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HsaEittees have been named begun work on their Basis teat'the eating establish- Bthe city should be given By of feeding the delegates. Bi-? wholly dependent upon received and in view they pay taxes for the Baptist minLsters ■c{:pon any other plan for This affects the wom organizations for some pinning to serve meals Bguatime the convention is B? as ye-u go plann will be you go plan will be Btvill be cared for in pri- Bapaying a small stipulated ■» lodging and with all of providing for their own Bn hundred or more visitors Bk 4 for in the approved city. Bkirbidden TO ■ REMODEL NOSE B*dm Wants to Be Pretty Bsb Stopped by Judge. Oct 3fi.--The misshap- Wcdheirn, character Bfoje and screen, must not with, under penalty of court action, before No- Bj °4 maybe not at all f'orporation, to Ls under contract, a temporary in- Superior C,v;rt preventing having Lis nose made |Blisstic surgeon. 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SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher His Relatives Stolen i Wk. JBe ; '&[ ' ••• Theodore Steeg, French resi dent general of Morocco, is try ing to secure release of his en tire family, kidnapped by ban dits who dominate mountain regions. Abduction, it's lieved, was for political pur-* poses rather than ransom, j ’ "t" -.■■■■ FEDERAL PRISONS HOUSING HUNDREDS Since 1918 There Has Been a Big Increase in Number of Federal Prisoners. Washington, Oct. 31.— UP) — Announcing a federal prison pop ulation of 18,788 at the end of the last fiscal year as compared with 8,927 in 1918, the Depart ment of Justice said today that more prisoners are now confined in these institutions than at any time in the history of the nation. The department’s statistics show . ed an increase of 110 per cent, in the last nine years, against an in crease of 20 per cent, in the coun try’s population. The most striking increase was . found in narcotic law violations, which jumped from 299 in 1918 to 2,110 in 1927, representing the largest number of federal prison ers ever incarcerated for violating any one federal law. Next in order were violations of the Volstead act, with 2,040 pris oners, but since this law was not in operation in 1918, it waa im possible to obtain comparative figures. Violations of another-de cent law, the Motor Vehicle Theft act, stood third on the list with 789 prisoners. Four Hard Games In a Row. Chapel Hill, N. 0., Oct 81—(INS) —V. M. 1., Davidson, Duke ana Vir ginia straight in a row ! That’s the University of North Oarolina’e grid schedule for the re mainder of the season. The coming Saturday, November 5. the Tar Heels take on V. M. 1., at Lexington, Va. Then Davidson will be met here November 12, Duke at Durham November 19, and Virginia here Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving game will be the occasion for the dedication of Kenan Memorial Stadium here. Carolina and V. M. I. have met on the gridiron 1»7 times. Carolina has won 11 games and tied two. Caro lina won an overwhelming victory last year. What is believed to be the first aerial season ticket has just been is sued by the Royal Dutch Air Lines. It was bought by a merchant of Amsterdam, and is available tor twenty-five round t*4ps between that city and London. THE STOCK MARKET — / Reported by Fenner & Beane. (Quotations at 1:30 P. M.) Atchison 182% American Oan —1 61% Allied Chemical 146% American Smelting 161% American T. & T. • 115 Atlantic Coast Line Baldwin Locomotive 257% Baltimore & Ohio 116% Bethlehem Steel 50 Chesapeake & Ohio 206 Chrysler —. 52% New York Central 159 Dupont 307% Erie 21 1, Fleishman 66% St. Louis- Francis. RR. 168 General Electric 122% General Motors l2B /a Gen. Ry. Signal —-- ' — 121% Houston Oil 1-J6 Hudson Motors 4 68% Mo.-Kans. & Tex. 4 42 t* Kennecott Copper * 78 Kans. City Sou. Ry. 57% Liggett & Myers _1 I“T% LoriUard 87% Mack Truck 164% Mo.-Pacific Pfd. 62 Montgomery-Ward 83% Nash Motors Packard Motors Penn. RR. 60% Phillips £ete 41% Producers and Refiners 20% Reading RR. “B” Rey, Tob. Co. 146% Rock Island RR. ——- 162^ Sears Roebuck 4 78% Southern Ry. Std. Oil of N. J. 89% Sou. Pac. RR. 120 Sou. Dairies Pfd. -1 Studebaker Corp. 64 Tobacco Products j™ y Union Carbine lBl% Wabash RR. 63% Weetinghouse Elec. Co. 77 fa West. Maryd. RR. 4 f% Yellow Gab and Truck *8 Wool worth l/6% Coca-Cola 122% HEW SCHEDULE FOR FREIGHT RITES TO BGEIN DURING YEAR Final Order Issued by I. C. C. Requiring Classified Rates to Begin on De cember 31st SEVERAL LINES FIGHTING RATE For Four Years Rates Have Been Studied and They Are to Be Used in the Near Future. Washington, Oct 31. — UP) —A final order was issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission today requiring railroads in the southeastern quarter of the United States to put into effect December 81, 1927, the new schedule of Southern classified freight rates which the commission has worked up on for four years. AJ the priqpipal southern railroads are now willing to establish the new rates, the commission said today, ex cept the Atlantic Coast Line, the Sea hoard Air Line and the Florida East Coast Railroad. Sufficient time has elapsed to enable all the revision ef fects to be studied by shippers and the railroads. 'ln consequence, the man datory order fixing the date for the rate was adopted. The commission has declared that the chief object of the new schedules is to place southern rates for general freight transportation upon an equal basis everywhere, distance and trans portation costs considered, without ma terially increasing or reducing the to tal cost of transportation. SEEK TO SHOW FALL GOT SNCLAIR MONEY Prosecution Continues Chain of Evi dence in F&ll-Sinclair Trial. Washington, Oct. 31.— UP) —The prosecution in the Teapot Dome oil conspiracy case plugged persistently along today in its effort to show that Harry F. Sinclair was connected with the Continental Trading Co., Ltd., of Canada, through whose profits it charges $230,600 in Liberty Bonds reached the hands of Albert B Fall. Through documentary • evidence and witnesses, Owen J. Roberts, govern ment counsel, continued to trace out the organization of the company which he claimed was fonhed merely to take a profit on oil purchased from the late A* E. Humphreys, of Denver, £or $1.50 per barrel, 4nd sold to Other companies Including Sinclair’s own company, for $1.75. “The Continental Company was a mere shell, gotten up by these gentle men for their own purposes,” Roberts asserted. v Former Senator Thompson, of Col orado, and H. L. Phillips, president of the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing r Company, were put on the stand by Roberts in pursuing his inquiry, and a succession of contracts and other documents were identified in line with the government’s purpose to show that Sinclair was interested in the Con tinental and the Liberty Bonds pur chased from its profits, and some of which Fall is accused of accepting for leasing the naval oil reserve to Sin clair. TRY TO HALT MOVING OF MILLS TO SOUTH New England Is Making Stand Against General Exodus of Textile Factories. Boston, Oct. 27. —Colonel G. Ed ward Buxton, newly elected president of the National Association of Cotton Manufactarers, told the member of the banquet closing the annual meet ing tonight that he did not believe “that we New England people will permit the cotton industry to depart.” Colonel Buxton, who is president and treasurer of the B. B. and R. Knight corporation of Rhode Island, added: “I do not believe we will permit the villages that cluster along waterways to become abandoned and the whole complicated web of com merce, trade, banking and transporta tion to suffer the very serious loss which would follow our defeat and elimination. “We know that countless industrial uses for our fabrics have arisen and will yet arise It is common knowl edge that such expansion has gone south and that many a New England mill has closed its doors forever. We find remaining in New England 16,- 696,042 spindles in place, representing n capital investment of nearly $900,- 000,000, with about 200,000 employes, and a huge allied army of men and women in enterprises directly de pendent upon the continuation of the present industry in New England.” SEES GREAT BUSINES EXPANSION IN FUTURE President of Railway Business Asso ciation Say s 1928 Will Be Prosper ous Year. Philadelphia, Oct. 31. —04 s )—Alba B. Johnson, president of the .Railway Business Association and former pres ident -of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, believes the great railroad sys tems of the nation may face another period of government control, unless they increase their freight hauling equipment to meet the vast industrial activity which he visulazied for the near future. In a letter to members of the rail way business association, Mt. John son pointed to conditions which he said indicated great industrial activ ity in 1928, and warned that unless the railroads are prepared to handle the freight, private ownership of the roads might be endangered. Taxi-drivers in Calcutta are not al lowed to accept tips. CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 31,1927 Duke University's Big Building Program Will Cost $20,000,000 Durham, N. C., Oct. 81. —Hidden behind a deep fringe of woods, near the corporate limits of Durham, (so well hidden in fact that many people of the community do not fully realize how rapidly the work is progessing) is a building project destined to be Within the next five years one of the most extensive ever undertaken in the Southland. Already the mammoth building pro gram of Duke University is under way, As the group of 44 buildings will be conducted over a site one mile long, the tremendous excavation task is re kuiring the labor of hundreds of men, scores of three-mule team trucks, sev eral dozen tractors, and a battery of steam shovels. Thousands of cubic yards of soil have been moved, leveling the plateau upon which eventually a $20,000,000 group of stone buildings will stand. Leading to the site is a railroad over which the University will haul stone from its own quhrries.l6 miles away. Nearby is a group of temporary buildings used as offices, storehouses, and machine shops. These are linked with the city by a new concrete road that the University has built through its 4,500 acres of wood land campus. Engineers swarm the well-staked grounds; blue-prints are being studied. lines have been extended. The plans of James B. Duke, electric power and tobacco magnate, the Un iversity’s greatest benefactor, are be ing realized. His benefactions, amounting to many millions of dol WANTS PRISONERS AT RALEIGH TAUGHT TRADE State Senator Williams Thinks They Should Be Trained There For the Future. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 31.—The building up of prison industries to ,the point where the prisoners can not only make the bulk of the supplies needed both in theh prison and other state institu tions, but in which the prisoners may learn a variety of trades as well, and thus be better fitted to again enter society on the expiration of their prison terms, is advocated by State Senator P. H. Williams of Elizabeth City, and vice chairman of the Ad visory Budget Commission. Senator Williams makes it clear that he positively does not advocate prison industries that will compete any other industries commercially, but that only those things be manufac tured in the prison which can be utilized in the prison and the other state institutions. “In visiting a number of state in stitutions during the past several months, I have been impressed with the variety of their needs and the vast" dumber of products it is neces sary to buy for them,” said Senator Williams. “Then later, in visiting the Central prison here in Raleigh, and the Caledonia Prison farm in Halifax county, I was further impressed with the fact that about the only kind of work done by these prisoners is man ual labor, most of it of the simplest sort —and at Caledonia, all of it farm labor. “Another fact that has impressed is that the majority of the men in the State prison are comparatively young ,men —but with no training for the most part along any definite lines. That is one reason they landed in prison, because they were not able to make an adequate living—in many instances at least. Hence I belive that it would be worth while for the state to adopt a dual policy in its prison program that not only will en able the prisoners to make more goods that can be used in the state institu tions, and at thhe same time serve to give the prisoners definite voca tional training along a number of dif ferent lines.” For instance, Senator Williams thinks that at the prison farm at Caledonia, for instance, it would be a good thing to organize the prisoners there, or at least some of them, into classes, in which definite instruction in the various phases of scientific agriculture could be given, and then the prisoners could put this training into practice in their work on the farm. Thus, when a prisoner would be paroled or discharged, he would be better able to take his place again in society as a worker with some definite training, and he would be less likely to revert to crime again. Or at the Central prison, a minia ture knitting mill might be set up, so that the prisoners might make the socks and underwear needed, and at the same time learn to become knit ters and loopers. Vocational classes could be arranged that would give them more thorough instruction in this work, so that when discharged, they might get gainful employment in mills. And so with a number of other trades and industries. Senator Williams also thinks that the illiterate prisoners should be given an opportunity to learn to read and write and get the fundamentals of • a common school education while in prison. “The thing is that now days a prison must do more than punish —it should seek to reform as well,” said Senator Williams, ’’but this cannot be done unless the prisoner can b$ helped to help himself. Under the present system, the prisoner leaves prison but little better off, if any, than when he entered prison, and consequently many of them return to their old haunts and habits. But iFHhey were taught to use their hands and heads along some definite lines while in prison, then there would be more likelihood that they would enter gainful employ ment and ‘go straight after their re -Igrs©~>. ,> Senator Williams is making an in vestigation of vocational training anti prison industries in other states, with a view to evolving a definite program along these lines for the North Caro lina prison. Early in December representative; of all branches of aviation—com mercial, engineering and experiment —will gather in Washington to re view paat progress and to form no; re ; program for future developments lars, are bearing fruit. First of the group of University buildings to be erected will be the $7,000,000 medical school unit. These buildings will cover four and one-half acres, will be five stories high, and will be ready for occupancy in the fall of 1929. Preparations are now being made to set the foundations. Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison, former assistant dean of Johns Hopkins, is dean of the Duke medical school. Connected with the medical school will, be a 500-bed hospital, situated in a beautiful oak grove. The entire group of buildings will be of a like style of architecture, English-influenced gothic. A native North Carolina stone of many shades and colors will be quarried near Hills boro by the University at a saving of many millions of dollars. From the outset the buildings will have a time mellowed appearance. Dominating will be the memorial chapel building, facing eastward, with Its 260-foot tower visible for 12 miles around. Stretching from the northern most end of the ridge and following south ward on the ridge, buildings will over look winding roads, artificial cascades, a lake, countless acres of virgin wood land. South of the group will be the athletic stadium of AO,OOO persons capacity. Dormitory buildings will be situated at the southern end of the main group, potted with many courts and gardens. Close by will be the Union building and recreational centers. It will be (Please Turn to Page Five) KOENECKE LEAVES . PERSIA FOR INDIA Another Leg on the German Flier’s Flight to United States. Bender Arrabas, Persia, Oct. 31.— (A*) —Lieut. Otto Koennecke hopped off at 6:30 a. m. today for Karachi, India, 700 miles away, in the plane Germania which he is flying to the United States by way of the Orient Lieut Koennecke, who started from Cologne Sepember 20th, has been at Bender Arrabas since Oc tober Bth. While there his backer and passenger, Count George Ced ric Solms-Laubach, was injured, and it was feared that this would mean the cancellation of the flight. . The first hop of the flight from Cologne to Angora, Turkey, was the most successful, the plane cov ering the 1,875 miles at an aver age speed in excess of 100 miles an hour. CENSUS BUREAU ISSUES NEW LUTHERAN FIGURES “Lutheran Brethren” First Group in Denomination With Tabulation Complete. Washington, D. C., October 31. — U. S. Religious Census figures released for the church of the Lutheran Breth ren, the first of the Lutheran general bodies for which the tabulations are now complete, show that in 1926 that body maintained in the United States 26 churches with 1,700 members, as compared with 23 churches and 892 memberß reported in 1916. Twenty one of these churches value their property, including church edifices, furniture, etc. but not including pai> sonages, at $102,000. Os this amount $77,500 represents 9 city churches, while $24,000 is the valuation of 17 rural churces. The chief strength of this organization is in Minnesoata, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. The Department of Commerce an nounces that similar figures for other general bodies of Lutherans in the United States are in process of tabu lation and will be made public in the near future. Ben Dixon Mac Neill, Injured In Au to Crash, Out of Danger. • Raleigh, Oct. 30- —Ben Dixon Mac- Neill, Victim of an automobile side swipe in the Smithfield environs Thursday night, is out of danger, ac cording to friends who have visited him in the hospital. Mr. Mac Neill, reporter on the News and Observer, was severely hurt when his Chrysler and a Buiek rushed into each other at high apeeo. The newspaper muu skidded on the sidewalk with his scalp on the pave ment first. There was a fear of in ternal injuries, but that has passed. Wilmington Man Dies A Sea Hero. Wilmington, N. C., Oct. 30. —W. H. Bowen, 512 Queen Street, this city, who was drowned in the waters off Seward, Alaska, October 2, died in a heroic effort to save one of his com panions who was at the mercy of the seas, according to the report of the accident submitted by R. R. Lukens, commander of the United States Geodetic Survey ship Surveyor of which Bowen was a member of the crew. The bodies of the men have not been recovered. BRING US YOUR JOB PRINT ING ALL KINDS DONE PROMPTLY The Times and Tribune ' 11l llll—' r.-:ir ton'phf, Tuesday partly clou b, ' t--lin t.mi orature. OKLAHOMASOLONS SAY WOMAN VER BEHIND GO) m Start Move For a \ ?ial Session of Legi 4 ire So That Facts in Case Can Be Brought to Light IMPEACHMENT IS NOT THE MOTIVE Solons Say Rather They Want to Test Right of Woman to Act as She Has in Past Months. Oklahoma City, Oct. 31.—UP)—An other investigation of the status of Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, confidential secretary to Governor Henry S. Johns ton, and characterized by administra tion opponents as “the woman gover nor” ie sought at a proposed special session of the Oklahoma legislature, backers of the movement releaved to day. Recognized leaders in the House of Representatives, in the demand for a special session in explaining petitions recently circulated, today denied im peachment proceedings against the governor were contemplated. While not mentioning the name of Mrs. Hammond, the petitions state that the governor’s confidential secre tary often refused legislators confer ences with him. “You should know that it is com mon talk throughout the state that she is governor in fact, and that while the naked legal title of governor is vested in you, she holds the office and by an unexplainable control performs its duties and exercises its power,” the petitions said. THE COTTON MARKET Opened Firm With An Advance of 16 to 20 Points But EaJsd Off La ter. New Yofk, Oct. 31. — UP) —The cot ton market opened firm today with an advance of 16 to 20 points, covering combined with trade and commis sion house buying based on the rela tively steady showing of Liverpool and an unfavorable view of weather conditions, or prospects in the south. Temperatures did not seem as low as some of Saturday’s buyers had ex pected, but a cold wave was reported still threatening, and comparatively little Southern hedge selling was in evidence the stfrti The afigance, HqWvedC attracted realizing, and the market eased off 8 or 10 points from the best in early trading. The early advance extended to 20:55 for December and 20:77 for March, making net gains of about 25 to 27 points on the active positions. There appeared to be some realizing these figures, which checked the upturn and caused reactions of 10 or 12 points from the beat, and the mar ket was later quiet <iut steady, active positions ruling around 18 to 20 points net higher at midday. Cotton futures opened firm: Dec. 20.45; Jan. 20.56; Mar. 20.70; May 20.85; July 20.70. GALES IN ENGLAND HAVE KILLED SIXTY Death List Grows as Additional Re ports Are Received. London, Oct. 311.— UP) —The death list in the great gale which has swept over the British Isles since Friday stood at more than sixty Most of the deaths were due to destruction of fishing craft along the west coast of Ireland where forty persons were reported to have perished. Airplanes Seeking Bodies. Dublin, Oct. 31. — (A*) —Two Irish Free State airplanes were searching the Galway and Mayo coasts today for the bodies of victims of the Irish fishing fleet overtaken by a great storm Saturday. It is now feared that more than fifty men were drowned. Virtually every bread-winner at Lackan Bay, a village in County Mayo, was drowned within 200 or 300 yards of his own home. Wilson’s Aides Get Recognition. Raleigh, N. C., Oct 31.—Governor McLean stated today that he had be«n very much interested to observe that in the past few weeks two of ficials with whom he had been asso ciated during the Wilson administra tion in Washington had received out standing recognition in the ousmess world. The first of these, the Governor re called, was David F. Houston, who was secretary of Agriculture ana later Secretary of the Treasurer, and who has just been elected president of the Mutual Life Insurance Com pany of New York. The second, Thomas I. Parkinson, who helped to draft many of the im portant financial measures, involving taxation and finances, was recently elected president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. British Hot Dogs Put On Overcoats. London, Oct. 31.—With the arrival of Jack Frost and the football season the American “hot dog” has donned his winter overcoat. It is a flimsy covering of glass paper intended to protect the sausage from germs and other bothersome things. But the football spectaors did not appreciate this fact at first. When the first lot was landed oht at the playing fields the fans, all in overcoats them selves, took it for granted that the little red skinned edibles had been given extra covering and special doses of red pepper so as to aid in keeping the “hot dogs” hot inside. New health department rules make food jackets compulsory. The hot dog was introduced to Lon don last winter, and is now sold by hundreds of thousands at all the out * door sporting events. $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance Mysterious Murder HI J » .||wijMw| BRjj H k | ‘SSSSajggtfl & #MI »** Hew York police tan find <io due or motive to slaying of Dr, Jacob Gross, dentist, who evidently was shot to death in his office as he worked on murderer's teeth* i MELLON OUTLINES TAX CUT PROGRAM Appears Before Committee and Asks For Cut of $250,- 000,000. Washington, Oct. Sl.—OP)—limi tation' of the prospective tax redac tion to approximately $225,000,000 — a lower figure even than previously estimated —was recommended today by Secretary Mellon at the opening of the tax hearings by the House ways and means committee. The tax reduction program he sub mitted follows: 1— Reduction of the corporation tax from 13% to 12 per cent. 2 Extending permission to cor porations with net incomes §i. $25,- 000 or less, and with not more than 10 stockholders, to file returns and pay the tax as partnerships or. cor porations at their option. - 3—Revision of the surtax rates ap plying on individual incomes between $16,000 and SOO,OOO. 4 Repeal of the estate tax. 5 Exemption from taxation of the income derived from American Bank ers Acceptances held by foreign cen tral banks of issue. Contrary to expectations the Secere tary opposed any change whatever in the remaining wartime excise and miscellaneous taxes. He argued at length for the retention of the present 3 per cent, levy on automobiles, and the 10 per cent, tax on admissions ap plying to tickets sailing for more than 75 cents on the ground that these duties and excise tax on tobac co should be kept “in the Interest of a well balanced tax system.” BARRINGTON T. HILL HEADS LOG ROLLERS Other Officers Elected at Convention Os the Association In Aibearle. Albemarle,"Oct. 27. —Barrington T. Hill, of Wadesboro, was elected presi dent of the Piedmont District Log Rolling association of the Woodmen of the World and Woodmen Circles at the business session of the 14th semi-annual convention held at the courthouse here-this afternoon. Some thing over 500 delegates were present from all sections of the district, in cluding 15 counties and representing 36 towns. G. V. Fesperman, or Albemarle, called the meeting to order and de livered the first address of welcome followed by Arthur Patterson, presi dent of the Albemarle Lions club. Mrs. Mrs. G. D. B. Reynolds made a short address in behalf of the Albemarle Woman’s club, also P. J. Honeycutt and G. D. B. Reynolds made she it speeches. In the absenoe of President John H. Norwood, of Norwood, Barrington T. Hill, of Wadesboro, presided over the convention. At the close of the business session- the delegates were carried upon a sight seeing tour over the county, visiting Badin, the Nor wood dam, Morrow’s mountain, and various other interesting places. Upon returning from the sight seeing tour the delegates were given a bar becue at Efird-Wiscaaaet ball park here. The convention was addressed to night by Zeb V. Long, of Statesville. Other officers elected at the busi ness session today were Mrs. F. E. Rogers, of Raleigh, first vice presi dent; G. V. Fesperman, of Albemarle, second vice president; E. L. Wilson, of Gastonia,, was re-elected secretary and treasurer; R. C Hill, of Albe marle, guard of the forest, and Mrs. Elizabeth Griffin, of Charlotte, as chief “Ma” of the convention. THE STOCK MARKET Prices Moved Toward Higher Ground at Opening of Market Todap. New York, Oct. 31.—0O —Prices moved toward higher ground at the opening of the stock market today, with U. S. Steel and General Motors among the leaders. Houston Oil, which had a sharp break Saturday, opened up 4 1-2 and Steel common, General Motors, American Sugar, In ternational Combustion and Radio Corporation were a point or more high er the QUtset. DENY REPORTS OF ; REVOLUTION; SHY ■ COUNTRY IS QUIET From Several Sources Re ports Come That People in Roumania Are in Re volt Against Premier. THESE REPORTS GIVEN DENIAL’ It Is Said That All Garri sons Have Been Placed on War Basis and Are Ready For Eventualities. Paris, Oct. 81.— UP) —The Rouman ian legation here today issued a for mal statement denying “false reports arising in Berlin, Vienna and Buda pest” of disorders in Roumania. The statement declares that no ex traordinary measures have been taken or are necessary to maintain order, and denies reports that disagreement has arisen between the regency and the Brafanio government. Budapest, Oct. 81. — UP) —Reports from the Roumanian frontier to the effect that a revolution broke out last night throughout Roumania directed against Premier Bratiano are pub lished by local newspapers today. The reports, however, could not be confirmed. Ready to Take Stern Measures. ' Belgrade, Jugo-Slavia, Oct. 81. — UP) — Bucharest dispatches to Polltika say that all Roumanian garrisons have been placed on a war basis, with a view to any eventuality that may re sult at the meeting of the national peasants party at Alba Julia. RUSSIA MAY USE TAR HEEL LAW AS MODED Fishing Law of State Being Studied By Group of Russian Officials. Raleigh, Oct. 3L—Soviet Russia may use North Carolina laws as a model for future legislation regulating fishing following a visit of inspection this week by a group of Russian of ficials with Capt. J. A. Nelson, fish eries commissioner, and T. R. McCrea, sanitary engineer of the Fisheries Di vision of the Department of Conserva tion and Development, Morehebf €Xty. The Russians became interested in the North Carolina fishing laws be cause of their effectiveness and the democratic system under which they are administerd, they declared. Composing the patty of visiting of ficials were : Vladimir P. Rabehevsky, engineer; H. Ham ma gamed off, presi dent of the Dagestan Soviet Republic State Fishing Industry Trust; A. B. Colovkin, director of the Soviet Union State Volga-Casplan Fishing Industry Trust; George A. Kirshoff, chief di rector of the fishing* industry of the R. S. F. R.; and interpreter. Coming to Washington with a view of learning the best that America has to offer in making and enforcement of laws regulating the fishing indus try, the Russians visited the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, who sent the visitors to Beaufort to make a study ‘of the U. S. Fisheries Laboratory at that city. The fisheries laboratory officials ad vised the party to go over to More head City for a first-hand knowledge from Captain McLeon’s staff. The party was conducted around the fish ing grounds of the vicinity by J. E. Woodland, Morehead City. Most striking in appeal of all of the features of North Carolina’s fishing laws to the Russian is the fact that the fishermen themselves instigate the regulations governing the industry. Under the system in vague Jn the state, a group of fishermen may peti tion for a certain rale. A copy of the petition is posted at the courthouse doors in the counties that will be affected, and a copy filed with the Board of Conservation and Development, giving an opportunity for the expression of views on the part of interested persons, and if no protest is made, the board may enact the rule, at its discretion. This is the second occasion on which the interest of a foreign govern ment has been focused upon the North Carolina fishing laws and administra tion. During President Wilson’s ad ministration, Commissioner Nelson was requested by that official to sup ply copies of this state's fishery law* to be furnished to the government of Holland. ALABAMA KLANSMEN GIVE UP MEMBERSHIP 150 Members of Tuscaloosa Post Not In Sympathy With Roughhouse Methods. Tuscaloosa, Oct. 27.—One hundred and fifty klansmen, members of Tus caloosa klan No. 14 of the Alabama realm of the K. K. K., have with drawn from the order, it was made known today by Buce Shelton, former head of the local klavern. Action followed disapproval of “re cent disorders in the state laid at the door of the klan.” In adjouring sine die the klan unit lauded Attorney General Charles Mc- Call, of Alabama, for withdawing from the klan. In a statement regarding the “ad journment” Mr. Shelton said in part: “The immediate cause of the break was the determination of state klan officers to send Earl Hotalen (a Bap tist minister and klan lecturer) to Tuscaloosa to put on one of his tent meetings. We objected and were over ruled, therefore we adjourn sine die. “We have never been in sympathy with the ‘rough house’ tactics used in some places We do not intend to be parties to any such conduct. "We feel that a barrel of rotten apples is still a barrel of rotten ap ples even though it has one good apple in the middle. We believe ab solutely in the announced principle of the klan, but will not continue to function under the present conditiaafc" NO. 35
The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.)
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Oct. 31, 1927, edition 1
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