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VOLUME XXV
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BREED IH TOIM
Territorial Rights Policy as
Advocated by the United
States May Get Support of
the Japanese Soon.
TIME NOTRIPE
FOR ANY CHANGE
Tis Is Opinion of Japanese,
Who Saw Disturbed Con
ditions in China Make Any
Change Unwise Now.
Tokyo, July 4 (By the Associated
Press). —The Ignited States government's
desire tor consideration of the question
of extra territorial rights in China has
been Widely commented upon by the Jap
anese press.
Spokesman of the Tokio foreign office
today endorsed the view of hie govern
ment, already announced, that although
Japan is ready for abolution of extra
territorial rights in China at the earliest
possible time and i* prepared to facili
tate the Chinese efforts toward this end,
it considers all snch attempts at present
premature in view of the disturbed con
ditions in the country.
The Japanese foreign office has no of
ficial knowledge of the proposal the
I'nited States intends to make regard
ing China but does not believe the Wash
ington government is likely to approve
the powers immediately with plans for
abrogation of the special privileges held
by foreigners in China.
Petroleum Company's Plant Damaged.
Chungkiang. Caechwan. Chinn, July 4
(By the Associated Press). —The As’atic
Petroleum Company's property here was
entered today by 800 hhodlum Chinese
soldiers who destroyed the office and ran
sacked the living quarters of the staff.
The mob scattered only when the Brit
ish gunboat Peal arrived.
So-called Chinese Boy Scouts led an
other mob which stoned workmen on the
wharf of a British Compqny here. At
tackers were scattered by British ma
rines who charged with bayonets. Local
Chinese officials were inactive regarding
the d’sturbaneca.
■t '■[ Three Chinese AttoeWri.*' *"
Shanghai, July 4.—Mobs atiabieJ ihree
Chinese here last night. The victim*
were rescued by Chinese police. Report*
received at Shanghai state that Japanese
stores were looted yesterday «t Swatow.
Kwangtung province.
W. M. HKNPKRN IS
NEW HEAD OF BAR
Luther T. HartseU, of Concord, Elected
Member Executive Commitee.
Asheville, July 3.—W. M. Hcndren,
of Winston-Salem, was elected president
of the North Carolina bar association at
the finnl business session today of the
annual convention.
Other officers elected were: Vice Presi
dents, ,T. G. Merrimon, of Asheville; H.
E. Faison, of Clinton, and W. C. Feim
ster, of Newton; and two members of the
executive committee, L. T. Hartsell. of
Concord, and E. R. Pcrston, of Char
lotte.
The executive committee will meet
next January to select the 1926 meeting
place. It is believed that Greensboro
will be chosen.
The grievance committee, in its annual
report to the convention, recommended
revision of the rules disbarring attorneys.
The committee will meet quarterly in
the future, and the secretary of the state
body will also act as secretary of this
eommimttee. ,
The lawyers today went on a trip to
Mount Mitchell as the guests of the Ashe
ville Bar Association. This completed
the 1925 convention.
"society “Ptentoß”
London, July 4.—Several fashionable
societies and clubs that hold periodical
dinners at London hotels have discovered
recently that the number of dancers on
the floor and of suppers served at the
buffet has considerably - exceeded that of
the persons invited . Investigation has
shown that “pirates” have turned up
about ten o’clock and proceeded to the
ballroom, where they have helped them
selves to supper and finally departed af
ter having spent an enjoyable (evening
free of cost.
Fireworks Kill Two.
(By the Associated Press)
Chicago. July 4. —Two are dead and a
boy and two men suffered injuries in the
pre-Fourth of July celebrations of fire
works. despite police bans, figured in
Chicago's Independence Day's observance.
Consult your conscience and you may
not have to consult your lawyer.
Concord Theatre
(COOLEST SPOT IN TOWN)
TODAY ONLY
FRANKLYN FARNUM and
HELEN HOLMES IN
"Battling
Brewster”
CHAPTER No. 1
Also REED HOWES in
1 “Qnnar C 1»
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The Concord Daily Tribune
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BLAZE AT SARANAC ;
LAKE RESULTS IN
DEATHS OF SEVERAL
Seven Persons Fatally Burn
ed and Another Seriously
Hurt in Fire Which Burned
An Apartment.
MOST VICTIMS
PIED IN SLEEP
Firemen Were Only Two
Doors From Building But
They Could Not Control
Fierce Flames.
Saranac I-akr, N. Y.. July. 4 (By tb*
A sene'a ted Press). —Seven persons are
dead and one is believed to be dying a*
a result of a lire in a three-story apart!
ment house here early this morning. ! i
All the victims were on the third floor;
of the building where the fire started, 1
Eleven persons on the first and second
floors were rescued.
The cause of the fire is undetermined.
Starting at 4 a. m. it had gained such
headway when the firemen arrived flam
their station only two doors away, twit
they were unable to rescue any of the
persons on the upper story. *
The position of the bodies indicated
that most of the victims had died in
their sleep.
MAIL CLERKS TERMINAL
MATTER CREATES FIGHT
Salisbury and Charlotte Are at Grips
Over Matter—Overman Gets Protest.
Washington, July 2.—Charlotte and
Salisbury are in grips over the termi
nal for the Washington-Atlanta mail!
clerks. Senator Simmons had the fo)->
lowing letter today from the general su
perintendent of mails. W. H. Riddell;
"In reply to your relative to proposal
to change the run of clerks on the Wash
ington and Charlotte R P. O. to end at
Salisbury instead of Charlotte. I have
to advise that representations have been
made to the department several times
during the past several months that sub
stantia) economics could be affected in
the clerical force, and the car space, if
the clerks between Washington and At
divided the run at Salisbury instead
"The matter is now under investiga
tion by a committee to ascertain if it is
practicable or advisable to change the
dividing point, and it is probable that
it will be several weeks before the mat
ter is decided.
“I believe it may be found that the
the dividing point at Charlotte. If this
can be done, assure you that no change
will be made. In any event, we will
try not to injuriously affect the clerks
who have their homes at Charlotte, as
well as the other clerks.
“When the investigation is complted,
I will advise you further.”
Salisbury is Senator Overman’s home.
NEW BUILDING PROGRAM
FOR DUKE UNIVERSITY
Total of Forty Buildings Under Con
temptation. Some to Be Ready In Fall.
Durham, July 3.—The complete build
ing program of Duke university will in
clude 27 new structures which will give
the institution a total of 40 buildings,
according to information received by
The Herald yesterday. In addition, those
structures now on the campus will re
ceive a thorough remodeling.
With p’ans to carry out the building
program in two separate units, the In
tention of the authorities is to proceed
with the first one calling for the con
struction of 11 new buildings, costing,
according to the architect in charge, ap
proximately $3,600,000. The second
unit of 16 buildings will be erected on
the south side of the railroad on the
property recently purchased by the uni
versity.
Contract for the erection of the first
unit will be let July 14 and the work is
scheduled to begin as soon as the sne-1
cessfnl contractor can get his mate
rials on the grounds. A few of the new
buildings are expected to be made
ready for occupation at the opening of
the fall term.
Symbol of Anglo-American Unity.
London, July 4.—Today’s observance
of American Independence Day in Lon
don was made memorable by the unveil
ing of the statuary group which has
been placed over the portico of Bush
House to symbolixe the friendship of the
English-speaking people. A large num
ber of Americans attended the unveiling
exercises.
The stautary group is the work of Mal
vina Hoffmnn. an American sculptor, The
group is cut from Indiana limestone and
stands twelve feet high. Two strong mas
culine figures, representing Great Brit
ain and America, stand on either side of
the altar. On the altar Is the design of
a Celtic cross. The two men together
hold a flaming torch above the altar. On
their pointed shields are inscribed the
British leopard and the American eagle.
Bnsh House, recently completed, stand*
as a colossal monument to American en
i terprise ill London. It has been erected
by Irving T. Bush of New York at a
I cost of $10,000,000 and is designed to
I serve as an international sales building.
[The structures—there are three distinct
| buildings—Jure among * the highest in
I London. The group occupies a site of
i about three acres extend from the Strand
to High Holborn.
Hankow, which is an important cen
tre of the present troubles in China, is
one of the principal treaty ports. The
opening of the upper reaches of the
Yang-taae to eteam navigation has made
it a commercial centre second only te
Shanghai.
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WANT SCOPES TRIAL KEPT
IN TENNESSEE COURTS
The Prosecution Contends Federal Coart
Mast Wait for State Court in This
Case.
(By the Associated Press)
Dayton, Tenn.. July 4.—Three local
attorneys associated in the prosecution of
the Scopes evolution case, declared in a
statement issued early today that the
state of Tennesssee is sovereign and not
subject to control of the federal govern
ment in regard to its local affairs and
the enforcement of its criminal laws.
This declaration came on the heels of
announced plans of defense counsel to
seek removal of the trial from the state
courts to the United States courts by
means of a federal injunction which
would procure an earlier decision on the
questioned constitutionality of the Ten
nessee statute forbidding the teaching of
the evolution in public schools.
The three prosecution lawyers, Wal
lace Hoggard. J. ,G. McKenzie and Ben
T. McKenzie, ridiculed the late«t move
ment of the defense counsel aiid charac
terised it as ‘“an effort to make a sensa
tional display of the trial of a simple
case.”
Robinson Taken to Lynchburg for Safe
Keeping.
(By the Associated Press)
Lynchburg, Va., July 4.—Albert Rob
inson, Roanoke negro guumnn, charged
with the murder of two policemen and
wounding another during a dry raid here
last Wednesday night was brought to
the city jail here last night for safe
keeping it was learned here today. While
local officials declined to make any 'state
ment It was ascertained that plain clothes
men escorted the hrisoner here from Roa
noke as a precautionary measure.
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Canton, mentioned In the despatches
from the Far East as qne of the chief
camps of Ae Chinese radicals, is the
principal city of southern China, the
region which hatched the fearful Tai
Ping rebellion of the ’6os and ’6os, one
of the bloodiest wars of recent times.
Women floorwalkers, termed “guides”,
are employed in a number of the large
department stores in London.
Star Theatre
Monday, Tuesday, July 6-7
“THE MAN WHO CAME
BACK”-
WMh George O’Brien and Dorothy
Marinin
One of the Best Pictures we have
shown in a long time. Don’t miss
it. It’* a picture everyone should
see. A Fdx Special.
ADMISSION 10c—25c
Come Monday, Tuesday or Wed
nesday and get a free ticket for
Thursday or Friday
CONCORD, N. C„ SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1925
FIND SKELETON WHICH
BUZZARDS PICKED BARE
Charlie Fuqua, Who Disappeared About'
Month Ago, Came to Death Near |
Reidsville.
Redsville. July 3, —A human skeleton
which later proved to be that of Char
lie (“Pike”)' Fuqna, was found yester
day afternoon at 3 o'clock.
While gathering blackberries on the
Amos place, a couple of miles south of
Reidsville on the Greensboro road. Pink
Purgason. a white youth, came upon the
gruesome find. He Immediately report
ed to others and an investigation was
begun. Garments found resembled those
belonging to Fuquh. and a further in
vestigationg shower! that he had not been
seen about town for the past month.
Buzzards had devoured all flesh and
pikeed clean the bones.
Later in the afternoon identification
was positively made by a shirt belonging
to the dead man. Buzzards had dragged
the body a distance of fifty yards from
where the shirt was found. It had been
bundled tip Into a pillow and probably
used by Fuqua on the night of his
death.
The immediate cause of Fuqua's death
may never be known. He had a habit
of taking long hikes to Greensboro and
other places, often being picked up by
aome passing automobile, and possibly at
this time he was returning from Greens
boro. The fact that he stopped only
a couple of miles from his niece’s home
gives rise to the belief that he was either
struck by an automobile or became sud
denly ill and could proceed no further
than a short distance from the road. A
local physician said that often Fuqua,
while ill, would crawl off into the woods
and remain there until able to be up
again. For many years he was in
wretched health and. apparently, was a
victim of tuberculosis.
B(e was a well knowfi' character about
the town. He was Known by every
body as “Pike.” He was about forty
years old.
FOURTH IS FITTINGLY
OBSERVED IN PARIS
Dedication of New Embassy Principal
Feature of Program In French Oalpi
tal.
(By the Associated Press)
Pari*, July 4.—America’* Independence
Day was celebrated in traditional form
in France’s capital today with the dedi
cation of the new embassy as the prin
cipal feature of the program.
Exercises were held in most of the
schools and other institutions having
American connections, and the city was
gay with the intertwined tri-color and
stars and Stripes.
The annual pilgrimage to LaFayettc's
tomb in Picuis Cemetery was followed by
the placing of wreaths on his statue
the Ixtavre garden and on the monument
to> the American volunteers who served
with the French forces in the world war.
One of Poland’* meat important ex-
Iport* la dried mushrooms.
SANTA BARBARA IS
CHECKING UP LOSSES
Engineers Make Examinations to Deter
mine Damage Caused by the Recent
Earthquake.
(By the Associated Press)
Santa Barbara, July 4.—Santa Bar
bara expected to have today definite in
formation as to the extent to which it
was damaged by the earthquakes. The
field notes of the California board of en
gineers who have been making examina
tions of all buildings were complted late
yesterday and there were to be assembled
and submitted today by Santa Barbara
commiuittee on public safety.
Six distinct shocks yesterday, one of
considerable intensity, had a noticeable
effect on overwrought nerves, and many
who had ventured back into the homes or
places of occupation again took to the
safety of the open air to eat sleep and
work. But they added little to the ma
terial damage.
The most seriously affected appeared to
be upon the palatial home of C. K. G.
Billings, where, according to the police,
and newspaper estimates, the total loss
amounted to approximately $30,000. A
chimney at the exclusive El Mirasol Ho
tel which up to yesterday had escaped
damage, / fell and did some damage to
the roof, and the ornamental tower of
the Montecito County Club was cracked.
The extent of the damage there has not
been estimated.
Nanking, the “southern capital” of
China, was founded by the first emperor
of the Ming dynasty, who came to the
throne in 1368, It was built on the
site of a city known to be 200 years old.
At one time Nanking was said to have a
population of 4,000,000. The Tai Ping
rebels stormed the city in 1853, and
swept away its magnificent building ,
including the fainous porcelain pagoda,
Miss Annie J. Cannon, an astronomer
at the Harvard University Observatory,
is the discoverer of 200 variable srarg.
There are 28,500 habitual rural dwell
ings now vacant in Missouri.
CONCERT
TUESDAY EVENING 8 O’CLOCK
High School Audi
torium
By the Concert Class front the Chil
dren’s Hume at Goldsboro
The Boys’ Band, together with male,
female and mixed quartettes, chorus
es, musical readings and comedy.
Auspices Cold Water Lodge Odd
Fellows
Prices: Children lie; Adults we
NEW FOURTH OF JULY URGED
TO SLASH OFF DRY MANACLES
Federal Attorney Appeals For Open
Fight AgaiiuK Prohibition as Modem
Tyrant.
New York, July 4.:—Calling for a
“new Fourth of July” and a “new Decla
ration of Independence,” Federal Dis
trict Attorney Emory R. Buckner, in an
address before the Rotary Club, today
asserted that prohibition enforcement is
iui|K>Ksible with the “prevailing anti
quated Court system.” He advised all
persons opposed to prohibition to come
out openly and fight the lnw m a
“square-two-fisted fashion.”
Urging that the nation “strike off its
handcuffs,” Mr. Buckner said that in
creasing Federal control has readied a
point where it has become “the “George
111 of today, necessitating overthrowing
by a modern declaration of indepen
dence/]
""^Toi^TsmnoniavP - prohibition in this
country with the present 1850 Court
machinery for n 1925 job.” said Mr.
Buckner. “At present you can only have
sniping; you cannot have a battle be
cause you have not the right kind of
troops or machinery.”
Memorial Coins Used as Bangles.
Athens, Ga., ,Tuly4.—Wearing Stone
Mountain memorial coins as lavaiiers is
the latest fad, according to Mrs. Samuel
M. Inman, of Atlanta, who was in
Athens recently to have the doctor’s de
gree conferred upon her by the Univer
sity of Georgia, and who while she was
here called upon Miss Mildred Ruthr
ford, director of Lucy Cobb Institute,
presenting her with a new Stone Moun
tain coin attractively fixed as a lavalier
to be worn around the neck.
Mrs. Inman says the women of Atlanta
are wearing the coins on cords about
their necks to show their patriotism and
their, loyal interest in the Stone Moun
tain memorial. The men, she says, are
wearing the coins upon their watch fobs.
Many attractive designs in gold, plati
num and silver can be obtained from the
jeweler, she says.
Anson Will Loan $300,000 to State.
Charlotte. July 3. —Anson county will
lend $300,000 to the North Carolina
highway commission to provide for a
standard paved highway from Wades
boro to the new concrete bridge span
ning the Yadkin river on Route 20, ac
cordingg to an announcement made by
W. C. Wilkinson, commissioner of the
sixth district of the State highway sys
tem.
v The stretch of . thirteen miles to be
paved was the only prospective section
of dirt road on the Wllmington-Char
lotte-Asheville highway between Shelby
aqd Lumberton.
1
September 12 will be the 242 d anni
versary pf the introduction of coffee to
j civilization by John Sobieski, who found
ilarge quantities of tbe berry in the camp
lof the Turks when he and his 20,000
i Poles drove them from Vienna In 1683.
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NO. 159
BUILDING CAVES IN, ,
KJIUNMNE GIRL
rSM ELEVEN
Building Housed Pickwick
Club in Boston, and Dance
Was In Progress When the
Walls Collapsed.
seekingTictTms
OF THE RUINS
From 150 to 200 Persons in
Room When Walls Fell.—
Many Women Found Par
tially Covered in Ruins.
(By tbe AihcUiM Frru)
Bouton. July 4.—On* girl was killed
and 11 hurt, six seriously, in the col
lapse parly today of a five-story brick
building housing the Pickwick Club, the
scene of an <krly 4th of July dance. Be
sides those \bio escaped or were rescued
after the crash, eight persons were car
ried from the ruins.
The dead girl was unidentified. In
juries ranged from fractured skulls to
bruises.
Rescuers working feverishly among the
ruins heard voices from the great voices
of brick and timber. “There are six of
us here," a woman called, and another
woman cried “there are three here.” Fear
ful of using crowbars lest some hidden
victim be hit by them, the laborers work
ed carefully packing up timbers and re
lnoving the thousands of bricks with the
utmost care. A pocketbook was found
in the debris and aided in the identifi
cation of Miss Greta Carlson, of Bel
mont, one of the seriously injured. They
counted up 75 coats and hats.
The dancers on the second floor when
the collapse came were estimated at from
120 to 200, and those who escaped were
one-third of that number. Survivors «nid
a dance had just been finished when ,u
brick wall slid away and the roof caved
in upon them.
The dead girl had been pinned by
heavy timbers, between the firsthand sec
floors. She was breathing faintly when
found. A priest gave her absolution. She
died a few minutes later.
ENGINEERS HI RT WHEN
TWO TRAINS COLLIDE
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Two Norfolk A Western Freight ‘Wains
Collided Head on at Hester, Va.
(By the Associated Press)
Roanoke] Va., July i. —Engineers of
both trains were severely injured when
two Norfolk & Western freight trains
collided bead on shortly after 8 o’clock
today near Hestere, a flag stop six miles
from her. The injured men, Mark Lucas
and T. W. Dalton, both of Roanoke,
were rushed to a hospital. Dalton sus
tained severe cuts about the head, while
Lucas suffered seults.
A relief train carrying doctors, was
sent to the scene of the collision.
With Our Advertisers.
The store of the Parks-Belk Co. will
be closed rfll day Monday, and will be
opened again for business at 7 o'clock
Tuesday morning.
Specials in palm beach, mohair and
seersucker suits for men and boys all
next week at Eflrd's.
All savings deposits made by July 10
at the Cabarrus Savings Bank will bear
interest as of July Ist.
Palmolive soap, four cakes for 25
cents at the Charles Store Co.
Free air, free water and free service
at Yorke & Wadsworth Co., Church
street Store. Phone 30.
July will be a month of big bargains
at Fisher's. Open Monday as usual.
First chapters of “Battling Brewster”
at the Concord Theatre today. Also
“Super Speed” an all action picture.
Coming Monday and Tuesday, “Pam
pered Youths.”
Coming Monday and Tuesday nt the
Star Theatre, “The Man Who Came
Back,” a Fox special. Admission 10
and 25 cents. If you go Monday, Tues
day or Wednesday, you get a free tick
et for Thursday or Friday.
To Conquer Everest.
London, July 4.—lt is suggested that
at the next attempt to reach the summit
of Mount Everest, the highest peak in the
world, the climbers shall be supplied
with small hydrogen balloons, so that
during the last few hundred feet of the
ascent each man will be supported in the
air by a balloon attached to a belt
round his waist. Thus the effort requir
ed to raise the body at each step will be
eliminated.
“Ustenlng” to Himself.
London, July 4. —The Duke of York,
who is a wireless enthusiast, enjoys the
experience of "listening in” on his own
speeches. A loud speaker, installed at
the White House Lodge, records the
Duke's speech on a dictaphone as it is
delivered, and on his return from the
ceremony he tests the accuracy of tho
reception by putting on the record made.
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