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PRESS
DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVI
EMI BUSINESS
THIS YEAR SHOWS
During the First Quarter
of 1926 New York Post
Led in Value of Exports!
Handled.
NORTH CAROLINA
SHOWSINCREASE
Two Million Dollar In
. crease in\ Value of Ex
ports Handled in State’s
Ports.
Washington. July 30.—OP)—Al
though showing a decline of nearly
$8,000,000 from the figures for the
aaine period last year, New York with
510.’i,510,071 in exports regained the
lend from Texas in value of outgoing
merchandise shipments (luring the
first quarter of 1920, the Commerce
department announced today.
Texas exports declined nearty $121,"-
000,fl00> to a total of $128,873,013
for the quarter, due chiefly to dis
trefined shipments of cotton and lower
prices for that commodity.
Total exports for thcqunrter were
valued at $1,098,839,243 as compared
tv*th $1.250.701),(100 for the first quar
ter of 1925; and $1,381,440,318 for
the last quarter of that year.
Exports by Southern States for the
first quarter of 1926. as compared
with the corresponding period last
year showed the first five ratings:
Louisiana—--First quarter 1926, $62,-
053.646; first quarter 1925, $69,755,-
686. . 0
Virginia—first quarter 1926, $37,-
390,693; first quarter 1925, $31,-
364,mi.
Georgia—‘first quarfcpr 1928, $22.-
289.883; first quarter 1925, $23,795,-
380.
North Carolina—fivst quarter 1920,
$18,328,754; first quarter 1025, si6,-
081,306.
Miwissippi—firdt quarter 1920,
$18,189,645; first quarter 1925, $15,-
049,585.
Tin? COTTON MARKET
... 1 v jf aa*
Opened &to 8 Points Lower and
Uder 11 Points Under Pre
llef that the tropica) storm had about
run its course and that crop condi
tions over the belt sere considetably
better, the cotton market opened 5
to 8 points lower today and by the
end of the first hour was off about
11 jpoints under the previous close,
with October down to 17.77 and Jan
uary to 17.82.
The South and Liverpool were the
leading sellers at the opening, influ
enced to some extend by more favor
able crop advices from the eastern
belt and belief that the weakened
technical position of the market
would make it sensitive to selling
pressure. '
Two private crop reports this morn
ing were under 15,000,000 bales, and
therefore considered rather/ bullish,
but exerted little effect on the mar
ket. if . ,
Odtton futures opened steady. Oct.
17.80; Dec. 17.79; Jan. 17.86; Match
18.11; May 1.818.
New Coolidge Story Is Told by
Steams.
(By International News Service)
Washington, July 29.—Just anoth
er little story concerning the garrul
ousness of ouy president, as told by
his most intimate friends, Frank W.
Stearns, of Boston:
"When President Coolidge was
elected governor of Massachusetts,' he
(had seventy major appointments to
make. For two weeks I sat in his
office, listening to discussions of the
various candidates and hearing vari
ous men urged for appointment.
"One night the president came in
and said: ‘Frank, here’s something
that might interest you. lt’B the
1 patronage slate. I’ve already given
it to the newspapers.’
"I took the ÜBt, still folded, to niy
room' and for two hours conducting
a little guessing contest with myself
to see whether, on the basis of whaj
I had heard, I could name the ap
pointees. Finally 1 completed my
list and compared the two.
“Os the seventy names, 1 had ex
actly three right, but unfortunately
hml been unable to pick the right job
for any of the three.”
Georgia Peaches Making Hit on tfca
Washington, July ' 29.—Georgia
peaches have made a hit on the Brit
ish market. An experimental car
load consignment, landed in Liver
pool in fourteen days from Macon,
was snapped up at good prices, Amer ;
lean Agricultural Commissioner Foley
reported today to the department of
agriculture. He believes the'British
market offers opportunities for the
fruit If packed with sufficient care
to insure delivery in good condition.
Royal Betrothal.
London, July 56.-(A>)-Reuter’s
ovanna, third daughter of the Italian
sovereign, is “considered an accom
plished fact.”
’ FourteeTVtes' stolen by a
■ North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily -
of Property Destroyed by Storm
With an unofficial estimate of from
260 to 215 dead and over ten millions
of property damage Attributed to its
fury, the , West Indian hurricane,
which lashed the east coast of Flor
ida for two days before it’ passed
into Georgia, tonight had spent its’
strength and was, moving slowly west
ward carrying but a capful of wind
and’ a mißt of rain. ’ ,
Weather bureau officials exported 1
i the storm to pass into Alabama, dor-,
iitg the night and spend the lasi rem-j
hast of its strength In rains.
Fifty-four bodies washed ashore at I
Sanoa after the sinking of the schoon-1
ers Faueyme, Peaceful and Macoris ■
off Sanoa Island, Santo Domingo, j
eight persons killed at Nassau and
five others dead in Georgia and Flor- ’
ida, was the storm toll in lives.
From four to five millions at Nas-,
sau, SIOO,OOO at Miami, two and a
half millions dollars damage in the
Palm Beach area, $50,000 to' water-
FARMERS IN FAVOR
EIGHT, MONTHS SCHOOL TERM
Cheer Superintendent Allen When He '
Speke Favoring It.
, Tribune Raleigh Bureau j
Sir Walter Hotel j
lfaleigh, July 30.—An eight months
school term for all the rural schools
of the State would not be long in be- <
coming a rcnlity if the attitude of the 1
nearly 5,000 farmers and the’r wives \
attending the Farm Convention here 1
is representative of the farmers over 1
the State as a For when men- I
tkm of an eight months term was 1
made by A. T. Allen, Superintendent 1
of Public Instruction, in his address I
before the convention, he was unable j
to proceed for a few minutes because t
of the applause that interrupted him. 1
The farmers here at the converlion <
want the eight months term, and if 1
they continue to maintain the enthus- ,
iasm they have shown here this week 1
they will get it. It will be as Mr. Al- 1
leiL said in his speech, thnt “if a con- (
suming desire for better school facil
ities should arise out of the life needs 1
of the people as it did in 'the case of ,
good roods, the coming of the eight 1
months statewide school term would ,
not be long delayed.”
- Two phases of rural education, the 1
quantity ami quality of educational i
opportunities offered, were discussed 1
by Mr. Allen, his entire address, how- t
ever, being a potent argument in fav- 1
or of the eight mouths term, instead of (
tba.six months term, as at present. t
JOje tiiat racmiugswaa 1
education has been proved a fallacy ?
long ago, Mr. Allen said, and today 1
ft is frifttniged as being one of the **
most complek industries, with a three- *
fold problem of production, market- I
ing nnd management. Hence the chil- 1
dren of the farmer should be entitled <
to just ns good educational advant- •
ages ns the children of the profession- ‘
al .or business man in the city. 1
"The young man, starting out in *
life as a farmer, must be permitted ,
to enter on this life on equal terms of ’
intelligence with the young men in .
other callings. If he cannot do this,
he not only faces, failure, but catas- *
tropbe, because he is in fierce compe- ,
tition, not only with other young and
old farmers, but with ali the world j
in the activities that men follow.”
“Other states aye offering facilities ’
for rural education for beyond ours)
Our own cities for 50 years bave 1
'been far ahead of the country in this
respect. If the efties did not provide 1
this opportunity, its need perhapß,
would not be so imperative far us in
the country. The present educational 1
situation in North Carolina is not
helping to smooth out the' economic
levels on which our various groups of
citizens must Uve, but serves rather
to accentuate them and increase them
in actuality."
Mr. Allen then presented five prop
ositions, bearing on tbe amount of op
portunity that should be provided in
rural schools. These in brief are,
first, that children in rural areas do
not learn any footer than city chil
dren, and hence should have the same
length of time in school; second, that
the rural child's opportunity should
reach to the same level as the city
Child’s; third, that the quality of in-1
struet’on should be on the same high
level of efficiency ; fourth, that instruc
tion must be given to the rural child
at the appropriate age level, and fifth,
that the physical conditions under
which instruction is given must be on
the same basis, in both country and
city. *
About 30 per cent, of the children
in rural districts now go to well
equipped, modern schools, brought
about through consolidation and bus
transportation. Dr. Allen pointed
out, and whether this movement goes
on. until all the rural children are in
cluded, remains for the people them-1
selves tf> say.
• Tbe question of the qqalitative ad
vantages was taken up in the bal
ance of his address, in which Mr. Al
len showed the nsed of better qual
ity instruction in the rural schools,
with a larger variety of courses of
fered than is now the case, particular
ly those branches of study most essen
tion to boys and girls from farms, es
pecially agriculture and home eco
“I realise that all this cannot be
In a day, but I cannot, however, enter
with enthusiasm upon any educational
program .that does not promise even
tually to reach into the borders of the
remotest section of the State.”
Workmen detnollshlng an old wood
en platform at a suburban railroad
front property nt 'Stuart, F'.a., and
1 other thousands of dollars in (tie In
dian River section was its assessment
of property.
Two of the deaths attributed to the
i storm in Georgia and Florida were
reported today.
A boatman was crushed between 1
hjs houseboat and a sea wall along
the shore nt Lakeworth, near Palm I
• Beach, and a railroad - engineer in
1 South Georgia was killed when his lo-
Itomotive went into a ditch from rails
undermined by rains and high water.
The storm passed up through south
trn Georgia today, passing Macon, i
I diminishing in intensity and acoom
■ J panted by rain. .. . ' ~ |
I Ohar'eston, Savannah and Bruns- j
, wick, the former but lig’jtly touched!
■ by the hurricane, were resuming nor- !
I mal activities and throughout the
, eastern iieninsula section linemen
t were busy in repairing the damage
1 wrought to Florida lines of commun
ication.
NORTH CAROLINA LeldS IN
BUSINESS* ADMINISTRATION
This Is Apparent From Ropofts of
the Activities of the Governor’s
Conference.
Tribune lialetgfcr Bureau
Sil Walter%l«ttß-
Raleigh, July 30.—That XprthcSP
olina has again taken the lead in the
matter of business like administra
tion of State matters is apparent from
the reports of the activities of the
Governor's Conference which has
been in session in Cheyenne, Wyoming
the past week, where almost the en
time attention of the conference has
been devoted to discussion of how to
improve State government. The at
tention of Governor A. W. McLean
was called to this fact, and he express
ed great interest in it. He was to
have been present and to have had a
paper dealing with some phase of the
work, ami expressed his disappoint
ment that lie had been prevented from
attending.
“It is interesting to rfote, however,
how much thought iieople are giving
at the present time to governmental
matters, especially individual state
governments,” Governor McLean said.
“I’eople everywhere are demanding
better business administration in the
handling of state affairs, because state
governments everywhere are becoming
so expensive and so costly to the peo
ple. They are insisting that they be
given one hundred cents worth of
service for every dollar spent, nnd
rightly so. ,
-fE*#d- .«itb
interest of the discussion that has
been taking place at Cheyenne among
the Governors there, representing all
sections of the country, of the need
for the budget system in state adminis
trations, and of the need for the Gov
ernor to be given more power to sup
ervise the budget. Tlius it can be
seen that other states are seeing the
need of doing what we have already
done here in North Carolina.”
As another instance of how North
Carolina was taking the lead alohg
the lines of governmental reform, the
Government cited the recent meeting
of the American Bar Association, and
the address of the president in which
be advocated the formation of an or
ganization in the various states simi
lar to the Judicil Council, which al
ready exists in North Carolina and
which already has accomplished much
toward simplifying legal procedure.
“It ennnot be denied that the ten
dency in the courts in the past—and
in many cases, at the present—is to
delay and retard the administration
of justice.” said Governor McLean.
“The legal profession has come very
largely to be negative rather than
positive in seeking the ends of justice.
Procrastination in many cases is the
supreme goal of mAny lawyers, rath
er than the speedy performance of
justice,
“I could not help but be impressed
last week with the speed and dis
patch with which the trial of Dri
Chappell, Asheville minister, was con
ducted by his fellow ministers. The
court, defense nnd prosecution, con
sisted entirely of ministers. And the
whole trial was held, the evidence of
sered aud the acquittal rendered in
(less than a day .Anyone familiar with
legal procedure knows that if the sanie
trjal had taken place in a legal court,
the trial probably would have been
extended over a week or more. Yet
why cannot the legal processes be
shortened?
“They ran be. And that is just
what the Judicial Council, composed
of the judges of the Supreme Court
and the Superior Courts, Solicitors
and lay attorneys, are doing for North
Carolina. Only two meetings have
been held so far, but already some
outstanding work has been done look
ing toward the revision of certain
statutes that will help materially in
speeding up legal procedure in the
State.”
Governor McLean also called atten
tion to the tact that sentiment for
better business administration in all
fields has spread, to the realm of high
er education, and that recently an or
ganisation of business managers of
formed in order to work out method*
of .business administration for their
institutions.
“AU of Which, is roost hopeful, be
cause it indicates that the public jn
general is giving more time and
thought to business matters, and has
a better understanding of them, with
■ tbe result that the public is demand
i ing better business methods on the
Kol its public officers, who are its
■ acting business. It indicates a most
hopefel and healthy pnblic condition.”
CONCORD, N. C„ FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1926
~
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wg JBH
Peler de Paolo, famous Itnlian-Ani
erican auto racer, drove (ns last racer
in America at Atlantic City the other
day. He will return to Europe and
make his home there.
CRANFORD IS ACQUITTED
Jury of Anson 0- tnXy Men Reaches
Decision After Deliberating Forty
Minutes.
Albemarle, July 29. —Ncvln C.
Cranford, former chain gang boss
charged with the murder of two ne
gro convicts, was found not guilty
’iiere tonight. The jury deliberated
forty minutes. ’*
The verdict was returned at W:ini
o’clock tonight after a trial lasting
more than two weeks. The State
alleged that James Taylor and James
Howell, negro convicts, died from the
effects of beatings .administered by
Cranford.
There was no demonstration When
the verdict was returned, but botii
Cranford and his wife wept, shook
hands with defense counsel and then
,Svith jurors. The court had warned
against a demonstration,
i ; That ,N*viu C, Cranford was, :
1 framed by six ex-convicts, former
members of the Stanly gang, was the
charge made today by defense law
yers as they made their pleas to the
jury. “The whole thing is nothing
but a tissue of lies, hatched up in
the distorted imaginations of the
State's star witnesses,” thundered B.
N. Covington, first speaker of the day.
Other defense attorneys concurred
with Mr. Covington, ,
A continued assertion on the part
of the defense that Stanly county
and not Cranford was on trial was
made by the defense.
Practically every attorney for Cran
ford declared that the county was
. under lire. Mr. Smith went further,
and announced that former judges
and solicitors were on trial.
I The State welfare department was
! given direct slaps by the defense.
Several attorneys mentioned it ns be
ing responsible for the entire affair.
I Mr. Covington asserted that if wel
, fare plans were carried out. the gang
, would have “victrolas, radios and
silk pajamas.”
POSTAL WONTS TO
INCREASE ITS RATES
Western Union Had Previously Made
a Similar Request
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, July 30. —Petition for a
hearing with regard to increasing its
rates in the state has been made by
tbe Postal Telegraph Company to the
State Corporation Commission. The
Western Union had previously made
a similar request for hearing on the
same subbjeet, and a joint hearing
has been granted', to take place Au
gust 10th. ,
In its petition the Postal Tele
graph Company sets forth that at
present, all business in the state is
done on a flat charge basis, without
regard for the distance of transmis
sion, charging 25 centß for a day mes
sage of ten words, with two cents ad
ditional for etyth additional word
and 25 cents for a night message of
teji Words, with one cent for each
additional word. It seta, forth that
this rate is 20 per cent, less than
the present charge of the Western
Union, and asks that the Corpora
tion Commission allow the company
to Institute a new method of charg
ing according to the distance of
transmission, according to the same
, scale that is being c asked by the
I Westtrn Union. This would still
preserve the 20 per cent, difference
between the two.'companies, howev
er.
The Postal company further sets
forth that the company operated at
a loss of $9,000 in the state the past
year. \
Miss Clara Staley, • personal repre
sentative of the Pictorial ReV : ew Co..
will be in the pattern department of
the Parks-Belk Co., all day Saturday.
July 31st. demonstrating all the lat
est ideas in the famous Printed Pic
torial Review Patterns.
Dr. G. M. Cooper, acting secretary
Os the State Board of health, and Or.
C. N. Sisk, director bureau of coun
ty . health work of State board of
fcj V'M.. sfeJi 1 &‘i
Bahama Islands Slowly i
Recovering From Wreck
Os The Tropical Storm
TYPHOID INCREASING J
Aoeo’-ding to the Latest Reports Re-t
cefted by the State Board of |
Health.
! - Iv Tribune Bureau j
Sir Walter Totel I
Raleigh. July 30.—-Typhoid is in
creasing rapidly over the state ac- j
I cordfeg to the latest reports being
i received by the State board of health. |
twenty-two new cases being reported I
; Thursday, bringing the total number
i of eases' reported ao far this week to
•j 74. and the total to date for July
115. However, more eases have been
reported in the past four days than
in the first three weeks of .July,
j According to the records in the
f bureau of vital statistics, an increase
: in the number of typhoid cases can
be expected from now until the
middle or latter part of August.
Flies and carelessness on the part
of people to take proper sanitary pre
cautions is ascribed as the principal
cause of this sudden jump in t'lie ty
phoid rate, according to the board
of health authorities. And the dis
tressing part about it is that the
people who get typhoid are many,
times not at all to blame for the
conditions which cause their infec
tion, but are the innocent sufferers
for tiie carelessness or laziness of
some one else, it was pointed out.
"Neglect on the part of one fam
ily to properly dispose of garbage and
trash may be the cause of typhoid
infection for an entire community,”
said one of the doctors in the board
' of health in discussing the situation.
"Several years ago there was an epi
demic of typhoid in one county. We
traced it down to a single spring that
had become polluted from, surface
water leading down from a house sur
rounded with insanitary conditions,'
nnd hundreds of cases of typ'joid re
sulted.”
Ueanliness and care both inside nnd
outside the house, and especially in
barns and outhouses, especially the
eradication of flies and keeping them
away from milk and food, was recom
mended as the best way to guard
against typhoid.
"Too much care cannot be taken
at this time of year to guard against
infection,” the board of health says.
j FINISHED PRODUCTS
North Carolina Should Not Leave
This to the East, Says Mr. Til
lery.
Raleigh, July 50.M s )—North Car
olina should not leave the manufac
ture of finished products to the north
ern and New England mills when
there are such good chances for de
velopment within her own borders, de
clares P. A. Tillery in a current is
sue of The Wachovia, the official pub
lication of the Wachovia Bank &
Trust Company.
Certain sections of this state in
particular offer great development pos
sibilities, ■continues Mr. Tillery,
pointing out that eastern North Car
olina naturally lends itself to devel
opments for textile and allied manu
facturing of all kinds, manufacture
of tobacco products, food- products of
varied kinds, wood pulp and paper,
brick and tile, fertilizer, cotton seed
'products, peanut products and vari
ous others. r
For the manufacture of such prod
ucts as those named, the necessary
raw materials are at hand, the writ
er points out, native to the territory,
and therefore comprise those most
likely to be developed, although de
velopment along other lines requiring
the importation of raw materials
may come in time.
One of the principal drawbacks to
the greater success of manufacturing
in this state, however, asserts Mr.
1 Tillery, has been the failure to man
ufacture products which are finished.
| This field, lie declares, is open to the
“ eastern section of the state.
He regrets that while this dtate
has been foremost in certain lines,
it has confined itselt to coarser goods
and left the higher priced goods and
specialties to be produced by north
ern mills.
Eastern North Carolina has the es
sentials for development .of any kind,
favorable climatic and health condi
tions, adequate fater supply, power
and efficient labor, proximity ,to raw
materials, and adequate transporta
tion facilities.
“This is not intended hs an added
prophecy of immediate .industrial de
velopment in eastern North Caro
lina,” says Mr. Tillery and concludes,
“whether such development is to come
lies with the Oracle, since it depends
as much upon the temperament and
vision of our eastern citizenship ns
upei| the natural resources tot the east
ern territory.
Taking Disabled Vessel to Port.
St. Augustine, Fla., July 30.—0 W
The Ansaldo San Giorgio Seoondo. the
Italian steamer crippled by the tropi
cal Storm off Jupiter, and taken in
tow by the steamer West Harshaw,
was reported today by the U. S. ra
dio station at Anastai to be off May
port. waiting for high tide to enter
the St. John's River.
Advices received by the radio sta
tion here said the Ansaldo bad been
orderd' to enter Jacksonville harbor
and dock at the municipal pier. Tide
today will be high at 11:43 a. m.
y ■'-fig
A proposal to hold Sunday open
air concerts in aid of a Mica I charity
was voted down by the town council
ol Inverness, Scotland, on the ground
that such concerts are a violation of
| With More Than 150 Peo
-1 pie Missing and Means
| of Communication Cut
j Storm Toil Uncertain.
* SPONGE FLEET IS
! BELIEVED LOST
-
'Nothing Seen of It Since
It Set Sail Three Days
Before Storm Struck the
Islands on Monday.
Nassau, New Providence Island.
Bnbnmn.s July 30.— UP) —Ravaged
by wind and wave, and with more
than 150 persons missing, the Baha
ma Islands remained virtually isolat
ed from communication with the out
side world today while anxious resi
dents took further count of the toll
i of destruction from the worst hurri
■ eane in the recorded history of the is-
I land.
The majority of tnose missing are
‘ believed to have been drowned With
’■ the sponge fishing fleet which has not
' been seen since it set sail three days
' before the West Indian hurricane
( struck the islands Monday night.
Several weeks must elapse before
the official toll of deaths and shipping
and property damage is known.
‘ While eonservat've estimates place
the damage at $8,000,000, reports
have not been received from several
islands of the group and communica
tion with them may not be estab
lished for days.
Nassau, the beautiful capital of the
Bahama group, with a population of
1 more than 12,000, presented a picture
' of desolution. Debris from uproot
■ ed trees, wrecked houses and splin
' tcred boats washed up by the waves,
cluttered the stately driveways of the
' ancient city where virtually all busi
-1 ness has been suspended. Abandoning
' efforts to repair her ruins, Nassua
I turned first to search for the miss’ng
siionge fleet, and to ascertain the eon
' ditions on other islands under her ad
ministration. The outer islands of
the group are known to have suffered
greatly but inside the far flung line
of islands nnd banks, and toward the
coast of Florida the chief damage was
at Nassau und the isle of Gun Key,
.Umt? -miW# froin- AUainL ...... ...
i Only three fishing smacks wrce left
. in Nassau harbor from 60 crafts which
were moored there Sunday. Between
150 nnd 200 sloops are missing with
the sponge fleet. Harbor officials es
. timnted that- at least 75 vessels were
, destroyed at Nassau and other islands,
mot counting the sponge boats, some
of which possibly found shelter off is
olated banlA or near uninhabited is
lands.
Storm Now Spent.
| Atlanta, July 30.— OP) —After lash
i ing the Bahama Islands and the east
- coast of Florida for two days and
, leaving scores of dead and property
- damage mounting into millions of dol
lars in its wake, the tropical liurrif
- eane last nig'.it passed through Geor- 1
> gia and early today spent the last re
f. mains of its strength in a misty rain
. iu Alabama.
II Approximately. 150 are dend at
-1 Nassau, 54 washed ashore at Sanoa
after the sinking of three schooners,
- and five others dead in Florida and
r Georgia, was the toll in lives.
Damage estimated at $8,000,000
, was caused at Nassau. Miami re
t ported a loss of sloo#oo and damage
-of $2,500,000 was reported from the
, greater Palm Beach area. $50,000
s loss was sustained at Stuart, Fla.,
and other thousands of dollars was
j the assessment of the storm to prop
r erty along the Indian River.
Along t’lie Atlantic seaboard, Char-,
- leston, S. C., Savannah and Bruns
. wick, Ga., were resuming normal ac
> tivities after floods and high winds
caused a general tieup in communica
» tions and transportation.
i
With Dor Advertisers.
The Big Dollar Discount Sale ati
the Merit Shoe Co. continues through)
tomorrow. Every pair of white, blond j
and grey shoes will be discounted SI.OO
in price. Prizes will be given away
at 8 o’clock Saturday evening.
Fisher’s will 'have a Month-End
Sale of summer wearables Saturday
and Monday at which you will find
some wonder values in dresses.
A genuine $5.00 Gillette safety raz
or for only 0!) cents at Yorke &
Wadsworth Co.’s. Three packages
of blades for SI.OO. See ad.
Call the Cabarrus Cash Grocery
Co. for fine large watermelons. Phone
571.
If you are looking for a good $35
summer suit value, Hoover’s lias ft.
Siiecial Saturday and Monday at
the Concord Furniture Co.—a gen
uine red cedar chest at one-fourth off
price. See ad.
Watch out for the elephant’s per
formances.
Prints in house frocks, of new and
fetching fabrics at J. C. Penney Co.’s.
Go to Parks-Belk Co.'s tomorrow
and get all the white and red lemon
‘ ade you can drink free. Music from
2 to 8.
Annual CleaivUp Sale of all sum,-
mer ilresses at Efird’s. See ad. foe
‘ some prices. • I
More than 1,000,090 fingerprints, or
nearly one per cent, of the nation’s
population, arc on record in the fed
eral bureau of identification at Wash
ington. ■-
H. I. Wood house lias returned from]
f Black Mountain, where he spent two ]
weeks with his family.
NEWYORfCENTRAL
SEEKS CONTROL OF
BIG FOUR RAILROAD
Asks Permission of Inter
state Commerce Com
mission to Take Over the
Road by 99-Year Lease.
OTHER MERGERS
ALSO PROPOSED
Before Being Leased Big
Four Wants Permission
to Take Over Road.—
Central Wants Another.
Washington, July 30.— (A) —The
New York Central applied to the In
terstate Commerce Commission today
for authority to acquire control by
99-year lease of t'ae Cleveland, Cin
cinnati, Chicago & St. Eonis, known
as the Big Four Railroad.
Permission also was asked t.o ac
quire by lease the Michigan Central
and the Chicago, Kalamazzo & Sagi
naw Railroad.
In another application the Big
Four requested permission to acquire
by lease the Cincinnati Northern, and
the Evansville, Indianapolis & Terre
Haute. These roads are now operat
ed as part of the Big Four system.
Tlic arrangement proposed, the ap
plication said, would result in oper
ating economies, increased efficiency
and improved service. The Big Four
lias a mileage of 2,398 in Ohio. Illi
nois, Indiana, Michigan and Mis
souri.
The New York Central already
owns 84,681 shares of Big Four pre
ferred stock witli a par value of SB,-
400,000, or 84.094 per cent, of the to
tal outstanding and 429,411 shares of
common, with a par value of $42,941,-
101, or 91,308 per cent, of the total.
THE WEATHER IN JUNE
The Month Saw Frost. Hall, Storms,
Solar and Lunar Halos, Etc.
Raleigh, N. C„ July 30.—C4>)—Fill
ed with miscellaneous weather phe
nomena, last June in North Carolina
saw one frost, one gale, three light
hail storms, three solar halos and two
lunar halos, {mints qut Charles E.
Marvin, chief of the United States
. department of Agriculture Weather
Bureau.
While more easterly cities of the
State were roasting beneath scorching
suns, on June AO, Banner Elk and
Mount Mitchell both registered a coat
ing of frost. Although the frost was
a light one the fact that it reached
both of these places indicates that it
was ndt just a mere sprinkling.
Asheville had the only gale during
the month, coming on the Bth.
Hail storms, though light, hit both
Andrews and Morganton on the same
date, the Bth. It is worth noting
Asheville’s gale came the same day.
Oullowhee had its light hail -rtorm on
the 23rd and New Bern on the 12tb.
Solar halos were evident for Char
lotte on three dates, the 3rd. 12th
and 14th, while lunar halos for Ashe
ville and H ! ghlands were on the 18th
and 16th, respectively.
No heavy hail storms were reported.
While these phenomena were tak
ing place during the month precipita
tion for the section which includes
cities named was 1.06 inches below
normal. The greatest monthly total
was recorded at New- Bern with a to
tal of 8.62. and the least at Morgan
ton with .80.
HOOFPRINTS OF THE DEVIL
BURNED IN THE FLOOR
The Devil Suddenly Appeared to a
Crowd of Young Fellows Gambl
ing.
(By International News Service)
Greensboro. July 30. —Reports that
prints of a horse’s hoofs reappeared
near Bath, N. C., after 100 years at
the spot w'alere the animal trampled
its rider to death are mild compared
| with the story of local “old timers”
j who remember, they say, when the
| devil’s hoofprints were left on the
floor of an old mill near here.
Harper J. Elam, veteran printer,
remembers the story well. As he
would tell it:
“A bunch of young’ fellows were
gambling on the Sabbath in Bissell's
old mill. Suddenly a real devil,
breathing fire, appeared. They scram
bled for exit and the game, was brok
en up, they all said. .
“Next (illy they returned to find
that hoofprints of the devil had been
burned in the floor of the old mill.
Burned places in the side of the open
window where the devil made his en
trance and exist were also’ visible.’
“I was just a child then. Later'
the floor was replaced time and time
again and each time the burned hoof
prints would reappear -on the new
flooring. The mill has since been
tom down and a large store now
covers the spot where it stood.”
Sought as Suspect.
Canton, 0., July 30. —OP) —Coun-
trywide search was begun today for
Patrick Eugene McDermott, 28, Cleve
land, wauted as a principal in the
murder of Don 'R. Mellett, Canton
Detective Ora Slater, heading the
[Stark county investigation, refused
to designate McDermott as the man
laought as the man."
I THE TRIBUNE
PRINTS ill
TODAY'S NEWS TODA?
NO. 179
CATHOLIC PRAYERS
UNDER PRIESTS IN
MEXICO END TODAY
In All Parts of the Coun
try Catholics Are Pray-i
mg For the Last Time
With Their Priests.
NEW RULE WILL j
START TOMORROW ,
Priests Will Be Withdrawn j
From Church Tomorrow
In Protest to the
Regulations.
Mexico City. July 30. —C4 3 )—
lies throughout, Mexico Oity todjyS
offered up devotions for the last tl*#®
under the leadership of their priest* 1
before the government’s new religion* S
regulations go into effect tomorrow, i
Under instructions from Arch |fMj|f|
op Moray del Rio. priests will Wrinß-j
i draw from the churches tomorrow in
protest against the government’!
ligious measures. The withdWilMi
: was originally planned for BtmK|K
[ President Calles in a speedy WHS
1 night declared that the hour waa Sp* )
preaching for a final fight to dete«(fflßjQ|
the triumph of revolution or react
The struggle was between light MgpJ
darkness, and the government wawjjf i
win. be said.
All Catholics in the country ae* |k|
be disarmed, in accordance with g®
order issued by Attorney General
tega. Senor Ortega said this mop*
was in consequence of reports USw.
Catholic groups are meeting secretly
at night, and the authorities "tM
fearful (lie gatherings were for the
purpose of offering opposition to H»C :
religious lnws.
After more that a fortnight of at
tendance upon mass, the faithful ?
again today crowded churches,
drals and shrines throughout the re
public. It was believed that when the
services ended at 10 o'clock tonight!,;
there would be thousands who had
been unable to enter the churches and
shrines to worship for the. last tidie.
-!o the presence of priests. . . y
AVhen the priests withdraw they
will turn over their churches to lay :
committees. The government has u- •:
nounced that it will not permit lay
committees : to haiWWwrer- * u fill7'fpjW
churches, and has ordered the mayor 5-
‘ of each town to name his own com- !
! mittee for that purpose. The priests*
I committees, however, will endeavor to
’ negotiate with the municipal authtlH*
1 ties in an effort to reach a compromise
1 on the personnel of each committee.
, NAMES CONTRIBUTORS
TO .CAMPAIGN FUND
I Campaign (Mnnager For Fkm4i Ik .
Smith Gives Names to ConuniMi
Chicago, July 30.— (A*) —AUctf
Moore, campaign manager for Frank
L. Smith, successful the
1 Hina’s Senatorial primary, decided to
day to furnish the senate campaign
funds committee names of all cuwPjjJ
utors to the Smith political fundi
Moore disclosed that Clement Stflji
ebaker, of South Bdnd, J»id., has H»fi*
tributed $20,000, and former represen
tative Ira C. Copley, of Aurora, 111.,
1 has given $25,000 in two installmeifi*,.
Other contributors include: Ilatiiel
Schuyler. Chicago attorney s2jJoot
Eugene Pike $11)00; Judge Stransky
of Chicago $500; and Nick Kaoha
vois, on behalf of Greek merchants of
Chicago SLOOO.
, The Smith manager said that? tragC
1 ebaker met him in the Congress {wMIT
here on the occasion of the Indtitliku
dinner last winter, and ~ stated |Mjßj
lie was very much interested it) Bti’
friend Frank L. Smith. -ra
, “He asked me to call at hi* IK
. which I did. and he gave $10,00(1. ‘Mp
, er lie gave another SIO,OOO, MoOft.
. said.
. In making known his deeipiffi. to
. give the names of the
Moore said that some of the mett for
" “social, upolitical and business re***
6 ons" had requested him not to reveal
the contributions.
FARMERS SHOULD ADOPT '(fS
IMPROVED MACHINERY?
And Destroy Their One-Horse Plows,
Harrows and Cultivators.
Raleigh. July 30.—OP)—RaaCtigH
North Carolina farmers should adopt
the improved machinery which west
ern farmers use, destroying their one*
liorse plows, one-horse cultivators and
one-horse harrows, declares Clarenc*
Poe in a current issue of The Wa
chovia, the official publieation of the
Wachovia Bank & Trust Company wt
North Carolina. %?■'
Attributing the laxity of the peo
ple in eastern North Carolina hi
adopting more improved methods of
farming to the fact that the sectiotx
is found so productive even under old
methods, Mr. Poe declares that with
half (lie improvements whit-tl they
should make farmers here could al
most double production. .Jl
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