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associated PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI SPECULATIONtSTO WHAT NEXT GENEML ASSEMBLY WHL BO This Is One of Chief In : door and Outdoor Sports ' Engaged in at Raleigh at the Present, LAW FOR DRIVERS OF AUTOMOBILES rorth Carolina Is One of Few States That Does Not Require License for Automobile Drivers. Tribune Bureau - Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Bept. IJS. —Speculation an to what the legislature is going to do ia one of the chief indoor and cut d«*>r sports in Raleigh at present, where political talk is daily on the in crease. One matter which nearly ev eryone agrees is destined to take up a large amount of attention in the coming session of the legislature is the matter of licensing all automo bile drivers, by they owners of auto mobiles or not. North Carolina is one of the few States that does not require sui'j drivers’ licenses, and there, is *a well defined movement in favor of such an act, principally on the grounds of accident prevention on the higfeltfcys. For many - weeks North. Carolina has been leading all the other states in .the number of fatal automobile accidents each week, and many believe that a law requir ing ail drivers of automobiles to be proiterly tested and licensed would go far in cutting down this mounting list of deaths from highway acci dents. But such a law, if proposed, will not have easy sledding, by any means. Those who favor it are largely city dwellers, who are more accustomed to paying a dollar for this and that upon almost any occasion. They are used to it and don’t mind it so much. Again, the chief opposition is going to come from the rural districts. Take the case of the farmer who has four or five children, all of whom drive the family flivver when the occasion, arises. A new part is needed for the gasoline engine that does the pumptttg, r John is told to take the car and go L to .town -Another day *mne "Tailtg else is needed and Henry is sent for it in the flivver. then Mary wanta to go down to the next farm and see Helen about something Or other, and she bops in the Ford and drives it away. And so it goes. On the farm every car is the family car and the whole family drivea it. And now must the head of the family se cure a license for every member of the family, say at a dollar each, so that each may drive the flivver on occasion? Will he be willing to do this? No, a thousand times no ! He will not even to give the time to go through the examination for him self and family, even ahouid the li cense be issued without charge. And if a charge is made—as it will have to be, in prder to pay the coat of the machinery necessary to enforce the law —almost every rural car own er will rise up in audibfe and vocifer ous rebellion. No sir, he will not agree to get a license to drive his car. nor for his children to drive his car! There are too many dad burned licenses to get nowadays an way, and-enough is enough! And the politicians frcpn the rural district realise this, from past ex perience with trying to get a state hunting and game law, and a tail light for all vehicles law, which have always been defeated heretofore by the rural politicians. But aside from the objections which arc bound to arise from the people on almost every hand, another difficulty faces the advocates of such a law. And that’ qiiAtion is, how is it to be administered? Who will be given . the authority to make these tests of drivers, and tell who is competent to drive an automobile and who is not? Will a new state agency have to be set up, or will it be turned over to some existing state agency? The lat ter seems unlikely, as every present state department thinks, at leaat, that it has all it can do now and then some. Or will it be delegated to the counties? It that is done, still more diffiicnlty arises as the coun ties have never been overly enthusi astic about doing work for the state, and in this case the law, if passed, would be bitterly unpopular in many counties. There is the suggestion, of course, that the funds derived from the sale of these licenses be used to maintain a state, highway police force, and that this police force could conduct the examinations and enforce the law. But the consideration of this matter only serves further to complicate the whole matter. In fact, the more one goes into the question, the more com plicated it becomes. Anyway, the leg islature is going to have plenty to think about am? to talk about, too. Let It worry about it! - Mrs. EUiott-Lynn, England’s most famous woman aviator, is also a noted athlete and was chosen to represent Britain in the javelin contests at the Women’s International games at ■ II 111 II Twelve Pages Today Two Sections North Carolina’s Loading Small City Daily TWO SECTIONS TODAY -12 PAGES CONTENDS RECORDS DESTROYED TO Ml FRAUD DEFENDANTS Government Now Attempt ing to Prove the Records - Against Daugherty and Miller Purposely Lost. BLS. DAUGHERTY BROUGHT IN CASE He Is President of Bank in Which It Is Alleged the Important Records Were Lost. New York, Sept. 16. —(A*>-—The gov-1 ernment today’ turned its attenion to j establishing proof of the allegation* | that bonk record* which it contends would show thnt Harry M. Daugherty part'.ciiiated in division of n fee of $441,000, paid for refund of $7,000,- 000 of American Metal Company shares, were purposely desroyed. The fee was paid to John T. King, htte republican national committee man from Connetticutt, Richard Mer ton, the government’* chief witness has testified. Most of tje records, the government alleges, were destroyed when in the Midland National Bank at Washington Court House Ohio, of which Daugherty’s brother M. S. Dau gherty is president. Dnugherty, former Attorney Gen eral, and Thos. W. Miller, formerly alien property custodian, are being tried for alleged conspiracy tq defraud thte United States. The government charges they deprived 1 the United States of their “intelligence and un biased service" in inlying to Merton, agent for the Soeiete Suisse Pour Valeurs de Metaux. $7,000,000 for shares of the American Metal Co., seixed in 1917 under the trading with the enemy act. W. t). Miller, who described himself as butler and general utility man for Edward B. McLean, Washington pub-. Usher, was the first witness called. Miller testified that McLean's house was occupied in March. 1921. by Daugherty and Jesse Smith, aid to Dnuxbfrtv. who later committed sui cide. Smith was named in indict ments superseded by one on which Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller are belpg tried. "Evidence. ] New York, Bept. 17.—OP)—Three (■’.leeks amounting to $29,143.75 which the government alleges was part of the fee Richard Merton, German met al magnate, paid John T. King, late Republican national committeeman from Connecticut, for “rushing" claims through the alien property custodian’s office, were offerer! as evidence in the trial of Harry M. Daugherty aud Thomas W. Miller. One of the checks is for $25,000. It is dated August 1, 1021. It bears the signature of Merton, and is made out to “Cash.” The government al leges this check was a “split” of the , $50.00(f Merton said he paid King, and that Jesse Smith, Daugherty's “Man Friday”, got the money. The date of this check Approximates that on which Merton said he gave King a $50,000 “advance commission.” Ob jections by defense attorneys kept this check from becoming a government ex hibit. With Our Advertisers. Outdoor sports end pure milk make you strong. See ad. of Cnburrus Creamery. ■. Get Jour Atwater-Kent radio ■ now from the Yorke & Wadsworth Co. Latest model, only $125 complete. Handsome overstuffed furniture at Bell & Harris Furniture Co’s. What a gift is Huyler’s Token Package. _ Get it at the Pearl Drug Co. Phone 22 and 722. Blue Ribbon Malt has quality, snap and true malt zest. Dealers here sup plied by the F. M. Youngblood Co. The Ritchie Hardware Co. has the exclusive agency in Concord and Ca barrus County for the Crosley and Bosch radios and supplies. They handle a complete line of everyready batteries, tubes and supplies of all kinds. . • Constance TBlmadge in “Her Sister from Paris” at the Concord Theatre to day and tomorrow. Monday, and Tuesday, September 20 and 21, * Rn .dolph Valentino in ‘The Son of a Shiek,” his last picture. All kinds of fresh vegetables at the J. * H. Cash Store. Qne man got 49.3 miles on one gal lon of gasoline on a Ford in the final contest at Charlotte yesterday. Hats in all the new fall styles and shades at W. A. Overcash’s.' Select your bat today while the styles are complete. Prices from $4 to SB. Schloss Bros, fall suits are ready for your inspection at Hoover's. Lat est styles and designs. Gena Tunney Has Registered 32 Knockouts. Fhiladelp.ia Sept. 16.—CP)—Gene Tunney, who began his professional ring career in 1819, the year thaJL Jack Dempsey won the heavyweight championship, has registered thirty knockouts in sixty-two {tattles he has fought, over a seven-year period. Tunney has tasted defeat but once tn his career, losing a fifteen-round decision to Harry Orcb at Madiaon Square Garden in 1922 and with it, the American light heavyweight cham pionship. Gene more than squared tjris account, however, by regaining IKS title front, Greb the next year and basting him again with the cham pionship at stake Channel Swimmer Returns Home ~~] , . ■ - J i tn. CJemington Corson waved a happy greeting to thousand* of New Yorkers who greeted the second woman to swim the Rpglish Channel on her return home. «!»»•—%■♦ I or* ml Vowasmlt Fowls Os Fine Feathers To Strut Stuff In Style Poultry Houses at Fair to Resound to Proud “Cock a-Doole-Do” of Rooster and Less Violent “Cluck’ of More Timid Mate.— Hundreds of Entries All eady Booked. Poultry raising is on the increase. in Cabarrus county and evidence of ] I'.iis increased interest will be seen at the Cabarrus Comity Fair next month when hundreds of fine fowls from local docks will be on exhibition. J. Ivey Cline, one of the pioneer pouitrymen of the county, will be in charge of the poultry exhibit aigaid, this year and he has been assured or .tie largest collection of poultry in the history of the fair. Mr. Cline stated yesterday that he has been working on his plans for the fair and expects to concentrate his efforts about two weeks before the' opening. He has talked With a mini-1 her of the larger chicken fanciers in the county and plans to write to oth ers. as a reminder of the prizes to be offered for the finest birds on exhi bition. It is known, too, Mr. Cline said, that pouitrymen from adjoining coun ties will send in their best stock for THE COTTON MARKET Opened Firm at Advance of 19 to 20 Points. December Going up to 16.67. New York, Sept. IC.—(A I )—The cqtton murket opened firm today at an advance of 19 to 26 points. December contracts selling up to 16.67 at the start on active covering and trade buying. At the low prices yesterday the mar ket *howed a decline of nearly 2 cents a pound from recent high levels, and its firmer technical position was a factor on the early rally, while cover ing by recent sellers also was promot ed by relatively steady Liverpool ca bles. - , Southern hedge selling continued, however, while there was further com mission house liquidation, and after the first spurt of demand had been supplied, prices eased off 10 to 15 points, from the beßt. Uncertainty of the further progress of the tropical storms no doubt ac counted for some of the early buying, but otherwise weather conditions were considered generally favorable. Cotton futures opened firm : October 16.42; December 16.65; January 16.75; March 16.97; May 17.13. Lnndis Schools Open With 390 Pupils Enrolled. The graded school at Landis op ened September 6 with a large enroll ment and all sixteen teachers pre sent. The enrollement for the first week was three hundred and ninety. Three hundred and five were enrolled in the grades and 85 in the high school. The faculty ia made up as fol lows: Miss Mildred Banner has the be ginners, Miss Mary Small. first grade; Mrs. D. C. Linn and Miss Margery Wooton, second grade; Mias Ruth McCan and Miss Mary Milly, third grade; Miss Dorris Mc- Key, Miss Mary Beverley, fourth grade; Miss Frances Wooten, sixth grade; MUs Lillian Parham, sev enth grade. In the high school 'Miss Flora Clarke has the science, Mrs. Ruth Linn, -the English and Latin; Mr. B. W. Brock,, coach history ; Mr. B. D. Franklin, the principal, rnatha apd Miss Henry Weece has charge of music in all grades. ’ Bishop Schrembs of the Catholic diocese of Cleveland poaesses a lenor voice of exceptionally fine quality and friends aware of this fact persuaded him recently to sing a solo for the CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1926 . the local fair and it is certain every I pen in the two poultry houses will echo with the proud “eock-a-doodle do" of the pure-bred rooster and the weaker "cluck” of his more timid mate. Cabarrus people are now breeding some unusually good stocks of poultry; Mr. Cline said, and the quality of the birds this year will be better mini' ever. Mr. Cline plans to enter s number of his fine White Leghorns and Buff Rocks. While no addition has been made to the poultry houses additional coops ' are available and every one is assured I of a safe plaTe for hist birds. A new ruling has been made this year in regard to premiums. No mon ey will be paid for any chickens un less an entire class is entered. Per sons planning to enter their chicken* are expected to be at the grounds with them on Monday, October 11th, the day before the fair opens. MRS. HALL ANI) THREE OTHERS ARE INDICTED Charged With Slaying Rev. E. W. Hall and Mrs. Mills Four Years Ago. Somerville, N. J.. September 15. — Indictments charging murder were re turned this afternoon against Mrs. Francis Stevens Hall, her brothers. Henry and Willie Stevens, and Henry De La Bruyere Carpender. Airs. Hall’s cousin, in connection with the Hall- Mills murders four years ago. % The indictments were returned by the Somerset county grand jury after an investigation lasting only a few hours. Twenty witnesses were heard. The indictments followed a recently revived investigation into the murder of the Rev. Edward W. Hall, pastor of a New Brunswick church, and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a choir singer, in 1922. Mrs. Hall was arrested several weeks ago and subsequently released on bail. Willie Stevens and Carpen der were arrested later and are still in jail. STACK UPHOLDS LAW ON EMPLOYMENT AGENCY Sustains Statute Forbidding Collec tion of Registration Fee From Ap plicants. Charlotte, Sept. 15-r-Judge A. M. Btnek foduy upheld the right of the North Carolina commissioner of labor in regulating private employ ment agencies and forbidding such agencies from charging registration fees on application for employment. By this . ruling. Ernest Barton, manager of the Queen City employ ment a*cncy here lost hia effort to obtain an injunction restraining Commissioner of laibor Grist from bis announced intention of closing his agency. Mr Grist and his attorney, O. H. Barton, of Raleigh, were present when the hearing opened. About 20 minutes was devoted to reading legal documents representing the basis of the proceedings. Capacity House at Catagrb* Opening Salisbury, Bept. 15.—Catawba College opening was attended last night by a capacity houae. the audi torium being crowded. The program was shared by Dr. W. P. Few. Presi dent of Duke University and Babriel Zismondv. now music master of tb» college. Dr. Few spoke of '‘Building.” making hia address applicable both to Instiutions and Individuals. Kn rollmint at Catawba indicated a | hundred per cegt increase over last ■miHiT EMIT! IST BE CLOSED SUM Dauphin County Court Rules That Operation of Philadelphia Exposition { Is Not Necessary. APPEAL WILL BE ! TAKEN AT ONCE ! | ] Unless Action Is Taken at; | Once Exposition Will i Not Be Opened on Next Sunday. Harrisburg. Da, Sept. 16.—OP) —The Philadelphia. Sesqui-t'entemral Expo sition Association is denied the “right, privilege and authority to oi>en, hold or conduct" the exposition on Sunday under a decision of the Danphin Coun ty court today. The court held that Sunday opera tion of the exposit’on is “worldly em ployment," that it is not a work of necessity, or charity, and that ihe amusuments and recreations within the exposition grounds are dearly in violation of the act of 1794. This act is the so-called “blue law" prohibi ting worldly amusements on Sunday. The court pointed out that Its decision was not a reflection on director* and officer* of the Association in deter mining to operate on Sunday. Unless steps are taken immediately for an appeal and a supersedas is granted, the exposition probably will pot be open another Sunday. Appeal Will Be Taken. Philadelphia. Sept. 16.—OP)—An appeal will be taken from the decision of the Dauphin County court which denied the right of the Sesqui Centen ■ liiel Exposition to operate on Sundays, city solicitor Joseph P. Gaffney said today. WINSTON REMAINS THE LARGEST CITY Charlotte Closest Rival in the State With Greensboro Third; Raleigh Seventh. Winston-Salem, Sept. 15.—That Winston-Salem is, within its corporate iinits, still the largest city in the state-is revealed in population esti- I mates prepared by the Commercial Service Company of Asheville, which is publishing new directories for ev -ery city of major size in the state. Winston-Sa'.em is given 72,000 peo ple. Charlotte is second, with 67,000; flicluding its outskirts, among them port’ll; Charlotte and Myers Park, ipharlqtte is conceded 76,000 people, i matter of 350 more than Winston- Salem has with the addition of its suburbs. The negro population is estimated i at 30,000. Greensboro is - Winston-Salem’s nearest rival, with an estimated 50,- 000. Asheville with 40,000 within the city limits, is fourth, while Durham and Wilmington are tied for fifth, with 40,000 eat'a, Asheville’s leading them being due to its thickly populat ed suburbs. Raleigh is seventh with 38,000 people. High Point has 26,- 261, and Fayetteville has 20,000, The figures for Wilson were not given. THE NEW YORK-PARIS FLIGHT IS POSTPONED Leak in Biplane’s Gasoline Tank Makes It Necessary For Flight to Be Put Off. Westbury, N. Y., Sept. 16.—CP)— The New York to Paris flight of Capt. Rene Fonck French ace, and three companions, was postponed today per haps indefinitely because of a leak in their biplane's gasoline tank. The leak was found as they were prepar ing to hop off. Igor Sikorsky, designer and builder of the huge three-motored biplane, gave orders to put the plane back into its hangar, when it proved d'fficult to stdp the flow of gasoline which was leaking at the rate of ten gallons an hour. Fear had been expressed that if the fliers did not get away today the weather conditions might not permit them' to start this year. Tentatively tl)e start Os the flight was set again for tomorrow. Sensational Climax Forecast. law Angeles, Sept. 16.—CP)—With a number of arrests imminent, a sen sational climax was forecast today in the Aimce Semple McPherson kid napping investigation. District At torney Asa Keyes, pushing the in quiry into an alleged perjury conspir acy, said he would question a number of persons thought to be implicated by the recent expose of the “Miss X” hoax. From an authoritative source it was learned that plans are underway to take the Angelus Temple pastor into custody within the next forty eight hours. Waters Commits Suicide. Las Angeles, Cal., Sept 15. —Dr. A. M- Waters, 55 whose name had been brought into the disappearance case of Mrs. Aimee Semple McPher son, evangelist, committed suicide here today by drinking poison, ac cording to police report*. Dr. Waters was scheduled to ap pear in court today to answer a grand larceny charge involving sl,- 500. Invattigators of the district at torney’* oce found that he bad com mitted suicide when they called at his home to bring him to the office for questioning. BLUE LAWS 1H OLD HONE SEED DESTIDMIII Judging From Apparent Lack of Progress of the “Association Opposed to Blue Laws.” . GALE IN STATE MARKING TIME, [ - ' J i Proposed Game of Base ball on Sunday to Make a Test Case Has Not Yet Been Staged. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh. Sept. 16.—Blue laws arei destined to remaiu and Sundays to retain their indigo hue in North Car olina for many mors months, judging from the apparent lack of progress whirfi the Association Opposed to B.ue Laws has made recently in the stnte, despite tlie claims of Linn A. E. Gale, national secretary-treasurer of the as sociation, to the contrary. Several months ago the association set up state headquarters in Asheville and broadcast to the world that an in tensive campaign was to be waged in North Carolina to make Sunday safe for plutocracy and others who could afford to indulge in Sunday amuse ments. and for a time Gale furpished seme highly readable propaganda and announced that a Sunday baseball game would be played in Asheville in order to furnish a test ease, upon which ail endeavor would be made to have the North Carolina blue law of 1741 declared unconstitutional. But Gale, enthused from his contact with cosinopoiities in Washington and other eastern cities; evidently was not familiar wit’ll the manner of thinking of Scotch Presbyterians and Seotch- Irish Baptist in North Carolina. The date of the Sunday baseball game was postponed from time to time. Gale left Asheville, later to re-appear in Durham. Still no action. Gale still says that a test case is going to be brought in North Caro lina, at some indefinite date. He told The Tribune correspondent so last night, after he had been located in Durham after about an hour's search. Inquiry at four or five of the leading hotels in Durham revealed the fact that he was not registered at any of them. Even when inquiry for him was made at the Y. M. C. A. the sound of his name ’ brought no glimmer of recognition. Finally it was learned from a clerk at a news stand that he ■was working for the Durham County Progress, a weekly newspaper. And at last, seated at an old typewriter in the dingy front office of the small weekly Linn A. E. Gale, national secretary-treasurer of the Association Opposed to Blue Laws, was found banging out copy for next week’s edi tion of The Progress. But Gale, ever resourceful, and not to be caught napping, was equal to the situation. He explained that the association was temporarily marking time in North Carolina, awaiting the return of Mark Lewis, the attorney for the association, from Florida, where he has been for some weeks or months—-. Gale expressely that either expression could be used —en- gaged in work for the association. —just what this worlds was not speci fied, but it was intimated that it was the work of raising sufficient funds to carry on the work of the associa tion. Dir. Gale explained that mem berships cost $1 a year, but that wherever possible, members were asked to pay their dues several years in ad vance. And on the application for ' membership, printed in italics which the eye cannot escape, is the gentle hint that members “may also donate to the association.” It was intimated by his caller that it was rather surprising to find one of his prominence, the executive offi cer of a national association, engaged in writing copy for a small weekly. He smiled and replied that he was an ex-newspaper mail, that he always en joyed writing, and that now’ while the association was marking time, as it were, pending the bringing of the test case with which it is expected to knock out for all time North Caro lina's 185 years old “blue laws”, he ia temporarily engaged in assisting the editor of The Progress. .It was left to the caller to infer that the crop of one dollar memberships to the association in North Carolina had been so meagre as to be insufficient to meet the expenses of the national secre tary. At first Gale insisted that the base ball game would still be played in Asheville as originally planned, as soon ns Mark Lewis should return from Florida. But when his atten tion was called to the fact that the baseball season would be over within a week —he had not given the matter enough thought apparently to think of that —he declared: “Oh well, we may use some other method of testing the law. We may even decide to stage a game of check ers or dominoes, or open a theater on Sunday.” ___ Forrign Women in China Rescued. London, Sept. 16.—UP)—A dispatch to the Daily Express from Shanghai sayr that 70 foreign women and 00 children who were isolated at Kikung shun in the province of Honan, have been reacaod by British naval tugs, and have arrived in Hankow in a piti ful condition. , Their clothes were in tatters and they were without shoes. MUORITY RULI TO GOVERN DEHOCK, j NT NEXT IP& This Is Prediction Made by lowa Members of Na tional Committee Who Oppose Two-Thirds .Rule SAY DELEGATES • FAVOR CHANGE They Report That 48 Mem bers of Committee Have Pledged Themselves to the Majority Rule. Chicago. Sept. 16.—04’)—Success of the movement with : n the Democratic^ 1 party to abolish the two-thirds rulit for national nominations was predict ed today by the national committee members of lowa who have been lenders in the campaign since its in ception early this year. Clyde 'I.. Herring, of Dee Moines and Mrs. Madge O’Neill, of Columbus Junction, la., the lowa members, is sued a statement showing that 4f members of the national committee have pledged themselves for the adop tion of majority rule in all future conventions, and predicting that an overwhelming majority of the conven tion vote of 1928 would be behind the movement on the basis of this figure. Since the agitation for the non adoption of the two-th : rds rule began in the lowa committee last January the statement said, it had been endors ed by such national party leaders as John W. Davis, the 1024 standard bearer; Wm. 0. McAdoo, Norman E. Mack. New York National committee man ; Cbas. A. Greathouse'of Indiana, secretary of the national committee; and Senator Thos. J. Walsh, of Mon tana, chairman of the 1924 conven tion. The lowa qommittee members .be gan a majority rule. Responses were obtained from the nntional committee members of virtually every state. “The proportion favoring non-adop tion of the two-thirds rule is over whelming." the statement said. “Out of 57 who definitely gave Vheir opin ions, 48 favored the majority rule, and only nine were willing to see this child of hate, the two-thirds a true relic of political KirbaMWn, con tinue to bind the hands qf the Thomas Jefferson party. ■ «** —*“»•* “On the basis of state representa tion in 1928 that Instrument of boss control would have only 120 favorable votes out of a total of 1,098 in the convention.” WIU, W. L. ROSS HAVE TO DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR? Matter Still Rests With the Supreme Court.—Claimed Roae la Insane. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Sept. 16.—Whether or not W. L. Ross will have to die in the electric chair for the- slaying of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Odom, of Warren county, or whether be will be granted a new trial, still rests with t'he Su preme Court, despite the erroneous report in a Raleigh morning newspa per that a new trial had already been granted Ross. The new trial, if grant ed, will be allowed in an opinion that will be handed down by the court at some future date, and its granting de pends on the question of whether Judge E. H. Cramer, who presided at the trial, erred in excluding certain testimony at the trifil whirii defense attorneys insist had some bearing on the ease. Argument in the ease was not completed until yesterday after noon, as the Supreme Court post poned argument Tuesday until it could determine whether or not error had been committed in the rendering of the verdict. This matter was cleared up by Wednesday morning, however, and the argument was heard. Meanwhile Ross is in a cell in State prison, in an almost semi-con scious condition, hardly aware of what goes on about him, lying for hours in his cell apparently unconscious. Pris on authorities say he probably is not capable of realizing what is going on, much less comprehending the enor mity of the legal battle being waged in the State's highest court in order to save him from the electric chair. Although during the trial, ltoss re peatedly asked that he be sent to the electric chair, his attorneys assert that he was insane then and that his condition has steadily grown worse, and that as a result, he should not be electrocuted, but should be allowed a new trial, at which the insanity plea eau be admitted. Dollar Days at the Parks-Belk Co’s. Five big dollar days will begin at the Parks-Belk Co's, on Friday, Sep tember 17th, and continue through Wednesday, the 22ud. These dollar day sales come only once a year at this store. In two itages of ads. today iu by.th The Tribune and The Times you will find enumerated hundreds of bar gains for these five days. You will get one-half dollar off on all dresses and coats from $5.93 to $10.95 and up to $3 off on coats worth S2B 50, with comparing reductions* at between prices. But read the two page ads. which will give you full particulars. Harry FiUpatriek Kills Self. New Orleans, Sept. 16—0 W Harry W. Fitzpatrick, prominent in 1 New Orleans politics for years, and i former president of the southern as sociation, f shot and killed himself in his room here last night. The body } was found this morning by his wife. ■« * "''fraal THE TRIBUNE j PRINTS TODAY’S NEWS TODAY | NO. 210, ALLIES OF FRANCE 1 jrjjßm J LEAGUE'S COUNCIL Four Nations Given N<m» ' Permanent Seats Are .j Particularly Friendly M the French. AMERICANSHEAR ,Ji| HEATED DEBATES j Were Present When V#* < ing Was Done. —Uttt- guay Enters a Protest J Against Council Rule. *ll j Geneva, Sept. 16.— UP —Fran«‘’R ; ;|| 'political influence in continental Etf rope coupled with the personal POP** | larity of foreign minister Benes i of ; a Czeoho-Slovakin. resulted today in the | election of four countries who age particularly France's allies, to” neu-i.> : §| permanent seats in the council of the J league of nattions. The .states are fMS Poland, Roumania, Czech o-BlovwMKaß and Belgium. The other, states chosen w«e Co lombia, Chile Salvador. Holland ,#nd China. The Irish Free State lost its battle to represent the British domin- .-■! J| ions in the Council, receiving only 10 ' J votes. Colombia, the highest winner;, -'M received 46 out of the total of 49. !»■' Czechoslovakia, which was ah' elev- , enth hour candidate against Finland. ; easily won on the second ballot for, the n : nth seat, after the Bth place had been filled on the first ballot. •"'•CM A large crowd, including American ■■ Minister Hugh Gibson. Rear Admiral Hilary I’. .Tones, and the member* of the American delegation to the pre liminary disarmament conference, fol lowed the balloting with interest. They also heard a'stiff protest from t the Uruguayan delegation against the - caucus of the Latin-Amerlcan mem bers of the league in Genera which re- ;; jeeted iVuguay’s claim to succeed * herself on the council, and picked H Chile, Colombia and Salvador for the three seatß allotted to I/at in-America. Not only will France have four al lies in the council, but Poland whose ; demand for a permanent seat was one of the etiief causes of the league's ure to admit Germany to membership last March, is declared eligible for , re-election at the end of the three yeaiti period given her today. Vj| MORRISON SAYS HE WILL BE CANDIDATE Will Run for United States Senate. j in 1932, He Announces. Asheville, Sept. 16.— UP —Former Governor Cameron Morrison, of fßijfcff latte, will be a candidate for the Dem ocratic nomination for the ' 1 lifted =• States Senate in 1932, he announced here today. At the same time hr made public his platform of- eight planks for tfie development of North Carolina. ~ While there have been many indi cations that the former governor I would seek the Neat to which Senator •* Overman recently was renominated, this is Mr. Morrison's first definite ” announcement of his intentions. •4*’ M Former Governor Morrison made hia announcement so definite as tq .UJft'iM cate he will be a candidate against 4; Senator Overman if the veteran jun ior Senator should seek another tetm, 'it although the former Executive made 8 no direct reference to this possibility. t Neither did he indicate that he ha* received any assurance that Senator ’ Overman will retire voluntarily «t the | conclusion of the term for which the democrats renominated hint in June. Chief among the planks of the for mer governor's platform is an an- i nouncement that he will fight for a ; new state highway bond issue of S4O,- ' 000,000 when the next General Assem- | bly convenes in January. ... fM In outlining the program 'Ad be lieves essential to the development and ‘ future prosperity in North Carolina, J ex-Governov Morrison mention* eight ; distinctive jtoints. These he is »«*ing j in talks throughout the state, -and ; spoke of at the road celebration at ' Franklin yesterday. Levee Breaks. Causing Much Concern, j Chicago, Sept. 16.— UP —Continued floods in the middle wet which'have caused more than $1,000,000 dam-' g ages were tnurked by breaking of a levee on the Stunk River near Weav er, lowa, today. Mueli farm land i soon was under water as farmer* and prisoners from tile Fort Madison pen itentiary worked feverishly to' chock ' j the flow. A four-foot gap widened to seven feet within an hour. \ rsg The main section of the levee' whiter .-M protects thousands of /acres of farm land was still intact, but the river rose a half foot during the night, Willi am H. Wallace Die* in' Hter 4 York. ■ Salisbury, Sept. 15.—William tt* : M Wallace, native Salisburian wso hlWCis been living in New York for some yearn, died there Tuesday afternoon, his death coming rather suddenly al though he had been in ill bealth Wr ' some time. The body will he taken 'i to Statesville for burial tomorrow, '; 5 Mr. Wallace was a son of the late; " V. Wallace and was about fifty two - oM. ; .WJSi THE WEATHER Cloudy to partly cloudy tonight tertlj Friday, probable showers op the. south coapt Friday. Fresh northerly winds