mcord Stores Are Concord Institutions. Help Concord By Trading With Them '■‘■ : ' ' : i Elh I- Ik bales ■TON GINNNED IEIBERI3TH lAn Increase of ■han Two Million B)\rr the Number Btbhas ■llion bales n Estimated BE First That To- Be Hi.- Wj88.., _ lined prior to j H|V round as Half ■■ ;its ; c- : Arizona 70.- |S ( 'olifornia |K . xi;7.",oS ; Mississ- ■ |V North Carolina 1 .. 'iiu.sui Tennessee J x;l> :!>T!: Virginia Horivr states 16,747. ■ ( „ inriii-ied and counted immbereil •>(•<>..».» t com* .a year, and 232,- f .„tr n production as es- Ja-pai Tiiiont of Agricul ■ basis ~f facts available K. : l is cquiva- ■ :I J Halq-, consisting of ■"i>f lint and 21.'.) pounds tie-. Hast year's crop bales. Last year ■ i:: the pereentage of the was per cent. ; . ■ :I I>. r cent : in 1'.*22 it Hn'ii!.: and in 1921 it was ■rOP ONE ■ OF FOUR Ql A LIT Y 1 92.'» Crop Worst For , Cotton in Past Five j Doc. 20. —Tliis year’s ; K more law grade cotton since 1020. Secretary here in a letter to a sub-committee, was addressed to Sen- j ■ Democrat. Smith Caro i of the special cotton ■racking of a Senator of each cotton ■atn selected to recom legislation at this ses hold its first eon today, hut adjoiirnetl for tvithoiiw aeiion beyond eoiimiittee tt> of this veer's if- linieiiderahle under ■>::.' and N unspinnulde. ■IE FISHER ■U.KI) AT ( H \RLOTTE Hits Her While She is ■ ''trect in Ha in—l mbrella ■View. Dc. in,—Crossing the ■ Pouring rain with her an umbrella. Miss ;l ' member ~f one of ; most prominent struck and killed by a ■ B >2abeth street car at street and Eliza ■‘ionigi,-. Mi's Fisher was ■My killed. J 1 f" r nn-rly lived in 're for the jBHr r ' •'-urvived by jjj^B*|" ri ‘'k 1 l'lo-r. of Rry -1! nrra g. a.oM-. have ■*>’«. Defeated. !■ " & Vernacular ■|J r, ' ! -' Mukden ■ forces of ■^'H 1 - wander of • K :Ul • Lave occil |H4>' >I> . !li f h west of : jj^E^‘" at " r • t Manchuria. ■ Bes # ■r f^ hf !ianm ~n Hoard. ■&T us Lb , uisnl. Col. lK ‘‘‘i'peur. a wit i^EWore e ~ , ■ c ,'/ court ■ • doah dis- -d Christmas Greeting Cards j jn s i ]or t notice Engraved Christmas jj x s > with your own name thereon. . Let us | j 1 " n °' v , so that you will have them in plenty § ‘ 1 '*ut for Christmas. We have an especially \ t 0 from. Call at times-tribune office. " ,: l: ;: ■ c..; ; -'"nx^sn THE CONCORD TIMES - * * s * *' $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. Quillen Erects Monument . To Eve’s Memory In Yard j at Home at Fountain Inn Fountain Inn. Dec. 21. —Robert I Quillen, nationally known humorist and author, ban erected a monument in his front yard to Eve, the firkt I woman, and his neighbors are-harri- I tied. t P The monument, which Mr. Quillen 1 ! says is the 1 hrst that mankind has l erected to its tirst woman, after 0.000 [• years of history, was carved in Green iville by Mr. Gillespie and bears the j inscription: In Memory of EVE * The First Woman | To make the shaft harmonious in j every respect. Mr. Quillen had a i “nicely cardved apple, with a twig t and one leaf’ placed below the in j scription. Rut the neighbors “stared at the j marble with incredulous horror,” Mr. Quelllen says in his Fountain Inn | Tribune. “They prophesied plagues 1 - SOUTHERN MAN IS GIVEN APPOINTMENT Richard V. Taylor is Nom i inated For a Place on the Interstate Commerce Commission. Washington, Dec. 21. — (A 3 ) —Presi- dent Ccolidge today to give the South representation on-the‘ln terstate Commerce Cuffi mission. He nominated' Richard V. Taylor, of Ala bama. to succeed C. C. McChord, who has resigned. The President also submitted to the Senate the nomination of Thomas F. Woodlock. of New York, who is serv ing as an Interstate Commerce Com mission under recess appointment. The Senate last spring declined to approve Woodloek's nomfuation. MORRISON MAY RUN FOR GOVERNOR AGAIN He’ll Support Scales, But He Cer tainly Won’t Help Forces of Max Gardner. Special to Greensboro News. i Washington, Dec. 19. —Former Gftfir ernor Cameron Morrison spent a short time in Washington this week, on his way to New York, where his daughter is in school? He had plan ned to accompany his daughter hack to their home in Charlotte for the holidays. Periodically of late months gentle man of* the press have sought , for the most part unavailingly. for an expression from Mr. Morrison rela tive to men and measures in the state, ami with special references to the gubernatorial aspirations of Mr. Gard ner. He has been seriously repre sented by scribes indulging in a favo ite indoor sport, in the way of specu lation, as an opponent, and as an ear nest support of the Shelby man. Doubts upon the subject may *as well be resolved. Given condititons as they are found to exist in the state at the present writing, and in the pres ent posture of affairs, Mr. Morrison will not support Mr. Gardner in his efforts to attain the governorship. Per contra, it is his fixed purpose to sup port, earnestly, and actively, another man, perhaps Senator A. M. Scales, of Guilford. Should Mr. Scales for any reason conclude ultimate that he would not care to enter the lists, then Governor Morrison is very confident that the times and conditions will bring forth a man capable of carry ing on a work which he conceives to be essential to the continued well be ing of the state. It is conceivable that Mr. Morrison will himself seek the nomination. Prohibition Debate in House Again Washington, Dec. 21.—(A 3 ) The House prohibition debate which has waged steadily and warmly for several days was resumed by that body today as soon as the day's proceedings got under way, with Representative Phil lips, republican, of Pennsylvania, lead ing an onslaught against present en forcement methods. Using as a vehicle the Treasury ap propriation bill, with its allotment for enforcement, Mr. Phillips declar ed that “lawless methods” and the "underhand methods” were being used in gathering evidence in prohibition cases. This, he said, had resulted “in crimes more shocking to the public conscience than the evasion of law. -v- Wants Money For January Expenses. Paris, -Dec. 21.— CP)— Finance Minister Doumer introduced a bill in the Chamber of Deputies today calling for provisional credits to cairy on the country’s business for January. upon me; they accused me of an un-1 becoming levity toward things t’hati are sacred; they glared at the marble by day and scurried by with many a backward glance at night. “I am sorry. I never intentional ly hurt anybody's feelings or offend against anybody’s pet superstitions. “Rut this is purely a family affair. Eve was a fair and charming lady and deserved a much finer monument than she has obtained. It is almost incredible that 0.000 years were gath-j ered into .history" before one of her kinsmen erected a stone in ’.ier mem ory.” The nuthcr explains that "Eve was a distant relative of mine, on my mother's t Lean appointed their campaign_man ngers to the second vacancy to occur, in their administrations. Governor Morrison’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was Associate Jus tice W. J. Adams and his last ap pointment was Associate Justice George W. C*nnor, both of whom were selected' from the Superior Court bench. - 'Chief Justice Stacy, who had previously been on the Su perior Court bench, was elected in 1920 to succeed Judge George H. Brown, who retired from the court because of ill health. Strangely enough Judge Brown is the only member of the court as constituted now living. Judge Brown is still holding court as an emergency judge, while Chief Justice Clark and Asso ciate Hoke, Allen and Walker have all died. All of the present members of t he court except Judge Connor wiH come up for re-election in 1926 as will Mr. Brogden, who will also eome v up again in 1928. Stanly to Vote on Bonds For Court house. Albemarle, Dec. 19. —The people of Stanly county are to hold an elec tion in February to vote upon whether the county shall issue $250,- 000 in bonds for the building of a new courthouse. The recent Grand Jury found true bills against the county commissioners for failing to follow previous grand jury recom medations regarding a new court house ; aud now to protect them selves the county commissioiners are having an election culled to let the people determine whether they are willing for this bond issue. »>' ' - ' "■ jSpfj® MORE Slum W shopping DR. MYERS HAS CLINIC IN CONCORD SATURDAY Thirty Crippled Children Examined and Number to Report to Charlotte For Treatment. Dr. Alonzo Myers, of Charlotte, con ducted a successful orthopedic clinic in Concord Saturday at the Cabarrus County Health Department under the auspices of the Charlotte Rotary Club. Thirty* crippled children were exam ined. A number of the children examined were advised to attend the clinic in Charlotte on January 9th for further examination and in some cases for first treatment. Dr. Myers praised the work of the I local health department, declaring i that it was most systematically or ganized and had some of the best rec ords lie had seen. He was pleased, he said, at the response in Cabarrus County to the announcement that he would hold a clinic in Concord. The clinic here was arranged for by the County Health Department in • eo-operation with the Concord Klwanis i Club. Dr. Myers is doiug kis work ] uniter the auspices of the Charlotte j Rotary Club. I BRASWELL HOME BURNED AT ONE O’CLOCK TODAY | Family Hardy Able to Escape From i House.—None of Furniture or Per sonal Effects Saved. The home of Rev. D. A. Braswell was almost completely destroyed by fire shortly 1 o'clock this after noon. Nothing was saved, it was said,' all the personal effects aud furniture being consumed by the flames. How the fire started was not known. According to members of the family, when it was first noticed, the entire top of the home was a mass of flames aud there was not sufficient time to rescue anything. Mr, Braswell’s wife, who is an in valid, was carried out of the house to the home of a neighbor immediately after the fire was discovered. In addition to Rev. and Mrs. Bras well. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jenkins and children resided in the house. They were unable to save any of their ef fects. _ Trainmen Demand Increase in Wages Baltimore, Dec. 19- —Within the next 60 days railway conductors, trainmen, engineefs and firemen throughout the country will demand an increase in pay that would bring wages above their war-time peak, Maxwell C. Byers, president of / the Western Marland railway, said to night Fred Barr, of San Antonio, Tex., vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. admitted that consideration was being given to demands for wages approximately equalling the war-time scale. Mr. Barr is here ih connection with the strike of engine service men on the Western Maryland road. Felix Jules Melfne Dead. Paris, Dec. 21.— UP) —Felix Jules Melin'e, who was premier of France in 1896 to 1898, died today at the age of 87. He was known as the father of the protective tariff. In 1915 he held the agriculture portfolio in a previous ministry of the present pre mier, Aristide Briand. Program Week of December 21 to 20 Star Theatre “Home of Paramount Pictures” Monday Only “CURLY TOP” With Shirley Mason and Wallace Mc- Donald. Special! Fox News. Tuesday-Wednesday. “THE WARRENS OF VIRGINIA’/ One of our big pictures during Christ mas Week. It carries an all star cast. One you can’t afford to miss. Also a Fox News Special! Thursday-Friday-Saturday THREE BIG DAYS “THE PONY EXPRESS” With Betty Compson, Richard Cortez Ernest Torrence and Wallace Beery. This is the picture we picked for Christmas and it’s a good ore. It’s a Paramount! • , Rat, Victor in Fight With Snake, | Now Seeks More Worlds to Cor*'"- ' r . ,mi« Concord’s most famous rat. con queror of a three-foot rattle snake, af ter n week's battle, is seeking new world’s to conquor. Inspired with a i zeal uncommon in rats, and charged | with venom from the • snake he killed after be’ug bitten several times, the j rat recently drove off a ,cat placed in ; the cage with him and today he is the • sole occupant of the cage originally constructed for his first victim. Admirers of the rat's fighting quali ties following his victorious bout with the wagered that it would be just as successful against the cat. Thp wTigprs were quickly called and a neighborhood cat* was placed in the eell. Several - persons who questioned the rat's ability to kill a snake were call ed in to witness liis second major hat tlh within ten days. The cat knew his business but not the temiietament of his foe. No soon er was he in the cage than he made a lunge for the rat, which was quietly sheltered in a corner of the cage. The cat’s paw found the corner of the cage but not the rat for with unusual speed the rodent shifted to the back CAROLINA HOLLY IS SENT TO NEW YORK Tar Het Tenfi,, who is specializing in walnut, poplar, birch and maple tember of large size, shipping the same from Old Fort. Famous Airmen Come to Florida’s Relief in Handling Freight. I Detroit, Dec. 20.—Takiug advant age of the present congested condi tion of railway service in Florida, a new company, Florida Airways Inc., using Ford all-metal airplanes, will start service between Tampa and Miami, January 1, it was announced here today. Captain Eddie Riekenbacker is president and general manager of the new concern. Major William A. Robertson is vice president in charge 1 of operations and Lieut. John Hard ing, who took part in the round-the world flight, is iu charge of main tenance. Others connected with the new enterprise include Edward R. Hart, formerly connected with the Shipping hoard and Major Reed Chambers. Young Cutter Dies of .Injuries. Charlotte, Dec., 21.— (A 3 ) —J. H. Cutter, Jr., 15, son of a Charlotte cap italist, died today from injuries suf fered Saturday when he fell more than 50 feet from a tree where he was gath ering Christmas mistletoe. Lake Erie, the shallowest of the great lakes, has an average of 204 feet. J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher of the Tom. planting h cat’s neck. The cat showed his surprise with convulsions of the body and a shriek of pain. He rubbed against the ({vge, shook liis body with all his strength and sought his foe with a paw. Still the rat clung on, driving lvs teeth again and again into the nee 1 ’ of liis would-be slayer. For some time the battle went on, always with the ret op top. The cat stuck to hi* job for fifteen or twenty minutes, then Itiegan to tire of the jabbing in his neck. Ho forgot to use his paw as an offensive weapon and sought to* locate with it some opening in the \\ ! re on the cage. In liis eye was the''look of wwd*\\ Why everyone knew lie was supposed to kill that rat, seemed to*say the ex -pression on his face, yet her" was the rat on his back, fighting with the determination of a tiger. Supporters of the cat finally took him from the cage, and the rat went back to his corner, with his fur still somewhat like the feathers of*a friz zly chicken, the only mark he bears as a rc..ult of the fight w : th the snake. BANK CASES NOW VIRTUALLY OVER Remaining Indictments in Salisbury . Case Will Likely Not Be Tried. Greensboro, Dec. 20. —The Salisbury bank cases, pending since January, 1923, were over tonight except for a single indictment against J. K. Dougli ton and a joint one against him and M. L. Jackson. These will probably never be tried. J. t). Norwood is under sentence of three years in the federal peniten tiary but with an appeal. It was a hectic week here in federal district court. - • Starting last Monday, two trials were held, resulting in a mistrial, a conviction and an acquittal, t’he lat •ter by the directed verdict route. Nor-* woqd, who was chairman of the board of directors of the Peoples National Bank of Salisbury, was tried first, that lasting three days and a stubborn jury, which voted a long day through, seven to five, in favor of conyiction, was dismissed for being unable; to agree. The defendant was charged with abstraction of the notes of the bank. The second trial, that of Norwood and Doughton, who was president of the bank when it failed, and who- is now a business man in Raleigh, start ed Wednesday aud came to a climax Saturday at noon, when Judge H. H. Watkins, of the western South Caro lina district court, directed a ver dict of not guilty in the case of Doughton. The two defendants were tried on a charge of misapplication of funds of tbe bank, three counts, and charges of false entry, three counts. Norwood was convicted on the first three counts. He appealed from the three-year sentence and is out under bond of $15,000, signed by John MeCanless. It was a great blow to him. His attorneys, Clyde Hoey, of Shelby; A. L. Brooks, of Greensboro, and Walter H. Woodson, of Salisbury had confidently counted on acquittal. The jury took only one ballot, however, agreeing in one , hour and one half and voting 12 to 0 for conviction. , Norwood is a brokeji man. He was once worth $600,000 net. That was when he was head of the Meck lenburg chain of cotton mills, com prising the Mecklenburg at Char lotte, Clyde and Newton at Newton and Nancy at Tuckertown, Montgom ery county. That is all swept away. He went to Birmingham, Alabama, to go in business after eveything was in receivership, mills, bank and his private affairs, and after he had been convicted, James Simpson, Birming ham man, gave him a good name, said that he was honest and open and above board in Alabama, with many Simpson joined with the lawyers in asking from clemency for Norwood. Norwood was once chair man of the North Carolina Demo cratic state executive committee, and as such waged the 1922 campaign. The jury m the last trial was evi dently in a mood to waste no time. The other one, where a mistrial re sulted, stayed all day on the case and did not reach a decision. It was easy for the jury jhat convicted to agree. There was no disagree- ■ ment for any time. Cilice judge directed the Doughton verdict of not gjiilty, it does not seem worth while to proceed with trial on the other indictments against him singly and jointly with M. L. Jackson, who was a director in the bank aud in the Mecklenburg Mills Company. Frank A. Linney, district attorney, indicated that the cases might be dropped. They were, how-J ever, continued until the next term of criminal court' here in June, i The bank lost about $500,000 in the crash, according to evidence .of the receiver, Earl E. Fouts, who said that a forty per cent, dividend had been paid depositors, and that more will be paid, but evidently not much, e said that most of the collections had been made. No livport Duties For English Man ufacturers. London, Dec. 21.^—04 s ) —Premier Baldwin stated in the House of Com mons today that it was impossible -to grant the application of the iron and steel companies for protection under the safeguarding of industries pro cedure. This means that the gov ernment does not think it wise to impose import duties to assist this industry. , • TUl DT f nine were killed lust week IN TRAFFIC WRECKS Survey of the South Shows 39 Persons Were Killed and 227 Others Were In- • jured in Wrecks. SEVEN DEATHS IN TAR HEEL STATE Georgia Again Had the Highest Number of In juries and Virginia Came Second. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 21.— UP) —Thirty- nine persons sacrificed their lives dur ing the past week on the altar of the traffic god. and 227 others suffered varying degrees of injury. Some of these are expected to die. These fig ures were revealed today in a survey of traffic accidents by the Associated Press in eleven Southern States. North Carolina with 7 deaths, led the galaxy of states, while Florida .and Mississippi reported two each as the lowest number. * Georgia again had the highest num ber of injuries, with 49. This was one less than was reported through the same channels last week. Virginia was a close follower, with 44. Flori da reported none, having been injur ed. ; There were no outstanding ac cidents during the week. The total was taken by scattering accidenit*.. Tabulation by states includes: North Carolina 7 deaths, 39 injured; South Carolina, 3 deaths, 4 injured. COL MITCHELL BSFORE THE SHENONDOAH BOARD Tells Why He Made Public Charge* Against Those Who Sent Dirigible on the Western Trip, Washington, Dec. 21. —(4*)—Over the protest of his own counsel, Col. William Mitchell explained to the Shenandoah naval court today the basis of his public charges against those who sent the giant dirigible on her fatal voyage into the w r est. Some of these charges, he insisted, were, .on information which reached Ipm from sources he regarded as reliable, although others represent ed his own deductions. He said he had charged that the Shenandoah was about 50 per cent, overweight, because he had “ a sneaking suspicion” that such was the case, but later he said he had “personal knowledge from re ports and things of that kind” that the ship was too heavy. He was not prepared to say from his own knowl edge whether, non-freezing solutions had caused corrosion of the Shenan doah’s framework as he charged in the San Antonio statement which led to his court martial on charges of in subordination. Attorneys for the convicted air of ficer sought ineffectually to induce him 'to refuse to testify as he did sev eral weeks ago, when first brought be fore the naval tribunal. They advis ed him that the President? approved of his court martial sentence/of five years suspension from the he occupied a privileged status. Apparently he went to the hearing room prepared to follow that advice, but Mrs. Mitchell who accompanied him, asked that he give the court the advice it sought and bring- to an end the legal contro-* versy in which he had been entangled for weeks. - m Recommends Improvements at Pearl Harbor. Washington, Dec. 21. —(4*)—Exten- sive improvements to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, including berthing space for sixteen battleships, were recommended to the House Committee on naval af fairs today by Representative Ste phens, Republican, Ohio, senior mem ber of the special congressional com mittee that visited the islands Inst summer. Would Repeal Flexible Provision* of Tariff Act. Washington, Dec. 21.— UP) —Repeal .of the flexible provisions of the tariff act which allows Ike President to make certain readjustments of rates was proposed in a bill introduced to day by Representative Hull, Demo crat, of Tennow