Kl The Concord Daily Tribune fUfl • ■ , ' »»*«»*»*•■ VOLUME XXIV V =■"’ i. ■ —* - -- -1 - ■ - - ■ - - • EFIM'S STORE IT ■: QWM Ml' BEOPEmOIIBU ■ .. ■■ U * , . ~Jf ; .'fy, j Newest Store in Noted Chain Will Be Ready For Formai Opening Tomorrow, the Management States. MODERN STbRE IS ASSURED FOR TOWN Stock of Goods Will Be Com plete and 1 Modern.—S. Z. Phlieger Will Be Manager of the New Store. Efird’R is to add another store to its ever increasing list of stores. The new firm is to be,at Kannapolis. Mr. Ed. Efird. of Winston-Salem, has been in Kannapolis for the past week preparing for the opening. The new store is to be a prototype of the one in Con cord which has been doing business in its present location for about a month. , - The exterior has beetn remodeled and is now one of the most attractive firms in that city. Windows of a late design replace the old windows. There is an un usually attractive display in them worthy 1 of a much larger place. The interior has an excellent stock of goods which show the latest fashions in all lines. Excellent lighting has been secured and the entire interior has been done over which makes it a most at tractive store. Efird’s is well known as one of the most progressive chains in the South*. At the present time it has some thirty-odd stores, all of which cater tp the better class of trade. Qnite 'a number of them have re modeled recently and several have rebuilt entirely. A handsome new store was built in Charlotte and a new location was secured in Concord. ‘ These - addi tions give an indication of the prosperity the firm is enjoying. S. Z. Phlieger has been secured to take over the management of the store. Mr. Phlieger has had a number of years’ ex perience in this line of work and feels that the new mercantile firm in the growing city of Kannapolis will be a success. _^ L AGAIN » ing Power of Oowrt. Philadelphia, Sept. 25. —Proposals for government ownership of railroads -and other public uiltitiee were denounced here tonight by President Coolidge as “uneconomic" and “encroachments upon our rights.” Speaking at exercises commemorating the 150th anniversary of the meeting of the first Continental Congress, Mr. Cool idge also renewed his assault on sugges tions to limit the power of the Supreme Court, and urged that the people resist encroachment upon their rights and lib erties guaranteed by the constitution. “If we wish to maintain what our fathers established,” he declared, “we shall do well to leave' the people in the ownership of their property, in control of their government, and under the pro tection of their courts.” It is diffeult, the -President said, re ferring to government ownership of rail roads, “to reconcile the, American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning ana managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.” '■ Furthermore, he declared, it would mean a loss in public revenue estimated at $300,000,000 a year with a resultant increase in the tax on farmers of from 8 to 40 per cent. Pass Dividend. (Bt the Associated Preaa.l New York, Sept. 26.—Directors of the Standard Textile Products Company have omitted dividend payments on both elases of preferred stock which have been paid regularly at the rate'of 7 percent, an nually since 1919. The company is one of the leading manufacturers of oil cloth in the country. Earnings of the company were suffi cient to cover current dividend require ments on the preferred shares, Alvin Hunslocker, president, explained, but be cause of unsettled conditions in the tex tile industry, ■ the directors deemed it wise to defer payments. The Standard Products Textile Co. owns and operates manufacturing plants in Youngstown, 0., Rock Island, 111., Athenia - N. J.. and Montrose, N. Y„ in addition to controlling cotton milk at Mobile, Ala., Selma, N. C., Columbus, Ga., and McComb, Miss. ! Fifteen Killed to' Tnin Wrack. Odessa, Sept. 20. — (3y the Associated Prase).—Fifteen persons were killed, 26 montraliy injured and 43 seriously hurt today when the Moscow to Odessa ex press was derailed by bandits about 300 miles from Moscow. Howard Shaw Bead. (By *»>e Associated Preaa.l MorrisviUe, Vt„ Sept. 26.—Howard Shaw, of Stowe, Democratic, candidate fdr Governor of Vermont, tlitfi early to make • a swing across the continent, carrying i his fight for votes into at least a score of states' before the close of the cam paUto. , CONCORD, N. C„ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, J 924 ' ♦ ~ Held as Slayer !■ ... ? ME, -* t¥ - / - I Rev. Lawrence M. Hight, of Ina, 111., has confessed to the murders of his wife and Wilford Sweetin, a member of his congregation, according to authorities at Mt. Vernon, 111. The age-old trinngle of illicit love is blamed by officials. But the minister contends he poisoned both while they we're ill “to end their sufferings.” . ... y W. E D, STOKES IN ASHEVILLE FOR REST Arrive* in City Unannounced in Effort to Escape Cranks and Anonymous Let ter Writers. Asheville, N. C., * Sept. 25.—Hiding from cranks and anonymous letter writ ers while resting after his strenuous martial troubles in New York City were said today to be the reason for W. E. D. Stokes, prominent millionaire of the Me tropolis, coming to Asheville unannounc ed. He is accompanied by his nurse and secretary, Miss Bush, and a chauffeur. Mr. Stokes has aged considerably in recent years’ but up to a few years ago was actively engaged In supervising his big business interests He has barred himself from interviewers while in Ashe ville and it is stated that he desires to have a complete rest' before returning to the east. Because of his prominence it is de clared that in New York and the popu lous cities of the country he visits occa sionally he has been pestered by letters from cranks and people desiring to spend his millions for him. As » result in recent months he is understood to have selected a novel method of evading these epistles and individuals by traveling in to avoid notoriety. 'VALLEY FORGE SCENE OF CELEBRATION TODAY Celebration of 150th AmtivMwy of the Meeting of Continental Congress is Staged There. (By the Associated Press.) Philadelphia, Sept. 26.—The scene for ] the concluding day’s celebration of the 150th anniversary of the meeting of the first Continental Congress, and the 200th I anniversary of founders of Carpenters’ Company shifted today to historic Valley Forge, where the encampment of Wash ington's army will be re-enacted by the < veteran Company H, First Pennsylvania Militia, composed of many distinguished i physicians, bankers, teachers and bush, ness men. IMPORTS OF COTTON SHOW BIG DECREASE Value of Cotton and Cotton Good* Im ported Last Month $7,456,654. (By lie Associated Press.) Washington, Sept 26, —Imports of cotton and cotton manufacturers into the United- States last month are valued at $7,345,654, a decrease of $1,000,000 from the corresponding month last yea*, the department of commerce announced to day. Imports of raw cotton last month totalled 2,067,923 pounds, against 1,709,- 946 pounds for August, 1923. Couzens Warmly Indorsed by Michigan Repubicans. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 24. —Senator Couzens was given the official recogni tion and indorsement of the Republican party in Michigan today for the first time in his public career. Charges that he is a “renegade” and. an irregular were swept aside by the delegates to the Re publican state convention, and a resolu- ] tion warmly commending him was adopt- i ed. ; Ku Klux plan forces, which had made , some claims to strength, were hopelessly swamped iu the convention. Governor | Groesbeck and his friends were in com plete control and the candidates for state offices bearing the stamp of administra tion approval unanimously were nominat- , *d. The convention went on record as fav oring rigid law enforcement, a protective tariff for copper and the proposed lakes to the sea waterway. Strength Shown by Southern’s Stocks. New York, Sept. 25.—Strength in toe Southern Railway wag laid here to the small and disappointing cotton crop re vealed in the government report. Low-1 er Broadway wires carried a flash that ” cotton mills might he expected to lay in stocks of raw material In the face of a 12,500,000 bale yield. Much of th« traffic would be handled over the South ern system, it wad suggested, meaning an expanding gross in its earnings state ments. v , . . ■ | Sunday School Workers’ Conferee**. J. Sam Query, of Kannapolis, has, call ed a meeting of the officers of the Ca barrus County Sunday School Associa tion together with all township officers at the First Presbyterian Church in Con -1 ait three oVlock. The president states in his call that “he is anxious to have » ( Jare'iTkVto bTpretont ti^X' .‘jjft iMjk Concord Boosters Talk With Their Neighbors Delegations FYom This City, Salisbury aid Lfexington . Meet With Twin City Men ht Winston-Salem. s; r lakes-flobida ROAj| DISCUSSED Twin City wen Declared They AreJfeady Now to Join Wllrjrater Cities to Securefficqj|>sed Highway. Representatives of the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce met with the Lexington, Salisbuit and Concord dele gations in regard to!the Lakqs-to-Florida Highway Thursday; j-afternoon and after the situation was ftnly explained, a per fect harmony reignqj. with the Winston representatives promising to bring the matter favorably before their Chamber and give the other delegations a reply as to what attitude might be expected from them. | * The meeting was Retd in toe Robert E. Lee Hotel at Winston. The attendance on the part of the Winston Chamber of Commerce was small due to the bad weather and also to,a circus which was in the City at that sme. The real trou ble, however, lay in the fact that the Winstonites had .no i idea of the import ance of the Lakes Highway. In bringing the matter before the as- i semblage, Messrs. L. T. Hartseil, Jr., of Concord, and I’ercy Bloxam, of Salis bury, made able speeches. Both strove to clarify, the situation and explain just what the movemeWc held for the cities through which the v hlgbway should pass. There was a general discussion follow- ; ing in which practically everyone bad a few remarks to milto but which in the ! end gave to persons Ignorant of the move- 1 ment, a thorough knowledge of the whole 1 thing. In this discussion, the Winston 1 representatives explained that their re- 1 licence h^ 4 been due to ignorance. They were nqt' invited on'the Bluefield trip, 1 and were of the opinion that the routing 1 had already been made byway of Elkin and Statesville. Qn learning that this 1 impression was false, 4 certain of the dele- 1 gates were certain that .Winston would ( stage a big fight. ',l The meeting clotofl|in w promise of the 1 Winston delegates