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*•««>*•** « ASSOCIATED $ • PRESS • ® DISPATCHES @ VOLUME XXIII Medical Society Favors Hospital for Cabarrus > A ’ At Meeting Last Night So ciety Goes on Record Fav oring Erection of Hospital. —Doctors Give Reasons. SOLICITS SUPPORT OF ALL PARTIES Think a County Hospital Would Be of More Value to Public. Than One Owned and Run by Individuals. Cabarrus County is badly in nerd of a county hospital, and will soon have this need filled, if plans being worked out by the Cabarrus County Medical Society #can be realized. The Society. at„ its meeting last evening the V. M. C. A., to which were invited all the dentists and veterinarians, went fully into plans f<p- organizing such an institution, nnd it was the unanimous opinion of every doctor present that the plans can be materialized. Dr.'J. A. Patterson, president of the Society, presided at the luncheon and the business session which followed. He asked Or. P. It. MaePadyen to state the object of the meeting. Or. MacPadyen stated that for the past ten years the physicians here have struggled along as best they could, with a private institu tion. but that this has now gone as far as it is possible to go. It must now be enlarged or given up altogether. The present institution has lost jus/about the amount that is charged on its books, which is owed by persons who are un able to pay. Some of these persons are brought to the hospital in such condition that any humane' person could not re fuse them admission, and they are taken in. although hospital officials are almost certain at the time that ‘ they will be charity eases. Such cases should not be put off on the medical profession as a burden for them to carry, but our coun ty should make some provision for the rare of them. A hospital fostered by private individ uals canuot serve as well as a public hos pital. If this county should decide to build a public hospital, it would serve as a center of the medical profession for tbis entire community, ami in turn would enable the doctors to serve the commun ity in a much more efficient muuncr, since they would have the equipment with which to work, and a place to handle the . patients. Even the present small lios pital'has been able to save an ttwwjt* Of' from two to three persons each year, who would otherwise have died had it not been that there was a hospital nearby to give them the' attention wdiich was need ed immediately. The idea advanced by I)r. MacFadyea is to build a county hospital and make it a medical center for the county. The nurses' class room could bo used as a meeting room for the Society at its regu lar sessions. If tlie hospital were equip ped with as many as fifty beds it would • come under the jurisdiction of the Am erican College of Surgeons, vj'hieh would help supervise it, anil give free assistance and instructions to the institution. Dr. S. AY. Konkin expressed his opin ion that the idea is a very good one and deserves the co-operation of the offiiials I and people of the county to get the sup port of the voters, It would be the greatest kind of stimulus to the doctors ill their work, and would help keep the I eopleof the county iu good physical con dition. The increase in taxes, if the people voted for this hqspital. would be almost insignificant to construct a SIOO.- 000 plant, which would be a credit to the county. All the patients from Cabar rus County would be admitted for treat ment. At present there is not the equip ment nor the accommodations for treat ing the patients in this County, and the people of Cabarrus do neqil ami deserve a modern and well equipped hospital. Dr. T. N. Spencer, besides giving bis licasty endorsement to the movement, slated that the county is wide awake in the construction of good roads and Kfhoe's, and it was* his opinion that they would be ready and willing to do some thing to look after the health of its citi zens. The progressive people of this county any more than the lawyers would jeet. This is shown by the progressive movements that have been put. across iu Cabarrus county, which is now leading all the counties in North Carolina iu some lines. Our eouijty home is said to be the very best iu the entire State, and when our people decide they want some thing they are progressive and energetic enough to go after it until they secure it. If the laymen in the county will talk up this matter and arouse public sentiment in favor of the project, the County Com missioners are men of business ideas and progressiveness who would not hesitate to call a soecinl election on the matter. Dr*Speneei^ called on all the doctors in the county to lay aside all their petty jealousies aud bickerings tyid to pull to gether iu a common cause. There is no reason for delay in the mptter, he added, but everyone should get busy now. Dr. Sidney E. Buchanan, county health, officer, presented some facts as to main tenance, based on the hospitals with which he is familiar at Wilmington. In that institution, having from 75 to 100 beds, lie stated that the county aud city paid annually for charity cases some thing like $15,000. Figuring this amount in Cabarrus county, it would require'a levy of less than 5 cents on SIOO worth of property to maintain the institution’s charity, cases. Almost every day, added Dr. Buchanan, cases come to him for hos pital treatment, and he has no place to which they can go except to the jail or the County home. The county hospital is th<* only proper way to look after the’ matter in Dr. Buchanan’s opinion, and the doctors of a county should not be ex pected to build the hospital for the (Concluded on Page Six). The Concord Daily Tribune ■ EDU CATORS ALARMED • N OVER CHILD LABOR . Statistics Said to Be Distressing t< Frieitds of School Children. Washington. Aug. IB (Capital Newi Service). —The Supreme Court docisior which voided the anti-child labor legis i lation. has resulted in an increase u * ehild labor, according to statistics com piled by the Government. [ These show tljat qne million ehildrer ( between the ages of 10 and 10 were em ■ ployed in January, 1020. of which one I third were fixim) 10 to 13 years old Owing to industrial depression in 1021 the innmber diminished, but sinee ther reports from 20 pities out )>f 31 report [ ing indicate increases, five cities report i ing 100 per cent increases. In the first quarter of 1023 in Balti more, -Bridgeport. Detroit, Hartford, ; Indianapolis Jersey City, Manchester . NeiS Britain. Newark. New Haven. New i York, Paterson. St. Louis, and Water i bury, the percentage of increase over 1022 is given as 24. June of the present year saw sensational increases in child ■ labor especially in Connecticut, where in Waterbary .800 per cent more ware - given work permits than in June. 1022, and a general increase of 57' per cent was reported to .the children's bureau. Educators are distressed not only be cause of the failure of health which . must result from too early emp’oyment of children in industry, but because the school can not educate the child who does not attend it, and the laboring child has no time for study. The con tention of the child labor proponents that the working "child can go to school at nights is wholly faallacious, it is point ed out, since to learn requires applica tion. attention, and interest, aud uoue of them are possible to a body and mind wearied with a dav's toil. S KIWANIANS AT WILMINGTON Approximately Six Hundred Delegates Are in Attendance. IBr the Associated Press.) Wilmington. N. C„ Aug. 10.—The dis trict Kiwanis convention opened here at 10 o'clock this morning with an address of welcome by Mayor Jas. H. Cowan, re sponse to which was made by District Governor Alva M. Lumpkin. Approximately 000 delegates are in at tendance. The morning session today was con sumed with the introduction' of Lieuten ant Governors nnd a musical program. Judge Orhlson Speaks to a Gathering of **rr***. v—WH Falk. Raleigh. Aug 15.—Judge C. .1. tlvbi son, representative of the invisible em pire. speaking to the Raleigh klan to night in the city auditorium asked news paper me to headline the fact that hv goes into Oklahoma next week to nrge the governor toward a special session qf the legislature ill the hope of outlawing hooded men who commit crimes. The Indiana man had a fair crowd which applauded his declaration unit the klan stands for law enforcement through constituted authority. Disrob ing ns i) klan principle was not advoca - t'd, but he declared that the invisible em pire is dead against lawlessness com mitted with disguise. He talked Indiana politics and got a limited hand when le [declared the klan stands for inde pendence in politics. Wifebeater Found to Be Man Wanteii , For Homicide in 1813. " Newton. Aug. 15.—Chief of Police Tom Bnbriel has picked up another man who thought he h#d lived out the record nnd memory of a crime committed iu North Carolina years ngo. The man is Charles Whisnnnt. He hns recently been running a case at the Newton depot- He was put iu jail on" day Inst week for beatiug his wife. While in jail Chief Gabriel heard rumors that Whisnnnt had 1G years ago killed a negro at Mortimer in Caldwell county. The investigation revealed that this was so. and that until lately he find been living in Canada under the name of Coffey. Chief Gabriel arrested the man Saturday night nnd the sheriff of'Cald well now has him in Lenoir jail. Case is Postponed Until Brown Fully Recovers. Spencer. Aug. 15. —When Engineer “Red” Williams was arraigned in Rowan county court today charged with shooting Frank A. Brown when he caught him alone with Mrs. Williams ip her home in Silencer August 4. a certi ficate from the attending physician was presented stating that Brown has not sufficiently recovered to- appear at the trial. The ease was continued to Sep tember 4. Willinms is under SSOO bond. Brown, who was shot through the breast, is now- at his home recovering. Quart of Whisky Said to Be in Court house Corner Stone. Newton. Aug. 15.—Quince Wilfong, who is the best authority since the death of Col. G. M. Yoder, about the happenings in the early days of Catawba county, says that one of the tilings de posited in the corner stone of the court house built 80 years ago, which soon is to be torn down, is a quart of whisky. Whdse whisky will it be when it is taken out? Chairman D. Elliott will doubtless have first claim, but therd will be others who would like to test the quality of whisky the forefathers made. Mr. aud Mrs. H. A. Foil, of Atlanta, Ga., who have been visiting at the home of Mrs. Foil’s father and mother, Mr. and Mrk. .1. A. Propst, for a week, left this morning fbr Charlotte, where they will visit Mr. Foil’s parents for several days. They will leave for theih home Buturday or Monday. / Mr. H. R. Lewis and family, who have been occupying. the Montgomery house on North Church street for some time, have moved to Asheville. - v a i&Av Ik CONCORD, N. C., THU CROP CONDITION in NORTH CAROLINA GOOD In Comparison With Other States. Says State Statistician. (By the Aatoelated Bn«l Raleigh, N. C„ Aug. 16.—Crop condi tions in North Carolina are unusually good especially, in comparison with other States, according to a statement issued Inst night by Frank Barker, Statistician of the State Federal-Agricultural Crop Reporting Service. - A similar condition exists in the states adjacent to Indiana, he said, extending down to Misouri. Mr. Parker said in some of the Rocky Moun tain States and on tile Pacific Coast the farm conditions are unusually good. “The Southern states as a whole av erage rather poor conditions;' the state ment continued. 'This state of affairs is also true, although to a less degree in the North Atlantic States as far south as Virginia. North Carolina stands out like a peak between the average of con ditions borth North, South and West of us. Picture the average eouditious as compared with the ten year trend of 105 per rent., for this state while South Car olina averages about 01 per cent; Geor gia 75 per cent.. Tenuessee, 04 per cent., and Virginia 88 per cent. The seasons huve been unusually good iS North Car olina and froiti an agricultural economic standpoint it is perhaps in the best po sition and condition of any stnte in the South and perhaps as well as any in the Union, unless it be California, for which fruit is responsible. "Over the United States as a whole, the conditions average 07.4 per cent., as compared with the ten year uverage. This is one per cent., better than one month ago. The conditions in North Carolina have improved 3.4 j>er cent, during the last month, bringing the average up to about 105 per cent., for which we should bo very grateful. "It is found that of the 20 important cultivated crops there is about one per cent, more acreage this year than last. This is also reflected in the forecasted yields per acre. "Os the total prospective production of improved products this year compar ed with last year, oats shows almost 10 per cent, increase, tobacco more than 11 per cent, greater, cotton 18 per cent, more, nnd even corn more than three tier Cent, greater than last year's crop. Pea nuts sho wa prospective production ol' almost 10 per cent, more than last year. Os those showing decreases, there is wheat with an eight per cent, losse fore cast, lye, 32 percent.; Irish potatoes, 15 per rent.: sweet potatoes, 15 per cent. • liny,. 14 per cent.; apples, G per (cent.: peaches. 17 per cent.;- nnd sorghum syrup il per cent, less than last year's production. "The 'rend of prices paid, to fanners for the principal crops in the United States declined 1.4 per cent.'during July, and for the past ten years the price level increased .4 per, cent, during the July peftod.-'■Tfß-qfrtyiM iwUcx i.rice was 15.5 per cent, higher titan a’’year ago; 25:6 per cent higher than two years ago. but 10 per cent, lower than the ten year av erage ou a basis of August 1. "The prices of meat animals that were paid to farmers or producers were in creased two per cent, in the last report ed monthly period. For the past 10 years it was 1.2 per cent. The index figure of prices for the principal meat animals was 14 per cent, lower than a ago aud 27.5 per cent, lower than the 10 year average ou a basis of July 15. "Iu brief it is observed that" farm pric es are getting a little more on a level with other commodities, but the farmers' art still at a great disadvantage in compari son with other producers. "Tobacco and corn shows the best con dition over the United States and each made improvements during the last mouth of more than 4.5 per cent. . In contrast to this, cotton chose a relative poor condition of OS-per cent, as compar ed with the usual condition." I. C. C. APPROVES PROVISION FOR GREENSBORO STATION Southern to Pay Interest and Provide a Sinking” Fund For Bonds of $1,300,- 000. (By t(ie Associated Press.) Washington, Aug. 16. —The Interstate Commerce Commission today approved the application of the Southern Railway for authority to assume as lessee the ob ligations and liability of paying as rentitl an annual sum sufficient to pay the in terest aud provide a sinking fund for the bonds of to be issued by the City of Greeusboro, N. C. The funds de rived from the sale of the bonds will be used for the construction of a passenger terminal. The bonds will mature iu 30 years from October 1 and will bear 5 per cent, interest. HENRY BRANSON VARNER SELLS HIS LEXINGTON DISPATCH The Paper Is Purchased by J. T. Crewe, of the Columbus, 'Ohio, Dispatch. (By the Associated Press.) Lexington, Aug. 16.—The sale of The Lexington dispatch, a semi-weekly pub lication, owned and published 27 yehrs by HI B. Varner, was announced today. Ernest J. F. Crewe, of the Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, 0.. is the publisher. The price paid is not announced. Mr. Crewe will become publisher aud manager, with H. N. Witherspoon, who hns been with the pa pay for six years, as editor. Mr. Varner announced that he was selling the paper in order to devote his entire time to the direction of a chain of theatres which he is operating in this territory. , Employment Found for 525, Persons. Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 15. —Five hundred aud twenty-five persons found .employ ment in North Carolina during the week ending August 11th through the State- Federal Employment service, M. L. Ship man, commissioner of labor and printing, announced last night. Os these 525 persons placed iu employ ment 421) were men and 96 women. There were 612 registrations and 663 requests for help. Asheville with 114 placements, the state. 1 ‘ The Ruhr valley produces 08.9 per cent, of Germany’s coal, and 66 per cent. I of her steel. * DAY, AUGUST 16, 1923. STM MUCUS PLEDGED tOOM TO SUPPORT COOLIDGE The President is Given As surances of j Support by State Chairman Bramham and Col. I. M. Meekins. PLEASED WITH THE 1 SLEMP SELECTION They Feel That Slemp Un derstands Southern Prob lems and Will Be Helpful to This Section of Country (By the Associated Press.) Washington. Aug.'-10.—The support of the Republican organization of Ndrth Carolina was pledged today to President Coolidge by W. B. Bramham. state chairman, of North Carolina, and Col. I. X. Meekins, an official of the alien prop erty custodian’s office, and a leader among North Carolina Republicans. Chairman Bramham ami Colonel Meek ins mifde arrangements during their call upon Mr. Coolidge for the reception of a delegation from Durham August 23rd, to invite the President to attend the dedication in that city of the Samuel Morgan memorial, a plot of ground near Durham whery. the fiuat surrender of the armies of Gen. J. K. Johnson and Sherman took place. The Durham del egation will be composed of representa tives of the civic organizations of the City. “The appointment of ('. Bascbmb Slemp as secretary to the President was ‘decidedly pleasing’ to the Republicans of North. Carolina,” said Mr. Bramham. "It also was pleasing ito the South gen erally because we feel that Mr. Slemp understands our problems mid in his of fice will be helpful to ; bur section of tile country.” _ | BETTER CARE W FORESTS Urged Before Meeting .of Southern Sash. Door and Millwork Manufacturing As sociation. (By the Associated Press.) Asheville. Aug. I^—Better care of forests and better knqtyledge *of the uses of which wood in the present forests may be put we* urged tffls morning befoi-e the quarterly meeting of the Southern Sash. Door, and .Mill It Manufacturing Association convention by speakers on forestry subjects who appeared before that body. Forestry in its different phases and | with particular reference to applied re search on the properties of wood and its! behavior in service, was the general topic ( before the second day’s session of the convention with prospects that the busi ness of the association meeting will be' concluded this afternoon? A. T. Upson, of Madison. Wis., in charge of the industrial investigations of- forest products, United States Forest Service, spoke about the work of his lab oratory force of particular -interest to sash, door and millwork manufacturers. Freight Traffic Resumed on Upper Mississinni River. (By the Associated Press.> Moline, 111., Aug. 10.—With four hew motor barges, freight traffic on the Mississippi between St. Paul and St. lamis will begin soon after a lapse of more tjinn four years, the River Transit Company of St. null’ lias announced. Freight hauling-will begin not later than September 1. The motoij barges on their route be tween St. Louis and St- Paul will cover 689 miles. Ninety landing places are tabu'ated on a list. The boats will have a 100-ton. cargo capacity. Mrs. Killed in Auto Accident. Lumberton. Aug. 15.—Mrs. Leslie MeOumbee, Chadbourn, is dead'; J. O. Carter, bet brother-in-law is iu a sana torium here, badly injured, and a small boy is being treated in Chadbourn as j the result, of an automobile wreck which occurred on the Wildcat highway five miles west of Chadbourn, Columbus j county, this afternoon about 4:30. i According to Carter, the accident oe-1 curred on the main highway as lie was traveling at a moderate rate of speed when the steering gear went wrong aud the car turned turtle. ,• Mr. K. L. Solomon, of No. 4 township, brought to our office today an open boll j of cotton. Mr. Solomon says that he hns enough bolls open in his fields to pick about four or five hundred pounds Mrs. Howard Cannon and daughter. ! Miss Julia, of Guilford College, are vis-; iting Mrs. Cannon’s brother. Prof. A. S. Webb, on Bell avenue. The average monthly salary of women teachers iu Oregon is $109.91. | Five Men Are Shot Today in an Anti-Ku Klux Affray Steubenville, 0., Aug. - 16.—Three . men were shot, one perhaps fatally, in a gun battle at an early hour here this morning, the culmination of an unti-Kii | Klux Klan affray. The casualty list I from the battle follows: Darwin L. Gibson. 35, one of the lead-1 ing local Klansmen. shot In the back of; the head and toase of the brain. I John de Santis, 26, one as Gibson's! alleged assailants, shot,.Jn the left eye, I sight of eye destroyed.. ' Dominic Spinetti, 27, shot through the ! left hand. An anti-Klan riot which occnrred ear-1 Her in the night, resulted in the injury ■ of a score or mpre persons, mostly visit-! iug Klansmen, and badly damaging at j POWER OF EDUCATION SHOWN BY NEGROES Northern ExQdus Not Worrying North Carolina Au'borities. Washington, Aug. 16 (Capital News Service).—The absurd claim that "working people don't need education,'’ needs no refutation, but gets it convinc ingly from statistics from North Caro- Jina. a state which has concerned itself largely with the Education of its negro population. T >r °f- N. ('. Newbold. head of the division of Negro education, gorging under the State Department of Public Instruction, says. "I find that we arc losing few of onr best negroes. Those leaving the state are divided into three classes, no one of which is representa tive of our best negro citizenship. To the first class belong those who are naturally shiftless, to the second those who have suffered temporary losses" and who will return to North Carolina when they have earned enough to start over again, and to the third. those who have drifted into the state from farther south on their way north ” "The reason is to be found in the educational opportunities given him. This year, we will hav&kiin Xqrth,..oaro lina more than 300 schools worth $1,225,000. These schools are in rural districts and towns under 2.500 population. Os the $1,225,000 so far in vested. -SlLlil (rami' from Julius liosenwald. of Chicago. $250,000 from negroes, $45,000. from contributions by white people i“ the tftate and $600,000 from public taxes. During the school year of 1021-1922. 81 Rosenwald schools were erected at a cost of $350,000. Since the close of that scholastic year 03 have been built, costing more than $400,000." In: its larger towns and cities North | Carolina is spending more than $1,000.- 000 anually on Negro school buildings. COURT UPHOLDS STATE AND KLAN IS BARRED Can’t Function as Chartered Fraternal Body in New York. Elizabethtown, N. Y'.. Aug. 14.—Su preme Court Justice Ellis J. Staley to night granted an injunction sought by the Stnte of New York restraining the Knights of the Ku Klux Kan, Inc., and the Ivamelia. Inc., its sister organiza tion. tfnm acting as chartered bene volent fraternal organizations in New York State. Declaring that the statutes clearly in tended a certificate of incorporation "should be approved tn the form in which it was filed and filed iu the form in which it was approved,” Justice Staley held that the act of incorpora tors of the Klan and Ivamelia in alter ing the certificates of incorporation after approval and before filing was "not only an illegal and (unauthorized act. but also an imposition and fraud upon the Court" j 1 PRAISE FOR JAPANESE BY CALIFORNIA PASTOR (Tells Kiwanis Club He Sees No Danger of War Between Nations. 1 Philadelphia Record (Rev. Roy Campbell, a Californian, surprised members of the Kiwanis Club at their luncheon in the Bellevue-Strat ' ford yesterday by speaking a good word for the Interpreting the Japanese situation on the Pacific coast, the speaker paid a high tribute to their "quality of life and citizenship." He said he did not believe there would ever be a war between this country and Japan, not only because America "wants to stay at home.” but because the Japanese want to do the same thing. He maintained that two dominant races cannot live at peaee on the same soil aud insisted that the leaders in Japan realize this and were making every ef fort. so far as persuasion nnd advice went, to prevent the common people of Japan from crowding into California. KIDNAPPED BY UNMASKED MEN Texas Man Returns Home This Morning With 50 or (10 Lashes on His Body. (By the (iwoelattil Press.) j Amarill.o Texas, Aug. 16.—E. E. Mc [ Donald, a railroad laborer, kidnapped by j five unmasked men last night, returned to his homo ttiis morning bearing 50 or :60 lushes on his body. He was hurried to a hospital where his condition is said to lie serious. \ Two men are being detained and oth ers are suspected, officers said. j Georgia Assembly Will Be Called Into Extra Session. I Atlanta. Ga., Aug. 15—A call for an ! extraordinary session of the Georgia | legislature will be issued tomorrow by I Governor executive declared this afternon following the action of the house in tabling all tax reform meas | ures. j The date of the extra session prob j ably will be from November 15 to De cember 1, the executive said. j 4-Year-Ohl Child Falls to its Death. I New Bern. Aug- 15.—Edna Earl | Avery, four-ear-old daughter of Mrs ■ Ada Thomas Avery, was instantly kill jed when she fell through the elevator | shaft in tlie Elks temple at 11:30 this i morning while playing with other chib I Iren about the building. | least' a dozen j The outbreak did not subside till raoru- I ing. It followed a parade through the bus iness district of the city by Klansmen , from East Liverpool, Ohio. Chester, W. I Va., and other nearby points. A mob j estimated at several thousand, attacked I and beat the visitors. I City and county officials were concern- I ed today over reports that Klansmen had | issued a call for a great cascade here ' tonight which knights from sections of | Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania j are to. attend. It Is understood that • official .steps are to be taken to prevent I such a gathering.. COURT CASES Erwin Miller Sentenced to Serve Eight Years on Chain Gang.—Others Cases Disposed of. In Cabarrus Superior Court - day a jury returned a verdict f -jj] degree murder against Erwil St* 1 ® negro, charged with killing Bar-j rier, another negro. Judge Ben F. Long, presiding over the present term of court, sentenced Miller to serve eight years on, the chain gang. Tlie case went to the jury Wednesday morning after argu ments in the case had been concluded. Other cases disposed of Wednesday included ; ' Estelle Rogers, vagrancy, sentenced to serve four months in jail. ’ Will Vanderburg, charged with op erating a car with one light and curs ing on public highway, plead guilty and judgment was suspended upon payment of costs. C. W. Widenhou.se, charged with hav ing and transporting liquor, was found not guilty. Lon Bost was found guilty of an as sault. It is very probable that court will adjourn this afternoon. Most of the cases not yet taken up for trial have been continued,’ ' unil whrti - sion. - eases . have been completes, court probably will adjourn. ' The grand jury yesterday returned true bills against Lee MeHargue. charg ing assault with intent to kill in two cases and assault wi«i a deadly weapon m another. He is now serving two ,I°' th< ‘ killi "K of Deputy Sheriff >'ill Propst of this county, and these cases will not come up Until he com pletf»s this seiitenre. ATLANTA-LOS ANGELES y WALKER IN CONCORD Jack Williams Making Cross-Country Walk-in Advertising Stunt for Maga zines. .Tack 1\ illiams, World Wor veteran, and at present on a cross-countrv hike from Atlanta to Los Angeles, ' spent four hours in Concord this morning He left at noon- for Salisbury. Williams left Atlanta on July 23th, "and in each city he passes through he receives the signature of the Mayor.. He is a little ahead of his schedule, so fai lle states. Williams is making the hike to ad vertise three magazines—Service Record. Disabled Veteran, Child’s Life and The Dearborn Independent. He must reach Los Angeles ' before noon Christmas Day. and is allowed to ask for nothing blit water, ilf lie is asked to ride, how ever. he can accept. Willi'sm* left Atlanta with one penny, and has paid his expenses by selling copies of the magazines he carries. He ', Yorth Carolina boy, and expects to visit home folks while in the Old North State. BOY KILLRtrrN AUTO : ‘ ACCIDENT AT WILMINGTON Was Thrown Against’ Windshield of An other Machine and Throat Cut. *By the A **«,<•!*» Wilmington. Aug. 16.—C. F. Williams. Jr., 13 years old. died today ten minutes after being hurled from the automobile m which lie was riding with Walter Hatch, against the windshield of another machine which rammed the Hatch car. Tlie lad's jugular vein was severed. Hatch submitted to a transfusion of blood in-an effort to save the boy’s life, and is himself in a serious condition, v Baby Boy Fluent in Use of Words. West Bend, Wis., Aug. 15.—At the age of two and one-half years William Feierisen. Jr., of this town, not only knows the alphabet perfectly, says his own prayers each night) Jtnows a great number of poems but talks without the least trace of baby prattle. This town is very proud of the ehild, who is looked upon h- all as "wonder ful.” When but a little more than one year Billy could talk quite fluently, "say those who have known the ehild since infancy. Almost from birth they say, he remembered everything upon being told once. The child's father is an automobile mechanic employed at a garage hefe. The little boy has frequently watched his father at Work. He was- gnen a small toy automobile for Christmas. On several occasions, it is said, lie has taken the little machine apart and cleaned it without having the least trouble in put ting it together again unaided. I)e Valera to lie Taken to Mount Joy Jail. Dublin. Aug. 16 (By the Associated Press). —Enmoim de Valera, arrested un der dramatic circumstances yesterday, he appeared to deliver a speech in the •election campaign, probably will be brought from Limerick where he is im prijhned at present, to Mount .Toy jail within the next few days. • The public safety act gives the gov ernment power to detain him and it is considered likely he will be kept iu jail until the condition of the country is more peaceful. *■ Events in the Free State during the next fortnight probably will influence the government's action with regard to the republican leader whose arrest has creat ed a profound impression in County Claire and throughout Munster. Favorable Trade Balance. (By the Associated Press-» Washington. Aug. 16.—A favorable trade balance of S26,(HK),(MH) is shown by tlie official figures on tlie country’s exports and imports for July, issued to day at the Department of Commerce. It was the first mouth iu which ex- IKirts had exceeded imports since last February. Exports in Jyly totalled ;31(!,000,000 and imports $284,000,000. At the Theatres. “Skin Deep.” the big Thomas H. Inee production, is on the program again to day at the Pastime. At the Piedmont toffiiy Ayilliam Rus sell again is being offered in “The Cru sader.” “The Fortune of Christiana McNab” is the feature tiy* Star is offering to day. ft******* @ TODAY’S 41 • NEWS 41 ® TODAY 41 @Qs4*&s4>4l NO. 194. HIM COOPER “-JED II Bd GIVEN DURING Dll Is Charged With Conspiring With Thomas Cooper to Defraud the Defunct Com mercial National Bank. OFFICIAL GIVES BOND OF $5,000 Other Officers of Bank Are Released _ After Giving Bonds Ranging From SI,OOO toslo,ooo. (\, Aug. I(l.—Lieut. Governor .B. Cooper, forjner chair man of the board of the defunct Com mercial National Bank; his brother, Thomas E. Cooper, former president; Horace E. Cooper, cashier; and Clyde Lassiter, an automobile dealer, are at liberty today under bonds ranging from SI,OOO to .SIO,OOO, following their arrest here last bight on charges of conspiracy to defraud and wreck the Commercial National Bank. These specific charges are against Thomas E. Cooper, alleged Misapplica tion of funds and moneys of the bank, and conspiracy, , Lieutenant Governor Cooper is charged witli conspiracy with Thomas E. Cooper to defraud the Com mercial Bank of certain sums of money, and misapplication of certain funds and moneys. Horace Cooper is alleged to have misapplied funds of the bank and to have made false entries in the bank’s records. Lassiter is accused of aiding and abetting Thomas E. Cooper in mis application of funds. Thomas E. Cooper is held under two bonds of $5,000 each; Lieut. Governor Cooper's bail has been fixed nt $5,000; H°-e Cooper, $3,000; and Lassiter The warrants were sworn out by Dis trict Attorney Tucker on .Tulv 31st. and served by Cnited States Marshal Ward last night. Matter in Hands of V. S. District Attor ney. Washington. Aug. 1(1.—All facts and data concerning the failure of the Com mercial National Bank of Wilmington. ,• ( y have-been placed in the hands of the l nited States Attorney for that dis twt, m-coi-dm* to Comptroller Dmtws of the currency. Mr. Dawes declined to discuss the arrest of Lieut. Governor Cooper and his associates on the conspir acy charges, saying only that the nat ional bank examiner had gone thoroughly into the affairs of the defunct institution and it was now a matter with which the Cnited States attorney will deal. Lieut. Governor Cooper Makes States ment. Wilmington, Aug. 10—W. B. Cooper made the following statement this after noon : “I returned to the city from Presi dent Harding’s funeral-and ran into this thing. It was the first I had heard of it. I knew the government, as i« cus tomary. had been investigating the af fairs of the bank. As I understand the matter. I am charged with approving ■a worthless note for $19,000 The records of the bank will show that the other directors approved the note along with me." SAVANNAH SCENE OF RAID BY DRY AGENTS Already 84 Persons Arc Cnder Arrest for Alleged Dry Law Y T iolations. <«»r the Associated Preen.> Washington. Aug. 10.—With 84 per sons already under arrest at Savannah, Ga„ under the conspiracy section of the prohibition enforcement act, department of justice officials said today they believ ed they finally had rounded up one of, if not the largest, bootleg forces in the I nited States. Other, important arrests were forecast and it was stated that indictments would be sought, not only under the Volstead act, but also under customs laws against smuggling and the statutes making it un lawful to transport smuggled goods. THE COTTON MARKET Net withstanding Bullish Crop Advice* the Market Was Nervots and Cnset tled. (By the Associated Press.) New York, Aug. 16.—Notwithstanding very bullish crop advices, the cotton mar ket was nervous and rather unsettled dur ing today’s early trading. First prices atively easy Liverpool cables and hopes of a change in southwestern weather con ditions. Cotton futures opened fairly steady Oct. 24,15; Dec.. 24.15; Jani 230)31 March 23.97; May 23.90. With Our Advertisers. J,et C. 11. Barrier & Co.'s weather prophet tell yoit whether or not it will rain tomorrow. Only 79 cents, regu lar price $1.25. Don’t forget W .A. Overcash’s tailor ing opening tomorrow and Saturduy. Venetian lip paste, to enhance the lips, at the Gibson Drug Store.- You always get courteous and efficient service at the Citizens Bank and Trust Co., regardless of the size of your ac count. The Standard Buick Co., is now show ing the 1924 model Buicks. Many new features are seen. On account of the half holiday today there will be no demonstration at the gas office this afternoon. The demonstra tions will'be renewed tomorrow. At Parker’s Shoe Store, next to the I’arks-Belk Co., you will find week-end specials in shoes that will interest you.