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SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher LUME XLIX fey Reach Collins In |0 ave Sometime T uesday ft Behind Schedule Now fte to Falls in Shaft Sun-| ft. But Faster Progress Is sting Made at Present. MtsTOXE cover I HAS BEEN PASSED fters Think Falls Will Not ft ur Fnder Limestone.— ft-hing Heard From Cave ft ere Collins Is Held. City. Ky.. Feb. 16 (By the As- K i> r ,.vO. —Surmounting serious K ;n; ,| ~\cn-oming large falls, it i a question of cubic yards trmii tlie Floyd Collins rescue ~ to reach the void which K,l .iy t«> him. sajdjin official <j at S o’clock) this morn* a- it re<iuires one hour cubic foot of material, im in reaching Collins must tin* bulletin said. Hiai viatement timed 7 a. m., H, llilt at s a. in. by H. T. Car-: K yi F. l’osey and Gen. H. H. Kit. i'ollovs: "ni the lateral heading last K. vci-v encouraging, a distance of Kf, vm .the main shaft. jiu«l attempts Kiii>; math* to break through the Km" roof and drill vertically to the K the existence of which is deter- Kfi-cia ihe core drill leg. K|.;, trouble was encountered during Kt few feet of the head'ng and falls Kinnefotis. but it is being well tim- K u ,i is considered safe. Kjearioa- are said will be found in Kcimr which will facilitate work. from this time forward will he slow, as material mijist be hi a narrow passage from man K to the bucket in the main shaft. 1 Kmuaht tiiar the avenue referred to : K> an extension or branch of the and Cave channel in which Col- K and it is thought that the rescu cannot lh* more than 10 feet ! Hti'Vrr as conditions are such as to one hour to transport one cubic _ Ks niater’al from the face of the tu tlte bucket in the shaft, im- K results in reaching Collins must [■expected. felt that the most serious of the ! lias been surmounted,* and it is . «*f •cs.ld'* yard*; and Hr.nl Collins is reached.” ■ Work Behind Schedule. H* City. Feb. 16 —The work of the Ktion incident to the rescue of ! KCo'Jins from his Sand Cave prison Knd. it was learned from good au- Hps today. made during the night re ■ this morning that a lateral from , Hain shaft wound around and ap- H beyond the dangerous rock-strata ■ caused numerous slides and has Hi! the roof on an avenue in which Htomhdl man is believed to lie. Hi in-tead of limestone and heavy , encountered after midnight and Hm-k progressed with increased ( ■ Tin tunnel was pushed nearly Bet farther after midnight, it was ■'n~ is believed to be held captive ■depth of 6S feet. The lateral ■ is now some fifteen feet long has Hd the sjxty-foot level, and no more H*>iis or heavy boulders are expeet- B> panned to tap the cave avenue Bh the roof and extend the lateral Bn* natural passageway. This ave- Bay b*“ tilled with rock debris, but Bts no serious ecavation problems, Brs believe. B estimated distance to Collins de- I on the route followed by the nat ■avenue. Mis’place of imprison ■ is not far distant from where the Bs are now working, but they expect Blow the passageway, although it Bift'-r a Mimewhat longer distance to Bassage. ■ 1 Carmichael, director of the res- B'oi'k, is more optimistic today than B- the night when several falls oc |« in the lateral. One of these falls Bim on the head as he was directing B'ork. Tlie fall, however, contained *>ck and Carmichaeal was not in le* sun will not rise on me at Sand , W I'dnesday morning,’’ Carmichael •ried tliic- morning. > natural crevice has been found. Dr. Ik Funkhouser said. “My first es b‘ of the time Floyd Collins will be ad which was Tuesday night, still Is." he said. er Collins Tries to Get Into Shaft. lv, ‘ City. Ky., Feb. 16 (By the Asso d lbess).—Homer Collins, brother ’'"yd Collins, trapped in Sand Cave ln*re. ;it 10:30 this morning broke h" military guard on duty at the cave a. most succeeded in reaching and go down the shaft when a rumor reaeh -11111 that Floyd was being brought up shaft. AuivloiuU Soldiers on Guard. avp City. Feb. 16 (By the Associated ,s| ' —Additional soldiers were as •*d to guard duty around the Sand area this morning. This is the Cme that the guard has been in ls,*d since official reports were issued fescue workers had found tissues laterals extending from the side of idmtt being sunk to bring Collins a his trap. Haywood still In Russia. losoow, Feb. 16 (By the Associated • *■ Imports from America that Big 'Haywood, the former I. W. W. lead -1!ul returned to the United States untrue. Ho is employed as a trav 's speaker by the International So ' |" 1- Relief of Workmen in prisons ", a ' ' an, i has just compelled a tour of Russia in which he made sixty ? speeches. THE CONCORD TIMES m I ~ BISHOP CANNON DENOUNCES I MODERN WOMEN TENDENCIES They Spend Millions for Paint. Powder and Lipstick St tiff, He Says. While the Needs cf the Church Go Begging. Greensboro, Feb. 15.—Ret ailing that I women <;f the country ispent one hundred j and seventeen million dollars last year ! for "paint, powder and lipstick stuff,” Bishop James Cannon, of Richmond, Va., of the Southern Alethodist Church, in a talk here today, said that he is "simply disgusted with the women.” He said he had no apologies to make for the worn-1 en. He was talking on the centenary mis sionary program of the church and the great need of money for missions, com paring that with the vast expenditures i made by people for other things. He read the other day that Gloria Swanson had got married for the third time and that she announced she had signed a contract for seven thousand dol lars a week —in other words, he said, that girl is going to inave three hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars a year. Tlie baseball world series games played in -Washington cost more than one mil lion dollars, he estimated, counting the cost of persons getting there, getting in and getting back home. Football, movies, automobiles running into billicus, cigarettes, iputiplied by mil lions—he named these spendings of peo ple. and while not decrying these amuse ments, he wanted to show that the conn tty has great wealth and that the prose-' cution of the cenenary program,. under full steam, would not involve any undue sacrifice on tlie part of the people. Pastors and laymen from Guilford, Randolph and Rockingham counties rep resenting t\vent.t-four charges of the j Greensboro district of the Methodist | Episcopal Church. South, in special con ference at West Market Ctreet Church I here this afternoon, pledged themselves j to unswerving prosecution of the great: centenaiy program and other missionary activities projected by the church. Morning and afternoon sessions were held. Fred X. Tate, of High Point, dis trict lay leader, presiding. The feature of the morning service was the sermon by Bishop Cannon, who has charge of the missionary program in Mexico. Cuba and i the Congo. His subject was, “God’s j ’Challenge to the. Church of Our Day.” j The bishop is tremendously interested ( in the plan to raise $16,000,000. the j amount remaining unpaid on centenary j pledges made in southern Methodism in j 1018, the original pledges having totaled ’ ... j* SEEKING MORE LIGHT ON AIRCRAFT STATUSj Lieut. Commander Badger of Naval Ortl- j nance Bureau, Is Called Before tlie Committee. Washington, Feb. 16.—More expert i opinion in the aircraft controversy was I sought by the House a’reraft committee I on resuming the hearing here today with j a definite line of inquiry charted for the week. To obtain further light on the question of the effectiveness of the anti-aircraft guns, as to which sharply differing testi mony has been presented. s the committee called as a witness Lieut. Commander j Badger of the naval ordnance bureau.j Queens College Endowment Campaign j Organization Completed. Charlotte. N. C.. Feb. 16.—The entire organization of the Queens College En-j dowment campaign for $300,000 to be, launched early in April, has been coni- J pleted, it is announced today by Mai- j colm Lockhart, Director of the cam paign. . A large number of prominent and in- j fluential citizens of Charlotte and the | ,State are sponsoring this campaign to | endow Queens. Capable chairmen and, committees have been selected and plans j are being rapidly completed for the in- j tensive canvass to be made early in , April. The chairmen of the several di visions and the quotas allotted to oac'i are as follows: McAlister Carson, General Chairman; Thos. M. Glasgow, Chairman Large Gifts Committee, quota \ $50,000; John A. Mcßae, chairman of Charlotte Cainpa'gn. quota $75,000; j Mrs. O. C. Hook. Chairman Woman's Di-j vision, quota $75,000 including alumnae;; Mrs. John I). Shaw, Chairman Alumnae Division, quota $25.000; Miss Anuie i Parks Moore. Chairman Student Division. With Queens College recognized by the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States. North i Carolina will have four colleges for worn- J en that are member cmolleges of the Southern Association; Georgia has three. South Carolina has three, Virginia has two, and hte States of Florida, Maryland, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi have one each. North Carolina will lead the South in Accredited Colleges for women •when Queens becomes a member of the | Association. Would Increase Salary of Members of Congress. Washington. Feb. 16. —A bill to in crease the salaries of the members of Congress from $7,500 to SIO,OOO a year was reported today by the Senate finance 1 committee. It was introduced by Sen ' ator Ball, a republican, of Delaware. Stone Mountain Fund Gets SIOO,OOO From Mr. Barlow. Atlanta Feb. 15—The fund being raised to complete the Confederate memorial on Stone mountain neai At lant has been increased by SIOO,OOO, ac cording to an announcement from Camuel Venable, owner of the moun tain, published here today. Frederick W. Upham Dead. Palm Beach, Fla., 15.—Frederick William Upham. of Chicago, years the financial genius of the G. O. P., and nationally prominent figure in the business world, died at his winter home in Palm Beach this afternoon at the age of 64. Shaft to Collins’ “Tomb” W •. . X;.'.. v u . 4gypr~Hr*T”*t In m 4 xi InHfl Btiilii '■ A 4 BiSl mam' \Vhi-|i* mining expe“ts sunk' 1 tlie 60-foot shaft above Sand < t x. City. Ky.. to reach Floyd Collins, first trapped by a boulder and then en« tombed by a cave-in in the only entrance, a small winding tunnel. COOPERS ARE TO EACH SERVE IN FEDERAL PRISON Fome Lieutenant Governor oi State is Found to Be Guilty. Wilmington, N. C-, ' Feb. 14.—A jury in the United States District court today found former Lieutenant Gov- i ernor IV. li. Cooper and Thomas E. Cooper guilty on four counts of misap propriation of the funds of the Com- ] mercial National Bank and of making of j j false entries on the books of the iustitu- h tition. i Federal , Judge J. C. Rose senteneed 11 T. E. Cooper to three years in At- 1 1 lanta penitentiary on each count and \ W. B. Cooper to 18 months on each < count. The sentence; will run concur- ] rently. * < In a charge of an hours duration. ; Federal Judge J. C. Rose presented the i law governing the charges against j Thomas E. Cooper, and W. B. Cooper, 1 who have faced trial during the past J < seven day*; on various counts incolving t alleged violations of the National bank- i ing laws. The s-harge was regarded at* a 1 *ri'Mi of tlv* pyii‘4-iple>;. eni - ! rounding the cities, although as wa4 to < be expected, quite a number of ex- < ceptions were filed by attorneys for the j ] two defendants. These exceptions were 11 permitted by the court, and will repre-, I sent a part, of the record in the event j < the oa.st¥; eventually should go to the « Circuit Court of Appea’s under appeal 11 from possible verdicts in the district j < court. In the commencement of the charge, ii Judge Rose indicated - that while originally there were thirteen counts in i the bill of indictment, nine of these nad J been abandoned by the Government. The i four remaining charges, the court stated, j i i involved general allegations of mi sap- J I propriation of funds, and of maxing j j false entries with intent to deceive, eitli -ler the comptroller of the currency or j I National bank inspectors. ’ I I TOM COOPER WILL SERVE SENTENCE ’ To Withdraw His Appeal and Leave for Atlanta Prison Wednesday. Wilmington, Feb. 15. —-Imser in his i gamble with a hunch as his stake that j one member of the jury would refuse to convict him, Thomas. E. Cooper, former • president of the defunct Commercial Na i tional Bank, will on Wednesday of this 1 | week withdraw his appeal for a new trial •and go to At’anta to begin his three-year, sentence in the federal prison, according to friends who were in conference with him in. the New Haijoye.r county otockade ; today. i .... I No longer ago than Friday morning | 1 just before court convened for the last I testimony against him. Cooped declined (flatly overtures that were made that he; (enter a plea of guilty on one count, ac -1 cept a sentence of three years in the At- j ! lanta prison while a nol pros would be j taken in the cases pending against his brother, W. B. Cooper, indicted and con victed with him. He stuck to his faith in his luck and lost. | , I Accused of Theft. She Sues for SIO,OOO. Greensboro. Feb.. 15.—A SIO,OOO dam* i age suit is the result of a girl being ar- | rested in High Point accused of the theft ! of a 15-cent handkerchief. Nellie Trotter is plaintiff in the suit, I the complain of which i« filed in Guil ford Superior Court here, and charges that last December while in Gilmer’s Store in High Point she was seized by * she arm by G. L. Byerly, employe of the defendant,-Gilmers, Inc., while she was inspecting the handkerchief with the ? prospect of buying it. This was done j ! in the presence of a large number of per-1 . sons, the complaint states, and she claims that'her character was damaged thereby. It is further contended that she was j compelled to say in jail for 24 hours until bail could be arranged and that when the case came up in municipal Court she was found not guilty. More AntoToxin For Nome. Nome. Alaska, Feb. 16 (By the Asso ciated Press). —Ed. Rolin and his dogs arrived at noon today in a blizzard with diphtheria antitoxin. Crossing Norton Sound, two of his dogs fell into a tissue of the ice. Nomination of Humphrey Approved. ■Washington, Feb. 16. —The nomina tion of Wm. E. Humphrey, to be a mem ber of the Federal Trade Commission, was approved today by the Senate lnter ! state Commerce Committee. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1925 in.. -in. •• 5 <c -• 'MAN OR MONKEY’ IS SUBJECT OF MINISTER Norfolk Preacher Uses Live Monkey to Illustrate Argumertt Against' Evolu tion Tehory. Norfolk. Va.. FobJ Ip.—A congrega tion that overflowed j the Park avenue Baptist church tonight heard the pas tor. the Rev. Floyd T. Holland, D. D. preached on man or monkey, in which he used a live monkey to illustrate his argument, against thg theory of evolu tion. The climax caigp late in the ser mon when the monkey, borrowed from a local zoo and placed a few foot from the pulpit during tbs minister’s dis course was held aloft in the pulpit as I>r. Holland pointed |to the simian and challenged any one jto stano- up nd acknowledge common’! ancestry with the animal. There was n<> response. In announcing Dr. Hol land said he was not actuated by sensationalism but hid chosen the par ticular-theme becAuHLnf the introduc tion of a measure in the North Caro lina legislature .desijtaed to discourage the teaching in ppo rted r schools of the Darwinian, them*? of the origin of man. He based his contentions large ly on the book of Genesis and declare;] that a. belief in evolution precluded a belief in the Bible. “The Bible must stand or fall on its reliability as the in spired word of (iod and if we cannot believe in the statements of the Bible we can not believe in religion,” he added. The minister pointed out what he said were discrepancies between calcula tions scientists as to the origin of man. characterized them as guessers and bit terly scored _ the teaching ofany such doctrine in .the schools and colleges of the country. THE COTTON MARKET Opened at Decline of tt to 11 Points in Repsonse to Lower Liverpool Cables. New York. Feb. 16. —The cotton mar ket opened at a decline of 6 to 11 points today in response to lower Liverpool cables and better prospects for rain in the southwest. Rumors of a sharp break in Egyptian cotton also were a factor in the decline, which carried the price of May contracts off to 24.42 before the end of the first hour, or about eighteen points net lower. Liverpool bought? near months, but sold later de liveries here, while there was consider able commission house liquidation of both old and new crop positions. The opening prices were: March 24.1; ; Mav 24.53; July 24.79; Oct. 24.65; Dec 24.67. With Our Advertisers. ! Full fashioned hosiery only 98 cents at J. C. Peney Co’s. Made of pure thread silk. ! Get a Myers pump for spraying from i Yorke and Wadsworth Co. | All kinds of work clothes for men and boys at the Tarks-Belk Co. See ad. in this paper. You will be surprised at the big bar gains you can get at the Rutb-Kesler Co’s, during their remodeling sale. See change today in the ad. of the Browns-Cannon Co. Guilford College Professor Takes Own | 1 Life. | Greensboro, Feb. 16.—Lee M hite. i head of the department of education at Guilford College near here, was found dead in the yarfl of his home near here shortly after 7 o’clock this morning. Mrs. White heard a shot and when she hur ried into the yard the body of her hus band was found with a pistol by its side. ' Mr. White had been a member of Guil i ford College faculty for the last five years jand was popular as well as efficient. Federal Judge FounJ Dead. Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 16. —Federal | Judge John Franklin Mogee. of Minne ! apolis, was found dead yesterday in his chamber at the federal building. A bullet wound was in his temple and a pistol with one exploded cartridge was found by his side. He was 65 years old. It is believed that ill health caused i the judge to take his life. L 1 Adopted Child Not Heir. An adopted child cannot inherit from , its parents’ relatives; according to a rul- I ing by the Wisconsin supreme court in 1 the case of James Bradley, of Milwaukee, -1 who left a $4,000,000 estate. His only -1 heir was a niece, Edna Tweedy. An . j adopted child of another deceased broth -; er claimed half the estate. The court I ruled that the niece was entitled to all. l MARY L.ffI’CATHERN WINS FIRST PRIZE 111 STORY CONTEST Winner Is Student at Sun derland School and She In tends to Take Trip to Eu rope Given as First Prize. GREAT INTEREST SHOWN IN STORIES Muriel Wolff, Catherine Wid enhouse and Francis Pick ard Win Group Prizes and Trip to National Capital. Sunderland Hall is all agog with ex citement today aft a result of the victory of one of the students of that institu tion in the Bible Story Contest held at the First Presbyterian Church last night. There is good reason for The excitement, too. As a result of the victory, Mary Louise McCathren wins a trip to Europe. Mary Louise is barely 17. Her father and mother are Jxith dead and for the past few years she has been living with relatives at Rocky River. Her parents died during the flu epidemic which swept the country during 1918. It has been one of her fondest ambitions to travel, but naturally she was unable to get around a great deal. Her longest jour uer was a trip she made several years ago to Virginia. When the announcement came out about the contest and the trip to Europe as the grand prize. Mary Louise saw her chance. Despite the fact that she had made an effort a year ago in the contest and had not even drawn a place among the first three contestants, she set dili gently to work to gjet a story in shape. Her story chosen, she labored over the memorizing and calling her instructors to help with the manner of telling it. In the contest, she stood before the eongregation which packed every inch of the Presbyterian Church and calmly gave a narration of some of St. Paul’s expe riences. There was never a quaver nor was there a hesitancy from the time she started until she had finished. During the entire recital, the audience was spell bound. She took her victory very calmly and when questioned about it, gave all the credit o£ v winning. tpuckers however, had a different story to tell, insisting that she had won by hard work. Other contestants in the group four who received mention were Helen Brown. McKinnon Presbyterian Church, and Mary Elizabeth Davis, Trinity Reform ed. These were given second and third places respectively. In the contest of group three. Cather ine Widen house of the Forest HiW Meth odist Church, won first place, Francis Pickard of the First Presbyterian Church, won second and Muriel Wolff of St. James Lutheran Church, won third. Each of these winners received the prize >f a trip to Washington. This contest was held at the Forest Hill Methodist Church before a full house. *— Jji shaking of the [audience which at tended the First Presbyterian Church last night. Rev. J. C. Rowan said that it was a larger crowd than was present to hoar Billy Sunday on his visit to Con cord last year. H. W. Blanks this morning expressed his appreciation to the pastors and Sun day School Superintendents of tlie city for their co-operation in making this contest such a success. At the conclusion of the contest last night, the winners of the other three groups were presented with the medals, cups and other prizes. The contcs-tants of group 3 were: No. I—John1 —John Fink. Mt. Olive Methodist. No. 2 —Ella Mae Dees—St. Andrews Lutheran. No. 3 —Essie Caudle—Westford Meth odist. | / No. 4—Francis Pickard, First Presby terian. No. s—Mable Hudson, Sunderland Hall. No. 6—Mm. MeClintock, A. R. P. No. 7—Catherine Widenhouse, Forest Hill Methodist. No. B—Muriel Wolff, St. James Luth eran. No. 9—Ruth Dnyvault—Central Meth odist. No. 10 —Walena Crooks, McKinnon Presbyterian. V No. 11 —Pauline Lowder, \ Methodist Protestant. f No. 12 —Mildred Turner, Second Pres . byterian. , , No. 13 — Laura G. Barrier, Epworth Methodist. The contestants for group 4 were: No. I—Minnie1 —Minnie Davis, "Westford Meth odist. No. 2—Mildred Propst, t. James Luth . eran. No. 3—Robbie Corzine, Epworth Meth odust. No. 4—Donald Wauchope, Second . Presbyterian. 1 No. s—Gatha5 —Gatha Sides, Methodist Protest ’ ant. ’ No. G —Helen Brown, McKinnon Pres \ byterian. No. 7 —Curtis Keppner, St. Andrews ’ Lutheran. j No. B—MaryB—Mary Grady Parks, First Presbyterian. J No. 9—Mary McEachern —Sunderland Hall. No. 10—Curtis Keppner, St. Andrews i Lutheran. No. 11—Clarerice Steward, Mt. Olive. i No. 12 —Mary E. Davis, Trinity Re formed. f ■ i A bout between Lou Tendler and K. - O. Mars drew the largest attendance of t any of te 25 boxing shows held in Cin !. cinnati during T. 924. WORK OF STATE LEGISLATURE Important Bills Are Expected to Be En acted Into Laws During Present Week. Raleigh, Feb. 16 (By the Associated Press). —With the peak of the sessi**- apparently just ahead, C' sembly, following another \ pite. will meet tonight at 8\ members are returning toda\ homes were ready to tackle big tasks, both in the legislative halls and in committee rooms. This week, it is predicted by lawmak ers, Will see some of the major legislation, including highway and bus bills, and probably a state wide game bill enacted into law. Evolution fight will come up tomorrow night and it is expected to draw many spectators. A minority re port will be considered. Wit'll a tentative revenue bill drawn up, the joint finance committees will spend the greater part of the week going over this proposed measure section by section, even line by line, in an attempt to squeeze dollars out of every available sentence: Members are free in the ex pression that this and the appropriation bill form the major task of legislative session. There will be every effort ex erted to co-ordinate these two measures so as to make them fit. with a view to set ting up a balanced budget. Backing up this effort, Representative Connor has introduced an executive budget bill, em bodying the recommenedations of Gov ernor McLean in detail. There will be an effort made to put the state on a cash and carry basis, to prevent the recurrence of any deficit. The game bill has many interested bankers; the evolution measure will call for sharp debates on how far the State would go in regulating pedagogical pre- I rogatives; the bus bill is all but agreed upon; and the executive budget is expect ed to be accepted in some form as it ap pears in liue with present trend of leg islative and executive expressed opinions. Local measures will continue to claim some of the attention of the representa tives but the fiscal polcies to be shaped are clearly the outstanding problems be fore the 1925 session of the general as sembly. MRS. C. C. CODDINGTON DIED SUDDENLY TODAY Had Been Prominent in Social and Civic Life of Charlotte For Several Years. Charlotte, Feb. 16.—Mrs. Margery Ly on Coddington. Wife of C. C. Coddington. prominent automobile distributor, died at her home here early today of heart trou ble, superinduced by indigestion. Funer al arrangements have not been completed. Mrs. Coddington is said to have appar ently been in the best of health, and for several days had been hostess to a house party of out of town guests. I)r. Baxter Moore, who attended her, sa : d that late Sunday night she suffered an attack of developed early today and she died in less than an hour. The hour of the funeral has not been arranged, pending the arrival of her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Lvon. of Atlan tic City, N. J., and a sister, Mrs. Fran ces Lyon Holmes, also of Atlantic City. Mrs. Coddington is survived also by her husband and three sons. Mrs. Coddington was forty years old. Shb was born in Thomasville and spent tlie greater part of her life in Greens boro, marrying Mr. Coddington in 1908. In 1909 they moved to Charlotte. She was prominent in social apd civic affairs of the city. Mersey’s Mammoth Tunnel. London, Feb. 16. —The great tunnel about to be built under the Mersey riv er. linking Liverpool with Birkenhead and other towns of the south bank of the river, will be the largest in exis tence. It will have an internal diameter of forty-four feet, and will be built of cast iron with a lining of concrete, the space between the cast iron and the sand stone rock being filled with a mixture of cement and lime forced in under pres sure. • The main roadway on the upper deck will be thirty-six feet wide, and will ac commodate two lines of traffic along in either direction. On the lower- level there will be a double set of railway tracks. The narrowest part of the river, where the tunnel is to be built, varies in width from 3,00 tot 3,600 feet, but the ap proaches to the tunnel will be the great er part of a mile in length. The esti mated cost of the tunnel is about $135,- (XX),000. Cotton Groups Hohl Parley. Austin, Texas, Feb. 16. —Plans for a campaign looking toward increasing pro duction here of cotton per acre and bet ter methods of marketing cotton, will be formulated here this week at a con ference of the Southern Commissioners of Agriculture Association. The call for the conference was issued by B. E. Harris, commissioner of agriculture of South Carolina, who is president of the association. Ways and means to curb the activities of the cotton speculator and to insure the cotton farmer an equitable price for his product will be one of the mo#t important problems to receive the attention of the agricultural commissioners. Expensive Cartridges. London, Feb. 16.—A record price for shotgun cartridges is that paid by a French millionaire sportsman, who has had them sent from Paris to Scotland by aeroplane. Each one cost him twen ty francs. On his Inciting trip in Scot land he carried shotguns of a special make, and when he reached his destina tion he found that he was unable to ob tain ammunition for this type of gun. 1 So he hired an aeroplane and sent his secretary to buy some in Paris. Harriot Against Inflation. Paris, Feb. 16 (By the Associated . Press). —Premier Herriott in explaining the government's financial policy to the chamber of deputies this afternoon de ’ clared emphatically against inflation. “Cost what it may,” he said, “France must in the solution of this problem .[maintain her reputation for financial P |probity. . Cost what it may. she must ..resist all temptation to abandon the pol j icy of avoiding inflation.” $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. FILIBUSTER MOVE ’Senate seems LIKELY TO OCCUR - * V Night Sessions Are Started In Effort to Clear the Slate But Filibuster May Defeat the Measures. HOUSE IN BETTER SHAPE AT PRESENT There Many of the More Im portant Bills Have Passed. —Session Will Adjourn on March Fourth Washington. Fob. 16.—With the Sen ate inaugurating regular night sessions the sixty-eighth Congress set its pace to day for the home stretch wh'oh finds much to be accomplished to put through even the more important of pending mea sures; before its expiration in a little more than two weeks ahead. With the House clear of the regular supply bills and moving leisurely with other matters, the legislative jam is more or less centered in the Senate. Although leaders hope the night sessions will accel erate the pace there, a filibuster move is drawing strength from the opposition to several measures. The emergency of ficers retirement bill which has the right pf way today, the Cape Cod measur.e and conference report on Muscle Sholas to be considered later in the week all face determined opposition. While satisfied that all of the appro priation bills, several of which still wait action in the Senate, will be sent to*the White House before adojurnment March 4th, the Senate and Hriuse leaders have no such confidence as to the fate of sev eral other important measures. Not able among these are the postal pay and rate increase bill, and farm relief leg islation. ANOTHER PROTEST IS LODGED AGAINST HOOVER Witness Before House Committee Says Secretary' Hoover Wants to Dominate American Agriculture. Washington, Feb. 16. —Apearing before the House agricultural committee today, George N. Peek, president of the Ameri can Council of Agriculture entered a pro test oveV what -hr termed the domina tion of American agriculture by Secre tary Hoover, of the commerce depart ment. The recommendations of the Presi dent’s agricultural conference, the wit ness, contained nothing which had not already been formulated by Mr. Hoover, and he quoted Mr. Hoover as having said the furiction of the department of agri culture should end with farm production apd preparation. Transportation and marketing, he declared, were held by Mr. Hoover to be the function of his depart ment. Enactment of a revised McXary- Haugen farm export measure was advo cated •by the witness who also favored special session of Congress, if neeesssary, to enact remedial farm legiclntion. Produce 95 Bales of Cotton 05 Acres. DunnJ Feb. 15. —G. L. W. Jackson, ? oae of Harnett county’s best farmers, gathered a total of 05 bales of cotton averaging more than 500 pounds each from 05 acres planted last year on the outskirts of Dunn. While a number of Dunn din tr : ct farmers have been known to produce ]two bales per acre on a small tract, it' is not thought the record of Mr. Jackson on 05 acres has been ex celled. Harnett was one of the few east ern comities which produced a larger cotton crop Ist year than in 1023. Judge Boyil Celebrates Eightieth An-i raver sary. Greensboro. Feb. 15. —Judge James E. Boyd, of the western North Carolina ! federal district, Saturday observed the 8()th annivensity of his birth. Judge Boyd, who has been ill for the past year, appears to have recovered prac tically and seems to be gaining every day. He underwent an operation at a hospital here during his illness. Gaston B. Means Is in City. Gaston B. Means, who was recently tried in New York City on n charge of conspiring to defraud the government, arrived in Concord last night. Mr. Means when asked about his trial and future plans, stated that he would have nothing to say until the outcome of his appeal is known. Cross-Word Puzzle Tells of Nuptials. Pikeville, Ky., Feb. 14.—An unique cross-word puzzle appeared today in the Pike County News, the solation being the announcement of the engagement of Mia Katherine Langley, daughter of Representative John AN. Langley, to James G. Bentley, of this city. The de sign was worked out by the engaged couple. The wedding date was set for . next month. 1 = WHAT SMITTVS CAT SAYS i i i L - t Showers tonight and Tuesday, colder in east and central portions tonight, NO. 63
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