC CHAIR”
Minnesota High School Teacher Ar
rested For Torture.
Barnesville. Minn.. Oct. 2H.—H. T.
Upsahl. science teacher in the high!
school here, is at liberty today under
bond following arrest on a charge of
using ap “electric chair" to punish .a
pupil.
The complaint was tiled by Fred Ten
neson. who declared that the instructor
caused severe burns on the body ot his
14-year-old eon. Earl, “through * high
voltage applied to the chair," October
16.
The father -declared the boy has a 1
hole in the calf of- each leg which looks
like wounds indicted by a sharp in
strument. Other boys n the class are al
so said by Tenneson to have undergone
ECHO OF THE HATFIELD-
McCOY FEUD IS HEARD
Alex Hatfield. Son of Man Who Started
Feuds. Is Mysteriously Wounded.
Rluefield. W. Va.. Oct. 28. —Another
violent death has been recorded in the
, family history of the notorious Hatfield j
• clan of West Virginia and Kentucky.;
j Recalling the days of the Tug River feud |
j between the Hatlfield and the McCoy |
j clans, veteran officials of Mingo county
I today were investigating the killing of
Alex Hatfield, the latest, of his line to
! feel the sting of a bullet. Alex, son of
the man who started the far-famed feud j
of years ago. was the victim.
|
FIND DEAD BODY OF
PAUL WHEELER IN MINE
Fourteen Other Men Who Were in the
Mine Escaped Following Explosion.
Madisonville. Ky.. Oct. 23. —The body
of Paul Wheeler. 10 year old miner, was 1
recovered from the Hart Coal Company s
mines today where a gas and dust ex- j
plosion .last night entombed at least 1;> j
miners. Two more men are missing and ’
are believed to have been buried under a !
fall of slate. Fourteen entombed men es- i
eaped during the night. -
Heart Stops But Death Rigor Fails to.
Follow.
Paris. Oct. 23. —A peculiar pathologi
cal case is reported from Lille. A sur
geon had placed young Mme. Marquette,
wife of a wealthy cloth manufacturer,
under chloroform prepasator.v to an
operation when he discovered that her
heart had ceased to beat. He declared
her dead. Preparations were made for
burial when it was noticed that the
usual signs of death were lacking. The
face retained its color and the limbs
lacked the rigor of death.
Other physicians were called but none
' was able to say for a certainty whether
the young woman was dead or in a
' j trance. An eminent Paris specialist has
’ | been summoned
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j PRIZE WINNERS IN PARADE.
The judges for the parade Tuesday
anreuiM-e the fallowing winners:
Fa?m Pr.Mluce—Harkey first; Morri
son sfccnd.
Commercial—Co-operative Dairy first;
Eflrd’s second! honorable mention 4. C.
Penny Co.
Organizations—Woman’s C!ub first;
1 Parent Teachers Association, second.
Private Curs—Car driven by Thomas
Web!) first; car driven by Mrs. lu*e sec
! owl.
| Special mention for Standard Buiek
Ca.. which had in parade Buiek Models
from 1!)14
The Judges were Mrs. W. A. Foil,
Hon; O. Max Gardner, of Shelby, and
Capt. (J. E. Smith.
CHARGES MONOPOLY OF *
FARM MACHINERY OUTPUT
Suit Against International Harvester
Company Filed by Government.
St. Paul. Miufi., Oct. 23.—" Effective
dissolution" of the International Harves
ter Company’s alleged monopoly of the
farm machinery business is sought by
Attorney General Stone in a brief filed
in his behalf in federal court here' today
by the United Staten attorney in pro
ceedings supplemental to the consent de
cree in dissolution entered in the same
court in 101 S.
Mr. Stone contends that greater com-j
petitive conditions in the farm macliin- i
cry should In* afforded. The consent de
cree did not go far enough. In* said, de
manding that action be taken to give
“proper protection to the farmers and
land owners who are dependent upon ag
ricultural machinery and implements ob
tainable at reasonable prices.”
TRUSTEES OF CLEMSON COLLEGE
ARE IN SESSION TODAY
Considering Problems in Connection With
Recent Walkout of Students.
Clemson College. S. ('., Oct. 23.—-Trus
tos of Cloinson College were still in ses
-1 sion at noon today with indications that
they would remain in conference the rest
of the day. to consider the various prob
lems that have arisen in connection with
*be ((end w.jikout of nearly halff'of the
. ■■ i-fej
Acting President S. B. Earle stated 1
today that ho had no idea as to when
adjournment would be reached.
He said he had no announcement to
make in regard to the status of matters
before the board, except to say that the
board is con idering every detail of tin*
affair.
! “YELLOW CHARLESTON” IS
FOUND GUILTY IN COURT
,
New York Negro Found Guilty .of First
Degree Mimin' in New York Court.
New York. Oct. 28. —Y\ 1 1 . Miiler. a
negro known as "Yellow Charleston.’ to
! day was found guilty of murder in the
! first degree for the shooting of Barron D.
• Wilkins, wealthy negro cabaret owner,
in Harlem last May. The jury delib
erated all night. Miller declared he had
1 quarreled with Wilkins over money mat
ters. Wilkins who has boasted lie was
the first to back Jack Johnson, has been
i famous for almost two decardos as a
character in night lift* in Xmv York.
1 Herbert Parsons to Support Davis.
Washington, Oct. 21.—The Democrat
! ic national committee tonight made pub
i lie a statement by Herbert Parsons, for
i mer Republican member of the house
1 from New York and former chairman of
' the New York county Republican com
; mittee, announcing ho would vote for
John W. Davis for President.
Mi*. Parsons said ('lection of Davis
offered the only possibility for the Unit
ed States to share in the working out
of a plan of continued world peace and
asserted that I lie people could only in
sist on! honesty in office “ by turning out
the party guilty of dishonesty.”
Bryan Talks for Davis.
Denver, Col., Oct. 23. —William Jen
nings Bryan, speaking here last night ap
pealed for progressive support for John
AY. Davis. Democratic Presidential nom
inee. and unification of La Follette pro
gressives back of the Democratic stand
ard bearer.
PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
CONCORD, N. C., THURS DAY, OCTOBER 23, 1924
RICES CONTINUE TO
! ATTRACT 810 CROWD
1 ATIHE LOCAL FAIR
j _J %
Despite Cold Weather Thou
sands Were On Hand for
Four Races That Were Of
fered Yesterday Afternoon
FOUR/HEATS IN
ONE RIG EVENT
Fast Time of 2:80 3-4 Made
In Fact Pace Race.—Con
cord Horse Won Second
Money In One of Races.
• The races continue to he the biggest
drawing card at the Uabarru» County
J Fair. Despite the cold weather yester
| day thousands of persons crashed their
! way into tin* fair grounds to see the four
races that were offered during the after
noon.
The races yesterday were faster even
than those of Tuesday and in one event,
| tin* 2:12 pace, competition was so keen
that four heats had to lx* run to deter
mine the winner.
In this race Sempro, owned and driv
■ en by James O. AlcKay, of Hutchinson,'
Ivans., won first money. The b?ist time
in tjie race was 2:o# 3-4. Ather times |
for the heats were 2:10 1-2, 2:12 1-4'
and 2:13 1-4. Other horses entered in
the race were Alicia Dare, owned by the
Tyson stables. Newark. Del., and Little
j Lady, owned and driven by J. Britt, of
j Dillon. S. C.
The second race was the 2:10 trot and
in this event there were three entries.
First money was won by Great Bells,
owned and driven by George G. Stiles,
of Rome, Ga. The best time for the
race was 2:00 1-4, this time being made
in two heats and 2:00 1-2 being made
in the other heat. Other horses in the
race were Carmalitta Hall, owned by
the Tyson stables, of Newark, Del., and
Querita. owned by the Pittman stables,
of Trenton, N. J. /
The third race, the 2:22 pace, brought
out five entries. The race was won by
Jane Lyle, owned bj- W. N. Reynolds,
of Winston-Salem. TUe best time for
the race was 2:17 1-4, the time made
in two heats and in the other heat the
time wAh 2:17 1-2. Others entries in
the race were O. Henrfe owned by JThom-
Orce.Orfhonde Bower,
owned by Will Holmes, Concord. Maxine
IL, owned by Fred SpOerha.se, Orlando
I Fla., and Mary Jane, owned by Charles
Tuttle. Orlando. Ormonde Bower won
second in the race, finishing second in
two heals and fifth in the other heat.
In Ihe running race Landlady, ridden
by Elson, won in the time of 1 :0!) for
the eight-fifths of a mile. Other en
tries were Kid Bell and Herman Girl.
METHODIST MINISTERS
HAVE BEAUTIFUL PLAN
Tliree Families to Be Moved In Single
Round Trip of Truck, Charlotte-
Greensboro.
Greensboro News.
' Rev. J. H. Earnhardt, pastor of West
Market Street Methodist Church, Greens
boro. Rev. J. F. Kirk, pastor of the
First Methodist Church, Salisbury, and
Rev. L. I>. Thompson, pastor of Haw
thorne Lane Alethodist Church, Char
lotte, sat at the closing session of the
Western North Carolina Conference
Monday and listened to the appointments
for the coining conference year.
Mr. Earnhardt was transferred to
Tryon Street Church, Charlotte: Mr.
Kirk to AVest Market Street Church,
Greensboro, and Mr. Thompson First
Church, Salisbury.
Each of the three remembered all
those appointments. They met Monday
afternoon and discussed matters a while.
Tuesday the three were again in touch.
And yesterday, ns a result, a plan a
beautiful plan was unfolded.
A- large truck will leave Charlotte
early Thursday morning of next week.
On this truck as it leaves Charlbtte will
be loaded the furniture and other prop
erty of Air. Thompson. At Salisbury
Air Thompson’s belongings will be un
laoded. Those of Air. Kirk will be
placed- on the truck, which will proceed
to Greensboro. Here Air. Kirk’s furni
ture will be unloaded and Air. Earn
hardt’s will be placed on the machine,
which will return to Charlotte.
Alethodist ministers, by the vjery fact
that they are Methodist ministers, are
! compelled to know something about mov
ing. Unofficial advices, however, are
i that this arrangement beats anything ev
‘ er planned even by North Carolina
| Alethodist ministers.
] $2.5 Pension For Horse Sets Pace For
Ministers.
f Chicago. Oct. 23. —The Jockey Club
I of New York gave “Clover.” an o’d
I horse, now deceased, a pension of $25 a
1 month, which is the maxmum pension of
!! the United Lutheran Church in America
'* for it.s retired ministers, according .to
the Rev. Edgar Grimm Miller. Phila
•l delphia. Executive Secretary of the
j Board of Ministerial Relief or the de-
I nomination
j! Addressing the Convention of the
!: f Lutheran Brotherhood today. Dr. Aliller
»! outlined plans for expending the work
;:j of the relief board during the next
quadreunium.
*>We hope to raise at least $3,0005)00
f in 1923,” he said. “The fund is to be
distrbuted among pensioners in addi
? tion to church endowments.
ill a plague greatly resembling the
" dreaded hoof-and-mouth disease has
;*| been discovered among deer in Klamath
| county. Oregon, near the California
IH* line.
M rpj 1P people of Australia are uinetv-
I! seveu per cent British.
FORGET-ME-NOT DAY
Will Be Observed Throughout United
States Saturday. November Bth.
Raleigh. Oct. 23.—National For-Get-
Ale-N ot Day will be observed throughout
the United States on Saturday, Novem
ber Bth next and plans are underway in
this city and others al over the state
to make the day this year state-wide in
t every respect.
Under the sponsorship of the AVar
Alotherw, the Auxiliary of the American
Legion, the American Legion, the Dis
abled AVterans of the World AA’ar and
[other parrioti corganizations, forget-me
note will be sold on the streets on that
day and the funds so collected will be
given towards the aid of the needy ex
service men of the World AVar, who do
draw compensation.
Last year the sales in North Carolina
were said to be very encouraging and
the various committees of sponsoring or
ganizations express the belief that the
collections will he greater this year as
they intend to carry the observance of
the day into the smallest villages of the
state. *
Gor-Get-Me-Not Day has always had
the support of the Presidents of the
United States since the day was founded,
it was said, both the late President Hard
ing and Air. Coolidge who succeeded him
have been supporters of the cause.
FOUR MILES OF LOCUSTS
EATING MERICAN HOMES
Cliewed Feet Off Drunk Asleep in Field.
Dispatch Says.
Alexico City, Oct. 23.—/Ten thousand
inhabitants of Tierro Blanca, in the
State of Vera Cruz, are being terroriz
ed by a swarm ok locusts over four miles
long. The straw-roofed houses are being
eaten up and one dispatch says a
j farmer, lying intoxicated in a field, had
! his feet eaten off by the pests.
Southern Mexico lin« suffered a grass
hopper plague for three months, and
many trains, have been derailed by
slipi>ory tracks caused by the crunching
of thousands of the small bodies under
the wheels.
In some cases burning oil has been
used to clear the tracks. Some trains
have been equipped with pipes through
which the flaming liquod can bo blown
while passing through the grasshopper
district.
Alillion of dollars of damage, es
pecially in the sugar and coffee planta
tions, has been done.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened at Decline of 5 to IB Points, the
More Active Months Shewing Bigger
Losses.
New York, Oct. 23. —The cotton mar
ket opened at a decline off» to 15 points
today, the more active months showing
net'losses of 15 to 18 points in the first
few iiMiwrtesr Under Southerly and local
selling. There was some doubt as to
whether the frosts reported in the north
ern half of t lie belt lnid been severe
enough to do much damage except in a
few points, but after selling off to 22.80.
December rallied to 22.05 on trade buy
ing ami covering.
Cotton futures opened steady. Oct.
23.75; Dec. 22.00 to 22.80; Jan. 22.02;
March 23.31; May 23.54.
FIRE AT ASHEVILLE
Stock of Goods of Lbwenbein-Rutenberg
Badly Damaged by Blaze.
Asheville, Oct.t 23. —Damage estimat
ed at between $50,000 and $75,000 was
sustained in a fire which,, this morning
enveloped the interior of Lowenbein-
Rutenberg, women’s ready-to-wear store,
on Patton Avenue. The fire is believed
to have started in the furnace room, and
spread to the main floor. A’irtually the
entire stock was damaged by fire, smoke
and water. Fire Chief Duckett esti
mated the damage to the three-story
building as oeing only $2,500.
SHENANDOAH FIGHTING
AGAINST STRONG WINDS
When Craft Passed Over El Paso She
Was Making Very Slow Time.
El Paso. Texas, Oct. 23. —Fighting a
strong head wind, the Shenandoah pass
ed over El Paso today at 8 o’clock. Moun
tain Time, en- route to its home station
at Lakehurst. N. J. The big ship was
not moving more than 20 miles an hour,
according to estimates of air officers
from Fort Bliss, and apparently had all
motors going in an effort to gain speed.
With Our Advertisers.
During their autumn sale of blankets
the Parks-Belk Co. will offer 1.000 pairs
of Elkin blankets for sale, just from the
mill, new and fresh. The prices are
low, and run from $4.45 to SIO.OO. See
ad. on page two today.
The new series No. 30 in the Citizens
Building and Loan Association will open
November Ist. __ Start now and take all
the shares you can. Help Cou<*ord grow.
■ New hat inodes for present and mid
winter wear at Efird’s. New colors and
i combinations, $2.05 to $4.05.
Week-end specials in shoes at Parker’s
Shoe Store. This stor» is overflowing
with bargains.
The Knit-tex Coat, is sold here by W.
A. Overcash. Guaranteed for three years.
Safety and convenience give exception
al investment value to the certificates of
deposit at the Citizens Bank and Trust
Co.
Post and Flagg’s Cotton Letter.
New York. Oct. 22. —The market to
day has been a rather featureless af
fair cables were strong and Manchester
reported an increasing demand. Reports
of frost in the southeastern states and a
fair trade demand caused a little Meal
I covering and prices held steady during
the greater part of the session. Business
was rather quiet except for switching
operations, particularly in May and
July. During the afternoon some hedge
selling appeared and there was some
liquidation from early buyers. The
weekly weather report was considered
generally favorable and this probably
i caused a slightly easier tone later in the
! day: Cotton clothmarkets were generally
j quiet but prices remained very firm and
( little interest was shown at present
quotations.
POST AND FLAGG.
BIKERS OKS
BE QUESTIONED BY
SENATE COMMITTEE
# i
Committee Today Devoted
Attention to Charges Made
by Senator La Follette and
Number of His Ddvisers.
GEO.W. SIMMONS
ONE WITNESS
It Is Charged Simmons Ask
ed Bankers to Give to Re
publican Party to “Kill
Off” La Follette Movement
Washington, Oct. 23. —Pushing its in
quiry into charges of Senator Robert .M.
La Follette that a huge “slush fund” is
being raised to swing doubtful states to
the republican ticket on November 4th.
the Senate campaign fund investigating
committee turned today to the examina
tion of bankers and others from New
York City.
George AV. Simmons, vice president of
the Mechanics & Metals National Bank
was under subpoena for questioning with
particular reference to letters he wrote
to other bankers urging campaign con
tributions for the conduct of the fight in
western states to "kill off” the LaFol
lette movement. Simmons signed him
self as acting "for bankers committee."
Wm. B. Knox, president of the Amer
ican Blinkers Association, also was sum
moned today. He denied in a telegram
to the committee yesterday that there
had been any proposal that member
banks contribute a sum equal to a cer
tain percentage of their capital to aid in
the Republican campaign. Frank P.
AA’alsir. counsel for Senator La Follette.
told the committee at Chicago that such
information had reached the AA’isconsin
senator.
Individual contributions ranged from
10 cents to $12,500, there being one sub
scription of the latter amount from AA’il
liani Nelson Cromwell, of New York
City. One donation of $20,000 was re
ceived from the Union League Club, of
Philadelphia, which tlie*- committee was
told yesterday by Edward Stotesburg
and others, conducted a campaign fpr
contributions independent of that of the
Pennsylavinia ways and means commit
tee of the Republican national commit
tee.
_ “Slush Fund” Over $2,000,000.
Approximately $500,000 was added to
the republican campaign fund in the five
days from October 10 to October 15.
bringing the total to within SBOOSMK)
of the $8,000,000 mark sought by the
republican national committee. »
This is shown by official reports re
ceived today by the Senate campaign
fund investigating committee from nat
ional treasurer Win. V. Bodges. Os the
nearly $500,000 total the New York of
fice reported $300,812 and the Chicago
office $178,215.
TO INVESTIGATE SOUTHERN
COTTON EXCHANGE
Chairman of Board of Directors Ordered
Before Justice Guy.
New A’ork. Oct. 23. —Hamilton Jack
son. chairman, of Ike board of directors
of the Southern Cotton Exchange, an
odd-lot cotton trading organization, and
F. Donovan Darby, its secretary and
treasurer, today were ordered by Supreme
Court Justice Guy to appear in his
chambers next Monday for examination
by members of the State attorney gen
eral’s office.
The order came through the action of
Deputy Attorney General Chambers, who
told Justice Guy that he had received
numerous complaints concerning the ex
change.
DISORDER AT CANTON, CHINA
Three Hundred listers Have Been Shot,
ami Citizens Are Fleeing.
Canton, China, Oct. 23 (By the Asso
ciated Press).- —Three hundred looters
shot, citizens fleeing from a city of tur
moil and disorder, all hanks and busi
ness houses elosedr, and troops still in
control of the busiest center of the city
—this was the scene Canton presented
today in the wake of disturbances which
began when members of the Horshanto
volnteer corps, the faseisti of China, bat
tled in the streets here with the so-called
red army of Chinese laborers.
The troops were on duty despite an
order issued which declared martial law.
Mayor Fuk-Lem tendered his resigna-
tion yesterday.
Ten Thousand Tickets Free to Wayne
Children.
Goldsboro, Oct. 21. —Ten thousand
free tickets will be given away this week
by the Wayne County Fair Association
to the children of Wayne and adjoining
counties that they may enjoy the big
event the first day. October 28th. The
paste boards will be sent to the princi
pals of all the schools and each will have j
a detachable coupon which will entitle!
the child to a free ride on one of the |
many riding devices. All the schools in
the county will close on that day.
I. C. C. Order Postponed.
Washington. Oct. 23. —An order of the
Interstate Commerce Commission re
stricting and regulating the distribution
of coal mines of privately owned cars
and care for railway fuel, which was to
have become effective November Ist, to
day wa6 postponed by the commission
until December 15th.
Despite the belief that lightning never
strikes twice in the same place, the
Eiffel fTower in Paris has been struck
many times without damage.
Tennis, played in an enclosed court,
was a favorite game in the 14th century.
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
J COMPLETING
PART OF CAMPAIGN
IN OHIO TONIGHT
#
! Cleveland Address Will Be
Last He Will Deliver in the
Campaign in the Middle
Western States.
GOING EAST TO
MAKE LAST FIGHT
Will Start Final Offensive
Wti hCampaign in Several
of the Largest States in
the East.
Aboard Davis train, en route lo Cleve
land, Indianapolis, Jnd., Oct. 23. —Willi
but one more formal address—that sched
uled for Cleveland tonight—John W.
Davis, Democratic candidate for Presi
dent, was on bin way east today, com
pleting the last leg of his two weeks’
final campaign drive in the middle west.
Tip* train passed out, of Indiana early
today, headed for Cleveland, and thence
on to New York, where the final drive
of the candidate’s personal, campaign will
he started Saturday.
Mr. Davis put the finishing touches
on his Indiana tour last night at Evans
ville, after speaking earlier in the day «i
A T ineennes and for a briefer period of
time at Princeton.
In Evansville he replied to Secretary
of AA'ar Weeks’ address in New York
Tuesday evening, characterizing the war
secretary as “one of the still unmizzled"
members of the cabinet,
the three and one-half years of power
by the Harding-Coolidge administration
"have produced this radical third partv
of which they complain.” The “radi
cals,” Mr. Davis said, had aroused the
American people and offered “strange
doctrines, urging them on the people as
the cure-all for their ills.”
PRESIDENT TALKS TO
REPUBLICAN GROUP
Says Economic System of Government Is
“Fundainemtally Sound.”
AA’ashington. Oct. 23.—Preservation of
initiative and enterprise is the “primary
thing which we have to do in our coun
try,” ‘ President Coolidge today told tin*
executive committee of the New York
Buvineiw Men’s RopuMienn Association,
who called at the AA’hitC House.
Freedom of initiative and enterprise
carried with it. he said, an obligation up
on every business establishment to give
“service” as well as goods to consumers.
Declaring the economic system of the
government “fundamentally sound” the
President criticised those who emphasized
“out of all due proportion" its abuses.
Correction of these abuses, he said, lies
in the hands of those administering com
merce and industry, and only they, he
added, can prevent the necessity of gov
ernment intervention.
MRS. W. B. LINDSAY TO
HEAD STATE W. C. T. U.
Chosen President of State Division
Succeeding Mrs. Goorfno. Greensboro*
Charlotte, Oct. 22.—Mrs. W. B. Lind
•4Hy, of Chariptte. was elected president
of the North Carolina divfrion. Wo
man’s Christian Temperance union, at
the concluding business session .ot the
42nd annual convention here this after
noon.
Mrs. Lindsay succeeds Mrs. A. Ade
laide Goodno, of Greensboro, who re
tires as president of tin* organization
after 12 years of service in that |»osi
tion. Mrs. Goodno . was elected cor
responding secretary of the union, and
in that position will continue to be one
of the moving figures in the organiza
tion. Other officers elected were: Mrs.
G. W. Pressly, of Charlotte, vice-presi
dent; Mrs. Roxie I). White, of Guilford
College, recording secretary, and Mrs.
E. Y. I'reyer. of Greensboro, treasurer.
The convention clows! today, several
; speeches and a pageant depicting the
. gradual rise of prohibition lieing the
. features of the final session*
Veteran Engineer Die#* ai Throttle.
Selma. Oct- 21.—C. V. Clark. 62.
veteran ' Southern Railway engineer,
died suddenly on his engine here short
ly after 5 o’clock this morning. Mr.
Clark died as a result of acute indiges
tion. according to physicians.
Members of the train crew say that
>fr. (Hark ate a Inncti on the arrival of
his train. pas#*enger train INu. 112. at
Raleigh about 3:30 this morning,
shortly afterwards he complained of
pains in his stomach. When he reached
Selma he went to a restaurant to’ get.
something to relieve him. He dropped
dead in his engine just as he was about
to pull the trottle.
Mr. Clark was the engineer on South
ern Railway passenger trains 112 and
17. Operating between Greensboro and
Goldsboro.
WHAT SMITTY’B WEATHER OAT
SAYS
Fair and continued cool tonight, with
light to heavy frost in the interior; Fri
day fair, slightly wanner in wret and
central portions.
NO. 32.