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VOLUME XXIII
COKTRAETTOBELET
AT ONCE FOR StHiDAY
SCHOOL WHO
Stewards of Central Metho
dist Church Vote to Begin
Work on New Building
at Once.
LAST WORD IN SUNDAY
SCHOOL EQUIPMENT
It Will Have All the Differ
ent Departments From the
Cradle Roll to the Adult
Department.
At n largely attended meeting of the
hoard of stewards of Central Methodist
< 'hurch Monday evening it was enthusias
tieally voted to award the contract at
once for the erection of the new Sunday
School rooms in the rear of the church,
she work to begin at the earliest possi
ble moment, and to be pushed rapidly
forward to completion.
This new Sunday school building will
be the Inst word in Sunday school equip
ment. It wall have all the different de
partments from the ertulle roll to the
~ adult department, nnd a large social ball
in addition.
The building, a two-stor.v affair with a
basement, will he placed immediately in
she rear of the iwesent church building.
The main floor will be on the level with
the level of the church auditorium. .There
will be a twelve foot lobby between the
two buildings. On the main fiisir there
will be the cradle roll, beginners, primary,
young peoeples’ nnd adult departments,
Though at present the young peoples' de
partment will be combined with the in
• termed rate, senior department on the sec
ond floor. Tile social hall will be amply
large enough to sent the entire member
ship of the Church at a banquet. This
hall, on the south side of the building,
will be separated from the other depart
ments on the north side by a well-lighted
six-foot corridor, at one end of which
will be the superintendent's and seere
lary's room. The cradle roll department
will be in conjunction with a mother's
room, which may lie used on social oe
eiisihns as a cloak room, In addition
there will he a well appointed kitchen on
this fjoor, with all the little devices that
, go to make this phase of the work light
and at tractive. A v»—
tend from the kitchen to slid roog giiifen.
where refreshmenls may he served In the
summer months.
The basement will contain boileV and
coal rooms and a gymnasium, which will
be immediately under the present social
room and the same in size. It is plan
ned to make this room a social-hall when
the school becomes large enough to de
mand the present social hull for the
younjj peoiifesl depaftlnent. On the
1101-thpast corner of the basement there
is spnee provided for a small swimming
pool which will Inter be built.
Oil the second floor and on tile north
side will bo located u spacious junior de
partment, and a lnrgo lecture room for
young women, (hi the opposite side of
the six-foot corridor will be. the interme
diate-senior department with plenty of
class rooms to accommodate the different
ages both of boys and girls. In addi
tion there will be two lecture rooms for
young peonle.
The roof-ghrilen lyill seat four hundred
people. It'is certain that the roof-gar
den feature will prove very attractive,
in that the evening services during the
summer when the weather permits may
be held on it. Tlieu too, it will prove a
most delightful place for the holding of
summer socials, moving pictures and oth
er gatherings.
I Kacli floor of the building will be pro
.vided with the* very best toilet nnd lav
atory facilities. •
With this splendidly equipped build
ing Central Church will be in position to
meet all the growing needs of her relig
ious. educational and social life, and thus
go forward with the other churches of
the community that arc making similar
provision for the future.
The following compose the building
committee of the church : A. F. Hartnell.
J. E. Davis. C. M. Ivey, A. F. Goodman
trad J. R. Sherrill. .
OI'BAN SCHOONER IS
SEIZED BY OFFICERS
It Is Stated That 21 Aliens and Quanti
ty of Liquor Were on the Ship,
the AseftiSated Pnw.i
Washington, Nov. 20.—The Cuban
schooner Ryda, with 21 aliens and a quen
. tity. of liquor aboard, was seeized late
yesterday by the coast guard cutter Cos
sack, according to advices to the coast
guard headquarters today. The schooner
and the aliens and liquor were taken to
Key West, where they were turned over
to 4ho proper authorities.
Home Here Robbed During Morning.
Someone entered the home of Mrs. Lu
lu (’raven, on Odell street, this morning
between the hours of 8 :.‘!0 nnd 12.30 and
according to reports, stole several dol
lars in money, a ring, ami several other
things of value. Mrs. Craven usually
prepares dinner for herself and family
while cooking breakfast, and the thie!
helped himself tft all the provisions that
were cooked. No one in the neighbor
hood saw the thief enter the house, it is
said, .and no clue whatever has been ad
vanced by which he can be located. As
soon as the theft was discovered the po
lice were notified end a search is now in
progress.
Heads National Orange.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov, 20.—Louis O.
Taber, of Barnesville, Ohio, was elected
national master of the NationaL Grange
nt today's session at the anual convention
here.
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Eugene V. Dobs, Socialist leader, is
reported dangerously ill at his home in
Terre Haute, Ind.
TRINITY COLLEGE HAS
STANDARD LAW SCHOOL
Aipong the 39 Law Schools in the United
States Complying With Bar Associa
tion Nandards. .
New York, Nov. 10. —Thirty-nine law
schools in the United States comply ful
ly with the standards set up by the
American liar Aassociatipn as required
of cntididiates for admission to, the bar,
it was announced Sunday. Nine com
ply partially and will have done so fully
by 102(1.
>The standards are: Two years’ col
lege study as a requirement of admis
sion: three years’ course devoted entirely
to scholarship work, “provision of an ade
quate library; presence of a large enough
teacliing staff giving all its time to its
work to insure personal acquaintance
and influence with the whole student
body.
Fully qualified schools include: Emory
(Atlanta, (la.) ; University of Virginia;
Trinity, (Durham. X. ( ’.), and Washing
ton and Lee.
Partially qualified schools are those,
which have some courses of study not
complying with the standards and which
admit more than 10 per cent, of stu
dents not complying. In J92d Florida
and West Virginia, now partially quali
fied. will have done so fully; in 1625
Jloston, Georgia, Idaho. Tennessee and
Baylor (Waco, Texas); in 1025. Ala
hutna.
Vfo.tMMI.OOO TO~i#ELP *
IN DRY CAMPAIGN
This Sinn Included in Treasury Estimate
Submitted to Director of Budget.
(Bj- the Associated Press.)
Washington, Nov. 20.—An appropria
tion of more than $10.0(10.000 for the en
forcement and narcotic "laws during the
next fiscal year was said by prohibition
officials today to have been included in
me Treasury estimates submitted to the,
director of the budget. The estimates in
clude $1,250,000, an increase of $500.-
000 over this year’s allotment, for en
forcement of the narcotic act.
MEETING POSTPONED
Council of Ambassadors Not to Hold Con
ference Scheduled For Late Today.
Paris, Nov. 20 (By the Associated
Press).—The meeting of the council of
ambassadors called for 5 o'clock this af
ternoon will not be held, it was announc
ed shortly after 4 p. in. Lord Crewe,
the British ambassador, notified the sec
retary that Iris government owing to
the stress of business, was unable to
communicate its instructions in time for
.today's meeting. The instructions are
expected to arrive in season for n meet
ing tomorrow.
MORAVIAN CHURCH IS
HOLDING SYNOD NQW
Opening Session of Trl-eimial Synod
Held in Winstcn-Salem During Day.
(R) the Associated Press.)
Winston-Salem, Nov. 20. —Appoint-
ment of various standing committees and
reading of greetings from the northern
province in America, the British Prov
ince, and also from the continental prov
ince. were among features of the opening
session here today of the triennial synod
of the Moravian Church, southern prov
ince.
Before Thanksgiving Sale at Parks-UeJk
Company’s.
The Big Before Thanksgiving Sale at
the Parks-Bclk Co. will begin on Wed
nesday, November 21st and continue
through the 28th, nnd the management of
the company announces “that prices dur
ing the sale will be based on the price of
20 to 22 cent, cotton,"
Hundreds of bargains will be offered
in the store during the big sale. Ready
to-wear, millinery, house furnishings,
sweaters, blankets, shoes and clothing
and other goods in the store will be of
fered at very low prices during the sale,
and persons who need jteasonable goods
will be wise to take of the
prices to be offered.
Two pages of ads. today give some of
the many bargains that will be offered.
WHAT SAT'S BEAR SAYS.
Fair tonight and* Wednesday; warmer.
CONCORD, N. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1923
z' BY GUM! A
[ I N6VER DID S£E \
, \ such a cqoP j
MRS. MORTIMER READY
>-TO TAKE THE STAND
Will Give Evidence in the Inquiry of the
Conduct of tlte Veterans’ Bureau.
(By (he Associated Press.)
Washington. Nov. 20.—Mrs. Katherine
Mortimer, wife of Elias 11. Mortimer,
principal accuser of former director (’has.
R. Forbes, appeared today at the Senate
investigation of the Veterans’ Bureau.
She was accompanied by her counsel, atid
it was stated she would lie asked to be
'Tefe
sol Daniel P. Wright. Chairman Reed
said Mrs. Mortimer had been heard at
her own request in private, and that if
she desired she committee would release
her testimony publicly. He 'traded that
the committee would also propound to
Mrs. Mortimer in public such questions
as her rounsel would prepare and the
committee would regard as relevant and
■necessary.
"There Ims been to much irrevelant
testimony in this matter already,” Chair
man Iteejl said. "The chief offender in
this respect was Mrs. Mortimer's own at
torney in her divorce proceedings. He
drugged in matter which he ns an
attorney might have known was irrele
vant.
"We do not recall anything in the rec
ords reflecting on the character of Mrs.
Mortimer. Where she was referred to it
whs merely for the purpose of living
dates and times anti names of persons
present when Veterans' Bureau matters
were under discussion."
U. D. C. DELEGATES ARE
INTERESTED IN’ ELECTION
Mrs. Amos H. Morris and Mrs. Frank
P. Harrold Are Candidates for Presi
dent General.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington. Nov. 20. —Electioneering
for the first time perhaps in the history
of the United Daughters of the Confed
eracy holds chief interest of the 2.000
or more delegates assembling here for
the opening tonight of the organization's
30th convention.
Mrs. Amos 11. Morris, of Tainpa, for
merly Florida president, and Mrs. Frank
I*. Harrold, of Americus, (Ja., president,
vice-president general, the avowed can
didates for president general, are alleged
to have large delegations back of them
and their are said to be con
ducting vigorous campaigns. Other of
ficers will be nominated from the floor.
Find Boy’s Dead Body.
(Ey the Associated Press.)
New York,- Nov. 20. —The body of
Irving Piekelny, two and one-half years
old. who was kidnapped from in front
of his Grand Street dome October 26th,
Rvas found in the cellar of a Suffolk
street tenement house.
First reports to the police indicated
that the boy hnd been slashed about the
bod? but Medical Examiner Morris later
found that the marks were scars of an
operation performed on the Boy shortly
before his disappearance.
A. Elbert Sherrill Has Been Desperately
111.
Mooresville. Nov. 111.—J. Elbert Sher
rill,, president of the Mooresville Cotton
Mills, who has been desperately ill with
pleurisy for several days, is reported
somewhat better today. At n meeting
of the directors of the mill company held
Friday afternoon, P. S. Boyd, the super
intendent, was elected president pro tern
of the company.
Man on Hunger Strike Dies.
(By Ike Associated Press.)
Dublin. Nov. 20.—The first death of
a hunger striker under the Free State
regime occurred in the internment cartip
this morning when Danis Barry, a na
tive of Cork, suecumed to a self-imposed
fast. He had been on a hunger strike
34 days. Nearly '3OO prisoners are still
hunger striking.
THt FIELDS ARE FULL OF ’EM
INISPIDLES WERE
ACTIVE IK OCTOBER
Census Bureau Shows That
34,378,662 Were Active at
Sent* Time During Month
of October.
(By the Annot'lnteil FresN.)
Washington, Nov. 20; —Increased ac
tivity in ihe cotton spinning industry
was shown in the October report of the
Census Bureau issued today which
showed almost a billion more spindle
hours than in September and the largest
number of spindle hours since June.
Active spindle horns for October to
talled 8.381.880.213. or an average of
223 hours per spindle in place, compared,
with 7.4482,000,!)!)5. or 200 per spindle
in place this year, and 8,289,885.446, or
223 iier spindle in place in October lasi
year.
Spinning spindles in place October HI
totalled 37.550.250. of which 34,378,(162
were active at some time during the
month, compared with 37.401.706 in
place September 30 this year, and 33.-
020.885 getive at sonic time during tile
month.
PANAMA CANAL BREAKS .1
ALL RECORDS FOR YEAR
Annual Report of Governor Morrow
Shows 1923 Net Profit Totals $12,-
063.880.
Washington, D. C.. Nov. IS.—Opera
tions of the Panama Canal and auxil
iary agencies during the fiscal year end
ed June 30. 1023. were record-breaking
in volume, both as to financial returns
and to the United States Government
and aid rendered world shipping, the
annual report of Governor Morrow,
■shows. From the financial' standpoint
the canal netted a profit of $12,063,880
from all sources, excluding the Panama
Railroad Steamship Line, ns compared
with $0,201,013 in the fiscnll year 1022.
and traffic operations increased oil a
scale that has brought the waterway to
a point of “rapidly overhauling the
Suez Canal.”
The net income from tolls and other
niisoel'nneous receipts grouped under
the head of “transit revenue” was $lO,-
001,066 in 1023. as compared with $3.-
466,674 the preceding year. The net
profits from auxiliary operations totaled
$1,140,642, as against $323,250. While
those condqcted by the Panama Rail
road Company, excluding the steamship
operations, showed a profit of $022,171,
against a loss of $710,301 in 1022.
Governor Morrow’s rejiort also shows
that the number of commercial transits
increased from 2736 to 3067; net ton
nage from 11,417.450 to 18.6j05.786;
tolls from $11.107.8:.2 to $17,508,100.
and cargo tonnage from 10,884.010 to
10.567,875. •
"The phenomenal growth of the past
year.” the report continues, “was not
anticipated and is. in a sense, abnormal.
It is due primarily to the development
of oil fields in Southern California, which
lufs supplanted Mexico as the principal
source of supply for the eastern sea
board of the United States." The move
ment o,f Ca’iforniu oil through the
Panama Canal began in 'October, 1022.
und has increased with each subse-uimt
month until at the dose of the rear
(June 30, 1023) oil is furnishing 60 pc
cent, of the enst-bount cargo and tanker
tonnage in either direction is approxi
mately as 'great as all other commercial
j tonnage combined.”
A French yachtsman, in an engineless
thirty-five foot sloop and unaided by a
crew, sailed from Gibraltar to New York
City 100 days from the date he set sail.
■ SAYS WORLD TODAY NEEDS
SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON
i Dr. Alderman Makes Pleas For the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Founda
tion.
Hy the V mhoclb t Ptbmm.
Raleigh, Nov. 20.—Praising the prin
ciples of Thomas Jefferson, and explain
)ing the purpose of the Thomas Jeffer
son Memorial Foundation, Dr. Edwin
Alderman, president of the; University
of Virginia, and Theodore Jvuper, New
york, repijpseoling. the
ing the movement to purchase AJont ICeIM;
the Jefferason home near Charlottesville,
Va., and maintain it as a memorial to
him, spoke at a dinner here last night
attended by nearly 200 North Carolin
ians.
“Let us not make a place where many
may park their cars and stare: but a
shrine where men may come and baptize
themselves in the spirit of the founder
of democracy," said Dr. Alderman in
1 speaking of the proposed memorial to the
author of the American declaration 1 of
( independence.
i "The world today,” said Dr. Alderman,
j “needs the spirit of Jefferson as much
now as it was needed when he led a mi*
| tion into belief in itself.”
BOY HANGS PLAYING MOVIE '
Brother Unable to Free Him From
Necktie Noose in Attic.
I Chicago, Nov. 20.—Re-enacting a wild
j west movie he had witnessed, Frederick
j Roach, eleven, accidentally hanged him
self by a necktie in the attic of his home
here.
Stephen, his eight-year-old brother,
told police they were playing “movies"
and when it’oame time for the death of
the “villian” Frederick adjusted the
necktie about his neck and went through
the process of being hanged. As he
gasped for breath his younger brother
tried in vain to free him.
With Our Advertisers.
The Cash Feed Store ha« just received
a shipment of red rustproof and Fulghum
seed oats. Get yours before they are
all gone. New store on Church Street.
John K. Patterson & Co. offer for sale
the Rogers farm ;tt Glass and the Cote
mining property in No. 7 township.
They also have many other desirable
. tracts and lots for sale.
The big coat sale at Scarboro's starts
tomorrow and continues all the week.
By special arrangement 100 coats will
be put on sale at a great reduction.
Prices from $10.75 to $34.75.
Toilet soaps and* toilet powder for ev
erybody at Cline’s Pharmacy.
All wool Kuppenheimer suits and ov
ercoats, *25 to SSO at AA\ A. Overcash's.
Others cheaper. Special prices on sweat
ers and hats.
Triplets Born at Sea.
London, Nov. 20.—Coining from New
South Wales and bounding for Cornwall
with a cargo of nitrate, the ship Helena
was presented with three unregistered
passengers. They were the children of
the captain's wife, who gave birth to
triplets off the island of New Caledonia
while the vessel was ploughing through
mountainous seas. A gale had been
plowing for several days, and the wom
an’s ordeal was aggravated by the death
of the ship's doctor two days previously.
King of Sweden Spends Little.
London, Nov. 20.—London has just
been entertaining "the most democratic
sovereign in Europe.” He is the Kind
of Sweden who came to England to at
tend the tranriage of hfe son, the Crown
Prince to Lady Louise Mountbntten.
His Majesty is credited with spending
less on his personal requirements than
any other monarch. He frankly de
clares that he new clothes,
so that at times his appearance is dis
tinctly shabby.
Light passes from the moon to the
earth in one and one-fourth seconds.
GOVERNOR 3. C. WALTON
After one of the most sensational gub
ernatorial careers in the history of the
United States. J. C. Walton. Governor
of Oklahoma, was removed from office
yesterday by the unanimous verdict of
the State Senate Court of Impeachment.
GOV. WALTON OUSTED BY
, A UNANIMOUS VOTE
Verdict is Returned After He is De
clared Guilty of 11 Charges.
Oklahoma City. Nov. 19.—J. C. Wal
ton, fifth governor of Oklahoma, was
I removed from office tonight by unani
, mous vote of the state senate court of
' impeachment after his (rial on charges
‘jof corruption in office neglect of duty.
I moral turpitude and general incom
> petenee.
I A formal verdict was returned after
jthe executive had been found guilty of
1 11 of the 16 charges presented. The vote
j was 41 to 0,
Six of the original 22 charges con
stituting the impeachment bill were
dismissed by order of the court.
Tlie court, by a standing vote, de
nied a motion for a new trial which
Governor Walton’s counsel filed im
mediately after the verdict was an
nounced.
| The governor's removal, although not
formally ordered until after a verdict
bad' been returned on each charge, was
; made certain this afternoon when the
; court found him guilty of abusing l.is
pardon and paro’e authority, the first
charge to he voted upon. i |
| Forty one senators lacking only one
!of the totgl membership of the body
voted for conviction. Senator Jack
Barker, who has consistently voted in"
t lip governor's favor throughput the 16,
"days "of the trial, was absent".
The articles of impenbhmeiit wa<
filed by the lower house of the state
legislature, which less two months ago
the executive had dispersed by military
force.
By the removal of Governor Walton.
Lieut. Governor M. E. Trapp became
governor. Trapp has been lieutenant
governor during two .four-year ad
ministrations and has been acting gov
ernor since October 23 when the senate
suspended Governor Walton after the
tiling of the impeachment charges.
CRIMINALS AM) LOAFERS,
MUST LEAVE NEW YORK
Alan Must Show Honest Means of Sup
port if Suspected by the Police.
(Ity the Associated Press.l
New York. Nov. 20.—The pqjice today
put into effect an order that all known
criminals and persons without honest
means of support or good reason for re
maining here must leave the city. The
edict was issued after a conference of
all police inspectors and captains who
met to formulated h program for nbate
meent of the crime wave that swept the
city last week.
Small Cotton Traders in South Have
Lost Millions.
New York, Nov. -10.—;Millions of dol
lars have been lost by small traders in
the South through cotton transactions
with unscrupulous persons posing as cot
ton brokers, Thomas Hale, secretary of
the New York Cotton Exchange, de
clared in a statement made public to
night.
The exchange is doing everything in
its power to protect such traders, Mr.
Hale said, and is now working with
cotto nexchanges in the South in an effort
to weed out members of those exchanges
who, the statement said, "we have rea
son to believe are not doing business in
accordance with the rules.”
Notices have been sent to members
of the New York Cotton Exchange, Mr.
Hale said, warning them against furnish
ing quotations of cotton prices to “any
person or firm who i« engaged in tolerat
ing a beket shop.” He also invited, in
formation from any source that any
member has violated this rule,
s Secretary Hale explained he made the
public statement in reply to criticism
which had been made regarding the quo
tation and ticker service of the exchange.
Tile recent big advances in the price of
raw cotton made possible, lie said, the
mulcting of sfnall traders by unscrupu
lous persons.
“Tile quotations of the New York
Cotton Exchange." Mr Hale 'said, “are
zealously guarded at all times and the
strictest of precautions are taken to pre
vent "them from reaching the hands of
persons or firms not entitled to receive
them.”
Seventy-Five Yea-s O'd and Seven Times
Wed.
'Linden. N"v. 20.—“1 can’t tolerate
’ivi’jg a'on" I"s inhuman to be lone’y ”
So savs Mrs. Jane Robe-os Whall. 75
'•ears old, living in the town of Gosham,
Hampshire, who has just taken her sev
enth husband. Her last three marriages
have taken place - since she passed her
70th milestone.
Mr. C. E. Lowe and little daughter,
of Brevard, passed through the city to
day on their way home from a visit to
friends and relatives at’ Kannapolis.
I TODAY’S i
t NEWS (
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NO. 274.
THE GUBERNATORIAL
dEFJJf w " TON
' SwATMD
Governor of Oklahoma De
posed by Verdict of Senate
Court of Impeachment by
Verdict Rendered Monday.
WALTON~ PLANNING
ONE FINAL STAND
As Successor Prepares to
Take Over Office, Governor
is Invoking Aid From the
United States Courts.
Oklahoma City, Nov. 20.—(8y the As
sociated Press). —J. C. Walton’s guber
natorial career, as spectacular as it was
brief, today was ended. Deposed by a
verdict of the Senate Court of' Impeach
ment which late yesterday found him
guilty on charges of moral turpitude, cor
ruption in office, neglect of duty, and in
competence, his term of office as Okla
homa's fifth Governor was broken off
after a little more than ten months, sen
sational to the last.
But as his successor prepared form
ally to take over the reins of the gov
ernment today. Walton girded for a last
desperate effort to retain the office by
invoking the aid of the United States
Court, clinging tenaciously to the plea
that he had not been given a fair trial,
with the promise of more dramatics yet
to come.
His next move will be made tomorrow
when his legal staff appears before a Fed
eral judge here for a rehearing of his
application for an injunction to annul
action of the court of impeachment, and
failing, an appeal would be taken to the
1 nited States Supreme Court accompa
nied by a writ of supersedeas to declare
hime the incumbent until the case is de
cided. The deposed executive’s original
application was denied the day before
impeachment trial opened, and observers
see scant likelihood that the decision will
be reversed after the rehearing.
Walton's removal was decreesd by
unanimous vote of the senate court af
ter being convicted of 11 of the JL6 ar
ticles uisoii which he was prosecution,
and application for new trial had been
denied. Records showed verdicts of ac
quital on five counts. , The votes of two
w<-ro'U|nfHMm*>»t-* for con
vict itm a#d Hie others mi which lie Was
convicted were voted by good majori
ties.
Will Ask legislature to Adjourn.
Oklahoma City, Nov. 20.—Announce
ment was made at the office of Governor
M. E. Trapp today that the State Leg
islature would be asked to recess at once
until the second week in January. The
Senate met briefly this morning and ad
journment will be until this afternoon.
AV. E. Disney, chairman of the House
board of managers, announced today that
the articles of impeachment against Chas.
11. Ruth, supreme court commissioner,
may be submitted to the House this af
ternoon.
THE COTTON MARKET
Showed Renewal of Firmness at Opening.
—Advance of Frob 7 to 50 Points.
(fly the Associate!! Press.)
New York, Nov. 20.—. The cotton mar
ket showed renewed firmness at the open
ing today with ail months making new
high records on opening advance of 7 to
50 points. There was a good deal of re
alizing and some Southern hedge selling
which caused moderate reactions eight
after the call. January sold off to 34.47
to 34.30 and Slay from 34.75 to 34.67,
but further trade buying to fix prices
was reirorted and there was a scattering
demand which gave the market a steady
undertone. December deliveries sold at
34.00 at tlie opening, or within 10 points
of the'long talked of 35 cent level.
Cotton futures opened firm , Dec.
34.70 to 34.00; Jan. 34.40; March
34,60; May 34.75; July 34 30.
500-YEAR-OLD SEED GROWS
Japanese as John Hopkins Finds Life
in Ancient Lotus.
Baltimore, Nov. 20. —In the labora
tory of plant physiology of Johns Hop
kins University, a Japanese student of
science, Prof. Ichiro Oliga, is growing
lotus seeds believed to be 500 years
old.
I 'Hte seeds were found under layers
of peat, fifteen feet deep, in what once
was a pond in the edge of the Gobi
Desert in Manchuria. Native children
dig them out to eat.
| The seeds when found are blaek and
egg shaped, about a half inch long and
hard as flint.
Blizzard Gets Change of Venue.
(By the Associated Press.)
Lewisburg. AA T . A n.. Nov. 20.—A change
of venue was granted today to AA’m. Bliz
zard, mine union official, charged with
being an accessory to murder in connec
tion witli the armed march. The case
was brought to Greenbrier County on the
third change of venue granted since the
indictment was returned in Lagon coun
ty. Choice of the county to which the
case will now be brought was left to
the contending attorneys.
Woman With Erratic Heart.
"•don N~v. 20.—T > hav been ren
rel on-nsei us from 20 to 30 times
• <!iv through the failure of her heart,
which on each occasion stopped beating,
was at an inquest shown to have been
the experience of a woman living in Croy
o) BB.\\ sauptsXqd jo Jnoaiijsej, -nop
the effect that on the occasion of her
frequent attacks the woman’s heart would
stop beating entirely and sometimes she
would remain unconscious for as long ns
30 minutes.