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Supreme Court Justice Rules
uivorce untnicu iwr*
Duke More Thau 20 Years
- Ago Musi Be Recognized.
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Sew York, 3a.v 15.—Siforemfc Cotrrf
Justfc* Diegcrich today drnmiaW the'.di
vorce milt brought by , Mrs. Lfllian N.
"d to Mr 9 Duke after a trial in New Jer
sey twenty years ago. Tbb Justice held
that this decree must be recognised as
Mm Duke contended in her action that
the divorce obtained in the New Jersey
court 20 years ago was invalid because
she and Mr. Duke were at that time res
idents of New York. Justice Gjpgerfch
held that whether or not the Dukes re
sided in New Jersey, at the time of rfpe
soft, the eoui»L bad Acted fully within
Mr; Duke married again after divorc
ing his first wife. Mrs. Lillian N.
Duke, claiming she was still married to
Duke, set up a statutory offense in the
---action just determined, and named the
• second'wife of the tobacco man in. the
Mrs. Lillian Duke in the litigation de
nied that her former husband had made
a settlement of *500.000 on her.
BAPTISTS ~HEAR REPORTS
AT MEMPHIS MEETING
Executive Committee and Board of Fbr
~ Attention During
X Today’s Session. -r
--(By the Awmeteted Pres.)
V Memphis, Teiin., May 16.—With it*
declaration of faith and message a mat,
totuftfreeord, not of diffemice, the t)outb-
Adoption of the executive committee’s
report wa« made contingent upon wheth
er the convention accepted a recommen
dation to affiliate more closely with the
Yl M. C. A. -and whether the four theo
logical seminaries maintained by the con
vention rifhould receive ,their funds di
rect from the states where collected, or
through the eduction board.
The committee recommend* that the
convention affiliate with the Y. M. C. A.
by appointing a committee of three mem
bers to confer annually with members
of the thirteen denominations- support-
Sach participation, it is believed, would
prove the convention , with detailed re
ports of the association’s activities, and
would foster 's more intimate association
with the work.
, J. W- KNIGHT, OXFORD
JEWELER, IS MISSING
Last Heard of ha Greensboro, Where He
Oiford, May W. Knight,
prominent jewler who left his home
Sunday for n visit to relatives in Mount
Airy, has caused relatives to become un
easy hte as no-Word
Oreensboro hotel Sunday but had left
his baggage there since Sunday night-
Sheriff Hunt, of Oxford, amt Garfield
Tilley Jiave returned from Greensboro
without finding anw trace Os the missing
man. .S* ’N r '■ ...
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Washington. May 15.—Oscar W. DU
[m&XT-W*? consideration the
4°“^
The senator said today that he would
not reach a definite decision, however,
until he Had talked Che situation over
with, his friend* in Alabama this sum
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socinted Prcfift) —With re port a of liquor
ewittoue as long as they were handicap l
■ ped by lack of small fast boats with which
That the landing places north and south
of the harbor also were being literally
utilized by the rum smugglers, was Indi
es ted’in an appeal of Orange County au
thorities yesterday for federal aid to
< block liquor lauding at Laguna, Newport
and other pointa on Orange county coast.
Plans Ear This Have Been Made by a
New York, May 15.—Plans have been
completed by a group of Americans to
climb to the summit of Mount Ararat,
fabled seat of Paradise.
The expenditfon will leave London
Huext month for Erivan. Russian Ar
menia, where a staff of native guides and
interpreters has been mobilised for the
assault on the peak. The Near East
Relief, which has a large orphanage on
the lower slopes of Ararat, will assist
heir exploit.
17.000-foot mountain
by the
nor have any precise
aphs ever been made
ilong its slopes which .
blical tradition. The
present American expedition will make
photographs and motion picture* of the
s#>ts where, according to Old’ Testament
tradition, Noah rested his ark after the
deluge, where he built the first altar,
planted the first vineyard and later
buried hi* wife. 7 . , ;
The expedition is financed by Major
Charier E. SpTatt, of New York, and !
will be commanded by Captain Thomas
Milis, a fotuner New York police lieuten
ant, The official cartographer is Merle
Layoy, of Seattle, a motion picture pbo- :
tographer who gained fame some years ‘
agoCby climbing Mount McKinley, high- 1
e»t peak of North America. The secre
tary of the expendition is Frauk M. ]
America, of Buffa.o. <. 1
Members of the party will be ac- 1
eompanied by Kurdieh and Cossack
guwds for protection against the fan- 1
-atical nomadic ■ tribe swho inhabit the :
mountainside and who regard Ararat a* ■
a sacied symbol jf heaven. The lower
spies will be negot|e.ted on h >rn -hack,
while the upper reaches, which ar? cov- :
ered by eternal snow, will «e climbed on
foot. V .V’ : l
Topographical and geological work will
be carried out. and apecimene ot the flora
and fauna of the great mountain will
be' gathered. The expedition will be
equipped with long distance portable
wireless appratu* and efforts will be
made from the summit of Ararat, which
I’ is more than a thousand feet higher than
the highest mountain in -Europe, to es
tablish communication with foreign sta-
Tfte exnendition will erect-a 'memorial
E the mountain to
of Minneapolis, a
entative who per-1
; to club Ararat!
r Separate Ways.
—Married for 20
i. D. Dillon, of
day went their
an agreement of
inability to_ get
ther get* three^of
ie had struck her
dm. They have a
nd that is the one
land they .own,]
* t'bc money into fourthH* otto - 1
Negro Pays With Life Ear Crime. j
CONCORD, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 15,' 1925
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•00 YOCNG MEN PREPARING
THEMSELVES FOR MINISTRY
In Baptist' Church, According to Report
to th* Convehtion. .
(By tfcc Associated Press)
Memphis, Tenn.. May 15. —An enroll
ment *of OOR young people preparing them
selves for the ministry, misionary work
and other definite forms of Christian Ser
vice was reported to the Southern Bap
tist Convention today by the Southwest
ern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort
Worth, through Dr. L. R. Scar
under the control of the convention, it
having been transferred formally to the
Convention by the board of trustees in
February. Aproxjmately -one hundred
persons will be graduated at the aproach
ing. commencement: (
The worfc of the Seminary is divided
into four schools—theology, religions ed
ucation, Gospel Music and recently came
into possession of a gift from Mrs. George.
E. Cowden. of Fort Worth, in the sum
of $150,000 for erection of a special
building, which, it is said, will be the
first building in the world dedicated to
the teaching of Gospel music. The build
ing will be a memorial to Mrs. Cnwden’s
late husbami, a prominent Texas cattle
man, banker and Baptist layman. Con
tract for'the structure will be let in July,
work will begin jn August and the new
building will be dedicated at the 1026
commencement
From the Baptist 76 Miiion Campaign,
recently closed; the Southwestern Semi
nary received $700,0p0, Dr. Scarborough
reported. The inatitption still has a cur
rent indebtedness of SIBO,OOO, part of
which is for building purposes and part
tor current expense*. It is hoped to pro
vide tot this obligation, out of the re
ceipts from the denominational program
this year and in 1926. •
Large emphasis .is placed upon the
practical work as well as study of the
Seminary and an average of 1,000 pro
fessions of faith and practically as many
baptisms are witnesed monthly by the
professors and students of the seminary,
the report showed. A majority of both
instructors and students will be engaged
fn evangelistic work during the summer.
- The training school for instruction of i
women mias'onaries and other special
workers has pust been taken over by the
Women’s Misionary Union, auxiliary., to
the Southern Baptist Convention, wmch
has appointed an adviory board to co
operate in the conduct of that institution.
Os the 600 students of the Seminary as a
whole 267 women are enrolled in the
training school.
Missing Woman Found Wandering in
Wood*.
Fayetteville, May 14.—After an eight
hour search by members of the Fort
Bragg garrison, Mias Leona Jones, 45,
of Moultrie, Ga., who disappeared from
her'’brother-in-law’s quarters hurt night
or early this morning, was found this
j afternoon wandering through nearby'
’woods in a deranged condition. She was
[carried to the poet hospital, and it ie 13
i thought ehe will recover. Except for a ||
• listless manner Miss Jonea waa ap- H
1 parently normal last night when she |,j
went to her room at the home of war- |i
pint ..ffi'.r Hnn*on. Vf* broth,r-in-Uw. H
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MYUN AND SMITH ARE
SENTENCED TO PRISON
Must Serve 25 Years Each For the Mur
der of Russell Dickey, Express Measen
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j (By the Associated Press)
Waukegan, 111., May 15 (By the A«os
dated Press).-—BerUhnrdt Mylin, of Mfl
waukee, and Edward J. Smith, of Mil
waukee, were sentenced each to 25 years'
imprisonment, and Bernard Smith and
Ralph McKee, Chicago, were acquitted to
day by thej nry trying them for the mur
der of Russell Sage Di»)»y, express mes
senger 'in an attempted holdup of the
Viking, a Chicago & Northwestern ex
press.
The jury deliberated nearly 12 hours
before agreeing, y . » ,
NO CAMERAS AT TRIAL
». OF WILUAM SHEPHERD
Typewriters and Telegraph Instruments
WUI Not Be Allowed in Court Room,
Either.
Chicago. May 15 (By the Associated
Press).—Cameras, typewriters and tele
graph instruments will be barred from
the court room during the trial of Wm.
D. Shepherd, charged with the murder of
his foster son, Wm. N. Medintock. Type
writers and telegraph apparatus will be
permitted in an adjoining room, howeever.
W. J. Byron is Accorded Cold Re
ception By Brown College.
Providence, R. 1., May 14.—William
Jennings Bryan, spenking at the stu
dfnts’ forum at Brown university here
in his warfare ou the teaching of evolu
tion in Amerienn colleges, was hissed
and booed when he abruptly'ffßlfed the
question with a sarcastic sally at a
member 'the junior clans who had
queried him on a point of science ver
sus religion.
“Lrfdies and gentlemen,” he said, ‘‘l
have come a long way to address yon
students at Brown, but I shall certain
ly have to retire before this magnificent,
bubbling fountain of wtedom on my]
• right." - > : ‘7
He immediately left the platform
while students hissed and booed. There
was no applause from the. audience.
Mr. Bryftn announced that he is in
’ithe fight against evolution to the ut
! | most of his power. He said it was his
'way of expressing his gratltpde to the
' A'merican people for their generosity to
i him in'the past. 1 y ' -
Northern Sagtalien Transferred to Rus
} sift.
.' Tokyo, May 15 (By the Associated
- Press). —The transfer of northern Sag
| balien from Japan to the NwViet govern
ment of Russia was completed today with
, the signing of protocols and the opening
. of foe Rusisan consulate at Alexandrovs!;.
“Bravely into the jaws of death they marched—four men
and—a woman!” I
LOST WORLD”
I Made for Your Amazement! jjj
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THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Steady Today at Advance of S
to 7 Paints —May Later Brake to 21.98
From $2224.
(By the Associated Press)
New York, May 15.—The cotton mar
ket opened steady today at afi advance
of 3 to 7 points in response to rela
tively stad.v Liverpool cables, but soon
turned easier under near months liquida
tion and renewed selling encouraged by
favorable weather in the South and re
iterated complaint* of an unsatisfactory
demand f\>r Cotton goods in- the primary
market. ' -
After selling at 22.24 at the start, May
Broke to 21.98, being- influenced by the
circulation of notice* estimated at about
7,500 bale*. Late m-ir.th* eased off
under comparatively moderate offerings,
ctober declining to 21.05 or four points
net lower.
Liverpool' was a seller here after the
opening, presumably against purchases in
the English market, while there was con
sidcrable selling for southern and Wall
Street accounts.
Cotton futures opened steady. May
22.24; July 22.25 ; Oct. 22.0;; Dec.
22.20; Jan. 21.84.
With Our Advertiser*.
Auction sale of land at Colonial Park
on Wednesday, May 20th, at 2 o’clock
p. m. by Linker and Barnett. The sale
will be conducted by the Carolina Land
Co. Baloon ascension and Ford car
free' at 4 p. m.
Baseball Saturday, May 16th. South
ern Railway vs. Gibson, at Gibson Park.
Saturday and Monday and all uejt
week will be special feature days at
Fisher’s.
Let-the Stgrnes-Miller-Parker Co. help
you select your graduation gifts.
Many big values at the A. k P. Tea
Co. Two stores in Concord and one
in Kannapolis. '
. Parker’s Shoe Store will have so(pe
excellent shoe special tor Saturday and
Monday. See ad. on page two for par
ticulars. „ .
Scores of new Victor record* at the
Kid-Frix Music and Sationery Co. See
list in three-column ad, on social and
personal page today. v
The Bob’s Dry gleaning Co. announces
the purchase and installation of the ex
clusive use in Concord of Prof. Ramsay’s
Friendullnie Process of dry cleaning.
Read the four-column ad. on page two
today. Garments and cleaned
for both men and women.
Let Howard’s Auto Laundry do your
car cleaning and polishing.
Look up C. Patt Covmgtop¥ ad. in an
other column.
New shipment golf and tennis balls,
rackets, dubs, ets., at the Musette,
Elizabeth Arden Venetian toilet prep
arations at Gibson Drug Store., -
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This Statement Made at Ge
neva Conference by Theo
dore E. Burton, Represent
ing United States.
SEARCH PROPOSAL
I HAS BEEN MADE
Mr. Burton Tells Conference
„ That as Delegate of Amer
ica He Will Make Effort to
Defeat Proposal.
Ceneva, May 15 (By tbe Associated
Press). —The IT. 8. dees not wish to
search the ship# of other ‘countries for
suspected illegal shipments of arms, Rep
resentative Theodone_E. Burton, of Ohio,
head of the American delegation to the
international conference for the control of
traffic in arms and munitions, told the
conference today. A; proposal to author
tee the search of ships uspeete<L_of car
rying arms improperly is before the con
ference. *' /
• Mr. Burton said the I’nited States
would look with disfavor upon any search
of her own ships and expressed his vig
orous opposition to the proposal.
RUM FLEET IS GIVING~
OVER UNDER BLOCKADE
Twelve of 16 Vessels Haul Another and
Depart With their Destination Un
announced.
New York, May 14.—Six hundred
bottle of alleged champagne, liquors and
gin and a quantity of alleged liquor-filled,
candies were steed today aboard the
I.loyd Royal Beige steamer Mereier at
het pier in Brooklyn. Tiie Mereier ar
rived yesterday and the Seizure today
prohibits the ship’s leaving port until
a fine, estimated at between $2,000 and
$2,500 is paid.
The sizure, made by a squad from
the Office of the surveyor of the port,
is the first of any consequence since
the coast guard began its intensive block- '
ade qf rum row. Most of the liquor
was said to have been found hidden jn
side and on top of the boilers and 'in
tbe water and oil tanks.
Further disintegration of the rum fleet
anchored off Sandy Hook and continu
ance of the cordon maintained by
tbe coast guard around the few ships
left were reported today by officers qf
the eoast guard putting into Staten
Island for supplies. CM tbe sixteen
ships anchored off rum row this morn
ing, twelve hauled in their anchors and
put out to sea during the day.
The blockading fleet, closing in the
four ship# still remaining is playing a
waiting game, it was asserted, confident
that the patience and supplies of the
stubborn ships would be exhausted even
tually.
Meanwhile, reports from the Pacific
coast indicate that the rum runners have
transferred their base of operation .to
Pacific waters where federal prepara
tions to drive them from the sea have
thus ,far proved inadequate.
UNION CARPENTERS In
ASHEVILLE ON STRIKE
700 Quit Jobs When They Failed to
Reach an Agreement Relative to
Wages.
(By the Associated Press)
Asheville, N. C., May 15.—Seven hun
dred carpenters went on strike at 9
o'clock this morning fallowing inability
to agree with employing contractors over
the proposed new wage scale. The car
penters gave notice of an increase in,
pay from 87 1-2 cents an hour to one!
dollar an hour, effective May Ist. Con
tractors insisted that present contracts
be carried out under the old scale and
agreed to meet the new wage scale July
Ist. This was declined, and following
conferences they last night voted to call
their men off the work this morning.
Carolina-Made Paper For State Print
ing.
Raleigh, May 14.—The state depart
ment of labor and printing received to
day its first order of Carolina made
paper, getting a carload from the Cham
pion Fibre company, of Canton. The
order represented 36,000 pounds of a
good grade of stock, and in the pur
chase Commissioner Frank Grist saved
$1,500. The paper is a Carolina pro
duct in its entirely, the raw material
coming from the mountain forests and
going through the mills at Canton. The
paper will be used for printing office
forms for use in the state departments
and institutions. Mr. Grist expects - to
do his paper trading at home regularly.
The state has been buying heretofore
from out of the state manufacturers.
Opening of the Charles Store Tonight.
The opening of the new Charles Store
in Concord will take place tonight from
7:30 to 9:30 o’clock. Music will be fur
nished by the Pasadeua Orchestra of
eight pieces. Souvenirs will be given to
| the ladies. No goods will be sold tonight,
• but the store will be open for business
tomorrow morning. Read tbe full page
ad. in The Tribune today for a list of
some of the very low prices that are to
be offered to you.
Rev. Z. E. Barnhardt Is Gradually Sink
ing.
Statesville Daily, 14th.
Sorrowing friends - are deeply grieved
that each' day bring* less hope of any
reaction for the better in the .condition
of Rev. Z. B. Bttmhardt. pastor of
jk - i - pro/ j
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No. 115
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Court Rules That Felder’s
Conviction For a Felony
Makes It Mandatory That
He Be Disbarred Now.
RECOGNIZED BY
COURT IN 1917
Col. Felder Went to New
York at That Time With
Notable Record as a Suc
cessful Criminal Lawyer!
(By the Associated Press)
New York. May 15.—C01. Thos. B. Fel
der, noted criminal lawyer, who with Gas
ton B. Means, former Department of Jus
tice agent, was convicted in Federal court
last January of conspiracy to bribe high
government offifficials. today was disbar
red by the Apellate Division of the Su
preme Court.
Justice Clark in presenting the court’s
opinion asserted that the conviction as.
Felder for a felony made It mandatory
that he be disbarred. Col. Felder was
admitted to practice in NevSi York in 1917
after he had come from Georgia, where
jie made notable record as a criminal law- r
fyer.
Witnesses at bis trial testified that Fel» ,
der, Means and the latter's secretary, Eli
mer W. Jamecke, had received $65,000
from numerous defendants in the Glass
Casket <Yager System mail fraud case.
It was testified that this money was .ob
tained on representations that Means had
influence with former Attorney General
Harry M. Daugherty to prevent prosecu
tion or indictments in the case.
Felder was fined SIO,OOO for his part
in the deal. Means was sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary and fined $lO,-
000, while Jarnecke will be sentenced on
Jtme 30tb.
PERMANENT FUND TO \
ASSIST NEGRO HERO
Ton Lee Will Be Cared For By Fund
Created by Memphis Engineers Club.
Memphis, Tenn., May 15 (By the As
sociated Press).—Tom Lee, negro hero of
the M- E, Norman diaaster, is to be tak-
of- through a perpetual fund be- ,
The club at an executive meeting here
created “The Tofti Lee Fund of the Engi
neers •Club,” pnd according to the resolu
tion of creation it is “made permanent as
long as Tom Lee and the Engineers Club
of Memphis are both in existence.’’
The fond is to be made up of subscrip
tions by members of the club, their friends
and interested parties, and is to be ad
ministered by three members of the club.
Members yesterday subscribed S2OO 16-
ward tbe fnud.
Another fund being raised by the Mem
phis Commercial-Appeal to purchase Lee
a home, had reached $1,053.10.
BRYAN DENIES THAT HE' • %
HEARD ANY ONE HISS
Was Reported He Was Hissed and Booed
After Talk at Brown University.
Boston, May 15 (By the Associated
Press). —Denial that he had heard any
booing or hissing when the question pe
riod followed his talk on science and re
ligion was terminated at Brown Univer
sity in Providence last night, was made
by William Jennings Bryan, when he ar
rived here today. He declared that he
had for nearly an hour and a half been
answering questions and that most of
the audience had left owing to the late
hour when the incident occurred. He said
he had answered several questions put
up by his interrogator, and only when his
questioner showed a disposition to pre
sent his own views and argue instead of
ask quetions did he offer to turn the
meeting over to him.
Former Mistress Waits Turn at WMta
House.
Washington, D. C. May 13.—Mrs.
William Howard. Taft stood in line for
more than a half hour today outside the
Executive offices at the White House,
where she once was mistress, awaiting
her regular turn to be admitted to shake
hands with President Coolidge.
Mrs. Taft, who was with a delegation"
of Colonial Dhmes of America, made no
effort to gain special privileges and her '
identity was not disclosed until she was
discovered by a photographer.
Refused to Quash Stephenson Indiet
meat.
Indianapolis, Ind.. May 14 (By the
Associated lYess). —Judge James A. Col
lins in criminal court today overruled
a motion to quash an indictment charg
ing B. C. Stephenson, former grand
dragon of the Kn Klux Klan. with the
murder of a young woman of Indianapo
lis.
As early as the year 1657 tbefe were
114 tennis courts in Paris.
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