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THE CONCORD TIMES
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
John Park Wants Editors
■ To Drop Penitent Attitude
Hickory. July 22.— UP) —Ridiculing
i a ‘“by your leave" attitude on the part
!of newspapers, and the idea that
| newspapers "must be humored and
i petted." John A. Park, publisher of
j The Raleigh Times, in his capacity
; ns chairman of the legislative commit
) tee of :'ie Xorth Carolina Press As
sociation. today appealed to the news
i paper men gathered here to work for
legislation for the good of the state,
I rather than class legislation.
1 "Hasn’t the time come for self-re-
I publications to drop that ‘by
your leave’ attitude and with spreaded
shoulders and expanded chests say
‘whrff is it you wish’?” asked Air.
Park.
"Do we need more laws to aid and
| protect newspapers? Indeed we do
’ not. We have too many laws now
—of every .kind.
"The kind of laws Chat we should
have next, with respect to newspa
pers. would protect newspapers from
one another and protect society from
the newspapers."
‘ ‘ Mr. Park declared that “there are
p . too many newspaper's in America to
r, day” and that “there are several
‘ I towns and cities in this state that
! have experienced the annoyances of
• j too many mediocre publications that
1 should have been consolidated, Paeck
‘ cd or choked.
“lhe tendency to consider news
papers as public utilities continues to
' grow," he continued. “Why not so
. classify this great industry of public
service along with railroads, high
ways, telephones, power companies
and the like?"
I Mr. Parks then outlined the prob
able results of "regulation of news
papers if they were placed under
State supervision" thus:
“First, Hiere would be a shifting
j around and moving of plants from
points of congestion to those very few
places that need good newspapers.
“Next, there would be established
| standards of practice under rigid su
pervision demanding satisfactory per-
PULLMAN COMPANY TO
OPEN SHOPS IN ATLANTA
Will Employ From 500 to 1.000 Men
at Opening of Plant.
Chicago, July 22.—OP)—The Pull
man Company will establish rejmir
shops at Atlanta. Ga.. probably at a
<-ost in excess of $1,000,000 and has al
! ready acquired a site there, it was dis
j closed today.
The Pullman company has pur
chased the 27 acre plant of the U. X.
.Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Co. t
within the rwynw# Pant* of At font*.
and will erect buildings and revamp
the plant to take care of repairing of
Pullman cars in a manner adequate to
the gtowing needs of the Southeastern
section of the country, officials of the
tompany said.
The plant will employ from 500 to
1 000 men to start, and in all proba
bility will handle not less, than 500
cars a year.
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(By International News Service)
Durham. July 22. —It was like the
homecoming of the "boys from
France." Durham turned out to
greet them. Bands played. There was
shouting along the crowded streets.
A troop of national home guards
marched down the street the other af
ternoon. The machine gunners had
been at Camp Glenn, Morehead City,
along with several hundred more men
from other cities.
Robbery Causes Death.
New York, July 22. — UP) —One man
was killed and another wounded when
five robbers invaded a Broadway jew
elry store in a daylight holdup to
day. The robbers escaped after fight
ing their way through a crowd that
collected at the sound of the shot.
Highway Commission Asks the
Supreme Court For Rehearing
Raleigh. July 21. —The State high
way commission, petitioning the Su- (
preme Court for a rehearing of the
Newton road case, tells that honor- 1
able body of errors “in matters of
law” and in overlooking facts, points
and authorities, in its opinion on
the case. Wherefore it "most re
spectfully but earnest’.y" requests the
court to review and revefse or modi
fy its decision.
The petition, which went to the
court Monday and to the newspapers
today, has a notation asking that it
be directed to Associate Justice Brog
den, who wrote the opinion of which
the petitioner complains.
The document of five pages, with
five contentions of error, is the work
of Attorney General Brummitt and
Assistant Attorneey General Charles
Ross, the latter special counsel to
the highway commission. Accom
panying it, in accordance with the
rules of the court, is a statement
signed jointly by General Albert L.
Cox,' of Raleigh, and General B. S.
Royster, of Oxford, setting forth
that in their opinion, as' disinterest
ed attorneys, the court’s opinion con
tained error.
After setting forth the allegations
of error, the highway commission “re
spectfully contends,” emphasizing
again a point stressed in the original
briefs on the appeal, “that so long
as your petitioner runs its highways
from ‘county seat’ to ‘county seat’
and so locates them as to give the
best, quickest and most efficient ser
vice to the traveling public, it has
met the requirements of the* laws,
both in letter and spirit; but when
: this court undertakes to regulate the
| location of any highway connecting
g forma nee or closing rtf the doors,
t 1 "Then, suitable rates for advertis
t ing and circulation would be pre
‘l scribed and stabilized, low enough to
f i attract business and high enough for
y 1 a legitimate profit.
- | "The results naturally would be
- the growth and extended service of the
- deserving publications and the with
r drawal of the incompetent ones.
, "Talk about the supporting’ of a
new’spaper wou’d be reversed into a
- respectful request for the newspapers'
• approval and support of a community
1 ! and its enterprises.”
Mr. Park pointed out some of the
things he thought the newspapers
should ask of the legislature, rather
I than mere c’ass legislation.
1 “M hy not ask our legislative
bodies to safeguard humanity that
the ever increasing number of pre
ventable fatalities may be checked?
hy not ask for protection from 1
the speed demon and the incofnpetent j
driver.who profane our highways and |
j bll our hospitals and morgues?
“Why not forever discard the dingy
one-room sehoolhouse in favor of the
modern consolidated school?
“Why not make it prohibitive to
erect hospitals, sc’liools and even of- 1
fice buildings and hotels that are I
combustible?
“Wh y not direct the energies and
brains of the great publishing indus- j
try of thriving North Carolina into j
channels of constructive endeavor and
militant usefulness?
"Yes, why not?
"These T’topian conditions may be
for future generations: they may be
close at hand. The mendicant pub
lication willr”remain mendicant un
less perchance through change of at
titude or circumstances it may join
the growing group of aggressives.
"Some day the great God of the
Cniverse is going to look down on one !
of his dearly beloved publisher-ehil- J
dren and say, ’Cease they slothful- 1
ness; rise up and produce a better
newspaper or get thee back to the
tall timbers'."
THE COTTON MARKET
October and January Reach Highest
Levels in Over a Month.
New York, July 22.— UP) —Rain
distributed quite generally over the
southwest this morning furnished the
signal for renewed buying in the cot
ton market, which advanced opening
prices 9 to 13 points. Considerable
realizing on the upturn, however, es-!
pecially by Wall Street interests. |
checked the rise after October had j
reached 17.60 and January 17.51, the j
highest levels In over a month.
Firm cables, better reports from the
cotton goods market, and early!
strength in the stock market, with ■
support from New Orleans and Liv- j
erpool also contributed to the early J
advance.
Cotton futures opened firm. Oct. J
17.58 ;Dec. 17.46; Jan. 17.50 ; March I
17.C5; May 17.87.
S. A. L. Wants to luuse Bonds.
Washington, July 22— UP) —The
Seaboard Air Line sought permission
from the Interstate Commerce Com
mission today to issue $8,000,000 of
first and consolidated 6 per cent,
mortgage gold bonds, due in 1945.
| * Proceeds from the issue which al-
I ready had been sold, subject to the
I commission's approval, to Dillqn,
Read & Company and Ladenburg.
Thalmann & Company at 97.75 would
be used to partially reimburse the
road’s treasury for additions and bet
terment expenditures, stop pay for
short notes, and to provide for
new mileage in Florida.
What is said to be a world’s golf
record for a course 6.43(5 yards in
length is the 278 for 72 holes scored
by Dewey Longworth, professional of
j the Meadow Lake Club of Kansas
1 City.
with any ‘county seat,’ principally
with a view of satisfying the civic
pride of any town, at the expense of
1 the traveling public, it will violate
both the spirit and the letter of the
act.”
The five contentions of error are
summarized as folllows:
“1, That the court erroneously as
sumed as a fact, that the southern
route shown on the plaintiff’s map,
copy of which was attached to the
record, was in all points similar to
the route shown on the highway map.
attached to chapter two of the pub
lic laws of 1021, (State highway
act).
“2. That the court erred in hold
ing, in effect, that the defendant
(highway commission) acted in viola
tion of the spirit of the highway act
in entering the town of Newton and
connecting with an existing State
highway near the northerly boundary
of said town, but would be acting in
the spirit of the act if it entered the
town of Newton and connected with
the existing State highway near the
southerly limits of said town,
j “3. That the court erred in hold
ing, in effect, that it had the power
to control the discretion of the coun
ty seat for the purposes of ‘connect
ing’ such county seat with the high
-1 way system.
I “4. That the opinion in the instant
■case is in direct conflict with the
i opinion of Cameron versus highway
’ commission, I#B N. C, 84, without ex
i pressly (jvcr* ru^n ? said opinion.
‘*s. That the court erred in affirm
s ing the restraining order issued by
, the court below without, .at least,
i modifying it to make it conform with
! the law' as laid down in the instant
l case.”
CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1926
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World Figures in the News
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Manuel Quezon’s fiery oratory led the Philippine Senate ?o
•leniand. the end of American control. Edouard Herriot win
usked to form a new French Cabinet upon the downfall ei
Aristide Briand’s. The simultaneous departure of .1 P.
Morgan and Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, for
France, led to reports that a “Dawes plan” was content
plated to save the franc.
(International Newsreel) ,
EDITORS HEAR REPORT
OF THEIR PRESIDENT
I ,
| Also Hear Addresses and Discuss
Topics Interesting Them.
Hickory, July 22. —C4*) —Swinging
I into full program of their convention,
I eiHfcws'Vnd of the state *f«
I day heard the annual report of their
1 president, two or three addresses on
! matters pertaining to the profession,
j and discussed several topics of inter
-1 est to newspaper men. More than
I 150 men and women representing the
I daily, weekly, semi-weekly and other
! classifications of newspaper work were
present for the 54th annual conven
tion.
Outstanding among the addresses
today was that of J. W. Atkins, pub
lisher of the Gastonia Gazette, and
president of the association, and H.
Galt Ilraxton, publisher of the Kins
ton Free Press. Mr. Atkins reviewed
the organization's affairs, and pre
sented to the publishers a hopeful
outlook for the future. Mr. Braxton
discussed the newspaper’s fight for
agency commissions before the feder
al trade commission. His address was
made in executive session, but it was
learned that Mr. Braxton reviewed
Pile fight over a period of several
years, and told the publishers that a
serious situation confronted publish
ers. Unless the fight for certain
right is won, he said, the entir struc
ture of newspapers, offices built up
through a number of years, would
have to be revamped at heavy ex
penses to publishers.
VALENTINO WOULDN’T
FIGHT WOMAN WRITER
But He Still Wants Satisfaction
From Editorifi.l Writer Who Ridi
cul'd Him.
New York, July 21. —Dispatches
from Chicago that the writer of an;
editorial which linked the movie
sheik with pink powder puffs had
not reveoled his identity have failed
to dissuade Rudolph Valentino from
his intention of forcing a duel, Amer
ican fashion. There is just one pos
sible development, he said, which
might force him to “laugh it off.”
"I’m going back to Chicago," he
said today as he received reporters
in his suite, clad in an orchid bath
ing ouit and lavender lounging robe,
“and I’ll have satisfaction.
“Unless the scoundrel who wrote
that foul stuff is an old man, too
feeble to take a man-sized licking,
I’ll give him what he’s earned."
“But what,” someone asked,
“woul you do if the ‘scoundrel’ turn
ed out to be a woman ”
Mr. Valentino achieved a gesture
of supreme gallantry.
"Ah. that goes without saying,’
he responded. "I shou’d just have to
laugh it off.”
Arrest in Connection With Mellett
Murder.
Canton, 0., July 21.—Peter Mag
raf, of Akron, known as a gambler, j
was arrested here today in connec
tion with the murder of Don R-
Mellett, Canton publisher. Magraf is
said to have admitted having been in
Canton the night ofthe slaying, and
is alleged to have been near the Mel
lett home.
The suspect said he was with
John Demos, known as “Blackie,” al- j
' so of Akron, on that night. Two de
tectives went to Akron immediate y
. to locate “Blackie" and bring him to
1 Canton. Demos is out on bond of $6.-
OQO following arraignment on a
white slavery charge. 1
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STATE MAY CLOSE THE
CARROLL HOSPITAL SOON
Charges Have Been Lodged Against
Owner, Dr. R. S. Carroll.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh.
North Carolina will probably take ac-"’
tion in the near future toward the
closing of the sanitarium now being
operated by Dr. R. S. Carroll, of
Asheville, against whom charges of
immorality have just been upheld in
a hearing before the State board of
medical examiners, with the result
that his license to practice medicine
in the state was revoked. Intima
tion of such action was given out at
the office of Attorney General Dennis
G. Brummit, who represented the de
partment of public welfare and the
child welfare commission at the hear
ing, although Mr. Brummit refused
to make a definite statement with re
gard to any plans he. might have in
the case, stating that it was too early
at this time to announce anything
definite.
Much commendation of the work
done by Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson in
this ease is being heard, as her de
partment was instrumental in bring
ing the case to a issue. All private
sanitariums in the states, especially
those for- the treatment of nervous
diseases, are under the direct super
vision of the board of charities and
public welfare, and must be licensed
by the board. They are subject to
inspection to see that they conform
with the laws of the state with re
gard to their regulation. And Mrs.
Kate Burr Johnson, as commissioner
of public welfare, is responsible for
enforcement of the laws relating to
these institutions. Consequently, it
was-in the line of her duty to press
(he investigation of conditions at
Highland Hospital—Dr. Carroll’s
sanitarium —when conditions were re
ported to her. Much of the actual
investigating was done by Dr. H. W. (
Crane, of Chapel Hill, connected with
the State board of charities and pub
lic welfare. That the work of Dr.
Crane and Mrs. Johnson was well
done is attested by the outcome of
the hearing before the medical board
of examiners.
The board announced • after the
hearing that the charges, which had
to do with alleged treatment suggest
ed for certain women patients, was
of such an obscene nature that they j
could not be made public.
Dr. Carrolll has appealed to the
Superior Court of Buncombe county.
Fred B. McCall Named to Universi
ty Faculty.
Chapel Hill, July 21.—The ap-|
pointment of Fred R. McCall, of j
Charlotte, to the faculty of law
school of the University of North
Carolina a« associate professor of
law, was learned here today. Official
announcement of the appointment
awaits the approval of the executive
committee of the University trustees
iat their next meeting. This addition,
in the opinion of officials of the uni
versity law school and of the legal
profession, will greatly strengthen
the teaching staff of the law school.
I
Ostrich racing is a popular sport
in Vienna and Rome. The ostriches
j are treated just like race horses, and
■ have trainers and jockeys. Their
I speed is amazing, often as much as
26 miles an hour, while even w’ith
two men on Rs back an ostrich has
been known to run faster than a
| horse.
FIFTY-FOUR MORE !
ELECTIOIJIGES |
UNO CLERKS NAMED
i
In Indictments Just Re
turned by Special Grand
Jury Now Sitting at
Chicago.
| ELECTION FRAUDS
LAID TO THEM
!In All 109 Indictments
j Have Been Returned
Recently by the Grand
Jury.
Chicago, July 22.—G4 s )—Fifty-four
election judges and clerks who served
at Cook county’s April primaries,
were indicted today by a special grand
jury, on charges of conspiracy to ]
make a false count in connection j
with irregularities at the polls.
The indictments returned bring to j
100 the indictments returned against
judges and clerks. Eleven were named
in t,he first writs, and 44 in the sec
ond group.
The writs have been returned as I
rapidly as a recount of the returns
showed false tabulations.
Recount Ordered.
Chicago, July 22.— UP) —A com- j
plete recount of the vote cast in Cook |
County Chicago, for the U. S. senate- j
rial nomination in both republican
and democratic parties was ordered
today by county Judge Jareeki at the
request of Senator James A. Reed, of
Missouri, eha : rman of the Senate
j campaign expenditures committee.
The court acted as true bills report
j ed to have voted against 54 judges and j
' clerks Os elections in the April pri
j maries, were waited in the criminal
courts.
Senator Reed sought the aid of the
county court in determining how the
senatorial ballots were handled, as his
committee prepared to assemble here
Monday for an inquiry into the sena
torial primaries.
PRISONERS KILL GUARD
AND MAKE GETAWAB
Six Long Term Criminals Escaped
From Ferguson Prison Farm.
Houston, Texas. ,7uly 22.—< A *)—A
guard named Raider at the Ferguson
' state prison farm near here, was klll-
ed there early today and six long
term convicts escaped, word to the
I Houston police said. The ponce were
I asked to watch for two automobiles in
I which the six prisoners were reported !
ito have fled.
j Information to the police said two j
j cars drove up to the prison farm j
| shortly after midnight and the driv
| ers fired -‘mmediately at the guard (
| Raider, killing him instantly. Six j
! convicts fled to the cars and were!
! driven away. The men who escaped
were reported to have been Go. Dix
on, Charles Pryer, Richard Naylor,
C. R. Holland, Robert Bernard and
Alvin Ireland. Pryer was serving a
30-year sentence for murder and had
escaped twice previously.
Execution of the plot was daring
and reckless. The moment the men
in the automobile sighted the guard
they opened fire on him. Raider,
riddled with bullets, fell dead. In
stanatly they were upon him and seized
the keys to the barracks. With drawn
pistols they opened the doors and
called the names of six long term
men who stepped out from the ranks
of their fellows and took their places
behind their liberators.
The other convicts apparently dazed
by the swiftness of the affair, made
no move. With no apparent haste
the three men satisfied themselves the
men they had come for were account
ed for, locked the door on the re
mainder of the convicts, who a mo
ment later heard the automobiles rush
away in the darkness.
The story, as it was telephoned to
Houston, failed to indicate how the
alarm was given. Presumably, how
ever, the shots had aroused other
j guards, who came too late to prevent
the escape.
Girl Walts in Vain For Wire From
Thaw.
Winchester. July 21.—Miss For
rest Hope Walls, the 18 year old
Los Angeles. Calif., girl who claims
Harry K. Thaw, promised to marry
her if she came to his country es-!
tate “Kenilw’orth” near here, sat
disconsolately in a tent throughout
today awaiting an answer to the
! latest telegram she sent to Thaw
last night.
The answer had not arrived to
night. Thaw was reported yt the Bel
mont hotel, New York, and the girl
wired him she was broken hearted
' and begged him to send her an auto
mobile and sufficient money to take
! her , her mother and brother back to
California, police said she told them
today.
The Walls arrived here Saturday
virtually without funds in a battered
flivver.
B. E. Spangler Dead.
Atlantic City, X. J. July 22.— (A*)
B. E. Spangler. 64, of Roanoke,
Va general superintendent of trans
portation of the Northern & Western
Railroad, died suddenly of heart dis
ease at his room in the Traymore
Hotel today. , 4 .
He was attending the coal rate hear
ing before the Interstate Commerce
Commission in the Pittsburgh-Lake
cargo case.
Mr. Spangler was connected with
the Northern & Western Railroad for
more than forty years. He started
as a railroad telegraph operator.
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J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
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jSK rose today. In the first quota-
j3K tion since the defeat of the
j /ft Herriot ministry, the dollar was
I at 45.03 francs, nud the pound
j3K Sterling at 219. Later quota-
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. ESE COUNTERFEIT STATE 1
j TOBACCO TAX STAMPS
Woman and Son Charged With Print-
>ng the Stamps.
[ (By International News Service)
Little Rock. Ark., July 22.—Detec
tives here are weaving together
threads of evidence on which they
hope to convict persons responsible
, f° r flooding the market of the state
I with counterfeit state tobacco tax j
I stamps.
A woman who operates a printing
.shop and her son are under arrest
i here ns a result of a police check-up
j on the “bogus" stamps while a law
jyer at Pine Bluff, Ark., and a sales
man at Hot Springs are held as
“agents" for the counterfeit stamps.
Detectives who have been working
on a “grapevine" report that eount
j erfeit stamps are being manufactured
jin Little Rock in wholesale lots got
their first tangible-clue when a local
merchant purchased SIOO worth of
| these stamps and turned them over
j to officers.
Trace of the spurious tax stamps
1 led to a local printing shop when an
18-year-old youth is said by officers
to ’nave given evidence against his
mother, who in turn was arrested.
The youth and his mother are held
in default of $5,000 bond each on
grand larceny charges.
The two men held in Hot Springs
and Pine Bluff, admit selling the
stamps but deny any knowledge that
they were counterfeit. They both
declare ttoat the stamps came from
“headquarters" and they thought them
legal.
A further check of other surround
ing towns shows that these tax stamps
have been sold to the amount of $lO,-
000 throughout the state, detectives
say.
Merchants, warned that arrests
would follow if "bogus" stamps were
used, have sent many tax stamps here
for an examination.
Through this method, detectives
have found many of Jhe stamps-to be
counterfeit. Local officers at pres
ent are in aurrouuding towns gather
ing evidence.
BANKERS PLEASED WITH
GOVERNdR’B STATEMENT
i
j Think His Utterances About Bond
Payments Will Have Good Effect.
, Tribune Bureau
* Sir Walter Hotel
\ Raleigh, July 22. —Bankers over
} the state generally are applauding the
statement issued by Governor A. W.
McLean with regard to the non-pay
ment of obligations by cities and coun
ties in the state. In one letter re
ceived by Governor McLean from R.
S. Dickson, president of a bank in
Gastonia, Mr. Dickson says: “I want
to express to you my sincere thanks
for your interest in this matter which
is so vital to the welfare of every
county and city in North Carolina,”
adding that it had just been the duty
of the bank to notify a cotinty that
due to its negligence in meeting its
obligations, the bank could not grant
a loan which had been requested.
The letter of Mr. Dickson to Gov
ernor McLean follows:
““Having read the contents of your
letter in regard to this subject, as
copied in the various newspapers to
day, in behalf of our organization I
want to express to you my sincere
thanks for your interest in this mat
ter, which is so vital to the welfare
of every county and city in North
Carolina, I am sure that I voice
the sentiment of every leading bond I
house throughout the country who;
specialize in North Carolina county |
and city bonds.
“Only yesterday it was our sad
duty to inform a county in the north
western part of the state that due
to their negligence in allowing their
obligations to go in temporary de
fault we were unable to grant them
a loan to meet their running ex
penses in anticipation of the collec
tion of taxes.
"I am quite sure that if you will
j continue your efforts along this line
it will be the means of placing our |
North Carolina municipal bonds up
on a high credit basis in the general
municipal markets.”
Venable Case Thrown Out.
Asheville, July 21. —The case
against R. C. Venable, 25-year-old
traveling salesman, who was arreeted
last Sunday on a charge of kidnap
ing and conspiring to kidnap a pretty
16-year-old shop girl of this city, was I
thrown out of court by Magistrate
C. F. Summer this morning for lack
of convincing evidence. The kidnap
ing occurred last Friday night, ac
cording to the charge.
Bench Goslin For Indifferent Work.
'Washington, July 21.—“ Goose"
Goslin, heavy hitting outfielder of the
Washington Americans, has been
benched without pay for an indefinite
period by Manager Harris for indiffer
ent playing.
The "Goose” was withdrawn from
the lineup in the second inning of the
first game of today’s double header
with Detroit. Goslin's place as clean
up hitter in the batting order was
recently given to Buddy Myer, re
cru't shortstop, and Goslin was drop
ped & notch.
GOVERNMENT COST j
LAST FISCAL YEAR I
( 10WED INCREASE!
f/ ’I
The Increase Was $53,344,-
427 Over Previous Year*
Figures Just Announced !
! Show.
! '
ARMY AND NAVY
GOT LESS CASH
But Other Department* j
Showed Increase.—Vet*
erans Bureau Spent Btf ,
Sum.
Washington, July 22. —C4*>—The 3
actual cost of the government Inkt 1
fiscal year ended June 30 increased
$53,344,427 over the previous /year, to
talling $3,584,987,873, it was sfco*n
in the itemized list of expenditures
made public by the Treasury.
Ordinary expenditures itnounm to
$3,007,511,822. un increase of $34.-
506.400. The cost of the public debt
accounted for the remainder of <*-
penditures. $487,376,050, an inomise
of $20,837,037.
The War and Navy Departments
j made the principal reductions, \v4ltle
| the Department of the Interior. Uahor
I and Agriculture also showed decrefts
j cd expenditures.
War Department expenditures were
$6,800,000 less than a year ago, to
talling $355,072,225; while Xavy edsts
were $33,500,000 less than a year flfo,
amounting to $301,758,049.
The Veterans Bureau was the moat
costly government establishment, to*
quiring $404,602,185 compared W 0&
$384,715,796 a year ago. The cost of
the adjusted service certificate fnud
amounted to $120,152,238, compared
with $99,458,769 the previous year.
Campaign For Bryan Memorial ttol
versity Opens in Western N. P.
Asheville, N. C.. July 22. —With
Gallatin Roberts, ex-ma.vor of Ashe
ville, prominent attorney, and life-long
friend and admirer of William .Teh
nings Bryan, as chairman, and a spon
soring committee of fifty prominent
Asheville citizens, the Asheville cam
paign for the establishment of Bry
an Memorial University at Dayton,
Tenn., was launched here today.
In accepting the chairmanship of
the campaign, Mr. 1 ' Roberts stated
that he had been keehcTy Interested in '
the project to memorialize the life,
character and teachings of the great
Commoner by the establishment of a
Christian college in our Southeastern
mountains since 'its inception, and
that he welcomes the opportuu : ty to
have a part in presenting the mattet
to the citizens here.
Headquarters for the Western North
Carolina campaign, which is to cover
twenty-five counties in the western
part of the state, have been opened at
90 Patton Avenue. The quota for
Western North Carolina is fifty thou
sand Dollars, twenty-five thousand dol
lars being expected of Asheville. The
objective of the national campaign is
$5,000,000, half of which will be used
for building and half for endowment.
F. E. Robinson, president of the
Bryan Memorial University Associa
tion of Dayton. Tenn.. stated recent
ly that although campaigns have
been waged so far in parts of only
two states, Tennessee and Florida,
subscriptions in hand now total, al
most half a million dollars. A site of
eighty-one beautifully wooded acres
was recently accepted by the associa
tion for the building of the university,
I This' was one of five sites offered the
; association for this purpose and was
the one unanimously recommended by
a committee of leading Tennessee edu
cators who made an inspection of the
site.
»
Boy Keeps After Money.
(By International News Service)
Camden, Ark., July 22. —When al
leged fake radium eye specialists
fleeced his parents out of $1,200, Ber
ry Murphy, Camden youth, got
Soon two suspects were arrested in
Kansas City. Before the youth and
officers could arrive there, they had
been freed through a court procedure.
Not long afterwards two men and
a woman were arrested iu Fort
Worth, Texas.
Through an error in the requisi
tion papers, Gov. Ferguson refused de
livery of the prisoners to Camden au
thorities. Berry Murphy was still
on their trail.
In Fort Worth, attorneys for the
trio offered young Murphy return of
the money. Berry took $l,lOO and
a promise of the other $3,90, which
included the amount of his expenses,
and returned home. The tro are still
in custody but probably will] not be
returned here.
Fears His Wife Kidnaped or Victim
of Ot|»er Tragedy.
Asheville, July 21. —Fears that
his pretty young wife had been kid
naped or had met some other tragic
fate in Asheville were expressed to
day by Joseph E. Wood nick, of Or
lando, Fla., who in te’egranw to the
Times asked the aid of police, news
papersand citizens in locating the
woman. The last word received from
her was on last Friday, Mr. Wocd
nick said. She is supposed to be
alone.
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday.
Local bundershowers Friday and in
west portion late tonight. Not so
warm Friday, Gentle to moderate
southwest winds.
NOTT"