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by drawing on his
of words, and hisj
nf Seplolllher 14. ;
days insofar as!
Hfcr, \v;w little ohangod
K, biit .'enrolling
movements
■ppm ilie Hall home |
da* double killing 1
.-\|i.'d:i ion out of |
IB'd night being to
~ do* ehi.ivh to ,
H jM-vt rector.
|B<nilii!it. lie finally loft
in ,1 .lurry of polite j
■ti :.v wishes of t’ao
H' - Mr. Simpson’s |
njaniiiiation of most 1
and some tos- j
had apparently j
■ but Wil-!
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saniothing of
lawyer or wit- |
niurtosy a< the ox- |
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Asks a
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appeal i.f the North i
■bn association for}
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Bmitlierie.x eliildron in
for -their rare.
iiie needs of these
■*! heroine tiresome to
H, 1 * those who a ft* willing
■fc ill this beautiful C)-
BJ : u l'! M *rt of a needed
■"'•'■J'l philanthropy.”
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association, in is- j
he collected otl \
through churches, j
f,r !'i.anage'' directly, j
Hoi' of the earn-|
'lint!'* da-y. more if j
I's-s if a day's'
m'- 1 lie appeal '
, r, fi he for equip
|Br‘ ,llt! " !l ' and for the
|B*^ i ' :ii ! | !r*'ii in them.
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,IB,m 'v , ‘alili of ours
■J^ 1 ' »f orphan chil
■ deserving, who
a !’l"' | l for life unless.
B ': :,N * Hie siieltering
i:: ' iir °n>han
Defends
pUFIST ELEMENT
tan7i'°r of American
I l'y Ignorance of
[ r>°' ( ' Lucia
, 0s °i>. who is in this
r s sppechp *
I 1 tod;iy that the
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law r r ' ain Xvli y R he is
,ls a substitute for
1 that she did
lot * r f f “ n a nd women
• e fj 1 ler and pacifists
lnt ßU)rnm pPO ple. bQt
JU the matter in
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a little later.
THE CONCORD TIMES
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
Officials Say That Otto Wood
‘ Wrote His Way to Freedom”
Raleigh. Nov. 24.— (>P) —“He wrote
his way to freedom" siged State prison
officials immediately after it became
known ibat Otto Woqd. North Caro
lina's most notorious criminal, had
, escaped again.
I "His book, The True Story of My
Life.* was responsible for it." they
answered, and went on to explain.
Wood, like many desperadoes, has a
pleasing personality and a most dis
arming approach. Visitors at the
1 prison were hatxl to convince when told
* that the pleasant appearing young
man confined in the narrow limits of
■ a cell on “death row" was the prison's
farm-famed "bad man."
Tt was this personality, transmitted
j through his book, that gained him an
audience with the prison board and
his eventual release from solitary oon
i finement. His book gained a circula
tion of more than 500 copies, and in
; addition to giving the lonely occupant
;of vdeajth row" wide publicity, brought
him also funds, which it has been
hinted, might have been used in his
most recent break for freedom.
]u his book. Wood declared he had
, reformed and he roa ized the best
course for a prisoner was to beUavo
himself and serve out his term.
That was the idea he got across
with the prison board, and on Sep
tember 14:h. over the protests of Su
perintendent George Ross Pou and
Major Hugh Love, assistant superin-*
tendent. he was released from the im
pregnable walls of "dfath row" to the
freedom of the back yard and a day
time job as fireman in the prison boil- 1
er room.
"He'll get away again,” Superin
tendent Pou predicted, reflecting upon
me other twp successful dashes for
freedom engineered by the Guilford
county murderer.
Withing two days of the anniver
sary of his escape last year. Wood
was gone again. Last year he got j
away by hiding in concrete culvert and
being hauled out of the prison walls, j
This time he is thought to have en- j
gineered a deal either directly with a
: prison guard or with outside f .ielp. j
Last time he left a note telling prison j
authorities that he was going put
for the holidays. This time he left
just prior to the holidays but. without
the formality of leaving a note.
“Otto had reformed only on paper.” 1
Superintendent Pou said. “He couldn’t
resist' the impulse to make a break." I
The prison head was absolved of all
REPRIEVES ARE GRANTED
TO NEGRO PRISONERS.
Robert Lumpkin and Booker Williams
Saved From Electric Chair.
Raleigh. Nov. 24.—0?)—Robert
Lumpkin. and Booker T. Williams,
negroes, sentenced to die on Friday
for murder, were reprieved today by
Governor McLean until January 2nd.
The reprives were announced by Par
don Commissioner Sink.
, The negroes were .convicted of the
murder on December 26, 1925, of B.
M. Rodgers, chief of police of the
town of Rowland, Robeson county.
In announcing the stay of execution
Air. Sink said that an investigation
of the case had convinced the gover
nor that the negroes were guilty of
the killing but further investigation
was desired to determine “whether the
evidence as to premeditation is strong
enough to warrant the death penal
ty." Certain witnesses in the ease
cannot be located at present, and Mr.
Sink plans to question them further
between now’ and the execution date.
PREDICTS NATION WILL BE
AT WAR IN SIX MONTHS
Lieut. Col. W. A. Fair fells Hickory
Guardsmen They May as Well Get
Ready.
Hickory, Not. 23.—Upholding a
prophetic reputation that saw him
safely through predictions of the
Mexican trouble and the World War.
Lieutenant Colonel Warren A. Fair,
of Lincolnton, a member of the officers
reserve corps, told members of the
local guard unit at a banquet here
last night that “you may expect to
see active service within six months
as a result of the trouble in Central
! America. Col. Fair said plainly that
jhe was predicting war which would
| involve the United States, although
1 he went no further than that, nor did
he name the powers with which the
country would engage in warfare.
The remainder of his.ta-k before
the guard members was in denuncia
tion of the plan which h&s stripped
the standing army of the United
States to a mere shadow.
Money to Lend to Fanners.
Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 22. Mon
ey to lend.”
This is the slogan of the Alabama
Cotton Finance Corporation, organized
by leading bankers and business men
to save farmers of the state from con-
ditions brought by an overproduction
of cptton.
Oscar Wells, president of the First
National Bank, has charge of loaning
the money on cotton. The cotton is
stored in a warehouse for a period not
to exceed 24 months and tfie growers
take a pledge to reduce their cotton
acreag at least 25 per cent, next year.
Farmers are advanced three-fourths (
of the value.of their cotton and retain
one-fourth ownership of the product
until it is marketed nert year. I
This will enable farmers to get a
much better price for the ex
perts say.
The New Dance, “The Caroline.”
New Orleans, La., Nov. 22. The
Charleston has met its nemesis.
It’s a new dance, “The Caroline.”
Harry Carroll, song composer and
producer of musical revues, who has
started the new daye believes it will
sweep the country with as much pop
ularity as the Charleston.
' b amc for the escape immediately it
. was made public by James A. Leak.
' chairman of the hoard o( f directors.
He called up from his home? in Wades-
I boro and to!d newspapermen that all
j the blame lay with the board. Later
he dictated a formal siatement which
reads:
i “I w ish to public y absolve Super
intendent George Ross Pou and Chief
C.'crk Imve. of any responsibility in
connection with the escape. After
Wood's escape and subsequent recap
ture last November Superintendent j
Pou directed that he be placed in soli- I
(ary confinement and that every move j
be exercised to prevent his escape.!
Ibis was done and Wood remained
in solitary confinement until Septem
ber 14.1926, at which time he was re
leased by direction of the board of
directors of the Sttato's prison over
the vigorous protests of Superintend
ent Pou and Chief Clerk Love.
“T'.ie matter of his release hail come
before the board of directors at its
August meeting, but on account of the
very earnest protest of the #superin
tendent action was deferred and Wood
remained in solitary confinement. The
question again came before the board
at its September meeting at which
time, as stated above, the board di
rected that Wood be released from
solitary eonliement and given the free
dom of the baek yard of tin* prison.
1 This action of the board was opposed
by Superintendent Pou. Wood was
given the freedom of the baek yaVd
and assigned to work in Lie boiler
I room, where it was fe't that he could
!be watched better by the guards. The
reason the board favored his release
from solitary confinement was on
purely humane grounds, as we felt
his health and mind would become
impaired by continuous solitary con
finement. No blame whatsoever can
be attached to the superintendent. The
responsibility rests entirely upon the
board of directors, as Wood was ro
! leased over the continuous protest of
| Superintendent Pou.”
Immediately following his escape
j information was broadcast and a r°-
! ward of $250 offered for his recap
ture.
Wood began his sentence on De
cember 17, 1923. He was sent up
front Guilford county with a term of
from 22 1-2 to 30 years for the mur
der of A. W. Kaplan, a Greensboro ,
pawnbroker.
COTTON SPINDLEvS ACTIVE
IN NORTH CAROLINA
There Were 6,094,958 in the State
on October 31st.
Raleigh. AT. (\. Nov. 23. (A 3 )—
There were 0.094.05 S cotton spinnrn®
spindles ill place in North Carolina
on October 31, 5.549.95 S of which
were in actual operation a-t some j
time during the month, according t >
figures just released by the United
States Department of Commerce. The
active spindle hour average, based
upon spindle in place, was 307.
North Carolina was second onty to
one state In the Union, Massa- j
chussetts, in point of spindles in J
place and active spindleage. The !
New England state led with a rota! |
in p’aee of 11.365.594. of which S.-
439.394 were in operation during the
month. Average active spindle hours
per spindle in place was calculated
at 145. or 162 less than North Caro
lina's. the government statistics in
dicate.
Although Massachusetts had a
total of 8.430.394 spindles in opera
tion at some time during the month
of October, as against 5.849.958 m
North Carolina, the New England
state tallied a lower average of j
active spindle hours per spindle in j
place by reason of its greater tot**’, j
spindleage-
South Carolina achieved a higher
rating of efficiency in its spinning
operations for the month than any
other state in the Union, with in
average active spinning hour mark'
of 317, this figure a’so being nniv
ed at on a ‘basis of spindles in place.
South Carolina follows North Car
olina in number of spindles in place
with a total of 5.361.350, the iwo
-dates having a greater comb ned
spindleage than any three other
states in the Union outside of New
England.
I “Dragon” Dead.
| N*w York. Nov. 22.—Indigestion
Sunday killed the remaining “dra
gon’ of the pair brought here in Sep
tember from the volcanic island of
I Komondo, near Java. He was call* <1
the Veranus Komodoensis and was
proclaimed the largest member of
the fizard family in existence.
Known for his ferocity, he will
go the valhalla of dead monsters,
'the American Museum of Natural
1 History. _
• The other lizard died a month ago
\ of starvation.
With Our Advertisers.
Christmas hose for men. silk plaids
and rayon mixed, at ,T. C. Penney
Co.’s at only 40 cents.
A wonderful sale of rugs is now
going on at the Parks-Belks Co.’s.
The Parks-Belk Co. will take up
nil suear tiekets between now’ and
January Ist. After that time they
till be void, sugar at S cents a
pound with tickets.
« „ “ I>on ’ t bll
i the Wife.”
Production has begun on Don t
Tell the Wife” the «c° n
Paul L. Stein is directmg for War
ner Bros. Irene Rich an :
.Gordon will share stellar honors i
this photoplay which is being P _
' ized from the internationally famous
play, “Cyprienne,” by Victoria njsar
dou, the distinguished French ’
tist. Lilyan Tashman has been signert
tV> play an important role m
1 picture.
CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1926
DANIELS WITNESS
IT THE DOHENY
AND FILLS TRIAL
Savs No Oil Leases Were
Granted During Time He
Served as Secretary of
j the Navy.
i HOLDING BIGGEST
GUNS IN RESERVE!
So Far Prosecution Has!
Brought Out Only the'
History of Oil Reserves
Now in Dispute.
Washington. Nov. 24. — (A 3 ) —With
its biggest artillery still in reserve,
the prosecution in tho Fall-Doheny
•»il oonsp'racy case continued today
its tedious preliminary barrage of «ta
* is; ics and geological data concerned"
in- tin* Elk Hills naval oil lease.
A prospect tha the day mighii
bring to the wit notes stand Senator I
Walsh of Montana, and Senators
Smoot and I .enroot served to cast in
to deep shadow the dry and dusty de
tails with which the morning session
began. Josephus Daniels also waq a
witness.
By the testimony of the four the
government hoped not only to further
strengthen the chain of evidence re
garding administration of the oil re
serves before they were transferred to
the Interior Department, but also to
strike directly into the circumstances
under wlrch it first became known be
fore the Senate committee that the
defendant Edward L. Dohen.v made a
SIOO,OOO payment to the defendant
Albert B. Fall, while the latter head
ed the Interior Department, and be
fore the Dohen.v interests received the
lease to Elk Hills.
Much of the morning session was
taken up with identification and read
ing of papers relating to the Doheny
Pearl Harbor oil storage contract ami
Elk Hills lease.
In the midst of the presentation of
documentary evidence. Josephus Dan
als was called to the stand, but oe-!
copied it but a minute.
The former Naval Secretary said!
he was in the Wilson cabinet from j
March 4. 1913, to Match 4, 1921,
“Were any leases to drill oil onj
yarn! reserve No. 1 (Elk Hills) issued*
during that thneV" asked government T
counsel.
“None.”
“Were there any applications for j
leases?”
“Yes.”
"But none was granted?”
“No.”
“You mny cross examine him," said
Owen J. Roberts, government coun
sel.
"We have nothing to ask." replied
Frank J. Hogan, Doheny's chief
counsel.
Will E. Harris, one of the owners
of the ranch adjoining Fall’s at Three
Rivers, N. M., testified that the Har
rs ranch was bought by Fall early
in December 1921. Fall paving $lO.-
000 in cash to bind the bargain.
"In what denominations were the
bills?" asked former Senator Pome
renc for the government.
“I think they all wore SIOO bills,
in two packages of $5,000 each.”
Harris said Fall had the money in
“a small hand bag.” That was the
only cash that passed in the transac
tion, the other payments totalling
$81,500, being by check.
Pomerene produced a cheek for
$16,000, dated December 21. 1921, and
payable to Harris. The witness said
it was given him by Fall in payment
for cattle on the ranch.
ANOTHER COTTON MILL
PLANS TO COME SOUTH
Textile Concerns Are Leaving New
England States in Interest of Econ
omy.
Ware, Mass., Nov. 23. —Adding to
a long list of recent changes in the
textile situation in New England, the
Otis company of Ware today an
nounced a plan for closing t'heir plant
here and removing manufacture to
the South. The project will be sub
mitted to the stockholders for ratifi
cation on December Gth.
Reduction of manufacturing costs
to meet southern competition was
given as the principal reason for the
removal.
Within the last month a number of
consolidations of textile companies
have been made public with economy
in production as the goal.
Recently the Nashua Manufacturing
Company purchased the plant of the
Tremont aud Suffolk mills in Lowell
and details of ja merger between the
Pepperell Manufacturing Company
and the Massachusetts Cotton Mills
were made public. Last month the
Jenckes-Manville Company of Rhode
Island c’.osed its Nourse bill at Woon
socket and moved the machinery to
units already in operation in the
South.
The plant of the Quidniek-Wind
ham company at Willimantic was
closed in October, and the announce
ment reason was the inroads of south
ern competition.
Charged With Stealing Hose.
(By International News Service)
Durham, Nov. 24.—Charged with
1 “lifting” a pair of 25-eent men's hose
- from a department store, Mrs. Rosa
< Bowen, is in jail here. Her case
- has been continued until November
- 24th.
1
s Idle curiosity i* probably the
. busiest thing on earth-
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John Easton, son of Mrs. Jane
Gribson, star witness in the
Ball-Mills murder trial at
Somerville, N. J., attended
sourt when his mother testi
fied from her sick bed. /
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LG. M. AUSTIN SAYS HE
IS NOT AFRAID OF OTTO
yMaii. Who Married " Prisoner’s Di
vorced Wife Says He is Hunting
For Him.
Winston-Salem. Nov. 23. — In J
i North Carolina today there it-; one
man who is not afraid of Oito Wood j
and that man is G. M. (Red) Auk- j
tin, who married the wife of the j
state's “famous bad man.”
Austin came to Winston-Salem to
day not only to see his wife, who is
a patient at a local hospital, but al
so to see Otto if he happened to be
about here. "The guards at the slate
prison may be afraid of Otto. but.
besides not 'being afraid of him, I
am out hunting for him. I want to
see him.” Austin told newspaper
men.
Austin married Mrs. Wood after
sin* had received a divorce from Otto,
and they now have one child- About
a year ago Otto made one of his es
capes and came here obviously
hunting his former wife and Mr.
Austin, who at the time were at Dau
vil’e. where Austin was employed
with a construction company. It is
understood that Otto said freely that
his former wife and her husband
were hiding from him and made
numerous threats as to what he
would do if he found them, and know
ing that, Austin made it a point to
come here tonight, as he learned Ot
to . was out again.
“But after all,” said Austin, “my
thoughts are on my wife who is
critically ill. It’s her first. If Otto
conies I will take care of that, but I
am'thinking first of her who is the
mother, of my baby.”
Local newspapermen .eceived a
tip today that Wood was here. The
tip came from a woman who su'd
she didn’t want her identity dis
closed. hut that she knew positively
that Wood arrived here thus morning
at 5 o'clock.
Reporters supplied this informa
tion to the police and a search was
instituted. A squad headed by Cap
tain Jenkins was dispatched to the
address given. Wood was not there-
It is not doubted, however, th it
Wood did come to the Twin Cily,
and police are on the watch for him.
Panama Flight Planes Make Progress.
Key West, Fla., Nov. 24. — UP) —
The Panama flight planes were 210
miles south of Cuba at 8:10 a. m.
today, it was reported to the naval
radio station here by wireless.
FOOTBALL SCORES
WILL BE RECEIVED
FOR LOCAL FANS
Football fans who for various
reasons must remain at home to
morrow can keep up with the prog
ress of the North Carolina teams
through Associated Press reports
to be received by The Daily Trib
une.
Scores by quarters will be re
ceived from the State-Wake For
est, Davidson-Duke and Caxolina-
Virginia games. These scores will
be posted at the Times-Tribune of
fices for the benefit of patrons and
friends of the papers. The games
will begin at 2:30 and reports of
the results should begin coming
here about 3 :15.
I. :
DEMOCRATS NOT TO :
NAME SMITH, SAYS i
HCONGRESSMAN
“Not the Ghost of Chance
j for A1 Smith,” Says WiJ
| liam D. Upshaw, in In-
I terview Given in City.
| HIS NOMINATION
WILL BE FOUGHT
j Should He Be Nominated,;
| Says Militant Dry Lead
er, Voters of the Nation
Would Not Accept Him.
“Not the ghost of a ehanee for A1
Smit’.i,” said Hon. William I). Up
shaw, member of ('ongress from Geor- j
gia, and ntiiitnnt dry leader, here to- :
day. i
“This is my deliberate conviction
after having traveled over several
! states since the ejection and having
felt the pulse of all classes, especial-1
ly the Democrats who are deeply in- j
forested in victory at the next elec
tion.
“Everybody, of course, recognizes
the remarkable personality of Alfred
E. Smith, and his more than romarka-;
ble series of political triumphs, but •
>ve might ns we'.l look t’ae thing,
straight in the face—the Democratic ;
party is not going to sell its soul I
for-a mess of pottage, even if the pot
tage were assured, but the nomination
|of a man. who. as governor of the |
i great state of New York, led his state.
| legis’ature to secede from the union— '
j that part of it represented by the j
18th amendment —would be nothing
less than a red flag iri the faces of
the great sober God-fearing masses of
America, who fought for the dethrone- \
! ment of the liquor traffic through ac- j
tive generation of consecrated pa-1
triotic purpose.
“To the question often asked me. j
‘would you, would the South, support.
A1 STnith were he nominated for the
presidency?’ I give always the uni-j
Wrsaljanswer— “That I am too busy:
fighting t’ae wet cause, which A1 Smith
champions, to be taking up time an- ■
swering hypothetical questions—first.!
the Democratic party has too much
sense to nominate A1 Smith or any
other wet, and second, if the lead
ers were to lose their heads and sur
render to the damp sophistries, which
I'ttied in San Francisco uifii New
York. they would meet a more crush-1
j ing defeat in 1028 than the defeat j
J which followed the folly of San Fran-j
j cisco and the tragedy of Madison
! Square Garden. !
j “I have not changed my position
I one jot or tittle from my declaration ;
oh the floor of Congress on the ninth
of January, nearly four years ago, j
when I served notice on the genial j
governor of New York and all the!
‘damp’ crowd who train with him,
‘that he, nor any other “wet”, will ever
roll into the White House on a beer
keg or a wine barrell’,” the Georgia
congressman said.
SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT
ENJOYABLE OCCASION
I
Congressman W. D. Upshaw, of Geor
gia, Makes Interesting Address
Filled With Wit on the Subject of!
“Schools and Fools,”
A most enjoyable time was passed j
by those who attended the entertain
ment given Tuesday evening at the
High School for the benefit of the
athletic association. From the be
ginning to the end the program was
entertaining. The musical selections
given by the High School orchestra
and High School students were en- j
ioyed and the address given by Hon. i
William D. Upshaw, congressman from !
Georgia, who had for his “ subject
“Schools and Fools”, was an address
with a lesson to be learned from it
and at the same time it was given!
with the usual touch of wit that Con-1
I gressmaq Upshaw puts in his mes- j
sages.
Congressman Upshaw’s address was
a combination of wholesome education
al ideals, good natured railery, pul- j
verizing sarcasm, concerning the aim- j
less fool, the selfish fool, the unpro- J
gressive Tool, the litterized fool and
the Godless fool.
The speaker began with a graphic
comparison between the city and coun
try fool, weaving into his lecture some
amusing personal experiences of his
on the farm and paying tribute to the :
country boy who works day in and
day out in partnership wit the God
of nature and who often comes t»
the city with his dower of, stalwart ’
character and worthy ideals to be
a leader in the affairs of the city,
the state and the nation.
Perhaps the greatest fun of the eve
ning came in making a comparison j
between the educated fool, the igno
rant fool, and the unprogressive fool. !
Congressman Upshaw told a story
near the beginning of his lecture;
I about riding a country mule to town
i to attend a Fourth of July picnic and i
I how. being disgusted at the splurging
display of a certain “smart aleck"
with a cigarette stuck in the corner
of his mouth at an angle of 45 de
grees, he determined then and there
to celebrate the Fourth of July from
a not only grateful memory of our
Revolutionary fathers, but he de
clared his own dependence from the
thaldrom (?) of a cigarette.
The speaker then said seriously to
t’ae boys and girls: “Young America
while I do not wish to be foolish con
cerning the cigarette habit on the part
of some worthy men, I am frank to
say to you that I hardly believe I
’l would be a member of Congress today
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
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Mrs. Lintom Orman is chiel
of the London Special Patrol
of British Fascists, which, at
a Fascisti meeting at St. Pan
oras Baths, threw out a!
women not agreeing wit
speakers.
(International Newsreel!
LEONID KRASSIN IK *
DEAD AT HIS POST
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j Was Russian Charge D'Affaires in i
London.—Had Been 111 Several j
Months.
London, Nov. 24. — UP) —Leonid j
j Krassin. Russian soviet charge d’af-1
faires in London, died at 4 o’clock !
i this morning from pernicious anae-j
j min.
Blood transfusions made over ape
: r ! o<l of several months failed to.save
j him, but of late he' hat) appeared in
! good spirits, and his death came as a
, shock to his friends.
The death of M. Krassin will not in
terrupt any important negotiations
with Great Britain. >. - -
Only last week he visited the for
eign office- si u.
! solve the problem of bolshevik propa
ganda which Foreign Secretary Cham
! berlain told the House of Commons
was keeping Great Britain and soviet
Russia apart. Mr. Chamberlain added
Lint he had been informed by the
i charge that the soviet government
would welcome better relations with
Great Britain and that he had re-
I plied that Moscow first must cease
! communists propaganda against the
I British empire.
Man Leaps From Washington Monu
ment and Binds His Life.
Washington. Nov. 22. —For th'*
: second time in 00 hours the Wash
! ington monument was the scene to
j day of n suicide.
B- Ward, crawled through the
j iron bars at a window near the top
| of the structure and jumped 500 feet
i to the pavement. A fcimilnr leap was
1 taken Saturday morning by an in
j mate of soldiers hospital here.
Officia’s are planning to reinforce
: the gratings placed at the windows
several years ago.
Some people are born good ; others
make good.
if I had not gained the mastery of
j my poweFon that historic Fourth
of July.”
He pled for a keener civic con
sciousness concerning the real value
of boys and girls, declaring that every
brick building, every bank and every
j monufacturin)? enterprise in Concord
would have no value if they were not
1 loyal to the social unit of the boy and
girl. “All these things,” he said,
“the dollars, that will soon fall from
i our nerveless hands, the acres that
i will soon fade from our hazing vision
| only have a related value —the value
i comes from their relationship to the
: development of boys and girls who
are,” the speaker declared, “The to
morrow of the republic.”
In an impassioned conclusion, the
Georgia congressman urged the youth
before him to lay the foundation stone
of life’s pyramid on the Rock of Ages.
He reminded them of that Bible quo
j tation, “The fool hath said in his
heart there is no God,? and he de
clared with great feeling “that both
! education and money are worse than
failures unless those who have them
remember that education without re
ligion and character are like a flower
without fragrance—like a statue with
• out a soul.”
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QUEEN MAIRE AND
CHILDREN SAIL FOR
RUMANIAN HOME
New York, Nov. 24. — UP) —
Queen Marie of Rumania with
Princess Ileana and Prince Nirti
olas, sailed for Bucharest today,
cutting short the American tour
to return to the bedside of King
Ferdinand. Before the Berengaria.
bearing the royal party sailed, some
200 persons were received in the
royal suite, and the farewell cheers
. j of_otber hundreds crowded on the
' pier were acknowledged by the
* | royal visitors from the deck.
POLICE SEEK CLUE
111 SOLVING DEATH
i OF L, C. FORSYTH
Body Left at Filling Sta*
tion at Garner by Per
sons Who Asked Propri
etor to Bring Physicians,
LEFT THE BODY
AND DROVE OFF
Robert Separks Said to Be
One of Men in Car With
Body.—Gang ; Warfare
May Have Caused Death
Raleigh, Nov. 24. —( A >). —Mystery
surrounds the death of L. C. (Mighty)
Forsyth, 24 years old, near here last
night, as police returned empty-hand
ed from the search for his alleged
slayer. Two conflicting theories as
to t’lie manner of his death were ad
vanced. t rj
Forsyth was brought to a local hos
pital at 3 o'clock this morning, but
was found to be dead. ' His body had
been unloaded from a touring car at
a Garner road filling station, with a
plea to Paul King, the proprietor, to
hurry him to a hospital here. The
occupants of the touring car said they
were out of gasoline, but when po
lice went back to look for them neigh
bors who had been aroused by the
turmoil said that the gasless car had
sped away soon after King's ear left
for Raleigh with the body. They said
it, too. headed toward the capital
city.
King said that the car was occu
pied by two men and a woman, Ho
said he recognized one of flic men as
Robert Separks, but did not know the
other man or the woman. Separks is
wanted by police in several eastern
North Carolina cities for alleged li
quor trafficking and laying smoke
screens.
Police also had associated Forsyth
with an eastern Carolina rum ring,
and regarded it as possible that he w’fls
a victim of gang warfare. The other
theory is that he came to his death
by falling from the car. His skull
was crushed in such a manner as to
support the latter theory.
HIGHWAY 10 ROUTE
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Second Injunction Halts Work Con
templated by State Highway Com
mission.
Raleigh, Nov. 24. —t4>)—Injunction
proceedings arose here this morning
to thwart for the second time the de
signs of the State highway commis
sion of constructing the link of high
way Route 10 which leads through the
town of Newton. The legal barrier
to letting the contract was served on
Commissioner Frank Page just prior
to the time set for the opening of bids
on the project.
The injunction was served for the
same plaintiffs who last spring suc
cessfully blocked the highway com
mission from constructing the States
ville-Newton link in accordanee with
engineers' recommendation. They are:
The Town of Newton and a number
of its citizens. The injunction was
obtained from Judge P. A. McElroy.
at Hickory, and is returnable before
Judge W. F. Harding at Lenoir on
December 3rd. Accompanying the
injunction papers was notice of an
application for a writ of mandamus
to force the highway commission to
build the road in accordance with the
recent decision of the Supreme Court.
The injunction sets forth that the
present route leaving Statesville and
running north of the Catawba River
through Claremont and Catawba and
then south into Newton at its new
court house, is not in accordance with
the dictates of the supreme tribunal.
W. C. Feimster and Wilson War
lick, attorneys of Catawba county,
were here today representing (he
plaintiffs. The legal action, however,
did not interfere with opening the
bids which were being compiled by
Acting Highway Engineer Leslie 11.
Ames early this afternoon.
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THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Barely Steady, at Decline of
l_to 8 Points, With Active Months
Rallying Later.
New* York, Nov. 24. — UP) —The cot
ton market opened barely steady to
day at a decline of 1 to 8 points, with
near months relatively easy on liquida
tion incident to the circulation of the
first December notices. There was al
so scattered selling of later deliveries
promoted by relatively easy Liverpool
cables, but after selling off to
December rallied to 12.30, w’hile Jan
uary advanced from 12.40 to 12.40.
Spot house brokers were buyers of
December against sales of later de
liveries, absorbing the" early liquida
tion. and the steadiness of the near
months evidently helped the tone of
' the general market in the early trnd-
I ing.
Cotton futures opened barely steady.
! Dec. 12.35; Jan. 12.41: March 12.05;
May 12.85; July 13.09.
Some get into touch with departed
spirits through a medium—others
through a bootlegger.
THE WEATHER
Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday,
co'.der Thursday. Moderate south
west shifting to northwest and north
winds.
NO. 42