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His! The Concord Daily Tribune iWI VOLUME XXIII COAST GUARD BOUTS off jew com TOOT KII' iy t % j« : - ■/. , . .■.■ * j All Available Boats Are Be- 1 mg Concentrated for This Work.—Hard to Comply j With Late Court Ruling. TWO BOATS HAVE j BEEN CAPTURED; Attorney General Daugherty j Declares Vessels Will Not Be Allowed to Bring Li-1 quor Into American Ports.! IBy the Asiioclntetl Preoui.t Washington, May I.—While govern-1 mom officials continued to puzzle to- i day over applications of the Supreme Court decisions on ship liquor, const ] guard headquarters issued an order i concentrating all available cons, guard! louts iii the north Atlantic along (lie .New .Jersey coast. It was said that hencefortli the rum fleet massed off the Atlantic highlands would he under surveillance of the two coast guard cutters day and night. Seize Tug and Launch. New York, May 2. —The government centering a triangular attack on the rum fleet off tile Jersey coast, today had seized a tug and a motor launch ; carrying provisions and fuel to the} alien craft anchored outside the three- 1 mile limit. Will Enforce Law. Washington, May 2.—Government of- ] fieiais continued today to feel their! way toward a satisfactory adjustment j of the difficulties faced in applying the I Supreme Court's interpretation of the; dry laws as prohibiting tile carrying I of liquor by any tjiip within the tliree-mile zone of I'. S. territorial waters. Cor the Department, of Justice m. amvhiie. Attorney-General Daugher ty has announced that the Supreme Court's mandate, becoming effective within 30 days from the handing down of the decision Monday, will lie en forced “vigorously." THE COTTON MARKET S.-aUi.ed LiuYudttiifcU Slccaskirieo an - Unsettled Opening in the Market To- j •lay. (By the Anocialeil Press.) New York. May 2.—Scattered liquid-' alien, influenced I*y generally favor able conditions occasioned an unset tled opening in''the cotton market this] morning, ttie May contract showing 2 I points advance, while other months' were 1 to 12 points lower. Subsequent selling by Wall Street and the South weakened July to 25.94, hut at this level there was moderate foreign buy ing and some domestic trade callings together with rather active covering! for local account, which quickly ral lied (lie market back to 2ti.lit Cotton futures opened steady. May ! 27.35; July 20.05; Get. 23.75; Dec. 23.38; Jan. 23.10. Franklin Man Dies at Age of 101 Years. Greensboro, May 1. —David Frank ner, aged one hundred and five, died at the Guilford county liom: last night, his death due to the infirmities of old age. He was born in Franklin county, 10 miles from Louisburg in 1818 and spent a considerable part | of is life in Franklin, later moving to i Randolph county. Ke came to the! county home about a year ago. He j leaves his widow, a daughter and a j son, David Jr., who lives at High! Foiut. Tlte body will be taken to ] ll.gh I’oni for interment. Closing Exercises China Grove School, j China Grove, May 1. —The closing; exercises of the China Grove graded school will tie held in the school nutli-, torhnn on Thursday night and Friday | afternoon of this week. J. L. Parker, of Charlotte, will deliver the commencement address Thursday night, and A. M. Hanna will present certificates of promotion to the pupils who have completed the gram mar course and the prizes to those who have won distinction in various fields] of school work. Rev. C. B. Fisher, pastor of St. I Mark's Lutheran Church, mill pro-! iiounce the Invocation and lienedic-! turn. Friday afternoon the primary ; grades will render an attractive' Mother Goose operetta and members; of the fourth and fifth grades will ] present nn amusing one-act playlet. Several musical numbers, vocal and; instrumental, will be given. Concord’s “white way” Issjjeginniug hi have a different appearance. Sov erftl electricians are now cleaning the good glolies and replacing the ones which have burned out. PROCLAMATION! ■ TO ALL CONCERNED: ! My sister, Mary Tudor, having left my home and fireside, I m will not he responsible for debts contracted by her nor her'eom |J panlon. She is not .vet of age and I had arranged a very proflta p] hie marriage for her, hut she saw tit to elope with one of my man jSj servants. Tl|ey will, no doubt, attempt passage to some foreign E| country. If apprehended, notify. ' REX HENRY TL'DOK ! a; if! .y: I ULTIMATUM IS * -* SUNT TO TURKS, ! I'.|i ■ !:K Constantinople, May 2 (By the s!5 [:!; As.-ociniid Press i. -The French ?I5 ! ! 515 charge d'affairs here yesterday^’ handed a note to the Turkish gov- 515. :Si eminent declaring that unless 1 i!T concentrations of Turkish troops Hi! iHi on the Syrian liorder are inline- Hi |Hi diateiy withdrawn, France will Hi jHi abandon the Lausanne confer-Hi. Hi cm e. , rkj I* Hi ;♦-* £ » *. 35 * 35 * 35 * 35 3i * ♦ TAX COLLECTORS OF | STATE ARE MEETING Meeting Called For Special i Purpose of Trying to Catch All Men Who Have Not j Paid Taxes Due the State. illy (he Am.u'-'.iHfl hrees.i j Raleigh, May 2.—With the question 'of catching tax dodgers before them ! for discussion, field agents of the De i partment iif Revenue went Into con jl’erenee here today* with Commissioner Dnughton. The total collection of state income tax to date amounts to approximately $3,t)C,0.000, the agents were told, and plans for ascertahiing the names of all persons eligible, hut who have not ! made returns, were advanced. The ! department has in ils possession and I available all the information in the ' hands of the federal revenue collector jin North Carolina, i A record of the activities of each .agent is being kept by department of ficials, and the commissioner, it was i learned, is demanding more returns [from the men whose reports have not j been as large as expected. ! In addition to tlie income tax. the 'department this year has tile collection ] of special license taxi's, which former i ly were (landed through the treasu rer’s office. HAS NO I’SE FOR DISGITSKD MEN Ghveruor Morrison 'lakes Address at ' Welcome High School. Lexington, iMav L—-Gayernor Alor rison devoted tits address at the wel come high school commencement to day largely to a defens: of the record of his admin stralion and praise for i North Carolina in her dorww f ffriiTes. ’Ofie" by che h£ ts6k up the j work of the state institutions, includ ] ing the state prison, and he got the I hammer after the “knockers ' in | hearty fashion. ! By strong inference he included E. ]E. Diulding in the list, although not ] mentioning him by name. I Cromer Komis, a youth who was sit ting near the governor, proved a striking illustration of the • execu five's praise of the ci.mosymiry work of the state, Koons, who until recently had not walked a step from infancy, was present with legs in ! braces, and on crutches, with watch lie now gets si limit with facility, -and j lias promise of waking almost uor ] maliy later. The governor saw the I lad and asked him where he had been treated. An interested dialogue pil lowed that •rented a fine impression. The Governor and R. B. Saweezy, the New York banker, who is his guests on a state tour, were to have he»n guests of the Rotary club at a 1 o'clock luncheon. However, he was two hours behind his schedule for the welcome address and missed the luncheon by an hour. The chief executive was greeted by |an audience estimated at 3,C00, this 'being one of the largest ever gathsr jed in Davidson county. Ho entei'tain ! ingly and inspiringlv reviewed the I progress of North Carolina during | the past few years— industrially, educationally and otherwise. Governor iMorrison discussed Caro ilina's tax rate and explained how the money was doing obtained through the income tax and other means. I In discussing law enforcement, the I governor declared that North Caro ! !ina was noted for law and oruer. Howevei, lie said that he had no use for any organized efforts on the part of men. who went about veiled in religious or any other garb for the ( purposs l of enforcing the law or pun (ish’ing violators ilegally. With Our Advertisers. I Don’t lie a foolish spender—save ! your money. See new ad. of Citizens ; Bank and Trust Company. I Living Room Furniture Suites in all 'colors and shades of upholstering at | Bell & Harris. I H. B. Wilkinson is selling $7.50 mat j ting rugs oxl2 for only $4.95. Only i 100 of them. Better go now. \V. A. Overeash is selling fine all wool worsted suits for only $27.50. The Begum of Bhopal, the only ‘ recognized woman ruler hi As a, com i mauds the allegiance of nearly two millions of people. CONCORD, N. C„ WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1923 New Reparations Proposal Ahnounced by the Germans Berlin. May 2 (By the Associated 1 1 Press). —Germany in her reparations proposals submitted tod ty advances a ; proposition that security as between , France and 'Germany lie attained by •an agreement to submit any future conflicts to orb!tration, or oilier reeon eiliator.v processes. | The German government, says the note, is propired as was its intention | in proposing the conclusion of a Rhine j pact, to accept any agreement ealcn-l I a ted t-; secure peace based on reci-1 procity. The German government, it adds, is : prepared to accept any agreement 1 binding on both Germany and France.! to submit all lonfliots which cannot lie; settled in (lie usual diplomatic way to' some kind of peaceful International proceeilttre, that is to say, judicial GEORGIANS STUDYING THE OLD NORTH STATE North Carolina Has Attracted Atten tion Everywhere. ilty flu* A»H4ielated Preni.i Raleigfi, N. C„ Miy 2.—Hal M. Stanley, commissioner of potnmero: ind labor, and Sam J. Slale, meniDer >f the industrial board, both ot Georgia, have been spending several 2ays in North Car ilifta studying mis state’s industrial progress in connec tion with a campaign for manufactur ing enterprises to 1» conducted in Georgia. The two Georgians spent Sunday olid Monday in Raleigh, leaving here in company with M. L. Shipman, com missioner of labor and printing of North Carolina, after conferring with ither state officials. Mr. Stanley and Mr. Slate were scheduled to lie in High Point today where they plan ned to inspect manufacturing plants, bold conferences with manufacturers ind city officials. "North Carolina as a result of its great progress in recent years has at tracted the attention of the entire jountry,” said Mr. Stanley. "Georgia ms been going forward at a faster -jaoe this year and we be ieve the time is opportune for a concentrated program of progress. “We are studying conditions in North (’a rid ilia and other stales in irder that we may be fully prepared or our work. Owing to different con tions and circumstances in Georgia, ve may not be able to proceed along he same line North Carolina has ml 'owed, but we are) sure the methods ollowed here have been and will con inue to lie an inspiration to all lonthern states.” •Mr. Stanley also is president ot a lewlv organized .awociat'an _ln his stai.'tp— “Georgiah I, IlfeOrporavea.” the association was farmed to obtain nanufacturing industries for the date. In discussing conditions in North Carolina, Mr. Slate declared he had watched progress here with “much •■atisfaction.” He formerly resided u Virginia and a'so is thoroughly ’amHiar with North Carol na. 3 RITA IN AGAIN WANTS “COMMAND OF ALL SEAS” Hiis Is Same Principle She Followed Prior to Washington Anns Meeting. #B.v Ibe A **«»«•! alert Pre*».i Washington, May 2. —Announcement li Parliament by the First Lord of the British Admiralty that "command of til seas” is the idea to tie sought by the British government,' was accepted n American naval circles here today is a return to the traditional basic pol icy of Great Britain as contrasted with he theory subscribed to by her spokes man after the Washington arms con ference. The official minutes of that confer ence approved by the British and oth er delegations before final publication -juote Lord Balfour and his associates is adhering unequivocally to the prin •iple of limitation to the point at which the pan-American navies become ■qua I China Grove P.-T. A. Elects New Of lleers. China Grove, May I.—At a meeting of the China Grove Parent-Teacher Association held in the school nmlito- ] rium Thursday evening the following officers were elected for ttie coming school term: President, 51. L. Ritchie; Vice President, Miss Catherine Albertson; Secretary, Miss Mary Ramsaur; i Treasurer, Mrs. ID. M. Jones. Tlie fifth grade of the China Grove school bore off the prize, a handsome picture, given by the association to, the grade having the greatest number t of parents present at meeting during the past school years. A pleasant event of the evening was a musical program rendered by members of Miss Ada Stirewalt’s ' music class, who delighted the nuili-, ence with a number of songs and in- j Rtrumental selections. Another Big 88 Cent Sale at Eflrd's. On Friday and Saturday Eflrd’s will hove another of the 88 cent sales which have become so popular . This , will be a wonderful opportunity for you to secure your summer goods in every line at prices way lielow regu lar values. In this sale are included . dress goods, shoes, underwear, umbrel las, hosiery, shirts. Indies’ ready-to wear, and many other things. Read the big double-page nil. in today’s pa per and see just what this salt? means to yon. Gardner Leads hi Qualifying Round. ißr (he Aaaodated Preoa.) Sandwich, England. May 2.—Robert A. Gardner, captain of the American team, led the first fifty golfers to com plete a round of play in the first day's stroke competition for the Royal St. George challenge cup. His score was 75. Roger Wethered and Michael i Scott each had a card of 70. conflict to arbitration, and all other, conflicts to a reconciliation process nf-| ter the example of the Bryan agree ment. | (These agreements are the series of treaties negotiated by secretary of State Bryan during the Wilson admin-; istration with Great Britain and other j foreign governments). j ■ England Had No Part in Answer. | I Lonelon. May 2 (By tiie Associated IPress).- —It was authoritatively stated j here this afternoon that the British ; government lias, at some pains t.i ! make clear to every party that Great j Britain is in no way conned id with ; the German reparations note, and that ' she hid no hand whatsoever in fram ing its, terms ns lmd been suggested in 1 certain quarters. BISHOP SAYS AMERICA IS WOMEN'S PARADISE Our Poorest. Women Infinitely Better off Tlmn the Women of Nouih Amer ica. (By tbe Associated rrissn.i Chicago, May 2.—Tin-..purest woman in tin- Cnill'll States is-infinitely bel ter oft than tile peon women of South ! America, Bishop W. F. Oldham, of! Buenos' Aires, declared at a meeting! of tin* employees and stair of the Com mittee on Conservation and Advance of the Methodist Episcopal Church ! here. ] Bishop Oldham has just returned from South America and Mexico. He | said: "You can, rate civilization from I the place flint women hold in that par- I tieular country. There used to lie an i idea that woman had no real place in j tiie world. "If there are any young women here who are discontented and wishing tlut I they were rich, think of the mass of i women in the peon class in South America who are not as respected as the women of the United States. The poorest of you is rich when compared with these.” The Bishop said that (lie ownership of millions of acres of land by rich j landlords was detrimental to the ad-1 vaneement of the peons. The peon j women, especially in South America, be declared, live in iitilc shacks in] small villages and are degraded spec- • linens of humanity, depressed,- with ; absence of all hope, ambition and as-1 pi ration. "There should lie no discontented ] women in America because they are ] well cared for, and have good homes," j Bishop Oldham concluded. MAGISTRATE FAILS TO GET SPEEDING FINE Guilford Young Alan Proves Jo Court! That He Hadn’t Been in Wayne. Greensboro. April 30.-—An attempt • to foree IV. O. Carlyle, of this city, to pay sl3. made by a Wayne county ] magistrate, failed when Judge W. F. i Harding this morning passed favora-J lily upon a writ for habeas corpus re quested by the young man. Carlyle was charged with speeding ; on a Wayne county road on April 15, i the warrant being issued by Magis-I Irate G. D. Sassoon, of Goldsboro, I sworn out by J. H. Thomas, evidently I a constable. However. Carlyle swore! that neither he nor his car have ever ] been in Wayne county, there evidently being a mix-up in number. He was able to prove it. ' It developed that Sheriff D. R. Staf ford, of Guilford county, wrote to Mag istrate Sassoon about the matter and received a letter in reply stating in substance that, if Carlyle would pay sl3 the matter would tie dropped. How ever, Carlyle did not care to pay any thing, hence the habeas corpus pro ceedings. Judge Harding in announcing his de cision flayed authorities who try to capitalize good roads by illegal lev ies upon motorists. .Meriting Heads North Carolina Dentists. Pinehurst, ;May L—The joint con vention of the Virginia State Dental association and the North Carolina Dental society, in session here, was featured tonight by ttie election of officers by the North Carolina Dental society. Dr. John A. 'McClung, of Winston- Salem, was elected president: Dr. Henry O. Linebergcr. of Raleigh, secretary; Dr. E. G. Clink, of Likin, treasurer; Dr. Whitfield Cobb. Win ston-Salem, essayist, with Dr. C. A. Tho-m-pson, of Wilson, and Dr. J. I. Betts, of Greensboro, members of the examining board. i The program of the Virginia den tists has not •yst reached election of I officers. Home For Defective Kids at Asheville; ‘ Asheville. May I.—Asheville has . been selected as tiie location of a nat j ional school for the treatment of men- I tally deficient children, and at least. 1 $50,000 will lie expended as an initial ’investment, with arrangements to care for 50 children, according to I)r. D. 0. DeCroat, noted psychologist of Tampa. Fla., who has been in the city for the past few days looking over the field. While I)r. DeOroat said that he is not ready to announce the names of j his associates. Asheville lias been se-, (U'Utiitely chosen as the site for (he school, due to the ideal climate for: children handicapped in life's battle as n result of being deaf, dumb or men- ■ tlnly deficient. Mailing $3,000,000 to State Farmers. (Hr the Aaaoclnieit Preaa.) ! Raleigh. May 2.—The N. C. Cotton! Growers Co-operative Association, j which is muiliug out checks to resell! a total of $3,000,000 to the cotton grow i ers of the stute, expects to complete its task early next week, it was announc i ed this morning. Check* are in pny -1 ment for cotton handled by the Ass elation. SCHEDULE OF VISITS FOR SPY ANNOUNCED. Tiie Fnyssoux Tribune Spy will visit (lie places shown lie-, low tit tiie approximate times in dicated. Any persons who de sire to apprehend the spy may lie on the-w itch for him accord ingly : Today's Schedule. Piggly Wiggly in a. in. W A. tiven ash's 10:45 a. in. Eflrd's Dept. Store II :30 a. in. J. H. Farley 1 p. m. Musette 1 :45 p. m. Be!) & Harris 2:30 p. in. Brown's 3:15 p. m. Porter Drug Go., 4:00 p. m Hoover’s 4:25 p. in. Tetri Drug Go. 5:30 p. m. Parks-lii'ik Go. 11 a. m. Ritchie Ildw. Go. 11:15 a. ,m. Gilson Drug Go. 20:20 p. m. Tomorrow’s Schedule. Piggly Wiggly 11:15 a. m. W. A. Overeasli's- 9:30 a. m. Kind's Dept. Store 10:20 a. in. J. H. Farley 10:45 a. in. Muaefte —11 a. m. Bell & Harris 12:20 p. m. I Brown's 2:00 p. m. i Porter Drug Go. 2 :30 p. m. Hoover's 3 :00 p. in. l’earl Drug Go. 4:00 p. m, ' Parks-Belk 3:30 p. in, Ritchie Hdw. Go. 4:15 p. m. I 'Gibson Drug Go. 5 p. in. BIG CROWD PRESENT FOR MOUNT ISOUIR7 Coroner’s Jury Trying to De termine Way Young Stu dent Met His Death Near Lake More Than Year Ago. •By (lie AMudnleil Prda.) Chicago. May 2.—Students and oili er persons crowded the Evanston po lice station today for tiie coroner's in tviest into the death of Leighton .Mount, Northwestern University fresh man. who disappeared after a class fight in 1921, and whose skeleton was found under a pier in Lake Michi gan on Monday. Coroner Wolff planned to summon Dr. Walter D. Scott, president of the University, as a witness, it was said. ; Arthur l’ersinger, a sophomore ini 1921, who during the Frestumui Soph omore clash, was hound head down-j ward to a piling in the lake, and who] was reported nearly to have drowned, | was present to testify, as was Carl I Oldberg, a classmate of Mount, who is I said to have been one of those who ] last saw him alive. Making Investigation of Mount Trag edy. Chicago, May 2.- —A complete list of Freshmen and Sophomores who were attending the Northwestern University at the time Leighton Mount, freshman, disappeared after an inter-class rush, in September, 1921. will he demanded at the inquest today over the skeleton found Monday night. TURKISH GRANTS ARE OPPOSED BY BRITISH Grants Made ill Kingdom of Irak Find I Kind Disfavor With Great Britain. I London, May 2 (By the Associated j Press).—The British high commis sioner in Constantinople has been in structed to register an emphatic pro test against the grant by the Turks of I rights within Hie kingdom of Irak I l Mesopotamia) and to declare that | Great Britain cannot recognize the] validity of any such grant. This was j announced in the House of Commons today in a statement on the Chester concession by Lieut. Col. Albert Buck ley, speaking for the foreign office. Union County Farmer Makes Colton Record. i Monroe, May I.—Eight hales of cot ton on seven acres of land under the worst vinil of boil weevil conditions is the record set last year by E. (!. Yarborough, of Waxllaw community. How did lie do it? His simple ex planation is that “we had our land in a high state of cultivation and tried to make enough cottton squares for ourselves and the boll weevils too.” ' Mr. Yarborough states that lie! picked iqi a great many squares .hut ] he attributes the larger part of his successful operations to having the land iu a high state of cultivation and to rapid cultivation. This year lie expects to follow Hie same meth ods and is confident of a cotton crop, although this is the third year of tiie weevils' nperatioiis in Union county. Dr. Willing Leads Fields of Golfers. Sandwich, May 2 (By the Associat ed Press).—Dr. O. F. Willing, of Port lond. Oregon, led the field of (lie first] seventy-five golfers competing in file j opening round of play ing the stroke! competition for tiie royal St. George's challenge cup today. His score was 35-39-71. (kdtou Seed Unisliers Meet. Hot Springs, Ark., May. 2.—A large 1 and representative attendance mark- ( ed the openin' here today of the | twenty-seventh annual meeting of the; Instersta te Cotton Seed Crushers’ j Association. The sessions, which are ] being held at tiie Eastman Hotel, will continue until Friday. On Trans-Continental Flight. iMy the ANROFUtftI Hempstead, X. Y„ May 2.—Limits. John A. Maelteady and Oakley G. Kel ly took off from Roosevelt Field in the army monoplane T-2, hoping to make a non-stop trans-continental flight to San Diego, Cal., within 32 hours. ANNUAL FARM CENSUS. Afforded a Seventy Per Cent. Degree of Completeness Last Year. Tin* outstanding new addition to North Guretina's agrietuliiural prog ress is the annual farm census. Al though liegun on a voluntary basis on ly five years ago, it afforded a 70 per cent, degree of completeness results last year and a better is exepeted this year. The skepticism at first, by farmers and others interested, has given way In strong endorsement by county com missioners. co-operative marketing, farm bureaus, extension service, hank-1 Cl'S and progressive farmers. The voluntary overwhelming results were! repunishaiile for the law being passed requiring this through the'tax listers. Those in charge'or’ this, both local ly amt in tiie Department of Agrieui rure. claim that the present difficulty is one the part of the farmers them selves. A!though we own ore or more farms, the tax listers find that our Confidential knowledge of ttiis non taxahle farm work is sadly lacking. if is definitely proven in all com mercial industries that failure would |he certain if planned as the fanners .do their planting. Only an inventory ■ or audit can show what we are doing. The lies! sellers and losses may lie I found, especially if records of sales and purchases are maintained. I Air. IV. A. Foil, county tax super visor, requests that eaeli farm owner make a list of his own and his tenants crop acreages, etc,, and carry With him when he lists his taxes. This will tie for the separate Farm Census list Which has nothing to do with taxes. The Farm Census tin's year needs the following information of each farm owner including his tenants: Acres owned, cultivated, lying out, im proved pastures and timber, which are an essential basis for tiie crops. The acres of each crop grown even to the one-tenth acre field crops; each kind of bay to lie harvested this year; the number of bearing fruit trees; tons of fertilizers and manure for this year; number of sows: ewe sheep; milk cows (milking age) ; work stock and hens are called for. Even if our farmers diil nothing more than prepare such a list each year for their own information, it would prove very valuable. To have it by counties will be more so, when used and protected as it is. If we an 1 to succeed, this work in invalu able as an aid in economic production and marketing.' Help the listers by bringing pre pared lists of the above informal ion. CLUB WOMEN OF STATE MEET IN TWIN CITY j Twenty-First Annual Session of N. U. i I Federation of Women’s Chibs in] j Session Now. j (By tiie Aa.-oeleted Prana.? I Winston-Salem, May 2. —The club j women of the state are assembling here today for the twenty-first annual j session of the. North Carolina Federa tion of Women’s Clubs. Mrs. Sidney | ('coyer, of Henderson, with the staff of state officers, including Mrs. Robert i’. Cotton, of Bruce, honorary presi dent. have been here since Yesterday, getting (lie convention machinery in motion. Last night and today visi tors are registering rapidly, and by noon today probably 250 delegates were in attendance. Probably 400 Women leaders in civic and social bet terment assembled from every corner of the state, are expected to arrive. Prominent women of the General Fed eration attending the sessions are Mrs. President General Thoas G. Winters, of Minneapolis, and Mrs. Marx Oliern dorfer, chairman of music of tlte General Federation of St. Louis. The j latter will address tiie state body this | afternoon nt Salem College memorial hall, and Airs. (Vinters, here en route to a meeting of the General Federation at Atlanta, Ga., next week, will ad dress the convention tomorrow even- I ing. TWO HANGED FOR THE DEATH OF CONSTABLE Airs. Florence Lassandrca and Emilio Piconrrillo Pay For Killing With Lives. t (Hy thp Assoctnted Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, May 2. Airs. Florence Lassandrca and Emi lio. Piccarrilio were hanged today for tiie murder of Constable Lawson last September. Both protested their Innocence on the gallows. Piccarillo paid the pen alty first, and 41 minutes later Airs. Lassnndre.i was executed. She was the first; woman to be hanged in Cana | da in 24 years. Southern Moravians Will Work, in Europe. Winston-Salem, May I.—The 30 churches comprising tiie Southern Alo ravian province have reorganized a foreign mission body and will resume active missionary work in the Euro pean countries. Directors, represent ing Hie leading charges in the prov ince, have been chosen and it is plan ned to begin active work at once. Tills organization did splendid work ‘ before the last World Wnr, lmt several I I of its mission fields abroad had to he ■ I closed on account of the European ' trouble. President Shirts His Alaskan Tour in Juno. I Washington; Maji' T k —-President 1 Harding's plans! for his Alaska trip jtfcls summer are now 'Ujßleienfly de j termined so that it is knowii that he ; will leave between June 10 and 15, and that he will make only six set speeches on the wny. In addition he will of course give a number of brief talks from the rear platform of the train crossing the continent in both direc tions. Plans For President’s Trip. Washington, May 2.—The tentative schedule for President Harding’s west ern trip as now arranged, wil permit him to spent the 4th of July in Port- In nd, Ore. The day following the Pres ident p'.ans to sail for Alaska. NO. 103. ' NORTH CAROLINA RAPIDLY ADVANCES Y^onlPiN All the Department Officials Have Set Themselves to the Task of Keeping Pace With Progress of Events. MAKES AN ADDRESS TO LABOR OFFICIALS Mentions Measures Adopted by Recent Legislature.— Labor Measures That Were and Were Not Enacted. Richmond, Yn., Ala.v 2.—;(By the As sociated Press). —"North Carolina is blessed with able, forward-looking ex ecutives in its business life, anil is rapidly progressing along all lines of industrial endeavor, and in govern mental circles all departmental offi cials have set themselves to the task of keeping pace with the progress of events, " AI. 1,. Shipman, commissioner of labor and printing, of North Caro lina, declared today in addressing the tenth annual convention of Govern mental Labor officials of Hie 'United States and Canada. "Our department steered its barque through tiie legislative maelstrom' of 1923 and reached harbor with a new bureau and an increased appropriation for the further development of a state system of employment in conjunction with the United States Employment Service." said Mr. Shipman. “Seven branches of the Free Em ployment Service are now in opera tion. the seventh having been estnli lisheil as an emergency office in New Bern to assist in relieving acute un employment. conditions in that city following a disastrous lire last No vember. "The machinery provided iu the sta tute creating tiie Free Employment Bureau enables tiie department to as sist in bringing the jobless man and the nutnless job together in a service which reaches all classes of employers and all classes of employees. tifii- I ees were established in the larger in j dustrial centers of the state, anil mi ! dered invaluable service during the depression period following the eoit eßiSidtf Os tffe Wdfrd Wars’ - 1 i ' “The aggregate number of applica tions for employment iu the six big offices in operation during the year 1922 was 28, 980, of whom 23,317 were ] males and 5.009 females. The total number of persons applied for by etn plojers during this period was 24,720. Tim number of placements reported was 23,251. •• rtie new bureau created in the de partment by act of the General As sembly of 1923 will concern itself with the welfare of the deaf citizens of the state. Its activities are not to he confined to securing employment. It is proposed, in addition, to obtain facts, information and statistics touch ing the conditions in the life of our deaf population with a view to their general uplift. A capable deaf man has been placed at the head of the bureau and will devote his entire time to the development of the bureau along all feasible anil proper lines. “Another humanitarian measure en acted by the General Assembly of this year was a mothers’ aid hill, to he .administered by the department of public welfare. An appropriation of $30,000,G00 per year, to be matched by the counties, was made to aid worthy mothers who are deprived of the sup port of their husbands. This will enable widowed and dependent moth ers to rear their children at home in stead of surrendering them into other hands. This meritorious measure, and the act creating the bureau of the deaf, mark a distinct forward step in the state's plan for curing for its de pendant children ond aiding a class of unfortunates who deserve the spe cial assistance of the state in over coming physical handicaps. “North Carolina has no new crop of labor laws to report,” Air. Shipman continued, “nor amendments to those already in operation. During tlte re cent session of the General Assembly, Inhor appears to have contented itself witli opposing the enactment of olijec i tiimabk* legislation instead of at tempting to secure the passage of hills for its future protection. The two workmen's compensation bill presented, met (lie usnsnl fate. Cap ital and labor failed to agree, and the state is still without a workmen's compensation law. “The General Assembly declined to pass a hill giving mortgages priority over laborers' Hens, and rejected a proposition to amend the garnishee law. Neither did the legislature look with favor on the hill to reduce the work day for children in Industry front sixty to llft.v-live hours per week. I The tendency to 'stay put’ pvedonil ' natcd, and a few reform measures of v ariy character received serious con sideration. Labor was modest in its demands. *lt expected little, and is nursing no special grievance on ac count of the result. “Compared to the protection ac corded labor in other states, the laws of our commonwealth relating to in dustrial subjects, indicate a lack of interest compnred with that manifest ed throughout the North and West. This condition may partially be ac counted for h.v the fact that labor I leaders have been less active and em ■' ployers generally more considerate In “North Carolina than in some of the | (Continued on Page Three.)
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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