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VOLUME XXVI
LIVE CHRIST »YS
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SCHOOL MIMS
Mightiest Thing One Can
Do Is to Live Christ,
Says Rev. M. R. Gibson
in Baccalaureate Sermon
SUCH LIVING IS
BIGGEST NEED
Music by Reid Craven,
Miss Sarah Simpson and
Junior Class Enjoyed by
Large Congregation.
I Rev. M. K. Gibson, past ir of the
1 Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Church, was heard by a Targe congre
gation yesterday morning at the high
school when lie delivered the baccal
aureate sermon to the graduates of
the school.
Services in many of the Churches
of the city were omitted so members
could attend the high school service
and the congregation was so lurge
that chairs had to be placed in the
aisles.
Mr. Gibson chose for his text the
2(lth,verse of the 16th chapter of
Acts: "But rise and stand upon thy
feet for I have appeared unto thee for
this purpose to make thee a Minister
and a witness both of these things
which thou hast seen, and those things
in which I will appear unto thee.’*
Before the sermon Rev. M. F. Han
sel. of the Second Presbyterian
Church, conducted the prayer and the
scripture lesson was read by Rev. C.
Herman Trueblood, pnstor of the
First Baptist Church.
A violin solo by Reid Craven, and
a vocal solo by Miss Sarah Simpson,
were musical numbers enjoyed before
the sermon. Prior to the benediction
the Junior Class chorus sang "The
Lost Chord."
Mr. Hibson's sermon follows:
Life throughout is divided into many
stages or turning points. Today you
have come to the completion of one
of those stages in your life, and it
may be said you are beginning a new
oue.i The past is forever gone. The
future is yours. Every man who has
accomplished great things in this would
can almost always designate the turn
ing point] in life v here in some start
s' Ung-wajfhc won Vimifhf v T«rd RTface
’ with the seriousness of apply'ug his
talent and lime in a worthwhile way.
The text calls your attention to such
a time in the life of the great Apostle.
Paul’s journey of J6O miles to Da
mascus haij ended. The Heavenly
light has broken upon his vision. He
has heard his name called from Heav
en in his own Hebrew tongue. He has
asked the two most momentous ques
tions that can come from human life.
Loofc’ng upward and beyond, he asks;
‘AVho art thou Lord?" Looking along
life's pathway he inquires: “What
shall I do Lord?" The words of the
text give the answer of God. They
clothe the Apostle with a mission from
Heaven.
The emphasis of the Heavenly vis
ion is lnid first upon the revealing the
personality of God and upon the duty
of witnessing for the person made
known. In his memories and in his
outlook for the future his thoughts
Were to bo fixed on Jesus. He was to
see Christ behind him and Christ be
fore him. His faith would grow
strong by his retrospection, and his
life would be enlarged as the coming
days made their revelation to him. He
is to live and work under the inspir
ation of an unfolding view. The sky
line of duty will ever beckon him on
ward. I have appeared unto thee to
make thee a witnessing minister of
Christ, as revealed or yet to be re
veoled. This is the attitude which
God asked Paul to maintain as he en
tered upon the new life—the Christ
life.
i, If we are allowed just here to stop
and tnke a review of some things that
have taken place in the last few years
we would discover that we too, like
Paul, have a skyline of vision and
duty. It is the line where Heaven
and earth seem to come together,
where the human amj the Divine
blend; where God and man meet,
where the things that are seem to
reveal the presence nnd power of
Jesus Christ. Looking back over the
period of your grammar school and
high school years you have seen the
coronation of American womanhood.
True she has been the heart of the
home; she has been the pillar in the
church. Now she is clothed with the
power of a Sovereign for the guid
ance of the American Nation. And in
our vision of the past we see a line of
battle drawn in America against the
forces of strong drink. One of the
heaven-born attacks was made some
55 years ago in front of the saloon.
The soldiers were women and they
were upon their knees. The skyl’ne
of the few years gone shows a point
where the hand of God opened the
fortress of the Constitution, and ever
since the forces of strong drink have
been on the retreat. Mnny lives
through these endeavors have been led
upward into a moment of spiritual
benediction.
Many a day )n the closing four
years should awaken in your hearts an
anthem of praise for places and times,
whether of tears or of laughter, where
opportunities have come to you for
eqn'pplng for life’s work. And re
member in these years Jeeus Christ
has appeared lndened with blessings
known oiily to Him, and to the recip
ient in the quiet solitude of his life.
And, too, these revelations of Christ
(Continued on Page Two)
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The Concord Daily Tribune
North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
mcmmoT
I PUCEAKf OBSTACLE
I MS LiTIM
i The American Delegate to
, Geneva Says This Coun
i try Will Do All Possible
i to Limit Armaments.
i GIVES AMERICAN
i ATTITUDE TODAY
, Americans Will Not Be
I Able to Participate in
Discussions, But Will
Not Stand in ithe Way.
Genevn. May 24. — (A I ) —Asserting
tiiat the United States wished to do
everything possible to promote the
movement for the limitation of arma
ments, Hugh Gibson, American dele
gate, today told the preparatory com
mission on disarmanent that his dele
gation did not wish to present any ob
stacles to a discussion of disarmament
problems which might have League of
Nations aspects.
Mr. Gibson said that the Americans
of course would not be able to par
ticipate in such discussions, blit would
not stand in .-their way.
His statement was made in the
course of a debate over the desira
bility of exercising some sort of con
trol over the armaments of nations
participating in the conference, once
reductions have been agreed upon.
France was in favor of a regular form
of control, to which Italy, however,
interposed objections.
Viscount Cecil, the English dele
gate, expressed the opinion that any
dispute as to whether the disarma
ment accords were being oiyaiiy car
ried out normally would come under
the 11th article of the covenant of
the Lengue of Nations. This article
provides that any dispute between
members of the League is a mntter
which concerns all members, and may
be brought to the attention of the
League council. This brought an ob
jection from one delegate, who re
marked that the discussions on the
covenant might embarass non-league
members. It was then that Mr.
Gibson presented the American atti
tude of not placing obstacles in the
way of anything that might help to
hung abaaUtyg jitnlt^iys.
DR. OSCAR HAYWOOD
IN LEGISLATIVE RACE
Picturesque Preacher From Mount
Gilead. It Is Said, Has Fair Chance
to Win.
Raleigh, May 23. —Montgomery
county will send Rev. Dr. Oscar Hay
wood to Raleigh if Editor B. S. Hur
ley, of Troy, knows politics, and
when the picturesque preacher, who
is president of. the North Carolina
Anti-Capital Punishment Association,
gets here he is expected to help out
the prison folks.
Dr. Haywood had no oposition
when the last train came in and he
is expected to have none. Mr. Hurley
represented the county at the last
sitting and got enough. Dr. Haywood
is a big farmer of Mount Gilead and
he has hankered slightly for this
place before. He has more than an
even change for election despite the
fact thnt the county is close.
The Montgomerians declare that the
minister is no longer connected with
the Ku Klttx Klnn, for which he lec
tured quite a while. That is inter
esting only ns it relates to a possible
religious war in the general assembly.
I>r. Haywood has opposed all his life
any sort of ecclesiastical legislation
by state. He would hardly sit quietly
and allow the introduction and pas
sage of a measure fashioned after the
Poole bill in the late general as
sembly.
Postmasters Causing Trouble With
Auto License Tags.
Raleigh, May 24.—(A*)— The State
1 department of revenue is having trou
’ bles all its own. in connection with
the automobile license rush, which
will actually begin on June Ist, for
blit which preparations are already
! underway. North Carolina post
-1 masters are the latest ones to un
| wittingly create additional work for
the automobile license bureau.
: The bureau has already begun mail
-1 mg out the automobile license appii
-1 eations, whir'll are sent in by the ap
• plicant together with his check.
■ These are sent out in So-called open
‘ envelopes — that is, the name on the
! application appears at the opening,
eliminating the addressing of the en
| velope.
; Hundreds are being returned by the
! post offices, where automobile own
] ere have changed their addresses. In
■ returning, the postmasters are, in
• most instances, the department says,
stamping the “returned to sender’’’
• directly over the card, thus spoiling
] the card, and making it necessary for
' the department to make out a new
r card—an arduous task, when these
ruined cards run into the hundreds.
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! Prims In Canned Vegetables.
1 (By International News Service)
West Palm Bench, Fla.. May 24
r Boxes of candied pop-corn, circus
1 venders win tell you, always contain
» * prise worth many times more than
1 the price of the package, but grocers
r of West Palm Beach are going them
‘ one better by putting prises in can
-1 ned vegetables.
8 Mrs. B. A. Everingham, of Kenne
" dy's Dock, was surprised to find a
'■ solid gold wedding ring in a can of
1 spinach when she was preparing it for
the table.
[SUITE OF TOE
: ffWTIOO CITIES
OF 30.000100 OB
' Estimates Based 'on As
sumption of Annual In
!j crease Since 1920 Same
J as Average at That Time
WINSTON-SALEM
STILL LARGEST
It’s /Estimated Population j
Is Given as 71,800. —j
Charlotte Is Next in the!
State, With 54,600.
Washington. May 24. — UP) —Esti-
mates of the population of 229 cities
having 30,000 or more inhabitants
were announced today by the depart
ment of commerce.
The estimates prepared by the cen
sus bureau and carrying figures up
to July Ist this year are based in
most eases upon the assumption thnt
the annual increase since 1020 has
been the same ns the average between
1910 nnd 1020.
For cities in states which took a
Rtate census in 1925 tile estimates are
based on the 1920 to 1925 average,
and annual increase. Estimates were
not given for twelve cities where the
last census showed a decrease in pop
ulation. nor in ten cities where ex
ceptional conditions of growth which
would cause estimates to be far from
correct are believed to prevail. Al
lowance is made for annexation and
detachments of territory.
The big four, the country's only
cities having a million or more popu
lation, show no ehange in rank. New
York leads with 5,924.000 against 5,-
620,048 in 1920.
Chicago passed the 3.000,000 mark
for the first time with 3.048,000
against 2,701,705 in 1920.
Philadelphia, crossing the 2,000,000
mnrk retained third place, with 2,-
008.000 against 1,823.779.
Detroit continued fourth with 1,-
290,000 against 903,674.
The estimates for North Carolina
cities: Charlotte. 54,600 against 46.-
338; Durham, 43,000 against 42.258;
Greensboro, 48,7000 against 43525;
Wilmington 37,700 against 33,372;
Winston-Salem, 71.890 against 48,,
Ten cities comprise* the half tnrf
-1 ion to a million class.
Estimates in this class were; Cleve
land. 960,000 against 750.841; St.
Louis 830.000 against 772.897; Bal
timore, 808,000 against 733.826; Bos
ton 878,000 against 748,060; Pitts
burgh 037,000 against 594,277 I >
Los Angeles, not estimated, had
576,673 in 1920; San Francisco 567,-
076; Buffalo 544.000 against 506,775 ;
Washington 528,000 against 437,571;
and Wilwaukee 517,000 agninst 457,-
147.
HOP OFF ON FIRST
LEG OF LONG FLIGHT
Left Slated Island Today For Char
, leston, Beginning 6,060 Trip.
New York, May 24. —OP)—Bernar-
do Duggan, wealthy Argentine sports
man, and two companions hopped off
in a flying boat from Milled Field on
Staten Island at 7:04 a. in. Eastern
standard time, today, for Charleston,
S. C., on the first leg of a 6,100 mile
flight to Buenos Aires.
With Our Advertisers.
The Parkx-Belk Co. is receiving
new goods from New York every day.
Just now they are making a special
offering of printed and plain crepe
dresses at $9.75 and $9.95. Special
prices on a big lot of rugs—from $1.50
to $2.75.
New lingerie fabrics in pretty
cheeks and stripes, 19 to 59 cents a
yard at J. C. Penney Co.’s.
High school class play “Valeda
Chooses" Wednesday evening at 8:15
at high school auditorium. Admission
25 and 50 cents. All seats reserved.
Tickets on sale at Gibson Drug Store.
Buck’s Blue Flame Oil Range saves
time and money. See ad. of Con
cord Furniture Co.
Everything for outing and sport
wear at HooverV
Polish your floors by electricity,
using Johnson’R wax electric floor pol
isher. Ask Ritchie Hardware Store
for a demonstration. Y’ou can rent
it for $2 a day. See ad.
Pretty dresses are kept pretty by
dry cleaning. Bob's will clean them
' for you.
Every uew millinery detail and ev
ery new color combination at Robin
son’s millinery department.
• Wilkinson’s Funeral Home is open
■ day and night. Phone 9. Ambulance
i service.
i • Gurney refrigerators have proven
„ their efficiency in all kinds of tests.
" )At H. B. Wilkinson’s.
; ' This is Broiler Week May 24 to 29.
■ You can get an Oriole gas range for
r this week only from the Concord and
; Kannapolis Gas Co. for SBS. Terms,
SI.OO down and $5 a month. Read all
about it in ad. today.
Get a Jantaen Swimming Suit, “the
suit that changed bathing to awim
- mlng." For sale by R'tchie Hardware
i Co.
i
i Women Win Victory.
* Pensncola, Fla., May 24. — (Ast —
i Women of the Presbyterian Church
- in the United States won a sweeping
victory in the general assembly here
- today when the church court by a
i vote that was almost unanimous,
f greatly broadened opportunities for
r participation by women in church af
fairs. ,
CONCORD, N. C., CONDAY, MAY 24, 1925
SEVENTEEN INJURED
■ j
1
Seventeen persons were severely injured when a pssenger train on the ('Tiicngo & -\orth Western Kauroad
plowed into the rear end of a freight train at Wilmette. 111. Most of tile injured were of the crews of the trains.
MINISTERS DECLINE TO
TAKE DEFINITE STAND
Charlotte Association Dees Not Act
On Anti-Evolution Campaign.
Charlotte. May 24.— (A>) —The Min
isterial Association of Charlotte call
ed a special session today, and de
clined to take definite stand regard
ing the anti-evolution campaign being
conducted in North Carolina by "out
side organizations.’'
The meeting was called to consider
the advisability of recommending any
action by the city commission on the
request of Dr. T. T. Martin, field sec
retary of the Anti-Evolution I.eaguc
of America, for permission to use the
city auditorium for holding an "athe
ist-fundamentalist” debate.
The commission has already declined
to allow use of the auditorium for the
debate. Dr. Martin declares the
debate will be held somewhere in the
city May 31st.
The Ministerial Association’s v':cwr
were declared in a resolution adopted
after prolonged debate, which holds
that tlie Association properly should
not assume the responsibility of ad
vising Mnyor Abernethy regarding
privileges of the auditorium. Confi
dence was expressed in the competency
of the Mayor in allowing use of the
building.
The Association was in closed ses
three hours, barring even repro
sentatives of the press.
A resolution tending to endorse the
stand of the city commission in de
clining to allow tlie debate at the au
ditorium was voted down.
FEWER DEATHS BUT MORE
PERSONS KILLED BY AUTO
Florida Replaces North Carolina at
the Head of Killed and Injured Col- .
umns.
(A 3 )—A decrease of two deaths and
an increase of 53 persons injured in
accidents during the past week as
compared with the preceding seven
days was shown in a survey of traffic
conditions iu eleven Southern states
conducted by tlie Associated Press.
The totals gave 37 persons killed and
278 injured last week; and 39 killed
nnd 225 injured tlie week previous.
Florida replaced North Carolina at
the head of tlie killed and injured col
umn with eight persons dead and 45
injured. The Tar Heel State tied her
in the list of fatalities, but had only
eight injured.
Georgia was in the lend position
in the number of persons injured
with 51.
Alabama and Mississippi had only
one fatality each, while South Caro
lina and Virginia ranked next with
two each. Arkansas reported only 33
persons injured.
PLANS HEARING FOR
CHARLOTTE “CHILD BRIDE”
Mrs. Nellie Freeman Held for Slay
ing Her Husband Saturday Night.
Charlotte, May 24. — (A 3)—Alternat
ing between grief and satisfaction.
Mrs. Nellie Freeman, “child bride", {
was today in jail and Coroner Frank
Hovis was preparing to ask for a
preliminary hearing for the woman,
charged with the slaying of her hus
band, Alton Freeman. Saturday night.
Mrs. Freeman told officers she
slashed her husband’s throat with a
raxor when he told her he was desert
ing her. He died within a few min
utes. The slaying occarrred at the
home of Freeman's parents, where the
couple lived.
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE
RADITCH IS FRUSTRATED
Young Nationalist Arrested Just as
He Was About to Throw a Bomb.
Belgrade, Jugo-Slavia, May 24.—(A 3 )
— An attempt to assassinate Stefan
Raditcb. Croat peasant party leader
and minister of education, was frus
trated at Starnpnzova today. A young
nationalist. Slavko Milch, was arrest
ed just as he was about to throw a
bomb at the minister during a meet
ing at Raditch.
Will Investigate Boyles Charges.
Mobile, Ala., May 24.— (Aft— Fed
eral Judge Robert P. Ervin today in
structed the grand jury to invest!- j
gate charges of violating the federal
law by District Attorney Aubrey |
Boyles. j
> The court appointed Joseph John.}
: special prosecutor, to investigate the:
i charges against Boyles. j
i John was dismissed last week by
, the department of justice as assist
t ant district attorney.
• . Boyles’ second appointment was re
jected by the Senate Friday.
AIR SURVEY OF CROP
CONDITIONS IN STATE
A Systematic Air Survey Planned by
Department of Agriculture.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, May 24.—A systematic
photographic air survey of crop con
ditions in North Carolina is being
planned by the state department of
agriculture nnd tlie necessary ma
chinery in Washington has been set
in motion to secure the assignment
of a photographic plane from Lang
ey Field for the use of the state ag
ricultural department here, it was an
nounced today.
It is planned to mnke the first sur
vey about June 15th nnd to follow
with two more similar surveys on
July 15th and August 15th over the
same territory, thus obtaining a pho
tographic record of crop growth in
the various agricultural sections of
the state during these Five
air photographs, that later will be
worked into a mosaic-composite pho
tographic map, will be taken at 25
different points within an area ap
proximately 300 miles.
The route of the survey will ex
tend through approximately twenty
counties in the heart of the state's
agricultural section, so thnt the pho
tographic record will show as wide
a variety of crops as possible. Tlie
centers of the cotton, tobacco, peanut,
corn, oats and trucking centers will
be traversed. The photographic plane
will start from Langely Field, and
entering North Carolina over Gates
county, the series of photograps will
be started, taken with one of the
large airplane cameras used by the
war department, which is equipped
with a telephoto lense.
From Gates county the route will
extend south-eastward through Hert
ford, Bertie nnd a corner of Halifax
counties, on into Edgecombe, Wilson,
Johnson and Cumberland counties,
down to Fort Bragg. Then the re
turn circuit will be started back
through Cumberland and Hoke coun
ties, and over Harnett, Lee, a cor
ner of Chatham county, and on over
Wake, Franklin, Vance, Warren, a
corner of Halifax county nnd across
Northampton. From Northampton
county the plane will cross back into
Virginia and land at Langley Field.
The entire circuit and survey will
require less than a day’s time and a
photographic record, the most accu
rate thnt can be obtained, will have
been made that would have taken
weeks to obtain without the aid of
an airplane.
Tlie manner in which these pho
tographs are taken is both simple, yet
complicated, according to Frank
Parker, state statisticians of the de
partment of agriculture, under whose
direction the survey is to be made.
Mr. Parker made an experimental
survey last year,’ which proved so
successful that it is to be taken on a
larger scale this year.
The big camera, which holds ,a roll
of film containing 125 negatives, fits
j into the floor of • the cockpit of the
plane. There is a large range finder
on the camera that shows the opera
tor all that is within range of the
camera lense, and in the same size as
it will appear on the negative. When
a mosaic picture of the terrain below
is desired, a number of exposures are
made in quick succession, so that the
pictures will overlap slightly, when
these are developed and trimmed, a
large picture several feet across each
way in area, results, and from pic
tures of this sort the necessary data
as to crops are obtained.
Since the camera has a tela-photo
lense, details are recorded, even at a
heights of two Or three thousand feet,
that cannot be seen with the naked
eye. From looking st one of these
large composite photographic maps,
it is possible to distinguish corn from
cotton and tobacco from truck, as each
has its own characteristics when
viewed from the air. Poorly fer
tilized “spots” are easily located and
grass allowed to grow between rows
where the Cultivation has been poorly
done, shows up plainly.
The department of agriculture ex
pects these surveys to prove of re
markable value in studying eondi
: tions of crops and in finding reme
dies for these conditions, where un
| favorable.
i
Government Captains Blueflelds.
'j Managua, Nicaragua, May 24. — UP)
| —The city of Blueflelds which has
been held by the revolutionists, was
eaptared this morning without fight
ing, the government announces. This
is regarded here as the end of the 1
revolutionary movement. ■ I
INVESTIGATION OF CHAIN
GANG SYSTEM IN ALABAMA
The Most Sensational Developments.
Come to Light.
(By International News Service)
Birmingham, Ala., May 24.—0 n
the heels of one of the most sensation
al developments in the whole convict,
leasing investigation by the grand ju
ry, rumors were current here that
Cecil Houston, pictured as the "kill
er" at tlie Flat Top convict mines,
has confessed to his alleged part in
the (lentil of James Knox.
Solicitor Jim Davis announced
that Houston, the life-term trusty,
will be State's witness in tile forth
coming trial of Charles R. Davis, for
mer warden who is charged with first
degree murder n connection with the
death of Knox.
While the Solicitor refused to add
to this statement, reports immediate
ly became current that Houston had
confessed. Such a confession was
mnde by Homer Anderson, negro hos
pital steward at Fiat Top, who now
admits that he pumped poison into
Knox's body to simulate suicide after
Knox had died from alleged abuse.
Houston, a check-runner, or under
ground "straw-boss" of a convict gang,
is alleged to have flogged Knox for
his refusal to work. He is also
charged with participation in the sub
sequent ducking of Knox in a laun
dry vat. fvhere he died.
The week beginning June 14 has
been set for the trials of Chief War
den Davis and five others charged
with first degree murder in connec
tion with atrocities at the mine. '
W. A. Bates, former deputy ward
en at Flat Top. will be the first of
the six men under indictment to face
a jury. He is charged with having
clubbed to death Frank Harper, a ne
gro convict. Bates is at liberty under
$25,000 bond.
Warden Davis is scheduled to go on
trial immediately after Bates' trial is
concluded. Tiie warden is charged
with the death of Knox. He is also
under bond of $25,000.
Cecil Houston, a "straw-boss” un
der Warden Davis, and Elbert Lewis.
H. Joe Bayne and Homer Anderson,
trusties, will go on trial after a jury
decides Bates' fate. They are charg
ed with having had part in the death
of Knox.
The State's ease against the six de
fendants is yet incomplete, Solicitor
Davis said.
THE COTTON MARKET
Appeared to Be But Very Little Buy
ing Power After the Covering Late
Last Week.
New York. May 24.— (A P)—A more
fnvorable view of Southern -weather
conditions seemed responsible for an
opening <leel : ne of 4 to 6 points in
the cotton market today.
Offerings were light, but there ap
peared to be very little buying power
after the covering late last week, and
prices soon showed net losses of 6 to
11 points, July selling off to 18.26
and December to 17.42 before the end
of the first, hour.
Owing to a continuation of the hol
idays, there were no cables from Liv
erpool to influence sentiment here
but some of the Saturday's buyers
seemed to be reselling on tlie better
weather news.
Cotton futures opened steady: Ju
ly 18.33: October 17.56: December
17.45; January 17.35; March 17.46.
Bootleggers Mast Not Furnish the
Names of Customers.
Washington, May 24.—UP)—Boot
leggers and their customers cannot
be prosecuted under the prohibition
enforcement act for failing to furnish
the government a permanent record
of all illegal sales including the names
of customers, the Supreme Court de
clared today in a case from Pennsyl
vania.
Krim Sends Letter to. French.
Paris, May 24. —(A*)—lt is officially
confirmed that M. Parent, member of
the Freneh medical mission in the
Riff, bore a letter from Abd-el-Krim
to the French resident general, Jules
Stegg, upon his return to Fez today.
The letter will be considered at a
council of ministers tomorrow.
Decides Against National Cash Regis
ter Company.
New York May 24.— (A s ) —The
National Cash Register Co. infringed
in 44 points on patents owned by the
Remington Cash Register Co., and
will have to pay the latter company
> j damages for losses sustained, it was
■ ! decided today by Judge Marton of the
1 circuit court of appeals.
OUR INTENDED
AT PRESENT Ff-
CALIFORNIA flit
I
Assistant Secretary An-1
| drews Makes Statement )
Regarding State Officials
Acting as Federal Agents i
WAS BOMBARDED j
BY CRITICISMS |
He Defended the Order as
Entirely Constitutional.
May Be Revoked at Any
Time, He Says.
Washington, May 24.—(/P)—Bom
barded by criticism from both wets
and dry*. Assistant Secretary An
drews today assured the country he
laid no intention of authorizing state
and local officials generally through
out the country to act as prohibition
agents.
The government prohibition chief
reiterated that President Coolidge's
executive order making possible the
| performance of such a function by
state, county and city officials, was
intended for the present at least for
California only.
He defended the Presidential order,
however, as entirely constitutional, blit
conceded that it involved some as
pects which might be "very danger
ous."
The Federal commission to be giv
en the local officials, he added, would
be issued with the understanding that
they are revocable at any time.
General Andrews expressed •‘sur
prise" at the reception given the or
der which has been assailed by the
wet* as an invasion of states rights,
and criticised by some drys as resting
on doubtful constitutional basis.
"Giving authority to a man over
whom you have not got 100 per cent,
control is very dangerous,’’ he said,
“and I will be very loath to do it. The
Executive order was asked for merely
to meet the situation in California
where some deputy sheriffs have vol
unteered to police rural precincts in
co-operation with the Federal forces.
I have no intention, and had none, of
extending this plan throughout the
country.
“However, I think the order is
perfectly legal and constitutionally
sound." i
ROCKINGHAM WOMAN
FATALLY SHOOTS SELF
, Mrs. Anna Thomas Lea Had Suffered
Breakdown While in United States
Employ
Rockingham, May 23. —This com
munity was shocked this morning by
the death of Mrs. Anna Thomas Lea,
which occurred at 11:30, following
self-inflicted wounds sustained two
hours earlier. Mrs. tea had been in
poor health for some weeks, having
suffered -a nervous breakdown in
Washington where she was in gov
ernment employ. She came home
two months ago and spent a month in
the Hamlet Hospital in the hope of
rebuilding her nervous condition.
Last night she attended a Chautauqua
play with some friends, and at break
fast with her father this morning gave
no indication of the impending act.
She did the small chores in the home
this morning before breakfast, and
showed her solicitude for her father’s
comfort by asking if she might pre
pare his bath. Immediately after
breakfast she went into one of the
rear bedrooms, and at once there rang
out two pistol shots in rapid succes
sion. She was found with a bullet
in her temple, and her life blood fast
ebbing away.
The funeral will be held Monday
afternoon at 4 o'clock from the resi
dence.
Mrs. Lea, who was 33 years old,
was the widow of Major Robert Em
mett Lea, who died at Camp Pike
several years ago.
Photographers Meeting in Charlotte.
Charlotte, May 24.— <JP) —Hearing
of recommendations and reports of
officers occupied the morning session
today of the Tar Heel Photographic
Society, members of which were gath
ered here from all parts of the state.
Ben V. Matthews, of Winston-Sal
em, presided.
A dinner dance was on the program
for tonight. J. H. Brakshill, of
Knoxville, Tenn., president of the
Photographers’ Association of Amer
-1 ica, was to preside at this affair.
Farm Relief Disclosed Again.
Washington, May 24.—t V) —Farm
relief, shelved in the House last Fri
day by defeat of the Haugen price
stabilization bill, was discussed for
awhile on the floor today with Ueure
sentative Fulmer, democrat, of South
Carolina, predicting that the agricul
tural committee, of which he is a
member, again will report out the
Haugen measure.
“There are 15 members of the com
mittee behind that bill." he said, “and
but three favorable to the Tinchcr bill
and two backing the Aswell Mill.”
Refuses to Pass oh Question.
Washington, May 24.—<>P)—Hold
ing it has no jurisdiction, the Supreme
Court today refused to pass on a test
case involving the right of .property
owners in the capital to enforce an
agreement barring negroes from own
ing houses in certain residential sec
tions.
The consumption of ice cream in
i the United States has increased
• from 1.04 gallons a yehr per penum
in 1910 to 2.8 gallons in 1025.
THE TRIBUNE
PRINTS
TODAY’S NEWS TODAtJ
NO. 12Q
COMMENCEMENTS
■ .ouiiT PLEASEHT
; ATTRACTING l|J
The Program Opened Witl§
i Class Day
Mont Amoena Seminary
I at 6p. m. Saturday.
! SERMON HEARD M
BY BIG CROWD
Dr. Bell Preached to GfijjS;
gregation That Packed
Church—The Class PKjf
Will Be Given TonigHtT
BY \V. M. SHERRILL '][
Mt. Pleasant. May 24.—The com
mencement program for Mont Amoena
Seminary and Mt. Pleasant CoßtwSßPi
Institute, the two Lutheran siffowjl
here, is in full swing today witil
scores of former students and frieii&l
of the two institutions present.
Tiie program began Saturday evft
, niug when members of the senior
• class at’the seminary held their iMHyi
day exercises. The exercise attfp^B|
; a large crowd and proved one of Iflf
• most interesting in the history of tH
school.
Yesterday the first feature of the
joint program was held when Dr. E
K. Bell, of the Theological
at Columbia. S. C„ preached the Bac
calaureate sermon. Many weri? fin
able to get into the Lutheran Ohui-i*
where Dr. Bell delivered his
the congregation being the larfeag i
perhaps, in the history of the sfitgMHj
Tiie streets of this town are er»M||
ed with visitors today, and there is o
holiday spirit in evidence. The auto
has done as much as any other fiie
; tor, to increase attendance at the
commencement exercises, for whereas
it formerly took all day to driye in
with the horse and buggy, the toym is
only a short distance from all of the
outlying districts now that motor, has
taken its place with other necessities
on the farm.
The people here are stii, talking
about the very able address delivered
last night by Rev. Oscar Blackwel
der, one of the most successful grad
uates of the institute. Mr. Blackwel
der spoke before the Luther League
of the Seminary and the Y. M. C. A.
of the institute, giving the young wom
en and young men -a masterful ad
dress on some of the essentials in life.
Mr. Blackwelder is often called to
Mt. Plea want at commencement time
for by all former students and patrons
of tlTe school he is held in peculiarly
high esteem. V Ktl*
The program this morning attract
ed an audience that packed the audi
torium. the occasion being the annual
declaimers’ contest for a gold medal.
The contest this year brought out six
speakers of unusual ability and their
subjects were heard with keen inter
est. P. H. Lipe, whose subject was
“How the La Rue Stakes Were Lost,’’
was awarded the medal and honorable
mention was won by H. H. Sloop,
who spoke on “The Unknown Rider.”
Judges for the contest were Dr. C.
K. Bell. L. E. Blackwelder and Rev.
W. C. Lyerly. Other speakers in ad
dition to the winners were: E. B.
Bolick on “The Ruins of Time,” W. t
; E. Hendrix, on “True Nobility,” A.
! H. Johnson, J: 1 .. on “Burgoyne’s Sur
render," and H. C. McAllister on
1 "Lest We Forget.”
While the institute is noted for the
thoroughness with which it conducts
; its work its most enviable reputation
1 iierhaps, has been attained through
the excellence of the speakers who
have gone out from it. The ulttMual
training the students receive was. re
flected in the fine manner in which
the young men spoke til’s morning
Many alumni of the school gather
ed at noon for their annual meeting,
’ being served dinner as the guests of
’ the school.
? The crowd was looking forward
with interest to the address to be de
livered to the alumni this afternoon M
3 :30 by C. O. P. Trexler, of the class
| of ’ls.
Tonight the annual play wiU be
J given and tomorrow many features
arc offered. The literary address wiU
be delivered at 10:30 by Dr. Charles
' H. Smith, president of Roanoke Col
lege and in the afternoon the annual
contest in debate will be held. The
1 students of the seminary will give
their musical recital tomorrow eve
ning in the chajiel of the school. *:
The program will be concluded with
the graduating exercises Wednesday
morning.
The baccalaureate sermon was de
’ livered at 11 o’clock Sunday morning
[ by the Rey. Charles K. Bell., D. D.,
~ professor of Practical Theology at the
1 Lutheran Theological Seminary, Co
lumbia, S. C.
1 Dr. Bell took his text from ag-’
Luke 5:3, “And He entered into on*
1 of the boats which was Simon’s, and
5 asked him to put out a little from
land. And He sat down and taught
' the multitude from the boat.” '*
. In his discourse Dr. Bell stressed
the thought that man is honored by
a request from God. The opportunity
for active service is one which permits,
a man to definitely align himself with
God. or to remain on the side that ,1s
against Him.
The request that came to Sim on
was for a favor—God asking a favor
(Continued on Page Five)
THE WEATHER
Generally fair and somewhat aiillM*
er ton’ght and Tuesday. Gentle to
moderate variable winds.