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$ ASSOCIATED $ * PSESS * * DISPATCHES » *«$•«& VOLUME XXIV Governor Morrison Is Heard By Legislators ■ . , r„, a Chief Executive of the State Delivers Address Before a Joint Session of the Gen eral Assembly. PASSAGE OF PORT BILL IS URGED Governor Declares Freight! Rates Will Be Lowered.— Wants Port Terminals to! „ Be Developed Now. < *By the Associated Press.) Raleigh, Aug. 7. —Recommending the! passage of legislation submitting the proposition to the people, Governor Cam- ■ eron Morrison today urged the special | legislature of the North Carolina Gener al Assembly to adopt the report of the state ship and water transportation com mission, recommending establishment of state port facilities, and state ship lines. He also recommended repeal of the con stitutional amendment already adopted which relates to the .sinking fund of the state highway boards, which . provides that none of the gasoline tax or automo bile license fees shall be used in the fund, iibd adoption in its stead of am amendment permitting' use of these funds in the sinking fund. The Governor also urged legislation looking to the recovery by, the state, as an east-and-west railway line, of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad. Most of the address was devoted to the ship and water report, and the re commendations of\the commission. The Governor went at length into the ques tion of freight rates and the benefits he said would accrue from the establish ment of water routes and state ports, expressing the belief that if this were done the railroads would be compelled to lower freight rates in the state. He expressed the belief that the ports wcfuld directly benefit fifty counties through the use or truck and that by water outings the other sections of the state would be benefitted. The Governor urged creation of a com mission with power to .issue $7,000,000 worTh of bonds for port terminals at eastern coast, cities, and $1,500,000 for acquisition of state-owned ship lines, if necessary. THE COTTON MARKET WWWI 9JF (By the Anoriatsl Pran.) New York, Aug 7.—Reports of bene ficial rains in parts of Texas and Okla homa were followed by heavy liquida tion in the cotton market at the open-1 ing today. The opening prices were easy at a decline of 51 to 62 points, Oc tober selling off to 27.55 and December to 27.00. Heavy covering in anticipa tion of tomorrow’s government report checked the decline, but rallies of 15 or 18 points net increased liquidation, ahd the market was unsettled during the first hour. „ N Cotton futures opened easy. 27.60; Dec. 27.00; Jan. 28.90; March 27.10: May 27.28. Washington Temperature ts Highest in Six Years. Washington, Aug. 6-—Washington’s official thermometer soared t<? 101.6 de grees today, the highest temperature re corded here in six yenra. Six heat pros tration cases received hospital treat ment. ' A weather bureau thermometer in the down-town section of the city showed a maximum of 106 degrees at S :30 p. m. The only popular manifestation of any unusual thought of the weather, how ever, was a municipal bathing beaeu so vrowd that throngs had to be turned away. Train Strikes Auto Killing Three. (By tke, A»«»cl«ted Press.) New Brunswick, N. J., Aug. 7. —Three men were killed and two severely injured when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train at Voorhees Crossing early ’today. The victims, all employees of the Pub lic Service Company, went to the grade crossing where a woman was killed and two others injured Yesterday, out of cu riosity. • Camp Lumber Company Damaged by Fire. (By the Associated Press.) Marion, S. C„ Aug. 7.—The Camp Manufacturing* Company’s lumber plant j was almost completely destroyed by fire! of unknown origin early this morning. The loss is estimated at between $300,- 000 and $400,000. The plant was heav ily insured. Recently fire destroyed the commissary of the Camp Manufacturing Company. An astronomer of Carmel, California, has invented a camera that works eight times faster than the swiftest known camera of today and can take pictures by tarlight alone. In good moonlight a one-second exposure with this camera lens will give as perfect detail as an halt-hour exposure with present day cameras. v .- A . fire in the Arapahoa National For est in Colorado started from a camp fire left amoldering by careless motorists and burned 2,500 acres of excellent pine timber in a little more than three hours. This rapid destruction took place despite the fact that officers of the Forest Serv ice, with a force of 250 men, began fight ing the fire almost as soon as it start ed. A factory has been established at Jo • hannesburg, South Africa, to use locusts in the manufacture of concentrated cat tle and poultry feeds. The raw ma terial is almost Inexhaustible and a large output la anticipated. Thu Concord Daily Tribune CALL IS ISSUED FOR GATHERING OF LEGION State Convention of Legionnaires to Be j Held at Asheville September Ist and' 2nd. . . I The call for the sixth department con vention of the American legion of North Carolina to be held at Asheville, Sep , tember 1 and 2, is being issued to post (commanders throughout the state from 'the office of. R. E. Denhy, of Greens ' boro, department adjutant, over the sig ( nature of Wiley C. Rodman, post com mander. I The purposes of the convention are set forth iff the call as follows; l.t Electing departmertt officers for the ensuing year. ] 2. Electing one department executive commiteemnn and one alternate for each j district. | 3. Electing the national executive com mitteeman and alternate. 4. Electing delegates to the national convention at St. Paul, Minn. 5. Amending the department constitu tion, if necessary. 6. For the transaction of such other business as may be brought before the convention. Wade H. Phillips, of Lexington, and R. G. Cherry, cf Gastonia, have an nounced their candidacy for state com mander, and it is understood there are several other aspirants for the place. The convention headquarters will be established at Jhe Battery Park Hotel, Asheville, Abgust 31st, and the conven titon sessions will be held at the Ashe ville auditorium. J. H. Enwright, of Kiffin Rockwell post No. 2, Asheville, is in charge of hotel accommodations. The railroads will give reduced rates to the convention. The local legion organization. Fred Y. McConnell post 51, will send several delegates and alternates to the annual meeting. These representatives have been elected. As to representation, a portion of ar ticle five, section two, of the constitution of the department of North Carolina, American Legion, reads as follows: ‘‘The annual convention shall be com posed of two delegates and two alter nates from each local post in good stand ing and one additional delegate and al ternate lor each 50 members for whom the post shall have paid tile annual de partment and national dues 15 days be fore the convention.” “In explanation cf this," the call states, "it should be understood that a post in good standing is pne that has at least 15 paid members; that posts having between 15 -fcßd 30 allowed two delegates and two alter nates ; that for every additional 50 mem bers, or major fraction thereof, above the first 50, one additional delegate and I alternate is allowed; that 76 members is the last possible number that will se cure three delegates and alternates; and that the 15 days before the convention occurs on August 15th and the official representative at Asheville convention will be made up of paid memberships received by mail in letters postmarked with that dute.”^ “Post officers'” the sail states, “un less elected as delegates or alternates to the department convention, have no privileges in ’ the convention, except ns the guests of their respective delegations! It is suggested that post commanders and post adjutants be made members of the post delegations, as the experience of these officers will be exceedingly valuable to the delegations. “Each post shall have as many votes as it is entitled to delegates, as per the' post standing of August 15th, which will be mailed out from department headquraters on this date. “At each annual department conven tion, the duly elected and' accredited delegates from each district attending said convention shall hold a caucus, and nominate on the floor of the convention one person from thejr respective districts, as district executive committeeman and one person as alternate district executive committeeman.” Negroes to Be Electrocuted. (By the Associated P.-exsi Bowling Green, V#., Aug. 7. —Otto Clear and Frit* Lewis, negroes, were indicted, tried and sentenced to electro cutions on September 12th in circuit court of Caroline county here today for the murder last week qf Thomas R. Campbell, 02 year-old-farmer of near Nenola. The entire proceedings lasted a little more than one hour. Carrying' Plane to Lient. Wade. (By the Associated Pressit Newport News, Va., Aug. 7. —Lieuts. George C. MacDonald knd V. W. Her | trandiss hopped off from Langley Field l at 11:28 o’clock this morning for Pic tou, Nova Scotia, in the Douglass cruis . ing plane in which Lieut. Wade will re , sume his ’round tne world flight. New York Democrats to Suport Davis. (By the Associated Press.) New York, Aug. 7. —A resolution of fered by Geo. W. -Olvaney. leader of Tammany Hall, pledging “militant sup port” of the Davis-Bryan ticket, was adopted today by the Democratic State Committee. “Remember especially that sarcasln or biting Witticism at the expense of a sub ordinate, especially if be is 'an enlisted man and thus incapable of retaliation, is umanly and fatal to one’s standing as an officed. ... It is a safe rule in deal ing with a man under you to put your self, by imagination, in hia place.”—Cur tis D. Wilbur, Secretary of l the Navy, to the graduates at the Annapolis Naval Academy. In unveiling a war memorial recently General Bir lan Hamilton said: “There i is no getting over the fact that tragedies make good copy and that goodnes makes bad copy. Therefore d"feeling of'hope lessness comes over ttffCffiMta who wishes to point but to bis fdlo-vW the wonders land beauty of peace.* 1 " 1 11 — ■ T-yer. 1— From Case to Throne, Perhaps W Mb Elf/ 4 SmSm kjH Hi I ' n Hr fH k * I HgnjKE&dH > j V™| dtt ||L “ pr J nt ? r ™ y bfc , the n «« king of Altanda! AC jeasf Frederick T. 6 Wood of Chicago. 111., has as good a chance as anyone. Wood told a friend that he could handle this country which has unseated a handful rh th * , War „ The friend ioshlngly nominated Wood—but now the agertt diplomatique has written that he is interested. The old having "uneasy lies the head ” etc., holds no fear for Wo«l who *££& laid uneasy all my life anyhow;”" "j ROMANCE BLASTED BY YOUNG MAN’S THREATS George Schrimer Alleged to Have Drawn Pistol on Thomasville Girl. Thomasville, Aug. 0. —George vScbrira er, of Baltimore, Md., was before the city recorder this afternoon charged with threats on the life of Miss Vestal Leon ard, daughter of Mr-, and Mrs. George Leonard, of West Guilford Street. She testified that he .drew a revolver on her at two different times last Sundaj. Tile weight of the testimony seemed to be somewhat against the young man and the court fined hint SIOO and costs, amounting to S2O. According to the story Mix* Lenoard met Sehirmer while visiting her brother. Robab Leonard, in Louisville, Ky„ where, she said, she saw him many times, form ing quite an acquaintance, which ripened into something of romance. They met next in Baltimore, where Sehirmer stated they were together many times, she offering her hand in marriage, . iJMMMb -iittiotcd that ke-saas-wootr coming to Thomasville with the purpose" of learn ing something of her before making any matrimonial engagement. He testified that he did pull his gun and held it in his hand with the barrel pointing toward himself, and doing this on her insistence as she seemed determined to know wheth er or not he had a gun, but with no in tention whatsoever of shooting her or any one else. Miss Leonard stated on the stand that ns they were coming together from the First Baptist Chprch Sunday morning after the service the man threatened to kil llier and again in the parlor after getting to her home. On this charge the young man was locked in the city jail to await a hearing. Prosecuting Attorney Jackson asked Schrimer if he cared to marry the young lady now. His reply was emphatically “No, not for a million dollars.” The young man stated that he eaiqe to this town about a week ago and had mingled with different people who talk ed freely with him on points of personal interest to himself. The young man says lie is 22 years of age. Ims good employment, but his experience here found him quite unprepared to meet ex penses and pay his fare back .to Balti more. Many people here gladly con tributed to his expenses and helped him back to his home, where he plans to go tonight on 32. Bedlam Reigns In Treasury Building. Washington, Aug. o.—For n tew moments today bedlam held the United States treasury building. An employe 1 working in the electrically guarded cash ! vaults accidentally stepped on a burglar alarm. An automobile siren promptly : turned itself loose at full blast on the main floor and bells, in the guard rooms • oyer the big building set up a clanging ' accompaniment. 1 It was several minutes before the mechanism was quieted and the treasury halls had emptied themselves of the ex cited crowds. Word comes from Bombay of the or - ganization there of 'the first Hindu I football team. While keen on hockey, . polo, and several other sports, me nutive ■ races in India have heretofore never dis ■ played any interest in the gridiron game. Jugo Slavia, has the smallest navy in . tire world. It only possess a few mon itors for service on the Danube. ; Clarendon Baby Carried Off by Bear Found Unharmed in Ditch After Search r Whiteville, Aug 6.—Reports from - Clarendon, 12 miles southeast of here, I tell the following story: Mrs. Shepherd s Strickland was greatly shocked yester s day morning when she returned from a - short Visit to a neighbor’s house to find - that her little one-year-old daughter was 1 missing. She had left her only a short ', time before with her four-year-old brath -1 er on her porch and when she returned the little boy aroused from a nap and told his mother that a bear had come y since she left and came pretty near e catching him. When asked about the a whereabouts of his little sister he could s give no information. t- 1 The Stricklands live about a mile from s Clarendoq and soon the news of the miss-' a ing child was dteulated and in a very short time the whole community joined i 11 B.'l l. ■ •=x=ssatmr I ,II .. CONCORD, N, C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1924 ij i <■- GOMPERS REFUSED TALK WITH DAVIS Request Denied Because it Would Not Give Other Candidates Equal Oppor tunity. Atlantic City, N. 3. Aug. 6.—Samuel Gompers, president of the American federation of labor said tonight thnt John W. Davis, Democratic nominee for president, sought a conference with the labor leader in Ne>v York July 17 and liter requested Mr. Gompers to file with him "a statement of questions which labor is chiefly interested in,” “The con ference was impossible.” said Mr. Gom pers. “because of a conflicting engage ment." The request was denied he added, because he could not sumit questions to Mr. Davis, “which would not be equally submitted to other candidates for the presidency.” That Mr. Davis had communicated with Mr. Gompers was revealed in a letter the federation; leader wrote Wil iam B- Wilson, secretary of labor, and a present staff member of the Democratic national committee at Washington. The letter was in reply to the one received from Mr. Wilson by the exe cutive council of the American Federa tion of Labor urging thnt it defer en dorsing LnFollette until Mr.- Davis de livered his notification speech. JOHNSON’S DETOUR BECOMES HISTORY Stream of Fifty-Cent Pieces Ends With Opening of Main Highway. Greensboro, Aug. 6.—John Johnson’s detour in Orange county, celebrated as a device for separating travelers on the Durhnm-Hillsboro road from 50 cents per ear, unless they desired to make a 12-mile detour by Chapel Hill, is n thing of the past. The main highway was opened to traffic today and the Stream of fifty cent pieces is no more. The detour had stirred up some Legis lative resentment, but there will be noth; ing to that now. The cause is removed. Work on the main road enables travelers to avoid both Johnson and the other de tour and to ride east and west free. It is estimated that as high as one thousand ears a day went the Johnson route. He built the road on his own land and there was no help for it, beyond going 12 miles out of the way. Giant Air Cruiser Shenandoah Will Go. on Long Tour. Washington, Aug. 6.—The naval air cruiser Shenandoah will be sent on an exended tour of the west beginning about August 26, Secretary Wilbur an nounced today. While the intinerary has not been ap proved it has been decided that the cruiser will be at Des Moines on the occasion of the state fair and that her trip will take her as far as Denver. Omaha, Kansas City and St. Louis also have been practically determined upon as other points in the itinerary. Hornets Strengthen. Orlando, Fla., Aug. 0-—Charles Pfeif fer, right handed pitcher, and Jimmy Sanders, hard hitting outfielder, have been sold to the Charlotte club of the South Atlantic league, officials of the Orlando baseball club announced today. I 1 Tbe two players are to report at Char lotte at once. The terms of the deals were not made public. in the search for the missing baby, which presumably had been carried off by a bear. Tracks of some animal and said by members of the searching party to be made by a bear were discovered ap proaching the house, and with this evi dence it was the opinion of all that the child was destroyed. The whole com munity was diligently searched for the baby in a hunt lasting four hours when members of the party found tbe baby about three-quarters of a ’mile from its ■ borne in a ditch unharmed. It would have been physical! impos sible for the baby to have made this trip t unaided as she is just learning to walk - and J 0 rather frail, besides there was a cinal and several ditches bewteen the I bouse and where sbe was found. < RELIEF FROM HUT 11 IS PROMISED TODTOTOMOI Heat Wave Has Been Grip ping Eastern Part of Coun try for iThree Days and Has Caused Number of Deaths. COOL WAVE IS ON WAY TODAY Wave is Moving From North west and Probably Will Be Accompanied in This Sec tion by Local Showers. , (By !■« Associated Press.) Washington, Aug. 7.—Relief from the heat wave which has gripped the cas ern sections of the country for the last three days causing several deaths and many prostrations, is promised by tonight or tomorrow morning by the weather man. A cool wave moving in from the north west, coupled with possible thundershow ers. is expected to bring a moderation in temperature. but not cool weather. By tomorrow the thermometer is expected to register about 70 in the Ohio Valley and I western states north of Virginia. The general temperature for these secions at 8 a. m. today was about 80 degrees. SOUTH’S GROWTH JUST~ BEGINNING, SAYS SPEAKER Senator Walter F. George Says South Is Headed Toward Industrial Expansion Unheard Os. (By tbe Associated Press) Griffin, Ga., Aug. 7.—The South “is headed toward an industrial expansion hitherto undreamed of.” Senator Walter F. George predicted in an address pre pared for delivery today before a joint meeting of the Georgia State Agricultur- , al and the Georgia State Horticultural ; societies in session here. “Th£ great mountain region. 150 miles wide, extending down through Virginia. , the Carolinas, into Georgia and Alabama, and other territory runnmgthrough Mis souri, Arkansas. Oklahoma, and Texas to ] the Mexican border," he declared, “is destined to become the industrial center . not only of America, but of the world." M^UTRft v AV, ENGINEER KILLS WIFE AND SONS - Henry H. Lyon Shot Himself After Kill ing Members of Family.—No Reason Given. (By the Associated Press.) Buffalo. N. Y., Aug. 7. —Henry H. Ly- ' on, aged 45, an electrical engineer of this . city, early today shot and killed his wife and their two young sons, and then fatal ly wounded himself. He died several ( hours later. Although Lyon left note for his sis- | , ter, it referred only to matters of busi ness, and indicated no reason for the ( , tragedy which is a mystery to relatives ( . and friends of the family. DAVIS MAKES FLYING TRIP TO BIG PICNIC t 1 Democratic Presidential Candidate At tends Duchess County Picnic. (By the Associated Press.) Locust Valley, N. Y., Aug. 7. —A fly | ing trip to Hyde Park. N. Y., to attend the annual basket picnic of the Demo crats of Duchess County constituted the , program today of John W. Davis, Demo ( cratic Presidential nomiuee. The jour- I ney was made by train under a schedule I contemplating his return to his home here by midnight tonight. With Our Advertisers. >• Sehodl opens September Ist. Get your books early and avoid the rush, says the * Musetts. Ine. 1 Special clearance sale on all white f footwear at the S. S. Brown Shoe Store. Storage and repairing and Graham Brothers Trucks nt the Corl Mtor Co. “Quality Counts Most After All,” says ; new ad. of the Engle Co. today. ! Melba toilet preparations at Cline’s r Pharmacy. “You’ll Like Concord and Robinson’s.” 4 Quality reigns supreme at this store. * Miss Margie MeEaehern is agent for the Southern Home Insurance Co., in Concord. See her for insurance in this line. Klim, the powdered milk is sold by the < Pearl Drug Co. See new ad. today. The Specialty Hat Shop has for sale ? some excellent milinery fixtures. See ad. e for list. W. C. Correll Jewelry Co. is offering " silverware at one-half off. See nd. s Friday marks the beginning of the August Clear Away Sale at Fisher's. See t big new nd. today. The stockholders of the Citizens Bank and Trust Company are more than one hundred of the foremost citizens of Ca barrus county. See ad. today. I New goods are arriving daily at the Efird's new store. See their week-end h specials. a A B. Pounds sells Base Burner coal d at $12.75 per ton. See ad. ie I>et the Howard Filling Station refin >- ish your car with Forbes Original Auto i- Floss. Open cars $6; closed cars SB. See ie big ad. today. >- New goods are arriving daily at the ie new Efird's store. They are offering some n specials for the week-end. See new ad. y today. ts Many Killed by Floods. Tokio, Aug. 7 (By the Associated "* Press). —Two hundred persons are miss- P ing and many are believed dead as a re- K suit of floods along the Tamsui River in 16 northern Formosa, according to dispatch ie es received by the- Japanese newspapers here. ; _ , _ j t „ wem wi,d this fed JsTs N ° wonder car honors at the Pekinese f* Ranelaugh. England. H;s Pr^ttV 8 . " i ? adley Orange Blossom ’ Pretty, tsn t it? . “Hadlev” is »: e V° J !? ethe Pekinese ihe WorJd. - Anyway, he is smal' Slough to fit comfortably^in ih* championship cup^ ROW OVER EGGS NEARLY HALTED TRIP TO EUROPE Forced to Chase Liner Down Bay Aboard Tug. New York. Aug. o.—The difference between two and four-minute) eggs for breakfast almost caused a family to post pone a trip to Europe today. This was revealed as the liner Kmoute was being towed into mid-stream. Bremen-bound. Air. and Mrs. Charles Kiesemeiler, two minutes late, came running down the pier. Kieseneiler watched the departing ship while liis wife placed the blame. “If you had eaten the four-minute eggs” she said, “and not insisted upon my cooking the two-minute eggs later, we would have caught the boat.” “It wasn't the eggs,” said Kiesemeil er, “it was the clock —slow. as. usual.” Steamship officials came to the rescue with a tug, and took the pair aboard the liner. LITTLE GIRL SAVES HER YOUNGER SISTER -am PWfcs im sitter. Near Qegmnton and is Rescued By Five-Ycar-OM OH. Germanton. Aug. 6.—The small child of Gilbert boles, who resides on Route 1. met with quite a serious accident one evening last week. The children were swiming and playing near a small stream- The little girl swung out on the grapevine swing when suddenly she fell. The distance was about 10 feet. The presence of mind of a small sister about five years old evidently «avcd her from drowning, as she landed with face in water. -Before she ran for help she ran back and pulled her smaller sister out of the water. When help arrived the small child was unconscious and it was dis covered she was badly cut at several places on the head, making the rare of a physician necessary. She was brought to Cermnnton where her wounds were dressed and is getting along nicely. FORMER TWIN CITY MAN UNDER ARREST IN WEST Tom G. Taylor Gives SIO,OOO Bond When Heard By California Commissioner. (By the Associated Press.) Los Angeles. Cal., Aug. 7. —Tom G. Taylor, former official of a manufactur ing concern at Winston-Salem. N. 0., appeared before I'. S. Commissioner Ste phen G. Ixnig here yesterday, to deposit SIO,OOO bond and waive removal hearing on an indictment charging him with con spiracy to defraud in connection with his company’s operations. He is alleged to have misrepresented prices being received for tobacco in order to influence prospect ive investors. Biggest Taxi Driver. Cape May, N. .T., Aug. 6.—Cape May boasts of having the largest taxi driver in the State if not in the country. This claim is sustained by Luther Edmunds, colored, 19 years old and said to tip the scales at somewhat over 400 pounds. Luther stands over six feet tall and has a girth measurement running into three figures. Sitting behind the wheel of his cab he seems to fill the whole front seat, but he i« very popular with visitors and is said to do a thriving business. In spite of a strict diet, the big boy is gain ing weight at. the rate of two pounds a week, with no let-up in sight. Luther’s diet consists of limiting himself to one ' chicken with its eompletement of “fix ings,” three pies and $1 worth of ice ‘ cream at one sitting. He is a terror fear ! ed at all church suppers. As a songster Luther has no peer here among his race ■ and he also is said to shake a mean ‘ No. 15 foot. TMree Asheville Doctors Arrested. ; Asheville, Aug. 6. —Three more physi -1 cinns were arrested ui>on federal war rants charging violation of the Harrison 1 narcotic law todny and are under SI,OOO bonds ench for preliminary hearing be - fore U. S- Commissioner Vonna 1.- Oud o ger. Those arrested today are: Dr. G. e W. Purefoy, Dr. M. P. Moore, and Dr. P.' P. Chambers, all of this city. The de e fendants are being held under bonds e ranging from SSOO to $2,000. Davis Not Member of Klan. (By the Associated Press, New York, Aug. 7.—John W. Davis, ] Democratic candidate for President, in ;-1 a letter made public today, declared he is -1 not a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and a I never was h member. The letter was -1 written in to one sent to Mr. Da s vis by editor ot the World , Tomorrow, a magazine published here. ********* © TODAY’S * © NEWS * © - TODAY * ©©©©**©** - " NO. 185. siniTt LEGISUTURE CONVENED TIUH TO CUSS PORT PU Senate Began Session at 11:02 This Morning and House Was Just Ten Min utes Later in Starting. 20-DAY SESSION WILL BE HELD This is Belief Judging Freon Various Matters That Are Expected to Be Presented to Solons in Sessions. tßv the A MMOCknted Fnh.) Raleigh., Aug. 7.—The North Caro lina General Assembly today took up the task of deciding on whether or not the state should establish seaport terminals at various cities and towns on the east ern roast of tlie state, and possibly es tablish state-owned steamship lines. Called together by Governor Morrison to consider the report of the state ship ami water transportation commission which recommended bond issues totalling $8,500,000 to finance the proposed port and ship plan, the House and Senate assembled at 11 a. m. for what promised at the cutset to be a full 20-day ses sion. The Senate was called to order at 11:02 a. m. by Lieutenant Goovernor Cooper, and the House ten minutes later by Speaker John G. Dawson. Hear Governor Morrison. Raleigh, Aug. 7.—The North Carolina General Assembly met at noon in joint session to hear Governor Morrison's ad dress on the ship and water transporta tion bill, and other matters that he de sires the Legislature to act upon. The Senate, headed by Lieut. Gov. W. B. Cooper, arrived at 12:01 p. m„ tak ing over the presiding officer's chair. GRADY SAYS KLAN HAS DOUBLED IN NUMBERS Declares Organization Strong Enough to Name Own Candidate in State. Asheville, Aug. 6.—The membership of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina has more than dcuhled within the Inst fiO days, so that now in a state election teoffy to nami- fßefr own -'VaYidirtate, should they have one. Judge Henry A. Grady, of Raleigh, grand dragon of the North Carolina realm, told the Asheville Times today. Klansmen of the North Carolina realm, Judge Grady said are joining with others in the effort to abolish from the order the hood mask, except for use in initiation ceremonies. Judge Grady declared that he knew for an absolute fact that the Associated Press is controlled by the Roman Cath olic Church, or rather by the Catholic organization, Knights of Columbus. This organization, he declared, also controls to a • large extent civil service appointments in the United States, so that of tlie vast numbers of government employes appointed under civil service, 70 per cent, are Catholic, although there are 26 Protestants to every 15 Catholics in the country. The Asheville Klan is in favor of abolishing the hood and mask, Judge Grady said. He attended the meeting of the local Klan in the klavern here Tuesday night, he said. “The Ku Klux Klan does not instruct ' its members to vote for any certain man,” he said. “However, where there are several candidates for an office and it is known that one or more of their . number is not fit to serve the public, information is given all klansmen and they are then allowed to follow the dic | totes of their own conscience. “It is not a party organization. In North Carolina one fifth of the Ku Klux members are Republicans and the balance Democrats. The klan does not take an active interest in politics beyond fight • ing for the right and the public wel . fare.” , Judge Grady said he is not allowed to divulge the actual number of klans -1 men in North Carolina, but it has been reported that the total is now 42,000. Defense Witness Charged With Perjury. Chicago. Aug. 7 (By the Associated Press). —lntroduction of lay witnesses by the defense in seeking mitigation of imnishmeirt for Nathan Leopold. Jr., and Richard Loeb, * confessed murderers of Bobbie Franks, whom they had kidnap ped, brought from Robert E. Crowe, the state’s attorney, the shouted charge that one of them.had “committed deliberate perjury.” Allies and Germans Reach Agreement. London. Aug. 7 (By the Associated Press). —The allies and the Germans have reached a complete agreement on the man ner in which defaults are to be declared under the Dawes plan. WHAT SMITTY’S WEATHER CAT HAYS Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, probably scattered thundershowers; slightly cooler in northeast portion Fri* day. __ ,
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