North Carolina Newspapers

ASSOCIATED ' PRESS " DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI MNWO GO TO TIMS SOOK AS POSSIBLE «• > President Not Encouraging Those With different Plans for Spending thci Treasury Surplus. auto Tax will BE CONTESTED It Is Said That the Presi-j dent Is Not of Opinion That the Tax Should Be { Entirely Eliminated. Washington. Nov. 20. —(yp)—Atom-! Imts of who are return ing from their constituencies with a v«-! vii-*i assortmrnt of plans for spumling i tho treasury surpluK, rtro Mil* Heard’ but not eneourngotl at tho White 1 louse. Tlieir arguments, they find, have! had -ittle or no eftWt on President ( t 'oo'idge s jKisition with respect to the/ plan he and Secretary Mellon have; worked out to return the surplus now j estimated at $300,000,000 to income taxpayers. Not only is the President presum- j ably against the Democratic proimsal | for permanent downward revision of J tax rates at the approaching s*‘iort i session of ('ongresii. but he is dcfi- j nitely opposed to the latest suggges- [ tion advanced on capital hill—the re-j peal of the $75,000,000 automobile! tax. * j With the federal government spend- • ing $00,000,000 a year on Irighwuy.s i he fee’s that this levy against auto- j mobile users is justified for the pres- j ent. at any rate. Although the au tomobile tax has been u I>emocratic target for some time, its mast recent advocate is a Republican. Representa tive Hudson, of Michigan, who also proposed a reduction of the corpora* * tion income tax from 13 1-2 per cent, to 10 per cent. His latter figure is one per cent, lower than contemplated in the $325,000,000 permanent redue- i tion plan announced yesterday by Son- | ator Simmons, of North Carolina, and . Representative (lamer, of Texas, rank- j ing- Democrats on the committees j vh must consider any tax legis ! ACQUIT YOI'ND WOMAN ... i ■ ‘IN MECKLENBURG CASE ] Mrs. Alim T. Black I’m :l ,1 Mm- [ slaughter dv'W In Death of Miss ! Fisher. Charlotte. Nov. 111.—Mo<. Allot, T. j Black, of Wiiyncaville. was acquitted j by a jury in criminal roar! ’ato to-1 day of a charge of manrtnughtcr in | oin section with the death o f Mis* Myrtle Fisher, of Charlotte. Miss Fisher was fatally injure! j here on July 14 when she was straes hy an automobile driven by Mrs. Rlaek as she was alighting from a street far. The verdiet of not guilty was re turned after the jury hud deliberated j 1 an hour and a half. Mrs. lilaek. who is 18 years of age. i was formally charged with man- | slaughter but Judge A. M. Stack in- j strueted the jury tltpt she could be 1 1 found guilty of second degree mnr- ! der or uia.ne'aiiglitcr. according to tuc ! wright of evidence. Judge Varaer T'*ll* Hr»- to Nominate 1 1 .VI Smith. Raleigh. Nov. Ill—-" The surest way to nominate Al Smith is to keep shooting at him," former Associate Justiee h, It. Varser. of the supreme eeurt. observed here today in a pus- ] ing comment on the recent salvos j most of them front ehureh organism- j tion*. against the New York gov ernor. "I .am a firm believer in the sen j uration of ehureh uml stale." he re ! marked, "but I believe the rule j should work both ways. We must re -peel it ourse’vex, and not be con tent with demanding that everybody e’se respect it.” Justiee Varaer wasn’t talking as nu Al Smith man. because-he isn’t, but he has been looking oil from the side lines and he is quite positive that the New Torker's presidential candidacy has been helped rather than harmed by the reeent broad sides against him. “Vou know continued nttneks on a man have the tendency to create pub lic sympathy for him,” he said. “Known Methodism” Oratorical Con test al Wofford College. Nashville, Tenu., Nov. 20.—Semi finals for regions seven, eight and nine in the Kpiyorth League “Known Methodism" oratories! contest. an nounced recently, sill be held at Wofford College. Spartanburg, S. C„ as originally planned. This an nouncement was made by ltalpti jt N'ollner, of Nashville, who is con dueting the contest. The change in place followed a letter from President W- P. Few, of Duke, suggesting that in view of the building program at the Durham in stitution that the semi-finals be con ducted elsewhere in the region, which is composed of North Carolina, Geor gia, Florida. Maryland, Virginia. West Virginia and dfiouth Carolina. Doctor Few gave his hearty en dorsement to the contest and ex pressed the hope that Duke might act as host to the competing orators another year. He offered a scho'ar shlp twilled at S2OO in Duke Uni versity to the winner in the ap proaching event. A score of other scholarships arc available for winners of regional contests. The Concord Daily Tribune _ .. North Carolines. Reading Small City Daily In News, Here and Abroad > i —— ■■ - - - Cfei! ! 11 w* M \c m k * Ik •W ‘ iwag„ jjjjfc ,Jp T COSGK>AVE ZrlZl LAMBRIKTO i ■ v:i BF * B'' wP# | | AMOS A-FRIES' aJoKK T. GARNtR ! Presdent William T. Cosgrave declared there was an orgna* ized conspiracy to overthrow the Irish Free State. Declar ing she still loved Prince Carol of Rumania, Zizi Lambrino, his morganatic wife, sued him for 10,000,000 francs and recognition of their child. Major General Amos A. Fries demanded the firing of a Washington school teacher because he won a prize for defining socialism. Representative John ] T. Gamer, of Texas, served notice that Democrats would ; tight President Coolidge’s plan for an income tax discount, i-■ ■■■'■.- .i-i-:- '■ • -v..j> Farmers Will Not Be Asked To Sign Reduction Pledges Tribmx IturMiL . , Sir Walter Hotel. j j Raleigh. Nov. 20.—Cotton farmer- • ;in North Carolina will not. he asked | Ito sign a p'edgf that they will not 1 | t-alsc more than a certain amount of I j cotton. j Cotton farmers in tltc state will lie | asked, however, to adopt better I I methods of farming nlong the lines ! jof diversification, which if followed , {out will bring about at least a 30 1 i (>cr (‘cut reductiou in cotton acreage, j - Tbio was the decision reached by | the Central State Committee on | I coteon acreage reduction of which \ ! Dr. E. O'. Itrisiks. president of Stale I I College is chairman, in it* meeting! ! he'd in Raleigh Friday. It ivas, the j belief of the committee that it wouhl ; j not ho advisable,' even if the p'au ; were feasible, to attempt a sign-up {campaign, and thin plnn was discard led at the start. - However, it was ! thought necessary to obtain a state- ) j meat front as many farmers ns pos- ’ xrbl-e the extent of diversification.' | showing their cqttoff acreage, so that ) b orne idea of the amount of cotton to la- planted can lie learned. Iteforc any hard and fast plan is decided upon. county agents in tho cotton counties of tho state will be - j WORK OF THE ADVISORY BUDORT COMMISSION j Every Department and Institution Will Be Given the Maximum Poa f sible. . Tribune Bureau, Sir Walter Hote*. llaleigb. Nov. 20.—Perhaps it is a good thing that the advisory bud get commission has no power to ulnae I appropriations, and only passes its_ finding on the legislature, for instead” of being the hard-boiled, take-it-or leave-it body >" was reputed to be, the commission has turned out to he anything but that, and judging from the sympathetic manner in which it has listened to the hundreds of re ams** for funds made before it in the last two weeks, it would like to grant every request. Os eoiinw, none of the members of 4Jte commission has expressed any views on any particular subject or in stitution. and the commission is play ing no favorities. All it is doing is developing data for the use of the legislature when it comes to the business of making up the appropria tions. Rut is doing this job in a very' thorough and sympathetic man ner. «o much so that observers are inclined to, the opinion that the com mission wi 1 he very liberal with its recommendations and that every de partment and institution will be given the maximum possible, and eer-' tninly enough to take of the more, urgent needs. The commission has been visibly * impressed with a number of institu tions that have succeeded in reduc- 1 ing their per capita cost, despite in creases in population, and the insti tutions have bee t openly commended- Whib* numerals questions have been 'asked, and the more' immediate needs have been carefully separated from the less Immediate require - merit*, this has been done in order to point out to the legislative com mittees these differences and with no | fisk« d Ua .iou.ldtf.'l a i»i* form! i*l ] retorcmltim on (he |>r«#pnt plan suj?* •Rusted, («> get their viewn, together I with any |n*»s;ble modifieaiion »>f ihr J phut | A sub eommittiH* was named io (draw forms for l.tKkl blanks that ! will contain farm plans for various | kinds and Sian of farms. These plans ! will be sent out to the eounty agents, and they in turn wi’l present them t 1 jilt least 1.000 farmers between now .and December 6. at which time ; another meeting of the central com mittee will be held, and the -reaction* {obtained from the county agents and I the 1.000 farmers - considered. This | form "'ill then be revised *o conform ■ with the suggestions made by the | farmers, and plans made for the in tensive campaign which will be car ried on in January or February. Members of the committee present, bisitles Dr. Brooks, were: AV. A. Grabutp. Commissioner of Agrieul jture; H. M, Cox. Mr, OliVe. chalr j man of The agriculture (Siminittec of the State Bankers -Vssocitition; N. ,(i. Rnrlctt, Eastern Carolina Chnm |4«*r of Commerce: M. Cl. .Mono, rep !n sent ing U. B. Blnlhek. ot the Cot l(ii Growers Co-operative Asporta tion and It.. W. Christian, farmer, of Alamance county. STORMS ON GREAT LAKES DIMINISH IN POWER lake Michigan and lake Superior Lashed by Storm During the Past Week. Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 20.— UP) — Storms that lashed Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, flie greater part of the week, had diminished in vio lence today. Two coal carriers, the Hill and Big 'Gerald, came into the Milwaukee har bor Inst night after a hard struggle with heavy winds and waves. They reported, however, that the storm was subsiding. Nine other vessels early today had not been heard from, although long overdue here. Shipping men were in dined to believe that most of the ships had hove to, to wait out the storm. The steamer Cottonwood today was a mass of twisted wreckage on the rocks of Lake Superiors* shore. 52 miles from Sault Stc Marie, where it was crashed Monday night by a wind of 65 miles an hour. The crew of 24 made its way safely ashore. All Ships But One Sa/e. Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 20.—0 P All ships reported missing in the storm which swept Lake Michigan and Superior for two days were safe today except the C. Russell Hubbard, a 9,500-ton ore boat, which had not I been ’.teard from since it passed through the Sault Ste Marie looks ; Wednesday. intention of eliminating considera tion of the less pressing need*. 1 In fttrt, there i* a most apparent dispos.tlon on the -of tho com mimion, to make its functions most elastic, and to confine its functions to what the title implies—an advis ory commission. Owing to the thooughnesw and de tail with which everything ia being gone into, the hearings are not ex pected to lx* pomple'ed before Satur day afternoon. CONCORD, N. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1926 SOUGHT FOR TRfIG to mums. FKMOFFM Harold Wheeler, Former Inmate of State Hospit | al, Seriously Wound* j Sheriff Henry Gamble. I MAKES GETAWAY f DURING NIGHT Wheeler Escaped ffco m Hospital and No Bfiort J to Take Him BackTtad Been Made. C ilmnliia. M. Nov. 20. OP) Harold Whwter, lit) year old son of ( prominent Williamsburg county , j farmer, remained at liberty today af ter dangerously wounding S icrilf llrlt rv Gamble, who ntbmptcd to arrest I him on a charge of trying to wreck Al Ila title <’(U*t Line pus-enger tr-iiu* ! passing nea,r his home. After waiting around the Wheeler! home l.i-nr Cedes most of last night i trying to capture Whertcr. pol’cc j were induced by J. Wheeler, the. young ; man’s father to leave on the vlianee that he might return to his parent* 1 who would turn him over to the au-i thorities. Young 'Wheeler escaped from ttic \ state hospital for the insane at Co j liitnbia last June after being nn In-) mate (here since October. 1925. I|i*! condition was not regarded as dab-’ geroas, and hospital authorSt'es did 1 not attempt to have him returned, a they understood he wae in liis parents' | custody. The (mndition of t Jam hie was tie-j -scribed ae serious by attendants al j 'he Kingstree lafiruiary early today, j though there was hope for his recovery . ! they added. THE COTTON MARKET Quid at Opening Today With Little Change at End of First Hour. New Yovk. Nov. 20.—(/P)—The cot ton market was quiet at the openiug today. Evidently traders found nnth ng in the early news to create fresh sentiment or encourage the placing of fresh commitments ill advance of tin*j government crop rc|«ort expected Moil- ; day. Further evening up of omajj^ee-1 (■minis was reported, wfth very I Che i *fr«*el on prices, and after .o|>ening ! steady at a decline or 2 points to an ] ! advance of 1 point, the market fluotn- | ated within a few points either way of 12.57 for January contracts, com posed with 12JiO at the close yester day. Snot house brokers were again buyers of December against sales of * later deliveries, with the general mar ket ruling about net unchanged to 4 points lovfer at the end of the first half hour. Private cable*! reported trade calling and covering in Liver pool, but said the demand for cotton cloths from India was less insistent. Cotton, futures opened steady : Dec. 12M3; Jan. 12.58: March 12.78; May 13.00: July 13.21. Closed Steady. New York, Nov. fu tures closed steady unchanged to 4 points up: December 12.54; January 12.60; March 12.79: Mhv 13.01; July 13.14. — With Our Advertisers. If you want shrubs and evergreens, see the ad. in today’s Tribune of the Crowell Plant Farm. Plants moved ’ direot are better than those shipped u long distance and handled several times. Every tire you buy from the Yorke & Wadsworth Co. is sold put on your ! ear if you want it, ready for the road. See prices in a new ad. today. This • big tire sale will end Saturday night, November 27th. New rugs of rare beauty and de sign at Beil k Harris'. They are showing at least 100 different designs. Let the Concord Vulcanizing Co. keep your tires in good condition. Get acquainted with the dry clean ing way, of Wrenn. of Kannapolis. “The Clothes Beautiful” suits and overcoats at Hoover’s. Made by Schloss Bros. Co. for "Tie Young i Man's Store." The Marksoa Shoe Store is giving I their partonx something unusual in : shoe values. If your heating or plumbing appa ratus is not in proper shapes, ohone the Concord Plumbing Co. Phone 576. If you don't see what you want at the Ritchie Hardware Co., ask for it. They have it. SaUiera Walk Through Poison Gas in New Mask; Were Unhurt. Geneva, Nov. 20.—During i.ie last jninenvers of the Swiss army, 1 pnlaon gas was used for the first i time. An* infantry company during maneuvers on the slopt:- if the , Diobleret Mountain, inarched through clouds of gas iu order t > test gas masks issued to the tr-aqis. Sentries i were stationed at the *fout of the mountain to keep civilians ..way • from the danger zone- The masks withstood the teat ao miccessfuJy that not a single man in the com pany suffered any ill effects from the gas. i | Destroy*- Drives Off Revolutionists. Managua. Nicaragua. Nov. 20. — —Reports received here today slate that a U. 8. destroyer drove back to. : Cape Gracoj* the schooner H. 8. Al bert, wh'-eh was carrying a commis sion of Liberal revolutionist* to Gua temala. PURCHASESCASKET, THEN SHOOTS SELF !: ram* ■ W. Rateliffe Irby, One of t Richest Men in South, i Takes Own Life in Fun eral Establishment. GAVE BIG FUNDS » < DURING HIS LIFE i Contributed to Aid of City Parks, Hospitals and Tu- I lane University During: the Past Years. NVw OrtauiM, Nov. 20.- -OP)—W, ’■ Uatu'iffV Irby, chiUrimm of tho board ,of iliwtorK of tin* ('until Hunk & | Trust ('ompany, committed suicidr in !n I oral undertaking establishment to day. » The suicide followed the selection by j Mr. Irby of a casket for his funeral, j.lle visited the mortuary establishment ! and made the selection telling the pro- ; : jwietor he desired to prepare for his i funeral. >vhich he fe’t was not far j off. After making the selection Mr. Irby mounted the stairs to the second floor | of the establishment. A few seconds j later the office force of the funeral ; parlors heard a shot. Mr. Irby was j found on u sofa at. the head of the ; Flairs with a bullet through his brain. | On* the floor beside him was his re ■j Yol.ver. Mr. Irby, one of the wealthiest men in the South, was noted for Iris philan i thropy. He had made numerous anony • tnous contributions for the equipment ,of city parks, to hospitals, and to; j Tu!ane I’niversity. t i.VITOS AND DANCING CAUSE GIRLS’ DOWNFALL! Survey of Condition.* Conducted By Evangeline Booth Rescue Home. (By International News Service.) Boston. Nov. 20—Automobiles it in! , public dances are the primary causes for the “downfall" of many Boston girls which hoe resulted in what in v&itigntoro allude to ns "alarming j conditions.” in reaching this con clusion after a survey of case-1 i brought to the attention of pnb'iH | welfare societies it has also beeii 4("1 j term mod that the mirth \ talked of j {Jiip-fiai-k or other method* of drink-, ling, has hut little or no ciihncclinii i j with the morals of modern girlhood, i • A survey of condition* has been ! conducted by officials of the Evange line Booth Rescue Home and the facts revealed strike a new note in j the (lf-c'n rat ions of those who inter-! rst themselves in unfortunate girl*, j Girls in suburban and country j communities are more snaceptiblc j than the city-bred girl to the dangers of the parked automobile, the survey , indicate*. Os 100 girls questioned iu i the course of the investigation, 64! were from suburban or country j towns. Not one of the 100 blamed the ) use of for her moral failure. j The chief sufferers appear to lie | girls who are under 20 years of age. i The average age of the girls who go j astray is dropping alarmingly. The I youngest of the girls in the survey i was only 13 yearn old when received j i into the rescue home. Another ,«as j {l4. two were 15, three were 16. two! ! were 17, six were IS, seven wore 19. eight were 20. five were 21, eigl-t ) wre 22. and the remainder were old- j er. Girls employed ns domestics ap- { parentlv are more subject to temotsi i tion than any other claw, for 15 inf j the hundred girls were employed in housekeeping work. A particularly pathetic fact reveal ed is that six of the girls were still iu school, while there was one school teacher in the group. The other oecu- 1 pntion* arc varied, between factor; work, clerking, and girls living a* home. TWO KILLED AND TWO HURT IN EXPLOSION’ Report* That 200,000 Pounds of Powd-! er Exploded Were Not True. Jerome, Arizona, Nov. 20. —(A*)-— Unexpected explosion of a large Charge of powder on the 160-foot level of the United Verde copper mine here at about 11 o’clock last night took a toll of two lives and sent two men to the company hospital. They were not seriously injured. Two hundred thousand pounds of biasing powder in a nearby chamber prepared for setting off within >a few i days to blow away the side of a moult- j tain in rich copper ore, did not ex- , plodc, although first report reaching \ Jerome, itself severely shaken by the ! blast, had it that the huge charge! had entirely wrecked the mine. Suicide on Stage. Berlin, Nov, 20.—The audience at the municipal theHter of Hos, in Ba varia. was horror-stricken when on of the actors committed suicide on the stage. “Peer Gynt" was being performed, and an actor, Herr Lud wing Heinle, who bad arrived late, waa rebuked by the stage manager. After making up, he went on the stage and stabbed himself in the heart with j a dagger. < Queen In Virginia. Winchester, Va., Nov. 20.—(^)— Queen Marie of Rumania reached Winchester today an hour ahead of her schedule, coming from Martins burg, W. V.a, ahortly after sunrise. A crowd of about 1,000 people swarmed about Her Majesty at. the George Washington Hotel, where she stopped for half an hour. < ' 1- ! Captured | j ’ J ! t x' r v * *, x ( King” Beniamin Purnell, aatler of the “House ofj •avid” colony at Benton Har- j ; ior, Mich., was found, after four-year police hunt, se- | reted within the colony. : COTTON FARMERS FACING A BRIGHTER FUTURE Due I-argely to Functioning of the Cotton Finance Corporation. Rnleigti Tribune Bureau 1 Sir Walter Hotel Rnleig.i, Nov. 20.—That the cotton ! 'farmers of North Carolina are facing! a brighter future than in many j months, largely as the result of the active functioning of the North f'aro -1 lina Cotton Finance Corporation in 1 Greensboro, is the general opinion of 1 many who have been keeping iu touch : with the situation over the state and especially emphatic in t’.iis belief is George Ross, chief of the division of markets. State department of agrie eillture. Mr. Ross lias just returned to Raleigh from a meeting with John W. Simpson, president of the eor cor poration. and other officers, where fin ;al detnils for the operation of the , corporat ion were discussed. The forms for applications for loans from the corporation were discussed. The forms J for applications for loons from the ! corporation, together with the note I forma, have already been sent to ev ! erj* bank Itt the cotton comities ai»A j loans arc already being made by tho ; corporation on I lie basis of the ware house receipts. The criticism that lias been made ! of the corporation that the farmers l who needed help the most would not | take advantage of the facilities offered I is not being borne out so far, as tbey lure responding readily, according to ’ Mr. Ross. But whether the farmers make use of the corporation directly, : or whether big producers and buyers j use it, the cotton farmer, large or i smal, will benefit just, the same, ac | cording to Mr. Ross, since every bale jof cotton removed from the market 1 will belli raise the price of cotton | proportionately so that all will even | tually be helped by this increase. I It was pointed out by Mr. Ross that j 35.000 farmers have already stored I tbeir cotton through the cotton eo- I operative associations, and that when i thousands of others store their cotton iin the state warehouse system, the I situation is bound to become better. ! There is at present capacity in the state warehouse system for 134.000 i bales and this capacity is being in j creased as demand necessitates. ■ | Another excellent feature of the ent ! ton corporation is that farmers may j borrow up to 75 per cent, of the value of the cotton stored at present market J prices for as long a period ns three i years, if necessary, at 6 per cent, in | tcrest. with interest and all carrying i charges delayed until the cotton lias '| been sold. And according to the terms of. the loans made by the corporation, ; none of the cotton upon which loans {have been made can be sold until the j price reaches at least 15 cents a | pound. The matter of securing a loan from i the corporation has been made un usually simple, with a minimum of red tape, so that individual farmers may obtain loans direct from the cor poration in Greensboro or through their own banks. If is only neces sary to attach the warehouse receipts ito the proper application blank, with ! the note, and forward to the appii : cant’s local banker, or to the corpora ’ • tion direct. In ense the application | is made to the corporation, it is neces | sary to have his local bank certify I the signatures on the documents :! which service is being performed with i out charge and without rediscounting 1 ! the notes. “In my opinion,” Mr. Ross states, "this cotton finance corporation will fill and is filling a long felt need in North Carolina. The passage of the • cotton warehouse act seven years ago ' stands out today as never before as one of the most uniquie pieces of legis lation ever enacted in the South. It placed the rediscount of cotton paper In North Carolina in a stronger posi tion than in any other state. 1 be -1 'ieve that the finance corporation, to j getber with the state warehouse sys tem, will provide money for the co operatives, merchants and local banks at a lower rate of interest than has ■ ever been known in the cotton trade. 1 Cotton ia the safest agricultural eom ! modify stored, while it has wider - uasge and m'ore buyers than any oth er commodity save bread alone. ‘ “Under the plan of the cotton fi ‘ nance corporation, the fanner, mer * chant and country banker will be ‘ able to re-discount his cotton paper IHENRYSTEVENSON SHiNOOtll^ 1 ?mmM l Defendant in Hall-Mills Trial Says He Was at i j Home on Niffht of the ; Double Slaying. i DENIED TESTIMONY j OF WITNESSES j Isaid He Was Fifty Miles j From Murder Scene at j | Time.—He Talked With Friends That Night. ' four; IBomi*rvi!U‘. X. .1.. Nov. i l JO.—Taking :Im* wUiipsk stand on hi* | j own birthday. Homy Stovons. chnrxotL j with his sistor and brother wi.’.i thoj J innrdcf of Mrs. Ktnanor Mill. So;)tom-; bor 14. 1022, told a jury hor<* today j ! that h« was at his homo at Laval lot to.; X. moro than fifty miles away that I iday and night* | Tho witness said ho spent the morn ing "down town" and fished in tho j I afternoon and evening. Mrs. Stevens | was in Now York, he said, but the ! cook was present when he had the j evening meal at home about 0 o'clock. | During the early evening ho said j ho wont to a neighbor's house to toll I him that the fish wore biting, and also weighed a six-pound* hue fish for aj | friend. Mr. ‘Stevens said that ho was j thoroughly familiar with shot guns I and know something of cartridges for all arms. He declared that he had not owned or fired a pistol in 25 years. Stevens denied stories of state wit nesses as to his movements. He was not in New Brunswick when Mrs. Mary Demorest told of seeing him the day after the killing, he said, and was not near the scene of the slaying a year later as testified to by Mrs. Anna Hoag. He said that the time former State Trooper Henry L. Diokmau told of questioning him on a "fishing pier” at he was in Florida, and no such "fishing pier” was in exist ence then or now. BATTLESHIP DAMAOES HOSPITAL IN PRACTICE i Several 3-Incli Traces Shells Dropped i Oft Kpof EeU ,Through to Cel lar. Paris. Nov. 20.— (A*) —Patients in the hospital on the Dions peninsula, on the southern coast of France had narrow escapes from death or injure when several tracer shells from the battleship Patrie dropped on the roof of the building and fell through all the floors to the cellar. No one was injured, but the damage was considerable. The Patide was at gunnery prao-1 tice yesterday in the Hyeres Ronds during violent gales. The heavy winds deflected the shells from the battle- j ship, atid several of them hit the hos i pital. The famous Riviera coast is strewn I with wreckage from Marseilles to Mentone. Leopold Witness in Court. j Jolie. 111., Nov. 20.—(4>)—Nathan | Leopold, who left behind a home of i wealth when he and Richard Loch. | slayers of Bobbie Franks went to pris-! on two years ago for life, was taken to the court house here today as a wit ness in the trial of six convicts for the murder of Deputy Warden Peter Klein. It was the only time except when he was transferred from the old to the new prison, that Leopold has been outside the prison walls. Manley Found Gui Ky. Atlanta, (la.. Nov. 20.— (A>)— W. D. Manley, former president of the Bank ers Trust Co., of Atlanta, was found guilty of a “fraudulent failure" of the | Farmers & Traders Bank of Atlanta j by a jury in Fulton Superior Court this afternoon. Stanly’s Ginned Figures. There were 8.403 bales of cotton counting round as half bales ginned in Stanly county from the crop of 1026 prior to November 1. 1026. ns compared with 7.423 bales ginned to November 1, 1025. without carrying any liability for its! endorsement. The farming common- i ities, through the state warefhou.se ays- j Yem and the cotton finance corpora < tion, can pick up thousands of do!- | lnrs in frozen assts of their community ! represented by bales of cotton deterio- j * rating by weather damage, and place | this money in the active channels of : trade in their communities and become independent of the euormous tax bere -1 toforc paid in time prices of ferti -1 lizer. } "Will this corporation help the V farmers? Well, I s’.iould say so!” t — : I FUnIFUN!FUN! By Congressman Upshaw Five Dollars to anyone that goes to sleep at H igh ( School Auditorium ! Tuesday Night, November 23rd 8:00 O’CLOCK ADMISSION 25c and 35c Benefit Athletic Associa- THE TRIBUNE. PRINTS TODAY’S NEWS TODAfI NO. 274 ™x Hos wmm Search of Ruins AccqSffi&p For Only Eight of Sax ! teen Men Believeijf to j Have Been Killed. 12 MEMBERS OF Jj CREW MISSINg Os Two Score Injured ob j ly Several Believed to Have Slight Chances jw 1 Get Well. i Baltimore. Nov. 2(1. OP)—Soa,t*i|fJ| jof t'.io cooling ruins of Hip Norwegian j tanker Mantilla, rent apart b.v a n ey * 4 | plosion in itm hold while iu ilj'V liiK'k jal Sparrow's Point, today had’ iff- ■ I counted for only eight of the sixjlM!# ; men believed killed. ' A cheek made by the captain of ,th« ■ j ship indieated that the death to{l ip- % I eluded twelve of the Mantilla’s c rew :of 35. Four unidentified bodies lii pnrent’y were those of seamen.' ’ The other bodies recovered were beJieveti J those of employees of a ship company. . t Os the two score injured receiving 1 hospital treatment several had slight chances of recovery, physicians Many injured went to their homes, ■ and physicians and nurses were Ulijf j ’oie to ke<>p accurate tally of those i j hurt. Accidental ignition of gas generat ed from oil which remained in a fuel tank when the ship went into dry dpCjlfc was believed to 'have been the' citnso of the explosion which ripped the yen- ; set’s steel plates like tissue. FlnH leaping from the fissures seared wdtde nien from the docks and dry ' dbejc scaffolding. Rescue workers found disabled nieu frantically attempting to esenpe iron* advancing streams of buring oil. Many ; were taken out with their clothing on fire. Officials believed the missing men might have been thrown into the wat er by the explosion or consumed It the flames. I . O. C. OFFICERS ARE fi VESTS OF GOVERNOR | Also Entertained by Confederate sHm eiety at the Confederate Mm ithM ’S| Richmond. Nov. 20.—(A I )—jbe oat- 3 standing social event of the 33rd i| nual convention of the United DjnMjh- ‘1 ters of tiie Confederacy was tJtt*‘T&< J eeption today to officers and delggatefc i by Governor and Mrs. Byrd. An hour earlier in the day the of. | fieers and delegates were guest* at'# reception at the Confederate Mußt£«Jjfe|l tendered b.v the Confederate Memorial j j I.iterary Society. However, the delegates did not per- j mit these social affairs to. int«|jßjS#;;|| I with tlie business ahead of them be j fnro final adjournment of the meet- * | ing. They had a large number of I matters up for their consideration arid ,1 every effort was made for their early a disposition. Displeased With Picture. • Richmond. Nov. 20.—CPWA spe- j eial committee was appointed :#J' 33rd annual convention of the Cnited j j Daughters of the Confederacy here tp- I day to look up the organization's eon- $ stitution and by-laws as to ,vvherher the convention had authority to expfel i a delegate for 'undignified conflict.” ! The action followed a morion ■by I Mrs. Norman V. Randolph, of lltdt# 1 mood, former president-general, til ft t | the convention go on record ns con- j derailing the publication in a local J morning newspaper of a picture of , Mrs. Samuel Burleigh Miltftn, bf I Washington, D. C. The picture showed Mrs. Milton in flj a bathing suit surrounded by sMyer i cups which she had won in life sav ! ing contests, and wearing the congrtih sional medal and bar for savitif on the high seas. The convention unanimously vo.ted i that the following statement presefn'- ed to it by Mrs. Williams be given | to the Associated Press: "Mrs. A. S. .1. Williams, of publicity, wishes to state that npijH§l er she nor any of her committee are responsible for the picture of Mrs. Samuel Burleigh Milton, of Washing- - ton, appearing in the { | on Saturday, November 20, 1026. She | had neither seen it nor heard of it ', s j until she saw it in the i Government Crop Estimates Horne Out. Raleigh. Nov. 10.— Farmers .MM | others may rant and rave all thsjrj like about the inaccuracy of goveenr/! ment surveys and crop reports, bat studied over a period of yeats, thea# 5 re|K>rts show that the e.-timates have steadily been borne out by , actual production, and these goven*sj ment reports are the only safe., guides to true conditions. Hence if farmers especially are to keep tbreast j of marked conditions, wnether it be . livestock, corn or cotton, pigs df j tatoes. they must learn to consider J the fact presented in these reports.Jf according to V. W. Isnvls, scold* ?| marketing specialist, division of mar- 1 kets. State Department of Agr^p« Eskimos arc abandoned the ttttjhS way aka for the motor boat. ] THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday, not change in temperature. Moderattkl < northwest and north wind*. .'?|