ASSOCIATED
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DISPATCHES
VOLUME 3QCVI
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Believe Arrests Made
In State Have Halted
Work of Robber Gang
Police and? Postal Inspec
tors Think Recent Ar
rests hr Charlotte and
1 Raleigh Broke Up Gang
IVEY ROBBERY
THOUGHT SOLVED
First Word of Roundup
Came When E. J. Mc-
Carthey Was Bound Ov
er to Court.
Charlotte, Sept. 2—o4=o—The po
lice today revealed what they believe
to. be the roundup of a countrywide i
gang of yeggs, witjj arrests having
been made here and at Raleigh of al
leged members of the band. i
. Three of those under arrest are ;
charged with the robbery of the de- I
partnient store of .1. B. Ivey & Co. i
here some time ago at which time i
*B,OOO worth of loot was secured. 1
Although postal inspectors and the i
police have been trac ng the “gang”
fur several months nil along the sea- i
board, first word of the round-up i
came this morning when E. J. Me- i
i art hey of Charlotte, was bound over i
to Mecklenburg Superior Court on i
• charge of second degree robbery.
Two of the accused men are now i
in jail at Kaleigh. both of them .clini-g- i
cd directly by the postal authorities ]
with being directly responsible for the c
Ivey robbery. i
L. I). Yarbrough at Raleigh, postal i
inspeetor. said here today that 02 in- i
sp<>ctors in various parts of-the eoun- ’
try had been working in an effort -to I
“round up this gang for some time." I
He declared the government had al- <
ready spent $8,200,000 in an effort to I
h-ing members of the “gang" to jus
tice. i
Two members of the alleged ring i
are in custody at Richmond, it was i
added in the announcement of the au- 1
thorit’es. <
A woman. Mrs. Clyde Earnhardt, is I
declared to linve implicated McCarthy i
nnd brought about the arrests that' «
have been made. Mrs. Earnhardt lives >
about 8 miles from Gastonia, and says i
that McCarthy admitted to her that I
he "was in on the Ivey job." At the ,
time, she said, she resided here. 1
Another woman is being sought in I
connection wish the ease.
Mr. Yarborough sa’d that a number I
of post office robberies and bank hold- <
ups were to be charged against the '
prisoners. The inspector said that 1
while “McCarthy is not a full fledged 1
member of the gang, he was familial'
with the operations, nnd wired head- i
quarters from which two men and a 1
woman were sent to assist in the Ivey 1
robbery.” i
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MAZER FILES ANSWER 1
TO MRS. MELLETT’S SHIT ]
Denim He Conspired With Any One 1
to Murder Husband or That He '
Committed Murder.
Cleveland, 0., Sept. 2.— OP) —Louis
Mazer, Clinton, charged with first de
gree mnrder in connection with the
s'nying of Don R. Mellet, Canton pub
lisher, today filed an answer in fed
eral court to the SIOO,OOO-. damage
suit brought: by Airs. Florence Melfett,
Indianapolis, widow of the slain pub
lisher against him, Ben Rudner, Ma
sillon. and Patrick Eugene McDer
mott. Nantyg'o, Pa,
Mazer’s answer, filed by his attor
ney, .T. A. .Fettermnn, denied be had
conspired with Red Rudner, or Pat
rick Eugene McDermott, the fugitive
reiAwad, now the subject of a nation
wide hunt in Connection with the mur
der. .
The denials in the answer were not
confined to the question of conspiracy
anil complicity in the murder of the
Canton publisher. It represented a
denial of “every and all statements”
contained in the petition.
Strikers Accent Peace Plan. I
Providence, R. 1., Sept. 2. — -W) —A
tentative agreement for settlement of
tlie str : ke in the , Manville-Jenckes
Company's textile mill in Manville,.
which led to a battle between the
strikers and state police Tuesday night
and the call ug otft of a national guard |
detachment, was renehed at a confer
ence between Governor Pothier and
labor leaders this afternoon. The
agreement now a waits.approval by the
mill management which previously had
authorized Governor I*6thier to pre
sent its case to the strikers.
Western Vnlon Employees An For
bidden to Tell the Time.
Charlotte. Sept. 2.—Beginning to
morrow employees bf the AVestern
Union Telegraph CWnpany will refuse
to tell the time to inquirers over Hie
telephone. - ,
M. I. Hholar. Jr., Charlotte night
manager of the company, stated that
the new practice will apply not only
to the local office but to the entire
system. Air. Sholar stated that the
change had been made because It took
too much of tfie employees’ time.
$1,000,000,000 Invested In Cotton In
dustry In South.
(By International News Service)
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 2.—The
South has a billion dollars. invested
in the cotton industry and over half
of the active spindles in the country.
In the past three years the North has
sent *150,000,000 South for invest
ment in this industry.
Those staistics are compiled by the
Association Cotton Textile Merchants
Association.
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The Concord Daily Tribune
' North Carolina's Leading Small City Daily
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NORTH CAROLINA IS
' APVANCING IN EDUCATION
Those Who Da Net Think So Are
Either Blind cr Will Not See.
Raleigh, Sept. 2.—Despite some!
wou’il-be iconoclasts and imitators of
H. L. Mencken, whi .would have the I
public believe that. North Carolina not
only is at the bottom of the educa
tional ladder but is willing to remain
Ihere, cold figures and hard facts,
while indicating that there undoubted
ly is ruom for improvenaent. show that
North Carolina' is advancing ■ educa
tionally ami that those who do not
think so are either b’.ind or do not
want to see. For according to math
ematically correct figures, based on
co’d. unprejudiced facts, and utterly
without the factor' of enthusiasm or
partisanism. a comparison of the
school efficiency in the various cities
and counties of the State is given in
the current issue of School Facts, just
off the press today, which indicates
the restive standing of the schoo’s in
the various sections and shows the
increase in rating'over previous years. '
Two indices are taken, the ticndem
ic Index nnd the financial index. The
academic index is arrived at by tak
ing the average of five factors that
enter into the academic side, namely,
percentage of enrollment in average
daily attendance, average length of
term in days, scholarship of teachers,
percentage of total enrollment and the
percentage of normal and under-age
enrollment. The average of al! these
is taken, and the academic index es
tab’ished ns being 06.7 for all the
schools, city and rural, in 1024-25.
The financial index for the same
period is established as being 52.3 nnd ’
the general index, taken from the av
erage of the aendemie and financial is
fixed ns being 50.5.
Using the same indices, the rela
tive rating of the schools in 1023-24
nnd 1024-25, show that rural schools
increased from 501 per cent, to 53.1
per cent, in that one-year period, while
city schools showed an improvement
from 81.1 per cent, to 83.0 per cent,
in the same period. During this same
one-year period the index of the
schools for the entire State as a whole
increased from 50.0 to 50.5, or 2.0
per cent.
„ By referring to the table which is
printed in connection with the ex
planatory matter in School Facts, it
is noted that thrive was an increase
in the rating of both rural and city
schools In every factor but one. that
which was the valuation of school
property per child, in the case of city
schools, according to School Facts.
“The significant featnre is not so
much the improvement nnd growth
beii% made as is the wide difference
in the size of the scores in the two
systems”—rural and city. “Take any
factor desired, grid it will be found
that the city schools on the average
are far superior to the rural schools.
There is a difference of more than
thirty points in the general index of
the rural and city system,” the article
states.
New Hanover county ranks first
among the rural system of schools by
having a general index of 75.6. Cur
rituck county being a close second
with a score of 75.5. with Pamlico
and Durham counties, respectively,
taking third and fourth places with
scores of T 2 9 and 71.0. These four
counties are classed as ’’Efficiency
Group A” by making a score of 70 or
nbove. The yenr previous only two
counties were in this group, New Han-1
over and Pamlico.
In the next group are fifteen coun
ties, led by Wilson county, with a
score of 08.1. Last year there were
)>Ut fourteen counties in this group.
Last year Greensboro led the city
systems with a score of 03.1, and ex
ceeded its score of the previous year
by 1.2 points. Durham, Wilmington,
Winston-Salem and Rnleigh, Asheville,
Charlotte and High Point come next
in order, all being in class A, with nn
average score for the entire group of
86.5. In the second group of city
schools. Salisbury takes the lead from
New Bern, which had it the year be
fore. with a scon* of 87.3. the next in
order being Elizabeth City. Kinston
—which advances from sixth to third
place—New Bern, Wilson, Goldsboro,
Concord, Rocky Mount and Gastonia.
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Tail-End Electric Signs For the Cres
cent Limited.
AA’ashington, D. C., Sept. 2.—Hand
some electrically Illuminated signs
will be carried on the observation plat
forms of the “Crescent Limited,” the
famous de luxe train operated be
tween New York, Washington, At-
lanta and New Orleans by the Penn
sylvania railroad, Southern railway
system, West Point route and Louis
ville A Nashville railroad, beginning
! Sunday, September 20th.
The signs will be rectangular in
shtiape with dark blue background,
showing a gold crescent and a field of
; stars and the nnme. “Crescent Lim
ited", in white, the color scheme be
-1 ing the same as that adopted for use
1 in printed matter concerning the train
; which has been given wide distribu-.
tion.
Similar signs ore carried on other
• high class trains operated by t'ae
Southern, a distinctive color scheme
being selected for each train, Up to
i this time they have not been carried
I on the “Crescent Limited’V due to
I restrictive regulations governing the
. New York terminal which have now
' been removed.
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The famous Serpent mound, in
s Adams county, Ohio, attributed to the
» mound-builders, belongs to Harvard
University.
Shocks France |
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, mw
BastonGuyot, wealthy Frencß
broker, was accused of straw
gling Marie Louise Deulaguet,
a French peasant girl, while
motoring with her. The crims ,
shocked France. i
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OTHER INJUNCTIONS
Work Stopped on fjfelSfcySftritftfes In- -
vwlved THI Matter is Srittiad. 1
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel 1
Raleigh. Sept. 2.—While attorneys
for the State highway commission are *
appearing before Judge AY. M. Bond 1
todny in Louisburg asking that the ‘
plaintiffs who obtained the injunction
against the commission halting work 1
on the A'arina-Raleigh link of route
21, be required to post sufficient bond ’
to indemnify the contractors who have J
been required to cease operations,
other attorneys were reported to be '
busy preparing another petition ask
ing for another injunction thnt would
halt the paving of the streteh of high- 1
way between Zebulon and Middlesex
n ong route 01. Though this suit has '
not actually bpcn filed yet, it was said
that owing to the success which has
attended the filing of petitions seek
ing injunctions, based on the recent
Newton highway decision of the Su
preme Court, that the disgruntled re
idents of Wendell who oppose having
the starting point of route 01 located
at Zebulon instead of Wendell, favor
bringing suit. The selection of Zeb
ulon as the starting point of the road,
instead of Wendril), will save about
two miles of construction between Zeb
ulon and AA’ilson, according to the
highway commission.
Despite the claims of the plaintiffs
in the A’arina case that the contractor
can work on the end of the road not
affected by the injunction, riven the
transfer of bus outfit would entail
much expense, and it is pointed out
that as long as the entire route re
-1 mains in controversy, it is not pos
sible to work on only a small portion
of it. All bridge work has been
■ stopped, despite the fact that two
carloads of steel and a carload of ce
ment just arrived on the ground, and
I pouring of the concrete was in prog
, ress. • In addition to the halting of
• the work on this bridge near Fuquay
Springs on route 21, affected by the
• injunction, the contractor with his
outfit of 100 mules and 150 laborers
has been forced to stop work.
i It is to cover the loss of money and
■ possible damages as the result of this
’ cessation of work that the highway
■ commission is asking bond to cover.
Mrs. Wenrick Entertains.
Honoring Miss Helen Marsh, who
recently returned to her home in Con
cord after spending the summer at
Camp Keystone, Brevard, N. C., and
Miss Carolyn Dancy, guest of Miss
Marsh, Mrs. C. Ross AA’enrick enter
tained at a delightful luncheon party
in the dining room of Hotel- Concord
today at 1 o'clock. Beautiful sum
mer flowers decorated the table and
attractive place cards designated the
places.
Guests of Mrs. Wenrick were-:
Misses Marsh and Dancy, Mrs. R
E. Ridenliour and Mrs. j. A. Good
man. t
Fire at Home of C. L. Smith.
Firemen were called to the home
of C. 1,. Smith, 33 North Unjon
street, this afternoon shortly after 1
o’clock when a b’.aae was detected near
the kitchen flue on the house. The
blaie was easily and quickly extin
guished with chemicals and only a
small hole was burned in the root
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CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1926
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peggy emm
WILL TESTIFY HI
HELIFTTHI
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She Is Erstwhile Sweet-j
heart of Patrick McDer
mott, Missing ‘Key Man’
| to Murdfer Mystery. i
GIRL SOUGHT j
. SEVERAL DAYS
Another of Trio of Women
Sought in Coimedaon
With McDermotts Part
in Crime, Is Held.
Canton. 0.. sept. 2. (A*)-—Testi
mony today before t‘ae Starke county |
grand jury investigating the murder:
of Don R. Mellet. Canton publisher, \
will be featured by the appearance of 1
Peggy Cavanaugh, (’leve'and. erst- j
1 whi'e sweetheart of Patrick Eugene j
McDermott, missing -key man” in the!
mystery.
The girl has been sought for sev- 1
era! days by officers armed with lier:
subpoena nnd was located yesterday!
by Cleve’and police. Another of the j
trio of women sought in connection j
with McDermott's part in the alleged ;
murder plot testified yesterday. She j
is Thelma Davis, who roomed at the ;
same address as McDermott after the |
murder.
The third of the three who were j
still missing when the grand jury re-'
convened the first of this week, ' is j
still being sought. She is Catharine
Barnes, landlady at the rooming bouse
in Cleveland at which McDermott
stayed. Miss Cavanaugh is said to
have accompanied McDermott on his
trip to Massillon several nights after
the murder, when he is alleged to
have met a “pay off" man. Accord
ing to Steve Ivaseholk, informer, Mc-
Dermott was to have received $750 for
■jis alleged part in the conspiracy.
With Onr Advertisers.
You will find living room furniture
most reasonably priced at the Concord
Furniture Co. See new ad.
You will find the school books nnd
ail kinds of school supplies at the
Kidd-Frix Company. See full details
In our nd. today.
Only the best materials used in
Cross mattresses. See nextkftnl,
oT Bell ft Harris Furniture Co.
All kinds of creams and skiu tonics
at the Gibson Drug Co.
Silk Frocks for junior misses in
the newest nutumu styles at J. C.
Penney Co.’s, in the new satins and
other fashionable fabrics.
All the things to fit the young folks
for school at Efird’s.
The Forest Hill Cleaning Co. las
equipped its plant with the very lat
est cleaning methods and machines.
The Bowers continuous flow system
has been established in th's plant.
C. H. Barrier & Co. are again
shipping chickens rind eggs. They
pay 16 cerfts a pound for Leghorn
hens, 18 cents for heavy hens. 18
cents for Leghorn fiers, 20 cents for
colored friers 36 cents a dozen for
fresh eggs up to Thursday. Septem
ber the oth.
See “The Newton.” another nice lit
tle dwelling for which F. C. Niblock
has the plans.
The Blue Ribbon Mnlt extract is
handled here by F. M. Youngblood
& Co. Get your retailer to order some.
Babe - Ruth Signs SIOO,OOO Contract
For Vaudeville.
New York, Sept. 2.—Babe Ruth
has broken another record. Today he
signed a SIOO,OOO contract for a
twelve weeks tour over Pa stages
western eireut after thei next world
series. Pontages' agents here say it
is the largest contract of its kind
ever signed in vaudeviilefi as the
Bambino will make the tour alone—-
being his own supporting east.
The tours open in Minneapolis
and will take the home run king to
the Pacific coast returning east be
fore the spring training season be
gins.
Mrs. Manley Husband’s Guardian.
Atlanta. fjept. 2.— (A 3 )—Judge Sam
uel H. Sibley in United States dis
trict court here today appointed A’al
era Rankin Manley guardian for her
husband, AV. D. Manley, president of
the defunct Bankers Trust Company,
in ttie bankruptcy proceedings against
him. Immediately after Mrs. Manley
filed a statement which also was
signed by Mauley's attorneys, agreeing
to an injunction of her husband's es
tate ns a bankrupt because of his in
ability to pay hiH debts.
Says Spain AVI 11 Withdraw From the
I League.
i Paris, Sept. 2.—o4*) —The Hnvaa
■ agency’s Geneva correspondent says
- Spain will withdraw from the league
l of nations without Rwaiting the deci
■ sion of the council regarding her de-
I mand for a permanent council seat.
» Official notification to this effect,
he adds, will be given the league with
: in 24 hours.
- First Bale of Cotton For Richmond
County.
Rockingham, Aug. 31.—The first
cotton of the 1020 crop gin mil in
Richmond courity wan ginned at the
f Dockery gin here this morning, and
* brought in by J. T. Latham, of the
1 eastern part of Richmond county,
f Hi* two bales were sold to AV. T.
* Covington and Company for 17
- cents, the first bale in 1925 *'«*
i sold here ten day* earlier than was
the case this year on August 21.
TIGHT GEMS
HIDE BE OMITTED
EGoramr
Former Senator Threatens
to Bring Suit Against the
Publishers of New Novel
by Edna Ferber.
NAME MENTIONED
•With gambling
The New York World Says
Taggart Demands That
Three Paragraphs in the
Book Be Omitted.
New York. Sept. 2.— OP) —Tom
(Taggart. Democratic leader of In
diana. has threatened a SIOO,OOO libel
against Doubleday Page ft Go., pub
lishers of Edna Ferber’s novel, "Show
Boat." unless three paragraphs re
ferring to himself and gambling are
deleted from the book, the New York
| World says today
More than 135,000 copies of this
j novel, Miss Ferber's twelfth, have
j been sold already. Her last novel,
j "So Big”, was awarded the Pulitzer
| r.rize ns the best American novel iu
11025.
I Tlie former T'llited States senator,
| nnd owner of French Lick Springs,
j'lias. demanded, says The AA'orld, that
| three paragraphs mentioning "Tom
j Taggart”, "AA’est Baden” nnd “roui
j ette" be removed from ail unsold
j copies in the hands of book dealers,
nnd from future editions.
The offending matter was printed
in the August number of the Woman's
Home Companion, The AA'orld says,
but there is no mention of a threat
against the Crowell Publishing Co.,
tlie magazine's publisher.
The World says reports of t'ae libel
suit threat were confirmed by Mr.
Taggart, Tom Taggart, Jr., and Fred
A’an Nuys. of the ludiaqapo'.s firm of
Ra'ston, Gates, Lairy ft A’an Nuys.
“It has been proved time and
again,” The AA’orld quotes Mr. A’an
Nuys as saying, “that Mr. Taggart
and the French Lick company have
not a penny's interest in gambling,
either at AA'est Baden or French Lick.
There has been litigation on this
point in which the charter of. the
French Lick company was attacked
lon such grounds. . Mr. Taggart and
the company have been acquitted in
all these cases, and we regaril this
unexplainable reference of Miss Fer
ber's novel as damaging and libelous.
Unless Doubleday Page & Co. com
ply with our request immediately we
will bring suit for $100,000.”
At the office of Doubleday Page ft
Co. it was declared that nothing was
known of the matter.
Miss Ferber admitted receiving a
letter but said “as far as I know there
is no intention at the present time to
stop sale of the book or to delete or
amend it in any way.”
AIRSHIP TC-5 LANDS
TO GET MORE FUEL
Ship Making Trip From Langley
Field. Va., to Scott Field, IHfciols.
AA'ashington Courthouse, Ohio, Sept.
2.— OP) —Tlie army semi-rigid airship
TC-5. bound from Langley Field, A’a..
to Scott Field, 111., landed near here
at 11 :T5 Eastern Standard Time today
to re-fuel.
The ship had encountered no trou
ble at all. but had simply exhausted
its gasoline.
Members of the crew said the ship
ran into bad weather in the early
flight and in bucking the elements
used up more fuel than had been an
ticipated.
They said they were blown 150
miles out of their course in AA'est
Virginia and Virginia.
Tlie unweildy airship was landed
publicly in a field a mile south of
here.
QUEEN MARIE HOPES TO
VISIT MRS. B. F. MEBANE
She Replies to Invitation Extended
By Prominent Woman of Spray.
Reidaville. Sept. 1. —Several weeks
ago Mrs. B. Frank Mebane, of Spray,
cabled an invitation to Queen Marie,
of Rumania, asking her to visit her
in her home at Spray. She received
an immediate response most grac
iously saying that she hoped to ac
cept. Mrs. Mebane hopes to have the
pleasure and honor of arranging a
motor trip to Asheville ami Blow
ing Rock, and if time allows. Roar
ing Gap, as Mrs. Mebane says, “our
mountains are our chief glories."
Mrs. Mebane has been twice a guest
of Queen Marie, one formal visit and
one made directly on Queen Marie's
invitation at her palace at Buch-j
arest and her summer palace in the
Carpathian mountains.
Lieut. Bettis Will Be Buried at His
Home Town.
Washington. Sept. 2. —14*1—Lieut.
Cyrus K. Bettis, army air pilot and
Puljtxer aviation prize winner, who
died yesterday from injuries received
in a crash in Pennsylvania, will be
buried at Fort Huron, Mich., bis
home city.
Decision to have the interment in
Michigan was reached at a conference
between army air officers here, and
the. former aviator’s mother, Mrs.
John Bettis, who arrived here early
today.
A foreman in a lumber camp in
the Cascade Mountains, Washing
ton, Mapped into a hole and found
that he was standing on a bear en
joying ita winter sleep.
In the News Spotlight I
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PRINCE RUPRECHT AI*EK <J GROF.S’jBECkL, i
Newton D, Baker, former Secretary of War, urged can- (
cellation of all war
should be placed under cabinet members, Representativ« ,
William Wood, of Indiana, declared. Ex-Crown Prince
Rupprecht, of Biavaria, was the central figure in a huge Ger
man Royalist demonstration. Alex J. Groesbeck faced heavy
odds in his campaign far his fourth term as Governor of
Michigan.
THE FOOTBALL SEASON
There Will Be New Coaches at Duke
University and Wake Forest Col
lege.
Ralqigh. N. C,, Sept. 2.—OP)—
AVith new playing .systems, new
coaches and the element of uncer
tainty which surrounds the raw ma
terial from which the teams must be
built, the football season will be
welcomed back into North Carolina
ibis fall. The pre-season predictions
of the sport followers are filled with
uncertainty due to the many, changes
which have been made in coaches,
systems and players since last fall.
Interest will be centered on the
gridiron game which the University
of North Carolina team will play
this year for a new playing system
will be inaugurated—this being the
Notre Dame opn. aggressive system.
At Duke university aikl AVake For
est, new conches- will direct the
destinies of the squads ami they are
expected to introduce their own
methods of playing the game. North
Carolina State and Davidson, the
other members of the North Caro
lina “Big Five," will continue the
style of last year this season-
Three colleges of North Carolina
will open their gridiron schedules
this fall uuder new coaches. Caro
lina will have “Chuck” Collins and
AV. J. Cerney, former Notre Dame;
players. Duke University will start
under Jimmy DeHart, former Men
tor for AA’ashington and Leo ami he
will be assisted by Eddie Cameron,
a former backfield star of the Gen
erals. AA’ake Forest will be under
James Baldwin, one time coach of
t.cliigh and formerly coach of Duke
University.
Tlie new coaches will have hard as
signments. Carolina, Duke and AVake
Forest will find numerous veterans
missing from the line-up when the
cal! for 1026 candidates goes out
and important positions will have t<
be filled with new men.
AA'ake Forest’s chances for hold
ing the state title which has been
won two successive years are nol
bright. The Demon Deacons have
lost several outstanding men includ
ing Greason and Karlinskint. At the
University of North Carolina, it i,-
reported, the losses will not be felt
so much as some exceptionally stron.
freshman material is available.
Sport followers analyzing the com
parativc strength of the teams ahead
of the season's opening give David
son the edge. However, North Caro
lina State is expected to show up
j well also for the Tech men have n
num/ber lof veterans returning anti
Jsome good men coming up from
| freshman ranks. The State team in
stituted something new this year by
training a month ahead of time near
Montreat, N. C. The squad is now in
1 training and will return here in time
for the opening of college.
At Davidabn, Coaches Younger
1 and Tilson will lose only one or two
1 of the strong 1925 'team. The Wild-
I cats have shown unusual strength
' the past two years and now, as dur
-1 ing those two seasons, they loom us
strong contenders for the title,
i Among the smaller colleges.
‘ Lenoir-Rhyne is regarded as out-
I standing this fall, Elon, Guilford and
. High Point College will put out their
■ usual typo of elevens, it is expected.
Elon will introduce new gridiron
coaches In A. R. VuntSeve and D
i O. Hander.
I The population of the whole world
■ could be placed in Rhode Islahd—the
smallest of the states.
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THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Steady bn Further Covering
But There Was Little Buliijf.
New York, Sept 2T—C4 s )—The cot
ton market opened steady today at
an advance of 1 to 8 points on furth
er covering, but otherwise there was
very little buying. After selling at
17.81 at file start, December eased off
to 17.75 under liquidation and south
ern selling.
Nothing further was heard of the
possible development of a tropical
storm in the West Indies, and part
of the early selling may have been
promoted by another of the private
end-August crop reports, which p aced [
the indicated yiejd at 15,500,000 or
within 12,000 bales of the mid-August
estimate of t'.ie same day.
Trading remained very quiet, how
ever, and the market held within a
point or two of yesterday's closing
figures at the end of the first hour.
Cotton futures opened steady. Oct.
17.74; Dec. 17.79 ; Jan. 17.87 ; March
18.12; May 18.10.
Stack Declares Asheville Needs
“Cleaning Dp.”
Asheville, Sept. 1. —Judge A- M.
Stack, Os Monroe, declared from the
bench in superior court here today
that Asheville needed to toe cleaned
up
; "I would like to swap places with
Judge Cameron Mneßae in police:
court for about 90 days, “Judge I
Stack remarked, inspired by evi
dence given in the case of Charlie j
CT.app after it had been brought out
that pool rooms are being operated in (
Asheville under the name of “recrea-1
tion parlors.”
“Not that I have any fault tc |
find with Judge MncKae,” Judge i
Stack hastened* to add, “but Ashe-1
ville has an extra burden because of (
its floating population, which con
tains many criminals and needs to
be cleaned up. Pool rooms, just like
boxing match, l -, tend to breed crime.
An attempt will be made at the next
session of the legislature to legalize
boxing in Buncombe comity, and the
good people should make sure of
their representatives before they
elect them.”
Splendor of Mars.
Washington. D. C., Sept. 2—This
Autumn the planet Mars will be in
opposition and nearer the earth
than at any time since the summer
>f 1924. when it made its closest ape
proach to the earth in over a cen
tury.
It is already a splendid object in
the eastern heavens just after mid
night. and astronomers all over the
world are making arrangements to
photograph it and its stupendous
system of lines that, look like canals,
wnioh many are now convinced the
Martians have constructed to aug
ment their limited water supplies by
utilizing those which flow from the
melting snow 1 round the poles in the
Martian summer.
On October 27, a week before Mars
is actually in opposition to the sun,
the earth will make its r.enrest ap
proach at a distance of 42,000,000
miles.
The automobile in which Arch
duke Ferdinand and his wife were
murdered in 1914 has been offered
1 for sale for the twenty-fifth time
since the tragedy, but there are no
buyers. Superstitious persons believe
that the car. blood ml in color, ia
I bedeviled, inasmuch as four of its
! owners have died in it and it has
killed and injured several others-
THE TRIBUNE
PRINTS ,
TODAY’S NEWS TODAf
NO-207 ;
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FOR POISON WHICH*
Wilt*
Persons Stricken . W «*i
Present at Christian jEa- 1
deavor Picnic Hel4 4§a
Peoria, 111. 1
severalTpersonsJ 1
MAY NOT hWm
75 Persons Called Ptwi||l
cians and 100 Others fui|9
covered With Thei fJj
Home Remedies. ij* I
Peoria. 111., Sept. 2.
loaf was blamed today for
of nearly 200 persons stricken n«B
ptomaine poison after the annual DwvJ
nio of the city Christian Endeavor afe®
cieties.
A half dozen of the cases wer&;j*|jß
serious as to prohibit the removal $ 8
patients from their home* to
aital physicians despai V of the
of two girls. vtfjJ
Two clergyman were tnnong tbe
ferers whom doctors were canwJHj J
attend seveni! hours lifter church lead- |1
ers and young people concluded 111
lerday afternoon's outing with It ban* g
quet spread henentli the tree*. t*.|-1
was expected that both lit*. J.
lncrs, retired, and ■ Rev. Hi. F.
pastor of the First xsva n gelicflßj
Church, would recover. _ j
l'hysicians who attended, the fife j
tims agreed that Che poisoning
result of tainted veal loaf whiqjjt
been prepared in advance for Rtf pic- 1
nio. j
Within a few hours of the kM j
the munber of seriously ill had ltftelW-; '3
ed to seventy-five, and it was
ed that another 100 persons were *$- 1
fected but recovered with the admtflpffl
istration of home remedies. J
WILL BDBY VALENTINO
IN FILMLAND ('APPfif^|
Screen Sheik’s Brother Agrees -g|B. |
Have Body Taken to Holly FUME!
For Burial.
New York. Sept. I. —llollywoo42|S
where Rudolph Valentino rose t&aJ
world-wide fame as the screen’s
most lover, will be his final resti3j|g|
place.
Definite -amvotincement that bnrinfti
would be made in the California city j
came tonight on, the arrival on tlwgj
Homeric of the late star's brottoegA||
Alberto Guglielmi, from Italy. Aix'"ij
arrangements for the |
al journey have been oompletwJß' j
8. George Ullman, the late
manager, and the body will be Bt*Hjj|9
ed on its way west tomornjw, ev«e||m
ing. j
Two special cars have been
* gaged on the Lake Shore UmttStg
leaving New A'oVk at 6:30 p. itLwH
Chicago the cars will be switched :fjp9
the Southern Pacific route to -)MH|
plete the journey to the coast. '/||
Guglielmi at first seemed' '6b 'W
undecided as to the place Q< inleri J
ment, but after a 45-minute, ow*t' «
sulfation in his stateroom i 111
Ullman, he made the
that his brother's body wpyld > fthns
taken to Hollywood.
"Having received the consent of I
my sister to act for her in respect iHH
the place of burial,” he skid,'
after consulting with Mr. JHlmdlifaM
decided to give to the American ..pfiSrl
pie my dearest poss»-ssion—my bro£S- j
er.
“It was because ■it was iuHqiMj
|to me so clearly that all Amrimpi
loves and wants him and' ft lap ’UIMM
cause of the affeetion of thr
j American people ns well as of all
| American friends that made me H
j solve to do this. AVe will proceed tp
| Hollywood as arranged
Coin Negri met Guglielmi on.Jjjjjl
kissed him three times *)9|
burst into tears. ''•’^SlraH
I "Yen. I think he was engaged fjtP
Pola Negri,” said Guglielmi, .-■JtMjl
my brother did not Jell me ervet**”'
thing about it. Certainly, ftyf .MHH
each very much."
NO SPECIAL RIGHTS
FOR UNITED STATM|
e
That Is Opinion of Delegatee WM
ing American Reservations lo the*
World Court.
Geneva, Sept. 2.— lA>) —The opil&U
Hint the United States should liawijj
the same rights in the world court asc
members of the league of natiopjt:
council, but no more was voiced-i|p
many delegates at today’s session
the international conference convokAl!
to discuss American reservation* - fj|
membership in the court. .',91
If the opinion weighs in the MM
ference. it may be impossible to ac
cept the fifth American reservatfjfifi
requiring the consent of the Unimpl
States to request tile advisory
ions from the court on question*
which she claims interest.
The reason for this is that the Ijnft
of the league of natiqps is so otaMtilH
that it is uncertain whether
mous or only a majority vote i* liecflft
aary when tin- league council askgfH
court for such opinions.
More than $216,000,000 was
to unemployed workers in the BTWp
tell dole in 1025.
THE W'EATHEB -3
, Mostly cloudy tonight atul FridSni
I sliowers Friday and in north eawtljg
i tion tonight, somewhat cOol*P i*?i*
i day. Moderate southwest
ably becoming northeast Friday,.fi