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DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVI
PRESIDENT UNABLE
TO LEAVE BED AND
CANCELSALL WORK
His Private Secretary Re
iterates That There Is No
Cause For Alarm in His
Condition.
HEAVY COLD IS
CAUSING TROUBLE
The President Will Re
main in Bed Today So
As* To Be JJetter Able
to Fight Cold.
■Washington, Feb. 18.-04*) —Presi-
dent Coolidge was ennfined today to
his bed, suffering from what White
Honse officials said wns a heavy cold.
All engagements for the day were
cancelled.
Reiterating that there wns no cause
for alarm, nor was there any relapse
in the President’s condition. Secretary
Sanders said Mr. Coolidge had decider)
to remain in bed n the hope that the
cpld could be controlled.
First effects of the illness were in
evidence Tuesday night when the Pres
ident at the last moment decided not
to attend a dinner given in his and
Mrs. Coolidge’s honor at tlje home of
Secretary Davis of the War Depart
ment. Ya*terday after a brief turn
at his desk engagements were cancell
ed and he retired to the White House
to rest. letter, however, he returned
to h ! a office for an hour's work and
afterwards took a short stroll about
the the White House grounds.
Major Jas. Coupal, the President's
physician is in attendance.
Mr. Coolidge from time to time has
taken treatment from a Washington
nose specialist but of late had not ap
peared to be bothered in this respect.
Condition Not Serious.
Washington, Feb. 18.— (4*) —It was
officially announced at the White
House shortly after noon today that
although President Coolidge was con
fined to bed he is suffering from “just
a cold” nnd his condition is not se
rious.
MOTHER IS KILLED
BY HER OWN SON
Cleaning Rod From Rifle Cots
Spinal Cord ha Her Neck.
Lenoir, Feb. 17.—Mrs. Ivey Coffey
died in a Hiekory hospital Monday
as a result of a shot fired by her
six-year-old son on Sunday morning
at her home in the Carey's Flat sec
tion. On Saturday night Mrs. Cof
fey's brother came to spend the night
with her, and brought with them a
little .22 rifle. The rifle was placed
under or about the bed where the
boys roomed. Next morning when the
boys were ready to return to their
home, they and Mr. Coffey were ou‘
in the yard and one of the boys said
to the other. "Don't forget your
gun." The little boy heard this, went
into the house for the gun. pleased
to get to carry it out. Mr. Coffey and
the boys louring the report of a
shot, hurried into the house where
they found Mrs. Coffey sinking to the
floor with the wooden cleaning rod.
which was in the gun. shot into her
neck. The rod pierced the neck, pass
ing out on the back side. Mr- Coffey
pulled the rod out and placed his
wife on the bed. As he did so he
noticed that the bullet from the rif'e
had entered her neck at another
place. Dr. W. T. Shipp, of Mortimer,
was called immediately and she was
given attention.
Realizing the seriousness of her
condition, Dr. Shipp rushed her to
a Hickory hospital where an X-ray
picture was made- This examination
showed that the stick had cut the
spinal cord in her neck and that
death wns only a few hours ahead.
It is not known how the little boy
happened to shoot his mother, it is ,
not known whether he snapped the
gun at her for fun as he passed her
or whether he was working with the
lock and let it go off.
Mrs. Coffey was taken back to
Carey’s Flat for burial. She is sur
vived by her husband and four lit
tle children, thi oldest being six
years and the youngest a four
months’ old baby.
Disapproves LaGuardia Resolution.
Washington, Feb. 18.—(4*) —The
House judiciary committee disapprov
ed today the resolution introduced by
Representative JfaGuartiia, socialist
of New York, asking the Attorney
General to furnish Congress with in
formation about an alleged bread
trust.
The committee acted after receiving
a communication from Attorney Gen
eral Sargent stating that a suit in
equity already had been filed in Bal
timore against the Ward IBaking
Corporation and its subsidiaries.
Mr. LaGuardia’s resolution mention
ed the United Bakeries Corporation,
the Ward Baking Corporation, Conti
nental Baking Corporation, the Gen
eral Baking 'Corporation, and the
Ward Food Products Corporation.
The Attorney General said that in
view of the pending suit it would not
serve the public interests to reveal
further details of the evidence colect
ed by the government.
Near Alhambra, California, is a
rose bush 50 years old, more than
four feet in clrcumierence at the
bottom with vines 123 feet in length.
The first negro woman to 'be ad
mitted to the Virginia bar in the
history of the state was L. Marian
Poe, of Washington, D. C.
The Concord Daily Tribune
North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
Thinks The Aluminum
Company Can Sustain
' Manner Os Operation
Senate Is Told by Senator
Cummins That Contempt
» Charges Cannot Be Suc
i cessfully Maintained.
WANTS SENATE TO
DROP THE MATTER
\
The Senator Also Chal
lenges the Rright of the
i Senate to Make Further
Investigation of Case.
Washington, Feb. 18.— UP) —After
a full investigation the Department of
Justice has reached the conclusion
that contempt proceedings against the
Aluminum Company, of America
cannot by any possibility be success
fully maintained.
This announcement was made today
by Chairman Cummins of the Senate
Judiciary Committee in a minority
report opposing the Senate investiga
tion as to whether the Aluminum
Company, in wlrch Secretary Mellon
is a large stockholder, had violated
the Federal court decrees of 1012.
The question whether the Senate is
to supplement the Department of Jus
tice and Federal Trade Commission
investigatiou was a sjieeial order of
business for today. Involved in the
controversy is the whole question of
the extent to which the Senate inquir
ies are to be'ordered in the future.
Senator Cummins said the Depart
ment was “in possession of all the in
formation known or believed to exist,
including not only everything that was
available to the Federal Trade Com-
mission, but also any items of infor- ;
mation submitted to the commission.” '
“After carefully considering the 1
entire case and exhausting every avail
able source of information.” Senator 1
Cummins said "the Department has 1
reached the conclusion that contempt
proceedings cannot by any possibility '
be successfully maintained.“
In view of the findings Senator '
Cummins challenged the legal right of
the Senate to make further iuvestiga- :
tion. '
"It is the judgment of the minority ,
of the committee,” the re|>ort added, ,
"that there is no constitutional an- ■
tbority for the resolution (of investi- ■
Ration) recommended in the majority i
report, that if the course indicated in i
the proposed resolution becomes the i
settled practice of the Senate the ov- <
erthrow of our form of government is
certain to result.
"The struggle which must ensue
will end either in the complete subor
dination -of the executive or judicial ]
branches of the government to the; i
legislative branch, or in subjecting the i
legislative power *to the executive ■ <
power. Stripping the proposal to en- i
ter upon this inquiry of everything I
save its bare essentials, it means just I
this, no more and no less.
“The Senate because it doubts the !
conclusion reached by the Department
of Justice, is to try the Aluminum Co.
for alleged violation of the decree. If i
it finds the defendant guilty it will
then set about discovering a lawyer i
who holds the senate’s opinion, and di
rect the President to employ him.
“We deny the right or power of the 1
Senate to try this ease. We deny the
jurisdiction of the senate or any com
mittee of the senate to summon und I
hear witnesses upon the issue of a vio
lation of this decree.”
DAPPER YOUNG MAN
POSES AS DUKE AGENT
Said to Have Cashed in Strong In
Various Cities In the Two Caro-
Unas and Georgia- I
Durham, Feb. 17.—Charles May- j :
□ard, represented as a dapper young ;
man with a dissipated appearance. ,
has been “cashing in” on his repre- ,
sentation in North nnd South Caro- ,
lina and Georgia cities that he is an .
agent of Duke university, according '
to numbers of reports that come to
Prof. R- L. Flowers, business head of
the institution, most of them through
the Fidelity bank, of Durham, on
whose checks Maynard is sard to
have received money.
Dunn, N. 0., Camden ami Colum
bia, S- C., and Augusta, G*., arc the
places from which Maynard signed | 1
checks have come tq Durham, the . <
bank reports. He was last heard ofj 1
about a week ago in Augusta, Gn.,! i
evidently working his way south- j ;
ward. • !
Duke university has no represen- I !
tative in the field now and never has, j
except during the summer months, |
and then with complete credentials,
Professor Flowers states.
Upward Trend of Food Prices.
Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 18.— UP) —
Southern restaurant owners want to
know how they are going to meet the
upward tread of raw food costs and
ndt increase the price of cooked food.
This and other problems of the res
taurant business are expected to give
restaurant operators of seven South
ern States a busy two days when
they meet here March 0 and 10 un
der the auspices of the National Res
taurant Association in the first con
vention of restaurant men eveF held
South of the Ohio and east of the
Mississippi. The meeting will be open
to all restaurant men in Tennessee,
Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
bama, Georgia and Kentucky.
A woman who died in London some
months ago is said to have left the
longest will oil record. It consisted
of more than 1,000 sheets of ninety
words each.
CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1926
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GI TENBERG BIBLE
SOLD FOR $106,000
One of 45 Copies Known to Exist of
First Book Printed in Movable
Type.
New York, Feb. 18.—A Gutenberg
Bible, one of 45 copies known to be
in existence of the first book printed
with movable type, has been sold
for $10(5,000 to I>r. A. S. Rosenbach,
>f Philadelphia. The price sots a
new record for copies of the work.
The two volumes of the Ilible,
printed by John Gutenberg in Mainz
in 1455. contain 324 and 317 leaves,
respectively.
The highest previous price for a
copy of this rare book was slightly
esn than $(50,000. paid in 1025 for
the Mnzarin copy by Carl Pforz
dcimer. New York broker.
The first Gutenberg Bible to come
to the United States was bought in
1847 by James Lennox for $2,500.
The second day, tile Ellsworth, was
bought in 187. by George Brindley,
of Hartford, Conn.
The Bible* bought last night at the
Anderson Galleries is known as the
"Melk" Bible, because of its posses
sion by the Benedictine monastery
in Melk, Austria. It gains additional
value by the fact that of the 45
copies still extant ofthe 300 in the
original edition, it is of less than
a score in perfect condition.
DAVIDSON LOYALTY
FUND IS STARTED
Dr. Jesse C. Rowan Enumerates
Three Outstanding Needs of College.
Davidson, Feb. 17—Advancing the
idea of a Davidson College loyalty
league at the home-coming celebra
tion of this institution last October
30. Dr. Jesse C. Rowan, president
of the Davidson College Alumni As
sociation, today followed up his idea
and formally set in motion what be
terms "The Davidson Loyalty
Fund,” in a letter mailed to alumni
of Davidson College today.
Assorting that "one of the recog
nized. admitted and outstanding
needs of Davidson College is an
alumni secretary; another great need
is providing for her professors an
opportunity to travel, and a third
need is a greater provision for
athletics,” Dr. Rowan then cxplaius
the method of becoming a contribu
tor to the fund, stating the money re
ceived from such donations will be/ J
distributed among the three need.-T 1
mentioned, one-third to go to each
cause.
American Paper Money May Be Made
Smaller.
Washington, Feb. 18. —American
paper money may be reduced in size ;
to that of the Philippine currency in i
the interest of efficiency, economy and t
convenience. That the change is be- t
ing considered was disclosed to the j
House appropriations committee by ;
Herbert D Brown, federal efficiency 1
expert, whose testimony was made
public today. s
The Philippine bill, he said, is ,
about two-thirds the size of the Amer- ;
lean puper, and "every one who has ,
lived in'the Philippines testified that |
it is a more convenient size.”
' Mr. Brown told the committee tthnt (
the bureau of efficiency had effected
the saving of $585,480 by eliminating ]
duplication of work and revising
methods of business in government
bureaus and departments. i
t
FRED TATE CHAIRMAN [
OF PIEDMONT BOOSTER (
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High Point Man Elected at Meeting <
Held During Day alt Salisbury. i
Salisbury. BVb. 18.—C4>) —Frol ,
Ttate, prominent furniture manufac
turer of High Point, was named per- |
manent chairman of the Piedmont |
Boosters in meeting here today to form ,
an organization to push this section ;
of the state. The meeting is being at
tended by about 125 prominent citi
zens of this section, representatives of
a score or more towns. Following a ,
dinner served at a local hotel the ,
meeting went into executive session t
to perfect the organization.
“Rules of Sportsmanship” at David-
Davidson, N. "g' Feb. 18— UP)—
Coach William L. (Monk) Younger,
director of athletics at Davidson Col
lege, and prominent in athletic coach
es in North Carolina for a number of
years, has made public his “Rules of
Sportsmanship” which he drills into
his players regularly.
They follow:
“1. Show courtesy to your oppon
ents—be gentlemen and ladies—and
treat opponents as such.
“2. Play the game according to the
spirit of the rules—fair play.
“3. Abide by the decisions of the
offic : als without remarks or heckling.
“4. Be courageous losers, but do
not give up when the score is going
against you. Play your best to the
end—have grit.
“5. Be a modest winner. Do not
boast of the victories or ‘rub it in.’
Cheer your opponents—applaud good
plays of both teams. Take pride in
upholding the good ‘Wild Cat Spirit’
of our college. Good sportsmanship
between contestants leads to friend
ship.
“When the one Great Scorer comes
To write against your name
He writes—not that you won or lost,
But how you played the game.”
Earthquake Shock Felt.
Log Angeles. Feb. 18.— UP) —A long,
slow earthquake shock rocked Los
Angeles and vicinity starting at 10:17
o'clock today.
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Her Smile Means Sunshine
Miss Est el la Southard of Joplin Mr hue teen chosen as the "Ozark Smile
Url by the Ozarks Playground Association The choice was made because
Os her smile which the members declared was symbolical of sunshine.
INJURIES TO IH.
BKAPfmi
Son of R. F. Boger, of Th&
This County, Dies in
Hospital From Injuries
Received Saturday.
Charlotte. Feb. IS.— (4>) —A. N. Bo
ger. 39, of Charlotte, who was injured
Saturday night wheu run down by au
automobile, died at u local hospital
today. He was n son of R. F. Bo
ger, of near Concord. His wife was
Mess Carrie Laughlin, of Concord, be
fore her marriage.
D. H. Alexander, Greenville, S. C.,
salesman, is being held charged with
running down Boger, and T. C.
Mauney, of Stanly Creek, who also
suffered injuries, but who is expected
to recover.
Alexander is at liberty under a $5,-
000 bond.
Electrical Energy of Western North
Carolina.
Asheville, N. C., Feb. 18.—(4*)—
Western North Carolina lias a poten
tial electrical energy supply of 1,-
500,000 horsepower, including devel
oped and yet unharnessed sources, it
has been shown by the government
survey of the Tennessee River and its
tributaries reaching westward, con
ducted by army engineers.
Sites for- plants to develop this
power would be found for the most
part on the French Broad, the Pig
eon. Little Tennessee and Hiawassee
Rivers, the survey indicated.
There will be Lenten service at the
St. Andrews Lutheran Church this
evening at 7:30. The public is cor
dially invited.
jOA.'/KA
says:
Most men can look into
any woman’s eyes and j
say “I love you” with a i
free conscience and with- 1
out a quiver.
Watch thU paper tor far- j
fker netoa of Joanna’t thrill
ing love itory.
What Would You
Do With a
Million Dollars?
TO iTINUE SALE"
of iirim. coins
Coins Will Be Kept on Sale
Until March 17th as Part
of Harvest Campaign,
Hollins Ranlodph States.
Atlanta, Ga., Fob. 18.—UP)—Al
though the harvest campaign for the
sale of the South’s allotments of Con
federate Memorial half dollars has
closed in most of the states, the roc7
ord of coins purchased will be kept
open until midnight March 17th.
This announcement was made today
by Hollins N. Randolph, president of
the Stone Mountain Confederate Mon
umental Association. Mr. Randolph's
statement follows:
‘'The Association now is making up
a record of Confederate Memorial'half
dollars purchased in each southern
state and every city and town in the
harvest campaign. The record will
be written in a .separate book for
each state, with separate pages for
each town and city. These books will
be deposited in a vault provided for
that purpose in Stone Mountain Con
federate Hall.
‘‘The campaign closed in Virgin
ia, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississ
ippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee
and Alabama. It will close in Flori
day, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and
Missouri on March Ist.
According to a statement given in |
Charlotte yesterday by Cameron Mor
rison of the sales work in that state,
the North Carolina campaign closes
March 17th.
i DAMAGES RESULTANT
OF CIVIL WAR GIVEN
Texas Woman Awarded Claims For
Damage Caused By Federal Sol
diery' In Louisiana.
Washington, Feb. 17—Settlement
of a civil war claim for damages
made by the federal forces was voted
today by the senate in approving a
bill authorizing payment of .$7,60.07
to Mis. Winona A. Dixon, of Dallas,
Texas.
Mrs. Di >n, who now is 75 years
old, is tlie sole heir of two plantations
near Port Hudson. I/a., which were
occupied during the war by uniion
troops under Geenral N. P- Banks,
who seized about 300 boles of cotton
to use in fortifying defenses.
While similar seizures were made
in many instances during the war,
Mrs. Dixon’ claim was allowed by
the court of claims on the grounds
that her mother, who died during the
war, was friendly to the federal
! forces and assisted them.
1 The parents of Mrs. Dixon, Mr.
I and Mrs. Ambrose, died during the
war and the sister and brother of
Mrs. Dixon died shortly after, leav
-1 ing her the sole heir. The court ruled
that cotton and property valued at
i $11,500 was seized by General
Bank’s troops but held that the
brother of Mrs, Dixon was not loyal
to the .union cause although she and
■her sisters were. It. therefore, al
lowed the claims of two-thirds of this
sum.
Mrs. Dixon first entered suit for
| the damage in 1002, stating in a
1 petition that she had not done so
sooner because of advice of attor
neys. The bill was pressed for action
by Senator Shepperd, Democrat, of
Texas. It must be approved now by
. the house.
Thirty-Five Dead And
Like Number Missing
In Utah Mining Town
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TAYLOR CHARGES HIS SON
WAS “BRUTALLY MURDERED”
Father of Convict Who Died in No
vember Will “See Whole Thing
Through.”
Tuscumbia, Ala., Feb. 18.— UP) —
Charging that bis son. Hoote Taylor,
had been "brutally murdered.’’ J. W.
Taylor, father of the Colbert county
convict, who died in November at
Flat Top mines, today announced his
intention to "see the whole thing
through.”
In a statement he declared that the
exhumation of the body of his son
yesterday near Tow Creek “revealed
just what I expected.’’ The autopsy,
he said, bore out his contention that
his son died as a result of a beating
administered him shortly after he was
sent to the mines.
The aged parent was present when
his son’s body was exhumed and
watched every detail of the examina
tion by Dr. H. C. McCullough and
the coroner's jury. Mr. Taylor in
a lengthy statement today said that
he expected to enter suit against of
ficials of Flat Top after those al
leged to have been responsible for the
man's death had been “punished to
the fullest extent of the law.”
“My son never suffered from heart
trouble, and he did not have any
habits that would bring on such at
tacks," said the aged parent.
“The mystery about the whole af
fair is why my son was sent to the
coal mines when he had only one eye
and one good hand. He could not
have possibly made a full hand at
digging coal. The attorney general
will be asked to take up the inquiry
immediately.”
Prison .records showed the man died
from a complication of diseases, prin
cipally heart failure.
The verdict of the coroner's jury
after the autopsy told of finding num
erous bruises about the body.
BUNCOMBE NIGHT SCHOOLS
Practically 4,000 Illiterates Have
Been Taught to Read and Write.
Asheville, N. C., Feb. 18.—OP)—Ap
proximately 4.000 illiterate adults of
Buncombe county hare been taught
to read and write in the community
night schools now in operation, since
the schools were begun in October
of 11)19, records of the night school
. system show.
When the schools wore started it
was found that there were 0,000
adults in the county who could not
read a newspaper or write a letter.
The curriculum of the night schools
is especially adapted to adults who
have been particularly backward in
their earlier school days, or who have j
never attended any school. It includes
reading, writing, arithmetic, spelling,
English and geography.
The schools are supported jo’ntly
by the county and the City of Ashe
ville. A cooking instructor’s salary
is paid by the state, the county and
the Business and Professional Wom
an's Club of Asheville.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Steady at Advance of 6 Points
to Decline of 3 Points.
New York, Feb. 18.— UP) —The cot-1
ton market opened steady today at j
an advance of 0 points to a decline;
of 3 points. Near months were rela- j
tively steady at the start on covering j
in sympathy with steady Liverpool |
cables, but late months were lower
unnder liquidation and selling against |
near positions.
Fluctuations showed continued ir
regularity in early trading. Buying
of new crop developed on reports that
farm work -would be delayed by the
rains reported this morning, but the
market was about 2 to 3 points net
lower by the end of the first hour. |
May selling at 19.59 and October at
18.10.
Cotton futures opened steady.
March 20.15; May 19.55; July 18.07;
Oct. 18.17; Dec. 17.85.
PROTEST “SALE” OF GIRLS
Moslem Youths Say They Can’s Pay
Russian Parents’ Price.
Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia. Feb. IS.
—Two hundred Moslem youths, wish
ing to marry, petitioned the govern
ment today to abolish the present sys
tem of “selling marriageable girls like
cattle.”
Complaining that times are bad and
the cost of living high, the swains say
they cannot pay t'.ie parents the pre
vailing compensation for young brides,
which consists of SIOO in cash, 100
pounds of sugar, thirty-five pounds of
butter, four pounds of Chinese ten,
thirty-five pounds of honey and two
pairs of shoes.
In addition to this the bride re
ceives from her spouse a dowry com
prising ten yards of material for n
coat, nine yards of satin, three woolen
shawls, two pairs of shoes, a woolen
neckerchief and a set of necklaces
and a bracelet made of old silver
coins.
Thomas Jefferson Randolph Dead.
Atlanta, Feb. 18.— UP) — Thomas
Jefferßon Randolph, great grand-son
of Thomas Jefferson, died early todny
at Charlottesville, Va., said a tele
gram received here by his brother,
Hollins N. Randolph, president of the
Stone Mountain Memorial Assoeia
. Hon. ,
Intelligent women who boast that
they "got out of’ jury service, then
sit at bridge tables and criticize every
' verdict rendered are the target of a
recent bulletin issued by the Judges
and Jurora’ Association of Ohio.
t NO. 39 1
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Persons Were Killed When
valanche Crashed on the
Highland Boy Mining
Camp Without Warning.
FEAR 70 PEOPLE
HAVE PERISHED
Eighteen of Dead Bodies
Found So Far Have
Been Identified—Rescue
Workers on the Job.
Bingham, Utah. Feb. 18.— U P)—
Thirty-five known dead, with an equal
number cf persons missing was the
toll early today of the avalanche that
overwhelmed the Highland Boy min
ing camp at Sap Gulch near here yes
terday.
Officials directing the search of the
scrambled ruins of a score of build
ings, one a three-story frame boarding
place housing fifty persons, expressed
the belief that in the neighborhood
of seventy lives have been lost.
Frank A. Wardlaw, superintendent
of the I’tnh-Delaware Mining Com
pany which operates the Highlnnd
Boy workings, made up a list, of 29
missing persons which included only
the owners and losses of houses de
stroyed. He was unable to say how
many other persons might have lived
in the cabins, although it is known
there were some alien borders not
employed by the mining company.
Only eighteen of the dead have
been identified, and it is possible that
seventeen identified bodies were bodies
of those listed ns missing and be
lieved dead. On that basis, with on
ly fifty-five missing, the final death
toll would be in the neighborhood of
fifty-three.
Tiie rescue workers numbering
more than fifty were spurred on in
their attack upon the debrit by find
ing alive Jinnnie McDonald and bus
wife, owners of a boarding place.
They were found after more than
fourteen hours imprisonment under
the wreckage.
The McDonalds were brought out
late last night after all hope hud been
given up for those remaining buried.
LEAVES HER PERSONAL
PROPERTY TO HOSPITAL
i
Mrs. Alexander’s Bequest tb Institu
tion in Charlotte About $15,000.
Charlotte. Feb. 17.—Mrs. Wa’.te*
S. Alexander, prominent Chnrlotte
woman who died here recently, left
all of her personal estate, with the
exception of several small bequests,
to the Presbyterian Hospital, in fee
1 simple, it was learned. The hospital
will receive at least $15,000.
The trust department of the Com
mercial National Bank and R. A.
Dunn are joint executors of the es
tate.
The trust department ofthe Com
mercial Bank is executor under the
will of the late Walter S- Alexander,
who died May 29, 1924. and is ad- ;
ministering the estate for the chil
dren.
Mrs. Alexander left her property
j to the hospital as an additional me
I morial to the memory of her hus-
I band. She dedicated a room to the
: memory of her husband soon after 1
| his death.
j City Manager Plan is Pronounced
the Best.
i Charlotte, Feb. 17.- —An advocacy
of the city manager plan of govern
ment in preference to the commission
plan now in force in Charlotte, was
made by Louise Lipinsky, retiring
president of the Charlotte Merchants
Association, in the annual meeting of
the association held last night in the
Hotel Charlotte.
"I believe that the manager gov
ernment is the only way to secure a
business/!ike, efficient city govern
ment,” said Mr. Lipiinsky.
"The weakness of the commission
form is that the silary is not suf
ficient to keep the best men. In ad
dition to this, the men secured are
not trained in the work. With a
city, manager, enough could be paid
to secure a man who has made a
life work of just this sort of thing.”
Examples of cities winch nad
adopted this government were giveu
by Lipinsky. Greensboro and Cin
cinnati were pointed out as being
places where it had been successful.
Greensboro Jews Start Relief Drive.
Greensboro. Feb. 17.—Hebrews of
this city today at noon had secured
$17,000 of the $30,00 quota of this
city in the drive for funds for relief
of Jews in Russia, Poland. Rumania
and Bessarabia. They are confident
that the will obtain the remainder.
Several substantial gifts have been
made by Gentiles, although they are
not being solicited. The quotu for
t’he state is $200,000 and for the
i Usited States $15,000,000.
With Our Advertisers.
Only three more days of Efird’s
February Sale, Friday, Saturday and
Monday. Everything is included in
\ th'q sale—clothing, shoes, wearing
apparel and household needs.
Oranges, 65 cents n peck, and ap
; pics 50 cents a peck, at 19 North
Union street.
Two pants suits, $35.00, at Hoov
er's. In a host of 1926 patterns and
fabrics.
t
1 The United States and Russia are
' now the two foremost Jewish eoun
i tries in the world; they contain
* about three-fourths of the world's
Jews.
THE TRIBUNE
PRINTS r-A
TODAY’S NEWS TODATeji
REOPENING OF THE
MINUTE IB
500 Workers at Pittston
Went on Strike Because
of the Dispute Over the
Wage Rates.
MANY MINERS
ARE STILL IDLE
Company Hands .Could
Not Work at Jobs Be
cause Miners Refused to
Resume Dutis.
Wilkes Barre, I’a., Feb. 18. —
Trouble marked the reopening, of the
anthracite mines here today after
nearly six months idleness.
Five hundred workers employed by
the Pennsylvania Coal Company at
the No. 4 shaft at Pittsburgh went
on strike a few minutes after the re
sumption of operations.
The dispute arose over wage rates,
a sore spot in the upper hard coal %
district for years.
Trouble was also reported at the
Woodward mine of the Glen Alden
Coal Company on the west side, but J
operations were continued.
A score of company hands were
turned back from various operations
shortly after the opening of the mines J
because of lailure of miners to report
for work.
FORECAST CONFERENCE
AGREEMENT ON TAXES 4
■■ - P H
Hruse Conferees Expected to Win In
Fight. For Restoration of Inheritance.
Washington. Feb. 17.— After three '
days of wrangling over difference*
in the administrative provisions of h
the revenue bills, senate and kousfe
conferees prepared tonight to fight p
out the variations in tax reduction* M
voted by their respective chambers. p
The $125,000,000 in reduction* -
written into the bill by the senate in
addition to those approved by the ”
house has provided the conference 3
with issues on which neither side
tlius far his yielded. There are defi
nite indications, however, that both
will make some concessions in the
discussion ofthe rate schedules be- »
ginning tomorrow.
House conferees determined to >
have restored to the bill the
tance (ax eliminated by the senate, 7
and arc expected to win. Senate con- .'j
ferees, however, are expected to ob
tain their provision for greater re- !
ductions than voted by the house in
the surtax rat re applying on incomes* '
between $24,000 and SIOO,OOO.
The senate is expected to yield on!
its proposals to wipe out entirely the
taxes on automobiles and admissions,
in favor of reductions in these rates
from the present level.
The senate and house conferees
planned to hold separate meetings on
the question of the rates tomorrow *;
morning before resuming their joint
conference, which is held behind
closed doors. After a busy afternoon,
leaders of both sides tonight were
more optimistic that an agreement j
would be reached before the end of
the week, which they considered in
time for the tax reductions to be
nperesary if the bill is to become law
effective when first returns are filed
March 15.
Track Practice for Davidson Wildcats.
Davidson, N. C„ Feb. 18.— (A s )
Track practice for the Davidson Col
lege Wildcat cinder path trodders ’
will begin about February 20, accord- 1
ing to tin announcement made here
by Coach Tex Tilson.
With only five letter men back.
Coach Tiffion will have a number of
positions to be filled by new material.
The letter men who will be eligible for 3
the team this year are: Captain An
derson. Williford, Goodykoontz, Brand
and Calhoun.
Two Willed in Train Wreck. s
Watertown, N. Y.. Feb. 18.—(Ab-i V
Two men were killed today when the
New York Central passenger train
from Utica carrying New York sleep
ers ran head-on into a freight train
near the Caster Lake station. The
dead are: IV. Bell, engineer, nnd J.
C. Quinn, fireman of the passenger
train.
Owe* $1,033,000; Has S2OO.
New York, Feb. 18.—1^>—- Oliver
Morocco, theatrical and inot'on pic
ture producer, filed an involuntary pe
tition in bankruptcy in the Federal
court today. He listed his liabilities
at $1,033,000 and his assets at S2OO, s
Kissing under the mistletoe may
soon disappear, because the United
States Department of Agriculture has
started a drive to exterminate mistle
toe from our national forests.’ jig
SAT’S HEAR RATSI
— '
> Rain tonight. Friday generally fsiT:|
- and colder except possibly rain
i northeast coast. Fresh to stMMpf
i southeast winds, shifting to wcxteit?J
late tonight.