• ASSOCIATED « <* PRESS' * • DISPATCHES ® VOLUME XXIII False Note in Finance Ends His Music Hopes Alan Dwan’s Plan for a Great Association of Artists Gets Out on Time, Says Okla homa Paper. TELEGRAPHS HIMSELF 4 UNLIMITED CREDIT Wrote Plans on Tuneful Scale, But Discord Fol lowed When ‘ His Notes Didn’t Ring True. The following article appeared in the Okmulgee. Oklahoma, Daily Times of June 3. 1923: Okmulgee remembers Afnn Dwan and his plans to establish here an Association of American Artists, which was to be a rendezvous for ambitious Americans, musically inclined, who lacked the means of coaxing forth the golden notes that were awaiting the magic touch of i inaster-voice to lure them out for the delectation of a music-loving public. Okmulgee remembers the golden notes that issued from the throat of Alan Dwan find hOw he favored many an oc casion by the exercise of his talents. Jt remembers also that he went away from here, where he felt that he had been play ing life's tune in a minor chord. .to go to Muskogee, where he outlined to a group of worthy citizens, his plans to run the yvhole scale in establishing that city as America's music center. But only a ftTvored few know that he went to New Yorjt therh to become a golden-note impressano by effecting a fal setto movement whose falsity at last brought discord which seems to have nbruptly terminated the concer®which he hoped to stage with his golden notes, which in the assay were found to be but dross. Letters Tell Story. It’s a long story,'fellow songbirds, but the score is easily followed by reference to a series of letters which have passed between certain New Yorkers, whom Mr. Dwan elected to be his patrons there, and certain Okmulgeeans who are still under the spell of his notes with the dollar mark prefixed. * 'Twill be remembered that Mr. Dwan. after establishing himself here as a mu sic master extra-ordinary—and his voice was quite "soopie" as Abe Martin would say—from the melodious confines of his studio where uotes floated forth from morn till night.' \yitiv ctjeq-#ee abe xion. sent onr -word fUttt trie- pfifti fhr friettm- American artists association will call-for notes of a more material character than those which he had been uttering and with the thought to lure them on that music might be established here on a large scale, some of those who had come to regard him us an artist of the first water agreed to lend him their support— that was all—in his plans to 'establish liis corporation. Among them was T. T. Blakely who felt that Dwan might be able to accomp lish something for himself and for the city, and for the sake of harmony Mr. Blakely agreed to serve as vice president of the association, not however to the ex- j tent that he would invest any real money ] iii the enterprise. E. J. Dick, attorney, also listened to Mr. Dwan’s pleadings and sustained them in a manner similar to that of Mr. Blakely. But Mr. Dwan caused to be issued a glowing prosperous in which he printed pictures of his “di rectors” among whom, of course, were Mr. Blakely, and Mr. Dick, neither of whom posed as expert musicians or for the photographer. And as the returns began to come in Mr. Blakely ami Mr. Dick did some thinking. The association needed money which neither of them car ed to advance. “Lay it before the chamber of com merce and perhaps they will endorse it,” said Mr. Blakely to Mr. Dwan, when the bill for printing the prospectuses was re ferred to him by the printers after Mr. Dwan had thoughtlessly overlooked it. as vice president, which was merely, an honorary office. Accordingly Mr. Dwan had his day with the directors pf the chamber of commerce, who in turn, des ignated a committee composed of A. D. Cochran. Mr. Blakely and Mrs. John A. Price, to sound out the music project. They went into details, inspecting the plans from every angle, even to the ex tent of interviewing Mr. Bob Baugh, sec retary of the Retailers association, who advised them that although Mr. Dwan was possessed of a most pleasing tenor voice, his utterances were not all legal tenor. This fact was reported back to Mr. Dwan and it seemed that a base clef had been struck. He interviewed Mr. Baugh and demanded to know how come until Mr. Baugh invited Mr. Dwan to ' re-decorate the mahogany in lieu 'of a certain slip of paper or two which he then had iu his possession. Mr. Dwan, waxing wroth, left the presence of Mr. Baugh with the urge that he would con sult his banker and return forthwith. A week later, Mr. Dwan had almost reached the> high O of his ambitions iu Muskogee, where, it is said, he progress ed far enough with his interpretations of what he intended to make of the Asso ciation of American Artists, headquar ters, Muskogee, Okla., to obtain railroad fare to New York. In the meantime, it .should be stated, Mr. Blakely had in sisted upon resigning as vice president of the association, and Mr. Tlick is said to have done likewise although he had been out of the city in'a hospital and has not been informed of late events in the life of the music-master. Also, Mr. Dwan succeeded in bringing to Okmulgee a party of four very promi nent characters in the musical world who studied his proposition, announced it feasible but who privately ventured the opinion that Mr. Dwan was not the man who could put it over. Mr. Blakely and Mr. Dick about this time .were both wan (Continued on Page Two.) The Concord Daily Tribune WEEKLY CROP AND WEATHER REPORT Favorable Temperatures in Eastern Part of Belt.—j Picking About Cotnpletedl in Most States. (Bv tile Prraa.) 1 Washington. '‘Oct. 31.—-The weekly weather and crop review issued today by the Department of Agriculture 75.000 Damages. fßt the Associated Tress.) Raleigh, N. C.. Oct. 31.—Trial of the suit of Mrs. Louise E. Gerow, as admin istratrix of the estate of the late Her bert W. Gerow. who was kilted in an en gine explosion on the Seaboard Air Line Railway, was opened litpe toduy. The suit is against the railroad company and $75,000 damage is asked. Power Hearing to Be Held November 13. (By the Associated Tress. > Raleigh, Oet. 31.—Hearing of the pe tition of the Southern Power Company 'for increases in hydro-electric power rates in the state, originally set for No vember 12, was postponed today by the State Corporation Commission until the following day, November 13. Chutney, which epicures consider the finest pickle in the world, is a Hindu invention, the origin of which is lost in the mists of antiquity. I*************** ALAN DWAN AGAIN | * * 8; Former OkiUulgee Vocalist Has 8- |8( Adapted a Pseudonym in V ('. -\- & The following appeared in the 4 * Okmulgee, Oklahoma Daily Times 4 8( of October 16, 1023: 4 * Alan Dwan of the golden notes 4 8( has been heard from. * This time. Concord. North Caro- 8i 8: linn, is making inquiry. 81 . T. T. Blakely..for-wrly a director -b *'»f 1 *wnu's short-lived" Association 4 * of American Artists" which lie hop- -it 8t ed would be the means of establish- 4 * ‘"g Okmulgee as America's music 4 8; center, and in which project he-fc * sought to interest Mr. Blakely and 4 8( numerous other well-known busi- 4 8: ness men. yesterday received the fnl- ,4 8s lowing telegram addressed "The As- 4 8( sociation of American Artists, ok- * 8( mill gee, Oklahoma 4 8( "Man here from New York mi- 8: 8( der name of Alan Prindell. Lived 'B - ill Okmulgee as Alan Dwan about 4 two years ago. Is he a graduate 8( (to and entitled to use your seal? & * "Concord Merchants Association, 4 * By BEULAH TYSON. Sec. & * Mr. Blakely hasn't replied to the 4 * telegram as yet. He will probably 4 8; do so today after he has had time * 8( to deliberate. 8s An Okmulgeeaii received a letter 4 8s from a friend iu Alabama some time 8; 8; ago ill which the Alabaman who %■ * new Dwan, here reported that lie had * 8s had the pleasure of tuning in on 8- 8( Dwan one night when a concert was 8s 8s being broadcast from Montgomery, jji 8s He reported that Dwau’s voice 8- 8s sounded unusually rich. 8s 1 8: 8s ("toll's.. Tyson, secretary of the 8s 8s Merchants Association, advises us 8s ,8s that wiie lias not yet had a reply 8- )js from Mr. Blakely —Editor Trib- 8: 8s line.) . * * * **************** METHODIST PROTESTANT CONFERENCE MEETING In Opening Session President Dixon Con demned Substitution of Ragtime For Gospel Hymns. 4fly the Associated Tress.) Thomasville, Oct. 31.—Addressing the opeuing session of the 08th North Caro lina Methodist Protestant Conference this morning. Rev. A. G. Dixon, of Greens boro. president of the conference con demned what he described as the substi tution of ragtime times for old Gospel hymns. He urged a reform of the ten dency toward the jazzy in church music, ami a return to hymns sanetioued by other generations. About 100 ministers were in attendance for the opening of the conference, and an additional 100 dele gates are expected to arrive. The con ference is being held in the-church here of which Rev. It. S. Trexler is pastor. With Our Advertisers. Buy Milk-Maid bread—one taste tells the story of its goodness. : A. B. Pounds sells the best Jellieo doubled screened coal. The l’iggl.v Wiggly pays the highest prices for country produce. Bargains in sweaters and skirts at Scarboro’s. Many new arrivals in suits and over coats at W. A. Gvereash’s. To Re-open Consulate at New Castle-on- Tyne. London, Oet. 31. (By the Associated Press). —A settlement of the controversy over the American consulate at New Onstle-on-Tyue has been renclied between Foreign Secretary Curzon and American Ambassador Harvey, and according to Mr. Harvey the consulate will be re-op ened within a fortnight. WON'S n NT BE POSTPONED WEEK Possibility of Delay Seen as the Senate Court of Im peachment Prepared to Hear the Case. (By the AM.Moelnled Press.) Oklahoma City. Oel. 31.—A possible delay of ti I most a week in the impoixli meiit trial of Coventor J. C. Walton, loomed today as the prediction was made in legislative circles that the senate court of impeachment could not consent to a brief continuance, should the Executive request it when the hearing opens to morrow'. In such an event, a postponement at least until Tuesday or Wednesday of next week was considered entirely prob able. While final arrangements for the trial being completed today the House investigating committee was conducting an inquiry into other departments of the state administration in the courts of gen eral impeachment investigation. FI'RNEY DEPOSITION IS HEAD AT KLAN TRIAL Says He Paid Money to Field Agents When Tcld r l|o Do So by Superior Officer. (By (hr AHMoeim*»(l Press.> | Atlanta. (Ja.. Oet. 31.—Reading of the j deposition of X. M. Forney, cash’er of j the Imperial Palace, was continued t >- ,i day at the hearing in Fulton County j court in the suit of 11. X. Riddenhouse, of Philadelphia, and others for a receiv er for the Knights of the Kn Ivlux Klan. Plaintiffs expected to continue reading affidavits and depositions throughout to day and possibly part of tomorrow, and after they complete their testimony the defense is expected to introduce a nuni- I her of affidavits. Mr. Furney was close j ly questioned in the deposition in the suit i about advances for expenses for various | field men and how he payed out the j money. He said he advanced money to various field menSm the request of i Imperial Wizard W. H. Evans, in any | amount instructed, and he did not know i for what purpose advances were made, i “He is my superior officer." Mr. Fur ney said. Mer (Rouge Bodies in ‘Lake 4S Hours. New Orleans, (let. 30.—Tile two mutilated bodies found in l.ake La Fouehe last December and identified as those of Watt Daniel and T. F. Richard, of Mer Rouge, who were kid naped by hooded men neat' Bastrop four months earlier, could not have been in the water more than 4.N hours, if that loti!;. Dr. Charles W. Duval. the pathologist who eendueted the autopsy, told the Timex-Picayune tonight ac cording to a story that newspaper will ■publish tomorrow. Members of the Morehouse parish in Ku Klux Klan. at door Governor John M. Barker and others have laid the kidnaping and alleged murder of the men. repeatedly have charged the bodies were not those of Daniel and Richard but that they were “planted'’ in the lake a short time before their discovery in order to fasten the crime upon the klan. Onpt. J. K. Skipwith, the Morehouse exalted Cy clops, has declared upon several oc casions that the bodies came from a medical school in St. Louis. Boner Law Funeral Wednesday. London. Oct. 31 (By the Associated Press).—The body of Andrew Ifonar Law, former prime minister, will be buried in Westminster Abbey at noon next Monday. Newell Mine is Now Being Operated „ Ore SEPARATISTS PLAN NOT RECOGINZED Great Britain Will Not Re cognize Movement Which Was Started Recently in Rhineland. London. Oct. ill (B.v the Associated Pressi. —Great Britain lias formally ad vised France and Belgium that it can not recognize the Separatists movement in the Rhineland or the establishment of an individual state in Cologne, or part’s of the occupied area. COTTON MANUFACTURERS MEETING IN BOSTON Meeting Is Held in Connection With Tex tile Exposition.—President Amory Pre siding. (By thi* AflNoclated Prenu.i Boston, (fr-f. 31.—The National Asso ciation of Cotton Manufacturers opened its semi-annual meeting today in connec tion with tin* textile exposition iu prog ress in Mechanics building. President Robert Amory presided. 11. C. Meserve reported that tin* research department of the association had been actively co-oper ating with the Federal Bureau of Stand ards in its work on dyes and fabrics, and with the division of simplified practice in its worn on the elimination of unnec essary variety of sizes. Industrial rela tions committee reported it was working to help the members of the Association “to put the question of employes relations on a workable, practicable basis.*’ The committee on rates and transportation urged that the members make clear to the railroads the necessity of prompt shipment on lint cotton from the South i to the northern mills, and said the rail roads of the southwest had assisted by l opening up additional water routes for c-.ittou shipments. BLAIR’S INCOME TAX REPORT Eleven Persons in State Pay Tax on Annual Income of One Hundred Thousand. Washington, Oet 31.—Eleven persons in North Carolina received more than one hundred thousand dollars income each in the calendar year 1021, Commis sioner of Internal Revenue Blair shows in a report made on statistics of in- The identity of the men : s carefully concealed. Fvr jin stand* t here were three who got "between two . hundred thousand and seven hundred and fifty, their total being $1,010,700. The greatest number of taxable in comes in one class was for persons get ting from two to three thousand dollars a year, the total being 13.024. (IF those getting from? one thousand to two! thousand dollars there were 15|f>52 but only O.SS7 were taxable. Eight men got j more than SIOO,OOO and up to tw’o huu- ( drod thousand. North Carolina’s personal and corpo- J ration income reported as subject to tax ation das $103,410,0.38 and the tax paid was $10,750,070. * AMERICAN DRY PLAN PRESENTED TO BRITISH . Terms for Basis for Anglo-American Treaty to Cope With Rum Running | Discussed. < B.v tlie AMoeToled Preniic London Oct. 31. (By the Associated i Press). —The tiual terms which will form the basis for an Anglo-American treaty to cope with rum running along the American coast were formally pre sented to the Imperial Conference by* Lord Curzon, the foreign secretary, this afternoon. Ambassador Harvey and Lord Curzon agreed to the terms at an hour’s conference in the foreign office yesterday. The terms laid before the conference were: First, the United States authorities will have the right to search any Brit ish ship within the 12-mile limit sus pected of carrying liquor for smuggling purposes. Second, the I’nited States will for mally affirm by treaty the principle of the three-mde limit for territorial wat ers. Third. British ships will have a right to carry liquor under seal into terri torial watejps of the I’nited States. ASKS PERMISSION TO RETURN TO GERMANY Request Made to the Dutch Government by Fenner Crown Prince. Now in Hol land. (By (he \Mnoctnled t*re«M ) Doom, Holland, Oct. 31.—Former Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm, of Prussia, it is learned authoritatively, has asked permission of the Dutch govern ment to return to Germany. Holland does not object, but would not allow the Price to return again to his this country. According to reliable sources.,: Frederick Wilhelm has conferred with the German minister at The Hague in regard to his return. Wake Forest-Furman Game Cancelled. (By the Aasoomt-it Press.) Raleigh, X. (’., Oct. 31.—The foot-] hall game between Wake Forest and ' Furman University, of Greenville, S. 0., scheduled to be played next Saturday at Greenville, has been cancelled, according to word received today from Wake Forest College. The game, it is said, was can celled by Furman, because tis the fact that Wake Forest not. being .a member of the Southern Conference, plays first year men. Kellogg Appointment Accepted. London, Oct. 31 (By the Associated Press).—The appointment of Frank B. Kellogg, as United States Ambassador to Great Britain, has been'formally accepted by the British government, it was off icially announced this afternoon. 00000000 ® TODAY'S 0 0 * NEWS 0 0 TODAY 0 00000000 NO. 258. Men Who Have to Mine Recently Declare Three Shifts Are Working Daily and Ore is Being Secured. SPECIMENS SHOWN AROUND THE CITY Ore is Declared to Be Very First Operated by Men Who Secured Some Gold Ore From It. The old Newell Mine, first operated more than 30 years ago as a gold pros pect and later abandoned when the gold vein seemingly stopped, is being operated again now. Instead of seeking gold the present operators of the mine are seeking copper and reports reaching Con cord indicate that they are having much success at present with every indication that the output will increase. Tlte mining property at present is owned by Mr. Frank Teeter, who pur chased it several years ago. It is lo cated about a mile and a half from Flowe's store and as it« was owned by the family of Mr. W. G. Newefll for a number of years, tile mine derived its name from the Newell family name. Mr. Teeter purchased the tract, 35 acres, from the Newell family and leased it to the men who are having it operated. It is understood that the lease on the property is held by several Charlotte men. who have a miner from the West in charge of the property at present. The mine has been worked for several weeks, but the operations have been kept, on the quiet and the general public lias not known that copper was being found in large quantities in the old hole which was considered “dead” a number of years ago. One Cabarrus county man who has property adjoining the mining tract de clares that within the past several weeks a ear load of copper has been shipped from the mine to a northern refinery. Another ear is about ready to be shipped. The copper is loaded at the mine on trucks and carried to Cabarrus, where it is handled over the Norfolk-Southern branch running into Charlotte. The copper recently shipped in the first ear was valued at about SI,BOO, reports reaching Concord stated. At present about 30 men are employed in tile mine, it is understood. They work in three shifts, thus operating the mine 24 hums each day. In udAition to the better ore- which is being loaded on the trucks for shipment to northern refineries, there is a large quantity of rougher ore that is being mined but not shipped at present. One estimate made by a man 'who has visited the mine places the best ore at 75 per cent, pure copper. This man brought a number of samples to Concord with him, and de clared that much ore similar to that he had is being takgti from the mine. Another man who owns property ad joining the mining tract told a repre sentative of The Tribune that the men operating the mine have made him sev eral offers for a lease of his property. The man is of the opinion that the cop per vein extends through his property and the fact that the operators want a lease on his property indicates that they, hold a similar opinion. This man de clares that the operators of the mine have made efforts to secure leases on other property adjoining or near the mining tract. That there is lead as well as copper in the mine property and on some of the land adjoining is the opinion expressed by the man who brought tile copper sam ples to Concord. This man also brought samples of ore which he declared con tained lead. If lead in large quanti ties is really discovered in the neighbor hood the land will greatly increase in value, in addition to the value given it already by the discovery of copper. The Newell mine was first operated more than thirty years ago. It was opened first by prospectors seeking gold and some gold was taken from it, but not enough to pay for the costs of miu ing. At that time copper was too cheap to be mined and the workers of the mine paid no attention to any ma terial except gold. About twenty or twenty-five years ago a representative of an English company, or rather a man representing himself as a representative of the English com pany, came to Cabarrus county and se cured an option on the property, accord ing to local history. Later he sold the lease, together with several he secured on mines in Rowan county, to his Eng lish company for large sums of money. Local history declares the man then dis appeared and the English company er went to the additional expense of min ing what they thought to be merely a hole in the ground. The property then was purchased p.v the Newell family, which held it for sev eral years. It was not mined at all during these years. Mr. Teeter pur chased it several years ago and did noth ing with the mine until the Charlotte men offered to pay him for the right to operate the mine. The agreement was made and work on the property began at once with fine results. Concord people who have been to the mine express surprise at the activity there. The Newell mine is well known to the older inhabitants of this city and tjiis county, but its inactivity for so many years has resulted in little promi nence for it and the younger generation knows little of its history. Several jnen who have been to the mine recently and who have seen the character of the ore mined are of the opinion that the mine during the present operations will prove a paying proposi tion. and will again bring prominence to Cabarrus as a mineral county. Only one-third of the world’s popula tion is white.