North Carolina Newspapers

R sHE^RI Edltor and Publisher ■ll'ME XLIX piSTSTEIENT I, : j-,ir (lit‘ government K;j | ( . a .c -slits Say Data B.iu'ii »>iii hy Doheny Blu-t 1 - the I' acts. Bsc-vre over B vii K\ | EASE MADE Bumion of Government But- " Also Sa - V the B. I onh-renee Treaties Brd He! ore Leases. B' , i •> -In answer to the ■ ""7 Kiu-ar.l I- 1 •olieny that . of war m the, j|. v part in til** naval V'"':';; \," v , Y"ik Times today | B coveriimHit coun |K 7 pr,»<sedit ion. and of i*«i with tin* oases. |K:'7, ,:..,-laiTi! the war danger officials were B v coiiferenee. B Vee"l" - <>W<>n ,T --t ill treaties re- B nfef.nce were signed Bf ! by the Senate before the Btnrt with Mr. Ih.heny was \(i- ]‘..ine!'ene recalled that_the 8;,.E. :ri!>:*■'i November 12. |K r . began signing B 1:: Ihvember; that the Sen- aireetnent in March. v- I. 1 1 o 11 v didn't get his BW until April 2.-. 1022. B M v;.l • tti-er- fears of ( Miental But \ being deleted biii: .I. l.n K. Kohinson's B Li lease trial. had to do with Bv!vl ■ Department in it not care to i B wa- net!.;i,a in the deposition 8,, r -|. •• i!i..n:en* that affected B'r. l'-a'tiy eali- it. then it was ro . a tie- ti: -1 I >oheny con- B signed. B ’’ll little Black Satchel? - in my mind of this pa . spin.ihMi ro Mr. Kali with (H.c.n :: in the other r-on- Sl.tmm».(mHl worth of prnp- ON SPANISH B ARsim i-.t i i hi: iok city IBlhstrovotl in Santa Karhara to |Hil.o ed |>\ Tlnise of the Spanish Riidiaia. July 2. —Santa Bar |B "" :i will reeomstruct the t'-ri of the city along HB ' l.iteeture. according |^Bi-i'); rt-arii,d while the city to |H re,- . V . - -..in the effects of i.f Monday. ill Spanish arehi |B men will follow i>>n- ~f tlie Santa Bar- Society. a' t dangerous over m ! i.mli'hed by fire and during the night [B“' ; away and cleared |B >n ■■ el., was little left to |H)!“ 'vreckage. B'.' :;> | tlur Advertisers. B rt attention for IB" 1,1 Btarnes r r... BB i" buy that cedar IHl' " At Ito Ss.'i.OU at B^.'xUtt.itur. |^B^‘7 ; '. '.die. i||,. All-Steel B To to their BH* T l'eilt simw ymi. IB ■' to '.IS cents: |,, S4.t ntl A'A i" S-d.'.id during the |B H!i "' :i: -Alarkson Shoe Bi *u' ’ 'imitinin week at B»V ,:ii *'": during which • i i lll ui iiiiin uten |BlV i , ’ :r *U'!iing goods. Mrs. |B<i representative. |Bi. ’o help you solve j B| W,li " *n Case. |B ~ I ••.■ginning tlieir B'le It ,h “ .i'try ill |B'- js'ihu y ease today ] IB.r "'n’t rooms after 1 |H of noon yester B H ■ Penitentiary, mM 'A chaplain of the - conspiring to BUI ’ ' •••'!.>' prisoners. B ~r, " il ai V| Johns Next |Btv ln;l T\. Hli. I)., who H M: j will, niotli |Hr deliver the KB The BjH ‘ ‘tdministered at rr>Ss |, HB ... ' 1(l 'imm* SurtVrers. B"; 7. American 'Utwey of every ' 'htrhara eartli ■B'.: :: 1 the amount mMm ■ ' , relmbiiita ■H Me needs each u B‘ v 7' 1 ' 1 ore,nan Killed B' ’ hinoe foreman k< was shot THE CONCORD TIMES Oil Fire JD 838 mm 'yy'-' J* B mMIMM Nl:— |/. A bolt of lightning struck a 55,000* barrel tank of oil at El Dorado, Kas., and here’s what happened. The smoke cloud shot 500 feet up in the air and kept the town in semi-darkness all day. TEXAS ALONE HAS MORE " INCOME THAN NORTH CAROLINA This State Paid Into the Federal Treas ury Last Fiscal Year $160,000,000. Italeigh. X. C., July 2.—During the i fiscal year ending today, North Carolina has paid into the federal • treasury, in taxes, more than $100,000,000 present indications show- Os tliie. $140,000,000 . represented tobacco slope. On account of this tax on tobacco, it was pointed | out. North Carolina is able to collect federal taxes at a smaller percentage : than any other district of the Govern- | ment —as a matter of fact, at less than j a twelfth of the average coct over all the. districts, it is claimed. i The Commissioner of Revenue at Washington today released for publica tion some statistics of all the sixty-five collection districts oftlie Cnited States, including North Carolina. These tables show North Carolina to be much ahead of the average with reference to person al incomes taxes only. The last figures available are, for the year 11*23 which were returned during the following year. As to North (*aro lina. it was pointed out that the num ber of individual income tax returns in creased more than seventeen per cent while all over the country the increase averaged only thirteen per cent. The total increase of individual in comes in North Carolina was move than thirty-five per cent, while the average increase over the country was only twenty-three per cent. The actual in crease of taxes paid in North Carolina was approximately eleven per cent while over the whole country there was an average decrease of eighteen per cent by individuals. It was also pointed out here today that of the eleven strictly Southern States. Texas alone has more individual income than North Carolina. STATE ATTORNEY IS ON HAND FOR SCOPES TRIAL A. T. Stewart Arrives to Aid in Prose cution of John T. Scopes. Dayton, Tenn.. July 2—A. T. Stew art. attorney general of the eighteenth Tennessee judicial circuit, arrived in Day ton today for a conference with other at torneys for prosecution of ■*" Scopes for alleged violation of the Ten nessee law prohibiting the teeaheing o evolution in public schools of the state. Mr. Stewart declined to discuss the case and immediately went into con er ence with Sue K. Hitts. Herbert E. Hicks. Wallace C. Haggard. Ben T. Mc- Kenzie and J. G. McKenzie, assoc la e counsel. Whole Pacific Coast Rising. Says Scientist. Angel*. July 2.-The wnole Pacific Coast. extending some miles east of the Rocky Mountains, is rising as i impelled by some mighty unseen hand in the opinion of Ralph Arnold, of the Seismologies! Society of Antenna. “What is the cause we do not know. ! but we know it is a growing range. In 'the course of great lapses of time, as the i Sures'or Some ‘ externl i i f-ults or along new fault*. The raove- I meats may he V^Vo'cemcnta 1 possibbly 15 or 20 feet. Say Marines Will Managuay, Nicaragvi J • per(l Associated Marinos will be announce that u. , . 4+l, The withdrawn from here on firs, detachment of oDary art.vi years ago to queii r e(1 as a ties, and Marines since have setv guard for the American legation. Kirkwood Eliminated. Crpn Eagle, Scotland, .Tu’y 4- ' Kirkwood. w eliminated from the 1.«00 *«■>»« * ' j . name.,, here today by oa,"*>■>» , match to Harry Ames, of burry, who 4 up and 3 to play. nrovid ; school for ne^hoys t Inmates are committed ) other courts having jurisdiction, school is located in Richmond county. Santa Barbara’s Famous Mission Ruined by the Quake .... • WMIIWi jflj jHBBByoN B BBItT jg£Bap%i»g% eg jjyffWßglw gHn ftMPfyLj.-ii.Ytfiifiijrlflil Perhaps the recent enrthqu,ike's stfenghth among the was ifelt more keenly by the Santa Barbara mis sion. known as "The ()t;een of Ar-ssions” on the Pacific coast. AVhen the tremor struck, the mission's two graceful towers which rose to a height of 60 feet, crumbled and crashed to the stone court below, carrying with them the silver-throated bolls which have called the monks to prayer for more than a century. PLACE FOR CONCEALMENT OF LIQUOR DISCOVERED Sheriff Caldwell ami Officer Chapman Do a Sherlock Holmes Stunt to Find Hid ing Place. Sheriff Caldwell ami Officer Chapman, of Kannapolis, are laying elaans to the title of the county’s premier detectives, its chief Sherlocks, after last night’s activi ties. For some time, it had been known that there was a liquor cache in Kannapolis, but uo one had been able to discover it. Prohibition agents had been sent from Washington to run it down but to no avail. It just couldn't be found. The sheriff and the officer last night decided to inuke a search of a house which had been under suspicion for some time and which had been searched on numerous occasions. It had been recent ly vacated but it was decided to give it the once over in order to see whether or not the Washington agents bad overlook ed anything. What they found was a place for'hid ing 500 or more gallons so craftily con cealed as to escajie suspicion. On enteriug the hall, was hung a string to a nail, just as though a calen der or some other object of like nature had been attached. A pull, however, re vealed rhe fact that it moved some slid ing panels in the dining room behind a china closet. In the aperture was a cav ity which was capable of containing large quantities of liquor. No spir : ts were found at this place but just outside of Kannapolis, fourteen gal lons of liquor were discovered buried in the grouud. $250,505,238 33 SURPLUS REPORTED IN TREASURY Surplus Was Nearly Four Times the Amount Forecast by Experts Last Oc tober. Washington. July 2. —The close of the fiscal year 1925 on Tuesday found a sur plus <if $250,505,283.33 in the treasury after expenditures of $3.529,643.44(5.09 of the ordinary receipts which totalled $3,- 780.148,684.48. The surpltis, nearly four times the amount forecast last October, is not available sorta xreduction purposes this year, having been used to lower the pub lic debt. Secretary Mellon's statement of the treasury condition said that only the annual surplus to be expected in fu ture years should be used as a margin for tax reduction. COTTON PRICES BREAK Break of $2.50 a Bale Following Govern ment’s Crop Forecast. New' York, July 2.—Cotton prices broke $2.50 to $4 a bale today on publication of the government report. The figures were much larger than expected and precipi tated heavy general selling. ' October brake to 23.28 a i»ound and December to 23.35. Shipman Goes With Commercial Print ing Company. Raleigh, July 2. —Returning to a busi ness lie forsook twenty-one years ago to become assistant commissioner of labor and printing of the state, M. L. Ship man, for sixteen years commissioner of labor and printing and who retired from office last January, on “July Ist became president of the Commercial Printing Company of Raleigh. In re-enterilig the printing business Air Shipman bought out J. AV. AVeaver, who lias headed the business since 1904, when it was established. Since his retirement last January, due to having been defeated in the primary bv Frank D. Grist, Air. Shipman had de voted most of his time to a statewide weekly newspaper bureau w'ith head quarters at Raleigh. Here he handled 'the legislature of 1925 for a large num ber of these papers and after the ses ! sion w asover continued to write for , them. Mr. Shipman annoiinees that his j „p W s bureau here will continue to func tion and will not be interfered with by his new connection. Cotton Production Forecast. Washington, July '2.—Cotton produc tion this vear was forecast today at 14.- • >o q 000 equivalent 500-pound bales b$ the department of agriculture in its first quantity report of the season. I Vote of Confidence for Painleve. I I>ar j s July 2. —The French Senate * unanimously voted confidence in Painlev* in the Aloroccan situation. , a S.' Raper, of Shelby, is visiting relatives and friends in the city. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CONCORD, N. C, THURSDAY, July 2, 1925 FRANCE SOON READY TO MAKE STATEMENT AS TO U. S. DEBTS First Public Notice Will Con tain Hardly More Than the Names of Mission Which Will Visit This Country. KEEP SEPARATE THE TWO DEBTS No Effort Willlße Made to Settle Debt With America . and Great Retain at the Same Time. : Paris, July 2 (By the Associated Pi •ess). —The French government is pre paring to make announcement on the American debt question in a few days. It probably will be limited to scarcely more than naming the mission to go to AVash ipgton. French debt negotiations with the United States will be kept strictly apart from those with Great Britain. ■ There is much caution here because of tiie apparent conviction both in Ameri can state department and in the Frqneh foreign office that any public mention of terms of payment by either side would complicate negotiations and might even defeat their puropse. PASTOR SAYS REASON WE ARE HERE BIG QUESTION “Whence We Came and Whithe r We , Go” Is Most Im|>ortant Matter. Dayton. Tenn., July 2.—Less concern over "whence we come and whither we go” and more attention to the "fact that we are here and here for a purpose,” is advocated by the Rev. H. G. Bird, pointed to as the man who is responsible for the Scopes evolution trial. The minister, who is pastor of Dayton Methodist Church, inspired Dr. George W. Rappleyea, original prosecutor of John T. Scopes, to institute the charges against the young school teacher, Dr. Rappleyea told the Associated Press. Installation Services for DeMolays. v Installation iservices for the DeMo lays will be held Sunday afternoon at 3-30 o’clock in the Concord Theatre. Special music has been prepared for the occasion. The public is invited to at tend. 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July 2.—Discussion of plans for increasing attendance at schools and reducing illiteracy in the counties of the state, as suggested by the committee of chairman of round table work, featur ed the session of attendance and illiter acy conference of the North Carolina County Superintendents here today. The round table chairman held an inter esting meeting for the purpose of draw ing plans that might be applicable to all counties of the state, and which were presented today to the general confer ence. Each of these plans was applica ble to certain counties in the state. five; the system of plans for respective sections of the state the committee chair man recommended that a state director of adult illiteracy be named and three dis trict supervisors be named to comprise a general direction for the operating of the plans in the counties affected. Tilt:. COTTON MARKET Opened Steady at Advance of 2 to 9 Points, With October Easing Off to 23.88. New York, July 2. —The cotton mar ket opened steady today at an advance of 2 to 9 points owing to the failure of early weather news to show rains in the _soutlnvest and rather more encouraging reports from the cotton goods trade. Circulation of a few July notices caused some near month liquidation, however, while there was considerable pre-bureau realizing in the late months. After selling at 24.03 October contracts eased off ao 23.88, active months showing net losses of about 6 to 13 points at the end of the first hour. Another pri vate crop report estimated the condition at 73.9 and indicated the yield at 18,- 596,000. These figures seemed about in line with the average of previously is sued reports. Cotton futures opened steady. July 23.97; Oct. 24.00; Dec. 24.06; Jan 23.52; March 23.85; May '24.10. Another Setback in Wyatt Dase. Raleigh, July 2. —The absence of a material witness when court opened this morning gave the case of state vs. Jesse Wyatt. Raleigh plain clothes man. charg ed with the murder of S. S. Holt, of Smithfield, another setback. Court ad journed until noon without having gone into the case. j Heads Lions Clubs. Cellar Point, Ohio, July 2. —Benj. F. 1 Jones, of Newark. N. J., today was elect ed president of the International Asso ciation of Lions Clubs at the closing ses sion of the ninth annual convention here. He was advanced from first vice presi dent without oposition. San Francisco was awarded the 1925 ' convention. Gets $50,000 111 ■ It took a JuhX just one hour and minutes to decide that Mrs. Blanche Geller, divorced wife of a Toledo auto dealer, was entitled to |50,000 from his second wife for alienation of his affections. She mar ried Geller in 1905 and the divorce was granted in 1923, two yea'rs after Geiler met the woman who later b*r came wife No. 2. BUSINESS IN FIFTH FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICT Conclusions Difficult to Draw, Due to Conflicting Testimony. Richmond, A'a., July 1. —"Conclusions on the business situation in the Fifth Re serve district at the middle of .Tune are difficult to draw," said the current monthly review made public today by Wil liam Hoxton. "conflicting testimony being much in evidence,” Continuing, the review said: "In an agricultural section like the Fifth District much depends upon crop prospects, but at the present writing these prospects are highly problematical. "Early farm work was done from ten days to two weeks earlier this year than usual, but dry weather in April, cold weather and frosts in May, and hot, dry 'mri*ei; #F7ff *y r flr* WtffuT’T *¥- layed seed germination and plant- develop ment to such an extent that much of the early start was lost. Fruit prospects ap pear considerably worse than a year ago. taking the district as a whole, the tobacco outlook is not promising and the weevil is seriously menacing the cotton crop in South Carolina and much of North Carolina. Truck crops, especial ly Irish potatoes, are turning out below early indications, ami the hot, dry weath er has cut the early hay yield very seri ously. Business failures in the Fifth District in May exceeded failures in May, 11)24, in both mini bet and liabilities. Tex tile mills have begun reducing their out put us forward orders are caught up. The voTume of construction work is showing signs of falling off here and there in the district, and the volume of retail and wholesale trade in May was somewhat below the business doue in May, 1024. "On the other hand." continued the re view, “debits to individual accounts fig ures show that a larger volume of busi ness is passing through the banks of the leading trade centers than was the case a year ago. Labor continues well em ployed and some improvement has re cently- been reported in the coal tields of the fifth district. Corn and other grain crops are doing well and promise relief from the feed shortage on the farms. Bank deposits are increasing. On the whole, prospects for the near future in the Fifth District depend upon weather conditions.” ANTHRACITE DEMANDS GIVEN TO CONVENTION Miners Made Public Terms They Will Seek in Making New Contract. Scranton, Pa., July 2.—The anthracite scale committee today submitted to the tri-district convention for its ratification the following Tentative demands for re newal of the mine owners contracts ex piring August. 31st. A contract for two years, complete rec ognition of the union, which means addi tion of the check-off; 10 per cent, wage increase for tonnage men and $1 a day additional for day workers; equalization of day rates; yament on the basis of 2,- 240 tons where now paid on car basis. Other demands involve quick adjust ment sos grievances, equalizat : .oii of col liery work, improvement of housing con ditions on company property, and other mutters of a technical character. One Thousand Active Members of Bar Association. Asheville, July 2.—The active mem bership of the North Carolina Bar As sociation on July 30, 1925, numbered an even 1.000. Henry M. London, secre tary-treasurer, reported tonight, follow ing the address of President A’. G. Cow per. , "Our last report showed on April 30. J 1924, a total active membership of 950." said Mr. London. _At the meeting at Pinehurst we admitted 83. J. Lloyd Horton and John H. Kerr were trans ferred from the honorary to .the active list. "We lost by death ten members: George M. Rose, Rodolph Duffy, E. A. Daniel, W. V. Hartman. R. G. Allsobrook, H. B. Stevens. R. T. Weatherman. I4>cke Craigr AV. AV. Kitchin and Frank lip McNeil. Ry resignation we lost one, D. F. Morrow, of Rutherfordton. ;"Ry transfer ’ from the active to the 'honorary list, we lost Associate Justice L. R. Varser, and Judges I. M. Meekins, j> AJ. Oglseby. Michael Sehenck, Al bion Dunn and M. V. Barnhill." $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. BHE OFFICER KILLED AND l WH IN vSfSTir ROANOKE Shooting Occurred at the Home of C. H. Hiltern When Officers Demanded Entrance to His Residence. BULLETS” ANSWER OFFICERS RECEIVED All Roads In City Guarded and All Trains Searched As the Hunt For Hilton Is Kept Up. Roanoke, July 2.—Policeman C. H. Morgan is dead, and Policeman A. M. Smith and AV. M. Terry are wounded ns a result of a raid on a house last night in the northwest section of the city. Morgan died a few hours after the shoot ing. Smith and Terry were reported to day in a serious condition. The entire Roanoke police force was called to duty and armed with high pow ered rifles, they spent the morning guard ing every road leading out of the city and searching all trains. The shooting took place at the home of Chas. H. Hittern, a white man, now serving a sentence for violation of the prohibition laws. When the officers, members of the plain clothes squad, demanded entrance to the house, they were greeted with a spatter ing of bullets. Morgan fell in the first fusillade mortal ly wounded. Smith, who was with Mor gan, at the front of the house, was struck in the forehead. Terry was shot in the stomach as he rushed from the rear of the house, to which he had gone with Detective H. F. Howell. No trace of the assailants could be found. BOXING CARNIVAL TO ATTRACT BIG CROWD Eight Well Known Fighters Will Take Part in lieneflt for Italian Hospital. New York, July 2.—Some 50.000 fol lowers of boxing are expected at the Polo Grounds tonight when eight well known fiftbto'iL. tftkeupiut for good sized purses in a benefit for the Italian hospital. A double feature is offered. The welter weight champion Mickey AValker, of Elizabeth. N. J., fights the middleweight Harry Greb, of Pittsburgh; Harry AVills, negro giant who long has clamored with meeting with the heavyweight champion, meets the rejuvenated veteran of New ark. N. .T.. Charley Weinert. In the Walker-Grebs tussle a title will be at,stake, but only on one side. Walker cannot lose his because his opponent will enter the ring far above the welterweight limit. But Walker may win the crown which the Pittsburgh man took from the head of Johnny Wilson. Greb is the fav orite. Episcopal Church Plans Revivals. AVashington, July 2. —The entry of the Protestant Episcopal Church upon the practice of feligious revivals is her alded in the announcement today by the National Cathedral Foundation of pre liminary plans for a college of preach ers to be founded by the chapter of Wash ington Cathedral. The primary aim of the college is "to provide a body of men for the specific purpose of winning for Christ, by the ministry of preaching, those who are known to be outside of and possibly alienated from His church.” The college is being started under the personal supervision of the Right Rev. Philip M. Rhinelander, former bishop of Pennsylvania and now Canon of the Cathedral. He is being assisted by Bish op Freeman, Canon Anson Phelps Stokee, former secretary of Yale University, and Canon Henry Lubeek. A suitable building containing ade quate quarters for residence and teach ing will be provided within the Cathedral close on Mt. St. Albans. As soon as clergymen complete their training the Cathedral plans to arrange for them to speak at "mass meetings and conferences, gatherings of all sorts, in / theatres and halls, in the highways and byways of the great cities.” An initial conference, attended by seventy-five clergymen, was held early this month. Bar Association in Session. Asheville, July 2.—Presentation of the record of the committee on memorials, setting forth the names of 15 members who have died during the past year and a memorial address by Governor Angus W. McLean about the life of Franklin McNeill, of Wake Connty, were the chief features of Thursday morning’s session of the North Carolina Bar Association here. AA’hen prudence bolts the door, don’t try to get in at the window. WHAT SAT’S BEAR SAYS pP| ■ Fair tonight, slightly warmer in ex treme west portion;'' Friday unsettled, ‘ probably local thundershowers. NO. 102