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VOLUME XXVI
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ATTACK ON WOMAH
Only 16 Minutes Required
For the Trial of the Ne
, gro, Who Confessed to
the Charges.
TROOPERS GUARD
THE COURT HOUSE
Some Business in Lexing
ton Halted While the
Trial of the Negro Was
in Progress.
Lexington, Ky., Feb. 2.— OP) —Ed
Harris, negro, pleaded guilty here to
day to an nttack oh « white woman.
He was sentenced to be hanged Fri
day. .March sth, in Fayetteville coun
ty jail yard. The trial lasted exact
ly sixteen minutes.
It was one of the speediest trials
in the history of the county. Court
, was called promptly at 9 o'clock.
Prosecuting Attorney Maury Kemper
elected to try the defendant on'
charge growing out of his attaeltron
vUe woman here January 19th. Con
viction in this case carried the penal
ty of hanging. The charges against
the negro for the murder of Clarence
Bryant and his two children were not
called. '
Secluded in an armored tank and
surrounded by an armed convoy of
six motor trucks and passenger auto- 1
mobiles, Harris ,was whisked into Lex
ington today for trial. One thou
sand national guardsmen were on the
watch to prevent violence.
He was brought ’here from the
Frankfort reformatory, located at the
State capital, thirty miles away. Ad
jutant General J. A. Kehoe in tak
ing precautions from a possible at
tack on Harris’ life ordered one of
his officers. Lieutenant Coborn Gayle,
of Frankort, to walk beside the negro.
Gayle, of the same physical stature
as Harris, was blanketed as was Har
ris, and led the negro the short dis
tance from the walls of the reforma
tory io the waiting tank only fifteen j
feet away, and entered the armored
haven. Ttie territory around the re
formatory had been roped off for two
blocks and there was but little .pos-
I ho. negro
Immediately upon arrival here,
Harris was taken to the Fayette
county court house where he was said
by officers to be in-otafe keeping with
the thousand troopers on duty re
fusing admittance within a bounded
area of curious persons.
No tobacco markets or live stock
sales were held here today, civil and
military authorities prevailing on
I these industries to close for the day.
In keeping with this, interurbnn bus
and street car officials agreed not to
bring visitors into the city. Banks
and business houses in the restricted
arra plso were closed today. Private
automobiles'were stopped at the out
skirts of the city and turned away.
State* troops arrived during the
early hours of the -morning and when
citizens woke today they found mili
tary arm of the State thrown about
their city to protect its court of jus
tice.
Fifteen minutes after court con
vened he stood before Judge Stoll in
the packed court room and mumbled
“I brought it on myself.” He was
then sentenced to be hnuged. He
was taken away as surreptitiously as
he had been brought in early this
mohling from the Frankfort reforma
tory.
Outside, on every side, were Btate
troops; whippet tahks , commanded
street intersections; machine guns
bristled from every corner, and a
troop of rivalry was standing at at
tention in Old Cheapside, the market
ing place of Kentucky of other days,
within the shadow of the court houses
dome.
~ GASTONIA RUMOR SAYS
BRYSON MAY QUIT BENCH
Report ia Judge WHI Resign to Do
vote Full Time to Great Smoky
Park Campaign.
Owptonia, Fdb- I.—Dame rumor,
of the .political world, whispered
' here today that Judge Thad B. Bry
son, of Bryson City, one of the most
popl'ar and admired lawyers of the
North Carolina superior court
bench, may resign his position to de
vote his entire time to the great
Smoky Mountain park campaign
now being conducted throughout the
state.
Judge Bryaon was here last week
for a mass meeting. It ia reported
that be told Gastonia friends that
he was considering, leaving his court
duties.
4 . i — 1—
Explains Postponement.
London, Feb. 2.—OP)- I —Great Brit
ain was obliged to assent tq the de
sire of the majority in the postpone l
ment of. the preparatory disarmament
conference at Geneva, ’five govern
ments having asked that the meeting
be put off. Premier Baldwin made this
disclosure during debate on tbe speech
from the throne with which Parlia
ment was opened today.
Charges Wasteful Expenditures.
Washington, Feb. 2.—lP)-rWaste
ful expenditures have been made by
these -administering the army and
navy service, Representative Madden,
republican of Illinois, chairman of
b the appropriations committee, declar
ed today in the House.
The Concord Daily Tribune
* North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
Sons of the Black Panther ~
IM W
n»a black panther gets temperamental at an early age. Then two kitten,
ira Finn and Gentle, recently-born black panthers at the MUwTißcal
CONSTITUTIONAL, QUERY
TO BE RAISED AT TRIAL
Can a Policeman Take Key From
Man’s Pocket and Search Room.
Greensboro, Feb. I.—An interest
ing constitutional question will be
raised when H. K. Smith, truveling
man, giving his address as Raleigh,
is tried in municipal court here on
charge of possessing whiskey. The
case was docketed for trial today i
but when It was railed it was con
tinued until February 12.
- Smith was arrested Saturday
night Hvhen he drove his Nash sedan
into a iparked ear near a street
corner here. He was charged with
operating an automobile while in
toxicated. When he was taken to the
police station he was searched by the
policemen and a key to a hotel room
found in his pocket. The policeman,
accompanied by another, went to the
hotel room and searched it. and
found, they said, a pint of liquor.
Then n charge of possession of whis
key was made against the man. The
question that the municipal court
judge will be called upon to decide is
whether police can take a key out
of a man’s pocket and search a room
occupied by him, but owned by
another person, without a warrant.
Smith’s car was also token,to the
police station and searched . hut it
cManut be confiscated, for the chnr|e
of transporting liquor iu it cannot be
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HOUSE DECLINES TO
FOLLOW COMMITTEE
Despite Committee Objection It Votes
$200,000 For Pamphlets and Other
Data.
Washington, Feb. 2.— VP) —For the
first time in the present Congress,
the House today overrode its appro
priations committee in passing the
annual agricultural department ap
propriation bill, which now goes to
the Senate.
By a vete of 188 to 117 an amend
ment opposed by the committee was
adopted to provide $200,000 for the
distribution of pamphlets and other
formation on the diseases of horses and
cattle. (
The proposal for the pamphlets was
sponsored by Representative Jones,
democrat, of Texas, and was support
ed by practically the entire Demo
cratic membership, and a number of
republicans.
As approved, the measure carries
$128,500,000 for the various activi
ties of the agriculture department dur
ing the next fiscal year. Os this
amount, $80,000,000 ia for federal aid
to the states in road construction.
BOARD OF MISSIONS
MEETS IN NASHVILLE
Indications Are That 91,000,000 Need
ed For Mission Work WUI Be Se
cured Soon.
NashvlNe, Venn., Feb. 2.—GO—The
board of missions, Methodist Episoo
■ pal Church,'South, convened today at
Methodist headquarters with indica
tions that an additional million dol
lars asked for missions was in sight.
This is the first special session ever
held by the board, the business being
to fix the annual budget for mis
sions.
The necessity for the called ses
sion arose last May during the regu
lar annual meeting when it became
apparent that mission funds would
not permit the board to set a figure
for the next year’s work with the slow [
collections during the two years pre
vious made it apparent that the work
could not be conducted on the same
scale without involving the board in
debt larger than they could assume. |
Only Two-fifths Attend Sunday
i
Durham, Feb. 2.—Only two-fifths
of people of North Carolna are
m-mbers of Sunday schools and only
three-fourth of the members attend
regularly. D. W. Bims, secretary of
the North Carolina Suudny School
association, told the Durham asso
ciation which held its convention
here lhst week.
; Charge Against Revenue Bureau.
Washington, Feb. 2. — —More
than $100,000.00 of deductions for
war mortiantions “not based on the
solicitor's ruling” have been allowed
by the Internal Revenue Bureau, the
Senate was informed today in a ma
' jorlty report of the special senate
J committee investigating the Bureau.
; It is said that Babe Ruth can
drive a golf ball as far as any of the
■ professionals when once he gets a
good dip at It.
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BOOTLEGGER ESCAPES
WHEN CAR SHOT DOWN
Officers Take Part in Wild Chase
Near Moorcsville ami Bring in a
Rich Haul.
Moorcsville. Feb. I. Policemen
Carl Da via and Doc Ilenver gave
chase to a bootlegger car Saturday
night nbchit 7 o'clock and captured
a handsome Hudson brougham at
Cornelius, eight miles below here.
The liquor runner jumped from the
car after a rear tire had been shot
down and made his escape into the
darkness. The car turned around the
corner of the filling station and
•topped of his own accord near the
railroad-
The officers brought in the biggest
haul Iredell sleuths have ever cap
tured, there being 105 gallons in 21
5-gallon containers, all of which
was dumped into the sewer, he of
ficers were in polife headquarters
when the car passed and was easily
recognized as • booze car by the way
in which the* rear end wns dolled up,
the cans being covered neatly with
heavy cotton outing. The car bears a
State license, but no city license. It
is a modern style and probably
none but experienced officers would
have suspected it as a loggers car.
The tires were pot. shot until the
driver refused to hit when the of
ficers were riding long by his side,
TO OVERTHROW CALLED
Department of Justice Agent Says
Plot Is Being Perfected in San An
tonion.
San Antonio, Texas. Feb. 2.— VP) —
Uncovering of evidence showing that
a revolutionary junta of Mexicans is
active here and in conspiracy to over
throw the Cnlles government in t'.ie
republic was announced to the Asso
ciated Press today by Gus Jones, in
charge of the San Atonion office of
the department of justice.
Mr. Jones declared his office had
found and turned over to Federal At
torney John D. Hartman evidence of
this junta was planning the dynamit
ing of a passenger train southbound
from the border for the purpose of
showing that a revolution against tfie
Calles administration was in prog
ress.
This evidence yesterday was given 1
• Mr. Hartman, who will lay it before
the federal grand jury when it con- -
venes here February 15th. Indict
ments charging violation of the neu
trality laws will be sought against the ,
leaders of the alleged revolutionary ]
movement.
JOHN T. BENNETT IS
DEAD AT WADES BORO
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Well Known Attorney Dies Follow,
big an Illness of Several Months.
Wadcsboro, Feb. I—John T. Ben
nett, a well known lawyer of this 1
city, died at his home here at 3
o’clock this afternoon, following me
illness of several months. He was a
native of Stanly County and a mem
ber of one of the most prominent
families of this section of the State.
He came to this city in 1801 and en
tered into co-partnership with the
late Judge Risden Tyler Bennett; a
prominent member of the Wades
boro bar. He marred Miss Kate
Bennett, daughter of Judge and Mrs.
R. T. Bennett, in 1803. He is sur
vived by his wife and two' sons, J.
T. Benhett, Jr., and R. T. Bennett.
' and by one daughter. Mrs. McArvor.
of Gastonia. He is also stirvived by
three brothers, B. B. Bennett, of
this city; Crawford Bennett, of
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and D.
| N. Bennett, of Norwood, and by two
sisters, Mrs. George 'Stinson, of
Norwood, and Mrs. Cyril Henderson,
of Jacksonville. Florida.
Ground Hog Goes Back to Sleep.
Charlotte, Feb. 2.— VP) —"Johnny"
Groundhog, alias “Chippy,” Chip
munk, today came out of his legendary
“hole in the ..ground," for n minute,
tcok a fleeting glance at the Carolina
sunshine, and burrowed his way back
underneath for another sjx weeks of
winter.
That is according to legend an old
1 as the Christian religion and more,
1 the groundhog on February 2 has al
ways observed this custom.
Brain haul to Return February ft-
Durham. Feb. 2.—W. G. Bram
' ham, chairman of the North Caro
lina Republican executive committee,
who has been on an extruded tour of
the far west, will return about
- February 5, in time for the im
portant committee meeting to be held
in' Durham February 10.
CONCORD, N. C., TUESDAY, FEBR UARY 2, 1926
BOWiN TRIAL WILL
BEGIN TOMORROW
IN NEWTON COURT
Sheriff of Catawba County
Busy Today Summoning
100 Men of Special Ve
nire Ordered For Trial.
i BOWMAN APPEARS
TO BE HEALTHY
! Friends Say He Shows Ef
fects of Three Months
Confinement—Judge Is-1
sues Warning.
Newton. N. C., Feb. 2.—(/P)-—Tin
sheriff anil his men of Catawba conn
t.v are today engaged in the business
of summoning 100 men of the special
venire from 'which 12 men will be se-i
lected to judge tile fate of Wade V. i
Bowman, former major in the North:
Carolina National Guard, on trial:
here for his life in connection with an!
alleged attack on a 12 year-old Hick
ory girl last October.
Bowman was brought into the court
room yesterdny after ills three months’
confinement in the comity jail when
his case was continued from the No
vember term of court. His intimate
friends saw a slight break in his phys
ical condition, but he looked healthy
enough to strangers.
Judge James L. Webb, presiding
over Ibis term, warned the attorneys
for both the state and defense that he
would expect the trial to begin
promptly at 10 o’clock tomorrow
morning. *
TRAINMEN APPLY
FOR HIGHER PAY
Some Demands Being Made by Em
ploys of All Roads in the Country,
Says Dispatch.
Chicago, Feb. 1. —Application for
wage increases which spokesmen of
the railway managements said would
exceed, in some cases, the 1020 peak
rates, was filed with the railroad to
day by the train service brotherhoods.
Officials of the Chicago and North
western said their employes, in filing
the apploeiation, had announced the
same demands were being made today
.upon all roads of the country.
I Meanwhile, the United States rfdlg
road labor -hoard had before it "ap
proximately seventy applications for
changes in rates or rules. Although
the train service brotherhoods and the
firemen were involved in a few of
these, most came from smaller organ
izations.
The train and engine brotherhoods
conducted the conferences with rail
road executives which resulted in pro
posals for supplanting the board,
which are said to be supported by
most of the roads and by twenty em
ployes’ organizations.
Among the standard organizations
who have filed wage cases with the
board are those of the clerk, tele
graphers, dispatchers, and mainten
ance of way employes. Numerous less
known organizations, such as organi
zations of ship’s cooks employed by
railway companies also were repre
sented.
JUDGE ASKS REPEAL
OF AUTO SPEED LAW
“About IVTost Absurb Thing” on the
Books, Declares W. F. Harding.
Charlotte, Feb. I.—“lf the civic
clubs want to do something useful,
let them see about having this nefar
ious speed law repealed,” Judge W.
F. Harding, of Charlotte, honorary
member of the Charlotte Lions Club
declared before that body at its
luncheon Monday.
“That law is about the most ab
surd tiling on our statute books,”
Judge Harding said- “In fact it is
so absurd that I do not know any
boy who observes it. I have crossed
the bridge over the Catawba be
tween here and Gastonia 32 times
this year and I don,’t think I have
yet lived within the law in doing so.
“Who observes the stop law at the
railway crosaings? No one. If you
want to be of service, help repeal or
amend this law into something like
common sense. It would be better to
repeal the speed limit and let care
fulness instend of observing the rate
of speed be the criterion of safe driv
ing.”
BOND ISSUE OF $300,000
FOR HOSPITAL PROPOSED
Petition Presented to Rowan "County
Commissioners Asking for an Elec
tion.
Salisbury, Feb. I.—A petition was
presented to the Rowan county com
missioners today to call an election
for the voting of a three hundred
thousand dollar bond issue to build a
general hospital in the county and
also a tubercular hospital. No filial
action was taken but the booard
will meet next week with the hos
pital committee of the chamber of
commerce to go further iuto the mat
ter.
Postpones Definite Action.
Washington,- Feb. 2.—(A s )—Al
though reaffirming its approval of the
principle of the Smith bill for region
al appointments to the Interstate
Commerce Commission, the Senate in
terstate commerce eommiaion today de
ferred action pending the working
out and (grouping according to popun
1 lation and transportation problems.
It is safe to count on the fact that
no man is really as wise or as fool
ish as he appears to be.
Knocks Out Four
| John Weller, marshal of Beaverdam,
j 0„ is 60 but he's still tough. Hs
proved it when four men tried to
'; drive away from a Ailing, station
| ■ without paying. Using only his
fists, he knocked out all of them.
endeavor will, give
DR CLARK SIOO,OOO
This Week to Be Devoted to Raising
Recognition Fund.
Boston, Mass., Feb. 2.—Christian
Endeavor unions throughout the
world will devoid the week beginning
today to the raising of a recognition
fund of SIOO,OOO to be presented to
Dr. Francis E Clark, the founder of
the organization, who has recently
retired after more Ilian 40 years of
service as active head of the move
ment. The income from the fund will
be used as a retirement fund for Dr.
. Clark and his wife.
Special committees have been ap
pointed in each State for the purpose
of raising their respective quotas of
the fund. Among the members of the
general committee are Secretary of
‘ the Navy Wilbur. Rev. S. Parkes
Cadman, diaries Evans Hughes, Car
rie Chapman Cntt, Senator Arthur
Capper, Governor Gifford Pinchot,
and a number of other men and
women of national prominence.
The choice of the present week as
the time for raising the fund is
especially appropriate, sins." tomor
row will mark the forty-fifth anni
versary of the organization of the
H first Christian Endeavor union apd
the birth of the movement Which has
become world-wide in its scope.
It is not given to every man to
father such a work as that of the
Christian Endeavor Society, but Rueh
is the honor of Dr. Francis E. Clark,
and tile story of his life so closely in
terwoven with that of the society as
to be essentially the same.
Dr. Clark is of New England
parentage, although born in Aylmer,
Quebec. Next September he will celc
biate his seventy-fifth birthday an
niversary. His father was a civil
engineer. In 1853, while engaged in
m nistering to emigrants suffering
from cholera. the latter contracted
tile dread disease and speedily suc
cumbed to it. When Dr. Clark was
7 years old his mother also pawed
away. She was an earnest Christian
worker and a pioneer in religious ef
forts. It was from her that Dr.
Clark largely inherited his Christian
character and literary ability.
Upon the death of his mother the
7-year-dld boy was adopted by an
uncle. Rev. E. W. Clark of Auburn
dale, Muss. In Aubumdale and ! n
Claremont. N. H., Dr. Olark spent
his boyhood. He prepared for col
lege at Meriden, N. H-, and in 18(51)
graduated from the Kimball Union
Academy. From there he went to
Dartmouth, graduating in 1873.
Three years were spent in Andover
Seminary, and the young clergyman
shortly afterward took charge of his
first church at Portland. Maine, the
famous Williston Church, in which
Christian Endeavor was born, and
where the fimt little service was held
and a constitution adopted on Feb
ruary 2. 1881.
Dr. Clark had been pastor in Port
land for four years before he con
ceived tile idea of the Christian En
deavor. When the rapid spread of
the movement made it necessary for
him to give his entire time to the
work he resigned from the pulpit
and thereafter made his home in
Boston, which city has been the in
ternational headquarters of the or
ganization almost since its inception.
In the course of forty years Dr.
O'ark has circled the globe many
times and has addressed meetings of
Endeavorsrs in almost every country
of the world.
Today the Christian Endeavor has
nearly 75,000 branch societies scat
tered over the world, with a total of
1 some 4,000,000 members on the rolls,
a truly magnificent showing for the
forty-fifth anniversary of its forma
tion, which will be observed by its
I membership tomorrow.
j Governor to Speak at Conference.
Raleigh, Feb. 2.—o4*)—Governor
1 McLean lias received an invitation to
address the next annual governors’
conference to be held this year. He
has been asked to discuss “The Best
Methods of Financing Highway Con
struction.”
1 The executive has accepted the in
vitation, conditional upon his being
able to be present at the conference,
the time and place for which has not
' been fixed.
The Boston A. A. was the first
“ Athletic club in the country to use
mined corners at an indoor track
meet. When the new turns were
1 first introduced in the early ’9os
- the runners found it rather hard to
<et used to them.
Seven Feet of Smoke
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AUTOMOBILE DISPLAY
r
f To Begin February Bth.—New Models
in Several Lines to Be Shown.
| Charlotte, Feb. 2.—Confidence that
. the first annual automobile display
week, to be held the week of February
* Bth. will bring to Charlotte from 12,-
■ 000 to 15,0000 persons was expressed
: today by officials of the Charlotte Au
-1 tomotive Merchants Association, which
1 is sponsoring,, the event.
* A heavy demand is being made upon
- the musical and theatrical talent of
’ the city. as. the sixteen automobile
. dealers who are participating in the j
I display week, prepare their programs j
to attract prospective automobile buy
’ ers to their individual show rooms.
1 While this will be the sixth annual
automobile show held in Charlotte, it
is the first time that an automobile j
‘ display week has been undertaken..
' Instead of placing the ears on exhi
* bition at a central building, the deal
ers participating in the week's activi
| ties will have their lines on display
at their own showrooms. Dealers
1 said that they are becoming more en
-1 thusiastic over the new plan, as indi
cations develop that it will prove far
' more successful than tile plan former-
I ly carried out.
One feature of automobile display
! week, to which the dealers and dis
. tributors are giving much attention,
[ has to do with the gathering of deal
! ers from the Carolina territory. Fore
, casts are that approximately 1.5001
I dealers in North and South Carolina I
. will visit Charlotte in the course of
i automobile display week. The deal
| ers in the various lines represented
i by distributors here are expected to
be here on specified days, when deal
, er-distributor conferences will be held,
i Some of the dealers will show new
models of their lines for the first time,
i it was pointed out. The Ford Motor
i Company’s assembly plant here will
■ be operated at night, when visitors
i will be permitted to observe the work
: of the 1.100 men employed there, it
■ was announced.
I
1 BODIES OF YOUTHFUL
LOVERS FOUND IN CAR
Note Found in Which Young Man
1 Said, “Love Was the Cause of It
I All.”
Columbus, Ga„ Feb. 1. —The bodies
| of O. T. Chalkley, 18, and Miss Anna
I I.ee Welch, 24, were found in the
front seat of an automobile near
Buena Vista, Gfi., today, according to
information, received here. Both had
been shot through the heart and in
_ Chalkley’s hand was a revolver,
j The following note was found in the
. young man’s pocket:
, “Mother, don't lay this on any
t body but me. Do what you want
i to with my body and the rest. Please
put us side by side, for love was
. the cause of it all. Goodbye, your
son. Otie."
Beneath Chalkley's initials were
r “A. L. W.,” the initials of Miss
[ Welch.
r The young couple had been friends
for some time and had planned to be
i married, it is understood, but ciremn
- stances prevented. They lived about
E half a mile apart and the bodies were.
, found midway between their homes, i
!
Whiskey Automobiles Sell For 50
! , Cents Each.
Greensboro, Feb. I. —Sale of three
whiskey automobile by the United
States government, at 50 cents each,
r net for the government, was re
* orded in the office here rooay of the
clerk of western North Carolina dis
' trict. Three others were sold for net
t amounts of $20.50, sl6 and $16.10.
- The on rs 'Were sold because they had
been used in transporting whiskey.
Storage charges relped to bring
I the net total for automobiles down to
, $54.10. but the total sale price of all
t the cans was $134. Whiskey appears
to have as damaging an effect on
automobiles as one rum runners.
t
8 Hofrso-pulling contests were com
t mon in England more than a hun
? dred years ago. the teams being
« hooked to trees and the horses that
t tried longest and went to their knees
oftentst won the stakes.
ENGINE MAN CARROLL
CAUSED PENNSY WRECK
Safety Inspectors Report After Inves
tigation of Wrech fn Which Ten
Persons Perished.
Washington, Feb. 2.—OP)—Failure
of Engineman Carroll to observe and
obey indications of automatic block
signals was the main cause of the
Pennsylvania Railroad wreck at Mon
j mouth Junction, N. J., last November,
in which ten persons were killed, safe
ty inspectors reported today to the
; Interstate Commerce Commission.
| The conclusions of the inspectors
I were similar to those reached by the
public utilities commission of New
Jersey.
Engineman Carroll of train No. 6,
ran his engine into the rear of train
| No. 166, and the contributing cause
of the wreck was given as “failure
of Flagman Cunningham of train
to place torpedoes on tlie. track rail as
required by the rules.” The report
said the block signals were “partial
ly obscured h\ fog.”
BYRD ASSUMES OFFICE
OF VIRGINIA GOVERNOR
His First Official Act is to Lengthen
Working Hours of State Employes.
Richmond. Va., February I.—The
youngest chief executive Virginia has
had since colonial days, Harry Flood
Byrd, of Winchester, 38-years-old
I orehardist and publicist, became the
48t’j governor of the Old Dominion
with his induction into office here
today at 12 :25 o’clock.
Four minutes later the successor
to E. Lee Trinkle started his inau
gural address in which he pledged
himself to work for a “greater and
more efficient Virginia.” The keynote
of Ink address was economy in the
government of Virginia, and his
first official act on assuming the of
fice was the issuance of a proclama
tion proclaiming the employes of
the state government upon an eight
heur working dire effective March 1.
PRESIDENT CONFERS
WITH CHESTER GRAY
Russell Bower Also Present For Con
ference at Which Muscle Shoals
Was Discussed.
Washington. Feb. 2.—OP)—The
Muscle Shoals problem was gone over
today with President Coolidge by Rus
sell Bower, a member of the Muscle
Shoals Commission, and Chester Gray,
new legislative aient of the American
Farm Bureau Federation. They de
clined later to reveal the exact nature
of their conversation.
Bower was one of the majority of
the President’s commission which rec
ommended leasing of the Muscle Shoals
property with government operation as
an alternative. He often has empha
sized the necessity of providing for
fertilizer production. He also is Iden
tified with the Farm Bureau Federa
: tion.
Salisbury’s Oldest Merchant is Dead.
Salisbury, N. C., Feb. 2.—Theodore
Buerbaum. Salisbury's oldest mer
, chant, died at an early hour today at
j the Salisbury Hospital to which he
had been taken Sunday when striek
! en with a serious illness. The funeral
takes place Tuesday morning at
eleven o'clock from St- Luke’s Epis
copal Church, of which church Mr.
Buerbaum had been an active mem
ber for many years
Mr. Buerbaum was born in Ger
many nnd settled in Salisbury when
a young man. Last week he cele
brated his fiftieth anniversary as a
citizen of Salisbury and his forty
sixth year in business here. He was
seventy-four years old and is sur
vived by a widow and four children.
Willi Our Advertisers.
Shoe specials all this week at the
Ruth-Kesler Shoe Store.
Read “Town Topics” by Fetzer &
Yorke insurance agents, in this paper
today.
Boys’ suits—live models, big val
ues, low prices, at Penney’s. Priced
i from $5.00 to $13.75. With knickers
ajd long pants, $7.00 up.
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NO. 253
LOCARNO SECURITY 1
- ..JENTLMI
' IN KING'S SPEECH
King George Tells Parlia- J
ment He Expects Pact to
Pave Way For Further |
Agreements.
MOSUL QUESTION I
ALSO DISCUSSED
'H
England Seeking Solution
to the Perplexing Ques
tion.—Sees Better Trade |
Soon.
London, Feb. 2.— (A 3 ) —Opening par- |
liamcm with the speech from the
throne today. King George expressed i
the belief that the Locarno security
agreement lmd paved the way for a >i
further step in the direction of arms
limitation.
He announced that the British gov-* 1
eminent was attempting to arrive at
a settlement with Turkey on the vex* *
ing Mosul question and rejoiced that ’
his government had been able to ar- ’
rive at a debt funding agreement With ;
Italy.
Touching on domestic affairs, he ;
appealed for co-operation from all
parties to reduce the widespread un
employment and bring about a re« •
turn of good trade and prosperity. *
The King pointed out that the im* *j
provement in trade and industry at jj
the end of 1024 which it was hoped a
would decrease unemployment wasun- '
fortunately checked early last year by
widespread depression in coat mining ’M
industry. Since autumn of last year
signs of a revival of industry, has be
gun to appear, but the growth of eoh- ’
fidence upon which a revival depend- j
ed was being arrested by fear of in- 3
dustrial strife.
Announcing that th? result of the \
commission of inquiry into the coal
industry shortage would be published; !
hj continued:
‘>l am well aware of the difficul
ties inlieret in the whole situation
but the interests of the nation are
paramount, and I appeal to all par
ties to face the future in a spirit of l
conciliation and fellowship and avoid
action which would again postpone
the. return of good trade and pros- : sjj
parity for which we have so long "
- .IWBed.”..
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened at Decline of 1 to 6 Points In *
Response to Relatively Easy Liver
pool Cables.
New York, February 2.— (A 3 ) —The i
cotton market opened today at a de
cline of 1 to 0 points in response to
relatively easy Liverpool cables, but 1
further covering by near months shorts
and additional buying of new crop de
liveries for foreign account gave it a I
generally steady undertone. Active :
montiis sold about 3 to 6 points net
lower. w»Q> May declining to 19.5 T 9
and Octobel to 18.17, but the market '
was a few ppints up from the lowest
at the end of the first hour. Private. ;j
cables attributed the decline in Livery r ?l
pool to hedge selling and liquidation,
but said there was a fair spot demand <
and a considerable inquiry for cotton I S
cloths.
Cotton futures opened steady: :
March 20:20; May 19.57 ; July 19.89, )
October 18.17: December 17.87.
Seely Has Failed to Carry Out Suit
Against E. W. Grove.
Asheville, Feb. I.—Fred L. Seely, 'j
of Asheville, who was to have signed i*l
a deposition to be used in his suit .1
against his father-in-law, E. W. 5
Grove, did not return to Asheville
today for the purpose. He is now ou
his yacht “North State” at Miami.
The suit, filed in St. Louis, is said to
involve between four and five mil- |
lion dollnrs.
In the complaint, Mr Seely claims
that lie entered into a contract with
Mr. Grove some time ago whereby :l
Mr. Grove was to provide a clause la
his will leaving to Mr. Seely and, his
children either his interests in the H
Paris Medicine company or the re
inainder of his estate. Mr. Grove, it
is claimed, later abrogated another
will which omitted these feature?
nnd Seely brought suit to enforce the >
terms of the contract.
Golf has never been developed in
Germany as in most of the countrica >
of western Europe, but it is helieved '
that the sport will be given a new
impetus by the action of clubs in
Berlin and other cities in opening
courses for the training of juveniles, 8
Captain William Hogbin. Civil War 1
veteran and one of a family of twen- ?
t.v-one children, was driven out of *
Dubuque. lowa, in 1877 because ha
talked against liquor.
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BAT’S BEAR SAYSI
r— —-c
Increasing cloudiness followed
- rain Wednesday and .in west pnrtligrm
1 late tonight. Not much change aMm
* temperature. Increasing nortlugircS
and east winds.