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VOLUME XXHI
Dedication of Epworth
Church Sunday Morning
Formal Service at Local
Methodist Church Con-'
ducted Before Large Con-;
gregation by Bishop Denny j
BISHOP PREACHED
FORCEFUL SERMON
Church Was Organized in
189$ With Only Handful
of Members and is Now
One of Largest in City.
Epworth Methodist Church, located at
the corner of Kerr and Depot streets,
was formally dedicated at the morning
service yesterday at 11 o'clock. The ser
vice was attended by a congregation that
completely tilled the Church, the congre
gation being composed of members and
> friends of the Church.
The dedication service was conducted
by Bishop Rollins Denny, of Richmond.
Va.. who also delivered a forceful and
interesting sermon just prior to the dedi
cation service. The dedication service
Was directed principally to the officers of
the Church, who were instructed and
charged by Bishop Denny.
Epworth Church was organized in
1893. A small frame Church was first
erected and this served for a number of
years, being called Buys C’lmpel. In
IXtMi the name was changed to Epworth
at the suggestion of I»r. .1. K. Scroggs,
who was the presiding elder of the Sal
isbury district at that time.
The congregation of the Church in
creased rapidly ami in 1907 the congre
gation decided to erect a new home and
the property 'at the intersection of Kerr
and Depot streets was purchased, and
the building of a modern brick Clufrch
started, in 1921 the Sunday School of
the Church had grown to such propor
tions that more room was needed in this
department, so a Sunday school depart
ment was erected at, a cost of $10,900.
This Jlebt and all others on the Church
have been paid off now. and with the
cancellation of the the Church was
formally dedicated yesterday. Rev. M.
A. Osborne is the present pastor of the
Church aud Mr. C. H. Barrier is chair
man of the Board of Stewards.
The life of Paul, with* his training,
experiences and work fittingly used as
illustrations of what one can do now,
was the subject of the impressive and
forceful sermon by Bishop Deuny. He
read as his lesson the 28th Chapter of
the Acts of the Apostles, which gives in
detail Paul's history of his convertion, and
for his text took the 14th verse of the
lirMt chapter of Romans: "I am a debtor
both to the Creeks, and to the barbar
ians; both to the wise and to the un
wise.”
At the time Paul made the utterance
1 found iu the text, Bishop Denny said, he
was without nil asset. In present day
parlance, he was a bankrupt. All he
had he had received for. others, aud he
was their debtor. The greatest debt oue
contracts is not for something received
from someone, but for something receiv
ed for someone. That is the. greatest
-point in the text, the Bishop stated. Paul
was debtor for what he had received foe
others, and he went about to repay this;
debt by giviug of bis training, time, and
energy for the of others.
"When Paul begau to preach the world
was In darkness and peril,” Bishop Den
ny said. “Paul kuew the wiyr to light
and to safety, and it was his duty to
give this knowledge to the world. For
giveness for sin was unknown generally.
Paul knew that sins were forgiven l and it
Vas his duty to give out this knowledge.
Christianity discovered chastity. Purity
was unknown in the days of the apos
tles. But Paul had knowledge of purity
and he gave this knowledge to others.
“Paul httd the advantage of this know
ledge, but as in every case the advantage
was balanced with his responsibility to
others. Such is always the case. With
every advantage we have there is an
opportunity to help others. What we
have gained in the way of civilization,
,such as education, money and influence,
*1» balanced by the responsibility to the
rest of thew orld.”
Paul was a trained man, an edueated
man, a man influenced by great teachers,
the speaker declared, “And he believed
in something. Character was th,p great
est thing about, him. When he started
out in life he fought the Christians. And
because he believed in his conviction he
did a thorough job. opposing Christian
women as well ns Christian men. Paul
bdieved.in something. He thought. All
people do not think./ Most of tos are
like a phonograph. We repeat. Few
people have convictions, most people have
opinions. A man with convictions be
comes 'a power.”
Bishop Denny used Paul’s speedy ac
tion in heeding |he call to preach as an
example of what we should do when giv
en a commission. “Paul’s commission
was the greatest any man ever received,
and he acted promptly. We should do
the same. When we have work to do we
should do it seriously and to the best of
our ability.” , •
Bishop Denny also pointed out that
we should not be discouraged when our
efforts are not greeted with applause.
‘•Paql did not get a great reception in
Damascus after his conversion. I have
never heard of any one going out to help
in a great cause that was not rebutted.
Christ came to help the world and only
had a manger for a birthplace and a cross.
for a deathbed. f In Damascus Paul was
soon bated- People wanted to get rid of
him. We find the same attitude today.
When people oppose « man they are not
satisfied to answer b(jn and his argument.
They want to get rid of him. But in
spite of all opposition Paul Btayed in Da
mascus, for he had a debt to pay to
the world.”
. Ten years after Paul first entered Do
rn a sous a follower of Christ he wks still
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STATESVILLE DISCOVERS
OLDEST PIANO IN STATE
Instrument Was Brought to This Coun
try From Prussia in Tear 1744. It is
Said.
Statesville, June 23. —An ancient
piano, possibly the oldest in America,
was incidentally discovered in States-
Ville yesterday. The discovery was
made in the basement of a negro’s house
by a local relic hunter who was looking
for an antiquated specimen of a familiar
prand of pianos.
The instrument in question was iden
tified by Charles W. H.vains as being
the piano which his great-grandfather,
SolomaD Hyains. brought to this coun
try from Prussia in the year 1744. The
signature of the maker, George Heuhle,
and his seal were pasted on the inside
of the piano, thus making identification
of this valued relic a certainty.
Mr, Hyains stated that until yester
day he had not heard of the piano in
40 years. He said that 45 years ago
his father employed Prof. Gruber, the
first piano timer who ever came to
Statesville, to put the instrument in
good order; and that about 40 years ago
his father sold it and replaced it with
a piano of the of that day.
Prof. Gruber made the statement when
he did the work nearly half a century
ago that the instrument was in nil prob
ability at that tiihe the oldest in Amer
ica. and his wide knowledge of musical
instruments would give weight to his
opinion.
This instrument, wllieh was brought
to America from Prussia 170 years
ago—and. no one knows how old it was
when it made its first voyage across the
stormy Atlantic—ns .made of solid ma
hogany and is now in a fair state of
preservation. The wires are rusted nnd
broken, but the keys are there, though :
in all probability its “voice is forever
still." Its exterior shows a large num- i
her of brass ornaments and nude figures
The instrument will be purchased and 1
•preserved as a relie. 1
PREDICT SECOND WISER
OF TORRID TEMPERATURE
Length of Heat Wave Has Been Almost '
Unprecedented In North and West.
Chicago, June 23. —The heat wave
which has turned the central section of
the country into a hot house since last
Monday probably will go into its second
week of torrid temperature, continuing
what weather observers declared today
was an unprecedented heat wave iu
l>oint of duration.
The heat still is intense over the cen
tral. west-central, and southern district*
according to the weather bureau. There
hns been a slight moderation in the
northwest. Readings exceeding 00 de
grees occurred over a wide area. The.
government thermometer at Decatur, 111.,-
registeded 101 degrees.
No moderation is indicated for the
middle and ifiiiddle western sections but
local thunder showers and probable in
the northern and western lake region
and the upper Mississippi valley. In
the south- and Routbwest fair weather
will continue until Sunday night and
probably, longer.
Epworth League Assembly Elects Dr.
Evan L. Holt.
Morehead City. June 23.—The ' Ep
worth league assembly, vjiieh began its
annual ’session Tuesday, eame to
a close last night with an inspirational
address by Dr. Evan L. Holt, inure
than 300 delegates attended the conven
tion.
At the closing bhsiness session the
following officers were elected:
Rev. Thomas R. Grant, Hertford,
president
Corbett, Wilmington, vice
president.
Miss Fannie Vann, Clinton, secre
tary.
C. Gehmnn Cobb, of Goldsboro,
treasurer.
Miss Edna Wilkins, Wilmington, in
termediate superintendent.
. Miss Hazel Thompson, Roxboro.
junior superintendent.
Rev. J. M. Ormond, Trinity college,
Durham,' life service superintendent.
Editor of league section in Christinn
Advocate, Lee Davis, Raleigh.
Great Electrical Display.
Swampeott, Mass., June 25. —An elec
trical display far surpassing anything of
the kind ever attempted beore will be a
feature of the annual convention of the
American Institute of Electrical Engi
neers which was opened here today and
will be continued through the greater
part of the week. More than 1200 elec
trical men eminent in thin
field, inventors and leaders, are iu at
tendance from all parts of the United
States and Canada.
Street'Flghtlng in Bbdeben.
Berlin, June 28 (By . the Associated
Press). —Street fighting occurred in Eia
leben, Prussian Saxony * between nation
alists and .communists on the occasion of
the unveiling of a memorial to the assas
sinated German foreign minister. Dr.
Walter RatkeoSu, the Central News
states. Two of the demonstrators are
reported dead, and 26' seriously injured.
CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1923.
MERUriOF
HARDING PARTY IS
DEAD FROM WOUNDS
Received When Car Filled
With Newspaper Men
Turned Over a Mountain
Precipice Near Denver.
THOMAS F. DAWSON
IS LATEST VICTIM
Summer Curtis and Driver of
, Auto Died Soon After Ac*
cident.—The Deaths Bring
Grief to the President.
(By the Associated Press.!
Denver, Col., June 25. —Tims F. Daw
son. Colorado state historian, and nat
ionally known newspaper man. died this
morning in a Denver hospital at 4:40
o'clock, the third victim of an automobile
accident in Bear Creek Canyon yester
day. Mr. Dawson was- with the group,of
newspaper men in President Harding’s
party which arrived here yesterday morn
ing.
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Denver. .Tune 24.—Stimner Curtis, of
Washington, representative of the Re
publican national committee, accompany
ing President Harding's party on its
western trip, was killed, aud three other
men were injured, one fatally, when the
automobile in which they were making a
mountain tour plunged off the road 100
feet into Bear Creek canyon, 25 miles
from Denver, late- today.
The injured are Donald Craig, mana
ger of the Washington bureau of the
New York Herald; Thomas Dawson. Col
orado state historian and veteran Wash
ington newspaper inau, ami Thomas
French, of the Great Western Sugar
Company, of Denver, who was driving
the car. French dying on the way to a
hospital.
The accident victims were members of
a large party of newspaper correspond
ents who. because President Harding was
resting this afternoon, dropped their
work and took an excursion to the moun
tains as guests of the Denver Press club.
I’resident Harding was not with the
party.
The route taken, lending over Look
out mountain, follows a tortuous trnH
through the canyon.. It was at an ex
trertely slhrif course pearl Evergreen, at
a point where a mirror is posted for the
protection of motorists, that the steering
gear of one of the machines broke, nc.
cording to the reports reaching here,
sending the car over the cliff into the
creek below. \
MILITARY TRAINING
CAMPS FOR CITIZENS
To Be Gin August 1 and to Last One
Month.—Camp at Fort Bragg.
Raleigh, June 23.—“1 hope that ev
ery young man who can arrange to do
so will attend one of the Citizens Mili
tary Training camps to be conducted by
the Fourth Corps Area, in which unit
of our national military policy which
definitely provides for a small army of
regular soldiers which is augmented iu
times of national emergency by citizen
soldiery.
“A wise provision of Zmr national de
fense provides that the frame work of
the organization of the citizen soldiery
shall be de.veloped iu times of peace
through the patriotic sendee of our
young men. The training under our
iaw is entirely voluntary. These camps
offer a vacation opportunity which has
proved of inestimable benefit to those
who in the past two years have had
the benefit to of their 'training. The
purpose of these camps is to promote
good health, pood citizenship and a ca
pacity and willingness for national ser
vice iu time .of need. Our boys can
cither go to Camp McLellau, near An
niston, Alabama* to Fort Bnrancas,
Near Pensacola. Florida, or to Fort
Bragg, near Fayetteville, North Carolina.
These camps begin August 1, and con
clude -on August 30. The government
pays all expenses, including transporta
tion, uniform, food and medical care,
and exacts no service obligation for such
attendance.
“The camp scsedule calls for elemen
tary drill in the beginning and later for
special training in the different branches
of the service. Physical health aud de
velopment" are especially emphasized.
The army surgeon examines each candi
date carefully on his admission to comp
and a record is made of each man’s
progress' during the month of training.
A large part of each day is given over
to athletic sports under expert / supervi
sion. \ Army chaplains of different faith
care for the moral and religious life
of those at the camps. The training
given results in a broadening of the
views and an increase of the value, of
our youth hs citizens.
“General Albert L. Cox as state
civilian aide t» the Secretary of War
has charge of applications from North
Carolina for, these camps, and informa
tions together with application blanks
'may be secured from him or from a
chairman appointed in each county, or
from any regular officer on duty in the
state. 0
“I cannot recommend too highly th<
training given to our youth by these
camps, and urge upon the men of the
state their interest and co-operation in
seeing that North Carolina recognizes
its opportunity by filling the quota al
lowed it.” ,
,J)r. and Mrs. S. W. Williams and son,
Ben, of Raleigh, spent a short while
here today en route to Greenville, S. C.,
to attend the druggists’ convention.
Messrs. Joe A. Walter, Lacy Dick, W.
L. Eliott and Arthur Aberneth.v Spent
Sunday in Asheville.
EPWORTH METH ODIST CHURCH
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The Churrh Was Formally Dedicated Y esterday By Bishop Collins Denny.
WJOIHT THROUGH"
RITE FOR .DU
I. C. C. Examiners Report
Cotton Shipped From Mis
sissippi to Carolina* Has
Too High Rate Now.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, June 2.". —Railroads op
erating in Mississippi should be required
to establish joint through rates on cot
ton from that stat# to cotton milling
centers in North Caraiina and South
Carolina, and other southeastern milling
points, according to a report madte to
day to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, by examiners assigned to inves
tigate a complaint of tire Mississippi '
state government.
The conditions disclosed by the inves
tigation. it was reported, .indicate that
the Mississippi cotton growers havebeeu
subjected by the railrjads to unreason
able freight charges dt, this traffic by
the failure of railroads! to make through
rates which would be than combi
nations of local rates (mi the same move
ment.
On the other examiners re
!*orf indicated 'that r«E,road regulations
and rates on shipmjiMtq other parts
of the United States' ams-ting Mississippi
cotton are jnstMiiable. -The commis
sion took the report under advisement.
THE COTTON MARKET
Market- Opened Steady at a Decline of
18 Points on July. With Other Months
Unchanged.
(By tbc Associated Press.)
New York. June 25.—The cotton mar
ket showed a rather reactionary tone af
ter the sharp advances of late last week.
Liverimol cables were lower than due
and weather conditions over the week-end
were not considered unfavorable on the
average. These features promoted real
izing. while there was further liquida
tion of July contracts doubtless in untie
ipatiou of notices tomorrow. The mar
ket opened steady at a decline of IS
points on July, with other months un
changed to 4 points lower.
Cotton futures opened steady. July
27.50; Oct. 25,35; Dec. 24.!<5; .laii.
24.47; March 24.40.
MAXWELL TO SURRENDER
: Has Been Charged With Writing Poison
Pen Letters to Allan A. Ryan, of New
York.
New York, June 25. —George Maxwell,
president of the Authors, Publishers and
1 Composers Association of America, who
was ((broad -when he was indicted on a
charge of writing i«>ison pen letters to
Allan A. Ryan, New York financier, has
returned, and will surrender soon, it was
. announced today at the. criminal courts
building. ,
STEAMER GOES ON REEFS
JUST NORTH OF BERMUDA
, Royal Mail Line Steamer Caraquet on
i Rocks and Is Believed to Be Break
ing Up.
Hamilton, Bermuda. June 25 (Ry the
■ Associated Press).—The Royal Mail
i Line steamship Caraquet, from Halifax
■ to the West Indes, went on the reefs
, twelve miles north of Bermuda at day
. light today. (The ship is believed to be
i breaki;|; up. All available tugs have
s gone to take off passengers. High sea
is running, but no loss of life is ex
■ pected.
, Rev. J. Frank Armstrong returned
, last night from Kernersville, N. C.,
, where yesterday at 11 o’clock he closed
I a revival campaign for Rev. E. O. Cole,
t the pastor. Mr. Armstrong reports a
fine meeting and a most enjoyable trip.
, The Methodists in Keruersville. he says,
. are building one of the largest and most
, modern churches lie has seen in a town
. of its size. Rev. H. G. Allen was Mr.
, Armstrong's singer and gave excellent
! satisfaction as he did last year in a re
. vival campaign at Forest Hill Church.
Fred Toney Quits Baseball Forever.
St. lani is, June 23.—Fred Toney
; voluntarily left the game in the second
| inning of today's Chieago-St. Louis
National contest, and announced tie was
' quitting baseball. He said his action
was due to unjust jeering of spectators
when he reprimanded Shortstop t’opor
eer for not following his sign to play
close to third base while Heathcote wks
\ at bat. Toney has won five and lost
five games, this season. He was induced
to rgport this spring after failure to re
port last midseason when purchased
. from Boston. He refused to report to
t Boston, which ream had obtained him •
from New York.
FORMER SUBIRIif
CHASER BEING HELD
Boat Was Seized While It
Was Carrying a Cargo of
1,500 Cases of Liquor Off
the Coast.
(B, the Associated Press.)
New Yory, June 25.—The Mary E.
Gulley, formerly a United States sub
marine chaser, was brought in by the
coast guard cutter Seminole today, with
a cargo of 1,500 cases of liquor, valued
at SIOO,OOO, which was seized after a
'chase beyond the three mile limit last
night. ■ y. .
Coast guard officials refuse! to con
'firin reports that the Seminole has been
compelled to fire a number of shots be
fore the craft answered a command to
halt.
The Mary K. Gulley, which put out
from New York from the rum fleet, sev
eral days ago. carried papers purporting
to show both British and American
registry, it was said. Her crew of six
was held on charges of violating tiie
Volstead act.
FORMER BANKERS GO
ON TRIAL DURING DAY
J. H. Hightower and H. H. Massey, of i
Raleigh, (o Be Tried in Wake Court.
(By the Associated Press.)
Raleigh. June 25.—J. H. Hightower
and H. H. Massey, president and cashier,
respectively, of the defunct Central Bank
& Trust) Company, of this city, which
closed/its doors on June 14, 1922, will
be called for trial this afternoon in
Wake County Superior Court on charges
of receiving deposits, knowing the bank
to be insolvent, according to an an
nouncement this morning by Solicitor
Evans. The trial was set at the spe
cial term of court called for the express
purpose of getting rid of the bank case.
The defendants have been under heavy
bonds since they were arrested last year.
They were tried upon the charges at
the September term of court last year,
found guilty, and held for another trial
when Judge C. C. Lyou set aside the
verdict.
TWO PRISONERS SHOT >
AS THEY CLIMB WALL
Jack Davis and Harry Gates Shot by
Guards at South Carolina Prison.
(By the Associated Press.)
Columbia, S. C., June 25.—Two pris
oners were shot and bady wounded in
an effort to scale the walls of the state
penitentiary here, according to prison of
ficials.
The two men. Jack Davis and Harry
Gates, attempted, it was said, by going
through one. of the guard houses on the
wall. A guard spied them and opened
fire.
First reports of the trouble were that
a, riot had been staged at the pri, on. Offi
cials, however, said there had been no
trouble.(uitsade tile efforts of the two men
o escape.
REPORTS SAY TORNADO
CAUSED BIG DAMAGE
Ten Persons Reported Killed and Many
Others Hurt As Result of Storm.
(By the Associated Press.)
Aberdeen, S. D., June 25.—Ten per
sons were said to have perished and
scores of others were injured when a
tornado laid waste a wide stretch of
prosperous farming country for 40 miles
in the vicinity of Reeder and Hettinger,
North Dakota. Sunday evening, accord
ing to utnrd received here today.
Curfew Rings Again on Streets of
Salisbury.
Salisbury, June 2b.—The new city
administration hns revived the old
curfew law for Salisbury. This requires
children and persons of questionable
character to be off the streets by 9
o’clock at night. The first defendant to
dome in county court us a result of this
revival of the old law was a negro wo
man who was fined $lO or given 30 days
for , loitering on the streets after 9
o’clock at night.
State Firemen to Meet.
(By the Associated Press.)
Durham, N. Q., June 25.—The annual
convention of the North Carolina Fire
men’s Association will be held here on
August 7, 8 and 9th.
At a meeting between officials of the
state body and the Durham committee,
held last week, plans for the convention
were discussed.
A barbecue at Chapel Hill on the op
ening day of the convention is one of
i tint entertainment features on the pro
, gram. j
ELEVATED TRAIN IN
HE) YORK TORIES ,'
FROM HIGH TRACKS
And at Least Four Persons
Are Known to .Have Been
Killed as the Result of
the Accident.
TWO AUTOS HIT
BY THE TRAIN
Four Dead Bodies Have
Been Recovered, and 40
of the Injured Have Been
Carried to Hospital.
(By the Associated Press.)
New York, June 25. —At least two i
persons were killed and more than a i
score were pinned in wreckage when a 1
Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit elevated Ji
train bound for Manhattan toppled to- 1
day from the structure at Fifth and Flat- J
bush avenues, falling on two automobiles. ]
The train comprised two cars. After i
the first car struck the second piled on i
top of it. |
Fire apparatus and all available am*-
bulauces were rushed to the scene. T’o- i
lice reserves were called to handle a i
crowd running into thousands, which ;
hastily assembled. j
Amid screams, passengers climbed i
through broken windows, their faces ]
streaming blood. Some were carried l
out. Others were able to crawl.
Two hospitals announced they had one I
dead and thirteen injured. i
At 3 o’clock the number of dead was j
estimated at six. with forty injured. ,
Four bodies had been recovered at this (
time. '
Fire broke out in the cars after they |
fell but firemen quickly extinguished the ,
blaze.
THE PRESIDENT AT DENVER j
Federal Government Determined to En- ,
force the Prohibition Law.
(By the Associated Press. (
June 25.—President Harding served i
notice in an address here today that the
federal government was determined to 1
enforce the prohibition law even should ,
the burden of enforcement continue to
be increasingly thrown upon it by the
states.
Moreover, tlie executive voiced the con
vic’tion not only that the prohibition ’
amendment will not be repealed, but J
that whatever changes may be made in I
the Volstead act “will represent the sin- j
cere purpose of effective enforcement. (
rather than moderation of the general
policy.”
Striking straight, out at those who vio- '
late the law, the President said the is
sue is fast coming to be recognized not
as one between the “wets” and "drys,” .
but as oue of whether the laws of “this ,
country can be and will be enforced.”
“So far as tile federal government is '
concerned!” he said, “and I am very !
sure also, so far as concerns the very ,
great majority of the state governments
and the local governments, it will be en- '
forced. A gratifying, indeed it may
fairly be said, an amazing progress has
been made in the last few years toward 1
better enforcement.
While Mr. Harding made no direct
reference to the situation in New York 1
state, he did say that “the spectacle” ‘
of a state nullifying its own authority,
and asking the national sovereignty to J
take over an important part of its pow
ers, is new.” He added that “when l
the implications of this strange proposal I
are fully understood by people and par
t ics devoted to preserving the rights of
the state, the new nullificationists. I
venture to say, will discover they 1
have perpetrated what is likely to prove :
one of the historic blunders in political '
management.”
President Saddened.
Denver, Colo.. June 25 (By the Asso
ciated Press). —Burdened with grief ov
er the tragedy of yesterday, which re
sulted in the death of two members of
his party, severed the life cord of a Den
ver host and ended with two persons
identified with his visit here in a hos
pital here suffering from injuries, Pres
ident Harding today faces his program
with a heavy heart, but compelled by ne
cessity and lack of additional time to
carry on as the original plans for li'is
stay require. These included a parade
through the city, a greeting of school
children at the state house, a formal ad
dress at the auditorium and a visit to
Oreyenne, Wyoming, where another ad
dress was to be delivered.
Before commencing the day’s duties,
however, the Chief Executives obtained
reports from the hospital as to the Con
dition of Donald A. Craig, manager of
the New Yorw Herald's'Washington Bu
reau, who was injured when, the auto
mobile in which he was riding yesterday
plunged over a 75 foot embankmeut.
Thomas F. Dawson, who also was injur
ed, died in the hosptal early today.
President Hurding was encouraged by
the reports he received as to Mr. Craig's
condition and instructed hospital author
ities to keep him advised concerning his
condition as he continued along the
route to Alaska.
Columbia Gives Up Franchise.
(By the Associated Press.)
’ Columbia, S. C., June 25.—The Colum
bia frnuchise in the South Atlantic As
sociation today was turned over to the
I/eague.
President 'Valsh, of the Ass iciat.ion,
anno,meed that he had taken over the
franchise, and that he hoped to he able
to place it in the hands of Columoia men,
and thus keep the team in this city.
We may not fill pulpits, but each of
us lives some sort of a sermon every
j day. *
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TODAY’S
* NEWS
® TODAY
NO. 150.
EIGHT raiSllH
in ram for ms
In Addition to Six Foreign
Ships Which Arrived Over
Week End, Two Others
Reached New York Today.
WILL TAKE TIME
TO RAID SHIPS
Stanly Baldwin Tells House
of Commons that U. S. Has
Right to Break Seals on
the Wet Goods.
New York. June 25 (B.v (he Anoi
nted Press). —Two more “wet” liners
steamed into port today while T'nited
Slates government officials were prepitr
ing to move on six other vessels which
had been docked over the week-end, with
Honor transporter! over the three mile i
lino in defiance of the Treasury dry rul
ing. The latest arrivals were the An
chor line Tuscania, and the French line
Snffren.
The schedule today called for the re
moval of liquor from the Cunarder, Rer
engaria, which arrived Friday and whose
seals were smashed late Saturday after
noon. Then, dry agents planned to take
up the case of the other week-enders:
Paris. Cedric, Caronia, Providence and \
Conte Verdi. '
The Tuscania arriving, from Glasgow,
brought a relatively small store. Seven
dozen bottles of Scotch was the largest
individual item. Eighty-nine bottles of
assorted drinks, made up the rest of the
cache bearing British government seals.
The Stiffren was more heavily laden. She
brought from Havre in addition to a
small stock marked “medicinal supplies.”
1151 battles of wine, 821 bottles of cham
pagne, 55 bottles of gin. 18 bottles of
rum. and !) bottles of whiskey.
The stock was under French govern
ment seal.
Customs men shortly before noon be
gan moving the seized liquor stores from
the Berengaria. The party was led by
Deputy Customs Surveyor Coltman.
They planned next to visit the Paris to
seize liquors declared in excess of her
medicinal requirements. 1
London, June 25 (By the Associated
Press). —Stanley Baldwin, the prime
minister, stated in the House"of Com
mons today that there was no ground
for protest if British customs seals were
broken within the United States' terri
torial waters by officials of the U. S.
customs service.
His statement was in answer to a
question whether Great Britain recog
nized America's right to break the seals
on liquorsabonrd ships.
Mr. Baldwin said it was the practice
for the British customs authorities to fix
their seals as a matter of routine on ship
stores taken from England in bond to
prevent consumption of the stores in ter
ritorial waters. The seals must not be
broken in British territorial waters, oth
erwise they are iu uo way inviolable.
Foreign customs seals, lie added, wei-e
habitually broken when the necessity
arose in British territorial watters. *
Conforms With American View.
Washington. June 25.—The statement
by Premier Baldwin to the British House
of Commons that the breaking of the
British customs Seals on British liners
arriving in New York with stores of
liquor especially sealed, afforded no
ground fbr protest to the T'nited States
government, conforms to the view taken
by American officials from the outset. It
has been emphasized iu Washington that
the seals had no value so far as Ameri
can territorial waters were concerned
and that their breaking b.v customs offi
cers would not result in any international
incident.
In whatever steps the British govern
ment might see fit to take with respect
to the action of the New York customs
officials it has been pointed out here
the question involved would be the
seizure of the liquor, and not the break
ing of British seals and there has been
no indication of any intention on the
part of the British, uor as yet on the
part of any other power, to protest
against the seizures.
NO IMMEDIATE RELIEF
FROM HOT WEATHER
Weather Experts Say tile Next 25 Hours
Promise to Be as Hot as Past Few
Days.
* (By the Associated Press.>
Washington. June 25.—Another 24
hours at least of the present broiling
weather is in prospect for eastern and
southern parts of the country.
Weather observers today 'calculating
probable conditions through Tuesday,
found no indications of an immediate
break iu the torrid temperutures. Borne
temporary periods of relief, however,
were forecast in occasional thundershow
ers throughout the territory.
“Peeping Tom” At Salisbury Tried By
Chief of Police.
Salisbury, June 23.—A young white
man caught up in a tree near a resi
dence last night by Chief of Police Galli
more was tried in county court this
morning under the new “Peeping Toni"
law and was fined $lO and required 'to
stay ut home every night after work
hours for a year.
Ingredients For Making “Monkey Rum
Captured.”
Salisbury, June 24. —“ Monkey ium”
is still beiug manufactured in North
Carolina. Dry officers working out from
Salisbury have captured 150 gallons of
molasses and other ingredients used in
this form of wet goods and arrested !
four men who were said to be preparing
to make a run.