ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI CRANFORD CASE TO BE HALTED TODAY FOR REST OF WEEK Jurors Will Be Permitted to Spend the Week-End at Their Homes in An son, the Court Rules. NEGROES’ BODIES HAD NO BRUISES This Was Testimony of the Undertaker Who Dress ed Bodies of Negroes i Who Died in Camp. Albemarle, July 23.— OP)—The bod ies of James Terry and James How ell, negro convict*, who aft alleged ] to have died from mal treatment, had) no bruises or, other indications of abuse on them, P. J. HuiTnientt. mor tician who was in charge of funeral arrangements, testified today. Mr. Hunnicutt, former president of the North Carolina Association of Funeral Directors, said he saw the bodies of Terry and Howell in August 1!)18. He testified that records in his establishment showed no signs of mal treatment were discovered hi prepar ing them for burial. , The indictments on which Ncvln C. Cranford, former superintendent of the Stanly County convict system is be ing tried, charged him with the mur der of the two negroes. Announcement was made this morn ing just before the opening of court that adjournment will be had this af ternoon until Monday morning at ten o'clock. Permission was given tbe special jury summoned from Anson • county, to' return home for the week end. EDITORS SPENDING DAY AT BLOWING ROCK Held Business Session Here Before Noon.—Rutherford Sun Wins Cup. Hickory, July 23.—(A>)—The edi tors and publishers at the 54th con vention of the North Carolina Press Association left Hickory at 8:30 o'clock this morning for a trip to Blowing Itock, where they are being entertained at a barbecue by the Hick orSC. Chamber of Commerce. There, was a Short business session held at Jterief mbtWng, and the barbecue was on Green’s Hill, near the Manor. Outstanding among the accomplish ments yesterday was the decis'on to employ a full time field secretary for the Association, and amend the con stitution to provide for membership dues of o4ie cent for every subscriber. That subject was under debate the whole of yesterday afternoon, and it has been tbe topic of almost undivided interest today. Some of the larger newsimpers of the state will be forced to pay great membership fees under the new arrangement. It was announced this morning prior to the Blowing Rock trip that the Sa vory cup for the best weekly paper in the state was awarded to the Ruther- 1 fordton Sun. The committee on awards said “in out 1 judgment it ex cels other publications, weekly enter- ' ed, in general makeup, typographical ' appearance, news presentation, and lo- 1 cal matter. We were particularly im pressed through cuts and writeups qf ’ local business and manufacturing en terprises.” The committee found the Sun pos sessed of a desirable editorial page and other features that go to make up the prise winning weekly stake. i WTtlt Our Advertisers. C. Pan Covington replies to Mr. Hop Song's letters in this paper today, and tells all 'about it All According to Hoyle. „ , The Yorke & Wadsworth Company is offering s|>eeial prices for Saturday on tires. Isjok up ad. today. Special for Saturday only— s gal lons of gasoline and an' ice cold Coca- Cola for $1.25 at Yorke & Wadsworth Co. See ad. Efird’s annual July Clean-Up Sale is now on. Nothing reserved. See ad. A bank’s success can usually be measured by the degree of personal interest it displays in its service to depositors. See ad. of Citizens Bank and Trust Company. If you want value in frocks., read the ad. of J. C. Penney Co. Go see them for yourself. Fresh South Carolina melons at the Cabarrus Cash Grocery Co. Every one guaranteed to be ripe. Say Catholic Church Will Be Closed. Nogales. Aria., July 23. —A semi official dispatch to the Herald- from Mexico City today said that the sec retary of war in the cabinet of Preal dent Calles had ordered all federal troops in the republic to be under i arms and ready for instant action on August Ist at which time reports pre viously have stated the Catholic 1 ('.lurches throughout the nation will be closed under orders from high ec clesiastical officials. Good Will Bands on Tour. (By International News Service) Hot Bprings, Ark., July 23. —East- ern Arkansas, Mississippi and north ern Louisiana f towns tfcis year wfll hear concerts rendered by two bands of the local Rotary Club. The Chamber of Commerce is spon soring the three-week tour of fifty, youthful musicians on their goodwill tour of many towns. A party of buainess men left here last Monday with tbe bands. The Concord Daily Tribune Judge Winston Reviews the Progress of Newspaper Plants Hickory. N. C., July 22—OP)—The mechanical development of the news paper in (he past half century was brought strikingly to the attention of the publishers and. editors here today. ! Today, a single typesetting machine weighs a ton or more—a half century ago an entire newspaper outfit could | be and was hauled across country in | a single wagon. Former Judge Francis D. Winston. ■ of Windsor, told of the incident in his address tonight before the North Car olina Press Assac/ation. When, in 1874, Windsor men bought the news paper outfit at Enfield, Judge Win ston, then a youngster, brought the outfit across country in a two-horse wagon to Windsor, “presses, furniture, ■ type, boot, key, quoins, cases, tympan, chases, fly, ink-rollers. composing stone, a peck of pi, and the other odds and ends of an unsuccessful newspa per venture.” That was the beginning of Judge Winston's early career in the field of journalism, which engaged his atten , tion for some years, and resulted in II h ! s addressing the newspaper men at their convention at Hickory-Catawba- Springs in 1878. Judge Winston told the newspaper men tonight something of that earlier meeting, nearly a half century ago. Personalities, incidents, scenes, passed in rapid review as he sketched the gathering he attended as a mere youngster, and told of the intervening years. He first told his hearers—quoting a witness on the stand in n trial he re called—that there were ‘four kind of memories: one what you seed; one what you heerd; one what you're told to tell; ami one what you makes up," anil he added that he hoped to re member “only what I 'seed' forty eight years ago.” The speaker interrupted his memo ries at one point to bring the editors sharply into the present with a plea for support for a measure he said he 'planned to Introduce in the ne.tt Gen eral Assembly. “I now ask you to enlist the press in supporting a bill I shall introduce, and hope to secure its passage in the next General 'Assembly, providing for an elaborate department of hnmi- - DEATHS FROM THE AUTO ARE STILL ON INCREASE | Death Rate Per 100,000 Increased l From 14.0 in 1023 to 15.7 In 1924. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel July 23. —Automobile fa rtw. inal survey agitators, there has been ' no note of protest. j1 Governor McLean is still averse to 1 discussing his survey mail for he ab solutely refuses to put himself in ihe r position of debating the matter or J any of its tangents since Dr. Delin J Dixon-Carroll, one of the mein- ; bers of the committee which first 1 broached the subject to him, ' publicly announced that the survey 1 had been gained by political black- J mail after the governor had insulted the three women present. Those in . close touch with the executive state that he intends to ignore the Carroll 1 attack entirely and that as far as he is concerned there is no survey prob lem now. Any further petition or 1 plea had better be addressed to the r next general assembly, they say. Despite the fact that those who 1 have sent protests concerning his ac tion have promptly forwarded a copy c to the press, Governor McLean said 1 that he did not think it best that 1 he endeavor to publish the messages of commendation. f “Just so the people in the states, es- . pecially the women, get the facts of , ' the ease, they’ll understand my action . in calling the survey off.” the governor said in closing the matter. i Money in Poultry. « (By International News Service) c Conway, Ark., July 23. Farmers seeking larger revenues in this sec- t tion have turned their attention to I poultry raising. 1 An example is pointed out to them t by the county agent in the experiment ( of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Taylor, living l six miles north of this town. 1 Starting the first of January this year with 100 layers, Mr. and Mrs. 1 Taylor have made n net profit of | $307.14. This is $3.07 per bird for I half a year. 1 , i Warden Biddle found a long distance | call to a St. Louis business firm on the prison’s June bill. He could not , reuiember the call, and the telephone i company’s records showed that the call had gone to a nurse in a St- Louis hospital. Mail from the woman ] was found in the cell of Jesse Creer, a eouxiet clerk, who had attempted , to charge the call to the prison. Secret service men, investigating Greer’s record in the prison, soon detected the other swindle and found , George F. Ames, a paroled convict, \ awaiting payment of the first , I fraudulent check in Denver. Greer admitted his part in tbe { i plot, according to Warden Biddle, , and showed officers a number of can celled checks, stolen from the prison i safe, which had been hidden in the false bottom of a box in his room. A i number of similar checks were found I nailed under the benches ig the i prison theatre. i North Carolina's Leading Small City Daily CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1926 POUCH! IS COMPUTE NOW HCtPT ME PUKE The Noted French Leader Has Only to Select Min ister of Labor to Make New Cabinet Complete. BRIAND CHOSEN FOR CABINET Is Named Secretary of the Foreign Affairs and Paul Painleve Is Again Made Secretary of War. Baris. July 23.—OP)—M. Poincare early this afternoon had filled ev#ry l>oxt in hix new cabinet with the Ex ception of the minister of labor. The official list of the new minis ters with the labor |>ortfolio still to be filled is as follows: Premier aud minister of finance. Kamond Poincare. Minister of justice. Ism's Bart lion. Foreign affairs. Aristide Brinnd. Interior, Albert Sarraut. War, Baul Painleve. Marine, Georgeß Laygues. Publ : e works. Maurice Kokanowski. Education, Edouart Herriot. Commerce, Andre Tardieu. ■Colonies, Leon Perrier. WHEN WHISKEY THREATENED THE UNION Tomorrow Anniversary of So-Called Whiskey Insurrection. Washington, D. Cl., July 23.—To morrow will be the anniversary of file beginning of the so-called “Whiskey Insurrection,” the uprising in 1701 which for a time threatened the very existence of the Union. Se serions became this uprising in western Penn sylvania that President Washington, as commander-in-chief of the army, put himself at the (lead of about 13,- 000 militia to maintain the sovereign ty of the federal government. In the towns ’ and villages along the Monongaheln river whiskey was money. It was as much the circu lating medium of that section as sil ver or paper currency was in the great, cities like Philadelphia. In Pittsburgh and in the neigiboring counties a gallon of whiskey -was tl» Tokiti of d sfiflirtig. The Congress of 1702 taxed spirits manufactured in the United States at not less than seven cents a gallon. Among the manufacturers of whiskey j in Pennsylvania a fury of resentment wns created by this law, and it nat urally followed that the tax collec tor's lot was not a happy one. The disaffection was rendered much more intense w(ien the delinquent tax payers learned that the State courts had no authority in excise cases and that the distiller who resented the of ficial curiosity of the tax collector could be taken from his farm and car ried over the mountains to Philadel phia and there in a federal court be tried for the offense he (ind commit ted 350 miles away. The complaints induced Congress to pass an act giving jurisdiction in ex cise cases to the State courts when the nearest federal court was more than fifty miles away from the scene of the offense. But after the act had been made a law early in June, a United States marshal, who was late in the service of a writ that had been issued in l(ic middle of May, attempted to arrest a distiller about fourteen miles from Pittsburgh in July. A body of farm-1 ers came together and marched on the ■ house of the revenue inspector near Pittsburgh, who fired on the mob, killing one and wounding six. The house was stormed that night and the troops tliat had taken possession of it were captured. After this the rioters made an agreement to meet again and decide on their future course. Tomorrow, July 24th, will be the anniversary of the date on which the farmers and distillers gathered in 1704 and determined to resist the na tional government. Before the end of July 6,000 armed men inarched through Pittsburgh and crossed Hie Monongahela river. The moment that Washington learned of the situation he issued a proclamation ordering the insurgents to disperse and called for 13,000 mi litia from New .Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland. Meanwhile the commissioners were sent to treat with the insurgents,' but the soldiers also moved aud crossed t(ie Alleghany mountains into the disaffected terri tory. While the soldiers were march ing to subdue the revolt the insur gents were deliberating on the terms that the commissioners had brought. Among the leading representstives of the people in rebellion was Albert Gallatin, who in later years acquired political fame and distinction. He wns one of a committee of sixty ap pointed to consider the government’s terms. Gallatin favored accepting these terms, but t(ie majority of the insurgents objected. The firmness of Washington’s pol icy soon caused them to give way, and the revolt was subdued without bloodshed. Some prisoners were tak en, bus Washington wisely pardoned them, while the government set to re form the abuses that had brought about the trouble. 11l 1924, according to figures just made public, 1,218 persons were killed I in the mines of Great Britain, and 1 187,1111 disabled for more than three> days. !V - *Jj NEW GOVERNMENT 1 COTTON ESTIMATE J NOW IDE PUBLIC 1 rjCotton Crop of 15,368,000 •j Bales This Year Is Indi ij cated by Condition of Crop July 16th. CROP IS GOOD ' IN THIS STATE “ Crop 88 Per Cent, of Nor- I mal in North Carolina, ; ■ Which Leads Virginia and South Carolina. Washington. July 23.— UP) — \ oot ' \ ton crop of 15,308,000 equivalent 500- -! lb. bales this year is indicated by the | condition of the crop on July 16, -1 which was 70.7 per cent, of a normal, > 1 the Department of Agriculture an , nounced today. A crop of 15,535,000 • bales was forecast from the July 1 i condition of 75.4 per cent. Last ■ j year's crop was 16,103,57!) bales. I Should developments during the rc ! mainder of the season be-as favorable as during 1021, 1022 and 1023, about 13.476,000 bales might be expected, ■ the Department announced; but if developments are as favorable ns dur ing 1024 and 1025, about 16.025.000 might result. Indications are that the acre pro duction will be 155.8 pounds, compar [! ed with a forecast of 150.5 pounds | from July 1 conditions. 1 The condition of the crop by states I follows: ■! Virginia 71 per cent of a normal; • i North Carolina 88 per cent.; South • j Carolina 55 per cent.; Georgia 61; i j Florida 80; Missouri 70; Tennessee ■ 71; Alabama 71; Mississippi 70; Lou- i 1 isiana 71; Texas 73; Oklahoma 78, • I Arkansas 42, New Mexico 84; Arizo ,! 1)0, California 00; all other states 73 ; , Lower California 102. WOMAN OVER CENTURY OLD DIED THURSDAY > Mrs. John A. Overman. Lacking 22 Days of 101 Years. Passes East of Liberty. Liberty, July 22.—Mrs. John A. i Overman, aged 100 years, eleven ; months and eight days, one of the old i est women in this section! if not the entire state, died-irt the Home of* her . daughter, Mrs. Isabelle Sullivan, this evening at 6 o’eloek after an illness of just one week. Death was the im- I mediate result of a stroke of paraly sis which cut short the expectancy of the remarkable old woman to reach her 101st milestone. Mrs. Overman was born August 12. 1825, and last year her 100th birthday was made exceedingly hap py by the attendance of hundreds of 1 friends and relatives. She was the daughter of Tom and Sarah York Overman and her* maiden name was I Sybie Allred Overman. Her father j was a settler from England, and he I was the' father of 10 children, of I 1 which Mrs. Overman was the oldest. Her daughter with whom she made her home. Mrs. Sullivan, has her self reached the remarkable age ot' four score years. On her 100th birthday Mrs. Over man, who had been rather deaf for a number of years, talked interest ingly of the many events of nation al and international importance that had transpired since her memory be gan to serve. Among them were some of the greatest changes the world has known, for reference to any history covering the period from 1825 to j 1026 shows the great strides made on all sides. It was the conviction of Mrs. Overman that the girls of 80 and 85 years ago would not suffer in comparison with those of a like age today. Mrs. Overman was married when she was 14 years of age and five' sons, J. O. Overman, of Liberty, the oldest, who is now 68; J. V. and A. J. Overman, also of Liberty; T. F. Overman. Siler City, and two daugh ters, Mrs. S. H. Burlington, and Mrs. Isabelle Sullivan, who resides six miles east of this place, survive. Funeral services over the remains of the lovable and Christian woman will be held from Pleasant Hill church Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock. A tremendous gathering is anticipat ed by reason of the wide circle of friends of the deceased, who has spent her great life near the place of her birth in Chatham county. Another Rail Merger Planned. New York, July 23.— UP)— Plans for the great Loree raailroad merger in the southwest, combining the Kan sas City Southern, Missouri, Kansas Texas & St. Louis Southwestern Sys tem, were completed at a meeting of the Kansas City Southern directors | today. An enrly application will be made to she Interstate Commerce Commission to approve the cousolida ; tion. The Kansas City Southern di rectors approved the plans. Directors | on the other roads previously had tak , en action. ; The merger which hag been in the proces of formation for more than a year, will unite railways with total assets of approximately $600,000,000. and a combined trackage of more than 6,000 miles. Franklin S. Terry Dead. Asheville, July 23.— W) —Franklin 8. Terry, vice president of the Gen era! Electric Company, died at 2 o'clock this morning at his home in : Black Mountain, near here, follow lling a heart attack. U. ■ '.'j! ►< Ah average of one tfiipwreck a day iis the toll of the sea each year. '♦#****#******•♦: '* $ I ! * 400 STRIKERS IN *: * BODY SEEK PLACES * * THEY QUIT FROM * * New York. July 23. —OP)— * 46 Escorted by police, 400 striking 46 4t subway employees today marched 41 ' 46 from their headquarters to the 46 4$ yards of the Interborough Rapid 46 [ 46 Transit Company to ask that 4! 46 they may be given back the jobs 4 s 46 they quit July'6th. 46| I 46 The company had announced 4: j 46 previously that the strikers 46’ | * would be taken back, although 46! 146 it was indicated that there might 46 j I 4 be some delay in the return of 46 |4! the actual leaders. 46 [* * * 46 46 46 46 * 46 46 46 46 46 46-» 1 ■■ I ANOTHER BIG COTTON CROP IN STATE SEEN 1 State Crop Statistician Sees Condi tions as Favorable For the Crop. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, July 23. —Despite the coldest spring in years and the j drought of early summer, another j heavy cotton crop seems in prospect | for North Carolina, according to the j estimate of Frank Parker, crop sta-1 ( tistician of the department of agri-1 culture. His opinion is backed by I the government’s mid-July condition report, released from Washington to day, w'aich figures the North Caro ; linn erop at 88 per cent, of normal or full growth. Mr. Parker and his assistants have ; just completed a condition survey ov-' er all cotton growing sections of the [ state. They find stands almost up to what they were a year ago, crops well cultivated as a whole, and re gardless of the loud cries of “hopper, hopper’’ that have recently rung through the state, there lias been very little damage from pests and the weather is most unfavorable for the developing and breeding of the flea as well ns the weevil. The possible fact of an unusually heavy cotton crop is not considered by Mr. Parker to be necessarily good ne\YK. The t\vo million bale surplus of Inst year made a short erop rather to be desired this season. However, if the entire belt is going to show a heavy crop it. is hoped that North Carolina will not find herself short of cotton in the face of a low mar ket. The following paragraphs are tak en from Mr. Parker’s condition re port : Until the rains of June 20th came, the condition of cotton and other crops was nearing a crisis, due to a long drought coudition. Based on June 20 th conditions, the report of 63 per cent, condition of cotton sfilP reflected the poor stands, backward growth and unmended condition of the plants. The mid-July report shows a condition of 88 per cent, of a normal or full crop growth and a boll weevil infestation less than one-1 half of what it was at this date a ; year ago. This situation is less than j 10 per cent, below last year’s condi-1 tion which resulted in the State's j largest cotton crop. Two factors that will affect the ( ultimate crop most are stands and | lateness. While making field inves tigations during the past month, the stands of about 2,500 fields in fine different parts of the State’s cotton belt were estimated to be between 75 and 80 per cent, of the desired stand. Last year’s crop was estimated at from 5 to 8 per cent, better than this. It will be remembered in this connection that the final yield was amazingly good. There is no doubt that the crop is from 12 to 20 days late. This .will be of considerable importance, provided the boll weevil damages are appreciable before Sep tember Ist. It will be remembered that the crop was also late last year, but this was not apparent in she final harvest. Favorable conditions at the present time are: Excepting at planting time, we have had almost ideal cotton growing weather; the weather has been generally unfavorable for bo! • weevil development; crops haye been well cultivated and are generally clean; there has been no leaching of plant food by excess rainfall; plant roots have gone deeply into the soil and can stand considerable dry weath er, and file present hot, dry weather is unfavorable for the grubs to hatch out in the fallen squares. Ruth Catches Baseball Dropped From Airplane to Establish New Mark. Mitchel Field, N- Y„ July 22. “Babe” Ruth today claimed a new honor—that of being the first man to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane moving 100 miles an hour. He caught a regular baseball drop ped from an altitude of from 200 to 300 feet. The ball was dropped by Capt. H. F. McClelland, flying an Army pur suit plane. The attempt to establish a new altitude catching record, how ever, failed, as Ruth could not locate balls dropped from higher altitudes in time to get under them. The catch was made on the seventh attempt. The first attempt was made at an altitude of I.OOC feet. The ball dropped among cemera men. The plane then descended’ to from 200 to 300 feet and Ruth miss ed five balls after hnrd runs. The bail Ruth caught was dropped from the plane 200 feet before it was over Ruth's head. Like the otbere, it was sucked nlong by the plane, which could not reduce speed be’ow 100 miles an hour, Ruth wore a fielder’s glove. i Denies Charges. Boston, July 23.— (A*) —Capt. Hart ! ley, of fae United States liner Levia than today, flatly denied that any li quor had been sold on board the ship, as charged in a statement last night by Captain W. H. Stayton. chairman of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. SHOWERS BROKEUP HEAT WAVE; p>> TfMTURWf Cooling Breezes Followed In Wake of Showers in 1 Many Sections of the South. YORK. S. C., IS HOTTEST FOR DAY The Temperature There Was 106 at One Time Thursday.—Two Deaths in Charlotte. i (By the Associated Press) ; Climaxed by two nditional deaths i 1 and several new 'neat records, the j sweltering heat wave which has swept I the South came to an abrupt end yes i terday when thundershowers andcool- I ing breezes lowered temperatures ! many degrees in most of the southern states. At Charlotte, Njf C., two persons died when t'.ie mercury bubbled up to 103, passing Wednesdays high mark of 102. Two negroes, a la borer and a laundress, succumbed af ter being overcome by the excessive heat. York, S. C„ set the high mark for the South yesterday with a tempera ture of 106. Other sections of South ; ;j Carolina continued to feel the blister ing heat. Declaring that “only a man c'aarged ] with murder should be confined dur- | ing this weather,” Judge W. C. Har- ] ris, of Raleigh, N. released all i prisoners in the city jail because of : the heat. The thermometer stood at ] 98. , With a high mark of 98, Nashville led Tennessee's high mereury record. Chattanooga and Knoxville each reg- , istered 96. • After touching 99.5 in Atlanta , Wednesday, the mercury slipped downward when yesterday’s thunder showers brought a cool breeze. In Miami a new 24-hour rain re cord for July was established. Be tween noon Wednesday and the same time yesterday 3.8 inches of rain had, i fallen. The temperature ranged from 72 to 82. i “LIFE OF THOMAS E WATSON” IS POPULAR Hundreds of Copies Have Been Sold in Georgia and Other States. i (By International News Service) Atlanta, Ga., July 23.—Hailed here ! as on? of tfie outstanding biographies j in American literature “The .Life of j Thomas E. Watson,” by William W. i Brewton, of the Atlanta Georgian, has ' gone on sale with the brightest prom | ise of any book circulated in Georgia jin many years. However, the Wat ! son biography is selling beyond the ' borders of the state as much as with in the state, according to sales re ported so far. Brewton wrote his life of Watson from material furnished 'him by Sena tor Watson from time to time since 1913 when the author promised Wat son at Hickory Hall, Thompson, Ga„ to “keep the record straight” on the i career of Georgia's most versatile [ soil; and also from the rich collec- i tion of Senator Watson's private pa pers turned over to Brewton after 1 Senator Watson’s death. Though he < was for many years preparing for the < task. Brewtoon wrote the book in five I months when lie actually began to 1 write. The book was written by 1 j Thompson in the same room on the ' same desk as Watson used when writ- ' ing his immortal "Story of France” > jnd "Napoleon.” i Bhewton is handling the sales him- 1 self from post office box 2172, At anta. Qa. The Watson biography s priced $3.50 a copy pi us 15 cents ;or postage and packing. JUDGE HARRIS TURNS ALL PRISONERS OUT Because of Intense Heat, He Orders Them Released on Their Own Recognizance, Raleigh, July 22.—Because of the intense heat, City Judge W. C. Har ris today ordered the release on their own cognizance of ail prisoner* in lie city jail ayvaiting trial. "A man must be charged with murder or something very serious to be kept in that place this kind of weather,” Judge Harris declared as he ordered tine turnkey to swing open the doors to the jail. Some 15 or 20 prisoners walked out, after oeing recognized for their appearance in city court for their trial. Judge Harris is the Democratic nominee for Superior court judge in he seventh district. Catawba River is Searched For Body of Fred Skidmore Gastonia. July 22.—Parties con tinued search today for the body of E’red Skidmore, 23, Southern Power ■ompany employe, who was drowned while swimming in the Catawba river at Mount Holly late yesterday. The young man had been in the water only 10 minutes before going ; under, after a call for help it was [ dated. Chaa. K- Flowers Falls to His Death. Durham, July 22.—Charles E. Flowers, 54 years of age, brother of R. L. Flowers, of Duke university, ■ was instantly killed when he fell • from the 12th story of a hospital in ‘ Philadelphia late Thursday after : noon, according to word received by . Professor Flowers following the fatal accidental. Details of the accident had not been received here late tonight. TODAY’SNEwI TODAM NO. lH 1 Iflll Tf INJ. BUOLONfiI • DIVORCE AT] COURT AT NEWPQM NH2L j|| Former Head of the Pads ard Motor Co. | the Suit Started SevqnH Months Ago. 9 WIFE CONDUCTED I HER OWN TRIA|fl Dismissed Her AttomiH Soon After Trial Startw,9 —Cruelty Grounds raH the Divorce. 9 Providence. R. 1.. July Milton J. Budloug. millionaire; NetjW York Newport resident, and head of the New Bork tlie Packard Motor Car Con>punSU was granted a divorce from JewSfß Margaret Budloug in the suit fijjed Ujgl Newport Superior Court by Blodgett today. For nearly thffSH years the Budloug.? and their difficulties had been seen public eye through a series of eqi|SH actions. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Budloug were On October 24. 1923 Mrs. BttftJH filed a petition for divorce. FetffJMgS 15, 1924 she filed a second for divorce, and on April 14, 19-H th',l first action was discontinued. ■ 9 Mr. Budloug then filed the pyoamH petition in Newport and after tfojj trial had progressed several dayg ttfgjS Budlong surprised everyone mnrily dismissing her attorney. OqmH iielius Moore, of Newport, and mmß nouncing to the court that she wouM9 conduct her own trial. ■ An incident at the Plaza Hotel jaS New York in the summer of 1923 was I cited by Budloug as an act of There, he charged, his wife demand upon him for SIOO,OOO JurfM upon his refusal to purchase hee v ;qjl*g feet ion she knelt down and God to curse him. In its rescript the court says: testimony shows that the condueifc J 9 Mrs. Budloug has caused so much toriet.v that upon Mr. Budlong’g pearance in public he has beelt subject of much comment and rhtfjH rule as to cause him great humiliation.* and that his health has been so as-B fooled that he has .been tumbleßumH r.v on his business.” . ■ STAYTON CHARGES ARE 1 BEING INVESTIGATED NOVVfI He Says Liquor Is Being Sold on tfclfl Leviathan and Other Vessels, ia 9 Washington, July 23— UP) — es of liquor selling aboard. sh’ppiadH board vessels including the are under investigation by authorities in New York. ■ Taking cognizance of the charges by W. H. Stayton, head the Association Against PioliibitioaH Amendment, officials said that toms authorities and department ptfl justice agents already had been toS reefed to establish the facts. " B The investigation is entirely hands of the field administrator# New York and no reports have beejifl received here. 9 Frank Dow, acting chief of the liibitiou and customs service; saidjß considerable liquor undoubtedly’ come in on both United States a«H foreign vessels, but it had been im-B possible so far to secure evidence 8h|(B ticient to confiscate any ships. ,3 B Tlie shipping board had co-opera with the prohibition service,' Mi; Dmß said, and in some instances, ‘.ail dis*fl charged large numbers of seamen iatlH plicated in the importation of iiquorß THE COTTON MARKET J 9 B Had steady Opening at 1 to 6 Advance, Waiting For GoverueiHH New Y T ork, July 23. cotton market had a steady today at 1 to (> points advance, business rather quiet pending the eminent report at noon. Bj In. additiou to firm cables better stock market early buying, stimulated by official reports <|(j|SH tropical disturbance ill the West laS dies, and by further reports of ers in the Southwest. Offerings mainly from tlie South, Wall and Liverpool, hut were well ed when the market held firm, October up to 17.45 and JanuaryfßH 17.37. or (i to S points higher. Cotton futures opened steady: Oqfl tober 17.38: December 17.29; nary 17.36: March 17.50; May 13||9H Man Disappears. ..' fMB (By International News Mobile. Ala.. July 28,—^TowSM throughout the state have been quested to assist in the William Nathaniel Bolton, 32, mysteriously wandered away '; home here last Saturday and has nflH been seen since. jxt While fear that he has mej: violence has darkened the life Bolton, police believe lie may been suffering from a loss of meojS ory. r&l, i oJMH France's total population THE WEATHERji jg Showers tonight and somewhat cooler in east and eeutwi portions tonight and in north Satin day. Moderate shifUngl witS * becoming east or southeast. B