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CF HUGHES* DRTOHEI/M MARX;
■PREMIER, BRIAWJD CoHK RICHAJSiD E BYRD
Admiral C. f\ Hughes was named commander of the Amer
ican fleet Chancellor Wilhelm Marx, of Germany,.aided with
President von Hindenburg, of Germany, in opposing the con
fiscation of royal property. Premier Briand, of France, en
countered severe opposition to the Franco-American debt
settlement. Commander Richard E. Byrd, the first rtaan to
fly over the North Pole, was returning to America.
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i WRIGHTSVILLE CAUSEWAY
OPENED THURSDAY
Connects Mainland With Harbor Is
land and Wrightaville Beach.
1 Tribune Bureau
■Sie WaKer Hotel
r Wilmington, June 14.—0 f more
significance to the entire state of
North Carolina than is at first real
ized was the opening of--the new
causeway one and one-eighth miles
long, connecting the mainland with,
Harbor Island and Wrightsville
Beach at Wilmington Thursday af
ternoon, not merely because it is a
difficult piece of engineering, hut be
cause it signifies the spirit of prog-
I ress and eharacterizes the aliveness of
this section of the Cape Fear dis
trict. It is indicative of the new
will to do and aeeompish worthwhile
things for the benefit of eastern North
Carolina.
This was evidenced by the more
than 2,000 automobiles which fol
lowed the car bearing Governor A.
W. McLean, who officially ,broke the
ribbon barrier and led the way across
the new' strip of roadway that had
been dredged up from the waters of
the sound. It was evidenced by the
more than ten thousand people which j
lined the streets of Wilmington to
watch the auspicious procession pass
on its way to the causeway and by
the ten thousand more who travelled
by automobile and in street car to
Harbor Island and Wrightsville Beach
to participate in the formal ceremonies
attendant upon the opening of the
causeway. It was evidenced in the
fact that all these people realized that
the opening of this little strip of road
was not so much ’in itself, but that
it signified that people outside the
I state, in the person of the Tide Water
! Power Company apd A. E. Fitkin,
■ of New York, its head, had enough
confidence in. this territory to invent
hundreds of thousands of dollars in
its development. .
Ashevjlle Thieves Quite Ingenious-
Asheville, June 12—For some time
the w’ave of automobile accessory
thefts has been increasing in Ashe
ville. but what to have been
the boldest and strangest case of all
was reported to piolipe Friday.
George N. Adams parked his car on
Battery Park Hill for about thirty
minutes. When he returned he got in
and started to drive off, but, the car
refused to budge. On investigation
he found that the rear fender of the
car had been jacked up and both rear
wheels stolen. Another man reported
that he had been the victim of gaso
line thieves three times within the
week.
• Negro Had Iron Jaw.
(By International News Service)
Charleston, S. 0., June 14.- —The
Charleston police claim that prover
bial iron jaw has been ,found in Wil
liam Major, imgro iee wagon helper.
In a scrap with another Afro-
American, Major was Shot in the;
mouth. The bullet scattered three
teeth. Carried* to a hospital fiere.j
Major, somewhat amused, watched
physicians probe for*the ball of lead. I
“Why, I spit da t’ing out,” Major
informed the physicians.
I 1
Scott Petitions Denied.
Springfield, ’lll., June 14.—OP)—
Petitions for, a change of venue and
habeas eorptm filed h.v Russell Scott
: w T ere denied’ by the Illinois Supreme
i Court today. Scott is under sentence'
? of death for the murder of Joseph
■ Maurer, a drug clerk in Chicago, pend
. ing a sanity re-tri&L
TRAFFIC DEATHS IN
SOUTH DURING WEEK
Forty-Four Persons Killed and 263
Injured in Eleven Southern States.
By UP) —Dixie’s toll to traffic, in
cluding airpbuie and railway during
the past week, was fioity-fonr per
sons killed and 263 injured, a survey
conduted in eleven southern states by
the Associated Press revealed today.
A marked decrease is shown in com
parison with the week previous when
forty-six persons w T ere killed and 285
injured.
The airplane victims reported were |
Lieutenant Harry B. Stiles, United
States navy reserve officer, and Her
bert Fentress, civilian, both of Norfolk.
Va., who met their death in full view’
of scores of motorists and golfers at
East Camp, when the plane operated
by the latter crashed while stunt fly
ing. The plane, coming out of a
“falling leaf” went into a tail spin,
and then crashed to the earth, killing
both occupants instantly.
13 ORIGINAL STATES
ARE ALL REPRESENTED
Governors or Representatives at PhU
| adelphia For Sesqui-Centennial.
Philadelphia, Pa., June 14. — UP) —
The Governors of thirteen original
states or their representatives were
here today to celebrate ,Lh Philadel
phia's celebration of Flag Day and
also in exercises marking formal ded
ication of Sesqui-'Centennial Internat
ional Exposition. The American Flag
was adopted 149 years ago today. •
A military parade in which the
j Governors and the brilliantly tini
formed military organizations of the
thirteen states will march was a fea
i ture of the all-day program. There
• will be more than fifty of these groups,
no two of which will be dressed alike.
Every uniform in American history
up to and including the civil war will
I be in the parade.
. .
Succeed Mr. Jenkins at Greensboro ,
Church.
| Greensboro, June 12- —Rev. E. J.
Harbison, member of the Western ;
North Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
has- come here to assume thd pas
torate of the Park Methodist church,
made vacant by Rev. W. A. Jenkjns
I going to Davenport College, at
as president of that institu
t tion. Mr. Harbison was appointed by
' I Bishop Edw’in Mouzon to fill the
: vacancy and his appointment will
! last until the next meeting of the
conference.
JUr. Harbison comes here from 1
High Point, w'here he w’as rounding
out a ,four-year term as pastor of
the East Methodist church. He
was also judge of the juvenile court
in High Point.
Bobbed Hair Causes Man to Kill
Himself*
Gouyerneur,. N. Y., June 13. —
Royal Bogardets committed suicide
by slashing his throat upon learning
that his wife and daughter, Leola,
18, had bobbed their hair. Mrs.
Bogardets said that the father had
always opf>osed bobbed hair for
either herself or her daughter and
when he came home today, he told
them they had disgraced him.
Weekly Weather Outlook.
Washington, June 13.—Weather
outlook for the w’eek beginning Mon
day : South* Atlantic and East Gulf
, States, fair first lialf and a, period of
j local thundershowers during latter
I half, moderately warm.
I
CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1926
CURTAILMENT FOR
WILLS REFLECTED
IN COTTON USAGE
Report Shows That Less'
Cotton Was Consumed
! in May Than April—Less
Than Last Year.
SPINDLES SHOW
REDUCTION TOO
Number of Spindles Ac-;
tive in Month Million
Less Than in May Year
Ago, Report Shows.
IVaslfngtou. June 14.— UP) —Colton
consumed during May totalled 516,-
758 bales of lint and 59,754 of lint-,
ers. compared with 575,799 of lint
and 61,952 of linters in April this
year, and 581.668 of lint and <51,272. i
of linters during May last year, the
Census Bureau today announced.
Cotton on hand May 31 was held
as follows:
In consuming establishments 1.449,-
932 bales of lint and 165,019 of lint
ers compared with 1,639.174 of lint
and 180,192 of linters on April 30 th : s
year; and 1.343.019 of lint and 154,-
494 of linters on May 31st last year.
In public storage and at compresses,
2.964.824 .bales of lint; and 83.423
of linters; compared with 3,530,811 of
lint and 84,209 of linters. on April 30
this year; and 1,139,652 of lint and
45.531 of linters on May 31 last year.
Imports during May totalled 13,-
626 bales, compared with 513,464 in
April this year; and 14,219 in May
lost year.
Exports for May totalled 419.459
bales, including 7,408 bales of lint
ei’*. t*nmpared with 5196.494 bales in
cluding 10,316 bales of linters during
April this year; and 330,967 bales in
cluding 17,404 bales of linters during
May last year.
Cotton spindles active during May
numbered J 12.267.010, compared with
32,893,042 during April this year;
and 33,136,926 during May last year.
HOLD TWO OFFICERS
FOR DEATH OF WOOD
Charged Willi Murdering Former
Greensboro Man-—His Body Is Sent^.
to Greensboro. -
Jacksonville, Fla., .Tune *9.—C. H.
Reed and E. R. Hughes, Duval coun
ty traffic policemen, were held tonight,
without bond on charges of murder in
connection with the death of William
I). Wood. Daytona Reach, who was
fatally wounded near Gere Thursday
last.
Testimony before a coroner’s jury
today was to the effect that Wood was
shot when Reed and Hughes attempt-. ,
ed to take him into custody. Reed
claims he shot at Wood in self de
fense. A quantity of liquor was
found in the slain man’s automobile,
it was said. ,
"Wood came to Florida from Waco,
Texas, but the body was sent tonight
to Greensboro, N, C., for interment.
Will Georgia Have a Woman Gov
ernor.
Atlanta, Ga., June 11.—Will Geor
gia, too, have a woman governor?
Anyway, there is to be some “femi
nine pep” injected into Georgia’s
forthcoming gubernatorial campaign.
Miss Lavonia Seals, Glascock county
school teacher, announced that she
would be a candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor.
Her platform includes better roads,
better schools, more and better teach
ers, and energetic curbing of crime.
“AH laws must be enforced or taken
off the statue books.” Miss Seals says
“I am a Georgia school teacher and
have given the best part of my life
to the service of my state. I am
willing to devote the rest of my life
to the uplift of humanity.’ ’
Shipmens of Fruit and Vegetables.
Raleigh, June 9. —Carlot shipments
of fruit and vegetables for the entire
United States to date amount to 279,-
317, according to word received at
the State department of agriculture
from the department in Washington.
This represents an increase over last
year, as up to the same date last year
the number of cars shipped was only
271,916. Os this number 126,435
cars were of apples, as compared to
103,000 cars for the same period a
year ago.
Sole Woman Senator Is 91.
Cartersville, Ga., June 10. —Mrs.
Rebecca Latimer Felton, the first and
so far the only woman to become a
United States senator, received many
messages of greeting today on the oc
casion of her ninety-first birthday an
niversary. She appears to be in ex
cellent health and as sprightly in man
ner and conversation as when she
made her brief speech in the upper
house of the federal congress on No
vember 22, 1922. »
With Our Advertisers.
‘‘The Kind of Help a Neighbor
Likes”. See ad. of J. C. Penne/
Company.
Now is the time, if ever, for you
to buy summer clothing. The Parks-
Belk Co. has everything you may
need for it.
The Bell-Harris Furniture Co. Ims
just received a carload of overstuffed
living room suites.
Fourteen hundred light harness
race meetings will be held on the
half-mile tracks throughout the
United State* this'summer.
Kills Bandit |
Kills Bandit
Samuel Laria, thirty, of New
York, permitted a bandit to
hold him up and rob him, but
when the thug kicked him,
he bit his assailant, grabbed
his gun and killed him.
-C’Il: -v/’-’j-t- —f-'y.-- -i mnim:
AS MANY BOLL WEEVILS
THIS YEAR AS LAST
The Hot and Dry Weather, However,
May Greatly Reduce the Weevil- in
Numbers.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter'Hotel
Raleigh, .Tune 14.—The result of
| tests conducted fey entomologists of
[the State department of agriculture
indicate that the cotton fields of
North Carolina will start off the sea
son with about as many boll weevils
per acre as last season, it was stated
by the department.
About nine-tenths of one per cent, j
of the weevils placed in winter quar
ters in wire screen cages at the Aber
deen insect laboratory last fall have
successfully passed the winter, ex
perts said. About the same percent
age survived the winter of 1924-1925.
In the spring of 1925 this percent
age of weevil survivaj was responsible
for an infestation of 50 to 750
weevils per acre on cotton before it
Bft any squares, it was pointed out
fcy Entomologist R. W. Leiby, of the t
State department of agriculture. “A!
ssimilnr infestation.” he said. “Is. j
therefore, to be expected this season, j
It is still problematical, however,,
whether the weevil will be seriously j
destructive this year, because hot and i
dry weather during the first half of
July y’lien the first brood of weevils I
usually us developing in squares on \
the ground may kill the grubs in the
squares and greatly reduce the weevil |
in numbers.”
“This condition,” he added, “pre
vailed last year and turned a serious
ly threatening situation to one of
little consequence.
“On the other hand, the present
winter survival of weevils, followed
by a moderately warm and showery
July could bring about a severe weev
il injury to cotton this season.
“No weevils have as yet been taken
on young cotton this season by the |
department's field entomologists. This,
it is believed, is due to the late sea
son and the consequent slower emerg
ence of the weevil from winter quar
ters.”
News From “Y” Tourists.
Reports from the “Y”. Eastern
tour to the effect that they reached
Staunton, Va., on schedule Saturday
night were received here yesterday.
If the tour continued to run on
schedule, they spent most of yester
day at Gettysburg, Pa., and will ar
rive in New York Oity tonight in
time for dinner. The reports yester
day indicated that everything was
going off in fine shape that
everyone was enjoying the trip to th£
utmost.
In an ancient inn in England is
a peat fire that has been burning
continuously for one hundred and
thirty years. The fire was started
long before matches were invented.
It burns on a spacious hearth and is
made up of several bushels of neat.
Every night the partly burned pieces
of peat are covered with embers. In
the morning they are raked over,
bits of charcoal places in the center
of the hearth and a supply of fresh
peat placed round it- By this means
the fire is kept from going out.
Junior Boys’ Swimming Class.
The members of the Junior Boys
sw’imming class are asked to be
present for the beginning of the
“Learn to Swim” campaign at the
“Y” this afternoon at which time
the first lessons will be given. The
girl’s classes will meet for their first
lesson tomorrow.
Women Endorse Campaign to. Wear
Cotton Dresses.
Rock Hill. S. C. June 9.—A resolu
tion urging th% women of South Car
olina to observe the week of June
21-26 as “w’ear a cotton dress week"]
was adopted today by the South Caro
, lina council of warm women in ses
, sion here,
A flock of 25,000 gild geese remain
ed on a Columbia River island last
winter instead of going south, and
now they decline to fly north because
the nearby wheat fields prove too at
tractive.
' Make your bus seat reservation now
for the trip to Happy Valley. Tele
i phone Mr. Chesley or Mr. Duncan at
; the office of Hartsell Realty Co. The
> trip is complimentary to you. See
big ad, on page three today,
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
FOUR IN KILLED,
JEN OTHERS*
; IN BIG EXPLOSION
I ' '
Men Were Killed When
Coke Oven at the Plant
of the Illinois Steel Com
pany Belw Up.
GAS BEUEVED
TO BE CAUSE
Explosion Started Fire and
All Available Apparatus
Was Summoned to the
Plant.
Gary, Ind., June 14.— UP) —Four
men were instantly killed, ten others
probably fatally injured, and sixty to
seventy-five' seriously hurt when a
coke oven blew up early today at the
by-products plant of the Illinois Steel
. Company here. The explosion was
believed to have been caused by gas.
The explosion started a fire in near
by buildings of the plant, and all
available apparatus at Gary, nearby
towns and manufacturing plants were
summoned, as well as all available
ambulances and doctors. The tire
was not considered serious.
Tiie injured and dead were being
brought into the Illinois Steel Com
pany hospital. More than an hour
after the blast occurred the work of
rescuing the victims still was going
on and it was impossible to make a
cheek of the number of men killed
and injured.
Later—Five Reported KiHeO.
Gary, Ind., June 14.— UP) —Five
men were killed, four of them instant
ly, by an explosion believed to be due
to gas in a coke oven of the bjr
j products plant of the Illinois Steel
! Company. Seventy-five others were
injured, a dozen of them seriously,
when the two-story brick buildup
was wrecked.
About 100 men were employed at
the plant. The force of the explo
sion hurled them against the walls
■ breaking arms and legs. Rescue was
difficult because the building was scat
tered, burying the victims in the
debris.
Two hours after the blast rescuers
j still were searching the wreckage for
other vietluus.
The injured men were taken to the
, steele company’s hospital here and to
! the city hospitals Many of those in
! jured suffered only, minor outs’ and
bruises.
| Emergency calls were sent out to
1 adjoining suburbs for physicians and
nurses.
j It was about 9a. m. when with a
roar that was heard two miles away,
the blast hurled the roof of the plant
high in the air and heaved out the
walls in a shower of bricks.
Workmen nearby were unable to ex
plain what they had seen. They said
; the blast was like a thunderbolt out
of a clear sky.
The explosion was on what is
as the saturation floor of the
by-products plant. While no authori
j talive statement could be obtained, it
was generally attributed' to gas. Fire
departments were summoned but there
was little in the debris that was in
flammable, and nearby buildings were
not endangered. (
SOUTHERN FLORISTS
MEET IN ASHEVILLE
First Convention of the Southeastern
Florists Association Being Held.
AshVville, Jtone 14. — UP) —More
than 15Q florists from Tennessee.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor
gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana met in Asheville today
for the first annual convention of the
Southeastern Florists Association.
The opening session was featured
by a plant clinic conducted by emi
nent botanists in the’state in which
various kinds of plant diseases were
analyzed and cures discussed.
A sight-seeing tour through western
North Carolina was scheduled for the
afternoon with the annual banquet
and president’s reception and ball
planned for tonight.
One of the most important items
of business that will come up at the
convention will be the possible in
clusion of the state of Virginia in
the association.
Leaves SIOO,OOO For Presbyterian
Work.
Greensboro, June 13.—r-It was an
nounced today at Springwood Pres
byterian church, near here, that
$3.00u was left the church by the
will of the late D. P. Foust to pro
vide a perpetual income for the
dhurdh. It was further announced.
that Mr. Foust left the residue of
his estate, estimated to be worth
SIOO,OOO, for church work through
out Orange Presbytery. It is believed
to be the largest gift yet made to tha
Presbytery, which includes ten coun
ties in the upper Piedmont section of
] the state.
IT S. Morrison of Asheville is Dead.
I Asheville,. June 13.—T. S. Mor-
I rison, vice president of the Wacho-
I v ia Bank and Trust company and
[chairman of the board of directors of
i the local branch, died suddenly at
1 his home, here this afternoon at 6
■ o’clock.
Evidences of an advanced prehis
j toric civilization have been found near
! the western base of the Alagez moun
-1 tains, Transcaucasia. The inhabitants
lived an intensive community life,
traces of canals, artificial lakes, wells
and road* bring found.
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tend the Ri ter national Eucha
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PRIMARY LAW MAY
GO TO SUPREME COURT
For Fifrther Interpretation.—Board
May Order Recount if Necessary’.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, June 14.—When Solicitor
W. F. Evans, of "Wake county, kicked
out of the traces and asked for a re
count of the vote cast in the June
sth primary, in which he was defeat
ed for re-nomination, he came very
near dislodging a hornets nest, as far
as the State board X)f elections is con
cerned.
For by his act others in s-milar cir
cumstances have been'encouraged to
seek a recount and a controversy is
in the making that to cawy
the election law to the Supreme
Court again for further a
tion or even to the legislature lor re
vision. This became increasingly ap
parent tqda.v following the ruling of
'Attorney General Dennis Q. Brum
mitt that the State board of elections
has jurisdiction to hear the petition
of Solicitor Evans and make the re
count if it deems it necessary.
But as predicted exclusively by Tre
Tribune correspondent in a story
dealing with the phase of the election
law earlier in the week, the power
of the State board to make a recount
is only “on account of errors in tabu
lating returns and filling out b'anks”
a-s set forth in section 135 of the
State election law (C. S. 6048). The
attorney general called attention to
the fact that neither the courts nor
the boards of election have power to
review the action of the judges or reg
istrar of election in passing on the
right of an individual to participate
in a ’ primary, ajid cited the case of
Rowland vs. Board of Elections, 184,
N\ C., 78, upon which the decision of
the Supreme Court #as based, inter
preting the law in the same manner
as has Attorney General Brummitt.
This same case was cited by The Trib
une correspondent a f ew days ago
in predicting that this same interpre
tation would be placed upon it.
As the result of this ruling even
greater public interest than usual is
being focused *upon the convening of
the State boa-rd of elections here on
Wednesday, June 16th. Whether the
Evans appeal will be taken up at
once by the board, or whether the
canvassing of the returns from the
other counties will be completed first,
has not been learned.
Two other c.ases of a similar na
ture have come before the board in
the last day and a half, and will
probably be considered at the same
titne the Evans petition comes up.
The board was informed today that
Hugh M. Humphrey, candidate for
nomination for State senator from
Wayne county, who was opposed by
C. C. Sanady and Kenneth C. Royall.
Humphrey was senator from the
eighth district first term, but his time
fell into second place. He alleges
that many voted who were Yiot regis
j tered, ami petitioned the county board
; of canvassers to check the ballots
cast against the registration books,
llie board, despite the election law
’provisions that opening of the ballot
boxes can only be done in the case
; of errors in “tabulating returns and
! filling out blanks,” decided that it was
within its authority to make the
check, and th# recount was in’ prog
ress today (Saturday). What the
outcome will be and whether the pro
cedure is held to be legal remains to
be seen.
StttJ a»other case comes from Pam
lico county, where F. C. Brinson, can
didate for tie house of representa
tives from that county, asked for a
recount on the grounds that non-reg
istered persons voted, and that Re
publicans voted in the Democratic
l primary illegally. There, however,
the county board ruled as did the
Wake county board, holding that it
. did not have the legal authority to
• make the recount in this case. It
. is likely that tiis appeal,
i ‘"The situation is a most puzzling
, one,” a local attorney remarked in
; discussing the case. “There is such
ambiguity in the law itself that it is
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fKuo GOING T 0 i
PHY PRIM BILL
' .
Men Who Gave Note For
the Republican Citizens
Committee Seem Not to
Know About Facts.
NOTHING SURE
KNOWN BY THEM
First Said Citizens Would
Pay Them Back ana
Thert Said Something
Manufacturers Helping. %
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Washington. June UP)— The
Senate campaign funds committee
ran a blind trail today whensit tried
to discover who Was ultimately expect
ed to pay bills incurred by the “Re
publican Citizens Committee” iij its
support of the Pepper-Fisher ticket
in Pennsylvania this year.
Wm. H. Falwell. treasurer of the
committee, said he and Joseph R.
(irundy had signed” a joint note for
$90,000 to make up a deficit, but could
not say from whom they expected to
get their money back. Questioned at
! great length they testified that “citi
| zens of the state” were expected to •
! pay, and again that “manufacturers -f
I were looked to make up the amount.”
But, he steadfastly refused to men-’ !
tion any names. i jj
Asked directly whether he had any ,-j
member of the Mellon family in mind
as a possible source of help, the wit
ness replied in the negative.
The note was signed by Grundy and
Folwell after Grundy had made a long
succession of advances amount ; ng to
$.‘107,000 for which Jie received ‘**e- *
j ceipts,” and Folwell said that he was
confident if all other sources failed,
Grundy could make good the $90,000
also. *
Incidentally the witness mentioned
that he and Grundy, who is President f
of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers
Association, had raised $650,000 in
eastern'Pennsylvania for the Harding
campaign ,;n 1920.
In the primary campaign this year,
he said, it wds the plan to have the
county’ organization self-supporting, \
and he thought that it had been.
“Are the headquarters of the Man
• nfacturers Association and the Citi
zens Committee in the same building?”
asked Senator King, democrat, of
Utah. '
“Yes.” Folwell replied.
Frrfnk J. Gorman, of Philadelphia,
a member of the tax assessment board, |
testified he was at the organization
meeting of the Citizens Committee, j
He said Grundy had asked him to |
arrange for the meeting.
“Who were present?” asked Chair
man Reed. “As I recall. J. Hamp
ton Moore, Chas. ,T. Webb. Arthay
Lee, John Fisher. IV. H. Folwell, W„,
R. Grundy and Thomas Raybourne
White.”
Fo«r Giris Hiked From Boone to
Kanapoiis.
Misses Bertha Cook and Sadie Har
h-'s with their friends. Misses Jessie
Williamson and Nell Jenkins, of Page
) land, S. C, hiked to their home in
\ Kannapolis from the Boone summer
school Saturday, which is about one
f hundred and forty miles.
They left Boone at 1 :45 o'clock <
> and arrived in Kannapolis at 8:30
o’clock. They just stepped out on J
• the highway when a man came by and.
i brought them almost to Ix*noir. Then
■ they rode with different people until I
they got six m : les this side of Lenoir,
i when a Mr. Ash came by and brought
i them into Statesville. Then they
’ again rode WRII' different parties un
til they came into Kannapolis, co*nt- |
ing twelve different parties in, all, 1
The girls seemed to have enjoyed
their trip down here but don’t know
how they are coming out on their hike
back. X. . ’ . j
Swimming and Diving Expert*.
Several swimming and diving ex
perts have been secured by the auth- J
orities at the \\ M. C- A. to as
sist the best of the locals in the
swimming and diving exhibition for
the entertainment of the members of
the State Building and Ix>an League
during their meeting here next-week.
Only the best talent obtainable will
be on display in the highly inter- -i
esting program that has been ar- |
ranged.
* ■
Franc Still Tumbling.
Paris. June 14. — UP) —The French
franc today tumbled to a new low 1
record for all time, reaching 36,57 to
the dollar, and 173.25 to the pound
Sterling.
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| I |Jfl
. extremely difficult to interpret it. It
is very likely that before the presenf.
. situation is cleared up, the Supreme
. Court may again be called upon to
, give anther interpretation.” he said.
Considerable talk is also being heard
with regard to the prospect of amend
ing or revising the present law at
the next session of the general as
, sembly. It is very evident that many
are of the opinion that the law should j
be clarified to the extent that board*
, of election may make recount* where
there is evidence of fraud.
• i - - _ - ——msi ”;Je
, THE WEATHER
|
Local thundershower* tonight and
; Tuesday, slightly warmer in extrema ,
i west portion tonight; cooler Tuesday
lin w eßt portion. Moderate southwest
l wind*.
NO. 99