• ASSOCIATED • PRESS © DISPATCHES •©©© 0 @ © VOLUME XXIII ’ HER)REBUS SHERIFF OF COURT); CALDWELL IS NJEMED Mr. Mabery Sent in Resigna tion to County Commis ers Who at Meeting Held Monday Chose Successor. NEW SHERIFF WAS DEPUTY Mr. Mabery Declared in Res igation That He Could Not Keep Place at Salary Coun ty is Paying at Present. The resignation of Sheriff \V. I*. Mabery, which was presented to the County Commissioners several days ago. was accepted by the board at a special meeting held at the court house Monday afternoon. Deputy Sheriff R. V7 Cald well. Jr., was appointed by the commis sioners to serve the unexpired term of Mr. Mabery. In presenting his resignation to the commissioners Mr. Mabery declared that he could not serve as sheriff of this coun ty on the salary of $3,500 which was provided in an act passed by the 1021 session of the General Assembly.. The board members were unable to raise the salary, they pointed out, since the sum was stipulated by the legislative act. The act was passed in accordance with the definite and specific instruction of the County Democratic Convention of 1020. It was passed at the 1021 session of the Legislature following, but on ac count of the fact that an error was made in its publication, the 1023 • session of the Legislature simply re-enacted it to conform to its passage in 1021. and to conform to the expressed unanimous wish of the Democrats of the county as sembled in convention. Mr. Mabery declared that in addition to the salary cut his fees were cut also by an act of the last Assembly which directed that certain State taxes which formerly were collected by the sheriff on the commission basis, be paid now directly to the State. Mr. Caldwell will take the sheriff's c oath on Friday. He stated this morn ing that he had not yet selected his deputy. T4'o -W'il ten err. y ti^ 1 for she*# MfST|K>sition were presented to theWlnrd, it was stated. One was from W. H. Fowler and the other from 0. A. Kobin son. It was also stated that the name of Sam Black was also mentioned in connection with finding a successor of Mr. Mabery, although Mr. Black did not present a formal application. The successor of Mr, Mabery was chosen after the board had been in ses sion for several hours. An executive 1 session was held first and later a public session was held, and at this sesibn Mr. Caldwell was appointed. Mr. Mabery declared this morning that the acceptance of his resignation auto matically ended his service as sheriff. As Mr. Caldwell will not take the oath until Friday Coroner Joe A. Hartsell will be serving as chief officer of the county. Mr. Caldwell will continue to serve as deputy until Friday, and he is carrying out all necessary work in the sheriff’s office. COLTRANE KEEKS AID OF PEOPLE OF STATE Dry Agent for North Carolina Wants Co-operation of All People in the State. fßy the Associated Press.) Salisbury, Oct. 30.—Federal Prohibi tion Director A. B. Coltrane, of this state, appealed for the hearty co-opera tion of all officers and law abiding citi zens of North Carolina in enforcement of the prohibition law, in a statement addressed to the Evening Post today. There are only fifty Federal prohibition agents operating in the state, Compared with over 2,000 state, city and county officers, he pointed out. He asked that these officers and all citizens help the government in their efforts to enforce the law. LLOYD GEORGE REGRETS DEATH OF BONAR LAW Former British Premier Told of I tenth of Countryman while in Philadelphia. (By tlie Associated Press.! Philadelphia, Oet. 30—Word of the death of Bonar Law was received with deep regret by David Lloyd (ieorge upon his arrival here today. News of the passing uwa.v of the British statesman was kept from Mr. Lloyd George and his associates until he had finished break fast in hia private ear. He then Uis patched a message to the the daughter of the late Premier. Rilling in Spanish-American War Ser vice. IBy the Associated Press.) Washington, Oct. 30.—The govern ment can draw no distinction between a „ volunteer and a regular soldier in the j award of the Spauish-American War pen-! siou under a ruling made today by the interior Department. The decision was rendered in a claim filed by Mrs, Ada F. Gliek, Rochester, N. Y. It had been refused by the pension examiners, but Secretary Work reversed the Bureau. Goes to Discuss Reparations. (By the Associated Press.) New York, Oct. 30. —Willis Booth, president of the International Chamber of Commerce and vice president of the Guaranty Trust Co., sailed today on the Mauretania for PaHs to arrange for a conference of delegates from 38 nations to make recommendations regarding the proposed reparations discussion advocat ed by Secretary of State Hughes. ■ • ,I- ;-'"- The Concord Daily Tribune < v * m Dead Charles P. Stein metis, great electrical inventor, is dead. This is his latest photo, taken at work. CALL COTTON EXPERTS TO DISCUSS PROBLEMS Plans Fcr Obtaining Filiform Laws on Production. Rural Credits and Stand ardization. (lly tile Asfioclnteil Press.) Austin. Tex., Oet. 30.—Plans for ob taining uniform laws on cotton produc tion, warehousing, rural credits and standardization of farm products in southern states will be optlined at n conference p) be held at some southern city the latter part of November. Call for the conference lias been made by Charles E. Baughman. Texas commis sioner of markers and warehouses* who proposes the meeting. Invitation* have been sent by Com missioner Baughman to governors and agricultural officials of 15 states, and officials of a dozen states have signified their nteiltjpn of atteudng. Mr. Baugh man has brought together information regarding conditions in the various states on producton of cotton and other crops, and this will be presented to the con ference as a basis for working out uniform laws. He proposes that at the close of the conference an association on uniform agricultural laws be organiz ed, the primary purpose of which will be to carry into effect the proposals of the conference. Laws covering different -phases of agricultural and marketing problems will be worked out and pre sented to legislatures for passage "Cooperaton between the states in terested in a common industry must hi* .' 1.-tV -boi't lubn . nj-i.-eUnn *IP t* placed bn a paying basis.” according to Mr. BaugVnan. “We need uniform lows in the southern states as a means of obtaining greater efficiency in grow ing and marketing crops and to insure greater -stabiity in prices.’’ The states expected at the conference are: Oklahoma.' Missouri. Arkansas. Louisiana. North -and South Carolina. Virginia. Alabama. Mississippi. Florida. Georgia and Texas. TURKEY BECOMES REPUBLIC WITH PASHA PRESIDENT Language of New Government Turkish. Religion Islamism; Fleet Pasha For Four Years. Constantinople, Oet. 21)—The nation al assembly at Angora has voted to establish a republic. Mustapha Kemal Pasha has been unanimous'y elected president. The assembly accepted the constitu tional amendments proposed without op position and loudly cheered the republic. The influential popular party at a meeting previously held accepted Mustapha Kemal’s proposal *o proclaim a Turkish republic and for the election of a president who would be empower ed to nominate a premier. The party also accepted the following proposals by Kemal: The ’nnguage to be Turkish; the re ligion Islamism; the president of the republic to be elected by deputies f sign an agreement with the Franco-Belgian technical mission deal ing with payment of the coal tax and delivering coal and certain manufac tured and semi-manufactured material in payment of reparations. The contract also establishes* a modus v.vendi for the resumption of work in the great Essen slant. It is very similar to that signed between the French and Herr Otto Wolff on behalf of the great Phoenix Company some weeks ago. The negotiations with the Krupps were conducted in the friendliest spirit and already are very far advanced. Mr. Frantzen, who i« responsible fur all ne gotiations with the Germans, told the New York Times correspondent that it was impossible at this stage to give defi nite information, while expressing sat isfaction with the trend of events. Her Krupp von Boh'en, who met Herr Streseinaiin at Hagen, has now returned to the Ruhr. When his seven days’ leave from jail elapse lie with the other Krupp directors will receive a further period of freedom, and thi« will be re peated until the Franco-German situa tion permits a general amnesty for those imprisoned by the French. If within tin* next few days an agree ment with Stiunes should be announced it would cause no surprise. Lloyd George Has Doubt- About Plan. Richmond, Ya., Get. 21).—Com men ting upon press dispatches from Paris setting forth Premier Poincare's views on the adjustment of German reparations, Dav id Lloyd George, former premier of Great Britain, declared here today that if the French prime minister meant that there was to be no reduction under any cir cumstances in the London total of **lß2 thousand million marks, then there wouldn't be any inducement for Ger many to do anything.*' If there were a proper adjustment, he added, Germany probably would do her best to pay up. “Otherwise,” lie said, “he would-lie down in the ring; lie down like a tadpole in the mud.*’ Tobacco Held October Ist. iHy file ANNOelateil Ptmm.) Washington, Oct. 30.—Leaf tobacco held by manufacturers and dealers on October 1 aggregated 1.502,225.132 pounds compared with 1,457,43i>,314 a year ago. and 1.007.544.44 r, on .luly Ist this year, the Census Bureau announced this today. Chewing, smoking, snuff and export types totalled 1.086,085.404 pounds, compared with 5)5)3,3!)8.177 a year ago, and 1,106,445.884 on July 1, this year. Princess llcnnine Injured by Stone. Woorn, Holland. Oct. :!(» (By the As sociated Press).—A stone thrown by tin unknown hand inflicted a serious wound in the ear of Princess Hermlne while she was walking with her children last evening in a wood near the ex-Kaiser's chateau. The police arrested several tier sons, but they confessed they did not get the culprit. New Ford Plant. Philadelphia, Oet. 30. —The Ford Mo tor Company has purchased sixty acres of land along the Schuylkill River in southwest Philadelphia as a site for a huge assembling and export plant. Het tiement was made yesterday, the prigg being $450,000. In the recent town elections in Con necticut the percentage of women vot ing was much higher than that of the men. i ««§9999« 0 TODAY’S 0 0 NEWS 0 0 TODAY 0 00000000 NO. 257 JUHTEMf OF ANDREW SONAR LAW EX-BRITISH PBEMIER Occurred at 3 O’clock a. m. at His Home in London. —Death is a Shock to Great Britain. SEPTIC PNEUMONIA CAUSE OF DEATH He Resigned Premiership of Great Britain Five Months Ago Due to the State of His Health. London, Oct. 30 (By the Associated Press). —Andrew Bonnr Law former Premier of Great Britain, died early to day. Tlie end came at 3:00 o'clock. The official bulletin issued by physi cians who attended the former Premier, said death came following an acute at tack of septic pneumonia. The death of Mr. Bonar Law will be a shock to Great Britain, for while it was known that his condition was very serious, it was not expected that the end was so near. Five mouths ago—on May 20th—he resigned the Premiership because of a malady which for a long time troubled him. Ev en then he was reluctant to admit that Ii his career was finished, and retained his seat in the House of Commons where lie since lias made two or three appearances. Sketch of His Life. I Andrew Bonar Law. one of the most j powerful figures in political Europe pre ceding. during and immediately following I the World War, became Prime Minister lof England October 23. 1022. upon the resignation of David Lloyd George—last of tlie famous war premiers and of the "Big Four" at Versailles to step down from office. Bonar Law had distinguished himself live years before as the man who refused a king's offer to make him Prime Minis ter. As leader of the Conservatives, the largest single party in the House of ('ommons. lie was summoned by King I George to form a cabinet late in 11)16, after Lloyd George, then Minister of Mu nitions, iiad forced an issue with Premier Asquith anil brought about the latter's resignation. Tlie political colleagues of Asquith, however, declined to promise adhesion. -nfiil beiftffiftt? that a cbritifiiin govefiiiiicnf was essential for file suc cessful prosecution of the war, Bonar Law refused the honor. Lloyd George and his famous war cabinet was the re sult. Often called the "Roosevelt of Eng land" because of his tremendous follow ing from all parties and all walks of life, Bonar Law became Chancellor of the Exchequer under the new premier and fought side by side with the "Little Welsh Giant" until the spring of 15)21. when he was forced to retire because of ill health. Although always ' a champion of the man he lmd virtually made premier, Bon ar Law remained with his party when the Conservatives, in 15)22. met and de cided to withhold support from the Coal ition government, which, it was felt, had outlived the emergency for which it was created. Despite his failing health, he was considered the logical successor to Lloyd George, and when behind which to coach a refusal. He managed to conduct the affairs of his strenuous office for seven months be fore it became publicly known that his health again had broken down. Late in May, 15)23, it was announced that the Premier was suffering from a serious throat affection, aud that his retirement was imminent. A few days later his for mal resignation was filed with the king and Stanley Baldwin. Chancellor of the Exchequer, was named to succeed him. In contrast to the epochal period dur ing tlie war, the Armistice and the era of reconstruction subsequent to the end ing of hostilities, the government of Bon ar Law was eclipsed in importance, al though it dealt with several problems of great domestic and international magni tude. Among these was the Irish ques tion. tlie French invasion of the Ruhr Valley, which placed England in an ex tremely delicate position; the funding of the American debt, and the difficulties with Soviet Russia over the treatment of British subjects in the Near East. A statesman with few political enemies, the ofireer of Bonar Law was singular. He was 42 years of age before he entered politics. A successful Glasgow iron mer chant who had been born and educated in Canada, his rise to eminence in the British parliament begau with his elec tion in 15)00 as a I lliouist from the Blackfriars Division of Glasgow. Strong for tariff reform, lie soon became not'd for his clear reasoniug on that subject, and as a result was made parliamentary Secretary of tlie Board of Trade. Later lie successively became leader of theli T*n ionist. or Opposition party in the, House of Commons, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Cltanoellor of tlie Exchequer, Lord of I lie Privy Seal, and finally Pre mier. 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