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VOLUME XXIII
HOPE REPORTS FROM
JAPANESE DISASTER
. WERE NOT ACCURATE
Latest Advices From Tokio
Indicate That Estimates of
Dead in That City Probably
Have Been Too High.
EXACT NUMBER OF
. DEAD NOT KNOWN
Reports That Cholera Has
Broken Out Not Confirm
ed.—Almost Certain Most
of Tokio Was Lost.
■Hr the .V»oolat«I *Tess.i
Although latest reports from Japan
lead to the hope thnt the death toll is
not as large as has been feared, the
destruction wrought by the earthquake,
tidal wave and fire have been tremendous.
Dispatches from Shanghai this morn
ing sa.v information received there today
makes it apparent that the losses both in
life and property were "much exaggerat
ed.”
Different sources agree, however, that
two-thirds of Tokio have been laid waste.
A message from the American consul
at Shanghai to the state department,
quotes a British courier at Yokohama as
authority for the statement that the city
lias been virtually destroyed.
Three I'. S. destroyers have arrived at
Yokohama and'taken aboard 800 Ameri
cans. One report which has not been
cdfifirmed says cholera has broken out
in the port.
The three home offices still estimate
the dead in the capital at 80,000 but
makes no attempt to strike a total for
Y’okohamu, the many coast towns that
were in the path of the tidal wave, or
the other communities which were in
stone Six.
The foreign residential sections in both
the capital and the i>ort seem to have
escaped destruction owing to their favor
able locations, lmt the slums and indus
trial districts suffered severely. However
Tokio's buildings of modern construction
are said to have escaped.
Nearly $2,000,000 Collected to Date.
Washington. Sept. 7. —Early reports to
lied Cross headquarters here today indi
cated that subscriptions to the $5,000,000
Japanese relief fund was nearing the $2.-
,WW.VtW ,:U .• ..-oc
Rneouraged by the reports of financial
support, the executive committee moved
swiftly to meet the immediate relied
needs as they had been outlined in offi
cial advices from the Orient. Secretary
'Hoover, bringing to bear his experience
from the vast purchasing problems of the
Belgian relief commission, the U. S.
drain Corporation, and the American Be
lief AdniiuistVation, worked out plans to
obtain the ship and at once canned fish
clothing, underwear. shoes, galvanized
iron, lumber and tarpaulins for tempor
ary shelter.
Kittle News Sent From Tokio.
Osaka, Sept. 7 (By the Associated
I’ressl. —Tokio today still was practic
ally cut off from the world, and commu
nication between the capital and Osaka
remained very difficult,
Americans Safe.
YVashiugtou, Sept. 7. Dick
over at Kobe cabled the State Depart
ment today thnt the American ponsuls
and communities nt Nagoya. Nagasaki
and Taihoki. were safe, and that Judge
Imbinger of the American consular court
at Shanghai and members of his party
“with I’orter and Husar” also were safe
in Kobe.
miners seeking basis
that will end strike
Lilian Leader* Conferring for Purposes
of Finding Way to End Strike.
Harrisburg. Sept. 7.—(By the Asso
ciated Press). —Miners uniou leaders
went into session today with delegates
of their organization representing an
thracite workers, determined to recom
mend a course which may end the sus
pension of mining. John M. Lewis,
the union’s however, would
give no indication of what decision was
reached though bis associates were op
timistic as to its possible results.
Baby Falls Out of Bed and is Killed.
Atlanta, Sept. o.—Buster Gossett, 18
months old, was killed iu a fall from
the bed on which he was sleeping here,
the youngster being strangled to death
between the bed post and the wall of
the room. It is not known how long
lie had been iu this position before his
plight was disoovereed by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Gossett.
Wants Government to Buy Flour For
Japan.
Omaha. Sept. 6.—ln a telegram signed
by The Omaha Bee, addressed to I’rvsi
. dent 'Calvin today, the news
paper associates “the dire need of Japan
with emergency of the farmers of tire
grain belt” and urges that an immediate
purchase of floor on a large scale be
made by the government for the relief
of Jappn.
Recognition Conventions to Be Signed.
Washington, Sept. 7 (By the Associ
ated Press) —The two claims conventions
between the i’nited States and Mexico
negotiated nt Mexico City by Charles
Beether Warren and John Barton Payne,
will be signed by the American and Mex
ican representatives tomorrow at the
State Department.
Senator Willis Supports President.
tWr Am a •Moisten r»n.>
Washington, Sept. 7.—Senator Willis,
of Ohio, who presented the name of
Warren G. Harding before the 1020 Re
pnblicnn national convention, came out
in support of President Coolidge for 1024
after a 1 call today at the White House.
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The Concord |)aily Tribune
COST OF FEEDING
THE WORK ANIMALS
Takes About Half the -Money Received
Frctn the Cotton Crop.
(Uy the Associated Press.t
Raleigh. N. C.. Sept: 7. —It taken
about lm'.f the money received from the
cotton crop in Nogth Carolina to teed
the work animals on farms within the.
stnfe. according to an estimate tnuae by-
Earl Hostetler, yvho Ims been investi
gating the cost of feeding work ummaU
used on the branch station farms eon
ducted jointly by the North Carolina
State Col'eye and the Department of
Agriculture.
Last year >*51,000 bales of cotton
were produced in North Carolina farms,
ays Mr. Hostetler. According to six
years' study of animal feeding costs on
three branch experimental frirtns, the
average feeding cost of a yvotdt anifhn'
is $130.28 per head.
‘"therefore,” says Mr. Hostetler, “if
we assume thnt the average farmer ot
the state can maintain his animals for
SIOO a head per year, we still have the
astonishing fact ffiat approximately one
half of the money received from cotton
is need to niaintniu the work animals
used on North Carolina farms. These
tii;ores are for the state as a whole. If
we considered only the cotton producing
area” alone, the cost of maintninennnee
would be higher, because where greater
diversification of crops is practiced the
growers do not have to buy so much
feed.”
In view of these facts. ' says Mr.
Hostetler, there are three things thnt
might to be done to make this great
maintenance charge less costly. The
three steps he advocates are the produc
tion of sufficient grain and hay on the
home farms, the proper planning of
farm operations so that animals may be
worked a maximum amount of time and
the provision of a good pastures for
working stock to graze in during idle
hours.
"Four acres of land devoted to grain
and roughage will furniiui sufficient
feed for one work animal for one year,”
sa.v the animal feed expert, "and any
farmer using! this plan as a basis can
set aside a definite acreage for feeding
his animals and thereby materially de
crease the cost of maintaining them”
CAR MISSES BRIDGE;
TWO PEOPLE INJURED
Man ami Woman I-ay I’ndcr Wreckage
From Midnight Cntil i Help Came in
Morning.
Gastonia. Sept. 6.—Carl Hollis. 20. is
in a local hospital with a fractured
thigh, and Mrs. .1. W. Chandler, both of
Great Falls. S. C.. is suffering from
minor ■ bruises, as the result of their car
missing the bridge in south Gaston
county over Crowders creek this morn
ing shortly after 12 o’clock- The par
ties were returning to their South Caro
lina bom? a.'ter Having risLril'tVbiti-.**..
of Mrs. Chandler in Gastonia. A small
child, grandson of the woman, esf-npcil
injury.
The car., going south, missed the
bridge over the stream near the till and
plunged into the pasture land beside
the road. The party lay unaided among
the wreck until 3:80 this morning until
their erics were answered by .1. N. Neely
a resident of the vicinity. The latter
hurried the injured to the Gaston sani
tarium. where they are now being treat
ed by I)r. Oscar Miller.
LATE PRESIDENT'S
, s WILL IS PROBATED
Mr. Harding Left All of His Property
and Money to His Wife.
Marion. ()., Sept. 7 (By the Associ
ated Press).—The will of the late Pres
ident Harding filed for probate here to
day leaves Mrs'. Harding a life estate of
SIOO,OOO, tile Harding home on Mt. Ver
non avenue here, and half interest in
the building owned by the Marion Star.
The total of the late President's estate
cannot be determined until the apprais
ers report.
Bill of Indictment Against Governor
Cooper.
Raleigh. Sept. 5.—A bill of indict
ment charging Lieutenant Governor W.
B. Cooper, and his brother. Thomas E.
Cooper, witli wrongful abstraction of
funds and making false entries on the
books of the defunct Commercial Na
tional Bank of Wilmington, will be pre
sented to the federal grand jury at the
opening of a two weeks criminal session
of federal court here November (ith, it
was announeed yesterday afternoon by
I'nited States District Attorney Irvin
B. Tucker. ’ The Coopers probably will
be tried nt the same session of court,
the district attorney said.
Will Try Minter For Murder.
tir Ilf AunelitMl Press-i
Newnan. Ga.. Sept. 7.—Grady Minter.
son of .T. t W. Minter, eouvicted last
night of murder in connection with the
death last August of Millard Trouton.
his son-in-law. was placed on trial here
this morning on the same charge having
been indicted jointly with his father, his
brother Jeff, his brothers-in-law Floyd
llUldon and Leon Goodrmn, and Walter
F'mt man.
A jury to try (he younger Minter was
completed shortly after court convened
this morning.
Charlotte Kiwanians Help Jap Suffer
ers.
Charlotte, Sept. o.—Local Kiwnnis
club voted nt a meeting today that SSOO
to be sent to re'ief of sufferers iu Japan.
Gov. Thomas McLeod ( of South Caro
lina. addressed the Kiwanians and also
spoke before the chamber of commerce
tonight. Geo. Stephens of Asheville,
spoke on Western North Carolina; incor
porated. n new organization chartered,
that proposes to spend SOO,OOO a year
for five years, advertising Western
North Carolina.
Improvement Bonds for Salisbury.
Salisbury, *N. C., Sept. 7. —-The issu
ance of $405,000 municipal improvement
bonds is provided in a resolution passed
at a recent meeting of the Salisbury city
commissioners.
Mr. Roy Scheyer and family, of Ashe
ville, are spending the Week-end here
with Mr. and Mrs. Joe M. Green.
\ CONCORD, N. C„ FRIDAY, SE TEMBER 7, 1923. \
.ROWAN DEPUTY SHERIFF
SHOT BY CONCORD MAN
Walter Parnell Wounded Deputy Sheriff
Rankin and Made His Escape After
Being Arrested.
Walter Parnell, Concord man, Tlmrs
lay afternoon shot Deputy Sheriff Lee
Rankin of Rowan county, nt a saw mill
lbout nine miles from Salisbury, when
he officer was trying to arrest Parnell.
Tiie wonnd is not considered serious
and the officer is expected to recover.
Parnell was tried in Concord on Sep
tember 18th of last year and sentenced
to serve four years on the chain gang for
larceny. While being escorted to the
•ity jail he made a successful break for
freedom, and Coneord officers did not
learn of his whereabouts until this week,
when a capias was issued. The capias
was forwarded to Rowan and it was
while trying to arrest Parnell under the
Cabarrus order that the Rowan officer
was wounded.-
The following story from, Salisbury
jives the facts:
Deputy Sheriff Lee Rankin was shot
this afternoon by Walter Parnell,, a whi'c
man, whom he had arrested on .1 cupias
from Cabarrus county. The arrest was
marie about nine miles from Salisbury,
tear n saw mill where Parnell was em
ployed. When the officer and his man
started to Salisbury Parueil attunpteri
to get away and in the scuffle the offi
cer's pistol belt broke, and Parnell got
hold of Mr. Rankin's pistol and shot
the officer in the abdomen and also in
the right hapri. Parnell then got in his
<vn car and left, followed by the officer
in his car until a flat tire caused Par
nell to desert his ear and to take to. the
woods.
Sheriff Krider was notified es the
s) noting, and in a short while a posse
>i men from Salisbury and from the
neighborhood wlcre the trouble occurred
■as scouring the woods. They found t
mat; who had tied a wound on Put no'! .'
neck, which Parnell said was inflicted
by tiie accidental discharge of hi; own
pistol while scuffling with a mad Jog, It
developed that Deputy Rankin had a
second pistol, a small weapon in his
pocket, and he fired this at Parnell as
he made off, making a flesh wound t n
hie neck.
Mr. Rankin was brought to the Sal
isbury hospital, where it was found that
the bullet that struck his body did not
enter the cavity, but ranged tip and
tinder nil arm. causing a wound that is
not considered very serious.
Parnell was wanted in Cabarrus comi
ty for larceny. Tonight, it was reported
tlmt Parnell had passed through Cleve
land on foot and going west.
SHIPS HEAVILY FINED
FOR DISPLAYING SPEED
Taxed S2OO Per Passenger For Gritting
to Ellis Island Ahead of Time..
New York, Sept. 6.—Max Straus.
Jirivsjclcul <*£ the Line,
flic.. one of' the steamship companies
fined S2OO per passenger for bringing im
migrants into quarantine a few minutes
before the September quota was open,
today announced his company would pay
file fine under protest and then appeal
to»the courts in ail effort to have it re
funded.
Thj FJsfhonia, of the Baltie-American
Line, was'one of four vessels charged
by Immigration Commissioner Curran
with haviug entered Quarantine from
one to five minutes before midnight, Au
gust 31st. thereby bringing immigrants
in before the September quota opened
on September Ist.
Albemarle Schools Have Good Opening
Albemarle, Sept. o.—Opening exer
cises of the City Graded Schools of
Albemarle were featured with addresses
by Supt. M- S. Beam, members of the
sehoos board, the county superintendent
and other citizens of the town. The
school opens under fnvornble circum
stances nnd with the largest enrollment
it has ever had. The number of High
School students lias increased in the
liast four years over 400 i>er cent, the
Higli School enrollment this year being
about 250. There has been a large in
crease in all the departments of the
school, so tlpit within the past four
years the number of teachers has been
doubled, within tlmt time. The High
School, faculty now consists of niue
teachers besides the superintendent. Six
new rooms have been added.
Opening of Brown-Norcott School.
The Brown-Norcott school will open
on Monday. September 17th. The term
will be for eight months. The faculty
this year is composed of the following:
Edward Joyner, principal. Mrs. J. M.
Culcleasure, fourth and fifth grades:
Miks Daisy Soarboro, second and third
grades; Miss Sudie Moore, high first
grade, and Miss Ethel Williams, low first
grade. Every teacher has had special
college training along the special line
of work, and indications point to a very
successful year. It will be remembered
that for the last two years the Brown-
Noreott school tins made the highest rec
ord of any school in Cabarrus county.
Plans Under Way For Electric Develop
ment.
Washington. Sept. 0, —Reports have
come to Washington that definite plans
are under way for connecting the Char
lotte-Gastonia electric railway line
through Spartanburg to Greenwbod, S. |
C. The development would mean much
to western North Carolina, South Caro
lina and to the sections concerned. It
would open up new territory and be
a further step townrd opening up suburb
an lines. Surveys have been made and
negotiations opened for rights of way.
Scliool Clothes For Children. '
The Parks-Belk Co. calls attention in
a three-column ad. todny to its line of
school clothes for children, shoes, hos
iery, etc. To the boys and girls making
purchases in this department a puzzle!
will be given free. *
. Unittcd States Shipping Board Vessel is
Burned.
I San F'rancisco, Sept. o.—The Adiniral
■ Orientul line steamship President Graut.
a shipping board vessel, lias bunted in
the harbor of Manila, and is a total
■ loss, according to a message received
s here today by the marine department of
the chambet of commerce.
City Tax late For Year Has
fct Been Determined So Far
The aldermen he* their September
meeting at the city Sail Thursday eve
ning. The board gavttattention to a va
riety cf matters, but Stansacred business
rapidly and was not'Sn. session but two
hours. *
The matter that smieited the greatest
attention was an oHlnanco that would
repeal the present otjjjliuance relative to
closing cases during, hours on
Sundays. Five mgtjfters of the board
voted to repeal the'rjaw. but as it re
quired a unanimous giotp the ordinance
goes over until the n«t meeting when it
will be presented 'awn. The member
voting against repeatw the law probab
ly will see the mcntit&e enacted at that
time.
The board iuithoriaf§ the city to spend
$15(1 for decorationttAdnriug fair week.
It is probable that JUjis work will be
Idne by an expert. W
Several street mattws. including street
extensions and the laniig of sewer lints,
were brought before tffg board. Tiie city I
engineer was instructed to attend to
1 . £ 2«S
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CONCORD COMPANY BUYS
STORK IN GASTONIA
Julius Fisher & Co; Purchases Kim
brough & Co.—Will. Open Store About
- 15th of Month. !
Announcement wait made Thursday
that Julius F'isher & Company, the large
and well-established fipn of this city and,
Kannapolis, has purchased Kimbrough & j
Co., of Gastonia. Transfer of the prop
erty has already been made, but the pur
chase price was not announced.
The new owners of it he Gastonia store 1
are this week taking /-stock and making!
preparations for'a big opening which!
will take* place about September 15th. j
Mr. Julius Fisher, healfl of tiie firm, has
been spending several days in Gastonia. I
and lias given personal'supervision to the ;
work being done iu thtupastonia store. 1
Tile new firm will,rConfine itself to,
ladies' reariy-to-wfar, iorsets and milli-l
iiery. discontinuing a'number, of lines I
formerly carried by the concern under I
the old management.
C. A. Kimbrough, senior member of-;
the firs, will return to his former home I
in Georgia. R. M. Cochran will remain j
with the new firm, which will occupy
the same quarters in jthe Realty build
ing. West Main Avenue.
Julius F'isher & Company lias eon-!
ducted a successful business in Concord j
and Kannapolis for a number of years. I
Mr. Fisher is recognised as a leader in
his line of work and has been very stic- !
eessful with his two stores in this conn- j
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BROOKHART WANTS IT.l T . S.
TO RECOGNIZE RUSSIA
Says Recognition "wo3* Not Mean That
This Government Approved of the Bo
vient System In Russia. ;
Dps Moines. Sept. 7 (By the Assooiat
ed 1 ’l-ess). —Recognition of the soviet ■
government of Russia does not mean ap- |
proval of that government by the United 1
States any more than it does approval of [
acts of several other governments that ;
have been- recognized. Senator Swith \V. 1
Brookhart of lowa, declared in statement ,
published here today in the lowa Leg- j
ionnaire, organ of tile lowa Department
of the American Legion. Such recogni
tion, said the Senator, was advocated by
him only on the grounds that it might
liavo far reaching effects iu restoring
world'prosperity and eliminating world
ji n rest.
Senator Brookhart's statement was a
reply to a resolution recently adopted by |
the state American I.egion convention in i
which the ex-service men opposed recog-'
nition of the soviet government.
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SUIT IN BEHALF OF
CINCINNATI PLAYERS '
Team to Enter Suit For sso,o<M> Dam- ;
ages Against “Collyer’s Eye.”
<Sy tiie Associated Press.i
Cincinnati. Sept. 7.—-President Aug- j
list Herrmann, of the Cincinnati Nation
al League team, announced' that a suit j
for $50,000 damages would be filed by
the,club in behalf of players Duncan and
Bpline, against “Collyer's Eye” in the
United States district court at Chicago ]
today. He said the law firm of Winston,
St raw n and Shaw would file the suit as.j
it result Qf charges in the paper tlmt I
Duncan aud Bolme laid been approached
by gamblers during l lie New York series
games in Cincinnati.
Glass Thinks Coolidge Will Be tliej
Nominee.
YVasliingtou, Sept. o.—Senator Glass, |
of Virginia, was here today and called j
at the White House to pay his respects :
to President Coolidge. He thinks that
the Republicans will nominate Mr.
Coolidge to succeed himself, aud tlmt [
Democrats might as well prepare to eon- j
test, the election of 1024 with him. He j
would not predict who tb# Democrats
will nomiate, but lie thinks that McAdoo
lias a good chance to win.
Many southern Democrats who visit
Washington nowadays say that the Mc-
Adoo stock lias advanced substantially
within the last 00 days. This may
mean that Mr. McAdoo has a better
organization than any other candidate
which results in more progress.
Mr. Glass apoke highly of Campbell
Bnscomb Slemp as a southern Republi
can. He said lie lmd ability and would
be able to save the President a great
deal of hard work.
William Thayer Dead.
(By the Associated Press.)
Cambridge, Mass.. Sept. 7.—William
1 Roseoe Thayer, biographer of Theodore
Roosevelt and an overseer of Harvard
: i University, died at his home here today
(after long illness. He was formerly
assistant editor of the Philadelphia Ev
ening Bulletin and editor of the Harvard
1 j Graduates Magazine.
| Steamer President Grant Not Burned.
. I *My the Associated Press, i
i j Washington, Sept. 7.—The San Fran
- 11 eiseo office of the shipping board reported
I ! to the board today that the steamer Pres- >
['ident Grant, reported burned at Manila, I
1 is “safe in Manila harbor.” '
most of these matters, including a sur
vey of the property of J. A. Moore to
determine .whether or not the property
has been damaged and to what extent .
if any.
The city engineer was also instructed
to make a survey relative to extending
Chestnut Street from its jiresent termin
ation to Tribune street. He is to re
port on the cost of this to the board at
a later meeting.
The tax rate for the city was not de
termined nt the meeting. It was point
ed out that the budget for next year has
not yet been adopting and for that rens
on tiie board members did not know just
what amount of money would be needed
for the next year. The tax rate will
probably be determined by the board
either in special or regular session, as
soon as the budget is adopted.
The tax rate is expected to be raised.
The county rate was raised from 85
cents to 05 cents nnd it is probable that
| the rate in the city will be increased from
10 to 20 cents.
JACK DEMPSEY ATTENDS
STRICTLY TO TRAINING
Champion Attends Strictly to Business of
Getting Himself in Shape.
(By the Associate*.! Press.l
Saratoga Springs, N. Y\, Sept. 7.
Jack Dempsie's hobbies in his training
i camp are not so many or varied. The
I champion most of the time attends strict
ly to the business of getting himself in
to shape. But when lie does “let go,”
[lie plays cards with his spurring part*
| net's or favored visitors, romps around the
! place like a school kid. plays With the.
[many dogs lie owns, or puts in his spare
j time attempting to train some newcom
er to his menagerie.
| At Great F'alls, Mont., where Demp
sey conditioned himself for his Shelby
1 match with Tommy Gibbons, a wolf eub
I was the recipient of most of the title
j holder's attention. At his present train
ling camp he is attempting to win the as-
I faction of a leopard cub that was recent-,
Ily sent him. His collection of dogs
•: ranges from toy bulls to German
[dogs. These canines are .scattered all
! about the country. Many of them are in
[Dempsey's, Isis Angeles home, some are
jat Salt Lake City, and others on a Utah
'ranch the champion owns. His mana
] ger, Jack Kearns, also finds kennel space
|iu his Oakland. Calif., home for several
of Dempsey’s dogs.
Dempsey loves music. He carries a
I lairtable phonograph with him wherever
j lie goes and puts it to constant use. On
one of his trips to New Y’ork this year
he arrived at his. hotel without a hand
zag, but with a phonograph in his hand.
The champion's music Wistes run to
■'blues - ’ iiuri jazz numbers.
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BACHMAN TO ATTEMPT TO
DEFEAT SENATOR SHIELDS
■ Interesting Fight Is Developing in Ten
| nessee With Prospects of Flying Fill'.
* Washington. Sept. (>.——The announce
ment from Chattanooga that Nathan L.
j Bachman, justice of the Tennessee Su
! preme Court, would be a candidate for
i the Senate against Senator Shields.
| proved very interesting to Tennessee peo
ple here. Many Democrats, especially
the friends*of former President Wilson,
want to defeat Mr. Shields. They
charge him with disloyalty to the Wil
so nadministration at a time when sup
port was greatly needed.
J. C. Bachman has a wide family con
nection and is personally popular, and
lit is believed he will give the clever Mr.
j Shields a run for his job. It was pre
! dieted somp time ago that its Represen
tative Joe Bryns had not entered the
race, Judge Bachman would have done
|so earlier. Mr. Bsyns quit and went
bud; 'to liis district to get the nomina
| tion for the house to succeed himself.
! 1.. D. Tyson, who is also in the race,
I is a North Carolinian, but he is not able
to cope with Senator Shields, considered
j one of the most astute politicians in the
j South.
j Judge Bachman, it is asserted here,
lean match Mr. Shields at every turn in
I the road. The Tennessee fight will open
strong now and the fur will fly.
THREE DEAD AS RESULT
OF POWDER EXPLOSION
I Three Car Loads of Smokeless Powder
Blew Up on Tracks at Smith Amboy.
I N. J.
(By the Associated Press.'
I South Amboy, N. .T., Sept. 7.—The
| toll of dead as a result of the explosion
[ last night of three earloads of smokeless
j powder on the Pennsylvania railroad to
day Was increased to three men when
two men died iu hospitals of injuries.
, The damage caused by the explosion was
j estimated at nearly one million dollars.
| County authorities began an investiga
i tion to determine whether the explosion
' was due to negligence.
Albemarle Juniors Will Make Bid For
Orphanage-
Albemarle, Sept. 6.—The Junior
. Order Lodges of Stanly cotiny and
. especially of Albemarle are making an
, effort to obtain the branch orphanage
which is to be constructed by the
National Council of the Junior Order.
The local order litis appointed a com-
I mittee consisting of G, 1). B. Ueyno'ds.
Mayor O. J. Sikes, IV. L. Mann. Senator
J. M. Itoyett nnd Rev. J. A. Sharp, and
has requested the other fraternities and
clubs to aiqsiint committees to co
operate with this committee for the pur
l pose of obtaining offers of sites and of
, fers to contribute money with a view
I to obtaining the location of this branch
. orplufnage for Stanly county.
Make Subscriptions For Baptist Hos
pital.
Charlotte. Sept. s.—Eleven thousand
dollars worth of stock was taken in the
new Baptist Hospital of this city last |
night at a dinner at jtlie Chamber of
Commerce after an address of .Itev. 11.
A. Wilkes, of St. lamia, member of the |
i executive committee the Protestant
I Hospital of America. This is the on'y
' Baptist Hospital in this section.
CABARRUS RAISED NEARLY
THREE TIMES ITS QUOTA
Sum of $9,097.74 Was Secured For
the Near East Relief.
Cabarrus county raised $9,097.74 for
Near East Relief this year, according to
official figures just announced from Ral
eigh by Col. George 11. Bellamy, state
chairman of tlijs great humanitarian or
ganization. This is 2.81 times the $3,240
quota. f
In announcing these figures. Col. Bel
lamy paid triubte to Rev. J. Frank Arm
strong of Concord, county chairman, who
was in charge of raising this sum. and
all of those who helped Mr. Armstrong.
Official figures were $3,312.89 in casA,
$4,105 in pledges on June 30 last, and
$1,079.25 in clothing. Mr. Armstrong
had many difficulties to overcame, the
foremost of which was the misconception
in the public mind as to the continued
need in the Bible lands.
As the Near East Relief, in its defi-«
nite child-saving program works from
year to year, results of work from July
1 to the following June 30 only are an
nounced. During the post fiscal year,
Mr. Armstrong raised money to feed,
clothe and educate 151 littie children
now in North Carolina orphanages in
the Near East and dependent on Cabar
rus county for their very lives. Sixty
dollars takes complete care of a child for
a year, so efficient is the work of the
Near East Relief overseas.
The report will also show that North
Carolina greatly over-subscribed its quo
ta. Over 1.000 workers, good Christian
men and women, marshalled together and
directed by Morris A. Bealle, state di
rector, made possible the raising of this
magnificent sum. Col. Bellamy declared.
He stressed the fact that the end is not
yet-—that until the Allied Powers make
some provision for these homeless Chris
tian wanderers, who made such great
aud successful sacrifices during the
world war and were abandoned to a
fate worse than death by their former
allies, they cannot become selVsupport
ing.
The spectacle of an entire nation be
ing saved by another people 3,000 miles
away is without parallel in history. Col.
Bellamy iioiuted out. Iu conclusion he
declared that if America does not feed
them and keep them alive now, they will
starve and our splendid work of the last
tive years will have been in vain. No
other nation in the world appears to be
humane or Christian enough to do this,
he stated.
MARK CONTINUES TO
DROP DOWN RAPIDLY
For An American Dollar 57,150.000
Marks ('an Be Secured, New Low
Record.
(By the AMOCTAied PrewK.l
New York, Sept. 7.—German marks
continued their rapid course toward the
vanishing point in today's foreign ex
change market, being quoted at 1 3-4
vents a htiTTidfi. or 57.150:000 marks to
the American dollar. Before the war,
when marks were worth 23. S cents each,
the marks that could be purchased for
one dollar today would have cost $13.-
001,700.
THE COTTON MARKET
There Wavs Considerable Realizing and
Hedge Selling at Opening of Market.
(By tht ANioclnted PreNS.j
New York, Sept. 7.—There was con
siderable realizing and hedge selling at
the opening of the cotton market today.
First Prices were 2 to 4 points higher on
December, and later months, but October
was 2 points lower and all active posi
tions generally sold to 10 points below
yesterday's closing* after the call.
Cotton futures opened steady. Oct.
20.00; Dec. 20.10; Jan. 25.80; March
25.95; May 25.99.
Bobbed Hair Must Go.
New York. Sept. 7.—Bobbed hair must
go! Grimly determined, the National*
Hairdressers Association announces that
it is planning its third annual conven
tion in this city next week with that
purpose in view.
Bobbed hair must go. the committee
says, because its effect was ruined when
the style was adopted by women of thir
ty or older. Flappers with bobbed hair,
are all right, says the hairdressers, but
with the older generations taking to it
as they have, the hairdressers are moved
to rush forward wth curls, switches, and
transformations. Besides, long skirts
and the present styles, need long locks
for harmony.
Woman's crowning gh\ry also will be
lifted off her ears in some of the styles
that the convention will bring out in its
exhibition.
“Miss St. Louis” Is Beauty Winner at
Atlantic City.
Atlantic City, Sept. (i.—Missouri was
victorious todaV in the first test for the
beauties here from 150 American cities
comi>eting for the crown of Miss Amer
ica.
Miss St. Louis, Miss Charlotte Nash,
swept the boards in the roller chair pa
rade, initial contest feature of the third
annual pageant. Miss Nash was award
ed the grand prize and the verdict was
popular. Applause had greeted her
from the start to finish of the demonstra
tion along a five-mile route from the
200,000 persons banked on either side
of the boardwalk.
Second prize went to “Miss Memphis;”
third prize to “Miss Uhiladelphia ;*’
fourth “Miss Pottsville." and 1 fifth to
“Miss Brooklyn.”
The final contest for the “Miss Amer
ica" crown will take place tomorrow.
‘‘Oolden Rule” Sheriff is Killed by a
Farmer.
Petosbey, Mich., Sept. (i.—William
Purple, known as the "Golden Rule"
Sheriff of Emmit county, is dead, and
Joseph Grosskopf, a farmer, is reported
near death in a local hospital us a re
sult of a gun duel between the two on
Grosskopf's farm near here. Purple
went Grosskopf's farm yesterday to serve
a replevin on an automobile woned by
the farmer.
Believing the sheriff intended to take
the machine away, Grosskopf. according
to witnesses, opened fire upon the officer
! with a shotgun. The latter returned
the fire with a revolver.
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« NEWS •
@ TODAY «
NO. 213.
SITUATIOII IN CORFU
Ml lit
1 POLICEMEN ON DUTY
Police, However, Are Serving
Under An Italian Captain,
and All News From City is
Being Censored.
ANOTHER" VICTIM
OF BOMBARDMENT
League Postpones Action,
But Sends to Council of
Ambassadors Facts on the
Graeco-Italian Controversy
(By the Associated Press.)
Corfu. Sept. 7.—The Greek police force
in Corfu is again on duty but is serving
under the orders of an Italian captain.
Outgoing press dispatches are subjected
to censorship.
Two thousand persons on Wednesday
attended the funeral of six-year-old May
Brioni. the only native killed in the bom
bardment. The shops closed for two
hours as a sign of mourning.
Another person has died, bringing the
total number of deaths to 15. A witness
of the bombardment who arrived in Ath
ens early this week, said twenty persons
had been killed.
League Postpones Meeting.
Geneva, Sept. 7 (J>y the Associated
Press). —The council of the league of na
tions decided to hold no meeting today.
It was also agreed that the scheduled
meeting of the assembly should be post
poned, tile controlling reason being a de
sire to avoid dangerous discussions at
a plenary meeting of the delegates until
the council has seen some light as to its
duty in the Graeco-Italian negotiations,
and is also to make some report to the
assembly.
The council yesterday postptmed decis
ion on the question of the league's com
petence to intervene iii the Itnlio-Greek
embroglio. It decided instead to forward
the minutes of its discussion to the coun
cil of ambassadors in Paris, thus, in ef
fect, submitting the matter to the latter.
Wants America’s Approval.
Rome. Sept. 7 (By the Associated
Press).- —Italy's attitude in refusing to
recognize the competence of the league
of nations to intervene in her dispute
with Greece should have met with the
approval above all in America said Pre
mier .UasMjJini in tir, invest;*' widt the
correspondent.
"Indeed," he said, "the attempt made
to refuse a great' power like Italy the
right to defend her own honor as a
tangible demonstration of the dangers
Americans were the first to detect in
this organization with far from facilitat
ing a solution of such controversies be
tween states, renders them more difficult
and more dangerous.”
Italy is firmly convinced of the right
fulness of her position, he said, and site
asks “nothing better than that Greece ac
cept as soon as possible her demands for
reparations, thus ending the present sit
uation.”
Mussolini said he had been painfully
impressed by the unjust criticism direct
ed against Italy by some American news
papers.
"American public opinion.” he con
tinued, “cannot fail to be struck by the
gravity of the crime committed in Greece
by the massacre of the Italian delegates.”
Mussolini said he perfectly understood
that political feelings on such occasions
were "so contradictory and deceiving that
even such serene public opinion as in
America, bound as St is by real and deep
sympathy toward Italy, may be dis
turbed.”
"However,” he said, “as I know the
spirit of fairness in the American peo
ple, I am certain that, the negligible un
derstanding which has arisen among the
American people regarding the Italian
aetiou will be promptly dissipated. Amer
ica’s public opinion will recognize not
only -Italy's right, but the perfect cor
rectness of my action in defending them.”
The people of the United States may
realize, he added, that the people of the
country in whose territory this crime
was committed cannot but. be considered
morally, materially and practically re
sponsible not only because this is a prin
ciple of international Jaw universally ac
cepted, but because everybody known of
the former political erimes that have oc
curred in Greece.
Praises League.
Falloden. England. Sept. 7 <By the
Associated Press).-—'*lf the league of
nations is not used in a crisis such as the
present Graeco-Italian one. then it would
have to be dissolved, and Europe would
be faced with the old state of things that
existed before file world war, with com
petition in armaments and preparations
for a new war, and in the long run a
general war far worse than tile last,”
viscount Grey, of Falloden. asserted in
an address here today.
“In the league of nations,” he said,
"we have an instrument by which we
eau reach a settlement preferable to war.
The real interest and securities of our
selves depends upon the league’s pel icy
being upheld and iu that alone is to be
found the prospect of future peace and
security.
“I trust there is enough public opinion
to uphold the league policy.”
Miss Dodson Traveling When liilleß by
Quake.
Kinston. Sept. 6.—Miss Elizabeth
Dodson, reported iu press dispatches re
ceived here last night to have been killed
in the Japanese earthquake, had been
traveling in Europe, the near east and
Asia since April, 1021. Only recently,
according to relatives here, she had vis
ited two sisters in China, leaving them
lnte in August to return to the United
States byway of Japan and jSan Fran
cisco.