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VOLUME XXIII
Dead President at Rest
In Native Soil of Ohio
Was Buried With Simple But
Impressive Service Friday
Afternoon at Home City
of Marion.
CITY THRONGED
WITH VISITORS
Who Were Present to Pay
Last Tribute to Man Who
Was Neighbor and Friend
as Well as President.
Maripn.’ Ohio. Aug. 11 (By the Asso
ciated Press). —Her hour of sorrow over.
Marion today returned to her accustom
ed ways.
Gone were the sTleut crowds that
streamed into town yesterday to pay
their last respects to the late War ten (j.
Harding, the gentle, unassuming newspa
per editor who became President of the
United States.
The only physical reminders of yes
terday's historic events were the mourn
ing-draped streets and military patrol in
front of the modest vault where the body
was placed yesterday.
In tlye uncertain future a niaiisolmgn
is to be erected to house the(|l»««* J lSrtlie'
late President, and when presented pos
it.bly on the top of an Indian mound near
the cemetery where his mother is bur
ied. the American people will have an
other shrine.
For Marion the brief period of her fain?
as the home of the President was ended,
and another small town—Northampton,
Mass., the I.Olne of Calvin Coolidge—took
the place of Marion in the public eye.
Friends and neighbors of Mr. Harding
today congregated to talk over the events
of his lifetime. Kuril and every feature
was gone over in detail. Many were the
stories related.
One old friend of,the Harding family
gave a vivid description of the intimate
and dramatic scene in the drawing room
at l)r. Harding's home yesterday when
Dr. Harding. Chief Justice Taft and oth
er high government officials met in the
few brief moments before tha funeral
procession started for the cemetery. No
newspaper writers were present to re
eord the scene to posterity.
"It was 1 p. m.," he told the Associat
ed Press. "The line which from early
morning had lieen tiling through to look
on the dead. President’s face for the last
time was stopped bv thy opUfded srms.
of a*- •saMiSP-'wr raw tea?
Thousands in the line were disappointed
after hours of waiting.
"A bush settled over the rooms that
had heard for two days the tramping feet
of thousands.
"President and Mrs. Coolidge entered
followed by Chief Justice Taft, General
Pershing, members of the cabinet, Am
bassador Harvey. Speaker Gillett. army
and navy officers of high rank in their
bright uniforms. Bislpip Win, F. Ander
son, of the Methodist Church and the
Ifev. Jesse Swank and Rev. Gen. h. Lan
dis of Marion, who were to officiate at
the cemetery, were present. The gath
ering- formed a semi-circle in the quiet
room, all plainly showing their great
grief.
"President Harding's father, with his
wife, entered with Secretary Christian
and were introduced to Mr. and Mrs.
Coolidge and the other members of the
assembly. They retired and in a few
minutes Secretary Christian with Mrs,
Harding, the widow leaning on his arm,
entered.
“ "Mr. Coolidge, I greet you,’ said Mrs.
Harding in a Clear, distinct voice, ns she
held oqt her hand to the man who suc
ceeded-her husband, then turning to Mrs.
Coolidge she wished her success as the
new mistress of the White House."
*•'
Marion, Ohio, Aug. 10.—Harding, of
Ohio, is home tonight, sleeping time
away near the mother at whose knee his
first childish dream of greatness was
prattled.
Before his tbmb, as the chiming voices
of the choir sang softly among the trees,
"Nearer My God to Thee,” another
tender, brave woman stood with aching
heart, her veiled face lifted to the sky.
A moment later she stepped a meagre
moment into the dim vault where the
dead husbqnd’s journey of life had end
ed. Then she- turned away, brave to the
last, to face the lonely years ahead.
She waited not to see the iron gates
close softly upon her dead. .
Harding is home forever froip life’s
high places, where the restless, heady
winds of ambition blow; home beneath
Ohio‘s6il» for above him, the vaulted
roof ig mantled with grass grown sod;
home among the friends and neighbors
of his f/outh, the kindly people ot a
kindly town- Time is ended for him, and
the shouting and clamor that surrounds
the great is done.
It was a long road, to that silent
vault about which there closed tonight
a guard of the citizen soldiery of his
own state. There was endless ceremony
of the nation’s and the people’s making
to mark the way. But it ended simply,
calmly and Ks tjie dead would have had
it end.
Aside from the- multitude that walled
the loug way from his father’s home to
hte vault and those others close packed
to make a living setting for the tuneral
rites, there was not much to mark it
ns the burial of one who had held high
est power Id* his grasp. There were the
tanned men of his guard from the sis
ter services of the nations, the admirals
and the generals who formed his honor
escort, he friend and comrade, who now
is here in hit) stead, the colleagues of
hi« grief stricken cabinet. That was all,
except at. the last, distant gunfire as he
came to his tomb and soft tones of u
bugle sounding a soldleFWquiem as the
gates were closed.
Otherwise the funeral service was
that of a simple and much loved citixen
of Ohio, For all Ohio seemed to have
The Concord Daily Tribune
♦___ :
STONEY IS DECLARED
MAYOR OF CHARLESTON
Congressman Logan. Chairman of Can
vassing Board, Refuses to Attend the
Meeting. I
Charleston, Aug. 10.—“ I . shall otn call
another meeting of the committee until
the militia has been withdrawn from
Hibernian ball," said \V. Turned Logan,
congressman from tile South Carolina
first district, law partner-of Mayor John
P. Grace, and chairman of the Charles
ton citizens, frhile the Stoney faction of
the committee composed of eight mem
bei s, were canvassing the returns* from i
tlm municipal primary of last Tuesdav,
in which unofficially Thomas P. Stoney
led Grace for mayor. '
Congressman Logan gave out a state
ment in wiifßh he e*tplained why he and
ltir other members of the committee, par
tisans oC-Mayor Grace, failed to show up
at the rsuinption of the meeting called
lor 5 o’clock this afternoon.
Eight out of 24 members, who re
mained, elected James Allen, campaign
manager ffor StcuPy, -as chairman, and
following a canvass of contested votes
and the count of three boxes which
were held by the militia siuce last Tues
day. declared that the total number of
votes received by Stoney was 7.572 and
by Major John P. Grace, 8.320, a ma
jority of 1.240 votes for Stoney.
Congressman Logan this morning
dashed with the troops guarding Hi
bernian hall when lie attempted to enter
the mall to preside over the committee
meeting. He resisted 'efforts of the sol
diers to search him for* arms.
Sheriff, Poulnot. of Cherleston county,
was directed to arrest Mr. Logan by Col.
Harry Withington. commanding the two
national guard companies on duty, but
the former instead prevailed upon the
congressman to go with him to an ante
room and a few moment later the slier if
announced he was satisfied the chairman
was unarmed. Members of the corn
mittee and others were searched by the
troops as they entered the hall.
Congressman Logan protested vigor
ously when he was ordered by militia
men to halt and be searched as he en
tered the building. He brushed by the
guards at the outer gale, bat was
stopped by an officer.
"My person is sacred and I will not
be searched." he declared. "I have no
arme except a penknife. Can’t you
take my word?”
"We are taking no man’s word,” Col.
WitliingtOn replied us he called the Sher
iff, adding:
~ ~, —-j. • -gw- sflOsaatiav
ter of precaution for you, and for every-’
body else."
_E.\Vra militiamen were called into the
hall from the yard where two. compa
nies of the 118th infantry were mobi
lized when Archie J. Owens, a member
of the committee, object.si strenuously
to the military searching him. Upon
the persuasion of friends, however" iie
yielded. No arms were found in his
possession or in Mr. Logan's, it was an
nounced.
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( During the Clean Sweep Sale at tha
Concord Furniture Co. you can get a
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says new ad. today.
You can get a free ticket to the Pas
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barrus Drug Store. Read new ad, to
day for particulars.
The Concord & Kannapolis Gas Co. is
giving a free demonstration each after
noon from 4 to 0 o'clock in the use of
the Chambers Fireless Gas Range. Read
new ad. in today’s paper for particulars.
Valuable farms and city real estate for
■ bale. See ad. of John K. Patterson & Co.,
. agents. •
Bonds For New Station at Greensboro.
(Bv the AMonnicl Press.)
Washington, Aug. 11.—The Southern
Railway was authorized by the Inter
state Commerce Commission to assume
the liability for payment of interest and
principal on the issue of $1,300,000 in 5
per cent, bonds, which will formally lie
issued by the city of Greensboro, N. C.’
The sum raised by the bond issue lias
been spent in improving and extending
the Southern’s terminal at Greensboro.
More han 200 species of plants yield
latex from which rubber may be ob
tained.
*come today to bid him farewell. Througs
whose number will never be known pass
ed beside his casket and looked their laHt
upon the dead face before the time for
the last journey came.
From his father’s house he went, out
again -earned by the steadfast men who
have stood constantly to guard a dead
commander. No Solemn music of bands
or military pageant marked his goiug
save the great flag of the President
drooping in mourning and carried before
liim to the gates of the toijib as he went.
In cars behind the simple hearse that
carried vnow this honored leader came
President Coolidge and the cabinet and
the friends und close kin- There, too,
came Chief Justice Taft and General
Pershing. Last to leave the m'emorled
house was Mrs. . Harding in black and
with veil drawn dose and just ahead of
her walked the old father, his face piain
-1 ly showing the agony of his grief.
Through tHe silent, face-walked street
the cortege passed and around the
' corner to the quiet cemetery. As it came
■ toward the gates the guns spoke afar in
! honor..
i The vault stands ivy-wrapped nnd set
’ back into the gentle himm with little
space before it- So the funeral train was
1 halted at a distance and the casket lifted
» down to be carried to a resting place be
! fore the open entrance of the tpn-b.
CONCORD, N. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1923.
CUNO MINISTRY IS
EXPECTED TO QUIT ,
BEFORE VERY LONG :
i
1 President Ebert Called Cabi
net Together to Talk Over i
Situation, and Cuno is Al
most Certain to Quit.
NEW MINISTRY
TO BE FORMED
Will Probably Be Headed by
Gustave Stresemann.—
More Paper Money is to Be
Used in Near Future.
S
Berlin, 10:10 n. m., Aug. 11 (By the
Associated Press). —President Ebert con
vened a session of the German cabinet
late last night, and also received the
reichstag leaders, the conference lasting
well past the midnight hour. These con
ferences are heralded as preceding tiie
retirement of tile Cuno njinistry, within
the next 48 hours, witli probable succes
sor of government formed by Gustave
Stresemann, German peoples party lead
er, heading a coalition, including the
united socialists and tile three bourgeois
parties.
The reichstag with tlie aid of the so
cialists. accepted the government's tax
program, providing revenues approximat
ing on paper in trillions. Its acceptance
is viewed as only further emphasizing
the failure of the government to come
forward with relief measures at an early
date.
Says Cuno Wanted to Resign.
Loudon, Aug. 11 (By the Associated
Press). —Chancellor Cuno handed Presi
dent Ebert his resignation, says a Cen
tral News dispatch from Berlin, but the
President refused to accept it.
Withdraw Confidence From Cuno Minis
try.
Berlin; Aug. 11 (By the Associated
Press). —The 'united socialists in party
caucus today adopted a resolution with
drawing confidence from the Cuno gov
ernment. Tiie chancellor has been noti
fied, and it is expected he wil) retire be
fore midnight.
Berlin Quiet.
Berlin, Aug. 11 (By the Associated
Press). — In spite of the immense crowds
«Liwteu and Jtim ,aiV>
Jncent streets oi "the city. Berlin was
quiet up to 2p. m. today. President
Ebert and the entire cabinet attended
tiie constitution day ceremonies at the
Reichstag which were given strong po
lice and troop protection. Armed pa
trots also were assigned to the Wilhelms
ti.isse and the government buildings.
REFUSES TO ALLOW
VOTES TO BE MOVED
Slieriff Unable to Get hi Room Where
Votes Cast in Charleston Election Are
Held.
Charleston. S. C., Aug. 11 (By the As
sociated Press). W. Tur-j
' ner Logan, chairman of the city execu
tive committee, has refused to turn over
to Sheriff J. M. Poulnot the keys to the
■ rooms in the Hibernian Hall where the
i ballots cast in Tuesday’s municipal pri
, rnary are locked up, until he confers
with other members of the committee
- who did not attend the meeting of the
- Stoney faction which last night formally
- declared Tlios. P. Stoney nominated over
Mayor John I’. Grace, Sheriff Poulnot
< stated today. He said he could not re
- quest the removal of the national guards
f men on duty at the hall until he secured
1 the keys.
BORAH SAYS COOLIDGE
MAN FOR PRESIDENT
Wants Him Nominated in 1024 by Re
publican Party.
' (By the Associated Press.) ,
Spokane. Washington, Aug. 11.—Sena
tor Wm. E. Borah, of Idaho, here lqst
night said he believed President Cool
idge was the logical man for the Republi
can nomination in the next campaign and
called upon the public to “give him a
chance to make fcood."
The Senator said “fa(e and circum
stances have made Calvin C. Coolidge
President. There are some very difficult
problems demanding attention.
"The agricultural situation is extreme
ly serious. The coal problem, in my
opinion, will soon be acute. Transporta
tion ulso requires consideration, and the
foreign situation will bring into view the
mad policies now plunging Europe into
deeper misery.”
President. Carried $52,100 Insurance.
New York, Aug. 10.—President Hard
ing’s life was insured for $52,100 with
six companies, according to a statement
made, public here. by. the. Insurance
Press. The largest policy, for $15,000,
was with the Mutual Benfit, on the
payment, life plan, and was taken out
in 1014.
President Harding, the statement
said, had taken out several policies from
time to time, starting when he was nine
teen.
Babe Ruth Figures He Won Anyhow.
New York. Aug. 10.—The Yaukees
lost to the Detroit Tigers at- the Yankee
Stadium yesterday but Ruth . figures
he won. Despite the fact that Detroit
took the game. 11 to 3, the Babe, by
making one hit, passed three times and
making a safe grounder, crept up so
i close to Harry Heilmann in the batting
average race that he was wearing blist
ers on the Detroit rightfielder’s heels.
■ Mr. Willie Benfield will attend the
i National Association for the Deaf in
> Atlanta, G«., August 13-18. He will stop
at Charlotte to attend the Charlotte. Deaf l
Frat Society tonight.
Fine Wheat Crop in the
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State is Present Forecast
(By the Aa*oclnt<-n Pro*.> i
Raleigh. N. ('., AUg. 11.—Indications I
are that North Carolina will produce 0.- |
633,000 bushels of wheat this year, ae- ]
cording to a statement issued Friday by
Frank Parker. Statistician of the State- I
Federal Department of Agriculture. The
quality is umisually good, said Mr. Par- ;
ker, averaging 02 tier cent, of what might
be expected under extra good conditions.
"It has been several years since Nortli
Carolina had a good wheat crop," Mr.
Parker stated, ’but she lias come to the
front this year. Fro)n the beginning of
a very poor prospect,.especially after the
spring freezes, the development has pro
gressively improved. Even at harvest
time the expectation was not as good as
was realized when tip •eshed.
“This condition is jpident from the i*f- !
port of more than elejen bushels per and
a crop of i)4 per eelfi It would appear
from a yield map ofltlie State that the
best crop of more tjuu eleven bushels
per acre was made ni the main whedr
belt and central mountain counties.* nnd
high yields were alwumadc in the coast
belt.
kldibh '
iii Bin m
Will Spend Few Days Pack
ing Belongings and Mak
ing Plans sos Her Final
Departure.
(By (lie Associated Press.)
Washington. D. C., Aug. 11.—On the
same train that bore her husband’s body
across the continent from San Francisco
and then to Marion for burial yesterday,
Mrs. Harding returned; to Washington to
day to pack her perspnal belongings at
the Whits House and jto arrange for her
final departure from flic capital.
As the train which-will have a place
in history by virtu ye of tlm momentous
journey it lias traveled. approached
Washington to be broken up finally for
other uses, the widow: of the President
called to her state room every member
of the party which had made the pilgrim
age to Alaska and hark, and thanked
each one individually for remaining with
her "until the end.”' .She appeared still
to be bearing up courageously after yes
terday's ordeal in Mftfion.
driven directly to the White
Hvwiaei-'WhereJiV-WnlUt&tjptilr a -few day*
will be required for her to filially close
out fier affairs there and leave the man
sion which had been her home since 11121.
At the White House, waiting to re
ceive her when she arrived was Mrs.
Coolidge. The new first lady of the land
insisted that Mrs. Harding remain as
long as she desired.
BERGDOLL KILLS MAN YVHO
TRIED TO CAPTURE HIM
Another Man in Kidnapping Party Was
Wounded and Two Others Arrested.
Ebenbach, Baden. Aug. 11 (By tiie
Associated Press).—Grover Cleveland
1 Rergdoll, the American draft evader
shot down and killed one man and
wounded another last night when men
Concealed in his hotel apartment seized
him in a kidnapping attempt.
Two other men waiting outside in an
: American automobile with an American
shield on tiie side were arrested after
being menaced by a crowd. The Ger
man authorities said one was an Ameri
can army lieutenant, nnd the other a
Russian prince.
Both of Bergdoil’s assailants were
identified as Frenchmen in the service
1 of the American army.
Bergdoll said the men seized him but
he succeeded in breaking free and then
drew a revolver nnd fired.
Rail Men Get Wage Increase.
(By the Auoi'MtMl Ft#**.!
Chicago. Aug. 11—Maintenance of
.way men employed by the Carolina.
Clinehtield and Ohio Railtoad have been
granted increases in wages ranging from
two cents to four cents an hour accord
ing to a letter from L. H. Thettlelaee,
general manager, made public today by
the U. S. Railroad Labor Board. The
section foremen nnd extra gang foremen
were granted increases ranging from
$8.84 to $15.84 a month, the letter said.
Increases were effective August 1, last.
Canton Druggist Dead.
tßy the A*nt»elated Pres*. 1
Asheville, Aug. 11. —T. 11. Cnvis, aged
35. a druggist of Cantou, N. ('., died in
a local hospital last uiglit .from injuries
received in an automobile accident here
Thursday night. The police are investi
gating and are expected to arrest the
driver of the ear which collided with that
driven by Cavis.
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I “The poorest conditions were found
I from Stanley northeastward to Frauklin r
| and westward to Rockingham, this be- j
| ing the eastern part of the Pied mot: t ,
area where the yields were less than
I eleven bushels. Figuikliii, Person, Pas- j
well, Chatham, Moore, Stanly. Surry and
| Cherokee counties reported eight bushels
or less.
“The American wheat crop shows an
average yeld of 18.6 bushels per acre
forecasting a production of 71)8.000,000 t
bus'll els. The winter wheat was better f
than the spring sown crop. The average }
price for August 1 is 84 cents as oompar* t
ed with 07 cents a year ago. The North ]
Carolina crop -is forecast at 11 bushels
i per acre, forecastinfi a production of 6,-
j 068.000 bushels, with the price averaging {
I about $1.20. The quality is unusually *
good, averaging 02 per cent, of what {
might be expected under extra good con- t
ditious.
"The area sown *vvas reduced one per 1
cent. ;ts also in the'ease of oats. Very (
little was abandoned. The largest in
crease was in the Southern part of the ,
state.
MANY URGING EXTRA I
CONGRESS MEETING
Advocates of Special Session
Are Placing Views and
Plans Before President
Coolidge Now.
(By (lit* Associated Press.)
"Washington, Aug. It. —President
Ooolidge’s return to the executive offices
today from Marion was accompanied by
a renewal of pressure on him for an
extra session of Congress. ,
Several of those who want an extra
session already have placed their views
before the President, and those who op
pose the idea also have been heard, but
to none so for as can be learned, hap
lie indicated a decision.
Advocates of immediate action have
based their ideas of the necessity of
quickly enacting legislation to help the
farmers in tiie marketing of their crops,
and to settle the coal question. ’ Those
averse to tiie idea believe nothing can
L“ gained from an extra session at this
time.
Before Mr. Coolidge went to Marion
Senator Hhipstend. farmer-labor, Minne
sota. told him time Cong*c's*' i '*tnW*hrf "®e
Convened, but on (he same day Repre
sentative John M. Nelson, repub'ican. of
Wisconsin, a member of tiie progressive
bloc, said a call would do no good.
Other members have, expressed similar
divergent views.
SOCIETY OK ENGINEERS
MEETING IN ASHEVILLE
Address Made to Society by Ira B. Mul
lis. Assistant Testing Engineer.
(Br (be Associated Prcaa.)
Asheville, Aug. 11.—The biggest prob
lem that confronts the country in its road
niiiding program is that of proper sub
grades for pavements and other hard sur
face highways, according to Ira B. Mullis,
of Washington. D. 0.. assistant testing
engineer -of the Bureau of Public Roads
in making the principal address at this
morning session of the North Carolina So
ciety of Engineers.
The committee on ethics made its re
port this morning. A better understand
ing by the public* of engineers’ profes
sion and problems will improve the ethics
of tin* profession, the report declared,
it is recommended that publicity be used
to enlarge the of what may be in
cluded in what the engineers know as en
gineering problems. Discussion of this
report was led by C. S. Currier, of El
kins, N. C., after which it was adopted.
Two Candidates Cast Lots Fqr Nomina
tion.
Lynchburg, Ya.. Atlg. 10,—When the
official count of the ballots cast ill the
Democratic primary Tuesday showed a
tie between .1. J- Anthony and J. T.
Rosenberger. candidates for supervisor
in the Otter River district of Campbell
county, it wits decided to east lots for
■ the' nomination. ’
i Accordingly, two slips of paper bear
ing the names of the rival candidates
, were placed in a hat. Rosenberger’s
name was the first drawn frefm the hat
and he was declared the nominee.
Four Communists Killed.
1 London, Aug. 11 (By the Associated
i Press). —Four communists were killed
i and forty others injured in Itatidor, Up
» per Silesia while the police were attempt
- ing this morning to clear the streets in
* which the communists were demonstrat-
I ing. says a Central News dispatch from
Berlin,
KIYVANIS MEETING I
Several Matters of Importance Present
ed to Members at Weekly Meeting
of the Club.
A program of entertainment by Miss
Marie Davenport, representin'* the Home
Talent Company, of Atlantl
the transaction of several State Librai
business featured the meetii. h
day evening at the Y. M. p. A. of the
Kiwanis Club of Concord.
Secretary Cline read to tiie club a let
ter from the Roanoke Booster Club ad
vising that the Booster Club will pay i
Concord a visit on the afternoon of Au- 1
gust 23rd, stopping in this city for about
twenty minutes. In the party of boost
ers will be Hon. E. Lee Trinkle, gover
nor of Virginia, the mayor of IlonnokeT
and Congressman Woodrum. A com
mittee of Kiwanians will be named to
meet the party when it arrives.
Attention was called to the District
Convention which will convene at
YVrightsville on next Thursday and Fri
day. Since the delegates elected some
time ago have found it impossible to nt
•tend, the club named Major W. A. Foil
to go as its delegate to the District
Convention.
An invitation which was accepted by
the club with pleasure was the one ex
truded by Miss, Cathleen Wilson, home
demonstration agent, and Mr, R. D.
Goodman, farm demonstration agent, in
viting the Kiwanians. their wives and *
friends to join the Boys and Girls Club
encampment in a picnic at Mt. Pleasant
on Thursday evening at 7 o’clock. The
Kiwanians voted unanimously to accept
the invitation.
No business meeting of the Kiwanis
Club will be held on "next Friday even
ing. since the members have been in
vited to attend the meeting of the Rimer |
Community Club as guests. A commit
tee lias been named to arranged enter
tainment featurse for the meeting,
which promises to be a very delightful
affair.
The entertainment by Miss Davenport,
consisting of vocal ami instrumental se
lections and readings, was very enjoy
able, and her audience voiced their ap
preciation in their Spontaneous encores.
Miss Davenport at the conclusion of her
numbers and some group singing by the
members of the club, presented to the
members her plan for staging in Con
cord a “Novelty Minstrel Show” some
time during the coming winter, under
the auspices of the local Kiwanis Club.
President Spencer appointed a commit
tee consisting of Secretary Cline. Lee
Crowell and Dr. Bill Wadsworth to go
over the emitter with Miss Davenport
and sign up for the show if their judg
ment so directed.
Other guests at the meeting beside
Miss Davenport, included Mr. Dick
Beaman, of Suffolk. Ya., guest of Dr.
Morrison King: and Mr. Mark Fuller,
of Concord, guest of Dr. Spencer
Wadsworth.
Team No. 9. Morrison King captain,
will he in charge of tiie program at the
meeting of the club two weeks hence,
on August 24th.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened at an Advance of 28 to 45 Points
on Finn Showing of Liverpool.
(Rr the Associates Press.*
New York. Aug. 11.—The cotton mar
ket opened at au advance of 26 to 45
points on the relatively firm showing of
Liverpool, while the American markets
were closed yesterday, and the failure of
the early weather map to indicate any
thing like general rains dr showers in
the southwest. October sold up to 23.51
and January to 23.15 after the cal. nr
43 to 52 points not higher on covering
and commission house buying.
Cotton futures o pencil firm. Oet.
23.20; Dec. 23.23; Jan. 23.00; March
23.10; May 23.05.
Plans For Anti-Alcoholic Congress.
Copenhagen, Aug. 11.—The seventeenth
International Anti-Alcoholic Congress
will assemble in Copenhagen one week
froih today. At the head of the con
gress is a committee of organization, of
which the Danish Minister for the In
terior is honorary president. Five mem
bers of the - Danish Rigsdak, one the
Speaker of tin* Foikething, are honorary
vice-presidents.
Representatives are expected from al
most every country in the world. After
the permanent committee of the con
gress has”held its initial meeting on Sun
day, August 1!), a large welcome gather
ing will take place iu the evening in the
great hail of the Odd Fellows Palace, a
magnificent old building. On the follow
ing day tiie congress commences its dis
cussions in the great hall of the Students’
Club, and a number of representatives of
foreign governments will speck on this
occasion. In the evening the members
of the congress will be the guests of the
municipality of Copenhagen.
In connection with the congress an ex
hibition will be arranged in the smaller
Rail of tiie Students’ Club of literature
and educational matters bearing upon the
alcidtol problems will be discussed.
Pan-Pacific Scientists to Meet.
Sydney, N. S. W., Aug. 11.—Many
eminent scientists of Australia. Japan,
India, China, Serbia, Burmah, Nether
lund Indies, Canada alld (he United
State* have arrived in Sydney to attend
the second Pan-Pacific Scientific ; Con
gress, the sessions of which will begin
here Monday. The congress is part of a
general program of welding together the
peoples of the Pacific, and the meeting is
expected to aid in the movement for in
ternational’ peace. Tin* meetings will be
conducted under the auspices of the Aus
tralian National Research Council and
will include addresses and discussions
embracing all fields of science. The Unit
ed States has sent a delegation of nearly
twenty members to the congress. After
sessions of two weeks in Sydney the con
gress will adjourn to Melbourne, where
the concluding sessions will be held.
Appointed to State Office in Tennessee.
Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 10. —Roy ,T.
Morton, graduate of the University of
North Carolina, has been appointed as
sistant to Howard It. Fullerton, State
sanitary engineer, and haß already as
sumed his duties, it is announced by Dr.
C. B. Crittenden, State health officer.
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NO. 190.
MEMORIAL SERVICES
CONDUCTED IN CUT
TV
run LATE CHIEFTAIN
Services Were Held in Court
House Friday Afternoon
at Funeral Hour of the
Late President.
BUSINES OF
CITY HALTED
Wheels of Commerce at a
Standsill While Last Trib
utte of Love and Respect
Was Beings Paid.
Concord joined with the rest of the na
tion Friday in paying tribute to Warren
G. Harding. The tribute was paid both
to a late President and to a kiudly. sim
ple citizen, who achieved his greatest hon
ors, perhaps, not as the Chief Executive
of a great nation, but as a servant to his
fellowman. In every part of the world,
during the funeral hour of the late lead
er of the United States, appropriate ex
ercises were held, and in almost every in
stance the services were marked by a
simplicity in keeping with the final rites
at Marion, where all that was left of the
earthly body of the kindly man was laid
to rest iii a grassy slips- in the valley
near which he had spent the greater part
of his life.
Every rank of citizenship in Cabarrus
county was represented at the services
held in the court house from 3 to 4
o'clock. There were none too low, too
high, too rich or too poor to pay their
silent tribute to the man who paid with
his life in the service of his country and
his neighbor. It was a democratic gath
ering that made possible tile memorial! ser
vice here, and the personnel of the audi
ence was a fitting tribute to the universal
popularity of the man who never rose
too high in public office aud esteem to
lose his interest in even the humblest of •
his subjects. The court house was pack
ed ; every seat was occupied, and many
stood in the aisles.
There were hundreds in the audience
who had not voted for the late President
when his name was offered for the Presi
dency. but they were as keenly affected
as were their neighbors and friends whose
ballots hail helped elevate him to the
highest position obtainable in the United
* fffaLef. -'Party '’fifias
•smashed with the crushing news from the
Golden Gate that the President of the
United States was dead, and the attitude
of the Concord people aud the thousands m
of others living south of the imaginary
Mason and Dixon line, demonstrated
conclusively that Mr. Harding was Pres
ident and friend of all the people.
A short address by Rev. G. A. Mar
tin. five minute talks by several other
persons representing civic organizations
of the city, aud the singing of several
hymns which were particularly loved' by
the late President, made up the simple
ceremonial held here. The large audience
listened to the addresses with quiet dig
nity, joined in the singing of the hymns
with a spirit which indicated a desire to
have more than a silent part in the final
service for their fallen chieftain, and
mingled for a minute after the service
to discuss with friends or neighbors the
gentleness and greatness of the man they
had gathered to honor.
The service was opened with a short
prayer by Rev. T. W. Smith, who de
clared in his prayer that it was fitting
[ that citizens of the United States and
; Christians should gather to pay homage
to a man who was both a citizen and a
Christian. After the prayer the audi
ence sang "America.”
While each of the speakers paid trib
ute to the qualities of Mr. Harding that
made him a fitting leader of the United
States, each also paid more attention to
those characteristics that made him more
of a friend and neighbor than Chief Exec
utive. Fitting honor to the man as
greater honor was paid to him as a true
President was paid, to be sure, but
American, a man who never allowed
himself to rise to a height h where he
would lose touch with his fellowman.
Mr, Martin in speaking of the high
tributes that hud been paid to Mr. Hard
ing since his death, expressed regret that
many of the tokens of esteem had not
been spoken before the President was
claimed by death. He was loved most
by people yho knew him best, Mr. Mar
tin declared, and this is the most con
vincing evidence that he was a good,
fair-minded, .Christian man. Mr. Mar
tin described Mr. Harding as an ‘‘apos
tle of peace,” and pointed out his efforts
in behalf of the Arms Conference and
advocacy of the United States joining
tin- International Court as evidence of
his peaceful instincts. Mr. Harding, lie
said, was not merely a preacher of pence;
lie was a doer of righteousness.
.1. Lee Crowell, Jr., representing the
Kiwanis Club, paid high honor to the
constructive nature found in the lute
President. The life of every man, he de
clared, is measured by liis accomplish
ments. From a farm boy Mr. Harding
rose to the height of American officeship.
he said, and this is evidence sufficient of
his constructive aud helpful nature. It
seemed fitting, Mr. Crowell said, that
Mr. Harding should die while on a mis
sion of construction, a mission flint
mean a bigger and greater Alaska, there
fore a mission that meant a bigger ami
greater America.
Mrs. Ada Rogers Gorman, President
of the Woman's Club, fittingly did honor
to both Mr. Harding and his brave, loyal
wife, who has shown such a spirit of
bravery ufid fortitude during the ordeal
which she been through. “The mili
tary and civil honors that a great nation
may bestow upon its dead is paid today
to the memory of President Harding,”
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