North Carolina Newspapers

l B. SHERRILL. Editor and Publisher . » i ME XLIX I SEE TfNDS TO yE GOVERNMENT m BIG TAX LOSER ( I [lS Committee Says ( rtization Allowances ain Companies Cost ernment Much Money. RTS FINISH THEIR INQUIRY | States Steel Com , the Aluminum Co. of riea and Hundreds of *rs Named In Report. I? tf n. March 9.—Evidence de s|i,,w that the federal govern- millions of dollars in tax 1, tii«‘ war amortization altow the I'. S. Steel Company, the , i ('niiipaiiy of America* and huu ,ther companies, is contained in , ui-srripts of hearings filed with P i,\ the t’ouzeus Investigating 1 today. and engineers for the commit nded that an amortization al- , f S.V.Mt 53.312 to the U. S. Steel i im was $27,920,014 in excess it should have been, and that , . involved a d : fference r in a tax , s.XIX. This ease has! not been , wever. 1 r allowance of at least $6,300,* ] Ainininum Company of Amer- , he amortization total of sl3.- ( vas alleged by counsel and the . BLAI'KWELDER, OF CATAWBA, IS DEAD sheriff and Farmer Mayor of f —Paralysis Was Cause of His March 7. —Ex-Sheriff John , Avelder. aged 70. died this eve rt el y after 0 o'clock, after an about a week, following a paralysis. The funeral will 'mm the residence Tuesday af nd interment will follow at Ca ll o'clock. ’• laekwelder was a great friend rer of the late Charles B. .Ay ii' a candidate for sheriff when , i-k. ilien candidate for governor, : Newton. He was elected sher awba county first in 1898, lead- ( cket in this election. He was ninated and elected in 1000 and Although the Democratc party ha county was pledged to t wo n' for officers, the convention iiy one-half of a w ote of nomi ni for a third term. He was layor of Hickory in the spring md served for one term, declin ninatiou. r lis term of s her iff in 1003. Mr. I ler moved ro Hickory and be liier of the Hickory Banking t Company, now the Consolidat- Company. He retired in 1908 it of his health. : his wife, who was M iss Mary 1 Mr. I .laekwelder Ls survived uit' and two daughters, Rascomb welder, George 11. Blackwelder. I! Gibbs and Mrs. Claude A. ill of Hickory. ro Burglars in Toils at Char lotte. te. March 3. —With the arrest Gibson. negro, at the home of . McGeaehy. 022 North College e police believe that they have hd the ring-leader of the gang burglars that have been terror city for the past two months, it was said, entered the home stor of the' Second Presbyterian ibout 0:30 Monday night. Dr. r. who was alone at the time, airs and hearing a noise came found the negro in the hallway, at he was doing there the negro le to explain and started for the Dr. McGeaehy ordered him to telephoned the police station, vrs Owens and Dry answered and arrested dibson. Gibson ied over to Detectives Bradley, fter and Earnhardt for questioning I after an hour of grilling the negro Sfl id ''• have confessed that he had h*d many residences in past month I gave tho officers the name and ad s' "f his pal. James Williams, resid at _’f. Black Bottoms. - Williams 5 arrested. n,s Spnmt Leaves $450,000 to His Church. Wilmington. March B.—A legacy of h'oxiinatelv $430,000 left to the First church, of this city, by the *' Ihv .lames Sprunt, was announced !! a morning service of that church T'v by the pastor, the Rev. Dr. A. D. Oilrhour. fhr bequest. is divided into two di- in SIO,OOO installments " j K-iiocl of 20 years. One is to be ! ‘‘T hu- such benevolent purposes, as " , li' I" of the church may approve, ah ihc second isto go for the support .'b‘ Kiangyin mission station in Una. T*"‘ First Presbyterian church, of '"'l. 1 *be late Dr. Sprunt was a mem- r ' i' he oldest and largest of that de niination in the city. It is the church "hicli the Rev. Dr. Joseph Wilson, j l ' "f ? he late president* was pastor. h 1 - Borunt. \\Jio was widely known 1 bis philanthropies and writings, died >rp last July. Fm management of the international x day bicycle race starting March 1, 10 - as ” of such events to be held in Madirion Square Garden, has n ....j n bringing-together as fast a ii pedal-pushers as ever competed in le long grind. THE CONCORD TIMES SIX MEN HELD AFTER CLASHES ON STREETS Rum red Fight Was Bet weed Klan and Anti-Klan Forces, But Report Is De l:kd. Niles, Ohio, March 9.—Six men are under arrest today and three more are held in Warren city jail on charges of fighting, carrying concealed weapons, and 1 suspicious as a two clashes at street corners here late last night. Re ports that, the fighting was between Ku ’ Klux Klausmeu and anti-klansmen were denied by Police Chief L. J. Round. The first trouble occurred when two men engaged in a fistic fight and a crowd gathered. The j>olice arrested oue man on a charge of fighting and three others on charges of suspicion. loafer the police were called to anoth er street corner where Harry Williams reported a man rushed into his house. Joe Davis was arrested on a charge of suspi cion. Davis said he ran into the house to escape several men who were chasing him. WANT FEIMSTER AS ROAD COMMISSIONER Friends in Catawba Urge Appointment of Well-Known Newton Lawyer. Newton. March B.—For some time the friends of Hon. AV. C. Feimster nave been urging name for the post of district highway commissioner, to suc ceed W. C. Wilkinson, asserting that he is eminently qualified * by both business and professional experience to fill thus position. Mr. Feimster has taken an ac tive interest in public affairs, both in this county and state for a number of years, and is generally regarded as one of the ablest men in western North Carolina. • Mr. Feimster has received good and substantial endorsement from eleven counties in the district, most of this support coming without on his part. His friends claim that it the matter were left to the people of the sixth district, Mr.. Feimster would un doubtedly be chosen. JUDGE HORTON RESIGNS FROM SUPERIOR COURT Poor Pay, Absence From Family ami De sire to Return to Private Practice Giv en as Reasons. Wilmington, N. C., March l 9.—Judge J. Lloyd Horton, of Farmville, today re signed as judge of the Superior Court. Judge Horton announced his resigna tion shortly after noon today and made public the following telegram which he had sent to Governor McLean : ,‘T hereby tender my resignation as judge of the Superior Court of the 3th judicial d : strict. to take effect March 15.’* Poor pay. a desire to re-enter the pri vate practice of law. and objection, to spending a greater part of bis time away from his family were assigned By Judge Horton as among the realms for liis de cision to quit the bench. BILL TO RETIRE LACY AGAIN KILLED IN HOUSE “Clincher” Put to Bill Preventing Con sideration of It at Present Session. Raleigh, March 9. —The measure to re tire State Treasurer B. R. Lacy, up as a special order today after the House had voted for reconsideration Saturday night, failed on second reading, 55 to 33. Representative Falls, of Cleveland,• put the motion, which put the “clincher’’ to the bill, preventing consideration during the 1925 legislature. The house concurred in the senate amendment to the revenue bill exempt ing courts of jurisdiction lower than Su perior Courts from a tax on judgments, and the bill was ordered enrolled for rat ification. AGREE ON MARCH 29 AS DAY OF ELECTION On That Day Governors Will Vote For Selection of New President. Berlin, March 9 (By the Associated Press). —The government’s proposal des ignating March 29 as presidential elec tion day and April 20th for a second bal lot if one were necessary for the election of a successor to the late President Ebert, was adopted by the reichstag today with out debate. The bill appointing Dr. Walter Simons acting president had its second reading in the reichstag over the opposition of the nationals, socialists and communists. Cursed by Buddhist, Temple Violators Die. Paris, March 9.—A “death curse” placed on the late Lord Northcliffe, Mau rice Long, late governor of Indo-China, and Andre Tunesqu, prominent journal ist, by a Buddhist priest when they com mitted the sacrilege of entering a forbid den temple, has claimed its last victim. This revelation is made by the presi dent of the French Press of Indo-China, | who says that Tunesqu, on his deathbed, I declared: “I am marked. There are holy places which one dares not violate. When Lord Northcliffe, Long and I entered the tem ple despite the efforts of a priest to pre vent us, he cursed us and predicted all three would be dead within five years. Long has been murdered. Northcliffe died. Now it is my turn. It is the fourth year.” The Creeping Man. 1 “The wolfhound was braking furious ‘ ly straining on his chain and quivering 1 with eagerness and rage.” This is part -of Sir Arthur Conan Doyl’e gripping ' mystery story, “The Creeping Man ap -1 nearing in The New York Sunday W orld magazine next Sunday. The story com- E nlete in one issue is the second of five ‘ of Sor Arthur Conan Doyle’s gripping ■ stories to appear for the next four bun -1 days in The Sunday Morld. Edition , limited. Order from your newsdealer in • advance. I Another Favorable Report for Warren. Washington, March C.—A second fav orable report on the nomination of Lhas. 1 B. "Warren, of Michigan, to be attorney ■« general was ordered today by the senate n judiciary committee. ft Asheville, N. C., has two 18-hole golf n courses in operation and four moye under construction or projected. HELL V MARIA! THE NEW KID’S TOUGH NX \x q . " Gosh/ Yoo ain'T NS \\ \ \ IVEN BEES AJ?OWV N. \\ 1\ <") LONG ENOUGH rOfc W 6 \ \ \ \\ \ To GET ACQUAINIeP .r \ v VC * ” " ~~ - “THE COTTON MARKET First Prices Were 19 to 27 Points High er, With July Into New High Ground For Movement. New York. March 9. —Failure of early weather news to show anticipated rains in the southwest combine with relatively firm Liverpool cables led to a good deal of covering and rebuying at the opening of the cotton market today. The 1 first prkw wore 10 to 27 points higher, with JVfy seTHfig up to 2CV.38, or into new high ground for the movement, while May advanced to 20.16 and Oc tober to 25.00. These quotations at rtcated considerable realizing, however, while the weather map was regarded as pointing to probable showers in Texas. Prices eased off several points from the best, but still showed net gains of 13 to 20 points at the end of the first hour. Private cables reported a steady under tone in Liverpool on Texas weathjer news am? a brisk spot demand. The opening prices were: March 23.90: Mav 26.10; July 26.35; Oct. 25.58; Dec. 25.60. POLICE CALLED TO QUIET MARSILAL NEILAN, ACTOR Neilan Said to Have Fought Man Who Danced With His Wife, Blanche Sweet. Culver City, Cal., March 9.—Police early today were called to a Boulevard case here today to quell a disturbance said by witnesses to have started between Marshal Neilan. motion picture director, and an unidentified man who was danc ing with Blanche Sweet, film actress, and Neilan’s wife. Witnesses said the fight began when the stranger struck Neilan after the di rector had objected to the manner in which lie accompanied Miss Sweet over the dance floor. The excitement spread and the police were called. Want Storage Plant to Lift Egg Prices. Monroe, March 8. —Monroe has simply got to have a cold storage ar rangement for keeping eggs. Tom Broom, county agent, says tnat the poultry producers of the county are clamoring for it. And no wonder they are, for they will lose this sumnier some thing like SIOO,OOO for lack of it. There are between five and eight thousand eggs being laid daily by Union county heiiM and this will go through the entire warm season. These eggs sold on the market now bring twenty to twenty-two cents. Placed on cold storage for six months they would bring forty to sixfy cents, depending upon the market. The difference is being lost for the more lack of storage. The storage for six months should cost only about two cents a dozen. The eggs surplus is now being bought up by cold storage houses which will reap the profit. Poultry grower want such a storage house in Monroe to take care of the egg surplus of the county. If it were here eggs could be stored the day after laying and would come out six mouths far superior to the . average cold storage eggs because the commercial houses do not get them on . storage till two and three weeks after they are laid. [ Steumship Aalstun Safe After Collision. * Boston, March 9.—The Holland steam ; ship Aalsum, damaged in a collision with - the U. S. Shipping Board steamer Dan 1, nedaike 25 miles south of Nantucket last i night, reported today that she was quite safe, according to a message to the Dau nedaike intercepted by the Tropical Radio - Corporation here today. Thomas White Back After Operation f Thomas White, who has been in th< e Presbyterian Hospital for over a week returned to his home here Saturday. Mr White had a serious operation performed f on his head. He expects to return tc r the University of North Carolina in t | few days. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1925 ESTIMATER NEGRO WEALTH Rapid Progress of Rye Revealed in So ciological purvey. Atlanta, Ga., 9.—Two billion dollars is the preseul estimated wealth of Negroes iii the United States, accord ing to a recent syi veijr made for the Re search Section pf t» American Socio logical Society by Prey. Monroe N. Work «f Tuskegee JiwtDfrtjfK -The wealth. ol_ t|ie group in 1912 was estimated at seven millions. • The survey reveals great progress also in the matter of Negro education, the amount expended for this purpose by all agencies having been about $40,000,000 in 1924, as against $13,570,561 in 1912. Up to 1912 five thousand Negroes had completed college courses. Since that time, the number has doubled. The de mand for educated Negroes has been rap idly increasing in all lines, according to Dr. Work. The race has made decided gains also in the matter of health. The death rate, which was 22.9 per thousand in 1912. had fallen to 15.7 in 192*2. or a de crease of 31 per cent. A study of mor tality junoug 1.800.000 Negro policy-hold ers of the Metropolitan Insurance Com pany shows that their life expectancy in creased from 41.3 years in 1912 to 40.9 years in 1922. For the whole colored group, the life span has increased in the same period from 35 years to 40. years. The survey calls attention to the re cent heavy movement of Negroes from rural communities to the city and from the South to the North. As a result, there are now almost a million more Ne groes living in cities than there were thirteen years ago, and over half a mil lion more living in the North than at that time. This shift has been accom panied by a large-scale entrance of the Negro into industry, the 1920 census re porting 332.249 Negroes engaged in skill ed and semi-skilled work. The survey points out a decided growth of independence in politics on the part of Negroes and an increasing tendency in many localities to vote the Democratic ticket. It calls attention also to the growing tendency, particularly in the South, to deal with the problems of race , adjustment on the basis of understand ing and co-operation. This policy, ac cording to the survey, has been found “of , mutual benefit to both groups and to the , whole community.’ Asks Reappointment For W. C. W’Ukin son. . Charlotte, March 7. —Keen /interest , has been aroused by the fact there as ; some doubt xvhether W. G- Wilkinson, of , ('harlotte, a member of the estate high r way commission of the Sixth district, [ will be reappointed—by Governor Mc - Lean to succeed himself when his term » expires in the near future. > Telegrams have been forwarded to the > governor by the chamber of commerce, 1 the automotive merchants’ association. » the Charlotte Merchants’ association, ? the Civitan, Lions and Kiwanis clubs, i urging and insisting that Mr. Wilkinson r be appointed to succeed ‘himself. The telegram forwarded by several of the organizations read as follows, i. “We earnestly urge and insist that W. C. Wilkinson be appointed by yon to i succeed himself on the state highway commission of the sixth district-” e Prince Frederick Wilhelm Dead. Dresden, Germany, March 9 (By the 0 Assosciated Press). —Prince Frederick Wilhelm, of Prussia, second cousin of the former Kaiser, died in a sanitarium at Weissernhirsch today aged 45. He e was the youngest son of Prince Albrecht, c, regent of Brunswick r. d Mrs. L. O. Stephens, of Charlotte, and o her daughter, Nell Alice, are spendinj a the week at the home of Mrs. Stephens mother, Mrs. W. D. Harry. BOY THOUGHT DEAD IS RECOVERING RAPIDLY NOW Heard Funeral Plans .Made But Paraly sis Prevented Him From Telling Peo ple He Lived. Madisonville, K.v., March 9. —Roscoe Qualls, 9 years old, lying helpless in his bed unable to move, heard his parents give Jhitn up for dead, and plan the fun eral arrangements. T»das be.J*. rgeovejiug after hours of near distraction at the thought o? being buried alive. Roscoe fell while skating. Paralysis developed and physicians found the youth had suffered a concussion of the brain. He lost his speech and was kept alive several days with liquid food. This fail ed to bring improvement, and the boy ap parently died shortly after the doctors left. Parents and relatives moaned and be gan planning the funeral. Roscoe said he heard it all. A physician was called for final exami nation and found the boy still breathing. PRESIDENT’S DECISION IN TACNA-ARICA CASE Derides In Favor of Chilean Viewpoint, But Final l>ecision Rests With Voters There. Washington, March 9. —President Cool idge handed down his award in the Tacna and Ariea arbitration case today deter mining the ufajor contention between Chile and Peru in favor of the Chilean viewpoint, that the question of perma nent sovereignty to the two territories must be finally determined by popular vote. The arbitarator lays down, however, specific conditions as to theultimate pre biscite which covers the question of de termination of the qualification of voters and also that of supervision of the pre biscite by a special commission set up for the purpose consisting of three mem bers, one to be apointed by Chile, one by Peur, and one by the United States. With Our Advertisers. In a few days the opening of the new Ruth-Kesler Shoe Store will be an nounced. The Parks-Belk Co. has a wonderful line of dress linens, cotton and silk mix tures and cotton goods for Spring dresses. The smartest styles in new Spring Coats you will find at J. O. Penney Co.’s. Priced at $29.75; Patt Covington always has something to interest you in his ad. Read it to day. At Parker’s Stoe Store on Friday, Saturday and Monday you will find an ■ assemblage of up-to-date styles and pat terns. Prices up to $6.93, all the very best values. New- Victor records for March at the Bell & Harris Furniture Company’s mu sis department. See list in new ad. to . day. Now is the time to think abou*t pamt ' Sng. See new ad. of Ritchie Hardware ' Co. ’ New footwear for the new season at J Parker’s Shoe Store all the time. ; Oliver cultivators and section harrows » at Yorke & Wadsworth Co.'s. Also farming implements and fertilizers and j. everything the farmer needs. ] Ulster Government Will Be Dissolved. | Belfast, March 9 (By the Associated Preess).—Dissolution of the present •Ul ster government will occur during the week, and elections - will follow during e the next three weeks, according to the best informe dpolitical circles here to- day. 11 The proceedings of the boundary com e mission have occasioned considerably an » xiety recently and this, it is thought, will be the main issue at the general elec tons. d g Mrs. H. G. Gibson is confined at her %' home on West Depot Street with the in fluenza. , TEAPOT DOME LEASE SUIT NOW UNDERWAY Suit Will Be Heard Before Judge T. Blake Kennedy, in* Cheyenne, Wyo. Cheyenne, Wyo.. March 9 (By tli sociated Press). —The to annul the lease of Teapot Don* Mammoth Oil Co., one of the Harry F. Sinclair group, opened in Federal court here today before Judge T. Blake Ken nedy, at 10:02 o'clock this morning. Atlee Pomerene, associated with Owen J. Roberts as special counsel for the. gov ernment, opened the trial in n statement which reviewed briefly the transactions which led up to the granting of the lease to the Mammoth Oil Company. Mr. Pomerene declared that the gov ernment would seek revocation of the lease on two grounds; first that It was without authority of law because it was let to the Mammoth Oli Company wifh out competitive bidding and without hav ing been advertised. , CROSS-WORD PUZZLES HAVE HEALTH BENEFIT Chicago Department Says They Are Aiding in Better Health ami Happiness. Chicago, Mnrch B.—The Chicago De partment of Health weekly health bul letin, issued today, emphasizes the bene fit of cross \\-(Jhl puzzles to general health and bappinet*. It was discussed under title of “Crossworditis.” The causes and effects of “the savage little cross-word puzzle microbe.” the bulletin said, “may be largely explained by the fact that part of our lives and much energy must be put into amuse ment, to satisfy the play instinct within us. Therefore, any play or game that thas has a mental ‘kick’ in it is quickly accepted noid eagerly pursued.” f United family circles and happiness to convalescents and chronic invalids | were listed in the report as among the good purposes served by the cross-word puzzles.” MARQUIS CURZON HAS SUCCESSFUL OPERATION Operation Was Severe One, But Attend ing Physicians Are Very Hopeful Now. London, March 9.—Marquis Curzon of Dedleaton, lord president of the coun cil. this morning underwent an operation which was described as quite successful. An official bulletin issued after the op eration says: “Mai-quis Curzon underwent a severe operation this morning. The patient is as well as can be expected at ties early stage, but his condition must cause great anxiety for a f ew days.” While ther< is still nothing official an nounced regarding the character of Lord Curzon's ilness, the Daily Express says he is suffering from kidney trouble. CONFERENCE WITH BORGLIM i —--«) “OUT OF THE QUESTION”, So Hollins N. Randolph Advises Robert M. Hanes, of Winston-S^lem. Atlanta, Ga.. March 9.—Hollins N. Randolph, president of the Stone Moun tain Confederate Monumental Associa tion, today told Robert M. Hanes, presi dent of the N. C. cham ber of commerce that a conference “on neutral ground” looking to a reconcilia tion between officers of The Association and Gutzon Borglum. dei>ose'd sculptor of the memorial is “out of the question.” Mr. Randolph wrote Mr. Hanes in re sponse to a telegram from the North Carolina man in which it was suggested that a conference at Winston-Salem might compose existing differences. MACHINERY ACT IS DISCUSSED IN SENATE That Body Gives Attention During Day to Appropriations Bill. Raleigh, March 9. —The senate took up today the machinery act for the revenue bill and after this was disposed of, turned its attention to the appropriations bill. The measure to tax admissions to thea tres and motion picture houses, so as to increase the pensions of Confederate veterans was set as a special order after the appropriations bill. In anticipa tion of the debate on this bill more than a score of uniformed Confederate veter ans were in the galleries and a large num ber of women also were in attendance. Thirty-Five Injured, One Dying, In Col lapse of Church. Winsted, Conn., March 7. —Thirty-five persons were injured, one probably .mor tally, in the collapse of a frame taber nacle in Mason Street. Torrington, this afternoon. Sixteen of the injured, who sustained fractures, are in Charlotte Hungerford Hospital. Recovery of Leon Moore, whose back is badly injured and legs broken, is re garded as doubtful. Frank Kramer and Frank Craig also were taken from the debris with legs fractured. The tabernacle was being built by eighty volunteer workmen, under the su pervision of Contractor Nicholas Gelesta, for the evangelistic campaign under the auspices of all Torrington’s Protestant churches. The committee in charge called volunteer workihen today, and about ninety men responded. . The ma , jority were working on the rdof of a wing forty feet high when the collapse occurred. Police and an army of onlookers re moved the injured from the wreckage. Scott Divorce Hearing Postponed. Alpena. Mich., March 9.—A formal.or i der postponing the divorce hearing of , Congressman Frank D. Scott against Ed [ na Jane Scott, set for tomorrow, was is sued by the clerk of circuit*court upon instructions from Judge Frank Emeriek, . who is ill. 1 The hearing will be set for a later - date to be decided upon after consuta » tion with attorneys. \ Aviators Use 1 Parachutes to Save Livesi San Antonio. March 6.—When two Kelley Field planes collided in mid air at an elevation of about 4.000 feet to day both pTltos jumped from the wrecked 1 planes in parachutes, soon after the burn ing planes, locked wing in wing, crashed to the earth. r The first baseball player to use a glove -for [the left hand was Douglas AUiaon, of tihe Cincinnati Beds, in 1886. $2.80 a Year, Strictly in Advance. * MOTHER APARTMENT ■“TL, JK SCENE OF DARING ROBBERY Jewels Valued at More Than $50,000 Taken From the Home of Mrs. Fay Perkins by Robbers. MRS. PERKINS*WAS BEATEN ON HEAD Her Escort Was Gagged With a Pillow and Bound to the Bed While Rooms Were Closely Searched. New York, March 9.—Three masked men broke into the studio apartment of Mrs. Fay IVrkihs in West 58th street early today and escaped with jewelry val ued at $50,000 after beating Mrs. Per kins and binding and gagging her escort, Milton Abbott, wealthy cotton broker. •The robbers chopped down the door of the apartment in making their entrance. They are believed by the police to have been members of the same gang that rob bed the apartments of several well known f persons on Broadway, including Louise Dorothy^Keenan, who were murdered. After choking Mrs. Perkins and bitipg rings from her fingers, and taking brace lets and necklaces from her, the robbers beat her with revolver butts until she re vealed' the location of the rest of her jewelry. . v Mrs. Perkins was a frequenter of Broad way cabarets, as were the victims in the other apartment robberies. She is sepa rated from her husband, Benjamin Per kins. who is a wealthy proprietor of a case. Mrs. Perkins and her companion had just returned to her apartment after din ing in one of Broadway’s'fashionable sup per clubs and making the round of other night resorts. A crowbar and other tools found at the scene were used in breaking into the apartment. Abbott was seized by the robbers, gag ged with a pillow, and bound to a bed with ripped up lengths of sheets. The robbers then attacked Mrs. Perkins and stripped her jewelry from her. The ■three men wojce silk handkerchiefs across their faces, the victims tol<J the police. The jewelry taken included several dia monds which were collected by her hus band from famous lapidaries of thQ world, Mrs. Perkins told the police. COOLIDGE INVITED TO CHARLOTTE MAY 20TH Overman anti Bulwlnkle Extend Invita tion and Hope For Acceptance. Washington, March 7.—President Cool idge has under consideration the matter of a visit to North Carolina, with Char lotte an his destination, the occasion to be tiie celebration of the sesqui-centennial anniversary of the Mecklenburg declara tion of independence, May 20th. The invitation was extended the President this morning when Senator Overman and Congressman liul winkle called on him by appointment to confer with him con cerning the selection he is to make of three members of the committee of eleven authorized by Congress to deal with the matter of the United States participat ing in the celebration under the Act of Congress. Senator Overman says that President Coolidge appeared pleased at the invita tion to visit Charlotte at the meeting of the Mecklenburg declaration celebration, and said that while he could at this time make no positive promise ,to go to Char lotte for the celebration, that he would take the matter under consideration, and give an answer later. Senator Over man called to his attefition the fact that Prsidents Roosevelt, Taft and M ilson had attended such celebrations in (Hiar-' lotte, and urged upon the President that he take this opportunity to visit North Carolina, that there would be a most hearty welcome given him. Calls God a Scoundrel, Draws 200 Franca Fine. Berne, Switzerland, March 7. —M. Canova, a member of the national coun cil, was convicted as a blasphemer today for dAeribing God as a scoundrel in his socialist newspaper,- Volkswacht. He said in his defense that as, there is no God there is no offense. He was fined 200 francs, with jail as an alternative, and announced he would enter an ap ■ peal . ' The sentence aroused a demonstration by Canova’s .friends in the court room at 1 Cire. capital of the Department of Gns ? ons, where the trial was held. He was showered with flowers as he left the room. % * Motor Vehicle Theft Act Valid. Washington, March 9.—The National [ Motor Vehicle Theft Act was declared . valid and constitutional todsy by the Sir* ■ preme Court. * »' —- ’ WHAT SMUTTY’S CAT SAYS i ■■ i i 1 “ , Unsettled tonight and Tuesday, warn* er itt west portion. . . ' NO. 69