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VOLUME XXIV
l AMERICANS HELD
UP AND KILLED ON
ALBANIAN HIGHWAY
Robert Louis Coleman and
George D. DeLong Way
laid on Road and Killed by
Robbers.
MARTIAL LAW HAS
BEEN PROCLAIMED
Men Were On Way to Paris
and London to Join Rela
tives —Unknown Persons
Committed the Crime.
Romo, April 7 (By tho Associated
I’ress). —Martial law has boon proclaim
ed in Albania, following the murder of
two American merchants, waylaid on the
Tirana-Soutnri highway.-according to ad
vices from Albanian Roun-es today. A
dispatch to the Stefnni Agency, which
first reported the crime last night, said
the Americans killed were named Cole
man and Del.oug, but gives no particu
lars.
The names of the murdered Americans
were given out by the American embas
sy as Robert 1-ouis Coleman of Ran
Francisco, anil Geo. B. do I stag of New
York City.
On Way to London and Paris.
Xew York, April 7.—George B. de-
Long, of New York, and Robert Louis
Coleman, as San Francisco, who were
waylaid and murdered on an Albanian
highway, were on their way to Paris and
London after a trip through the Medi
terranean, Richard Lounsber.v, son of
Mrs. deLong declared today.
Mr. deLong and Mr. Coleman left here
an Jaruary 26th. and were on their way
to join Mrs. deLong and her son in Lon
don on the tfttfc of this month.
Mr. deLong is n son of Senator. de-
Long, of California, and up until seven
years ago was a resident of that state.
He was 40 year* old. and a retired real i
estate broker.
London Report.
London, April 7.—The Albanian press
bureau in Ismdon today received the
following dispatch from Tirana, dated
Sunday: i
'.'At 10 o'clock Sunday morning two
■an merchants were klHed by mu
persoijH m. i>e Tirana-Sentari
if* •f. -—*r f jn|i auk ? ~t' i 11 jfr itass?
The Albanian gbve.rnWr*ht‘"aim
The Tirana population are profoundly
moved by the crime which they deeply
regret.
"This is the first occasion on which
such a crime has been committed in Al
bania where foreigners have always been
the object of the greatest hospitality and
sympathy on the part of, the popula
tion. The Albanian government is con
vinced that the crime was committed
with a political aim with the intention
of discrediting the Albanian state in the
eyes of the world. The government im
mediately took strong steps to secure the
arrest and punishment of the culprits.”
YALE NOT FOR THE RICH.
“We’ll Shut Up Before That Happens,”
Say* President Angell.
Chicago, April 7.—Yale will never be
a rich man’s college, for we'll shut up
before that happens,” President James
Rowland Angell, of the University, told
its alumni advisor}- board today. He al
so expressed optimism about, tho young
people of today.
"A large number of our students are
on their own expense,” he said. “About
one-third of the undergraduates are
earning a part or whole of their ex
penses.
“We like to have the high school boys
from the middle west. Wc have not al
ways been getting them, but we are get
ting them now.
’•Despite nil that is said against the
younger generation, I believe that most
of the young people of today are better
than /their parents. I .concede that, to
be true of my own offspring and I sus
pect you can say the same of yours.
They are better psysical specimens ftn£
I am inclined to think they are better
moral specimens, though of that I am
not so sure.”
Albina Deer Not So Rare.
(By the Associated Preaa.)
Weavcrville, Cal., April 7. —The recent
report of a white or albino deer, seen
near here, has brought statements from
sportsmen that albino deer were not so
rare as people generally believe.
Indians pn the Hoopa reservation have
a considerable accumulation of white
deer skins. They pay large sums to ac
quire these skins for use as ceremonial
robes. This is said to have provided an
unfortunate incentive for the destruction
of the uuusual deer in this region of
northern California.
Great Exit From Parma In IMS.
Washington, April s. —Continuatiqn
of present unfavorable conditions on
American farms will result in a general
“deportation” of American farmers,
representatives of several farm organi
zarions declared today in an open let
ter to “The President and Congress and
the people of the United States.”
Farmers were forced from their
homes in 1023 at the rate of 100,000
per month, the letter said.
Clark Howell and His Bride In New
Orleans.
New Orleans, La., April 6.—Clark
Howell, editor and publisher of The
Atlanta Constitution, and bis bride,
formerly Mrs. Julian S. Carr, Jr„ of
Durham,. N. O-, who were married in
Concord, N. C., last night, arrived here
tonight on the first lap of their honey
moon- The couple will remain here un
til Wednesday When they will sail for
Havnnn.
The Concord Daily Tribune
In Probe
|y|^Baa
rap . ' - gS
fIJBVr ' -v
Captain W. F. Volandt. involved
n testimony of Thomas F. Lane,
.’onner legal adviser to the aircraft
lervice. Lane claims that papers
nearing on government overpay
nents were rifled from his desk
tnd that Captain Volandt refused 1
io return them.
MR. GREEN’S FUNERAL
HELD IN (’IIARM)TTK
Death in Fire Recalls Tragic End of
His Young Sister Near Asheville.
Charlotte. April 5. —The funeral of
John P. Green, who lost his life in the
fire which partially destroyed Rroad
Oaks Sanatorium at Morganton. was
held This afternoon at Trysqn Street
Methodist church, of which deceased
was a member, the pastor. Rev. Dr.
Hardin, officiating. Interment was in
this city. Mr. Green was born and
reared near Asheville. Ho is survived by
his mother, who lives at Buena Vista,
near Asheville: his wife, who was from
Charlotte, and three brothers, all of
Asheville. He lived for a while in
I Wilmington and had an important part
lin building the new .SOOO,OOO custom
I house on the water front For several
years*be had been in bad health and had
been under treatment, in two other
sanntoriipns,
I His death recalls the tragic death of
hi* young sister, who. wjiilc ’in her
teeps, .wan, shot and killed by a pas
in n,Shf thorn ' tywin jffifiy'
the track, a short distance from her
home, looking at the train as it passed.
A passenger drew a pistol and fired at
the girl, killing her instantly. Her death
was n terrible shock to Mr. Green and
one from which he never recovered-
KING OF BELGIANS
IS ILL WITH GRIPPE
Paris Report Says He Is Seriously 111,
But Brussels Report Indicates It Is
Minor Trouble.
, (By the AMHoclated Press.)
Brussels. Belgium. April 7.—King Al
bert is suffering from the grippe, and
his physicians have directed him to re
main in the bed.
Paris Report.
Pay is, April 7. —A dispatch to In
trausigeant from Brussels says King Al
bert is seriously ill. He has been forced
to give up his projected review of the
garrison of the capital tomorrow and
will ho forced to spend the day. which
is his 49th birthday, in bed.
THROUGH HELL AXDBACK
TO BE HERRICK’S THEME
Oklahoma. Again Seeking Congress
Seat Promises Revelations-
Perry, Okla., April 7.—“Two Years
in Congress: or. Through Hell and Back
Again,” will bo the subject of the open
ing campnign speech of Manuel Her
rick, who has announced his candidacy
for another term in Congress as a
Representative of the Eight Oklahoma
district. Herrick formerly served a tem
pestuous term in Congress, during which
he conferred on himself the title of
“Aerial Dare Devil.”
At his first speech, to be delivered
here April 12, Herrick has promised
“sensational revelations.”
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Wampoles’ cod liver oil only 79 cents
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Every quart of milk sold by the Co-
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J. F. Dayvault and Bro. have a fresh
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Automatic and Baldwin refrigerators
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The Southern Motor Service Co. is the
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Wirth-moor Dresses, the very thing
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The Citizens Bank and Trust Co. in
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Take some shares in the Cabarrus
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See the new advertisement today of
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Pitcher Alien Goes to Murphy’s Outfit.
Charlotte, April s.— Pitcher Harry
Alien, veteran moundsman, tonight was
released to the Danville club of the
Piedmont league by tho Charlotte
management. He will, report at once.
CONCORD, N. C-, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1924
BOY OF 12 YEARS STABS
ANOTHER LAD TO DEATH
Tells Police He “Wanted to See llnw
Far in Knife Would Go.”
New York, April 7.—Paul Rnpknw
skic. 12. xtabbed to death a 12-year-old
boy lie never, had seen before "jusr to
see how fur in the knife would go.”
He Inter Told police that he and a friend
had stolen the knife, a butcher's b'ndc
12 inches long, in robbing a shop after
they had failed to obtain money with
whiHt to attend a motion picture then
ter. Wandering down the street lie
came across William Clifford. Jr., who
was strolling beside his father.
"I wondered how far the knife would
go into his back," the boy told the
police, "so I walked quietly behind him.
and stuck it. in his back.”
The Clifford boy died on his way to a
hospital. The father captured his son's
assailant.
fascisti~gain sweeping
VICTORY IN ELECTIONS
Sunday's Preliminary Elections in Italy
Showed the Popularity of Fascisti
Leaders.
(By (he A**ooln(eit Press.)
Rome, April 7 (By the Associated
Dress).—The overwhelming manner in
which the fascisti swept' Italy in yes
terday's parliamentary election is indi
cated in (he latest rompilat ion of re-,
turns which assures the fascisti party
350 out of the 533 deputies. Fifteen of
the 00 provinces gave the fascisti 330.140
votes against 98,941 for all the opposi
tion parlies.
Partial returns from oilier provinces
demonstrated that the election 'proved a
complete defeat for all the opposition
parties. |
To Observe Thomas Jefferson Day.
Raleigh, .April 7.—A. T. Allen. State
superintendent of public instruction, has
issued a statement to all principals and
teachers of the schools of the State call
ing upon them to co-operate in the hold
ing of exercises daily during the pre
paratory to the observance of Thomas
Jefferson Day on Friday. April 11th. A
number of schools over the state have
already signified their intention of car
rying the proposed program of cesnys,
talks and history readings.
On Friday volutary collections will
he taken to go toward the funds for the
Memorial Foundation and the purchase
of Monticello, Jefferson’s home, ns a
perpertual shrine to the man, the life,
and the work of the organized of the
Democratic party.
Mr. Allen also advised the principals
and teachers to request that pastors of
the churches in their communities as
sist in carrying out the progriLin and
making the foundation fund a success.
Can’t Sit io Coelidge’s Chair.
•' V U'cvyland. J Hr'frto^As.xooiated
-ic- ;iv - *■' ” - -I -«f
Tos “CTevrin net - pithM ‘ •te # "- r ihitking
elaborate preparations, including ex
tensive remodeling, to p’aee tho hall and
its complex equipment at the disposal
of the Republican national convention
here in June, one article of furniture
will be withheld. No delegate, no
in the councils of the party, will be al
lowed to sit in a certain leather-covered
arm chair. It is the chair which Galvin
Ooolidge occupied at a bankers’ con
vention held in the hall, which he was
vice president.
The state manager of the hall bad the
chair taken from the stgge to his
private office, where he vows‘it will re
main vigilantly guarded.
“Anyone who wants to sit there will
have to fight to get it,’’ he avers.
Methodist Women tk> Meet hi States
ville.
Statesville. April s.—More than 300
delegates are expected to attend the
Woman's Missionary meeting of the
western North Carolina conference
which will be held with the ' Broad
Street Methodist, church here April 29
to May 2. Mrs. Lucy H. Robertson, of
Greensboro, president, will preside over
the conference. A feature of the pro
gram will be addresses by some re
turned missionaries. The meeting is ex
pected to be one of extraordinary in
terest. All delegates who ex pcct. to at
tend the conference are requested to
notify Mrs. J. L. Sloan, chairman of tho
entertainment committee, Statesville, N.
C. ______
Th- fatiir, r—it not be a gamble
WHAT CHANCE HAS YOCK CHILD!
Here are some cold, -cruel facts:
Out of 1,000 children entering the
1 first grade—
-1 —only 139 will graduate from high
school—
-1 —but 23 will graduate from college.
What of it?
‘ Listen: In comparison with those
1 who have only a primary education, high
school graduates have over 600 times the
j chance for success.
1 Compared with those Who stop with
' high school, college graduates have a
' ten to one better chance.
“ There are the figures.
Why don’t you invest your savings
with us to build a fund that will give
1 your child “a white Tnira's chance” for
' success?
' Mou can do it by taking some shares
, in Series No. 43 of this old Reliable
' Building ft Loan Association. Don't put
it off but start today.
. CABARRUS COUNTY B. U and SAV.
’ ASSOCIATION
Office in Concord National Bank.
■J Prepaid Shares $72.25. All stock is
| ' Non-Tabale.
NOTHING NEWH
BY OIL COMMITTEE
AT SESSIONS TODAY
Another Featureless Session
Held While Stories of Oil
Deals Were developed by
the Committee.
FOUR WITNESSES
OFFERED DETAILS
Most of the Evidence, How
ever, Followed Along the
Lines Alrmdy Brought
Out In the searing.
(By (he AbWH-Lltert Press.)
Washington. April —The Senate oil
committee devoted another featureless
session to its inquiry into stories of oil
deals and oil contributions in the politi
cal campaign of 1929.
Four witnesses followed one another
in quick succession at the big commit
tee table, and none of them added ma
terially to the information which pre
viously had gone into the record.
Wilbur W. Marsh, of Ohio, former
treasurer of the Democratic National
Committee, testified that lie must consult
the committee's books before he could
tell how much E.- L. Dolieny contributed
to the democratic fund in 1920; W. L.
Kistler an Oklahoma oil man, disclaim
ed any connection with the republican
campaign collections in that year; J. B.
French, of Oklahoma City, told the com
mittee that Jake Hamon had informed
him of expenditures of $400,000 in the
1920 election, and of $25,000 to pay the
hotel expenses of the Harding convention
headquarters in Chicago: and Robert,
F. Wolfe, publisher of the Ohio State
Journal at Columbus, insisted under re
peated questioning that he had no first
hand information abqut the famous 2
o'clock hotel conference on Harding's
nomination, and never had heard until
recently of an attempt to make an oil
deal for the nomination of Leonard
Wood.
TWO KILLED. MANY INJURED
IN RIOT BETWEEN KLANSMEN
Eleven Citizens and Three Kkinsmen
Injured in Fighting.
Lilly, Pa., April 0, —Two men were
kjjled, another fatally wound
ed- and a score «if" other* were more
or less seriously, hurt in rioting Satur
day night between townspeople and
members of the Ku Khix Klan, a close
eheck-up by state police and deputy
sheriffs disclosed today. Four resi
dents of Lilly were being held by state
police upon charges of rioting while at
Johnstown 25 men, said to be Kians
men. were being held by Sheriff Logan
N. Kellar, pending an investigation.
The rioting occurred when the stream
from a fire hose was-turned upon the
Klansmen as they were- boarding a spe
cial train for Johnstown, 19 miles west
of here, after having paraded in the
darkness through the town from an ad
joining hill where a ceremony attended
by, some 000 Klansmen had been held.
Firing began immediately, and when the
special train pulled out 30 minutes lat
er several wounded men had been taken
aboard while Phillip T. Conrad and
Floyd Paul, both of Lilly, lay dead oa
the street. Eleven of the injured, all
declared to be residents of Lilly, were
token to ‘the Altoona hospital, the most
seriously hurt being Frank Miasco,
whose recovery physicians declared was
doubtful.
1,400 $1 BILLS GARB MAID
Notes Found Sewn in Garments of Vio
lent BBtmore Employee.
New York. April o.—Several patrolmen
a hotel detective and a Bellevue Hospital
physician yesterday afternoon took from
an ambulance a heavy bed blanket and
carried it into the ps.vcopathic ward. In
side the blanket was a woman's outer
clothing. Inside the outer clotting was
underclothing. Inside the underclothing
and sewn to it were 1.400 51 bills. Miss
Nellie Kane, fifty, a chambermaid at the
Biltmore, was inside the bills..
Miss Kane became violent in the
maids' dormitory at the hotel. The po
lice had to roll her in a blanket and tie
her there.
The $1,400 were not discovered until
Miss Kane was placed in the psycopathic
ward in Bellevue.
Sentence of Runeiy Commuted.
(By the Associated Preaa.)
Washington, April 7.—-President Oool
idge today commuted to one month the
prison sentence of one year imposed upon
Edward A. Rumely. former publisher of
the New York Mail and S. Walter Kauf
man and Norvln R. I.indheim, convicted
of violating the trading with the enemy
act. '
Mr. Blanks in Hickory.
H. W. Blanks, secretary of the Y,
spoke on "Community Work” to a large
gathering of business men at Hickory,
preparatory to the opening of Y. M. C.
A. work at that city. The meeting
was very successful, the business men
of the community responding most lib
erally in a financial way for the sup
port of the work.
Have Copy lor Change of Ad. in Office
by 10 a. m.
i Our advertisers will kindly remember
i that all copy for change of ads. mußt
: be in the office by 10 o'clock a. m. for
insertion the same day.
Early seedings should be transplanted
now to thicken them up end develop
root system. Tomatoeo, peppers, egg
plants and other seeds started last
i month will need transplanting to give'
more room and to harden them off.
MrLEAN CARRIES BAILEY’S
HOME COUNTY OF WAKE
Mr I/an Forres Win Decisive Victory
in Democratic Precinct Contests in
Wake.
Brock llarkley in Charlotte Observer.
Jtnleigh. April s.—With Ihe Wake
county precincts electing au overwhelm
ing number of McLean delegates to the
county convention, the McLean forces
tonight were claiming the utter rout of
the Bailey forces in the rather sharp
contests developing at the day’s precinct
meetings ever the personnel of the dele
gations.
Returns gathered tonight showed that
190 delegates supporting McLean were
eleoied *to the county convention from
10 precincts as compared with 68 dele
gates supporting Bailey elected from
three precincts. Two precincts split
between McLean and Bailey delegates
while 17 had not been heard from. In
the 17 not reporting are 00 delegates,
so that should the Bailey supporters
carry all of them the McLean delega
tion would still have a majority of 50.
As the result of the precinct elections,
delegates supporting McLean would be
in the majority at the county convention
in Mr. Bailey's own home county. Mc-
Lean's local friends have been claiming
Wake county all along, and they point
to today's precinct meetings as over
whelming support for their claims.
in Mr. Bailey’s own precinct, where
his father-in-law. James H. Don, also
lives, a solid McLean delegation was
elected. That is second ward, second
precinct, and it is sending 21 delegates
supiiorting Mr. Bailey’s opponent to the
county convention in Mr. Bailey's home
county.
Cary, home town of Herbert G. Gul
ley, one of the Bailey campaign man
agers. also elected a solid McLean dele
gation ; while House Creek township, lo
cation of Mr. Bailey’s single claim to
kinship with the soil through owner
ship of a 93-aere farm, elected a solid
McLean delegation. Wake Forest named
a delegation composed altogether of men
supporting McLean. Both the city of
Raleigh and the rural sections of Wake
furnished majorities for the McLean
delegates.
Local friends of Mr. McLean who
crowded McLean state headquarters here
tonight were jubilant over the strong
support given the Robeson county can
didate in the home county of the op
position.
The precinct meetings passed off
quietly in spite of the reported con
tests. A number of women participat
ed.
McLean was not a candidate in his
home precinct at Lumberton for dele
gate to the county convention, but the
McLean forces carried that, precinct over
whelmingly, according to a long dis
tance telephone call to the Associated
Press. . ,
K*RS* hW'MW |N
t « Warrants for many
Twenty-Four Men. Alleged Members of
Klan. Charged With Murder. Riot and
Carrying Weapons.
(By the ARBorlatrd Press. 1
Johnstown, Pa.. April 7.—Carrying
concealed weapons, murder and riot, ivere
the charges made against the 24 men
said to be members of the Ku Klux Klan,
by District Attorney I). p. Meimer here
this afternoon before Alderman E. L.
Levergood. The prisoners arrested in
connection with the fight between the vis
iting klansmen and townspeople of the
village of Lilly, Saturday night, during
which Lilly men were killed, will he giv
en a preliminary hearing later, it the
event they waive hearing for court, the
alderman said he” would hold them with
out bail.
The informations made by the District
Attorney charge that the men met to
gether “to disturb the peace and to
riot.” Ti e murder charges named Philip
Conrad and Floyd Paul as the victims of
the fight. They were shot to death in
the riot which started when, a number of
men turned the fire hose on tho Klans
■nen.
MAYFIELD CONTEST CASE
SHOWS MAJORITY FOR HIM
Senate Committee Is Making Recount as
Result of Contest by George B. Peddy.
(By (he Associated Press.)
Washington. April 7.—The recount of
ballots cast in tho Texas Senatorial elec
tion in 1922 was practically completed
today and on its face shows a substan
tial majority for Senator Mayfield, dem
ocrat. At the office of Senator Spencer,
republican, of Missouri, chairman of the
committee which is handling Geo. E. B.
Poddy’s contest of the election, it was
said ft number of contested ballots would
have to be passed ujion by the commit
tee as the counters were without author
ity.
Incurable Aliens Can Be Barred From
Country.
(By (he Aaaoclated Prow.)
Washington, April 7. —Aliens afflicted
with dangerous contagious diseases and
incapable of naturalization, the Supreme
! Court held today, can bo debarred from
[ admission to the United States. The
question was raised at San Francisco by
■ Shung Fook, a native born citizen of
1 Chinese parentage, in behalf of the ad
mission of his wife.
W. A. Graham in the Kate to Sucre -d
Himself in Office.
. Raleigh, April 5.—W. A. Graham,
formally announced his candidacy for
' the Democratic nomination for com
. missioner of agriculture in a statement
l issued here tonight. Mr. Graham has
. been commissioner of agriculture for
. the past several months, having been ap
pointed by Governor Morrison to till out
the term of hie father, Major W. A.
s Graham, deceased
r Ford Sold 21 Can a Minute in Last Ten
[ Days of March.
r Detroit, April 7.— On the basia of an
eight hour day, more than twenty-one
ears a minute were sold by Ford dealers
1 during the last ten days of March. An
> announcement by the Ford Motor Com
- pany today says retail deliveries of Ford
t cars and trucks for March totaled 208,-
!>■ 755. Sales during the closing ten
«, days averaged 10,80* dally.
Starts Quiz!
• Thomas F. Lane, whoso testi
mony turned Senate inquiry from
oil and Daugherty into the U. S.
Aircraft Service and thence into
the War Department putting
Secretary of War Weeks under '
fire. Lane had been legal adviser '
to the aircraft board and was dis- '
missed.
1
WAS WILSON ONLY A
“THINKING MACHINE”?
Daniels Says He Was “High-Spirited
as a Race Horse.
‘‘High-spirited as a race horse.” is :
how Josephus Daniels describes Wood
row Wilson in his new Life of the War
President, published by The John C.
Winston Co. Daniels says that “the
dominant force in Wilson was the in-1 1
herited spirit of the Scotch Covenanter,
mellowed- by the saving grace found in
appreciation of the humorous, the ab
surd, the strange. In duty he was the '
Covenanter. Speaking nt one time of his
inherited traits. Wilson raid: 'So far as
I can make out I was expected to be a
perfectly bloodless. thinking machine
—whereas I am perfectly aware that I
have in me nil the insurgent elements
of the human race! I am sometimes, by
reason of long Scottish tradition, able
to keep these instincts in restraint. The
stern Covenanter tradition that is be
hind me sends many an echo down the
years.’ "
According to ex+teerptary Daniels,
■ 'Wftsrm belonged ■ to •‘♦hfit rrtmH, -hptt j
superb nation, north of the Tweed,
which is bred in disciplined poverty,
nourishing the body on porridge and the
soul on predestination. He hnd all the
qualities, all the sensitive and angular
impulses of n thoroughbred. He wits
high-spirited ns a race horse. By a
pedigree religions rather than royal lie
was an aristocrat and lie knew it.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Easy Today at- a Decline of 36
to 44 Potato Under Realizing and
Selling For Recation.
(»■> (be Associated Press.)
New York, April 7.—The cotton mar
ket opened easy today at a decline of 36
to 44 points, under realizing and selling
for a recation, which was promoted by
easier Liverpool cables and reports of
better weather in the South. The ad
vanced of last week hnd evidently left
futures in an easier technical position,
and prices yielded readily to the early
offerings with May declining to 29.80
and October to 25.10 or about 45 to 50
points net lower on the aetive posi
tions.
Cotton opened easy. Mav 30.10 to
29.95; July 28.75; Oct. 25.20 to 25.10;
Dec. 24.05; Jan. 24.40.
Police Rounding l’p Bob Haireil Sus
pacts.
New York, April s.—Two bob haired
I blondes and five tall, dark and hand
. some” men were captured by detective*
i, in an upper west side apartment today
. in the .first of a series o£ raids to be
. launched upon suspected gang head
quarters in the search for New York's
. notorious girl bnndit and her male ac
complice. The apartment was leased by
i “Mr. and Mrs. Nelson.” to
the detectives, “Mrs. Nelson” is Flor
ence Quirk, a daneing teacher, who is
. separated from her husband- She was
held on a technical charge of possessing
dangerous weapons, two large calibre
k pistols, and many rounds of “dumdum”
ammunition having been found in a
bag suspended from a bedroom window.
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[ Sunday School Sets New Record For
Attendance.
! Salisbury, April 6.—The Smoot
. Bnrnca class of First. Methodist church
i set ,n new record for Sunday school at
f tendance this morning when they re
. corded an attendance of 326. The. at
tendance wns partly due to intensive
work on the hart, of several of the mem-
I bers and resulted front a challenge one
of the members offering to give a turkey
supper to the entire class if the at
’ tendance should reach 223 within a
month. Recently another member of the
I class gave a turkey supper when the
, attendance reached 130.
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■ Senior Hl-Y Luncheon Tuesday Noon
t Miss Helen Dayvauß, Frances How
. ard. Mary Roger and Sarah Crowellwill
serve a delicious lunch to the boys of
the Senior Hi-Y club at the Y. Tues
* day at noon. This will be the first
of a series of busines lunches to be
» served by these young ladies.
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8 can For National Bank Statements,
a (By the Associated Press.)
Washington, April 7.—The Obmptrol
i ler of Currency today Issued a call tor
.- the condition of all National banks at
a the close of business on Monday, March
131st.
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11 FACTS ABOUT
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lIID USE HD
Bundle of Letters From the
Justice and Interior De
partments and Individuals
Read at the Hearing.
FALL’S NAMeTs
MENTIONED AGAIN
While Secretary of Interior
He Tried to Stop Prosecu
tion of Case, It Is Said In
One Letter.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, April 7. —Dry details of
the Miller Bros, land fraud case in Ok
lahoma were reviewed today by the Sen
ate Daugherty committee.
A bundle of letters passing between the
Justice and Interior Dpnrtments. and va
rious individuals, were read into the rec
ord. and several witnesses were question
ed as to why criminal prosecution of the
case resulted only in the imposition of
fines, and why no civil suit to recover
the land ever was filed.
One of the letters showed that Albert
B. Fall tried while he was Secretary of
the Interior to secure a postponement of
the t(ial. but the Justice Department re
plied that the criminal action must go
forward. Most of the letters were pre
sented by Kdwiu S. Booth, who served
under Fall as Interior Department so
licitor.
Senator Harrald, of Oklahoma, made a
I voluntary statement to the committee
, disclaiming any political interest in the
| prosecutions, and saying he only had
urged action because he felt everything
should be done to protect the interests
of the government. He had learned to
his Surprise, he .said, that the Justice
Department had asked for nothing but
fines against those found guilty, and had,
made no move to recover the lands, which .
were a i>art of the 101 Ranch.
THREE WARRANTS ISSUED
AGAINST WALTER TYNDALL
Anbury Park Printer Charged With
Perjury in Complaints Made by
Three Business Associates.
kßy/the Associate.! Press.)
J Asbuey. Park, N, J-, April 7, — Three
*warrai>ts-"tdifll-ying-perjTny-We»e f - BitlML.Usi
today for the arrest of Walter G. Tyn
dall, local printer, and active church
member, by City Magistrate Borden.
The warrants were issued on the com
plaint of three local business men who
were alleged in an affidavit written by
Tyndall to have attended a dinner last
Thursday at which city officials indulged
in drinking and witnessed new dancing.
Tyndall's affidavit was submitted to
the civic church league, members of
which preached against the alleged im
moral conditions in this city from their
pulpits yesterday.
EXVLORERS LOST IN CAVE
Party Fails to Return After 134 Hours
in Arizona Cavern.
Tucson, Ariz., April 7.—Fear was ex
pressed today for the safety of a party t
including Alex Kerr, an Austrian ex- ,
plorer, which had entered the colossal
cave, twenty-five miles east of Tucson,
and failed to return to the entrance at
the appointed time yesterday afternoon.
A rescue party was ogranized last
night, but no word had been received in
Tucson this afternoon.
The exploration party, in addition to
Kerr,' included Dr. Herschell Hibbard
of the University of Arizona and Frank
Schmidt, lessee of the cave. On en
tering the cave the explorers carried pro
visions for 110 hours. The period was
up Inst night.
CLAIMS COMMISSIONS
. MAKES NEW RULING
Germany Not to Pay For Ships Used
to Fight Her Whan They Were De
stroyed at Sea.
(By (he Associated Press.)
Washington, April 7. —The mixed
claims commission decided today that
Germany is not obligated to compensate
for ships operated by the United States
at the time of their destruction during
the war, for purposes directly in further
ance of military operations against Ger
many. Thirteen cases submitted as a
test were decided by the commission.
Germany was held to.be obligated,
however, to pay for nine vessels, 'in the
ease of three steamers the commission
decided that Germany was not obligated
to compensate the owners.
Cannot Compel Railroads to Abolish the
Grade Crossings.
(By the Associated Press'.)
Washington, April 7.—States cannot
compel the interstate railroads, the Su
preme Court declared today, to join in
the construction of nnion, stations, and
cannot compel them to abolish grade
crossings.
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