KlEt' 1 Cji Os Irish Leader ly Save Naval Meet; (o Session Held Today ■ Kevin O'Higgins lsh')t Sunday Bnt |JJa.e Hid Not ■lO Hold Session. Ik did not K ant meeting KrSave Oonfer- KjnVe the Delegates Kave Another Day K positions Stated. ■,| V] , i/Pt Tiie tragic I st:tti‘in:tit. Kevin HF )V id' •■vents served to V little roli.ipse of tile Hy;.l conference. ■ ‘ „t ;hc memory of wlot was present at H|. h - week as a representa pnttfereiiee "f the Irish m the delegates today de- j imletinitely the j which has been w ('. liriilgeinan. head Kb delegation. Mr- GGdge- j R.'ked for the meeting in j K the Mritish delegation | Vj.Y tl , restate Os position : H^ r problem. to clear up ! H|i> inisiinilerstamlings. and i ot ipiest ions of the > ion. ■nroierted session had been i tilled with dan- | Ruerioan delegation did not ; it believed that little j by a public debate ; ■., The Americans were i Hpver. to answer any of the ! Kilieli the British might Hnnl might even have ask- themselves. Krvtood that the .Japanese Hj er iraiis looked with some Hi kcattse of fear that H|d be said which might Hp "blowup" of the confer- H night the British, pre- ! H result of sonic official word j Hi. suggested to Hugh Gib ■c the Americans, that as ■ bad mittested the session, ■ who should assume the ■ . initiative of paving H|r resulted in no action, H»l! delegates to the con- j Hit a sleepless night as the Hi knew that the conference ■ brink of a precipice. had explained that ■in's proposal to confine the ■u arrangement concerning Bngratas was worth serious H under the circumstances ■aps unnecessary to go on ■lbiic meeting. Mr. Bridge- H decided to convoke a j ■ British and Dominion dele- ' ■morning to take some tinal ■it was just before this j Hwied that announcement • ■ that Mr. nlliggin was j B Hi 11 ■ in British Attitude. Hfaiy 11— (A 3 ) —What was j ■s a significant change in 1 ■ attitude toward the cruis-1 ■ was evident this after-, ■it was announced in au- ( B British circles that if Great j ■d the I'nited States could 1 Bnnit the number of 1 (>.< K)0 \ m- to about teii. Great Bri ■be prepared to accept the t ■maximum total tonnage tig- ' m.m\ tons. Bliniiuate .Marriage Notices, j ■niational Nows Service) | B ha.. .July 11.—Activities! B B !'id. the little fellow with ] B t 'l'l lH l arrow, will be aided ! H I'tovided a bill which has j ■tihly reeoinniendcd by the : ■'laiaiT committee of the; is passed. The bill I H :| i'‘''iid;ng of 1 1 corgi a mar- B which peitsons. even 1 B-' years of ago. are forced ■° u ?n the procedure of ap ■ '‘‘.nriago licenses five days H Being married. Bh Ver Passage of the act is ■ Bp n the measure reaches B° ' lO senate as it is being Bjv- " USUr a KToup of At- B| tel ' the author of the B\vS S " es 'Viirld War ■ "jthm go Years. BL •' \ world war I . Kvonty years is B Drvo w with Mar ■twl^ 1,t,Ml By the Weekly ■ ' n ' Wa " obtained by H,'/'’* 1 ' "f the week ly •"'' 1 " 1 ' he a world B Co i 1 ji• r.v on the H ; kl ' Pan in it.- B 'tin l manhood of H-. win .I 11 ' 1 "'omen and "all he involved.” B-t y () V,'' 1 With “I Judy” Hn r k j°. Rations. - B: sJb B Ithousand ■ IVj'" o-mi!.. rplarion- H'Srtl T CM|!,.,- K 11 | “h"' la ,l4 !herg. have fumn '' of his Hm r he Hedin. Hthaiigf, ■. " ' disli-Ainerieaii H*r> af ‘ Kai4*)—A trail that started Saturday with the find ing in Battery Park. Manhattan, of dismembered parts of a woman’s leg. had led today to a double murdfr mystery and the arrest of a initn susjiect. Bit by bit, parts of the torso of the slain woman came to light, the trail finally leading to a Brooklyn house where the dismembered body of another woman was found. The victims were Miss Snrhh Elizabeth Brownell, 60. a seamstress, and Mbs, Alfred Bennett, 48, wife of an ice man, and a mother of four children. Police holding on a homicide charge Ludwig I/ee. 38, janitor of the Brooklyn House where Miss Brownell lived. He protested his innocence after 12 hours questioning. The police theory was that Miss Brownell was slain for robbery and Mrs. Bennett killed when she surprised the murderer at work. While police were working on the murder of the two women, another mystery cropped up in a dark cellar on lower East Side, where a plumber sent to repair a water leak in a tene ment basement in Willett Street, came upon two bundles containing the dis membered portions of a man’s body. Police believe the victim has been dead several months. Identification was not established. Police were starting a systematic search of all sewer inlets when early yesterday a boy walking in the yard of the St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church noticed a bundle wrapped iu a piece of blanket. - aniitinue through Friday. Extra ef forts were made by laborers to com plete work so that local people could welcome an authority on the Bible in a structure that combines all modern equipment with the grace and charm of late Colonial architecture. The Church occupies one of the prettiest sqiots in Concord, its front being shaded by stately trees that have stood as silent sentinels to C/oneord’s grovth for a hundred years. The atrCrcture extends frum Union street to Church, with the Church entrance on the former and the Sunday School building entrance on the latter. The site suggests just such architecture as has been employed. Sunday School Building. The Sunday School building, which is connected with the main structure by an open court with covered arcades on either side, is three stories in height and is planned to house a Sunday school of 1.000 pupils. In the basement are class rooms for those in the beginners’ and cradle roll classes, a stage, auditorium and kitchen. Folding chairs will be used in the auditorium when religious pageants are presented and folding tables will be used when the rooom serves as a banquet hall. In the rear of the’au ditorium are handsome benches of ap plewood. .. The kitchen is as modernly equip ped as are the class rooms, which have chairs, blackboards, tables and desks. In the beginners’ and cradle roll rooms benches around - which ten pu pils can sit, with the teacher’s seat in the middle, are provided. On the second floor, which opens on Church street with winding marble steps from two sides, are quartered more class rooms, a ladies’ parlor and the office. The parlor is equipped with Chippendale furniture given by Mrs. A. R. Howard, and the office is furnished with similar equipment. At the end of the corridor leading from the Church street entrance es the room for the ladies’ Bible class. The equipment includes a Steinway baby grand piano donated by Mrs. ,T. F. Cannon, while the other furniture of mahogany, was given by members of the Grier Bible Class and the Woman’s Auxiliary. On this level are two assembly rooms accommodating 60 each and ».x class rooms accommodating 10 each. Similar class rooms and assembly rooms are on the third floor, which houses also the men’s Bible class room. This room is equipped with mahogany chairs purchased by the class members. Fireproof stairs extend from the first to the third floors on each « J de of the structure and on the opposite side of each floor there are lavatories 1 and toilets. The heating plant is 10-1 1 cated in the basement. Ernest Porter donated the equip I ERR O R > In the July Clearance Sale Circulars for Belk’s, the prices on Pongee and Crepe de Chine were trans posed by mistake. The proper prices should be: 1 $2.00 value Heavy Printed Crepe de Chine, in beautiful range of patterns. Clearance Sale Price $1.48. f Genuine 12 Mommie Pongee, Red Label, First Quality. Clearance Price, per yard 45c. s > ■ Belk’s Department Store i j ment in the cradle roll department; I Mrs. L. T.--Hartnell, Sr., gave the ; equipment for the beginners' depart ment and furniture in the primary de partment was g’vpn by Mrs. J. G. Parks. The open court between the two ! main wings will be used for open air j vesjier services ami for sacred moving ! pictures. Here also will be erected j a memorial tablet, bearing the names !of Lieut. Fred Y. McConnell, killed jin France, and every man in the i Church who served in the World War. From the open court corrdors ex tend into the Church wing, and on the corridors are the vestry and ses sion rooms, the former to the right of the chancel and the latter to the left. - The Church Wing The auditorium, with high naive j effect, has walls of soft green and pi lasters of old ivory. The naive car ries eleven ' chandeliers, ten with ten lights each, and one over the chancel, with 12 lights. The chandeliers are of solid brass in Colonial design. They were given by E. C. Barnhardt, Sr. * Fourteen sidewall chandeliers also are used, these being in similar but miniature design to those in the naive. The choir left faces the chancel, af fording an 'invisible choir. The Skin ner pipe organ, one of the finest in the South, was given by Mrs. J. W. Cannon. In the choir loft also is a Knabe baby grand piano, given by Mrs. Charles Lambeth, of Charlotte. Hymnals, done in gold, were pre sented by the Church, in appreciation of the Benevolent Society which was organized in 1845. Memorian Bibles for the lectern and pulpit given by Mrs. C. L. Smith. The chancel is one of the principal features of the Church. To the rear is an Elders’ bench which will seat all of the elders who will occupy it at bapt : fcmal ami communion services. To the right of the chancel is the lectern and just in the rear of this two chairs for ministers. In front of these chairs is the prie-dieu which will be moved and used at wedding ceremonies. In the center of the chancel is the large communion table carrying silver i flower vases donated by A. Jones Yorke and Miss Alice B. Yorke. The chancel furniture, including the com munion service, were donated by Mrs. J. P. Allison. " Tb the left of the chancel is the old fashioned wine-glass. pulpit and hack of this two additional chairs for min iirters. The collection plates, carved of sol id mahogany \were donaed by Mrs. Nan Pickard, Mrs. J. H. Mewborn. Mrs. P. B. Parks, Mrs. P. H. Wil liams. Mrs. J. N. Sloan. Mrs. R. G. Kizer, Mrs. R. E. Ridenhour, Jr, and J. G. Sims. The pews, of mahogany and ivory, with cushiers of crimson corduroy plush, were given by Mrs R. S. Young. Two flags, one American and the other North Carolina* are draped bn alternate sides of the chancel be tween stately columns. The flags are the gift of P. B. Fetzer. One of the most attractive and im posing features of the handsome church is the spire towering 185 feet into the heavens. The spire, pure white in color, is visible for miles around Concord. The spire houses the Deagen chimes, gift of Mrs. Nan Cannon Stringfellow and J. A. Cannon. The chimes are equipped with two consoles, one for the Church and the other for the Sunday school building. Connected with the chimes is a magnificent etch ed cjock, a gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Cannon. The clock is illuminated and by being connected with the chimes causes them to play at each quarter hour. The aisles are made of wide oak boards, pegged down and beneath the pews the floor is covered with pure cork. The structure, the work of Hobart Upjohn, noted architect, is one of the most complete as well as one of the handsomest in the South. Mubh of the equipment is rarely found in pres ent day structures and already scores of persons from other cities and States have stopped here to view the mag nificent Church. Architects attracted here by the beauty and dignity of the building have been unanimous in describing it as a perfect example of late Colonial architecture, said to be the most per fect of its kind irr America. Tre finished building will repre sent an expenditure of nearly a half million dollars, money expended for the chief aim of the Church —spread- ing the Gospel to mankind. 'Erich Hagenlaeher, former holder of the world’s 18.2 balkline champion ship. has become an instructor at one of the New York billiard academies. $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. ! M’EACHERN IS NiW WELFARE OFFICER FOR THIS COUNTY D. Ray McEi ftata UM» this morning eleCTrn^countv - ! welfare officer for Cabarrus. He won over seven other applicants, the selection be ing made by the county commissioners and county board of education. At present Mr. McEach ern is employed at FisherY. The following submitted applications: Rev. C. W.. Warlick, D. S. Lippard, E. B. Talbirt, Alvin Shinn. George M. Cannon, D. B. Castor and J. H. Brown. TRYING TO GET WAY TO REDUCE TAXES However, a Rate Musi Be Fixed That Will Provide For the Financial Needs of the Counties. The Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh. July 11. —Faced with the proposition of raising the tax rate for next year, the boards of county commissioners in many of the coun ties are casting about for ways and means of preventing this increase, and if possible, to find some way by which taxes may be reduced. The boards are charged with the responsibility, however, of fixing a rate that will provide for the financial needs of the counties as shown in the budget estimates. While the annual levy of taxes may be made up any time before the Wed nesday after the first Monday in Au gust, the board of county commission- ' ers have many matters to attend to in the meantime that may have a bearing on the amount of tax to be levied. Under the present law, the various boards must meet today,' the second Monday in July, and sit as a 1 board of equalization, in order to re view and equalize the valuation of real and personal property, so that each tract of land or article of per- sonal property shall be entered on the tax books at its true value. Adjustments thus made in the prop erty lists, together with the amounts likely to- Be added because of new property entered, may be expected to increase the amount of revenue for next and thus to some extent forestall the possibility of an increased tax rate. In some counties the board of com missioners are still analyzing the budget estimates and endeavoring, wherever possible, to reduce them, es pecially where these budget estimates are larger than the expenditures of the preceding year. Assessment values on real property are fixed every four years and this year is the quadrennial year when the assessment, once made, may not be changed during the ensuing four years, except for extraordinary reas sons. However, any citizen who may be dissatisfied with his .assessment may appeal to the State board of assessment, which board shall fix a time for the hearing of appeal. ANOTHER FLOGGING IN ALABAMA IS REPORTED Legislature Will Be Asked to Pass Bill Banning Wearing of Masks. Birmingham, Ala., July 11. —G4*) — Coincident with the announcement from Montgomery last night that a bill would be introduced in the State legislature on Tuesday to ban wear -1 ing of masks in the State of Alabama for 'other than legitimate amusement purposes, the Birmingham Age-Her ald revealed another case of flogging : by masked and robed men, the third ■in Alabama within two weeks. It was at these floggings that the pro posed bill was aimed. 1 Age-Herald this morning quot ‘ ed a story quoting Eston Murchison, 17, of Bessemer, Ala., that on the ’ night of June 26th he was forcibly 1 taken from an automobile in which 1 he and another youth were riding with ' two “strange” girls, and was severely whipped by five men who wore hoods! and masks. The girls, said Murcbi ’ son, were “taken home” by the masked I men, and Murchison expressed the be lief that they had been maneuvered into his company so that there might be some excuse for whipping him. He ' knew of no other reason, and stated that Ernest Smitterton, 18. his com panion, was not molested. Murchison did not attempt to identify the men. State law officers were in Florence, Colbert county, today to investigate j the whipping last week of Mrs. Bertha ' j A. Slay, 28. by eight men, likewise i masked, and also wearing robes. ' 1 At Oneonta in a special session of - Blount County Circuit Court a grand ■ jury was to be drawn today to in vestigate the flogging last Wednesday jof Jeff Calloway, 19-year-old orphan of Onoeonta, Men who were wearing masks and robes also figured in this Hogging, which was ordered investi gated by Governor Bibb Graves when i the fact first became known. Jerusalem Escaped Earthquake. A Jerusalem, July 11. — GW—The Holy City escaped lightly in an earth \ quake felt in this region this after j noon but loss of life and serious dam j game occurred in surrounding Coun- ! try * Three tourists were buried in col i lapse of a hotel in Jericho, while there also were fatalities at Olivet, Uamallah and other villages. In Jerusalem the small dome of the Holy Sepulchre was badly cracked, and other buildings in the old city collapsed. Several persons were in ■ jured, but no deaths were reported. IRELAND MOURNS At. 3 OF O'RIGGINS, SLAIN BY ENEMIES ... Was Regarded as One of Real Leaders of the Free State Cause and Deatti Creates Serious Situatidit DIED AT PEACE WITH ENEMIES Appeared in Public Foi tfi£ First Time in 3 Yeaiifc Without Escort and Po litical Foes Shot Him. f Dublin, Ireland, July 11.—(/P)—r : Signs of mourning were everywhere today for Kevin O'Higgins, "the strong man” of the Irish Free State, whose well-tilled young life came to an abrupt end at the hands of as sassins yesterday. He was shot from , an automobile as he was walking to mass from his home at Black Rock, near Dublin, and died within a short time with words of forgiveness for his enemies on liis lips. The body today lay in state in the Mansion House. Mr. O'Higgins, usually accompanied by an escort of detectives, was, alone at his own request, for the first time In three years, and his assailants, three of them, sped quickly a\yay af ter inflicting half a dozen wounds? ‘ The dying man gave authorities a good description of the men, jy When O’Higgins, who WH$ vied president of the Free State Council, minister of justice and foreign af fairs, fell with bullets in his neck, chest and left ear, he gasped “I for give them all.” Eamonn Fleming, of the ministry -ot finance, and Professor John Neill, former of education, were in the neighborhood, and were soon on the scene. As the wounded, .man rested his head in Fleming's lap, he whispered “They’ve got me, just as they got my father.” Later he said “1 forgive them. I die in peace with my enemies and my God.” Calm ly and decisively he dictated his will J bequeathing all his possessions to his wife and baby daughter. Then he was taken home. . Dublin's best surgeous. -camp, but there was nothing to be done. O'Hig gins knew he was dying. He em braced his wife and child, anjj said i farewell to friends and co-workers in the Free State cause. Shortly before the end he raised himself from his pillow to say "1 am dying in peace with my enemies. I die in peace. Igo to join Michael Collins.” ~A 1 One of his friends at his bedside remarked: "Kevin, while there s life there’s hope.” “And there is no hope,” he answered. "But I was always a bit of a die hard.” The Free State cabinet was -called into session immediately to decide on necessary steps in what is looked up on as a serious situation, for the slain official was regarded as a bulwark fpt the Free State cause. He had only returned to Dublin last 1* riday from a league of nations conference at Geneva. -He had conducted a vig orous countrywide campaign in be half of government candidates jn re cent parliamentary elections; 4 “ ! 1 Autoists:* Attention. Here’s an easy way to get out of the difficulty when you auto drivers knock down a pedestrian, dost give 'em your auto and call it square. In Baltimore one day Andrew Sullivan was walking across the street wb«tt Maurice Magid came along., in Mi u Rolls-Royce (or flivver —we don't call). Both felt each other’s presence at the same time, Magid’s auto, gif* ing Sullivan a none tqo . gentla bump which threw them to the giound. Sullivan was given a buggy ride to the hospital while was escorted to the police station. When j the case came up in court the jijdgn I was told that the parties most vital ly concerned had decided that Ipp j easiest wuy out of the mess was for Magid to present Sullivan with bis auto along with his compliments and for Sullivan to drop all charge? against Magid. /The judge didn’t mind. Blind But Cheerful. J. H. Waugh. Jr., a 11-year-old boy of Statesville, is totally blind but enjoys life immensely notwith standing his affliction. He is a nupn at the school for the blind at Raleigh and states that he is going to be a musician and a minister when he grows up. The records of organized baseball , show but one instance in which six games were played by the same two teams in one day. That was 38 years ago. when Portland. Me., and Man chester, N. H.. were the contesting < clubs. Two of the pastimes were nulled off i» the morning and four in the afternoon, Manchester winning all six of them. , j wmm Generally fair tonight and Tuesday, except local thundershowers Tuesday ■ afternoon in west and north central portions; slightly warmer tonight In extreme west and extreme southeast portions NO. 6