rpj, SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher ■VOLUME XLIX limKEs pOLOROS W HIS ■RESTISL SUGGESTIONS ■cal Estate Men Against Gov, I enmient Regulation of Res -11 idenee Rentals in All Parts ■ of District of Columbia. Jeveral CHARGES HAVE BEEN MADE B\'ar Has Been Raging Some! H Time and President HasJ H 'Taken Hand—Tenants and ■ i,andiords Can't Agree. ■■ \V:i-iiingt"’f 'l; 111 - ' s - —President Cool at ,i, e November election was given extension of his lease on the j SM-hite House, but nevertheless he is hav plenty of trouble these days with landlords. H |: initiating steps to bring about per- government regulation of resi n'rals in tlie 1 bstrict of Columbia. K,. L.'niidge inis brought down upon his [■Vi the wrath of Washington real es- HeUc. ‘ Developments which of late have ■linaomd to crowd from front pages of, Hivasliitigton newspapers discussion of the! B'rencli debt question, the postaL pay bill) End the state of the navy, represent, how-j Ever, only a new phase in a merry little war that has been going on for several years -between Washington landlords and tenants. The contest developed during the fall to the point of near riots at public meet ings held by the Tenants’ League. Mem jin-s of the. league accused real estate lmu of hiring agents to break up their meetings, and owners of rental proper ties charged the league with “bolshevtst ideas." IYesident ('oolidge entered the lists about two weeks ago on the side of the tenants, by requesting Richard Whaley, chairman of the District of Columbia rent commission, to draw up a regula tory bid basin! on the police power of rhe federal government to maintain san itary ami moral conditions in the Dis trict. When Mr. Whftley completed his bill the President sent it to Congress with out passing on its merits,‘but with the request that it be given serious consid- I Oration. The biff wtmltT rrea'fe a per manent commission to regulate rentals ami would provide that rentals charged in excess of those established by the com mission would subject the owner to either a tine or imprisonment or both. Tin bill has produced an effect on real estate men comparable to the bill land the red flag. They have placed half page ads. in newspapers proclaiming the legislation “ a radical assault on the fundmental rights” of property owners. The President finally consented to a conference with representatives of local interests and with Lee Thompson Smith, oLXew York, president of the Building Owners and Managers Association. Mr. Smith, after his conference, gave out a siarenient that the President had told him he was not convinced that legisla tion was necessary, and that he was nos familiar with the pending bill. This statement met with a response .frail the White House that the Presi il'at stood where he always had stood, and iltnt no real estate men interested in defeating the legislation would be grant el a conference. assault made on dial liY DEMOCRATS HEADS IN SENATE Withdraws Address Made Saturday Attacking Party. Robinson is Vitriolic. Washington. .Tan. 7. —Bitterly assail ed in the open senate by leaders of his parry. Senator Dial. Democrat, South f'arolina. finally withdrew today from permanent record bis address of Saturday blaming Democratic members of Congress for the party’s de - h'at last November. Thus was closed one incident in the r "'v which began on the Democratic s idf* late last month with the delivery by Senator I'nice. Democrat, Maryland, of an aiblriv.s of import similar to that by Senat«»r Dial. The Maryland senator, 1"' has'been the object of open assaults hy the regularly constituted leaders among the Democrats, but hie address Mdi stands the record. Renewal of the verbal warfare to ' ;, - v came with a request from Senator Dial to withdraw portions of the ad dit-.s j„ w hi,.h im said the Democratic l‘ :ir ty had lost the election because it deserved to lose it. and charged political v a hot age by some party leaders. Interrupting to say that if Senator Dm!, after reviewing what he had said ° n Saturday, d(wired to express a frank iflxtlogy to his Democratic colleagues ! "V v. today. The explos oik , " aus * M * t-error not only among the a ls , «>r more workers, but also . ,i, >n * r ' 1( ' thousands of residents. Win ' broken in hundreds of homes. shirc r r ,-' r, ' llnso r n not haunt the Che llft „ Vi Tavern and it is doubtful if f'Yjj M ‘atrred the tavern, according to I'h Y ' Sl ' or,, ‘ r » historian- and farmerly ' u t of the Johnson Club. THE CONCORD TIMES , • Ml .• j WILL SEEK 10.000 NEW SUNDAY SCHOOL PUPILS Western North Carolina Methodist Con ference Sets Goal For the Year. Salisbury, Jan. 7. —Ten thousand new Sunday school pupils during, the year is the goal sot for the churches of the Western North Carolina Meth odist conference by the workers’ council of the conference Sunday school officials who met in annual session at hirst ichurch here. The object of the meeting I was to outline the work fqr rhe year and set up goals towards which to, j work. The plans show advances pro-, posed aong a’ number of lines of en deavor. All the presiding elders of the conference except Dr. T. F. Man-, who is i 1. were present at the meeting, also the district Sunday school superin tendents and employed workers of the Sunday school board. D. 'E. Henderson, .of Charlotte, president of the board. | called the meeting and turned it over to iO. A’. Woosejy, conference superin . tendent. Report showed that during the past * year 1(52 pastors took one or more units ■in the standard training school conduct | ed. This coufereuee leads the south in this matter of pastors taking tip the practical Sunday school training. There were nineteen of these standard train > ing schools conducted during the year— -1 more than were conducted by any other conference in Southern Methodism. Plans were made for 24 schools during the present year. The board decided to co-operate in the campaign of evangelism as outlined by the general Sunday school board, and a’so to put money in the pastors’ sum mer school at. Duke university. 1 Revolutions of thanks were drafted to •T. B. Duke for liis munificent gifts for i religious and charitable purposes. Officials of the First Methodist [church Inst night began plans far the entertainment of (500 young people who will be here in June to attend the an nual Epworth league conference. THREE CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER SOUTHERN TRAIN Trio of Young Men Killed on Track Near Asheville —Bodies ' Torn Into Bits. Asheville. Jan. 7.—Three Chicago youths, who left their homes for a pleasure and adventure trip to Ashe ville. were killed by a Southern railway freight train at Sky]and. four miles south of this city, early this afternoon, when they are believed to have fallen be neath the moving train as a “rod” on which they were “beating” their way broke. The youths, according to as complete identification as couhl be obtained by The Asheville Citizen, were Daniel Bain, son of Mrs. Daniel Bain, 331 third boy known ns “Irish. ’ Bain was 18 years of age and bis companions are believed to have been about the same age. Asheville. Jan 7. —Death in ghastly form overtook a trio of young men, all apparently about 18 or 20 years of age. on the Southern railroad track near Skvland today. The horribly mangled bodies were found along the right of way about 1 o'clock this afternoon. They had been dead two or three hours, it is believed. - All three of the bodies bad been be headed. The multilated corpses were scattered for a distance of 200 jatds along the tracks. There was not a piece of either body ’arger than the. size of a man’s arm. Three blood stained caps, worn by the unfortunate young men. were found close together. A trade mark inside one caps bore the name, Joe Fiddler, Ash land Avenue, Chicago. 111. AUTO ACCIDENTS COST SIX HUNDRED MILLION Even This Figure Does Not Represent th£ Full Annual Loss as Result of Mishaps. Chicago, Jan. 7. —Automobile aoci dents annually cost more than $600,000,- 000, according to Richard E. Ivropf, su preme regent of the Royal Arcanum, in a safety address here. This conservative estimate is based on the usual_ $.>.000 for each human life lost and $175 as an average of each case of personal injury. Added to this is an average property loss of SSO in each case. “This general approximation is natur ally far from complete,” said Mr. Kropf. head of the Royal Arcanum’s accident prevention campaign among its Ed councils in the United States and Can ada. “All the best fenders, smashed tail lights and other minor car injuries can never be estimated any more than can the value of eye glasses, clothing, and other property belonging to the injured. “The economic loss in time frpm the 700,000 automobile accidents in which personal injuries occurred cannot be com noted The figures used in estimating the cost of the 22.600 fatalities of the past year and 678.000 non-fatal accident! Tal only indict, vaguely the terribl. cost in dollars and cents to America foi lethal traffic conditions brought about bj "VveHoddeut figure are . inconiplet, due to statistical classification whiol between mo„s an< locomotives, The] °sourcf le wiich are reported to any sourc know ledg “ll'cutomS accidents would uu doubtediy swell the total into ■ 'on. Senate Still Working on Muscle Shoals Washington, Jan. 8.-The Senate pro c eed£ with the Muacle Shoala proj™r :'^Sed v^^rC n ycte, the Norrk government operation me. «ure. ___ Telenhone development in C*nad ,1 Jen from the year 1880, when the'lir. the 5 Dominion wan incorp, rated by act of parliament. ■ ""—l —— ' -■ 1 - '4 - Obenchain Weds Again , 1 gx.-jSw *#:»8 “The one man In a million” has married again Ralph R Obenchain. who won that “title” Leea-usl of the defense of his divorced Wife. Madaiynne Connor Obenchain. in .her three trials for the murder of J Belton Kenq nedy in Los Angeles a few years ago, has married Miss Mabel Schmitz. It. of Evanston. 111. Obenchain is a lawyer and theater manager of Evanston. THIRD ANNUAL RACE RELATIONS SUNDAY February Bth so Designated by Federal j Council of Churches—Universal Ob-1 ■servance Urged. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. B.—The Federal j Council of Churches through its eommis-i sion on the clptreh and race relations. | has designated February Bth as Race Re- ' lotions Sunday,* and is .asking that the j ■ •hurdles of America dedicate it to the j promotion of* mutual understanding and mod will between the races. - Sermons] and addresses on race relations, studies >f negro achievement, poetry and mu-j sic, ami the singing of negro spirituals; ■ire some of the suggestions offered for the observance of the day. The com mission has prepared a twelve-page pam phlet suggesting progranTes, themes and hymns appropriate to the occasion, copies >f which may be had from the Federal Council of Churches, 105 East 22nd i Street. New York. Race Relations Sunday was first ob- J served in 1023 and more widely in 1024. | It is expected that the third observance of the day in both white and colored churches will be more general than ever : before. I ■ CHARGE BY BURGLARS LEADS TO TWO ARRESTS Burg Hits Declare They Were Promised s.'>.r- I , ! S | THE CONCORD TIMES n- | BOTH FOR ONE YEAR 8. | *| For Only $2.00 1 o- 1 j THE PRICE OF THE TIMES ALONE m I ' a t | The Progressive Farmer is the greatest farm paper published and every farmer should have it. This offer is open to both new and j old subscribers. If you are al- ii I ready taking The Times, all you have to do is to pay up to date and " ] $2.00 more for another year and The Progressive Farmer will be sent jj you a whole year absolutely free of charge. a ‘ | If you are already paid in advance to The Times, just pay $2.00 for another year, P“24 points nboeeFtW to *> leve I of yes-' I terday. Realizing with local and south jern selling choked the upturn at this hg ure, and caused reactions of 6 or 7 points fbom the best, but trading was comparatively quiet and prices were steady at the end |of the first hour., Opening prices were: January 23.65; March 23.00; May 24.21; July 24.38; October 21’.85. DEAD CHICAGO YOUTHS ON SEARCH OF .ADVENTURE Took Earnings Made During Christmas j Holidays and Came to the South. I Chicago, Jan. B.—Daniel Bain. Jr., I Frank Burwitz and Wm. Quin, the Chi cago -youths killed at Sk.vland, N. C., yesterday while riding the rods of a freight train, had worked in a Chicago I department store during the Christmas I holidays and then taken their earnings j and gone adventuring in the South. Platts ! were being made today for some member of one of the families to go to Asheville, i N. C., to claim the bodies. | The Bain’s boy father is employed in j the two mile Crib in Lake Michigan. The three had worked together, then had de ] eded to travel hobo fashion, despite the I objections of their families. Harbor Bill to Carry $38,000,000. Washington, Jan. 5. —House leaders 1 agreed late today upon the passage at this session of $38,000,000 rivers and 1 harbors bill. I The bill, as reported, carried $57,- 000,000, but the rivers a,nd harbors ij committee plans to meet tomorrow to : pare down the figures to the amount agreed upon by the leaders. Daniel Guggenheim Seriously 111. New York, Jau. 6. —Daniel Guggen , heim, financier and a director of the Am ■ erican Smelting & Refining Company, is - seriously ill at his apartment here. Three j physicians are in attendance. Mr. Gug genheim, who is 60 years old, collapsed I in his room Saturday night. He has been stricken with similar attacks befote. WORK OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE BEGUN WITH SESSION TODAY General Assembly Plunged Into Its Business Program as Soon as It Convened This Morning. COMMITTEESFOR 2 HOUSES NAMED Resolution Invites Governor Morrison to Address Joint Session Before He Retires From Office. Raleigh, Jan. B.—Plunging into its bus iness program immediately upon conven ing this morning, the General Assembly began’ to dispose of routine attars. In the House a resolution was adopted and sent to the Senate inviting Governor Cameron Morrison to address a jo ; n.t ses sion, but did not fix the time. In the Senate the appointments of Lieut.-Governor-elect J. Elmer Long, .of standing committees were read by Lieut. Governor W. B. Cooper. Speaker Pharr in the house, also announced his commit tees. Governor to Make Address. Raleigh, Jan. 8 (By the Associated Press). —Governor Cameron Morrison will address the genera! assembly in joint session tomorrow at noon. Announcing his decision to accept the invitation ex tended him in joint resolution passed to day, the governor stated he had not meant to convey the impression that he would not address the general assembly at all before retiring from office, but that he would not make any recommenda tions. “What I shall say,” lie stated today, “will be substantially howdy and good bye. As far as making recommenda tions ate concerned, I do not feel I should do that. I shal esteem it a pleasure to appear before tire general assembly for a little heart to heart talk—a sort of love feast before I retire from office.” A joint resolution .inviting the gover nor to appear tomorrow at noon was in troduced in the House of Representatives Try Representative Graham, of Orange county. It passed unanimously and was /scat to tl*P Senate for concurrence. CFRdfk ikk fViflrrt* and—**u**uL tees were announced today. Each branch recessed shortly after noon until 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. Senators Gaston, of Gaston county, Burgwyn, and Grady, were sworn in this morning. In addition Senator Burgwyn took the oathof office as President pro tein of the Senate. Complimentary to Governor-elect Mc- Lean, Senator Johnson, of Robeso l coun ty, introduced a resolution making Jan uary 14th a legal holiday in that county. Following a short just before noon. Lieut.-Gov. Cooper turned over the Senate gavel to the new President pro tern. Senator Burgwyn. He will preside until the inauguration of Lieut. Gov.- elect Long on January 14th. Representative Townsend presented the report of the eommitte on rules to the House. The reported rule against em ployment of newspaper men as clerks was not contained in the report. The rules, with one or two minor ex ceptions, are substantially those used in special session in August. Two addi tional committees were provided for, viz: a eommitte on comemeree and a commit tee on public welfare. To the former the proposed bill for creation of a De partment ot Comqterce would be referred if introduced at this session. Representative Poole, of Hoke county, introduced a resolution which is designed to prohibit the teaching of the Darwinian theory of the.evolution of man in the pub lic schools of the state. It was referred to the eommitte on education. Miss Julia Alexander, representative from Mecklenburg, and the only woman in the assembly,, introduced her first bill. It provides for the erection on capitol square of a monument to the late Chief Justice*Walter Clark, and calls for a pub ■ lie memorial service for him at a joint public session of the House and Senate. Representaive Dellinger, of Gaston county, introduced a proposed amend • ment to the constitution increasing the 11 pay of legislators to S6OO a year, with i' S2OO compensation for extra sessions. ! Revival to Begin Sunday in Gas4onia- Gastonia. Jan. B.—A city and county : wide evangelical revival will begin in I Gastonia on Sunday. February 7st, it has been announced. The campaign will be J sponored by the local ministerial a«s ciation. * I Rev. George T. Stephens, a native of Toronto Canada, and well knows in the South, will have charge of the services. All plans for the spreading of the serv i ices throughout the county have been ieomleted and there will be a union head- I quarters in one of the downtowm local ' buildings. Discuss Law Enfroceroent With Presi dent. I Washington, Jan. B.—Law enforce ment was discussed today around the White House breakfast table. The Pres ident's guests were Judge Elbert H. Gary, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and other mem bers of a special committee representing the National Citizens Committee of One Thousand On Law Enforcement, which yesterday in New York closed its annual meeting with the adoption of resolutions for presentation to the President and the governors of the various states. World Court Plan to Be Taken Up. Washington, Jan. B.—President Cool idge’s proposal for American adherence to the world courj will be raken np next Wednesday by the Senate foreign rela tions committee. Miss Wilson This is the latest portrait of Mar garet Wilson, daughter of the lat< President Woodrow Wilson. Sh» makes her home (z> Washington MILLIONAIRE BOOSTS SOUTHERNER’S BOOK Places Copy In Every Public Library in the South. Nashville, Tenn., Jan. B.—Dr. W. D. Weatherford, president of the Y. M. C. A. j South College, this city, has been ad vised that his new book, “The Negro | From Africa to America,” has been i placed jin every public library in the J South by Julius Rosenwald. Chicago mil lionaire philanthropist. Mr. Rosenwald ( has long been interested in the race is sue in the South and is donnating three hundred copies of Dr. Weatherford’s book to southern communities in the be lief that it has a real contribution to make toward the right solution of this problem. y The new book is an encyclopedic vol ume of five hundred pages, dealing at length with the Negro’s African back ground, the horror of the slave trade, the best and the worst aspects of slav ery, the progress of the race since eman cipation, and the various agencies for interracial understanding. The author puts forward no ultimate theory of race relations, but holds that just and friend ly attitudes between the races today is the surest guarantee of future peace and welfare. SALISBURY WOMAN ADMIRES . .BABE -■ Jg >- 4 -**-*»> ,<> |ilM*l|fr| I <»< ■>» . Mrs. Christy, of Salisbury, Now Has Baby She Saw on the Train. Wilson, Jan. 7.—“ What a pretty baby,” said Mrs. J. J. Christy, of Salis -1 bury, to an attractive young woman on the train running between Rocky Mount and Fayetteville late Tuesday night. “Do you like it?” asked the young woman. “1 do,” replied Mrs. Christy. f “Then, you may have it,” emphasized the supposed mother, who reached into ' the suit case and gave Mrs. Christy some clothing for the infant. Mrs. Christy accepted the child and 1 RO t off at Wilson, while the young woman continued on her journey, without giving her name, the child’s name or any other ' information. ‘ In order to avoid any litigation or fur ■ thor trouble over the posession of the » baby. Mrs. Christ? secured the names of several of the passengers who witnessed • the transaction, and states that she will i keep the child at all cost. WOMEN STAGE A FIGHT IN HOTEL OVER A MAN Wife Meets Husband and Sweetheart Ap- I cidentally ami Trouble Was Started- Greensboro, Jan. 7. —A cave woman • fight between two women for “the pos -1 session of one man, which took plad:e > in a hotel here, resulted in the man ■ skipping out, one woman being a de- I fendant in municipal court and the other putting up bond in the shape of her 1 automobile for the man who left, i ' A wife and sweetheart were the ones . who fought for the man, W. L. Bowers, 1 of Roanoke, Va., who came here with f Margaret Evans, police say, and regis tered at a hotel as man and wife. By t’ a strange quirk of fate, his wife, from . whom he had been separated, met them i at the hotel and the fight began. Cases - against the Evans woman charged with e assault and violation of the hotel laws, l were continued. Mrs. Bowers put tip her automobile for her husbands apper ance and he has gone. L MEANS CASE CONTINUED AT REQUEST OF COUNSEL Judge LimHey Continues Case Until Mon day So Lawyer Can Prepare His Case. New York, Jan. 8. —The trial of Gas ton B. Means, Thos. B. Felder and El mer W. Jarnecke on charges of conspir acy to obstruct justice while was to have begun in Federal court today, was unex pectedly adjourned to Monday when Counsel for Means told Judge Lindley that he required more time to prepare the case. Order of DeMolay to Meet in Gastonia. Gastonia, Jan. B.—Plans are now un derway for Gastonia to he host to the first state meet of the Order of DeMolay, junior "Masonic order throughout the en tire world, in the early part of March, next. Officials of the local lodge of the senior Masons and the junior Masons are making efforts to have the state meet held here, and hope to have a large at tendance from throughout North Caro lina. The Gastonia lodge of the Order ol DeMolay was organized on January 10, 1024. It now has seventy members, i« was stated. It is understood that the Charlotte lodge will assist the Gastonia lodge in getting the state meet whici] would last Tor two or three days, ac | cording to present plans. $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. NAVY IS NOT BELOW Li-s: ; „ATIO, SEC. OF NAVY DECLARES Secretary Wilbur Says Gun Elevation Program Cannot Be Carried Out Because of Lack of | Money Now. CHANGES MUST BE MADE SOON And As Soon_ As Changes Are Made to Some Ships the Navy Will Not Be Bd low 5-5-3 Ratio, He States. • Washington. I>. C., Jan. B.—Although he declared the Navy Department want ed a navy that would accord with the 5-5-3 ratio all down the line,' Secretary Wilbur told the House naval committee today that because of the administra tion’s economy policy he would not rec ommend a gun elevation program or en dorse a pending $70,000,000 bill for new construction. Reaffirming his previous statements be fore a House committee. * Mr. Wilbur declared it was the policy of I his department to apply treaty ratio to | auxiliaries as well as to capital ships, so that the navy ns a whole would' be the equal of that of Great Britain and pro- J ponlionately stronger in every class than | that of Japan. With the completion of certain repairs on the battleship Florida, he said, the battle fleet itself would be in first class condition. The Florida, he added, would be put in condition as soon as the money is available. On that basis, he asserted, there was no ground for alarm that the navy was falling below the 5-5-3 ratio. In a letter signed by him and presented to the committee at the same time, he said he could make no recommendation on , the bill proposing expenditure of $6,- 500,000 for modernization, as it would be in conflict with President Coolidge’s economy program. Washington. I). C.. Jan. B.—Secretary ' Hughes in a letter read today to the House naval committee, took the position that the elevation of guns on American capital ships would not violate the arms treaty ? although it might have the un fortunate effect of tending to .promote 1 naval com petition, JT- The letter also recited that wjjile Great I Britain had taken the view that the al .! terations proposed would be a violation of the treaty, .Japan took the opposite view. JOHN SNOOK NEW WARDEN <- 1 AT THE ATLANTA PRISON Formal Announcement of His A point- ~ ment Made By Attorney General Stone. Washington, Jan. B.—Formal an | nouucement of the appointment of John Snook, warden of Idaho state penitenti , ary, as warden of the Atlanta Federal prison, was announced today by Atto**- ' ney General Stone. Mr. Snook will take office January 20. It is expected he will have the full staff of the prison selected by that date. i : American Oratory Finds Favor Among Brazilians. Rio De Janeiro, Jan. B.—A local newspaper has published some sarcastic comments on public speaking in Brazil, contrasting the lucidity and directness . of certain public speakers of North 1 America to the wandering vagueness, nnder similar conditions, of well-known Brazilians. 1 The writer says that in Brazil the . public orator as a rule, has no idea of > time or progress. In order to te'.l a " ! simple fact he piles up adjectives, brings . rows of verbs into line, creates confus r ion by abusing the use of details, r metaphors and imagery. And this not being enough, be makes his voice quaver 5 in order that the phrase and the speech be lengthened. Bay State Governor Inducted. 7 Boston, Mass., Jan. 8. —Alvan T. Ful j ler, for the past two years lieutenant gov i ernor of Massachusetts, was today in -3 sailed in the governor, to which office he i was elected in November to succeed , Channing H. Cox. The inauguration j was one of the most brilliant seen here -in yecent years. The ceremonies took place in the hall of the House of Repre sentatives in the presence of a gathering that fllTed the chamber to its capacity. Following the-administration of the oath 4 of office Governor Fuller delivered his - inaugural address, outlining the policies of his administration. The new gover nor was escorted by the first corps cadets, * which has served as the governor's cort on ceremonial occasions since 1741. s In view of the increasing extent to ' which women are taking part in com -1 mercial life ,in Britain, it has been de- V cided to introduce a bill in parliament e making them elegible t® positions as harbor commissioners. k. rr ’ = ’ WHAT SMITTTS CAT SAYS e • _» ‘t - ; /'//• e • [ / ® , tm ■■ i ■ " a| , . ;-| Unsettled, probably occasional I tonight and Friday. _ ... NO. 53