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OFFICIALS OF THE
PAIH RUBBER CO.
HIED BT JURY
Marvin McConnell and Four
Officials Charged With
Having Obained Money U n
der False Pretense.
STOCK SELLING
CAMPAIGN ISSUE
Alleged That Officials Put
On Campaign Just Short
Time Before Financial Col
lapse of Concern.
(By the Associated Press)
Charlotte, April 10.—Indictments se
cretly returned yesterday in the investi
gation of the Paul Rubber Co., of Salis
bury, by a federal grand jury were made
Public today, and charged Marvin Mc-
Connell, president of the concern, and
four Other officials with having obtained
money under false pretenses. The men
are Indicted on six counts. E. H.v Mc-
Connell, M. L. Miller, H. B. Miller and
G. F. Laughlln were the men indicted
with Marvin McConnell.
The case is the outgrowth of a ‘stock
selling campaign by the Paul Rybber
Company two years ago which preceded ,
the financial collapse of the company by
a' few months.
POSITION OF HERRIOT
IS NOT ANI BETTER
Vote of Confidence Given Him Does Not
Change Hfs Precarious Position
Paris, April 10 (By the Associated
Press). —The position of Premier Her
riot’s ministry appears not to have been
improved by the vote of confidence given
it in the chamber of deputies last night
and is, if anything in the view of politi
cal observers, more precarious this morn
ing. The vote in the Chamber came after
the Premier concluded a three hour speech
taken up largely by a spirited attack on
his predecessors in office, M. Herriot lay
ing on their shoulders the blame for the
financial difficulties with wbic hthe coun
try now is faced.
Herriot Brtfidy for Showdown.
April 1© (By the Associated
Press).—“lf this be war,' let us save
it-.**-** Jfifriet
arming the Senate this aftbfortbnto re
ply to the most scathing arraignment bis
government has been subjected to dur
ing Its ten months life.
The debate had the Senate in such
fl state of efferveescence as is seldom seen
among the staid and stable senators.
Sentiment seemed evenly divided and par
liamentary prophets predicted the vote
would be close.
Cooper Appeal To Be Heard in June.
(By the Associated Press)
Raleigh, April 10.—The appeal of W.
B. Cooper, of Wilmington, from a sen
tence of eighteen months in the federal
penitentiary following conviction of mis
application of toads of the defunct Com
mercial National Bank, of Wilmington,
it is announced, will be beard by the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
at Asheville on the second Tuesday in
June.
When Home is mentioned
we always thing of a devot
. ed wife or mother
In fact home is one of
life’s highest ideals.
If you are a man reading
this you should be earnestly
thinking how you can give
yoyr family a home of its
own.
If you are a woman, you
should be planning how you.
can help to make the dreams
of home come true;
Home ownership isn’t be
yond the average family tin
der our plan.
After the savings invested
with us have totalled to a
moderate amount, you are
in line for a home loan on
terms that are about the
same as rent. /
Without any obligation
whatever, we would like to
talk it over with you.
Series No. 55 Now Open.
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I The Concord Daily Tribune
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DR. POTEAT PLEMIS
Flffl PRINCIPLES OF
CHRIST IHTHEIORLB
of Wake Forest
! College Makes Eloquent
Plea at Concord Y. M. C. A
For Christian Principles.
“we needalvew
PEOPLE,” HE SAID
Those Who “Are New in
Christ Jesus.”—Scores the
U- S. Senate. —Commerce
Is Not All We Need. '
“Society in foredoomed to wreck and
Khali swing into the gulf of barbarism
from which it has so lately come, unless,
the principles of Christ come to be domi“
tmnt among the nations of the world
declared Dr. W. L. Poteat, president of
Wake Forest College, in speaking at the
annual Y. M. C. A. membership recep-'
tion Thursday evening. “That is what
is at stake among Christian organiza-;
tions. We do not need a new social ife; 1
we do not need a new style of govern
ment. Whitt Nve need is a new people
and I don’t know how to make them ex-:
cept by making them ‘new in Christ
Jesus’.” -
' Dr - Poteat’s speech brought home force
fully to his hearers truths about the
j dangerous characteristics of youth, pre
sented facts and figures to show that the
1 church is not using the .greater part of
its membership in doing its work, and
: scored the United Sthtes government and
in particular the Senate for it failure to
I take part in the League of Nations.
After an introduction by T. D. Man
ess, Dr. Potent gave a definition of the
Young Men’s Christian Association. It
was, he said, an association of young men
under the authority of Christ to pro
mote the purposes of Christ for mankind.
Since the Y. M. C. A. dealt principally
with young men. Dr. Poteat gave the
principal characteristics of youth. Youth,
he said, waR gifted with enthusiasm, it
bad a spirit of adventure and went to
excesses. For that reason someone was
needed to restrain it— to tell youth that
if it sowed the wind, it would reap the
whirlwind; that if it sowed corruption, it
would reap rotten flesh. Sin is never
wNfcw, or slieugiljuriu is waste -and de
: This boundless enthusiasm and spirit
« adventure needs to be controlled, con
tinued Dr. Poteat. Therefore, we have
our fathers and mothers. As a simile.
Poteat took the example of a modern
gasoline engine. What would it do with
out brakes?. He asked. It simply could
not be controlled. “I don’t know what
we would do withotu the old folks.
Sometimes the young people grow impa
tient but they need the brakes. I am
glad the old folks are here and that con
servatism is here.” 1 ,
In substantiating his statement that
two-thirds of the church members have
nothing to do with the work of the
church, Dr. Poteat pointed out that in
the recent campaign for raising money
among the Baptists of North Carolina.
'B7 per cent, of the Baptist membership 1
-raised the money and the others did noth- <
iog. ‘‘The mass of churches are indiffer- 1
, »ent about the work for which they are i
organized.” declared the speaker, “many 1
of them being turned into debating so- <
Reties aud many fight one another instead I
of fighting the devil.” ]
: “The government of the United States i
is a scheme for the promotion ’of com- i
merce. Os course, we have to have a i
foundation to order society but have we a
super-structure on the foundation? It I
seems to me that the government of the
United States is concerned primarily
with keeping markets for merchants aud
with extending their number in other ;
countries. Seventy-five per cent, of the
expenses of the government are connect
ed with war. We no sooner get out of i
one until we are preparing for another, i
It is absurd, unchristian but so, never
theless,” thundered the speaker.,
“Everyone knows that the countries of
the world are no longer isolated—(hat is
every one except the United States Sen
ate.” Dr. l’oteat then delivered a phil
lipic on the subject of the Senate, stat
ing that it was an old man’s borne. The
conscience and intelligence of the world
i* organized in the League of Nations
except the United States, Russia, Mexico,
and Afghanistan. The only argument
that I can discover for isolation is that I
ir the United States entered the League,
Jhe Senate would have to admit that it
had been in error for the past five years;
and if yon don’t like that, put it in your
pipe and smoke it; It is a shame that a
political tradition should deny people a
share ip the problems of today.”
Throughout Dr. Poteat’s speech, he
scattered such a supply of new and orig
inal anecdotes that his audience was kept
in an uproar of laughter a part of the
time. His humor was of a particularly
rollicking type and his mimicing of the
persons he told about was ridiculously
true to life.
Prior to the address by Dr. Poteat, W.
H. Norton, of the National Y. M. C. A.
offices in New York, gave some of his
first impressions of the city. He told of
the different kinds of work which he
did in the various types of Associations
and wfent on to say that here in Concord,
he had found something absolutely differ
ent and unique. “Here," he said, “is a
city of 18,000 inhabitants where half of
the people are served by the Y. There is
no place like it in the world. I am told
that there are 48 clubs that meet In
this building; that the church societies
-Dare ready access to the building. It is
womjsrfui: The Y. M. C. A. has lost it
■elf in th* work of the community And I
w» to commend you on behalf of the
‘ CONCORD, N. C., FRI DAY, APRIL 10, 1925
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the ternfic storm which recently killed hundreds in Ilinois and jtndiana. The Florida storm carried off ‘>o hend /aih I
and destroyed eight residences, ten trucks, five garages and a bkrn online dairy torrn.H tora^Sl“off sfaWe at
I new Hialeah race track. An unidentified man is reported to have been carried two miles on the kind.
COURT MARTIAL SENTENCES
TO BE REDUCED GREATLY
North Carolina Boy Sentenced in llonoe
lulu Probably Will Have Sentence
Changed Before Long.
(By the Associated Press)
Washington, April 10.—Tlie sentences
imposed by army court martial in Hono
lulu recently on two American soldiers
charged with communistic activities prob
ably will be materially reduced, Major
General Lewis, commanding the Hawaiian
department today notified the War De
partment.
Private Paul 51. Crouch, of Taylors
ville, was sentenced to dishonorable dis
charge and confinement for 40 years, and
Private Walter 51. Trumbull, of Tauu
ton, Mass., to dishonorable discharge aud
imprisonment for 26 years.
- General Lewis said a preliminary sur
vey led him to believe the sentences
were. excessive. Rroeeedtoyb of the court
martial, he sgid, haVc'nbt yet been re
viewed by the division judge advocate.
The charges' against Crouch included
beside those of communistic activities,
that lie stated in the presence of other
soldiers that he favored the overthrow of
(he government, ov revolutionary ipeans,
if necessary. Trumbull was not charg
ed vyith thus advocating an overthrow of
the government, but specifications against
him included disrespectful language to
ward the flag and the President.
FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER
TO STOP CRIME NEWS
Will Not Publish Any For 15 Day Pe
riod as an Experiihent.
(By the Associated Press)
Fayetteville, N. C., April 10.—The Fay
etteville Observer today announced that
effective next Monday for a period of
15 days it would refi'ain from publish
ing any crime items in its columns. This
policy, it was stated, would apply to lo
cal, stnte, national and international stor
ies of crime. At the end of the 15 day
period, the paper states, it will be left
to the opinion of its renders to deter
mine whetheff the policy shall be perma
nently adopted.
Special Tern of Court for Needleman
Case.
(By (he Associated Press)
Raleigh, April 10.—Governor A. W.
McLean has ordered a special term of
the Superior Court Martin, county for
the trial of Joseph A. Needleman, charg
ed with an attack on a young woman,
and fifteen men charged with removing
Needleman from the jail and mutilating
him. The special term will convene
May 4th with Judge Sinclair presiding.
French Treaty With Cuba Sent to Com
mittee.
(By the Associated Press)
Paris, April 10. —A bill calling for the
ratification of the extradition treaty
signed between the republics of Cuba
and France at Havana in January was
introduced in the chamber 'of deputies
today. It was referred to the foreign
relations couimmittee which requested a
report on the measure from the sub com
mittee on civil and criminal legislation.
Rains May Check Forest Fires.
(By the Associated Press)
Richmond, April 10. —Rain was fall
ing this morning in the Wythevilie and
Lynchburg districts near the scene of
the forest firest on Brush Mountain, said
reports to the local weather bureau. The
bureau forecasts showers in the fire re
gion tonight and tomorrow. '
National Association.”
Mr. H. W. Blanks spoke for a few
moments, asserting that this Y had the
mostjefficlent group of men and women
at work that he had seen at'any place.
He thanked the patrons of the Y for their
past co-operation and warned them that
during the next year, he would ask for
uiore of their time in th'e future ia help
ing “the boys and. girls who will make the
future citizens of Concord.”
Following the invocation by Rev. W.
A. Jenkins, pastor of the Central Meth
odist Church, Misses Sarah Niblock and
Lorraine Blanks '-delighted the audience
with several readings. Miss Elizabeth
Woodbouse sang beautifully two selec
tions, accompanied by Miss Dorothea
Wolff at the piano.
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ME RUTH IH BED
BHIII THAT HE
IS Flfl FROM DEM)
Great Slugger Carried Back
Home on Stretcher With
the Season’s Opening Near
at Hand.
FAINTED~TWICE
WRING WEEK
Attending Physicians State
Condition Is Not Serious
But Will Be in Bed Sev
eral Days.
(By the Associated Press)
New York, April 10. —Babe Ruth, giant
batter of baseball, lies powerless today in
St. Vincent Hospital 'far from dead,
yet far from the. condition,he must main
tain to continue his reputation ,iu the
national game.
Ruth left New York many weeks ago
for Hot Springs, confident he would ar
rive at a physical fitness which would
guarantee his supremacy among the
American league batters the coming year.
Yesterday with the opening of the sea
son only five days away, he came back
to New York cm a stretcher.
Twice the great one collapsed. The
first time it was in the railroad-station
in Asheville, N. C. on Tuesday. Yester
day he fainted in the wash room, of a
Pullman only half an hour before he ar
rived home. .
It was stated at St. Vincent’s Hos
pital this morning that Ruth had slept
from 11 p. m. until.after 7 a. m. and that
his condition was not serious.
FLOWERS” FOR BABE MADE
KIDS LATE FOR SCHOOL
East Side Boys Spent Savings on Bou
quet for the Noted Slugger.
(By the Associated Press.)
New Yorw, April 10.—Leonard Cas
tore arid Peter Graffo.were late for school
today but even the teacher couldn’t blame
them.
sVith Babe Ruth siek in a hospital,
and the opening -of the baseball season
only a few days away, well they just had
to do something about it. So pulling the
50 cents they had been saving for their
offerings next Sunday, they went to a
florist near their East Side home and
bought a bouquet of daffodils the size a
fellow can get for four bits just before
Easter.
Then they hurried to St. Vincents
Hospital.
“They’re for Babe,” Leonard told an
attendant.
“Yes,” said Peter. “How’s he?” ,
Assured that their idol was better and
that the daffodils-would be given him as
soon as he awoke, the lads grinned and
ran to school, a bit tardy, but that didn’t
matter to them.
Gov. Walker Alone Can Save Mrs.
Hughes.
(By the Associated Press)
Atlanta, April 10. —Mrs. Ida Hughes,
slayer of her mother-m-lgw, today looked
to Governor Walker to save her from
the gallows.
The Btate prison commission yester
day recommended that the death sen
tence which has been set for April 24th,
be commuted to life imprisonment, and
the goveuior was expected to hold a
hearing on'the cast today or tomorrow.
Flivvers look so much alike when one
is stolen its owner has to identify it by
sound.
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Ten Pages Today
Two Sections
OBSERVANCE OF GOOD FRIDAY
The Penitential Season Conies to a Close
Today.
New York, April 10—The penitential
season which precedes the great Christian
festival of Easter comes to a close to
day with the observance of Good Fri
day. How Good Friday got its name
is a matter which often is discussed.
| The word Friday is really the strangest
part of the name of so solemn a date
in the Christian calendar. . Few realize
that in saying Friday they are commem
orating a paga deity, Freya, the Sandi
navian Venus.
In France Good Friday is called Pas
sion Friday; in Germany, Quiet Friday;
And jn Italy, the Blessed Friday. In
Denmark the day is termed Dong Fri
day, lan allusion to the lengthy feasts in
connection with its. celebration.
Good Friday in olden days enabled
the citizei[ to save his .fire insurance
policy, for it, was believed that an egg
laid on that day would extinguish • any
fire on which it was thrown.. 'B’uch
eggs were saved for use ifi the case of
an emergency.
Bread baked on Good Friday was sup
posed to have its protective value, for
it was believed that three loaves put
in a heap of corn would prevent the lat
ter from being devoured by ' rats and
mice. An infant born on Good Friday
was supposed to have the power of cur
ing fevers.'
France has a weird tradition that on
Good Friday' all the trees quiver and
shudder in dread remembrance of Christ’s
passion.
There are some things to be avoided
on Good Friday,’ according to ancient
superstition. In Cornwall the peasan
try believe that if they remove their bees
from the hive on any other day than
Good Friday, death will surely occur to
these useful and industrious insects. In
parts of rural England the superstitious
consider it unsafe to wash any clothes on
Good Friday. They declare that should
you do so you are likely to lose your
most valued possession before the year
is out.
Nowadays Good Friday is observed in
much the same manner as are other re
ligious festivals. In New York the day
was marked by the Closing of the prin
cipal exchanges and by elaborate services
in the churches, with many notable pro
grams of religious music. At Old Trin
ity and St. Pauls Chapel in Broadway, at
St. Patricks in Fifth Avenue,
and at various other churches through
out the city the services were attended
by large crowds, particularly the three
hour passion service.
The festival, like others of a religious
nature, has an outward and visible form
in secular things. Easter is nearly as
great a gift season as Christmas, and
while the gifts take the form largely of
flowers the shops are showing all sorts
of dainty trinkets for use and adorn
ment, and the candy shops innumerable
pretty boxes for their wares in appro
priate designs.
Though Good Friday is the solemn fast
day, everything in the streets today told
of the# coming feast of Easter. The
florists, who have been preparing for
months, and who say this is to, be one
of the greatest flower Easters ever
kriown, were kept busy throughout the ■
day. There is not much new in Easter
flowers. The lillies, which are brought
in largely from Bermuda, are always a
standard Easter blossom; the a alias,
with their masses of bloom and variety
of color are liked; there are rhoden
drons, hydrangias, the rambler roses in
pink and red; there are lilac bushes,
too. various flowering shrubs, and for
smaller plants, pots of lily of the valley,
of pansies, and violets, and less common,
if not more attractive, pots of orchids
of different kinds in full bloom.
Miss Rockefeller Has Ueense to Wei.
(By the Associated Press)
New York, April 10.—Miss Abby
Rockefeller, grand-daughter of the oil
magnate and heiress to one of the world’s
greatest fortunes, and her fiance, David
Merriwetheer Milton, Jr., young New
York lawyer, today have the license for
their marriage which will take place
May 14th at the home of the bride’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., at 10 West 04th Street. The cere
mony will be performed by the Rev. Dr.
Cornelius F. Woclfkin, of Park Avenue
Baptist Church.
CHINS POISONING
FOUND IN THE BODY
OF MRS. I CLINTOCK
Coroner’s Report Made After
Chemist Made Tests on the
Body of Woman After It
Was Buried Long Time.
SHEPHERD MUST
STAY IN JAIL
Supreme Court of Illinois Re
fused to Allow Him Bail,
It Being Fourth Time He
Lost lin Bail Fight.
(By the Associated Press)
Chicago, April 10. —Enough mercury
poisoning to have-killed two persons l>qs‘
been found in the body of Mrs. Emma
McClintock, mother of William Nelson
McClintoek, orphan millionaire, whom
William D. Shepherd, his foster father,
is charged with killing with typhoid
germs, according to Coroner Oscar Wolff.
The coroner’s formal statement issued
after his chemist reported results of tests
jir.ade on her body, disinterred after six
i teen years "burial, said the poison was
in all probability administered to her be
tween 10 and 15 days before her death.
Supreme Court Rules Against Shepherd.
Springfield, 111.. April 10 (By the As
sociated Press). —William D. Shepherd,
foster father of Wot N. McClintock,
••millionaire orphan" was today denied a
right of habeas corpus by the Illinois
Supreme Court. The court offered no
comment at all.
Chicago. April 10 (By the Associated
Press).—Federal Court may be asked by
the defense to take jurisdiction of the
case of Wm. N. Shepherd, charged with
the murder of his foster son, Wm. N. Mc-
Clintock, it was learned today after the
Illinois Supreme Court at Springfield had
refused a writ of habeas corpus. It was
the fourth futile attempt in the defense's
effort to get Shepherd' out of jail.
DOROTHY EULINGSON IS
NOW IN STATE HOSPITAL,
Jury Decided 11 to 1 That She Is In
sane. and She Has Been Taken to the
Hospital.
(By the Associated Press)
San Francisco, April 10.—Dorothy El
lingsftn, 17'year old matricide, today com :
fronted the thing from which all her "
tears and pleas and emotional outbursts
could not save her, the beginning of a
new life as an inmate in a state hospital i
for the instane at Napa, northeast of :
San Franeiseo, where she shot and killed ,i
her mother. Mrs. Anna Ellingson. 1
A jury yesterday by a vote of 11 to 1
decided she is insane. She arrived at the 1
asylum shortly afterward. She will be \
kept under observation several days be
fore assuming her definite status in the 1
asylum.
With Our Advertisers. 1
Only one more day to dress up your :
feet for the Easter parade. Beautiful •
line of shoes and hosiery at Parker’s
Shoe Stoke.
The Kelvinet is ample for a family of !
four or five. It freezes dainty cubes of
ice for the table. See .1. Y. Pharr & :
Bro. Phone 103, IST or 208.
Dou’t fail to attend the auction sale
of diamonds, watches, jewelry, Japanese '
hand-painted China at your own price at
J. C. Willeford’s. Saturday, April 11, 1
is the last day.
Tlie Cash Feed Store will insure the
life of your chicks when you use Star
tina and Big Cliix.
See the new ad. today of the Cabar
rus County B. L. and 8. Association.
The great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. 1
has some splendid offerings for you. See
,ad. on page eight today.
War Mothers’ sale day at Yorke & ;
Wadsworth Co. tomorrow. Easter eggs,
homemade cakes and candies.
See the new ad. today of the Browns- 1
Cannon Co. Last chauce tomorrow to
get your Easter togs.
Start saving now and be protected in j
your old age. See ad. of Citizeus Bank ]
and Trust Co.
Easter footwear fashions now on (lis- 1
play at Ivey's. They are by far the love- 1
liest shoes they have displayed. All shoes
carried in the different widths and are 1
fitted by experts.
The Gibson Drug Store will hereafter
be a United Cigar Store and will keep all
the famous brands at United Cigar Stores
prices. United coupons and certificates
with all purchases, except the fountain
drinks. See big ad. today.
For sale, for cash nr on easy terms.
Valuable property adjoining the high
school property. See D. A. McLaurin,
who will be glad to show you the proper
ty. Watch for big ad. tomorrow.
Kirschbaum and Rochester suits for
men, and young men. newest shades and
styles at Parks-Belk Co's. Just re
ceived a big shipment of young men’s
wide leg pants. Arrow shirts and col
lars for the well dressed man. Every- 1
things for the boys soo. A representative
of the Royal Blue Tailoring Co. will lie
in’ this store Friday and Saturday to
take your measure for a new suit.
Over 100 new patterns to seeot from at
Ruth-Kesler Shoe Store. All sizes, all
colors, all widths.
Schoble hats for Easter at Hoover’s,
$5 to $7 V Easter shirts and neckwear.
The big Pre-Easter Sale at Efird's is
still going on.
The Trenton, the latest in furniture
following the old styles, you will find at
the Concord Furniture Co.
Call FV>r National Bank Statements.
(By the Associated Press)
Washington, April 10.—A call for the
condition of national banks at the dose
of business Monday, April 6, was issued I
today. f
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NO. 85
STITEJLLM
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So Commissioner Wilkinson
Tells Chamber of Com
merce Members at Meeting
Thursday.
MT. PLEASANT ROAD
IS DISCUSSED ALSO
It Is Possible That the State
Highway Commission May
Apportion More to Com
plete the Proposal. '■
In a meeting with the Chamber of
Commerce Thursday afternoon announce-'
ment was made by W. C. Wilkinson,
highway commissioner for the fifth dis
trict. that the road from Concord to
Monroe would be taken over by the
.State highway commission as soon as it
was in condition for additional traffic
which would be imposed on it by this
move.
Announcement was also made of the
fact that the Btate highway commission ■"*
has agreed to carry the hard surface
iiom Mt. Pleasant as far as the money
apportioned to the county in the recent
twenty million dollar bond issue would
take it. This would carry it to within
two miles of the Stanly connty line,
said Mr. Wilkinson, and it was possible
that the State highway commission
might apportion more to complete the
project. - The amount due to Cabarrus
from the bond issue was approximately
*ll 0.000.
The meeting was a rather informal
one. Secretary H. W. Blanks briefly con
gratulating Mr. Wilkinson on his re
appointment and expressing his thanks
for the work that Mr. Wilkinson had
done for Cabarrus in the past. Fol
lowing Mr. Wilkinson's announcement, a
number of men present thanked him in
short speeches and inquired as to the
probability of tiie State taking over the*
road to the Iredell line. It was thought
very unlikely, by Mr. -Wilkinson, that
there would be any action soon in regard
to this matter.
E. .Y\ Pridgen, engineer for the fifth
district, told the men assembled about
a top which should be suitable to place
on the Monroe road. This top was the
W>.‘ put directly on *
stfmreTsy or clay road, jt had been tried
in several counties and was very satis
factory, The treatment, put on once
n year, gradually built up a road so that
in five years it could stand heavy traffic
and kept the road from becoming muddy
or dusty. '
The idea of placing this kind of top
on the Monroe road was received enthu
siastically by thoAe present and W. G.
Brown, county highway engineer, asked
that he be allowed to confer with Mr.
Pridgen in the future.
The matter of the Mt. Pleasant-county
commissioners dispute entered the meet
ing when Senator W. A. Foil, after a
few preliminary remarks, declared that
Mt. Pleasant had contracted to pay for
the road through the town and that they
should stick to their contract. Morrison
H. Caldwell, lawyer for the town, had
nothing to say at the meeting in regard
to the matter.
This dispute, however, wag taken fur
ther after the meeting when Mr. Wil
kinson and Mr. Prigden met with a com
mittee from Mt. Pleasant in Mr, Cald
well’s office and discussed the whole af
fair. O. A. Barringer, mayor of the
municipality, told of how the former ad
ministration had agreepl Jf So pay . their
part after it had been assured that it
would not be over ten or twelve thou
sand dollars. The present administra
tion was shocked, he said, when it re
ceived a bill for $51,000. ‘He wished tor
know if the rumor were true vyhieh had
been circulating in recently
to the effect that unless Mt. Pleasant
came across with the apportionate part,
the paving would be stopped.
Mr. Wilkinson in reply to Mr. Bar
ringer’s query, stated that the road would
be continued and that the dispute was
wholly between the county commission
ers and Mt. Pleasant. His contract, he
said, was with the county and not with
Mt. Pleasant. Mr. Barringer then
seem,ed relieved that the road was to be
continued and said -that Mt. Pleasant
would do all it could to pay a portion
of the debt but was doubtful that $51,-
000 could be raised.
Accompanying Mr. Barringer from Mt.
Pleasant was H. E. Foil, town commis
sioner, and A. N. James.
President’s Reply tto Peru.
(By tke Associated Press)
Washington, April 10.—President
Coolidge has replied to the Peruvian me
morial on his Tacna-Arica arbitration
award that as to both the Peruvian con
tention concerning the plebiscite provis
ion and the request for adftional guaran
tees in carrying out the plebiscite the
award must be considered as “final and
without appeal.’’
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