North Carolina Newspapers

• ASSOCIATED i P PRESS ■ • DISPATCHES I 1 SwS; ' Boosters Also Entertained at Kannapolis Where They Made Short Stop Just as They Entered County. SHORT MEETING AT LOCAL “Y” Boosters Left After Meeting For Charlotte, Where They Will Be Eentertained Dur ing the Day. ! The Mt. Airy delegation on its wdy to the Made-in-Carolinas Exposition was met this morning shortly before noqn by a convoy of twenty-five or thirty auto mobiles , made a brief stop at Kannap olis and then hurried to Concord for a . short visit in this city. The Mt. Airy delegation came about seventy-five strong. The Concord welcoming party met tMm at' the circle around the lake in Kan nopilin. The entire crowd stopped in the Y auditorium for a few moments where the Mt. Airy and Concord parties were augmented by a number of prominent of ficials of the Cannon Mills there. Short speeches of welcome were delivered by E. .1. Sharp of the Kannapolis Y and H. W. Blanks of the Concord Chamber of Commerce. The response to these re marks was made in a word by Zeb Khbinron of Mt. Airy. On leaving Kannapolis, the party slowly made its way to Concord. Along tbe read sighs had been tacked to objects extending to the visitors a welcome. The journey in the city was made down Union street amjd much blowing of horns on the part of tl\n r «*rs and the waving of handkerchiefs by persons an the porch es iv* the long line passed. The stop in Concord, which was to have been made on the lawn of the ♦ was transferred to the gymnasium. Dr. T. N. jSpencer acted as chairman of the meeting and introduced Mayor 'Wombie, who made a brief speech of welcome. Mor rison Caldwell then made a short talk to the delegation in which he said that the hearts of the 12,000 people were open to the Mt. Airy people. Responses were by Mayor A. F. AYest and-Zeb Robinson. drinks were served by the ladles of'the city. : The delegation then left for Char lotte, where they will be entertained at a luncheon given in their honor by the civic clubs of that city. MILLION DOLLAR Co! ORGANIZED IN STATE The Coastal Land and Timber Company Granted Charter hi State: (By the Associated t*ress.) Raleigh, Sept. 25.—The Coastal Land and Timber, (Company with headquarters at Raleigh was today issued a charter by the office of . the' Secretary, of State, authorizing a capital Stock of $1,000,000. The jneoroprators who have already sub scribed SIOO,OOO, are Dan Allen, of Ra leigh ; J. H. Johnston and K. B. John son pr Cardenas. Plans of operation as set forth in the charter patl for the development, improve ment and maintenance of the lands which the corporation will buy, sell, lease and mortgage. It is specified that the company will search for minerals, phos phates and sulphur. Rights are reserved by the corporation to issue one class or more than one class of stock on decision of the majority of the voting stockholders. DAVIS BACK IN HOME STATE FOR CAMPAIGN WiO Brine to People of West Virginia a Message From Democratic Party. (IK’ *he Associated Press) Davis Special, eh route to Charleston, , Harper's Ferry, W. Va., Sept. 25.—John W. Davis came back to hie home state today to present again his cause as the Democratic Presidential candidate. En-, couraged by his campaign through the wfest, Mr. Davis is determined to conduct a militant fight on what he has de nomi nated as the three dominant issues— | common honesty, common justice, and i common courage in government. On his trip through West Virginia Mr. i DAvis will speak first at Hinton. 1 To Route Autos Throughttie State. (By the Associated Press.) Asheville, §ept. 23.—For the first time \ since it was organ ized the Detroit Auto Club will route toturigtg over Route “A” between Cincinnati and Asheville on their way to Florida points, it has been announced by N. Buckner* manager of the Western Carolina Motor Cltub, who has just recejyed a letter from Stacey Hill of Cincinnati, telling, of the action of the Detroit Auto Club. He route to be followed goes by Cincinnati, Lexing , ton, Asheyijle and Hendersonville. jews »ssiWffg K rapper. Ardmore, Pa., Sept. 25. (By the As sociated Press).-—Bobbie Jonas, of At lanta, was 3 hp when he and R. E. Knepper, of Chicago, bad played 18 hides in their 36 hole match in the National Amateur Golf touTn \ment today. Kocnester, W, 1., wpt. Theodore York'X^conventiorhfrTtoday. among '’th^^ele^tes* 1 a tending "The I American Institute of Bankinir eonveti-l .3 . , T . . • I ' T y. • • ' •, iF - ,. . -u. ' M ' ‘ ' ihe CongOrd Daily Tribune Miss Mollie Teague Has Been Missing Five Days .4* 1 School Teacher Charged : With Strangling Her Own Baby Was Carried Off Sat urday Night. OFFICERS UNABLE TO LOCATE HER Believe She Was Carried Off By Friends' Who Faced Her Guard With Number of Guns. tßy the AMMCfnted PreM.) Waynesville, N, C., Sept. 25.—Spirited away from the home near here where she was held under guard in connection with the strangling of her new horn in fant, Miss Mollie Teague, aged 26, school teacher, was sought today by Haywood county officers who confessed themselves baffled after a five days’ search. The abduction of the attractive young woman by a party of unidentified men early last Saturday morning was disclos ed today. Friends of the youpg woman who was in a serioas physical condition and facing a charge of homicide, are thought to have been the abudetors. Members of the party cowered the guard with guns and calmly removed her to a motor ear which was driven toward the Tennessee line. Miss Teague was under guard at the home of W. G. Messer, near Little Cat j taloochee. while her recovery was being awaited before transferring her to the jail. About 1 o'clock Saturday morning five men with blackened faces knocked on the door of the Messer home. When Deputy Sheriff Bennett on guard in the house went to. the door he was covered | wjtb- *ifle(T and pistols and commanded to raise has hands. He was disarmed. Then the men aided the Teague girl to the door, placed her on a horse, and led the horse to an automobile some dis tance away. Deputy Rennett said the automobile drove off in the direction of the Tennessee State line. ‘ Several days ago Miss Teague, who is a member of a prominent Haywood j county family, was placed under arrest after a, new-born baby found strangled I with a cord about its neck, had. been j found in a corn field near the Messer! home. Mr. Messer said he had seen Miss Teague enter the corn field. The girl was found at her school where she was endeavoring to continue with her runs to have confessed that the child was hers and that she strangled it. She refused to implicate any man. A guard was placed over the house, the guard being changed eaeh day and night. It was intended to place her in jail here as soon as her strength permitted. Shot .Near Heart, Drives Four Mites. Macon, (•«., Sept. 24.—Just alter being shot in the chest, in the region of the heart, A. J. Long, Jr., wholesale grocery salesman, stepped into his auto mobile late today and drove four miles to a local hospital, where he collapsed. Doctors say he has little chance to re cover. • Sheriffs deputies investigating the case found that W. F. Bell, grocery man, one of Long's best friends, laid a pistol on a counter in Bell's store, in a suburb, and the gun accidentally went off. High Point Makes Threat to Secede. Greensboro, Sept. 24.—Warning was brought yesterday that unless a branch of Guilford Superior Court is established at High Point a movement will be made to create another I county with High Point a» county seat. Along with de mand for a branch court is call for a deputy register of deeds and deputy clerk of court. The common larkspur, growing in i the mountains from Colorado westward, i la very poisonous to cattle, particularly just before blossoming time. Only cattle die from larkspur poisoning. Horses do not touch it when left to themselves, , and sheep seem to thrive on it. ; OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQ That Goes Into[ the Old Relia | and Loan Asso- j j ciation Today. 8 Each pay day set aside a certain proportion of your wages to go into 1 O your BUILDING -AND LOAN ACCOUNT. It is otaly by following j X some definite plan of this kind that you can get ahead. X TAKE OUT SOME SHARES IN SERIES NO. 54 NOW OPF-N ' 8 FlßST—and economise on other items if necessary. 9 The advantages of this plan will be evident to you after you have tried Q | X it a short time. O RUNNING SHARES 25 cents PER SHARE PER WEEK. PRE- I I X PAID SHARES $72.25 Per share. Shares mature in 328 weeks. ALL 1 8 STOCK NON TAXABLE. BEGIN NOW. j \ ] CABARRUS COUNTY BUILDING LOAN AND SAV- B INGS ASSOCIATION l I Office in the Concord National Bank § IfLnntMVXftftfuxnrinnfUMinnnnfUuirinjiJLrL nnnnnnnnnnnnr —O - CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25.1924 t HEARING ON COTTON C RATES IS CANCELLED . Was to Have Been Held in Montgomery, Alabama, on. October 3rd. (B.r the luorhiHd l*mn) Washington, Sept. 25.—A hearing on the proposed uew schedules for cotton rates, from, to, and between Southern points, now assigned for October 3rd, , at Montgomery, Ala., before Examinee Koehl, today was cancelled by the Inter state Commerce Committee. The cancellation of the htaring was brought about after a tentative agree ment had been reached by Southern cot ton interests and carriers over the terras of the proposed rate revision. The ten tative agreement provides that a propos ed 15 cent per hundred pounds advance in the ra.tr on compressed cotton shall not be made. The suspended schedules were to have become effective September 1 and were ordered held in abeyance pending the hearings, until December 31st. Generally speaking, the suspended schedules proposed to cancel the present cotton rates in the entire southeastern, Mississippi Valley and Carolina territor ies, and to apply, in their stead, a scale of cotton rates now applicable on Geor gia intra-state traffic with few exceptions. 1 McLEAN DENIES THE CHARGES BY MEEKINS Says Republican Foreign Policy Respon sible for Bank Failure*. (Bn tile Associated Press.) ; Reidsville,, N. C., Sept. 25—Angus W. ! McLean, Democratic candidate for gov ernor, speaking here last night, follow ing an address in the afternoon at Leaks -1 ville-Spray, answered the charges of | Isaac Meekins, Republican candidate, that the Democratic party was responsi | ble for the bank failures in North Caro lina by declaring that the bank failures jin North Carolina and throughout the : country were due to the Republican ad ministration of the national government. He said that this was true because the Republicans closed up the foreign mar | kets by its foreign policy and had bank- I rnpt the American farmer by flooding , the local'markets with their own prod ucts. THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady at Decline of 6 to 13 Points—December Off. (By the Associate! Press) New York,’ Sept. 25.—The cotton mar ; ket opened steady today at n decline of 6 to 13 Joints in reapppee, to. rat her pout Liverpool cabled and a favorable view of the weather outlook except for the pos sibility of further showCne in the Atlan tic States* December sold off to 22.65 at the start/but was good buying on the decline which seemed to We partly for trhde accounts. Prices turned firmer in consequence. Gotten futures opened steady. Oct. 23.40; Dec. 22.68; Jan. 22.70; March 23.03; May 23.25. , Severe Storm in Eastern France. Paris, Sept. 25 (By the Associated Press). —A storm of cyclonic violence is ravaging southeastern France. The an cient city of Orange has been particularly hard, hit a deluge of rain flooding the railway station, washing out the track and cutting the main railway from Paris to Marseilles. Weather Affects New Orleans: Market. (By the Associated Press.) New Orleans, Sept. 25.—The New Or leans cotton exchange seethed with ex citement this morning with the posting of the weather map showing more rains in the eastern belt. Heavy short cover ing ran prices up rapidly, October jump ing from 22.20 to 23.45, an increase of 125 points. Unable to -Find Missing Vessel. (By the Associated Press) Detroit, Mich., Sept. 25.—A thorough check of the Lake Huron coast line from Osseda, fifty miles below Alpena to Point Huron at the .foot of the lake had failed at noon today to reveal any trace of the missing freighter Clifton with its crew of 28 men. The boat was due here yesterday. «SKI Says °*» .Property *>ut Never Ex- BAPTIST INIJAME ONLY, HE SAYS Association SEast Meeting Decided Not to Exercise Option anjH to Drop the Matter EflQvly. The following communication was re ceived this morning from T. D. Manets by the editor of The Tribune: Editor Tribune, M , City, Dear Sir:—l herewith hand yon state ment in regard to Bie Baptist Hospital Company and would be glad if yon would give it the same publicity as carried in your paper yesterday. Trifly yours. ; T. D. MANESS. Editor Tribune: i I notice in your issue of the 24th in stant. that the Associated Press sent out from Charlotte, the report that the Bap tist Hospital Company was “A Hospital to be operated by the Meeklenburg-Ca barrus Association.” Today's Qharlotte Observer states that “the organization of the company was fostered by T. T. Cole. Charlotte real-es tate promoter, the movement being start ed with the support of the Mecklenburg Baptist Association.”.. It is true that the company was “fos tered by T. T. Cole; Charlotte real es tate promoter,” but as a matter of fact, us shown near the bottom of page 16 in the minutes of the Mecklenburg-Cabnrvus Association held September 1923, that there was no financial obligation whatever assumed by the Association; that the Baptist Hospital Company assumed the full financial responsibility. The Mcck lenbu rg-Oabn rrus A agonist ion at'no time assumed ownership P,of the property or financial responsibility, The last para graph on the tein|(tp4'Pflge sixteen, above ; referred to. being "The Baptist Htwafrnj Company offers : -4? wtthout cost, the option on of the pres ent hospital buildlhgti amj equipment, to ; gether with ten acrflfc of' land, for the I of $150,000.00, plus the cost of any material and permanent improvements added to the present plant from this date 1 until the said association may exercise its option to purchase the property. This option to remain in force for a period of five years.” It will- thus be seen that the Mecklen burg-Cabarrus Association had an op tion for five years to purchase the proper ty. The Association, at its last meeting, voted to surrender the option, thereby severing even its right t* exercise the op tion. My information is that the $105,000.00 mortgage, given by the Baptist Hospital Company, was simply the switching of mortgages of practically the same amount, which T. T. Cole and associates had pre viously given upon the property. If the information which I have is cor rect, I am firmly convinced that the word "Baptist” in the Company was put there in order to commercialize the Bap tist name, and the intention of the real promoter, Mr. Cole, was that he should stay in the back-ground and be the “pow er behind the throne.” This view is backed by the uncontra dicted statements of' men of unquestion able reputation as stated upon the floor of the Association at its last meeting. I do not question the absolute integri ty and honesty of a number of good Bap tists, who become connected with the en terprise, as promoted by Mr. Cole, but a much larger number of-Baptists, equally as good, when the absolute facts became known, at once lost all confidence in the plans of Mr. Cole and also in his man agement and thereafter refused to have anything whatever to do with the Com i pany. | The MeCklenburg-Cabarru:, Associa , tion as a matter of fact, held ah option i and as well known the Association had a | right to refuse to exereiae the same and i surrender it at any time, i The Mecklenburg-Gobarrus Association | did not assume any more responsibility i tot the obligations of the Company than 1 it would be the obligations of Cannon | Mfg. Co., should it amend its charter so i as to read “Baptist Mfg. Co." It was | simply Baptist in name but not in fact, i As is well known, when any object is i Baptist in fact and under Baptist eon | trol its obligations are always worth one i hundred cents on the 4oU«r. i It occurs to me that the next Legis ! lature would do a great service if it i would pass a law making it a felony for any promoter to organize any corpora tion and use the word “Baptist” in con nection with the Company) unless the company was, in fact, under the absolute ownership and control of the Baptists, thereby making it impossible for anyone to commercialize the name “Baptist." I It is my opinion that if Mr. Cole had [ made known to Mr. Wade his plans that | due and timely warning would have been I given against the sate, of stock In the | Baptist Hospital Company. ffqdlwl Fran Stock F”*—f ' member of the brokerage firm of Secor, Reynolds A Co., was expelled from the ! New York Stock Exchange today for | alleged irregularities In connection with | ■transactions in the stock of the Southern i States Oil Company. . Stubborn Fire Causes Heavy Damages He " '■ - * PLANS TO RETIRE SOME STATE HIGHWAY BONDS Bonds to the Extent of *1,000,000 will Bs Retired Within the Next Few Days. (By tfce Associated Press.) : RfllcWfh. Sept. 25 Highway bonds of North Carolina will be retired to file ex tent of $1,060,000 within the next feu days, it was announced here last night following monthly sesion es the State Highway Commisioh which lasted until W’ell into the evening. The total amount of bonds then retired will be $2,500,000 Besides placing the $1,000,00 in the sinking fund, the .Commission drew up Plans for asking the 1925 General As sembly for a bond issue of $35,000,000 for Continuance and expansion of the highway work. The $65,000,000 pro cured from the bond issue authorized by the 1!)21 legislature has been expended it wns stated. The committee unanimously voted to use its authority invested in it by the reeent extra session of the General As sembly and voted Chairman Frank Page -J~e in salary from $5,500 to STATE GUARDSMEN TO~ BE INSURED IN GROUP Group Insurance Plan Approved by Adju tant General, Attorney General and Insurance Commissioner. I (By the Associated Press.) Raleigh, N. C„ Sept. 25.—Members of the National Guard of North Carolina will become policy jiolders of a $7,500,- 000 group insurance issue under a plan approved by the Adjutant General, the Attorney General, nnd the Insurance Commissioner, made public here late yes terday. At the same time it was announced that the South Carolina National Guard would be insured under a similar plan, and the same extent. The underwriting agree ment stated that the combined policies of the two states were the largest of its kind ever written in the South. LANDSLIDE WIPED OUT PART OF VILLAGE Twelve Houses Were Crushed And Par tially Buried.—Fifteen Persons Re ported Killed. Berne, Sept. 25.—A landslide last night obliterated a large part of the I mountain village of, Someo, in the Tes- 1 Kin canton, crushing 12 houses into twine, 1 and partially buryin* them. According fSPoris, 15 persons were killed; 1 30|»«uses destroyed in the disaster v«me£. heavy », “Uttfr Fair” at High Point. (Bv the tmoclslnl Press > , High Point. Sept. 25.—“ The Lit tle Fair” will be held in (his city on 1 October 4 next for the benefit of the I Barnardo homos, it has been announced ] by the arrangements committee. The i fair wil' be complete in detail, it was i said, and will include all kinds ot ex hibits as well as many contests. So far the chief exhibit and contest planned, according to those fostering the fair, is the baby show in which fond parents may exhibit their children in hopes of carrying off the prize, either in the class for looks and figure or health and intelligence. Here will also be dog show and a pet animal show in which any pet animal may be entered. Plans are also under way for a liorse show. With Our Advertisers. Fresh fish and oysters today at the Sanitary. Grocery Co. Eating fresh fish and oysters once or twice a week is healthful. See ad. of J. F. Dayvault & Bro. Top-notch values for men and boys at J: C. Penny Co. Men’s suits at $24.75. Other items in proportion. Nineteen Killed in Floods. Leningrad, Russia, Sept. 25 (By the Associated Press). —Nineteen persons are known to have perished in the great flood which followed Tuesday's gale. The death toll is regarded as light, however, in view of the extent of the flood, which Sas the worst suffered by the former ussian capital since 1824. Daugherty Strikes Back at President Who “Ousted” Him t Special Despatch to New York World. Washington, Sept. 24.—Harry M. , Daugherty, whether he meant: to or not, has struck back at President Coolidge for ousting him from the cabinet. His production of Gaston Means’ re- : pudiation of the testimony given before i the Brookhart-Wheeler committee has reopened the whole scandal. The committee is going to resume its ; sessions, and that means that in the middle of the campaign the front pages of the newspaper will again placard the : revelations of the grafting of Jess Smith, the then attorney general’s closest friend. Smith shared Daugherty’s home and ; had a desk, though no official title, in the Department of Justice itself and thus wan enabled to traffic in pardons, whiskey withdrawals and otherwise gen erally to capitalise his supposed ability 1 to dispense immunity to law-breakers. Chairman Brookbart has authorized Senator Ashurst to - organize the new hearings. None of the committee lias any doubt of its authority to go ahead, and the plans are to summon Daugherty to repeat under oath his declarations of his knowledge of perjury committeed in the previous hearings. William O. Ducksfein, secretary, to Edward B. McLean, who, according to Means, dickered with him for immunity in exchange for a recantation; Blair Goan, who is another charged by Means w?th having negotiated with him, and probably Mr. McLean himself will be asked for information as to why Thomas Felder, Means’ attorney, felt called ,Y‘'*‘ Blaze Which Started in Mov * ing Picture Theatre Caused i Damages to Several Busi ness Concerns. ■ SIOO,OOO DAMAGE IS SANE ESTIMATE Hoover’s and Porter ' Drug Store Suffered Very Heavy Losses From Water and Smoke. i . A fire which started in the pro jection room of the Piedmont Theatre yesterday afternoon at’ 2:30 o’clock, threatened for some time to destroy sev eral buildings in the heart of the busi ness district and before extinguished did :ause damages estimated at SIOO,OOO. Beginning about 2:30 o’clock the blaze burned dangerously for about two hours before it could be controlled. The fire spread with a rapidity that could not be met at the outset. Its ori gin was in the booth built for the opera tor of the machines of the Piedmont and this booth was cut. off from the front part of the building by a hriek wall. That meant that water thrown into the front of the building, did not reach the blaze for some time, and the smoke was so dense that firemen could not get with in striking distance to use chemical#. The theatre building, owned by W. W. Flowe. housed the theatre on the ground floor and the offices of C. M. Lsenhour, manager of the theatre: Dr. G. L. Lang, optometrist; and Dr. .j. V. Davis, den tist, on the second floor. The office of Mr. Iseubour'was entirely gutted and the offices of Drs. Lang and Davis were bad ly damaged by fire, smoke and water. The buildings occupied by the Porter Drug Store and Hoover's, on either side of the theatre building, were badly dam aged by smoke and witer. The fire never reached the building occupied by Hoover's but it did reach the second floor over the drug store. Water poured into the two buildings iu great streams and at one time yesterday afternoon water was standing three feet deep in the two buildings. | Efird's also was slightly damaged by smoke aml water, and the roof of the building probably was badly damaged as it had to be used‘by the firemen as a means of reaching a point higher than the blaze. - - It is jjmpoiwihle Itaffvto, Mfr* .taqdpfry: like an wtihjttg estimate of the (kunaga, suffered by HooverV and Porter's. Bbth companies carried insurance. The building occupied by the drug store is owned by M. L. Marsh and the building occupied by Hoover's is owned by M. J. Corl. It is understood the owners of tlie buildings carried insur ance. Mr. -Flowe, who owned the theatre building, had it covered by insurance. Mr. Iseniiour, manager of the theatre, declared last night that he carried no insurance on his theatre fixtures. He estimated his loss at $8,000; The fire was a very stubborn one. At first it seemed very unimportant as fire men rushed into the building expecting to quickly extinguish the blaze with chemicals.. Wlieft they reached the top of the steps at the entrance to the L.ang and Davis offices, they were greeted with a volume of smoke that drove them to ; fresh air. They immediately trained several streams of water on the building but it was some time before the water reached its mark, due to the fact that the blaze was protected by brick walls. Several firemen climbed to the roof of the ad joining buildings and after working des perately for some time managed to cut a hole into the roof. By this time the blaze was plainly visible . from the .rear of the building and five streams of water were started from the rear. The smoke was so stifling, however, that the firemen could not get close enough to the building to train their streams directly on the blaze, they hav ( Continued on Page Five) ■ r ?: upon to communicate to him his client’s activities. While they are about it they expect; to go into the George Remus incident, and ascertain whether under oath be fore the committee he will persist in his confession of perjury. That predicament also confronts Means. Up to date he denies that he made any affidavit for Daugherty, so he may have dodged any prosecution for perjury, but when be is called as a wit ness again he will have to either throw the ex-attorney general down or seek re fuge in a refusal to answer on the grounds that to do so would subject him to prosecution for perjury. All the Republican politicians wish Harry Daugherty bad deferred his drive for vindication until after the election* 1 The first consequence of his move is like- ; ly to be the lo»» of lowa. They have had u lot of trouble keep ! ing Senator Brookbart quiet, but as in the Remus confession, he is accused with Wheeler of having brought the bootleg ger king’s testimony with a, promise of a pardon, Brookhart’s neutrality between Coolidge and La Foliette may disappear, and nobody doubts his power to throw lowa to La Foljette if he wants to. The Democrats do not care how either Means or Daugherty comes out; they are looking for the psychological effect of a renewal Os the discussion whether Daugherty was or was not cegnicanet of the activities of Jess Smith, Means and the others. (Continued on Page Five) j, J* * IN U. 22b. nru z—rrzm cm immoT m i ■ \hH iu\ i null I m.A I nil I .KfgtT J l,u * H.lfcXi I lA] I 1 1 11 R» Hr I§Tl lii firTilln —— * - Democratic Member of the Daugherty Investigating Brookhart Must rHian SAYS CHAIRMAN KNOWS CONDITION Senator Ashurst Says He Will Agree to Meeting But Will Leave Saturday for Home in Arizona. *-* ■ i IBy the Associated Press.) > Washington, D. C., Sept. 25—Senator , Ashurst, of Arizona, a Democratic mem ber of the Daugherty investigating com mittee, declared today that “under no . circumstances” would he call a meeting . of the committee. I The Arizona senator said if a meeting was called he would be glad to attend, but he questioned his authority to call ! on<l - He had sent a telegram to Seua , tor Brookbart, Republican, of lowa, . chairman pf the committee, he added, ' pointing out that the chairman was in touch with the situation and tha( if he considered it advisable to call the com mittee together he would agree. Hi« present plans are to return to Arizona Saturday. A meeting of the committee was urged by Gaston B. Means soon after the pub lication of his repudiation statement giv en out by former Attorney General Daugherty last Monday morning. INFANT KILLED IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT His Parents. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hold en Injured in the Accident. (Ty the Associated Press.) ■Winston-Salem, Sept. 25. — Henry Ed ward, 15 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Holden, of this city, was killed and the mother sustained serious injur- v ies while the father escaped with a few bruises when a truck driven tty W. H. Davis for a local transfer company, crashed into a small touring'car in the. west part of this city at 9:30 this morn ing. Mr. sod Mrs. Holden were rushed to , the hospital for treatment. Their car was just behind the hearse which con tained the body of J. H. Van Hoy, the grand-father of Mrs. Holden, who died ' in High Point yesterday, the remains be ing taken to Longtown, Yadkin county, for interment. EDGE HAS BIG LEAD IN JERSEY ELECTION With Practically All Returns in, Keaen Is Out-Distanced by Nearly 62.000 Votes. Newark, N. J., Sept. 24.—With, re turns from yesterday’s primary election almost complete. United States Senator Walter E- Edge tonight had a majority ot nearly 62,000 votes over National Committeeman Hamilton F. Kean, his opponent for the Republican senatorial nomination. Os the state's 2,559 districts, only 47 tonight had failed to report. Tha availa ble unofficial figures were: Edge 239,352; Kean 177,394. BIG ADVANCE IN OCTOBER CONTRACTS. Fears That Cotton Movement Will Be Delayed by Rnin Caused Increase. (By the Associated Press.) New York. Sest. 25.— Fears that the cotton movement will be seriously de layed aw a result of present rains in tue South Atlantic States led to a big ad vance in October contracts today. They sold at 24.50 by midday, or a full $5 a bale above last night’s close, while De cember was up 75 points to 23.55. Short* were the principal buyers. Told to Stop Firing on Unfortified Town* Pekin. Sept. 25 (By the Associated Press).— An appeal and a warning to the rival forces fighting on the Man- border for control of the central government of China to quit bombing unfortified towns from the air, Was drafted today at a meeting of Peking foreign government ministers here. 6100,000 Missing. (By the AssoOtated Prana.) ; Springfield, Mass., Sept. 25.—The Un ion Trust Co., of this city today report ed to the police that SIOO,OOO consigned to it by registered mail was missing. TWfcfe bank apked the police to seek Wu. J. Hamifin, 45 years old, employed by the bank as a messenger and guard, who also is missing. Off For Saa FraneUeo, ’ ' Clover Field, Santa Monica, Calif- Sept. 25— The world fliers led by Lieut. Lowell H. Smith in the flagplane Chicago hopped off from here this morning foe Crissy Field, San Francisco at 10 a, m. I.H.T .111