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THE CONCORD TIMES
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance,
! MRS. COOK PLEADS
! FOR PROHIBITION
1 BEFORE CONGRESS
•i At Opening Session of D.
;[ A. R. Congress the Pres
ident General Pleads for
the Volstead Law.
MRS. COOK READY
TO QUIT OFFICE
i Gives Notice That She Is
Not Candidate to Suc
ceed Herself—Wants the
Bible Read in Schools.
Washington, April 11).—(/P)—A
plea for prohibition observance was
made by .Mrs. Anthony Wayne Took,
retiring president general at the op
en'ng session today of the Moth Con
tinental Congress of the Daughters of
' the American Revolution.
Mrs. Cook has announced that she
will not seek re-election, and a vigor
ous contest for selection of a succes
sor is alreendy underway with Mrs.
Charles White Nash, the New York
t State regent, and Mrs. Alfred Bro.s
seau of Greenwich, Conn., among the
avowed candidates and others expect
ed to enter the race. The Congress
will be addressed tonight by Presi
dent Coolidge. Speak ec Longwocth
and Ambassador Rerenger. _ ( |
In addition to her api>eal for jilio- i
h:b:tion Airs. Cook in her annual !
message urged daily reading of the!
Bible without sectarian comment in i
public schools, vigilance lost propon- 1
ents of radical doctrines “succeed in
their attempts to make our schools
and the textbook history read by the
school children of the country vehicles
for propaganda in support of their
pestilential theories." and support of
preparedness for national defense.
A DAY OF ANNIVERSARIES
April 19th One of Greatest Days in
American History'.
Washington. D. C.. April 10. —In
the whole history of the United State* !
and in the annals of the American j
colonies before independence was!
achieved, no other date Mas figured j
so conspicuously as has the 10th day j
of “April. From earliest times this !
date appears linked with event* of
the greatest importance to the nation
and more especially does it appear in
the war records of the country.
The birth o€ Rober SMerman, a
Connecticut signer of the Declara
tion of Independence, and the famous
speech of Edmund Burke against tax
ing the American colonies were pre- '
Revolutionary events which came on
April 19th.
“It was 1 by the village clock" 151 (
years ago this morning when Paul ,
Revere galloped into Lexington to |
rouse the Minute Men for t*he first ,
fighting in the war for independence. '
Later in the same day came the en- ]
gagements at Lexington and Concord
and the firing of "the shots that were,
heard round the world.”
On April 19, 1N72, Holland was -
one of the first of the nations to ac
knowledge rtie independence of the
United States. One year later, on
April 19. 1753, the cessation of hos-1 i
tilities with Great Britain was pro-'
claimed in the American army, just
eight years after the commencement ,
of the war. >
On the 19th of April in 1850 there
was a more peaceful meeting of the
United States and Great Britain, <
when Jofci M. Clayton, the secretary I
of state, and Sir Henry Lytton Bul
wer, the British minister, signed the
treaty by which the two nations
agreed that neither should alone* con
trol the proposed ship canal through
Central America, or erect fortifica
tions in that country.'
In the Civil War, as in the, Revo
lution. April 19tb saw the first shed
ding of blood—the attack on the sixth'
Massachusetts infantry in the streets
of Baltimore in 1861. ! Fort Sumter I
had fallen some weeks before and hos- j
tilities were already fairly commenced
in the great conflict between the
States, but historians are generally
agreed that there had been no actual
bloodshed until the Massachusetts
troops on their way r to Washington
t were aftapked by a mob While march
| ing through the streets of the Mary
| land city on the anniversary of the
! battle of Lexington.
The 19th of April also played its
j part in the Spanish-American war,
: as it was on that date in 1898 that
the nation formally made known its
intention to take up arms in resolu
tions adopted by Congress declaring
Cuba independent and directing the
President to use the forces of the
United States to put an end to Span
ish authority in the island.
Again, in 1917, the first American
, sh(Tt vvas fired in the World War,
| when the naval crew of 'the United
I States merchantman Magnolia, while
approaching the British coast, fired
upon a German submarine and is be- i
lieved to have destroyed it.
One year later, on the 19th of April
(1918), the first important ‘engage
ment in which American troops par
ticipated in the great war occurred
at Seicheprey.
Spent $61,312 Trying to Convict Sen
ator Wheeler.
Washington. April 19.—(.A3)—Attor
ney General Sargent today reported
to the Senate that the Department of
Justice had spent $61;312 in the un
successful prosecution of Senator
"Wheeler, democrat, of Montana, on
charges of using his senatorial In
fluence on behalf of oil leases.
SO THIS IS CLEAN-UP WEEK
TURNED BACK PAGES
OF HISTORY TODAY
•
Patriots’ Day in Massachu
setts Observed on Fields;
Where Revolutionary j
War Took Place.
Boston, April 19. — (A 3 ) —History
turned back 151 years here today.
Once more two warning beacons flash
ed their message from the tower of
the old North Church, the British
were coining by sea.
Once more a Revere and a Dawes
mounted their horses and dashed off
to spread the alarm “through every
Middlesex village and farm."
No British ships menaced the bar- 1
bor today, however. “Paul Revere”
was Sergeant Goffrey T. Clifford and
“William Dawes. Jr.” his companion
rider, was Sergeant George A. Deyar
mond and their ride was just a part
of the Massachusetts annual celebra-;
tion of Patriot’s Day out in Con Cord i
and Lexington, where the sturdy* coun-;
trymen of Revolutionary times first j
clashed with the red coats “the shot
aheard round the world” was confin- j
ed to the discharge of a single bomb;
as the citizens gathered to pay trib- 1
ute to the “Minute Men who fell on ]
battle green.”
In Boston exorcises included a pa- 1
rade of several thougand merchants, j
and decoration of the graves of Re- •
vere and Dawes.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Bare! Steady at Decline of 3
to 8 Points—May Sells ,at 18.50.
New York, April 19.— (A 3 ) —The
cotton market opened barely steady
today at a decline of 3 to 8 points
under selling promoted by easier Liv
erpool cables, talk of. probably in
creased soijthern mill curtailment, and
a more favorable view of weather con
ditions.
Some sellers of last week, however,
were disappointed at the weather sit
uation owing to continuance of low
tempatures. and while the outlook
was for generally fair over ‘the belt,
Caere was covering and trade buying
in new crop months. This steadied
prices around 17.04 for October with
rallies of 5 or 6 points from the low
est, May seeing at 18.50 and Decem
ber at 16.74 at the end of the first
hour, or about net unchanged to 4
points lower.
’ Cotton future opened barely steady.
May 18.55; July 18.01; Oct. 17.05;
Dec. 16.68; Jan. 16.64.
With Our Advertisers.
Beautiful spring cogts for women
and misses on sale today for $9.50
to $33.74 at Fisher's. See ad.
/ Mayor’s order are to use* garbage
cans. See ad. of Ritchie Hardware
Co. today.
• Solar straw hats —choice of the man
who knows —$1.08 to $2.98. Sold by
the J. C. Tenney Co.
Smart arrivals in Rcady-to-Wear
and millinery for early summer at
Parks-Belk Co. See prices in an
attractive ad. today.
Supreme Court Review Denied Silk
worth.
Washington, April 19.— UP) —A su
preme court review was refused today
in the case of William S. Silkworth.
former president of the New York
! Consolidated Stock Exchange, mem
bers of the brokerage firm of Raynor,
Nichols & Truesdell, and others con
victed of operating a “bucket” scheme
to defraud.
Rules Against Kenilworth Company.
Washington. April 19. — UP) —The
supreme court today denied the mo
tion of the Kenilworth Company, of
Asheville, N. C., to remand to the
court the claims for further findings
of facts, its appeal involving claims
against the government for the use
of its hospital during the World War,
and affirmed the decision of the lower
court against the company.
CONCORD, N. C„ MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1926
| FIFTY-ONE CANDIDATES
HAVE FILED NOTICES
With Only Week Left Notices Are
Being Sent in Rapidly Now.
State Capital Bureau of
The Concord Daily Tribune
Sir Walter Hotel Lobby
Raleigh, April 18. —Fifty-two no
tices of candidacies have been filed
with the State board of elections and.
j with only a week to go before closing
j date, Philip Rusbess, secretary, is pre
l pared for a pressing rush of business
starting Monday.
Sixteen candidates for solicitorships
have filed; eleven for seats in Con
gress; ten for State senator; nine for
superior court judgeships; four for
places on the supreme court bench,
and two for scats in the United States
Senate.
Only two Republicans have tiled,
one for State senator and the other
for solicitor.
The list, up to noon Saturday,
i as follows:
United States Senator
Lee Slater Overman.
Robert li. Reynolds.
For Congress
Lindsay C. Warren. Washington;
; first district.
John H. Kerr, Warrenton; second
| district.
C. L. Abernethy, New Bern; third
I district.
Eward W. Pou, Smithfield; fourth
■ district.
j Charles M. Stedman, Greensboro;
j fifth district.
| Homer L. Lyon, Whiteville; sixth
district.
I William C. Hammer, Ashcboro,
! seventh district.
IR. L. Dough ton, Laurel Springs;
eighth district.
A. L. Buiwinkle, Gastonia; ninth
district.
Zebu lon Weaver, Asheville; tenth
district.
For State Senator
William Farrior Ward, Democrat,
Craven county: seventh district.
L. P. Tapp, Democrat, seventh dis
trict.
Edwin R. MacKcthan, Democrat.
Fayetteville; tenth district.
Neill McK. Salmon, Democrat,
Lillington, twelfth district.
D. A. McDonald. Democrat, twelfth
district.
J. M. Broughton, Democrat, Ral
eigh ; thirteenth district.
"William S. Horton. Democrat, Bur
lington ; sixteenth district.
Joseph F. Spainliour, Democrat,
Morganton; twenty-eighth district.
James L. Hyatt, Republican; 30th
district.
For Superior Court Judge
R. A. Nunn, Democrat, New Born;
fifth district.
t Julius . Brown, Democrat, Green
ville; fifth district.
Willie M. Person, Democrat, Louis
burg; seventh district.
Judge A. M. Stack, Democrat, Mon
roe ; thirteenth district.
Michael Schenek, Democrat; IBrti
district.,
P. A. McElroy, Democrat, Ashe
ville. nineteenth district.;
"Walter Moore, Democrat, Jackson
; twentieth district.
Thomas ,T. Johnston, Democrat,
Franklin; twentieth distrief.
J. I). Mallonee, Democrat, Murphy;
twentieth district.
For Solicitor
1 W. L. Small, Democrat, Elizabeth
City ; first district.
John Hill Paylor. Democrat, Pitt
county; fifth district.
F. E. Wallace. Democrat, Lenoir
county; sixth district.
Jackson Greer. Democrat, Colum
■ bus; eighth district.
Woodus Kellum, Democrat, Wil
mington ; eighth district.
11 William B. Umstead, Democrat.
Durham; tenth district.
F. Donald Phillips, Democrat,
. Rockingham; thirteenth district,
i John G. Carpenter; Democrat, Gas
; tonia; fourteenth district.
Zeb V. Long. Democrat, States
> ville; fifteenth district.
> • Sam Ervin, Jr., Democrat, Burke
i: county ; sixteenth district.
1 j I>. L. Russell, Democrat, Hickory;
. r sixteenth district.
*! John R. Jones, Republican, North
| W iikesboro; seventeenth district.
;IVOLCANO DESTROYS
HOMES OF NATIVES
j i . —?
. Fifteen Houses in One Vil
lage Destroyed by Molt
* en Mass Which Poured
From Volcano’s Crater.
Hilo, T. H.. April 19.—UP)—Lenv
|Jng a v : llage buried in its wake, a
' [ stream of lava continued to shoot
1 1 forth from the volcano Manna Loa
j yesterday, beating a fiery path from
I the 8,000 foot level of the crater down
’J to the sea.
‘' Engulfed under 50 feet of lava, the
J community of Hoopula was covered
by the molten mass. Fifteen build*
ings were destroyed. The post office
was the last to go. It burst into
flames at 8:30 a. in. Then the rac
ing mass coursed its path to the sea,
sending forth a charge of steam ns it
struck the water. As the lava con
tinued to pour into the sea the ocean
started boiling until it was bubbling
several hundred feet out from land
The rampaging volcano turned a
deaf ear to the prayers of old Ha
-1 waiian kahunas who implored Pele,
a Hawaiian goddess associated with
the volcano Kilauea not to destroy
their homes.
A series of severe earthquakes yes
terday afternoon rocked Kilauea in
’ which Mauna Ix>a is located. This
was followed by a series of avalanches
from the Halemauman pit causing the
general impression that Kilauea will
become active soon.
The flow from the Maieliinu crater
appeared to recede last night. The
crater was covered by a heavy mist
while sections were being drenched
’ with rain.
WOUNDS WIFE, KILLS
HIMSELF IN MT. AIRY
James Duncan Goes to Father-In-
Law’s Home and Sends Bullet in
Wife’s Body.
1 Mjount Airy. April 17-—James
Duncan, aged 30. tonight shot his
wife, aged 25, here, probably in
flicting a mortal wound, and then
turned the pistol upon ( himself,
sending a bullet through his heart.
’ He died instantly, being found on the
floor of a room in the house of his.
1 father-in-law. John Kluttz with an
unlighted cigarette in his mouth.
Duncan had borrowed a pistol tb
! day from a clerk in a hardware store
here, on the pretext that he was go
■ ing to visit his father, John Duncan,
in Laurel Fork. Va., and might
- need it. At 9 o’clock tonight he went
to the home of Mr. Kluttz. and in
- few minutes accosted hi*, wife and
shot her.
t She ran screaming into the street,
telling passerby to notify her father
- that she was shot. She wan removed
to a hospital, where it was seen that
\ she was in a desperate condition.
The bullet, from a .22 caliber pi*tol.
extered her brea*t near her heart
; W. H. Willard, of Charlotte, was
a visitor in Concord on Thursday.
i ! ' .. •* _
Robert M. Wells, Democrat, Asbe
' ville, nineteenth district.
Grover C. Davis, Democrat; twen
' tieth district.
Supreme Court Justices
W. P. Stacey, chief justice.
William J. Adams, Carthage; as
* sociate justice.
Herriot Clarkson, Charlotte; asso
t ciate justice.
W. J. Brogden, Durham; associate
> justice. , ,
Senatorial candidate* are not re
- quired to file in districts where there
are agreements between bounties as
* Jo which will furnish the nominee
each biennium. *
i Some difficulty is being experienced
b.v the State board in securing county
; election officials over the state. Dozens
of declinations have already been re
> ceived from persons tendered the ap
,§ pointments.
BISHOP CANNON IS
WITNESS FOR ORYS
BEFORE COMMITTEE
Drys Opened the First Full
[ Week of Hearings With
Chairman of Committee
of Anti-Saloon League.
BISHOP QUOTES
FROM MINISTERS
And Lay Leaders Who
l Were Asked by Him For
, Ideas of What Should Be
Done With Volstead Law
Washington, April 19.— OP) —The
drys opened their first full week of
hearings before the Senate prohibition
committee today by putting on the
stand Bishop James Cannon. Jr., of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, who is chairman of the legis
lative committee, of the Anti-Saloon
League.
Tabulating the result of a ques
tionnaire he sent to every minister
and lay leader in his church, Bishop
Cannon said there were' very few of
the 6,000 replies t'.iat did not in-’
_sist upon’ l more effective government!
control.
“The suggestions made To secure!
i more effective enforcement of the law j
are naturally varied," he said, “but •
there are very few out of the entire !
number who do not insiwt upon eer
tain things.
"First, that to secure effective en
forcement the work must be commit
ted to those who believe that the pro
hibition law is a good law, that it
can and should be enforced as effec
tively as other laws of similar char
acter. such as the narcotic drug act.
“Second, it i« also insisted that
adequate salaries should be paid to
secure such men as are qualified to j
enforce so important and difficult a j
law.
‘‘Third, that whatever number of
men are necessary to properly en- {
force the law in any section of the l
country should be provided for that !
section.
"Fourth, that the government should 1
appropriate whatever amount of mon
ey may be necessary to enforce the j
law.
“Fifth, that more stringent penal
ties should be inflicted upon the vio
lators of the law.”
Bishop cannon told the committee
v’iiat he spoke for the third largest j
protestant denomination in the coun-1
try with a membership of over 2.600.-
000, with over 2,300,000 Sunday j
school pupils and about 300,000 mem- I
bers of young peoples societies.
Says Challenge Must Be Met.
Washington, April 19.— UP) —A mil
itant call to the American govern
ment to accept the challenge of op
ponents of the Volstead act was
sounded b.v the dry* today before the
Senate 'prohibition eommitee.
Speaking for the Methodist’"Episco
pal Chuch, Sout’li, Bishop James Can
non, Jr., told the committee the law
should be enforced in the wet “New
York sector” of the East, at whatever
cost of men and money, to protect I
other sections from contamination.
The" wets, he said*"' had taken the
commmittee hearing far a afield dur- >
ing tfaeir two week* of testimony be- ,
fore the committee, and it was time
to return to the basic question wheth
er in the country as a whole the Vol
stead method of dealing with liquor
traffic had been more effective than
any other.
Cannon, who is head of the
legislative committee of the. Anti-Sa
loon League, was followed by other
officials of church and temperance or
ganizations who presented data de
signed to upset the contention of the
wets that conditions have grown worse
the dry laws.
It was noteworthy, Bishop Cannon
said, that the testimony presented by
opponents of prohibition had come al
most entirely from people living in
the New York sector, “including New
York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania and Maryland.
“Two of these states, Maryland and
New York, have utterly refused to
pass any enforcement law,” he said,
"and yet the very men in those states
who are largely responsible for the
failure to pass an enforcement law
are t|ie ones who are loudly and il
logically denouncing the failure to en
force the law.”
Reviewing some pf the testimony of
the wets, he said he could not be made
to believe that 90 pep cent, of the la
boring people bf the country are vio- j
lating the constitution by the manu
facture of intoxicants .in their homes.
Program for Bethel School Closing.
The program for the closing of the
Bethel school will be staged in the
school on the night of April 22nd at
7 :30. The program follows :
Song—Our Best Greeting.
Little Housekeepers’ Drill.
g Ol1 g—Let Me Hear You Say.
Play—l Dowanna.
Song— The Way We Do.
Song of the Enaine.
p; ay —The Unexpected Guest.
Pl a ‘y_Si. Clocum’s Country Store.
Drill— Darkey Dandies.
On Friday night, April 23rd the
school play. “Poor Father,” will be
presented on an open air stage.
Jardine Likes Tincher Bill.
Washington. April 19.— (A 3 )—The
Tincher bill, to extend government
credit to the farmers co-operative a*-,
sociations was endorsed before the
House agriculture committee Coday
by Secretary Jardine.
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
Oil BUILDING IN
GREENSBORO SCENE
OF DAMAGING FIRE
S'
,Five Stories of Insurance i
Company Building Were ■
Ruined by Fire Discov-j
ered Early Today.
firemenTfought
SEVERAL HOURS
_
Fire From Building Ran
on Gas Pipe to Another
Structure But It- Was
Quickly Handled There.
April l«».—G4>)—Flames
originating in tin- basement almost j
completeely gutted the first five floors
of the Dixie Fire Insurance —Co.
building this morning destroying more
than a score of offices and causing a !
property damage estimated art more I
than $150,000.
All but the sixth floor and a recent j
addition to the building were gutted
these being protected by concrete fire
walls. The fire is thought to have
t found its origin in a leaking gfcs main
in the Crystal Case which was quar-
I tered in the basement,
j The alarm was given, shortly before
j three o'clock and the city’s entire fife
| fitting equipment was called to the
‘ scene. A short wh : le later it was dis
j covered that the McAdoo building, a
five-story structure. 100 yards away,
had caught fire, apparently from a
gas main connecting the two build
ings.
This fire was immediately extin
guished, but the larger building prov
ed a harder task. Flames shot out on
the East Sycamore street side, with
such vehemence that firemen warned
several hundred residents of the Ben
bow Arcade to vacate. The Arcade
was only a short distance away and it
: s constructed of inflammable mater
ial.
j At 11 a. m. today firemen were still
!at theeir posts, but the flames had
i spent their force. Harry R. Rush,
j president of the Dixie Fire Insurance
; Co., announced today that the dam
age was fully eovered by insurance.
The offices of the A. & Y. Railroad
were completely wipeed out, as. was
the Western Union office on the first
floor.
COTTON MANUfACTI^HE
problem discussed
I
Conference Decides It Is Up to Indi
vidual Producer to Cope With the,
Question.
1 Spartanburg, S. C., April 16.—Cur-
I tailment of cotton goods production
I is a problem for the individual manu
; facturer and no concerted action can
' be taken. South Carolina manufactur
ers decided here today.
In a statement issued by J. 'C.
Joice Evins, president of the South
Carolina Cotton Manufacturers asso
ciation, after a conference of textile
men and commission house represen
tatives, the cotton situation was pro
nounced dangerous for manufactur
j ers, but Mr. Evins said “each man
must formulate his own, policies.”
The condition which the statement
said had existed for sixty days was at
tributed to the sale of cotton futures
at prices lower than the prevailing
spots.
Cotton goods buyers, it said, feel
that under present conditions the cloth
market will be lower in ftijure and
the demand for cotton “is ex
tremely poor.”
Only two kinds of'cloth. the manu
facturers decided, are being sold at
a profit and producers not making
these particular goods are operating
at a loss.
The meeting was called, Mr. Evins
said, to enable manufacturers and
commission men “to secure an accu
rate and cpmprehensive survey of the
condition now existing in the indus
try.”
Death of Mrs. Clara C. Ward.
MrS. Clara C. Ward, aged 34, died
Saturday night at her home on St.
John street after an illness of four
months. Funeral services were held
this’afternoon at the home and inter
ment was made in Oakwood cemetery.
The services were conducted by Rev.
H. F. Fogleman, pastor of the Meth
odist Protestant Church.
Mrs. Ward was a daughter of >lrs.
Sam Ervin, of St. John street. She
was born in Tennessee but had lived
here for some time. Her husband
is G. J. Ward.
Surviving l -are the husband, mother
five children and three sisters.
Here to attend she funeral services
are three sister, Mrs. Georgia Rob
erts, of Richmond; Mrs. Florida De
Pugh and Virginia Orrell, of Johnson
City, Tenn. Mrs. Brook and son. |
Bradley Brooks, and Mrs. Charles, of
Yadkin College, are ako here for the
funeral.
No Stock Dividend by Steel Corpor
ation.
New York. April 19. — UP) —Elbert
H. Gary, chairman, of the United
States Steel Qorporation, today noti
fied stockholders at their annual meet
ing "in Hoboken, N. J.. that no stock
payment was u 3 etaoientao shrdlu n
dividend could be safely declared at
this time, bit indicated that such a
payment was poss’ble in the future.
During the twenty-five years since
the organization of the American
League Connie Mack has given Phila- j
deljAia a pennant on an average of
every fourth year.
AN« T " r: ..oiOSAI
. u ASSIST AGENTS
IN LIQUOR BUTTLE
(New Plan Would Give the
Coast Guard Officers the <
Right to Search Ameri
can Vessels in New Zone
OTHER FEATURES tl
ALSO PROPOSED
I
, Small Boats Would Be De-~
nied Permits to Sail.—
Seek Agreement l With
British Government.
Washington. April 19.—(A*)—Coin
j cident with the renewal of disthission
of further agreements with Great
I Britain for • curbing rum smuggling
another administration measulje was
drawn up today to tighten the effec-
( tiveness of the. present coast defense
j against contraband liquor. ' *
The measure is file second .piece ot
] legislation sent to the capital this
month with the endorsement of 4s
- Secretary Andrews in charge
of enforcement, the other having been
a proposal to revise the Volstead act
to permit stricter administration.
It would give the coast guard offi
cers the right to seartfi American
vessels beyond the four league lim
it; permit exchange of ISO Liberty
motors held by the treasury forth«
new flotilla of speed boats authorize
customs officers to refuse permits for
? small- boats evidently equipped for
j smuggling; provide for summary con
-1 demnation of liquor boatsffi permit
the government to employ rettired mil
itary officers and men in enforcement
work and effect a reciprocal arrange
ment forbidding importation of mer
chandise into this country which is
regarded as a contraband.
Beyond saying that a move is to
be made shortly for a further agree
ment with Great Britain destined to
s’top the flow of liquor from England
and her nearby possessions, govern
ment officials today would hot dis
cuss the new international phase of
>tlie rum situation.
A trip by the state department and
treasury officials to London is in*
prospect in connection with the dis
cussions which are expected to bo
held and Secretary Andrews who will
be a member of the group, expects' to
leave for London May lst'a unless
developments make his trip inadvis
able.
Stacy Wade in Demand as Speaker.
State Capital Bureau of
The Concord Daily Tribune
Sir Walter Hotel Lobby
Raleigh, April 18.—Five speaking
engagements already are on the sched
ule of Stacy W. Wade, State insur
ance commissioner, during May and
early Jane, and still requests are coin
ing in.
On May Btfi he will addresa the
Greensboro Life Underwriters in
Greensboro.
On May 11th he appears on the
program of the United States Cham
ber of Commerce assembly in Wash
ington.
On May 12th he goes to Atlantic
City to address fire marshals of the
United States in their convention.
On May 19th he will address
North Carolina Agents' Association,
the State insurance organization.
On June Bth he will address the
hardware dealers of North and South
Carolina at their convention in the
Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh.
H. M. Shaw Dies in Florida.
Henderson. N. C\, April 19.—-UP)—*
H. M. Shaw, sixty, past grand master
of the Odd Fellows of the state, and
a prominent lawyer of this section,
died at Tampa, Fla., yesterday ac- ,
cording to adviceb received tiere to
day.
Mr. Shaw for the greater portion
of his life resided at Oxford* *N. C.,
and went to Florida less than a year
ago. , He is survived by a Widow.
Appeals of Marison IMsmissed.
■Washington. April 19. — UP) —Ap-
peals of JoNsph B. Maristfn. the Mas
sachusetts banker, in which he sought
to prevent his punishment by t’he
State on the charge of larceny and
conspiracy were dismissed today by
the supreme court.
The charges grew out of alleged
misapplication of the funds of the
First National Bank, of / Warren,
Mass.
Will Interpret Rum Treaty.
Washington, April 19.— UP) —Tba
Supreme Court consented today to
interpret the rum treaty with Great
Britain. It granted an appeal in
a case from San Francisco.
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SAT'S BEAR SAYS*
v
Fair tonight Tuesday, some
what colder in the south portion to
night, light'to heavy frosts tooigOt;
t slowly rising temperature Tuesday;,
warmer Wednesday. Diminishing'
I northerly winds.
NO. 33