North Carolina Newspapers

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April 2. —OP) , s to<^a - v won another ht against a federal ', lrii “d against him in :n « ruling by Judge ison (a federal district ol,ii ‘‘S the opinion of i9l, ' r r nited States rll «t the indictment " teat Saunders had offence against- the y :‘ 3f% fr .m the High ls spending the Easter lJ Vl,h . iIN parents, Mr. , • Su hs. He has just V( '! ,' v -it to several LV V :’ es ; where he was r l ' 1 "'th other mem fV :!l biology from the L .r. " as in charge of r “‘s department from THE CONCORD TIMES $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. FREIGHT RATES Oil LUMBER AND OTHER 1 PRODUCTS STUDIED; States of the South Want “Proper Level” for Rates | on Lumber and Other Products of This Section | MAXWELL PRESENT 1 FOR THE HEARING —-—- Is Representing North Carolina Before Com-! missioner IVfLey—Hear ing Very Impportant. Atlanta, fin., April 2. —C4 1 ) —Gener- ; al investigation of rates as published by Southern carriers on lumber and other Southern products began hete today before Examiner McLey of the Interstate Commerce Commission, co operating with the public service com missions of Georgia. Alabama and j North Carolina. characterized by Commis | sooner Perry of the Georgia commis | sion ns among, the most important rate cases of recent years, are to de- I termine the “proper level of ratVs to ! be applied” in the Southern territory, j Commissioner O. R. Bennett, of the j Georgia commission. Commissioner : Frank Moran of the Atlanta commis sion. and ■Commissioner A. J. well, of the North Carolina commis i sion were here to represent their I states. WOMAN SETS FIRE TO CLOTHING IN GARAGE Mrs. H. L. Clark Probably Fatally Burned at an Early Hour This Morning. Mrs. H. L. Clark was pronably fa tally burned early this morning in a garage at her home when she ignited her clothing after her mind became | .suddenly deranged. ,At noon it was i reported that she was critically ill and little hope is entertained for. her recovery. Mrs. Clark arose shortly before 5 o'clock and is quoted as telling mem bers of her family she was going into the kitchen to prepare .breakfast. In stead of pouring the kerosene on the kindling in the stove she poured it on her clothing, it is believed, then A went to gflr-M'i *';] Ht h*r elqfjtv -1 ing.' apparently in the belief she was Fghtinjf the lire in the stove. When } the blaze touched her body, she I screamed for help, her cries arousing members of her family who rushed to her assistance. The fire burned Mrs. Clark’s body from her neck to her feet, the kero sene making ._tSe blaze sprad with speed and intensity. Parts of her body were almost baked by the fire. A pbys’ciant was summoned at once and while every possible medical at tention was given her, it was reported ! at noon that s’ e was sinking gradual ! ly. Mrs. Clark lives on Caldwell street, members of her family being well known in Concord, It is said that she has been iIL for several years and this illness is bePeved ,to lmye been I responsible for her rash act this morning. j Mrs. Clark is between GO and 70 years of age. ■ i ■ STATE REPUBLICANS TO MEET NEXT FRIDAY The Air Is Filled With Charges and Counter Charges. Durham, April 5. —W 5 the air filled with charges and counter charges by various factions, the Re publican State convention will «on vene here next Thursday and the out look is the session will be a stormy one. Frank W. Mondell, of Wyoming, former Republican House leader, will deliver the keynote address of the con vention while W. G. Bramham, of Durham, state chairman, will preside ! over the. session. • The convention is expected to adopt a platform and probably set forward a number of candidates for office. It is expected, in view of his announce ment sometime ago, that the resigna tion of Mr. Bramham will be pre sented to the convention and a new chairman will have to be named. On the eve of the convention, however, it appeared doubtful whether Mr. Bram ham would resign as a very determin ed fight is being made on bis leader ship by Marion Butler, for years a “stormy petrel” of the Republican or ganization. __ The Republican convention here will be the opening gun of politics ffor April. Later in the month at Raleigh the Democratic convention will meet and shortly after that date it is expected the full- list of candi dates for various offices will be be fore the pvfblic and the campaign which will terminate next fail will definitely get underway. Fortner Governor Davis and His Son Acquitted. Topeka, Kans., April 3. —Former Governor Jonathan E- Davis, of Kansas, and his son. Russell G. Davis, were acquitted, by a jury late tonight on a charge of accepting a bribe in exchange, for a pardon is sued Fred W. Hollm&n, paroled for ger. The Fred Y. McConnell post of the American Legion will meet, this eve ■ ning at 7:45 o’c'ock iu the Post : rooms. The members are urged to i be present as the new club room will be discussed and decided upon. GRAriSSENTENCFD BY JUDGE SCHENCK 1 f TO DIE FOR CRH I . ' Man Found Guilty of Slay- [ I ing ‘Dad” Watkins Sen*] j tenced to Die on May! the 26th. I APPEAL NOTICE GIVEN IN CASE Verdict of First Degree Murder Was Returned by Jury in Case Friday Night. Albemarle, April 3.— UP) —John | Gray, convicted slayer of “Dad” Wat- f kins, aged Stanly county man. today was sentenced to die in the electric j chair May 26th. I Judge Michael Schenek in passing sentence named the time of execution as between the hours of 6 and 7 a. m. on that day. Notice of appeal was made by Gray’s counsel. A verdict of guilty of first degree murder was returned late yesterday in Superior Court after n trial that hud required but fl few hours. The State rested its case against the man with only one witness tes tifying. John Fulton, deputy sheriff, who told the jury of overhearing Gray admit the crime to Mrs. Gray w T hiie he was in jail. Only two witnesses were on stand for the defense. The aged mother ot the condemned man told of how lie had been of peculiar nervous na ture as a child. Watkins’ charred mdy was found in the ruins of a burned barn some time ago shortly after he had tUsan- j pen red from his home. Three other rum. Carl Sweet, Mack Lawrence, v ai!tk Theodore Lawrence, are under indictment also charged with complic ity in murder, but will not come to trial during the present term of court. Robbery was held as the motive for the crime. THE COTTON MARKET Opened Barely Steady at Decline of 9 to IS Points, and Soon Showed [ More Losses. New York, AnriT ;V ~ ,The cd- * ton market opened fenrety* steady to-j day at a decline»of 9 to 13 points, I and soon showed net losses of about j li> to 20 points under liquidation. Wall ! Street and Southern selling, appar- j ently inspired by more favorable! weather reports than were expected over the holidays. < Traders who had carried long con tracts over the three-day adjournment in anticipation of storms in the south, were among the early sellers, but weather conditions were still more or lees unsettled. After initial offerings had been obsorbed, the market turn ed a shade steadier. May sold off to 18.8 i) a;id October to 17.56 early, but showed ralPes of 4 or 5 points from the lowest at the end of the first hour. The over-holiday report on boll weevil survival came in for compara tively little comment. , The Liverpool market will reopen lor business tomorrow’ morning. Cotton futures opened fairly steady, j May 18.75 ; July 18.25; Oct. 17 63 ; Dec. 17.31; Jan. 17.24. 32 BURNED TO DEATH IN BLAZE IN EGYPT 4.000 Persons Are Homeless as Result of Fire Which Burned 612 Dwell ings. Cairo, Egypt, April 5. —G^) —Thir- ty-two persons are dead and 4,000 are homeless from a fire which raged in the Tantah district from Saturday noon unt : l Sunday morning. The fire destroyed 612 dwellings. The recurrence of village fires is causing concern. The government is sending instructions to all local au thorities on preventive measures. , -r State’s Population 2.811,069. » Raleigh Bureau of The Concord Daily Tribune Raleigh, April s.—North Carolina’s population, as of July 1, 1925, is 2,- 811,969, according to the federal cen sus bureau’s estimate, received in Raleigh yesterday. Tiiis represents a gain of 252,846 since the 1920, census. Incidentally, the gain over the 1925 estimate is the largest cf any year since the 1920 census. ir\ The government’s estimate is based on the normal growth, as shown by previous actual census6es. It is doubt ful i£.it takes into consideration the rapid development of western Caro lina sections where activities have j been most pronounced recently. Tries Typesetting Innovation. The current issue of Linotype News, organ of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, contains an experiment of interest to publishers —the running of an eight point news body face on sev en point body. The result is increas ed legibility over regular seven point faces, with virtually no line loss, the paper states. The news body matter •is 8 Point No. £ with Gothic No. 3 set on seven point body. With the Pacific Corns: League opening on April 8. the collegiate season already under way. and the box scores x>f the major league ex hibition games appearing regutarly on the sport pages, another year of baseball is about to get into full swing. CONCORD, N. C„ MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1926 ANOTRERIiGiS I - [John Farrell Says Man; ) He Knows Is Chapman,; Lived For Time on His | ! Farm* ____ ‘ PARDONS BOARD MEETING TODAY Ordered Chapman to Ap pear/Before It as His | , Plea For Clemency Is Argued. I Dayton. ().. April 5. — UP) —Efforts (of Gerald Chapman to escape the noose in the prison at Wethersfield, j Conn., tonight may be aided by infor ! runtion furnished today by John Far rell, wealthy farmer of Vandnlia| Ohio. FnrrelV said that from October 9 to 16, 1924. a man calling hinWlf Mark Smith, and whom lie says he can pos itively identify as Chapman, lived in ft cottage oil his farm. The mnu spent money freely and passed his time in reading and sleep ing. Pardons Board Meets. Wethersfield, Conn.. April S.— UP) —Governor John H. Trumbull called the State board of pardons in order at 10 :30 o’clock this morning to pass ;on the petition of Gerald Chapman ! who wants to servo a life sentence in-1 stead of being hanged for murder at j midnight tonight. Governor Trumbull asked Warden [ H. W. K. Scott to produce Gerald ; Chapman before the board of par dons. Frederick J. Grochl. Chapman’s de fense counsel, was on hand w’ith the witnesses and affidavits by which he hoped to obtain commutation. Chapman was not visibly nervous when he entered the room. He sat beside Mr. Groehl as the latter be gan his plea for mercy, calling the governor’s attention to “reasonable doubts” which he asserted had exist ed throughout the trial. Review of Chapman Case. j Gerald Chapman had been called a | “super-bandit” and a "master mind” jof the underworld. Prosecuting attor- j ’-.leys* paid tribute to him as “a very ! clever and -very dangerous man. Aft jer his $2.0009.000 mail truck hold-; | up in New York City five years ago, ' , ;nnd his subsepuent escape from the | Atlanta Penitentiary after being 'wounded, his name became a house hold word for the most desperate, ! resourceful bandit of the day. A legend had grown up around j him and until his # final arrest in [Muncie, he was suspected of every particularly daring robbery or hold- 1 up wherever committed. Stories of his wide reading, his cultured man ner, his soft voice, his fine clothes, his big automobiles, his luxurious homes, wove around Chapman a colorful personality. Yet this “super-criminal,” this great intellect of the * underworld, this gentleman crook. this “very clever man,” was able to enjoy only five years of freedom in the ’ast nineteen years of his life, since he was first sent to prison at the age of 119. Fourteen years, more than one- I third of his life, had he spent behind I I prison walls. And finally, at the age of 38. his career was ended on the j gallows. Chapman went under numerous aliases and his real name was definitely established. He was a > product of the lower East Side of New York and it was there that he began his criminal career in 1907. He was arrested as a petty thief and sent to the reformatory. Paroled at the end of a year, another year found him again in prison, this time at Auburn. In 1912 he was sent to Sing Sing for 10 years. He remained in prison seven years and it was j during this time he obtained a smattering of information and know- ledge, which, added to his native cunning, made it impossible upon his release to execute such an ambitious exploit as the big mail robbery. It was in Sing Sing. also, that he made the acquaintance of “Dutch” Ander son. his partner in the mail robbery and subsequent crimes, and who' was shpt to death by an officer in Port Huron, Mich. The story of the $2,000,000 mail truck robbery in lower Broadway ■has been written up so extensively that it does not need retelling. When the robbers were caught, some eight months after the robbery. Chapman and Anderson were livipg in style in the Graiqerey Park section- It was their carelessness in disposing of part of the stolen securities that led to their capture. Chapman made the first of ; his daring attempts to escape on the day that he was ar raigned for a preliminary hearing- He and Anderson were tried, oon- I vieted and sentenced to 25 years each in Atlanta. On March 27, 1923, Chapman and a forger named Frank Gray escaped from the prison hospital, but were caught a few days later near Athens, Ga., after a pistol bat tle in which Chapman was wounded. He made his successful escape from a hospital in Athens on April 4. Anderson escaped several months later. A nation-wide hunt for Chap man began, but it was not until January IS. 1925, that he was final ly caught, at Muncie. Ind. He was then returned to Hart ford, Conn., to stand trial for a crime committed during the interval between his escape from Atlanta j and his capture at Muncie- This was Lashed s *iTwfin iin Jft Five men kidnaped D. M. Haley, IS, of Fort Worth, Tex., took him oui In the country and gave him 4S lashes with a whip. He was secret ly married last summer. After th» marriage he and his wife separated, and his wife recently died. BIG INCREASE IN ROAD FUND COI AiECTIONS From the Gasolene and Automobile License Fees. Raleigh Bureau of The Concord Daily Tribune Raleigh. April s.—An increase of more than $3,000,000 in collections for the highway fSnd, from the gaso line and automobile license fees dur ing the period from April 1. 1925, to Mart’ll 31, 1926, as compared with the same period in the previous two years is shown by the report issued yesterday by R. A. Doughton, com- , missioner of revenue. Collections during the period* end ing March 31st last amounted to $12,- 1C6.235.99, as compared with $9,031,- 384.52 during the corresponding pe- ( riod iu 1924-25. Collections for the theft fund dur ing the period just ended total $l6O,- [ 128.75, as compared with $125,308.25 during the previous period, showing an increase of $34.825.50. The increase in all collections this , year is $3,169,671.97. Expenses charged against both I funds show sizeable decreases Ex- < peases of the highway fund during the 1924-25 period were 0891,150.30; 1 and tor. 1925-26, $274,036.20 That ' means a net decrease of $117,120.10 ' Expenses to the theft'fund in 1925- I 25 were $136,058.27 and in 1925-26, 1 $101,474.27, or a decrease of $33,- 184.00. ; The net decrease of expenses from ! the corresponding period in 1924-25 is $81,936.20. Nor are all of the expenditures 1 listed strictly expenses. Some repre sent improvement of value over ape riod of time. Addressograph ma- 1 chines, for instance, are listed and account for $27,673.80 < t the theft fund expenditures and $326 70~of the auto fund, or a total of $28,000.50 In 1924-25, $28,658.12 expenses were represented by automobiles, the Lane Street warehouse fund and the 1 garage building fund. Super Productions at Concord Theatre All This Week. This will be a week, of thrills at the Concord Theatre, as nothing but super productions will be shown there all week. The manager, Mr. Turner, person ally guarantees that this week’s pro gram will be the best you have ever seen at any Concord Theatre. > Today and tomorrow there will be shown “Don Q, Son of Zorro/’ with Douglas Fairbanks. This is a sequel to “Mark, of Zorro,” and is Doug’s latest picture. On Wednesday, one day only, Mil ton Sills and Doris Kenyon in “The Unguarded Hour.” Thursday and Friday, John Bar rymore, Dolores Costello and George O’Hara in “The Sea Beast,” a great sailors'epic. On Saturday Wm. S. Hart in “Tumbleweeds.” This is a great western featui’e. This theatre never raises its prices, which are as follows: Matinee, all seats 10c and 2:kv Night: Orchestra 30c, Balcony 25c, , children 10c. Weighs 215 Pounds at the Age of 13. Newton, April 5. —Frank Camp boil. son of Mr. and Mrs. J- Smith Campbell, of Maiden, was 13 years old today,and is the biggest boy in Catawba county for his age. He weighs 215 pounds and p:ays base ball. tennis, basketball, and gets around as well as a 100-pound boy. His father weighs about 200 and his mother about 175. Frank at tends the Maiden high school and his teacher says he is one of the smartest boys in her room. H. W. W’i’.ey, pure food commis sioner, says, “The peop.e of our coun try are learning little by little that the whiteness in flour is inversely proportional to its nutritive value.’ the murder of a policemen in New Britain, Conn., who was killed when he and two other officers sur prised Chapman attempting to blow a safe in a department store in. that city. A confederate testified for the State against Chapman and the lat ter was convicted and sentenced to death. For more than a year his at torneys fought to save him from the gallows. The case was carried to the Supreme Court of the L nited States jbut without avail. s Archie Andrews (left) wanted to sell his Chicago office building to Fred Bartlett (right) for $575,000, but Bhrtlett thought it was worth only $550,000. They agreed to play a ga me of golf in Pasadent for the $25,- ‘OOO. Andrews won. JOHN GRAY GUILTY OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER Verdict Returned Against One of Men Accused of Slaying “Dad” Watkins. Albemarle, April 2.—The jury sit ting in the case against John Gray, charged with the murder of.“ Dad” Watkin« on the night of October 30,1 returned a verdict for murder in the • first degree at 5:30 o'clock after noon, after having deliberated in their room for about one hour. The verdict broke all records in Stanly counity within the the memory of any i living man, this having been the first verdict of murder ever rendered ; carrying with it the death penalty- Immediately after the verdict Gray deliberately bit off a chew of tobacco and asked that he be taken back to jail, as though nothing had happened. As the jury filed into the ; court room he appeared rather ner- | vous, having fumbled with his hands j and wriggled in his seat, but as soon j as the verdict had been announced, j he recovered himse f very quickly. ) Judge Schenek immediately adjourn ed court without passing sentence of death on the defendant. It is under stood that he will pass sentence early tomorrow. The tense moment in court ap peared today when the 79-year-old mother of the defendant went on the -itaiul to testify in his behk'.f. She was so feeble that she had to have assistance in getting the witness stand.. After she had testified as to John’s pecu’iarly' nervous and sickly disposition in his youth, she turned as .die started to leave the witness stand, and lookhig the defendant squarely in the face said: “John,” its too late to cad on man now.” Tears were seen in the eyes of scores of bronzed faced workmen and farmers and a deathlike still ness, a'most distressing, pervaded the quiet courtroom/ The eases against the other three defendants will not be tried at this term as the term expires tomorrow and it will be impossible to read) those cases. The judge suggested that a special term of court should , be called in order to clear the jail- j He thinks it will take at least a weak to clear the criminal docket. | *.. . l LOW INFANT MORTALITY The State Last Year Had the Low est in Its History. Raleigh Bureau of • The Concord Daily Tribune Raleigh. April s.—North Carolina last year had the lowest infant mor tality rate in its history, with a .de crease from 54.5 in 1924 to 47.0 in 1925, according to announcement made yesterday by Dr. G. M. Cooper, of the State board of health. This most gratifying record is due, the doctor believes, to safer milk, through greater uniformity of city ordinances over the state demanding pasteurized or grand A milk; more thorough education of mothers on the care of infants and the work of the seventeen county nurses who are scattered over the sftate, principally in counties which had been troubled previously by high infant motarity rates. There were 1,484 deaths due to in fantile disease during 1924, which gave a rate of 54.5 per 100.000 copu lation This figure was reduced to i 304 in 1925, which gave a rate of 47 “per 100,000. The decrease is a notable one, eepeciall in view of the fact that the state's pouulation has shown a greater increase than ever conditions, in general, over the state have been good since last Anril the onlv outbreaks* of any con- Bequcnc being' that of diphtheria last fall and pneumonia and :t* precursor, influenza, last winter. The Swedish girl gives her fiance > a plain gold band ring upon . her en ' ijgagement to him, while she in tu | receives a similar token from him. ?. B. SHERRILL. Editor and Publisher FURTHER DELAY IN THE STRAWBERRY CROP Is Expected >« » R*»ule of the Frosts of Last Week. Raleigh Bureau of The Concord Daily Tribune Raleigh, April 5. —Further delay in the strawberry crop of eastern j 1 Carolina is expected aa a result of the frosts of this week and last, and growers now are fearful,that the Car olina season overlap that of Maryland. Should that eventually occur, it is likely that prices will suffer from a flooding of the market, but Frank D. Crist, commissioner of labor, is of the opinion that there, is to worry. Commissioner Grist ws* in Mar?" land earlier this week ah 3 'SfrW two i heavy frosts. 1% the Carolina crop j U delayed, it stands to reason that i the Maryland crop also will be de ; layed and there will be no more ovr ; cr'apping than usual, he points out. i In conversations with fruit grow ers over the state, Commissioner Grist has persinstently urged the need of a fruit canning industry to supplement the growing industry cf the fruit sec ! tion. If large canning plants wore in operation through the regipn9 ■ where the fruit is produced, the'dan ger from overlapping of the perishable crops would be reduced *o a minimum as any surplus then cou'd be sold to the canners right at hand and de livered to the ultimate consumer whenever the time was ripe. Commissioner Grist inc’lnes toward co-operative canning plants, if some feasible system for—financing, could be worked out, but declares thht, above all, .the vital, need for a de pendable market fer fruit products should be met at the earliest pos sible moment. JONATHAN M. DAVIS SEEKING BIG DAMAGES Sues Kansas City Newspaper and In dividual For $6,000,000 Damages. Topeka, Kans.. April s.—(A* ask : ng $5,000,000 damages were fifed ! in Shawnee County district court to day by counsel for former Governor | Jonathan M. Davii, alleging criminel j libel and malicious prosecution. The ! defendants are Walter S. Dickey, pub lisher of the Kansas City Journal- Post, and a number of individuals. The suits are an outgrowth of the trals of the ex-Governor mi charges of accepting bribes for paroles and pardons which followed the publica , tion of a copyrighted article in the Kansas City Journal January 10. 1925, purporting to expose corruption of a pardon power by Governor Davis. Pastors Divided in Tbeir Opinion as to Church Advertising. Kansas / City. April 4. —Pastors here are divided in opinion of the ■ pulling power” of the advertisement ! in the Kansas City Star yesterday ad t dressed to “Flaming Youth.” promis ' -ng a “new thrill” if said “Flaming Youth” would attend church Easter Sunday. The advertisement was “contributed by Kansas City business men in the Interest of the youth of Kansas City.” “The TVuth-in-Adverfising commit i tee should investigate that adve-tiac ment,” said the Rev L. M. Birkhead, . pastor of the All Souls Unitarian ! Church. “Whoever wrote :t promis . ed 'something new’; promised a ‘a new > thrill,’ and then the pastors gave the t same old cut and dried sermons'they • have given on Easter Sunday for the last 10 years. I think such an ad • vertisement would cause the youth of t Kansas. City to become disgusted with - the church.” t On the other hand, the Rev. Wil , liam L. Stidger. pastor of the Lin wood Boulevard Methodist Eniyooal church, declared it was a “fine ad.” > Mrs. Ben Matthews, of Winston i Salem, is the guest of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Goodaon. mmi ihe coin «■ • - « The Method of Obtaining Products Costs by Com mission Was Attacked by Dennis. SAYS EXPERTS HURTCOUNTRY They Give Data That Is Gathered in the Wrong Manner and Thus Is Wrong. Washington, April s.— UP) —The method of obtaining production costs by ’the tariff commission in recom mending changes in rates was attack ed today by Commissioner Dennis, democrat, before the senate investigat ing committee. ' f “figures produced by the tariff ex perts in the butter investigation would indicate that the farmers of this coun try were selliug butter at less than the eo&t of production.” he said. “There was something wrong with the calculation as it is knowrf that the dairy industry is the best paying branch of farming.” He did not believe staff experts should be sent abroad, and if they were, they should not be permitted to do things that a foreigner in this country would not be allowed to do. “I believe a very great harm is be ing done our national life.” he added "by 'll considered recommendations on tariff duties, based simply on match eed production costs.” “What caused the long delay in submitting the butter report?” asked Commissioner Robinson. “It is another illustration of the inability of the commission to get th'ngs done,” the witness Raid. “The statute could be made workable if it j were administered by the right kind of men. Thejrouble is that it is now being interpreted in its strictest le galistic way.” He declares the commission was rec ommend'ng an average of four chang es a year in tariff duties, at a cost of from $700,000 to SBOO,OOO a year to the American people. With Our Advertisers. The big spring djiv«> at tsie Paccar Belk Co. was g wonderful success and the many * customers have been more than pleased with the values. They have decided to extend the drive another week. In this paper yon will find a list of a few of the spe l rials they will have for you this week. • * Plan your expenditures carefully and then take some shares in series ! N'. 57 of the Cabarrus County B. L. j& S. Association. See Gilbert Hen irix at the ‘Concord National Bank. Fishe/s will show you a series of low prices on fashions of the how. Every article is new and up-to-dato. You will find at Bell & Harris -ports of the inert beautiful designs in •'bedroom furit’tqre. Do you need, a f pair of odd trous ers? *Of course yoii do. You can get them at J. C. Penney Co.’s for from $3.98 to $5.90. See new ad. for other j pants. i Modem Japanese Girl Against Mar riage Mode. Tokyo, April s.—OP)—The modern Japanese girl—a canvass at a girl’s high school disclosed —does not favor present day system under .which most of the marriages are “arranged.” In opposition to the prevailing mode fifty-three girls in one school said that 1 to marry men of whom they had no ] previous knowledge was dangerous: Sixteen were opposed because the ’ j present custom ignores the sentiments !of the ones to be married. Then ob jected to the use of a go-between to | make arrangements and all agreed j that the marriage question should bo ■ more seriously considered. Faster Monday Holiday For Many Charlotte, April 5. — (A 3 ) —Although [the new Easter-bonnets were not as numerous on the streets of North Car olina cities today as yesterday, a soft tinge of spring still lent an air of pleasantness and Easter Monday found educational, financial and many other institutions clWd. The April meeting of the board of county commissioners is being held at the court house here today. The session began this morning but it was stated at tlie noon hour that no busi ness of unusual importance had yet been presented to the board. Rou tine matters only were discussed. SAT’S BEAR SAYS: I j Mostly c’.oudy tonight and Tues day. with light showers in the west and north portions; slightly warmer in the south portion tonight, colder Tuesday. Moderate to fresh west shifting to north and northeast winds. NO. 79