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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXV NEW 50,000 SPINDLE ME FOR KANNAPOLIS Plant Will Be Erected By j Cannon Manufacturing Co. As Part Os Its Towel Mill ENGINEERS ARE NOW PERFECTING PUNS Cost of Plant. Will Not Be Known, It Is Said, Until Final Plans Are Drawn Up and Adopted. $2,000,000~1S RUMORED COST New Plant Will Give the Mill in Kannapolis Total of 180,000 Spindles, the Largest in the 'State. I’laus are being made by the Can non Manufacturing Company, it was learned here today, to erect at an early ■late n mammoth new additiod to its Kdnnapolis plant which will add 50 000 spindles to the 1110,000 spindles al ready in operation by this company tn Kannapolis. At the same time, it was learned that a power plant, to supply electricity for the entire group of Cannon Mills, wan being contem plated. Although officials were able to give do (estimate as to the actual cast of the mill, declaring that their plans were not sufficiently advanced for such an estimation, it is rumored in Concord that the approximate value of the new plant will be in tije neigh borhood «f two and a half dol ma*. and frqajdbly more. A more con servative figure .at mu miUlffn. f Officials stated that it had been defi nitely decided’that a new mill would be constructed and thnt.it would have .V).000 spindles. The superintendent had been in conference with the engi neers and had given them an idea of the plans. When they have completed their preliminary work, some dea of the actual cost could he given. The plant is to be built on the Kauunpolis-Salisbury highway just inside the Cabarrus County linp. It will be a >liort distance north of Mill No. (1. The dimensions of the new structure are ns follows: 000 feet long, 100 feet wide and three stories high. It will carry carding and spinning de partments.' The proposed power plant has been considered for some time but no defi nite action has been taken. Tire en tire project is still in embryo form. Experts fcave yisited Kannaiwdis and have made a survey of the field with a view to mnkiug recommendations. They have been figuring on power de velopments but have made no report. It is possible that a steam plant may be erected which will take care of fhu ent : re group of mills. If this is noP found to be the most economical method i of solding the power situa tion, it- will not be constructed, how ever. The entire project rests with the reports which the engineers make. The new mill will make the seventh in the group at Kannapolis, the oth er six having been in operation for several years. Mills al Concord and York, S. C., arc owned by the Can fton Manufacturing’ Company. The capital stock of the entire chain is given at $10,500,000. The population increase at Kannap olis as a result of the construction of the,new addition will be considerable, it Is pointed out. Over B thousand em ployes are to be‘added to the pay roll which will probably increase the to tal population by over three or four thousand people. With a population of around 8,000 people at present, she new population will be in the neigh borhood of 12,000 after the Dew build ing is constructed. Although the school facilities were enlarged last year by the construction of a new building of 20 rooms, the in flux of people after the present expan sion plans are completed will make. €ll* MORE SHOPPING k [ DAYS The Concord Daily Tribune ,/ North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily I the present school plant totally inad equate. Additions will have to be made to the present school buildings or else an entire new school will have to be built. isle a total of 180,000 spindles, the Kannapolis branch of the. Cannon Mills -will be the largest unit in any city in North Carolina, and one of the largest in the South. The next largest-mill in North Carolina' is the lairay Mill,/ which has heretofore led the state in spindles with 137,504. BKNJ. N. DIKE AGAIN GIVES TO DAVENPORT Will Donate *lO 000 if 'Friends of Institution Raise Dike Amount. Lenoir, Dec. 10.—Again Benja min N. I >uhe, of New York City, has manifested his interest in Davenport College by donating to the building fund the sum of 810,000. This comes as a conditional donation. For sev eral months the college authorities hatre been engaged in raising funds sufficient for the edection of a much needed building to take care of the culinary department, the de partment of chemistry and biology and music practice rooms. Last sum rnefi plans were ancepted. An archi tect designed a large, convenient and handsome building. The funds fur entering upon the erection were not in hand. Now the condition conics that ldhccs upon the alumnae, tin people of Lenoir and of Caldwell ■ounty and friends everywhere to jend every (energy within the next DO days to match Mr. Duke's offer by a like sum- This will assure the building amJ its equipment. WRIGHT BRANDS CALIFORNIA YARN North Wilkes boro, Dec. 10. Superintendent C. O. Wright, head of the public school system of Wilkes county for 'twenty-six years during which period of time great progress has been made id education, made the following statement tonight : “The extract from the California paper stating that school at Boomer, Wilkes County North Carolina, is taught in a windowlees shed and that the children are going to school barefooted and almost naked is nb so’utely false. I visited the school at that (dace in October and found nn excellent three teacher .school, Chil dren well clothed and apparently happy. The building at that place is one of the best rural school buildings in the county, containing three class rooms, library, etc. This community is one of the best -in the county. The citizens in the main arc progressive and %-ell to do.” Government Competition Assailed. Washington. Dee. 11.—(A*)—Gov ernment competition with private en terprise was assailed today as pre saging a socialistic state, and the de struction of all individual opportunity by the conference on government in industry which is in session here. The conference, composed' of repre sentatives of a hundred or more indus tries, declared it proposed to oppose any move by Congress to increase government encroaobment on busi ness. ' .x i The Methodist Coliege at I.ouis burg has also been blessed with a benefactor. He has added a fifty thousand dollar gift to previous con tributions which makes $172,500 in all that he has feivon to the institu tion. His name is R. H. Wright and ho lives in Durham. ii a ....I i , ■ Sixty-one Miners Killed in An Explosion Near Birmingham, Ala. Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 10.—Sixty one coal miners'lost their lives today when a gas explosion recurred in the , workings of Overton mine No 2 of the Alabama Fuel & Iron Company in tbe Cahaba fields, 'south of Birmingham. Fifteen men escaped injury and five are fli a hospital suffering from se rious burns. The explosion took place early in the day. only a. short time after the day shift had started work at 8 o’clock. According io the mine su perintendent 108 men chewed in. At the time of the accident 27 men were! performing tasks which placed them, beyond tbe range of 'the explosion, leaving 81 in the danger xone. . Os the 81 In- the mine at the time hf the explosion 15 cames forth unscathed and five were hurt. The remainder are either known to be- dead in the ccal company's improvised morgue in the bath house or are still on lower i levels and have not been recovered. Moat of the lives were loat on the seventh level. Most of the bodies I recovered thua far .have been re !, moved from the Blxth level. I Rescue Workers who have returned MSGOFORM FOR UK PM League of Nations Will Ask . United States to Take Part in Plans for Proposed Conference. , Geneva. Dec. 11. ~<A*)—An invita tion fur the I'nited States to partici pate in the work of preparing for the proposed international disarmament 1 conference under the auspices of the league of nations probably will be dis patched to Washington as.soon as it is signed by Signor Scialoia, presi dent of tjie league council. Clear Way for Conference. Geneva, Dec. 11.—The day was . clear today for the league of nations ' . international disarmament conference with settleimint of all the difficulties in connection with formation of the preparatory commmitee. I TERRORIST REPORTED LOOSE IN ASHEVILLE ' Charges Against Dr. J. 11. Way Dis missed— Buncombe County May- Get New Courthouse. Asheville, Dec. 10.—Reports of a mystery figure that is terrorizing ‘ residents of the sections that border Victoria road were being circulated throughout the city today. Descriptions of the figures are vague and the police uay The*--liQve 1 phoned to the Times office this tnof-n --inb tallied as to the activities of the mystery man. These descriptions , were given by Ora Robinson, Katy Collett and Fal'.io Leach , negro domestics of the Victoria road dis trict, and were made to tlieeir employ ers. Charges against Dr. J. IT. Way, of Waynesvillc.' chairman of the state medical board, growing out of the 1 death of Mrs. W. O- Robinson, have been dropped, and the bond of $5,- 000 under which the physician has bfen held for several months has been rescinded. This action followed investigation by the Haywood county grand jury which failed to make out a true bill 1 against the doctor. Mrs. Robinson 1 was ki'.led .and Miss Edna Phillips, 1 a friend, injured when they were struck by -the automobile of the physician last August as he was driving between Waynesville and Delwood. The physician was placed under arrest pending grand jury in ccstigatlou. but the inquistorial body ' found that the accident was un ’ avoidable. That the time is not far distant ■ when Buncombe county will have a new and modern courthouse, is the i opinion of E- M. Lyda, chairman of the Buncombe county board of com missioners, -in keeping with the pro • nounced progress achieved iu recent ' years and made necessary by the ‘ tremendous amount of -county busi ness now transacted. I It lias been learned from n reliable source that definite recommendation . that such a step be taken, is to be , submitted by the Buncombe county , grand jury upon its ijext report. . j , i Our Vest Pocket Memorandum ■ Books for 1926 are now ready. Come I in and get one. You will find them very convenient. to the surface, many of them ex hausted and struggling for breath, de clare they hold no hope for any man stil'. in the workings. , Wilford Powell and Charles Edith, members of one of the rescue squads returned to the mine- mouth early to day, toppling over upon reaching fresh air. Hot coffee and oxygen re vived them and they pleaded for an other chance to attempt rescue work. Powell and Edith declared the ex ! plosion had played havoc with the i mine interior and that their progress 1 had been rendered slow by the noxious odors. *'We could see men we.knew there in the mint, styme . leaning against the wall, others prone on the level," declared Powell, as he related the scenes attendant on the rescue work. “Some of the lanterns on the men’s caps still were burning but we knew they were dead. We passed on try ing to find a single man who still drew the breath cf life but after the first few men who were injured were removed we have not found a live miner.” . CONCORD, N, C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1925 Coolidge Speaks in Chicago "i —in \ ~ 1 W 1 II ai Iftiil A -jEv» Mpn 4fl v f W J* ** -t# < A message to the farmers of the country was delivered by President ( oolidgf* at Chicago, whwo he aiidte?swl the National Farm Hureau Fed oration. Photo shows the president and Mrs. Ceolidge on the platform with bureau officials just before Mr. Coolidge began to speak. O. E. Brndfute, president of the organization stands next to Mr. Coolidge. MTRMUIS " WED it mu Air Policies of Nations in Latin America Discussed at the Mitchell Court Martial Trial. Washington, Dec. 11.—OP)—Foreign interests have secured exclusive com* cessions for air operations in, South America, the Mitchell court martial was informed today by Maj. Geo. V. Strong, of the navy general staff. “In Central America,” Major Strong testified, "there have been con cessions granted, but they have not been exclusive.” Major Strong said Major Walsh’s report had Wen used as the basis of tbe War Department recommendation to the State Department for the estab lishment of a United States air mail service iu Central America, but that negotiations between the two depart ments and with representatives of the Post Office and Commerce Depart ments still are in progress. In Columbia, be said, a ooneess’on was negotiated by German capitalists with the Colombian government. Guatemala bad given a eonoessiun to a French concern, but Major Strung * said it was not an exclusive arrange meent. Times Dispatch Editor Secs North Carolina as a Leader. Raleigh, Dec. 10.—Dougins Gor don, editor of the Times Dispatch, was dinner guest of John A. Park, publisher of the Raleigh Times, this, evening at the Sir Walter. Mr. Gordon's fellows were news papermen and General Albert Cox. The Richmond editor saw much in North Carolina which excites his envy. The newspaper opportunities, do not. he said, for the very good I reason that there is such a corporate, stieh a pervading state consciousness that he wonders what the editorial i and reportorial boys have which is' worthy of a crusade- He marvels at the oneness of the state, its mind on pub’.in affairs anil he was sure that the absence of big towns helps in making country and town of one opinioo. and that for development. The state, he said, is rapidly becoming the progressive commonwealth of the whole country. Pocket book Swindle b Worked on Negro. Salisbury, Dec. 10.—Two slick strangers got $28.50 out of Williams Partee, negro, when they pretended they had found a pocketbook full of money and- offered to let him in on tbe dividing of the coin. Partee gave them all tbe money he had and later in the day he and officers tried to locate the men but failed to do so. Accused Boys Give Convincing Alibis. Salisbury, Dec. 10.—Two white boys, around 15 years of age, who were arrested when a young man rled woman accused them of as saulting her. were liberated in coun ty court. They had perfectly good alibis and the woman's story was not very convincing. ROBBERS GET USA Finn Robert Riley, Cashier of Bank, Forced Into the Vault by Three Who Escape With $2,500. Eflaml, N'. C., Hop. 11.—OP)—Three robbers held up the Hank of Eflnnd here about 10 o'clock this morning, forced the cashier, Robert Riley, into the vault, and escaped with $2,500. Riley was the only person in the bank when the men entered. Each leveled a pistol at him and he was or dered into the vault which was then locked. It was more than half an hour before he was freed from the vault. He said the men drove up to the bank in a small closed car, and de scribed them as wearing long over coats and capes. One of the men, he said, was a blonde while the other two were dark of complexion. The eld est of the three men was slightly stoop shouldered- and appeared about 35 years of age. The other two looked to be about 30. Parties who saw the car leave town said it proceeded in a westerly diree * tion. Washington Tablet Unveiled in Charlotte. , Charlotte, Dee- 10. —Charlotte's I). A. It. chapters this afternoon unveil ed a tablet at Cook's Inn where George Washington stopped when rn Charlotte, and also planted a tree in the old Presbyterian graveyard, back of the first Presbyterian church, this being one of many trees that Mrs. W. N. Reynolds of Win s ston-Salem, has given the different chapters in the State for planting. I After the unveiling Mrs. Edwin C. Gregory of Salisbury, State 1). A. R. Regent, made an firing address. The tablet was accepted by Miss | Ju’ia Alexander representing the .Charlotte D. A. R- Ex-Governor I Morrison made the special address of tlui occasion, it being especially . fine. Grange Foiling Much Better. • Pittsburgh, Pa.. Dec. 11.—04*)—Re [ freshed by a night's rest, Harold (Red) Qrange who was injured in yesterday’s football game here, was "feeling fine" today, and will accompany the Chicago 1 Bears when they leave for Detroit at noon, George Halas, manager of the ' Bears said this morning. | Whether Grange will play in the De . tro ! t game Saturday Halas said, would ! depend on the advice of a physician [ whom the “galloping Ghost" will con . suit on his arrival there. Christmas Gifts at the Charles Stores. You will find hundreds of Christmas , gifts; at the Charles Stores. The ' prices run from 5c to $2.98. and in , this range you can buy presents for , about everybody. You will always find „ good values at tills store. See dials . page ad. today for a list of many ar . tides with .prices. I . s Love makes the world go round, and that’s what make* ua giddy. All Hope Abandoned | For Men Trapped In Mine By Explosion j i - -♦ DEMPSEL-WILLS FIGHT PLANS BEING PERFECTED Brut Probably Will Be Staged Near Chicago Soim Time in July. Kan-as City. Dec. 11.—(A s )—The proposed heavyweight championship bout between Jack Dempsey and Har ry Wills, negro, "will in all likeli hood." be held near Chicago some time in July, Ray Cannon, attorney fur Dempsey, told the Associated Press here today. Cannon said Floyd Fitzsimmons probably would be the promoter. He met Fitzsimmons in Chicago yester day, Cannon said, and Fitzsimmons showed him the tentative contract prepared by a Chicago syndicate with the financial terms substantially the same as those contained in the South Bend contract with Fitzsimmons which lias been invalidated because the South Bend syndicate could not post the required forfeiture. Cannon said that while the con tracts offered by the Chicago syndi cate was not acceptable in its pres ent terms, it might, be ironed cut so as to become acceptable. He indicat | matter of payment. | All concerned seemed to think it red that the chief difficulty was the i would be preferable to bold the fight |in Jujy mrlicr than in September. Cannon said. AMERICAN AIRMEN DECORATED BY FRANCE Men Served With the French in Hie Fighting Against Riff Tribesmen. Paris. Dec. 11.—OP)—Four Ameri can aviators who served with Sheiifian Eseadrille in the war in Morocco, have been awarded the Cross of the Legion cf Honor for gallantry in battle. They are: Major Granville A. Pollock, of New Orleans: Muior : James Hussan, of Dayton. Fla.: Cap tain Lansing C. Holden, if New Turk: and Lieutenant William S. 1 Cousins, of New Orleans. The official presentation will take . place al the Hotel des Invalided, Dc ccember 17th, iwhen 5 number of . French officers from Syria and Mo rocco also will be decorated. Marshal 1 Petain is expected to review the | troops. For Uniform Speed Law. Greensboro. Dec. 10. —IP)—Coleman W. Roberts, vice president of tbe Car olina Motor Club, lias returned from Washington, D. C„ where he attended conferences regarding a uniform speed law for the entire United States and discussions relating to accident pre vention. The conference was called by Secre tary Hoover’s committee on unifica tion of motor laws, and at the con ferences the tentative draft of the report that will be submitted at the Hoover conference in Ueburary was studied. If the conference convened by the secretary of commerce approves tbe report, all the states in the union will be asked to adopt it, Mr. Roberts says. Rankers Close Convention. 9t. Petersburg. Fla.. Dee. 11.—The fourteenth annual convention of the Investment Bankers' Association clos ed here today. Three 'hundred of 1 the SSO delegates in attendance de parted this afternoon for Havana. Cuba, while the remainder left on special trains for their homes. | Webb Succeeds Foil in Railroad Commission. Raleigh, Dee. 10.—Governor Me ' Lean this afternoon announced the appointment of Thomas H. Webb, of Concord, as a member of the finance committee of the North Carolina railroad to succeed Major IV. A. Foil, who died recently ! i gggiriagrra'awiw i ' H i< NOW IS THE TIME To Subscribe for Stock in the Toth Series of the j Concord Perpetual Building & Loan ; | Association s Books open at Cabarrus Savings Bank, Concord and - P Kannapolis, N. C. i! , j t > , Li - j I lurty-seven and a half years successful business. Hun- § i dreds of homes built and paid for, and' many thousands of jj dollars saved through this old reliable association. J i Take stock with us now and be ready for your check : " » when our 75th series matures. , i If you want to build or buy a home there is no better ji r : plan than the B. & L. plan. j » 25 cents a week carries one share which amounts to [3 SIOO.OO in 6 1-3 years. Prepaid shares at $72.25 will grow | * to SIOO.OO in six and one-third years. ALL, TAX EX- {- EMPT. IS l, u TT T 'T!l'Tl^rTT l Tjr?^rT.r’t»T^'TT7T''P3''l^'F7^f*pUl f V^'^r , T yVTrpfxtari "1 ,v I i ■ I It Is Known Now That Half of the Men in the Mine Lost Their Lives Follow-; ing the Explosion. RESCUE EFFORTS ARE CONTINUED More Than Two Score of the Bodies Carried to the Surface During Night of Hard Labor. i . Birmingham. Ala.. Dee. 11.—OP)—| Forty-eight bullies had today been re-j , moved from the Overton Mine No. 2 which yesterday was rocked by an j , explosion of gas Hist trapped and ! , brought deatli to more than half the j workers in the pit. A All hope had been abandoned that , the remainder of tile men would be found alive. Rescue crews worked patiently , through the night but progress was retarded by adverse conditions within tbe pit. Fire, gas and debris met tbe workers at every turn. The fire was not of a dangerous character, howev er, and the gaseous condition tighten ed toward daybreak. It was expected the last body would be removed before nigbtfall. Mine officials believe the denth list will not pass 53. ; Wearied watchers kept vigil about tile pit's mouth through a night of , sorrow for the little community. The color lino was obliterated, whites and . negroes were united in a common grief i and each tried to assuage the other's ( lOBS. - Rain began falling at daybreak, but i women hoping aguinst hope to find ■ their loved ones yet alive never budg • ed from their stand at-the guard lines. As the morning wore- one. The* sun - citirte- ]>eepliig‘ Hfrotigh the filoUfts. bar . it brought no l-ay of hope to the silent throng of watchers. . The stretcher 1 bearers told the story as they emerged i now and then. i One little woman who heard the ■ blast yesterday while she was about I her household duties and knew its ‘ meaning, has never for a moment left the mouth of the pit. She hugged her baby to her bosom through the night to protect it from the cold, i Surrounding miners had ceased op ■ orations to give what relief they 1 might. It was a community mourn -1 ing. The coroner announced that the I bodies would be removed from the t temporary morgue in a Company bath ■ house to Birmingham during 'the day. With a death list of 53, definitely determined, rescue workers were to day making final efforts to remove ’ three bodies remaining in Overton Mine No. 2, which was partly wreck ; ed by an explosion of gas yesterday morning. The bodies are those of two white men and one negro miner, j ' The bodies of the white men are pin- j | ned beneath a boulder. Os those al , ready removed, 43 are negroes and 7 are white. Washington, Dee. 11.—-(A 3 )—The large Red Cross chapter at Birtniug f ham. Ala., was today authorized to use its funds in affording relief to the . families of men killed in yesterday's f mine catastrophe. In a telegram from national head quarters of tiie Red Cross here. Grover i C. Crane, Red Cross field representa tive at Tuscaloosa, was ordered to Birmingham to assist in directing re -1 lief measures. Large numbers of the Birmingham chapter workers have . been mobilized at the scene to aid the ? rescue work and eare for the injured, t according to telegrams received here, e Trained chapter ease workers are i j ready to aid in perfecting plans for . j the permanent rehabilitation of the 1 bereaved families. THE TRIBUNE f PRINTS i TODAY’S NEWS TODAV|I NO. 293- ; I PRISONER TELLS I CONFESSION ABOUT j ROBBER! OF UHLS William J. Rinker, Held in the Jail in West Virginia, Says He Looted the Mail in Charlottesville. GOT ABOUT S4OO 3 FROM MAIL BAG The Man Also Says He Secured $6,200 in Cash by Robbing a Pouch Ifi | lowa Town. i Parkersburg, W. Va., Doc. 11.—C4>) j —Wm. J. Rinker. alius Vernon Low | ry, serving a term in the county jail | here .for highway robbery, has con j fessed to robbuig two registered mail | pouches, one near Council Bluffs, Ia„ in 1919. and the other at Charlottes i villc, Nov. 1. 1925, according to a statement assigned by local police. Rinker is quoted by the police as say ing he was riding blind baggage be tween Council Bluffs and Boone, la., on a night in August, 1919, and at. Boone stole a pouch of registered mail , from which he took $0,200 in cash. He stole the second pouch at Char- j lottesville, Va.. the police said ho confessed and secured S4OO. With Our Advertisers, The new patent pump at Ivey's fills every requirement, only $0.95. m The representative of the White Sewing Machine Co. will be unable to be at H. B. Wilkinson's store tomor row, but will be here soon to give away the White sewing machine. Hold your coupons. Beautiful and practical gifts for every member of the family at Efird's. T’seful Christmas gifts at Yorke & Wadsworth Co.'s for men, women and children,' • - ' - Sec the list of new Victor records at i the Kidd-Frix Music aud Stationery ■ Co. This is a Christmas gift that will give joy all the year. The Parks-Bolk Co. has thousands of useful Christmas gifts. You will find these in every department. Don't' fail to see the house furnishings de partment. You will always find the better grade of conned goods at the J. & H. Cash Store. They deliver, too. Phone 587. * Through the weekly loan system the Citizens Bank and Trust Com pany lends money fur useful pur poses. See ad. on page two today. The 3. C. Penney Co. has ev"'y thing for a merry and happy Christ mas. The assortment of gifts th-re is complete. File Suits Against Miners’Union. __ Fort Smith, Ark., Dec. 11.—(/P)—< Five coal companies today filed suit | in federal court against District 21, j United Mine Workers of America, its officers, executive board, individual members and locals in western Ar kansas counties, alleging conspiracy to restrain commerce in coal and pray ing judgment for $1,080,000 ns triple damages under the Sherman anti-trust law. Will Keep Present Postal Rates. Washington, Dec. 11-—.UP)—Con gressional action was completed to day on the resolution to authorize continuance of existing postal rates until next session of Congress con venes next December. The House adopted a Senate reso lution to continue the existing rate structure to enable a further study of its effects on postal revenue. Bandits Repelled in Damascus At tacks. Beirut, Syria. Dec. 11.—(A*)—News came today (hat bandits had been re pelled in two invasions of Damascus, ; A force of 200, after entering the city {yesterday, was driven out by police men with motorized machine guns, and the use of artillery. Seven bandits were killed. Later in the day another party of twenty men entered the city by a cemetery, but were speedily put to rout. It is always the woman of forty who calls the woman of tfiirty old. J - ■ , ,-nwil SAT’S BEAR SAYS! J Cloudy tonight, Saturday general!? fair, somewhat wurmcr tonight in the "1 east and north portions; slightly coUm J er in extreme west portion Saturday, Moderate to fresh southwest shifting *| to northwest winds Saturday. ,j||