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SKI The Concord Daily Tribune ?W'l 999999999 999999999 VOLUME xxy Cave Will Keep The Body of Floyd Collins ' Father of Dead Man Agrees For Body to Be Buried In Gave When Physician Has Finished Examination. FUNERAL SERVICES THIS AFTERNOON Services Held at the Mouth of Shaft Through Which It Had Been Hoped Col ' tins Would Be Rescued. Cave City, Ky., Feb. 17 —The body of Floyd Collins will be left in his natural tomb and his funeral services will be held this afternoon at the mouth of the shaft which was dug to rescue him, but in vain, Ilis aged father, Lee Col lins, consented to the arrangement; after Dr. William Hazlett, of Chicago, had him self examined Collins and pronounced him dead. Cave City, Ky., Feb. 17 (By the As sociated Press).—Revealed, but not re covered, the body of Floyd Collins today still was lying in the natural tomb which has been his for more than 17 days, while jaded miners spurred on by the realiza tion that at last they had found the cave explorer, pecked away at the roof of the limestone cave. Without warning the roof caved in yes terday afternoon and it was announced officially that Collins had been found “ap parently dead.” How long Collins has been dead may never be determined exactly, according to Dr. Hazlett. “It is impossible to tell from an ex amination of the head 'alone how long Collins has been dead, and even when his body is brought to the surface and a thorough examination is made, our cal culations may be two or three days off", he said, when be emerged from the shaft this morning. “The temperature in the cavern is ideal to preserve a corpse. If Collins has been dead less than 24 hours, we perhaps can tell exactly, but if longer than that 'it will be guesswork.” Lee Collins, who kept vigil at Sand Cave until the body of his son wfts reached, today requested newspaper men to express his thankfulness to all who helped in the fight and all. who prayed for his son. “Do that for me,” he aalutd. “Thank (help all. All who prnyed and ah who wgfked. Thank Mr. Carmichael.. jfor his -uptaa nia»«ii ußSlie Olliers' who worked with him. “Floyd might be dead, but the work has not been in vain, for it was God's will,” he said. Mr. Collins said “he carried his money. l;is deeds, and any other valuables h« owned with him. I want you to go through his clothing for me the first one." It had been iutimnted by some that Floyd and Gerald had not been good friends, and by others that he had hin dered rather than helped in the rescue work. Now, with Floyd dead, Mr. Collins took this means of expressing his faith In Ger ald by asking that he represent the fam ily. The telegram from Governor Field di recting that a detailed examinutiotn of the body be made was received by M. E. S. Posey, one of the rescuer work lend ers. - Tbe message directed ‘that if Floyd Collins is dead when reached, have dis interested doctors make a thorough exam ination of the body for' all evidences of foul play, including poison.” Four Months Typhoid Case Baffles Doc tors. Boston, Feb. 10.—James M. Rolph, Jr., son of Mayor, Rolph, of Sail Francisco, is still in a serious condition at the city hospital here after four months' treat ment for typhoid fever. Hospital physi cians admitted today that they were puz zled by the nature of his malady. The youth became ill while the. steam ship Vanburen, on which he was a cadet, was in the Mediterranean, returning from a round-the-world cruise. He was taken to the' city hospital when the vessel docked here several months ago. Physi cians today said his condition was more serious than at any time shince he had been under treatment. Rivers and Harbors BUI Aproved. (By the Associated Press) Washington, Feb. 17. —After adding $2,000,000, the senate comerce commit tee today approved the rivers and harbors bill authorizing total expenditures of more than $40,000,000 for cinstruetion, repair and preservation work throughout the country. Oscar Ownbinslty Dies Suddenly. (By the Associated Press) Chicago, Feb. 17. —Oscar Gumbinsky, former president of the Daniel Boone Woolen Mils Co., dropped dead today. On announcement of bis death, quota tions of tbe stock of the company fell $2.75 per share. Death was due to heart disease. ♦ at************** Hi at m ONCE AGAIN. a< * , * aC Our good friends are again noti- a * fled that 5 cents a line cash is charg- * * ed fpr Cards of Thanks, Resolu- * US tong of Respect, Obituaries and no- a as tices of all entertainments or other a as meetings to which an admission fee a as is charged or at which anything is a as sold. If yon send by mail, figure H as the cost at one cent per word and a as include the amount in the letter, a as You may send one or two cent a as stamps If more convenient. a as . ■ a * asasasasasasasatasasasasasasffl I am ________ *' WATSON TELLS OF THE ‘ ij killing of McDonough i He Sits in His Cell and Weeps and! Says He is “Sad. Sad.”—Wife Is Silent. ■ Ohalot.te, Feb. 18.—“ lam sad, sad,” said Thos I. Watson, Greensboro iraveN r ing man who Sunday night shot to | death Joe McDonough, Greensboro en graver, Monday morning when visited in 11 his cell in the jail by a newspaper man. while upstairs in the woman's detention 1 quarters his wife. Grace Miller Watr.on, . pretty blonde wept over nn uneaten, breakfast as she steadfastly refused to discuss any phase of the tragedy. | “I am sad. sad,” Watson said in low f tones that broke off into weeping as he 1 buried his face in his hands. “I don’t ‘ know how it will a'l come out but I’m ! sad oyer it. I don't know that there's 1 anything else that I can say.” “I did not intend to kill him when I ' went into the room,” Watson is quoted ' by the police ns having said early this 1 morning after he had somewhat recov ered from the excitement of the tragedy. “I was cool but when I saw him half ' undressed and my wife in her night clothes in the bathroom, something got 1 me. I then had an overwhelming desire ' to kill him.” Mrs. Watson twice embraced Me ‘ Donough in the presence of Watson as ■ he died after being shot through the heart, according to police officers who ■ were on the scene. McDonough lived I but a few minutes after being shot, ac • cording to the police, who say that he made no statement. “He is not to blame." Mrs. Watßon 1 is quoted as having said : in discussing her husband's plight with welfare officers. She spent most of the’ night last night ’ weeping, according to the officers, who ; said that she objected to talking of the case. She apparently «is about 28 years of . age and appears cultured and refined. She admitted that for jj time she had taught school in Greensboro. She says ! her home is in Texas, i Watson, who has retained Conley Robinson, young Charlotte lawyer, to represent him, told Police early Mon ; day morning that “the first four yea.*s of our married life was the happiest ; period I have ever lived through.” He said that he knew Mrs. Watson had 1 been as true as steel for the first four yea re of their married life and that nothing happened to mar this happiness until last spring when “little mmgs” 1 began to bob up. f wise la ted a story that dovetailed in every, detail with that carried Monday morn i ing by the Greensboro Daily News. Watson said that Mrs. Watson wns . supposed to have gone to Mount Plens ■ ant to get his 13-year-old daughter, who > is in school there, and meet him this week in Birmingham. Ala., from which place they were to go Texas to visit his wife’s people. Watson 4old the police that he bad ■ employed two private detectives to trail his wife and hat they followed her from ; Greensboro to Charlott. Watson also ■ followed the couple. The shooting took ■ place in the presence of Detective S. P. Dry, of the local police force, and Manager Young offhe Selwyn hotel. Watson Held Without Wail. Chalotte, Feb. 18.—Thomas 1. Wat - son. Greensboro traveling man. this afternoon was committed to jail without I bond, for the slaying of J. E. Mc - Donough, Greensboro engraver, whom - he caught in a Charlotte hotel with Mrs.' E Watson last night, following a brief in vestigation by the coroner’s jury. -Mrs. Watson was ordered held in SI,OOO bond ■ as a material witness to the shooting which occurred in a Selwyn hotel room > about 11 o'clock Sunday night. She has ■ not yet arranged bond and was being f held in jail. Detective S. P. Dry and Manager ■ Young, of the Selwyn, eye witnesses of - the shooting; were the only witnesses be fore the coroner!* jury. Tliey told prac - tieally the same story as that' published , In this morning’s Daily News. Me t Donough’* body was prepared for ship t ment and will be sent late tonight or 1 tomorrow to his old home at CSn - cinnati, 0., for burial. CATAWBA COLLEGE FUND EXCEEDED IN SALISBURY Institution Will Be Re-opened, and Young Woman of KockweH b Fttst to Register. Salisbury, Feb. Ift—Workers in the Catawaba college campaign for $150,000 building and endowment fund for Salis bury and Rowan county went over the top with a-grand total of $155,300. It Was definitely announced that the col lege will re-open in September, and the first student. Miss Ruth E. Holshouser of Rockwell, handed her application for registration to President Elmer Rhodes Hoke- OU Southern CHy Plan* to Recall Early History. I (By the Associated Press) Camden, S. C„ Feb- 17. —Camden, reminiscent of Revolutionary war days and the scene of one of the more im * portant battles ,of the struggle of the colonists for liberation from England, \ will commemorate its historic past this ; spring with a pageant entitled. “Cam [ den, Yesterday and Today.” > This quaint town, whieh in 1788 was j one of the six leading cities of South 5 Carolina, retains much of the pictures ' que atmosphere of colonial times, and a ' number of buildings stand as reminders ' of the Revolutionary war period. It is ' frequented by tourists from' the north as * a winter resort. Ji Episodes in the pageant will portray * the days of Pine Tree Sill, the coming * of he Quakers and the Revolution, and * visits of Washington and LaFayette. $ For many years boxing has been a ► recognized English university sport. CONCORD, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1925 CONFERRING ABOUT RATES ON POSTAL PAY AND RATE BILL House Is Demanding Rates as Drafted in That Body Be Retained While Senate Is Opposed to Them. SENATE FAVORABLE TO ITS OWN BILL Despite the Fact That Bill Already Has Been Turned Down by the House Which Drafted Its Own Measure. ißy the a-social cl Press) Washington, Feb. 17.—Insistence of, the Senate and House on the respective rate provisions 'for the postal pav and rate increase bill has landed the meas ure in cohference between the two bodies' with almost totally dissimilar rate in creases to be adjusted before the bill can be brought to a position with any chance of passage before adjournment. Without a record vote the Senate yes terday substituted its own bill for that passed by the House, estimated to pro vide about twice the $30,000,000 in rate increases provided in the Senare measure to meet salary increases aggregating more than $60.000,(KK) annually. The Senate bill already had been approved before by that body but returned by the House on the ground that it was revenue-raising leg islation. REFERS TO WOODROW WILSON IN WASHINGTON-LINCOLN SERMON Rabbi Wise Says Men in 100 Years From' Now Will Understand Him. New York, Feb. 15.—Delivering a sermon on George Washington and Ab raham Lincoln today before- hie congre gation in the Free Synagogue, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise referred to the greatness >f Woodrow Wilson. Although both Washington and Lin coln achieved their ends, Dr. Wisp said, ui cress alone is to be taken as the .mea sure of greatness. He remarked that today “Woodrow Wilson's ideals seems further thnft ever from realization; but In a hnndred years, even if there is i)0 League of Nations, men will undnerstand that Wilson sought to save the world from that godless scours* twit call war.” might have accompllfdied' hta purpose had it not been from a small group of sena tors, Dr. Wise asked: “Shall we declare, because three Or four members of the United States Senate had. in their hands the opportunity of making YYilson great and did not join with him,-that he is not great?” Petitions Circulated Ask Sheriff to Re sign. Raleigh, Feb. . 16.—Petitions demand ing the resignation of Sheriff D. Bryant Harrison, of Wake county, were report ed in 'circulation here today as the result of a three-cornered controversy in which the sheriff fared badly. The petitions demand she official's res ignation for reasons "too well known to mention,” and they are as follows: Thursday morning The Raleigh News and Observer carried three inches of reading matter in a not conspicuous cor ner of an inside page, containing the in telligence that Sheriff Harrison, riding with a “strange woman” had suffered a mishap of getting his <A>upe stuck in the mud. The woman left the car and the sheriff and went her way without as sistance, the account alleges. Friday morning the sheriff publish ed an affidavit, supported by a second affidavit, bearing the signature of Police Officer Kelly, who was on duty nt the scene of the mishap, denying that there was a woman in the ear. Those affida vits got double column display in the local papers, but they were accompanied by a statement by the reporter who wrote the story stating that he passed the place while the sheriff’s coupe was getting into the mire and that he saw the woman get out of the ear. That afternoon The Raleigh Times joined in with an account to the effect that one of its young woman reporters had also passed that way and had seen the woman leave the car. And Saturday mqrning The News and Observer discovered that there really had beeni a woman in the coupe and i that she was a woman with a Pjolice rec ord. Sunday morning there' followed a 1 picture of the official on the front page with the suggestion that he resign. And the announcement of petitions in • cVrcu • lation came this morning. (The sheriff • has issued no fnrther statements of affi ■ davits. But he hasn't resigned, yet. State Warehousing System Arouses Outside Interest. (By the Associated Press.) ' Columbia, S. C., Feb. 17.—The de velopment of the South Carolina ware house system hns aroused interest Out side the state, and is being studied by representatives of other states, accord ing to J. Clifton Rivers, state warehouse eommissibnr. Texas especially, Mr. Rivera said, appears likely to start a system patterned after the South Caro lina plan. There are approximately 1,- 200 state warehouses in South Carolina, devoted to the stqring of cotton, corn and otbr commodities. These re held in storage until the market price justifies their sale. With Advertisers. All the new in Spring Millinery at Fisher’s. New Sehloss Suits and New Schoble hats at Hoover’s. The Silver Jubilee Celebration at ( \ Ivey’* in Charlotte begins Thursday, i February tilth! at 10 o’clock a. m. See •d. on page seven of The Tribune today. ( • 4 ' ih§§ I I - -,r \ v M / * - jjmkm 1 First p’ jiure of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dempsey after they wore married Ii Los ;ngele». They tad aet the date tor May 20, but decided they jua couldn’t watt. Deuwa*y‘a new boss formerly was Estelle Ihylor. actress THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady at Artva nee of 12 to 17 1 Points, May Advancing to 24.71, and October to 24.83. ! (By the Associated Press) New York, Feb. 17.—The cotton mar ket opened steady today at an advance of 12 to 17 points on failure of the early weather news to indicate anything more than light showers at a few points in the southwest*. Buying also was encouraged by firm late cables from Liverpool and active positions sold 17 to 1!) pints net higher before the end of the first hour. May advancing to 24.71 and October to 24.83. The South was a moderate seller, and there was considerable realizing but early offerings were absorbed by local and trade buying. Liverpool was relatively easy owing to sharp break in Egyptian cotton, but recovered . before the local opening, new crop months lending the advance, pre sumably on less favorable Southern weather news than expected. Opening prices were: March 24.35; May 24.65; July 24.00; October 24.75; December 24.82. CONDEMNED PRISONER " TAKES MIS OWN LIFE William Ford Escapes the Electric Chair by Hanging Himself in Sing Sing Prison. * ... .if-. (By Ahe AstMtiftCd P*e#») -X** Ossing. N. Y„ Feb. 17.—William Ford, condemned for murdering six persons in an incendiary fire, has escaped the leo tric chair by suicide. When his guard was absent a few minutes at Sing Sing last night Ford hanged hfmself from the top bar of his cell door with a rope made of strips of a sheet. He left a letter to the warden asking him not to punish the guard for. ilia suicide. The letter declared that lie was framed by a witness who turned State's evidence., Ford was arrested October 18th, three days afte ran early morning fire at Brook lyn had killed his father-in-law and for mer real estate partner, George Keim, two other men, two-.women and a girl. AGRICULTURAL NEEDS ARE AGAIN DISCUSSED Senate and House Committees Still Con sider Recommendation of Agriculture Commission. (By the Aaaoclaleil Press.) Washington, Feb. 17. —The Senate and House agriculture committees were call ed to continue hearings today on the frnniing of legislation based on the rec . ommendations of the President’s agricul tural conference. The action of Senator Curtis, the re . publican leader, in serving notice thar . unless the senate committee “within a reasonable time” reported out legisla s tion based on the.conference recommeudn i tions he would move to take up one of the i three pending bills, has brought no indi [ cation today as to just when the commit i tee expected to conclude the hearings. Funeral of Miners Attended by Thou , sands. (By the Associated Press) i Dortmund, Germany, Feb. 17.—A i throng estimated at 30,(KK) attended the final obsequies today of the 138 workers 1 who lost their lives in the Stein Mine ex -1 plosion here last week. Crowds lined the | streets and the bells in all the churches . of the city were tolled as the funeral pro i cession passed to the cemeteries. Ilele > gntions of foreign miners unions follow -1 ed the hearses,.'which were covered with - flowers. The public business offices of f the city and mbst of the private homes . displayed signs of mourning. King George’s Condition Improved. (By the Associated Press! london, Feb. 17. —Although no official bulletin regarding King George’s condi tion was issued this morning, it was learned that he was better. The feverish cold from whieh it was announced yes terday he was suffering, has not been attended by any complications, it was stated. STAR THEATER WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 18th and 19th “PONJOLA” With Anna Q. Nilsson, James Kirkwood, Tully Marshall, Ruth Clifford. Don’t Miss This Special Picture. It’s at First National. “THE ARAB” Is Coming Soon THE POOLE RESODUTION To Prohibit Teaching of Darwinism in North Carolina Schools. . (By the Asuoeliited Press) Rnleigh, Feb. 17.—The Poole resolu tion. expressing disapproval of the teach ing of any form of evolution in schools under public supervision that links man in blood relationship with any of the lower forms of life will come up as a special order in the house tonight at 8 o'clock. This is a joint resolution. It is not a bill and does not provide a penalty. It reads as follows; “Resolved by the House of Represen tatives, the Senate concurring; “1. That it is the sense of the gen eral assembly of North Carolina that it is injurious to the welfare of the people of the state of North Carolina for any official or teacher in the state, paid wholly or in- part by taxation, to teach or permit to be taught, as a fact, either Darwinism or any other evolutionary hypotheses that links man in blood rela tionship with any lower form of life." The resolution will come up on a mi nority report. It wa? reported unfav orably by the committee on education which on first vote was tied. The tie was broken by Chairman Connor and nn unfavorable report submitted. However, there, was a minority report whieh placed the vesotiition on the unfavorable ealen i ' '■a*-’** -. ■'•■x.. TttrtwHt-' Tlie hearing was attended by sharp debate, caustic retorts and much »p --. plause by spectators on both sides of the question. Indications are that the gal leries will be filled tonight, as ample no tice of the resolution’s discussion has ; been given. AIRCRAFT COMMITTEE CONTINUES ITS WORK 1 Prepares to Hear Representatives From Secretaries Weeks and Wilbur. (By the Associated Press) Washington, Feb. 17* —The House nir ' craft committee in addition to continuing ■ its open hearings, and arranged for a ■ special executive session to receive con fidential information from representa , tives of Secretary YVeeks and Wilbur on plans for their respective departments . for national defense against attacks , from the air. Brigadier General Mitchell, ass’stant army air chief, and central figure in the I controversy stirred up by the committee hearings, and Theodore Roosevelt, for , mer assistant secretary of the Navy, were the witnesses called up by the military committee. PRELIMINARY HEARING FOR WATSON LATER Slayer of Joseph E. McDonough Is Being Held in Mecklenburg County Jail. (By the Associated Press) Charlotte, Feb. 17.—Thos. I. Watson, of Greensboro, who shot and killed Joseph E. McDonough in a local hotel Sunday night, today was held in the Mecklen burg county jail awaiting a preliminary hearing. McDonough, a Greensboro engraver, was shot when he was found in a room I with Mrs. YY’atson. Mrs. YYatson was held as a material witness. No date for the preliminary hearing has been set, blit it is expected to be held during the week. Man of Newberry Dies From Sleeping Sickness. " Newßerry, S. C., Feb. 16. —James A. Barton, prominent and Well known planter and fire and real estate agent of the city, died Saturday morning at 7 o'clock t his home, 1811 Glenn street, following a short illness which was pro nounced by his physicians as sleeping sickness. His death was a profound shock to his large nnmber of friends nnd relatives. Mr. Bnrton returned Saturday from Greenwood, where he had attended federal court as juror dur ing the week and though not feeling well, spent the day at hia office. Scrapping Program Carried Out. (By the Associated Press) Washington, Feb. 17. —Concident with expiration today of the eighteen-month period allowed for scraping capital ships under the arms treaty, the navy depart ment formally advised the State depart ment that the American scrapping pro gram had been carried out as prescrib ed. Kellogg Is Confirmed. (By the Associated Proas) Washington, Feb. 17. —Without ref erence to a committee, or a voice raised in opposition on the floor, the Senate has confirmed the nomination of Frank B. Kellogg, of Minnesota, ito succeed Cfaas. E. Hughes as Secretary of State on March 4th. PEABODY COLLEGE JUBILEE Graduates to Help Celebrate the Golden Jubilee This Year. Nashville. Tenn., Feb. 17.—Graduates of Peabody College, among them some of rlie most eminent educators of the South, have come back to their alma mater this week to help her celebrate her goiden jubilee. Faculty and other representatives of mam - ul ' leading' colleges and universities country are also among those who are here to participate in the celebration, which will be opened tomorrow and con tinued for several days. AH the details for the semi-centennial exercises nave been arranged. Two of the principal speakers will he Sir Esme Howard, the British ambassador at Washington, who will speak on the life of George Peabody ip England, and Dr. P. P. Claxton, former commissioner of educat’on of the United States, who will tell of Mr. I’habody’s work and philan thropies in America. YVhen George Peabody, the ISaltimoie- London banker and the greatest philan thropist of ancient or modern times, died in 1867 he left in trust to a self-perpetu ating board of trustees a fund of about two and a half million dollars “the in come thereof to be used and applied in your discretion for the promotion and encouragement of inlellectual, moral and industrial education among tlm youth of tie- most destitute portions of the South-, era and Southwestern states of our Un ion, my purpose being that tin* benefits intended shall b,- distributed among tiie entile population, without other distinc tion than their needs and the opportuni ties of usefulness to them.” To this so-called “Peabody Fund” the Peabody College for Teachers owes its origin. The trustees of the fund in-* ciuded such eminent men as Theodore i Roosevelt, Chief Justice Fuller. Richard Olney, .7. Pierpont Morgan. Hoke Smith, Joseph H. Choate ami Bishop Lawrence, | of Massachusetts. In 1000. after many years of effort, the trustees succeeded in persuading the legislature of Tennessee and the common council of Nashville in complying with the conditions in refer ence to Peabody College. At that time the president of the college was .Tames D. Porter, a former governor of Ten nessee. The institution, which has since been known as the George Peabody College for Teachers, is one of the oldest in the United States and has had a checkered history and suffered many changes. It was originally known as Cumberland College, and was created by an act of the Tennessee legislature in 1806. In 1826 it became the University of Nash ville. and as such continued until the Civil War, when it suspended education al work and the buildigs were used for military purposes. After peace was re* stored Gen. E. Kirby Smith and Gen. Bushrod Johnson, eminent educators and soldiers, resuscitated and reorganized It. and in 1875 the. Peabody trustee* agreed, to give It a*S Tjtntual -Sflpwwnee -«f $72,- (KK), provided the legislature made .an equal appropriation, to maintain there normal school for the education of teach ers. The legislature failed or neglected tq fulfill its part of the bargain and at one time the trustees seriously con sidered a proposal to remove the institu tion from Nashville. Public-spirited cit izens of Nashville finally came to the rescue by guaranteeing to pay the run ning expenses' of the school until the legislature relieved them of the responsi bility. Today Peabody has an endowment fund of several million dollars and is one of most perfectly equipped institutions of its kind in America. In recent years it has sent out thousands of alumni and has exerted a vital influence upon educa tion throughout the South. PROSPERITY WALKS ABROAD IN NORTHWESTERN STATES Where There Are Plenty of Dairy Cows, The People Are Prosperous. Chicago, Feb. 17.—Prosperity’s sud den arrival last sinner, although remark able, “did not overwhelm, and the north west has not beeD left asleep at the switch,” Charles F. Collisson .agricutural editor of The Minneapolie Tribune, old members of the Inland Daily Press As sociation here today. “Even wheat raising communities are alive and active,” said Mr. Collission. “A query sent out by The Tribune re vealed 45 different projects now in ac tive operation locally throughout* the five northwest state to put agriculture on a better basis.” Mr. Collission’s address was on diver sified agriculture and its effect on the prosperity of communities that have de veloped dairying and balanced farming. He told of the revival of prosperity in the northwestern states this year, as a result of the uew grain crops of 1024. “Iff 1923 the total value of ten leading crops in the ninth federal reserve district was about $530,000.00. In 1924 the same crops were worth $1,110,000,000 and the prices are still soaring,” he de clared. “All through central and southern ( Minnesota where the creameries and . cheese factories are numerous, and farm- . ei« are milking and feeding pigs and chickens on the by-products of dairying, It is absurd to say that farmers are hard ( up. They reap a harvest in the milk pail two or three times a day and pay their debts like good business men." Mr. Collisson said talk about price fixing comes largely from communities that do not know much about the dairy cow. “Wherever we find a community where the cow paths are numerous,” he said, “there we find the real prosper ity, even during the past five years.” Electricity' Robs California Cooking of its Drudgery'. Sen. Francisco, Feb. 17.—More than 10,000 farmers’ wives in California cook by electricity, according to figures com piled by the largest power distributing company in the state. In the interior valleys, where wood, coal or oil is not readily available, cook ing is done to a large extent by electricity. The statistics indicate that there are i in the state 167,504 rural ngnt and power consumers, nnd they are served by 16,513 miles of distribution lines. Practically all the farms ate lighted electrically, , j_, ,■ ■, , NO. 41 BILL FOR RELIGIOUS ÜBERMTRODIED p^naOBHOySE Bill Presented by Rep. Ev erett, Who Said It Had Been Sponsored by Dr. R. T. Vann, Baptist Preacher. statewide’game LAW IN SENATE % Substitute Offered in Which Law Enforcement Would Be Up to County Officers and Not State Officers. (By the Associated Press) Raleigh. Feb. 17.—An act" to renew religious liberty in North Carolina was introduced in the House today by Rep resentative Everett, of Durham. The in troducer said he sent forward the meas ure at the request of Dr. R. T. Vann, a prominent Baptist clergyman, of North Carolina, and former head of Meredith College. The mensure would provide that it would be a misdemeanor for any person. ■ in an official position to. by word or aet, ■ reflect upon **the religion, belief in re ligion or snored book of religion” of any citizen. | It recited that religious freedom and freedom of thought had been guaranteed under the constitution, and that these rights ought not to be abridged. Game Law Presented to the Senate. Raleigh, Feb. 17.—The YY’nde Blue Statewide game measure came up as a special order in the Senate today. The substitute would provide for game pro jection but would place enforcement of the law in the hands of county authori ties, instead of with the state as the Wade-Blue measure provides. Postpone Action on Game Law Mill. Raleigh, Feb. 17 (By the Associated Press). —After prolonged debate the Sen ate today again postponed action on the Wade-Blue statewide game bill, referring the measure, together with a substitute introduced by Williams, of Pasquotank, to a special committee to be appointed by tire chair. The bill had been brought to the floor several times before, and ' each time action on jt has been de ferred. , Both houses of the assemblv today . held longer 'sesstife than tfstMtf. an*U' Both are to meet again tonight, the house of representatives to take up the Pootp anti-Darwinism bill, and the Senate to dispose of its local and publie-local cal endars. The House passed the bill to elevate the Durham negro normal school to a Grade A College. Senator Sewell’s bill relative to ,rhe powers of corporations came up in the Senate on a special order after the state wide game bill and its substitute had been referred to a special committee, but on account of the absence of the Lee county senator from the chamber, action on his measure was deferred until to morrow. GEN. MITCHELL AGAIN REPEATS HIS CHARGE Says War Department Seems Determined to Keep Air Service in the Back ground. (By the Associated Press.) YVashingfon, February 17.—Brig. Gen. Mitchell, assistant air ehieffi, and central figure in the aircraft controversy, repeated once more before the House military com mittee today the statements which have have been questioned by Secretary YVeeks. I The General reiterated that the' War • Dpartment had muzzled junior officers, and added that the department seemed ! to regard the question of national defense . as secondary to its purpose of keeping ■ the air service from becoming a para - mount branch of the army. ‘ Officers sent before Congressi4nal com t mtitees by the Department, he declared, "usually have no practical knowledge ■ about aviation, and are like closet natur ? alists who describe the gracefulness of a - bird’s flight, and yet would not recognize • the bird if it were seen in the open.” l Russell and Jones Will Die la Prison. (By the- Associated Press) \ Raleigh, Feb. 17.—George Russell and David Jones, of Chowan county, it was indicated at the governor's office today, will go to their deaths in the electric chair tomorrow without any executive in terference'with the court’s sentence. Gov ernor McLean after five separate hear ings on the case, announced that he would not exercise his clemency powers. The men will die for the murder of Sam Small, white farmer, of Chowan county, who resided outside of Edeaton. Kills Wife and ThrnlTimsoK. (By the Associated Press) St.'Paul, Minn., Feb. 17. —Thomas L. Wann, Sr„ retired capitalist, and promi nent socially, shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide in their apartment here early today. WHAT SMITTTB CAT SAYS f| mm Generally to and muck colder toy " night and Wednesday. '