North Carolina Newspapers

„ * '■» ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI Col. William Mitchell Resigns Today From United States Army -- • - Whether or Not the Resig nation Will Be Accepted Has Not Yet Been Fully Developed. DECISION RESTS WITH PRESIDENT If Mitchell is Permitted to Quit Army He Will Ac cept Offer to Continue on Lecture Platform. W Washington, Jan. 27.—0**)—Col. William Mitchell resigned., today from the army. The letter, dated today, was ad dressed to the adjutant general of the army through the commanding of ficer of the Washington district. Whether the resignation will be accepted has not been fitly developed. Some precedents indicate htat in case of such withdrawals from the army it should be stated directly that the resignation is submitted' “for the good of the service.” Final decision will rest with Pres ident Coolidge who two days ago ap proved with modification the sentence of the court martial, sustaining the court in sentencing the colonel to five years suspension but reducing some what the court's finding that he be without pay or allowances during that period. It is the belief of Colonel Mitcheli’s friends that if he is permitted to step out of the army he will accept an offer to continue on (he lecture plat form, his crusade for a reorganisa tion of the national defense to give a more prominent place to develop ment of air power.' Should President Coolidge return the letter of resignation because of Colonel Mitchell's failure to say he is leaving “for the good of the serv j ice" there is considerable speculation as to where succeeding developments might lead. It is the impression of the colonel'3 intimates that 'he would stubbornly resist any effort to put him in po sition of saying that the arms serv ice would be improved bp his with drawal from them. Hia parties also fcoint out the right 4 the Resident to reftme to accept reelgi tlbn of an offer in peace Through precedents of many years standing,'“however, this right has come to be generally recognised and some war department o facials believe it would survive the tfwt of litigation, particularly in the case of an officer who is under sentence for insubordi nation and condpct prejudicial to good order and discipline. Three officials argue that Colonel Mitchell’s supporters would be at a great disadvantage in making a test iow in view of the fact ihat the colonel has long been a storm center in the army. Some years ago he eu geged in a serious controversy with his superiors and last spring he was refused reappointment as assistant j chief of the air service with the rank of brigadier general because officers over him regarded him as lacking iu the ability to co-operate in carrying out military policies. The came came to its climax, how ever, when he issued his statement nt San Aantonio last fall that the wreck of the dirigible Shenandoah was due to “almost treasonable” conduct of the aviation service. A court martial after weeks of tes tifying found him guilty of all charges of breach of discipline, preferred against him and the sentence was approved by the war department board of review before it came to the President. The resignation was announced to day by Representative Frank R. Reed, of Illinois, chief defense, counsel for Colonel Mitchell during the court > martial. Neither he nor the colonel L commented on the action which had fc. been momentarily expected since the President approved the court's sen tence with modification. For the time being comment also was withheld both at the war de partment and the White House. It expected, however, that a decision will bd announced shortly. The convicted air officer under a sentence of five years suspension from its army because of his criticism' of government aviation policiet, put the resignation in this single sentence: “I hereby tender my resignation as an officer of the United States army to take effect February 1, 1826.” Lenoir Man Acquitted on Charge of , Incest. I Kinston, Jan, 26.—Acqdittal of Wiley Watson, charged with incest, in Su|>erior Court here resulted from lack of evidence. Watson was free today after awaiting trial for several months. His daughter, for whope alleged disgrace Watson was arrested Inst fall, committed suicide following his indictment. Watson, a farmer residing in the Hull road section a few miles from here, denied the charges brought by county officers. Prominent Salisbury Man Diet at t County Home. Salisbury, Jan. 28.—John W, Kerr, who for many years was a prominent citixen of Salisbury and for sometime secretary to the late Charles Price, district attorney, died tonight at the county home, to which place be waa \ taken last night after he had fallen W on the courthouse steps. He had ft been in feeble health for soma time. The Concord Daily Tribune „ North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily 4 : ~ Ij ************** „■* GOV. SMITH SAVED * f! * FROM ATTACK FROM * * WORLD WAR VETERAN * * * IK Albany. N. Y., Jan. 27.—</P) * * The late arrival of Gov. Smith * L * at the executive offices in the IK capitol today is believed by of- * j IK ficials of the executive depart- IK IK ment to have saved him from IK - IK an attack by a shell-shocked IK g IK world war veteran seeking pay- IK ment of his bonus, who pene- IK IK trated the governor’s private of- IK IK fiee before being stopped by at- IK I. IK taches of the executive. IK 11 IK IK ************** * WANT TO STORE CANNED FRUIT IN WAREHOUSES e Ask That Warehouse Act Be Extcnd -8 cd to Be Public Warehouses. ’ Raleigh, N. 0., Jan. 27.—OP)—Cer -8 tain caOners of fruits and vegetables 1 hqve requested the United States De lutrtment of Agriculture to extend the ' federal warehouse act to public ware ’ bouses that store canned fruits nnd vegetables, the department has an - nounced . ‘ Whether or not this can be done will depend largely uppn the inter ; c»t shown and the demafld made by • the industry ns a whole, the depart ment says, fanners who have asked ’ to have the warehouse act expanded to 1 canned fruits and vegetables, it is ex -1 plained, believe such action would tend to stabilize prices by facilitating ; orderly marketing. They believe ! steadier markets would be created not only for the canned goods products, but also for the farmers’ raw muter | ials. “Markets for canned fruits and vegetables have been more or less de moralized at times, declared H. S. | Yohe, in charge of the administration 1 of the act, “due to inndeqnate financ ing of the large surpluses and packs 1 in recent years. The pack last year was one of the largest in the his tory of the canning industry. THE COTTON MARKET Market Showed a Tendency to gag , " Agato Today. ■ New York, Jau. 27.— OP) —The ent ‘ tom marker showtsf a to-Sag off again early today. Liverpool made a fairly steady showing and the local market opened steady at unchanged prices to a decline of 4 points. Con siderable trade buying which was at tributed to price fixing was supplied on the initial figures and the market showed net losses of about 2 to 5 points nt the. end of the first hour, May selling at 19.44 and October at 19.07. Fair business was reported early but much of it was in the way of switching from old to new crop monthß and prices fluctuations were narrow enough to suggest a fairly ev en division of orders. Private cables reported liquidation and hedge selling in Liverpool. Cotton '. futures opened .steady March 20.78; May 10.47; July 18.85; October 18.10; December 17.85. PARIS REFUSES TO LENGTHEN THE SKIRTS Undisturbed by the Report That New York Has Decreed Than Logger. Paris, Jan. 27.—OP)—The Paris dress-making world refused to have its equanimity disturbed by reports that its New York brethren have decreed that skirts must be longer. “If New York failed in the desper ate attempt it made during the World War when we were handicapped in a thousand ways, to usurb the position of Paris, we see no reason to fear the present offensive,” said one author ity. “believe me, the Parisienne long will remain the queen of fashion.” One Paris newspaper character ises the alleged attempt of New York modistes to assume the dictatorship as an act o f’outrecuidance” and the dic tionary describes the word as “au dacity, presumption, overweening." DEATH OF ROBERT STUART AT PINEHURST , Waa Former Treasurer of the Quaker Oats Company.—Died of Heart At tack. New York, January 27.— : (A>)—The death of Robert Stuart, formerly ' treasurer of the Quaker Oats Com pany and father of John Stuart, , president of the company, nt his win | ter home at Pinehurst, N. C., was an , nounced today at the offices of the Quaker Oats Company. Mrs. Stuart died yesterday of heart | attack. The body will be taken to : Chicago tomorrow. Mr. Stuart had , been ailing for several days and liad : gone to Pinehurst last week for his | health. i Credit Granted Russia by Ford. . Moscow, Jan. 27.— The Soviet news papers today announce the conclus ion of a contract between the Bovlet t Government and the Ford Company for 12,000 tractors, on nine months' , credit. The papers express elation ov t *r the news, declaring it a great 80- , 1 vlet achievement in the„Unlted States. ,1 They also voice satisfaction that i the Ford Company demanded' no guar -1 an tees on behalf of the Russian offl -1 cial institutions but was satisfied 1 with a mere agreement concluded with ,|the Am torg Trading Corporation. Experiment r | > I fHffl r P KH t & ■* #lßl lC: WBm >' K M I K §■ K I l A Janitor by t take, married Mrs. |PBSj3" [ Elise D Sears to J LgM ' Juan Felix Bran ” des. both of San Francisco. Si the - wedding wasn't le- ■ gal. They remar- " ; tied, bur a few j ’ days later Brand** i 1 got an annulmem IKjf if ’ 1 on the ground that Mv/i Mrs Sears conttrt. HRj; ered him only as |l»il I » an 'experimental- {fgtj&y husband. J e ■fc-ieir 1~ ' ' - FRENCHMAN STUDYING THE UNITED STATES e y- - Just Now He Is Studying Conditions 1 in North Carolina. Raleigh. N. C., Jan. 27.—OP)— I Most people in Europe know practi > rally nothing about the Southern part -of tile United States, except they have I a hazy picture of the South as it was ; prior to the Civil War. and they know > that this section has a large negro pop t illation, said Professor Desire Pas , qiiet, of the University of Paris, to - day. Tlie French teacher is in the TJnit- I ed States making a study of condi tions in this country, preparatory to . writing the second and third volumes 1 of his histotry of the United States. - He is making a study just now of 1 general economic and agricultural and ■ industrial eonditiotns and practices in - North Carolina. Professor l’asquet, who specializes in history and economics, stated that lie believed bimself to be, probably, the only professor in a continental , educational institutional teaching a course in American history. There is . no satisfactory history of this coua- I rt ls-J In tie French language, 4tT StoG < . ed. ’ I Referring to the modernist-funda- I mentalist controversy in this country. 1 . and discussion of the theory of evolu- 1 tion, the French professor referred to 1 1 tlie Scopes trial in Dayton, Tenn., ; remarking that: I “If a law to prohibit the spread of ; the theory were proposed in France, I even the most ultra-conservative ele- 1 ment would laugh. They would sim ply refuse to take such n proposal se ■ riously.” , There is a general knowledge of . the northern part of the United States in France, but of the South almost nothing is known, Mr. Pas , quet said. FATE OF TWO CREWS 1 IS STILL IN DOUBT Little Can Be Done Because of the ' Storm Which Has Raged Several 1 Days. ' New York, Jan. 27.— OP) —The fate 1 of 54 men, members of the crews of the British freighters Antione and , Lariftan, which have been in dis -1 tress in a storm at sea for three . 1 days still is in doubt today. Six men of the Lariftan were res cued yesterday by the German liner I Rreman, leaving 24 aboard. The United States nier Preeident Roose velt, which lost two of its crew in an effort to aid the Autione, was still standing by today. Five of the dozen passenger liners which are battling toward Atlantic : ports, from one to two days late in the teeth of the storm, reached port yesterday. They were the Tran sylvania, Doiio, Giuseppe Verdi, Mt. 1 Royal and Regina. The Leviathan and Columbus are ' due today and the AqUitania and France tomorrow. , Here’s the African Yiew About AQ This Evolution Business. London, Jan. 26.—The Rev. R. H. C. Graham, Baptist missionary who spent 37 years in lower Africa, has returned with accounts of a race of ‘ Africans he encountered who believe that the monkey is descended from man. ’ “These evolutionists,” Mr. Graham said in a lecture before members of the British prenological society, “are ‘ the Batangi who hunt the chimpauze for food.” 1 The misaionary quoted a Mataigi | leader as saying to him: “In many ages past the ape’s an -1 cestora were monkeys. They go into 1 debt and made many enemies. 80 they ran away to the forest an-i re fused to speak. Ever since they have remained degenerate men. We - are better and prouder than the apes. - Therefore, we eat them.” t v Report That Judge Dunn Has Re 1' signed. Raleigh, Jan. 27.— (A*) —Word re - eeived here today was to the effect 1 that Judge Albion Duun, of the Sn t tierior court, bad resigned from the - bench. The report came from Green - villa, N. C., Judge Dunn’s borne. i At the Governors office it was Ira i possible to confirm the reported res ignatiun. CONCORD, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1926 Smith Honors Requisition to Send Hayes and Anderton Back to State ... Albany, N. Y„ Jan. 26.—Governor Smith today honored requisition ]H pers from Governor Moi.ean. of North Carolina, seeking pxtradition of Tlios. H. Hayes, president and general man ager. and Itaymoud J. Anderton, viqr president and treasurer of tlie defunfft Fisheries Products Comiuiny. The defendants were indicted th Brunswick county. North Carolina, on charges of misrepresentation ill sale of stock tof the company and con spiracy. Southern Gentlemen Will Also Be Named in Cane. Raleigh, Jan, 26.—Governor A) Smith’s purpose to send back from New York Tlios. H. Hayes and Ray mond G. Anderton, president and treasurer of the Fisheries I‘rod nets Company, to stand trial for false pre tense and conspiracy to cheat and de fraud. makes the way for the most in teresting North Carolina case in fe long time. The Yanks, who are charged with lifting about $7,000,060 of cash from North and South Carolinians, are fag no means the only prominent indiyia- j nals who'are mixed up with the gngjj doise fraud, real or alleged, gotw fine old southern gentlemen are down there in both states frightened half to death. The trial will not oniy bring out their names; it will drag them SAYS KILLING WAS ACT OF STLF-DEFENSE Zeb Darnell Testifies That Hinson At tacked Him.—Evidence in the Case Completed. Charlotte, Jan. 26.—Zeb Darnel], prominent young farmer of the Pinc ville section, went on the witness stand in his own defense this after noon in Superior court here and told a jury that he acted in self-defense when he shot and killed Joseph Hin son, 35, former postmaster at Pine, ville. Trial of the case was started thl* afternoon nnd adjournment for the day saw all of the evidence before the jury. Argument of counsel will start tomorrow morning nnd a verdict is expected to be returned early in the afternoon. Selection of a jury required but a few minutes after Darnell was brought to trial. Solicitor John G. Carpenter announced that he would not ask for; a first degree murder ver dict but is fighting for a verdict of murder in the second degree. Darnell told the jury the trouble vrae started by Hinson, who struck him With- his fist and was advancing to strike him again when he pulled his pistol and fired. A number of -dWmctvt- witnesses were offend bit the defense. Rural police officers to whom Dnrneil surrendered immedi ately after the shooting testified for the state. Joe Ardrey. who said he attended the “party” nt Pink Mor row's home at which the fatal shoot ing took place, also was a state wit ness. He said he was so drunk that he knew little aboift what was going on. GIRL SAYS WORLD KEPT HER DOWN Amelia R. Martin, Formerly of Greensboro, Possible Suicide. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 20.—Amelia A. Martin, 32, formerly of Greens boro, N. C., has been reported missing to police by Mrs. Catherine Ellis with whom she has been living here. Miss Martin left on Saturday noon, saying she would be a school teacher in Ocean City, N. J., Mrs. Ellis said. Yesterday Mrs. Ellis received the following letter from Miss Martin; “When you get this I will be gone. You have been more than good to me but I cannot go any longer. I have tried and tried all my life to do right and the world with its cold, hard hand, has just kept me down.” ”1 cannot go on now. It is the end. My heart is jusf crushed. Re member me as the girl that you have found me to be. ■ I am crushed and I cannot get up again. I will go away and die alone.” “Goodbye. Do not worry over me. My insurance will bury me.” Investigation revealed that there is no teacher in Ocean City by the name given by Miss Martin to Mrs. Ellis, Miss Martin was active in church work, being a choir singer ami a I Sunday school teacher in a West Philadelphia Baptist Church. Aurora Borealis Trips It With Elec tricity. New York, Jan. 26—The Aurora Borealis kept up a ghost dance of telegraph wires over the entire coun try today and still was going strong tonight. Constant interruptions from the arctic phenomenon were reported to night on ail wires out of New York as far wast as San Francisco and south to New Orleans and into Texas. Interruptions were spasmodic hut had been coming without cessation since shortly after 11 o’clock this morning. Veteran wire chiefs said the demonstrations penetrated farth er into the south than had any other in the past 25 years. The interruptions lasted from a few seconds to seven and eight minutes, during which the sounders ticked and jumped off flashes of weird as spook messages from the unwelcome visitor. Ozbony. Wood Knows Nothing of the Charges Against Him. Havana, Jan. 27.— OP) —Osborne Wood, son of Major General Leonard Wood, at the Hotel Biltmore today, said be knew nothing of the charges against him of passing worthies* checks in Florida and declared that he would go up immediately to Palm Begch to straighten out matters. t as defendants into the state courts. Although these New Yorkers were rated more highly as slickers than their North Carolina brethren, it was the old hometown stuff that put the thing over., Tlie roster of eminent Tar Heels who gave their support to what is alleged to be the greatest swindle iu North Carolina's history, is fear fully and wonderfully made. Solicit or Woodus Kelltim and J. C. B. Eh ringlmus, who worked up tlie ease, have the North Carolina men well numbered. But there have been no ar rests or indictments against these Tar Heels. There were many easterners who charged that they were swindled, but who believed honestly that because Governor A1 Smith is a member of the Roman Catholic Church and Broth ers Hayes and Anderton also are. there wasn't a chance to get these birds here. Everybody that knew Governor Smith had more faith in him than that, and the departments in Italeigh get the message that there , wasn’t n ghost of a chance for Hayes ; ami Anderton to escape. There is a $6,000,000 federal suit ! against Hayes and his associates but it is purely civil. North Carolina hopes to have its criminal matter ad judicated before the civil case is tried. JOHN M. SLATON TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR AGAIN • His Commutation of Leo Frank’s ! Death Sentence Roused Storm in Georgia. , Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 26.—John M. • Slaton, twice governor of Georgia, I whose commutation of the death sen • fence of Leo M. Frank in 1015 caused I nationwide comment, will enter the > coming race for governor only out of ■ a “conviction of duty for public serv • ice,’’ he told the Associated Press relative to rumors that tie will be a t, candidate. ■ Frank's conviction of the murder of > Mary Pkagan, a girl worker in the ' | pencil factory of which he was super ; iptendent, and the upholding of the 1 i sentence by the Supreme Court of the i United States, was followed later by r the commutation. Frank was taken ’ i from the State prison farm and 1 lynched, and threats against Slaton l [ caused him to call out State troops . to preserve order, ( i At the end of bis term Mr. Slaton and his family left the state for a < time and since then he has been out < of politics, but yesterday Mr. Slaton, commenting on the discussion of his i candidacy, said that many friends and < r Several “influential newspapers’’ in I •the. state have insisted thet he run i Jot; governor again. ‘’All such pres- i sure,” be added, "is without sugges- > tion or encouragement on my part,” CHARGED WITH CRIME ] AGAINST YOUNG GIRL , i Charlotte Boy Bound Over to Next i Term of Mecklenburg Court. \ Charlotte, Jan. 25-—Knox Brown, j 16-yenr-old white youth of Chad- ( wick-Hoskins Mill, arrested here sev- j eral dayß ago, charged with abusing a 12-year-old girl, Jessie May Hicks, ; of Chailotte, was held for a higher , ' court today by Magistrate Mangum. ( The hearing was held behind closed doors. The magistrate remanded the . ,boy to jail until the next term of | criminal court. Zeb Darnell, Mecklenburg county j man, will be arraigned Tuesday in . Superior court on the charge of murdering Joseph P. Hinson, post master at Pinevilic, in a brawl last thanksgiving night. ‘ Cases agninst Dr. C. S. Britt and Buford Robertson, both of Charlotte, charged with manslaughter in con nection with the killing of Miss j Ruby Helms, of 130 Syuvanin ave nue, in an automobile accident, will 1 be called for trial when court con- * venes Wednesday- YOUTH GETS FREE RIDE USING PISTOL ' Taxi Driver Compelled to Drive a ' Young Man to Greensboro. Greensboro. Jan. 26.—J. H. Smith, . Danville taxi driver, was compelled 1 by a youth about 18 years of age witfi ' a pistol to drive him to- Greensboro this morning and was robbed of his pockotbook and watch. Smith re- ] • porting to the police here, said that ' he was approached by the youth and hired to make the trip to Schoolfield, I Va. The boy sat in the rear seat. - At Schoolfield he thrust a pistol in Smith’s bndk and ordered him bo drive to Greensboro. They passed j , througli several towns, among them ' Reidsville, with the youth presaing 1 the muzzle of the gun against Smith. 1 Near the Proximity Mill here on I the edge of the city, the young fellow ' alighted from the car and told Smith 1 to drive on. '• With Our Advertisers. 1 The auction sale at W. G. Correll’a 1 . Jewelry Store will close next Satur- 1 , day night. Sales at 2:30 and 7:80 I each day. Free valuable prizes at ! every sale. Buck’s improved oil range—no ’ smoke, no ashes to take out. Sold by 1 , the Concord Furniture Co. on a poa- 1 itire guarantee to cut your fuel bill | in half. Phone the Sanitary Grocery Co. 1 for anything in canned goods. See j new ad. today. Watch for the opening announce -1 ment of the millinery department of Robinson’s. Take advantage of the safeguards I I the Citizens Bank and Trust Co. of . fers as your executor or trustee, i rl > Eyeglasses enable about BO per i - cent, of our business and professional < 1 men to continue working after mid- < dle-age has been reached. ’ She’s Holding Book i|| ; |Sj • >*■ ■ J Mias Ruth Kraner oi Cincinnati is holding a hook that cost sßooo—a copy H U!w Gl^ U -" owned b > John G. Kidd, finished in a French Levant binding, with a hand-carved and embossed cover that ia aet with 29 precious stones. All the pages in the book are hand-lettered. NO DOGS AND SLEDGES IN WILKINS’ FLIGHT TO ARCTIC Expects to Disprove That the Dog Is “King of the Arctic.” Detroit. Jan. 26.—( A> )—The conten tion of Captain Donald MacMillan that “the dog still is king of the Arc tic," is one of the things Captain George H. Wilkins, avitor, explorer and photographer; expects to disprove when he takes off in March from Point Barrow, Alaska, on an aerial dash info the unexplored regions of the Arctic basin. Confidence in his ability to “live off the ice” is responsible for Captain Wilkins’ decision to make the expe dition the lightest equipped that ever essayed a journey into the Arctic basin. Where others have taiken sledges, dogs, huge food supplies and at her paraphernalia, the Wilkinß par-, ty will carry gasoline, the latest nav igation '.instruments, sun compass, rifles, ammunition, a supply of food and a “nigisk.” The last named instrument is close ly relnted to the food supply, for it is the means of retrieving seal shot to replenish the Polar larder. Literally, it is a set of hooks at the end of a rope. "Living off the ice,” in Cap tain Wilkins’ estimation is a simple procedure, so simple, that his supply of concentrated food will be sufficient for less than a week. What he hopes to prove is the ex istence of land in the vast unexplored area from Siberia and Alaska toward the “top of the world.” A point 800 miles distant in a straight line will be the first objective of the expedition when the members on two Fokker monoplanes hop off from Point Barrow. It is here, at 83.50 North and 160 degrees west, that science has established the loca tion of the so-called Ice Pole, or Pole of Relative Inaccessibility. The second objective point in the flight will be the landing, homeward bound, at Spitzbergen, 2,100 miles from the take-off at Point Barrow. This will take Ike expedition as its flight has been mapped, across the Geographical Pole. Should land be sighted on the dash from Point Barrow to the Ice Pole, Captain Wilkins proposes not to land, but to turn about and return to his Alaskan base, there report his discov ery and with a second plane go back to the discovered land. Claiming it i for the United States, Captain Wilk-j ins and his party will explore and, chart the new land and then proceed I to Spitzbergen. Failing to sight land on the initial J dash. Captain Wilkins will essay a 2,1000 mile non-stop flight over the; Geographical Pole to Spitzbergen. New College Buildings Are Now Tak ing Shape. Greensboro, Jan. 27.—The new au dtorium and the new education build ing, started last fall at North Caroli na College, are gradually taking shape, although the work has of late been slow because of bad weather. The walls of both structures are now rising and the big job of handling the steel has started at the auditorium. According to expectation, the educa tion building will be finished first, probably in time for the buitihng to be used in the fall. The auditorium will represent an expenditure of about $400,000 when it is finished, and the education building wifi cost about $250,000. The two structures were started as a result of the appropriation of $650,000 by the last general assembly to be used for building purposes. The main au ditorium will seat about 2700 people when it ia finished. The educattion building will be the home of the train ing school, which now occupies Curry building. Pennsy Did Not Increase Dividend 4. Rate. Philadelphia, Jan. 27.—0P1—Re ports that the Pennsylvania Railroad might increase its dividend rate prov ed untrue today when the regular quarterly dividend of 1 1-2 per cent, was declared. “OUR SUNDAY GANG” TO ' BE ORGANIZED SUNDAY ; Court Officials and Other Officers WiU Be Chosen at Meeting at the Y. M. C. A. i Those 77 boys of the city, who last ■ Sunday nffliated themselves with "Our i Sunday Gang,” an organization spon ’ sored by the Concord Y. M. C. A., and • endorsed by most of the ministers of i the city, wil gather at the Y. M. C. A. 1 Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock to eleet officers of their organization and welcome new members. ' At their meeting last Sunday each i boy present decided to meet again ■ Sunday and to take another boy to ’ the meeting. It is expected that at ' least 150 boys will attend the Sunday t meeting. i Officials of the court, before which i truant members of the gang must xe ■ port, are among the chief officers to • be chosen. When a member of the, Irgrtng breaks one Os the rules of the organization he is to be taken before the eourt for trial and punishment. ; Tlie eourt must decide whether or . not the youngster had a reason for his , conduct. Boys joining the gang must prom • ice to attend Church and Sunday ■ School at least once each Sunday bel tween now and July. Those who keep this record will be guests at a big summer camp to be operated by the gang in July. Those members who fail to keep up their attendance ex cept through illness, will not be tak en to the camp. Officials of the Y. M. C. A. state that practically every minister in the ; city has given his endorsement to the organization of the gang, and one Y official declared that the organization promises to be of great benefit to the city. “If we can get the boys to go to Sunday school and church every Sunday for six months most of them will keep it up,” be said. 1 INVESTIGATING DEATH OF ALABAMA CONVICT It Is Charged That He Whipped and Later Steam Wan Turned on Ilim. Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 27.—(/P) Investigation of the death of James I i Knox, Alabama convict, at Flat Top 1 prison on August 15. 1924, today ! shifted to a chemist laboratory. Sep arate tests are underway to determine II whether Knox died of poison self ad [ j ministered or whether he was scalded to death after a severe beating and his 11 body then filled with poison. | The body of Knox was exhumed on , | Monday night and an aufbpsy follow j ed. j Inquiry followed charges recently ! made by two former convicts and a • j former guard of Flat Top. It is | charged that Knox, who weighed 205 ■ | pounds and was of massive build, did not perform the usual tasks and that ■ lie was whipped and later steam was : turned on him to .hide the bruises caused by the beating. It is alleged that the steam caused his death. Shot in Breast in Salisbury Pool Salisbury, Jan. 26.—E. A. Gllles , pie. negro, is in the Salisbury Hos pital supposed to be fatally injured. . He was shot in the breast in a negro I pool room this afternoon. Ernest . Peeler, another negro, who fired the ’ pistol, made his escape. Mr. West Accepts Call to Albemarle. I Star, Jan. 26.—Rev. Richard L. . Weat, who for the past two years has , served the pastorate of the Baptist , Church at Star, Biscoe and Candor, tendered his resignation, which was , accepted Sunday. Mr. West has been called to the West Albemarle Bap tist Church, of Albemarle, II The Greeks gathered unto them selves many of the vices that come -1 with wealth. They went under when I j the more virile Romans struck them. - The Romans sent their strong men ’ into all the world. They gave to . j modern civilization ita system of laws and to our forbears the jury system. THE TRIBUNE PRINTS J TODAY’S NEWS TODAY] NO. 20 THE JURY FAILS 10 HEONTHETIt t UFCASEATIUE Was Charged With Mur der of Frank Fowler, Her “Unwed Husband,” in Union County w JURY WAS OUT 1 I NINETEEN HOfURS Indications Are That So licitor Will Present tftua Case Again to Jury at This Term of Court. Monroe, X. C., Jan. 27.—OP) —A ; mistrial was declared today in the case of Bertiia Case, alias Mrs. Ber tha Fowler, charged with the murder of Frank Fowler. “unwed mate.” Judge Stack dismissed the jury at 11:40 a. m. after they deliberated since 4:30 yesterday afternoon. Indications were that the solicitor would again present the case to a jury, possibly at this term of eourt. The woman told the jury that silo shot and fatally wounded Fowler last winter following a quarrel durihjg * - which he threatened her life. - -/ m Fowler, at a hospital, requested that she be not prosecuted and left liis estate to a son by the woman, who is 23 years old. Fowler was mar ried to another woman at the time he lived with Bertha Case. ’ j A brother of Fowler had testified however, that the woman did not kill, in defense of her life and child as she said. SUMMER SCHOOL AT ; NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE % To Offer Regular College Credit to PrSmary, Grammar Grade and High ~ School Teachers. Greensboro, N. C., Jan. 27.— UP) — Instruction was provided last year by tlie two summer sessions of the North Carolina College to 1910 teach ers and college students. And this L year the college management expects I to furnish instruction to a somewhat - ? larger group than that which lived on the campus last summer. -J3 Enrollment in the summer sessions up to this time has shown not only a remarkable, but a consistently s steady growth. In 1919, the enroll- | ment for the one session held at that j whs 3RO. The next’ yritfflyg ure jumped t 0067. In J 92&, the first summer session showed an en rollment of 1,031. The two sessions of that year brought the service of the institution to 1,339 teachers and students of college rank. In 1924, the total enrollment for the two ses sions was 1.600, and last year over. 300 more students received instrue-~ : tion than during the summer before. 1 The summer sessions of the present year, which are dated from June 14 to July 24, and from July 26 to Sep tember 3, will offer regular college' > credit for professional work' ’to pri mary, grammar grade and high school teachers. Last year students were enrolled jj from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, In- ’ diana. Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, D. C., and China. This year the management hopes t steoeeheahadoetaoinnunnu j hopes to see the college have an even wider influence through the work of the summer departments. State Supreme Court Adjourns J Raleigh. N. C.. Jan. 27.—0 f j—The v North Carolina Supreme Court ad- ■;! journed sine die this mornittg. 1& ; fore adjourning, however, the court I handed down a group of 28 decisioiiil !'ij on cases argued before it during the 1 fall term. The court will convene for .’ the spring term next Tuesday. * Blot on Sun Observed. Danville, Va., Jan. 26.—The ap- ; pearance of an unusually distinct | b’.ot on the surface of the sun was i visible here at 11:30 o’clock today 2| when the orb was viewed through a heavily smoked glass. The black dot ; appeared pronounced on the top right hand corner. Horse of Prince of Wales Drops Dead { Under Him. London, .Tan. 27. -UP) —The Prince i of Wales, horse dropped dead under him today while the prince was bunt- I ing at Melton-Mowbray with Belvoir hounds. Tlie Prince was not injured. Sole leather stuffed with grease* wears 20 per cent, longer than the fj same type of leather before treatment, d tests by the U. S. Bureau o* Stand- 'M ards .shows. Charles H. Gilbett, profess or zool- ,s , ogy at Stanford University, -has diz- : 3 covered that the scales of a fish show i| its approximate age. BArg BEAR SAYSt "I r“T m H 1 UN i 1 i Partly cloudy tonight and Thdlll day; moderate to frezh north wind's ’'vlH