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lOMIHMG
I STATE CAPITAL
P LEGISLATURE
■r Work Will Not Start
Ktil Wednesday But
Bc\ Arc (lathering Just
B Same.
mens MAY
■ DECIDE FIGHT
■kei' for House May Be
Bosen at the Democrat
■ Caucus to- Be Held on
■esday Night.
■;„),. .Tan. 3.—OP)— Lawmakers
■ "i 027 Legislature. convening
■sday at noon. Ix'iym arriving
■ Tomorrow ltiglw's scheduled,
■ of tho Speaker of thf* House
■nmedlato interest.
■esentatives 11. G. Connor, of
B, K. T. Fountain, of Edge-
B and. N. A. Townsend, of Har
■ounty. wore momentarily ex-
B m take personal charge of
bidts for the speaker’s
BaH three had backers quietly
Bombrrow night’s Democratic
B HU House members will have
■iu the race, the first and from
standpoint probably the
B important balloting of*the
period. which holds the
B interest of the state from now
the middle of March.
BlcCt a Speaker, 53 votes are re-
B Os the 104 Democrats about
Be generally considered unpledg-
at hotel lobbies had it.
Be House Speaker's hands, and
■f the' Lieutenant Governor lie
■meat of all the committees in
and Senate respectively,
committees all bills must
Bt. Governor Long, who will pre
■pr the Senate, probably will
Bee his committee appointments
Bday when the Senate convenes,
B upper body will wait on organ-
B of the House before function-I
Bively.
B: SALARY AND WAGE
■ COMMISSION DOOMED?
Broits Fight Will Be Waged to
■ Preserve It as It Is.
B i - Tribun;
Sir Walter TfoteJ.
H .1. C. RASKERVILL. ' 1
■gh. .Tan. .'1. —That the Salary
■age Commission, as it is now
jilted is doomed, but that the
■al of general supervision over
paid to state* »-a-.p?oye*
■noubtedly be retained, is the
B °T a large hum her <*f people,
■olitician* and» laymen, who
Been observing the workings of
Bnmbsiou. In its stead will be
■ according To those who arc
■ml to be "in the know,” a
■ion with the same name per
■nit. composed largely of heads
■c department. with'its powers
■<) largely to the fixing of max
■ and mimiimim wage limits.,
■ic power to fix individual hal
■noro largely in ' to hands of
■opart men r head, to be .-•oncur
■ perhaps to the comfit i>i»>n.
■ of tlri principal eritieisms ot
Besent salary and wage eommis
■ that every inomben of it is an
Ber of Labor mostly of but. one
Bf labor —and that there i t < not
Ble member of the vonmiision
Baight be looked upon as a <*e-
Btative of the employees. Be
■of this fact some hoi 1 that the
■ssion has taken a too onc-sid-
Bltude with the result that too
■ consideration has b*e'i given
B uart of the state as tiie etn
■ and -nor enough to the angle
■ 'em ply 00.
Bever. thne is rea’lv very iit- N
Bposition, eillier among ■ state
Befi or others, to tho principle
B salary and wage commission.
■ its operation ’so far.-Lnperfoct
B functioning may have been.
If the efficient and eoncietit ms
Be, while the list’ess and in-
Bit are quickly weeded "out,
Ig for greater efficiency all n-
Ihe line- Rut those who would
I the commission think that eer-
Ihanges are needed which would
■it much more effective. ' ' .
' instance, they say that the
judge -of the efficiency of an
joe i*s the executive of the de-
wliic. that employe
[• because there is closer c*ui
there and better opportunity for
ration as to industry, faithfu’-
md devotion. to duty. Thus they
that the department head jg a
better judge to whether t’he
r | °f an (employe should be in-
Hi than is a commission of em
ps ofiimejs of a different sort
>nr—who do not know the'nppli*
the kind of work he is doing
'- v "f the personal details about
P there in no doubt hut that
ttompt will bo made during
>n of the legislature to veebn
t the salary and wage coti.ims
so that individual department
i will be given more say-so as
lfi pay of individlals in their de
nent.s. with the wage commis
proper being more ap advisory
. either composed of state offi
or others, who will fix the mav
>i and mimimum limits of salar-'
,n jy. And from present indica
n «eems likely that it will not
difficult to get a large number
to concur in the movement,
to loncur in the movement.
bir Walter Scott at college was
’va as *‘the Greek blockhead.”
TIE CONCORD TIMES
S2.OQ a Year, Sfrictly in Advance.
/ ./AUGUS* ,p.-M»POWAW '' Kisy H. COURT c
W LCSLtE KINCAID ~ EDWARD I. EDVARDS' *
After twenty-five years of service, Angus McDonald wai
elected president of the Southern Pacific. Miss H. F. M,
Court was named head of the accounting department of the
(House of Lords, and was the first woman to hold such an
Important office hi the House. J. Leslie Kincaid, hotel man,
• left for Italy to invite Premier Mussolini to Norfolk, Va
Senator Edward I. Edwards, of New Jersey, demanded a
Senate investigation into Government poisoning of alcohol
WILL, BUDGET REPORT BE
CAUSE OF BIG BATTLE?
Will Connor Name Murphy, W T ho Op
poses the Budget System?
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Jan; SL-Just -
asm mlftnlser~of theft’
! days—what would happen If the
House finance committee would de
cline to accept the report and recom
mendations of the advisory budget
commission, likewise its
out the appropriations and revenue
bills, start uew hearings and decide
to make up a new budget, a new ap
propriations bill and a new revenue
bill? Then ail predictions as to the
coming session of ufae, general assem
bly being quiet at ,* un-warilke would
be blown sky highland there would
be some «ure enougn excitement!
Os coflrse this is just the merest
conjecture and no one’ really believes
such a state of affairs is at all. like
ly to 1 exist.
Still, quite a number seem to think
that at present the most likely of the
three candidates for the speakership
is H. G, Connor. Jr., and many thifik,
that although Connor has said that
he has made no commitments as to
who he would appoint as committee
chairmen, it would not be unlikely for
him to appoint Pete Murphy as chair
man of* the House finance committee.
They point to the fact, that Murphy’s
opposition to the budget commission,
the entire executive budget system and
Lie administration is most pronounced
j and that if he were chairman of the
finance committee he might, through
the influence he would exert over the
other members, make hard sledding
for the measures submitted by the gov
v ernor and the budget commission, so
that there might be a possibility of
very great revision of these bil.s.
Thus there would seem to be some •
basis for the supposition that there j
mny be a possibility that the revenue
and appropriations bills may have a |
hard time getting through the finance
committee intact, should the commit
tee be composed of members who are
avowedly unfriendly to Vhe adminis
tration bills. ’* ; ! ,
How'ever, the majority of political
observers here do not take, the feug
gestiou seriously and do not expect
milch .trouble' will bb encountered by .
the outstanding administration meas-j
uries in the committees! 1 ; “They say
that even should Murphy be selected
as chairman of the finance committee
—which they admit is likely, should
Connor be elected speaker —that it,
is very unlikely that sufficient of t’ae 1
other members would be of the same
mind as to-greatly endanger the meas
ure coming before the committee for
its consideration, and that any radic
ally revolutionary move to mutilate
either the appropriations or j-evenue
bills would .be promptly checked by
the majority, of the members of the
committee.
Thus while it might be possible for
the committee to embarass the admin
istration considerably and cause it
some worry, the more far-seeing of
Cue politically wise hold to the view
that the principal administration
measures will not suffer greatly, re
gardless of who is eiected speaker.
They admit that-there probably will
be a .large number of-revisions made —
there*. always are —but that in the
end itbe measures will be enacted
pretty much in the same form as when
submitted.
* So while it is regarded as a good
thing to look at the situation from
every angle and to consider every pos-
ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN
CHURCH AT SALISBURY
Handsome New $250,000 Edifice
Used For First Time Sumtoy
Morning.
Salisbury, Jan. 3.—St. John’s Lu
theran congregation. started the new
est church edifieies in this section. It
stands on the corner of Church and
Innes streets opposite the postof
fiee, near the center of the city and
an imposing S
St. John’s is one of the oldest con
gregations in the city and is prob
ably the hugest Lutheran congrega
tion in the kouthern synod. It out
grew its old ! church home and soon
after the coming of the present pas
tor, Rev. Edward Fulenwider, plans
were put on foot for a new and lar
ger church.
The new building is English
Gothic of gray brick trimmed with
Indiana lime stone. It. is 175 feet
long and 100 feet width. The nave t«
08 by 80 feet and . has a seating
capacity of 1,250 including the gal
lery. The interior trimming is oak
and pink Tennessee marble. The art
glass was made at the Payne studios
\ Patterson, N. f. All of the furni
ture is quartered oak and was built
by the Huntington Seating company
of Huntington, W. Va.
The organ is a three-manual in
strument with harp and chimes
made by the M. P. Moller Organ
company, of Hagerstown, Md.
The Sunday school department is
three stories high and is arranged
in departments. Oil the ground floor
is the adult and senior departments
boy scout rooms, ladies parlor, kit
chen, Sunday school superintendent
and secretary’s office; also the pas
tor’s study and office. The furnace
room and fireproof vault are also on
(this floor. On the second floor are
j the nursery and cradle roll, begin
ners and primaries departments,
each separate and with its' own
| equipment. On the third floor are
tho junior and intermediate depart
ments. All departments are equip
ped with telephones, there being 15
telephones in the buliding: There are
45 class rooms and the several de
partment* can accotnodate i.tldo
scholars. There are seven automatic
sanitary drinking fountains, and six
pianos. i • ;; . ’•
, The construction of the, building
was begun early in-1925 and finished
the lated part of 1926. The first
brick was laid June 8, 1925. The cor
nerstone was laid Sunday, June 20,
1926.
| The main tower is 100 feet high
and arranged for tower chimes. The
heating plant consists of two Gurney
boilers with vacuum pump and auto
matic water feed, giving 50 per cent
more heat than needed in very cokl
weather.
■i The building and equipment cost
approxiinate’y $200,000. The lot
cost $35.000,' giving the congregation
a church property conservat ivel.v es
timated at $250,000.
} A feature of the first service Sun
day was the reception of a closs of
50 new members into the church.
j Figure skating was a well de
veloped winter recreation ,in the
countries of northern Europe 150
years ago.
k n, - t.- r ' _
t sible eventuality that may _ arise, still
i that there is no cause for alarm, and
1 that there will not be nearly as much
1 fire when the legislature gets into
t action as there is smoke before it con
■ venes.
CONCORD, N. C„ MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 102
APPRBP!fI Fi |
?iV¥ TOM 111 j
, BILL BEFORE HOUS|
1 ProJSIr Bill-bis
j Funds for Cruising. r
T 0T G , ry^ S Tm^YEArfi
The Total Is Also Leal!
Than Estimated in oU<|
,ffSp|§f§r3»rl
Washing tun, Jan. —Vcapt&f;
ing a cut of $1,950,000 in the fiinHW*
] for of tin* Uniied!
1 Slates fleet, but otherwise
for maintenance bf the navy about
it is now. tfie annual naval depart- j
meat appropriation bill was reported
to the House today by its appropria
tions commfttee.
It cnrries a total of $314,552,080
for ail branches of the navy fort»
fkicni jear beginning next July Ist,
a decrease of $5,364,805 compared
with current funds, and $150,970 bfr*
low budget* recommendations. TB
committee refused to accept the pro- 1
posal for a budget of 1.2Q0 men ih
the enlisted strength of the Marine
Corps, and provided for continuation
of its present size of 18,000
men, 1.020 commissioned officers, &|$
155 warrant officers.
Provision is made for continuing
naval enlisted strength at 82,500 and
the officer strength including li«b.
staff and warrant officers at B.TIO.
The food ration is based on 55 ertit
per day per enlisted man.
The allotment for cruising is cut
from $13,950,000 to $12,000,000.
The measure was drafted, the e<mi
mittee report asserted, with a view
to providing for operations and main
tenance of the airplane carriers Sara
toga and Lexington, and the subma
rine Z-4, all to be launched during
the year. It also said the air arr-,
vice appropriation of $19,790,000 pl 4«
a contract nuthorixatioq of $5.00<7,-
000 was designed to carry out the five
year building program approved by.
Congress lost winter.
‘ The 1,000-plane program was has*
ani on a wastage of 33 1-3 per v nL
the
recent simMea suggest that approxj
m a tidy 2 per cent, would hp more
nearly accurate. There is an in
crease (in appropriations for next
of $724.712 and of $900,000. in
tKe contract auth<t*isation.”,«M*p*..
Women Raids on Moonshine
.Stronghold.
Greenville, S. 0., Jan. 3.—Crusad-'
ing women have done what
agents found impossible in Greenville
county* “Dark Corner,” where the
distilling of corn was an established,
albeit outlawed, practice long before
prohibition.
For years, the ‘‘Dark Corner’’ re
garded the “revenooers” a* mortal
foes and many,a bloody battle was
fought, but the production of eoro
whiskey went on undiminished. In
recent month*, however, with women
taking the leading part, citizens of
the district hnve launched ah attack
against the moonshiners.
'Nnuerou* still* have been destroy
ed and some arrest by parties that
included no officers of the law. Min- j
inters have encouraged the move-1
ment.
Wake For<st Has Veterans For
Basketball*
Wake Forest, N. 0., .Tan. 3. —(A*)
—Seasoned veterans answered Conch
Jim Baldwin’s call for basketball
practice here today.
Monk Ober,. twiee-captaiu, re
mained on the campus througnout
the Christina* holhlh.vs* Coach Bald
win got back la*t night. Players have
straggled in at interval*.
Intensive practice starts tonight
in preparation for the season’s firwt
game wish Atlantic Christian col
lege here* Thursday. Every member
of last year’s quint is back except
Joe 1 Ellington, and campus dopesters
are predicting a team a* good a* the
1926 five —which licked the Southern
Ohafmiiion ,T T njversity team.
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To Plan Accident Prevention Drive.
Raleigh,, N. C. r , Jan. 3.— 04»P-
Plans for ;the formulatiop pf real
accident prevention 1 drive will be
drawn Here January 6 by representa
tives of the University of North
Carolina., the Carolina Motor club
and other organizations.
The meeting is preliminary to the
Safety conference set for February
14-15.
The conference city will be select
ed by the meeting Thursday. It will
mark the first concerted effort in
North Carolina to cut down the
automobile accident toll in the state.
Planes Now' 1h Guatemala.
Guatemala City, Guatemala, Jan.
3. : —G4*> —A short hop of fifty-five miles
to San Jose, Guatemala, and then 110
miles to San Salvador are the next
stages ahead of the United States
army goodwill fliers. The five planes
came down on the flying field here
yesterday afterpoon, completing sue
383 miles.from Salina Cruz. Mexico,
iu five hours.
Call for National Cault statements.
Washington, Jan. 3.—o4*)—The
comptroller of the currency today is
sued a call for the condition of all
national banks at close of busi
ness on Friday, December 31st,
:CONGRESS RETURNS
TO WORK; BIG JOB
| TO COMPLETE TASK
| Leaders Know the Mass of
| Business Will Require!
Unusual Work if Con-J
I gress Does Anything. I
SMITH PROBLEM
IS NOT SOLVED
fit Is Expected to Come Up
During the Week and
May Lead to Fight Now
i or at Later Session.
I * _
\ Washington, Jan. 3.—G4>)—Congress
i returned to work today.
•Member* went to their desks con
| fronted with the almost hopeless task
|of completing action on the varied
j Now Year calendar in the two months
left in , the 69th Congress. Leaders,
however, had planned to put through
the legislative thresher tho more im
portant measure*, and leave the chaff
for next December’s session.
Some of the questions that will
oome up during the week are pri
mary expenditures, provided Frank L.
Smith,, senator-designate from Illinois,
appears to take the oath; the Lau
sanne treaty w : th Turkey; rivers and
harbors; annual supply bilk; farm re
lief ;i railroad consolidation; sale of
federal patronage charges; coal; and
contested nominations.
There are also prospects that the
latest baseball scandal will come up
for an airing, as well as the contro
versy born in the holidays over the
use of poisonous denaturants in indus
trial alcohol
The Senate’s program was uncer
tain, due to the impending battle over
the seating of Smith. This, however,
is not expected to get underway before
the middle of the week, when the Mc-
Kinley successor arrives to take the
oath. Meanwhile both side* are mar
shalling their forces, with Senator
Curtis, the republican leader, trying
to persuade the senate to admit
Smith and then refer his case to the
elections committee, and Sepator
Ash or st, democrat of Arizona, re
maining firm in his purpose to press
to a vote his resolution withholding
the oath pending investigation by this
committee of his qualifications.
, Today the senate bad only misrol
ianeouK bill* to consider for the &cat
two hours, with the Lansanne treaty
a probable vehicle thereafter.
In ihe nouse Chairman Dempsey of
the rivers and harbor* committee, had
planned to ask immediate acquiens
canoe in HeptUe amendments to the
$60,000,000. omnibus rivers and har
bors bill to stave off the delay that
would result in sending it to confer
ence with' the senate.
* t
With Our Advertisers.
If it* hardware you can get it nt
the Ritchie. Hardware Co., says new
ad. today.
C. Barrier & Co. want bens and tur
keys. See ad. fori particulars.
If you need a coat now is the time
to buy. says new ad. of Parks-Belk
Co. Prices from $7.95 to $27.50 on
sizes 16 to 52.
Attractive living room suites, at re
duced prices, can be found now at the
Bell & Harris Furniture Co. See
ad* for particulars.
Atwater Kent radios, complete and
installed, only $125 and $135 nt the
j Torke & .Wadsworth Co.
j .Mayor Lifts Lid to Let New York
Enjoy New Year.
New York, Dec. 30. —No ’.curfew
law, although it is now on the sta
tute books, will interfere with the
New Year celebrations in New Y’ork
City, according to Mayor James J.
Walker. His honor announced to
night that for this “special occasion’’
the 3 o’clock closing of night clubs
and restaurants with music is “all
off.”
Hotels, whoe banquet halls will
attract thousands of celebrotors to
morrow night' announced today that
all plans fog the biggest and ‘.most
festive New Year’s observance in
New York history have been,?-com
pleted, an gave the final word to the
chefs, is for New York to turn in
early if jt Want* to get a running
start into '
|‘* ■ «
Alabama and Stanford played about
even id their big inter-sectional foot
ball game l Saturday, le final score be- 1
ihg 7-7..;! Tbopsadds of fans’ in all
parts of the country beard the game
play by play by means of the radio,
hundreds of fans here tuning in for
the contest.
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SPEAKERSHIP RACE
STILL IS PROBLEM
FOR STATE SOLONS
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I
All of the Candidates Are
i Optimistic But So Far
[ None Has Much Advant-!
I age in the Race.
|CONNOR~APPEARS
TO HAVE EDGE!
Supporters of Wilson Man j
More Hopeful as Time]
for Showdown in House
Draws Nearer.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
By J. C. RASKEFVILL
Raleigh. Jnn. 3. out o& the
haze of rumors, reports and counter
reports issuing from the camps of the
three candidates for the speakership
it is nothing if not difficult to pick
out any definite trend or to even pick
out one candidate who for Vue moment
may have the edge over one or both
of the other two, especially since the
candidates themselves decline to dis
cuss the situation. However, one
fact docs begin to loom as a
real possibility and that is that the
fight undoubtedly will be carried from
the caueUs Tuesday* night to the floor
of the house Wednesday—with still
another possibility that a speaker may
not be elected until Thursday. And
in this event, the governor would have
to postpone the delivery of his mes
sage until Friday.
However, despite the fact that 11.
G. Connor, Jr., of Wilson; N. A.
Townsend, of Dunn, and R. T. Foun
tain, of Rocky Mount, the three can
didates, all seem to be assiduously
refraining from making any further
statements with regard to their can
didacies. their friends do not seem to
be sharing in their modest retirement
and the ’ proponents of each candi
date freely predict the election of their
favorite man.
For iustance, the friends of H. G.
Connor assert that he has gained much
strength in the last few weeks, and
that at present he is undoubtedly the
strongest candidate in the field, with
more pledged votes than any other.
They point to the part he played in j
the framing of highway legislation and ;
in putting through %dmiiU*tvaLi9m j
meastiTes In the last legtß'afuTc, affaq
declared that he is the logical choice j
for speaker. As to the claims re-I
garding the number of votes pledged. :
it is estimated at from 40 to 44. And
since it i« expected that there will
be about 20 unple4g.Qd votes, Con
nor’s friends say it will not be diffi
cult for him to get the nine more
needed for election. They say furth
er, t’aat if he leads'on the first bal
lot, as they expect him to. that the
band wagon jumpers will hop on, and
put him over. And while these Con
nor boosters are not over confident,
they are earnest.
But then there is the group—and a
good sized group it is—that is for
Townsend. They are not doing any
ballyhooing, but they are working.
While no claims are heard regarding
t’ae number of votes pledged to Town
send, his friends jgjiy that when the
Lime for a vote comes, the* public gen-|
erally will be surprised at the strength
he will exhibit. They point to his
record since he has been in the legis-
InturCi and especially to his work in
this committee and to the results ob
tained. He may not have the drive
Connor has and may not be so well
known to the members as some of
the other men, but as to his sheer abil
ity as a legislator, there is no doubt, i
And many who are not particularly 1
for any particular man admit that j
Townsend is' undoubtedly a formula- j
ble opponent and likely to become j
more so when things go into action j
either in the caucus or in the house.
And ns to the hinted surmise that i
•has been gently whispered about here j
that he-may retire from the race —his
friends laugh at the suggestion and
say that someone may retire, but that
it will not be Townsend.
But the Connor and Townsend
groups have by uo means. eliminated
Fountain —not by any mean*. His
friends point to tbfe fact that while
he has not had much to*' say during
the present campaigrt Hint he has been
working steadily with his candidacy
for the speakership in r'view for at j
least, two years #Tth the result that
he probably has m»re ipledged rote*
from the old member* of the legisla
ture than either of the other two
candidates. They do not mention
the number of votes lie has pledged,
but several have hinted that it is well
up toward forty, if not fully that
many. They point to his continuous;
record in the legislature' since 1918,
the fact that he was chairman of the
judiciary committee, in 1925 and that
he has consistently been active in
sponsoring and championing construc
tive legislation. They also point out
that there is probably no man in the
house who is more popular personally
and better thought of by the mem
bers than is he. And they casually
mention that personal popularity goes
a long way in a contest like that for
the speakership.
Fountain’s friends say that there
is not a man in the entire house bet
ter fitted by temperament and train
ing and experience to be speaker—
that he never gets excited or loses
his head, no matter how hot the battle
may rage about him.
Thus it will be seen that the Dem
ocratic caucus when it meet* Tues
day will have a real problem before
lit and that there is every reason to
18. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher ' »
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The Judge
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Hl A - w/fr jgF
BB L jdC
j®
«• , S" flp '
Justice Albert H. F. Seeger,
of Carmel, N. Y., was named
to hear the Peaches-Daddy
Browning separation action,
replacing Justice Joseph
Morschauscr.
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THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Fairly Steady at Decline of
7 to 11 Points in Response to Rela
tively Easy Liverpool Cables,.
New York, Jan. 3.— (4>) —The cot
ton market opened fairly steady to
day at a decliue of 7 to 11 points
inTresponse to relatively easy Liver
pool cables. There was some south
ern selling on the opening decline to i
12.7.7 for March and 13.10 for July, j
but offerings were comparatively light j
and prices held fairly steady during I
ihe first hour on covering and a little !
trade buying.
Private cables said there had been
hedging combined with local and con
tinental liquidation in tiie Liverpool
market .but reported au improved de
mand for cotton cloths from the con
tinent and Near East.
A feature of the trading here was
j the switching from March to Juljr at
: a difference^of 33 to 34 points. and
! the firat badness in December, 1(127, •
j which sold at
T 2 points above tire price of October.
Cotton futures opened fairly steady.
I Jau„ 12.00: March 12.78; May 12.90:
July 13.12; Oct. 13.28.
YOUTH W CRITICALLY"
m WITH LOCKJAW
Franklin Moose. 14. of Statesville,
Injured by Toy Pistol Day Before
Christmas.
Dec. 30. —franklin
Moose, 14. sqii of W. Moose, Staes
ville, is iiu«fMdtLeal condition at the
Ravis hospital suffering with lock
jaw which developed from injury to
his left hand caused by the discharge
of toy pistol the day before Christ
mas.
The boy concealed from his parents
the fact he had accidentally shot his
hand until he became desperately ill. !
: five days later. A physician opened
t*he abscess on the hand and gave
antitoxin but it was found
that tetanus had already developed.
The boy was taken to hospilal and
enormous doses of antitoxin have
since been given in an effort to ever
come the deadly disease.
Tetanus rarely ever develops if the
antitoxin is administered iramediate
j ly. Dr. J. W. Davis in deploring the
j fact that the youth had waited until
! after lockjaw had developed before
!he made known the accident.
Belaseo’s Condition Improved.
New ' , York. Jan. 3.—(4*) —David
Belasco, 07. noted dramatist, who was
severely injured in an automobile col-
I lision New Year's day, spent a eom
\ sortable night, and although he was
i reported as still very weak, improve
ment in his condition was evident.
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believe that the fight will be carried
to the floor of the house before a
speaker can ;be selected. And while
the Connor forces are Counting on the
first ballot, both Townsend and Foun
tain aiKierants believe that the latter
ballots —the fifth or sixth or tenth or
fifteenth —will be the ones that wi!’.
really tell the tale. Wnd while they
all admit that the band wagon jump
ers —the unpledged delegates of whom
there are about twenty individuals —
will wait to see which way the wind
is blotving before t*uey jump, all three
factions are confident that they will
get a goodly number of votes from
this suorce.
The fact that there is little if any
difference iu the*platform of the three
men, all three having solidly endorsed
the present administration and its
measures, makes the outcome- all the
more difficult to foresee. And in the
final analysis the outcome will be
based very largely on the individual
personality of each candidate, unbi
ased observers feel, and the man that
wins out will be the man who can
make his own personality count for
the most during the caucus and dur
ing the election in the house.
Will the next speaker then be Nat
Townsend, or Dick Fountain or Tobe
Connor?
Only the gods know and they wont
tell. In the meantime the merry
fight goes on and will until next Wed
nesday.
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DETAILS OF BATTLE
IN NICARAGUA Gl\fE |
LIBERALS THE EDSE'
About 3,000 Troops Were
Engaged in Three-day
Battle at Pearl Harbor—
Several Hundred Killed.
NO ATTEMPT TO
BURY DEAD MADE
Frank R. Mitchell, World
War Veteran and Soldier
of Fortune, Says Scene
Was “Indescribable.”
Managua, Nicaragua. Jan. 3.—(4^
—Final reports of the three-day battle
last week at Las Perlas (Pearl Har
bor) show it to have been the blood
iest of t’iie present war between the
forces of the Diaz conservative gov
ernment, recognized by the United
States, and the Sacasa liberal govern
ment recognized by Mexico.
(Previous dispatches said the lib
erals were victorious, the conserva
tives. retiring their main body to El -
Bluff, where they were disarmed jby
the American naval authorities. Then*
rear guard was overcome by the ‘Kb- ,
eral«).
Os the 1,800 liberals and 1.300 con
servatives engaged. 302 were killed
and 1.70 wounded.
No attempt was made to bury the g
dead, and many of the wounded
crawled off into the swamps to dip.
Thousands of vultures are hovering
over the battlefield.
Frank It. Mitchell, World War yft
eran and soldier of fortune jn many /
Central American revolution*, today
termed the scene after the battle? .0*
indescribable.
j “I had to tarn away,” he said.
‘‘l have never sights in
jmy career—not even in the World \
j War, due to the lack of attention fcrfr •
! the wounded.”
The commander of the conserva
tive army announces it will be neon*- J|
sary to call out every ’’able bodied
male between the ages of 12 and IK), (j
He has received requests from Amer- -.s|
ioa and other foreign countries pian*«i|l|
ens to allow the laborers to proceed j
with the coffee harvest, but the saySsflj
the laborers must go to the front/? I
Charges of Mexican intervention iu flj
iSrgLrvffiS iu
dent of the conservative ' government, fj|
in power here. j
AMERICANS FREED BY / !
PAYMENT OF MONEY I
|
J. W. Wiley and E. B. Conners J
Freed by Bandits Who Were Given J
: -** so - 1
Mexico City, Jan. 3. — UP) —Ransom-*-!
of $350 effected the release of J. W. 1|
Wiley and E. B. Conners, Ameqiagßa 1
' employees of a British mining corn- J
pany, at San Francisco del Oro, OM- jJi
huahua state, who were kidnapped hfr.'Jjl
a bandit gang last Tuesday. THa>|||l
bandits after seizing the two men in-n
formed them they would be held untii. II
they or their friends produced $.7,000. J|
The Americans 'dickered with their |J
captors, and finally bargained the sum -41
; down to $350. I
States Taxes Off in December. ; fj
Raleigh. Jan. 3. — (A*) —State taxes j
collected in December for the general ij
fund purposes were slightly lower than fl
those collected irt December, 1925. fig- *fl
ures made public today by the State I
Department of Revenue showed. , i
The figures showed collections -of 1
$300,667 in December. 1926. as \|
against collections of $315,126 in* De- j|
comber 1925. . ; |F| 1
Taxes collected during the past Jie*' jj
cember were from the following,sotug)* 1
es : Income $75,423: inheritance ]
971 : License $45,000. I
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More Tremors in California. *
Calexico. Calif, Jan. 3.—OP)— A
heavy earthquake shock was felt here «
short.y before 5 o'clock thin morning.
No damage follojwed the tremor which
came as two severe jolts.
A railroad worker reported tftocks
occurring at intervals of about one
hou,r. The movement at about .5
o'clock was the most noticeable of the
shakes during tjie night and r early
morning.
Young Reynolds Fined, r •
Winston-Salem* Jan.*.*-.
Richard J. Reynolds, son of the late
R. J. Reynolds, president of tfie R, J,
Reynolds Tobacco Company, pleaded fl
guilty in municipal court this merit- fl
ing to two charges—retesting an»offi< fl
cer. and violating the prohibition law. 1
For the first offense he was fined SSO, fl
and on the second $25. Coots were fl
added in each ease. No evidence wa* fl
introduced. fl
Wants to Question Pldyers. 1
Chicago. Jan. 3.—OP) —Coran*is-fl
sioner Landis today sent telegraphic fl
requests to thirty-e : ght baseball play- fl
! ers, urging them to appear here at JO fl
' a. ra. Wednesday in connection with fl
' charges involving the Detroit-Chiongo fl
| “sloughed” series of 1917. fl
More than 300,000 fish have ben fl
placed in Kansas streams this rear, fl
i breaking all previous record*. , [sM I
' —sl
WEATHER FORECAST. i
Fair tonight, Tuesday increasing ■
cloudiness. probably followed by lighttfl
: rain in extreme west portion; warmer.fl
r in east and central portions. Moder-fl
■ ate west backing to southwest andfl
south winds, increasing Tuesday. fl
Afo.-Ssi.- &§SH
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