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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES volume xxv: ran chief mi VIRGINIA IRE If Celebration Begins Today of the 339th Anniver sary of the Birth of Our First White Child. ELABORATE PLANS FOR MOVING CROWDS r Sir Esme’s Appearance Marks the First Time an English Official Has Ap peared at Ceremonies. Roanoke Island, X. C., Aug, 17. —Plans were completed here today for (tie celebration tomorrow of the 33i)ti» anniversary of thehirth of Vir ginia Dare. The principal event on the program will be an address by the British ambassador. Sir Esme How ard. Tomorrow's festivities will be the principal event of Dare county home-coming week which is now being celebrated. For the first time in the many years the birthday anniversary of the first born English child on American soil has been celebrated, two nations across the sea from one another will be linked in the presence of officials of both nations. Sir Esme's appear ance marks the first time an English official has appeared at t'lie ceremonies and taken a part. In addition many congressmen from Virginia and North Carolina are expected to be present to morrow and the governors of the two states or their representatives nre to be on hand. Tomorrow!* program will start with . the arrival at this island of a govern ment cutter which will convey the high officials of government and the officers of the Roanoke Coloney Me morial Association, tender wtiose uas pices the celebration is staged each year. The Right Reverend Joseph 11. Cheshire, venerable but active bishop of the Episcopal diocese of North Car olina, will lead the gathered thousands to the spot where tradition has it Virgiuia Dare received I’.ie baptism of the English church. Bishop Che shire is president of Oie memorial as sociation. , I An invocation wilf be pronounced by Bishop Thomas C. Darat of the this district, then witj introduce Gov ernor McLean or his representative who will welcome Sir Esme to North Carolina —and to the first English settlement in America. ‘ The program will be interspersed with ringing of patriotic airs and the music of a government band. Sir Esme's address will be followed by the singing of the "International Hymn” which has words appropriate to the occasion and which is sung to'thetnne of “America” which is also the tune of "God Save tlie King.” Bishop Che shire will close the proceedings with ' a benediction. The entire party then will repair to the venerable oak grove where lunch- i eon will be served. After this the i visitors will go to the various historic spots on the island, including old Fort < Raleigh, which recently has received federal recognition. Late in the af ternoon the government cutter will I convey the party back to the main land. Virginia Dare was the daughter of two members of Sir Walter Raleigh's third expedition to the great new con- ; tinent of "Virginia''. The child was ’ born shortly afterethe colonists landed by mistake at Roanoke Island and a few days later her grandfather, Gov ernor John White, departed for Eng land. England's wars prevented his return for several years and when he again visited Roanoke Island no trace of the colony was found which would lead to its whereabouts. The colony has been given the name by historians of Sir Walter Raleigh’s “Lost Col ony”. By gome it has been held that certain traces of white blood in the Croatnn Indians of today indicate that the lost conoly was merged with tills tribe while others maintain it was entirely wiped out by Indians. This latter theory is supported by the official report of the next expedition sent to Virginia wiiich was instructed to search fdr the Roanoke , Island colony. With Our Advertisers. The Concord and Kannapolis Gas Co. has reduced the price on a Ruud •heater from $25 to $21.09, with 99 cents down and $2. a month. If you pay nil cash the price is only S2O. See ad today. No left-overs at Fisher’s. There fore, everything seasonable now is go ing at sacrifice prices. Dry cleaning betters good appear ance. See new ad. of Bob’s Dgy Cleaning Co. The Ritchie Hardware Co. has the agency Gere for the Super Elto Out board Motor, See ad. ’ Read the interesting ad. today of the J. C. Penney Co. W. J. Hethcox will give you an estimate on any kind of electrical wiring. The E. L. Morrison Lumber Co. sells quality lumber at a correct price. Sought Thrill But It Proves Fatal. Kansas City, Aug. 16.—Richard A. Waters, 22, sought the tarill of riding in an ambulance. He got it today—but it proved a death ride. Accompanying hie brother, an ambu lance driver qn an emergency call, Waters was killed when the am bulance hit a street car in a raln ■ storm. i The Concord Daily Tribune EARL COOPER , EARL COOPER TO BE IN CONCORD TOMORROW Noted Autto Racer Will Be Guest of Rotarians at Their Weekly Meet ing. Earl Cooper, noted knight of the roaring boards and "daddy" to many of the younger men in the racing game, will be a guest of the Concord Rotarians at their weekly meeting at Hotel Concord tomorrow. G. L. l’atterson. meeting chairman, extended the invitation to Cooper and any of the other drivers now in Charlotte, who could attend. He has been advised that Cooper will be on hand. In addition to the famous driver the local Rotarians will have ns their guests at the meeting C. W. Roberts, head of the North Caroliun Motor Club and manager of the Charlotte Speedway for the sprint races to be held there this month. Cooper has been in the racing game for many years and is one of the best known men in that profession. He is nlwnys in the money and has won one first and one second in the Charlotte race classics. The driver will be invited to dis cuss some of hjp experiences while talking to the Rotarians. and of course any other subject thnt might occur to him will be heard witli interest. CROP CONDITIONS IN EAST UNUSUALLY GOOD Says Mr. Parker on His Return From a Tour of Inspection. Raleigh, Aug. 17.—(A*)—Crop con ditions in eastern North Carolina are unusually good, considering the early •finback- caused, by the drought in of that section of the state. Mr. Parker made the' inspection when he went to Morebcnd last week to ad dress the annual convention of county commissioners. “Tobacco, cotton, corn, beans and other crops are looking better thnn at any other time this season,” said Mr. Parker. "To say that the farm ers are pleased,” he added, “is puffing it ftildiy. They are immensely happy. Earlier in the season every crop ap peared a total loss.” Mr. Porker expressed pleasure not only that agricultural products show improvement, but also declared that the large peach crop was a source of satisfetion. This year’s crop has al ready exceeded that of last year. Ear ly predictions, he said, from the pro ducing areas were that the crop would not exceed 1,800 carloads. Al ready more than 2,000 carloads have been, moved. New System of Directing Tourists. (By International News Service) Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 17.—Miss Mary B. Wilkie, director of tours of the At lanta Motor Club, has just complied a new system of directing tourists. On a small page of paper are print ed the names of each town they pass through en route to certain destina tions and the distance from town to town. Florida tourists are now passing through here daily and she gives each the printed directions to the town in Florida they wish to visit. Naval Ensigns Killed. • Chicago, Aug. 17. —<A*>—Two naval ensigns plunged to death today wheir the seaplane in which they were fly ing above Lake Michigan near the Great Lakes naval training station suddenly dived into the water. The dead are: George Hammer, of Texas, jyid Edgar T. Stone, of Howard, S. D. "J—.i. ************** * * * KELLOGG DENIES * * HE PLANS TO * * RESIGN OFFICE IK $ $ * Paul Smith’s, N. Y„ Aug. 17. # )K —(A 1 )-—Secretary of State Kel- )K IK logg today flatly denied a news- $ 3K report that he contemplat- )K $ ed resigning. The dispatch, cmi- *, 3K listing from Washington, said )K HK the purpose of the secretary’s )K 5K visit to President Coolidge at IK )K White Pine Camp was to clear )K 3K’ pending departmental business )K HK prior to retirement. )K 3K Os course, it was added, with )K )K his experience and increasing ?K IK knowledge Mr. Kellogg becomes •¥. IK more valuable every day. As for SK )K the Secretary’s health, it was IK IK said he is well, able to work IK JK hard and sleep well. )K 3K The report o* his resignation )K )K referred to as one of the many )K )K Mr. Coolidge heard from time to )K *K time about the cabinet officers. )K * For some reason he has not. heard SK HK of one for several months un- )K * HI today. * X * IK IK IK JK IK * ** * ♦ IDENTIFY BODY OF YOUTH KILLED ON HIGHWAY SATURDAY Body Is That of Boyd Edi son, of Statesville, His Two Sisters Told Officers Monday Night. STRANGER GAVE THE FIRST CLUE Youth Had Been to High Point Seeking Work and Was Killed by Unknown Party on Highway. ! Sa'isbuiy, Aug. 17.—OP)—The body . of the young white man held at a local undertaking establishment sinpe i shortly after midnight Saturday af ter the man was found dead in the midd.e of the Statesvilie-Salisbury road, five miles out of this city, was identified late last night as that of Boyd Edison, of 936 Eighth Street. Statesville. Two sisters eaine to Sal isbury Inst night and positively iden tified the body as that of their broth er who they said was little over sev enteen years old. The clew to establishment of his , identity came through a man at Lex r ington who came here and after look ing at the remains said it was the r *«««<* man he brought to Salisbury by * auto Saturday night and he told him » his name was Edison and that he lived at Statesville. The chief of police > there was then communicated with t and he located the Edisons there and i two sisters at once came here. It » was learned the man had been to , High Point after a job. He was walking to Statesville when hit by an unknown car. His mother is living , but his father is dead. » SINK TO EXAMINE THE CONVICT CAMPS Will Look Thoroughly Into a Number l of Applications for Pardon. Raleigh. Aug. 17.—(A s )—Pardon i Commissioner H. Hoyle Sink leaves here Wednesday. August 18th, for a tour of inspection of convict camps , throughout the state. The eoinmis . sioner .estimates that the trip will , take him one week or ten days and he , Plttfe to look thonpighiy into a num . her: of application* for; pardons frofn applicants in camps nv ‘.r west as , Bryson City. While on the tour Mr. Sink plans to visit a number of other State in | stitutions as secretary of the salary I and wage commission. , Jhe commissioner will make the I trip by automobile and will complete a tour which hp started several weeks , ago when bail weather conditions forced him to return. THE COTTON MARKET Showed Renewed Firmness Today With Buying on Complaints of Damages by Insects. New York, Aug. 17.—(A 5 )—The cot . ton market showed renewed firmness . early today with buying on continued i numerous complaints of crop deterio . ration from the damages of insects . and other conditions further stimu lated the apprehensions of showers in the south. The opening was steady at an ad vance of 8 points to n decline of 2 . points and prices soon sold from 10 . to 15 points net higher making new J high ground for the movement. Con siderable realizing at the advance to , 17.01 for December was absorbed by , the moderate setback and the market . hpld within a few points of the best > at the end of the first hour. Private cables reported further 10, , cal and London buying in Liverpool [ and that hedge selling was light. , Cotton futures opened steady. Oct. 10.90; Dec. 10.94; Jan. 10.95; March 17.18; May 17.33. I No Hope for Hopefleld. r (By International News Service) Hopefielil, Ark., Aug. 17.—Who ■ took the hope out of Hopefield? i Some say the river, other say ! Memphis. , High waters some' old residents . will tell you and others will say the fel’ows who built the levee. Ten years -ago Hopefield promised to grow into one of the largest towns , Hi Arkansas. Located just across the , Mississippi river from Memphis. ) Hopefield promised to someday rival ; Memphis and form twin cities on the j river. But when the government built | the levee it was five miles west of ' the river. Hopefield was flooded by ; the river’s overflow each year. J Residents sold their property and ; left. Farm'ands have now replaced ; the city. Only two houses and one i store remain to tell the story of the * town’s once promising start. ( High Point Child Hurt In Accident. ( High Point, N. C., Aug. 17. —<A>)— ( Robert Lee Baker, aged 7. son of Mr. ( and Mrs. T. F. Baker, is in a loenl ( hospital suffering with a— fractured ( skull and a broken leg resulting from ( being hit by an auto this morning * driven by a Mr. Swaira, of Asheboro. K The accident occurred on the Asheboro K road, five miles south of this city. Re- K ports indicate that no blame for the K 'accident is attached to Mr Swaim. . K K Free* fruits and vegetables used K on the Preaident’s yacht, the -May- K flower, are now being inspected for K grade and condition by the Food K Products Inspection Service of the > Department of Agriculture. CONCORD, N- C-, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1926 1 " " -nr--?. . I Mystery Girl —1 —— f A L Wf EL. - J ! Mrs. Augusta Tennyson, sister , of the murdered Eleanor ’ Mills, was believed to have furnished new clues in the Hall-Mills murder at a secret ' conference with the prosecu tor, at Somerville, N. J. (International Kewueel.l I ———— ——— AUTO LICENSE DIVISION TAKES IN $4,523,413.14 This Was $327,059.57 More Than a( Same Time Last Year. Tribune Bureau Sir Waiter Hotel Raleigh. Aug. 17.—Has t*.ie State de partment of revenue been busy the past two months? Well, slighlty. as only a glance at the work it has been doing the last eighty days will indi cate. To begin with, the nutoinobile li cense division has taken in $327,659.- 57 more revenue in t'.ie same number of days this year—up until August 10th—fDhn in the same period last year, the total receipts to date being $4,523,413.74, ns compared with re ceipts of $4,195,853.97 for tile same period last year. Not only was more revenue derived from the sale of license plates, but 20,569 more licenses were sold than up to the same date last year, 315.- 756 licenses having been sold to date. . But that is not all of it. More than 1,250,000 items of enechave been handled by the auto mobile license division, with regard to the distribution of automobile li cense division, with regard to the dis tribution of automobile licenses. Some times three or four letters were neces sary to straighten out a tangle aris ing from one license, in which the record was incorrect, or where a change of address was incorrect, or where a change of address had been made without notifying the bureau. During the month of July 93 ears were reuorted as stolen to the auto mobile theft bureau, und in the same month 96 stolen ears were recovered, most of them having been reported as stolen in previous months. RETAIL MERCHANTS HEAR BUSINESS TALKS President of Association Wants Paved Road From Petersburg, Va„ to N. C. Line. Richmond, Aug. 17.—(A*)—Urging immediate construction of a Peters burg-North Cnrolina link of the At lantic coastal highway, J. A. Best, president of file Southern Retail Mer chants’ conference declared in speak ing at the opening session of the con ference today that a hard surface road from Petersburg to North Carolina would be tremendously important in bringing North Carolinians to Rich mond. Mr. Best was one of several speakers at the first meeting. The association president declared that success in business in smaller cities or (owns in this day of good roads depended on the alert mind. A retailer, he said, had to mix in the community life, know the people, sub merge himself in their wishes, know their needs and supply these needs. President .T. Scott Parrish, of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, spoke on the benefit of developing old and starting new industries. Imlus ’ tries, he said; give employment and employes spend their money with mer chants. Various phases of the retail busi ness were discussed by A. L. M. Wig gins, of Hartsviile, S. C., and Edwin G. Watkins, of Henderson. N. C. The session today opened a four-day conference which before closing is ex ; pectcd to-draw 1,000 or more mer-_ chants from the states of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Three Men Escape From State Convict Camp. Raleigh, Aug. 17.—♦—Three pris oners, two of them up for murder and the other serving a life sentence for . attacking, escaped from the prison - camp near Durham last night, prison . officials' learned here this morning. I The three men are negroes. No de* 1 tails of the escape are available. i ’ 5 Miss Ederle Challenges Any and All. Bisffingen. Germany, Aug. 17.—(A 1 ) i —Gertrude Ederie today told the Ag - sociated Press that she was prepared e to take on all male or female challeng ers in a channel swim for a purse of $20,000 before starting for the Pnit -1 ed States. r The five States of the Pacific I Northwest contain almost one-half t of the entire .standing, timber of the United States Horn run fw nr for Finns IS NOW SUGGESTED; I ! Plans Calls for Credit to Be Furnished by New ! York Bankers. —Details > Not Made Public. PRESIDENT TO STUDY PROPOSAL I Any More Definite Facts About Plan Will Have to Come From Him, Bank ers AH Intimate, i Xo'v York. Aug. 17.—14>)—A SIOO.- 000.000 fnrm rrt(lit to afford relief to | fanners, is a plan that soon is to bo i tinder consideration by President Cool | ’dge and several New York bankei-s, !it was reimrted today. Members of | the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., and I Kuhn Loeb and Co., would not talk | about the proposed plan in advance! of an official invitation to conference by President Coolidge. Otto Hahn, of Kuhn Loeb and Co., declined to discuss the plan which, understood to be in its tentative shape, will require prolonged conference be fore any definite action can be taken. He gave the distinct impression that I the plan is afoot but to any details he was reticent. Thomas AY. l.amont. of J. P. Mor gan & Co., was in Maine today on a vacation and there was no comment forthcoming from the Morgan house except that one member of the firm said that if there were anything to say it would have to come from the Presi dent. Some New York bankers are quoted by the New A'ork Times as saying the farmers have all the credit facilities they now require and that they would not be/ beuefitted by the proposed plan while others said good would come of | serious study of the farmers' eco nomic condition and that intelligent ! aid should be extended to agriculture as it has been to the manufacturer. Magnus W. Alexander, of the In dustrial Conference Hoard, and Owen j I). Y’oung, Chairman of the board of the General Electric Co., who have given long study to farm relief ques tion are out of the city and their views; could not be learned. BOLL WEEVIL. SPREADING DESPITE HOT WEATHER Reports of as Much as SO Per Cent, of Squares Being Punctured' Tribune Bureau. Sir AA’alter Hotel Raleigh, Aug. 17. —In spite of the hot weather tlie boll weevil is being re ported to .the Department of Agrieul-1 ture as increasing in great numbers I and inflicting some injury to cotton squares according to R. AA\ I.eiby. Entomologist of the State Department of Agriculture. These reports come from sections of tile State that have been having frequent rains. Edge- j combe. Hoke. Currituck, and Scotland { counties seem to be the centers of i rapid boH weevil increase. Reports of as much as 30 per cent. 1 cf the squares punctured by the weev- j il, have been received, and some of the 1 large cotton growers have found it ad visable to dust their cotton with cal cium arsenate to check the injuries of the weevils. Growers are warned to examine their cotton for punctured squares and if ten out of a hundred are found destroyed by the weevil, the cotton should be dusted with calcium arsen ate. At least three dustings should be made at intervals of four days us ing from five to seven pounds of the calcium arsenate on each acree at each application. A series of three dustings if not washed off by rains, will check further serious puncturing of the squares for a period of ten days. Although the season started out with comparatively few weevils, the first crop that bud from the over-win ter weevils, has now matured into fairly large numbers in sections that have been experiencing frequent show ers. It is this crop of weevils that is giving the cotton growers some con cern. The general lateness of the crop this season will just ; fy applica tions of poison later than usual where the weevil is present in destructive numbers. Additional Insurance Examiners Are Needed. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Aug. 16.— Two additional insurance examiners and two or three more building and loan examiners are much needed by the State insurance commission, according to Stacey W. Wade, commissioner, whe has made application to the budget bureau for additional funds for the employment of this additional help. An audit of the hooka of each in surance and building and loan com pany in the state must be made at least once every three years, according to the law, and five of the commis sion’s examiners arc now engaged in doing this work. However, the In crease in the number of companies has been so great in the last few years that it is impossible for the limited number of examiners to keep up with the work, Mr. AA’ade states. Francis Wood, a retired officer of the British army, has just completed, at the age of 83, a 700-mile walk from London to Coldstream and back. Be undertook this remarkable feat as the Tesult of a challenge at a regi mental dinner. Intimate Closeup of Edison - ,^3 mm jfiigii .: - [ Wm. 4 Jk km?*, > K PI nk Jaufli i fS § ■ , ink, r Thomas A. Edison was evidently interested in the conversa cion of E. C. Barnes at the Edison home at Lewellyn Park, | N. J. Employes honored him there on the forty-ninth an-, 1 oiversary of his invention of the phonograph. Intarnalinnsl IV-warem. HUDSON TUNNEL OPEN TO AUTOS EARLY IN 1927 $46,000,000 Tube For AH Vehicular Traffic Soon Ready Under Rivgr. (By International News Service.) New York, Aug. 17.—The new Holland' Vehicular Tunnel connect ing New York with Jersey City un der the Hudson River is practically completed and wilt be thrown open to the public the early part of next I year. i Imagine, if you will, two spacious, well-lighted, tile-walled caverns, in cased in a tube two miles long, with 1900 vehicles bulging forth .at either end every hour, and you have some j conception of this stupendous engi j ueering accomplishment | There ure vehicle tunnels in Isin ! don and other European cities, but ! none approaches the Holland Tun nel in length and traffic capacity. vehicles an hour, roll- ] ing vT ''trough the two- twenty-foot roadways, the engineers were con fronted with the extremely diffi cult problem of providing a ventilat ing system which would properly eliminate the resulting dangerous ex haust gases. Ventilating Scheme, i Because of the tunnel’s length and | the presence of these gases, the ordi nary method of ventilating a tunnel, blowing in it at one end and out the j other, was found impracticable. The amount of air necessary to dissipate ! the gases would have created 114 I v ritable gale which would have been | I uncomfortable and even dangerous. Therefore, a plan was hit upon I ! whereby air comes into the tunnel j roadway through continuous open ! ings on either side of the roadway at from ten to fifteen foot intervals, leading from fresh air ducts under the road way. The air mixes with the exhaust gases and they gradual ly rise and are eliminated through openings leading into exhaust duets. This method also minimizes the smoke danger from possible fires, as tests have shown that, smoke cannot spread more than, thirty feet 011 each side of its source because of the up waVd course of the air currents in the tunnel. Toll to Pay BUI. It is estimated that it will take ten minutes for pleasure ears *0 negotiate the tunnel with fifteen minutes allowed for trucks. By the | present ferry route, trans-Hudson motorists must consume a half an hour when traffic is at its lightest and as much as two and three hours on Sundays when tourists abound. O’.e Singstad, chief engineer, at tributes the success of the project to the work of its first chief engineer, j for whom the tunned was named, j Holland died October 27, 1924, two j days before the New York and New- 1 Jersey headings were scheduled to I meet under the river. He was sue- j ceeded as chief engineer by il. 11. I Freeman, who ulso died less than I five months later. , It s expected that the tunnel will I soon earn its cost. $46,000,000, by I revenue from toll charges. Tells Secret of Kaiser’s Spiked Effect Mustache. Omaha. Aug. 16.—CAP) —The secret ■ of Kaiser Wilhelm’s spiked effect mus tache is explained by Carl Sehropp of ■ Omaha, who, as personal barber to ■ the former emperor, originated the : fatuous tonsorial characteristic. Sehropp, who served many of Eu • rope's royalty until "discovered” by ■ the Kaiser. Naid : “First I would wet the mustache ; thoroughly. Then, with my fingers, I ■ would push the hairs up at e’ther end 1 until they stood as you have seen ■ them in pictures. Next I took a 1 Schnurbartinde (a mustache strap), 1 made of fine silk, with hooks on end, I and put it over the mustache and «t --1 tach the hooks to the Kaiser’s ears. I used my fingers and a fine comb to put the hairs just so; then with the I mustache strap on it. I would wait , for it to dry. After that the Kaiser’s : mustache would stay the way lie ■ wanted it for twenty-four hours.” 1 Two hours was the usual time spent ■ by thb Kaiser in the royal tonsorial room, Sehropp said. DARE COUNTY HOME COMING TOMORROAV Great Celebration at Roanoke Island During Present Week. Tribune Bureau Sir AVnlter Hotel Raleigh, Aug. 17.—Indications are (hat the celebration of the 339th birth day anniversary of Yirginia Dare to morrow 011 Roanoke Island, the crown ing day' in an entire "home coining week" for l)nre countians, will be bigger t'.inn was at first anticipated. The day lias somehow seemed to' grip the imagination of people all over the state and dozens of automobiles have passed through Raleigh yesterday and today bound for Elizabeth City and Maneto, in order to be present for the big day tomorrow, when Sir Esme Howard, British ambassadorthe United States, will be the principal speaker of the day. Sir Esme will make >ae trip direct to Roanoke Is land from Washington, aboard a cut ter supplied by the United States navy. His address—the only one of the day—is scheduled to begin at 11 o'clock. Music will be furnished by the naval base band from Norfolk. Thousands of reservations have been made at Elizabeth City, and in dications are that the fleet of sound boats and harbor craft that lias been | mobilized there to transport t'he | crowds of people across the sound to I Roanoke Island will be taxed to ea i pacify. Rail accommodations to Eliz j abeth City are also at a premium. The Chamber of Commerce in Eliza beth City is doing everything possible to contribute to the comfort and con venience of the thousands of visitors expected Wednesday and throughout the week. The imagination and romance of the entire state and nation have been gripped by this celebration of the birthday anniversary of the first white child born 011 (he shores of North America 399 years ago. and who so mysteriously disappeared shortly after her birth, together with the members of what is known to history as the "Lost Colony.” Just what became of the "Lost Colony” is still one of the unsolved riddles of history. It was more than seventy years after the birth of Virginia Dare before another attempt to colonize Roanoke Island was made. | Tomorrow's celebration is to be on the site of old Fort Raleigh, where Sir AA’alter Raleigh founded the Colony” and where A'irginia Dare was born. Britain’s Henry Ford. London. Aug. 16.— The title of j “Alotor Car King of Britain” has I been bestowed 011 W. R. Morris, head J of the firm that makes the light Brit ish car that is seriously competing for popularity with the best known I car of American make. Mr. Morris I has just tirought off a big business j ileal which makes him the head of an 1 automobile combine with a capita! of J $25,000,000. Act when lie started in j business all he had was a little shop in Oxford where he built push-bikes which he sold to acquaintances. He rode his own machines in raqes and won about twenty medals. With out any technical engineering train ing, it took him two years to build his first automobile. Now he turns out one every two and a quarter min utes. ♦ **■***•******♦ * * * SAY MAZER HAS * * CONFESSED TO * IK DISTRICT ATTORNEY * * * IK Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 17.—(ff>) IK IK Louis Mazer, of Canton, flatly IK IK accused in the presence of his IK IK aged parents of having murdered IK IK Don It. Mellett, vice crusading IK 1 IK publisher, of the Canton Daily IK 1 IK News, collapsed today and was IK , IK taken away from the nerve- IK 1 IK wrecking stares of his accusers IK ! .IK where it was reported “he was IK IK telling all,” to U. S. District At- JK : IK torney A. A. Bernsteen. « I # ‘ IK *********** ♦ THE TRIBUNE PRINTS ;1 TODAY’S NEWS TODAY! NO. 193 UNITED STATESfiI NOTTOINTERVENi iitLibious m t - jS| Has No Right to Tell Mexf] i ixo What Must Be DoftlJ When Question is Pure** j ly a Domestic One. M IRIGHTSTOBE GUARDED CLOSELfj But So Long as AmericAMl Get No Unjust Treafel ment American Gov£ttt«j ment Cannot Complain. 1 Paul Smith’s. N. Y., Aug. IT.— — —While the petition of the Knights Columbus asking that the Unit*® States intervene in Mexico to Catholic churchmen in the dispute w : .«th President referred to directly, it was 11 at the summer executive offices In bfev'T half of President Coolidge that tfimf Washington government has no £9*l thority under diplomatic usage, |gtf] ternational law or t:*caty rights'll MM terfere in purely domestic affair* jH Mexico. Whenever rights of American mS zens or property have been infriftfiM it was added, the American K<W£l|H| ment will do what it can to see HMwl these rights are duly respects. ■> Secretary Kellogg, of the State 00* partment. who is a guest at the mer white house, informed Coolidge - that he has knowledge 9f| but one specific complaint eonisjj||f|! ing taking of church property in ico. This was lodged with Jame» f|> Sheffield, the American Amb&ssaddf 5 to that country and the latter UpOil making representation to the government has been informed that the case will be adjusted. C,JS| It is difficult to say, it was stataf on behalf of Mr. Coolidge. whetheyf American citizens have suffered in Mexico, for this is a broad teettbj Some have been expelled under article 33 of the Alexican constitution, it waft added, but whereever this measure is resorted to without action on the part'/ of the Americans against whom it is used, it has been the practice of th|fe American Ambassador to intervene, sometimes successfully and at other! times unsuccessfully. As for the oil land controversy, ji was said, all that conld be stated no* was that Mexico had made large con cessions to the demands of the Unit ed Stares on this question, but the*j|| are still a number of questions thugs have not been definitely determfaiiT;* MECKLENBURG MILLS RENAMED “MERC*!*#* And Plant Idle For Nearly Eo«r! Years Will Resume Operation* ft North Charlotte. Charlotte, Aug. 16.—The hum fit industry at North Charlotte will be augmented soon with the equivalent of a new cotton mill. According to n letter, received by, Postmaster A. T. Barkley from tw Martel mills, with headquarters - at New York, the Mecklenburg mill at North Charlotte is to resume opera tions at one*' under the- name of the Mercury mill. The mill has been closed for near ly four years following financial dUr ficultU's. A caretaker has had charge of fibs property all the while, so that tb<t machinery is said to be in good con dition and ready for instant opera tion. The order for tlie revival of aefiy ity there will put into notion 2,38* looms and 14.048 spindles. The jH snming of operations will give cm-, ployment to about 250 people, it al expected. REVISION OF FREIGHT R.*T«* ON FERTILIZERS ORDERED Railroads Must Put New Rate* jg Effect By January 1, 19*7. Washington, I). C„ Aug. 17. A widespread revis'on of freight rateg: on fertilizer and fertilizer materials was decided upon today hv the Intend state Commerce Commission. ,>|S Railroads were ordered to put the new scale of rates into effect by Jan uary 1, 1927, The decision follows two years '0& 1 investigation begun by the Comm’bfi sion on its own motion. It fougm that in view of the characteristics .‘of! ; fertilizer traffic it was "reasonably en-; i titled to a relatively low basis grf, rates." Maximum reasonable rates biamf on a distinct scale were prewribaa for standard lines but certain small lines were allowed to make exceptional Valentino Not Yet Having Vl*ttq*%J| New Bork, Aug. 17.— UP) —-qHi though visitors were still refused pjSj mission to sec Rudolph Valentino tH day the screen star’s condition vfu said in an official bulletin by his phyJ icians not to bo sueh as to cause nil ; due anxiety. a Gaines Goes on Stand for Murder a His Daughter. * Seattle, Aug. 17.—OR—’Wtltatf : Cloyes Gaines took the witness stand ■ here today in his trial on a charge m : first degree murder for the death M ■ his daughter, Sylvia, June 6th Uh ; He was noticeably nervous and. *9 : urged by attorneys to speak lmidagSl : c.;. 1 . gg- ' .j- 'ierxJur*aH | THE WEATHER ; Fair in east, local showers In tf|2| i portion tonight and Wednesday. Man ► erate west and southwest winds- H
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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Aug. 17, 1926, edition 1
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