North Carolina Newspapers

® PRESS 9 • DISPATCHES ft VOLUME XXV MMLLESt Troops Landed at Honan • ;M . Island, Near Point Where American Chrisitian Col lege Is Located. AMERICAN SHIP FIRED ON TODAY Ship Returned the Fire and Suffered No Damage^— Was Convoying Supply Ship For College. Hon* Kong, .Tune 11 (By the Associ ated Preen). —U. S. marines have been landed on Honan Inland in the Peart River near Canton, to protect the Amer ican Chrietian College. Ship Fired on. Canton, June 11 (By the Associated Press).—The American gunboat Pampan-: gar of the South China patrol, was fired upon near Whampflo todny, while con voying a supply launch to the Canton Christian College. The Pampangar re turned the fir*. No casualties were re ported. • 1,000 Manchurian Troops Moving. Shanghai, June 11 (By the Associated Press). —About 1,000 Manchurian troops under Gen Chang Hsueh Liang, son of Gen. Chang Tso Lin, Manchurian war lord, were moving today from Nanking to Shanghai, ostensibly to manitain order on the borders of the foreign settlements and to strengthen Chang Tho Lib's grip on the Shanghai regin. Think Police to Blame. Peking, June 11 (By the Associated Press). —The Chinese foreign office in a note to 'the foreign diplomatic corps re futed the latter's argument that foreign in firing upon the Chinese demonstra-. tors there recently. Washington Waiting For Peking Reply 1 ! Washington, June 11.—A reply to the Peking government's demand for with drawal of foreign landing parties at Shanghai is expected here to await a re port from the commission of investiga tion sent to Shanghai by the Pekiug dip lomatic corps. The note relates to what happened at Shanghai on MaJ 31 when the present trouble began. Ethvin 8, Opntitnghnm, American consul general imported that the order to fire was given the police after the demonstrating students had be («titf “a threatening mob. assaulting two foreign police constables And threatening the lives of foreigners.'! So far as is known Washington has received nothing to challenge the accuracy of this report. Students Must Give Bond. Shanghai, June Id. (By the Associated Press). —Chinese students charged with being involved in the recent disturbances here were ordered today by mixed court at the conclusion of the trial, to furnish bonds guaranteeing good behavior. ATTACKS THE INCOME TAX LAW AS UNJUST Law Discriminates Against Productive Wealth for Idle Wealth National Cred it Men Are Told. (By the Associated Press) Washington, June 11. —The present in come tax law discriminates against pro ductive wealth and favors Idle wealth, Gerrard ’B. Winston,, under secretary of the Treasury, declared in a prepared ad dress today before the convention of the National Asssocintion of Credit Men, and it is because “Congress has refused to tench the abuse, of having a type of se cunity the ownership of which works on exemption of taxation.” The exempt securities now total more than thirteen billion dollars, he declared, predicting that the total would reach fifteen billion dollars before any constitu tional amendment to change the situation could become effective. The means of tax avoidance available to the wealthy, he said, nre so many that to “try to close them all by ptatute would simply put business in a straight jacket!” Police Fire on Strikers. Sydney, N, S., June 11 (By the As sociated Press).—Police today fired upon a mob of strikers attempting to enter the power house at New Waterword, 'op erated as an auxiliary of the British Em pire Steel Corporation. Four of the attackers were said to have been wound ed. 'V May Issue Special French Note* Paris, June 11 (By the Associated Press), —Finance Minister Caillaux and finance committee of the chamber of dep uties today discussed a fiduciary issue of four billion trades in special bank notes to • meet the heavy retirement of national 'defense bonds this year. Smith College, Northampton, Mass., which is celebrating its golden jubiless this year, is the largest Women's col lege in the world. \ I - T . . Concord Theatre (Coolest Place in Town) LAST TIME TODAY PRISCILLA DEAN IN “Siren of Seville” Ah* Path* Comedy “Sailor Papa” TOMORROW ONLY “DAUGHTERS OF TO DAY” With Patsy Ruth Miller • g— mimhihwiiiiiii ii i mm mil iif The Concord Daily Tribune ' 7’. i . • * : Tmocco mi i Decision of Spain to Resume i Fighting May Mean That French Will Change From Defense to Offense. SPAIN IS~READY r WITH LARGE FORCE I Probable That 20,000 Troops Will Be Used by Spain in r Offensive Which Will Be gin Without Delay. Fez, June 11 (By the Associated i Press). —Decisive action against the in- I vading Kiffian tribesmen is regarded here . as imminent, due to Spain’s intention to land a force reported to number 20.000 men in an attempt to seize the naval I base of Alhucemas, now held by the - Moors. I Abdel Krim is expected to oppose the Spanish attack to the utmost. and ap parently in preparation for the engnge ‘ ment has. withdrawn to the north a num ber of his best warriors, and has moved other chosen troops toward Abjir where a council of war is reported to have been held. If these movements are confirmed, it ; is thought the French will abandon the defensive attitude they previously have observed and assume the offensive. i HONORARY DEGREES CONFERRED UPON THREE NOTABLE MEN Dr. W. S. Rankin. Rev. H. M. North and Rev. G. T. Rowe Recipients of Honor. Durham. June 10.—Standing with heads uncovered, students, alumni and friends of Duke University watched the American flag lowered for the last time during the college year here today at sun down. It was the official close of the first commencement of Duke University, and the seventy-third of Trinity College, now a part of a great educational insti tution, with Secretary of the Navy Wil bur, special guest and speaker, and Wil liam Preston Few, president of Duke, standing at stiff attention, the flag was presented to the university by the class of 1925. President Few, according to long established customs, pledged to keep •the flag soWy -for the use ot the outgo ing class. Honorary degrees were conferred by the university upon the following: Gilbert Theodore Rowe, ’9a, Nashville. Tenn., editor and author, doctor of liter ature; Dr. Harry Maurice North, ’9l). pastor of the First Methodist Church of Rocky Mount, doctor of divinity, and Dr. Watson Smith Rankin, Charlotte, doctor of science. In conferring the honor upon Dr. Rankin, who was the state health officer from 1909 to 1925, President Few stated that Dr. Rankin is “now entering upon an even greater service through connection with the James B. Duke medical foundation; through application of scientific knowl edge and high devotion to the causes of his native state, becoming the saviour of the health of thousands of people.” Students graduating with honors were: Julian Parks Boyd, Charlotte, and William R. Brown, Nashville, Tenn., Summa Cum Laude; and William S. Barnes, Furman A. Bridge™, Velma Deyton, J. J. Farriss, Lucy Flemming Glasson, Idalene B. Gulledge, Richard Hardaway, Sidney Maxwell Kale, Law rence Mumford, Ida C. Munyan, Annie Murnick, Bessie A. Rooker, Bessie Jaun ita Southerland, Ella H. W-hitted, and James A. Wiggins, Jr., Agna Cum Laude. HARDWARE MEN WILL FINISH MEET TODAY Spartanburg Convention Will Coma to Close During Day With Klmttoh of Officers For Year. (By the Associated Press) Spartanburg, S. C., June ll.—With the election of officers late today the 21st an nual convention of the Association of Hardware Men of the Carolinas will come to a. close. At the morning session Geo. M. Gray, of Coshocton, Ohio, president of the Nat ional Retail Hardware Dealers Associa tion, made the chief address on “Oppor tunities.” T. W. McAllister, editor of the Southern Hardware & Implement Journal,, conducted a stose and window arrangement, and & demonstration on “Window Dressing as a Means of Sell ing Hardware,” was given by M. G. Row land,. window dresses, High Point, N. C. At the afternoon session W. K. Holt, of Burlington, N. C., was to lend a discus sion on "What Did I Get Out of This, Convention?” \ Searching for Alleged' Slayers of Officer. (Cj the Associated Press) High Point, June 11.—Police and the county officers continued the search to day for Jim Carter and Chirlie Green, negroes, alleged to have taken part in a gun battle in which Police Officer C. J. Reeves and a negro were killed and three men were wounded Tuesday night. Bloodhounds were used in the search, but they lost the trail after carrying officers several miles into the woods south west of the city. ■ Forma New Belgian Cabinet. Brussels, June 11 (By the Associated Press).—Viscount Poulet today succeed ed in forming a new Belgian cabinet. w.-'.swfs-’ri xue,'— W;‘r"; "i ::iy-y* 'W./ij Ten Pages Today TwoSeclions 1 CONCORD, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1925 Delirium Dreamens OFFICER REEVES SHOT.IN BATTLE DIES OF WOUNDS | High Point Policeman Killed in Dis charge of His Duties. High Point, June 10.—Police officer C. J. Reeves,-of the High Point department, . died, in. a hospital here early today of wounds sustained in a guir battle between police and negroes here last last night. Arthur Harrell, negro, was killed in stantly, and Officer F. G. Claywell and two negroes, James Staley and John White, were seriously wounded in the battle. The police are holding for investigation six negroes, Lizzie Worsbtt. Anna Rob bins, Charles Barnett. Bozia Saunders, Tob Robins and Jane Robbins, and are searching for Charlie Green and Jim Carter, who are alleged to have partici pated in the shooting. A negro answering the description of Carter was arrested at Salisbury this af ternoon, but when officers went there to identify him they found that he was not the man wanted. Another negro thought at first to be Charlie Green was arrested at AVinston-Salein,. but he also proved not to be the man sought by the offi ce™. WORK OF DRY AGENTS 129 Sills Seized in May and at Same Time 25 Autos Were Confiscated and Much Ljquor Destroyed. (By the Associated Press) Salisbury, June 11.—Federal officers working under Prohibition Director Col trane whose headquarters are in this city, destroyed 129 stills in North Caro lina during the month of May, confis cated 25 automobiles, and. did away with 135,185 gallons of malt liquors and much other material used in the making of I liquor. It is estimated that the liquids and mash poured out were sufficient for the manufacture of 20,000 gallons of li quor. As a result of the activities of these federal agents 85 arrests were made and 200 prosecutions filed. Ditch Caves in Killing Plumber and His Helper. Reidsville. June 10.—J. T. Pendley, a plumber, of Gainesville, Ga.. and a lodal negro helper named Willis lost their lives this afternoon while doing plumbing work on Jefferson Penn's new home two miles west of Reidsville. The plumbing contractor, Mr. Pend ley, was building his own ditch and had been cautioned by Superintendent Phillips that the diteh was being dug through rock and a vaceirf was likely to occur. About 2 o’clock while the two men were at work in the ditch the cave ,in occurred, Before they could be re leased they smothered to death. The bodies were brought to a local undertaker’s establishment and prepared for burial. The white man was employed by an Atlanta concern and his body will be sent to his home town, Gainesville, Ga. The negro will be buried here. Baraca-Philathea Convention. Raleigh, June 11. —Five hundred dele gates are expected to attend the North Carolina Baraca-Philathea convention which will open at the Tabernacle Bap tist Church here tonight. Threre will be an address tonight by Secretary of State W. N. Everett, among others, and the fea ture of the convention will be the address of Marshall A. Hudson, of Syracuse, the founder of the Baraca class movement. President Makes Suggestion. , Washington, June 11 (By the Asso ciated Press). —President Coolidge has suggested to the shipping board that It delegate completely to the fleet corpora tion the authority for negotiating sales I of ships and lines reserving to itself final approval or rejection of the contracts. THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady at Decline of 2 Points on July But Generally 4 to 6 Points Higher. (By the Associated Press) New York, June 11.— The eotton mar kef opened steady at a decline of 2 points on July, but generally 4 to 6 points higher in response to relatively steady Liverpool cables, reports of an improved spot demand in Liverpool, more favora ble advices on local the eotton goods mar ket and talk of insufficient rains in the South.. Active months sold about 14 ot 22 points net higher in Hie first few minutes, with October at 22.62. This price at tracted considerable realizing but it was absorbed on moderate setbacks and the market was steady within n point or two of tile best at the lied of the first hour on continued covering and trnde buying. Cotton futures opened steady. July 22.78; Oct. 22.43: Dec. 22.63; Jan. 22.23; March 22.45. SAYS WOMEN CONTROL ' RENT IN THIS COUNTRY They Also Decide Fate of Business En terprise, Building Owners and Manag ers Are Told. Cleveland, June 11 (By the Associated Press). —It Is the women who control the rents, speakers at the convention of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers deeelared today. Woman can make a store a success or a failure with her buying (lower, Thos. P. Danahey, Detroit chairman of the organ ization's renting committee said. Acquires Additional Properties. New York, June 11,—The Southern Gas and Power Corporation, one of the South’s rapidly growing utilities, which supplies gas to thirty-four communities, will acquire the Tri-City Gas Company of Gadsden, Ala., and the Valdosta Com pany of Valdosta, Ga., through new financing in the form of stock and notes, proceeds from the financing will be used tp< liquidate the present outstanding notes of the company ami tetire all (he first li*n collateral trust seven per cent, gold bonds series A. Carpet weaving in Persia is done al most exclusively by women. Seventy-fourth Series | CONCORD PERPETUAL BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Starts Saturday, June 6th BOOKS NOW OPEN AT (CABARRUS SAVINGS BANK CONCORD AND KANNAPOLIS, N. C. For Securing a Home There Is No Better Plan Than the BUILDING AND LOAN PLAN No better investment for your weekly or monthly sav ings. Our thirty-seven years’ successful experience is proof that wc oan serve you. BALLOON RACE MAY COME TO AMERICA 1 __ . . „j. Possibility of Next Contest Being Held In United States Is Seen. (By the Associated Hr ess > New York, June 11.—The possibility :fwf tlle'uArt revival of the" Gordon Ben net international balloon raee being held in the United States is seen in dis patches from Brussels stating that the Belgian Aero Club has found burdensome the heavy expense of staging the event for the last four years. The original Gordon Bennett cup was permanently won by Belgium's premier, balloonist, Ernest de Muyter, who ful filled the .conditions of the donor by put ting his country in first place three times in a row. SHEPHERD TRIAL AT LAST GETS UNDERWAY Jury Was Selected Finally Yesterday and New Witnesses Wer Called During the Day. (By the Associated Frees) Chicago, June 11.—The trial of Wil liam D. Shepherd for trial of his foster son, William N. McClintock, entered the second stage today, the weary grind <jf jury selection ended after three weeks, and three days of efforts. The opening arguments and placing of a few State witnesses on the stand con stituted the program for stoday. With Our Advertisers. Everything men and- boys need for ho't weather at Parks-Belk Co.’s. Bathing suits and caps at low prices at the Charles Store. Country eured hams, Kingan’s cured meats at Cline & Moose’s. 1 “Concord’s Hero,” the hilnrious comedy made right here in our city with a local cast of players, will be shown at the Con cord Theatre next Monday. Ladies always are pleased with the shampooing they g(s at Parks-Belk Co.’s Beauty Shoppe. H. B. Wilkinson has a new two-color shade for adder! beauty. See new ad. Sammy Rennie, former Canadian amate.ur flyweight champion and a mem ber of last year’s Canadian Olympic boxing team, has decided to turn pro fessional. . , HITCHED TO PLOW BY HER HISBAND j BiartKng Story of Cruelty Disclosed By Master’s Report in Divorce Case. j l’biladelphiu. June 11.—The start line story of a wife degraded to the levr" — a beast of burden, hitched to n whipped by her husband when the ■ ’ p ement did not move to his satisfaction, and with her husband showing no I partiality between herself and her four- I footed team-mate when 'the whip was ap ! ?died. is told in the findings of G. Coe t Farrier, who recommended the granting of n divorce to Victoria Bnmody, 4T> j.years old, from Joseph Samody. 48 J years. Court of Common Pleas No. 1 (yesterday entered a final decree in favor of the woman on the grounds of cruel land barbarous treatment and indignities to the person. “The testmony discloses.’' sets forth the report of the master, “that the re spondent hitched the libellant to a plow with a horse and made • her pull the plow: that when the plow did not move to his satisfaction he impartially used the whip on the horse and on his wife. He struck her with a flower pot. He was cruel to cattle on the farm and threat ened to kill his wife.” Mrs. Samody, who is employed by a family on Park avenue near Dauphin street, made her third venture into matrimony when she married Samody. who now fives in Scranton, on March 4. 1022. She averred that it was her money that purchased a home on East Victoria street, which later was sold, at her hus band's importunity, and a farm of .18 acres bought at Fontaijjville. Bucks county. According to the woman’s testi mony. almost immediately after their marriage her husband began his ill treatment of her. / The second day upon going to the ■ farm he ordered her into the field to j help him with the pointing, and later | refused to hire a man for the' haying, compelling his wife to drive the loads of hay to the barn and store it. Mrs. Samody was also compelled not only to milk cows, but to clean the stables. Her only pay for these menial tasks were beatings and revflements. On one oc casion, when she interfered with her husband's alleged brutal treatment of a oow, she testified, he threatened to ki'l her with a pitchfork, and another time i when she objected to his slow method of I torture in slaughtering a pig, he chased j her, brandishing the sticking knife, j When Mrs. Samody was married in |1022 she weighed 157 pounds, but when she left her husband about 13 months later her weight had been reduced, she said, to less than 100 pounds. Undismayed by the charges made by his wife, Samody appeared in Court sev eral days ago and told Judges Barlett, McDevitt and Taulane that he wanted “to make pence” with his wife and that if she would return to ha he would “honor and respect her.” The Court, however, decided that Mrs. Samody was entitled to a divorce and handed down a decree to that effect. BRITISH EDITORIAL ON CASE OF PROF SCOPES Editorial Pays Especial Attention to the Part Bryan Plays in the Case. London, June 11 (By the Associated Press). —The Westminster Gazette in an editorial on the forthcoming evolution trial in Tennessee, ‘today terms the at titude of Wm. Jennings Bryan of counsel for the prosecution “too absurd’ for se rious people to consider.” “We tremble to think,” it adds, “what such a spirit would concern itself with if it had complete power.” The paper assumes, however, that the case against the teacher Mr. Scopes, who is being brought to trial for expounding the evolution theory is as good as decid ed because the law ■ Tennessee forbids such teaching. Darwin Would Enjoy Scopes Trial London. June 11—If he were alive to day. Charles Darwin, the great English scientist who originated the theory of evolution, would undoubtedly find much to amuse him in the case of the Tennes see high school teacher who is to be tried for teaching evolution in public school in violation of the State law. Mr. Darwin liked to talk about his book. “The Descent of Man.” He en joyed the reception accorded it, but said he was a little surprised that the public was not more generally shocked: and he said frankly that had it been written 20 years ealier, as the author he probably would have been booted at. He did not foresee the sensational stir that his thoo.v was to create on the other side of the Atlantic so many years later. Mr. Darwin kept a scrapbook of all criticisms he received and the carica tures of him, in the press. One of these last was his special delight. It represent-1 ed an enormous gorilla that had the head I of Darwin. He enjoyed showing this, | and developed chess that was depicted. Hie scientist, also found much enjoy ment in the joke that "Punch” made. This was, that while men did not much m>nd the idea of having descended from apes, womffn loudly protested. Says Husband Wouldn’t Give Her False Teeth. White Plains, N. Y., June IT. —Be- cause here husband, among other things, refused to buy her a set of false teeth, Mrs. Margaret B. Ball, of Yonkers, to day entered suit, for separation against Henry J.'TSail, a trucker. Cruel and in human treatment is alleged- Through her attorney, Mrs. Ball de clared that her husband had purchased no new clothes for her within five years, and further refused to buy her a set of molars, despite the loss of most of her teeth. Supreme Court Justice Seeger al lowed her >IOO qpuned fees, pending de cision on June 20. Another Indication France WU Pay I Debt Soon. Geneva, June 11 (By the Associated Press).—lt was understood here today that French Foreign Minister Briand who was conferring with Congressman Theo dore E. Burton, of Ohio, a member of •••••••mi • TODAY NO. .138 HAYNESSEES DEFEAT in nrajpc A e MX*** 1 -JU unuuu ommw Commissioner Is Now Fin ishing Four Years In Office and Statement Comes From Records Made. HARD FIGHTTO MAKE PROGRESS ; But Mr. Haynes Feels That i Hardest Part of Fight Has I Been Passed and Success Is Sure Later. t i (By the Associated Press.) 1 Washington, June 11.—Roy A. Hayses ’ today completed his fourth year as Pro-’ ’ hibition Commissioner, and administrator \ of the Harrison Narcotic Act, and be ob served the anniversary with an optimistic statement of prospects for ultimate gnd , complete defeat of the rum and drug ran- ’ j near. It lias been a hard fight, said the Com missioner, who took office 18 months after national prohibition became effective, and while many obstacles have been overcome, he found others still bobbing up to pre sent new hazards. “The big lootleg operator,” Mg. Haynes declared, “is making his last stand as the sources of illicit liquor are being clos ed to him. Beal whiskey, wine, gin and brandy, he said, are practically unobtain able now for beverage use. Progress in enforcement during the last feur years, he declared as “really remarkable con sidering the obstacles which have had to be overcome.” “This is a new law,” he added, “and- in various localities there is strong opposi tion. Therefore in such localities where located assistance has not been given, of course conditions are not yet such as they should be. but everywhere they are so improved over four years ago that there is\ almost no comparison.” Against the inroads of the drug dler, Whos* customers today are estimat ed at between 110,000 and 150,000 ad dicts, the government is making progress, said the commissioner, due to “the strict accountability” now required of import ers, manufacturers, producers and whole sale dealers. ROBBERS MAKE RICH HAUL IN CHARLOTTE They Invade Homes sad Get *3,000 Worth of Valuables. Charlotte, June 10.—Robbers operat ing in Charlotte last night secured money and valuables worth more than $3,000, .according to reports to the police this morning. The richest haul was made at the home of Dr. J. S. Hoffman, in Myers Park, where a costly woman’s fur coat, a valu able diamond ring, wrist watch, revolver and a number of other articles were stolen. Police today said Dr. Hooffman valued the stolen property at $3,000. John G. Branner, of South McDowell Street, reported that during the early hours this morning a thief entered his home and stole $213 in cash. Mr. Bran ner was awakened as the thief fled from the building ami tbok a shot at the rob ber. The shot went astray. The robberies here last night were a part of a long series of burglaries here, the police department apparently being helpless. Several negroes have been ar rested, the police claiming with each ar rest that they had the guilty persona. However, the robberies continue, the burglars reaching for bigger loot each time they repeat their crimes. Michigan Determined to Curb Drunken Drivers. Lansing, Mich., June 11.—A new and drastic “drunken driver” law is now in effect in Michigan. It was enacted by the 1025 legislature at the urge of law enforcement officials and dry organiza tions. Based upon the theory that the only effective way of curbing traeffi accidents and casualties attributable to drunken driving is to keep intoxicated motorists off the highways, it provides for the man datory suspension of drivers’ licenses. A first offender, upon conviction, must sur render his driver’s license for at I three months. In addition the court [ may sentence him to pay a fine of from! I SSO to SIOO and to not more than ninety days’ imprisonment. For a second or subsequent offense the driver's license is automatically suspended for at least a year. The additional penalties are a fine of not more than SSOO, or not more than one year’s imprisonment, or both. Fourth Communist Hanged in Sofia- Sofia, June 11 (By the Associated Press). —The fourth man to be put to death for the Svetai Krai cathedral bomb outrage in April, Hertchewlieff, a com- • | niuni«t, was hanged at 5:30 this morn ing. Three other men were hanged on May 27th for the bombing which caused the death of 100 persons. WHAT BATTS BEAR SAYS I ~~~ .' 4| ‘ I 1 .