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$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
OTTO WOOD MAY BE :
» TRIED IN INDIANA
If He Is Convicted There the Authori
ties Are Advised to Have a Safe
Plate to Put Him.
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Ralegh. Feb. 14. —Now that Otto
Woodo, t'.ie Houdini of North Caro
lina's prison guests, has been captured
in Terre Haute. Indiana, following
his third escape from the State prison
here, people are wondering if the In
; diana' authorities will be able to keep
him incarcerated until lie can either
be tried there or returned to North
Carolina.
For there is no getting around the
fact that Otto is about as difficult a
man to keep in prisons, be it jail or
penitentiary. a,s it ban been the mis
fortune of the Norm Carolina prison
i authorities to deal with. In fact, it
is now generally admitted that Wood
undoubatedly has a peculiar type of
, criminal insanity—a sort of "espaceo
inanine"—whose greatest thrill is to
get in prison and then get out. For
contrary to the belief of many, Wood
i is not a vicious man—not a “killer”
as he often has been depicted. He j
sajn that be v has never shot a man,
| and once said that he would rather be
s'uot than shoot first. His specialty
I has been larceny—principally automo
biles, and in making escapes from
j jails, chain gangs and state prisons.
His record of escapes is unequalled
jin North Carolina, and doubtless in
other states as well. When he left
; the State prison here in the gray dawn
1 of November 24th through a gate in
: the back wall of the prison enclosure,
| which a guard had “forgotten” to
I properly bar, it was his mird escape
, from this prison. Some nine months
■ before he had crawled into a concrete
I culvert pipe in a freight car —and let
the switch engine do the rest. Then
1 before that he had gotten away in
an automobile, as it left Hie prison
i yard. And previous to coming to
North Carolina to achieve fame as a
| slippery customer, he had escaped
from t’ae state prisons in Virginia,
, West Virginia, Maryland and Tennes-
I see.
Hence it is not surprising that peo
! pie here are wondering if the Indiana
! authorities will bp able to keep Otto
i in prison until such a time as his fate
shftll be determined, for despite the
i fact that he has But one hand —his left
«lya od ■is wff -at 1
■ ing and nerve and an uncanny ability
to do the unexpected—and get by witti
;it.
Because of these qualities, many
who are inclined to admire Otto are
wondering if he did not permit him
self to be shot when he was captured
in Terra Haute trying to hold up
a drug store, rather than exchange
shots with the druggist who shot him.
Reports Mere so far do not indicate
whether Wood fired his gun or not.
And i though he has participated in
numerous holdups, he has always
maintained that he used a gun merely
for bluff, and that he has never shot
anyone. Even in tlie killing of Kap
lan, the Greeiusboro pawn broker, for
which he was serving a thirty-year
sentence in State prison here Wood
did not shooto him but hit him over
the head with the butt of his gun.
And Wood still maintains that he had
no intention of killing Kaplan, and
: iMnt the blow he struck was not hard
; enough to cause death. ,
l Before holding up the drug store
; on January 25th when he was cap
! tured after being seriously wounded —
the druggist’s bullet went entirely
through his body, a few inches below
the heart—Wood had participated in
anothe rholdup in Terre hav
ing "held up a railroad brakeman and
taken his watch, some money and con
siderable clothing. This was on Jan
uary 19th. The fact that he was
driving, a Ford coupe which had been
stolen from Roanoke, Va., on Janu
ary 11th, indicates also that he was
up to his old tricks of stealing auto
mobiles.
The stealing of this coupe also cora
-1 plicates Wood's present status, since
the government authorities ace seek
ing him now on a charge of inter
state trafficking in stolen automobile?,
while the maximum penalty in In
diana for holding up the. drug store
is 26 years in prison. So whether
or not he will be tried there or turned
over .to the federal authorities for
trial or returned to North Carolinaito
serve the rest of his thirty-year .sen
tence for second degree murder* re
i mains to be determined. j
Positive identification of Wood by
the Terre Haute police was not made
until February 3rd since he had been
too ill until then to have his finger
prints taken. These tallied with the
descriptive circlars and then a pic
ture of him and the finger prints wore
sent to the prison here, where the
identification was made positive, ac
cording to George Ross Pou, superin
tendent of the prison, who said “yes,
it’s Otto, all right.”
House To Hold Night Sessions-
Raleigh, Feb. 14.—(INS) —The
House will hold its first night meet
ing of the present session this week.
The body will meet on Thursday
night by special order to consider judi
cial reform bills that have been in
troduced thus far in the session.
The House will take up the various
bills that have heen introduced that
relate in one way or another to in
creasing the number of judicial dis
tricts in the State.
1 The committee substitute bill pro
viding for the creation of sven addi
tional districts in the State has passed
the Senate. The bill produced the
1 most extended argument the Senate
has endulged in this session.
REVISED REVENUE
BILL TO BE READY
' NEXT WEDNESDAY
The Bill Will Be Submited
i in Practically the Same
‘! Form in Which It Was
| Drawn.
(A FEW MINOR
; CHANGES MADE
It Will Take the Senate and
House at Least a Week
to Consider It.—Other
Bills of Importance.
- Tribune Burean
Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILLE.
Raleigh, Feb.—The revised and re
written revenue bill will probably be
presented to the general assembly by
the joiut finance committees on Wed
nesday, it was learned today from one
of those in close touch with the work
of the committee. While a number
|of minor-changes have been made in
i the bill. v and a few sections have
been altered, the bill will be submitted
much in the same form it was drawn
by the advisory budget commission,
it was said.
When the bill is finally submitted,
at least a week will be consumed by
both the senate and house in consider
ing it, it is estimated, since both
houses will probably take the bill up
section by section. It is thought that
consideration of the bill can be com
pleted within a week, unless some tin
exjiected danger should be encount
ered.
A number of other bills of state
wide importance are on the ealeudar
I for this week. The statewide game
bill has already been reported favor
ably to both the senate and house, and
it has been set as special order at the
close of the house session Wednesday,
and will probably come up Monday
night or Tuesday in the Senate. The
bill was on the calendar in the house
Friday but action was deferred until
Wednesday. It seems assured of pas
sage.
The various bills relating to in
creasing the number of the judicial
districts in the state have been made
special order for the' honse Thursday,
night, and at this time the bill ai~
ing tnenumbef of judicial districts,
judges and solicitors from 20 to 27
will be taken up, as well as the Mc-
Lean bill to create four permanent
emergency judges, pending the enact
ment of a constitutional amendment
providing for more judges without
solicitors. This bill was defeated in
the senate when offered as a substi
tute for the bill adopted.
The bill creating the seven addi
tional judicial districts will probably
be approved by the house, close ob
servers here believe, though many
members feel that more solicitors are
not needed, though the judges are.
Final committee hearing on the
Falls-Broughton Australian ballot bill
has been set for Wednesday, at which
time the bill will receive its death
blow, according to many who have
been following this bill. Two con
cessions have already been made,
have greatly weakened it. pros-,
visions leave the absentee voting laws
virtually as they are, and provide for
additional markers at the polls, to
give help to those who desire it. The
original bill would have greatly tight
ened up the absentee voting regula
tions, and would not have provided
additional markers.
The original bill had the support
pf the various women's organizations
of the state, but so many changes
have been made, or will be made, that
there seems to be a possibility that
they will not support the revised bill.
The delay in considering the Austra
lian ballot bill, and the numerous
changes in it, both seem to have been
brought about by the various influ
ences which have been opposing it.
It is understood that Colonel A. I).
Watts, who has been in Raleigh al
most continuously for the last two
weeks, h as been leading the attack
on the bill. The old timers in the
legislature,* even those who are for
the bill, now see little chance for, its
enactment.
The bill changing the date of the
primary from June to August—'but
still on Saturday, so- pity the news
papers—has passed the senate, and
may get past the house, but will fact
a stiff fight, the bill to compel all ve
hicles on the highways to carry tail
lights, including horse drawn vehicles,
entitled “An act to prevent suicide
on the highways” goes to the house
for concurrence with file senate, and
probably be. passed, if Mark Squires
of Caldwell, who knifed a similar bill
in the senate two years ago, can be
modified and convinced that the bill is
necessary. The bill to prohibit the
use of smoke screens on automobiles,
aimed at the whiskey runners, already
passed by the house, goes to the sen
ate for concurrence.
Several more of the judicial con
ference bills, notably the jury reform
bill, will also come in the course of
the week.
Radio Pictures From Paris.
i ' Paris, Feb. 12.—One of the big wire
, leas stations in Paris is to broadcast
■ pictures. These transmissions will
■ be fbr the benefit of listeners who have
installed a “telectograph"—a picture
■ receiving outfit.
I Many a man will pay a lawyer
; for telling him he is wrong, and
; never would thank his wife for the
same advlcs.
CONCORD. N, C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1927
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KICHOEAS >f DUTL£R
Lev. Harrv Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the Park Avenue Bam
fist Church, New York, urged confessionals where Protestant#
pould be comforted by their ministers. Pat M. Neff, forme!
(Governor of Texas, was appointed to the Board of RailroatJ
Mediation. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia
jUniversity, predicted that Calvin Coolidge would not be a
Presidential candidate in 1938. Mme. Hosra Ho noun, thirty**
(two, was the first woman attorney in Turkey.#
(International Kewareeß
CANNONS START ACTION
AGAINST MILL COMPANY
Want $1,700,000 Now Held As Sur
plus to Be Declared In Dividends.
Albemarle, Feb. 12—An action in*
vtdving jj1.700.000 was begun _U
stamy count,v-Siiperlor court here fyt- v
day when the law firm of Brooks,
t'arker, Smith and Haynes, of Greens
boro. representing the plaintiff’s, filed
a mandamus suit to compel the di
rectors of the Wiscassett Mill com
pany to declare in dividends the sur
plus of the corporation over and above
the capital stock and the amount re-
by the stockholders as working
Capital.
The suit is entitled J. F. Cannon
and M. L. Cannon against the Wis
cassett Mill company and the direc
tors. It is said that the capital
stock of the coriioration is $3,600,000,
while the working capital‘set up by
the company is $1,500,000. The sur
plus of the corporation over and above
the capital stock and the working
capital is placed at $1,700,000 and it
is this amount that the plaintiffs
through court action seek] to Compel
the directors to declare in dividends.
The action is made returnable lie
fore Judge J. L. Webb at Shelby on
Saturday. February 26. Judge Webb
being the Superior court judge holding
the courts in the district in which the
Wiscassett mill is located .
Among the prominent directors of
the mill are C. A. Cannon, directing
head of the Cannon Manufacturing
company of Kannapolis; E. T. Cans
ler, of Charlotte, and A. L. Brooks,
of Greensboro. J. F. Cannon, of
the plaintiffs to the action, owns and
controls more than 25 per cent of
the entire capital stock and although
.'or 20 years he has been connected
with the mills ami its tremendous
success he is now excluded from any
active participation in its manage
ment.
The Wisacssett mill has been one
of the most successfully operated in
the country. It has not only piled
up tremendous working capital ami
surplus, but it is said .that of the
$3,600,000 of capital stock nearly
$1,500,000 is represented by stock
dividends. . •
Girl at Head of Women Troops vap
' cr tures Town.
Managua, Nic.. Feb. 11. —A bat
tallion of women formed and led by a
20-year-old girl, assisted the' conser
vative forces which recently recap
tured the town of Chinandega from
the liberal troops, thus restoring
communications between Corinto and
Managua.
Sixteen of the women were wound
ed, some seriously while passing out
ammunition to conservative soldiers in
trenches, cleaning guns and passing
food. Natalie Gargia, of Managua,
leader of the • battalion, Was shot
through the left breast and ie in a
serious condition.
Smith Highway Bill Up Tuesday.
Raleigh, Feb. 14.—-(INS j— The Sen
ate Tuesday will face one of the
stiffest assignments of the present
session when it considers, by special
order, the so-called Smith Highway
bill.
The bill, a substitute offered by the
Senate Roads Committee in lieu of the
bill intorduced early in the session by
Senators Smith and Hargett, is de
signed to empower the State Highway
Commission to designate the route and
location of all State highways.
The bill was placed on the special
order calendar by motion of its co
author, Senator Smith of Wake.
1 PAT IMMNTEFF •
HOSEA HOKTOUMT ~
PRESIDENT READY
TO EXERCISE VETO
fNow Preparing Message That Will
l Kill McNary-Haugen 814, Says
M lYfu&ington, Feb.
Coolidge will assume tlm leadership
at once in the fight against the type
of legislation represented by the Mc-
Nary-Haugeu bill just passed by the
Senate. The President is preparing
a veto message, for it is confidently
expected that the bill will pass the
House next .week. The margin of
eight votes in the Senate, however,
indicates that the measure cannot
command a two-thirds vote for pass
age over at veto, so farm relief leg
islation of the McNary-Haugen kind
may be said to be <J?a(l so far as the
present Congress is concerned.
There is real gratification in ad
ministration quarters that the Pres
ident will take thC lead and write a
message which will for the first time
cite the detailed objections of the
administration to the McNary-Hougen
bill. Until now not 1 a word has come
from the White House except by im
plication when the general subject
of price-fixing has been discussed.
Cabinet officers have been unable in
their speeches or to say
a word in direct opposition to the
McNary-Haugen bill because the Pres-,
ident himself had not spoken. Now
the opportunity will' be unrestricted
to argue the case before the farmers
of the country.'
Mr. Coolidge feels that the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill will not benefit, but
actually injure the farmer. The Mid
dle West has heard only one side of
the story, in the opinion of administra
tive officials, and now when the other
side is fully presented, it is expected
that there will be a division of senti
ment. At least the President's veto
message will be something around
which the more or less conservative
elements in the Republican party can
rally.
Opponents of the McNary-Haugen
bill concede that the President’s veto
message will crystallize sentiment and
make a clear-cut issue. It will of
course, be a dominant political issue,
with the forces of former V Governor
Lowden, of Jllonois, taking up the
cause of the McNflry-HaUgen bill. It
might even transpire that Vice-Pres
ident Charles G. Dawes will enter the
debate, for he has a right to his
opinions, even though they may differ
from those of the Chief Executive. #
He has been participating in confer
ences of Senators looking toward the
adoption of the McNary-Haugen bill
in the Senate and if the vote had been
tied, he would have to cast his ballot
in favor of the measure.
Doubt as to Reason For Second K.
' K. K.
Charlotte, Feb. 13. —Because the
local Ku Klux Klan got so big that
a hall couldn’t be found large
enough to hold all the members at
once was given as the eason for
formation of another Klan here, ac
cording, to information obtained to
day. But a high official in the origin
al Klan here declared that, while he
had heard of the second Klan being
formed he knew nothing about n>
! plans. He said that what appears to
be a brand new Klan, nation wide,
■ is being formed from Indianapolis.
A spokesman for the second Klan
declared that the new one will be
very thorough in scrutinizing appli
cants for membership and many ap
plying couldn’t make the grade and
had been rejected.
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
STEPS MEN FOR I
RETURN OF OTTO j
WOOD TO STATE
T George Ross Pou Presents
I Paper to Gov. McLean
! for Extraditing the No
j torious Criminal.
REWARD MAY
BE DIVIDED,
(If Indiana Governor Hon
ors Paper Wood Will Be
Returned to Prison Here
• After His Third Escape.
Raleigh, Feb. 14, — <JP) —First steps j
for the return of Otto Wood, North I
1 Carolina’s one-armed outlaw, were
I taken today when George Pou, state
prison superintendent, presented papers
to Governor, McLean for his signing
extraditing the notorious criminal from
Indiana.
Mr. Pou was assured of the Gover
onr's signature to the papers before
he presented them. The superinten
daut did not plan to go to Terre Haute,
Indiana personally to present the
papers to the Indiana Governor.
If the Hoosier Governor honors the
papers. Wood will be returned to pris
on here nfter his third escape. His
last escape occurred last November.
The SSOO offered by North Carolina
for Wood's return will be left to In- j
diana authorities to award. It ap- j
penred her likely that the amount |
would be split between the*druggist i
in Terre Haute who shot Wood down I
last month when he attempted single
handed jrobbery of a drug store, and
the officers who made his arrest a llt
, tie later.
Wood’s record, photograph, finger I
prints, description, charges against him '
I and alias were received from the In
diana jail by authorities here.
Charges against the notorious crim
inal since his eonfinment here in Dec
member' 1923 for murder of A. W.
Kaplan, Greensboro pawn broker, iii
, elude: Three escapes from state pris
on here, added to his record of two !
escapes from Ohio and Tennessee jails j
previously; violation of the natioual
auto theft act and Virginia theft law;
attempt to rob; an assault with deadly
weapon under the Indiana law.
. THK TK.AI, _ _;
Government’s Effort to Show That
Miller VVas Unusually Interested In
Passage of $7,000,000 Claim.
New York, Feb. 14.— (A 3 )—Bent on
proving that Thos. W. Miller, former |
alien property custodian, was unusual
ly interested in passage of the $7,000.-
000 claim on impounded assets of the
American Metal Company, the govern
ment today sought for the second time
to procure admission of telegrams sent
to Miller by his private secretary.
To do this, the government recalled
Harrison Rouse, investigator of the
general accounts office, to identify tel
egrams taken from government files.
Two of these telegrams were sent to
Miller at Pittsburgh by Fred H. Wil
son, his secretary. One telegram ad
vised Miller that Wilson hhd learned
unofficially that • t'lie claim liad been
passed. The other advised official
passage, i /
The government sought to prove j
that in the three years Wilson was 1
secretary to Miller, he sent no other
telegrams about claims.
Miller and Harry M. Daugherty,
former attorney general, are on trial
for the second time on charges of con-!
spiraey to defraud the United States
of their unbiased services. The first
trial ended in a disagreement.
The charges grew out of the tran#?-!
fer of nearly $7,000,000 of the assets
of the American Metal Company
which had been impounded as enemy
owned, to Richard Merton, agent for
the Societe Suisse Pour Valeurs de
Meteaux. The deal was effected in
1921.
i THE COTTON MARKET
Opened 'F&m at an Advance, But
Prices Eased Off.
New York, Feb. 14. —os*)—The cot
ton market opened firm today at an
advance of 14 to 18 points in response
to higher Liverpool cables.- There was
further covering and buying based on
the passage of the farm bill by the
Senate after the close of business last j
week, ’ but the advance brought jn j
heavy realizing while there may also
have been some selling for a reaction. |
May contrgcts sold up to 14.18, and
October to 14.63, on the initial de- j
mand, but soon lost 10 or 12 points
oi the advance, May ruling around
14.06 and October 14.50 at the end
of the first hour.
The census report showing domestic !
consumption of 604,315 for January
last year was scarcely up to bullish
expectations and probably increased
the disposition to take profits on re
cent purchases.
» Cotton futures opened firm. March
t 13.90; May 14.15; July 14.37; Oct.
> 14.61; Dec. 14.78.
r COLD WAVE AND SNOW
STORM VISIT THE WEST
- Originating in California Storm and
j Cold Wave Are Sweeping Into the
[ East.
, Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 12. —
j Warning of a cold wave in Montana
t and snow in the middle west tomgnt
and tomorrow wan issued today by
i weather bureaus
p Utahans awakened today to find a
- two-inch blanket of snow on the
- ground and predictions that the
j snowfall would continued tonight
and tomorrow.
WANT SUBSTITUTE
FOR MIARY-HAUGEN
FARM RELIEF K
I
Friends of the M% Ask
Authority to substitute
the Bill as Approved by
the Senate.
MEETING OF THE
, COMMITTEE CALLED
Substitution of the Senate
Bill and Its Passage
Would Make Unneces
sary Conference Report.
Washington, Feb. 14. C4*)—Friends
iof the McNary-Haugen /arm relief
bill appeared today bgefore the House
rules committee, and asked authority
to substitute the bill approved by
the Senate for the companion meas
ure now under consideration by the
House.
After hearing Chairman Haugen of
the Agriculture Committee, the rules
group requested him to call a meet
ing of his committee and have it for
mally authorize a request that substi
tution be permitted.
Substitution of the senate bill and
its passage without amendment by the
House would make unnecessary a
conference report to the Senate and
the consequent danger of a filibuster
j against the measure "there in the elos-
I ing days of the session.
While a final vote on the measure
| which was passed last Friday by the
I senate, is not expected to be held in
i the honse before the end of the week,
its supporters confident of its pas
sage, are pressing towards this show
down so that the bill can be plaeed in
| the hands of President Coolidge by
' Saturday.
Its supporters, led by Chairman
Haugen of the house agriculture
committee, a co-author of the measure,
however are planning to bring it to
morrow to a test vote as an index of
its strength on the parliamentary
handling of the bill.
The measure, football of Congress
: for the past three years, although ad
mittedly in the most auspicious posi
tion of itis legislative career, faces
another barrier erected by its House
opponents in an eleventh hour effort
for its defeat. These adversaries are
planning to burden the measure witl>!
amendments no that it* return, tel the
Senate for conference wllf be necessi
tated. There its Senate enemies hope
to bury it so there will be no oppor
tunity for a conference report before
i the present session ends.
Representative Haugen evidently
anticipates such a move against his
measure, and today is expected to at
tempt to thwart it.
STIDY CLASS OF MISSIONS
BEGINS AT CENTRAL CHURCH
Missionary Addresses by Prominent
Visitors to be Given at Central
Methodist Church Starting To
night.
In connection with the program of
Mission study that is being held in
all the Methodist Episcopal Churches
! South, there will be a mission study
period starting at 7 :15 and a mission
! address at 8 o’clock every night this
i week except Saturday at the Central i
! Methodist Church, beginning tonight
and lasting through Friday night.
The mission address will be given
by Rev. A. D. Wilcox, pastor of Trin- j
ity Methodist Church, of Charlotte;
Dr. E. K. McLarty. of Statesville, will
speak Tuesday night, Charles Ireland,
i Conference Lay Leader, of Greens
i boro, will speak Wednesday; Rev.
I R. G. Tuttle, of Salisbury, will ad
dress the meeting Thursday, and Rev.
H. C. Spriukle, Friday evening.
Jn connection with the addresses
the mission study class will make a
study of “Yet Another Day in Me
thodist Missions,” which is just off
j the press and gives a comprehensive
view of the missionary situation.
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MEMORIAL FOR BROWN
BY TRUSTEES OF DUKE
. . I
Missionary' Address by Prominent
With Mid-Year Meeting to Be
Held February 23.
Durhaam, Feb. 12. —In connection
with the mid-year meeting or the
trustees of Duke'university herC dYi
i February 23. there will be a me
| morial service for Joseph G. Brown,
who died at his home in Raleigh a
sbbrt time ago and who for 10 years
had been chairman of the board.
The election of Mr. Brown’s suc
cessor will riot be up at this meeung.
since, according to the statutes of
j the university, the officers of the
board are elected annually at the
meeting which is held in connection
with commencement in June. In the
meantime. Dr. .T. F- Marr, of Way
nesville, is vice chairman or the
board.
Students, officials and faculty
members of Duke will join in the
memorial service, to pay tribute to
the memory of a man who has served
the institution through every state
of its development,
State Convict Escapes.
Raleigh, Feb. 14.—C4*)—Bill Young,
serving three to five years for larceny,
has escaped from the Four Oaks prison
j road camp, State Prison Superintend
ent George Pou reported today. Young
comes from Guilford county.
Farmers of Catawba County ship
• ped 151,000 pounds of poultry in co
s operative shipments during 1926.
1 This amount will be increased 50
: percent in 1927, states County Agent
J. W. Hendricks.
COTTON CONSUMED
DURING JANUARY
..,,$604,584 BALES
i
There Were 7,873,007 Bales
on Hand January 31st—
During January 56,939
Were Imported.
EXPORTS WERE
1,115,792 BALES
Cotton Spindles Active in
January Numbered 32,-
633,550. Statistics by
States Given.
Washington. Fob. 14.— UP) —Cotton
consumed during January totalled
G 04.217 of lint and 54,016 or linters
in December: and 582,315 of lint and
02,230 of linters in January, last year,
the censuis bureau announced today.
Cotton on band January 31st was
held as follows:
In consuming establishments, I>-
852,987 bales of lint and 101,724 df
linters.
In public storage and at compresses,
0,070.020 bales of lint and 57.8T8 of
linters.
Imports for January totaled 5C,-
939 bales.
Exports for January totalled 1,11/5,-
792 bales, including 41,437 bales of
linters.
. Cotton spindles active during Janu
ary numbered 32,633,550.
Statistics for cotton growing states
included:
Cotton consumed during January,
437,788 bales.
Cotton on band January 31st was
held an follows:
In consuming establishments, 1,272c
-740 bales.
Cotton spindles'"active during Jan
uary numbered 17,482,426.
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
ON 13-YEAR OLD GIRL
Three W’hite Men of Yakdin County
in Jail for Alleged Serious Offense.
Winston-Salem, Feb. 14. — UP) —
Jonah Speaks, 52, Leroy Pendergrass,
24. and Garland Cildress, 21, ull white,
are in Yadkin county jail awaiting
trial iu charges preferred by Mies Ed
na Speaks, aged 13, who accuses t»ie
j three of enticing her to go with them
for a ride and her. Miss
Speaks* had been living with Mr. and
Mrs. U. A. Martin, near Yadkinville.
She alleges that me three men came
there and told her that her mother was
ill and wanted her at home. Instead
of taking her home, they carried her
to an abandoned house where she was
kept for a day. It is said that when
rescued the girl was in a pitiful condi
tion.
The three will be given a prelim
inary bearing before a magistrate this
week. ,
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JAMES W. PHARR DIRS '
SUDDENLY IN CHARLOTTE
i Found Dead in His Bed This Morning
by His Son. Fred Pharr., '
I Charlotte, Feb. 14.—CP) —Jaimes
Pharr, 63 years old, ope of the best
known citizens’of this city, died sud
denly sometime last night. rfe was
found dead in bed wheiChis sort. Fred
Pharr, went to call him this morn
ing.
Mr. Pharr was born in Statesville
in 1863.
He was for many years a member
of the board of trustees of the Union
Theological Seminary, Richmond. Va.,
,and of the board of trustees of David
son College.
His wife died last September.
Funeral services will be held to
morrow.
JAPAN MUST MAINTAIN
HER NAVAL STRENGTH
Both Her Land and Sea Forces Are
Necessary to Her Protection.
Tokio, Feb. 14.— UP) —Premier Wa
katsuki told the upper bouse of the
diet today that Japan's ‘"present mil
itary and naval forces are necessary
to maintain and protect- Japan's ex
isting position and rights."
“Unless there is a marked change
in Japan’s international position in
the world’s general condition in other
similar circumstances, Japan must
maintain her present strength on land
and at sea.”
WEATHER FORECAST.
Partly cleudy tonight, colder in ex
i treme west and warmer in central and
northeast portions; Tuesday cair, cold
er in west. Fresh southwest winds.
NO. 65