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VOLUME XXVI
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GOVERIEIT MUST
MUTE RIRt
HOOVER DECLARES
He Says If the Suit to De
cide the Matter Goes
Against Government Ra
dios Will Be Valueless.
CHAOS CERTAIN '
TO BE RESULT I
If Suit la Lost There Will
Be Rush to the Favorite;
Wave Lengths and Mix
up in Broadcasting.
Washington, April ft.—OP)—Con
tinual operation ot the radio broad
casting machinery on the North Am
erican continent depends on the out
come of the suit to test the powers of
the Commerce Deportment to regulate
t'.ie industry. Secretary Hoover said
today.
If the suit filjql by the Zenith Ra
dio Corporation in Chicago is decided
nga’nst the government, the Secre
tary said, the voluntary plan govern
ing assignments of wave lengths for
various stations would be killed, and
$800,000,000 or $000,000,000 worth of
receiving sets would be worthless to
the thousands of families now enjoy
ing this field of Amusemeut.
Complete chaos would also prevail,
he added, if the Senate failed to pass
the White and Dill radio bils, which
would give the Commerce Department
authority to govern the radio world.
Mr. Hoover declared the radio uet
of 1012 had been construed to give
the Department such authority, and
that if the courts ruled otherwise
there would be a rush to favored wave
lengths and a consequent tnixup in the
whole broadcasting field. There are
now more than SOO applications on file
for stations who desire wave lengths. I 1
AMERICAN MEN AS
HANDSOME AS ADS
Paris Man Says Our Women Are
Getting Prettier Every Day.
Special to Ney York World.
Paris, April 4.—American women
have no monopoly on the national
good looks, Jean Mabilais student of
beauty, announces to the Freseu
public throtgfh Paris Midi. American
JStmfaH&mis s:
cept millionaires. They are hopeless.
“American women are three times
prettier than ten years ago," he
writes, quoting the New York Hair
dressers Association for proof.
He says the coiffeurs did it by
passing 110,000.000 women through
their establishments.
“I have met very pretty women in
the United States." Mabilais con
tinues. "Must I believe they arc
three times prettier than before? '
What place on ‘ the beauty scale tor
Gloria Swanson in 1016? Is she
thrice higher now? Have Americans'
discovered the spring of eternal
youth? Have all the womeu diseov- !
ered Mary Pick ford's secret ot never
looking more thun twelve?
"If this goes on, must we believe
or wear, that American women will '
be thrice prettier again in teas years
more?
“Why this talk always about
American women? What about the
men? There is a category of superior *
being among them. You see them iu
advertisements brushing their teeth, '
fastening their ties or shoes,all com- *
plette athletes with faces like Adonis. 1
You also see them in life.
“Will all young Americans reach
this standard of beauty? Perhaps, 1
unless they are millionaires. For I
them there is no hope All the |
American millionaires 1 hare seen j
are ugly.”
Red Grange Pictures Found Un
profitable.
New York, April s.—The Arrow
Picture the company
which signed Red Grange to appear
iu motion pictures after his sensa
tional debut last year in professional
football was placed in tbe bands of
eqnity receivers today ou petition of
Motion Pictures Today, Inc,, a pub
lication.
The receivership was consented to
by the defendant corporation. Hie
petition sets forth the fact that the
company is a Virginia corporation
-with a capital of $060,000, that it is
at present unable to meet its obli
gations but that it has assets exceed
ing .SBOO,OOO, and has upon the mar
ket film productions from whioh a ,
profit may be expected. The corpora- ’
tlon was organised in September,
• 1924. 1
The order appointing receivers'
directs them to continue the business
for the benefit of creditors.
Shoulder Pet Latest Freak of Flap
perdom.
Danville, Va., April 4.—The shoul
der pet, flapperdom’s latest erase,
made its appearance in the fashion
parade today following the Easter
morning church services. Spring
finery was on display for the first
time with the shoulder adornment
offered as the piece de resistance.
Tbe shoulder pet is an imitation
animal made of cloth. Specimens on
display today ranged from the home
ly tom-cat to the more unwieldy ele
phant. Dresses in pastel shades, wide ,
brimmed hats, high shoes, scarfs in
the primary color* and shorter skirts
were the outstanding items on the
drew menu. f
The University of Havana has de
cided to send a team of athletes to j
tbe third annual relay barnlval at
Ohio Stata University on April 17.
The Concord Daily Tribune
RTRDS EXPEDITIOI
REE 01 FRIST LIP
OFMTIC OURNEI
Party Leaves New York on
Vessel, Chantier, Which
Carries All Equipment
for Long Journey.
CELEBRATION IS
HELD ON SHIP
! Explorers Celebrate the
16th Anniversary of Dis
covery of North Pole by
Admiral Peary.
New York. April (/P)Thc
Byrd Arctic expedition wiiieh seeks
to lift the mystery from much of Clio
great unexplored regions of the Arc
tie has started on its first lap to the
I’olnr regions. *
Today aboard ship the explorers
celebrated the lfttli anniversary of the
discovery of the North Pole by Ad
miral Peary.
After being towed from Pile Brook
lyn Navy Yard lnte yesterday after
noon the Chantier loaded witb-equip
utent fer the explorers anchored off
TompkinsvUle, Staten Island, for the
t ight, iu order to -tow away much
of the cargo which littered the decks.
“1 wish I were going," said John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Lieutenant
Commander Richard E. Byrd, the ex
pedition’s leader, as tbe Chantier cast
oft’.
INFANT LEFT AT DOOR
OF HOME OF FARMER
Fred Kirkpatrick Found One at
Door Steps Saturday Night.
Charlotte. April 5.—A soft, muf
fled ery in the black, bold night at
tracted Fred Kirkpatrick, a farmer
| of the Park Road section, to his
front door Saturday nigtir.
Upon opening the door he discov
ered a tiny tot, a little baby girl of
about four months experience in tbe
game of life, begging for attention,
according to an article in the Char
lotte Observer
Beside the small mite of humanity
was a suitcase containing clothing.
The baby was wrapped in its blan
kets, which were neatly packed
around it
There was no note. No trace of
ulx stiiii’S Libn was found. f No elite as
to whom could have left it upon the
front porch of Fred Kirkpatrick, a
bachelor of about 40 years. It was
there, ftnd let the world know it was
there.
Rural police were called to the
scene. The baby was removed to St.
Peter’s Hospital for attention, an,
is being held there awaiting ndvice
from M. M- Grey, city-county wel
fare officer. Police last night were
unable to communicate with Mr.
Grey.
Mr. Kirkpatrick told police that
he had heard an automobile stop in
front of his house and move off in
about ten minutes shortly -before he
heard the cries, which were first
taken for those of cars.'
The cries become more distinct
and Mr. Kirkpatrick, upon making
an investigation found an infant.
He lives with his sister.
The Greenwood Archers, an or
ganisation of bowmen of • Oakland.
Calif., are jubilant over the exploit
of one of their members in bringing
down a big covote with 'his bow and
arrow.
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CATHARUIE BRODY
This interesting serial will be pub
lished Ip The Tribune, the first In
stallment appearing. Thursday, April
Tornado Wrecks 100 Oil Derricks
f
One man lost his life, eight more were hurt and 100 oil derricks were
. knocked over when a tornado struck the oil fields iiepr Orange, ’ Texas,
Photo shows a view of part of the field after the disaster.
Wets Marshel Biggest
Guns to Forward Plan
To Bring Law Changes
♦
GERALD CHAPMAN HANGED
FOR MURDER OF OFFICER
Notorkus Murderer Meets Death
Calmly at Hour of Midnight.
WethersfiP’d Prison. Conn, April
ft. —Gerald Chapman, notorious rob
ber. who waged a bitter fight until the
end to escape the noose for the mur
der of a New Rritain polieemnn dur
ing a robbery October 10, 1924, died
on Connecticut’s new handing ma
chine early today. The machine was
sprung at 12:04 o’clock and Chap
man was officially pronounced dead
at 12:13.
Calm and unmoved to the end,
Chapman, whose career of crime had
become almost legendary, walked to
his death without even the consola
tion of dying within sight of a cruci
fix.
Chapman, whos real name was
George Chartres, the son of a re
spetable family, walked quietly td
We-jihtee-in rite blue- chalk cixxdie or i
the floor where the noose was adjust
ed. A few minutes later his life
which had encompassed some of the
most sensational crimes of the past
decade ended.
A guard on either side seized the
legs and steadied the body until it
became almost motionless. Deputy
Warden Starr nodded toward the
windlass closet and the body slowly
was lowered until the feet were near
the floor.
The room was in absolute silence
for a minute and then the tension
was broken by a cough by «one of the
witnesses and tbe faint sound of
pencils scratching on paper aH news
papermen made notes.
Two' guards removed the straps
from the dead man’s legs and arms
while the prison physician opened
Chapman's shirt, listening several
minfites through the stethoscope for
sings of heart action. Thep the med
ical examiner also applied the setho
qcope after whieh he whispered to
ihe deputy warden. Chapman was
officially dead in seven minutes and
five seconds after the second jerk.
With Our Advertisers.
Start now by taking some shares in
Series No. 57 of the Cabarrus County
B. L. & S. Association. Office iu the
Concord National Bank.
A new interest period in the sav
ings department of the Citizens Bank
and Trust Company began April Ist.
ALU deposits made in the savings de
partment on or before April 10th will
draw 4 per cent, interest from April
Ist, compounded quarterly.
“Abie’s Irish Rose” will be given at
the Charlotte Auditorium Wednes
day and Thursday nights of this I
week. Seats now on sale.
The Pearl Drug Co. has a warrant
for Mr. Flu. It’s drugs will sentdee
him to banishment.
Smart English felts in new Loudon
fashions at Robinson’s millinery de.
partment.
Beautiful spring footwear at $203
’oto $0.95 at Markson Shoe Store.
The Standard Buiek Co. has four
used cars for sale, two Fords, one
Willys-Kn’ght and one Chevrolet.
Victor Adding Macirnes. only SIOO
f o. b. Chicago. See ad. of Kidd-Frix
Music and Stationery Co.
All property on which the county
tax has not been paid will be adver-1
tised May 1. See notice of Sheriff
Caldwell.
Big Tire Sale at Yorke A Wadsworth
Company.
In order to move a big shipment of
Goodyear tires quickly the Yorke &
Wadsworth Co. will give you some
very attractive prices. There are no
“seconds" tires or tubes ! n their store,
and everyone is standard gauge. They
sell all tires at only a small margin of
profit, but back it with helpful service.
See-prices in a half page ad. today.
Aviators on Another Leg of Flight. I
Algiers. April 6.——Spanish flv- j
iators who are endeavoring to fly from |
Spain to Manila, hopped off today for t
Tunis. The first of the three machines
roe at 9 o'clock and the others follow
ed at 9:02 and 9:08. The av'ators
arrived here yesterday.
North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
CONCORD, N. t , TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 192^
Having Got Forces in Mo
tion With Little Spectac
ular Display They Move
to Next Stop.
ANDREWSFIRST
WITNESS TODAY
Buckner Will Be Called
During Day to Give His
Views on the Present
Dry Law.
Washington, April 6.—GO—Hav
ing got their forces in motion with
little spectacular display behind a
barrage of argument, the wet strate
gists marshalled their heavy guns of
testimony today to carry forward the
drive before the Senate Judiciary snb
eqmmlttee to modify the present bouit
chfrie* of prohibition enforcement.
The . government’s rhief enforce
ment officer. Assistant Secretary An
drews of the Treasury, waH their first
witness, to be followed by District
Attorney Bticker, of New York and
numerous others who will be called
upon to put into the record a picture
of conditions as they exist from a
wet viewpoint after six years under
the Volstead.
Mr. Andrews began his testimony
yesterday under oath and had not fits.ii
ished when the committee adjourned
an hour earlier than planned, until
this morning. He began by outlining
his policy of directing the Federal en
forcement efforts mainly toward the
drying up of large sources of -llicst
liquor supply, such us alcohol diver
sion, moonshining and smuggling, and
placing the burden of blocking rhe
numerous small channels of distribu
tion chiefly on the shoulders of local
police. He conceded that large in
creases in the Federal forces would be
necessary to accomplish his purpose.
As tbe liear'ng, the first compre
hensive Congressional inquiry into the
effects of prohibition, entered its sec
ond day, the wets had five more four
hour sessions allotted to them for
completion of their offensive against
rigid enforcement restrictions with
their technical objective committee
approval of one or more of the pend
ing modification bills, most of which
seek leg ! slation ofebd etaoin nu nuu
seek legalization of beer . and light
wines. The dry forces will have the
same time next week for their cam
paign against liberalization of the
law, and in favor of more drastic re
strictions.
Andrews Testifies.
Washington, April G —( A> ) —By the
j testimony of General Andrews, the
government’s own enforcement chief
leaders of the wet cause sought again
today to prove at least a part of the
indictment they have brought against
prohibition.
Resuming their questioning befote
the Senate prohibition committee, they
asked the general ab ut corruption in
the prohibit on forces, diversion of al
cohol, blind tiger drug stores, and
many other elements which the wit
ness freely conceded to be involved in
the enforcement situation. But he
insisted that steps are being taken
! nnd would be taken to minimize ob
jectionable features of the dry n-g me.
“Ain’t it the Truth!”
There arc now 20,000,000 autos in
the United States —one for about
every sik inhabitants. It is estimated
that these machines, including up
keep, gasoline, insurance and acces
sories, cost the American people
$14,000,000,000 a year—something
like S7OO for every man, woman and
child in the country. This is $2,-
000,000,000 more than the sum owed
the United States by Europe and
only $6,000,000,000 less than our
total national debt. The greater part
of this is spent for pleasure or near
pleasure. Did it ever occur to you
that the annual expenditure of this
enormous sum for ouch purposes
may have a close relation to dijnln
| ished bouk accounts, hard tines,
financial reverses, bankruptcies, nnd
that sort of thing.
Texas produces 09 per cent of tbe
sulphur mined is the United State*.
CHARGES GAG RULE
USED BY CHAIRMAN
|' MARVIN IK DEBATE
I Dennis Tells Committee
Members of Tariff Com
mission Are Treated Dif
ferently.
MADE PROTEST
DENNIS STATES
Also Says He Was Criti
cised Because He Wrote
Jjejtter to the President
While at Swampscott.
Washington. April fi.—OP)—The
gap rule is bring used by Chairman
Marvin in conducting debates on tlie
tariff commission, Commissioner Den
nis, a Democrat, charged today before
the Senate tariff investigating com
mittee.
I'nder the present procedure, he
said, two-fifths of the time allotted
to debate is consumed by Commission
er Classic, one fifth by Chairman
Marvin, and one-fifth by Commission
er ‘Costigan. leaving only one-fifth for
the other ttiree members.
“I protested to the commissioner
over this slip-shod method of con
ducting debate.” he said.
Sir Dennis declared he had been
criticized by Chairman Marvin for
writing President Coolidge at Swnmp
soott about the srnw hat case, while
at the same time Chairman Marvin
wrote the President about tariff cases
without the commission being advised.
HARD ASSIGNMENT
AVERS HUMORIST
{ Following Billy . Sunday as Exposition
Opener, No Snap Says Rogers.
Greenville. . April s.—Following
Billy Sunday as an exposition opener
is no snap, says Will Rogers, famous
humorist, who entertained the throngs
in attendance upon the Eastern Caro
lina Exposition here this afternoon
and tonight.
“It was the toughest assignment I
ever had.” said Mr. Rogers. "For
the past two years the exposition op
ening day speaker has been Billy
Sunday. I have followed Coolidge,
Dawes, A1 Jennings, Cole Blease, Jo
sephus Daniels, "Ma” Ferguson and
Mr. Brainham, North Cttroftna’s lone
Republican, but I had never followed
Billy Sunday before. They claim
my preaching might not have been
aR good, but my collection was larg
er. and in these days and times that’s
the only test of a good minister.
“I didn't do like Billy, and defy
the devil to come up. I was afraid
to take any chances. They had a
very novel beauty contest. Some of
. the most beautiful girls I’ve seen
since I left the Follies, and the thing
I liked about it was that they
wore dresses in this parade instead
of bathing snits. So no doubt the
girl that wins will win 011 her beam
ty. That stamps it as a novelty
right there.
"I have been in 40 states and 140
towns, and this is the only one that
stood for me twice. I did a matinee
today and hope if luck is with me to
do another show tonight. There’s a
wonderful girls' teachers college here,
where they teach women how to tench
but I haven't found one in the state
where the men teachers went to. I
knew I'd find out some day why men
teachers don’t know anything."
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Steady at Decline of I to 7
Points, May Later Selling Off to
18.60.
New York, April 6. —(A 5 )—The cot
ton market opened steady today at a
decline of 1 to 7 points. BuyiDg of
May at the start presumably to fix
prices for the trade had a sustaining
'nflnenee, but demandl was soon sup
plied and prices weakened under liqui
dation, local, Southern and Liverpool
selling.
Bearish sentiment evidently was
encouraged by a better weather map
than expected, relatively easy Liver
pool cables and rumors that Southern
mill curtailment was likely in the
near future, to strengthen the posi
tion of the goods and yarn markets.
Before the end of the first haur May
sold off to 18.C0 and October to 17.30,
or 7 to 13 points net lower.
Cotton futures opened steady : Mav
18.72: July 18.15; October 17.51;
December 17.1(1; January 17.10.
Bones of Animal Unearthed in Exca
vating For Building.
Lexington, Va., April s. —Partly
decayed bones, believed to have been
in the earth 150 years, were unearth
ed with disintegrated bits of a wal
nut ease here today in excavating for
the new Robert E. Lee hotel on the
site bf an old hostelry.
First reports were that the alraost
fossiled remnants were the bones of
a woman and the box a casket. But
an exnminat'on showed, under closer
scrutiny, that they were the ribs and
lower legs of an animal. The test
was made by Dr. W. T Hoyt, pro
fessor of biology at Washington and
Lee T'niversity, and Dr. Robert G-laa
cok, city health officer.
Residents of this city believe the
bones were placed there by Col. Wil
liam Wallace, owner of the Wallace
hotel here when the city was first
laid off in 1778.
That women be admitted to the
ministry in Scotland was a resolu
tion approved by the Preebytery of
Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
What Will Be the Issues in the
Forthcoming Political Ca^
Raleigh Bureau of
The Concord Daily Tribune
Raleigh. April C.—What will be the
principal issues in the forthcoming
primary nnd election campaigns?
If the candidates for State office,
who. presumably, arc in the best po
sition to note, may be accepted as j
judges, they will be : relief from heavy |
taxation, Ine'uding reduction of land
taxes; remedial measures for the ex- 1
isting inequality of assessment fofj
taxation purposes ; more businesslike i
system of county government through 1
state-wide law; the eight months
school term; the Australian bnllot;
road bend,issues: revision of the con-’
stitution with especial regard to more
elasticity in the regulations govern
ing courts nnd solicitors and rigid
economy in everything. >
The state capital bureau of The
Tribune recently sent questionnaires
to members of the State legislature
and of Congress whose terms expire
this year, 170 in all. The law mak
ers were naked the following ques
tions ;
(1) Do you plan to run for re
nomination? If not, who has your
good will?
(2) Has any opposition made it
self known? If eo, who?
(3) What, in your opinion, will be
the principal issues in the campaigns
in your district?
(4) What, in your opinion, Will be
the chief legislative matters to come
before (he 1927 General Assembly?
To date, answers have been received
from approximately 20 per cent.
Three congressmen were kind
enough to reply, announcing their in
tentions to seek re-election. They
are: R. L. Doughton, Laurel Springs,
ninth district; A. L Bulwinkie, Gas
tonia, ninth district; and Zobulon
Weaver, Asheville, tenth district.
Congressman Doughon has heard
of no opposition nor of any specific
issues in his district, but Btates that,
in his judgment, the issue will not
differ materially from the issues that
will divide the parties throughout
the country.
Congressman Weaver will be op
posed by Felix P. Alley, of Waynes
ville, but knows of no very acute sub
ject that will be under discussion dur
ing the primary campaign.
The congressman from the tenth
has represented the district in Con
gress for nearly ten years, being first
elected at the outbreak of the war.
“HOG COMBINE” AND HUTLKR
FORCES LOCK AT ALBEMARLE
Both Factions Claim Victory Itut
Observers*Say Neither BMe \\m:
Albemarle, April B.—The “cog
combine" forces and the Ilutier ad
herents made somewhat of a 'dog
fall” of it in tbe county republican
convention, held in tho courthouse
here this afternoon.
Both factions claim credit of vic
tory. and while a resolution, offered
by Colonel A. Selders, instructing
the delegates to rote for a change
in the state plan of organization
was passed with little opposition,
making it nppear as a sort of vic
tory for the Bntlerites. yet no ‘ ref
erenee is made into the resolution to
the Butler plan of organization.
The fact that the delegates to the
state convention stand about fifty
fifty "hog combine” and Butler show
that the administration forces are
not without cause for rejoicing. The
fnct, too, that three federal office
holders, 11. 11. Wallace, deputy col
lector; E. J. Culp, prohibition agent,
and L. M. Almond, Albemarle post
master, were among the chosen dele
gates to the state convention, shows
the outstanding influence of the ad
ministration forces locally.
The business of the convention
was conducted with little difficulty,
although complete harmony did not
reign all the time. At one time it
appeared there would burst forth an
ugly row, but this was averted by
the smoother politicians and cooler
heads.
For weeks it has been evident
that a deadly fight has been going
on in tihe local repub' iean housenold,
‘be party having been badly split in
tbe question of reform in the plan
of organization. But with the exeep
tion of the resolution offered by
Colonel Seders, instructing the Stan
ly delegates to vote for a change in
the state plan of organization, the
'ocal repub iean delegates will go in
to the state convention uninstructed
and with hands freed.
A luminous spider exists in Burma,
but no specimen has even been caug'at.
WE PAY TRIBUTE TO
THE MOTHERS OF THIS COUNTRY
HOME does not exist
can this nation exist with
out ' ts host of ha P‘
To promote home own-
II ership is the glorious ser-
Vt \ ?s]] vice our institution,—
a service that benefits
both the saver and the
borrower.
Start Now by Taking Some Shares in Series No. 57 Now'
Open For That Home.
CABARRUS COUNTY B. L. ft SAVINGS ASS’N
t
OFFICE IN CONCORD NATIONAL BANK
■ ■ ■
I and declares that he\. _-*for the
renomination on his'record in Con
gress.
“I believe, of course, in the cardi
nal principles of the Democratic par
ty,” he writes. “These include econ
omy in government, both state and
■ national: reduction of taxes as fast
I as possible, and reduction of the pres
j cut exorbitant tariffs lately enacted
I by the Republican party and the pres
-1 i ent administration, and the control
of government generally in the inter
ests of the many, instead of the few.
These matters will be emphasized by
me in any campaign I shall enter.”
That Congressman Weaver will
make a strong race, with almost cer
tain victory at the end, is evinced
h.v the fact that he has steadily grown
1 sfronger in his district each succeed
ing campaign, with the one exception
of the last one, when his majority, as
compared with the previous election,
was reduced slightly. The reduction
was too small to have any significance
and left him a majority of 9,000. At
| the close of his first campaign, lie was
elected by the slim majority of nine.
The next time, lie won over the same
opponent by a majority, of 1200. His
third race, against a well known Re
publican, resulted in a victory with a
majrrity of 2,500 and the fourth cam
paign gave him a majority of 9,400.
In 1924 this was cut to 9,000 Mr.
Weaver has given his undivided at
tention tohis congressional duties.
A number of changes in the State
Senate are in prospect this year, due
to agreements between counties mak
ing up several of the districts. Five
members of the 1927 Senate have re
turned answers and three of them
will not seek re-nomination because
of such agreements.
Senator W. L. Foushee, of Dur
ham. in tile 13th district, will retire
since, by the existing system of ro
tations, the nominations will be in
Orange and Caswell counties.
Senator J. T, Alderman, of Hen
derson, in the fourteenth district, al
so must bow to automatic elimination
this year, due to a similar agreement
which gives Warren county the nom
ination this year. No information
is available as to who tlie nominee
will be.
Senator J, A, Long, of Roxboro,
in the 15th, is another who must give
way to a nominee from another coun
ty. Tlie nomination in that district
(Continued on Page Two)
SHACKLETTE CHARGES
WILL BE AIRED NOW
Governor Directs Attorney General to
Investigate Charges Against ‘ H.
Hoyle Sink.
Raleigh. April 6.—(A s ) —At the di
rection of Governor McLean, the
charges of bribery in connection with
the granting of pardons and paroles
alleged to have been made against H.
Hoyle Sink, commissioner of pardons,
by Prison Chaplain W. S. Shaek
lette were to be investigated this af
ternoon by Attorney General Dennis
G. Brummitt.
The hearing, which was announced
for 2:30 at the attorney general’s of
fice, was to be public, it was an
nounced. The charges against Mr.
Sink, said to have been made in con
nection with the Green pardon, was
not investigated by the prison board
at its meeting a few days ago. that
hoard taking the attitude that it had
no authority to investigate an ap
pointee of Governor McLean. The
governor had already directed Mr.
Brummitt to investigate the alleged
charge as it applied to Mr. Sink.
KU KLUX CONVENTION
SLATED FOR DURHAM
Annual State Meeting Scheduled For
Late Summer—Say 3,000 Mem
Hers to Attend
Durham, April s—The annual
state convention, or “Kloreo.” of the
knights of the Ku Klux Klan of
North Carolina, will be held in Dur
ham this year, either in August or
September, the date yet to be de
termined, according to an announce
ment purporting to come from the
Durham klan' and supposed y authen
tic.
Features in the announcement are
the statement that 3,000 members
and their families will be in attend
ance, that Judge Henry A. Grady, of
the North Carolina Superior court
bench, grand dragon for the state,
will preside and that Dr. Hamlette,
representing the imperial palace in
Atlanta, will deliver one of the
principal addresses of the gathering.
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TODAY’S NEWS TODA|J j
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STRIKERS II FIIH
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Fight Occurred at Wellilwr- J
ton Bridge in Passaic. js|3
J., Where a Strike Hai fa
Been in Progress.
TEN LEADERS OF = J
STRIKERS HEtM
Officers Are Said to H*f*l
Used Their Clubs on gflll
Leaders Who Incluoala
Nancy Sandowsky.
Pasßaic, N. J„ April 6.
Passaic police today battled a tho#*S|
sand or more textile strikers at Wei. 9
lington Bridge, arresting ten lead6lM : >1
and receiving in return a prolodpMMH
shower of rocks and stones. j™ I
The police used their clubs on the j
leaders who included Nancy SaafcmffH
sky, known as tlie strikers’ Joe*' ol J
Are. She has been arrested j
times. Jack Rubenstein, another i
leader, who has been taken into'
tody for a number of alleged AMMHB
ders. also received blows. ]
Mary Stranzinger, member of tN|;|l
strikers committee which went gpgl
Washington recently, was also
rested.
The clash occurred after £
who had picketed Botany Mills and li
marched into Wellington to meat a ' j
force of several hundred which pick- »
eted Garfield Mills. |
T’lie combined forces then attempt- 1
cd to return to Passaic through W«f- J
lington to picket Cora Mills. They M
were met on the bridge by Passaic J
officers. .1
CHAPMAN BURIED
AT BLOOMFIELD, CONN. J
No Priest Went With Body of Ba» I
dit to Its Final Resting Place.
Hartford. Conn., April 6.—OP)—in 1
n plot of ground in Mount St. Bene- 2
dict’e Cemetery, just over the Bloom? fl
field line, lies today the body of Ger»r|j
aid Chapman, mail bandit, who was \
hanged at the Wethersford
just after midnight for murdering a S 1
policeman. 1
No priest went with the body to ||
its final resting place, and there was |
no service of the itoman
Church. The body was claimed by
the Rev. Michael P. Barry. Roman |
Catholic Chaplain of the prison, who j
had said he would see that Chapman j
was given a burial such as he would 1
desire a friend should have. Father .1
Barry, however, did not go to the- |
cemetery. He had already departed aifc'm
a vacation of two months, leaving no -i*
word o' what had transpired during' %
the three hours lie was in the room a
across the entry from the death ,1
chamber with Chapman. It had keen J
thought that perhaps the priest would ]
tell somcth’ng about the murder; that j
there might be something which ho fj|
could reveal of the singular eharactel*ii|s
with whom lie had come to be on sf
friendly terms, something- 'which j
would not encroach on the privacy of '
relations of priest with the man. But =
father Barry had said he would say j
no word and answer no question*, for \
to him the life of the mnn was as a '
closed book.
Chapman’s body was hurried from
the prison soon after the hanging and
til.-nn to the mortuary chapel of J. C. I
Dillon.
PPon refused to permit anyone to |
"oter his n’nee. and turned away a
nninher of the curious inclined w&o '
■ut f nvard various excuses which
tW thought entitled them to look
■ p-n the face of the dead man.
The funeral ariaugements were kept
secret and the fact that the body Was
buried in Mount St Benedict ceme
tery was not made known until after c
the burial nnd then only by Frederick |
J. Groehl, chief of Chapman’s counsel.
The litt'e cemetery is but six mi.es
from the State's prison. The , grav* ■
Is in a p’ot of consecrated grounds Jtjij
bo'.ng been found that Chaptnmr lia4'.»
been baptised in the Roman Catholic „■
Church as an infant ar.d in his boy- i
■ ceil days had serve 1 at the a’tar of
the church his parents attended. 'HI
The burial took pinee shortly fter •'
' sunrise.
Managers For Impeachment Trial.' §
Washington, April (I.—G4>)—Ni*»'
managers were appointed by
H use today to prosecute before the ;
Senate jt* impeachment case against
Fedora Judge George W. English, of
l inois.
The Tacific Coast salmon produoe*;lJ
the most valuab e fish-crop in the 3
world.
SAT’S BEAR SAYSI ~;|1
Mostly cloudy tonight and We4riß
nesday and in west and north immß
Cons tonight; not much change inti
temperature. Moderate to (mM
northeast shifting to east and Bouth-jl
cast winds.