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VOLUME XXVI
GENERAL PERSHING
BUCK AT CAPITAL:
GOES 10 WITH
High Officials of the Got*
eminent were at the Sta
tion to Meet Gen. Persh
■ ing on His Return.
TRIP DID NOT , 1
HURT PERSHING
Appeared No Worse After
Long Boat and Train
Ride.—Will Not Discuss
/ His Official Business.
Washington, Fab. 11.—(A*)—Gk>n.
Pershing returned to Washington to
day for medical treatment after a five
months absence in South America as
bead of the Tndna-Ariea plebiscite
commission.
Gen. Pershing was met at the rail
way station by Secretary Kellogg,
under secretary of State Grew, Maj.
Gen. John 1., Ilines. chief of staff of
the army; Major General Dennis E.
Nolan, deputy chief of staff; Dr. Leo
8. Lowe, director general of the Pan-
American Union, ami a number of
other government officials. After
brief greetings he was taken to tem
porary quarters in an uptown club
house.
The dffect on the General's health
of the voyage from Ariea to Key
West and the train journey from
Florida to Washington was described
by members of his party as negligible.
As General Pershing’ stepped from
his train he was met by Secretary
Kellogg and the two walked arm in
arm to the station plaza where auto
mobiles were in waiting.
“I am glad to be home." said the
General as he greeted the reception
committee.
“All I can say now," turning to the
•newspaper men “is that I have an ap
pointment with Secretary Kellogg. Un
til that engagement is had, I must de
cline to discuss the Tacna-Ariea sit
uation in any way whatever.”
He understands the army medical
authorities intend to begin the treat
ment with a' ‘gene '' M over
hauling.
It depends Is ess
of both medics’ nt,
mjtewrafc m
W r . ...„
A, oeeded him as hfftid of ~,e plebiscite
commission will be able to carry on
■that work as well as he or any other
American.
Hecause of tbis confidence, and de
spite his eagerness to complete the
taslrTo which he was assigned, the
General feels that the plebiscite will
be conducted with every chance of
success, and for that reason is' willing
to await decision of his niemdical ad
visers as to whether he should remain
permanently in the United States.
With Our Advertisers.
Go to the office of the Concord and
Kannapolis Gas Co.’ and sec the new
gas ranges with oven beat control,
atfd note the' special offer from Feb
ruary 5 to 20.
The Yorke A Wadsworth Co. has
just received another car of 20 gauge
galvanized heavy roofing, only $4.75 a
square.
Valentine* from one cent up at
Kidd-Fria .‘Music and Stationery Co.
Five votes for one on Valentines this
week.
You’ll like the new spring footwear
at the Markson Shoe Store. All sizes
and widths.
H. B. Wilkinson has.just
another large shipment of Kitchen
cabinets.
The vbry appearance of the pumps
at the linth-Kbsler Shoe Store tells
you spring is here.
Now is the time to sell your sur
plus hens. See ad. of C. H. .Barrier
A Co.
The Pearl Drug Co. is offering some
excellent specials on stationery this
L week. 500 votes on each dollar spent
|Noo.
A helpful bank—the silent partner
in every successful business. See ad.
of Citizens Bank and Trust Go.
Oranges, grapefruit, apples—new
car to arrive Saturday. Winesapp ap
ples, $2.40 per bushel box. At 19 N.
Union street, opposite new hotel.
Send your wife, sweetheart or
mother a floiver valeprine. See ad. of
Mrs. J. C. Query, florist, 37 N. Crow
ell street Phone 141 W.
Spring coats—new arrivals in’new
models at J. C, Penny Co.’s. Prices
$14.75 to $24.75.
The a comic opera, will
be given at the high school auditor
ium, Friday, February 12tb, tor the
benefit of the piano fund. Admission,
50 cents and 75 cents. Seats re
served at Gibson Drug Store.
Cultivate that good which improves
with the years.
Championship
Basketball ,
Tonight at 7:30
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The Concord Daily Tribune
Institute For Sunday
School Workers Here
Is Off To Fine Start
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MISS FLORA DAVIS
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Who Will Be Heard During the No.
12 Township, Sunday School
Convention
FEDERAL AGENCIES ARE
WORKING FOR PEACE
Have. Been Taking Wide Interest in
Efforts to Settle Opal Strike.
Washington Feb 11 (A*)—Agencies
of the Federal government have been
taking a very wide interest in the re
newed negotiations for peace in the
anthracite industry. \ _
Although President Coolidge appar
ently is not prepared to abandon his
policy of non-intervention, the media
tors of the Labor Department are
concerning themselves directly with
the peace discussions and pro]>osed
I dans for settlement-are receiving very
cnreful scrutiny in high, offic : al cir
cles in Washington.
From the start of thet suspension
the government mediators have been
in close contact with both sides, un
der the plan of mediation and concil
iation provided by law. Tbe extent
to which they may have gone in sug
gesting a • solution never has beeu dis
closede. but it became apparent today
that all of the details of the negotia
tions have at least been stndionsly
C'WHifeced.lwa, that faaihiTefeisty
promise proposals now arc under
consideration in • the Labor Depart
ment.
TAX REDUCTION RAISED
ANOTHER 100 MILLION
Inheritance Tax Repealed By Vote
of 40 to 30.—Auto Car Tax Re
pealed.
Washington. Feb. 10—The senate
added $100,000,000 to its $352,000,-
000 tax reduction bill today after
voting to repeal the- inheritance tax.
With the administration forces in
rout as the taxes on automobile pas
senger ears and trucks, admissions
nnd. dues were voted out of the bill,
in rapid order, adjournment was
taken until tomorrow when Chair
man Smoot of the finance committee
announced he would ask for recon
sideration of some of the actions
taken today and for a final vote on
the bill.
Repeal of the inheritance tax, pro
vided for in the bill as presented to
the senate by the finance committee,
was approved, 49 to 26, 18 Demo
crats joining with 31 Republibans in
supporting the proposal.*
Declaring it a “damnable outrage
to take the tax off the millionaires,”
Senator Couzens, Republican. Michi
gan, one of the 16 Republicans who
fought repeal of the. inheritance levy
then led a group of Republicans in
voting with ah almost solid Demo
cratic lineup for repeal of the other
taxes acted upon.
Burton Will Not Contest Extradition.
Miami, Fla., Feb. 11. —OP) —At-
torneys for C. O. Burton, whom New
York state authorities zgy is Fred G.
Beale, wanted in Hancock, ■N. Y., for
grave robbery, said today .that he
would not contest extradition hear
ings before Governor Johrf W. May
tin.’
The man who calls himself C. O.
Burton, and who has a wife and son
here to attest to the name, still is
in jail in default of o $2,000 bond
asked on the second charge of forgery
in connection witfi the alleged - insur
ance fraud through substitution of a
dead body. He had been freed on
bond of SI,OOO on the grave robbery
charge.
Duke Foundation Aid to Hospitals.
Gastonia, Feb. 11.—(AO —Grfston
county should have a sanatorium of
forty beds capacity tor the treatment
of tuberculosis, and should have char
ity beds in tho existing hpspitals for
tbs care .of others needing hospital
treatment and unable to pay, Dr. W.
8. Bankin, of tbe Duke Foundation,
told tbe Gaston County Textile Manu
facturers Association here recentl.
Despite his plea for a tuberculosis
sanatorium in this county, however.
Dr. Rankin told bis bearers tbfct Gas
ton county has a‘ comparatively Ipw
tuberculosis dsath rats, In spite of tbe
feet that It is one of the leading in
dustrial centers of the state;’
The Duke Foundation can aid only,
public hospitals, none privately own
ed, he add, , " •
Tea Pages Today
'Two Sections u i
it • 1
More Than 200 Persons
Present for First Session
Held in Forest Hill Meth
odist Church.
FINE ADDRESSES
TOR FIRST NIGHT |
•Another Session Will Be
■Held Tonight at 7:30
With Final Session To
morrow Night.
| More than two.’hundred hundrded
! people representing twenty Sunday
Schools attended the opening session
of tbe Concord Sunday School Insti
tute held nt Forest Hill Methodist
Church last night. Among those in
attendance were 7 pastors. 8 super
intendents tynd 50 teachers. Those in
charge of 'the meeting were well
pleas'il with the attendance and the
iqterest shown in the work. „ Other
sessions of the institute'will be held
tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30
o’clock. Tbe Sunday, School workers
of all denominations are urged to
attend.
The opening address of the insti
tute was given by Miss Flora Davis,
of Raleigh, Associate Supt. of the
North Carolina Sunday School Asso
ciation, her subject being “The AVide-
Awake Sunday School.” In discuss
ing this subject Miss Davis called
attention to three points which she
said tlnvt every wide-awake Sunday
School has and three things that it
does. “First, the wide-awake Sunday
School has an adapted building, which
means that whether the building is
small or large every part of it is be
ing used to the very best advantage.
Second, the wide-awake Sunday
school can even begin to do its best
work if the teachers and officers do ’
not have frequent meetings to plan
the work. Third, there must be an
alert corps of teachers and officers.
The superintendent must be progres
sive, he must be one who is always
looking for the best methods to use
in the school, who does not try to do
all the work of the school himself but
puts part of tbe responsibility on his
co-workers, and one who is willing to
learn. The teachers and other officers
must be willing to train for tbe work 1
tbejJbstfljeaUsA to do. , |
'“But tbe wide-awake Sunday School
not only has something, but it does
something. . One important thing
that it does is to increase its* attend
ance. Thia is done by first getting
a better average attendance of those
already enrolled iu the school, and
then by getting more people enrolled
as new pupils. When we remember
that the average attendance in the
Sunday schools of North Carolina is
about fifty per cent, of the enrollment,
nnd that only two in five of the popu
lation are enrolled in the Sunday
schools, wc realize that the wide-awake
Sunday Schoql can easily increase its
attendance.
“A second thing the wide-awake
Sunday school does is to train its pu
pils for service. The schools must not
only teach the pupils to know, but it
must train them to do. This means
that there will be a defiuite\program
of activities for every 'class or depart
ment in the Sunday School, and that
every pupil will Ijave a share in car
rying out that program.
“And last, bat most important of
all, the wide-awake Sunday school
leads its pupils to Christ. The Sunday i
School that fails to lead the pupils to j
accept Jesus Christ and to unite with i
His church is failing in its most im
portant mission.”
Speaking on the subject, . “The-
Young People’R Challenge to the
Church,” Fraud D. Getty, of Phila
delphia, Associate Director,of Young
People’s -Work for the Northern Pres
byteriaicChurch, said:
“Tbe young people are challenging
tbe Church 5 for recognition. They
want to be regarded as young people
of today with all their present capa
bilities and enthusiasm, not as the
men and women of tomorrow with the
necessity of waiting until tomorrow
comes before they can render service,
“They are challenging the church’
for courageous leadership. Young \
people are seeing; clearly gome of the !
great problems of 'the world, and they
recognize that many of these prob- ;
lems can be solved by the application
of Christian principles as found in ,
the teachings of Jesus. Jfhey are eag- ,
etly awaiting that courageous lead- ,
erehip within the church which will
lead them on to the solution of prob
lems and the correction of many of
the present day evils! These leaders
must understand young people and
must be- able to interpret the princi
ples' of Christianity in terms of life
today.
“The young people are challenging
for an organization of their own where
they can do their own work and have
their own responsibility. In most
cases this organization should be’the
Young People's Department of the
whole church with the Sunday School,-
Young People's Society, and so forth, ■
carrying .Its share of the whole pro
gram.
“Tbe young people are challenging’
the Church for a comprehensive pro
gram. This program should have, in
It those elements Vhioh will help es
tablish the right relationships and
contacts between the • young people
and God, Which will live young peo
ple tbe necessary information regard
ing the Christian program, its meth
. ods of work and ita application to
j (Continued on Page Three.)
North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
CONCORD, N.C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1926
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I ANOTHER EFFORT
* BEING MADE TO Hr
* END THE STRIKE *
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* Philadelphia, Feb. 11.— (A>)— *
ifc Another serious effort to end the 51?
SS long anthracite strike is being ifc
made. This time the scene’ is 51?
5K again in Philadelphia, where the 5K
j¥. operators nnd miners broke up st?
| 4? their last parley on February 51?
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VOTE ON TAJ BLL
I IS EXPECTED SOOI
I Senator Smoot Thinks the
| Senate May Be Able to!
Take Vote On the Mooted !
Question Tomorrow.
Washington, Feb. 11.— (A*)— A sen
ate vote tomorrow on the tax reduc
tion bill was forecast today by Chair
man Smoot, of the finance commit 1
tee.
The final roll call plannee! for to
day was postponed, while the adminis
tration republicans sought to recoup
some of the revenue losses voted yes
terday by repeal of the taxes on au
tomobile cars and trucks, admissions
and dues.
Chairman Smoot said a vote tomor
row would assure tax reduction by
March 15, when income tax install
ments are due.
JUDGE WEBB'S LECTURE
In Pronouncing Sentence on Major
Bowman at Newton.
Newton, Feb. 10.—After the appeal
by counsel for and against Major
Bowman Judge Web delivered a very
tlmeley and instructive lecture on the
present day evils and conditions. Ifc
referred to tile lack of clothing worn,
by the young girls today, and her
Yollefl stockings and painted lips, and
the tendency of parents to allow' their
girls to take automobile rides with:
young men at late hours of the night.
He stated that such conditions and
tlie present day dress and conduct of
young girls was calculated to create
and cause a lot of tahe imoral condi-.
tions of the present day. He harked
back to the “good old days” when the
parents required their children to go
to church and Sunday school, stay at
'borne and help their parents and work
tonic sue.up until dark.
His lecture was considered one of
the finest on present day evils and
conditions heard here in a long'time
and' numbers of file older citizens stat
ed that it would be a fine thing if ev;
cry boy and girl in North Carolina
could have heard the timely instruct
ive and good advice sounded to the
young people of today.
ANOTHER CHARGE IS
MADE AGAINST BOARD
L. B. Miller Says Shipping Board
“Jobbed” Other Bidders So Ford
Could Get Vessels.
Washington. February 11.— (A>) —A
charge that the shipping board “job
bed” other bidders so that the Ford
Motor Company would purchase 200
ships was made today before the Sen
ate commerce committee by L. B.
Miller, g Baltimore attorney.
Appearing for the Boston Iron &
| Metal Company, of Baltimore, which
bid on the ships. Miller declared it
was “contemplated at the start that
the Ford Motor Company should be
I the successful bidder,” although when
) bids were first opened, no tender from
• the company was received.
A Senate investigation of the sale,
which is proposed in a resolution by
Senator Bruce, Democrat, of Mary
land. was urged by Mr. Miller, who
insisted that the board in making the
sale to the Ford company had “acted
in direct violation of the merchant
marine act.”-
BOY BANDITS ABE FLOGGED.
Nineteen Tanned By Parents K
County Court Room.
Miami, Okia., Feb. 11.—Nineteen
boys from eleven to seventeen, con
fessed members of “The Milk Raid
ers,” bandits, were given public flog
gings in the County Courtroom here,
on order of County Judge Thomas-
They were given their choice of a
public whipping or a sentence to the
State Reformatory.
The Judge supplied hiskory sticks
for the ceremony and the parents
did the flogging. Additional punish
ment includes sentence to attend
Sunday School regularly and remain
home each night after '6 o’clock.
February Sole at Eflrd’s.
Beginning at 8:30 o’clock tomor
row (Friday) morning, Efird’s will
begin their February sale of winter
merchandise and the newest spring
goods in all departments. This sale
will afford an unequalled opportunity
to supply the needs of the whole fam
ily in clothing, shoes, wearing ap
parel and household needs. It will
pay you to supply, yonr needs now at
tbeee money-saving prices. Every
Ihdy in this vicinity is especially in- J
vlted to go and see the new spring
dresses at Bfird’s.
Near Blizzard at Asheville
Aaheville, Feb. 10. — At -8 o’clock
tonight Asheville's temperature . had
fallen to 22 above and was dropping
gt the rate of two degrees an hour.
Driven by a high wind, snow which
had fallen in flurries throughout the
day had attained a steady pace of al
most blizzard proportions, driving
'practically all traffic to .shelter.
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Unusual Photos of Rescue at Sea
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An epic of the Ken, this, in pictures. Mode aboard the rescue ship Westphalia of the Hamburg-American
|line, the photograph trtls the story of the heroic saving of 27 toen from the disabled Hutch freighter Alkaid, toss
«<i in the grip of a furious Atlantic storm. As they found safety, food and comfort aboard the Westphalia, the
Iren- saw their ship dive to its last homee. Above, the sailors climbing to safety aboard the rescue ship. Below
Bavy Jones' locker claims the hapless vessel. / \_
INQfIAM FREED FOR
LACK OF EVIDENCE
Police Judge in Asheville
There Is Not Evi
dence to Hold Man in the
Burgess Case.
j Asheville, Feb. ll.—Caleb Ingram,
employe of the city of Asheville, who
. has been held for two weeks in jaiil
f in connection with the slaying of Mrs.
Annie May Burgess, was released
1 this morning by Police Judge Camer
on MeCrae after a preliminary hear
ing. No probable cause was found by
the court.
, Mrs. Bonnie Ledford was also or
, dered released by Judge McCrne upon
motion made by Robt. R. Reynolds,
nttorney for Ingram, when Solicitor
Jas. S. Howell agreed that the same
evidence held in her ease as xt*s given
' i» the Ingram hearing. j
\Vm. Davis, formerly sweetheart of
the pretty 23 year old victim of the
tragedy will be granted a hearing on
Friday morning. Davis has been held
in Buncombe county jail almost three
weeks in connection with the slaying.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Steady at Advance of 1 to 4
Points on Covering and Foreign
Buying,
New York. Feb. 11.—OP)—The cot
ton market opened steady today at an
advance of 1 to 4 points on further
covering by near month shorts and
foreign buying of new crop positions.
March sold up to 20.38 at the open
ing and October advanced to 18.34,
but renewed selling of March against
purchases of May by trade interests
supplied the near months demand and !
the market eased off a few points in
the early trading.
Notwithstanding reports of favor
able soil conditions in the South and
good progress with early farm work,
new crop months held relatively
steady after the initial demand for
March had been supplied. Mnrch re
acted to 20.30 with oM .crop posi
tions showing net losses of 3 to 4
phints by the end of the first hour,
while new crop was about net un
changed)
Cotton futures opened steady.
March 20.38 : May 10.82 ; July 19.14 ;
Oct 18.32; Dec. 17.97.
Wnthrop is Interested In “Anti-
Flirting" Law.
Raleigh, Feb. 10.—Winthrop col
lege at Rock Hill, S C., interested
in North Carolina "anti-flirting
law,” bns written Secretary of State
iV. N. Everett for a copy of the act
passed by the 1925 general assembly
designed to prevent adventurous de
signed to prevent adventurous shiks
from flirtnnous movements in the
vicinity of female college campuses.
The letter to the secretary, writ
ten by attorneys for Winthrop col
lege, indicated that the law might
be a desirable one for South Caro
lina.
The “anti-flirting law,” which
went through the Tar Heel legisla
ture after a deal of debate, reads in >
this manner : “Section I —That is i
shall be unlawful for any male per- |
son to willfully disturb, annoy or
harass the students of any boarding
school or college for women situated
anywhere in North Carolina, by
rude conduct or by persistent un
necessary presence on or near the
property of the school or college; or
by the wilful addressing or com
municating orally or otherwise' with
said students while on school prop
erty, or while elsewhere when in
charge of a teacher, officer or stu
dents of said school." ,
Judge J. L. Billingsley is Buried at
Mooresville.
Charlotte. Feb. 10. —Interment
services were he’d this afternoon at
Mooresville for Judge .1. L. Billinga
'cy, of Florida, who died recently in
Washington. Judge Billingsley was
httripa/at Mooresville, which is the
one-time home of Mrs. Billingsley,
oMCharfott* 8 Peter Marshal Brown,
Mrs. Billingsley is a daughter of
Df. W.' IV- Pharr, of Mooresville-
iTBItIIRY
is mm
For Second Time the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee
Asks For Investigation
of Aluminum Company.
Washington, Feb. 11.—(A 3)—Anoth
er .investigation of the Aluminum Com
pany of American in which Secretary |
Mellon is a stockholder, was recom
mended today to the Senate by the
Judiciary Committee.
The committee divided. 9 to 7. with
7 democrats and Senators Borah of
Idaho, and Norris of Nebraska, re
publicans, voting for the Walsh re
port recommending sueh an investi
gation.
The other seven republicans signed
the Harreld minority report recom
mending against any senate inquiry.
The two reports .will j>e .presented to
the senate, and the issue will M
fought out there.
J. J. HAYES IS CHOSEN
NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN
Durham Is Selected as Convention
Place and April Bth as Date.
Durham.' Feb. 10.—Johnston J.
Hayes, of Wilkesboro, was elected
unanimously, almost on the first bal
lot, as national committeeman to suc
ceed Judge John J. Parker at the
meeting of the North Carojjna Repub
lican executive committee here this
afternoon. The committee also se
lected Durham as tiie place for the
State convention and April Bth ns
the date.
William (1. Bramham. as he had
previously announced, told the com
! mittee that business forced him to re
tire as State chairman at the expira
tion of his term at the State con
vention, saying he could not stand
for J re-election. Some republicans
do not take him seriously but he
evidently means it.
Nor was there the least evidence of
the spirit of Marion Butler in die
meeting: that is, so far as could be
seen. Os course, the actual business
of the committee was transacted in
executive session, only the 1C men
and 11 women associate committee
men being in attendance. Gilliam
Grissom stayed in by virtue of being
secretary. Testimony of those in- 1
side, and all indications bear it out,;
that the meeting was as peaceful as!
a church service,
A. A. Wliitener was called away be- 1
fore the convention actually as
sembled. Whether he saw the lay of
the land, and that caused it, is no’
known, but it was apparent that he
could not win.
BONZI AND COMPANY
' ARE FREE ON BONDS
Given Liberty Under Bail in Varying
Amounts on Charge of Violating the
Trust Laws.
Jacksonville, Florida, Feb. 10.—
Charles Ponzi, Massachusetts “finan
cial wizard,” tonight was at liberty
under a $5,000 bond charged with vio
i lationa of a state statute relative to
| trust organizations.
I Mrs. Ponzi, who with her husband,
and Calcendonia Alviti and liis wife,
were indicted Monday by the Duval
made bond for $590, the sum se! by
Judge Gibbs.
CoonteM Ordered Excluded From the
Country.
New York, Feb. 11.—C4>)—The
Countess of Catheart, the divorced
wife of the Earl of Catheart. today
w*s ordered excluded from the United
States under the exclusion ■ orders.
The decision was made by a special
board of Inquiry at Ellis Island,
which has been investigating the
Countess' case since her arrival on
Tuesday.
White Radio Bill Approved.
Washington, Feb. 11.—OP) — I The
White bill to regulate radio was ap
proved today by the HolSse merchant
marine committee.
A true friend will multiply your
joys and divide your sorrows.
TRAINS HALTED BY
AM SHIFTS
Forty Passengers on the
Trains Forced to Spend
Night on Them.—Suf
fered No Dl Effects.
Newport, B. 1.. Feb. 11.—(A 3)—For
ty passengers on two Boston & Ne-w
--| port trains reached here early today
after spending the night in a snow
drift in Portsmouth. The passengers,
who included Judge Hugli B. Baker,
of the Ilhode Island Superior Court,
and the Newport members of the
Rhode Island \ General Assembly,
said they suffered no discomfort from
the cold, but would have liked a little
food during their 12-hour vigil.
One of the trains left Boston at
4:57 yesterday, and the other at 6
o’clock over the New York, Ne# Htre
ene & Hartford Railroad.
NO CLEMENCY TO THE
ASHEVILLE MOB MEMBERS
Men Who Stormed Asheville Jail
Must Serve Terms—Took Law in
Own Hands.
Tom Bost in Greensboro News.
Raleigh, Feb. 10. —“The prisoners
sought to destroy the very processes
of government upon which they now
rely.” Governor McLean said this eve
ning when he turned down 6.000
prayers for clemency and sent the fif
teen Buncombe county near-lynchers
of Alvin Mnnsel and assailants of the
county jail to their punishment in
the State's prison and on the county
roads.
His excellency's powerful statement
must 'have been rooted in a mob scene
in which that great Presbyterian
Paul turned upon High Priest An
anias, who had caused the Apostle
to be smitten in the mouth, and gave
the religious rascal this:
"God shall snyte thee, thou whited
wall; for sittest thou to judge me
after the iuw, and commandest me
to be smitten contrary to the law?”
The Huncombe crowd smote* the jail
in defiance of the law and then had
the impudence to invoke the law to
save themselves.
Governor McLean had few back- 1
danders in this case. There was!
■ :.h lerrific pressure on him as no
1 executive has ever had. The execu
i live utters a beautiful sympathy for
j the innocent families of these gro
|tesque defenders of the home. Just
ioffhand we would guess that one of
these days his excellency will be
thinking c-f some state action for the
smitten members of society, victimized
by novice or wrong, doing of their
jown. He gives the hint to the Ashe
ville people. But he cannot turn
I the State over to the mob.
Most of the men who must serve
their terms seems to have friends.
Various of them had good records.
Not a few of the fools seemed to
think that they were really virtuous
in beating down a jail in the effort
to lynch a prisoner who had been
taken by no enterprise of their own
The governor has been importuned
from all ang’es. -He lias been asked
to save the negro, his victim joining
in the request. But Governor Mc-
Lean quickly sensed the situation—
the friends of the mob were behind
the woman.
Governor McLean is delighted at
the resistance of Buncombe’s officers
who were -protecting a negro indicted
for a capital offense against n white
woman. He is pleased to see the anti
mob spirit which was shown in the
Huncombe and Martin county cases.
Negro Dead as Result of F ight at
Albemarle.
Albemarle, N. C., Feb.
Williams, a young nfegro about 23
years old. is dead as a result of a
fight with Walt. Tatum, another
young negro of this plnce. The fight
took place early last night at the
home of a colored man in Kiiigvil.e,
the colored section of Albemarle.
Tatum used a rusty knife, having
cut Williams’ head about half off,
severingthe jugular vein. Williams
died within a few minutes after hav
ing been brought to the office of a
local physician.
THE TRIBUNE
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TODAY’S NEWS TODAY j
NO. 33
FROZEN BODIES OF
: TWO MEN LOCKED
i "'MTOHOBIE
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The Police Believe Bodies
Are Those of Domonic
Russo and Sari Russo, j
tousins.
BODIES FROZEN I
TIGHT TOGETHER
That Liquor Feud Led 'to
Slayings Is One Theory
the Police Are Working
on Now.
Youngstown. 0., Feb. 11.—OP)— r .J
The frozen bodies of two men bearing (fa
evidences of great violence, were {
•found in au automobile a few miles . j
from here today. Officials expressed
the opinion the men either were hang- 'Jj
ed or beaten to death.
A finger on the hand of one man
was mutilated, apparently indicating V
that efforts had been made to remove “Hi
a ring. No identification has been
made. Police said they had found
out that the automobile had been left
in the spot for 12 hours.
Police are working on the theory
that a liquor feud was responsible for ;
Ihe death of the men. License plates
on the ear were issued to Domonic ’
Russo. Russo’s family has been call- !
ed in to determine whether ’ e was one
of the slain men. The other, police 1 '
believe, may have been Sari Russo, a
cousin.
Tli bodies were frozen together. A
woman who lives near where the car
was found said she saw two automo
biles stop at the spot last night, and
an interchange of passengers * took
plaee.
Youngstown, 0., Feb. 11.—OP)— s;
Dominic Russo and Sari Russo, cous
ins, both 25. were found- brutally mur
dered on the outskirts of this j city 1
today, the result, the police believe,
of either a liquor feud or a secret so
ciety plot.
Tile bodies were in Russo’s parked
automobile. Aroun(i the neeje of ;
each man was twisted a rope, tied so
tightly thgt it had cut the flesh. Both
skulls were crushed, clothing blood
sained. and the automobile was spat- !
tered with blood.' The bodies were 4
frozen together.
A woman living nearby said she.’;
saw two care drive up last’ night *ndf----«)
an interchange of passengers take
place, but she paid no atentios to tbtt'pf!
incident.
Dominic Russo left home at eight
o’clock last night saying he was go
ing to meet his cousin, ■ Sari’s move
ments have not been traced. 'U
Robert Wilson going to work last
night noticed the parked automobile.
He saw it again coming home this
morning, and when he investigated
found the bodies.
TIVO MEN SCABBED
. IN COAL FIELD FIGHT
Fight Was Between Miners and' Coni
Bootleggers at- Carbondale, Pa.
Scranton, Pa., Feb. 11.—(40—Two
men are in a hospital suffering from
stab wounds and two others were bad
ly beaten up in a clash between sev
eral hundred men and coal bootleggers
at Carbondale tod-ay. _
Carbondale police rescued ThAmas
and George Hobbs, who g;ere attacked
by the crowd as the Hobbs brothers
were battling bags of coal from a
dump. The brothers were sseverel.v
handled before the police arrived.
Police lined up the trouble makers
after many of them! had
and in searching their clothing found
I three revolvers, two hand axes, ham- i
mere and baseball bats. Other wea
pons were thrown into the river.
Frank Laizzl and James Behan en- £
gaged in a knife duel and both were
stabbed in the arms before the police "%
parted them.
Paris Tailors Perfect a Dummy of p;
Lifelike Form. ' iSiSj
Paris, Feb. 11.— UP) —Tailors’ dum- p’j
mies which move their lips, eyes and
beads by means of electric motors hid
den in their chests, is the Paris tail
ors’ latest step to make his models
lifelike.
Tile first radical movement to make
shop-window dummies resemble hu
man beings was the abolition of the
"Adonis” type of male beauty. Every- -
where in Paris now Adonis is out
numbered by’the corpulent, the un
der sized, the plain-featured, the cross
eyed nnd the broken-nosed dummy.
The faces of these dummies are •
composed of a new material called
"staf,” a mixture of fibre and plaster,
which is far less brittle than wax
and permits of more natural color
ing.
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SAYS REAR SAYSI
9 s-h -
Fair and continued cold tqnight ;
Friday fair with slowly rising, -tem
perature. Considerably wUMnihtt- >’!
urday. Diminishing mn&nNkt' and
north winds, becoming ritffltßle Fri
day.