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VOLUME XXVI
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POLLS PAID SlOi-
MPOiAW
Henry Walnut Says Gov.
Pinchot Had 600 Paid
Watchers at the Various
Polls in Philadelphia.
MEN PAID MORE
THAN THE WOMEN
Witness Said He Had Not
Investigated Records to
See Part Played by the
Liquor Interests.
Washington, July o.—-C/P)—Repre
sentative John N, Morin, western
campaign manager for Repreßentafve ]
Vnre in the recent Pennsylvan'a sen
atorial primaries, failed to put in an
appearance when the Senate campaign
funds investigating committee met to
day, and acting chairman King threat
ened to have a warrant issued for
him.
When Morin did not respond to h ! s
name, Senator King announced that
he had telegraphed him yesterday to
be here.
‘‘Find out where he is,” the acting
chairman told the secretary of the
Committee. “We will have to issue
a warrant for him if we cannot get him
here any other way.”
Resuming its inquiry, the commit
tee was told by T. Henry Walnut, a
Philadelphia lawyer, that GOO paid
watchers were employed at the polls
in Philadelphia by the organization of
(lovernor Pinchot in the race for the
senate.
Walnut, who was Philadelphia man
ager for Pinchot, said $5 was paid for
women watchers and $lO for the men
on the theory that the men were the
most valuable.
As to contributions of liquor inter
ests Walnut said he had not examin
ed the reeordß.
“Are these the men who run ‘speak
easies’ and such places?” asked Sen
ator Goff.
“Yes. bnt in th's place it was par
ticularly the grain alcohol people in
Philadelphia.”
When Walnut was excused, Mor
in's Mine was ttgain called bat"“h*
failed to" respond.
* Senator King explained he lmd •
WWt telegram from Morin testfir
da.v saying he had been called home
by illness in his family.
“I immediately sent h’m a tele
gram telling him to be held today as
we wanted to finish up this matter,”
King added.
O’Connor Testimony to District At
' tomey.
Washington, July 6.—(A*)—The
Senate campaign funds committee de
cided today to turn over to the dis
trict attorney of the District of Co- <
lumbia the record of the testimony in '■
the case of F. X. O'Oomnor, a South 1
Philadelphia magistrate, for such ae- i
tion as might seem advisable. I
D'Connor recently denied before the •
committee the testimony of Senator
Pepper and three Philadelphia news- ]
paper ment that he .had told them 1
the William 8. Vare organisation had :
offered to purchase his support in !
the recent Pennsylvania senatorial !
primary.
The decision of the committee was '
unanimous, Senator King, the acting j
chairman, announced, after an execu
tive session.
Senator King also said the sergeant
at arms had been directed to require 1
the presence before tie committee of '
Representative Morin, of Pittsburgh, 1
who was western campaign manager
for Vare. Morin failed to appear to- 1
day after being summoned.
“If necessary the sergeant at arms 1
will go to Congressman Morin’s At- ;
lantic City home and subpoena him 1
and bring him here,’ said Senator
King.
The committee made public a list
of contributors to the association 1
against the prohibition amendment,
but withheld a list of Anti-Saloon
League contributors obtained from
the records at league headquarters 1
in Ohio. Publication this list 1
has been objected to by Wayne B. 1
Wheeler, and the committee decided, 1
3 to 2, to make pubtlc later “only
those contributors which have been
made recently. Others will be held ,
in confidence as not germain to the
present inquiry,
“The committee will examine the
list and decide which are to be en
tered on the record,” King said. “Un
til that is done, the list will not be
published.”
Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri,
the committee ebairmun, and Senator
LaFollette, Republican, Wisconsin,
were rumored as voting to make pub
lic all the names, with Senators King,
Goff, Republican, West Virginia, and
McNary, Republican, Oregon, voting
the other way.
In the season of 1800 Charley
Zimmer of the Cleveland team made
a record by catching in 111 conoecu- (
tive games. This record stood for
19 years, till the' season of 190 T,
when it was equalled by George Gib
son, of Pittsburgh, who the follow
ing year smashed it to pieces by
working in 140-games.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Patterson have
returned to Concord, after spending a
week at" Lake Waccamaw," and
Wrightsville Beacb.
Mrs, Flynn Johnson is confined to
her home by illness. Her condition
today is reported as improyed,
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The Concord Daily Tribune
North Carolina's Leading Small City Daily
Submarine S-51 Takes
Final Journey After
Being Raised At Sea
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EAT LESS
Food Makes You Ht.—-Watch Ycur
t Diet and Keep Cool.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh. July 6.—lt's hot tbeso
days, isn’t it? But it is not so much
'fie heat that makes you hot br the
food you eat for breakfast, dinner and
supper, say the experts in the State
board of health. It is all in the
calories, you know, along with the
I vitamlnes. So no mpttcr how high
the mercury in the thermometer may
1 boil, or how the pavement may fry
and curl up in the street, you can
keep cool if you will only watch
your diet.
“It must be remembered that food
is fuel and that the human body is
»a furnace,” said one. of the doctors
in discussing the questions of hot
weather foods and diet. “If you fill
your furnace full of fats and car
bohydratea—intense heat producing
foods, yon might as well settle down
for a nice, hot summer of it right
away. " For instance if you persist
in eating a bowl of oatmeal for break
fast, followed with bacon and eggs
and biscuits, with a cup or two of
coffee' with cream and sugar in it,
you might as well be resigned to feel
ing hot and stuffy thg rest of the
day. F-or you have filled your sys
tem full of heat producing body fuel
and until it burns down to ash, you
are going to feel hot. and be hot and
perspire freely and puff profusely.
But it is not the fault of the weath
er, but of the food.
“On the other Aland, if you can be
satisfied at breakfast with a slice of
thin toast, a glass or two of milk and
some light cereal, the weather should
not make you uncomfortable, even if
the thermometer does rise like a
skyrocket, because you have not over
loaded your system with unnecessary
fuel. If at noon you continued to
avoid heavy foods and hot breads,
and eat instead a quantity of vege
tables, either raw or cooked, drinking
freely of milk or lemonade or orange
ade. you wfli still fie proof against
fKe heat for the remainder of the
day. At supper time, a .light, pref
erably cold meal, with many vege
tables, will assure a cool, restful
Tflfbt
Amvw
the game
The dbetor was then asked about ,
summer drinks—whether or not large
quantities of |ee water ot *icqd
drinks assisted in making one cool
er. He replied: 4
“One can hardly drink too much 1
water—and it should be cool water. '
too. Bnt if it is intensely iced, and <
taken one glasaful right after anoth
er, it is liable to prove injurious, in '
thnt it retards the secretion of the -
digestive juices in the digestive tract. <
However, a glass of ice water, taken
one every half hour or hour, is of 1
no injurious effect, in fact it is bene- J1
ficiai, as the furnace body of ours, is , :
just like a steam engine—it must have •
water and lots of it. Cold drinks | I
made from fruit juices are very good, 1
in that they not only provide the '
necessary liquids for the body, but <
a!»o provide a certain amount of non- 1
heating food high in vitamine content.
Ice* made from fruit juices are pref- 1
erable to ice cream, since ice cream
is too high in fat content and in 1
heating rather than cooling.” <
In bathing, one should be careful 1
not to subject the body to too great 1
a change in temperature, and water
of about body heat—oß degrees is the
safest and most cooling in the end,
the doctor advised. A cold bath
makes the surface capillaries contract
at first, giving a temporary feeling
of coolness, but when this passes off, 1
the penned-up heat later comes to the i
surface, causing excessive perspira- |
tion and a feeling of even greater
heat so that a really cold bath is not i
cooling. Neither should one lake ]
a' hot bath in warm weather, as it i
may have serious after effects.
Radbourne, one of the most i
phenomenal pitchers in the early i
days of the National League, made i
• record of 36 straight victories as i
a twirler for the Providence team. I
; Officials Say They Have “Startling”
Information About Mrs. McPherson
Los Ange’.es. Calif., July 4.—Fed
eral and city officials, armed with new
and officially styled “startling infor
mation,” pushed forward tonight a
new Investigation into the mystery
' surrounding Aimee Semple McPher
son’s five weeks absence from hqg
| temple here.
| The new angles to the inquiry were
! contained In an official report re
ceived by Herman Cline, captain of
police detectives, from officials of
’ Douglas, Ariz.. where the evangelist
’ appeared June 23rd, with a story of
\ (laving, been kidnapped, tortured andj.
held for ransom in the desert wastes;
; below Agua Prieta, Mexico. The,
| Brat indication of the importance of
' the information in the report was
given by Cline today when he par
ried specific Questions as to whether
the contents were favorable or det
’ rimental to the evangelist with, “I
| wiU say this—the information I have
1 ia of we kind that you dare not print
at this time."
Cline added that several days of
» Sard ..work , would be necessary in I
i checking up the information which!
wiU be turned ever to the United'
1 Craft Being Towed to the
Brooklyn Navy Yards
r Where Its Secrets Are
Expected to Be Revealed
; CREW MEMBERS
IN THE CRAFT
i ■
;Tt Is Believed 25 Bodies
WiU Be Found in Sub,
! These Having Perished
in Accident at Sea.
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i New York, July G.—C4*> —Bearing
the bodies of some of its crew, the
1 United States submarine S-51 was on
i its final journey today,
i It was being towed in Long Island
Sound from Block Island, R. 1., to
1 New York, a torn bulk of a once
■ famous shaiiely vessel, buoyed by un
: gainly pontoons.
The ocean cortege wltii the mine
sweepers Falcon and Vestal, as hon
ored pall bearers, was headed for the
Brooklyn navy yards, where the S-51
1 be put in dry dock and its dead
brought forth. The submarine is
due to end its 150-mile trip tomor
row.
What secrets will be revealed when
the lid of the iron coffin is torn off.
no one knows. It is hoped that the
bodies of 25 of t’ae crew will be found.
When the submarine went to the bot
tom of the Atlantic Ocean off Block
Islnnd last September* after a col
lision with the steamer City of Rome,
there were 33 men aboard*. Divers
recovered some of the bodies.
The raising of the S-51 yesterday
afternoon is regarded as one of the
greatest salvage feats ever accom
plished by the navy. Several unsuc
cessful attiqnpts had been made to
bring the sunken vessel to the sur
face. Once the torn hull did. bob
up above the surfnee, only to sink
again when one of the pontoons broke
loose.
The wind and sea were favorable.
Eight great pontoons were lashed by
chains to the submerged craft, and
then the water in these pontoons was
blown out by compressed air. The
buoyancy of pontoons lifted the 1200-
ton submarine to the surface, a dis
tance of some 135 fast, ’. ...
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THE COTTON MARKET
Renewed Liquidation Marked Open
ing of Market, With First Prices
Istwer.
New York, July o.—o4*)—Renewed
liquidation mhrked the reopening of
the cotton market today. Liverpool
declined while the American markets
were dosed on Saturday and Mon
day. and there was further selling
here on the government crop report
of Friday.
The opening was easy in conse
quence, with first prices 10 to 13
l points lower. Active months soon
J showed net losses of 16 to 23 points,
July selling off to 17.35 and Decem
[ her to 16.02. A few stop orders
were uncovered on this decline, but
trade buying and covering on a scale
down steadied the market. At the
end of the first hour prices showed
rallies of 5 to 6 points from the
lowest.
Except for light showers early re
ports showed no rainfall in the belt
over the holidays, the weather map
made fairly favorable impression on
sentiment.
Cotton futures opened easy. July
17.65; Oct. 16.10; Dec. 1610; Jan.
16.00; March 16.18.
With Our Advertisers.
Special lot of voiles at Robinson's
for only 29 cents a yard. Robinson
also has many other outstanding bar
gain opportunities.
See ad. showing the statement of
the condit’on of the Cabarrus Savings
Bank. This statement shows total re
sources of $3,854,120.03.
On April 4, 1818, Congress passed
an act reducing the number of stripes
in the national flag to 13, and increas
ing the number of stars to represent
at all times the number of states,
birthday.”
States attorney.
The federal quiz was given added
impetus today under personal direc
tion of United States Attorney Mc-
Neb. The government’s inquiry so
far has centered about a $500,000
ransom letter received by Mrs. Minnie
Kennedy, mother of the evangelist.
Inspectors are searching for a type
writer which is believed to (lave been
used ii\ typing the letter.
Postal Inspector Cellars said the
typewriter was “one of four” under
suspicion and was located yesterday.
(■The machine disappeared, he said,
| when he endeavored to “borrow” it
, for type comparison with the ran
som note. He would not indicate
where, the machine had been located.
Kenneth G. Ormiston, former radio
operator at Angelug Temple, seat of
Mrs. McPherson’s creed, again is
sought for questioning. He disap
peared following a voluntary visit to
Ocean Park a few days after Mrs.
McPherson dropped from sight while
surf bathing there. At that time he
iw«a questioned briefly by detectives,
and i denied any knowledge of the
evangelist’* disappearance.
CONCORD, N. C., TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1926
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' ADDRESS OF MANAGER
WILLIAMS OF S. N. P. A.
. Organization Exists for the Good of
all Southern Newspapers.
Asheville, July 6.—OP)—The South
ern Newspaper Publishers' Associa
, tion does not exist for any othbr mo
tive or purpose than the common
good of southern daily newspapers
of all sizes, regardless of circulation,
influence, etc., Cranston Williams, of
Chattanooga, Tenns, its manager,
told the members attending the
twenty-fourth annual convention of
the organization here today.
"In its efforts and operations,” he
said, “it is concerned only with the
most effective and productive way of
accomplishing those things that are
best for the newspapers ns a whole.”
In his report, Mr. Williams urged
closer editorial contact in the af
fairs of t'je organization and called
on the membership to exercise great
er interrst in listing available per
sonnel and other vital data with its
employment and other bureaus.
“Despite extraordinary efforts to
bring about closer contact between
the editorial offices of the membership
and the headquarters office,” lie said,
"it has been difficult to make much
headway. Almost without exception
tiie active person with S. N. P. A.
affairs in the organization of each
member comes from the business side,
and it has been next to impossible
.appaaanliy to. nrouse_.iutprest of etty
tors’and managing editors in the 8.
N. P. A. and the work it can do for
the editorial side of the newspaper
organization.”
Daring the year just past, he said,
many members have been furnished
with employees through tile function
ing of the association’s employment
bureau. Lack of co-operation of
members in forwarding to the head
quarters office applications for posi
tions in which they are not interested,
however, has caused difficulty in
maintaining lists of available per
sonnel.
“The headquarters office,” he ex
plained, “does not furnish t'.ie name
to a member paper of a person who
is employed on another member pa
per. It can be seen that a different
policy would mean constant raids on
one member for the benefit of an
other. Adherence to the policy in
effect makes it necessary to keep our
files of available persons filled from
people odt of employment, no papers
outside of 8. N. P. A. territory and
those seeking positions with knowl
edge of the employers.”
Another shunning of members
should be remedied, Mr. Williams told
the convention, was the failure to
respond to requests for advertising
linage figures for six months periods, i
“It is the idea of the headquarters |
office that such figures would consti-|
tute important information for the j
membership oil the trend of advertis-i
ing in all three classifications—na
tional, local and classified—in S. N. |
P. A. Territory,” he asserted.
“The manager has acted as the
secretary of the business office as-L
fairs committee,” the report contin
ued, “in assembling information on
costs. More than t'.iirty papers sent
in cost percentage reports on the S.
N. P. A. blank forms adopted from
the Inland Association, covering more
than eighty papers. Many expres
sions of approval of this work have
been received by 8. N. P. A. mem
bers participating in the reciprocal
arrangement. In an effort to create
more interest in assembling data for
1926, summary sheets have been sent
to each 8. N. P. A. member.
“Hardly a day passes that the.
headquarters office does not receive
numerous inquiries from members on
the financial standing of advertisers
and advertising agencies, many of
whit'o are outside of 8. N. P. A. ter
ritory. In every instance prompt
attention is given and where the
headquarters office is without recent
accurate information u new investi
gation is started.
“Through the year several adver
tising agents have been added to the
8. N. P. A. recognition list and sev
eral agents have been dropped from
the list. All of these changes are
taken after consideration of the mut
ters by the agency relations com
mittee, the membership being confi
dential. Special folders are sent to
the membership from time to time
showing those agents which have
been recognized.”
Pennington Prohibition Administra
tor.
Washington, July 6.—C/P)—John
D. Pennington, former lieutenant
commander in the navy, was named
prohibition administrator at Pitts
burg today by Assistant Secretary
Andrew*.
:girl drowns in
NEW HOPE CREEK
• Other Girls Who Attempted to Assist
Her Came Near Dosing Their
Own lives.
Durham, July s.—For the second
time in ns many days, grim tragedy
has attended swimming parties ueld
1 near the city, wh'ep Miss Clara
9 . Howe, 14-year-old daughter of Mr.
'land iMrs. J. W. Howe, of this city,
' drowned in New Ho|>e creek vuis
•|evening at 0 o'clock. Efforts to save
1 ] her failed, but two other girls, who
' went to her rescue when she was
found to be in trouble, were safely
‘ returned to the banks of the stream.
' This morning Miss Ilow(\ together
I with relatives and friends, went to
i the creek on a .Tilly 4 picnic. Dur-
I ing the day the party tried its luck
II at fishing. In the late afternoon Miss
IHowe. who, it is said, could swim,
ventured into the water, but not un
til she had been warned to be care
ful. In wading into the stream she
i stepped into a deep hole and went
under the water.
i Seeing that she was in trouble
; two of her companions waded into
the water to lend her a helping hand
and that act came near of costing
them their lives, according to meager
information received tonight. They
were rescued, however, but the other
girl was not reached in time to
bring Her out alive.
OFFICERS FOR STOKER
LODGE ARE INSTAI4JKD
T. B. Sturgiss Is Master for Coming
Year.—State Official Present For
the Installation.
New officers to serve Stokes lodge
No. 32, A. F. & A. M„ for the com
ing year were installed in the lodge
rooms Monday night, state officials
being present for the service.
The officers, who were elected in
June, are:
T. B. Sturgiss, Master.
L. T. Hartsell, Jr., Senior Warden.
James E. Porton, Junior Warden.
J. M. Culeleasure, Secretary.
A. B. Pounds. Treasurer.
E. Wade Kluttz, Senior Deacon.
S. S. Neal, Junior Deacon.
J. M. Griffin, Senior Steward.
J. W. Pike, Junior Steward.
G. A. Ilatte, Tuler.
C. W. Abernethy, P. A. G. Bar
ringer and Dr. S. E. Buchanan,
trustees.
Present for the installation were]
Giles Hudson, District Deputy Grand
Master of t'ae Grand Lodge of North
Carolina, and James Payne, Past Ex
cellent High Priest of the Grand
Chapter of North Carolina.
CABARRCS COUNTY
MEDICAL SOCIETY MEETS
I I
I Physicians of County Hold Regular
Monthly Meeting at City Hall—
I Dr. T. C. Host Talks. I
The Cabarrus County Medical So-'
I ciety held its regular monthly
j meeting yesterday afternoon in the
City Hall. No matters of exceptional
| interest were put before the meeting
and it was mostly taken up with the
discussion of routine matters.
Dr. T. C. Host, of Charlotte,
formerly of Cabarrus, made a short
talk on the methods of creating in
terest in the medical societies. The or
ganizations could be made much
more important, he said, if pains
were taken by the members to stir
up things of interest pt every op
portunity. Dr. Boat is counsellor for
the Seventh District Medical Society.
The meeting was attended by Drs.
[MncFayden, King, Yow, Reed, Bush,
'Rankiu, Sossumon, Lubchenko, Hart
sell and Host.
MAY EMBARK AT ONCE
ON JUDICIAL CAREER
Nominee in 20th District Will Be
Tendered Appointment For Un
expired Term
| Raleigh. July s.—Walter E.
Mooie, of Sylva. nominated in Sat
urday’s second primary for superior
court judge in the twenteith district,,
will embark upon his judicial career
at once if he accepts the appointment,
which will be tendered by Governor
McLean to fill out Judge Thad D.
Bryson retired from the bench- July
1 leaving six months to run On his
term.
Major Pogson, official water-dlv'ner
at Bombay, India, sank fifty-three
wells on sites in the districts of Ah
madnagar, Shoiapur and Bijapurl
where a shortage of water is most se
vere. In forty-seven cases water was
struck; in four the depth at which it
was predicted water would be found
has not yet been reached; and in two
caeca, though the depth required has
been reached no water has been found.
j THE TEXTILE SCHOOL
Two New Features Are To Be Intro
t dueed This Fall.
r Tribune Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
1 Raleigh, July o.—An even greater
r service to the textile industry in
I North Carolina will be rendered by
i the Textile School of State College
. here this fall when the greatly en
, larged building, with its equipment
i of the very last word in textile
• machinery, will be put in operation,
i Already the lending textile school of
i (be South, as the result of the untir
ing work of Dean Thomas as Nelson,
who, beginning five years ago with but
a handful of meager equipment, has
seen the textile work grow until now
it is regarded as one of the most im
portant schools in State College. Its
students now come from all parts of
the United States and from foreign
countries. One of the graduates this
year was from China, and he has
now gone back to his native country
to introduce textile methods he learn
ed in North Carolina.
“Unlike some schools, however, we
do not pretend to semi out finished
mill superintendents and executives”
said Demi Nelson in discussing the
work of the school. "But what we
do try to do is to give our graduates
a thorough understanding of the tex
tile industry, ground them fully in
the mechanics of the industry,
familiarize them with the various
types of machinery, so that when
they Actually get iu -a mill, they will
have a better grasp of the situation
and thus advance more rapidly. But
we cannot teach them how to handle
employes—which is a big factor in
the industry—they must get that
from experience in the mills them
selves after they leave the school.”
With more than 500 textile mills
in the State, Dean Nelson advises
his students, especially when they
are from North Carolina, as most of
them are, to remain in the mills of
this state and many of them are
doing this. But since many of the
students are from other states, they
naturally return to their own states
to work out of a class of 20 that
graduate in June, all of them had
positions before they received their
diplomas.
Os these 20 graduates, 12 went to
mills in North Carolina, seven to
South Carolina, three to Georgia,
three to Virginia, two to New York,
one to Ohio and one—the Chinese
| x*udents—to Honolulu. The jobs
range from jobs in the mills them
selves a« mechaniqal superintendents
or dye chemists, to positions ns sales
men for commission houses or us
techinal salesmen.
Two new features are to be intro
duces in the school this fall, as the
result of the increase space in the
| new building. One is the research de
' partment, where numerous tests of
various kinds of fabric will be made,
las well as the tensile strengths of
'yarns ami fibre, on down to experi
ments with new kinds of dye. The
other feature is the machinery test
ing laboratory Where mills or manu
facturers of textile machinery may
send new machines, where they will
be given careful and accurate tests
under actual operating conditions.
Both oftliese new features are expect
ed to prove of great values not only
to the students but to the mills ail
over the South, as these tests will be
watched with much interest.
AH Swedes Must Swim, Govern
ment Decrees.
Stockholm, July 6.—A1l Swedes
must swim. The Government lias
grown tired of having an average of
340 drowning every year, and has
started a drastic campaign to force
every one to learn how to swim.
Hereafter non-swimming school
teachers will not be employed, and
boys who cannot pass swimming
tests will not be passed in their
other examinations. Non-swimmers
will not be named to official posi
tions.
For years the Swedish Sports Or
ganization has not permitted sports
men to participate in any sort of
contest if they did not have certifi
cates of swimming ability.
Presbyterians Withdraw Support.
Philadelphia, July 6.— (A") —The
Presbyterian Ohnreh, through Dr.
Lewis Seymour Mudge, its stated
clerk, today notified Mayor Kendrick
that the denomination has withdrawn
its support from the Sesqui-Centen
ninl, Exposition because of the policy
lof keeping the exposition open on
Sunday.
From Louis Socks lex is, the origin
al copper-colored diamond star, down
t* “Big Chief’ Meyers and others of
a later day, the Indian baseball play
er has always been popular with
the American public.
NEWSPAPER IN
OF SOUTH MEET IN
ASHEVILLE TOJP
Approximately Two Hun
dred Delegates, Repre
j senting All Parts of the
| South, Are Present.
j MEETING AT THE
GROVE PARK INN
Gathering Called to Order
by President Walter C.
Johnson, of Chattanooga
News.
Asheville, N. C.. July 6.—G4>)—
With approximately 200 delegates rep
resenting all southern states in attend
: anee. the 24th annual meeting of the
Southern Newspaper Publishers' Asso
ciation convened here at !) o'clock this
. morning for n three days session.
The gathering was called- to order
by the President. Walter C. Johnson,
of the Chattanooga, Tenn., News, and
• the business of the convention got un
i derway immediately. After the roll
• call and introduction of guests, the
■ President read his- report. Reports
• of Wiley- L. Morgan, of Knoxville,
secretary-treasurer, and Cranston Wil
‘ liams, of Chattanooga, Manager, were
■ presented.
Standing committee reports were
presented by Victor H. Hanson, of
' the Birmingham, Ala., News; Agency
i Relations —John A. Park, of the Ral
, eigh, N. C., Times; Business Office
Affairs—Robert Latlmn, of tile Char
, teuton, S. C-, News and Courier; 'Edi
> torial Office—S. C. Withers, of the
Columbia, S. C., State; Labor —Col.
Robert Ewiug, of tile New Orleans,
: La., State; Postal Legislation—Maj.
John S. Cohen, of the Atlanta, Ga..
Journal; Washington and 1-ee School
of Journalism and Traffic —Cranston
Williams.
Oscar Wells, of Birmingham, pres
ident of the American Bankers' Asso
ciation, is scheduled to address the
publishers at !) o’clock tonight.
The Associated Press is represented
at the gathering by Kent Cooper, of
New York, general manager, and .
L. N. McCall, Atlanta, Ga., superin
tendent of the Southern Division.
STORY OF THE SOUTH A" >
REVELATION OF PROSPERITY
Majority of Newspapers Have Broken
All Records of Advertising Car
ried.
Asheville, N. C., July G.—C4>)—
During the last twelve months nat
ional advertisers have spent more
money in the South than during any
previous year, and since January of
this year a majority of Southern
newspapers have broken all previous
records in theamount of national copy
carried, the report of the committee
on advertising of the Southern News
paper Publishers’ Association, deliv
ered before the annual convention of
the associarion here today, stated.
“The story of the present South is
a revelation of prosperity, a drama
of achievement,” the ' report said.
“Who shall tell it to the outer world
if not the press of the South, which
stands closer to its heart, its hopes,
its daily life, its high traditions;
which more clearly sees its unfolding
commercial and industrial greatness,
its unlocking treasuries of long-hid
den resources and its inviting oppor
tunities for profitable investment,
. than any other single class or pro
fession or group within its borders?"
The Southern press should, tile re
; port declared, “press the fact that the
natural advantages which the South
! possesses of having the cotton fields
in sight of the cotton factory; the
proximity of the iron ore and eoal
fields and limestone as an advantage
which enables the furnaces of the
Sauth to produce pig iron cheaper
than in any other section of the coun
try; that the mils for Southern rail
roads and the steel for its vast bridge
' construction are largely the products
of southern furnaces and founderies.
“We must emphasize the, fact that
this long since lias ceased to be a
‘one-crop’ section, and that the agri
culture here has become diversified to
' a greater extent than in any other
part of the United States. We must
| call attention to the amicable rela
i tions between labor and capital, the
; comparative freedom here from dis
| turbanees in contrast with the severe
conflicts and frequent upheavals that
occur in other sections.
I "We must show the rapid extension
. and progressive policies of its great
. railroad systems; the large expendi
l tures for highway construction, for
the improvements of harbors and wat
erways. We should not fail to stress
the remarkable scope of construction
in the South, by states, miyucipali
! ties and citizens, factories and resi
dences, a scale and variety of construc
tion which astounds the visitor and
carries its own story of a wonderful
era of progress and prosperity.”
. The report characterized the indus
. trial advancement of the South as
1 “the unfolding epic of the nation of
; the twentieth century,” ,
i “The South,” it said, “is the last
. remaining frontier of the republic. It
• is the land of opportunity; about it is
i the magic of high traditions; the ro
mance of the vast natural treasures,
as yet only barely touched, is gripping
- the country and stirring its own peo
i pie. Capital in the North and East
t is on a closely competitive basis. It
- is sSeking a freer field and fuller re
i wards. Great as has been the prog
ress of the South, outside capital is
THE TRIBUNE
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TODAY’S NEWS TOD^gj
NO. ttfgg
STRIKE «W 1
SOT| FAILS 18
Refill TMFfI
* v
Schedule Is Disrupted JH
i Strike of Motormen .imp
Switchmen. But Mtff#
I Trains Are in Operatffp§
STRIKE BREAKERS J
ARE ON THE jd||
■ No Violence Reported Jfl
First Morning of Son
i as Police Officers Gtflfg
AH Strategic Points. *
New York, July fi.—OP)—This’
metropolis today was in the throes
■ of a strike *on its principal sup wav
> system which daily transports mang
. passengers than comprise the peMflfij
i tion of Chicago
Reports assembled nine hours afr
• ter the motormen and switch nnjn as
. the lnterborougb Rapid Trahsi tfojjkf
I pany went on strike at midnight & '
■ increased wages, showed that iLeur,
[ tailed service was being nta’ntlpimßM
* by strike breakers and that tilery wag
( some congestion especially at. jj3rt
, morning "peak" rush hour. The ser
. vice to Brooklyn was temporarily
. abandoned.
Some express trains were feeipi
, operated at fifteen minute interyafi
■ instead of on the usual three-tnhguE
schedule. The "local" service where
stops were made at every station
faster than the express system.,--.^gl
No violence was reported. Kearuf
7.000 policemen were assigned at. JBp
strategic traffic points to maintgm
order and bluecoats were on every
train guarding file crews. 'rg
Thousands of persons on their xrjgx||
to work anticipating delays forsqpk
their usual underground routes' aim
took the elevated lines, busses, rtjfc
way trains and trolleys. This causea
overcrowding above the ground, bjlt
eased tile task of the subway system.
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL IS
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Loss Not Counting Guests’ Fowet
sions Ranged From $400,000 to
$500,000.
Long Branch, N. J.. July 6.—OW—
-50 year oi«J fash
ionable hostelry, was destroyed bjrM(|
early today. Estimates of the loss not,
including possessions of the 400
guests ranged from $400,000 to $500,-
000.
The blaze started in a boiler room di
one of tile basement wings and wajr
confined there for several hours. The
guests driven out by the smoke, Were
reassured that it would be quenched
before it reached the upper stories,
and no efforts were made to stive
valuables.
The flames, however, got beypffif .1
control, and spread to all aecti«3fi"&
the building.
The hotel was located two , blot**
from Shadow Lawn, the estate bn •
which President spent two summers
during his administration. . *
Tammany Acclaims AI Smith ftp the
Next U- S. President.
New York, July s.—GoviHmof
Smith was acclaimed as the nex£
President of the United States fft an
Independence day rally in Tujnmgiiy
hall today. He was introduced ori the
platform by Chief Sachem John R.
Voorhis. The "grand old man” of
Tammany, now in his flflth year, who
I is also chairman, of the board of
elections.
“I hope that I may be bete
July 4, 11)28," said Mr. Voorhis, “and
I ask that the governor of this state
now pledged himself to be with US
again on that day as President of the
United States.”
“Judge, I accept the nominSttotfe'f „
Governor Smith replied and thf '
1 crowd of some 2.000 persons broke
into cheers punctuated by 9 vOelferiitis
cries of "Al Smith our next Presi
dent.’’
Wartts to Settle Foreign Debts.
Paris, July 6.—C4>)—Finance Min
ister Cailiaux today told the chamber
of Deputies that France must settfe
1 her foreign debts in order to secure
stabilization of the franc, which has
long been slumping steadily. -«S
, l.
fully aware that its resources ate
really unexplored, and that this ad
vance is but -a prophecy of its possi
bilities ; that uo avenue of industry Is.,
congested but that opportunities ate
limitless for profitable enterprises of
[ the widest character."
“The newspapers of the South ate
’ measuring to a great opportunity and
an equally clear obligation for ser
-1 vice both in ndvertising to the nation
the resources and progress Os tefe;
South and'in stimulating its own cjtte,
zenship to earnest and united endeav
or for industrial, commercial, agri
cultural and educational development.
Papers in every Southern state ate
; pledged to co-operation during tWi
, Southern Newspaper Publishers’ As
sociation campaign for 1028-27 and
. “the mission which the press in mow-,
; ing out to perform in the new year ®
. constructive and patriotic, and should
' be pressed without wavering, In untip
and faith," the report concluded.
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? THE WEATHER
:
I Partly cloudy tonight and Wedne®
- day, probably local tiiundershoweiy
- Moderate southwest shifting to v|3
i and northwest winds. >