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Hnate Are Threatened
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HE
HLi oi Congress in
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HH ::.r only remaining biwi
£|3H usual legisla-,
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.. us the two chain-i
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m/m l.tiOUs. Itceemedj
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iherat.ve body in
determined to die |
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V . uked upon tiio end
m/m 1! ea-e. of South
■M.i._ situation in
H Knl.'-trd at the start by
H': - . i<: t:ie Reed reso
■Hl t••..:; =* - pip South Caro
ol to a.'. agreements j
HHH r-irh-ts <ui both sides of
there might have
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d^B'*' 1 democrats and the
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dH st u '"unparatively small
regulars.
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dd 1 '' 1 ' hi-iaut cousin of the
11 "‘ letter group an-'
ready to battle ■
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li > Coventor Fisher, of
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dd* ' certificate eent to
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''■larch 2.—President
1 a bill creating
district for;
d^B 1 ' ' he known as the
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ddh evicted olayer of
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dd> ' • ■ ‘'“Ports that he
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THE CONCORD TIMES
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
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1 TWO BEING BOOMED
FOR NEXT SPEAKERSHIP
■ Graham, of Orange, and Nettles, of
Buncombe Being Boosted for the
•Job.
Tribune Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
!, Raleigh, March 3. —T’wo boome for
i the speakershijj for the next General
| Assembly, two years hence, have got
i ten undex* way coincident with the
final rush what should be bat is
' not the final week of the present ses
sions. These booms are for Repre
i sentative Harry Nettles of Buncombe,
j and Representative “Sandy” Graham,
of Orange—Nettles fx-om the western
J part of the State, and Graham from
the central section. There are rmn
! bliilgs that a candidate from the east
ern part of the state will also be en
. tered, but as yet these are mere rum
! Wings.
1 No statement has been made by
j Nettles ao to his candidacy, and his
boom is being fostered almost entire
ly by his friends, .who point to his
record of five terms, in the legislature,
during which he bias tAken' a large
part in its deliberations. {They also
bold it is due time that a man from
Western North Carolina be elevated
to the office of speaker, and that Net
tles is ably fitted in every way to con
duct this office with ability.
The boom for Graham is much old
er, having gained some headway early
i in the session, and having increased
1 since. Graham has been chairman of
the house finance committee, and has
j made an excellent impression by the
manner in which be conducted the
i many hearings before the. committee
! aud p : loted the revenue bill through
the committee and the house. His
I friends point to the fact that he is
level-headed, has common sense and
has demonstrated marked ability to
handle difficult situations.
Thus a campaign that lias two years
in wbieh to grow has already got un- j
der way. While there is a possibility
for many upsets to occur ,'_n that
time, there is no doubting the old ap
plicability of the saying about the
early bird, ns far as races for the
speakership are concerned.
LEGISLATORS will have to
DO A LITTLE OVER TIME
But It Will Be at Their Own Ex
of Nexi Week.
Raleigh, X. C., March 2.—INS.)—
Indications are that the North Caro
lina General Assembly wjll have to
do a little overtime for whieh they
will receive no pay.
Anyhow this probability faces the
legislators as they dig into congested
calendars during the final week of the
60-day constitutionally-limited stay at
Raleigh.
The solons have abandoned all hope
for a sine die adjournment by the ex
piration of the 60-day session which
falls on Saturday. They are hoping
to leave the capital around the mid
dle of next week.
Despite its promising start, the
1027 General Assembly is just as far
behind with its; business as any of its
tardy predecessors, and now is recon
ciled to working a few days extra.
A number of the big issues of the
session are yet to be'disposed of. These
include the support of the six months j
school, several constitutional amend
ment bills, the anti-Klan bill, county
government reform legislation and the
workmen’s compensation bill.
In addition to these statewide bills,
calendars of both houses are crowded
with local bills. Each day brings in
additional local bilLs In quantities of
50 or more.
Oliver Day at Yorke & Wadsworth
Co.’s.
Next Tuesday. March Bth, will be
I Oliver Day at Yorke & Wadsworth
Co.'s, and every farmer in the county
; is invited to be present. Free lunch
will be served at noon to all farmei-s
i present. Special cash prices will be
j given on that day on all farming im-
I plements. Free prizes will also be
given.
See big ad. in this paper, and spend
all day next Tuesday at this store.
You will certainly have a good time.
Silk Sale at the Parks-Belk Oo.’g.
The big Silk Week Sale at the
Parks-Belk Co., begins Friday, March
4th. and continues through Saturday.
March 12th. All silks, including the
new novelty sprang silk, will be in
, eluded in this sale. These include flat
! crepe, canton crepe, crepe de chine,
i satin crepe, stipple crepe, georgette
. crepe and printed pussy willow. It
; will be to your interest to visit this
big store every day during ttiis sdk
sale.
With oor Advertisers.
Efird's has just received a big ship
ment of spring suits for men and
young men that are 100 per cent. wool.
Prices $25 and $27.50. Extra values
in new spring hats and broadcloth
shirts.
A deed filed at the court house re
cords the sale of property on March
| street, adjoining the property of N.
j A. Archibald, by J. B. Sherrill to Mrs.
John M. Oglesby for $lO and other
j valuable considerations. Another deed
| records the sale of land in No. 11
j township by J. B. Linker to Dick
I Rogers for SI.OO and other valuable
considerations.
i i Read the list of chicken breeders of
j I this county by the Cabarrus Poultry
i Association, which is published in an
I ad. in this paper.
LEGISLATURE TODAY
AUTHORIZED BONDS
1 FOR HIGHWAY WORK
, Senate Passes Bill Carry
ing $30,000,000. —Meas-
[ ure Already Passed by
i the House.
i
j SPEEDING WORK
1 ON LOCAL BILLS
a New Measures Being Pre
j sented Much Faster Than
Old Ones Can Be Dis
i posed Os.
1 Raleigh, March 3.—OP)—The North
Carolina General Assembly today au
thorized the issuance of $30,000,000
worth of bonds for eontinuntion of the
state’s highway program.
The Senate passed a House bill au
thorizing the issue without oppositiou,
! after voting down amendments that
would have cut the issue to $25,000,-
' 000 and that would have prevented
’ counties from loaning money or giv
ing bonds to the State Highway Com
' mission.
; With time before the end of the
session growing short, both branches
of the Legislature today were speed
ing up in an effort to care for neces
sary business and to reduce the num
ber of days they might have to serve
without pay. _ j
The House required a half hour to- j
day for hearing of committee reports!
nnd then received a deluge of new J
bills.
When the second reading roll call |
was reached. 100 members were in
the hall, despite waist-deep snow drifts
surrounding the capitol.
The House defen-ed action on the j
administration measure known as the!
•ounty finance act •'after debating it
half an hour. -7
!It passed bills to create sanitary dis
tricts in the state and deferred action
, on the Royall loan limitation eonsti
ut:onal amendment bill. A b"l to re
lieve a Presbyterian orphanage near
Danville, Va., of payment of North
Carolina inheritance tax on a bequest
was passed.
The State revenue machinery act
was passed. Its provisions were the
ame as heretofore, except for chang
es allowing for quadrenniirt .resolutions
suit of the call for new bills in the
senate before it swung into third read
ing roll call. The permanent im
provement bill on motion of Senator
Pat Williams was put on the calen
dar and made first spifccial order for
consideration on Friday morning. The
maintenance bill was set ns the sec
ond special order for Friday.
By unanimous consent this morning
"he senate agreed to give the old rock
luarry property east of the city to
Raleigh. The bill now goes to the
House.
ROWAN YOUTH KILLED
WHILEL HUNTING TODAY
Banks Ritchie, Son of W. L. Ritchie,
Accidentally Shot When He Slipped '
in Snow.
Banks Ritchie. 14, «on of Mr. and !
Mrs. W. L. Ritchie, of Rowau county,
l was aecidenta’ly shot aud killed this
morning while hunting near his home,
relatives here have been advised.
Mrs. James L. of East j
Depot street, this city, sister of Mr.
Ritchie, says she has been advised
that the boy slipped on the snow while
rabbit bunting, discharging his gun,
the full load euteriug his body. He
died almost instantly. Further par
ticulars were uot given to Mrs. Kiden
hour, she said.
Mr. Ritchie formerly lived iu Ca
barrus county and he and members
of hiri family have many friends iu
Cabarrus who will regret to learn of
the accident.
Hart ness To Be Federal Court Clerk.
Shelby, March 3.— o4*) —Definite
decision as to where he will maintain
headquarters as the seat of the west
ern North Carolina Federal Court
district has not yet been made, Judge
E. Y. Webb said at his home hefe
today. He said be was as yet unde
cided between Asheville and Charlotte.
The judge said however, that J. A.
• Hart ness of Statesville would be ap
i pointed clerk q£ the western district.
Waterfront Fire Under Control.
Jersey City, March 3. —( A *)—After
six hours of toil in a driving gale and
, aub-freezing weather, 27 companies of
• firemen today conquered a fire that
; had threatened to burn out the. Hud
i sou River waterfront. The loss was
; estimated at from $750,000 to $1,000,-
000.
Dr. R. M. Morrow Dead.
Burlington- March 3. —04*)—Dr. R.
1 M. Morrow, of Burlington, who -was
. trustee of Elon College and president
j of the state medical society and a
i prominent church man, died here
early today. He had been ill for some
time. Funeral services will be held
tomorrow afternoon.
1 Another Indictment in Mellet Case,
Canton, 0., March 3.—o4*)—The
' Stark county grand jury returned a
first degree murder indictment against
, Floyd Streitenberger* a former Can
-1 ton policeman, today, charging him
i with eomp’icity in the Don R. Mehett
assassination.
British Auto Racer Killed,
f Pendine, Wales, March 3. —J. G.
y Parry-Thomas, famous British auto
a racer, was killed this afternoon in an
attempt to set another speed record.
CONCORD, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1927
ONLY TWO ME
DAYS OF SIXTY BAY
: SESSION Hi
‘ It Seems Now That It Will
Take at Least an Addi
tional Week to Finish Up
the Urgent Work.
JUSTTWOMORE
►j , DAYS OF PAY
! At Present Only a Few of
1 the Outstanding Import
j ant Bills Before Body
Have Been Passed.
Tribune Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL
‘ j Raleigh, Mar. 3.—Two more days
, of the present GO-da.v session of the
; General Assembly remain. What has
been aeoompliKhed?
Very little, jin one sense, and it
appears that it will i-equire at the
very least an additional week alter
j the official 60 days—and the $4 a
dfty pay expires, for the assembly to
fiuieh up eveu the most urgent of it*
unfinished business.
For at present only a very few of
I; he outstandingly important hills
have been enacted into law, although
more of these important measures
have passed the house than the «en
i ate.
In addition, the general assembly
jis how faced with the necessity of
| providing nearly $1,000,000 aditiou
ial revenue than provided in the rev
! enue bill. This makes the enactment
.of a supplementary revenue oil!
j nece»ssary, in order to meet the ai>-
! )ropriatk>n«. " V
It is only necessary to glahee over
| ‘he calendar of the hou*e and the j
senate, and pick oui the more im- *
oortant raeasurew, to see that thia j
situation is tw depicted. Here f
some of these bills, and their prc*.-:
ent statu*: f.
Educational Bille—Graham bill, ‘
where the tax ou tobacco mftnufaj-i
during companies has already hb**u J
(Stricken out, and which it was est:-i
•nated would yield virtually SIOO.- j
000 a year in revenue. This section j
was inserted by Reprenentative, j
Townsend sh the house, after the li- 1
ixgnce cotfcmittoy had deleted it.
''frill-iipyt Jacks nearly $1,000,000,
'aemmk revenue fco* mews
appropriation*. '
Maintenance appropriation* bill— j
This bill fe? now on the calendar in i 1
’he senate, and will be taken up as j
sfXiu as consideration of the revenue!
Sill ift completed. The appropriations
iu this bill were increased from but
a little more than $15,000,000 to
$15,850,000 by the hoime, the biggest
single increase being the educational i
equalization fund, which was boost
'd from $2,500,000 to $3,250,000.
Permanent Improvements Anprt>-D
I priation Bill—Now on the calendar |
in the senate, after having been j
passed by the house and approved ns .
recommended by the budget coxnmts-1 1
sion, with the exception of the item I
for SOO,OOO for a state radio station, i
I whieh was deleted
! Confedex-ate Pensions Bill—Has;
i passed the senate, now on calendar j
in house. Provides for material iu-p
crease in pension to Confederate vet- {
erans and their widows, amounting |
| f o approximately $1 a day. Appro- j
; priations for this bill is included In
the general maintenance appropria
tion bill, nnd cal’s for $1,400,000 the
first yenr of the biennium and for
$1,100,000 the second year of the
biennium. Assured- of passage in
house.
Educational Bille—Graham bill,
calling for state-wide ad valorem i
tax for school purposes, has passed
house and on senate calendar.
Woltz bill, providing for continua
tion of present school taxation sys
tem, with the eqnalizaztiou fund of
$2,500,000. has passed senate nnd is
on calendar in house. Opinion is
that Graham bill will be defeated in
senate, and that the house will com
promise on Woltz bill with equnlizaz
tion fund increased to $3,250,000 as
provided for in the general mainten
ance appropriation bill.
Bill to Increase Judicial Districts
to Twenty-foul*—This bill has passed
both houses, but was amended in
senate. Bill is now in conference but
it* status is regarded as precarious,
due to inability of various factions
to agree on the re-districting of the
state, j
Bill to Re-district the State into
24 .Tu didial Districts —Not ye!
brought out by the committee, pend
ing outcomes of conference on bill to
increase number of districts.
County Government Reform Bills —
Passed by the senate and on the cal
endar in the house, where their fate
is doubtful. Designed to regulate
county affairs more economicaly, espe
cially county fiscal affairs.
Bill to authorize purchase of an ad
ditional Prison Farm—Passed by
house and on senate calendar. Calls
for expenditure of another $400,000.
Farm Colony for Women Prisoners
Bill—On calendar iu both senate and
house, and already considered in sen
ate, v. ith action deferred. Calls for
, appropriation of $60,000 for build
' ings, but nothing for maintenance
1 provided. Outlook unfavorable in
both houses.
And so the list might be continued
1 almost indefinitely, since with almost
the exception of the $30,000,000 high
way bond issue bill and the Smoky
Mountains Park bill, scarcely a single
bill of state-wide importance has been
• j enacted by both houses.
>j Neither can any definite predictions
i j be made concerning what will happen
to a bill when: it goes from one house
Working Day and Night On the
Bill To Redistrict the State
The Tribune Bureau ; than during the past two years.
Sir Walter Hotel , largely as a result of the realiza-
Raleigh, March 3.—Will the re- tion that if these' four additional ju
districting of the state lo provide the j diclal districts are not. added to. that
rfour additional judicial districts as! the courts will he more crowded than
; proposed in the bill now in confer-1 they have ever been before, the friends
| cnee between the house and the sen- j of this bill are hopeful that the vari
j ate prove the rock upon whieh the bill j oui* differences earn be successfully
> will meet shipwreck? : ironed out and au agreement reached
: That is a question that is being
-I much discussed, now that the other
r major bills are out of the way—the
■ maintenance and permanent irnprove
j /nent appropriations bills, whose pas
; sage by the senate is virtually assured.
(For while there is a decided disposi
tion to compromise on the passage of
the judicibl bill, calling for ad
ditional districts, with a judge aud
a solicitor for each, with no reduc
tion in the salaries of the solicitors,
and with the proposal for two perma
fttent emergency judges eliminated,
j there is still doubt in the minds of
a number- as to whether the state can
■be redixtrioted in such a manner as
)to prove satisfactory to the major
ity.
Those who have followed the sltu
, ntioti closely recall that two years ago
'virtually the same tiling liappened
etfiat now threaten* to be repeated.
A bill was introduced almost identical
with the present bill to provide four
additional judicial districts, but when
it came to the.task of creating these
four districts, there \vn* so much dis
cord, and so much scrambling on the
part of various counties to be changed
■from one district to another that the
bill finally went on the rocks.
The result was the last-minute pas
sage of the emergency judge act,
which has now expired, and which no
.one wants to see renewed. Yet if
an agreement is not reached on this
present Jxill the judicial congestion in
the state will be even worse than it
was two year* ago. since If this new
bill is not enacted, thex-e will uot even
be any emergency judges and the ex
isting twenty judicial districts will be
;even more congested with litigation
i ■— ■■ » ■ 1 —« f ■i.i.i-i
! . “
\to another. For the first four or five
weeks, the principal indoor sport of
the house was the slaughtering of I
senate bills. And for the last week or j
so the senate has been x-etaliatiug by :
amending bouse bills until they are j
scarcely recognizatble.
| The reason, of course, has been the
almost opposite point of view taken
ou a majority of subject* by the two
houaes, and by the warfare in the
bouse itself between the 75 “Poor”
counties and the 25 wealthier ones.
The senate on the whole ha* run
to form, its stand iSoha. or les*
cOttchfifig wTfh ~ rttf -JfTfft' TW^
wealthier comities.
So it is that with but two more !
official days left in the present ses- ,
sion, the great majority of the more ;
important state-wide measures art* j
still hanging fire, with but meagre j
indications of what will become of i
them in the final rush.
It is taken for granted- tkqt at least i
an additional week will be required j
to untangle the situation.
Important bills fully enacted to ;
date:
, Smoky Mountains National Park, i
proriding $2,000,000 bond issue. I
Hargett Highway bill, with S3O.- j
000,000 bond issue for roads.
State-wide game law.
Consolidation of Fisheries Com- j
mission with Department of Conser- j
vation and Development.
Cape Fear River bridge bill, for
$1,250,000 bond issue.
To provide right-of-way for inland'
canal.
That’s all we gnu think of now. j
Seek to Halt Auto Thieves.
(By International News Service.)
Raleigh, N. C« Mar. 2.—A con-i
certed effort to thwart automobiles!
thieve* stealing txutorn!biles in Nortfl
Carolina and fleeing into adjoining
states, where no effective nutomobil*'!
! title law is in force, will be made
by the Department of Reveuut, no- -
cording to plans announced here to-1
day. *
Commissioner of Revenue Dough
ton has been advised by Senator F. j
M. Simmon*, of North Carolina. ;
that he will very probably be given |
Federal assistance in pnrsuriug into j
adjoining states thieves of . autoino- j
biles taken from North Carolina. >
Literully hundreds of automobiles
were claimed to have been stolen in
Western North Carolina recently
and run into Tennessee and Geor
gia.
Christian Advocate Raps Duke Dances |
Chaperoned University’s Professors
Greensboro, March, 3.—The North
Carolina Christian Advocate to be
received today by the hosts of Method
ism throughout the State, contains a
leading editorial paragraph which bids
fair to arouse a great deal of comment
and perhaps some action in regard to
the control of Duke University at
Durham.
Naming jio names, the paragraph
gets there dust the same, and is in
reality a striking denunciation of the
dance which Duke University students
gave in Durham on Friday night,
February 11. Coming from thhe auth
or it does come from, there is bound
to result, say leaders of the denom
ination here, a reckoning between the
opposing factions in the church, those
who would permit, the university au
thorities to sponsor such a dance and
thooe wh’o are unalterably opposed
to ft.
“Jesus was nccustomed,” states the
paragraph iu question, the first one
of the first page, “to pray at mid
night, but He never chaperoned a
dance at midnight or at any other
hour. Herodias was the dance chap
erone of those eventful days, and it
was at her hands that John the Bap-
, i whereby the state can be successfully
! | redistricted nnd the four new districts
. created. They *ay that there is a
. ' greater disposition to compromise now
. since it~is either this bill or nothing,
nnd that many who earlier in the j
session were ready to fight for what
■ they wanted or Dothing will now make
, reasonable concession* rather than
I wreck the whole business now at the
last moment.
Consequently, the house committee
, on courts and judicial districts is
working day and night on the bill
• to ivdistriet the state and Representa
tive Willis Smith, of Wake, chairman
of the committee, is hopeful that a
satisfactory bill will yet bo worked
oat. to which both the house and sen
ate will agree.
Evidence of the fact that the house
is becoming less belligerent and more
inclined to compromise is seen in the
1 fact that virtually no objection was
raised when it was announced that
the house and senate coixfereuee com
mittee had agreed to eliminate the
two permanent emergency judges,
rather than cut out the $750 expense
allowances of the Solicitors. If the
announcement had been two or three
days earlier, while the house was still
in its ‘insurgent mood, it would have
scrapped the bill rather thau agree
to this change. But its mood has
changed greatly iu the last few days
as the end has grown nearer and the
mountain of hi.ls on the calendar
daily larger.
Thus while it is by no means cer
tain that an agreement can be reached
on this present bill aud the one for
redistricting the state, the outlook i*
certainly much brighter than it was,
all agree.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Unchanged to 6 Points Higher
i With May Later Sellitxg Off to
j 14.54.
New York, March 3. — UP) —The oot-
I toil market opened unchanged to six
jxoint* higher with near months rela
tively firm on covering, but soon eas
ed under southern selling and realiz
ing, the latter being promoted by rel
atively easy showing of Liverpool.
May sold off from 14.54 to 14.45,
and October from 14.81 to b*'
Tmt run ng about 8 to OjjAinT* nefwe
er. No special news factor was par-
I ticularly emphasized in explanation of
| the decline, but the extent of the re
j cent advance appeared to have ereat
jed reactionary sentiment. It was re-
I ported that European buyers were
! showing oigns of hesitating around the
higher level of prices.
I Private cables reported hedge selling
! and London selling in Liverpool, but
1 houses with Liverpool connections
i were among the early.buyers here.
1 Cotton futures opened steady. March
j 14.45; May 14.54; July 14.08; Oc
tober 14.80; December 14.93; Jan
! uary 14.85.
' THE STOCK MARKET.
| 1
! Good Buying Support For Recent
Leaders Appeared At Opening of
Market.
New -York, March 3. — UP) —Good
buying support for recent leaders ap
peared at the opening of today’s
; stock market. Announcement that
j George f\ Baker’s illness was not as
! serious as first reported led to active
: short covering in stocks of which he
lis believed to be a large holder.
! Houston opened two points higher,
I Geueral Railway Signal crossed 105
|to a new high record, nnd Asphalt
moved up a point. American Woolen
; Preferred dropped 1, and Stromberg
! Carburetor touched the lowest price
in five years.
Bow Legged Woman Seeks Beauty;
Leg Amputated.
Los Angeles, March 3.—Dmbar
: rassed by fashion’s decree, Helen R.
j Goldman, who was bow legged, sought
, beautification by surgery. She de
veloped blood poisoning and one leg
was amputated. Now a jury, in
cluding four women, has awarded her
a verdict for $25,000 against two
doctors.
! tist lost his head. False prophets may
•fret on very well with chaperones of
; midnight revelN, but true prophets
j never.”
A prominent Methodist of Greens
i boro, has lately received a clipping
from the Southern Methodist, of Meta
phis, Teun., which clipping gives an
account of the Duke dance in the
Washington Duke Hotel. Over the
top of the clipping is written in pencil,
“A stigma, a disgrace; the beginning
of the end of Few.” The clipping
in question is a reproduction of a
press dispatch from Durham on Feb
ruary 12, stating that the regular
junior prom was one of the liveliest
social events of the season. The dis
patch comes to the heart of the matter
| in the second paragraph.
The list of chaperones included
11 many members of the Duke faculty.
(Among the chaperones enumerated
| were Prof, and Mrs. Harvie Brans
comb. As will be remembered, Pro
essor Branscomb was the chairman of
'the noted Findings Committee of the
I young people’s convention feathered in
Memphis about a year ago. He is
also professor of New Testament In
1 Duke University.)
i
\
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
. CANTONESE DIRECT
OFFENSIVE TOW
NANKING RJT j
The Objecv Cut Off
i Gen. Chang’s Shantung
| eSe Forces Front Their
i Supply Base.
VaidingTarty
BEGINS DRIVE
British Marines Land in
Shantung.—The Ameri
can Marines to March
Through Streets.
Shanghai. March 3.—(A*)—lncreas
ing indication* today wore that the
next major effort by the nationalists
would be a thrust in the direction of
the Nanking Railway, with the ob
ject of cutting off General ('hang
Tsnng Chang’s Shantuugese forces
from their base.
A nationalist raiding party is re
ported to have engaged the northerners
at Wakiang on the Nanking Rail
road. and there are other indications
that the southerners are advancing in
strength-
The retirement of Li Pao Chang
an defeuse commissioner of Shanghai
was in accordance with the elimina
tion from the Shanghai area of all
those connected with the collapsed
forces of Mnrdhal Sun. who until ten
days ago was the chief defender of
this city against the nationalists.
Li Pao Chang has left for the north.
It is reported he feared to remain ow
ing to the beheading of strike agita
tors, for which he was responsible.
The American marines will march
through the international settlement
here Saturday.
One thousand British marines land
ed today and marched through the
settlement. Thousands of foreigners
and Chinese gathered to welcome them.
Squads of soldiers and police were re
quired to maintain sufficient room for
te column to pass.
WHAT IS CAUSING IT?
Big Slump in the Manufacture of
Cigarettes in North Carolina.
The Tribune Bureau
arettes in the state for tbtTlaat month
or si* weeks? Are the tobaceo man
ufacturing companies purposely cur
tailing productions waiting to see what
the general assembly is going to do
about taxing them, especially/with re
ign nl to a tax on production?
While no exact information can be
obtained as to what the reason is,
the fact remains that there ’lias been
a big slump in the production of cig
arettes in the state, as indicated by
the decrease in the amount collected
by the United States internal revenue
department for February, the figures
having just been announced by Gil
liam Grissom, collector for North Car
olina.
Collections for February were $256,-
817 less than for February, 1926
which is the largest decrease over any
other corresponding month for the past
two years, aocohding to Mr. Grissom.
But Mr. Grissom poßitively declined
to venture any reason for the decrease,
aside from a decrease in the demaud
for cigarette revenue stamps.
However, despite this large decrease!
iu collections for February, collec-1
tions for the entire year are still $7,- j
500,000 in excess of collections for the j
first eight months of the preceding
year. For the first eight months of
the fiscal year 1025-20 collections were
$121,500,214. while for the first eight
months of the present fiscal year,
through February, collections have
.amounted to $129,003,518. But as a
result of the slump in collections in
January and February it does not now
appear that collections for the present
fiscal year will amount to $200,000,-
000, as was at first thought possible.
But since it is generally admitted
that there is no decrease in the de
mand for cigarettes, a number are of
the opinion that, the manufacturers
are merely ‘'sitting tight” to see what
the general assembly is giong to do
before putting on full steam ahead for
full capacity production.
PROHIBITION MEASURE
IS PASSED BY SENATE
Bill Creating Bureau of Dry Law-
Enforcement Amended Before Being
Approved.
Washington. March 2.—Operating
under rules limiting debate, the sen
ate late today passed with amend
ments the house prohibition reorgani
zation bill. The vote was 71 to 6.
Prohibition, the Anti-Saloon League
and politicians came in for scathing
attacks as the measure, which would
create bureaus of prohibition and cus
toms in the treasury department, was
brought to a vote with the'aid of clo
ture.
Minor amendments force a return
of the bill to the house for concur
rence. It has been demanded by As
sistant Secretary Andrews, chief of
the dry forces.
In addition to separating prohibi
tion enforcement from the internal
revenue bureau it also would place
dry employes under the civ.l service.
Reject Muscle Shoals Bids.
Washington, March 3. — (4*) —Bids
of the American Cyauamid Company
and the Farmers Federated Fertilizer
Association for Muscle Shoals were
rejected by the House Military com
i mittee t«>day.
BRIGHT GUN IKES
SNOW MOVING I ASK
. EASIER FOR STATE
? Hoped That Clogged Higk
■| ways Will Be Cleared
•{ Some for Traffic During
! the Day.
BUILDINGROOFS
! BADLY DAMAGED
i Six Buildings in Golds*
boro, One at Wilson arid
Two at Salisbury Dam
aged by the Snow.
i Charlotte, March 3. — (A*) —Bright
! I sunshine that quickly started the
1 1 heavy blanket of snow to, melting
: j greeted North Carolina this morning,
adding to the hope that clogged high
ways throughout the state soon wotrM
! be cleared.
Prospects today were that by to
night most of the difficulties created
i by the unusually heavy snow that in
some places reached new record pro
portions virtually would be over, ex
cept for the sloppiness underfoot. Mo4t
of the cities had cleared their street*
by this morning and traffic and street
car services resumed something Tike
normal appearance. State Highway-
Commissioner Page in a statement
this morning said highways would bo
cleared by tonight and traffic become
normal.
The snow that begau frilling Mon
day in many places ceased throughout
the State last night, but not before
the heavy weight had caved in the
roofs of six buildings at Goldsboro, one
at , Wilson and two at Salisbury.
Street ear service was suspended at
Winston-Salem, and badly disrupted
in other places. Automobile and foot
traffic was barred or badly hampered
every where.
Freezing temperatures last night
added to the discomfort caused by
j the enow, and in many places* added
icy covering to streets and roadways.
| The drop in temperature, however
was not extreme and by 9 a. m. the
enow was beginning to melt in many
places.
Hickory and Asheville reported the
lowest overnight temperature, witflyj
21. iL/b Point reported 24. Gaston-* j
]sSndedV to 27.' ■ * ' ™
Eastern "North Carolina suffered
the most heavily of any section espe
cially in the disruption of communica
tion lines. Albemarle Sound section
was completely cut off from wire com
inunicat’on in any direction; Eliza
beth City and Edenton having been
without wire communication of any
kind since yesterday morning with
little prospect of resumption today.
New Bern has been without common -
ication with the outside world since
yesterday, although the Western Un
ion Telegraph Company had one. line
today working in that city.
The roofs of the Goldsboro Argus
and the Goldsboro News, the two
papers of Goldsboro, caved in yester
day, along with the roofs of four eth
er buildings. A tobacco warehouse at
Wilson fell in ami a garage and a
warehouse at Salisbury. Schools were
closed for the remainder of the week
in many sections.
STEAMER AGROUND
Steamer Firmor* Driven Aground by
Gale Which Swept Coast Yester
day.
Baltimore, March 3. — (A*) —The
steamer Firmore today was rejktttjad
aground off Smith's Point, Va., near
the mouth of the Potomac River.
She was driven ashore by the gale
which swept the South Atlantic coast
yesterday. The Firinore, which is
bound from Daiquiri for Baltimore
with a cargo of ore, was reported
aground last night, but her position
theu was not known. No particulars
were given in the radiogram received
here, but the ship is not believed to
be in a dangerous position.
Heaviest Snow in Half Century in
Statesville.
Statesville, March 2.—Statesville
today looked out on the heaviest
blanket of Know in this section in
54 years. The official weather ob
server reported 18.1-2 inches in the
' level and. in many places drifts were
several feet deep.
Older inhabitants remember that
I on March 18.1873, a total of 20 inch
es was reported officially. 1
Business was completely suspend
• cd for several hours this morning-
Traiim. mails and bus lines are tied
■ up. Eaotbouud Southern railway
■ ruin number 15 was tied up here
s four hour* by snow and the loeal
; from Charlotte, due at 4:50 a. m.,
I was five hours late.
i Baby Found on Highway Near
Elkin Adopted.
Elkin. Mar. 3.—The little girl
i baby that was found on the highway
. just outside of the town limits two
. weeks ago has been adopted by Mr.
[ ’ and Mra. J. A. Somers, of this place.
Dork Fay is the name given it by
. her foster parents and the little one
I is fortunate tb have fallen into the
> care of these good people and share
with them the comforts of their nice
home.
i
WEATHER FORECAST.
Fair tonight and Friday, continued
cold, freezing temperature to the
coast tonight.
NO. 70