VOLUME LI
■E REPORT SHOWS
lasi 7 bales
lIIEBIOMI6
Bureau Report To
innings to Same
Bale Last Year Totalled
■U99.893 Bales.
H\( E SIZE OF CROP
pj AY i 5,618,000 BALES
m Lncertain What Part
BE (Vop Will Be Left in
■iekis in View of Low
[■rice Prevailing.
|H .I:i 11. -4. — (/P) —Cotton
r.iL’ii nop ginned prior to Jnnu
-I<>.<;<>!>.sl7 running
VnuPing <‘>11.052 round bales
H ;| |and excluding Outers,
11 announced today.
!,. that date last year to
ll running bales, in-
; > > ;{t;.!i!ls round bales.
|H department of agriculture, in
estimate of produc
on December Ist contli
piaicd the crop at 18,618.000
oiin pounds gross weight, the
~r , ,p raised. At IMat
large amount of cotton still
to be picked, and it was un-
as to what part of it would
in the in view of the
|H r jcc prevailing. Until the final
ginning report is issued
|^H;i rr h 21>t the exact size of the
will remain doubtful.
|K-h Carolina ginning* were 1,-
bales.
■t.l KKAISI.K CONDITIONS”
Mi I I 1,1 D IN WAIF’S HOME
|HI Served to Inmates Cost Only
■ Ten (tuts a Day.
Internatioinii News Service!
|H t irleans. 1.a.. Jan. 24. — The
for the inmates {
S^K t > former Waifs Home, now
■, as the Municipal Boys Home.
|H 40 to AO youths between 11 and
"f age. have been living under
HHIC .1 W. Newman describes as
conditions", begins to-
Jhiil. well known welfare
||Bnmui >;c.d that the food served
about ten cents a day
individual during the past
For breakfast a beverage
e.'tTie and bread was served;
• f b ans and rice, and
bread and <\rttp. Sanitary
were said to he appalling;
;.i\vCs i,r wash basins; one
week; dried themselves on
BHii: of umlri-eli,thing. The med-
u'ding to Mr. Ball.
maniiy of castor oil.
|HI says that the conditions will
improved under his man-
of sale
ljj| <M FEDERAL PATRONAGE
to Senate Today by Its
Judiciary Committee.
Jan. 24.—DP) —A blan-|
|^Hive-t igation of the sale of Fed- j
was recommended to
today by it- judiciary com-
out with the consideration
made in Congress of the
Mndi patronage by republican
officers in the South, the com
|H* dii'iil.-I t'i broaden the scope to
all -tates in the event there is
to justify an inquiry.
committee approved a substl-
BH i-ui offered by Chairman
of public office.
IB'F HEN LINDSEY
> <ll S J ED FROM COURT
pSjß'" ll of superior Court Put Him
« :ls Judge of Denver Juvenile
■ <’•.'!.. Jan. 24.—DP)—Judge
H land-ey was ousted as judge
Dimv.-r juvenile court through
n; the state supreme court
h ga I'ivnrr reversed the decision
4 tenv,. r district court in contest
l W' ,|i,| K; brought by Royal W. Gra-
I -i-wi - opponent in the 1024
H^B' h ' held that the ouster
Braham should be entered.
H-'bam. who brought the contest
now dead.
BHlOt RATS CARRY TAX
"lhi ro house floor
Voted More Than a
r^B l>n " 1 U'» to Pigeon Hole Bill.
■ Jan. 24.—DP)—The
H 1 ’ “lay Carried their tax
lloor of flip house, where
|H : Barrett, of Tennessee,
b-ader. placed upon the
Yu',, a Petition to take the
■ / tax reduction
ways and means com-
H| '"publicans voted more
ago to pigeon hole it.
I® U '""i!‘“'d to Lift Chaplin In-
H , " !,n “ Tax Liens.
IHY; ’■ . -lan. 24.—DP)—Attor-
HB ! *' Chajjlin today asked
to lift its income tax
H ! , v held in the banks by
H r "t 'hr' fire department
|H . '"‘fly Sunday after
-888 l; " Ini ' °f Carl Honeycutt,
;. !t l Ihe fire was extin-
K ' a l 'bort time and firemen
PH I,J, ‘ loss at atvout SSO.
THE CONCORD TIMES
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advancp.
Opposition to the Budget and
Appropriation Bill Has Disappeared
I Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
BY J. C. BASKERVILLE.
Raleigh, Jan. 24. —With virtually
, all opposition to the budget and ai>-
propriations bill having disappeared
and with committee hearings proceed
ing uniterruptedly, the outlook is
favorable for both houses to. receive
these measures from the joint com
mittees possibly during this week. Os
course there will probably be' some
flare ups here and thejre as the bill
is taken .up on the floor of the general
assembly, but those in closest touch
with the situation say that the op
position has dwindled to a mere hand
ful and JJiat neither the budget act
nor appropriations bill are in any
danger.
There was a sporadic attempt made
soon after Governor McLean had pres
ented these measures in behalf of the
budget commission, to make it appear
that the budget act endangered the
legislative authority of the gefteral
assembly, in that it gave the Governor
as director of the budget the power to
scale down appropriations when it ap
peared that the revenue would be in
sufficient to pay for the appropriations.
It was also made to appear that this
amounted to a virtual veto power on
the part of the Governor over the acts
of the legislature.
However, when it was made clear
to the members of the general assemb
ly generally that this was an emerg
ency power vested in the execu
tive director of the budget to protect
the state against a deficit, and that
it could not be invoked except in ap
propriated than needed, opposition to
it at once disappeared.
REPORT OF THE STATE
EDUCATIONAL COMMISSION
Is Being Awaited by the Legislators
With Expectancy.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
BY J, C. BASKERVILLE.
Raleigh, Jan. 24.—The report of
the state educational commission is
being awaited by the members of the
general assembly with expectancy,
esi>ecially its recommendations with
regard to the advisability of the eight >
i months school term and other matter
! relating to the needs of the state’s
school system. The report is now
in the hands of the printers and it is
expected that it will be possible to
deliver the report to the members of
the general assembly early this week,
according to Governor A. W\ McLean,
who announces that he will release
the report Jo the presto when it as*
iteuaWW!" WnBK fegtslahire.**
It is already known in a general
way what the report will contain re
garding the eight months school. The
entire commission agrees that the
eight mouths school term is sound in
principle. But the majority holds
that many sections of the state are
not ready for the longer term, and
that the cost of establishing it for the
state as a whole at the present time
is prohibitive because of the additional
taxation it would entail. Thus the
majority report will propose that the
. eight months term be held in abey
ancy for the present, and that in the
meantime efforts be directed toward
building up the present school term
to a greater degree of efficiency, grad
ually lengthening it into the eight
mouths term as conditions warrant
and as ways and means to finance ifc f
become available..
The minority* report,* on the othei*
I hand,'favors the immediate adoption
of the eight months term, on the
grounds that it is necessary and
should be provided even if it does
boost taves. The' three women mem
bers of the commission and the two
school men make up the minority.
So far the only proposal that has
been made for the raising of the ad
ditional revenue necessary to finance
the eight months term has been by the
Raleigh Nfcws and Observer, suggest
ing that it should be raised by increas
ing the income tax on larger incomes,
by increasing the tax on public service
corporations, such as railroads, by
increasing the tax on insurance com
panies. It is also suggested that the
proposed license tax on automobile
drivers be diverted to securing the
eight months school instead of for a
state highway police force.
These sources suggested will not
provide enough of the necessary re
venue, the suggestion is made that
soft drinks and cigarettes might be
taxed.
However, the sentiment of a large
number of the members of the general
assembly seems to be in line with the
stand of the majority report of the
educational commission, to the .effect
that the cost of the eight months
school would be too great at present,
that, the sections where it would go
into effect are not only not prepared
for it but are opposed to it, and that
the best thing to do now is to increase
the efficiency of the six months school,
looking toward a gradual turn over
k to the eight months school. A number
of experienced legislators have not
* hesitated to say that if the question
of the eight months school were sub
' mitted to a vote either in the legis
. lature of the state today that it would
“ be overwhelmingly defeated. Not that
‘ most people do not approve of the
i' theory, but because the expense at
• this time does not seem to be econ
-1 omically justifiable.
And as to the various methods sug
gested for increasing the revenue,
- there is almost unanimous agreement
that it would be unwise to increase
- the state income tax beyond its present
1 graduations, and a tax on cigarettes,
c tobacco and soft drinks has always
r been unpopular, and there is little
evidence of change. The public ser
vice corporations and bottlers are al
t ready objecting to the present revenue
- bill on the grounds that the tax rate
is too high.
So while the advocates of the eight
a months school argue that ‘‘where
there is a will there’s away,” indica-
, In the same manner the elnim that
wak made by the few who opposed the
j budget that it gave the budget director
• iMiwer to transfer appropriations from
■ one institution or department to
l another, was effectually chloroformed
■ when it was brought out that not only
i was this not the case, but that the
1 provision whereby department and in
• stitutional heads could request the
; transfer of allotments from one use
' to another was included in the act at
[ the request of these institutional heads,
I and not on the recommendation of f
i Governor McLean, although he ap
proved of it, since it would react to
the benefit of the institutions, 'jl'he
; 1 director of the budget is not empow-
I ered to re-nllocate funds from one to
I another, though a part of the same
appropriation, unless the head of the
I institutions or department makes
specific request that it be done.
Several members of the general as
sembly who were believed to be waver
, ing in indecision ns the result of these
' reports misrepresenting the real intent
of the budget act, have since come out
solidly in favor of the budget and ap
propriations bills, as the result of
. messages from the “people back home”
i who have refused to be misled by the
| anti-budget propaganda which has
cminated chiefly from Raleigh.
As a result of the almost solid ap
proval being given the appropriations
bill, with the exception that, many
members of the joint committee think
that a number of the estimates are
too high, attention is rapidly being
transferred from the hearings before
this committee to the hearings on the
Revenue bill w'hich are pust being put
| before the joint Finance committees.
SENTIMENT FOR A
DECREASE IN TAXATION
If Revenue Measure is Revised
Downward. the Appropriations
Will Have to Be Materially In
creased.
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
' By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Jan. 24.—Apparently not
satisfied that taxes have not been in
creased except within a few* brackets
• in some of the privilege and franchise
classifications, it is becoming increas
ingly apparent that a determined ef
fort is to be made in a number of
different quarters for a substantial i
decrease in the taxes now being im- j
posed.
Notice has already been served on ,
the joint finance committees that a *
number of different clgases desire to n
classification timrf
chief among these being the soft drink
bottlers, ice cream manufacturers and
similar industries who are maintain
ing that the tax now being imposed
on them is too high.
At the same time a vigorous demand j
is being made on the part of chain- 1
bers of commerce all over the state j
for a revision of the laws taxing cap- j
ital on the grounds that the present
laws are so severe that capital is
either being driven from the state
into other states where the tax rates j
on money invested in stocks and bonds !
is not so high, or that it is being j
driven under cover. The commercial j
bodies in Charlotte, Greensboro, Wins
ton-Salem and other cities are urging
Governor McLean to act upon Lie
suggestion made in his message and
appoint at once a commission to in
vestigate taxation in v the state from
this angle, so that it may report be
fore the present general assembly ad
journs. Whether this will be done
and a report : niftde in time foi* con
sideration this session has not yet
been determined.
However, there is a growing senti-!
meiit not only against any increase in
taxation, but towards a definite de
crease, and of the three major ndmin
i istration measures before the general
assembly, it is not at all improbable
to hazard the guess t’iiat more changes
are likely to be made in the revenue
measure than any other, although if
it is revised downward, as now seems
probable, the appropriations will also
have to be materially reduced.
THE COTTON MARKET
Report Shows 16,609,517 Bales Gin
ned.—Prices Rallied.
New York, Jan. 24.—DP)—The cot
ton market opened barely steady to
day at a decline of 9 to 12 points in
response to easier Liverpool cables,
but rallied almost immediately.
The report of the Census Bureau
showing 16,609,517 bales ginned prior
!to January 15th, was evidently no
' larger than expected, and failed to
j create any selling pressure of conse
j quence. On the contrary it appeared
( to, bring in covering, while there was
also good trade: demand, and by the
end of the first hour prices were about
12 to 15 points net higher, March sell
ing up to 13.58 and July to 13.98.
Some stop orders were uncovered on
the advance, and after their execution
; trading became less active, but prices
. held within 4 or 5 points of the best.
Private cables reported hedge selling
■ and some local liquidation in Lover
-1 pool in advance of the ginning report.
Cotton futures opened barely
t steady: January 13.23; March 13.35;
; May 13.55; July 13.75; October 13.95.
Wilmington Theatre Quits Chaplin
Films.
, Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 24
t i George Bailey, proprietor of the Roy
al Theatre, motion picture house
b here, states that no more Charlie
, Chaplin pictures would be shown at
i the Royal pending the outcome of
; the martial trouble between the
- comedian and Lita Grey Chaplin.
£ ——————— '
i tions are that the general assembly is
not going to provide the way to fin
t ance the longer term until the will
e for it is much more strongly expressed
- than it is at present.
CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1927
..l—T-mi 1 -”.
| Fought For 1
*
Mrs. Janet Beecher Hoffman,;
New York actress, was
awarded funds to continue
her fight for custody of he?
son, Hichard Hoffman, Jr.,
who was awarded to his
father for nine months a yeai
after a separation action.
tlaimUiMii] V.-<uwl>
DR. OSCAL HAYWOOD HAS
MORE BLUE LAWS COMINCH
Plenty of Inspiration Comes FYond
. His Constituents.
The Tribune Bureau B
Sir Walter Hotel ft
Rnleig’ii,
resentative Oscar Haywood seems t<S
be as permeated with blue laws as
wash days are with boiling nor does
there seem to be any probability of 1
a decrease in its productiveness, for,
accoi’ding to Dr. Haywood, more bills
of a blue hue will be shortly forth-j
coining. i
Plenty of inspiration for these meas
ures comes ,to him daily in the form'
of letters from his Montgomery con
stituents as well as from other parts
of the state, Dr. Haywood says. ;
“If I attempted to fram% one-halfi
the requests I received into bills,’’
said, “there would be euough work t®;
keep the legislature busy for the next;
i thirty days at least.” However, alii
though he is thoroughly wedded to,
the efficacy of legislation on moral;
Questions, Dr. Haywood states thafej
fa, will confine his efforts to only ft
of the more pressing needs foti|
moral -reform. 11 J l|iM |
4 I believe firmly that you cam k«fi
people from being immoral by
legislation just as you can keep them
from being murderers,” said Dr. Hay
wood. “Os course you cannot wipe
I out immortality entirely any more
j than you can stop murder by prohibit
i ing it, but the law can go a long way
| toward checking the tendency of the
age to disregard convention and to
ward moral laxity in general. What
I want is a protection of moral peo
! pie from immoral ones,” Dr. Haywood
j said.
“North Carolina is in the main a
| rural state. Its people are rural
I people and as long as it remains so
many of its laws should represent
their sentiment,” said Dr. Haywood.
Though he is willing to be the official
voice of these rural districts, Dr. Hay
wood seems to feel that he Ims beep
made the goat.in more ways than one.
"People in the state have in some way
gotten the idea that I'm the man to
introduce any bill 1 that is the least
bit out of the ordinary,” he said, “and
I've gotten more publicity than auy
I man in the legislature in spite of the
fact that others have entered measures
much more stringent in effect than
mine.”
GREAT PROSPERITY
PREDICTED IN SOUTH
Detwiller Says We Are Entering One
of the Greatest Industrial Eras of
Our History.
(By International News Service)
Atlanta, Jan. 24.—Declaring that
the southeast is entering ope of the
greatest industrial eras of the age.
Paul D. Detwiler, president of the
American Institute of Bankin, assist
ant cashier of the Philadelphia Girard
National Bank of Philadelphia and
an outstanding financier, told the At
lanta bankers to prepare for progres
sive business developments • such as
they never had seen before.
Another noted banker who brought
tidings of prosperity for this' section
was J. Martyn Turner, of the na
tional executive committee of the in
stitute and assistant cashier of the
Bank of .Italy, San Francisco.
In telling of the Impression At
lanta’s growth had made upon him.
Mr. Turner likened development of
this city to that of California and
the fast growing centers there.
“With the sound economic basis
which the southeast possesses, en
couraged by the unusual campaign of
your enterprising city, which has lriade
it more widely known throughout the
world, you have a right to expect
growth very similar to that of Cali
fornia? The South’s industrial de
velopment is similar to that of tne
West and differs fundamentally from
that of the East and North.”
i
Find New Uses For Cotton.
Washington, Jan. 22.— T0 assist
in solution of the cotton surplus
‘ problem the department of agricul
' ture is seeking new uses for cotton
and has made considerable head
way along that line. Substitution ot
( cotton for jute as a covering of cot
ton bales and for other articles ap
, pears to be the greatest single oppor
tunity and big dent would be made
i in the cotton surplus if it is possiole
to replace the 75,000 tons of jute
I ami more than 900,000,000 yards of
l jute cloth importd from India each
year.
STEM RISE OF THE
OHIO IS VIEWED
WITH APPREHENSION
Residents of Five States !
Along Nearly 500 Miles!
of the River Note Steady!
Rise of the River.
SOME TOWNS
UNDER WATER
Many Persons Have Been
Forced to the Second
Stories of Their Homes.
—Crest Expected Today. I
Cincinnati, 0., Jan, 24.—UP)—Resi
dents of five 'states along nearly 500
miles of the Ohio River viewed with
apprehension today the steady rise of
fcbe river which has driven hundreds
of persons from flooded lowlands.
i While the water was receding some
wipit in the Pittsburgh area, where
the Alleghany and Monongahela riv
4*rs merge to form the Ohio, with pros
pects that further danger of floods had
passed there, the crest of the flood was
moving steadily southward with dam
age to Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia
and Kentucky territory.
Flood stage has been readied and
passed in many localities, and fur
ther rises were predicted for the next
24 hours? as the angry waters swollen
by heavy rains, swept onward to the
Mississippi.
The lower portions of a number of
towns were underwear many persons
were forced to the second stories of
Jheir homes, or to seek shelter on high
ground; rail and automobile traf
fic was hampered; water supplies
were endangered, and considerable
damage was done.
L; Five days of rain in the Pittsburgh
ardi sent the river on its rampage,
and today the effect of the high wat
er yfas felt as far west as Louisville.
TTie crest of the flood in Ohio was
expected to reach Cincinnati today,
with a 57-foot stage.
-Residents of i*ae Louisville water
front also were preparing to move
niter watching the Ohio creep to their
|R With Our Aivertisera.
' , The Bell-Harris Furniture Company
Tp Btw JaraftiWg an extrabrdwyry offer
ing pf Wilton 9x12 rugs. They have
a rug for every , room in your home.
Read new ad. today.
Atwell & Flyling is a new firm
opened for business in near of Fisher’s
store. They .do acetylene welding,
lock smithing, general machine work
and electric repairs. See ad. in this
paper.
The Ritchie Hardware Company is
authorized agent for Westinghouse
Mazda lamps. They cost no more.
See ad.
Get in on the big bargain sale at
the Tarks-Belk Co’s, clearance sale
prices every day. Phones 608 and
138.
New spring dresses at Efird’s, $9.95
to $24.50. New spring coats, too. ,
Ex-Judge Brock Convicted of Em
bezzlement Charge.
Winston-Salem, Jan. 23.—Walter
E. Brock, formerly judge on the Su
perior court bench of-' North Caro
lina, was Saturday adjudged guilty
of embezzlement, verdict being re
turned by a Forsyth county jury. By
consent of both prosecution and de
fense, ruling upon motions to set
aside the verdict was continued un
til the March term of court.
The prosecution of Judge Bi’ock
arose out of claims made by Mrs.
Lillie Campbell, who said that the
jurist had collected $1,200 for her
and had failed to turn over any part
of it. Judge W- F. Harding presided
over the trial.
STATE AND DEFENSE IN
NORRIS TRIAL CLOSE
Judge Began His Charge at 9:50 A.
M.—Fear of Injury to Norris.
Austin,- Jan. 24. —G4 5 ) —The State
and closed their testimony in
the Norris mfirder trial at 9 :50 a.
today, And the judge began his charge
to the jury shortly afterward. Argu
ments to the jury are to bbe limited to
six hours to a side.
Fear of possible injury to Dr. Nor
ris caused his friends here today to ask
bailiffs for permission to sit near him
within the railing. When court op
ened a circle of close friends sur
rounded hitn-
W. M. Sherrill, is confined to his
home today by illness.
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SEEK A THOROUGH
mm INTO THE
MEXICAN SITUATION
! Promise of Another Con
-1 gressional Resolution of
! Inquiry, Public Appeals
by Labor, Etc., Today.
GALLIVAN MAKES
SPEECH TODAY
Representative Says That
Insidious Propaganda
Has Actually Reached
I the Floor of Congress.
Washington, Jan. 24.—DP)—Prom
ise of another congressional resolu
tion of inqquiry, public appeals by la
bor, church and college groups in the
United States, and a mass meeting in
Mexico' City at which the Washing
ton government was denounced for its
■imperialism” and “invasion of Nicara
gua,” all served to keep the Mexican-
Nicaraguan controversial pot boiling
over the week-end.
In a resolution prepared for intro
duction today, Representative Galli
vau, democrat, Massachusetts, seeks a
thorough •* inquiry into the Mexican
situation, asks the State Department
to disclose the financers of “pro-Calles
propaganda now flooding this country”
and declares “we cannot sit tamely by
while the red fires burning up Mexico
are creeping closer to our border.”
Gallivan asserts in the preamble of
his resolution that “insidious propa
ganda has actually reached the floor
of Congress,” and that “at least one
piember of the staff of the State De
partment has been discharged follow
ing complaint by Ambassador Shef
field that there existed a leak from
the Department to the Mexican em
bassy,” here.
The American labor hopes the Unit
ed States will “not play the part of
an imperialistic autocrat in its rela
tions with Lafcin-American countries,
but will prove itself to be by practice
and precept, an advocate and propon
ent of the ideals of self government
and democratic freedom,” is an asser
tion made by William Green, presi
dent of the American Federation of
Labor in an article appearing in the
American Federafciouist.
arlmVnintrfl fi vf*
JL lixrwrarm 11 iqitwtx Vv vorirni * V't *. xti inr
Federation Council of Churches de
clares in a statement that the present
situation in Nicaragua and Mexico
should “lead our government to form
ulate a clear policy for our future re
lations with the peoples and govern
ments of Latin-America.”
INVESTIGATION OF GRADE
CROSSING ACGIDENT
Will Be Held Within a Few Days.—
Statement Made my M. P. Officials.
Austin, Tex., Jan. 24.— UP) —An
“extraordinary investigation” of Sat
urday’s grade crossing accident which
killed ten Baylor University students,
will be held within a few days at
Round Rock by Missouri Pacifis Rail
way officials. This statement was
made*>today by Milton Morris, passen
ger agent here, after he had talked
with J. T. ' L. Brooks, of Palestine,
superintendent of the Palestine Divis
ion, in which Round Rock is located.
Th£ train that crashed into the
large Baylor University bus which
carried the Baylor Bear basketball
squad, was the “Sunshine Special”
crack train, of the International Great
Northern, one of the Missouri-Pacific
Lines.
MEXICAN DELEGATES ON
ARBITRATION APPOINTED
For the Arbitration of the Land and
Oil Dispute With the United
States.
Mexico City, Jan. 24.—UP)—Excel
sior publishes an unofficial report to
the effect that the Mexican delegates
to The Hague court have already been
appointed for arbitration of the land
and oil dispute with the United
States.
The paper claims to have learned
that Mexico will suggest The Hague
court for settlement of the controversy
if arbitration materializes. The per
manent court of international justice
cannot be used for the purpose it
adds, bbecause Mexico is not a mem
ber of the league of nations.
j i
TRIAL OF FALL AND
SINCLAIR POSTPONED
Will Be Held April 25.—Postponed on
Account of Fall’s Illness.
Washington, Jan. 24. — UP) —Trial
of Albert B. Fall, former Secretary
of the Interior, and Harry F. Sin
clair, on charges growing out of the
lease of the Teapot Dome naval oil
reserve, was postponed today until
April 25th. The postponement was
granted because of the illness of Fall
who is convalescing in New M|xico
from pneumonia. The trial was to
'have started February 2nd.
Mitchell Convicted. Will Die March
11th.
Pittsburg. Jan. 22.—Pearle Mitch
ell, negro, tonight was convicted of
first degree murder for slaying Wil
liam Fogleman, aged man, in the
store of M. V- Gheek, at Ore Hill,
last Saturday night. He was sen
tenced by Judge W. C. Harris to be
electrocuted March 11.
Atwell & Fryling is a new firm
I opened for business in rear of Fisher’s
store. They do acetylene welding,
: locksmithing, general machine work
r and electric repairs. See ad. in this
, paper.
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
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MOURN DEATHS OF
BAYLOR STUDENTS
Ten Young" Men Killed in Crossing
Tragedy—Messages of Condolence.
Taylor, Texas, Jau. 2.3. —The torn
bodies of seven young men, victims
of Saturday’s tragedy when an Inter
national and Grea't Northern train
demolished a h ll * 1 at « grade crossing
at Round Rock, left here today. Ten
ffrere killed in the crgsjv dll Saylor
University students. irttludiug mem
route from Waco to Austin to play
the University of Texas.
Five of the bodies sent from here
today were bound for Waco, one for
Ennis and one for Fort Worth. The
bodies of William Winchester and
Bob Hanna were taken today to Waco
from Georgetown. They died in an
ambulance Saturday en route to
Georgetown from the scene of the
tragedy. The other of the ill-fated
ten, Ivey R. Foster. Jr., of Tyalor
was buried here today.
Physicians reported the five injured
in a Taylor hospital to be improved,
though the life of Fred Acree. of
Waco* is despaired of. Acree’s back
is broken.
A short time before the crash young
Foster was given a seat inside tfye bus,
after ridiug for miles on the running
board because there was not seat for
him inside. Ed Gooch, who stood,
gave Foster his seat and escaped with
a dislocated shoulder.* Fo. er’s father
collapsed -yesterday in the baggage
ear of the train that brought the
bodies to Taylor when he lifted a
blood-stained blanket and saw his son.
The cream of Baylor University’s
athletic talent was wiped out when a
fast International-Great Northern
railroad train crashed into a motor
bus and took the lives of ten and in
jured five, one of whom is not ex
pected to live. Six of the party of
twenty-one escaped injury.
Coach Ralph R. Wolf and his bas
ketball players were scheduled to meet
the University of Texas Longhorns
at Austin. They had completed all
but 22 miles of their trip from Waco
to the state capital in the Univer
sity’s parlor bus. The driver appar
ently did not see the train until it
was practically upon the bus crossing
the tracks. The big machine was
turned, but too late, the locomotive
crashing into it amidships and drag
ging and tossing bodies of the dead
down the tracks.
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CHARLOTTE C. OF C.
ONCE MORE AT PEACE
Board Re-Elects Kuester Business
Manager—Thanks Kirkpatrick For
Swices.
Charlotte, Jan. 23. Harmony
reigned t,oday in chamber of com
merce circ'es following last night’s
business session of the newly elected
board of directors at which they re
elected Claranee Kuester as business
manager for the ensuing year. This
action set at rest speculation that
has been rife here since last Tuesday
when Mr. Kuester was left off the
board of directors and there was a
question as to whether or not he
would be reelected.
Election of a president was de
ferred, although vice presidents and
other officials were elected E. C.
Griffith was elected first vice presi
dent and R. M- Pound, second vice
president. R. A. Mayer was re-elect
ed treasurer, he being one of the
three members of the board re-elect
ed to the present board.
The directors adopted resolutions
of appreciation so the splendid work
done by Col. T. L. Kirpatrick, retir
ing president, who also was not re
elected to the board of directors, and
the unselfish activity on the part
of # Mr. Kuester in behalf of the or
ganization.
SITUATION AT KIN
AIG IS RAPIDLY
GROWING SERIOUS
French Consul There Has
Been Arrested—Mob Vi
olence Endangers Life of
Sir Francis Aglen.
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MOBS ATTACKED
THE BUILDING
Where He Was Conferring
With Finance Minister of
Cantonese Government.
—lnvade Corridors.
Paris, 'Jan. 2.4 —( A *)—The Hong
Kong correspondent of
acifio agency says the situation at Kitt
Kiang on the Yangtse River is rapidly
growing more serious, aud the French
consul there lias been arrested.
The situation in the Yangtse ports
is critical, he adds.
Renewed Mob Violence. *
London, Jan. 24.— (A)— Renew*®
mob violence endangering the life til
Sir Francis Aglen, inspector general
of maritime customs in China, broke
out in Hankow on Friday,
Dispatches received today say Chi
nese crowds attacked the custoins
building where Sir. Francis was con
ferring with Finance Minister Sootig,
of the Cantonese government. The
crowds invaded the corridors and at
tacked Soong’s bodyguard, but tvere
finally dispersed by Cantonese troops.
Prepared to Leave for China.
Scarborough, England, Jan. 24.—-*
A) —The fifth armored car
has been ordered to prepare to le&ve
for China on a few hours notice.
Nationalist Government Invites Pow
ers To Join It.
Hankow, Jan. 24. —( A ) —The nat
ionalist government in a manifesto is
sued today proclaimed its ability to
enforce its will in nationalist China,
and invited the powers to join it in
negotiating new treaties with eco
nomic and territorial integrity as
their basis.
# “HIGHWAY ROBBERY”
Boy Sent $3.00 For a Box of 300
is. . J Oranges “Prepaid.”
(By International N«~£(vi»
Atlanta, Ga.. Jan. 24.—Hatred har
bored by a 13-year old boy against
grown men who fbvindled him out of
$3, earned by dragging a bag of cotton
under the hot Oklahoma sun rises
from pages of a letter which District
Attorney Clint W. Hager will read
to the federal grand jury today in
seeking indictment of D. W. Nichola,
H. D. Gaines and J. G. Grimes on
postal fraud charges.
Details of how 4’ue 13-year old boy
stayed out of schooj to pick cotton
so that he might buy clothes and
school material fbr his brothers and
sisters and otherwise aid in support
ing the family are given in the letter.
Thinking that a box of 300 oranges
'for $3, express prepaid, would provide
away of earning more money by sell
ing the oranges at a small profit, so
he could buy ’ais family a Christmas
present, he sent the three dollars, but
did not receive the fruit.
Speaking of the case, he said; “I
consider it worse than highway rob
bery. .
“Probably when I am older,’* the
youth wrote, “ Iwon’t have such bitter
hate for them. Maybe then I’ll have
more mercy; but now, when I think
of how I worked from sunnp to sun
down in the cotton fields, dragging a
heavy sack with my back aching atid
sore, I (jaqiiot think that they deserti
any mercy whatsover. I wish they
would have to pick eottoq like .1 have
•had to.” , {
The boy’s name has not been re
vealed as yet, sot the reason that 14®
government does not want to give iti
case away. 4
Question lor a Solotnan.
Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 22.—IN®.—*
Whether the second wife of a paatt
should pay his former wife the all*
mony granted to her in an old divored
decree was the basis of a suit being
heard by Chancellor D. W. DeHaven.
Mrs. Birdie W. Going had filed suit
against her. former husband, L: Clyde
Going, for $13,000 alleged to be due
her under the terms of a divorce de
cree granted in 1919, which awarded
her $l5O a month for her support.
Going, a former attorney, was ad
judged non compos mentis in probate
court three weeks ago. His present
wife, Mrs. Verna K. Going, was ap
pointed his guardian.
The first Mrs. Going charges she
did not receive the money awarded
her, and demands that her successor
pay it out of Going’s estate, which
, consists of an allowance of SIOO a
i week from a disability insurance pol
; icy. ’ '- v , .
The present Mrs. Going alleges that
, her predecessor received $25,000 in
property from her husband when the
> divorce decree was granted, w r ith the
understanding she would never de
. mand the enforcement of the alimony
1 claim.
News has been received in Concord
i I that the mother of Mr. E S. Towery,
•of this city, w T ho lives in Atlanta, Ga.,
» is still in a serious condition. Mr.
and Mrs. Towery were called to At
lanta several days ago by the illness of
, Mrs. Towery.
WEATHER FORECAST.
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t Rain tonight and Tuesday. Colder
■ tonight and in west portion Tuesday.,
Moderate northwest winds.
NO. 59