North Carolina Newspapers

ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI EMU OHE OFFER SUBMITTED FOR THE SfIOILS EWERTT The American Cyanimide Co. Offered to Create a Corporation to Operate Big Plant. WANTS LEASE TO RUN 50 YEARS The Plans Galls for Utility Company Which Would Distribute All Surplus Power. Washington, April 17.—(/P)—The American Cyanimidi l Company, in its bid fort Muscle .Shoals offers to create a corporation known ns the Air Ni trates Corporation, capitalized at #50,000,000 to -operate the property, .it became known today. The company offers to lease Muscle Shoals for fifty years at a rental of ■4 per cent, of the present investment of the government, and 4 per cent, on the cost of Dam No. 3 if the govern ment will build it. A subsidiary Public utility company would be organized to distribute sur plus power, or an effort to be made to have it distributed through exist ing utility corporations. The company expresses a desire for the government to build storage dams above Muscle Shoals on the Tennes see River and lease them at 4 per cent, but if the government does not do it the company wants the right to construct them. The bid stipulates that no dam construction shall be per mitted on the Tennessee River that would dectraet from the power of Muscle Shoals. FIRST STEP SOON ON LARGE DIKE Great Undertaking on 4.000-Acre Traok to Be Commenced. Durham. April Ki.—i'iist steps to ward the improvement of Duke Uni versity’s tract of laud comprising 4,- 000 acres southwest of the present campus will be taken in the immedi nt future, it was learned yesterday. Horace Trumbauer. architect for the university, returned to Phila delphia Wednesday with two of his right-huml men after spending sev eral days here going over plans for the uv„ üßiver-dty powe. and heat Tog plant. When Mr. Trumbauer left everything was in readiness to take definite otepx on work south of the railroad- Among the first things to be done will be tile burbling of an underpass that will link the two university tracts under the railroad tracks and Main Street, at the dip between Southgate hall and West Duke Building, it is probable that this work will start within two. weeks. Next will come the bui'ding of a spur railroad track to the scene of the first building operations, * something like a darter of a mi’e long. This track will go to the site of the new power and heating plant, contract for which is to be let in several days involving several hundred thousand dollars. This track will be perman ently constructed and will serve the power unit o-f the university. The power plant will be equipped with gravity loading bins for coal and will be one of the most modernly con structed in the State. Construction of roads and boule vards on the new campus will also be started immediately. These will for the most part be hard surfaced and to wind through the beautiful woodland which is to be university home's setting. Landscape architects are working out a beautiful p'nn for development for the large area of campus grounds. State Income Tax May Total $5,800.- 00. Raleigh, April 17.— t/P) —Collection of income taxes for the calendar year 11)25 collected thus far in 1026 today totalled $5,709,354.03, and Commis sioner of Revenue R. A. Doughton is predicting that the eolleetions will be more than $5,800,000 before June 30th, the end of fiscal year. A number of taxpayers granted ex tensions are yet to be heard from, Mr. Doughton (minted out. And those business concerns who operate on a basis of a fiscal year have not as yet made their returns in many cases, he said. Winston Girls Win Aycock Cup at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, April 16.—The Win ston-Salem high school, represented by two girls, Misses Nell Efird and Loretta Carrol, won the Aycock me morial cup in the finals of the an nual state-wide championship de bating contest here topight by n unanimous decision of five judges. Winston-Salem won out over the Wilson high school, winner of the cup for the last two years, which was represented this time by Miss Catherine Ware and Harry Fines. -Miss Ware was a member of the vic torious Wilson team of. 1024 and 1925. Sam Levy Re-appointed. State Capital Bureau of The Concord Daily Tribune Sir Walter Hotel Lobby Raleigh, April 17.—Governor Mc- Lean yesterday re-appointed Dr. Sam Levy, of Charlotte, on the State board of examiners in optometry for a term of five years, to expire May 1, 1931. Sympathy is best taken in very small doses. The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily . Husband Asks Blood Tests Rudolph Modell of Chicago bus file,l suit asking tVTiTt Ids blood and 'that of ins wife. Marcella, be test show whether or not he is the father of her five-months-old child. He says lie did not see his wife for over a year before the baby was born. Photo shows Mrs. Modell. who insists Modell is the child s father, holding.the baby and conferring with her attorney Wil liam .1. Kelley. Problems of The Youth Discussed At Meeting Os Religious Leaders Dr. Edmond D. Soper, of Duke University, Says We Must Face Problem With Open Mindedness. OTHER COUNTRIES WATCH AMERICA Dr. Soper Says America Is Center of World and Must Set Example for All Other Countries. Birmingham. April 17.—OBAmei-i --ea situated at the center of the world, must heed the call to,Christian young people with open mindedness and nourage, Edmond IV Soper, of Duke Upivenuty. Durfn ur, jf&O. tokl dele gates To the International Cotmeil of KePgiotts Eueation here today. “The point to be remembered is that America in a Aery real sense is at the center of the world, that the waters which wash iter coasts touch upon lands of more different civiliza tions than can be said of any other land,” the speakeer said. “America today is the most strat egically situated nation in the world, atid when it is realized that she is the wealthiest land, the least danger of invasion and of international com plications which might (trove vital to her very existence, it must be borne upon every American there is a re sponsibility as great ns has been car ried by any other people, if not great er. “I should say the initial call of America to her young people is to understand not only what has just been said about her strategic posi tion and influence, but what Ameri canism really is or ought to be,” Mr. Soper concluded. As it nenred the end of its quadren nial session today, the Council turned its entire attention to a discussion of the problems of youth. Religious lenders of national re nown led the discussions while all forces joined in the interpretation of a campaign which Council leaders be lieve augurs well for future leaders. SECRETARY KELLOGG MAKES A SUGGESTION Offers Alternative Suggestion in the Tama-Arira Dispute. Washington, April 17.—(A’)—Secre tary Kellogg, as mediator in the Tac na-Ariea dispute, Ims made alterna tive suggestions to Chile and Peru for the neutralization of the two prov inces or for their transfer "to a South American state not a party to these negotiations," upon equitable compen sation. The Secretary's proposals were an nounced in a statement issued today at the State Department, which said that “as neither party is willing to surrender the territory ill question to the other, and as a proposal for di vision of the territory between them has been , rejected, the remaining op portunity for the solution of the long standing controversy would appear to be found in one of the suggestions above made or in a modification there of if such' is deemed advisable.” With Our Advertisers. You believe in insuring your house. Why not your auto? Read nd. of Fetzer & Xorke Ins. Agency. You can have clean, pure drinking water if you buy an Automatic refrig erator. It has a built-in watercool er. Se ad. of Concord Furniture Co. “Prohibition, The Higher Free dom,” will be Mr. Truebiood's subject Sunday night at the First Bn (it ist Church. Read ad. in this paper. . “Jazzy” Moore Resign*. Kannapolis, April 16.—J. L., bet ter known as “Jazzy,” Moore, for two years assistant secretary of the Young Men’s Christian association of Kannapolis, has tendered his resignation to become effective May MISSING WOMAN 1 MYSTERY CLEAR • Mrs. Plemmons Found to Be Suffer , ing From Amnesia. Asheville. April 16.—One of the greatest mysteries in the history of i Hot Springs was solved today with . the finding of Mrs. Ferida Plem mons. who Ims been missing for the I (last two weeks. The river had been dragged and dynamite used in [ tile searrii for her body, it having . been thought that she committed sui cide. The woman was seen for the tirst time since her departure as she was ■ leaving the stock barn on the farm . of W. R. Ellison, three miles from ; Hot Springs, and was immediately I traced by neighbors. When first up* i (iroaehed the woman refused to reoog - nize, ntjy one. and deelure-t her name f was not T'lcmtnotis. She resisted ef forts to take her, but was finally ov i erpowered and taken to her home, i A physician was called and after an . examination stated that he believed i the woman a victim of amnesia. After first aid treatment the wom ■ an appeared to take on something of | her former self and begged to see her husband and children. The latter, I who had been conducting a frantic I I search for her, rushed to the home of • j Crit Stamey, where file reunion took .! place. Doctors expressed the belief , that with proper care and rest Mrs. , Plemmons can be restored to health. j TIIE COTTON MARKET First Prices Easy at Decline of 7 to 13 Points—May at 18.51. New York, April 17.—OP)—Bear ish sentiment created by reports of improved weather conditions for the start of the coming crop was evident in the eotton market again early to day. First prices were easy at a decline of 7 to 13 points, and active months showed net losses of 10 to 15 points, all new crop deliveries making new low ground for the season. Price fixing and profit taking by decent sellers cheeked the break around 18.51 for May and 17.00 for October, but the market was within 2 or 3 points of the lowest at the end of the first hour. Selling on the better weather map was stimulated by weak ness in Liverpool, talk of increased domestic mill curtailment, and un favorable trade reports from Man t '.lester. Cotton futures opened easy. May 18.60 ; July 18.00; Oct. 17.00; Dec. 16.70; Jan. 16.62. Cotton Closing. New York, April 17.—(A > )—Closing cotton: May 18.60-61: July 18.08-12; Oct. 17.13-14; Dec. 16.74; Jan. 10.66. Movement Against the Modernistic Forces. Charlotte, April 17.— UP) —A state wide campaign “to rout the modern istic forces of North Carolina” will ’ | he launched at an open meeting here 1 1 May 4th, according to announcement 'I today. I '■ The naming of May 4th for this ' | meeting followed the organization of • "the cojnmittee of 100" yesterday to 1 wage a campaign for fundamental -1 ism. Asheville Ranks Show Big Business. Asheville, April 17.—(AO—Bank transactions totalled $11,159,000 dur . ing the week ending April 14th, the f highest weekly total ever attained in the history of this city, according to ; a statement issued by the Asheville - Clearing House Association. The weekly transactions showed in . crease of $5,294,000 over t'.ie -corre sponding period in 1925. t [ Cotton Seed Crushed. Washington, April 17.—UP)—Cot ton seed crushed in the eight months period August Ist to March 31, total . ed 4.073,534 tons, compared with 4.- • 135,665 in the same period a year > ago: and eotton seed on hand at the i mills March 31 totalled 415,277 i tons, compared with 223,80 C a year r ago, the Census Bureau today an nounced. CONCORD, N. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1926 & $ I * LOST AVIATORS i * ARE LOCATED * * * rfc Cairn, Egypt, April 17.—14*) —* & rH Roth ( apt. Estevez, leader of ;*• j & the Spanish Manila fliers, and ■{? j yk his meehatreian. Calvo. have ¥k been found. Messages received ,yk here say they are in “fairly #. good condition** despite their # wanderings in the desert since 1 last Sunday when the’r airplane I* was forced down al>:mf 100 miles from Amman. Talesline. + [♦ft*********** , ; . ... BUSINESS MEN TAKING part in government; Only Within Recent Years Has Such Condition Existed in North Caro- j lina. State Capital Bureau of The Concord Daily Tribune * Sir Walter Hotel Lobby j Rnleig’a. April 17.—Business men : of the s'ate and the public in general \ at last have come to realize that gov ernment “of the people, by the people j and for the people” includes them, i Governor A. W. McLean commented yesterday, but only within tlie post few years Ims this attitude come, in to being. ‘‘Five years ago.” the governor rem inest ed, “n en of business were ceii.- tent t«v i.'i.vt Lie matter of govorn j nient to the politicians It was no.ie of tn*ir affair, they thought. aoidMioy took what was given them in the way of legislation without any consider able interest one way or another. In fact, they seemed to resent any at tempt to interest them in government and promptly dropped to sleep or es caped as quietly ns possible w'.ien, ac cidentally, they were caught at a meeting in which government was the topic of talks and speeches. , “AH that is changed now. They listen attentively and digest carefully facts given them by speakers on gov ernmental matters. They even go out of their way to invite speakers to tell them what they want to learn about the State government and to learn what it is all about . Govern ment really is becoming ‘of the peo ple, by the people, and for the peo ple.’ and not just 'of the politicians’.” The matter was brought forcibly to the governor’s mind by his ex pcricncc in High Point the previous evening. There, he was on the pro gram for a talk before a group of bankers of North Carolina Bankers Association. Home 200 or 250 men and women, bankers, their wives and employees of banks from four or five counties were in attendance and they evinced a most vital interest in af fairs of the state. They didn’t want frilhi and oratory, the governor wgs rrd«i. but plain facts abetat how the business of the State was adminis tered, what went with the money paid in in taxes and the efforts that are being made to spend it in away that would bring the greatest benefit to the public. “All of that would have been dif ferent five years ago,” the governor commented. The change is due, chiefly, the gov ernor believes, to the increased effect government is having on business. Now. business is paying the great bulk of the State taxes and business men have been forced to figure their taxes, or the cost of running Hie State’s business, into their overhead expenses. There can be no doubt but that government is affecHng business more directly than ever before when, as one business man pointed out to the gov ernor not so long ago. five govern ment agents, both federal and state, called upon him on official business in a single day. “He was kicking about it, of course,” the governor added, “but, just the same, it’s forced him to take a greater interest in government than ever before.” With the substitution of the in come tax for the ad valorem tax for State purposes, by far the greatest proportion of the cost of State gov ernment. falls upon business. Few individuals pay sizeable income taxes. The great volume of income tax pay ments this year, estimated now at more than $5,800,000. is due not to a large number of $5 and S2O pay ments, but to a comparative few sl.- 000 to $200,000 payments from large corporations. It’s no wonder busi ness is taking an interest in govern ment. Mrs. Pleomums Suffering With Pneu monia. Asheville, April 17.—(4>)—Believed to be threatened with pneumouia, and with her feet and hands torn by two weeks’ wanderings in the mountains, Mrs. Viola Plemmons, 28 years old, lies in a semi-conscious condition to day at the home of friends in Hot Springs, according to information re-j ceived here. Mrs. Plemmons. who mysteriously disappeared on Friday, April 2nd, was found in three miles of her home wandering on property owned by E. W. Grove of Asheville. I)r. W. A. Sams, of Marshall, who attended her, expressed the belief that she had been suffering from amnesia. Charlotte Leads in Population Den sity. Charlotte, April 10.— Statistics announced by the chamber of com merce here us coming from the Unit ed States census bureau, auow v tiar lotte to lead in density of popula tion for North Carolina. The figures give Charlotte 210,000 population within a 25 miles area; Winston- Salem 104.000; and Greensboro 186,- 000. For a hundred mile radius, Charlotte is given 2,105,000 with Greensboro second with 1.982,000. ‘ With the increased use of <-o£t ccal in New York one of the large ‘ hotels in that city has found 't neces- j • sary to launder 500 pairs of curtains . \ every month. Jailed I Frank P. Estrada, chauffeur for Pola Negri, film s'.ar, is under ar rest in Los Angeles charged with organizing a $1,500,000 swindle. Leading bankers were victimized, it Is asserted. OVERMAN AND OTHERS FILE THIER CANDIDACIES Many Seem Anxious to File Notice as Time Limitation Draws Near. State Capital Bureau of The Concord Daily Tribune Sir Walter Hntel Lobby Raleigh, April 17.—Senator Lee Slater Overman yesterday filed his candidacy for the United States sena torship with the State board of elec tions. “Bob” Reynolds, his only known opponent for the Democratic nomination, filed several days ago. so the formalities incident to the most important race in the state now are complied with, as far as the majority party is concerned. Business had been rather light with the election hoard up until yes terday. but then t'lio expected flood of mail began and, between candida cies and requisitions for election sup plies from county boards. Philip Bus bee was one of the busiuest men around the state capital. There will be but little cessation of business now until April 24th, the final date for filing candidacies. All of the congressmen have given . formal notification of their; intentions to retain their seats in the lower house. Mr. Busbee announced. Op position lins made itself known to several of the incumbents. In the tenth congressional district, for in sance. Fe’.ix Alley will run against Zebulon Weaver. In the ninth. Dr. J. A. Dumette has filed against A. L. Bulwinkle. Os the State officials whose terms expire this year, practically all have filed notice of their candidacies for re-election. Allen J. Maxwell, the only member of the corporation com mission w'iiowe term expires, has filed. The four supreme court justices have filed: Chief Justice Stacy, and Jus tices Adams. Clarkson and Brogden There has been quite a rush of can didacies for State senatorial treats. C. A. Hines, of Greensboro, has filed so State senator from the seventh district; Senator I*. M. Williamson, of Elizabeth City, has tiled for State senator from the first; E. B. Smith has filed for senator from the twen tieth; William Bailey Jones for sena tor from the seventh ; Edwin R. Mae- Kethan for senator from the tenth, and a number of others. Practically all of the superior court judges have filed their candidacies, with tlie exception of Judge T. D. Bryson, of the twentieth, who has announced his retirement. Thomas J. Johnson has filed for the judgeship in that district to succeed him ; Col. Wiley M. Person, of Louisburg, 'has filed for judge in the seventh and Judge Thomas Calvert, of Raleigh, in cumbent in the same district, has served formal notice that he will com pete for the position he holds. Solicitorships also are popular. Ycsterday’smail brought candidacies from Grover C. Davis in Hie twen tieth ; L. E. Rudisill in the sivteenth; Ellic C. Jones in the nineteenth; Porter Graves in the eleventh; and John G. Carpenter in the fourteenth. Careless With Fire in March. State Capital Bureau of The Concord Daily Tribune Sir Walter Hotel Lobby Raleigh. April 17.—North Carolina j was more peaceable during the month of MarcA than in February, but more careless with fire, according to sat tistics on deaths by violence issued by the State board of health yesterday. Homicides declined from sixteen in February to ten in March and sui cides from fourteen to six, but deaths from burns ran up the staggering to tal of 4(1. In numbers, the automobile was the second worst offender, 21 persons dy ing from injuries received in motor accidents. That, however, is exact ly the same mnfiber as in February. Grade crossing accidents took a toll of six lives, wiiile railroad accidents caused only five deaths, a dcreaseof 10. There were seven drowning, as against only two in the previous month. There were four deaths from gun shot wounds accidentally inflicted, a decrease of one from February, and seven other deaths from gunshot wounds listed as doubtful. A cylindrical seal inscribed by ; Sumerians in Mesopotamia indicates ; that the unicorn of heraldry original ly was a rhinoceros. Denies Beer Solution For Canadians Os The Prohibition Prot’ ♦, WOULD SPRINKLERS HAVE SAVED STATE HOSPITAL?, Governor Not Right Certain 1 They Wculd Have Checked Big Blaze. State Capital Bureau of The Concord Daily Tribune Sir Walter Hotel Lobby Raleig'i, April 17.—Not “economy,” i but honest doubt as to the' value ofi ia sprinkler system in a building audit fas the State hospital for the insane! I was back of the refusal of the recent* j State legislatures to appropriate funds | for the installation of such a fire pre-. ! vention system in the building which | burned last Saturday, Governor A. I W. McLean explained yesterday, i “If tiic 1928 legislature had been | actuated solely by motives of “econ omy,” certainly it would not have ap-J propriated something like $1.000,(MW) for new buildings and improvements for that one institution alone,” the governor pointed out. The governor has been amused at the efforts of some individuals and newspapers to lay the blame for the fire to the administration's economy program, in view of the fact that the same persons and papers admit, naively. Phat legislatures antedating the present administration’s inaugura tion also have declined to fit out the main building of the State hospital 1 and other structures equally as an cient with sprinkler systems. There is no uniformity of opinion, even among experts, that the much discussed sprinkler devices would have , prevented, or even assisted to any great extent in checking file spread of the fire through the entire west wing. In the first place, the fire started in, or near, the roof, above any surinkler outlets, had there been any. In the second place, the fire would have spread just Hie same through the furred walls, for the water from the sprinklers could not have reached it through the heavy plastering. As one man put it. about all sprinklers would have done would have been to keep the inmates thoroughly soaked. The governor does not question the effectiveness of sprinkler systems in buildings of more modern construc tion, but he does doubt, seriously, their value in buildings such as the one partially burned Saturday. At the same time, he calls attention to the fact that the last legislature, and. previous general assemblies,_ for that matter, refused to provide the money for the installation of such a system independent of his views. The governor does plan to recom mend to the board of director** of the State hospital, as ©oon as the new’ building is ready for occupancy, that the remaining portion of the main building be made as nearly fireproof as possible. He will urge that fire wmlls be built, dividing the building into five or six sections, the walls extending through the roof so that any fire which might start could not find its way around them. This would effectually pre vent any such disastrous fire as that iif last W’eek, since the flames would be confined to one portion. Too. it would safeguard lives, since it would be five times as easy to empty one-fifth of the building of its patients as it would be to vacate the entire build ing. The governor also will recommend that the wooden girders in the roof and other portions of the building be covered with wire lath, then given a coating of some kind of fire proof cement. This would remove still more of the danger of fire either start ing or spreading. The wood, inci dentally. is of rich pine and highly inflammable. Then, if experts agree that a sprink ler system will be an effectual safe guard. the governor will recommend that such added protection be in-1 stalled. By such methods, the governor be- j lieves that the remaining portions of the old building can be made as thoroughly fireproof as is possible, considering the age and construction of the building. Many of the State buildings are several decades old, put up before fireproofiing methods of con struction were known. It is impos sible, of course, to make them proof i against fire, but, whore possible, such i measures as are found necessary and advisable will be taken to safeguard them. The new wifig of the State hospital is to be of fireproof construction. It will be impossible to do any consid erable amount of work on the other portions until it is completed, as the women inmates have, to be moved to other quarters before their wing can be altered. A murderer’s chance of being hanged if tried in London it> 08 per cent- In America his risk it* only 5 per cent and his chances of scaping detection are also good. 5 The 57th Series in this old Reliable Building and Loan »j ; Association is still open. Running Shares cost 25 cents j s per share per week. Prepaid shares cost $72.25 per share; jjj . stock matures in 328 weeks. jj Tax return day is coming. All stock is NON-TAXABLE. j BEGIN NOW Cabarrus County B. L. & Savings Association | OFFICE IN THE CONCORD NATIONAL BANK j j Former Attorney General i of Ontario Says Legal ized Beer Has Opened! Way for Liquor Sellers, j FOUR PERCENT. BEER UNPOPULAR j Witness Tells Senate Com | mittee People Have Not 1 i Been Satisfied With the[ Weak Drink. Washington. April 17. —(/ P)—Again turning to Canada for light on the prohibit Iton question the Senate pro hibition committee was told today 1 there was no truth in the statement 1 that sale of beer had solved the I>o- : nrnion’s wet and dry trouble. Win. E. Raney, of Toronto, former 1 attorney general of Ontario, called by the dry leaders, testified that Ontario's experiment with the legalized sale of “non-intoxicating" beer had not been successful. ‘'The beer drinkers said the 4 per cent beer allowed under the law did not have enough kick in it.” Raney said, “and permits for the sale of this beer are useful to the holder as a disguise to sell something stronger.” Bootlegging goes on in both wet and dry provinces, he continued, and the products of well known brewer ies and distilleries have become well known in the United States. “This makes law enforcement in the dry provinces more difficult.” the , witness said “and it also makes law . enforcement in the United States J more difficult.” interjected Senator ’ Harreld, republican. Oklahoma. Mr. Raney declared that Cue effort , to suppress the clandestine sale of j liquor in Ontario had been reasonably < successful and gave general satisfac tion to the friends of the temperance ; act. t When Raney told of the complaint i of Mayor Webb, that the provincial ■ authorities failed to co-operate with t the local authorities. Senator Reed. I Democrat, of Missouri, observed that ( that was the reversal of the situation < in the United States. ‘‘Here the complaint is that the i local authorities do not co-operate ] with the federal authorities,” he said. 1 “That’s the ideal way of enfprce irtertt for the municipalities to dtr the 1 work.” said Raney. '■ Senator Harreld. remarked that the « 18th amendment intended that en forcement should be carried out by all offices, state and municipal. ! “You find that in the amendment. 1 do you?” asked Reed. “That’s a general proposition of law.” returned Harreld. “Read Senator Borah's speech in the Senate the other day. He makes I it perfectly clear.” The witness road an editorial in ' the Vancouver Sunday saying that “modernation does not moderate” and that the Manitoba experiment was be coming a failure. Beer No Solution to Problem. j Washington, April 17.— (A 3 ) —The ‘Senate prohibition investigators were told today that legalization of beer j has not solved the prohibition ques tion in Canada, devoting the entire ( session to the testimony of a former attorney general of Ontario,W. E. , Raney, the investigating committee , was advised that the bootlegger still { abounds in the Canadian provinces where bone-dry prohibition has given s way to sale of light alcoholic drinks j under government control. The witness was called by the An- - ti-Saloon League, and he contradicted directly some of the statements made before the committee earlier in the week by Canadians put on the stand by the wets. For the second time since the in quiry began two weeks ago, the com mittee called an afternoon session in order to hear other witnesses sum moned by the dry leaders. For the ■ most part these witnesses were called to testify regarding eondit : ons in this country since the dry law was passed. | After an argument. Senator Reed, j | Democrat, Missouri, the only wet j j member on the committee of five, had j i his way about rebuttal arguments on ! the wet side of the controversy. The i wets and dry* have been given an equal amount of time, and under the decision reached today the wets will use their two remaining hours in closing arguments after the case of the drys is completed. Finds Mummi neat ion Secret. | l)r. Francis Beneimti. a Washing- ; ton scientist, announced that he has | rediscovered the long lost secret of j mummification used by the ancient | Egyptian*. He developed the tim'd which he uses by experimenting on I fish and rabbits. With this fluid ho 1 can restore the original freshness of | ’ a mummy THE TRIBUNE ■ PRINTS I TODAY’S NEWS TODAY NO. 89 TUG BOAT WORKMEi j , n ~:MEJ0B»!l j DEMANDS ARE MET , It Was Feared Their Strike 1 Would Tie Up Water Shipments in Metropolis Over Sunday. AGREEMENT IS EFFECTIVE NOW The Vessels Due in Dopks Would Have Had Trou ble if Strike Had Not Been Settled. New York. April 17. —(/P)-«--Th ree thousand striking tug boat men whose ; precipitate walkout threatened to par- j alyze an unusually busy week-end in = New York harbor returned to work today with most of their demands sat isfied. The strike lasted just twenty- ■ four hours. More than forty vessels including seventeen passenger liners due to sail $ today, were facing serious M incut of their schedules before pie ■ strike was settled. The situation already had been T acute when the agreement was rc&dy last night. MEMORIAL COINS SELLING | WELL IN NEW YORK fjfff | Newspapers. Merchants and Big Me|i of North Aiding in Sale of Mountain Memorial Coins. | Atlanta, Ga., April IB.—'Although the Stone Mountain Memorial is peculiarly a southern institution, ift- k spired by southern sentiment and dedicated to southern heroes, its great national appeal is strikingly demonstrated in the coin sale cam paign now in progress in New York City. Hollins Randolph, president of the Stone Mountain Memorial Assooia- | tion. returning here today after three weeks in New York, assisting the New Y’ork coin sale committee, call ed attention to things being done by New York institutions in behalf of coin sales that are really extraor dinary. The people of the south have re sponded so wonderfully to the ap peal of the Confederate Memorial Half-Dollars.” said Mr. Randolph, “that I am sure it will interest them to know-the extent to which -the sooiation’s efforts are being support- * ed in New Y"ork. “The New York daily newspapers, ; which are obliged to have the strictest rule* regarding publicity and propaganda, are giving day-to day publicity to the coin sale cam- | paign. “Mack. Saks. Gimbel Brothers,. > Allman’s. Lord & Taylor, Wanna maker, Hearn’s, Franklin-Simon, J Bloomingdale, Best & Compaox, and Abram & Straus are selling pori- I federate Memorial Half-Dollars in their great department store*!, with special counters lavishly and with mention of the («oins in their newspaper advertisements- Thw ; is the first time these stores have ever allowed the sale over their - counters of anything outside of their regular run of merchandise “The Corn Exchange, the Chemi- J cal National, the National City, the Central Union Trust and the Guar anty Trust banks are selling coins at their main banks and branches, i several hundred in number* “Coin sale headquarters are in a store just off Fifth avenue donated 3 free of charge by the Roosevelt Hotel, which store has a* rental value of SI,OOO a month. “The head of Tammany Hall, the Democratic organization. Judge 01- vnny, and the head of the Republi- !' can organization, Mr. Koenig, both | are serving on the coin sale com- % mittee. * C “These facts speak volumes for the T national appeal of t'lie Stone Moun- i tain Memorial and the wonderful spirit of fraternity and re-upity M created by the Confederate Memorial Half-Dollar Coinage Act.” ' j Gastonia Rotarians Endorse Dry Regime 1 Gastonia, April 16.—A resolution ! introduced by 1\ Woods Garland, en- ■ jdersing the prohibition laws, now iu effect or hereafter to be enacted, awl the work of the dry forces in their J efforts to sec that such laws are ! enforced, and endorsing Congrats j man A. L. Bulwinklc in his stand lon this matter, was passed by the | Gastonia Rotary club today without a dissenting vote | Father Lejeune. a pioneer, British i i Columbia missionary, lias found ] words of Hebraic origin among the ■' , Indians, thus supportingthe t rad!- :• It ion that Chinese ships brought He- > j brew traders to the Pacific Coast NOO ; j years ago. SAT'S BEAR SAYS: J I Increasing cloudiness and cooler to- 1 night and Sunday, probably showers ; Sunday. Moderate to fresh north and : ; northeast winds.