North Carolina Newspapers

• ASSOCIATED * • PRESS * • DISPATCHES « VOLUME XXIIi UAHS IN THE BAPTIST CHURCH MEMBERSHIP SHOWN BY REPORTS i Also in Collections fpr All Purposes, New Pastors and New Churches Shown in Annual Report. STATE CONVENTION IS NOW IN SESSION A Gain of 13 Churches and 12,70 S Members. —Average Membership of Individual Churches is 150. fßy it. Associated Gastonia, Deo. 12. —Gains in ehnreh j membership, collections for all purposes, new pastors and new churches were shown In the annual report of statistical Secretary E. L. Middleton, of the North Carolina Baptist Convention prepared for presentation to the convention today. The report cover* the perioi) since the last convention a year ago. The report slows toial collections of $4,086,390.93 during the last ftur years for the $75,000,000 campaign. The report shows that there are now 2.20,‘t churches with a membership of 337.283 in sixty-five associations during the last year. This is a gain of thirteen churches and 12,708 members. A num ber of churches failed to report mem berships. the report said; but the average membership of the individual chiu'ehes is now 150. During the year, the report says, there were 17.787 baptisms in the State and during the last four years 74.841. Six hundred and twenty-two churches failed to report any baptisms. During the year churches reported $002,500.73 collected for the $75,000,000 campaign: $70,001.24 for missions; $187,527.20 for benevolences; $311,852 30 for education, and $2,000,015.48 for home expenses. The per capita assessment for the entire convention is $2.05 for denomi national objects and $10.35 for all ob jects, according to the secretary but these were exceeded by some of the as sociations. For denominational objects the following exceeded the per capita as sessment : Beulah, $2.71, Buncombe 83.03; Catawba River. $3.52; Central, 85.50; Chowan, $3.08; iCumbcrhand, $3.31: Gaston, $2.03; .lohusloti, $3.80; Kings .Mountain. $2.70;; Meekleulmrg- Cabamis, $5.38:' Mount ’ Zlori, $4.58; Neuse-Atlantie, $4.57; Tee Dee. $0.00: Piedmont. $6.18: Pilot Mountain, $4.82: Raleigh. $4.53; Roanoke, $4 62: Robe son, $4.06; Sandy Creek, $2.77: Surry. $5.42; West Chowan. $3.00; Wilming ton. $2.60. The report shown 2.150 Sunday schools, the report saying this is a slight de crease due to the fact that many mission schools are not reported. The member ship totals 274.524. a gain of 0,028 dur ing the year. The gain during the last four year, the report says, has been 00,700. The ratio of Sunday school i membership to church membership is 81.3. There were 1,806 Baptist Young Peo ple's I'nions in the State at the end of the year, a gain 281 over the previous year. The membership is 48.402. There are forty-six unions in schools and col leges. During the year 8.370 study course awards were made and around 1.500 messengers attended the State con vention at High Point last June. The next convention wilt be held in Wilming ton. A total of 1,803 Woman's Missionary Societies reported for the year a gain of 148. There were 82 A-l societies, 402 standard socities. . There are four colleges and four schools under State convention control, the report says. These have 182 teach ers and an enrollment of 2.733. The property and endowment of these is $4,- 447.304.87. The home mission board operates in North Carolina one college and seven schools with eighty-six teach ers and an enrollment of 1,077. The value of these eight schools is $530,850. There arc three other institutions owned and controlled by Baptists with thirty teachers, 286 pupils and property worth $136,500. Grand totals for the schools given In the report shows 208 teachers, 4.730 students and property worth $5.- 114.744.87. Besides these, the conven tion participates in three seminaries at i/ouisville, Ky.: Port Worth. Texas, and New Orleans. 1,a., with forty-six teach ers, 1.613 students and property worth $3,029,404.34. In these institutions there are 228 ministerial students. Work of Tuesday’s Sessions. Gastonia, Dec. 11.—Enrollment and organization, presentation of reports for the past year, committee appointments and the keynote address by Charles Iv. Greaves, of Raleigh, were the chief mat ters of importance on the program for the opening session of the 03rd annual convention of the Baptist Church in North Carolina here today. The con-1 vention was formally opened at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. Many matters of importance to the Baptists of the State arc on the program for the meeting which will continue through Thursdny evening. More than 500 ministerial and lay representatives of tht churches are here. The l attend ance is expected to reach the 700 mark. Gastonia churches of all denomina tions are co-opprating wijh the local Bap tists in entertaining delegates. Missions, education and social service will be among the matters of chief in terest to come before the convention, ac cording to leaders. Palling under the liead of missions in the $75,000,000 cam paign which has been under way in the progress is collection of pledges for this State for some time. Reports showing (Concluded on Page Six). The Concord Daily Tribune • r * % . ’ % NEW DEVELOPMENTS MIKED 111 THE ! FOX SEATING CASE I ; Solicitor General of Georgia Stages That Mrs. Margaret Weaver and Several Oth ers Have Peen Indicted. NAMES OFOTHERS NOT GIVEN OUT Mrs. Weaver Indicated as Ac- ] cessory Before the Fact In | the Slaying in Atlanta of Capt. W. S. Coburn. «Hj tit* \Nsoelated Prem.i j Atlanta, Dpo. 12.—M rs. Margaret | Weaver has been indicted as an acces sory before the fact in the slaying, of Cnp't. W, 8. Coburn by Philip E. Fox,' Solicitor General Boykin’s office an nounced today. Evidence has been ob tained to warrant similar indictments against several other persons whose I names were not disclosed, it was added. According to the solicitor's office, the! Weaver woman is alleged to have been in company with Fox from Saturday pre- j ceding the shooting until a few minutes j before he entered Coburn’s office. Preparing for Fox Trial. Atlanta. Dec. 12.—Preliminaries to , placing Philip E. Fox on trial started I here early today. Jury panels were sep 'arated, and every effort was made to ex- j pedite matters when it came tome to j select a jury. Fox. former Ku Klux i Klan publicity agent, is charged with J murder glowing out of the death of Wil liam S. Coburn, attorney for the Siin- ' toons' faction of the ,Klan. ( The court room was crowded. Judge i G. H. Howard presiding, ordered the 1 room cleared of all spectators standing in the aisle. i Klan leaders from all sections of the country were said to be seated in the 1 court room. Members of the Imperial t forces of the Ku Klux Klan were not | present when court convened. There i were plenty of sheriffs and court bailiff on hand to maintain order. There were a few women present. j The Ku Klux Klan was not injected by cither side in the, selection of the jury, j Three jurors were accepted out of tlie' first six veniremen examined. Indica tions wereJlhe hearing of Ipspynimy ' SrtmlfT gAFTitt'dM-waT'futc tottayT , ( DAVID THACKERSON 18 ' ! CHARGED WITH MURDER 1 Held at Shelby For the Shorting Tuesday j Night of Isirant Conk. (By the A swot In tint Press.j Shelby, N. ('.. Dec. 12.—David Tliaek- 1 erson. 18 years old, of Double Shoals, is i in jail here today charged with murder in connection with the killing last night of I.orant Cook, nine years old, also of Double Shoals. The child was shot dur ing an altercation, it was said, between 1 I Tbackersoß and a group of younger boys j j who were tiring toy pistols at him. ' SHERMAN A. CUNEO DIED HIRING NIGHT; Dctul Body Found in Apartment at i Washington—Former Newspaper Man. j (By the Associated l'remi.) Washington. Dec. 12.—Sherman A. j Cuneo. director of publicity for the pro-: hibition unit and a personal friend of the late President Harding, was found dead | today in his apartment here. Gas from a small real heater apparently was the cause of his death. He formerly was an Ohio newspaper man. Sax Rohmer has not in the literature of today an equal as a teller of stories of the mys terious. the wierd. the bizarre. In his plots is the haunting terror of the su pernatural. the unknown—and yet these elements combine naturally with the oriental themes he has made so much his own. Dr. F« Mancha, The Romance of Sor cery. The Devil Doctor, Brood of the Witch Queen. Dope, The Green Eyes of Bast, The Dream Detectives, Bat wing— these names of his past novels speak for -themselves. \ ' Strange, enthralling' as they are, Fire- Tongue surpasses them all. This absorbing serial story will begin in The Tribtino tomorrow. Show of Silver Foxes. Boston, Mass., Dec. 12. —Between two and three hundred of the best silver foxes in the world- were placed on dis play in Mechanics Building today at the opening of the third live fox show of the American Fox Breeders’ Associa tion. Nearly half of the entires have come from Nova Scotia, Ontario and Prince Island, the original home of the domesticated silver fox. Others are from fox breeding farmed in Maine, Massn : chusetts and various parts of New York ' States. WHAT SAT’S BEAR SAYS. jJ s' Increasing cloudiness and warmer to ; night, probably rain in- west Thursday rain and warmer. CONCORD, N. C„ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12,1923 »I, ~ ’ A Human Torch i l-f gar&Muet j Jjfj :.fj® I IKES . •> - The physics department of the University of lowa was doing a bit of', experimenting. It wns necessary l someone to submit toithe test. And that wasn t easy. His l iothes find to he soaked in gasoline and then; Ignited with a match, ’llv-n the .*••!.joct was to jump into a tank of 1 water. Captain McCullough el Ui- university swimming team volun-! Mered. Here he Is—his jacket a u:a.-j of hanies—accomplishing the leap.! Tie suffered no ill effects. * MIGRATION OF NEGROES I | FROM STATE NOT EXTENSIVE Although a Number of Cotton Grow as j i Did Feel the KlTccis For a Tilin'. j (lly I lie Axsortn - e*l I' rt-ss.) ! Raleigh, Dec. 12.—“ The migration of j colored labor never did reach an acute stage in this State although a number l of the Inrger cotton growers did feel the j j effect for a time,” M. 1,. Shipman, com missioner of Labor and Printing for i , North Caroling today asserted in a let- I ter addressed to the editor of the New I i York Evening Journal answering an in- ! ! quiry as to the situation with regard to i ' negro migration from North Carolina, j . “x x xWe know of no special effort to induce the return of colored laborers who I went North during the year. | In making the letter public Mr. Ship- ' . man expressed the opinion that t lie mi- j gration from North Carolina of negroes ' 'attracted by higher wages and reputed better conditions in other sections had \ been more than offset by 'the influx of the 1 I same class of labor from other states. ‘ "We have made a recent survey to' 1 ascertain the exteut to which eoiored j labor migrated to the North early in the! : ycear and for various reasons returned ; 1 to the State," Mr. Shipman stared in his | j letter. "Reports from the various em j ployment offices throughout the State in dicate the return of a considerable num ber of c.ilored laborers, vpho went away months ago iiiMler the iitliTrwsioji I that -they would receive higher wages and | be favored with better living conditions. | : We take it that the return of these la borers is due largely to the approach of I winter. You are doubtless aware that the severe winters of tlie North are not | at all conducive to the colored labor of j the South. The negro, as a rule, pre fers the climate of his native section. ' “The migration of colored labor never did reach an acute stage in this State, although a number of the larger cotton growers did fee! the effect for a while. I However, if so happens that the cotton jerop of this State for the year 1923 is I jthe largest that has been harvested for! a niimbe* of years, reaching a 'total oft 1.010,000 bales. This would indicate! j that the farmers of North Carolina are' j by no means dependent upon negro la- I bor, and wc kuow of no special effort | to induce the retiif nos colored laborers who went North during the year. | "There is an apparent shortage of farm | labor in the State, but manufacturing j plants appear to experience little trouble I in this respect. There has been an np-1 | parent movement from the farm to the factory for a number of years, and this will doubtless continue so long as the number of textile mills increase. -’ Comparatively little unemployment is' noticeable at -this time. In fact, most! every willing worker need experience lit tle difficulty in finding something to do.” With Our Advertisers. , Von can get what he or she wants for Christmas at Starnes-Parker-Mitler Co.'s. You will find hundreds of practical gifts for everybody for Christmas at the I’arks-Belk Co.'s. Beginning Thursday this store will be open nights until after - Christmas. You can buy furniture at from 20 to 50 per cent, discount before January 1 j at the Concord Furniture Co., as they will move into their new store on that dflte. I Give for Christmas a hanging vase and bright artificial flowers. Get them at the Specialty Hut Shop, Washington State apples, by the peck, box or dozen at Cabarrus Cash Grocery Co. Christmas supply of Royster's candies just arrived at Dove-Bost Co. Stationery to fit any pocketbook at the Gibson Drug Store. New lot of silk underwear at Scar boro’s. Special values in many things for Christmas. Christinas Card Designs Still Copy Ohl Style. New York, Dec. 12.—The fact that an English girl happened to live in a part of England where boys ami girls still wore the clothes of the period of 1800 is responsible for the design of many of the present day Christmas cards, says E. M. Dole in The Mentor for De cember. When Kate Greenaway, who was born in 1840, started her commercia' designing she drew a series of designs for Christmas cards, dressing her chil dren in he quaint, old-fashioned costumes she bad seen when a child- To j this day, her short-waisied frocks, poke bonnets and long-trousered suits are copied on ' greeting cards. Experiments to determine just why women wear bright colors and whether - they dress' to p ease themselves or to r please men friends are now being con ducted at; the University of California. | CROP REPORT ISSUED I Department of Agriculture Estimates This Year’s Crop at KkOSI.OttO Bales. (By the Associated Press.) ! Washington. I>ec. 12.—This year’s Hit ton crip was estimated today at 10,081.- 0(10 lialis by the Department cf Agricul l ture. ! North Carolina’s crop was estimated at 1,020,000 bales. ; PROPOSE TO ABOLISH BOARDS OF MISSIONS AND EDUCATION I Memorial Presented to the Baptist State Convention Today. (By the Associated Press.) Gastonia. Dec. 12.—Abolition of th-» ! Baptist Board of Education and Mis sions was proposed today in a memorial j submitted to the North Carolina Baptist [Convention in se»don here by the Johns ton county association, The work of : the two boarels would he done by an ex ' ecutive committee composed of twenty : representatives chosen to represent the : entire State. | The memorial was submitted to the j committee on resolutions. ; The report of the Historical Oommis - .-'mu, made by Dr. W. R. Cullen* urged ihe convention to plan to properly record the history of the denomination particu larly with reference to the centennial year of 1980. ami ajfcd that a board of educators be scieeffitj "-to compile the history of Baptist affairs during the cen | tury. THE COTTON MARKET The Better Tone Developed Yesterday in Evidence Again Today., (By The Prcss.l New York, Dec. 12.—Tlie better tone which had developed in the cotton mar ket yesterday was in evidence again this morning. Liverpool was again better than due, and the market here opened - firm at an advance at 22 to 31 points on I higher cables and continued covering. ' January sold up to 38.76 and May to I 34.35, cr about 33 to 38 points net high er before the initial haying orders were supplied, and this advance was followed by slight reactions, but the undertone wns steady. Trading was comparatively quiet, being restricted probably by ling ering uncertainty as to the probable showing of the government’s .crop report j due this afternoon. I Cotton futures opened firm. Dec. 1 34.30; Jan. 33.70; .March 34.01; Mav j 34.25 July 33.50, j PROSECUTION THROUGH IN THE GARRETT CASE Defense Ready to Begin Its Evidence.— Case to Judy by Friday. •By -Le Associated CrtM . Cumberland Court House, Va„ Dec. 12. —Theprosecution hail rested and the de fense was ready to begin its side when eourt recessed for dinner today in the second day of the second trial of Larkin (’. Garrett, charged with first degree mur der for his part in the fatal shooting last June of Rev. E. S. Pierce. So rapid had been the progress of tlie trial that attor neys expressed the hope that the jury j might get the case by tomorrow night or | Friday. LABOR PARTY READY TO FORM CABINET If Asked to Do So It Will Not Form Co alition Cabinet of Any Kind. (By the Associated Press.) London, Dec. T 2 — I Tlie executive board of the labor party issued a communique this afternoon by saying it had decided in the event of labor being invited to form a government, that the Parliamentary party should immediately accept the full responsibility of the government of the country without compromising itself with any form of coalition. Insect Cause Millions Loss. (By the Associated Press.> Washington, Dec. 12.—Tree-killing in sects do damage estimated at $100,000,- 000 annually in the United States, and damave forest products to the extent of an additional $45,009,000 each year, ac cording to experts of tlie bureau of en tomology. Sluch of this damage can be pie vented by the control methods 1 recommended by the bureau, Department of Agriculture officials declare. Diamonds Indicted. I (By the Associated Press.) 1 New York, Dee. 12.—Morris Diamond, j his brother Joseph, and Anthony Pnn tano, were indicted today by a Kings county" grand jury, charged with mur der in the first degree in the slaying and robbery of two messengers of the West End Bank in Brooklyn on November the 14 th. ALLOW INCREASE IN DELEGATES TO THE G. 0. P. CONVENTION National Executive Commit tee by Changes Will In crease Number of Dele gates From 984 to 1,000. 1 SOUTH IS GIVEN MORE DELEGATES ■ States That Voted for Hard ing Also Given Increase— National Convention Will Be Held in Cleveland. (By (he A;;.'.oela(e«l PreMM.) Washington. Deo. 12.—Thorn will be nearly 1,100 delegates in the 11)24 repub-! licnn convention, compared to 9M4 in 1020, under a resolution today adopted . by the republican national committee, vir tually restoring the old representation of Southern States. Southern interests fighting for increas ! ed representation, won a spirited battle against the reduction proposed under the reapportionment. National committee- 1 • men from the South and the negro dele-[ ■lgation.x who protested the reapportion- ‘ •Intent succeeded in having the committee I upset the reapportionment made in 11121 - iand restore practically all of the South's ■{representation. The committee at the same time, how ever, decided to largely iucrease the power of the Northern states by providing three additional delegates at large should ’ be given to all states carried bv Harding in 11)20. The reapportionment basis of 1030 del -1 agates for 1024. adopted under orders of ■ the last convention after a long stand ing complaint in the voting of Southern delegations, was reconsidered upon mo tion of Outs. 1). Hides, New York com mitteeman over the vigorous protest of j Senator Howell, of Nebraska, chairman j of the sub-committee that lias inquired | 1 into the subject. The reform of the Southern represen tat-ion had been attempted for 20 years, j Senator Howell said, and the proposal j to upset reapportionment, he said, was' backward. T'nder the apportionment as, I finally adopted today North Carolina will j have twenty-two delegates, tlie same an in 1020. Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, of Winston-] Salem, nAC., associate nreiiifiefc, duiMngj the debate said she wished to see Presi- j dent Coolidge elected, and deplored preju- ] dice gainst the South. “This is the , first time we have had a eliauee to build | up a strong Republican party hi the i South." said Mrs. Patterson. “Don't make it too hard for- us." Will Meet in Cleveland. ‘ Washington. Dec. 12.—Cleveland was formally selected today as the 1924 con-! • vention city of the Republicans. The date of the convention was fixed ns I June 10. The vote for the convention | city was' Cleveland 30, San Francisco I 10, Des Moines 1. Then on motion of j • the committee man Crocker, of Cal., the • selection of Cleveland was made unani • mous. TWENTY PER CENT. AVERAGED ONE BAI-E TO THE ACRE According to a Statement Made by Franklin l*arker. (By the Associated Press.) Raleigh. Dee. 12.—Twenty per Cent, of the farmers of the State this season averaged one bale to the planted acre of cotton, according to a statement is sued here tonight by Frank Parker, ag ricultural statistician for the State. Tti commenting on this report Mr. Parker ■ said that it was a remarkable record and one which had been possible only because of unusually favorable conditions ■ and care. • I The cotton crop in North Carolina a* i of December Ist was more nearly oom • pletely ginned than in any previous sea -1 son. according to the report. It also ■ was the Cleanest picked and graded in the history of the State, and second, if I not the best, in yield per acre. This season, according to Mr. Parker, ' was the first time that the crop on this ' date had been practically or entirely picked. With the value of the line and seed placed at $175,000,000 the crop for | the first time took second rank among ' the cotton states in crop value, Texas, an empire in itself, being the only state • to lead North Carolina. Mr. Parker attributed the success this season to unusually favorable weather t conditions and the fact that the weevil ■ was ineffective in in st sections. The i fact that the earliest large setting of bolts i took place ip 1923 also aided, The cot • ton leaf worms, which usually may hurt 1 the crop, arrived in September but the i crop was in good condition so that when i the worms stripped the plants of foliage I (lie only effect it had was to cause the I bolls to grow the larger and the faster. The usage of fertilizers was approximate ly 402 pounds to the acre, cultivated. I In the northern belt the‘acreage devoted . I to cotton was increased ever last year. I | On December Ist, continued the state s meat, about 94 per cent, of the crop had been picked and about the same per rent age had been ginned. Mr. Parker es j timated the total crop ginned to De , cember Ist to be 913,000 equivalent 500 I pound bales. He also gave an estimate of the crop to be slightly less than a million bales, differing with the govern ment crop report issued last month in which the crop was figured as 1,010.000 I bales. The vareage lint per acre was 1 estimated at 300 pounds. The Baltic Sea is often partly frozen, il On the North American continent t the British possessions are larger by ir nearly 100,000 square miles than those of t)>e United States. Resigns !»MNraQg|i§t.ic.' '||| i IBMBKf.. General I*. Elias Calle* has resigned the candidacy for president of Mexico to take the field againsl tho rebels, accord- I 1 ing to wire reports. i 'DOROTHY ARNOLD GONE FROM HOME 12 YEARS 1 No Trace of Her Whatever Has Been i Found.—Given I p as Dead. New York. Dec. 12.—The recent j .clearing up of the mystery surrrtutffling ! ] j the disappearance of little Jimmie Glass J i ; from his home in Pennsylvania eight years ago lias renewed speculation over i the possibility that sooner or later • there may come a solution of the ea“e ] of Dorothy Arnold, who dropped from ( sight m this city thirteen years ago to day. j It was on December 12, 1910, that j Miss Arnold, the daughter of the late < Francis Arnold, left her home in East i Seventy-ninth Street at 2 o'clock in the 1 afternoon- She said she was going for a i walk. Three hours later she was seen in a book store in Fifth Avenue. So far as known that was the last heard of her, ] and hundreds of private detectives and police departments of almost the entire j | world were unable to find any trace of ! | her. ' | Miss Arnold vanished as mysteriously and as completely as if the earth ha,l , opened and swallowed her. Her family , spent several hundred thousand dollars ] prosecuting the search all over Europe , 'and Asia and America, members of the , family made numerous trips to foreign i j countries to run down clues, but witb ! out success. Year after year they kept , I detectives at work investigating every , conceivable Ml of information that | j migfiT leXtnßTfef rE&rfPrr: nWPBjHMTfr ’ i too small or insignificant for (hem to sift to the bottom. But always with the . , same result. / j It was not until a year ago last April ( that it was known that the family of ( Miss Arnold had given tip hope. Her j father died then, and in his will, which ' disposed of an estate valued at more I than $(100,000, he said that he had made jno testamentary provision for his daughter because he was satisfied that ' ! she was dead. j Many times Miss Arnold has been 1 reported as found, the last being about 1 | two years ago. when a woman in Con- • I uecticut claimed to be the missing girl. ' Her claim was found to emanate from 1 a desire to obtain publicity, ' McABOO CRITICISES THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE i i Mesfiage Described as “Counsel of Dor mancy" by Man Democrats May Nomi- , nate. (By the Associated t’t***«-» I ,os Angeles, Dec. 12.—President Coolidge's message to Congress was "a counsel of dormancy,” and his opposi tion to a bonus for ex-service men was characterized as a summary dismissal of "just claims for consideration," in an address by William Gibbs McAdoo before the Democratic Luncheon Club, and I lie Women's* Democratic League here today. The former director gen eral of railroads derided the President's proposal for voluntary consolidation of these systems of transportation as a “seven-year itch for reduced freight and passenger rates, with no assurance of iclief at the end of the trail.” He told lifts hearers what is needed is “not seven years of delay but action.” FOl'R CHILDREN DIE WHEN HOME BURNS Victims of Fire Were Members of Fam ily of William Fuhnmii. • By the Associated Press.) Loogoottee, Iml., Dec. 12.—Four chil dren of the family of Win. Fuhrman, a farmer living ten miles south of here, were burned to death late last night when their home was destroyed by fire. The dead are: Herman, aged 16, Wil bert, aged 13, Peter, 11, and Harold, aged 9. The father was severely burned while trying to rescue the children. Dickens’ Landmarks Fast Disappearing. New York, Dec. 12.—Those who wish to set- Dickens’ literary landmarks in London should hurry, says A. A. Hop kins n The Mentor for December- The London County Council lias decreed the widening of the Strand and landlords are not apt to be sentimental when it comes to improvements and higher rents. There is hardly any part of London which is not associated in some way ' with Dickens' novels. Scores of houses, street, hotels, taverns, inns, pumps, and monuments have become familiar through that author's camera eye. There is no difficulty in identifying over eight hundred Dickens London localities. 1 Recent researches determined one hun dred and twenty. references to Fleet | Street and its tributaries and this is the part of London which must make way , for improvement. ; I I Mexico is now the third largest im > porter of boots and shoes from the United States. « TODAY’S 0 9 NEWS 0 0 TODAY 0 000000 00 NO. 292. VICTORIES CLAIMED r f MEXICAN REVOLT Gen. Gargia is Reported to Have Met and Defeated Body of Loyal Troops in Command of Sanchez. STATE OF COLIMA TAKEN BY REBELS Woh Report That All Troops in Sonora and Sinaloa Have Joined Their Forces—The President Has Left Capital Vera Cruz, Dec. 12 (By the Associated Press).—Revolutionary headquarters here announces that rebel forces under com mand of Gen. Silviano Garcia have de feated and dispersed the loyal troops de fending Coatatolapan. Jose Maria San chez former Governor of Puebla, who was at the head of the Obregon forces, is be ing pursued by the rebels. The statement also asserts that the , government of the stele of Colima has | been overthrown while all troops in So i nora and Sinaloa have joned the rebels. "The troops of Gen. Estrada," contin ues the statement “have begun their ad vance toward La Piedad, where it is ex pected the first major combat with the Obregon forces will take place." Persons reaching Esperatiza from Mex ico City brought word of President Obre gon's departure from the capital at ten o'clock yesterday morning, ostensibly to review the troops at Quaretaro, but it is believed here that the President will not return. Revolution Spreading. Nogales, Arizona, Dee. 12.—The revo lutionary movement on the west roast of Mexico has attained great proportions, according tto advices received here today and has spread to Mazattyn, Sinaloa, where the garrison lias divided. A re port that several revolutionary generals were executed following a skirmish in' Sinaloa is being investigated here. The twenty-seventh regiment at Ma zatlan revolted and disarmed the seven teenth regiment under the command of Col. Receea Flores, according to reports which were verified by travelers who arrived here today from Mazatlan. Dis armament was accomplished without Woortslie,!.; _ __ Chihuahua Quiet. Washington, Dec. 12.—Vice Consul McEnelly telegraphed the State Depart ment under date of yesterday that “peace ful conditions continued" in Chihuihua district of Mexico. Vice Consul Sherman at Front era. said conditions there were unchanged at noon yesterday. Rumors at El Paso. El Paso, Texas, Dee. 12 (By the As sociated Press). —Interest along the Mexican border incident to the uprising against the government of President Ob regon centers about news from Nogales, Arizona, that more than 2.000 armed in surgents are marching from Tepic to take the states of Sinaloa and Sonora. A gen eral conflagration over the Mexican west coast is feared. The international line runs between Sonora and New Mexico, and for a short distance Sonora also meets Arizona. JAPAN ERECTING ONLY TEMPORARY BUILDINGS Neither Money Nor Material to Begin Construction on Big Scale. (B; tbe Associated Press.) Tokio, Dec. 12.—Officials place the toll of death resulting from Japan's earthquake and fire of September Ist at approximately 150,(10!). Tbe material losses are estimated at anywhere from four billion to ten billion yen. The cost of reconstruction cannot be accu rately estimated, as government decision is awaited on plans under consideration. Meanwhile 40,000.000 yen (about $20,- 000,000) has been spent in relief work, and the quakes continue. According to the meteorological bureau there have been 1,370 quakes since the big one which oc curred at exactly 11:58 o'clock on the morning of September Ist. Os that number 356 occurred on September Ist and 2nd. The number continued at a decreasing rate daily - thereafter. No two authorities agree oil the extent of the material losses. K. Kodama, president of the Yokohama Specie Bank, places tho “direct losses" of the govern ment and private concerns at 4,000,000.- (KH) yen. while Cliokiuro Kadono, chief director of Messrs. Oknra and Company, one of the largest concerns in Japan, says the losses will reach 10,000,000.000. Small buildings are springing up ev erywhere. There is neither money nor material enough at hand or obtainable at present to start reconstruction on a grand scale. Permits are not being is sued for buildings that are to stand for more than five years and both foreign and Japanese companies that wish to re build are being tcld they must await tbe filial decision of the government on plans for rebuilding the devastated cities. Still Deadlocked. (By the Associated Press.) Washington. Dec. 12.—Three more bal lots for election of a chairman of the In terstate Commerce Committee were taken today by the Senate without breaking the three day deadlock. Adjournment was taken till noon Saturday. On the third ballot the vote was: Smith 41. Cummins 40, and LaFollette 2. Senators Norris and Howell, of Ne braska, republicans, continued to vote for Senator LaFollette, and Bruce, democrat, voted for Cummins. Shipstead nnd Johnson of Minnesota, voted for Smith. In England two centuries ago it was 1 possible to get “drunk” for the sum of on 4 penny.