Wyi L "
p[ fIMKS IN
mnm
Mr 0 { Banks In
■J? states. Alaska
H gver in rtisiory.
fcrßlVi YEAR
■ J June. When
H deport was Made,
Knks Have Enjoyed
Prosperity.
Hi 'Re
■fionfll- hanks in conti-
j <.. re ,. Alaska and
■ St ,Uber hkk aggregated
■f.l" t hp largest amount
tie ( o;uptroller of
exceeded by
■J reported last June 30th,
rail, and were
resources report-
reported on
K .moMtfd to $14,366.-
■ i; K «tinc »o increase o,er
v.-r; 'rent securities
«a increase
■ , ft - 5;.i,3iU,0-0. Balances
■* /..L-H.r.de . t banks and
■„M H37>.517.000. show-
of Skk'»,(.nX>,ooo since
.feck of $1,449,384,-
IKkzKICb 0 in oxress of the
■£’“ h'tp’i'.s and undivided
■Ljv.i and
more than in June.
|KUv outstanding circulat-
KUnW to $949,868,000
JKrf J 1.060.000 less than re-
June.
Hill POUNDS
■ MARKETED IN' MONTH
■v. of Tobacco Sold in the
Mj October Mas $22.81 Per
News Service!
■ \V. 17—North Carolia
ir ark end 163.620,441
jHjltitt gnldpn weed during Oc
average price of $22.81
pounds, according to the
of th>‘ State-Federal
agriculture.
Hpwp-p(I an increase of 26,-
tver sales during the
period last year, and
KTof $3.92 per hundred
the average price paid
c: last near, the report
■ sales or. the old belt were
■ pounds at an average
■&'d. while the new bright
sales of 83,185,673 at
pounds.
[Ba bright belt market main
■it highest price average dur-
was Washington with
|H Moved by Tar boro with
■&! Greenville with $25.15.
■*Erg 23,241,697, had the
RH the old belt in prices
ar.d was followed by
$24.16 and Carthage
Winston-Salem led
■ »>s of 15,603.869.
the border belt, which
the month, were 415
price of $15.65.
T &s the only border belt
daring the month.
■bllion dollar
m sun IS commenced
For Damages Ever
■ a Mecklenburg County.
ov - 19-—A half million
largest personal injury
ever started in Meck
was filed here today
of court’s office by Frank
■j er e tnployoe of Highland
Company here,
company.
jHv a d f ‘nCs that while he
employ of defendant a
■* Wught. hmi, hurling him
■' " " a: 'd machinery, broke
R^T 1 out teeth - injured
■..‘T' au, T inflicted other
H, . is unable to as
■“T fatherhood and is
Physical wreck.
R® k[.penf ( j five years
■v s^l waited until he be
to start suit.
W» For Loss of Hand.
S - c - 17.
Pui-e ,-,f human hands
l * w Ligh h-vel in South
jj.,
Cithern Railway
■TJ aw arded SIO,OOO
■ h !ls fight hand, when
t : l “ ;ll °mise(i his claim bvv
amount.
f '' llaVe ear "
J’ a ‘l ' n Bouth Carolina
H a hand.
W? More Men.
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■f r D , o- ‘ '}■ -F Howe, in
s sb() T ral °9ice at Mem
headquarters
R.sv , 2 is ' ,t is:aMl
■v nf| 'bmphis.
■ onT'., lK ' r|i mysteriously
■W, T-I-i and thrown
■bv ;,n fl four boats
■ Hr,-,vp , : ""' llls binors this
Be rr . . h;is °Hl.v three
|H boats.
R l' ! ' "> l>,ed„m.
RwtW ' U;-(4>)—The
B 1 a | P ,i knsoner when
■red hi, hiir '' arl Tripp,
of Tl V ° llt of a Win-
B «»m e W T "' r prisoners to
‘-I' were prevented
the concord times
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
BALDWIN MATTER
GETS ATTENTION OF
BAPTIST MEETING
Durham, Nov. 17.—OP)—If
there is to be another coach in
James Baldwin’s place at Wake
Forest, trustees of the institution
today know nothing of it, denying
reports that the athletic situation
had been officially placed before
them foe action.
The trustees, however, appoint
ed a committee of their members
to confer with Mr. Baldwin and
college athletic council. If the
Deacon athletic affairs need ad
justment, the trustees said, a full
meeting of their organization would
be called.
DAT FAILS TO GET
HIS BOND REDUCED
Sinclair Associate Loses in Fight For
SIO,OOO Bond Against $25,000.
Washington, Nov. 17.—OP)—Henry
Mason Day, associate of Harry F.
Sinclair, and under conspiracy charges
in connection with the oil jury tamper
ing case, failed today in an effort to
have his $25,000 bond reduced to $lO,-
000.
Day’s counsel asked for reduction
of his bond on the ground that it was
axcessive. Neil Burkinshaw, assistant
district attorney told the court that
his information was that Day had no
permanent residence in this country,
and the district attorney’s office be
lieved a $25,000 bond was necessary.
Bond of SIO,OOO was fixed for Sheldon
Clark, another Sinclair official, when
he was placed under similar charges
after complaint had been made against
Day and Sinclair.
Counsel for Edward J. Kidwell, the
juror in the oil case who was accused
.of talking of getting an automobile
put of it, agreed with the district at
torney’s office today to ask for post
ponement of the hearing on Kidwell’s
plea that contempt charges be entered
against his accusers.' The hearing had
been scheduled for tomorrow.
Affidavits against Kidwell were fil
ed by Don K. King, a Washington
newspaper men, and J. Day Akers, a
street car conductor, and Kidwell in
denying the statements attributed to
him, asked that the court investigate
the efforts of King and Akers to get
him to discuss the case.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Today at Decline of 11 to 15
Points Under liquidation and Sell
*n*|
New York, Nov. 17.—CP)—The
cotton market opened easy today at a
decline of 11 to 15 points under re
newed liquidation and a little more
selling believed to be for Southern ac
count “ ,
little or no attention was paid un
favorable reports from the South,
and the market worked still lower in
the early trading, January declining
to 19.52 and May to 19.90, or about
20 to 21 points below yesterday’6
closing quotations. Spot houses were
again buyers of December, but in
most cases sold later months against
it
A private crop report Issued before
the opening placed the indicated crop
at 12,903,000 bales.
The market eased subsequently un
der continued liquidation and south-,
em selling which seemed to become a
little more active after publication of
a private report from Memphis plac
ing the ginning prior to November
14th at 11,150,000 running bales, and
the ndicated crop at 13,572,000 bales
of 500 pounds. January declined to
19.37 and May to 19.73, making net
losses of about 30 to 37 points, and
the market was within a point or two
of these figures at midday.
New York, Nov. 17.—(P) —Cotton
futures opened easy. December
19.55; January 19.60; March 19.85;
May 19.99; July 19.85.
Between four and five million feet
of valuable timber has been made
worthless by nailing roadside signs
to trees along the public highways
of North Carolina during the past
two years.
Dr. J. C. Rowan, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, will ad
dress the gym classes for young men
at the Y. M. C. A. tonight.
THE STOCK MARKET
Reported by Fenner & Beane.
(Quotations at 1:30 P. M.)
Atchison
American Can .
Allied Chemical
American Smelting IT-Vs
American Tel. & Tel.
Atlantic Coast Line 192%
Baldwin Locomotive —- 205%
Baltimore & Ohio llB%
Bethlehem Steel 54%
Chesapeake & Ohio 211%
Chrysler 57
Corn Products M
N ( ew York Central 164%
Fleishman t><%
St. Louis-Francis. RR. I Hi/
General Electric
Gold Dust 67%
General Motors 134%
Gen. Ry. Signal 121%
Houston Oil 158%
Hudson Motors 69%
Mo.-Kans. & Tex. 44%
Kennecott Copper 79%
Ivans. City Sou. Ry. 63%
Liggett & Myers 123
Lorillard __ 43%
Mack Truck 165%
Mo.-Pacific Pfd. 118%
Mo.-Pacific Com. 57%
Montgomery Ward 85%
Nash Motors 88
Packard Motors 49%
Penn. RR. 65%
Phillips Pete 42%
Reading RR. 109%
“B” Rey. Tob. Com. r 155%
Sears Roebuck 79%
Southern Ry. 169
Std. Oil of N. J. 40%
Sou. Pac. RR. f 121
Sou. Dairies Pfd. 18%
Studebaker Corp. 53%
Tobacco Prodc. 104%
Union Carbine 148%
West. Maryd. RR. 49
Wool worth 4 191%
U. a Steel 143
Suggests General Assembly
Change Law About the Fair
Fred W. Mahler Thinks It Is Too Great a Sacrifice to
Use Valuable Land of the State For-Site For the
New State Fair.
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Nov. 17.—Demand for a
one-day special session of the general
assembly to revise the State Fair act.
and thus save the State from virtually
away from SIOO,OOO to
*>oo,-000 by sacrificing 200 acres of
xaluable land as a state fair site, and
which is utterly unsuited for the puri
pose, was made here today by Fred
W. Mahler, chairman of the State
fair committee of the Raleigh Mer
chants’ Association, which committee
has been making a study of the pres
ent State fair status.
We have found, much to our sur
prise, that the whole State fair situa
tion has until the present been a
series o( tangles and misunderstand
ings, ’ said Mr. Mahler, “and that
Go\ernor McLean alone has seemed
to be the only one who really saw
through the situation and realized
that under the terms of the present
bill he and the Council of State have
been forced to commit one of the
greatest wastes and extravagances
known in the history of the state.
L nder the terms of the present act,
as it now stands interpreted, the State
r th Carolina is compelled to give
away a 200-acre tract of land that
is worth right now at least $200,000,
and which I have been assured could
bring $400,000. However, if bill
were amended so as to permit the
Governor and the Council of State to
acquire 200 acres of land, the State
could easily save SIOO,OOO and still
preserve its ownership of the 200
acres now proposed as the fair site.”
Thus it is that pressure is going
to be sought from all parts of the
state to influence Governor McLean
to call the general assembly for a
special session of one day only, for
the explicit purpose of changing the
fair bill so that this large saving to
the State can be made, and so that
the people of the state may be as
sured of having a State fair that will
really be a State fair.
“I want it explicitly understood,”
said Mr. Mahler, “that I own no real
estate, and that I am in no way
financially interested in the Fair
matter, other than I feel that the
State Fair should be possible, from
the standpoint of the state at large,
BURNS PROVE FATAL
TO FALLSTON CHILD
Little Eileen Lackley Suffers Ter
ribly When Her Nightgown Catch
es On Fire.
Shelby, Nov. 14—Eileen Lackley, 7
year-old daughter of Dr. F. M- Lack
ey, prominent citizen of Fallston, this
county, was fatally burned yesterday
morning when her nightgown caught
on fire from an open hearth. The
little girl was rushed to the hospital
here and died three 'hours later.
Since December the little girl had
been motherless and yesterday morn
ing while her grandmother was dress
ing the younger children Eileen was
left to dress herself. In some man
ner the inflammable material of the
gown caught on fire and by the time
the grandmother could rush 'to her
the charred gown was falling in bits
to the floor. She was burned from
head to foot and suffered agonizingly
until she died.
Eileen was a granddaughter ot W.
D. Lackey formerly Cleveland coun
ty sheriff, Shelby mayor and one of
of the county's beet known citizens.
EXPECT VERDICT IN
HOLLAND CASE TODAY
Arguments Completed and Case Will
Go to Jurly During Afternoon.
Newton, N. C., Nov. 17. —04*) —
Argument of counsel was completed
today in the second trial of Glenn
Holland, charged with killing Paul
Donkel at a Brookford case about a
year ago, and with the case scheduled
to reach the jury about noon aftey a
short charge to the jury, a verdict
was expected before court adjourned
for the day.
Holland was covicted last Novem
ber on the murder charge, and re
ceived a sentence of twelve years in
the State penitentiary. Granting by
the Supreme court of a motion for a
rehearing, however, sent the case back
here ,for a new trial before the Ca
tawba County Superior court.
Start Movement to Oust Baldwin.
Charlotte, Nov. 14. —The Charlotte
Observer will say tomorrow that it
has learned “from apparently authen
tic sources” that a movement is on
foot to request the resignation of Jim
Baldwin, head coach at Wake Forest
college. Nemo ,Coleman, former Uni
versity of North Carolina star, will be
asked to accept the position, the pa
per will say. Baldwin’s contract has a
year to run, it was said.
Agitation for Baldwin’s removal
largely originated in Asheville, the
paper will say, where it was under
stood, the college has one of its lar
gest and most active alumni asso
ciation. No official action leading to
the request as yet, the Observer will
say but further information is ex
pected on the subject when the board
of trustees meets Wednesday in Dur
ham.
5,000 In Near Riot In Effort To
View Victims.
Pittsburgh, Nov. 14. —A near riot
occurred in front of the Alleghany
County Morgue this afternoon when
about 5,000 persons stormed the
doors in an effort to view the bodies
of victims of today's gas explosion.
While the majority were drawn to
the death house by mere curiosity,
many w r ere seeking missing loved
ones. Officers locked the doors and
Coroner W- J. McGregor, crippled
war veteran, appeared on the main
steps and appealed to the curious to
leave.
CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1927.
and not only from the Raleigh point
of view. In order that this may come
about I,.and many other citizens and
merchants of Raleigh, feel that some
thing must be done right now to pre
vent the fair being organized and con
stituted under the present State Fair
act.
“In the first place, as things now
stand, after the State has made what
is equivalent to an appropriation of
from $200,000 to $400,000 in land to
match a gift of only $200,000 from
the old agricultural society and the
City of Raleigh, it has been estimat
ed' that it will require at least SIOO,-
000 -to prepare the grounds, build a
race track, put in sewer and water
lines, and another $25,000 for running
expenses, leaving but ‘575,000 for
buildings. And -no one familiar with
state fairs will hold for a minute that
$75,000 will even be a starter toward
adequate buildings.
“In the second place, the State is
injuring the potential value of the en
tire 2,605 acres in the prison farm
fronting on Route 10 from Meredith
College west toward Cary by cutting
out this slice of 200 acres in' addi
tion to sacrificing this tract, which
now could probably be sold for from
$200,000 to $400,000,” said Mr. Mahl
er. “For if the State Fair is located
on the tract now tentatively set aside,
it will block the-westward growth of
Raleigh, and materially lessen the
value of the remaining land owned
•by the State between Meredith College
and the fair site. It is estimated
that within a few years this total
acreage of 2,605 acres of laqd will
have a market value of at least *5.-
000,000; but this price will be ma
terially lowered if the fair site is
carved out of it.”
Another objection to this site is
that it is so far removed from Raleigh
—almost five miles from the eapitol,
and more than two miles from the
end of the nearest street car line.
In addition, the projected site, as al
ready approved by the Council of
State, bottles up a county road and
will compel Wake county to spend
at least $15,000 building a new road
around the fair site. In addition,
water will have to be .piped two miles
from the nearest connection with the
Raleigh water system.
MR EDWARDS ATTACKS
PROHIBITION AGENTS?
Senator Declares They Have Shot
Down Hundreds in Cold Blooded
Murder.
New York, Nov. 14.-—Senator Ed
ward I. Edwards, of ,New Jersey, in
an article published today in the De
cember issue of the magazine “Plain
Talk”, estimated that the toll of lives
taken by prohibition agents “must
run into four figures.”
Senator Edwards said that no na
tion-wide research has been made to
establish the accuracy of his estimate,
adding “as long as prohibitioi* lasts
statistics will never catch up with the
number of persons killed by prohibi
tion officers, federal, state and
municipal.”
“The federal men to date,” he said
“have slain about 200, and *1 have
read the ‘dispositions’ from the treas
ury department of 152 killings by
‘federal agents, with 84 other cases
where deaths have occurred at the
hands of local officers.”
Answering the question, “how do
men die when prohibition agents
shoot?” he wrote “they die many of
them, in cold blood, shot in the back.”
.. _
HEALTH OF AVERAGE
TAR HEEL KID IS 0. K.
Says Mrs. M’Nab Miller, of New
York City, Representative of Wo
man’s Federation.
Raleigh, Nov. 17.— UP) —The health
of the average North Carolina child
was pronounced O. K. by Mrs. Wal
ter McNab Miller, of New York City,
chairman of the Public Welfare De
partment of the General Federation
ff Women’s' Clubs here today.
Mrs. Miller discussed public wel
fare with Mrs. A. C. Avery, of Ashe
ville, state chairman of public wel
fare in the state federation of wom
an’s clubs, and Mrs. Thos. O’Berry of
Goldsboro, federation president. Mrs.
Ivate Burr Johnson, state commis
sioner of Public Welfare, introduced
Mrs. Miller.
Mrs. Avery outlined the state pro
gram of public welfare in the federa
tion, while Mrs. Miller said child
health day as it has been observed in
various sections of the country has
been a powerful agent for the year
round program as it related to the
welfare of the child.
THE STOCK MARKET
Price Movements Again Irregular As
the Market Opened Today.
New York, Nov. 17.— UP) —Price
movements were again irregular as
the stock -market opened today. Ini
tial gains of a point or so were scored
by Freeport Texas and Pierce Arrow,
while United Fruit opened a point
lower. --
Brothers Under Bond.
Goldsboro, Nov. 17. — UP) —At lib
erty under SSOO bond, Roland and
Archie Murvin, Wayne county broth
ers, today awaited a hearing on a
charge t)f threatening the life of a
nearby farmer, Jim Mozingo, who said
his barn had been blown up and that
he had received “orders” from the
“Cluck Gang” to leave the commun
ity.
Held Following Death of Child.
‘ Williamston, N. C., Nov. 17. —04*)
—Ben L. Stevenson, of Robersonvilie,'
today was held under SSOO bond pend
ing investigation into the death of
Ed Bunting, Jr., aged five, who was
fatally injured when struck by Stev
enson's automobile on a highway near
SHOW FILL HALTED
BUT COLD WEATHER
GRIPS TWO STATES
Along the Lakes the Snow
Storm Has Subsided But
~ Low Temperatures Are
Still Gripping Section.
GOVERNOR GREEN
CAUGHT IN STORM
Is With Party of Deer
Hunters and it May Be
Week Before Party Can
Travel Through Snow.
Chicago, Nov. 17. — UP) —The storm
that swept the northern lakes has
subsided, but the seasonal cold it
brought stuck to the entire mid-west
today. Piles of snow remained in
northern Wisconsin and upper Michi
gan, and shipping, driven to shelter
on Lake Superior, was moving cau
tiously over seas still far. from placid.
Governor Fred Green, of Michigan,
and a party of deer hunters were be
lieved snowbound in a wilderness
camp near Grand Marias on Lake
Superior. There was little fear for
their safety, but it was possible that
it might be a week before plows could
cut a path through huge drifts isolat
ing the governor’s party from the
world. Communication lines are down.
Ashland, Wis., has had no word
from the tug Butterfield, which left
Port Arthur, Ont., Sunday with a
barge in- tow for Ashland. The But
terfield, how’ever, may have found
shelter along the Canadian shore.
SEVERAL HELD FOR
SLAYING OF WOMAN
Youths at Winston-Salem Held For
Alleged Participation in Death of
Negro Woman.
Winston-Salem, Nov. 17.— UP) —
Charged with the murder of Lola
Chambers, a negro, on the night of
November sth, Ralph Stewart, 18, of
Union Cross, is held under SIO,OOO
bond today for the grand jury in
vestigation. Ray Smith, 20, and Gar
rett Whitaker, 16, and Rudolph Jones,
16, are held in bonds of SI,OOO each
charged wiih being accomplices.
Wayne Hedgecock, 13, is held under
SSOO bail on the same charge.
The boys were held at a hearing
before Magistrate W. F. Byrd today.
They asserted they wfcr® “trying to
have some fun” and fired a pistol Into
the party with Lola Chamber at the
time of the killing. It was alleged
that the boys stopped the negroes’ car
twice, that they fired several Rhots
the first time, and again stopped the
machine and fired other shots, one of
the bullets fatally founding the Cham
bers woman.
Stewart, Smith and Whitaker are
also charged with an attempt to rob
a filling station on the Lexington road
November Bth.
BARIUM GETS $20,000 GIFT.
Will of Late Raleigh Man Leaves Half
of Estate to Presbyterian Orphan
age.
Raleigh, Nov. 10* —Barium Springs
orphanage, Presbyterian institution
located near Statesville, will receive
between .$15,000 and $20,000 by the
terms of the will of the late H. S.
Farnsworth, of Raleigh.
When Mr. Farnsworth died in 1914
he left half of his estate to his
widow in fee simple and the remain
der to her for life with the provision
that it go to the orphanage at her
death. Mrs. Farnsworth died here
Sunday.
At Mr. Farnsworth’s death, his es
tate was valued at $32,000 but it is
estimated tq be worth far more than
that now.
HEADS U. D. C.
Mrs. W. C. N. Merchant Elected
President General at Charleston
Meeting.
Charleston, S. Gr, Nov. 17. — UP) —
Mrs. W. C. N. Merchant, of Chatham.
Va., was elected president general of
the United Daughters of the Confed
eracy on the first ballot at the annu
al convention here.
Mrs. Oscar McKenzie, of Monte
zuma, Ga., was elected first vice pres
ident general, Mrs. P. H. P. Lane, of
Philadelphia, was re-elected second
vice president general, Mrs. Madge
Burney, Waynesboro, Miss., was chos
en third vice president general, and
Mrs. L. M. Bashinski, of Troy, Ala.,
was reelected recording secretary gen
eral.
California’s Employees Object To Re
tirement On Old Age Pensions.
Sacramento, Oal. —Nov. 17—(INS)
—California’s state employes are go
ing to demand that they have the
right to stay in harness. They will
refuse to accept a proposed pension
on the mere grounds of old age, recog
nizing only physical inability as
grounds for retirement.
Captained by Jack Stafford, who
has been in the state’s employ for 34
years, ,8000 civil service workers
throughout the state are mustering
their forces to combat a newly-pro
posed plan to pension state employees
after compulsory retirement at a fix
ed age.
West Africa No Longer The White
Man’s Grave.
London, Nov. 17.—(INS)—West
Africa is no longer the White Man’s
Grave.
Recent years have shown a con
tinuous improvement in the stand
ard of health among the white men
employed there, according to figures
issued by the British Colonial Office.
During 1926 there were 3,577 of
ficials employed on an average for
the twelve months, and there were
among them only 31 deaths.
Twenty years ago out of 1,553 of
ficials 33 died.*
SEE SUCCESS FOR
EDUCATION DRIVE
OF STATE CHURCH
After Most Inspiring Meet
ing Last Night Baptists
Are Certain School Fund
Will Be Raised.
ASHEVILLE GETS
NEXT MEETING
Officers to Serve Next
Year Elected During Day
—Meeting Will Close
During the Afternoon.
Durham, Nov. 17. — UP) —Success In
the centennial education campaign for
$1,500,000 which will relieve Baptist
schools in North Carolina, was seen
today after leaders of the church had
inspired the 97th annual conference
of Baptists in the state to an enthu
siasm which they predicted will carry
the drive to completion before the
1930 convention, the time limit set in
the drive.
Asheville was chosen as the place
of the 98th convention by the place
committee, which recommended its se
lection to the full convention. High
Point, asking for the 1928~ :: meeting
also, was denied.
Election of the president to suc
ceed Dr. I. M. Mercer, of Winston-
Salem, consideration of theological
schools, the orphanage, the Baptist
Hospital, foreign missions, the Bap
tist foundation, social service and re
ports were matters before the con
ference in its final session.
Adjournment -was set for late to
day.
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
STRESSED AS NEED
Thoughts of Baptist Directed to the
Centennial Drive—Noted Speakers
Heard.
Durham, Nov. 16. —Importance of
Christian education was the keynote
of tonight’s session of the Baptist
State Convention, now holding its
97th annual meeting in the First Bap
tist Church of this city. With O.
Max Gardner, of Shelby; Dr. F. P.
Ganes, president of Wake Forest Col
lege, and Dr. E. Y. Mullins, president
of the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Louisville, Ky., and also
head of the Baptist World Alliance,
heading the program, ffie thoagfifs of
the vast gathering of Baptists were
directed to the centennial movement
which has already started and which,
by April Ist of the coming year, will
have been carried into every section
of North Carolina.
The session tonight was one of
three busy and interesting sessions
which engaged the attention of the
preachers and laymen. As was the
case of the opening day, the meeting
>was entirely harmonious and no fights
developed to add a touch of sensation
to the occasion. During the morning
session attention was directed to the
Sunday School and its work, to the
W. M. U., state missions and the co
operative program. The afternoon
was turned over to the consideration
of ministerial relief and annuity, and
home missions, and the evening pro
gram was directed upon Christian ed
ucation and the important part the
centennial movement will play in ad
vancing it in the state.
While the evening session was set
apart for consideration of the cen
tennial movement, it crept into the
morning session during a talk on
state missions delivered by Dr. Liv
ingston Johnson of Raleigh. He link
ed mission work with religious edu
cation because of the vital relation
ship between them. Without Christian
education the work of missions could
not be carried on successfully, he said,
pointing out that education is neces
sary to produce leadership.
During his talk Dr. Johnson gave
figures to show how the Baptist col
leges have produced ministers of {he
gospel, using the Baptist ministry in
the state to illustrate his point. Out
of 474 Baptist ministers in the state,
only six received their Christian edu
cation in the State university. He
scored the State institutions for their
breadth of curriculum, charging that
there is “a tendency on the part of
the State institutions to teach every
thing and not teach anything thor
oughly.” Because of the ease with
which a student can select the courses
he shall take, education in the State
institutions is not so good as in de
nominationally controlled schools, he
intimated.
The address of Mr. Gardner was
one of the outstanding of the night’s
program. As chairman of the cen
tennial campaign in North Carolina,
more interest attended his remarks
|;han did the others of the evening.
Girl Tired of Living Commits Suicide.
Jefferson, Nov. 15. —Miss Kate
Vannoy committed suicide by taking
poison at the home of her father, Jes
se Yannoy, near Nathan’s Creek Sun
day night. She left a note in which
she stated that she was tired of living.
No reason for her act is known to her
family and friends. The deceased was
about 18 years of age and is survived
by her parents and three brothers and
three sisters.
New Dormitory at St. Mary’s.
Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 17.—(INS)—
Another dormitory will be erected at
St. Mary’s here which will accomo
date 50 additional students.
The new dormitory will be ready for
occupancy by the first of September,
1928, it was announced by school of
ficials. The cost of the new building
will not exceed $50,000, it was stated.
The dormitory will be known as tlje
Margaret Locke Erwin Holt Dormi
tory, and will be a memorial to the
wife of Lawrence A. Holt, of Burling
ton and Washington,
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance
SECOND CROP OF PEARS.
Nothin - • under the sun, it
is said, i decidedly unusual
for a pea to yield two crops
during th year in this sec
tion of N merica. T. H.
Sherrill, It nklin Avenue,
heralds to \ ’i Id that he has
a pear tree p *ard that bore
two crops of , *2- Early in the
summer Mr. » « plucked the
first crop of t ** d yesterday
he gathered the The last
crop of pears w» normal in size.
WILL DEMOCRATS BE
FAVORABLE TO CHANGE?
Two-Thirds Rule Expected to Bring
Bitter Fight at Convention.
Washington, Nov. 17.—0$*) —When
the Democratic national committee
meets in Washington in mid-January,
its membership probably will be asked
to consider once again whether the
rule requiring a two-thirds vote for
nomination of a presidential candi
date should be abolished.
Chairman Shaver and other party
managers take the view that the ques
tion whether a bare majority or two
thirds of the convention should nom
inate is one for the convention itself
to decide, but there is increasing talk
about the capital that the committee
itself might be sounded on. the subject
during its session here.
The primary purpose of the Janu
ary gathering is to select a convention
city, already, however, other features
have been added to the tentative pro
gram, including a Jackson Day ban
quet at which the prospective Demo
cratic presidential candidates will be
put through their paces as after
dinner speakers.
Some of the most determined op
ponents of the candidacy of Governor
Smith, of New York, are opposing any
deviation from the two-thirds rule,
but today Senatol Walsh, of Montana,
who has not been friendly to the
Smith cause, and who served as chair
man of the 1924 convention, said he
favored nomiation by a simple ma
jority, “regardles of whom it may
help.’'
FORESTS LESSONS ARE
GIVEN TO CHILDREN
About 850 High Schools of State Will
Offer Service to Students.
The Tribune Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Nov. 10. —Pupils of ap
proximately 850 high schools of the
-state will be given an opportunity to
study the service and uses of the for
ests as a result of an educational
campaign being carried on under the
direction of State Forester J, S.
Holmes.
Forester Holmes has just written
the principals of the high qriigolsoAd
vising them that ttfe Department of
Conservation and Development has
purchased 500 copies of “The Forest,
Handbook for Teachers,’' which will
be distributed free of charge to teach
ers who will present lessons to their
pupils.
Offer of the handbook has been
made to rural and city schools, white
and negro. “This book” says the
State forester, “of some 70 pages
will, it is felt, be of great assistance
to the teacher in the high school
wishing to present the subject of for
estry or tree study to the classes in
science, biology, or other subjects
with which practical forestry can be
correlated.
“This book contains, among other
things, outlines for the different
grades divided up into the fall, winter,
and spring terms. For each term
are given under sub-headings, topic
for study; illustrated material; sub
ject matter; study questions; practi
cal exercises; and correlations, this
last giving suggestions as to how the
subject can be related to the various
subjects which are part of the high
school curriculum. The report is
couched in simple language and is ful
ly illustrated.”
Thanksgiving Specials at Belk’s.
Unmatchable values from the
“Home of Better Values” are provide
ed in the Thanksgiving Sale at Belk’s
Department Store.
Goods in all departments are es
pecially priced for this big sale and
a big saving can be realized by pur
chases from each department. Dresses,
turkish towels, crepe, satin, pongee,
children’s fine union suits, smart new
hats, men’s suits and overcoats, un
derwear for men, smart footwear for
ladies, men’s fine dress shirts, satin
dresses and many other aticles in the
store are being offered during this big
sale.
Read carefully page ad. in this pa
per and call to see the unusual bar
gains offered.
With Our Advertisers.
With each SI.OO box of Joncaire
Powder Belk’s will give free your
choice of one jar of Joncaire Com
plexion Cream. Read particulars in
new ad. today.
The new ad. of the J. C. Penney Co.
in this paper carries many special
bargains. It will be to your advan
tage to read the ad. carefully and call
at the store to see the unusual offer
ings.
Flower Box Falls, Killing Small Girl.
Durham, Nov. 16.—Falling from a
flower box on the front porch of a resi
dence here today resulted in the death
of four-year-old Annie Lou Mc-
Granaha.^
The flower box, six feet long and
filled with dirt, was overturned and
fell upon the child, after she had fallen
to the ground.
Her abdomen was crushed and she
died of internal injuries before a
physician could reach the home.
Confederate Pension Notes Sold.
Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 17.—(INS)
—Three million dollars worth of state
confederate pension notes have been
sold here. Premiums are $13,170 and
interest set at 4 1-2 per cent. De
livery will be made December 1.
The money goes to pay SSO a month
to Confederate veterans and their
widows of Arkansas.
The price of cotton on the local
market is quoted today at 19% cents
per pound.
UNION LEAGUE TO
HONOR PRESIDENT
COOLIDGE TONIGHT
Will Receive Gold Medal
For Distinguished Ser
vice and Certificate of
Honorary Membership.
TWO PRESIDENTS
GIVEN MEDALS
Only Two Others, Lincoln
and Johnson, were Given
Medal and Membership
in the League.
Philadelphia, Nov. 17.—0$*)—Presi
dent Coolidge will be the guest of the
Union League tonight, and will re
ceive the League’s gold medal for dis
tinguished public service, and a cer
tificate of honorary membership in the
club.
Mr. Coolidge will be the third pres
ident to receive the goid medal, and
the first to receive both the gold med
al and the certificate of honorary
membership. Presidents Lincoln and
Johnson were the other recipients of
the medal, while honorary member
ships thus far have been conferred on
Presidents Harrison, McKinley,
Roosevelt and Taft.
The President is due here at 6:15 p.
m. He will go at once to the Union
League, where he will deliver an ad
dress at a Founders Day dinner at 8
o’clock. The speech will be broadcast
by station WOO.
The Union League was founded 63
years ago to promote a support for
the Lincoln policies during the Civil
War. It is not strictly a party or
ganization, symbolizing rather loyal
ty to the Union as opposed to seces
sion, which was the leading question
in the day when it came into being.
GREYHOUND RACING
AT ATLANTA HALTED
Races Get Official "Thumbs TTbwrt”
After Being Run Only Two Days.
(By International News Service)
Atlanta, Ga., Nr>v, 17.—Greyhound
racing, which started in Atlanta with
great ceremony and flamboyant dem
onstrations, has received the official
“thumbs down” and the dogs have
trekked south to more fertile fields.*
Two days after dog races opened
the Dixie Lakes Kennel elub to the
tune' IST several bands and the pres
ence of many race fans, a temporary
injunction issued by Judge John B.
HutcheSon at the request of Solicitor*
General Claude Smith, forced the me
chanical rabbits to be returned to
their boxes.
The temporary injunction was is
sued against the operation of the pari
mutuel betting machines and the rac
ing automatically ceased with the ab
sence of the sale of certificates on the
various dogs.
The hearing for the injunction suit
was to have been held Tuesday of this
week, but a continuance was granted
at the mutual consent of the State
and attorneys for the track, the in
junction remaining in force.
The dogs, it was said, have already
been taken to Florida for the winter
season, but whether or not they can
race there is a matter of speculation,
Florida having banned the pari-mutu
el last year in a Supreme court de
cision that closed every race track in
the state. VI
RECORD "BOOM” IN
SIGHT, SAYS EXPERT
Railroads Warned to Prepare for
Unprecedented Business.
New York, Nov. 16. —Virgil Jor
dan, chief of the Research Bureau of
the National Industrial Conference
board, warned the Railway Business
Association today to prepare for an
unprecedented business boom which
may make 1925 and 1920 seem like a
period of depression by comparison.
The unprecedented expansion of
business, for which conditions are
favorable, he told the railway equip
ment and supply men at their annual
convention, “is- likely to strain our
transportation facilities and credit re
sources to the limit, and put the self
control of business men and the pow
ers of the Federal Reserve system to
a real test to prevent serious Infla
tion and subsequent slump.”
The convention deplored by resolu
tion “political pressure upon commis
sioners” of th# Interstate Commerce
Commission in reappointment during
health and satisfactory service.” Com
missioners should not be appointed,
the convention resolved, as represent
ing geographical or fractional inter
ests, but only on the basis of personal
fitness.
One Negro Convict Killed, Anothef
Crushed By Rock.
Asheville, Nov. 16. —One negro cort
vict is dead and another has slight
chance of surviving the night, ae a
result of being crushed beneath a
large houlder at the state convict
camp in Western Asheville, about five
o’clock this afternoon.
The two convicts were picking uj
loose rocks from a previous blast when,
without warning, the boulder fell or
them crushing both skulls and break
ing bones. It is said that the heavj
rains caused the large rocks to conw
lose. They were not taken to a hospita
and at a late hour tonight had no;
been identified.
mm
Cloudy and much colder, probably
rain in east portion tonight, Fridaj
generally fair and colder. Strong
southerly winds, shifting to northwesf
early tonight, diminishing Friday*,
NO. 40