North Carolina Newspapers

DISPATCHES -- ■ ' . ■' ’I i. = VOLUME HB.IIOI IMS HEVIEVOFISZSMD Jl FORECAST DF1928 ' . • %i ' North Carolina in the Year of 1925 Had a reriod of Great Industrial and , Commercial Activity OUTLOOK. FOR 1926 IS BRIGHT Good Roads Great Contrib utor to Our Prdsperity— Textile Depression Now Passing Away? Greensboro, N.-C., Jan. s).— OP) The Greensboro I)»iiy Record has made avnilnble to The Associated Dress a copy of an article Vritten by Governor A. W. MrLeafl, of North Carolina, giving n review of 11)25 and forecast of 1926: The article, which was written exclusively for The Greensboro Record, is as follows: "That, the year 1025 was in North Carolina n period of material advance ment and industrial and commercial activity is a faet within the personal experience and observation of every citizen of the state, whatever his resi dence. “Life among our people has never been more active and hopeful. In fact, the enterprise that a few years ago was exceptional has become a rule of conduct. There is not a city or town that does not feel in its community consciousness the impulse to grow and determination to improve its facili ties. As a consequence we have been experiencing an unpreeedeneted era of productivity. The average man has been making more money, spending more and investing more. What an old habit of thought is apt to denounce as a nfw habit of extravagance and luxury in reality means no more than a higher standard of living which in Itself entails and demands a higher standard of effort and efficiency. “Put in material terms we have produced in agricultural wealth the past year a cotton crop of more than a million bales, which will produce at a minimum price at least (100,000.000. “We grew pounds of tobacco, which will bring (88,000,000. “The total value of our crop* in im>. was (£18,661,000, making North Carolina tjle ninth State in the union . ' ■ fd ' in lumber and firewood, had an esti mated value of (00.000.0fsg and fur niture factories and oFhey wood-using industries produced manufactured ar ticles of an estimated value of (75,- 000,000. “From mines and mineral produced we derived during the year .1925 a value of more than (10,000.000. “Employing those natural resources of the farm, the forests and the earth, our great textile and tobacco indus tries. our furniture factories, knitting, woolen and silk mills and diversified industries contributed to the wealth of the state and to the employment of fts people the immense valne o| (750,- 000,000. “As the economical servant of this expanding industrial kingdom’there is Invested in the power industry approx imately (100,000,000, which has de veloped 600,000 primacy horsepower for hydro-electric energy. With aux iliary steam plants this water-power delivers to industry yearly more than a billion and n half kilowatt hours of electric power. “The magnitude of the state’s in dustry can perhaps be most tersely indicated by the (166.062,875 which we paid in federal taxes for the past year ending June 30, 1925, -a sum ex ceeded by the collections of only four of the greatest of all our states in. Industry and finance. New York, Pennsylvania. Illinois and Michigan. ‘To finance and support those in dustries and the legitimate activities of the quickened business, agricultural and commercial activities in the state, reports of the condition of state and national banks on September 26, 1926. followed that they possessed resources of (306.086,915 and (199,105;000,4e speetively, or a total of More than half a billion dollars. “The relation of the state govern ment to this material progress and success is both primarily' and aecond arily economic in character. “It is a knowledge common Opt only to North Carolina, but celebrated widely in the country at large that the basis of the new spirit in the state which haa produced what is air most literally s business and indus trial revolution is the highway system, which now totals 4.446.04 miles of completed roads, on whjch there has been expended in four years a total of (82,200.058 from state and other sources., Os this imempae Ohm the state has expended a total cS $69,512,- 258, which was of the total mileage of improved high ways. During the year 1925 this pro gram war pushed energetically with the construction of 1,544.97 miles of roads at a cost pf (26,276351 and sl,- 950.205 for bridges, making the grand total for the year (27.827,058. '"At present there are under construction by contract 816.54 miles of new T»ad.< involving expenditure of (14 659.5(2, cud this amount will be increased dur ing the year 1926 bjr from .10 to 12 (Continued on Pag* Bev«n) 1 ■ ”1 k. .. M' "’‘l*l x—* ; Ten Pages^Today V -T? The Concord Daily Tribune LAST OF FOUNDERS •OF ELKS DIES IT ELM HOSPUIL John F. “Dad” Norris, Be lieved to Be Last of “7 Jolly Corks,” Dies in West Palm Beach. HAD BEEN ELK FOR MANY YEARS He and Six Associates Are Said to Have Founded Elks From Organization They Started Alone. West Pnlm Reach. Fla., Jan. 20. (A>)—John F. “Dad” Norris, 80, be lieved to be the last of the “seven jolly corks,” an' organization from which sprung the Benevolent and Pro tective Order of Elks, died early to day at the Good Samaritan Hospital here. He had been a patient there since January 15th suffering from asthma and heart disease. “Dad" Norris, commonly known as “Grand daddy of the Elks,” came to West Palm Reach early in January on bis tour of the country in an effort to say “hello Bill” to every brother in the country. He was persuaded to remain here until the weather in the North, for where he was bound, moderated. Last week he was sized with the illness that ended in death. Tile aged Elk wns for 48 years a blackface comedian traveling with his wife, Lottie Norris. They were known on the stage as John and Lottie Bur ton. They made their last bow to an audience in 1914 after John had met with an accident. She died in 1921 and he Ims been visiting among the lodges of the country since that time. , Edwin M. Neil, secretary of the lo cal lodga No. 1532 was making an ef fort this morning to communicate with Dad's lodge at Providence, R. 1., for funeral arrangements. FILM MAKES JUDGE RIVAL TO,SOLOMON Child’s Custody to Be Decided by Women’s Emotions on Screen. Detroit, Jan. 19.—King Solomon’s methods, revamped for the movies, may*, adopted by Circuit Judge Vln cent M. Brennan yesterday as a WHtftr .ofl in iteiiitiiitf Which of two women he should award a three-))* ar-old girl. Instead of threatening to dismem ber the child with a sword, as did King, Solomon. Judge Brennan an nounced he would awnrd the child to neither Mrs. Julia P. Przybyla, nat ural mother of the baby Irene, nor Mrs. Irene Goosen, foster-mother, for merly Mrs. Przybyla's siter-in-law. Instead, he told the women, the ohild would be placed in an institution. At the very instant he made his statement, a moving picture operator trained his camera on the two women to record their emotional reactions on film. • Judge Brennan said he would em ploy psychologists to aid him in study ing the film and would award the child to the claimant whose features showed the greatest grief. - The case is on a writ of habeas corpus obtained by Mrs. Przybyla, who is seeking to wrest Irene from the custody of Mrs. Goosen. After hearing the testimony, Judge Brennan ordered the two women before liiyn and directed that the child be placed between them on a chair. Behind the judge stood two cameraman, while lights were trained on the two women and the child. j “I have decided to cpmmit this child to an institution,” Judge Brennan said- \ As the movie lights were flashed on Mrs. Goosen burst into tears and bend ing over, clasped the child In her arms. Mrs. Przybyla made no dem onstration. ( Martin Durkin Arrested In St. Louis. St. Louis, Jan, 20.—^(4*)—Martin Durkin, Chicago murderer sought Jn a nationwide search, was arrested by department of justice agents hete to day upon his arrival from San An tonio. Durkin admitted his. identity. Two revolvers were found his train drawing room. ’He was accompanied by a woman. 9 ' C This new Serial Story will begin in The Tribune Neat Thursday % .. • A North Carolina’s Trading Small City Daily Galve»ton Fire Causes |iyooo,Qoo Losß * J Property valued at more than (1. 4500 bales of cotton went up in smoke and four city blocks were minced veston, Tex. Four piers were burned,ooo,ooo wns destroyed when a-disastrous fire swept the waterfront at Gal do ashes. WANTS REHEARING ON ROAD DECISION Attorney General of Texas Asks Supreme Court for Rehearing on the Archer County Road Case. Washington, Jan. 20.—OP)—Attor ney General Moody, of Texas, today asked the Supreme Court for a re hearing in the Archer County case in which the court recenetly held that the organization of the road district No. 2 in that county was unconstitu tional. The decision of the court holding that in the organization of the road district was invalid because the proic erty owners had not been given notice and an opportunity to be heard, and there had been no legislative determin ation that their property would be benefitted by the local improvement, lias attracted wide attention through out tile eountry in its possible effect upon the creation of road improvement districts and wide interest was at tracted to the next move Texas might make. Attorney General Moody asked 4 the court to hold up its mandate until it acted upon his motion for a rehearing. MONTAGUE MUST DIE FOR CRIME ; "^•T an Attack on Deaf and Dumb Child at State Institu tion at Morganton. Morganton. Jan. 10. —Governor Mc- Lean today declined to commute the dentil sentence imposed in Burke county on Arthur Montague for an at tack on a deaf and dumb child of a State institution at Morganton. Mon tague isscheduled to die Friday. Montague, a* 22-year-old negro, was convicted in Burke County Superior Court at the June. 1925, term of court. Sentenced to die by electrocution, he appealed to the Supreme Court, which upheld Hie judgment of the lower court. Today's action by the gov ernor was taken to mean the end of hope for the negro and unless Mr. McLean for any reason should re verse his decision the negro will die Friday morning at 10:30 o’clock. Montague sent for Pardon Commis sioner Hoyle Sink this morning, the pardon commissioner said, and made the following statement to him: “I had hade some trouble with Joe Leatlierwobd and Lush Tate. Joe Jjeatherwood went with my wife be fore I married her. On the after noon before the crime was committed these two negroes and another negro and I -went to a dance in the country. Joe Leatherwood and Lush Tate gave! me something to drink, which I am! sure was doped. I have beep drink ing practically all my life and I have never .bad anything to affect me as that did. “£ did not know that I was in the room with the child until the proses-l sor shook me awake. I g :.esi I committed the crime. Ido not snow wliethet I did or not. I did not fully recover my sense until X was in the state prison. “X am 22 years was never in dicted before, was born in Blacks bear, Ga: I have neither father nor mother living. I bad always borne a 1 good reputation and I had spent most 1 of my life with white folks.” 1-. 1 Mrs. Ct M. Palmer, of Albemarle, la .. . j, Dead. Albemarle, Jan. 19.—Mrs. C- M. Palmer, of this city, died this morn ing about' 7 :30 o’clock after brief ill- from pneumonia. The news of her death was a complete shock to Albemarle, as she was one of the beat known and most universally loved women in the city. The fun eral will be conducted at the first Presby teriari church at 11 o’clock Wednesday 'morning Mrs. Palmer was a daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs- Archibald McQueen, her father having beOn a well known Presbyterian minister. She wasriforn in Robeson county. Protest) Against Petroleum Law Mexico City, Jan. 20.—G«—Several additional foreign oil companies have filed applications for. injunctions against the retroactivity) provisions of the new petnUeum law.. Altogether there have been 58 applications made for injunctions thus far. Chief L- A. Talbirt /if tbs local police* department, is completing his semi-annual report for 1925 now. wStfand made ppblic aa. soon as completed. CONCORD, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUAR MERCHANDISE SENT TO FOREIGN MARKETS Manufactured Cotton Predominates Among The Stote's Exports. Raleigh, Jail. 20.—(^)—Merchan dise amounting in value to (8,468.- 244 was shipped from North Carolina to foreign markets during t’ue three months ended September 30, 1925, ac cording to statistics released fqr pub lication tpdag by the United States department of commerce. Tlint figures represents an increase of nearly (500,000 over the exports from the state for the corresponding period in 1924, when they totalled (8.023.389, and gave North Carolina twenty-sixth place in the export race of the states of the union. Manufactured cotton continued to predominate among the state’s exports and shipments of that product total!-' ing (3.232.109 destined for foreign buyers left Nort'.i Carolina during the three- months. Cotton manufactures ranked second in importance with ex ports valued at (2.745,431; leaf to bacco was third with a valuation of (1.424 ,550, and wood and paper came! fifth with exports amounting to (217,- 376. Total exports from the United States for the third quarter of 1925 amounted (1,110,917,102. This is con trasted with (1.014.675,092 for the corresponding three-month period of 1924, an increase in the 1925 term of over (102,000,000, and is contrasted with (1,069,915,075 for the second three months of 1025, reflecting an increase of more than (47,000,000 this later difference representing somewhat seasonal fluctuations, says the depart- Iment. United States exports for the tiriw nine months of 1925 showed an in crease of (382.432,804 over the value of those for the first three-quarters of the. preceding year, ns seen in the comparative totals of (3.437,077,073 and (3,a54,6444.269. The first ten states in the order of their importance and the values of their foreign shipments for the third quarter of the year 1925 were: New York, 207,296,257 ; Texas. (134.422,- 573; Pensylvnnia, (78.726,781; Illi nois. (63.879,126: Michigan. (57,898.- 527: California, (57.864.096; Louisi ana, (56,478,694; New Jersey, (54.- .327,461: Ohio, (39,647,750, and Min nesota, (30,753,459. The figures are based primarily on through bills of lading, it is pointed out by Dr. Julius Klein, director of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, under whose charge they are compiled, and, therefore, in the case of some states, releet but a pffrt of their total foreign trade, and for others include goods produced else where. GENERAL DAWES GETS REACTION WITH KICK j Senators Do Not Like Speech He Made Over Radio Tuesday Night. 1 Washington, Jan. 20.— (A 3 ) —Vice- President Dawes got a reaction with a kick in it today as soon as Senators had read a radio speech in which lie renewed last night his campaign for revision of the Senate rules, j Senator Reed, democrat, of Missou ri, supposing himself the particular target at which the Vice President’s remarks were directed, said he would leave’it to General Dawes’ own "sense of decency” whether he should have attacked him on the air when he could not reply. From his place on the presiding of ficer’s dias,‘the Vice President declar ed he had not referred to Senator Reed, but “to the Senator from New York” when he called attention to the injection of an old magazine article into tile record of the Senate at yes terday’s session while important leg islation was waiting for attention. Inferring that the reference must have been to him Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, aaid he “re sented” the vice president’s “anacqu rate atatement” of the cade. He had put into the record three'newspaper articles that appeared yesterday, he said but had not taken up he time of the Senate by having them read. Motion Picture Men at Charlotte. Charlotte, Jan. .20.— W) —Motion picture owners and exhibitors of the Clrolinas will be welcomed here to night in semi-annual gathering by l Mayor Moore, who will deliver a wel > coming address. Shate Senator A. i F. Sams, of Winston-Salem, will re t spond. i Saya Dempsey and Turner Will Meet. New York, Jan. 20.— W) —The Evening telegram says today that ne- I got iations are now nearly completed i for a heavyweight championship match , between Jack Dempsey and Gene s Tunney in July at Boyle’a Thrity s Acres, the Jeraey City arena con trolled by Tex Rickard. '2O, 1926 TAX BILL FORHLLY PRESENTED TO BODY Given to the Senate by Fi nance Committee.—An other BUI Will Be Pre sented Next Week. ■ • Washington, Jan. 20.— (A 3 )—The tax reduetion bill was formally pre sented to the Senate today by its finance committee. Chairman Smoot; however, had not completed the report on the compro mise measure worked out by the com mittee, and he said he would not ask the Senate to take up the bill before Monday. If a definite agreement had been reached by then for a vote on the world court the chairman has said he would hold up the bill until that time. THE COTTON MARKET Opened Barely Steady at Decline of 1 Points to Advance of 2 Points. Now York .Tail. 20.— OP) —The cot ton market oiiened barely steady to day at a decline of 11 points to an ad vance of 2 poults, near months being lower in response to disappointing Liv erpool cables and u renewal of near month realizing or liquidation. Later deliveries were influenced by the De partment of Agriculture report that more, weevils were in hibernation this year than at any previous time s'nee 1915. « The opening decline wns followed by quick rallies of several points on covering and foreign buying, but near month liquidation continued, and af ter selling up from 19.63 to 19.70, March reacted to 19.59, the market ruling about net unchanged to 18 points lower at the end of tile first hour. Selling of near months was accom panied by reports that there had been a falling off of spot demand in the eastern belt markets. Cotton futures opened fairly steady : March 20.30; May 19.60: July 18.98; October 18.10; December 17.90. With Our Advertisers. The prices for "The Bohemian Girl” at the Concord Theatre tomorrow night will be 50 cents, 75 cents and (1.50, plus tax. Tliis is an annual opportunity for Concord people. A beautiful 10-piece dining suite at the Concord Furniture Co. at a price you can afford. See cut in ad. elsewhere. Efird's will have their first 88 cent sale in 1926 beginning Friday, Janu ary 22nd. and lasting for thee days, Friday, Saturday and Monday. • If you join the Citizens Bank and Trust Co's. Christmas Club you can have (50 in the bank next Christ mas. Thh bridge tournament begins Fri day night at 8:30 o’clock at the M. & M. Club. Fifty cents a player. For the benefit of the Country Club. If you have foot troubles take them to Ivfy’s Store during the free demon strations oil Friday, July 22nd, and learn the true meaning of foot com fort. Free samples of Dr. Scholl’s zino-pads for corns. Dashing new spring coats at J. C. Penney Co’s, for (14.75. In the season’s best styles. The third annual January sale at Robinson’s is a real event. You will find at this store worth-while savings in .every department. The Yorfte & Wadsworth Co. has just received another ear of 20 gauge galvanized roofing. “Tulip Land” at the Concord Thea tre today for the benefit of the Par ent-Teachers’ Association, also a Paths Comedy, “High School.” Don’t fail to attend the January clearance sale of shoes at the Mark son Shoe Store. Big bargains. Union suits from (1.00 to (6.00 ,at Hoover's. Planes Off For Flight. Norfolk, Va., January 20. — OP) — Twenty-three of the twenty-five naval planes that will fly from here to Guan tanamo, Cnba, to participate in the joint manevuers of the Atlantic fleet hopped off at 9 :30 This innrnirtg. The other two, one of them that of the flight commander, were delayed by en glae trouble, but were expected to get away within an hour. Cool Shortage Roaches Serious Stag*, ms New Yorit, Jan. 20.-OV)— New' York city’s coal shortage situation reached stage today COTTON SPUING DURING DECEMBER SHONEOimSE Industry More Active in December Than in Any Month Since Last-March, Census Bureau Reports. SPINDLE HOURS SHOW INCREASE Active Hours in December Totalled 8,271,576,487 or 1 an Average of 218 Per Spindle in Place. Washington, Jan. 20. — VP) —Cotton spinning was more active during De- ’ eember than in any month sinee April i last year, the Census Bureau's month- ] Ijr report today Indicated. i Active spindle hours for December numbered 8,271,487, or ah average of 218 per spindle in place. Compared 1 with 7,8333,792,613 or an average of 207 [ter spindle in place for Novem ber last year, and 7.816,590.215 or an average of 200\for December a year ago. Spinning spindles in place December .31 totalled 37.885,488, of which 333.- t 000.874 were operated at some time i during the month, compared with 37.- 1 918,358 and 32,892,324 in November i test year, and 37,885„538 and and 32,- 661,949 a year ago. i The average number of spitidies op- I crated during December totalled 37.- t 683,720 or at 99.5 per cent, capacity I on a single-shift basis, compared with 36.417,612 or at 96.4 per cent, capac- • •ty in November last year and 34,- 241.240 or at !)0.4 per cent, capacity in December a.year ago. COACH BILL FETZER IS PAID GLOWING TRIBUTE He Was One of Most Able Coaches North Carolina Has Produced, Dr. Paschal Hays. Wake Forest. Jan. 19.—“1t is a matter of great pride to that North Carolina has produced a coach as great as ‘Bill’ Fetzer,” said Dr. G. W. I’asehal in an interview here today re garding the loss of Fetzer to inter collegiate athletics of the state caused by 'his recent resignation as head coach of athletics at the University. Dr Paschal, who was graduate man ager of athletics at Wake Forest for seven years, possibly knows the col lege athletic problem in this state better than any other man in the state connected with similar depart ments. He “grew up” with athletics at Wake Forest and for a long time lias made a study of the phase of col lege activity. It was when Bill Fetzer started his coaching career at Davidson Col lege that Dr. Paschal had occasion to come in contact with the Carolina coach. At that time Wake Forest had hardly heard of a full-time coach who took all athletics of the college in ehnrge and the graduate manager was responsible for getting out tenms for the three major sports. Dr. Pns ehal sent teams against Fetzer while tlie latter was at Davidson, and later at State College. His connection with Fetzer in this manner and his ob servation of the kind of work the lat ter produced while at the University caused Dr. Paschal to Consider his recent resignation a great loss to in ter-eollegiate athletics in the state. Following is the statement made by Dr. Paschal regarding the resignation of Fetzer as head coach of athletics; at Carolina: “The announcement of the intended ! resignation of Coach ‘Bill’ Fetzer of j the University of North Carolina should not be allowed to pass with j out a.-word of recognition of his great i service to the cause of inter-collegiate athnetics in our state. “While I was faculty manager of athletics at Wake Forest during the year 1914-21. our teams met. the teams he had trained successively at David son, the state A, and E., and the University. I have been a close ob server of his work since. I never knew him to bring an untrained team <fn the field. It is a matter of grea; pride to me that North Carolina has produced a coacli as able as he. Whether our university athletic teams played north or south or against their veteran foe, the University of Vir ginia, I .shared a feeling which I am sure was somewhat general, that the honor of our state was safe in their hands ,since Fetzer had coached them. “One thing further, I never knew Fetzer on the field or off of it to be anything less than a Christian gen tleman. He never resorted to a dis honorable act to' win a game; he was hever insolent in victory; he never uttered recriminations in defeat. And he was as able as any coach I ever knew, to pass on his own spirit to the teams he trained)*’ Stevens Speaks in Charlotte, it Charlotte 1 , Jan. 19.—OP)—Henry L. Stevens of Warsaw, commander of the North Carolina Division of the American Legion, today made the principal address. here at exercises commemorating the birth anniversiw iesdof Lee and Jachpon. 'The program was given at Trinity Methodist Church under the auspieep of the United Daughters of the Con ■ __ ■ Stanislaus Zbyszko is of the opin ion that a qyrestier is better wrest ling barefoot, as the bare feet give a Wore natural grip on the. mat than EXPLOSIII RESULTS IN SEVERAL DEATHS AT COM-' _____ '• • i Three Negroes Killed Out right and Five Others JSurt.—White Man Ex pected to Die. DYNAMITEWAS EXPLOSION CAUSE * Was Being Carried on a Track Through the City When the Truck Caught j Fire in Some Way. C >rnl Gables, Fiji., Jan. 20.— UP) — Three negroes dead, one white man momentarily expected to die. and live negroes injured was tile toll of a dy liamite explosion here early today. The dead arfi Earl Mays, negro, Willie Tolbert, negro, and nil unidenti fied negro. The injured include I>nvid F. Cox well. white. The explosion occurred' while a truck lead of workmen were riding through Corn! Gables to Homestead. In some maner the machine caught fire and ignited the gasoline tank which exploded, and a moment later caused the explosion of a f>ox of dynamite on the truck. , Tlic unidentified negro was killed outright. The two dertd known ne groes were thrown high into the air and. died shortly afterward in a Miami hospital. ACTIVE WORK FOR THE MOUNTAIN PARK FTND Campaign Thronghotfi the State Being Vigorously Prosecuted. Charlotte, Jan. 20.—Active work will be done this week in all parts of central North Carolina in tile in- i serest of the campaign for funds for the purchase of lands In the Great Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee for a nntiouad {park. In Charlotte a meeting of the cam paign committee for the city has been called for Wednesday at 6:30 by W. C. Wilkinson, a member of the execu tive committee, named by President T. L. Kirkpatrick of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, to assume charge of the city campaign. Thirty-1 five men and women, prominent | in the business, professional and soeinl life of the city have been asked to nttend this dinner-meeting to prepare plans for a canvass Os the city for the $50,000 which ChaHotte has been asked to contribute to the fund for the purchase of the park lands. The executive committee, appointed this last week to direct the local campaign, is made lip of ex-Governor Cameron Morrison, Judge John J. Parker, of the United States circuit court of appeals : Mrs. .T. A. Yar obrough. president of the Women’s Club of Charlotte: Robert Lassiter, and Mr. Wilkinson. State Senator Mark Squires, of Le noir. chairman of the North Carolina park cojnmission,' who has been here several days this week in connection with the park campaign, plans to visit a number of cities of tile Piedmont this week in the interest of the erec tion of local sentiment for the park fund campaign. He will- visit Wins ton-Salem, Greensboro and High Point on Monday, and on Tuesday will call at Lexington, Salisbury and Albe marle On Wednesday he plans to | see iho friepds of the national park i project at Gastonia. ». I Two meetings have been arranged I for Gastonia on Thursday. At noon j L. W. Sprague, director of the ouin | paign. will talk to. the members of j the Gastonia Rotary Club, and in the j afternoon will confer with the execu , live board of the Gastonia Chamber I of Commerce. A series of meetings are being ar ranged at which Superior Court Judge T. D. Bryson, who is one of the most eloquent and forceful pro ponents of the park, will speak. Judge Bryson is holding court all week at Troy, and during the week he will | speak to the Citizens of that town, j and also address meetings at Waynes- I I boro, Rockingham and Albemarle, the i dates for which have not yet been ar -1; ranged. ■ Annual Clearance Sale at Parks-Belk Co.’s The store of the Parks-Belk Co. will be closed Thursday, January 21, get ting ready for their Annual Clearance Sale, one of the biggest trade events of i the year. The doors will open at !> o'ci -k sharp Friday morning. One spent for the opening will be a lot of men's 75 cent work shirts for only 25 cents while they last. Their buyers have just bought at mill-end sale 200,000 yards of fine cotton goods, which they are of- sering to theirj customers at a big , saving, 'ln this paper toduy you will find two pages of bargains listed, and ; you will find many more awaiting you. ‘ Goes to Jail to See His Friend, Re- Mains. * Spartanburg, S. C„ Jan. 19.—While curiosity may have killed many n cat it a man into jail here. Adrian Coggins had been arrested on a charge of house-breaking and larceny. < .Coggins, Wilson Harris and Clyde Whitaker ' were accused of breaking into the‘home of Albert Mc- Kinney near Zion Hill. Whitaker, anxious to find ofit how Oofiflns was : getting along, visited the county jail. i Officers recognized' him caul arrested .in.— I.—a—— ii i'<^ THE TRIBUNE PRINTS TODAY’S NEWS TODAY i NO. 14 CHARGES HIDE 1 P*' T JUDGE 111 \ f Federal Judge Harry B. Anderson Appears in 4 Person to Answer All the Charges. FALSIFYING~THE I RECORDS CHARGED Charges in Form of Affida vits From Rcrsidents of Memphis.—Charges Are % All Denied. Washington, Jan. 20.Ms)—Feder al Judge Harry 11. Anderson, of the western district of Tennsee, is ehaxged a ’with falsifying records in cases petwl- --J ing before him. Specifications for investigation of his acts contained the 1 charges and were placed before a -J Senate judiciary sub-fommittee. The charges are in the form of as- Admits from residents of Memphis,' and revolve largely around prohibition & eases. , Judge Anderson is serving a reees's appointment and action on his nomination was held up at the re quest of (H. Houston, of Tennessee, M formerly ns assitnnt secretary of com- jj meree. Judge Anderson was present in per- .i’Sj son and was represented by four at- J torneys. He also was charged with failing to administer punishment in “the man-, nor, grade and degree required by law in the particular cases then pending for consideration, and in failing to uphold the law' and properly adminis ter the law in cases pending before him.” j Another charge is that Judge An- , derson "is without legal training and 1 legally incompetent and morally in capable of properly discharging the ' duties of the high office” to which he | lias been appointed. The allegation also is made that Judge Anderson was not a resident of the western district of Tennessee when fie was appointed by President | Coolidge. PERSIAN WOMAN IS 146 Remarkable Longevity Revealed by First Census. il Jerusalem, Jan. 20.—The first cen- - sus in the history of Persia, which has just been completed, reveal* usual longevity among the peasantry of the country. In the village of' Mochin, at the foot of the Alwand Mountains, lives a woman named | Mina, who is 140 years old and has. a son 117. The hardy mountaineers, living in extreme poverty in ramshackle huts, S live, principally on bread and milk, with meat a rare article of food. A The census was undertaken by the f order of the Shah when Arthur Mils paugh, the American administrator of Persian finances, confessed liis ina bility to estimate tfie revenlie that the government might realize because he lacked statistics on the popula tion. PIEDMONT TOWNS TO PERFECT ORGANIZATION Looking Toward Mutual Interests And ' Industrial Development. , | Salisbury. Jan. 20.—UP)—Repre sentatives from thirteen Piedmont towns, headed by Clarence Kuester. ; general manager of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, met here to day for the purpose of perfecting an organization looking toward mutual in- \ terests and industrial development of this section of the state. A luncheon was held at 1 o’clock after which the meetmg went into ex ecutive session to complete the organ ization and to draft plans for helping develop Piedemont North Carolina. i Funeral of Dr. I.inney Tomorrow. Charlotte, Jan. 20.—(A*)—Funeral services for Dr. R. Z. Linney, aged i 50, prominent specialist who died sud -1 denly abcut 1.10 a, m. Wednesday at his home. 12 Central Avenue, will be conducted at Taylorsville Methodist Church Thursday afternoon. The funeral party will leave the late residence Thursday at 9a. m. apd will go by motor to Taylorsville. Rev. R. H. Daug'aerty, pastor of Haw l thorne Lane Methodist Episcopal Church Mr. Linney attended, will officiate. Muscle Stioals Question Up Soon. Washington, Jan. 20.— UP) —Thq Senate agriculture committee today agreed to take up the Muscle Shoals question on January 30 and decided whether hearings will be held ou the House resolution which would create a joint Congressional committee to ac cept bids. , _. ■ ■v-wry . SAT’S BEAR SAYSt ! zm 'll * 1 njlp and slightly warmer in extreme west /;