r. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher VOLUME XLIX I MO OP THE iEHERAL ASSEMBLY IS HOW STARTED s Work Is Expected to jring Forth More Work har. Any Preceding One his Season. mmittees have A HERCULEAN . TASK es Drawn Between Sup >rtcrs of Gov. McLean and ie Proponents of Bowie cath Bond Issue. Feb. 2 r tonight’s session, lines are expected to be drawn dy at tonight's session between the icnts ijf the Bowie-Heath. $35,000.- md issue for roads, and the sup ! of (Governor McLean's plan that nd forroads be limited to i.uiat. The Bowie-Heatli measure »dy in committee while-the (TjoVern oposals are expected to take form • with the introduction in the Sen ;i bill embodying his views, fl'S JOHNSON FILES A PETITION OF CONTEST is Extortion of $75,000 From Boot leggers by His Opponent. (By the Associate!! I'rcM) iliington. Feb. 2.—Charges alleg torriun of upward of $73,000 from seta bootleggers for use in the sen campaign of Representative Thos. all. Republican, are made in a pe contest filed today in the Senate defeated opponent, Senator Mag unson, Farmer-Labor. itoi Johnson alleges that the - extor- B > with the konwledge and consent Si-hall, and that the money was a the campaign. He declared it ■foul persons indicted in Minneap tid other cities of Minnesota for !>u < f the labor laws, further allegation was made that nny judge was installed in the eampaign headquarters to give «• to the promises of protection imunity. AM) MRS. MORRISON LEAVE TODAY FOR RALEIGH vernor Plans to Go Before tlie ••xe Committees of the Legisla . ilotte. Feb. 2. —Former Governor ■ ' Fameron Morrison left for Ral iidav. They are expected to reach d’ 1 a 1 during the afternoon. Morrison plans to go before the committee of the Legislature and 1 a re-audit of the state's books in to show that the reported deficit, te funds was not as large as re • ; ‘iid that it was not -incurred dur s administration. The former Gov •‘"liteiids. according to the publish tettumt, that a change in periods of fling will show that bis admin la,'t ex [lenses instead of running ,Ts OFF APPENDIX; SAVES SURGEON’S FEE tear-Oid Cleveland Boy Has Re markable Operation. ri ln d. Jan. 20.—Joey Bordanaro, "hi. was discharged Today from 'Ms Hospital after what surgeons (ourddered the most remarkable ap- N operation in medical history, "■is shot in the abdomen while " "ith a revolver.. The bullet sev ,N M'Peqdix at the exact spot ' u ' surgeon’s knife cuts. As the "*nt completely through Joey’s iic surgeons merely reached in 1 an incision and removed the appendix. An examination of it ‘ ' appendix was diseased and • ,i few years Joey would have had '(g° the regular operation- THE CONCORD TIMES Behind Winner iv.v i - '-.viv’.'X X X*. Creighton University has 'beer, sponsoring winning basketball quin tets for the .past three seasons. Anq this year appeared to be n 6 excep tion Judging from the Omaha team’s record. Much of the success ha.earanee is said to have been caus ed by a nervous breakdown due to over work. In announcing the finding of Miss Leginska, Captain John Ayers, of the bureau of missing persons here, issued a statement saying: “Ethel Leginska was Located Sunday at a place outside New York where she is staying with friends. Her disappear ance appeared to have been the direct result of a nervous Dreakdown caused by overwork. “Leginska remembers nothing from the time she left here Sunday, with Miss Liu-ile Oliver, until she was loented. “On request of Miss L,eginskn the lo cation of her friends is withheld, s 6 that she might not be bothered by repre sentatives of the press.” Mi ss Oliver is a close friend of the I pianist and it was she who first, report ed the disappearance to the police. Miss Oliver said that, she and Miss Leginska started from their apartment to Carne gie hall where Miss Leginska was to give a recital and that, while Miss Oliv er went to got a taxicab Miss Leginska disappeared. ’* At first the incident was regarded somewhat dubiously and as a possible •publicity stunt. It was recalled that Miss Leginska had disappeared in much the same manner 15 years ago in Lon don. But whert her absence lengthened into days the police search became more energetic! Miss lieginska generally is conceded to be in the first rank of musicians. She is one of the few women who success fully has conducted orchestras. OFFERS BOUNTY ON CATS: SAYS THEY ARE MENACE Chicago Realtor Hopes to See Catless Cities in Rupture. Chicago. Feb. 2. —R. Sayre, a realtor, has announced that Philadelphia will be a catless city in the near future. Mr. Sayre just lives to destroy eats. He not only lives to destroy cats, but lives to induce all other persons to kill cats. He holds cats up afi the enemy or the human race, explaining this in a pam phlet he has written. When he talks cats he goes on high and speeds- He is offering a bounty on the scalps of cats, but has not paid out much in this direction yet. He names all the sins medical men blame on cats and then adds a score more. They are a menace to children as disense-bearers and have killed off half the songbirds in Michigan. He hopes a catastrophe will hit the next cat show. Mr. Sayre does not differentiate between the cat aristocrat and the alley cat. They are all just cats to him. He is car rying on a wide campaign by mail. With Our Advertisers. C. H. Barrier & Co. will pay you 20 cents a pound for your hens and from 20 to 25 cents a pound for your young , chickens. The Parks-Belk Co. are g : ving a con tinuation of Sale Prices on all winter i goods. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CONCORD, N. C„ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1925 THE BIBLE STORY CONTESTS Practically All the Preliminary Contests Have Been HeU. 1 iactically all of the preliminary con tests in the Bible story contest were held yesterday, a great deal of interest being shown in all the churches of the city. Despite the fact that the prizes of fered for the older children are much greater than those offered to the younger children, there were many more contest ants among the younger children than there were among the the oldes ones The very excellent stories told by the old er children, however, showed that there will be some very warm contests for the trips to Europe and Washington when the finals are held. The ribbons, which were to have been given to the winners in the contests yes terday. did not arrive aud will be dis tributed as soon as thfy reach the city. Final contests will be held on next Sunday and on the' Sunday following. On the Bth of February the first two groups, those in the sges of 5 to 8 and 8 to 12. will be licld; the 5 to 8 group being held i n St. James Lutheran Church at 3:30 in the afternoon. The 8 tol2 group is to be held in the First Baptist Church at 7 :30 that eight. The contest between the participants of the last two groups will be held on the 15th of February. The third group, 12 to 15, will have its finals at Forest Hill Methodist Church’ at 3 :30 in the af ternoon while the fourth grout) contest ans, trying for the trip to Europe, will have their contest at;7:3o in the First; Presbyterian Church. ! Winners of the various churches were as follows: Bp worth Methodist: first group, Eugenia Junkbr-; second group, Mary Gibson Junker; third group. Laura Gladys Barrier; fourth group, Robbie Corzine. There wore fifteen contestants from this church and there would have been more, according to the pastor, had | it not been for the epidemic of the mumps which kept a number from entering. Calvary Lutheran: second group, Ruth Pauline Kester. There were seven con testants for this group but none for the others. < Kerr Street Methodtet, eight contest ants: first group, Esthef Hollander, sec-|i ond group, Margaret Hall. i A. It. P. Church, fourteen contestants: ; second group, Johnson; third group, Wil- < liam B. McClintock. St. James Lutheran, eight contestants: first group, Grace Thomas; second group, Helen Grady ; third grpup, Muriel Wolff, fourth group, Mi hired'Propst. First Presbyterian, fifteen contestants: first group, Sarah Niblock; second group, Elizabeth Parks; third group, Francis Pickard; fourth group, Mary Grady Parks. Forest Hill MethodisJ', twenty contest ants: first group. Marta Miller; second mildred Miller; third group. Cath erineWidenhouse; fourth group. Kath leen Smith. Other which ha ! For Only $2.00 s I THE PRICE OF THE TIMES ALONE The Progressive Farmer is the greatest farm paper published and l every farmer should have it. This offer is open to both new and old subscribers. If you are al- “ 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 !• you a whole year absolutely free of charge. If you are already paid in advance to The Times, just pay $2.00 * i for another year, your subscription will be so marked and we will send you The Progresaive Farmer a full year. Address THE TIMES, Concord, N. C. * • CRICAGO ROBBERS BEIT CUR CONDUCTOR AND GOT SB,OOO TODIT Appeared Suddenly With Shotguns at Cashier’s Cage of Car Barns, and Scooped Up All Money in Sight, MEN FOLLOWED TACTICS OF ARMY No Loss of Life—Three Men Took Posts in Front of the Barn and the Other Four Entered the Office. ( hicago, Feb. 2.—Seven men used ar my tactics following a precept set 22 years ago by the famous Car Barn ban dits. and obtained SB,OOO in a holdup of an outlying barn of the Chicago surface lines early today. i Unlike the robbery of 1003. there was no loss of life. Then two railway com pany employes were slain, three police men lost their lives in the capture of the bandits, and three of the latter paid on the gallows. Today three of the seven appeared suddenly with shot guns at the cashier’s cage, inside of which four men were counting Saturday and Sunday’s receipts, beat two conductors with black jacks! and scooped all money in sight into can vas bags. Tlie victims said the mauuvers of the robbers were timed as though they were employes, as skirmishers in army fash ion. When the automobile halted outside tlie barn office one stood close to the machine. Three others took posts in front of the barn, and the others entered the office. : SURVEY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE PRISON I of 1.287 Prisoners, 182 Are Totally : j Incapacitated. , ; Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 2.—A survey of < the North Carolina State Prison shows - that out of a total population of 1,287, (only 522 arc from, 00 to 100 per cent • efficient physically, according to a stnte- I men issued by Superintendent George ■ lioss Pou. It is further shown that 182 • j prisoners are totally incapacitated and . the physical efficiency of 105 is below ijso per cent. Two hundred, and forfy • four and W td"00 p>r Cent' efficient arid t 234 from 50 to 75 per cent efficient. Superintendent Pou ha(s also made a study of the j>er capita operating ex penses of twenty-one prisons. For the twenty-one, the average i 55305.62, as comiwired with $356.45 for North Caro lina. It is shown that the lowest annual per capita cost is ineurre at the Brushy Mountain Peniteniary, in Tennessee, where it cost only $244.55 to keep a prisoner a year, while the Canada Pris on leads with $564.75. States that oper ate on a per capita loss than North Car olina’s are: Pennsylvania $350. 40; Vir ginia, $370.20; Connecticut, $348.57; Missouri, $31755 ; Mary 1and.5316.00 ; South Carolina, $307.80; Kentucky $306.01; Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, $274.30 ; Georgia. $200.60: Tennessee, (Brushy Mountain) $244.55. Ten prisons in the survey show a geater per capita cost than North Caro lina. Distribution of the per diem expense of each prisoner in the North Carolina prison has been figured out by Snperin eent; tobacco, 02.00 per cent; outer gar cent; tobacco,o2.oo per cepit; ourer gar ments, 06.40 per cent ; under garments, 01-60 per cent; shoes, 06.00 per cent; medical and attention, 06.05 per cent; medicine, 01.45 per cent; germicides, 00.75 per cent; soaps. 01.25 tier cent; bedding. 06.80 per cent; guarding, 33.40 per cent. Dr. Sun Yat Sen a Trifle Stronger To day. Peking, Feb. 2 (By the Associated Preqs).—Dr. Sun Yat Sen. leader of the government of South China, who has been critically ill here sinee he was op erated upon for cancer, was a trifle stronger today, although his condition was unchanged otherwise. Flipper. “Do you believe in kissing promiscuously?” , Flapper: “I should say not- Tlie o’d fashioned way is good enough for me.” Why Death? • ” Prof M F Ouvpf of the University of Wisconsin believes that death can be averted He basies his belief on the fact that he has been able to keep cells and tissues of a human bodv alive for an indefinite period j He uses a chemical solution contain ing lithium chloride Death, he says, results from parasitic accumulations In human cells and can be corrected bv reluvenating the tissues. . THE CASES OF GASTON MEANS ANI) T. B. FELDER “, Each Is Granted a Stay of Ninety Days j to Prepare Writs of Error and Ap peal. New York World ,31st. Gaston B. Means, for whom a dappled career as “international investigating genius,” department of justice agent, murder trial defendant and senatorial in vestigation witness has gained national notoriety, and Thomas B. Felder, wide ly known New York lawyer and friend or former Attorney General Daugherty, were found guilty yesterday of conspir acy to bribe Daugherty and other gov ernment officials. Means, for the second time in six months, was taken to the Tombs under sentence of two years in Atlanta and a .SIO,OOO fine, the maximum in Federal District Court for conviction of conspir acy. Felder Escapes With Fine. Felder, because of his age and the jury’s recommendation fOif clemency, re ceived no prison sentence but was fined SIO,OOO. Conviction came as a visible shock to the rather feeble lawyer. Pending the result of the appeals both announced would be taken at once. Fel der's bail of $5,000 was continued, white Means’ imprisonment followed his failure to put up a new SIO,OOO bond. Judge Bindley granted each a stay of ninety days to prepare writs of error and appeal, during which, it was said in legal quarters, Felder will be ethically unable to practice. If his conviction is upheld, disbarment will follow automaticaly. Means’ Bond Already $40,000. Means already is under $40,000 bail, of which $25,000 was required pending settlement of his appeal from conviction last .Tune, with Elmer W. Jarnecke. >f conspiracy to violate the prohibition law, and $15,000 on a blanket indictment which has not yet been tried. His counsel, Abram I. Menin, argued yesterday this amount should not be in creased, but the motion was overruled. Since he was brought here from Con cord, N. C., for the trial which ended yesterday, the former government investi gator has been held in the-custody of the United States marshal without bail. His sentence last summer Wair the same as that imposed yesterday, and Judge Bind ley, at the request of Hiram C. Todd, special assistant attorney general, who prosecuted both charges, ordered they should not run concurrently. Jarnecke, formerly Means’ aid and con fident, who was sentenced to serve two years in Atlanta and fined $5,000 last summer, and who pleadbd gnilty at (he tttxrt of the present trial, was not sen tenced yesterday. The court ( announced it would postpone sentence to‘June 30th, pending the result of Jarnecke’s appeal from his previous conviction. Means’ ex-buddy was the principal witness against him and Felder, and testified be is now employed by the government at sll a day. Sealed Verdic|< Returned. The verdict, which was announced at 10:30 o’clock yesterday morning, was reached at 8:30 o’clock Thursday night but was sealed by order of Judge Bind ley. Felder’s small figure shook as the jury’s finding was read by the clerk of the* court, but Means’ large, placid face reflected no emotion. Before sentence was pronounced in the jury’s recommendation for clemency for I elder, pointing out that the lawyer's possible disbarment would be considerable punishment. Court Pronounces Sentences. Then, pronouncing sentence, the court said: t “I have never had a more difficult situ ation than this. lam a member of a profession I love and which I think its members love to the highest degree of those of any profession. * It is a pro j session which abhors the slightest devia | ft.n from the path of honor and integrity and which demands unusual qualities despite statements to the contrary. “When I see a member of that pro fession brought before me for a sentence I am moved, but it would serve ho good purpose to continue. “As to the defendant, Means, there is no question in my mind that he did vio late the law. I sentence him to two years’ imprisonment at Atlanta and a fine of SIO,OOO. and the defendant Felder to a fine of $10,000.” Felder, who is sixty-three, has been practicing for forty-two years, during which he has appeared in notable crim inal and civil suits in New York. Don’t look tor trouble unless you know 1 what to do with it when you find it. Ij $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. : W&T .STILL r ” PHIOIED BY HUGE BOULDER AT CAVE CITY Where He Has Been Since Friday Morning—Devotes Conscious Moments to Di recting the Workers. PORTABLE DRILL TO BE BROUGHT IN . With This Drill the Rescuers Hope to Cut Away Enough of the Loose Stone to Re lease the Victim. Gave City, Ky., Feb. 2.—Hope came with the dawn today to Sand Cave wherein one of its crooked little crevices 300 feet from the *>ntrance, Floyd Col lins, 35 years old. has lain pinioned by I a huge boulder since Friday morning. A squad of men,bringing a portable drill was to leave Louisville early today. A truck was here ready to transport the equipment to the cave, six miles away. With this drill the rescuers hope to cut away enough of the stone to release the • victim. ► & His strength slowly ebbing. Collins de voted his conscious moments to directing 5 the workers who for more than forty hours have been chipping tiny flakes from the huge rock in a futile effort to release Collins’ foot, all that was between himu ’ and safety. ▼ ’ Handicapped by the lack of tools and ’ the narrow passage, the rescuers have ’ made but little headway, but have kept unceasingly at their task. Water seep | iug in from the ce-covered cliff added to the discomfort of Colons, and the men ’ who had squirmed through the crevice to take him food and to do what little else they could. OfTer of SSOO to Amputate Collins’ Leg. : Louisville, Ky., Feb. 2.—An offer of SSOO to any reputable surgeon who will crawl through San Cave to Floyd Col lins, chloroform the imprisoned man ami amputate his leg, was made by Homer Collins, brother of the victim, says a dis patch to the Post today. If Collins is saved, it kill be a miracle, says a staff correspondent for the Post. The water was rising slow ly about the entombed man at 8 o’clock and if a drill rushed from Bousville fails r jto arrive promptly, it .is feared Collii*» may be doomede. He has been told that the drill is expected soon. “I can’t stand it much longer,” the ■ Post correspondent quotes him. MAN PINIONED 36 HOURS BENEATH ROCK IN CAVE Fowl Carried to Him Through Small Tunnel, But Rescuers I’noble to Move Boulder. Cave City, N. Y., Feb., 1. —Pinioned*' by a heavy boulder in a -narrow passage way, 300 feet from the entrance of Sand Cave, Floyd Collins tonight still still was imprisoned and fear was ex pressed that unless he soon wns treed he would succumb- All day today men and boys of slender build squirmed through the rueh filled passage, taking food and drink to him. At one time in the afted, a boy found him unconscious. Collins was exploring the passage Friday morning when a cave-in caught one of bis feet, making it impossible for him to move. Workmen have tunneled a small hole to him but have been unable * to njove the boulder. Charlotte Candidates Announced For Office. Charlotte. Jan. 3B —31.—N. W. Wal lace Commissioner of Public Safety, and W- S. Stancill, Commissioner of Pub lic Works, tonight announced 1 ' their can didacy for re-election and R.. Horace Moore, former police chief and Char lotte first commissioner of Public Safety, anounced his intention of run ning for the Public Safety commission ership in the municipal primaries in April. Senate Committee for Second Time Re ports Stone Nomination Favorably. Washington, Feb. 2.—For a second time the Senate judiciary committee to day ordered a favorable report on the nomination of Attorney General Stone to be a supreme court justice. Members of the committee said there were no votes in opposition when the committee acted today, but that some of the Senators withheld their votes. ! Pretty Syrian Girl Figures ia Big Suit-. Suit were filled in Wake County last week by Anisa Fadoil, Syrian girl, and her father, C. K. Fadoil, againot A. B. Saleenby, N. J. Rboud. George Nassef, Ely Joseph, J. A. Abeyounis and J. R. Abeyouni*. for damages amounting to SIOO,OOO. The damage* are asked for a false marriage intp which tne girl claims she was tricked, and a false ar rest which her father alleges was hatch ed against him. WHAT SMITTY’S CAT SAYS ■ I ■ Rain tonight, colder in west portion * Tuesday partly cloudy and colder, prob ably rain on northeast coast, NO. 59