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ASSOCIATED < PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI " . ' ! SPINNING INOUSTRV 111 JUIMf SHOWED IMPROVEMENT TIIEHD Ler.s Spinndles Active in January Than December But Those Used Were on Longer Schedules. increaseTover LAST JANUARY Active Spindle Hours in January Totalled 8,358,- 813,620, an Average of 221 Hours Per Spindle. ■Washington, Feb. 19,—Of)—Active spindle hours in the cotton spinning industry during January totalled 8,- 813,(120, or an average of 221 hours per spindle in place, the Census Bu reau announced today. In December active spindle hours numbered 8,271,- 570.487 or 218 per spindle in place, and January a year ago they totalled • 8,403,240,400. or an average of 224. Spinning spindles in place January 31 numbered - 37.848,488, of which 32.803,150 were active at some time during the month, compared with 37,- 885.488 and 33.000,874 in December, and 37,800,000 and 33.180,758 in January a year ago. The average number of. spindles op erated during January numbered 37.- 334,400 or at 98.7 per cent, capacity on single shift basis; compared with 37,083.720 or at 99.5 per cent, capac ity in December; and 30.503.376 or at ,90.4 per cent, capacity in January a qbear ago. DUKE DEMANDED BIGGEST , MEN FOR UNIVERSITY Charged Officials on Death Bed to Fulfill His Order.—V is ion Never Impaired. Durham. Feb. 18.—" I charge you to get the biggest men in the coun try as members of the faculty of Duke university," Prof. R. L. Flow ers quoted the late James B. Duke as telling him while Mr. Duke was on bis sick bed. a few weeks before he died. “Dr. IV. P. Few is now on a trip through the middle west and east, Chicago, New York and Bos ton. on such a quest,” Mr. Flowers continue]. The statements were- made ft the n..uonl , meeting of tha Durham County Alumni association of Duke university tonight at the Washing ton Duke hotel, attended by about 150 men ami women. Other speakers were Rev. W. W. Peele, who made the point that the soul of the new university must be developed by the alumnae, and Miss Alice 51.. Bald win, dean of women, who told of what the women are trying to do to elevate the standard of women stu dents. and said efforts are being made to turn the May day celebra tion into a home-coming event for women. C. H- Livengood was elected presi dent for next year: D. AY. Newsom, vice-president, and B. U. Rose, sec retary-treasurer. Professor Flowers said Mr. Duke, contrary to expressed be'iefs, had an unusually good conception of what it takes to make a great uni versity. He wanted to build a plant equal to all needs, surround it with beautiful lakes, fountains unu. the virgin forests in the 4,000 acre Site bought', but he knew and charged that big men be brought to the in stitution. Plans had already been drawn for the university on the then Trinity college site a year before Mr. Duke's indenture, but Mr. Duke . was not satisfied until he went over the site finally bought, Mr. Flowers said. Be fore Mr. Duke died the buildings, practically as shown by architects drawing, had been staked out and plans for n seven-mile scenic boule vard all on the property, bad been discussed, he said. Thirty or 40 lantern slides, slow ing early buildings, the Trinity cam pus, bird’s-eye view of the coordinate woman's college, now being con structed, drawings and proposed plans for the greater university, scenes n the forests and plateau, were screened by Mr. Flowers. Prominent Methodist Deader is Im proving. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 18.—Dr. George R. Stuart, pastor of the First Methodist Church, and promi nent in Methodist circles throughout the South, who underwent a serious operation yesterday, today was re ported resting well and his recovery was expected? Dr. Stuart was attacked suddenly yesterday morning and was at once removed to the operating table. Dr. Stuart had never fully recov ered from the effects of a major operation for a stomach ailment five year ago. His physician said it was a recurrence of the same trou ble. Basketball T onight CONCORD Y KANNAPOLIS Y Admission 85c and 50c 8:15 last GAME 9F season The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily Sheriff? 1 fIET IMI ip Mrs. Lyda E. Larsen U a candidate for sheriff at Huron, 8. D.—the Brat woman In tha state to seek that office. Her husband Was sheriff fdr seven years, and during that time ■h« was in charge of the jail. DR. WHITAKER DIES SUDDENLY IT HOI At One Time President of North Carolina Metho dist Protestant Confer ence—Funeral Saturday High Point. r .Feb. 19.—OP)—Dr. Clifton Whitaker* at one time presi dent of the North Carolina Methodist | Protestant Conference, died suddenly | at his home here last night. He hail been suffering from high blood pres sure for some time, and apoplexy is thought to have caused his death. During his 35 years’ activity as a j minister of the gospel. Dr. Whitakerj held pastorates in Higli Point, Enfield, the Granville circuit, and near Lex- i ington. He gave up the ministry two j years ago to become a member of the High Point college faculty, a posi-i tkm he held when he died. r ' He is survived by a son, Clifton L. Whitaker. of Gastonia, a daugh ter, Mrs. W. L. White, of Greensboro, a brother. Rev. C. H. Whitaker, of Tobnccoville, and a sister, Mrs. W. C. Whitaker, of Enfield. The funeral will be conducted from the First Methodist Protestant Church this city Saturday at 2 p. m. and in terment will follow at Green Hill Cemetery, Greensboro. KILLING FROST FOR THE STATE PREDICTED, Generally Fair Weather is Predicted: For South Attlantic States, How ever. Washington, Feb. 19. —G 4» to killing- frost is predicted tonight as far south as northern Florida and light frosts may be expected nearly to Miami, the weather forecast said today. The bureau weather report stated that one center of a storm of wide extent and marked intensity is over northern Virginia. Barometer read ings are below 29.50 as far South westward as northern Georgia. The disturbance has been attended by widespread precipitation over thee ast ern half of the country, and numerous thunderstorms from Tennessee south to the Gulf coast. The storm, says the report, will move rapidly east-north-northeast ward. and will be followed by much colder weather, although generally fair in the Atlantic and Gulf states. The weather \Vill remain generally fair os Saturday with the exception of Ten nessee where cloudiness is predicted. The temperature will rise slowly to morrow along the south Atlantic coast. Storm warnings are displayed from Jacksonville, Fla., to Eastport, Me., and small craft warning from Bay St. Louis, Miss., to Jacksonville, Fla. COLD WAVE TO HIT EASTERN AREA TODAY Frost Probably Tonight A a Far South As Florida.—Rising Tem peratures Saturday. Washington, Feb. rapidly northeastward with increas ing intensity, the storm that buried sections of the middlewest under a , bliszard will bring considerably cold er weather to virtually the entire . Washington forecast district, with frost probable Friday night as far south as central Florida, the weath er bureau said tonight in its report of conditions. The cold wave still be accom panied by precipitation tomorrow iu the middle and north Atlantic states, the Ohio valley and lower Lake \ region but will give Way to general ly fhir weather and slowly rising temperatures Saturday. Rains fell in the middle Atlantic, east gulf and southern states, attended by numer ous thunder storms in the latter region. Countess Cstheart to Return Home. London, Feb. 19.—(4>>—The Count ess of Cathcart, ordered deported ; from the United States, has cabled to London that she hopes to be back here for the opening night of her play, “Ashea,” which' is to be produced i within three weeks. CONCORD, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 1926 CREW OP JAPANESE VESSEL FORCED TO 'CAT AND RAT MENU Fourteen Members of Crew of Taichin Maru No. 3 Were Rescued in Pacific Open by Tank Ship. HAD NO WATER FOR FIVE DAYS And For Twenty Days the Men Had Been Forced to Eat Rats and the Ship’s Cat, or Starve. San Francisco. Feb. 19. — UP) —With food and water gone after drifting more than a month after a storm bad rendered their vessel helpless, four teen of the thirty-one members of the crew of the Japanese steamship Tni shin Maru No. 3 were rescued in mid- Paeifie yewterdu.v afternoon by the Standard Oil Co. tanker Java Arrow. The other 17 of the crew who left the Taishin Maru in life boats are be lieved to have perished. When tile Japanese ship with its fuel exhausted nml its cargo jettison ed was sighted by the Java Arrow on its way from Y’okohama to San Fran cisco yesterday afternoon, the 14 sur viving members of the crew, including the captain, mates and engineers, had been without water five days and without food except rats and the ship's cat for 20 days. VASSAR TAKES BAN OFF GIRL SMOKERS Student Association Approves of Use of Two Rooms in College By Students. Poughkeepsie, Feb. 19.—One more ' of the barriers which students at about their actions on the campus ' collapsed last night when the self governing Student Association do- ' cided, by a large majority, to follow the lead of Bryn Mawr and permit 1 students to smoke. By a large majority the student ' I body voted to extend to those of its ! ; members who wish to smoke in spite of the fact that “it is still the desire ' | of the student body that you should 1 not exercise your liberty to do so,”i I tbe right to two indoor sinoking j places within the campus. I The Student Association's vote, art interpreted by spokesmen, meant 1 ■that the student representatives. .of which there is one to about every ' twenty-eight students, felt that the \ student would no lunges impose its will, prohibiting smoking, upon its members because of the growing j number of girls whose parents find no obpeetion to the practice. The ' Student Association agreed to this I by Its vote. Six yeors ago the Student Asso- ' Jeiation adopted rigid regulations and was backed up by the ro'tege trus | tees to the extent that they refused •to permit smoking even by em ployees In the buildings because of 1 fire laws. A year ago, in a questionnaire, 433 out of 957 students answering ad- j mitted they smoked. The Student Representatives, and subsequently the Student Assoein- ( tion, thereupon modified the smoking ' rule by a finding that the student ' body was opposed to smoking by , students anywhere on college proper ty and those who wished to violate ( this sentiment must indulge out of sight in remote places on the cam pus. Record Corn Raiser Tells Secret of His Success. Columbus, 0., Feb. 19.—C45)—Six teen hundred bushels of corn from a ten acre plot, an average of 95 bush els an acre from 130 additional acres, tabulation of 1.083 bills of corn before a “missed” one was found, and sev eral hundred bills averaging five 1 stalks to the hill, are the records set , Up by Ira Marshall, of Dola, cham- , pion corn raiser. • “Proper soil, proper cultivation and ' the right kind of season are what one needs for a crop like this,” he de clared while attending Farmers’ week here. “I had them all last year.” Alfalfa was raised seven consecu tive years on the ten-acre plot before the record-breaking crop was planted. Marshall used 200 pounds of acid phosphate to an acre as fertilizer. “I discovered that my soil would yield best when cultivated nine inches deep,” Marshall said. “I carefully watched my cultivation to that depth and cultivated the field five times.. When the horses stepped on a young plant, we transplanted new stalks in the field that night.” Freight Wreck at Salisbury. Salisbury. Feb. .19. — (A*) —Both tracks of the main line of the South ern railroad were blocked about mid night when several freight ears were wrecked in the southern limits of this , city, and all traffic over the road was blocked for several hours. The wreck age was cleared sufficiently at 8 a. m. for trains to resume their runs. No one was injured. Awarded Verdict. Lexington, Feb. 18—J. T. Grimes, fanner living east of the city, was > awarded a net verdict of SI,OOO damages against John Tl. Smith, I Confederate veteran, and Charles ' Everhardt, owner and operator of a ! J traction engine, sparks from which , are alleged to have caused destruc- I tion of the plaintiff’s residence in 1 1023. FEARED HERRIN MEN MIGHT START FIGHT ABOUT DNION LABOR Reoort Was Circulated in Evansville, 111., to Effect Herrin Miners Were Headed That Way. non-unF6n~mines ARE OPERATING No Herrin Miners Appear ed on Scene and Work Is Going Ahead About gs Usual in AU the Mines. Evansville, Ind., Feb. 19.— UP) —Tiie southwestern Indiana coal field, on the edge as tbe resoult of recent spo radic clashes between non-union min ers and union sympathizers, had a nervous twitch earjy today when n report was circulated that a band of Herrin, 111 , miners were en route here to aid in a campaign to close u(hi unlon mines. A report first given circulation by an Evansville police captain apparent- j ly was without foundation. The offi cer said his information came from a motorcycle scout. There was no invasion -fielay ahd a check of points along tbe Wabash River which separates Indiana aid Illinois disclosed there had been bo unusual influx. HAWTHORNE TELLS OF ARDUOUS FLIGHT Had Only 12 Slices of Bread in 18 Days After Escape From Dan nemora Prison. San Francisco, Feb. 19.—Law rence Hawthorne, hotel burglar, jail ed here yesterday) after a spectacular attempted flight from police who surrounded him in a local hotel, liv ed for eighteen days on twelve slices of bread following bis escape from New York’s Dannemora Prison, ac cording to a story told to me police. The twelve pieces of bread, he de clared, he had smugled Into his shirt at three meals in the prison camp just prior to his escape. This was the only food he could seerete without notice of the guards, he said. Half starved, he said, he wandered for thirty-one day* in the Adiron dack Mountains, on several oeets ions being nearly frozen to dea.L during heavy snows. Hawthrone appeared proud of his neeomp’ishment.s and the manner in which he hud faced what he termed "tremendous hardships.” Once during his westward flight, all of which was mane by the “brake beam route,” he was taken into custody by a constable in a small town. “But I talked my way out of that easy enough." he said. "Y’ou can al ways kid a constable—and a swift kick is easier to take than a slow term.” His “wife,” Hawthorne declared, met him in Los Angeles “by pre nrrangeinent.” Hawthorne continued today in his refusal to detail his activities during ins flight from New York. Admitting the Biltmore Hotel burglary in Los Angeles, lie insisted this was his only “job.” Police, however, are convinced they will get a confession from him covering numerous hotel burglaries throughout the country. Charges Association Uses Propaganda. Washington, February 19. —OP)—A charge that the American Forestry Association had conducted a campaign of propaganda throughout the country in behalf of policies of the forestry service of the agriculture department was made today by Chairman Stan field, of the Senate public lands com mittee. In times of prolonged drought, magistrates and barefooted women used to ascend to the Cnpitoline Hill outside of Rome in solemn proces sion. says: I know what you mean when you say I was made for somebody to love—you’d like to be that somebody I W*c* thU p Offer for fur ther MW* of Joonna't thrill imp love ttorp. j What Would You j ! r Do With a pjX Million Dollars? | At West Point! HP = K '*i#\ V y Srlg. Gen. Merch B. Stewart wilt sue :eed MaJ. Gen. Frederick W. Sladen »oon 88 superintendent of West Point Military Academy. This is Gen. Stewart's latest photograph.. PIHOHf IBl” CALLS OFF WORK Has No Temperature and Pulse Is Normal But He Decides to Remain in Bed Another Day. Washington, Feb. 19.—(A3)—Presi dent Coolidge cancelled today's cabi net meeting and remained in bed seeking relief from a heavy cold from which he is suffering. T'ae cabinet session and a confer ence with Director Lord, of the budget bureau, which also was called off. were the only morning engagements of the President. He planned to get up later in the day and go to the execu tive office for a semi-weekly confer ence with newspaper correspondents. The President's pulse and tempera ture are normal, it is said, and by re maining in bed he was merely seeking to conserve his strength. BALKS AT $lO FINE; TRIES TO HANG SELF Ernest Bullock Almost Lynches Himself With Belt—Policeman Comes to His Rescue. Raleigh, Feb. 18—Ernest Bullock, ten dollar misdemeanant, almost lynched himself today in the city jail. When objecting to a tine of sl9 and costs he swung himself up by his belt and was almost gone when Policeman Paul Thompson found him. liullock evidently had not stolen the coat which he was wearing to a dance, but had worn it against the wish of a rival. He said he would rather die than go to the roads for something that lie had not done and he probably would have died but for Mr. Thompson. It took some minutes to bring Bullock "to” when he was found. Judge W. C. Harris, hearing the facts, put a fine of $lO and costs on the black who had thought he was sure to go to the roads. He can pay the $lO. MISS MARION TALLEY ON THE AIR TONIGHT Youthful Star Who Has Just Writ ten Her Name on Scroll of Fame Will Be Heard in Popular Songs. New York, Feb. IS.—Old songs still emerge ns favorites between the leaves of newly learned opera scores for Marion Talley, the 19-year-old “Gilda” of last night’s Metropolitan opera triumph. With the unprecedented applause that followed her singing of “Caro Nome" still ringing in her ears on the day after her debut in "Rigo letto,” Miss Ta ley announced today that when she sings tomorrow night over the radio from station 'WJZ at 9 o’clock, eastern time, she will include in her program “.Coming Thro’ the Rye” and "Home Sweet Home.” -Seaboard Construction in Florida tin der Consideration. New York, Feb. 19. of the S. A. 1,. Railway said today that the proposed new construction in Florida as announced yesterday from Baltimore by President S. Davies Warfield still was under considera tion. and that no definite announce ment would be made for a few days. The Company contemplates adding 037 miles of trackage to the Seaboard Rystem, with new Cut off linking up the Atlanta-Birmingliam line and Savan nah-Birminghain lines with the Flor ida lines. Farm Relief Bill in Senate. Washington. Feb. 19.—04*)— A bill by Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, embodying the Vrooman plan for farm relief, was introduced in modified form in the House today by Representative Old field, of Arkansas, the Democratic whip, Jimmy Michael, the wondeful Welrfn bicycle racer of years ago, stood 5 feet 1 inch and weighed less than 100 pounds. ' <v. ; The Sun Mysteriously Stirred up, Influence Unknown to Astronomers • Washington, Feb. 19.—t/P)—Sci entists assert that immense cosmie forces 93.090,000 miles away are mobilizing to bring their influence to bear upon the affairs of man. Tiie sun has been mysteriously stirred up. As a result of some influ- ] cnee unknown to astronomers, the sun apparently is entering upon the | maximum phase of its eleven year cy-1 do qf activity ahead of schedule and its incandescent atmosphere is devel oping more of tbe bilge whirls and eddy's known as sun spots. Mariners are blaming the large sun spots for tbe terrific storms that have been swamping ocean vessels. This tiie experts' deny or if there is any direct connection betweon the spots and tiie storms, they at least are not aware of it. A single spot 110,000 miles by 35,- 000 miles recently was photographed by the U. 8. Naval Obsevatory. as well as a group of spots extending 175.000 miles, or almost twenty-two times the diameter of the earth. As tronomers say the number of sjsits will increase for at least another year, possibly two, until the maximum ac tivity is reached sometime between late 1920 and 1928. What will be their effect on tiie earth? Will they cause great dis turbances in the weather, earth quakes, electrical! storms? Several scientists have given corroborative but reassuring answers. None expresses any anxiety. Ik'. William J. Humphreys of the Weather Bureau here says that sun spots will have some effect upon the weather—probably slightly cooler when the spots reaeh their maximum activity. But as to an effect on day to day or week to week weather, the bureau was skeptical. The opinion was that no general law would apply. Dr. Louis A. Bauer, director of the terrestial magnetism laboratory of Carnegie Institution, declares that while sunspots and magnetic storms are closely associated, if fairly long periods were taken for comparison the correspondence is not close enough to be used as a basis of prediction from day to day. “Sunspots may not be the direct cause of magnetic storms,” he adds. “It seems more probable that both are caused by a stirring up of the sol-, ar activity from a cause, probably electrical in its nature, of which we really know nothing. It is observed that in times when there are the most spots that there are many other signs of increased activity that prob ably causes both the sun spots and the magnetic storms.” Sol*t- activity means beat and when t lie re are the most spots the sum usu ally is hotter, asserts Dr. F. E. Fowle, THE COTTON MARKET Opened Barely Steady at Decline of 1 j to 6 Points.—March Off to 20.08. i New York, Feb. 19.— UP) —The cot ton market opened barely steady today j at a decline of 1 to 6 points in re- j sponse to relatively easy Liverpool | cables but after selling off to 20.08 1 for March and 18.13 for October J steadied on continued coveriug by near months shorts and some trade! buying of later deliveries. General business was quiet, the market holding fairly steady at the) end of the first hour when active I months were about net unchanged to 3 points lower. Expectations of bearish weekly sta-| tisties were probably a factor in the opening decline, but near month cov ering here was accompanied by rum ors that there would be further ship- j ment of 3,000 bales out of the local certificated stock which was drawn to less than 20,000 bales yesterday. Cotton futures opened barelv steadv. March 20.10: May 19 53; July 18.90; Oct. 18.14; Dec. 17.80. Fritz Krelsler Stops Over in Char lotte. Charlotte, Feb. 18.—Fritz Krcis ler, world-famed violinist, spent sev eral hours in Charlotte Wednesday as an unheralded visitor, stopping here for a rest before going to Greensboro for an engagement there. The violinist found nil old ac quaintance in Charlotte in the per- j son of J. N. Hoffman, manager of | Hotel Charlotte. Mr. Freisler recall-1 < ed his visit to Charlotte several j years ago when he appeared in a I concert at city auditorium. New Organization Proposes ' To Develop North Carolina Salisbury, Feb. 18.—North Caro lina, incorporated, is the name of a concern that came into being here to day for the avowed purpose of pro moting the agricultural, commercial, industrial and resort development of the stnte of North Carolina. The name was selected and the pur poses established when a body of rep resentative citizens from a number of towns in tlhe ■ piedmont section adopted almost without change and with a rising vote of thanks the re port of a committee which had been appointed at a meeting held here Jan uary 20th. The report was made by Mr. Ketehum, secretary of the Cham ber of Commerce, of Greensboro, who explained how the committee had de cided upon each item. More than a hundred men were present around the dinner tables of the Yadkin Hotel, representing busi ness and professional callings, cham bers of commerce and municipal or ganizations. Fred N. Tate, of High Point, was selected permanent chair man of the meeting, and L. S. Moody, secretary of the Salisbury chamber of commerce, secretary. NO. tfij iJr.. of the astro-physical observatory of the Smithsonian Institution. This does not mean a hotter earth, he cx , plains, recalling the Mnmphrey state | ment. Reasons for this paradox are ; long and complicated, but Dr. Fowle , gives a hint as to how this ro'-’ •I happen: "If the sun got hot enh more evaporation from ”''” _<rn« there would be' more clott-.uess and more rain on laud and cooler weath er.” Smithsonian officials believe that small changes in solar heat have a fairly dose relation to ensuing weath er on earth, but do not think it pos sible for advance weather predictions. That there is a definite, although as yet not dearly defined relationship between sunspots and weather, is thought likely by Dr. Robert De C. Ward, professor of climatology at Harvard University. “The discovery of an eleven year sunspot periodicity in the magnetic phenomena of. the earth." he says, "naturally lias led to investigations of similar periods in weather. Numer ous studies have been made back even into the Seventeenth century, but the problem is difficult and obscure be cause weather itself is a complex.” Predicting sunspots is something like predicting snowstorms on earth, declares Prof. Charles C. Wylie, as tronomer at the University of lowa, who adds: "You know that in the long run you will get sunspots every 1.17 years, just as you know that you will get snowstorms every twelve months. But you miss the storms by a month or so and you may miss the spots by* a couple of years.” I’rof. S. A. Mitchell, director of the Leauder McCormick Observatory at the t University of Virginia, sees no relationship between sunspots and weather. "When spots are varying in num ber as they are, it is sometimes easy to juggle figures in order to prove a connection with some other event that also varies. In ninety-nine per cent, of the cases the connection is illusory.” Weather at the earth’s equator be comes warmer at times of sunspot ae | tivity and cooler near the poles, in the opinion of Henry Helm Clayton, me teorologist working in connection with teorologlst. working in co-operation with Smithsonian at Canton. Mass. The bureau of agricultural eco nomics does not believe cooler weath er conditions will be sufficient to in fluence wheat prices. Several at tempts have been made to work out cycles of prices, but none has approx imately coincided with sunspot cycles. INHERITANCE TAX WILL NOT BE ELIMINATED Conferees Have Agreed to Put THos Particular Tax Bock on the Bill. Washington, Feb. 19.—OP)—An early agreement between the confer -1 ees on the tax bill by which the in j heritanee tax will be restored to the measure was freely predicted today as- I ter another two-hour conference of representatives of the senate and house. The inheritance tax which the Sen ate has voted to repeal has been the main stumbling block to final agree ment. In yielding to the restoration of the inheritance levy it was indicated that the Senate would gain its point for a retroactive cut on this levy by which the increased rates voted two years ago would be wiped out in favor of the lower rates in effect in 1921. The conference which broke up for awhile yesterday during the fight on the inheritance tax. reached another crisis today. Senate conferees in formed the House how far they were willling to go on a compromise, and left the conference until later in the day. House conferees considered the proposal for another hour, and indi cated they expected an agreement be fore tonight. Mr. Griggs Declines Call. Charlotte, Feb. 18. —Rev. W- L. Griggs, of North ' Wilkesboro, to whom the Ninth Avenue Baptist church here recently extended a call, will be unable to accept the call according to a letter from his Thurs day Carl Balliett, of Greensboro, gave a review of the work of the prelim inary meeting of January 20th. The reading of the report of the commit tee appointed at t'.iat meeting brought out discussion on several of its pro visions. especially those relative to the boundaries of the organization as the final vote settled the matter the or ganization is statewide, but will for the present and until other sections join in its activities, devote its efforts to the advancement of the piedmont section. The eommmittee estimated that the total amount raised under its plans will be $150,000. The per capita tax now fixed for eaA city and town participating is 20 cents per inhabi tant per year for not less than three years. Wade Phillips, director of conservation and development for the state, pledged his department to as sist the organization by helpful co operation. The meeting adopted a supplement i al report of the committee furnishing a tentative outline of procedure, and 1 left with Chairman Tate the appoint ing of a eommmittee to plan the or ganization. THE TRIBUNE ! PRINTS ! TODAY’S NEWS TODAYS RUDOLPH DISSE IS PUT TO DEATH FOR Ql ‘ V ING OF THREE 3 yam governor Byrd Refuses to " Save the Drug Store “Cowboy” Slayer From the Electric Chair. j | YOUTH KILLED 13 HIS PARAMOUR I Also Killed Rival and Po* lice Detective—Two Gov ernors Gave Attention to His Case. Richmond, Feb. 19.—C4 s )— Denied a J third reprieve. 21-year-old Rudolph i Disse, drug store "cowboy” slayer, paid the penalty in the electric chair at tlie State penitentiary here this i! ■ morning. Locked in his hotel room. Governor Byrd reviewed the ease until after : midnight last night before he refused to grant a reprieve to the youth who on July 28th slew Vivian Tornjjn Peers, beautiful model, and his para'- inour; J. Harvey Burke, Ricbmoifd police detective, and H. Grady Carter, rival in the triangular love affair. At 7:45 o'clock today it was an nounced from the penitentiary that Disse had been electrocuted. >1 The electrocution brought to and end one of the most famous murder * cases in the history of this city. Disse. sleek 21-year-oid youth,'char acterized the court in his trial as a young drug store cowboy, had been grunted two reprieves after being sen tenced to die October 7th. Te wa» brought to trial August 12th on four ' counts, he also having wounded J. Willis Britt, an automobile salesman who was talking with the girl and detectives to get her clothes which he had. when the triple slaying topic place. Tlie jury returned a verdict of guilty on August 20th and the date of execution was set for October , 7th. Governor Trinkle granted a reprieve i for a review of the ease but on No- I vember 17th the Supreme Court de nied the writ. Again on November 20th Governor Trinkle granted a re- . prieve that the sanity of the youth’s I mind be tested. He was declared sane January lltli and thereafter the governor refused to take any further action. - ~ Governor Byrd, who assumed office 3 February Ist, was asked to review the case and he too after a review 7 which lasted until after midnight last night, refused to stay the execution. . $ With Our Advertisers. Watch for Friday, March sth. Advance springtime footwear at the Markson Shoe Store, where you will find an extensive variety of the fav- j ored inodes for spring. There will be an auction sale at W. A. Holland's, Route 1. Concord, Jg on Tuesday, February 23rd, at 2 o'clock. Horses, cattle and farming tools will be sold. Robert-Wicks spring suit, S3O. $35 and S4O at the Browns-Cannon Co. Knox spring hats, $7.00 up. Tomorrow is the last day' of the special sale at the Coneord and Kan napolis Gas Co. You can buy a new range with oven heat control at $0 off regular price—s2.9B doit'll—lß ni' ni'us to pay—if you buy he fore they close tomorrow. See new ad. today of Bob's Dry Cleaning Co.. Master Cleaners. *] Stylish long pants suits for the lit tle fellows only $7.90, at J. C. Pen ney Co.’s. The Ritchie Hardware Co. has. just received a ear load of Pee Gee Phint. Now is the time to plans hyacinth ’ bulbs. All colors at Gibson Drug Store. Tlie Sanitary Grocery Co. deliver* promptly. Phones 670 and 686. The Cash Feed Store has the chick-* : on feed for you. See ad. 't ig Ladies’ new coats and dresses, shoes and hosiery, and the newest patterns !in smart silks at Efird’s. Last day of the February sale Monday. ,i Latest in spring footwear at Ruth- Kesler Shoe Store. Prices from $3.95 to $8.95. Basketball tonight, Concord Y vs. Kannapolis Y, at 8:15. Last game of the season. Admission 25 and 50 cepts. Last time today, “Lady Winde mere's fan,” at the Concord Theatre. Wild West No. 4 and comedy Saturt day. John Scaly Dies in Paris. New York, Feb. 19.— C4 5 )—John Scaly, Galveston, Texas, banker and chairman of the directors of the Mag nolia Petroleum Company, died in Paris yesterday, a private cable re ceived here today states. * BATS BEAR SAYSI > ■ »a . - Talc tonlfht and ftaturda,. much eoider tonight; colder on tbs coast nnd slowly rising temperature in the west portion Saturday. Strong north- -• west winds diminishing late tonight '
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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Feb. 19, 1926, edition 1
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