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VOLUME XXIV
TBECOHIITTEEK
ABOUT d $3,000,000
LOU 10 Toon
As Chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee of
the Republican National
Committe in 1919.
THOMPSON WAS
TOO ILL TO APPEAR
His Attorney Stud the Loan
Was Secured by Oil Stock
But Had Nothing to Do
With Campaign Funds.
(By the Amuwlttod Press.)
Washington, April 11.—Returning to
its inquiry into possible oil company eou
tributjions to national political cam
paign funds, the Senate oil committee to
day sought information about a $:!,000,-
000 loan made by the C'lmse National
Rank in New York in 1019 to Wm.
Boyce Thompson, formerly chairman of
the ways and means committee of the
Republican National Committee.
Declaring his client was too ill to ap
pear, Win. Wallace, .Tr., attorney for
Thompson, testified that the $3,000,000
loan was secured by 50.154 shares of
Sinclair oil stocks, but insisted it had
nothing to do with campaign funds. He
said Thompson had no part in the re
publican financing until after the 1920
campaign, and that the chase Bank loan
was repaid in full in 1919.
The lawyer also read into the record
a telegram from Thompson, who has
been sought by the committee subpoena
servers for more than two weeks, saying
he had been “wholly out of the Sinclair
interests since 1921." Thompson was
said to have failed to respond to the
committee summons because he is con
fined to a sanatorium in Arizona.
Aityearing voluntarily and speaking
for his client, Wallace also denied that
Thompson had borrowed large sums to
wipe out the republican national com
mittee deficit after 1920.
More Testimony About the Fight Film.
Washington, vApril 11.—(More testi
inoney about the Dempsey-Carpentier
fight film, the Old Hickory Power Case,
nnd the Miller Brothers land fraud pros
ecutions in Oklahoma was hoard Unlay
'KsSiSi,
wbMe Chairman Brookhart nnd llffiafor
Wheeler were inquiring into the affairs 1
of tlie Midland National Bank, at Wash
ington Courthouse, Ohio.
J. J. MeOraw. an Oklahoma republican
lender, denied some of the previous tes
timony connecting him with the Miller
case; William Tiighman, of Oklahoma
City, told Ik>w he contracted for “pro
tected" exbibitiod of the fight films iu
that state; and J. M. Towler, a depart
ment of Justice agent, further developed
stories told to the committee about the ■■
department’s delay in prosecuting the Old
Hickory case.
Dismissal of Bill of Complaint Issued.
Cheyenne, Wyo., April 11.—Dismissal
of the bill of complaint of the United
States of America against the Sinclair
Crude Oil Purchasing Company, and the
Sinclair Pipe Line Company is sought in
a petition filed by the two corporations
in Federal Conrt in answer to the gov
ernment’s suit against the Mammoth
Oil Company and these corporations, for
annulment of the Teapot Dome naval
oil reserve lease.
The answer of the Mammoth Com
pany, the chief defendant, has not been
filed. The thirty day time limit, set
Efor its tiling, will expire April 14tfc.
Air Pilots Bomb Tegucigalpa.
Washington, April 11. —Air pilots of
Honduran rebel forces have begun mak
ing bombing raids on Tegucigalpa.
The National League of Girls’ Clubs
will hold its biennini meeting at Smith
College this year June 18 to 22.
;
A WORK
The wife who helps her man to get
somewhere is entitled to a whole lot
more credit than she usually gets.
Often, she is the one who starts tbe
man on the rood to success by leading
"the way in matters of thrift.
Handicaps there may be, but you can
trust tbe earnest woman to "get over
them, through them or around them —
anyway to leave them behind."
There are a lot of fine women who
c6me here regularly to invest their fam
ily savings.
To them all we extend a heartfelt wel
come.
Our 53rd series is now open. Running
shares cost you 25 cents per share per
week.
Prepaid shares $72,125 per share. In
vest your family savings wHt us. All
stock is non-taxable.
CABARRUS COUNTY B. L. A SAV.
ASSOCIATION
Office In the Concord National Bank
The Concord Daily Tribune
Mannington
B(*s
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.
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Howard Mannington, whose name
nas continuously popped up In the
• Benate Investigation In connection
with the now famous "little green
bouse In K street," snapped upon
his return from Paris. He was wel
corned by subpoena servers.
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COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE APPEAL.
Previously reported $1025.00 i
J. T. Honeycutt : 150.00 .
J. A. Cline „ 150.00 i
Mrs. Zeb Moore 150.00
Miscellaneous 525.00 i
Total $2,000.00 J
DRIVER FATALLY INJURED
Southern Train No. 38 Strikes Bus at
Kings Mountain.
Gastonia, April 10. —Paul Davie, of
Gastonia, is in a dying condition and
three others are more or less injured as
the result of an accident at Kings Moun
tain tonight at o'clock when train No.
3 hit an nuto bus plying between hero
and Spartanburg. The injured are
Charles Pease, of Augusta. Ga., J. D.
Baldwin, of Mt. Gilead, nnd Monroe
Jones, of Piedmont, S. C. Baldwin is
badly cut about the head and shoulders,
Jones and Pease have superficial in
juries.
Itavis, the driver of the jitney, has
a fractured skull, a broken leg and in
ternal injuries. He can hardly recover
nnd is In an unconscious condition.
jialn. A wet windshield obscured the
Silver’s vision. The injured were*
brought to Gastonia on the train nnd
taken to a local hospital.
The automobile was owned by H. L.
Bass, who operated a jitney line between
here and Spartanburg. Due other oc
cupant of the car, Barrett Jones, was
uninjured.
GASTON JURY ACQUITS
KILLIAN AND JOE ORR
They Are Found Not Guilty of Ford’s
Death—Crowder. Who Has Confess
ed. Not -Yet Sentenced.
Gastonia, April 10. —A verdict of not
guilty asto both defendants was return
ed late tonight in the case of Joe Oi'r
nnd Ransom Killian, on trial sincp
Tuesday for murder in connection with
the killing of John Ford in November,
1920. TLe' jury was out more than
nine hours.
Orr and Killian were arrested a few
weeks ago after they hnd been implicat
ed in the slaying of Ford by Arthur
Crowder, n prisoner at Decatur, Ala
bama. in a confession, said to have been
made first to a minister who visited
him during a serious illness nnd Inter
reiterated to officers. Crowder this week
pleaded guilty of mttnslauhter and be
came the star witness for the state
against Orr and Killian. Crowder was
brought here from Alnbnma to stand
trial. He has not been sentenced.
With Our Advertisers.
Buy bn the pTan of payments a little
at a time, and pay as you wear, at Far
ley’s. Men’s suits, women's coats and
suits, women's dresses nud millinery,
boys’ sluits, ladies blouses, skirts, sweat
ers, etc.. The prices are right too.
Get your home-made cakes at C. H.
Barrier & Co.’s aud help the ladies of
Epworth Church.
The Concord and Kannapolis Gas Co.
has many styles in gas ranges. See them.'
The Standard Buick Co. has a num
ber of used cars for sale or exchange.
See list in the new ad. today.
You will always find many bargains
at the Piggly Wiggly.
The service of the Citizens Bank and
Trust Co. is certain to please you.
Qet double cream for whipping at the
Co-operative Dairy Co.
Don’t forget the big Easter Sale of
new spring footwear at very low prices
at Parker’s Shoe Store.
Fisher’s will have a sale Saturday
and Monday of special house, porch and
street dresses at 95 cents, $1.29 and
: $1,50. You can’t buy the material for
: that.
Thousand Chinese Converts Baptized at
Same Ceremony.
Peking, April (10.—Tty* iw'liolesale
conversion to Christianity of the troops
, of General Feng Yu-hsiang, which re
. suited last February in the baptism of
3,700. has beeii further signalized by nc
. ceptßnce of the faith by another 1,100
soldiers.
, Eight clergymen, natives and foreign,
1 officiated in an impressive ceremony on
the drill ground at Tnngchow, a suburb
. of Peking, when these latest converts
[ were baptized recently.
General Feng, who is known throngh
out China as the Christian general, ad
dressed the men.
It Is that 13.000 of the 30,-
000 troops under Gen. Feng’s eommand
now have embraced tjie Christian faith.
CONCORD, N. C.,' FRiDAY, APRIL 11, 1924
AGREEMENT WITH
JAPAN IS REDUCED
TO CONCRETE TERMS
“Gentlemen’s Agreement”
Under Which Japanese
Immigration Into United
State Was Curtailed.
IS NOW REDUCED
TO PRECISE TERMS
Is Calculated to Clarify the
Issue Over Japanese Ex
clusion Which Has Been
Raised in Congress.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, April 11. —The famous
"gentleman's agreement" under whieh
Japanese immigration into the United
States was curtailed, has been reduced
to concrete terms for the first time in
an exchange of correspondence between
Secretary Hughes and Ambassador Hani
harn.
The diplomatic exchange calculated to
clarify the issue over Jnpanese exclusion
which lias been raised In Congress dur
ing discussion of the new immigration |
legislation, was forwarded by Mr.
Hughes today to Chairman Colt, of the
senate immigration committee.
Heretofore the international under
standing between Washington and Tokio
on the subject has been based on a long
succession of exchanges nnd precedents,
and the exact terms of the agreement
never have been reduced to precise form.
FLOATING HOTELS FOR
. ÜBE AT CONVENTION
Two Steamboats to Be Made Available
to House Several Hundred.
(By the Associated Press.)
Cleveland. April 11. —Floating hotels
on the cool waters of Lake Erie are a
possibility contemplated iu case the
throngs attending the Republican nat
ional convention here in June should ex
ceed present calculations. Alva Brad
ley, chairman of the convention enter
tainment committee, haN notified commit
tee officials in charge of housing that
two steamboats can be made available
to house several hundred people in case
of need.
The housing bureau reprirts that there
IBMMBrtilJlz *’ nif) rooms iit hotels avail
able rtHd'iNlir rddm* in residential apart
ment hotels which will be available when
their regular occupants are away for the
summer. In addition, several new apart
ment houses, the largest to have 500 to
600 rooms, are under construction and
expected to be completed in time for the
convention. The housing bureau will en
deavor also to arrange for rooms in pri
vate dwellings to serve last-minute ar
rivals.
"This is the first convention for which
a housing bureau has been organized,"
said George B. Harris, chairman of the
hotel committee. . "Cleveland means to
treat every person here for the conven
tion as a guest, and to provide for their
reception in a thorough-goiug. system
atic way never before’ attempted."
GASTON COURT’S THIRD
MURDER TRIAL TAKEN UP
Carl Mitchum Charged With Slaying
His Mother-In-Law. Mrs. Rena Lay.
(By the Associated Press.)
Gastonia, April 11.—With Joe Orr and
Ransom Killian acquitted, and Philip
Wynneberger sentenced to from 15 years
to 25 years in the state prison, the Gas
ton County Superior Court today took
up the third murder case of the term,
Carl Mitchum being put on trial on the
charge of slaying his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Rena Lay, at her home in South Gas
tonia, several weeks ago. /The slaying
occurred following a quarrel between
Mitchum nud hit) wife, from Whom he
was separated. Mitchum surrendered,
claiming self defense.
Orr and Killian were acquitted late
last night by a jury whieh was out near
ly ten hours.
Wynneberger pleaded guilty to a
charge of second degree murder for kill
ing Claude Cook, of Cleveland County.
AVIATORS WARNED OF
APPROACHING STORM
Flight Around the World Is Arrested on
This Account.
Sitka. Alaska, April 11 (By the As
sociated Press). —Warned of an ap
proaching storm off the Gulf of Alaska,
the four U. S. Army aviators on
flight around the world, rested here to
day after their 300-mile flight yesterday
from Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
The aviators originally were scheduled to
leave here today for Cordova, Alaska.
Brilliant European Swindler Booked as
Habitual Criminal.
(Correspondence of the Associated Press)
Berlin, March 24. —Stephan Otto, born
near Brussels, who posed as a major
in the Belgian army in 1019 and decorat
ed Major General Henry T. Allen, com
mander of the American tones at Co
blenz, with the Belgian military medal
of honor, and who has since been arrest
ed as a swindler in. half a dozen Euro
pean cities, has been classed by Berlin
i detectives as a' “habitual criminal.’’ De
spite this, the young man may soon slip
from the German prison because no spe
i cific charge has been filed against him.
i His last exploit was an attempt to ob
i tain a high priced car on the pretense
that he was a member of the Inter-Al
■ lied Commission of Control in Germany.
Otto has associated with high officials
in Paris, Vienna, Constantinople and oth
er cities, gad the story is even toll) that
| on one occasion he actually slept a night
. in Buckingham Palace.
President Coolidge Sends Message to
Senate Today on Heney Appointment
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, April 11.—President
Coolidge in a message to the Senate to
day advised that body to maintain its
‘•constitutional and legal rights” in eon
durting investigations.
The message, couched in direCT lan
guage, was pecaoioped by action of the
Senate committee investigating the In
ternal Revenue Bureau iu employing
Francis J. Hency, of California, m spe
cial prosecutor at the instance nnd at
the expense of Senator Cousens, of
Michigan, a Republican member of the
committee.
The President supplemented his mes
sage with a letter from Secretary Mellon
DETECTIVES CONVINCED
THAT WOMAN TOLD TRUTH |
When She Confessed to tbe Killing of
Charlie Blair la Connecticut!.
(By the Associated Pram.)
New York. April lj. —Detectives arc
convinced that Mrs. 4 0,la * lna Tell told
the truth yesterday yritbn she gave a cir
cumstantial account of her slaying of
('has. Blair on a little, farm near Kil
lingworth. Conn., left today to seek
Blair’s body.
They hnve bpen seupplied with dia
grams hy Mrs. Tell. She said she shot
Blair, hacked his body with nn axe, and
secreted it in the cellar overnight, and
then buried it in a pit, because he in
sisted that she marry him. o
Later—Blair's Rady Found.
Killingworth, Conn.. April 11.—The
body of Charles Blair, who was slain
by Mm. Johanna Tell, according to her
iconfession made in New York, was
found by the searchers at the Blair
farm here today.
REPARATION COMMISSION
APPROVES DAWES’ REPORT
Approval Was Unanimous,—Official Dec
laration Issued.
Paris, April 11 (By the Associated
Press).- —The reparations commission to
day officially approved the report sub
mitted to it by the experts committee on
Wednesday, on the German reparations
question.
The recommendation of the commission
is that the report be approved condi
tional upon the acceptance of it. by Ger
many. The commission was unanimous
in its approval.
The reparations commission will hear
the German representatives regarding
ihe report on Thursday, April 17th.
An official declaration by the commis
sion signed by its President, accepting
the report, was issued this evening.
STATUTE OF GOHJiAA MAN
GIVEN PLACE IN CHURCH
Unitarians Accept Bronze Rejected by
New York Academy.
New York, April 11.—Carl E. Akeley’s
bronze statue, "The Chrysalis,” which
depicts a young man emerging from the
form of a gorilla, and which recently
wa« rejected by the New York Academy
of Design as lacking in merit, will be
solemnly unveiled • Sunday in the West
Side Unitarian Church, according to
Rev. Charles Frames Potter, the rector.
Akeley will address the congregation on
"Personality in Animals.”
Potter said that exhibition of the
statue would be the first step in an anti
fundnidCntalist campaign. The unveil
ing will take place as a part of tbe cele
bration of "Evolution Day.”
UNDERWOOD’S NAME IS
TO BE FILED THIS WEEK 1
According to Walter Murphy,- of Salis
bury, His Campaign Manager. I
(By the Associated Press.)
Salisbury, April 11.—Senator Under
wood’s name will be filed with the State
election board this week, according to
Walter Murphy, his campaign manager,
today in discussing the entry of William
G. McAdoo in the North Carolina Demo
cratic Presidential preference primary.
In Raleigh on Wednesday Mr. Murphy
had expressed the hope that North Car
olina would instruct its delegation for
Josephus Daniels. I
Burglars Get In Two Clever Pieces of
Work at Spencer.
Spencer, April 10.—Burglars got in
two clever pieces of work Wednesday
night, entering the homes of Mr. and
Mrs. C. W. McCarn on Yadkin Avenue,
and of Mr. and Mrs. E. P.* Deal on |
Salisbury Avenue. In each instance
an entrance was effected by raising a
window. At the home of Mr. McCarn
the burglars ransacked the place with
the exception of the room where he was j
sleeping. They got a quantity of money j
in the room of Claude Cochrane and also I
took a fountain pen nnd some clothing. !
At the home of Mr. Deal they stole j
some money, a suit of clothes spectacles .
and other things and went to the dining I
room where they apparently ate a hear
ty meal . They made their escape with- j
out detection and left no clue.
Charlotte Attorney Announces Candi
dacy for State Senate. ,
Charlotte, April 10.—Hamilton C.
Jones, attorney-at-law and chairman of
the Mecklenburg County Democratic ex- 1
ecutive committee for many years, has
1 announced his purpose to run for the
State Senate from Mecklenburg. Mr. I
Jones becomes the first avowed new can- >
didate for the race for representation in
’ the next General Assembly from Meek- j
1 lenburg county. Mr. Jones is a son'
' of the late Colonel Hamilton C. Jones, ’
’ many years chairman of the county
1 Democratic executive committee, also a
■ representative of this county in the
1 State Senate for several years.
- McAdoo May Make One Speech in
State, Says Judge Brock.
* Winston-Salem, April 10.—sludge W.
- E. Brock, state campaign manager for
- William G. McAdoo in North Carolina,
i stated this afternoon that plans are
• under way for Mr- McAdoo to visit
t North Carolina for one' oe more speech
t (* before the date of the 'primary. Hi*
coming will likely be daring May.
in which the treasury head declared that
should "unnecessary interference" with
the proper exercise of his duty be con
tinued "neither I nor any other man of
character can longer take the responsi
bility for the Treasury.”
Employment of Heney was declared by
the President to be in conflict with the
law, and a procedure likely to throw the
government into disorder.
“It is time that we return to a gov
ernment under and in accordance with
the usual forms of the law of the land."
the President said. “The state of the
Union requires the immediate adoption
of such a course."
j HEAD OF FEDERAL FARM
| EXTENSION WORK IN IREDELL
Will Come to This Section to Inspect
Agricultural Conditions
Statesville. April 11.—Dr. C. B.
Smith, head of the Federal farm exten
sion work with offices in Washington.
D. C., will be in this city on April
18th. He will use Statesville as his
headquarters during the time flint he is
inspecting the agricultural conditions of
the county of Iredell and the work be
ing done by the county agent, R. W.
Graeber.
It was s ated that Dr. Smith would
inspect this county because work being
don(* here is typical of that carried nn
throughout the South and particularly
the state of North Carolina. It is prob- 1
able {hat the Federal departmental head
will address the people of the county at
the county commencement here on April
the 19th.
Raleigh, April 11.—The next regular
meeting of the State Livestock Associa- i
tion will be held in Asheville on Novem- 1
be.r 11, 12, 13 and 14 in co-operation i
with the Western North Carolina Live- 1
stock and Agricultural Exposition, ac- i
cording to announcement by Professor i
R. S. Curtis, of North Carolina State i
College of Agriculture. The actual
meeting place of the association has not
yet been determined, but it was stated c
that the Buncombe county court house 1
would probably be used.
Mr. Curtis states that the decision I
of the animal industry workers to hold
their next meeting with thi sexposition
of the Farmers’ Federation is in line
with the policy of the livestock men to
select one place in the western part of
the state at whieh to gather the live
stock men each year, leaving the State
farmers’ convention held at the college
each August ns the gathering place for
tbe livestock men of the lower Pied
mont and coastal plain regions of east
ern Carolina.
- vNarHt- UwoHnfc live
stock and Aifriartttnrnl Hxpeeiftion, it
was said, win feature corn, potatoes,
apples, poultry, and livestock. The live
stock features of the exposition will
come under the supervision of the State
livestock association, it was explained.
JOHNSON SAYS HE WILL
NOT GIVE UP THE FIGHT
Declares His Object Is to Rid G. O.
P- of Its tßeactJorau-y" Control.
Washington. April 10.—Senator
Hiram Johnson, iof California, candi
dnte for the Republican Presidential
nomination. declared tonight in a
formal statement that he is not quitting
what he is “attempting to do political
, , - v -” This he defined as nil effort to rid
I the Republican party of “a corrupt and
reactionary control.”
! There was no specific mention of hi?
candidacy in his statement, nor was
there any reference to persistent reports
I that he would at least curtail his acti
| vities in the remaining states that are
to select delegates to the Republican
National convention at Cleveland.
Since his return to Washington yes
terday, Senator Johnson has conferred
with a number of his advisers here.
While no formal announcement has
been made, it. is known that some of
them, at least, have advised him to
abandon the contest for the nomina
tion. «
| The only public answer the Senator
has given to questions ns to whether he
intended to adopt, that, course is his
statement tonight. In that, he declared
that, the “unholy alliance between
crooked politics” which dominates the
Republican party must be smashed and
the party “revitalized and regenerated.”
“In my humble way I have been try
ing to do just this,” he declared, “and
I shall continue trying to do it. T am
neither discouraged nor despairing. The
fight goes on until it shall be won'.”
THE COTTON MARKET
I Opened Firm Today at an Advance, but
Later Reacted.
tlr the Associated Press.)
! New York, April 11.—The cotton mar
, ket opened firm today at an advance of
i one to 17 points in response to relatively
firm Liverpool cables and an unfavor-
I able weather map. There was a good
i deal of realizing at the advance, bowev-
I er, and after selling up to 31.55 for
May the price soon reacted to 31.05, or
about 22 points net lower.
1 Cotton futures opened firm: May
31.55 to 31.40; July 29.85; October
| 25.80; December 25.20; January 24.70.
Cone Group of Mills to Curtail Opera-
I tions-
I Greensboro, April 10.—The Ihrox
■ imity cotton mills Proximity print
works and White Oak mills here, known
as the cone group of mills, employing
| several thousand operatives, will cur-
I tail operations to four days a week, it
' became known here tonight, beginning
; on April 21.
| These mills have heretofore kept out
of curtailing operations, but the state of
’ the market and the accumulation of
, manufactured goods by cotton mills
• throughout the state and the smith
cousos slackening down.
The output of the mills is large, the
i Whife Oak mills'being the largest pro
duced of denims in the world, C><
- Caught
f
Lieutenant Ervin Brown, U. 8.
naval paymaster, who faces charges
of absconding with $120,000 In navy
funds. He was found in San Fran
cisco, lying by a roadside apparently
the victim of amnesia. His wife re
turned $75,000 of the missing money
to naval authorities about a week
before hi* arrest.
BUTTON CRAZE YEAR
Fashion Experts Say This Is to Be a
Button Year.
New York. April 11. —Fashion experts
tell us that this Is to be a button year.
They are to be used in platoons and
companies for the trimming of summer
frocks—small buttons. large buttons,
square buttons, buttons of all shapes and
isizes and colors; buttons on sleeves, but-
I tons on panels, buttons everywhere.
1 The history of the button in the
United States, after the war cut off the
chief source of . foreign buttons, drawn
principally from Germany and Austria-
Hungary, has been one of great activity,
both in home production and exporta
tion.
In the year before the outbreak of
the war in Europe in 1914 the value of
the button production of the United
States was $2fl(.000.000. while in 1919,
the year following the close of the war. 1
the figures had* risen to $43,000,000, .and
experts in the industry estimated that |
the sum paid by the "final consumer”
in the United States was about SIOO,-
000.000. The total number of buttons
turned out by the factories of the United
Sfofre-io-liM) -w -00.883,000 grew*.' nc -
equivalent to practically 10,000.000.000
buttons.
Besides rhis big total of more than -i
$40,000,000 worth of buttons supplied-to
the home market by American mannfac- j
hirers, they have rapidly expanded their
-ales abroad. Prior to the war the
value of the buttons exported from the i
United States averaged a little more than
half a million dollars a year, but with
the chief European button manufactur
ers, Germany and Austria-Hungary, cut.
off from the outside world, the foreign 1
demand upon the United States was
greatly stimulated, and the value of ,
American exports of this class of manu
facture jumped from a little over half
a million dollars in 1914 to nearly $4,-
000.000 in 1920.
Os this big production aud exporta
tion, the ouce despised “mussel” exist- '
ing in enormous quantities in the rivers 1
of the United States, and especially the 1
Mississippi, furnishes an important part !
of the material used in the manufacture 1
of pear buttons, and tbe score of button 1
factories whieh line the Mississippi in 1
Illinois and lowa turn out millions of
dollars worth of pearl buttons, the ex
ports alone of that particular group of
"pearl buttons” having mounted to more
than $1,000,900.
The whole world has apparently
learned the attractiveness and value of ,
the United States button. Os the pearl
buttons alone exported in 1920 direct
sales were made to no less than 60 coun
tries and colonies, and the $3,000,000,-
000 worth of buttons other than pearl
distributed went to 80 countries and
colonies. To Europe alone the exports
of pearl buttons amounted to $300,000,
and all other buttons SBOO,OOO, making
the exports of buttons to Europe, for
merly the great button manufacturer of
the world, over v 1,000,000.
The capital now invested in the but
ton manufacturing industry in the Unit
ed States is more than $30,000,000, and
the sums paid in wages in the last cen
sus year in excess of $10,000,000. Os
the approximately 600 button factories
in the United States, nearly one-half are
located In the state of New York.
Japan, alwas alert in recognizing new
developments in world needs, has also
tremendously increased her button out
put in recent years, and especially that
of pearl buttons, as is illustrated by the
fact that she sent to the United States
in 1920 about 5.000,000 gross of pearl
buttons, valued at $1,947,000. while the
pearl buttons imported into the United
States from all other countries amounted
to less than $30,000.
Fight 801 l Weevil With Poison Gases.
Washington. April 10. —An appro
priation of $25,000 would be added to
the current army bill for carrying on
experiment* in the use of poison gasee
in boil weevil eradication under pn
amendment pro|>osed today by a sub
committee of the senate appropriation
committee headed by Senator Harris,
Democrat, Georgia. The army work
. will be independent of the field investi
gations now carried on by the geological
. surveys.
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• Wood WO! Not Resign.
i Manila, P. I„ April U (By the to
i sociated Press).—Reports emanating
from the United States that he «on
■ templated resigning were denied emphat
- ieally by Governor-General Leonard
Wood today.
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ISPECUUTIOH RIFE
M EFFECT OF
DEATH OF SUES
On the German Internal Sit*
uation and the Reparations
Settlement.—His Interests
Fall to Sons. !
FULLY CONSCIOUS
TILL THE END CAME
Even in His Final Hour He
Asked for Details 'of the
Dawes’ Report on the Rep
arations Problem.
Berlin. April 11 (By the Associated
Press). —Germany's “strong limn" of
•industry is gone with the passing of Hugo
Stinnes, and speculation is rife today as
to the ultimate effect of his death, on
the interna] situation and in the repara
tion settlement.
Weakened by the effects of three major
operations within 4 weeks, the man who
Would admit no defeat in the marts of
trade, bowed last night to the ravages of
disease. He was fully conscious to the
end, and during the day talked constant
ly with members of bis family, gathered
at the bedside.
• It was characteristic of him that even
in the final hours he asked for details of
; tbe Dawes report on the reparation prob
lem, and expressed gratification at recog
nizing what he professed were some of
his own ideas among the recommenda
■ tions made by the experts.
Next to the loss of his leadership over
the industrial group, which wields such
important influence in determination of
' German reparation policy, interest cen-
L ters in the policy to be followed with
1 regard to his vast business interests, the
' main details of which he continued to
• supervise until the last.
•The administration of *these interests
will fall on his sons, Edmund and Hugo
[ Jr., both of whom have been in close
: touch with their father's enterprises dur
-1 ing the last five years.
HONDURAN AIR PILOTS
BEGIN BOMBING RAIDS
The Rebels Have killed * Number of
Women and Children in the Capital.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington. April IX. —Air pilots of
the Hoailnmu- rebel • ■ fowet. have -begun
bombing raids on Tegucigalpa, the cap
ital. and have killed a number of wom
teu and children.
Four bombs were dropped near tbe
grounds where members of the American
landing force from the cmiser Milwau
kee at Amapala were exercising, but dis
patches to the Navy Department today
from Rear Admiral Dayton, made no
mention of any casualties among the
American forces.
CHARLOTTE PLASTER
MEN WANT INCREASE
They Ask For $2 Per Day Increase,
Making Total 914-
Charlotte, April 10.—Plasters em
ployed on the Johnson building. Char
lotte’s newest skyscraper now in pro
cess of construction, have filed an ulti
matum with the contractors demanding
an increase in wages from sl2 to sl4
per day. The plasterers have beeu mak
ing sl2 per day for several months and
this morning notified tbe contractors of
their decision to ask an increase of $2-
per day.
Medals for Best- Spellers.
Raleigh, April 11, —The medals to be
■presented to the school children that
won the best spellers contest in this
city during the recent meeting of the
Teachers’ Association have been sent to
the engraver and will be delivered to the
•winners within a week or ten days, it
has been announced at the office of Jule
B. Warren, secretary of the North Caro
lina Educational Association, which or
ganization fostered the contest and do
nated the medals. The first prizes goes
to Charles B. Livengoed, Jr., of -the city
schools of Durham; second, to Elizabeth
Keyes, Oak Hill School, New Hanover
county; and third, Ruth E. Cobb. at
Stearns High School, Columbus, Polk
county.
Raoners which were awarded to the
schools that, the winners represented
have been forwarded already, it was
stated. ! *\
Daugherty Rides ih Same Car With
Wheeler and Brookhart.
W ashington. April JO. —Former At
torney General Daugherty left tonight
for Washington Court House, 0., nnd
found himself in the same ear, with
Senators Brookhart and Wheeler, who
were bound for the same, destination ns
chairman and prosecutor, respectively,
of the Daugherty investigating com
mittee. Mr. Daugherty said the meeting
was merely accidental, as he was going
to bis mother’s home in accordance with
plans made several days ago. The two
senators are to conduct' an examina
tion of witness in the Ohio town.
WHAT SAT’S BEAR SATS.
Rain tonight and Saturday, continued
cool. ••••.$!