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KANNAPOLIS DEPARTMENT
(By JAMES I* MOORE)
KANNAPOLIS HI CAGERS
begin fall training
Three Veterans and Crop of Rookies
Out For Early Practices For Team.
Kannapolis, Oct I.—The Kannapo
lis Hi basketball squad, under the di
rection of Coach Chic Demarcus, has
launched training in preparation for
a hard campaign on the hardwood.
Some of the strongest teams in North
Carolina will be met this winter with
the annual series of championship
tilts topping off the 6chslule.
Radiating optimism, Coach DeMar
cus declared after the limbering up
session Thursday afternoon that he
would produce a quintet as strong as s
the one of last year, which conquered
Charlotte, Gastonia, Salisbury, and
13 other good contingents over the
state, .-mi
He expects much from Lottie Fowl
er captain of last year’s troupe ; Ed
gar Ketchie and Jimmy Funderburke,
letter men, and the following rookies:
Roy Dellinger, Robert Rollins, Marvin
McCombs, Leon Winecoff, Jimmy An
derson and Jimmy Peeler. He is also
banting on “Smokey” Johnson enter
ing school and securing a berth on
the team.
Although the loss of Red FWler,
Country Rollins, Jimmy Walton and
Jake Widenhouse will be felt by the
locals, the prospects for filling the
gaps left by their departure, seem to
be exceptionally good and Coach Pe-
Marcua hopes to develop a nifty team
within the next few weeks.
Captain Fowler, a high school ath
lete of high rating, is showing up well
in practice, hooping the basket with
amazing regularity. Local powers
are standing pat on his cinching the
left forward position. Funderburke
and Ketchie have demonstrated in tne
early practices that they have lost
nine of their old time prowess, while
Robert Rollins, brother to the famous
“Country” is showing up best among
the recruits. Marvin McCombs and
R«on Winecoff will make valuable
players, as will little Jimmy Peeler.
CHINA GROVE IS WINNER M-6
Beat Cbtrrrhland Club By Ripping
Line to Pieces Friday Afternoon.
(By Jazzy moore)
„ China Grove, Oct. 1. —A smashing
offensive that ripped the alien line to
shreads netted 16 first downs and
brought the China Grove Farm Life
football outfit to a 24 to 6 victory over
Ohurchland Hi here yesterday after
noon. The locals were superior in ev
ery department of the game.
Jake Widenhouse and Captain Poole
each scored a couple of touchdowns
for the Farm Lifers, while Snyder, all
state besketter last season, crossed
the last white marker for Ohurchland.
The locals were reinforced -by
Davefll McLeod and Widenhouse, of
Kannapolis Hi fame. Red Fowler,
the other member of the “Four Horse
men” from Toweler Town, was out of
.the game on account of a bum shoul
der.
The line-up l
China Grow Pos. - Charchland
M Hannah
(Writ RT Cuter
Orercaah BO
Robbins Center Kennedy
MiUer LT Carter,
Templeton LG Grubb
Deal RE Taylor
Widenhouse QB Snyder
Feimstex LH 1
Denny KH : Allbnght
Poole FB Barnes
Score by periods:
Ohurchland 0 0 6 o—6-
; China Grove 6 12 6 0—24
Summary—Time of quarters, 10
'minutes. Referee, Killingsworth (U.
N. C.). Umpire, Van Poole (Hary
land). Timekeeper, Smith (Lenoir-
Rhyne). Head linesman, Miller,
(China Grove F. Ll).*
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NOTABLE HOME COMING
EVENT PLANNED LENOIRr
RHYNE COLLEGE OCT. 15
Alumni, Stoients, Supporters Gather
; Fjor Few Honrs of Entertainment.
—Grid Battle Between Mountain
Bears of Lutheran School and Oar
son-Newman Big Feature of Day.—
Bountiful Old-time Southern Dinner
; Will Follow Combat.
(By JAZZY MOORE)
Hickory, Oct. 3.—A notable Home
Coming event has been planned for
Lenoir-Rhyne College on Saturday of
next week, October 15th, when alum
pi, students, and friends of the insti
tute will assemble here for a few
hours of social chat, exchange reminis
- eences and a big program that has
been arranged to give everyone a
. pleasant time.
A feature of the day will be a grid
* combat on the local athletic field at
three o’clock, at which time the Le
noir Mountain Bears, under the tute
lage of Coaches Dick Gurley and Har
.rj Warner, the latter be ; ng a product
of Walter Johnson’s celebrated Pres
byterian College eleven from South
Carolina, test their strength against
the strong Carson-Newman moleskin
/Warriors. The Hickory team promis
■ es the home comers one of the best
games and stiffest fights ever seen in
a football contest in these parts as
j both elevens are considered powerful
j machines among the smaller colleges
• of this section.
Following the gridiron squabble the
alumni and others will be escorted to
Highland Hall, where a bountiful old
: time Southern dinner will be served
' at six o’clock. The visitors are ask
ed to come prepared to ask questions
concerning their dear old alma mater
and bring words of encouragement to
the students who have just enrolled.
After the feast the home comers
will be shown over the campus,
where two handsome new buildings
are rapidly being completed. One of
these buildings is the D. E. Rhyne
administration Hall and the other is
the Mauney Hall, the new dormitory
for girls. The buildings are scheduled
to be completed February 1, 1926.
The dormitory is to be of fireproof
construction, only the window frames
and doors to be of wood. There will
be 44 rooms in the building with a
bath for every two rooms. Other fea
tures will be the parlors, kitchenettes,
and trunk storage room. The new
dormitory will replace Oakview Hqjfi,
I wh’ch is deemed unsatisfactory in the
face of present needs and conditions.
I Upon return here Saturday every
, graduate and supporter of the col
lege will be filled with pride when he
or she finds the progress that has been
made on the new buildings.
fj. Among the distinguished personages
who will be present on the occasion
| are; H. Brent Schaeffer, president of
the college; Dr. W. J. Boger, chair
man of the college board of trustees;
and probably J. L. Morgan, of Sal
• isbury, president of the Lutheran Syn
<>4 in North Carolina; and Rev. Jeff
Norris, representative of the tilumni.
HIGH SCHOOL GRID ELEVENS
SHOW STRENGTH IN GAMES
DURING THE PAST WEEK
Brief Review of Most Brilliant Out
fits Given.—Nine Teams Descerve
Recognition.
(By Jazzy Moore.)
Kannapolis, Oct. 3 Much is
said of the calibre of football being
played by the various colleges of the
state this season. Papers almost
daily exploit Jack McDowell, the fam
ous Schwartz, Henry Owl, and oth
ers equally as great, but its a few
black lines one finds about the high
“schools, the stepping stones of the big
schools, in black, bold type.
A number of outstanding triumphs
last week gave rise to new interest
among high school supporters and
with a few exceptions little ado was
made over them. Such outfits as
Charlotte, Salisbury, Sanford, Rock
ingham, Asheville, Spencer, Wilson,
and Winston-Salem deserve recogni
tion.
On Friday afternoon of the past
week Charlotte showed a versatile
group of ground gainers to Gastonia,
in registering its second victory in as
many weeks, the sepre being 43 to 0.
Leaksville Hi fell before the co-or
dinating onslaught of the Lexington
back and line while Sanford assault
ed Wendell, 83 to 0, thereby rolling
up the loftiest scholastic score of the
season.
After battling in mid-field for three
quarters, Salisbury put over the oval
in the final stand to edge out Con
cord, 6to 0. The Wilson Highs play
ed straight football in their opening
effort, victimizing the nifty Tarboro
eleven, 33 to 0.
Showing marked improvement over
the past- week, the Winston-Salem
h : gh warriors put some meaning in
their game against High Point, win
ning by 14 to 6, while the ever for
midable Rockingham institute, which
contributes probably the greatest num
ber of athletes to the colleges than
any other high school team, played
straight football against McColl and
made no effort for a larger win than
7 to" 0.
KANNAPOLIS SOCIAL
NEWS OF THE PAST
FEW DATS
(By J. MOORE.)
Kannapolis, October I.—-On Wed
nesday afternoon of the past week
Mrs. James W. Flowe was hostess to
the" Social Hour Club at her home
on Main Street, South. Quantities
of pretty Autumn flowers Were most
effectively carried out in decoration.
After a series of interesting rook
games a salad course with accessories
was served to the guests.
Those partaking of Mrs. Flowe’s
hospitality were: Mrs. John H. Rut
ledge, Mrs. Edward J. Sharpe, Mrs.
Jap Lowe, Mrs. John Halstead, Mrs.
James Walton Sr., Mrs. E. C. Ewan,
Mrs. Baxter Yarborough,-Mrs. Burley
Beaver, Mrs. Edward E. Lady, Mrs.
Eugene Wrenn, Mrs. D. A. Jolley,
Mrs. Charles Gp-aeber, Mrs. Horace
Robertson, Mrs. George Allen, Mrs.
M- L. Troutman, Mrs. Walter Yost,
and Mrs. Clinton M. PowelL
P. T. A. MEETING.
Marking the beginning of a new
series of meetings for the fall, the
South School Parent Teachers Associa
tion met Tuesday afternoon at three
o’clock with Mrs. N. S. Stirewalt
presiding. Much interest and en
thusiasm were shown in the plans for
the new school year.
Mrs. Sherrill, the new community
nurse who came here from Spindale,
made a most interesting talk, out
lining her work for the year among
the school children. A discussion was
made of placing milk in the school
for underweight pupils, hut no action
was taken.
An entertaining feature of the meet
ing was the musical program rendered
by Miss Marguerite Cashion’s second
grade.
ENTERTAINS AT DANCE.
Miss Virginia Viola entertained at
a lovely dance Thursday evening at
the home of Mr. and Ms. John Boger
on South Main Street.
Those dancing included: Misses
Grace Barrett, of Rockingham ; Aileen
Moose, Helen Flowe, Mayy Catherine
Sechler, Elizabeth Tiernan, of Salis
bury ; Avis Sherer, of Connelius;
Elizabeth and Adelaide Talbirt,. of
Concord; Mary Harrison and Messrs.
Ben Widenhouse, Jake Widenhouse,
Pike Widenhouse, Eddrie Moose, Sam
Wiley, Sam Hatman, of Salisbury;
Bill Revelle, of Salisbury; Bill Cald
well, of Concord; George Brown,
James Funderburke, and Red Sapp,
of Concord.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Mrs. R. O. Caldwell entertained at
bridge Thursday afternoon at her home
on the Kannapolis road, complimenting
her house guest, Miss Ruth Robertson
of Deita.
Mrs. Walter Yost and Miss Katie
Lou Steele, a former school teacher
in Kannapolis who recently returned
here from Cool Springs to make her
future home with her sister, Mrs.
M. L. Troutman, passed Monday with
relatives and friends at Cooleemee.
Miss Grace Barrett, of Rockingham,
one of the season’s most charming
visitors, is the guest of Miss Virginia
Viola.
Mr. and Ms. T. M. Widenhouse,
announce the birth of a son at their
home on Main Street, South.
M. C. E. Lowe, of Brevard, spent
Monday in Kannapolis, guest of his
bother, Mr. J. G. Lowe.
Miss Josie McKinley spent the
past week-end with relatives at Salis
i bury.
Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Yarborough
t and children were Sunday guests in
' Badin.
Misses Bertha Moser and Amy Hoof,
i of the Spencer public schools, are
passing the week-end here with the
former’s parents, Rev. James F.
Moser. __
Mr. and Mrs. Kinett of Macon, Ga.
i have arrived in the city to spend a
[ few days with Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Smith, the latter being their daugh
■ ter.
Mr. and Mrs. John Rutledge and
■ John, Jr. motored to Lincolnton Sun
, day to spend the day with Mr. and
■ Mrs. John Abernethy.
A goodly number of members of
the Miriam Winslow chapter of East
ern Star attended the meeting held
! Wednesday night by the Concord chap
ter. _
Among the Kannapolis boys and
i girls attending the football game in
China Grove Friday afternon were;
Shirley Turbyfill, Yvonnie Mauldin,
Myrtle Daves, Helen Flowe, Rachael
Kitner, Alma McGuirt, and Messrs.
Lottie Fowler, James Flowe, Ray
Roberts, Edgar Ketchie, Pike Widen
house, Joe Johnson, H. B. Clubura,
John Rutledge and James Moore.
Mesdames R. T. Frye and J. A.
Lambert will represent Kannapolis
at the convention of Kings Daughters,
which will be held Thursday and
Fridny of this week in Hendefson.
Mr. O. W. Woosley, state secretary
of the Sunday School board of the
Methodist Church, will be present
Wednesday evening at the Trinity
Methodist Church to assist in check
ing the Sunday School work here
for the conference year now coming
to a close. Every officer and teacher
of this church is urged to be present
on this occasion.
The Sabbath School department of
the Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Church was host Friday evening at a
social gathering at the church. De
lightful refreshments of ice cream
and cake were served.
An old fashioned'chicken dinner was
enjoyed Tuesday night by members
of the Lutheran League at Propst’s
Springs near the city. The outing
was a most enjoyable affair.
ANNIVERSARY OF
REVOLUTIONARY BATTLE
Battle of Fort Clinton and Fort
Montgomery Are Being Celebrated.
New York, Oct. 3. —The Palisades
Interstate Park Commission, togeth
er with local patriotic and historic
societies has prepared for a suitable
commemoration this week of th'i
150th anniversary of the battle of
Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery,
one of the last and most desperately
fought battles of he American ' Re
volution. The Park Commission is to
mark the site by the erection of a
museum containing wartime relics
and natural history material.
The battle occurred at Fort Clin
ton, near the present site of the Har
iman State Park on the Hudson, ahd
at Fort Montgomery, northward
across Popolopen Creek. The museum
is to mark the site where the final
hand- to - hand encounter occurred
between the Continental defenders
and the British before the
outnumbered defenders were killed,
captured or routed in the darkness.
The battle was technically a de
feat for the Continental forces, but
thfeir heroic defense delayed the Brit
ish so long that they were unable to
get up the Hudson in time to en
courage Burgoyne or interfere with
the victorious American army at
Saratoga.
The British attack was commanded
by "Sir Henry Clinton, head of the
British forces in New York, and the
defense was directed by General
George Clinton, who later became
Governor of New York.
Early in September, 1777, when
Burgoyne was beginning to be alarm
ed at his situation, he got messages
through to Sir Henry Clinton urging
him to make a diversion from the
South and saying he would try to hold
his position until October 12-
Sir Henry immediately advanced
up the Hudson with a fleet under
Commodore Hotham and a force of
-3,000 British, Hessians and Tories.
He deceived General Putnam, who
had general command in the High
lands, into thinking the advance was
to be on the east side of the river.
Putnam Accordingly withdrew several
hundred men from the garrisons ot
Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery.
The next morning, however, Sir Hen
ry left 1,000 Tories on the east shore
to keep Putnam deceived and with
2,000 of his best troops crossed the
river in a fog, landed at Stony Point,
and began an advance which was one
of the best pieces of tactics of the war.
Conducted by Tory guides the troops
marched through dense forests and
rugged defiles to Bear Mountain. Here
he divided his force into two bodies to
attack the two forts. TTiere was a*
stubborn defense by the Americans
and many British were killed before
the defenders retired to the main
works.
Late in the afternoon, when Col.
Campbell’s force had come up to Fort
Montgomery and Hotham’s ships were
cannonading both fortifications, a
general assault drove the defenders
first from Fort Clinton, from which
many gained Fort Montgomery and
there continued fighting, then, after
dark, from the northern post.
The lake at Bear Mountain, now
known as Highland Lake, was long
called Hessian Pond, because many
bodies of these mercenaries were
fllung into it. The casualties on both
sides, in killed, wounded and missing,
the latter mostly American prisoners,
exceeded 1,000, or about a third of
the total forces engaged.
The result ofthe battle was that
Sir Henry Clinton was unable to
lend aid to Burgoyne and the latter
was forced to surrender his army at
Saratoga a week or so later.
TODAY’S EVENTS.
Monday, October 3, 1927.
This is the day for holding ( the
small town elections in Connecticut.
The American Federation of Labor
opens its annual convention today in
Los Angeles.
Indianapolis will be the meeting
place today of the annual convention
of the American Humane Associa
tion.
Trade practices of advertising
agencies will be the subject of a near
ing to be conducted in Chicago today
by the Federal Trade commission.
Hearings on the proposal to con
solidate the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific Railroads are to be
gin in- Minneapolis today before rep
resentatives of the Interstate Com
merce Commission-
Educational courses that have a
direct and practical value to -the
labor movement and the elimination
of all so-called cultural studies will
mark the new Denver Labor College,
which opens today.
Governor Ed. F. Jackson of In
diana and others recently indicted on
charges of conspiracy to commit a
felony and attempted bribery are to
be arraigned in Criminal Court at
Indianapolis today.
The executive board of- the Na
tional Woman’s Trade Union League
meets in New York today to plan a
campaign of public education in the
South, intended to inform people of
all groups of the conditions under
which women work.
Sandy Creek Baptists Against Smith.
Bonlee, Oct. I.—The adoption of
a report containing an objection to
the nomination of A1 Smith, a ring
ing sermon on “Fidelity” by Dr. J.
Clyde Turner, pastor of First Baptist
church of Greensboro, and a big ban
quet in the grove were highlights of
the final session of the 169th annual
meeting of the Sandy Creek Baptist
association, which came to a dose
at Sandy Branch Baptist church, two
miles south of here, this afternoon.
Miss Nutley—Of course, I’m great
ly honored by your proposal, but as
I don’t believe in tying myself to one
man, I must refuse you.
Rejected Male—Well, if I organize
a syndicate, would you consider our
offer?
THE CONCORD
BETTER PORT FACILITIES
AT MOREHEAD CITY
*
■ 1 4f
State to Insist That Norfolk Southern
Railway Restore Its Pier at That
Place. _
The Tribune Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Oct. 3.—Better port facili
ties must be provided at Moreneau
City, so that larg ecoastwise vessels
may dock there than are now able,
and the State will insist that the
Norfolk and Southern Railway fully
restore its dock and pier, which it
originally leased from the State,
along with the railroad lne, accord
ing to I. M. Bailey, secretary of the
State Advisory Transportation com
mission. The commission has already
asked the Attorney General to ad
vise the railroad that it woum rx
pected to restore this dock and pier
to the same condition it was in when
it leased it from the state.
Although no definite word has been
had as yet from the railroad, the
commission intends to insist that this
pier be restored, and perhaps even
improved, provided a means can be
found whereby the state itself qan
pay the difference.
“Os course, we cannot expect the
Norfolk and Southern to do more
than restore the pier to the condition
it was in when it was leased,” said
Mr. Bailey, *‘so if it is found desir
able to enlarge the pier and its ■
facilities beyond that point, the state
must pay its proportionate share.”
The pier has not been in use for a
number of years, so that at present
it is little more than a mass of rotted
piling and rusted iron. However,
there is a depth of from 20 to 30
feet of water at the end of the pier,
which would permit much large
ships to tie up at Morehead than are
now able to dock at either Morehead
or Beaufort.
There has been a growing demand,
however, on the part of Merchants
and shippers throughout the eastern
part of the state, that dockage facili
tie be provided at Morehead City to
permit the entrance of larger ships
there. This has been especially in
sistent in view of the fact that the
Government has recently dredged the
bar in the inlet to a depth of from 23
to 25 feet, making it possible for
much large ships to put in at More
head than heretofore. However, the
absence of adequate dock facilities
has kept them out.
Shipping lines, which have been im
portuned by shippers to make More
head City a port of call, reply that
while they can enter the inlet and
cross the bar, they cannot afford to
stop there unless they have a dock
with water deep enough for them, at
which they may tie up and unload. It
is feared also that the Government
may object to keeping the bar dredged
unless the channel is used more for
shipping than heretofore.
So it is that the Advisory Trans
portation Oommissiion is especially
anxious to see the dock facilities re
stored at Morehead, in the hope that
a more adequate transportation
service can be rendered as a result.
25,000 CRIMES BEING
STUDIED TO FIND CAUSE
Survey of Felonies of 1926 May Lead
to Plan For Prevention.
(By International News Service)
Chicago, Sept. 30. —In a survey of
Illinois crime by the Illinois Associa
tion for Criminal Justice 25,000 fel
onies committed in this state in 1926
are being studied to provide informa
tion as to the cause, it was disclosed
here today.
The survey committee is the out
come of. a resolution passed by the
Illinois Association more than a year
ago. A donation of SIOO,OOO was
made by the Industrial Club of Chi
cago for the survey, the results of
which are expected to lead to some
drastic measures of crime prevention.
Furthermore, the committee is
counting the cost of crime to the tax
payers, each crime levying last year
an average cost of SI,OOO on the pub
lic treasury.
A preliminary report of the com
mittee, to be ready early next year,
is expected to show that a peak cost
for crime must be reached when a
desperate remedy will have to be ap
plied.
Authorities have declared that this
remedy may grow out of an aroused
public sentiment. “Public sentiment”
will ultimately settle this problem,
one of the members of the committee
declared.
Juvenile delinquency is also being
studied by a community research com
mittee of the University of Chicago,
the cost of the survey being borne
jointly by the crime association and
the Rockefeller Foundation. This
work is receiving the cooperation of
the institute for juvenile research of
Illinois.
A similar survey of criminal con
ditions made in Missouri shocked the
public into an indignation that led
to some salutory corrections. The
Illinois Association for Criminal Jus
tice promised a scientific study of
organized crime, especially as it is
maintained in Chicago, which it be
lieves will stagger the community.
COAL STRIKE IS OVER
- UNDER COMPROMISE
Miners and Operators Name Commit
tee To Draw Up Final Agreement.
Chicago, Oct. I.—The six months
coal mining suspension in Illinois,
which threw more than 70,000 Wen
out of work, was settled today w)ien
miners and operators accepted a pro
posal of a joint committee by which
operations are to be resumed. Each
qide ratified * the proposal which re-
joint meeting to make joint
proposals but each said this was a
mere formality.
Today’s settlement ends the most
prolonged suspension of operations
in Illinois mines, as a result of a wage
dispute. The mines closed six months
ago today.
The. Illinois mines, together with
all unionized bituminous shafts closed
on April 1. Failure' of a joint con
ference of miners and operators at
Miami, Fla., last February to agree
on a new contract forewarned of the
suspension on April L The operators
at Miami contended they could not
operate successfully and pay the Jack
sonville scale, a continuation of which
the miners proposed. This contract
called for a day wage of $7.50 for
laborers and a rate of SI.OB a ton for
tonnage men. It had been in effect
for years.
Unusual Funeral Service.
The singing of 25 negro men em
ployed for a number of years in the
family of J. W. S. Robinson, of
Ivenhoe, Sampson county, whose fun
eral was held Friday, was an impres
sive feature at the final services. The
negroes sang old-time hymns that had
been favorites of the deceased for a
long period of years.
NEW YORE CITY AS A
MANUFACTURING TOWN
Amert&n Metropolis Produces One*
Twelfth of The Country's Manu
factured Products.
New York City manufactures more
clothing, millinery and lace goods, furs
and fur goods, feathers and plume,
artificial flowers and plants, pocket
books, purses and card cases, tobacco
pipes ad cigar and cigarette holders
than all of the rest of the country
combined, according to figures of the
1925 Census of Manufactures obtained
by The Merchants’ Association from
the Census Bureau. ,
The same census, which is the most
recent that has been taken, shows that
the New York output aliso exceeds that
of all of the rest of the country com
bined in lapidary work, hair work and
music printing ind publishing. These
and other interesting facts have been
developed by the Industrial Bureau
of The Merchants’ Association through
analysis of the 1925 figures for New
York City.
Those who are accustomed to think
of, New York City only in terms of
skyscrapers, banks, theaters, hotels
and shopping centers will be surprised
to learn that in 1925 there were 23,-
714 manufacturing establishments in
the city and that these establishments
produced more than one-twelfth of the
.country’s total manufactured products.
The number of workers employed in
these establishments was 538,845,
which is greater than the total popula
tions of such cities as San Francisco,
Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and New Or
leans at the time of the last census.
The value of their manufactured prod
ucts was $5,324,413,612, which is
greater than the combined value of
the manufactured goods produced in
all of the New England States togeth
er, omitting Connecticut.
It is not generally known that New
York leads the country in the
production of many items in common
use and manufactures a very large
proportion of many others. The ex
tent to which certain industries are
concentrated in New York City is
shown in a table issued by the Mer
chants’ Association which is based
on the 1925 census reports. Items of
interest from this table show that the
value of feathers and plumes manufac
tured in the "Big Town" amounted
to $3,487,910; Women's clothing,
$1,008,960,387; fur goods, $194,803,-
213; hair work, $4,602,757; artificial
flowers and plants, $11,717,353; mil
linery and lace goods, $194,494,559;
dressed furs, $11,971,936; hat and
cap materials, $10,172,613; umbrellas,
parasols and canes, $10,749,692; cloth
hats and caps, $16,418,113; men’s
clothing, $379,339,161; flags and
banners, $1,123,715; shirts, $70,073,-
003; corsets, $21,283,492.
MT. PLEASANT NEWS
Mt. Pleasant, Oct. 1. —The Mount
Pleasant schools will open Monday,
October 3rd. AH children of school
are are expected to be on hand at
this time. The High School teachers
are expected to arrive today.
The tragic death of Mr. W. F.
Moose, which occurred at the Kind
ley bridge & short distance from here,
was a great shock to the entire com
munity.
Mr. J. L. Peck has returned home
from a Charlotte hospital,, where he
underwent treatment, and is greatly
improved.
Dr. A. W. Moose is able to be out
again after a two weeks’ illness.
Mr. and Mrs. George Wearn and
little daughter, of Charlotte, have re
turned home after a two weeks’ visit
here with relatives.
Mrs. Parker, of Portsmouth, Va.,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Chas. H.
Thayer and family.
Mrs. Frank Richardson and chil
dren, of Spencer, are visiting the for
mer’s father, Mr. J. H. Foil.
Drs. M. A. Foil and J. J. Bunn at
tended the meeting of the Medical
Society in Lenoir this week.
Miss Miriam Foil and Miss Ruth
Lowder, students at Catawba Col
lege, were here a short time Thurs
day, having attended the funeral of
Mr. W. F. Moose, at Bear Creek,
father of Miss Shirley Moose, also a
student at Catawba.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Foil and Miss
Elizabeth Foil went to Charlotte on
Tuesday.
Mangum to Devote Life to Boxing.
(By International Newe Service)
State Prison, Raleigh, Sept. 30. —
Charley Mangum, the Wake Forest
youth who within these grim walls
arose from obscurity to fame in south
ern puglistic circles, plans to pursue
the art of legalized assault when the
portals of State prison open wide for
him next spring.
Mangum, since he was admitted in
to George Ross Pou’s hotel two years
ago for highway robbery, has gained
the name of one of the hardest slug
gers in Dixie Fistiana, and recently
fought ten rounds to a draw with
Spike Webb, of Charlotte, claimant
to the southern championship,
Mangum has taken on some of the
most promising fighters of the South
at State prison here, where the bouts
are arranged for local fans, and has
never yet sustained a decisive defeat.
For some time he was under the tute
lage of Bob Martin, former A. E. F.
champion.
The prison mauler probably will
stage his next fight October 14th,
according to his trainer-manager,
Jimmy Briggs, 111, of Raleigh. Man
ager Briggs is trying to arrange a
State prison card for that date. How
ever, his newest opponent has not
been selected yet.
Mangum has been fighting for a
year or so. He was something of
an amateur wrestler when he came
to the prison, and when someone
thought of the idea of staging box
ing matches at the prison the Wake
Forest youth was the first to undergo
the punishment. Since then he has
taken on aU comers'over the Caro
linas.
Mangum is the stellar attraction
on the State prison fight cards, and
his fights draw record crowds.
Wireless Fire Alarm Helps Protect
City.
When a firm alarm sounds in Dallas,
Tex., the signals instantly recorded on
radio-receiving sets installed on the
chief’s and other cars of the depart
ment, so that officials are immediate
ly in touch with the central office, says
Popular Mechanics Magazine. The
receiver is constructed to react only
to the wave-length of the sending unit,
which is actuated through a relay con
nected with the fire-alarm apparatus.
The transmitter is equipped with four
fifty-watt tubes which are continually
kept warm by a ten-volt current
through a rheostat. When an alarm
is sounded, this rheostat is cut out
by a relay and the tubes get full
voltage.
Mac Murray Sees Red Influence
On Wane Among People Os China
By MAURITZ A. HALLGREN
(International News Service Staff
Correspondent)
Washington, Sept. 30. Russian
communist influence in China is on
the wane.
The authority for this statement is
John Van A. Mac Murray, American
minister to China, who spent several
days in conference here with Secre
tary of State Kellogg.
Chinese nationalism, according to
Mac Murray, is not the creature of
the Russians. China began to awak
en in a nationalistic sebse years ago,
he said, long before the bolshevists
got the upper hand in their own coun
try. But Moscow saw in this awak
ening an opportunity for spreading
communistic propaganda and forth
with seized that opportunity, he add
ed.
At first the nationalists took to
the reds propaganda like “ a child
with a brilliant toy,” said the min
ister; the Russian idea was dynamic
and served to divert the Chinese from
their ancient lethargy. But soon the
novelty of the thing wore off.
Now, Mac Murray asserted, the na
tionalists are trying to shake off Rus
sian influence for three reasons. First,
the Russians have been too bold in
attempting to run the country for
the Chinese; instead of contenting
themselves with advising and counsel
ing the nationalist leaders they have,
taken the leadership themselves. Sec
ond, the intriguing whereby the com
munists hoped to turn the Chinese
hatred against the hated foreigners
has been turned against the Russians,
who, said Mac Murray, "are after all
the most obnoxious of the foreign
ers." Third, the Chinese "have be
come bored with the Russians and
their theories of violence; these do
not fit in with the more pacific the
ories which have been dominant in
China fpr centuries."
In consequence the Chinese lead
ers are beginning to reassert them
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selves. The Russian advisers are
leaving and the Moscow-controlled
Chinese are either leaving or becom
ing quiescent. The radical Hankow
government is no more, the more mod
erate members of that regime having
joined hands with the moderates of
Nanking, Shanghai and Canton in
carrying on the nationalist govern
ment and anti-imperialism campaign
initiated by Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Here
after the movement will be wholly
Chinese, he said.
The most prominent of the Rus
sian who has withdrawn from the
scene is Michael Borodin, now in Mis
cow. He has been joined there by
Eugene Chen, English-speaking and
English-educated Chinese who was
born on the American continent.
Mac Murray refused to credit Chan
Tso-Lin, Peking'*war lord, for this
cbDing of Russian influence. The
southerners would have tired of the
soviet advisers and interference, he
said, despite Chang’s anti-bolsheviem
campaign. Moreover, he added, Rus
sain influence was already on the
wan when Chang unfurled his "Down
the Bolshevism" banner.
110 Met Violent Deaths In August
According to the report of the
State health* department issued the
past week, 110 persons met violent
deaths in the State of North Carolina
during the month of August Auto
mobile accidents continued in the lead
as the major cause, 32 losing their
lives in this manner. Homicides were
second with 20.
The health department did not list
the Nash county lynching or the
shooting to death of the outlaw in
Burke.
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said had been handed down from
generation to generation?
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Maid— Well, this generation
has dropped it.
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