■ \!E L
I KIT UNABLE
HVE BED AND
Fees all work
late Secretary Re
is That There Is No
I For Alarm in His
lion.
I COLD IS
■SING TROUBLE
lesident Will Re
sin Bed Today So
b Be Better Able
fht Cold.
[on. Feb. IS —OP)—Presi
jge was confined today to
Iffering from what White
Lis said was a heavy cold.
Feiijents for the day were
Lir that there was no cause
L,r was there any relapse
Lieut's condition, Secretary
E Mr. (’oolidge had decided
L bed 'n the hope that the,
L> controlled. „
lets of the illness were in
tsday night when the Pres-
L last moment decided not
I dinner given in his and
jge's honor at the home of
bay is of the War Depart
ierday after a brief turn
I engagements were cancell-
Iptired to the White House
Lter. however, he returned
■ for an hour's work and
■took a short jstroll about
■te House grounds.
K Coupal, the President^
■ in attendance,
ftge from time to time has
Kent from a Washington
■st but of late had not np
■ bothered in this respect.
■ition Not Serious.
lon, Feb. IS. —G4*)—It was
■mourned at the White
■]y after noon today that
resident Coolidge was con-
I he is suffering from “just
kl his condition is not se
lls KILLED
BY HER OWN SON
Rod From Rifle 'J Cuts
I Cord in Her Neck
fob. 17. —Mrs, * vey Coffey j
[Hickory hospital Monday
of a shot fired by her
I son on Sunday morning
ip in the Carey's Flat sec
laturday night Mrs. Cof
r came to spend the night
knd brought with them a '
isle. The rifle was placed
pout the bed where the
p Next morning when the
[ready to return to their
[ and Mr. Coffey were out
| and one of the boys said
Ir. “Don't forget your
little boy heard this, went
lose for the gun, pleased
pry it out. Mr. Coffey and
■paring the report of a
bd into the house where
blrs. Coffey sinking to the
■he wooden cleaning rod,
[in the gnu. shot into her
lod pierced the neck, pass
the back side. Mr- Coffey
rod out and placed his
i bed. As he did so he
r the bullet from the rifle
n her neck at another
IV. T. Shipp, of Mortimer,
immediately and she was j
ition.
[ the seriousness of her
Dr. Shipp rushed her to ,
hospital where nu X-ray
k made. This, examination
it the stick had cut the
I in her neck and that
|on!y a few hours abend. J
known how the little boy
o shoot his mother. It is (
whether he snapped the j
for fun as he passed her ,
he was working with the !
ft it go off. /
Key was taken back to
it for burial. She is.sur
ier husband and four lit
b the oldest being six
the youngest a four
1 baby.
es LaGuardia Resolution.
ton, Feb. 18.— UP) —The
eiary comm'ttee disapprov-
Wp- resolution introduced by
live IjfaGuardia, socialist
Lork. asking {he Attorney
furnish Congress with in
,about an alleged bread
j*‘-ittce acted after receiving
put n from Attorney Gen
pt stating that a suit in
pdv imd been filed in Bfil-
P‘ ! ' the Ward lHaking
F 1 fl nd its, subsidiaries,
[uardi-i's resolution mention
r i Bakeries Corporation,
F* ' !| K Corporation, Conti-
Log Corporation, the Gen-
N Corporation, and the
r 1 ’‘ ducts Corporation.
‘ General said that in
f pending suit it would not
[puL he interests to reveal
lah of the evidence colect
e°’ ■ niment.
fhambra, California, is a
j oO years old, more than
in <ircumierence at the
shf h V ’ lU * 125 feet in length.
F woman to be ad
tlh* \ irginia bar in the
Mho state was L. Marian
■ ashmgton, D. C.
THE CONCORD TIMES
$2.00 a Year, Strictly*in Advance.
Thinks The Aluminum
Company Can Sustain
Manner Os Operation
a
Senate Is Told by Senator
Cummins That Contempt
> Charges Cannot Be Suc
i cessfully Maintained.
WANTS SENATE TO
DROP THE MATTER
\
| The Senator Also Chal
lenges the Rright of the
Senate to Make Further
Investigation of Case.
Washington. Feb. 18.— UP) —After
a full investigation the Department of
Justice has reached the conclusion
that contempt proceedings against the
Aluminum Company, of America
cannot by any possibility be success
fully maintained.
This announcement was made today
by Chairman Cummins of the Senate
Judiciary Committee in a minority ,
report opposing the Senate investiga
tion ns to whether the Aluminum
Company, in which Secretary Mellon
is a large stockholder, had violated 1
the Federal court decrees of 1012,
The question whether the Senate is
to supplement tlie Department of Jus- <
tice and Federal Trade Commission '
investigation was a special order of i
business for today. Involved in the
controversy is the whole question of 1
the extent to which the Senate inquir
ies are to be ordered in the future.
Senator Cummins said the Depart- 1
ment was u in possession of all the in
formation known or believed to exist,
including not only everything that was i
available to the Federal Trade Com- 1
mission, but also any items of infor- 1
mation submitted to the commission.” «
“After carefully considering the <
entire case and exhausting every’ avail- *
able source of information,” Senator 1
Cummins said “the Department has 1
reached the conclusion that contempt
proceedings cannot by any possibility 1
be successfully maintained.” <
In view of the findings Senator 1
Cummins challenged the legal right of' 1
the Senate to make further investiga- ?
tion. 1
c
“It is the judgment of the minority r
of the committee,” the report added. a
“that there is no constitutional au- t
thorit.v for the resolution (of investi-J t
gation) recommended in the majority e
report, that if the course indicated in {<]
the proposed resolution becomes the 1 r
settled practice of the Senate the ov- 1 c
erthrow of our form of government is
certain to result. 1
"The struggle' which must ensue
will end either in the complete subor- •
dination of the executive or judicial 1
branches of the government to the j t
legislative branch, or in subjecting the! t
legislative power to the executive c
power. Stripping the proposal to en- i
ter upon this inquiry of everything I
save its bare essentials, it means just ’ I
this, no more and no less. j <
'"The Senate because it doubts the'l
conclusion reached by the Department
of Justice, is to try the Aluminum Co. f
for alleged violation of the decree. If i
it finds the defendant guilty it will 1
then set about discovering a lawyer i
who holds the senate’s opinion, and di
rect the President to employ him. t
“We deny the right or power of the t
Senate to try this case. We deny the <
jurisdiction of the senate or any com- i
mittee of the senate to summon and 1
hear witnesses upon the issue of a vio
lation of this decree.” . ]
DAPPER YOUNG MAN
POSES AS DUKE AGENT ]
Said to Have Cashed in Strong in
Various Cities in the Two Caro- i r
liras and Georgia- t
Durham, Feb. 17.—Charles May- ,
nard, represented as a dapper young ]
man with a dissipated appearance, ,
has been ' “cashing in” on hie repre- <
sentation in North and South Caro- 1
lina and Georgia cities that he is an ,
agent of Duke university, according ’
to numbers of reports that come to
Prof. R. L. Flowers, business head of *
the institution, most of them through (
the Fidelity bank, of Durham, on
whose checks Maynard is said to (
have received money.
Dunn, N. C., Camden and Colum
bia, S- C., and Augusta, Ga., are the
places from which Maynard signed *
checks have come to the <
bank reports. He was last heard of
about a week ago in Augusta, Ga.,! i
evidently working his way south-) ;
ward. • . ! . !
Duke university has no rdpresen- j
tative in the field now and never has,
except during the summer months,
and then with complete credentials, ,
Professor Flowers states.
Upward Trend of Food Prices.
Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 18. —(A*)—
Southern restaurant owners want to
know how they are going to meet the
upward trend of raw’ food costs and
not increase the price of cooked food.
This and other problems of the res
taurant business are expected to give
restaurant operators of seven South
ern States a busy two* days when
they meet here March 9 and 10 un
der the auspices of the National Res
taurant Association In the first Con
vention of restaurant men ever held
South of the Ohio and east of the
Mississippi. The meeting will be open
to all restaurant men in Tennessee,
Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
bama, Georgia and Kentucky.
A woman who died in London some
months ago is said to have left the
longest will on record. It consisted
of more than 1,000 sheets of ninety
words each.
——
GUTENBERG BIBLE
SOLD FOR $106,000
•One of 46 Copies Known to Exist of
F.'rst Book Printed in Movable
Type.
New York,* Feb. 18- —A Gutenberg
Bible, one of 45 copies, known to be
in existence of the first book printed
-with movable typo, has been sold
for $106,000 to Dr. A. S. Rosenbaeh,
cf Philadelphia. Tb£ price sets a
new record for copies of the work.
Th?. two volumes of the Bible,
printed by John Gutenberg in Mainz
in 1455, contain 524 and 517 leaves,
respectively.
The highest previous price for a
copy of this rare book was slightly
les-s than $60,000. paid in 1025 for
the Mazarin copy by Carl Pforz
lieimer, New York broker.
The first Gutenberg Bible to come
to the United State** was bought in
1847 by James Lennox for $2,500-
The second day, the Ellsworth, was
bought in 187. v by George Brind'.ey,
of Hartford, Conn.
The Bible bought last night at the
Andenjon Galleries is known ok the
“Melk” Bible, because of its posses
sion by the Benedictine monastery
in Melk, Austria. It gains additional
value by tbe fact that of the 45
copies still extant oft he 500 in the
original edition, it is of less than
a score in perfect condition,
DAVIDSON LOYALTY
FUND IS STARTED
Dr. Jesse C. Rowan Enumerates
Threo Outstanding Needs of College.
Davidson, Feb. 17- —Advancing the
idea of a Davidson College loyalty
league at the hotne-coming celebra
tion of this institution last October
30, Dr. Jesse C. Rowan, president
of the Davidson College s Alumni As
sociation, today followed up his idea
and formally set in motion wtiat lie
terms “The Davidson Loyalty
Fund,” in a letter mailed to alumni
of Davidson College today.
that "one of the recog
nized. admitted and outstanding
needs of Davidson College is an
alumni secretaryanother great need
is providing for her professors an
opportunity to travel, and a third
need is a greater provision for
athletics,” Dr. Ilowan then explains
the method of becoming a-contribu
tor to the fund, stating the mo,ney re
ceived (nun such donations will be -j
distributed among the ‘ three needs '
mentioned, one-third to go to &teh
cause.
American Paper Money May Be Made
Smaller.
« Washington,/ Feb. 18.—American
paper money may be reduced in size 1
to that of the Philippine currency in !
the interest of efficiency, economy and i
convenience. That the change is be
ing considered was disclosed to the I
House appropriations committee by
Herbert D. Brown, federal efficiency
expert, whose testimony was made
public today. •
The Philippine bill, he said, is
about two-thirds the size of the Amer
ican paper, and “every one who has i
lived in the Philippines testified that
it a more convenient size.”
Mr. Brown told the committee tthat <
the bureau of efficiency had effected
the saving of $585,480 by eliminating
duplication of work and revising
methods of , business in government
bureaus and departments.
FRED TATE CHAIRMAN
OF PIEDMONT BOOSTER
High Point Man Elected at Meeting
Held During Day aft Salisbury.
Salisbury, Feb. 18.— UP) —Frqd
Ttate, prominent furniture manufac
turer of High Point, was named per
manent chairman of the Piedmont
Boosters in meeting here today to form
an organization to push this section
of the state. The meeting is being at
tended
zens of this section, representatives of
a score or more towns. Following a
dinner served at a local hotel the
meeting .went into executive session
to perfect the organization.
“Rules of Sport wnanship” at David-
SOU
Davidson, N. C.,’ Feb. 18.—OP)—
Coach William L. (Monk) Younger,
director of athletics at Davidson Col
lege, and prominent in athletic coach
es in North Carolina for a number of.
years, has made public his “Rules of
Sportsmanship” which he drills into
his players regularly.
They follow:
“1. Show courtesy to your oppon
ents — be gentlemen and ladies—and
treat opponents as such.
“2. Play the game according to the
spirit of the rules—fair play.
“3. Abide by the decisions of the
officials without remarks or heckling.
“4. Be courageous losers, but* do
not give up when the score is going
against you. Play your best to the
end —have grit.
“5. Be a modest winner. Do not
boast of' the victories or ‘rub it in.’
Cheer your opponents —applaud good
plays of both teams. Take pride in
upholding the good ‘Wild Cat Spirit’
of our college. Good sportsmanship
between contestants leads to friend
ship.
“When the one Great Scorer comes
To write against your name
He writes—not that you won or lost,
But how you played the game.”
Earthquake Shock Felt.
Los Angeles. Feb. 18.— UP) —A long,
slow earthquake shock rocked L<>s
Angeles and vicinity starting at 10 :17
o’clock today.
I
CONCORD. N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1926
Her Smile Means Sunshine
/ .. a* • 1
Biss EsteDa Soul hard ot Joplin M<» has been chosen as the “Ozark Smilt
'by the Ozarks Playground Association The choice was made becaua#
smile which the memt»ers declared wa* symbolical of sunshine.
WIESTOy. '
BOGER PROVE FATAL
Son of R- F. Bogrer, of Thls
This County, Dies in
Hospital From Injuries
Received Saturday.
i
Charlotte, Feb. 18.—(4>)—A. N. Ro
ger, 39, of Charlotte, who was injured
Saturday night when run down by au
automobile, died at a local hospital,
today. He was a sou of R. F. 80-,
ger, of near Concord. His wife was
Miss Carrie Laughlin, of Concord, be
fore her marriage.
D. H. Alexander, Greenville, S. C.,
salesman, is being held charged with
running down Boger, and T. C.
Mauuey, of Stanly Creek, who also
suffered injuries, but who is expected
to recover.
Alexander is at liberty
000 bond.
PAULINE ARMITAGE
TAKES HER OWN LIFE
Actress Commits Suicide by Leaping
FrAn Room In Hotel.
New York. Feb. 16.— UP) —Pauline
Armitage, au actress who has been m
ill health, leaped from her room on the
fourteenth floor of the Shelton Hotel
on Lexington Avenue today. She
was instantly killed.
Miss Armitage clad in a pink night
dress, landed on the 49th Street side
of the building in front of the ser
vants’ entrance.
The manager and police, at first un
able to identify the body, located the
room by the screams of Valerie
Brandt, Miss Armitage’s maid.
She told the police that when she
went to answer the telephone she
heard Miss Mritage move, and turn
ing saw her leap from the window.
Electrical Energy of Western North
Carolina.
Asheville, N. C., Feb. 18. — UP) —
Western North Carolina has a poten
tial electrical energy supply of 1,-
500.000 horsepower, including devel
oped and yet unharnessed • sourced, ft
lias been shown by the governlnjwrt
survey of the Tennessee River and its
tributaries reaching westward, con
ducted by army engineers.
Sites for plants to develop this
power would be found for the most
part on the French Broad, the Pig
eon, Little Tennessee and Hiawassee
Rivers, the survey indicated.
Piedmont Carolina Chamber of Com
x mem*.
Salisbury, Feb. 16.—UP)—Repre
sentatives from some forty central
Carolina cities and towns are expected
to meet here on Thursday, February
18th, to consider further plans for
the organization of a Piedmont Caro
lina Chamber of Commerce.
Fred N. Tate, of Charlotte, who
was chosen temporary chairman at a
pre-organization meeting some time
ago, will preside.
The mayors of Reideville, Greens
boro, Burlington, Durham, Winston-
Salem, High Point, Thomamille, Sal-
I isbury, Statesville, Hickory, Albe
marle. Concord, Charlotte, Gastonia
and Kings Mountains have signified
their intention of attending the meet
ing.
Little Miss Beatrice Rabon is con
i fined to her home with pneumonia.
TO CONTINUE SALE
OF MOIL COINS
Coins Will Be Kept off Sale
Until March 17th as Part
of Harvest Campaign,
Hollins Ranlodph States.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 18.—04*)-—Al
though the harvest campaign for the
sale of the South’s allotments of Con
federate Memorial half dollars lias
closed in most of the the rec
ord of coins purchased will be kept
open until midnight March 17th.
This announcement was made today j
by Hollins N. Randolph, president of
the Stone Mountain Confederate Mon
umental Association. Mr. Randolph’s
statement follows:
“The Association now is making up
a record of Confederate Memorial half
i dollars purchased in .each southern
state and every city and town in the
harvest campaign. The record will
be written in a separate book for
each state, with separate pages for
each town and city. These books will
be deposited in a vault provided for
that purpose in Stone Mountain Con
federate Hall.
“The campaign closed in Virgin
ia, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississ
ippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee
and Alabama. It will close in Flori
day, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and
Missouri on March Ist.
According to a statement given in
Charlotte yesterday by Cameron Mor
rison of the sales work in that state,
the North/ Carolina campaign closes
March 17fh.
DAMAGES RESULTANT
OF CIVIL WAR GIVEN
Texas Woman Awarded Claims For
Damage Caused By Federal Sol
diery In Louisiana.
Washington, Feb. 17- —‘Settlement
of a civil war claim for damages
made by the federal forces was voted
today by the senate in approving a
bill authorizing payment of $7.66.67
to Mrs. Winona A. Dixon,, of Dallas,
Texas.
Mrs. Dixon, who now is 75 years
old, is the sole heir of two plantations
near Port Hudson, La., which were
occupied during the war by uniion
troops under Geenral N. P- Banks,
who seized about 300 bales of cotton
to use in fortifying defenses. 1
While similar seizures were made
in many instances during the war,
Mrs. Dixon’ claim was allowed by
the court of claims on the grounds
that her mother, who died during the
war. was friendly to the federal
forces and assisted them.
The parents of Mrs. Dixon, Mr.
and Mrs. Ambrose, died during the
war and the sister and brother of
Mrs. Dixpn died shortly after, leav
ing her the sole heir. The court ruled
that cotton and property valued at
$11,500 was seized by General
Bank’s troops but held that the
! brother of Mrs. Dixon was not loyal
to the union cause although she and
her sisters were. It, therefore, al
lowed the claims of two-thirds of this
sum.
Mrs. Dixon first .entered suit for
the damage in IM2. statmg m a
1 petition that she had not done so
■ sooner because of advice of attor
neys. The bill was pressed for action
by Senator Sheppend, Democrat, of
■ Texas. It must be approved now by
the house.
Thirty-Five Dead And
Like Number Missing
In Utah Mining Town
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_
TAYLOR CHARGES HIS SON
WAS “BRUTALLY MURDERED”
i Father of Convict Who Died in No
j vember Will “Sec Whole Thing
Through.” „
Tueoumbia, Ala., Feb. 18.— UP) —
Charging that his son, Hoote Taylor,
bad been “brutally murdered,” J. W.
Taylor, father of the Colbert county
convict, who died in November at
Flat' Top mines, today announced his
intention .to “see the whole thing
through.”
In a statement be declared that the
exhumation of the body of his son
yesterday near Tow Creek “revealed
just what r expected.” The autopsy,
he- said, bore out his contention that
his son died ns a result of a beating
administered him shortly after he was,
sent to the mines.
The aged parent was present when
his son’s body was exhumed and.
watched every detail of the examina
tion by Dr. H. C. McCullough and
the coroner’s jury. Mr. Taylor in
a lengthy stateifbnt today said that
he expected to enter suit against of
ficials of Flat Top after those al
leged to have been responsible for the
man's death had been “punished to
the fullest extent of the law.”
“My son never suffered from heart
trouble, and he did not have any
habits that would bring on such at
tacks.” said the aged parent.
“The ytoystery about the whole af
fair is why my son was sent to the
coal mines when he had only one eye
and one good hand. He could not
have possibly made a full hand at
digging coal. The attorney general
will be asked to take up the inquiry
immediately.”
Prison records showed the man died
from a complication of diseases, prin
cipally heaijt failure.
The verqiet of the coroner’s jury
after the autopsy told of finding num
erous bruises about the body.
BUNCOM(BE NIGHT SCHOOLS
Practically 4,000 Illiterates Have
Been Taught to Read and Write.
Asheville. N. C., Feb. 18.—UP)—Ap
proximately 4.000, illiterate adults of
Buncombe coxinty hare been taught
to read and write in the community
night schools now in operation, since
the schools were begun sin Octobei'
of 1019, records of the night school
system show.
When the schools were started it
was found that there were 6,000
adults in the county who could not
read a newspaper or write a letter.
The Curriculum of the night schools
is especially adapted to adults who
have been particularly backward in
their earlier school days, or who have j
never attended any school. It includes I
reading, writing, arithmetic, spelling, |
English and geography.
The schools are supported jointly!
by the county and the City of Ashe
ville. A cooking instructor’s salary
is paid by the state, the county and
the Business and Professional Wom
an’s Club of Asheville.
THE COTTON MARKET
.Opened Steady at Advance of 6 Points
to Decline of 3 Points.
New York, Feb. 18. — UP) —The cot-j
ton market opened steady today at |
an advance of 6 points to a decline
of 3 points. Near months were rela
tively steady at the start on covering
in syfnpathy with steady Liverpool
cables, but late months were lower
unnder liquidation and selling against
near positions.
Fluctuations showed continued ir
regularity in early trading. Buying
of new crop developed on reports that
farm work wOuld be delayed by the
rains reported this morning, but the
market was about 2 to 3 points net
lower by the end of the first hour,
Mav selling at 19.59 and October at
is.io.
Cotton' futures opened steady.
Maxeh 20.15; May 19.55; July 18.67:
Oct. 18.17; Dec. 17.85.
PROTEST “SALE” OF GIRLS
Moslem Youths Say They Can’s Pay
Russian Parents’ Price.
Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, Feb. 18.
—Two hundred Moslem youths, wish
ing to marry, petitioned the govern
ment today to abolish the present sys
tem of '‘selling marriageable girls like
cattle.”
Complaining that times are bad and
the cost of living high, the swains say
they cannot pay the parents the pre
vailing compensation for ycung brides,
which consists, of SIOO in cash, 100
pounds of sugar, thirty-five pounds of
butter, j four pounds of Chinese tea,
thirty-five pounds of honey and two
pairs of shoes.
In -addition to this the bride re
ceives from her spouse a dowry com-:
prising ten yards of material for a
coat, nine yards of satin, three woolen J
shawls, two pairs of shoes, a woolen \
neckerchief and a set of necklaces
and a bracelet made of old silver
coins.
Thomas Jefferson Randolph Dead.
Atlanta. Feb. 18.— UP) —Thomas
Jefferson Randolph, great grand-son
of Thomas Jefferson, died early today
at Charlottesville, Va., said a tele
gram received here by bis brother,
Hollins N. Randolph, president of the
Stone Mountain Memorial Associa
tion.
Intelligent women who boast that
they “got out of’ jury service, then
sit at bridge tables and criticize every
verdict rendered are the target or a
recent bulletin issued by the Judges
and Jurors' Association of Ohio.
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
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Persons Were
valanche C - uie
Highland i „ - Mining
Camp Without Warning.
FEAR 70 PEOPLE
HAVE PERISHED
Eighteen of Dead Bodies
Found So Far Have
Been Identified—Rescue,
Workers on the Job.
Bingham. Utah. Feb. 18.— UP) —
Thirty-five known dead, with an equal
number of persons missing was the
toll early today of the avalanche that
overwhelmed the Highland Boy min
ing camp at Sap Gulch near here yes
terday. <
Officials directing the search of the
scrambled ruins of a score of build
ings, one a three-story frame boarding
place housing fifty persons, expressed
the belief that in the neighborhood
of seventy lives have been lost,
Frank A. Wardlaw, superintendent
of the Utah-Delaware Mining Com
pany which operates the Highland
Boy workings, made up a list of 29
missing persons which included only
the owners and lesses of houses de
stroyed. He was unable to siy how
many other persons might have lived
in the cabins, although it is known
there were some alien borders not
employed by the mining company.
Only eighteen qf the dead have
been identified, and it is possible that
seventeen identified bodies were bodies
of those listed as missing and be
lieved dead. On that basis, witji on
ly fifty-five missing, the final death
toll would be in the neighborhood of
fifty-three.
The rescue workers numbering
more than fifty were spurred on in
their attaek upon the debrit by find
ing alive Jimmie McDonald and his
wife, owners of a boarding place.
They were found after more than
fourteen hours imprisonment under
the wreckage.
The McDonalds were brought out
late last night after all hope had been
given up for those remaining buried.
LEAVES HER PERSONAL -
PROPERTY TO HOSPITAL
Mrs. Alexander's Boque*t~tw Institu
tion in Charlotte About $15,000.
Charlotte. Feb. 17. —Mrs- Walter
S. Alexander, prominent Charlotte
woman who died here recently, left
all of her personal estate, with the
exception of several small bequests,
I to the Presbyterian Hospital, in fee
I simple, it whs learned. The hospital
| will receive at least $15,000.
] The trust department ts the Com
: mercial National Bank and R. .A.
Dunn are joint executors of the es
tate.
The trust department ofthe Com
mercial Bank is executor under the
, will of the late Walter S- Alexander,
who died May 29, 1924. and is ad
ministering the estate for the chil
dren.
| Mrs. Alexander left her property
Ito the hospital as an additional me
morial to the memory of her hus
band. She dedicated a room to the
memory of her- husband soon after
his death.
City Manager Plan Is Pronounced
the Best.
Charlotte, Feb. 17.—An advocacy
of the city manager plan of govern
ment ili preference to the commission
plan now in force in Charlotte, was
made by Louise Lipinsky, retiring
president of the Charlotte Merchants
Association, in the annual meeting of
the association held last night in the
Hotel Charlotte.
“I believe that the manager gov
ernment is the only way to secure a
business-dike, efficient city govern
ment,” said Mr- Lipinsky.
“The weakness of the commission
form is that the salary is not suf
ficient to keep the best men. In ad
dition to this, the men secured are
not trained in the work. With a
city manager, enough could be paid
to secure a man who has made a
life work of just this sort of thing.”
Examples of cities wmch nad
adopted this government were given
by Lipinsky. Greensboro and Cin
cinnati were pointed out as/ being
places where it had been successful.
Greensboro Jew's Start Relief Drive.
Greensboro. Feb. 17.—Hebrews of
this city today at noon had secured
$17,000 of quota of this
oity in the drive for funds for yelief
pf Jews in Russia. Poland, Rumania
and Bessarabia. They are confident
that the will obtain the remainder.
Several substantial gifts have been
i made by Gentiles, although they are
! not being solicited. * The quota for
! the state is $200,000 and for the
Usited States $15,000,000.
With Our Advertisers.
Oranges, 65 cents a peck, and ap
ples 50 cents a peck, at 19 North
Union street.
Cline & Moose have red clover, Al
syke clover, lespedeza clover, orchard
grass, blue grass, red top, alfalfa and
any grass or clover needed on the
farm. Also oats, clover and grass
seeds. See new ad. today.
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Dr. T. N. Spencer, G. L: Batter
son. A. F. Hartsell, C. H. Barrier
and G. Ed Kestler left this morning
for Salisbury to attend the meeting of
the Piedmont Chamber of Commerce
which was held at the Yadkin Hotel
at 12 o’clock.
TROUBLE IIS THE
REOPENING OF THE
ANTHRACITE MINERS
500 Workers at ~ Pittston
Went on Strike Because
of the Dispute Over the
Wage Rates.
MANY MINERS
ARE STILL IDLE
j Company Hands Could
j Not Work at Jobs Be- v
, cause Miners Refused to
Resume Dutis.
Wilkes Bnrre, Pa., Feb. 18. — UP) —
Trouble marked the reopening of the
anthracite mines here today after
nearly six months idleness.
Five hundred workers employed by.
the Pennsylvania Coal Company at
the No. 4 shaft at Pittsburgh went
on strike a few minutes after the re
sumption of' operations.
The dispute arose over wage rates,
a sore spot in the upper hard coal
district for years.
Trouble was also reported at the
Woodward mine of the Glen Alden
Coal Company on the west side,
operations were continued.
A score of company hands were
turned back from various operations
shortly after the opening of the mines'
because of lailure of miners to report
for work.
FORECAST CONFERENCE >
AGREEMENT ON TAXES
House Conferees Expected to Win in
Fight For Restoration of Inheritance.
Washington, Feb- 17.—After three
days of wrangling over difference*
in the administrative provisions of
the revenue bills, senate and house
conferees prepared tonight to fight
out the variations in tax reductions
voted by their respective chambers.
The $125,000,000 in reductions
written into the hill by the senate in
addition so those approved by the
bouse has provided the conference
with issues on which neither side
thus far his yielded. There are defi
nite indications, however, that both
will m&ke some concessions in the
discussion ofthe rate schedules be
ginning tomorrow.
, House conferees determined to
have restored to the bill the inheri
tance tax eliminated by the senate?-*
and are expected to win. Senate con
ferees. however, are expected to ob
tain their provision for greater re
ductions than voted by j the house in
the surtax rates applying on income*
between $24,000 and SIOO,OOO.
The senate i 9 expected to yield on
its proposals to wipe out entirely the
taxes on automobiles and admission*,
in favor of reductions in these rates
from the present level.
The senate and house
planned to hold separate meetings on
the question of the rates tomorrow
morning before resuming their joint
conference, which is held behind
closed doors. After a busy afternoon,
leaders of both sides tonight were
more optimistic that an agreement
would be reached before the end of
the week, which they considered in
time for the tax reductions to be
necessary if the bill is to become law
effective when first returns are filed
March 15.
Track Practice for Davidson Wildcat*.
Davidson. N.’ C.. Feb. 18. — UP)—
Track practice for the Davidson Col
lege Wildcat cinder path trodders
will begin about February 20, accord
ing to an announcement made here
by Coach Tex Tilson.
With only five letter men beck.
Coach Tilson will have a number of
positions to be filled by new mater.aU
The letter men who will be eligible for
the team this year are: Captain An
derson. Williford, Goodykoontz, Brand
and Calhoun.
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Two Willed in srain Wreck.
Watertown. N. Y., Feb. 18 —G4*)~
Two men were killed today when the
New York Central passenger train
from Utica carrying New York sleep
ers ran head-on into a freight train
near the Caster Lake station. The
dead are: W. Bell, engineer, and J.
C. Quinn, -fireman of the passenger
train.
Owes $1,033,000; Has S2OO.
New York, Feb. 18.— UP) —Oliver
Moro*eo, theatrical and motion pic
ture producer, filed an involuntary pe
tition In bankruptcy in the Federal
court today. He listed his liabilities
at $1,033,000 and his assets at S2OO.
Kissing under the' mistletoe may
soon disappear, because the United
States Department of Agriculture has
started a drive to exterminate mistle
toe from our national forests.
‘ SAT'S BEAR SAYSt
Rain tonight. Friday generally fair
and colder except possibly rain on
northeast coast. Frfesh to strong
southeast winds, shifting to westerly
tonight."
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