lime LI
HIM
,Blocks in (he Ten
e Capital Covered
bv Overflow From
'umberland River.
,gS OF LIFE
pORTEO SO FAR
Flood Area Were
ted in Time and
\ re Occupying All
3 of Homes.
r, r , I :»*.-<#>—
-
% r . i,r -: ti»‘ ■•u.nb.'rilnd
L 4 swept through the
Vashville's lowlands.
*port«l !*»- '*■ *>»e
n uit.ee of the ei r tad
to whatever hom* they
» anil private W- >■*«
« ppm ■» *««*'*"•
w . aß ,i mow th-n.vs carry
urnitvrf ,0 niaki*-.iiu places
auiber’.unl
jikiDjr the ls s 2 watermark
rjj fee:, and early today
[families were hurriedly pre
i abandon their homes,
iteheiis have been opened for
jnd charity organizations i
r in relief work. North
s waterbouml. as well as
[d section, ami South Nash- 1
ih,;. Water menaced the
Irtn-k section near the state
[ I
k 1.700 persons from the
bve Ik*cii deprived of t’lieir
L rising waters. Guesses
prejoity damage are un-
UviiT throughout Tonnes
ppi and Kentucky showed
improvement in the flood
ri,v iany of the smaller!
breached their flood crest.
j|an<l. Tennessee. Ohio and
trv continued to rise,
t Miss., is in the clutches
Ist flood-known in many ,
tljc adjutant general of ,
ad disioitched a plane to
Juki fn n-M fie- wortr"’ '
XT STARTED,
r KINSTON FOR SMITH
M a “Smith” to the Pres*
Imcy. They Say.
national News Service)
Dec. ill. —A movement hns
iin tliis section to elect
lo the presidency in 1028.
beginning when it was
[one member of the Smith
peech made recently, and
its of the well known fam
len |ip the movement in
tie to ..elect a Smith to
ry." said the spokesman,
at the Jones and Browns
been represented in the
lias nothing to do with
re mil ions of Smiths in
ami they have been un
to? for other people of
fc i«a century and a half, j
usd ic ogtiitiou."
** cuirmous number of
are i.i be found listed in
■Cries and telephone books
M v m th** United States.
' '" v " i impossible that such
111 « ou’.d b,» had.
lesin.n is—i 1(lW i on g would
ie Jmie . I’.o.wns and Itob
get togfibor for the same
’ ‘ '
May Re l-ed on Thea- |
i» New York.
i ,,r 2b.—Padlocking l
lt,:ar s bow salacious plays '
* a Possibility by District
today in discussing
Liter > conference with
® e exurissed the opinion,
the citizens’ play jury
fben further trial before j
■i in favor of political
Fs only comment to
P 1 yesterday when be
if he believed the pluy
'ailiiif was •‘tigure it out
This was just after he
Mo ((inference'with pro
r“'°h he had said political
was inevitable unlews the
® f ‘ n themselves i minedi
. <hc mate of immorality,
agreed to do so.
ijqnor. \ ot Wood Alcohol,
by Detroiter,
db.— -Raw m j liquor’’
MH . n lc"h<d is causing the
s “-km-ss among holiday
r<l l'r. A. Vaukhan,
declared to-dav. Five
1 Detroit.
1 »aid tests made bv his
Scaled that 'little
‘'! r ls !j, ‘iug sold, but that
t'limr consumed here is
after being manufac
s almost as bad a6
1 persons including eight
e r ? f atPf * at t^ie receiving
Im diS. acute alcobolism .
RU-hi. , M Cath
-1 have returned from
<L bo > W several
01 -MUs Ruth Ben-
THE CONCORD TIMES
>Jr , ~ -
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
SAfS HL PHARR
IS EXPRESSING
RIS OWN OPINION
I , .
Did Not Speak for Com
mission in Saying Time
! Is Not Ripe for Action
\ for Longer School Term.
I THE COMMISSION TO
MEET JANUARY 3RD
.
Then the Report of Dr.
Morrison as to His In
vestigations Will Be
Heard by Commission.
I I Tribune Bureau, *
/ Sir Walter Hole’.
] / By J. ('. Baskervill.
| IfaVigh. Dec. MO.—Consternation I
[hast been thrown into the ranks of
those, who are hoping that the iegiw-1
lature will submit the question of |
an eight months school term to a |
vote of the people, by the published i
statement of Edgar AY. Pharr, a t
member of the Educational Com
mission could not recommend this
missiion ould not recummeud this
action, on the grounds that the mem
bers of the eommi&sion felt that ”the
time is not ripe” for such action.
That Mr. Pharr must have' been
expressing his on opinion, rather
than speaking for the commission its
a whole, is the interpretation general
ly placed on his statement here, es
pecially in view of the announee
j ment made a few days ago. after the
| Inst, meeting of the commission here,
[that the commission had- not yet
taken a formal vote on any of the i
I matters before it and that the qties
[tion of the eight months school term'
I had not yet been considered by the |
entire commission, pending the re-1
l>ort of Dr. Fred M. Morrison, who
lias been compiling the special re
pot for the consideration of the
comm ission.
“The commission has taken no of
ficial nction on anything, as I an
nounced last week in a written
statement detailing the work of the
commission,” said J. O- Carr, of
Wilmington, chairman of the com
mission, .when called over long dis
tance and asked if Mr. Pharr nad
been given authority to speak for the
commission on the question of the
eight months school term. lie stated
that the (fttestioo of the eight
Term had not as vet been taken up I
formally by the commission
In the formal statement Issued by I
Mr. Carr last week at the close of a!
two days session of the commission
here, it was announced that the com
mission had gone exhaustively into
the qurstion of school financing and
possible sources of reveuue. with a
view to developing better methods of
financing the present six months
school term and with a view to ue
ve’oping avenues for additional reve
nue “should the eight months term
become a rea’ity.” But it was made
very clear that all the discussion was
purely tentative and speculative, and
that no vote bad been taken, .and [
would not be until the commission I
holds what it hopes will be its final
session here on Monday. January ,3.
At this session, the report of lsr.
Morrison dealing with the results of
his investigations into the advisabi
lity of the eight months term will be
heard and acted upon, as will the re
port of Dr. M. C. S. Noble. Jr.,
dea’ing with the training of teacners
in tbc schools of the state, past, pres- j
ent and future. Rut until these re
ports are submitted and studied, it F
impossible for the mmmission to take
any action.
Thus it is believed that the state
ment by Mr. Pharr was evidently j
misinterpreted, and that although lie j
may have given it as his opinion that i
the “lime was not ripe” for the eight
months school term, that he in no
sense was intending to speak for the
commission as a whole, since it is at
present impossible for anyone to do
so, inasmuch as the commission has
not as yet acted on the eight months
term.
A. T. Allen, state superintendent
of public instruction, declined to
make any statement with regard to
i the situation, other than to say he
i did not see how Mr. Pharr could
speak for the entire commission,
since the commission had taken no
action as yet. Mr. Alien is perhaps
the most vigorous supporter of the
eight months term, and has been
throwing all his .influence toward
having the q U stioh submitted Ito a
vote of the people in the form of a
constitutional amendment. although
he has made no effort to influence
the educational commission in Its
consideration of the question. He
with others interested in question
have been quite hopeful that the
commission, after a careful consid
eration of the question and facts
presented, would eventually . recom
mend the longer school term as one
of the vital educational needs of the
state.
But no one has been certain of
what action the commission would
take. It is true that one or two mem
bers of the commission are known id
be friendly toward the longer term
and one or two are believed to be
opposed to it. But one of the mem
bers of the commission frankly told
your correspondent Inst week thiSt
he had no idea what the attitude of
the commission as a whole would be,
and that he doubted if any of the
members had made up their minds on
the question—and that for oite, he
. did not yet just how he would vote,
until after he had heard the report
[ of Dr. Morrison.
Thus while there is undoubtedly
u (Continued on Page Five)
TR \C.EDY REFUSES
TO IJISE GRIP ON
BANK’S OFFICIALS
Memphis, Tenu.. Dec. M 0
Harry Cohn, president of the Amer
ican Savings Bank & Trust Com
pany which recently e’osed its
doors, collapsed in the bank today
and died within a few minutes.
The bank wns closed two weeko
ago after the suicide of Clarence
Henochsberg. an assistant cashier,
who before firing a bullet into his
head, told a friend that his ac
counts were $200,000 short.
Before Henoohsberg's death. \
Rush Parke, bookkeeper, had dis
appeared when examiners found
shortages of $105,000 in Parke’s
accounts. Two other clerks in
ihe closed bank were arrested on
embezzlement charges and are now
under bond.
NORTH CAROLINA
WILL KEEP PACE
With the Gigantic Expansions of
Electric Power Development.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh. Dec. MO. —With expendi
tures totalling millions of dollars in
e’ectric power development planned
for t\ie year 1927, Nohth and South
Carolina will keep pace with the gi
gantic expansions forecast for the in
dustry throughout the United States.
According to a statement received
here today from R. F. Pack, president
of the National Electric Light Asso
ciation. new capital to the amount of
$900,000,000 will be needed during
3927 for the~expansions contemplated
by industry.
In North Carolina there are at pres
ent under way three major power de
velopments which are expected to be
completed approximately within the
twelve mont'us. They are:
The Pigeon River hydro-electric
plant of the Carolina Power and Light
(.Vimpany. west of Asheville, at a cost
that has been estimated at from SIM.-
000.000 to $14.000,000.
The Norwood hydro-eleetric plant
in Stanly county by the Carolina
Power and Light Company at an es
timated oo«t of $10,000,000.
The High Rock development on the
Y’adkin River in Davidson county by
the Tallassee Power Company and the
Southern Power Company, jointly, at
an estimated cost of slf>,ooo,ooo.
In South Carolina a new $20,00,-
000 corporation lias been formed to
take over the utilities of Charleston
and to do business throughout the
state.
On the Savannah River in McCor
mick county. South Carolina, the
Southeastern Power and Light Coin
jwuiy pbm* an ultimate
of $50,000,000 lor hydro dvvolppmenL
The year just closed saw the com
pletion by the Southern Power Com
pany in record time of the 100,(KK)
horsepower steam plant at Dukeville,
near Salisbury.
Mr. Pack, in his statement, calls
attention to the completion of three
great “super j>ower” interconnections
in the west and the northwest. Dur
ing 1927, the two Carolinas, wbiclv
for four years have been included in
the great southeastern "super power"
system will see themselves linked with
the east and the northwest in an un
broken connection! from the Great
Lakes to Florida and Texas. From
Roxboro, North Carolina, to Danville,
Virginia, there is now building the
only remaining link of that sectiona.
inter-connection. The Carolina Pow
er and Light Company will be the
medium of connection between North
and South Carolina.
VAN DYKE PRAISES THE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Worth More Than Forts and Navy
Yards, Says Minister.
Washington. Dec. 28.—Our public
schoolfj are worth more to the re
public than all her forts and navy
yards. They ought to cost more,
declares Henry van Dyke in Demo
cratic i Aristocracy in the Journal of
the National Education Association
for January.
The schools deserve protection from
scheming politicians, he believes.
They are handicapped, perhaps, by an
overload of educational fads and
fancies; possiby by a lack of thorough
ness in laying mental and moral foun
dations ; certainly by the want of a
more generous provision for the
teacher on whom their life depends.
But they have survived; they have
improved ; they are doing wonderfully
in the world where he would rather
well. v
Dr. Van Dyke says there is no place
have his books read than in the
public schools of Am er * ca *‘ Eor it is
there that the. children of ,the people
get power to conceive, bring, forth,
recognize and follow a native aristo
cracy of leadership.
Barrier-Penninger.
On Thursday evening, December
23rd, at 7:30 F. Lewis Barrier, of
Rockwell, and Miss Margaret Pen
ninger, of near Concord, were, married
at the Reformed parsonage. Mt. Pleas
ant, Rev. C. W. Warlipk, pastor of
St. James Reformed Church, officiat
ing. ,
The ring service of the Reformed
Church was used. The young couple
motored to Mt. Pleasant accompanied
by Glenn Penninger and Miss Annie
Walker. Mr. and Mrs. Barrier have
many friends who wish them much
happiness in their wedded They
will be at home to their many friends
at an early date in their home in
Rockwell.
Rev. and Mrs. George H. Lingle,
Elizabeth. Rudolph, George, Woodey
and John Miles of Moores
ville, spent Tuesday with D. B. Cas
tor and family.
Miss Gladys Downum has return
ed to Greensboro aftter visiting Miss
Ruth Williams.
CONCORD, NIC, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1926
Movement For New Library Here Is
Sponsored By Rotary Club Members
Club Members at Weekly Meeting Endorse Bond Is
sue Proposal as Best Means of Giving City Library
Facilities Needed.
A movement for n modern public
ibrnry in Concord was startl'd Wed
nesday by Concord at their
weekly meeting and other civic or
ganizatinns will be asked to lend their
co-operation and support.
Following an address by L. T. Hart
sell. chairman of the board of trustee*
of the library. Rotarians at the meet
ing pledged their support to a bond
issue which was deemed necessary as
a inenns of securing money with which
to build and equip such a library us
is needed iu Coneord.
“Concord people are tired of drives:
they have been about driven to death."
Mr. Hartsell stated, “And I think the
library should be supported by taxa-.
Hop, with every one paying his or
her proportionate share.”
By a unanimous vote the club en
dorsed this suggestion, appointed a
committee to draw up a bill which
would be presented at the next ses
sion of the legislature, and named
representatives to put the proposition
before the Iviwanis and Woman's
clubs at early meetings.
North Carolinians like to talk about
the biggest towel mill in the world
being in Kannapolis, about the biggest
denim mill in the world being at
Greensboro and file biggest aluminum
olant in the world being at Badin.
Mr. Hartsell said in opening bis ad
dress. but they don’t like to talk about
public libraries.
“They shun this subject.” he said,
“because we are not doiug anything
for our libraries. North Carolina
and Arkansas rank at the bottom of
the 48 states in library support and
in the number of books per inhabi
tant there is no one to dispute the
lowest rung on the ladder with North
Carolina.
“Massachusetts has two and a half
hooka per inhabitant in libraries.
North Carolina has less than one
third of one book per inhabitant.
As a matter of fact we woTild have
to increase the state's total teu times
to be even an average stated
Mr. Hartsell stated thrit he dis
cussed the library subject 'in general
just to load up to his real subject—an
adequate library for Conetml. ‘The
present library was established thlr*
teen years ago,” "lie continued, “and
showed a fine growth for many years.
We are falling back now because of
’ack of money. There is just ao,
much interest as ever on the part of
the public. l»Ut Thai public luts Im *l
been satisfied because there were no
new honks available. In 1922 at
the library 51.000 books were' bor
rowed. This year the total has fallen
to 37,000, not because the public was
tired of reading but because there
was nothing new to be secured at the
libra ry.
“All of the money secured from flue
city now is needed for small salaries,
heat and other necessities. There
TURLINGTON DECLINES
OFFERED PRESIDENCY
Tells North Carolina Bible League He
Cannot Head the Organization.
Charlotte, Dec. 30.— UP)— Z. \ r .
Turlington, of Mooresville, veteran
legislator, today threw the meeting of
the North Carolina Bible League, for
merly the committee of 100, into a
quandary when after calling the ses
sion to order he announced that he
could not accept the presidency of
the organization.
Mr. Turlington was elected at the
meeting of the organization here on
December 9th and it had been believ
ed he would accept.
The North Carolina Bible League
has as its aim the combatting of mod
ernism in the schools of the state, and
the meeting today was called for the
purpose of completing plans looking
to the laying before the legislature
again the question of a law barring
the teaching of the theory of evolu
tion as it relates to the origin of man,
in the public schools.
Charlotte, Dec. 30.— 0 P) —Dr. Me-
Kendrick Long, of Mooresville, today
was elected president of the North
Carolina Bible League, fundamental
ist organization.
He was chosen after Z. \\ Tur
lington, of Mooresville,, veteran legis
lator, had ealled the meeting to order
and; announced that he could not ; ac
cept the presidency. Mrj Turlington
was fleeted at a meeting here De
cember ftflh. 1 ' !
Today’s meeting, like : previous ses;-
sionsi, Wjas hejd behind closed doors.
•V !j' ; .• < . <-■* -
Killed in Freight Wreck.
Summerfield, Pn., Dec. 30.
An engineer was killed and his fire
man is believed to be dead under the
wreckage, the result of one freight
train running into the rear of an
other on flue Legihgh'A T alley railroad
here today.
The engineer was John Johnson,
of Swyre, Pa. His fireman i* Michael
Langan. of Pittston, a junior at La
fayette College.
With Our Advertisers.
The J. C. Penney Co. led all other
chain stores in flue amount of soles.
Read about this in their new gd. to
day. .
Thrifty women are -taking advant
age of the pre-inventory sale at Fish
er’s.
The banks of the city will be clos
ed Saturday, January Ist.
Fliers Leaye for Vera Crux.
Galveston, Texas, Dec. 30. —W*) —
The Pan-American fliers hopped off
from Tampico at 11 a. m., Tampico
time, to Vera Cruz, a message re
ceived here from Tampico by the All-
American Cable office here said.
has been no money to be spent sos
books. Did you know that during
the past year not a single new ehild’s
boqk has been purchased for the li
brary? Yet despite the fact that
new books have been scarce the li
brary has loaned books at the rate
of 320 a day. That shows the pub
lic wants to read if the library can
furnish the proper reading material.
Had we enough lawks the total would
hnve been twice, yjea thrice, as large.
“Not only do we 'need money for
books. We need a new home. The
present building is wholly inadequate.
It is impossible to get light except
through the front and unsatisfactory
skylights.
“We need $50,000 for a new home,
SIO,OOO for new books and an income (
of about__s6.ooo a year for salaries and
other necessities. To get this money
we should have a bond issue and let
the people decide for themselves what
they will have.
“In Cabarrus county we are spend
ing 93 cents on the SIOO for educa
tion. For the library, a necessary
adjunct to the schools, wo are spend
ing one cent on the SIOO. The li
brary should carry parallel reading
books and other material needed by
school With an income of
$1,200 it cannot do this.
“I think the people of Coneord want
their library. Certainly textile work
er* and members of their families find
the li|»fary of greatest pleasure and'
benefit and wo should provide for
them. lam confident that they would
vote for a measure that would provide
for them an .adequate library without
excessive cost. By giving- the library
five Cents on the SIOO it would receive
about $6,000 a year, and the increase
in 'taxes would be negligible to flue
average taxpayer.”
Mr. Hartsell suggested that the mat
ter be presented to the next legisla
ture so it can be voted on in the
mayor's election in the spring. Mr.
Hartsell was asked to draw a bill
and deliver it to F. J. Haywood,
state senator from Cabarrus, for pres
entation Sin the new General Assem
bly. 7
11. E. Ridenhour, Jr., was named
to present the matter to the Kiwanis
Club and S. Kay Patterson was ap
pointed representative to appear be
fore the Woman’s Club.
Several members discussed the
.movement, all offering their\.en<k>rae
tTtiont and support. W. R. Odell,
head of the Kerr Bleachery and Fin
ishing Works, paid he had always been
interested in flue library and thought
d bond issue was the proper way to
handle the matter. “My company
will gladly pay its proportionate part
of the taxes needed for such a pro
ject." he said.
AY. W. Morris, trustee of the li
brary, was the guest of Mr. Hart
sell, and said he thought Mr. Ilnrt
r' (Continued on Page Five)
WANTS MORE HOSPITALS
FOR DISABLED VETERANS
Bill Carrying fclfi,ooo,ooo Appropria
tion Drawn Up For Congressional
Action.
A\ r ashington. Dec. 30.—04 s )—A vet
erans hospital construction program
calling for appropriations of $16.-
000,000 for new' structures or addi
tions to existing ones, is asked in a
bill drawn up by chairman Johnson,
of the House veterans committee.
It would authorize 5.000 additional
beds, and with a few exceptions they
w’ould be used f6r world war veterans
suffering with mental disorders. The
measure follows recommendations
made at the Philadelphia American
Legion convention.
“The additional hospital facilities.”
Mr. said today, “have been
found necessary because the number
of former seYvice men suffering from
mental diseases attributable to the
war has increased at the rate of 1.-
000 a year for the past four years.
Under special treatment the govern
ment may be able to cure a substan
tial number of these, but existing hos
pital facilities are not able to meet
demands placed upon them.”
Flail’s Condition Not So Favorable
Today. ,
El Paso, Texas, Dec. 30.—C^)—Al
bert B. Fall, former Secretary of the
Interior, who is ill. at his home here
with pneumonia,, suddenly took a turn
for the worse during the night,
eessitating the calling in of Dr. H. T. |
Salford at an earlier hour than tjsual
this morning. Fall was reported yes
terday as being practically out of dan
ger. ,
Mayor of Augusta Dead.
! Augusta. Oa.. Dec. 30.—OP)—Wil
liam Penn White, mayor of Augusta,
died this morning at 11:30 o’clock.%
He became in at the city hall Mon
day after having been in failing health
since beginning of his second term
I as mayor tw*o years ago.
Mr. White was 56 years old. He
was a descendant of AVilliam Penn.
President Back Home.
AYashington, Dec. 30.— 04>)_p reß !_
dent and Mrs. Coolidge arrived home
early today from Trenton, N. J.,
w'here the President spoke last night
at the Battle of Trenton celebration,
and were driven immediately to the
| AA’hite House.
Mrs. B. S. Templeton and four
children, and Miss Janie Kelly, -of
near Mooresville. spent Wednesday
with Mrs. Roy C. Crooks.
Nearly five hundred whales were
taken in Alaskan waters laot year.
OBJECTS TO POISOH
IN DENIMS SO
CHANGE IS ORDERED
in the Future Government
Will Not Use Poisons,
Under Order Made by
Secretary Mellon.
NEW PLAN WILL
BE USED SOON
Objects to the Practice of
Poisoning Persons to
Keep Them From Drink
ing, Secretary Asserts.
AYashington, Dec. 30. 1 —C4*)—On the
theory that no effective prohibition
enforcement is bound to drive drink
drinkers to the use of industrial alco
hol, Secretary Mellon announced a
determination today to eliminate the
use of poisons in the use of denatur
ants.
The secretary’s attitude, made
known today at the treasury, is that
he docs not conceive it ns a duty
of the government to permit poison
ing of in order to enforce
the law. He expects government
chemists soon will be able to denature
alcohol So that it will be too distaste
ful to drink jrather flapn too danger
ous.
When the new government denat
uring formula goes into effect Janu
ary Ist certain poisonous substances
previously included in it will be elim
inated.
The four per cent, of wood alcohol
provided for in the formula will re
main, however, as Mr. Mellon does
not think that percentage injurious.
Under the old formula two per cent,
of wood alcohol is used.
The decision not to use poisons in
dangerous quantities is based on a
conviction bn the part of Secretary
Mellon that complete prohibition e» *■
foreement is impossible. He thinks
that as enforcement grows stronger
bootleggers and drinkers will turn to
alcohol and other substitutes. He is
not willing that the government should
poison these substitutes to enforce the
lawr and believes that concoctions can
be placed in them to prevent their
use.
Improved prohibition enforcement
under the administration of! Assist
ant Secretary Andrews is believed by
Mr. Mellon lo have resulted in nse
of industrial alcohol by bootleggers,
and in the consequent poisoning of
some drinkers. He does not believe,
however, that any portion of the num
erous holiday alcoholic deaths result
ed from use of poisoned alcohol, and
believes excessive drinking was a more
likely cause.
The secretary declared today that
smuggling both along the coast and
on the Canadian border had been
greatly diminished, if not almost elim
iniated. Domestic liquor leaks also
have been stopped to a great degree,
he said, through the concentration in
fewer distilleries of the medicinal li
quor stock. As a result bootleggers,
he understands, are to use industrial
alcohol.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Steady at Advance of 7 to 10
Points. With January Selling Up
to 12.95.
New York, Dec. 30.' — G^)—The cot
ton market opened steady at an ad
vance of 7 to 10 points in response
tc| relatively firm Liverpool cables
and reports that w’hile the weather
was clear in the South it was too cold
for much progress in picking.
Additional January notices were is
sued. causing a little liquidation ami
a slight widening of the differenoew
between January and later months,
but the general market held steady.
Tuere appeared to be a little trad*
buying here for continental account.
January sold up to 12.95 and July
to 13.27 and pricer, held within 2
or 3 points of these figures at tin
end of the first hour.
Cotton futures opened steady; Jan
12.74; March 12.92; May 13.10; July
13.27; Oct. 13.41.
Fenner and Beane’s Cotton Letter
New' Orleans, Dec. 29.; —The cot
ton market was a small affair toda>
owing "to the approaching holiday *
Sentiment ,was generally reactionary
but there w T as, no selling ,of cons**
qaence; and the market was steady
though a,«hade lower. The weatbei
continues bad with rains in the eas!
and cold in the west The. forecast i*
for fair weather and rising tempera
tures but the map indicates anothc:
rainy spell is on the w'ay .into ttu
belt. Export*; continue to run heavy
but spot demand is light and ship
ments from interior points ture lost
than last season. Sentiment » gen
eraliy reactionary bqt the stwplipe'e
of the market and cheapness of cot
ton is restricting selling for the shori
account.
Finds Whiskey Still in Publu
Square.
Charlotte, Dec. 29.—Local poiic<
today were endeavoring to figure ou
whether some moonshiner took .*
New Year resolution to quit makinj
“white lightning” or merely lost tb(
tools of his trade.
Roy Biggere, negro caretaker, wto
works on the city hall lawn, walker
into police headquarters this morn
ing with a five gallon still. He sai<
he found it on the city hall squan
about a, half block from the potic
station.. . r
One of every three persons in Nev
York City is a Jew.
. B. SHERRILL. Editor and Publisher
AMERICA KCLtIS-j
TO
111 lIICM NOW
Standing Pat in Face of
Battering Rain of Far-
Flung Protests and the
I ; Divergent Opinions.
SACASA TROOPERS
HAVING SUCCESS
It Is Said American Forces
Will Stay Where They
Are to Protect Ameri
cans and Property.
Washington, Doc. SO.—o4*) —While
the Sacasa liberals'continue to forge
ahead into the interior of Nicaragua,
threatening the vital portions of the
conservative forces of President Diaz,
American government officials in the
face of a battering ram of far-flung
protests and widely divergent opin
ions are standing pat on their an
nounced policy of protection for Am
erican lives and 'property.
While conferences continu& today
between high officials in Washington,
late dispatches from the war zone in
Nicaragua told of the retreat to El
Bluff from' Las Perlfls of the Diaz
troop*?, their disarming in the neutral
zone, and the dispatch of 200 conser
vative soldiers to Monkey Ridge to
save that strategic point from falling
into the hands of Sac-asa’s army.
- President Diaz, who has been rec
ognized by the United States, is re
ported to have asked the American
minister at Managua to have the Es
condido River established as a neu
tral zone, in view of his inability to
guarantee* protection to foreigners.
Several neutral zones already have
been established on the east coast, and
whether additional ones will be cre
ated rests with Reart Admiral Julian
Latimer. American naval commander
in Nicaraguan waters.
OLD MAN MOORE PREDICTS
1027 AS “NO BETTER”
Famous Astrologer Fears the Coming
Year Will Teem With Agitations.
By CHARLES A. SMITH
International News Service Staff
Correspondent
London. Dec. 20.—Those who Vrti
j agine that 1927 will be a better year
Uhsm 1920 are doomed to- dlsappomt-
ImenL according to “Old Moote.” H’ho,
j through the medium of the famous
! “Old Moore's Almanack,” annually
! brinking the said tidings to a sorrow
ing world that ‘‘next year will Jj£jpo
better.”
“Old Moore,” who bases his pre
dictions on the influences exerciWd
by the stars, opines that Neptune is
going to cause this old world a good
deal of trouble next year.
He signs his predictions “Francis
Moore, physician.” It is only fair
to the inhabitants of the various coun
tries said to be going to be affected,
however, to point out that as this
Francis Moore was the original “Old
Moore,” the astrologer, his vitality
must be enormous, for he lived in
the reign of King William the Third
of England.
Fears Crime Waves
The old gent has apparently been
bitten with the popular socialist bug
bear, and this issue of his almanack
literally teems with “bolshevik at
tack,” ‘‘crimes against law and or
der,” “socialistic agitation.” “strikes.”
“unrest, 1* and so on. As a gloomy
prophet [ “Old Moore" easily ranks
with Dean Ingle in this issue.
For instance, he foresees in next
February that: “The position of Nep
tune in the sixth square to Mars and
opposition to Venus denotes troubles
among the workers, bolshevist ten
tendies, immorality, and danger of
strikes.”
Apparently Neptune Is in disgrace
with the venerable astrologer, for in.
March he tells us that “the position
of Neptune in the eleventh house de
notes socialistic disorders in the Eng
lish House of Commons.”
World Politics
Then in April we read that “the
position of Neptune denotes double
dealing among the powers,” and in
May “the rising position of Neptune
shows unrest among the people of the
world.”
Neptune# appearance -in Jun? de
notes strange deaths, drowning, drug
ging and heiirt failure. Indeed, what
ever this unfortunate planet does is
wrong'.
Generally, 1927 will be a bad year
for the world, according to this in
, curable pessimist.
Winston-Salem’s Building Record
For Year $5,383,000.
. Winston-Salem. Dec. 29. — Win
‘ ston-Salem’s building record for 1929
. is $5,583,000. according to figures
’ compiled today by the city building
inspector. This represents an increase
of more than a half million dollars
over the total for 1925.
! Earthquake Fett in Washington State.
, Wenatchee, Wash., Dec. 30.—04*)
; A pronounced earthquake was felt at
[ 10.05 a. m. today. Buildings shook
, and many occupants ran into the
» streets. One old citpzen who has felt
them before, aqid it was the most pro
, nounced in the seventeen years he has
j resided here.
I ~
WEATHER FORECAST.
i
Fair tonight, slightly colder on the
coast; Friday fair, rising tempera
r ture. Moderate to fresh northwest
and west winds.
im MATTERS
aHI DISCUSSED IT
CONFERENCE TOW
State Judicial Conference
Meets to Discuss Prob
lems Confronting Courts
of the State.
EMERGENCYACT jM
NOT ADEQUATE
It Is Proposed That Sev
eral New Districts Be
Created for the Trial of
Civil Cases Only.
Raleigh. Dec. 30.— (A>)— Creation
c f judicial districts for the trial of
civil cases only, and new laws cover
ing the selection of juries are* among
T-'gislative proposals made today,
The judicial conference met in the
Supreme Court room with Chief jus
tice Stacy presiding for hearing re?
ports in the judicial system.
Associate Justice Adams recom
mended an amendment to the state
constitution, to permit the forming of
the proposed superior court districts.
The effect would be to permit the nam
ing of Superior court judges, without
naming of solicitors in similar propor
tion. Appointment of } emergency
judges would be done away With. The
present emergency judge laws whre
termed inadequate.
Appeals to the Supreme Court at
present may be made only through Jtn
perior courts from inferior ones. 1 J
The jurist committee headed .#jfi
Judge Frank Daniels, proposed a iff#,
commission of five members in epifm
county to purge the jury of all nonfat
except those properly qualified; abfin
donmnt of peremptory challenges
cept in capital felonies; and placing
authority in judges to remove joNHi
for cause. '
Each side in a legal action wodld
be permitted to strike three TetwjMf
men from the panel list of 18,
mailing after the judge had passed
on objections for cause.
The committee on trials headed by
Judge Devin a bill to give
Superior judges the right to limit ar
gument in misdemeanor cases to not
less than one hour, and to not less
than two hours in felony cases, ex
cept for capital offenses.
Committees on process and plead
j ing. appeals and of practice also
reported.
$30,000,000 MORE FOR
THE STATE HIGHWAYS
This is the Amount the State Hi*-
way Commission Will Recommend.
(By International News Service)
Raleigh. Dec. 30. —Thirty million
dollars —enough greenbacks for any
“Dad” to pay up his Christmas bills!
. —is the amount that the North Csr%*
lina State highway commission
recommend for additional highway&tjw
a bond, issue to the January legisla
ture.
This amount was announced here
recently following a session of the
commission and a conference with
Governor McLean.
The amount agreed upon by the
j commission was not unexpected-rfls
the bond issue had been mentioned
variously from $20,000,000 all the
way to $40.000,000 —so it was thought
the commission would probably “split*’
the two figures. They did.
And it is for “additional’’ highway
construction, too!
Coolidges Will Shake Hands With
Thousands. a > 4 I
Washington, Dec. 30. —The Whjtp
House expects a large crowd for the
New Year reception. President M/L
Mr. Ceclidge will shake
thousands of men, women' and v child
ren, 'beginning at 11 o’clock with ffitjt
diplomats.
After the Diplomatic Corp. 4 has
passed out of the White Hopse,
Cabinet members, Justices of the
Supreme (Spurt, members of £ongr<s#
and other officials will greet \ the
I’rfesident, add Mrs; Coolidge.) 1 Vf]
After lnnch general public wijl b|
, received. v
New War's Day is the one dffy'o&
the year that all citizens iele free to
see the President.
Purnell Must Stand Trial. . • *[
Benton. Harbor, Mich., Dec, ,30.4?
04*)—Benjamin Purnell, leader of the
' House of David Colony, was bound
over today for trial in circuit ooqrt
on charges of criminal assault made
by Mrs. Bessie Woodworth, of Ben
ton Harbor, a former member of the
Colony.
• The
Progressive
Farmer
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