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VOLUME XXVI
RAZOR GIRL’ GETS
FREEDOM; JURY IN
CASE DEBATED LONG!
i
Verdict Was Returned at
10:21 This Morning Fol-i
lowing Deliberation of!
41 Hours. j
SMALL CROWD
HEARD VERDICT
Defendant Was Charged'
With Slaying Her Hus
band Several Weeks Ago
at Charlotte.
Charlotte, July 21—OP)—Mrs. Nel
lie Freeman, a limited slayer of her
youthful taxi driver . husband, was]
found not guilty by a jury in Meek- j
lenbtirg Superior Court today.
The verdirt was beard at 10 :21 a. I
m. today, forty-one hours and six j
minutes after the ease was given to
t’iie jury.
There was no demonstration by the
small crowd in the court room when
the announcement of the jury finding
was made.
The trial of Mrsy Freeman followed
the death of her husband, Alton, who
died on the night of May 22nd. 'Mrs.
Freeman told police at the time that
s'ae cut her husband's throat with a
razor when he threatened to desert
her.
Freeman died shortly after she had
slashed his throat. ,
The defense introduced testimony
to the effect that the girl was men
ially abnormal.
Through With Men Forever.
Charlotte, July), 21.—OP)—With a
fix's! gaze and no sign of emotion,
Nellie Freeman today walked from
the Mecklenburg bounty court room,
acquitted of a charge of murder in
connection with the slaying of her
husband.
The crowd that heard the verdict
“not guilty" in the hushed silence of
the court room m&le no demonstra
tion. Yet as she walked down from
the aisle with a set fire that appeared
wearied by the sevef t days of trial, i
many of the spectatififs put forward
their hand in syrupatPr,
Thirty minutes af4v she had been
freed the 20 year admitted razor
slayer was in her wisher's embrace.
r "I am through Wflih men forever,* ’
she said. 'L
Talking to reporters she added she
had no pkms for the future but that
she would "care for pother" as long
as she Jives.
Mrs. Freeman, wl j admitted that
she killed her husbrnd on the night
of May 22, maintmned that her ac
tion came when hej threatened to de
sert her. Alienists/, testified that the
girl was “mentallyf unsound.”
Crowds jammed f the street as the
girl came from th« court room. With
her attorneys she'went to the offices (
of Jake F. Newell, chief counsel.
Scores forced their way to them as
they slowly ms<Vt their way to the
lawyer’s office, lrtan.v shaking bands. ,
When they cmne to Mr. Newell’s ;
office the crowd/Siurged in. A num
ber of men todk crumpled currency
from their pockets and forced it into ,
the girl's hand. For two hours the
telephone in the lawyer’s office jangled
news of congratulations from every
section of the city.
Before she left the court room, how- ;
ever. Airs. Freeman went over to the
bent'u and clasped Judge Michael
Schenck's hand. She then hastily
turned and left the room. She was
clad in n simple white dress which
matched her pale skin.
The deliberations of the jury were
characterized by prayer, A. W. Smith,
spokes man for that body, said.
He added that the agreement came
when one of the jurors arose during
the morning and iiuoted.
"It is more blessed to give thnn to
receive.”
The three jurors who had held out
on manslaughter then gave in, Mr.
Smith said.
Report of Earthquake In Stage.
Italeigh. N. C., July 21.—C4»>—l)r.
Collier Cobb, head of the Department
of Geology at State College, is in
Toecane, Mitehel County, investigat
ing reports of an' earthquake there
last week. Earthquake shirks are
seldom felt in North Carol'na, said
Dr. J. L. Stuckey, state geologist in
the department of conservation and
development, who was first notified
of the shock.
The area of intensity as reported
to Dr. Stuckey was about one-half
mile long by 300 yards wide and the
greatest distance the shock was fqlt
was said to be six miles. Reports
were that several houses were moved
on their foundations and damaged,
while glassware was thrown to floors
and broken. A water line serving
some of the damaged houses was hrok
ene at two places.
Dr. Stuckey declared that accord
ing to reports, this is perhaps the
most interesting earthquake shock
taking place in 'North Carolina in a
number of years. He at once notified
the United States Coast and Geode
tic Survey and discussed the reports
with Dr. Cobb. The head of the de
partment of Geology was ao interest
ed in the quake that he has gone to
the scene of the occurrence.
Dr. Cobb is a member of the Geo
logical Society of America, the Heis
mologlcal Society and has studied
earthquake phenomena in various
parts of the world.
If the shock is as severe as reports
indicated. Dr. Stuckey said, Dr. Cobb’a
findings will be of great value.
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The Goncord Daily Tribune
North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
DB. CHAPPELL NOW
II WILE FOB
UEGULM
I
Having Been Acquitted of
1 Charges of Immorality
1 Minister Returns Home'
j to Resume Duties.
CHURCHME&BERS
AWAITED VERDICT
More Than 70 Were in
Statesville For Trial and
They Returned to Ashe
ville With Him.
Statesville, July 21.—(4>)—Acquit
ted last night of charges of immoral
| ity, untrutkfulness, and attempted
bribery. Rev. Ashley Chappell, I). D.,
returned to Asheville to assume his
I duties as pastor of the faslronable
j (.'entral Methodist Church.
Accompanying him were 70 mem
bers of his congregation who had
come here yesterday for the trial be
fore a church court of the western
Nrrth Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
They enme to Statesville to demon
strate their loyalty to Dr. Chappell,
while the court decided he was guilty
and should be dismissed from the pas
torate, or innocent and returned as
their miirster.
When Dr. F. J. Prettyman, of Gas
tonia, who presided at the trial, pro
nounced that the aceussed minister
had not been found guilty, the mem
bers of his church who were present
burst into cheers and gathered around ,
their pastor and congratulated him
upon his acquittal.
Then they sang “Praise God From
Whom All Blessings Flow.” <
NO CONTROVERSY WITH
DR. DELIN DIXON-CARROLL ,
Governor Commended for Failing to
Digln by the Charges.
Tribune Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, July 21.—“1 have noth
ing to say.”
Thus Governor A. W. McLean re
fused to enter into any controversy
Sth Dr. Delia Dixon-Carroll with
fnrd to her veracity, or the
veracity of her associates, following t
T)V, 'Dixon-Carroll’s oKArges that tfhe
and her associates frightened the
Governor into ordering the survey of i
Women in Industry in the first place
by agreeing not to “te” of his alleged
“insult to them if he would proceed i
with the survey.
This stu riling revelation of the
Governor's meek sumission to man
dates of the club women of the s:ate,
who were about to raise the cry of
“Insult, insult” on the floor of the
Federation of Women’s Clubs if he
did not carry out their wishes, was
made by .Dr. Delia Dixon-Carroll in
conneetionwith a modest expression
of her disappointment that the sur
vey was not to be proceed. This
“modest” statement consisted of
some 2,000 words or more, ami in it
she said:
"We have remain quite about this
because we sent word to the Gov
ernor that the Insult would not be
reported on the floor of the, conven
tion of the Federation of Women’s
Clubs if the survey was granted.
Within 48 hours the survey was
granted knd the report of the insult
was not made to the federation that
convened five days inter.”
The “nßult” aleged by Dr. Dixon-
Carroll was that the Governor had
asked members of the women's com
mittee waiting on him if she was n
the employ of certain northern in
terests-
Those who know the Governor are
not surprised that he should fail to
dignify the charges made by Dr.
Carroll with a reply, and point out
that Governor McLean is of the old
Southern g ntlemnn who would not
design to enter into a controversy
with any woman, no matter what
charges she might make reflecting on
his integrity or veracity.
Aged Canon Says Women Not aa Re
ligious as Men.
London. July 21— (A ») —Canon
Marquis of Normandy, the only mar
quis in holy order, says women are
not aa religious a men.
“Women have grown worse in the
last fifty years, while the attitude of
me qtoward religion has improved,”
declared the canon, who is still
preaching although he is eighty years
old. “I think many modern women
have too material and artificial an
outlook on life —perhaps it is the re
action from their grenter freedom.”
The venerable canon says the great
need of the established church in
Bnggland Is more vigorous men in
its pulpits and he urges the laity to
assist the church in paying better
salaries. He says parsons con not
support families on SI,OOO a year.
Inconsistency.
Memphis, Tend., July 21 (By Inter
national! News. Service). —A. D.
Crick, taxi driver, made a speech on
safe driving at a traffic meeting the
other night and accepted a bonus of
$56.85.
The next afternoon Crick paid a
SSO fine in city court for speeding.
Nias Men Killed in Mine.
Blockton, Ali., July 21.—OF)—Nine
men were killed in a gas explosion
at the Dixie Mine of the Moffatt Coal
Company at Moffhtt today. The dead
include three white miners and six
negro workers. Seven of the bodies
were removed goon after the enplo-
King in Love?
i ysi
ting Boris, of Bulgaria, left
Incognito on a tour of
Jiving rise to reports that he
was seeking a royal wife, and
#ther reports that he feared
usurpation of his throne bj|
Prince Cyril.
ImernaiumaJ Newsreel
FIRST BOOM TOWN
OF GOLD RUSH DEAD
Coloma. Where California Riches
Were First Found, Only a Village
Now.
Sacramento. Calif., July 21.—Hid
den in the Eldorado county hills
northeast of here lies the original
boom town of the gold rush days—
Coloma, on the site where James
Marshall found the first flake of yel
low metal that was the impetus for
tfie greatest westward movement
known to mining.
Once a city of 10,000 population, it
hßs dwindled until the census taker
must count carefully to register a to
j* loflso -. x, ;
In this village in which Chmitrnla's
present-day prosperity was born there
remain on its main street only a com
bination grocery store and lunch
counter, a post ojee. an automobile
service station and here and there the
shell of a fire-gutted building or the
weed-grown foundations of business
blocks.
When the gold fever was at its
height, stores of all kinds lined the
streets of Coloma—there were four
teen hotels, the inevitable Wells-/
Fargo express office and the usual
saloons, gambling houses, a Chinese
bank and even a sewing machine
agent's office. There was a jail, an
armory, four church and three
schools.
Fool’s gold still glitters in the sand
near the monument marking the site
of Slitter's sawmill in the millrr.ee
of which Marshall made his discov
ery, but the yellow wealth of ’4B v/ent
with the six pony express lines that
operated between Coloma and sur
rounding mines delivering mall for
a dollar an ounce.
The old jail which housed killers
and bad men in those days now is a
stable. On a slope back of the town
is the lonsesome-looking memorial
statue of Marshall, with bronze finger I
pointing to the spot where the gold
rush began.
NO TRUE BILL IN
M’PHERSON CASE
Grand Jury Announces Inability to
Substantantiate Story of Evangelist.
Los Angeles, Oal., July 20.—Suffi
cient evidence has not yet been found
to warrant an indictment in the ul-'
leged kidnaping of.-Airuee Semple Mc-
Pherson, evangelist, the- county
grand jury declared in a report to
Superior Judge Keetch late today.
The report reads:
“The grand jury has had present
ed to it for consideration the evidence
in the alleged kidnaping of Aimee
Semple McPherson and finds there is
insufficient evidence to warrant an
indictment.”
Whfen the case was submitted to
the grand jury, District Attorney
Asa L. Keyes instructed the jurors
on the law and left them, blank in
dictments against three persons, two
men and a . woman, alleged by the
evangelist to have abducted her, one
of them being known to her as
“Steve,” while the woman was called
“Rosie.”
With these indictments before
them, the report of the jury was in
terpreted as failure to substantiate
the story of Mrs. McPherson.
Does Not Identify the Greek.
Pittsburgh, Pa., July 21.—OP)—
Henry C. deVille, of Canton, Ohio,
who resides near the home of Don R.
, Mellett, Canton publisher, failed in a!
ataudup of prisoners at the Alleghany
County jail today to identify George
Psilias, New Kensington, Pa., coffee
house proprietor, as the mun he saw
running away from the Mellett home
, a short time after the Canton pub
' Usher was July 6th.
I
I Franc Improving in Value,
c Paris, July 21.—0P>—The French
» franc reacted favorably today, clos
- iag officially at 46.05 to the dollar,
as against 40.22 yesterday. '
CONCORD, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1926
HOT dill
READY TO DEStGK
IS PUBIS REP®T|
It Is Said New Cabinet
Will State Its Position
and Then Resign With
out Waiting For Vote.
FINANCES STILL
BIG QUESTION
Finance Minister Confers
With Premia* But Rubi
er of Resignation Per
sists Just the Same.
Paris. July 21. —CP)—The sehii
offieial Havas Agency undei-Ktaads
.’.iat the Herriot cabinet will resign
immediately after the reading of the
ministerial declaration in Parliament
this evening without awaiting the vote
of the chamber.
Paris, July 21.—CP)—Rumors that
Anatole de Monzie, the new finance
minister, has resigned were set at
rest this morning by his appearance
at the ministry where he was busily
at work with collaborators until nepr
’y noon, when he went to see Premier
Herriot. His talk with the premier
is understood to have been of a most
serious nature, bearing on the cssen.’e
of the government's financial pro
gram.
Notwithstanding vigorous denials
from official sources, indications of
dissentions within the cabinet per
sist, and M. de Monzie’s call on M.
Herriot is understood to have been
connected with it.
The finance minister’s plan for sta
bilization which has been ready lor
fifteen months, it was said at the min
is tiy, will involve neither inflation
nor a moratorium on short term
bonds.
Five billion francs will bo needed
at the outset to put tne p'an into
operation. The finance minister pro
poses to get half of this amount from
the Rank of France, the advance to
be guaranteeed by new taxes, anil the
other half from increase.! in other
taxes.
811 k Merchants Enter Protest.
Lyons, France, July 21.—The un
ion of silk merchants of Lyons, and
the surrgHuding region have addressed
a letter of protest to their mayor and ;
Premier Herriot pointing out that the
fall in value of the franc has retrict
ed their international acltivities
greatly. They say that it is “a dan
gerous illusion to count on national
efforts alone for emerging from the
present situation.”
Says He Will Not Resign. I
Paris, July 21.—(A*) —Afatcr a
cabinet meeting this afternoon Premier
Herriot again announced he would
(appear before the Chamber this eve
ning. and would accept immediate in
terpellations and discussion of his min
istry’s financial bill.
This is in contradiction to reports
that his government would resign im
med’ately after reading of the minis
terial declaration,
MANY HAVE NOT PAID
SPECIAL LICENSE TAXES
More Than 30,000 in Arrears.—Be
come Delinquent After August Ist.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, July 21.—There are still
something like 30,000 persons in the
state who have not naid their special
license tax as provided under sched
' ule B, according to Commissioner R.
A. Doughton, of the department of
revenue. These license taxes, which
must be paid by doctors, lawyers,
merchants, salesmen, real estate men,
etc., were due June Ist and become
delinquent August Ist, after which
time all those who have not naid their
tax will become subject to penalty,
which ia 20 per cent, of the tax.
“We believe sixty days is suffi
cient time for the payment of these
taxes, so that after August Ist, the
names of all those who have not
paid their taxes will be placed in the
hands of the district deputies for col
lection, with the added penalty of 20
per cent.”
Attention was also called to the
fact that a large number of cor
porations have not yet naid their
franchise tax, which is assessed on
the basis of one-tenth of one per cent,
on the face value of the capital stock.
A penalty will also be attached to
this tax if payment is not made be
fore the time limit exnires.
Psilias Is Released.
Pittsburgh. Pa., July 21. —CP) —
George Psilias, New Kensington, Pa.,
coffee house proprietor held on a sus
picious’ person charge in connection
with the slaying of Don R. Mellett,
Canton publisher, was ordered re
leased by Common Pleas Judge James
R. MeFarllne at a habeas corpus hear
ing today.
The release of Psilias, known ns
“George the Greek,” was ordered when
counsel for the city of Pittsburgh in
' formed the court in answer to a ques
' tion, that it did not have sufficient
evidence against Psilias on which to
detain him any longer.
Thinks Money Was Squandered.
Atlanta. Ga.. July 21.—OP)—The
records of every bank “indicates that
bank funds involving large amounts
have been squandered by certain in
div'duala in bucket shop speculation,”
solicitor general John A. Boykin said
here' today in connecting upon the in
vestigation ipto the affairs of the
' Bankers Trust Company.
CONFESSED ROBBER
SAYS HE WS OP
I IMPORTANT CRIES
George Cohen, of Chicago,
Arrested in Connection
With Jewelry Robbery in
New York Monday.
CHICAGO SCENE
OF HIS CRIMES!
And He Tells Officers in !
New York He Knows of!
Crimes That Will Inter- i
est Chicago Officials. 1
New York. July 21.—0 P) —Georg*-
t’olien. of Chicago, arrested today us
a .suspect in a $75,000 jewelry rob
bery here on Monday, admitted to the
pol ee that he had knowledge of crime
conditions in Chicago that would he
beneficial to the District Attorney
there.
“Do, you mean the muvder of As
sistant District Attorney MeSwigginV"
he was asked by the police.
“Well, the Chicago District Attar
ney will know what I mean," was the
reply.
Cohen, alias Mitchell and Simmons,
gave his address nt 4241 Roosevelt
Road. Chicago, and confessed, accord
ing to the poliee, that he had taken
part in the jewelry holdup of the
wholesale store of Heytnan & Faigin
in the Maiden Lane diamond dis
trict.
He was arrested with Solomon Rros
man of New York in an automobile
on Broadway by four detectives vho
said they found loaded revolvers and
a sawed off sljot gun in the ear.
The poliee say Cohen admitted l>e
had knowledge of many “big crimes”
in Chicago, that he came to New
York on July 12th and mustered a
gang of thieves with the intention of
emulating the activities of the noto
rious Whittemore Gang.
“I want to talk to the District At
torney and when he hears my story
he won’t prosecute me here, but he’ll
send me back to Chicago where I
came from, and I know the Chicago
prosecutor is anxious to get me b<»
cause 1 can give him some informa
tion aboiit one of the officials that was
• shot and killed there that will b« of
interest to him.”
! Cohen also admitted. the police
said, that he jumped a $20,000 bail
bond in Chicago after an assault with
battery.
Cohen also admitted, the police
say, that he jumped a $20,000 bail
bond in Chicago after he had been iu
] d’eted for felonious assault with at
i tempt to kill in connection with the
shooting of a policeman. In admit
ting this. Cohen is alleged to have said
the shooting of the policeman resulted
in a fight over alcohol.
"When I get in Chicago,” Cohen
said. “I can give valuable information
about the bootleg ring there.”
STILL LEADING
Active Spindle Hours Flor Textile
Plants Lead All the R*sC of the
Country.
Raleigh, N. C., July 21. CP-
I Carolina continued to lead oth
er states in the number of active cot
ton spindle hours during June. This
state led Massachusetts, until a few
months ago the recognized leader in
the industry, by more than a million
and a half hours. This is shown by
figures compiled by the Department of
Commerce.
In North Carolina with 6,074,702
spindles in place as compared with
11.453.618 for Massachusetts, the in
dustry had a total of 1.678,146,370 ac
tive spindle hours. The figures for
the Bay State were 1.526,326,500.
South Carolina stood third in the list.
South Carolina led in the number of
active spindle hours per spindle in
place. The figure for that state was
, 283. as compared with 275 for North
Carolina, and 260 for Alabama, which
atood third in this particular.
Winter Weather In Puly.
Bristol, Tenn., July 21. (By Inter-
National News Service). —Topconts
were not only comfortable but neces
! sary here a few days ago when a cold
snap similar to February weather
' swept over this section.
Temperature went as low ns 40 de
grees and a couple days later was
baek at 85 and 00. This is the most
1 unusual weather ever recorded in this
■ section at this time of year.
For the past couple days unseason
able weather here has prevailed. Va
cation camps In the nearby Appa
• iaehian mountains have suffered great
• loss due to this unique weather.
——
Huge a*«y Tree.
Jonesville, Va.. July 21. (By Inter
national News Service) —Here’s a
cherry tree that George Washington,
hatchet wielder and father of our
eountry. didn’t find, or history might
have read differently.
There is a black heart cherry tree,
located on the outskirts of town,
three feet in d ; aineter. It has branch
spread of 75 feet, height 75 feet. In
one day last week, 28 women picked
800 gallons of cherries off- this tree.
Many persons from towns nearby
have visited this si>ot just to see this
unusually large tree.
It has been estimated that an adult
man produces in twenty-four hours
enough heat to bo'l five or s'x pints
of water. >.
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ing, and is worth less.
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WHA/IATC A I OVDFI3T>I> QXTEEVfJ VICTORIA
Ug&r g h mJ yBS
CHARMES-V. i iMORVE. NoV!VEI^BAMCnvi>r;
Representative William Oldfield, Democratic Congressional
campaign leader, announced farm relief would be his party’s
keynote in coming elections. Queen Victoria, of Sweden, is
seriously iIL While his wife was dying, Charles G. Morse,
ship magnate, was ordered to appear in New York to face
charges of using mails te defraud. Solution of all its prob
lems would come if England returned to Christ, Oliver Bald
win, Socialist son of the conservative British Premier,
declared.
GETTING READY FOR THE
PUSHMOBILE CONTEST
1
Youngsters Throughout State Con
structing Home-Made Automobiles.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, July 21.—Youngsters
throughout this and adjoining states .
are busy with hammers and saws con- ■
structing home-made automobiles in
preparation for the first national
pushmobile contest at the Charlotte
speedway. August 23rd. just prior to
the world’s sprint race classic.
Entries must be registered prior to
August 7th and as the closing date
draws near H. W. Park, national di
rector, says that the degree and en
thusiasm may be guaged by the formal
applications on file. These include
entries from each southern state and
in addition applications have been
made by California. lowa. New Jer
sey, Ohio and West Virginia cities.
Entry blanks must bp signed by an
authorized recreation or nlay direc
tor, stating that the pushmobile was
manufactured by the pilot and me
chanic desiring to enter the machine.
Boys under eighteen years of age are
eligible to participate in the finals.
Local elimination contests are being
arranged in many cities and the win
ners will go to Charlotte for the fin
als.
Three pushmobile events will be
run off. Boys between the age of
15 and 18 years will compete in a 300-
yard dash; youngsters 12 to 15 will
go 200 yards and lads under 12 will
race 100 yards. Gold watches will
be awarded both drivers and mechan
ics who finish first in each class while
gold medals will be nresented se<-ond
and third place teams in each event.
THE COTTON MARKET
Steadiness Without Much Activity
Featured Market Early Today.
New York, July 21—CP)—Steadi
ness without much activity featured
the cotton market early today.
First prices were 5 points higher
to 1 point lower, reflecting steady
. cables, and showers at a number of
points in the southwest.
Continued support from mill inter
ests, with pre-bureau covering and a
little demand through commission
houses later carried October contracts
up to 17.30 and January to the same
figure, the whole market showing net
advances of 3 to 5 points.
The average indicated yield of the
seven private reports thus far issued
is 15,153,000 bales.
Cotton futures opened steady. Oct.
17.28; Dec. 17 28; Jan. 17.30; March
17.45; May 17.63.
Big Specials at Parks-Belk Co’s, at
Certain Hours.
You will find many big specials at
certain hours Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. Clark's spool cotton at
1 cents, silk hose 5 cents a pair,
ginghnms 3 1-2 cents, ,T. & P. Coats'
thread, 2 cents; salmon 10 cents a
can; men's unio nsuits, 25 cents —
these are a few bargains which will
show you the prices run. Read the
half page ad. today.
Martin Audrey Widenhouse. of this
city, was one of the successful ap
plicants before the State Medical
Board at Its recent examination. As
a result of his work there Mr.
Widen house will soon receive his
Hcenw to practice medicine in North j
. XfX : » do,'’A-
SCHOOL LIBRARY FUND
Report of Mrs. Susan Fuighum, State
Inspector of Elementary’ Sehotfls.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Waiter Hotel
Raleigh, July • 21.—Although li
brary facilities in the schools of the
state have been materially increased
in tfie last three years as the result
of the $3,000 annual appropriation
for school libraries, far more are ap
plying for help than can be given
with this limited amount and recom
mendation is made that the appropria
tion be increased from 53.000 to $lO.-
000 yearly in the annual report of
Miss Susan'Fuighum, state inspector
of elementary schools, under whose
supervision this work falls. Her full
report covering the past three years
has just been submitted to A. T.
Allen, state superintendent of public
instruction.
For any school to benefit from this
fund, which is distributed in units
of SSO to a school, the eounty and
district must each give SSO, in order
to secure the SSO from the state, thus
making $l5O in all spent for increased
library facilities each time SSO is al
loted from this fund.
In the past three years 221 schools
have received aid from this sum. mak
ing a total of $33,150 expended in
this period to increase tSie library fa
cilities. The number of volumes in
these 221 schools has been inerensed
from 04.103 three years ago to 128,-
577 at present as a result of this aid.
Kith a total enrollment of 02.130,
there were 46.477 borrowers and 224,-
850 books have been loaned in the
past year. Several schools have
spent considerably more than the $l5O
apiece allowed under the state aid
plan, and 108 of the 221 schools re
port a total expenditure of $68,709.50
spent for books in this three-year
period.
The outstanding needs of this
work, according to Miss Fuighum, are
an increased appropriation, making
the amount available annually $lO,-
000; that the State aid be given after
the books have been purchased by the
school; and that teachers be more
adequately trained in library work
ami the use of books witfj children.
A better system of organization for
handling the books and keeping of
more complete records is also recom
mended.
New Building of Revenue Depart
ment.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, July 21.—1 t now looks as
if the department of revenue may be
able to get into its new building
which was to Lave been ready in De-
cember last by September Ist. but the
department is not getting all excited
"hbout it. It has had the date set
too many times before, only to find
that something wasn’t ready yet.
The thing that is holding up things
now is the apparent inability to get
plasterers w»ho can apnly the certain
kind of plaster that looks like some
kind of Italian stone, being used on
the interior. They hope to get into
the trenches by Christmas, however,
if not sooner.
C
No session of the recorder’s court
was held this afternoon. One case
started Monday,, charging abandon
ment, baa been compromised so it ia
not necessary for the case to be beard
further today. The defendant paid
’the costs In the case and left with
this second wife-
THE TRIBUNES
PRINTS
TODAY’S NEWS TQftjg
NO. 171
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octl) TO OfF'STjW
TEETEfITESTiQfffI
Mr. and Mrs. Dave TeefciflH
Said Carl Meadows WtgHH
Treated Cruelly by ffiHl
Prison Boss.
FORMER GUARD 9
DENIES ALL
For First Time During ttef
Trial There Were F«*fß|
Vacant Seats in Cm|HH
Room Today. H
Albemarle. July 21.—CAP)—
niony was offered today in the aHH
of Nevin Cranford, former
bounty convict boss, to show that
Meadows, negro, was ill for
before he died, and was not
to perform strenuous labor. . tram
This refutes testimony of the
in which Mr. and Mrs. Dave
told the jury that Meadows
I heir home, broken in body and
and died a few 'tours after
him into their home. TmSh
J. L. Stoker, of Thomasville, MMkB
mobile meehanie. and former guard 'H||
under Cranford, was the \vi
testify of Meadows extended itlaShajiMß
today. hiflH
He said that Cranford had
rangements to send Meadows MK9H|
"people" in Wadesboro, and ftatve? jESS|
guard money to buy the prison*!*:
railroad tieket. SB
For tlie first time since the;
began there were n few vacant
w'.ien the trial got underway at
a. m. • -’‘•-yHrM' H
With Our Advertisers. MH
Meet your friends at the Caaroldfl
& Kannapolis Gas Co. office at
p. m. Thursday and eat layer rake 'Bg
rolls served by the company, A
pound Kingan ham will be give]* lrir|99
an attendance prize. 9H
You're always safe when yott
using Goodyear tires. See new. adiiHa
of Yorke & Wadsworth Co. j .SB
On Friday. July 20th, the
Railway will run an exctii
Richmond. Norfolk and
Beach. Hound trip fare as
Richmond, $6.50; Norfolk. s7.sos|Mi
Virginia Beach, SB.OO. Sec a<l.
All sitinmer goods at the
Furniutre Co. have been reduced- iTom&m
25 to 50 per Ceilt. WB
The very newest in felt hats in
the wanted shades arriving daily £sH§
Fisher's. Priced $2.05, $8.05 and
Either buy an electric fan dti be-.‘|*H
come a Hoover fan. Read the
Hoover's. Ine„ today. , 99
See the new ad. of the
electric refrigerator. Sold by
ard Buick Co. 9H
Pat Covington has another real ihs ®§
teresting letter from Hop Song inf
paper today.
Yorke & Wadsworth Co.
received a ear load of Mason
jai-s. They were bought at a sood |M|
price and are being sold likewise..s||9HH
Efird's Annual July Summer
up Sale begins Friday. July
continues through Saturday, the
Bathing suits for every one *j|
J. C. Penney Co. Priced BI.IW to ■
$5.90. Sec ad. ■
Spcc'al assortment of hats tit 89
cents while they last at
The Citizens Bank and
offers strength in resources, safety
policies and courtesy in service.
attractive ad. today. ■
POLK COUNTS TRUST
company is njtmmmk
Notice Says the Bank is SolvelM tMff 9
That Depositors W ill Be Paid £§■
Full. ■
Lakeland. Fla.. July 21.—OP)—’jjjtfWj
Polk County Trust Company fall!fitf.
open its doors this morning.
lowing statement was issued: Cj H
' “The Polk County Trust t 'otdjMMjs<j|H|
is perfectly solvent and no depositee*
or creditors will lose any money.-
[ sistent withdrawals of funds by de- |
positors during the past forty
’ makes the closing of the bank impera‘* .|M
’ tive. Our money is safely
responsible people in Lakeland and 'iH
’ Polke county, but it must be mn|S
bered that many rcspons'ble
5 and firms cannot quickly l'innidat* 3K
■ their loans in mid-summer." I'iSHB
f Shaw a Seventy Says Simple FM*)i 9
For Health. JB| ■
London. July 21. — (A 3 )—George 9
Bernard Shaw will be seventy
-• old cn July 26th. but he will Pot
erload his stomach with an
birthday dinner. -■
In fact, the eooentrict dramatfijtjH
s never eats a heavy dinner. That l*g iS,
e the reason lie says he is in good
K healtfi and is able to work
" without exhaustion. He rarely as
p 1 cepts an invitation to dine ggt,'j9H
d 1 he does he eats only simple.
t| Vegetables and fruit make up his diet. jX
d ! He never eats meat. m
One day recently North CarolMcdH
shipped 475 carloads of potatoes.
value of the shipment was upprigiQgH
mately half a million dollars. S
Jumping at conclusions often lan4ff|9
you in trouble. M
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THE WEATHER v- J| I
Generally fair tonight and ThtflMK
i day, except probably local tbamlZjljl
showers Thursday afternoon In, |
treme west portions; continued
southwest. Wim ' S ’ m ° Btly SoUffi S d i
MMuuncbi. • ’ -w8