North Carolina Newspapers

ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI WARNS THAT NATION MUST'GOfORWORD TO BlfiLT FOR HID O. E. Chaney Makes Move For Great Permanent Foundation of Religious Education in America. NEW BACKGROUND FOR GENERATION Says Protestants of North America Need More Funds to Carry Out the Work Before Them. Birmingham, April l(i.—OP)—The first move toward establishment of a P (treat permanent foundation of relig ious education on part of. the Nation s *>l Council of Religious Education was made here today in an address pre pared by O. E. ('honey,'vice president of the American Exchange Pacific Na tional Rank of New York. Mr. Chan- V was prevented from attending the council session and his proposal was read before the assembly. Bong an ardent supporter of every movement for religious education fost ered by t'.ie council, Mr. Chaney de clared that more funds were neces sary to perform the tasks before prot estants of North America. Present day art, literature, music, drama aud education "are the flesh," he said. These things in modern life, he de clared, are materialistic and “express in their very rytlini the machine age in which we live." He urged that the people “go for ward to the Bible, not back to it." The foundation he proposed to the coum-il he believes would aid in pro viding spiritual background which the newer generation needs fur its daily life. ROBBERS GET RICH LOOT AT LEXINGTON Robbers Broke Into Eflrd’s Depart ment Store Wednesday Night. Lexington, April 15. Robbers Inst night broke into Efirds Depart ment Store here and stole more tjuiu a thousand dollars worth of dreewe and suits. A Ford touring ear be lieved to have been need to haul away the good* v. as abandoned sev eral blocks away v hen the gasoline fwtut •oxharttocd. and tinnthfir en"r of similar type, belonging to a Mr. lias singer. nearby, was stolen. A price tag left on the running board of the abandoned ear was identified by T. L. Myers, manager of the rifled store as one used there. Officers were also informed today that a small store south of the city, near the Junior Orphanage site, had also been entered last night, some overalls, cigarette and cigars were taken, the gasoline tank in front of the store was broken open and it is thought a quantity of gasoline was secured. The car abandoned here was iden tified by a Winston-Salem man as one stolen from his premises last night. Entrance into the store was made by prying open a side door. Forty six silk dresses and twenty-ine men’s suits were defiinitely missing this .morning. Lights were burning in the store near the dress and suit racks, on different floors, and apparently care was used to select only the most desirable styles and patterns. The store is on a corner with white way lights on both bounding streets. Police headquarters are only a hundred feet from its front and the opinion is entertained that the robbers watched their chance when the three officers on duty were in another neighborhood. Promotion cf B. L. Harris. Washington. April 10. —OP)—Ap- -1 pointraent of Benjamin 1,. Harris, of M Pamlico, X. 0., as master of iigitship i ’ No. 107 at ('ape Lookout Shoals, N. C., was announced today by the eom | raeree department. Charles E. Tull, Baltimore, was ' promoted to first mate on the Same lightship, and Walter L. Barnett, of Buxton, N. C., designated first mate of lightship No. 105 at Diamond Shoals, N. C. Perpetual Motion Again. Cape Town, April 16.—A Cape Town inventor claims to have pro duced u working model of a machine that is capable of running a com mercial engine or any kind of a puqyi for an indefinite time without outside fuel for driving purposes. It is declared to be quite a new ap * plication of existing mechanical laws, and runs entirely by its own voli tion. The only cost to its user will be for the replacement of worn parts, a practically negligible point. —, Silk From Mushrooms. London. April 16.—The possibility of obtaining artificial silk from mushrooms is a matter notv engag ing the attention of certain scient ists and investigators. Analysis of a number of mushrooms has shown that they contain a very fine type of cellulose, which is the raw material of artificial silk- When treated these mushrooms are converted into a soft and silky mass which, it is stated, , should be easily worked. Baby Carriage Garage. New York, April 16.—A new apartment building in this eity is able to boast of having the first baby carriage garage. It is made of galvanized iron, is fireproof, and has a separate compartment with door and lock for each perambulator; The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily By Mistake Mi rjH • h|& These three residents of Vandalia. Oy near Dayton, are willing to swear that the state of Connecticut made a mistake when It hanged Gerald Chap man for the murder of a New Britain poll reman. They insist Chapman stayed with them from Oct. !> to Oet. 16. 1024. The murder was commit ted on Oet. 10 of that year. They say they recognized bis picture in a Dayton newspaper last week. Hhey are George Phillips (below), bis son Herman Phillips (top), and Mrs. Margaret Heitzman (center). The COTTON MARKET More Favorable Weather Outlook in South Made Selling More Active Today. New York. April I(l.—M>)—With the appearance of more favorable weather ill the South selling became a little more active in the cotton mar ket today. Liverpool was lower than due and tht- opening here was at a decline of 1 to 3 points, active months soon show ing net losses of 5 to 8 points under Southern, local and commission sell ing. The latter was attributed part ly to liquidation of long accounts, while the Southern selling was sup posed to be included. Offerings were not particularly heavy and enough buying by trade or speculative shorts steadied prices around 18.70 for May and 17.32 for October toward the end of the first hour. Cotton futures opened steady. May 18.80, July 18.24, October 17.34, De cember 17.04; January 16.06. With Our Advertisers. A big shoe sale will start at the Ruth-Kesler Shoe Store tomorrow morning. Florsheim new spring styles for men $8.85. Five hundred pairs in all sizes and colors, sold up to $9.00, at only $2.95. Something new in novelties at the bargain ta bles. See big ad. today. Read a few of the many facts about the Leonard Cleanable Refrigerators in the new ad. of Bell & Harris Fur niture Co. today. Spring sport hats In many sturdy sport straws and others at Robinson's millinery department. Why postpone the pleasure of a new spring suit. See the line of Schloss Bros. & Co. suits at Hoover's. The 57tb series in the Cabarrus County B. L. & S. Association is still open. Office in Concord National Bank. See Gilbert Hendrix, and he will explain this great way to save. Raise strong healthy chicks by feed ing Ful-o-Pep. For sale by G. W. Patterson, wholesale distributor. Want Bills With Haugen Suggestions. Washington, April 10.— OP)— Chairman Haugen was instructed to day by the House agriculture Com mittee to draft a farm relief b'll car rying out his views, and he informed the committee that the measure would be modified version of the corn belt plant, with an equalization fee on wheat, corn, eattie and hogs. Consider New Liquor Treaty. Washington, April 16.—OP)—The State Department officials are consid ering proposing a new liquor treaty with Great Britain. Drys Answer Charges x Against Prohibition Given To Committee NEARLY HALF WHITE SCHOOL I CHILDREN NOW RETARDED j State's Nrgro School Children Make * An Even Porrer Showing. i Tta'fij’i. April 10,— (/ P)—Less than 1 half the rural white children in North Cnro’ina schools during the school I year I!UM 25 were as far advanced in school as their age indicated they should be, it is shown in the April \ Mt'li issue of State School Facts, off I the press today. | School Facts, a publication of the 4 department of publie instruction, has j been discussing what it terms the | "age-grade distribution" of North [Carolina school children; flint is. the J number of children in the various! [grades, and especially willi reference | •to age. The present issue is the third I devoted to that subject, and suinmnr- 1 izes the “age-grade distribution" situ- 1 ation in the states. While the percentage of rural white children who are as far advanced in respect to their ages they normally shouldl be is only 40.1. the percentage in t'he city schools is 05.47. a differ-j ence of 16.37 per cent, between rural i and city children. In the negro schools, the percent-1 age of children who are as far ad vanced as their age would normally presuppose that they should be are: in the rural schools. 27.(id per cent.; and in the city schools, 40.01. Tlie publication divided school chil dren into three classes, •‘normal." “ac celerated." and “retarded." It as sumes that a child enters school at the age of six. and that the normal rate of advancement is a grade a y**ar. Hence, if a child makes such advancement, it is classed as “nor mal." Children more advanced than in accordance with this standard are classed ns “acce'erated." and those less advanced, as “retarded." Tie figures above include both the normal and accelerated children. Camden county, according to the reports made to the department, led in the percentage of white rural chil dren as far advanced ns they normally should be. with a percentage of 45.34. In seven counties—Yadkin, Stokes, Graham. Madison. Johnston, Chero kee and Surry—less tfian 40 per cent, of the white pupils were as far ad vanced as they normally should be. In the negro schools. Alleghany is t ho only vhaving 0)0 js-r ivM. of its children normal or better, in respect to advancement as regards age. Only nine counties, says the publication, claimed that more than 50 per cent, of their negro pupils were in flip “under-age or normal age group." Coming to the “retarded" group, School Facts makes this comment: “There were 202.070 white chil dren and 174.107 colored children in this group during the year 1024-25. These figures represented 40.05 per cent, of the white enrollment and 00 52 per cent, of the colored enroll ment. Os the number of white pu pi’s retarded. 214.341, or SI.B per cent., were rural pupils and 47,738. or 18.2 per cent., were city pupils. Thewe pupils were retarded all* the way from one year to as much as fourteen years." “Over 1(H).000 white children were retarded one year. Over 71.0(H) were retarded two years; over 44,000 three years; over 23.000 three years, and over 10,000 five years. Nearly 4.- 000 white children have been delayed six years and over 1.400 seven years. . . . These facts are enlightening. Here is a situation that needs investi gation. Tie causes of this condition shoulld be ascertained, and the reme dies applied to improve it. Many of these pupils are being taught over and over again. Every time a child repeats a grade the expenditure for teaching that child must be repented." Figures and tables are devoted to enrollment by grades, showing (in crease in enrollment over preceding years, decrease in enrollment each year by grades—that is. fewer chil dren in the second grade than in the first, fewer in the third than the sec ond, etc.; and figures showing the number failing of promotion. For example, it is shown that, in 1023-24. nearly 10,000 white children out of 43,500 in the seventh prade “failed of promotion." Os the causes for the facts revealed by the “age-grade distribution" sur vey contniuued in School Facts, the publication has this to say: “The primary causes are three: First—The pupils themselves. We all know that people are endowed with certain mental traits and that at these traits differ among individuals. These differences range all the way from the child with few mental talents to that child with extraordinary mental superiority—the genius. Second— Teachers. These same characteris tics apply to the, teachers as well with a range perhaps not quite so wide. As measured by scholarship we know these facts to be true. City teach ers are on an average are better pre pared than rural teachers. Third— The system. Under this head is in cluded length of school term, physical property, types of schools, and the various aspects of the school system itself. Do all the pupils have equal opportunities in these respects?" A Democratic primary will be held in this county tomorrow to choose delegates to the county convention to be held on Saturday of next week. Township chairmen also are to be chosen in some precints at the pri mary. Voting will be at the regular polling places, voting to begin at 2 o’clock. CONCORD, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1926 First Testimony Offered by Drys Today Was State ment Prepared by Feder al Council of Churches. DRY LAWHAS BEEN BENEFIT j Conditions Before Prohibi tion Worse Than Since Law Was Enacted, the Statement Contends. j Washington, April 10.—OP)—Th«» call of the hour is such a thorough going work of moral persnusiop and j legal enforcement as will give the i policy of prohibition an adequate op pertnity (o demonstrate its full value to the nation and the world, said a statement presented today to the Sen ate liquor committee by the adminis trative committee of the Federal Coun cil of (’hurUaes. 1 This declaration by the spokesman | for twenty-eight protestant commun ions marked the opening of the drive j by the drys in response to the assaults | on prohibition which have been made, by t’.ie wets during the past ten days. The statement was read by l>r. Wil liam-J. Haven, of New York, secretary of the American Dible Society. "If serious evils have sprung up since prohibition." the statement said, "they arc far less than the evils which arouse from the liquor traffic prior to the eighteenth amendment. The li quor traffic with the accompanying saloon was allied with political cor ruption. crime, gambling and prosti tution. It meant the wrecking -of men and (he degradation of families. "The policy of prohibition was not adopted hastily nor was it foisted up on the country by a Puritanical mi nority. It was first voted in most of the states separately and then na tionally because the people had be come convinced that the liquor traf fic was a social evil of such magni tude that it had to be destroyed." THREE CHILDREN DIE AS HOME IS BURNED Three Sons of Charley Jacobs Killed And Parents Narrowly Escape. (\ April 10.— UPh— . Tfie ffire'fl ” sons of Charley Jacobs wore burned to death here today and his wife narrowly escaped a similar fate when their home at Aquone near here was destroyed by fire. Tlie dead are: Troy. 23. tile oldest sou; John, 20; and Hubert 18. The parents were awakened at 2 o’clock this morning by the smell of smoke and found their little home enveloped in flames. They barely had time to escape into the open, calling to their sons who were asleep un stairs in an effort to save their lives. All exists were cut off for the trio, however, for the fire had already as sumed such proportions that neigh bors who arrived quickly on the scene were unable to offer any aid in saving either of the doomed men inside, or any part of tlie house which today is a mass of ruins. Tiie residence was a story and a half in height, and the only exit from the upper part where the sons were steeping had been enveloped in flames before the fire was discovered. GOVERNMENT LOSES IN AIR PIRACY CASE Judge Rules With Zenith Radio Cor. pc rat ion and Its Officials. Chicago, April 16.—</P)—The gov ernnient lost its first air piracy case today when Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson found for the defendant, the Zenith Radio Corporation and its president. E. F. McDonald, Jr., who had been accused of violating the Wireless act of 1912. The court held that sections 1 and 2 of the Wireless law were ambiguous and could not apply in the present ac tion, and that Congress did not em power (lie secretary of . pommerce with certain discretionary powers which he had assumed. Will Carry Case to Higher Court, Washington. April 16. —M 3 was indicated today at the commerce de partment that the Zenisli Radio case would be carried to the higher court. Secretary Hoover previously had an nounced that a decision adverse to the government would result in chaos in the broadcasting field, with a rush of stations to favored wave lengths. The commerce secretary was iu New York today and his aides ordered Chicago officials to analyze the opin ion in the case so that a definiate de cision might be reached on further action. Talk of a Sales Tax to Finance Schools. Greensboro, April 15.—Interested persons and state officials have been discussing the sales tax as a means for financing the promised extra two mouths it is proposed to tack on to tho constitutional six montns mini mum school term throughout North Carolina, it was learned today. The two months will have to he financed, and it will take some heavy financing and tnc old idea of a lux ury sales tax has bobbed up. It is a proposal full of dynamite and iN being handled very gingerly. In fart, it is stater) that it woulon t do to publish anything about it now. The water maina in New York City, if laid end to end, would be 'sufficient to make a pipe line Across the American continent. Convicts Off to “Living Death” * i i i n«’ First )ilioh» of t oii\ h t v -lii ]>ll m * 11 1 - Fnilirr f.u im> fn->t fin,*- mi wo \>;ir-- i- .i.m: a -li 11 .loan «•! or ■••.n*-r~ to Devils Island, F n*n<*l» Guinea, that Captain F'reyfus made notorious. Boon use of its stifling climate, disease infected jungles and desolate location convicts call the camp “the living death.** Here-s a view of the embark ation at La Rochelle. France. Notice the types, gray-haired men, negroes, smiling peasants —some of them mere boys. JEFFERSON STANDARD LIFE OUTSTRIPS ALL Other Companies in Volume of Ordi nary Business Written in 1925. Raleigh Bureau of The Concord Daily Tribune. Raleigh. April 16. A North Carolina company—the Jefferson Standard Life of Greensboro—out :stripped all other competing com panies in the volume of ordinary business written during the year 1925, according to the annual table prepared by Stacy W. Wade, state insurance commissioner, made pub ic yesterday. The Jefferson Standard reported $17,560,400 of ordinary insurance written during the year, an increase .f nearly $2,000,000 over the prev ious year. Its closest competitor in ordinary business was the Metro politan Life of New York, with sll.- 472.671. The Jefferson Standard al so led by a wide margin in the amount of ordinary policies in force, with $97X42,521. The Metropolitan, its closest competitor, fell short by <ome $40,000,000. Other North Carolina companies made exce’lent records during the year. The Pilot Life wrote $7,586.- 911 of new ordinary business, aud the Security Life and Trust Couv •uiny $5X29,718. Com para Hie figures with the previous year are not avail ibV The Imperial Life increased it.s volume of new business during 1925 to $054,500. a gain of more man $125,000. The Business Men’s Life wrote $502,500; the colonial Life, $1.790.000; the Durham Life. $115.- 750; the Gate City Life, $70,100; the LaF*ayette Life, $81,094; and the North Carolina Mutual. $1,142.- 614. Seven out of the ten North Caro lina companies showed gains in the amount of ordinary insurance in force at the close of 1925, as com pared with 1924. The Colonial Life gains $1,790,000; the Durham Life. $33,060; the Gate City Life. $16.- 080; the Imperial Life. $357,750; the Jefferson Standard. $8,622,583: the Pilot Life, $3,369,632, and the Security Life and Trust Co., $3,812,- 289. The three show decreases were: Business Hen’s Life, $42.500; Ln- Fayette Life, $72,084; and the N. C. Mutual, $120,418. All but one of the ten North Caro lina companies engaging in industrial business showed gains in :*.e amount of insurance in force at the close of 1925, as compared with 1924. The Durham Life led in the increase, with $91X1431 to the good The North Carolina Mutual gained $914,704; the Home Security Life, $092.477; the Pilot Life, $684,646; the Greens boro Mutual Life, $229,410; the Im perial Life. $95,955; the Gate City Life, $80,871 and the Pioneer Mu tual, $23,089. The business of the Business Men’s Life decreased $619,- Cancer Secret Solved. Berlin, April 16. —What is declar ed by some scientists to be well founded claim to the discovery of the microbe of cancer is made by Dr. Jcwef Schumacher, a Berlin investi gator. At a lecture. Dr. Schumacher showed lantern slides which, he stat ed. were specimens of the cancer germ. They were made visible by a new method of coloring, and showed up on the screen as blue S-shaped organisms, with bulbs at each end. The investigator declared that they are vegetable microbes . and that they are found in all cases of cancer. He believes that they are in troduced into the human body as a result of eating raw begetables and fruit, and holds that this is a cause of disorders of the digestive and kindred organs. In support of his as sertions he cites the fact that there are relatively few cases of cancer in northern regions and in the tropics because few vegetables are grown in cold climates, while in tropic zones the great heat prevents the growth of the microbes outside the body. Fires Into Home of Belgian Official. Ghent, Belgium, April 16.— UP) —An unknown person today fired three re volver shots ut thedoor of the home of Minister of Railways Edouard An seele, who is at present in Italy, and then threw the head of a cannon shell into one of the windows. The shell failed to explode. No one was hurt. The police believe the shooter was mentally unbalanced. About two-thirds of the members of the Sixty-ninth Congress lawyers or have had logal training. SOME COUNTY SCHOOLS CLOSE FOR TODAY Several of Plants Will Be Closed Next Friday With Larger Ones C-ntinuing Longer. A majority of the public schools in the county were closed this after noon for the year. There were a few exceptions among the average-sized schools, and these exceptions will be open another week, bringing tiieir year's work to a close next Friday. One or two schools which have a oea! school tax. will be in operation for a week or two longer Tin- larger schools with high school facilities al so will remain at work for a week or two longer. Closing exercises are being held in a majority of the schools which closed today. These exercises are in addition to county commencement which will He observed here next Saturday. Certificates of graduation are being prepared now in the office of Superintendent J. it. Robertson for those students who have completed the required work in the grammar grades. Final examinations for sixth aud seventh grade pupils were neld this week and the certificates are being prepared for those students who are entitled to them on their rating in the examinations. County-wide examinations for sixth grade students were held this year because when tlie two new nigh schools are opened in the fall the students will be rearranged accord ing to their merit. The examinations will he an aid to the school officials when they classify the students in the high schools at the opening of the new term in tlie fall HIGH SCHOOL DEBATERS AT STATE UNIVERSITY Twenty-two Teams Winners in Pre liminaries Held Thursday Night. Ohipel Hill. April 16.— </P) — Twenty-two high schools entered the second preliminaries iu the state championship debating contest here this morning, emerging as winners in the list of 71 schools tiiat took part in the first preliminaries last night. Tlie 22 winners were as follows : Af firmative teams; Statesville, Wilson, Biltmore. Mt. Airy, Sanford, Hamlet, Greenville. Shelby, Grace, Winston- Salem, Henderson, Atlantic, Lenoir and Maycok. Negative teams; Pante go. Mt. Olive, Northbrook, Winston- Salemi. Tryon, Greenville, Wilson, Newell, Cullowhee. Fayetteville, Ham let, Mt. Airy. Sanford and Statesville. Car cf Poultry Once a Week. Raleigh Bureau of The Concord Daily Tribune. Raleigh, April 16. —The State De partment of Agriculture announced yesterday that a ear of poultry and eggs is being run once a week from Mackey's to Goldsboro, under the supervision of F. W. Risher of the marketing division, stopping at Ply mouth. I’inetown, Washington and New Bern. During the weeks March 29-April 13, the ear carried 7,606 pounds of poultry and 3,756 dozen eggs. Last week, the business amounted to 4,000 pounds of poultrynnd 500 eases of eggs. The car will be operated as long as the volume of business justi fies it. When carload lots cannot be secured, express shipments will be made. Mr, Risher is planning to organize a White Hennry Club at Washing ton. Ily grading the eggs, separating the whites and the browns, txvo cents more a dozen may be secured. Flinders Street Station, Melborne, Australia, handles 238,000 passen gers daily, a traffic unequaled by any other station in the British colonien. The 57th Series in this old Reliable Building and Loan Association is still open. Running Shares cost 25 cents per share per week. Prepaid shares cost $72.25 per share; stock matures in 328 weeks. Tax return day is coming. All stock is NON-TAX ABLE. BEGIN NOW Cabarrus County B. L. & Savings Association OFFICE IN THE CONCORD NATIONAL BANK TRI CK GROWING IN NORTH CAROLINA The Staggering Sum of $11,030,237 Was Realized Last Year. Raleigh Bureuu of The Concord Daily Tribune. Raleigh. April 16. —North Caro lina truckers realized the staggering sum of $11,030,237 from a total of 15.555 carloads of fruits and vegetables and 600,00 express pack ages shipped during the 1925 season, i it is shown by a complete check, the : results of which have just been an nounced by the State Department of Agriculture. Sweet potatoes brought the grow ers the most money, it is shown by the figures, which were compiled by Albert E. Merker of the marketing divifiiion. This vegetable leturned $2,800,000. followed by strawberries, which brought $1,892,000. and peach es $1,366,200. Duplin was the heaviest shipping county in the state and. also, the county leading in diversity of crops. A total of 2.219 cars were shipped from Duplin: 1.749 from I‘asquo tank; 1.359 from Moore; 1.199 from New Hanover and 1,007 from Wayne. Many other counties ship ped between 2(H) and 1,000 cars of truck produce. The number of com modities being shipped out of the various counties in carload lots varied from Duplin’s 11, down to 2 and 3. New Hanover shipped ten commodities; Pender the same num ber; Sampson. Wayne and (Vum bus nine each; Craven. Pasquotank and Robeson seven each, and Carter six. Duplin is the heaviest cucumber and strawberry shipping county, 50 percent of the state production of those commodities emanating from that county in 1925. Moore led in peaches; Scotland in canteloupcs; Pasquotank in May peas. Irish i>ota toes and sweet' potatoes. The latter county, however, draws upon cam den and Currituck counties for its shipments. Prospects are good for the coming season, it is pointed out. In this con nection it is interesting to note the growth of Candor as a peach ship ping center, which does a business amounting to $723 daily over a period of 40 days, according to the estimate of Patt C. Harman, secre tary of the Candor Peach Growers’ Association. A recent survey shows that North Carolina has 21.201 acres in peaches, upon which are 2.- 289,711 trees. Moore county ranks first and Richmond second. With 3.020 acres planted to mel ons last year, the state is coming to the front in the production of that succulent commodity. Some 1.000 carloads wore shipped, bringing $147,000. South Atlantic Association to Open April 27th. Charlotte. April 16.—OP)—April 22 marks the opening of the playing season of the South Atlantic* Associa tion. with games at Knoxville, Ashe ville. Charlotte and Greenville. S. C. The season will continued through September 15tSi. The winner will en gage in a post-seas:>n series with the winner of the Virginia League. Spartanburg, Columbia, Augusta, Maeon, Knoxville, Asheville. Char lotte and Greenville are tin* eight clubs composing the association this year. All Saturday games will be double headers. Charlotte Pageant Postponed Charlotte. April 16.— (A 3 ) —Presen- I tntion of the pageant. “Children of Old Carolina,” with a cast of 1,500 children, was postponed today until tomorrow because of threatening weather. Throngs were already assembling at the open amphitheatre at noon when the announcement was made. THE TRIBUNE . PRINTS >AY’S NEWS TODAY NO. 88 NEGUS HINGED IT SAME TIE FOB THE DEITHS OF WOMEI Raymond Costello and Charles Hobbs Hanged in Chicago for Strangl ing Two Women. COSTELLO CALMLY SMOKED TO LAST Did Not Want to Give Un Cigarette. Arraigned Attorney For Not Sgyr ing His Life. Chicago. April 10— (A 3 ) —Raymond Costello and Charles Hobbbs, negro stranglers of women, were hanged, to- J get'ller. here at 9:21 o’clock this moni- f ing. Costello calmly smoked a cigarette % while the straps were being adjusted and relinquished it reluctantly when the white hood was placed over j|iig head. Costello said he had to say. The negro prayed incessantly the straps, shroud and hood wer.e ttfc J| ing adjusted and until the double trap | was sprung. Costello was convicted for attack* ing aiul strangling sixteen-year-old 4 Madeline White. He pleaded guilty and reiterated his statement to day. Hobbs freely admitted he j| his landlady, Betty Barnett, negtfess, to steal 75 cents. Costello bitterly arraigned big J torney for failing to obtain a i, minute stay of execution on a plea > of insanity since conviction. Both men slept several hours last night, but refused to eat either supper last night or breakfast this morning. Emil Fricker Put to Death. Edwardville, 111.. April 16.— UP) —• Flinil PVicker, former wealthy farmer, convicted of instigating the murders of two successive husbands of dairy maid with whom he was infat uated. paid the penalty today with bis life. *T am not guilty,” Flicker declar- | ed, when asked if he had any state- | meent to make before the hanging.’ The trap was sprung at 9 :ll a. m*. and he was pronounced dead at 9:25 a. m. Flicker, who was 45 years was. hanged for directing the murder on September 15th. 1924, of John Nun- ... gesser, second husband of Minnie Schlitt, the dairy maid. The was actually committed by Jacob Landert and Eldo Flrnle, farmers now serving life sentences. They declar ed in their confessions that Fricker hired them for * $250 each to shoot Nungesser to death. F’ricker also was convicted of plot- > ting the murder in 1920 of Hobert Kerhli. first husband of the dairy maid, four weeks after their marriage. | lie was found dead in his field from pistol wounds, and the killing passed for suicide until after Nungesser was slain. ANTI-LYNCHING BILL AGAIN IN CONGRESS Bill Presented to the House by Rep resentative Berger, Socialist, of Wisconsin. Washington, April 16. — (4*)—A biR to make lynching an offense under the federal law was proposed today in a bill by Representative Berger, social- «; ist. Wisconsin. Tt would prescribe punishment for individuals partici pating in lynchings, and officials who fail to take necessary precautions againcst lynchings. Mr. Berger said the measure was prompted by the “failure of the Re publican party to carry out it£ 1924 platform pledges for enactment of a federal anti-lynching law.” Piedmont League to Start April 12tji. Raleigh, April 16. (A 3 ) —With a split season, the Piedmont League of baseball will get underway oil April ; 21st with six teams playing. Open* f ing games arc scheduled for Greens- J boro. Salisbury and Raleigh. The first half of the season ends July Ist and the winner of this half will contest with the winner of the second half, ending on September list, for the season pennant. F’ive North Carolina cities will be in tlie league this year and one Vir ginia team, that of Danville. The I five North Carolina entries are Wiiwi ton-Salein, Durham, Aaleigh, Salis- . bury and Greensboro. President Resumes Duties. Washington, April 16.— UP) —rPresi- J dent Coolidge. who stayed in his rooms part of yesterday because of slight illness, was up and about the executive offices as usual today. BAT*S BEAR SAYS I | v • M • M Generally fair tonight and Satur day, somewhat warmer tonight in Jra| terior and north portion, and in and east portions Saturday. Mod* J crate shifting winds.