] B SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
)LUME XLIX
pill FACTORV
p CONCORD SEEMS
I 10 BE ASSURED
J Be Chair Factory With
m Output of 1,000 Chairs
cuk.—825,000 Stock to
m Raised.
1 MURDOCK IS
■behind movement
i| Murdock Is to Raise
■O,OOO and $15,000 Is to
m Raised Here—Factory
■ Be 100x30 Feet.
■ n ,. n jt:!iv factory with an output .
■hi ,-hairs a week was practically
t'ii v .Concord when, at a meeting
■i„ ii: ,j ~ t directors of rlie Chamber
■umare. lie'll in the Chamber of
■„.,. ciiniiiittee room at the Y this
■„ j t was decided to raise $25,000
■-k in tliis new industry.
■^money is to be raised partly by
■uliseriptioiis and partly by out-of
■ ions. Fifteen thou
■cllai' i' to be raised in Concord,
■nainiui: ten thousand to be raised
■.l Mtii'ihck, of Troutman, who
■hind the movement to get the fur
■ factory here.
■ Muidock built and operated a sac
■ Troutman which had a most sue
■ hi.-tm.v He sold omt recently
■n-c filing out lias been in touch
■in- Chamber of Commerce here in.-
■ m building another. The mat
■ . been hanging tire for several :
■and at the meeting this morning
■> disposal was made of it. If
■unlock raises his amount, the fac
■ill he a reality.
■ tv;n- of chair which Mr. Murdock i
■n’stnict is the plain tibre bottom ;
■f a very much used variety. His
Troutman has been making that
■f chair and the shies have been '
■ to reiptire the maximum produc
■ui'tautiv. !
■bers of the Chamber of Commerce j
■ptiimstic about bringing the sac- ,
■n Coiici.nl., It will mean, they ,
■new industry for the city and will ,
Hiliiitional laborers aud more nion-
Kiv. Murdock was unable to state ,
Ky whether or not he would be ]
■ raise the amount required. If j
Hid. he will bring the manager and
■f the workmen from ’froutovan. < ]
■ Murdock and members of the ,
■ <>f directors were looking over •
ftg sites in suitable places for the (
ftg of the factory. The building .
Ke approximately 100 feet in length
ft) feet in width. ,
I THE COTTON MARKET
I f
■Liverpool Cables ami Nervousness (
ft- Cron Possibilities Gave Market a (
ftlv Tone. f
ft York. Feb. 10. —Relatively firm j
ftoi cables, combined with nervous
ftver the coining crop possibilities
ftnirts of increased spot demand gave {
fttfon market a very steady tone in x
ft early trading.
Ire was some March liquidation at ]
■art and prices 1 point lower to 3
I higher, but near months offerings
ftadily absorbed, and active months 1
ft 3 to 5 points net higher shortly
the call on covering and trade and
ision house buying. May advanced f
Miami October to 25.02, but there 1
K'H'd deal of realizing at these tig- I
Hid the market was a shade off from f
Ist at the eud of the first hour. <
erpuol re|M>rted spot sales of 14.000 I <
including 10.000 American, repre- i
k tlie largest day’s business for
Is. <
mug prices were: March 24.47; 1
-IN!: duly 25.12; October 25.02; 1
iber 25.03. 1
_ | _ J
li for Man Posing as Income Tax 1
Expert.
h'igh. Feb. I!).—A white man giving .
anie a> A. .1. Postel, and represent- «
‘imself ;t s a representative of the
sh office of the United States In
i' Revenue Department, has been so
hS funds in the city under the pre- '
f "f rendering aid in making out in
! tax returns, according to an an-
Icein,nt that has been made by Col-.
1 Oilliam Grissom. “The complai.nt
this man has been lodged by a
u merchant of Raleigh,” said Mr.
“and I am anxious to bring
1 his arrest and face him with his
S**!V "
r Grissom further stated that the
>lainant. \V. W. .Jones, negro mer
it. alleges that he paid Hostel twenty
'hillai when he was informed that
iml been sent by Collector Grissom
straighten out” his income tax re
f-.
J** ! "'gni according to his statement
r - Grissom, was told by Hostel that
"al two other men were engaged in
u "'k, and that they were going to
it' Mount. Wilson and other east-
Tim y.licn they had finished their
II Rah-igh. “If'The statements
*' by .the negro are true.” said Mr.
'mu. -the man is not only
1 l! 'g an officer, but is securing money
H ,a pretense, and I am anxious
°c»t,. him.”
* HteUs Old Baby in Basket on
Porch.
wnsboro. Feb. 18—A baby girl,
i weeks old, was found in a
' "n the porch' of E. A. Pleasants
-M.ford College late last night, it
•jaine'i here today. In the basket
. “ bottle of milk. The child was
.* ?0 °f at the Pleasants’ home
rh V s a, ? ( * ,rt(^a Y brought to the
;• ar,> hna Children’s Society re
l(r I '* lue bore. There is no clue' to
lUcutlty,
THE CONCORD TIMES
DYNAMITE IS USED TO
SEAL COLLINS’ GRAVE
* Huge Boulders Loosened and Tumble If
to Close Tomb of Explorer of Caves.
.Cave City.! K.v., Feb. 18.—Sealed ir
his perpetual tomb. Floyd Collins s'.eep>
tonight in peace. Buried alive, he on
•dured for days the terrifying solitude
| praying that, somehow, he would escape
I an impending doom that always w*as his
I companion. I nab.e longer to withstand
the tortures of body and spirit, he died
a!one, trapped in the jaws of the civo
whose wonders he discovered.
Realizing, perhaps, that the valiant es
, forts of scores of persons to rescue him
would be in vain 1 , he met death gamely.
. his jaws set. A few hours, or maybe a
day or two. after death had ended his
sufferings, rescuers broke open his sar
cophagus.
Plans were made to bring out the
body, but the risk was too great and the
caverns he knew and loved so well be
came his crypt. With simple 4 funeral
services yesterday his body resigned to
the cave that would not release him.
But above the seplucher of that ob
scure unfortunate had been unfolded a
news serial that enthralled the country for
seventeen days. The cljinax was reached
Monday with the finding of the body.
The epilogue was written today. z z
The boopi of detonating dynamite; the
du:l thud of huge boulders; loosened
front the centuries-old bed on the deso
late hillside, as they tumbled in and
sealed the new pit. was as the drawing
of a colophone tq the heroic work of
the rescuers.
Today, a few flowers strewn about the
mouth of Sand Cave aud a few specta
tors wandering aimlessly about had re
placed the mechanical equipment and the
jaded workers of yesterday.
NEW BUS LAW HITS
SAFETY COACH HARD
Several of that Line’s Cars Wider Than I
Limit Allowed—U. S. L. Has Only
One.
Raleigh. Feb. 18.—Paul Sheahan, of
the U. S. L-, "said this afternoon that
pnly one bus operated by his company
will 'have to be taken off North Caro
lina roads as a result of the bus bill
passed today. The one machine the U.
S. L.. will lose one year from now is a
Garford. which is 03 inches wide. Mr.
Sheahan said.
The Safety Coach people, operating
Fageol busses, will be hardest hit.
Definite information could not be ob
tained as to the number of Fageols af
fected but all the chair cars, about six
in number on the Greens boro-Raleigh
run. two on the Charlotte-Greensboro
schedule, and several others on other
runs, it is said, are 03 inches wide and
will thus hav to be taken off within a
year from the bill passage. Other
machines in operation, too, will be af
fected, it is said-
IT. S. L. officials, Mr. Sheahan and
L. E. Schacht, both of Greensboro, who
were here today, declare they sire very
well pleased with the bill adopted. The
tax. they .say. wi’l be i a considerable
item but they think if the competition
which has been causing bus line officials
to lose sleep is lessened operators will
be able to pay the tax. And they think
the bill will result eventually in the
fierce competition being lessened, a’-
though they predict that the next 30
days will see the hardest fight ever
staged in the state. But
days they say, indications are tlint com
petition will be diminish^.
They are able to see bus transporta
tion on a firm business foundation as a
result of the legislature’s action.
NEW FEDERAL JUDGE BILL
DEAD IN THIS CONGRESS
North Carolina Members Were Unable
to Agree on Any Concerted Action.
Washington. Feb. 18.—It looks now
as if the court bill and the extra judge
bill for North Carolina were dead for
this Congress. The members from the
state do not agree on any measure and
the matter will go over. That was the
decision of the house judiciary com
mittee today aftei- a hearing.
The Overman bill for an additional
district could have been passed had the
house members gotten together on it.
but that seemed impossible. The bill for
another judge was opposed by Repre
sentative Bulwinkle. He argued to the
com,mittee today that a new district
should be established. and then another
judge named. Representative AA eavei
said the judge should be provided for
now.
The concensus of opinion tonight is
that the bill will fail of further serous
consideration.
l
Editors Are Educators Too. Says Peda
gogue.
Chicago, Feb. 17.—“ Newspapers and
universities, in the true sense of the
words, both are educational institu
tions,” Dr. Ernest Dewit. Burton, Presi
dent of the University of Chicago, told
the Inland Daily Press Association to
day* . „
“Both universities and newspapers,
he continued, “are dealers in knowledge,
the newspaper confining itself to cur
rent history, which to he university is
only a small fraction of the knowledge
of any one of its departments.”
Award Contract for New Hospital
Building. I
Monroe. Feb. 18.—Tlie trustees of the
Ellen Fitzgera’d Hospital have awardet
the contract for the new building to G.
M. Tucker, who was the lowest bidder.
However, it was found that there wou d
not be sufficient funds at present to
complete the entire structure as, set out
in the plans, hence, the trustees will go
only « ofar as they can go with the
available funds.
Stork Expected to Visit Biltmore Man
sion Soon.
Asheville, Feb. 18.—The stork is soon
expected to visit Biltmore House, the
palatial residence built by George A an
derbilt at Biltmore, N. C., for the sec
ond time. The first visit was 24i years
ago when Cornelia, child of the
Vanderbilts, was born. Now the daugh
ter who in April, 1924. became the bride
of the Hon. John Francis Amherst Cecil,
then first secretary of the British em
bassy, is about to become a mother.
I POOLE RESOLUTION '
• DEFEATED IN HOUSE
i ON SECOND RUNG
0 ■
_ Final Action Was By a Vote
• of 67 to 45 and Came After
! Much ' Debate § and Argu-
ment in the House.
P SUBSTITUTE BILL
! ALSO DEFEATED
> This Bill Was Sponsored by
Rep. Connor, of Wilson,
> But Never Received Much
j Support in Chamber.
Raleigh. Feb. 19~(lly the Associated
> Press). —The Poole resolution to place
I the) general assembly of North Carolina
on record as opposing the teaching of
I “the Darwinism or any other theory of
evolution, linking man with the lower
orders of life,” was killed today by the
house on the second reading. The final
action was by a vote of (17 to 4(1 and
came after a motion to suspend the rules
and consider a substitute resolution by
Connor, of Wilson, had failed of passage,
and the Connor authorization automatic
ally went to the table.
Representative Julia Alexander, wom
an legislator of Mecklenburg county,
(urged the house to adopt the Poole reso
lution.
The State constitution gave the legis
lature the right to regulate the State’s
■*choo3«, she declared, adding that she be
lieved adoption of the resolution would
be in accord with the constitution and
with the Bible,
Before Miss Alexander spoke. Repre
sentative Conpor. of Wilson, introduced
his substitute for the Poole measure.
This substitute would place the legisla-
Ture on record as opposed to the teach
ing or criticism by any State employee,
•ivil or military, of any doctrine designed
o reflect upon the "religious belief, or
■lacred book of religion” of any citizen.
Mr. Connor defended the appearance
>f Dr. H. W. Chase of the University of
North Carolina before a committee to
speak in opposition to the Poole resolu
tion. I)r. Chase, the speaker said, had
been invited by him. Following the pres
ident’s appearance, the committee render
'd an unfavorable report on the resolu
‘ion.
Representative Poole, rising to a i>oint
of personal privilege, declared that if his
measure, were to be eliminated, be desir
'd it defeated on “straight votes, and not
by substitutes which would destroy its
intent.” ' ,
Expressing his opposition to any meas
ure that would “limit the freedom of ex
iressiou and thought on religious matters
guaranteed by the constitution.” Repre
-entative Murphy, of Rowan, attacked
the Connor substitute.
Raleigh. Feb. 19. —Representative Con
nor, of Wilson, opened the debate today
in the House on the Poole resolution de
signed to place the legislature on record
is opposing the teaching of evolution in
the schools of the state. Mr. C«.nnor in
troduced a substitute resolution which he
said had the approval of many of the pro
ponents and opponents of the Poole meas
ure, which would place the body on rec
ord as against the teaching or criticism
b.\{ any state employes, civil or military,
off any doctrine designed to reflect upon
the "religious belief or sacred book of re
ligion” of any citizen.
Consideration of the Poole resolution
was preceded by the introduction of thir
ty local bills and a statewide measure Ly
Representative Madison which would
abolish corporal punishment in the state
schools. This measure was introduced at
the request of Ralph Simerson, a page
of the House. ,
Ollier Bills Presented.
Raleigh, Feb. 19.—The Senate passed
on final reading today without discussion
the measure designed to set a new scale
of license fees for professional fishermen.
The bill was amended by the committee
so as to exempt amateur fishermen from
its provisions aud the amendment was
accepted. According to Senator Spencer,
of Hyde, author of the measure, license
fees will be increased about 50 per cent,
over those at present in effect.
The upper house then p*3t dowu to con
sideration of Senator Harrison's bill to
remit taxes to private hospitals doing gen
eral charity work.
Painfully Injured When Knocked Down
By Truck.
Monroe. Feb. 18.—Mrs. W. D. Fullen
wider was run over aud seriously
bruised and greatly shocked by a truck
from l’ageland driven by I’ete Wal’ace,
colored. She was knocked down, caught
under the rear axle and draggea ten or
fifteen feet. The driver pulled up as
| quick as he could and Mrs. Fullenwider
was taken out and hhrried to her home
•on Benton Heights. Physicians found
that she was painfully hurt about the
shoulder and shocked. Chief Spoon ar
rested the driver* and his companion,
Frank Massey.
Miss Ida M. Tarhell to Speak in Char
lotte.
Charlotte, Feb. 18. —Miss Ida M. Tar
bell,. the famous magazine writer who
is credited with uncovering more im
portant facts about Lincoln’s biography
than any other investigator in recent
years and who is known to readers of
current magazines as one of the most
prolific and entertaining contributors of
the day, will be in Charlotte Monday eve
ning, March 2nd. for an address at the
I Chamber of Commerce at B£lo o’clock.
» » -
Jennie Garcia, a U. S. immigrant in
-1 spector at the Angel Island station in' 1
, San Francisco bay, is the only woman
- now holding such a position in the Unit*
,ed States.
PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
. CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19,1925
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Five times Florence Buchanan, 10, 0 f l os Angeles, has lieen "missing
fron» home Four times she returned, her memory gone, but herself not
harmed But she hasn’t been back since Jan. 21. Psychologists say
“dual personality.” Chance acquaintances say "craving foi companion,
ship”' ll.'i father agrees with psychologists.
HEALTH AUTHORITIES
MEET IN WASHINGTON
Would Prevent Recurrence of T> oho id
Scare Over Oysters tV’hVh Created So
Much Imriest Recently.
Washington, Feb. 19[.—-Health author
ities from more than twenty states aud a
number of cities came here today to con
fer with the Public’ Health Service on
means of preventing a recurrence of the
typhoid scare over oysters. Those attend
ing hoped to discover methods by which
definite tests could be made from time
to time as 21 protection for both the pub
lic health and the oyster industry.
Assistant Secretary Wadsworth cf the
Treasury, at whose suggestion the meet
ing was called, declaim fests had shown
there was no reason to fear typhoid
germs in oysters at this time, and that no
unusual typhoid condition hud obtained
since the middle of December.
GOVERNOR McLEAN BACKED
BY NUMBER OF STATES
Protest Against Proposed Tax in Some
States on Cotton Seed Oil Products.
Atlanta. Ga., Feb. 19 (By the Asso
ciated Press). —Several other Southern
states were expected to fall into line with
Georgia, Florida. North Carolina and
South Carolina today in concerted oppo
sition to the passage by several western
and mid-western states of legislation al
lelged to be discriminatory against cot
tonseed oil products.
A call for Governors of ten Si.uthern
states to co-operate in presenting a solid
front against the passage of measures,
which, it is alleged would tax oleomar
garine and other cotton seed products, in
a manner which would be discriminatory
has been sounded by Governor McLean, of
North Carolina.
With Our Advertisers. ('
■. No. 20 Cole fertiliver distributor, only
$7 at Yorke & Wadsworth Co.’s.
Miss Chapman, of Kannapolis, is now
showing an up-to-date line of millinery,
and will have her opening Friday and
Saturday, February 20th and 21st.
11. T. Little, of Harrisbury, has good
young mules for trade or to sell.
The Ruth’-Kesler Shoe Store will make
tomorrow (Friday) children’s day. Chil
dren’s shoes, 49 cents up.
New tan strap pumps and ribbon ties,
special price $4.95 at Parker's Store
Store.
A fine car load of oranges will arrive
Friday morning and will be sold at 41
South Union Street. Large size,
and delicious oranges in this lot.
Yorke & Wadsworth Co. has a car load
of Oliver plows and implements and one
car of Cole planters and distributors. See
them.
The newest styles in watches can be
found at the Starnes-Mlller-Parker Co.
See the new ad. today.
Ritchie Hardware Co. is now offering
a Johnson's Floor Polishing outfit worth
$6.05 for $5.00. See ad.
All the new in Spring Millinery at
Fisher’s, '
Electricity Robs California Cooking of
its Drudgery.
San. Francisco, Feb. 17.—More than
10,000 farmers’ wives in California cook
by electricity, according to figures com
piled by the largest power distributing
company in the state.
In the interior! valleys, where wood,
coal or oil is not readily available, cook
ing is done to a extent by
electricity.
The statistics indicate that there are
in the state 167,504 rural ngnt and
power consumers, and they are served
by 16,513 miles of distribution line*.
Practically all the farms are lighted
electrically.
James Lane Alien Dies at Age of 75.
New York, Feb. 18.—James i„ane
Allen, author of “The Kentucky
Cardinal,” "The Choir Invisible,” and
other books, died this afternoon at
j Roosevelt Hospital. He was 75 years of
age. t
For many years boxing has been a
recognized English university sport.
| GEN. MITCHELL KEEPS UP
FIGHT AGAINST POLICIES
I! Instead of Going to White House for
i Reprimand as Expected, the General
Testifies Again to Committee.
AVashington. Feb. 19.—Instead of go
ing to the White House today for bis
much advertised reprimand from Presi
dent Cooldige, Brigadier General Mitchell
appeared once more before the house air
craft committee, and reaffirmed his op
position to the administration’s aircraft
policies.
Before he took the stand the general
disclaimed all connection with the re
port of a AVhite House summons which
broke up -yesterday’s committee meeting.
Committee members who received that
report by telephone yesterday refused to
say who had been their informant, but in
dicated that their source of information
was some interested person at the ex
ecutive end of Pennsylvania Avenue. •
Both the AA’hite House and the office of
the secretary of war have denied flatly
that they passed any such information
along to the committee. AA’hite House
officials would go no further today in
their discussion of the incident, but said
the general's name was not on Mr. Cool
idge’s appointment list.
WOMAN DECLARES SHE
MUST HAVE LIQUOR
Despite the Fact That She Is 102 Years
Old She Goes to P 'son for 30 Days,
San Pedro., Cal., Feb. 19—Mrs. S. ,
Nunce.v, a little woman of 102 years; was
hailed into police court here charged with •
illegal possesion of liquor.
“I have been drinking liquor all my ■
life and I don’t intend to stop now,” she |
told the court. .
The judge gave her the alternative of
paying SIOO fine or going to jail for 30 ]
days. She promptly chose the jail term.
CATHOLIC PRIEST-STARTS
CHURCH OF HIS OWN
Manifesto Says Mexican Catholic Church (
Has Been Founded in Mexico.
Mexico City* Feb. 19. —Joaquin Perez. ,
a Catholic priest, has been elected pa- ,
triarch by a small groups of followers, ,
and has issued a manifesto establishing
what he calls the Mexican Catholic •
Church, unconnected with the Holy j
Roman Church.
Celibacy for priests is abolished, and
excommunication is decreed for anyone ,
attacking the creed of the new church. ,
—————— - ,
Ministers Open Up on University Jour
nal.
Charlotte, Feb. 18—The Presbyterian ,
Ministers’ Association of Charlotte and ]
vicinity, today mailed to President (
Chase and the trustees of the University
of North Carolina a letter protesting ,
against publication in the Journal of -j
Social Forced, a University periodical, ]
of such articles as “two appearing in a (
recent issue” from which extracts are j
quoted in the letter. ,
Excerpts from the articles com
plained of include “God has never given ,
an explicit revelation to man,” ,
“prophecy was not inspired,” "con- j
science is but the expression of group (
opinion.” “the still small voice but the
voice- of the herd,” which are pointed
out as having appeared in the publica
tion. These articles the letter terms ! ’un- ]
sound, irreligious and hurtful to the j
cause of j
Golf at Southern Pines. |
Southern Pines, N. C.-, Feb. 19. The
qualifying rbund of the annual spring
golf- tournament will be played here on (
Monday over the new 18-hole course of j
the Southern Pines Country Club. (
A large field of players w?th Northern
ilubs well represented, is expected.
President Has Faith m Battleships.
AA'ashington, Feb. 19. —Definite— ac- ,
ceptance by President Coolidge after care
ful inquiry of the Navy Department hear- ,
-Ing that air power can never supersede
■ battleship supremacy at sea is implied if
not stated, in his announced $30,000,000 j
naval construction program for the pres- i
; ent and ensuing fiscal years, now before <
Congress. ]
STORY OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL
World Hears Much and Knows Little
About the Council.
Londo)i, Feb. 19—Announcement that
Francis Alexander Anglin, the chief jus
tice of Canada, has been appointed a
member of the King’s Privy Cour' JJ
calls attention to a body of which
world hears much and knows very lit\*
The Privy Council ha* had a strange amT
checkered history.
Time was when it was an august body
which virtually ruled the kingdom. To
day it is an ornamental body whose
members are “Right Honorables,” but
whose duties are little more than a tra
dition, j
Centuries ago the Ih-ivy Council was
the inner circle of the Great Council of
the King—a picked body ofc archbishops
and high State officials specially attached
to the person of the King to act as
his advisors in matters of State. They
were a check on the royal authority.
Even parliament itself had at times to
bend the knee of submission to the Privy
Council—as in that historic scene when
.Tame* I. sent for the journal of the
House of Commons and “with all the
Lord* and others of His Majesty's Privy
Council sitting round him,” tore out
with his hand the "Protestation” against
his interference with "sundy liberties,
privileges and franchises of Parliament.”
From being a formidable rival of the
, Crown it had fallen, by the fifteenth cen
tury, to a position of absolute dependence
on it, though it still retained large ex
ecutive powers, including the control of
Ireland and the Channel Islands, and the
right to issue proclamations, witfi a wide
judicial authority through the Courts of
Star Chamber and Requests.
This process of dcreasing importance
'continued through the following centur
ies. Charles I. and his successors be
gan to resort for advice to a small group
of the Council’s most subservient mem
bers, who were invested with the high
est executive and judicial offices. They
men in a small room or cabinet off the
Privy Crtuncil Chamber, and thus came
to be called the "Cabinet.” They grad
ually usurped the place of the parent
council.
Although even today the cabinet is in
theory only a committee of the Privy
Council, and the council i« the only in
strument through which 'the sovereign
can exercise his prerogative, the fact is
that the Privy Council is never consult
ed.
Such administrative duties as re
mained to it have since been delegated
to other bodies, until today the Privy
Council as a body has no regular duties
at all. Such duties as it retains are
performed by a few permanent officials
and by its judicial committee.
Thus the Privy Council of today is
largely an ornamental and useless body
of some three hundred and twenty mem
bers, including princes, statesmen, high
ecclesiastics, nobles of various orders,
and a large number of meu o( note in
different fields. wh» are entitled to prec
edence immediately after Knights of the
Garter.
Its members include all rankes, from
the Price of Wales to sons of labor. They
must all be British subject*, natural
born or naturalized, and ' they are ap
pointed and can be removed at will by
the King.
Only on rare occasions do they meet
in full council—a* when a new Sover
eign is proclaimed—with the result that
a man may have been a Privy Councillor
for half a lifetime and never once have
put his foot inside the Council Chamber
after taking the oath as member.
Meetings, it is true, are usually held,
on an average, once a month; but no
more than half a dozen members are re
quired to form a quorum. These meet
ing are held in any convenient room at
whichever of his palaces King George
may be. A little exchange of conversa
tion, the signing of a few proclamations,
and the business ends in a pleasant gosr
sip and smoke.
EPISCOPALIANS HOLD
SESSION IN CHARLOTTE
About Thirty Laymen and Ministers
Present From Eighteen Conties.
Charlotte, Feb. 18.—The second day
of the annual- Charlotte convocation of
the Episcopal Church, which Is being at
tended by thirty n/inisters and laymen
repYesenting geighteen counties, opened
with holy communion.
Lenten activities were discussed by
Rev. R. B. Owens, of the’Church of the
Holy Comforter; Rev. Clarence E. Bux
ton, Greensboro, and Rev. Howard 8.
Hartzell, Rockingham. The ministers
were guests of the Good Fellows C.ub at
a luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce.
The program included a discussion of
young people’s societies led by Rev. Chfcs.
B. Scovil, of Concord, and a business
session AVednesday night. Rev. AA il
liam H. Hardin, of Salisbury, was re
elected arch deacon and treasurer, and
Rev. I. Harding Hughes, of Greensboro,
editor of the Carolina Churchman, was
“elected secretary to succeed Rev. Mark
H. Milne, of Salisbury. Rev. Robert E.
Gribben. of' AA’inston-Salem, made a force
ful plea for h‘*me and for foreign mis
sion*. KeY. AA’arren AA’ay, rector of
St. Mary’s School, of Raleigh, asked
the conference to raise the standard at
tbo school bringing the institution to
grade A. Reports by all mini*ters pres
ent were gratifying.
Would Float French Loan.
Paris, Feb. 19 (By the Associated
Press). —Promise of $100,000,000 loan
for improvement of the French finances
and another loan of $35,000,000 for dev
astated regions to be floated bi the T nit
ed tates as soon as the budget is balanc
ed and floated, was one of the measures
for France’s troubled economic and finan
cial situation advanced by Finance Min
ister Clementel in an address before the
chamber of deputies today.
King George Still Improving.
London. Feb. 19.—A bulletin issued
from Buckingham Palace this morning
said: “His Majesty passed a bettes night.
His progress, although slow, is satisfac
tory.”
Portrait models in wax are the latest
fad among Parisian women. These fig
ures are dressed and supplied with jew’-
els and ornaments in imitation of their
proud owners.
$2.90 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
INHERITANCE TAX IS
» T JTHN SPEECH
f ll BY PRESIDENT
; -*»
Chief! Executive Tells Tax
Men He Wants Govern
men to Withdraw From In
heritance Tax Very Soon.
MORE ECONOMY
ALSO NEEDED
Says Taxes Must Be Collect
ed Cheaper.—lnheritance
Tax Has Reached Point of
Almost Confiscation.
Washington, Fob. 10.—Gradual with
' drawal of the government from the inher
, itnnce tax field, and greater economy In
tax collection were recommended for pub
lic consideration by President Ooolidge in
an address at the opening session to<lay of
the ->ational Tax Association, national
, inheritance and estate tax conference.
The President condemned the present
: Federal inheritance tax, amounting in
its highest bracket to 40 per cent., declar
, ing that in some instances with the state
levies, closely approaches if it is not ac
, tually. confiscation.
‘‘lf we are to adopt socialism it should
be presented to the people of this country
as socialism, and not under the guise of
a law to collect revenue,’’ he said. "‘The
people are quite able to determine for
themselves the desirability of a particu
lar public policy, and |do not ask to have
such policies forced upon them by in
direction.”
Establishment of “economy in income
of revenue” is an equal necessity in econ
omy in outgo of revenue. Mr. Coolidge
i said, adding that the first field for prac
tice of economy, in inheritance tax collec
tion lay in state. co-operation.
Declaring that there is “competition
between states to reach in inheritance
taxes, not only for the property of its
own citizens, but for the property of oth
er states” the President byway of illus
tration showed how a share of stock on
the death of its owner might be made
subject to seven separate and distinct in
heritance taxes by the Federal and vari
ous state governments.
WATSON GETTING READY
TO MAKE DEFENSE
Will ProbibTy TTTtVfW’lfi WecfcTenbwg
County Superior Court Sometime Next
Week.
Charlotte, Feb. 19.—Thomas I. Wat
son. who shot and killed Joseph E. Mc-
Donough, of Greensboro, when he found
the latter in a hotel room here Sunday
night with Mrs. Watson, today waived
preliminary hearing, and will prepare for
trial in the superior court.
Solicitor John G. Carpenter stated he
would be ready to try Watkins, who also
is from Greensboro, during the next term
of criminal court, and the case is ex
pected to be callixl next Wednesday.
Mrs. Watson, who was arrested imme
diately after the shooting, still is being
held in the county jail as a material wit
ness.
FORD BUYS EDISON’S
TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
Will Be Shipped to Detroit For Display
In the Ford Museum.
Fort Myers. Fla., *Feb. 19. —Henry
Ford today bought the crfd tools and lab
oratory equipment of Thos. A. Edison,
and will ship them to Detroit to be dis
played in the Ford museur.
Workmen are busy assembling and
crating the machines, and various bits of
tools and other laboratory equipment with
which Mr. Edison » experimented and
brought to perfection many of the world's
most wonderful inventions.
Mr. Ford purchased the material from
W. P. Boss, a blacksmith who bought
the “priceless junk” from Mr. Edison six
or seven years ago.
Want Much Money For English Air
Forres.
London, Feb. 19 (By the Associated
Press). —Parliament will be asked to
sanction an expenditure of 21,318,300
pounds sterling for the air force during
the financial year 1925-1926, the air sec
retary, ir Samuel Hoftre announced to
day.
Wanting Dempsey to Train at Asheville.
Asheville, Feb. 19.—Jack Dempsey,
world's heavyweight champion, will prob
ably be invited to establish his training
quarters in Asheville for his next titular
bout. A communication has been setit
the world’s champion asking him what
requirement will be necessary for him
to come to thie city to train.
Gloria Swanson Improving.
Paris. Feb. 19. —Unless complications
set in, Gloria Swanson, motion picture
star, is out of danger, her doctors said
today. Operated on Tuesday night, she
is progresing favorably, and inay be able
to leave the hospital within a week.
WHAT SMUTTY'S CAT SAYS
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Partly cloudy tonight and Friday,
slightly warmer tonight, m
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