ASSOCIATED
PRESS
DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVI
Mrs. W. L. McLean Is
Killed In Automobile
Accident At Landis
Was Struck by Car Driven
by J. C. Isaac, of .Wins
ton-Salem, Near Linn
Mill Friday Evening.
LIVED ONLY
TEN MINUTES
Isanc Was Blinded by the
Lights of a Truck and
Did Not Know He Had
- Struck Mrs. McLean.
Jr Mrs. W. L. McLean, of Landis,
f died shortly after 7:30 o'clock Jnes
day night at the Concord Hospital as
a result of injures received when she
was struck by an automobile driven
by 3. C. Isaac, of Winston.
The accident occurred on the Con
cord-Salisbury highway, near the I,inn
Mill office. Mrs. McLean, who was'
an employe in the mill, after finishing
her work Tuesday evening, had gone
■to the Linn Brother’s Store where she
did some shopping and had started
home.
Mr. Isaac was driving in tlje direc
t:on of Concord nnd was temporarily
blinded by the lights of a truck which
was coming from Kannapolis, so that
he failed to see Mrs. McLean as she
walked on the side of the road. He i
is reported to have said that he did
not know what it was he had hit un
til he stopped his machine and .walk
ed buck to the •scene of the accident.
Mrs. McLean was rushed to the Con
cord Hospital immediately after she
was struck. Her wounds were such,
however, that she lived only about ten
minutes after being brought to Con
cord.
She had lived in Landis only two
years, having moved there from Con
cord where She lived at the Brown
Mill for a period of eight years. Her
early residence was in Union county.
Mr. Isaac was accompanied by his
uncle, W. A. Patterson, also of Win
ston.
Funeral services will be held on
Thursday in the Chapel of Wilkinson’s
Funeral Home and burial will be made
in Union cemetery. The hour for
the funeral has not yet been set.
Surviving are her husband, and sev
en children. The children are: H. W.
McLean-of Landis; Mrs. T. If. Me
' Uuist, t* McCamillsville, S. Mrs.
4r< Qtsfts jSttfttcs, or : J. £.lfe-.
" Lean, of Monroe; Mrs. Luther Rog
ers, of Concord: Mr*. 11. 8. Atwell,
of Concord; nnd Mrs. E. L. Childers,
of China Grove.
TO DISCUSS PROBLEMS
OF MARKETING COTTON
Loaders to Re Invited to Meeting of
Joint Congressional Committed.
Washington. Jan. 13.—04*)—Sena
tor Smith. Democrat, of South Caro
lina. chairman of the special joint
I congressional cotton committee, will
| call a meeting of the committee Fri
q dny when he will invite leaders of the
co-operative marketing associations
who are in conference in Washing
ton. to discuss with the committee the
, problems of marketing cottop.
Senator Smith met with the co
operative leaders last night, when he
told them that the only solution of
the cotton situation would be by the
cotton farmers obtoining control of
the entire crop so that they will not
be victimized by speculation. He de
clared that a tariff on agricultural
products would do no good unless the
producers rontrolled the’ crop.
The special cotton committee ex
pects to hold a series of conferences
to agree on provisions of legislation
for introduction at this Session of
Congress.
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DETAILS OF 900,000
_ CUBIC FEET DIRIGIBLE
Become Available In Published Pro
ceedings of House Appropriations
i Committee.
Washington, Jan. 13.— (A*) —Details
■ of the 200,00 cubic feet all-metal dir
igible which the aircraft development
corporation <sf Detroit has asked -to
build for the navy for SBOO,OOO be
came available 1 today In published
proceedings of the House appropria
tions committee.
Washington Won and Played Fewest
Games in Season.
Chicago, Jan. 13.—(A*)—Six hun
dred and sixteen games were played
in the American League during the
1025 season and Washington, pen
ant winner, played the feweat con
tests.
The Seatom traveled over a 151
game route 'to win, having tied
games with Philadelphia and pon
ton that were never played off and a
laet-of-the season contest with . the
Athletics, which went into the dis
card because of bad weather.
The regular schedule called for
154 games, and there were four tied
games to be playd off. Detroit and
New York each played 150 games,
and each had two ties to play off.
Boston had a game each with Wash
ington and, St. Louis. They were
never played because of bad weather.
As a whole, the weather man was
more generous last season than he
was in the previous two yearn. There
were fewer postponements, j especial
ly during the early part of the
schedule. Boston appeared the hard-,
est hit, having suffered postpone
ment on several ’’good" dates. Two
games la Chicago were cancelled be
-4 cause of Inclement weather, being
If played off later in the week on
w double header bills.
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THe Concord Daily Tribune
. North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
I MING Min
K MBIT SCOTT
>
■Who Is Wanted in Con
j I nection With the Murder
I For Which Russell Scott
Was Sentenced to Death.
San Francisco, Jan. 13. — (Ah —John
C. Redding, prisoner in San Quentin
penitentiary, admitted in nu interview
yesterday that he is Robert Scott,
wanted in Chicago in connection with
the murder for which Robert’s broth
er, Russell Scott was sentenced to
death but saved from the gallows when
he was adjudged insane, the Ban Fran
cisco Examiner says today.
Redding is further quoted as saying
he will go back to Chicago willingly
in the belief that he ran prove the
charges against him are untrue.
“I will go back to Chicago willing
ly, and face the charges against me,”
Scott was quoted ns saying. •'At this
time I cannot say what my defense
will be, but I am confident I can
prove tjie charges against me are un
true."
Scott further declared he would re
tain Win. Scott Stewart, who acted as
attorney for Russell Scott, to defend
him.
He will remain in San Quentin un
til Illinois authorities request his ex
tradition, it was said at the prison.
They are at a loss to know why ex
tradition has not been requested, and
why peace officers have not come to
California to return him.
SPENT MORE MONEY FOR
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS
Than Any State Except One.—North
Carolina Exceeded Only by Illinois.
Kaleigh, Jan. 18. — UP) —What does
it cost to run a state government?
What are the main items of expendi
ture? And where does the money
come from? These questions are
answered for the year 1024 by the
bureau of the census of the United
States department of commerce in fig
ures compiled and just received here.
- The figures. WhfcSi have beeu , uim
plied for all of (lie 48 states, show
that North Carolina, in 1024. bad to
tal revenue receipts of $21,202,000;
spent for operation, maintenance and
interest the sum of $10,670,000; and
paid out for permanent improvements
the total of $32,670,000. The as
sessed valuation of all property sub
ject to a general property tax during
that year was $2,706,033,000.
The sources of the $21,202,000 reve
nue for 1024, with the amounts re
ceived from each source, are given by
♦lie bureau as follows: income taxes,
$4,460,000: motor fuel taxes, $3,980,-
000; earnings of general departments,
$3,068,000; motor vehicle licenses. $2,-
215,000; special property taxes. $743,-
000; inheritance taxes, $503,000; and
all other revenues. $0,205,000.
For operation, maintenance, and in
terest charges—running expenses—
the State spent nearly $2,000,000 less
than Its total revenues, leaving that
sum to be used for retiring bonds,
use for permanent improvements, etc.
The total expenses—maintenance, op
eration, and interest was $19,264,000.
Os this sum the greater share—
-515,746.00 spent for the opera
tion and maintenance of general de
partments, or the State government
and institutions. The interest charges
ran to $3,495,000, and for the opera
tion and maintenance of public serv
ice enterprises the cost was $23,000.
North Carolina’s per capita revenue
receipts in 1824 were $7.80, as com
pared with $8.26 in 1923, and only
$2 25 in 1917.
Her per capita expenditures ex
clusive of those for permanent im
provements) was $7.08 in 1924, as
compared with $5.80 in 1923, and
$1.03 in 1917. ,
The figures show that North Caro
lina’s revenue receipts and expendi
tures per capita have both been
mounting, the expenditures of 1924
Showed a market increase over those
for 1023, while her receipts flowed a
decline.
TWO THOUSAND LOST
IN MEXICAN FLOODS
Exact Number May Never Be
Known—Thousand Are Homeless
And Damage Is Bervcre.
Nogalea, Aria., Jan. 12.—Fully
2,000 persona lost their lives and
'thousands of families are homeless as
the result of the recent floods which
swept the state of Nayarit, Mexico,
H. B- Titeomb, president of the
Southern Pacific of Mexico railroad
said on bin return today from Mexi
co.
Mr. Titeomb said the rains which
swept the region were unprecedented
and'that 14 1-2 inchese fell in three
days, He says the loss of life prob
ably will never be definitely known
as many persons were swept away
to the ocean by the walla of water
that descended op several towns.
The damage tb the Southern Paci
fic of Mexico railroad will reach
$250,000, Mr. Titeomb estimated.
'Ren. Lassiter Sails For Aries.
Panama. Jan. 13.— UP) —Maj. Gen.
William Lassiter, chosen to succeed
Gen. Pershing as neutral chairman of
the Ticna-Arica plebiscitary commin
i slop, ie sailing for Arica from Balboa
at noon today.
Even the Realfors Are Infected
jS
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Hollywood, home of movies, la a topsy-turvy town —so much so that even
the business houses are affected. This shows a real estate office built
Uko an Egyptian sphinx..
EXTEND TIME FOR
THE REPLY TO COLE
Attorneys For Rev. A. L. Ormond
Given Until February 4th.
Raleigh News and Observer.
Time for filing reply to the answer
of W. B. Cole, Rockingham capitalist
and slayer of W. W. Ormond, has
been extended until February. The
statutory time for filing reply expires
on January 15th. but this time was
extended yesterday for twenty days
by agreement of counsel for both
sides.
Answer was filed recently in Wake
Superior Court by lawyers for Cole,
and new allegations were made that
attorneys for the Rev. Mr. Ormond
will make reply to. The pleadings
in the action for $150,000 alleged dam
ages promise to become bulky before
the case finally comes to trial.
. No motion for the removal of the
rtaSe W-expected to" be made by la pa
yers for. the defendant. If such’
a motion was lodged, attorneys for
tre Rev. Mr. Ormond would ask that
it be either to Granville or Nash
counties, it is declared, and the latter
would be the most logical place un
der the law, as Ormond while living
in Richmond at the time of his
death could also have claimed Nash
county as his home ns his father lived
there. The suit would naturally be
brought in the county in which the de
ceased was a desident, it is pointed
out, nnd there is no valid legal reason
for transferring it to the home county
of the defendant.
PREVENTORIUM MAY
BE GIVE SOME AID
Dr. Rankin Looks Intq Cumberland
Institution With View of Getting
Duke Money.
Fayetteville. Jan. 12,—Dr. W. S.
Rankin, of Duke univeifcity, head of
the Duke endowment, met here to
day with a group of men and women
supporting the Cumberland county
preventorium, an institution for the
care of tubercular/ disposed children,
and took under advisement a request
for assistance for the preventorium
from the fund established by indenn
ture by the late James B. Duke, Dr.
Rankin will report the result of the
investigation to the trustees of the
endowment, and a decision is expect
ed by April.
The preventorium in this county
is the only one of its kind in North
Carolina.and when application was
made for aid from the foundation
established by Mr. Duke for the as
sistance of hospital and orphans
homes, Dr. Rankins, thought ex
pressing interest, replied that never
haring come in contact with an in
stitution of this character he would
have come here to look into the mat
ter more fully before making a
recommendation.
Some notable work has been done
by the preventorium, which is de
signed for the prevention, rather
than the cure, of tuberculosis, and is
now supported by voluntary contri
butions. It is located eight miles
from Fayetteville on the Wilming
ton road-
Would Make Anthracite Mining a
Public Utility.
Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 13.— UP) —-
Governor Pinchot in a statement to
day in which he attributed the break
down of the anthracite negotiations
in New York to the operators, an
nounced his intention of pressing pas
sage of the Pennsylvania legislature
of a bill making anthracite mining a
public utility.
One of the New Senator’s Views,
WasUpgton, Jan. 13.— UP) —Gerald
P. Nye, seated yesterday aa a senator
from North Dakota, said, today that
although be had not finally made up
hia mind, his present opinion was that
the world court Idea “is the child of
the makers of war.”
When the National A. A. U. in
door. track and' field championships
are held in Chicago an March 6 it
wiU be the first time the title meet
ever has been held in the Western
metropolis.
CONCORD, N. C„ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1926
SAYS THAT UTAH STILL
I HAS SOME POLYGAMY
I Dr. Branson Tells of Mormon Bishop
Who Maintains Two Families.
Chapel Hill. Dec. 12.—Dr. E. C.
■ Branson, head of the University’s
department of rural social economics.
i is back at the University after spend
■ ing the fall quarter at the Utah Ag
i ricultural College, located at Logan,
i where he was n member of the fac
i ulty. He not only taught, but made
i frequent excursions out of the college
town to give lectures in various parts
■ of the state. He put in a good word
, for North Carolina everywhere he
went. In Dr. Branson’s classes at
I the college were about 400 students,
i and he found them a very eager, am
bitious group.
; Questioned about polygamy in
Utah, Dr. Branson said thnt whereas
fc the mqn did not now contract plural
f ’.marriages, there were still some living l
i who had acquired two or more wives
• before practice was forbidden. They
had got in under the bar somewhat in
i the manner of the canny citizens who
• stocked their cellars amply before the
Volstead law went into effect. By a
; sort of compromise, the government
i does not molest these old boys who
became polygamists when the hunting
was free and open. In this position
1 is n certain wealthy Mormon bishop.
This dignitary of the church has two
handsome residences in Logan, the
i town where Mr. Branson spent the
fall, nnd another handsome residence
in Ogden, each house occupied by a
family. In Salt Lake City he main
tains a spacious suite in a hotel. Here,
once a year, the bishop has a family
reunion; or, perhaps it should be
called a multi-family reunion. He
has 42 children, and no telling how
many grandchildren and great-grand
children.
MEMORIAL FOR BRYAN
BEGINS TO TAKE FORM
Plans Are to Construct Public Com
mons With Chimes Tower to Cost
$1,000,000.
(suomeut eqx—'Bl unf ‘oßb.hu,')
the William Jennings Br.vnn Memo
rial Association plans to erect in
• Washington, D. C.. will take the form
1 of a public commons with suitable,
useful structures for the service of
the people. It will include a cen
tral chimes tower, and the prospee
i tive cost Is $1,000,000.
1 This was the decision reached to
-1 day at a meeting of Josephus Daniels,
president of the Bryan Memorial As
-1 sociation, and a group of seven state
' leaders.
There will be another meeting in
' Washington next Saturday at which
a committee from the association will
confer with a committee appointed in
‘ Washington to work out the precise
form the memorial to the great com
! moner shall take.
The exact method of financing Hie
! memorial has not been determined,
but Mr. Daniels said 43 state organ
! izatious had been formed and that the
other five Would be organized soon.
The work of obtaining the funds will
be carried on by the state organiza
i tions divided into units along the con
gressional district and county lines.
The former secretary of the navy
. also said that memorial meetings
. throughout the country will mark Mr.
, Bryan’s birthday next March 10th.
. Representatives of Minnesota. Wis
. consin, Nebraska, Indiana, Kentucky,
„ and Alabama attended today’s meet
[ ing.
White House Conference Subject of
inquiry.
1 Washington Jan. 13. — UP) —A
r white house conference between l’rca
t Ident Coolldge. Secretary Mellon and
j Attorney General Sargent on January
t 2, before the Department, of Justice
f issued its statement concerning the in
vest’gation of the Aluminum Com
pany of America was made the sub
. ject of Inquiry today by a Senate com
s mittee.
t ‘
t Thomas A. Edison was thirty years
i old when he made the first incandes
cent lamp, i |
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MORE THAN ONE
| HUNDRED MINERS
ARE ENTOMBED
I
j Terrific Explosion Today at
j Mine No. 2of Degnan-
McConnell Mines at Wil
burton, Oklahoma.
LITTLE HOPE IS
HELD OUT FOR MEN
So Strong Was the Explo
sion That Timbers Were
Blown From Bottom of
the Mine Shaft.
AViiburfon, Okln., .Tan. 13.—(/P)—A
terrific explosion today at mine Xo.
2, of the Degnan-MeConnell Mining
Company entombed 101 miners.
Little bope is held ont for the res
eue of the men. So strong was the
explosion that timbers were blown
from tbe bottom of the mine shaft.
Fans were still working after the
explosion, but resellers were waiting
for gas helmets before venturing into
the bottom of the shaft, whitfi is
about sixty feet deep.
Kvery doetor in Wilburton wns
rushed to the mine and doctors, nurses
and ambulances have been summoned
from McAlester, Hartshorne and oth
er neighboring towns.
The blast is believed to have been
the result of an accumulation of coal
dust in a pocket.
The mine was being operated on o
non-union basis under the 1917 wage
scale. It is three miles west of town.
TVilburton, Okla., Jan. 13.—G4>)—
Most of the 105 men working in the
Degnan-MeConnell mine three miles
west of here are believed to have been
instantly killed today in a terrific ex
plosion that wrecked the main shaft
and entombed them.
A rescue crew started work at 10:30
a. m. and frill attempt to reach the
trapped men through the air shaft
which is still open. Some of the vic
tims are still alive and conversed
with rescuers through the air shaft.
They were advised to remain near the
shaft.
THE COTTON MARKET
Market Quiet But Fairly Steady.—
Reported Continued Goo) Demand.
New York, Jan. 13.—TSe cot
ton market was quiet blit ftrfrly steady
in today’s early trading. Fnvorable
features in the day's news such as
steadiness in Liverpool, reports of
continued improvement in British
goods trade, and claims of better spot
demand in the southwest appeared to
rfieck selling without materially stim
ulating demand. The opening was
steady at an advance of 2 points to
a decline of 2 points with near months
relatively steady. Declines of 4 to
5 points developed after the call un
der realizing by recent buyers and
a little southern selling, but after eas
ing off to 19.44 May rallied to 19.49
with the market holding steady around
II o'clock when prices were net 2
points higher to 5 points lower. Pri
vate cables said trade calling in Liv
erpool hade been supplied by hedg
ing and speculative selling, but re
ported continued good demand from
spinners and exporters.
Cotton futures opened steady.
March 19.99; May 19.49; July 18.95;
Oct. 18.20; Dec. 17.98.
PARENTS ARE BLAMED
FOR FRIVOLOUS YOUTH
Elders Prejudiced Against Intel.
Icctural Things, Says Swarthmore
Head.
Philadelphia. Jan. 13. —A pre
judice against things intellectual
exists among parents and m in
fluencing the youngster generation
unfavorably. Dr. Frank Aydelotte,
President of Swathraorc College, de
clared today in a report presented to
the Board of Managers.
This prejudice, said Dr, Aydelotte,
is tbe reason why many college stu
dents lack seriousnertt in their work.
.“The passivity and stupidity of
many modern amusements,” he add
ed, “are only a symptom, not the
cause of the trouble.
“Criticisms of athletics and extra
curricular activities and the multi
plication of distractions that waste
young people's time do not reach
the root of the matter. The trouble
lies in certain scepticism concerning
the value of intellectual accomplish
ments and a prejudice against what
is abstruse or ‘highbrow.’
“If boys and gir's between the
ages of ten and eighteen do not hear
their parents discuss books or in
tellectual ideas, they generally fail
to acquire the priceless habit of
reading.”
Dancing Has Become Lost Art In the
Land of the Soviets.
Moscow, Jan. 13.—C4 1 ) — Dancing
has become a lost art in Russia, It
is looked upon as a "bourgeoisie” pas
time by the Bolsheviks.
Although the government does not
actually prohibit it, there are really
no balls, restaurants or oafee where
dances are held. In the Russian
home, dancing hns long since disap
peared, as the average city family
lives in a single room.
Ballet dancing is the only form of
the Terpsichorean art that remains,
and that may be seen only on the
stage. '
Dan McLeod, one of the greatest
wrestlers of all time, never weighed
over 185 pounds, yet many grapplers
who topped the beam at 200 and
over feared to meet him on the feat, j
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WILBUR FAVORS AN
AIRSHIP TO REPLACE
! THE SHENANDOAH
; Says That the New Airship
Should Have a Greater
Gas Capacity Than Los
Angeles or Shenandoah.
COST WOULD BE
SIXMILLION
• The Secretory ©f the Navy
Outlines His Views Be
fore House Naval Com
mittee at Hearing Today.
Washington. Jan. 13.—(A')—Secre
tary Wilbnr today told thd House
: naval committee he favored construc
tion of an airship to replace the Shen
andoah.
The secretary explained, however,
i that the new airship should have a
greater gas capacity than the Shenan
• doa’li or the Los Angeles. The cost
; of the craft he estimated at about
i 38.000,000 and he suggested a capac
i ity of 8.000.000 cubic feet, compared
to the Shenandoah’s 2,100,000 cubic
: feet.
Mr. Wilbur outlined his views be
fore the committee at a hearing on
Chairman Butler's bill for a new dir
igible to cost $5,000,000.
Realignment of the Naval Air Program
Washington, Jan. 13.—OP)—Re
alignment of the nation's naval air
defense including construction of a
new and larger dirigible to replace the
wrecked Shenandoah is contemplated
in the administration’s naval program
now taking place in Congress.
Reorganization would be accompan
ied by economics in other branches of
the naval service, including a reduc
tion of the navy enlisted personnel
from 88,000 to 82,000 and withdraw
al of a number of warships from act
ive duty:
The House naval committee also
lias decided there is no present need
of maintaining the Lakehurst naval
air station, whose only dirigible, the
Los Angeles, is now laid up in her
hangar. In reporting today the naval
appropriation bill the committee sug
gested that by closing down the sta
tion the cost of its maintenance could
, be reduced from $1,716,000 to $128.-
000. Such a step is not favored by tlie
navy department which has. suggested
that if the station 1 were closed a sepa
rate arrangement would' have to be
made to take care of tbe Los Angeles.
The appropriation for naval avia
tion would be increased under the bill
to permit the Navy Department to
carry out a policy of expansion of
heavier than air facilities already ap
proved by it.
No recommendation for tbe new dir
igible is contained in the supply
measure as reported, but today the
committee heard testimony by Secre
tary Wilbur and other department of
ficials endorsing construction of such
a craft at a cost of $6,000,000 The
ship would have about three times
the gas capacity of the Shenandoah.
It was disclosed also Fuat the de
partment has before it plans by the
airship development corporation back
ed by Henry Ford to build a much
smaller all-metal naval airship, but
Mr. Wilbur said there has been no
decision whether the projected craft
should be of the Shenandoah or metal
covered type. The department ex
pects to ask for an additional $300.-!
000 for experiments yvith metal dirig
ibles.
The secretary told the committee
that the navy general board regarded
ligther than aircraft is still in the
experimental stage, doubted their mil
itary value and opposed any experi
ments which would curtail “needed
types of war craft such ns ’ scout
cruisers or fleet submarines.” The
board agreed, however, that for ex
perimental purposes the Shenandoah
should be replaced.
ASSERTS HE SAW
WIFE KISSING MAN
When Hq Did He Proceeded to
Carve Pair Up With Razor.
Lumberton, Jan. 12.—“1 love her
too much to give her up and I want
someone to bring her to see me,"
, said Gus Dutton, white mill opera
tive of Rockingham, when visited in
jail here, where he was placed
charged with assaulting his wife and
her alleged lover, Curtis Cameron, as
the result of an attack he made on
the pair before daybreak Friday.
, “I saw them coming under a street
, light. He had his left arm around
her and when they stopped and he
hugged her tight and kissed her and
. she kissed him, I couldn’t stand it
any longer, I proceeded to work on
them,” he said. And it is in evidence
, that he did “work on them,” for it
required 28 stitches in the man and
, 15 in the woman to sew up the
I wounds made with a razor broken in
[ the fight, which took place in East
Lumberton.
According to Dutton's story, he
; had been preparing a place in Rock
ingham for his wife, who had prom
-1 ised to go there and live with him
1 because he could not get along with
’ her mother here. A few days ago he
sent for her and she him word she
, Was not going, and for him to stay
away. He claims that ho was also
1 told that if he would watch her he
■ could find out who her lover wns, \
and this was done with the above
result.
Bill r Widen, the great tennis star,
has a phssion for bridge whist and
often rushes from the enrd tab'e to
the tennis court and back again.
| Kansas Giant\
In Leo “Dreadnought" Lattin the
University of Kansas believes it has
the biggest basketball player In col
legiste competition. He’s 6 feet, 6%
Inches and weighs 235 pounds. He
plays guard on the football team
and is the heavyweight represents
tive of the boxing squad. Lattin is
a sophomore, and Is here shown hold;
tag two team-mates, Proudflt, left,
and Ysrboa.
FURNITURE EXPOSITION
AT HIGH POINT JAN. 18TH
Already Floor Space Has Been Taken
and Indications Point to Mammoth
Show.
High Point, Jan. 12.—Coming in
the midst of a big business period,
the mid-winter market which will
open in the Southern Furniture Expo
sition building here January 19th is
expected to be the largest and most
elaborate ever held in this city. Ad
vance indications are that attendance
on the market will exceed all previ
ous records in local furniture atihals
and exhibits will aiso.pxceed anything
that has gone before! W' '•
Attendance of buyers hns steadily
increased at each exposition during
the five years that tbe market has
been operating, last year reaching the
1,000 mark. Officials say that a big
increase is expected this year.
Every foot of available space has
been taken already, although the op
ening of the market is a week off.
Never before lias every exhibit space
in the mammoth ten-fdory building
been occupied for a January show,
albeit the edifice has bene jammed
for several mid-winter market. Tele
grams are being received daily- by
Manager C. F. Long, from exhibitors,
asking for space. Mr. Long, after
studying the prospects carcfuly, is
jubilant over the promises of the
show, ,i
Furniture hns been arriving on
trains coining from all directions dur
ing the past week, and already many
of the exhibits have been set up.
The quality and variety of the ex
hibits has been watched by Mr. Long,
and he hqs no doubt that this year's
market will present the biggest as
sortment of displays that has ever
been seen in High Point.
NOT WORRYING ABOUT
BUTLER, THEY DECLARE
Greensboro Republicans Say All is
Well With the Party.
Greensboro, Jail. 12-—Leaders in
local Republican circles are of the
opinion that too much significance is
attached to the expected fight of
Marion Butler to get the State Re
publican convention to change the
method of directing the affairs of
the party in the State. Briefly, they i
think that the Democrats ascribe to
Butler more power than he has.
The Democrats use Butler’s name
in an effort to show that Republi
canism is about to be split, is the
explanation, when as a matter of
fact the executive committee and the
party are iu a fine state of harmony
—so the Republicans hero say.
Butler is a word that the Demo
crats use to try to scare Republi
cans, is -the comment.
Senator Nye Seated.
■Washington, Jan. 12.—Gerald P.
Nye won a seat in tile Senate as a
senator from North Dakota by two
votes, to the surprise of both of his
own friends and the opposition lead
ers.
Tlie, vote was 41 to 39. Twelve
senators were absent, several of whom
were in their offices or committee
meetings and did not take the trouble
to vote.
As soon aB the vote was announced
Nye was escorted by Senator Frazier,
Republican, of the same state, to the
President's, dias and took the oath of
office. He was assigned a seat and
took part in the executive session
that immediately followed.
Gem Valued at $15,000 Stolen.
[ West Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 18.—
j <A>)—Burglars last night entered the
Italian villa of George L. Meskcr at
Palm Beach and carried off gems val
ued at $15,000, Mr. Meeker announc
ed today.
Mr. Mesker scouted the theory that
it was an “inside job.”
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LUTHER IS ASKED 1
L TO FORM ANOTHER
r GERMAN CABIN|
Given Mandate by Pres. ’
Von Hindenburg, After
Both Koch and Former
Canchellor Had Declined
FAILURE OF BIG 1
COALITION PLAN
Which Was to Carry CMif
the Locarno Treat?—LlM
ther Cabinet Reigned
Early Last December.
Berlin. Jun. 13.—(A*)—President
Von Hindenburg today commissioned
Chancellor Luther to form another
cabinet.
Dr. Luther was given file mandate
after both Erich Koch, the democratic
leader, and former Chancellor
bach of the center party had informed
the president that a “big coalition, ,
government was impossible.”
When Dr. Luther’s cabinet resigned 1
early in December following the sign
ing of the Locarno treaties it was
announced t'liat the resignation wasto
leave the way clear for the forma- I
tion of sucli a coalition with the ob
ject of carrying ont the Locarno poli
cies. I AS
Failure of the plan for a “big CM- ■'
lition" came after the parliamentary
-group of the socialist party had defi
nitely declined to join ip such a
scheme. They declared they were
influenced chiefly by the people's par
ty's refusal to meet their demands On
the issue of the eight-hour day, un
employment, doles and settlement with
the former royalty for property held
by the federated states.
NEGRO TERRORIZING
CHARGED IN FLORIDA
Night Riding Attributed to Real Es
tate Operators in Effort to Drive
Out Negroes.
Tampa, Fla-, Jan 12.—City and
epunty officials today ordered police
to make a special effort to round up
a reported band of night riders,
which officials charge is making an
alleged wholesale attempt at the
instigation of real estate operator*
to frighten negro property owners of
Tampa into selling their home# and
fleeing from the city.
Officials were said to hare been
in conference this afternoon to deter- I
mine what steps to take to single out : :
those responsible for the intimida- I
tions. Action taken at the confer
ence was not made public.
The alleged night riding was call
ed to the attention of members of
the city commission yesterday by R.
C. Doby, and aged negro, and holder
of property said to bo valued at
several thousand dollars, it is said.
Doby told the commission he was
warned by night riders Sunday night
to leave Tampa within 48 hours. A
burning cross was left at his front
gate, he said.
City officials admitted they had re
ceived during the last fortnight nu
merous complaints from negroes -
who claimed they had been warned
by masked men to leave the city.
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Hampton.
Atwater Kent, a radio that will
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Yorks & Wadsworth Co. iJCSsfI
Smart apparel at Hoover’s for metr.
Read the new ad. today.
Ladles’ spring coats, dresses and *
millinery arriving daily from Nesfej
York at Penney's;
Much Building in Charlotte Last
Year.
Charlotte, Jan. 12—Charlotte’*
| building program for the .city: and
immediate vicinity for the . year of
1925 was nearer $11,000,000 rather
than the $7,000,000 which was the
approximate total of permit# issued
in the city during the past yeqr, ac
cording to a survey of Dale Adding
ton, representative of F. W. Dodge
Corporation.
Mr. Addington, who is making *a
survey of the building and construc
tion operations for the [last year in
cities, counties and State, gave these
figures to C. O. Kuestcr, business
manager of the Chamber of Com
merce, yesterday.
He said also, that the aggregate -
, total for building permits in the
State during the past year which
were $121,000,000, wns S2O.O<)O.(XJO:i
more than any other Southern state* ‘
, with the exception of Florida, ''•’•ej
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SAT'S BEAR SAXSI ' J
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Rain tonight, not quite so cold
central and west portions; Thursday!
t partly cloudy. Moderate southwest!
and west winds. ‘ 3*IPI