BE | The Concord Dah,y Tribune VOLUME XXVI CUE B( BAITS . 11l MEXCO sins mUTOBM Bandits Boarded a Train* Killed and Robbed Most of Passengers and Es corts and Made Getaway. SEARCHING FOR GEN. SERRIERA x ______ It Is Reported That Bandits Thought General Was on the Train When They Made Their Attack. Mexico City, Jan. 11.—(A*>—Mexi can bahdtts yesterdny committed one of the most atrocious crimes that Mex ico has known in many days. Hoarding a train nt Guadajnra. bound for Mexico City, they murdered and robbed most of the passengers and a majority of the military escort, wrecked the train and set fire to the debris. Twenty bodies, burned beyond rec ognition, already have been found in the tangled mass of ruins and it is feared still others are in it. Those of the military escort who were not kill ed were wounded. The bandits escaped on the engine which was drawing the train. This: later was found several stations away from where the massacre was carried out. wrecked. It is said the outrage was commit ted because the bandits believed Gen. Berreira, military commander of the State ,\> ,<• • .SjEfc The town of Promise City, IS., has ! the country’s only bobbed-hatred pastor. Miss Pattyo Horn. I*. of 1 90s Moines, occupies the pulpit of : be Christian church there. She Is o .student at Drake University./ / ,, "gT i MONROE CHURCH WIPES OUT DEBT IN A HURRY , Central Methodists Have $150,000 ] Plant Free of Encumbrance. , Monroe, Jan. 10.—In a hoase-to housc canvass for $29,000, $13,000 ' of which was raised in the first 20 minutes of the campaign, the con gregntion of Central Methodist 1 church of Monroe, has cleared their 1 $150,000 plant of ail indebtedness 1 and has started the year 1926 with a 1 new zeal for influence and aeeoqi- 1 plishment. This church has 950 members, and 1 one of the most* beautiful and effi- ■ ciently equipped temples of worship in the State. About six years ago al l large expenditure was made to build ! 1 Sunday school rooms and for other 1 additions to the plant. It was not expected nt the time that the obliga tions would be met for a period of years; but the church recently de cided that it would apply short meter to all obligations and start with a dean sheet. The decision on . the part ofthe church was largely due to the efficient leadership of the pastor, H. G. Hnrdin, who came here a little more than a year ago from i Tryon Street church in Charlotte, i Under his leadership, and that of I W. B. B!akeney and W. Z. Faulkney, plElllllil anil secretary, respectively,; H • the- steering committee, the total | of s29.fW(t was raised in a ( short while and \jf«h the greatest of. ease, j Rubber of Domestic Source is Manu-' fatured in Texas. Marathon, Tex., Jan. 11.— UP) — In this little southwest* Texas town domestic rubber is manufactured from the guapule plant, which grows wild all. over this section. A factory, under the spur of high rubber prices, has reached an output of a ton a day. The guayuie is a shrub, three to five feet high, and resembles sage' brush. Beneath its outer bark is a sap, known as latax, from which the rubber is made. The shrub is put up in bales, like hay and the sap is pressed out in a machine called a pebble mill. About' 30.000 gallons of water, supplied by wells, is required to produce a ton of rubber. The plant is ' gathered, root, audall. and bring about S4O a , ton at the factory here. The finished product comes from the presses in sheets about three inches thick, 30 inches lond and 15 inches wide. \ Hairy Thaw Dentes He Will Pay Vlrit to Former Wife. New York, Jan. 9.—Harry K. Thaw is not going to Chicago to see his former wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw’, who ie recovering from an at tempt to commit suicide, hb said to night aat his hotel. He denied reports of a reconciliation. He came to New York to see his own physician, he said, adding that he intends to leave for .Pittsburgh tonight or tomorrow to aee his moth er, who is ill there. “I never had any intention of go ing to Chicago to see Evelyn,” Thaw declared. "I’m going to keep on send ing her money, of course—the sl9 a day, but nnything else is out of the question.” He visited a revue last night with married friends,, and later went to a night dub. Theodore Roosevelt; “It is the doer of deeds who counts in the bat tle tor ljfe—hot he Who looks on and says how .the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing in the struggle and the danger.” James W. Biddle Drowns at New Bern £ As Car Goes Off Street Intto River j New Bern, Jan. 9.—James W, | Biddle*- prominent farmer and busi [ ness man of New Bern, was drowned I I tonight shortly after 7 o’clock, when | the Ford touring car which he was [ driving went into Neuae river ott the \\tm of Craven street at the, same II summer la a similar manner. BUD RUM RUDOLPH DISH MENTALLY HORMSL Board Voted by Ballot and Members Were Unani mous in Verdict That Youthful Slayer Is Sane. GOVERNOR GETS THEIR REPORT Disse Is Under Sentence to Die For Murder of Hen ry Grady Carter, Rich mond Restaurant Owner Richmond, Va., Jan. 11.—UP)—Ru dolph Disse. 20 years old, triple slay er, Is sane, the state board of mental hygiene reported to Gov. E. Lee Trin kle today. The board held that the youth is mentally normal. He is un der sentence to die in the electric chair on February 19th. ♦he members of the board voted by separate ballots and their verdict that the youth who shot and killed his . sweetheart, bis rival and a police de tective. and seriously wounded an au tomobile salesman: here on July 28th last, was mentally responsible for his as-ts, was unanimous. The Governor declnred he would take no action in the case. - Disse is under sentence to death for . the murder of Henry Grady Carter, a i restaurant owner, whom he shot to death in his restaurant during the noonday rush after a mad dash across town in an automobile after fatally wounding Mrs. Vivian Tomlin Peers, pretty clothing model, and Detective J. .Harvey Burke, and seriously wounding IVillis Britt, automobile | salesman. The youth declared he kill led the girl and Carter because “he could not keep her and wasn’t going to let anyone else get her.” He kill ed Burke and shot Britt, he declared, because they stood in the way of his reaching Carter after he killed the girl. C. H. HAGWOOD’S BOND IS FIXED AT $13,000 Probable Cause Found In Efland J Bank Robbery Case.—He Gives no Testimony. | Durham, Jnn. 9.—Following a . l prelimiiary bearing at Hillsboro j J this afternoon, in • which ho matt, ! charged with being implicated with the robery of the Bank of Efland, at | Efland early in December, C. H. j Hagwood, of High Point, placed un- I der arrest recently nt that place, t proGhably cause wos found and the defendant held for the next term of Orange county Superior court under bond in the sum of $13,000. Hagwood, who has been confined in the Durham county jail since his Arrest on account of the fact that there are now no facilities at Hills boro for holding prisoners, a new jail being under course of construc tion,'was carried over to the Orange county seat early in the day. He was accompanied by his attorney, a High Point man. He entered a plea of not guilty to the charge against l him but did not offer any testimony, 1 neither did he go on the stand him self. Ooshier Robert Riley of the Bank' of Efland, positively identified Hagwood as being one of the wto men who entered the banking in stitution and after drawing a re volver on him, ordered him to put up his hands, following which they lock ed him in the vault and escaped with about $4,000. Asheville Director Places City’s Population at M,3#B. Asheville, Jan. 10.—The 1926 edi tion of the Afiheville city directory is now out and the city’s population has 'been placed at 51,398. The new directory is very con veniently arranged, having a classi fied business directory, a miscellan eous directory,and a stret dirctijry, ’ the street being arranged in alpha betical order and the houses in numerical order. Accompanying the directory is' a telephone directory' book vifth numerous in numerical , order. ,■ 1 ■ - Will Settle Muscle Shoals at Present I Term. Washington, Jan. 11.—(A*)—The Muscle Shoals issue will be settled at , this session of Congress, in the opinion . of both Chairman Norris of the Sen l ate Agricultural Committee and Sena » tor Underwood, leader of the opposing i forces over the disposition of the prop ierty. on his body when finally recivered by young men near the scene. The deceased waa in his fifties, and was well known throughout the section. He is survied by three CONCORD, N, C., MONDAY, JANUARY, 11, 1926 A^Smartßoy Israel Horowitz at 14 la the younfeett student ever enrolled at Washington University. St. Louis, Mo. He plans to ha a lawyer, but will have to ■alt three years after he graduates before he can take the atato bat Kxa-u'n»Uo». NEW JERSEY TO CELEBRATE Many Celebrations in Commemoration of Historical Tvents. Trenton. N. J. Jan. 11.—Petriotlo historical and other societies of New Jersey are preparing for a year of extraordinary activity, for the coming twelve months will see numerous cele brations ih commemoration of events of historical interest, culminating In the sesquicentennial of The American Declaration of Independence. During the war for American in dependence New Jersey was the field of great political and military activ ity. The eighth and the tenth Con tinental Congress met* in this state, in 1783 and 1784 respectively. Next, fall marks the 150th anniversary of Washington's retreat through New Jersey. At the beginning of 1777 his army was encamped at Trenton, and Corn wallis advanced from Princeton to attack it. In the battle of Prince ton which followed Washington per formed one of the most brilliant ex ploits of the war, taking, the enemy in the rear and saving his own army., A week before he had surprised ,nnd. captured a force of Hessians un der* Col. Rahl. He afterward win tered in Morristown, I®. 1778. he i harassed General Clinton in New Jer sey, when the British commander wtih a very large force had left Philadel phia for New York, and fought the battle of Monmouth Courthouse. The first of the local celebrations will be held next month, in commemo ration of the two hundredth anniver sary of the birth of Abraham Clark, one of the five New Jersey signers of the Declaration of Independence. Abraham Clark was one of the most influential men in the colony and in the new state. Elizabethtown was his birth place. • He was a lawyer with a large practice before the be ginning of the Revolution, his special ty being matters of surveying arid conveying. He gave so much le gal advice gratuitously that he was known as “the poor man’s counselor.” Under the royal domain he was high sheriff of Essex county and clerk of the colonial assembly of Amboy. He distinguished himself as an ac tive member of the committee of pub lic safety at the beginning of the Revolution. , Together with Richard Stockton. John Hart, Francis Hopkinson and John Witherspoon he was elected by the provincial congress a delegate to tlje Continental Congress, and signed the Declaration. He waa elected to the next Conti nental Congress, and from 1776 was re-elected continuously until 1783, with the exception of one year, 1779. From 1782 to 1787 he was a member of the New Jersey legislature. His influence was so powerful that he was held responsible by the peo ple for all of the important measures that were passed during his term of service. Abraham Clark was called “the Father faf Papr Currency,” because he was supposed to have influenced the introduction of the measure that established it. The paper money of the Revolution depreciated so rapidly that in 1780 forty paper dollars were worth only one dollar in specie, and in another years the paper currency was valueless. Clark became a member of Oon ’ greas in 1791, and died in office. In [ the friction with Great Britain over the question of compensation to Amer ican citizens for injuries from Brit- ish armed vessels and that of the de livery of the western posts, he in troduced a resolution to prohibit all intercourse with Great Brfitain. A bill to this effect was carried in the House by a considerable majority, but lost in the Senate by the casting vote o{‘ John Adams, the vice president. W. W. Knar Takes Second Place in Poultry Judging. New York, Jan. 9.—The highest indivudual score ever recorded in the 15 yean of competition in the in tercollegiate poultry judging contest was cultural school, Storcis, Conn., at the poultry show at Madison Square. Seymour scored 330.4 points out of a possible 400. W. W. Keever, of the J -u.'"! - - ! LITTLE CHANGE IN THE CONDITION OF STATE TREASURER Ben R. Lacy Continues HI at Raleigh Home, Al though He Is Slightly Better Today. *; i health"bad FOR SEVERAL MONTHS Day and Night Nurses Are With the Aged Treasurer and Friends Are Con cerned About Condition. Raleigh. Jan. 11.—(A>)—The condi tion of Stnte Treasurer B. R. Lacy, regarded yesterday as critical by at tending physicians, had improved slightly this morning. Mr. Lacy, how ever, it was stated by Dr. Albert An derson, attending physician, might still be regarded as in a serious condi tion. Mr. Lacy, who for years had been suffering from asthma, contracted a severe cold last week and developed a toxic condition. Some improvement during the week led friends to believe that he had only had one of the,recur ring athmatic attacks, from which he had rallied so often, blit Saturday night hiß condition became worse and was regarded as critical. Day and night nurses are in attendance upon the aged Treasurer, and Dr. Anderson is being assisted in treating the case by other physicians. MAKING drive among BAPTIST YOUNG FOLK Members of B. Y. P. U. Will Be Asked to Contribute Toward For eign Mission Debt. Raleigh, Jan. 9.—“ Sixty thousand Baptist young people in North Caro lina are lining up with the movement to give SIOO,OOO during the next week to help liquidate the paralyzing debt on the Baptist foreign mission board of Richmond. Va.” said Perry Morgan, the general B. Y. P. U. secretary of this state, as he was catching the train for Nashville, Tenn., where he and E. L. Middle ton, Sunday school secretary, are attending the meeting ofall the Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. secre taries of the south. •Mr. Morgan is asking eat® one of ‘fils 60,000 "B. Y. P. U-ptrs” to give at least $1 ns n love-gift to the big debt. Just before leaving his office Secretary Morgan made a sur vey of all his organizations in the state, which revealed that there were 369 junior B. Y. P. U.’s, 235 inter mediates, and 1,103 seniors, making a total of 1,707 organizations in the state, which is the largest number ever reported- There are 50 of these organizations in the schools and col leges. There are 17 city unions and 38 nssociational unions. There are now 27 churches in the state with official B Y. P. U. directors. There Were awarded the past year 11.372 study course certificates, the largest number going to Mars Hill college. FORM JUNIOR CHURCH AT THOMASVILLE Purpose is to Hold the You kg People For 11 O’clock Service. Thomas, Jan. 10. A Junior Church was organized today at Com munity Church, with the assistant pastor, Dwight L. Fouts, in charge. The service was held at the same hour as the senior church service, but another room of the building. The idea is to hold the young people for a preaching service at the 11 o’clock hour, which according to reports was quite successful at the organization services today. Dr, W. R. Cullony, professor of Bible in Wake Forest, filled the pulpit of the First Baptist Church here today, having good congrega tions in attendance. Merchant Refuses to Stick Up Hands. Greensboro. Jnn. 9.—When Jesse W. Norwood, aged owner of a gro cery store near the Southern limits of ( the city, was faced by a big negro with a pistol in his store to night and ordered to stick up his hands and hand over his money, Nor wood refused. The b’.ack struck the merchant over the head with his pistol and the gun was discharged by the force of the blow, but the bullet went wild. The negro then fled. Norwood was stunned a few mo ments. When he recovered, he gave chase to the bandit, but he later made his escape. Mother and Daughter Pow-Wow CONCERT LUNCHEON Miss Katheryn Riggs Washington, D. C. WMtk HARPIST Miss Dorothy Mallard New York SOLO DANCER WONDERFUL PROGRAM Tickets: Mothers and Daugh- Hfv * ’ tera SI.OO fathers and Sons, Admission Concert 50 c Sale Vt Kidd-Frix Co. | . andY. M. C. A. His Fourteen • Points Fail Him /v W \ Ralph Ogle, St. Louis, was separated from his wife Irene Ogle. So he drew uj) “fourteen points" which she must observe if she returned to him. Ihey included the provision that she must get a job and turn over all her money to him. She rebelled and the judge gave her a divorce. FIRE DOES DAMAGE TO RICHMOND STORES i Wholesale District Threatened Far a time During Day by Fire Which Proved Very Stubborn. Richmond, Va., Jan. 11.— UP) —Fire : which started at 4:54 o’clock this ; morning in the C. W. Anthrim Com pany. whoesale office and tea estab lishment at 1413-17 E. Cary Street i here, gutted that place and tiie ad joining structure occupied by Gunn- j Ellis Company, wholesale grocers, and i for more than two hours threatened i the entire block in the wholesale dis trict. Two fire alarms and two calls ; for special apparatus took a large J part of the city’s fire equipment to ; the scene, and the blaze was brought , under control about 8 o’clock. Fire walls, officials declared, pre vented the flames spreading to the plant of the Kingan Company, meat packers, and the F. H. Boehling Co., wholesale seed dealers. The origin of the fire has not been determined. The loss is expeetd to run well above the SIOO,OOO mark. W. C. DURANT IS HURT SLIGHTLY IN WRECK Two Trains on Florida East Coast Road Collide.—He Was in Private Cart St. Augustine, Fla., Jan. 10.—W. C. Durant, automobile manufacturer. I was slightly injured in a train crash at Frontenac, Fla., early today when a trainman and two negro attendants on Mr. Duraiifs private car were killed. The crash occurred when train number 86 of the Florida East Coast railway collided with train number 36 on a curve. Both trains were go ing north. The fireman of number 86 jumped from the engine when he saw the crash was inevitable and was killed instantly. Robbers Got SIOO,OOO Worth of Jew elry. New York, Jan. I.— UP) —Two jew els were robbed today of a bag con taining more than SIOO,OOO worth of uncut diamonds by three men who' knocked them down with pistols In 48th Street near stli Avenue. The robbers escaped in an automobile: •To Investigate Bribery Charges. Guthrie, Okla. Jan. 11.—UP)—Ru mors that a SIO,OOO briber thwarted inquiry several months ago into the mysterious slayings of several Osage Indians ill Osage county, loomed at , the front as the United States grand Jury convened here today. Morris H. Silverstein, Gastonia Man Defendant in Suit For $104,294.25 Gastonia, Jnn. o.—The sum of $101,204.25 is asked of Morris H. SUveratein, local merchant, in four complaints tiled today in Superior court here for the accidental death of Mrs. A. A. McLean, Sr., injuries sustained by Mrs. A. A. McLean, Jr., A. A. McLean Sr., and for alleged damages to the . car of Lillian G. McLean, the plaintiffs charging SUveratein with recklessness and in dulgence resulting in the collision of his ear with theirs on a busy street intersection here September IT l last. *n»e complaints stated that the defendant approached in a northerly direction on South Marietta street without any kind of a signal and [drove his car recklessly at a speed ; THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady at Advance of 3 to IS Points, With Active Months Higher After Cali. New York, Jan. 11.— UP) —The cot ton market opened steady today at an advance of 3 to 12 points in response to relatively steady cables and conlin-' ued reports of improving trade iu (jot-;, ton goods, botha t homeland-abroad. Active months sold about 6 to 14 points net higher after the call, on covering by local shorts with some trade and speculative or investment buying, but the advance to 20.00 for March and 18.28 for October evident ly attracted considerable realizing with a little Southern selling. This cheek ed the advance and caused reactions of 10 or 15 points from the best, which gave the market a reactionary appear ance at the end of the first hour. Private cables from Liverpool this morning said that owing to difficulty in buying desirable cotton South, con tinental interests were securing sup plies in the Liverpool spot market, and also that southern shippers were offering premiums to merchants for the cancellation of shipping contracts* Cotton futures opened steady: March 19.95; May 19.45; July 18.95 ; October 18.23; December 18.11. With Our Advertisers. | Prices on the Chrysler 58 have been ■ reduced from SSO to sllO. For sale here by S. A. Eudy at the White Auto Co., telephone 298. Sec ad. of new prices in this paper. The Concord Paint and Paper Co. has opened up at Forest Hill a paint and paper store. Phone 16L. Three-piece full size bed. springs and mattress, only $22.50 at H. B. AVilkinson’s. Nee new ad. today. Overcoats for business. or dress wear, only $24.75 at J. C. Penney Cos. Other box and belted coats, $19.75 to $39.75. Call 890 for appointment and serv ice at Efird’s Beauty Parlor. Don’t fail to attend the January clearance sale at Ivey’s. Tremendous , price reductions have been made on 5 slices. , ,' 1 Norma Shears in “A Slave to Fash | ion" nt the Concord Theatre Monday and Tuesday, with Lew Cody. Also "Bachelor Babies.” Thomas Felder Dead. I Paris, Jan. 11.— UP) —Thomas Jack > son Felder, of Nashville, Tenn., one of i the "dollar a year” men who served t the American government during the i year, died today. He was born in Americaus, Ga., in 1870. greater than reasonable and in ex cess of 20 mites per hour, colliding with the McLean car, which was moving east on the south side of Franklin avenue and was operated by A. A. McLean, Jr., who was not hurt, Lillian G. McLean asks the sum of $50,000 for the death of her mother and $1,200 for damages to her car. A. A. McLean, Sr., asks $3,006.25 for his own interest and expenses incurred for the medical attention and funeral for his wife. He also asks $20,000 for suffering and wit neasing the injury to his wife, her death and NO. 6 SMITH PBINCIFIE 1 SENATE COMMITTEE | The Bill Provides For Re- I gional Representation on 1 the I. C. C.—Party Gives ' IB Approval. -I SUB COMMITTEE I WORKS ON BILL The Manner in Which the Appointments Are Made :i Is Responsible for the 1 Measure. Washington. Jnn. 11.—G4 3 )—The '-A. principle of the Smith bill .for regional representation on the Interstate Coaapyjs metre tVmmissinu was approved to- Y/g day by the Senate Interstate-Cora-AA’? merce Committee. t -'Vl:*ls*s§ A sub-committee was appointed to 44 work out details as to the number, of ij regions in which the country should • be divided for purposes of making 3 future appointments. Senator Smith, of South Carolina,.;*® ranking Democrat on the commitMoal and author of the bill, is chairman of Tsf tiie sub-committee. The proposal first was made some y? months ago when Southern Senators -*j were opposing the confirmation of j Thou. F. Woodlock, of New York, as a ;J§ member of the Contmis-on, on the At,S ground that the Southeast was being Se deprived of representation. Mr. Woodlock's nomination again is pend- ■ ’ ing along with that of Richard V. .f, Taylor, of Alabama, but the solution _ | thus suggested is not satisfactory to some Southern leaders. DEMOCRATS LOSE INCOME TAX PLAN ** Reduction as Provided in the House ’ Bill Approved by the Senate Coat- . , mittee. Washington, .Tail. 11.—C/4 3 ) —Redttc-'; i| tion in income taxes as provided in , the House revenue bill were approved A today by the Senate finance commit- | tee. The reduced normal income tax ; rates and increased personal exemp- , tion were unanimously approved, the proposal of Democrats to reduction on surtax rates over ttiat j provided by the House measure was defeated. , = Senator Simmons, of North Cam 3 a lina, ranking Democrat on the com- , mittee, submitted the proposal of the c Democratic members to cut the title, tax rates on incomes between $22,000 | and SIOO,OOO, saying he would accept S the maximum surtax of 20 per cent. ' Oil a straight party vote of 10 to 7 J this proposition was rejected, and the House schedule was approved. A* Senator Simmons then served no* tice he would fight for 25 per cent. * maximum surtax rate. - Ail LANGLEY DENIED APPEAL 1 , BY SUPREME COURT Unless He Can Get Rehearing He Jj Must Serve Prison Sentence. ~ ■‘ jl Washington, Jan. 11.—(A 3 )—Repre- Ail sentative John W. Langley, of Ken tucky. convicted of participating in a conspiracy to violate the Federal pro- 'a hibition law, was denied an appeal 41 today by the Supreme Court. sS Unless lie now can obtain from the f court a rehearing, lie must begin sprv ing his two year sentence in the At lanta federal penitentiary. The refusal of the Supreme Court to review the case will be followed with in a day or two by a formal order A under which the circuit court of ap- 4j peals at Cineinnati may order the 'a commitment of Langley to the Atlanta prison. It will not be necessary for the cir- A4| cuit court of appeals to defer action A pending development of Langley’s next As move. Pardons by Acting Governor Held Il legal- ,4s! Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 11.— (Aft — -Jm The Arkansas Supreme Court today A held that the nine pardons granted by F. C. McCall, acting Governor (luring - the recent temporary absence of Gov. Tom J. Terrell from Arkansas, are il- 4 legal. To Hoar Boundary Dispute. Washington. Jan. 11. —(A 3 )—T'.ie | Supreme Court today ordered the ap- A pointment of u commissioner to take - J testimony and report in the boundary : f dispute between Louisiana and' Mis sissippi amid named Jack Thompson, clerk of the federal district court at Jackson, Miss., us commissioner. Sal j « tas Napoleon said the British do not make history; they take advantage of it. SAT’S BRAB SAYSt IH n ‘ m - \ ] • tjf 't4'w - -nßw u^vjgß Partly cloudy and slightly warmer '-'M tonight; Tuesday partly cloudy !n th« *9 west, showers and warmer in THuiv.’He portion. Moderate to fresh sbnthweot J winds.